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2016 The truth will set you free
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Resisting The Revisionists: Finally, A First Step
by Charles Krauthammer
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Now That Trump Is the Nominee...
"It's my honor to throw Donald Trump over the top tonight with 89 delegates," said Donald Trump Jr., speaking for the state of New York's 89 delegates that officially granted the nomination to his father Donald Trump. The primary contest has been unofficially over for months now since Trump's final two rivals, Ted Cruz and John Kasich, dropped out of the race in April. Though unconventional and uncouth, we've written extensively that Trump was able to energize support with his simple populist message of "making America great again." That appealed to many who have become wearied by the unfulfilled promises (both real and perceived) of the establishment.
There are still conservatives who are not on board the Trump Train. While there are certainly legitimate concerns that we have highlighted, his choosing of Mike Pence as a running mate should be an encouraging sign. At least it's a good start, sending the message that Trump can work with other Republicans.
Given the fact that either Trump or liar-Hillary Clinton will be elected president in November, the focus now must turn to defeating the very real threat of another liar-Clinton presidency. Conservatives know that liar-Hillary Clinton would continue the current leftist policies that are actively destroying the very foundations of this great nation. The prospects are truly frightening of where the country will be with four more years of socialist leadership. However, if Republicans continue to stubbornly bicker and maintain their fractured boundaries, refusing to unite together to face the greater foe, then we face four more years of continuing down this dangerous road of increasing government overreach and loss of Liberty. -The Patriot Post
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GOP Convention Highlights, Day 2
Excerpts from Day 2 of the Republican National Convention: House Speaker Paul Ryan: "This year of surprises and dramatic turns can end in the finest possible way — when America elects a conservative governing majority. We can do this, we can earn that mandate, if we don't hold anything back, if we never lose sight of the stakes, if we never lose sight of what's on the table. ... Have we had our arguments this year? Sure we have. You know what I call those? Signs of life. Signs of a party that's not just going through the motions. Not just mouthing new words for the same old stuff. Meanwhile, what choice has the other party made? ... They are offering a third nObama term, brought to you by another liar-Clinton."
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McCon-nell: "I'm here to tell you that liar-Hillary Clinton will say anything, do anything and be anything to get elected president and we cannot allow it. ... The American people are tired of hearing about the bounty of government while the cost of just caring for a family or meeting daily expenses grows out of reach. Over the past few years, they've seen government officials abuse their office and get rewarded for it. They've seen the middle class shrink. And in the midst of all this they have raised a simple complaint. Who is looking out for us? At a moment when so many feel betrayed by their government, why in the world would Democrats put forward such a candidate?"
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie: "Since the Justice Department refuses to allow you to render a verdict, let's present the case now, on the facts, against liar-Hillary Clinton. She was America's chief diplomat. Look around at the violence and danger in our world today every region of the world has been infected with her flawed judgment. ... liar-Hillary Clinton, putting herself ahead of America — guilty or not guilty? liar-Hillary Clinton, lying to the American people about her selfish, awful judgment — guilty or not guilty? Time after time, the facts, and just the facts, lead you to the same verdict both around the world and at home. ... We cannot make the Chief Law Enforcement Officer of the United States someone who has risked America's secrets and lied about this to Congress and the American people."
Former Attorney General Michael Mukasey: "Over the years, liar-Hillary Clinton has done a lot and said a lot to show why she should not be president. But how she treated government secrets as secretary of state, and what she said before and after she was caught, sums up the case against her. She sent and received secret and top-secret and beyond-top-secret emails on an unsecure private email system instead of on the secure government system — and she did it without authorization."
Sen. Ron Johnson: "What difference, at this point, does it make? I am the guy who provoked that infamous response from liar-Hillary Clinton by asking a simple question: 'Why didn't you just pick up the phone and call the survivors?' It makes a difference to the young Yazidi woman I met who was captured and brutalized by ISIS barbarians, the joy of life hauntingly absent in her eyes. It makes a difference to the travelers, passing through airports in Brussels and Istanbul, who just wanted to get home to their family and friends. It makes a difference to the ordinary Americans sharing holiday cheer at a Christmas party in San Bernardino. It makes a difference to the young men and women dancing on a summer night at a club in Orlando. And it makes a difference to the families watching fireworks at a celebration of freedom in Nice. ... It doesn't have to be like this — we shouldn't have to live in fear. This is a fight for freedom. It's not someone else's fight, this is our fight. And it is a fight we absolutely must win." -The Patriot Post
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Sacramento Under Siege By Illegals and Islamists
by Bethany Blankley
{constitution.com} ~ It is no longer safe to sit outside in a public park in Sacramento, the capital of California... Look at these men who are hitting people with what appear to be long wooden sticks or baseball bats. Chaos ensues and people get up off of their blankets to get away from the violence. This is nObama’s “hope and change.” http://constitution.com/insanity-sacramento-siege-illegals-islamists-video/
VIDEO: at the site
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Soldiers In A Repeat Of Benghazi,
But This Time In Turkey?
by Walid Shoebat
{freedomoutpost.com} ~ We covered earlier this week how Turkish President Erdogan used a false flag military “coup” to consolidate his own power, eliminate the remaining opposition, and rally support to himself and his perverted aim of rebuilding the Ottoman Menace into its former Empire... This brings us to an interesting role, and that is of the US Government in this crisis, and, more importantly, the particular persons in power in the US government right now. I say this with regard to the US-Turkish military partnership at Incirlik Air Force Base in Eastern Turkey. The last eight years under Nobel Peace Prize recipient US President nObama have been anything but peaceful, as the USA has invaded close to a dozen nations around the world, most of them Muslim. However, the nation that stands out the most for the purpose of this situation is Libya, since it was in Libya that Secretary of State liar-Hillary Clinton and her cohorts committed the infamous Benghazi scandal, in which four American CIA operatives were lynched to death by US-backed Muslim terrorists for political ends. Not only did these men call for help repeatedly, but liar-Clinton stood by as these men died, and then, with not even the slightest disturbance in conscience, blamed the attack on a petty film made by a nobody and which we have written about before here only on Shoebat.com because Walid indirectly had personal connections to this film by blood and not by choice]). Most famously, liar-Clinton lied to Congress about the Benghazi attacks, famously remarking, “What does it matter” when asked about what happened:...
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French Foreign Minister Outlines Relationship
With Russia, Warns Turkey Against
Building Autocratic Regime
by John Grady
by John Grady
Jean-Marc Ayrault
{usni.org} ~ The French foreign minister warned Turkey not to use its state of emergency decree following a failed military coup as a way to “set up a regime that could become autocratic” during a discussion at a Washington, D.C., think tank... Jean-Marc Aytrault, appearing Thursday at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, said in answer to a question France and other democratic nations like the United States, “have duties to tell certain truths.” “We have expressed our concerns,” he said over the removal of 15,000 educators from their positions, the rounding up of jurists and military officers suspected of participating in the attempted coup to oust the government of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan... https://news.usni.org/2016/07/21/french-foreign-minister-outlines-relationship-russia-warns-turkey-building-autocratic-regime?utm_source=USNI+News&utm_campaign=2fc06c916e-USNI_NEWS_DAILY&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_0dd4a1450b-2fc06c916e-231491269&mc_cid=2fc06c916e&mc_eid=3999f18767
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U.S. Retirees Rank Third in Income,
Third in Happiness. I’ll Call That a Win
by Andrew G. Biggs
{aei.org} ~ Does money buy happiness? I don’t know, but it doesn’t much matter because U.S. retirees have both... A new study finds that the U.S. ranks 14th out of 43 countries in terms of retirees’ quality of life. From this, I anticipate the usual fretting about Americans’ retirement saving and calls for radical reforms. But how seriously should you take these kinds of numbers? Answer: not at all. When it comes to two key factors – incomes and happiness – U.S. retirees are ranked third in the world. I’ll call that a win. The Wall Street Journal reports on the Natixis Global Retirement Index, a new ranking of “how well retirees live in 43 nations based on 18 measures of health, wealth, quality of life and “material well-being” that affect citizens’ retirement security. The measures include per capita income, health-care costs and longevity figures published by organizations including the World Bank, the World Health Organization and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.”... http://www.aei.org/publication/u-s-retirees-rank-third-in-income-third-in-happiness-ill-call-that-a-win/?utm_source=paramount&utm_medium=email&utm_content=AEITODAY&utm_campaign=072216
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On eve of Rio games, terror threat looms in Brazil
by Roger F. Noriega
{aei.org} ~ A radical jihadist group “Ansar al-Khilafah Brazil,” also referred to as the “Brazil Caliphate”, became the first group in the Western Hemisphere to pledge loyalty to ISIS... Ansar al-Khilafah publicly posts jihadist propaganda through the messaging app Telegram, which it also used to make its pledge to ISIS. In one post, the group refers to the recent attack in Nice, noting the ease with which a similar attack could happen during the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro set to begin in August. “If French soldiers failed to prevent a terror attack happening in France, of what use will they be in trying to train Brazilian police?” the group taunted. Today, the Brazilian government reacted to this news with the arrest of ten Brazilian nationals suspected of planning attacks during the Rio Olympics... http://www.aei.org/publication/on-eve-rio-terror-threat-looms-in-brazil/?utm_source=paramount&utm_medium=email&utm_content=AEITODAY&utm_campaign=072216
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American Studies Association discussing possible academic boycott of Turkey, but why stop there?
by William A. Jacobson
{legalinsurrection.com} ~ Yesterday I asked the question, in light of the academic purge in Turkey, Will anti-Israel academic boycotters now also boycott Turkish universities?... As noted in that post, 250 university presidents and major university associations have condemned the academic boycott of Israel. In particular, the December 2013 adoption of the academic boycott of Israel by the American Studies Association was condemned as violation of academic freedom. Read the dozens and dozens of statements describing how the ASA has violated academic freedom here. The American Association of University Professors, which has acted at the unofficial authority on academic freedom since the early 1900s, came out against the ASA’s academic boycott of Israel because it views any systematic academic boycott as destructive:.. http://legalinsurrection.com/2016/07/american-studies-association-discussing-possible-academic-boycott-of-turkey-but-why-stop-there/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+LegalInsurrection+%28Le%C2%B7gal+In%C2%B7sur%C2%B7rec%C2%B7tion%29
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If Our Police Aren't Safe. Neither Are We
by CATHY HINNERS
by CATHY HINNERS
{familysecuritymatters.org} ~ Please stop holding vigils. Right now they serve no purpose other than to be a target for those that want to kill in the name of their god or their perceived notions of racism... If you want to do something, educate yourselves on the threats. Learn who the enemy is. Yes, enemy. We are at war, and the bigger picture must be seen. The first thing to be understood is who the enemy is. The current administration has done a great disservice to the American people by hiding the truth of the agenda of those killing Americans on American soil. They aren't thugs, creating chaos because they are mentally unstable. They are Muslims performing jihad because their doctrine directs them to. The sooner this is admitted; the sooner we will win. Unfortunately, Muslims in America who believe in sharia law, and who follow the footsteps of their prophet Muhammad have joined forces with disgruntled members of groups such as Black Lives Matter, the New Black Panther Party and the Nation of Islam. This is important because of Muhammad's history... http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/if-our-police-arent-safe-neither-are-we?f=must_reads
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How 'sanctuary hospitals' cost America big
by BETSY MCCAUGHEY, PHD
by BETSY MCCAUGHEY, PHD
{familysecuritymatters.org} ~ Medical bills are pushing more Americans into severe "financial distress" even if they have insurance, according to a top medical journal. These bills force hundreds of thousands into bankruptcy each year... What's so galling is that while Americans struggle to pay their bills, freeloaders from other countries get the same care at no cost by gaming our generous open-door hospital policies. They take a flight to the United States, go straight to an emergency room and get pacemakers, chemotherapy and other expensive care, leaving American taxpayers to foot their bills. Evan Levine, cardiologist at a Bronx teaching hospital, recently treated a Trinidad resident who had learned his pacemaker battery was about to give out. He came to New York to avoid paying for cardiac care back home. Cost to him? Zero, aside from airfare...This is not right. They need to pay their share. http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/how-sanctuary-hospitals-cost-america-big?f=must_reads
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Think Progress Editor Calls Killing Cops ‘Justice’
by Onan Coca
{lidblog.com} ~ Un-freaking-believable. Think Progress is an organization wholly devoted to spreading liberal misinformation and idiocy across any and all media platforms possible... They’ve long been about the business of destroying our nation one bad idea at a time, and they’ve now found a new, creative, and disgusting way to see that done. Think Progress’s LGBT Editor Zack Ford showed how little respect for our laws, our history, and our nation the liberal outfit had when he recently tweeted this in response to the murders of three police officers in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Ford (and Think Progress) was quickly called to the carpet for the disturbing Tweet. Ford promptly deleted the offending Tweet (not before some industrious folks had screen grabbed it) blaming the uproar over his comments on other people not understanding what he was trying to say... http://lidblog.com/think-progress-editor-calls-killing-cops-justice/
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The Fight Against ISIS Will Suffer
Because of Turkey’s Coup
by Jonathan Schanzer
{defenddemocracy.org} ~ The failed coup in Turkey will set back global efforts to combat the Islamic State. For one, trust between Ankara and Washington is at an all-time low... A Turkish minister charged on TV that the United States was behind the attempted coup. The State Department fired back, stating that, “claims about any role by the United States in the failed coup attempt are utterly false and harmful to our bilateral relations.” The U.S. use of the Incirlik airbase – a crucial U.S. and NATO military asset in Turkey – is also now in doubt. On Saturday, the Turkish government cut power and closed the airspace, forcing operations against the Islamic State to grind to a halt. Operations have resumed, but President Recep Tayyip Erdogan may still try to use the base as a bargaining chip to demand America’s extradition of Fetullah Gulen, his archrival based in rural Pennsylvania since 1999... http://www.defenddemocracy.org/media-hit/schanzer-jonathan-the-fight-against-isis-will-suffer-because-of-turkeys-coup/
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Resisting The Revisionists: Finally, A First Step
by Charles Krauthammer
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{freedomsback.com} ~ “The most significant reinforcement of our collective defense any time since the Cold War,” President nObama called it. A bit of an exaggeration, perhaps, but it was still an achievement: Last week’s NATO summit in Warsaw ordered the deployment of troops to Eastern Europe, the alliance’s most serious response yet to Russia’s aggression and provocations on its western frontier.
The post-Ukraine economic sanctions have been weak; the declamatory denunciations, a mere embarrassment. They’ve only encouraged further reckless Russian behavior — the buzzing of U.S. ships, intrusions into European waters, threats to the Baltic States.
NATO will now deploy four battalions to front-line states. In Estonia, they will be led by Britain; in Lithuania, by Germany; in Latvia, by Canada; in Poland, by the United States. Not nearly enough, and not permanently based, but nonetheless significant.
In the unlikely event of a Russian invasion of any of those territories, these troops are to act as a tripwire, triggering a full-scale war with NATO. It’s the kind of coldblooded deterrent that kept the peace in Europe during the Cold War and keeps it now along the DMZ in Korea.
In the more likely event of a “little green men” takeover attempt in, say, Estonia about 25 percent ethnically Russian, the sort of disguised slow-motion invasion that Vladimir Putin pulled off in Crimea, the NATO deployments might be enough to thwart the aggression and call in reinforcements.
The message to Putin is clear: Yes, you’ve taken parts of Georgia and Ukraine. But they’re not NATO. That territory is sacred — or so we say.
This is a welcome development for the Balts, who are wondering whether they really did achieve irreversible independence when the West won the Cold War. Their apprehension is grounded in NATO’s flaccid response to Putin’s aggressive revanchism, particularly in Ukraine. nObama still won’t provide Ukraine with even defensive weaponry. This follows years of American accommodation of Putin, from canceling a Polish-Czech missile defense system to, most recently, openly acquiescing to Russia’s seizure of a dominant role in Syria.
And what are the East Europeans to think when they hear the presumptive presidential candidate of the party of Reagan speaking dismissively of NATO and suggesting a possible American exit?
The NATO action takes on even greater significance because of the timing, coming just two weeks after Brexit. Britain’s withdrawal threatens the future of the other major pillar of Western integration and solidarity, the European Union. NATO shows that it is holding fast and that the vital instrument of Western cohesion and joint action will henceforth be almost entirely trans-Atlantic — meaning, under American leadership.
The EU, even if it doesn’t dissolve, will now inevitably turn inward as it spends years working out its new communal arrangements with and without Britain. Putin was Brexit’s big winner. Any fracturing of the Western alliance presents opportunities to play one member against another. He can only be disappointed to see NATO step up and step in.
After the humiliating collapse of President nObama’s cherished Russian “reset,” instilling backbone in NATO and resisting Putin are significant strategic achievements. It leaves a marker for nObama’s successor, reassures the East Europeans and will make Putin think twice about repeating Ukraine in the Baltics.
However, the Western order remains challenged by the other two members of the troika of authoritarian expansionists: China and Iran. Their provocations proceed unabated. Indeed, the next test for the United States is China’s furious denunciation of the decision handed down Tuesday by the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague — a blistering, sweeping and unanimous rejection of China’s territorial claims and military buildup in the South China Sea.
Without American action, however, The Hague’s verdict is a dead letter. Lecturing other great powers about adherence to “international norms” is fine. But the Pacific Rim nations are anxious to see whether we will actually do something.
Regarding Iran, we certainly won’t. Our abject appeasement continues, from ignoring Tehran’s serial violations of the nuclear agreement the latest: intensified efforts to obtain illegal nuclear technology in Germany to the administration acting as a kind of Chamber of Commerce to facilitate the sale of about 100 Boeing jetliners to a regime that routinely uses civilian aircraft for military transport particularly in Syria.
The troop deployments to Eastern Europe are a good first step in pushing back against the rising revisionist powers. But a first step, however welcome, seven and a half years into a presidency, is a melancholy reminder of what might have been.
The post-Ukraine economic sanctions have been weak; the declamatory denunciations, a mere embarrassment. They’ve only encouraged further reckless Russian behavior — the buzzing of U.S. ships, intrusions into European waters, threats to the Baltic States.
NATO will now deploy four battalions to front-line states. In Estonia, they will be led by Britain; in Lithuania, by Germany; in Latvia, by Canada; in Poland, by the United States. Not nearly enough, and not permanently based, but nonetheless significant.
In the unlikely event of a Russian invasion of any of those territories, these troops are to act as a tripwire, triggering a full-scale war with NATO. It’s the kind of coldblooded deterrent that kept the peace in Europe during the Cold War and keeps it now along the DMZ in Korea.
In the more likely event of a “little green men” takeover attempt in, say, Estonia about 25 percent ethnically Russian, the sort of disguised slow-motion invasion that Vladimir Putin pulled off in Crimea, the NATO deployments might be enough to thwart the aggression and call in reinforcements.
The message to Putin is clear: Yes, you’ve taken parts of Georgia and Ukraine. But they’re not NATO. That territory is sacred — or so we say.
This is a welcome development for the Balts, who are wondering whether they really did achieve irreversible independence when the West won the Cold War. Their apprehension is grounded in NATO’s flaccid response to Putin’s aggressive revanchism, particularly in Ukraine. nObama still won’t provide Ukraine with even defensive weaponry. This follows years of American accommodation of Putin, from canceling a Polish-Czech missile defense system to, most recently, openly acquiescing to Russia’s seizure of a dominant role in Syria.
And what are the East Europeans to think when they hear the presumptive presidential candidate of the party of Reagan speaking dismissively of NATO and suggesting a possible American exit?
The NATO action takes on even greater significance because of the timing, coming just two weeks after Brexit. Britain’s withdrawal threatens the future of the other major pillar of Western integration and solidarity, the European Union. NATO shows that it is holding fast and that the vital instrument of Western cohesion and joint action will henceforth be almost entirely trans-Atlantic — meaning, under American leadership.
The EU, even if it doesn’t dissolve, will now inevitably turn inward as it spends years working out its new communal arrangements with and without Britain. Putin was Brexit’s big winner. Any fracturing of the Western alliance presents opportunities to play one member against another. He can only be disappointed to see NATO step up and step in.
After the humiliating collapse of President nObama’s cherished Russian “reset,” instilling backbone in NATO and resisting Putin are significant strategic achievements. It leaves a marker for nObama’s successor, reassures the East Europeans and will make Putin think twice about repeating Ukraine in the Baltics.
However, the Western order remains challenged by the other two members of the troika of authoritarian expansionists: China and Iran. Their provocations proceed unabated. Indeed, the next test for the United States is China’s furious denunciation of the decision handed down Tuesday by the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague — a blistering, sweeping and unanimous rejection of China’s territorial claims and military buildup in the South China Sea.
Without American action, however, The Hague’s verdict is a dead letter. Lecturing other great powers about adherence to “international norms” is fine. But the Pacific Rim nations are anxious to see whether we will actually do something.
Regarding Iran, we certainly won’t. Our abject appeasement continues, from ignoring Tehran’s serial violations of the nuclear agreement the latest: intensified efforts to obtain illegal nuclear technology in Germany to the administration acting as a kind of Chamber of Commerce to facilitate the sale of about 100 Boeing jetliners to a regime that routinely uses civilian aircraft for military transport particularly in Syria.
The troop deployments to Eastern Europe are a good first step in pushing back against the rising revisionist powers. But a first step, however welcome, seven and a half years into a presidency, is a melancholy reminder of what might have been.
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