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The Events of the Week -- Featuring:
Where Are We?
by Thomas Sowell
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Climate Frauds Rush to Protect Data '
Integrity'
Some cover stories are so conspicuous you can't help but chuckle. A ridiculous new Washington Post puff piece is no exception. The article begins, "Alarmed that decades of crucial climate measurements could vanish under a hostile Trump administration, scientists have begun a feverish attempt to copy reams of government data onto independent servers in hopes of safeguarding it from any political interference." Because "independent servers" worked so well for a former presidential candidate...
Of course, government agencies should be concerned. As we noted, "With both the choices of Scott Pruitt to head the EPA and now [Rick] Perry [at the Department of Energy], Trump is showing that he is committed to the goal of rolling back as much government over-regulation as possible." But that's a terrible reason to begin frantically importing information. So what's going on here?
The science community's history of malice yields the most plausible theory. It began with ClimateGate in 2009 in which a hacker exposed a concerted effort by some of the world's most influential climate scientists to keep evidence of global cooling in a shroud of secrecy. That was followed by NOAA's denying a global warming hiatus in 2015 and then outright refusing to present behind-the-scenes collaboration to the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. Add to all this the fact that the globe's official measurement bearers are artificially adjusting temperature trends and a likely reason for the frenzy emerges: They're worried that incriminating information will be exposed by the Trump administration.
Remember, though Trump falls into the "skeptic" category, he has pledged to keep an open mind when it comes to addressing climate change. Regardless, the Left is conjuring up fear that he will manipulate climate data. Which is pretty ironic considering this ruse is quite possibly intended by alarmists to hide the fact they are gerrymandering the truth. They're no more worried about the integrity of climate data as they supposedly are about the integrity of our elections. ~The Patriot Post
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Trump Looks to the Big Sky for Interior Choice
Donald Trump's final choice for secretary of the Interior Department is Rep. Ryan Zinke (R-MT), not Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) as was previously reported. So, given the last-minute mind change, who is Ryan Zinke?
Zinke is a former Navy SEAL (1986-2008) who recently won his second term as the lone congressional representative from the state of Montana. He's a life-long hunter and fisherman who has staunchly defended public access to federal lands. So much so that he resigned as a delegate from the Republican National Convention over his disagreement with the party platform on federal lands. He said at the time, "What I saw was a platform that was more divisive than uniting." Unfortunately, by that he means turning federal lands over to the states is bad. For this reason, Zinke has been described by some as a "Theodore Roosevelt Republican."
That said, he has a strong record on advocating for an environmentally responsible energy policy that supports coal extraction and gas and oil drilling. He has criticized Barack liar-nObama's restrictive energy policies, too. Regarding the Interior Department's rule that aimed to limit methane from oil and gas operations on federal land, Zinke said, "Clean air and clean water are absolute top priorities when we talk about responsible energy development. However, the final rule issued by the liar-nObama administration does nothing to further protect our resources. This rule is a stark reminder that we need to invest in infrastructure projects like the Keystone pipeline, so we don't need to flare excess gas."
Given the vast amount of land — beyond national parks — owned and managed by the feds, Zinke will have a big influence on how that land is used. Recall that the major expansion in energy exploration over the last eight years occurred in spite of liar-nObama essentially placing public land off limits. Let's also hope Zinke can manage it without liar-nObama's social engineering. ~The Patriot Post
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Over 50 Dem electors now
demanding intelligence briefing
by Mallory Shelbourne
{thehill.com} ~ More than 50 Democratic voters in the Electoral College are now asking for an intelligence briefing from Director of National Intelligence James Clapper over reports of Russian meddling in the election... according to a report in Politico. Fifty-four of 232 Democratic electors have now signed a letter asking for a briefing before the Electoral College votes Dec. 19. “Separate from Mr. Trump’s own denials of Russian involvement in the election, the confirmed communication between Trump’s aides and those associated with the Russian election interference activity raise serious concerns that must be addressed before we cast our votes,” the letter reads... http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/310316-over-50-dem-electors-sign-letter-calling-for-intelligence-briefing
.Russia to liar-nObama: Put up or shut up
by Leon Wolf
{theblaze.com} ~ The Russian government is firing back at the liar-nObama administration in the escalating war of words over the hacking of former liar-Hillary Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta’s email inbox... President Barack liar-nObama, who will leave office in a little over a month, has promised that the United States will retaliate against Russia for their alleged interference with America’s election “at a time and place of our choosing.” According to CNN, the Russians are firing back, demanding that the liar-nObama administration provide proof of Russia’s involvement in the hack: The virtually unanimous assessment of intelligence agencies is that the hack of Podesta’s email inbox originated somewhere in Russia; however, the Russian government disputes that they were actively involved, and FBI Director James Comey has suggested that the hack might have been carried out by a private individual operating from within Russia... http://www.theblaze.com/news/2016/12/16/russia-to-obama-put-up-or-shut-up/
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The Mystery Of Russia's Doomsday Bomb
by DR. PETER VINCENT PRY
by DR. PETER VINCENT PRY
{familysecuritymatters.org} ~ While liberal mainstream media concoct fake news that President-Elect Trump is Moscow's Manchurian Candidate, they ignore the latest real threat from Russia... Russian state television "accidentally" disclosed plans for a robot submarine, reportedly armed with a massive 100 megaton warhead-the largest nuclear weapon ever deployed by any nation. The submarine doomsday bomb would explode underwater to radioactively contaminate and inundate with tsunamis U.S. coastal cities and seaboard, where are concentrated much of America's military-industrial strength and population. A diagram of the robo-bomb was shown on Russian TV, supposedly inadvertently, over the shoulder of a Defense Ministry officer. Reportedly, according to U.S. intelligence officials, Russia is testing a prototype of the unmanned robot submarine designed to deliver its doomsday bomb...
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New Social Security Reform Bill
Moves in the Right Direction
by Romina Boccia
{dailysignal.com} ~ Finally, a reform plan has been introduced to preserve Social Security without troubling younger generations with undue debt and tax burdens... This plan, the Social Security Reform Act of 2016, was introduced last week by Rep. Sam Johnson, R-Texas, the chair of the House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Social Security. Johnson’s plan applies the right policy principles to achieve sustainable Social Security solvency, ensuring that the program can pay full benefits as scheduled over the 75-year projection, and beyond... http://dailysignal.com/2016/12/15/new-social-security-reform-bill-moves-in-the-right-direction/?utm_source=TDS_Email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=CapitolBell&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiWmpreU9UaGhaVFZsT1dZMiIsInQiOiJiTmNCWWdSczdkWGVMRnBJMXc1OEh2XC91RWxmaXloSkFHUzdGbHBTeFJzSWNmVWMxT1JHYXlaSG9tOUVBRVhtbFRrNDRneFU0bU9LVHpSVkJzdmhIT2R6WHNGeXlFSTRPdEI4WkdTMHZkVXJlZ0RDOGgxbUR1dFZQUll5eE5RazIifQ%3D%3D
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liar-nObama Training Terrorists: First Sunni,
Now Shia to Fight Them
by Alex Newman
{thenewamerican.com} ~ liar-nObama is again illegally arming and training known terrorists to fight other terrorists he previously armed and funded in violation of U.S. law... unleashing more violence and terror across Iraq, Syria, and all over the Middle East. Unfortunately, the developments are neither “fake news” nor “Russian propaganda.” The schemes are highly illegal, though, with the punishment for aiding designated terror organizations ranging from 20 years to life in federal prison. Under the guise of battling the Frankenstein terror monster of “moderate Syrian rebels” liar-nObama unleashed on the people of Iraq and Syria in recent years — “moderate rebels” that even Vice President Joe loose lips-Biden has admitted never actually existed — the liar-nObama administration is now training pro-Iran Shiite militias led by known terrorists. That is according to official U.S. government sources cited by Molly Hennessy-Fiske and W.J. Henningan, reporting from Iraq for the pro/liar-nObama Los Angeles Times...
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Where Are We?
by Thomas Sowell
{townhall.com} ~ We are now in a kind of political no-man's-land between an administration on its way out and a new administration taking shape. Predictions are always risky -- and nowhere more so than in times like these.
What we can do, however, is assess where we are, and what some of the opportunities and dangers are.
The opportunities are many, which is to say that many things are in desperate need of changing, beginning with rebuilding our dangerously neglected and undermined military forces. The monstrosity of liar-nObamaCare needs to be gotten rid of, not just cosmetically adjusted.
Our fundamental freedoms under the Constitution are at stake in the choice of the next nominee to become a Justice of the closely divided Supreme Court. We need someone with both the depth and the strength to resist the pressures and the temptations that have seduced too many supposedly "conservative" justices, over the years, into betraying Constitutional principles.
The current hysteria over "fake news" -- including hysteria by people who have done more than their own fair share of faking news -- shows the continuing efforts of the political left to stifle free speech in the country at large, as they already have on academic campuses.
These are just some of the opportunities the incoming administration has, now that the Republicans finally have control of both Houses of Congress and the White House -- which is to say, now that they no longer have any excuses for not doing what they said they were going to do, when they were running for election.
Opportunities are of course also challenges, and few of these challenges can be met without paying a price. Will the slim Republican majority in the Senate put bipartisan cooperation ahead of the Constitution, when it comes to choosing a Supreme Court Justice based on principles, rather than on avoiding a nasty fight with the Democrats?
The same question arises when it comes to repealing liar-nObamaCare. Democrats threw bipartisanship to the winds when it came to passing liar-nObamaCare. Republicans who wanted to have an input on this sweeping legislation were bluntly reminded of the outcome of the elections. "I won," President liar-nObama told them.
Now that the Republicans have won -- not only the presidency but also the Congress, as well as most governorships and state legislatures across the country -- do they have the guts to do what they were elected to do?
Surely no one can be unaware that one of the reasons why such an unorthodox outsider as Donald Trump won the Republican nomination, and then the election, is that Republican voters were fed up with the repeated betrayals by the Republican establishment, going all the way back to President Bush 41 and his betrayal of his bold assertion: "Read my lips, no new taxes!"
What do we know, at this point, about the people being tapped as nominees for key positions in the incoming Trump administration? By and large, they are of a higher caliber than usual, especially General James N. Mattis who has been selected to become Secretary of Defense.
The love of rhetoric by both the media and Donald Trump has caused General Mattis' nickname of "Mad Dog Mattis" to become a distraction from the facts about a man of both high intellect and a great concern for the troops he commanded. He has, for example, taken it upon himself to personally visit many families of those who died fighting in the battles he led.
As a personal note, I have had the privilege of having discussions with many military people who have visited the Hoover Institution over the years, and have been impressed with officers of many ranks, including General Mattis. The young officers I have encountered are head and shoulders above so many young people of similar ages who are graduates of even our most prestigious colleges and universities.
The liberal media are already expressing worry about the number of military people being considered for key positions in the new administration. They would be worried about anyone who has not been brainwashed in the political correctness that reigns among the intelligentsia.
The key individual in any administration, however, is the President -- and that remains the key mystery in the new administration.
What we can do, however, is assess where we are, and what some of the opportunities and dangers are.
The opportunities are many, which is to say that many things are in desperate need of changing, beginning with rebuilding our dangerously neglected and undermined military forces. The monstrosity of liar-nObamaCare needs to be gotten rid of, not just cosmetically adjusted.
Our fundamental freedoms under the Constitution are at stake in the choice of the next nominee to become a Justice of the closely divided Supreme Court. We need someone with both the depth and the strength to resist the pressures and the temptations that have seduced too many supposedly "conservative" justices, over the years, into betraying Constitutional principles.
The current hysteria over "fake news" -- including hysteria by people who have done more than their own fair share of faking news -- shows the continuing efforts of the political left to stifle free speech in the country at large, as they already have on academic campuses.
These are just some of the opportunities the incoming administration has, now that the Republicans finally have control of both Houses of Congress and the White House -- which is to say, now that they no longer have any excuses for not doing what they said they were going to do, when they were running for election.
Opportunities are of course also challenges, and few of these challenges can be met without paying a price. Will the slim Republican majority in the Senate put bipartisan cooperation ahead of the Constitution, when it comes to choosing a Supreme Court Justice based on principles, rather than on avoiding a nasty fight with the Democrats?
The same question arises when it comes to repealing liar-nObamaCare. Democrats threw bipartisanship to the winds when it came to passing liar-nObamaCare. Republicans who wanted to have an input on this sweeping legislation were bluntly reminded of the outcome of the elections. "I won," President liar-nObama told them.
Now that the Republicans have won -- not only the presidency but also the Congress, as well as most governorships and state legislatures across the country -- do they have the guts to do what they were elected to do?
Surely no one can be unaware that one of the reasons why such an unorthodox outsider as Donald Trump won the Republican nomination, and then the election, is that Republican voters were fed up with the repeated betrayals by the Republican establishment, going all the way back to President Bush 41 and his betrayal of his bold assertion: "Read my lips, no new taxes!"
What do we know, at this point, about the people being tapped as nominees for key positions in the incoming Trump administration? By and large, they are of a higher caliber than usual, especially General James N. Mattis who has been selected to become Secretary of Defense.
The love of rhetoric by both the media and Donald Trump has caused General Mattis' nickname of "Mad Dog Mattis" to become a distraction from the facts about a man of both high intellect and a great concern for the troops he commanded. He has, for example, taken it upon himself to personally visit many families of those who died fighting in the battles he led.
As a personal note, I have had the privilege of having discussions with many military people who have visited the Hoover Institution over the years, and have been impressed with officers of many ranks, including General Mattis. The young officers I have encountered are head and shoulders above so many young people of similar ages who are graduates of even our most prestigious colleges and universities.
The liberal media are already expressing worry about the number of military people being considered for key positions in the new administration. They would be worried about anyone who has not been brainwashed in the political correctness that reigns among the intelligentsia.
The key individual in any administration, however, is the President -- and that remains the key mystery in the new administration.
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