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Posted by Rudy Tirre on May 11, 2019 at 4:37pm

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Massive Migration From Guatemala, Honduras

Political Editors

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New U.S. Sanctions on Iran Hit Ballistic

Missile Program, Regime’s Cash

by Adam Kredo

{ freebeacon.com } ~ In announcing another round of sanctions on Iran this week, the Trump administration took unprecedented steps to roll back a series of cash windfalls... authorized by the scumbag/liar-nObama administration that have lined the extremist regime's pockets and enabled it to make strides in its ballistic missile technology, according to policy experts. President Donald Trump, on the anniversary this week of leaving the landmark nuclear deal, issued another salvo of sanctions that target Iran's lucrative iron, steel, aluminum, and copper sectors. Each of these arenas has helped Iran's hardline regime stockpile billions in cash as the country's economy teeters on the brink. The sanctions represent "the first significant expansion of sectoral sanctions since 2013," according to veteran foreign policy analysts at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, or FDD, a think-tank that enjoys close ties with the Trump administration. The sanctions will pressure Iran's Revolutionary Guards Corps, or IRGC, the regime's paramilitary fighting force that also controls significant portions of the country's economy, mainly those like the precious metals sector that can be used for military purposes.The Trump administration shows no signs of slowing down with its sanctions, angering the Islamic Republic and fueling a range of hostile military moves that have put U.S. military assets in the region on high alert. "This new designation significantly increases pressure on Iran's economy by targeting industries from which Iran derives significant income," according to FDD, which examined how the new sanctions could impact Iran's multi-billion dollar energy sector. "It also enhances the administration's targeting of materials necessary to support Iran's nuclear and ballistic missile programs, and provides for the first significant expansion of sectoral sanctions since 2013."...

https://freebeacon.com/national-security/new-u-s-sanctions-on-iran-hit-ballistic-missile-program-regimes-cash/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=cbb1e82acf-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_05_10_08_04_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-cbb1e82acf-45611665

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Allow Venezuela to Fail

by Alexander G. Markovsky

{ americanthinker.com } ~ Are we stepping on the same rakes again -- in Venezuela? Secretary of State Mike Pompeo recently tweeted “My message to the Venezuelan people is clear... the United States stands firmly with you in your quest for freedom and democracy.” He also confirmed that the military option is on the table. In other words, the U.S. is ready to liberate the Venezuelan people from themselves. For those who suffer historical amnesia, it is worth pointing out, that the Venezuelans had democratic elections and they have chosen socialism. Hugo Chavez was a socialist, and he ran on a socialist platform and got elected with wide popular support. So was his successor Nicolás Maduro. Whether the Venezuelans voted for socialist serfdom knowingly or they have been duped is irrelevant. If people are ignorant or complacent, they deserve the government they elect. As Barack scumbag/liar-nObama famously said, “Elections have consequences.” We have to be mindful, though, that every ism -- socialism, capitalism, fascism, etc. -- has its supporters and benefactors. Those who imagine themselves on the receiving end have every reason to think they will be better off with socialism. State bureaucracy, army, and police support the government that provides them with the benefits they would not have otherwise. The imposition of sanctions does not impact this segment of the population, but is making a gap between them and the rest of the people much wider. Any attempts to replace the regime by staged demonstrations and riots would likely fail. The existing political forces, embedded in the military and police are stronger and better organized than the opposition. If an order cannot be negotiated it will be imposed by force... https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/05/allow_venezuela_to_fail.html

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Former FBI General Counsel James Baker Tries

To Gaslight Us On The Russia Hoax

And It Doesn’t Work

by redstate.com: Former FBI counsel James Baker crawled out from under the warm, damp and odoriferous place he’s been keeping himself to try to rehabilitate... his shredded integrity with the aid of another swamp creature. The venue was the Qatar-funded (Qatar is the major international sponsor of the Muslim Brotherhood, if you’re keeping score) and the event was the LawFareBlog’s podcast. The host was Benjamin Wittes, who is a something-or-another at Brookings and runs LawFareBlog, both and either of which come within a few millimeters of making him an unregistered agent for Qatar. While his status as Qatar’s representative may be open to interpretation, his status as one of the most egregious peddlers of scurrlious trash about the dirty cop-Muller investigation and the Trump administration’s non-relationship with Russia, always prefacing the non-stories he was pushing with “BOOM!” The information from a foreign partner about Trump adviser George Papadopoulos “is what triggered us going down this path” of investigating in 2016, Jim Baker said. “It would have been a dereliction if our duty not to investigate this information.” We know this story is patent bullsh**. We know the FBI had possession of an early version of the Steele dossier by July 5, 2016. We further know from the dirty cop-Mueller report that Papadopoulos didn’t mention emails. If one comment, two months after the fact, delivered second hand was sufficient to set off an FBI investigation, the whole agency needs to be disbanded and we need to start from scratch. What makes this more damning is that it now is pretty obvious that Papadopoulos’s source, Joseph Mifsud, is almost certainly as Western, by that I mean British, intelligence asset. Jim Baker said the investigation was about Russia. “To the extent that any Americans cross our radar screen, we will investigate that.”... https://www.redstate.com/streiff/2019/05/10/former-fbi-general-counsel-james-baker-tries-gaslight-us-russia-hoax-doesnt-work/?utm_source=rsmorningbriefing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&bcid=7220442bc3498cb5e2d68f3cb4d11680

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'Pinkwashing' and Israel: How to

Work against Your Own Best Interests

by Denis MacEoin

{ gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ Early in April, the British gay newspaper Pink News ran a headline: "LGBT performers to boycott Eurovision in Israel with online broadcast"... The broadcast, known as Globalvision, will be part of the international Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, which tries hard to delegitimize Israel economically and politically. Referring to a letter which activists had written to the pop star Madonna, Pink News reported: "We feel we must write to you to express our deep concern at the political use of the Eurovision that is being made by Israel this year, and to highlight in particular the issue of 'Pinkwashing,'" the letter said. The letter said that 'pinkwashing' is a "PR tactic used by Israel which cynically exploits support for LGBTQIA people to whitewash its oppression of the Palestinian people." The open letter argues that Israel is attempting to ingratiate itself with LGBT+ people in an attempt to distract from its "colonial and apartheid reality." Before commenting on the situation of Israel, it might help to turn our attention to the conditions of LGBT people in countries that are sworn enemies of Israel, but which no-one swears to boycott, divest from, or sanction. It is hard to know where to start when it comes to the mistreatment of LGBTQ people, especially male homosexuals, across the Muslim world. It is a scandal that has been little exposed in the mainstream media, although even there it has begun to attract unfavorable comment... https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/14194/israel-pinkwashing

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Should the U.S. be the Policeman of the World?

by Raoul Lowery Contreras

{ americanthinker.com } ~ Ever since the first shots were fired in Massachusetts Colony in 1775 by American patriots demanding independence from England, there have been two American sides to the universal quest for freedom with undecideds in between... This time the focus is on oil-rich Venezuela. One side of America is passive, its view limited to the border, the other active and global. Passive view: defend the United States at the Rio Grande not Baghdad. Active view: fight in Europe, Guadalcanal, Korea, Baghdad or Kabul; not in New York or Los Angeles. Venezuela, with the world’s largest oil reserves, by the way, first experienced American military intervention on October 7, 1892, when United States Marines landed to protect the U.S. Consulate. Venezuelan requests for American help during that era kept the U.S. directly involved in Venezuelan affairs for a decade, albeit, diplomatically helping Venezuela ward off English expansion on Venezuela’s border with British Guyana. U.S. Marines have landed numerous times in practically every Caribbean country during revolutions that have plagued the hemisphere since the Spanish were expelled after almost 300 years of rule from far-away Madrid. The last two, the Dominican Republic in April, 1965, and Panama in 1989. Like the pioneering freedom fighters of 1810 Mexico that revolted against Spain, native-born Simon Bolivar led Colombia and Venezuela to independence from Spain. What Bolivar could not do is reap an immediate political harvest of local home political rule experience like freed American colonies. This lack of experience is not unique to Spanish Hemispheric history...

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/05/should_the_us_be_the_policeman_of_the_world.html

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Massive Migration From Guatemala, Honduras

Political Editors: Just how bad is the immigration crisis at the U.S. southern border? Well, here’s an instance where percentages can help people gain a greater overall perspective of the immensity of the problem. According to active Homeland Security Department Secretary Kevin McAleenan, since September of last year over 1% of the entire populations of both Guatemala and Honduras have crossed into the U.S. McAleenan stated, “The current migration flows, especially of vulnerable families and children, from Central America through Mexico, to remote areas all along the U.S. border, represent both a security and humanitarian crisis. The situation is not sustainable.”

As we recently noted, you know it’s gotten bad when even The New York Times admits there’s a crisis.

McAleenan noted, “In March, we had over 103,000 irregular arrivals of undocumented migrants — 90% crossing the U.S. border unlawfully and unsafely in the hands of human smugglers. We will see similar numbers in April.” And the reality is the situation is not getting better. McAleenan further explained, “These trends are deepening and accelerating. According to a recent USAID funded study conducted by Vanderbilt University’s Latin American Public Opinion Project in Guatemala earlier this year, 1 in 4 Guatemalans have an intention to migrate from Guatemala, with 85% of them expressing the United States as their preferred destination.”

“That’s over four million Guatemalans who intend to migrate to the United States,” McAleenan observed. “Imagine if almost the entire population of the Western United States left the country. What kind of impact would that have on the economy, culture, and identity? What does that mean for future generations?”

Meanwhile, Democrats are engrossed in a fight with the White House over the conclusions of dirty cop-Robert Mueller’s special investigation. These Democrats can’t see past their own anti-Trump hatred to recognize that the country is in the midst of a massive crisis that needs all hands on deck. ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/62881?mailing_id=4262&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4262&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

Saturday Noon ~ thefrontpagecover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on May 11, 2019 at 11:42am

TheFrontPageCover

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An Epidemic of Loneliness

Arnold Ahlert

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DOJ Should Charge House Dems

With Extortion For Barr Contempt Threat

by Mark J. Fitzgibbons

{ dailycaller.com } ~ When the Republican-controlled House threatened scumbag/liar-nObama Attorney General scumbag-Eric Holder with contempt for refusing to respond to a subpoena... in the “Fast and Furious” scandal, he was able to laugh it off. It was like the joke about the dispute between God and the devil over the boundary between heaven and hell. When God threatened to sue, the devil wryly replied, “Where are you going to get the lawyers?” Now House Democrats are on the verge of voting to hold Attorney General William Barr in contempt for failing to provide them a fully unredacted copy of the dirty cop-Mueller report. Barr has already legally given them transparency beyond what the law requires. For Barr to go further would violate the law that protects confidential information such as what comes from grand jury proceedings. The initial distinction between the scumbag-Holder contempt matter and what may happen to Barr is that the former involved hiding from Congress information about lawbreaking by the government, while the latter would require Barr to violate the law to comply with the subpoena issued by Democrats under House Judiciary Committee Chairman scumbag liar-Jerry Nadler. That’s an important distinction for observers who aren’t so overwhelmed with Trump Derangement Syndrome that they can think clearly. Another major distinction is that the threat to hold Barr in contempt could boomerang back at House Democrats with two potential criminal charges. The crime of solicitation involves soliciting another person to commit a crime. The crime of extortion may involve using the threat of prosecution to coercively dispossess what is owned or possessed by another. Extortion initially was a crime that applied to public officials only. The DOJ may think both of these criminal charges should apply to the requests and demands made to Barr to commit a criminal act itself. scumbagt liar-Nadler and his Democrat colleagues will need to lawyer-up if the DOJ wants to pay hardball here. The threat to hold Barr in contempt presents interesting questions about Article I of the Constitution, which vests all legislative powers in Congress. Based on common law precedent, but not expressly stated in Article I, Congress may issue subpoenas. Such subpoenas may be issued for a legislative purpose, unlike other searches and seizures of persons or papers that require probable cause. And, the authority to issue subpoenas implies a power to hold someone in contempt for refusal to comply... https://dailycaller.com/2019/05/10/fitzgibbons-doj-bar-contempt/?utm_medium=email

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Pentagon approves plan to shift

$1.5B for wall along US-Mexico border

by Brooke Singman and Lucas Tomlinson

{ foxnews.com } ~ The Pentagon has approved a plan to spend an additional $1.5 billion to build 80 more miles of wall along the U.S.-Mexico border... a U.S. defense official confirmed to Fox News Friday. Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan approved the re-allocation of funds, which were originally earmarked for support of Afghan security forces and other projects, to help pay for the wall along the southern border. "Today, I authorized the transfer of $1.5 billion toward the construction of more than 80 miles of border barrier," he said. "The funds were drawn from a variety of sources, including cost savings, programmatic changes, and revised requirements, and therefore will have minimal impact on force readiness."In March, Shanahan approved the first transfer of Defense Department dollars and redirected $1 billion to help build nearly 60 miles of wall in Yuma, Ariz. and El Paso, Texas. The combined total of $2.5 billion is in response to President Trump’s declaration of a national emergency at the border. But the plan to divert Pentagon funding has sparked criticism from congressional Democrats, who accused Shanahan of not seeking approval to “reprogram” the funds without congressional authority. Shanahan and other senior defense officials claimed in response they did not have to get permission from Congress despite the objections from Democratic lawmakers...

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/pentagon-approves-plan-to-shift-1-5b-for-wall-along-us-mexico-border

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No one in the sun -and gas-

soaked Middle East needs nuclear power

by Mark Dubowitz and Henry Sokolski

{fdd.org} ~ Wednesday’s decision by the Islamic Republic of Iran to break the restrictions of the Iran nuclear deal is a further reminder... that neither Iran, nor for that matter Saudi Arabia, needs nuclear power. Nor, for that matter, does any other state in the gas-soaked, sun-drenched Middle East, where civil nuclear programs are simply nuclear bomb starter kits. Instead of straining to control these programs, or even facilitating them, the U.S. should encourage less risky, cheaper, clean non-nuclear alternatives. The case for nuclear power in the Middle East has never been strong. First, the national electrical systems there are relatively small. Put large amounts of electricity nuclear or non-nuclear on their grids and you risk overloading them and causing blackouts. This is particularly worrisome for nuclear reactors whose safe operation depends on a steady, external supply of electricity to run their coolant and safety systems (think Fukushima). Second, because large reactors can be used to make nuclear explosive materials, they’re prime military targets. Iran, Israel, and the United States each attacked Iraq’s Osirak reactor Israel successfully. Iraq bombed Iran’s Bushehr reactor. Egypt and Iraq targeted Israel’s Dimona reactor. Israel successfully bombed Syria’s reactor at Al Kibar, and, more recently, the Iranian-backed Houthis claimed they fired missiles at the UAE’s nuclear reactors. Any such strikes risk radiation releases and rattling even the strongest of regimes to its roots think the Soviet Union’s political meltdown, catalyzed, in no small part, by Chernobyl. There is also the danger of insider and cyberattacks that could result in catastrophe. Finally, nuclear power is expensive. The Emirates bought four reactors in 2009 at $6 billion per reactor, while Japan’s recent offer to build similar units for Turkey ran $11 billion per copy. Iran’s reactor at Bushehr cost just as much. What might nuclear electricity cost in the Middle East? The latest estimates are nine cents per kilowatt hour. That’s twice what base-load, natural-gas-fired electricity costs and more than four times what the lowest solar power bids are running. Even onshore wind power is cheaper. But there’s more: Emerging renewable and natural gas technologies promise to make non-nuclear electricity even cheaper and cleaner. Thus, the UAE doesn’t plan to buy any more nuclear reactors. Instead, by 2030, 25% of its electricity will be solar. During the day, photo voltaic panels will feed its grid with electricity costing a fraction of what nuclear runs. When the sun fades, the UAE will exploit concentrated solar power, which uses solar heat stored during the day to generate electricity from late afternoon through early morning. The UAE is currently building the world’s largest concentrated solar power plant, capable of generating 700 megawatts. CSP costs more than traditional solar, but still less than nuclear...

https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2019/05/09/no-one-in-the-sun-and-gas-soaked-middle-east-needs-nuclear-power/

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Secret U.S. Missile Aims to Kill

Only Terrorists, Not Nearby Civilians

by Gordon Lubold and Warren P. Strobel

{ gellerreport.com } ~ The U.S. government has developed a specially designed, secret missile for pinpoint airstrikes that kill terrorist leaders with no explosion... drastically reducing damage and minimizing the chances of civilian casualties, multiple current and former U.S. officials said. Both the Central Intelligence Agency and the Pentagon have used the weapon while closely guarding its existence. A modified version of the well-known Hellfire missile, the weapon carries an inert warhead. Instead of exploding, it is designed to plunge more than 100 pounds of metal through the tops of cars and buildings to kill its target without harming individuals and property close by. To the targeted person, it is as if a speeding anvil fell from the sky, the officials said. But this variant of the Hellfire missile, designated as the R9X, also comes equipped with a different kind of payload: a halo of six long blades that are stowed inside and then deploy through the skin of the missile seconds before impact to ensure that it shreds anything in its tracks. Details about the secret weapon and its deployment were confirmed by more than a dozen current and former U.S. officials. Its development and use haven’t been previously disclosed, though its existence has been the subject of speculation. The R9X is known colloquially to the small community of individuals who are familiar with its use as “the flying Ginsu,” for the blades that can cut through buildings or car roofs and kill the target. The nickname is a reference to the popular knives sold on TV infomercials in the late 1970s and early 1980s that showed them cutting through both tree branches and tomatoes. The weapon has also been referred to as the Ninja bomb.

https://gellerreport.com/2019/05/new-missile-targets-only-terrrorists.html/

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Pakistan: teen girl has oil thrown on her,

lit on fire for refusing marriage proposal

by Christine Douglass-Williams

{ jihadwatch.org } ~ Another case that illustrates the gross human rights abuses against women, based on their lower status in Islam... This case illustrates the cruelty sometimes associated with “forced marriage”. A teen girl in Pakistan had oil thrown on her and was then set on fire in Pakistan for reportedly refusing a marriage proposal. The intent was to murder her. Her face will never be the same, her life will never be the same. Do Western feminists care? evidently not. Also in Pakistan, forced conversion and forced marriage of young Hindu and Christian girls are common. Last year, a UK mother took her teen daughter to Pakistan “under the guise of a holiday, but later found herself being forced to marry a relative almost twice her age”. Open door immigration imports a range of abusive Islamic practices.Police on Thursday arrested the key suspect in an attempted murder case, who, along with his unidentified companion, allegedly set a girl on fire in Muzaffargarh for refusing his marriage proposal. A first information report (FIR) was registered by the mother of the teenage girl, aged 15 or 16 years, under Sections 324 (attempted murder), 34 (acts done by several persons in furtherance of common intention) and 452 (house-trespass after preparation for hurt, assault or wrongful restraint) of the Pakistan Penal Code. Police said that the victim, whose suffered burn injuries on her face, body and arms, was shifted to Muzzafargarh District Headquarters hospital. According to police, her condition is stable. According to the FIR, the victim’s mother woke up at around 1.30am during the night when she heard her daughter screaming. She said two men were running away after pouring oil on her daughter and setting her on fire... https://www.jihadwatch.org/2019/05/pakistan-teen-girl-has-oil-thrown-on-her-lit-on-fire-for-refusing-marriage-proposal

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An Epidemic of Loneliness

Arnold Ahlert: “All the lonely people/ Where do they all come from?/ All the lonely people/ Where do they all belong?” —Eleanor Rigby, Lennon/McCartney, 1966

Perhaps there is no greater irony in modern day America than the reality that we have more ways of communicating than ever before even as millions of American are suffering from loneliness that has reached epidemic levels.

“Since the turn of the century, Americans have been dying from suicide, alcohol-related illnesses, and drug overdoses at a rate that has never before been seen,” reveals Francie Hart Broghammer, MD, chief psychiatry resident at UC Irvine Medical Center. “Princeton economists Anne Case and Angus Deaton have aptly named these tragedies ‘Deaths of Despair.’ In fact, suicide is now the second leading cause of death for American teenagers and the tenth leading cause of death for Americans, overall.”

The numbers are sobering. Since 1999, half the states in the nation have seen a 30% increase in suicide rates, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Moreover, drug overdoses are now the leading cause of death for those under 50, and each year since 2015, America’s life expectancy has declined. In 2017 alone, 7,000 more Americans committed suicide than died in car accidents, and a staggering 70,000 Americans died of drug overdoses.

A 2018 survey of more than 20,000 U.S. adults ages 18 years and older, published by global health-service company Cigna, reveals the scope of the problem:

Nearly half of Americans report sometimes or always feeling alone (46%) or left out (47%).
One in four Americans (27%) rarely or never feel as though there are people who really understand them.
Two in five Americans sometimes or always feel that their relationships are not meaningful (43%) and that they are isolated from others (43%).
One in five people report they rarely or never feel close to people (20%) or feel like there are people they can talk to (18%).
Americans who live with others are less likely to be lonely (average loneliness score of 43.5) compared to those who live alone (46.4). However, this does not apply to single parents/guardians (average loneliness score of 48.2) – even though they live with children, they are more likely to be lonely.
Only around half of Americans (53%) have meaningful in-person social interactions, such as having an extended conversation with a friend or spending quality time with family, on a daily basis.
Generation Z (adults ages 18-22) is the loneliest generation and claims to be in worse health than older generations.
Social media use alone is not a predictor of loneliness; respondents defined as very heavy users of social media have a loneliness score (43.5) that is not markedly different from the score of those who never use social media (41.7).

America is hardly an outlier. “Nearly half of Britons over 65 consider the television or a pet their main source of company,” reveals historian, economist, and demographer Neil Howe. “In Japan, there are more than half a million people under 40 who haven’t left their house or interacted with anyone for at least six months. In Canada, the share of solo households is now 28%. Across the European Union, it’s 34%.”

Psychologists are quick to emphasize that loneliness is not mitigated by the presence of other people. “One feels a sense of emptiness, kind of like an emptiness of the soul,” explains Health Partners psychologist Dr. Cheryl Bemel. “A wounded heart and lack of connection. A sense of disconnection.”

As the Cigna survey notes, social media usage is not an incisive factor, but one would have to be living under a rock not to notice the deleterious effect of cell phones. A society where people used to at least talk to one another — an exchange where various vocal inflections often communicated as much as the words themselves — has been replaced by one where texting rules and emoticons are used to convey subtext.

“The arrival of the smartphone has radically changed every aspect of teenagers’ lives, from the nature of their social interactions to their mental health,” explains author Jean M. Twenge.

Yet it’s not just phones. “For all their power to link kids day and night, social media also exacerbate the age-old teen concern about being left out,” Twenge explains. “Today’s teens may go to fewer parties and spend less time together in person, but when they do congregate, they document their hangouts relentlessly — on Snapchat, Instagram, Facebook. Those not invited to come along are keenly aware of it.”

Those who built social media sites are equally aware of their potential pitfalls. In 2017, The Independent profiled Justin Rosenstein, who invented the “Like” button for Facebook, noting that Rosenstein made a concerted effort to limit his social media time — when he wasn’t completely avoiding it. “It is very common for humans to develop things with the best of intentions and for them to have unintended, negative consequences,” he stated.

As many Americans learned before and since, “best intentions” are the last thing on the minds of far too many tech titans and their Master of the Universe worldview.

Yet perhaps the biggest change that has afflicted America is routinely dismissed. “People who have lost religion and are coasting along on materialism find they have few interior resources to keep going when crisis hits,” writes columnist Andrew Sullivan. “They have no place of refuge, no spiritual safe space from which to gain perspective, no God to turn to.”

It is far worse than that. Since the so-called “God is dead” social revolution of the 1960s, the radical secularism that has now morphed into social-justice warrior-ism has, and continues to be, promoted by the American Left as the road to social utopia. And almost seamlessly, America replaced its religious leaders with lawyers and therapists. Thus what was once defined as “good and evil” has largely become “legal and illegal,” and “well and unwell,” in all their morally relative — and ostensibly guilt-relieving — glory.

Yet complete Godlessness — or worse, the idea that there is nothing bigger than The Self — doesn’t get it done. All the psychobabble in the world notwithstanding, human beings are hard-wired to wonder how they got here and where they are going, during their lives and afterwards.

As columnist Glenn Beaton astutely explains, “[Secularists] from Lenin to Pol Pot have hated real religion. In the end, they believe, there can be only one religion. They aim to make it theirs and they intend to be the high priests. They don’t intend to share their authority with God.”

Loneliness is more than likely the primary symptom afflicting those unable to reconcile the conflict between people of faith, who insist it cannot be replaced by radical secularism, and those who must dismiss people of faith as “bitter clingers” because faith — by definition — transcends government, and represents the greatest impediment to totalitarian control necessary to achieve socialist utopia.

Moreover, without transcendence, we get what we’ve got: a polarized nation consisting of tribes, each competing to assert moral authority that is neither moral nor authoritative.

Sadly, for far too many Americans, loneliness is the preferred option. ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/62897?mailing_id=4262&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4262&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

Sat/Med AM ~ thefrontpagecover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on May 11, 2019 at 9:25am

TheFrontPageCover

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Dems Claim 'Constitutional

Crisis' Over Faux Scandal

Thomas Gallatin

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Pulosi Is Turning a Blind Eye to Radical

Islam in Her Own House! Dangerous!

by Ilanit Chernick

{ jpost.com } ~ Popular American Imam Omar Suleiman, known for his Israel-bashing antics, gave the Ramadan invocation at the opening of Thursday’s House of Representatives session... Suleiman is the founder and president of the Irving, Texas-based Yaqeen Institute for Islamic Research. He was invited to give Thursday's invocation by US Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-Texas), a Yaqeen Institute statement said. The information was originally revealed and reported by the Investigative Project on Terrorism.“We pray for peace, not war," he said. "Love not hate. Benevolence, not greed. Unity, not division. And we commit ourselves to not betraying our prayers with actions that contradict them. Let us be for truth, no matter who, or for is against it." Suleiman has made several vehemently anti-Israel comments and also seemed to side with Hamas in an August 2014 Facebook post. As the 2014 Gaza War broke out, Suleiman said on social media: “How befitting that the 3rd Intifada starts on the 27th night of Ramadan as worshippers are denied prayer in Masjid Al Aqsa.” He ended his post with a prayer of sorts: “God willing on this blessed night as the 3rd Intifada begins, the beginning of the end of Zionism is here. May Allah help us overcome this monster, protect the innocent of the world, and accept the murdered as martyrs. ameen.” During the war, Suleiman also denied that Hamas uses human shields in an attempt to stop the IDF from retaliating against rocket fire sent from Gaza into Israeli civilian communities. “If Hamas was using human shields, wouldn't the Palestinians say something about it?” he wrote. “Surprise, surprise: apparently the IDF was guilty even as they tried to convince the world that the reason why they couldn't stop massacring civilians was because of the use of human shields. This is disgusting... #FreePalestine #ICC4Israel” Also in 2014, Suleiman also made a comment on social media alluding to the antisemitic idea that Israel controls American foreign policy, claiming that it is the "51st state... Dems will burn for letting this happen. https://www.jpost.com/Diaspora/Israel-bashing-Imam-delivers-opening-prayer-at-House-of-Representatives-589337

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Trump Is Correct! hanoi-Kerry

Violated Logan Act-More Than Once

by Jeff Dunetz

{ lidblog.com } ~ President Trump on Thursday correctly accused former Secretary of State hanoi-John Kerry of breaking the law by meeting with Iranian officials last year... Trump told reporters : “You know hanoi-John Kerry speaks to them a lot, and hanoi-John Kerry tells them not to call. That’s a violation of the Logan Act, and frankly he should be prosecuted on that, But my people don’t want to do anything, only the Democrats do that kind of stuff. If it were the opposite way, they’d prosecute him under the Logan Act,” But it will never happen because violating the Logan Act is a Democratic Party tradition. During interviews to promote his new book this past September hanoi-Kerry told an interviewer that he has met with Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif three or four times since leaving office and that their talks touched on the international nuclear agreement which hanoi-Kerry negotiated and President Trump withdrew from because it was such a bad deal or America. This was the first time hanoi-Kerry admitted this violation, but in May of this year, the Boston Globe reported that he had been secretly meeting with the Iranian foreign minister and European leaders, advising them on how to save the flawed JCPOA. The President is saying that hanoi-Kerry’s meetings were a violation of the Logan Act. And the stepfather of the Heinz Ketchup fortune has violated the Logan Act before. In 1985, Senator hanoi-John Kerry traveled to Nicaragua for a friendly get-together with the Sandinista president, Daniel Ortega. The position of the Reagan administration was to support the opposition Contras. hanoi-Kerry wasn’t much interested in the administration’s position. Upon his return to the United States, hanoi-Kerry met with President Reagan to convey a message from Ortega. Reagan “wasn’t thrilled,” hanoi-Kerry later told the New York Times. In 2006 hanoi-Kerry went to Syria to meet with Assad over the objections of President Bush #43, who was trying to isolate the Syrian despot at the time... https://lidblog.com/kerry-logan-act/

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New York Times May Have Broken Law

by Publishing Trump’s Tax Returns

by Hans von Spakovsky

{ dailysignal.com } ~ The New York Times no doubt considers it quite a coup to have obtained and published President Donald Trump’s tax return information from 1985 to 1994... But doing so violated Trump’s right under federal law to the confidentiality of his tax returns. The Times—which reported that Trump’s businesses lost $1.17 billion during the 10-year period—has no more right to Trump’s tax returns than it has to mine or those of any of you reading these words. Confidentiality, as the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held in 1991 in U.S. v. Richey, is essential to “maintaining a workable tax system.” Taxpayer privacy is “fundamental to a tax system that relies on self-reporting” since it protects “sensitive or otherwise personal information,” said then-Judge (now Supreme Court Justice) Ruth Bader Ginsburg in 1986 in another case when she served on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. Federal law—26 U.S.C. §7213(a)(1)—makes it a felony for any federal employee to disclose tax returns or “return information.” Infractions are punishable by up to five years in prison and a fine as high as $250,000 under the Alternative Fines Act (18 U.S.C. §3571). Regardless of the accuracy or inaccuracy of The New York Times story, tax returns themselves, as well as tax return information such as these IRS transcripts which are a summary of the tax returns, are protected from disclosure by federal law. And this provision applies to private individuals as well as government employees, a fact that should be considered by the New York Times’ source. According to the newspaper, it did not actually obtain Trump’s tax returns but “printouts from his official Internal Revenue Service tax transcripts, with the figures from his federal tax form, the 1040, from someone who had legal access to them.” The Times quotes a lawyer for the president, Charles J. Harder, as saying that the tax information in the story is “demonstrably false” and that IRS transcripts, particularly from the days before electronic filing, are “notoriously inaccurate.” However, that claim is disputed by a former IRS employee now at the liberal Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center... https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/05/10/new-york-times-may-have-broken-law-by-publishing-trumps-tax-returns/?utm_source=TDS_Email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=MorningBell&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiWlRrd01XVmpNbVk0WXpCaiIsInQiOiJ0NjVQSHhIUFNreUhCV3Vhck9GUW05bTd5b1VNMnN4ZGV6TisyaGRRN2NCXC9ZeHVhY21hUERiTHBQN0tZNTNaUTFheUlqenNsUDRqYWRGbU4zOXBcL1dOZHVtZlNlUzF4eTBacGxvcmtyeDlheEJLS3R2Qk15K2t3VXVBN1dncFYyIn0%3D

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scumbag-Schiff threatens they might slap

Trump, admin officials with hefty fines if they

don’t comply with subpoenas

by Tom Tillison

{ bizpacreview.com } ~ With Barack scumbag/liar-nObama having set the tone, weaponizing the institution of government to target political opponents may be here to stay... Not willing to accept special counsel dirty cop-Robert Mueller finding no evidence of collusion with Russia, Democrats push forward with their efforts to undercover enough dirt to impeach President Donald Trump — or at least damage him enough to ensure defeat in 2020. And they’re intent on doing all they can to intimidate Trump and his administration into complying with a number of investigations of the president — there are no less than FIVE Democrat-controlled House committees now targeting Trump. The latest Democrat to flex his political muscles is Rep. scumbag-Adam Schiff, D-Calif., the notorious Trump-hating chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, who made it clear Thursday he may fine Trump officials who refuse to comply with subpoenas, to include the president himself. Speaking with Axios’ Mike Allen at a Friday morning newsmaker event, scumbag-Schiff said the Pulosi-led House is considering reviving its inherent contempt power to impose hefty fines on Trump and administration officials to force them to obey subpoenas, according to ABC News...

https://www.bizpacreview.com/2019/05/10/schiff-threatens-they-might-slap-trump-admin-officials-with-hefty-fines-if-they-dont-comply-with-subpoenas-753397?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=BPR%20Email&utm_campaign=DMS

VIDEO: https://rumble.com/v7lyjz-schiff-you-could-fine-someone-25000-a-day-until-they-comply.html

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Denver voters reject ‘Right to Survive’

homeless camping initiative

by Kurt Sevits

{ thedenverchannel.com } ~ Voters in Denver appear to have overwhelmingly rejected a measure that would have overturned the city’s ban on camping in public places... As of preliminary results released at 1 a.m. Wednesday, Initiative 300 was headed for defeat with 83 percent of voters saying “no” and 17 percent saying “yes.” Results won’t be certified until later this month. Denver's current urban camping ordinance bans tarps, sleeping bags and tents in public. That ban was put in place in 2012. Proponents of Initiative 300 said the ban is cruel and unusual and their measure is necessary to protect human rights. The campaign to defeat Initiative 300 raised millions of dollars, and many local organizations, including the Denver Rescue Mission and other homeless advocacy groups, all voiced opposition to the measure. The all state needs to build homeless shelters for them. The same way the government builds for illegals.

https://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/local-news/denver-voters-reject-right-to-survive-homeless-camping-initiative

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Dems Claim 'Constitutional Crisis' Over

Faux Scandal

Thomas Gallatin: “Not one of the six Democrats granted access to what amounts to 99.9 percent of volume II of the dirty cop-Mueller report, which details the president’s behavior as it relates to obstruction of justice, have taken the opportunity to examine it,” writes National Review’s Jack Crowe. But according to House Judiciary Committee Chairman scumbag liar-Jerry Nadler (D-NY), there’s a “constitutional crisis” after President Donald Trump, at the request of the Justice Department, asserted executive privilege to protect Attorney General William Barr from being held in contempt of Congress. Undeterred, Democrats maintained their vacuous assertion that Barr is hiding something and voted to hold him in contempt anyway.

Spare us the hand-wringing over constitutional fidelity and the Rule of Law. This is nothing more than pure Democrat political theater meant to advance their manufactured faux scandal. scumbag liar-Nadler peddles a myth when claiming that Barr is “not being truthful with Congress.” How has Barr not been truthful? In fact, the AG went above and beyond the requirements of law in order to get as much of dirty cop-Robert Mueller’s report to the American public as is legally possible. Anyone can get a copy, and key Democrats even have access to all but a few lines of redacted material.

But that’s not enough for Democrats. Their demand is that Barr break the law by presenting the report fully unredacted. As Hans von Spakovsky of The Heritage Foundation explains, “Unless Congress’s request for Rule 6(e) grand jury material falls squarely into one of the statutory or court-created exceptions, the attorney general — any attorney general — is prohibited from disclosing that material to Congress. And the congressional request doesn’t fit any of the exceptions.”

Why are Democrats making this demand, since dirty cop-Mueller’s team, which consisted of mostly Democrat lawyers, determined after nearly two years of investigation that no crime was committed? Because, as Mark Alexander notes, “It’s not about the substance of the dirty cop-Mueller report. It’s about keeping the fake narrative alive.” Democrats will not be satisfied with anything short of removing Trump. So, if there is a “constitutional crisis,” it’s not coming from Trump and the executive branch.

scumbag liar-Nadler’s claim that the executive branch has somehow overstepped the Constitution’s delineation of powers is a charge that is nonsense on its face. Using the term “co-equal,” scumbag liar-Nadler and the Democrats act like that means the executive branch is fully answerable to the legislative branch’s every petty demand. Clearly, Democrats believe their political position and interests are “more equal” than Trump’s.

Recall that it was the same scumbag liar-Jerry Nadler who back in 2012 touted that he “just joined the #walkout of the House chamber to protest the shameful, politically-motivated GOP vote holding AG scumbag-[Eric] Holder in contempt.” When it was a Democrat sitting at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave, scumbag liar-Nadler was singing a completely different tune. But it’s 2019 and Trump is president…

The truth is, Democrats know that there is no “smoking gun” to be found in any of the redacted portions of the dirty cop-Mueller report. They just want an excuse to claim that Barr is engaged in “obstruction.” And they’re trying to tar Barr as a biased Trump stooge who is so politically compromised that he cannot be trusted as the nation’s number-one lawman. The real play? Self-protection. As Victor Davis Hanson observes, “Progressives are terrified that a number of Trump’s critics — scumbag/commie-Brennan, scumbag-Clapper, scumbag-Comey, McCabe — may soon be indicted. They apparently seek to preempt such indictments by attacking Barr, a seemingly no-nonsense prosecutor who will likely follow up on any criminal referrals from any inspector general that reach his desk.” Those coup co-conspirators pose the real constitutional crisis. ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/62901?mailing_id=4262&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4262&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

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Posted by Rudy Tirre on May 11, 2019 at 6:16am

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

The High Cost of Renewable Energy

Nate Jackson

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The only constitutional crisis

is in Democrats’ synapses

by William A. Jacobson

{ legalinsurrection.com } ~ There is no constitutional crisis regarding the House Intelligence Committee’s unsuccessful attempt to get the unredacted dirty cop-Mueller report, including secret grand jury information... and the documents underlying the investigation. Disregard what scumbag liar-Jerrold Nadler says about there being a constitutional crisis. Disregard Nancy Pulosi parroting scumbag liar-Nadler: This is all just more Democrat theater of the absurd. House Democrats not getting their way is not a constitutional crisis. At some point the issue will land in court, and a court will determine whether the Executive Branch properly is withholding the material. Then more judges will rule on the appeal, and it will end up at the Supreme Court, in all likelihood. If the Supreme Court rules that the material must be turned over, and if the administration defies that court ruling, then we have a crisis. I’m not sure it’s technically a constitutional crisis, because the constitution does not provide for judicial supremacy. But the norm since Marbury v. Madison in 1803 is that the judiciary’s interpretation of the law prevails. Remember what is at issue. Congress has been offered the entire dirty cop-Mueller report except for grand jury material, which DOJ say it is prohibited from disclosing. Nothing in that slight percentage of grand jury material in the dirty cop-Mueller report changed dirty cop-Mueller’s conclusions, so it’s unlikely to be helpful to Democrats. scumbag liar-Nadler and crew refused even to view the redactions related to classified material and ongoing investigations, which DOJ offered to provide for viewing. What Democrats want is not the grand jury material, but the ability to cry “constitutional crisis!” over being denied access...

https://legalinsurrection.com/2019/05/the-only-constitutional-crisis-is-in-democrats-synapses/?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=bcec2df2-c739-41f7-95f4-0b421e989e3f

VIDEO 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yE3Yi5NlU9U

VIDEO 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMJuFR2yuNg

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Senate Intel Committee subpoenas Donald

Trump Jr. over Russia — but he is not giving in

by Carlos Garcia

{ theblaze.com } ~ Donald Trump Jr. was subpoenaed by the Senate Intelligence Committee on Wednesday to testify about a meeting with Russians ahead of the 2016 election, and he's going to fight it... That's according to a source close to the president's oldest son that released a statement to the media. "When he originally agreed to testify in front of the Senate Intel Committee in 2017, there was an agreement between Don and the Committee that he would only have to come in and testify a single time as long as he was willing to stay for as long as they'd like, which Don did," the statement from the source read. "Don continues to cooperate by producing documents and is willing to answer written questions, but no lawyer would ever agree to allow their client to participate in what is an obvious PR stunt from a so-called 'Republican' Senator too cowardly to stand up to his boss Mark Warner and the rest of the resistance Democrats on the committee," the statement concluded. Trump Jr. has said publicly that he had very limited knowledge of the Trump Tower meeting with Russians, but more recent testimony from Michael Cohen, the former personal lawyer for President Donald Trump, puts that contention into dispute. CNN's Manu Raju also reported that Trump Jr. was considering ignoring the subpoena and not showing up at all, or pleading his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination. Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) quipped about the subpoena, saying, "Apparently the Republican chair of the Senate Intel Committee didn't get the memo from the Majority Leader that this case was closed..." https://www.theblaze.com/news/trump-jr-subpoena-for-russia

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNbQSJAofm8

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Why Have Department of Defense

Suicides Spiked?

by Mark A. Hewitt

{ americanthinker.com } ~ The Department of Defense has a suicide problem. Thank Presidents scumbag/liar-Clinton and scumbag/liar-nObama... Prior to 1993, the Department of Defense (DOD) used to screen recruits, officer candidates, and service academy entrants for mental, personality, and suicide behavior disorders... Now they don’t. The Department of Defense uses the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) as its source reference for psychiatric diagnoses and metal disorders. Most Americans have little knowledge of, the DSM, its contents, and its implications. The DSM is published by the American Psychiatric Association (APA) and “offers a common language and standard criteria for the classification of mental disorders.” It is used, or relied upon, by clinicians, researchers, psychiatric drug regulation agencies, health insurance companies, pharmaceutical companies, the legal system, and policy makers. In the United States the DSM serves as a universal authority for psychiatric diagnoses. The January 30, 2018 edition of the Marine Corps Times announced: The Corps’ suicide rate is at a 10-year high. The Marines also continue to review data involving suicides that are used to address policy, guidance and suicide prevention analysis, according to Manpower and Reserve Affairs. The Corps has a slew of training initiatives and outreach programs regarding suicide and suicide prevention. Every Service in DOD has suicide prevention programs, yet all of the Services are experiencing significantly higher-than-normal suicide rates. What really happened to these suicidal men and women who somehow escaped the torpedo net of training initiatives and outreach programs? The APA’s DSM had always been a part of the DOD’s personnel procurement system. When men and women had enlistment physicals, they were evaluated by a physician for obvious physical defects and to also see if they had an apparent mental or personality disorder. Any potential recruit screened with mental, personality, and suicide and a range of other behavior disorders were considered unfit for service. Then President scumbag/liar-Clinton signed the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell law...

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/05/why_have_department_of_defense_suicides_spiked.html

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No One Likes You, scumbag-Eric Swalwell

by Madeline Osburn

{thefederalist.com} ~ When 2018 midterm voters were polled on the issues most important to them, the Russia investigation ranked dead last... That might explain why Democratic presidential candidate scumbag-Eric Swalwell, who has branded himself as the “Guns and Russia” candidate, is polling at 0 percent among all 2020 Democratic hopefuls. In fact, a majority of polls don’t even include scumbag-Swalwell in the top 17 candidates. In an April CNN poll, 66 percent of respondents had never heard of him. Despite the dismal numbers, scumbag-Swalwell has clung to his two favorite issues. The 38-year-old often leverages his position on the House Intelligence Committee to make frequent cable news appearances discussing Russia and the dirty cop-Mueller report. On CBS’s “Face The Nation” this Sunday, scumbag-Swalwell said impeachment “may be the only road to save the country.” On Wednesday, the Democratic congressman from California was widely mocked after comparing the Mueller report to the terrorist attacks on 9/11 and Pearl Harbor on Twitter. But his real passion issue remains gun-grabbing. In a San Francisco Chronicle essay laying out his reasons for running for president, scumbag-Swalwell’s number-one reason was that the single greatest threat to young Americans’ lives is gun violence. At a time in which child mortality rates have dropped by half over the last two decades, this claim is just categorically untrue. At a Wednesday night vigil for a student who died in a Colorado school shooting, angry students stormed out after politicians speaking at the event began calling for gun control instead of honoring their late classmate. One student told The Daily Wire they were angry when the event became “highly politicized.” Nevertheless, scumbag-Swalwell continues to pen op-eds calling for $15 million gun buybacks, banning “military-style semiautomatic assault weapons,” and jailing people who resist giving up their weapons. At the height of his passion, he has even threatened to nuke his own gun-owning constituents should they not surrender their firearms to the government...Why is he against our 2nd Amendment rights let alot being in congress.

https://thefederalist.com/2019/05/09/no-one-likes-you-eric-swalwell/?utm_source=The+Federalist+List&utm_campaign=7d8cfaad94-RSS_The_Federalist_Daily_Updates_w_Transom&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_cfcb868ceb-7d8cfaad94-83771801

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commie-AOC, commie-Bernie Call for the

Creation of Government-Owned Banks

Run by the US Post Office

by hannity.com: Rep. commie-Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. commie-Bernie Sanders unveiled their latest proposal Thursday calling for the creation of non-profit... government banks to be administered through the United States Postal Service. “Credit card interest rates are outrageously high. With @RepAOC, we are introducing legislation to challenge the greed of Wall Street and protect consumers across America,” posted Sen. commie-Sanders on social media.“We should have a not-for-profit public option for basic banking services, and we should be piloting these projects through the US Postal Service or any other number of ways,” added Rep. commie-Ocasio-Cortez. These two are nuts to thing the government can run like a bank, just look at our health system that is being run by the government. https://hannity.com/media-room/postal-banking-aoc-bernie-call-for-the-creation-of-government-owned-banks-run-by-the-us-post-office/

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The High Cost of Renewable Energy

Nate Jackson: Way back in the heady days of 2008, Barack scumbag/liar-nObama admitted that the radical environmentalist agenda he advocated was going to be pricy. “Under my plan of a cap-and-trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket,” scumbag/liar-nObama said. “Coal-powered plants, you know, natural gas, you name it, whatever the plants were, whatever the industry was, they would have to retrofit their operations. That will cost money. They will pass that money on to consumers.”

According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, nationwide electricity rates since scumbag/liar-nObama’s 2008 declaration are up nearly 13%, though on an annual basis that’s generally lower than the rate of inflation. So maybe we avoided scumbag/liar-nObama’s prediction? Not so fast.

Bloomberg’s Cass Sunstein notes new research revealing “that renewable-fuel mandates are an unusually expensive way to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions.” Primarily because of what it does to electricity rates. Sunstein explains:

A strong majority of states now have “renewable portfolio standards,” which require that a specified percentage of the electricity supply must come from renewables. In California, the 2030 target is 60 percent. In New York, it is 50 percent.
Some states have lower targets, but even so the standards are expected to produce significant increases in the use of renewable energy — and to move states in the direction of becoming carbon-free.
To evaluate renewable-portfolio standards, it is essential to answer two critical questions. First, how much do they do to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions? Second, how much do they cost?

The answer to the first question is arguably good news: “Over their first seven years, such standards produced large cuts in carbon emissions — perhaps as much as 659 million metric tons.” But that reduction cost a pretty penny. Researchers say the price per ton is anywhere from $130 to $460. That may be front-end heavy, though, and prices may come down as technology improves.

Still, the reality is that leftists are picking winners and losers. As Sunstein writes, “Renewable-fuels requirements seem to be a way to take business away from the bad guys and to give it to the good guys. Their costs are not visible. People may well pay more for electricity, but they don’t see why.” That’s evidence of the fundamental truth that regulations are a form of hidden taxation. In 2008, scumbag/liar-nObama argued that the biggest challenge was “get[ting] the American people to say this is really important” despite the costs. It’s easier to achieve public approval when the costs are hidden.

Some other things to think about from our past commentary:

Electric vehicles leave an outsized carbon footprint.

Wind and solar cannot compete with fossil fuels and nuclear energy for efficiency.

And yet ecofascists become more insistent all the time on boondoggles like the $93 trillion Green New Deal, despite its predicted effects being “barely distinguishable from zero.” We’re already paying more as a result of leftist schemes. Enough is enough. ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/62870?mailing_id=4259&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4259&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

Skin the Snakes…Barr None

Posted by Craig Andresen on May 11, 2019 at 2:56am

Be sure to Click LIKE at the bottom of this article, and share it everywhere!!

By Craig Andresen – Right Side Patriots on American Political Radio

Okay, so the Mueller report finally got finished, after two years, 2,800 subpoenas, the interviewing of some 500 witnesses and after somewhere near $35 million taxpayer dollars were spent on it.

That report was then delivered to the Attorney General, as it was supposed to have been.

The Attorney General read through the report and then did exactly what he was supposed to do…he released a summary of the report.

That’s pretty much where the things that were supposed to have been done ended, and the crap storm began.

Liberals weren’t at all happy that the Mueller report failed to find any collusion between Trump and the Russians, and they weren’t at all happy that Mueller couldn’t find any obstruction of justice on Trump’s part either. After all, the liberals had pinned their hopes and dreams on the Mueller report. That report was supposed to make all their gnashing of teeth and wadding of panties worthwhile.

READ THE FULL ARTICLE HERE!!!

Friday PM ~ thefrontpagecover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on May 10, 2019 at 4:37pm

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

UN: 1 Million Species Extinct if

World Not Reorganized

Political Editors

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Did dirty cop-Robert Mueller Tap Fusion GPS

And Christopher Steele To Assist His

Anti-Trump Investigation?

by Paul Sperry

{ thefederalist.com } ~ Special Counsel dirty cop-Robert Mueller spent more than $732,000 on outside contractors, including private investigators and researchers, records show... but his office refuses to say who they were. While it’s not unusual for special government offices to outsource for services such as computer support, dirty cop-Mueller also hired contractors to compile “investigative reports” and other “information.” The arrangement has led congressional investigators, government watchdog groups and others to speculate that the private investigators and researchers who worked for the special counsel’s office might have included Christopher Steele and Fusion GPS, the private research firm that hired Steele to produce the Russia collusion dossier for the scumbag/liar-Clinton campaign. They suspect the dossier creators may have been involved in dirty cop-Mueller’s operation, and even had a hand in his final report, because the special counsel sent his team to London to meet with Steele within a few months of taking over the Russia collusion investigation in 2017. Also, dirty cop-Mueller’s lead prosecutor, Andrew Weissmann, had shared information he received from Fusion with the media. Raising additional suspicions, dirty cop-Mueller’s report recycles the general allegations leveled in the dossier. And taking a page from earlier surveillance-warrant applications in the Russia investigation, it cites as supporting evidence several articles—including one by Yahoo! News—that used Steele and Fusion as sources. dirty cop-Mueller even kept alive one of the dossier’s most obscene accusations—that Moscow had “compromising tapes” of Trump with Russian hookers—by slipping into a footnote an October 2016 text Trump lawyer Michael Cohen received from a “Russian businessman,” who cryptically intimated, “Stopped flow of tapes from Russia.”...

https://thefederalist.com/2019/05/09/robert-mueller-tap-fusion-gps-christopher-steele-assist-anti-trump-investigation/?utm_source=The+Federalist+List&utm_campaign=7d8cfaad94-RSS_The_Federalist_Daily_Updates_w_Transom&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_cfcb868ceb-7d8cfaad94-83771801

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A party lurching ever leftward

by Robert Knight

{ washingtontimes.com } ~ Adults in the Democratic Party, who seem like flustered parents at an out-of-control toddler birthday bash, have been warning about the public’s perception of them... House Speaker Nancy Pulosi has reason to worry. The 22 declared candidates for the presidential nomination lean far to the left. Which means they represent the center of their now-far-left party. The mini-wave for “moderate” loose lips-Joe Biden reflects a desperate pullback from the zany public image fostered by wild-haired Vermont socialist Sen. commie-Bernie Sanders and radical freshman Congresspersons commie-Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, New York Democrat, worthless-Rashida Tlaib, Michigan Democrat and Minnesota’s worthless-Ilhan Omar. worthless-Ms. Omar, notorious for anti-Semitic remarks, called Republicans “goons” at a Women’s March event on Wednesday at the U.S. Capitol co-hosted by former Communist Party vice-presidential candidate Angela Davis. Ms. worthless-Tlaib gained liberal fame by saying of President Trump, “we’re gonna go in there and we’re gonna impeach the motherf–—.” Miss commie-Ocasio-Cortez, a self-described socialist who sounds like a Capital C Communist, has garnered the most coverage. The Green New Deal, her plan to eliminate farting cows and gasoline-fueled engines in 11 years while redistributing wealth, has been embraced by most of the Democratic field. Here are a few examples of where the nation’s would-be leaders would take us...

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/may/5/the-22-declared-candidates-for-president-lean-far-/

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Charging Barr With CONTEMPT Could

JEOPARDIZE Chances Of dirty

cop-Mueller Testifying

by Kerry Picket

{ kerrypicket.com } ~ House Democrats may have damaged their chances of getting special counsel dirty cop-Robert Mueller to testify following the Wednesday contempt charge vote against Attorney General Bill Barr in the House Judiciary Committee... The Justice Department blasted the Judiciary Committee after the party-line contempt vote. “The only side who has made accommodations is the Attorney General, who made extraordinary efforts to provide Congress and the public with information about the Special Counsel’s work,” the DOJ said in a statement. Barr cannot “comply with the House Judiciary Committee’s subpoena without violating the law, court rules, and court orders.” President Donald Trump said Thursday afternoon he would leave it up to Barr to decide whether dirty cop-Mueller could testify before Congress about the Russia investigation. Trump previously tweeted he did not want dirty cop-Mueller to testify before Congress, but the contempt charge vote seems to have changed the circumstances. As a result of Trump’s announcement, Barr could order the Justice Department not to allow dirty cop-Mueller to testify if the Democrats decide to take the contempt charge against him to the floor for a vote. Democratic Maryland Rep. Jamie Raskin, a member of the House Judiciary Committee, seemed unconcerned about this possibility...

https://kerrypicket.com/barr-contempt-jeopardize-chances-mueller-testifying/

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Midterm Assessment: Iran

by Mark Dubowitz

{ fdd.org } ~ For almost two years, before President Trump ordered the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Syria in December 2018... the Trump administration pursued an Iran policy based on the use of all instruments of national power to stop Tehran from engaging in a wide array of aggressive and malign behaviors that defy global norms. In his May 21, 2018 speech, “A New Iran Strategy,” Secretary of State Mike Pompeo called on Iran to end verifiably its nuclear weapons and advanced ballistic missile programs, cease its support for terrorism and the destabilization of foreign governments, release all hostages, and halt its aggression against Israel and other U.S. allies. To achieve these objectives, the administration designed a strategy to pressure the regime – diplomatically, economically, and militarily. To that end, the administration walked away from the nuclear deal known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) and reinstated the comprehensive sanctions that had forced Iran to the negotiating table in 2013. The focal point of U.S. strategy was to intensify the Iranian regime’s ongoing liquidity crisis, which threatened to cripple its economy as a whole. The secretary of state also insisted the U.S. “will advocate tirelessly for the Iranian people,” who endure grave human rights violations and pervasive corruption. The Trump administration made it clear that it did not seek regime change, but would take advantage of the Islamic Republic’s deficit of legitimacy. In short, the U.S. purported to implement a policy of maximum pressure. The administration designed its comprehensive pressure campaign to resemble the one Ronald Reagan deployed against the Soviet Union. The cornerstone of his strategy was the recognition that the Soviet Union was an aggressive and revolutionary, yet internally fragile, regime. Reagan outlined his policy in National Security Decision Directive 75 in 1983. The plan included a massive defense buildup, economic warfare, support for anti-Soviet proxy forces and dissidents to combat Moscow globally, and an all-out offensive against the regime’s ideological legitimacy. The Trump administration withdrew from the JCPOA because the nuclear deal permitted Iran to reach the threshold of a nuclear weapons capability without even cheating. Rather, by waiting for key constraints to sunset, Tehran would have an industrial-size enrichment program, a near-zero breakout time, advanced centrifuges that are easier to operate in a clandestine manner, long-range ballistic missiles, and access to advanced conventional weaponry. In the meantime, its economy could grow with increased foreign investment and decreased vulnerability to sanctions.The administration made it clear that it was prepared to reestablish full diplomatic and commercial relations with Tehran if the regime negotiated a deal that corrects the shortcomings of the JCPOA. As Secretary Pompeo indicated, this would include an end to all uranium enrichment and plutonium reprocessing, “unqualified access” to all sites for UN weapons inspectors, full disclosure of previous nuclear weapons programs, and the termination of Iran’s nuclear-capable missile program. An agreement would also require the release of all U.S. and foreign hostages and the cessation of Iran’s support for terrorism and other aggressive conduct in the Middle East... https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2019/01/31/midterm-assessment-iran/

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Germany: Citizenship for Polygamous Migrants?

by Soeren Kern

{ gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ The German government has withdrawn proposed legislation that would have banned immigrants in polygamous marriages from obtaining German citizenship... The proposed ban had been included in draft changes to Germany's naturalization law, but was quietly removed from the final text, apparently in the interests of political correctness and multiculturalism. Although German law clearly prohibits polygamy for German nationals, some have argued that the law is unclear as to whether the law applies to foreign nationals living in Germany. The interior ministers of Germany's 16 states had unanimously called on the German government to clarify the issue by enshrining into law a blanket ban on German citizenship for polygamous migrants. Critics say that the bill, as it currently stands, would not only create a legal backdoor for polygamous migrants to become German citizens, but would effectively legalize the practice for Muslim immigrants. The changes would, consequently, enshrine into German law two parallel legal systems, one based on German Civil Law and another based on Islamic Sharia law. The German government has long been debating proposed changes to the country's Nationality Act (Staatsangehörigkeitsgesetz, StAG) that would strip German dual-citizens of their German citizenship if they join jihadi groups abroad. The proposed changes would not be retroactive and would not, for instance, apply to German jihadis who joined the Islamic State. The original draft included language that would have prohibited immigrants in polygamous marriages, as well as immigrants who lack legal identification, from becoming German citizens. The language was removed from the bill after a Cabinet meeting in early April. The removal of the text, first reported by the newspaper Welt am Sonntag on May 5, has been greeted with outrage. The parliamentary spokesman for the Christian Democrats, Mathias Middelberg, blamed Justice Minister Katarina Barley, of the Social Democrats, for removing the language. "This is completely incomprehensible and unacceptable," said Middelberg. "It should be self-evident that naturalization of persons living in polygamous marriages is out of the question in the Basic Law."... https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/14191/germany-polygamy-migrants

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UN: 1 Million Species Extinct if World

Not Reorganized

Political Editors: The United Nations released a report this week warning that the “global rate of species extinction is already at least tens to hundreds of times higher than the average rate over the past 10 million years and is accelerating.” The report further notes that if some “transformative change” is not enacted soon, an estimated one million animal species are at risk of extinction. And who, according to the UN’s Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), is to blame for this? Modern man, of course.

And the solution to this problem? The IPBES’s recommended “transformative changes” include shrinking the human population, ending “overconsumption,” and “addressing inequalities, especially regarding income and gender, which undermine capacity for sustainability.” In other words, population control and socialism on a global scale.

However, as with anthropogenic climate change, the “science” behind the IPBES’s report is dubious at best. And the recommended socioeconomic solutions are flat nonsense. In fact, the solutions would likely increase the threat to these species rather than mitigate it. The reality is that under greater capitalism and free trade, efficiency standards have increased as the environmental impact has lessened. As Tim Worstall observes in the Washington Examiner, the UN report “insists upon efficient resource use by being inefficient.”

Ronald Bailey’s assessment at Reason is more pointed: “The IPBES report falls in a long line of apocalyptic extinction predictions. For example, S. Dillon Ripley of the Smithsonian Institution predicted in 1970 that in 25 years, somewhere between 75 and 80 percent of all the species of living animals would be extinct. That is, 75 and 80 percent of all species of animals alive in 1970 would be extinct by 1995. Fortunately, Ripley was wrong then and it is likely that the IPBES is wrong now.”

But by all means, we must adopt the ecofascists’ solutions or we stand accused of wanting one million species to die. ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/62846?mailing_id=4259&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4259&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

Fri/Med PM ~ thefrontpagecover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on May 10, 2019 at 2:27pm

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

Climate Anxiety': There's a Guide

for That (Seriously)

Jordan Candler

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Solomon/Meadows – FBI Was Notified of

Sketchy Steele Dossier Info in Advance

of FISA Application

by sundance

{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ House Judiciary member Mark Meadows has provided John Solomon with notes taken by Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Kathleen Kavalec on Oct. 11, 2016, during her meeting with Dossier author Christopher Steele... Within the notes Kavalec outlines: the motives of Steele; innacuracies in his claims; and his media distribution network used to push the sketchy information. From the notes Kavalec wrote an email currently classified by FBI/DOJ informing the FBI of her review, two weeks ahead of the FBI application to the FISA court, which should have led investigators to withdraw Steele’s dossier from the application:The notes from the conversation were used by Ms. Kavalec in notifying the FBI of the issues within the claims by Mr. Steele. Solomon […] Kavalec, two days later and well before the FISA warrant was issued, forwarded her typed summary to other government officials. The State Department has redacted the names and agencies of everyone she alerted. It is unlikely that her concerns failed to reach the FBI. Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.), a member of the House Oversight and Reform Committee and ranking member of its Subcommittee on Government Operations, told me late Thursday he had confirmed with U.S. officials that Kavalec’s memo was forwarded to the FBI in the Oct. 13, 2016, email...

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/05/09/solomon-meadows-fbi-was-notified-of-sketchy-steele-dossier-info-in-advance-of-fisa-application/

FULL PDF: https://www.scribd.com/document/409363897/State-Department-handwritten-notes-of-meeting-with-Christopher-Steele

SOLOMON ARTICLE: https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/442944-fbis-steele-story-falls-apart-false-intel-and-media-contacts-were-flagged

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Intelligence analyst charged with leaking

top-secret information to left-wing

reporter Jeremy Scahill

by Jerry Dunleavy

{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ A former intelligence analyst and Afghanistan veteran has been charged with leaking classified information to the media... Daniel Everette Hale, 31, of Nashville, Tenn., was arrested on federal charges Thursday. The reporter that Hale leaked this information to is not named in the indictment, but the charging document identifies him as Jeremy Scahill of the Intercept, an outspoken critic of America’s military activities overseas. Hale "printed off a series of Secret and Top Secret documents through his position with the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, many of which he then provided to the reporter." The day that Hale is alleged to have met with the reporter at the reporter’s bookstore event, April 29, 2013, is the same day Scahill held a discussion and signing for his book Dirty Wars at Busboys and Poets in Washington, D.C. The indictment states that in May 2013 Hale said the reporter “wants me to tell my story about working with drones at the opening screening of his documentary about the war and the use of drones." Scahill’s book accompanied a 2013 documentary of the same name that was critical of secretive U.S. military operations, including drone warfare. The indictment states that Hale again met the reporter at another book event on June 8, 2013 — the same day Scahill was hosted at Busboys & Poets for another discussion about Dirty Wars. The indictment states that many of the classified documents were disclosed in an October 2015 news article. On Oct.15, 2015, Scahill published an article on the Intercept entitled “The Assassination Complex” and cited “a cache of secret slides that provides a window into the inner workings of the U.S. military’s kill/capture operations at a key time in the evolution of the drone wars.”...

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/intelligence-analyst-charged-with-leaking-top-secret-information-to-left-wing-reporter-jeremy-scahill?utm_source=WEX_News%20Brief_05/09/2019&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WEX_News%20Brief&rid=5261

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Top Dems Now Have Access to All But Two Full, Seven Partial Lines of dirty cop-Mueller’s Obstruction Report

by Jack Crowe

{ nationalreview.com } ~ As Congressional Democrats prepare to hold attorney general William Barr in contempt over his supposed lack of transparency... it’s worth remembering that he has made available to top Democrats the entirety of volume II of the dirty cop-Mueller report, save for two full and seven partial lines, which were redacted to protect grand jury secrecy in keeping with federal law. In order to provide lawmakers with greater transparency into special counsel dirty cop-Robert Mueller’s investigation, the Department of Justice placed a less-redacted version of his report in a secure room on Capitol Hill, and granted access to that room to congressional leaders of both parties, as well as the chairmen and ranking members of intelligence and judiciary committees in the House and Senate. As of this writing, not one of the six Democrats granted access to what amounts to 99.9 percent of volume II of the dirty cop-Mueller report, which details the president’s behavior as it relates to obstruction of justice, have taken the opportunity to examine it. If they had, they could have viewed the entirety of dirty cop-Mueller’s obstruction case against Trump except for the following seven redactions, two of which are applied to footnotes. In response to Barr’s offer, Congressional Democrats have said that the full report should be made available to all lawmakers and have argued that outcome will become less likely if top congressmen view the less-redacted version. “Every member of Congress ought to be able to see that version,” Mark Warner, ranking Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, told our own John McCormack. “I think if I were to go, you’d lessen the case.” But Democratic leaders are not asking for “that version,” which retains its grand jury redactions; they are asking, and subpoenaed for, a fully unredacted report and all of the millions of pages of underlying documentary evidence, which relate to 22 ongoing criminal investigations... These dems are full of BS. AG Ball is totally transparent and to the rule of law.

https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/05/mueller-report-volume-ii-available-top-congressional-democrats/

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White House announces Trump will

nominate Patrick Shanahan as Pentagon chief

y John Gage

{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ The White House announced Thursday that President Trump will nominate acting Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan as the permanent secretary... “Trump will announce a new cabinet nomination today: Patrick Shanahan for defense secretary, sources tell me,” Bloomberg White House reporter Jennifer Jacobs tweeted Thursday afternoon. The White House confirmed the tweet. "Based upon his outstanding service to the Country and his demonstrated ability to lead, President Trump intends to nominate Patrick M. Shanahan to be the Secretary of Defense," White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said in a statement released on Twitter. "Acting Secretary Shanahan has proven over the last several months that he is beyond qualified to lead the Department of Defense, and he will continue to do an excellent job," Sanders said. Shanahan took over as acting secretary after James Mattis resigned his position earlier this year. https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/trump-to-announce-patrick-shanahan-as-permanent-secretary-of-defense?utm_source=WEX_Breaking%20News%20Alert_05/09/2019&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WEX_Breaking%20News&rid=5261

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Trump Breaks scumbag/liar-nObama’s 40-Year

Lease to Chinese & Boots Them

Out of US Shipping Hub

by Benjamin Arie

{ westernjournal.com } ~ As a candidate for president, Donald Trump brought up China so many times it became a running meme … and now that he’s in the White House... his administration seems to be following through on his promises to apply pressure against the Asian superpower. A lucrative arrangement for China which was inked during the scumbag/liar-nObama era has now been dismantled, after the Trump administration raised red flags over the prospect of the Chinese government controlling a U.S. port. According to the South China Morning Post, the major issue is that Orient Overseas International — a company controlled by the Chinese government via a company called Cosco — owned the Long Beach Container Terminal in California. The Cosco shipping company is based out of Shanghai and is not to be confused with the U.S. wholesaler Costco. This means that a major U.S. port was potentially under Beijing’s thumb — a situation that caused alarm bells to go off in Washington. The 2017 sale of Orient Overseas International to Cosco “raised a red flag with US security agencies, which were unhappy with the idea of a state-owned firm taking indirect ownership of a major port. Cosco now owns 75 per cent of OOIL,” explained The Morning Post. As a result, the Department of Homeland Security stepped in and pushed the Chinese conglomerate to sell the massive shipping terminal in California to “a suitable, unrelated third party” not controlled by China. On Tuesday, that buyer was revealed as Macquarie Infrastructure Partners, which is based in Australia. That means that China-controlled Orient Overseas’ 40-year lease signed during the scumbag/liar-nObama administration has been effectively torn up. “The scumbag/liar-nObama administration had no problems with OOCL signing a 40-year lease with the City of Long Beach in 2012 for control of America’s second largest and most automated container handling operation,” American Thinker pointed out on Tuesday... https://www.westernjournal.com/ct/trump-breaks-obamas-40-year-lease-chinese-boots-us-shipping-hub/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=conservative-brief-CT&utm_campaign=dailyam&utm_content=conservative-tribune

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Climate Anxiety': There's a Guide

for That (Seriously)

Jordan Candler: A conciliatory CNN report this week touches on the issue of so-called “climate anxiety,” which apparently is becoming widespread. The first paragraph of the report introduces a Willamette University student who “woke at 2 a.m. and then cried for two solid hours about the warming ocean.” That student’s climate professor, Wendy Petersen Boring, asserts, “Back in 2007, [climate change] was the mouse in the room; then, it became the elephant in the room. By 2016, those concerns and fears began to flood over.”

The report goes on to cite a 69-page American Psychological Association/ecoAmerica climate guide published in March 2017 that tenders ways to ameliorate the effects of environmental anxiety. According to the guide, “This … report is intended to further inform and empower health and medical professionals, community and elected leaders, and the public.”

CNN fans the flames by claiming, “Higher temperatures alone have led to more suicides and increased psychiatric hospitalization and have hurt our sleep, which can also harm mental health. These problems will get worse as the temperature continues to rise, research shows.” With statements like that, it’s little wonder students think the sky is falling.

Fact check: It’s not. As veteran meteorologist Joe Bastardi has pointed out time and again, our standard of living and gross domestic product on a global scale has never been better because of fossil fuels. Taking those away hastily is a recipe for disaster.

Of course, not everyone is victimized by “climate anxiety.” In March, Gallup reported that 66% of Americans are convinced global warming is man-made. That said, “Fewer than half of Americans — 45% — think global warming will pose a serious threat in their own lifetime and 44% say they worry a great deal about it. Another 21% worry a fair amount about global warming, while about a third (35%) worry only a little or not at all.”

But even that worry seems to become less so come voting time. After every election, climate change as a preeminent issue ends up ranking fairly low among voters. It’s good that at least some people get their priorities straight before casting their votes.

Which bring us to the final point. Tellingly, Gallup also reports, “In terms of demographic differences, there is a 20-percentage-point spread between the youngest and oldest Americans in those classified as Concerned Believers: 67% of those 18 to 29 vs. 47% of those 65 and older. Additionally, only 7% of young adults meet the definition of Cool Skeptics, compared with 22% of seniors.”

Younger generations are more prone to believe climate-change alarmism thanks to our modern-day leftist education complex. Older generations, on the other hand, have lived long enough to know that a plethora of climate doomsday scenarios haven’tunfolded. Propaganda and pollaganda are powerful tools. And for that, we should all be extremely anxious for our future. ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/62850?mailing_id=4259&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4259&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

Friday Noon ~ thefrontpagecover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on May 10, 2019 at 11:26am

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

No Making Fun of Leftists: Twitter Bans

commie-AOC Parody Account

Thomas Gallatin

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dirty cop-Mueller report discussion between

Chris Christie and MSNBC host turns nasty:

‘get out of town with that.’

by Zachary Leeman

{ bizpacreview.com } ~ A discussion between Chris Christie and MSNBC host Stephanie Ruhle got heated on Wednesday when the subject of the dirty cop-Mueller report came up... During a panel at the SALT conference in Las Vegas, Ruhle brought up the fact that President Donald Trump has referred to the dirty cop-Mueller investigation as a “treasonous hoax” in the past. She then listed potential business deals between the president and Russia, as well as his campaign’s “eagerness” to get help from Russia as reasons why the investigation was not a hoax or a waste of the two-plus years that went into it. Christie responded by saying that the president “says many things” he disagrees with, but he expects the harsh wording from the man at this point. “I don’t understand why people are surprised by any of this. I’ve known Donald Trump for 17 years. He is no different today than the day I met him in May 2002,” Christie said. “This is the way he speaks, this is the way he acts, and by the way, this was the way he spoke and acted during the campaign.” “So you’re saying he’s a liar, a bully, you get what you get, you don’t get upset?” Ruhle replied. “You used those adjectives, I did not,” Christie shot back. “You asked, ‘treasonous hoax,’ he uses these words- he’s a salesman. He is at core a salesman who uses hyperbole to try to convince people of his position.” “Sir, those are lies,” responded Ruhle. “That’s what you say, Stephanie,” Christie fired back. “That’s his opinion and an opinion can’t be a lie.” At one point Ruhle tried to talk down to Christie by saying, “sir, the word ‘hoax’ is not an adjective. It’s a noun.”... https://www.bizpacreview.com/2019/05/08/mueller-report-discussion-between-chris-christie-and-msnbc-host-turns-nasty-get-out-of-town-with-that-752963?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=BPR%20Email&utm_campaign=DMS

VIDEO at the site.

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NYT’s Dishonest ‘Scoop’ on Trump’s Taxes

Left Out a Narrative-Ending Piece of Information

by Malachi Bailey

{ westernjournal.com } ~ The New York Times desperately tried to paint President Donald Trump as an incompetent businessman for his losses from 1985 to 1994... but left out information about New York City’s own real estate crash. Trump was one of the countless businessmen caught up in the New York City real estate crash that started in 1988, according to a study from the Furman Center for Real Estate & Urban Policy. “Along with the rest of the country, New York entered a downturn at the end of the 1980s. Citywide, prices fell by nearly 30%, more than twice the drop witnessed between 1974 and 1980, and even in Manhattan prices fell significantly,” the study said.“Nearly every major firm has laid off real estate investment bankers to rein in costs as deals dried up,” the Times reported in 1991. “Last year Morgan Stanley, Salomon Brothers and Merrill Lynch pared down the size of their real estate groups.” “Even Goldman, which has dominated the business on Wall Street, is telling many of its real estate bankers to look for new jobs.” This is extremely important information to note when discussing Trump’s taxes from that period, but the Times deceived their readers by omitting these key details. “Mr. Trump was propelled to the presidency, in part, by a self-spun narrative of business success and of setbacks triumphantly overcome,” the Times reported Wednesday. “He has attributed his first run of reversals and bankruptcies to the recession that took hold in 1990. But 10 years of tax information obtained by The New York Times paints a different, and far bleaker, picture of his deal-making abilities and financial condition.” It’s common knowledge, however, that Trump’s businesses slumped through those decades.Trump even wrote a book, “Trump: The Art of the Comeback,” about how he recovered from his financial struggles...

https://www.westernjournal.com/ct/nyts-dishonest-scoop-trumps-taxes-left-narrative-ending-piece-information/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=libertyalliance&utm_campaign=dailyam&utm_content=libertyalliance

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Damning Steele Memo Finally Unearthed,

FBI’s Response Is Just Plain Crooked

by Joe Saunders

{ westernjournal.com } ~ Attorney General William Barr’s proposed investigation into the events surrounding the 2016 presidential campaign might have just gotten easier... And for President Donald Trump supporters who have long disdained the whole idea of “Russian collusion,” the picture might be a lot clearer. But for the FBI — both its former leadership and its current director — things might have just gotten a lot worse. According to a report Tuesday by The Hill’s John Solomon, a State Department memo regarding former British spy Christopher Steele and his work for an unnamed client leading up to the 2016 election makes it crystal clear that FBI officials had to know Steele was working on behalf of the scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton campaign when they received a copy of the infamous “Steele dossier” from the State Department in October 2016, before Americans even went to the polls. Yet the bureau still used the dossier to obtain surveillance warrants for Trump campaign associate Carter Page — and by extension the Trump campaign — under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. According to Solomon, the memo was forced into public view through legal action by the conservative group Citizens United. Written by Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Kathleen Kavalec, according to Solomon, the memo was a summary of an Oct. 11, 2016, meeting between Kavalec, Steele and Tatyana Duran, a colleague of Steele’s at the Orbis Security firm Steele founded. According to Solomon, the notes — including the names of whoever they were intended for — are heavily redacted, on suspicious security grounds we’ll get to in a minute. But even so, they all but scream that Steele was an operative for the scumbag/liar-Clinton campaign and the Democratic Party, and that his employers were desperate for some way to smear Trump before Election Day arrived...

https://www.westernjournal.com/ct/damning-steele-memo-finally-unearthed-fbis-response-just-plain-crooked/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=CTBreaking&utm_campaign=breaking&utm_content=conservative-tribune

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Democrats Vote to Fund Infanticide, Support

Clinics That Refuse Care for Babies Born Alive

by Steven Ertelt

{ lifenews.com } ~ For the first time this year, members of the House of Representatives voted on whether they support infanticide... Nancy Pulosi and House Democrats continue to refuse a request to allow a vote on the Born Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, legislation that would stop infanticide and provide medical care and treatment for babies who survive abortions. They’ve blocked the Born Alive bill 37 times now — but votes have never been cast since the block merely comes in the form of the presiding officer denying a vote. But today House Democrats finally cast a vote on infanticide. During markup of government funding legislation in the House Appropriations Committee today. LHHS Ranking Member Tom Cole (R-OK) offered an amendment to withhold funds to any medical entity that does not ensure that any infant born alive following an abortion receives the same medical care as any other infant born at the same gestational age. Every Republican voted for the pro-life amendment to stop infanticide while every Democrat on the committee, except Texas Democrat Henry Cuellar, voted for infanticide...

https://www.lifenews.com/2019/05/08/democrats-vote-to-fund-infanticide-oppose-ending-funding-for-clinics-that-refuse-care-for-babies-born-alive/

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

VIDEO 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aD1xobACG1g

VIDEO 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82pFBE785aI

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Illegal immigrants now working as lawyers

in California, Connecticut, Florida, New York,

New Jersey, Penn, Oklahoma, Illinois

by Margaret Menge

{ bizpacreview.com } ~ Who knew it would come to this? Illegal immigrants who have two-year work permits under DACA have now been admitted to the bar to practice law in several states... The latest state to admit an illegal immigrant is Oklahoma, whose bar association recently admitted Javier Hernandez, who came to the United States illegally from Mexico with his family when he was a child. The Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) called it “utterly mind-boggling” that bar associations in some states are now willing to admit illegal aliens “who have begun their relationship with the United States via a blatant violation of U.S. law.” “This is especially shocking when one takes into account the fact that U.S. citizen attorneys are regularly disbarred for relatively minor offenses,” FAIR said in a statement to BizPacReview this week. “It is apparent to FAIR – and we believe it should be apparent even to the casual observer – that one who is essentially a trespasser, unlawfully present in the United States, is in no position to be an ethical practitioner of the law.” DACA, which stands for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, was introduced by former president Barack scumbag/liar-nObama in 2012. It “defers” deportation for people brought to the United States illegally when they were children, and awards them two-year work permits and Social Security numbers for the purpose of work. But it doesn’t change a person’s status, and there is no path to citizenship. The DACA recipients are still illegal aliens. And many, according to immigration experts, committed multiple felonies in order to work before DACA, including Social Security fraud, perjury on the I-9 form and identity theft. But under the DACA rules, only those who have been convicted of a felony are disqualified, and the federal government has chosen to turn a blind eye to crimes a person committed before DACA...

https://www.bizpacreview.com/2019/05/08/illegal-immigrants-now-working-as-lawyers-in-california-connecticut-florida-new-york-new-jersey-penn-oklahoma-illinois-752878?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=BPR%20Email&utm_campaign=DMS

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No Making Fun of Leftists: Twitter Bans

commie-AOC Parody Account

Thomas Gallatin: In the latest episode in the Left’s increasing suppression of free speech, Twitter on Monday suddenly banned a popular commie-Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez parody account known as commie-AOC Press. The satire account, which poked fun at the leftist representative, had swollen to over 85,000 followers and was a favorite for our own Short Cuts features at the point of its permanent suspension. The question everyone asked following the ban was why it happened, since commie-AOC Press had been in full compliance with Twitter’s service rules. Given her poor handling of criticism, it’s not unthinkable that commie-AOC herself complained.

Twitter dubiously claimed the reason behind the ban was its rule on fake accounts: “You may not register or create fake and misleading accounts. While you may use Twitter pseudonymously or as a parody, commentary, or fan account, you may not use misleading account information in order to engage in spamming, abusive, or disruptive behavior, including attempts to manipulate the conversations on Twitter.” A section of rules was also highlighted noting that a user cannot “post duplicative or substantially similar content, replies, or mentions over multiple accounts or multiple duplicate updates on one account, or create duplicate or substantially similar accounts.” Twitter rules require all parody accounts to indicate “non-affiliation” in both the account name and bio — rules commie-AOC Press followed.

The individual who created the commie-AOC parody account, Mike Morrison, also had his personal Twitter account permanently removed. Morrison argues the reason behind the ban was purely political: “I think Twitter banned commie-AOC Press for the increasing amounts of attention it’s been receiving lately. In the past month and a half alone the account grew by roughly 50,000 followers. We’ve had tweets with over 30,000 likes on them, so I think Twitter decided it was time for [the account] to go. They didn’t like how popular an account created by their political opposition had become.”

It’s difficult to argue against Morrison’s conclusion, as Twitter has clearly not applied the same standard to several other accounts that parody President Donald Trump. Parody account Donald J. Drumpf, for example, tweeted, “Many people, including 370 former federal prosecutors, are saying I’m guilty of obstruction. But my hand-picked Attorney General says I’m above the law so #BothSides! #Winning.”

Regarding social media in general, National Review’s David French astutely observes, “Hate-speech policies exist not as easily interpreted, uniformly applied rules that provide all users fair notice of the conditions for using the platforms, but rather as subjectively interpreted, selectively applied weapons to wield on behalf of favored ideas and individuals. The result is that some people are more exposed to abuse than others because those people are deemed less worthy of protection.” ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/62873?mailing_id=4259&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4259&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

Fri/Med AM ~ thefrontpagecover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on May 10, 2019 at 9:20am

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

Dems Claim Election Fears While

Undermining Elections

Louis DeBroux

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Friday Top News Executive Summary

Media Editors: TARIFFS GREEN-LIGHTED: “President Trump on Friday defended his decision to impose steep tariffs on $200 billion worth of Chinese imports and promised much steeper penalties would follow, putting the rest of the world on notice that he will follow through on his protectionist agenda no matter the blowback.” (The Washington Post)

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APPEALS COURT METAMORPHOSIS: “The Senate confirmed Michael Park to be a judge on the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday, making him the 39th circuit court judge to be confirmed under President Trump in a process on a record pace that is steadily reshaping the bench. … With two more vacancies by this summer as judges take senior status, Mr. Trump will soon have a chance to flip control of the circuit, which currently has seven Democratic appointees. Mr. Trump flipped the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals earlier this year.” (The Washington Times)

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PENTAGON GETS A NOMINEE: “President Trump is nominating Patrick Shanahan to be his second secretary of Defense, a position the former Boeing executive has held on an interim basis since December. … Shanahan, who has less than two years of government experience, took over as the top Defense Department official after James Mattis resigned late last year.” (The Hill)

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NOKO SHIP SEIZED: “U.S. authorities have seized a North Korean ship that was transporting coal in violation of international sanctions, the Department of Justice announced Thursday. The North Korean ship, the Wise Honest, is the first seized by U.S. authorities over sanctions violations. It is now approaching U.S. territorial waters accompanied by the U.S. Marshals and Coast Guard.” (National Review)

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STUDENTS REBUFF ANTI-GUN ACTIVISTS: “Gun rights advocates posted support on social media Thursday for students who walked out of a gun-control rally in anger and tears over concerns the event inappropriately politicized their grief. … After about 30 minutes, hundreds of students from the STEM School stormed out yelling ‘this is not for us,’ ‘political stunt’ and ‘we are people, not a statement.’” (USA Today)

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FLORIDA SANCTIONS SELF-DEFENSE: “Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill Wednesday that’ll let more Florida teachers carry guns in school, the latest response to last year’s mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland.” (Fox News)

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ILLEGALS GIVEN FREE REIGN: “ICE has already released 168,000 illegal immigrant family members into the U.S. this fiscal year, and the number is likely to surge as the border situation deteriorates, a top deportation official told Congress on Wednesday. According to the results of a pilot program, a staggering 87% of released families are skipping their court hearings.” (The Washington Times)

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CHICK-FIL-A PERSEVERES: According to Campus Reform, “The student government at a Texas Christian college passed a resolution to remove Chick-fil-A food from the campus dining hall because of the restaurant’s stances on LGBT issues.” Yet The Wall Street Journal reports that the “company this year is poised to become the third-biggest U.S. restaurant chain by sales.”

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HUMOR: Attorney General William Barr becomes 257-millionth American to hold Congress in contempt (The Daily Wire)

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POLICY: China’s not-so-secret weapon against America: capitalism (Issues & Insights)

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POLICY: End hospitals’ right to a blank check for emergency care (E21)

~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/62928?mailing_id=4265&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4265&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

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President Trump Delivers Remarks

About ‘Surprise Billing’ in Healthcare

by sundance

{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ The White House is promoting a new healthcare initiative to confront the issues of ‘surprise billing’ within the healthcare industry. Today President Trump delivered remarks on a new standard for informing healthcare consumers:

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/05/09/president-trump-delivers-remarks-about-surprise-billing-in-healthcare/

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEDCsvbBRH4

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Sacramento’s Biggest Gasbags

by Steven Greenhut

{ spectator.org } ~ Don’t be alarmed by soaring California gasoline prices, which have topped $4 a gallon at most gas stations around the state... Gov. Gavin Newsom and Democratic legislative leaders are on the job, as they sniff out the culprit behind rising prices. They are pretty sure it has something to do with bad corporate behavior, based on their latest public statements. Stay tuned — but you might not want to buy that giant gas-sucking SUV just yet. The cause of the high prices is obvious to those of us familiar with the state’s gasoline-related policies. In 2017, then-Gov. Jerry Brown pushed through his signature increase in gas taxes to fund the road-infrastructure improvements that his administration had neglected as it ramped up social spending. The law adds 12 cents to each gallon of gasoline and 20 cents to each gallon of diesel and could add far more to the price in coming decades. Another obvious reason for high prices: California requires that only a special blend of low-emission gasoline be sold here, which has reduced competition by eliminating the possibility of gas sales from other states. It has left supply vulnerable to routine shutdowns, fires, and other problems at the handful of facilities that produce the specially formulated concoction. Even a New York Times columnist figured it out: “You may already know that the primary reason gas tends to be more expensive in California is the state’s stringent gasoline standards, which require a cleaner fuel blend that only a few refineries outside the state can produce. So when work is stopped at any of the 10 major refineries within California, it can make a significant dent in the supply of gas, which causes prices to rise.” Furthermore, the state’s cap-and-trade system, which caps the amount of greenhouse-gas emissions that manufacturers may emit, imposes a surcharge if companies exceed those limits. It also results in retrofitting costs as companies try to reduce emissions as the cap becomes more stringent year by year. Business groups argue that the system is little more than another California-only tax on the industrial sector. Those costs play out at the pump, too...

https://spectator.org/sacramentos-biggest-gasbags/?utm_source=American%20Spectator%20Emails&utm_campaign=9583401b50-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_05_09_01_13&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_797a38d487-9583401b50-104608113

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Iran's Arrowhead in Gaza Tries

to Drag Israel into a New Conflict

by Yaakov Lappin

{ investigativeproject.org } ~ Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), an Iranian-backed terrorist faction in Gaza that has an even larger rocket arsenal than Hamas, has been working hard in recent weeks to try to spark conflict with Israel... On Friday, as PIJ representatives met with Hamas counterparts in Cairo, pretending to hammer out a long-term arrangement with Egyptian officials to stabilize the Gaza Strip, a PIJ cell launched a sniper attack on Israel Defense Forces (IDF) personnel. It wasn't the first recent PIJ armed attack on Israel. At the end of April, the terror group fired a rocket at a southern Israeli city, which landed in the Mediterranean Sea. PIJ had also been busy speeding up the digging of a new terror attack tunnel from Rafah, in southern Gaza, into Israel. The IDF had been monitoring the tunnel's development, and destroyed it during the recent flare-up before PIJ could send killing and kidnap squads into the country. In March, two PIJ operatives armed with grenades and knives were caught heading for a southern Israeli village after infiltrating from Gaza. Yet it was the sniper attack, which wounded an IDF officer, that ultimately triggered a sequence of events leading to a major escalation. PIJ was able to drag Hamas into the situation it had created. What followed was a deadly Gazan onslaught of 690 rockets fired into Israelis. This was accompanied by an anti-tank missile strike on an Israeli civilian vehicle on a highway near Gaza. Four Israeli civilians were murdered in the violence – a number that would have been far higher had the Iron Dome air defense system not intercepted 240 rockets heading for built up areas. The Israel Air Force, for its part, struck over 350 terror targets across Gaza in retaliation, killing approximately 30 Hamas and PIJ operatives, and destroying many high value enemy targets that were embedded within civilian neighborhoods...

https://www.investigativeproject.org/7913/iran-arrowhead-in-gaza-tries-to-drag-israel-into

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A Looming Crisis in the Mideast

by Ahmed Charai

{ gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ After raining down some 600 rockets that killed four Israelis this past week, the Netanyahu government responded with overwhelming force, deploying jet fighters to carry out multiple air strikes... killing 23 Gaza residents including a pregnant woman, according to Palestinian Authority officials. The pregnant women and her child, however, are now confirmed as having been killed by a Palestinian rocket that feel short. And, so, the cycle of violence makes another cruel revolution. What makes the events of the past week different from earlier rockets-and-retaliation episodes? The reaction of Arab intellectuals and other thought leaders in Muslim world. Consider the tweet of Dr. Turki Al-Hamad, a well-known Saudi author and thinker. He tweeted: "It's a repeating loop: rockets are fired from Gaza into Israel, Israel bombs Gaza, someone or other mediates, the fighting stops – and the common Palestinian folks pay the price. This is 'resistance,' my friend. Iran and Turkey are in trouble, and the Palestinians are paying the price." Note his use of scare quotes around resistance and his willingness to blame Iran and Turkey, two Muslim-majority nations, instead of the Jewish state. This marks a real rhetorical change. And many influential Arab voices echoed the thoughts of Dr. Al-Hamad. Muhammad Aal Al-Sheikh, a frequent contributor to the Saudi daily Al-Jazirah, tweeted: "The Persian ayatollahs have instructed their servants, Hamas, to escalate the conflict with Israel, and they obeyed. The result is seven Palestinians dead, versus one Israeli wounded. The death toll increased after his tweet. The Persians are tightening the pressure on the U.S. and Israel in retaliation for Trump's decision, and the victims are the people of Gaza."...

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/14193/looming-crisis-mideast

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Iran gives Europe sixty days to

step up to demands

by Seth J. Frantzman

{ jpost.com } ~ Iranian media reported on Wednesday that the Islamic Republic was increasingly seeking to pressure European countries to come to terms with Tehran’s demands under the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), or ‘Iran Nuclear Deal.’... Effectively Iran is saying that it is monitoring European actions over the next 60 days and that it is time for European countries to “fulfill their commitments” or Iran’s behavior could become “unpredictable.” Iran announced this week a partial withdrawal from the deal. In an interview with ISNA Hossein Naghavi-Hosseini discussed a recent statement from the Supreme National Security Council about Iran’s upcoming actions. He indicated that not only the US had walked away from the deal but that other western states were not upholding their end of the bargain. He termed it a failure of European countries to live up to their side of the agreement. Nahghazi-Hosseini is a conservative politician in the parliament. “We will monitor European actions within 60 days,” he said. Iranian media present the decision of Iran to begin preparations for a greater withdrawal from the deal as a way to pressure not only Europe but also other countries to come to terms with Tehran. The concept is to create a cleavage between the western powers and other states such as Russia, Turkey and China, and get those countries to also pressure Europe to do more for Iran. It is a complex game of chess combined with setting in motion a potential crises over the summer. Mehr News says that the recent comments by Iranian President Hassan Rouhani are raising eyebrows in the UK, France, Germany, Russia and China. On May 8 Rouhani said that “starting today, Iran does not keep its enriched uranium and produced heavy water limited.” He said that European states would “face Iran’s further actions if they cannot fulfill their obligations within the next 60 days.” This is a gamble by the regime, saying it wants a “win-win” scenario. That means Iran will cease a 3.67% limit on enrichment of uranium. It was supposed to sell off any additional enriched uranium over 300 kilograms. It also had restrictions on how much heavy water it could keep. Beyond that it could reach high enrichment levels, closer to weapons-grade potential. The whole point of the deal was to prevent this scenario. Iran’s Press TV said that Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Political Affairs Abbas Araghchi has said that Iran has not left the JCPOA but that it has put “such a move on our agenda.” He has handed a letter to five countries; France, UK, Germany, Russia and China, that specifies the decisions of the Supreme National Security Council... https://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Iran-gives-Europe-sixty-days-to-step-up-to-demands-589235

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Dems Claim Election Fears While

Undermining Elections

Louis DeBroux: The utter hypocrisy of the Democrat Party is so brazen that one wonders whether they are so addled with Trump Derangement Syndrome that they actually believe their own idiocy, or if they truly think voters are stupid enough to believe them. Possibly realizing they’ve been hurt with the electorate by their championing of infanticide and their relentless efforts to block President Donald Trump from dealing with the border crisis, Democrats have now amped up their claims of stolen elections.

The most obvious example, of course, is scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton’s refusal, two years later, to accept her shocking loss to political neophyte Donald Trump. In a recent interview she exclaimed, “You can run the best campaign, you can even become the nominee, and you can have the election stolen from you.”

This is the same woman who mocked and attacked Trump for his refusal to say, during a debate three weeks before the 2016 election, that he would not automatically accept election results. When he said, “I will look at it at the time,” she found it “horrifying.” Feigning shock and outrage, scumbag/liar-Clinton declared, “Donald Trump refused to say that he’d respect the results of this election. By doing that, he’s threatening our democracy.”

So which constitutes a greater threat to “our democracy”? The man who says he wants to see the results before conceding, or the powerful woman who, with her party’s top leaders, conspired with senior federal law enforcement and intelligence officials to first prevent a Trump victory, and then spent two years promoting an outrageous conspiracy theory that the duly elected president is a pawn of America’s largest geopolitical foe?

The 100% fabricated Steele dossier that became the basis of a special counsel investigation by a team of lawyers who were also Democrat Party donors and scumbag/liar-Hillary allies. The illegal spying on not just an American citizen but the opposition party presidential nominee. The endless lies and misinformation pouring out of that investigation, like effluent from a busted sewer pipe.

It is the Democrats, not the Republicans, who have damaged faith in our electoral process, and it is continuing daily.

This week House Speaker Nancy Pulosi expressed fear that President Donald Trump would not respect the outcome of a close election in 2020, saying Democrats “have to inoculate against that; we have to be prepared for that.” She recounted fears before the 2018 elections that unless Democrats achieved overwhelming victory, “[Trump] would poison the public mind. He would challenge each of the races; he would say you can’t seat these people. We had to win. Imagine if we hadn’t won — oh, don’t even imagine. So, as we go forward, we have to have the same approach.”

She doesn’t seem to appreciate the dark irony in her fears, considering that Trump won an overwhelming Electoral College victory and Democrats have spent every moment since then lying and challenging the legitimacy of the election.

The reality is that the election was “stolen” by scumbag/liar-Hillary’s own arrogance. Trump won by about 10,000 votes in Michigan, 22,000 votes in Wisconsin, and 45,000 votes in Pennsylvania — states that had not gone Republican since Ronald Reagan won them. Trump campaigned in these states repeatedly in the final months, and scumbag/liar-Hillary was a no show, expecting to win with no effort.

Likewise, Democrat 2020 nominee Sen. Amy Klobuchar this week, in an interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper, claimed Trump wants the Russians to interfere in the 2020 elections.

Then you have Georgia Democrat Stacey Abrams, who lost the governor’s race to Republican Brian Kemp by 55,000 votes, yet is still claiming she won. She recently declared, “I’m here to tell you a secret that makes Breitbart and Tucker Carlson go crazy: We won. I am not delusional.”

Delusional? No. But a liar and a political charlatan. It was Abrams’ nonprofit, the New Georgia Project, that flooded then-Secretary of State Kemp’s office with tens of thousands of incomplete, inaccurate, or outright fraudulent voter applications, and then claimed voter suppression and racism when Kemp’s office didn’t immediately approve the applications.

Here is the question for Democrats though: Why is it only voter fraud and voter suppression when you lose? Democrat Abrams lost her race for governor with more votes (1.9 million) than outgoing Republican Governor Nathan Deal won reelection with in 2014 (1.3 million). How do you get nearly 50% more votes than the previous victor and claim voter suppression?

Democrats claim Abrams was denied victory due to voter suppression by Republicans in Georgia. Yet Democrats picked up 11 state House and two state Senate seats in that election, almost all in the Republican-heavy North Atlanta suburbs.

The mindset seems to be that if Democrats won, they won fair and square. If they lose, it must be because Republicans cheated.

The sad fact is that only one party has a long and inglorious history of cheating and rigging elections — the Democrat Party. Democrats tried to steal the 2000 election from George W. Bush by pushing for recounts in only Democrat-dominated counties. Comedian Al Franken stole a Senate election from Republican Norm Coleman in 2008. The morning after the election, Coleman led by 725 votes. Democrats dispatched an army of lawyers, and eight months and several recounts later, Franken was declared the victor by the Democrat secretary of state. Audits would later show 1,099 felons illegally cast ballots in that race. Franken’s stolen election gave Democrats the 60th vote needed to pass scumbag/liar-nObamaCare.

When it comes to stolen elections, Democrats doth protest too much. ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/62849?mailing_id=4259&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4259&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

Friday AM ~ thefrontpagecover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on May 10, 2019 at 7:20am

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

Trump Has Redefined 'Electability'

Lewis Morris

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Trump’s DOJ Responds After House Democrats

Hold AG Bill Barr In Contempt Of Congress

by Chris White

{ dailycaller.com } ~ The Department of Justice blasted House Democrats’ decision Wednesday to hold Attorney General Bill Barr in contempt of Congress as “politically motivated and unnecessary.”... “The only side who has made accommodations is the Attorney General, who made extraordinary efforts to provide Congress and the public with information about the Special Counsel’s work,” the DOJ noted in a press statement Wednesday. Barr is unable “to comply with the House Judiciary Committee’s subpoena without violating the law, court rules, and court orders,” the statement added. “It is deeply disappointing that elected representatives of the American people have chosen to engage in such inappropriate political theatrics,” the statement added. The House Judiciary Committee, led by New York Rep. scumbag liar-Jerry Nadler, voted to hold Barr in contempt for not giving the committee special counsel dirty cop-Robert Mueller’s full, unredacted report. scumbag liar-Nadler, a Democrat, scheduled the congressional contempt vote for Wednesday at 10 a.m., after which all Democrats present voted to advance a vote to hold Barr in contempt of Congress in the procedural vote. The vote to hold Barr in contempt occurred Wednesday afternoon. House Judiciary Committee ranking member Doug Collins, a Georgia Republican, blasted scumbag liar-Nadler in a statement Monday, saying the House Judiciary Committee chairman’s request would require Barr to break the law. Other Republicans shared similar sentiments. “Chairman scumbag liar-Nadler knows full subpoena compliance requires Attorney General Barr to break the law. Yet, instead of introducing legislation allowing the attorney general to provide Congress grand jury material, Democrats move to hold him in contempt,” Collins said in the statement. Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio joined his fellow Republican, telling House members Wednesday that “Democrats are nervous he’s gonna get to the bottom of everything.”

https://dailycaller.com/2019/05/08/trump-bill-barr-contempt/?utm_medium=email

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North Korea fires 2 short-range missiles, 5 days

after previous launch; US tests long-range

missile within 10 minutes

by Louis Casiano

{ foxnews.com } ~ North Korea fired two short-range missiles on Thursday, according to South Korean military, as the U.S. responded with an intercontinental ballistic missile test of their own just 10 minutes later... The launch, the second such move in less than a week, occurred around 4:30 p.m. local time from the North’s Sino-ri missile base, the South’s joint chiefs of staff said in a statement. The base is located around 130 miles north of the border with South Korea. The missiles flew 260 and 170 miles respectively, according to South Korean military officials. The U.S. insisted the timing of their own test was entirely coincidental. The base is believed to operate Rodong short- and medium-range ballistic missiles, according to the New York Times. “The Sino-ri missile operating base and the Rodong missiles deployed at this location fit into North Korea’s presumed nuclear military strategy by providing an operational-level nuclear or conventional first-strike capability against targets located both throughout the Korean Peninsula and in most of Japan,” the Times quoted from a study published by analysts for the Center for Strategic and International Studies. South Korea's presidential national security director, Chung Eui-yong, has been monitoring the situation and was communicating with defense officials and the JCS by video. The firing comes five days after the North launched a barrage of short-range projectiles from its east coast. Through its state media, the North described the earlier firing as a “defense units” test of its rocket launchers and tactical guided weapons. Thursday's firing comes as Trump's negotiator for North Korea, Stephen Biegun, visits Japan and South Korea to discuss North Korean denuclearization efforts... I wonder if Kim visit with Putin allow to restart his missile testings. https://www.foxnews.com/world/north-korea-launches-unidentified-projectile-in-second-firing-in-less-than-a-week

VIDEO: https://video.foxnews.com/v/6034670698001/

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Pulosi on Mnuchin: ‘We Do Have a Little

Jail Down In the Basement of the Capitol’

by Cameron Cawthorne

{ freebeacon.com } ~ House Speaker Nancy Pulosi (D., Calif.) on Wednesday was asked what she thought about some Democrats raising the prospect of arresting Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin... prompting her to say, "We do have a little jail down in the basement of the Capitol." Pulosi sat down with Washington Post reporter Robert Costa at one of the newspaper's Washington Post Live events, where she discussed multiple House investigations, including President Donald Trump's tax returns. Costa brought up a New York Times report from Tuesday about Trump's tax returns from 1985 to 1994, revealing his business lost over a billion dollars during that timeline. He then asked her what this information revealed about Trump. "Nothing new," Pulosi said. "He is the President of the United States. We are going to try to get some work done with him, but we do have a responsibility to our own oath of office, to protect and defend the Constitution, to do just that." She then said Trump's tax returns should be handed over to Congress, prompting Costa to ask how far House Democrats can go. He asked if Mnuchin could be held in contempt, adding that Democrats have suggested he should be arrested."We do have a little jail down in the basement of the Capitol, but if we were arresting all of the people in the administration, we would have an overcrowded jail situation and I'm not for that," Pulosi said."So it's probably going to be settled in court? Tax returns?" Costa asked. "We'll see what the chairman announces because that's the way we do it," Pulosi said. Real funny, you have no knowledge of our Constitution and you shouldn't be a leader of congress. https://freebeacon.com/politics/pelosi-on-mnuchin-we-do-have-a-little-jail-down-in-the-basement-of-the-capitol/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=013a4e2112-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_03_19_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-013a4e2112-45611665

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMUdKnnluq4

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The Middle East Anti-Peace Movement

by Khaled Abu Toameh

{ gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ Ibrahim al-Karaki, the mayor of the Jordanian city of Al-Karak, 87 miles to south of Amman, with a view to the Dead Sea, is under attack for hosting Israeli (Jewish) tourists during the Jewish Passover holiday... His critics have accused him of promoting normalization with the "Israeli enemy" and are demanding his resignation. Although Jordan has a peace treaty with Israel, many Jordanians remain opposed to any form of normalization with Israelis. The same applies to Egypt, the second Arab country that has a peace treaty with Israel and where the "anti-normalization" camp remains one of the strongest in the Arab world. Al-Karaki is reported to have helped the Israelis cross a valley that is closed to tourists. His other "crimes" include feeding the Israeli tourists and presenting them with plaques of appreciation from the city. Because of these "crimes," the mayor has been facing a massive wave of condemnations from angry Jordanians accusing him of engaging in normalization with the "Zionist enemy." "The mayor's actions have sparked anger among many residents, political parties and activists in his governorate," according to a report in the Jordanian newspaper Al-Rai. "They considered that what the mayor did as a normalization step with the Zionist enemy. They also said that the mayor's actions contradict our values and moral, humanitarian and religious heritage, and called on him to apologize and submit his resignation." Representatives of various political factions and community leaders in Al-Karak held an emergency meeting during which they denounced the mayor for his interaction with the Israeli tourists. At the end of the rally, they issued a statement that said that the mayor "is no longer a representative of the sons of Al-Karak, who reject normalization with the Zionist entity." The statement also called on the members of the municipal council immediately to resign and quoted a verse from the Koran that says: "O you who have believed, do not take My enemy and your enemy as guardians/allies." (60:1)... These people are really sick and hateful. https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/14189/anti-peace-jordan

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Yes, the Muslim Brotherhood

Is a Terrorist Organization

by Veronika Kyrylenko

{ americanthinker.com } ~ The White House is preparing to designate the Muslim Brotherhood a foreign terrorist organization, a measure that would impose economic and travel sanctions against the group... "The president has consulted with his national security team and leaders in the region who share his concern, and this designation is working its way through the internal process," White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said in an emailed statement on April 30. The move seems to be entirely logical and fair, since the Brotherhood is the religious foundation of Islamic terrorist groups, such as al-Qaeda, Islamic Jihad, Hamas, and ISIS. It not only serves as their ideological wellspring, but also cooperates with them on multiple levels, including financing and providing material support for their operations. It is a fact that before ascending to the highest positions of ISIS and al-Qaeda, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Osama bin Laden, and Ayman al-Zawahiri belonged to a common ideological precursor: the Muslim Brotherhood. All these groups are bound by the common ideological belief in a global caliphate governed by Islamic law. The Brotherhood's longstanding motto is "Allah is our objective. The Prophet is our leader. The Qur'an is our law. Jihad is our way. Dying in the way of Allah is our highest hope. Allah is greater!" The Brotherhood has provided the platform used to indoctrinate young men into Islamism and a bridge for recruits to graduate into the more violent Islamism. Factions within the groups have also supported each other based on shared goals, common enemies, and support for a united Islamist front. Thus, if it walks, talks, and acts like a terrorist, it is probably a terrorist and deserves to be treated as such, right? "Wrong," say the mainstream media. "Trump wants to hurt Muslim Brotherhood," whines the Huffington Post, blaming it all on the administration's "Islamophobia" and "conspiracy theories promoted by the hate groups in the U.S., many of them with deep ties to Bolton and Pompeo attempting to tie political opponents and prominent American Muslim organizations to the Muslim Brotherhood." Are you not seeing an irony in that statement, HuffPo? You have just created a great conspiracy theory yourself! CNN, The WSJ, and many others describe the group with respect and admiration and parrot the notion that the Brotherhood "denounced violence decades ago" and embraced democratic methods. It even formed political parties throughout the region! Labeling them terrorists, they say, would hurt American diplomacy and alliances, as well as the whole democratic process in the Middle East. Also, they argue, the George W. Bush and scumbag/liar-nObama administrations did not recognize the Brotherhood terrorists. They were so much smarter than Trump! Or were they not?...

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/05/yes_the_muslim_brotherhood_is_a_terrorist_organization.html
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Trump Has Redefined 'Electability'

Lewis Morris: In an age driven by the never-ending election campaign and the 24/7 news cycle, we are mercilessly subjected to speculation about what the next presidential election might bring. Regarding 2020, this is due in large part to a leftist media stricken with Trump Derangement Syndrome and completely obsessed with somehow moving beyond his presidency, even if it means fantasizing about which Democrat might be the next to occupy the White House.

The political prognosticators, of which there are legion, a busy featuring a number of “if-the-election-were-held-today” stories citing polls that find loose lips-Joe Biden beating Donald Trump in a head-to-head matchup. Similar stories having Trump being beaten by Fill-in-the-Blank.

There are two major problems with this type of analysis, the most obvious that the election is not being held today or anytime soon. It is in 18 months, which is an eternity in presidential politics. Anything can happen to change the fortunes of any candidate for better or worse. Second, media polls are always suspect and often steered to produce an outcome favorable to the narrative they wish to push. In this case, that narrative is Trump losing in 2020.

Just the same, there is a place in politics for reasoned speculation about what the coming election has in store. It helps both parties in planning how to marshal resources and where to focus energies in pursuit of victory. The trouble for 2020 is that Trump has fundamentally changed the electoral calculus, making many existing predictive models obsolete.

Perhaps the biggest outmoded concept in campaign thinking is that of electability — how likely is one candidate over another to be elected. Electability is an imperfect measure, often driven by the party hierarchy and its perception of what the electorate wants, rather than accepting the reality of what voters are seeking. Past presidents considered unelectable even by their own party include Ronald Reagan and Abraham Lincoln.

Donald Trump was also considered unelectable in 2016. He exhibited every attribute that Republican strategists believed would deny them the White House. When he won against the supposedly unbeatable scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton, it left Democrats and a lot of Republicans so flummoxed, they were practically foaming at the mouth with rage.

Timing is a big factor when it comes to elections, however, as is pointed out by political analyst Kyle Kondik. Prior Republican candidates rino-John McCain and rino-Mitt Romney may have seemed more electable than Trump, but they were contending with an anti-Republican backlash (rino-McCain in 2008) and an incumbent president who was a more effective (and crooked) campaigner (rino-Romney in 2012). FInally, as has often been contended here, scumbag/liar-Clinton was stunningly overrated as a candidate.

Now that Trump is the incumbent, the big question for Democrats is who is the most electable candidate to beat him? loose lips-Biden is currently at the top of that speculative short list because of his traditional appeal to the middle class. He has also rejected some of the more “progressive” elements of his own party, which could bring back some of the more middle-of-the-road Democrat voters — that is if there are any left. loose lips-Biden has already discovered that being what was known as a “moderate Democrat” may be to his detriment in the modern uber-leftist Democrat Party.

Assuming that loose lips-Biden isn’t wiped out by the hyper-leftists of his own party, he still faces an uphill battle against Trump. Trump’s 2016 victory included in-roads into traditionally working-class Democrat strongholds with his brand of populism mixed with a strong pro-American message. The flip side of that coin is Trump losing some traditionally Republican districts because his background and crass behavior turned off voters. Whether they will return to him in 2020 remains to be seen.

There are too many questions and possibilities and unknowns to make a reasoned prediction at this point as to who will emerge victorious in 2020. But it can be said with confidence that electability is but one element of a winning campaign, and it’s anything but a deciding factor.

~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/62833?mailing_id=4257&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4257&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

Thursday PM ~ thefrontpagecover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on May 9, 2019 at 5:10pm

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

New York and Los Angeles Target

NRA's Free Speech

Harold Hutchison

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Senate intelligence committee

subpoenas Donald Trump Jr.

by Mary Clare Jalonick and Jonathan Lemire

{ news.yahoo.com } ~ The Senate intelligence committee has subpoenaed Donald Trump Jr., calling him in to answer questions about his 2017 testimony... to the panel as part of its probe into Russian election interference. That's according to two people familiar with the subpoena who discussed it on condition of anonymity. It's the first known subpoena of a member of President Donald Trump's immediate family, and a new sign that the Senate panel is continuing with its own Russia investigation even after the release of special counsel dirty cop-Robert Mueller's report on the same subject. It's unclear if Trump Jr. will comply with the subpoena. A person close to the president's eldest son, who requested anonymity to discuss the matter, said Wednesday that he has continued to cooperate by producing documents and answering written questions. The person called the new request a public relations stunt and criticized the chairman of the panel, North Carolina Republican Sen. Richard Burr, for calling Trump Jr. in. The committee had renewed interest in talking to Trump Jr. after Trump's former lawyer, Michael Cohen, testified earlier this year. Cohen told a House committee in February that he had briefed Trump Jr. approximately 10 times about a plan to build a Trump Tower in Moscow before the presidential election. Trump Jr. told the Senate Judiciary Committee in 2017 he was only "peripherally aware" of the proposal. The panel has also investigated a meeting between Trump Jr., other campaign staff and a Russian lawyer. Emails leading up to the meeting promised dirt on scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton.... Where's the subpoenas for scumbag/liar-Hillary?

https://news.yahoo.com/senate-intelligence-committee-subpoenas-donald-trump-jr-210537008--politics.html

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scumbag liar-Nadler (D): ‘We Are

Now in a Constitutional Crisis’

by Jeffrey Cimmino

{ freebeacon.com } ~ House Judiciary Committee chairman scumbag liar-Jerry Nadler (D., N.Y.) said America is now facing a constitutional crisis during a press conference held Wednesday... after his committee voted to hold Attorney General William Barr in contempt of Congress. scumbag liar-Nadler accused Barr of acting as the "personal attorney" of President Donald Trump and of "not being truthful with Congress." He accused the Justice Department and the White House of opposing "the role of Congress as a coordinate branch of government" and "stonewalling the American people from information." "This cannot be. We cannot have a government where all the information is in the executive branch, where the American people and the Congress are stonewalled as to information they need to make decisions and know what's going on," scumbag liar-Nadler said. "While this is stonewalling information with respect to the Russian attack on our democracy in 2016, with respect to the president's campaign, cooperation with that attack, to the president's obstructions of justice in seeking to stop the investigation of that attack, it goes far broader than that. It's an attack on the ability of the American people to know what the executive branch is doing and to have responsible government. It is an attack on the essence of our democracy, and we must oppose this with every fiber of our being." "There can be no higher stakes than this attempt to arrogate all power to the executive branch away from Congress, and more important, away from the American people," he added. "We've talked for a long time about approaching a constitutional crisis. We are now in it. We are now in a constitutional crisis." scumbag liar-Nadler claimed the country is at risk of sliding into tyranny. "Now is the time of testing whether we can keep a republic or whether this republic is destined to change into a different, more tyrannical form of government as other republics have over the centuries. We must resist this. This is far broader than Republican or Democratic or even the rights of Congress. This is whether we can put limits on the power of the president, any president, and an executive branch, and hold the president, any president, accountable. That's what's at stake here. We cannot flinch and we will not flinch," scumbag liar-Nadler said... scumbag liar-Nadler you are such a con-arts and a liar.

https://freebeacon.com/politics/nadler-d-we-are-now-in-a-constitutional-crisis/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=013a4e2112-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_03_19_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-013a4e2112-45611665

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8g28E3NWt0M

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House Democrats Show Their Contempt

for Constitution, Rule of Law

by Cully Stimson & Hans von Spakovsky

{ dailysignal.com } ~ Last week, House Speaker Nancy Pulosi, D-Calif., falsely labeled Attorney General William Barr a “liar.” Our colleague and former Supreme Court litigator Paul Larkin debunked that baseless epithet... as did Harvard Law School professor Jack Goldsmith and Kim Strassel of The Wall Street Journal. Now House Democrats are threatening to hold Barr in contempt of Congress because he hasn’t turned over the entire dirty cop-Mueller report, even though he released 92% of the entire report to the public and more than 98% to Congress. What’s the 2% not available to congressional leaders? Grand jury information governed by Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure (FRCP) 6(e), which prohibits disclosure of that information, even to Congress. What’s happening, then, is that House Judiciary Committee Chairman scumbag liar-Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., and his fellow Democrats on the committee want to hold the attorney general in contempt because he refuses to violate a law passed by Congress. Barr has history as well as the law on his side. Grand jury secrecy has been sacrosanct for centuries. “Since the 17th Century, grand jury proceedings have been closed to the public, and records of such proceedings have been kept from the public eye.” So notes a Congressional Research Service report, quoting a 1979 U.S. Supreme Court case... https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/05/08/house-democrats-show-their-contempt-for-constitution-rule-of-law/?utm_source=TDS_Email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=CapitolBell&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTjJFMk5EUTBPREF6WXprMCIsInQiOiJVZitBN3kzOWs4dGd0cEVpYXVFdXA4ekZtdVJHWXdoREpBdWJoR0JjcUU0V2ZxTlRGUGJYd2xZWUJQSER3ZnptMmt5V1wvSHRYWW5uQ3lmRkI0SEtabTNVNFwvNk0rZWJzRFMxUWN6ek9aV3hEaXJ3QnhvcU5ySXpTa2wyRnRcL1NZMyJ9

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B-52 Bombers Deployed in

‘Clear and Unmistakable’ Message to Iran

by Randy DeSoto

{ westernjournal.com } ~ The Defense Department is deploying four B-52 bombers to the Middle East to counter what the Pentagon has described as threats of possible attacks... against U.S. troops in the region. Two of B-52s were expected to leave Tuesday from Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana en route to al-Udeid Air Base in Qatar, CBS News reported. A Defense Department official told CBS News earlier this week the U.S. has detected “preparations for possible attack.” “There is more than one avenue of attack or possible attack that we’re tracking,” the official said. U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton said in a statement Sunday the deployment of the bomber task force along with the USS Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group, currently operating in the Mediterranean Sea, to the Central Command region was in response to “a number of troubling and escalatory indications and warnings.” Bolton said their presence will “send a clear and unmistakable message to the Iranian regime that any attack on United States interests or on those of our allies will be met with unrelenting force.” “The United States is not seeking war with the Iranian regime, but we are fully prepared to respond to any attack, whether by proxy, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, or regular Iranian forces,” the national security adviser said. B-52s are capable of carrying 70,000 pounds of bombs, according to an Air Force fact sheet. US Strategic Command tweeted video of the aircraft in action at Barksdale AFB, noting the bombers can carry both nuclear and convention ordinance...

https://www.westernjournal.com/b-52-bombers-scrambled-clear-unmistakable-message-iran/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=conservative-brief-CT&utm_campaign=dailyam&utm_content=conservative-tribune

VIDEO: https://twitter.com/US_Stratcom/status/1125758455464251392?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1125758455464251392&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.westernjournal.com%2Fb-52-bombers-scrambled-clear-unmistakable-message-iran%2F

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Unequivocally and Absolutely Without a Doubt, scumbag/liar-nObama Knew About

Spying and Was In On It

by Jim Hoft

{ thegatewaypundit.com } ~ We now know without a doubt the former President Barack scumbag/liar-nObama was in on the Deep State’s actions to spy on President Trump and entrap his team members... We don’t know how much spying and attempts of entrapment went on, but we do know scumbag/liar-nObama was aware of it all. Democrats and Deep State dirty cops have claimed for months that there was no spying on the Trump campaign. Now we know without a doubt that there was not only spying, but the dirty cops in the Deep State attempted to entrap Trump team members through this spying. We know scumbag/liar-nObama was in on it based on numerous pieces of information. For starters we know that scumbag/liar-Obama spied on numerous people for years while he was President. scumbag/liar-nObama took the US Intelligence community and corrupted it. He used the US intelligence apparatus to spy on anyone and everyone and especially his enemies. We put a list of the many individuals and entities scumbag/liar-nObama spied on that we know of here. https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/04/here-it-is-complete-list-of-the-many-times-obama-spied-on-candidate-and-president-trump-and-numerous-others/ We also know that scumbag/liar-Hillary’s long lost emails were found in the White House. This was reported by Judicial Watch in April 2019 – Conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch announced that Bill Priestap, former Assistant Director of the FBI Counterintelligence Division admitted, in writing and under oath, that the FBI found scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton’s emails in the scymbag/liar-nObama White House — specifically the Executive Office of the President! The FBI also admitted that almost 49,000 scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton emails were reviewed as a result of a search warrant for emails found on Anthony Weiner’s laptop. We know that liar-Susan Rice, scumbag/liar-Obama’s former National Security Advisor, left a email on the last day that she and scumbag/liar-nObama were in office that confirms scumbag/liar-nObama was in on it. Senators Grassley and Graham sent a letter to liar-Rice asking about this email – Ambassador liar-Rice appears to have used this email to document a January 5, 2017 Oval Office meeting between President scumbag/liar -nObama, former FBI Director scumbag-James Comey and former Deputy Attorney General liar-Sally Yates regarding Russian interference in the 2016 Presidential election. In particular, Ambassador liar-Rice wrote: “President scumbag/liar-nObama began the conversation by stressing his continued commitment to ensuring that every aspect of this issue is handled by the Intelligence and law enforcement communities ‘by the book’. The President stressed that he is not asking about, initiating or instructing anything from a law enforcement perspective. He reiterated that our law enforcement team needs to proceed as it normally would by the book.” liar-Rice and scumbag/liar-nObama must have felt guilty about their crimes because they sent this email in an attempt to cover up their illegal actions. Unfortunately, nobody is buying it...

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/05/unequivocally-and-absolutely-without-a-doubt-obama-knew-about-spying-and-was-in-on-it/

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New York and Los Angeles Target

NRA's Free Speech

Harold Hutchison: Recent controversy with the National Rifle Association has dominated a lot of conservative media. Yet the real story is obscured by the drama between people who are devoted to the protection of our right to keep and bear arms.

Let’s make this very clear at the outset — everyone who gets involved with the NRA in an official or professional capacity has a deep commitment to the defense of the Second Amendment. What has led to this — especially in recent months — comes as a result of the actions by Gov. scumbag-Andrew Cuomo’s regime in New York.

scumbag-Cuomo’s actions have already had an effect on the NRA’s ability to carry out its mission, per the organization’s lawsuit. The frightening implications of that effect have reached the point that even the ACLU, not known for its strong pro-Second Amendment stance, has stood against the left-wing governor for adopting tactics we’d expect from Vladimir Putin or Recip Tayyip Erdogan. By the way, the NRA isn’t the only target of the scumbag-Cuomo regime. scumbag-Cuomo has also targeted those opposed to his environmental policies.

A number of years ago, scumbag-Cuomo listed people who he felt had no place in New York. Second Amendment supporters were among those he felt had “no place in New York.” Those who opposed scumbag-Cuomo on various culture war issues also were listed. This leads to another uncomfortable question: Does anyone think scumbag-Cuomo will stop with the NRA? Who else will feel the pressure of official action from his regime? It’s easy to win a debate if you cut off the other side’s leading organizations from banks, insurance coverage, and other financial services they need to function.

This makes what the state of Alabama attempted to do to the NAACP look puny by comparison. Like New York, Alabama targeted an unpopular civil rights organization. In 1964, Alabama’s actions received a unanimous smackdown from the Supreme Court. Sadly, we cannot say the same outcome is certain vis-à-vis New York and the NRA.

What Los Angeles is doing is just as frightening. No, it’s not directly targeting the NRA. It’s just requiring companies competing for contracts to disclose any ties to the NRA. Of course, it’s just the city’s effort to get data for something akin to the “John Doe” investigations that targeted conservatives in Wisconsin or the IRS targeting of the Tea Party.

The goal there is to make supporting the NRA so painful — in the form of lost contracts or potentially other harassment (say, health department inspections that are judged very strictly) — that business owners will at the very least cut off their support. And you can bet that where the state of New York and the city of Los Angeles lead, other states and municipalities will follow.

In essence, what we have seen here are people who sense they are losing the debate among their fellow Americans. What’s scary is that rather than reexamine their arguments or even concede they may be wrong, they have chosen to abuse power to silence their opponents and get their way. This is something that cannot end well for them or the country.

~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/62835?mailing_id=4257&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4257&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

Thursday Noon ~ thefrontpagecover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on May 9, 2019 at 12:00pm

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

NYT: Trump Is Right About Border Crisis

Political Editors

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scumbag-Comey team may have used

confidential sources prematurely,

ex-FBI intel official says

by Daniel Chaitin

{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ A former FBI official says former FBI Director scumbag-James Comey's team may have run afoul of "strict guidelines" in its counterintelligence investigation of the Trump campaign during the 2016 election... Kevin Brock, former assistant director of intelligence at the FBI, wrote an op-ed for The Hill in which he said scumbag-Comey is "in trouble and he knows it." Although scumbag-Comey asserts he did nothing wrong, Brock says the incoming reports from U.S. Attorney John Huber and Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz, as well as an assessment by Attorney General William Barr, may say different. He focused part of the piece on the bureau's use of confidential human sources to make contact with members of President Trump's campaign who had suspicious ties to Russia. "Without diving into the weeds, it’s important to understand that FBI counterintelligence investigations generally proceed sequentially from what is called a 'preliminary investigation or inquiry' (PI) to a 'full investigation' (FI). To move from a PI to an FI requires substantial information — predication — indicating investigative targets acted as agents of a foreign power," Brock wrote. "This is problematic for scumbag-Comey in light of dirty cop-Mueller’s findings," Brock said, referring to the recently completed investigation conducted by special counsel dirty cop-Robert Mueller...

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/comey-team-may-have-used-confidential-sources-prematurely-ex-fbi-intel-official-says?utm_source=WEX_News%20Brief_05/07/2019&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WEX_News%20Brief&rid=5261

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Christian woman, Aasia Bibi,

finally out of Pakistan

by onenewsnow.com: A Christian woman acquitted of blasphemy after spending eight years on death row in Pakistan has left for Canada to be reunited with her daughters... Pakistani officials and others involved in the case said Wednesday. Aasia Bibi was convicted of blasphemy in 2009 after a quarrel with a fellow farmworker. The Supreme Court overturned her conviction last year, and she had been in protective custody since then. Islamic extremists have rioted over the case and threatened to kill her. The same radical Islamists, many of whom have been jailed for their threats, also urged the overthrow of the government following Bibi's acquittal. Wilson Chawdhry of the British Pakistani Christian Association told The Associated Press that he received a text message from a British diplomat saying "Aasia is out." A close friend of Bibi also confirmed that she had left the country, speaking on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisal. Her lawyer, Saif-ul Malook, said she had already arrived in Canada. Officials at Pakistan's interior and foreign ministries also confirmed her departure, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to brief media. British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt tweeted his pleasure at Bibi's departure...

https://onenewsnow.com/ap/religion/christian-woman-aasia-bibi-finally-out-of-pakistan

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Tyranny of the Left — The

So-Called 'Equality Act'

by Mark Alexander

{ patriotpost.us } ~ Democrat Party principals in Congress, that alternate universe inside the Beltway, will schedule a vote this month on the so-called “Equality Act,” which is... they claim, to prohibit discrimination on the basis of “gender identity and sexual orientation.” But in the name of “equality,” this legislation will affect all Americans by dictating that our individual and corporate views must comport with those of the Left, under penalty of law. This is not about equality, and all is most certainly not equal. The House Judiciary Committee, the same group of dullard leftists taking their queues from Chairman scumbag liar-Jerry Nadler (D-NY), took a pause from their feverish collusion conspiracy theories and their dream of impeaching President Donald Trump in order to send the “Equality Act” to Speaker Nancy Pulosi for a floor vote. Naturally, the vote will be scheduled ahead of “Gay Pride Month,” when gender-confused souls are out and about en masse demanding the “normalization” of their pathology. Sadly, there’s nothing normal about gender-disorientation pathology. One would think that the Democrats’ largest voting bloc is its gender-dysphoric constituency, but these folks represent only a small fraction of voters — less than 3%. So, to whom are Democrats pandering with their over-the-top support for this tiny group? The answer: women. This is the Democrats’ largest voter constituency, and many of them tend to strongly empathize, if not actually identify, with homosexuals, particularly homosexual men. This legislation, then, is predicated on the perennial assumption that Democrat women are emotionally incontinent idiots, too irrational to discern and reject emotive efforts to lure their vote. According to a Pew Research study, “Over the last nine presidential elections, women have consistently voted for Democratic presidential candidates at higher rates than men.” Indeed, female majorities have elected every Democrat president since 1960 and have been a major force in midterm elections...

https://patriotpost.us/alexander/62882-tyranny-of-the-left-the-so-called-equality-act

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NYT Trump Taxes Story

is Funniest News of Year (so far)

by sundance

{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ I can just picture the The New York Times gathering a team of actuaries, legal accountants, tax historians, advisers and financial consultants around a big executive office table... piled high with reams of papers and spent coffee cups, saying: “We’ve got him now…. as soon as people understand: fixed asset depreciation schedules; and if the assets were depreciated legally using straight line or diminishing balance; then we move to whole-value equity pick-up, or minority interest accounting; before digging into section 1031 ‘like-kind’ asset exchanges; partnerships limited or writ large, carried interest loopholes, pass-throughs, net capital losses/gains, seven-year income averaging and the difference between long-term and short-term capital gains”……or something. Seriously, the ‘Trump-taxes’ story has to be the biggest, funniest, most well documented, and most absurd, ongoing snipe hunt in history. “I was going to support President Trump’s re-election until I saw his depreciated amortization schedule from 1989″… said no-one, like, ever. Could it be possible John Barron is still pulling this hilarious trick twenty-five years after the New York Times called Donald Trump “The Comeback King“?…October 25th 1995 New York Times – Crowning the Comeback King – Though there are still four years to go in the 90’s, business and government leaders in New York honored Donald J. Trump yesterday for pulling off what they called “the comeback of the decade.” Mr. Trump, the developer who came to epitomize opulent wealth during the 80’s before tumbling into deep financial trouble, has managed to erase much of his debt and is moving ahead with major projects at a time other developers are idling. Judging from the attention showered on him yesterday at the Union League Club, some of New York’s civic and business leaders are quite captivated by Mr. Trump, despite the financial uncertainties that still surround some of his properties...

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/05/08/nyt-trump-taxes-story-is-funniest-news-of-year-so-far/

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Zachary Lockman Ignores Inconvenient Facts

About Omar Barghouti's Ties to Terrorists

by A.J. Caschetta

{ meforum.org } ~ In his response to my May 5, 2019, article at History News Network (HNN), "Why the Middle East Studies Association Should Not Defend Omar Barghouti,"... Zachary Lockman ignores the substance of my argument in favor of an ad hominem reply that falls far short of what an outside observer might expect from a former president of MESA who teaches Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at New York University. As an alumnus of NYU (Ph.D., 1995), I find his fallacious reasoning embarrassing. But as a close observer of contemporary Middle East studies – among the most politicized fields in academe – I can't feign shock at his inability to counter my key points. Among these is that Barghouti founded a series of organizations designed to delegitimize, defame, and subject Israel to a double standard – Natan Sharansky's "3-D test" for anti-Semitism. I challenge Lockman to disprove Barghouti's ties to no fewer than five U.S. Department of State-designated terrorist organizations: Hamas; the Palestine Liberation Front; the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine; the Popular Front-General Command; and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad. Lockman instead argues that denying Barghouti a visa "prevents Americans from hearing views the government dislikes." Americans, he argues, need to be able to "hear Mr. Barghouti's views and decide for themselves what they think." But of course, Barghouti's views are readily available to all, whether from among others the New York Times, the Nation, Common Dreams, HuffPost, Salon, and Amazon.com, or via his hundreds of YouTube videos. The good professor obligingly demonstrates the baselessness of his argument by linking to a sympathetic April 11 live video interview with Barghouti – hosted by NYU's own Brademas Center, no less. Introduced by Arab American Institute president James Zogby, who has justified Palestinian terrorism, and conducted by journalist Peter Beinart, Barghouti spent over an hour defending his positions...

https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58409/zachary-lockman-ignores-inconvenient-facts-about?utm_source=Middle+East+Forum&utm_campaign=efe4749ee6-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_05_07_06_11&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_086cfd423c-efe4749ee6-33703665&mc_cid=efe4749ee6&mc_eid=f33b9e6c12

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NYT: Trump Is Right About Border Crisis

Political Editors: “President Trump is right: There is a crisis at the southern border.” But don’t take our word for it. That was The New York Times in an editorial over the weekend. The editors noted that there are indeed “record numbers of Central American families” overwhelming the border and “fueling a humanitarian crisis of overcrowding, disease and chaos.” Notably, they explain, “The Border Patrol is now averaging 1,200 daily arrests, with many migrants arriving exhausted and sick.”

The Times states flatly, “Something needs to be done. Soon.” Welcome to the party. If it wasn’t for Trump Derangement Syndrome, the Leftmedia could have been reporting honestly on the border crisis the entire time. Instead, activist journalists at the Times and elsewhere have attempted to paint Trump as a racist and a bigot for his repeated calls to address the growing problem of illegal immigration.

Even so, while the Times recognizes that there is a crisis, the editors still focus only on strained resources to provide more facilities to house and care for the influx of illegals. The Times hasn’t quite come around to calling for enforcing the Rule of Law at the border — which would actually stem the tide of illegals creating the crisis in the first place.

~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/62836?mailing_id=4257&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4257&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

Thurs/Med AM ~ thefrontpagecover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on May 9, 2019 at 9:07am

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

Dems Continue Beating a Dead Horse

Thomas Gallatin

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Thursday Top News Executive Summary

Media Editors: BARR IN CONTEMPT: “The House Judiciary Committee voted Wednesday to hold Attorney General William Barr in contempt of Congress. … Justice Department spokeswoman Kerri Kupec said it was disappointing that members of Congress ‘have chosen to engage in such inappropriate political theatrics.’” (Associated Press)

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TRIPLE-DIGIT BORDER APPREHENSIONS: “Apprehensions and denials of migrants at the nation’s southern border hit 109,144 in April, the highest number in a single month since 2007. … A majority of those apprehended were traveling in family units, showing a sustained pattern of Central American family migration to the United States.” (The Hill)

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MORE FENCING: “The Pentagon said Wednesday that it has enough funding to build 256 more miles of border wall in the near future, and will start construction at a rate of about a half mile a day over the next six months.” (National Review)

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REPUGNANT: “The United Nations decided it would be a good idea to elect several countries with terrible track records on women’s rights to sit on boards that promote… women’s rights. Somalia was elected to the U.N. Commission on the Status of Women, while the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Lebanon, Nigeria and Sierra Leone were among those elected to the U.N. Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women.” (Townhall)

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TRUMP’S TARIFF THREAT, EXPLAINED: “The diplomatic cable from Beijing arrived in Washington late on Friday night, with systematic edits to a nearly 150-page draft trade agreement that would blow up months of negotiations between the world’s two largest economies. … In each of the seven chapters of the draft trade deal, China had deleted its commitments to change laws to resolve core complaints that caused the United States to launch a trade war.” (Reuters)

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EX-IM REVIVED: “The Senate voted Wednesday to confirm three board members for the Export-Import Bank, reviving — over the objections of conservatives — a controversial federal agency that allows foreign countries to borrow taxpayer dollars.” (The Daily Signal)

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TAXPAYERS ON HOOK FOR STUDENT LOANS: “Student loans, already a hardship for many young borrowers, now are projected to be a burden for another class of people: U.S. taxpayers. The federal student loan program will cost the federal government $31 billion over the next decade, according to recent estimates from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office. That’s a shift from past CBO forecasts that the government would profit from the program.” (Bloomberg Government)

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LONG-AWAITED CHANGES: “Pope Francis on Thursday issued a sweeping new law aimed at holding leadership more accountable while overhauling how the Roman Catholic Church deals with accusations of abuse and coverup. … When the rules come into force June 1, priests and nuns will be required for the first time to report abuse accusations to church authorities.” (The Washington Post)

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FALSE NOTIONS ON VOTER SUPPRESSION: “It just so happens that two weeks ago the Census Bureau released a report on voter turnout in 2018, which climbed 11 percentage points from the last midterm election, in 2014, and surpassed 50% for the first time since 1982. Moreover, the increased turnout was largely driven by the same minority voters Democrats claim are being disenfranchised. Black turnout grew around 27%, and Hispanic turnout increased about 50%.” (Jason L. Riley, WSJ)

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~~SETTLED SCIENCE~~: “A comprehensive new study on cholesterol, based on results from more than a million patients, could help upend decades of government advice about diet, nutrition, health, prevention, and medication. … The study … centers on statins, a class of drugs used to lower levels of LDL-C, the so-called ‘bad’ cholesterol, in the human body. According to the study, statins are pointless for most people.” (Reason)

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HUMOR: While cracking down on fringe conspiracy theorists, Facebook accidentally bans CNN (The Babylon Bee)

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POLICY: The U.S. is hurtling toward sequestration and no one seems to care (RealClearPolitics)

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POLICY: This could be the year of regime change in Iran (Issues & Insights)

~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/62902?mailing_id=4262&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4262&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

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Jim Jordan Brilliantly Recaps Political Motives

of scumbag liar-Jerry Nadler to

Impeach AG Bill Barr

by sundance

{theconservativetreehouse.com} ~During the House Judiciary Committee farce debate toward a pre-written impeachment resolution, Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan outlines the political motives of House democrats... to try and avoid the looming investigation by Attorney General Bill Barr. A full contempt vote normally follows the creation of the contempt resolution; which is an outcome of the debate. However, to showcase just how ridiculous and political the agenda of scumbag liar-Nadler has become, the actual contempt resolution was already written.

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/05/08/jim-jordan-brilliantly-recaps-political-motives-of-jerry-nadler-to-impeach-ag-bill-barr/

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttLnO_IgH6c

WRITTEN CONTEMPT: https://judiciary.house.gov/sites/democrats.judiciary.house.gov/files/documents/FINAL%20BARR%20Contempt%20Report%20Barr%205.6.19.pdf

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Sinking to Third World Status

by F.H. Buckley

{ spectator.org } ~ What do you call a country where the police and the intelligence agencies spy on an opposition party? Russia? Because that’s what we’ve become, and the question is what should be done about it... For the last two years the media establishment has known that the FBI and the CIA spied on the Trump campaign, and we didn’t hear a peep from them about it. The reason for their silence was the belief that we’d find out that Trump had colluded or conspired with the Russians. Had that been the case, we might now be celebrating the FBI’s Peter Strzok as a hero that saved the Republic. But now that the dirty cop-Mueller Report is out, we know that Trump and the Trump campaign were entirely innocent. With all the tools and threats at his disposal, with all the dead-of-night raids and prosecutions for process offenses, dirty cop-Mueller couldn’t get anyone to lie about Trump. When something goes so wrong, there would be consequences in a normal country. The people who pushed a collusion story without any evidence to back it up might feel a little ashamed of themselves. They would have come out publicly and admitted they were wrong, and if they were honorable apologized to the president. But if any of that happened, I’m afraid I missed it. You might also expect people to want to know how a story of treachery and corruption were created out of thin air. Fine, the very politicized people in the intelligence agencies hated Trump and thought he’d be a disaster. They were wrong, of course, but the question is what gave them the right to employ all the powers at their command to unseat a duly elected president? If we’re now supposed to sweep it under the rug, then wouldn’t it be fair game to unleash a politicized CIA to spy on a Democratic president, or for a partisan FBI to trick his officials into lying to them? Except that then we really would have descended to a Third World rule of law. It’s hard to define the rule of law, but one thing it has to mean is that there’s a barrier between law and politics. You don’t prosecute political enemies on trumped up charges, and especially you don’t overturn an election because it didn’t turn out the way you wanted. They do that sort of thing in Venezuela and Turkey. I had thought we were better than that. The FBI and CIA have gotten away with it because they protect their own, and because they’re protected by a media establishment that isn’t a fan of the rule of law when it gets in their way. But the issue is too important to let it rest...

https://spectator.org/sinking-to-third-world-status/?utm_source=American%20Spectator%20Emails&utm_campaign=ddba24dcc4-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_05_08_01_18&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_797a38d487-ddba24dcc4-104608113

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Illegal Immigration Creates Mass Misery

That U.S. Leaders Don’t Want To Fix

by John Daniel Davidson

{ thefederalist.com } ~ In a recent interview with a French magazine, Cardinal Robert Sarah, prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, said it is wrong to use the gospel to defend illegal immigration... The reason many priests, bishops, and cardinals will not say so is because they are “afraid of being frowned upon, of being seen as reactionaries.” Sarah is not afraid of that. “It is better to help people flourish in their culture than to encourage them to come to a Europe in full decadence,” he said. “It is a false exegesis to use the word of God to promote migration. God never wanted these heartbreaks.” This is a radical thing to say, and no doubt Sarah will be criticized by people with acceptably liberal views on immigration. But his remarks get to the heart of an uncomfortable truth about illegal immigration, which is this: for many migrants, and especially for families and children now caught up in mass illegal entrance into the United States from Central America, it produces misery. For some, it means death. Last week, an infant drowned in the Rio Grande when the overcrowded raft he was in capsized. Three others, two of them children, are feared dead. Days earlier, a 16-year-old boy from Guatemala fell ill and died shortly after arriving at a shelter for unaccompanied children. In December, two Guatemalan children, ages 7 and 8, died in Border Patrol custody. For others, especially women, the journey north means being sexually assaulted by smugglers they paid to keep them safe. Others are extorted by criminal gangs. Still others are kidnapped and held for ransom, trafficked as sex slaves, or pressed into the service of drug cartels, transporting illegal narcotics over the border to pay off a debt or “tax” incurred simply by passing through cartel territory. In some cases, children are rented or sold to adult migrants seeking to present themselves as a “family unit” and thereby claim asylum...

https://thefederalist.com/2019/05/08/illegal-immigration-creates-mass-misery-u-s-leaders-dont-want-fix/?utm_source=The+Federalist+List&utm_campaign=f75b3e4900-RSS_The_Federalist_Daily_Updates_w_Transom&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_cfcb868ceb-f75b3e4900-83771801

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The Democrats and Mass Hysteria

by Michael James

{americanthinker.com} ~ My father owned a house on a golf course and at night we would sit on his patio. If we were chatty enough to let it get late there sometimes sounded a helluva riot in the near or far distance... The coyotes had found prey and were wildly shrieking at a potential kill. It always sounded like a pack of drunks to me. It sounded like mass hysteria. And I suppose we all catch that for better or for worse once in a while. Maybe the fever broke upon men like my dad when they were off fighting a terrible enemy on two fronts, but somehow I believe the horror surrounding those men sobered them up beyond unimpaired; like having a blood alcohol of minus .08. Upon JFK’s shooting a dash of mass hysteria was evidenced by an initial blame placed on people of the John Birch Society type, but then the real guy was unveiled as just some loony leftist in love with the Soviet Union and its brand of socialism. The remnant strain of this hysteria lives on in famous movies made by famous nut jobs; the left has never forgiven the right for not shooting JFK. Race riots might be an example of mass hysteria brought on by soft tyranny. You keep a people tightly leashed to a meager subsistence with assurance that society’s deck is eternally stacked against them while further insuring that field stays uneven by providing atrocious public education to their children, and some of those people might fly off the handle once in a while. As the smoke diminishes and the cameras lose interest, the do-gooders return to showering the root problem with spiritually malignant benevolence. The left is knowingly indifferent to the torn-apart families and shreds of human dignity strewn about the street corner where good intention intersects bad result...

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/05/the_democrats_and_mass_hysteria.html

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Biggest Conservative Policy Successes In

Trump Era Come From Cooperation,

Not Resistance

by Mollie Hemingway

{ thefederalist.com } ~ The end of 2018 had people wondering if the long-predicted recession was finally upon the country. After nearly a decade of gains, many observers legitimately wondered if the end of a long cycle of growth was near... The previous gains from 2018 were chalked up to a sugar high of tax cuts. The stock market had some huge sell offs. A government shutdown began that would extend for weeks into the new year. But months later, the stock market has recovered from the sell-off at the end of last year. The S&P hit an all-time high just 146 days after a previous all-time high, making it the second-fastest recovery in history. More than 260,000 new jobs were added to the economy in April, and the unemployment rate fell to 3.6 percent, the lowest since 1969. The unemployment rate for women is the lowest it’s been since 1953. Veterans and Hispanic Americans have never had such a low unemployment rate. Gains were particularly felt by those with a high school degree but no college. And April marked the ninth straight month that wage gains were at or above 3 percent. Gross domestic product growth for the first quarter shot past expectations. The Commerce Department put it at 3.2 percent, much more than the 2.3 percent predicted by economists. It’s one thing to beat expectations a bit, but that was a big change, driven in large part by increases in exports. The growth is striking also when compared to the slowing economies of South Korea, Germany, and Japan. The situation is in flux and the stock market could take a major hit even in the weeks to come, but all the good economic news means that President Trump hit a new high on his approval ratings for how he handles the economy, with 56 percent of Americans giving him good marks. And his favorability is also hitting high marks. “The Economy That Wasn’t Supposed to Happen: Booming Jobs, Low Inflation,” proclaimed The New York Times last week...

https://thefederalist.com/2019/05/07/biggest-conservative-policy-successes-in-trump-era-come-from-cooperation-not-resistance/

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Dems Continue Beating a Dead Horse

Thomas Gallatin: The Left’s collusion narrative was proven a delusion, so why are Democrats still clinging to it? Well, technically they are no longer claiming the crime of collusion; they’ve shifted to an equally vacuous claim that President Donald Trump “obviously” engaged in obstruction of justice. Special Counsel dirty cop-Robert Mueller helped fuel this narrative by refusing to come to a conclusion on the question of obstruction, forcing Attorney General William Barr to make the call. The hope may have been that Barr would waffle over the question, igniting a whole new litany of questions to be spun by the Leftmedia against Trump while Democrats pounded the drum for yet another investigation. Anything to keep an air of criminality surrounding Trump through 2020.

However, Barr has proven to be a straight shooter who’s not afraid to thoughtfully apply the law as written. And therefore, he is dangerous. That’s why Democrats and their cohorts in the Leftmedia are determined to undercut his credibility. Case in point: The Washington Post in a second seemingly coordinated effort with Democrats in as many weeks, released a story Monday claiming “hundreds of former federal prosecutors assert” that “Trump would have been charged with obstruction were he not president.” It’s timed to precede Wednesday’s House vote on holding Barr in contempt.

The Post story highlights an online statement created by the leftist group Protect Democracy that has been signed by some 450 individuals with ties to Washington. The Post attempts to paint the group of signatories as individuals from across the political spectrum, but upon reviewing the list it becomes apparent that those who signed have one thing in common: They are anti-Trump. For example, one of the high-profile signers is Bill Weld, a former U.S. attorney, Reagan Justice Department official, and Massachusetts governor who just happens to be planning a primary challenge to Trump. No agenda there. Or take signer Paul Rosenzweig, who was a member of Ken Starr’s independent counsel team — never mind that Starr publicly supported Barr’s determination on obstruction.

Obviously, the Post is helping Democrats set the narrative, furthering the idea that Barr is a biased defender of Trump rather than an objective arbiter of law and order. This is also an attempt to provide cover for dirty cop-Mueller to throw shade on Barr when he comes to Congress to testify, further justifying Democrat claims that Barr is compromised and should resign.

So, again, why are Democrats continuing to pound the “Trump is a criminal” drum after dirty cop-Mueller’s report found no evidence to support such a conclusion? Do Democrats really believe that their Hate Trump platform is a winning strategy for 2020? While it certainly may play well with their base, it’s not a winning message for the majority of the country. However, there may be much more in play here than merely an election strategy.

The Washington establishment is unnerved by Barr. His no-nonsense approach cuts right through all the political doublespeak and spin to get to the facts and truth. He is a Columbo-type character whose unassuming manner hides a quick analytical mind. Furthermore, Democrats are scared because Barr, who has thus far refused to be manipulated by the elitists in the media and political class, is starting to dig into the whole deep-state conspiracy — the coup attempt by members of the Washington establishment to oust a duly elected president. This is the deeper reason for Democrats’ and the Leftmedia’s attempts to discredit Barr. They are worried he will blow open the whole sordid plot and go after the real conspirators. ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/62840?mailing_id=4257&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4257&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

Thursday AM ~ thefrontpagecover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on May 9, 2019 at 6:53am

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

Against Liberal Assaults, Barr

Proves Unflappable
Hans von Spakovsky

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Nunes, scumbag-Schiff Threaten

To Subpoena DOJ For Russia Probe Records

by Chuck Ross

{ dailycaller.com } ~ In a rare bipartisan move, the top Democrat and Republican on the House Intelligence Committee threatened to subpoena the Justice Department... for records related to the Russia probe and special counsel’s investigation. In a letter dated April 25, House Intelligence Committee Chairman scumbag-Adam Schiff and ranking member Devin Nunes pressed Attorney General William Barr and FBI Director Christopher Wray to provide an unredacted version of the special counsel’s report and other evidence by May 2. Otherwise, they threatened to begin the “compulsory process,” or subpoena. The letter was released Tuesday, suggesting the Justice Department has not started providing the documents. “The Committee has an obligation to examine the foreign intelligence and counterintelligence information gathered by the Special Counsel’s Office, assess the counterintelligence and national security implications, and consider whether legislation or other appropriate remedies are required in response,” the letter reads. scumbag-Schiff and Nunes have two different goals in mind with the subpoena threat. scumbag-Schiff has pressed for the unredacted special counsel’s 448-page report. Though the report said investigators were unable to find evidence of a conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russia, scumbag-Schiff has asserted the Kremlin still could have compromised Trump & Co. Nunes has sought evidence that might shed light on the FBI’s rationale for opening its investigation in 2016 into the Trump campaign. The Republican has accused the FBI of misleading the federal surveillance court and of spying on the Trump team...

https://dailycaller.com/2019/05/07/nunes-schiff-justice-russia-probe/?utm_medium=email

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Lawsuit Details Serious Allegations Against

An Environmental Group At The Heart

Of The Anti-Pipeline Movement

by Michael Bastasch

{ dailycaller.com } ~ An environmental group at the heart of the anti-pipeline movement allegedly silenced a former employee who reported being sexually harassed by a coworker... “credibly accused” of sexually abusing young boys, according to a lawsuit. Honor the Earth “failed to take these accusations seriously” and engaged in sex discrimination and reprisal against former employee Margaret Campbell, reads the lawsuit filed Tuesday in a Minnesota state court.“Instead of acting promptly to protect the community from this predator, Honor the Earth tried to silence Campbell to protect the organization’s reputation,” reads the complaint. Honor the Earth was founded in 1993 by members of the Indigo Girls folk band and Native American activist Winona LaDuke, who ran as vice president on the Green Party ticket alongside Ralph Nader in 1996 and 2000. Founded to focus on Native American environmental issues, Honor the Earth is at the center of anti-fossil fuel activism. The group organizes tribal opposition to pipeline projects across the U.S. heartland, including the Dakota Access Pipeline. Honor the Earth is also focused on blocking the Enbridge Line 3 pipeline — a $2.9 billion project to replace a 1960s oil pipeline with a newer, safer one...

https://dailycaller.com/2019/05/08/lawsuit-environmental-honor-earth/?utm_medium=email

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Marine Corps Wants MUX to Fly in 2026

by Ben Werner

{ news.usni.org } ~ The Marine Corps is still evaluating what it wants its proposed large unmanned vehicle to accomplish, but the service wants to issue an airframe request for information in Fiscal Year 2020... Early warning capability for the Amphibious Ready Group still ranks among the top priorities for the proposed Marine Air-Ground Task Force (MAGTF) Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) Expeditionary – or MUX – Lt. Gen. Steven Rudder, the Marine Corps Deputy Commandant for Aviation, said at the 2019 Sea-Air-Space symposium. “We hope to have a flying early operational capability in 2026,” Rudder said. As for what else MUX could or should do, Rudder said the Marine Corps is still drawing up a wish list to see what is possible and what missions can be accomplished by other platforms, such as the F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter. “The one thing about MUX is there’s not a MUX out there right now,” Rudder said. As the Marine Corps prioritizes what else it wants MUX to accomplish besides providing early warning capabilities, other factors being considered include balancing the weight of sensors with how much power is required to propel the aircraft, how much fuel is needed to power the aircraft and how long the aircraft can remain aloft. “We’d like to have the same time on station as other platforms,” Rudder said. “We’re still working on the physics of operating off the deck of a ship.” Ideally the Army, Navy, U.S. Special Operations Command will also purchase the system that would reduce the overall cost of the program. The Marines also think there’s a potential for sales to foreign militaries, according to during a MUX industry day presentation last year. The Marines already determined to arm MUX was not a priority because doing so would likely reduce the aircraft airspeed and endurance. Other customers could determine if they wanted to arm MUX... https://news.usni.org/2019/05/07/marine-corps-wants-mux-to-fly-in-2026?utm_source=USNI+News&utm_campaign=acaeae99ff-USNI_NEWS_DAILY&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_0dd4a1450b-acaeae99ff-231491269&mc_cid=acaeae99ff&mc_eid=3999f18767

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Ilhan Omar's Ignorance and

Bigotry on Gaza Rockets

by Alan M. Dershowitz

{ gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ All decent people should be outraged at the terrorist groups in the Gaza Strip that fired 698 rockets at Israeli civilians, killing four, injuring 234 and traumatizing thousands of innocent children... Imagine what other countries, including the United States, would do if lethal rockets targeted their civilians. Yet, Israel has responded with restraint. To be sure, 30 Palestinians were killed and 154 injured by Israeli efforts to stop the rocket rampage. Many of these were terrorists, but some were civilians who were put in harm's way by the terrorists. These deaths and injuries were caused by the tactic employed by Hamas and Islamic Jihad: they deliberately place their rocket launchers in densely populated areas -- near schools, hospitals and mosques -- in a deliberate effort to maximize Arab civilian casualties. This has been called "the dead baby" or "CNN" strategy. The goal is to have CNN and other media show the children and other civilians that Israeli counter-measures have inadvertently killed in trying to stop the terrorist rockets from killing Israeli children and other civilians. Tragically, this strategy works, because with the media, "if it bleeds, it leads." The visual media loves to show dead and injured children, without explaining that they are actually encouraging such casualties by playing into the hands of the terrorists. So, too, is Congresswoman Ilhan Omar encouraging the firing of rockets by Hamas and Islamic Jihad by blaming the Israeli victims for what she calls the "cycle of violence," instead of blaming Hamas and Islamic Jihad for initiating terrorist violence against innocent Israeli civilians. In a tweet following the rocket barrage, Omar justifies the double war crimes committed by terrorists who target Israeli civilians while using Palestinian civilians as human shields. She asks rhetorically, how many "rockets must be fired, and little kids must be killed until the endless cycle of violence ends?" This implies that these war crimes are justified by what she calls the "occupation and humanitarian crisis in Gaza."... https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/14190/ilhan-omar-gaza-rockets

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"Rising to the Threat: Revitalizing America’s

Military and Political Power"

by LTG (Ret.) H.R. McMaster, Gen. Kenneth F.

McKenzie, Tim Morrison, and LTG (Ret.)

Edward C. Cardon

{ fdd.org } ~ This conference marks the launch of FDD’s Center on Military and Political Power (CMPP), which focuses on the defense strategies, policies, and capabilities... necessary to deter and/or defeat threats to the freedom, security, and prosperity of Americans and our allies. China and Russia have worked systematically to erode U.S. military supremacy—undermining U.S. vital interests and increasing the chances for additional aggression and conflict. Meanwhile, threats from Iran and its network of proxies, North Korea, and an array of international terrorist groups persist. The geostrategic environment is as dynamic, complex, and dangerous as we have seen in decades. This conference will explore the evolving nature of these threats and seek to identify specific steps to better defend the U.S., our allies, and our interests. https://www.fdd.org/events/2019/05/08/rising-to-the-threat-revitalizing-americas-military-and-political-power/

VIDEO: https://livestream.com/accounts/15228011/events/8665745

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Against Liberal Assaults, Barr Proves Unflappable

Hans von Spakovsky

Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee — some of them candidates for their party’s presidential nomination and hungry for TV exposure — battered Attorney General William Barr Wednesday with hostile and often insulting questions when he testified about his handling of the report by special counsel dirty cop-Robert Mueller.

But Barr remained unflappable in his testimony about the dirty cop-Mueller report, which looked at Russian interference in our last presidential election and allegations that President Donald Trump obstructed the dirty cop-Mueller probe.

At the end of the day, Barr emerged unscathed from the Democratic assault. And the Democratic would-be presidents had their video clips for future campaign commercials, showing how tough they could be in battling the Trump administration.

Barr was scheduled to testify in front of the House Judiciary Committee on Thursday about the dirty cop-Mueller report, but late Wednesday the Justice Department told Chairman scumbag liar-Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., that the attorney general would not be appearing due to scumbag liar-Nadler’s insistence that committee attorneys question Barr.

Barr quite properly said he should be questioned by committee members—not their attorneys.

scumbag liar-Nadler threatened to hold Barr in contempt. But Georgia Rep. Doug Collins, the ranking Republican on the House Judiciary Committee, said that scumbag liar-Nadler’s unusual maneuver was in reality intended to “torpedo our hearing.”

scumbag liar-Nadler isn’t running for president, but clearly enjoys being the center of attention when the TV cameras are turned on.

Much of the questioning in the Senate centered on a March 27 letter from dirty cop-Mueller to Barr that was apparently leaked to the media the night before Barr’s appearance.

In the letter, dirty cop-Mueller complained that Barr’s March 24 letter to Congress summarizing the conclusions of the special counsel’s report “did not fully capture the context, nature, and substance” of dirty cop-Mueller’s report.

That dirty cop-Mueller would write such a letter is, in context, rather odd. After all, Barr had offered to let him review the attorney general’s March 24 letter before he sent it to Congress, but dirty cop-Mueller declined.

Importantly, nowhere in his letter did dirty cop-Mueller say that Barr’s letter was inaccurate. Barr actually called dirty cop-Mueller after receiving the letter and asked if he was claiming that Barr’s summary was inaccurate. dirty cop-Mueller said he was not making that claim; rather, his beef was that the media were misinterpreting the special counsel’s investigation.

Responding to an antagonistic question from Sen. scumbag-Dick Durbin, D-Ill., Barr said his short letter to Congress never attempted to capture the entire dirty cop-Mueller report; he was just giving lawmakers the “final verdict.”

And former federal prosecutor Andrew McCarthy noted in a Fox News op-ed that dirty cop-Mueller’s complaint about the “context” of the report is a “microcosm of dirty cop-Mueller’s collusion probe: sound and fury, signifying nothing; an investigative process predicated on no criminal conduct.”

“Context” is not a prosecutor’s job, McCarthy wrote, because “that is the stuff of political narratives.”

As Barr said in his testimony, when a “prosecutor has exhausted his investigation into the facts of a case, he or she faces a binary choice: either to commence or to decline prosecution.”

dirty cop-Mueller made that binary choice on the claim that Trump or his presidential campaign colluded with Russia to help Trump win the presidential election.

After 22 months of investigating, dirty cop-Mueller found that neither Trump nor any member of his campaign conspired or coordinated with Russia to put Trump in the Oval Office. In other words, Trump’s oft-repeated claims of “no collusion” were true.

But dirty cop-Mueller failed to reach a conclusion regarding obstruction of justice allegations against Trump. In an implicit criticism of dirty cop-Mueller, Barr said that if a “prosecutor isn’t going to make a decision, he shouldn’t investigate” a case.

All of this criticism of Barr over the dirty cop-Mueller letter is a tempest in a teapot. Almost the entire dirty cop-Mueller report is public. According to Barr, “just 8% of the public report was redacted” and “less than 2% has been withheld in the minimally redacted version made available to congressional leaders.”

In fact, while Barr laid out the categories of information that would have to be redacted, neither he nor Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein was involved in the actual redaction. Those decisions were all made by Justice Department lawyers working with dirty cop-Mueller.

In any event, complaints about dirty cop-Mueller’s letter are like complaints about a movie trailer or a book review when the entire movie or the book have already been released. As Barr said, the report speaks for itself.

When asked about all of the news leaks that have occurred from the Justice Department, including those from inside the FBI that were noted by the Justice Department’s inspector general in his report on the scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton email investigation, Barr told the Judiciary Committee that there are “multiple criminal leak investigations going on.”

That is good news, since leaks about ongoing investigations — whether they come from the FBI, the Justice Department, or the Office of the Special Counsel — are shockingly unethical and unprofessional behavior. They must not be tolerated.

Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, raised an important question that has puzzled many: If the FBI had evidence that Russian agents were trying to infiltrate or influence the Trump campaign, why didn’t the agency immediately brief the campaign to warn it about the problem?

The question matters because of suspicions about the potential political basis for this entire dirty cop-Mueller investigation.

Barr said he couldn’t “fathom why it didn’t happen.”

The attorney general confirmed that a team of Justice Department lawyers is investigating the circumstances (and legitimacy) of the decision by the FBI and the Justice Department to open a counterintelligence operation against the Trump campaign in 2016. This is an issue that Mueller essentially ignored in his 448-page report.

Barr made no apologies for his handling of the dirty cop-Mueller report, despite repeated attempts by Democrats to besmirch his professionalism and ethics.

That included Sen. scumbag-Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii, who told Barr she disagreed with his analysis of the law on obstruction of justice.

On that point, should the public trust the judgment of a partisan senator with no prosecutorial experience? Or should the American people trust an attorney general who is in his second go-round as the nation’s chief law enforcement officer, and who has held multiple prior posts inside the Justice Department?

The answer is obvious.

The dispute between House Democrats and the Justice Department has scuttled the House Judiciary Committee hearing planned for Thursday. But as Collins correctly observed, Barr gave “clear, informative testimony in the Senate.”

Collins blamed House Democrats for “rejecting the chance to question” Barr or “read the materials he has provided.”

Even if Barr does eventually testify before the House Judiciary Committee, don’t expect any ground-shaking surprises. We’ll probably just see a rerun of the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, with another set of angry Democrats trying to outdo each other with their telegenic expressions of outrage at a Trump Cabinet member. ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/opinion/62794?mailing_id=4255&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4255&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

Wednesday PM ~ thefrontpagecover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on May 8, 2019 at 4:35pm

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

Trapped in Failing Schools

Patrick Hampton

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Trump Responds After New York Times

Reveals a Decade of His Tax Returns

by Jack Davis

{ westernjournal.com } ~ President Donald Trump lashed out at The New York Times on Wednesday after the newspaper reported that his taxes from the turbulent 1980s and 1990s showed more than $1 billion in losses... The Times report, titled “A Decade in the Red,” said that “10 years of tax information obtained by The New York Times paints a different, and far bleaker, picture of his deal-making abilities and financial condition.” However, in a pair of tweets, Trump said The Times does not know what it is talking about.“Real estate developers in the 1980’s & 1990’s, more than 30 years ago, were entitled to massive write offs and depreciation which would, if one was actively building, show losses and tax losses in almost all cases. Much was non monetary. Sometimes considered “tax shelter,” you would get it by building, or even buying. You always wanted to show losses for tax purposes … almost all real estate developers did – and often re-negotiate with banks, it was sport. Additionally, the very old information put out is a highly inaccurate Fake News hit job!” Trump tweeted. The 1980s and 1990s were a boom-and-bust era in real estate as well as banking, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. has noted in a report on its website. Trump’s more recent tax returns have been an issue ever since Trump said that he would not honor the custom of presidents releasing them. House Democrats have claimed that release of the returns is vital to rooting out potential conflicts of interest and are thus trying to secure them. The tax returns The Times reported on date from 1985 to 1994 and are not those Democrats are seeking. In a separate Democrat-led effort, New York State has pushed to obtain and make public Trump’s state tax returns, Time has reported. The Times report on Trump’s taxes from 1985 to 1994 said that it did not obtain Trump’s actual returns. “While The Times did not obtain the president’s actual tax returns, it received the information contained in the returns from someone who had legal access to it. The Times was then able to find matching results in the I.R.S. information on top earners — a publicly available database that each year comprises a one-third sampling of those taxpayers, with identifying details removed. It also confirmed significant findings using other public documents, along with confidential Trump family tax and financial records from the newspaper’s 2018 investigation into the origin of the president’s wealth.”...

https://www.westernjournal.com/trump-responds-new-york-times-reveals-decade-tax-returns/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=newsletter-WJ&utm_campaign=dailyam&utm_content=western-journal

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DOJ to scumbag liar-Nadler: Threaten Barr

With Impeachment, You Get Nothing

by sundance

{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ Smart move by DOJ lawyers. The letter below informs Judiciary Chairman scumbag liar-Jerry Nadler the previous report content was provided without assertion of executive privilege... however, if scumbag liar-Nadler follows-through with impeachment plan, executive privilege is now enforced and the totality of the report is withdrawn from congress.The only thing AG Barr was statutorily required to provide was the four-page summary letter he already presented. Asking President Trump to throw the executive privilege blanket over the full work product effectively shields it from congressional review; AND simultaneously blocks congress from proceeding with any impeachment action. The assertion of executive privilege effectively removes any lack of production action ie. the impeachment threat by Chairman scumbag liar-Jerry Nadler. Essentially AG Barr et al is going old school with classic separation of power. POTUS Trump built a bridge from executive to legislative branch with voluntary production; however, if scumbag liar-Nadler wants to be a resistance member then the executive branch will pull back and the customary three-branch separation of power rules will be the standard form of engagement.

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/05/07/doj-to-nadler-threaten-barr-with-impeachment-you-get-nothing/

LETTER: https://theconservativetreehouse.files.wordpress.com/2019/05/doj-letter-to-nadler.png

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NY Times reports it found Trump tax

documents showing nearly $1.2B in

losses between 1985 and 1994

by Samuel Chamberlain

{foxnews.com} ~ President Trump claimed to have lost $1.17 billion from his real estate businesses on his federal income tax returns for the decade between 1985 and 1994... The New York Times reported Tuesday evening. The newspaper said it had obtained printouts of Trump's IRS tax transcripts from a person "who had legal access to it," without elaborating. The transcripts included figures from the future president's federal tax form. The White House had no immediate comment on the report. The Times added that it had compared Trump's information with those of other high-income earners and found that Trump "appears to have lost more money than nearly any other individual American taxpayer." Indeed, the newspaper reported that the losses were so substantial that in eight of the ten years in question, Trump was able to avoid paying income tax. Trump's tax returns have been a subject of speculation since he declined to make them public during his successful 2016 presidential campaign, claiming he was under audit. In October 2018, the Times reported that Trump received at least $413 million in today’s money from his father’s New York real estate business. That report claimed that Trump helped his father, Fred Trump, claim millions of dollars in improper tax deductions; undervalued his parents' real estate holdings in order to reduce his tax bill when he inherited them; and set up a phony corporation with his siblings in an effort to disguise millions of dollars in gifts from his mother and father. The House Ways and Means Committee has asked the IRS to provide Trump's personal and business returns for 2013 through 2018. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin on Monday refused to do so, saying the panel's request "lacks a legitimate legislative purpose." Mnuchin's move, which had been expected, is likely to set a legal battle into motion. The chief options available to Democrats are to subpoena the IRS for the returns or to file a lawsuit. Who leaked this information?

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ny-times-unearths-trump-tax-documents-showing-nearly-1-2b-in-losses-between-1985-and-1994

VIDEO: https://video.foxnews.com/v/6033981548001/

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Steele's stunning pre-FISA confession:

Informant needed to air Trump

dirt before election

by John Solomon

{ thehill.com } ~ If ever there were an admission that taints the FBI’s secret warrant to surveil Donald Trump’s campaign, it sat buried for more than 2 1/2 years in the files of a high-ranking State Department official... Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Kathleen Kavalec’s written account of her Oct. 11, 2016, meeting with FBI informant Christopher Steele shows the scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton campaign-funded British intelligence operative admitted that his research was political and facing an Election Day deadline. And that confession occurred 10 days before the FBI used Steele’s now-discredited dossier to justify securing a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant to surveil former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page and the campaign’s ties to Russia. Steele’s client “is keen to see this information come to light prior to November 8,” the date of the 2016 election, Kavalec wrote in a typed summary of her meeting with Steele and Tatyana Duran, a colleague from Steele’s Orbis Security firm. The memos were unearthed a few days ago through open-records litigation by the conservative group Citizens United. Kavalec’s notes do not appear to have been provided to the House Intelligence Committee during its Russia probe, according to former Chairman Devin Nunes (R-Calif.). "They tried to hide a lot of documents from us during our investigation, and it usually turns out there’s a reason for it," Nunes told me. Senate and House Judiciary investigators told me they did not know about them, even though they investigated Steele’s behavior in 2017-18. One member of Congress transmitted the memos this week to the Department of Justice’s inspector general, fearing its investigation of FISA abuses may not have had access to them. Nonetheless, the FBI is doing its best to keep much of Kavalec’s information secret by retroactively claiming it is classified, even though it was originally marked unclassified in 2016. The apparent effort to hide Kavalec's notes from her contact with Steele has persisted for some time...

https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/442592-steeles-stunning-pre-fisa-confession-informant-needed-to-air-trump-dirt#.XNIAVvr8PT0.twitter

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NICE! Leader McConnell NUKES

Dems Over Their endless MELTDOWN

by S.Noble

{ independentsentinel.com } ~ Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Tuesday tore into congressional Democrats who are continuing the Trump witch trials, stating clearly that the “case is closed.”... “This investigation went on for two years,” McConnell said in a speech on the Senate floor. “It’s finally over. “Many Americans were waiting to see how their elected officials would respond,” the Kentucky Republican continued. “With an exhaustive investigation complete, would the country finally unify to confront the real challenges before us? Would we finally be able to move on from partisan paralysis and breathless conspiracy theorizing?” “Or would we remain consumed by unhinged partisanship and keep dividing ourselves to the point that Russian President Vladimir Putin and his agents need only stand on the sidelines and watch us as their job is done for them? Regrettably, I think the answer is pretty obvious.”McConnell said Democrats are going through the five stages of grief. His best line was, “The last stage of grief is acceptance. For the country’s sake, I hope my Democratic friends get there sometime soon.” McConnell called on Democrats to “stop endlessly litigating a two-year-old election result” and for an end to what he called a “Groundhog Day spectacle.” “In some corners, special counsel dirty cop-Mueller came to be regarded as a kind of secular saint destined to rescue the country from the inconvenient truth that the American people actually elected Donald Trump,” he said... https://www.independentsentinel.com/nice-leader-mcconnell-nukes-dems-over-their-endless-meltdown/

VIDEO: https://twitter.com/GOP/status/1125810767566180355?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1125810767566180355&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.independentsentinel.com%2Fnice-leader-mcconnell-nukes-dems-over-their-endless-meltdown%2F

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Appeals court allows Trump administration

to send back asylum seekers to Mexico

to wait out court process

by Nicole Darrah

{ foxnews.com } ~ The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals late Tuesday granted the Trump administration's request to send asylum seekers back to Mexico to wait out court proceedings temporarily... The court order reversed a decision by a San Francisco judge that would have blocked the policy — giving President Trump a temporary victory on immigration. The case must still be considered on its merits at a lower court in San Francisco and could end up at the Supreme Court. U.S. District Judge Richard Seeborg ruled April 8 that the policy should be halted while a lawsuit, filed on behalf of 11 asylum applicants and several other organizations, proceeds. The American Civil Liberties Union, which brought the suit along with the Southern Poverty Law Center, and Center for Gender & Refugee Studies, said that despite the ruling, "there is good reason to believe that ultimately this policy will be put to a halt." “Asylum seekers are being put at serious risk of harm every day that the forced return policy continues," Omar Jadwat, director of the ACLU’s Immigrants’ Rights Project, said in a statement. "Notably, two of the three judges that heard this request found that there are serious legal problems with what the government is doing." The lawsuit on behalf of 11 asylum seekers from Central America and legal advocacy groups says the Trump administration is violating U.S. law by failing to adequately evaluate the dangers that migrants face in Mexico... Still they have no legal rights to enter the United States. https://www.foxnews.com/politics/appeals-court-allows-trump-administration-to-send-back-asylum-seekers-to-mexico-to-wait-out-court-process

VIDEO 1: https://video.foxnews.com/v/6029496897001/

VIDEO 2: https://video.foxnews.com/v/6027288910001/

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Trapped in Failing Schools

Patrick Hampton: As a parent, former school administrator, and community activist, the topic of education weighs heavy on my heart, especially when it has to do with students who are not making the grade due to schools that do little to support them.

In Tennessee, city, county, and state legislators and community members have been working tirelessly to pass Educational Savings Accounts (or ESAs), following suit with Arizona’s Empowerment Scholarship Account program and others like it across the U.S.

In short, ESAs are accounts that give parents control over tax dollars. This gives families more power and choice in the kind of education their child receives. Each family receives government funds that can be used only on school expenses for their child, and these funds follow the child wherever he or she goes. If a parent finds that a school is unsatisfactory, they have the option to withdraw their child from public school and transfer them to a charter or private school. The ESA funds follow the student to that new school.

According to the Beacon Center of Tennessee, most studies on ESAs suggest that students who use this option fare better academically. This is due to giving parents power to choose an educational experience that best fits their child’s needs.

Some Tennessee residents worry that this program would only make public schools worse. But research suggests that this will help schools by reducing class sizes in public schools, which can help students achieve more academically there, too.

Passing the ESA would result in an economic impact of nearly $3 billion and thousands more graduates in the next two decades, and there are only more benefits yet to be revealed.

However, certain legislators have decided to pass ESAs in Tennessee so long as Hamilton County — where I reside — is excluded.

This hit hard. Hamilton County has schools that rank significantly worse than many schools in our state, including Davidson and Shelby counties. Having worked in education, I am aware that there are kids graduating high school without knowing how to write a complete sentence or think critically. Yet we have local and state politicians whose votes suggest the system that has failed our children for two whole generations is perfectly fine as is in Hamilton County.

As a former school administrator, I believe passing the ESA for all of Tennessee is our one opportunity to rectify the issues with our education system, to reward schools that are doing well while holding poor-performing schools accountable to put kids first.

But this is a two-pronged issue with an unlikely foe preventing ESAs from reaching families who need it most.

Democrats and progressives are busy wanting to keep the state of our education system the same, as their arguments conflate ESAs with vouchers. The difference? Vouchers are government funds that allow parents to fund tuition at a private school. ESAs are funds set aside for parents to use on educational expenses that may include tutoring, transportation, homeschooling, and also transferring to a private, religious, or charter school.

The latter is much more beneficial when put in the proper context. But a handful of local Republican senators (two of whom I know very well) disagree, leaving Hamilton County families to fight for their right to free their children from failing schools.

Disappointed doesn’t begin to describe it. Vexed seems to fit how I feel about this decision. My question to these legislators is “why?” Why do they believe that a good education is reserved only for some? Why keep kids in these failure mills only to produce more gang members and prison inmates? The ESA is a simple and viable solution to myriad problems within our society — across the nation and right here in my home county in Tennessee.

So to this handful of Republicans voting “nay” on this, you owe us an explanation as to why you’d keep this vicious cycle going. Be sure to speak up so millions of trapped families with struggling students can hear you loud and clear. ~The Patriot Post

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Posted by Rudy Tirre on May 8, 2019 at 2:38pm

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~ Featuring ~

Why Prescription Drug Prices Are Soaring

Arnold Ahlert

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House panel cites Barr for

contempt over redactions in Mueller report

by Susan Ferrechio

{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ The House Judiciary Committee voted to cite Attorney General William Barr for contempt of Congress after talks broke down over the release of an unredacted version... of special counsel dirty cop-Robert Mueller’s report on Russian interference in the 2016 election. Lawmakers voted 24-16 along party lines on the contempt charge, sending it to the House floor where a vote has not yet been scheduled. Speaker Nancy Pulosi, D-Calif., has not indicated whether she will bring up the contempt resolution. “This is information we are legally entitled to receive and we are constitutionally obligated to review," Judiciary Committee Chairman scumbag liar-Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., said during the proceeding, which lasted more than six hours. Republicans voted against the contempt resolution, arguing Democrats are seeking to drag out the dirty cop-Mueller probe, which found no collusion between the Trump campaign and Russians but made no determination about whether Trump tried to obstruct the investigation. They also argued Democrats aim to cast a shadow over Barr because Barr is now investigating whether the scumbag/liar-nObama administration was justified in beginning the surveillance activity on the Trump campaign in 2016. “Democrats have resolved to neutralize Bill Barr by attacking his integrity and distinguished career,” the top panel Republican, Rep. Doug Collins of Georgia, said. “This is the first step. What a cynical, mean-spirited, counterproductive, and irresponsible step it is.” https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/congress/house-panel-cites-barr-for-contempt-over-redactions-in-mueller-report?utm_source=WEX_Breaking%20News%20Alert_05/08/2019&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WEX_Breaking%20News&rid=5261

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How Congress 'Extends the Life'

of Social Security

by Jon N. Hall

{americanthinker.com} ~ On April 22, the trustees for Social Security issued their annual reports, and the situation for the huge transfer program is unsustainable, the same as it’s been for years... The government tells us yet again that the program is running out of money. The danger here is that Americans have been hearing these dire predictions for so long now that they’ll no longer take them seriously. April 23 on Fox News’ Special Report, Bret Baier reported on the trustees’ reports and discussed them with his panel. Panelist Charles Hurt opined that the financial difficulties of the big transfer programs are a “slow-rolling catastrophe,” and added this: “The fact remains that they're going insolvent.” If Social Security were a private sector enterprise, it’d long ago have been declared insolvent. Although no link was provided, Baier surely got his information from the Social Security Administration’s A Summary of the 2019 Annual Reports or from Treasury’s April 22 press release, both of which say: “Social Security’s total cost is projected to exceed its total income including interest in 2020 for the first time since 1982, and to remain higher throughout the projection period.” What we should note here is the parenthetical “including interest.” What the quote is referring to is OASDI, i.e. the combined trust fund operations of both Old-Age and Survivors Insurance (OASI) and Disability Insurance (DI). But the program for old timers (OASI) is already under water in that income from its dedicated tax, the payroll tax, isn’t enough to pay benefits. To confirm that refer to Table II.B1. -- Summary of 2018 Trust Fund Financial Operations which is also on page 6 of the full report put out on April 22. The table shows that OASI had a shortfall in 2018 of -$22.4B. But look more closely, do a little math, and we see that income from the payroll tax was $715.9B while benefits were $844.9B, which makes for a shortfall of -$129B...

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/05/how_congress_extends_the_life_of_social_security.html
VIDEO: https://video.foxnews.com/v/6029219925001/

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President Trump Honors Tiger Woods With Medal of Freedom

Culture Beat: “Golf legend Tiger Woods accepted the Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor awarded by the nation’s chief executive, from President Donald Trump at a Rose Garden ceremony Monday evening.

"Trump announced he would bestow the medal last month after Woods, 43, won the Masters — his 15th major-tournament victory and first since 2008 — by a single stroke. …

"Woods battled through years of injuries and personal scandals, including well-publicized marital infidelities and a guilty plea on reckless driving charges after he was found asleep in his car in traffic with multiple prescription drugs in his system. …

”‘Tiger, we are inspired by everything you’ve become and attained,’ Trump said. ‘There are no winners like you.’“

Read more at NBC News. ~The Patriot Post

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1inm-jkhGY

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Iran's supreme leader warns

of coming escalation against America

by Tom Rogan

{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ Iran on Wednesday will announce its suspended conformity with the terms of the 2015 nuclear agreement. This reflects Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's embrace of a more adversarial foreign policy... The signs are clear. Supreme Leader Khamenei offered a thinly veiled pledge on Monday to escalate against the U.S. As Khamenei put it, "If God assists a nation but they fail to appreciate it, they will be slapped. Today there is no option but to stand against the devils, tyrannies and disbelievers." Taken from a speech on Monday, Khamenei's language is particularly interesting. Describing Iran's theological identity "God assists a nation" as the requirement for aggressive action "no option but to stand against", the supreme leader is framing his words as a theological responsibility. This is noteworthy in that revolutionary Iran's Shia-Khomeinist ideology centers in the supreme value of ferocious struggle against superior odds. Leaving little doubt as to his theological messaging, regime media reports that Khamenei concluded his speech by referring to "Imam Khomeini" as having "taught us how to act and we took action."Khamenei has ultimate control over foreign policy. Now consider what President Hassan Rouhani is planning for Wednesday. As hardliner Iranian media outlet Fars News observes, Rouhani is almost certain to suspend Iranian cooperation with significant elements of the nuclear deal. That might lead to the European Union's reimposed sanctions on Iran, or it might not. But it's clear where Russia stands. Iranian foreign minister Javad Zarif is meeting with Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov in Moscow on Tuesday. That meeting reflects Russia's desire to support Iran in the aftermath of Rouhani's announcement. The battle lines are being drawn. All this said, we must consider that Khamenei's comments are not solely focused on Rouhani's announcement. Concerns over Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps plotting against U.S. military forces in the Strait of Hormuz are real. The Iranian Navy has been sailing up and down the Strait of Hormuz this week waving the flag. In short, growing evidence suggests the U.S. must be prepared for violence. Iran will lose big time.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/irans-supreme-leader-warns-of-coming-escalation-against-america?utm_source=breaking_push&utm_medium=app&utm_campaign=push_notifications&utm_source=WEX_News%20Brief_05/07/2019&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WEX_News%20Brief&rid=5261

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Democrats Accuse AG Barr of Doing Exactly

What scumjbag-Eric Holder and liar-Loretta

Lynch Did for scumbag/liar-nObama

by Matt Margolis

{ pjmedia.com } ~ We know what Democrats are guilty of by what they accuse Republicans of doing. We’ve all heard that axiom or some variation of it before, yet every time it happens it’s no less shocking that they think they can get away with it... And right now that axiom is proving itself true once again with their targeting of Attorney General William Barr. Congressional Democrats are clearly aware that the American people do not favor impeachment of President Trump. Even a CNN poll shows that 59 percent of the public oppose impeachment—and that’s a left-leaning poll. While impeaching Trump is, for the moment, off the table because there are no legitimate grounds to do so, the Democratic Party has set its sights on Attorney General Barr. When Democrats didn’t like the findings of the dirty cop-Mueller report, they accused Barr of being a “partisan” who was “handpicked” by Trump to protect him. They now claim Barr’s four-page memo summarizing the conclusions of the report was misleading—which it wasn’t, and that Barr perjured himself during previous testimony to Congress—which he didn’t. Naturally, partisan Democrats are now calling for his impeachment, and presidential candidates are also fundraising by attacking him as well. As absurd as the claims are that Barr is acting like Trump’s personal lawyer to protect him, it’s difficult not to see that Democrats are making it their business to accuse William Barr of being everything scumbag-Eric Holder and liar-Loretta Lynch were for Barack scumbag/liar-nObama. Neither scumbag-Holder nor liar-Lynch should have been confirmed as U.S. attorney general in the first place given their radical pasts. In 1970, scumbag-Eric Holder was the leader of a black separatist group at Columbia University called the Student Afro-American Society (SAAS). As part of the group, scumbag-Holder participated in a five-day armed takeover of an abandoned ROTC office on the Columbia University campus. He was also a hardcore left-wing partisan who disparaged conservatives and, as deputy attorney general under scumbag/liar-Bill Clinton, played a major role in the pardoning of Weather Underground terrorists. scumbag-Holder’s radical past set the tone for his tenure at the Justice Department, which was defined by politics, not blind justice. One of the earliest scandals of the scumbag/liar-nObama presidency was scumbag-Holder’s decision not to prosecute New Black Panther Party members over voter intimidation during the 2008 election. scumbag-Holder was also behind the stonewalling of many investigations, which prompted 47 out of 73 inspectors general to write a letter to Congress informing them of the systemic obstruction. scumbag-Holder clearly saw his job as scumbag/liar-nObama’s protector and refused to cooperate with congressional investigations, resulting in his being held in contempt of Congress. scumbag-Holder also funneled billions of dollars to left-wing groups in a huge slush fund scheme. scumbag-Holder’s politicization of the Department of Justice is undeniable. During a 2013 interview on the Tom Joyner radio show, he dismissed a question about him possibly leaving the administration. “I’m still enjoying what I’m doing, there’s still work to be done. I’m still the president’s wing-man, so I’m there with my boy.” scumbag-Holder was clearly proud of his unwavering allegiance to scumbag/liar-nObama, not the rule of law—and wasn’t afraid to say so...

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U.S. school urging teachers

to bless Muslim students in Arabic

by wnd.com: A public school instructing teachers to greet Muslims during Ramadan with “Ramadan Mubarak” and adjust test schedules is raising the specter of official district endorsement of Islam, contends a non-profit legal group... The Freedom of Conscience Legal Defense Fund is warning the Dieringer School District in Lake Tapps, Washington, about its implementation of guidelines issued by the terror-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations. After CAIR wrote to the school suggesting various changes in policy and practice that would benefit Muslim students, district Supt. Judy Martinson implemented CAIR’s suggestions as official district policy. She distributed the CAIR letter to school principals, who in turn circulated it to all teachers and staff, FCDF said. “By urging teachers to bless Muslim students in Arabic, the district is running roughshod over the First Amendment’s mandate of government neutrality toward religion,” said Daniel Piedra, FCDF’s executive director. “A school district would never order teachers to ‘welcome’ Catholic students during Easter with ‘He is risen, alleluia!’ Singling out Muslim students for special treatment is blatantly unconstitutional.” A parent in the district had raised questions about the move. In response, FCDF sent a memo to Martinson contending the district is violating the Constitution by favoring Muslim students. “To be clear, nothing in the Constitution prohibits public schools from accommodating students’ religious exercise to the extent it would not interfere with educational interests,” the letter said... Would public schools in America ever be allowed to proclaim "Hallelujah! Christ is risen?" https://www.wnd.com/2019/05/u-s-school-adopts-ramadan-policy-promoting-islam/

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After NY Times finally reports scandal, scumbag-Clapper forced to admit ‘Yeah, I guess it

meets the dictionary definition’ of spying

by Vivek Saxena

{ bizpacreview.com } ~ Former Director of National Intelligence scumbag-James Clapper has effectively admitted — albeit hesitantly and with a bevy of dubious excuses — that #SpyGate is 100 percent real... Speaking early Monday evening on CNN’s “The Situation Room” about The New York Times’ bombshell report on the scumbag/liar -nObama administration’s efforts in 2016 to surveil then-GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump, scumbag-Clapper was asked whether those efforts were equivalent to “spying.” “Well, yeah, I guess it meets the dictionary definition of surveillance or spying,” he conceded before adding that it’s “a term I don’t particularly like” and then trotting out an excuse. “It’s not a term of art used by intelligence people. It has a negative connotation of a rogue operation, out of control, not in compliance with the law, and that’s not the case at all.” But why should anybody believe him given his history of contradictory statements? After Attorney General Bill Barr testified to Congress last month that he believes “spying did occur” under the scumbag/liar-nObama administration, scumbag-Clapper complained, describing the assertion as "stunning and scary.” That wasn’t his first denial. “They were not spying on Trump,” he said last May on “The View,” referencing the FBI. “They were spying — a term I don’t particularly like — on what the Russians were doing.”...

https://www.bizpacreview.com/2019/05/07/after-ny-times-finally-reports-scandal-clapper-forced-to-admit-yeah-i-guess-it-meets-the-dictionary-definition-of-spying-752322?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=BPR%20Email&utm_campaign=DMS

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Why Prescription Drug Prices Are Soaring

Arnold Ahlert: Americans outraged by the high cost of prescription drugs have aimed their rage directly at pharmaceutical companies. They might be the wrong target.

We begin with pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs). PBMs are people hired by health insurance companies to administer drug programs for company clients. Those clients include federal and state governments, and employers who provide drug coverage as part of their Medicare and Medicaid managed-care plans.

In order to secure better coverage terms, PBMs negotiate rebates from the drug manufacturers that often result in lower copays of brand name drugs for customers, making those drugs more attractive to policyholders than one produced by a competitor.

The catch? PBMs keep a portion of those rebates for themselves.

“The rebate figures are eye-popping,” explains columnist Tami Luhby. “Insurers received $89 billion in rebates, reducing their spending on prescription drugs to $279 billion in 2016, according to estimates from Altarum, a research and consulting firm. This doesn’t include the portion of the rebate that pharmacy benefit managers keep, which isn’t disclosed.”

Neuro-otologist Dr. Gerard Gianoli agrees. “PBMs have enjoyed public obscurity thanks to their inherent complexity and help from media members and legislators who pin the blame of rising drug prices on drug manufacturers,” he writes. And while he notes that politicians like commie-Bernie Sanders insist drug company greed is behind the price hikes, he notes that “exploring the topic just a little further suggests PBMs are a chief culprit.”

Gianoli explains the dynamic, noting that some of the biggest price hikes have been for drugs such as insulin and epinephrine, which are generic drugs. Generic drugs don’t have the patent protection that would theoretically drive greed-induced price gouging. Thus, they should face the same price constraints as any provider trying to maintain its consumer market share against other providers.

Instead, PBMs “have turned the drug distribution chain into a pay-to-play operation,” Gianoli reveals. “They demand enormous kickbacks known as ‘rebates’ from drug manufacturers in return for access to health insurers’ formularies (the lists of drugs that insurers will cover). Manufacturers that can’t pay these kickbacks are shut out. Hence higher prices and widespread drug shortages.”

Yet even the term “rebate” is misleading. “Pharmaceutical rebates are similar to the type that you get when you buy a toaster — discounts that are redeemed after the transaction has taken place,” The New York Times explains. “Except with the toaster, you get to keep the money. With drug rebates, it’s the insurer or employers who usually reap the benefit.”

The Times further notes that PBMs remained below the radar until 2011 when CVS, which operates one of the nation’s largest PBMs, announced it was excluding 34 drugs from its national formulary. “The rebate then became a potent negotiating tool, pitting drug companies against each other in an effort to secure a place on the formulary,” which in turn “led to an escalating game, where drug companies raise their list prices to maintain their profits and to offer bigger rebates,” the Times reveals.

Nonetheless, PBMs have their defenders. “The reason PBMs’ services are in demand is because drug companies charge high list prices,” insists columnist Avik Roy. “Drugmakers don’t pay those rebates to PBMs out of the goodness of their hearts; they do so because it is in their economic interests to do so — or, put another way, because they will make more money by offering rebates than by not doing so.”

Roy also insists government is part of the problem because it drives up the costs of research and development that get passed to the consumers. “But when it comes down to it, most of the time, drugmakers charge high prices because they can, not because they have to,” he adds.

That would be charges to Americans, which illuminates another critical factor driving price increases: compulsory licensing. “Compulsory licensing is when a government allows someone else to produce a patented product or process without the consent of the patent owner or plans to use the patent-protected invention itself,” states the World Trade Organization.

As a result, nations all over the world “are free-riding on the back of American medical innovators,” columnist Jerry Rogers explains. “European countries and Canada — our trading allies — impede access and set artificially low prices for prescription medicines. If U.S. companies refuse to acquiesce on prices, these foreign governments threaten to steal their patents by using compulsory licensing.”

With regard to reining in PBMs, the Trump administration proposed a rule to encourage manufacturers to pass discounts directly to patients. How? A U.S. Department of Health and Human Services proposal “would expressly exclude from safe harbor protection under the Anti-Kickback Statute rebates on prescription drugs paid by manufacturers to pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs), Part D plans and Medicaid managed care organizations,” the HHS website explains.

Safe harbor protection insulates PBMs from federal anti-trust rules and other regulations under the theory that doing so allows them to drive a hard bargain with regard to extracting rebates.

With regard to compulsory licensing, the administration is looking to forge trade agreements whereby foreign governments open up their markets to American drug companies without forcing them to sell at government price-controlled levels in those markets, which effectively forces Americans to subsidize them. In other words, in terms of intellectual property protection — and perhaps more critically in terms of research and development — Trump intends to see to it that America’s trading partners pay their “fair share” by leveraging trade agreements to do so.

The downsides? With regard to PBMs, the Trump administration can directly kick back drug rebates to the public from government programs like Medicare, but forcing private insurers to do so will take an act of Congress.

With regard to compulsory licensing, allowing foreign nations to sell here would impose their price controls on our markets, stifling innovation. That dynamic could also further increase the level of drug counterfeiting that has exploded over the last 10 years. “America’s opioid crisis is largely driven by drug dealers targeting American patients — particularly those suffering from cancer,” Rogers reveals. “There are enormous amounts of counterfeit fentanyl and other imposter medications flooding across our southern border. Importation would only make the crisis worse.”

Is there a third way to address this crisis? In 2016, the National Academy for State Health Policy (NAHSP) released a paper with a number of ideas, the most intriguing of which is to treat drug companies like public utilities. This would require those companies to report their costs and justify price increases at open hearings before a government board.

The paper suggests this model could be imposed at the state level. Yet a nationwide system would be far more effective, as it would prevent drug companies from refusing to do business in states with less “buying power.” Perhaps as a compromise, the utility model could be restricted to live-saving or life-altering drugs.

Regardless, the system as it currently exists is broken. Trump has promised to do something about it, and as far as Congress is concerned, this has “bipartisan cooperation” written all over it.

A price-battered American public deserves no less. ~The Patriot Post

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

Posted by Jake Martinez on May 8, 2019 at 1:30pm

Please Read Part 102C:

The Most Dangerous and Treacherous Times in U.S. History! (Part 102C)-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On April 24, 2019:

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

The following recent thought-provoking article revealed that the Left’s collusion narrative was proven a delusion and are no longer claiming the crime of collusion, but instead have shifted to an equally vacuous claim that President Trump engaged in obstruction of justice.

It also revealed that Special Counsel Robert Mueller allegedly helped fuel this narrative by refusing to come to a conclusion on the question of obstruction forcing Attorney General William Barr to make the call in the hopes that he would waffle over the question and ignite a whole new litany of questions to be spun by the Leftmedia against Trump while Democrats pounded the drum for yet another investigation-anything to keep an air of criminality surrounding President Trump through 2020.

Additionally, it also revealed that AG Barr has proven to be a straight shooter who’s not afraid to thoughtfully apply the law as written and is therefore considered dangerous. And that’s allegedly why 'Democrats and their cohorts in the Leftmedia are now determined to undercut AG Barr's credibility because they are worried that he will blow open the whole sordid plot and go after the real conspirators.' If True, what’s wrong, but not surprising about this picture?-You Decide:

Dems Continue Beating a Dead Horse: They aim to discredit Barr as he delves into the deep-state conspiracy to oust Trump!-Posted on The Patriot Post-By Thomas Gallatin-On May 7, 2019:

The Left’s collusion narrative was proven a delusion, so why are Democrats still clinging to it? Well, technically they are no longer claiming the crime of collusion; they’ve shifted to an equally vacuous claim that President Donald Trump “obviously” engaged in obstruction of justice. Special Counsel Robert Mueller helped fuel this narrative by refusing to come to a conclusion on the question of obstruction, forcing Attorney General William Barr to make the call. The hope may have been that Barr would waffle over the question, igniting a whole new litany of questions to be spun by the Leftmedia against Trump while Democrats pounded the drum for yet another investigation. Anything to keep an air of criminality surrounding Trump through 2020.

However, Barr has proven to be a straight shooter who’s not afraid to thoughtfully apply the law as written. And therefore, he is dangerous. That’s why Democrats and their cohorts in the Leftmedia are determined to undercut his credibility. Case in point: The Washington Post in a second seemingly coordinated effort with Democrats in as many weeks, released a story Monday claiming “hundreds of former federal prosecutors assert” that “Trump would have been charged with obstruction were he not president.” It’s timed to precede Wednesday’s House vote on holding Barr in contempt.

The Post story highlights an online statement created by the leftist group Protect Democracy that has been signed by some 450 individuals with ties to Washington. The Post attempts to paint the group of signatories as individuals from across the political spectrum, but upon reviewing the list it becomes apparent that those who signed have one thing in common: They are anti-Trump. For example, one of the high-profile signers is Bill Weld, a former U.S. attorney, Reagan Justice Department official, and Massachusetts governor who just happens to be planning a primary challenge to Trump. No agenda there. Or take signer Paul Rosenzweig, who was a member of Ken Starr’s independent counsel team — never mind that Starr publicly supported Barr’s determination on obstruction.

Obviously, the Post is helping Democrats set the narrative, furthering the idea that Barr is a biased defender of Trump rather than an objective arbiter of law and order. This is also an attempt to provide cover for Mueller to throw shade on Barr when he comes to Congress to testify, further justifying Democrat claims that Barr is compromised and should resign.

So, again, why are Democrats continuing to pound the “Trump is a criminal” drum after Mueller’s report found no evidence to support such a conclusion? Do Democrats really believe that their Hate Trump platform is a winning strategy for 2020? While it certainly may play well with their base, it’s not a winning message for the majority of the country. However, there may be much more in play here than merely an election strategy.

The Washington establishment is unnerved by Barr. His no-nonsense approach cuts right through all the political doublespeak and spin to get to the facts and truth. He is a Columbo-type character whose unassuming manner hides a quick analytical mind. Furthermore, Democrats are scared because Barr, who has thus far refused to be manipulated by the elitists in the media and political class, is starting to dig into the whole deep-state conspiracy — the coup attempt by members of the Washington establishment to oust a duly elected president. This is the deeper reason for Democrats’ and the Leftmedia’s attempts to discredit Barr. They are worried he will blow open the whole sordid plot and go after the real conspirators.

Source Link:

https://patriotpost.us/articles/62840-dems-continue-beating-a-dead-horse?mailing_id=4258&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4258&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:

McConnell Fires at Dems from House Floor, Says Russian Collusion ‘Case’ Is ‘Closed’!-Posted on The Western Journal-By Andrew J. Sciascia-On May 7, 2019:

https://www.westernjournal.com/mcconnell-fires-dems-house-floor-says-russian-collusion-case-closed/?ff_source=Email&ff_medium=newsletter-WJ&ff_campaign=dailyam&ff_content=western-journal

Pundit: Mueller’s letter served as ‘launch-pad’ for Democrat theory that Bill Barr committed perjury

Pundit: Mueller’s letter served as ‘launch-pad’ for Democrat theory that Bill Barr committed perjury!-Posted on Conservative Institute-On May 5, 2019:

https://www.conservativeinstitute.org/conservative-news/muellers-letter-barr-perjury.htm

Democrats Accuse AG Barr of Doing Exactly What Eric Holder and Loretta Lynch Did for Obama!-Posted on PJ Media-By Matt Margolis-On May 4, 2019:

https://pjmedia.com/trending/democrats-accuse-attorney-general-barr-of-being-eric-holder-and-loretta-lynch/

Rep. Doug Collins: Dems Using Contempt Citation to 'Discredit' Attorney General!-Posted on CNSNews.com-By Susan Jones-On May 6, 2019:

https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/susan-jones/rep-doug-collins-dems-using-contempt-citation-discredit-attorney-general

Attorney General nominee William Barr looks speaks during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, January 15, 2019. Barr will face questions from the Senate Judiciary Committee including his views on executive powers. Barr served as attorney general under George H.W. Bush.

Showdown Looms Between Congress and Attorney General Over Mueller Report Deadline!-Posted on Independent Journal Review-By Reuters-On May 6, 2019:

https://ijr.com/showdown-looms-between-congress-ag-over-mueller-deadline/

Rep. Nadler Sets Vote To Hold Barr in Contempt!-Posted on SaraCarter.com-By Jennie Taer-On May 6, 2019:

https://saraacarter.com/nadler-sets-vote-to-hold-barr-in-contempt/

Mark Levin: What Are Dems Going to Hold AG Barr in Contempt for – for Following the Law?-Posted on CNSNews.com-By Michael Morris-On May 7, 2019:

https://www.cnsnews.com/blog/michael-morris/mark-levin-what-are-dems-going-hold-ag-barr-contempt-following-law

Swalwell: Impeach Barr, Then Trump: ‘Move This Obstructer Out of the Way’!-Posted on CNSNews.com-By Susan Jones-On May 6, 2019:

https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/susan-jones/swalwell-impeach-barr-then-trump-move-obstructer-out-way

Impeach Trump And Barr, Nadler’s Attacks Are To Get This Done!-Posted on NewsWithViews.com-By Devvy Kidd-On May 6, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5e3H9lq73zE

Saul Alinsky (Dems, Deep State, MSM), Meet The Boy Who Cried Wolf!-Posted on NewsWithViews.com-By George Lujack-On May 7, 2019:

https://newswithviews.com/saul-alinsky-dems-deep-state-msm-meet-the-boy-who-cried-wolf/

BEAST MODE: Barr Threatens to Have Trump Block Mueller Report If Dems Hold Him In Contempt!-Posted on Flag & Cross-By John Salvatore-On May 8, 2019:

https://flagandcross.com/beast-mode-barr-threatens-to-have-trump-block-mueller-report-if-dems-hold-him-in-contempt/

Trump Asserts Executive Privilege Over Entire Mueller Report

Trump Asserts Executive Privilege Over Entire Mueller Report!-Posted on NewsMax.com-On May 8, 2019:

https://www.newsmax.com/politics/trump-mueller-report-executive-privilege/2019/05/08/id/915079/

Judiciary Democrat: 'How Can We Impeach Without Getting the Documents?'-Posted on CNSNews.com-By Susan Jones-On May 8, 2019:

https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/susan-jones/judiciary-democrat-how-can-we-impeach-without-getting-documents

WATCH LIVE: House Judiciary Committee votes on whether to hold Attorney General Barr in contempt!-Posted on YouTube.com-By PBS NewsHour-On May 8, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2RTS0vC9ZA

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House Judiciary Committee votes to hold AG Barr in contempt!-Posted on The Washinfron Times-By Jeff Mordock, The Washington Times-On May 8, 2019:

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/may/8/william-barr-held-contempt-house-judiciary-panel/

Video: Collins: This is a cynical, mean-spirited step against Barr!-Posted on YouTube.com-By Fox News-On May 8, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1g7L-x1DEDk

Video: Jim Jordan: House Democrats are trying to destroy Barr!-Posted on YouTube.com-By Fox News-On May 8, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttLnO_IgH6c

Video: House GOP leaders blast Nadler's actions during press conference!-Posted on YouTube.com-By Fox News-On May 8, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-DhwkqTAzc

House Democrats Show Their Contempt for Constitution, Rule of Law!-Posted on The Daily Signal-By Cully Stimson / @cullystimson / Hans von Spakovsky / @HvonSpakovsky-On May 8, 2019:

https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/05/08/house-democrats-show-their-contempt-for-constitution-rule-of-law/

Donald Trump Jr.

Senate Intelligence Committee subpoenas Donald Trump Jr. to answer questions about prior claim to have limited role in Trump Tower Moscow deal!-Posted on CNBC News-By Dan Mangan | Brian Schwartz | Kevin Breuninger-On May 8, 2019:

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/08/senate-intelligence-committee-subpoenas-donald-trump-jr.html

Trump Says ‘Surprised’ by Senate Subpoena of His Son Trump Jr!-Posted on Independent Journal Review-By Reuters-On May 9, 2019:

https://ijr.com/trump-says-surprised-senate-subpoena-of-trump-jr/

WASHINGTON, DC - OCTOBER 26: Senate Armed Services Committee member Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) talks to reporters following a closed-door briefing at the U.S. Capitol October 26, 2017 in Washington, DC. Members of the committee were given a classified briefing from Pentagon officials about the circumstances surrounding an October battle …

Video: Blumenthal: Trump Jr. Should Be ‘Jailed’ if He Doesn’t Comply with Subpoena!-Posted on Breitbart.com-By PAM KEY-On May 9, 2019:

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2019/05/09/blumenthal-trump-jr-should-be-jailed-if-he-doesnt-comply-with-subpoena/

Video: Mission Critical - Equal Justice Under the Law - Ep 1875 - 5/08/19!-Posted on YouTube.com-By The Official Hagmann Report-On May 8, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4wM_uJA-78

Video: Get Ready For The Fireworks, Power Returns To The People - Episode 1862b!-Posted on YouTube.com-By X22Report-On May 8, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIVie8lJSJ4

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Charging Barr With Contempt Could Hurt Chances Of Mueller Testifying!-Posted on The Daily Caller-By Kerry Picket | Reporter-On May 9, 2019:

https://dailycaller.com/2019/05/09/dems-contempt-hurt-chances-mueller/

Former AG Mukasey on Barr Contempt Citation: 'The Point of This Is Not to Find Out Facts'!-Posted on CNSNews.com-By Susan Jones-On May 9, 2019:

https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/susan-jones/former-ag-mukasey-barr-contempt-citation-point-not-find-out-facts

Pelosi Says There May Be Additional Contempt Citations!-Posted on CNSNews.com-By Susan Jones-On May 9, 2019:

https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/susan-jones/pelosi-says-there-may-be-additional-contempt-citations

Pelosi speaks at weekly press conference.

Here are the FACTS about Pelosi’s and Nadler’s so-called ‘constitutional crisis’ over the Mueller report!-Posted on Conservative Review-By Nate Madden-On May 9, 2019:

https://www.conservativereview.com/news/facts-pelosis-nadlers-called-constitutional-crisis-mueller-report/

Video: The Constitutional Crisis: Comey and Brennan Spying. DiGenova and Toensing!-Posted on YouTube.com-By America First-On May 9, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hxeo_bF9yjM

More Contempt Citations Ahead for Trump Advisers: Senior US Democrat!-Posted on Independent Journal Review-By Reuters-On May 10, 2019:

https://ijr.com/more-contempt-citations-trump-advisers-coming/

California Senate passes bill that would keep Trump off 2020 ballot unless he releases tax returns!-Posted on The Hill-By Rachel Frazin-On May 2, 2019:

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/441908-california-senate-passes-bill-that-would-keep-trump-off-2020-ballot

NYT’s Dishonest ‘Scoop’ on Trump’s Taxes Left Out a Narrative-Ending Piece of Information!-Posted on The Western Journal-By Malachi Bailey-On May 8, 2019:

https://www.westernjournal.com/ct/nyts-dishonest-scoop-trumps-taxes-left-narrative-ending-piece-information/?ff_source=Email&ff_medium=libertyalliance&ff_campaign=dailyam&ff_content=libertyalliance

New York Times May Have Broken Law by Publishing Trump’s Tax Returns!-Posted on The Daily Signal-By Hans von Spakovsky /@HvonSpakovsky-On May 10, 2019:

https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/05/10/new-york-times-may-have-broken-law-by-publishing-trumps-tax-returns/

House Panel Chairman: Next Move on Trump Taxes This Week!-Posted on Independent Journal-By Reuters-On May 9, 2019:

https://ijr.com/house-panel-chairman-move-on-taxes-this-week/

It is unclear how far Rep. Al Green is on the articles and whether he plans to file a privileged resolution for impeachment. (Godofredo A. Vasquez/AP)

Dem Rep. Al Green to Trump: ‘If No One Else Will Bring You to Justice, I Will’!-Posted on Breitbart.com-By PAM KEY-On May 9, 2019:

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2019/05/09/dem-rep-al-green-to-trump-if-no-one-else-will-bring-you-to-justice-i-will/

Sarsour at Impeach Trump Event: ‘Xenophobe, Homophobe, Islamophobe …’!-Posted on CNSNews.com-By Patrick Goodenough-On May 10, 2019:

https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/patrick-goodenough/sarsour-impeach-trump-event-sexist-racist-misogynist-xenophobe

Scalise Blasts Dems for Ignoring Their ‘Responsibility to Govern’ with Probes and Impeachment Talk!-Posted on Independent Journal Review-By Carlin Becker-On May 10, 2019:

https://ijr.com/scalise-blasts-dems-responsibility-govnern-trump-probes-impeachment/

Video: Contemptible Congress and the Never Ending Mueller Probe with Special Guest Larry Klayman!-Posted on YouTube.com-By Jason Goodman-On May 9, 2019:

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

Video: The Untold Story of Rod Rosenstein!-Posted on YouTube.com-By DECLASSIFIED - The Epoch Times-On May 10, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQl7pjddY9E

Majority of WH Journalists Lose Press Passes After Failing Trump’s New Standard!-Posted on The Western Journal-By C. Douglas Golden-On May 11, 2019:

https://www.westernjournal.com/ct/majority-wh-journalists-lose-press-passes-failing-trumps-new-standard/?ff_source=Email&ff_medium=WJBreaking&ff_campaign=ct-breaking&ff_content=western-journal

Mike Pence speaks at intelligence event.

Mike Pence announces Trump administration will fight back against lower court nationwide injunctions!-Posted on Conservative Review-By Nate Madden-On May 9, 2019:

https://www.conservativereview.com/news/mike-pence-announces-trump-administration-will-fight-back-lower-court-nationwide-injunctions/

Obama Was Weak on Iran, Now CIA Chief Says Tehran Is Conducting Nuclear Blackmail!-Posted on The Western Journal-By Malachi Bailey-On May 8, 2019:

https://www.westernjournal.com/ct/obama-weak-iran-now-cia-chief-says-tehran-conducting-nuclear-blackmail/?ff_source=Email&ff_medium=libertyalliance&ff_campaign=dailyam&ff_content=libertyalliance

Fugees rapper to be charged in Obama super PAC fraud scheme: report!-Posted on The Hill-By Jonathan Easley-May 10, 2019:

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/443089-fugees-rapper-to-be-charged-in-obama-super-pac-fraud-scheme-report

Trump: "The 'Constitutional Crisis' Is the Democrats Refusing to Work"!-Posted on CNSNews.com-By Susan Jones-On May 13, 2019:

https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/susan-jones/trump-constitutional-crisis-democrats-refusing-work

The Impeachment Con is Killing Dem 2020 Chances: They won’t stop trying to destroy Trump even if it destroys them!-Posted on Front Page Magazine-By Daniel Greenfield-On May 13, 2019:

https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/273717/impeachment-con-killing-dem-2020-chances-daniel-greenfield

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Trump Vs. Fake Newsmongers: The best way the president can push back!-Posted on Front Page Magazine-By Lloyd Billingsley-On May 13, 2019:

https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/273698/trump-vs-fake-newsmongers-lloyd-billingsley

pascrell

Dem Rep. Pascrell Threatens Fines, Jail Time for Mnuchin Not Handing Over Trump’s Tax Returns!-Posted on Breitbart.com-By Trent Baker-On May 13, 2019:

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2019/05/13/dem-rep-pascrell-threatens-fines-jail-time-for-mnuchin-not-handing-over-trumps-tax-returns/

First Court Test Arrives in Trump-US House Showdown Over Probes!-Posted on Independent Journal Review-By Reuters-On May 14, 2019:

https://ijr.com/first-court-test-trump-house-probes/

Calls to jail Attorney General Barr grow from Democratic ranks

Calls to jail Attorney General Barr grow from Democratic ranks!-Posted on FoxNews.com-By Brooke Singman | Fox News-On May 14, 2019:

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/calls-to-jail-attorney-general-barr-grow-from-democratic-ranks

Sylvia Garcia et al. looking at a laptop: House Judiciary Committee member Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon (D-Pa.), right, speaks during a hearing, May 8, 2019.

House Democrats plan marathon public reading of Mueller report!-Posted on The Washington Post-By Rhonda Colvin-On May 14, 2019:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/house-democrats-plan-marathon-public-reading-of-mueller-report/ar-AABmuJe

Brent Bozell: The Washington Post Wants Team Trump Removed or Jailed!-Posted on CNSNews.com-By L. Brent Bozell III and Tim Graham-On May 15, 2019:

https://www.cnsnews.com/commentary/l-brent-bozell-iii/washington-post-wants-team-trump-removed-or-jailed

Law Professor Warns Dems Going After AG Barr, ‘You Are Heading Into a World of Hurt’!-Posted on The Western Journal-By Jack Davis-On May 16, 2019:

https://www.westernjournal.com/law-professor-warns-dems-going-ag-barr-heading-world-hurt/?ff_source=Email&ff_medium=newsletter-WJ&ff_campaign=dailyam&ff_content=western-journal

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Comey Was a Commie? No wonder he felt right at home with Brennan and Obama!-Posted on Front Page Magazine-By Paul Kengor-On May 22, 2019:

https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/273834/comey-was-commie-paul-kengor

Video: You Won’t Believe What Trump Does After Nancy Pelosi Accuses Him Of Being "Engaged In A Cover-Up”!-Posted on YouTube.com-By Black Conservative Patriot-On May 22, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOery4WCjDY

Video: This Is Too Rich! Pelosi Questions Trump’s Mental State While Mumbling Incoherently To The Press!-Posted on YouTube.com-By Black Conservative Patriot-On May 23, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycCFtr8-cGA

Rep. Steve Cohen: Nancy Pelosi Needs to do the ‘Patriotic’ Thing and Impeach Trump!-Posted on The Political Insider-By Rusty | Featured Contributor-On May 24, 2019:

https://thepoliticalinsider.com/rep-steve-cohen-nancy-pelosi-needs-to-do-the-patriotic-thing-and-impeach-trump/

Graham: Impeachment Ensures Trump's Re-election; Jordan: Impeachment Has Begun!-Posted on CNSNews.com-By Susan Jones-On May 23, 2019:

https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/susan-jones/graham-impeachment-ensures-trumps-re-election-jordan-impeachment-has-begun

BREAKING: Grand Jury Indicts Wikileaks Founder Julian Assange

WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange Indicted on 18 Counts of Conspiracy!-Posted on National Review-By Mairead McArdle-On May 23, 2019:

https://www.nationalreview.com/news/wikileaks-founder-julian-assange-indicted-on-18-counts-of-conspiracy/

Video: Julian Assange has been moved to hospital unit at Belmarsh!-Posted on YouTube.com-By RT UK-On May 30, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmfGvVgn4vY

“Enhanced Interrogation” Has Destroyed the Mind of Julian Assange!-Posted on Freedom Outpost-By Kurt Nimmo-On May 31, 2019:

https://freedomoutpost.com/enhanced-interrogation-has-destroyed-the-mind-of-julian-assange/

Video: UN rapporteur on torture: Julian Assange subjected to psychological torture!-Posted on YouTube.com-By RT UK-On May 31, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0L_kEo2LTU

Video: Craig Murray on Julian Assange: "I have no confidence whatsoever in the British justice system"!-Posted on YouTube.com-By RT UK-On May 31, 2019:

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

Video: Galloway: "Assange may have to die before journalists realize implications"!-Posted on YouTube.com-By RT UK-On May 31, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5qYC0FZbqo

Video: EP.752: Alan Dershowitz- Julian Assange’s Indictment Threatens ALL MAINSTREAM OUTLETS!-Posted on YouTube.com-By goingundergroundRT-On May 29, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRuL3_5rFnU

Video: Julian Assange Writes a Warning Letter To The Public—What's Inside Will Send Chills Down Your Spine!-Posted on YouTube.com-By Lisa Haven-On May 31, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiIGUPXBg3E

Baywatch Babe Pamela Anderson Takes A Stand For Julian Assange!-Posted on Liberty Conservative News-By Jose Nino-On June 2, 2019:

https://libertyconservativenews.com/baywatch-babe-pamela-anderson-takes-a-stand-for-julian-assange/

Hey Trump: Remember Wikileaks?-Posted on Freedom Outpost-By Ron Paul-On June 3, 2019:

https://freedomoutpost.com/hey-trump-remember-wikileaks/

How a Murky Espionage Act Could Complicate Prosecution of Assange!-Posted on The Daily Signal-By Cully Stimson /@cullystimson-On June 4, 2019:

https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/06/04/how-a-murky-espionage-act-could-complicate-prosecution-of-assange/

BREAKING: Grand Jury Indicts Wikileaks Founder Julian Assange

U.S. delivers formal extradition request for Julian Assange to U.K.!-Posted on The Washington Post-By Rachel Weiner and Devlin Barrett-On June 10, 2019:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/us-delivers-formal-extradition-request-for-julian-assange-to-uk/2019/06/10/b4a02c70-8bb0-11e9-b08e-cfd89bd36d4e_story.html?utm_term=.40f99c3cbe39

Video: President Trump Take The Key From Bill Binney & Kirk Wiebe To End The Coup!-Posted on YouTube.com-By Operation Freedom-On June 7, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFMQZz3x13k

Breaking: Butowsky Attorney Tweets Video of Ellen Ratner on Meeting with Julian Assange!-Posted on The Post & Email-By Sharon Rondeau-On July 21, 2019:

https://www.thepostemail.com/2019/07/21/breaking-butowsky-attorney-tweets-video-of-ellen-ratner-on-meeting-with-julian-assange/

Butowsky Attorney Contacts Verizon Executives Re: Possible Defamation!-Posted on The Post & Email-By Sharon Rondeau-On July 22, 2019:

https://www.thepostemail.com/2019/07/22/butowsky-attorney-contacts-verizon-executives-re-possible-defamation/

Video: Seth Rich Mystery Revived | Debbie Discusses 7.16.19!-Posted on YouTube.com-By America Can We Talk?-On July 16, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgeqRT0vxz0

DNC, Crowdstrike Decline to Release Documents in Butowsky Lawsuits!-Posted on The Post & Email-By Sharon Rondeau-On July 23, 2019:

https://www.thepostemail.com/2019/07/23/dnc-crowdstrike-decline-to-release-documents-in-butowsky-lawsuits/

What Does the FBI Know about the Murder of Seth Rich?-Posted on The Post & Email-By Sharon Rondeau-On July 28, 2019:

https://www.thepostemail.com/2019/07/28/what-does-the-fbi-know-about-the-murder-of-seth-rich/

Please Read Part 102E:

The Most Dangerous and Treacherous Times in U.S. History! (Part 102E)- Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On May 31, 2019:

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

Please Read Part 103:

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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...

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

Part 1. KGB TRUMP : ELIMINATE BILL, HILLARY, OBAMA, KRYZHANOVSKY. Kryzhanovsky Dossier

Posted by Mikhail Kryzhanovsky on May 8, 2019 at 12:27pm

By Mikhail Kryzhanovsky, a former KGB and CIA "Filament", the author of the White House Special Handbook, Espionage and Counterespionage Handbook, Barack Obama Operation.

kryzhanovsky77@gmail. com

New York

April 18, 2019, Washington, D. C.

On May 17, 2017, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein appointed Robert Mueller to serve as Special Counsel for the United States Department of Justice. In this capacity, Mueller oversaw the investigation into "any links and/or coordination between the Russian government and individuals associated with the campaign of President Donald Trump, and any matters that arose or may arise directly from the investigation".

ATTENTION : President Donald Trump responded to news of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's 2017 appointment by telling then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions that he was "f****d, " according to a redacted version of Mueller's report released on April 18, 2019. “Oh my God, ” the President told Sessions, according to the report. “This is terrible. This is the end of my Presidency. I’m f****d. ”

Do you know why Donald Trump was sure his Presidency was finished?

Questions for U. S. President Donald Trump

1. Have you, KGB agent, used my instructions “How to win presidential elections” ( my White House Special Handbook )? If yes, you have to pay me a former KGB, for your 2016 victory.

2. Have you, KGB agent, ever used my instructions “How to Manage the White House”? If yes, you have to pay me as I, a former KGB, actually perform your job since 2017.

3. Have your, KGB agent, ordered the U. S. Secret Service to arrest me in 2017 and place me in Elmhurst Hospital, Queens, NY psych unit to shut me up? If yes, when are you going to pay me for my sufferings?

CONTENTS

Introduction. "Passive sabotage” and “The Boomerang”

PART 1. Kill Bill Clinton.

PART 2. Kill Barack Obama.

PART 3. Kill Hillary Clinton

PART 4. How I helped Putin to get Oval Office for Trump

PART 5. Donald Trump is KGB

Bonus

White House Special Handbook (abridged)

Espionage and Counterespionage Handbook (abridged)

A gift from President George Bush (to shut me up) I didn’t ask for.

Republican National Committee 319 First Street, SE, Washington, DC 20003

May 20, 2006

Platinum member Mykhaylo Kryzhanovsky Member since 2006

This Platinum card has been issued to the bearer by the Republican National Committee in recognition of an extraordinary level of commitment to Republican ideals and values.

I believe your exemplary record of loyalty and patriotism proves you are a leader President Bush can count on. It is therefore my distinct privilege as the Chairman of the Republican National Committee (RNC) to present you with your 2006 Republican Party Platinum Card on behalf of President Bush. Your proven leadership is just what President Bush and our party need right now.

Sincerely, Ken Mehlman, Chairman, Republican National Committee

Putin ordered WikiLeaks to hack my computer and got my letter ( and got my “The Professional” system) to Stratford, American geopolitical intelligence platform. Here's the link :

https://wikileaks. org/gifiles/docs/51/5127100_-analytical-and-intelligence-comments-the-professional. html

On Monday February 27th, 2012, WikiLeaks began publishing The Global Intelligence Files, over five million e-mails from the Texas headquartered "global intelligence" company Stratfor. The e-mails date between July 2004 and late December 2011. They reveal the inner workings of a company that fronts as an intelligence publisher, but provides confidential intelligence services to large corporations, such as Bhopal's Dow Chemical Co., Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon and government agencies, including the US Department of Homeland Security, the US Marines and the US Defense Intelligence Agency. The emails show Stratfor's web of informers, pay-off structure, payment laundering techniques and psychological methods.

[Analytical & Intelligence Comments] "THE PROFESSIONAL" system by Kryzhanovsky (White House Special Handbook).

Released on 2012-08-11 00:00 GMT

Email-ID 5127100

Date 2010-07-22 09:21:43

From prof7prof@yahoo. com

To responses@stratfor. com

[Analytical & Intelligence Comments] "THE PROFESSIONAL" system by

Kryzhanovsky (White House Special Handbook).

INTRODUCTION

World War III : Russia is the prize or Why KGB recruited Bill, Hillary, Obama and Trump

The sources of energy (oil, gas, uranium, coal) are rapidly coming to an end. At the same time China, India, Brazil, Indonesia are rapidly growing. We have 9 billion people on Earth with energy, food and fresh water supplies coming to an end in the next 25-40 years. That means that 500 million Europeans and 300 million Americans have to lower their standards of living – and they will not accept this! On top of it we have the global financial and economic crisis which is actually killing America. The only way out – to capture resources that still remain to preserve our standards of living. Russia has the world's largest reserves of mineral and energy resources, the world's largest forest reserves and 25% of the world's fresh water. Russia is energy superpower : #1 in the world in natural gas reserves, #8 in oil reserves and #2 in coal reserves.

"THE BOOMERANG" Operation

Russian President Putin said once that collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 was the "tragedy of the century" and named the USA a killer. Now comes revenge – "the Boomerang" operation and the "New Russian World Order" or a "controlled chaos” strategy – Putin's “new world order” to be established through the international chaos, permanent wars, civil wars and revolutions.

My definition :

"Controlled chaos” strategy – geopolitical re-division of the world by provoking riots, revolutions, civil wars and overthrowing regimes in independent from Russia sovereign states to establish the Russia's world hegemony. Political, national, religious and social conflicts in target countries have to be permanent. The strategy is being covered by a "struggle against international terrorism". The operation is preceded by information war against the target regime and backed by the Russia military forces if necessary.

Inside USA the strategy is used to provoke the U. S. government collapse

Putin and 9/11

1. Alexander Sakharovsky (1909-1983), Colonel General, Chief of KGB First Directorate (espionage) in 1956-1971.

"The father of international terrorism", he oversaw the KGB foreign intelligence division during some of the key events of the Cold War, including the the Cuban Missile Crisis and JFK assassination.

2. KGB Major General Viktor Vladimirov (1922-1995). My personal friend...

1966-1970 – Chief of the PGU KGB (Intelligence) "V" Department (sabotage and terror abroad by KGB special forces). 1984-1987 – Chief of the "RT" PGU KGB Department (recruitment of foreigners in USSR). Ordered Trump's recruitment (the asset was recruited by Putin).

3. A former KGB Lieutenant Colonel Vladimir Putin, President of Russia. In 1985-1990 KGB spy under cover in Dresden, East Germany, trained illegal KGB spies, who worked then in the West as KGB recruiters, terrorists and sabotage specialists (in case of war against Russia).

September 11, 2001, 11. 00 AM, Moscow

Strategic Surveillance Center, underground secret facility, Military Intelligence Dept of the General Staff, Moscow

Putin, General Shlyakhturov, Chief, Military intelligence Dept, Lebedev, Director, Russian Intelligence (SVR)

PUTIN. – Good morning, comrades. For some people it's a good morning, but for many people it's the last one. What's the estimate?

SHLYAKHTUROV. – Good morning, comrade President. We think, it's between two and four thousands Americans.

PUTIN. So, what's the story?

LEBEDEV. – As you know, airplane hijacking was KGB Intelligence Chief Alexander Sakharovsky's invention.

PUTIN. – I knew him, he died in 1983. He said once, nuclear arms have made military force obsolete, terrorism should become KGB main weapon. CIA called him "the father of international terrorism". The airplane hijacking was his invention, in 1969 alone, 82 planes were hijacked worldwide by the KGB-financed Palestine Liberation Organization, right?

LEBEDEV. – Right.

PUTIN. – And Major General Vladimirov...

LEBEDEV. – Yes, we still use his instructions on terror.

PUTIN. – He was my teacher.

LEBEDEV. – But mass terror isn't something we ever tried on the USA, but "The Boomerang" operation strategy gives us the opportunity to try it. Besides, we set up al Qaeda and bin Laden, whose guys killed thirteen thousands Soviet soldiers and officers in Afghanistan in 1979-1989.

PUTIN. – OK, what we get out of it? I mean, strategic objective.

LEBEDEV. – We get America into very expensive and useless wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, up to 10, 000 soldiers and up to $500 billion worrth.

PUTIN. – Not bad. How you've set up bin Laden?

SHLYAKHTUROV. – Our undercover, a ”terrorist”, explained to him an unusual plan to attack America. The plan approved, the first team of terrorists sent to USA. They took the courses on how to operate the "Boeing", take off only.

LEBEDEV. – CIA got the information on the "strange" students, but our agent blocked it.

PUTIN. – "Passive sabotage" again?

LEBEDEV. – Why not? It worked good with JFK.

PUTIN. – It did. Next?

SHLYAKHTUROV. – Another group of terrorists, no links to al-Qaeda, packed Twin Towers with explosives. Right after that, we eliminated the second team, their bodies burnt.

PUTIN. – And today is the day.

SHLYAKHTUROV. – Yes, Vladimir Vladimirovich. We've recorded the operation on tape, ready to show you.

PUTIN. – Eliminate the tape and the team, no evidence.

SHLYAKHTUROV. – Yes, comrade President. We'll see everything on the main screen, I mean, the final phase of the operation, New York, Twin Towers, on the main screen and then Pentagon and Pennsylvania. We start. Pay attention to four monitors to your left.

PUTIN. – People boarding jets.

LEBEDEV. – You see nineteen al-Qaeda terrorists boarding for Boeing jets in Boston, Washington and Newark, first three go to Los Angeles, the last one – to San Francisco.

PUTIN. No more passengers.

LEBEDEV. Right now our people arrest terrorists, kill them with the knives, pack in plastic bags, throw through the back airplane hatches and take away. Five minutes. Wait...

PUTIN. Wow! Good job. Who secured the airport?

LEBEDEV. CIA. Now other passengers board the airplanes. Nobody could see anything, including the terrorists' associates who might watch from the airport building.

SHLYAKHTUROV. Now jets take off one by one, 165 passengers altogether plus crew members.

8 a. m. EDT. American Airlines Flight 11, a Boeing 767 with 92 people on board, took off from Boston’s Logan international Airport to Los Angeles.

8:14 a. m. United Airlines Flight 175, a Boeing 767 with 65 people on board, took off from Logan to Los Angeles.

8:21 a. m. American Airlines flight 77, a Boeing 757 with 64 people on board, took off from Washington Dulles International Airport for Los Angeles.

8:41 a. m. United Airlines Flight 93, a Boeing 757 with 44 people on board, took off from Newark International Airport for San Francisco

LEBEDEV. – After 4 jets took off, their pilots were ordered emergency landing on one of the military bases where crews and passengers boarded a special military jet packed with explosives. It exploded in the air and crashed into a field in Pennsylvania. Two other empty jets, guided by autopilots, with explosives crashed into Twin Towers.

SHLYAKHTUROV. Look. 8:46:40: Flight 11 crashes into the north face of the North Tower (1 WTC) of the World Trade Center, between floors 93 and 99. The aircraft enters the tower intact. 9:03:00: Flight 175 crashes into the south face of the South Tower (2 WTC) of the World Trade Center, between floors 77 and 85. Parts of the plane, including the starboard engine, leave the building from its east and north sides, falling to the ground six blocks away. 9:37:46: Flight 77 crashes into the western side of The Pentagon and starts a violent fire. 10:03:11: Flight 93 crashes southeast of Pittsburgh in Somerset County, Pennsylvania.

PUTIN. Good. Eliminate the tape and kill the team involved. Now.

LEBEDEV. – Yes, Vladimir Vladimir Vladimirovich.

PUTIN. – Thank you comrades, it was very impressive. I want to tell you why are we killing America and I want you deliver my message to every officer at your departments.

We have to protect our country, because Russia is the economic target of the World War III. We have the world's largest reserves of mineral and energy resources, the world's largest forest reserves and its lakes contain 25% of the world's fresh water. Russia is energy superpower : #1 in the world in natural gas reserves, #8 in oil reserves and #2 in coal reserves. The world sources of energy (oil, gas, uranium, coal) are rapidly coming to an end. At the same time China, India, Brazil, Indonesia are rapidly growing. China is increasing its economy (GDP, gross domestic product) by 10% a year – in 5 years there will be 1, 5 China, 1, 15 India, 1, 5 Brazil, 1, 15 Indonesia. 9 billion people on Earth with energy, food and fresh water supplies coming to an end in the next 25-40 years. That means that 500 million Europeans and 300 million Americans have to lower their standards of living – and they will not accept this. The only way out – to get Russian resources to preserve the Western standards of living. Clear?

LEBEDEV. Absolutely.

PUTIN. Talking about today’s successful operation. It's extremely important for Russia to re-direct radical Islam vector. It goes through Afghanistan and then through Muslim Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Kazakhstan (former Soviet republics) to Muslim Tatarstan and Muslim Chechnya, constituent republics of Russian federation. We’ll re-direct it to Europe and the USA. I'll stay here for the rest of the day and watch America suffer. Alone...

“Passive Sabotage” or how KGB killed JFK

It was KGB revenge for the Caribbean crisis, "the Boomerang" strategy operation, and a very simple one.

The Cuban (Caribbean) Missile Crisis, was a 13-day (October 16–28, 1962) confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union concerning American ballistic missile deployment in Italy and Turkey with consequent Soviet ballistic missile deployment in Cuba. The confrontation is often considered the closest the Cold War came to escalating into a full-scale nuclear war. President Kennedy ordered to blockade Cuba and forced Soviet leader Khrushchev to withdraw the missiles from Cuba.

Now, let me show you the technology.

August 5, 1962, Los Angeles, California

KGB agents killed Marilyn Monroe (staged suicide – "acute barbiturate poisoning") who somehow got information on planned JFK assassination and desperately tried to contact him or his brother, Robert Kennedy. It’s simple to kill without any traces or in the body if you use a suppository.

November 22, 1963, Dallas, Texas

President John Kennedy was assassinated at 12:30 p. m. in Dallas, Texas by Lee Harvey Oswald -?

Do you know what's conspiracy?

It’s when you ask a simple question and nobody wants to answer it. And if you ask the wrong questions you get the wrong answers, as with the Warren Commission. Let’s ask some good questions.

Question 1. What would have happened if the snipers missed the target or Kennedy survived, being merely wounded – sniper is a human being – he makes mistakes?

Answer. Kennedy would have won the 1964 Presidential election and then conceivably his brothers, Robert and Edward, would keep the Oval Office until 1984. No war in Vietnam.

Question 2. Why would KGB take such a huge risk?

Answer. There was no risk at all and there was no "huge conspiracy – there was a "passive sabotage" operation. KGB recruited:

CIA Director John McCone,

FBI Director Edgar Hoover

Secret Service Director James Rowley

Those three KGB agents ordered their field offices to ignore Oswald until operation is over.

Question 3. Why was Kennedy murdered in public? President Kennedy was a sick man, taking a lot of pills daily. He had Addison’s disease which, in addition to susceptibility to infection can cause weakness, weight loss and low blood pressure; so he was taking cortisone. For his back pain Dr. Max Jacobson injected him (and Jackie) with a mixture of unspecified (! ) multivitamins, hormones, steroids, enzymes, and animal organ cells. Kennedy also used cocaine, marijuana, hashish and even LSD, especially during dates with women, including prostitutes —- for many people this was not a secret. There were enough opportunities to stage a death in private.

Answer. This had to be a public execution with a very clear message for the next Presidents – "Don’t touch Soviet Union! " and it worked. No World War III…

June 5, 1968, Los Angeles, California

After winning the California primary election for the Democratic nomination for the US President, Senator Robert Kennedy was shot as he walked through the kitchen of the Ambassador Hotel. Sirhan Sirhan, a 24-year-old Palestinian immigrant, was convicted of Kennedy's murder and is serving a life sentence for the crime.

ATTENTION. Robert Kennedy promised a full investigation of his brother's assassination in case he was elected.

1995, New York City, Carlyle Hotel, New York City

ATTENTION. John Kennedy Jr. announced that his father's death investigation was the most important thing of his life. He'll use his "George" magazine resources to get to the truth.

In New York he approached Princess Diana Spencer for an interview for his magazine. They met at New York Carlyle Hotel where JFK dated Marilyn Monroe – a holy place for John Kennedy Jr. It was a business meeting, an "investigation" meeting.

August 31, 1997, Paris, France

KGB used my instructions on staged car accidents to kill Princess Diana. Diana was fatally injured in a car crash in the Pont de l'Alma road tunnel in Paris, which also caused the death of her boyfriend, Dodi Fayed.

If I have to investigate Diana's death, I would start with a very simple question :what happened to the driver, the Ritz security chief Henri Paul? He tried to out-run paparazzi by speeding down a Riverfront Expressway, but lost somehow control of the Mercedes S280 near the entrance to the Alma Tunnel and crashed into a concrete pillar at an estimated speed of 65 to 70 miles per hour. He died on impact of a severed spine and a ruptured aorta.

Attention. The tests showed an extraordinary high (not explained until now) level of carbon monoxide in his blood (20. 7 %), which should have caused a severe headache, dizziness, confusion and absolute aversion to alcohol. Very heavy smokers can have a level of up to 9%, and Henri Paul was not a heavy smoker. There were no ventilation problems in his apartment, office or car. The gas didn’t appear from inside Mercedes because no other passenger was affected. So, what happened to Henri Paul?

July 16, 1999, Atlantic Ocean off Martha's Vineyard

KGB killed John Kennedy Jr. in a staged plane crash. Kennedy along with his wife Carolyn and sister-in-law Lauren were reported missing when the Piper Saratoga II HP he was piloting failed to arrive at its planned destination, the Martha's Vineyard Airport in Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts.

Anybody else wants to mess with KGB, I mean, Putin?

Why KGB Trump wanted Bill, Hillary and Obama dead?

He tried to kill Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama to remove the competitors and speed up the process of his own full-scale presidential campaign.

PART 1. KILL BILL CLINTON

September 1, 1995

I was recruited by CIA and had to work as a killer and special operations expert for CIA and FBI. I had to spy on the White House and the U. S. Congress and kill American politicians.

Also, I, a KGB spy, had to teach American presidents how to rule America and created "The Professional" system – special instructions on successful election and re-election campaigns, strategic planning and top decisions making, national security, foreign policy and diplomacy, propaganda, economy, war and special operations. That’s why Bill Clinton won 1996 re-election campaign. In 2007 it was published as the White House Special Handbook. Obama was using it, and now – Trump.

I could never imagine that in America I could have a unique status, "carte blanche" which means a “license to kill” any politician who is the threat to CIA. CIA and FBI also asked for effective interrogation, tortures and murders methods and readily used them in Guantanamo, Iraq and Afghanistan. I, not Condi Rice or Hillary Clinton, designed the world domination, “controlled chaos” and “color” revolutions strategies successfully used to blow up Yugoslavia, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Iraq, Syria, Ukraine, Yemen, and unite USA and EU for the World War III for Russian resources. But CIA wanted more from me – they had "a hell of a job up to my high professional skills as a former KGB anti-terror “Nabat” (”The Bell”) group sniper. Working abroad – Europe, Asia, Middle East – was OK with me, but I had no intention to kill politicians in America and play Lee Oswald-2. They've pressed me hard in return.

Who was the first target? President Bill Clinton – CIA wanted me "to stay close to him".

CIA and FBI awarded me with immigration status for my consent.

CIA didn't guarantee my personal security, so, and I couldn't do “a big job” and Bill Clinton has to thank for saving his life.

Now I understand who was behind the operation – Donald Trump. Why? Because Bill Clinton was the target of Italian mafia and Trump was the New York mafia most powerful families associate. Look.

Bill Clinton, the target

About 700, 000 people are the victims of Latin American, Italian and other mafia organizations international trafficking each year. In order to combat the growing and widespread issue of trafficking, the UNO members concluded a new protocol to the Transnational Crime Commission that banned trafficking, resulting in the Palermo Protocol, which the U. S. President Bill Clinton helped develop and support. During this process and ultimately to provide for both implementation of the Protocol and to fill gaps in U. S. law, Congress passed the bipartisan Trafficking Victims Protection Act, and it was signed by President Clinton on October 28, 2000 (Public Law 106-386). The issue of trafficking in persons included those trafficked into the commercial sex industry, modern slavery, and forced labor.

ATTENTION : Italian mafia is involved in everything from the drug trade, sex trafficking, gambling to real estate and construction. In 2000, the BBC reported that Italian mafia groups had a combined capital of $800 billion. Italian gangs cooperate with Albanian gangs in the trafficking of women and girls to USA for prostitution.

Donald Trump, the mafia associate : the facts are:

1. Trump bought the property that his Atlantic City casino Trump Plaza would one day occupy -- for twice market price -- from Salvatore Testa, a Philly mobster and son of one-time Philly mob boss Philip "Chicken Man" Testa. Testa and a partner, who together headed a Philly mafia hit-squad called the Young Executioners, bought the property for "a scant $195, 000" in 1977. In 1982, Trump paid $1. 1 million for it. The casino was built with the help of two construction companies controlled by Philly mobsters Nicademo "Little Nicky" Scarfo and his nephew Phillip "Crazy Phil" Leonetti ( data оf a New Jersey state commission's 1986 report on organized crime).

2. In Manhattan, Trump used the mob-controlled concrete company S&A to build Trump Plaza condos. Anthony "Fat Tony" Salerno, head of the Genovese crime family, and Paul Castellano, the don of New York's Gambino family, controlled S&A ( according to federal court records).

He built the Trump Tower out of concrete, instead of steel, at a time when the mafia controlled much the concrete industry. Trump and Salerno were both represented by high-power attorney Roy Cohn. On at least one occasion Trump and Salerno had a sit-down in Cohn’s apartment. Trump has denied this claim in the past.

3. Trump was a target of a 1979 bribery investigation and was questioned in a 1981 racketeering probe, but neither federal investigation led to criminal charges.

4. Trump sent lawyer Harvey I. Freeman, to negotiate with Ken Shapiro, the “investment banker” for Nicky Scarfo, the especially vicious killer who was Atlantic City’s mob boss ( according to federal prosecutors and the New Jersey State Commission on Investigation).

5. Scarfo, whose reign as head of the Philly mob was one of the bloodiest in history, controlled the bartenders union, which represented Trump’s workers in Atlantic City.

6. Gambling addict and racehorse trader Robert LiButti would frequently refer to gangster John Gotti as “my boss. ” His gambling losses scored over $11 million to Trump’s casino between 1986 and 1989. Trump said that he knew that LiButti was a high roller in the town but never actually knew him and “had nothing to do with him. ” But that’s not what Trump Plaza head Jack O’Donnell, said, “It isn’t like [Trump] saw LiButti once or twice—he spent time with him, saw him multiple times. ” O’Donnell said that Trump also attended LiButti’s daughter’s birthday party. It’s illegal for casinos to give high rollers money to gamble with, but the above mentioned commission also found that Trump Plaza gave LiButti $1. 65 million in gifts and cars. Trump also bought a $90, 000 horse from LiButti for $250, 000.

They said that Libutti ‘was in Donald Trump’s pockets’ – meaning Libutti knew of serious rule violations at the Trump casino that would interest the regulators. Had these claims been investigated and proven, they would surely have cost Trump his casino licence, but Trump’s relationship with Libutti was just another part of his long history of flouting the supposedly strict regulations of New Jersey casinos.

7. One of Trump’s attorneys at the time was Roy Cohn who also had mob clients including Anthony “Fat Tony” Salerno, who owned a cement company. Former Trump Organization executive Barbara Res said that Trump would pull out a photo of Cohn and threaten to sue people and tell them who his lawyer was. Trump denies it, however. Cohn and Trump also had a tight relationship with Teamsters official John A. Cody, who had ties to mob bosses Carlo Gambino and Paul Castellano, a Justice Department memo from 1982 outlined.

8. Russian-born Felix Sater was once a stockbroker but lost his license. Still, he was involved in a Mafia-linked scheme to artificially jack up stock value of marginal stocks and then dump them on investors who don’t know any better and funnel the profit in offshore accounts. Sater worked with Trump on the Trump SoHo condo project as well as the Trump International Hotel & Tower in Fort Lauderdale, FL. General counsel to the Trump Organization, Alan Garten said that they vet companies but not individual employees of companies they do partnerships with. Because Sater’s racketeering case was sealed, he said that it was unfair to look back and say “you should have known. ” However, in 2010, after Trump and his lawyers knew about Sater’s conviction, they offered him free office space in Trump Tower and he served as “Senior Advisor to Donald Trump, ” according to his business card. Garten says that Sater was unpaid and Trump claims the “deals” Sater brought him weren’t any good.

9. Trump decided to lend his name to a line of luxury stretch limousines. The entrepreneur who came up with this Trumpian idea was a wealthy and successful auto dealer from Long Island John Staluppi. According to the FBI, Staluppi was also a made member of the Colombo crime family. Trump proudly unveiled the lavish autos—complete with Italian leather upholstery, liquor dispensers, TVs. Staluppi had been under steady investigation by federal and state law enforcement for more than a decade and detectives had followed him to meetings with Colombo family boss Carmine "The Snake" Persico.

Wednesday Noon ~ thefrontpagecover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on May 8, 2019 at 12:18pm

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

Democrats Cope by Attacking Barr

Nate Jackson

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White House asserts executive privilege

over full dirty cop-Mueller report

by Susan Ferrechio

{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ The White House has asserted executive privilege over the unredacted dirty cop-Mueller report, the Justice Department said in a letter to Democrats Wednesday... Assistant Attorney General Stephen Boyd wrote to Rep. scumbag liar-Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., that the move allows President Trump “to make a final decision whether to assert privilege following a full review of these materials.” The move came as House Democrats prepared to hold Attorney General William Barr in contempt for refusing to turn over the unredacted version of the report to all lawmakers in Congress. Barr is legally prevented from releasing parts of the report that include classified material, grand jury testimony, or information relating to ongoing probes. Granting executive privilege girds the Justice Department for a court fight in case the House votes to hold Barr in contempt. It would send the matter to the Justice Department, which tends to reject prosecuting criminal contempt cases when executive privilege is invoked.White House press secretary Sarah Sanders accused scumbag liar-Nadler of making "reckless" demands for the unredacted report, parts of which must be concealed by law, and accused Democrats of seeking a "redo" of the dirty cop-Mueller probe, which found no evidence of collusion between Trump's campaigns and the Russians. Sanders said scumbag liar-Nadler has rejected efforts by the Justice Department to negotiate new terms for viewing a less redacted version of the report. "Faced with Chairman scumbag liar-Nadler’s blatant abuse of power, and at the Attorney General’s request, the President has no other option than to make a protective assertion of executive privilege," Sanders said.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/congress/white-house-asserts-executive-privilege-over-full-mueller-report?utm_source=breaking_push&utm_medium=app&utm_campaign=push_notifications&utm_source=WEX_Breaking%20News%20Alert_05/08/2019&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WEX_Breaking%20News&rid=5261

LETTER: https://www.scribd.com/document/409171673/Chairman-Nadler-Letter-8-May-2019

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House Democrats Ready Vote

to Undercut Health Care Innovation

by Marie Fishpaw

{ dailysignal.com } ~ House Democrats this week will vote on HR 986, a bill that would harm Americans by leading to fewer health care choices and higher health care costs... It also would undercut what polls tell us 64% of Americans say they want in health care: to build on what is working and fix what isn’t. The bill would undo the Trump administration’s regulatory relief efforts designed to allow more innovative health care solutions, which provided a small escape hatch from scumbag/liar-nObamacare’s one-size-fits-all solution. Innovation is key to addressing scumbag/liar-nObamacare’s failure to offer affordable health care that helps people access the doctors they want to see. Section 1332 of the Affordable Care Act, popularly known as scumbag/liar-nObamacare, provides states with limited authority to escape the law’s mandates through a “waiver process” and test new approaches to undoing some of this damage. To make incremental progress toward the goal of expanding affordable choices in health coverage, the Trump administration rightly simplified the unnecessarily restrictive waiver process established by the scumbag/liar-nObama administration. This change has been critical to helping provide consumers near-term relief—without new federal spending. Heritage Foundation research shows that several states successfully have used a waiver to change market conditions sufficiently that premiums fell for individual health insurance and enrollment expanded—all while protecting the ability of people with high health care costs to access care. Premiums fell in all seven states that have a 1332 waiver—by as much as 42% in Maryland. And when premiums fell, the product was more attractive to more people—as evidenced by the fact that enrollment went up in every state with a waiver...

https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/05/06/house-democrats-ready-vote-to-undercut-health-care-innovation/?utm_source=TDS_Email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=MorningBell&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTnpReVl6TTJNREpoWWpOayIsInQiOiJqc0hKaENEWm1RSTJSMzQ2ckZzeWI2NHhtdyszQUdMb3owUGNZNUJnRWFKZG51RWRKYnFNVXdpTCt0dkF0VUpmTDZqZ3FkRE41bWdDQk81b3NvZkRjQjhBT0pwcXhVbXBRMEdHa3BKY3hYaVwvXC9oNHQ0UG1IbXdSWWtWTHlHbFFnIn0%3D

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No question there was spying

on Trump campaign, but how much?

by Byron York

{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ At a contentious hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Attorney General William Barr dropped a big hint about his investigation into the conduct of the Trump-Russia investigation... "Many people seem to assume that the only intelligence collection that occurred was a single confidential informant and a FISA warrant," Barr said. "I would like to find out whether that is in fact true. It strikes me as a fairly anemic effort if that was the counterintelligence effort designed to stop the threat as it is being represented." Here is what he meant. There has been a lot of discussion on the Right about the FBI's use of a confidential informant, an England-based college professor named Stefan Halper, to spy on some Trump campaign figures, including the sometime foreign policy volunteer advisers George Papadopoulos and Carter Page. There has also been talk about the FBI's use of a FISA warrant, a court-approved permission to wiretap, against Page. There was also speculation about other possible FBI surveillance, but the Halper operation and Page FISA case were the only ones definitely known. So Barr was saying: If the FBI really took the Trump-Russia matter seriously, if they thought it was a threat to the republic, would that be all they would do? No other wiretaps or other surveillance? No other confidential informants? Nothing? Given that Barr was already looking into the question, his phrasing suggested he suspected there was more. Sure enough, just days later the New York Times reported that in the summer of 2016 the FBI sent an undercover agent, a woman who went by the alias Azra Turk, to London to pose as Halper's research assistant and tease information out of Papadopoulos. The Times was so reluctant to call Turk a spy that it referred to her, in a headline, as a "cloaked investigator."...

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/byron-york-no-question-there-was-spying-on-trump-campaign-but-how-much?utm_source=WEX_News%20Brief_05/06/2019&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WEX_News%20Brief&rid=5261

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Corruption is Driving the U.S. and Turkey Apart

by Muhammed Bahadir Gulle

{ americanthinker.com } ~ Turkey's plans to buy the S-400 missile defense system from Russia has sparked unprecedented tensions between Turkey and the U.S. Neither side will back off. and the prospect of an irreparable rupture in relations is looming... Yet the current crisis is not the source, but the result of the widening divergence between the two countries. Along with strategic disputes, Turkey's growing corruption is imperiling relations on an even larger scale. Corruption is omnipresent, but it didn’t start with Recip Tayyip Erdoğan, although Erdoğan has institutionalized corruption in Turkey by creating a hierarchical network encompassing many fields of economic activity. Over time, this network has begun to define how Turkey engages with other countries. Erdoğan's vast network emerged in 2013 when a well-documented investigation by the police exposed a gigantic bribery and money laundering ring involved in illegal gold transfers to Iran. The ring included ministers in Erdogan’s cabinet. Reza Zarrab, a Turkish businessman of Iranian descent, was arrested for being the ringleader. When the investigation focused on his own son, Erdoğan claimed that it was a coup against his government and started a crusade against the rule of law and the free media in order to protect himself and his family from facing trial. Zarrab was released after two months without any charges. In March 2016, Reza Zarrab was arrested in the U.S., this time for helping Iran evade U.S. sanctions. He pleaded guilty and implicated Erdoğan in the scheme. The deputy chief executive officer of Turkey’s state-owned Halkbank, was also found guilty on related charges of conspiring to violate U.S. sanctions law, raising expectations for sanctioning of a state-owned Turkish bank by the U.S. There are growing American concerns that Turkey is involved in a similar scheme to help Venezuela evade U.S. sanctions by importing gold. Lack of transparency in transactions raise suspicions that government officials in both countries benefit from the trade. Erdoğan did not seem eager to allay the U.S. concerns when he met with Maduro's vice president Tareck El Aissami, who was sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury Department under the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act when he visited Turkey in 2017 and 2018. The U.S. is monitoring the trade between Turkey and Venezuela and can take action against Turkey if the violation of the sanctions is assessed...

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/05/corruption_is_driving_the_us_and_turkey_apart.html

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Venezuela: Exile Recalls Horrors

of the Socialist Maduro Regime

by libertyplanet.com: For those blessed enough to be born citizens of the great United States of America, socialism is nothing more than an economic theory of existence championed by people who don’t know any better... However, when a person has actually lived life within a socialist society, their view on the matter is vastly different. For Venezuelan Ricardo Pita, who moved to America a decade ago, socialism is more than just a mere theory. According to Pita, those who think socialism is a good idea for America should keep the following in mind: “What we try to tell others, having lived under a socialist regime, is that they sell is as a gamble; it’s a gimmick. They will tell you this nebulous world of socialism, they promise you the moon, and then it never comes around. It’s not worth the gamble; socialism only works for those in charge of implementing it. There is no more corrosive form to disintegrate the fabric of a nation than socialist policies.” Venezuela serves as a perfect example to other nations. While it can seem like a positive alternative for the downtrodden, it always causes major dysfunction when put into actual practice. For example, as recently as 2012, the nation of Venezuela was commended by the New York Times for being a positive example or government. Today, the country is in a state of unrest and misery unknown in modern times. It was described as “descended into tyranny” by a Daily Signal article. Pita left Venezuela in 2007. At the time, his parents owned and operated a family business. He and his family are now naturalized citizens of the United States. Pita says Venezuela quickly descended into the chaos it is today. “One of the worst if not the worst man-made humanitarian disasters in the world,” he said. “It is breathtaking the pace at which Venezuela has deteriorated since I left, the amount of damage that Venezuela has sustained as a direct result of socialist policies.” Though there are many aspects of the government in disarray, perhaps one of the best examples of socialist inspired mismanagement and corruption is in Venezuela’s oil industry. Though the country boasts the largest oil reserve in the world, the industry is currently in state of collapse. Ana Quintana, The Heritage Foundation’s Latin America expert, said the following about the state of the oil industry in Venezuela...

https://www.libertyplanet.com/articles/venezuela-exile-recalls-horrors-of-the-socialist-maduro-regime/

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Islamic Elementary Schools

Teaching Taliban Curriculum

by Clarion Project

{ clarionproject.org } ~ A leaked government report says Islamic elementary schools across the UK operated by the Darul Uloom movement are teaching children using the same curriculum as the Taliban... The Daily Mail reported. The schools, which are under the auspices of the Darul Uloom (House of Knowledge) network, follow the philosophy of the extremist Deobandi movement. The curriculum, known as Dars-E-Nizami, is used to teach the boys to be imams. It involves a literal interpretation of the Quran, an ideology espoused by some of the some of the most radical clerics that move to the UK from Afghanistan and Pakistan, among others. The government report found the boys were being taught intolerant and misogynistic ideas. Four of the schools had previously been criticized by Ofsted, the government regulatory agency for education in the county. Ofsted found students were taught music and dancing comes from the devil and women do not have the right to refuse sex with their husbands. One particular Darul Uloom school in Birmingham was investigated in 2011 by UK’s Channel 4, which found students were taught to hate Christians, Hindus and Jews. Ofsted also investigated a girl’s schools connected to the movement. In 2006, Aliyah Saleem spilled all about her Darul Uloom school in Nottingham after she was kicked out for possessing a disposable camera, among other “behavioral” offenses. Saleem said attending school was like being in prison and the girls were taught their husbands were allowed to beat and rape because it made “Allah happy.” Darul Uloom operates schools in a number of cities across Britain, including London, Manchester, Glasgow, Birmingham, Nottingham and Leicester. The Mail on Sunday identified a total of 48 Darul Uloom schools which teach the extremist curriculum.

https://clarionproject.org/islamic-elementary-schools-teaching-taliban-curriculum/?utm_source=Clarion+Project+Newsletter&utm_campaign=28b95f1b91-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_03_17_12_03_COPY_02&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_60abb35148-28b95f1b91-6442509&mc_cid=28b95f1b91&mc_eid=b83b13a9b5

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Democrats Cope by Attacking Barr

Nate Jackson: Frustrated and demoralized by the fact that Robert Mueller’s two-year investigation into President Donald Trump’s supposed collusion with Russia turned out to be fake news, Democrats have resorted to attacking the messenger — Attorney General William Barr. House Speaker Nancy Pulosi even accused him of lying to Congress.

As we noted after Barr’s testimony last Wednesday, Dems are claiming he “hid” information from the report when he literally did the opposite by making public a report he didn’t have to disclose. Nevertheless, House Democrats will hold a vote this Wednesday to hold Barr in contempt for missing their arbitrary deadline to release the complete dirty cop-Mueller report.

The funny thing is, Barr did provide a complete report to select members of Congress, albeit with a few redactions for necessary reasons. According to Barr, “just 8% of the public report was redacted” and “less than 2% has been withheld in the minimally redacted version made available to congressional leaders.” How many Democrats have bothered to review it? Zero.

So why are Democrats attacking Barr? One reason is to distract from the revelation that the FBI did indeed spy on the Trump campaign. We say “revelation” only because that news finally showed up in a New York Times story.

In any case, former federal prosecutor Andrew McCarthy sums it up:

dirty cop-Mueller received fawning press for two years on the expectation that he would slay Trump. Then, on March 24, Democrats and the media learned not only that there was no collusion case (which was no surprise) but that dirty cop-Mueller had been derelict, failing to render a judgment on the only question he was arguably needed to resolve: Was there enough evidence to charge obstruction? Journalists proceeded to turn on their erstwhile hero. This sent him reeling, and it brought to full boil the anger of dirty cop-Mueller staffers, who wanted to charge Trump with obstruction based on the creative (i.e., wayward) theory they had been pursuing — namely, that a president can be indicted for obstruction based on the exercise of his constitutional prerogatives if prosecutors (including prosecutors who are active supporters of the president’s political opposition) decide he had corrupt intent. The staffers put their pique in a letter that could be leaked, and dirty cop-Mueller was sufficiently irked by the bad press that he signed it. And now Democrats are using the letter as the launch-pad for The Big Lie that Barr lied, calculating that if they say it enough times, and their media collaborators uncritically broadcast these declarations, no one will notice that they never actually refer to the transcript of what they claim is the false testimony.
Democrats are unnerved. Attorney General Barr is pursuing an inquiry into the scumbag/liar-nObama administration’s decision to conduct a foreign counterintelligence investigation of the Trump campaign. The time is now, they figure, to reprise the Ken Starr treatment: the ad hominem withering of an accomplished, highly capable official — in this instance, one who is daring to press questions that would have been answered two years ago if an incumbent Republican administration had spied on — er, monitored — a Democratic presidential campaign.

Trump is fortunate to have an attorney general with the intestinal fortitude to withstand this petty but focused Democrat assault. It’s as phony as their collusion charade. ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/62814?mailing_id=4255&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4255&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

Wed/Med AM ~ thefrontpagecover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on May 8, 2019 at 9:36am

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

GOP Needs to Be More Than 'Not Democrats'

Robin Smith

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Wednesday Top News Executive Summary

Media Editors: EXECUTIVE PRIVILEGE TRIGGERED: “The White House has asserted executive privilege over the dirty cop-Mueller report on Russian interference in the 2016 election, in its latest confrontation with Congress. The move came shortly before the House Judiciary Committee planned to begin contempt proceedings against Attorney General William P. Barr.” (The Washington Post)

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A POSITIVELY SURPRISING NINTH CIRCUIT RULING: “[The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit] ruled Tuesday that the Trump administration may, for now, require certain non-Mexican asylum seekers to wait in Mexico pending resolution of their cases. … Judge Diarmuid O'Scannlain … wrote that the administration was likely to succeed on legal challenges to the policy under federal immigration and regulatory law.” (Politico)

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IRAN BAILS: “Iran’s president said Wednesday the country will stop complying with parts of an scumbag/liar-nObama-era nuclear deal and set a 60-day deadline for new terms of the landmark pact before resuming higher uranium enrichment. Hassan Rouhani’s national address comes a year after President Trump withdrew the United States from the 2015 agreement.” (Fox News)

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ICE EMPOWERS LOCAL POLICE: “Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on Monday announced a new program that would allow local law enforcement officers to start arresting and temporarily detaining immigrants on behalf of the agency, even if established local policies prevent them from doing so.” (The Hill)

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MIGRATION SURGE “In a shocking demonstration of the latest surge of illegal immigrants border officials are struggling with, over 1% of the populations of Guatemala and Honduras have entered the United States since September, according to the Homeland Security Department chief.” (Washington Examiner)

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WRAY’S SEMANTICS: “FBI Director Christopher Wray, testifying to Congress Tuesday, said that he would not describe the bureau’s traditional surveillance as ‘spying’ — indicating a possible split with Attorney General William Barr on his controversial use of the term to describe intelligence-gathering during the Russia probe.” (Fox News)

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TWITTER CENSORS CONSERVATIVE PARODY: “Twitter banned the account @commie-AOCPress, labeled as a ‘parody,’ on Monday, apparently because it sounded too much like Rep. commie-Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., while mocking her. The social media giant also suspended the account’s creator, Michael Morrison.” (Fox News)

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THANKS, scumbag/liar-nOBAMA (AND scumbag/liar-HILLARY): “A traditionally festive month [Ramadan] has turned grim and bloody [in Syria] after hundreds have been killed or injured. The United Nations estimates that more than 150,000 people have been forced to leave their homes in recent days. Since April 28, seven medical facilities and nine schools have been struck. Many schools have been closed as a result of the attacks, the U.N. said.” (The Wall Street Journal)

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COLORADO SCHOOL SHOOTING: “An 18-year-old male student was killed, eight others were injured and two suspects were in custody in the shooting at STEM School Highlands Ranch on Tuesday afternoon. … Multiple sources close to the investigation told Denver7 late Tuesday night that the second suspect, who is a minor, is a transgender male who was in the midst of transitioning from female to male.” (Denver7)

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HUMOR: It’s time to admit the Kentucky Derby was rigged by Trump and Putin (NPC Daily)

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POLICY: Where the U.S.-Iran confrontation is heading (The Daily Signal)

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POLICY: America must take a hard line against China (National Review)

~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/62874?mailing_id=4259&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4259&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

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Starr: dirty cop-Mueller’s Letter To Barr

Over Summary Report Was An

‘Unfair Whiny Complaint’

by Mike Brest

{ dailycaller.com } ~ Former special prosecutor Ken Starr called special counsel dirty cop-Robert Mueller’s letter to Attorney General William Barr an “unfair whiny complaint,”... during his Monday appearance on “The Story With Martha MacCallum.” dirty cop-Mueller wrote a letter to Barr in March, alleging that Barr’s four-page summary of the dirty cop-Mueller report “did not fully capture the context, nature, and substance of this office’s work and conclusions,” before adding that, “There is now public confusion about critical aspects of the results of our investigation.” “In terms of what you said earlier, Ken Starr, I want to ask you about — you said dirty cop-Bob Mueller deserves the sharpest criticism for sandbagging Bill Barr. What do you think about that?” MacCallum asked. “Terrible. Well, his letter that was then leaked on the very eve of Bill Barr’s testimony, was essentially, I believe, an unfair whiny complaint when he wasn’t saying that the letter, the March 24 letter from Bill Barr that summarized the conclusions, which he was obliged to do,” Starr stated. “That wasn’t a discretionary call, he was obliged to do exactly what he did. Then here comes dirty cop-Bob Mueller with this letter, which is then leaked.” He continued, “That is to me the unforgivable sin. He, dirty cop-Bob Mueller, badly injured this attorney general and the attorney general didn’t deserve that. But, of course, that created its own huge firestorm, including suggestions that the attorney general was totally mischaracterizing the report and so forth. When you look at that March 24 letter, I think Bill Barr was honestly trying to do the right thing and to do it in the right way.”

https://dailycaller.com/2019/05/06/bill-barr-ken-starr-mueller-congress-trump/?utm_medium=email

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BB51Jj-iJEc

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Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp signs

controversial 'heartbeat' bill into law

by Caleb Parke

{foxnews.com} ~ Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp signed the "heartbeat" bill into law Tuesday morning... Kemp kept his campaign promise in signing the bill, HB 481, technically called the "Living Infants Fairness and Equality (LIFE) Act," which will prohibit abortions in the state after a heartbeat is detected, as early as six weeks into a pregnancy. The law allows exceptions in the case of rape, incest, or if the life of the mother is in danger. Before the signing of the bill, State Rep. Ed Setzler pointed to science, law, and the simple fact that common sense says a beating heart is a sign of life and those children should receive the full protection of the law. State Sen. Renee Unterman, a former nurse who ushered the bill through the state Senate, said she has waited her entire time as a legislator for this moment, calling it the "culmination of my political career." "Georgia is a state that values life," Kemp said before putting his signature to the LIFE Act. "We stand up for those who are unable to speak for themselves." Kemp said he recognizes the bill will be challenged. "But our job is to do what is right, not what is easy," Kemp added. "We will not back down. We will always continue to fight for life."...

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/georgia-gov-brian-kemp-signs-controversial-heartbeat-bill-into-law

VIDEO: https://video.foxnews.com/v/6033755322001/

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Ummah Day in Philadelphia

by Marc A. Scaringi

{ americanthinker.com } ~ Young schoolchildren attending the Muslim American Society Islamic Center in Philadelphia are being taught to be enemies of Jews and are being indoctrinated in the culture of violent Islamic jihad... This is extremely disturbing at any time, but even more so now with the rise in anti-Semitism and the horrific murders of innocent Jews from the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh to Chabad of Poway, north of San Diego. On April 22, 2019, the Muslim American Society in Philadelphia uploaded a video of its “Ummah Day” celebration. Ummah Day is the time of year when Muslims come together and celebrate their cultural traditions. It’s about Muslim pride -- as the Quran teaches, “You are the best community (Ummah) raised up for the benefit of humanity; enjoining what is right and forbidding what is wrong and believing in God…” (Quran 3:110). The video of their celebration, however, reveals something sinister is going on there. In the video, young boys and girls dressed in traditional Muslim attire sing and recite what the Muslim American Society claims are traditional Muslim songs and poetry. But if you listen to the lyrics you will hear the boys singing, as they don the Palestinian keffiyeh, how they will fight to destroy Israel and reconquer Jerusalem with lines such as, “Glorious steeds call us and lead us onto paths leading to the Al-Aqsa Mosque. The blood of martyrs protects us. Paradise needs real men!” and “Take us, oh ships, until we liberate our lands -- until we reach our shores and crush the treacherous ones! Not to be outdone by the boys, the girls recite lines extolling the virtues of suicide attacks such as, “We will defend the land of divine guidance with our bodies, and we will sacrifice our souls without hesitation.” And, then reveal their own Islamic warrior ethos claiming, “We will chop off their heads, and we will liberate the sorrowful and exalted Al-Aqsa Mosque. We will lead the army of Allah fulfilling His promise, and we will subject them to eternal torture.” The Al-Aqsa Mosque, the third holiest site in all of Islam, located in the Old City of Jerusalem, is controlled by the State of Israel. In the video you will also see Muslim women looking like typical public-school teachers organizing and supervising the children as they recite these heinous and barbaric lines -- as if they were singing lines from The Little Mermaid in the local middle-school spring musical. That’s perhaps even more chilling... This need to stop and removed from the USA.

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/05/ummah_day_in_philadelphia.html

VIDEO: https://video.foxnews.com/v/6033304773001/

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The EU Courts the Arab League

by Judith Bergman

{ gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ The first summit between the European Union (EU) and the Arab League, formally known as the League of Arab States (LAS), took place on February 24-25... "Europeans and Arabs have a long and rich history of cultural, economic, commercial and political exchanges. This, together with the geographical proximity and interdependence, has contributed to institutionalise a strong relationship between the EU and the League of Arab States (LAS). Within this framework, the common aim is to develop closer cooperation to realise their shared aspirations to ensure peace, security and prosperity in both regions," the website of the European Union announced. "The summit marked the start of a new dialogue between the EU and the LAS. Leaders committed to hold EU-LAS summits regularly, with the next summit set to take place in Brussels in 2022" according to the EU press release, which also included President of the European Council, Donald Tusk's statement that, "There are differences between us. But we face common challenges and have shared interests. We need to cooperate and not leave it to global powers far from our region." Tusk referred to the values gap between the states of the Arab League and those of the European Union as "differences between us". Such euphemisms however, do not explain the evident lack of even the pretense, on the part of the EU, to comply with its own stated human rights policies. "The European Union," the EU professes, "is based on a strong commitment to promoting and protecting human rights... Human rights are at the heart of EU relations with other countries... EU policy includes, among other things... https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/14188/eu-courts-arab-league

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Rich Little Impersonates Ronald Reagan,

Jimmy Stewart & Many More!

by https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VX5PBeeWmY

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GOP Needs to Be More Than 'Not Democrats'

Robin Smith: The pageantry of the political Left is getting a great deal of media attention due to the 22 candidates that crowd the Democrats’ field of hopefuls. This might be terrific news for conservatives, knowing that the primary on the Left will force candidates to the most severe extremes will further expose their very simple, bifurcated platform: Democrats hate Donald J. Trump and they want to run America like Venezuela, promising “free” stuff to all.

This gives Republicans an incredible opportunity to run on the successes of the economy and the renewal of the American workers’ opportunities to prosper and earn due to the policies put into place over the last two years. Yet the temptation for some is to run safe, timid races that just declare, “We’re not them.”

Establishing the very real and monstrous difference between the two political parties is necessary in the coming months. Republicans must contrast the very perpendicular position of Democrats who are proudly embracing socialism instead of capitalism, which has been at the very heart of America’s uniqueness in leading the world’s economy.

According to a Public Opinion Strategies poll in February, 77% of Democrats support and believe that our nation would do best “if it were more socialist.” At the same time, key voting groups such as white suburban women, voters in key 2020 presidential states and all suburban voters disagree with policies promising “free” health care and “free” education under the banner of Democratic Socialism through the redistribution of wealth and increased taxation. When presented with the price tag, most people understand that someone has to pay for the “free” stuff — and it’s not those who don’t work and disproportionately receive it.

But, if there’s a way for Republicans to lose, again, they have a proven track record of doing so. Two years ago, the newly elected Donald Trump proceeded to methodically implement tax cuts that helped the middle class, not just the wealthy; cut hundreds of job-killing regulations that are taxes masked as some better way enforced by government; revisit, redefine, and reinforce that trade must be fair to protect American workers who’ve lost jobs to the global economy. Even so, we watched the midterm elections put Nancy Pelosi back in charge of a Democrat-controlled House.

House Republicans failed to articulate a substantive platform that reflected the successes from the White House — an effective economic policy, a move to secure the southern border, and an unparalleled growth in our energy independence that is positioning America to be free of the entanglements of an ever-unstable Middle East. And, what happened?

Democrats won 40 seats in November 2018, only needing 23 to return the House speaker’s gavel and control to Pulosi and her band of extreme Left freshmen, like commie-Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ilhan Omar. These 40 pickups were due in part to palpable hatred of Trump in some districts. In other districts, it was because Republicans had not delivered on campaign promises to address the skyrocketing costs of health insurance premiums caused by scumbag/liar-nObamaCare or to deal with the aptly described invasion via America’s southern border by illegals exploiting our laughable immigration structure.

But, take heart, conservative Patriots. It appears there is a plan and strategy to correct the failings of the past with “Preserving American Freedom,” the Republican Study Committee’s 2020 budget plan that prioritizes the constitutional functions of the federal government and cuts inappropriate and wasteful spending. If successfully implemented, the roadmap will balance America’s out-of-control federal budget in just six years and begin reducing the dangerous federal debt that serves to choke future generations with excessive taxation.

While the economy is proving its strength and American workers are both working and experiencing wage growth, this plan would cut government spending by $12.6 trillion over the next decade, which shifts more growth to the private sector and cuts the public debt. A very critical part of this plan is to address significant drain on the annual budget via mandatory spending that is never reformed and soon to be insolvent — Social Security and Social Security Disability Insurance programs. Without raising taxes, the retirement eligibility age is proposed to change, apply inflation measures to benefits with a phase-out of some benefits for high-income earners, while protecting benefits of those with lower incomes at retirement.

For SSDI, reforms that prevent “double-dipping” while accessing both the insurance program and unemployment benefits, updating eligibility criteria that eliminates some non-medical factors, and pursing and eliminating fraud, the program that serves to replace income for those injured or disabled will have a greater longevity.

Yes, there’s a path for the House to flip back to Republican control — to see a balanced budget proposal move and even for the Senate GOP to gain a seat or two. It’s simply running on the successes we’re experiencing in a newly energized economy, the independence of America’s energy sector, and needed reforms to make health care consumer-driven and responsive to patients, just to name a few key policy possibilities. These, and other issues, certainly demonstrate that Republicans are more than #JustNotThemDems, but the courage comes when doing more than reciting campaign promises.

Republicans, have the courage to lead. ~The Patriot Post

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