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2016 The truth will set you free
Featuring:
Leaked document says 2,000
'Middle East' men allegedly assaulted
1,200 German women on New Year's Eve
by Rick Noack
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. OPINION IN BRIEF
Charles Krauthammer: "When Chief Justice John Roberts used a tortured, logic-defying argument to uphold nObamacare, he was subjected to similar accusations [as FBI Director James Comey] of bad faith. My view was that, as guardian of the Supreme Court's public standing, he thought the issue too momentous — and the implications for the country too large — to hinge on a decision of the court. Especially after Bush v. Gore, Roberts wanted to keep the court from overturning the political branches on so monumental a piece of social legislation. I would suggest that Comey's thinking, whether conscious or not, was similar: He did not want the FBI director to end up as the arbiter of the 2016 presidential election. If liar-Clinton were not a presumptive presidential nominee but simply a retired secretary of state, he might well have made a different recommendation. Prosecuting under current circumstances would have upended and redirected an already year-long presidential selection process. In my view, Comey didn't want to be remembered as the man who irreversibly altered the course of American political history. And with no guarantee that the prosecution would succeed, moreover. Imagine that scenario: You knock out of the race the most likely next president — and she ultimately gets acquitted! Imagine how Comey goes down in history under those circumstances. I admit I'm giving Comey the benefit of the doubt. But the best way I can reconcile his reputation for integrity with the grating illogic of his liar-Clinton decision is by presuming that he didn't want to make history. I don't endorse his decision. (Nor did I Roberts'.) But I think I understand it." -The Patriot Post
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The liar-Hillary Double Standard
"No I was not," was liar-Hillary Clinton's response when pressed by CBS News' Scott Pelley regarding whether or not she was "extremely careless" in her handling of classified information while secretary of state. "I take classified material seriously and this investigation has proven that I had no intent to do anything wrong," liar-Clinton insisted earlier in the interview. It would be difficult to find anyone more adept at the art obfuscating reality and political spin than the liar-Clintons.
The truth is liar-Hillary Clinton was "extremely careless" in handling classified information. As FBI director James Comey stated, "Although we did not find clear evidence that Secretary liar-Clinton or her colleagues intended to violate laws governing the handling of classified information, there is evidence that they were extremely careless in their handling of very sensitive, highly classified information." Shockingly, after making that statement Comey did not recommend that charges be brought against liar-Clinton.
In an attempt to prevent further liar-Clinton carelessness — and to seek at least some consequences — House Speaker Paul Ryan formally asked Director of National Intelligence James Clapper to bar liar-Clinton from receiving classified information during her presidential campaign. This is an unprecedented request in the modern era. Since the 1950s presidential candidates have been routinely briefed on intelligence matters. But this particular candidate is different. Ryan stated, "I think the DNI, Clapper, should deny liar-Hillary Clinton access to classified information during this campaign given how she so recklessly handled classified information."
One email of classified information sent by a Marine seeking to protect other Marines will earn a discharge; hundreds of classified emails intentionally kept on a private non-government authorized or secured server because you are secretary of state and prefer the "convenience" … no problem. At least that's what liar-Hillary Clinton would have you believe, because, as always with the liar-Clintons, she believes the rules simply don't apply. -The Patriot Post
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Party Platforms: The Difference Between
Freedom and Servitude
As both parties gear up for their respective conventions later this month, the glaring and growing disconnect among Democrats, particularly on the economy, is impossible to mistake. On the GOP side, the focus clearly is on reducing onerous tax rates and cutting off the federal government's out-of-control spending. Republicans recently unveiled a tax overhaul that, at least in theory, would constrict tax filing to fit on a postcard. And for those who question the plan's viability, a new Tax Foundation study evokes high praise.
According to the study, "[T]he plan would significantly reduce marginal tax rates and the cost of capital, which would lead to 9.1 percent higher GDP over the long term, 7.7 percent higher wages, and an additional 1.7 million full-time equivalent jobs." Additionally, "[T]he plan would lead to 0.7 percent higher after-tax income for all taxpayers and 5.3 percent higher after-tax income for the top 1 percent. When accounting for the increased GDP, after-tax incomes of all taxpayers would increase by at least 8.4 percent."
Meanwhile, Democrats are getting ready to accept their most anti-capitalist platform to date. Among the changes is abolishing what the Democratic Platform Committee is calling the "starvation wage" and replacing it with a $15 minimum wage — one of the more popular talking points of Socialist Bernie Sanders. As NBC further explains, "The document goes further left than liar-Clinton's position on a number of issues, with Sanders policy director Warren Gunnells saying his campaign achieved 'at least 80 percent' of what it came for. 'I think if you read the platform right now, you will understand that the political revolution is alive and kicking,' he said." In other words, the Sanders Effect is in full swing.
In a piece titled "Is Anemic Growth the New Normal?" columnist George Will writes, "America's economy has now slouched into the eighth year of a recovery that demonstrates how much we have defined recovery down." As much as Barack nObama touts himself for ostensibly saving the economy, the fact is, America is in the midst of a decade of sub-3% GDP growth. And Democrats not only want to continue nObama's failed policies, they want to expand them. The nObama recovery has been a colossal failure. To vote for more of it is to embrace servitude. The GOP offers a way out. -The Patriot Post
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Palestinian Authority Gives US Dollars to Terrorists
by Alice Greene
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{punchingbagpost.com} ~ The House Foreign Affairs Committee discovered last week that the Palestinian Authority (PA) saves 10% of its annual budget for the families of terrorists who perish in their nefarious line of work... The committee met Wednesday with Middle Eastern expert Yigal Carmon in a hearing entitled “Financially Rewarding Terrorism in the West Bank.” Nearly $140 million of the PA's 2016 budget has been earmarked for imprisoned terrorists and their families; another $172 million for the families of “martyrs,” says Yigal Carmon, President of the Middle East Media Research Institute... Cut the funding now.
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How the Left Lies When Blacks Are Shot By Police
by Matthew Vadum
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{frontpagemag.com} ~ In order to reinforce the false narrative that blacks are systematically discriminated against in America, the Left and its accomplices in the mainstream media spent much of last week lying over and over again about two black men shot to death by police officers... Like a burnt out Hollywood screenwriter, the Left keeps recycling the same old stock characters. Black men are tragic heroes. White people and police are racist agents of an evil system. The facts are never allowed to intrude on these fantasies. Michael Brown of Ferguson, Mo., was supposedly a gentle giant. Trayvon Martin of Sanford, Fla., was said to look like the son President nObama never had. "When I think about this boy, I think about my own kids," nObama said after Martin's death in 2012. Later we learned these were politically motivated lies generated by leftist lynch mobs... http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/263463/how-left-lies-when-blacks-are-shot-police-matthew-vadum
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Bin Laden’s son vows “revenge by the
Islamic nation for Sheikh Osama”
by Robert Spencer
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{jihadwatch.org} ~ The photo is ten or more years old; Hamza bin Laden is about 25 years old now. The son of slain al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden has threatened revenge against the United States for assassinating his father, according to an audio message posted online... Hamza bin Laden promised to continue the global militant group’s fight against the United States and its allies in the 21-minute speech entitled “We Are All Osama,” according to the SITE Intelligence Group. “We will continue striking you and targeting you in your country and abroad in response to your oppression of the people of Palestine, Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Somalia and the rest of the Muslim lands that did not survive your oppression,” Hamza said...
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nObama Admin Brushes Off Intel Iran
Is Buying Nuke, Missile Materials
by Adam Kredo
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{freebeacon.com} ~ The nObama administration is brushing aside new German intelligence reports indicating that Iran has accelerated its efforts to procure key nuclear materials... despite promises to end this behavior as part of last summer’s nuclear accord, according to comments by a U.S. official provided to the Free Beacon. Germany’s internal intelligence agency concluded in a recent report that sources have witnessed “extensive Iranian attempts” to procure illicit materials, “especially goods that can be used in the field of nuclear technology,” according to the report. The report appears to show that Iran is not upholding its most critical commitments under the nuclear deal. German Chancellor Angela Merkel made it clear this week that the intelligence shows “Iran continued unabated to develop its rocket program in conflict with the relevant provisions of the UN Security Council,” particularly one Security Council resolution that bars Iran from pursuing ballistic missile technology...nObama and his administration show they are stupid fools. The Americans are going to pay for their stupidness.
{freebeacon.com} ~ The nObama administration is brushing aside new German intelligence reports indicating that Iran has accelerated its efforts to procure key nuclear materials... despite promises to end this behavior as part of last summer’s nuclear accord, according to comments by a U.S. official provided to the Free Beacon. Germany’s internal intelligence agency concluded in a recent report that sources have witnessed “extensive Iranian attempts” to procure illicit materials, “especially goods that can be used in the field of nuclear technology,” according to the report. The report appears to show that Iran is not upholding its most critical commitments under the nuclear deal. German Chancellor Angela Merkel made it clear this week that the intelligence shows “Iran continued unabated to develop its rocket program in conflict with the relevant provisions of the UN Security Council,” particularly one Security Council resolution that bars Iran from pursuing ballistic missile technology...nObama and his administration show they are stupid fools. The Americans are going to pay for their stupidness.
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Col West Calls Democrats Communists,
liar-Clinton Scolding White People Offensive
by Rick Wells
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{rickwells.us} ~ Her arrogance is boundless, but the criminal espionage perpetrator liar-Hillary Clinton just keeps hurling her holier-than-thou insults at the underclass of commoners, those lowly individuals, many of them white, who aren’t above the law as she is. Col Allen West has taken note... Col West is disgusted by Democrats, all of them and most particularly the current occupier of the White House and the criminal that aims to be his successor. After playing a mercifully short but still nausea-inducing clip of liar-Clinton lecturing white people on how we have to listen to those non-whites making demands, Col West offers his thoughts on issues that she touched on. Judge Jeanine quotes the liar-Clinton comments that “We’ve got to start listening to the legitimate cries from our fellow African-American citizens.” She asks if that was an “appropriate thing to say after five officers were shot?” He replies that it was not but that we must understand that “That was the most disingenuous, offensive and pandering statement that the presumptive Democrat nominee would put out there.” He says, “This is not about rectifying the issues in the black community.”...
VIDEO: https://youtu.be/mOi5XIoDFE0
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Will Republicans in Congress Be Able
to Bring liar-Hillary to Justice?
by William Stauff
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{constitution.com} ~ Will these hearings help the 2016 presidential election in the minds of voters? Possibly... However, haven’t we seen these types of performances before from Trey Gowdy? Remember Benghazi? The problem with Gowdy is that he is subservient to GOP Leadership and doesn’t lift a finger until either backstabber-Boehner or Ryan gives him the green light. Who has gone to jail with Benghazi? Who has been prosecuted with Benghazi? Real justice in Benghazi would constitute at a minimum rounding up every last jihadist who stormed our diplomatic compound and sentencing them to death, and the dismissal of every last member of the State Department whose incompetence, ignorance or political expedience resulted in our men being sitting ducks in hostile territory to maintain a politically correct narrative in the wake of our disastrous Libyan intervention... http://constitution.com/will-gop-congress-bring-hillary-justice/
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Poor illegal immigrants get food stamps
denied to poor U.S. citizens
by Paul Bedard
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{washingtonexaminer.com} ~ Illegal immigrant households tapping into the federal food stamp program are receiving $1.4 billion to $2.1 billion a year despite their ineligibility, according to a new analysis of the Agriculture Department program... And rules guiding who can get food stamps favor households with illegal immigrants over all-U.S. citizen homes, according to the detailed report from the Center for Immigration Studies released Monday morning. CIS expert David North has determined that 460,000 to 700,000 households with mix of legal and illegal immigrants are participating in the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program, or SNAP... http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/illegal-immigrants-get-food-stamps-denied-to-u.s.-citizens/article/2596115?utm_campaign=Washington%20Examiner:%20Washington%20Secrets%20PMI&utm_source=Washington%20Examiner:%20Washington%20Secrets%20PMI%20-%2007/11/16&utm_medium=email
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nObama and liar-Hillary Exploit Murdered
Cops to Federalize Police
by Alex Newman
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{thenewamerican.com} ~ Barack nObama and liar-Hillary Clinton are exploiting the killing of five police officers in Dallas to push a range of assaults on the U.S. Constitution, including a decades-old plot to federalize America's local police departments without any semblance of constitutional authority... In between subtly demonizing law-enforcement officers as racists and touting the controversial Black Lives Matter movement, the two Democrat Party standard-bearers also seized on the Dallas police shootings to promote further infringements on the constitutionally protected right to keep and bear arms. Critics, though, including among America's police forces, blasted the nObama administration and its allies for fueling a “war” on law enforcement. The establishment plan to federalize and militarize America's state and local police forces has been underway for decades. In recent years, though, the nObama administration has pushed the agenda further and faster than ever. Among other schemes, the White House has used “executive actions,” as well as bribe money provided by Congress and threats of lawsuits, to impose a wide range of unconstitutional federal “guidelines” and controls on law enforcement. Some critics referred to the schemes as “Common Core for police,” a reference to the administration's abuse of federal bribes to impose dumbed-down national “standards” on America's local school systems. The United Nations has even called on American police to obey what UN boss Ban Ki-moon called “international standards.”... http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/constitution/item/23606-obama-and-hillary-exploit-murdered-cops-to-federalize-police
{thenewamerican.com} ~ Barack nObama and liar-Hillary Clinton are exploiting the killing of five police officers in Dallas to push a range of assaults on the U.S. Constitution, including a decades-old plot to federalize America's local police departments without any semblance of constitutional authority... In between subtly demonizing law-enforcement officers as racists and touting the controversial Black Lives Matter movement, the two Democrat Party standard-bearers also seized on the Dallas police shootings to promote further infringements on the constitutionally protected right to keep and bear arms. Critics, though, including among America's police forces, blasted the nObama administration and its allies for fueling a “war” on law enforcement. The establishment plan to federalize and militarize America's state and local police forces has been underway for decades. In recent years, though, the nObama administration has pushed the agenda further and faster than ever. Among other schemes, the White House has used “executive actions,” as well as bribe money provided by Congress and threats of lawsuits, to impose a wide range of unconstitutional federal “guidelines” and controls on law enforcement. Some critics referred to the schemes as “Common Core for police,” a reference to the administration's abuse of federal bribes to impose dumbed-down national “standards” on America's local school systems. The United Nations has even called on American police to obey what UN boss Ban Ki-moon called “international standards.”... http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/constitution/item/23606-obama-and-hillary-exploit-murdered-cops-to-federalize-police
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The Case for Kurdish Statehood
by Noah Beck
by Noah Beck
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{investigativeproject.org} ~ Why has the West been so supportive of Palestinian nationalism, yet so reluctant to support the Kurds, the largest nation in the world without a state... The Kurds have been instrumental in fighting the Islamic State (ISIS); have generously accepted millions of refugees fleeing ISIS to the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG); and embrace Western values such as gender equality, religious freedom, and human rights. They are also an ancient people with an ethnic and linguistic identity stretching back millennia and have faced decades of brutal oppression as a minority. Yet they cannot seem to get sufficient support from the West for their political aspirations. The Palestinians, by contrast, claimed a distinct national identity relatively recently, are less than one-third fewer in number in 2013, the global Palestinian population was estimated by the Palestinian Authority to reach 11.6 million, control land that is less than 1/15th the size of the KRG territory, and have not developed their civil society or economy with nearly as much success as the Kurds. Yet the United Nations, the European Union, the Arab League, and other international bodies have all but ignored Kurdish statehood dreams while regularly prioritizing Palestinian ambitions over countless other global crises... http://www.investigativeproject.org/5500/the-case-for-kurdish-statehood
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Judge Gives liar-Hillary a DEADLINE?!
by NIKKI SCHWAB
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{dailymail.co} ~ Judge tells liar-Hillary Clinton she has until TUESDAY to explain why she shouldn’t have to testify in federal case about Huma Abedin’s double-dipping job arrangement... Conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch has submitted a request for permission to depose former secretary of state liar-Hillary Clinton Judicial Watch argues that liar-Clinton is an ‘indispensable witness’ in its ongoing Freedom of Information Act case. Like a game of whack-a-mole, liar-Hillary Clinton's secret email server scandal continues this week as the former secretary of state has just one more day to explain to a federal court why she shouldn't have to testify under oath about the system... http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3684720/Judge-tells-Hillary-Clinton-explain-shouldn-t-testify-federal-case-Huma-Abedin-s-double-dipping-job-arrangement.html
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Leaked document says 2,000
'Middle East' men allegedly assaulted
1,200 German women on New Year's Eve
by Rick Noack
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{jewishworldreview.com} ~ At first, there was complete silence from officials. As rumors spread on social media, police had nothing to say about allegations of mass sexual assaults and other crimes carried out on New Year's Eve in the German city of Cologne.
It was only days later that officials reported that hundreds of women were victims of assault in Cologne, Hamburg and other German cities.
But numbers that are now emerging are likely to shock a country still coming to terms with what happened in Cologne more than half a year ago. According to a leaked police document, published by Germany's Sueddeutsche Zeitung newspaper and broadcasters NDR and WDR, the previous estimates have to be dramatically revised - upward.
Authorities now think that on New Year's Eve, more than 1,200 women were sexually assaulted in various German cities, including more than 600 in Cologne and about 400 in Hamburg.
More than 2,000 men were allegedly involved, and 120 suspects - about half of them foreign nationals who had only recently arrived in Germany - have been identified.
Only four have been convicted, but more trials are underway.
On Thursday, a court in Cologne sentenced two men in the New Year's Eve assaults. Hussein A., a 21-year-old Iraqi, and Hassan T., a 26-year-old Algerian, were handed suspended one-year sentences. Both arrived in Germany in the past two years, a court spokesman said. He declined to specify whether the two had sought asylum.
Officials have linked the sexual assaults to the influx of refugees. "There is a connection between the emergence of this phenomenon and the rapid migration in 2015," Holger Munch, president of the German Federal Crime Police Office, told Sueddeutsche Zeitung. Many suspects had originally come to Germany from North African countries rather than Syria, officials said.
He also predicted that many of the New Year's Eve perpetrators will never be convicted. "We have to presume that many of those crimes will never be fully investigated." Germany has relatively low CCTV coverage, which makes it more difficult for investigators to identify suspects.
Although it is not expected that significantly more CCTV cameras will be installed in the foreseeable future, other measures have been taken. Germany's Parliament passed a stricter sexual-assault law last week that will make it easier for courts to sentence those who facilitate or are involved in assaults.
The new law will be based on the premise that "no means no," meaning that sexual assault can be punished as rape if the offender ignores the "discernible contrary will" of the victim.
Lawmakers were facing intense pressure to pass the new legislation, particularly in the wake of the Cologne assaults. Most of the perpetrators in that city stand accused of groping and facilitating sex assaults as part of a group - accusations that were difficult to prosecute.
The stricter law is also supposed to make it easier for refugees to be deported if they are convicted in sex-assault cases - an aspect of the new law that activists and advocates for refugees have harshly criticized.
Halina Wawzyniak, a lawmaker from the Left Party, told The Washington Post last week that immigration issues and sexual-assault cases should not be linked, as refugees could end up facing a "double punishment" by being deported. "The debate used to be about 'no means no' - now all that is being talked about in social networks are foreigners again," she said.
It was only days later that officials reported that hundreds of women were victims of assault in Cologne, Hamburg and other German cities.
But numbers that are now emerging are likely to shock a country still coming to terms with what happened in Cologne more than half a year ago. According to a leaked police document, published by Germany's Sueddeutsche Zeitung newspaper and broadcasters NDR and WDR, the previous estimates have to be dramatically revised - upward.
Authorities now think that on New Year's Eve, more than 1,200 women were sexually assaulted in various German cities, including more than 600 in Cologne and about 400 in Hamburg.
More than 2,000 men were allegedly involved, and 120 suspects - about half of them foreign nationals who had only recently arrived in Germany - have been identified.
Only four have been convicted, but more trials are underway.
On Thursday, a court in Cologne sentenced two men in the New Year's Eve assaults. Hussein A., a 21-year-old Iraqi, and Hassan T., a 26-year-old Algerian, were handed suspended one-year sentences. Both arrived in Germany in the past two years, a court spokesman said. He declined to specify whether the two had sought asylum.
Officials have linked the sexual assaults to the influx of refugees. "There is a connection between the emergence of this phenomenon and the rapid migration in 2015," Holger Munch, president of the German Federal Crime Police Office, told Sueddeutsche Zeitung. Many suspects had originally come to Germany from North African countries rather than Syria, officials said.
He also predicted that many of the New Year's Eve perpetrators will never be convicted. "We have to presume that many of those crimes will never be fully investigated." Germany has relatively low CCTV coverage, which makes it more difficult for investigators to identify suspects.
Although it is not expected that significantly more CCTV cameras will be installed in the foreseeable future, other measures have been taken. Germany's Parliament passed a stricter sexual-assault law last week that will make it easier for courts to sentence those who facilitate or are involved in assaults.
The new law will be based on the premise that "no means no," meaning that sexual assault can be punished as rape if the offender ignores the "discernible contrary will" of the victim.
Lawmakers were facing intense pressure to pass the new legislation, particularly in the wake of the Cologne assaults. Most of the perpetrators in that city stand accused of groping and facilitating sex assaults as part of a group - accusations that were difficult to prosecute.
The stricter law is also supposed to make it easier for refugees to be deported if they are convicted in sex-assault cases - an aspect of the new law that activists and advocates for refugees have harshly criticized.
Halina Wawzyniak, a lawmaker from the Left Party, told The Washington Post last week that immigration issues and sexual-assault cases should not be linked, as refugees could end up facing a "double punishment" by being deported. "The debate used to be about 'no means no' - now all that is being talked about in social networks are foreigners again," she said.
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