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Wednesday AM ~ thefrontpagecover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on October 16, 2019 at 6:58am

TheFrontPageCover

~ 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

Tuesday PM ~ thefrontpagecover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on October 15, 2019 at 4:38pm

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

The Big Picture of Trump's Rallies

Nate Jackson

Trump’s lightweight alternative

to Medicare for All

by James C. Capretta

{ aei.org } ~ President Trump and senior officials in his administration have been signaling for several months that they would release an updated GOP health-care plan... presumably to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA) — which the president still criticizes as a “disaster.” Last week, the president gave a campaign-style speech denouncing Medicare for All and announcing a new executive order (EO) on improving Medicare. If the EO is the administration’s much-hyped health-care “plan,” it is a surprisingly lightweight offering. The EO tasks the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) and officials in the White House with producing several deliverables focused mainly on expanding options in Medicare Advantage (MA), which is the private insurance alternative to Medicare’s government-managed fee-for-service (FFS) option. HHS is to propose regulations within a year to make it easier for Medicare beneficiaries to use medical savings accounts (Medicare’s version of health savings accounts) in conjunction with MA offerings and to facilitate cash rebates to MA enrollees when selecting options with particularly low premiums. HHS is to suggest regulatory changes to make it easier for MA plans to offer innovative supplemental benefits, including telehealth services. Working with the Council of Economic Advisers and others in the White House, HHS is to recommend how payment rates for medical services paid by the traditional FFS program could be tied more closely to the market rates paid by MA plans. To provide more flexibility for MA plans, HHS is to recommend changes that scale back network adequacy requirements in states that limit provider competition and to account for the benefits of telehealth services. The agency is to look for ways to allow MA plans to speed adoption of innovative medical technology and practices. HHS also is to provide beneficiaries with “better” quality and cost data. The EO uses general language throughout so it is difficult to know for sure what some of these administrative actions will mean. Overall, however, it is clear that what is called for are steps allowed under current law. As such, the changes are likely to be incremental and gradual...

https://www.aei.org/op-eds/trumps-lightweight-alternative-to-medicare-for-all/?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiT0RFNU5XTmhaREpoWXpBeiIsInQiOiJiMGpcL053Sms0UHlOem1IRzJUWlhPV25HdUF2MmVlWmh4T2psM0FzWjd2N1VsUkd6VVRVSCtqV1V6eExRVWZ4S3NrcWFVUlNzOVRzVFBQZklEeWZ3a3pRdDZCQndhWlwvenRwUkpUZHFzNEVDRUZwTWRlam9HaVV5bjNOT3VRVEtsIn0%3D

Iran is pushing Iraq to the brink

Iraqis are fighting back

by Behnam Ben Taleblu

{ fdd.org } ~ Protesters in Iraq are fighting against government corruption and Iran’s malign influence, which is built on hard power, not public good will. Tehran has a lot to lose... “Iran and Iraq are two nations whose hearts & souls are tied together,” tweeted Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei on Sunday, as protests raged in neighboring Iraq. Alleging that the protests are a foreign plot, Khamenei continued, “Enemies seek to sow discord but they’ve failed & their conspiracy won’t be effective.” Khamenei’s response is proof of panic. Iraq is a pivotal part of Iran’s political project in the Middle East, and a friendly government in Baghdad cannot afford to be lost. The protests, which began over a week ago, aimed at government corruption and mismanagement, have quickly morphed into what The Washington Post termed “a revolt against the entire system.” The system in question is the post-Saddam political order, which has endured oscillations in America’s military footprint, the rise and fall of ISIS, and renewed aspirations for Kurdish autonomy. But it has also been subject to – and fared far poorer against – one constant for the past 16 years: Iranian encroachment. Today, Iraq is home to countless pro-Iran politicians, as well pro-Iran Shia militias, many of whom profess loyalty to Iran over Iraq and have fought and bled on Iran’s behalf in Syria. Some of these militias constitute a pro-Iran bloc in the Iraqi parliament. This bloc has been at the forefront of carrying out Iranian interests, most recently, seeking to use Israeli strikes as a reason to evict American forces. Iran pays close attention to Iraqi factional politics, and retains a key interest in government formation efforts. And strategically, Iraq constitutes the first country in Iran’s “land corridor” to the Mediterranean, a contiguous strip of geography connecting a constellation of groups termed the “Axis of Resistance” that Iran supports...

https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2019/10/11/iran-is-pushing-iraq-to-the-brink-iraqis-are-fighting-back/

Terror Attacks in France: A Culture of Denial

by Alain Destexhe

{ gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ On October 3, 2019, a knife-wielding Muslim employee of the Paris Police Department Intelligence Directorate stabbed to death four other employees at police headquarters in the center of Paris... before a trainee police officer shot and killed him. While it was not the deadliest terror attack France has experienced in recent years, the fatal stabbings that took place at the Paris police headquarters were perhaps the most worrisome. Its author a French public servant employed by the police, its highly sensitive target, and the catastrophic handling of the aftermath of the attack reveal the failure of the French institutions. As it was the case for all recent terror attacks, French media and authorities first tried to downplay what happened. The attacker was initially described through potentially mitigating factors, such as his handicap the killer is partly deaf and mute. It took 24 hours before it was eventually revealed that he was an Islamist militant who had carefully planned his attack. That a radicalized militant had been able to remain undetected in a critical security institution for years sent shockwaves throughout the country. Members of the parliamentary opposition asked for the resignation of Home Affairs Minister Christophe Castaner, who at first had said that the attacker "had never shown any warning signs or behavioral difficulties." For the record, this "very normal behavior" included cutting down to a bare minimum communication with women he had for months being avoiding all women but his wife, attending a notoriously radical mosque, and having a phone full of Islamist contacts. His colleagues reported that already in January 2015, he had cheered the murderous Islamist terror attack on the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in front of other police employees. In many countries, a mistake of this scale would be enough for a government minister to resign, but not in France. The whole picture of the attack, which is still not clear, demonstrates an incredible failure of internal control inside the French police. The French Parliament is now asking how the murderer managed to fly under the radar when everything in his behavior clearly signaled an increasing radicalization... https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/15019/france-terrorism-denial

Iranian Supreme Leader Orders

Construction of Advanced Weaponry

by Adam Kredo

{ freebeacon.com } ~ Iranian supreme leader ayatollah Ali Khamenei ordered the country's fighting forces to construct cutting-edge military technology... to take on the United States and other nations that the ruler described as god's enemies. Khamenei, in a speech Sunday at an Iranian military academy in Tehran, decreed that the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps, or IRGC, the country's paramilitary fighting force, should immediately begin production on the "most state of the art weapons," according to reports on his comments carried in Iran's state-controlled press. The supreme leader blamed the United States for increased tension between the two countries. The United States has placed harsh sanctions on Tehran for rapid escalation of its nuclear program in direct violation of the landmark nuclear accord. Khamenei "called on Iranian experts to increase efforts to invent and build more home-made arms," according to Iran's semi-official Fars News Agency. "The military equipment of the IRGC must be advanced and up-to-date; you should invent and manufacture them yourselves," Khamenei was quoted as saying. He based his edict on verses from the Quran, the Muslim holy book. "Today, the IRGC is dignified both inside and outside the country, thanks be to god. The enemies have contributed to creating this dignity," Khamenei said. "With violent, aggressive, and hostile behavior, the Americans increased the dignity of the IRGC. The enemies of god show hostility to god's servants, and this hostility makes god's servants more reputable and estimable."... https://freebeacon.com/national-security/iranian-supreme-leader-orders-construction-of-advanced-weaponry/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=04d43d8e6f-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_10_14_08_58_COPY_251&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-04d43d8e6f-45611665

Report: IG Report Delayed Release –

Ongoing “Classification Review”

by sundance

{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ Maria Bartiromo had initially reported the IG report on the Carter Page FISA situation was going to be released around the end of this week... Ms. Bartiromo is now reporting a delay: It’s the “classifications being made” part that raises concern. President Trump granted Attorney General Bill Barr with declassification authority on May 23rd, 2019, so that any classification issues could be minimized and maximum transparency afforded. WHITE HOUSE: (MAY 23rd) “Today, at the request and recommendation of the Attorney General of the United States, President Donald J. Trump directed the intelligence community to quickly and fully cooperate with the Attorney General’s investigation into surveillance activities during the 2016 Presidential election. The Attorney General has also been delegated full and complete authority to declassify information pertaining to this investigation, in accordance with the long-established standards for handling classified information. Today’s action will help ensure that all Americans learn the truth about the events that occurred, and the actions that were taken, during the last Presidential election and will restore confidence in our public institutions.”...

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/10/14/figures-report-ig-report-delayed-release-ongoing-classification-review/

Guided-missile Destroyer USS Porter

Operates Black Sea, Visits Ukraine

By Sam LaGrone

{ news.usni.org } ~ Guided-missile destroyer USS Porter (DDG-78) is operating in the Black Sea as part of the Navy’s ongoing presence operation in the region... Turkey-based ship spotters posted on social media on Saturday. The warship pulled into Odesa, Ukraine on Sunday for a port visit. “The ship will host five Ukrainian officers as it pulls into Odesa to observe sea-and-anchor operations. These operations enhance regional maritime stability, combined readiness and naval capability with our NATO allies and Black Sea partners,” read a statement from U.S. 6th Fleet. Porter is the seventh U.S. Navy ship to operate in the Black Sea this year. “In July, USS Carney (DDG-64) participated in exercise Sea Breeze 2019 and conducted maritime interoperability training with Standing NATO Maritime Group Two in the Black Sea. In April, USS Ross (DDG-71) conducted maritime training with Bulgaria and Georgia, and a replenishment-at-sea with Turkey,” read the statement. “In February, USS Donald Cook (DDG-75) conducted maritime interoperability training with the Turkish Yavuz-class frigate TS Fatih (F 242) and conducted a port visit to Odesa, Ukraine. In January, Donald Cook and USS Fort McHenry (LSD-43) conducted port visits to Georgia and Romania, respectively. The four U.S. destroyers in Rota are part of the U.S. phased European adaptive approach to ballistic missile defense that pairs the capabilities of the destroyers with Aegis Ashore BMD stations in Poland and Romania. The Navy has stepped up its presence in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea since the 2014 invasion of Crimea by Russia... https://news.usni.org/2019/10/14/guided-missile-destroyer-uss-porter-operates-black-sea-visits-ukraine?utm_source=USNI+News&utm_campaign=4e6931683a-USNI_NEWS_DAILY&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_0dd4a1450b-4e6931683a-231491269&mc_cid=4e6931683a&mc_eid=3999f18767

The Big Picture of Trump's Rallies

Nate Jackson: “Watching the President in [his rallies], I can’t help but think he needs to do a lot more of these,” says Erick Erickson. “Get him out of the White House, away from the TV, and with the crowds that love him. He feeds off their energy. He is deeply entertaining and funny on the stage. He drives the media crazy. … He needs to do more of these.”

Erickson has a good point. President Donald Trump is a crowd pleaser and a man who loves connecting with people from the stage. His television persona gave Americans a familiarity with him long before he ran for president that made voters amenable to his brand of populism, and he played to that strength in “yuge” rallies across the nation in 2016. It will be a necessary part of his 2020 campaign, too.

He doesn’t speak like a polished politician, rattling off the same old list of policy proposals. Instead, he hits his opponents with broadsides that connect with supporters. For instance, in a Louisiana rally Friday, he declared, “[Democrats have been] trying to stop us for more than three years with a lot of crap. They know they can’t win on Election Day so they’re pursuing an illegal, invalid, and unconstitutional bulls—t impeachment.” That’s salty language, but somehow it works for Trump — because he’s right on the merits.

Not only do Trump’s rallies inspire his supporters, they infuriate his detractors. Gary Bauer writes of last Thursday’s rally in Minneapolis, “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.”

Furthermore, for those paying attention, that highlights the gross double standard of the mainstream media. Bauer notes, “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 … will be asked to condemn what happened on the streets of Minneapolis.”

The more Americans are exposed to the radicalism of the Left, the more Trump’s quirks and idiosyncrasies seem like the sane choice in 2020. ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/66095?mailing_id=4586&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4586&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

Tuesday Noon ~ thefrontpagecover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on October 15, 2019 at 12:12pm

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

U.S. and China Push Pause on Trade War

Thomas Gallatin

Trump Did Not Betray the Kurds

by Caroline Glick

{ frontpagemag.com } ~ The near-consensus view of US President Donald Trump’s decision to remove American special forces from the Syrian border with Turkey... is that Trump is enabling a Turkish invasion and double-crossing the Syrian Kurds who have fought with the Americans for five years against the Islamic State group. Trump’s move, the thinking goes, harms US credibility and undermines US power in the region and throughout the world. There are several problems with this narrative. The first is that it assumes that until this week, the US had power and influence in Syria when in fact, by design, the US went to great lengths to limit its ability to influence events there. The war in Syria broke out in 2011 as a popular insurrection by Syrian Sunnis against the Iranian-sponsored regime of President Bashar Assad. The scumbag/liar-nObama administration responded by declaring US support for Assad’s overthrow. But the declaration was empty. The administration sat on its thumbs as the regime’s atrocities mounted. It supported a feckless Turkish effort to raise a resistance army dominated by jihadist elements aligned with the Muslim Brotherhood. President Barack scumbag/liar-nObama infamously issued his “red line” regarding the use of chemical weapons against civilians by Assad, which he repudiated the moment it was crossed. As ISIS forces gathered in Iraq and Syria, scumbag/liar-nObama shrugged them off as a “JV squad.” When the JVs in ISIS took over a third of Iraqi and Syrian territory, scumbag/liar-nObama did nothing. As Lee Smith recalled in January in The New York Post, scumbag/liar-nObama only decided to do something about ISIS in late 2014 after the group beheaded a number of American journalists and posted their decapitations on social media. The timing was problematic for scumbag/liar-nObama. In 2014 scumbag/liar-nObama was negotiating his nuclear deal with Iran. The deal, falsely presented as a nonproliferation pact, actually enabled Iran – the world’s greatest state sponsor of terrorism – to develop both nuclear weapons and the missile systems required to deliver them. The true purpose of the deal was not to block Iran’s nuclear aspirations but to realign US Middle East policy away from the Sunnis and Israel and toward Iran...

https://cms.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2019/10/glick-trump-did-not-betray-kurds-caroline-glick

Trump authorizes sanctions against Turkey

amid Syria incursion, calls for end

to its 'destabilizing actions'

By Gregg Re

{ foxnews.com } ~ President Trump announced Monday afternoon that he will soon issue an executive order imposing sanctions against Turkey for its "destabilizing" offensive in Syria... amid a bipartisan outcry over the president's troop pullback earlier this month that endangered U.S.-aligned Kurdish forces. The sanctions followed the president's Oct. 7 threat, when he warned that "if Turkey does anything that I, in my great and unmatched wisdom, consider to be off limits, I will totally destroy and obliterate the Economy of Turkey (I’ve done before!)." Meanwhile, Vice President Mike Pence told reporters that Trump had communicated on a call with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan that he wanted Turkey to implement an immediate ceasefire. Trump also offered to mediate an arbitration, the vice president said, and directed Pence and National Security Adviser Robert O'Brien to lead a delegation to Turkey to begin negotiations immediately. And South Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham, a Trump ally who has strongly opposed his decision to withdraw from parts of Syria, said in a statement that he "strongly" supports the president's sanctions. "The President made it clear to Turkish officials that any attack on Kobani, a Kurdish enclave near the Turkish border, would be an international outrage that could not stand," Graham, who was on the call with Trump and officials in the region, added. He continued: "Equally important, President Trump reached out to General Mazloum, the leader of Kurdish forces that led the main assaults against the ISIS Caliphate in Syria. President Trump assured General Mazloum that he would do everything possible to stop the Turkish incursion and seek a negotiated settlement beneficial to all parties, and was very firm in highlighting the need that thousands of ISIS prisoners in the custody of Kurdish forces cannot and should not be released. "...

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-turkey-syria-sanctions-destabilizing-actions

VIDEO: https://video.foxnews.com/v/6094705849001/#sp=show-clips

Trump’s Syrian Maneuver Works – President

Erdogan Asks for Negotiations With

Kurds in Syria

y sundance

{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ President Trump has played this out perfectly. By isolating Turkish President Recep Erdogan, and effectively leaving him naked to an alliance of his enemies... Erdogan is now urgently asking for the U.S. to mediate peace negotiations with Kurdish forces. This request happens immediately after President Trump signed an executive order triggering the sanction authority of Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin. Erdogan called the White House requesting an urgent phone call with President Trump. After President Trump talked to Kurdish General Mazloum Kobani Abdi, the commander of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces, President Trump then discussed the options available to President Erdogan. As a result of that conversation, Erdogan requested the U.S. mediate negotiations. Vice-President Mike Pence announces he will be traveling to the region with National Security Advisor Robert O’Brien to lead that effort. By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) (IEEPA), the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.) (NEA), section 212(f) of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (8 U.S.C. 1182(f)), and section 301 of title 3, United States Code, I, DONALD J. TRUMP, President of the United States of America, find that the situation in and in relation to Syria, and in particular the recent actions by the Government of Turkey to conduct a military offensive into northeast Syria, undermines the campaign to defeat the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or ISIS, endangers civilians, and further threatens to undermine the peace, security, and stability in the region, and thereby constitutes an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States. I hereby declare a national emergency to deal with that threat. I hereby determine and order...

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/10/14/trumps-syrian-maneuver-works-president-erdogan-asks-for-negotiations-with-kurds-insyria/

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

Rep. Scott Perry on former ambassador to

Ukraine's testimony: 'A lot of it was

secondhand information'

By Victor Garcia

{ foxnews.com } ~ Rep. Scott Perry, R-Pa., who attended a closed-door transcribed interview with the former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Friday, said much of Marie Yovanovich's testimony was "second-hand information'... while appearing on "The Story with Martha MacCallum." "I sat in the same in the same hearing and quite honestly a lot of it was secondhand information," Perry said Friday. "No really direct knowledge and well, we certainly find her... situation lamentable for her personally. There are bigger issues here for the country for both countries at stake." Yovanovich told lawmakers that she was recalled earlier this year after “unfounded and false claims” against her, as well as continued pressure on the State Department from President Trump to remove her -- as she denied being “disloyal” to the president. Yovanovich, who was recalled in May, spoke as part of House Democrats’ impeachment inquiry into the July 25 phone call between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky -- in which Trump asked Zelensky to “look into” allegations about former Vice President loosew lips liar-Joe Biden and his son Hunter's conduct in the country. Perry, a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said the testimony should have taken place publicly. "The fact that this is happening in secret, quite honestly the fact that this is happening in the secure area where nobody can see ... that this should actually be a hearing in the Foreign Affairs Committee because we're talking about a ... diplomat from the United States lends the other issue to this, which is the American people should see what's happening here," Perry said. The congressman called on the transcripts of the meetings to be released and criticized Democrats for "strategically" leaking information. "There's nothing I would like more for them than for you and the rest of America to see the transcript from today's proceedings and the transcript from last week's proceedings," Perry said. "But, that's not being allowed except in certain circumstances where portions of it are leaked out very strategically." https://www.foxnews.com/media/rep-perry-on-former-ukraine-ambassadors-testimony-a-lot-of-it-was-secondhand-information

VIDEO: https://video.foxnews.com/v/6094237076001/#sp=show-clips

Frederick Douglass: From Slave to Statesman

by Timothy Sandefur

{ prageru.com } ~ Frederick Douglass was born into slavery, but through his own heroic efforts became one of the most influential advocates for freedom in American history... His journey, a tale both agonizing and inspiring, should be known by everyone. Timothy Sandefur, author of "Frederick Douglass: Self-Made Man," guides us through Douglass’ amazing life.

https://www.prageru.com/video/frederick-douglass-from-slave-to-statesman/

U.S. Set to Impose New Sanctions on Turkey

in Response to Syria Incursion

By TOBIAS HOONHOUT

{ nationalreview.com } ~ The U.S. could level heavy economic sanctions on Turkey as soon as Monday in response to the Turkish incursion into northern Syria, according to Bloomberg... The news comes as Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said in a speech that Turkey “will absolutely finish the job we started.” Erdogan also criticized the international community’s negative response to the operation and asked for international funding to establish a planned “safe zone” for refugees in northeast Syria. House Speaker liar-Nancy Pelosi announced on Monday that, after meeting with Senator Lindsey Graham (R., S.C.), “we must have a bipartisan, bicameral joint resolution to overturn the President’s dangerous decision in Syria immediately.” liar-Pelosi also suggested that “stronger sanctions” are needed to curb Turkish aggression. “I will be working across party lines in a bicameral fashion to draft sanctions and move quickly, appreciating President Trump’s willingness to work with the Congress. The Speaker indicated to me that time was of the essence,” Graham also tweeted. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin told reporters Monday that sanctions are “ready to go,” after announcing last Friday that the White House had authorized potential sanctions on Turkey.

https://www.nationalreview.com/news/u-s-set-to-impose-new-sanctions-on-turkey-in-response-to-syria-incursion-report/

U.S. and China Push Pause on Trade War

Thomas Gallatin: President Donald Trump announced Friday that the U.S. and China had agreed to a partial trade deal, which Trump referred to as “phase one” of ongoing negotiations. One of Trump’s biggest presidential efforts has been to level the trade playing field with China, and a deal is in the interests of both the president and the entire country.

National Review reports, “The provisions include China purchasing $40 billion to $50 billion worth of American agricultural products, along with agreeing to guidelines on how it manages its currency, and policies with intellectual property, including forced technology transfer.” On America’s part, Trump has agreed to suspend the implementation of another round of tariffs on $250 billion of Chinese goods that had been scheduled to go into effect on Oct. 15. Trump heralded the deal as “very substantial” while at the same time noting that this was merely the first step in negotiating a broader and more comprehensive deal.

News of the deal sent the markets climbing — the Dow closed nearly 320 points higher Friday. The deal is likely to temporarily settle economic concerns, especially with the possibility of a more comprehensive agreement coming as soon as December. However, this long-running trade war is far from over, as China has yet to agree to make any substantive changes to its abusive trade practices.

Update: Bloomberg reports Monday, “China wants to hold more talks this month to hammer out the details of the ‘phase one’ trade deal touted by Donald Trump before Xi Jinping agrees to sign it.” So stay tuned.

~The Patriot Post

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WHILE WE WERE SLEEPING BESIDE OUR FLAG

Posted by Joseph Phillip De Marco on October 15, 2019 at 11:00am

Some well meaning individuals believe we are headed for another civil war; well, that war has already been fought and won by the Progressives/far left via mass indoctrination in all levels of education and generally in the academic and unionized world in our Nation.

The ecological/save the earth propaganda has made us the enemy and has mobilized and has taken control in all agencies in government, including the legal arena.

Just as Hitler named an enemy and controlled every agency/ making rules and regulations aside from the governing/legislative body. Yes, that civil war has been won right under our nose as we were waiting for a glorious armed conflict. It is over, and we are paying the price, and it is going to get even worse.

If we do not begin educating en masse our young people and prepare them intellectually; monetarily and with gusto we will not be the USA we thought.

Time is not on our side. It will take decades to make a dent into this endeavor. Our grandiose assumptions about freedom, liberty etc. is all but slipped away. We are finished if we think things will change with Trump or any President that favors our ideals. They are just fixtures that will be trashed before they finish their terms. They are hemmed into a network of socialist/marxist idealogy; no matter what they claim, otherwise. We cannot chance putting all our chips on him or them that come after.

We must take extreme measures and caution, without becoming them, to overcome this network that was so well planned long before we realized it was in place.

Tues/Med AM ~ thefrontpagecover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on October 15, 2019 at 9:09am

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

Leftists Still Attacking Columbus Day

Robin Smith

Tuesday Top News Executive Summary

Media Editors: Above the Fold

TURKEY SANCTIONED: According to Reuters, “President Donald Trump imposed sanctions on Turkey on Monday and demanded the NATO ally stop a military incursion in northeast Syria.” At the same time, “The Pentagon on Monday announced the official withdrawal of U.S. forces from northeastern Syria,” The Hill reports.

ABC’S FAKE NEWS: “ABC News aired footage claiming to show a Turkish attack on a Syrian border town that was actually from a 2017 video of an American shooting range,” The Washington Free Beacon reveals. Regardless of anyone’s position on Trump’s Syria policy, engineering a crisis is way beyond the pale.

Government & Politics

QUASHING DISSENT: “Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., an ardent supporter of President Trump, got the boot on Monday when he tried to sit in on the testimony of a former top National Security Council expert on Russia who was appearing on Capitol Hill as part of the House impeachment inquiry into the president.” (Fox News)

CNN’S VENDETTA: CNN whistleblower reveals network “vendetta” against Trump, obsession with impeachment (The Federalist)

Business & Economy

WHO’D A THUNK IT? Target cuts workers’ hours after vowing to raise minimum wage to $15 by 2020 (National Review)

HELPING THE LITTLE GUY: Blue-collar employment thriving under Trump — hits 50-year high (The New American)

From the Department of Corrections

FLYING WOKE: Air Canada to stop announcing “ladies and gentlemen” in recognition of gender fluidity (Washington Examiner)

SWING AND A MISS: Tribal chiefs urge Atlanta Braves to end the “tomahawk chop” (New York Post)

Other Notables

MORE DALLAS-AREA FALLOUT: Ex-Fort Worth police officer charged with murder after shooting black woman in her home; occurred less than two weeks after Amber Guyger’s sentencing (USA Today)

UPRIGHT: William Barr warns of “militant” secularism in speech about declining religious values (Washington Examiner)

Closing Arguments

POLICY: U.S.-China trade deal: What it is, is not, and may become (Hudson Institute)

POLICY: The painful realities of carbon tax-and-dividend schemes (Washington Examiner)

HUMOR: Elizabeth dinky/liar-Warren takes 1/1024th of the day off to celebrate Indigenous People’s Day (Genesius Times)

~The Patriot Post
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Tucker Carlson announces Megyn Kelly’s

return as guest; Fox News quells the rumors

by Victor Rantala

{ bizpacreview.com } ~ Tucker Carlson announced that former Fox News and NBC news anchor Megyn Kelly will appear on his program Wednesday for her first TV interview since being fired at NBC one year ago... Kelly’s sudden departure from NBC resulted from comments she made on the “Today” show in which she questioned and defended dressing in blackface for a Halloween costume. She said it was “okay when I was a kid” and did not understand how dressing in blackface could now be considered racist. A social media firestorm ensued and NBC quickly parted ways with the conservative news personality. Carlson and Mark Steyn were talking about CNN and network president Jeff Zucker Monday evening before the announcement of Kelly’s one-night return to the network that made her famous. “Of course Jeff Zucker wasn’t always at CNN, he was at another channel for many years. He ran NBC for a decade. Before that, he was the youngest executive producer at the ‘Today’ show. Things have not changed much at NBC since Zucker left. We repeatedly told you the network tried to cover up the Harvey Weinstein story. They sent the Access Hollywood tape over to the Washington Post and they are still lying about it.” “Well, this Wednesday night, two nights from now, someone who knows an awful lot about NBC is making her first TV appearance since parting ways with that channel nearly a year ago. Megyn Kelly will join us as a guest on this program for her first interview. She’s got a lot to say. I hope you will watch.” It will be Kelly’s first return to Fox News since she left more than two years ago in early 2017, after some public clashes with colleagues Sean Hannity and Bill O’Reilly. She also wrote a book about her experiences with former Fox News chief Roger Ailes, called “Settle for More.” Her star began to fade among the network’s conservative viewership the year before, following a volatile series of exchanges involving presidential candidate Donald Trump...

https://www.bizpacreview.com/2019/10/15/tucker-carlson-announces-megyn-kellys-return-as-guest-fox-news-stems-off-rumors-839458?utm_campaign=bizpac&utm_content=Newsletter&utm_medium=Newsletter&utm_source=Get+Response&utm_term=EMAIL

VIDEO: https://rumble.com/v8b8xm-megyn-kelly-to-appear-on-tucker-carlson-wednesday.html

US moves toward a rapid, complete withdrawal

of its military forces from Syria

by ROBERT BURNS

{ timesofisrael.com } ~ The United States appears to be heading toward a full military withdrawal from Syria amid growing chaos, cries of betrayal and signs that Turkey’s invasion could fuel a broader war... Defense Secretary Mark Esper said Sunday that President Donald Trump had directed US troops in northern Syria to begin pulling out “as safely and quickly as possible.” He did not say Trump ordered troops to leave Syria, but that seemed like the next step in a combat zone growing more unstable by the hour. A US official familiar with the situation on the ground told CNN earlier Sunday that US forces in Syria are preparing to withdraw from the country. Esper, interviewed on two TV news shows, said the administration was considering its options. “We have American forces likely caught between two opposing advancing armies and it’s a very untenable situation,” Esper said. This seemed likely to herald the end of a five-year effort to partner with Syrian Kurdish and Arab fighters to ensure a lasting defeat of the Islamic State group. Hundreds of IS supporters escaped a holding camp amid clashes between invading Turkish-led forces and Kurdish fighters on Monday, and analysts said an IS resurgence seemed more likely, just months after Trump declared the extremists defeated...

https://www.timesofisrael.com/us-moves-toward-a-rapid-complete-withdrawal-of-its-military-forces-from-syria/?utm_source=The+Daily+Edition&utm_campaign=daily-edition-2019-10-14&utm_medium=email

Sebastian Gorka Urges

‘Backbone’ to Resist Socialism

by Jackson Elliott

{ dailysignal.com } ~ If former presidential aide Sebastian Gorka could save only one possession from his house, he would save the crucifix his father carved from a toothbrush while imprisoned under socialism in Hungary... With powerful stories like this about his family’s escape from socialist Hungary and his father’s sufferings in a Soviet prison, the former deputy assistant to President Donald Trump on Friday urged the crowd at the Values Voter Summit to speak out for freedom. Gorka, now an author and talk radio host, told his audience in Washington that the day he understood evil under socialism changed his life forever. When he was 8 years old playing on the beach with his family, Gorka recalled, he noticed two thin lines on his father’s wrists. When he asked what the lines were, his father told him: “Well, son, that’s where the secret police bound my hands with wire behind my back so they could lift me to the ceiling of the torture chamber.” “My life changed in the span of one sentence,” he said. His father’s scars and the crucified Savior who sustained him through prison convinced him of the reality of good and evil, Gorka said. The widespread approval of socialism among young Americans makes support for conservative values extremely important now, he said. According to the human rights group Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, for example, 52% of millennials wish to live in a socialist or communist America. “We have one political grouping in our country that has come out of the closet as socialist,” Gorka said. “We cannot let them win.”...

https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/10/11/sebastian-gorka-urges-backbone-to-resist-socialism/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=sebastian-gorka-urges-backbone-to-resist-socialism&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiWXpNMU56WmlNV1l3TUdRMyIsInQiOiJTQktzakJoYWJkR1VhNTd3SkI0Ulh1b1lhSWQ5M1JWU2FGZG1LdURUS3E4M0ZhXC9hZlNkdVNHeGRGQkx5SjQzVGdSZWdWeVpjbW84NzMzQklPU0pXV3JsZUo4MG8zOE92NWROSWxOeTRJUEhaUGRsZVh5Q1VYK3piSHdkd21ZbXMifQ%3D%3D

GOP Rep. Matt Gaetz ejected from secret impeachment meeting

by Susan Ferrechio

{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ A Republican member of the House Judiciary Committee was ejected from a closed-door impeachment hearing... Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida on Monday tried to enter a hearing in which lawmakers from three different committees are interviewing President Trump’s former top aide on Russia, Fiona Hill. Gaetz said he believed he should be allowed to attend the hearing because impeachment inquiries traditionally are handled by the House Judiciary Committee and he serves on that panel. But the House parliamentarian told Gaetz he is not allowed to attend the hearing because he does not sit on either the Intelligence, Foreign Affairs, or Oversight panels, which are the official committees conducting the impeachment inquiry. "Judiciary Committee Chairman scumbag liar-Jerry Nadler claimed to have begun the impeachment inquiry weeks ago," Gaetz said on Twitter after leaving the hearing room. "Now, his own Judiciary members aren’t even allowed to participate in it. And yes - my constituents want me actively involved in stopping the #KangarooCourtCoup run by Shifty scumbag-Schiff. "Republicans and Trump have criticized the impeachment inquiry for failing to follow precedent, which includes a House vote, referral to the Judiciary Committee, and bipartisan agreement on rules for the inquiry. Gaetz has called for an end to the impeachment inquiry.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/congress/gop-rep-matt-gaetz-ejected-from-secret-impeachment-meeting?utm_source=breaking_push&utm_medium=app&utm_campaign=push_notifications&utm_source=WEX_Breaking%20News%20Alert_10/14/2019&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WEX_Breaking%20News&rid=5261

Former Associate Of scumbag-James Clapper Assisted In Whistleblower Complaint

by oann.com ~ New details are painting a clearer picture of the controversial whistleblower and their perceived motive. A Friday report revealed that an associate of the former Director of National Intelligence, scumbag-James Clapper... helped the whistleblower with their complaint. Charles McCullough is the attorney who assisted Andrew Bakaj at the beginning of the process. He was previously the inspector general of the Intelligence Community during the scumbag/liar-Clinton email scandal. Critics of the complaint say it makes sense why his former employer has been praising the complaint. After leaving the government in 2017, scumbag-James Clapper became a national security analyst for CNN. He is allegedly responsible for perpetuating fake news surrounding foreign involvement in the 2016 Election. Before that, he lied to Congress about government surveillance, claiming that the U.S. did “not wittingly” collect data on millions of Americans. McCullough now works at Compass Rose Legal Group and is no longer involved in representing the whistleblower. Bakaj, the former staffer for Senators Chuck scumbag-Schumer and scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton, remains on-board. https://www.oann.com/former-associate-of-james-clapper-assisted-in-whistleblower-complaint/?fbclid=IwAR08XtWV1T41Nw39bwLyNsURNFSATKKOBZOVrP5mnD2mBAvRamlEiyU4P2g

Cali Police Robot Ignores Woman's Calls

for Help, Tells Her To Get Out of Its Way

By Jared Harris

{ westernjournal.com } ~ Leave it to California to introduce a policing “innovation” that makes Barney Fife look like Judge Dredd. When the Huntington Park Police Force rolled out “HP Robocop” in June of this year... it was heralded as a major step for public safety for its supposed ability to keep an extra pair of eyes on patrol without taking an officer off assignment. “This is a big accomplishment for our city and introducing HP RoboCop shows innovation and the incorporation of new technology,” Mayor Karina Macias said at the robot’s introduction. “I am certainly impressed with HP RoboCop and can’t wait to see the public safety benefits it will bring to our community.” RoboCop recently got its first test in the realities of policing, and the machine definitely didn’t live up to its imposing name. According to NBC News, when a fight broke out in Salt Lake Park, a bystander rushed to RoboCop and pushed the robot’s call button. Nothing happened. “I was pushing the button but it said, ‘step out of the way,’” Cogo Guebara said. “It just kept ringing and ringing, and I kept pushing and pushing.” The woman figured it needed to scan a face, possibly a deterrent to prank alerts, and positioned herself in front of the robot’s camera to no effect. A woman with Guebara then used a cell phone to call 911, and first responders arrived 15 minutes later. By then, the fight had already ended and one woman was bleeding from a wound on her head. Despite the chaos, RoboCop continued to follow its pre-determined route. Video shows that the robot plays cheesy sci-fi music as it moves at a snail’s pace around the park... https://www.westernjournal.com/cali-police-robot-ignores-womans-calls-help-tells-get-way/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=patriotupdate&utm_campaign=dailypm&utm_content=libertyalliance

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5h62PwuWfyY

The Whistleblower and the

'scumbag-Schiff/loose lips iar-Biden Dossier'

By Daniel John Sobieski

{ americanthinker.com } ~ In a striking parallel to the Trump-Russia "collusion delusion" fueled by the manufactured Steele dossier, we now have what I will dub the "scumbag-Schiff/loose lips liar-Biden dossier," a manufactured tale of Trump corruption involving a tangled web of Deep-State swamp rats... seeking to deflect attention from the real collusion and the real corruption. The Russian collusion fantasy was designed to frame Trump while diverting attention from scumbag/liar-Hilary Clinton's real collusion with Russia in Uranium One and using the scumbag/liar-Clinton Foundation as a pay-for- play cash cow as secretary of state. With the revelations by the Washington Examiner that the whistleblower worked for former vice president loose lips liar-Joe Biden and that two of scumbag-Adam Schiff's aides worked with the whistleblower, we can see scumbag-Schiff's fable of a phone call between Trump and Ukraine's President Zelensky, even the whistleblower's initial complaint, to be a fraud manufactured by scumbag-Schiff and loose lips liar-Biden, to get Trump while diverting attention from the loose lips liar-Biden family corruption from Ukraine to China. As the Washington Examiner reports: House Intelligence Committee Chairman scumbag-Adam Schiff recruited two former National Security Council aides who worked alongside the CIA whistleblower at the NSC during the scumbag/liar-nObama and Trump administrations, the Washington Examiner has learned. Abigail Grace, who worked at the NSC until 2018, was hired in February, while Sean Misko, an NSC aide until 2017, joined scumbag-Schiff's committee staff in August, the same month the whistleblower submitted his complaint. The whistleblower was an NSC official who worked with former Vice President loose lips liar-Joe Biden and who has expertise in Ukraine, the Washington Examiner has reported. This mirrors the Russian collusion anti-Trump plot where members, indeed leaders, of the Intelligence Community such as scumbag/commie-John Brennan and scumbag-James Clapper worked hand in hand with scumbag/liar-nObama's DOJ, scumbag/liar-nObama's FBI, and even Sen. majority leader Harry dink-Reid to keep scumbag/liar-Hillary out of jail and Trump out of the White House. Interestingly enough, Misko has a long and strong working relationship with scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton, the Washington Examiner reports: Misko, 37, worked in the scumbag/liar-nObama administration as a member of the secretary of state's policy planning staff under deputy chief of staff Jake Sullivan, who became scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton's top foreign policy official during her 2016 presidential campaign. ... Misko's name surfaced in the scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton email controversy when he worked in the State Department during the scumbag/liar-nObama administration. In a Dec. 1, 2009, email released by Judicial Watch, scumbag/liar-Clinton adviser Huma Abedin sent classified information regarding foreign military contributions to the Afghanistan war effort to her private email account. That email originated with Misko, who wrote to Sullivan that he initially "accidentally" sent it on the "high side" secure but was sending the email again... https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/10/the_whistleblower_and_the_schiffbiden_dossier.html

Leftists Still Attacking Columbus Day

Robin Smith: In another episode of “As the Offended, Politically Correct World Turns,” we’re greeted with a calendar conflict that’s emblematic of a segment of our population that has abandoned reason and the ability to strive, survive, and succeed in reality. Today, according to some, is Indigenous Peoples’ Day, not the commemorative date to celebrate the historical figure who ventured to a new land and found America, Christopher Columbus, or Cristoforo Columbo.

On your “smart” device, your calendar might read, “Indigenous Peoples’ Day” or even “Columbus Day (regional holiday).” Originally, the special day aimed to recognize the landing in the Americas of the Italian-born explorer who approached Spanish King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella after rejection from the royalty of England, Portugal, and France, thinking a westward exploration would result in reaching the Indies and Asia. But, in recent years, those who have proven they can’t learn from history, much less honor it, are busy rewriting it in efforts to prove themselves and their anti-American narrative correct and have encouraged the toppling of statues of Christopher Columbus and ignoring the times, the context, and the truth in their efforts.

If you’re celebrating Columbus Day, you’re honoring a man who came from a simple raising in the home of a wool weaver in the seaport, Genoa, Italy. Cristoforo Columbo had no formal education or schooling. He was self-taught. His Italian heritage and his Catholic faith drove his passion along with much of his devotion to exploration.

The mapmaker and sailor lived in a day when the Turkish Empire controlled northern Africa and blocked the fastest trade routes to the Orient, or India and China. Most educated folks, and those who referenced Holy Scripture (see Isaiah 40:22 among other verses), believed the Earth to be round, but the disagreement was on the size of the planet. Columbus believed some of the earliest calculations were too large and argued that the westward route would lead to their trading partners without the hassle and fight of the Muslim enemies.

So, in September 1492, Columbus set sail. His journey was fraught with problems, but he landed, despite near mutiny of crews aboard the vessels in his charge, on Oct. 12, 1492, on modern-day San Salvador. Believing he had arrived at his intended destination of the Indies the natives of the island were deemed “Indians.” His travels continued through the Caribbean with several subsequent journeys to and from Spain to this land he believed to be Asia.

Now, here’s where the revision of history is greatest. Academia and those devoted to a narrative of oppression have declared that Columbus introduced slavery and was a murderous tyrant. He is depicted by those desiring to lift the alleged victims, the “Indians” or Indigenous Peoples, to the place of commemoration, not the inspired explorer.

Columbus is painted as greedy — typical for a guy of white privilege. He also believed in God and His Son Jesus Christ … uh oh. You see, the crew cried, “Blessed be the hour of our Savior’s birth, blessed be the Virgin Mary who bore him and blessed be John the Baptist who baptized him” as they turned the half-hour glass, along with other observances of the Christian faith. He named one of his ships the Santa Maria — Holy Mary. He even dared (get ready for the head explosions of the godless groupies) to set up the standard of the Cross when he first touched land and named it, San Salvador — Holy Savior.

But Columbus sought gold not for personal wealth but for the purpose of evangelism and to, in his own words penned in his journal, liberate Jerusalem from the Muslim captivity: “Thus, I protest to your Highness that all the profits of this my enterprise may be sent in conquest of Jerusalem.”

And, about that slavery of the Indians, you see, Columbus wrote that there were individuals in his crew who “did not deserve water in the sight of God” for selling native girls into slavery. He can’t stand blameless for the cultural acceptance of slavery at the time, but it was also practiced among the natives, as was cannibalism.

Among the Carib tribes, indigenous to the lands that Columbus first touched, not only was slavery practiced, but also mutilation and forced reproduction of children for the purpose of cannibalism.

But that doesn’t fit the narrative that, in the pre-Columbian world slavery, exploitation, evil nor any other type of oppression ever existed. Only once a white male motivated by wealth and raw power was able to establish dominance over a minority people was America born — hence everything about these United States is morally wrong and must be destroyed as part of the restitution to victims that span the line of time.

Currently, there are over 100 cities that have banned the observance of Columbus Day to now herald the Indigenous Peoples instead. Washington, DC, is the latest to join these municipal malcontents through its passage of “emergency legislation.” But shhhhhh, don’t tell — the District of Columbia, a territory that holds the seat of the government of our United States, is the feminine form of Columbus. The original 13 colonies were even referred to as Columbia.

Let’s let “progressive” leftists continue in their embarrassment of honoring Elizabeth dinky/liar-Warren as a Cherokee with high cheekbones dishing out her Pow Wow Chow while trying to take over the District of Columbia, which was named for Columbus, while making a mockery of everything great about America — her freedoms, our faith, and our families. While they’re busy rewriting history, let’s ensure that we write our future by defending America’s greatness and the truth. ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/66092?mailing_id=4586&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4586&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

Tuesday AM ~ thefrontpagecover

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

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

How scumbag/liar-nObama’s Senior Response Director Profited From Disaster in Puerto Rico

by Daniel Greenfield

No Surprise: scumbag-Schiff Reportedly Hired

Two NSC Aides Who Worked With

Ukraine Whistleblower

by Beth Baumann

{ townhall.com } ~ House Intelligence Committee Chairman scumbag-Adam Schiff (D-CA) hired two National Security Counsel (NSC) aides who worked with the Ukrainian whistleblower... while at the NSC during both the scumbag/liar-nObama and Trump administration, the Washington Examiner reported. Abigail Grace worked at the NSC from 2016 to 2018 in U.S.-China relations, followed by a short stint at the Center for a New American Security think tank. scumbag-Schiff tapped her in February to work as an Intelligence Committee staffer to help investigate the Trump White House. The second aide, Sean Misko, worked as an NSC aide until 2017. He was also part of Secretary of State scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton's policy planning staff under Deputy Chief of Staff Jake Sullivan. He joined the Intelligence Committee as a staffer in August, the same month the whistleblower filed his complaint. A source who spoke to the Washington Examiner had reason to believe both Grace and Misko were untrustworthy...

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/bethbaumann/2019/10/13/no-surprise-schiff-reportedly-hired-two-nsc-aides-who-worked-with-ukraine-whistleblower-n2554644

Forget the #Resistance,

scumbag-Chuck; Focus on Your Job

by Dan Backer

{ insidesources.com } ~ When it comes to #resisting President Trump, Senate Minority Leader Chuck scumbag-Schumer is certainly busy these days... Criticizing the Trump administration’s “persistent transgressions,” scumbag-Schumer recently claimed “the very foundation of this republic is at risk.” He also accused Trump of “abu(ing the powers of his office and betraying the public trust for personal political gain,” urging Congress to proceed with its impeachment inquiry. Of course, scumbag-Schumer has no problem with exploiting the Ukraine nothing-burger for “personal political gain,” turning it into an excuse to undermine a president with whom he vehemently disagrees. scumbag-Chuck, why don’t you just focus on your job? While he panders to his anti-Trump base, scumbag-Schumer is presiding over a logjam at the Federal Election Commission, which now lacks the legal minimum of four commissioners to make any high-level decisions. As the Center for Public Integrity’s Dave Levinthal explained, the FEC can’t even conduct meetings, let alone issue new rules on campaign finance or vote on the outcome of existing investigations. In other words, the FEC has “effectively shut down.” Why? Because of Chuck scumbag-Schumer. He has consistently refused to honor the tradition of the Senate minority leader recommending names to be nominated to nonpartisan and bipartisan commissions, including the FEC. The agency has traditionally filled two seats at the same time, pairing a Republican and Democrat, each recommended by the leaders of their respective parties — the president and the opposing party’s Senate leader. However, scumbag-Schumer has yet to make a serious nomination to fill the Democratic vacancy at the FEC, or replace the existing Democratic commissioners on long-expired terms. This intentional logjam serves only one purpose: To give scumbag-Schumer and other Democrats a built-in excuse to complain about the very problem they have created, or blame it on Trump. And complain, they have. scumbag-Schumer’s spokesman recently proclaimed, “Congress should address this issue quickly because we need a fully functioning FEC.” Yet he failed to acknowledge the ball is in his boss’s court... https://www.insidesources.com/forget-the-resistance-chuck-focus-on-your-job/

Israelis Demonstrate in Jerusalem and

Tel Aviv Against Turkish Invasion

of Kurdish Region of Syria

by Benjamin Kerstein

{ algemeiner.com } ~ An interfaith group of Israeli Jews and Christians gathered in Jerusalem’s Paris Square on Saturday to protest the recently launched Turkish offensive against the Syrian Kurds... The organizer of the demonstration, Rabbi Roni Lesser, told Israeli daily Yediot Ahronot, “I’m a simple person, but as a Jew I can’t see what’s going on and shut up.”As the idea of a protest spread on social media, he said, “Christians from the Old City contacted me, so the event gained interfaith cooperation.” Rabbi Yaakov Meidan, who spoke at the protest, called for Israel to recognize the Armenian Genocide — which Turkey still denies — and said that while Germany has taken responsibility for committing genocide, Turkey has not. Tehila Friedman, another participant, said, “I am a third generation Holocaust survivor and we often ask why the world was silent. Today we are part of the world, and the minimum we can do is not be silent and empathize with the victims. The ability to reach out and express solidarity has meaning.” A young resident of Jerusalem, Haggai Hershman, also attended the protest, saying, “I have come to feel the reality of the Kurdish people, to try to understand what is happening there, to make their reality our reality, and to show that we must identify with them and act in their favor.” According to Israeli news website Mako, another protest took place in Tel Aviv on Sunday morning, with more than 100 demonstrators expressing solidarity with the Kurds outside the Turkish embassy. “We will not forget or be afraid,” the protesters chanted. “The Kurdish people are not alone.” Among other slogans, the demonstrators shouted for Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to “Leave the Kurds alone,” as well as asking “Who will lift the finger to stop the attack?” Avishay Borla, the protest’s organizer, said that Israelis must speak out to “stop the bloodbath.”... https://www.algemeiner.com/2019/10/13/israelis-demonstrate-in-jerusalem-and-tel-aviv-against-turkish-invasion-of-kurdish-region-of-syria/

How Terrible Does Turkey Have to Get?

by Burak Bekdil

{ gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ Turkey's military offensive into the overwhelmingly Kurdish northeastern Syria is sending messages on many wavelengths. One consequence is beyond dispute... Turkey is adding further chaos, bloodshed and tears to a region already in turmoil. The U.S. had apparently "assured Kurdish protection from Turkey." Trump spoke of "economic devastion" if Kurdish forces were attacked. "As I have stated strongly before, and just to reiterate, if Turkey does anything that I, in my great and unmatched wisdom, consider to be off limits, I will totally destroy and obliterate the Economy of Turkey I've done before!," Trump tweeted on October 7. Microsoft may thoughtfully have censored this tweet for you. Ed. So where is this "economic devastation" against Turkey? Or does that make two promises that the U.S. has not kept? In theory, the Turkish incursion will build a safe zone that is 30 kilometers 20 miles deep and stretches more than 480 kilometers 300 miles toward Syria's Iraqi border -– which just so happens to be the very place where many of the Kurds in Syria live. From there, the Turkish army will push Kurdish militants south and ward off an "existential threat" to Turkey. Once cleared of the YPG forces, the main Kurdish group the Syrian offspring of the insurgent umbrella organization PKK Turkey says it will build homes, hospitals schools and rehabilitation centers for the two million Syrian refugees it hosts. This happy-ending scenario may not materialize so easily. As in earlier cross-border clashes with the Turkish military, the Kurds have vowed to fight back despite allegedly heavy losses. On Oct. 13, the fifth day of the Operation Peace Spring, the Turkish Defense Ministry said its forces "neutralized" 525 Kurdish fighters. Kurdish shelling in over 300 rounds killed 18 civilians on the Turkish side of the border, including a nine-month old Syrian baby. More than 100 civilians were injured in Turkish towns and villages. One Kurdish, politician, Hevrin Khalaf, and nine other civilians were reportedly dragged from their cars and "executed."As for the potential resurgence of jihadist terrorists holed up in the area and held in makeshift prisons, first, on Oct. 11, five Islamic State (IS) fighters reportedly escaped from a Kurdish-run prison and extremists claimed responsibility for a bomb that exploded in the regional capital. Then, "at least 750" "militants" have already escaped," and IS's sleeper cells in the region are also expected to take advantage of the Turkish invasion to recapture the land they controlled in the early years of the Syrian civil war. In the US-led, allied war against IS, Syrian Kurds operated as the main land force. As Kurds now flee, radical Islamists are likely to retake control of parts of the war zone... https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/15007/how-terrible-does-turkey-have-to-get

President Trump is 100% Correct

on Syria Withdrawal – Here’s Why

by sundance

{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ Eight years ago Zurich Mike penned an analogy of the ‘Islamist Spring’ that still rings true today, when he said: President scumbag/liar-nObama helped kill the zookeepers and unleashed the big cats…. The Turkish movement into Syria is all part of this continuum. When President scumbag/liar-nObama ignited the “Islamist Spring” with his speech in Cairo Egypt, what he really articulated was a shift in U.S. foreign policy to support The Muslim Brotherhood. Political Islam, writ large, is represented by The Brotherhood. Turkish President Recep Erdogan sees himself as the modern leader of political Islam using the Brotherhood to recreate the Ottoman Empire. Ben Ali (Tunis), Hosni Mubarak (Egypt) and Khadaffi (Libya), were the first zookeepers removed. scumbag/liar-nObama’s U.S. foreign policy supported Muslim Brotherhood replacements like Mohamed Morsi in Egypt. However, scumbag/liar-nObama failed in the effort to remove Bashir Assad in Syria; as a result all extremist factions of the Brotherhood gathered to form ISIS.Factions like al-Qaeda, al-Nusra and ISIS all fall under the umbrella of The Muslim Brotherhood. The exiled Brotherhood leaders initially fled Egypt to Qatar until they were further driven-out by the Gulf Cooperation Council and ultimately given safe-harbor in Turkey, by Recep Erdogan... https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/10/13/president-trump-is-100-correct-on-syria-withdrawal-heres-why/

Turkey-Syria offensive

Kurds reach deal with Syrian army

by bbc.com ~ The Kurds in Syria say the Syrian government has agreed to send its army to the northern border to try to halt Turkey's offensive against them... Syrian state media earlier reported that government forces had been deployed to the north. It follows the US decision to pull all its remaining troops from the area over the "untenable" situation there. The Turkish assault, launched last week, is aimed at forcing Kurdish forces from along the border area. Areas under the control of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), the main US ally in the area, have come under heavy bombardment over the weekend, with Turkey making gains in two key border towns. Dozens of civilians and fighters have been killed on both sides. Amid fears of the resurgence of the Islamic State (IS) group as a result of the fighting, Kurdish officials said on Sunday that nearly 800 relatives of foreign IS members had escaped from Ain Issa, a camp in the north, as clashes raged nearby... https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-50036901

How scumbag/liar-nObama’s Senior Response Director Profited From Disaster in Puerto Rico

by Daniel Greenfield

{ sultanknish.blogspot.com } ~ By September 2018, despite billions of dollars in aid, Puerto Rico was still a mess. By August, FEMA had stopped paying for the nearly 2,500 displaced Puerto Ricans who had been living in hotels after Hurricane Maria had wrecked their homes. But the FEMA times were good at Casino Del Mar.

San Juan's Mayor Carmen Yulin Cruz had become a CNN celeb by wearing a, "Help Us We Are Dying" t-shirt. But no one was dying at the luxury resort in San Juan with its 15,000 square feet of gaming tables and its seven restaurants. Except maybe some especially unlucky gamblers. Its blue neon wave walls were shimmering, the machines were jingling and there were some high rollers at the tables.

One of those high rollers was a FEMA administrator.

Ahsha Nateef Tribble’s job had been to get Puerto Rico working again. That’s why Ahsha had been appointed FEMA's Power Sector Chief and Infrastructure Chief for Recovery.

And she was certainly helping one part of Puerto Rico recover.

At Casino Del Mar, Donald Keith Ellison, the former president of Cobra Acquisitions, who has been indicted alongside Tribble, was seen in surveillance footage picking up $3,000 worth of casino chips. The indictment alleges that Tribble and Ellison were together at the gambling tables and the cash cage.

Tribble and Ellison were gambling in more ways than one. The stakes would have easily broken the Casino Del Mar. Ellison’s Cobra had received $1.8 billion in federal contracts to restore Puerto Rico’s power grid. And Tribble had the authority to dispense $200 million in public assistance projects.

What was a mere $3,000 compared to the millions and billions that they were already playing with?

The indictments of Tribble and Ellison ended the game. The dice have come up snake eyes and the croupier is taking back all the chips. But the game of profiting from catastrophe was a fun one.

At Casino Del Mar, Ahsha Nateef Tribble was enjoying the good life at the top of a meteoric career. But while her annual salary of $149,000 placed her among the top 10% of employees at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), it wasn’t enough to buy her everything she wanted.

And that’s what Ellison was allegedly doing by, in the language of the indictment, promising, offering and giving “Ahsha Nateef Tribble a stream of things of value, including airfare, ground transportation, helicopter fights, hotel rooms, meals, entertainment expenses.” $149,000 a year only goes so far.

Not that Ahsha had anything to complain about. After earning a BS in Math from Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University, an MS in Meteorology from Florida State, she had traveled out of state to the University of Oklahoma for a PhD in Meteorology. And the year she graduated she was somehow already the Technical Chief of Staff at the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Commerce at NOAA.

Two years after graduating, she was the Executive Officer at the NOAA National Hurricane Center.

Five years after graduation, she was the Chief of the Climate Sciences Division for NOAA's National Weather Service.

With that kind of resume, Ahsha must have been brilliant. But her indictment doesn’t suggest a genius. Even an evil genius would have done a better job of cashing in than hotels, a casino and a copter.

There is, unfortunately, another explanation.

And it’s why the blame for the Puerto Rico mess falls squarely on the scumbag/liar-nObama administration.

Under scumbag/liar-nObama, the former Florida girl was in D.C. as a senior policy advisor coordinating with the White House. scumbag/liar-nObama's White House then put her on staff as a director at the National Security Council.

Ahsha Nateef Tribble became scumbag/liar-nObama's Senior Director for Response and even served as an interim Deputy Homeland Security Advisor.

In the waning days of the scumbag/liar-nObama regime, Ahsha was appointed a Deputy Regional Administrator at FEMA. Either Ahsha had guessed correctly that the next administration would not have the word 'scumbag/liar-Clinton' in it or she didn't have the right connections. But she had landed safely. And someone had decided that with her impressive resume, she would be perfect for tackling Puerto Rico's power crisis.

Hadn't she served as a senior advisor to scumbag/liar-nObama's Secretary of Energy?

And, according to her FEMA bio, "led or supported White House response coordination and operational policy for major disasters including Hurricanes Sandy and Irene."

There was just one problem.

The Institute for Diversity and Inclusion in Emergency. Disaster relief needs competence, not diversity. But FEMA, like every other part of the government, had gone mad for diversity without ever recovering. For Black History Month, its Diversity and Inclusion unit had promoted a livestream of a transgender panel from the U.S. Air Force Academy. FEMA might not be very competent at managing disasters, but it was great at promoting random lefty social agendas and spending taxpayer money.

Ahsha was the daughter of Israel Tribble Jr, an affirmative action advocate who claimed that the education system pandered to European elitism and was unsuited for those who were “dark or different”. The names of his children reflected the academic’s belief in his own form of Afrocentric Egyptology. In Puerto Rico, affirmative action ran into a wall of corruption and human misery.

A casino in San Juan was a long way from Ahsha’s glory days of traveling to disaster sites with scumbag/liar-nObama and loose lips liar-Biden. Or representing the United States at the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change.

But there were still opportunities here. And she allegedly knew how to take them.

Puerto Rico was a crisis. And the thing to do with a crisis was play it up and then cash in. And Ahsha Nateef Tribble was allegedly influencing the payments going to her new friend’s company.

While contracts in the hundreds of millions of dollars were dispensed, she enjoyed the little things, a helicopter ride, a hotel room, and a fun time in a casino. Also riding the Puerto Rico gravy train was Jovanda Patterson, another FEMA employee and a good friend of Ahsha’s, who got a job with Ellison.

“Thank you both for My day will be great when I get a picture of Ahsha getting her treatment today please,” Jovanda had emailed Ellison and Ahsha.

Times were still hard in parts of Puerto Rico, but there were other priorities for FEMA’s best.

“I’m on it. I will get her down there at 1pm,” Ellison replied.

You didn’t have to be in a disaster area to get personal service like that. Just tasked with managing one.

A Twitter account with Jovanda Patterson’s name and tweets about FEMA and Puerto Rico, includes a retweet of anti-American racist activist Colin Kaepernick, Barack scumbag/liar-nObama and Senator lowlife-Kamala Harris.

Why was Hurricane Maria so devastating?

The answer has little to do with President Trump and a great deal to do with the existing corruption by local officials in Puerto Rico, which has already resulted in multiple arrests, and within FEMA.

It was one of scumbag/liar-nObama’s NSC staffers who had traveled with him and with loose lips liar-Biden, who allegedly conspired to rob taxpayers and to abuse money meant to help Puerto Ricans.

What happened in Puerto Rico is the same thing that happens in Chicago, Detroit and Baltimore.

In another hurricane procurement scandal, FEMA gave Tiffany Brown a $156 million contract to serve 30 million meals to hurricane victims. Brown's company had no employees and no experience in large-scale disaster relief. And was not able to actually provide the meals. But "Dr. Brown" does boast that her Tribute Contracting LLC is a "a minority-owned government consulting firm".

The government can help people. Or it can help itself.

It can help the minorities it claims to care about. Or it can just help the well-connected ones.

A quick walk around Newark, Los Angeles or San Juan can clue you in on who’s really being helped.

The money that’s supposed to help people never actually reaches them. But that’s fine. There’s better uses for that money. And the worse things get, the more money will be spent on not fixing the crisis.

And, if you’re lucky, you can have a fun night in a casino in San Juan where everyone is always dying.

http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2019/10/how-obamas-senior-response-director.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+FromNyToIsraelSultanRevealsTheStoriesBehindTheNews+%28from+NY+to+Israel+Sultan+Reveals+The+Stories+Behind+the+News%29

Monday PM ~ thefrontpagecover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on October 14, 2019 at 4:35pm

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

Trump Channels George McGovern

Cal Thomas

Details Of EU Ambassador’s Planned Testimony About Quid Pro Quo Have Leaked

by CHUCK ROSS

{ dailycaller.com } ~ Gordon Sondland, the U.S. ambassador to the European Union, will reportedly testify that President Donald Trump told him in a phone call in September... that he did not want a quid pro quo from Ukraine involving military aid, but that he is not certain that the president was telling the truth. A person familiar with Sondland’s planned testimony told The Washington Post that the diplomat will tell lawmakers of Trump’s quid pro quo denial that, “It’s only true that the president said it, not that it was the truth.” Sondland is set to appear before Congress under subpoena Thursday as part of Democrats’ impeachment campaign against Trump. The diplomat is likely to be asked about his interactions with Trump, Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani, and other diplomats regarding the administration’s posture toward Ukraine. Sondland and Kurt Volker, the now-former envoy to Ukraine, met with Giuliani at Trump’s urging to negotiate with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s administration over investigations into whether Ukraine meddled in the 2016 U.S. election, as well as into whether loose lips liar-Joe Biden pressured Ukraine’s president in 2016 to quash an investigation into Burisma Holdings, an energy company that had Hunter Biden as a board member. Giuliani is reportedly under criminal investigation over his links to Ukrainians who he worked with to push the theory about the loose lipsv liar-Bidens. He has denied wrongdoing. Sondland is likely to be asked about his remarks to another diplomat, Bill Taylor, and to Republican Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson regarding whether the investigations were part of a quid pro quo for military aid. Johnson told The Wall Street Journal on Oct. 4 that Sondland told him during an Aug. 30 phone call Trump would release the military aid to Ukraine if Zelenksy announced the investigations. The U.S. had mysteriously withheld hundreds of millions of dollars in military aid to Ukraine, Politico reported Aug. 28. Lawmakers did not know why the assistance had been withheld, with some wondering whether it was linked to Trump’s public calls for the politically charged investigations.... https://dailycaller.com/2019/10/13/gordon-sondland-quid-pro-quo-trump/?utm_source=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=10454

What Do Rolling Blackouts And Sky-High Gas

Prices Mean For Gov scumbag-Newsom’s

Job As Governor?

by CHRIS WHITE

{ dailycaller.com } ~ Recent history might explain why Democratic California Gov. scumbag-Gavin Newsom is lashing out at the public utility company responsible for rolling blackouts in his state as citizens wrestle with increasing gas prices... California’s public utility Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) began a days-long power shutoff to curb the risk of wildfires in the northern part of the state. scumbag-Newsom, the former mayor of San Francisco, is dealing with several problems as he struggles with PG&E’s move. “What’s happened is unacceptable. And it’s happened because of neglect,” he said at a news conference Thursday, referring to the decision to shutter power across the state. “This current operation is unacceptable. The current conditions and circumstances are unacceptable.” Power went out for 513,000 northern California homes and businesses Wednesday morning, USA Today reported, and roughly 234,000 customers were expected to lose power later Wednesday night. A previous Democratic governor in the state to confront similar blackouts was recalled in the early 2000s. Former Democratic Gov. Gray Davis of California was recalled in 2003 after increasing the state’s car registration fees and for the perception that he didn’t do enough to forestall rolling blackouts across the state. Actor Arnold Schwarzenegger won the election November of that year. California’s blackouts at the time hurt many businesses that were dependent upon a reliable supply of electricity. scumbag-Newsom is also confronting blackouts, though his situation is considerably different from the one Davis faced... The blackout didn't help for a fire was reported on Friday.

https://dailycaller.com/2019/10/12/newsom-california-gas-prices-fires/?utm_source=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=10454

Democrats ratchet up impeachment secrecy

by Byron York

{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ A week 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... Friday's 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 special envoy to Ukraine 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 investigation 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 Nunes, 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 Democrats will come after them... scumbag-Schiff and Democrats are doing a disservice to the American people. https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/dems-ratchet-up-impeachment-secrecy?utm_source=WEX_News%20Brief_10/13/2019&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WEX_News%20Brief&rid=5261

AG Barr’s Speech To Notre Dame Rips

The Mask Off The Progressive Agenda

by Wes Walker

{ clashdaily.com } ~ Why do we like William Barr? Because he is a true public servant… here because he wants to be here, not because he has anything he needs to prove or gain... Barr, from the beginning, was openly thinking about character, legacy and the sort of America he was leaving to future generations. He’s not about flash-and-dazzle. He’s about substance. He’s already risen to levels of personal success. He knew before he ever accepted the post that anyone accepting a role in the Trump administration would be vilified and go through the wringer. But he took it anyway. As expected, he’s being demonized in the press — which could be taken to indicate that he’s looking under the right rocks and making the right people nervous. If you want a glimpse of who he is as a person and what he thinks, he pulls back the curtain a little in his speech to Notre Dame. Judging by the outrage in the hostile press, he’s said a lot of things that rattle some chains that have desperately needed some rattling for a long time...

https://clashdaily.com/2019/10/ag-barrs-speech-to-notre-dame-rips-the-mask-off-the-progressive-agenda/

VIDEO: https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1183216034028765184?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1183216034028765184&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fclashdaily.com%2F2019%2F10%2Fag-barrs-speech-to-notre-dame-rips-the-mask-off-the-progressive-agenda%2F

Qatar Scam to Gain More Influence

on US Universities

By Ryan Mauro and Alex VanNess

{ clarionproject.org } ~ The latest Qatar scam to gain influence on America universities, with no accountability to the Department of Education: Over a million dollars in grants to an anti-American, anti-Semitic professor at Northwestern University... On September 12, the president of Northwestern University, Morton Schapiro released a statement condemning a tweet from one of the university’s professors, Justin Martin. Schapiro described a recent tweet by Martin as “insensitive and deeply disappointing.” Martin, an associate professor in residence at Northwestern’s campus in Doha, Qatar used the anniversary of 9/11 to downplay the heinous nature of this terrorist act. Martin, a journalism professor, has a long history of problematic views. He has expressed support for BDS and Qatar’s involvement in promoting the anti-Semitic movement on U.S. college campuses. The Clarion Project recently exposed the exorbitant spending from foreign countries on American Universities and Northwestern University’s particularly problematic relationship with Qatar. However, contrary to common belief, DoE records do not show all donations from foreign actors and disclosure can be avoided with simple evasive measures. U.S. law requires universities to disclose information about foreign gifts, as well as “any ownership interests in or control over the institution by a foreign entity.” Since 2012, the amount of foreign funding to American universities disclosed to the Education Department is $10,629,930,796. Qatar alone has provided $1,478,676,069 to U.S. universities in the form of gifts and contracts... https://clarionproject.org/qatar-scam-more-influence-on-us-universities/?utm_source=Clarion+Project+Newsletter&utm_campaign=d8b6a01e40-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_10_10_01_04&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_60abb35148-d8b6a01e40-6442509&mc_cid=d8b6a01e40&mc_eid=b83b13a9b5

The FBI And NSA Caught Spying On

American Citizens ILLEGALLY AGAIN!

By Jason Bermas

{ activistpost.com } ~ The news isn’t necessarily that they got caught; it’s that even a secret court has told them that it’s illegal. The fact is that these surveillance systems pre-date 9/11... and every major telecom company has special servers for federal access. Jason Bermas covers the many violations of our privacy and the apparent illusion that we have a 4th Amendment. We live in a national security state with little oversight and no checks and balances. https://www.activistpost.com/2019/10/the-fbi-and-nsa-caught-spying-on-american-citizens-illegally-again.html?utm_source=Activist+Post+Subscribers&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=622e9e6533-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_term=0_b0c7fb76bd-622e9e6533-387888649

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apwvgVKG0CY

Trump Channels George McGovern

Cal Thomas

The year was 1972 and Americans wanted out of the Vietnam War; the right because it was not being won and the left because of the increasing body count and lies from generals and politicians about “progress” toward defeating the communists.

Democratic presidential candidate George McGovern’s slogan “Come Home, America” resonated with growing numbers of people. When Richard Nixon defeated McGovern in a landslide, even Nixon began planning for a U.S. withdrawal. “Peace with honor” was his slogan.

The late al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden cited that withdrawal as evidence that the U.S. had no stomach for long wars. He believed the U.S. would grow weary from the “war on terror,” ceding the killing field to the terrorists.

Now comes President Trump with another promise for a unilateral withdrawal of “between 50 and 100 troops,” from Syria. Many critics of the decision believe it is an invitation for Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan to slaughter Kurdish forces, America’s loyal ally in the region in the fight against terrorism. The Kurds have served as a buffer, preventing an attack by Turkey’s powerful military. Not surprisingly, it didn’t take Turkey long to press its advantage. Reuters reports, “Turkey’s military struck the Syrian-Iraqi border to prevent Kurdish forces using the route to reinforce northeast Syria, as Ankara prepares to launch an offensive there after a surprise U.S. troop pullback.”

Following backlash, the White House appeared to reverse its Syria decision. An administration official, speaking under the condition of anonymity, said, the U.S. is not removing its forces from Syria in the face of a Turkish incursion. Which decision will ultimately prevail?

But Trump has gone further than announcing a unilateral withdrawal of forces, he has threatened Erdogan that if he attacks the Kurds and mistreats ISIS prisoners and does anything the president considers “inhumane,” “they could suffer the wrath of an extremely decimated economy.”

Erdogan is an Islamist and it appears he’s trying to take Turkey back to the days when it was an Islamic state. Does the president seriously believe Erdogan will bow to threats from one he likely considers an “infidel” leader of the “great Satan,” as another Islamist state, Iran, has called us?

The president says he is merely fulfilling a campaign promise to stop involving America in “endless wars.” It is a noble pursuit, but just as it takes two to tango, it also takes two warring sides to declare a ceasefire, or peace. When only one side abandons the battlefield — and with terrorism the battlefield is everywhere — guess which side wins?

Even some usually supportive Capitol Hill Republicans are critical of the president’s decision because it betrays a lack of policy objectives in the region. No one knows, or can articulate, U.S. foreign policy anywhere. Another example: the administration supports the toppling of the Maduro regime in Venezuela, but it is no closer to achieving that stated goal.

Former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley, who was praised by President Trump for her service when she announced her resignation, has joined the growing chorus of people alarmed by the president’s decision. Haley, a potential presidential candidate in the near future, has said that the new U.S. policy toward the Kurds (if one can call it a policy) amounts to “leaving them to die” and is “a mistake.”

Yes, the Middle East is a snake pit and the U.S. has spent a lot of money over many years trying to kill off the “snakes.” But stopping the killing of those who want to kill us almost guarantees they will return to the battle with renewed resolve and new recruits. What will the unilateral withdrawers say then?

Coming home is no guarantee the terrorists won’t come after us here. In fact, Iran has bragged of having their agents inside the U.S., awaiting instructions to inflict more death and destruction.

America’s withdrawal of troops from Vietnam ensured a communist victory, but that war was more about nationalism than communism. This war is different.

When he was president, George W. Bush said we are fighting terrorists over there, so we won’t have to fight them here. Withdrawing troops and risking the destruction of the Kurds is a step too far. ~The Patriot Post

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Monday Noon ~ thefrontpagecover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on October 14, 2019 at 12:21pm

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

The Demo Double Standard When

Digging for Dirt on Trump

Mark Alexander

Rules for journalists focus

on Muslim 'sensitivities'

by wnd.com ~ Journalism regulators in the United Kingdom are proposing rules that critics say would favor Islam over other religions... The aim of the rules apparently is "to respect 'sensitivities' and avoid causing offense – not the factually correct reporting of newsworthy events," wrote Judith Bergman, a lawyer, political analyst and senior fellow at the Gatestone Institute." It does appear to be the case that what is uppermost in the minds of the drafters of the guidance is not so much factually accurate reporting, but concerns of a far more political nature, namely those of accommodating religious and cultural 'sensitivities' and avoiding the causing of any offense." She was discussing a report by the British think-tank Policy Exchange called "Eroding the Free Press." It addressed a leaked draft of a document called "Guidance for Reporting on Islam and Muslims" by the Independent Press Standards Organization, the nation's press regulator. According to the Policy Exchange report, the draft IPSO guidance states: "Journalists should be aware that their content can have an impact on the wider community and on how minority communities are treated. Inaccuracies and insensitivities can damage communities and prevents their accurate representation. They can also contribute to members of communities feeling divorced from, or misunderstood, by the media. Finally, inaccuracies and unbalanced coverage can work to increase tension between communities, which can make harassment more likely."But Policy Exchange said that approach is imbalanced. "In all of this, there seems to be a suggestion that journalists should take a different approach to covering Muslims than that employed towards other faith groups. This all seems remarkably ill-conceived. If we ruled out reporting on matters specific to Muslims not only would we miss some big issues – not least the threat from Islamist extremist terrorism, which continues to dwarf other global terrorist threats – but we would also be unable to report properly on discrimination against Muslims. More generally, we must ask: is it really the role of journalists to consider community cohesion before truth and accuracy? And what are the potential consequences of such an ethos?" Bergman explained the draft report also addresses "accuracy," suggesting that reporters must provide "contextualizing information" and "present more than one opinion."... Their going to wake up to their mistake but it will be to late. https://www.wnd.com/2019/10/rules-journalists-focus-muslim-sensitivities/

US Troops Headed to Middle East

by conservativesociety.org ~ Currently, the Middle East is a giant powder keg waiting to go off. Turkey is launching an offensive into Syria, Afghanistan is under constant threat from the Taliban... and Iraqi citizens are on the precipice of a violent revolution against their government. Take Iran’s constant hostilities over the course of 2019 into account, and one can clearly see that the region is a hot mess. The stabilizing presence of the US in the region has averted numerous catastrophes. However, tensions have drastically risen over the past year, especially this summer. This situation is becoming too volatile for our current allocation of troops in the Middle East to handle safely. As a first step towards providing further security and stability for our allies in the region, President Trump has ordered additional troops to deploy in Saudi Arabia. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper provided clarity on the Pentagon’s official stance with Iran in light of this move during a press conference. We thought it was important to continue to deploy forces to deter and defend and to send the message to the Iranians: Do not strike another sovereign state, do not threaten American interests, American forces, or we will respond. -Mark Esper, US Secretary of Defense This increase in troops is in direct response to the attacks on the world’s largest crude oil processing facility in the world located in Saudi Arabia back in September. America and Saudi Arabia have strong reason to believe that Iran was behind the attack. So, the US is helping to defend one of its most important strategic allies. A total of 3,000 troops are expected to be stationed in Suadi Arabia after this newest deployment. The Pentagon will also send two more Patriot missile batteries and a THAAD missile system. Some details are unknown, like whether or not the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier group will be replaced when it finishes its current deployment... https://www.conservativesociety.org/united-voice/us-troops-headed-to-middle-east/?utm_source=AT&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=AT-101219-pm

Producers of the Flailing Impeachment Inquiry

By Clarice Feldman

{ americanthinker.com } ~ Believing scumbag-Adam Schiff’s lies and calling for an “impeachment inquiry” has to be one of the worst blunders of Speaker liar-Pelosi’s career. The whistleblower tale has crumbled and the backup witnesses... the Democrats are relying on only confirm the Deep State bureaucrats and Democrats believe that they, not the elected president, have a lock on executive powers. In fact, the ploy boomeranged and the spotlight is now on the Democrats’ White Hope, loose lips liar-Joe Biden. Despite the media downplaying loose lips liar-Biden’s actions, there is more to come of his and his party’s corruption. The leaker, incorrectly tagged a “whistleblower,” now doesn’t want to testify. Instead he wants to give his testimony “by letter,” presumably from an undisclosed location where no one can test his “testimony.” Ostensibly this is because he fears for his safety. He is anonymous, so any claim of “death threats” seems unlikely, although as we show below, we do have a rather good idea of his identity. In any event the very notion is preposterous. It was already ridiculous to think a presidential impeachment, to remove the most powerful elected political representative of The United States, could continue based on an anonymous complaint. However, expecting the same complainant/accuser to remain invisible during the process is so far beyond nonsensical, the light from where nonsense emanates wouldn’t reach this narrative for a year. Yes, feel free to pummel the left-wing nuts based on the absurdity of this request. Only the most raving Moon bat imaginable would think they could impeach a sitting U.S. President via a ‘Dear Sir’ complaint letter to Congress. These are obviously not stable-minded people. Oh, please, please, please hold that impeachment vote now. It is more clear than ever where this nuttery is heading. If you thought it was delicious to watch the media meltdowns on election night 2016, just imagine the meltdowns as the media attempts to sell impeachment via a strongly worded letter of complaint to their resistance constituents…. Perhaps he could testify via text messages, or… wait, even better… via tweets. Too damn funny. The real reason for this backoff, I think, is that once his identity is confirmed, it will be clear this was a stupid setup by amateurs in Congress who wanted to cover their tracks. From certain clues reported, online detectives have winkled out what appears to be his identity. If they are right, there are a lot of reasons he wouldn’t want to testify. For one he seems to be involved with those behind the discredited Steele Dossier. “Billionaire scumbag/liar-Clinton donor Victor Pinchuk sent MP Bielkova to meet with him the same day she met with David Kramer and kicked Steele Dossier operation into high gear.” For another, his association with two members of scumbag-Schiff’s staff -- Abigail Grace and Sean Misko -- suggests they cooked up his story together before sending it off to the Inspector General to refashion the leaker as a “whistleblower.”...

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

What appears to be his identity... https://twitter.com/seamusbruner/status/1182714514585903105?s=21

US military denies killing civilians

in Taliban drug lab airstrikes

by Ben Marquis

{ patriotnewsalerts.com } ~ The United Nations is attacking the U.S., accusing U.S. military forces of unlawfully killing dozens of civilians in a series of airstrikes in May... U.S. Forces-Afghanistan (USFOR-A) issued an immediate denial of the U.N.’s accusation, asserting that very few, if any, civilians were actually killed in the long-planned “precision” strikes. The strikes were targeting a methamphetamine-manufacturing facility that sold the drugs on the international black market and used the proceeds to fund the Taliban’s war effort, according to CBS News. The U.N. Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), in conjunction with the U.N. Human Rights Office, claimed in a report that the series of airstrikes on May 5 damaged or destroyed some 60 buildings and that investigators had “verified 39 civilian casualties — 30 deaths, five injured and four ‘undetermined.’ The toll included 14 children and one woman. ”The U.N. groups also claimed to have “credible evidence” that an additional 37 civilian casualties — 30 dead, 7 wounded — also resulted from the airstrikes on the drug-manufacturing operation, though those additional casualties were not confirmed. The groups further acknowledged that the targets of the airstrikes were buildings where methamphetamine was being produced, and even acknowledged the growing problem of drug addiction in the country. However, they asserted that such facilities — particularly when employing civilian workers — were not legitimate targets for military strikes, and therefore deemed the airstrikes to be unlawful and in violation of international humanitarian laws...

https://www.patriotnewsalerts.com/un-us-killing-civilians/

'We train our boys to be killing machines'

Trump announces White House review

of Green Beret murder case

by Carlin Becker

{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ President Trump defended a former Green Beret charged with murdering a suspected Taliban bomb-maker, announcing that the White House is reviewing the case... "The case of Major Mathew Golsteyn is now under review at the White House," the president tweeted on Saturday. "Mathew is a highly decorated Green Beret who is being tried for killing a Taliban bombmaker. We train our boys to be killing machines, then prosecute them when they kill! "Maj. Mathew Golsteyn is charged with committing the premeditated murder of an Afghan man he believed was a Taliban bomb-maker in 2010 when he was deployed in Afghanistan. He first disclosed the shooting in 2011 during a CIA polygraph test while he was applying for a job with the agency. The Army then investigated the incident, but it closed the case with no charges. He later publicly admitted to the killing during a 2016 appearance on Fox News, two years after he was given an official reprimand, which reopened the case. In 2018, Golsteyn was formally charged with premeditated murder, which carries a maximum penalty of death. In July, he pleaded not guilty to the charge. His attorney has since claimed the military’s “secretive” prosecution is denying his client his constitutional rights. Trump has considered pardoning him but has not yet made a decision. https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/we-train-our-boys-to-be-killing-machines-trump-announces-white-house-review-of-green-beret-murder-case?utm_source=breaking_push&utm_medium=app&utm_campaign=push_notifications&utm_source=WEX_News%20Brief_10/12/2019&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WEX_News%20Brief&rid=5261

The New Political Matrix

By Taylor Lewis

{ americanthinker.com } ~ Civil war in Syria. China’s authoritarian ambition. Russian chicanery. Iranian proxies interfering with the international fuel supply. Most global threats facing America are relatively straightforward... they’re country-based, tangible dangers to U.S.-enforced global stability. The bad actors are clear enough: Putin, Erdogan, Jinping, Khamenei. The weapons are conventional: guns, bombs, drones, shackles, concentration camps, Facebook memes. The values at stake are classical: human rights, commercial freedom, the integral dignity of all mankind. That current threats are easy to identify doesn’t make them simple to solve. But, for students of the history of warfare, they aren’t de novo. The one exception are the digital didos of Muscovite netizens -- election interference is an old practice, but manipulating social media with Jesus versus scumbag/liar-Hillary graphics is new. The press likes to make outrage hay out of Russia’s attempted manipulation of U.S. political contests, but the effect is frequently overstated. However, chiliastic memes meant to sway elections may be small-bore for now, but they presage something more diabolical down the road. The age of digital warfare is about to get worse. The New Yorker recently covered the rise of artificial intelligence in basic composition. Back in the spring of 2018, Google introduced Smart Compose, a “predictive text” feature that recommends appendixes to close sentences for Gmail users. The words it suggests are basic at first “Have a great weekend!”, but the tool learns from users over time, adjusting the syntax, coming ever closer to mimicking the way real people to speak to one another. The technology isn’t perfect. Yet. There is still a staleness to artificially generated text. But that staleness is also present in everyday discourse, particularly in business, where canned phrases, sanitized daily by H.R., are ubiquitous. Still, AI tech is fast catching up, breezing past Moore’s Law, increasing processing power by a factor of ten each year. Last February, the nonprofit company OpenAI refused to make public its own AI text software known as GPT2. The reason? It’s straight out of a James Cameron-directed dystopia: the machine was too good at replicating human communication. The doyens of OpenAI -- public-minded Silicon Valley grandees like Sam Altman and Elon Musk -- want to ensure artificial intelligence isn’t just used responsibly, but its benefits are egalitarian, not hoarded by the very few... https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/10/the_new_political_matrix.html

The Demo Double Standard When Digging

for Dirt on Trump

Mark Alexander: I have often observed, “If it weren’t for double standards, Democrats wouldn’t have any.” I’m not sure who said it first, but it frequently bears repeating.

Case in point would be the discovery of the 2018 scumbag-Durbin/scumbag-Leahy/scumbag-Menendez letter to Ukrainian officials, which I mentioned two weeks ago in “Democrat Obstruction 2.0.”

That column was a rebuttal to Demo Speaker liar-Nancy Pelosi’s announcement of the Democrat Party’s 2020 campaign platform — a coup d'etat masquerading as an impeachment to overthrow the American people’s lawful election of Donald Trump — or at least to prevent his reelection.

After the colossal failure of their first coup attempt orchestrated by leftist deep-state operatives in the FBI and CIA, in August of this year, House Intelligence Committee Chairman scumbag-Adam Schiff used intermediaries to collude with a new group of CIA “whistleblowers” to set Trump up again.

scumbag-Schiff and his shills claim that last July, Trump requested that Ukrainian officials investigate the activities of loose lips liar-Joe Biden and his son Hunter in a quid-pro-quo exchange for the release of $391 million in American aid.

Apparently, young Hunter collected significant “cash benefits,” both from Ukraine and China, when the old man was Barack scumbag/liar-nObama’s vice president, and Democrats are crying foul that our nation’s current chief executive had the audacity to ask then-newly elected Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to look into that and other corruption matters. (We now know that five months before the call from Trump, Ukrainian prosecutors were already investigating Hunter Biden’s Burisma outfit.)

The most amusing correspondence in this latest Demo charade is a letter from liar-Pelosi to House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy, in which she laughably cites her “solemn oath to support and defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic.” liar-Pelosi also insisted, “Our Founders were specifically intent on ensuring that foreign entities did not undermine the integrity of our elections.” As if her reference “to support and defend” our Constitution weren’t enough of an eye-roller, she concludes, “We hope you and other Republicans share our commitment to following the facts, upholding the Constitution, protecting our national security, and defending the integrity of our elections at such a serious moment in our nation’s history.”

Ah, yes, Democrats “upholding the Constitution.”

But the letter of reference exemplifying the Demos’ double standard in this dustup is a correspondence composed on official U.S. Senate letterhead, addressed to then-Ukrainian Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko and signed by Demo Sens. scumbag-Richard Durbin (IL), scumbag-Patrick Leahy (VT), and scumbag-Robert Menendez (NJ).

As political analyst Marc A. Thiessen pointedly asks, “It’s okay for Democratic senators to encourage Ukraine to investigate Trump, but it’s not okay for the president to allegedly encourage Ukraine to investigate Hunter Biden?”

This Demo trio made clear that they were “strong advocates for a robust and close relationship with Ukraine” before strong-arming Lutsenko to do as they said. In regard to their fake Russian-collusion delusion to take down President Trump, the Demos complained, “We … are disappointed that some in Kyiv appear to have cast aside these [democratic] principles to avoid the ire of President Trump.” They then demanded that Lutsenko “reverse course and halt any efforts to impede cooperation with this important [Mueller] investigation.”

In other words, these three senior Democrat senators were demanding that the Ukrainian government help find some shred of evidence to back up their “Russian collusion with Trump” investigation or risk the loss of U.S. support for Ukraine.

Or, in still other words, a “quid pro quo”! Sound familiar?

After that reference, I heard from an erstwhile Patriot reader that one of their colleagues had “investigated” my claim about the Demo letter and found it “FALSE.” And the source of that fact-check finding? You guessed it — Snopes.com.

Snopes, for those of you who aren’t familiar with it, is one of the earliest self-appointed “fact checkers” on the Web. It began life as the “Urban Legends” website and, frankly, 20 years ago, was an amusing stop for confirming or debunking folklore. But commercial ad-supported sites like Snopes are always at risk of becoming politicized and failing their own standards of objective assessment. The assessors aren’t machines and are therefore subject to the same human biases as the rest of us.

In its later iteration as Snopes, founders David and Barbara Mikkelson (before they divorced) teamed up to spin a lot of leftist yarn when pretending to fact-check hot-button political issues. D. Mikkelson and his “team” of checkers have ramped up their partisan advocacy since Trump’s election, riding the wake of leftist protagonists and their Leftmedia propaganda machines. Most of what the Leftmedia outlets run as “news” is steeped in leftist brew, and the same can be said for the Mikkelson crew. So, who checks the checkers?

Snopers are so intent in their quest to take on any and all things conservative that they recently went so far as to fact-check The Babylon Bee, a Christian satire website. That’s right — the Snopers are not only the self-appointed arbiters of truth on matters of great import, but now even matters of great humor.

The interesting thing about Snopes is that its leftist spin inadvertently exposes how Democrats spin reality into their own alternate universe. As a case in point, let’s go back to that arm-twisting Demo senatorial letter to Ukraine.

According to Mikkelson, the assertion that this letter constituted a quid pro quo is FALSE because the most leftist media source in the nation, The New York Times, says so.

But when reviewing the NYT’s own fact checkers regarding the clear double standard that it’s fair for Democrats to pressure Ukraine for dirt on Trump, but foul for Trump to ask questions about corruption, including that involving the loose lips liar-Bidens, there’s an interesting revelation.

Here’s how the Times spun it:

“The three Democratic senators did write a letter to Yuriy Lutsenko, then Ukraine’s prosecutor general, in May 2018. Mr. Trump’s claim of an implied ultimatum is a matter of interpretation but the letter does not include an overt threat of withholding foreign aid.”

But the Times does concede that “direct mention of foreign aid was in relation to … cooperation with Mr. Mueller’s investigation.” Which is the very definition of a quid pro quo!

Again, to be clear, The New York Times concluded that the “implied ultimatum” was “a matter of interpretation,” and that the Demos’ letter did mention foreign aid “in relation to” Mueller’s investigation, but that did not constitute an “overt threat of withholding aid.” Got that?

This does not make the assertions about the Democrat letter “FALSE,” as Snopes declared. At best, it makes them inconclusive.

As for Trump’s communication with his Ukrainian counterpart, there is no “overt threat” of withholding aid, and any “implied ultimatum” is “a matter of interpretation.” Thus, no quid pro quo.

But Democrats are using their “interpretation” of an “implied ultimatum” as the basis for impeaching Trump and, with the help of their MSM publicists, are rallying considerable public support.

A double standard? Not if you’re a Democrat! Democrats embrace hypocrisy as if it was the highest of political character traits.

Finally, while the scumbag-Durbin/scumbag-Leahy/ scumbag-Menendez letter is an interesting study in how leftists spin the truth, there is no dispute about another double standard — loose lips liar-Joe Biden’s 2016 threat to cut $1 billion in U.S. Ukrainian loan guarantees if they did not fire Viktor Shokin, a prosecutor whose investigations were getting dangerously close to Hunter Biden’s affairs. I say no dispute because, in Joe Biden’s own words, “I looked at [the Ukrainian leaders] and said, ‘I’m leaving in six hours. If the prosecutor is not fired, you’re not getting the money.’ Well, son of a b—. He got fired.”

As it stands today, President Trump has appropriately “declined” the Democrats’ invitation to participate in their impeachment hoax.

~The Patriot Post

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Mon/Med AM ~ thefrontpagecover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on October 14, 2019 at 9:06am

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

'Disinformation' Can Sort Itself Out

Hans von Spakovsky

Monday Top News Executive Summary

Media Editors: Above the Fold

“PUBLIC CHARGE” RULE BLOCKED: “Under the rule,” The Hill reports, “any immigrant who receives at least one designated public benefit — including Medicaid, food stamps, welfare or public housing vouchers — for more than 12 months within any three-year period will be considered a ‘public charge’ and will be more likely to be denied a green card by immigration officials.” Federal Judge George Daniels “said the Trump administration likely exceeded its authority.”

ACTING DHS SECRETARY OUT: “Kevin McAleenan,” Trump said Friday, “has done an outstanding job as Acting Secretary of Homeland Security. We have worked well together with Border Crossings being way down. Kevin now, after many years in Government, wants to spend more time with his family and go to the private sector. … I will be announcing the new Acting Secretary [this] week.”

Government & Politics

GOWDY PRECLUDED: As a corollary of lobbying rules, “a deal that [Trump’s legal team] had reached with former South Carolina Republican Representative Trey Gowdy fell through,” The Daily Wire reports.

DUBIOUS TIMING: Hunter Biden stepping down from Chinese firm, vows no foreign work if father wins in 2020 (The Hill)

National Security

SYRIA UPDATE: “Defense Secretary Mark Esper confirmed Sunday that President Trump has ordered a larger withdrawal of U.S. forces from northeastern Syria than was previously indicated,” according to The Hill. Meanwhile, Fox News says, “Fresh airstrikes from Turkey reportedly targeted civilians and a group of foreign reporters in the Syrian border town of Ras al-Ayn.”

TALIBAN PEACE TALKS: “U.S. officials and representatives of the Afghan Taliban have begun discussing ways to revive a peace process after talks fell apart last month.” (The Wall Street Journal)

GETTING ITS ACT TOGETHER: Mexico halts caravan of 2,000 migrants bound for U.S. (Fox News)

STOMACH-CHURNING: Master Sgt. Mark Allen dies 10 years after being shot while searching for deserter Bowe Bergdahl (Fox News)

Culture & Heartland

POWER RESTORED: “PG&E Corp. crews have restored power to more than 700,000 homes and businesses in California that had been subjected to a deliberate blackout,” The Sacramento Bee reports. Ironically, many Californians are discovering that solar panels don’t work in blackouts.

VILLAGE ACADEMIC CURRICULUM: Pointing a finger gun lands bullied 12-year-old student in handcuffs (The Kansas City Star)

Closing Arguments

POLICY: A new dark age: California’s blackouts are self-inflicted (The Daily Signal)

POLICY: Why price transparency can revolutionize healthcare (Tom Coburn)

HUMOR: Elizabeth dinky/liar-Warren recalls how she lost her teaching job when her fake mustache fell off revealing she’s a woman (The Babylon Bee)

~The Patriot Post
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Ridiculous Shift – scumbag-Adam Schiff

No Longer Requires CIA Gossip

for Impeachment Testimony

by sundance

{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ Well, this was entirely predictable. First the impeachment strategy needed the anonymous CIA gossiper to testify... Then it leaked about how HPSCI Chairman scumbag-Adam Shiff and his Lawfare staff actually created the “gossiper’s” silly third-hand complaint to an inspector general; who then changed ‘gossip’ rules to allow second and third-hand hearsay. It was all becoming more brutally sketchy, and the impeachment jenga blocks were tenuous at best. As a result, republicans were going to inquire about how the CIA gossiper constructed his complaint; and then the complaint attorney’s started saying the gossiper would not appear in person, but rather write more complaint letters instead of testifying. The shift from sketchy testimony to “Dear Sir” letters was ridiculous in the extreme. So what happens next? Well, this is predictable…. Chairman scumbag-Adam Schiff now says there will likely be no gossiper testimony because now he doesn’t need it. REP. scumbag-SCHIFF: You know and I think initially, before the president started threatening the whistleblower, threatening others calling them traitors and spies and suggesting that you know we used to give the death penalty to traitors and spies and maybe we should think about that again. Yes we were interested in having the whistleblower come forward. Our primary– MARGARET BRENNAN: Not anymore?... https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/10/13/ridiculous-shift-adam-schiff-no-longer-requires-cia-gossip-for-impeachment-testimony/

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnN2TlNu3CI

Turkey Attacks US Special Forces

in Syria, Apparently by Mistake

By Tom O'Connor , James LaPorta and Naveed Jamali

{ newsweek.com } ~ A contingent of U.S. Special Forces was caught up in Turkish shelling against U.S.-backed Kurdish positions in northern Syria... days after President Donald Trump told his Turkish counterpart he would withdraw U.S. troops from certain positions in the area. A senior Pentagon official said shelling by the Turkish forces was so heavy that the U.S. personnel considered firing back in self-defense. Newsweek has learned through both an Iraqi Kurdish intelligence official and the senior Pentagon official that Special Forces operating on Mashtenour hill in the majority-Kurdish city of Kobani fell under artillery fire from Turkish forces conducting their so-called "Operation Peace Spring" against Kurdish fighters backed by the U.S. but considered terrorist organizations by Turkey. No injuries have been reported. Instead of returning fire, the Special Forces withdrew once the shelling had ceased. Newsweek previously reported Wednesday that the current rules of engagement for U.S. forces continue to be centered around self-defense and that no order has been issued by the Pentagon for a complete withdrawal from Syria. The Pentagon official said that Turkish forces should be aware of U.S. positions "down to the grid." The official could not specify the exact number of personnel present, but indicated they were "small numbers below company level," so somewhere between 15 and 100 troops. Newsweek has reached out to the Pentagon for comment on the situation... https://www.newsweek.com/us-troops-syria-turkey-1464727?amp=1

Deceptive Democrats Distort

Whistleblower’s Identity

by americanretirementinsider.com ~ Everyone wants to know the identity of the whistleblower. This is the person who started the mess that has filled the news over the past several weeks. The dumb Democrats want to hide the identity of the person... But the accused do have the right to face their accusers. The Democrats have been so resistant to identify the person that it has led many to determine that the person just simply does not exist. This is just another attempt by the Democrats to have a reason to move forward with the impeachment inquiry. liar-Nancy Pelosi has moved her position to be in favor of the impeachment but has not taken the vote to get things started. There is a lot of mystery surrounding the legitimacy of what the dumb Democrats are trying to do. What the stupid Democrats want to do is hide the identity of the person during any type of interview. The dumb Democrats are so suspicious and untrusting of the Republicans that they are afraid the identity of the person will be revealed. They want to mask their voice during the phone call. The idea is to distort the voice is just like a spy distorting his voice, so he can stay in the shadows. The Democrats are coming after the president with the intent of taking over the presidency. Their dumb concerns about the Republicans leaking the identity of the whistleblower are not warranted. The only people the Democrats need to be concerned with is themselves. They are the ones that are always leaking sensitive information to the public. What the Democrats are proposing will certainly divide the rift between all political parties. The Democrats have shown themselves to be living in a paranoid state. They do not trust anyone, and they certainly have not worked well with the Republicans at any turn. There is no reason for anyone to even trust them concerning the true identity of the whistleblower unless that person comes out and goes public. The dumb and deceptive Democrats would most certainly have a fake person take their place to talk on the phone. It is not beneath the Democrats to do this sort of action... https://americanretirementinsider.com/deceptive-democrats-distort-whistleblowers-identity/

Anti-Trump Whistleblower

Does Not Want to Testify in Person

by /thepoliticalinsider.com ~ The so-called Ukraine whistleblower — the individual whom House Democrats are hoping will help them impeach President Donald Trump... said he does not want to testify in person before Congress. Instead, lawyers for the whistleblower have asked that the unnamed person be allowed to testify in writing only. The House and Senate Intelligence Committees reportedly have not yet responded to the request from lawyers representing the anonymous CIA official, according to The Wall Street Journal on Friday morning. Democrats have been trying to protect the identity of the whistleblower from the start, while Trump and other Republicans have argued the president should have the opportunity to confront his accuser in person. Lawyers for the whistleblower have already confirmed that the anonymous person is a Democrat who has worked with at least one 2020 presidential candidate — and new reports indicate this candidate is loose lips liar-Joe Biden. One former congressional intelligence official told WSJ it’s highly unusual for a witness to testify in writing. The official added that while this kind of testimony is unprecedented, there also isn’t a precedent for this situation — as there has never been as high-profile a “whistleblower” report as this one. But some Republicans have said this isn’t a whistleblower at all. Meanwhile, House Dems would like to have articles of impeachment brought forward by Thanksgiving of this year — a time frame that many people feel is unrealistic and likely will backfire on them...

https://thepoliticalinsider.com/anti-trump-whistleblower-does-not-want-to-testify-in-person/?utm_campaign=TPI101219SatBR&utm_source=criticalimpact&utm_medium=email&utm_content=4b4ea4948726422aa6473c7b9fa19141&source=TPICI

The Last Desperate Effort to Protect “The

Chosen One” Will Likely Fail (Perhaps by Design)

by sundance

{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ Jonathan Turley asks a question today about why the media will not allow any discussion of loose lips liar-Joe Biden’s obviously corrupt Achilles heel to be discussed... Within his article Turley cites examples of CNN, NBC, MSNBC and a host of other mainstream news outlets that will not allow any discussion of loose lips liar-Joe Biden’s transparently visible weakness. He ponders ‘why’? […] When Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-N.Y.) raised the issue on CNN, host Erin Burnett cut him off: “There is no evidence of loose lips liar-Joe Biden doing anything wrong, and this is something that has been looked into, and I think — I want to make a point here — I think what we need to talk about right now is what did the president right now do or not do.” Other CNN hosts have repeated the line of “no evidence of wrongdoing” like a virtual incantation. […] For news shows on MSNBC, CNN and other cable networks, nothing is more disgusting than the mention of what Hunter Biden actually was doing in Ukraine. […] loose lips liar-Joe Biden has insisted he never spoke with his son about his foreign dealings — an incredible but categorical statement. The then-vice president flew with his son on Air Force Two on an official trip to China but suggests they never discussed his son’s deal seeking $1.5 billion in investments with the state-backed Bank of China. During the trip, Hunter reportedly introduced his father to Chinese private equity executive Jonathan Li, who was part of that deal. Yet loose lips liar-Biden insists he was never told of any business linkage or dealings. Perhaps here’s “why”…

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/10/12/the-last-desperate-effort-to-protect-the-chosen-one-will-likely-fail-perhaps-by-design/

Stephen Miller Discusses the “Fourth

Unelected Branch of Government” and

the Impeachment Agenda

by sundance

{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ White House senior policy adviser Stephen Miller appears with Jesse Watters to discuss the ongoing impeachment efforts and the political agenda of those within the administrative state who are opposed to President Trump.

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/10/12/stephen-miller-discusses-the-fourth-unelected-branch-of-government-and-the-impeachment-agenda/

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Z2-r0oh5tI

France: More Death to Free Speech

by Guy Millière

{ gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ On September 28, a "Convention of the Right" took place in Paris, organized by Marion Marechal, a former member of French parliament and now director of France's Institute of Social, Economic and Political Sciences... The purpose of the convention was to unite France's right-wing political factions. In a keynote speech, the journalist Éric Zemmour harshly criticized Islam and the Islamization of France. He described the country's "no-go zones" Zones Urbaines Sensibles; Sensitive Urban Zones as "foreign enclaves" in French territory and depicted, as a process of "colonization", the growing presence in France of Muslims who do not integrate. Zemmour quoted the Algerian writer Boualem Sansal, who said that the no-go zones are "small Islamic Republics in the making". Zemmour said that a few decades ago, the French could talk freely about Islam but that today it is impossible, and he denounced the use of the "hazy concept of Islamophobia to make it impossible to criticize Islam, to reestablish the notion of blasphemy to the benefit of the Muslim religion alone..." "All our problems are worsened by Islam. It is a double jeopardy.... Will young French people be willing to live as a minority on the land of their ancestors? If so, they deserve to be colonized. If not, they will have to fight ... The old words of the Republic, secularism, integration, republican order, no longer mean anything ... Everything has been overturned, perverted, emptied of meaning." Zemmour's speech was broadcast live on LCI television. Journalists on other channels immediately accused LCI of contributing to "hate propaganda". Some said that LCI should lose its broadcasting license. One journalist, Memona Hinterman-Affegee, a former member of France's High Council of Audiovisual Media Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel, the body that regulates electronic media in France, wrote in the newspaper Le Monde: "LCI uses a frequency which is part of the public domain and thus belongs to the entire nation ... LCI has failed in its mission and lost control of its program, and must be sanctioned in an exemplary manner". The journalists of Le Figaro, the newspaper employing Zemmour, wrote a press release demanding his immediate dismissal. Calls heard on most radio and television stations for a total boycott of Zemmour stressed that he had been condemned several times for "Islamophobic racism"... https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/15002/france-free-speech

'Disinformation' Can Sort Itself Out

Hans von Spakovsky

Facebook recently stated that it will neither censor nor “fact-check” statements by politicians on their site. This is great for political speech but — apparently — unwelcome news to the leadership of at least one of the major political parties.

The Democratic National Committee slammed Facebook’s decision, arguing that “Trump has an utter disregard for the truth” and that “social media platforms have a responsibility to protect our democracy and counter disinformation online.”

This is only the most recent effort by leftist politicians to goad social-media companies into silencing conservative politicians and anyone else they disagree with.

Several weeks ago, we warned that Federal Election Commission chairwoman Ellen Weintraub (D) was convening representatives from Facebook, Twitter, and Google to pressure them into “fighting the disinformation that risks further corroding our democracy.” In other words, to appoint themselves as Big Brother — with her approval — to censor political speech and reporting on elections and hot-button issues.

It’s a heartening sign that at least one of those social-media platforms has wisely decided that less is more when it comes to policing and censoring political speech and the global Internet arena where so many Americans today gather information and news and debate, discuss, argue, and vigorously contest the public issues of the day. To its credit, Facebook seems to appreciate, much more than some progressive politicians, the value of robust political discourse and the danger of vague limitations on political speech.

“I know some people will say we should go further,” Facebook executive Nick Clegg said, seemingly referring to left-leaning critics. “But imagine the reverse. Would it be acceptable to society at large to have a private company in effect become a self-appointed referee for everything that politicians say?” Clegg asked rhetorically. “I don’t believe it would be.”

Clegg went on to clarify how Facebook views its role vis-à-vis political speech: “To use tennis as an analogy, our job is to make sure the court is ready — the surface is flat, the lines painted, the net at the correct height. But we don’t pick up a racket and start playing. How the players play the game is up to them, not us.”

With political discourse, as with sports, Facebook’s “let ‘em play” approach is for the best. Attempts to tightly referee political discourse often devolve into partisan point-scoring.

As peer-reviewed academic studies show, so-called media “fact-checkers” have a strong track record of partisan bias. Indeed, one very popular fact-checker, Politifact, rated Republicans as more deceptive than Democrats at a rate of about 3 to 1, with no rational justification explaining that discrepancy.

Even the most well-meaning effort to fact-check political statements is likely to be hamstrung by subjectivity. When researchers look at the way mainstream fact-checkers rated the exact same statements by politicians, they found very low agreement. It is difficult to explain that disagreement as due to anything other than the differing personal political opinions and biases of the fact-checkers.

This is especially true with statements and stories deemed to be partially true. Too often, so-called fact-checkers use ambiguous, in-between categories for stories and statements that get the facts right, but that they nonetheless find misleading because the targets of their fact-checking leave out some supposedly “relevant” information.

Politicians sometimes exaggerate, flub the numbers, or even lie intentionally to deceive the public. When they do, it’s fair to call them out on it. But it’s not fair to keep them from speaking at all. The thorniest political battles are usually not between truth-tellers and liars, but between rival camps who disagree about which facts are most relevant.

Kellyanne Conway’s phrase “alternative facts” may be ripe for parody, but it is not Orwellian double-speak. Very often one side is armed with facts, and the other side is armed with a different set of facts. Their political disagreement usually focuses on which set of facts is most important to the issue at hand.

For instance, where progressives point to rising income inequality and the rising cost of health care, conservatives emphasize the importance of improved material conditions at every income level and the rapid pace of medical innovation that is making us a healthier society. Neither side’s facts may be wrong, but opposing sides often disagree on the relevance, meaning, and importance of those facts.

Too often, fact-checkers mislabel as a lie any statement that does not emphasize the facts supporting their own biases and opinions about an issue.

Facebook is right to recognize the vagaries of so-called “fact-checking” and its profound, potentially misleading influence on our public discourse. It correctly perceives the danger of appointing itself as the all-seeing Big Brother who will regulate, censor, and decide what information and what political speech is acceptable.

While Facebook has taken heat from both the right and the left of late, its hands-off approach is praiseworthy and should be followed by all the social-media platforms that dominate the Internet and are used by the public.

Nick Clegg got it exactly right when he said it isn’t Facebook’s job to “prevent a politician’s speech from reaching its audience and being subject to public debate and scrutiny.” “In open democracies,” he added, “voters rightly believe … they should be able to judge what politicians say themselves.”

Too bad the DNC and FEC commissioner Weintraub don’t have the same faith in the ability of the American public to make their own decisions. ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/opinion/65983?mailing_id=4580&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4580&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

Monday AM ~ thefrontpagecover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on October 14, 2019 at 7:16am

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

End Impeachment Secrecy

Byron York

Maria Bartiromo: DOJ inspector general report

due out Friday and covers 'more

than just FISA abuse'

by Daniel Chaitin

{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ Fox Business anchor Maria Bartiromo says her sources are telling her an extensive report by Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz on alleged Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act abuses by the Justice Department and the FBI will be released by the end of next week... Bartiromo, who is the first journalist to report an exact release date, discussed what she had learned on her Fox News show, Sunday Morning Futures, with two Republican congressmen who deduced former high-ranking government officials are bracing for a scathing critique. "I’m hearing the IG report will be out this upcoming Friday, Oct. 18, and my sources say it’s as thick as a telephone book," Bartiromo said, adding that it covers "more than just FISA abuse." It has been exactly one month since Horowitz announced the completion of the investigation by his team, who pored over more than 1 million records and conducted 100-plus interviews. The inspector general gave a draft to the Justice Department and FBI for a classification review. Upon the completion of that process, the report will first be delivered to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham, who has pledged to do a "deep dive" of his own into FISA that will run concurrently with U.S. Attorney John Durham's review of the early stages of the Russia investigation. The South Carolina Republican said his "No. 1 goal" is to have as much of the report declassified as possible. Republicans allege top Justice Department and FBI officials misled the FISA court by using an unverified dossier compiled by British ex-spy Christopher Steele to obtain warrants to electronically monitor onetime Trump campaign adviser Carter Page in an attempt to dig up damaging information about Trump... https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/maria-bartiromo-doj-inspector-general-report-due-out-friday-and-covers-more-than-just-fisa-abuse?utm_source=WEX_News%20Brief_10/13/2019&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WEX_News%20Brief&rid=5261

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_hfpFu4RXQ

John Durham Has Expanded

Investigation Of CIA, FBI Activities

by CHUCK ROSS

{ dailycaller.com } ~ The U.S. attorney probing FBI and CIA counterintelligence activities related to the Trump campaign has expanded the scope of the inquiry, according to Fox News... John Durham, the U.S. attorney in Connecticut, is using additional agents and resources as part of the inquiry, which is also looking at the activities of foreign intelligence agencies. Senior administration officials told Fox News’s Bret Baier that Durham has expanded the investigation because of information he has obtained in the probe. However, based on what he has been finding, Durham has expanded his investigation adding agents and resources, the senior administration officials said. The timeline has grown from the beginning of the probe through the election and now has included a post-election timeline through the spring of 2017, up to when Robert Mueller was named special counsel. Attorney General William Barr appointed Durham to oversee the inquiry shortly after the end of the special counsel’s investigation, which said there was no evidence that the Trump campaign conspired with the Russian government. Barr has said he has questions about the timeline of events leading up to the FBI’s opening of Crossfire Hurricane, the counterintelligence investigation of the Trump campaign. “I assumed I’d get answers when I went in, and I have not gotten answers that are well satisfactory, and in fact probably have more questions,” Barr told CBS News on May 31, adding that “some of the facts that … I’ve learned don’t hang together with the official explanations of what happened.”... https://dailycaller.com/2019/10/09/john-durham-fbi-cia-barr/

Oops! California’s expensive solar panels to

fight climate change don’t work during blackout

by Samantha Chang

{ bizpacreview.com } ~ Californians who screech about climate change were furious after discovering that the expensive solar panels they installed on their rooftops don’t work during a blackout unless they buy an equally expensive battery system... This week, a mass power outage occurred when utility company PG&E Pacific Gas and Electric Co. shut down the electric grid in Northern California to prevent wildfires, which have been ravaging the state. The grid shutdown in 34 counties caused more than 738,000 area customers to lose power, KCRA reported. The irony is that California’s insistence on solar panel installation has not helped at all during the forced grid shutdown. Moreover, beginning in January 2020, California has made it mandatory for all new homes to be built with solar panels. “Energy experts estimate that building solar panels can add another $10,000 to $15,000 to the cost of rebuilding,” according to Action News Now. In other words, installing solar panels to combat climate change is not only more expensive, but has proven to be ineffective in helping maintain power during a blackout. So what’s the point? Fortunately, leftists believe that interpretive dance can combat climate change...

https://www.bizpacreview.com/2019/10/12/oops-californias-expensive-solar-panels-to-fight-climate-change-dont-work-during-blackout-838403?utm_campaign=bizpac&utm_content=Newsletter&utm_medium=Newsletter&utm_source=Get+Response&utm_term=EMAIL

VIDEO: https://rumble.com/v8axzz-oops-california-residents-learn-solar-panels-dont-work-during-blackouts.html

commie-Ocasio-Cortez Hauled Off

To Court… She’s FURIOUS

by youtube.com ~ Rep. commie-Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) is being hauled off to court. She is furious about it, but there’s nothing she can do. Justice has arrived... The socialist congressman’s “use of Twitter is landing her hot water, with several people filing suit against her for blocking them on the platform,” reported One America News Network (OAN) in a recent newscast. OAN’s Ryan Girdusky interviewed one of the plaintiffs, Dov Hikind — a Democrat and former member of New York’s legislature who has “an ongoing lawsuit” against commie-Ocasio-Cortez. “Very, very excited,” said Hikind. “November fifth, eleven o’clock in the morning, commie-AOC will be on the stand. The big question from the judge, from everybody, why did you block me, Dov Hikind?” “Five million followers, one of the few people she had a problem with was me,” he continued. “When her campaign manager was on the stand … and was asked why commie-AOC blocked me, she didn’t have an answer.” Girdusky noted that commie-AOC blocked Hikind after he tried to correct her comments about “concentration camps” being on the border. Hikind, a Jewish man, said he found this, in particular, to be “one of the most objectionable things.” VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3nazTWc_jI&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR2JGRck-OpqkjyMrdEXnTwb9PGu45qF6hHwYHVbsu3sa1NR6l_a-ROEEMo

End Impeachment Secrecy

Byron York

There have so far been two hearings in the House Democrats’ effort to impeach President Donald Trump over the Ukraine matter. Both have been held in secret. One was last Thursday, the other Friday, and the public does not know what was said in either. Two more are scheduled for this week, and they will be held behind closed doors, too.

The hearings are part of an effort to remove the president from office. There could not be a matter of more pressing public concern. There could not be a matter in which the American people have a greater stake. And yet the public has no idea what is being discovered.

Last week’s sessions weren’t just secret. They were super-secret. The first hearing, in which the witness was former Ukraine special envoy Kurt Volker, was held in what is known as a SCIF, which stands for sensitive compartmented information facility. It is a room in the Capitol, built to be impervious to electronic surveillance so that lawmakers can discuss the nation’s most important secrets without fear of discovery.

The second hearing, in which intelligence community inspector general Michael Atkinson testified, was also held in the SCIF.

Were highly classified matters discussed at the Volker and Atkinson hearings? Apparently not. Neither interview was classified. And even if some classified information were involved, it would be astonishing for Democrats to believe they could attempt to remove the president on the basis of information that is not available to the public.

The secrecy, decreed by House Intelligence Committee Chairman scumbag-Adam Schiff, has taken Republicans by surprise. Some are now speaking out about it.

“scumbag-Adam Schiff is running an impeachment inquiry secretly, behind closed doors, and he’s making up the rules as he goes along,” said Republican Rep. John Ratcliffe.

“These proceedings should be public,” added Republican Rep. Jim Jordan. “Democrats are trying to remove the president 13 months before an election based on an anonymous whistleblower … and they’re doing it all in a closed-door process.”

“This is nothing more or less than a show trial for the media,” said Rep. Devin Nunes, the ranking Republican on the Intelligence Committee, noting that with secrecy rules in place, the public knows only what is leaked to the press. “The Democrats leak what they want to leak to build narratives.”

Of course, that is not how Democrats would describe it. For his part, scumbag-Schiff has said that secrecy is needed to protect the identity of the CIA whistleblower who started the entire process. “The whistleblower has the right in the statute to remain anonymous,” scumbag-Schiff said recently, referring to the Intelligence Community Whistleblower Protection Act, which lays out the process through which intelligence community whistleblowers can file complaints.

In fact, the law says: “The inspector general shall not disclose the identity of the employee without the consent of the employee, unless the inspector general determines that such disclosure is unavoidable during the course of the investigation.”

First, the inspector general is the only official specifically prohibited from disclosing the identity. And second, even if the statute’s use of “investigation” refers to the inspector general’s probe, the fact is, the whistleblower is now part of an impeachment proceeding. Disclosure is, in fact, unavoidable; Democrats cannot keep entire hearings secret, keep vital information away from the American people, in the name of preserving the anonymity of a whistleblower.

Yet that appears to be what scumbag-Schiff and his Democratic colleagues are doing. This week the U.S. ambassador to the European Union, Gordon Sondland, was scheduled to be interviewed, but the State Department nixed his appearance at the last minute. That session was set to be held behind closed doors. Also this week, lawmakers will interview former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovich — behind closed doors. Republicans can complain, but Democrats, in firm control of the House, can do as they like. (An inquiry to scumbag-Schiff’s office went unanswered.)

The Democratic drive to impeach President Trump over Ukraine is the first impeachment proceeding solely about foreign policy. The exercise of foreign policy sometimes involves secrecy. The imposition of secrecy was an enormous problem in public understanding of the Trump-Russia affair, which ended with the special counsel unable to establish that there had been any conspiracy or coordination involving Russia and the Trump 2016 campaign. In that investigation, the public would have been better served by more disclosure, more quickly.

Now, the American people deserve to know precisely why one party in the House proposes to remove the president. They deserve to know the facts behind the Ukraine matter. It is simply inconceivable that a party could seek to remove a president but say to the American people, in essence, “Trust us, we’ve got good reason.”

The impeachment proceedings should be opened up — now.

~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/opinion/65978?mailing_id=4577&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4577&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

Alinsky’s Rules for Rhetorical Radicals

Posted by Craig Andresen on October 13, 2019 at 4:19am

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By Craig Andresen – Right Side Patriots on American Political Radio

Last week, the political party tolerance, peace, free speech and equality was at it again as they sent their ambassadors and moral guardians into the streets of Minneapolis to welcome Republicans and Conservatives who were arriving, and departing a Trump rally in the Target Center.

Typically, things got ugly, as they often do when democrats gather, and the hateful mob of liberals attacked Trump supporters as they arrived, and again as they left after the rally.

Reports stated that there was the customary pushing and shoving, the requisite punching of Trump supporters, arson…always a must at any given democrat-led protest, the throwing of urine at Trump supporters, and of course, the always relied upon shouts calling individual Trump supporters…Nazis.

Congressional Republican, Mark Meadows from North Carolina immediately called the typical display of hatred by democrats lawlessness.

Meadows said…

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Saturday PM ~ thefrontpagecover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on October 12, 2019 at 4:35pm

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

loose lips liar-Joe Biden is

a Hypocrite on Ukraine

Marc A. Thiessen

The case for identifying the whistleblower

by washingtonexaminer.com } ~ The identity of the person who filed the intelligence community whistleblower complaint that sparked the drive to impeach President Trump remains a secret... Democrats leading the impeachment campaign say his or her identity for brevity, the whistleblower will hereafter be referred to as "he" must remain closely guarded. Advocates of whistleblower laws, such as Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley, agree. The New York Times came under heavy criticism when it reported that the whistleblower is a CIA officer. "Any decision to report any perceived identifying information of the whistleblower is deeply concerning and reckless, as it can place the individual in harm's way," Andrew Bakaj, the whistleblower's lawyer, told the Times. "The whistleblower has a right to anonymity." Does he? And does that right outweigh the rights of the public to know salient facts in a proceeding designed to lead to the impeachment and removal of the president? The answer to the first question is yes, the whistleblower does have a right to anonymity. But the answer to the second question is no, that right does not outweigh other rights in an impeachment battle. Here are three reasons the whistleblower should be publicly identified: 1. The public has a right to know. There is no higher public concern than a debate that could lead to the president's removal. Simply put, everything should be public, because the public should be aware of everything that figures into the process. The whistle has not been blown on a mid-level bureaucrat using a government credit card for personal expenses. The whistleblower has accused the president of serious wrongdoing, and in doing so, has set off a proceeding of the highest public concern on Capitol Hill. 2. The whistleblower set the terms of the debate. In his Aug. 12 complaint, he laid out the accusation that Democrats would later wholly adopt in the effort to remove the president. "I have received information from multiple U.S. Government officials that the President of the United States is using the power of his office to solicit interference from a foreign country in the 2020 U.S. election," the whistleblower wrote. "Namely, he sought to pressure the Ukrainian leader to take actions to help the President's 2020 reelection bid." 3. He's not Deep Throat. The most famous anonymous source in all of journalism is Deep Throat, the man who gave Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein a number of leads in the paper's Watergate reporting. Woodward and Bernstein agreed not to reveal Deep Throat's identity, an arrangement that lasted for decades until 2005, when Mark Felt, who was a top FBI official during Watergate, revealed that he was the source. The whistleblower is not a similar case. He has gone through official channels to accuse the president, working with a team of attorneys to produce a polished legal document outlining Trump's alleged wrongdoing. Journalists have not made any agreement to keep his identity a secret...

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/editorials/the-case-for-identifying-the-whistleblower?utm_source=breaking_push&utm_medium=app&utm_campaign=push_notifications&utm_source=WEX_News%20Brief_10/12/2019&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WEX_News%20Brief&rid=5261

The Lights Are Out in California,

And That Was the Plan All Along

By Chuck DeVore

{ thefederalist.com } ~ The power is out in Northern California. More than 1 million Californians are now without electricity, one of modern life’s essentials that is frequently taken for granted... The blackout was done on purpose—to prevent sparks from powerlines that could ignite deadly wildfires. Before planned blackouts are through in two or three days, as many as 3 million Californians may go without power. On the surface, the blackout and its causes are simple to understand. But the deeper causes are complicated, span decades of public policy, and dozens of overlapping unintended—and intended—consequences of decisions, both related and unrelated. The wind in Northern California is blowing in from dry Nevada, as it often does this time of year. It’s called the “Diablo wind.” In Southern California, the comparable current blowing in from the Mojave Desert is known as the “Santa Ana winds.” In both cases, as the wind rises above California’s mountain spine, then descends, it compresses and heats up. Forests, chaparral and brush, dry this time of year in California’s Mediterranean climate, are primed for wildfires. This Isn’t Climate Change. Michael Wara, Stanford University’s director of climate and energy policy, warns, “We are having to adapt to new circumstances brought about by climate change.” He estimates that this week’s blackout could cost the state as much as $2.6 billion in lost economic activity. Politicians, journalists, and some scientists repeat a common refrain: California is getting hotter and drier because of climate change. They ignore the fact that annual precipitation totals over the past 100 years show no statistically meaningful trend... Thats bull, it's not climate change. This weather change has been going on for decades.

https://thefederalist.com/2019/10/09/the-lights-are-out-in-california-and-that-was-the-plan-all-along/?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTlRreFpUWTVNR1V5TnpaayIsInQiOiJEQndhZW9qUmk3eE41NHUwVENHRUZVZDZJWGowZEI2WGlQNWs5RDNrYkVCY1BHTm50cVBRejVuMzByeFNwbDlMMDNkVHBJTHlhK3FmVmNpUExxQzhHd25LUXVWVVNTM2dGeDJPa2I2R2lOTFJyaW5ZRmo2cXNcL2VXbnN2ZHFhMlYifQ%3D%3D

No, We’re Not Selling Out the Syrian Kurds. But

We Should Mediate Their Conflict With Turkey

by James Phillips

{ dailysignal.com } ~ Caught up in a conflict between long-standing NATO ally Turkey and a recently engaged Kurdish tactical partner in Syria, the Trump administration has accommodated the legitimate security interests of Turkey... by staging a partial pullback of U.S. special operations forces in northeastern Syria. It did so to get out of the way of a Turkish intervention launched Wednesday. Although critics of the Trump administration have rushed to denounce the decision as a “sellout” of the Syrian Kurds, that’s not true. Washington received no payoff from Ankara for stepping aside, and is not “abandoning the Kurds,” as many critics contend.
Washington’s ad hoc partnership with Syrian Kurds never included a commitment to help them fight Turkey, only to fight the Islamic State, the terrorist army also known as ISIS. The United States still supports Syrian Kurds against ISIS, just as it supports Iraqi Kurds and the Iraqi government against ISIS. But Washington has remained neutral with regard to Turkey’s complaints about the threats Syrian Kurds pose to Turkey. To be more specific, the Pentagon continues to support the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces against ISIS. It has declined, however, to work with the largest Kurdish armed faction within the those forces, the People’s Protection Units (YPG in its Kurdish acronym) to resist the Turkish intervention. In geopolitical terms, that’s a logical and necessary decision. Trump Warns Turkey’s President: President Donald Trump on Oct. 7 warned Turkey against going “off limits” in Syria, and has threatened to apply economic sanctions if Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ignores the warning. The president doubled down on the sanctions threat Friday by authorizing the Treasury Department to prepare “significant sanctions” against Turkey, if necessary. That’s a far cry from giving Ankara a “green light,” as some critics contend...

https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/10/11/no-were-not-selling-out-the-syrian-kurds-but-we-should-mediate-their-conflict-with-turkey/?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTlRreFpUWTVNR1V5TnpaayIsInQiOiJEQndhZW9qUmk3eE41NHUwVENHRUZVZDZJWGowZEI2WGlQNWs5RDNrYkVCY1BHTm50cVBRejVuMzByeFNwbDlMMDNkVHBJTHlhK3FmVmNpUExxQzhHd25LUXVWVVNTM2dGeDJPa2I2R2lOTFJyaW5ZRmo2cXNcL2VXbnN2ZHFhMlYifQ%3D%3D

Ukraine Prosecutor Says Amb. Yovanovitch Obstructed Crime Evidence From

Reaching AG Barr

by Jeff Dunetz

{ lidblog.com } ~ Today, Friday, October 11 former US Ambassador to Ukraine, Marie Yovanovitch will testify to scumbag-Adam Schiff’s Democratic Party hit squad about Rudy Giuliani’s attempts to get evidence of Ukraine Interference with the 2016 election and the Hunter Biden scandal... As scumbag-Shiff’s team doesn’t care about the truth, it is doubtful they will ask her about the Senior Ukrainian prosecutor’s charge that Ambassador Yovanovitch prevented him from presenting evidence of Democratic Party and Hunter Biden wrongdoing to AG Barr. Ambassador Yovanovitch is a career diplomat since 1986 who was appointed by former President scumbag/liar-nObama to be the US representative to Ukraine in August 2016 and was removed by the present administration fired in late May of 2019. Kostiantyn Kulyk deputy director of Ukraine’s Prosecutor General’s International Legal Cooperation Dept. told John Solomon in April that for a year he’s been blocked from getting visas for himself and a team of senior law enforcement officials to go to the U.S. to deliver evidence of Democratic party wrongdoing during the 2016 election to the DOJ. The senior prosecutor said he never was able to make the trip because the visas were blocked by the U.S. Ambassador. Per Prosecutor Kulyk: We were supposed to share this information during a working trip to the United States,” Kulyk told me in a wide-ranging interview. “However, the U.S. ambassador blocked us from obtaining a visa. She didn’t explicitly deny our visa, but also didn’t give it to us.” One focus of Ukrainian investigators, Kulyk said, has been money spirited unlawfully out of Ukraine and moved to the United States by businessmen friendly to the prior, pro-Russia regime of Viktor Yanukovych. Ukrainian businessmen “authorized payments for lobbying efforts directed at the U.S. government,” he told me. “In addition, these payments were made from funds that were acquired during the money-laundering operation. We have information that a U.S. company was involved in these payments.” That company is tied to one or more prominent Democrats, Ukrainian officials insist. In another instance, he said, Ukrainian authorities gathered evidence that money paid to an American Democrat allegedly was hidden by Ukraine’s National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) during the 2016 election under pressure from U.S. officials. “In the course of this investigation, we found that there was a situation during which influence was exerted on the NABU, so that the name of the American would not be mentioned,” he said. As we reported in late March, the former Ukranian Government is known for being very corrupt, and that includes the head of the NABU Artem Sytnyk. A prosecutor other than Kulyk is investigating Sytnyk for trying to help scumbag/liar-Hillary to win the 2016 election, which was initially reported two years ago by Politico... https://lidblog.com/ambassador-yovanovitch/

Judge Blocks Trump Rule That Could Deny

Visas and Green Cards to Immigrants on Welfare

By Bradley Evans

{ westernjournal.com } ~ A federal judge in New York issued a temporary injunction Friday against a Trump administration immigration rule... that will prevent the rule from taking effect Tuesday as originally planned. Judge George B. Daniels of the Southern District of New York issued the ruling, according to The New York Times. The rule, announced by the Trump administration in August, would allow the government to turn away green card and visa applicants based on their use of benefits such as Medicaid and food stamps, CNN reported at the time. Other “negative factors” the government could consider under the rule include being unemployed and lacking proficiency in English, according to The Times. According to a White House news release, the rule was designed to “help ensure that if aliens want to enter or remain in the United States they must support themselves, and not rely on public benefit.” In his ruling, Daniels argued that were the rule to go into effect, those potentially affected could suffer “irreparable harm,” The Times reported. The inclusion of English proficiency as a standard for accepting applicants was among Daniels’ reasons for issuing the injunction.“It is simply offensive to contend that English proficiency is a valid predictor of self-sufficiency,” he wrote. “The rule is simply a new agency policy of exclusion in search of a justification,” Daniels said. “It is repugnant to the American Dream of the opportunity for prosperity and success through hard work and upward mobility.” Ken Cuccinelli, President Donald Trump’s acting director of Citizenship and Immigration Services, addressed similar claims of “repugnance” in an August interview with NPR. Just days after the announcement of the new rule, Cuccinelli defended the administration. He argued that it “doesn’t seem like too much to ask, as we open our doors currently to more than a million new people a year, that they not become a burden on an already, frankly, overburdened and bankrupt welfare system.”...

https://www.westernjournal.com/judge-blocks-trump-rule-deny-visas-green-cards-immigrants-welfare/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=WJBreaking&utm_campaign=breaking&utm_content=western-journal

San Francisco’s False Solution

by Erica Sandberg

{ city-journal.org } ~ San Francisco’s radical Left has a peculiar partner in Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff. As a backer of Proposition C, he joined the Coalition on Homelessness to strong-arm high-revenue businesses into supporting bloated city government departments to address the city’s homeless problem... Companies earning gross receipts over $50 million now pay an additional tax on the excess, with rates ranging from 0.175 percent to 0.69 percent. It will garner the city between $250 and $300 million, doubling its current budget for homeless services to half a billion dollars annually. Prop C, dubbed the “Our City, Our Home Fund,” passed in November of 2018 with 61 percent of the vote. Since then it’s been hotly contested. The Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association has sued the city. “Approval for special taxes needs a two-thirds majority, so it’s now in the appeals process,” says senior staff attorney Laura Dougherty. “We need the clarity of the California Supreme court.” Meantime, the tax revenue is being collected, but the city is holding the funds until it gets the nod to spend them. If you believe that lack of funding is the cause of San Francisco’s homelessness problem, then the measure is a great idea. Fifty percent of the funding would go toward housing, 25 percent to mental health and addiction programs, 15 percent to people who are at risk of becoming homeless or have recently become so, and 10 percent to short-term “residential shelters and hygiene programs.” It won’t help. The plan is wildly expensive. After administrative costs are skimmed from the top, the remainder will be distributed among the Mayor’s Office of Housing and Community Development, the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing, and the Department of Public Health. Combined, these agencies employ hundreds of government workers, whose average compensation salary and benefits is $175,004. The city will then parcel out the rest to dozens of non-profit agencies, each with its own set of directors and employees. Just how much is left for those they purportedly serve remains to be seen, but chances are it won’t be enough... Round these homeless off the streets and send them to where they can be helped. https://www.city-journal.org/san-francisco-homelessness-marc-benioff?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTlRreFpUWTVNR1V5TnpaayIsInQiOiJEQndhZW9qUmk3eE41NHUwVENHRUZVZDZJWGowZEI2WGlQNWs5RDNrYkVCY1BHTm50cVBRejVuMzByeFNwbDlMMDNkVHBJTHlhK3FmVmNpUExxQzhHd25LUXVWVVNTM2dGeDJPa2I2R2lOTFJyaW5ZRmo2cXNcL2VXbnN2ZHFhMlYifQ%3D%3D

loose lips liar-Joe Biden Is

a Hypocrite on Ukraine

Marc A. Thiessen

Former vice president loose lips liar-Joe Biden has said that in holding up vital military assistance to Ukraine, President Trump “used the power and resources of the United States to pressure a sovereign nation, a partner that is still under direct assault from Russia … to subvert the rule of law in the express hope of extracting a political favor.”

That’s rich. The aid in question is lethal military assistance that the swcumbag/liar-nObama/loose lips liar-Biden administration refused to give Ukraine.

In 2014, after Russia annexed Crimea and began arming separatists in eastern Ukraine with tanks, armored vehicles and rocket launchers, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko came to Washington to plead for weapons to defend his country. In an impassioned address to a joint session of Congress — with loose lips liar-Biden sitting directly behind him — Poroshenko said his country appreciated the nonlethal assistance he was getting, but declared “one cannot win a war with blankets.”

The scumbag/liar-nObama/loose lips liar-Biden administration was unmoved. The Wall Street Journal reported at the time that “President Barack scumbag/liar-nObama stuck to his refusal to provide weapons or other lethal military gear to Ukraine, despite a passionate appeal Thursday for help in fighting pro-Russian rebels by Ukraine’s president.” Why? The administration feared that lethal aid would provoke Moscow.

So what did the administration give him? Instead of RPGs (rocket-propelled grenades), we provided MREs (meals ready to eat) — food rations. As one frustrated former Pentagon official put it at the time, “What kind of message does that send anyway? We are sending MREs while they are being invaded by an aggressor.”

Answer: a message of weakness.

When Trump took office, he delivered a message of strength. In December 2017, the new administration announced that the United States would send the lethal aid to Ukraine that Poroshenko requested and scumbag/liar-nObama and Biden refused — the sale of $47 million worth of Javelin antitank missiles. In May 2018, after Ukraine tested its new Javelin missiles, Poroshenko exulted on Twitter, “Finally this day has come!” and personally thanked Trump “for supporting Ukraine and adopting a decision to provide Javelin antitank missile systems.”

For loose lips liar-Biden to now attack Trump for a temporary delay in a new round of lethal military aid reeks of hypocrisy. It was on loose lips liar-Biden’s watch that the United States refused to deliver military aid at all. Yet the same vice president who sat there impassively while Ukraine’s president begged for weapons now dares to cite the Russian threat to Ukraine in castigating Trump? Talk about chutzpah.

And since loose lips liar-Biden raised the Russian threat, let’s recall that the scumbag/liar-nObama/loose lips liar-Biden administration bears much responsibility for the annexation of Crimea that necessitated the delivery of lethal aid to Ukraine in the first place. Russia’s military intervention in Ukraine came in the aftermath of the scumbag/liar-nObama/loose lips liar-Biden administration’s failure to enforce its red line against Bashar al-Assad’s use of chemical weapons by Syria. In March 2013, loose lips liar-Biden declared, “Because we recognize the great danger Assad’s chemical and biological arsenals pose to Israel and the United States, to the whole world, we’ve set a clear red line against the use or the transfer of those weapons.”

Assad responded by using chemical weapons on innocent civilians not once, but 16 times. And yet scumbag/liar-nObama and loose lips liar-Biden did nothing, failing to carry out even “unbelievably small” military strikes — a decision loose lips liar-Biden publicly defended. “We can easily say we should have bombed and gone in and taken out their air defense system,” loose lips liar-Biden said, “Well, you know, big nations can’t bluff.”

Bluff is what scumbag/liar-nObama and loose lips liar-Biden did — and Assad called their bluff. Not only that, they turned to Russia for a face-saving way out, letting Russian President Vladimir Putin broker a phony deal to have Syria disarm. It was one of the most embarrassing foreign policy debacles of the post-Cold War era. So it should come as no surprise that, when scumbag/liar-nObama threatened to impose costs on Putin if he invaded Ukraine, the Kremlin called his bluff, too. Putin knew scumbag/liar-nObama and loose lips liar-Biden did not have the will to stand up to him in Ukraine. And he was proved right when they refused to give Ukraine lethal aid for fear of further provoking him.

None of this excuses Trump’s delaying a new round of lethal military aid to Ukraine. But if this military assistance was as vital to countering the Russian threat as loose lips liar-Biden says, then it’s fair to ask: Why didn’t the United States provide it when loose lips liar-Biden was the scumbag/liar-nObama administration’s point man on Ukraine?

~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/opinion/65981?mailing_id=4577&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4577&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

Saturday Noon ~ thefrontpagecover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on October 12, 2019 at 12:13pm

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

Durham Expands Probe Into

Russia-Collusion Hoax

Nate Jackson

Giuliani Under Investigation

for Lobbying Violations

by newsmax.com ~ Rudy Giuliani, President Donald Trump's personal lawyer, is being investigated by federal prosecutors in New York for possible lobbying violations... That's according to a report Friday in The New York Times, citing two anonymous people familiar with the inquiry. One of the Times' sources says the investigation is related to Giuliani's efforts to undermine former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch. Two Florida businessmen tied to Giuliani were charged Thursday with federal campaign finance violations. The men had key roles in Giuliani's efforts to launch a Ukrainian corruption investigation against Democratic presidential contender loose lips liar-Joe Biden and his son Hunter. A whistleblower complaint about Trump's involvement with Ukraine has led to an impeachment investigation. The U.S. attorney's office in Manhattan declined to comment Friday night on the Times report. Giuliani has said he has broken no laws, though he admits working with the men trying to find out information on loose lips liar-Joe Biden and his son, Hunter Biden, on work he did serving on a board of Ukrainian energy company. Giuliani told the Times he did not violate U.S. laws because he was working on behalf of Trump and not Ukrainian prosecutor Yuriy Lutsenko when he gathered information on Ambassador Yovanovitch and others to give to the U.S. government and the media. "Look, you can try to contort anything into anything, but if they have any degree of objectivity or fairness, it would be kind of ridiculous to say I was doing it on Lutsenko’s behalf when I was representing the president of the United States,” Mr. Giulian told the Times.

https://www.newsmax.com/politics/us-trump-impeachment-giuliani/2019/10/11/id/936790/?ns_mail_uid=62cddd55-241d-495e-8ad9-b8a04d508a36&ns_mail_job=DM59467_10122019&s=acs&dkt_nbr=0105020mawf0

Last Night, We Saw Fascism in The Streets

By JOHN HINDERAKER

{ powerlineblog.com } ~ Last night President Trump conducted a fabulously successful rally at the Target Center in downtown Minneapolis. Scott had a great experience that included meeting the President and hearing his reporting praised repeatedly by President Trump... The 20,000 who were lucky enough to get into the Target Center had a wonderful time; by all accounts it was one of Trump’s best rallies. But outside the arena, things were quite different. Thousands of lawless, violent Democrats “protested” Trump’s appearance by committing assault, among other crimes. They battled police officers. They attacked Republicans leaving Target Center. They set bonfires and burned patriotic regalia. They carried the flag of the defunct Soviet Union. They spat on peaceful Trump supporters. They assaulted an uncounted number of normal citizens leaving the Target Center. They struck a woman across the head with a piece of lumber. They waved a sign that said, “Blue Lives Don’t F@$king Matter.” The Minneapolis Chief of Police reported, “Objects containing liquid believed to be urine were hurled at some of my officers along with bottles and rocks. Police horses were also assaulted by protesters striking them with sticks.” These leftists are identical to the Nazi Brownshirts of the 1930s. But make no mistake–they represent today’s Democratic Party. A sitting Democratic State Representative, Aisha Gomez (DFL-Minneapolis), was seen among the fascists, dressed in black like an Antifa hoodlum. And Minneapolis’s boy Mayor, Jacob Frey, who expressed regret that he could not legally prevent President Trump from visiting Minneapolis, and then tried to do it anyway, issued an order to the Minneapolis Police Department not to use chemical irritants on the mob of criminal Democrats. [UPDATE: We have a disagreement between Boy Mayor Frey and the mob: Frey denies issuing such an order, putting him at odds with fellow Democrat Gomez.] And not a single local Democrat has condemned the violence and disorder that took place last night. The facts are very, very bad for the Left and for the Democratic Party. We need to bring those facts to light before it is too late. If they don't like it here they can get out of the USA.

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2019/10/last-night-we-saw-fascism-in-the-streets.php?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+powerlineblog%2Flivefeed+%28Power+Line%29

VIDEO 1: https://cbsloc.al/35qxH4E

VIDEO 2: https://www.fox9.com/video/613912

VIDEO 3: https://www.facebook.com/KARE11/videos/2413680658849947/

(videos 1 & 2 copy and paste)

ISIS's Turkish Homecoming

by Con Coughlin

{ gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ One of the more ludicrous suggestions to have been made during Turkey's military offensive against the Syrian Kurds is that... in return for Washington's approval, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan would take responsibility for the estimated 90,000 ISIS fighters and their dependents, currently languishing in Kurdish-controlled detention centers. It is one of the worst kept secrets in Western intelligence circles that, for long periods during the brutal Syrian conflict, Mr Erdogan's regime supported a number of groups that enjoyed close affiliation with ISIS, as well as other Islamist terror groups such as Al-Qaeda. It is, therefore, the epitome of hypocrisy for Mr Erdogan to offer to take responsibility for the ISIS fighters being held in Kurdish-run detention camps such as the al-Hol complex in eastern Syria. If that really were to happen, and the ISIS captives were repatriated to Turkey, it would, for some, be more like a homecoming. There is, fortunately, only a remote likelihood that captured ISIS fighters will be making their way to Turkey anytime soon, for most of the detention camps are located well away from the 30 km buffer zone on Syria's northern border, the main target of the Turkish offensive. The far more worrying prospect is that the captives may be able to escape, and return to the ranks of ISIS's terrorist infrastructure because the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), which are currently responsible for holding them, will no longer have either the manpower or the will to continue running the numerous detention facilities in which the captives are being held. Prior to Turkey launching its offensive, which bears the unlikely codename "Operation Peace Spring", Mazlum Abdi, the commander of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces, announced that some of his forces tasked with securing the ISIS prisoners would need to be redeployed to the border to do battle with the Turkish military. If the Kurds cannot guard the ISIS captives, then who will?...

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/14992/isis-turkish-homecoming

scumbag-Adam Schiff Is Doomed After Another

CNN Guest Admits He’s In Huge Trouble

by familyretirementclub.com ~ The following video is brought to you courtesy of The Next News Network YouTube Channel. Click the play button to watch it now... Virginia Kruta from The Daily Caller reports, CNN guest Linda Chavez criticized House Intelligence Committee Chairman scumbag-Adam Schiff during a CNN panel Sunday, saying that he had “caused himself a lot of problems” with regard to impeachment hearings.

https://familyretirementclub.com/2019/10/11/adam-schiff-is-doomed-after-another-cnn-guest-admits-hes-in-huge-trouble/

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgj8tw9o8SA

JW Videos of the Week

'These aren't Whistleblowers--This is a Palace Coup against President Trump!'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvduObiKS7Q

Tom Fitton's Video Weekly Update

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

NEW Docs Show State Dept KNEW about scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton's Secret Email Account

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voBFR0c_dsA

scumbag/liar-nObama Knew about scumbag/commie-John Brennan's Illicit Anti-Trump Targeting Scheme!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apHMUMDyc4k

Is Climate Change Doomsday Coming?

By Mark Deutschle

{ americanthinker.com } ~ TIME Magazine published an article on June 24, 1974, titled "Another Ice Age?," stating that "the atmosphere has been growing gradually cooler for the past three decades... The trend shows no indication of reversing." This climate theory didn't last long, as the planet apparently began to warm slightly in the latter 1970s, paving the way for the introduction of a new theory called global warming. Unfortunately, the planet failed to warm up as predicted, so yet another climate theory was created called climate change. This all-encompassing label meant that incidents of heat waves, cold snaps, rain, drought, hurricanes, and so on could all be identified as problems resulting from man-caused climate change. In a 2005 Gallup poll asking people to identify America's biggest problem, global warming didn't even make it into the top ten concerns. Climate change adherents understood that if this lack of concern persisted, they would never achieve their goal of radically reducing fossil fuel use throughout the industrialized world. So marketing efforts to "sell" climate change to an unconcerned public ramped up, starting with scumbag-Al Gore's 2006 documentary An Inconvenient Truth, which earned scumbag-Gore an Oscar and Nobel Prize. Even though a British court ruled in 2007 that the film "makes a political statement and ... supports a political programme" and contains nine serious science errors, climate change theorists began to use the movie both here and abroad to influence millions of public school students to become believers in man-caused climate change. One should not be surprised by a 2018 Gallup poll that shows that 70% of Americans aged 18–34 are somewhat or very worried about global warming. Today, 40 states use a public school science curriculum that identifies mankind as the major cause of global warming, so it is clear that the "selling" of global warming continues to be increasingly effective. The fact that majorities of our Millennials and Generation Z embrace the theory of man-caused global warming is beginning to have a dramatic effect in America. Millennial commie-Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who has over 5 million followers on Twitter, recently said the world is going to end in 12 years if we don't address climate change. Fighting climate change is an essential part of commie-Ocasio-Cortez's proposed New Green Deal legislation, which, if enacted, will require the U.S. to nearly eliminate all use of fossil fuels within ten years. Most of the Democrats running for president, the mass media, celebrities, and the Left are all singing the same refrain as commie-Ocasio-Cortez, warning of a rapidly approaching man-caused Climate Doomsday, which can be avoided only by taking immediate and drastic action. For example, at a September town hall on climate change, former vice president loose lios liar-Joe Biden said "We have to take combustion engine vehicles off the road as rapidly as we can." However, many millions of Americans, especially those over the age of 30, are not so sure that the climate doomsayers have the facts on their side. Therefore, I propose that we have a nationally televised debate on carbon emissions and man-caused climate change. Let Americans hear the relevant facts so they can decide for themselves if we need to completely gut our economy now in order to save the planet later. Maybe scumbag-George Soros or Tom Steyer would like to put up a big pot — say, 10 million dollars to the winner, just to make things interesting... https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/10/is_climate_change_doomsday_coming.html

Durham Expands Probe Into

Russia-Collusion Hoax

Nate Jackson: American politicians may have improperly colluded with foreign nations to influence U.S. elections. That would be Democrats, of course, and back in May Attorney General William Barr appointed U.S. Attorney John Durham to get to the bottom of those efforts. News this morning is that Durham’s investigation has expanded.

According to Fox News, “Durham has expanded his investigation [by] adding agents and resources… The timeline has grown from the beginning of the probe through the election and now has included a post-election timeline through the spring of 2017, up to when Robert Mueller was named special counsel.”

Why is Mueller important? Well, in another Fox News report, we learn “that when Robert Mueller met with President Trump in May of 2017, Mueller was indeed pursuing the open post as the director of the FBI — something the former Russia probe special counsel denied under oath during congressional testimony this summer.” Thanks to now-revealed private conversations with then-Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, Mueller “knew there was a real possibility he could be named special counsel if he wasn’t chosen as the next FBI director.”

Talk about a conflict of interest. President Donald Trump pointed this out before, and now we see that another “outrageous” Trump statement has proven true. If Trump tends to obsess about how The Swamp is out to get him, well, it is.

Meanwhile, a report from Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz is expected soon. His effort will detail almost certain corruption in securing FISA warrants to surveil Trump’s presidential campaign. That corruption is what kicked off the entire Russia-collusion fiasco, which in turn provided the template for the present impeachment coup attempt. ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/65995?mailing_id=4577&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4577&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

Sat/Med AM ~ thefrontpagecover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on October 12, 2019 at 9:40am

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

'Whistleblower' Tied to 2020 Democrat

Political Editors

Trump announces acting Homeland Security Secretary McAleenan to leave post

By Samuel Chamberlain

{ foxnews.com } ~ Acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan is stepping down from that position, President Trump announced Friday night... "Kevin now, after many years in Government, wants to spend more time with his family and go to the private sector," Trump tweeted shortly before taking the stage at a rally in Lake Charles, La. "Congratulations Kevin, on a job well done!" The president added that the new acting homeland security secretary would be announced next week and said he had "Many wonderful candidates" to fill the position. A former senior DHS official with close ties to the administration told Fox News on Friday that U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services acting Director Ken Cuccinelli is on the top of President Trump's list to be the next acting secretary. The source noted that a Senate confirmation hearing would be bruising for Cuccinelli but "he, White House adviser Steve Miller and Trump are all in sync on a number of key policies. They have been trying to clear the way for a while." Former Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach would likely be Trump's second choice, the official added. While Transportation Security Administration (TSA) Administrator Dave Pekoske is next in line according to succession rules, Miller doesn't think "he is tough enough," the source said...

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-announces-acting-homeland-security-secretary-mcaleenan-to-leave-post

Sen. Graham Threatens to Call Volker to Testify

If House Dems Fail to Release

Deposition’s Transcripts

by EDWIN MORA

{ breitbart.com } ~ Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) on Wednesday demanded that House Democrat leaders release the full transcript of the testimony provided by the impeachment inquiry’s first witness... former U.S. special envoy to Ukraine Kurt Volker. Graham, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, threatened to call Volker to testify before his panel if Democrats did not meet his demand. Volker is at the center of the impeachment investigation. He resigned as the special envoy to Ukraine at the end of last month as the inquiry began to heat up. Sen. Graham described the House Democrats’ refusal to make the full transcript of Volker’s deposition last Thursday public as “an abuse of power.” Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) and other Republican congressmen who witnessed Volker’s testimony have called on Democrats to release the transcript. Jordan is the top Republican of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform. The Democrat-led House Committees on Oversight and Reform, Intelligence, and Foreign Affairs are pursuing the impeachment inquiry. Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY) said the full transcript of Volker’s testimony “obliterated” the “whistleblower’s” claim fueling the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump. The comments from Zeldin, a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee who also witnessed Volker’s testimony, came while he was briefing reporters alongside Jordan. Citing a Fox News story highlighting the Democrats’ refusal to releae the transcript, Sen. Graham wrote on Twitter Wednesday, “If this continues, I will call Volker before the Senate Judiciary Committee to testify publicly to ensure the full story is told.”...

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/10/09/sen-graham-threatens-to-call-volker-to-testify-if-house-dems-fail-to-release-depositions-transcripts/

President Trump and Vice Premier Liu

He Announce “Phase One” Trade Agreement

by sundance

{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ President Trump, U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and Treasury Secretary Mnuchin gathered with their Chinese counterparts in the Oval Office for a lengthy announcement of “phase-one” of a U.S-China trade agreement... Vice-Premier Liu He leads the Chinese delegation. According to the presser: Phase One has reached ‘agreement in principle‘, and includes: Intellectual Property issues; Banking and Financial Services to include currency devaluation; and major agricultural purchases $50 billion +. There will be several phases, and each phase will have an individually tailored enforcement mechanism. Note: this approach sounds similar to the ‘six sectors and stages’ USTR Lighthizer discussed in March 2019. The Phase One agreement details still have to be put on paper over the next five to six weeks. The U.S. and China are hopeful to have ‘phase one‘ complete by December. In exchange for current AG purchase commitments, and as an act of good faith while phase-one is finalized, the U.S. will suspend the tariff rate increases scheduled to take effect on October 15th. The tariff increase from 25% to 30% have been suspended. The scheduled U.S. tariff increases for December are still planned; however, they will be assessed as part of the ongoing negotiations. Meanwhile, touchy issues like tech company Hauwei, 5G, telecom and the Chinese firms on the U.S. blocked “entity list” ie. trade ‘blacklist’ are not part of the discussions. Those issues fall under U.S. National Security issues and will not be part of any ongoing trade negotiations... https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/10/11/president-trump-and-vice-premier-liu-he-announce-phase-one-trade-agreement-video/

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

Voters Will ‘Send Home’ Lawmakers Who Act

to Impeach Trump, House Conservative Says

by Rachel del Guidice

{ dailysignal.com } ~ If Democrats are successful in impeachment efforts against President Donald Trump, voters will send them home, a leading House conservative said Friday at a gathering of “values voters” in Washington... “Even before this president was sworn in they were talking about impeachment, and they’re bound and determined to do it,” Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C., said at the annual Values Voter Summit organized by FRC Action, the lobbying arm of the Washington-based Family Research Council. “And we need to send a clear message that if they do it we will send them home,” Meadows told the crowd at the Omni Shoreham Hotel. House Speaker liar-Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., last month opened what she called an official impeachment inquiry, saying Trump’s actions as president “have seriously violated the Constitution,” and that Trump “must be held accountable.” liar-Pelosi said Trump had “seriously violated the Constitution,” citing his July 25 phone conversation with the president of Ukraine that she said was meant to “benefit him politically.” “We’re not taking this sitting down, or even lying down,” Meadows said. “We’re going to stay in the fight because of people like you that continue to encourage us to stay in the fight.” Meadows, former chairman of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, said it has become commonplace for politicians to stray from what their constituents sent them to Congress to accomplish. “We need to have some kind of vaccination for the Potomac fever,” the North Carolina Republican said, adding... https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/10/11/voters-will-send-home-lawmakers-who-act-to-impeach-trump-house-conservative-says/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=voters-will-send-home-lawmakers-who-act-to-impeach-trump-house-conservative-says&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTTJVeE5qWmpPV1prTURBMCIsInQiOiJlVkRZTzZnS0FVXC9IbWl4clBpU2lMZG9TNW1xY1JiRVhJd1V4MDFWMG9iQVJtRVhNSURENGN5KzRiUzFSZHhoVzJtR1wvcjdxeFQ0Z2oza3pWZElna0p4VXN0MU1halBtQlREdEpyNnFFMHJWNGlGQVZldE4wNGRQZFJKZUxKSW1xIn0%3D

Adoption Attorney Charged With Human

Trafficking Connected To “Songbird”

rino-McCain & rino-Jeff Flake

by thewashingtonstandard.com ~ Recently, we reported on the arrest of Paul Peterson, an attorney and former elected public servant, who is now facing DOJ charges relating to adoption fraud and the smuggling of illegal aliens... Peterson was allegedly bringing pregnant here is a quick rundown from yesterday’s article at our sister site…nt women from The Marshall Islands to America and putting their children up for adoption, for hefty profits. It is now being reported that, in some cases, the women did not want to give up their children. The Trump Administration’s crackdown on human smuggling and trafficking continues. Many unborn children may have just been saved from a horrid existence by The DOJ. An Arizona adoption attorney is facing several federal charges in Arkansas after being arrested in California Tuesday evening. Paul Petersen, who is an assessor in Maricopa County and an attorney that practices law in Arizona, Utah and Arkansas, reportedly “devised a scheme to defraud and obtain money and property from unknowing adoptive parents and others. ”According to the Department of Justice, Petersen would pay pregnant Marsallese women to travel to Arkansas and put their babies up for adoption. He allegedly bought airline tickets and had them hide the motive to travel from Republic of Marshall Islands and United States authorities. “In furtherance of this scheme, Petersen caused adoption case files to be opened that were supported by documents containing fraudulent material false statements,” the DOJ press release stated. Those documents were then filed in Washington and Polk counties. Authorities say Petersen reportedly hid his involvement in the payments, transferring “more than one million dollars into a bank account.” He has been charged with one count of conspiracy to smuggle illegal aliens for commercial advantage and private financial gain, four counts of aiding and abetting, seven counts of wire fraud, five counts of mail fraud, one count of conspiracy to commit visa fraud and one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering.

https://thewashingtonstandard.com/arizona-adoption-attorney-charged-with-human-trafficking-connected-to-songbird-mccain-jeff-flake/

A SENSIBLE TAKE ON SYRIA

By JOHN HINDERAKER

{ powerlineblog.com } ~ Liberals’ foreign policy views are inconsistent, but entirely predictable: whatever a Republican president does, they oppose. Thus, Democrats applauded when President scumbag/liar-nObama prematurely withdrew American troops from Iraq, enabling the rise of ISIS... But when President Trump pulled a few hundred out of Syria, it was: OMG! The Kurds! James Carafano of the Heritage Foundation and the Institute of World Politics gave an interview to the Daily Signal that gives the best take I have seen on Trump’s recent Syria move. You really should read it all, but here are some highlights: When President Trump came in office, he actually expanded the U.S. footprint in Syria, because military advisers made the argument that … you couldn’t take down the caliphate—in other words, destroy the physical state that the terrorist had—if we didn’t actually have forces in there working with indigenous groups that were fighting ISIS, chief among them, the YPG, which is a armed Kurdish group. And so President Trump actually increased the U.S. footprint in Syria. Then subsequent to that, after the caliphate was destroyed, the president wanted to withdraw U.S. troops. The military advisers and several allies, including Israel, said, “Well, look, there’s still concerns that need to be addressed.” So we’ve maintained a small footprint in Syria for the last year or so. *** We estimate it’s a relatively small print of a few hundred Americans in uniform that are spread around the areas that are not controlled by the Syrian government. *** Let’s start by what the Turks are doing. They’re not invading Syria. There is a portion of Syria which borders Turkey, which right now is kind of uncontrolled. Nobody really controls the port. The Syrian government doesn’t control the border. There are Kurdish groups in that area and the Turks wanted to control that area. It’s several kilometers wide, so it’s really a small chunk of Syria. Why do they want to control it? Well, one, they don’t want it to be a platform for Kurdish terrorist groups, not the Kurdish people. There’s a difference, right? There are Kurds all over the region. There are Kurds in Iran. There are Kurds in Iraq. There are Kurds in Syria. There are Kurds in other places. So when you say the Kurds, that’s a lot of people spread all over the Middle East, but there are Kurdish groups which are affiliated with specific terrorist groups, like the PKK, which is a terrorist group that … focuses on attacking Turkey...

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2019/10/a-sensible-take-on-syria.php?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+powerlineblog%2Flivefeed+%28Power+Line%29

'Whistleblower' Tied to 2020 Democrat

Political Editors: When Intelligence Community Inspector General (ICIG) Michael Atkinson first addressed the “whistleblower” complaint back in August, he noted that the individual showed “some indicia of an arguable political bias … in favor of a rival political candidate.” After the complaint came to light, it was learned that the whistleblower was a registered Democrat, which many may have assumed was the reason behind Atkinson statement suggesting that the whistleblower had “arguable political bias.”

However, now it has come to light that the whistleblower’s political bias runs much deeper than merely being a registered Democrat. During his closed-door testimony last Friday, Atkinson noted that the whistleblower had significant ties to a 2020 Democrat candidate. The Washington Examiner reports that three individuals with knowledge of Atkinson’s testimony stated that he said the whistleblower had “a professional relationship” with a current 2020 Democrat candidate, but Atkinson did not disclose who the candidate was.

So, here’s what we know about this whole “whistleblower” charade so far. The original form the whistleblower submitted had previously only accepted first-hand information to meet the “urgent concern” criteria in order to trigger a congressional alert, but it was mysteriously changed to eliminate the first-hand knowledge criteria. And we still have no answer as to when or why this change occurred. Later, we learn that the whistleblower contacted Rep. scumbag-Adam Schiff’s office weeks before submitting the complaint. scumbag-Schiff lied about having no prior knowledge of the complaint. Now we find out that the whistleblower had a “professional relationship” with a 2020 Democrat candidate. This is the real scandal, not President Donald Trump’s Ukrainian phone call.

~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/65999?mailing_id=4577&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4577&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

Saturday AM ~ thefrontpagecover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on October 12, 2019 at 6:40am

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

Thanks to scumbag/liar-nObamaCare,

Insurance Costs Keep Climbing

Political Editors

Ukraine President Says 'There Was No

Blackmail' from Trump, Thinks

Call Transcript 'Matches Completely'

By Andrew J. Sciascia

{ westernjournal.com } ~ Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Thursday rejected claims that President Donald Trump has attempted to blackmail him in diplomatic relations this year... Zelensky told reporters his now-controversial July 25 phone call with Trump was not related to the U.S. having withheld foreign aid from Ukraine. In fact, the Ukrainian president said he was not aware of Trump’s decision to withhold the nearly $400 million in aid at the time of their phone conversation. And he believes the transcript of the phone call reflects that. “There was no blackmail,” Zelensky said during a day of televised news briefings in Kiev, according to Reuters. “This was not the subject of our conversation,” he added. The July phone call has come under immense scrutiny in recent weeks after an intelligence community whistleblower came forward with allegations that Trump leveraged U.S. foreign aid to pressure Ukraine into digging up dirt on former vice president and 2020 Democratic presidential candidate loose lips liar-Joe Biden. loose lips liar-Biden’s son, Hunter, used to sit on the board of the Ukrainian energy firm Burisma Holdings, which was at one time investigated by a prosecutor who loose lips liar-Biden — the scumbag/liar-nObama administration’s point man for Ukrainian foreign policy — pressured the country to fire. Earlier this year, a Ukrainian anti-corruption government agency requested that the investigation into Burisma be reopened — in part due to”unusual transactions” worth millions of dollars, according to investigative reporter and Fox News contributor John Solomon. Alleging that Trump tried to improperly leverage U.S. aid for the purpose of forcing Ukraine to investigate the loose lips liar-Bidens, House Democrats announced a formal impeachment inquiry against the president late last month...

https://www.westernjournal.com/ukraine-president-says-no-blackmail-trump-thinks-call-transcript-matches-completely/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=conservative-brief-CT&utm_campaign=dailyam&utm_content=conservative-tribune

US-China reach trade war 'pause'

by foxbusiness.com ~ The U.S. and China have reached a partial trade pause. President Trump, speaking at the White House, said: “We’ve come to a very substantial phase one deal”... adding it will take three to five weeks to get written. The deal includes intellectual property, financial services and $40-$50 billion related to agriculture products. It is unclear what the U.S will give up in return and a comprehensive trade deal will have two or three phases. The U.S. will not be raising tariffs on the Chinese next week to the 30 percent level as part of this agreement. U.S. stocks spiked to the highs of the session, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average rising by nearly 500 points, before pulling back slightly at the close. The move signals the third major trade deal President Trump has sealed. President Trump signaled this morning that talks were heading in the right direction after a week of trading barbs with the Chinese. "Good things are happening at China Trade Talk Meeting. Warmer feelings than in recent past, more like the Old Days," he tweeted.Bloomberg was first to report that some type of deal was in place. https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/us-china-reach-partial-trade-deal-reports

VIDEO: https://video.foxbusiness.com/v/6094047770001/#sp=show-clips

Appeals Court Upholds Subpoena For

Trump Accounting Records,

Teeing Up Supreme Court Fight

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by Kevin Daley

{ thepoliticalinsider.com } ~ The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit upheld a subpoena for President Donald Trump’s accounting records Friday... potentially teeing up a landmark fight between the president and Congress in the Supreme Court. The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee issued a subpoena to Mazars USA LLP after former Trump associate Michael Cohen accused the president of inflating assets and erasing liabilities on federal financial disclosures. U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta upheld the subpoena in May. “Contrary to the president’s arguments, the committee possesses authority under both the House rules and the Constitution to issue the subpoena, and Mazars must comply,” the decision reads. Judge Neomi Rao dissented from the ruling. House Democrats say Trump’s alleged actions raise “grave questions about potential conflicts of interest.” The case is Trump v. Committee on Oversight and Reform of the U.S. House of Representatives.

https://thepoliticalinsider.com/appeals-court-upholds-subpoena-for-trump-accounting-records-teeing-up-supreme-court-fight/?utm_campaign=TPINewsletter10112019afternoon&utm_source=criticalmpact-&utm_medium=email&utm_content=4b4ea4948726422aa6473c7b9fa19141&source=TPICI

Trump Says Trey Gowdy

Can’t Join His Legal Team Just Yet

by PHILLIP NIETO

{ dailycaller.com } ~ President Donald Trump told reporters on Thursday that former South Carolina Rep. Trey Gowdy could not join his legal team to fight impeachment until January... Gowdy reportedly accepted an invitation by the White House on Tuesday to assist in the impeachment inquiry led by Democrats against Trump. The following day Fox News “terminated” Gowdy as an on-air contributor for the network. “Trey Gowdy is a terrific guy. I think there’s a problem with, he can’t start for another couple of months because of lobbying rules and regulations. So you’ll have to ask about that,” Trump said to reporters outside the White House, according to CNBC. Maggie Haberman of the New York Times notes, “Gowdy is unlikely to ever join in the capacity he was hired for. It is not unlike when DiGenova was announced and then unannounced. Someone in West Wing badly wanted a win internally and put out Gowdy before it was a done deal. So it was quickly done yesterday and then had to be undone.” The former representative from South Carolina became known for his role as chair of the House oversight committee. He supported investigations into former Secretary of State scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton and the 2012 Benghazi terrorist attack. Gowdy decided to not run again for the 2018 midterm election after serving 8 years in the House of Representatives.

https://dailycaller.com/2019/10/10/trump-says-couple-months-before-trey-gowdy-legal-team/

Shep Smith Resigns From

Fox News Effective Immediately

by sundance

{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ Fox News Anchor Shepard Smith resigns from Fox News effective immediately... Attorney General William P. Barr met privately Wednesday evening with Rupert Murdoch, the media mogul who is one of President Trump’s frequent confidants but whose Fox News is viewed by the president as more hostile toward him than it used to be. The meeting was held at Mr. Murdoch’s home in New York, according to someone familiar with it. It was unclear if anyone else attended or what was discussed. Aides to both Mr. Murdoch and Mr. Barr declined requests for comment on the meeting. https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/10/11/shep-smith-resigns-from-fox-news-effective-immediately/

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AtmlozSpm0

Look Who Dems Are Begging

to Run for President

by rightwing247.com ~ On paper, at least, the Democrats appear to be in good shape to send President Trump packing in the next election, making him a one-termer... The IBD/TIPP poll shows all of the Democratic front runners ahead of the president in head to head matchups. loose lips liar-Biden is ahead by seven. dinky liar-Warren is ahead by two. commie-Sanders is ahead by four. Pundits suggest that the impeachment push is less about removing Trump from the office than it is to damage him to make sure that voters will turn on him in 2020. It will not matter if the Republican Senate votes to acquit, The president will be forever tainted. Writing for Fox News, Liz Peek is reporting that Democrats are beginning to be increasingly alarmed about their prospects for taking back the presidency. Their solution is to get former first lady Michelle scumbag/liar-nObama to run. Democratic insiders are looking at the current candidates, weighing them in the balance, and finding them wanting. loose lips liar-Joe Biden is in free fall, bedeviled by gaffes, a low energy campaign style, and the Ukraine matter. Elizabeth dinky liar-Warren is surging, but she is being judged to be far too radical to win. commie-Bernie Sanders is old and has just had a heart attack. Also, he is a confessed socialist and polling suggests that few people want to vote for one of those. Michelle scumbag/liar-nObama, on the other hand, was voted the most admired woman in America. Her husband, the former president, is still popular among Democrats. If she were to enter the race, the move would dominate several news cycles, knocking the rest of the field out of serious consideration, giving Ms. scumbag/liar-nObama a clear path to the nomination. Of course, Democrats cannot conceive of the idea of her losing to Donald Trump. Hence, the way would be cleared to an scumbag/liar-nObama restoration and the Trump presidency fades into history like a bad dream. That is the theory, in any case... Didn't she say she was not interested in running/

https://rightwing247.com/2019/10/07/look-who-dems-are-begging-to-run-for-president/

Thanks to scumbag/liar-nObamaCare, Insurance

Costs Keep Climbing

Political Editors: Health insurance now costs the average American family over $20,000 annually, according to a recent survey conducted by the Kaiser Family Foundation. The foundation’s chief executive, Drew Altman, noted, “It’s as much as buying a basic economy car, but buying it every year.” Bloomberg reports, “While employers pay most of the cost of coverage, according to the survey, workers’ average contribution is now $6,000 for a family plan. That’s just their share of upfront premiums, and doesn’t include co-payments, deductibles and other forms of cost-sharing once they need care.”

Even more troubling is that as the price of health insurance has steadily increased, the percentage of employers who offer insurance coverage has been decreasing. “Fewer Americans under 65 had employer coverage in 2017 than in 1999,” observed Bloomberg. “That’s despite the fact that the U.S. economy employed 17 million more people in 2017 than in 1999.”

Wasn’t scumbag/liar-nObamaCare supposed to “solve” this problem? After all, Barack scumbag/liar-nObama promised that the average family could expect to save $2,500 in insurance premiums per year. In reality, scumbag/liar-nObamaCare has proven to do just the opposite, rapidly increasing the cost of insurance. And the reasons for the increase can largely be attributed to scumbag/liar-nObamaCare’s mandating coverage of pre-existing conditions and the consolidation of the healthcare sector. The Federalist notes, “While providers claim their mergers will provide better care to patients, they also represent a way for doctors and hospitals to demand higher payments from insurers. Reporting has shown how hospitals’ monopolistic practices drive up prices, raising rates for patients and employers alike.” In short, scumbag/liar-nObamaCare worked to limit the free market, which by nature constrains costs.

The problem is everything the Democrat presidential candidates are proposing would only make the problem of healthcare costs even worse. More regulations and more government spending is a recipe for higher taxes and higher healthcare costs. scumbag/liar-nObamaCare proved the government cannot make healthcare cost less. Americans need to avoid making this mistake a second time. ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/65973?mailing_id=4577&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4577&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

Friday PM ~ thefrontpagecover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on October 11, 2019 at 4:17pm

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

Trump Declines Dems' Invitation

to Impeachment Hoax

Thomas Gallatin

Treasury Secretary Mnuchin Press Conference

on Sanctions for Turkey and

China Trade Discussions

by sundance

{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ Earlier today Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin held a press conference at the White House to announce a new executive order constructed by the Trump administration that would deliver economic sanctions... due to Turkish activity in Northern Syria. “These are very powerful sanctions. We hope we don’t have to use them. But we can shut down the Turkish economy if we need to,” Treasury Secretary Mnuchin tells reporters. Hello everybody. So, I just met with President Trump, and he has authorized and will be signing a new executive order giving the Treasury Department, in consultation with himself and Secretary Pompeo, very significant new sanctions authorities that can be targeted at any person associated with the government of Turkey, any portion of the government. This will be both primary sanctions and secondary sanctions that will be applicable. The President is concerned about the ongoing military offensive and potential targeting of civilians, civilian infrastructure, ethnic or religious minorities. And also the President wants to make very clear: It is imperative that Turkey not allow even a single ISIS fighter to escape. Again, I want to emphasize: At this point, we are not activating the sanctions. But, as the President has said, he will provide very significant authorities based upon the continuing efforts...

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/10/11/treasury-secretary-mnuchin-press-conference-on-sanctions-for-turkey-and-china-trade-discussions/

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMjbbLbr2Tk

US sending 2,000 troops to Saudi Arabia

as Iran threat grows

by Tim Pearce

{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ The Pentagon is deploying about 2,000 more troops and military hardware to Saudi Arabia to combat Iranian aggression... Tensions between Saudi Arabia and Iran have escalated in recent months, most notably when Iran bombed Saudi oil refineries in September. The Pentagon’s latest deployment to the region is the third since July and it is the largest, according to the Wall Street Journal. The Pentagon is sending three missile defense systems and two squadrons of jet fighters along with the troops. U.S. lawmakers are growing increasingly resistant to American support for Saudi Arabia in the escalating Middle East conflict. The troops will join 700 other soldiers already stationed in Saudi Arabia. Iran has grown increasingly aggressive since President Trump withdrew the United States from the Iran nuclear deal negotiated under President Barack scumbag/liar-nObama. Trump withdrew from the agreement and reinstituted U.S. sanctions that have squeezed the petro-state. Iran has launched several attacks into the Strait of Hormuz, a key shipping lane, since Trump's action, even shooting down a U.S. drone. Trump announced on Sunday that he had ordered several dozen troops out of northern Syria in an effort to end the "endless wars" in the Middle East. The move made way for Turkish forces to launch an assault on Kurdish forces that had aided the U.S. in the fight against the Islamic State. https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/us-sending-2-000-troops-to-saudi-arabia-as-iran-threat-grows?utm_source=breaking_push&utm_medium=app&utm_campaign=push_notifications&utm_source=WEX_Breaking%20News%20Alert_10/11/2019&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WEX_Breaking%20News&rid=5261

Trump's ambassador to the European

Union will testify in impeachment inquiry

by Susan Ferrechio

{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ Gordon Sondland, the U.S. ambassador to the European Union who has become a key figure in the House Democrats’ impeachment inquiry, will appear for questioning in the Capitol on Thursday, he announced... Sondland said he would honor a House subpoena compelling him to appear and answer questions about President Trump’s efforts to get Ukraine to open an investigation into former Vice President loose lips liar-Joe Biden as well as actions by Democrats to solicit help from Ukraine to discredit Trump’s 2016 campaign. Sondland was scheduled for a closed-door deposition on Monday but did not show up after the State Department prohibited his testimony. Three House committees led by Democrats are conducting the impeachment investigation. Sondland is a major GOP donor who Democrats believe has information about whether Trump delayed $400 million in security aid to Ukraine in an effort to get the Ukrainian government to investigate loose lips liar-Biden and the Democrats. Sondland’s lawyers said Friday that while the ambassador will appear to answer questions, he will not bring the documents requested by Democrats because the documents are under the control of the State Department. Democrats want to see Sondland’s texts and emails relating to Ukraine’s security aid. Marie Yovanovitch, the former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine who was recalled from the post early, is scheduled to appear before the committee on Friday. https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/congress/trumps-ambassador-to-the-european-union-will-testify-in-impeachment-inquiry?utm_source=breaking_push&utm_medium=app&utm_campaign=push_notifications&utm_source=WEX_Breaking%20News%20Alert_10/11/2019&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WEX_Breaking%20News&rid=5261

Lawyers say they may let whistleblower

testify, but only in writing

by Tom Tillison

{ bizpacreview.com } ~ The whistleblower driving the rogue House Democratic impeachment inquiry wants to testify to Congress in writing, rather than appearing in person... Lawyers representing the whistleblower, who is reportedly a CIA official, have asked that their client submit testimony in writing, according to the Wall Street Journal. “The intelligence committees haven’t yet responded to the inquiry about potential written testimony,” the Journal reported. This being the latest talk of concealing the identity of the intelligence official who expressed concern about President Trump’s phone call to the Ukrainian president, suggesting Trump threatened to withhold foreign aid to get Ukraine to dig dirt on former Vice President loose lips liar-Joe Biden. The Intelligence Community’s inspector general informed Congress in August the whistleblower had a “professional tie” to a Democratic candidate and showed “some indicia of an arguable political bias … in favor of a rival political candidate,” and on Thursday it was reported that the candidate isnone other than loose lips liar-Joe Biden. Earlier this week, it was reported that House Democrats were considering taking “extraordinary steps” to prevent Republicans in Congress from learning the identity of the whistleblower. The Washington Post said scumbag-Schiff’s team was considering masking the whistleblower, having the CIA official testify from a remote location and obscuring the individual’s appearance and voice. The unprecedented move would be a “highly unusual arrangement,” the paper said. Given the highly partisan nature of the impeachment inquiry, the attention on hiding the identity of a person who could be central to removing a sitting president from the American public is noteworthy. His attorneys are participating in the effort to keep his identity a secret. “The whistleblower is not the story,” his legal team said earlier this week, according to Fox News. “To date, virtually every substantive allegation has been confirmed by other sources. For that reason the identity of the whistleblower is irrelevant.”... This bull, when was this hiding a whistleblower illegal? https://www.bizpacreview.com/2019/10/11/lawyers-say-they-may-let-whistleblower-testify-but-only-in-writing-838108?utm_campaign=bizpac&utm_content=Newsletter&utm_medium=Newsletter&utm_source=Get+Response&utm_term=EMAIL

scumbag-Schiff hires

ex-National Security Council staff for panel

By MARY CLARE JALONICK

{ apnews.com } ~ House Intelligence Committee Chairman scumbag-Adam Schiff has hired former National Security Council staffers to work for him as he launches a sweeping new investigation into President Donald Trump’s finances and foreign connections... a move that appears to have drawn particular ire from the president. Trump tweeted Thursday that scumbag-Schiff and Democrats were going “nuts” with investigations and wrote, without elaborating, that they were “even stealing people from the White House!” It’s unclear exactly who Trump was talking about, but the tweet comes as scumbag-Schiff appears to have hired at least one staff member who served on the National Security Council under Trump. The staff member, Abigail Grace, is listed in a House directory as working for scumbag-Schiff on the intelligence panel. A person familiar with the committee’s staff confirms that she is working for the panel and used to work for the NSC. The person declined to be identified because scumbag-Schiff has not publicly announced his new hires. Grace worked for a bipartisan think tank, Center for a New American Security, after working for both former President Barack scumbag/liar-nObama and Trump on the National Security Council from 2016 to 2018. She focused on Asia-Pacific security issues, according to a spokesman for the group. scumbag-Schiff wouldn’t confirm the hires in an interview Thursday, but hinted at them while snapping back at Trump. “We have a long tradition of hiring out of the intelligence community, out of the National Security Council, and if the president is worried about our hiring any former administration people maybe he should work on being a better employer,” scumbag-Schiff said. A committee aide said that none of scumbag-Schiff’s staff have come directly from the White House, but said the panel has hired people with prior experience on the National Security Council staff. “We do not discriminate against potential hires on the basis of their prior work experience, including the administration,” the aide said. The person also declined to be identified because they were not authorized to speak publically about confidential committee business. https://www.apnews.com/210e8f09f1df49e88a02a4b84fd40070

The Great Triggering

By Ted Noel

{ americanthinker.com } ~ With the revelation that a "second whistleblower" has firsthand knowledge of Donald Trump's call to the president of Ukraine and was upset at what he heard on the call, the left-wing legacy media are all a-Twitter... At this point, the rational observer would have to ask, "Just what can this publicity-seeker reveal that is not already in the transcript of the call?" We already know from a rational analysis of the transcript and the testimony of special envoy to Ukraine Kurt Volker that there's no "there" there. The call was a to congratulate the new president of Ukraine, with a side issue of continuing an ongoing investigation of Ukraine's corrupt former government's involvement in our 2016 election in favor of — drum roll, please — scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton. Coincidentally, loose lips liar-Joe Biden is both a central figure in that corruption inquiry and a candidate for the Democrat nomination for president. Somehow, this last fact is the most important facet of a much larger issue. When multinational crime is committed, it is routine for multinational investigations to be done. Diplomatic niceties often involve heads of state making the request for cooperation between their respective investigative bodies. Since Volodymyr Zelensky had recently assumed office and the investigation has been ongoing, it's natural for President Trump to ask him politely to continue the cooperative effort. "Do me a favor" is simply one polite way to ask. We have to note that this investigation is focused on crimes committed in 2016, not opposition research on a 2020 candidate. Yet the Lefty Loonies are screaming about 2020. "You can't call up a foreign country to dig up dirt on a presidential candidate!" Curiously, this is exactly what scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton did in 2016, but no one seems interested. If the Left were to be consistent — other than consistently insane — it would be suppressing the "whistleblower's" testimony. After all, President Trump is also a presidential candidate in 2020. Let's go a bit farther. Recent reports indicate that liar-Nancy Pelosi's son was also in on the Ukrainian gold mine. Trump's chief irritant, scumbag-Adam Full-of-Schiff, also looks to have Ukrainian problems. Are they immune because they are political candidates? Does investigating wrongdoing by a political personality automatically go off-limits because of the political point of contact? We should ask the late Vice President Agnew or New Jersey's Senator scumbag-Menendez that same question. I'm sure they would have appreciated "political immunity."...

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

Trump Declines Dems' Invitation to Impeachment Hoax

Thomas Gallatin: President Donald Trump is done playing the Democrats’ impeachment game. On Tuesday, the White House sent an eight-page letter to House Speaker liar-Nancy Pelosi and Reps. scumbag-Adam Schiff, scumbag-Eliot Engel, and scumbag-Elijah Cummings essentially telling them to put up or shut up. The letter highlighted the fact that liar-Pelosi and Democrats have violated the Constitution, “the rule of law, and every past precedent” in their politically partisan quest to see Trump impeached. The letter, written by Trump attorney Pat Cipollone, bluntly exposes the Democrats’ true political motivation:

Put simply, you seek to overturn the results of the 2016 election and deprive the American people of the President they have freely chosen. Many Democrats now apparently view impeachment not only as a means to undo the democratic results of the last election, but as a strategy to influence the next election, which is barely more than a year away. As one member of Congress explained, he is “concerned that if we don’t impeach the President, he will get reelected.” Your highly partisan and unconstitutional effort threatens grave and lasting damage to our democratic institutions, to our system of free elections, and to the American people.

Cipollone asserts that liar-Pelosi and company’s impeachment inquiry is invalid because no vote was held in the House or even in a House committee to initiate the current inquiry. Instead, liar-Pelosi unilaterally “announced an ‘official impeachment inquiry.’” Cipollone writes, “Your contrived process is unprecedented in the history of the Nation, and lacks the necessary authorization for a valid impeachment proceeding.”

As a result of liar-Pelosi’s invalid initiation of an impeachment inquiry, Cipollone points out that Trump’s due-process rights have been violated. While Democrat-led committees subpoena White House officials demanding compliance under threats of obstruction charges, Trump on the other hand is denied the right to confront witnesses against him, to call his own witnesses, and “to have the assistance of counsel.” All of those things would be afforded him if liar-Pelosi were to actually hold a House vote to officially launch an impeachment inquiry.

The letter concludes, “The President cannot allow your constitutionally illegitimate proceedings to distract him and those in the Executive Branch from their work on behalf of the American people.”

Predictably, liar-Pelosi responded with her own letter alleging that Trump is the one guilty of trying “to normalize lawlessness,” ridiculously adding that “he is trying to make lawlessness a virtue.” And once again liar-Pelosi vacuously asserts that Trump’s “actions threaten our national security, violate our Constitution and undermine the integrity of our elections.” She further asserts that the White House is engaged in a “cover-up” of Trump’s “betrayal of our democracy.” It will be interesting to see if liar-Pelosi moves forward with an impeachment vote, or if she continues to drag out her lawless charade. ~The Patriot Post

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Friday Noon ~ thefrontpagecover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on October 11, 2019 at 11:28am

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

Democrats' Twilight Zone

Cal Thomas

Californians Fume Over Massive Power

Outages and Sky-High Gas Prices

by Leslie Eastman

{ legalinsurrection.com } ~ This week, I reviewed the climate alarmist protest organized by “Extinction Rebellion,” whose members want us to drastically reduce our use of electricity and other resources... These green justice warriors should head over to California where we are living the dream! In an effort to avoid another devastating spate of autumn wildfires such as last year’s Paradise fire, approximately 800,000 Pacific Gas and Electric customers are preparing for the company to intentionally cut their power. This is likely the largest deliberate power shut-off in state history. A Red Flag Warning is being issued over the next few days with strong winds expected to make the risk of wildfire extremely high. The outages are expected to start as early as Wednesday at midnight and could last until mid-day on Thursday. They may affect millions of people living in 34 counties. While 34 northern and central California counties are included on the list, PG&E said it won’t be every customer within those county lines.The action created a backlash with many Californians, especially in light of the short notice PG&E gave before the shut-off occurred. …Brady Miller, a resident of Red Bluff, about two hours north of Sacramento, said he barely had cell service and no way to charge his phone, lamenting he had only flashlights and canned goods to get through the power outage. “It sucks,” he said. “Twenty-four-hour notice gave panic to our community.” Angie Sheets of El Dorado Hills noticed that generators were flying off the shelves at Costco as she shopped for groceries earlier in the week. Considering the nearly $1,000 worth of food she planned to purchase and the imminent power outage, Sheets said, she called her husband to talk about buying one for their home. “By the time I had done that, the last big generator was gone off the shelves,” she said. Her husband, a law enforcement officer, found a generator at a Costco in Rancho Cordova and paid about $600 for it. On Tuesday night, they filled up their bathtubs with water, unsure whether the toilets would flush without electricity. Sheets went to Safeway to pick up more bottled water and said a line of cars snaked around the gas station parking lot. “In this particular area, they did say we could lose power for up to seven days,” Sheets said. “I think that’s what’s making people on edge, the fear of the unknown and wanting to be safe for your family.”...

https://legalinsurrection.com/2019/10/californians-fume-over-massive-power-outages-and-sky-high-gas-prices/?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=89334443-1f59-47c2-8097-81df560eefc3

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0oE_tOf8V4

Democrats Drag Rick Perry Into

Impeachment Mess, Issue Subpoena

By ANDREW DESIDERIO, KYLE CHENEY and ANTHONY ADRAGNA

{ politico.com } ~ House Democrats issued a subpoena on Thursday to Energy Secretary Rick Perry as part of their impeachment inquiry... The subpoena demands a series of documents related to Perry's knowledge of President Donald Trump’s July 25 phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, during which Trump pushed his counterpart to investigate former Vice President loose lips liar-Joe Biden. Three House committees investigating the episode note that Perry reportedly encouraged Trump to make the phone call. They also want information about whether Perry sought to press the Ukrainian government to make changes to the advisory board of its state-owned oil and gas company, Naftogaz. In a statement, Energy Department spokeswoman Shaylyn Hynes said: “The Department of Energy is aware of the House Committees’ letter to Secretary Perry and it is currently under review by DOE's Office of General Counsel.” POLITICO previously reported that Perry asked the company to expand its board to include Americans, though he said he offered suggestions only at the request of the Ukrainian government. Zelensky denied Perry asked him to dismiss the head of the state-run gas company in comments to the Kyiv Post on Thursday. POLITICO has reported Perry intends to depart the administration within months, though he denied the report earlier this week. The subpoena demands records and communications related to the May inauguration of Zelensky, for which Perry led the U.S. delegation. It seeks records connected to a host of meetings abroad and at the White House that Perry attended along with senior Ukrainian officials. And it requests all records related to “proposed or actual transactions, investments, or projects relating to liquified natural gas (LNG) in Ukraine.”...

https://www.politico.com/news/2019/10/10/democrats-subpoena-rick-perry-for-documents-in-impeachment-inquiry-000280

Andrew McCabe Opens Up About Steele

Dossier, Origins Of Trump-Russia Probe

by CHUCK ROSS

{ dailycaller.com } ~ Andrew McCabe, the embattled former FBI deputy director, said at a recent event that former British spy Christopher Steele disclosed to FBI investigators that his infamous anti-Trump dossier should not be taken as “gospel,”... and that he could not vouch for the accuracy of some of the material in the infamous document. McCabe, who spoke Oct. 3 at an event hosted by journalist Carl Bernstein, was defending the FBI’s handling of the Steele dossier by insisting investigators were aware of the document’s flaws during the Trump probe. The FBI’s handling of the dossier is the subject of a Justice Department inspector general’s investigation that began in March 2018. McCabe, who was fired from the FBI on March 16, 2018, also described in the most detail to date how the FBI decided who to initially investigate as part of Crossfire Hurricane, the counterintelligence investigation of the Trump campaign. McCabe said the FBI opened its case in late July 2016 based on information about Trump adviser George Papadopoulos. “We open the case, and then we think, ‘OK, now who are we actually going to investigate?'” McCabe said at the event, which aired Tuesday on C-SPAN. “Who do we know who is associated with the campaign who has known, significant ties to Russian intelligence?” he asked rhetorically. “We quickly come up with four names that will not surprise you.”McCabe, who served as deputy director of the FBI during the investigation, defended the FBI’s decision to open the investigation, which initially focused on Papadopoulos, Paul Manafort, Michael Flynn and Carter Page. He also sought to defend Steele and his salacious dossier, which the FBI used to obtain surveillance warrants on Page. “It is raw source reporting,” McCabe said, “and Steele presented it as such.” “We knew that Steele was working a number of different sources, some of which has sub-sources, and sub-sub-sources, and he would represent that in the reporting, as any good source should. It didn’t come with his imprimatur of, ‘this is all gospel.’ It was like, ‘this is what I’m hearing,'” said McCabe, who is under Justice Department investigation...

https://dailycaller.com/2019/10/10/andrew-mccabe-crossfire-hurricane-trump-steele-dossier/?utm_source=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=10436

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KMRsuoSfZQ

Despite Sanctions, Iran Exports Hundreds

of Millions Worth of Polyethylene to China

by Saeed Ghasseminejad

{ fdd.org } ~ Abdolnasser Hemmati, the head of the Central Bank of Iran (CBI), announced last week that from March to September 2019 the CBI managed to provide $19 billion to pay for Iran’s imports... of which $11 billion came from the proceeds of its non-oil exports. According to Iran’s customs organization, Tehran exported $21 billion of non-oil goods in the aforementioned period, 10 percent less than in the same period the previous year. Assuming their accuracy, these figures indicate that Washington’s success in reducing Iran’s oil exports has not extended to other valuable export commodities, including the key petrochemical polyethylene. Petrochemical products are among Iran’s top non-oil exports even though the industry has labored under sectoral sanctions since November 2018. Previous FDD analysis showed that in its first four months under sanctions, Tehran’s average monthly export of petrochemicals dropped by 18 percent in comparison to its level during the seven months before sanctions. According to Iranian customs data, in the last full year of the Persian calendar March 2018 – March 2019, $14.1 billion of Iran’s non-oil exports, or 32 percent of the total, came from the petrochemical sector. Within that sector, $3.4 billion, or 24 percent, came from polyethylene, the most common plastic in the world, whose primary use is in packaging. In the March 2018-March 2019 reporting period, Iran exported $2.7 billion of polyethylene, or 80 percent of the total, to China. Beijing is the largest importer of polyethylene in the world. According to the China Customs Organization, in 2017, China imported $14.2 billion worth of polyethylene. The top seven exporters of polyethylene to China that year were Saudi Arabia, Iran, the United Arab Emirates, South Korea, Singapore, Thailand, the United States, and Qatar. These seven supplied 80 percent of China’s polyethylene imports, with Iran accounting for 16 percent of the total, or $2.24 billion. The latest Chinese data shows that, in the first seven months of 2019, China imported $1.43 billion of polyethylene from Iran, an amount comparable to its imports during the corresponding period of 2018 and higher than those in the corresponding period of 2017. In terms of weight, China’s imports of polyethylene from Iran have increased significantly, rising from 1.2 million tons in the first seven months of 2018 to 1.4 million tons in the same period of 2019... https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2019/10/10/despite-sanctions-iran-exports-hundreds-of-millions-worth-of-polyethylene-to-china/

Report on Status Iran Nuclear Program

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by news.usni.org ~ Iran’s nuclear program began during the 1950s. The United States has expressed concern since the mid-1970s that Tehran might develop nuclear weapons... Iran’s construction of gas centrifuge uranium enrichment facilities is currently the main source of proliferation concern. Gas centrifuges can produce both low-enriched uranium (LEU), which can be used in nuclear power reactors, and weapons-grade highly enriched uranium (HEU), which is one of the two types of fissile material used in nuclear weapons. The United States has assessed that Tehran possesses the technological and industrial capacity to produce nuclear weapons. But Iran has not yet mastered all of the necessary technologies for building such weapons. Whether Iran has a viable design for a nuclear weapon is unclear. A National Intelligence Estimate made public in 2007 assessed that Tehran “halted its nuclear weapons program” in 2003. The estimate, however, also assessed that Tehran is “keeping open the option to develop nuclear weapons” and that any decision to end a nuclear weapons program is “inherently reversible.” U.S. intelligence officials have reaffirmed this judgment on several occasions. Obtaining fissile material is widely regarded as the most difficult task in building nuclear weapons. As of January 2014, Iran had produced an amount of LEU containing up to 5% uranium-235, which, if further enriched, could theoretically have produced enough HEU for as many as eight nuclear weapons. Iran had also produced LEU containing nearly 20% uranium-235; the total amount of this LEU, if it had been in the form of uranium hexafluoride and further enriched, would have been sufficient for a nuclear weapon.. After the Joint Plan of Action, which Tehran concluded with China, France, Germany, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States collectively known as the “P5+1”, went into effect in January 2014, Iran either converted much of its LEU containing nearly 20% uranium-235 for use as fuel in a research reactor located in Tehran, or prepared it for that purpose. Iran has diluted the rest of that stockpile so that it contained no more than 5% uranium-235. In addition, Tehran has implemented various restrictions on, and provided the IAEA with additional information about, its nuclear program pursuant to the July 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), which Tehran concluded with the P5+1. Although Iran claims that its nuclear program is exclusively for peaceful purposes, the program has generated considerable concern that Tehran is pursuing a nuclear weapons program. The U.N. Security Council responded to Iran’s refusal to suspend work on its uranium enrichment program by adopting several resolutions that imposed sanctions on Tehran. Despite evidence that sanctions and other forms of pressure have slowed the program, Iran continued to enrich uranium, install additional centrifuges, and conduct research on new types of centrifuges. Tehran has also worked on a heavy-water reactor, which was a proliferation concern because its spent fuel would have contained plutonium—the other type of fissile material used in nuclear weapons. However, plutonium must be separated from spent fuel—a procedure called “reprocessing.” Iran has said that it will not engage in reprocessing... https://news.usni.org/2019/10/10/report-on-status-iran-nuclear-program?utm_source=USNI+News&utm_campaign=6429856c90-USNI_NEWS_DAILY&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_0dd4a1450b-6429856c90-231491269&mc_cid=6429856c90&mc_eid=3999f18767

France's Homegrown Terrorism

by Giulio Meotti

{ gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ This time, the terrorist did not use firearms; his victims were not unarmed children, cartoonists or Jews but policemen... The site of the October 3 attack was also striking: "The interior of the Paris police headquarters is supposed to be a stronghold; it is the symbol of public order in France and of the anti-jihadist struggle that has been shaken," the French scholar Gilles Kepel told Le Figaro. "We have entered a... terrorism made in France... with a mixture of Friday preaching by extremist imams, social networks and the instrumentalization of fragile individuals. It is about creating a new panic in society by targeting iconic ... places... The attack is a major turning point in Islamist terrorism." The assailant, Mickaël Harpon, born in the French Caribbean island of Martinique, was shot and killed after stabbing four people to death with a ceramic kitchen knife during the lunchtime assault at the Paris police headquarters. Harpon, a civilian IT specialist in the intelligence division holding high-level security clearance, had worked for the police for 16 years. First he killed three men in the intelligence division, then he stabbed two female police employees in a stairwell one died from her wounds before he finally was shot and killed in the building's courtyard. Harpon was a longtime convert to Islam and a conscientious attendee of his local mosque, where he attended morning and evening prayers. A radical imam who was nearly expelled from France officiated there. According to the Wall Street Journal: "Authorities discovered several USB flash drives at his desk, one containing the personal information of agents and violent Islamist propaganda, authorities said. "A key question is whether Harpon downloaded that data onto the flash drive for his job... or to send it to his extremist contacts that could use it to target the police."... https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/14980/france-homegrown-terrorism

Democrats' Twilight Zone

Cal Thomas

A 1961 “Twilight Zone” episode starred Peter Falk as a Central American revolutionary whose paranoia eventually leads to his destruction. The dictator he has deposed tells him about a mirror given to him by “an old woman,” a mirror that will show him who’s plotting to assassinate him. The revolutionary soon sees enemies everywhere and begins to unravel, picking off his comrades one by one, believing they are out to get him.

Fantasy, sure. But President Trump and Vice President Pence could use such a mirror to reveal those partisan forces attempting to carry out political assassination on the entire Trump administration.

The latest assault comes from another anonymous “whistleblower,” who told The Washington Post a Treasury Department official appointed by Trump sought to interfere with an audit of the tax returns of the president “or” vice president. Doesn’t that sound vague? On Sunday, the attorney for the first whistleblower told ABC News he is representing a second whistleblower who has “firsthand” knowledge of the president’s call to the president of Ukraine.

The first anonymous whistleblower has tentatively agreed to meet with congressional lawmakers, according to CNN, on the condition that his or her legal counsel is cleared to accompany the whistleblower to the meeting. No word yet on the second whistleblower’s conditions.

This is all political theater and bad theater at that. Democrats are going through the motions of impeachment, hoping to thwart the president’s re-election. They know the Senate is unlikely to convict him should impeachment articles be approved. It’s all about pleasing their base and fundraising, which both sides are doing. This is one of many reasons Congress’ approval ratings remain low.

Ruslan Ryaboshapka, Ukraine’s new general prosecutor, told Reuters that he was not aware of any evidence of wrongdoing by the son of former U.S. Vice President loose lips liar-Joe Biden, but would be reviewing criminal cases opened by his predecessor, including some that could relate to the Ukrainian gas company, Burisma, a natural gas company that paid Hunter Biden.

If John Durham, the Connecticut prosecutor tapped by Attorney General William Barr to look into the origin of the phony Russian collusion probe, comes up with facts that lead to the indictment of anti-Trump Democrats, will that make any difference to those smearing the president? It might in public opinion, which Democrats are trying to shape against the president, but probably not to the real conspirators and colluders, except perhaps some lower-level types. The Establishment always protects its own. Could it be possible that Democrats are rapidly pursuing the impeachment inquiry to soften any blows that might come from Durham’s report?

That the president had to suggest Ukrainian and even Chinese leaders look into Hunter Biden’s possible corrupt activity is its own indictment of the anti-Trump media, scumbag/liar-nObama administration holdovers and career prosecutors.

The conservative organization Judicial Watch has been relentless in its pursuit of collusion by anti-Trump actors. It has released 145 pages of communications between former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and others which it says include a one-line email to special counsel Robert Mueller. It said, “The boss and his staff do not know about our discussions.” The communication included “off the record” emails with major media outlets (collusion?) around the time of Mueller’s appointment and “show that Rosenstein did not dispassionately go along with the fraudulent probe in an attempt to get at the truth, but was an active participant in the deep state coup, secretly plotting with other FBI and DOJ officials against the president of the United States.”

Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton said, “the astonishing emails further confirm the dishonest corruption behind Rosenstein’s appointment of Robert Mueller. The emails also show a shockingly cozy relationship between Mr. Rosenstein and anti-Trump media reporters.”

If true, why is that shocking, given the nonstop media assault on Donald Trump even before he took office? Their goal has been to impeach, or damage him sufficiently so a Democrat will win the White House next November. Consider the one-sided “coverage” in major newspapers, the broadcast and at least two cable networks.

More facts will emerge that undermine the Democrats’ narrative, but it won’t matter to anti-Trumpers. They live in the Twilight Zone.

~The Patriot Post

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Fri/Med AM ~ thefrontpagecover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on October 11, 2019 at 9:49am

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

Trouble Comes After Trump's Syria Move

Nate Jackson

Friday Top News Executive Summary

Media Editors: Above the Fold

WILD, INDEED: loose lips liar-Joe Biden worked with whistleblower when he was vice president, officials reveal (Washington Examiner)

JUST TAKE MY WORD FOR IT: “Lawyers for the CIA officer whose whistleblower complaint helped ignite an impeachment inquiry into President Trump have asked Congress whether their client could submit testimony in writing instead of appearing in person.” (The Wall Street Journal)

Culture & Heartland

FELON VOTES: The Hill reports that 22,000 felony convicts have had their voting rights restored by Gov. Ralph Northam, which Democrats hope will turn the state supremely blue.

MORE PLANNED PARENTHOOD DECEPTION: “An arson attack on a Planned Parenthood facility that was reported as a hate crime inspired by undercover videos was actually an incident of domestic violence, a senior executive of the organization has been forced to admit in a San Francisco court room.” (The Daily Wire)

PRIORITIES: California Gov. scumbag-Gavin Newsom signs ban on small plastic bottles in hotels — as blackouts batter that state’s economy (National Review)

TEXAS SHOOTER DEFIANT: Suspected assailant in El Paso Walmart shooting pleads not guilty to attack that killed 22 (NBC News)

World

MIDDLE EAST AGGRESSION: Iranian oil tanker near Saudi Arabia coast hit by missiles (Fox News)

NANNY-STATE COURTS — COMING SOON TO AMERICA? Canadian court strips father of rights, allowing teen to transition against his wishes (The Daily Signal)

Other Notables

“NEXT!” “Democratic House committee chairmen scumbag-Elijah Cummings, scumbag-Eliot Engel, and scumbag-Adam Schiff sent a letter Thursday to Energy Secretary Rick Perry alerting him to a subpoena demanding documents related to their impeachment inquiry into President Trump’s dealings in Ukraine — the ninth subpoena issued so far.” (National Review)

BIRDS OF A FEATHER: Ronan Farrow book claims scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton pressured Farrow to drop Harvey Weinstein investigation (The Daily Wire)

Closing Arguments

POLICY: The electric grid in the digital age (National Review)

POLICY: Preparing for the next economic recession (InsideSources)

HUMOR: Nike updates Kaepernick slogan: “Believe in something, unless it upsets the Chinese government” (Genesius Times)

~The Patriot Post
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Senators Introduce Bipartisan Bill Aimed

at Muting Turkey’s Attacks in Syria

By John Grady

{ ews.usni.org } ~ A bipartisan group of senators introduced a bill Wednesday that would impose economic sanctions on Ankara for its military incursion into Syria as Turkey seeks to create a buffer against the Syrian Defense Forces... a key American ally in the fight against the Islamic State. The bill proposed by Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) specifically singles out Turkish leaders – from the president down to a host of ministers, including defense and foreign affairs – for penalties; cuts off assistance and supplies, including ammunition, to its land, sea and air services despite Ankara being a member of NATO; and slaps sanctions on anyone from outside Turkey doing business with its energy sector. Graham has been quoted as saying he expects “our bill will have bipartisan, bicameral support.” It also asks for even more penalties to be put into place for Turkey’s earlier decision to buy the Russian S400 air defense system. The United States already has pushed Ankara out of the F-35 manufacturing and purchasing program. The Russian system is “incompatible” with existing NATO systems, Pentagon officials have said, and the fear was that Moscow would use data and intelligence gained from Turkey on the development and operations of the F-35 to deter its effectiveness in combat. Events have moved swiftly in northeast Syria since President Donald Trump announced Sunday he was pulling American forces back. How many of the estimated 1,000 service members serving with the SDF are affected by the decision is unclear. But what is clear is the decision – the second such pullback Trump has announced – again surprised Congress, other members of the administration and the former combatant commander in the Middle East and raised new questions of how trustworthy the United States is as a military partner... https://news.usni.org/2019/10/10/senators-introduce-bipartisan-bill-aimed-at-muting-turkeys-attacks-in-syria?utm_source=USNI+News&utm_campaign=6429856c90-USNI_NEWS_DAILY&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_0dd4a1450b-6429856c90-231491269&mc_cid=6429856c90&mc_eid=3999f18767

Iranian oil tanker near Saudi Arabia

coast hit by missiles, officials say

By Lucia I. Suarez Sang

{ foxnews.com } ~ An Iranian oil tanker cruising 60 miles off the coast of Saudi Arabia was rocked by a pair of missiles Friday, briefly causing an oil leak and more broadly threatening to further inflame... fraught regional tensions between the two heavyweight Muslim nations. Iranian state television reported the explosions damaged two storerooms aboard the oil tanker – which is owned by the National Iranian Oil Company – and caused an oil leak into the Red Sea near the Saudi port city of Jeddah. The leak was later plugged, IRNA reported. “This latest incident, if confirmed to be an act of aggression, is highly likely to be part of the wider narrative of deteriorating relations between Saudi and the U.S. and Iran,” according to an assessment provided to the Associated Press by private maritime security firm Dryad Maritime. “It is likely that the region, having been stable for the last month, will face another period of increasing maritime threats, as the Iranian and Saudi geopolitical stand-off continues.” The stricken vessel, identified by IRNA as the Sibiti, was carrying about 1 million barrels of crude oil when it was struck, an analysis from data firm Refinitiv showed. The news agency did not say whom Iranian officials suspect may be responsible for launching the missiles. Foreign Ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi described the incident as an "attack" carried out by those committing "dangerous adventurism." In a statement, Mousavi said the Sabiti was struck twice in the span of a half-hour and an investigation was underway. Images taken from the ship's bridge that have been released by Iran's Petroleum Ministry did not appear to show any damage to the Sabiti, though the view did not show the ship's sides. Satellite images of the area did not show any visible smoke. There has been no word from Saudi Arabia about the reported attack. Oil prices jumped by two percent after the news broke. According to the AP, the Sabiti turned on its tracking devices late Friday morning in the Red Sea. The last time the vessel had turned on its tracking devices was in August near the Iranian port city of Bandar Abbas... https://www.foxnews.com/world/iran-oil-tanker-saudi-arabia-missile-attack

VIDEO: https://video.foxnews.com/v/6093968822001/#sp=show-clips

Justice Department to Question

scumbag/commie-Brennan in ‘Spygate’ Inquiry

By IVAN PENTCHOUKOV

{ theepochtimes.com } ~ The special prosecutor investigating the spy operation against the 2016 presidential campaign of Donald Trump will question former CIA Director scumbag/commie-John Brennan... according to scumbag/commie-Brennan’s remarks aired on Oct. 2. “I am supposedly going to be interviewed by Mr. Durham as part of this non-investigation,” scumbag/commie-Brennan said on MSNBC, referring to U.S. Attorney John Durham. Attorney General William Barr assigned Durham, a career prosecutor, to investigate whether scumbag/liar-nObama administration officials who surveilled Trump’s campaign did so legitimately. scumbag/commie-Brennan made the comments as news surfaced that Barr and Durham expanded their investigation overseas to Italy, Australia, and the United Kingdom. Roughly a week prior to scumbag/commie-Brennan’s comments, Barr and Durham spoke to senior Italian intelligence officials. “I don’t understand the predication of this worldwide effort to try to uncover dirt, either real or imagined, that would discredit that investigation in 2016 into Russian interference,” scumbag/commie-Brennan said. The Department of Justice didn’t respond to a request for additional information. The FBI secured a secret court surveillance warrant in October 2016 to spy on Trump campaign associate Carter Page. While the extent of the surveillance granted by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court is still classified, the warrant may have granted the FBI access to the records and communications of virtually every Trump campaign official... https://www.theepochtimes.com/justice-department-to-question-brennan-in-spygate-inquiry_3105102.html?utm_source=deployer&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newslink&utm_term=members&utm_content=20191011145409

Turkey's Assault on Kurds

The Silence of the Islamists

by John Rossomando

{ investigativeproject.org } ~ A stateless people comprised of a large number of Sunni Muslims is being bombarded by a country with an overwhelming military advantage. It's the kind of thing that normally has American Islamist groups organizing protests and lighting up social media feeds... But this time the aggressor is Turkey's authoritarian leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan, a man who has positioned himself as a defender of violent Palestinian terrorists like Hamas, and as a patron for Muslim Brotherhood leaders who sought refuge from Egypt's military rulers. He is bombing Kurdish targets in northern Syrian and has sent his troops into the country. The Kurdish Red Crescent claims there have been at least 11 civilian deaths, including an 11-year-old girl, and 28 wounded. Erdogan's invasion displaced at least 60,000 people, many of whom have nowhere to go. American Islamists, normally not shy about Middle East conflicts, are largely silent about Turkey's unprovoked bombing of Kurds, Syriac Christians and Arabs. When Israel has launched defensive operations to stop Hamas and other Gaza-based terrorists from raining rockets on civilians in southern Israel, the same groups are quick to condemn, organize protests, demand U.S. government action and organize social media campaigns. Kurdish victims fail to generate similar concern. Images on social media show Turkish bombing and shelling of civilians all along Syria's northern border. Civilians in the town of Kobane, who withstood a 2014 ISIS onslaught, found themselves under attack Thursday by Turkish artillery... https://www.investigativeproject.org/8116/turkey-assault-on-kurds-the-silence-of

loose lips liar-Joe Biden Had Working

Relationship With ‘Whistle-blower”

by sundance

{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ This makes sense on many levels. As a member of the scumbag/liar-nObama National Security Council, the CIA “whistle-blower” would have held a working relationship with Vice-President loose lips liar-Biden... who was given the primary authority to oversee Ukraine effort within the scumbag/liar-nObama administration. The 2020 Democratic candidate with whom the CIA whistleblower had a “professional” tie is loose lips liar-Joe Biden, according to intelligence officers and former White House officials. Lawyers for the whistleblower said he had worked only “in the executive branch.” The Washington Examiner has established that he is a career CIA analyst who was detailed to the National Security Council at the White House and has since left. On Sept. 26, the New York Times reported that he was a CIA officer. On Oct. 4, the newspaper added that he “was detailed to the National Security Council at one point.” Michael Atkinson, the Intelligence Community’s inspector general, told members of Congress that the whistleblower had a “professional tie” to a 2020 Democratic candidate. He had written earlier that while the whistleblower’s complaint was credible, he had shown “some indicia of an arguable political bias … in favor of a rival political candidate.” A retired CIA officer told the Washington Examiner: “From everything we know about the whistleblower and his work in the executive branch then, there is absolutely no doubt he would have been working with loose lips liar-Biden when he was vice president.” As an experienced CIA official on the NSC with the deep knowledge of Ukraine that he demonstrated in his complaint, it is probable that the whistleblower briefed loose lips liar-Biden and likely that he accompanied him on Air Force Two during at least one of the six visits the 2020 candidate made to the country... https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/10/10/report-joe-biden-had-working-relationship-with-whistle-blower/

If Accurate, The Impeachment Game is Over –

Fake Whistleblower Lawyers Now Retreat

From Testimonial Appearance

by sundance

{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ A report from the Wall Street Journal outlines a request by lawyers for the fake CIA ‘whistleblower’ that ultimately spells doom for the entire phony construct of the impeachment construction by anonymous complaint... Lawyers for the CIA officer whose whistleblower complaint helped ignite an impeachment inquiry into President Trump have asked Congress whether their client could submit testimony in writing instead of appearing in person, according to people familiar with the matter. The request reflects concerns about whether the whistleblower could testify to Democrats and Republicans without revealing his identity, and fears that doing so would lead to it being publicly leaked, jeopardizing his personal safety. The intelligence committees haven’t yet responded to the inquiry about potential written testimony, the people said. Spokeswomen for the House and Senate intelligence committees didn’t respond to requests to comment... https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/10/10/if-accurate-the-impeachment-game-is-over-fake-whistleblower-lawyers-now-retreat-from-testimonial-appearance/

Trouble Comes After Trump's Syria Move

Nate Jackson: Few moves by President Donald Trump have been as universally condemned as his abandonment of our decades-long Kurdish allies in Syria. In fact, many of the loudest criticisms have come from Trump’s supporters. After pulling out a small number of U.S. troops from northern Syria, Turkey no longer had any deterrent from an incursion into the region. Predictably, it happened almost immediately.

“The Turkish military began an offensive in Syria to seize territory held by U.S.-backed Kurdish forces,” reports The Wall Street Journal. “Turkish authorities kicked off the operation on Wednesday despite U.S. warnings that it would punish Turkey if it attacked the Kurdish militants, Washington’s partner in the fight against Islamic State in northeastern Syria.” The Journal then explains, “Turkish officials said their twin goals in the offensive, Turkey’s third in Syria since 2016, were to drive armed Kurdish groups it views as terrorists back from its border and to create a safe zone to relocate millions of Syrians who have fled the eight-year conflict.”

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned the European Union, “If you try to frame our operation there as an invasion, our task is simple: We will open the doors and send 3.6 million migrants to you.”

For his part, President Trump offered, well, indefensible comments. While he called Turkey’s incursion “a bad idea,” he didn’t threaten much more than “tougher sanctions.” Regarding the Kurds, he says they “are fighting for their land,” but “they didn’t help us in the second World War, they didn’t help us with Normandy as an example.” That’s after he explained we didn’t owe the Kurds any continued alliance because we have previously paid them and will continue to help them financially and with weapons. His transactional view of alliances is problematic to say the least, and it will cause other U.S. allies to rethink how much partnership they’re willing to offer. That’s especially true given how critical the Kurds were in defeating the Islamic State — and they gave 11,000 lives to do it. Now, it seems Trump got what he wanted, so he’s dropped the Kurds like… well, fill in your own analogy from Trump’s previous dealings.

Memo to the president: Normandy wasn’t our land either. And notably, the only land we’ve taken in foreign wars over the last century was that needed to bury our dead.

Because of the way Trump speaks about his decisions, they seem impetuous. We’re not convinced that was the case here. After all, the U.S. has been debating troop presence in Syria for the better part of the last decade. And it was disagreement over strategy there that led to the departure of former Secretary of Defense James Mattis in December. Trump obviously hasn’t listened to his advisers, but that doesn’t mean he’s acted impetuously.

We’ll reiterate a strategic point we made Tuesday: The U.S. is not withdrawing from Syria entirely. The shift of a relative handful of U.S. troops from one part of northeastern Syria is nowhere near as significant a move as Barack scumbag/liar-nObama’s total abandonment of Iraq also a campaign promise, which led directly to the creation of the Islamic State.

But that also leads to another problem with Trump’s move. The Kurds currently hold about 12,000 ISIS fighters and 70,000 members of their families, but are redirecting personnel toward fighting Turkey, prompting concerns over what happens to those prisoners. Trump bizarrely argued, “They’re going to be escaping to Europe. That’s where they want to go. They want to go back to their homes.” He also says those detainees are Turkey’s responsibility. Maybe he should review Erdogan’s threat about refugees to see how seriously Turkey will take that responsibility — particularly given Turkey’s ties to ISIS. ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/66024?mailing_id=4580&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4580&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

Friday AM ~ thefrontpagecover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on October 11, 2019 at 7:07am

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

A Recycled Smear Campaign

Gary Bauer

loose lips liar-Joe Biden worked with

whistleblower when he was vice

president, officials reveal

by Rob Crilly, Steven Nelson, & David M. Drucker

{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ The 2020 Democratic candidate with whom the CIA whistleblower had a "professional" tie is loose lips liar-Joe Biden... according to intelligence officers and former White House officials. Lawyers for the whistleblower said he had worked only "in the executive branch." The Washington Examiner has established that he is a career CIA analyst who was detailed to the National Security Council at the White House and has since left. On Sept. 26, the New York Times reported that he was a CIA officer. On Oct. 4, the newspaper added that he "was detailed to the National Security Council at one point." Michael Atkinson, the Intelligence Community's inspector general, told members of Congress that the whistleblower had a "professional tie" to a 2020 Democratic candidate. He had written earlier that while the whistleblower's complaint was credible, he had shown "some indicia of an arguable political bias ... in favor of a rival political candidate." A retired CIA officer told the Washington Examiner, “From everything we know about the whistleblower and his work in the executive branch then, there is absolutely no doubt he would have been working with loose lips liar-Biden when he was vice president." As an experienced CIA official on the NSC with the deep knowledge of Ukraine that he demonstrated in his complaint, it is probable that the whistleblower briefed loosw lips liar-Biden and likely that he accompanied him on Air Force Two during at least one of the six visits the 2020 candidate made to the country. A former Trump administration official, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss intelligence matters, said loose lips liar-Biden’s work on foreign affairs brought him into close proximity with the whistleblower either at the CIA or when he was detailed to the White House. “This person, after working with loose lips liar-Biden, may feel defensive towards him because he feels loose lips liar-Biden is being falsely attacked. Maybe he is even talking to loose lips liar-Biden’s staff,” the former official said. “Maybe it is innocent, maybe not.”...

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/joe-biden-worked-with-whistleblower-when-he-was-vice-president-officials-reveal?utm_source=WEX_Breaking%20News%20Alert_10/10/2019&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WEX_Breaking%20News&rid=5261

Pump Price Over $4 a Gallon

Gives Californians Gas Pains

by Jackson Elliott

{ dailysignal.com } ~ A dollar won’t take you very far in California these days. Today, the state has an average gas price of $4.18 per gallon, more than $1.50 higher than the $2.64 per gallon average from every other state... according to the American Automobile Association. California has the highest gas taxes in the nation at an average of 57.8 cents a gallon—more than one-eighth of the total price of the gas, the AAA says. The tax was raised most recently by 5.6 cents per gallon July 1. California imposed a 12 cents-a-gallon tax increase in November 2017. The last time gasoline cost more than $4 a gallon nationwide was in 2008, during the Great Recession, according to AAA’s statistics. The California price increase comes even as prices fall across the rest of the country in anticipation of lower fuel use in fall and winter. Every fall, refineries switch to gasoline formulas better suited to winter and retrofit their infrastructure, AAA spokesman Devin Gladden said. In the past few weeks, seven of California’s 25 refineries experienced outages in production at the same time. “The challenge is that there’s a special formula of blended gasoline needed in particular places in California, and when there’s a supply problem, it can be difficult to import the special formula into those places,” Gladden said. “That can cause prices to spike.” According to the Los Angeles Times, California gasoline costs extra primarily because of state government regulations. The state demands that companies create a fuel mix that reduces pollution, and that formula costs more money and effort to make than normal gasoline... https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/10/09/pump-price-over-4-a-gallon-gives-californians-gas-pains/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=pump-price-over-4-a-gallon-gives-californians-gas-pains&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiWkRnd01qRTROamt4WVRKbCIsInQiOiJDNGJvUU1PMUZwVWdhTUtCNXZUXC92TTgrVkdmNlBjZE1VUzRxTE1mbk8yelNhb2pKV2hrckFaRWoyek1EN0NWN0p0RjJWYWZiWG5kNXZ3SFQ3Mk1FNzhOTWdmSkdxUGVTNkJkNTFtWUg4WHpNU0hGdzBqSDdvOXVwM2tcL0VCU2MyIn0%3D

Report Shows Dems’ Plan to Provide Insurance

to Illegal Immigrants Could Cost Taxpayers

as Much as $23 Billion

by Madison Dibble

{ ijr.com } ~ When the 2020 Democrats all raised their hands agreeing to provide illegal immigrants with health care, they may not have realized they just saddled the taxpayer with a huge check... During the first round of Democratic presidential primary debates earlier this year, every single candidate raised their hand when asked if their health care proposals would cover illegal immigrants. Every single candidate raised their hand to signal their support for the policy, but a new study from the Center for Immigration Studies found that this move could be costly. Estimates for the total bill sent to taxpayers to fund illegal immigrant health care ranges from $10 billion to $23 billion per year. The total cost varies as the exact number of illegal immigrants is unknown, as is the percentage of illegal immigrants who fall below the income threshold to qualify for such health care programs. This study used an estimate of 4.9 million illegal immigrants qualifying for the program, resulting in a bill of $10 billion per year, rising to $23 billion if that number includes all illegal immigrants. Broken down, each Affordable Care Act subsidy would average $4,600 per undocumented person per year to fulfill the Democrat’s promise of health care coverage for illegal immigrants. Beyond the hypothetical costs of funding the Affordable Care Act stipends for all illegal immigrants, the Center for Immigration Studies also looked into the costs associated with Medicaid today for both legal and illegal immigrants to better understand the total costs Americans are facing today — without paying for all illegal immigrants as Democrats suggested. Under the current Medicaid system, the average immigrant family added $2,796 to the taxpayer’s tab on Medicaid. In comparison, the average family of native citizens only added $1,983 to the total tab. The vast majority of this funding is going to immigrant families that are legal citizens, but the data used by the center does include some illegal immigrants, as certain states allow illegal immigrant children and pregnant women to use the program. This Dems plan is not going to fly. https://ijr.com/report-costs-dem-plan-provide-illegal-immigrants-insurance/?utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=77921582&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8nb5s2alSYWqm5rm33b5-5dGiD3y6TBPNO9GNNL3F3BVXRNLwVY-Il9RPbbcB1OucGwir61rcV6FsCH8ZUgI-sQsi44w&_hsmi=77921582

Clarion Special Report: NY’s Sharia Patrol

By Ryan Mauro and Martin Mawyer

{ clarionproject.org } ~ Not surprisingly, the sight of official-looking cars – made to look like police New York City cars — emblazoned with the words “Muslim Community Patrol” cruising the avenues of Brooklyn and Staten Island... in the United States of America—was quick to generate news coverage, commentary and alarm. Most of the mainstream American media reacted in typical fashion. Ever fearful of offending radicalized Muslim communities or digging too deeply into unsavory truths, they gushed in glowing news reports about the new patrol cars and portrayed them as a “neighborhood watch” for Muslim-dominated areas. Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams said the Muslim patrol units would help keep the city safe and vowed that his administration would help organizers acquire more police-style cars and equipment. “We believe we need to do more to assist them,” he told NY1 News. Yet, a little digging shows that the Muslim Community Patrol has an underlying agenda: to enforce Islamic sharia law first in the Muslim community and then in American community at large. Community-based safety patrols are in fact not unusual in the Big Apple. From crime-prevention groups like the Guardian Angels to the Brooklyn South Safety Patrol a Jewish civilian patrol, New York City has seen its share of neighborhood watch groups. Some of those patrols have even become embroiled in controversy of their own, with the Jewish patrol once being described as “bullies” and criticized as acting like “judge, jury and executioner.” Unlike other New York City safety patrols, however, MCP&S attracted suspicion, alarm and consternation from the very start. But the backlash from concerned citizens, political groups and conservative news organizations has been to no avail. The liberal Brooklyn news organization Bklyner declared: “Muslim Community Patrol & Services is here to stay.”... They are making a big mistake.

https://clarionproject.org/clarion-special-report-nys-sharia-patrol/?utm_source=Clarion+Project+Newsletter&utm_campaign=668da7e9fc-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_10_10_12_55&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_60abb35148-668da7e9fc-6442509&mc_cid=668da7e9fc&mc_eid=b83b13a9b5

US Takes Custody of Notorious ISIS Beheaders

by clarionproject.org ~ Before turning the guardianship of ISIS prisoners over to Turkey, the U.S. gained custody of some of the most notorious ISIS beheaders... suspected of torturing and murdering American and other Western hostages. U.S. officials announced that two of the four members of the British cell responsible for the imprisonment and beheading of American journalist James Foley as well as at least 27 other prisoners, including Americans Steven Scotloff and Peter Kassig. Foley’s murder was choreographed, videoed and broadcast to the world in 2014 in what would become the first of many gruesome propaganda videos put out by the terror group. The cell members in U.S. custody include El Shafee Elsheikh, 31, and Alexanda Kotey, 35. Another famous member of the cell, Mohammed Emwazi, believed to be the executioner on the videos, was killed in a drone strike in 2015. The four-man cell was dubbed the “Beatles” by their Western hostages because of their British accents. Elsheikh and Kotey were captured by the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in 2018. SDF forces include America’s Kurdish allies, who proved to be the most effective force in combating ISIS in Syria and Iraq. Last week, President Trump made the shocking decision to pull out American troops in Northeast Syria, making way for a Turkish invasion and almost certain slaughter of the Kurds by Turkey forces. Fighting for their lives, the Kurds no longer have the capacity to guard the ISIS prisoners. Before the U.S. retreat from northeast Syria, it appears the U.S. military took custody of 40 high-value prisoners, moving them to Iraq... https://clarionproject.org/us-takes-custody-of-notorious-isis-beheaders/?utm_source=Clarion+Project+Newsletter&utm_campaign=668da7e9fc-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_10_10_12_55&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_60abb35148-668da7e9fc-6442509&mc_cid=668da7e9fc&mc_eid=b83b13a9b5

Why Fox's '51% want impeachment'

poll is probably wrong

by wnd.com ~ Remember the 2016 presidential election polls just before the vote? The American Association for Public Opinion Research concluded scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton's "likelihood of winning the presidency was about 90 percent... with estimates ranging from 71 to over 99 percent." Now, President Trump is recalling that failed forecast in his response to a Fox News poll that finds a new high of 51 percent wants Trump impeached and removed from office. "From the day I announced I was running for President, I have NEVER had a good @FoxNews Poll," he wrote Thursday on Twitter. "Whoever their Pollster is, they suck. But @FoxNews is also much different than it used to be in the good old days." Fox News said that "since July, support for impeachment increased among voters of all stripes: up 11 points among Democrats, 5 points among Republicans and 3 among independents." "Support also went up among some of Trump's key constituencies, including white evangelical Christians (+5 points), white men without a college degree (+8), and rural whites (+10). "The report, which was the top headline on the popular Drudge Report, said that "among voters in swing counties where scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton and Trump were within 10 points in 2016, support for impeachment increased to 52 percent, up from 42 percent in July." Fox pointed out that "a lot has happened" on impeachment, with House Democrats ramping up their "impeachment inquiry." But just a day earlier, a Zogby poll found that in most of the nation's demographic groups, a plurality expects President Trump to be re-elected in 2020. "Nearly half of voters (47%) think President Trump will win re-election in 2020, while 41% say no, and it's not just his base!" the report said. Men by a 55% to 29% percent margin say so. So do young Millennials by 43% to 38%. And Gen X by 49% to 30%. And older voters 47% to 32%. Independents by 36% to 29%. Suburban voters, 42% to 34%. Large city voters, 51% to 32%. Union voters, 58% to 23%. Middle income, 56% to 32%. Upper income voters, 59% to 26%... https://www.wnd.com/2019/10/dem-drumbeat-impeach-hits-polling/

A Recycled Smear Campaign

Gary Bauer

Sunday marked the anniversary of the Senate vote confirming Brett Kavanaugh as a justice of the Supreme Court. The left still hasn’t gotten over that loss. There were protests at the Supreme Court Sunday.

I was thinking about how terrible the Kavanaugh confirmation process was. It was clear then that the left’s strategy was to produce one accuser after another. And then it hit me: The left is recycling its strategy in the Ukraine hoax.

As you may recall, Brett Kavanaugh breezed through his confirmation hearing, answering all the left’s questions without breaking a sweat. They just couldn’t trip him up.

President Trump fully cooperated in the Russia investigation. Robert Mueller couldn’t find evidence of collusion. The left failed to trip Trump up.

Then, all of a sudden, a senator says she has in her possession a letter from a “whistleblower” — a woman claiming Kavanaugh did something terrible.

Fast-forward to today. The president was rising in the polls and headed to the UN to deliver a historic speech on religious liberty. All of a sudden, a member of Congress says there’s a complaint from a Deep State operative, an intelligence community “whistleblower,” that could take the president down.

Kavanaugh’s friends and supporters were indignant. “How dare you! He’s never done anything like this,” they said. "No anonymous smears. The accuser must testify,“ they insisted. The left replied, "Well, we’re talking to her. She’s afraid for her life.”

Fast-forward to now. The president and his supporters demand to know who the Deep State leaker is. “Well, he’s afraid for his life. He must remain anonymous,” the left says.

Eventually, Christine Blasey Ford did testify. She had no evidence and no corroboration, and there were inconsistencies in her story. But wait… another accuser has come forward! And another! The left insists there’s a disturbing pattern about Kavanaugh’s behavior.

Back to Trump. The CIA leaker’s complaint turns out to be based on hearsay, and there are inconsistencies in the complaint. The transcript proves the central premise of the complaint is false.

So what happened this weekend? Another so-called “whistleblower” came forward, and this one supposedly has firsthand experience of the president’s phone call. I guarantee you, my friends, there will be additional “whistleblowers,” just like Kavanaugh’s accusers.

In both battles, the real target is the Republican Party. In the Kavanaugh controversy, the left believed that if it could turn the heat up high enough, it could peel off three or four GOP senators. Women are supposed to be believed in all cases, right? They got rino-Murkowski and almost got rino-Flake and Collins.

In case of the Ukraine call hoax, they’ve got Romney, Collins, and maybe Sasse. The left is also trying to confuse the public and convince them that there is something wrong with this president. Intelligence agents are good people who we’re supposed to believe protect us, right?

Of course, there’s another obvious link: The courts. The left can’t stand Trump’s success in restoring balance to the federal courts, and it can’t stand the fact that every day he remains in office is another day that he could nominate another justice of the caliber of Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh.

The Cover-Up Continues

Rep. scumbag-Adam Schiff, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, refuses to release the 10 hours of testimony from Kurt Volker, the former envoy to Ukraine. As we reported last week, Volker’s testimony supports President Trump and undermines the complaint filed by a disgruntled Deep State operative.

Rep. Jim Jordan, the ranking Republican on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, is so confident that he is daring Rep. scumbag-Schiff to release Volker’s testimony.

Yet all weekend long, all we got from the media was breathless reporting of a second “whistleblower,” supposedly with direct knowledge of the president’s phone call.

This is absurd! We already have direct knowledge of the call. We have the transcript. The president voluntarily released it.

This is like someone saying, “I have direct knowledge of the score of the Washington Redskins/New England Patriots game!” I should hope so — we all watched it Sunday. How can this be news?

Meanwhile, it is being reported that the Deep State operative who filed the complaint is a registered Democrat who “had a prior working relationship with a prominent Democratic politician.” And we know that the law firm representing him has deep ties to far-left activists.

dinky-liar-Warren’s Truth Troubles

Sen. Elizabeth dinky-liar-Warren seems to have trouble telling the truth. Everyone is familiar with her claim of indigenous heritage. But now we’re learning of yet another bogus claim.

In telling her biography, dinky-liar-Warren has suggested multiple times that she was the victim of sex discrimination. She claims that she was fired from a special education teaching position because she was pregnant. She said this last week in Nevada and during her closing statement in last month’s Democrat debate.

But in a 2008 interview, dinky-liar-Warren tells a very different story. She acknowledges not having all the necessary credits for the job, so she went back to graduate school. dinky-liar-Warren said:

I went back to graduate school and took a couple of courses in education and said, “I don’t think this is going to work out for me.” I was pregnant with my first baby, so I had a baby and stayed home for a couple of years…

There’s nothing in this 11-year-old interview that remotely suggests she was fired. But dinky-liar-Warren seems so eager to claim the mantle of victimhood, whether as a Native American or a fired pregnant woman.

And here’s another example that has fallen through the memory hole: dinky-liar-Warren has also claimed to have been the victim of sexual harassment, claiming that an older male colleague once “lunged at her” in his office and then chased her around his desk.

But in telling this story, she neglected to mention that the man had polio, which limited his mobility, and that she later spoke at his funeral!

Craven Appeasement

Friday night, Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey expressed his support for the pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong. Morey tweeted, “Fight for Freedom. Stand with Hong Kong.” Within hours, the roof caved in on him.

The Chinese consulate in Houston expressed its “strong dissatisfaction.” The team’s owner rebuffed Morey, making it clear that Morey did not speak for the team. The NBA issued a statement calling Morey’s tweet “deeply offensive” and “regrettable.” And yesterday, Morey was tweeting his apologies.

Morey did the right thing, but the NBA is scrambling because of its big investment in China. Just the latest example of how trade with China has changed us more than it has changed China.

Better Late Than Never

Last week, news broke that four people were stabbed to death inside the Paris police headquarters. Initially, French authorities treated the attack as just a workplace dispute involving a disgruntled employee who had been reprimanded by his supervisor.

It took them a while, but French authorities have finally acknowledged what we all knew days ago — Michael Harpon was a radicalized Muslim. The alleged “workplace dispute” involved his refusal to work with women. ~The Patriot Post

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Thursday PM ~ thefrontpagecover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on October 10, 2019 at 4:22pm

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

Restoring Deterrence to Have Peace

Harold Hutchison

Flashback: hanoi-John Kerry bragged about

getting re-election support from foreign

leaders in ‘private’ conversations

by Zachary Leeman

{ bizpacreview.com } ~ Democrats may be expressing shock over President Donald Trump’s now-infamous phone call with the Ukraine president... but it’s all part of a “do as I say, not as I do” motto politicians have been getting away with for years. Fox News’ Tucker Carlson broke down this motto this week by uncovering 2004 comments from hanoi-John Kerry where he bragged about how foreign leaders contacted him and told him how much they wanted him to beat George W. Bush in the presidential election — to put things into context, hanoi-Kerry is one of the many Democrats claiming Trump did something wrong by suggesting Ukraine investigate loose lips liar-Joe Biden’s ties to his son Hunter’s businesses. “hanoi-John Kerry has been talking to anyone who will listen about the president’s shocking behavior with Ukraine,” Carlson said of the former secretary of state. The Fox host then cut to a recent MSNBC interview where hanoi-Kerry reacted to Trump’s Ukraine phone call. “My reaction is one of absolute shock and abasement … that is a fundamental, profound abuse of power. There’s no other way to put it,” hanoi-Kerry said. “hanoi-Kerry is full of it, as you know. But, just to put some meat on those bones, during the 2004 election, which he lost, hanoi-John Kerry openly bragged about soliciting support from foreign leaders against his opponent that year, the incumbent President George W. Bush,” Carlson said in reaction. “I’ve met foreign leaders who can’t go out and say this publicly, but boy they look at you and say, ‘you’ve got to win this, you’ve got to beat this guy, we need a new policy.’ Things like that,” hanoi-Kerry reportedly said in 2004. Carlson also criticized hanoi-Kerry for refusing to name the leaders who supposedly said such things to him. The then-presidential candidate kept mum on names because he said that sort of trust between leaders was necessary to run the country...

https://www.bizpacreview.com/2019/10/09/flashback-john-kerry-bragged-about-getting-re-election-support-from-foreign-leaders-in-private-conversations-836890

VIDEO: https://rumble.com/v8af6h-tucker-carlson-uncovers-troubling-john-kerry-2004-comments.html

Pompeo: 'The United States

Didn't Give Turkey a Green Light'

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By Susan Jones

{ cnsnews.com } ~ Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday defended President Trump's decision to remove U.S. troops from northern Syria... allowing Turkey to conduct its "long-planned operation" to clear the area of Syrian Kurds, whom Turkey considers terrorists, but the U.S. considers allies. Turkish troops began their attack on Wednesday. PBS's Judy Woodruff asked Pompeo about what will happen, now that the "U.S. has given Turkey a green light." "Yes, well, that's just false. The United States didn't give Turkey a green light," Pompeo responded. The mission was that, when we came into office, there were people being beheaded, people being burned, people in cages. President Trump made the decision that we would begin a campaign that would take down the caliphate. We have succeeded in that. On the phone call on Sunday night, it became very clear that there were American soldiers that were going to be at risk. And the president made a decision to put them in a place where they were out of harm's way. That's what we have done. President Trump has been unambiguous about making sure that radical Islamic terrorism, wherever we find it, this administration will take it seriously. And I think the success that we have had in Syria, along with many allies of the defeat ISIS coalition that the State Department put together numbers countries in the dozens and dozens. I'm confident that we will continue to protect the American people from that terrorist threat. Asked if he still view the Kurdish YPG as a U.S. ally, Pompeo said, "The Turks have a legitimate security concern. We have talked about that. I have talked about that repeatedly. They have a terrorist threat to their South...

https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/susan-jones/pompeo-united-states-didnt-give-turkey-green-light

VIDEO: https://www.mrctv.org/videos/pompeo-united-states-didnt-give-turkey-green-light

The IDF's Secret Weapon Against Iran

BY ANNA AHRONHEIM

{ jpost.com } ~ Israel’s military has a secret weapon as the war-between-war campaign against Hezbollah and Iran continues to expand... the Language Teaching Department at the Military Intelligence and Cyber Instruction Unit (MICIU), a language school where soldiers become fluent in Arabic or Farsi in under two months. In a nondescript building in a base in the center of the country sits the largest intelligence school in the entire Middle East. Thousands of soldiers and officers pass through its doors every year, training for positions in the IDF’s Military Intelligence Division. “It’s not like in a normal school where students are taught just a language,” Maj. V., head of the MICIU’s Language Teaching Department, told The Jerusalem Post. “We aren’t here just to learn a language; the language is a tool to get and understand the intelligence we collect.” The school, which has existed for over 50 years, uses innovative approaches and learning environments that within weeks have soldiers understanding both the language and culture of their enemies. V.’s name can’t be divulged for security reasons. The identity of R. and N. are similarly secret. R. has been an instructor at the school for 47 years, and teaches spoken Arabic. Her daughter, Master Sgt. N., teaches written Arabic. “It’s a challenging and hard role because we have the responsibility of the state’s security on our shoulders,” R. said. “To work in this environment is serving the country, on all levels.”...

https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/The-IDFs-secret-weapon-against-Iran-604190

Senators Launch Bipartisan Push

to Sanction Turkey Over Syria Offensive

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By Patrick Goodenough

{ cnsnews.com } ~ Breaking with President Trump over the issue, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Wednesday joined Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) in announcing a bipartisan push for sanctions against the leaders and military of Turkey... a NATO ally – until it halts a unilateral military operation in northeastern Syria and withdraws its forces. Their targets include President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his senior ministers, military assistance, transactions with Turkey’s military or energy sectors, and visas for Turkish leaders wanting to travel to the United States. They also Ankara sanctioned for buying Russian-made S-400 air defense systems, under a provision of the 2017 Countering America's Adversaries Through Sanctions Act (CAATSA), which seeks to punish those who enter into “significant” financial transactions with Russia’s military sector. Van Hollen said Wednesday the bill would be introduced as soon as Congress returns, and that its sponsors will “ask for an immediate vote to send a clear message to Turkey that it must cease and desist its military action, withdraw its fighters from the areas under attack, and stop the tragic loss of life.” Turkey’s Islamist president on Wednesday announced the launch of his offensive, aimed at ridding territory near the Syria-Turkey border of Kurdish fighters who were allied to the U.S. in the campaign against ISIS. Asked at the White House about the sanctions push by Graham – normally a vocal ally – Trump seemed unperturbed, reiterating that he has himself warned Erdogan to be cautious, or face consequences...

https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/patrick-goodenough/senators-launch-bipartisan-push-sanction-turkey-over-syria-offensive

VIDEO: https://www.mrctv.org/videos/trump-okay-about-senators-bipartisan-turkey-sanctions-push-says-hes-already-cautioned

Uncovered Transcript Shows scumbag/liar-Bill Clinton Did Exactly What Dems Accuse Trump

of Doing with Ukraine

By Joe Saunders

{ westernjournal.com } ~ Democrats convinced they’ve got the goods on the man in the White House really need to look at their own history first... As an “impeachment inquiry” gathers steam, based largely around the accusation that President Donald Trump used his position in the Oval Office to try to influence the outcome of an upcoming election, Fox News host Tucker Carlson hit the airwaves this week with documentary proof of former President scumbag/liar-Bill Clinton doing that very thing. And his terms were far more explicit, and more politically self-serving, than anything Trump actually said. On Monday’s broadcast of “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” Carlson dredged up a White House transcript of a telephone call between scumbag/liar-Clinton and then British Prime Minister Tony Blair. In the conversation from February 2000, scumbag/liar-Clinton sought Blair’s help in resolving a commercial dispute between British Airways and two American carriers, USAir and American Airlines. That was an election year in the United States, of course, when Americans would be going to the polls in nine months to select scumbag/liar-Clinton’s successor in the presidency. scumbag/liar-Clinton obviously did not want to make the election more difficult than it had to be for then-Vice President scumbag-Al Gore, who was to win the Democratic nomination after crushing former Sen. Bill Bradley in a perfunctory primary fight. “Back in 2000, President scumbag/liar-Bill Clinton had a conversation with Tony Blair of the U.K. and asked him directly to intercede in a dispute between British Airways and two carriers,” Carlson said. “The president, at the time, was much more direct than President Trump was in his conversation. “This is scumbag/liar-Bill Clinton, and I’m quoting: ‘In a political season, it would be big over here to get this open sore resolved. If you could have somebody take a look at it.’ Tony Blair responded that he would.” Now, as Carlson pointed out, this set-up is more or less what Democrats are caterwauling about: An American president, speaking to the leader of a foreign country, asks for assistance. In neither the scumbag/liar-Clinton case nor Trump’s now-famous phone call with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky did the American president promise anything in return...

https://www.westernjournal.com/damning-transcript-bill-clinton-call-shows-asked-tony-blairs-help-influence-election/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=patriotupdate&utm_campaign=dailypm&utm_content=libertyalliance

VIDEO at the site.

The Homeless Myth

by Daniel Greenfield

{ frontpagemag.com } ~ Los Angeles used to be known as the epicenter of the entertainment industry, nutty health fads, and compulsive narcissism... These days, it’s ground zero for the homeless crisis and its myths. Every underpass harbors grimy tent cities with their own colonies of rats and roaches. Schizophrenics wander the most fashionable streets shouting at the sky. Human waste and needles litter downtown streets. Typhus and Hepatitis A spread out from these oases of misery into the general population. It’s not that the city doesn’t care. If anything, Los Angeles cares too much. Voters have passed multiple propositions spending over $4.6 billion on the homeless. They raised their own sales tax. They built homeless housing at as much as $500,000 per unit. That’s enough to buy a mansion in some parts of America. Did that solve the problem? Try walking through one of those tent cities and you’ll find out. After all this, the number of homeless is up 12% to 58,936 in Los Angeles County and up 16% to 36,165 in Los Angeles. Despite all those billions of dollars thrown at the problem, only 3 districts saw a decrease in the homeless population. Fortunately, no lessons were learned from this Sisyphean exercise. Billboards all across the city feature a multicultural cast of young activists chanting, “Homes End Homelessness”. The only problem is that homes don’t end homelessness. Homelessness is not the problem, it’s a symptom of the problem. That’s the real news in the latest homeless numbers. While pro-homeless activists falsely claimed that only 29% of LA’s homeless had drug and alcohol problems or mental illness, the Los Angeles Times, after reviewing the same questionnaires used as the basis for the data, found that actually 67% had a mental illness or drug and alcohol problems...

https://cms.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2019/10/homeless-myth-daniel-greenfield

Restoring Deterrence to Have Peace

Harold Hutchison: The world is not a nice place. It seems odd to have to say this, but in today’s upside-down world such a statement is necessary. In an ideal world, disputes would be based upon high moral values and resolved through nonviolent negotiations that lead to a compromise all sides can live with. In an ideal world, nobody would think of trying to use force to resolve a dispute.

In that ideal world, the People’s Republic of China would be swayed by a simple reminder that governments derive their powers from the consent of the governed, and that cracking down on peaceful demonstrators or forcibly returning Taiwan to the fold is wrong. In an ideal world, senior leaders of Iran would not be voicing a desire to wipe Israel off the map.

As you are well aware, we are not in an ideal world. We’re nowhere close to one. So, why isn’t China trying to force Taiwan under the rule of the butchers of Beijing? The answer is very simple: If they were to try, they know that the United States Navy has the capability to sweep the People’s Liberation Army Navy from the seas. China would be at the mercy of the United States as a result. That is something that the Chinese are rational enough to want to avoid.

As The Patriot Post team has pointed out during coverage of the U.S. Navy’s issues, navies take a lot of time to build — or rebuild. Could China’s leaders survive such a setback, especially given the situation in Hong Kong? They’re not going to want to take that chance.

In essence, American strength deters hostile action. The same dynamic largely works with Iran. Yes, it shot down a MQ-4C Triton UAV, but its direct acts of aggression and belligerence haven’t caused any American fatalities. Well, no recent fatalities is the more honest way to put it — America still owes Iran for that theocratic regime’s provision of IED components to Iraqi insurgents. But the reason Iran hasn’t moved much beyond talk is that the mullahs know full well that America is willing to deliver a major butt-kicking if they push things too far.

So, from these two examples, we should understand that deterrence, in order to work correctly, has two components. First, there is the ability to deliver a devastating blow, and second, the willingness to deliver said blow should a country cross certain lines. If either of these is missing, then deterrence will inevitably fail.

Prior to President Donald Trump taking office, Barack scumbag/liar-nObama had reduced America’s deterrence capabilities in both ways. His defense cuts severely limited America’s ability to bring the pain, and he also was singularly unwilling to deal with Iran in the decisive manner needed. In short, BO gave the message that America could be a global doormat.

The fact is, if America is to avoid war, it never hurts to have a strong military in all facets. But it is also equally important to ensure that when a foreign country does something along the lines of firing missiles at a Navy destroyer, then we are able and willing to make them pay. Otherwise, we may very well find ourselves again in an armed conflict in the Middle East. Or elsewhere. ~The Patriot Post

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