President Trump and Congress plan a defense against EMP attacks
Written by Leslie Eastman
Defenses being prepared for man-made e-bombs and solar storms.
There has been a fascinating policy development that has flown under the radar, as the current news cycle has been flooded with tax news and United Nations drama.
The U.S. Congress has reactivated a committee that was set to disband, which was initially created to devise countermeasures against a possible electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attack by North Korea.
An electromagnetic pulse attack, or EMP, from a nuclear weapon detonated in the atmosphere could leave only about 30 million Americans alive and a “basically rural economy” where survivors would be forced to produce their own food and other goods, William Graham, chairman of the aptly named Commission to Assess the Threat to the United States from EMP Attack, told a House committee in 2008.
Wonderful morning, afternoon, or evening, wherever you are in the world,
Just some of the latest news you have to know:
MUST WATCH: Ambassador Nikki Haley Roasts the UN General Assembly “You CAN’T Tell America What To Do”
Well now, It seems as though tensions were running high yesterday at the UN assembly when Members voted 128-9 to condemn US Embassy move to Jerusalem. The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations acted without delay Monday and spoke to the point about a move to stop America from placing its embassy in Israel in Jerusalem.
“The United States will not be told by any country where we can put our embassy,” Haley wrote in a Twitter post.
The U.S. blocked a U.N. Security Council vote Monday on a resolution that called on all states to refrain from building diplomatic missions in Jerusalem.
Haley, the former South Carolina governor, voted against the resolution, using its veto power as a permanent member. The Council’s other 14 members, including close allies France and Britain, all voted in favor of the resolution.
Haley was forced to use the United States’ veto power to support a move made by Donald Trump last week, when the president broke with decades of diplomatic precedent and formally recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
At that point, Trump said he would begin the process of moving the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
Haley said Trump “took great care not to prejudge final status negotiations in any way, including the specific boundaries of Israeli sovereignty in Jerusalem,” which must be decided by the Israelis and Palestinians. And she insisted that this position “is fully in line with the previous Security Council resolutions.”
On Monday, Haley shifted any discussion away from Trump and put the attention on other members of the Security Council in a speech to the U.N.
“Today, buried in diplomatic jargon, some presume to tell America where to put our embassy,” Haley said. “The United States has a sovereigned right to determine where and whether we establish an embassy.
“I suspect very few member states would welcome security council pronouncements about their sovereign decisions. And I think of some who should fear it.”
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has said the U.S. should no longer be involved in brokering a Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement.
After the vote, Haley lashed out at the other members of the Council, calling the proceedings “an insult” that “won’t be forgotten.”
“The fact that this veto is being done in defense of American sovereignty and in defense of America’s role in the Middle East peace process is not a source of embarrassment for us,” Haley said according to npr.org. “It should be an embarrassment to the remainder of the Security Council.”
Haley, a Republican from Lexington, served as South Carolina’s governor for six years before resigning to join the Trump Administration.
Posted by Rudy Tirre on December 22, 2017 at 8:30am
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The Front Page Cover
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JUDGES, PORN AND CHILD RAPE
by LINDA HARVEY
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Trump's Signature Achievement Is a Win for America
by Thomas Gallatin: President Donald Trump got his first-year signature achievement yesterday, and it is a huge win for the American people. Congressional Republicans passed the nation’s first major tax reform package in over 30 years, and almost immediately Americans began to witness the positive effects.
AT&T announced that it will be giving out $1,000 bonuses to more than 200,000 of its non-executive employees, as well as investing $1 billion into its U.S. networks. Several other corporations followed AT&T’s lead, with Wells Fargo and Fifth Third Bancorp pledging to raise their minimum wage to $15 an hour. Fifth Third also plans $1,000 bonuses to 13,500 employees. Comcast also jumped on the bonus bandwagon, announcing $1,000 bonuses to more than 100,000 employees. And Boeing said that it would be giving $300 million in charitable endeavors and company investments. Americans can expect to see more of these good news stories as the real impact of tax reform is felt and as more companies respond to their corporate tax burden being reduced so drastically. Expressing his joy over Republicans’ tax reform passage, Trump said, “It is always a lot of fun when you win.” He added, “It’s the largest tax cut in the history of our country, and reform, but the tax cut — really something special.” That’s typical Trumpian exaggeration, but it’s still a great boon. And Vice President Mike Pence added to the jubilance, saying, “Merry Christmas, America. This will be remembered as a pivotal moment in the life of our nation. We made history today.” Meanwhile, Democrat Grinches were bemoaning the bill’s passage — even as they struggled to express why they opposed a bill that lowers taxes and benefits the vast majority of Americans. As our own Mark Alexander explains, “Democrats frame tax reductions with ‘class warfare’ rhetoric. Their real objection is because reducing the amount of income they can seize and redistribute to their dependent constituencies undermines their statist power and agenda.” ~The Patriot Post https://patriotpost.us/articles/53080
{rickwells.us} ~ The leftist attack on American values continues and it’s again being championed by one of the participants, CNN... Nothing is beyond the degradation of the globalists’ cultural Marxism and no tradition is worthy of their respect. That targeting philosophy that anything is fair game and the more representative it is of mainstream, traditional America the more irresistible it is to those attempting to throw us into a cesspool of degradation, is displayed during this recent CNN segment. They’re promoting, via their international fake news reach, an assault on Christmas by promoting a new book aimed at children in which Santa Claus is married to another man. Not only is the idea that one man can marry another antithetical to the beliefs of many Christian Americans, but its attachment to Santa Claus, at Christmas time, is clearly a combined move by the left to warp young minds as they insult their parents...These people are really sick. https://rickwells.us/cnn-childrens-book-gay-santa/
{truthrevolt.org} ~ According to a new study, the future of America is screwed... That is to say, according to a new study of more than 50 schools’ course catalogues, America’s top universities have been wholly infected by a leftist worldview. With classes on topics such as “queering God” and the racist nature of capitalism, an entire generation is being indoctrinated. The annual report comes courtesy of the Young America’s Foundation (YAF), a conservative group which investigates college curricula. According to the study, identity politics has resulted in classes which are “comical in their titles and descriptions,” yet have a dangerous potential impact. YAF laments...Boy, we are in a great awaking to come.https://www.truthrevolt.org/news/yaf-reports-college-courses-rife-leftist-insanity
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The Supreme Court Just Made
Trump’s DACA Defense A Little Easier
by KEVIN DALEY
{dailycaller.com} ~ The Supreme Court Wednesday lifted an order requiring the Trump administration to release internal documents relating to the rescission of DACA... an liar-nObama-era amnesty initiative that extended temporary legal status to foreign nationals who illegally entered the country as children. The order requires a federal court in California to reconsider the administration’s two principal arguments in a lawsuit currently seeking access to the government’s internal deliberations on DACA cancellation. The Justice Department claims the administration need not release internal documents concerning DACA’s cancellation because such decisions cannot be reviewed by the courts, and because federal law deprives trial courts of jurisdiction to hear challenges relating to the Immigration and Nationality Act. The justices instructed the California court to reconsider these arguments because a finding in the government’s favor would eliminate the necessity of further review of administration records... http://dailycaller.com/2017/12/20/the-supreme-court-just-made-trumps-daca-defense-a-little-easier/?utm_medium=email
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Media Bias Against GOP
Tax Bill Misleads The Public
by AMBER ATHEY
{dailycaller.com} ~ Pervasive media bias about the GOP-led tax bill has convinced a vast majority of people to believe they are going to receive a massive tax hike... if President Trump signs it into law. Leftist media pundits and even “objective” anchors and reporters have framed the bill as a tax cut for the rich that is being paid for by the middle class, even though analysis shows that the middle class will reap the biggest income gains. As the Wall Street Journal’s Richard Rubin tweeted on Tuesday, 80 percent of households will get cuts in 2018, but only 17 percent in a WSJ poll believe they’re getting tax cuts... http://dailycaller.com/2017/12/20/media-bias-against-gop-tax-bill-misleads-the-public-video/?utm_medium=email
{rickwells.us} ~ artha MacCallum opens her interview with Rep Peter King (R-NY) with an innocent enough question that garnered a telling response... though King was limited as to what he could say about the closed door hearings. She simply asked if Andrew McCabe was forthcoming when he was asked about bias that may or may not exist in the FBI with regards to the Trump administration. King says, “I don’t believe that adequate answers were given, I’ll just leave it at that.” He continued, “There’s so many unanswered questions, at least questions that have not been resolved. For instance, the whole question of the dossier, what role did that play, if any, as far as the investigation being commenced.”... https://rickwells.us/king-mccabe-trying-cover/
{wnd.com} ~ During the holiday season, thousands of victimized children in America will not have a merry Christmas.
Little children who have been raped and videotaped lose trust and hope, instead living in a cocoon of fear and brokenness.
Can’t we change that picture? One thing we can do is hold people accountable who occupy positions of power and influence, who seem oblivious or worse, sympathetic.
Like federal officials and judges.
Recently, 15 women accused a West Coast judicial superstar of sexual misconduct. It seems top federal Judge Alex Kozinski has a sexual harassment problem as well as a devotion to hardcore, workplace porn.
Now under the pressure of current and past scandal, Kozinski just announced he is retiring. This may be good news, depending on his replacement.
Kozinski, a federal jurist on the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals who was even chief judge at one time, was accused by numerous women of sexual misconduct, including deliberate exposure to porn in his chambers.
Do men with affinities for vulgar images descend to the most depraved level – material involving children? Many speculated that if such a case had come before his bench, it was doubtful the criminal would be punished to the full extent of the law.
And that concern extends to many other judges and government officials.
Back in 2008, while Judge Kozinski presided over an obscenity trial, hardcore porn images were found on his office computer. He claimed they were uploaded accidentally or possibly by his son. The trial was halted and declared a mistrial.
But it gets worse. Kozinski “broke into a judicial computer security system to restore access to pornographic websites,” according to a petition on Change.org that called for his impeachment.
What kind of judge does that? Commonly, one addicted to porn, according to an expert.
I asked Dr. Judith Reisman what she thought about Kozinski, and she believes his actions resemble the profile of porn addiction. Scenes of bestiality and other degrading images of women on all fours, painted as cows, were found on his office computer.
Reisman said in an interview in 2008 that Kozinski’s objectivity was in grave question. “Having this kind of material on any kind of website already indicates that he has lost his way, his boundaries, his perceptions,” she said. She also believes this “hidden pathology” is alarming in someone with power over so many people.
And she, along with author Lori Handrahan, notes the probability that child pornography will show up involving a surprising number of public officials. Dr. Handrahan started the Kozinski impeachment petition and is the author of a powerful new book called “Epidemic: America’s Trade in Child Rape.”
This book is so disturbing, you might want to change to reading something else before bedtime. But we must engage with the issue. Gruesome sexual victimization of children is increasing rapidly along with its severity.
On the website Medium, Handrahan names influential men (and a few women) convicted on child porn charges in recent years, including physicians, lawyers, judges, educators, child care workers, law enforcement officers and officials in federal agencies.
She is one of the only people in America reporting on the trends and detailing the horror. What is desperately needed is national demographic data on child pornography arrests by profession and place of employment. For some reason, the federal government has been lax in this effort.
Child porn becomes a national security issue when numerous federal employees are involved. In May 2016, a high Pentagon official told reporters, as revealed in “Epidemic,” that the amount of child porn on government computers is “unbelievable.”
We need more investigations. The Department of Justice needs to tackle this in a much more aggressive way. Our government workforce needs a housecleaning of those involved or sympathetic to this abominable practice.
Among numerous other examples, Handrahan cites the arrest of former acting director of cyber-security of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Timothy DeFoggi, who “expressed an interest in the violent rape and murder of children.” Virtually every federal agency has seen child porn arrests, including the FBI, DHS, DEA, TSA, Customs and Border Protection, ICE, FEMA, Department of Defense and others.
Handrahan talks about the inadequacy of terminology. What is being done to children is not “sex” but child rape, often qualifying under the definition of torture by the Convention Against Torture. She thinks the phrase, “trading in child rape and torture” is the most descriptive. Groups like Amnesty International should get involved.
Pedophiles increasingly exhibit more extreme practices. Viewers of child porn are often aroused by blood, violence and even killing children. Why? Sometimes the goal is not just stimulation, but the elimination of witnesses.
And the audience is huge and growing. Handrahan writes, “Microsoft, working with NCMEC [National Center for Missing and Exploited Children], says 1.8 billion images of child sex abuse are shared online every day.”
Some pedophiles use their own children as bait, and because it is now so profitable, some submit their own children to this cruelty. One reason child pornography is an epidemic is the involvement of organized crime. Handrahan writes, “The easy-profit model of child rape is rapidly overtaking drugs and guns as organized crime’s preferred money-maker.”
So how do judges fit into all this? Lori writes about judges like Jack Weinstein of Brooklyn, New York, who sentenced a father to only five days for trading in violent child porn involving children as young as 3 years old. Or worse – judges caught themselves. Tim Dolan, district judge in Campbell County, Kentucky, was arrested in May 2017 for child trafficking. Or Joseph Boeckmann in Arkansas who reduced sentences to trade for sex and child porn. In one chapter, Handrahan details judges, prosecutors and prominent attorneys caught and charged with child porn. In another chapter, she discusses educators.
We must closely examine any judge who is known to be soft on pornography, like Kozinski. Too many young lives are at stake.
By Craig Andresen – Right Side Patriots on American Political Radio
It is difficult to escape the political undertow in today’s world. Politics is in play in everything we do, from our daily routines to events half way around the world. Our schools, our streets and roads…regulations imposed on everything from our businesses to the water we drink…wars, conflicts, diplomatic relations with nations both friend and foe…we can’t get up in the morning, proceed with our daily business or go to bed at night without political interference.
This time of the year, we do our best to ignore, to whatever extent possible, the world of politics in favor of time-honored traditions that revolve around Christmas or Chanukah, but we should not forget the role of politics IN Christmas…the first Christmas to be precise.
Just as the death of Jesus on the cross was politically motivated, so too was the story of his birth.
{rickwells.us} ~ Rep Matt Gaetz (R-FL), who sits on the House Judiciary Committee, is not satisfied with a private grilling of the absent-minded “Criminal McCabe”... in closed door testimony before the House Intel Committee. Gaetz tells Fox News, “The senior levels of the FBI have been infected with an intractable bias that seem to favor liar-Hillary Clinton and work against President Donald Trump. Andrew McCabe gave testimony yesterday behind closed doors, but we’re calling for open, sworn testimony under oath so the American people can see the truth about what is going on.” Gaetz understands the impact of Americans witnessing firsthand when McCabe lies about not being able to remember critical incriminating information about events that he was directly involved in. We need to see just what a snake in the grass traitor he is to this nation...https://rickwells.us/gaetz-sessions-doj-mueller/
{dailycaller.com} ~ CNN host John King noted Wednesday that the Republican tax bill is giving “damn good money”... to working families living paycheck to paycheck. “The Republicans are making a big bet, taking a big risk. Will over time the American people say ‘oh, I like having more money in my pocket.’ That’s their big bet,” King said. “Not one Democrat has voted for a bill that cuts taxes by $1.5 trillion. To Abby’s point, if you’re a working class family, some people say oh, it’s only $200, $300 — if you’re living paycheck to paycheck, that’s damn good money and you are grateful for it.”...http://dailycaller.com/2017/12/20/cnns-john-king-gop-tax-bill-giving-damn-good-money-to-working-class-video/?utm_medium=email
VIDEO at the site.
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THE REAL RUSSIAN COLLUSION
by LT. GEN. ION MIHAI PACEPA
{wnd.com} ~ The historic election of a capitalist entrepreneur, Donald Trump, as U.S. president conclusively proved that the great American middle class... wanted to free itself from the claws of former president Barack liar-nObama’s Marxism – now re-baptized “progressivism” – and likewise from his ruinous flirtation with the alien god of Kremlinist autocracy. liar-nObama left us with a wide array of frightening threats, from a raving, nuclear-armed North Korean tyrant to a catastrophic Soviet-style national debt of almost $20 trillion. Unfortunately, our leftist media – ignoring America’s decades-long war against the ruinous Marxist concept that governments, not the people, own their countries – seem ready to ignite a new American civil war. A war over an alien system – Marxist progressivism – that in a different time and place dispossessed a third of the world’s population of its properties, killed tens of millions, made itself a religion and its leader the only god allowed...ttp://www.wnd.com/2017/12/the-real-russian-collusion/
{rickwells.us} ~ Andrew McCabe, the Deputy Director of the FBI and subversive anti-American agent who managed with liar-Clinton protection and cover up... testified before the House Intelligence Committee for seven and a half hours on Tuesday. That’s a lot of time for a single witness to be grilled, and a lot of time to attempt to evade answering some very direct and damning questions about his sedition against our President and abuse of power. As was to be expected, Fox News reports that there were numerous conflicts between the testimony given by McCabe and other witnesses who have been questioned previously. Now those witnesses will be called back to clarify and help to identify just who’s lying about what. Fresh subpoenas will be issued next week compelling DOJ and FBI personnel to appear...AMNESIA just like liar-Hillary. https://rickwells.us/fbi-mccabe-amnesia-grilling/
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Taxes and the Vindictive Nature of the Left
by Political Editors:Democrats and the Leftmedia often accuse conservatives and Republicans of being interested only in catering to the interests of the wealthy. They, on the other hand, claim for themselves the mantel of defenders of the interests of the poor and working class. No more has this false assertion been more evident than in recent weeks as the GOP has worked to bring about significant tax reform that benefits the vast majority of Americans. With Republicans on the brink of enacting the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (pending a re-vote in the House over rule tweaks), The Washington Post published anarticlelabeling the plan as “more regressive than current law.”
After admitting that the GOP tax bill will indeed lower taxes for 95% of Americans, the Post proceeds to explain why this is a bad thing. Referencing the leftist Tax Policy Center as if it were an unbiased, nonpartisan organization, the Post argues that the tax bill is unfair because the wealthy would receive the most in tax relief. Talk about a vindictive perspective. Evidently, the Post would prefer that no one get tax relief if the wealthy should in any way benefit. Sticking it to the rich is of greater importance than supporting tax cuts for all Americans, as well as spurring economic growth. According to the Post, “In 2018, taxpayers earning less than $25,000 would receive an average tax cut of $60. … Those earning between $49,000 and $86,000 would get an average cut of about $900; those earning between $308,000 and $733,000 would receive an average cut of $13,500; and those earning more than $733,000 would receive an average cut of $51,000.” A mere $60 cut does seem rather paltry compared to $51,000. But most taxpayers earning less than $25,000 don’t actually pay income taxes. So how are they supposed to get a “cut”? And “those earning more than $733,000” includes people making multiple millions per year. Thus the “average cut of $51,000” seems more understandable. Indeed, as Veronique de Rugy writes, “Over 70 percent of the tax is paid by the top 10 percent of earners. That means any reform of the income tax is probably going to affect them the most.” And yet after the bill becomes law, the top 10% will pay even more of the overall burden. Still, the Post then quotes TPC director Mark Mazur, who states, “Overall, the conference agreement is more regressive than current law.” Notice the use of the loaded term “regressive.” It implies that Republicans are seeking to move backwards and undo “progress.” Because progress to the Left is moving away from individual freedom to an increasingly powerful and controlling governmental authority built on income redistribution. Taxation is one of the primary means by which this power exchange is accomplished. The reality is not that the Post is worried about the poor and middle class Americans not getting a fair shake; rather it’s the fact that this bill effectively downsizes the government’s claim on other people’s money. This bill limits the government, and that’s what they don’t like. ~The Patriot Post https://patriotpost.us/articles/53037
Posted by davidfarrar on December 21, 2017 at 5:00pm
I certainly hope Pres. Trump's tax plan achieves all he wishes, and more, but I see it dimmed just a tad by the Senate's failure to eliminate the "Carried Interest" loophole, and the Child Tax Credit omission, allowing illegal alien parents to receive these benefits.
As I am writing this post, something has just occurred to me. What do these two omissions have in common, something that may well explain why they were left out of conference negotiations? Both can be fixed by a simple phone call from the president!
Posted by Rudy Tirre on December 21, 2017 at 1:00pm
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The Front Page Cover
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Socialist Venezuela Starves Kids,
Capitalist America Feeds Them
by Lewis Morris
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McCabe draws blank on Democrats’
funding Trump dossier, new subpoenas planned
by James Rosen
{foxnews.com} ~ Congressional investigators tell Fox News that Tuesday’s seven-hour interrogation of Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe contained... numerous conflicts with the testimony of previous witnesses, prompting the Republican majority staff of the House Intelligence Committee to decide to issue fresh subpoenas next week on Justice Department and FBI personnel. While HPSCI staff would not confirm who will be summoned for testimony, all indications point to demoted DOJ official Bruce G. Ohr and FBI General Counsel James A. Baker, who accompanied McCabe, along with other lawyers, to Tuesday’s HPSCI session. The issuance of a subpoena against the Justice Department’s top lawyer could provoke a new constitutional clash between the two branches, even worse than the months-long tug of war over documents and witnesses that has already led House Speaker Paul Ryan to accuse DOJ and FBI of “stonewalling” and HPSCI Chairman Devin Nunes, R-Calif., to threaten contempt-of-Congress citations against Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and FBI Director Christopher Wray...http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/12/20/mccabe-draws-blank-on-democrats-funding-trump-dossier-new-subpoenas-planned.html
{thehill.com} ~ China is a “rival power,” said President Trump in Monday’s speech introducing his official National Security Strategy... Yet conflict is not inevitable, he said, so we will attempt to build a “great partnership” with our rivals, “in a manner that always protects our national interests.” Trump is absolutely right to label China as a rival; what remains doubtful is whether there is any potential for partnership with Beijing when it comes to dealing with the exceptionally dangerous threat posed by North Korea. While professing its interest in a denuclearized North Korea, China has played a critical role in aiding and abetting the growth of Pyongyang’s nuclear weapons program. When North Korea launched its first intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) in July, it transported the missile on a Chinese truck. Chinese firms sell advanced machine tools to North Korea while Chinese universities train North Korean students from institutions that educate nuclear scientists. Meanwhile, Chinese individuals, banks, and front companies process billions of dollars of transactions on behalf of North Korea, enabling it to evade sanctions... http://thehill.com/opinion/national-security/365602-on-north-korea-china-is-no-partner
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Lawmakers Seek Investigation
After Whistleblower Exposes Federal Thugs
by Alex Newman
{thenewamerican.com} ~ Outraged by new whistleblower revelations of horrifying wrongdoing by federal officials in the Bundy case... one official kept a “kill list,” others withheld evidence from the defense — prominent lawmakers in Western states are asking Congress and the Trump administration to investigate. The government's case, which gained national attention after a 2014 armed standoff in Nevada between the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and the Bundy family and its supporters, appears to be crumbling. But even as it appears increasingly likely that the defendants will soon walk free, officials say the alleged crimes perpetrated by government officials must not be allowed to go unpunished. As The New American reported on December 19, a memo by whistleblower Larry “Clint” Wooten, who served as the lead BLM investigator on the case, revealed an incredible array of misconduct by heavily armed bureaucrats... https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/crime/item/27618-lawmakers-seek-justice-after-whistleblower-exposes-federal-thugs
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House Republicans Introduce
Massive Disaster-relief Bill
by Michael Tennant
{thenewamerican.com} ~ House Republicans, contrary to their pledges of fiscal responsibility and constitutional fidelity, unveiled a proposed $81 billion disaster-relief bill Monday night... According to Politico, it is “the largest single funding request for natural calamities in U.S. history.” Of the funding, $28.6 billion would go to the Homeland Security Department, which would reimburse 90 percent of state wildfire costs. The Transportation and Housing and Urban Development departments would get $27.8 billion, with most of that going to the Community Development Block Grant Program. The bill has $1.3 billion in funds to repair federal highways. There is also money for crop losses, flood mitigation, education, small-business loans, and government-building repairs. And there’s this: “Buried in the text of the bill is a provision increasing farm subsidies for cotton producers.”... https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/congress/item/27619-house-republicans-introduce-massive-disaster-relief-bill
Socialist Venezuela Starves Kids, Capitalist America Feeds Them
by Lewis Morris:The Left loves to portray socialism as the answer to all our problems. Our last president and last year’s Democrat presidential nominee embraced a number of policies that took or would have taken America in that direction, putting more power in the hands of the state and hamstringing the free market to pick winners and losers to cater to its whims.
To see the true outcome of these policies, one need look no farther than Venezuela. That nation has suffered a collapse so complete that its economy is in a death spiral, soldiers are posted in the streets to prevent food riots, and children are suffering severe malnutrition in record numbers while thousands of them have died of starvation. The New York Times ran a story recently that explored, in heart-wrenching detail, the epidemic of starvation laying waste to an entire generation of children in that socialist nation. The piece is the result of five months of reporting, with Times correspondents crisscrossing the country, talking with doctors and parents and tracking hospitals. One thing the article does not do, however, is explore the root cause of this human tragedy — the socialist policies of its dictatorial government. President Nicolas Maduro is quick to blame other countries for his country’s suffering. Notably, he points the finger at Donald Trump (doesn’t everybody?), even though the seeds of Venezuela’s destruction were sown long before Trump took office. The corruption and mismanagement of Venezuela’s government have led to costly mistakes in the running of its oil industry, once the country’s economic crown jewel. Venezuela possesses some of the richest oil deposits in the world, and it was once one of the largest producers of crude. But the oil sits in the ground, untouched. Refineries are quiet, with no one to manage them or without the proper equipment needed to keep them functioning. Ships sit empty in the harbors, awaiting oil cargo that will never arrive. Maduro, and his predecessor Hugo Chavez, presided over a socialist government that sought to wring all the wealth it could out of the nation’s oil sector. Seizing private firms and putting everything under the control of the state led to reduced oil drilling and refinery capacity. As has always been the case in socialist nations, when people are not allowed to reap the fruits of their labor, they lose the incentive to work to the best of their abilities. Venezuela put all its economic energies into its oil industry, and when that sunk the country’s economy sunk with it. Rampant inflation followed, along with a collapse of public services and infrastructure. Desperate people raided grocery stores, many of which have been empty for months. Those that still carry any items have soldiers posted at their doors. The collapse of the country’s currency and the corrupt government’s inability to solve the problem has led to a major humanitarian crisis. Of course, the government refuses to share the magnitude of the problem, and reports have been buried. This made the Times article all the more important, as it shed light on the scope of malnutrition and starvation, even if it stopped short of detailing the cause. The useful idiots of the American Left have revered Venezuela as a socialist paradise, yet they cannot seem to make the connection between socialism and the collapse of that nation. They are quick to blame capitalism for America’s economic difficulties, but they turn a blind eye to the role socialism has played in Venezuela, a nation that sits on a sea of oil yet has turned to the U.S. and Russia to buy 4.2 million barrels to keep the country running. It’s worth noting that while the poor in Venezuela starve, the poor in America seem to be suffering the opposite problem. The obesity epidemic in this country has been an issue for years. A recent study published in the New England Journal of Medicine notes that a majority of children in America today could be obese by the time they reach age 35. Currently, about 20% of children ages six and up are obese. Sedentary lifestyles, lack of exercise and poor diet are to blame. These factors are often found among the nation’s poor. Ironically, some physicians blame public school lunch programs and bad nutrition information from the government for the sharp rise in obesity. The lesson in all of this may be that trusting the well being of your family to the government never leads to good outcomes. It may seem tempting in the short run to put faith in an entity that promises to provide for you, but over the long term, that entity will only take everything you have and make you a slave to its whims. ~The Patriot Post https://patriotpost.us/articles/53054
{theconservativetreehouse.com} ~ Asst. FBI Director Andrew McCabe is testifying today behind closed doors to the House Intelligence Committee... Important to note how there have been no leaks; that’s the first indication of coordinated chaff and counter measures deployed by the UniParty enablers of the Deep State institutional government. Bruce Ohr is scheduled tomorrow; again behind closed doors, this time in the Senate Intelligence Committee setting. Again, dueling intelligence hearings -between House and Senate- on the same witnesses, indicates the UniParty apparatus has deployed Chaff and Countermeasures and is protecting the administrative state... https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2017/12/19/mccabe-today-ohr-tomorrow-and-deep-state-predictably-runs-out-rooster-head-for-chaff-and-countermeasures/
by Cal Thomas {townhall.com} ~ So, a Republican majority Congress has "reformed" the tax code for the first time in 31 years, allowing us to keep a little more of the money we earn. Woohoo!
Back in the day when my withholding exceeded my tax liability, I occasionally received a nice little refund check from the U.S. Treasury. The check had the Statue of Liberty on it, which was ironic given that high taxes are the antithesis of liberty.
During the debate over the tax bill, which is supposed to be passed Tuesday and quickly signed by President Trump, we heard a familiar question: "How will these tax cuts be paid for?" This from a Congress that has dug us a debt hole that now exceeds $20 trillion. "How do we pay that off?" should be the question. The answer: "Not with more of our money, but with less government spending."
Washington is taking in record amounts of money, but it goes out as fast as it comes in. Government doesn't lack revenue; it lacks spending discipline.
I'm all for the tax reform measure, but one thing is certain. When Democrats win back a congressional majority and the White House you can count on tax increases. It's what they do. It won't matter that the stock market is setting records with retirement portfolios expanding, or that the unemployment rate has declined. Offerings to the government must be made because to many liberal politicians, government is God.
Ronald Reagan cut taxes in 1986, but liar-Bill Clinton raised them. If unnecessary and duplicative government programs and agencies were eliminated, if we stopped fighting wars we ought not to be in, if Social Security and Medicare -- the main engines of debt -- were reformed, the need for higher taxes would be reduced. We could then keep, spend and invest even more of our money and possibly motivate more people who are now dependent on Washington to enjoy the fruits of liberty, a job and the dignity that goes with supporting one's self and one's family.
That would be real reform, but it may be easier to kick a drug or smoking habit than to wean some people from government. Too many have bought into the fiction that government can solve everything, when history has shown that it can solve very little. One does not have to look far for evidence of this.
In some U.S. states and in countries where smaller, less intrusive government has been tried, less costly government works. Think Singapore, which has an unemployment rate around 2 percent because the country has no welfare for able-bodied people, and Hungary, which has cut corporate taxes from 19 percent to 9 percent and is experiencing economic growth approaching 4 percent. Think America when the tax cuts advocated by John F. Kennedy and Reagan produced economic booms.
Now that the tax code has been "overhauled," the next step should be to overhaul government. It has far exceeded the boundaries set for it by the Constitution. As a result, people have come to expect more from government than it can, or should, deliver, which has led to lower expectations for what citizens can achieve for themselves.
One of the biggest promoters of self-reliance was America's 30th president, Calvin Coolidge. Among many of his pronouncements about government, taxes and individual persistence was this gem: "A government which lays taxes on the people not required by urgent public necessity and sound public policy is not a protector of liberty, but an instrument of tyranny. It condemns the citizen to servitude."
The Republican tax bill may unlock a few of the chains on those who have been its servants. Now it's time for the servants to put those chains on Washington and reduce its size and out-of-control spending.
{toddstarnes.com} ~ Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) told the Todd Starnes Show he is convinced the FBI was actively trying to stop Donald Trump from... being elected president of the United States. Last week, Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) called for the firing of special counsel Robert Mueller. “We are at risk of a coup d’etat in this country if we allow an unaccountable person with no oversight to undermine the duly-elected President of the United States,” Gaetz said. “And I would offer that is precisely what is happening right now with the indisputable conflicts of interest that are present with Mr. Mueller and others at the Department of Justice.”...https://www.toddstarnes.com/show/rep-jim-jordan-im-convinced-fbi-tried-stop-trump-president/
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House Panel Interviews RINO-McCain
Associate Who Handled The Trump Dossier
by CHUCK ROSS
{dailycaller.com} ~ The House Intelligence Committee met Tuesday with a key figure a RINO-John McCain associate who handled the infamous anti-Trump dossier... compiled by former British spy Christopher Steele. David Kramer, a former State Department official, was interviewed by the committee Tuesday morning, The Hill reported. Kramer has been at the center of the dossier saga since January, when BuzzFeed News published the salacious document online...http://dailycaller.com/2017/12/19/house-panel-interviews-mccain-associate-who-handled-the-trump-dossier/?utm_medium=email
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Europe's "Arab Street" Rises Up
by Douglas Murray
{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ It is now a fortnight since President Trump made his historic announcement about the status of Jerusalem... The speech which announced that America would drop the pretence that Jerusalem is not the capital of the State of Israel was relayed live around the world. Across the major networks and the world's front pages the response was almost unanimous. They proclaimed this a major foreign policy blunder which would lead to any number of problems including -- many predicted -- an immediate "third intifada." The world's cameras immediately turned to Bethlehem where a small group of enterprising Palestinians burned an American flag for the cameras. The Friday immediately following the announcement might have been a flashpoint, tempers being famously frayed after the act of afternoon worship. And yet, as the BBC's veteran reporter Jeremy Bowen tweeted from the scene, "At Damascus Gate in Jerusalem press pack outnumbering demonstrators." The fabled "Arab Street" had been meant to rise up. And it did rise up. But not in the Arab world...https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/11570/europe-arab-street
by Pat Buchanan {townhall.com} ~ In the run-up to Christmas, President Donald Trump has been the beneficiary of some surprisingly good news and glad tidings.
Sunday, Vladimir Putin called to thank him and the CIA for providing Russia critical information that helped abort an ISIS plot to massacre visitors to Kazan Cathedral in St. Petersburg.
Monday found polls showing Trump at his highest in months. Stocks soared 200 points at the opening bell in anticipation of pre-Christmas passage of the Republican tax bill. The Dow has added a record 5,000 points in Trump's first year.
And the Russiagate investigation may have busted an axle. Though yet unproven, charges are being made that Robert Mueller's sleuths gained access to Trump transition emails illicitly.
This could imperil prosecutions by Mueller's team, already under a cloud for proven malice toward the president.
Recall: Daniel Ellsberg, who delivered the Pentagon Papers to The New York Times, walked free when it was learned that the White House "Plumbers" had burgled his psychiatrist's office.
With things going Trump's way, one must ask:
What was U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley doing last week at what looked like a prewar briefing at Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling in D.C.?
Looming behind Haley was part of what was said to be an Iranian missile fired at King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh.
Though the rocket had Iranian markings, it was not launched from Iran, or by Iranians. Houthi rebels, for two years victims of a savage war waged by the Saudis -- using U.S.-made planes, missiles, bombs and drones -- say they fired it at the Riyadh airport in retaliation for what the Saudis have done to their people and country.
If so, it was a legitimate act of war.
Indeed, so great is the Yemeni civilian suffering from a lack of food and medicine, and from malnutrition and disease, Trump himself has told the Saudis to ease up on their air, sea, and land blockades.
As there is no evidence as to when the Houthis acquired the missile, or where, the question arises: What was Haley's motive in indicting Iran? Was this part of a new propaganda campaign to drum up support for America's next big Mideast war?
There are reasons to think so.
Haley went on: "It's hard to find a conflict or a terrorist group in the Middle East that does not have Iran's fingerprints all over it."
But Iran is Shiite, while al-Qaida, which brought down the twin towers, aided by 15 Saudi nationals, is Sunni. So, too, are ISIS, Boko Haram in Nigeria, al-Shabab in Somalia and Islamic Jihad. Most Mideast terrorist groups are Sunni, not Shiite.
As for these Mideast "conflicts," which did Iran start?
We started the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. NATO started the war in Libya. The U.S. helped trigger the horrific Syrian civil war by arming "rebels." Only when President Bashar Assad looked like he was about to fall did Russia and Iran intervene on his side.
As for the "Shiite crescent," from Tehran to Bagdad to Damascus to Beirut, who created it?
Posted by Rudy Tirre on December 20, 2017 at 7:00pm
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Better Preparing the U.S. Military
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Heritage Foundation: A New President for a New Era
by Mark Alexander: The Patriot Postcounts among our most influential supporters who helped uslaunch in 1996two in particular. It was with the sage advice from conservative protagonists William F. Buckley (National Review, Emeritus) and Edwin Feulner (Heritage Foundation, Emeritus), among others on ourNational Advisory Committee, that we had a successful launch as the first conservative news, policy and opinion digest on the Web.
Ed Feulner has been an inspiration for years as president of the nation’s most prestigious policy think tank, The Heritage Foundation. This week, he announced his successor, Kay Coles James, who has served on Heritage’s board of trustees since 2005. Ed noted, “I look forward to expanding the conservative movement in a positive, inclusive way as we build an America where freedom, opportunity, prosperity and civil society flourish.” For her part, Kay said, “You have my commitment: Heritage is safe with me. I’m in awe of this treasure you’ve built, and I pledge to you that I will protect it and grow it with the greatest care possible. The work of this extraordinary institution is so important. We’re not just a bulwark against the left. We’re a battleship for liberty.” She has an impressive résumé and record in government, academia and the private sector, beginning with key roles in Ronald Reagan’s administration. Most recently, she helped lead Donald Trump’s transition for the Office of Management and Budget. Kay is the right person to take Heritage forward, and we welcome her leadership there! ~The Patriot Post https://patriotpost.us/articles/53053
{rickwells.us} ~ loose lips-Joe Biden is a liar and a brazen hypocrite... He claims, along with the disinformation peddlers hosting him on CBS that in eight years there wasn’t even the hint of a scandal in the liar-nObama regime. The scandals were effectively covered up through a corrupt network that is just now starting to be exposed, but it was there, much more than a hint, from before he ever took office. The identity of the criminal illegal alien squatter impersonating a president of the United States was never confirmed and the obviously and forensically proven birth certificate was a forgery. The other documents he used along with his status as a foreign student while enrolled in college confirmed he was a fraud. The deep state we were much less aware of at the time protected him...https://rickwells.us/biden-obama-scandal-except/
{wnd.com} ~ Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, says the connection between the Democrats and an anti-Trump dossier is well established... and the big questions now are whether the dossier was the grounds for a FISA warrant to conduct surveillance on the Trump campaign and whether the FBI and Justice Department used it as an “insurance policy” against a Trump presidency. Last week, Jordan and other lawmakers grilled Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein about the work of Special Counsel Robert Mueller and his team, with a special emphasis on recently fired FBI official Peter Strzok and recently demoted Justice Department official Bruce Ohr. Strzok was fired by Mueller, allegedly for his barrage of anti-Trump text messages to his mistress, FBI attorney Lisa Page. However, in addition to the political chatter came a Strzok text suggesting he expected Trump to lose the election but was planning to take action if the GOP nominee won... http://www.wnd.com/2017/12/congressman-suspects-fbis-strzok-linked-to-anti-trump-dossier/
{nationalreview.com} ~ A 26-year-old woman has given birth to a baby girl from a donated embryo which was frozen for 24 years... the longest-ever frozen embryo to come to term. Tina Gibson’s baby Emma Wren was conceived and fertilized 24 years ago in 1992, but the embryo was frozen instead of implanted. Tina, who was born in 1991, could not conceive naturally so she and her husband Benjamin decided to adopt a frozen embryo from the National Embryo Donation Center in East Tennessee. The process is like adoption, but the baby grows inside the adoptive mother. .. http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/454781/baby-born-after-living-24-years-frozen-embryo
{rickwells.us} ~ The House Republicans who voted against the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act knew that the bill was going to pass regardless of what they did... so their votes against it were largely symbolic and political in nature. They saw, in their particular situations, a greater down side to aligning with President Trump and giving the American people more of their own money to spend as well as a booming economy and opted for the status quo as somehow being preferable. That is something they will have to either justify or be championing next year. With less money coming out of people’s paychecks it’s likely going to be a tough sell going into the November House elections... https://rickwells.us/twelve-house-republicans-tax-2/
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Better Preparing the U.S. Military
by Todd Johnson:Monday’s unveiling by President Donald Trump of his congressionally mandatednational security strategyis a significant milestone for many reasons. Primarily, it serves as a blueprint for his administration’s approach to security concerns around the world and the timing of its release couldn’t be better.
It serves as a bookend to his actions of last week where he signed a massive $700 billion defense bill, which is focused on trying to restore America’s competitive advantage. Trump’s signature on the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) is a critical step as Congress continues to wrestle with how to fund their vision for a more robust defense capability in the broader context of budget reform. More importantly, Trump’s decisive action comes at a major inflection point for the U.S. military as the nation’s uniformed leadership finds itself grappling with on-going, low intensity combat operations around the world while simultaneously trying to modernize force structures and doctrine. Just last month the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Joseph Dunford, stated that the U.S. military advantage against near-peer competitors is eroding. His assessment is in line with a recent think tank report that stated America’s military forces need to retool immediately for future conflicts. Last week, the Rand Corporation, a nonprofit institution that helps improve policy and decision-making through research and analysis, released a study highlighting the fact that the United States military is not properly configured to meet the conventional threats of peer competitors like China or Russia in the next war. According to the report, “Put more starkly, assessments in this report will show that U.S. forces could, under plausible assumptions, lose the next war they are called upon to fight, despite the United States outspending China on military forces by a ratio of 2.7 to 1 and Russia by 6 to 1.” This is the main reason why Trump, his surrogates and congressional Republicans have been advocating for increased military spending for the foreseeable future. This reinvigorated approach for defending the homeland and its worldwide interests are needed, but care must be given to avoid wasteful spending. Also, Trump and his team need to continue working on reaching out to traditional allies as those relationships often serve as the foundations for America’s ability to project power around the globe. This approach allows the United States to share the burden of deterring aggressive actions emanating from Russia and China, which is critical in an era where threats can range from conventional troop movements to economic coercion to cyber incursions. This “adversarial competition” from Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping and others is the new paradigm for future conflict and America and her allies must continue to be vigilant if they expect to win. Trump’s national security strategy is a great initial step but it is only the first of many on a journey to setting the conditions for peace and security around the world. Only time will tell if he and his administration are able to fully achieve the nation’s goals while our partners achieve theirs. ~The Patriot Post https://patriotpost.us/articles/53023
{rickwells.us} ~ There’s good news in the video, proof, through the Democrats’ own outlandish claims and vitriol that the tax bill is, in fact... good for the economy and Americans across the board. Even more to our liking, as Chuck clown-Schumer finishes up his partisan attack, he is the recipient of a well-deserved spit shower from Senator Ron “Suffering Succotash” Wyden, who, as they passed, said, “Thank you, Leader clown-Sccchhhuuumertttthhhhh. It took Wyden until the last minutes of the legislative year, but he was able to finally make himself useful. Maybe clown-Schumer still has his hanky from the travel ban for a cleanup, hopefully not...https://rickwells.us/soros-schumer-disinfo-tax-cut/
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FEC Filing: liar-Hillary Stuffed Her
Campaign Purse With Illegal State Money
by Andrew West
{constitution.com} ~ Oops. Not only was liar-Clinton a complete mess on the campaign trail, needing help up and down even the slightest of stairs... but her fainting episode on September 11 in New York City demonstrated to the world that this lifelong criminal wasn’t physically up for the job. Then came the realization that liar-Clinton, like many of the democrats who had come before her, was corrupt to the core. The DNC and the liar-Clinton campaign were found to have openly colluded with one another in order to stifle the chances of democratic candidate Bernie Sanders – a move that would forever fracture the already-doomed party. Now, even more evidence of liar-Clinton’s incorrigible behavior is coin to the surface, and this time it could land the former Secretary of State in the clink...https://constitution.com/fec-filing-hillary-stuffed-her-campaign-purse-with-illegal-state-money/
{rickwells.us} ~ The portion of the video in which Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe is walking down the hallway... flanked fore and aft by lawyers protecting him has the unmistakable appearance of a perp walk. McCabe is stone faced, not even glancing over at the media as they focus their lenses on him and, although there is no audio of the encounter, surely some questions were being shouted. His body language is that of a nervous, guilty man who is fearful of the consequences. David Asman sets the stage for his discussion with Rep Ron DeSantis (R-FL) by identifying some of the key members of the cabal that was and still is engaging in the conduct of a coup against President Trump. He names McCabe, Peter Strzok, Bruce Ohr and his wife Nellie Ohr...https://rickwells.us/desantis-mccabe-fired-congress/
by Thomas Gallatin:President Donald Trump released his “America First” national security strategy Monday. The 68-page document sets forth a clear and sober understanding of the genuine threats the nation faces, as well as outlining a strategy for confronting these threats. In short, it represents both a reversal and a repudiation of U.S. policy over the previous eight years. Gone are the Barack liar-nObama-era references to the supposed imminent security threat posed by climate change. So too is liar-nObama’s self-defeating doctrine of “leading from behind.” No more apologizing for American global power and influence. That nonsense has been replaced with a realistic view of the world and America’s roll as the world’s leader.
Trump’s policy is based on four fundamental principles: protecting the American people and homeland, promoting American economic prosperity, maintaining peace through strength, and expanding American influence across the globe. Strategically, the policy focuses on controlling America’s borders, rebuilding the military and taking the lead in both NATO and the UN. The document states: We must convince adversaries that we can and will defeat them — not just punish them if they attack the United States. We must ensure the ability to deter potential enemies by denial — convincing them that they cannot accomplish objectives through the use of force or other forms of aggression. We need our allies to do the same. Trump’s national security strategy also doesn’t shy away from naming those nations that pose the greatest threat to the American way of life, namely China and Russia, as well as the “rogue regimes” of Iran and North Korea. What may be the biggest break from liar-nObama’s foreign policy, however, is Trump’s emphasis on establishing U.S. national security via building up the nation’s economic strength. Trump declared that “economic security is national security,” explaining, “Economic vitality, growth and prosperity at home is absolutely necessary for American power and influence abroad. Any nation that trades away its prosperity for security will end up losing both.” liar-nObama was far more focused on social engineering in the military and redistributing the nation’s wealth to his favored constituents. In his announcement, Trump summed up his primary national security perspective, stating, “We are calling for a great reawakening of America, a resurgence of confidence, and a rebirth of patriotism, prosperity and pride. And we are returning to the wisdom of our Founders: In America the people govern, the people rule and the people are sovereign.” ~The Patriot Post https://patriotpost.us/articles/53029
{rickwells.us} ~ Dimitris Avramopoulos, the European Union’s Commissioner of Migration, Home Affairs and Citizenship had a message... for those who disagree with their policy of forced invasion, displacement and replacement of the European nation citizenry – go pound sand. The cabal of globalist dictators headquartered in Brussels has mandated what will be and those patriots of various nations who don’t want to be overrun by demanding, non-assimilating, often criminal Islamists have no choice, in their view. Accept that they have lost their countries like good slaves, sit down and shut up. If they wanted to rule themselves they should never have surrendered control to unelected foreign globalist bureaucrats. Now they can do as their told, accept that their new lot in life as second or third class citizens in their own land. Focus instead on learning not to be in the wrong place, to not make the wrong move that could get them or their family raped, hurt or killed by the unwelcome parasites... https://rickwells.us/eu-dictator-surrender-invasion/
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Is It Really about Jerusalem?
by Bassam Tawil
{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ The protests that have swept the West Bank, Gaza Strip and large parts of the Arab and Islamic world in the aftermath... of US President Donald Trump's recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital show that most Arabs and Muslims still have not come to terms with Israel's right to exist. The protests also provide further evidence that many Arabs and Muslims, including, of course, the Palestinians, continue to view the US as an enemy and "big Satan" because of its support for Israel. Trump's announcement is just another excuse for Arabs and Muslims to vent their long-standing hatred for Israel and the US. For the Palestinians, Trump's announcement simply provided the latest opportunity to step up their violent and rhetorical attacks and threats against Israel... https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/11560/palestinians-jerusalem-israel
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Iranian missiles going to rebels in
Yemen pose a danger to our ally Saudi Arabia
by Behnam Ben Taleblu
{defenddemocracy.org} ~ The debate about whether Iran is providing ballistic missiles to Houthi rebels in Yemen has been ended... thanks to U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley, who has unveiled components of Iranian missiles recovered from target sites in Saudi Arabia fired on by the Houthis. The U.S. has now made clear that Iran is not just violating a U.N. Security Council Resolution that imposes an arms embargo on Yemen. Iran is also violating another resolution by the U.N. Security Council that codifies the 2015 Iran nuclear deal known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action. Typically, Iran has backed the Houthis with rifles, rocket-propelled grenades, and anti-tank weapons like the Toophan, which is an Iranian copy of the American TOW missile. This transfer of basic infantry weapons has been confirmed by numerous intercepted arms transfers between Iran and the Yemeni insurgents...http://www.defenddemocracy.org/media-hit/behnam-ben-taleblu-iranian-missiles-going-to-rebels-in-yemen-pose-a-danger-to-our-ally-saudi-a/
{dailycaller.com} ~ Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Chuck Grassley is calling on Andrew McCabe to be replaced... as the FBI’s deputy director. But Grassley, a Republican, said that President Trump should steer clear of the matter. Instead, FBI Director Christopher Wray should remove McCabe, who has come under heavy fire from Republicans over his roles in the liar-Clinton email and Russia collusion investigations. “Trump ought to stay out of it. I think it’s a Christopher Wray job,” Grassley told reporters on Monday, according to Bloomberg News... McCabe isn't the only one that needs to be replace. http://dailycaller.com/2017/12/19/fbi-deputy-director-ought-to-be-replaced-says-top-senate-republican/?utm_medium=email
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The Good News From Iraq That No One Heard About
by Paul Albaugh: Perhaps one of the saddest aspects of the mainstream media today is that most stories have a very negative narrative. Most “news” has to do with a catastrophe somewhere, or a political scandal — whether it’s true or not — or just about anything that captivates the audience into believing that circumstances are far worse than they actually are. There just isn’t a whole lot of good news being presented to the everyday American. In fact, when there is good news, it’s often overshadowed by bad news. Crisis sells.
Last week, there was some outstanding news that either wasn’t reported or was given such short shrift that most people missed it. In case some have forgotten, we are still at war and have been since 2001. Thanks to Barack liar-nObama and liar-Hillary Clinton’s malfeasance in abandoning Iraq in 2011, the Islamic State has been wreaking havoc for more than three years in the Middle East — specifically with its supposed caliphate in Iraq and Syria — as well as globally with so-called “lone wolf” attacks. The United States military has been actively engaged with the Islamic State, and has been helping the Iraqi military and the rebel fighters in Syria take back the cities in which these jihadis had gained a stronghold. The goal of the Islamic State was to establish a caliphate, in which they would dominate strategic parts of the Middle East. Their objective was to rule by the force of brutality and to commit evil acts of terror against all those who did not submit to their reign. This group, as we have written before, was not the JV team liar-nObama dismissed early on. No, it was a network of evil people who were a lot smarter, more organized, better funded and more sophisticated than Mr. Spike the Football would admit. Perhaps the news media was so focused on the Alabama Senate race, Donald Trump’s latest Twitter posts, or the avalanche of sex scandal. But the fact is, there was some really good news from Iraq that should have been given higher billing. On Dec. 9, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider-al-Abadi declared victory in the war against the Islamic State. That’s right, it is defeated — at least in terms of it not having control over any Iraqi cities or territory. This is terrific news, especially for our military and our allies who have been relentless in this long war. As National Review’s David French, himself a veteran of the Iraq War, puts it, “The caliphate is a smoking ruin. It courted conflict with the great powers. It craved Armageddon, and it got its wish. No one knows ISIS’s exact casualty figures, but its fighters have died by the tens of thousands.” In other words, our fine men and women carried out airstrikes, artillery bombardments and assaults in a highly effective manner, along with Iraqi soldiers and removed control from one of the most evil terrorist regimes in modern history. Again, this should have dominated headlines but it didn’t. Why? French notes that while Trump is delivering on his promise to defeat the Islamic State, his own posts on Twitter about fake news or various personal feuds overshadowed any good news from the war front that the media should have reported. In a sense, Trump, intentional or not, distracts the public from good news by creating his own bad news. French further notes that Americans as a whole are partially to blame for the lack of good news that is reported. Stories of panic and fear are read far more than stories about victory and peace; people ignore “good news” stories in favor of “bad news,” so journalists focus on the negative. The old ‘80s motto “if it bleeds, it leads” works for the marketing guys. Regardless, it seems that with the declaration of victory against the Islamic State, reporters should have been flooding the airwaves with this announcement, but it seems that no one showed up to report on it. Perhaps no one thought that this victory against the caliphate was significant enough. Could it be that because the leadership of the Islamic State is stubbornly hanging on that reporters didn’t see the significance? Or is it because any good news for Trump is a non-starter? Now, let’s be real, the fight against this foe is not over yet, as there are still thousands of jihadis in the battle, not just in the Middle East, but in other parts of the world. Still, the Islamic State today does not have what it had a month ago. It doesn’t have a caliphate and it doesn’t have control over any cities. Jihadis are on the run, and if we can continue to pursue these evil fighters relentlessly with the help of our allies in the Middle East, then one day perhaps the Islamic State will fully be defeated. Trump and our military should remain committed to defeating our enemies. But the task will likely be more difficult in the years ahead, as many fighters return to their homelands and seek to reorganize and carry out smaller scale attacks. But for now, we all should be happy with the performance of our military in carrying out this difficult mission. And we should all pray daily for their safety wherever they may be serving. ~The Patriot Post https://patriotpost.us/articles/53030
{rickwells.us} ~ Bruce Ohr was the former number four official at the DOJ in the liar-nObama regime and held that position under AG Sessions as well... That changed after he got caught plotting to overthrow the President. That’s serious stuff and he was dealt with “firmly,” by being demoted to a lower management position. That’s their view of justice at the Department of Justice? A person suspected of abusing his office in the conduct of seditious behavior against our President is merely demoted. They protect their own and he knows things about the rest of them. The often suspect Senate Intel Committee were going to at least provide a show-hearing behind closed doors for Mr. Ohr on Monday, but Ohr apparently didn’t think he could survive that or his co-conspirators in the DOJ and FBI thought he’d rat them out...https://rickwells.us/guilty-sedition-president-ohr/
{newsmax.com} ~ The Senate Intelligence Committee has requested documents from 2016 Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein... as it investigates claims of Russian collusion during the campaign. Dennis Trainor Jr. was the Stein campaign's communications director and acting manager from January-August 2015. He told BuzzFeed News that the committee is looking for records tied to him because he was the "primary point of contact" for people trying to reach Stein and the campaign, a list that includes media company RT — which is funded by the Russian government. Trainor said Stein will likely comply with the committee's request and then post the documents online... https://www.newsmax.com/politics/jill-stein-russia-collusion-2016-election/2017/12/18/id/832450/
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Dershowitz: Mueller Has A ‘Credibility Problem’
by JUSTIN CARUSO
{dailycaller.com} ~ Democrat Alan Dershowitz appeared on Fox News Monday, saying that special counsel Robert Mueller... has a “credibility problem” over his investigation of Donald Trump. Dershowitz said, “I’m not a Republican, I’m a Democrat. I think he has a credibility problem.” “He should have been more careful about who he hired. He should have disclosed he had taken that FBI agent off the case after his messages came out. I think he has a credibility problem on these emails without a warrant. I think he has a credibility problem if he used the dossier in order to get national security wiretaps,” he added...http://dailycaller.com/2017/12/18/dershowitz-mueller-has-a-credibility-problem-video/?utm_medium=email
VIDEO at the site.
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NY Democrat Calls For Investigation Into
Allegation That Linda Sarsour
Covered Up Sexual Assault
by BENNY JOHNSON
{dailycaller.com} ~ A former employee alleged in a story published Sunday that Women’s March co-founder Linda Sarsour covered up and dismissed complaints of graphic sexual assault... Now New York Democratic state Rep. Dov Hikind is calling for an investigation into the charges. Sarsour is accused of enabling the alleged sexual assault and harassment of a woman who worked for her, Asmi Fathelbab, according to the victim and two sources directly familiar with the matter. The assault took place at the Arab American Association while Sarsour served as executive director. Fathelbab told The Daily Caller that instead of properly dealing with the complaints, Sarsour dismissed them because Fathelbab “was not attractive enough to be harassed” and the accused was a “good Muslim” who was “always at the Mosque.”...http://dailycaller.com/2017/12/18/ny-democrat-calls-for-investigation-into-allegation-that-linda-sarsour-covered-up-sexual-assault/?utm_medium=email
{rickwells.us} ~ Professor Carol Swain of Vanderbilt University dispels the myths about and propagated by the Democratic Party... as being the party of equal opportunity and anti-slavery. She points out how nothing could be further from the truth. Democrats, says Swain, “have fought against every major civil rights initiative and has a long history of discrimination.” She says, “The Democratic Party defended slavery, started the Civil War, opposed reconstruction, founded the Ku Klux Klan, imposed segregation, perpetrated lynchings and fought against the Civil Rights Acts of the 1950s and 1960s.”...https://rickwells.us/democrats-brainwash-black-americans/
by Thomas Gallatin:Just in time for Christmas, Republicans are poised to hand Americans an historic tax reform package. With initial holdouts — Senators Bob Corker (R-TN) and Marco Rubio (R-FL) — having now agreed to the finalized legislation, congressional Republicans plan to vote on the bill and have it on President Donald Trump’s desk by week’s end. This will mark a major milestone for both Republicans and Trump in fulfilling a major campaign promise to significantly cut taxes. Trump declared, “This is going to be one of the great gifts to the middle income people of this country that they’ve ever gotten for Christmas.” Anticipating the typical Democrat objections, Trump added, “The Democrats have … their standard sound bite. Before they even know what the bill is all about, they talk about ‘[cuts] for the wealthy.’”
So what’s in the Republicans’ finalized Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, which will lower taxes on the vast majority of Americans? Here are some of the highlights of the bill: The biggest change, which Trump has long called for, is a significant cut to the corporate tax rate. It drops to 21% down from the current 35%. The child tax credit, a major sticking point with Sen. Rubio, is doubled to $2,000-per-child, and the refundable tax credit is increased to $1,400 per child. The liar-nObamaCare mandate is eliminated. Americans will no longer be penalized for declining to purchase health insurance. The estate tax, a.k.a. death tax, remains, but the threshold for having to pay it has doubled to $11 million for individuals and $22 million for married couples. The alternative minimum tax (AMT) has been eliminated for corporations while the AMT threshold for individuals and families has been significantly increased up to $500,000 for individuals and $1 million for married couples. Mortgage tax deductions decrease for any interest on loans of $750,000 and up. What doesn’t change? The student loan interest deduction remains, as does the medical expense deduction and the graduate student tuition waver. There are no changes to 401(k)s. And the Johnson Amendment, which prohibits churches and nonprofits from endorsing political candidates, remains the same, despite earlier GOP attempts to repeal it. As we have previously written, this tax reform represents a political Armageddon for Democrats as it cuts their political influence, primarily seen in their income redistribution practices, by restructuring power away from them. It transfers greater power back to the American people. Democrats know that, which is why they have been hollering about it being vindictive and unjust. Rather than seeking to put aside their anti-Trump antagonism and seek to work with Republicans, they essentially ceded over their power to Republicans who will reap all the accolades for spurring economic growth with this bill. ~The Patriot Post https://patriotpost.us/articles/53000
Posted by Rudy Tirre on December 19, 2017 at 3:30pm
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A Constitutional Republic or a Police State?
by Arnold Ahlert
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Ninth Circuit: Another Court Vacancy for Trump
by Nate Jackson:Judge Alex Kozinski, 32-year stalwart of the powerful Ninth Circuit Court, announced Monday that he is retiring “effective immediately” after at least 15 women have accused him of everything from showing them pornography to inappropriate sexual comments to groping them. The 67-year-old Kozinski sort of defended himself, saying, “I treat all of my employees as family and work very closely with most of them. I would never intentionally do anything to offend anyone and it is regrettable that a handful have been offended by something I may have said or done.” Wellthat’s open-ended. Kozinski lamented his “unusual sense of humor” may have been offensive, and he declared his resignation because “I cannot be an effective judge and simultaneously fight this battle.”
Unfortunately for conservatives, the Romanian-born Kozinski, a Ronald Reagan appointee, was a self-described libertarian and “refugee from Communism” who faithfully upheld his oath to support and defend the U.S. Constitution. That — not yet another man accused of sexual misconduct — is the point of this story. The Ninth Circuit as a whole is far too leftist, and Kozinski’s loss is a blow. That said, President Donald Trump will appoint his successor, and he has a fairly remarkable record on judicial appointments already. So far in his first year, Trump has had a total of 19 federal judges confirmed, including 12 circuit court judges and, of course, Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch. There are another 41 nominees pending to fill a portion of the 142 vacancies on the federal bench. If Trump continues apace, his record on the courts alone would be reason to count his presidency a success. Yet there’s a huge caveat. As the Cato Institute’s Josh Blackman argues, “If the Democrats take the Senate in 2018 — which became more likely after the recent election in Alabama — I fully expect Chairman Dianne Fein-stein to deny hearings to virtually all of President Trump’s judicial nominees.” Thus Republicans holding the Senate becomes all the more important. ~The Patriot Post https://patriotpost.us/articles/53027
{rickwells.us} ~ President Trump is once again distinguishing himself as being very different from the lecturing communist illegal alien windbag... that was squatting in the White House before he arrived. In a speech announcing his new national security strategy on Monday, President Trump declared “America is in the game and America is going to win.” liar-nObama had infamously imposed an “America used to win but now we’re going to lose and turn over everything we accomplished because we’re ashamed and sorry” approach during his long and miserable eight years. President Trump spoke at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center, a bit of symbolism that was no accident. President Trump acknowledged that his predecessors often failed to put Americans first, particularly the globalist liar-nObama, who put us last...https://rickwells.us/trump-prosperity-border-natl-security/
{meforum.org} ~ Last Saturday, a recording emerged of an Iraqi Shi'a militia leader called Qais al-Khazali visiting the Lebanon-Israel border area... The short video shows him in the company of two other uniformed men. They are in the village of Kafr Kila, which is adjacent to Metulla. Khazali is the leader of an Iran-supported force called Asaib Ahl al-Haq (the League of the Righteous). In the manner preferred by the Iranians, the organization doubles as an armed militia and a political party. It was prominent in the Shi'a insurgency against the US and its allies just over a decade ago. Today, AAH is a key component in the Hashd al-Sha'abi (Popular Mobilization Units), the gathering of Shi'a militias raised up in the summer of 2014 to fight Islamic State when the Sunni jihadists were gunning for Baghdad. AAH has also played an important role in the Assad regime's war in Syria... http://www.meforum.org/7104/who-is-qais-al-khazali?utm_source=Middle+East+Forum&utm_campaign=b1cc126618-spyer_mef_2017_12_17&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_086cfd423c-b1cc126618-33703665&goal=0_086cfd423c-b1cc126618-33703665
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Former Press Secretary for
Bernie Sanders Arrested, May be Deported
by Keely Sharp
{eaglerising.com| ~ No wonder Bernie Sanders is such a flaming advocate for DACA recipients: his former press secretary is one!... Erika Andiola has been arrested and is currently on a hunger strike. She may face deportation after holding a sit-in protest at the offices of Senator Church clown-Schumer and Congressman Carlos Curbel0. Dangerous reports that she was among seven “Dreamers” who were arrested for “unlawful entry” when they would not leave as the building closed for the night...https://eaglerising.com/49529/former-press-secretary-for-bernie-sanders-arrested-may-be-deported/
by Arnold Ahlert:“I want to believe the path you threw out for consideration in Andy’s office that there’s no way [Donald Trump] gets elected — but I’m afraid we can’t take that risk. It’s like an insurance policy in the unlikely event you die before you’re 40.” —one of the text messagessentby FBI officialPeter Strzokto fellow FBI official and DOJ attorney Lisa Page, Aug. 15, 2016
After eight years of liar-nObama administration efforts to “fundamentally transform” our nation, Americans may be facing the reality that our major law enforcement institutions are fundamentally corrupt, and that Democrats and their Leftmedia allies — now indistinguishable from one another — will attempt to minimize this damning reality. Yet at some point, Americans are owed an explanation about an “insurance policy” that resembles a strategy to undermine the 2016 election. We can already surmise that “Andy” refers to Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe, whose wife received nearly $700,000 in campaign donations for her Virginia Senate race from liar-Clinton allies — while he was supervising the liar-Clinton email investigation. That Strzok was removed from the Russian collusion investigation for this text and the approximately 10,000 other exchanges between him and his extra-marital partner — a removal exposed by leaks, as opposed to full disclosure by Special Counsel Robert Mueller — begets a reasonable question: Why does he remain at the FBI in any capacity? Strzok was once the nation’s second-in-command for counterintelligence. Yet he carried on an easily traceable affair with a colleague — when he wasn’t busy leading the investigation into liar-Hillary Clinton’s email scandal and critically editing the memo that gave former FBI director James Comey cover to exonerate her. Strzok also failed to charge liar-Clinton associates Cheryl Mills and Huma Abedin, despite proof they were lying about having no knowledge of liar-Clinton’s private server, even as he facilitated the indictment of Trump’s former national security advisor Michael Flynn — for the same crime. Strzok was hardly an outlier. The stench of partisanship attaches itself to other members of Mueller’s team. Bruce G. Ohr, the former associate deputy attorney general and director of the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces, was demoted after evidence revealed he was in contact with Fusion GPS, producer of the infamous Steele dossier paid for by the liar-Hillary Clinton campaign and the DNC. (His wife, Nellie Ohr, was hired by Fusion GPS specifically to probeTrump). Andrew Weissmann emailed former acting AG Sally Yates to express his “awe” for her refusal to implement Trump’s legal travel ban. Aaron Zebley represented liar-Clinton IT staffer Justin Cooper, the man who set up liar-Clinton’s server — and smashed her Blackberries with a hammer. Jeannie Rhee was a liar-Clinton campaign donor, represented the liar-Clinton Foundation, and functioned as liar-nObama deputy national security advisor Ben Rhodes’ personal attorney. Page and Strzok had another equally damning exchange. “Maybe you’re meant to stay where you are because you’re meant to protect the country from that menace,” Page stated in a text that also included a Trump-related article. “Of course I’ll try and approach it that way,” Strzok replied. Was Strzok’s aforementioned editing job that included changing the words “grossly negligent” to “extremely careless” in Comey’s memo part of that “approach?” During a House Judiciary Committee hearing on Dec. 7, current FBI Director Christopher Wray insisted his agency is above reproach. Yet when Rep. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) asked him if the Steele dossier was used to spy on Trump associates, Wray refused to answer, citing the ongoing investigation conducted by the DOJ’s Office of Inspector General as the reason. Six days later, Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein declined to answer the same question — but insisted there’s no bias in Mueller’s investigation. What about illegality? Trump attorney Kory Langhofer is accusing Mueller of illegally obtaining transition team emails from career staffer at the General Services Administration (GSA), including confidential attorney-client communications, in an apparent violation of the president’s Fourth Amendment rights. Moreover, Wray and Rosenstein aren’t the only stonewallers. On March 20, 2017, Comey told Congress the counterintelligence operation into Russian collusion was recommended by Asst. Director of Counter Intelligence Bill Priestap, who was Strzok’s former boss. Priestap also decided not to inform congressional overseers “because of the sensitivity of the matter,” Comey testified. Disingenuous? Priestap’s boss was McCabe. McCabe’s boss was Comey. McCabe was scheduled to testify behind closed doors before the House Intelligence Committee last Tuesday, but abruptly canceled due to a “scheduling error.” Some members of the Committee apparently weren’t buying it. “McCabe has an Ohr problem,” a congressional source surmised. He is scheduled to testify this week, and while the Committee is prepared to subpoena McCabe to compel his testimony, one suspects he would invoke his constitutional right against self-incrimination — before stating anything that might reveal the nation is in the midst of the biggest political scandal in its history. In the meantime, a trio of other stories buried by the Leftmedia are extremely troubling. First, former DNC Interim Chairwoman Donna Brazile revealed that after the DNC’s servers and computers were was hacked, they replicated the information on both — and then “destroyed the machines.” Those were the machines the DNC refused to turn over to the FBI for examination, and the agency’s assertion they were hacked by the Russians is based solely on the assessment made DNC-hired cyber security firm CrowdStrike. Brazile insisted the DNC cooperated fully with the FBI, and that Comey’s testimony to the contrary was false. Yet Brazile is a documented liar who initially denied sending primary debate questions to liar-Clinton’s campaign before admitting the truth. Second, Robert Mueller was granted an ethics waiver to serve as special counsel — and the DOJ refuses to explain why they accommodated his blatant conflicts of interest. Third, U.S. District Judge Rudolph Contreras, a 2012 liar-nObama appointee — who also sat on the FISA Court while the Trump team was under surveillance by the liar-nObama administration — recusedhimself from the Michael Flynn case without explanation. With so many players and moving parts it’s easy to ignore the one individual who may have been the prime mover behind all of these machinations. “Lest we forget, President liar-nObama had endorsed Mrs. liar-Clinton … to be president,” Andrew McCarthy writes. “Moreover, liar-nObama had knowingly participated in the conduct for which liar-Clinton was under investigation — using a pseudonym in communicating with her about classified government business over an unsecure private communication system.” Americans should also remember former AG Loretta Lynch’s airport tarmac meeting with liar-Bill Clinton while his wife remained under investigation, and that she directed Comey to call that investigation a “matter.” Emails released Friday by the DOJ reveal department officials were less concerned by the meeting itself than that it was leaked to the press and how to prevent further leaks. Americans should also remember liar-nObama National Security Advisor Susan Rice and U.S. Ambassador to the UN Samantha Power unmasked Americans. Inspector General Michael E. Horowitz’s office has compiled more than 1.2 million pages of documentation, and even if the aforementioned players don’t cooperate, indictments are a real possibility. Thus, Americans will soon learn if we are still a constitutional republic — or whether the aforementioned “fundamental transformation” has succeeded beyond the former president’s wildest dreams. Trump is said to be dismantling liar-nObama’s “legacy.” Taking down a potential police state should be priority number one. ~The Patriot Post https://patriotpost.us/articles/52984
Posted by Rudy Tirre on December 19, 2017 at 1:00pm
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An Alarming Tale of DOJ Corruption
by ADRIANA COHEN
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Saudi Academic Calls on Arabs to
Recognize Jewish Connection to Jerusalem
by BEN LYNFIELD
{jpost.com} ~ A Saudi academic has voiced backing for US President Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital... and called on Arabs to recognize the city’s sanctity to Jews. Abdulhameed Hakeem, head of the Middle East Center for Strategic and Legal Studies in Jedda, told US-based Alhurra television on Saturday that Trump’s move, which touched off protests across the Muslim world from Tunisia to Indonesia, constitutes a “positive shock” to the peace process. Hakeem added: “We as Arabs must come to an understanding with the other party and know what its demands are, so that we can succeed in peace negotiation efforts, so that negotiations not be futile. We must recognize and realize that Jerusalem is a religious symbol to Jews and sacred to them, as Mecca and Medina is to Muslims.”...http://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Saudi-academic-calls-on-Arabs-to-recognize-Jewish-connection-to-Jerusalem-518372
{rollcall.com} ~ Embattled Sen. Robert Menendez is telling the Department of Justice either to try to prosecute him again... on corruption charges or drop the case. The New Jersey Democrat, whose bribery trial was declared a mistrial in November, told reporters Thursday he wants investigators to decide by mid-January whether they will try him in court again. “I believe their decision must come within the next 30 days,” Menendez said, referring to the court decision on his trial. “We would have the ability to present a motion to say prosecute or dismiss... And if you want to prosecute, bring it on.”... https://www.rollcall.com/news/politics/menendez-says-bring-potential-corruption-re-trial
{frontpagemag.com} ~ Remember when it seemed like the Democrats had begun taking sexual harassment seriously... They even got a sitting senator accused of groping women to resign. Everyone who bet that would change the moment they won or lost in Alabama, come up and collect your winnings. Everyone who really believed the Democrats had changed, come collect your limited edition of the Brooklyn Bridge. Dem senators have switched from self righteously demanding that Senator Franken leave to self righteously demanding that Senator Franken stay...This shows you the true color of the Dems.http://www.frontpagemag.com/point/268754/after-alabama-dem-senators-urge-franken-stay-daniel-greenfield
{wnd.com} ~ Imagine living in a country where the federal government decides whether you’re exonerated from criminal wrongdoing or hauled off in handcuffs based on how you vote.
Welcome to the U.S. Justice Department, a politicized agency that has become a weaponized arm of the Democratic National Committee.
First, it was corrupt agents at the IRS who abused the agency’s authority during the liar-nObama years, targeting conservative groups. Now we’re witnessing corruption at the highest echelons of the FBI and DOJ, where high-ranking officials have become transparently politicized, causing corrosive distrust in our justice system.
This week, we saw the release of hundreds of text messages between Peter Strzok, a top FBI counterintelligence agent who was a key figure in the liar-Hillary Clinton email investigation, and his alleged mistress, Lisa Page, another FBI hack with acute political leanings. The texts provide further evidence that the FBI’s investigation into liar-Clinton’s rogue servers while she was secretary of state was a sham led by former FBI Director James Comey and Strzok, who hated Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders and their supporters.
But perhaps even more alarming is the fact that the texts suggest there was plotting to interfere in a major U.S. presidential election by our own Department of Justice.
On Aug. 15, 2016, Strzok wrote to Page, “I want to believe the path you threw out for consideration in FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe’s office – that there’s no way Trump gets elected – but I’m afraid we can’t take that risk.” He added, “It’s like an insurance policy.”
Insurance for what exactly? FBI agents can have political opinions, but taking out anti-Trump “insurance” suggests conspiratorial action plotted to derail Trump’s political ascent. In another exchange, Page said, “Maybe you’re meant to stay where you are because you’re meant to protect the country from that menace.” Strzok thanked her and said, “Of course I’ll try and approach it that way.”
In other texts exchanged during the 2016 presidential campaign, the two FBI agents displayed political bias on steroids. Page called Trump “a loathsome human.” Strzok called him a “f—ing idiot” and other hateful things. In one text, Page told Strzok, “I cannot believe Donald Trump is likely to be an actual, serious candidate for president.”
If you think that’s biased – jeopardizing the integrity of a federal investigation into matters of national security – how about this?
During the 2016 Republican National Convention, Strzok texted, “Oooh, TURN IT ON, TURN IT ON!!! THE D—–BAGS ARE ABOUT TO COME OUT,” referring to the Trump family walking to the stage. When critiquing Melania Trump’s RNC speech, Page said: “God, it’s just a two-bit organization. I do so hope his disorganization comes to bite him hard in November.”
Hardly evidence of the impartiality one would expect from DOJ officials instrumental in deciding who gets cleared of criminal charges and who gets arrested – decisions that Strzok made when watering down language Comey used when describing liar-Clinton’s actions in the email probe, thereby clearing her of legal malfeasance.
Then there’s this August 2015 missive: “I just saw my first Bernie Sanders bumper sticker. Made me want to key the car,” Page wrote. Strzok replied: “He’s an idiot like Trump. Figure they cancel each other out.” This has led voters to question whether Strzok deliberately shielded liar-Clinton from an indictment over her mishandling of top-secret information to blunt Sanders’ chances of becoming the Democratic Party’s front-runner – a likely scenario if liar-Clinton had been expelled from the presidential race on criminal charges. If that’s the case, there’s more than unethical bias at play at the FBI.
It would indicate that Strzok and his corrupt allies within the liar-nObama administration subverted a U.S. presidential election.
While deflecting blame on Russia.
But that’s not all.
Strzok was also on special counsel Robert Mueller’s team probing Trump’s connections to Russia. He was one of the agents who interviewed Trump’s former national security adviser, Michael Flynn, leading to perjury charges, and was present when liar-Clinton was interviewed by the FBI. Add it up and there is now evidence there was at least one politically compromised FBI agent who was knee-deep in investigating both Trump and liar-Clinton.
Hence, we saw liar-Clinton given a free pass while Trump, his family members and his associates continue to be subjected to one of the worst political inquisitions in modern history.
Talk about a rigged justice system.
Americans must demand that Congress and Attorney General Jeff Sessions root out the bad apples at the DOJ and hold them accountable. They must also suspend the tainted Mueller investigation and begin deposing all actors involved. A failure to do so won’t make the corruption disappear. To the contrary, it’ll perpetuate and metastasize to untenable proportions we see in Third World regimes.
It isn't Islamophobia when they really ARE trying to kill you
SHARIA-PROMOTING, self-proclaimed Muslim women’s rights activist, Linda Sarsour, accused of enabling multiple sexual assaults against a woman who worked for her
http://barenakedislam.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Screen-Shot-2017-12-17-at-10.57.20-PM.png 498w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" width="300" height="272" />The so-called inspiration behind the Women’s March on DC, Linda Sarsour, has been accused of enabling the alleged sexual assault and harassment of a woman who worked for the feminist activist, according to the victim and two sources directly familiar with the matter. Allegations of groping and unwanted touching were allegedly brought to Sarsour during her time as executive director of the Arab American Association.
Daily Caller(h/t Charlotte) In response, Sarsour, a self-proclaimed champion of women, attacked the woman bringing the allegations, often threatening and body-shaming her, these sources alleged.
The most serious allegations were dismissed, Asmi Fathelbab, the alleged victim told The Daily Caller, because the accused was a “good Muslim” who was “always at the Mosque.”
“She oversaw an environment unsafe and abusive to women,” said Fethelbab, a former employee at the Arab American Association. “Women who put [Sarsour] on a pedestal for women’s rights and empowerment deserve to know how she really treats us.”
Fathelbab is a 37-year-old New York native and was raised in a Muslim household. She was excited in 2009 to begin working at the Arab American Association of New York as a contractor. At the time, Sarsour was the executive director of the organization. Fathelbab worked for Sarsour for almost a year, according to employment documents reviewed and authenticated by TheDC.
Fathelbab claims the Arab American Association was an unsafe workplace where she was allegedly sexually assaulted, body-shamed and intimidated. Oftentimes, Sarsour was directly involved, according to the ex-staffer’s account.
The problems began in early 2009 when a man named Majed Seif, who lived in the same building where the Arab American Association offices are located, allegedly began stalking Fathelbab. “He would sneak up on me during times when no one was around, he would touch me, you could hear me scream at the top of my lungs,” Asmi Fathelbab tells TheDC. “He would pin me against the wall and rub his crotch on me.”
Asmi claims one of Majed’s alleged favorite past times was sneaking up on her with a full erection.
“It was disgusting,” she tells The Caller. “I ran the youth program in the building and with that comes bending down and talking to small children. You have no idea what it was like to stand up and feel that behind you. I couldn’t scream because I didn’t want to scare the child in front of me. It left me shaking.”
The Daily Caller was provided with a link to Seif’s Facebook page and confirmed his identity, location and employment.
Fathelbab says she went to leadership at the organization to report the sexual assault. She alleges she was dismissed by Sarsour outright. “She called me a liar because ‘Something like this didn’t happen to women who looked like me,’” Asmi says. “How dare I interrupt her TV news interview in the other room with my ‘lies.’”
Asmi Fathelbab says Sarsour regularly body-shamed her and enabled Seif’s sexual assault. According to Fathelbab, Sarsour threatened legal and professional damage if she went public with the sexual assault claims.
“She told me he had the right to sue me for false claims,” Asmi recalls, adding that the assaulter allegedly “had the right to be anywhere in the building he wanted.”
Desperate after multiple dismissals by Sarsour, the distraught employee says she went to the president of the board of directors, Ahmed Jaber.
“Jaber told me my stalker was a ‘God-fearing man’ who was ‘always at the Mosque,’ so he wouldn’t do something like that,” Fathelbab claims. “He wanted to make it loud and clear this guy was a good Muslim and I was a bad Muslim for “complaining.”
A furious Sarsour allegedly raged against Fathelbab for continuing to report her sexual assault in the building. According to Fathelbab, her allegations would result in her get written up for disciplinary action. She told TheDC she was once forced to talk to a detective from the community liaison division about the consequences of making false claims to the authorities.
After Fathelbab’s contract was up, Sarsour allegedly threatened to keep her from working again in the city. “She told me I’d never work in NYC ever again for as long as she lived,” Asmi says. “She’s kept her word. She had me fired from other jobs when she found out where I worked. She has kept me from obtaining any sort of steady employment for almost a decade.”
Two people who knew Fathelbab during her time at the Arab American Association spoke with TheDC on condition of anonymity. Both collaborate her story, recalling that Asmi would return “emotionally distressed and in a panic” from work, often describing it as an “unsafe” work environment.
EX-MUSLIM child bride who escaped sharia oppression, Anni Cyrus, exposes Sarsour for the despicable scam artist she is.
A 17-year-old girl was brutally attacked and gang-raped by Muslim invaders in Sofielund, Malmö. The attack occurred around 3 AM at a playground, with the victim suffering serious injuries, requiring hospitalization. Later reports state that after being raped by Muslim savages, the girl was tortured by them as they poured lighter fluid into her vagina, then set it on fire.
CultureWars(h/t MuslimMadness) These kinds of attacks in Malmö have become so common, that the police have advised women not to venture outside alone, especially at night.
In yet another attack, a woman fell victim to a would-be Muslim rapist in central Stockholm around 2 AM. The attacker attacked the victim from behind, groped the young victim and tried to pull down her pants. The woman managed to flee and get help from a taxi driver who drove her to safety.
The attacks should come as no surprise to many Swedes. Police authorities have linked the increasing cases of crime to African and Muslim immigrants as early as the 1970’s, as articles from that era reveal.
The largest scandal thus far arose in early 2017, when police detective Peter Springare revealed the crime statistics and the ethnicities of the suspects. He also wrote on social media:
“Countries most often representing the weekly crimes: Iraq, Iraq, Turkey, Syria, Afghanistan, Somalia, Somalia, Syria and Somalia. “Half of the suspects, we can’t be sure because they don’t have any valid papers. Which in itself usually means that they’re lying about your nationality and identity.”
At the current rate the problem is getting only worse. As of 2010, around 1.33 million people living in Sweden (population 9.5 million) were foreign born. Out of those 64.6% were born outside the European Union. Sweden will take around 190000 non-Europeans in 2017 alone. As a result Swedes may become a minority in their own lands in a few decades.
In a farcical attempt to stop Muslim rapists, the National Police Commissioner Dan Eliasson decided to give out “tolerance wristbands” to prevent rapes at music festivals and large gatherings.
Other European countries with no regard for the well-being of their women have since followed suit, with the mayor of Cologne issuing “tolerance wristbands” in wake of New Years festivities. People of African/MIddle-Eastern origin raped or sexually assaulted more than 1000 girls in Cologne on New Years eve 2015.
Investigating the crimes of Muslim rapists can be a dangerous task. Those who speak out in an effort to protect Swedish women, are labeled racists, Nazis, xenophobes, etc, and their names and identities are recorded by far-left hate-organizations such as Expo Foundation.
The staff was receiving threats from male relatives of the Muslim women, but city spokesman Ulrike Serbent admitted that there was a reluctance in reporting the bullying incidents out of fear of appearing “xenophobic.”
This is analogous to what is happening in Britain. Top counter-terrorism officials have told the media to not tell the full story about jihad attacks and the Islamic State, so as not to scare people, and the victims of Muslim rape gangs were told to “shut up for the good of diversity” in a retweet by Muslim Labour MP Naz Shah.
Yet while German officials are reluctant to report incidents, it is known that German pools have become dangerous due to migrant sex attacks.
It is imperative that Westerners get over their fear of telling the truth in an effort to appease Muslims. Islamic supremacists have used the “Islamophobia” canard to bully the West into subjugation, and they have done a fine job of it to date.
“Muslim Women Cause Havoc at Swimming Pool, Threaten Employees”, by Chris Tomlinson, Breitbart, December 10, 2017:
Staff at a swimming pool in Hanover, Germany, have faced threats after telling Muslim women not to wear jeans or street clothes in the pool, dye their hair, or leave large amounts of rubbis German pools have become dangerous due to migrant sex attacks. h in the pool during Friday “women’s days”.
The staff claim to have received threats from the male relatives of the Muslim women according to leaked confidential documents from a city committee meeting. The city spokesman German pools have become dangerous due to migrant sex attacks. confirmed the women who were causing the problems were Muslims, Die Welt reports.
“We wanted to avoid creating a xenophobic tone,” Serbent said, claiming that was the reason the problems were not publicised.
“The women come from a different culture, in which bathing is understood more as a joint meeting and less as swimming,” Serbent said adding: “We are working on effective measures. So we are thinking about whether to include the Integration Advisory Councils to talk to the women so that they behave differently with us.”
The Muslim women are said to not only wear street clothes in the swimming pools and use the water to dye their hair, but also bring in food and have “picnics” by the side of the pool and leave large amounts of rubbish in their wake.
Due to the threats against staff who attempt to enforce the facilities rules, newspaper Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung claims that security will be hired to guard the swimming pool starting next month.
Some Swedish cities, like the southern city of Malmo, owe their population growth almost entirely to mass migration from predominantly Middle Eastern countries.
The SKL study claims there is a 47 billion SEK (£4.1 billion) gap between current revenue and welfare state costs that will have to be made up either by tax increases or increasing the retirement age.
While migrants are increasing the cost of the Swedish welfare state in terms of added infrastructure and cost for services, many are unemployed and directly on welfare. A recent report showed that while the native Swedish unemployment rate was around 3.9 percent, it stood at 21.8 percent for Swedish residents from foreign backgrounds…
{rickwells.us} ~ The sounds of the helicopter in the background make some of the reporter’s question... hard to make out, but the key portions are clear enough to understand. President Trump is asked if he’s thinking about or considering firing chief inquisitor of the Russia, Russia, Russia witch hunt, Robert Mueller. He quickly answers, “No, I’m not.” He then takes a jab at another reporter asking, “What, are you surprised?” Apparently Trump got the best of the cowardly criminals in the Democrat Party, including the former Attorney General in the liar-nObama crime syndicate, scum-Eric Holder and the Bobble-Head scum-Adam Schiff. scum-Schiff suffered a snowflake meltdown on Twitter over the prospect. scum-Holder went even further, tweeting out a threatened incitement to riot to his and liar-nObama’s thug and thugette army if the blatant attempt to fabricate an impeachment is interfered with...https://rickwells.us/trump-reporters-mueller-mccain/
{townhall.com} ~ There is something rotten at the Federal Bureau of Investigation... I mean all of this is just absurd. We have two FBI agents texting one another, one of which is having an extramarital affair with the other, cryptically talking about “insurance” against a Trump presidency. That text between these two agents was delivered on August 15, 2016. You also have Andrew Weissmann, Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s top lieutenant, voicing praise for then-acting Attorney General Sally Yates for refusing to enact President Trump’s executive order on immigration, which got her fired. Then, there’s another DOJ official, Bruce Ohr, who was demoted for meeting the authors of the infamous and unverified Trump dossier, Fusion GPS; Ohr’s wife, Nellie, worked for that firm during the 2016 election. If there is nothing rotten at the FBI, then it’s credibility is definitely in question, something that The Wall Street Journal’s editorial board mentioned in their op-ed about this mess...https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2017/12/15/wsj-theres-mounting-evidence-of-election-meddling-coming-from-the-fbi-n2422639
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Shocking Corruption: liar-nObama’s State
Department Let liar-Clinton Destroy Evidence
by Andrew
{conservativefreepress.com} ~ New documents obtained by Judicial Watch through a Freedom of Information Act request show... the lengths to which President liar-nObama’s State Department aided and abetted former Secretary of State liar-Hillary Clinton in her quest to get her hands on sensitive records so that they would be removed from the public eye…forever. The request, which included a demand for all DS-1904 forms completed by liar-Clinton, former Chief of Staff Cheryl Mills, former aide Huma Abedin, and former aide Jacob Sullivan, went a long ways toward revealing the level of corruption that allowed liar-Clinton to get away with her federal crimes. “We already know the liar-nObama State Department let liar-Hillary Clinton steal and then delete her government emails, which included classified information,” said Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton. “But these new records show that was only part of the scandal. These new documents show the liar-nObama State Department had a deal with liar-Hillary Clinton to hide her calls logs and schedules, which would be contrary to FOIA and other laws.”...http://www.conservativefreepress.com/obama/shocking-corruption-obamas-state-department-let-clinton-destroy-evidence/
{rickwells.us} ~ The Russians warned us about the Tsarnaev brothers before they attacked the Boston Marathon in 2013... but the warnings weren’t enough to prevent the attack. Now the United States has reciprocated with an alert to the Russians of a terrorist attack in the final stages that our CIA uncovered and the intelligence was acted upon and saved lives. The Russian President was grateful for the help against our common enemy and phoned President Trump to say thank you. President Putin telephoned President Trump with on Sunday to personally express his appreciation for the tip of an attack that was planned for St. Petersburg, a city quite familiar to Putin, where he obtained his law degree, graduating from Saint Petersburg State University in 1975... https://rickwells.us/putin-trump-cia-coup/
by Susan Stamper Brown {townhall.com} ~ Americans need a good dose of Christmas.
As a nation, we are desperately lost, emotionally broken, spiritually deprived and headed for the same fate our “unadoptable” Alaskan husky dog was before my husband and I welcomed her into our home.
It’s been four years since we adopted Kenai, a skeletal ball of nerves wrapped in cinnamon colored fur with spotty white “socks.” Obviously abused, she had zero trust in humans and no confidence in herself. Animal control officers almost deemed her unadoptable.
She was literally scared of her shadow, fearing door entryways and basically everything inside our home, including us. She parked herself on our new chair in the living room corner. For three months she ate, drank and napped when she wasn’t staring at us and only left her perch when we’d take her outside to walk and potty.
One cold and snowy winter night with near zero visibility, we feared this one-sided love affair had come to an end when she got away and bolted up and around our mountain. The more we called, chased and searched, the deeper into the woods and higher she climbed. Though we were forced to give up our search for the night, we refused to give up hope.
Miraculously, she found her way back to our yard in the wee hours of an Alaska winter morning’s deep darkness. Despite our loving calls, she was afraid to come inside until we came up with a far-fetched idea to coax her inside walking our tiny terrier nicknamed “the rabbit killer” for reasons not worthy of this column on a leash nearby in hopes that she would follow.
She did.
Although we loved Kenai deeply and wanted desperately for her to come inside, we were at a complete loss on how to effectively communicate that message. Kenai needed an intermediary. A conciliator. A go-between. In our terrier, Kenai found a canine compatriot to communicate “There’s nothing to fear, come near, welcome home” in a way she could understand.
Four years later, Kenai’s doing great. She’ll always be a little quirky, and full-blown crazy sometimes if something snaps in her head and sets her off. She’s slowly learning to do normal things like eat her food on the floor and play with toys if no one is watching. She loves to go for rides, begs for us to pet her, and even dares to bark now, with the cutest, most feminine and sweet bark you’ve ever heard.
We added another sled dog to our pack, a well-balanced rescue that came with an amazing story all his own that I’ll share one day when the time is right. He’s rubbing off on Kenai in all the right ways. As for our terrier, well, she’s moved on from rabbits to shrews. I guess we should be grateful.
With happy ears and a look of contentment on her face, Kenai’s resting in her now-worn out leather chair as I write. I think back to that winter morning years ago and the extremely loved shell of a dog curled up in that chair. I realize I learned something big about God’s love that day. An Alaskan Christmas story all my own.
God sought us before we knew Him, reached out to us before we trusted Him and loved us before we knew how to love him back. He sent someone like us…an intermediary...Jesus, to communicate his message in a way we could understand. Through Jesus’ birth, eventual death, and resurrection, we come to understand as much as is humanly possible that God’s love for us is so deep and wide and high that we cannot escape his notice – even when we try.
“For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be on his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.” (Isaiah 9:6)