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2016 The truth will set you free
Featuring:
On the Brink of National Race Wars,
Now Is Not the Time to Mince Words
by Michael Brown
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Ginsburg Can't Put Toothpaste Back in Tube
Regrets, she's had a few. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is now sorry for speaking her mind about Donald Trump so unrestrainedly in the last few days. "On reflection," she now says, "my recent remarks in response to press inquiries were ill-advised and I regret making them. Judges should avoid commenting on a candidate for public office. In the future I will be more circumspect." Circumspection was at least on display from her fellow justice, Stephen Breyer, who wisely dodged, "If I had an opinion [on her comments], I wouldn't express it."
We suspect Ginsburg's regret is influenced at least in part from backlash even from fellow leftist travelers. "Washington is more than partisan enough without the spectacle of a Supreme Court justice flinging herself into the mosh pit," The New York Times editorialized.
The question now is whether she'll have the decency to resign or at minimum recuse herself in future cases involving either Trump or liar-Hillary Clinton. Her ability to be impartial is permanently suspect — as if it wasn't already. And being "more circumspect" in the future doesn't mean her mind is changed. The problem with a resignation, however, is that any successor either Barack nObama or liar-Clinton might nominate would be at least as leftist and without the public relations problems. So as we've said so many times we've lost count, the principle issue in this election might just be the Supreme Court. And on that, Trump is vastly superior. -The Patriot Post
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OPINION IN BRIEF
David Limbaugh: "You would think that at a funeral of fallen cops — ones murdered by a self-avowed hater of cops and whites — nObama would keep his powder dry. He could have just been neutral — silent on the matter. Instead, he launched into a diatribe about the allegedly unequal treatment of blacks in the criminal justice system. Let me ask you: If you were the parent of an individual slain at the hands of a certain hater, would you want the eulogizer to shift into criminal defense mode for the killer? Would you expect him to categorically denounce the criminal justice system and law enforcement as racially tainted, to whatever degree? Would you expect him to stump for gun control? To align himself with the Black Lives Matter agenda? ... I pray and pray that one day, a significant percentage of all minorities in this nation will come to realize that one political party is exploiting and damaging them, and it's not the party they think it is." -The Patriot Post
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PA Honors Another Terrorist Amid U.S.
Foreign Aid Re-Evaluation
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{investigativeproject.org} ~ Instead of promoting peaceful coexistence, the Palestinian Authority (PA) has decided to honor yet another Palestinian terrorist who killed numerous Israeli civilians... The PA unveiled a statue Sunday of terrorist Ahmad Jabarah Abu Sukkar who orchestrated a deadly bombing in Jerusalem that killed 15 and injured over 60 Israelis in 1976, Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) reports. Abu Sukkar was released after serving 28 years of a life sentence as part of an Israeli goodwill gesture to the PA in 2003. Senior Palestinian officials – including the director of the PA's Commission of Prisoners' Affairs, Issa Karake, and the governor of Ramallah and El-Bireh, Laila Ghannam, – participated in the terrorists' commemoration...
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123,000 Venezuelans Cross Border
into Columbia Looking for Food
by Sarah Fisher
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{truthrevolt.org} ~ Starving Venezuelans continued their search for food this weekend when more than 100,000 crossed into Columbia seeking food and medicine... It was the second weekend in a row that Venezuela's socialist government opened the long-closed border with Colombia, and by 6 a.m. Sunday, a line of would-be shoppers snaked through the entire town of San Antonio del Tachira. Some had traveled in chartered buses from cities 10 hours away. Venezuela's government closed all crossings a year ago to crack down on smuggling along the 1,378-mile (2,219 kilometer) border. It complained that speculators were causing shortages by buying up subsidized food and gasoline in Venezuela and taking them to Colombia, where they could be sold for far higher prices... http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/123000-venezuelans-cross-border-columbia-looking-food
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Israel is the Floodgate
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{truthrevolt.org} ~ The following anonymous set of cartoons forwarded to TruthRevolt emphasizes in one simple series the strategic importance of Israel to our Islamic enemies and to the United States... As its closing caption notes, "the best strategy to defend the West is to defend Israel."... http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/israel-floodgate
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The Coming Russian and Chinese
Invasion of America...
by Dave Hodges
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{thecommonsenseshow.com} ~ After the completion of martial law, World War III will be upon us. We are being set up to be conquered!... Under the blue-helmeted soldiers of the UN, we will be put upon by Russians and Chinese troops. When they come to our towns, they will not be coming to take prisoners. They want your material possessions and they want to take your life. The following interview with Steve Quayle, Dave Hodges, and Doug Hagmann is a classic! This is a can’t missing interview about what it coming. Once you start to listen to this interview, you will not be able to stop listening... http://www.thecommonsenseshow.com/2016/07/18/coming-invasion-america-quayle-hodges-hagmann/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=coming-invasion-america-quayle-hodges-hagmann
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South China Sea Update
by JOEL POST
by JOEL POST
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{familysecuritymatters.org} ~ China has been busy. In addition to the continued building up of artificial islands and reefs in contested areas, the country has added assets to other islands... The PLA has set up radar and airstrips on the Spratly Islands. This is problematic since these could be used for military purposes although China claims it's for civilian use. A more troubling development is on the Paracels where it is believed they now have surface-to-air capabilities on Woody Island. In recent weeks Chinese ships entered Japanese territorial waters as Japan was holding military drills with India and the US. In addition, last week saw China protest over Japan's scrambled jet response to its fighter jet patrols of the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands. Why so much activity? Sign point to a position-bolstering show of force before an upcoming court case. Possibly as early as this week the permanent court of arbitration (PCA) in The Hague will hand down its ruling about the dispute over territorial waters between the Philippines and China. This suit was possible because both countries are signatories to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS). Although the ruling does not address sovereignty, it could impact how Economic Exclusive Zones (EEZ) are determined when it comes to artificial islands like the ones China has been reclaiming for years... http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/south-china-sea-update?f=must_reads
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Nice, Baton Rouge, Milwaukee: They Win, We Lose
by DR. MICHAEL LEDEEN
by DR. MICHAEL LEDEEN
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{familysecuritymatters.org} ~ As I have been saying for quite a while, the terrorists are in a hurry. They know that their free run at their enemies will not last much longer, and so they are eager to grab whatever they can as fast as they can... They expect things will get tougher when the next president takes over in January. For the moment they expect the nObama administration to make nice to Iran and Russia, Cuba and China, and the other members of the global alliance arrayed against us. There will be more, and I will be surprised if there are not more attacks here in the United States. It's not as if they are not trying; we keep arresting would-be jihadis and sometimes they succeed. Orlando, for example. And today, as I write, Baton Rouge. And then Milwaukee. We are still not fighting to win the war. We are on defense, which is a sucker's game... http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/nice-baton-rouge-milwaukee-they-win-we-lose?f=must_reads
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First anniversary of Iran nuclear deal
marred by massive cheating
by FRED FLEITZ
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{familysecuritymatters.org} ~ Expect the nObama administration to take more victory laps this week by claiming Iran has complied with the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), the nuclear deal that reached its first anniversary on July 14... However, recent press reports paint a very different picture, one that confirms its critics' worst fears: massive Iranian violations of the agreement. In an annual security report issued this month, German intelligence said Iran made a clandestine effort last year to acquire illicit nuclear technology and equipment from German companies at a "quantitatively high level," and that "it is safe to expect that Iran will continue its intensive procurement activities in Germany using clandestine methods to achieve its objectives." A German intelligence agency reported 141 clandestine Iranian attempts to acquire nuclear and missile technology in 2015 versus 83 in 2013. According to a July 7 memo from the Institute for Science and International Security, Iran recently tried, unsuccessfully, to covertly purchase tons of high-strength carbon fiber, which it uses to make rotors for uranium enrichment centrifuges. Under the JCPOA, Iran is required to seek approval for such purchases from a JCPOA procurement working group. The Institute said the JCPOA group probably would not have approved this sale, since Iran has enough carbon fiber to replace the rotors of centrifuges it is permitted to operate under the agreement... http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/first-anniversary-of-iran-nuclear-deal-marred-by-massive-cheating?f=must_reads
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Murdochs to Remove Fox News Chief
Roger Ailes: NY Magazine
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{newsmax.com} ~ 21st Century Fox Inc. plans to remove Roger Ailes, the chairman and chief executive officer of Fox News who has been accused of sexual harassment by former anchor Gretchen Carlson, according to New York Magazine... Fox Co-Executive Chairman Rupert Murdoch and his sons James and Lachlan have agreed that Ailes should depart, though they haven’t settled on the timing or terms of his exit, the magazine reported, citing people it didn’t identify. Ailes’s firing would be a stunning fall for one of the most successful media consultants and TV executives of the last half-century. The former adviser to Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan teamed with then-CEO Rupert Murdoch to found the Fox News Channel in 1996, and built it into one of the most profitable properties in all of media...
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Hezbollah’s Massive Arms Build-up
in Lebanese Civilian Areas
by Joseph Klein
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{frontpagemag.com} ~ Every calendar quarter the United Nations Security Council holds an extensive debate on the Israeli-Palestinian “situation.” The Israeli and Palestinian UN representatives make speeches following the Secretary General’s report on the current status... which are normally predictable restatements of their respective positions. This time, however, Israel’s ambassador Danny Danon, addressing the Security Council at its July 12th meeting, presented new graphic evidence of Hezbollah’s alarming arsenal of rockets and missiles located in civilian areas of southern Lebanon. Ten years ago, when Security Council Resolution 1701 was adopted, ending the war that had broken out between Israel and Hezbollah, the terrorist group was estimated to have had about 7000 rockets. The resolution called for Hezbollah and other armed groups not officially a part of the Lebanese government’s armed forces to relinquish their weapons. Instead, precisely the opposite has happened. Hezbollah never stopped its arms build-up, which has been funded and supplied principally from the world’s leading state sponsor of terror, Iran. Hezbollah now has approximately 120,000 rockets and missiles aimed at Israeli civilian population centers. By way of comparison, Ambassador Danon said that “more missiles are hidden underground in 10,000 square kilometers of Lebanon than the above-ground 4 million square kilometers” of the European North Atlantic Treaty Organization countries... http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/263507/hezbollahs-massive-arms-build-lebanese-civilian-joseph-klein
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Immigration and the Terrorist Threat
by Michael Cutler
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{frontpagemag.com} ~ The most recent horrific terror attack, this time in Nice, France on Bastille Day, is the latest of a string of attacks overseas as well as inside the United States... It has shaken people around the world, causing them to question what their governments need to do to protect them. Our leaders are forever reacting to the latest attack, placing us on an elevated defensive posture, whenever and wherever it may occur. Often news reports are aired that show video clips of heavily armed police officers patrolling our airports and other venues in response to the latest attack no matter where the attack was carried out, to create the illusion of protecting us. This perspective can most generously be called folly. The terror threats we face do not go up and down like the stock market. While it makes sense to marshal snow plow drivers and those that drive the trucks that spread salt on highways when a blizzard is forecast for the region, in preparation for the impending storm to quickly clear the roads, terrorism presents a constant threat... http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/263544/immigration-and-terrorist-threat%C2%A0-michael-cutler
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On the Brink of National Race Wars,
Now Is Not the Time to Mince Words
by Michael Brown
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{townhall.com} ~ As America stands at the precipice of deadly, coast-to-coast, race wars, this is not the time to mince words. I would rather speak the truth in love, even if it means offending some, than avoid confrontation out of fear of offense. In return, I expect others to be just as candid with me.I also recognize that, if racial tensions escalate in our nation and more blood is shed, the ones who are likely to suffer the most and perhaps the longest are Black Americans. And so, I write this column because I do believe that Black Lives Matter.
Prof. George Yancey, himself an African American, has also urged for open, candid conversations, writing, “Maybe now with people on all sides of the political and racial arguments feeling such pain, we can begin taking the necessary steps to move towards real racial reconciliation.”
It is in that spirit that I write this column, fully aware that I’m not addressing the concerns of Hispanic Americans, Asian Americans, Native Americans, or other minorities in our midst, but that is the nature of this article. I trust all readers will understand.
Although I am a White American more specifically, a White male, identifying more specifically as a Jewish believer in Jesus, I’m not speaking of “us” and “them” in this column. Rather, I’m addressing all of us together, letting the chips fall where they may.
Shall we proceed?
1) White Americans sometimes do not see racism when it is there; Black Americans sometimes see racism when it is not there. If we will take the time to hear one another out, filling in each other’s blind spots, we can move from perception to reality.
2) There is a real reason for Black frustration and anger. When Whites minimize the pain of Blacks or, worse still, claim that they are just being pawns of the media or political leaders, they deeply insult their Black brothers and sisters. Most Whites really do not understand what it is like to grow up as a minority culture, and they cannot relate to the historic suffering of Blacks in America, a history which is not as far in the distant past we would all like it to be.
3) All Black lives matters, not just the lives of Blacks who die at the hands of White cops. White critics have rightly asked, “Where are the rallies and protests when a three-year-old Black child dies from random, inner-city gun fire? And what about the disproportionate number of Black babies killed in the womb, not to mention Blacks killed by other Blacks?” A Black man named Richard wrote on Facebook, “We cannot pick and choose when we decide to make a stand. We're either all in (we must address black on black crime in addition to the murder of innocent blacks) or we're not in at all. We can't let these race baiting politicians further divide us; if you haven't noticed they want a race war. We must stand up and unite, both black and white and whatever other ethnicity and re-claim our freedom.”
4) All rhetoric that leads to violence, let alone that calls for violence, must be categorically renounced and repudiated. Not a few leaders in the Black Lives Matter movement need to do some serious soul searching in light of the intentional, targeted shooting of cops in several states this past week. Yancey characterizes Black Lives Matter as “a group that pushes its own racialized agenda and expects compliance instead of communication.” Their irresponsible rhetoric can easily lead to bloodshed.
5) Everyone must work together to address injustice and inequality wherever it raises its head, be it in the courts or on the streets. Blacks would be greatly encouraged if they saw their White colleagues standing up for their cause rather than always taking a defensive posture. Do Whites automatically give the benefit of the doubt to other Whites, assuming Black claims of injustice are illegitimate?
6) It is social suicide to launch a war against our law enforcement agents. The police do a good, important, often thankless, frequently life-threatening job, and without their sacrificial service, our nation would descend into chaos. The few bad cops who are out there are the exception to the rule and they must be held accountable. Law and order is a good thing, not a bad thing, and as one black caller to my radio show noted (he was a career cop), when the bullets started flying in Dallas last week, the crowds ran from the shots; the police ran towards them to try to take out the killers.
7) It is important today to state that All Lives Matter. I understand that if a black man is bleeding to death on the side of the road, having been shot without cause by an irresponsible White cop, it is insulting to say, “Yes, he’s dying, but let’s remember that All Lives Matter.” But when White policemen lay dying in the streets it is insensitive not to say All Lives Matter.
8) There is no comparison between a policeman overreacting and killing someone and another person intentionally targeting policemen for death. I do not believe for a second that white cops get up in the morning and say to themselves, “I hope I can kill a black person today!” Sadly, a black man decided last week that he would murder as many cops as he could. There’s no true comparison between the two, whatever the skin color of the victims or perpetrators. An actual parallel to the evil the black Michael Xavier Johnson reportedly committed in Dallas on Thursday is the mass murder last summer that the white Dylann Storm Roof confessed to committing at a black church in Charleston, South Carolina. In each case, an apparently evil, twisted, racist young man targeted innocent people of another race and murdered them in a cold, deliberate, premeditated fashion.
9) The elephant in the room is the breakdown of the Black American family. This was stressed to me by another black caller to my show. The disastrous, generational effects of fatherlessness are well-documented, and with illegitimacy in Black America at an almost unimaginable high of 74 percent, this is not simply a Black crisis; it is a national crisis. We got into this situation together, and we can only get out of it together.
10) There is far more that unites than divides us. We are, after all, one race, with each of us equally created in God’s image and equally loved by our Creator. And all of us as Americans have the same right to “Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.” It is the devil who wants to divide and destroy us and the Lord who wants to unite and strengthen us. Let us work with the Lord, not against Him.
Speaking now as a White American to my Black American brothers and sisters, I say from the heart: America cannot be great unless you are thriving, and my own life will not be full if your lives are not full.
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