The Front Page Cover
The Events of the Week -- Featuring:
Tim Kaine, liar-Clinton, and Three Dead GIs
by Caroline Glick
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Seattle Conceals 'Gun Tax' Debacle
Welcome to Seattle, where a "gun violence" tax implemented in 2015 has predictably turned into an abject failure — though don't expect city officials to admit it. We begin with one gun dealer's experience and the tax's harmful effects on business. Via the Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
"Mike Coombs, owner of Sodo's Outdoor Emporium, says he has laid off three employees and taken a $2 million hit in sales so far in 2016. His customer count, he says, is also down by 32 percent. Meanwhile, Coombs says his other store — Sportco in Fife — has seen a 10 percent to 12 percent increase in sales. He blames the Seattle gun violence tax, passed last year and implemented Jan. 1. The ordinance charges a $25 tax for every firearm sold in the city and 5 cents for every round of ammunition of .22 caliber or greater. Given that ammunition comes bundled in boxes, those nickels can add up."
The tax hasn't exactly been a boon for the city, either. The story goes on to note, "Coombs estimates he's sent the city $60,000 through the third quarter from the gun tax, but says the city has also lost more than $600,000 in sales tax due to his plummeting sales." Talk about misfiring. Despite several efforts by both gun advocates and journalists to force the city's hand in revealing tax numbers, it isn't budging. The Seattle Post Intelligencer notes the city pledged "to fund a program at Harborview Medical Center that aims to reduce the after effects of gun violence" by using increased tax revenue from gun sales. No wonder there's secrecy — publicly exposing the lack of funds would only serve to irreparably tarnish the city's conjured up narrative.
It would also create a firestorm among taxpayers. Even though gun tax revenue has fallen short, that hasn't stopped city officials from robbing everyone else. As the report also explains, "Harborview Medical Center confirmed [last] week that because the ordinance remains contested in court, the tax revenue remains untouched and the hospital is instead getting the money for its gun violence program from the city's general fund." Sure, city gun sales are down — which is exactly what leftists wanted. But Seattle lost a serious cash flow too in its ridiculous pursuit to purge the city of guns. Even more damning, it didn't exactly purge them from surrounding areas, as gun dealers are responding by moving business elsewhere. The more neutral suburbs are more than happy to revel in the windfall. ~The Patriot Post
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2016 by the Numbers
As we go to press, here are the raw numbers, all of which will change as results are finalized. Donald Trump: 279 electoral votes (likely 320) and 59.23 million votes liar-Hillary Clinton: 228 electoral votes and 59.41 million votes. Senate: 52 Republicans, 47 Democrats (loss of one for Republicans)
House: 237 Republicans, 193 Democrats (loss of seven for Republicans). Governor: 33 Republicans, 14 Democrats (gain of three for Republicans). State legislatures: Republicans now control more than two-thirds of all chambers. ~The Patriot Post
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Russian Carrier Group Could Launch
Syria Strikes This Week
by Sam LaGrone
Russian Admiral Kuznetsov carrier
{usni.org} ~ Russia could launch airstrikes from its carrier operating in the Eastern Mediterranean to targets in Syria sometime this week, a U.S. official told USNI News on Tuesday... Russian news site Gazeta.ru quoted an unnamed source in the ministry of defense that air and cruise missile strikes against rebels opposed to Syrian president Bashar al-Assad could start within the next day. The source said the main objective of the carrier strike group from Russia’s northern fleet – along with additional ships from the Black Sea fleet – was to launch strikes against rebels near Aleppo... https://news.usni.org/2016/11/08/russian-carrier-launch-strikes-syria-week?utm_source=USNI+News&utm_campaign=090260a03a-USNI_NEWS_DAILY&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_0dd4a1450b-090260a03a-231491269&mc_cid=090260a03a&mc_eid=3999f18767
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This Just In: The Real Reason Why Comey
Reopened Email Investigations
by Dave Hodges
{thecommonsenseshow.com} ~ Never before has American politics seen such a complete group of criminals... Here is the REAL reason why Comey reopened the investigation and then turned around for the second time, in the face of damning evidence, let her get away with criminal behavior, again. MAKE THIS GO VIRAL! http://www.thecommonsenseshow.com/2016/11/08/this-just-in-the-real-reason-why-comey-reopened-email-investigations/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=this-just-in-the-real-reason-why-comey-reopened-email-investigations
CAIR Whines About Muslims Being Questioned by FBI
{restoreamericanglory.com} ~ Lawyers for the Council on American Islamic Relations are pitching a fit because FBI agents had the audacity to question Muslims about a rumored Al Qaeda threat this weekend... CAIR representatives in several states are ringing the alarm bells, telling anyone who will listen that it’s not fair for Muslims to be questioned about an impending terrorist attack. Going by the article, it seems that FBI agents visited around 15 Muslims over the weekend as part of the investigation. That’s 15 Muslims out of 3.3 million. CAIR representatives admit that they don’t know why these particular Muslims were targeted for questioning, but we can probably guess that the FBI didn’t pick their names at random out of the phone book. The agency is well funded, but it’s not so well funded that agents can waste time interviewing whichever Mohammeds they come across first... http://www.restoreamericanglory.com/breaking-news/cair-whines-about-muslims-being-questioned-by-fbi/
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President-Elect Trump --
Where He Stands on Radical Islam
{clarionproject.org} ~ Donald Trump, president elect of the United States, spoke out on the campaign trail against radical Islam. Trump opposed the liar-nObama administration's pressure on former Egyptian president and U.S. ally Hosni Mubarak to resign... That resignation paved the way for the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood across the Middle East. Expect President Trump to support anti-Islamist regimes in the Arab world and those individuals in America. Trump has also said he would shut down extremist mosques in America, which would be a welcome policy to stop radicalization of America's Muslims. He will need an expert team of legal experts to accomplish that goal since opponents will argue that the line between freedom of speech and religion and incitement to violence is razor thin... https://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/president-elect-trump-where-he-stands-radical-islam#
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Wilders's Plan: Time for Liberation
by Geert Wilders
by Geert Wilders
{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ Pim Fortuyn, the hero of Rotterdam, the man who shook the country awake, once said, "Do not aim for what is possible, but what is imaginable." He wanted to make clear that for us, the Dutch, nothing is impossible... We not only created our own land, but we also explored the world. We have sailed all the seas. We founded New York and discovered Australia. Sometimes, it seems like we have forgotten it all. Forgotten what we are capable of. What we are capable of when we put our mind to it. And maybe that is our problem. We must dare to think big again. Because where there is a will, there is a way...
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Tim Kaine, liar-Clinton, and Three Dead GIs
by Caroline Glick
{truthrevolt.org} ~ Democratic presidential nominee liar-Hillary Clinton’s running mate, Virginia Senator Tim Kaine, has largely escaped scrutiny in the US presidential election now drawing to a close.
But as Americans make their ways to the polls, one of the final issues worth considering is what Kaine’s inclusion at the bottom of liar-Clinton’s ticket tells us about the likely trajectory of US foreign policy under a liar-Clinton administration.
There are two things that are important to know about Kaine. First, he is President Barack liar-nObama’s man. In 2007, as governor of Virginia, Kaine was the first state-wide office holder outside of Illinois to endorse the then first-term senator for president.
In 2008, liar-nObama reportedly wanted very much to select Kaine as his running mate but opted instead for then senator Joseph loose lips-Biden due to Kaine’s inexperience in foreign policy.
Shortly after liar-Clinton selected Kaine as her running mate, multiple reporters speculated that liar-nObama forced liar-Clinton to accept him as her running mate by conditioning his active support for her campaign on liar-Clinton’s selection of Kaine.
The second thing that it is important to know about Kaine is that he is a J Street senator. According to opensecrets.org, which reports political donations to US political races, J Street’s PAC is the largest donor to Kaine’s campaign committee.
J Street is a subversive organization.
Its goal is to undermine the US alliance with Israel while proclaiming its commitment to Israel. Prof. Alan Dershowitz, who supports liar-Clinton, told The Washington Free Beacon in July that J Street is “the most damaging organization in American history against Israel.”
While endlessly proclaiming its devotion to Israel, J Street has campaigned against Israel at every turn. It opposed sanctions against Iran. It supported liar-nObama’s nuclear deal with Iran. It condemns Israel and blames it for the absence of peace in the Middle East.
As Dershowitz noted, “J Street has done more to turn young people against Israel than any organization in the whole of history. It will go down in history as one of the most virulent, anti-Israel organizations in the history of Zionism and Judaism. It has given cover to anti-Israel attitudes on campus and particularly its approach to Israel’s self-defense.”
And Kaine is J Street’s guy.
In March 2015, Kaine was one of nine Democratic senators who boycotted Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech on the nuclear deal with Iran before the joint session of Congress.
liar-Clinton’s running-mate was one of 12 senators that refused to sign a bipartisan letter to liar-nObama in June 2014 warning him against funding the Palestinian Authority after it signed a unity government deal with Hamas, which is listed as a foreign terrorist organization by the US State Department.
J Street, along with its ideological and political fellow travelers like Kaine, deliberately misleads the American public about the nature of reality in the Middle East. According to J Street’s propaganda line, at best, there is no moral or strategic distinction between Israel and its neighbors.
At worst, Israel is to blame for the problems of the region because it refuses to surrender Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria to the PLO, and because it rejects liar-nObama’s appeasement of Iran. In other words, at worst, Israel is undermining and endangering America.
The success of J Street and its comrades – including Kaine – in selling this misleading and disastrous tale is reflected in the American Jewish community’s view of the Palestinian conflict with Israel.
That the Palestinian conflict with Israel is rooted not in territory but in the PLO’s antisemitism, its denial of Jewish history and nationhood and its rejection of the Jewish nation’s right to national self-determination in the Jewish homeland is exposed every single day.
This week, for instance, fresh from its success in getting UNESCO to deny the Jewish people’s ties to Jerusalem and the Temple Mount, the PLO is pushing UNESCO to agree that the Dead Sea Scrolls, among the earliest biblical scripts, belong to the Palestinians.
Last week, the PLO-controlled PA named a school in Tulkarm after Salah Khalaf. Khalaf was one of the masterminds of the massacre of Israel’s Olympic team at the 1972 Munich Olympics.
The PLO also praised Salah’s co-mastermind Abu Daoud on its Facebook page last week.
And yet, according to a comparative survey of Israeli and American Jews conducted by Pew Research Center in September, American Jews just don’t get it.
61 percent of American Jews still believe that “a way can be found for Israel and a Palestinian state to coexist peacefully with each other.”
In Israel a mere 43% of Israelis agree with them. It’s not that Israelis don’t want peace. It’s just that unlike their American Jewish cousins, Israelis have paid, and continue to pay the price for the empowerment and legitimization of the PLO terrorist organization.
Israelis have paid, and continue to pay the price for the Western view, embraced and advanced by liar-nObama, Kaine and their J Street funders and champions, that Israel is to blame for the absence of peace in the region.
This deliberately cultivated lie is not only damaging and dangerous for Israel. It is also damaging and dangerous for the US.
Case in point is the murder of three US army special forces in Jordan last Friday.
Hundreds of US special forces are deployed today in Jordan. Their responsibilities include training anti-Islamic State (ISIS) forces and, more importantly, securing the Hashemite Kingdom.
The situation in Jordan, which is widely viewed as the US’s most stable Arab ally, is inherently – and, as Friday’s assault made clear, murderously – unstable.
With more than a million and a half Syrian and Iraqi refugees living in the country, which had a pre-Arab crack-up population of five million, the long-term outlook for the minority Hashemite monarchy is very much an open question.
The White House is playing down the significance of the November 4 attack, and with good reason.
The US cannot abandon Jordan. If it does, the kingdom will likely fall. Jordan will become another former state along the lines of Iraq and Syria. Facing this abysmal choice, the US shrugs its shoulders and accepts the murder of its forces by its supposed allies. Dead American servicemen is the price of doing business with Jordan.
The same logic pertains to the US alliance with Saudi Arabia. The House of Saud is a Petri dish of jihadism. The Saudis were inextricably linked to al-Qaida and to the September 11 hijackers, as the 9/11 Commission’s findings exposed.
But as is the case in Jordan, the US has no better option going forward than maintaining its alliance with the Saudis, for as long as they survive.
The Palestinians exhibit the same chronic instability and hostility toward the US and its values and interests as the Jordanians and Saudis. At best, a future Palestinian state will be no better an ally to the US than Jordan and Saudi Arabia.
In all likelihood, a future Palestinian state would look exactly like Iraq from the moment it declares independence.
This then brings us to Israel and the real price that the J Streets and Kaines impose on America with their hostility to the Jewish state.
The adversarial nature and chronic instability and weakness of America’s key Arab allies demonstrates the basic fact that a strong and independent Israel is the key American interest in the Middle East.
Israel is the US’s only stable ally in the entire Middle East.
Kaine along with his ideological and political sponsors in J Street and the liar-nObama White House is committed to a foreign policy that is based on obscuring this basic truth. The foreign policies that Kaine has supported and advanced from his seat in the Senate, and those he will champion as vice president are all based on misleading the public in order to weaken the US and its only stable Middle Eastern ally in the name of a fictional “peace.”
In October, Edward Klein, the best-selling liar-Clinton biographer, alleged that when liar-Hillary Clinton informed former president Bill liar-Clinton that liar-nObama told her to choose Kaine as her running mate, the former president recoiled, recognizing that Kaine will serve as liar-nObama’s proxy in her administration.
But both understood that accepting Kaine in exchange for liar-nObama on the campaign trail was a necessary bargain.
The liar-Clintons were of course right, as far as the campaign was concerned.
But the presidency begins after the campaigning is over. And the fact is that if she is elected, with Kaine as vice president, liar-Clinton – who has already placed herself snugly in liar-nObama’s shadow – will face a powerful obstacle if she ever wishes to put daylight between her foreign policy and that of her predecessor.
But as Americans make their ways to the polls, one of the final issues worth considering is what Kaine’s inclusion at the bottom of liar-Clinton’s ticket tells us about the likely trajectory of US foreign policy under a liar-Clinton administration.
There are two things that are important to know about Kaine. First, he is President Barack liar-nObama’s man. In 2007, as governor of Virginia, Kaine was the first state-wide office holder outside of Illinois to endorse the then first-term senator for president.
In 2008, liar-nObama reportedly wanted very much to select Kaine as his running mate but opted instead for then senator Joseph loose lips-Biden due to Kaine’s inexperience in foreign policy.
Shortly after liar-Clinton selected Kaine as her running mate, multiple reporters speculated that liar-nObama forced liar-Clinton to accept him as her running mate by conditioning his active support for her campaign on liar-Clinton’s selection of Kaine.
The second thing that it is important to know about Kaine is that he is a J Street senator. According to opensecrets.org, which reports political donations to US political races, J Street’s PAC is the largest donor to Kaine’s campaign committee.
J Street is a subversive organization.
Its goal is to undermine the US alliance with Israel while proclaiming its commitment to Israel. Prof. Alan Dershowitz, who supports liar-Clinton, told The Washington Free Beacon in July that J Street is “the most damaging organization in American history against Israel.”
While endlessly proclaiming its devotion to Israel, J Street has campaigned against Israel at every turn. It opposed sanctions against Iran. It supported liar-nObama’s nuclear deal with Iran. It condemns Israel and blames it for the absence of peace in the Middle East.
As Dershowitz noted, “J Street has done more to turn young people against Israel than any organization in the whole of history. It will go down in history as one of the most virulent, anti-Israel organizations in the history of Zionism and Judaism. It has given cover to anti-Israel attitudes on campus and particularly its approach to Israel’s self-defense.”
And Kaine is J Street’s guy.
In March 2015, Kaine was one of nine Democratic senators who boycotted Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech on the nuclear deal with Iran before the joint session of Congress.
liar-Clinton’s running-mate was one of 12 senators that refused to sign a bipartisan letter to liar-nObama in June 2014 warning him against funding the Palestinian Authority after it signed a unity government deal with Hamas, which is listed as a foreign terrorist organization by the US State Department.
J Street, along with its ideological and political fellow travelers like Kaine, deliberately misleads the American public about the nature of reality in the Middle East. According to J Street’s propaganda line, at best, there is no moral or strategic distinction between Israel and its neighbors.
At worst, Israel is to blame for the problems of the region because it refuses to surrender Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria to the PLO, and because it rejects liar-nObama’s appeasement of Iran. In other words, at worst, Israel is undermining and endangering America.
The success of J Street and its comrades – including Kaine – in selling this misleading and disastrous tale is reflected in the American Jewish community’s view of the Palestinian conflict with Israel.
That the Palestinian conflict with Israel is rooted not in territory but in the PLO’s antisemitism, its denial of Jewish history and nationhood and its rejection of the Jewish nation’s right to national self-determination in the Jewish homeland is exposed every single day.
This week, for instance, fresh from its success in getting UNESCO to deny the Jewish people’s ties to Jerusalem and the Temple Mount, the PLO is pushing UNESCO to agree that the Dead Sea Scrolls, among the earliest biblical scripts, belong to the Palestinians.
Last week, the PLO-controlled PA named a school in Tulkarm after Salah Khalaf. Khalaf was one of the masterminds of the massacre of Israel’s Olympic team at the 1972 Munich Olympics.
The PLO also praised Salah’s co-mastermind Abu Daoud on its Facebook page last week.
And yet, according to a comparative survey of Israeli and American Jews conducted by Pew Research Center in September, American Jews just don’t get it.
61 percent of American Jews still believe that “a way can be found for Israel and a Palestinian state to coexist peacefully with each other.”
In Israel a mere 43% of Israelis agree with them. It’s not that Israelis don’t want peace. It’s just that unlike their American Jewish cousins, Israelis have paid, and continue to pay the price for the empowerment and legitimization of the PLO terrorist organization.
Israelis have paid, and continue to pay the price for the Western view, embraced and advanced by liar-nObama, Kaine and their J Street funders and champions, that Israel is to blame for the absence of peace in the region.
This deliberately cultivated lie is not only damaging and dangerous for Israel. It is also damaging and dangerous for the US.
Case in point is the murder of three US army special forces in Jordan last Friday.
Hundreds of US special forces are deployed today in Jordan. Their responsibilities include training anti-Islamic State (ISIS) forces and, more importantly, securing the Hashemite Kingdom.
The situation in Jordan, which is widely viewed as the US’s most stable Arab ally, is inherently – and, as Friday’s assault made clear, murderously – unstable.
With more than a million and a half Syrian and Iraqi refugees living in the country, which had a pre-Arab crack-up population of five million, the long-term outlook for the minority Hashemite monarchy is very much an open question.
The White House is playing down the significance of the November 4 attack, and with good reason.
The US cannot abandon Jordan. If it does, the kingdom will likely fall. Jordan will become another former state along the lines of Iraq and Syria. Facing this abysmal choice, the US shrugs its shoulders and accepts the murder of its forces by its supposed allies. Dead American servicemen is the price of doing business with Jordan.
The same logic pertains to the US alliance with Saudi Arabia. The House of Saud is a Petri dish of jihadism. The Saudis were inextricably linked to al-Qaida and to the September 11 hijackers, as the 9/11 Commission’s findings exposed.
But as is the case in Jordan, the US has no better option going forward than maintaining its alliance with the Saudis, for as long as they survive.
The Palestinians exhibit the same chronic instability and hostility toward the US and its values and interests as the Jordanians and Saudis. At best, a future Palestinian state will be no better an ally to the US than Jordan and Saudi Arabia.
In all likelihood, a future Palestinian state would look exactly like Iraq from the moment it declares independence.
This then brings us to Israel and the real price that the J Streets and Kaines impose on America with their hostility to the Jewish state.
The adversarial nature and chronic instability and weakness of America’s key Arab allies demonstrates the basic fact that a strong and independent Israel is the key American interest in the Middle East.
Israel is the US’s only stable ally in the entire Middle East.
Kaine along with his ideological and political sponsors in J Street and the liar-nObama White House is committed to a foreign policy that is based on obscuring this basic truth. The foreign policies that Kaine has supported and advanced from his seat in the Senate, and those he will champion as vice president are all based on misleading the public in order to weaken the US and its only stable Middle Eastern ally in the name of a fictional “peace.”
In October, Edward Klein, the best-selling liar-Clinton biographer, alleged that when liar-Hillary Clinton informed former president Bill liar-Clinton that liar-nObama told her to choose Kaine as her running mate, the former president recoiled, recognizing that Kaine will serve as liar-nObama’s proxy in her administration.
But both understood that accepting Kaine in exchange for liar-nObama on the campaign trail was a necessary bargain.
The liar-Clintons were of course right, as far as the campaign was concerned.
But the presidency begins after the campaigning is over. And the fact is that if she is elected, with Kaine as vice president, liar-Clinton – who has already placed herself snugly in liar-nObama’s shadow – will face a powerful obstacle if she ever wishes to put daylight between her foreign policy and that of her predecessor.
http://www.truthrevolt.org/commentary/glick-tim-kaine-clinton-and-three-dead-gis
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