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Call for Human Self-Extinction 
Is Foolish and Nihilistic
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by Louis DeBroux  
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Trump's veto threat pays off: House 
approves $5.7B for border wall
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{washingtonexaminer.com} ~ The House voted Thursday to give President Trump $5.7 billion for a border wall, hours after Trump warned Republicans that he would veto the spending bill if it didn't boost border security... The bill passed 217-185, and while Democrats were predicting a GOP split would prevent it from passing the House, only eight Republicans voted against it. But the victory will likely be short-lived, as Democrats in the Senate are expected to reject the bill. That rejection looks increasingly likely to lead to a partial government shutdown after Friday. After Trump rallied his party on the need for a border wall in a White House meeting, Republicans said the $5.7 billion is needed to secure the border and keep out dangerous migrants. “It is common sense to secure our borders and know who is entering our country,” said Rep. Bruce Poliquin, R-Maine, adding that drugs moving across the border has devastated rural Maine. “The greatest Christmas gift for America is securing our borders.” Democrats objected and said Republicans were setting up a shutdown of several federal agencies just before Christmas...
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Trump to order withdraw of 7,000 
U.S. troops from Afghanistan
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by Carlo Muñoz
{washingtontimes.com} ~ The Trump White House has ordered the withdrawal of 7,000 U.S. troops from Afghanistan, slashing the total number of American forces in country by half... a day after the administration announced the complete pullout of all American forces from Syria. Mr. Trump reportedly made the decision to reduce troop levels in Afghanistan at the same time White House officials opted to pull out all 2,000 U.S. service members assisting local forces battling the Islamic State in Syria. The Wall Street Journal first reported details of the Trump administration’s request for an Afghanistan withdrawal Thursday night. Withdrawal plans from the Pentagon are expected to reach the White House by the new year, while no timeline has been set for when the pullout would begin, NBC News reports. The mission of the nearly 14,000 U.S. service members in  Afghanistan are split between counterterrorism operations against the Taliban and Islamic State’s Afghan affiliate, Islamic State in Iraq and Syria — Khorasan group or ISIS-K, and training local forces alongside their NATO counterparts. News of the U.S. withdrawal comes as Afghan-led offensives backed by American airpower and a cadre of U.S. and NATO military advisers have ramped up, in an effort to roll  back Taliban gains and force the insurgents to the negotiating table...  https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/dec/20/trump-orders-withdraw-7000-us-troops-afghanistan-r/?utm_source=Boomtrain&utm_medium=manual&utm_campaign=20180326&utm_term=newsalert&utm_content=newsalert&bt_ee=M4RHf%2Fzu79%2F1Jijs1EkDEBJrgO%2FtgzmtDHQyd%2BDmhs5WB8796ai8D9%2BBa9ZWe0TR&bt_ts=1545358046392
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Acting AG Matthew Whitaker cleared to oversee
Trump-Russia investigation, source says
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by Brooke Singman and Jake Gibson   
{foxnews.com} ~ Acting Attorney General Matt Whitaker will not recuse himself from overseeing the Russia probe...
 despite mounting pressure from Democrats who cite his “hostility” toward Special Counsel dirty cop-Robert Mueller and his investigation. A source familiar with the matter told Fox News on Thursday that Whitaker met with Justice Department ethics officials this week, who told him he was not precluded from overseeing dirty cop-Mueller’s investigation into Russian meddling and potential collusion with Trump campaign associates during the 2016 presidential election. Whitaker, who served as chief of staff to former Attorney General Jeff Sessions until Sessions was fired, has faced extreme pressure from Democrats to recuse himself to ensure that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein continues in that role. Sessions recused himself from overseeing the probe due to his work on the Trump campaign in 2016, turning control to Rosenstein, who appointed dirty cop-Mueller on May 17, 2017. Sessions, whose resignation was requested in early November, had been criticized by Trump throughout his tenure at the Justice Department due to the decision to recuse himself from the investigation. Whitaker’s new role includes oversight of the Russia investigation, along with the agency’s other federal investigations, including the New York prosecutors’ look into the finances of Trump and his former aides...  https://www.foxnews.com/politics/acting-ag-matthew-whitaker-cleared-to-oversee-trump-russia-investigation-source-says
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Another Lawless Democrat Attack
 On Trump Fails - Temporarily
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{conservativehq.com} ~ Our friends at NewsMax alerted us to another Trump victory over his Far-Left Democrat harassers as the federal appeals court in Washington ruled President Donald Trump’s tax returns... which he has refused to make public, can’t be obtained by a non-profit organization using the Freedom of Information Act. The information is shielded by a taxpayer privacy law passed after President Richard Nixon tried to use the Internal Revenue Service to harass his political enemies, Circuit Judge Karen LeCraft Henderson said in an opinion released Tuesday, upholding a lower-court ruling against a FOIA request by the Electronic Privacy Information Center. With “certain limited exceptions” contained in the law, “no one can demand to inspect another’s tax records,” Henderson wrote, for a unanimous three-judge panel of the court. However, as POLITICO reported soon after the November midterms gave them the majority in the House, Democrats have said they’d use special powers enjoyed by the leaders of congressional tax committees to get the documents. The President has steadfastly maintained he wouldn’t release his taxes while he’s under audit. But under the law, he may not have a choice about whether Democrats obtain them...   http://www.conservativehq.com/node/29353
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rino-Flake Will Introduce Bill 
to Raise Taxes Before Leaving Senate
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by Michael Bastasch
{dailycaller.com} ~ Outgoing Arizona Republican Sen. rino-Jeff Flake will soon co-introduce legislation to tax carbon dioxide emissions... according to news reports. rino-Flake, who will not be returning to Congress next year, and Delaware Sen. Chris Coon, a Democrat, will introduce their carbon tax bill as soon as Wednesday. The bill is unlikely to go anywhere with just two weeks left in the current legislative session. rino-Flake and Coon’s bill will be the Senate companion to bipartisan House carbon tax legislation introduced in November. The Washington Times first reported of rino-Flake’s carbon tax bill Wednesday, and The Hill later  confirmed it. Like the House bill, rino-Flake’s carbon tax bill would tax emissions at $15 per ton — a rate that would rise $10 per year until greenhouse gas emissions, hitting $100 per ton in 2030. All of the revenues raised through the tax will get rebated to households to compensate for higher energy costs...rino-Flake is a very sick person.  https://dailycaller.com/2018/12/19/jeff-flake-raise-taxes/
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Federal Investigators: Mapping Apps 
Are Endangering U.S. Troops
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by Susan Crabtree
{freebeacon.com} ~ The government's top watchdog agency on Tuesday warned President Donald Trump and Congress that two war-fighting mapping applications widely used in combat, and disseminated to U.S. allies... have made U.S. troops vulnerable to cyberattacks by Russia, China, and other hostile actors. The U.S. Office of Special Counsel (OSC), an internal investigative and prosecutorial agency that operates independently from other government agencies, "fully substantiated" whistleblower warnings first reported by the Washington Free Beacon in late October, the OSC said in its release on the matter. It was the first time the OSC has weighed in publicly on its nearly year-and-a-half investigation into the matter. The OSC specifically faulted top Navy leaders for failing to warn U.S. military personnel and to take the necessary steps to try to protect sensitive data from being hacked. The mapping apps are used to accelerate precision targeting and facilitate situational awareness and data-sharing between ground forces and overhead aircraft. "When Navy leadership was made aware of software vulnerabilities, it failed to take sufficient action to warn U.S. military personnel or to safeguard sensitive data," Special Counsel Henry Kerner said in a statement. "Thanks to a brave whistleblower who spoke up, the Navy is now taking the cyber threat posed by these apps seriously and ensuring security measures are in place."...
Secretary of State hanoi-John Kerry Admits 
President scumbag/liar-nObama Intentionally 
Armed ISIS in Syria
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{theconservativetreehouse.com} ~ CTH has some new readers, so against the backdrop of the UniParty in Washington DC jumping into action to criticize President Trump’s decision to withdraw from Syria... perhaps a little factual historic refresher is in order….  On September 30th 2016 the New York Times quietly released a leaked audio recording of Secretary hanoi-John Kerry meeting with multiple factions associated within Syria. The 40-minute discussion took place on the sidelines of a United Nations General Assembly in New York. The meeting took place at the Dutch Mission to the United Nations on Sept. 22nd 2016: […] hanoi-Kerry’s off-record conversation was apparently with two dozen ‘Syrian civilians’, all from US backed opposition-linked NGO’s in education and medical groups supposedly working in ‘rebel-held’ (aka terrorist-held) areas in Syria. This opposition conclave also included ‘rescue workers’ which can only be ambassadors from the White Helmets, a pseudo NGO which serves as Washington and London’s primary PR front in pursuit of a “No Fly Zone’ in Syria, and it’s being bankrolled by the US, UK, EU and other coalition states to the tune of well over $100 million so far. When you listen to the audio recording it becomes immediately obvious what was going on in 2014, 2015 and 2016 as an outcome of policy from the White House...  https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/12/19/flashback-2016-secretary-of-state-john-kerry-admits-president-obama-intentionally-armed-isis-in-syria/
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Call for Human Self-Extinction Is Foolish and Nihilistic
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by Louis DeBroux:  As the world’s 2.2 billion Christians prepare to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ, the Messiah sent by God the Father to save mankind from sin and death, The New York Times has published an article calling for mankind to be eradicated from the earth.

             In a piece entitled “Would Human Extinction Be a Tragedy?”, Clemson philosophy professor Todd May argues that humanity is a scourge of the planet, and the world would be better without us. He’s seemingly taking his cue from Marvel’s “Infinity War” and its villain Thanos, who [spoiler alert] wipes out half of all life in the universe for the same reasons May expounds.
               What horrific crimes has humanity committed making us worthy of self-extinction? According to May, humans are (1) responsible for the “climate change” that is “devastating ecosystems,” (2) increasing population encroaching on the ecosystems of animals, and (3) factory farming animals, causing them “nothing but suffering and misery” before they are slaughtered for food.
               In summary, “Humanity, then, is the source of devastation of the lives of conscious animals on a scale that is difficult to comprehend.
               Interestingly, May never mentions man’s inhumanity to man, as with the Holocaust, or genocide in places like Rwanda, as a cause for concern. No, only cruelty to cows, chickens, and pigs warrants his sympathy, and displacement of the snail darter his wrath. Apparently, the thought of inadvertently impacting a species through our development of the earth’s resources for human use, or exercising dominion over animals for human good (i.e., for food or labor) is repulsive to May. But the thought of the global extermination of humanity in order to return the earth to its natural state is perfectly acceptable.
               May acknowledges that “nature itself is hardly a Valhalla of peace and harmony,” noting, “Animals kill other animals regularly, often in ways that we (although not they) would consider cruel.” But he then argues the predatory nature of humans is far worse than any other species. That is, however, a subjective judgment that only humans possess the intelligence to make.
               After a philosophical exercise in the relative worth of a human soul, in which he highlights the positive contributions of humanity (an advanced level of reasoning, our ability to create art, literature, music, etc.), he contemplates whether it would be worth saving humanity to perpetuate its positive attributes … before concluding it would not.
               May argues, “Unless we believe there is such a profound moral gap between the status of human and nonhuman animals, whatever reasonable answer we come up with will be well surpassed by the harm and suffering we inflict upon animals. There is just too much torment wreaked upon too many animals and too certain a prospect that this is going to continue and probably increase; it would overwhelm anything we might place on the other side of the ledger.
               Unless we believe that there is a profound moral gap? Yes, that is exactly what we believe!
               Of course, quite hypocritically, May is not quite ready to sacrifice himself to the cause. Instead, he argues that existing humans should take steps to prevent any more humans from coming into the world.
               This twisted philosophy finds a welcomed home in the hearts of modern progressives, who have long argued for population control through methods like sterilization and abortion. They paint a bleak, hopeless picture of humanity’s future.
               In the 1970s, they warned of a “coming Ice Age” that would kill off most of humanity, followed by the dark specter of apocalyptic “climate change,” coercing us into abandoning the abundant energy and higher standard of living that comes with industrialization. Harvard biologist George Wald declared in 1970 that “civilization will end within 15 or 30 years.” Paul Ehrlich, author of The Population Bomb, argued that due to scarce food supplies “the death rate will increase until at least 100-200 million people per year will be starving to death during the next ten years.” Ehrlich also insisted that by 1980 “urban dwellers will have to wear gas masks to survive air pollution,” and he proclaimed “the life expectancy of a man would plummet to just 42 years.”
               Since then, the global population has more than doubled from 3.7 billion to 7.7 billion, yet rapid advances in technology allow us to grow vastly more food on far less land and with fewer resources, drastically reducing world hunger and poverty. Life expectancy has mostly lengthened, not plummeted. Technology has resulted in cleaner air and water in advanced societies, indicating human ingenuity is the solution, not the problem.
               Sadly, it is this contempt for the worth of human life, deeply rooted in the death cult of progressivism, which has truly resulted in unfathomable human (and animal) suffering over the last century. The variants of totalitarian socialism (in which the state is god) have resulted not only in the deaths of six million Jews in the Holocaust, but in the brutal deaths of more than 100 million people whose communist governments deemed them of no value beyond their labor.
               America alone has seen 60 million unborn children slaughtered in abortion clinics since 1973. Around the world, Down Syndrome children are being aborted into extinction, and throughout Europe thousands of the sick, elderly, and mentally ill are being euthanized without their consent.
               This is the inevitable result when humans no longer believe human life has intrinsic value. Ironically, those who share May’s nihilistic view of humanity bring about the greatest suffering.
               Though flawed, mankind is also capable of goodness and self-sacrifice. In our absence, animals would be no less predatory, and nature no more forgiving. With humanity, the earth is capable of breathtaking beauty, kindness, and progress. We think we’ll stick around.  

~The Patriot Post  

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