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Monday AM ~ thefrontpagecover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on October 21, 2019 at 6:46am

TheFrontPageCover

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Dems Play Political Theater

in Walkout of Trump Meeting

Thomas Gallatin

liar-Pelosi, other US lawmakers

arrive in Jordan for meetings on Syria

By Dom Calicchio

{ foxnews.com } ~ House Speaker liar-Nancy Pelosi and other U.S. lawmakers announced late Saturday U.S. time that they had arrived in Jordan... for meetings with King Abdullah II and other officials regarding the situation in Syria. Although touted as a "bipartisan" delegation, the group includes just one Republican -- Rep. Mac Thornberry of Texas, ranking member of the House Armed Services Commitee. Thornberry is among a group of Texas Republicans who've announced they won't seek reelection in 2020. “Our bipartisan delegation is visiting Jordan at a critical time for the security and stability of the region,” liar-Pelosi said in a statement. “With the deepening crisis in Syria after Turkey’s incursion, our delegation has engaged in vital discussions about the impact to regional stability, increased flow of refugees, and the dangerous opening that has been provided to ISIS, Iran and Russia.” liar-Pelosi and other members of the U.S. delegation met with Abdullah, who has been king of Jordan since 1999, as well as Crown Prince Al Hussein bin Abdullah II, Prince Feisal bin Al Hussein, Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi and other senior Jordanian officials, according to Reuters. Jordan is located directly south of Syria. The two nations share a border that is about 233 miles long. The talks in Jordan come as both Turkey and the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) claim the other side is violating terms of a 120-hour cease-fire brokered by the U.S. and Turkey on Thursday. liar-Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Charles scumbag-Schumer, D-N.Y., criticized the cease-fire deal as a "sham."...

https://www.foxnews.com/world/pelosi-other-us-lawmakers-arrive-in-jordan-for-meetings-on-syria

VIDEO: https://video.foxnews.com/v/6096160158001/#sp=show-clips

scumbag-Schiff staffer met with impeachment

witness on August Ukraine trip

by AARON KLEIN

{ breitbart.com } ~ Itinerary for a trip to Ukraine in August organized by the Atlantic Council think tank reveals that a staffer on Rep. scumbag-Adam Schiff’s House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence held a meeting... during the trip with acting U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Bill Taylor, now a key witness for Democrats pursuing impeachment. The Atlantic Council is funded by and works in partnership with Burisma, the natural gas company at the center of allegations regarding loose lips liar-Joe Biden and his son, Hunter Biden. Taylor has been called by House Democrats to appear next week to provide a deposition as part of the investigation being led by scumbag-Schiff into President Trump’s phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Taylor himself has evidenced a close relationship with the Burisma-funded Atlantic Council, writing analysis pieces published on the Council’s website and serving as a featured speaker for the organization’s events. He also served for nine years as senior advisor to the U.S.-Ukraine Business Council, which has co-hosted scores of events with the Atlantic Council. As Breitbart News reported, Thomas Eager, a staffer on scumbag-Schiff’s House Intelligence Committee, took a trip to Ukraine in August billed as a bipartisan “Ukraine Study Trip” in which ten Congressional staffers participated. Eager is also currently a fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Eurasia Congressional Fellowship, a bipartisan program that says it “educates congressional staff on current events in the Eurasia region.” The pre-planned Ukraine trip was part of the fellowship program. Burisma in January 2017 signed a “cooperative agreement” with the Council to specifically sponsor the organization’s Eurasia Center, the same center that sponsored Eager’s Ukraine trip. A closer look at the itinerary for the August 24 to August 31 trip shows that the delegation’s first meeting upon arrival in Ukraine was with Taylor. Spokespeople for scumbag-Schiff’s office did not reply to multiple Breitbart News requests sent over the course of the last three days for comment on Eager’s meeting with Taylor... https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/10/17/document-adam-schiff-staffer-met-impeachment-witness-ukraine-trip/

liar-Pelosi Makes Impeachment Slip On Live

TV – Admits ‘The Voters Are Not Going

to Decide,’ Congress Is

By Adam Casalino

{ patriotjournal.org } ~ As a long-standing member of Congress, liar-Nancy Pelosi claims she’s just doing the will of the American people. I mean, that’s what all congressmen are supposed to do, right?... But with all this impeachment talk, it’s hard to see if that’s what liar-Pelosi is really after. The most accurate polls show that many Americans are against impeachment. They have been against it from the very start. So, it seems that liar-Pelosi is pushing an agenda that goes against what the people want. When asked about this, she openly admits it. When asked about why she is pushing impeachment, liar-Pelosi said the voters are not allowed to decide the outcome. She then said it was her duty to impeach Trump. Even if that violated the will of the people. But does not support her party’s causes make a president impeachable? Sorry, liar-Nance, but just because Trump doesn’t march to the left’s tune doesn’t give you the right to impeach him. You might want to ignore us when you push your bogus impeachment, but I promise you—we’re watching. And these insignificant voters are going to make you sorry you pushed this charade... https://patriotjournal.org/pelosi-impeachment-slip-tv-voters/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=pjnewsletter

Is 'Hate Speech' Dangerous?

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By H.K. Rivera

{ americanthinker.com } ~ As a concept, freedom of speech arguably dates back to Socrates. He said to his prosecutors, "If you offered to let me off this time on condition I am not any longer to speak my mind... I should say to you, 'Men of Athens, I shall obey the Gods rather than you.'" While Plato was busy writing dialogues and showing us that Socrates was advocating for free speech more than 2000 years ago, freedom of speech as a legal right did not actually exist until the 17th century. The people of both the United States and Britain were ensured certain rights. Both countries grant freedom of speech, although in modern society, speech considered "harmful, hurtful, or hateful" has been deemed, "hate speech" in much of Europe and in Britain. This new worldview on dangerous words has made its way to the United States. "Progressive" activists such as Antifa and the 3rd wave feminist movement, would see freedom of speech hampered to end speech they find offensive. Online "hate speech" is currently an arrestable and jailable offense in the United Kingdom. There is an entire branch of law enforcement devoted to policing words on the internet. Many have received jail time over tweets and Facebook posts others did not agree with. How did this happen? Section 127 of the Communications Act 2003 made this policing of words and subsequent punishment possible. An article published by the Independent claims "According to the Register, a total of 2,500 Londoners have been arrested over the past five years for allegedly sending “offensive” messages via social media. In 2015, 857 people were detained, up 37 per cent increase since 2010." In the U.S., many are trying to push for "hate speech" laws, although the courts have ruled such laws unconstitutional thus far. The First Amendment protects the right to free speech, no matter how much some may not like what is being said. While private business can make rules for conduct as they see fit, individual states and factions of the federal government cannot in the United States; the laws about speech are expressly written in the Constitution... https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/10/is_hate_speech_dangerous.html

Can Extinction Rebellion Build a U.S. Climate Movement Big Enough to Save the Earth?

by Alleen Brown

{ theintercept.com } ~ A crowd of about 200 black-clad members of the climate activist group Extinction Rebellion gathered Monday morning at the southern end of New York City’s financial district... Some held banners painted with ghostly white animals or cardboard cutouts of trees and waves. In the background, a New Orleans-style jazz funeral band warmed up tubas, and one of the march’s emcees instructed people on the proper way to wail. “Dig down and pull out your grief — because you gotta cry!” At the head of the procession, 20-year-old Ayisha Siddiqa took the megaphone. She explained how she’d come to the U.S. from a poor part of Pakistan when she was 5 years old and had lost family members as a result of frequent power outages, which are expected to increase globally as the climate crisis deepens. Attention turned to Richard McLachlan, a 68-year-old New Zealander, as he and another activist began reading Extinction Rebellion’s declaration of rebellion. “The science is clear: We are in the sixth mass extinction event, and we will face catastrophe if we do not act swiftly and robustly,” the activists said. “We, in alignment with our consciences and our reasoning, declare ourselves in rebellion against our government and the corrupted, inept institutions that threaten our future.” It was the kickoff to an event dubbed Rebellion Week, part of an international series of XR actions. As the group started moving out of the park, a figure appeared in the distance, waving Extinction Rebellion’s green flag from atop Wall Street’s charging bull statue. Dyed red corn syrup oozed down the bull’s back, and activists wearing white shirts splattered with fake blood played dead at the animal’s feet. By sunset, police had arrested 700 people across the globe for participation in actions under XR’s banner, including 93 “die-in” participants in New York. That was the point. By getting arrested in visually compelling acts of civil disobedience inspired by Gandhi, the civil rights movement, and ACT UP, Extinction Rebellion hopes to jolt world leaders into taking action on the climate emergency... https://theintercept.com/2019/10/12/extinction-rebellion-climate-movement-direct-action/?utm_source=The+Intercept+Newsletter&utm_campaign=b18f69e977-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_10_19&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_e00a5122d3-b18f69e977-131896129

JW Videos of the week

JW Investigates If Ukraine Ambassador Ordered State Dept. to Monitor Journalists

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzAG93IVbdg&feature=youtu.be&utm_source=deployer&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=weekend+playback&utm_term=members&utm_content=20191019175030

JW Video Weekly Update

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shRo1rSHfjg

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State Dept. MUST Be Transparent on Targeting of Media Journalists, Trump Allies

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcdL97HxeQk&utm_source=deployer&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=weekend+playback&utm_term=members&utm_content=20191019180815

Durham investigation into origins of 2016 Trump campaign surveillance expands its scope

https://video.foxnews.com/v/6093286006001/#sp=show-clips

Dems Play Political Theater in Walkout

of Trump Meeting

Thomas Gallatin: President Donald Trump intended a White House meeting with congressional leaders from both parties to be an opportunity to confront the bipartisan opposition to his decision to pull U.S. troops out of northern Syria. But it quickly descended into political theater as Democrats, led by House Speaker liar-Nancy Pelosi, suddenly stood up and left the meeting.

Rushing to the media like a bunch of schoolyard children running to the nearest teacher to tattle on a particularly disliked peer, liar-Pelosi and company huffed that Trump had a “meltdown.” They further claimed that Trump had called liar-Pelosi “a third-rate politician” — or was it “a third-grade politician”? They weren’t sure. But liar-Pelosi was sure that Trump was so unhinged that she patronizingly announced, “I pray for the president all the time. … Now we have to pray for his health — because this was a very serious meltdown on the part of the president.”

Democrats claimed that Trump was so disrespectful that they couldn’t take it anymore and left. The White House, on the other hand, found Democrat behavior “baffling, but not surprising.” White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham nailed it: “[liar-Pelosi] had no intention of listening or contributing to an important meeting on national security issues. While Democratic leadership chose to storm out and get in front of the cameras to whine, everyone else in the meeting chose to stay in the room and work on behalf of this country.”

This is orchestrated political theater by the Democrats. It’s designed to take advantage of a rather unique situation in Trump’s presidency: Solid majorities in both parties stand in opposition to his decision regarding Syria. Thus far, Trump has failed to articulate a winsome argument for his decision, and the opposition has clearly frustrated him. liar-Pelosi and company decided to take advantage and play up their “Trump is crazy and not fit for office” mantra in an effort to bolster their devious not-yet-voted-on “impeached inquiry.” It’s all a game of political optics, never mind what the truth is. The swamp runs deep in Washington. ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/66175?mailing_id=4593&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4593&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

Democrats…In the Middle of Their Own Minefield

Posted by Craig Andresen on October 20, 2019 at 5:28am

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By Craig Andresen – Right Side Patriots on American Political Radio

By now, I think we can all agree that the democrat debates are somewhere between a joke, and a pissing contest facing the wind, and even democrats who bothered to watch would agree if they are being honest.

They can’t possibly see anything on that stage that resembles a potential winner, and they have to be going to bed with the song ‘Send in the Clowns’ stuck in their heads.

Sure, I could go into detail regarding democrat debate number 4 which took place last Tuesday night, but why bother? It was just more of the same old stinky crap…hate Trump, and try to outbid the rest of the circus as to how much of other people’s money they intend to spend, and how much “free” stuff they promise to use to bribe people to vote for them.

There was no new ground broken, no bombshells, and no new ideas…no plan, no substance and no American flags.

There was something that did strike me however…

READ THE FULL ARTICLE HERE!!!

Saturday PM ~ thefrontpagecover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on October 19, 2019 at 5:36pm

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

Battle Lines Over War Powers

National Security Desk

Senate fails to override

Trump veto over emergency declaration

By JORDAIN CARNEY

{ thehill.com } ~ The Senate on Thursday failed to overridePresident Trump's veto of a resolution that would have ended the emergency declaration intended to help build the border wall... Senators voted 53-36, falling short of the two-thirds needed to successfully override Trump's veto. Ten Republican senators voted to override Trump's veto: Sens. Roy Blunt (Mo.), Susan Collins (Maine), Mike Lee (Utah), rino-Lisa Murkowski (Alaska), Rand Paul (Ky.), Rob Portman (Ohio), rino-Mitt Romney (Utah), Marco Rubio (Fla.), Pat Toomey (Pa.) and Roger Wicker (Miss.). The vote came less than a day after Trump vetoed the resolution, which initially passed by the House and Senate last month. Trump, in his veto message to the Senate, said the national emergency has allowed the administration to "counter large-scale unlawful migration" and facilitated the construction of his long-promised border wall. "In short, the situation on our southern border remains a national emergency, and our Armed Forces are still needed to help confront it," he added...

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/466313-senate-fails-to-override-trumps-emergency-declaration-veto

Why Portland’s Homeless Problem

Is the Worst in the Nation

by Douglas Blair

{ dailysignal.com } ~ The alleys of Portland, Oregon, are strewn with piles of garbage and used drug needles, reflecting a growing problem of homelessness, drug addiction, and mental illness... Mental illness is now more common among the homeless in Oregon than in any other state. According to a study from 2016, 35-40% of homeless adults in Oregon suffer from some form of mental illness. The problem is apparent along the Springwater Corridor, a popular biking trail on the east side of Portland that is cherished as peaceful slice of nature hidden from the urban sprawl. In 2016, a shantytown alongside a 2-mile stretch of the corridor was the largest homeless encampment in the nation. It contained nearly 200 tents and an estimated 500 homeless people. In the years since, criminal activity has become a routine occurrence. For example, in August 2018, police arrested a homeless woman for attempting to kidnap a 6-year-old girl playing near the trail. Two months later, a shooting occurred. This year, an assailant stabbed a man in the arm before fleeing back into the sea of tents. Unfortunately, the Springwater Corridor is no exception in Portland—it is a microcosm of Oregon’s largest city. In 2018, Portland was home to an estimated 14,000 chronically homeless people, the vast majority of whom were in Portland, according to the Department of Housing and Urban Development...

https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/10/18/why-portlands-homeless-problem-is-the-worst-in-the-nation/?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiWmpoaVltWm1NMk13TVRBeiIsInQiOiJwT2E1cVordUVOVEdaKyt5MHdmTDB6eGJPdDZVVCtwZWRzRjNWQzhGSjFZeGdZSERuVUlub2xHRVFEVjNFUmxEZ0t1Ym9aWmJudnFhVXF5ems2Nld2a0REaGlrcDlDUWJJRCtYTlRcL2d1Vjd1RllXNXpualhCSGRyOGRqcG9EWHQifQ%3D%3D

scumbag-Schiff Tried To Strong-Arm Kurt

Volker but It Backfired When Volker

Exposed Schiff Instead

By C. Douglas Golden

{ westernjournal.com } ~ When Kurt Volker testified before the House of Representatives behind closed doors on Oct. 3, the general consensus was that it wasn’t going to be a great moment for the Trump administration... Indeed, the major headline from the leaked testimony thus far seems to have been that he indicated there were issues about Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani’s involvement in the administration’s policy in the country. According to Axios, Volker testified that the current ambassador, Bill Taylor, had issues with accepting the job due to Giuliani’s involvement. He also reportedly called Democratic presidential candidate and former Vice President loose lips liar-Joe Biden a “man of integrity,” so you can guess how many stories that launched. The biggest headline buried underneath this all, however, might be that House Intelligence Committee Chairman and perpetual hack scumbag-Adam Schiff wasn’t able to get Volker to admit to a quid pro quo no matter how many leading questions he asked. The California Democrat, of course, is trying to prove that the administration’s disbursement of congressionally approved military aid to Ukraine came with preconditions attached — most notably, preconditions regarding whether the new Ukrainian government investigated a company on whose board loose lips liar-Biden’s son, Hunter, once sat. This much could be reasonably established by any observer. However, an exchange between scumbag-Schiff and Volker leaked to the Washington Examiner and published Wednesday regarding the quid pro quo shows the extent to which scumbag-Schiff was willing to go to get the answer he wanted. Volker contended two things during his testimony. First, he says the Ukrainians weren’t aware of the fact that the Trump administration had put the military aid on hold at the time of Trump’s call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on July 25. Second, he was also unaware of the fact that Trump discussed the loose lips liar-Bidens during the call. “The Ukrainians didn’t want to be drawn into investigating a Democratic candidate for president, which would mean only peril for Ukraine, is that fair to say?” scumbag-Schiff asked at one point. “That may be true,” Volker responded. “That may be true. They didn’t express that to me, and, of course, I didn’t know that was the context at the time.”... https://www.westernjournal.com/report-schiff-tried-strong-arm-kurt-volker-backfired-volker-exposed-schiff-instead/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=patriotupdate&utm_campaign=dailypm&utm_content=libertyalliance

A Million People Are Jailed at China's Gulags

I Managed to Escape Here's What

Really Goes on Inside

By David Stavrou

{ haaretz.com } ~ Twenty prisoners live in one small room. They are handcuffed, their heads shaved, every move is monitored by ceiling cameras. A bucket in the corner of the room is their toilet... The daily routine begins at 6 A.M. They are learning Chinese, memorizing propaganda songs and confessing to invented sins. They range in age from teenagers to elderly. Their meals are meager: cloudy soup and a slice of bread. Torture – metal nails, fingernails pulled out, electric shocks – takes place in the “black room.” Punishment is a constant. The prisoners are forced to take pills and get injections. It’s for disease prevention, the staff tell them, but in reality they are the human subjects of medical experiments. Many of the inmates suffer from cognitive decline. Some of the men become sterile. Women are routinely raped. Such is life in China’s reeducation camps, as reported in rare testimony provided by Sayragul Sauytbay (pronounced: Say-ra-gul Saut-bay, as in “bye”), a teacher who escaped from China and was granted asylum in Sweden. Few prisoners have succeeded in getting out of the camps and telling their story. Sauytbay’s testimony is even more extraordinary, because during her incarceration she was compelled to be a teacher in the camp. China wants to market its camps to the world as places of educational programs and vocational retraining, but Sauytbay is one of the few people who can offer credible, firsthand testimony about what really goes on in the camps...

https://www.haaretz.com/world-news/.premium.MAGAZINE-a-million-people-are-jailed-at-china-s-gulags-i-escaped-here-s-what-goes-on-inside-1.7994216?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiWmpoaVltWm1NMk13TVRBeiIsInQiOiJwT2E1cVordUVOVEdaKyt5MHdmTDB6eGJPdDZVVCtwZWRzRjNWQzhGSjFZeGdZSERuVUlub2xHRVFEVjNFUmxEZ0t1Ym9aWmJudnFhVXF5ems2Nld2a0REaGlrcDlDUWJJRCtYTlRcL2d1Vjd1RllXNXpualhCSGRyOGRqcG9EWHQifQ%3D%3D

Misdemeanors and Gun Laws

Screwing Up The Court System

by Faye Higbee and Jeff Dunetz

{ lidblog.com } ~ State law in Nevada prohibits people who have misdemeanor domestic violence charges from owning a firearm. But the state law forgot about a more universal law, the law of unintended consequences... The State Supreme Court has ruled that because removing a right is a big deal, they must have the option to be tried by a jury for their misdemeanor to save their gun rights. The problem is that misdemeanors are generally tried in municipal courts, not large courtrooms. The smaller courts have no place for juries. So the Las Vegas City council has created a new misdemeanor domestic violence law that doesn’t require giving up gun rights which avoids the need for a jury trial. The Nevada Supreme Court is absolutely correct- if you’re going to take away someone’s rights, it’s much more critical than regular misdemeanors. In a 6-1 vote, the Las Vegas City Council approved the ordinance Wednesday in response to a recent state Supreme Court ruling that requires defendants in such cases to be afforded the option of a jury trial. Councilman Cedric Crear voted against the plan. The high court ruled a month ago that defendants were entitled to a trial after deeming the offense no longer “petty” but a “serious” one because of a 2015 state law that banned convicted individuals from possessing firearms. Officials in Las Vegas have lamented that the city’s municipal court is ill-equipped to hold trials because it does not have jury boxes or administration, plus there are not enough city prosecutors or judges, nor a means to summon a jury pool. In addition, state law doesn’t allow for jury trials in municipal courts... https://lidblog.com/nevada-gun-laws/

Socialism, Not Climate Change,

Is the Real Threat

By Emma Roberts

{ texaspolicy.com } ~ It is preposterous to me that many of my peers are so afraid of climate change that they say they can hardly think about it. I think what they should really be afraid of is government overreach... caused by such exaggeration over the effects of climate change. Back in the 1960s, some scientists believed that by 1975, the human race would perish through famine caused by climate change. Funny thing, the human race is now 7.5 billion strong. Fast-forward 10 years to the 1970s, and scientists were claiming that the world was entering a new ice age, or, in other words, that we were imperiled by global freezing. Now it is 2019 about the same time scientists had predicted the world would be frozen over, and many of my peers, as well as plenty of adults, believe that the world is going to end due to global warming, and there is nothing we can do to stop it. The hysteria over climate change has gone so far that many students my age are striking — skipping school every Friday to protest global warming. And they’re demanding that Washington, D.C., fix it. Washington has many, many things that it needs to fix, and many responsibilities and duties to uphold. Global warming, however, is not one of them. Studies show that if the U.S. fully implemented the Green New Deal, the temperature of Earth would decrease by no more than 0.097 degrees Fahrenheit over a span of 30 years. But the price of electricity would increase by almost 10 times its current amount. The price of gasoline would increase astronomically, so that drivers would have no choice but to drive Priuses and Teslas. Further, it is estimated that in the state of Texas alone, such regulations would cause the loss of over a million jobs. And that’s just in Texas; across the United States, the numbers would be devastating and the effects on our economy and society possibly irreversible...

https://www.texaspolicy.com/socialism-not-climate-change-is-the-real-threat/?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiWmpoaVltWm1NMk13TVRBeiIsInQiOiJwT2E1cVordUVOVEdaKyt5MHdmTDB6eGJPdDZVVCtwZWRzRjNWQzhGSjFZeGdZSERuVUlub2xHRVFEVjNFUmxEZ0t1Ym9aWmJudnFhVXF5ems2Nld2a0REaGlrcDlDUWJJRCtYTlRcL2d1Vjd1RllXNXpualhCSGRyOGRqcG9EWHQifQ%3D%3D

Battle Lines Over War Powers

National Security Desk: Wednesday in Washington held more political theater than just President Donald Trump’s reality-TV meeting with House Speaker liar-Nancy Pelosi. This time it’s a struggle over constitutional war powers.

The House voted 354-60 (including 129 Republicans siding with all Democrats) to pass a toothless resolution of disapproval for Trump’s troop-shifting in Syria. U.S. troops are in Syria because of an Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF) passed after 9/11 to empower the president to deploy troops against the responsible terrorists and any “associated forces.” Some argue that doesn’t apply because ISIS isn’t al-Qaida, but that’s a distinction without a difference.

In any case, members of Congress want all of the political benefit from criticizing the president with none of the responsibility for the policy. The president wants the freedom to move troops without the partisan and political squabbling inherent in going before Congress. No one seems to remember the Constitution’s general prescription for war.

As political analyst David Harsanyi argues, “If you want to stop Donald Trump from making unilateral decisions regarding war and peace, then stop letting all presidents make unilateral decisions about war and peace. It’s really quite simple.”

Put another way, The Washington Times editorial board asserts, “If Congress is so adamant that U.S. forces should be fighting in the Syrian civil war, then Congress should vote to declare war.”

Back in 2013, Barack scumbag/liar-nObama half-heartedly asked Congress for an AUMF in Syria … to remove its dictator, Bashar al-Assad. Obviously, Assad’s a bad actor backed by Iran and Russia, but removing him was not going to end well. (For more information, see scumbag/liar-nObama’s misadventures in Libya.) Congress declined to give scumbag/liar-nObama the AUMF.

scumbag/liar-nObama sent troops to fight ISIS in Syria anyway, as a cleanup for having created the Islamic State in the first place. Trump took that to another level, effectively destroying the caliphate — primarily thanks to the Kurds we’re now leaving to the Turkish wolves.

As far as Trump making a coherent case for his policy, don’t hold your breath. On Wednesday, we learned of Trump’s bizarre and cartoonish letter to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan appealing for “a good deal” and warning Erdogan, “Don’t be a tough guy. Don’t be a fool!”

And then we heard Trump make callous comments about the Middle East: It contains “a lot of sand they can play with,” he said. “We have a situation where Turkey is taking land from Syria. And Syria is not happy about it. Let them work it out. We shouldn’t be over there.”

If only it were that simple.

As Victor Davis Hanson outlines in a must-read column on this difficult subject, the situation with Turkey, Syria, and the Kurds is very complicated. And the commander-in-chief should spend more time laying out his case instead of insulting just about everyone in an effort to simply make the “right” people mad.

On a final note, Mark Alexander argues, “One underreported factor here is the sequence of events. The Turks have long planned to come across the border to hit the Kurdish YPG and PKK and establish a resettlement zone for refugees. I believe they gave Trump advance notice of their impending operations. Rather than threaten a counter-offensive against a NATO member (not an option) Trump removed our advisers from the line of fire. By contrast, the prevailing narrative is that the Turkish offensive was the result of Trump’s removal of what were, in effect, a small number of human military shields protecting Kurds along the Turkey/Syria border. But I don’t think it was a bluff on Turkey’s part. Let me take a wild shot here and suggest that, because of a myriad of other strategic implications, most of which are never black and white, Trump actually signed off on this plan.” ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/66173?mailing_id=4593&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4593&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

Saturday Noon ~ thefrontpagecover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on October 19, 2019 at 12:16pm

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

Democrats Ratchet Up

Impeachment Secrecy

Byron York

Calling All Rosa Parks Americans

By Lloyd Marcus

{ americanthinker.com } ~ The insanity going on before our very eyes regarding the Democrats' and fake news medias' latest campaign to impeach Trump over nonsense is infuriating millions of Americans... It is the equivalent of scumbag-Adam Schiff flooding the airwaves with the lie that Trump stole his car and must be impeached for it. Meanwhile, scumbag-Schiff's car is parked untouched in his driveway for all the world to see. Ignoring the truth that scumbag-Schiff's car was not stolen, the Democrats and fake news media cart out a dozen witnesses whistleblowers who claim they saw Trump commit the crime. This is exactly what is going on with scumbag-Schiff's outrageous claim that Trump committed impeachable crimes during his phone call with the Ukraine president. scumbag-Schiff publicly read a bogus version of the conversation between Trump and the president of Ukraine. Trump had already countered scumbag-Schiff's lie by releasing the actual transcript of the phone call. Ignoring the transcript, Democrats and their fake news media cheering section are still promoting the false narrative 24/7 that Trump must be impeached for what scumbag-Schiff claims Trump said on the phone call. This is in-our-face arrogant corruption. Behaviorally, scumbag-Schiff, Democrats and the fake news media are saying we're kickin' your president out of office and there ain't nothing you smelly Walmart-shopping Trump voters can do about it. I received an expletive-filled ranting phone call from a businessman friend in California. He was livid watching liar-Pelosi, scumbag-Schiff, and their fake news media minions on TV arrogantly promoting a false picture of Trump while seeming to get away with it. He kept screaming, where are the ******* Republicans on our side who are fighting back? I talked him down from throwing a brick through his TV. My friend's frustration and anger is felt by millions; outraged that Democrats and fake news media are attempting to use nonsense to disenfranchise them, reversing their decision to elect Trump. The Democratic Party, fake news media, ANTIFA, the Southern Poverty Law Center, Black Lives Matter, and LGBTQ enforcers are nothing more than anti-American and anti-Christian hate groups. They have launched a no-holds-barred war on traditional Americans. They have zero tolerance for any opposition to them transforming America. Along with social and financial destruction, opposing them could cost you your life. Black civil rights hero Rosa Parks was an excellent example of courage. Tired after a long day at work, Rosa took a seat in the front of the public transit bus, ignoring the mandate that blacks must sit in the back. When ordered to give up her seat to a white passenger, Rosa said, no. Folks, we need thousands of Rosa Parks Americans who refuse to be bullied by the anti-American mob... https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/10/calling_all_rosa_parks_americans.html

scumbag/liar-Clinton Spokesman Doubles Down

On Wild Tulsi Gabbard Conspiracy Theory

By Tristan Justice

{ thefederalist.com } ~ Former secretary of state and 2016 Democratic presidential candidate scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton peddled a bizarre conspiracy theory Tuesday claiming that the Russians are supporting U.S. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii for a third-party presidential run... “I’m not making any predictions, but I think they’ve got their eye on somebody who is currently in the Democratic primary and are grooming her to be the third-party candidate,” scumbag/liar-Clinton said speculating of Russia’s latest plans in the upcoming presidential election on David Plouffe’s podcast. “She’s the favorite of the Russians.”The wild charge prompted a response from Gabbard, accusing scumbag/liar-Clinton of running an operation to destroy the congresswoman’s campaign for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination. “You, the queen of warmongers, embodiment of corruption, and personification of the rot that has sickened the Democratic Party for so long, have finally come out from behind the curtain,” Gabbard wrote on Twitter. “From the day I announced my candidacy, there has been a concerted campaign to destroy my reputation. We wondered who was behind it and why. Now we know — it was always you, through your proxies.” scumbag/liar-Clinton spokesperson Nick Merrill doubled-down on the former nominee’s conspiratorial charges, confirming to CNN’s Dan Merica that scumbag/liar-Clinton was referencing Gabbard without referencing the congresswoman by name. “Divisive language filled with vitriol and conspiracy theories? Can’t imagine a better proof point than this,” Merrill told Merica. “This is not some outlandish claim.”... This is so full of bull, how can anyone believe. https://thefederalist.com/2019/10/18/clinton-spokesman-doubles-down-on-wild-tulsi-gabbard-conspiracy-theory-on/?utm_source=The+Federalist+List&utm_campaign=dfecc4d726-RSS_The_Federalist_Daily_Updates_w_Transom&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_cfcb868ceb-dfecc4d726-83771801

Democrat Sen. swcumbag-Pat Leahy Praises

Anti-Semitic Cleric Just To Spite Trump

By Erielle Davidson

{ thefederalist.com } ~ The left has a penchant for choosing heroes based on their well-constructed anti-Trump narrative. Occasionally, however, this approach backfires, causing the left to defend and prop up individuals it should most decidedly not... This behavior is most readily apparent on the international stage, particularly since foreign policy decision making based solely on opposing Trump resembles really no foreign policy at all. Recently, Sen. scumbag-Patrick Leahy (D-VT) fell into this unfortunate trap of defending the indefensible, offering a glowing defense of the infamous anti-Semitic Saudi preacher Salman al-Awda, who currently faces multiple counts in Saudi court, including for incitement against the ruler, sedition, and aiding the Muslim Brotherhood, among others. In his statement, scumbag-Leahy initially focuses his condemnation on the parameters of al-Awda’s confinement, which he argues violates international law. If the statement stopped there, it would be an honest statement of advocacy. However, scumbag-Leahy dramatically shifts gears, heaping saccharine praise on the cleric and portraying al-Awda as a mere dissident facing persecution at the hands of the Saudi government. To buttress his words of affirmation, scumbag-Leahy cites the UN Special Rapporteurs, who in calling for al-Awda’s release referred to the preacher as a “reformist” and “an influential religious figure who has urged greater respect for human rights within Sharia.” scumbag-Leahy himself refers to al-Awda as a “prisoner of conscience” and a “courageous cleric” who represents a “true reformist.” But performing a quick background check on al-Awda would assure you that this representation is far from thorough or accurate. Although al-Awda has made some redeeming statements in recent years, including an open rejection of his Islamist behavior in the 1990s, he carries a long and painful history of virulent antisemitism and anti-Americanism in the 2000s, the antsemitism remaining an enduring phenomenon of the past decade. There’s a strong desire among leftists to recast al-Awda as a hero, but it appears to be at best wishful thinking and, at worst, liberal windowdressing for much more nefarious beliefs. Indeed, it’s not a stretch to say that al-Awda harbors a deep hatred of Jews. As recently as 2012, al-Awda went on Rotana Khalijiya TV, a Saudi network, discussing how Jews consume human blood to “bring them closer to their false god.” In that same interview, he declared that Jews use the Holocaust to “extort many governments” and then proceeded to declare that the Jews were “carrying out a Holocaust in Gaza.” In 2006, al-Awda appeared on al-Hayat Kalimat TV, declaring Jews to be “the worst enemy” and advising that “when any party fights the Jews, we should rejoice out of spite for the Jews.”...

https://thefederalist.com/2019/10/18/democrat-sen-pat-leahy-praises-anti-semitic-cleric-just-to-spite-trump/?utm_source=The+Federalist+List&utm_campaign=dfecc4d726-RSS_The_Federalist_Daily_Updates_w_Transom&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_cfcb868ceb-dfecc4d726-83771801

Testimony on lowering drug prices

and improving Medicare

by Benedic Ippolito, PhD

{ aei.org } ~ Chairman Neal, Ranking Member Brady, and members of the committee, thank you for the opportunity to testify on efforts to reduce prescription drug prices and improve Medicare benefits... My name is Benedic Ippolito—I am an economist and research fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. The market for pharmaceuticals can both be extremely impressive and deeply frustrating. Without question, recent developments in this market have offered tremendous therapeutic benefits to patients. Yet, we have also seen stubbornly high prices, slow or non-existent generic drug entry, and public programs that are not working for their beneficiaries or for taxpayers. It is not surprising that Americans regularly list reducing prescription drug prices as one of their top policy priorities. So, I am glad that this Committee, and others in both chambers, are considering this issue so seriously. In my testimony I will focus on two elements of recent proposals: Redesigning the Medicare prescription drug benefit, known as Medicare Part D, and allowing for the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to negotiate drug prices... https://www.aei.org/research-products/testimony/testimony-on-lowering-drug-prices-and-improving-medicare/?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiWVdZd01qbGlNekExWWpSaSIsInQiOiJ2aVpMOGVHdVNwT0NEdFVvSGhlVFRLa1lcL2JUajVEamFENllXVFFoNjlaeHZDSkMxRlwvK01Nbk5GbnZibjdxQTAwdm5YVDBJZGpsT0pNUGQ0bjNaQ2Q5QUdlZTM3VGxydEFVdzBMQUxTWEQxMGFtWDlNMkRUZHlpQ2FkNDZieE9qIn0%3D

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66Q6WQN3wcw

Elijah Cummings widow Maya Rockeymoore expected to run for his House seat

by Alana Goodman

{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ Rep. Elijah Cummings’s widow Maya Rockeymoore is seen as the most likely successor to fill his congressional seat after his death on Thursday... sources told the Washington Examiner. Rockeymoore, 48, who is currently the chairwoman of the Maryland Democratic Party, has a history of political involvement and ran unsuccessfully for Maryland governor in 2017. She married Cummings in 2008. Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan has 10 days to schedule a special election for Cummings’ seat and will likely set the date by the middle of next week, according to state political sources. The primary election is expected to take place next January and the general election in March. The winner of the special election will serve out of the remainder of Cummings’ term, which expires in December of 2020. A regularly scheduled primary for the following term will take place next April. Rockeymoore has not yet addressed the speculation that she will run for her husband’s seat. The Maryland Democratic Party released a statement on Friday asking for privacy for Rockeymoore and indicating that she would not be making any political announcements for the time being. “We ask the public and the press to allow Maryland Democratic Party Chair Dr. Maya Rockeymoore Cummings — and the rest of the Cummings family — time and space to grieve their loss,” said the party, according to Patch.One political operative said Rockeymoore is not planning to run for the seat immediately as she takes time to grieve the loss of her husband. “Word is that Maya Rockeymoore will pass on the special election,” a long-time Maryland operative told the Washington Examiner. But sources do expect Rockeymoore to run in the previously scheduled election for the seat in April and believe other potential candidates will make room for her out of respect for her and her late husband. Another prominent Maryland Democrat, former NAACP president Ben Jealous, said on Friday that he does not plan to run for the seat... https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/elijah-cummings-widow-maya-rockeymoore-expected-to-run-for-his-house-seat?utm_source=WEX_Breaking%20News%20Alert_10/18/2019&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WEX_Breaking%20News&rid=5261

Does Angela Merkel Deserve

a Prize for Zionism?

by Soeren Kern

{ gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ A decision by the World Jewish Congress (WJC) to honor German Chancellor Angela Merkel with its prestigious Theodor Herzl Award for Zionism has sparked anger and bewilderment among Jewish leaders in the United States and Europe... The WJC, founded in August 1936 in Geneva, Switzerland, to confront the rise of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi persecution of Jews in Europe, bestows its annual award to individuals who act to promote the goals of the late Theodor Herzl, the founder of the modern Zionist movement, "for the creation of a safer and more tolerant world for Jews." Critics say that Merkel, because her domestic and foreign policies have in recent years made the world less safe for Jews, is uniquely undeserving of the award. These policies include: German government failure to combat rising anti-Semitism. A total of 1,799 anti-Semitic hate crimes — five per day, on average — were reported in Germany during 2018, according to the German Interior Ministry. This represents a 40% increase over 2013, when 1,275 such crimes were recorded. The actual number of anti-Semitic hate crimes in Germany is likely much higher. A survey produced by the Vienna-based European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) found that 80% of Jews who said they were a victim of anti-Semitism did not report the crimes. Almost half of Jews living in Germany said they do not feel safe in the country and were considering emigrating, according to the FRA. Germany is home to around 120,000 Jews. A recent survey by the University of Bielefeld found that 85% of German Jews believe there has been an upsurge of anti-Semitism in the country in the previous 12 months; 70% of those surveyed said that they avoided wearing "publicly identifiable Jewish symbols" out of a fear of being attacked; 58% said that they deliberately avoid certain neighborhoods. Although Merkel has frequently condemned anti-Semitism, her government has been unable or unwilling to implement effective measures to tackle the problem... https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/15040/angela-merkel-zionism-prize

Democrats Ratchet Up Impeachment Secrecy

Byron York

Not long ago, House Republicans complained that Democrats imposed excessive secrecy on interviews conducted as part of the drive to impeach President Trump. Now, the situation appears to have gotten worse.

The recent interview of Marie Yovanovitch, the former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, marked a new point — a low point, as Republicans see it — in Democratic efforts to keep impeachment information out of public view.

In this way: The two previous impeachment interviews — with former ambassador to the European Union Kurt Volker and intelligence community inspector general Michael Atkinson — were conducted in the format of what is known as a transcribed interview. Rep. scumbag-Adam Schiff, who is running the Democratic impeachment effort, decreed that transcripts not be released to the public. At the same time, there were no heavily restrictive rules on what would happen should any member of Congress, acting from memory, reveal things that were said in the interview.

The Yovanovitch session was different. Democrats conducted the interview in the format of a deposition, which is different from a transcribed interview. One key difference is that there are serious penalties for lawmakers who reveal the contents of a deposition. Doing so would almost surely subject the offending member to a House ethics investigation.

All Republicans remember the price paid by Rep. Devin Nunes, who, in 2017, as chairman of the Intelligence Committee, faced an ethics investigation based on a complaint from a Democratic-allied outside group alleging he leaked classified information. Nunes was later cleared of all the charges, but he had to distance himself from some committee activities as the probe slowly proceeded.

Now, some Republican lawmakers express fear of Democrats siccing an ethics investigation on them if they reveal what took place in the Yovanovitch interview, even though none of what was discussed was classified. Look at what happened to Devin, they say.

So Republicans feel tight restrictions on what they can say. What was Yovanovitch asked? What did she answer? Were her answers consistent with what is known about the case? Republicans can’t say, fearful that scumbag-Schiff and the Democrats will come after them.

Here is the clever part, from the Democratic perspective. As the Yovanovitch interview began, her 10-page opening statement quickly leaked. In it, Yovanovitch made her case for all the press to read. Headline after headline appeared, all based on the statement:

— Washington Post: “Ousted ambassador Marie Yovanovitch tells Congress Trump pressured State Dept. to remove her.”

— Politico: “Marie Yovanovitch says Trump ousted her over ‘unfounded and false claims.’”

— CNN: “Former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine says Trump wanted her removed and blames ‘unfounded and false claims.’”

— New York Times: “Ukraine Envoy Says She Was Told Trump Wanted Her Out Over Lack of Trust.”

— Wall Street Journal: “Trump Pressed for Ukraine Envoy’s Removal, She Tells Lawmakers.”

Democrats and Yovanovitch got their side of the story out without any rebuttal from Republicans. Beyond the leaked written statement, what did she actually say in the deposition? Did Republicans question her about her claims? Did the questioning reveal any facts not included in Yovanovitch’s opening statement? Were there any contradictions?

None of that was known. Yovanovitch’s opening statement instantly became the accepted version of the story. Meanwhile, Republicans said nothing.

Take, for example, Rep. Scott Perry, one of the four GOP House members in the room. Appearing on Fox News, Perry was asked what was said at the deposition. “Unfortunately, in the ever-changing rules situation here, I can’t tell you what happened in that room,” Perry answered.

In private conversation, other sources were equally reticent. All were silenced by the Democrats’ strategic use of House procedures.

“Depositions are governed by very specific House regulations,” said a House staffer in a text exchange. “Only one lawyer can ask questions per round, agency counsel is barred from attending, and the testimony is close hold. Transcribed interviews, in comparison, really don’t have any hard rules.” The only exception, the staffer said, is a closed session of the Intelligence Committee, which is not what the Yovanovitch deposition was.

Finally, the contents of the interview are being kept secret, not only from the public, but from other lawmakers. Perhaps a dozen members have heard any of the testimony in the impeachment hearings so far. The other 420 or so don’t know what went on.

In his much-criticized letter to Congress, White House counsel Pat Cipollone said Democratic handling of the impeachment investigation “violates fundamental fairness.” He meant fairness toward the target of the proceeding, President Trump. But there is also the question of fairness toward the American people trying to follow an impeachment process shrouded in secrecy. Don’t they have the right to know what the president’s accusers say? ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/opinion/66137?mailing_id=4590&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4590&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

Saturday AM ~ thefrontpagecover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on October 19, 2019 at 7:18am

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

Golsteyn Case Calls For Pardon

Harold Hutchison

scumbag-Schiff pushed Volker

to say Ukraine felt pressure from Trump

by Byron York

{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ In a secret interview, Rep. scumbag-Adam Schiff, leader of the House Democratic effort to impeach President Trump, pressed former United States special representative to Ukraine Kurt Volker to testify that Ukrainian officials felt pressured to investigate... former Vice President loose lips liar-Joe Biden's son Hunter as a result of Trump withholding U.S. military aid to Ukraine. Volker denied that was the case, noting that Ukrainian leaders did not even know the aid was being withheld and that they believed their relationship with the U.S. was moving along satisfactorily, without them having done anything Trump mentioned in his notorious July 25 phone conversation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. When Volker repeatedly declined to agree to scumbag-Schiff's characterization of events, scumbag-Schiff said, "Ambassador, you're making this much more complicated than it has to be." The interview took place Oct. 3 in a secure room in the U.S. Capitol. While the session covered several topics, the issue of an alleged quid pro quo — U.S. military aid in exchange for a Ukrainian investigation of the loose lips liar-Bidens and a public announcement that such an investigation was underway — was a significant part of the discussion. "The Ukrainians didn't want to be drawn into investigating a Democratic candidate for president, which would mean only peril for Ukraine, is that fair to say?" scumbag-Schiff asked Volker. "That may be true," Volker said. "That may be true. They didn't express that to me, and, of course, I didn't know that was the context at the time." Volker has said he did not know that Trump had mentioned the loose lips liar-Bidens on the July 25 call with Zelensky until the rough transcript of the call was released on Sept. 25. "Part of the other context is vital military support is being withheld from the Ukraine during this period, right?" scumbag-Schiff asked. "That was not part of the context at the time," Volker said. "At least to my knowledge, they Ukrainian leaders were not aware of that." scumbag-Schiff asked whether Volker had discussed the withholding of aid with Ukrainian officials. Volker said he had not. The first time he talked with the Ukrainians about that was when a story appeared in the press, an article in Politico, "Trump holds up Ukraine military aid meant to confront Russia," on Aug. 28-29, well after the July 25 Trump-Zelensky phone call... https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/schiff-pressed-volker-to-say-ukraine-felt-pressure-from-trump

House Intel Republicans: scumbag-Adam Schiff

Is Hiding Impeachment Documents from Us

by JOSHUA CAPLAN

{ breitbart.com } ~ All nine Republican members of the House Intelligence Committee sent a letter to panel chairman Rep. scumbag-Adam Schiff (D-CA) in which they accuse him of “withholding the existence” of documents as part of the House Democrats’ impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump... “The highly irregular manner in which you are conducting your so-called ‘impeachment inquiry’ gravely concerns us, as does the fact that you have decreed this matter to bee under HPSCI’s jurisdiction despite it lacking any clear intelligence component,” the letter reads. “Further, given that you have recently acknowledged that the Committee no longer needs to receive testimony from the whistleblower, your ‘impeachment inquiry’ lacks any relationship with the jurisdiction of this Committee.”“As you are aware, the Committee was established to conduct crucial oversight of the Intelligence Comunity, and we are increasingly concerns about normal work is being overlooked in favor of partisan activities best suited for another Committee, the lawmakers added. The letter is signed by Reps. Devin Nunes (D-CA), Michael Conaway (R-TX), Michael Turner (R-OH), Brad Wenstrup (R-OH), Chris Stewart (R-UT), Rick Crawford (R-AR), Elise Stefanik (R-NY), Will Hurd (R-TX), and John Ratcliffe (R-TX).The letter comes as House Republicans are preparing to vote Monday on censuring scumbag-Schiff over his handling of the impeachment probe. “What I have found with scumbag-Adam Schiff is that three times to the American public he has lied,” House Minority Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) said during a Friday press conference. “When you serve on the intelligence committee, it’s different than any other committee in the House because you will read and gather information that members of the House can’t have knowledge,” added McCarthy. “So, when a member of the intelligence committee speaks about something, we hold them to a higher standard.” As of Wednesday, nearly two-thirds (123) of House Republicans back House Freedom Caucus Chairman Andy Biggs’ (R-AZ) resolution to condemn the California Democrat. scumbag-Schiff set off a political firestorm for recounting a fictional call between President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky during a recent committee hearing regarding a so-called “whistleblower’s” complaint about the call. He also made false statements about his panel having never spoken to the whistleblower, who recent reports state is a registered Democrat that worked with former Vice President loose lips liar-Joe Biden in the scumbag/liar-nObama White House. https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/10/18/house-intel-republicans-adam-schiff-is-hiding-impeachment-documents-from-us/

Hannity Blasts ‘Idiotic’ White House Chief Of

Staff Mick Mulvaney For Ukraine Comments

by AMBER ATHEY

{ dailycaller.com } ~ Fox News host Sean Hannity threw White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney under the bus on Thursday for giving fodder to political opponents... looking to prove a quid pro quo relationship between the president and Ukraine. Mulvaney held a press briefing earlier in the day and told reporters that President Donald Trump at least partially held up military aide to Ukraine so that the country would agree to investigate meddling in the 2016 election and whether or not Ukraine had access to the hacked Democratic National Committee (DNC) server. “Did President Trump also mention to me in passing the corruption related to the DNC server? Absolutely—no question about that. That’s it, and that’s why we held up the money,” Mulvaney said. The chief of staff later tried to clarify his comments, asserting in a statement that there was “no quid pro quo” regarding military aide and the DNC server. Hannity, one of the president’s most ardent defenders on cable news, slammed Mulvaney for the less-than-artful briefing on his radio show, calling the White House official “dumb” and “idiotic.” “What is Mulvaney even talking about?” Hannity said. “I just think he’s dumb, I really do. I don’t even think he knows what he’s talking about. That’s my take on it.” You don’t need a chief of staff’s idiotic interpretation of things when the president and the president of Ukraine and everybody else can read it all themselves,” Hannity said, referring to the released transcript of Trump’s call with Ukraine. “That’s what’s amazing.” Trump, when asked about Mulvaney’s comments by reporters at the White House on Friday, stated, “he clarified it.”

https://dailycaller.com/2019/10/18/sean-hannity-mick-mulvaney-press-briefing-ukraine/

IAEA Mum on Iran's Illicit

Nuclear Activities in Germany

by BENJAMIN WEINTHAL

{ jpost.com } ~ Material in a batch of German intelligence documents on Tehran’s illegal nuclear conduct in the federal republic as late as 2018 necessitate “confronting Iran with the intelligence and asking hard questions,”... according to one of the leading international authorities on arms control. Emily B. Landau, director of the Arms Control and Regional Security Project at the Institute for National Security Studies in Tel Aviv, told The Jerusalem Post that the documents prove that Iran has not kept to its commitment outlined in the 2015 nuclear deal. “First, it is important that this intel be widely published and that it become part of the public debate over Iran, as it indicates that Iran has not complied with its commitment not to work on military nuclear capability,” she said. “From my perspective, the most important thing at this point is to have it widely known that Iran did not stop everything in 2015 when the nuclear deal was reached, because the debate in Europe ignores this,” she said, adding, “The point is that it Iran has continued these efforts well after the JCPOA [(Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action) was reached.” Landau is the author of Arms Control in the Middle East: Cooperative Security Dialogue and Regional Constraints. She noted that the Iran deal “set up a special channel regarding procurement for checking issues of this sort,” which is of the sort detailed in the German intelligence documents. “The problem is that the deliberations there get close to zero attention.” The International Atomic Energy Agency, tasked with ensuring Iran’s regime is in compliance with the 2015 nuclear deal, declined to comment on the documents. When asked whether the IAEA had reviewed the German intelligence documents, Fredrik Dahl, an IAEA spokesman, told the Post: “We have no comment.” Dahl also declined to answer follow-up questions about whether the IAEA will review the reports... https://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/IAEA-mum-on-Irans-illicit-nuclear-activities-in-Germany-604954

After Blocking S. 386, Sen. scumbag-Durbin Introduces RELIEF Act to Increase

Legal Immigration

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by numbersusa.com ~ Once again, Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) asked for unanimous consent from the Senate this week to pass the Fairness for High Skilled Immigrants Act, S. 386 in the Senate and H.R. 1044 in the House... that would lift per-country caps for employment-based green cards, but Sen. scumbag-Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) objected. Sen. scumbag-Durbin used his objection to introduce new legislation, the RELIEF Act, which would substantially increase the number of green cards issued each year, including clear the existing backlog of employment-based green cards over five years. Sen. Lee's bill has faced heavy opposition from American tech workers and other groups. The bill would remove the per-country cap that restricts the number of employment-based green cards that can go to nationals from each country, allowing for most of the future green cards to go to nationals from India. The American Workers Coalition has said that "the silent epidemic of cheap foreign labor displacing American workers will continue and worsen if this legislation is passed." Sen. scumbag-Durbin has objected twice to Sen. Lee's request to pass the legislation through unanimous consent. Sens. David Perdue (R-Ga.) and Rand Paul (R-Ky.) have also objected. But Sen. scumbag-Durbin's objection, like that of Sens. Perdue and Paul, is not based on his concern for American workers, but rather because he thinks the better solution is to massively increase the number of green cards issued each year. His RELIEF Act, that he co-introduced with Sen. scumbag-Pat Leahy (D-Vt.), would: Eliminate the current green card backlog over 5 years, which would result in an increase of 4 million green cards over the next 5 years. Increase annual immigration by removing spouses and minor children from the employment-based pool of green cards and shifting them to the immediate family categories. This would result in an increase of between 50,000-100,000 green cards per year. Eliminate the per-country caps for employment based green cards. https://www.numbersusa.com/news/after-blocking-s-386-sen-durbin-introduces-relief-act-increase-legal-immigration

38 People Violated Law In scumbag/liar-Hillary’s Email Probe — Here’s What We Know So Far…

by Wes Walker

{ clashdaily.com } ~ Almost 600 security violations! The long wait is over… well, sort of. We will still need to see who gets charged. There is doubtless a lot more to unpack in this story... including the potential criminal implications of those involved. Here is what the Associated Press has reported so far: The State Department has completed its internal investigation into former Secretary of State scumbag/liar-Hillary Rodham Clinton’s use of private email and found violations by 38 people, some of whom may face disciplinary action. Now that they have wrapped up this probe, what should they look into next? Have we had any answers on Debbie Washerman-Schutz’s sketchy IT guys that were trying to flee the country? That seems like it might be a pretty rich vein you could mine for potential criminality. Chuck Ross has uploaded the complete report. ( https://www.scribd.com/user/136707414/Chuck-Ross )

https://clashdaily.com/2019/10/breaking-38-people-violated-law-in-hillarys-email-probe-heres-what-we-know-so-far/

Golsteyn Case Calls For Pardon

Harold Hutchison: Earlier this year, we covered some cases in the military justice system that were disturbing in more ways than one. Not only were elite special-operations troops accused of serious crimes, there was also disturbing misconduct by prosecutors and investigators.

After stunning testimony during his court-martial, Eddie Gallagher was acquitted of murder charges, but he was convicted over a trophy photo he took with the corpse of an ISIS jihadi. But the case against Major Mathew Golsteyn, United States Army, is continuing.

Golsteyn was with the 3rd Special Forces Forces Group when he took out a Taliban bomb-maker. However, when he revealed some of the details later, the scumbag/liar-nObama administration tried to hang a murder case on him because he didn’t follow the overly restrictive rules of engagement. They couldn’t and Golsteyn was cleared. Despite being cleared, Barack scumbag/liar-nObama’s secretary of the Army proceeded to not only revoke a Silver Star Golsteyn had been awarded for heroic actions in Afghanistan unrelated to the allegation, he also revoked Golsteyn’s Special Forces tab.

Just the fact that there is a second go at Golsteyn reeks of double jeopardy. Or at the very least, it’s double jeopardy’s kissing cousin. Just the administrative actions alone seem to be highly prejudicial. That’s before we get to the Army’s conduct of the case.

The investigator wasn’t exactly honest about his own awards. This opens a big can of worms, to put it mildly. If the investigator wore awards he wasn’t entitled to, essentially lying about his service, then where else was he dishonest? Now come revelations that the Army prosecutors are playing fast and loose with due process.

Let’s repeat this: A Green Beret is facing criminal proceedings for taking out a Taliban bomb-maker who was responsible for the improvised explosive devices that left our troops dead, maimed, or suffering from traumatic brain injuries. Stuff like this is a great way to get people to support pulling our troops out of places like Syria and Afghanistan, even when we should be trying to keep ISIS and al-Qaida tamped down.

Why? Because when we send our troops out to fight a war, those who send them should be able to articulate to America what conditions define winning, and they also should stand by our troops when they do try to win the war. George W. Bush, notwithstanding the serious mistakes he made, had an idea of what winning the War on Terror looked like, and he articulated it. He also was willing to let the troops try to win. scumbag/liar-nObama changed things, and not for the better.

We have seen the heroes who cracked 9/11 “architect” Khalid Sheikh Mohammed get dragged before civil courts by the Gitmo bar on behalf of al-Qaida terrorists. James Mitchell, Bruce Jessen, and others were asked to do a difficult job. They were told it was legal. It was implied this country would have their back. They were betrayed. Others, like Gina Haspel, have been smeared.

The fact is, President Donald Trump inherited a bad situation in which the ideal victory as articulated by Bush was no longer attainable. So, he laid out his victory conditions — trying to knock out the territory that ISIS held. They’re probably the best we can get, given the other problems around the world — a resurgent Russia and an increasingly aggressive China, as well as the need to deal with an out-of-control bureaucracy and other real threats to Americans’ freedoms from within.

The good news is that President Trump is reportedly reviewing the Golsteyn case. In this case, given the alleged actions of the prosecutors, a pardon may be necessary to avoid a miscarriage of military justice. But the damage done to the perception that America is determined to win the Long War may be far greater, and far harder to undo. ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/66126?mailing_id=4590&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4590&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

Friday PM ~ thefrontpagecover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on October 18, 2019 at 4:34pm

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

Hunter Biden Fails to

Smother Smoke From Ukraine Scandal

Thomas Gallatin

Trump Says Turkey-Syria Ceasefire

Is On Again After Friday Morning Shelling

by AUDREY CONKLIN

{ dailycaller.com } ~ President Donald Trump said the ceasefire agreed upon by the U.S. and Turkey on Thursday is on again after reports of Friday morning shelling and machine-gun fire on the Syria-Turkey border... The president’s comments came after Reuters said it heard shelling and machine-gun fire at the border Friday morning despite a five-day ceasefire agreement that Vice President Mike Pence and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo negotiated with Recep Tayyip Erdoğan during their visit to Ankara on Thursday.“Just spoke to President Erdogan of Turkey. He told me there was minor sniper and mortar fire that was quickly eliminated. He very much wants the ceasefire, or pause, to work. Likewise, the Kurds want it, and the ultimate solution, to happen,” Trump tweeted Friday afternoon. “Too bad there wasn’t this thinking years ago. Instead, it was always held together with very weak bandaids, and in an artificial manner. There is good will on both sides and a really good chance for success. The U.S. has secured the Oil, and the ISIS Fighters are double secured by Kurds and Turkey,” the president continued.Trump also told reporters at the White House on Friday that “there was some sniper fire this morning,” adding, “There was mortar fire this morning. That was eliminated quickly. And they’re back to the full pause,” according to Reuters. Pence’s meeting to negotiate a ceasefire came nearly two weeks after the White House announced that it was pulling the remaining 50 U.S. soldiers from northern Syria on Oct. 6. “Earlier this week President Trump took decisive action to call on Turkish forces to stand down, to end the violence, to agree to negotiations,” Pence said at a Thursday press conference in Turkey. “And today I’m proud to report, thanks to the strong leadership of President Donald Trump and the strong relationship between President Erdogan and Turkey and the United States of America, that today the United States and Turkey have agreed to a ceasefire in Syria,” he continued. The president implemented economic sanctions on Turkey — including the cancelation of negotiations with Turkey on a $100 billion trade deal and a 50% tariff on steel — on Oct. 14 in an effort to increase pressure on Turkey to commit to a ceasefire.

https://dailycaller.com/2019/10/18/trump-turkey-ceasefire-on-again/?utm_source=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=10562

Trump nominates Dan Brouillette

to replace Energy Secretary Rick Perry

By Adam Shaw

{ foxnews.com } ~ President Trump on Friday announced that he is nominating Deputy Energy Secretary Dan Brouillette to replace outgoing Energy Secretary Rick Perry... who will depart at the end of the year. "I want to thank Secretary of Energy Rick Perry for the outstanding job he has done. He will be leaving at the end of the year to pursue other interests. Rick was a great Governor of Texas and a great Secretary of Energy. He is also my friend!" Trump tweeted. "At the same time, I am pleased to nominate Deputy Secretary Dan Brouillette to be the new Secretary of Energy. Dan’s experience in the sector is unparalleled. A total professional, I have no doubt that Dan will do a great job!" the president said. Perry, a former Texas governor, had come under scrutiny over the role he played in the president's dealings with Ukraine, which are currently the subject of an impeachment inquiry -- raising questions as to whether the probe factored into his decision to leave. House Democrats subpoenaed Perry as part of their investigation. Multiple administration sources reiterated to Fox News that Perry was central to the apparent foreign policy operation to encourage a Ukrainian investigation into 2020 presidential hopeful loose lips liar-Joe Biden's actions involving the country. They said Perry was one of a handful of officials working on the matter hand-in-glove with Trump and the president's personal attorney Rudy Giuliani. But in an interview Friday on "America's Newsroom," Perry told Fox News' Bill Hemmer that his decision to leave did not have anything to do with Ukraine. "It has everything to do for the last eight or nine months. I've been looking back to Texas on a pretty regular basis... My wife, my dogs, and kinda going on to the next adventure in life," Perry said.Trump called Perry "outstanding" when speaking to reporters on Thursday and announced at the time, "We already have his replacement."...

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-nominates-dan-brouillette-to-replace-departing-energy-secretary-rick-perry

VIDEO: https://video.foxnews.com/v/6095881830001/#sp=show-clip

GOP challenger files ethics complaint against scumbag-Schiff for purporting to obtain compromising Trump pictures

By Hollie McKay

{ foxnews.com } ~ A prank call by Russian deejays fished in Rep. scumbag-Adam Schiff, D-Calif., but a Republican challenging him for his House seat doesn't think the call... in which scumbag-Schiff expressed eagerness to get "compromising material" on President Trump, is a laughing matter. Jon Hollis, who is running for the Los Angeles-area seat held by scumbag-Schiff since 2001, has filed an ethics complaint against his opponent based on the 2017 call, in which a phony Ukrainian politician claimed to have graphic photos of the then newly-inaugurated President Trump. “This letter serves as an official complaint to the Office of Congressional Ethics (OCE) regarding Rep. scumbag-Adam Schiff’s illegal collusion with foreign entities and misuse of taxpayer resources for opposition research on political enemies,” one complaint, dated Aug. 28 and filed by Jon Hollis, a Republican challenger for the seat in California’s 28th Congressional District, stated. “The evidence supporting scumbag-Adam’s Schiff's violations of the law is compelling and irrefutable.” The filing primarily points to that wincing 2017 call that continues to haunt. At the time, scumbag-Schiff assumed he was talking with Ukrainian politician Andriy Parubiy, who solicited potentially damaging information and compromising pictures of Trump from his visit to Russia for the Miss Universe pageant four years earlier. scumbag-Schiff stressed in the call that he would “be in touch with the FBI” to make arrangements with regard to accessing the supposedly explicit materials and cautioned the voice on the other end not to divulge anything he would not want “our Russian friends” to hear, warning that they were likely listening. However, in reality, the then-ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee was conversing with someone far from the political powers of Kiev. Instead, he was being pranked by two Russian comedians — Vladimir Kuznetsov and Alexey Stolyarov...

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/2020-republican-challenger-files-ethics-complaint-against-adam-schiff-for-purporting-to-obtain-comprising-pictures-of-president-trump

VIDEO: https://video.foxnews.com/v/6095056535001/#sp=show-clips

ICE Identifies More

Than 200 Fraudulent Families

by Bronson Stocking

{ townhall.com } ~ U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement (ICE) has identified 238 fraudulent cases of individuals claiming to be related in order to secure entry into the United States... Illegal aliens from Central and South America have been exploiting children to take advantage of loopholes in U.S. immigration policy. In April, the Family Fraud Initiative was launched by ICE, in conjunction with Homeland Security Investigations and U.S. Border Patrol, to investigate individuals posing as family members when applying for asylum in the United States. Under the policy known as "catch and release," families with minor children arriving to the United States are released ahead of their hearing in immigration court, a hearing in which many migrants fail to appear. ICE announced in a press release that more than 350 individuals have been "federally prosecuted for various crimes, including human smuggling, making false statements, conspiracy, and illegal re-entry after removal," following the inception of the Family Fraud Initiative in April. "Some of the most disturbing cases identified involve transnational criminal organizations (TCOs) and individuals who are increasingly exploiting innocent children to further their criminal activity. Investigations indicate that TCOs and individuals have entered into schemes with biological parents to dangerously transfer their children – ranging in age from 4 months to 16 years – to unrelated adults so they can pose as family units to further their human smuggling criminal enterprises and/or fraudulently obtain U.S. immigration benefits," according to ICE. In addition to children being exploited by criminals, the Family Fraud Initiative also identified 50 individuals who falsely presented themselves as unaccompanied minors. According to the press release, "this past summer Border Patrol agents encountered a Guatemalan, who initially claimed to be an unaccompanied minor. The alleged juvenile possessed a birth certificate that reflected his claim to being 15 years old. However, during questioning he admitted that the birth certificate he presented was fraudulent, and that in fact he was an 18-year-old adult. In this case as in several others, the agents’ investigative actions prevented this man from being processed as a minor, referred to HHS and housed with juveniles. "ICE says such cases of family fraud are only increasing as more and more individuals exploit loopholes in our immigration policies.

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/bronsonstocking/2019/10/18/ice-identifies-more-than-200-fraudulent-families-claiming-asylum-n2554995?utm_source=thdailypm&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl_pm&newsletterad=&bcid=7220442bc3498cb5e2d68f3cb4d11680&recip=18305623

'Wealth tax' would rob innovation, says analyst

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by Chris Woodward

{ onenewsnow.com } ~ Anyone who's paid any attention to this election season has likely heard a candidate or two throw out the idea of a wealth tax. But what is that exactly?... "A wealth tax is distinct from an income tax," explains Adam Michel, a tax policy analyst for The Heritage Foundation, a center-right think tank in Washington, D.C. "It would be an entirely new tax system overlaid on top of our existing one." To put it another way, it would be like having to comply with the estate tax or the "death tax." But it would not just be after one's assets are passed on to his heirs; it is a tax on the total accumulated assets of any given person every single year. "It's often described as a small one or two percent or three percent tax. However, because it's on a stock rather than the earnings every year, it can translate to have incredibly high effective income tax rates of above 100 percent," Michel explains. The analyst says that means people will be investing and innovating less. "It's really a total change in the way that we think about a government's relation to our money," he adds. Supporters of a wealth tax include Senator commie-Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont). He likes the idea as a way of funding new and expanded health and social programs. We don't need another tax system which would grew. https://onenewsnow.com/politics-govt/2019/10/18/wealth-tax-would-rob-innovation-says-analyst

Megyn Kelly’s Fox News Appearance

With Tucker Draws In Over 4 Millions Viewers

by Shelby Talcott

{ thepoliticalinsider.com } ~ Journalist Megyn Kelly’s brief return to Fox News Wednesday as a guest on host Tucker Carlson’s show drew over four million viewers according to Nielsen Media Research... Kelly’s first television interview in a year and first time on Fox News in over two years made “Tucker Carlson Tonight” the most-watched show on cable, Nielsen Media Research found. Kelly left Fox for NBC News in 2017, and left that network in January after she made comments about blackface and Halloween. She apologized for the comments and her NBC show was cancelled. Carlson’s show Wednesday saw 4.06 million viewers tune in, making it easily the most-watched show on cable. Fox News’s Sean Hannity came in second with 3.65 million viewers and MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow followed with 3.44 million viewers, The Hill reported. The former host had a lengthy interview with Carlson Wednesday and went after NBC News, her former employer, over accusations that the network tried to cover up sexual misconduct allegations against former host Matt Lauer. “There needs to be an outside investigation into this company,” Kelly said during the interview. “They investigated themselves. That doesn’t work. This is how it’s done. You get somebody on the outside who can be trusted.” “They haven’t gotten specific about what monies were paid out to home. Show us the money. The number one thing that needs to happen now is they need to release any and all Matt Lauer accusers from their confidentiality agreements.” NBC will not being opening a new investigation into accusations against Lauer even after investigative journalist Ronan Farrow published a book released Tuesday titled “Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators.”Farrow accused the network of trying to shut down his 2017 report about sexual misconduct allegations against now-disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein. The article was published in The New Yorker Oct. 10, 2017, and the book includes a more extensive investigation into NBC News.“There is no additional investigation being launched. We are very confident in the report that was conducted,” NBC spokeswoman Hilary Smith said, according to The Hollywood Reporter. “We fired Matt Lauer within 24 hours of learning what he did, and promptly launched a corporate investigation.”“Based on our investigative findings, we have swiftly taken appropriate actions to address the situation and improve workplace culture. It is also worth noting that this was a corporate investigation that was conducted by an almost entirely female team, none of whom are part of the News division.” Kelly also hit back at the media during her interview with Carlson, noting the increased acceptability of bias since President Donald Trump took office in 2016.“It was sort of passive and now it’s active,” she explained. “Now it’s, ‘Let’s work. He’s too bad. We have to work together. We’ll be judged. History will judge as whether we were for or against this man Trump.’”

https://thepoliticalinsider.com/megyn-kellys-fox-news-appearance-with-tucker-draws-in-over-4-millions-viewers/?utm_campaign=TPI10182019afternoon&utm_source=criticalimpact-&utm_medium=email&utm_content=4b4ea4948726422aa6473c7b9fa19141&source=TPICI

Hunter Biden Fails to Smother Smoke

From Ukraine Scandal

Thomas Gallatin: loose lips liar-Joe and Hunter Biden need to get their stories straight. In an obvious attempt to tamp down the smoldering scandal of the loose lips liar-Bidens’ apparent pay-to-play deal with Ukraine, Hunter sat down for an interview with ABC News. While insisting that he did nothing wrong, Hunter conceded, “In retrospect … I think that it was poor judgment on my part.” He continued, “Was it poor judgment to be in the middle of something that is … a swamp in many ways? Yeah.”

ABC aired the interview Tuesday morning, strategically timed so as to be drowned out by all the coverage of the Democrat presidential debate coming only a few hours later. However, in spite of this, the interview did little to make the scandal go away, and in fact it may have only made it worse for loose lips liar-Joe Biden.

During the debate, loose lips liar-Biden was asked, “If it’s not okay for a president’s family to be involved in foreign businesses, why was it okay for your son when you were vice president?” loose lips liar-Biden responded by contradicting his son’s admission of “poor judgment” in an obvious attempt at damage control. “Look, my son did nothing wrong. I did nothing wrong. I carried out the policy of the United States government in rooting out corruption in Ukraine. My son made a judgment. I’m proud of the judgment he made.” loose lips liar-Biden then doubled down by insisting, “I never discussed a single thing with my son about anything having to do with Ukraine. No one has indicated I have.” Actually, Hunter Biden has. Oops.

loose lips liar-Biden also deflected to President Donald Trump: “He’s going after me because he knows that if I get the nomination I will beat him like a drum.” Settle down, tough guy.

Thus far the record shows that Trump’s Ukraine interests appear to have been primarily focused on seeking answers to the origins of Russia’s 2016 election meddling and were not merely an attempt to dig up dirt on loose lips liar-Biden. The real scandal is that neither loose lips liar-Biden has convincingly explained how Hunter, who has no background or expertise in energy, was able to land a lucrative position on the board of Ukrainian energy giant Burisma while his father was the vice president. Nor has any adequate explanation been given for why the elder loose lips liar-Biden dubiously used his position as vice president to ensure that a corruption investigation into Burisma was quashed.

However, Hunter may have inadvertently let the cat out of the bag. At one point in the interview he was asked, “If your last name wasn’t Biden, do you think you would have been asked to be on the board of Burisma?” He answered, “I don’t know. Probably not. I don’t think there’s a lot of things in my life that [would have happened] if my last name wasn’t loose lips liar-Biden.” Bingo. ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/66150?mailing_id=4590&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4590&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

Friday Noon ~ thefrontpagecover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on October 18, 2019 at 12:02pm

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

Demo Debate: Taking on the Constitution

Nate Jackson

Impeachment gets real: Mitch McConnell gives Senate Republicans private tutorial on how

to put Trump on trial

by Susan Ferrechio

{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell briefed Republicans in a closed-door session about how they would conduct a Senate trial if the House sends over articles of impeachment... Senate Republicans believe it is becoming increasingly likely, if not inevitable, that House Democrats will pass articles of impeachment against President Trump in the coming weeks. McConnell, a Kentucky Republican, on Wednesday gave fellow GOP lawmakers a tutorial on how to conduct a trial based on how the process proceeded in the past. “Every indication is that articles will be coming our way, eventually,” Sen. Kevin Cramer, a North Dakota Republican, said after the meeting. Republicans in the meeting discussed the possibility of moving to dismiss the charges outright, which would kill the impeachment effort before a trial in the Senate. But Senate lawmakers determined the rules would not allow any senator to move to dismiss the charges and that they would not be able to win consent from the Democrats to bring up a vote to dismiss. Kramer suggested Chief Justice John Roberts, who will preside over the trial, might have the authority to move to dismiss the case. Democrats want to impeach Trump for obstructing their investigation of his call to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Democrats believe Trump used the prospect of withholding security aid to coerce Ukraine into investigating former Vice President loose lips liar-Joe Biden and the Democratic National Committee. They charge Trump with stonewalling their investigation by refusing to cooperate with subpoenas and attempting to block administration officials from participating in closed-door depositions. McConnell told reporters after the meeting he anticipates holding a full Senate trial that meets daily to decide whether the president is guilty of the charges put forward by the House...

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/congress/impeachment-gets-real-mitch-mcconnell-gives-senate-republicans-private-tutorial-on-how-to-put-trump-on-trial

Deadly Turkish airstrikes

shatter deal to pause Syria offensive

By DELIL SOULEIMAN

{ timesofisrael.com } ~ Deadly Turkish airstrikes Friday shattered an hours-old US-brokered deal to stop Ankara’s military offensive against Kurdish forces in northeastern Syria... The ceasefire announced late Thursday was meant to provide a pause for the evacuation of Kurdish fighters from the battleground border town of Ras al-Ain and other areas Turkey wants to control along its border with Syria. The five-day suspension looked designed to help Turkey achieve its main territorial goals without fighting but its Syrian proxies continued to clash with Kurdish fighters Friday and an airstrike killed five civilians. “Five civilians were killed in Turkish airstrikes on the village of Bab al-Kheir, east of Ras al-Ain,” Rami Abdel Rahman, head of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said. The Britain-based war monitor said four fighters of the Syrian Democratic Forces — the de facto army of the embattled Kurdish autonomous region — were killed in the strike. “Despite the agreement to halt the fighting, air and artillery attacks continue to target the positions of fighters, civilian settlements and the hospital” in Ras al-Ain, he said. The Turkish offensive has also been widely criticized, with videos surfacing online allegedly showing captured fighters and civilians being executed... https://www.timesofisrael.com/deadly-turkish-airstrikes-shatter-deal-to-pause-syria-offensive/?utm_source=The+Daily+Edition&utm_campaign=daily-edition-2019-10-18&utm_medium=email

Pompeo to Post: Israel Has

Right to Act in Syria, U.S. Will Stop Iran

By YAAKOV KATZ

{ jpost.com } ~ Despite the withdrawal of US troops from Syria, Israel retains operational freedom to defend itself and America remains committed to closely watching the Iraqi-Syrian border to help prevent the transfer of Iranian arms into the country... Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told The Jerusalem Post on Friday in an exclusive interview. “Our administration’s been very clear,” he said. “Israel has the fundamental right to engage in activity that ensures the security of its people. It’s at the very core of what nation states not only have the right to do but an obligation to do.” Regarding the Iraqi-Syrian border, which Israeli intelligence believes is used by Iran to smuggle weapons into Syria and Hezbollah, Pompeo said that American forces would continue to watch the area closely. “The president has committed to continuing that activity that the US has been engaged in now for a couple of years and is aimed at countering ISIS and providing us situational awareness in the region,” he said. “We know this is a corner where Iran has attempted to move weapon systems across into Syria, into Lebanon, that threatens Israel and we are going to do everything we can to make sure we have the capacity to identify those so that we can collectively respond appropriately.” Pompeo spoke to the Post in Jerusalem shortly after completing a two-hour meeting Friday morning with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Mossad chief Yossi Cohen. He was accompanied to the meeting by US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman and James Jeffrey, the US special envoy on Syria. Pompeo arrived in Israel a day after meeting Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who agreed to a five-day ceasefire to allow Kurdish forces to evacuate the border region. Israeli politicians and defense officials have raised concerns that the US pullout from Syria will strengthen Iran. Pompeo dismissed that possibility and said that the administration remained committed – like it has been – to stopping Iran and preventing it from obtaining nuclear weapons. He said that all options were on the table in the event that Iran broke out toward a bomb. “I think the Israeli people should stare at the probably starkest change this administration has made in foreign policy vis-a-vis what the previous administration has done – the toughest sanctions we’ve ever put. Sanctions that will be sufficient to decrease the scope and size of the Iranian economy by over 12% this next year. That’s serious stuff,” he said. “We do this because this denies resources from Iran to do assassination campaigns in Europe, missile systems and infrastructure technology advancement, underwriting Hezbollah, Shia militias around the word. We have materially reduced their capacity to engage in those behaviors.”...

https://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Pompeo-to-Post-Israel-retains-right-to-act-in-Syria-US-will-stop-Iran-605068

The Turkish Invasion and

the Israel-Kurdish Connection

by Edy Cohen

{ israeltoday.co.il } ~ Hundreds of people protested Tuesday night in front of the Turkish embassy in Tel Aviv demanding that the Turkish military operations against the Kurdish people in northern Syria be stopped... Protesters carrying Israeli and Kurdistan flags marched from the Turkish embassy to the US embassy urging Erdogan to leave the Kurds alone. The protesters carried signs condemning the Turkish president as well as President Trump, who is “helping the genocide” against the Turkish people, which is resulting in hundreds of deaths among the Kurdish population. This is not the first time a pro-Kurdish rally has taken place in Israel. Just a few days ago a demonstration was held in Jerusalem against the Kurdish genocide. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was one of the first world leaders to publicly oppose the Turkish operation. “Israel strongly condemns Turkey’s military invasion of Kurdish provinces in Syria and warns against ethnic cleansing of Kurds by Turkey and its militants,” Netanyahu said. “Israel will make every effort to provide humanitarian assistance to the brave Kurdish people,” the Prime Minister insisted. Other Knesset members like Ayelet Shaked former Minister of Justice and Gideon Sa’ar former Interior Minister also condemned the Turkish aggression and expressed full support for the Kurdish people. The people of Israel identify closely with the struggle of the Kurds. Close to 200,000 Kurdish Jews live in Israel, mainly in Jerusalem. These are mostly the descendants from nearly 50,000 Kurdish Jews who were rescued by Israel from Iraq during Operation Ezra and Nehemiah in the early 1950s. There is also a lot of common history that connects the Jewish people with the Kurds. Both peoples suffer from ongoing persecutions – the Kurds by Middle East Muslims, partly because they are not considered Arabs – and both Kurds and Jews are scattered throughout the world. The difference is that the Jewish people have a state, but until today the Kurdish people do not. While the Palestinian “cause” continues to stir interest in the international media and gain European sympathy, the Kurdish issue does not receive nearly as much attention. Most people do not know that there are about 40 million Kurds living in the Middle East (Turkey, Syria, Iraq and Iran) and Europe. To this day they are fighting to have their own country because at the end of World War I the victorious powers gave assurances to the Kurds that they would be given an independent state, but that never materialized, due mainly to the violent resistance of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the founder of modern Turkey. A homeland for the Kurdish people has been a crucial matter as the Kurds have suffered terrible persecution and oppression in the Arab countries where they live... https://www.israeltoday.co.il/read/the-turkish-invasion-and-the-israel-kurdish-connection/

Who Gets Blamed if ISIS Fighters Come Back?

by Con Coughlin

{ gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ Ever since the US-led coalition succeeded in destroying most of ISIS in Syria, one vital issue has left been unresolved, namely: what to do with the thousands of ISIS fighters who were taken prisoner and confined to Kurdish-run detention centres... The problem is particularly acute with regard to the estimated 2,500 foreign fighters -- the majority of them holding European passports -- and their dependents who abandoned their home countries for fight for ISIS. Given the depth of their betrayal -- turning their backs on nations where they have been raised and nurtured to join the barbarians of ISIS -- it is quite understandable that Western governments should recoil in horror when defeated ISIS fighters and their associates then announce they want to return home. In Britain, for example, there was much controversy earlier in the year concerning the case of Shamima Begum who, as a 15-year-old teenager, left her home in east London in 2015 to become the bride of an ISIS fighter. Earlier this year, she resurfaced, languishing in a Kurdish-run camp, from where she made an impassioned call to be allowed to return home, even though, during her absence, the British government had already cancelled her British citizenship. Her request received short shrift from London, which insisted she had lost her right to be a British citizen by dint of her decision to join a banned terrorist organisation, one of whose prime objectives is to carry out terrorist attacks against British targets. The British government's robust stand received widespread public support, a sentiment that has been very much in evidence in other European countries, such as France, that have witnessed significant numbers of their citizens making their way to Syria and Iraq to enlist in the ranks of ISIS. The institutional reluctance of European governments to have anything to do with those who have deserted their home countries to fight with ISIS is perfectly understandable. The only problem with this stance, though, is that it does nothing to resolve the issue of the large numbers of foreign fighters who have been held in the Kurdish camps and could now, as a result of Turkey's military incursion into northern Syria, make good their escape and rejoin the terrorist ranks of ISIS... https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/15038/isis-prisoners-return

How Many Muslims Have Been Elected To Government In 2019? The Numbers

Might Surprise You

by Tim Brown

{ deplorablekel.com } ~ We have reported on a list of Muslims seeking office in the united States in 2020. We have also reported on how many got into office in 2018... Now, guess how many have already won office in the US in 2019? The numbers might surprise you. Islam, as written in the Koran, is diametrically opposed to America, Christianity and our Constitution. This is why this should be alarming to Americans. 18 Years After 9/11, Muslim Organizations Have Goal Of 5,000 Muslims Running For Office In 2020 Again, as with previous reports, Deplorable Kel has documented a flood of Muslims across the united States that are either vying for elected office or have won office. In a recent post, she listed those who have already put into positions of representation in the united States this year. Here’s the list courtesy of Deplorable Kel. Fadwa Hammoud was appointed Solicitor General of Michigan by Michigan’s Attorney General Dana Nessel, in Jan. 2019. Sadaf Jaffer was elected Mayor of Montgomery Township, New Jersey, in Jan. 2019. She is the first female muslim Mayor in the U.S. Deedra Abboud was elected to the Arizona Democratic Party Vice Chair on Jan. 26th 2019. Movita Johnson-Harrell was elected to Pennsylvania State House, District 190, on March 12th 2019. Samba Baldeh was re-elected as alderman in district 17 for the Madison City Council, in Wisconsin, in April 2019. Baldeh was first elected in 2015. Syed Abbas was elected as a District 12 member of the Madison Common Council in Wisconsin, in April 2019. Minza Karim was elected as a member of the Middleton-Cross Plains Board of Education in Wisconsin, in April 2019. Akram Khan was elected as a Mequon school board member on April 2, 2019. Omar Sabir was elected to Philadelphia City Commissioner in Pennsylvania on May 21, 2019. Naushad Kermally was elected to Sugar Land City Council, District 2, on June 8th 2019.

https://deplorablekel.com/2019/10/13/muslims-elected-to-the-u-s-government-in-2019/

Demo Debate: Taking on the Constitution

Nate Jackson: Attacking the new frontrunner

Elizabeth dinky/liar-Warren has steadily rallied support in the polls, even overtaking loose lips liar-Joe Biden in several of late. That means she was finally attacked by almost every other candidate. The most effective attacks were over her incessant refusal to admit that middle-class taxes will go up to fund her version of commie-Bernie Sanders’s $32 trillion Medicare for All.

“Costs will go up for the wealthy and for big corporations,” Warren repeated, while “for hard-working middle-class families, costs will go down.”

South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg jabbed, “Your signature, senator, is to have a plan for everything, except this.” Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar was even harsher: “At least commie-Bernie’s being honest here and saying how he’s going to pay for this and that taxes are going to go up. And I’m sorry, dinky/liar-Elizabeth, but you have not said that, and I think we owe it to the American people to tell them where we’re going to send the invoice.” Former Texas Rep. socialist-Beto O'Rourke said dinky/liar-Warren was “more focused on being punitive or pitting one part of the country against the other.”

Yes, that is what Democrats do. Indeed, dinky/liar-Warren has no plan to pay for this multitrillion-dollar scheme (which has numbers that don’t add up anyway) beyond an unconstitutional “wealth tax” on the hated rich. On that note, she had a Barack “You Didn’t Build That” scumbag/liar-nObama moment: “Look, I don’t have a beef with billionaires,” she said. “My problem is you made a fortune in America, you had a great idea, you got out there and worked for it. Good for you. But you built that fortune in America. I guarantee you built it in part using workers all of us help pay to educate. You built it in part getting your goods to market on roads and bridges all of us helped pay for.”

Debt

There have been more than 300 questions in the Democrat debates so far. Zero have asked about our national debt, which is at more than $22 trillion and rising rapidly. The only five mentions of the word “debt” in last night’s debate were about student-loan debt, which most Democrats on stage want to raise the federal debt to pay for. That’s true of all their other vote-buying schemes, too. So the reason they’re not asked about how to handle the debt we already have is that they’re too busy proposing ways to rack up new debt.

Gun confiscation

The September debate featured socialist-O'Rourke’s outrageous call for gun confiscation. Last night’s follow-up showed him backing off just a tad. If a law-abiding citizen refuses to turn in his semiautomatic rifle, or, he said, “brings it out in public and brandishes it in an attempt to intimidate — as we saw when we were at Kent State recently — then that weapon will be taken from them.”

Memo to socialist-Beto: It wasn’t citizens with guns doing the shooting at Kent State.

“If they persist,” he continued, “there will be other consequences from law enforcement,” though he claimed he expects Americans will “do the right thing” and that “we don’t go door-to-door for any other laws in this country; we’re not doing it here.” Unconstitutional laws like gun confiscation should hold no sway over Americans in any case. But socialist-Beto also said if a citizen didn’t submit to a “buyback,” “there would be a visit by law enforcement to recover that firearm.” Uh, there are 16 million such rifles in the nation, so good luck with that.

Other candidates disagreed with socialist-O'Rourke only because his proposal is politically bad. According to Buttigieg, “We are this close to an assault-weapons ban,” and socialist-O'Rourke shouldn’t mess it up. Klobuchar agreed: “I just keep thinking of how close we are to finally getting something done on this.”

Memo to Demos: We’re not close to another ineffective and unconstitutional ban on the cosmetically different rifles pejoratively and inaccurately known as “assault weapons.”

Impeachment

The Democrats’ impeachment coup attempt is their primary strategy for 2020, so of course it came up last night. Indeed, it was the first topic, and it was also loose lips liar-Biden’s roughest moment. (More on that here.)

dinky/liar-Warren declared that impeachment “must go forward.” commie-Bernie Sanders, who proved he’s alive and kicking after his recent heart attack, agreed because, he pronounced, “In my judgment, Trump is the most corrupt president in the history of this country.”

Klobuchar added, “We have a constitutional duty to pursue this impeachment.”

Anytime a Democrat mentions the Constitution, you are permitted to laugh. Last night, the only times it came up were during demands for impeachment or with lowlife-Kamala Harris’s ridiculous assertions about “reproductive rights” being somewhere in the Constitution. Every proposal Democrats made on stage is unconstitutional, and they violate their oaths “to support and defend” the Constitution on a daily basis.

But a couple of Democrats advised caution on impeachment. “First of all, we must be fair,” said Sen. scumbag-Cory Booker. “We are talking about ongoing proceedings to remove a sitting president for office. This has got to be about patriotism and not partisanship.”

Rep. Tulsi Gabbard concurred, saying, “If impeachment is driven by these hyperpartisan interests, it will only further divide an already terribly divided country.” Moreover, she said, “If the House votes to impeach, the Senate does not vote to remove Donald Trump, [then] he walks out and he feels exonerated, further deepening the divides in this country that we cannot afford.”

As with the Constitution, Democrats are decidedly not driven by any patriotic interest, but rather partisan divisiveness. Impeachment is inherently political, and their attempt is more so than previous ones. But that’s why scumbag-Booker and Gabbard aren’t the standard bearers for a Democrat Party that is hell-bent on taking out Donald Trump.

~The Patriot Post

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Fri/Med AM ~ thefrontpagecover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on October 18, 2019 at 9:08am

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

A New Insight Into Media Bias

Cal Thomas

Friday Top News Executive Summary

Media Editors: Above the Fold

CEASEFIRE IN NAME ONLY? U.S., Turkey reach agreement on Syria, but differ over whether it’s a ceasefire or pause in operations (ABC News)

scumbag-SCHUMER THWARTED: Chuck scumbag-Schumer’s bid to rebuke Trump over Syria fails in Senate (The Washington Times)

Government & Politics

PERRY OUT: Energy Secretary Rick Perry to resign after Trump blamed him for Ukraine call (PJ Media)

FANNING THE FLAMES: White House announces G7 to be hosted at Trump resort amid conflict-of-interest allegations against loose lips liar-Bidens (National Review)

BORDER WARS: Senate again fails to override Trump veto on border wall (The Washington Times)

FREE SPEECH: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says he fears “erosion of truth” but defends allowing politicians to lie in ads (The Washington Post)

SNUBBING NEARLY HALF THE UNION: San Francisco blacklists 22 states over pro-life laws (National Review)

World

TARIFF FALLOUT: China’s GDP growth grinds to near 30-year low as tariffs hit production (Reuters)

BREXIT DOGFIGHT: Boris Johnson is in a race against time to sell the Brexit deal he has struck with the EU to MPs ahead of a Commons vote on Saturday (BBC News)

“ABSURD, IMMORAL, AND OFFENSIVE”: UN member states hand Venezuela’s brutal Maduro regime a seat on the Human Rights Council (CNSNews.com)

Closing Arguments

POLICY: What does Brexit Deal 2.0 look like? (American Enterprise Institute)

POLICY: Why Mexico is cooperating with us on immigration (National Review)

SATIRE: Congress votes to protect Syria’s border but not the U.S. border (Genesius Times)

~The Patriot Post
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Syria: Endgame

by Matthew Continetti

{ freebeacon.com } ~ The slaughter going on in Syria is not a consequence of American presence. It's a consequence of a withdrawal and a betrayal by this president of American allies and American values.
—Pete Buttigieg, October 15

Mr. Mayor has a point. For 75 years, from Fulda Gap to the 38th Parallel, the American soldier has been the last line of defense against violence, chaos, and oppression. From Kosovo to Anbar, he has kept a lid on cauldrons of bloodlust. Remove him, and the poison boils over. That is what happened when Congress reduced aid to South Vietnam in 1975. It is what followed U.S. withdrawal from Iraq in 2011. It is happening now in northeast Syria, and it will happen again when Americans leave Afghanistan. Our forces depart; our allies collapse; our adversaries take command. The pattern was established well before Donald Trump took office. It will persist after he departs. There is nothing so consistent as American ambivalence toward our superpower status. Most great powers covet hegemony. We hate it. The costs are too high, the demands too stressful. "For every exercise of the great power's prerogative, there has been an equally strong recoiling from the use of power," wrote Robert Kagan in A Twilight Struggle (1996). "While the United States cannot escape behaving as the hegemonic great power, it is also a great power with a democratic conscience, a strong anti-imperialist streak, and an unwillingness to adopt the role of policeman anywhere for more than a brief time." Kagan was describing U.S. policy toward Nicaragua. He might as well have been talking about the Middle East. Trump is getting America out of a country we were never really in. Our presence in Syria was not enough to deter Turkey. One thousand troops do not constitute a tripwire. They are chips in a high-stakes game. Erdogan called the bluff... https://freebeacon.com/columns/syria-endgame/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=2bfb004758-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_10_17_07_26_COPY_02&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-2bfb004758-45611665

Syria cease-fire in question

after fighting, shelling reported

By Edmund DeMarche

{ foxnews.com } ~ Just hours after President Trump announced a cease-fire between Turkish and Kurdish-led forces in Syria, journalists have reported continued fighting in the Syrian town of Ras al-Ayn on Friday morning... while other areas have reported relative calm since the agreement. Journalists from the Associated Press reported witnessing shelling and said they could see smoke billowing around the town, which sits along the border with Turkey. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a war monitor, reported intermittent clashes in Ras al-Ayn, but calm elsewhere. Reuters also reported machine-gun fire and shelling that could be heard from a border town in Turkey near Ra al-Ayn. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who is in Jerusalem, did not respond to repeated questions on whether or not the agreement was violated, the New York Times reported. Trump had praised the cease-fire agreement as "a great day for civilization." He pointed to it as a victory after being criticized for his decision to withdraw U.S. forces from the region. At a rally on Thursday, he said it was his “unconventional” approach that led to the deal. The agreement requires the Kurdish fighters to vacate a swath of territory in Syria along the Turkish border, largely solidifying Turkey's position. A senior military official -- who worked on designing the U.S. anti-ISIS strategy with both the Kurds and the Turks -- told Fox News earlier that the 120-hour cease-fire had little chance of success. "There is no way the Kurds can leave that security zone," the source said. "There are thousands of Kurds who live in what the Turks want as a buffer zone. That’s what these fighters’ families live. That is where they are from."...

https://www.foxnews.com/world/fighting-breaks-out-in-syrian-town-despite-cease-fire-reporters-say

VIDEO: https://video.foxnews.com/v/6095803182001/#sp=show-clips

Trump Administration Cracks Down

on Chinese Diplomats in U.S.

by Adam Kredo

{ freebeacon.com } ~ The Trump administration issued new restrictions on the actions Chinese government diplomats are permitted to take in the United States... in response to the communist government blocking American personnel stationed in Beijing from meeting with key assets, according to U.S. officials. The State Department will now require all Chinese foreign missions, including embassy staff and those working in consulates across the United States, to notify the Trump administration in advance of all official meetings held on American soil. The new directive, U.S. officials say, is a response to China's ongoing constraints on American diplomats. In many cases, the communist government blocks American personnel in China from meeting with local officials, academics, and dissident groups, among others. The U.S. restrictions are meant to pressure the Chinese government into providing American diplomats with greater freedom of movement and access to certain officials and groups. "Until that happens, we are going to take some actions that will … go some ways toward leveling the playing field," a senior State Department official, speaking only on background, told reporters. "The State Department is going to be requiring that all of the People's Republic of China foreign missions—their embassy and their various consulates around the United States—will have to notify the Department of State in advance of official meetings with state officials, official meetings with local and municipal officials, official visits to educational institutions, and official visits to research institutions," the official said. These restrictions will "basically add a little bit of reciprocity into the way that U.S. diplomats are treated in China as opposed to how Chinese diplomats are able to operate here in the United States of America," the official continued. "Of course, our job as diplomats is to improve mutual understanding, and to do that we need access to, of course, a broad range of stakeholders in the countries that we're assigned to. Unfortunately, in China, U.S. diplomats do not have unfettered access to a range of folks that are important for us to do our job there."...

https://freebeacon.com/national-security/trump-administration-cracks-down-on-chinese-diplomats-in-u-s/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=2bfb004758-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_10_17_07_26_COPY_02&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-2bfb004758-45611665

MUOS Passes Final Tests Before

Full Operational Capability Declaration

By Ben Werner

{ news.usni.org } ~ The Navy’s next-generation narrowband satellite communications system is ready for unrestricted operations, having passed the final milestone before a full operational capability (FOC) determination... The narrowband satellite communications system, called Mobile User Objective System (MUOS), recently completed the required Multiservice Operational Test and Evaluation (MOT&E). The test included participants from the Navy, Marine Corps and Army, according to a statement released by Naval Information Warfare Systems Command (NAVWAR) this week. “Since MOT&E was the last prerequisite, we expect FOC designation shortly,” Steven Davis, a NAVWAR spokesman, said in an email to USNI News. The commander of the Navy’s Operational Test and Evaluation Force determined MUOS was effective, suitable and cyber-survivable for regular operations. The test was the last critical milestone before turning MUOS over for full operations, according to NAVWAR. “Sailors and Marines can already use MUOS in situations like humanitarian response, disaster assistance and training,” said a statement from John Pope, who leads the Navy’s Program Executive Office for Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence and Space Systems (PEO C4I and Space Systems). “Now, these same advanced communications capabilities will be available in the tactical warfare environment. The advantages MUOS provides will help the warfighter compete, deter and win on the battlefield.”...

https://news.usni.org/2019/10/17/muos-passes-final-tests-before-full-operational-capability-declaration?utm_source=USNI+News&utm_campaign=20a917397d-USNI_NEWS_DAILY&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_0dd4a1450b-20a917397d-231491269&mc_cid=20a917397d&mc_eid=3999f18767

NJ Republican Blasts scumbag-Booker

for Ignoring Home State During 2020 Run

by Graham Piro

{ freebeacon.com } ~ A new Republican challenger to Sen. scumbag-Cory Booker (D., N.J.) in New Jersey criticized the former Newark mayor for focusing on his presidential campaign at the cost of his own constituents... Rik Mehta's Senate campaign announcement video accuses scumbag-Booker of "showboating around Iowa" and pretending to be concerned about his own state as he runs for the Democratic presidential nomination. "In a few weeks, when scumbag-Cory Booker is done showboating around Iowa and drops out of the presidential race, he'll run back to New Jersey to pretend he cares about all of us he left behind," Mehta said. "One third of New Jersey's population are immigrants and minorities like myself. Yet politicians like scumbag-Cory Booker and New Jersey senator scumbag-Bob Menendez built their careers off the backs of our proud immigrants all while encouraging illegal immigration," he continued. Mehta blasted scumbag-Booker for focusing on his presidential run instead of devoting his attention to issues affecting New Jersey, specifically referring to an ongoing water crisis in Newark. "Where's Spartacus now?" Mehta asked, referring to scumbag-Booker's "Spartacus moment" during Brett Kavanaugh's initial round of confirmation hearings. Mehta, a political newcomer with a background working for the Food and Drug Administration and in pharmaceutical sales, told NJ.com he believes his political inexperience can be an advantage. Mehta also praised President Donald Trump, saying the president has "done an incredible job at staying true to his campaign promises."... Don't you see that in all dems running for office. https://freebeacon.com/politics/nj-republican-blasts-booker-for-ignoring-home-state-during-2020-run/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=2bfb004758-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_10_17_07_26_COPY_02&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-2bfb004758-45611665

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIgKsVONUNU

Mulvaney: Ukraine Aid Held Up

in Part Over Election Probe

by newsmax.com ~ Acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney effectively acknowledged that President Donald Trump offered Ukraine a quid pro quo for military aid... but tied it to demands that the country investigate the origins of the Russian election interference probe -- not loose lips liar-Joe Biden and his son. “Get over it,” Mulvaney said Thursday in a White House press briefing, adding there’s always “going to be political influence in foreign policy” and “elections have consequences.” The top aide, who placed the hold on aid to Ukraine, provided some of the administration’s most extensive comments about the uproar over Ukraine that has fueled an impeachment inquiry by House Democrats. “The money held up has absolutely nothing to do with loose lips liar-Biden,” Mulvaney said. But Democrats zeroed in on Mulvaney’s acknowledgment that the decision to hold back funding was connected to Trump’s determination that Ukraine investigate what he maintains was Democratic wrongdoing during the 2016 campaign. scumbag-Adam Schiff, the California Democrat who’s head of the Intelligence Committee and is one of the leaders of the impeachment inquiry, tweeted that “Things just went from very, very bad to much, much worse.” Many Republicans have have been ducking questions about whether tying aid to a political goal was appropriate, but Alaska Senator rino-Lisa Murkowski on Thursday was more direct. “You don’t hold up foreign aid that we had previously appropriated for a political initiative. Period,” she told reporters. She said she hadn’t heard Mulvaney’s remarks and wanted to study them before commenting on whether how he described amounted to an impeachable offense. Mulvaney suspended aid shortly before Trump told Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in a July 25 phone call that he wanted him “to do us a favor” and that “there’s a lot of talk about loose lips liar-Biden’s son, that loose lips liar-Biden stopped” a prosecution in Ukraine... https://www.newsmax.com/headline/us-trump-impeachment/2019/10/17/id/937552/?ns_mail_uid=62cddd55-241d-495e-8ad9-b8a04d508a36&ns_mail_job=DM61232_10172019&s=acs&dkt_nbr=010502rxgp2b

A New Insight Into Media Bias

Cal Thomas

Since America’s colonial days the press has been a target of those who believe journalists have a point of view that shapes their reporting.

There have been numerous articles and studies revealing a journalistic predisposition to opinions and subjects that reinforce liberal points of view.

Now comes an excellent critique from World Magazine editor Marvin Olasky. His latest book, “Reforming Journalism,” is a philosophical and even theological deconstruction of historic and contemporary media.

Olasky dismisses the notion of “objectivity” in journalism. Everyone has a belief system, he argues, and it influences how each person approaches stories.

The author says American journalism has gone through four phases: In phase one, “many early American journalists assumed God is objectively real, with an existence independent of our minds.” Noting that the spiritual, then, regularly shaped the way journalists looked at the world, he adds, “Although no one in early American journalism used the term ‘objective reporting,’ some editors obviously understood that factuality demanded taking into account the spiritual.”

Then came phase two: “Starting midway through the 19th century, though, a new phase in the understanding of objectivity took hold among American journalists. They began to see ‘fact’ only as that which was scientifically measurable. As photographs began to provide a record of the visible, many journalists equated the visible with the real and began seeing the world as largely non-mysterious. They did not use the term ‘objectivity,’ but they made their own eyes the standard of authority: they were human cameras.”

What did those human cameras produce? Phase three, which was influenced by the rise of Marxism and Freudianism: “Objectivity could be reached, they thought, only through a balancing of multiple subjectivities. The outcome might be neither truthful nor accurate, but who knew what accuracy, let alone truth, really was? The triumph of theological liberalism in major Protestant denominations in the United States occurred at the same time. … This was no coincidence, since the balancing-of-subjectivities mode often suggests right or wrong does not exist — just opinion.”

Phase four was characterized by “disguised subjectivity, sometimes called ‘strategic ritual’ (pseudo-objectivity that provides defense against criticism). A key aspect of strategic ritual is choice of sources and selection of quotations. With half a dozen legitimate spokesmen on a particular issue, reporters can readily play journalistic ventriloquism by using the one who expresses their own position. As NBC reporter Norma Quarles acknowledged, ‘If I get the sense that things are boiling over, I can’t really say it. I have to get somebody else to say it.’”

Late in the last century, Olasky writes, “…some well-known American television journalists attacked the entire concept of objectivity. Robert Bazell said, ‘Objectivity is a fallacy. … There are different opinions, but you don’t have to give them equal weight.’ Linda Ellerbee wrote, ‘There is no such thing as objectivity. Any reporter who tells you he’s objective is lying to you.’ In the United States, some writers argued for a ‘new journalism’ in which reporters emphasized their own subjective impressions.”

Beyond the predictable distrust of journalists this has caused, the claim of objectivity has had considerable limitations. Some examples: “Reporters have never felt the need to balance anti-cancer statements with pro-cancer statements. In recent practice, secular-liberal reporters have seen pro-life concerns or ‘homophobia’ as cancerous, and many other Christian beliefs as similarly harmful. Objectivity was a reporting of multiple subjectivities, and truth was out there at a constantly receding horizon. If journalists in phase two happily saw themselves as cameras, journalists in phase three unhappily started to see themselves as stenographers or tape recorders.”

See how this works? It’s the same with “climate change,” abortion and many other issues. Anyone who goes against the faith of the secular-progressive culture is simply ignored, or ridiculed. In totalitarian societies it’s called propaganda.

Olasky’s faith shapes his positions, as the non-faith of secular progressives shapes theirs. For journalism to recover its reputation, a degree of fairness, accuracy and at least small doses of “objectivity” when reporting issues needs to be restored. Olasky’s book shows the way. ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/opinion/66110?mailing_id=4588&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4588&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

Friday AM ~ thefrontpagecover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on October 18, 2019 at 7:15am

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

Eight Debate Questions loose lips liar-Joe Biden

Should Be Required to Answer

Marc A. Thiessen

Rick Perry resigns as energy secretary

amid Ukraine investigation

by Josh Siegel

{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ Energy Secretary Rick Perry has told President Trump he is resigning amid scrutiny related to his role in the Trump administration’s diplomacy in Ukraine... the Washington Examiner has confirmed from sources with knowledge of the situation. His resignation ends his tenure as the last original Cabinet head from the core energy and environment agencies, after the EPA’s Scott Pruitt and Interior’s Ryan Zinke quit while facing investigations over their ethics. Perry, the former Texas governor and presidential candidate, had been more politically savvy than his counterparts, reveling in his job as chief pitchman for American "energy dominance." It was a stark turn for Perry, who as a presidential candidate pledged to abolish the Energy Department. But he became a central character in House Democrats’ impeachment inquiry of Trump. Democrats issued a subpoena to Perry on Oct. 10 seeking documents related to Perry's knowledge of Trump’s July 25 phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, in which Trump pushed his counterpart to investigate Democratic rival loose lips liar-Joe Biden. Perry confirmed he asked Trump to hold a phone call with Zelensky but said he sought the conversations as part of efforts to curb corruption in Ukraine’s energy sector and encourage energy investment opportunities. He has denied discussing the loose lips liar-Biden family with Ukrainian officials. It remains unclear how much the Ukraine investigation played into Perry’s decision to resign. He has long been rumored to quit for work in the private sector... https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/energy/rick-perry-resigns-as-energy-secretary-amid-ukraine-investigation?utm_source=breaking_push&utm_medium=app&utm_campaign=push_notifications&utm_source=WEX_Breaking%20News%20Alert_10/17/2019&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WEX_Breaking%20News&rid=5261

Epic Mick Mulvaney White House Press Conference Announces 2020 G7 To Be

Held in Trump Doral

by sundance

{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ Oh man, almost too much winning. President Trump Chief-of-Staff Mick Mulvaney brings the cold-fish slapper to a White House presser and pummels the narrative engineers... Cold-Fish Slapping is like whac-a-mole, only instead of a hammer you use a slightly unfrozen fish; and instead of mole-heads popping up, you get reporters stupid questions. First, Mr. Mulvaney announces the 2020 G7 will be held at Trump Doral Resort in Miami Florida, June 10th – 12th 2020. The pearl-clutching media begin to quiver uncontrollably. Slap. Slap. Slap. More spontaneous ‘splodey heads…. more cold-fish-slapping. Repeat. Then Mulvaney takes questions on Muh Ukraine and Muh Impeach-We-Much, and it becomes necessary for double-handed cold-fish-slapping. This is really good. The White House using Trump Doral-Miami for the G7, just because it is the best place to host the G7 is epic Trump. The media go bonkers… Trump shrugs and says: when you’re done with that, fetch me a Diet Coke. LOL.

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/10/17/epic-mick-mulvaney-white-house-press-conference-announces-2020-g7-to-be-held-in-trump-doral/

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ns4QwN27P58

Path to Israeli Unity Government May Be

Opening, With Gantz Indicating a Willingness

to Sit With Netanyahu

by Benjamin Kerstein

{ algemeiner.com } ~ Despite the current impasse in the Israeli coalition talks, signs emerged on Wednesday that a path to a unity government might be opening... with Blue and White leader Benny Gantz reportedly expressing a positive attitude toward such an arrangement. The Sept. 17 Knesset elections ended in a stalemate, with neither Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s right-wing Likud party nor Gantz’s centrist Blue and White able to form a majority coalition. Despite pressure to form a unity government, negotiations have thus far failed. The Israeli news Mako reported on Wednesday, however, that sources close to Gantz were saying the former IDF chief of staff was leaning toward a unity government along lines recommended by President Reuven Rivlin. “We will hold our noses,” Gantz was quoted as saying, “but Netanyahu will have an expiration date.” Under Rivlin’s plan, Gantz and Netanyahu would both be designated prime ministers in a rotation government. However, Netanyahu would be allowed to go on “recess” to deal with his legal issues stemming from corruption charges. Depending on the outcome of the legal process, Netanyahu would then be allowed to return to government. However, it remains unclear precisely when in the legal process Netanyahu would have to step down. According to Mako, Gantz referred to sitting under Netanyahu “for a few months.” Another possibility is a minority government composed of Blue and White and the left-wing Labor and Democratic Union parties. Such a move would require support — or at least a lack of opposition — from the largely-Arab Joint List and Avigdor Lieberman’s secular-nationalist Yisrael Beiteinu party. Lieberman has pledged that he would only support a government composed of Yisrael Beiteinu, Likud and Blue and White. https://www.algemeiner.com/2019/10/16/path-to-israeli-unity-government-may-be-opening-with-gantz-indicating-a-willingness-to-sit-with-netanyahu/?utm_content=news1&utm_medium=daily_email&utm_campaign=email&utm_source=internal/

Trump Nominates Sarah Sanders

To Join The Fulbright Scholars Board

By Jim Hayek

{ americantruthtoday.com } ~ President Donald Trump nominated former White House press secretary Sarah Sanders to join the Fulbright Scholarship Board on Wednesday... Sanders, who stepped down from her White House position at the end of June, currently works as a Fox News contributor. Sanders served as press secretary for nearly two years, making her one of the longest serving officials in the Trump administration, and was widely adored by Trump’s supporters. The White House announced Wednesday evening that Sanders would be returning to public service in some form, as the president nominated her to a three-year term on the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board. Sanders thanked Trump for the nomination on Twitter, writing, “Grateful to @realDonaldTrump to be named to the @fulbrightboard – established by the late U.S. Senator from my home state of Arkansas.”Sanders is also rumored to be considering a run for governor of Arkansas. Also currently serving on the Fulbright board is another former Trump administration official: Heather Nauert, who served as the State Department spokesperson and was later nominated for ambassador to the United Nations. Nauert withdrew from consideration before being confirmed.

https://americantruthtoday.com/politics/2019/10/17/trump-nominates-sarah-sanders-to-join-the-fulbright-scholars-board/?utm_source=sprklst&utm_campaign=dailyhammer-trump-10_17-mid

Volker Testimony Destroys Narrative

Of Diplomatic Turmoil Following

Ukraine Phone Call

By Mollie Hemingway

{ thefederalist.com } ~ The United States’ former envoy to Ukraine told congressional investigators neither country’s officials were concerned about anything in the July 25 phone call between President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky... until a campaign of leaks alleging abuse of power began surfacing in late August. Far from the media-fed narrative of officials being physically shaken by the call, Kurt Volker told lawmakers no one had expressed any concern to him about it, or about later allegations that requests for Ukraine’s help in corruption investigations was improper. While Volker was tasked with managing the relationship between the Trump administration and the new government in Ukraine, he only heard that the loose lips liar-Biden family had been mentioned in the phone call when anti-Trump bureaucrats began leaking classified details of the phone conversation to media outlets in late August. Volker testified October 3 for nearly 10 hours behind closed doors after resigning his unpaid post as the State Department’s special envoy to Ukraine. Democratic lawmakers leaked portions of his testimony and text messages to paint a misleading narrative that he had confirmed an alleged quid pro quo of military aid for investigation of Ukrainian corruption. Instead, Volker told lawmakers under oath that he was never asked to do anything wrong by any member of the administration, including President Trump. He further described the relationship with Ukraine as extremely positive and as good as anyone could hope for given the tumult in the region. The special envoy confirmed that interactions between President Trump’s attorney Rudy Guiliani and the Ukrainian government were made at his behest, in part to improve that relationship and to assuage concerns that the incoming government was as corrupt as previous governments. Volker said he believed that Guiliani had been giving information to Trump that was unduly negative about the current relationship between the two countries and hoped that increased interactions would help Guiliani’s opinion of the new government improve. While Volker didn’t believe Guiliani should trust the word of former prosecutor general Yuri Lutsenko, whom he viewed as self-serving and prone to deception, he did concede that Ukraine’s 2016 election meddling was “plausible.” He further noted that corruption in the country was a legitimate concern given the country’s recent history, adding that when corruption is so widespread, decisions about who to prosecute are inherently political. He was referring to Ukraine, not the United States. Volker confirmed the massive corruption of Burisma, the energy concern that paid Hunter Biden hundreds of thousands of dollars to sit on its board despite completely lacking experience or expertise in the industry. He said that Burisma had a long-standing reputation as a corrupt company accused of money laundering. Biden resigned in 2019 shortly before his father loose lips liar-Joe Biden announced his 2020 presidential candidacy...

https://thefederalist.com/2019/10/16/volker-testimony-destroys-narrative-of-diplomatic-turmoil-following-ukraine-phone-call/

scumbag-Newsom’s Gas-Tax Switcheroo

by STEVEN GREENHUT

{ spectator.org } ~ “Never give the bastards more money,” a friend always says when discussing proposed tax increases.“They’ll only squander it.”... That also epitomizes my philosophy over decades of voting and writing about ballot initiatives and bonds. I always recommend a “no” vote, even if the proposal would fund legitimate and badly needed infrastructure projects — and especially if tax supporters hysterically predict the end of civilization if the measure fails. California voters almost always ignore such advice. Few people track the spending priorities of government officials after voters grant them the cash. After the Santa Ana Unified School District convinced residents to pass a bond to upgrade its overcrowded schools, the board immediately approved a “project labor agreement” that gave union contractors a monopoly over construction. That squandered 10 percent to 20 percent of the budget for nothing other than winning union favor, and the district could only upgrade five of the 13 promised schools. It’s sadly typical. My favorite local example involved the Orange County Mosquito and Vector Control District, which scared the heck out of residents about West Nile virus and an encroaching menace: the red imported fire ant. Such pests could be handled by, say, calling an exterminator if you found a nest in your backyard. Instead, voters gave the district more money. Its main priority after the increase was to increase its workers’ pensions by 62 percent. A few years later, the agency tried to spend from $1 million to $10 million hatching a mosquito museum. It’s even worse at the state level, of course. In 2017, California lawmakers decided to finally do something about the state’s overburdened infrastructure of roads, freeways, and bridges. Then-Gov. Jerry Brown muscled the Legislature into passing increases in gas and diesel taxes and a significant boost in vehicle-license fees. Brown had a nasty habit of holding transportation funding hostage during budget negotiations. To most of us, roads should be at the top of a state’s funding priorities, but instead Democratic officials prefer to ignore them — and then claim that there wasn’t enough money to expand capacity without a tax hike. The Legislature passed Senate Bill 1 to boost taxes to pay for such funding, as poor road conditions had been stirring up a public furor. Frustrated conservatives warned that there was plenty of money in the state’s record-setting budget to finance infrastructure projects without new taxes. They qualified a referendum, Proposition 6, on the November ballot to try to overturn the law. The state’s political establishment, labor unions, and business groups went ballistic...

https://spectator.org/newsoms-gas-tax-switcheroo/?utm_source=American%20Spectator%20Emails&utm_campaign=1519cd921b-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_10_17_01_47&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_797a38d487-1519cd921b-104608113

How California and Foreign

Carmakers Got in Bed to Keep Crony,

scumbag/liar-nObama-Era Rules

by Steve Milloy

{ dailysignal.com } ~ I’m old enough to remember when businesses fought overregulation because it was bad for their bottom lines. That has changed. Now, overregulation is a profit center... There is no better example of this than the ongoing effort to stop the Trump administration from rolling back the ridiculous automobile fuel economy standards issued by the scumbag/liar-nObama administration in 2012. The scumbag/liar-nObama standards require that carmakers achieve an average fleet fuel economy of 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025—up from about 27 miles per gallon in 2012 and about 35 miles per gallon now. Carmakers had originally rolled over for the scumbag/liar-nObama administration on the stiff standards because, well, 2025 was a long way off and the government had just bailed them out as a result of the financial crisis of 10 years ago. The scumbag/liar-nObama standards are impossible to achieve through any existing or foreseeable and affordable technology. The only way automakers can meet these standards is to sell a much greater number of electric vehicles and hybrid vehicles—i.e., smaller, more inconvenient, and less powerful cars with limited consumer appeal and demand. The Trump administration is now in the process of rolling back the so-called corporate average fuel economy (CAFE) standards issued by the scumbag/liar-nObama administration in favor of essentially a freeze on the standards at current fuel economy levels about 35 miles per gallon. The rollback is estimated to reduce car prices by an average of about $2,300 and reduce traffic accidents and injuries. After all, newer cars are safer cars, and the average age of a car on U.S. roads is about 12 years. You would think that carmakers would applaud such a move since it would allow them to sell more of the highly profitable SUV and crossover vehicles that consumers want... https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/10/17/how-california-and-foreign-carmakers-got-in-bed-to-keep-crony-obama-era-rules/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=how-california-and-foreign-carmakers-got-in-bed-to-keep-crony-obama-era-rules&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTnpSbU5XSXlOREF3TkdOaCIsInQiOiJmajJVcnFkMjhtdnczbG52WVNPOUtPSmtnNm1nUDRqRDY0NWZxeklVRW5zOTQ4ZW5URmYrd1RzK2RqdURadUprSUxXc0FmYXQ2anhsK1phVm1vTFR1RlQyajMzWERwVTYyY1ZaQ0ZOZ2k5OGZGMW5UUE9mWExhU3dLXC9cL3laeWwxIn0%3D

Eight Debate Questions

loose lips liar-Joe Biden Should Be Required to Answer

Marc A. Thiessen

When loose lips liar-Joe Biden was asked during a recent news conference whether he had a conflict of interest leading Ukraine policy while his son was working for a Ukrainian oligarch, he said “I’m not going to respond to that” and told reporters to focus on President Trump. If he’s allowed to get away with that at Tuesday’s Democratic presidential debate, it will be a travesty.

The debate moderators — CNN’s Anderson Cooper and Erin Burnett and New York Times national editor Marc Lacey — have a responsibility to press loose lips liar-Biden to address his conflicts. Worryingly, Burnett recently said “There is no evidence of loose lips liar-Joe Biden doing anything wrong” and that “what we need to talk about right now is what did the president … do or not do.” That’s exactly what loose lips liar-Biden is hoping for Tuesday night.

Here are eight questions loose lips liar-Biden should be required to answer during the course of the debate:

(1) Your son Hunter took a position with a Ukrainian natural gas company, Burisma, just before you visited Kiev and urged Ukraine to increase its natural gas production. He was paid as much as $50,000 a month despite having no experience in Ukraine or the natural gas industry. Why do you think Burisma hired your son and paid him such massive sums?

(2) You say that you pressured Ukraine to fire its chief prosecutor because it was universally believed that he was not investigating corruption. Let’s accept that. The Code of Federal Regulations states that when a federal official takes action that will affect “a relative with whom the employee has a close personal relationship” and “the circumstances would cause a reasonable person with knowledge of the relevant facts to question his impartiality in the matter, the employee should not participate in the matter.” Even if the prosecutor deserved to be fired, you clearly had a conflict of interest because a reasonable person could question your impartiality. Why was it appropriate for you to be the one to deliver the ultimatum?

(3) Secretary of State John F. Kerry’s stepson, Chris Heinz, was your son’s business partner and warned him and Devon Archer not to get involved with Burisma. Why couldn’t hanoi-Kerry, who had no conflict, take the lead on Ukraine?

(4) You recently said that you have “never spoken to my son about his overseas business dealings.” But your son told the New Yorker that you did. Why did you say you never discussed it with him when you had? And why would you say to him “I hope you know what you are doing” if he was doing nothing wrong?

(5) The same New Yorker story reports that in December 2015, “Amos Hochstein, the scumbag/liar-nObama Administration’s special envoy for energy policy, raised the matter [of Hunter’s relationship with Burisma] with loose lips liar-Biden.” Hochstein may be called to testify under oath in the Senate about that conversation. What did he say to you?

(6) In December 2013, your son flew with you to Beijing aboard Air Force Two. Less than two weeks later, his firm, Rosemont Seneca Partners, closed a deal to open a fund whose largest shareholder was the Bank of China. Would you have a problem if Donald Trump Jr. traveled to Beijing on Air Force One and then a few weeks later struck a major new commercial deal with the Chinese government? If so, why was it not a problem for your son Hunter to do this?

(7) Your son announced this week that if you are elected, he will not work on behalf of any foreign-owned companies and will comply with all regulations “to address purported conflicts of interest, or the appearance of such conflicts.” If his foreign work would be a conflict if you were president, why was it not a conflict when you were vice president?

(8) Many Americans are deeply concerned about Trump’s attacks on the news media. But in recent weeks, your campaign has written to the major television networks to “demand” that they not invite the president’s personal lawyer, Rudolph W. Giuliani, to appear on their programs, and has accused The New York Times of “active participation in [a] smear campaign” against you for publishing an opinion piece that criticized you. Why is this appropriate? And as president will you use the power of your office to coerce news organizations to silence those critical of your administration?

loose lips liar-Biden is trying to intimidate the media into not asking tough questions about his conflicts of interest in Ukraine and China. Will CNN and The New York Times give in to his demands? We’ll find out Tuesday night. ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/opinion/66108?mailing_id=4588&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4588&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

The Most Dangerous and Treacherous Times in U.S. History! (Part 103T)

Posted by Jake Martinez on October 18, 2019 at 7:00am

Please Read Part 103S:

The Most Dangerous and Treacherous Times in U.S. History! (Part 103S)-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On October 10, 2019:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-most-dangerous-and-treacherous-times-in-u-s-history-part-103s

The following recent thought-provoking article revealed that 'Attorney General William Barr recently ramped up the probe into origins of 'Mueller investigation'-You Decide:

Attorney General William Barr ramps up probe into origins of Mueller investigation!-Posted on Patriot News Alerts-On October 16, 2019:

https://www.patriotnewsalerts.com/barr-probes-mueller-investigation/

Note: I believe that the disturbing information revealed in the following articles and videos relates to and/or further supports the disturbing information revealed in the above thought-provoking article-You Decide:

Mulvaney: Ukraine Aid Held Up in Part Over Election Probe!-Posted on NewsMax.com-On October 17, 2019:

https://www.newsmax.com/headline/us-trump-impeachment/2019/10/17/id/937552/

CNN Mulvaney (Joel Pollak / Breitbart News)

CNN Falsely Claims White House ‘Admits to Quid Pro Quo’ with Ukraine!-Posted on Breitbart.com-By Joel B. Pollak!-On October 17, 2019:

https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2019/10/17/cnn-claims-white-house-admits-to-quid-pro-quo/

Spinning Mulvaney's 'Quid Pro Quo': His statements actually uphold Trump's claim of no personal political deal with Ukraine!-Posted on The Patriot Post-By Thomas Gallatin-On October 18, 2019:

https://patriotpost.us/articles/66210-spinning-mulvaneys-quid-pro-quo?mailing_id=4596&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4596&utm_campaign=digest&utm_content=body

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FNC’s Wallace to Mulvaney: ‘Your Fingerprints Are All Over Linking Aide to Ukraine with Investigating the Bidens’!-Posted on Breitbart.com-By Pam Key-On October 20, 2019:

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2019/10/20/fncs-wallace-to-mulvaney-your-fingerprints-are-all-over-linking-aide-to-ukraine-with-investigating-the-bidens/

Is a DNC Server in Ukraine, and If So, Why? As With Obama Birth Certificate, Media Asks No Questions, Invokes “Conspiracy Theory!”-By Sharon Rondeau-On October 17, 2019:

https://www.thepostemail.com/2019/10/17/is-a-dnc-server-in-ukraine-and-if-so-why/

Fusion GPS founder says memos from Steele dossier were sent directly to Obama: Report!-Posted on Conservative Institute-On October 17, 2019:

https://www.conservativeinstitute.org/conservative-news/fusion-steele-dossier-obama.htm?utm_source=dc3&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=dc3-1

The Nuclear Option: Democrats Sacrificing Biden to Protect Obama!-Posted on Breitbart.com-By Charles Hurt-On October 16, 2019:

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/10/16/the-nuclear-option-democrats-sacrificing-biden-to-protect-obama/

Video: [DS] Plan Fails, Strange Messages Sent, 17th Mentioned - Episode 1997b!-Posted on YouTube.com-By X22Report_n October 16, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWjtj9GplsI

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Comey, Biden and Romney Issue Thinly Veiled Assassination Threats Against Trump on the Eve of His Dallas Visit!-Posted on The Common Sense Show-By Dave Hodges-On October 17, 2019:

https://thecommonsenseshow.com/activism-economics-tragedy/comey-biden-and-romney-issue-thinly-veiled-assassination-threats-against-trump-eve-his-dallas-visit

Video: Maximum Red Alert: Deep State May Assassinate President Trump Tonight in Dallas: Watch the live link below to learn how Biden & Pelosi both signaled the rouge government's intentions - and how you can stop it!-Posted on News Wars-By The Alex Jones Show-On October 17, 2019:

https://www.newswars.com/maximum-red-alert-deep-state-may-assassinate-president-trump-tonight-in-dallas/

CNN Supervisor Wishes For Trump’s Death: “Hopefully Soon”: Revealing comments caught on tape!-Posted on News Wars-By Paul Joseph Watson | INFOWARS.COM-On October 17, 2019:

https://www.newswars.com/cnn-supervisor-wishes-for-trumps-death-hopefully-soon/

Video: Live Coverage of Trump Rally in Dallas: Will Deep State Take Out Trump?-Posted on Infowars.com-On October 17, 2019:

https://www.infowars.com/live-coverage-of-trump-rally-in-dallas-will-deep-state-take-out-trump/

Dallas Police Arrested Armed Man In Body Armor Outside Trump Rally!-Posted on Freedom Outpost-By Alicia Luke-On October 18, 2019:

https://freedomoutpost.com/dallas-police-arrested-armed-man-in-body-armor-outside-trump-rally/

Video: Ep. 1090 Big Cracks Emerge in the Latest Hoax. The Dan Bongino Show 10/17/2019!-Posted on YouTube.com-By Dan Bongino-On October 17, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TK3S3RrpnuE

Video: The Panic Is Real, Middle East Plan Perfectly Executed, 17, Coincidence - Episode 1998b!-Posted on YouTube.com-By X22Report-On October 17, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51Q1G5jd0Dw

John Durham obtains key BlackBerrys connected to origins of Russia-Trump probe!-Posted on BizPac Review-By Tom Tillison-On October 18, 2019:

https://www.bizpacreview.com/2019/10/18/john-durham-obtains-key-blackberrys-connected-to-origins-of-russia-trump-probe-840904

President Barack Obama speaks during Rutgers University's 250th Anniversary commencement ceremony, on Sunday, May 15, 2016, in Piscataway, N.J. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) ** FILE **

President Trump suggests Obama put his thumb on the scale in ‘corrupt’ 2016 election!-Posted on Conservative Institute-On October 17, 2019:

https://www.conservativeinstitute.org/conservative-news/obama-thumb-scale-election.htm?utm_source=dc2&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=dc2-1

Video: Ep. 1091 CNN Melts Down After Trump Says This. The Dan Bongino Show 10/18/2019!-Posted on YouTube.com-By Dan Bongino-On October 18, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvmK7zuM5Z8

Over A Dozen Interviews Conducted With Ukraine Show More Hunter Biden Bombshells!-Posted on Bongino.com-By Bongino Staff-On October 18, 2019:

https://bongino.com/over-a-dozen-interviews-conducted-with-ukraine-show-more-hunter-biden-bombshells/

MUNICH, GERMANY - SEPTEMBER 29: Former U.S. President Barack Obama speaks at the opening of the Bits & Pretzels meetup on September 29, 2019 in Munich, Germany. The annual event brings together founders and startups from across the globe for three days of networking, talks and inspiration. during the "Bits …

Report: Obama Administration ‘Rebuffed’ Warnings About Corruption Linked to Hunter Biden’s Ukraine Work!-Posted on Breitbart.com-By Edwin Mora-On October 18, 2019:
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/10/18/report-obama-administration-rebuffed-warnings-about-corruption-linked-to-hunter-bidens-ukraine-work/

Tulsi Gabbard (Jim Watson / AFP / Getty)

Tulsi Gabbard Rips Hillary Clinton: ‘Queen of Warmongers’!-Posted on Breitbart.com-By Joel B. Pollak-On October 18, 2019:

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/10/18/tulsi-gabbard-rips-hillary-clinton-queen-of-warmongers/

Hillary Clinton

Clinton Claims a Democratic Candidate Is a Russian Asset!-Posted on Independent Journal Review-By Bradley Cortright-On October 18, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3dEOQXR6F8

Why They Hate Tulsi Gabbard: She's a run-of-the-mill Democrat if this were 2005. She shows how far left they've gone!-Posted on The Patriot Post-By Brian Mark Weber-On October 18, 2019:

https://patriotpost.us/articles/66207?mailing_id=4597&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4597&utm_campaign=weekend_snapshot&utm_content=body

Report: “Big News” Expected in Russia “Investigators” Probe Next Week: “Any Time Now!”-Posted on The Post & Email-By Sharon Rondeau-On October 18, 2019:

https://www.thepostemail.com/2019/10/18/report-big-news-expected-in-russia-investigators-probe-next-week/

NEW whistleblower: George Soros behind DNC pressure to fire Ukraine prosecutor at center of impeachment inquiry: He says it's no secret in Ukraine why Joe Biden wanted Ukrainian chief prosecutor to be fired!-Posted on The Blaze-By TheBlaze Staff-On October 18, 2019:

https://www.theblaze.com/glenn-radio/ukraine-prosecutor-viktor-shokin-fired

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State Department Concludes Clinton Email Review, Says It Found Nearly 600 Security Violations!-Posted on The Politcal Insider-By Chuck Ross, Daily Caller-On October 18, 2019:

https://thepoliticalinsider.com/state-department-concludes-clinton-email-review-says-it-found-nearly-600-security-violations/

38 People Cited For Violations in Hillary Clinton’s Email Investigation!-Posted Patriot News Alerts-By Seth Connell-On October 18, 2019:

https://www.patriotnewsalerts.com/38-people-cited-for-violations-in-hillary-clintons-email-investigation/

Video: Tom Fitton’s Judicial Watch Weekly Update-Topics: Deep State Enemies List Targeting Trump Family, Allies?; Coup Update; & More!-Posted on YouTube.com-By Judicial Watch-On October 18, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shRo1rSHfjg

Nunes: Origins of Russia “Collusion” Probe in Ukraine. “UKRAINE IS ALL OVER THE STEELE DOSSIER!”-Posted on The Post & Email-By Sharon Rondeau-On October 20, 2019:

https://www.thepostemail.com/2019/10/20/nunes-origins-of-russia-collusion-probe-in-ukraine/

The Impeachment That Wasn’t!-Posted on NewsWithViews.com-By Pastor Roger Anghis-On October 20, 2019:

http://newswithviews.com/the-impeachment-that-wasnt/

Donald Trump

Thinking clearly about Trump and aid to Ukraine!-Posted on The Washington Examiner-By Byron York-On October 20, 2019:

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/thinking-clearly-about-trump-and-aid-to-ukraine

British intelligence questioned Christopher Steele’s judgement in assessment given to the FBI!-Posted on BizPac Review-By BPR Wire-On October 20, 2019:

https://www.bizpacreview.com/2019/10/20/british-intelligence-questioned-christopher-steeles-judgement-in-assessment-given-to-the-fbi-841894

Bill Barr Corruption Shocker – He Just Came Forward!-Posted on The Daily Conservative-On October 19, 2019:

https://www.dailyconservative.com/daily-blog/bill-barr-corruption-shocker-he-just-came-forward.htm

Image: ALERT: Antifa puppetmasters to engineer “patriot” slaughter of Leftists to spark violent uprising against conservatives

ALERT: Antifa puppetmasters to engineer “patriot” slaughter of Leftists to spark violent uprising against conservatives!-Posted on Natural News-By Mike Adams-On October 20, 2019:

https://www.naturalnews.com/2019-10-20-antifa-puppetmasters-to-engineer-patriot-slaughter-of-leftists.html

Democrats Want Trump Dead – And You!-Posted on NewsWithViews.com-By Devvy Kidd-On October 21, 2019:

http://newswithviews.com/democrats-want-trump-dead-and-you/

More Veiled Threats? Hillary Clinton Taunts Trump With Fake Letter Of Assassinated President: Clinton tweets hypothetical JFK letter written ‘Trump-style’!-Posted on InfoWars.com-By Jamie White | Infowars.com-On October 21, 2019:

https://www.infowars.com/more-veiled-threats-hillary-clinton-taunts-trump-with-fake-letter-of-assassinated-president/

Video: Civil Unrest Levels Rise Exponentially: America could soon reach its boiling point!-Posted on InfoWars.com-By Jon Bowne | Infowars.com-On October 21, 2019:

https://www.infowars.com/civil-unrest-levels-rise-exponentially/

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Video: Who or What Is Behind the Civil Unrest Across the Planet?-Posted on The Common Sense Show-By Dave Hodges-On October 21, 2019:

https://thecommonsenseshow.com/activism-economics-immigration/who-or-what-behind-civil-unrest-across-planet

Athletic Apparel Company Launches Disgusting Ad Campaign To Embarrass Trump!-Posted on The Western Journal-By C. Douglas Golden-On October 21, 2019:

https://www.westernjournal.com/athletic-apparel-company-launches-disgusting-ad-campaign-embarrass-trump/

Video: Attacks Will Intensify, Who Holds All The Cards? The End Is Near - Episode 1999b!-Posted on YouTube.com-By X22Report-On October 20, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLfAUJzMedo

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Trump: Obama is ‘hiding’ from the Ukraine controversy!-Posted on Conservative Institute-On October 21, 2019:

https://www.conservativeinstitute.org/conservative-news/obama-hiding-ukraine-controversy.htm?utm_source=dc2&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=dc2-1

Hillary: Poster Child of Russian Conspiracy Theories: Clinton claims fellow Democrats are Russian assets, showing her own delusions!-Posted on The Patriot Post-By Thomas Gallatin-On October 21, 2019:

https://patriotpost.us/articles/66242-hillary-poster-child-of-russian-conspiracy-theories-2019-10-21?mailing_id=4599&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4599&utm_campaign=digest&utm_content=body

Judicial Watch: New Benghazi Documents Confirm Clinton Email Cover-Up!-Posted on Judicial Watch-On October 21, 2019:

https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-releases/judicial-watch-new-benghazi-documents-confirm-clinton-email-cover-up/

Benghazi Revisited. “Nothing To See Here…,” Or Is There?-Posted on The Post & Email-By Joseph DeMaio,-On October 22, 2019:

https://www.thepostemail.com/2019/10/22/benghazi-revisited/

Zuckerberg Wrong on Free Speech: And then Elizabeth Warren goes after Facebook (again), threatening to break it up!-Posted on The Patriot Post –By Political Editors-On October 21, 2019:

https://patriotpost.us/articles/66223-zuckerberg-wrong-on-free-speech-2019-10-21?mailing_id=4599&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4599&utm_campaign=digest&utm_content=body

Martin Luther King Jr.’s Daughter Blasts Zuckerberg: Free Speech Got Him Killed!-Posted on Breitbart.com-By Lucas Nolan-On October 18, 2019:

https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2019/10/18/martin-luther-king-jr-s-daughter-blasts-zuckerberg-free-speech-got-him-killed/

Part of Facebook's headquarters in Menlo Park, California

47 States Now Suing Facebook in Antitrust Probe!-Posted on NewsMax.com-By Todd Beamon-On October 22, 2019:

https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/facebook-antitrust/2019/10/22/id/938176/

The Role of ‘Big Data and Big Brother’!-Posted on The Daily Signal-By Cully Stimson /@cullystimson-On October 24, 2019:

https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/10/24/the-role-of-big-data-and-big-brother/

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George Soros’ Playboy Son Hosts Obama, Holder, McAuliffe To Redistrict New York!-Posted on The Political Insider-By Shelby Talcott, Daily Caller-On October 22, 2019:

https://thepoliticalinsider.com/george-soros-playboy-son-hosts-obama-holder-mcauliffe-to-redistrict-new-york/

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Supreme Court Tosses Challenge To Michigan’s Republican-Drawn District Lines!-Posted on The Political Insider-By Kevin Daley, Daily Caller-On October 21, 2019:

https://thepoliticalinsider.com/supreme-court-tosses-challenge-to-michigans-republican-drawn-district-lines/

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Video: "New California" Is Standing Between the Communists and the Fall of America!-Posted on The Common Sense Show-By Dave Hodges-On October 22, 2019:

https://thecommonsenseshow.com/activism-agenda-21-conspiracy/new-california-standing-between-communists-and-fall-america

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Video: God and Satan Are Both Seeking to Define You!-Posted on The Common Sense Show-By Dave Hodges-On October 22, 2019:

https://thecommonsenseshow.com/activism-religion-united-nations/god-and-satan-are-both-seeking-define-you

Anti-Trump Media Bias Evident At Fox Network!-Posted on NewsWithViews.com-By Kelleigh Nelson-On October 22, 2019:

http://newswithviews.com/anti-trump-media-bias-evident-at-fox-network/

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Why the Right Fails to Change Culture: “We don’t do videos!”-Posted on Front Page Magazine-By Larry Schweikart-On October 22, 2019:

https://cms.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2019/10/why-right-fails-change-culture-larry-schweikart

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The Deep State Comes Out Of The Shadows!-Posted on Issues and Insights-By I & I Editorial Board-On October 21, 2019:

https://issuesinsights.com/2019/10/21/the-deep-state-comes-out-of-the-shadows/

Deep State Hate For Rep. Tulsi Gabbard!-Posted on NewsWithViews.com-By Cliff Kincaid-On October 23, 2019:

http://newswithviews.com/deep-state-hate-for-rep-tulsi-gabbard/

Biden Condemns Trump for Using the Word ‘Lynching,’ But Said the Same Thing In 1998: Ain’t that something?-Posted on Flag & Cross-By John Salvatore-On October 23, 2019:

https://flagandcross.com/biden-condemns-trump-for-using-the-word-lynching-but-said-the-same-thing-in-1998/

Lynching Hypocrisy: Trump deliberately chose a provocative word that Democrats had used about impeachment!-Posted on The Patriot Post-By Nate Jackson-On October 23, 2019:

https://patriotpost.us/articles/66298-lynching-hypocrisy?mailing_id=4604&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4604&utm_campaign=digest&utm_content=body

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‘I Hope You Die:’ University of New Hampshire Students Destroy Turning Point USA Display!-Posted on Breitbart.com-By Alana Mastrangelo-On October 22, 2019:

https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2019/10/22/i-hope-you-die-university-of-new-hampshire-students-destroy-turning-point-usa-display/

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Video: Red Alert: Must Watch for Trump Supporters-Your Location & Safety Have Been Compromised!-Posted on The Common Sense Show-By Dave Hodges-On October 23, 2019:

https://thecommonsenseshow.com/activism-conspiracy-economics/red-alert-must-watch-trump-supporters-your-location-safety-have-been-compromised

Trump Announces Lifitng of Turkish Sanctions, Says Cease-Fire is Permanent

Trump Announces Lifitng of Turkish Sanctions, Says Cease-Fire is Permanent!-Posted on TTN-By TTN Staff-On October 23, 2019:

https://trumptrainnews.com/articles/trump-announces-lifitng-of-turkish-sanctions-says-cease-fire-is-permanent

Rand Paul Heaps Praise on Donald Trump's 'Extraordinary Breakthrough' in Syria!-Posted on The Western Journal-By Bradley Evans-On October 24, 2019:

https://www.westernjournal.com/rand-paul-heaps-praise-donald-trumps-extraordinary-breakthrough-syria/

The REAL U.S./Turkey Strategic Endgame — Iran: So, what to make of the MSM spin on Trump, Turkey, and Syria?-Posted on The Patriot Post-By Mark Alexander-On October 23, 2019:

https://patriotpost.us/alexander/66308-the-real-u-dot-s-slash-turkey-strategic-endgame-iran-2019-10-23?mailing_id=4605&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4605&utm_campaign=alexander&utm_content=header.default

Deep State Vows Payback After Trump Disrupts Millions in Illegal Drug Trafficking Cash & Kickbacks From Syria!-Posted on Before It’s News-By Knarlydawg-On October 25, 2019:

https://beforeitsnews.com/blogging-citizen-journalism/2019/10/deep-state-vows-payback-after-trump-disrupts-millions-in-illegal-drug-trafficking-cash-kickbacks-from-syria-2635025.html

Video: The Road to Syria--Obama Admin. KNEW Weapons Were Shipped from Benghazi to Syrian Rebels/Jihadists!-Posted on YouTube.com-By Judicial Watch-On October 21, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPe3V9lEH1o

If Troops are Needed in Syria, Then Congress Should Act!-Posted on NewsWithViews.com-By Jake Macaulay-On October 26, 2019:

http://newswithviews.com/if-troops-are-needed-in-syria-then-congress-should-act/

Deep State Hates “America-First” Policy. “THE WISHES OF THE ELECTORATE!”-Posted on The Post & Email-By Jeff Crouere-On October 27, 2019:

https://www.thepostemail.com/2019/10/27/deep-state-hates-america-first-policy/

a hum vee decked out with american flags sits in a field with soldiers surrounding it

Military Vets Coming to DC to Praise Trump's Syria Decision!-Posted on NewsMax.com-By Jeffrey Rodack-On October 18, 2019:

https://www.newsmax.com/politics/troops-withdrawal-neocons-war-hawks-endless-wars/2019/10/18/id/937685/

None Is So Blind As He Who Will Not See!-Posted on NewsWithViews.com-By Devvy Kidd-On October 28, 2019:

http://newswithviews.com/none-is-so-blind-as-he-who-will-not-see/

Importing Middle East Terrorism!-Posted on NewsWithViews.com-By Cliff Kincaid-On October 31, 2019:

http://newswithviews.com/importing-middle-east-terrorism/

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Clinton Crony Canine Caper: Targeting Trump for dog deployment against Baghdadi!-Posted on Front Page Magazine-By Lloyd Billingsley-On November 1, 2019:

https://cms.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2019/10/clinton-crony-canine-caper-lloyd-billingsley

If the Average American Only Knew!-Posted on NewsWithViews.com-By Ms. Smallback-On November 1, 2019:

http://newswithviews.com/if-the-average-american-only-knew/

October 1962: How Close to the Brink?-Posted on NewsWithViews.com-By Servando Gonzalez-On November 1, 2019:

http://newswithviews.com/october-1962-how-close-to-the-brink/

Making sense of the Turkey-Syria situation!-Posted on BobLivingstonLetter.com-By Bob Livingston-On November 3, 2019:

https://boblivingstonletter.com/alerts/making-sense-of-the-turkey-syria-situation/

Note: I believe that the information revealed in the above articles and videos regarding Syria relates to and/or further supports my following blogs from the recent past-You Decide:

Dogs of War, Architects of Terror!-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On January 4, 2017:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/dogs-of-war-architects-of-terror-1

America’s “Long War” Against Humanity!-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez on January 30, 2014:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/america-s-long-war-against-humanity

Letter to our NM U.S. Representative Michelle Lujan-Grisham (re: Articles of Impeachment and Impeachment Proceedings)!-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On August 12, 2014:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/letter-to-our-nm-u-s-representative-michelle-lujan-grisham-re-2

Journalist Group Launches Petty Campaign To Thwart Trump: Trademarking 'Fake News'!-Posted on The Western Journal-By Joe Saunders-On October 22, 2019:

https://www.westernjournal.com/journalist-group-launches-petty-campaign-thwart-trump-trademarking-fake-news/

The New York Times building is seen on September 6, 2018 in New York. - A furious Donald Trump called September 5, 2018 for the unmasking of an anonymous senior official who wrote in the New York Times that top members of his administration were undermining the president to curb …

NY Times Shifts from the ‘Deep State Doesn’t Exist’ to the Deep State’s Awesome!-Posted on Breitbart.com-By John Nolte-On October 22, 2019:

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/10/22/nolte-ny-times-shifts-from-the-deep-state-doesnt-exist-to-the-deep-states-awesome/

The New York Times building in Manhattan

White House to Cancel NY Times, WashPost Subscriptions!-Posted on NewsMax.com-By Theodore Bunker-On October 22, 2019:

https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/new-york-times-washington-post-trump-media/2019/10/22/id/938165/

My Pillow CEO Rips Media for Recession Chatter: 'They're Going To Destroy One of the Best Economies'!-Posted on The Western Journals-By Jack Davis-On October 26, 2019:

https://www.westernjournal.com/pillow-ceo-rips-media-recession-chatter-going-destroy-one-best-economies/

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The Media is a Threat to America: And it’s destroying the country!-Posted on Front Page Magazine-By Daniel Greenfield-On October 25, 2019:

https://cms.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2019/10/media-threat-america-daniel-greenfield

Building a Movement to Stop ‘Democratic Socialism’!-Posted on The Daily Signal-By Kay Coles James /@KayColesJames-On October 22, 2019:

https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/10/22/building-a-movement-to-stop-democratic-socialism/

Mike Pence, Kay Coles James

Heritage Foundation readies to battle socialism, ‘fight like … heck!’-Posted on The Washington Examiner-By Paul Bedard-On October 22, 2019:

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/washington-secrets/heritage-foundation-readies-to-battle-socialism-fight-like-heck

Building the Movement to Stop the Statist Takeover of America!-Posted on Townhall-By Kay Coles James-On October 25, 2019:

https://townhall.com/columnists/kaycolesjames/2019/10/25/building-the-movement-to-stop-the-statist-takeover-of-america-n2555316

Trump’s ‘Haters’ Are the Ones Breaking America, Says Kimberley Strassel-Posted on The Daily Signal-By Daniel Davis /@JDaniel_Davis-On October 24, 2019:

https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/10/24/trumps-haters-are-the-ones-breaking-america-says-kimberly-strassel/

Dr. Cornel West Says ‘We Have To Go To Jail’ to ‘Fight’ Donald Trump!-Posted on Freedom Outpost-By Andrew West-On October 24, 2019:

https://freedomoutpost.com/dr-cornel-west-says-we-have-to-go-to-jail-to-fight-donald-trump/

Eric Holder Mocks Trump Supporters: 'Exactly When Did You Think America Was Great?'

Holder Makes Another Thuggish Threat: Trump Should ‘Get His A** Beaten’!-Posted on Liberty Headlines-By Ben Sellers-On October 25, 2019:

https://www.libertyheadlines.com/holder-thuggish-threat-trump-beat/

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Battleground: 7 in 10 say US ‘on the edge of civil war’!-Posted on The Washington Examiner-By Paul Bedard-On October 23, 2019:

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/washington-secrets/battleground-7-in-10-say-us-on-the-edge-of-civil-war

Americans Fear “Civil War!”-Posted on The New American-By Steve Byas-On October 25, 2019:

https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/constitution/item/33857-americans-fear-civil-war

Prayers for the President Continue in Washington and the White House!-Posted on The New American-By Bob Adelmann-On October 23, 2019:

https://www.thenewamerican.com/culture/faith-and-morals/item/33833-prayers-for-the-president-continue-in-washington-and-the-white-house

Why Faith Is Key to Preserving Our Liberty!-Posted on The Daily Signal-By Timothy Goeglein-On October 23, 2019:

https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/10/23/why-faith-is-key-to-preserving-our-liberty/

Please Read Part 103U:

The Most Dangerous and Treacherous Times in U.S. History! (Part 103U)-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On October 24, 2019:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-most-dangerous-and-treacherous-times-in-u-s-history-part-103u

Please Also Read Part 104:

The Most Dangerous and Treacherous Times in U.S. History! (Part 104)-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On March 16, 2019:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-most-dangerous-and-treacherous-times-in-u-s-history-part-104

Note: I also believe that the extremely disturbing information revealed in the above articles and videos relates to and/or further supports my following blogs from the recent past-You Decide:

Letter to NM U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (Re: Mueller Report)-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On April 27, 2019:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/letter-to-nm-u-s-senator-martin-heinrich-re-mueller-report

The Most Dangerous and Treacherous Times in U.S. History! (Part 91)-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On November 30, 2018:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-most-dangerous-and-treacherous-times-in-u-s-history-part-91

CIA Assessment Concludes Putin Was Trying to Help Trump Win White House!-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On December 10, 2016:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/cia-assessment-concludes-putin-was-trying-to-help-trump-win-white

Obama is the Manifestation of a Multi-Generational Soviet Plot to Destroy America!-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On April 2, 2014:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/obama-is-the-manifestati...

The Vetting: ‘Obama, Radical Islam and the Soros Connection’! (Part 1)-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On November 30, 2013:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-vetting-obama-radica...

When A U.S. President IS Muslim Brotherhood!-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On August 17, 2014:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/when-a-u-s-president-is-...

White Reds Exploiting Blacks: The Weather Underground, Barack Obama, and the Fundamental Transformation of the United States!-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On July 28, 2012:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/white-reds-exploiting-bl...

Communists and Muslims: The Hidden Hand of the KGB!-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On July 29, 2012:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blog/show?id=4301673%3ABlogPos...

Was Obama’s Real Job to Destroy America’s Moral & Ethical Foundations?-Posted on The Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On January 24, 2014:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/was-obama-s-real-job-to-destroy-america-s-moral-ethical

Is America being turned into a NARCO Nation by design?-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On January 4, 2014:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/is-america-being-turned-...

New EPA Land Grab, Complete Control Over All Private Land in America! (Part 1)-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On April 11, 2014:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/new-epa-land-grab-comple...

Greatest Fraud Perpetrated In American History!-Posted on WordPress.com-On June 20, 2011:

https://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2011/06/20/the-greatest-fraud-perpet...

Investigators Find That Obama's Online Birth Certificate Presented To The American Public Is 'Fake'!-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On December 15, 2016:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/investigators-find-sourc...

Follow-up Letter To NM U.S. Senator Udall Requesting Congressional Investigation Into Allegations Made By Sheriff Arpaio’s Cold Case Posse!–Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On July 25, 2012:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/follow-up-letter-to-nm-u...

Follow-up Letter to NM Governor Martinez Requesting The Removal of President Obama From The NM 2012 Presidential Election Ballot!-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez on July 26, 2012:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/follow-up-letter-to-nm-g...

Follow-up Letter To NM U.S. Congressman Martin Heinrich Regarding My Request For Full-scale Investigation Into Allegations Made By Sheriff Arapio’s Cold Case Posse!–Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On July 26, 2012:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/follow-up-letter-to-nm-u...

CIA-Columbia Cover Up!-Posted on WordPress.com-On April 28, 2010:

https://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/04/28/cia-columbia-obama-cover-up/

Why did a black preacher from Harlem have a 'hit' placed on his life?-Posted on WordPress.com-On October 19, 2010:

https://weroinnm.wordpress.cooinnm.wordpress.com/2010/10/19/why-has-a-black-preacher-from-harlem...

Was Obama Pre-selected & Groomed To Be Our U.S. President & Take Down America to Usher In The NWO Due To His CIA, Communist and Muslim Connections & Influences?-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On November 16, 2016:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/was-obama-selected-groom...

Letter to our NM U.S. Representative Michelle Lujan-Grisham (re: Shadow Party’s alleged agenda to take down America)!-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On February 13, 2015:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/letter-to-our-nm-u-s-rep...

Obama: Submit to Globalism or Face War, Death, Destruction!-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On November 17, 2016:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/forum/topics/obama-submit-to-globalism-...

Peace is possible if Trump is elected.

Not Since JFK, Has a President Spit Into the Face of the Globalists, Until Now!-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On November 21, 2016:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/not-since-jfk-has-a-pres...

9/11 TRUTH SEEKERS: THE ‘LUNATIC FRINGE’ IS WHOM?-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On May 25, 2014:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/9-11-truth-seekers-the-lunatic-fringe-is-whom

Brainwashing in America: "WHY FEW DARE CALL IT CONSPIRACY”!-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On March 21, 2014:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/brainwashing-in-america-...

The MSM conglomerates are the most prolific and insidious "fake news" propagators in the marketplace of ideas!-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On November 30, 2016:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-msm-conglomerates-ar...

Where Is America Today?-Posted on WordPress.com-On May 26, 2010:

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/05/26/where-is-america-today-2/

Note: The following videos wholeheartedly share my sentiments regarding what we are currently experiencing in America today-You Decide:

A Republic, If You Can Keep It!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGL8CiUtXF0

The Fightin Side of Me!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBAzLCA3DQc

When Injustice Becomes Law, Resistance Becomes Duty!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukzd_vRFpms

“Food for Thought”

Hello: Are Americans Going To Wake Up and Take a Stand Against The Deplorable Obstructionists That Are Doing Their Utmost To Take Down Our Democratically Elected President, His Administration and Ultimately Destroy our Country/Republic?-God Bless America!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q65KZIqay4E&feature=related

Please Continue Praying For Our Country/Republic.

Semper Fi!

Jake

Thursday PM ~ thefrontpagecover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on October 17, 2019 at 4:18pm

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Socialism and Fascism

Lewis Morris

Trump celebrates ‘great day for civilization’ as

Pence, Pompeo secure Syria cease-fire agreement

By Ronn Blitzer

{ foxnews.com } ~ President Trump declared Thursday "a great day for civilization" as Vice President Mike Pence and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced terms of a cease-fire agreement... that would end violence between Turkey and Kurds in Syria, following a meeting with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Ankara. The deal is for a 120-hour cease-fire, during which time the Kurdish-led forces could pull back from the roughly 20-mile-wide safe zone on the Turkish-Syrian border. All Turkish military operations under the recent offensive known as Operation Peace Spring will pause during that time, and the operation itself will come to an end entirely upon the completion of the Kurdish withdrawal, under the terms of the deal. "This is a great day for civilization," Trump declared in a tweet following a press conference where Pence and Pompeo discussed the deal. "I am proud of the United States for sticking by me in following a necessary, but somewhat unconventional, path. People have been trying to make this 'Deal' for many years. Millions of lives will be saved. Congratulations to ALL! "Trump claimed that just three days ago, such an agreement "could NEVER have been made," but that "tough love" was required to accomplish it. In addition to agreeing to the terms of a cease-fire, both the U.S. and Turkey "committed to defeat ISIS activities in northeast Syria," Pence announced during a press conference. “Turkey and the United States agree on the priority of respecting vulnerable human life, human rights, and particularly the protection of religious and ethnic communities in the region,” the vice president added. It remains to be seen whether the Kurds will agree to the terms of the deal, which Pence said was reached after more than five hours of negotiations with Erdogan and Turkish officials. "We think the agreement today first ends the violence, which is what President Trump sent us here to do," Pence said. "We achieved that." Pence said that the U.S. did not approve of Turkey's military operation, but under the terms of the deal will lift sanctions against Turkey upon the fulfillment of the agreement from both sides. The Turkish offensive began after Trump announced the withdrawal of American troops from northern Syria. Trump was heavily criticized for the move by lawmakers from both parties. Last week, Trump sent a letter to Erdogan encouraging him to “work out a good deal,” threatening to “destroy” the Turkish economy if Erdogan continued his aggression against the Kurds. “Don’t be a tough guy. Don’t be a fool!” Trump said, before stating that he would call Erdogan. It was reported by the BBC Thursday that Erdogan “thoroughly rejected” the letter and threw it “in the bin,” but hours later Pence announced the potential cease-fire.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/pence-pompeo-secure-cease-fire-agreement-in-syria-after-meeting-with-turkish-president

VIDEO: https://video.foxnews.com/v/6095640698001/#sp=show-clips

Ceasefire reached between Turkish and Kurdish forces after US delegation meets in Turkey

by Zachary Halaschak

{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ Vice President Mike Pence said that a cease-fire has been reached between Turkey and Kurdish forces in Syria. The move comes after Pence and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo met with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan... “Today I'm proud to report, thanks to the strong leadership of President Donald Trump and the strong relationship between President Erdoğan and Turkey and the United States of America, that today the United States and Turkey have agreed to a cease-fire in Syria,” Pence said. Pence said that Turkey agreed to pause its military operation, Peace Spring, in Syria for 120 hours until Kurdish forces withdraw from a nearly 20-mile wide safe zone south of the Turkish border in Syria. “All military operations under Operation Peace Spring will be paused, and Operation Peace Spring will be halted entirely on completion of the withdrawal,” the vice president added. "In addition, the United States and Turkey have both mutually committed to a peaceful resolution and future for the safe zone, working on an international basis to ensure that peace and security defines this border region of Syria,” he added. Pence also said that Turkey and the U.S. have “mutually committed” to defeat the Islamic State's operations in northern Syria.“This will also include an agreement renewed today to coordinate efforts on detention facilities and internally displaced persons in formerly ISIS-controlled areas,” Pence said. A copy of a statement outlining terms of the agreement was released on Twitter. It shows a number of points that the two sides negotiated, including the pause Turkey's military operation. It also said that pending the successful implementation of the ceasefire, the U.S. would end its recently imposed sanctions against the Turkish economy. After meeting bipartisan backlash, Trump has continued to defend his decision to move troops out of the area allowing Turkey to invade Syria. He said troops shouldn’t be in the region as “two countries fight over land that has nothing to do with us.” https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/cease-fire-reached-between-turkish-and-kurdish-forces-after-us-delegation-meets-in-turkey?utm_source=breaking_push&utm_medium=app&utm_campaign=push_notifications&utm_source=WEX_Breaking%20News%20Alert_10/17/2019&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WEX_Breaking%20News&rid=5261

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oy7DzU4uxOM

Dems Cut Mic On House Floor To Avoid

Steve Scalise’s Impeachment Question

by Dean James

{ rightwingtribune.com } ~ Republican Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) released the following statement after Democrats cut his microphone on the House Floor instead of answering his simple yes or no question... has the House been authorized to conduct an impeachment inquiry? “Democrats are so determined to keep their impeachment process a secret from the American people that they cannot and will not give us a simple yes or no answer as to whether the House has authorized an impeachment inquiry of President Trump. Every impeachment inquiry in history was authorized by an initial vote, yet Speaker liar-Pelosi has refused to follow that precedent. Does Speaker liar-Pelosi not realize the appalling position she has put the House in? For proceedings with such monumental consequences, the American people must know that a fair process has been followed. Democrats continue to cast aside all historical norms in their insane and obsessive effort to overturn the results of the 2016 election.” Full question: Madam Speaker, my parliamentary inquiry is this: has the House been authorized to conduct an impeachment inquiry into President Trump? Madam Speaker, we ought to know the answer to that question. Madam Speaker, either the House has started an impeachment inquiry or it has not. Can we get an answer to that question, Madam Speaker? [mic cut] These dems are ruthless and corrupt as all hell. https://rightwingtribune.com/2019/10/17/dems-cut-mic/

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pv5qrrxqIfs

A Texas Mayor Defends the

Constitution from Sharia Law

By Amil Imani

{ americanthinker.com } ~ Time and again in every election we see politicians promise everything, and once elected deliver very little or nothing. Beth Van Duyne is a welcome exception and her past record clearly proves it... A person of impeccable integrity, Beth has always remained loyal to the values and wishes of her constituents and has not compromised them on the altar of political expediency so widely practiced by self-promoting politicians. A devoted mother beaming with energy and the talent to get things done, Beth is indeed the kind of person the US Congress desperately needs. Under Beth’s leadership as a Mayor of Irving, TX, the city became one of the best and safest towns in the great state of Texas. Beth Van Duyne’s achievements attracted the attention of President Trump’s administration and accepted to serve, this time, at the national level in the Department of Housing and Urban Development Office in Fort Worth. Van Duyne’s reputation soared outside her city since February 2015, when she became aware that some Muslims intended to create a Sharia court in Irving, TX. To follow with her oath of office, she wanted to make sure if in fact, these stories were accurate. Van Duyne went directly to the source, the Islamictribunal.org website. What she noticed was shocking. The imams at the website referred to themselves as “attorneys” and “judges” even though none of them were lawyers or practice law in the State of Texas. She noted a phone number for legal services. There was also a disclaimer at the bottom that read: “Don’t send us any confidential material, before an attorney client relationship has been established.” They were even charging for their services. They listed divorce cases, product liability, business, and real estate litigations as their legal specialties. Mayor Van Duyne wanted to know why anyone would subject themselves to Sharia law in the United States while everyone is protected under the U.S. Constitution! And she repeatedly noted, her biggest concern was for women were treated differently than men under Sharia law, put at a great disadvantage, and denied basic rights we are all guaranteed...

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/10/a_texas_mayor_defends_the_constitution_from_sharia_law.html

The Democrats -- Who They Are, What they

Want and How to Confront Them

By Alexander G. Markovsky

{ americanthinker.com } ~ Every time the Democratic presidential contenders take the stage, we witness a stunning display of the Democratic Party's ideological conversion to a Marxist-sponsored socialist cartel... In pursuit of utopian/egalitarian virtue, the party has adopted the language of the ideology and is growing perpetually out of sync with American liberties. In a frightening sense of déjà vu, the downsized American replicas of Leon Trotsky, Nikolai Bukharin, Clara Zetkin, and Rosa Luxemburg are seeking to impose the moralities of a flawed society through seductive promises of fairness and equality with an intensity and passion that rivals that of their precursors a century earlier. However, unlike the originals, the candidates are hardly thinkers or mavericks; they sound like pedestrian opportunists having no intellectual basis and as such are unable to define independent philosophical identities. But it doesn’t make them less dangerous. The contenders enjoy widespread support among the ideologically driven legislators who with medieval fanaticism demand the implementation of socialist agendas. Some bombastically prophesy environmental calamities and the end of the world unless we implement insane ideas they put forward as the key to salvation. Those loonies cannot be persuaded by facts, historical records, or common sense. For them, acceptance of reality equates to a denial of faith. “It is more important to be morally right than factually correct,” so asserted socialist commie-Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. “Morally right” is a method of persuasion that epitomizes radicalism in its most extreme form. A maxim, not bounded by the concepts of reasoning or moral restrains, that justified the Red Terror in Russia, the Cultural Revolution in China, the Holocaust in Germany and many other atrocities that cost tens of millions of lives by those who proclaimed themselves “morally right.” This madness can be stopped if people realize in time where the Democratic Party’s newly adopted ideology may lead...

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/10/the_democrats__who_they_are_what_they_want_and_how_to_confront_them.html

Feds Kill the Internet’s ‘Largest Child Porn Marketplace,’ 300 Arrested

by WARNER TODD HUSTON

{ godfatherpolitics.com } ~ Federal investigators have announced that they have taken down the biggest child porn marketplace on the Internet... Federal prosecutors filed multiple charges against a 23-year-old South Korean man who they claim was behind the Internet-based child porn website on the dark web, according to NBC News. The website called Welcome to Video,” reportedly hosted more than 200,000 videos — almost 8 terabytes — of child pornography involving children of all ages. Prosecutors said that they also tracked 7,300 Bitcoin transactions worth more than $730,000. The site was allegedly run by Jong Woo Son, a South Korean citizen who is already in jail in South Korea of child porn charges. Federal officials say that Woo Son operated the site up until law enforcement agencies shut it down in March of last year. U.S. officials reported that 337 suspects of the site had been arrested worldwide. “You may try to hide behind technology,” U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jessie Liu said on Wednesday, “but we will find you and arrest you and prosecute you.” The scale of this crime is eye-popping and sickening,” added John D. Fort, chief of IRS criminal investigations. Nearly half the videos on the site were previously uncatalogued by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children...

https://godfatherpolitics.com/feds-kill-the-internets-largest-child-porn-marketplace-300-arrested/

commie-Sanders and dinky/liar-Warren,

Socialism and Fascism

Lewis Morris: In the game of primary politics, presidential candidates have to differentiate themselves for the voters, even if they’re cut from the same ideological cloth. Take two big names in the race for the Democrat nomination, commie-Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth dinky/liar-Warren. Both are statist lackeys of the far Left, dedicated to shredding (“fundamentally transforming”) the Constitution and instituting a People’s Republic of the United States. Or is it the United Soviet States of America? So, if you are useful idiot, how do you choose between the two?

commie-Sanders, who has been falling behind Warren in the polls, especially after his health issues, tried to put some daylight between himself and his leftist rival. He attempted to use her own quote against her, saying, “She is a capitalist through her bones.” But only a socialist would think that calling someone a capitalist would be a mark against them. The trouble is Warren is no capitalist.

dinky/liar-Warren has called for a whole host of tax hikes, including significantly raising taxes on upper income families and individuals to pay for universal childcare. She has called for canceling student-loan debt and making college “free.” She supports a $15 federal minimum wage. dinky/liar-Warren wants to make fracking illegal, break up large agricultural businesses, and put multibillion-dollar companies under the control of the federal government. This among a whole pile of steaming leftist manure that includes government-run healthcare, abolishing the Electoral College, opening the borders, slashing the military, and rejecting the USMCA trade pact in favor of greater labor and environmental concessions.

Does this sound like someone who is a capitalist through her bones? Didn’t think so.

dinky/liar-Warren and commie-Sanders are both hardcore leftists, but while commie-Sanders is a socialist, dinky/liar-Warren is arguably more of a fascist.

One of the biggest mistakes people make is assuming that fascism is an ideology of the far Right. It is not. That is a deliberate falsehood spun by leftists going back 80 years — and it’s meant solely to distance themselves from the actions of Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler. These two fascist dictators were initially embraced by the Left for their statist views — until they started gobbling up Europe and killing people for ethnic reasons. Socialists couldn’t publicly support them after that, so they rewrote them as creatures of the political Right. It’s one of the more bizarre BIG Lies, but that’s what public “education” will get you.

Let’s take a moment to set the record straight.

Socialism is defined by state ownership of the means of production and distribution of goods and services. Fascism is defined by the state control of the economy, while the means of production remains in private hands. When we talk about state control of anything, we are talking about the left side of the political spectrum. The greater the control a government exhibits, the further left it is politically. Ergo, socialism and fascism are right next to each other on the spectrum, not on opposite ends of it.

On the right side of the political spectrum is capitalism, which is private ownership and private control. If you travel further right on the political spectrum, how would you arrive at state control of the economy? You don’t.

Make no mistake, though. Elizabeth dinky/liar-Warren is no more a capitalist than Chinese President Xi Jinping is a champion of human rights.

dinky/liar-Warren is a fascist because she advocates for government control of large corporations and heavy taxation to keep those corporate interests in line. She wants to use the economy as a cudgel to force people in line behind her policies. Every policy position she holds embraces the concept of government control over the citizenry. Keep that in mind as the media sings the “dinky/liar-Warren for President” mantra, or as she and commie-Sanders both try to convince voters that she’s just another “capitalist” vying for the socialist vote. ~The Patriot Post

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Thursday Noon ~ thefrontpagecover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on October 17, 2019 at 12:26pm

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

ABC News Caught Promulgating Fake News

Thomas Gallatin

‘Show Us The Money’: Megyn Kelly Says There

Needs To Be Outside Investigation Into NBC

by SHELBY TALCOTT

{ dailycaller.com } ~ Journalist Megyn Kelly said Wednesday there needs to be an outside investigation into NBC News regarding allegations raised in investigative reporter Ronan Farrow’s new book... She spoke to Fox News’s Tucker Carlson about allegations detailed in Farrow’s book “Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators,” namely the accusation that the network tried to cover up former NBC host Matt Lauer’s alleged sexual misconduct. The former Fox News anchor hit back at NBC News for not having an external investigation into the allegations against Lauer and expressed skepticism that the network had no idea about the alleged sexual misconduct before it fired the host in 2017. She suggested the network should “show us the money” and come clean about any and all agreements made to former staffers. “They haven’t gotten specific about what monies were paid out to home,” Kelly said in her first TV interview in nearly a year. “Show us the money. The number one thing that needs to happen now is they need to release any and all Matt Lauer accusers from their confidentiality agreements.” Kelly left Fox News for NBC in 2017 and parted ways with the network in January after making comments about blackface and Halloween. She returned to Fox for the first time in nearly three years Wednesday evening. Carlson wondered if NBC saying that it had no previous knowledge of the allegations against Lauer is a “plausible claim.” Kelly noted the network had settlements with former employees and that there were complaints about Lauer before that of former NBC staffer Brooke Nevils, who accused the disgraced “Today” show host of anally raping her in a hotel room during the coverage of the 2014 Olympics in Sochi, Russia. “Show us all of the agreements, the enhanced severance agreements reached or at least the number so we can see which ones pop out and which ones are super high,” Kelly continued. “Are they all women? Do they all have a connection with Matt Lauer? Release the women from their confidentiality obligations.”...

https://dailycaller.com/2019/10/16/show-us-the-money-megyn-kelly-says-there-needs-to-be-outside-investigation-into-nbc/?utm_source=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=10518

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXMflui3ZAc

Megyn Kelly Goes After

The Media For Active Bias

by SHELBY TALCOTT

{ dailycaller.com } ~ Journalist Megyn Kelly went after the media Wednesday for what she described as blatant bias... noting that “it doesn’t belong” and suggesting outlets now worry about being judged for not condemning President Donald Trump. Kelly spoke to Fox News’s Tucker Carlson on “Tucker Carlson Tonight” in her first television appearance in nearly a year and hit back at the alleged change in journalism over the years. Carlson showed a clip of CNN’s Anderson Cooper giving a biased question to former Vice President loose lips liar-Joe Biden, noting that scenes like this add “up to basically partisan interference in an election.” “You have journalists who feel that their first obligation is to help a candidate or hurt another candidate. That’s not journalism,” Carlson said, and Kelly agreed, adding she doesn’t think subjective judgment should have a place in journalism. “There was a premise that the other media, the mainstream media, maybe they weren’t far left, but that there was a baked-in bias against people who believe in homeschooling, who believe in a pro-life position, who might have a gun,” Kelly said, speaking about how the media has changed and describing how Fox News began. “And so they made a whole empire based on programming to those people. I think what’s happened now on the other half of the country, on sort of the mainstream, is they have embraced it.” “It was sort of passive and now it’s active. Now it’s, ‘Let’s work. He’s too bad. We have to work together. We’ll be judged. History will judge as whether we were for or against this man Trump.'” Kelly noted this change came before voters elected Trump in 2016 and mentioned an interview she did with Jorge Ramos of Univision, who argued that journalists must become partisan and “abandon neutrality.” “He said, ‘That’s over. You’ve got to come out and you’ve got to say Trump’s a racist. Trump’s a misogynist. Trump’s a bigot. Whatever your view is, you’ve got to say it and you’ve got to sell it, and that the time for neutrality has passed,'” she recalled. “And I do believe he’s Ramos persuaded — and others have come to their own conclusion — that that’s the way forward.” https://dailycaller.com/2019/10/16/megyn-kelly-media-bias/?utm_source=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=10518

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTN4_wqsFKM

‘You’ve Already Decided There Is A Crime?’

Martha MacCallum Challenges scumbag-Eric Swalwell On Impeachment

by VIRGINIA KRUTA

{ dailycaller.com } ~ Fox News anchor Martha MacCallum repeatedly pressed Democratic California Rep. scumbag-Eric Swalwell on the impeachment process Wednesday... asking whether or not the interviews being conducted by fellow California Rep. scumbag-Adam Schiff were above board. MacCallum began with reports that scumbag-Schiff had repeatedly pressured former U.S. Special Representative for Ukraine Kurt Volker, pushing him to alter his testimony to suggest that the Ukrainians had felt coerced to investigate former Vice President loose lips liar-Joe Biden and his son Hunter. “Is it the practice of attorneys in a deposition to try and press the people who show up to explain their understanding of what happened into a different assessment than what they believe it to be? Is that the normal practice?” MacCallum asked scumbag-Swalwell. “I don’t agree that’s what happened,” scumbag-Swalwell pushed back. “Nothing that the Ambassador Volker had contradicted what President Trump said. We have a crime of extortion, we all agree that if you use that —”MacCallum interrupted, “We’re at the beginning of the process, and you’ve already decided there is a crime?” “No, no … yes. That is why we’re doing this. The crime was committed,” scumbag-Swalwell said. “We’re now looking at the suspect, the president, who confessed to the crime by the way.” “It doesn’t sound like you need much of a process then,” MacCallum shrugged. “He’s entitled to a fair process,” scumbag-Swalwell replied... https://dailycaller.com/2019/10/16/martha-maccallum-challenges-eric-swalwell-impeachment/?utm_source=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=10518

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBXjVJ6LOmY

Pompeo to visit Netanyahu Friday to offer

assurances over U.S. Syria pullout

by TOVAH LAZAROFF

{ jpost.com } ~ The US pullout of its troops from northeast Syria has not endangered Israel, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said two days before his scheduled meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday... The two men are expected to “discuss developments in Syria and the continued need to counter the Iranian regime’s destabilizing behavior in the region,” the State Department said on Wednesday. News of the meeting came amid international furor regarding the US decision to remove its troops from northeastern Syria. Prior to Netanyahu meeting, Pompeo will visit Turkey. He and Vice President Mike Pence will meet with Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan and ask him to halt his attack on the Kurds. Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, who is a strong supporter of Israel, tweeted that he worried that as a result of the pullout of US troops – a move seen as an abandonment of America’s alley the Kurds – “we will not have allies in the future against radical Islam, ISIS will reemerge, & Iran’s rise in Syria will become a nightmare for Israel. I fear this is a complete and utter national security disaster in the making and I hope President Trump will adjust his thinking.” He warned it could prove to be a worse disaster than when former US President Barack scumbag/liar-nObama left Iraq. But in an interview with Maria Bartiromo of Fox Business Network, Pompeo dismisses the idea that US strategy was bad for Israel. “You heard earlier in our montage of comments from people – the former prime minister of Israel, Ehud Barak, was in the studio earlier this week, and he said the winners in all of this are Russia, Assad, Iran, and ISIS. Is it your belief that Israel today is less safe as a result of this move?” Bartiromo asked. “No,” Pompeo responded. What is happening in northeast Syria, he said, is “a small part of our Middle East strategy,” explaining that people should focus on the larger picture, which is “the world’s largest state sponsor of terror, the Islamic Republic of Iran.”... https://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Pompeo-US-policy-on-Turkish-attack-hasnt-endangered-Israel-604871

Top Diplomat Testified That scumbag/liar-nObama Admin, Not International Community, Orchestrated Ukraine Prosecutor’s Firing

By Sean Davis

{ thefederalist.com } ~ A top U.S. diplomat and expert on Ukraine testified to Congress yesterday that the scumbag/liar-nObama administration — with former Vice President loose lips liar-Joe Biden as its point man... orchestrated the firing of the Ukrainian prosecutor who was investigating a company connected to the loose lips liar-Biden family, sources familiar with the testimony told The Federalist. The testimony of George Kent, a State Department official who works on the agency’s Ukraine portfolio, directly contradicts claims that the scumbag/liar-nObama administration was merely following the lead of the so-called international community in demanding the firing of Viktor Shokin, a controversial Ukrainian prosecutor who was reportedly investigating Burisma, a global energy company long suspected of corruption and money laundering. In 2014, Burisma paid Hunter Biden, loose lips liar-Joe Biden’s son, tens of thousands of dollars to sit on its board despite the younger Biden’s complete lack of expertise or professional experience running a multi-national oil and gas concern. Kent told lawmakers on Tuesday that the scumbag/liar-nObama administration spearheaded the efforts to have Shokin removed from his position as the top federal prosecutor in Ukraine. Kent said the international community — namely the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and Western nations within the European Union — were deferential to U.S. directives on the matter. At a 2018 event organized by the Council on Foreign Relations, loose lips liar-Joe Biden — who was tasked by then-President Barack scumbag/liar-nObama to lead the U.S. government’s efforts in Ukraine — bragged about threatening to withhold a billion-dollar loan guarantee if the Ukrainian government refused to fire Shokin. “I said, I’m telling you, you’re not getting the billion dollars,” loose lips liar-Biden said. “I said, you’re not getting the billion. I’m going to be leaving here in, I think it was about six hours.” “I looked at them and said, ‘I’m leaving in six hours,’” loose lips liar-Biden recalled. “If the prosecutor is not fired, you’re not getting the money. Well, son of a b-tch. He got fired. And they put in place someone who was solid at the time.” After Shokin was fired, he was replaced by Yuri Lutsenko, who also has been dogged by allegations of corruption. The scumbag/liar-nObama administration never demanded Lutsenko’s ouster, despite worries that Lutsenko was similarly corrupt and untrustworthy. Allies of loose lips liar-Biden, who is currently vying for the Democratic presidential nomination, have defended the former vice president from charges of improperly taking official actions that could financially benefit his son by claiming that the international community, rather than loose lips liar-Biden and the scumbag/liar-nObama administration, were behind the efforts to get rid of Shokin. Kent’s testimony, however, indicates it was loose lips liar-Biden and the scumbag/liar-nObama administration who were running the show, not the so-called international community... https://thefederalist.com/2019/10/16/top-diplomat-testified-that-obama-admin-not-international-community-orchestrated-ukraine-prosecutors-firing/?utm_source=The+Federalist+List&utm_campaign=b81cd6f718-RSS_The_Federalist_Daily_Updates_w_Transom&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_cfcb868ceb-b81cd6f718-83771801

Why It Matters That Sidney Powell Wants

Data From Joseph Mifsud’s Smartphones

By Margot Cleveland

{ thefederalist.com } ~ On Tuesday, attorney Sidney Powell struck again, revealing yet another huge development in the Spygate saga between the lines of her latest motion... That motion, filed in the still-pending criminal case against Trump’s former national security advisor, Michael Flynn, demanded exculpatory evidence from federal prosecutors. But unlike her previously filed motion to compel, here Powell seeks evidence “that has only recently come into its possession.” And the evidence sought? The data and metadata from two Blackberry devices used by Joseph Mifsud. While Powell’s latest motion barely equaled two pages, the implications are multi-pronged and monumental. That the U.S. government has only recently obtained possession of a pair of smartphones used by Joseph Mifsud tells us two things: that Attorney General William Barr and U.S. Attorney John Dunham’s probe into the origins of the Russia-collusion hoax is both serious and successful, and that the Crossfire Hurricane targeting of President Trump and former special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation were neither. After all, Mifsud was the man whose tip to young Trump volunteer advisor George Papadopoulos, that the Russians had dirt on scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton, supposedly formed the basis for the FBI to launch Crossfire Hurricane’s targeting of the Trump campaign in late July 2016. Yet no one bothered to interview Mifsud until six months later, when he traveled to D.C. to speak at a conference sponsored by the State Department. And then the FBI let him go, later blaming Papadopoulos for their inability to properly question the purported Russian agent. Mueller seemed equally uninterested in Mifsud—a strange position to take toward a putative enemy agent... https://thefederalist.com/2019/10/17/why-it-matters-that-sidney-powell-wants-data-from-joseph-mifsuds-smartphones/?utm_source=The+Federalist+List&utm_campaign=b81cd6f718-RSS_The_Federalist_Daily_Updates_w_Transom&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_cfcb868ceb-b81cd6f718-83771801

ABC News Caught Promulgating Fake News

Thomas Gallatin: When a news organization’s primary commitment is to reinforce a desired narrative rather than presenting an honest and accurate account of facts relevant to an event, then that “news” organization is guilty of biased reporting, if not outright propaganda. Two recent news reports serve to demonstrate the fact that this is what the mainstream news media has become. The first and most egregious instance comes from ABC News, which aired video footage during which a reporter asserted, “This video, obtained by ABC News, appears to show the fury of the Turkish attack on the border town of Tal Abyad.” The problem is that was not what the video footage depicted, rather the footage of heavy machine-gun fire amidst a series of explosions was actually taken from a 2017 event at the Knob Creek Gun Range in Kentucky. It had no relation whatsoever to the events in Syria.

Only after ABC was alerted to this gross “mistake” did it remove the video and release a statement on social media: “CORRECTION: We’ve taken down video that aired on ‘World News Tonight’ Sunday and ‘Good Morning America’ this morning that appeared to be from the Syrian border immediately after questions were raised about its accuracy. ABC News regrets the error.” ABC failed to explain why the footage in question was aired but promised to investigate.

There appear to be two possible explanations for how this “mistake” could have occurred. The first is that it was not a mistake at all, but an intentional decision to deceive with the assumption that no one would know it was fake. Besides, the Turkish military had indeed just engaged in operations in northern Syria. But the second and probable reason is confirmation bias. ABC News is committed to the anti-Trump narrative, and the video footage seemed to support that narrative. Therefore, no due diligence was done to verify its accuracy.

The second example of the MSM pushing narrative over news comes from the story of a meme video depicting President Donald Trump violently killing individuals portrayed as the MSM in a church. The meme was adapted from a 2014 movie scene. While the White House, the Trump campaign, and everyone working with the president roundly condemned the parody video — most having never seen it or heard of it before the MSM reported on it — the narrative presented by the likes of The New York Times is that Trump is still culpable because fringe Trump supporters created it. The Times lectures, “The connections underscore how the president’s escalating war on what he calls the ‘fake news’ media has elevated people from the far-right fringe into allies who defend Mr. Trump with extreme language and images.”

Tellingly, the MSM refuses to hold Democrats, the Left, and even themselves to the same standards they use to loudly castigate Trump. Did the Times take any responsibility for sowing discord by its overwhelmingly negative coverage of the president, which in turn motivated Kathy Griffin to post an image of herself holding a bloody decapitated head of Trump? Has the MSM backed off its repeated promulgation of fake and biased news? Americans don’t distrust the news media because of Trump; they distrust the media because the media has failed to live up to the standards of genuinely objective journalism. ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/66121?mailing_id=4588&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4588&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

Thurs/Med AM ~ thefrontpagecover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on October 17, 2019 at 9:57am

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

Barr: America's Religious

Foundation Is Crumbling

Nate Jackson

Thursday Top News Executive Summary

Media Editors: Above the Fold

RIP: Powerful Democrat congressman Elijah Cummings has died of complications from longstanding health problems (Associated Press)

POLITICAL THEATER: Democrats storm out of Syria meeting with Trump: “We have to pray for his health” (Fox News)

Government & Politics

FRAUD, PART I: Estimated cost of commie-Sanders/ dinky/liar-Warren healthcare plan rises to an inevitably still conservative estimate of $34 trillion (Washington Examiner)

FRAUD, PART II: Elizabeth dinky/liar-Warren scrubs DNA test video from Twitter (The Washington Free Beacon)

FRAUD, PART III: worthless-Ilhan Omar continues to divert campaign funds to alleged boyfriend’s company (The Daily Caller)

National Security

AID RESTORED: Trump administration to reinstate aid to Central American countries that signed asylum deals (The Daily Caller)

GAME OF CHESS: Turkey’s NATO status complicates U.S. response to Erdogan’s Syria incursion (The Washington Times)

Culture & Heartland

SANITY PICK-SIX: Youth football coach faces possible $500 fine for team’s blowout win (NBC Philadelphia)

PLOT TWIST: Cop who fatally shot black woman wasn’t sent on welfare check (New York Post)

Other Notables

BREXIT DEAL DOA? “Negotiators from the U.K. and EU reached a draft Brexit deal in 11th-hour talks Thursday, although there are serious doubts that the agreement will be approved by U.K. lawmakers back in Westminster.” (CNBC)

Closing Arguments

POLICY: U.S. must prevent rise of new ISIS caliphate in Syria following our troop withdrawal (The Daily Signal)

POLICY: House Democrats’ new bill would drive up college costs even further (The Daily Signal)

HUMOR: In response to question about raising taxes, Elizabeth dinky/liar-Warren comes out as a gay man (The Babylon Bee)

~The Patriot Post
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House Oversight Committee Chairman

Elijah Cummings dies suddenly at 68

by Keith Koffler

{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ House Oversight Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings died early Thursday in Baltimore at the age of 68... The Maryland Democrat, who was helping lead the impeachment inquiry into President Trump, died due to complications from long-standing health problems, according to the Associated Press. He has also led several other investigations into the president and frequently sparred with the administration. Cummings, the son of a sharecropper, was born on Jan. 18, 1951, in Baltimore. He attended Howard University in Washington, D.C. The five-time congressman from Maryland's 7th District was first elected to the House in 1996. After several terms as ranking member, he became the chairman of the oversight panel when Democrats took control of the House in January. Cummings, who was also a former chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus, reportedly underwent an unspecified medical procedure and did not return to his office this week. He died at Johns Hopkins Hospital. He was married to Maya Rockeymoore Cummings, who is the chairwoman of the Maryland Democratic Party. Sorry to hear of his passing. https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/house-oversight-chairman-elijah-cummings-is-dead-at-68?utm_source=breaking_push&utm_medium=app&utm_campaign=push_notifications&utm_source=WEX_Breaking%20News%20Alert_10/17/2019&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WEX_Breaking%20News&rid=5261

VIDEO: https://video.foxnews.com/v/6095552550001/#sp=show-clips

The Trouble with ‘Renewable’ Energy

By BENJAMIN ZYCHER

{ nationalreview.com } ~ Renewable” electricity — predominantly wind and solar power — is all the rage, described by numerous commentators, politicians, pundits, journalists, and other such “experts” as cost-competitive, clean, and a major part of the solution... to the “existential crisis” now purportedly looming large as an attendant effect of anthropogenic climate change. A massive expansion of wind and solar power is a central component of the various proposals subsumed under the heading “Green New Deal” (GND), which has faded from the headlines for now, but which is very likely to return to prominence as next year’s presidential race intensifies. Notwithstanding the romantic view of wind and solar power held by many, they are not cost-competitive, they are very far from clean, and they would do remarkably little to limit greenhouse-gas emissions and anthropogenic climate change, the “crisis” view of which is unsupported by the evidence. Several available analyses show that a major expansion of wind and solar power would increase the emissions of such conventional pollutants as carbon monoxide. Even apart from those problems, the renewable-electricity component of the GND is unworkable as a matter of straightforward electrical engineering, unless one believes that the American electorate will accept constant and widespread blackouts. In the larger context, the opposition to conventional energy that is the core of the GND is fundamentally anti-human, because one major implication of the opposition to fossil fuels is an aversion to increases in the value of human capital and other parameters that have the effect of increasing the demand for conventional energy. Moreover, the authoritarian implications of the GND are serious, however unnoticed. High costs are a major problem with wind and solar power. First, wind flows and sunlight are intermittent: Power generation from windmills and solar panels cannot be scheduled in advance, because the sun does not always shine and the wind does not always blow. This means that wind and solar “capacity factors” — the percentage of the time that wind and solar units actually produce electricity — are much lower than those for such conventional units as coal, gas, and nuclear, new installations of which have capacity factors of 85–90 percent. For onshore wind units, the figure is 40 percent or less, and it is 30 percent or less for solar facilities. Note that a massive expansion of wind and solar power as envisioned in the GND would drive those numbers downward, because the sites with the best wind and sunlight conditions are developed first, with new wind and solar farms necessarily sited at increasingly unfavorable locations. Accordingly, the wind- and solar-power industries would experience scale diseconomies — rising average costs — as more such capacity was added to the market... https://www.nationalreview.com/magazine/2019/10/28/the-trouble-with-renewable-energy/#slide-1

Why Are Palestinians 'Disappearing'

in Saudi Arabia?

by Khaled Abu Toame

{ gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ Dozens of Palestinians have been "disappearing" in Saudi Arabia in recent months and are believed are being held in detention in the kingdom's prisons... according to Palestinian sources and international human rights organizations. The Palestinian Authority (PA) leadership in the West Bank, which regularly condemns Israel for arresting Palestinians suspected of involvement in terrorism and other anti-Israel activities, has been reluctant to speak out against the Saudi purge of Palestinians, ostensibly for security reasons, not to harm its relations with the kingdom. The PA is not only keeping mum about the unprecedented Saudi crackdown, but it is also trying to prevent the families of the detainees from protesting in public. Last week, the PA's Preventive Security Service summoned the family of Palestinian engineer Abdullah Odeh, being held in a Saudi prison, and warned them not to protest their son's detention. Odeh's family was planning to arrive at a football match between Saudi Arabia's national soccer team and the Palestinian national soccer team as part of the World Cup qualifier held on October 15 near the West Bank city of Ramallah. The family was warned that they would be beaten and arrested if they arrived at the Faisal al-Husseini Football Stadium to protest their son's incarceration in Saudi Arabia. Additionally, the family was ordered to remove all social media posts denouncing the arrest of Odeh and calling for his release. Odeh's brother, Baraa, wrote on his Facebook page on September 6: "My brother, engineer Abdullah Odeh, has been held in a Saudi prison for the past month and we don't know anything about him. This is not how a prisoner should be treated in an Islamic country."... https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/15035/saudi-arabia-palestinians-disappearing

Coast Guard Focused On Being Sea-Based In

Arctic As Merits Of Deep-Water Port Debated

By Ben Werner

{ news.usni.org } ~ For now, the Coast Guard is focused on being sea-based in the high latitudes even as talk of building a deep-water Arctic port gains support in Washington... On Capitol Hill, Alaska’s lawmakers have for years highlighted the attributes for building a deep-water port in the Arctic. Retreating ice in the region is causing maritime traffic to increase as mineral resources are newly accessible. Lawmakers also cite an uptick in Russian Arctic activity as increasing the strategic need for such a facility. For the Coast Guard, a proposed fleet of six heavy icebreakers will provide the service with the resources needed to fulfill its Arctic missions, Adm. Karl Schultz, the commandant of the Coast Guard, told USNI News after speaking at an event co-hosted by the Center for Strategic and International Studies and the U.S. Naval Institute. “Karl Schultz’s view, as 26th commandant: we will sea-base our Alaska operations moving towards the Arctic,” Shultz said. The idea of establishing a deep-water Arctic port is something Schultz said merits discussion. However, he explained such discussions should involve several government entities, including Congress, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the Department of Defense, and Alaska state agencies. Deep-water Arctic port proposals have circulated around Washington for at least two decades, according to a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers 2015 draft report. A deep-water Arctic port is needed to accommodate predicted increased commercial maritime traffic, the report states. The report also spells out strategic reasons for the military to support the proposed port...

https://news.usni.org/2019/10/16/coast-guard-focused-on-being-sea-based-in-arctic-as-merits-of-deep-water-port-debated?utm_source=USNI+News&utm_campaign=a811d11b6e-USNI_NEWS_DAILY&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_0dd4a1450b-a811d11b6e-231491269&mc_cid=a811d11b6e&mc_eid=3999f18767

Afghanistan Wants Partnership with US Military

Even as Relationship, Conditions Evolve

By John Grady

{ news.usni.org } ~ Kabul’s ambassador to Washington said “passing statements” about U.S. withdrawal or peace talks with the Taliban made in American political campaigns are “not helpful”... in setting Afghanistan on the pathway to a future as functioning democratic republic. Speaking Wednesday at the Atlantic Council in Washington, D.C., Roya Rahmani said in answer to several questions, “we want the United States to look at us … as partners over the last 18 years.” The major change: “now it is not the Americans fighting” the Taliban or the Islamic State in Afghanistan, she said. Rather, the Afghan security forces are in the lead militarily, as part of a strategy developed several years ago in coordination the United States and NATO. “We could talk about this as a success story.” The ambassador added Afghanistan “is an important part of your foreign policy. We have a rapidly changing environment” inside Afghanistan that includes shifting mindsets over the role of women in society. Rahmani was speaking against the backdrop of the sudden announcement of the American withdrawal of forces from northeast Syria, where they had been working alongside the Syrian Democratic Front against the Islamic State. That sudden withdrawal raised new questions about U.S. commitment to stay in Afghanistan. Even before the U.S. forces pulled out, Turkish aircraft and artillery struck targets in the northern part of Syria, and Turkish ground forces pushed forward to establish a buffer zone where up to 1 million refugees would be relocated. Ahead of an Afghan election last month, President Donald Trump abruptly canceled a secret Camp David meeting where members of the Taliban and the Afghan government and the administration would work out the final details of a peace agreement ending the American military involvement in Afghanistan. Rahmani cited the success of the 70,000 Afghan security forces who ensured the safety of voters in the Sept. 28 presidential election as another example of the difference this year from previous national votes, when the United States and coalition forces played a major role in keeping the peace on voting day...

https://news.usni.org/2019/10/16/afghanistan-wants-partnership-with-us-military-even-as-relationship-conditions-evolve?utm_source=USNI+News&utm_campaign=a811d11b6e-USNI_NEWS_DAILY&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_0dd4a1450b-a811d11b6e-231491269&mc_cid=a811d11b6e&mc_eid=3999f18767

What should the West do as

UN arms embargo on Iran ends in 2020?

by Behnam Ben Taleblu and Andrea Stricker

{ fdd.org } ~ The Islamic Republic of Iran has consistently proven how much damage it can cause without having access to high-tech military equipment and formal arms markets... The past few months are indeed instructive. Under a slashed defense budget and outmatched in terms of regional military spending, Iran still managed to turn-up the heat without inviting kinetic reprisal. Western powers and Saudi Arabia have concluded Iran was behind the attack on Saudi oil installations with drones and cruise missiles, used mines to damage tankers, seized ships in the Persian Gulf, shot down a U.S. drone over international waters, engaged in hostage diplomacy, escalated its nuclear program, and broadened the scope of mayhem in Iraq, Lebanon, Syria, and Yemen through its partners and proxies. Now imagine what improved Iranian military capabilities might mean for the future. Next October, on the fifth anniversary of the Iran nuclear deal, or Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action’s (JCPOA) so-called “Adoption Day,” an international embargo on military-related transfers to and from Iran will end. Before this happens, Washington can take action to extend the UN-based arms embargo, as well as reinforce its policy of sanctioning Iranian arms transfers. The sooner, the better. The Islamic Republic has faced U.S. sanctions, including an arms embargo, since 1984 – the year Washington put Tehran on the “state sponsors of terrorism” list. These penalties helped impede Iran’s modernization, following the bloody 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq War, of military systems that used American technology. But starting in 2006, when the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Board of Governors voted to refer Tehran’s nuclear file to the UN Security Council (UNSC), the country was increasingly subject to multilateral sanctions, and eventually, a global ban on all imports and exports of arms and military-related equipment. These penalties were scaled back in 2015 as part of UNSC Resolution 2231, which codified the nuclear deal and set the five-year timeline for a complete lifting of the arms embargo. The decision to relieve international pressure on Iran’s military-related procurement and proliferation functioned like a sweetener in the final stages of negotiations with Tehran. Notably, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff at the time of the negotiations, Gen. Martin Dempsey, categorically opposed any concession on military and arms exports. Yet Tehran insisted, so the five-year clock started ticking... https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2019/10/16/what-should-the-west-do-as-un-arms-embargo-on-iran-ends-in-2020/

Barr: America's Religious Foundation

Is Crumbling

Nate Jackson: “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other,” said John Adams in 1798. Some things don’t change, even after 221 years, and Attorney General William Barr quoted Adams to say so in a stellar speech at Notre Dame about American politics and our crumbling moral foundation.

Barr, a devout Catholic, made the case that modern Americans have replaced dependency on God with dependency on government. He also argued that modern secularists are not merely non-religious; they are outright hostile to religion.

“The campaign to destroy the traditional moral order has coincided [with] — and I believe has brought with it — immense suffering and misery,” Barr asserted. “And yet the forces of secularism, ignoring these tragic results, press on with even greater militancy.”

He wondered, “Among the militant secularists are many so-called progressives. But where is the progress?” Worse, he implied regression: “The secular project has itself become a religion, pursued with religious fervor. It is taking on all the trappings of religion, including inquisitions and excommunication. Those who defy the creed risk a figurative burning at the stake — social, educational, and professional ostracism and exclusion waged through lawsuits and savage social-media campaigns.”

In any case, says Barr, the government is a poor substitute for true religion. “Today, in the face of all the increasing pathologies, instead of addressing the underlying cause, we have cast the state in the role of the Alleviator of Bad Consequences,” he said. “We call on the state to mitigate the social costs of personal misconduct and irresponsibility.”

“So, the reaction to growing illegitimacy is not sexual responsibility, but abortion. The reaction to drug addiction is safe injection sites. The solution to the breakdown of the family is for the state to set itself up as an ersatz husband for the single mother and an ersatz father for the children. The call comes for more and more social programs to deal with this wreckage. And while we think we’re solving problems, we are underwriting them. We start with an untrammeled freedom and we end up as dependents of a coercive state on whom we depend.”

Humans were created to worship our Creator. When we refuse to do so, we don’t worship nothing; we worship something else. That explains the contentiousness over who controls the levers of power in Big Government. If it’s not the leftists’ man in power, their very religion has been infiltrated. Hence their crusade to burn the heretics. ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/66120?mailing_id=4588&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4588&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

The Most Dangerous and Treacherous Times in U.S. History! (Part 102H)

Posted by Jake Martinez on October 17, 2019 at 8:00am

Please Read Part 102G:

The Most Dangerous and Treacherous Times in U.S. History! (Part 102G)-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On October 2, 2019:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-most-dangerous-and-treacherous-times-in-u-s-history-part-102g

The following recent thought-provoking article revealed that a 'Wall Street Journal columnist recently wrecked the Democrats' 'Trump-Ukraine' impeachment claims'-You Decide:

Popcorn: WSJ Columnist Wrecks The Democrats' Trump-Ukraine Impeachment Claims!-Posted on Townhall-By Matt Vespa/@mvespa1-On October 16, 2019:

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2019/10/16/popcorn-wsj-columnist-wrecks-the-democrats-trump-ukraine-impeachment-claims-n2554627

Note: I believe that the disturbing information revealed in the following articles and video relates to and/or further supports the disturbing information revealed in the above thought-provoking article-You Decide:

Schiff pushed Volker to say Ukraine felt pressure from Trump!-Posted on The Washington Examiner-By Byron York-On October 16, 2019:

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/schiff-pressed-volker-to-say-ukraine-felt-pressure-from-trump

The Incredible Vanishing Whistleblower!-Posted on CNSNews.com-By L. Brent Bozell III and Tim Graham-On October 16, 2019:

https://www.cnsnews.com/commentary/l-brent-bozell-iii/incredible-vanishing-whistleblower

Jim Jordan: Americans Have Right to Know Identity of Biased Whistleblower with No 1st-Hand Knowledge!-Posted on CNSNews.com-By Craig Bannister-On October 17, 2019:

https://www.cnsnews.com/blog/craig-bannister/jim-jordan-americans-have-right-know-identity-biased-whistleblower-no-1st-hand

Pelosi announces House won't vote 'at this time' on authorizing impeachment inquiry: The speaker insists, 'There's no requirement that we have a vote!'-Posted on The Blaze-By Breck Dumas-On October 15, 2019:

https://www.theblaze.com/news/pelosi-announces-house-wont-vote-at-this-time-on-authorizing-impeachment-inquiry

‘A Total Sham’: Pelosi Blasted for Putting off Vote on Impeachment Inquiry!-Posted on Independent Journal Review-By Madison Summers-On October 16, 2019:

https://ijr.com/house-republicans-blast-pelosi-vote-impeachment-inquiry/

pelosi

Video: The California Democratic Communists Suffer a Humiliating Setback!-Posted on The Common Sense Show-By Dave Hodges-On October 17, 2019:

https://thecommonsenseshow.com/activism-conspiracy-martial-law/california-democratic-communists-suffer-humiliating-setback

“Grand Jury” Increasingly Invoked as to Current House “Impeachment Inquiry.” What Are The President’s “Constitutional Rights!”-Posted on The Post & Email-By Sharon Rondeau-On October 16, 2019:

https://www.thepostemail.com/2019/10/16/grand-jury-increasingly-invoked-as-to-current-house-impeachment-inquiry/

Pelosi: 'The Voters Are Not Going to Decide' Impeachment Issue!-Posted on CNSNews.com-By Susan Jones-On October 17, 2019:

https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/susan-jones/pelosi-voters-are-not-going-decide-impeachment-issue

McConnell on Impeachment: 'We'll Take the Matter Up'!-Posted on CNSNews.com-By Susan Jones-On October 17, 2019:

https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/susan-jones/mcconnell-impeachment-well-take-matter

Elijah Cummings, head of U.S. House oversight panel probing Trump, has died!-Posted on Independent Journal Review-By Reuters-On October 17, 2019:

https://ijr.com/elijah-cummings-has-died/

Rudy Giuliani

Key U.S. diplomat underscores role of Trump lawyer Giuliani in Ukraine scandal!-Posted on Independent Journal Review-By Reuters-On October 17, 2019:

https://ijr.com/key-diplomat-underscores-role-giuliani-ukraine-scandal/

Now the Deep State Is Calling Trump’s Attorney a “National Security Threat”!-Posted on Restoring Liberty-On October 18, 2019:

https://joemiller.us/2019/10/now-the-deep-state-is-calling-trumps-attorney-a-national-security-threat/

WASHINGTON - JANUARY 30: (AFP OUT) U.S. President Barack Obama (L) greets Vice President Joe Biden (C) and his son Hunter Biden as they attend the game between the Duke Blue Devils and Georgetown Hoyas on January 30, 2010 at the Verizon Center in Washington, DC. (Photo by Alexis C. …

Impeachment Probe: State Official Testified Obama Admin Knew Ukraine Company Burisma Was Corrupt!-Posted on Breitbart.com-By Edwin Mora-On October 17, 2019:

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/10/16/impeachment-probe-state-official-testified-obama-admin-knew-ukraine-company-burisma-was-corrupt/

FILE - In this Oct. 3, 2019 file photo, Kurt Volker, a former special envoy to Ukraine, leaves a closed-door interview with House investigators as House Democrats proceed with the impeachment investigation of President Donald Trump, at the Capitol in Washington. In a statement Monday, Oct. 7 issued by the …

Ex-Ukraine Envoy Testifies: ‘I Was Never Asked to Do Anything’ Wrong!-Posted on Breitbart.com-By Edwin Mora-On October 17, 2019:

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/10/17/ex-ukraine-envoy-testifies-i-was-never-asked-to-do-anything-wrong/

WASHINGTON, DC - OCTOBER 16: P. Michael McKinley (C), former senior adviser to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, walks away from a closed door hearing at the U.S. Capitol October 16, 2019 in Washington, DC. McKinley testified before the House Intelligence, Foreign Affairs and Oversight committees as part of the …

Ex-Pompeo Adviser with No Direct Knowledge on Ukraine Testifies in Impeachment Probe!-Posted on Breitbart.com-By Edwin Mora-On October 17, 2019:

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/10/17/ex-pompeo-adviser-with-no-direct-knowledge-on-ukraine-testifies-in-impeachment-probe/

Rep. Ratcliffe: Inquiry 'Baseless' Without Quid Pro Quo Proof!-Posted on NewsMax.com-By Sandy Fitzgerald-On October 18, 2019:

https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/john-ratcliffe-impeachment-quid-pro-quo-proof/2019/10/18/id/937733/

Report: Schiff Tried To Strong-Arm Kurt Volker but It Backfired When Volker Exposed Schiff Instead!-Posted on The Western Journal-By C. Douglas Golden-On October 18, 2019:

https://www.westernjournal.com/report-schiff-tried-strong-arm-kurt-volker-backfired-volker-exposed-schiff-instead/

House Intel Republicans: Schiff Is Hiding Impeachment Documents!-Posted on Freedom Outpost-By Alicia Luke-On October 18, 2019:

https://freedomoutpost.com/house-intel-republicans-schiff-is-hiding-impeachment-documents/

Rep. Jackie Speier: 'We're Hearing Conflicting Recall of What Actually Took Place' With Ukraine!-Posted on CNSNews.com-By Susan Jones-On October 18, 2019:

https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/susan-jones/rep-jackie-speier-were-hearing-conflicting-recall-what-actually-took-place

Nancy Pelosi Compares Impeaching Trump to the American Revolution!-Posted on The Western Journal-By C. Douglas Golden-On October 18, 2019:

https://www.westernjournal.com/nancy-pelosi-compares-impeaching-trump-american-revolution/

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“None Of Us Came to Congress to Impeach a President,” Pelosi Lies!-Posted on Front Page Magazine-By Daniel Greenfield-On October 18, 2019:

https://cms.frontpagemag.com/point/2019/10/none-us-came-congress-impeach-president-pelosi-daniel-greenfield

Trump Threatens CNN with Lawsuit After Undercover Video Emerges!-Posted on The Western Journal-By Bradley Evans-On October 18, 2019:

https://www.westernjournal.com/trump-threatens-cnn-lawsuit-undercover-video-emerges/

Trump vs. CNN. Will CNN Have To Pay Damages For Biased Coverage?-Posted on The Post & Email-By Jeff Crouere-On October 19, 2019:

https://www.thepostemail.com/2019/10/19/trump-vs-cnn/

Impeachment Depositions

Fishing: House Democrats Impeachment Lawyer Suggests Probe May Extend Beyond Ukraine!-Posted on Breitbart.com-By Edwin Mora-On October 18, 2019:

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/10/18/fishing-house-democrats-impeachment-lawyer-suggests-probe-may-extend-beyond-ukraine/

NEW YORK, NY - OCTOBER 05: Democratic Representative Adam Schiff speaks during The 2018 New Yorker Festival - Andy Borowitz Brings His Popular Column, The Borowitz Report, To Life Onstage Featuring Democratic Representative Adam Schiff From California at Ethical Culture on October 5, 2018 in New York City. (Photo by …

173 House Republicans Move to Condemn Adam Schiff as Floor Vote Approaches!-Posted on Breitbart.com-By Sean Moran-On October 18, 2019:

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/10/18/173-house-republicans-move-to-condemn-adam-schiff-as-floor-vote-approaches/

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Report raises questions about possible forgery by Elijah Cummings’ staff!-Posted on Patriot News Alerts-By Jerry McCormick-On October 18, 2019:

https://www.patriotnewsalerts.com/report-raises-questions-cummings/

Depraved Schiff and Lackeys Hold Anti-Trump Hearings in Secret; Pelosi Pulls Plug on Floor Vote!-Posted on News With Views, NWV Senior Political News Writer, Jim Kouri-On October 21, 2019:

http://newswithviews.com/depraved-schiff-and-lackeys-hold-anti-trump-hearings-in-secret-pelosi-pulls-plug-on-floor-vote/

Wallace grills Pompeo

FNC’s Wallace: ‘Well-Connected Republican’ Said 20% Chance GOP Will Vote for Impeachment!-Posted on Breitbart.com-By Pam Key-On October 20, 2019:

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2019/10/20/fncs-wallace-well-connected-republican-said-20-chance-gop-will-vote-for-impeachment/

Steve Bannon: Trump will be impeached in next 6 weeks and Hillary will run again!-Posted on BizPac Review-By Samantha Chang-On October 20, 2019:

https://www.bizpacreview.com/2019/10/20/steve-bannon-trump-will-be-impeached-in-next-6-weeks-and-hillary-will-run-again-841596

Pompeo: Schiff’s ‘Kangaroo Court’ Is ‘Deeply Unfair;’ ‘We’re Not Able to Protect the United States’!-Posted on CNSNews.com-By Craig Bannister-On October 21, 2019:

https://www.cnsnews.com/blog/craig-bannister/pompeo-schiffs-kangaroo-court-deeply-unfair-were-not-able-protect-united-states

Scalise Introduces ‘Open and Transparent Impeachment Investigation Resolution’!-Posted on CNSNews.com-By Craig Bannister-On October 18, 2019:

https://www.cnsnews.com/blog/craig-bannister/scalise-introduces-open-and-transparent-impeachment-investigation-resolution

McCarthy: Pelosi to Trump: “You Just Wait to See What We Do.” “UNBECOMING OF A SPEAKER!”-Posted on The Post & Email-By Sharon Rondeau-On October 20, 2019:

https://www.thepostemail.com/2019/10/20/mccarthy-pelosi-to-trump-you-just-wait-to-see-what-we-do/

Republicans excoriate Democrats after they defeat resolution to censure Adam Schiff: "Chairman Schiff has fallen short in his duty...!"-Posted on The Blaze-By Carlos Garcia-On October 21, 2019:

https://www.theblaze.com/news/breaking-democrats-defeat-resolution-to-censure-adam-schiff-over-parody-quote-of-trump

Reader Contacts U.S. Senator about Obama’s “Usurpation of the Presidency by Fraud.” Author Of “Imposters” Calls Out Obama, House “Impeachment” Of Trump!-Posted on The Post & Email-By Sharon Rondeau-On October 21, 2019:

https://www.thepostemail.com/2019/10/21/reader-contacts-u-s-senator-about-obamas-usurpation-of-the-presidency-by-fraud/

Pelosi's Fact-Free Sheet on Impeachment: The big picture is that Democrats have discredited impeachment as a viable solution!-Posted on The Patriot Post-By Nate Jackson-On October 22, 2019:

https://patriotpost.us/articles/66266-pelosis-fact-free-sheet-on-impeachment-2019-10-22?mailing_id=4602&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4602&utm_campaign=digest&utm_content=body

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Pelosi’s Disinformation Campaign: House Speaker issues bogus “fact sheet” full of blatant distortions!-Posted on Front Page Magazine-By Joseph Klein-On October 23, 2019:

https://cms.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2019/10/pelosis-disinformation-campaign-joseph-klein

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., speaks at the 2019 Democratic women's leadership forum, Thursday, Oct. 17, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

'Do-nothing Congress': Pelosi, Dems produce more subpoenas than laws!-Posted on The Washington Times-By Stephen Dinan and Gabriella Muñoz, The Washington Times-On October 22, 2019:

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/oct/22/nancy-pelosi-democrats-produce-more-subpoenas-laws/

WASHINGTON, DC - JULY 17: House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) speaks during a news conference with Democratic members of the House Intelligence Committee about the Trump-Putin Helsinki summit in the U.S. Capitol Visitors Center July 17, 2018 in Washington, DC. Past and present members of the committee were very …

Reports: Democrats Forced to Extend Impeachment Proceedings into Christmas Season!-Posted on Breitbart.com-By Edwin Mora-On October 22, 2019:

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/10/22/reports-democrats-forced-to-extend-impeachment-proceedings-into-christmas-season/

Minority Whip Steve Scalise speaks alongside fellow Republicans during a press conference on Capitol Hill

Video: GOP Intelligence Committee Members Sound The Alarm On How Secretly Dems Are Leading The Impeachment Process!-Posted on DailyWire.com-By Molly Prince-On October 22, 2019:

https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-gop-intelligence-committee-members-sound-the-alarm-on-how-secretly-dems-are-leading-the-impeachment-process

Trump Warns Democrats on Dangerous Precedent They're Setting With Impeachment!-Posted on PJ Media-By Matt Margolis-On October 22, 2019:

https://pjmedia.com/trending/trump-warns-democrats-on-dangerous-precedent-theyre-setting-with-impeachment/

President Donald Trump

Trump: 'You Can't Have Quid Pro Quo With No Quo'!-Posted on NewsMax.com-By Brian Freeman-On October 23, 2019:

https://www.newsmax.com/politics/trump-ukraine-impeachment/2019/10/23/id/938300/

'He Didn't Break the Law': Newt Gingrich Weighs In on Impeachment During 'The View'!-Posted on The Western Journal-By Erin Coates-On October 22, 2019:

https://www.westernjournal.com/didnt-break-law-newt-gingrich-weighs-impeachment-view/

Orchestrated Impeachment Inquiry Still Flailing: U.S. ambassador to Ukraine claims Trump pressured Zelensky into investigating Biden!-Posted on The Patriot Post-By Thomas Gallatin-On October 23, 2019:

https://patriotpost.us/articles/66300-orchestrated-impeachment-inquiry-still-flailing-2019-10-23?mailing_id=4604&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4604&utm_campaign=digest&utm_content=body

The Associated Press

Ironic Twist: Democrats’ Impeachment Probe Interfering in Ongoing Presidential Race!-Posted on Breitbart.com-By Edwin Mora-On October 22, 2019:

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/10/22/ironic-twist-democrats-impeachment-probe-interfering-in-ongoing-presidential-race/

Support for Impeaching Trump Soars among Independents: Reuters/Ipsos Poll!-Posted on Independent Journal Review-By Reuters-On October 23, 2019:

https://ijr.com/support-impeaching-trump-soars-independents/

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Republicans Storm Closed Impeachment Proceeding!-Posted on The Political Insider-By Shelby Talcott, Daily Caller-On October 23, 2019:

https://thepoliticalinsider.com/republicans-storm-closed-impeachment-proceeding/

Schiff Flees as Fed-Up GOP Lawmakers Storm Secure Impeachment Hearing Room!-Posted on The Western Journal-By Jared Harris-On October 23, 2019:

https://www.westernjournal.com/schiff-flees-fed-gop-lawmakers-storm-secure-impeachment-hearing-room/?ff_source=Email&ff_medium=wcjemail&ff_campaign=CAN&ff_content=2019-10-24

Schiff Threatened GOP With “Ethics” Punishments After They Stormed Impeachment Hearings!-Posted on Freedom Outpost-By Alicia Luke-On October 23, 2019:

https://freedomoutpost.com/schiff-threatened-gop-with-ethics-punishments-after-they-stormed-impeachment-hearings/

Republicans Expose Dems' Impeachment Secrecy: House Republicans storm the closed-door testimony of Pentagon official Laura Cooper!-Posted on The Patriot Post-By Thomas Gallatin-On October 24, 2019:

https://patriotpost.us/articles/66325-republicans-expose-dems-impeachment-secrecy?mailing_id=4607&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4607&utm_campaign=digest&utm_content=body

Trump Lawyer Says POTUS Can’t Be Prosecuted While In Office, Even For Shooting Someone!-Posted on The Political Insider-By Chuck Ross, Daily Caller-On October 23, 2019:

https://thepoliticalinsider.com/trump-lawyer-says-potus-cant-be-prosecuted-while-in-office-even-for-shooting-someone/

Lindsey Graham Calls for Senate to Dismiss Impeachment ‘Inquiry’!-Posted on Freedom Outpost-By Andrew West-On October 23, 2019:

https://freedomoutpost.com/lindsey-graham-calls-for-senate-to-dismiss-impeachment-inquiry/

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of Calif., joined by Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., criticizes President Donald Trump's pro-Wall Street policies during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, Feb. 6, 2017. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Exclusive — Impeachment Backfiring: GOP Polling Memo Shows Public Turning Against Democrat Efforts to Oust Trump!-Posted on Breitbart.com-By Matthew Boyle-On October 23, 2019:

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/10/23/impeachment-backfiring-gop-polling-memo-shows-public-turning/

Whistleblower's Last Shred of Credibility Gone as Fox Reports 3rd Source of Anti-Trump Bias in His Background!-Posted on The Western Journal-By C. Douglas Golden-On October 24, 2019:

https://www.westernjournal.com/whistleblowers-last-shred-credibility-gone-fox-reports-3rd-source-anti-trump-bias-background/

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Schiff's Double-Secret Impeachment!-Posted on Front Page Magazine-By Daniel Greenfield-On October 24, 2019:

https://cms.frontpagemag.com/point/2019/10/schiffs-double-secret-impeachment-daniel-greenfield

Man standing in shadows

They’re trying to take out your president, and they don’t want you to know who the whistleblower is!-Posted on Conservative Review-By Nate Madden-On October 25, 2019 :

https://www.conservativereview.com/news/theyre-trying-take-president-dont-want-know-whistleblower/

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Video: Blackmailed Republicans Are Coerced Toward Impeachment-The Carrot and Stick Plan to Save America!-Posted on The Common Sense Show-By Dave Hodges-On October 23, 2019:

https://thecommonsenseshow.com/activism-conspiracy-radio-shows/blackmailed-republicans-are-coerced-toward-impeachment-carrot-and-stick-plan-save-america

Mo Brooks Do It in Public

Mo Brooks to Democrats on Impeachment: ‘Do It in Public’!-Posted on Breitbart.com-By Kyle Morris-On October 23, 2019:

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/10/23/mo-brooks-to-democrats-on-impeachment-do-it-in-public/

Trump, Fellow Republicans Push Ahead with Anti-Impeachment Offensive!-Posted on Independent Journal Review-By Reuters-On October 24, 2019:

https://ijr.com/trump-republicans-anti-impeachment-offensive/

Rep. Gaetz: ‘We’re Fighting Against an Angry Pack of Rabid Hyenas’ to Expose Schiff’s Kangaroo Court!-Posted on CNSNews.com-By Craig Bannister-On October 24, 2019:

https://www.cnsnews.com/blog/craig-bannister/rep-gaetz-were-fighting-against-angry-pack-rabid-hyenas-expose-schiffs-kangaroo

Mitch McConnell: If House Impeaches Trump, GOP Won't Have Control Over the Senate Trial!-Posted on The Western Journal-By Erin Coates-On October 24, 2019:

https://www.westernjournal.com/mitch-mcconnell-house-impeaches-trump-gop-wont-control-senate-trial/?ff_source=Email&ff_medium=wcjemail&ff_campaign=CAN&ff_content=2019-10-25

Graham Follows Through on Promise on Impeachment Resolution. “THIS IS ABOUT THE FUTURE OF THE PRESIDENCY!”-Posted on The Post & Email-By Sharon Rondeau-On October 24, 2019:

https://www.thepostemail.com/2019/10/24/graham-follows-through-on-promise-on-impeachment-resolution/

Graham, McConnell Demand House Democrats Conduct Fair Impeachment Probe!-Posted on The Daily Signal-By Fred Lucas /@FredLucasWH-On October 24, 2019:

https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/10/24/graham-mcconnell-demand-house-democrats-conduct-fair-impeachment-probe/

Under Impeachment Pressure, White House Considers Communications Specialist!-Posted on Independent Journal Review-By Reuters-On October 25, 2019:

https://ijr.com/impeachment-white-house-considers-communications-specialist/

Georgia Representative Says Impeachment Effort Will Backfire on Democrats!-Posted on The New American-By Warren Mass-On October 24, 2019:

https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/item/33846-georgia-rep-says-impeachment-effort-will-backfire-on-democrats

The Deep State Wants Trump Impeached Over Syria!-Posted on NewsWithViews.com-By Cliff Kincaid-On October 25, 2019:

http://newswithviews.com/the-deep-state-wants-trump-impeached-over-syria/

President Pelosi? Michael Moore Envisages Both Trump and Pence Removed From Office!-Posted on CNSNews.com-By Patrick Goodenough-On October 25, 2019:

https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/patrick-goodenough/president-pelosi-michael-moore-envisages-both-trump-and-pence

Former special counsel Robert Mueller testifies before the House Intelligence Committee hearing on his report on Russian election interference, on Capitol Hill, in Washington, Wednesday, July 24, 2019. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Judge: DOJ Must Give House Mueller Grand Jury Evidence!-Posted on NewsMax.com-On October 25, 2019:

https://www.newsmax.com/politics/mueller-redacted-house/2019/10/25/id/938760/

U.S. Justice Department Appeals Order to Turn over Unredacted Mueller Report!-Posted on Independent Journal-By Reuters-On October 25, 2019:

https://ijr.com/justice-department-appeals-order-mueller-report/

Judge blocks release of Mueller grand jury testimony!-Posted on Patriot News Alerts-By Jerry McCormick-On October 30, 2019:

https://www.patriotnewsalerts.com/judge-blocks-release-testimony/

NYT Piece Blows Gaping Hole in Quid Pro Quo, Confirms Ukraine Had No Idea Aid Was Held up!-Posted on The Western Journal-By Benjamin Arie-On October 25, 2019:

https://www.westernjournal.com/nyt-piece-blows-gaping-hole-quid-pro-quo-confirms-ukraine-no-idea-aid-held/

Two Finger Trump

Poll: Nearly Half of American Voters Oppose Impeaching, Removing Trump!-Posted on Breitbart.com-By Edwin Mora-On October 25, 2019:

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/10/25/poll-nearly-half-of-american-voters-oppose-impeaching-removing-trump/

Retired Marine Corps Gen. John F. Kelly testifies during the Senate Homeland Security Committee hearing on his confirmation to be Secretary of Homeland Security on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2017. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

John Kelly: I Warned Donald Trump About Getting Impeached!-Posted on Breitbart.com-By Charlie Spiering-On October 26, 2019:

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/10/26/john-kelly-i-warned-donald-trump-about-getting-impeached/

Democrat Congressman’s Final Double-Cross On Death Bed!-Posted on NewsWithViews.com-By Rev. Austin Miles-On October 27, 2019:

http://newswithviews.com/democrat-congressmans-final-double-cross-on-death-bed/

Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., the chairman of the House intelligence committee, leaves the Capitol in Washington after a closed-door interview with acting Assistant Secretary of State Philip Reeker on Saturday, Oct. 26, 2019. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Al-Baghdadi raid does nothing to mute Democrats' impeachment drive!-Posted on The Washington Times-By S.A. Miller - The Washington Times-On October 27, 2019:

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/oct/27/democrats-trump-impeachment-drive-undeterred-al-ba/

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Conservatives sound alarm over Justice John Roberts’ role in Trump’s impeachment!-Posted on Conservative Institute-On October 28, 2019:

https://www.conservativeinstitute.org/conservative-news/conservatives-alarm-roberts-impeachment.htm

Democrats Release Text of Impeachment Resolution as Republicans Accuse Them of Ignoring House Rules!-Posted on The Western Journal-By Erin Coates-On October 29, 2019:

https://www.westernjournal.com/democrats-release-text-impeachment-resolution-republicans-accuse-ignoring-house-rules/

Donald Trump, Adam Schiff

House GOP to move from the criticizing process to fighting impeachment on the facts!-Posted on The Washington Examiner-By David M. Drucker-On October 29, 2019:

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/house-gop-to-move-from-the-criticizing-process-to-fighting-impeachment-on-the-facts

Former Bush Press Secretary Suggests Why Pelosi Is Holding An Impeachment Vote!-Posted on Townhall-By Matt Vespa/@mvespa1-On October 29, 2019:

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2019/10/29/former-bush-press-secretary-suggest-why-pelosi-is-holding-an-impeachment-vote-n2555496

New poll shows very few Americans support Democrats' impeachment push: This is a not a good sign for the impeachment inquiry!-Posted on The Blaze-By Carlos Garcia October 29, 2019:

https://www.theblaze.com/news/new-poll-says-americans-dont-support-impeachment

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Impeachment Committees Ask Bolton to Testify!-Posted on NewsMax.com-On October 30, 2019:

https://www.newsmax.com/politics/bolton-impeachment-testify/2019/10/30/id/939457/

Rep. Lindsey Graham (Getty Images/Drew Angerer)

Sen. Graham: Pelosi’s Impeachment Resolution ‘Is a Crumb of Due Process; It’s Not Even Half a Loaf’!-Posted on CNSNews.com-By Craig Bannister-On October 30, 2019:

https://www.cnsnews.com/blog/craig-bannister/sen-graham-pelosis-impeachment-resolution-crumb-due-process-its-not-even-half

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Latest Impeachment Witness Contradicts Vindman’s Claim That Key Details Were Left Out of Ukraine Call Transcript!-Posted on National Review-By Mairead McArdle-On October 31, 2019:

https://www.nationalreview.com/news/latest-impeachment-witness-contradicts-vindmans-claim-that-key-details-were-left-out-of-ukraine-call-transcript/

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Video: There’s Evidence of Crimes Taking Place by the Deep State against Trump! | Tom Fitton!-Posted on YouTube.com-By Judicial Watch-On October 30, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cEwPlU5QNg

Pelosi: 'It's Not an Impeachment Resolution': How the Vindman testimony reveals what a sham Democrats' resolution really is!-Posted on The Patriot Post-By Nate Jackson-On October 30, 2019:

https://patriotpost.us/articles/66446-pelosi-its-not-an-impeachment-resolution?mailing_id=4619&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4619&utm_campaign=digest&utm_content=body

Rep. Matt Gaetz files ethics complaint against Adam Schiff: Congressman Gaetz accused Chairman Schiff of 'unprofessional and divisive behavior!'-Posted on The Blaze-By Breck Dumas-On October 30, 2019:

https://www.theblaze.com/news/rep-matt-gaetz-files-ethics-complaint-against-adam-schiff

Nancy Pelosi targeted in ethics complaint filed by 40 conservative groups

Nancy Pelosi targeted in ethics complaint filed by 40 conservative groups!-Posted on Fox News-By Morgan Phillips | Fox News-On October 30, 2019:

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/pelosi-targeted-in-ethics-complaint-filed-by-40-conservative-groups

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) (Photo: Screen capture)

McConnell: Impeachment 'Is Whatever a Majority of the House Decides It Is...!'-Posted on CNSNews.com-By Susan Jones-On October 30, 2019:

https://www.cnsnews.com/article/washington/susan-jones/mcconnell-impeachment-whatever-majority-house-decides-it

Nancy Pelosi

House poised for partisan vote on impeachment process!-Posted on The Washington Examiner-By Susan Ferrechio!-On October 31, 2019:

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/congress/house-poised-for-partisan-vote-on-impeachment-process

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BREAKING: House Concludes Massive 232-196 Impeachment Inquiry Vote!-Posted on Trending Politics-October 31, 2019:

New Resolution Boxes Out Impeachment Critics, Gives Schiff Even More Power!-Posted on The Western Journal-By Jared Harris-On October 31, 2019:

https://www.westernjournal.com/new-resolution-boxes-impeachment-critics-gives-schiff-even-power/

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The Pelosi-Schiff Masquerade: House Democrats adopt surreal and kafkaesque one-sided impeachment process!-Posted on Front Page Magazine-By Joseph Klein-On November 1, 2019:

https://cms.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2019/10/pelosi-schiff-masquerade-joseph-klein

Rep. Doug Collins Challenges Schiff in Impeachment Fight: 'Folks, This Ain't Over'!-Posted on The Western Journal-By Joe Saunders-On October 31, 2019:

https://www.westernjournal.com/rep-doug-collins-challenges-schiff-impeachment-fight-folks-aint/

Video: Top GOP lawmakers speak after House passes impeachment inquiry resolution!-Posted on YouTube.com-By Fox News-On October 31, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6B0NzrSDs8

Battleground Poll Shows Voters in Critical States Oppose Trump's Removal from Office!-Posted on The Western Journal-By Joe Saunders-On October 31, 2019:

https://www.westernjournal.com/battleground-poll-shows-voters-critical-states-oppose-trumps-removal-office/

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CNN Pushes Inane Fantasy About Nancy Pelosi Becoming President!-Posted on The Political Insider-By Rusty | Featured Contributor-On October 31, 2019:

https://thepoliticalinsider.com/cnn-pushes-inane-fantasy-about-nancy-pelosi-becoming-president/

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Video: Bombshell Statement From Secretary Pompeo About Impeachment- Make This Go Viral!!!-Posted on The Common Sense Show-By Dave Hodges-On November 2, 2019:

https://thecommonsenseshow.com/activism-conspiracy-economics/bombshell-statement-secretary-pompeo-about-impeachment-make-go-viral

AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite

Four White House Officials Defy Impeachment Subpoenas for Testimony!-Posted on Breitbart.com-By Edwin Mora-On November 4, 2019:

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/11/04/four-white-house-officials-defy-impeachment-subpoenas-for-testimony/

Dems Trickle Out Impeachment Testimony Transcripts: Schiff releases transcripts from Yovanovitch and McKinley. Both are negative toward Trump!-Posted on The Patriot Post-By Thomas Gallatin-On November 5, 2019:

https://patriotpost.us/articles/66582-dems-trickle-out-impeachment-testimony-transcripts?mailing_id=4634&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4634&utm_campaign=digest&utm_content=body

Please Read Part 102J:

The Most Dangerous and Treacherous Times in U.S. History! (Part 102J)-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On November 7, 2019:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-most-dangerous-and-treacherous-times-in-u-s-history-part-102j

Please Also Read Part 103:

The Most Dangerous and Treacherous Times in U.S. History! (Part 103)-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On March 16, 2019:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-most-dangerous-and-treacherous-times-in-u-s-history-part-103

Letter to NM U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (Re: Mueller Report)-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On April 27, 2019:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/letter-to-nm-u-s-senator-martin-heinrich-re-mueller-report

The Most Dangerous and Treacherous Times in U.S. History! (Part 91)-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On November 30, 2018:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-most-dangerous-and-treacherous-times-in-u-s-history-part-91

CIA Assessment Concludes Putin Was Trying to Help Trump Win White House!-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On December 10, 2016:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/cia-assessment-concludes-putin-was-trying-to-help-trump-win-white

Obama is the Manifestation of a Multi-Generational Soviet Plot to Destroy America!-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On April 2, 2014:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/obama-is-the-manifestati...

What we haven’t been told about the President’s background!-Posted on WordPress.com-On May 3, 2010:

https://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/05/03/what-we-haven't-been-told...

An Open Letter To Communist Valerie Jarrett!-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On August 25, 2012:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/an-open-letter-to-commun...

The Vetting: ‘Obama, Radical Islam and the Soros Connection’! (Part 1)-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On November 30, 2013:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-vetting-obama-radica...

When A U.S. President IS Muslim Brotherhood!-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On August 17, 2014:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/when-a-u-s-president-is-...

Greatest Fraud Perpetrated In American History!-Posted on WordPress.com-On June 20, 2011:

https://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2011/06/20/the-greatest-fraud-perpet...

Investigators Find That Obama's Online Birth Certificate Presented To The American Public Is 'Fake'!-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On December 15, 2016:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/investigators-find-sourc...

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/follow-up-letter-to-nm-g...

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/follow-up-letter-to-nm-u...

CIA-Columbia Cover Up!-Posted on WordPress.com-On April 28, 2010:

https://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/04/28/cia-columbia-obama-cover-up/

Why did a black preacher from Harlem have a 'hit' placed on his life?-Posted on WordPress.com-On October 19, 2010:

https://weroinnm.wordpress.cooinnm.wordpress.com/2010/10/19/why-has-a-black-preacher-from-harlem...

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/was-obama-selected-groom...

Letter to our NM U.S. Representative Michelle Lujan-Grisham (re: Shadow Party’s alleged agenda to take down America)!-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On February 13, 2015:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/letter-to-our-nm-u-s-rep...

Obama: Submit to Globalism or Face War, Death, Destruction!-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On November 17, 2016:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/forum/topics/obama-submit-to-globalism-...

Peace is possible if Trump is elected.

Not Since JFK, Has a President Spit Into the Face of the Globalists, Until Now!-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On November 21, 2016:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/not-since-jfk-has-a-pres...

Letter to our NM U.S. Representative Michelle Lujan-Grisham (re: Articles of Impeachment and Impeachment Proceedings)!-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On August 12, 2014:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/letter-to-our-nm-u-s-representative-michelle-lujan-grisham-re-2

Brainwashing in America: "WHY FEW DARE CALL IT CONSPIRACY”!-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On March 21, 2014:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/brainwashing-in-america-...

The MSM conglomerates are the most prolific and insidious "fake news" propagators in the marketplace of ideas!-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On November 30, 2016:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-msm-conglomerates-ar...

Where Is America Today?-Posted on WordPress.com-On May 26, 2010:

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/05/26/where-is-america-today-2/

Note: The following videos wholeheartedly share my sentiments regarding what we are currently experiencing in America today-You Decide:

A Republic, If You Can Keep It!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGL8CiUtXF0

The Fightin Side of Me!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBAzLCA3DQc

When Injustice Becomes Law, Resistance Becomes Duty!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukzd_vRFpms

“Food for Thought”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q65KZIqay4E&feature=related

Please Continue Praying For Our Country/Republic.

Semper Fi!

Jake

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Trey Gowdy Joins Trump’s Team

Fighting Impeachment Inquiry

By Hank Berrien

{ dailywire.com } ~ On Wednesday, it was formally announced that former GOP Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC), who chaired the House Select Committee on Benghazi from 2014 to 2016, had joined President Donald Trump’s personal legal team... as it counters the impeachment inquiry process launched by the House of Representatives against President Trump. Trump lawyer Jay Sekulow stated, “I am pleased to announce that former Congressman Trey Gowdy is joining our team as Counsel to the President. I have known Trey for years and worked with him when he served in Congress. His legal skills and his advocacy will serve the President well. Trey’s command of the law is well known and his service on Capitol Hill will be a great asset as a member of our team,” as NBC News reported.In late September, appearing on Fox News, where he was a contributor, Gowdy said of House Democrats, “A lot of them have already made up their minds. If there’s a smoking gun there — I can’t even find the gun, whether it’s smoking or not.” Gowdy is not unaware of the proper role of Congress; in 2012 he stated, “The notion that you can withhold information and documents from Congress no matter whether you are the party in power or not in power is wrong. Respect for the rule of law must mean something, irrespective of the vicissitudes of political cycles.”As The Daily Caller reported, “The View” co-host Meghan McCain warned the liberals on her show who mocked Gowdy for his 2012 statement, “You can go on about Trey Gowdy. But he’s one of the great congressmen. He’s someone I have respected for years. You can laugh all you want, but the fact he’s joining Trump’s team is good news for Trump, and bad news for Democrats.” She added, “…by the way, right now if I was in a fox hole, I would want Trey Gowdy in there with me.” Last Friday, as The Washington Examiner reported, Gowdy said House Intelligence Committee Chairman scumbag-Adam Schiff had made himself a “fact witness” in his dealings with the whistleblower who had targeted President Trump for his dealings with Ukraine. Gowdy said on Fox News, “How long is Speaker liar-Pelosi going to put up with scumbag-Adam mishandling this investigation? She has already taken it away from scumbag liar-Jerry Nadler. I’m sure the guys and gals on the Judiciary Committee are not happy about having scumbag-Adam Schiff do it. But if you are going to do it, at least don’t screw it up, scumbag-Adam.”...

https://www.dailywire.com/news/trey-gowdy-joins-trumps-team-fighting-impeachment-inquiry?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=benshapiro

Social Security Changes Coming In 2020

Trump Adjustment Could Affect Millions

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By Adam Casalino

{ patriotjournal.org } ~ President Trump just made a change that could affect millions of Americans... The Democrats are fighting hard to win over voters. They are promising everything while accusing Trump of letting down America’s most vulnerable: retired citizens. But Donald Trump has vowed to protect Social Security benefits. And over his time in office, he’s made good on that promise. Despite the Left’s ongoing efforts to impeach the president, he continues to look after America’s retired. A new report has come out that will mean good news to SS recipients. Here’s what Trump is doing: Earlier this morning, the BLS reported September’s inflation data, allowing for the concrete announcement that Social Security’s COLA in 2020 will be rising by 1.6%…What does this mean for the pocketbooks of Social Security beneficiaries? Based on the fact that the average retired worker and disabled worker were bringing home $1,473 and $1,236, respectively, a month as of August, a COLA of 1.6% should lead to a raise of about $24 a month for retirees and a little under $20 a month for the long-term disabled. The new cost-of-living adjustments have come out, revealing that benefits will receive a meaty bump up in 2020, more than usual...

https://patriotjournal.org/social-security-2020-trump-adjustment/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=pjnewsletter

Dems storm out of Syria meeting with Trump

'We have to pray for his health'

By Gregg Re

{ foxnews.com } ~ Senate Minority Leader Chuck scumbag-Schumer, House Speaker liar-Nancy Pelosi and House Majority Leader scumbag-Steny Hoyer announced at a news conference outside the White House on Wednesday... that they had just walked out of a meeting with President Trump on Syria policy, after he apparently called liar-Pelosi a "third-rate politician" and angrily suggested the Democrats probably appreciated communist Islamic State terrorists in the Middle East. "What we witnessed on the part of the president was a meltdown, sad to say," liar-Pelosi, D-Calif., remarked. She said later, at the Capitol: "I pray for the president all the time, and I tell him that -- I pray for his safety and that of his family. Now, we have to pray for his health -- because this was a very serious meltdown on the part of the president." A Democratic source familiar with the conversation told Fox News that scumbag-Schumer, D-N.Y., started to read the president a quote from former Defense Secretary James Mattis from Sunday: "And, in this case, if we don't keep the pressure on, then ISIS will resurge. It's absolutely a given that they will come back." According to the source, Trump cut scumbag-Schumer off and responded that Mattis was "the world’s most overrated general. You know why? He wasn’t tough enough. I captured ISIS. Mattis said it would take two years. I captured them in one month."Trump reportedly said fewer than 100 ISIS prisoners had escaped amid Turkish aggression and the U.S. troop pullback in the Middle East, and that the escapees were "the least dangerous" ones. Defense Secretary Mark Esper, according to the source, confirmed the president's number, but not that those terrorists were the least dangerous. "I don't know that," Esper told scumbag-Schumer, the source recounted. The meeting devolved into the president calling the speaker a name, the source said, noting that Trump was "quite nasty, so she stood up to go. She started to sit back down but scumbag-Hoyer got her to go. liar-Pelosi and scumbag-Hoyer walked out of the meeting." The source said scumbag-Schumer stayed back for a minute to push Esper on whether the U.S. had specific intelligence that the Turks or Syrians definitely would guard the other ISIS prisoners. Esper reportedly said they didn't have any such reports. The White House did not immediately comment. scumbag-Schumer, standing alongside liar-Pelosi at the news conference outside the White House, claimed the discussion fell apart while the politicians were discussing the president's pullout from Syria -- and that Trump had said that "some of ISIS were communists, and that might make you happy."... This is not the first time the dems have walked out. https://www.foxnews.com/politics/pelosi-dems-trump-syria-white-house-meeting-storm-out

VIDEO: https://video.foxnews.com/v/6095368251001/#sp=show-clips

House Votes Overwhelmingly To Condemn

Trump’s Decision To Remove Troops From Syria

by SHELBY TALCOTT

{ dailycaller.com } ~ The House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly Wednesday to condemn President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw American troops from Syria... The White House announced Oct. 6 that Trump told Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan the U.S. would be clearing out of northern Syria. The news sparked bipartisan backlash because it could make it easier for Turkey to invade Syria and go after Kurdish fighters, who have worked with the U.S. to beat the Islamic State.Republicans and Democrats alike approved a resolution opposing Trump’s decision. The measure passed 354-60, The New York Times reported. A bipartisan group of congressional leaders was set to meet with Trump about the issue shortly after the resolution passed. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Vice President Mike Pence are traveling to Ankara, Turkey, to discuss a ceasefire. “The Vice President will voice the United States’ commitment to reach an immediate ceasefire and the conditions for a negotiated settlement,” according to a press release from the Office of the Vice President. More than 150 Kurdish soldiers have reportedly died since Trump announced he would withdraw American troops and Turkey launched “Operation Peace Spring” on Oct. 10, the country’s defense military announced. Turkey’s Defense Ministry said the number is higher, according to Fox News. The resolution is mostly symbolic, but noted that America’s withdrawal is “beneficial to adversaries of the United States government,” including Russia, Syria and Iran. It called for Erdogan to end military action in northern Syria, The NYT reported. Trump has stayed strong behind his decision, noting Wednesday that Turkey invading Syria is “not our problem” and that the Kurds “are no angels.” Why didn't the dems condemn scumbag/liar-nObama when he pulled out of Iraq.

https://dailycaller.com/2019/10/16/house-condemn-trump-decision-remove-syria/?utm_source=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=10517

Jim Jordan Corners scumbag-Elijah Cummings Accuses Him Of Violating Bi-Party Agreement

By Ben Dutka

{ patriotjournal.org } ~ They’re obviously willing to do anything to get an edge on the competition, and this includes violating major agreements... Democrats and Republicans had an agreement: they wouldn’t let bipartisan politics affect law and order. In other words, their biases couldn’t override basic protocol. But surprise! A leading Democrat has been accused of violating that agreement. This time, scumbag-Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) has subpoenaed two Department of Homeland Security officials … and the GOP says this is breaking the rules. Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio … accused scumbag-Cummings of letting partisan politics supersede standard protocol by issuing subpoenas to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) Acting Director Ken Cuccinelli and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Acting Director Matthey Albence. Apparently, agreements don’t mean anything to Democrats like scumbag-Cummings! Democrats flipped out when the Trump administration said non-citizens could no longer receive deferred action due to “non-military special circumstances.” In other words, they couldn’t avoid deportation just because they issued a special assistance request. But that didn’t fly, and the deferred action was reinstated on Sept. 19. So, why should scumbag-Cummings hit these DHS guys with subpoenas? Democrats already got what they wanted; the program is back in place! This is just bullying and abuse, as Jim Jordan said in a letter to scumbag-Cummings... https://patriotjournal.org/jordan-cummings-agreement/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=pjnewsletter

Never-Before-Seen Trump Tax Documents

Show Major Inconsistencies

by Heather Vogell

{ propublica.org } ~ Documents obtained by ProPublica show stark differences in how Donald Trump’s businesses reported some expenses, profits and occupancy figures for two Manhattan buildings... giving a lender different figures than they provided to New York City tax authorities. The discrepancies made the buildings appear more profitable to the lender — and less profitable to the officials who set the buildings’ property tax. For instance, Trump told the lender that he took in twice as much rent from one building as he reported to tax authorities during the same year, 2017. He also gave conflicting occupancy figures for one of his signature skyscrapers, located at 40 Wall Street. Lenders like to see a rising occupancy level as a sign of what they call “leasing momentum.” Sure enough, the company told a lender that 40 Wall Street had been 58.9% leased on Dec. 31, 2012, and then rose to 95% a few years later. The company told tax officials the building was 81% rented as of Jan. 5, 2013. A dozen real estate professionals told ProPublica they saw no clear explanation for multiple inconsistencies in the documents. The discrepancies are “versions of fraud,” said Nancy Wallace, a professor of finance and real estate at the Haas School of Business at the University of California-Berkeley. “This kind of stuff is not OK.” New York City’s property tax forms state that the person signing them “affirms the truth of the statements made” and that “false filings are subject to all applicable civil and criminal penalties.” The punishments for lying to tax officials, or to lenders, can be significant, ranging from fines to criminal fraud charges. Two former Trump associates, Michael Cohen and Paul Manafort, are serving prison time for offenses that include falsifying tax and bank records, some of them related to real estate. “Certainly, if I were sitting in a prosecutor’s office, I would want to ask a lot more questions,” said Anne Milgram, a former attorney general for New Jersey who is now a professor at New York University School of Law. Trump has previously been accused of manipulating numbers on his tax and loan documents, including by his former lawyer, Cohen. But Trump’s business is notoriously opaque, with records rarely surfacing, and up till now there’s been little documentary evidence supporting those claims...

https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-inc-podcast-never-before-seen-trump-tax-documents-show-major-inconsistencies?utm_source=pardot&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=dailynewsletter

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FI45BfSefE

Middle East 'Insanity'

Charles Paige: “Insanity!” That’s the way one Special Forces soldier who helped train and advise Syrian-based Kurds described President Donald Trump’s policy change in the region. One definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results — that’s an apt summary of the situation.

George W. Bush was rightly criticized for his premature “Mission Accomplished” banner, and Barack scumbag/liar-nObama was rightly criticized, to this day, for his politically motivated withdrawal of all U.S. troops from Iraq, giving rise to the Islamic State and creating a massive humanitarian crisis. Now, President Donald Trump is being criticized for his assertion that “we 100% defeated the ISIS caliphate” and withdrawing U.S. advisers from northeastern Syria — in effect, green-lighting a Turkish invasion. We can hope for a better outcome this time around, but, as military planners are fond of saying, “hope is not a viable strategy.”

The absence of a viable strategy has plagued U.S. military employment in the “Endless Wars” for some time. In fact, the wars are seemingly endless precisely because of the lack of an overarching strategic vision. With no clearly defined goal, we muddle along, occasionally stipulating what we won’t do — maintain troop levels past a predetermined date or conduct “combat” operations — rather than what we intend to accomplish. Stream-of-consciousness tweets don’t constitute a strategy, and our unilateral withdrawal from Syria is more likely to exacerbate than solve the problems President Trump cites. For example, we’ve already seen our soldiers threatened by Turkish shelling. Increased involvement from Russia and Turkey, along with Syria’s Bashar al-Assad — none of whom share our interests — threatens to expand both the scope and intensity of the fighting. Detention centers have been left unguarded, allowing hundreds of ISIS leaders and fighters to escape and replenish the terrorists’ ranks, already undermining the “100% defeated” claim.

Our involvement in Afghanistan and Iraq started with clear objectives that earned broad bipartisan support in the form of Congressional Authorization(s) on the Use of Military Force (AUMF). Critically, both were also presented to the public in a way that rallied support (at least temporarily) for the policies. While there has been some healthy discussion in military and foreign-policy circles, and a few politicians have attempted to generate interest in a review of the AUMF, our military and political leaders have failed to define and communicate what we should do with these national security challenges and why we should do it. In the absence of a compelling narrative outlining our national interest, cries of “not another American life” and “make the other guys pay their share” resonate, even if it will mean more American lives and dollars in the long run.

This is not the forum to outline a coherent military or national security strategy. The mechanisms are already in place to debate and document those ideas, but they are meaningless if the public is unaware of and our politicians ignore their contents. Congress largely abdicated its role in the process after passing the AUMF. President Bush made the case for the “surge” in Iraq in 2007 at great political risk, but domestic politics have consumed presidential agendas since then. Given the current environment in Washington, that’s unlikely to change in the near term. We will continue to muddle along in this gray area between peace and war until American citizens’ interest and involvement in national security expands beyond thanking service members for their service.

As Thomas Jefferson once said, “An informed citizenry is the true repository of the public will.” ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/66103?mailing_id=4588&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4588&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

OUR SACRED DOCUMENTS

Posted by Joseph Phillip De Marco on October 17, 2019 at 7:00am

time has not decayed nor crumbled words of our Forefathers
even though eager and willing rodents gnaw with vengeance
and jealousy
destruction a determined goal armed with mantra zeal and mayhem
blind banal and unwitted mob finds its empty home deserving well
the bait is all it has to justify its existence

long after and evermore intent will be challenged
these words are mightier than the sword
blood was already shed for them
for all and one these ten will be saved

Joseph Phillip De Marco

Wednesday PM ~ thefrontpagecover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on October 16, 2019 at 4:29pm

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

A Striking Contrast

Gary Bauer

Rand Paul calls for investigation of Dem

senators, says they threatened Ukraine aid

during Mueller probe

By Nick Givas

{ foxnews.com } ~ An official investigation should be launched into three Democratic senators who threatened to withhold federal aid to Ukraine... if the country's prosecutor general didn't assist with the Mueller investigation, said Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., on "Fox & Friends" Monday. "The only thing consistent about the whole discussion of people threatening Ukrainian aid is that everybody seems to be doing it — on both sides," he said. " loose lips liar-Joe Biden threatened the aid and then three senators wrote a letter to the Ukrainian government, and they said if you don't continue investigating Trump, and help the Mueller investigation, we may pull back on your aid. "We can't have two standards," Paul added. "Democrats get to threaten Ukrainian aid and nothing happens to them. Now they want to impeach a president over this?" Paul cited the 2018 letter during a Sunday interview with "Meet the Press" and identified the signators as Sens. scumbag-Robert Menendez, D-N.J., scumbag-Dick Durbin, D-Ill., and scumbag-Patrick Leahy, D-Vt. He also lumped in loose lips liar-Joe Biden's pressure of Ukranian prosecutors to back off an investigation into his son Hunter, who was paid $50,000 a month by the Ukrainian gas company Burisma Holdings, while it was under investigation for corruption. "If you're going to condemn Trump, you need to condemn the Democratic senators," he said Sunday. "It shouldn't just be one-sided."

https://www.foxnews.com/media/democrats-ukraine-investigate-rand-paul

VIDEO: https://video.foxnews.com/v/6094663687001/#sp=show-clips

scumbag-Adam Schiff Hit with Two Ethics Complaints Over 'Ukraine' Prank Call

By Joe Saunders

{ westernjournal.com } ~ House Intelligence Chairman scumbag-Adam Schiff was looking for ammunition against President Donald Trump. But he might just have shot himself in the foot... According to Fox News, the California Democrat is the subject of two complaints filed with the Office of Congressional Ethics related to a 2017 phone conversation scumbag-Schiff had with a Russian comedian posing as a Ukrainian lawmaker. One complaint, filed last week by the conservative nonprofit group Tea Party Patriots Action, states scumbag-Schiff “used and abused his position” to “seek damaging and negative information about President Trump,” according to the report. Another was filed Aug. 28 by Republican Jon Hollis, who is seeking to challenge scumbag-Schiff for the Los Angeles-area congressional seat he has held since 2001. It accuses scumbag-Schiff of “illegal collusion with foreign entities,” Fox News reported Wednesday. Both complaints stem from a 2017 phone call scumbag-Schiff had with a Russian comedian posing as a Ukrainian lawmaker. During the call, scumbag-Schiff appeared to be very interested in getting incriminating material on Trump, including a nude photo with a Russian television reality star. However, the person on the other end of the line, who said he was Ukrainian lawmaker Andriy Parubiy, was actually Vladimir “Vovan” Kuznetzov, a Russian entertainer. The fact that the phone call was fake doesn’t make scumbag-Schiff’s interest in using a foreign government to obtain damaging information about the president any less real, Hollis charged in his ethics complaint. “This letter serves as an official complaint to the Office of Congressional Ethics (OCE) regarding Rep. scumbag-Adam Schiff’s illegal collusion with foreign entities and misuse of taxpayer resources for opposition research on political enemies,” Hollis wrote, according to Fox. “The evidence supporting scumbag-Adam’s Schiff’s violations of the law is compelling and irrefutable.” At the time of the call, scumbag-Schiff was the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee. Now, he’s the committee’s chairman and playing the lead role in closed-door hearings aimed at gathering information for an impeachment case against Trump using a complaint from a “whistleblower” over a Trump phone call in July with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky...

https://www.westernjournal.com/adam-schiff-hit-two-ethics-complaints-ukraine-prank-call/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=CTBreaking&utm_campaign=breaking&utm_content=conservative-tribune

The Senate Voted to End Emergency

on the Border

by Michael Cutler

{ cms.frontpagemag.com } ~ On September 25, 2019 the Wall Street Journal’s MarketWatch posted a disturbing report, “Senate votes to end border emergency under which Trump redirected military funds to wall construction”... that began with the following paragraph: The Senate again approved a resolution to end President Trump’s national emergency at the southern border, with Republicans joining Democrats in a bid to prevent the president from redirecting military funds toward a border wall, though Trump was expected to veto it again. The report went on to note that the Republicans control the Senate and ended with this sentence: The vote was an unusual display of Republican rebellion against the president’s quest for his signature policy initiative, which led to the longest government shutdown in U.S. history that ended earlier this year. The Democrats refused to accept that there was a crisis on the southern border in the first place, and now the Republican-controlled Senate has voted, yet again, to “end the crisis”! What has not been determined, or reported upon, is how our politicians from either political party have come to the insane conclusion that the emergency on the treacherous southern border has ended. Certainly the “all clear” has not sounded. While President Trump has been successful in reducing the number of illegal aliens who are being apprehended by the Border Patrol along the southern border--though a number of tactics including getting Mexico to deploy their forces along the border and with other diplomatic initiatives--tens of thousands of illegal aliens continue to be apprehended by the U.S. Border Patrol each month and narcotics continue to be seized along that troubled border... https://cms.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2019/10/senate-voted-end-emergency-border-michael-cutler

Trump says scumbag/liar-nObama 'hiding'

from questions about loose lips liar-Bidens and Ukraine: 'I think he knows all about it'

By Melissa Leon

{ foxnews.com } ~ Former President Barack scumbag/liar-nObama has been hiding from questions about former Vice President loose lips liar-Joe Biden, his son Hunter and Hunter's work for a gas company in Ukraine, President Trump insisted Saturday night... "I think he knows all about it," Trump said of scumbag/liar-nObama during an exclusive interview on Fox News' "Justice with Judge Jeanine."Trump once against defended his July 25 phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, which has served as the catalyst for an impeachment inquiry led by House Democrats, notably House Intelligence Committee Chairman scumbag-Adam Schiff, D-Calif. "If you take a look at it, scumbag-Adam Schiff made up a phony, fraudulent statement," Trump told host Jeanine Pirro, referring to swcumbag-Schiff's self-described "parody" account of the phone call during a hearing last month. "My phone call was a perfect call -- congenial, friendly, no pressure, no blackmail, as he Zelensky said." What scumbag-Schiff did was "horrible," and he "made it up out of thin air," the president continued. "Very strong action should be taken against this guy." Trump also called "Shifty scumbag-Schiff" a "failed screenwriter" for producing a "phony, fraudulent statement." Democrats have subpoenaed several Trump administration officials and diplomats for documents as lawmakers probe issues surrounding the phone call. House Democrats have accused Trump of violating his oath of office by asked him to investigate Ukraine's involvement in the 2016 presidential election and the activities of loose lips liar-Biden, a top contender for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, and his son Hunter, a former board member of gas company Burisma Holdings. They have also accused Trump of withholding military aid from Ukraine until Zelensky's government could launch the investigations. The impeachment probe was launched last month after an intelligence community whistleblower's complaint raised concerns about the call... https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-judge-jeanine-impeachment-ukraine-obama

VIDEO: https://video.foxnews.com/v/6094435039001/#sp=show-clips

US conducted cyberattack

on Iran following strike on Saudi oil

by timesofisrael.com ~ The United States reportedly conducted a cyberattack against Iran in the wake of last month’s strike on key Saudi oil facilities... which many Western countries have blamed on the Islamic Republic. The late September attack took aim at Tehran’s ability to spread propaganda and affected physical hardware, the Reuters news agency reported Wednesday, citing two unnamed US officials.“It highlights how US President Donald Trump’s administration has been trying to counter what it sees as Iranian aggression without spiraling into a broader conflict,” the report said. “The strike appears more limited than other such operations against Iran this year after the downing of an American drone in June and an alleged attack by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards on oil tankers in the Gulf in May.” The report did not provide more details on the attack and said it wasn’t clear whether there have since been additional US cyberattacks against Iran. The Pentagon refused to comment on the cyberattack, telling Reuters: “As a matter of policy and for operational security, we do not discuss cyberspace operations, intelligence or planning.” The September 14 attack on Saudi oil installations claimed by Yemen’s Houthi rebels damaged a third of Saudi Arabia’s oil infrastructure and sent global energy prices soaring. Washington, Riyadh, Berlin, London and Paris blamed Iran for the attacks, which Tehran has denied having had any connection to... https://www.timesofisrael.com/us-conducted-cyberattack-on-iran-following-strike-on-saudi-oil-report/?utm_source=The+Daily+Edition&utm_campaign=daily-edition-2019-10-16&utm_medium=email

Fox Star Breaks Silence – It Was scumbag-Soros

by youtube.com ~ Fox News contributor John Solomon said on Friday that fired Ukrainian Ambassador Maria Yovanovich’s had links to a radical scumbag-Soros group... Yovanovich said in testimony on Friday that she was “incredulous” about being recalled for partisan reasons, while understanding that the president can remove any ambassador he wants. Solomon said that Yovanovich repeatedly made negative statements about the president and that Yovanovich had given Ukraine a list of people and organizations that she didn’t want to be investigated or prosecuted, including a scumbag-George Soros-funded group called AntAC. Solomon said that the anti-corruption group was funded jointly by scumbag-Soros and the State Department. He further said there was a “trail” between AntAC, scumbag-Soros and State Department officials that supervised Yovanovich. When asked about the role of foreign money in U.S. elections, Solomon pointed out that a reggae singer was just indicted for taking foreign money and laundering it into scumbag/liar-nObama’s campaign. “I don’t think it’s anything related to impeachment, the timing just makes it look suspect,” Solomon finished.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jegqHAQY_hY

A Striking Contrast

Gary Bauer

President Trump delivered a rousing pro-America speech at his rally in Minneapolis Thursday night!

He presented the 2020 election as a stark choice, and correctly so in my view, between those who want to preserve religious liberty, free markets, the sanctity of life, our Second Amendment rights, and our national sovereignty against those demanding open borders, abortion-on-demand, socialism, and gun control.

I was particularly struck by how the president talked at length about what it is like to be commander-in-chief. It involves regular trips to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, which are rarely covered by the media. On those visits, the president sees firsthand the horrific wounds our soldiers endure.

It involves going to Dover Air Force Base to receive the bodies of fallen heroes. It involves writing personal letters, not form letters, to every family who loses a loved one serving in the military.

It was a side of the president people don’t see very often. When I am at the White House, I see him in a very different mood than what is presented by the media. He is a much more compassionate man than the left would like you to believe.

Sadly, there was violence after the rally ended. MAGA hats were burned. Trump supporters were assaulted. Leftists waved the flag of communist China. Police officers had to create a path for cars to leave because demonstrators were attacking vehicles in the parking garage.

It was a striking contrast. Inside the Target Center, Trump praised our brave men and women in uniform, our soldiers, and police officers. He defended our flag and our country.

Outside, the left-wing radicals, the activist base of the Democrat Party, were attacking cops, burning flags, yelling their hatred for America, and assaulting conservatives.

I’m not suggesting that loose lips liar-Joe Biden or Elizabeth dinky/liar-Warren would be part of that crowd. But there’s no question which candidate that crowd would vote for come November, and it won’t be Donald Trump. Nor is that crowd ever denounced by the leadership of the Democrat Party.

On Fox News Thursday night, a Democrat consultant was asked about the violence at the rally. Of course, he insisted it was wrong, but then proceeded to justify the violence by suggesting it was a natural reaction to Trump!

If, after any speech by a leading Democrat, a mob formed outside and began punching people and attacking cars, every network would be running the footage non-stop. Every Republican would be forced to condemn it on the record.

But no elected Democrat today will be asked to condemn what happened on the streets of Minneapolis Thursday night. And I won’t hold my breath waiting for any progressives to voluntarily distance themselves from the protests.

Extremism on Display

For the second time in as many months, the Democrat presidential candidates held a town hall dedicated to LGBTQ issues. I still remember when the homosexual-rights movement insisted it was all just about the right to privacy for two consenting adults. Clearly, that’s not the case anymore. Now we’re having town-hall events on cable news networks featuring nine year-old kids.

Needless to say, the extremism of the Democrat candidates, and the left generally, was on full display Thursday night. Among other things, we learned it was “violence” to mispronounce a transgendered individual’s name.

loose lips liar-Joe Biden and Elizabeth dinky/liar-Warren fully supported taxpayer funding for sex-change operations. loose lips liar-Biden also insisted that he would make gay rights a top priority in his foreign-policy agenda.

lowlife-Kamala Harris felt it was important to let the nation know that her pronouns were “she, her, and hers.” Evidently, they are Chris Cuomo’s preferred pronouns too!

And scumbag-Cory Booker promised to do even more to push the gay agenda in the public schools.

But the clear winner of the night’s “Crazy Award” goes to socialist-Beto O'Rourke.

His campaign is melting down politically, but it has nothing to do with the radical positions he’s taking. socialist-O'Rourke is being abandoned simply because he can’t compete against loose lips liar-Biden, dinky/liar-Warren, and commie-Sanders on the national stage. But all the other candidates shares his views on open borders and gun confiscation.

I bring this up because Thursday night socialist-O'Rourke officially declared war on America’s churches and non-profit ministries. He said that any religious organization that opposes same-sex marriage will lose its tax exempt status.

This issue has always been a battering ram to marginalize and attack the church. socialist-O'Rourke has done us a favor by stripping away the camouflage.

We predicted this years ago. If normal marriage is defined as bigotry, then no traditional faith-based group is safe.

Justice Samuel Alito raised the specter of religious institutions losing their tax-exemptions during the 2015 case that legalized same-sex marriage. The scumbag/liar-nObama administration attorney replied, “It’s certainly going to be an issue… I don’t deny that."

Neither does socialist-Beto. And if asked, I’m sure every other Democrat would agree with him.

My friends, you see what is at stake next November. Help us reelect President Trump, Vice President Pence, and send more pro-family, pro-life, pro-Trump conservatives to Congress!

Deal or No Deal?

President Trump and Chinese Vice Premier Liu met yesterday to discuss trade issues. There is considerable hope that the two men can iron out some sort of a deal, even a partial deal. And the Chinese are clearly eager for one.

One of the communist regime’s main propaganda outlets printed an editorial yesterday declaring:

A partial deal is a more feasible objective, and one that would be in the common interests of both sides. Not only would it be of tangible benefit by breaking the impasse, but it would also create badly needed breathing space for both sides to reflect on the bigger picture…

Whether there is a deal or not, this much is clear: The president would have been much more successful if he only had to deal with the Chinese communists. Unfortunately, he has also had to contend with a big swath of U.S. capitalists.

Whenever a Chinese delegation came to the U.S., they often flew into New York City first, where they would meet with Wall Street CEOs. As they headed to Washington, the CEOs would start lobbying on China’s behalf.

As Lenin reportedly said, "The capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them.” ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/opinion/66077?mailing_id=4586&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4586&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

Wednesday Noon ~ thefrontpagecover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on October 16, 2019 at 11:58am

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

Climate Alarmism of the Last 120 Years

Political Editors

Turkish bank charged in $20B scheme

to skirt US sanctions on Iran

By Morgan Phillips

{ foxnews.com } ~ Federal prosecutors in New York charged Turkish bank Halkbank Tuesday with participating in a multibillion-dollar scheme to evade U.S. sanctions against Iran... Manhattan U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman said senior bank officials at the state-owned bank helped to move billions of dollars of Iranian oil revenue illegally. Prosecutors said that between 2012 and 2016, Halkbank helped run a scheme allowing Iran to spend proceeds from oil sales on international markets, directly violating U.S. sanctions, using a web of front companies. Berman said the crimes were propped up by high-ranking Turkish government officials, some of whom received millions of dollars in bribes to support and protect the scheme. Halkbank was charged with one count of bank fraud, one count of money laundering, and four counts of conspiracy -- including conspiracy to commit bank fraud, commit money laundering, and defraud the United States, according to a Department of Justice statement. Assistant Attorney General John Demers called the scheme “one of the most serious Iran sanctions violations we have seen.” The types of illicit transactions Halkbank participated in would have exposed the bank itself to U.S. sanctions, if discovered. According to prosecutors, Halkbank allowed Iranian oil proceeds to be used by the Tehran government to buy gold, violated a “bilateral trade” rule and disguised fraudulent transactions as purchases of food and medicine to be categorized under the “humanitarian exception” to sanctions against Iran’s government. In total, Halkbank transferred approximately $20 billion of otherwise restricted Iranian funds. In January of last year, one of Halkbank's former executives, Mehmet Hakan Atilla, was convicted by a federal jury of conspiring to conduct secret transactions on behalf of Iran and Iran-related entities that were barred by U.S. sanctions. In May 2018, Atilla was sentenced to 32 months in federal prison. https://www.foxnews.com/politics/turkish-bank-charged-in-multibillion-dollar-scheme-to-skirt-us-iran-sanctions

Last night's Democrat debate

A cluster of tyrannical fantasists

By Patricia McCarthy

{ americanthinker.com } ~ For conservatives who watched the Democrat debate, it was like visiting Earth-2, as Drunkblogger Stephen Green so cleverly put it. Conservatives probably could not endure these debates without Stephen Green's infusion of both facts and humor... Each of those candidates on the stage seemed oblivious to the reality of the last three years — the fabulous economy, lowest unemployment in decades, international trade renegotiated to our benefit, millions no longer on food stamps. Our military, eviscerated by scumbag/liar-nObama, is being repaired. Manufacturing has been revitalized, and the border, despite the intransigence of the Democrats, is slowly being better controlled. The wall is being built. Everything Trump has done since being elected has been effective; he has tried to keep his campaign promises despite the Democrats' vow to see him impeached from day one. And no matter how vicious the Left is, those candidates on stage last night continue to opt for mindless delusion that he can be removed from office in order to prevent his re-election. Meanwhile, the rest of us are grateful for a president willing to fight back against both parties, who have nothing but contempt for Trump-supporters, for the man who means to drain the swamp. We must be thankful for the distinguished few in the House the Republicans in the Senate are abject cowards who have the courage to defend the president. The swamp was certainly on display throughout the debate. The Democrats are losing. Trump and his supporters are winning — on every issue, even Turkey and Syria. As others have observed, the Left plays checkers while Trump plays 4-D chess. He is way ahead of his opponents on every level, every issue. Most Americans like having jobs and like their friends and family members having jobs. They don't mind the fact that some people are fabulously wealthy. Those are the people who fund the countless attractions we take for granted: museums, medical research, hospitals that specialize, university buildings, public television, and a host of other things the rest of us enjoy and take for granted. Where would we be without the largesse of all the American billionaires and millionaires who have funded so many projects that have enriched us all? However they attained their wealth is of no interest, nor is how they live their lives. They have contributed to the public good beyond what any of us can adequately appreciate. But each and every one of the Democrat presidential candidates loathes and envies the rich. They mean to punish them. They want them to pay for all that free college tuition and health care for illegal aliens. They want to punish all the corporations that produce all the things we take for granted: our vast choices in any grocery store and our freedom to choose our own doctors, cars, where we live, what we watch on television, etc. Like the true totalitarians they are, they want to tell us what we can have, do, eat, drive, and think. They want to transform us into communist China. Nothing would make them happier. They would all still be rich; the rest of us would be under their thumbs, surveilled as the citizens of China are. Not one of the Democrat candidates ever mentions the word "freedom" or "liberty." This missing link should be the biggest wake-up call of all: they want to control how we live rather than let us live according to the principles of the Founders...

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/10/last_nights_democrat_debate_a_cluster_of_tyrannical_fantasists.html

Turkey Throws Wrenches Into the War on Terror

by LIAM DUFFY

{ spectator.org } ~ Since the start of the Bush administration’s War on Terror, much has rightly been made of the need to defeat the jihadist ideology behind terror attacks using more than simply guns and bombs... But terrorism is only one battleground of the broader ideological fight, and we will ultimately fail to defeat the jihadist threat unless we pull the Islamist rug from beneath their feet — a rug to which, at present, Turkey is adding its considerable weight. As evidenced by the latest incursion into Syria, President Erdoğan’s Turkey is at best hindering the fight against jihadism; at worst our NATO ally is inadvertently or not aiding and abetting the enemy. If we consider jihadism to be the tip of the Islamist spear, it becomes even clearer how problematic the role of Erdoğan and his Justice and Development Party (AKP) really is. Erdoğan himself is a disciple of Necmettin Erbakan, founder of Milli Gorus (National Vision), the Turkish cousin of the globally and disproportionately influential Muslim Brotherhood movement. The Muslim Brotherhood and Milli Gorus share the same ultimate objective as al-Qaeda and the Islamic State, although their strategy differs and they are less promiscuous with their understanding of jihad. Muslim Brotherhood ideologues were key in the formation of the al-Qaeda worldview, and the barrier between the “nonviolent” Islamist groups and jihadist groups is porous to say the least, with a number of senior jihadists emerging from the intellectual Islamist movement. Although at one time Erdoğan’s Islamist days appeared to be behind him, he has embarked on a campaign of “re-Islamization” in Turkey— formerly a bastion of secularism. This mirrors the activities of Milli Gorus and the Muslim Brotherhood in the West, which seek to implant an ultra-orthodox and politicized Muslim identity into Western Muslim communities. Milli Gorus is heavily supported and influenced by Erdogan’s AKP, particularly in Europe. In Germany alone, Milli Gorus is estimated to control 300 mosques and can count some 30,000 members 87,000 in Europe in total. Aside from the risk of creating parallel societies that would prove dangerous to social cohesion and integration, Germany’s own assessment concludes that there is a “risk that such milieus could also form the breeding ground for further radicalization.” Alongside the re-Islamization campaign at home and abroad, Erdogan has slowly pressed down on the throat of democratic freedoms in Turkey, with thousands of alleged coup plotters still imprisoned after a brutal crackdown that left hundreds dead. Thousands of websites, including Wikipedia, are banned alongside occasional blockages of social media, and Turkey has tumbled down the ranks of both Freedom House’s democracy rankings and the World Justice Project’s Rule of Law index... https://spectator.org/turkey-throws-wrenches-into-the-war-on-terror/?utm_source=American%20Spectator%20Emails&utm_campaign=3ae5350a14-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_10_16_12_22&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_797a38d487-3ae5350a14-104608113

How Erdogan Planned This

Ethnic Cleansing All Along

by Malcolm Lowe

{ gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ It is now clear that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan intended the annihilation of the Syrian Kurds already two years ago... Moreover, his plans became evident to the US military by the beginning of 2019 and were conveyed to President Trump at that time. In order to disguise his plans, Erdogan revealed them stage by stage, by making first lesser and then greater demands on the US military, to which Trump agreed -- sometimes in the course of telephone conversations with Erdogan. So Erdogan was able to hoodwink the US military up to January 2019 and to hoodwink Trump up to the current invasion: Trump resolutely defied contrary advice from the military and from everyone else. At first, Erdogan demanded the removal of Kurdish militias only west of the Euphrates river. This was the proclaimed aim of his so-called Operations Euphrates Shield and Olive Branch the expulsion of hundreds of thousands of Kurds from the Afrin area. With that accomplished, he began demanding a Turkish-controlled "security zone" east of the river, to be 32 kilometers deep. The US responded by agreeing to joint US-Turkish patrols in the area. Erdogan demanded that the Kurdish towns in the area should dismantle the fortifications that they had raised to defend themselves from the Islamic State (ISIS). The Kurds agreed, reassured by the US military that this step would remove any excuse for a Turkish invasion. Finally, in October 2019, Erdogan asked Trump in a further telephone call to remove US troops from the patrols and Trump agreed, believing that by threatening Turkey on Twitter, he could deter a Turkish invasion. The invasion started forthwith. It has been stalled, maybe, now that the Kurds have invited the army of the Assad regime to deploy throughout northeastern Syria up to the Iraqi frontier. If so, the beneficiaries will include Iran, America's arch enemy, which can now see its yearned-for highway all the way from Tehran to Quneitra on Israel's border. In this timetable, there is no need document with links information that has been reported many times in many media. To be recommended, however, are especially the articles of Seth Frantzman, who personally knows well both the area and the leading Kurdish partisans... https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/15036/erdogan-plan-annihilation-kurds

In Effort to Deter Iran, DOD Deploys

Additional Forces to Saudi Arabia

by Bradley Bowman and Mikhael Smits

{ fdd.org } ~ In response to continued threats from Iran and a request from Riyadh, the Pentagon announced Friday the deployment of additional U.S. forces to Saudi Arabia... Washington is seeking to strengthen U.S. combat power in the Middle East as a means to deter additional Iranian aggression and avoid a wider conflict. The deployment represents the latest U.S. response to the September 14 attacks on Saudi Arabia’s Khurais oil field and Abqaiq oil-processing facility. The attack featured a swarm of cruise missiles and low-flying drones. Abqaiq represents the world’s largest such facility, and the attack temporarily knocked-out nearly 6 percent of global crude oil production. Shortly after the September 14 attacks, the Department of Defense deployed an additional Patriot missile defense battery, four Sentinel radars, and 200 support personnel to Saudi Arabia. Friday’s announcement adds two additional fighter squadrons, two more Patriot batteries, one Terminal High Altitude Area Defense system, and one air expeditionary wing. The September 14 attack is part of what Secretary of Defense Mark Esper called Iran’s “larger campaign to destabilize the Middle East and impose costs on the international economy.” During a press conference, Esper hinted that U.S. partners and allies continue to express concerns to the administration regarding additional Iranian aggression – concerns Esper suggested were confirmed by U.S. intelligence. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark Milley said the deployment was necessary to “reestablish deterrence with respect to Iran.” The need to deter Iran is clear. Since May, Tehran’s actions have escalated from surreptitious attacks on foreign vessels, to the downing of a U.S. drone in international airspace, to a major cross-border attack on Saudi Arabia that many would consider a clear act of war. Unfortunately, President Trump’s short-sighted decision to greenlight a Turkish military intervention into northeast Syria and withdraw U.S. troops from the area will only reinforce Tehran’s suspicions that Washington’s commitment to the region’s security is hesitant and brittle. In response to Iran’s actions, the U.S. has deployed 14,000 additional troops to the region since May. In addition to the most recent deployments, as Esper noted, this includes airborne early warning aircraft squadrons, maritime patrol aircraft squadrons, B-52 bombers, an amphibious transport dock, unmanned aircraft, engineering personnel, and the Lincoln Carrier Strike Group (CSG)... https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2019/10/15/in-effort-to-deter-iran-dod-deploys-additional-forces-to-saudi-arabia/

About the CNN Debate

by MELISSA MACKENZIE

{ spectator.org } ~ My goodness, these people are boring. What a snoozefest. What was most interesting, though, is what wasn’t talked about... No loose lips liar-Biden corruption. No China. No answer from Elizabeth dinky/liar-Warren, the ostensible front-runner, about where the money comes from for her pie-in-the-sky schemes. Hint: It’s the middle class paying higher taxes. If Democrats refuse to answer, the middle class paying higher taxes is always the answer. Here’s some overall impressions, and then I’ll get into the candidates themselves. First, this crew has driven past commie-Bernie the Squad endorsed him!!! and gone off into the weeds and rusting buildings of commieland. Trillions of spending was waved off as no big deal. Gun confiscation was enthusiastically embraced. The Democrats are now the party of perpetual war and foreign adventurism, but there was zero mention of one Barack H. scumbag/liar-nObama. Also notably absent: Code Pink. Where are those ardent, true believers screaming out, “BUSH McHALLIBURTON!!!”? Second, let’s be honest, though. Who really was paying attention to their insanely extreme domestic and foreign policy plans? Mostly, they were boring. Leaden, even. Nothing quotable. Nothing interesting. This is in stark contrast to the Republicans in 2016. That field was strong. Nearly anyone on that stage could be president and America would be fine. Forget who they were? Let’s just look at the candidates who withdrew before the primary: Rick Perry governor, Texas — economic miracle, Scott Walker governor, Wisconsin — economic turnaround, Bobby Jindal governor, Louisiana — growth, Lindsey Graham senator, South Carolina — Years of experience, foreign policy and judicial expert, George Pataki Yuck, but governor, New York. Any of them could lead the nation better than the doofuses on the stage as the premiere Democrats. President scumbag/liar-nObama decimated the party for a generation. Not only did Democrats across the country get destroyed but the bench to build future leaders also sat empty. Hopefully, the Republicans are watching and learning. Just kidding. They never learn. Anyway, the lack on the Democrat side is so complete and sad, it’s a little unnerving. None of these people deserve to lead this nation. Let’s discuss why, one by one... https://spectator.org/about-the-cnn-debate/?utm_source=American%20Spectator%20Emails&utm_campaign=3ae5350a14-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_10_16_12_22&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_797a38d487-3ae5350a14-104608113

Climate Alarmism of the Last 120 Years

Political Editors: To error is human. And if science is only as good as the scientist, then, since scientists are human … any reasonable person would be foolish not to hold a healthy amount of skepticism toward any declarations of the science being “settled.” This is especially the case when it comes to the politically charged topic of global warming or climate change or whatever it will be called in the near future. A few years ago, Anthony Watts of Watts Up With That? put together a list of the last 120 years of climate alarmism. Given that the list is still relevant because alarmists never quit issuing new dire predictions, here are a few examples of just how wrong they’ve been over the years:

1895 — Geologists Think the World May Be Frozen Up Again —The New York Times
1902 — “Disappearing Glaciers … deteriorating slowly, with a persistency that means their final annihilation … scientific fact … surely disappearing.” —Los Angeles Times
1923 — “Scientist says Arctic ice will wipe out Canada” —Professor Gregory of Yale University, American representative to the Pan-Pacific Science Congress, in the Chicago Tribune
1933 — America in Longest Warm Spell Since 1776; Temperature Line Records a 25-Year Rise —The New York Times
1954 — Climate — the Heat May Be Off —Fortune Magazine
1969 — “The Arctic pack ice is thinning and … the ocean at the North Pole may become an open sea within a decade or two” —The New York Times
1969 — “If I were a gambler, I would take even money that England will not exist in the year 2000” —Paul Ehrlich (while he now predicts doom from global warming, this quote only gets honorable mention, as he was talking about his crazy fear of overpopulation)
1974 — Global cooling for the past forty years —Time Magazine
1974 — “Climatological Cassandras are becoming increasingly apprehensive, for the weather aberrations they are studying may be the harbinger of another ice age” —The Washington Post
1974 — “The facts of the present climate change are such that the most optimistic experts would assign near certainty to major crop failure … mass deaths by starvation, and probably anarchy and violence.” —The New York Times
1975 — “The threat of a new ice age must now stand alongside nuclear war as a likely source of wholesale death and misery for mankind” Nigel Calder, editor, New Scientist magazine, in an article in International Wildlife Magazine
1990 — “We’ve got to ride the global warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, we will be doing the right thing — in terms of economic policy and environmental policy.” —Senator Timothy Wirth
1998 — No matter if the science [of global warming] is all phony … climate change [provides] the greatest opportunity to bring about justice and equality in the world.“ —Christine Stewart, Canadian Minister of the Environment, Calgary Herald
2006 — "I believe it is appropriate to have an over-representation of factual presentations on how dangerous it is, as a predicate for opening up the audience to listen to what the solutions are, and how hopeful it is that we are going to solve this crisis.” —scumbag-Al Gore, Grist magazine
2014 — Climate change: It’s even worse than we thought. Five years ago, the last report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change painted a gloomy picture of our planet’s future. As climate scientists gather evidence for the next report, due in 2014, Michael Le Page gives seven reasons why things are looking even grimmer. —New Scientist (undated in 2014)

Again, these are but a few of the climate headlines over the last century. What is telling is how in more recent years the climate alarmism has become increasingly tied to leftist politics, to the detriment of science. ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/66075?mailing_id=4586&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4586&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

Wed/Med AM ~ thefrontpagecover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on October 16, 2019 at 9:32am

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

Democratizing China

or 'Communizing' America?

Arnold Ahlert

Wednesday Top News Executive Summary

Media Editors: Above the Fold

dinky/liar-WARREN SWARMED: On Tuesday night, “Elizabeth dinky/liar-Warren took heat in the fourth Democratic debate,” writes CNBC. Check out the top moments from the unconstitutional debate.

SHORT ON VOTES? “Speaker liar-Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Tuesday she will not stage a vote on the House floor to officially launch an impeachment inquiry into President Trump,” according to The Hill. liar-Pelosi claims, “There’s no requirement that we have a vote.” Instead, Democrats, led by scumbag-Adam Schiff, are using a nefarious legal process. As such, Rudy Giuliani won’t comply with a Democrat-issued subpoena.

National Security

VETO, PART II: Trump vetoes measure to end his emergency declaration on border wall; similar measure was vetoed in March (Reuters)

DOUR EXPECTATIONS FOR MIKE PENCE VISIT: Recep Tayyip Erdogan vows never to declare a ceasefire in northern Syria despite U.S. backlash: “We are not worried about any sanctions” (National Review)

MEANWHILE… “Officials are reviewing plans to evacuate up to 50 U.S. nuclear bombs that have long been stored at Incirlik Air Base in Turkey in the wake of Ankara’s military offensive in northern Syria.” (Fox News)

Government & Politics

CONSCIENTIOUS PROTECTIONS: Federal court strikes down scumbag/liar-nObama administration “transgender mandate” for doctors (Fox News)

POLITICAL FUTURES: Hispanics become the largest voting-eligible minority group in the country (National Review)

APPEASING THE LAWLESS: California will allow illegal aliens to serve on government boards (Hot Air)

Other Notables

SWEEPING TOLL: “The opioid crisis cost the U.S. economy $631 billion from 2015 through last year — and it may keep getting more expensive, according to a study released Tuesday by the Society of Actuaries.” (Associated Press)

DIABOLICAL: Syrian regime accused of dozens of torture methods from “crucifixion” to rape to eye-gouging (Fox News)

Closing Arguments

POLICY: Free speech must be protected inside and outside the college classroom (American Enterprise Institute)

POLICY: Carbon taxes will never be enough (Capital Research Center)

HUMOR: Oppressed Chinese citizens apologize to NBA players for disrupting their difficult week (The Babylon Bee)

~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/66149?mailing_id=4590&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4590&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

liar-Nancy Pelosi Promises House Impeachment Subpoenas Will Not Have Legal Penalties –

House Will Not Authorize Impeachment Inquiry

by sundance

{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ According to Capitol Hill members, via Politico, House Democrat leadership has taken a climate assessment of democrat House members and Speaker liar-Pelosi announced they will not hold a House impeachment authorization vote... As a direct and specific consequence all committee subpoenas do not carry a penalty for non-compliance. A judicial penalty can only be created if the House votes to authorize an impeachment inquiry. Absent a vote, the Legislative Branch has not established compulsion authority aka judicial enforcement authority, as they attempt to work through their quasi-constitutional “impeachment inquiry” process. Instead of subpoenas, scumbag-Adam Schiff House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence; Chairman scumbag-Elijah E. Cummings Committee on White House Oversight; and Chairman scumbag-Eliot L. Engel House Committee on Foreign Affairs can only send out request letters.The compliance is discretionary based on the ideology of the recipient. It is likely, highly likely, liar-Nancy Pelosi does not have the votes to proceed with a full House impeachment authorization; so liar-Pelosi, scumbag-Schiff, scumbag-Engel and scumbag-Cummings have to rely on the duplicity of the media to help them hide their scheme. So far the media is complying. Speaker liar-Nancy Pelosi and Democratic leaders will hold off on a full House vote authorizing an impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump, according to multiple lawmakers and aides...

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/10/15/fraud-continues-nancy-pelosi-promises-house-impeachment-subpoenas-will-not-have-legal-penalties-house-will-not-authorize-impeachment-inquiry/

135 House Republicans co-sponsor resolution

to censure scumbag-Schiff over 'parody'

reading of Trump-Zelensky call

By Andrew O'Reilly

{ foxnews.com } ~ A motion to censure House Intelligence Committee Chairman scumbag-Adam Schiff, D-Calif., for his “parody” reading of President Trump’s July phone call with Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky during a hearing last month... is gaining steam with House Republicans, as Fox News has learned 135 lawmakers have now signed on as co-sponsors. The resolution to censure scumbag-Schiff -- who has become a favorite target of Republicans for his role in the Trump impeachment inquiry -- was first introduced late last month by Rep. Andy Biggs, the Arizona Republican who chairs the conservative House Freedom Caucus, and has the support of House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., House Minority Whip Steve Scalise, R-La., and House Republican Conference Chair Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., among other ranking Republicans in the lower chamber of Congress. Democrats have the majority and control the floor in the House, but Republicans could still attempt to force a vote on the matter. “scumbag-Schiff simply does not have the gravitas that a weighty procedure such as impeachment requires,” Biggs wrote in an opinion piece for Fox News. “He has repeatedly shown incredibly poor judgment. He has persistently and consistently demonstrated that he has such a tremendous bias and animus against Trump that he will say anything and accept any proffer of even bogus evidence to try to remove the president from office.” Fox News has requested comment from scumbag-Schiff's office. scumbag-Schiff, who is leading one of the committees investigating Trump in the impeachment inquiry announced by House Speaker liar-Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., has been under fire from conservatives for the “parody” of the president’s call with Zelensky that he read at the testimony last month of Acting Director of National Intelligence Joseph Maguire. Maguire was on Capitol Hill to defend his handling of the explosive whistleblower complaint detailing how Trump pressured his Ukrainian counterpart to investigate former Vice President loose lips liar-Joe Biden and his son, Hunter... I don't see the issue here when other Presidents have done the same. https://www.foxnews.com/politics/125-house-republicans-co-sponsor-resolution-to-censure-schiff-over-parody-reading-of-trump-zelensky-call

VIDEO: https://video.foxnews.com/v/6089893388001/#sp=show-clips

Klobuchar Wrath Attack

Angry Amy Came to Play

by Andrew Stiles

{ freebeacon.com } ~ Tonight was the night Amy Klobuchar stopped playing coy on the debate stage and started treating her Democratic opponents like she treats her employees... Angry Amy came to play.A confessed bird murderer who presided over a Senate office that former staffers described as "controlled by fear, anger, and shame," Klobuchar (D., Minn.) traded her inside voice for her shouty voice, and lit into her Democratic opponents, accusing them of trying to deceive the American people with lies. De facto frontrunner Senator Elizabeth dinky/liar-Warren (D., Mass.) bore the brunt of Amy's rage, especially when it came to the issue of health care and dinky/liar-Warren's refusal to admit that middle class taxes will go up under her proposed "Medicare for All" plan. "I'm sorry, dinky/liar-Elizabeth … I think we owe it to the American people to tell them where we're going to send the invoice," Klobuchar seethed. "I believe the best and boldest idea here is to not trash scumbag/liar-nObamacare, but to do exactly what Barack scumbag/liar-nObama wanted to do from the beginning, and that's have a public option." Klobuchar was just getting started, accusing dinky/liar-Warren of wanting to kick 150 million people off of their preferred health insurance plans by forcing them to enroll in Medicare. "And I'm tired of hearing whenever I say these things, ‘Oh, it's Republican talking points,'" Klobuchar fumed. "You are making Republican talking points right now in this room … I think there is a better way that is bold, that will cover more people, and it's the one we should get behind."... https://freebeacon.com/blog/angry-amy-klobuchar/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=bd1347ad9a-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_10_16_01_34_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-bd1347ad9a-45611665

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7EcoQ47pLM

Erdoğan Invaded; What's Next in Syria?

by Daniel Pipes

{ danielpipes.org } ~ Secretary of Defense Mark Esper has admitted that American troops in Syria are in a "terrible" position. What happened to bring Americans to this predicament?... Trump has decided that bringing American troops back from the Middle East is his highest priority, ignoring the situation in Syria, morality, and the reputation of the United States. What now is the mission of the US military in Syria after Turkish troops entered Syria? Is there a purpose if the Americans troops don't support anyone - neither Kurds nor Turks? The U.S. military mission in Syria is to leave but also to threaten Turkey if Erdoğan goes too far. Whatever that means. Esper has spoken of withdrawing about a thousand troops from Syria and the main contingent may leave in the coming days. What do you expect next? It's hard to predict because so much of the U.S. government, especially the Department of Defense and the Congress, oppose Trump, so they might be able to stall or push him to get the Turks to stop the invasion. Which forces will take advantage of the vacuum created in northern Syria after the American departure? The U.S. withdrawal helps Turkey, which now can move into Syria; and the Asad government and its Iranian ally, which is making deals with the Kurds. The Kurds are looking to Moscow to stop the Turks; will the Russians go against Erdoğan and support the Kurds? I expect Putin to find a path that maximizes Russian influence over both Ankara and the Kurds. I can't predict what that path will be. How will it all end, what will be the alignment of forces in northern Syria? I foresee a de facto division of northern Syria between Turkish, Kurdish, and Syrian-Iranian areas.

http://www.danielpipes.org/19075/erdogan-invaded-what-next-in-syria?utm_source=Middle+East+Forum&utm_campaign=7790f3a99c-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_10_15_09_20&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_086cfd423c-7790f3a99c-33703665

'These are not hearings. These are depositions' Democrats justify secret impeachment inquiry

by Kerry Picket

{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ A Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee defended holding the impeachment inquiry proceedings in secret and withholding transcripts by saying witnesses were giving depositions and not testifying in hearings... “I think that at an appropriate point in the future these transcripts will be released. Let's remember what's happened here. These are not hearings. These are depositions and we're following best practices for investigations," Rep. Denny Heck said Monday night after nine hours of secret testimony from former top Trump Russia adviser Fiona Hill. The Washington state Democrat added, "These are depositions, not hearings.” “At some point, I believe in the near future, the transcripts will be released. And should there be a recommendation to the Judiciary Committee to draft articles of impeachment, that will be a public process,” he explained, adding that articles of impeachment would then go to the House floor for a vote. Republicans have cried foul because witness transcripts from closed-door House impeachment proceedings have yet to be released but House Intelligence Committee Chairman scumbag-Adam Schiff has demanded the White House release documents related to the president’s July 25 phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. New York Republican Rep. Lee Zeldin pointed out that scumbag-Schiff had compared the impeachment inquiry to the grand jury process. “If you actually believe that you should be treating this as grand jury testimony, then you shouldn't be leaking and cherry picking any fact that you think" helps your own narrative. Heck said the White House was "darn lucky" the hearings were not public. He continued, “We don't want the witnesses knowing at this stage what one another said. These transcripts will be made available at some point, and this process will become open beyond belief at some point. But we are in the stage of the process which is investigatory." Zeldin said, “So they'll talk to each other through scumbag-Adam Schiff's leaks. That's it. So they will get to know what another person will testify to that scumbag-Adam Schiff believes best fits his spin on reality.” https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/these-are-not-hearings-these-are-depositions-democrats-justify-secret-impeachment-inquiry?utm_source=breaking_push&utm_medium=app&utm_campaign=push_notifications&utm_source=WEX_News%20Brief_10/15/2019&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WEX_News%20Brief&rid=5261

Don’t Think the Turks

Are Slaughtering the Kurds?

by clarionproject.org ~ One of the most dramatic instances of the Turks slaughtering the Kurds during their days-long invasion of Syria is the execution of well-loved Kurdish-Syrian politician Hevrin Khalaf... Khalaf, 35, who was the secretary general of the Future Syria Party, and her driver were dragged out of their car and shot to death by Turkish-backed fighters from the group Ahrar al-Sharqiya during Turkey’s military operation against the Kurds. Khalaf and her driver were among many civilians killed during the Turkish onslaught. The execution was summed up by the following cartoon posted on Twitter: A Clarion contact with the Kurdish Red Crescent (Heyva Sora a Kurd) sent us a detailed, day-by-day report of the bombardment and ensuing causalities, of which the figure numbers in the hundreds. In addition to the Kurds, the lives of close to 100,000 Christians in the region are also in danger. Meanwhile, President Trump’s pullout of the American troops in the region — which facilitated the invasion by Turkey — remains a subject of controversy. Trump stated that he would retaliate economically if Turkey crossed the line with the invasion. By Monday the administration had done just that, increasing steel tariffs back up to 50 percent they had been reduced since in May. “The United States will also immediately stop negotiations, being led by the Department of Commerce, with respect to a $100 billion trade deal with Turkey,”Trump announced. Finally, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control sanctioned two ministries and three senior Turkish government officials in response to the invasion...

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Democratizing China or 'Communizing' America?

Arnold Ahlert: Ever since Richard Nixon’s historic visit to Communist China in 1972, Americans have been repeatedly told by members of both parties and several administrations that contact with the West would “democratize” them. Yet what if it’s the other way around? What if China is succeeding in turning the United States into a Marxist/socialist state? How many Americans have been persuaded that our nation, not China, needs to be “fundamentally transformed”?

We begin with academia — or what passes for such. Last week, former Acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan, who was scheduled to be the keynote speaker at an annual conference hosted by the nonpartisan Migration Policy Institute, was subjected to a heckler’s veto and forced off the stage. The incident took place at Georgetown Law, where one might assume people are earning credentials to defend the Constitution, not trample it.

Such totalitarian-like behavior is the tip of the iceberg. In universities throughout the nation, the Left’s radical agenda has become so thoroughly entrenched that anyone who challenges it can now be run off stage, sometimes in fear for their lives. Moreover, anything that doesn’t comport with progressive ideology is “hate speech,” and course studies revolving around topics like “white privilege,” “toxic masculinity,” and the idea that America is a hopelessly racist, sexist, bigoted nation have become routine.

It’s even worse in the nation’s public schools. A toxic combination of dumbing-down and rank indoctrination, papered over by rampant grade inflation, is turning out legions of weak thinkers, virtually clueless about civics and the Constitution, but imbued with quasi-religious, inalterable convictions about environmentalism, social justice, and anti-capitalist economics — and the need for increasingly expansive and coercive government to “solve” the nation’s problems.

Hollywood is no better. The same celebrities and executives who never miss an opportunity to lecture this nation about its shortcomings are the people who tailor their pictures to suit a Chinese government that demands obedience in order to gain distribution. Such obedience, which is all about relinquishing creative control to Chinese censors, has also become routine.

Big business? In the past week alone, the NBA, ESPN, Apple, Google, and even Tiffany & Co surrendered to ChiCom demands with regard to the protesters in Hong Kong. All of these entities have made it clear that Liberty takes a back seat to lucre.

And not just in China. In Philadelphia and Washington, DC, the NBA actually ejected fans for holding signs in support of Hong Kong and the Uighurs, the Muslim-minority group that has been systematically persecuted and forced into internment camps. They also had their signs confiscated. NBA sports agents are warning their players, many of whom express their social-justice take on America whenever it suits them, to remain silent.

What’s more important than freedom? Sneaker contracts. “You see NBA players constantly over the summer in their off-season running to China to do the bidding of their shoe companies and to sell their shoes in the China market and so the NBA is really being exposed as not nearly as much of American business as it is a global business with China perhaps having more influence over it than even America,” explains sports journalist Jason Whitlock.

Other companies recently caving to Chinese sensibilities include jeweler Swarovski, clothing-makers Versace, Coach, and Calvin Klein, automaker Audi, Marriott hotels, Qantas, Air France, Air Canada, and British Airways. Blizzard Entertainment, a California-based game company, banned e-sport player “Blitzchung” for a year, and fined him the total amount of the prize money he won at a regular-season tournament, because he voiced support for the Hong Kong protesters.

The pattern is apparent and the message is clear: Patriotism, Liberty, and concern for basic human rights take a back seat to multinationalism, and ideas like “last best hope for mankind,” “beacon of freedom,” and “American exceptionalism” no longer resonate among elitists who don’t care about anyone or anything but themselves and their bottom line.

The media? Their unrelenting attempt to force feed the American public the “progressive” narrative has reached metastatic levels. Three years of lies, leaks, and propagandizing — from the Russian hoax to the New York Times’ race-baiting, historically revisionist 1619 Project, and everything in between — has made it clear their two main agendas are to divide this nation, and undo the 2016 election — by any means necessary. They are aided and abetted by felony leaking, courtesy of an unaccountable, unelected bureaucracy that can come at any American, including the president, “six ways from Sunday.” As a result, public trust has reached an all-time low, even as as “fake news” is still disseminated on a daily basis — and a de facto coup remains ongoing.

Media is joined at the hip by the tech giants who’ve made it clear they intend to completely eliminate privacy. It’s a contemptible stew of surveillance-capable and data-mining devices and “algorithms” designed to “filter” dissent and tailor public opinion beginning in American classrooms — and possibly ending in the manipulation of millions of votes — makes George Orwell’s 1984 look benign by comparison. And whether Americans realize it or not, the avalanche of currently obtainable data allows for the seamless transition into the very same Social Credit System the Communist Chinese government will forcibly impose on its people beginning next year. The one where a person’s “trustworthiness” will be evaluated, and those found wanting will be blacklisted, economically and socially.

Politics? One and a half of our two main political parties are willing to not only jeopardize our nation’s economy, but it’s national security as well. If there is anything resembling bipartisanship in our nation’s capital, it amounts to bipartisan contempt for the nation-state, borders, a genuine justice system that treats everyone the same — and ordinary Americans, whose influence on the body politic must ultimately be rendered irrelevant by massive levels of legal and illegal immigration.

Our devolution is further epitomized by the Democrat Party’s effort to undo the 2016 election, even if it takes what amounts to a star chamber approach to impeachment. One whereby the whistleblower form is changed to to accommodate second-hand allegations, testimony and transcripts are kept secret, and the abandonment of precedent is perpetrated by a cabal of House zealots, who refuse to let their colleagues hold a formal vote on the issue — and refuse to grant the Republicans the power to call their own witnesses or issue subpoenas, even as they issue subpoenas of their own. “The subpoenas are part of a two-pronged strategy by Democrats,” explains columnist Chad Pergram. “Get the information to help tailor the articles of impeachment, or convert a refusal to comply into an impeachment article itself.”

Every bit of this charade will be fully coordinated with the Trump-hating media, controlled by America-contemptuous multinational corporations, run by elitists indoctrinated by a corrupt education system, who also can count on useful idiot Hollywood cheerleaders to give them an aura of celebrity-endorsed legitimacy.

So, when it comes to America and China, who’s changing whom?

“The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.” —George Orwell ~The Patriot Post

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Wednesday AM ~ thefrontpagecover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on October 16, 2019 at 6:58am

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~ Featuring ~

Request to Require -- Tolerate to Mandate

Tom McLaughlin

Political correctness versus common sense

By Robert Curry

{ americanthinker.com } ~ The masters of political correctness in America are moving fast. For example, consider the explosion of so-called gender identities." In 2016, New York City released a list of 31 genders approved by the city's Commission on Human Rights... While writing my book Reclaiming Common Sense, I consulted Google to find out how many genders there were then and was told that the answer was 63. Today, while writing this article, I re-Googled that question, and it was revealed to me that the latest number is 112. Political correctness about gender identities is metastasizing rapidly, making it difficult for ordinarily busy people to keep up. And keep up we must, just as people living in the Soviet Union had to keep up with the constantly changing Communist party line. Not long ago, everyone understood the unchanging commonsense reality that human beings are either male or female. Today in New York City, the rules have been changed — and failure to keep up can have dire consequences. New York City's special 31 genders are surrounded by special legal protections. Businesses can now be fined as much as $250,000 for refusing to address someone by his preferred pronoun. As we have seen in the news, even in cities that have not yet have caught up with New York City in terms of imposing legal penalties, failing a test of political correctness about genders can result in public shaming or the loss of a job. There is more to this story. Consider the names given the genders officially approved by New York City's Commission on Human Rights. The names include "drag king," "drag queen," "butch," "femme queen," "gender fluid," "gender blender," "gender gifted," "gender bender," and "femme person of transgender experience." Talk about rubbing our noses in it! The commissioners have gone out of their way to be outrageously transgressive. This is not accidental. They are making it abundantly clear they are ridiculing normal people and the world of common sense — the more outrageous, the better. Why would they do that? Because the purpose of political correctness is to humiliate us. Under the cover of empowering people who deviate from normal, the proponents of political correctness are actually disempowering the rest of us... https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/10/political_correctness_versus_common_sense.html

Senate Passes Ransomware Law

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by Phil Muncaster

{ infosecurity-magazine.com } ~ A new law has passed the US senate which will demand the federal government ramp up its support for organizations hit by ransomware... The DHS Cyber Hunt and Incident Response Teams Act would require the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to build dedicated teams tasked with providing advice to organizations on how best to protect their systems from attack, as well as other technical support, including incident response assistance. Although the new capabilities would be available to all public and private organizations on request — including businesses, police departments, hospitals, and banks — senate minority leader Chuck scumbag-Schumer focused on protection for New York state schools in his comments on the legislation. “The Senate passing the DHS Cyber Hunt and Incident Response Teams Act is an important step in protecting upstate New York school districts from the swaths of ransomware attacks that take hostage the personal information and vital data of our students, school employees and local governments,” he said in a statement. “It’s critical that we use all available resources to protect New York students from cyber crooks, and enhance and increase our resiliency to these attacks. I’m proud of the role I played in pushing this sorely-needed legislation through the senate and won’t stop working until it’s signed into law.” One security vendor calculated last week that ransomware attacks have disrupted operations at 49 US school districts and educational institutions in the first nine months of the year, compromising potentially 500 K-12 schools versus just 11 last year. This makes the sector the second most popular for ransomware attackers after local municipalities. These have been battered by attacks over the past few months, with one campaign in Texas hitting 23 local government entities simultaneously. A similar piece of legislation to the DHS Cyber Hunt and Incident Response Teams Act has already passed in the House of Representatives, so the two will now begin the reconciliation process. https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/senate-passes-ransomware-law/

Top Conservative Rumored To Replace Shep

Smith At Fox News – This Would Be HUGE

by Martin Walsh

{ explainlife.com } ~ Most people who watch Fox News are well-aware of the liberal hosts who use their shows to bash President Donald Trump... But things kicked up a notch last week when left-wing anchor Shepherd Smith quit from his role as Chief News Anchor and Managing Editor of Fox News’ breaking news unit. In his absence, anchors Bret Baier, Chris Wallace, Brit Hume, Shannon Bream, Martha MacCallum, Bill Hemmer, and John Roberts are among the Fox News Channel news anchors who will do a stint in the 3 p.m. hour. But rumors are swirling that one of the most famous voices in conservative media could replace Smith: Rush Limbaugh.The rumors are gaining so much traction that Limbaugh addressed them on his radio program Monday afternoon. Limbaugh said he didn’t have any desire to accept the job if it were ever offered to him, but the fact that he even acknowledged the possibility speaks volumes. So many people want him to have a show on Fox News that Limbaugh said people have been “blowing up” his email, social media pages, and calling into his program to push him into taking over Smith’s program. Below is a partial transcript of Limbaugh addressing the rumors: A lot of people have said, “Rush, why don’t you, when you finish at 3 o’clock, why don’t you just turn on the camera in there and let Fox hire to you replace Shep Smith. I mean, you could segue from your show to the 3 o’clock audience over at Fox.” You know why this is being suggested, is because Shepard Smith abruptly left the network last week in circumstances that are still a bit cloudy and mysterious. Folks, let me tell you something. I have nothing left to prove. I’ve been doing this for 30 years. I have built radio stations. I have built audiences. I don’t need to prove I can do that anymore... https://explainlife.com/top-conservative-rumored-to-replace-shep-smith-at-fox-news-this-would-be-huge-17041/?utm_source=Explainlife.com%20Newsletter&utm_medium=email

Democracy Dies In Darkness: scumbag-Adam

Schiff Just Banned A GOP Lawmaker From

Attending Key Ukrainegate Deposition

By Sean Davis

{ thefederalist.com } ~ Rep. scumbag-Adam Schiff, D-Calif., just banned a key Republican lawmaker from the deposition of a former anti-Trump national security official believed to be at the center of ongoing Ukraine proceedings... sources tell The Federalist. Schiff tossed Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., out of the deposition. Although the U.S. House of Representatives has not approved a resolution authorizing a formal impeachment investigation, House Democrats have nonetheless insisted that they have full authority to subpoena all documents and testimony they desire, even if specific committees lack the jurisdiction to demand particular information. scumbag-Schiff, whom liar-Pelosi tapped to lead her party’s anti-Trump impeachment efforts, chairs the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI), which only has jurisdiction over the federal government’s intelligence agencies and related components. According to the Congressional Research Service, formal impeachment proceedings are typically referred to the House Judiciary Committee. Gaetz sits on that committee; scumbag-Schiff does not. The House has yet to approve a resolution granting broad impeachment investigative authority to any of its committees. Several officials told The Federalist that they believe Fiona Hill, who was subpoenaed last week to share her knowledge of allegations of wrongdoing against Trump regarding a phone conversation he had with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on July 25, is one of the unnamed sources for the anti-Trump whistleblower whose August 12 complaint fanned congressional impeachment fires. Hill was reportedly planning to testify about her knowledge of the ouster of Marie Yovanovitch, a controversial figure who was removed from her post as U.S. ambassador to Ukraine in May. scumbag-Schiff has come under fire for blatantly lying about his staff’s interactions with the anti-Trump complainant. Although he falsely denied that neither he nor his staff had any interactions with the complainant, his team had actually coordinated with the complainant before the complaint against Trump was even filed. scumbag-Schiff has also raised the ire of transparency and open government advocates by selectively leaking incomplete and out-of-context information against Trump while stubbornly refusing to release full transcripts of his depositions of federal officials subpoenaed by his committee. scumbag-Adam Schiff should be the one to be banned, not Matt Gaetz. https://thefederalist.com/2019/10/14/democracy-dies-in-darkness-adam-schiff-just-banned-a-gop-lawmaker-from-attending-key-ukrainegate-deposition/?utm_source=The+Federalist+List&utm_campaign=57700518e8-RSS_The_Federalist_Daily_Updates_w_Transom&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_cfcb868ceb-57700518e8-83771801

The End Of scumbag/liar-nObamacare?

Ruling Expected Within Days

by SELENA SIMMONS-DUFFIN

{ npr.org } ~ A decision in the latest court case to threaten the future of the Affordable Care Act could come as soon as this month... The ruling will come from the panel of judges in the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals, which heard oral arguments in the Texas v. Azar lawsuit. An estimated 24 million people get their health coverage through programs created under the law, which has faced countless court challenges since it passed. In court in July, only two of the three judges — both appointed by Republican presidents — asked questions. Says Nicholas Bagley, a professor of law at the University of Michigan: “Oral argument in front of the circuit went about as badly for the defenders of the Affordable Care Act as it could have gone,” “To the extent that oral argument offers an insight into how judges are thinking about the case, I think we should be prepared for the worst — the invalidation of all or a significant part of the Affordable Care Act.” Important caveat: Regardless of this ruling, the Affordable Care Act is still the law of the land. Whatever the 5th Circuit rules, it will be a long time before anything actually changes. Still, the timing of the ruling matters, says Sabrina Corlette, director of the Center on Health Insurance Reforms at Georgetown University. “If that decision comes out before or during open enrollment, it could lead to a lot of consumer confusion about the security of their coverage and may actually discourage people from enrolling, which I think would be a bad thing,” she says. Don’t be confused. Open enrollment begins Nov. 1 and runs at least through Dec. 15, and the insurance marketplaces set up by the law aren’t going anywhere anytime soon. That’s not to underplay the stakes here. Down the line, sometime next year, if the Supreme Court ends up taking the case and ruling the ACA unconstitutional, “the chaos that would ensue is almost possible impossible to wrap your brain around,” Corlette says...

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/10/12/769038397/heads-up-a-ruling-on-the-latest-challenge-to-the-affordable-care-act-is-coming

Brutal wipeout for Democrats in Louisiana,

and the press trying to keep it quiet

By Monica Showalter

{ americanthinker.com } ~ The last of the Louisiana state election numbers are in, and it's not pretty for the Democrats. Not only does its moderate Democratic governor, John Bel Edwards, face a runoff, as noted here, but the state Senate has taken a supermajority... And a whole bunch of key state offices went squarely to Republicans. Funny how the press isn't covering this much. But Guy Benson at Townhall is, and he found a Democratic Party "decimated": Among statewide office-holders, the incumbent GOP Lieutenant Governor (68 percent), Attorney General (66 percent), Treasurer (60 percent, and Agricultural Commissioner (58 percent) were all re-elected without the need for a run-off, under the state's 'jungle primary'-style system. It also appears that the solid Republican majorities in both state legislative chambers will remain intact — with the GOP expanding its Senate advantage into super-majority territory by picking up a pair of Democratic seats: The Hill, which also had a look, but ran an anodyne headline that didn't match the content of its three-alarm fire for Democrats, noted that this Democrat loss came in a special election, and those normally don't draw large numbers of voters, but this one did. And not only did the Republicans take a Senate supermajority, but they almost snapped away the state House, too: Amid record turnout for what is usually a sleepy off-year, irregular election, Louisiana Republicans locked up enough seats in the state Senate to amount to a super majority. The party came within seven seats of winning a super majority in the state House, too, with eight runoff elections to come in November. What's more, the outlook continues to get strong for the GOP in Louisiana because the Republicans have consolidated: the GOP gubernatorial candidate third-place finisher, Ralph Abraham, endorsed the second-place finisher, Eddie Rispone. This makes the whole thing sound like a wave election, with a big warning to the Left for 2020... https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/10/brutal_wipeout_for_democrats_as_final_louisiana_numbers_roll_in.html

Request to Require -- Tolerate to Mandate

Tom McLaughlin

{ tommclaughlin.blogspot.com } ~ In its early days, what we now know as the “LGBT Community” begged society for tolerance of “alternative lifestyles.” Then it asked for acceptance. After gaining some measure of political clout, it demanded “rights.” Lately, it is imposing conformity by legislating civil penalties against people who adhere to biological facts and religious beliefs about LGBT issues. How soon before it criminalizes dissent? How soon will we discover as Cool Hand Luke did that if you don’t, “Get your mind right,” you’ll “spend a night in the box.”

Last week I saw two stories alerting me that it’s just around the corner. The first was in National Review about a former 30-year Emergency Room doctor in the UK who didn’t have his mind right and was fired. His offense? He said he wouldn’t use a “preferred pronoun” when treating a hypothetical “transexual.” He’d refuse to call a man who claimed he was a woman “she.” He said — as a scientist — that it’s impossible for a man to change into a woman. “If somebody has male XY chromosomes and male genitalia,” he said, “I cannot in good conscience call them a woman.” As a Christian, he believes God created humans: “Man and woman he created them,” he said, citing Genesis, Chapter 5: Verse 2.

Dr. Mackereth

Doctors in the UK, however, work for the government and the LGBT lobby mandates conformity from all government employees. It determined that Dr. David Mackereth didn’t have his mind right and could no longer practice medicine. At fifty-five, he was out of a job. Government would force him to ignore science, deny his religious faith, and lie in order to continue practicing. “I knew it could be the end of my work as a doctor,” he said, “but I could not live with myself if I didn’t speak up. It would be dishonest — and I didn’t want to live a lie.”

The second story was in The Federalist: “Starting July 1, 2020, all Illinois public schools are legally required to teach children LGBT history and only buy textbooks that include the topic. NPR affiliate Illinois Public Radio labeled Christian and conservative opposition to this law while it was being considered as stemming from ‘hate groups.’”

According to government-sponsored radio in Illinois, Catholics who believe Catholic doctrine that homosexuality is intrinsically disordered belong to a “hate group.” How long before Catholics are charged with “hate crimes” and imprisoned?

I’ve watched the steady advance of leftist control in public education ever since my own career began in 1975. In 2000, I had to pick out a textbook for 8th graders, but all texts by the standard publishers contained a pronounced left-wing bias and they were costly. I told the principal if I could pick save him money and purchase two cheaper texts for each student: leftist A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn and conservative: A Patriot’s History of the United States by Schweikart & Allen — I could get both for far less the price of one standard text. I could then compare and contrast perspectives in each of my lessons. He said that would be fine if I were to continue teaching, but what if I retired? What was the likelihood that whoever replaced me could do that?

I had to admit it wasn’t likely and had to pick one of the standard, leftist texts: Prentice Hall’s The American Nation, the most-used text in the country at the time. I didn’t like it but figured I would offer students contrasting perspectives from other sources when the bias got too strong. As bad as The American Nation was, it seems middle of the road now compared to what is mandated in Illinois — as well as in California, Colorado, New Jersey, and Oregon where similar laws have been passed. The left controls education thoroughly now, kindergarten to graduate school, and the LGBT lobby is riding high.

Illinois teachers' guide from Human Rights Campaign

Illinois’ Evanston/Skokie schools adopted a curriculum like what will be mandatory next year across the state. The equal sign logo of the Human Rights Campaign — the nation's largest, most powerful LGBT lobby — is stamped all over the materials. Children 3-5 are told about Jazz, a boy who wanted to be a girl. They see a video in which he reads from a book about his transition that made him happy. At the end, Jazz says: “To all the kids out there who are seeing this book for the first time, I just want to say that you can be like Jazz. You can be your true self.”

Illinois teachers' guide from Human Rights Campaign

The left insists homosexuals and transgenders are born that way, but what if they aren’t? Research at Brown University strongly suggests that: “‘Rapid-onset gender dysphoria’ transgenderism may be a social contagion linked with having friends who identify as LGBT, an identity politics culture, and an increase in internet use.” Are public schools turning into laboratories for LGBT identity culture?

https://tommclaughlin.blogspot.com/2019/10/request-to-require-tolerate-to-mandate.html

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