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Posted by Rudy Tirre on August 28, 2019 at 4:01pm

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~ Featuring ~

Opioid Ruling Won't Solve the Addiction Crisis

Nate Jackson

Pentagon Evaluating How

To Expand Indo-Pacific Presence

By Ben Werner

{ news.usni.org } ~ The Pentagon is evaluating how to expand its Indo-Pacific region presence, including freedom of navigation operations and adding new bases... Secretary of Defense Mark Esper said Tuesday morning. Speaking to the student body of the U.S. Naval War College, Esper told the group of mostly lieutenant commanders and commanders that the challenges posed by Russia and China require new strategies and a commitment to the Indo-Pacific region. “We must be present in the region. Not everywhere, but in the key locations,” Esper said during his first speech as defense secretary in an academic setting. “This means looking at how we expand our basing locations, investing more time and resources in certain regions we haven’t been to in the past. It also means we have to continue to fly, to sail and to operate wherever international rules allow to preserve freedom of navigation for both military and commercial operations, whether it’s the Strait of Hormuz or the Malacca Strait.” Esper said his first major trip as secretary was a tour of the Indo-Pacific region because of its significance. The Department of Defense Indo-Pacific Strategy Report, released in June, highlights the region’s significance and provides a synopsis of the Pentagon’s plans. “The department is reinforcing its commitment to established alliances and partnerships, while also expanding and deepening relationships with new partners who share our respect for sovereignty, fair and reciprocal trade, and the rule of law,” the strategy states...

https://news.usni.org/2019/08/27/esper-pentagon-evaluating-how-to-expand-indo-pacific-presence?utm_source=USNI+News&utm_campaign=b3651bef01-USNI_NEWS_DAILY&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_0dd4a1450b-b3651bef01-231491269&mc_cid=b3651bef01&mc_eid=3999f18767

In U.S. Standoff With Tehran,

‘the Iranian People Are the Real Losers’

by Adam Kredo

{ freebeacon.com } ~ As the United States and Iran continue to trade barbs in a tense international standoff, leading lawmakers are starting to pressure Iranian leaders to consent to new nuclear negotiations... that could help ease American sanctions and provide relief for the Iranian people, who have been hardest hit by the international community's economic penalties. After President Donald Trump extended an olive branch to Iranian foreign minister Javad Zarif for talks regarding the country's ongoing work on nuclear weapons and support for regional terrorist organizations, Iranian leaders rejected the offer to hold good faith talks. Iran's unwillingness to consent to new negotiations is the strongest sign to date that it has no interest in escaping the Trump administration's toughest sanctions, which have isolated the regime, but also have caused economic headache for average Iranian citizens. Trump administration sanctions on Iran have blocked some $10 billion in revenue to Tehran since last November. Rep. Jim Banks (R., Ind.), a member of the House Armed Services Committee, is one of several leading lawmakers who views Tehran as using its own citizens as pawns in an increasingly lethal standoff with the United States and other Western nations. "The Iranian people are the real losers, as they are being used as pawns by a despotic and corrupt ruling class," Banks told the Washington Free Beacon. "They are frustrated they have no political or social freedoms, and they suffer under systematic government corruption that takes food out of the mouths of its citizens."... https://freebeacon.com/national-security/in-u-s-standoff-with-tehran-the-iranian-people-are-the-real-losers/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=16111e595c-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_08_27_08_04_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-16111e595c-45611665

Coast Guard a Continuing

‘Force Multiplier’ with Navy in Global Missions

By Gidget Fuentes

{ news.usni.org } ~ The Coast Guard’s ability to fold into the U.S. joint armed forces to protect America’s interests globally has “never been more relevant,”... a senior Coast Guard officer in the Pacific region told a Navy audience. The Coast Guard, “always a law enforcement agency but also a military force, is well-positioned to do home military security missions and homeland defense missions and defense operations around the world, right alongside their Navy brothers and sisters,” said Rear Adm. Dave Throop, deputy commander of the Alameda, Calif.-based U.S. Coast Guard Pacific Area. The 50,000-member Coast Guard “is a force multiplier for our nation,” Throop told the Surface Navy Association West Symposium Thursday at Naval Base San Diego. The Coast Guard falls under the Department of Homeland Security and has a wide range of law enforcement missions under federal law that the Department of Defense’s armed services don’t have. “To ensure maximum application of those authorities, the Coast Guard and Navy partner up to ensure that law enforcement actions can be taken, no matter what the situation,” Throop said. “We bring to the fight unique authorities, dozens of bilateral and multilateral agreements with partner nations, unique capabilities from law enforcement all the way up until and to include lethal force,” he said. “It includes short-notice maritime response, taking control of a ship in a contested environment with an opposing force.” This month, for example, the USS Tornado (PC-14), a 107-foot Cyclone-class patrol ship, is patrolling the waters of the Eastern Pacific, a major sea corridor for illicit, covert drug-smuggling operations. On board with Navy personnel is a Coast Guard detachment, a 10-member tactical law enforcement team stationed in San Diego, Throop said. “It’s that team effort that we’re able to get after some of these problems.” Across the Pacific, the Coast Guard’s focus and the commandant’s “ready-relevant-responsive” guiding principles “have never been more important than they are today,” Throop told the audience. “In the far reaches of the world, presence equals influence – and that applies to the Western Pacific, the Arctic and the Antarctic.”...

https://news.usni.org/2019/08/27/pacific-deputy-coast-guard-a-continuing-force-multiplier-with-navy-in-global-missions?utm_source=USNI+News&utm_campaign=b3651bef01-USNI_NEWS_DAILY&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_0dd4a1450b-b3651bef01-231491269&mc_cid=b3651bef01&mc_eid=3999f18767

Palestinians: Why Allow Facts

to Get in the Way?

by Bassam Tawil

{ gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ Rina Shnerb, the 17-year-old teenager who was killed in a Palestinian terror attack in the West Bank on August 23, was born and raised in the Israeli city of Lod... She had never lived in a settlement in the West Bank. Moreover, she never served in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) or any security agency, as she was too young to be recruited for service. Rina was killed in a bomb explosion when she and her family were visiting the popular Ein Buvin spring near the West Bank city of Ramallah. Her father, Eitan, and brother, Dvir, were injured when an explosive device planted near the spring went off. Why are the details about Rina's hometown and her age worth mentioning? Because the Palestinian media has again engaged in a campaign of fabrications and lies to justify the terror attack and the murder of an innocent Jewish teenager. Lod is not a settlement. It is a city located in the Central District of Israel, and even has an Arab population of 30%. The Palestinian media, however, does not feel comfortable reporting the facts about the terror attack. In the eyes of Palestinian new editors and journalists, Rina was a "settler" and a "soldier." By using such terms, the Palestinians are trying to create the impression that she was not an innocent teenager, but a Jew who lived in a settlement and was even serving in the IDF. This type of misinformation is aimed at sending a message that Rina was a legitimate target because she was one of hundreds of thousands of Jewish settlers living in the West Bank and an active member of the IDF. The Palestinian public, for its part, is often quick to endorse such lies to justify terror attacks against Jews. What is particularly disturbing is that even the media controlled by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas chose to spread the lie that the murdered teenager was a "settler" and "soldier."...

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/14782/palestinians-facts-terrorism

The Real Risks of Allowing

Terrorist Safe Havens

By Hal Brands

{ bloomberg.com } ~ For nearly two decades, the fundamental premise of America's counterterrorism strategy has been to prevent extremist groups from establishing territorial safe havens spaces... in which they train and plot, free from interference. With a prospective U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan on the horizon, General David Petraeus warned recently that a precipitate pullout could allow al-Qaeda or the Islamic State to rebuild "a terrorist platform." A growing number of experts have argued, however, that a preoccupation with safe havens is really an unhealthy obsession that produces unnecessary — and unending — military crusades. So, do safe havens matter or not? The truth is that denying such sanctuaries is critical to effective counterterrorism, so long as some key caveats and distinctions are kept in mind. Since the Sept. 11 attacks, the fight against terrorism has been, in substantial measure, a fight against safe havens. President George W. Bush declared that the U.S. would make no distinctions between terrorists and the nations that harbored them, the thinking being that access to territorial sanctuaries allowed groups like Qaeda to organize, operate and grow. Since then, this idea has driven U.S. military operations in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Somalia, Libya and elsewhere. Even President Donald Trump, who campaigned on a pledge to end America’s Middle Eastern wars, invoked the danger of safe havens in deciding to surge additional troops into Afghanistan in 2017. “A hasty withdrawal,” he said, “would create a vacuum that terrorists, including ISIS and al-Qaeda, would instantly fill.” Critics of U.S. strategy, however, are skeptical. They argue that safe havens are largely irrelevant, given that much of the direct planning and preparation for 9/11 and other major attacks occurred in Western cities rather than failed states. They claim that efforts to deny terrorist safe havens are counterproductive, because those endeavors drain American resources and incite the hatred of Muslim populations. They thus conclude that the threat of safe havens can be downplayed, if not ignored. These arguments are alluring, but wrong. We know, on the basis of more than 20 years of history, that safe havens matter enormously — although their impact sometimes manifests itself in complicated and indirect ways. Indeed, the major reason the safe havens issue remains so contested is that critics of U.S. strategy often miss the complex causal chain by which these sanctuaries enable terrorist attacks... https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-08-27/the-real-risks-of-allowing-terrorist-safe-havens?srnd=opinion&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTmprd05XVTVaREk1Tm1JNSIsInQiOiJHalhZZm9NXC9rbXh4NDl5T1c5WnBSdFRmUXFPT1hqUjR2ZUg2MktwMm9pTXpEQ3ZieTRQRmNYM0RWOFZQQU9aQnVMSDB4cDZuNUZRZ1lkSFMydzBwTjZVRHo2eFFJTW9Pc1NqOXMrT0xxT05kY1hERDNVS2ptWXlvWk0rNkxSREUifQ%3D%3D

Opioid Ruling Won't Solve the Addiction Crisis

Nate Jackson: In a landmark ruling Monday, Johnson & Johnson was ordered by an Oklahoma judge to pay $572 million in damages over its role in the opioid-addiction crisis in Oklahoma alone. Judge Thad Balkman agreed with Oklahoma GOP Attorney General Mike Hunter that Johnson & Johnson’s “misleading marketing and promotion of opioids created a nuisance” in the state, finding the company liable under more flexible public-nuisance laws rather than product-liability ones. Never mind that Johnson & Johnson accounts for about 1% of Oklahoma’s opioid market. Or that government regulators approved the drugs for sale only through government-approved pharmacies.

Oklahoma has also already reached an $85 million settlement with Teva and a $270 million settlement with OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma over opioids. But litigation is widespread. The Wall Street Journal notes, “More than 2,000 states and municipalities have sued opioid makers and distributors in federal litigation in Ohio. Another 250 or so have filed lawsuits in state courts where they hope local judges and juries will provide a more sympathetic audience.”

For years now, the U.S. has found itself facing a true opioid crisis. Tens of thousands of Americans are dying of overdoses each year — in numbers exceeding those killed in car crashes or by so-called “gun violence” (homicide and suicide, combined).

Who’s to blame? Two years ago, our Arnold Ahlert wrote:

The foundations of our current opioid crisis were laid back in the late 1990s. Pharmaceutical companies, doctors and government were all involved. Drug companies misleadingly promoted opioids to treat chronic pain, and government officials at different levels bought into that promotion, requiring insurance policies to cover the drugs. Government also pushed doctors to prescribe opioids via a “Pain as the Fifth Vital Sign” campaign run in the 1990s and 2000s.

Pharmaceutical companies are popular bogeymen. The compelling narrative is that faceless corporations are grossly profiting from the suffering of sick people. There is also serious cronyism afoot as “Big Pharma” tries to rig government regulation and interference in its favor and works in cahoots with insurance companies to determine what patient gets which drug and for how much.

But that’s a black-and-white view of a gray issue. American pharmaceutical companies are also doing the lion’s share of worldwide drug development. Research and development isn’t free, and the relatively few drugs that do make it to market after years of work and government hoops must cover resources put into the many drugs that don’t make it to market. Prices are controlled in other countries, so unfortunately the American consumer bears the brunt of the cost.

As for addicts, well, it’s complicated. A patient who takes more than the prescribed dosage only to find himself addicted and seeking the next high bears responsibility for himself. Doctors who prescribe 30 days of opioids when three days and some Ibuprofen will do likewise own some blame. And now we have tort lawyers and power-grabbing attorneys general swooping in to increase their money or power as a result of a crisis. Bankrupting America’s pharmaceutical companies won’t put a dent in the profits of your local meth or fentanyl dealer.

On a final note, it’s worth mentioning that $200 million from Purdue’s settlement will go to the National Center for Addiction Studies and Treatment at Oklahoma State University, where AG Hunter’s son is employed. Another $60 million went to trial lawyers. Again, the word cronyism comes to mind. ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/65078?mailing_id=4494&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4494&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

Wednesday Noon ~ thefrontpagecover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on August 28, 2019 at 12:18pm

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

scumbag/liar-nObama's

Million-Dollar Oceanfront Hypocrisy

Nate Jackson

Thousands Returned to Mexico

Under Trump Immigration Policy

by Charles Fain Lehman

{ freebeacon.com } ~ Thousands of would-be illegal immigrants are being returned to await asylum hearings in Mexico... as part of a program the Trump administration has credited with curbing the recent wave of family migration at the southwestern border. The Migrant Protection Protocols—more colloquially known as the "Remain in Mexico" policy—are regulations issued by former secretary of homeland security Kirstjen Nielsen in December 2018. Under the MPP, a subset of individuals who claim to be seeking asylum after being apprehended at the border now must await the results of their immigration court hearings in Mexico, rather than being detained—or, more often, released on their own recognizance—in the United States. Asylum seekers, especially from non-contiguous countries, pose a unique challenge to the immigration system. Preexisting laws and regulations mean that asylum seekers can only be detained for so long before being released, while the large immigration court backlog essentially guarantees that these time thresholds will be passed. The result is a system of de facto catch-and-release, in which an individual can simply claim asylum at the border and then disappear into the interior while his or her case is processed. The stated goal of the "Remain in Mexico" policy at the time of its implementation was to curb the then-swelling crisis at the southwestern border, which was in no small part a product of this asylum loophole. Individuals apprehended seeking asylum would await the results of their hearings in Mexico, meaning that they could not abscond into the United States before their application is denied. Nearly 90 percent of applications are denied. How effective have the MPP regulations actually been? New data released Monday by the nonpartisan Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) show that the program has taken off in recent months. Nearly 12,000 people were returned to Mexico in July, compared with about 5,000 in May, and just 15 at the start of the year...

https://freebeacon.com/issues/thousands-returned-to-mexico-under-trump-immigration-policy/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=16111e595c-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_08_27_08_04_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-16111e595c-45611665

China exporters praying weaker yuan will save

them from Donald Trump’s higher trade war tariffs

by He Huifeng

{ scmp.com } ~ Chinese exporters are praying for a continued depreciation of the yuan, hoping it will cushion the blow of the new round of tariffs to be implemented by the United States... Many traditional exporters in China’s Pearl River Delta and Yangtze River Delta regions, the country’s manufacturing heartlands, say that the increase in US tariffs to 30 per cent will go beyond the limit of what they can afford. They also fully expect both the US and Chinese tariffs to increase further, meaning they will lose access to the US market in which they have been operating for decades. “We were convinced that one of our long-term US clients, who is actually an intermediate trader for supermarket chains in the US, would order from us. But 300 container loads of goods have yet to be shipped, with a value of about US$5 million,” said a Chinese exporter of canned fruit, who wished not to be named. “The US client called us last weekend and asked us to pay the additional tariff of 5 per cent. We could not refuse since it was our idea to bid to supply the canned fruit for the supermarkets,” she said. “We have no way to deal with it now. We only hope that the yuan will depreciate in the coming weeks and offset the new tariff. Otherwise, we will lose a lot of money on this order.” If the yuan does not further depreciate by more than 5 per cent, she added, the company will have no choice but to cease exports to the US after October 1. Exporters have been left blindsided after the US said on Friday that it would raise the tariff rate on US$250 billion of Chinese imports from 25 per cent to 30 per cent from October 1, and raise the planned new tariff rate on US$300 billion of goods from 10 per cent to 15 per cent in two tranches on September 1 and December 15...

https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3024557/china-exporters-praying-weaker-yuan-will-save-them-donald

Trump Officially Nominates

Eugene Scalia for Labor Secretary

By MAIREAD MCARDLE

{ nationalreview.com } ~ President Trump on Tuesday officially tapped Eugene Scalia, son of the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, to be his administration’s next secretary of labor... The president forecast his nomination of Scalia last month, just days after former labor secretary Alexander Acosta resigned on July 12 amid criticism of his kid-gloved handling of Florida prostitution charges against the late accused pedophile billionaire Jeffrey Epstein. “Gene has led a life of great success in the legal and labor field and is highly respected not only as a lawyer, but as a lawyer with great experience working with labor and everyone else,” Trump wrote Tuesday in a pair of tweets announcing his decision. “He will be a great member of an Administration that has done more in the first 2 ½ years than perhaps any Administration in history!” Scalia is a partner at corporate law firm Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and was a top lawyer for George W. Bush’s Labor Department.

https://www.nationalreview.com/news/trump-officially-nominates-justice-scalias-son-for-labor-secretary/

DiGenova: Horowitz found FISA warrants

used to spy on Carter Page ‘were

illegal from the get-go’

by Tom Tillison

{ bizpacreview.com } ~ Joe diGenova, former U.S. attorney to the District of Columbia, dropped a bombshell of sorts Monday during a radio interview on WMAL... According to diGenova, Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz has determined that the FISA warrants used to begin surveilling former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page were obtained illegally. The assertion came while the WMAL legal analyst was commenting on whether the Trump administration is unwinding domestic surveillance. “I don’t want them winding down a thing if they’re spying on people overseas,” he said. “If they’re spying on Americans, I don’t want them lying to the FISA Court the way the scumbag/liar-nObama administration did.” This being a clear reference to the efforts the FBI made to obtain a warrant to spy on Page. And that’s when he dropped the bombshell. “For the record, I can report categorically that the Inspector General has found that all four FISA warrants were illegal — they were based on false information supplied to the FISA Court,” diGenova said. “And that IG Michael Horowitz has concluded that all four FISA warrants were illegal from the get-go.” He didn’t say how he came to know this to be true, other than to say that Horowitz’s report is done and being circulated, and “bit and pieces” are getting out. “Which means that fired FBI director scumbag-James Comey lied on the first one,” diGenova added. “Whoever signed the other three, including former Deputy attorney General Rob Rosenstein, the masterful savant who ran the department like the fool that he was for two and a half years, they were all false...

https://www.bizpacreview.com/2019/08/27/digenova-horowitz-found-fisa-warrants-used-to-spy-on-carter-page-were-illegal-from-the-get-go-799956?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=BPR%20Email&utm_campaign=DMS

VOICE VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ln_LWrQq7SI

hanoi-John Kerry’s son cut business ties

with Hunter loose lips liar-Biden

over Ukrainian oil deal

by Alana Goodman

{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ hanoi-John Kerry’s stepson rushed to play damage control at the State Department after his business partner Hunter loose lips liar-Biden cut a deal with an oligarch-owned Ukrainian gas company in 2014... according to internal State Department correspondence obtained by the Washington Examiner. The correspondence adds to the questions about loose lips liar-Biden's business activities, which have dogged the 2020 Democratic primary campaign of his father loose lips liar-Joe. Hunter loose lips liar-Biden's long history of drug and alcohol abuse, which contributed to his divorce and his dismissal from the Navy Reserve, has also attracted unwelcome publicity for the Democratic front-runner. An email released to the Washington Examiner shows that loose lips liar-Biden’s decision to join the board of Ukraine’s Burisma Holdings sparked immediate concern within his inner circle about the political optics. loose lips liar-Biden’s father loose lips liar-Joe — now vying for the 2020 Democratic Party nomination — was then vice president and overseeing the scumbag/liar-nObama administration’s Ukraine policy. At the time, Hunter loose lips liar-Biden, now 49, and Christopher Heinz, the stepson of then-Secretary of State hanoi-John Kerry, co-owned Rosemont Seneca Partners, a $2.4 billion private equity firm. Heinz’s college roommate, Devon Archer, was managing partner in the firm. In the spring of 2014, loose lips liar-Biden and Archer joined the board of Burisma Holdings, a Ukrainian gas company that was at the center of a U.K. money laundering probe. Over the next year, Burisma reportedly paid loose lips liar-Biden and Archer’s companies over $3 million. Hours after loose lips liar-Biden’s board appointment went public on May 13, 2014, Heinz emailed Matt Summers and David Wade, two of his stepfather’s top aides at the State Department. “Apparently Devon and Hunter both joined the board of Burisma and a press release went out today,” wrote Heinz. “I cant speak why they decided to, but there was no investment by our firm in their company.” The email was obtained through a public information request filed by the conservative nonprofit group Citizens United. The organization said the email raises questions about why Heinz was in touch with the State Department about loose lips liar-Biden’s business dealings...

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/john-kerrys-son-cut-business-ties-with-hunter-biden-over-ukrainian-oil-deal?utm_source=breaking_push&utm_medium=app&utm_campaign=push_notifications&utm_source=WEX_News%20Brief_08/27/2019&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WEX_News%20Brief&rid=5261

scumbag/liar-nObama's Million-Dollar Oceanfront Hypocrisy

Nate Jackson: “This was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow,” Barack scumbag/liar-nObama boasted of his 2008 nomination to run for president.

“Rising sea levels threaten every coastline. … The science is beyond dispute and the facts are clear. Sea levels are rising. Coastlines are shrinking,” scumbag/liar-nObama declared in 2009 — similar to numerous pronouncements about the dire straits of the globe due to climate change.

“I do think at a certain point you’ve made enough money,” scumbag/liar-nObama pontificated in 2010.

Well, apparently he thinks that he hasn’t made enough money yet. And evidently he thinks that he must have done enough to address rising sea levels with executive orders about building codes and massive power grabs by the EPA. Because scumbag/liar-nObama took the millions of dollars he and Michelle have raked in since he left the Oval Office two years ago and bought a $15 million mansion on Martha’s Vineyard — right on the ocean. (And that’s after spending $8 million on a home in DC.) The pair is now worth an estimate $135 million, so why not?

Call us crazy, but it’s almost as if scumbag/liar-nObama doesn’t believe the alarmist rhetoric about global warming. Nor does he buy the class-warfare tripe he peddled throughout his public life.

In truth, the scumbag/liar-nObamas have always been hypocrites about money, living the lifestyle of the rich and famous while in the White House. And ecofascists generally are hypocrites about warming. If it’s not scumbag/liar-nObama’s oceanfront manor, it’s the astounding carbon footprint of scumbag-Al Gore’s mansion in Tennessee or liar-Leonardo DiCaprio’s frequent flyer miles around the globe.

In other words, scumbag/liar-nObama’s gross hypocrisy isn’t exactly news, but that doesn’t make it any less appalling or obnoxious.

~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/65057?mailing_id=4492&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4492&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

Wed/Med AM ~ thefrontpagecover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on August 28, 2019 at 9:13am

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

ISIS Is Not Dead

Political Editors

Wednesday Top News Executive Summary

Media Editors: GOD & COUNTRY SLUMPS: What are the consequences of a culture increasingly devoid of principles and spiritual meaning? The Wall Street Journal reveals the ominous corollaries: “The values that Americans say define the national character are changing, as younger generations rate patriotism, religion and having children as less important to them than did young people two decades ago, a new Wall Street Journal/NBC News survey finds.” The rate reductions range from nine to 16 percentage points. The Daily Wire’s Ben Shapiro deduces, “If you get rid of patriotism … get rid of religion … and then you get rid of even a care for the future … the question becomes: What exactly are the ties that are supposed to bind us together other than watching the Super Bowl on TV once a year?”

COLLEGE QUID PRO QUO: “The company that administers the SAT college admissions test is replacing the so-called adversity score with a tool that will no longer reduce an applicant’s background to a single number, an idea that the College Board’s chief executive now says was a mistake,” according to Time magazine, which goes on to explain that “the revised tool will provide a series of data points from government sources and the College Board that are seen as affecting education.” Dropping the adversity score is good. But replacing it with yet another affirmative-action tool is still beyond the scope of what the College Board’s role should be.

ANNALS OF THE ABSURD: “A federal appeals court has ruled that Idaho must pay for a transgender inmate’s surgery,” reports The Daily Caller. “Thirty-one-year-old Adree Edmo is a convicted sex offender who is scheduled to be released from jail in 2021. The sex offender was diagnosed with gender dysmorphia in 2012, identifies as a woman, and is currently housed in a men’s prison.” According to Edmo’s attorney, “They treat a prisoner with diabetes, or other chronic conditions. So, we have a medically recognized condition that’s very treatable and we have been trying to get her [sic] the treatment that she [sic] very much needs.” In other words, you will be made to care.

ABORTION RESTRICTIONS BLOCKED: “A federal judge on Tuesday temporarily blocked a Missouri law banning abortions after eight weeks, one of the most restrictive proposals nationwide. … ‘The various sections specifying prohibitions on abortions at various weeks prior to viability cannot be allowed to go into effect on August 28, as scheduled,’ U.S. District Judge Howard Sachs, a Carter appointee, wrote in an 11-page opinion. … Sachs wrote in his ruling that the law conflicts with Supreme Court precedent, which said that states could not interfere with a woman’s right to abortion until a fetus is viable after 24 weeks of pregnancy.” (The Hill)

Business & Economy

NEW SECURITIES LEADER: According to CNSNews.com’s Terence Jeffrey, “Entities in Japan have surpassed entities in Mainland China as the top foreign holders of U.S. Treasury securities, according to the latest estimate published this month by the Treasury.” As of June, Japan owned $1,122,900,000,000 in Treasury securities, which is slightly higher than China’s $1,112,500,000,000. “That marked the first time since May 2017 that entities in Japan have owned more U.S. Treasury securities … than entities in China,” Jeffrey notes. Better an ally than an enemy.

SEEING THE WRITING ON THE WALL: “The maker of OxyContin, Purdue Pharma, and its owners, the Sackler family, are offering to settle more than 2,000 lawsuits against the company for $10 billion to $12 billion,” NBC News reports. The timing isn’t coincidental. On Monday, Johnson & Johnson was ordered to pay $572 million over its role in the opioid epidemic.

National Security

IMMIGRATION UPDATE: Twenty miles of new border barriers were authorized this week by Defense Secretary Mark Esper, according to The Hill. “The Army Corps of Engineers determined that lower-than-expected contract costs could allow for another 20 miles of barrier.” Meanwhile, The Washington Free Beacon reports, “Thousands of would-be illegal immigrants are being returned to await asylum hearings in Mexico as part of a program the Trump administration has credited with curbing the recent wave of family migration at the southwestern border.”

RUSSIA’S HARD FEELINGS: “Republican and Democratic U.S. senators said Russia refused to grant them visas for a visit to Moscow next week, amid disagreement within Washington and among U.S. allies over whether the country should be readmitted to the Group of Seven,” Reuters reveals. The two senators are Chris Murphy and Ron Johnson, both of whom sit on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Murphy and Johnson also support levying sanctions on Russia.

Other Notables

SCALIA NOMINATED: “President Trump on Tuesday officially tapped Eugene Scalia, son of the late Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia, to be his administration’s next secretary of labor. The president forecast his nomination of Scalia last month, just days after Secretary of Labor Alexander Acosta resigned amid criticism of his kid-gloved handling of Florida prostitution charges against the late billionaire Jeffrey Epstein.” (National Review)

TFCC SINKS: CNSNews.com reports that the U.S. Navy’s Task Force Climate Change (TFCC) was surreptitiously shuttered in March. The decade-old TFCC was a pet project of Barack scumbag/liar-nObama tasked with gauging “how climate change affects or could affect Naval and national security operations.” Retired Navy Rear Admiral Jon White, a former TFCC director, groused, “It all goes back to the White House.” Yes it does. Because the Trump administration wants to focus on actual military readiness.

Closing Arguments

POLICY: The racist origins of minimum-wage laws (Foundation for Economic Education)

POLICY: Why climate action flopped at the G7 summit (National Review)

HUMOR: CNN apologizes to Stalin and Mao after comparing them to Trump (The Babylon Bee)

~The Patriot Post
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Hezbollah and Lebanese Allies

are Building a Case for War

By SETH J. FRANTZMAN

{ jpost.com } ~ Hezbollah and its allies are building a case for war and Lebanon’s media and other officials are fueling the tensions with assertions that drones that crashed in Beirut carried bombs... Whether or not the drones carried C4 explosives or that their aim was to carry out a bombing or target an individual is not particularly important because what matters is the calculations going on beneath the surface in Lebanon. Lebanon’s President Michel Aoun by inferring that the incident marks a kind of “declaration of war” ups the rhetoric and the chances that a green light has been given to Hezbollah to retaliate. The main issue Hezbollah has faced in the past, since Israel’s withdrawal in 2000, is to try to create a legitimate reason for maintaining a massive armed group within a functioning state. It has been able to keep its arsenal, not only because no one can disarm it, but also through claiming it is part of a “resistance” that “defends” Lebanon. As such it claimed after 2000 that it must recover the “Sheba farms” or “Mount Dov” area on the border, a disputed territory with Israel and Syria. Suddenly, a tiny area became the reason for Hezbollah’s existence. This was all a veneer for the real reason of Hezbollah’s existence, which is that as an Iranian proxy and ally which wants the group to continue stockpiling its weapons and building up its infrastructure along Israel’s border to threaten Israel. Hezbollah doesn’t keep secret its regional ambitions. It fought in the Syrian civil war, it has contact with Shi’ite militias in Iraq, it talks about the Houthis in Yemen as if they are a part of its strategy. It shows images of Al-Aqsa as if it is the main champion of the Palestinian case against US President Donald Trump’s Deal of the Century. At every juncture its role is regional and global. Two small drones, one of which apparently caught on video was far from clandestine, sounding more like a flying washing machine on spin cycle, are merely Hezbollah’s icing on the cake justifying its “right” to respond. This is lip service because Israel uncovered Hezbollah tunnels in December 2018 which showed Hezbollah as having violated the 2006 UN Resolution 1701. So, Aoun says that the drone incident also violates the resolution. This is to create a legal pretext and cover should hostilities begin. Hezbollah and its allies in Lebanon, including President Aoun, are thus already creating the context for the post-war scenario. Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri, whose father Prime Minister Rafik Hariri was murdered in an assassination likely carried out with Hezbollah’s aid, has seemingly forgotten about the 2005 tragedy. He, too, has condemned Israel but hedged his bets by arguing that it is not in the interest of Lebanon to spiral into a dangerous escalation. He hopes that friends in Washington, or Riyadh, can calm things down. The Lebanese Parliament speaker Nabih Berri, has also spoken with the Kuwaitis and condemned the “Israeli aggression.” Berri is a Shi’ite from the Amal movement. Is this just a lot of posturing designed by Hezbollah to test the Israeli alertness? Hassan Nasralla recalls the last war and he knows what Hezbollah will face...

https://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Hezbollah-and-Lebanese-allies-are-building-a-case-for-war-analysis-599827

The Syria-Turkey Clash

by Joseph Puder

{ frontpagemag.com } ~ As if the civil war in Syria has not witnessed enough conflict and bloodshed, a new element has crept into the ongoing drama... Last week, Turkey dispatched a convoy to Northern Syria to aid the Sunni Islamist rebels holed up in the Idlib province, which has been under attack by Assad regime forces and Russian airpower. The convoy, which carried ammunition, and other military hardware was bombed by the Assad forces, with some casualties inflicted on the Turkish convoy. The Sunni Muslim rebel force – Gabhat al-Nusra (The Nusra Front), which is an affiliate of al-Qaida, has been actively counter-attacking the Assad forces. Turkey's primary agent in Syria is, however, the Free Syrian Army (FSA). The conflicting interests of Syria and Turkey could lead to a shooting war between the two dictators. The Syrian dictator, Bashar el-Assad, seeks to consolidate his hold on all former Syrian territory, and especially the northwestern region of Syria, which is the home ground of the Alawite sect (sub-sect of Shiite Islam). The region has been the Assad family power base, which Bashar Assad wants to secure at all costs. Given the revenge sought by the majority of the Sunni-Muslim Syrians, who have been the primary victims of the Assad's Alawites, the northwest region is intended to be their refuge. With southwestern Syria now secured by the regime, and the country's center as well, Idlib province remains a significant challenge for Assad. Of course, he and his Iranian allies have not yet subdued the northeastern portion of Syria, which is being held by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) a primarily Kurdish force, that is allied with the U.S. and other western states (primarily Britain and France). The SDF has been the major contributor to expelling the Islamic State or ISIS from its capital of Raqqa, and the wider region. The Turkish dictator, Recep Tayyip Erdogan's involvement in Syria is grounded on two principles. First, Erdogan has positioned Turkey as the protector of Sunni-Muslims. As he aspires to become the leader of the Sunni world, and being a leading supporter of the Muslim Brotherhood, he is compelled to show support for the besieged Sunni-Muslim Arabs, and Turkmen rebels. Both his domestic constituency and the larger Sunni world expect Erdogan to defend the Sunni's in Syria. The other, more important principle is Ankara's fear of Kurdish self-determination in Syria. The Kurds are now in control of a large portion of northeastern Syria, which is their natural homeland with its capital, Qamishli. An arbitrary border separating the large Kurdish population in southeastern Turkey from their brethren in northeast Syria has made the Turks nervous. Erdogan fears the creation of the Kurdish self-rule in Syria and envisions Turkey's Kurds flocking to it, resulting in an eventual Kurdish state that might swallow a portion of southeastern Turkey. Ankara, along with Tehran, both having large Kurdish populations, seek to deny the Kurds their self-determination. In January 2018, Erdogan's Turkish military attacked the Kurds in Afrin, which was previously controlled by the Kurds. Erdogan has threatened to invade northeastern Syria and destroy the Kurdish Peoples Protection Units (YPG). Ankara has accused the YPG of being terrorists and allegedly supporting the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in Turkey. The PKK has been designated as a terrorist organization. Yet, the hypocritical Erdogan supports the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas and has provided these terrorists with offices in Turkey. Erdogan is determined to prevent the YPG-Kurdish-led SDF from forming territorial contiguity along the Turkish border in northern Syria. This is the ostensible reason that Erdogan has moved Turkish troops to the region. Naturally, Assad opposes the Turkish incursion into sovereign Syrian territory... https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/274737/syria-turkey-clash-joseph-puder

Netanyahu warns Hezbollah, Lebanon to

calm down, be careful amid attack fears

by timesofisrael.com ~ Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Hezbollah terror chief Hassan Nasrallah to “calm down” Tuesday... as Israel braced for a possible retaliation from the Lebanese group in the north despite reported efforts by the US to cool tensions between Beirut and Jerusalem. “I heard Nasrallah’s speech. I suggest he calm down,” Netanyahu said at a ceremony in Jerusalem. In a fiery speech Sunday, Nasrallah vowed to exact revenge on the Jewish state following an Israeli strike against a weapons storage facility in Syria on Saturday night that left Hezbollah fighters dead. Israel has also been blamed for the apparent explosion or crash of two drones in a Hezbollah-controlled area of Beirut and an air raid on a Palestinian camp deep inside Lebanon. Israel said the strike inside Syria had thwarted a plot by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps to launch explosives-laden drones into Israel, overseen by powerful Iranian general Qassem Soleimani, who heads the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps’s expeditionary Quds Force. “Nasrallah knows full well that Israel knows how to defend itself well and pay back its enemies in kind. I want to tell him and Lebanon, which hosts this organization that is trying to destroy us, and I say this to Qassem Soleimani: Be careful what you say and be more careful what you do.”...

https://www.timesofisrael.com/netanyahu-warns-hezbollah-lebanon-to-calm-down-be-careful-amid-attack-fears/?utm_source=The+Daily+Edition&utm_campaign=daily-edition-2019-08-27&utm_medium=email

A Look at Homelessness in Democrat-run Cities

by libertyplanet.com ~ People in major West Coast cities are feeling the full brunt of Democratic policy failures as homelessness skyrockets... Reports coming out of Democrat-run cities such as Seattle, Los Angeles, and San Francisco, among others, indicate the number of homeless people has escalated to crisis levels. The uptick in homelessness in these and other liberal strongholds shows no sign of slowing as Democratic leaders push policies that promote high taxes, drug addiction, and give taxpayer-funded benefits to illegal immigrants that could be put to work for fellow Americans. Reports coming out of media resources such as Seattle’s City-Journal have been highlighting the suffering for years. “The Emerald City has seen an explosion of homelessness, crime, and addiction. In its 2017 point-in-time count of the homeless, King County social-services agency All Home found 11,643 people sleeping in tents, cars, and emergency shelters,” Seattle’s City-Journal reported. “Property crime has risen to a rate two and a half times higher than Los Angeles’s and four times higher than New York City’s. Cleanup crews pick up tens of thousands of dirty needles from city streets and parks every year.” Seattle reportedly spends upwards of $1 billion annually dealing with its homeless crisis. That figure equals approximately $100,000 for every reported street-person in the city limits. The math on that vast sum to combat homelessness appears grossly disproportionate. Just handing these struggle individuals that money would amount to a good salary. Democrats again appear to be squandering resources. In San Francisco, where Democratic leaders proclaimed they were a “sanctuary city,” recent homelessness statistics have jumped off the charts. Since 2017, the number of people living on the streets rose by a stunning 17 percent. But what is even more troubling are reports Democratic officials have changed the way homeless statistics are counted. Had the recent information been calculated in the same fashion as the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development standard used in 2017, the data could have been as high as 30 percent. But misleading statistics have not curbed the sentiments of residents or visitors.... https://www.libertyplanet.com/articles/a-look-at-homelessness-in-democrat-run-cities/

Knight of Forced Labor

by Steven Malanga

{ city-journal.org } ~ Earlier this year, commie-Bernie Sanders’s presidential campaign boasted that a deal it cut with its workers to form a union demonstrated a commitment to worker rights... Relations quickly got sticky, however, when the workers complained that they were receiving “poverty wages,” below $15 per hour. Now commie-Sanders, seeking to regain some momentum for his campaign among unionized workers, has released what he calls a comprehensive plan to revive America’s labor movement. It’s a bold agenda, with recommendations to roll back portions of labor law dating back 60 years, impose new restraints on employers, and limit workers’ ability to opt out of union membership—despite polls showing that most Americans believe workers deserve that option. The goal, commie-Sanders says, is to double union ranks, which would mean adding nearly 15 million new members. commie-Sanders proposes to institute “card check,” the process by which unions can organize a worksite just by getting a majority of workers to sign a card saying that they want a union. The last time that Democrats controlled both the White House and Congress, they failed in that effort. Nevertheless, he is trying to resurrect the idea, saying that it would simplify the process of unionizing, which now requires that workers sign a card to authorize a secret-ballot vote on whether to unionize. Critics note that since card-check campaigns are public, workers can be intimidated into signing, which is why secret ballots should remain a key feature of unionization efforts. Indeed, the Supreme Court, in NLRB v. Gissel Packing, described authorization cards as “inherently unreliable” because of a “natural inclination of most people to avoid stands which appear to be nonconformist and antagonistic to friends and fellow employees.” Democrats express support for card check—but only when there isn’t a chance of passing it. A Democrat-controlled House passed card-check legislation in 2007, when members knew that then-president George Bush would veto the legislation if it reached his desk. But when President scumbag/liar-nObama took office in 2009 and Democrats controlled both houses of Congress, key legislators backed off their support, effectively killing any chance at passing the legislation. Today, a union can use card check to win the right to represent employees at a workplace only if the employer agrees to the process. commie-Sanders thinks he can finally persuade Congress to make the process mandatory everywhere. commie-Sanders wants to roll back the right-to-work provisions of the 1947 Taft-Hartley Act. Though a Republican-controlled Congress passed the legislation, which allows states to enact labor laws letting employees opt out of joining unions and still retain their jobs, a significant number of Democratic legislators helped override President Truman’s veto of the legislation. Right-to-work has become increasingly popular and accepted, with 71 percent of Americans saying that a worker shouldn’t be forced to join a union that organizes his or her workplace. Since 2012, five states have passed right-to-work laws, making a total of 28 states that now let workers opt out of unions. commie-Sanders would need Congress to invalidate those laws...

https://www.city-journal.org/bernie-sanders-union-proposals?utm_source=City+Journal+Update&utm_campaign=d36767ccfd-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_08_27_01_48&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_6c08930f2b-d36767ccfd-109328273

ISIS Is Not Dead

Political Editors: A suicide bomber blew up a wedding in Kabul, Afghanistan, killing 63 people last weekend. The Islamic State claimed credit soon after the attack. “The militant group lost its self-proclaimed caliphate in Iraq and Syria earlier this year,” The Washington Post reports. “But the bombing showed that the Islamic State remains a potent force beyond the borders it once claimed and fixed a glare on one of its lesser known but growing affiliates: the Islamic State in Khorasan, as the Afghanistan branch is known.” Exactly as we warned in March.

But Afghanistan is not the only place where ISIS is once again seeking to regain regional power. Syria and Iraq remain in the crosshairs. As The New York Times notes, “The Islamic State can still tap a large war chest of as much as $400 million, which has been hidden in either Iraq and Syria or smuggled into neighboring countries for safekeeping. It is also believed to have invested in businesses, including fish farming, car dealing and cannabis growing. And ISIS uses extortion to finance clandestine operations: Farmers in northern Iraq who refuse to pay have had their crops burned to the ground.”

Earlier this year, President Donald Trump declared that ISIS had been defeated and its caliphate destroyed, and it was. However, ISIS’s defeat geographically does not mean that all the members of the terrorist movement are dead. Clearly, like any criminal organization, if the good guys aren’t there to vigilantly police and address any criminal actions, then those groups will inevitably grow. Barack scumbag/liar-nObama infamously shrugged off ISIS as the “JV team” only to have it practically take control of half of Iraq, spreading its terroristic rule over 12 million people. Trump would be wise to act carefully in drawing down U.S. troops so as to prevent a repeat of scumbag/liar-nObama’s folly.

~The Patriot Post

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Wednesday AM ~ thefrontpagecover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on August 28, 2019 at 7:12am

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

Student Debt — Cost vs. Value

Robin Smith

This Nomination Is The Next Big Battleground

For The Federal Courts

by KEVIN DALEY

{ dailycaller.com } ~ Steven Menashi’s nomination for the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is the latest touchstone in the judicial confirmation wars... Liberal commentators and activist groups are accusing Menashi of advancing extremist positions in the Trump administration and as an academic, while his conservative supporters say Democrats are warping his views. The 2nd Circuit is the federal appeals court that covers Connecticut, New York, and Vermont.“These are the same types of smears the Democrats have thrown at several highly qualified people nominated by the president to serve as federal judges including Amy Coney Barrett, Neomi Rao, Brian Buescher, Ken Lee and, of course, with Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh — all of whom were confirmed,” said Judicial Crisis Network (JCN) chief counsel Carrie Severino. CNN published a review of opinion columns Menashi wrote as a college student and young professional Thursday, highlighting pieces critical of campus feminism, gay-rights organizations, and Islamic societies. Writing for an American Enterprise Institute publication in 2000, Menashi accused college administrators of hypocrisy for opposing the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy for gay soldiers while supporting separate campus housing for LGBT students. In another column during the same period, Menashi said “Take Back the Night” marches, which promote awareness about sexual misconduct, are wrong to implicate men generally in rape or other forms of assault...

https://dailycaller.com/2019/08/26/steven-menashi-judicial-nominee/?utm_source=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=9839

Iran Prepares To Sanction Top Trump

Administration Officials Mnuchin, Bolton,

And Sen. Cruz

by ADELLE NAZARIAN

{ dailycaller.com } ~ Iran’s parliament is preparing a bill to sanction top Trump administration officials and their supporters in Congress for what regime officials described as “their long animosity towards Iran.”... According to the Iranian government’s semi-official Fars News Agency, the sanctions will permanently bar U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton, U.S. Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and their families from ever entering Iran, prevent them from engaging in talks with Iranian government officials, and precludes them from conducting business with any Iranian entity or officials. “The bill calls for lifetime bans on U.S. National Security Adviser John R. Bolton, U.S. Secretary of Treasury Steven Mnuchin, and American senator Ted Cruz and their family members’ traveling to Iran, in a reaction to Washington’s embargos on Iranian officials, and these figures’ strong hostile measures against Iran in the past few years,” Fars News reported. Sen. Cruz, through a spokesperson, indicated the sanctions against him change nothing in the way he has and will continue to operate with regard to the Islamic Republic. “Senator Cruz already avoids travel to terrorist regimes that take American citizens hostage and want to use nuclear weapons to attack American cities. He urges all Americans to do the same, especially since interacting with Iran’s economy in any way carries significant sanctions risk, including some sanctions that he’s personally helped author and more that he intends to introduce in the near future,” his spokesperson told the Free Beacon. Meanwhile, a U.S. official who works on Iran issues reportedly told the Beacon that the decision to include Mnuchin in the sanctions was ridiculous and indicates Iran’s failure to comprehend basic international diplomacy and America’s political system. Cruz has accused Mnuchin and several top Trump officials at the Treasury Department and State Department of working behind the scenes to preserve the scumbag/liar-nObama-era Iran nuclear deal...

https://dailycaller.com/2019/08/26/iran-sanctions-steve-mnuchin-john-bolton-ted-cruz/?utm_source=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=9839

Iran Just Told Its 'Security Apparatuses,'

AKA Terrorists, to Go After an American

Think Tank in Washington D.C.

by Katie Pavlich

{ townhall.com } ~ Just as Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif was attending the G7 Summit as a surprise guest of French President Emmanuel Macron over the weekend... he issued a fatwah against the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, an American think tank based in Washington, D.C. "The Foreign Ministry has announced the sanctions on the FDD and its CEO based on a law titled 'Countering America’s Human Rights Violation and Adventurous and Terrorist Actions' passed by the Iranian Parliament in 2017," MEHR News Agency reported over the weekend. "Accordingly, taking any actions by the judicial and security apparatuses against the FDD and their Iranian and non-Iranian accomplices will be considered legitimate as their actions are against the Iran’s national security and the interests of Iranian people and government." Iran is calling their action against FDD "sanctions," but as the think tank notes, the instruction to "security apparatuses" is a direct safety threat against its CEO, members and employees. “FDD conducts independent research and analysis on national security issues. The Islamic Republic prohibits such freedoms at home, and would like to do so abroad as well. The Islamic Republic, which has occupied the great nation of Iran for four decades, continues to brutally repress the peoples of Iran, stealing their wealth and creating destruction and chaos in the Middle East," CEO Mark Dubowitz said in a released statement. "FDD considers its inclusion on any list put out by the regime as a badge of honor and looks forward to the day when Americans and others can visit a free and democratic Iran.”...

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2019/08/26/iran-just-told-its-security-apparatus-aka-terrorist-to-go-after-an-american-think-tank-in-washington-dc-n2552201?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=08/27/2019&bcid=7220442bc3498cb5e2d68f3cb4d11680&recip=18305623

Left Stoops to Cherry Picking Bible,

Constitution to Justify Socialism

by Cameron Cawthorne

{ freebeacon.com } ~ A speaker at the Democratic National Committee summer meeting Friday said if free health care is labeled "socialism" by Republicans... then they should "acknowledge that the Bible must then promote socialism." "When we embrace moral language, we must ask does our policy care for the least of these? Does it lift up those who are most marginalized and dejected in our society? Does it establish justice? That is the moral question," said Rev. William Barber, who has spoken at several DNC meetings. "If someone calls it socialism, then we must compel them to acknowledge that the Bible must then promote socialism, because Jesus offered free health care to everyone, and he never charged a leper a co-pay." DNC chair Tom Perez and others in audience gave a standing ovation before Barber took a shot at Republicans, saying, "If you want to have a moral debate, bring it on, baby." "The Bible says a nation will be judged by how it treats the poor and the sick and women and the immigrants," Barber said. "The Bible says that God makes it rain on the just and unjust alike. If you want to call caring for folks socialism, then the Constitution is a socialist document because it calls us to promote the general welfare and to establish justice." Health care has been a major issue during the Democratic presidential primary. Several major candidates have endorsed a single-payer vision of "Medicare for all" that eliminates private health insurance, while others, like former Vice President loose lips liar-Joe Biden, have called for bolstering scumbag/liar-nObamacare and providing a "public option." Sen. lowlife-Kamala Harris (D., Calif.), one of the top five Democratic candidates in the primary, backtracked on Sen. commie-Bernie Sanders's (I., Vt.) single-payer plan, saying, "I have not been comfortable with commie-Bernie's plan" after she previously endorsed and cosponsored it, the Washington Free Beacon reported. commie-Sanders, a self-proclaimed democratic socialist, has received scrutiny for his policy proposals. loose lips liar-Biden attacked commie-Sanders in June, saying socialism is not necessary and even counterproductive. "It doesn't require socialism, and it doesn’t require some fundamental shift. It requires sort of reordering capitalism to make capitalism work and save it," loose lips liar-Biden said... https://freebeacon.com/politics/dnc-speaker-socialism-endorsed-by-constitution-bible/

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

Japan Surpasses China as Top

Foreign Holder of U.S. Debt

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By Terence P. Jeffrey

{ cnsnews.com } ~ Entities in Japan have surpassed entities in Mainland China as the top foreign holders of U.S. Treasury securities... according to the latest estimate published this month by the Treasury. In May of this year, the Chinese owned $1,110,200,000,000 in U.S Treasury securities and the Japanese owned $1,101,000,000,000. In June, however, Chinese ownership of U.S. Treasury securities rose only to $1,112,500,000,000 and Japanese ownership climbed to $1,122,900,000,000. That marked the first time since May 2017 that entities in Japan have owned more U.S. Treasury securities, as estimated by the U.S. Treasury, than entities in China. In May 2017, the Japanese owned $1,111,500,000,000 in U.S. Treasury securities and the Chinese owned $1,102,200,000,000. In June 2017, Chinese ownership of U.S. Treasury securities increased to $1,146,500,000,000 and Japanese ownership declined to $1,090,300,000.000. Chinese ownership of U.S. Treasury securities, according to the estimates, peaked in November 2013 at $1,316,700,000,000. The $1,112,500,000,000 level it hit in June was $204,200,000,000 below that peak. The Federal Reserve owns more U.S. Treasury securities than either Japan or China. As of June 27, according to the Federal Reserve's balance statement, the Federal Reserve owned $2,110,256,000,000 in Treasury securities. U.S. Treasury securities held by entities in Hong Kong are counted separately from those in Mainland China. According to the Treasury’s estimate, entities in Hong Kong owned $215,600,000,000 in U.S. Treasury securities in June... https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/terence-p-jeffrey/japan-surpasses-china-top-foreign-holder-us-debt

Student Debt — Cost vs. Value

Robin Smith: What a mess! We’ve got Democrat candidates for president promising some government-funded program (remember, government has NO money other than the money it takes from its working citizens) will pay for all the college debt owed to colleges and universities while tuition prices rise and the practice of activism replaces academics in too many of the campuses conferring degrees to the newly entitled, pretentious crowd they’ve crafted.

Once upon a time, the value assigned to higher education — specifically at four-year colleges and universities — was on an ascending trajectory. Not so any longer. Between the rising costs of obtaining degrees, many of which come with very dim prospects for employment, and the proven indoctrination that is epidemic on the campuses of many institutions of higher learner, the reputation and worth of a college degree has taken a hit of late. So says the Pew Research Center’s latest survey.

Released last week, the report showed that only half of those surveyed viewed colleges and universities as having a positive impact on our country, down 10 points from seven years ago. Meanwhile, almost 40% deemed higher education as having a negative impact, an increase of 12 percentage points over that same window of time.

In both the Pew and a separate Gallup study, costs and indoctrination are cited as the driving factors devaluing institutions, yet, the value of a functional degree remains high. A full 91% surveyed in a 2018 Pew publication identified that a college degree is important or essential in the success of the younger generation. But America has at least one generation of college-educated individuals, carrying degrees like gender or interdisciplinary studies with little pay or functional value or they’ve been instructed that being malcontented Millennials is acceptable and, oh, by the way, we’re going to pay off your school debt.

The forgiveness of school debt is one of the key drivers of the Democrats’ platform. A great deal of focus is on their primary corral of candidates and, while “free stuff” is grossly irresponsible, it’s also appealing to their demographics.

The magnitude of that promise is astonishing. According to Credit.com, as of June 2019, there’s $1.52 trillion in unpaid student debt. Loans have been taken under the premise that these men and women would exit the college classroom prepared for employment, create wealth, and repay the institutions of lending for services provided.

Elizabeth dinky-Warren wants elimination of this debt through some redistribution scheme of taking from those who have money to pay for the debt of others who have less. Essentially, she’s saying let’s just print some more money and borrow another trillion or so from China — or whatever her conjured up logic is to deal with the debt held by 45 million student borrowers.

Please remember that the famed minority-wanna-be-dinky-Warren enjoyed favored status as a “Native American” while on faculty of Harvard, which charges between $47,000 to almost $68,000 annually for tuition, and is the driving force behind easing the access to loaned money and now wants all who hold the debt to walk away from their responsibilities. Both she and commie-Bernie Sanders are unashamedly luring our next generation into the lie of socialism and government dependency.

As government subsidies increase for the purpose of defraying the burden on students and parents attempting to pay for college, it makes a market distortion. Prices charged by colleges and universities are not forced to reflect consumer ability to pay or demand for a range pricing. With subsidies, institutions of higher learning can also be institutions with ever-increasing costs that reflect a subsidized market.

The 2018-2019 average tuition for college is $21,370. That’s an 145% in tuition costs compared to 1971 prices while wages have increased only 28% over that same window of time. Bottom line, the easier it’s been to borrow money and obtain educational funding subsidies, the higher costs have risen on campus.

Just like it sounded good to give easy access to loans for mortgages in the mid-2000s but the ability for individuals to repay that debt was removed, and now in the student-loan arrangement, creating a crisis, not from any free market force but because of a manufactured scenario that was logically unmanageable.

As dinky-Warren predicts a crisis of student debt, she helped create it — just as the mortgage market failures were created by a government interference that, while rooted in good intentions, constructed a situation that had a predictably poor outcome.

We’re learning that education has a value, but its costs are inflated by government interference. Wise up. ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/65050?mailing_id=4492&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4492&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

Tuesday PM ~ thefrontpagecover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on August 27, 2019 at 4:08pm

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

Distorting the Doctor-Patient Relationship

Arnold Ahlert

ICE Spotlights Releases of Criminal Aliens

as Governor Defends Sanctuary Policies

by Fred Lucas

{ dailysignal.com } ~ An illegal immigrant from Honduras returned to the U.S. sometime after being deported in 2006. The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department in North Carolina arrested the man in June on a charge of first-degree rape and two counts of taking indecent liberties with a child... One day after the arrest of Oscar Pacheco-Leonardo, 33, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement issued a detainer asking the Mecklenburg County Sheriff’s Office to hold the illegal immigrant. The sheriff’s office not only refused to honor the detainer, it released Pacheco-Leonardo from custody without notifying ICE, the federal agency says. The incident marked one of numerous times that the sheriff’s office opted to release a dangerous criminal rather than cooperate with ICE, according to the immigration agency, which released a lengthy list of examples this month. The case of the Honduran man was the most recent of several that prompted North Carolina’s Republican-controlled state Legislature to pass a bill requiring local sheriffs to honor ICE detainers. Gov. Roy Cooper, a Democrat, vetoed the bill last week, days after ICE agents captured Pacheco-Leonardo on their own. “North Carolina Governor Cooper Vetoed a Bill that would have required Sheriffs to cooperate with Ice [sic],” Trump tweeted. “This is a terrible decision for the great people of North Carolina. He should reverse his decision and get back to the basics of fighting crime!” Cooper said the legislation, House Bill 370, would drain resources from local law enforcement. However, that’s not the view of most of the state’s sheriffs... NC made a big mistake in electing Cooper, will they correct their mistake.

https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/08/26/ice-spotlights-releases-of-criminal-aliens-as-governor-defends-sanctuary-policies/?

Backgrounder: The Islamic

Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC)

by Gary C. Gambill

{ meforum.org } ~ Nearly all of Iran's headline-grabbing provocations in the last few months, from sabotaging and seizing oil tankers to drone attacks on Saudi pipelines... are the work not of its traditional military service branches, but of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). This shadowy paramilitary institution was established by the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini with the constitutional mandate of "guarding" the 1979 revolution that gave rise to Iran's Islamic Republic from enemies at home and abroad. It has been extraordinarily effective in both stamping out internal dissent and battling external adversaries. The roughly 125,000-strong IRGC grew out of the protection forces that guarded Khomeini and other senior clerics who distrusted military and police bodies inherited from the Shah in the early days of the revolution. It soon moved on to assassinating opponents of the nascent Islamic republic, violently enforcing its strict social codes, and muscling its way into every corner of Iranian society. Its volunteer paramilitary militia, the Basij (Nirou-ye Moqavemat-e Basij, Mobilization Resistance Force), infamous in the West for organizing human wave attacks during the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq war, has millions of members. The university branch of the Basij, the Student Basij Organization (SBO), has played a critical role in monitoring and suppressing anti-government dissent among students, as shown by Middle East Quarterly author Saeid Golkar, an assistant professor of political science at the University of Tennessee-Chattanooga. It was instrumental in suppressing the massive nation-wide protests that erupted following Iran's 2009 presidential election. Unlike Iran's traditional military and police, the IRGC does not answer to elected Iranian leaders and has frequently stirred opposition to their policies. But the wishful assumption of many Westerners that the IRGC is a "rogue" institution the antidote to which is invariably engagement with elected "moderates" is false. "The group has seldom engaged in activities not sanctioned by the Iranian leadership," concludes Middle East Quarterly author Michael Rubin, a resident scholar of the American Enterprise Institute. Answering directly, without intermediaries, to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, it is the purest expression of the Islamic Republic's authority...

https://www.meforum.org/59206/backgrounder-islamic-revolutionary-guard-corps?utm_source=Middle+East+Forum&utm_campaign=92a7d8c2b5-MEF_gambill_2019_08_27_03_15&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_086cfd423c-92a7d8c2b5-33703665&goal=0_086cfd423c-92a7d8c2b5-33703665

High Alert in Northern Israel

by israeltoday.co.il ~ The Israel Defense Force’s Northern Command has mobilized in preparation for an expected attack by the Lebanese terrorist militia Hezbollah after the group’s leader, Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah... publicly accused Israel of carrying out a drone strike in Beirut on Sunday. Nasrallah threatened retaliation, and warned that no Israeli should feel safe, even those living in the densely-populated central regions of the Jewish state. According to Hezbollah, two drones that crashed in the Lebanese capital of Beirut earlier this week were sent by Israel, and were loaded with explosives. In Israel, the threat is being taken very seriously. Additional Iron Dome batteries are being deployed to the area, and patrols of the border are being beefed up to prevent a successful terrorist ambush. Nasrallah has followed through on such threats in the past, such as in January of 2015, when Hezbollah ambushed a military patrol on the border and killed two Israeli soldiers in response to an IDF air strike on a Hezbollah convoy in Syria. IDF officials issued a counter-warning that any Hezbollah attack would be met with a “disproportionate” Israeli response.

https://www.israeltoday.co.il/read/high-alert-in-northern-israel/

How The Media Enables Destructive

Climate Change Hysteria

By David Harsanyi

{ thefederalist.com } ~ Last weekend, the former chairman of psychiatry at Duke University, Dr. Allen Frances, claimed that Donald Trump “may be responsible for many more million deaths” than Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, and Mao Zedong combined... Frances, author of the fittingly titled “Twilight of American Sanity,” would later clarify by tweeting that he was talking about the “terrible damage Trump is doing to world climate at this global warming tipping point may be irreversable/ could kill hundreds of millions of people in the coming decades.” That’s quite the bold statement, considering the hefty death toll the Big Three extracted. But, really, it isn’t that shocking to hear. Frances’ pseudohistoric twaddle comports well with the pseudoscientific twaddle that’s been normalized in political discourse. Every year Democrats ratchet up the doomsday scenarios, so we should expect related political rhetoric to become correspondingly unhinged. All of this is a manifestation of 50 years of scaremongering on climate change. Paul Ehrlich famously promised that “hundreds of millions of people” would “starve to death,” while in the real world we saw hunger precipitously drop, and the world become increasingly cleaner. Yet, neo-Malthusians keep coming back with fresh iterations of the same hysteria, ignoring mankind’s ability to adapt. At a 2005 London conference of “concerned climate scientists and politicians” that helped launch contemporary climate rhetoric, attendees warned that the world had as little as 10 years before the Earth reached “the point of no return on global warming.” Humans, they claimed, would soon be grappling with “widespread agricultural failure,” “major droughts,” “increased disease,” “the death of forests,” and the “switching-off of the North Atlantic Gulf Stream,” among many other calamities. Since then, the Earth has gotten greener. This year, for the first time since we began logging data in 2000, there were no “extreme” or “exceptional” droughts across the contiguous United States—although we’ve come close to zero on numerous occasions over the past decade. Every time there’s a drought anywhere in the world, climate change will be blamed. But world crop yields continue to ensure that fewer people are hungry than ever. I’m not a scientist, but I assume the North Atlantic Gulf Stream is still with us...

https://thefederalist.com/2019/08/27/media-enables-ludicrous-destructive-climate-change-hysteria/?utm_source=The+Federalist+List&utm_campaign=a9a477971d-RSS_The_Federalist_Daily_Updates_w_Transom&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_cfcb868ceb-a9a477971d-83771801

Democrats Brace for War over Supreme Court

By Fletch Daniels

{ americanthinker.com } ~ The news that Ruth Bader Ginsburg was treated for pancreatic cancer raised the possibility of a Supreme Court opening within the next year... The 86-year-old Ginsburg's health has been declining for years, to where the last year has felt like a bad remake of the 1989 Weekend at Bernie's movie. Instead of enjoying her golden years in retirement, Ginsburg has been propped up and hidden in the hopes of holding the seat until a Democrat is elected. The always elegant Michael Moore, who previously placed a Ginsburg doll atop a Christmas tree, summed up the Democrat zeitgeist when he tweeted, "HOLYMOTHEROFRBG!! EVERYBODY, RIGHT THIS SECOND, JOIN A MOVEMENT, CAMPAIGN, GRASS ROOTS GROUP -WHATEVER - AND WORK NONSTOP BTWN RIGHT NOW & NOV 2020!" The Left is already manning the barricades. The resulting hearing will make the Brett Kavanaugh fiasco, a dark moment in U.S. history, look like a charming affair. In the event that President Donald Trump nominates Amy Coney Barrett, as many conservatives hope, this hearing will be a preview of the Apocalypse. The rise of hatred on the Left, aided by years of persistent media bias and leftist propaganda, has created a rolling tidal wave of hate ready to crash on shore in violence. The two most likely triggering events that would cause that crash are the re-election of President Trump and the next opening on the Supreme Court, particularly to fill Ginsburg's seat. It's an increasingly good bet that the latter will come first... https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/08/democrats_brace_for_war_over_supreme_court.html

Distorting the Doctor-Patient Relationship

Arnold Ahlert: Imagine an American going to the supermarket to buy a loaf of bread and, when discovering that it has no price marked on it, inquiring how much it cost — only to be asked a question in return: What type of food insurance do you have? Most people would consider such a scenario bizarre. Unfortunately, if one changes “loaf of bread” to “knee operation,” the rest of the story becomes quite familiar.

Why familiar? Because the same Americans who would be infuriated by such a scenario at the supermarket have long grown accustomed — or is that resigned — to the idea that price transparency for healthcare services is as elusive as the White Rabbit in Alice in Wonderland. This is no accident. Contrary to food pricing, there are a host of middlemen between the consumer and the provider whose own interests depend on obscuring those prices. Self-remunerating interests that often inflate the cost of healthcare. And because true transparency is anathema to those interests, the Trump administration’s effort to provide it is meeting stiff resistance.

In 2018, the administration released a rule requiring hospitals to post their “chargemaster” rates, or list the prices for their services online. For those unfamiliar with medical lingo, a chargemaster is “a list of all the billable services and items to a patient or a patient’s health insurance provider,” explains columnist Jacqueline LaPointe. “The chargemaster captures the costs of each procedure, service, supply, prescription drug, and diagnostic test provided at the hospital, as well as any fees associated with services, such as equipment fees and room charges.”

All of those charges require billing codes, and the costs they generate are the result of negotiations between hospitals and insurance providers. Right now both entities consider those negations to be proprietary and confidential — meaning the cost of something depends on the secret deal one’s particular insurance provider has made with the hospital.

The Trump administration wants to change that equation as well. If a new proposal is finalized, that secrecy would be eliminated and hospitals would be required to disclose those negotiated rates.

The reaction? Hospitals are insisting “the burden is excessive and will undermine the ability of insurers to secure discounts for their customers,” writes American Enterprise Institute fellow James C. Capretta. “Lawsuits aimed at blocking the rule might be coming soon.”

The players themselves? The American Hospital Association (AHA), the Federation of American Hospitals (FAH), America’s Essential Hospitals, the Association of American Medical Colleges, and the Children’s Hospital Association issued a joint statement asserting that the proposed rule “is a misguided attempt to improve price transparency for patients because it fails to give them the information they need. Disclosing the negotiated rate between insurers and hospitals will not help patients make decisions about their care. Instead, this disclosure could harm patients by reducing patient access to care. This is the wrong approach to price transparency, and the administration should reverse course on this provision.”

The Federal Trade Commission’s Office of Policy Planning agrees. “Too much transparency can harm competition in any industry, including health care,” its “experts” insist.

This is ostensibly due to the fact that healthcare providers compete to be on an insurance company’s list of providers, and when those networks are selective, providers offer lower prices to be included on the list. “But when providers know who the other bidders are and what they have bid in the past, they may bid less aggressively, leading to higher overall prices,” the OPP adds.

That’s only half the gamesmanship. As Capretta explains in a separate column, hospital billing codes are hardly layman-friendly, “because the terminology used is not intended for a lay audience.” He further explains that while current regulations require hospitals to provide the prices of component parts of their charges, they are not required to post “all in prices” for procedures that involve several components, such as “fees for the surgery, the anesthesia, the operating room, the lab tests, imaging services, and follow-up care” — all of which “involve multiple billing codes.”

Perhaps the first salient question might be: Why does the relationship between the provider and the middleman consume virtually the entire discussion about effective healthcare, while the actual consumer seemingly remains an afterthought? Moreover — and more important — why should prices for the exact same services vary, sometimes substantially, for that same consumer?

If insurance is a necessary evil, it can only be because the amount of money necessary to maintain a viable system of healthcare providers exceeds the ability of consumers to pay for maintaining it as a whole. Does it?

The question brings to mind the spiraling costs of college. Since colleges know the taxpayer is the ultimate underwriter of all student-loan defaults, they can — and have — raised the costs of tuition with impunity, because there is no incentive for them to do otherwise. That’s bad enough, but at least the student themselves, strapped by loans that are seriously affecting their lives, are concerned. By contrast, many healthcare consumers who complain about the cost of insurance have little to no concern regarding the actual price of healthcare, especially if they have a low-deductible policy.

Thus, unlike the direct consumer-provider relationship of buying food, most people are forced to cope with current provider-middleman-consumer dynamic — and politicians in both parties have become equally accustomed to addressing the first two components of that dynamic, while healthcare costs for the actual consumer continue to skyrocket.

In other words, the moneyed interests talk, and the American public walks — or limps, or hobbles to the best of their coping abilities.

Capretta provides some viable solutions, such as the government requiring hospitals to provide all-in rates, and requiring insurers to provide reference-based insurance payments that would standardize reimbursement rates to various providers, incentivizing patients to choose lower-cost providers, especially if they could pocket the difference between the standardized rate and the actual price. He also notes that there are “small pockets” in the country (such as Amish and Mennonite communities) where the actual consumer-provider relationship exists, and cash payments for services are made directly to hospitals by these religious groups, who don’t buy insurance.

Yet one is left to wonder why this direct consumer-provider relationship is the exception, not the rule. Certainly there are some costs that are beyond the consumer’s ability to pay, such as long-term care for debilitating diseases like cancer, but if there’s a role for both government and insurance providers, it would seem logical to work downwards, from the catastrophic to the ordinary, rather than lumping everything together — and negotiating rates in secret.

Unfortunately, the term “vested interests” didn’t arise out of thin air. Public comments on the administration’s latest proposal are due by Sept. 27, and the AHA has alluded to the possibility it will litigate, insisting the rule “misses the mark, exceeds the administration’s legal authority and should be abandoned.”

Nonsense. Genuine price transparency — and the elimination of discounts for the same services — are critical first steps in rebuilding a consumer-provider relationship that has been distorted for far too long. Some call it patient-centered healthcare.

Common sense is more like it. ~The Patriot Post

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Tuesday Noon ~ thefrontpagecover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on August 27, 2019 at 11:44am

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

As Trade War Escalates, China Calls for Calm

Thomas Gallatin

In New Poll, loose lips liar-Biden Sees Big

Drop Among Democrats As dinky-Warren,

commie-Sanders Rise

By Tristan Justice

{ thefederalist.com } ~ A Monmouth University poll released Monday shows former Vice President loose lips liar-Joe Biden’s frontrunner status in the race for the Democratic Party’s 2020 presidential nomination diminishing... while Sens. Elizabeth dinky-Warren (D-Mass.) and commie-Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) compete for the race’s top spot in the crowded primary. The poll shows loose lips liar-Biden dropping to third place in the race, with 19 percent support from voters, down a whopping 13 percent from the university’s previous polling, conducted in June. dinky-Warren and commie-Sanders tied for first and second place in the poll with 20 percent support each, opening the race up to a three-way matchup between the candidates with a 5.7 percent margin of error. U.S. Sen. lowlife-Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) registered with 8 percent support in the poll, followed by Sen. scumbag-Cory Booker (D-N.J.) and South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg each with 4 percent, tech entrepreneur Andrew Yang at 3 percent, and former secretary of Housing and Urban Development Julian Castro, former U.S. Rep. socialist-Beto O’Rourke (D-TX.) and self-help author Marianne Williamson all at 2 percent. The rest of the candidates still running in the race all polled at 1 percent or less, if registering at all. If the polling is accurate and similar results show in other polls, it suggests Democratic voters are trending towards backing the farther-left candidates in the race with little appetite for moderation, even as a close examination of loose lips liar-Biden’s track record reveals no moderate in the former vice president and senator from Delaware. “The main takeaway from this poll is that the Democratic race has become volatile,” said pollster Patrick Murray in a statement unveiling the results...

https://thefederalist.com/2019/08/26/new-poll-biden-sees-big-drop-among-democrats-warren-sanders-rise/?utm_source=The+Federalist+List&utm_campaign=a9a477971d-RSS_The_Federalist_Daily_Updates_w_Transom&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_cfcb868ceb-a9a477971d-83771801

scumbag/liar-Hillary is Lurking

By Richard K. Davis

{ americanthinker.com } ~ scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton, the Ma Barker of American politics, is still out hustling, still staying one step ahead of the law as she tries to weasel her way into the presidential sweepstakes... She says she isn’t running in 2020, but, as we know too well, truth is a fungible commodity to a scumbag/liar-Clinton. The signs don’t look good. She just announced a fundraiser for the DNC at her Washington D.C. mansion with tickets as high as $50,000 scraps for the homeless in the dumpster out back. A couple of weekends ago she was at de Rothschild’s estate on Martha’s Vineyard -- go socialism! -- to celebrate Bill’s birthday, which included “quite an A-list cast of characters, including many Democratic party stalwarts.” Recently she and Chelsea announced they were publishing a book in October about “gutsy women,” no doubt the tale of some courageous women in Arkansas who stood up to privilege and power even before the #MeToo movement. At least that’s my guess. In any case, the subject is irrelevant. It’s the timing that matters. A book tour in the middle of the primary race? Just a not-so-subtle reminder from Madam Secretary: The air in the room belongs to me, bitches. Hearing scumbag/liar-Hillary announce a third presidential bid would be like hearing your dentist say he has to go ahead with that third root canal, and he just ran out of Novocaine. No sane person wants her in the race, which doesn’t stop her from getting the party’s full support, of course. However, a former aide said she would “ankle dive at the door” to stop her from running a possible fatal act of heroism, depending on how things fall..

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/08/hillary_is_lurking.html

Europe: "Mediterranean Taxis"

for People-Smugglers

by Soeren Kern

{ gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ Italian authorities have seized a Spanish migrant rescue ship after a three-week standoff between the Italian government and the Spanish charity operating the vessel... Interior Minister Matteo Salvini had refused to allow the Open Arms rescue ship, carrying more than 80 mostly African migrants, to dock in Italy. The refusal was in line with his crackdown on migrant smuggling that has effectively closed Italian ports to migrant rescue boats since June 2018. Salvini has accused European non-governmental organizations (NGOs) of coordinating with people-smuggling mafias to pick up migrants off the coast of Libya and transport them to Italian ports. Italian officials have referred to the charity rescue boats as "Mediterranean taxis" for people-smugglers. Sicilian prosecutor Luigi Patronaggio on August 20 ordered the Open Arms, anchored one kilometer off Italy's southernmost island of Lampedusa, to dock in Sicily so that its passengers could disembark. He made the decision, in opposition to Salvini, after more than a dozen migrants jumped overboard and tried to swim to shore. Subsequent video footage showed that Open Arms staged the jumps to manipulate public opinion. The Open Arms, operated by a Spanish NGO of the same name, had picked up 147 migrants off the coast of Libya on August 1. The Italian government allowed those in need of medical attention and all unaccompanied children to disembark on August 17. Five EU countries — Spain, France, Germany, Luxembourg and Portugal — agreed to take in the rest, although details of the understanding have yet to be finalized. On August 18, the Spanish government announced that the Open Arms would be allowed to dock at the Spanish port of Algeciras in Cádiz, and at Mahón in Menorca in the Balearic Islands. The captain of the Open Arms, however, rejected the offer. He argued that it was "impossible" to attempt the four- to six-day journey given the conditions on board: "We cannot endanger the security and physical integrity of the migrants and crew. We need to dock now."...

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/14781/europe-mediterranean-people-smugglers

Silicon Valley is building a

Chinese-style social credit system

By MIKE ELGAN

{ fastcompany.com } ~ Have you heard about China’s social credit system? It’s a technology-enabled, surveillance-based nationwide program designed to nudge citizens toward better behavior... The ultimate goal is to “allow the trustworthy to roam everywhere under heaven while making it hard for the discredited to take a single step,” according to the Chinese government. In place since 2014, the social credit system is a work in progress that could evolve by next year into a single, nationwide point system for all Chinese citizens, akin to a financial credit score. It aims to punish for transgressions that can include membership in or support for the Falun Gong or Tibetan Buddhism, failure to pay debts, excessive video gaming, criticizing the government, late payments, failing to sweep the sidewalk in front of your store or house, smoking or playing loud music on trains, jaywalking, and other actions deemed illegal or unacceptable by the Chinese government. It can also award points for charitable donations or even taking one’s own parents to the doctor. Punishments can be harsh, including bans on leaving the country, using public transportation, checking into hotels, hiring for high-visibility jobs, or acceptance of children to private schools. It can also result in slower internet connections and social stigmatization in the form of registration on a public blacklist. China’s social credit system has been characterized in one pithy tweet as “authoritarianism, gamified.” At present, some parts of the social credit system are in force nationwide and others are local and limited there are 40 or so pilot projects operated by local governments and at least six run by tech giants like Alibaba and Tencent. Beijing maintains two nationwide lists, called the blacklist and the red list—the former consisting of people who have transgressed, and the latter people who have stayed out of trouble a “red list” is the Communist version of a white list. These lists are publicly searchable on a government website called China Credit... https://www.fastcompany.com/90394048/uh-oh-silicon-valley-is-building-a-chinese-style-social-credit-system

DoD Tests New Missile in Bid

to Counter Chinese Advantage

by Bradley Bowman and Andrew Gabel

{ fdd.org } ~ The Department of Defense successfully tested a new ground-launched intermediate-range cruise missile on August 18... which hit its target after more than 500 kilometers (km) of flight. The test marks an important milestone for the U.S. military as it scrambles to develop missiles of the kind Beijing has deployed in massive numbers to threaten U.S. vessels and bases in Asia. The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, signed by Washington and the Soviet Union in 1987, prohibited the production, possession, or flight testing of ground-launched intermediate-range cruise or ballistic missile systems with a range between 500 and 5,500 km. Russia assumed the Soviet commitment to the INF Treaty after the latter’s dissolution, yet Moscow has deployed multiple battalions armed with the SSC-8 also known as the 9M729 intermediate-range ground-launched cruise missile. Indeed, Russia’s violations began in the mid-2000s. After imploring Moscow for years to return to compliance with the INF Treaty, the U.S. announced on February 2 this year its intent to withdraw from the treaty. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo warned, “If Russia does not return to full and verifiable compliance with the Treaty by eliminating all 9M729 missiles, their launchers, and associated equipment in this six-month period, the Treaty will terminate.” Moscow did not comply, and the U.S. formally left the treaty on August 2. Never constrained by the INF Treaty, China has deployed hundreds of such missiles. Indeed, as Admiral Philip Davidson, commander of all U.S. forces in the Indo-Pacific, noted in testimony earlier this year, over 95 percent of China’s ballistic missiles would have been prohibited by the INF Treaty. China’s ground-launched missiles enable it to threaten U.S. partners and allies, as well as U.S. vessels and bases in the region, thereby jeopardizing America’s overall strategic position. Nevertheless, the U.S. abided by its INF Treaty commitment until Russian violations became intolerable. Now, the U.S. and its allies can and should build a missile network in the Indo-Pacific region to counter China’s Anti-Access/Area Denial strategy. America’s adversaries have not stood still, and U.S. national security interests require that Washington respond accordingly. The 2018 U.S. National Defense Strategy called for building a “more lethal Joint Force.” This will almost certainly require the deployment of significant numbers of intermediate-range ground-launched missiles to the Indo-Pacific theater. Such a deployment could help deter aggression by Beijing by increasing the perceived risk, cost, complexity, and uncertainty associated with belligerent action... https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2019/08/26/dod-tests-new-missile-in-bid-to-counter-chinese-advantage/?p=97578

As Trade War Escalates, China Calls for Calm

Thomas Gallatin: Over the weekend President Donald Trump was in Biarritz, France, for the G7 summit. However, the world’s attention was on Asia following the latest dust-up between China and the U.S. in the ongoing trade war. Following Beijing’s announcement of new tariffs on $75 billion in U.S. goods, Trump blasted China with tariffs on another $550 billion in Chinese products. A clearly agitated Trump had earlier issued a statement that brought a wave of condemnation — he “ordered” American companies “to immediately start looking for an alternative to China, including bringing your companies HOME and making your products in the USA.”

Obviously, the president cannot compel U.S. companies to do as he says; America is not communist China. But that’s the point — it appears that Trump’s message was primarily intended for Beijing. He rightly blames China for this trade war and has no intention of backing down. Indeed, Trump’s comments in context demonstrate his thinking: “Our Country has lost, stupidly, Trillions of Dollars with China over many years. They have stolen our Intellectual Property at a rate of Hundreds of Billions of Dollars a year, & they want to continue. I won’t let that happen! We don’t need China and, frankly, would be far better off without them. The vast amounts of money made and stolen by China from the United States, year after year, for decades, will and must STOP. Our great American companies are hereby ordered to immediately start looking for an alternative to China…”

News of the latest round of tariffs sent markets plunging, especially the Asian markets. In an effort to mitigate some of the effects of Trump’s tariffs by making Chinese goods cheaper, Beijing let its currency, the yuan, drop to an 11-year low. However, by early Monday Beijing was signaling to Washington that it wants to “calm” things down to seek an end to this trade war. Trump’s announcement on Sunday that Japan and the U.S. had agreed “in principle” to a new bilateral trade deal may have also played a significant factor in China’s sudden call for calm.

Again, this ongoing trade war is one Trump did not start, but he has willingly taken up the fight. It’s no secret that China has been playing dirty on trade for a long time. And it’s not as if Beijing has suddenly decided to change its ways. Earlier this year, Vietnam accused China of mislabeling its products as “Made in Vietnam” in an effort to avoid U.S. tariffs. While there is no way to avoid the impact of fighting this trade war, and there’s plenty to criticize Trump over, one thing for which he should rightly be commended is his willingness to stand and fight for the American people. ~The Patriot Post

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Tues/Med AM ~ thefrontpagecover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on August 27, 2019 at 9:00am

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

Trump's Idea of Buying Greenland

Is Far From Absurd

Marc A. Thiessen

Tuesday Top News Executive Summary

Media Editors: OPIOID VERDICT: According to NBC News: “An Oklahoma judge on Monday ordered Johnson & Johnson to pay over $572 million for pushing doctors to prescribe opioids while downplaying the risks of addiction.” The report also points out, “The case was seen as a litmus test for nearly 2,000 pending opioid cases before a federal judge in Ohio, especially as other pharmaceutical companies faced with similar accusations have chosen to settle.” However, The Wall Street Journal editorial board, addressing the lawsuit’s “public nuisance” rationale, opines, “Public-nuisance law is more elastic than product-liability claims because it doesn’t require evidence of direct causation. … The opioid addiction problem is varied and complex, and these days it is largely a problem of illegal fentanyl and meth. It won’t be eased by bankrupting America’s pharmaceutical companies.”

BLUE-STATE OBSTRUCTION: “A coalition of 20 Democratic attorneys general announced Monday they are suing to block the administration’s new rules that would allow immigrant families who are in the U.S. illegally to be detained while their deportation hearings are taking place. The 19 states and the District of Columbia said they are responsible for ensuring the health and safety of children at detention facilities inside their boundaries, so they have standing to sue in order to protect their health.” (The Washington Times)

PURSUING THE DEATH PENALTY: “Federal prosecutors in Pittsburgh said Monday that they intend to seek the death penalty against the man accused of gunning down 11 people at a synagogue last year,” NBC News reports. As our Mark Alexander revealed at the time, the suspect “was inspired, in part, because Donald Trump is the most PRO-Israel president since Ronald Reagan.”

IRAN OLIVE BRANCH: On Monday, President Donald Trump declared, “If the circumstances were correct or right, I would certainly agree to” meeting Iran President Hassan Rouhani. He added, “But in the meantime, they have to be good players.” Rouhani is currently not being a good player. According to The Daily Caller, “Iran’s parliament is preparing a bill to sanction top Trump administration officials and their supporters in Congress for what regime officials described as ‘their long animosity towards Iran.’” Rouhani also personally responded, “First the U.S. should act by lifting all illegal, unjust and unfair sanctions imposed on Iran.”

AND THEN THERE WERE THREE: Presidential candidate loose lips liar-Joe Biden is an indisputable frontrunner no more, according to Monmouth University polling. In a new survey, “Vermont Sen. commie-Bernie Sanders, Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth dinky-Warren, and … loose lips liar-Biden are currently bunched together in the national Democratic presidential preference contest. … The poll finds a virtual three-way tie among commie-Sanders (20%), dinky-Warren (20%), and loose lips liar-Biden (19%) in the presidential nomination preferences of registered Democrats and Democratic-leaning voters across the country. Compared to Monmouth’s June poll, these results represent an increase in support for both commie-Sanders (up from 14%) and dinky-Warren (up from 15%), and a significant drop for loose lips liar-Biden (down from 32%).”

ANOTHER REPUBLICAN BITES THE DUST: “Wisconsin GOP Rep. Sean Duffy on Monday abruptly announced plans to resign from Congress, saying his family recently learned that his soon-to-be born child has a serious heart condition. Duffy … is the father of eight children, with another due in October.” (Fox News)

FEC RESIGNATION: “The Republican vice chairman of the Federal Election Commission resigned Monday, leaving the election oversight agency without enough members to vote on enforcement actions. Matthew S. Petersen [said] that he submitted his letter of resignation … to the White House Monday morning. It said that he will leave the agency by the end of the week. ‘It’s just the right time,’ said Petersen, who has won wide praise for his steady and thoughtful approach to election issues, his dedication to the First Amendment, and battles to fend off the regulation of technology and the internet.” (Washington Examiner)

Closing Arguments

POLICY: The proof is in: Tariffs are hurting the U.S. economy (The Daily Signal)

POLICY: Purchasing a gun from Walmart is not nearly as easy as the Left claims (The New American)

HUMOR: scumbag/liar-nObama slams greedy rich people from his new $15 million Martha’s Vineyard estate (Genesius Times)

~The Patriot Post
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Iraq calls alleged Israeli airstrike

a ‘declaration of war’

by Jerry McCormick

{ patriotnewsalerts.com } ~ Several days ago, Iranian officials stated there was an attack on an ammunition depot in Iraq that belonged to a militia force Popular Mobilization Forces – PMF loyal to Iran... While Israel has not taken credit for the attack, Iraq is blaming Israel and even considering the attack a formal declaration of war. As tensions rise between the United States, Iran and Iraq, it is really not much of a surprise to see Israel get dragged into the mix. Iraq would not dare take on the United States directly, but going after a weaker ally is well within their purview.The difficulties between Iraq and Israel have escalated considerably in recent months, with numerous airstrikes being conducted by both sides. The strike against the ammunition depot was all over social media. While the videos did not make it clear where the attack came from, a missile could be heard soaring overhead seconds before an explosion at the ammunition depot, which was apparently already on fire. After the blast, it was reported that one person was killed and numerous others injured. There is much speculation among experts this may have been Israel conducting a strike on behalf of the United States...

https://www.patriotnewsalerts.com/iraq-declaration-of-war/

commie-Bernie Sanders Now Wants Anyone

Who Disagrees with Him Arrested

by WARNER TODD HUSTON

{ godfatherpolitics.com } ~ Like all leftists, commie-Bernie Sanders is a fascist authoritarian at heart, and now he wants people arrested and made into “criminals” just for engaging in legal businesses he doesn’t like... Like all fascists, commie-Sanders wants to use the iron boot of government to criminalize his opponents. Like any tinpot dictator would. Herr commie-Sanders jumped to Twitter on Thursday afternoon and called for executives of fossil fuel companies to be “criminally prosecuted.” “Fossil fuel executives should be criminally prosecuted for the destruction they have knowingly caused,” the aged fascist tweeted adding everyone’s favorite Communist hashtag, “#GreenNewDeal.” commie-Sanders’ tweet came on the same day that he released an economy-crushing $16 trillion plan to address the mythological “climate change” crisis. commie-Sanders exclaimed that his personal version of the communistic “Green New Deal” as a way to “end the greed of the fossil fuel industry.” … and replace it with the greed of the new green energy industry, obviously. commie-Sanders posted a second tweet attacking the idea of “clean coal.”... commie-Sanders must be dreaming.

https://godfatherpolitics.com/bernie-sanders-now-wants-anyone-who-disagrees-with-him-arrested/

Is College Worth It?

by Charlie Kirk

{ prageru.com } ~ Is college a good investment? It’s getting harder and harder to make that case... for students and their parents. Today, students often graduate weighed down by debt and free of practical wisdom. Before starting down the path to college, some sober, common-sense reflection is more necessary than ever. Charlie Kirk of Turning Point USA provides some much-needed tutoring.

VIDEO: https://www.prageru.com/video/is-college-worth-it/

Pentagon’s Investor-Industry Matchmaking

Program Will Focus on Small UAS in First Event

By Megan Eckstein

{ news.usni.org } ~ The Defense Department’s effort to connect sources of capital with small companies that need investment will begin with a focus on those that design and manufacture small unmanned aerial systems... the Pentagon’s acquisition chief told reporters today. The Trusted Capital Marketplace, which USNI News first reported on in April, will begin with a first meeting of investors and tech companies in October, Ellen Lord said today in a briefing at the Pentagon. That meeting will target the small UAS industry sector due to concerns that China currently dominates the market, she said. “It’s because of where we are right now in terms of having our entire U.S. marketplace eroded, and also because it’s very intuitive – people can understand what these small quadcopters are,” she said when asked why the Trusted Capital Marketplace would kick off with a focus on small UAS. “So essentially we don’t have much of a small UAS industrial base because Chinese company DJI dumped so many low-priced quadcopters on the market and we then became dependent on them, both from the defense point of view and the commercial point of view. And we know that a lot of the information is sent back to China from those, so it is not something that we could use.” By bringing investors to meet with companies interested in designing and building small fixed-wing or quadcopter UAS in the United States, the American industrial base could regain that capability and, once Defense Department needs are satisfied, potentially compete American drones against Chinese ones on the commercial market. Since announcing the public-private partnership earlier this year, Lord said a team has stood up to begin managing the vetting requirements for the trusted sources of capital – ensuring that money funding sensitive defense capabilities doesn’t come with ties to China, Russia or other potential adversaries – as well as beginning industry outreach and the industry/capital matching process... https://news.usni.org/2019/08/26/pentagons-investor-industry-matchmaking-program-will-focus-on-small-uas-in-first-event?utm_source=USNI+News&utm_campaign=d33ee68075-USNI_NEWS_DAILY&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_0dd4a1450b-d33ee68075-231491269&mc_cid=d33ee68075&mc_eid=3999f18767

David Axelrod after Ginsburg cancer treatment: Supreme Court vacancy could 'tear

this country apart'

By RACHEL FRAZIN

{ thehill.com } ~ CNN political commentator and Democratic strategist David Axelrod responded Friday to news that Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg had recently completed radiation treatment... for a malignant tumor, writing that a vacancy on the high court could "tear this country apart." "If there is a SCOTUS vacancy next year and @senatemajldr carries through on his extraordinary promise to fill it-despite his own previous precedent in blocking Garland-it will tear this country apart," Axelrod wrote, referring to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) blocking former President scumbag/liar-nObama's final Supreme Court nominee, Merrick Garland, in 2016.The Hill has reached out to McConnell's office for comment. Ginsburg, 86, is the oldest member of the high court and has sat on its nine-member bench for 26 years. She has had cancer multiple times during her tenure. She had surgery in 1999 for colorectal cancer, a procedure for pancreatic cancer in 2009 and another operation to remove two malignant nodules in her lungs in December. Her most recent treatment, announced by the Supreme Court on Friday, was to combat a tumor that was detected in early July during a routine blood test and was conducted on an outpatient basis at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. A stent was also inserted into her bile duct as part of the treatment. The Supreme Court said in a statement Friday that Ginsburg "tolerated treatment well" and that "the tumor was treated definitively and there is no evidence of disease elsewhere in the body."... Axelrod is totally wrong.

https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/458667-david-axelrod-after-ginsburg-cancer-treatment-supreme-court-vacancy

Trump's Idea of Buying Greenland Is Far From Absurd

Marc A. Thiessen

President Trump is upset that Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen called his interest in purchasing Greenland “absurd.” Her dismissive response should have come as no surprise. In 1946, when President Harry Truman tried to purchase Greenland, Secretary of State James Byrnes wrote that the proposal “seemed to come as a shock” and an insult to Danish officials, who turned it down.

That was a big mistake. As part of his deal, Truman had offered to trade parts of the Point Barrow district of Alaska, including the rights to any oil discovered there, to Denmark, in exchange for parts of Greenland. The Danes dismissed the idea just as they did Trump’s proposal. In 1967, the richest oil strike in U.S. history was made in the Point Barrow area. Bad move, Denmark! Sad!

With that blunder in their rearview mirror, you would think that Danish leaders would at least hear Trump out. The president’s idea of buying Greenland is far from absurd. Today we have a military base in Greenland, so there is no need to buy it for that purpose. But Greenland has enormous unexplored stores of natural resources, including zinc, lead, gold, iron ore, diamonds, copper and uranium, that Denmark has been unable or unwilling to exploit.

It also has large, untapped stores of rare-earth elements, such as praseodymium or dysprosium, that are critical to the production of everything from electric cars to smartphones and lasers. Today, the United States gets many of these rare-earth elements from China, which makes Americans dependent on Beijing. The Wall Street Journal reports that Beijing may cut off access to those minerals in its trade dispute with Washington, and China is also trying to corner the market for rare-earth elements in Greenland. Buying Greenland would put those strategically valuable minerals in U.S. hands.

But what makes Greenland particularly valuable to the United States is global warming. The unavoidable receding of Arctic sea ice will open a new sea route in the Arctic that can be used for both commercial and military vessels. In May, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo delivered an address at the Arctic Council Ministerial Meeting in Finland in which he pointed out that “steady reductions in sea ice are opening new passageways and new opportunities for trade. This could potentially slash the time it takes to travel between Asia and the West by as much as 20 days.” He added that the emerging “Arctic sea lanes could become the 21st-century Suez and Panama canals.”

He’s right. A recent report in the New York Times notes that as sea ice melts and “Arctic routes become more direct, voyage times could fall to less than three weeks in some cases, making Arctic shipping potentially more attractive than the southern routes in coming decades.”

The United States and its allies have a major interest in not allowing these Arctic sea lanes to fall under Russian or Chinese control. “Do we want the Arctic Ocean to transform into a New South China Sea, fraught with militarization and competing territorial claims?” Pompeo asked in Finland. Purchasing Greenland would help the United States to better secure these emerging strategic passageways.

In 1946, the Joint Chiefs of Staff told Truman that Greenland was “completely worthless to Denmark.” Today, Denmark may not feel that way. But rather than getting offended, Copenhagen should entertain Trump’s offer. After all, it would not be the first time Denmark sold the United States one of its overseas possessions. In 1916, it sold the Danish West Indies (now the U.S. Virgin Islands) to President Woodrow Wilson. So, we’ve long ago established that parts of Denmark are for sale; there’s no harm haggling over the price.

Indeed, a Greenland purchase would be in keeping with a long history of presidential land acquisitions. In 1803, Thomas Jefferson bought the Louisiana territory from France. In 1819, President James Monroe bought Florida from Spain. In 1854, President Franklin Pierce, in the Gadsden Purchase, bought part of New Mexico and Arizona from Mexico. In 1867, President Andrew Johnson bought Alaska from Russia. In 1898, President William McKinley bought the Philippines from Spain. And in 1903, President Theodore Roosevelt rented the Panama Canal Zone from Panama and Guantanamo Bay from Cuba. If Denmark won’t sell Greenland, maybe we can rent it!

On Monday, Trump tweeted a picture of a gleaming Trump high-rise amid small huts on the Greenland coast and declared, “I promise not to do this to Greenland!” But the idea of buying Greenland is no joke. It actually makes a lot of strategic and economic sense. ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/opinion/65007?mailing_id=4488&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4488&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

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

Posted by Jake Martinez on August 27, 2019 at 8:30am

Please Read Part 103N:

The Most Dangerous and Treacherous Times in U.S. History! (Part 103N)-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On August 17, 2019:

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

The following recent thought-provoking article/report revealed that, if President Trump declassifies certain documents, 'the Democrats are allegedly finished'-You Decide:

Report: If Trump Declassifies These Documents – the Democrats Are Finished!-Posted on NewsWithViews.com-By Paul Walter-On August 27, 2019:

http://newswithviews.com/report-if-trump-declassifies-these-documents-the-democrats-are-finished/

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

Solomon: Durham, Barr Concentrating on Months before Official Launch of Russia Probe: “Manufactured From The Beginning!”-Posted on The Post & Email-By Sharon Rondeau-On August 18, 2019:

https://www.thepostemail.com/2019/08/18/solomon-durham-barr-concentrating-on-months-before-official-launch-of-russia-probe/

Graham on IG Report: “I Want it All Out.” Predicts DOJ Inspector Journal Report Ready “Within Weeks!”-Posted on The Post & Email-By Sharon Rondeau-On August 18, 2019:

https://www.thepostemail.com/2019/08/18/graham-on-ig-report-i-want-it-all-out/

Lindsey Graham to Meet with Attorney General Barr this Week to Discuss Rollout of SpyGate Docs!-Posted on PJ Media-By Debra Heine-On August 21, 2019:

https://pjmedia.com/video/lindsey-graham-to-meet-with-attorney-general-barr-this-week-to-discuss-rollout-of-spygate-docs/

Sara Carter: Various Sources Providing Information to DOJ for IG Investigation: “There Will Be Criminal Referrals”!-Posted on The Post & Email-By Sharon Rondeau-On August 21, 2019:

https://www.thepostemail.com/2019/08/21/sara-carter-various-sources-providing-information-to-doj-for-ig-investigation/

William Barr Must Be Our Winston Churchill!-Posted on The Western Journal-By Mike Weinberger-On August 19, 2019:

https://www.westernjournal.com/william-barr-must-winston-churchill/?ff_source=Email&ff_medium=libertyalliance&ff_campaign=dailyam&ff_content=libertyalliance

Christopher Steele is pictured.

Federal Judge Orders FBI to Search for More Christopher Steele Docs!-Posted on PJ Media-By Debra Heine-On August 20, 2019:

https://pjmedia.com/trending/federal-judge-orders-fbi-to-search-for-more-christopher-steele-docs/

Tom Fitton’s Judicial Watch Weekly Update-Topic: Federal Judge Orders FBI to Search for Steele Documents!-Posted on YouTube.com-By Judicial Watch-On August 23, 2019:

https://www.judicialwatch.org/tom-fittons-weekly-update/federal-judge-orders-fbi-to-search-for-steele-documents/

BOMBSHELL: Overstock CEO Says Strzok Had Him Commit Political Espionage, & Comey’s Involved!-Posted on Flag & Cross-By John Salvatore-On August 23, 2019:

https://flagandcross.com/bombshell-overstock-ceo-says-strzok-had-him-commit-political-espionage-comeys-involved/

Video: Ep. 1051 A Mind-Blowing Interview. The Dan Bongino Show 8/23/2019!-Posted on YouTube.com-By Dan Bongino-On August 23, 2019:

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

Video: The Untold Story of the Awan Bros/House Democrats I.T. Scandal | Inside Report!-Posted on YouTube.com-By Judicial Watch-On August 22, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UI5f8Aw-R-A

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Clinton Email Scandal Not Over, New FBI Failure Uncovered!-Posted on DonBingino.com-By Bongino Staff-On August 23, 2019:

https://bongino.com/clinton-email-scandal-not-over-new-fbi-failure-uncovered/

Video: Ep. 1052 Troubling Video: They Picked on the Wrong Guy. The Dan Bongino Show 8/26/2019!-Posted on YouTube.com-By Dan Bongino-On August 26, 2019:

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

Video: Lou Dobbs Tonight 8/26/19 [Full] | BREAKING Fox News August 26, 2019!-Posted on YouTube.com-By Validnews-On August 26, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0-PXHOfOvU

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NYT: Ex-FBI Attorney Lisa Page Could Exonerate Andrew McCabe!-Posted on NewsMax.com-By Todd Beamon-On August 26, 2019:

https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/lisa-page-andrew-mccabe-investigation-testimony/2019/08/26/id/930127/#ixzz5xoAFkT9v

Will McCabe Be Indicted? “In The Next Few Weeks!”-Posted on The Post & Email-By Sharon Rondeau-On August 26, 2019:

https://www.thepostemail.com/2019/08/26/will-mccabe-be-indicted/

Video: Ep. 1053 What is the Government Hiding? The Dan Bongino Show 8/27/2019!-Posted on YouTube.com-By Dan Bongino-On August 27, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phoEXt4d1KY

DiGenova: Horowitz found FISA warrants used to spy on Carter Page ‘were illegal from the get-go’!-Posted on BizPac Review-By Tom Tillison-On August 27, 2019:

https://www.bizpacreview.com/2019/08/27/digenova-horowitz-found-fisa-warrants-used-to-spy-on-carter-page-were-illegal-from-the-get-go-799956

When Will the “Full Story” Emerge on the Russia “Collusion” Narrative? “We Can’t Have A Dual Justice System!”-Posted on The Post & Email-By Sharon Rondeau-On August 27, 2019:

https://www.thepostemail.com/2019/08/27/when-will-the-full-story-emerge-on-the-russia-collusion-narrative/

Dinesh D'Souza: Obamas' Mansion Purchase Exposes 'Hollow Rhetoric' Behind Climate Change!-Posted on CNSNews.com-By Susan Jones-On August 28, 2019:

https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/susan-jones/dinesh-dsouza-obamas-mansion-purchase-exposes-hollow-rhetoric-behind

Video: Ep. 1054 Will the 2020 Election be Close? The Dan Bongino Show 8/28/2019!-Posted on YouTube.com-By Dan Bongino-On August 28, 2019:

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

The Biggest Threat to 'Free and Fair' Elections: BIG Tech: Facebook and Google have done more to undermine American elections than Russia could!-Posted on The Patriot Post-By Mark Alexander-On August 28, 2019:

https://patriotpost.us/alexander/65113-the-biggest-threat-to-free-and-fair-elections-big-tech?mailing_id=4498&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4498&utm_campaign=alexander&utm_content=header.default

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Mexican National Convicted of Illegal Voting in USA: False-documented illegal voted in five federal elections from 2012 to 2016!-Posted on Front Page Magazine-By Lloyd Billingsley-On August 28, 2019:

https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/274730/mexican-national-convicted-illegal-voting-usa-lloyd-billingsley

Breaking Reports: Separate IG Report Expected on Former FBI Director: “As Early As Tomorrow!”-Posted on The Post & Email-By Sharon Rondeau-On August 28, 2019:

https://www.thepostemail.com/2019/08/28/breaking-reports-separate-ig-report-expected-on-former-fbi-director/

Sen. Graham Wants to Know Who in Obama WH Knew About Trump Counterintelligence Investigation?

Sen. Graham Wants to Know Who in Obama WH Knew About Trump Counterintelligence Investigation?-Posted on CNSNews.com-By Susan Jones-On August 29, 2019:

https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/susan-jones/sen-graham-wants-know-who-obama-wh-knew-about-trump-counterintelligence

Greg Craig

Prosecutors press Obama counsel on Ukraine report!-Posted on The Washington Examiner-By Jerry Dunleavy-On August 28, 2019:

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/prosecutors-press-obama-counsel-on-ukraine-report

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Trump can change history by declassifying three Obama-era documents!-Posted on The Hill-By John Solomon, opinion contributor-On August 28, 2019:

https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/459197-trump-can-change-history-by-declassifying-three-obama-era-documents

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James Comey ally predicts McCabe indictment imminent!-Posted on Patriot News Alerts-By Jerry McCormick-On August 28, 2019:

https://www.patriotnewsalerts.com/comey-ally-predicts-indictment/

Matthew Whitaker: DOJ Meeting Suggests Andrew McCabe Will Be Indicted ‘Imminently’!-Posted on The Daily Caller-By Chuck Ross Investigative Reporter-On August 29, 2019:

https://dailycaller.com/2019/08/29/whitaker-mccabe-indictment-doj/

Former Federal Bureau of Investigation Director James Comey speaks to members of the media at the Rayburn House Office Building after testifying to the House Judiciary and Oversight and Government Reform committees on Capitol Hill December 07, 2018 in Was

DOJ Releases Report Concluding James Comey Violated FBI Policy By Disclosing Sensitive Information!-Posted on The Daily Wire-By Ashe Schow/@asheschow-On August 29, 2019:

https://www.dailywire.com/news/51175/breaking-doj-releases-report-concluding-james-ashe-schow

Fred Fleitz Is the Right Choice for National Intelligence Director

Trump Crushes Comey After Damning IG Report: 'He Should Be Ashamed'!-Posted on The Western Journal-By Joe Setyon-On August 29, 2019:

https://www.westernjournal.com/trump-crushes-comey-damning-ig-report-ashamed/?ff_source=Email&ff_medium=newsletter-WJ&ff_campaign=dailyam&ff_content=western-journal

Lindsey Graham Goes Off on IG's 'Stunning & Unprecedented Rebuke' of Comey, Predicts More To Come!-Posted on The Western Journal-By Joe Setyon-On August 29, 2019:

https://www.westernjournal.com/lindsey-graham-goes-off-igs-stunning-unprecedented-rebuke-comey-predicts-come/?ff_source=Email&ff_medium=newsletter-WJ&ff_campaign=dailyam&ff_content=western-journal

Image: It’s now obvious: We are living under a lawless deep state dictatorship where treasonous criminals like James Comey will never be prosecuted

It’s now obvious: We are living under a lawless deep state dictatorship where treasonous criminals like James Comey will never be prosecuted!-Posted on Natural News-By Mike Adams-On August 29, 2019:

https://www.naturalnews.com/2019-08-29-we-are-living-under-a-deep-state-dictatorship.html

Video: Ep. 1055 The Comey Report Drops. The Dan Bongino Show 8/29/2019!-Posted on YouTube.com-By Dan Bongino-On August 29, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1fzS4c2kaE

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FBI Witnesses Said Comey’s Trump Briefing Was Meant To Collect Info For Russia Probe, Report Says!-Posted on Political Insider-By Chuck Ross, Daily Caller-On August 29, 2019:

https://thepoliticalinsider.com/fbi-witnesses-said-comeys-trump-briefing-was-meant-to-collect-info-for-russia-probe-report-says/

Joe DiGenova believes it’s critical Durham, FBI grill Obama over Trump spying!-Posted on BizPac Review-By Frieda Powers-On August 30, 2019:

https://www.bizpacreview.com/2019/08/30/joe-digenova-believes-its-critical-durham-fbi-grill-obama-over-trump-spying-807260

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Lindsey Graham Wants Obama Questioned Under Oath About Trump Campaign Investigation!-Posted on The Political Insider-By Rusty | Featured Contributor-On August 30, 2019:

https://thepoliticalinsider.com/lindsey-graham-wants-obama-questioned-under-oath-about-trump-campaign-investigation/

Devin Nunes: DOJ watchdog report on James Comey contains 'evidence' for conspiracy complaint

Devin Nunes: DOJ watchdog report on James Comey contains 'evidence' for conspiracy complaint!-Posted on The Washington Examiner-By Daniel Chaitin-On August 29, 2019:

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/devin-nunes-doj-watchdog-report-on-james-comey-contains-evidence-for-conspiracy-complaint

Reaction: 'I Wouldn't Say James Comey Is Out of the Woods'; 'This Is Just the Beginning'!-Posted on CNSNews.com-By Susan Jones-On August 30, 2019:

https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/susan-jones/reaction-i-wouldnt-say-james-comey-out-woods-just-beginning

Trump: ‘Comey Got Lucky!’ - IG Report ‘Shows Just How Fair and Reasonable AG Bill Barr Is’!-Posted on CNSNews.com-By Craig Bannister-On August 30, 2019:

https://www.cnsnews.com/blog/craig-bannister/trump-comey-got-lucky-ig-report-shows-just-how-fair-and-reasonable-ag-bill-barr

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Joe diGenova: FISA report circulating 'inside and outside' of Justice Department!-Posted on The Washington Examiner-By Daniel Chaitin-On August 29, 2019:

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/joe-digenova-fisa-report-circulating-inside-and-outside-of-justice-department

Video: Ep. 1056 The Devastating Inside Story on Comey. The Dan Bongino Show 8/30/2019!-Posted on YouTube.com-By Dan Bongino-On August 30, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JE2fO1Yp2so

Video: Tom Fitton’s Judicial Watch Weekly Update-Topics: Court Gives JW New Clinton Email Discovery; Anti-Trump Coup Exposed in Comey/IG Report; and More!-Posted on YouTube.com-By Judicial Watch-On August 30, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8XidbDpEEw

What James Comey And Hillary Clinton Ironically Share When It Comes To Inspector General Reports!-Posted on Townhall-By Matt Vespa/@mvespa1-On August 31, 2019:

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2019/08/31/what-james-comey-and-hillary-clinton-ironically-share-when-it-comes-to-inspector-n2552454

Barack Obama was just hit with a nasty surprise that left him shaking his head in rage!-Posted on Renewed Right-On August 31, 2019:

https://renewedright.com/barack-obama-was-just-hit-with-a-nasty-surprise-that-left-him-shaking-his-head-in-rage/

WASHINGTON, DC - JULY 29: Alveda King (2R), niece of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., speaks to the media following a meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump and other faith-based inner-city leaders at the White House on July 29, 2019 in Washington, DC. U.S. President Donald Trump has again been …

Dr. Alveda King: Democrats ‘Have to Stir Up Fear, Tears, Terror’ by Saying ‘Trump Is a Racist’!-Posted on Breitbart.com-By Robert Kraychik-On August 29, 2019:

https://www.breitbart.com/radio/2019/08/29/alveda-king-dems-stir-up-fear-tears-terror-saying-trump-racist/

How The Media Is Helping Rewrite The American History!-Posted on NewsWithViews.com-By Pastor Roger Anghis-On September 1, 2019:

http://newswithviews.com/how-the-media-is-helping-rewrite-the-american-history/

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GOP Judiciary member predicts Horowitz FISA report will lead to indictments!-Posted on The Washington Examiner-By Jerry Dunleavy-On September 1, 2019:

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/gop-judiciary-member-predicts-horowitz-fisa-report-lead-to-indictments

Video: Ep. 1057 Ominous Signs Ahead? The Dan Bongino Show 9/2/2019!-Posted on YouTube.com-By Dan Bongino-On September 2, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxD1IF44VV4

Lindsey Graham: FISA Warrant Applications Should be Released to Public!-Posted on SaraCarter.com-By Staff Writer-On September 2, 2019:

https://saraacarter.com/lindsey-graham-fisa-warrant-applications-should-be-released-to-public/

Michael Flynn and his lawyer Sidney Powell leave the E. Barrett Prettyman U.S. Courthouse in Washington on June 24, 2019. (Alex Wroblewski/Getty Images)

Flynn Accuses Prosecutors of Hiding Exculpatory Evidence, Demands They Be Removed!-Posted on The Epoch Times-By Ivan Pentchoukov-On September 3, 2019:

https://www.theepochtimes.com/flynn-accuses-prosecutors-of-hiding-exculpatory-evidence-demands-they-be-removed_3064423.html

Video: Ep. 1058 Disturbing Liberal Hypocrisy Exposed. The Dan Bongino Show 9/3/2019!-Posted on YouTube.com-By Dan Bongino-On September 3, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDoO8bkqVcw

Image: It’s now obvious: We are living under a lawless deep state dictatorship where treasonous criminals like James Comey will never be prosecuted

Fitton: “James Comey was a Spy”: “Of Course Obama Knew!”-Posted on The Post & Email-By Sharon Rondeau-On September 3, 2019:

https://www.thepostemail.com/2019/09/03/fitton-james-comey-was-a-spy/

Obama-Biden

Obama, Biden Briefed on Private Trump Meeting Before Comey Fed Details to FBI Team Investigating Russia Collusion!-Posted on Breitbart.com-By Aaron Klein-On September 3, 2019:

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/09/03/obama-biden-briefed-on-private-trump-meeting-before-comey-fed-details-to-fbi-team-investigating-russia-collusion/

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Obama at Columbia – Or Was He? Revelations from George Stephanopoulos, Newsweek, and Columbia grads from Israel!-Posted on Front Page Magazine-By Lloyd Billingsley-On September 4, 2019:

https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/274817/obama-columbia-%E2%80%93-or-was-he-lloyd-billingsley

Carl Gallups: “Some of Us” Know Who Obama Is: “It’s Going To Be A Shock When It Finally Comes Out!”-Posted on The Post & Email-By Sharon Rondeau-On September 7, 2019:

https://www.thepostemail.com/2019/09/07/carl-gallups-some-of-us-know-who-obama-is/

Comey Claims FBI a “Revered Institution” Despite Obama Forgeries: What Does The Former Leadership Know?-Posted on The Post & Email-By Sharon Rondeau-On September 4, 2019:

https://www.thepostemail.com/2019/09/04/comey-claims-fbi-a-revered-institution-despite-obama-forgeries/

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Is the Leif Olson Story a Turning Point in the Media's Campaign Against Trump People?-Posted on Front Page Magazine-By Daniel Greenfield-On September 3, 2019:

https://www.frontpagemag.com/point/274837/leif-olson-story-turning-point-medias-campaign-daniel-greenfield

Video: Ep. 1059 What’s With the Explosion in Fake News? The Dan Bongino Show 9/4/2019!-Posted on YouTube.com-By Dan Bongino-On September 4, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-thqFg-KyoA

GP: Gregory Craig, Greg Craig 190812

Former Obama White House counsel Gregory Craig found not guilty of lying to Justice Department in case that stemmed from Mueller probe!-Posted on CNBC.com-By Tucker Higgins/@tuckerhiggins-On September 4, 2019:

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/09/04/former-obama-white-house-counsel-gregory-craig-found-not-guilty-of-lying-to-prosecutors.html

The Left's Next Target: 'Christian Nationalists': The Left's latest straw man to label patriotic Christians as "haters!"-Posted on The Patriot Post-By Mark Alexander-On September 4, 2019:

https://patriotpost.us/alexander/65258-the-lefts-next-target-christian-nationalists?mailing_id=4511&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4511&utm_campaign=alexander&utm_content=header.default

Cheney Declares She’ll ‘Always Defend God’ as Dem Rep Tries to Cut ‘so Help Me God’ From Oath of Office!-Posted on Independent Journal Review-By Madison Summers-On September 4, 2019:

https://ijr.com/cheney-declares-always-defend-god-dem-rep-rid-oath/

Video: Ep. 1060 It’s Worse Than We Thought. The Dan Bongino Show 9/5/2019!-Posted on YouTube.com-By Dan Bongino-On September 5, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOE0pWRCKc4

Comey Memo: Trump Said he Would Sue Christopher Steele: When Did Trump Learn Of The “Dossier?”-Posted on The Post & Email-By Sharon Rondeau-On September 6, 2019:

https://www.thepostemail.com/2019/09/06/comey-memo-trump-said-he-would-sue-christopher-steele/

Video: Ep. 1061 Debunking The Latest Media Whopper. The Dan Bongino Show 9/6/2019!-Posted on YouTube.com-By Dan Bongino-On September 6, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dtYON0B73o

Video: Tom Fitton’s Judicial Watch Weekly Update-Topic: Fed Courts Slam Clinton Cover-Up; and Where Are the Coup Prosecutions?-Posted on YouTube.com-By Judicial Watch-On September 6, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJEmDpkaxM8

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Judge Jeanine roasts James Comey: ‘The president was right to fire you’!-Posted on Conservative Institute-On September 8, 2019:

https://www.conservativeinstitute.org/conservative-news/jeanine-comey-president-fire.htm

Video: Ep. 1062 A Warning for the Democrats. The Dan Bongino Show 9/9/2019!-Posted on YouTube.com-By Dan Bongino-On September 9, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndBS8f1EgqU

The Deadly History of Socialism!-Posted on The New American-By Dennis Behreandt-On September 9, 2019:

https://www.thenewamerican.com/print-magazine/item/33174-the-deadly-history-of-socialism

Socialism: For Your Benefit — or Theirs?-Posted on The New American-By William F. Jasper-On September 11, 2019:

https://www.thenewamerican.com/print-magazine/item/33175-socialism-for-your-benefit-or-theirs

Video: Tucker Carlson Tonight 9/10/19 (2AM) FULL | Tucker Carlson Fox News September 10, 2019!-Posted on YouTube.com-By lo lo-On September 10, 2019:

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

AG William Barr, CIA Asset And Deep State Impresario!-Posted on NewsWithViews.com-By Kelleigh Nelson-On September 10, 2019:

http://newswithviews.com/ag-william-barr-cia-asset-and-deep-state-impresario/

Google, Google, Google

State Attorneys General Launch Google Antitrust Investigation!-Posted on Breitbart.com-By Sean Moran-On September 9, 2019:

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/09/09/state-attorneys-general-launch-google-antitrust-investigation/

CIA Blasts CNN for 'Simply False' Report on Moscow Spy!-Posted on The Western Journal-By Joe Saunders-On September 10, 2019:

https://www.westernjournal.com/cia-blasts-cnn-simply-false-report-moscow-spy/?ff_source=Email&ff_medium=WJBreaking&ff_campaign=breaking&ff_content=western-journal

Former CIA analyst Buck Sexton says CNN spy story was 'meant to be a weapon against Donald Trump'

Former CIA analyst Buck Sexton says CNN spy story was 'meant to be a weapon against Donald Trump'!-Posted on FoxNews.com-By Nick Givas | Fox News-On September 10, 2019:

https://www.foxnews.com/media/cnn-russian-spy-donald-trump-media

House Dem Himes condemns intelligence community leaks in wake of CNN story about spy in Russia

House Dem Himes condemns intelligence community leaks in wake of CNN story about spy in Russia!-Posted on FoxNews.com-By Nick Givas | Fox News-On September 10, 2019:

https://www.foxnews.com/media/cnn-russian-spy-intelligence-trump

Kremlin Denies That Alleged CIA Informant Had Access to Putin!-Posted on CNSNews.com-By Dimitri Simes-On September 11, 2019:

https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/dimitri-simes/kremlin-denies-alleged-cia-informant-had-access-putin

Video: Ep. 1063 CNN Gets Wrecked. The Dan Bongino Show 910/2019!-Posted on YouTube.com-By Dan Bongino-On September 10, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mwKJzE4ZVo

chaos

Video: Out of Chaos Comes Order-The Hegelian Dialectic Is the Master Plan To Usher In the New World Order!-Posted on The Common Sense Show-By Dave Hodges-On September 10, 2019:

https://thecommonsenseshow.com/agenda-21-economics-health/out-chaos-comes-order-hegelian-dialectic-master-plan-usher-new-world-order

Image: Remembering 9/11 and the criminal neocons who engineered it to destroy evidence of deep state criminality and the theft of trillions of dollars

Remembering 9/11 and the criminal neocons who engineered it to destroy evidence of deep state criminality and the theft of trillions of dollars!-Posted on Natural News-By Mike Adams-On September 11, 2019:

https://www.naturalnews.com/2019-09-11-remembering-911-and-the-criminal-neocons.html

President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump participate in a moment of silence honoring ...

Trump, first lady lead 9-11 memorial service at White House!-Posted on Las Vegas Review Journal-By Debra J. Saunders Las Vegas Review-Journal-On September 11, 2019:

https://www.reviewjournal.com/news/politics-and-government/trump-first-lady-lead-9-11-memorial-service-at-white-house-1845825/

On the Anniversary of 9/11, We Must Counter the Enemy Within!-Posted on PJ Media-By Brigitte Gabriel-On September 11, 2019:

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/on-the-anniversary-of-9-11-we-must-counter-the-enemy-within/

Man Whose Mother Died on 9/11 Blasts Ilhan Omar During Ground Zero Memorial!-Posted on The Political Insider-By Guest Author-On September 11, 2019:

https://thepoliticalinsider.com/man-whose-mother-died-on-9-11-blasts-ilhan-omar-during-ground-zero-memorial/

Taliban Marks 9/11 Anniversary With Defiance, Rocket Attacks!-Posted on CNSNews.com-By Patrick Goodenough-On September 11, 2019:

https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/patrick-goodenough/taliban-marks-911-anniversary-defiance-rocket-attacks

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Did We Learn Anything From 9/11? Or are we still sleeping?-Posted on Front Page Magazine-By Daniel Greenfield-On September 11, 2019:

https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/274911/did-we-learn-anything-911-daniel-greenfield

US Military Releases Video of 'ISIS Island' Infestation Being Blown to Smithereens with 80,000 lbs of Airborne Explosives!-Posted on The Western Journal-By Josh Manning-On September 11, 2019:

https://www.westernjournal.com/us-military-releases-video-isis-island-infestation-blown-smithereens-80000-lbs-airborne-explosives/

New York Times Deletes Tweet Diminishing September 11 Attacks!-Posted on The Political Insider-By Rusty | Featured Contributor | September 11, 2019:

https://thepoliticalinsider.com/new-york-times-deletes-tweet-diminishing-september-11-attacks/

Another WaPo Pollaganda Whopper: Collusion between the Democrat Party and its MSM propagandists is an abject betrayal of the First Amendment!-Posted on The Patriot Post-By Mark Alexander-On September 11, 2019:

https://patriotpost.us/alexander/65405-another-wapo-pollaganda-whopper?mailing_id=4525&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4525&utm_campaign=alexander&utm_content=header.default

Report: Dems Secretly Trained Thousands to Manipulate Media

Report: Dems Secretly Trained Thousands to Manipulate Media!-Posted on NewsMax.com-By Jeffrey Rodack-On September 11, 2019:

https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/democrats-radio-clinton-gore/2019/09/11/id/932161/

Video: Ep. 1064 Time Does Not Heal All Wounds. The Dan Bongino Show 9/11/2019!-Posted on YouTube.com-By Dan Bongino-On September 11, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0Wk2nuWfZA

Video: Tucker Carlson Tonight 9/11/19 FULL | Tucker Carlson Fox News September 11, 2019!-Posted on YouTube.com-By TV1Mumbai-On September 11, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3TJUl9KD6U

Video: The Ingraham Angle 9/11/19 FULL | Laura Ingraham Fox News September 11, 2019!-Posted on YouTube.com-By TV1Mumbai-On September 11, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wY40CuGGF3A

Video: Ep. 1065 A Huge Victory for the Trump Team. The Dan Bongino Show 9/12/2019!-Posted on YouTube.com-By Dan Bongino-On September 12, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F46hdGf7W2M

Please Read Part 103Q:

The Most Dangerous and Treacherous Times in U.S. History! (Part 103Q)-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On September 12, 2019:

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

Please Read Part 104:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Peace is possible if Trump is elected.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A Republic, If You Can Keep It!

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

The Fightin Side of Me!

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

When Injustice Becomes Law, Resistance Becomes Duty!

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

“Food for Thought”

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

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

Please Continue Praying For Our Country/Republic.

Semper Fi!

Jake

Tuesday AM ~ thefrontpagecover

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Court declares scumbag/liar-nObama’s EPA

“Waters of the United States Rule” unlawful

by Leslie Eastman

{ legalinsurrection.com } ~ Back in 2015, we covered the scumbag/liar-nObama administration’s far-reaching Waters of the United States (WOTUS) Rule and the pushback it received at the time... States’ suits are making their way through the courts, and there is good news to report! U.S. District Judge Lisa Godbey Wood has handed a victory to the state of Georgia and nine other states that sued the federal government and to the rest of the nation by declaring that the WOTUS Rule is unlawful. Wood stated that the rule, which was intended to provide better protection of the nation’s water, violated the Clean Water Act and the Administrative Procedure Act, and she remanded it back to the Environmental Protection Agency and the Army Corps of Engineers for further work. She wrote that while the agencies have authority to interpret the phrase “waters of the United States,” that authority isn’t limitless, and therefore their decisions in doing so do not fall under what’s called Chevron deference, a matter of case law in which — for lack of a better phrase — the tie goes to the agency. Legal Insurrection readers may recall that implementation of the rule led to a Wyoming farmer being fined $37,500 a day for constructing a stock pond on his own property. The American Farm Bureau Federation, which earlier this year won a decision in Texas that also found the rule legally wanting, praised Wood’s decision. “The court ruling is clear affirmation of exactly what we have been saying for the past five years,” AFBF General Counsel Ellen Steen said. “The EPA badly misread Supreme Court precedent. It encroached on the traditional powers of the states and simply ignored basic principles of the Administrative Procedure Act when it issued this unlawful regulation.” Wood found the WOTUS rule’s “vast expansion of jurisdiction over waters and land traditionally within the states’ regulatory authority cannot stand absent a clear statement from Congress in the CWA. Since no such statement has been made, the WOTUS Rule is unlawful under the CWA.” She also determined the agencies’ “inclusion of all interstate waters in the definition of ‘waters of the United States,’ regardless of navigability, extends their jurisdiction beyond the scope of the CWA because it reads the term navigability out of the CWA.”...

https://legalinsurrection.com/2019/08/court-declares-obamas-epa-waters-of-the-united-states-rule-unlawful/?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=23786c37-0389-49ac-9f46-d1ffe647aec8

Lebanon: Israel struck PFLP-GC

base in Bekaa Valley

By ANNA AHRONHEIM

{ jpost.com } ~ Israeli drones struck a base belonging to a Palestinian terrorist group in Lebanon’s Bekaa near the border with Syria early Monday... Lebanon's state-run National News Agency said. "Three hostile strikes" hit Lebanon's eastern mountains near Qusaya after midnight "where the PFLP-GC has military posts,” NNA said, adding that "they responded with a barrage of anti-aircraft fire." According to the report, the strikes caused material damage and no casualties. Videos posted on social media showed explosions as well as heavy anti-aircraft fire by militants. The PFLP-GC split from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) in 1968, claiming it wanted to focus more on resistance and less on politics. Led by Ahmad Jibril, a former captain in the Syrian Army, the PFLP-GC is closely tied to both Syria and Iran. While its political leadership is headquartered in Damascus, it has bases in southern Lebanon, in Palestinian refugee camps and a small presence in the Gaza Strip. It has carried out dozens of deadly attacks since its split. The most recent was in December 2015, when the group fired three rockets from Lebanon toward northern Israel. According to the report, the strikes caused material damage and no casualties... https://www.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-Conflict/IAF-jets-strike-in-Lebanon-a-position-owned-by-PFLP-599706

US announces rewards for 3 Islamic State leaders

By THOMAS JOSCELYN

{ longwarjournal.org } ~ On Aug. 21, the US State Department Rewards for Justice Program announced rewards of up to $5 million each for three wanted Islamic State (ISIS) leaders... Sami Jasim Muhammad al-Jaburi, Amir Muhammad Sa’id Abdal-Rahman al-Mawla, and Mu‘taz Numan ‘Abd Nayif Najm al-Jaburi. Respectively, the three are: a money man, a senior ideologue, and an explosives expert. Interestingly, all three of the so-called caliphate’s men began their jihadist careers with al Qaeda in Iraq (AQI), the forerunner to the current Islamic State organization. The State Department says al-Mawla “was a religious scholar in ISIS’s predecessor organization,” AQI, while both al-Jaburis are “legacy” AQI members. It is not clear if the State Department means AQI as it existed before the establishment of the Islamic State of Iraq (ISI) in 2006, or the ISI. Either way, the brief biographical details provided for all three men demonstrate that the current Islamic State retains a cadre of veterans who have been with the enterprise for years, and in some cases possibly a decade or more. Sami Jasim Muhammad al-Jaburi (a.k.a. Hajji Hamid and Haji Hamad) was reportedly killed in 2016, but the newly-released reward announcement indicates the US government thinks he survived. On Aug. 11, 2016, the Kurdistan Region Security Council (KRSC) reported that Sami al-Jaburi and “an aide were killed” in a joint operation involving US Special Forces. The KRSC described al-Jaburi as “responsible” for the Islamic State’s “natural resources in Iraq and Syria.” That part was true, based on other sources, but al-Jaburi apparently wasn’t killed in the raid.Sami al-Jaburi has long been a key Islamic State money man. The Treasury Department added him to the US government’s list of specially designated global terroristsin 2015, reporting that as of that same year he “supervised” the Islamic State’s “oil and gas, antiquities, and mineral resources operations.” He had worked with another Islamic State “oil and gas official,” Fathi ben Awn ben Jildi Murad al-Tunisi (a.k.a. Abu Sayyaf), to “establish a new funding stream for ISIS from increased production at oil fields held by the organization,” Treasury said. That effort took place in Apr. 2015... https://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2019/08/us-announces-rewards-for-3-islamic-state-leaders.php

The Unsafe Space of the First Day of School

by Andrew Ash

{ gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ Fragile sensibilities and the desperate need to have them catered to now appear the number one priority of the pampered, guilt-ridden offspring of the people... who found a way to lower them gently into the best universities. Incoming innocents, entering into such an unsafe space as the first day of school, are increasingly less likely to encounter any requirement for inner strength as they face, for the first time, the perils of the world without maternal protection. Yearned-for amendments to the facts of life, previously intended to equip a child against the rough and tumble of the "school of life," have been replaced by the notion that refusing to hear anything that might offend one is not a choice, but a right. Why argue with creatures who have an opposing view when you can simply shut them down? It does not stop there. Delusional gems, designed to flatten the playing field of human existence, keep on coming: Gender differences do not exist; you can change your sex just by saying so. Most men are savage rapists-in-waiting. There is no "debate" on climate change: the result, funded by industry grants, has already been decided. White people should all be ashamed of themselves for having been born with the "wrong" skin. There is no such thing as a nation state. Borders are no longer necessary. Questioning immigration makes you a Nazi. Expressing what you think can ship you to prison -- and so on. If many on the "progressive" left want to create an upside-down, through-the-looking-glass world where the way to happiness is to expect the world to adapt to one's personal requirements, and sowing confusion and discord within society is their aim, then they are doing a fantastic job of it. In addition, a seemingly expansive sense of self seems to have been engorged by adopting a group identity over individual freedom of choice. Thus, identity politics, with its emphasis on coercing sympathy and rewarding what often appears a fabricated victimhood, has given way to devaluing, if not ignoring, real victimhood... https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/14561/unsafe-spaces

Minorities: The Forgotten Democrat Voters

By Rich Logis

{ americanthinker.com } ~ In business and in politics, you can never take your customers and voters for granted... Next year, we're going to find out what strides we've made in signing disaffected political free agents to our Republican Party and President Trump re-election team, including historically reliable Democrat voting blocs such as blacks, Hispanics, Jews, Millennials, and Generation Zers. Will micro-movements such as Blexit and Jexit make a positive electoral impact? It is not unrealistic that President Trump's campaign may raise over $1 billion for 2020; these are funds that can be used for unprecedented voter outreach in purple districts and big cities located in purple states. I'm confident that there are tens of thousands, and potentially hundreds of thousands, of Americans disillusioned with the Democratic Party. Let's welcome them to the America First family of voters. Unlike the Democrats, we don't seek to take their children, take their money, and take their freedoms, and we won't take them for granted. I believe that the best approach to minority voters is to emphasize not their race, ethnicity, religion, sex, or country of origin, but rather their forgotten status as Americans whose votes the Democrats believe they are entitled to. Why do minorities tend to overwhelmingly vote Democrat? The Occam's razor answer is that Democrats speak minorities' political language better than Republicans do. Democrats have spent tens of thousands of consecutive days running the municipalities where the majority of blacks, Jews, and Hispanics live. With Democrats' infiltration of the public education infrastructure, the unions, and the bureaucracies, minorities, even with an online world of information readily accessible, have known nothing else except Democrat politics. It's local-level Stockholm syndrome. If we work from a worst-case starting point in which most minority groups will majority vote Democrat for the foreseeable future, then we have only up to go. We can't fall off the floor...

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/08/minorities_the_forgotten_democrat_voters.html

Enforcing 'Public Charge' Rule in Immigration Is Common Sense

Hans von Spakovsky

The latest claims against the Trump administration over its enforcement of the “public charge” provision in federal immigration law are nonsensical. There is nothing “racist” or “immoral” about this requirement at all.

On Aug. 14, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) published its new rule on how it will determine if “an alien applying for admission or adjustment of status is inadmissible … because he or she is likely at any time to become a public charge.” Being a “public charge” means that an individual is unable to support himself and instead relies on public benefits such as welfare. This is a long-standing principle of U.S. immigration law, first implemented at the federal level in 1882.

It is common sense — and a smart choice in the best interests of the country as a whole — to try to ensure that new, legal immigrants to our country are self-sufficient individuals who will be a net plus for our economy, rather than a drag on expensive medical, housing, welfare, and other public assistance programs paid for by the American taxpayer at both the state and federal level.

These programs are a major source of our trillion-dollar budget deficits and the increase in our public debt. Why would we want to bring in immigrants who will only add to that deficit and that debt?

The statute does not define “public charge,” but leaves that up to the federal government. Congress articulated our immigration policy that “aliens within the Nation’s borders not depend on public resources to meet their needs, but rather rely on their own capabilities and the resources of their families, their sponsors, and private organizations.” This is intended to prevent damage to the economy and increased public debt, of course, but also to ensure that “the availability of public benefits not constitute an incentive for immigration to the United States.”

In the past, federal rules focused only on “the receipt of public cash assistance for income maintenance or institutionalization for long-term care at Government expense.” This definition essentially ignored the numerous other costly public benefits the government provides. Thus, if an alien was receiving non-cash benefits under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance and food stamp programs; Medicaid; and housing vouchers and subsidies, he was not considered a “public charge” on the taxpayer.

The administration’s new rules simply define the public charge requirement to reflect today’s system of government benefits. In other words, it brings reality into the system.

In short, the rule insists that to become a permanent resident in the U.S. with eventual access to U.S. citizenship; to be admitted as a legal immigrant on a visa; or to change your status and extend your stay or apply for citizenship when you are already legally in the country, an individual must not be reliant on, or likely to become reliant on, such welfare programs.

There are numerous exceptions in the new rule. For example, it does not apply to humanitarian-based immigration programs. This ensures that refugees, asylum seekers, victims of sex-trafficking, or other special cases such as victims of qualifying criminal activity (including domestic violence) won’t be barred by the public charge requirement.

It does not apply to aliens who serve in the U.S. military or to pregnant women and aliens under the age of 21 who receive Medicaid benefits. It also won’t apply to Medicaid benefits paid for emergency medical or school-based services (such as provided under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act).

Additionally, if DHS decides that an immigrant is not admissible because of the public charge rule, in limited circumstances, DHS will offer the aliens the opportunity to post a public bond. The amount of the bond will vary depending on the alien’s circumstances.

This rule protects U.S. taxpayers by ensuring that new immigrants to the U.S. will not add even more spending to the welfare and entitlement programs already driving American debt to unsustainable levels.

It also ensures that the U.S. is granting entry to those who are self-reliant, rewarding such industrious immigrants with the privilege of staying and working in the U.S. and eventually gaining access to the most prized possession of all — American citizenship. ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/opinion/65012?mailing_id=4488&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4488&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

Monday PM ~ thefrontpagecover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on August 26, 2019 at 3:49pm

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

Greenland Would Be a Good Buy

Harold Hutchison

China announces it seeks 'calm' end to trade war,

as markets tank and currency hits 11-year flatline

By Gregg Re

{ foxnews.com } ~ China signaled Monday it is now seeking a "calm" end to its ongoing trade war with the U.S. and President Trump voiced optimism about a deal... as Asian markets crumbled and China's currency plummeted to an 11-year low following the latest tariffs on $550 billion in Chinese goods announced last Friday by the Trump administration. "I think we're going to have a deal," Trump told reporters. Trump said Monday that officials from China called U.S. officials and expressed interest to "get back to the table,” The Wall Street Journal reported. He called the discussions a “very positive development.” “They want to make a deal. That’s a great thing,” he said. News of the possible opening in negotiations came shortly after Trump threatened to declare a national emergency that would result in American businesses freezing their relationships with China. Trump's tariff barrage on Friday was a response to China imposing its own retaliatory tariffs on $75 billion in U.S. goods. At the Group of Seven summit in France on Sunday, White House officials rejected suggestions the president was wavering and insisted that his only regret was not implementing even more tariffs on China. Trump wrote on Twitter that world leaders at the G-7 were "laughing" at all the inaccurate media coverage of the gathering. In response, Chinese Vice Premier Liu He told a state-controlled newspaper on Monday that "China is willing to resolve its trade dispute with the United States through calm negotiations and resolutely opposes the escalation of the conflict," Reuters first reported, citing a transcript of his remarks provided by the Chinese government. Liu is China's top trade negotiator...

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/china-announces-it-seeks-end-to-trade-war-as-markets-tank-and-currency-hits-11-year-flatline

VIDEO: https://video.foxnews.com/v/6077165398001/#sp=show-clips

Evgeny Buryakov Pleads Guilty In Manhattan

Federal Court In Connection With Conspiracy

To Work For Russian Intelligence

by justice.gov ~ Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and John P. Carlin, Assistant Attorney General for National Security, announced that EVGENY BURYAKOV, a/k/a “Zhenya,” pled guilty today... to conspiring to act in the United States as an agent of the Russian Federation, without providing prior notice to the Attorney General. U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said: “An unregistered intelligence agent, under cover of being a legitimate banker, gathers intelligence on the streets of New York City, trading coded messages with Russian spies who send the clandestinely collected information back to Moscow. This sounds like a plotline for a Cold War-era movie, but in reality, Evgeny Buryakov pled guilty today to a federal crime for his role in just such a scheme. More than two decades after the end of the Cold War, Russian spies still seek to operate in our midst under the cover of secrecy. But in New York, thanks to the work of the FBI and the prosecutors in my office, attempts to conduct unlawful espionage will not be overlooked. They will be investigated and prosecuted.” Assistant Attorney General John P. Carlin said: “Evgeny Buryakov pleaded guilty to covertly working as a Russian agent in the United States without notifying the Attorney General. Foreign nations who attempt to illegally gather economic and other intelligence information through espionage pose a direct threat to U.S. national security. The National Security Division will continue to work with our law enforcement partners to identify and hold accountable those who illegally operate as covert agents within the United States.” According to the Complaint, the Indictment, other court filings, and statements made during court proceedings: Beginning in 2012, URYAKOV worked in the United States as an agent of Russia’s foreign intelligence agency, known as the “SVR.” BURYAKOV operated under “non-official cover,” meaning he entered and remained in the United States as a private citizen, posing as an employee in the Manhattan office of a Russian bank, Vnesheconombank, also known as “VEB.” SVR agents operating under such non-official cover – sometimes referred to as “NOCs” – typically are subject to less scrutiny by the host government, and, in many cases, are never identified as intelligence agents by the host government. As a result, a NOC is an extremely valuable intelligence asset for the SVR...

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/evgeny-buryakov-pleads-guilty-manhattan-federal-court-connection-conspiracy-work

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ml1PKrwCOfk

worthless-Tlaib and worthless-Omar sought to destroy Israel through 'economic strangulation'

By Nick Givas

{ foxnews.com } ~ House Democrats worthless-Ilhan Omar, of Minnesota, and worthless-Rashida Tlaib, of Michigan, are out to destroy Israel's economy... former Israeli Ambassador to the United States Michael Oren said in a Tuesday interview on "Fox & Friends." "These two members of Congress have supported an organization called BDS, which doesn't aspire to create a better two-state solution. It aspires to destroy the state of Israel through economic strangulation," he said. "They were being sponsored by an organization... which not only supports BDS, but is known for anti-Semitic comments and for supporting terror. No such country would let such people in unless they had a diplomatic reason." worthless-Omar and worthless-Tlaib were barred from entering the country last week, due to their high-profile attempts to boycott Israel, prompting a public response from the two anti-Trump Democrats. “We in the United States have a constructive role to play,” worthless-Omar said at a Monday news conference in St. Paul, Minn. “We give Israel more than $3 billion in aid every year. This is predicated on them being an important ally in the region and the only democracy in the Middle East. But, denying a visit to duly elected members of Congress is not consistent with being an ally.” worthless-Oren said if someone had taken the same stance against the United States, they would be vetted and denied entry into the country. worthless-Tlaib was given permission to visit her mother but refused.

https://www.foxnews.com/media/israel-tlaib-omar-controversy-trump-barred

VIDEO: https://video.foxnews.com/v/6074721371001/

USS Green Bay Transits Taiwan Strait

By Ben Werner

{ news.usni.org } ~ San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock USS Green Bay (LPD-20) transited the Taiwan Strait Friday morning at a time of increased trade tensions between the U.S. and China... News of the transit was first reported by Reuters. As news of Green Bay’s Taiwan Strait transit spread, China announced it was increasing a host of existing tariffs on U.S. products by five to ten percent, according to a post on MarketWatch. China considers it a provocation when foreign naval vessels pass through the 110-wide body of water separating the mainland from the island of Taiwan. The policy of the U.S. and other nations steaming through the strait is these trips are intended to ensure the free passage of vessels through the international waters. Since July 2018, the U.S. Navy has sent ships through the Taiwan Strait ten times. French and Canadian naval vessels have also transited the strategic waterway during the past year.

https://news.usni.org/2019/08/23/uss-green-bay-transits-taiwan-strait?utm_source=USNI+News&utm_campaign=115efbecc1-USNI_NEWS_DAILY&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_0dd4a1450b-115efbecc1-231491269&mc_cid=115efbecc1&mc_eid=3999f18767

Sex Slaves Being Held for Ransom by Iran

by clarionproject.org ~ Young Yazidi sex slaves kidnapped by ISIS in Iraq are being held in Iran and are up for sale. The girls were transferred to Iran by Iranian soldiers from the Syrian city of Kobani... which was once a stronghold of ISIS. According to Iraqi Yazidi activist Ali Elchansuri, there is a significant number of kidnapped Yazidi girls – and boys— being held in Iran for the last two years. At present, two of the children have been positively identified. They are both girls, ages 13-14, and were kidnapped by ISIS when the terror group took over the Sinjar region in Iraq in the summer of 2014. During that siege, most of the men and older boys were killed and the women and girls — some as young as six — were taken as sex slaves. The younger boys were made into ISIS fighters. Iranian officials will only release the children after they have been identified – and for a price. Speaking to Sputnik News Arabic, Elchansuri said, “The source of this information asked me to come to Iran and said he would set up a meeting for me with the head of the orphanage where they are being held, and if I recognize them, I can take them. But the same source told me that his ‘friend’ will demand $20,000 for each girl – meaning $40,000 for both girls.” Elchansuri said that he has recordings and pictures that prove the existence of more Yazidi children, but was not at liberty to mention to name of the area or the place where they are being held. He also said that the Iranian government knows about the children. Although he declined to say specifically, it is understood that the Iranian government is also aware of their soldiers’ demands for ransom money or even that the government is behind the ransom scheme themselves. Elchansuri said his people in Iraq have not been able to locate the families of these children. “We are assuming that they are missing and most likely killed. There is no one left of them,” he said. Elchansuri himself doesn’t have the money to travel to Iran and pay the ransom... https://clarionproject.org/sex-slaves-being-held-for-ransom-by-iran/

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7P5muid_CQ

Greenland Would Be a Good Buy

Harold Hutchison: President Donald Trump’s interest in buying Greenland stirred up derision at first — and then controversy over his response to Denmark’s declaration that the massive island is not for sale. But Trump, who made his bones doing Manhattan real-estate deals, knows a promising piece of land when he sees it.

Last year, when we discussed the failure of some NATO allies to live up to their obligations, we primarily focused on Canada and Germany, both of which had some very visible failures. But the Danish government could also been cited — since the country isn’t even at 1.25% of GDP when it comes to defense spending since 2012.

This is not to say that Denmark doesn’t have good gear; its Absalon-class multi-role support ships and Ivar Huitfeldt-class guided-missile frigates, with their versatile StanFlex mission modules, are actually far superior to the U.S. Navy’s littoral combat ships.

Still, the Danes don’t spend enough. Greenland is strategically vital in terms of access to the Arctic and Atlantic. During the Cold War, it anchored one end of the Greenland-Iceland-UK gap. Control of this gap would’ve helped NATO whittle down the Soviet Navy’s armada of submarines that were intended to attack convoys bringing supplies to Europe in the event of World War III.

Today, Greenland’s importance is as much as a staging base for operations in the Arctic as it is for helping keep the Russian Navy out of the Atlantic. And that’s before one looks at its vast natural resources, including oil and uranium, both of which are key to energy independence — and thus weaken Russia’s geopolitical position while strengthening ours.

In short, Greenland is a valuable asset, and it should be defended. But in addition to its three Ivar Huitfeldt-class frigates and two Absalon-class support ships, Denmark has but seven offshore patrol vessels and six smaller ones — not many hulls to defend a lot of coastline. The Danes also have 30 F-16 Fighting Falcons (slated to be replaced by 27 F-35s), four business jets modified for the maritime patrol mission, and nine MH-60R Seahawk helicopters. But again, that’s not a whole lot — and the country has commitments beyond the planet’s biggest island.

Greenland, then, is potentially vulnerable because it’s poorly defended. Just as the Royal Navy and the state of America’s carrier force has shown, it’s easy to trim the size of a military but much tougher to build it up — not to mention restoring capabilities that have been lost.

Russia, for its part, may be having trouble rebuilding, but Denmark needs more than it can muster. Selling Greenland would lessen what it needs to cover, and such a sale could serve as an indulgence of sorts for its lack of defense spending in recent years.

For the U.S., buying Greenland would be the modern equivalent to its 19th-century acquisitions of Alaska and the Louisiana Territory. And defending Greenland would be relatively easy, mostly by reinforcing our Thule Air Base, on Greenland’s northwest coast , and basing maritime patrol planes in the southern part of the island. In addition, it gives the U.S. an Alaska in the Atlantic, with all the economic benefits — to say nothing of a great strategic check on Russia.

In short, Greenland is a good buy, and President Trump is smart to consider it. ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/65028?mailing_id=4488&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4488&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

Monday Noon ~ thefrontpagecover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on August 26, 2019 at 11:49am

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

Demos' 2020 Strategy — Recession

Mark Alexander

Terror-sponsor Iran threatens Washington think

tank with actions by 'security apparatuses'

by Joel Gehrke & Hunter Lovell

{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ Iran, an international sponsor of terrorism, has announced sanctions against a hawkish Washington think tank, threatening that any actions taken against it by "security apparatuses" will be "considered legitimate" by Tehran... The ominous warning to the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and its chief executive officer Mark Dubowitz was carried in state-controlled media, which cited a law titled "Countering America’s Human Rights Violation and Adventurous and Terrorist Actions” that was passed by the Iranian Parliament in 2017. Iran's foreign ministry said the move had been made because of "economic terrorism" by the FDD, which has been sharply critical of the Iran nuclear deal and has advocated harsh American sanctions against the theocratic regime."Accordingly, taking any actions by the judicial and security apparatuses against the FDD and their Iranian and non-Iranian accomplices will be considered legitimate as their actions are against the Iran’s national security and the interests of Iranian people and government," the state-run Mehr news agency wrote. The think tank addressed the news in a statement, and its leader Mark Dubowitz told the Washington Examiner, "The regime has a history of targeted assassinations on European soil, places in the Gulf, Latin America, Asia ... We're treating it as a targets list, not a sanctions list." "I do think we have a sufficient profile with the U.S. administration, with Congress, and other allies that if the Iranians went after us, this would be a significant escalatory step," he continued. "But, I also don't want to say that that necessarily will deter their behavior. They tried to assassinate a Saudi ambassador in Cafe Milano right in the heart of Washington, D.C." Dubowitz said the group would not be backing down, however. "It just incentivizes us to redouble our efforts in researching and investigating the malign and destructive activities of Iran," he said. A spokesperson for the State Department indicated that the U.S. is taking "the regime's threats seriously" and vowed to "hold Iran responsible" for compromising the safety of Americans. Since its theocratic regime was established in 1979, Iran has been behind numerous terrorist activities throughout the world, often through its proxies Hamas and Hezbollah. In 2011, its plan to assassinate the Saudi Arabian ambassador to the U.S. at the Cafe Milano restaurant in Washington's Georgetown district was thwarted and one of the plotters sentenced to 25 years.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/terror-sponsor-iran-threatens-washington-think-tank-with-actions-by-security-apparatuses?utm_source=breaking_push&utm_medium=app&utm_campaign=push_notifications&utm_source=WEX_News%20Brief_08/24/2019&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WEX_News%20Brief&rid=5261

GOP shifts focus to investigating

scumbag/liar-nObama officials

By JORDAIN CARNEY

{ thehill.com } ~ Republicans are setting their sights on top scumbag/liar-nObama-era officials as they plan their own probe into the 2016 election... Eager to move on from special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian election interference and the Trump campaign, GOP senators are gearing up to investigate the investigators. The idea is gaining traction with the Republican caucus, including Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.). Mueller’s report hasn’t been released yet, but Republicans have seized on a four-page letter from Attorney General William Barr that summarized key conclusions of the two-year probe, including that Mueller "did not establish" that President Trump or members of his campaign coordinated or colluded with Moscow in its election interference."Republicans believe that the FBI and Department of Justice — the top people — took the law in their own hands because they wanted scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton to win and Trump to lose," Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said during an interview with Fox News’s Neil Cavuto as part of a media blitz discussing his plans for an investigation. He said that he will be looking at "abuse" of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant application process and the counterintelligence operation into Trump’s campaign, adding that "there will be a lot of inquiry as to how this all happened." GOP senators are already naming former officials who would be at the top of their lists to question, including former FBI Director scumbag-James Comey and former Attorney General liar-Loretta Lynch...

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/436547-gop-shifts-focus-to-investigating-obama-officials

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0rbxsegkF8

Court Gives Judicial Watch Additional Discovery

and Witnesses on scumbag/liar-Hillary

Clinton Email Scandal

by Cristina Laila

{ thegatewaypundit.com } ~ Judicial Watch was in court Thursday fighting to force scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton to answer questions under oath about her private server... Judge Royce Lamberth, a Reagan appointee on Thursday granted Judicial Watch additional discovery and scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton has 30 days to oppose to their request to question her under oath. Judicial Watch has four more months to conduct the discovery that Judge Lamberth just granted them, according to JW attorney Ramona Cotca. TOM FITTON: Court gives Judicial Watch additional discovery and witnesses on scumbag/liar-Clinton emails — wants Judicial Watch to “shake the tree” on newly uncovered potential scumbag/liar-Clinton email trove. Gives Mrs. scumbag/liar-Clinton 30 days to oppose our request to question her under oath. Recall, it was Judicial Watch who broke the story of scumbag/liar-Hillary’s private server wide open through their FOIA lawsuits and they have been pursuing this case aggressively ever since. As previously reported in December, Judge Royce Lamberth ordered senior scumbag/liar-nObama administration officials, including lawyers and aides from the scumbag/liar-Clinton State Department to be deposed and or answer written questions under oath. The court ordered discovery into three specific areas: whether Secretary scumbag/liar-Clinton’s email use of a private email server was intended to stymie FOIA; whether the State Department’s intent to settle this case in late 2014 and early 2015 amounted to bad faith; and whether the State Department has adequately searched for records responsive to Judicial Watch’s request. Judicial Watch deposed nearly a dozen witnesses and will seek addition witnesses and documents from the court, including the deposition of scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton and Cheryl Mills, her chief of staff at State and personal lawyer who directed the destruction of 33,000 State Department scumbag/liar-Clinton emails. Lawyers for scumbag/liar-Clinton and Mills are expected at the hearing Thursday.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/08/update-court-gives-judicial-watch-additional-discovery-and-witnesses-on-hillary-clinton-email-scandal/

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjMmjE2M0KM

Israel thwarts Iranian ‘killer drone’ attack

by Tom Tillison

{ bizpacreview.com } ~ With so much attention on the actions of a few anti-Semitic Democratic members of Congress, it’s easy to get distracted from the reality that on a daily basis... Israel faces real attacks from enemies who’d push them into the sea, given the chance. Unfortunately for these evil forces, Israel vehemently reserves the right to have a say in the matter. The Israeli military announced on Saturday that warplanes struck near Damascus, Syria, targeting Iranian forces that had been planning to launch “killer drones” into Israel, Reuters reported. “The strike targeted Iranian Quds Force operatives and Shiite militias which were preparing to advance attack plans targeting sites in Israel from within Syria over the last number of days,” the military said in a statement, according to the news agency. The Quds Force is an elite special forces unit of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards that operates overseas — Iran remains the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took to Twitter on Saturday afternoon to say they “thwarted an attack” in what he called a “major operational effort.”...

https://www.bizpacreview.com/2019/08/25/israel-thwarts-iranian-killer-drone-attack-792865?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=BPR%20Email&utm_campaign=DMS

Left-Wing Institutions Mainstreaming Hatred

By Fletch Daniels

{ americanthinker.com } ~ The contrasting reactions of conservatives and liberals to the news that libertarian philanthropist David Koch died and that Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is suffering from a serious health problem... highlight a fundamental difference between them. Liberal Reaction to Death of Koch Prominent liberals exploded in vicious joy at the news that Koch had died. Perhaps the worst reaction was Bill Maher, who said, "F‑‑‑ him...I'm glad he's dead, and I hope the end was painful." An outlier? Hardly. His audience roared its approval. Bette Midler got in on the act, wishing his brother were also dead. She echoed Maher's profanity-bomb language and directed it at Kay Cole James, the black American leader of the Heritage Foundation, showing once again that no insult directed toward a minority is too vile when it comes from a liberal. Social media are on fire with these types of screeds from these tolerant Americans who regularly lecture and project at Republican lack of civility. Whatever you think of his policy positions, David Koch should not have been a particularly controversial figure. He was a successful business leader who gave billions to charity. He was neither hateful nor petty. He once said, "I really want to put my money to work making the world a better place." His primary crime? He supported Republicans, the one offense that still infuriates the Left. Conservative Reaction to Ruth Bader Ginsburg News Saturday also broke the news that Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg suffered from a malignant tumor on her pancreas. President Donald Trump's reaction to this terrible news about someone who has been a fierce critic? He said, "I hope she does really well. I'm hoping she's going to be fine. She's pulled through a lot. She's strong, very tough." He wasn't an outlier. Conservatives who would love to see Ginsburg enjoy her golden years in retirement were quick to wish her well. Not a single prominent conservative said anything half as toxic as what a host of liberals rushed to say about a man they didn't even know. Conservatives almost universally would like to see the very liberal Ruth Bader Ginsburg step down from the Court. She is no friend to the Constitution and is a rubber-stamp vote in favor of all liberal issues, regardless of how detestable. But conservatives don't hate her, nor should they...

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/08/leftwing_institutions_mainstreaming_hatred.html

Demos' 2020 Strategy — Recession

Mark Alexander: Democrats and their Leftmedia propagandists are doing everything they can to, as I wrote last December, “get the pre-2020 election recession they want.” They know the best way to achieve that is to undermine confidence in our economy as they did ahead of Barack scumbag/liar-nObama’s 2008 election. To that end, they are shouting “Recession!” from the hilltops, while obstructing and undermining President Donald Trump at every turn.

They are now heralding Thursday’s revised jobs estimate for 2018 from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, a preliminary revision that asserts there were 500,000 fewer jobs created last year than previously estimated. What Democrats and the media are not saying is this: 500,000 fewer jobs than what?

Noticeably absent from the BLS report and any of the subsequent media reports is the good news: There were more than 2,200,000 jobs created in 2018. As for this being the “largest revision” in 10 years, we are also in the midst of the largest growth in 10 years. The unemployment rate stands near a 50-year low of 3.7%, and as we have noted in the last year, companies are finding it difficult to fill jobs — which is reflected in the revised job numbers.

And contrary to Demo claims, U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross noted earlier this week that the administration’s $1.8 trillion 2017 tax cuts and other policies have boosted worker wages and added millions of jobs to the U.S. economy. “Contrary to misleading arguments that the president’s policies are not benefitting workers,” Ross said, “this data shows that it is the average American workers who are gaining from the country’s broader economic success.”

Trump said last week, “Our economy is incredible.” What else would you call an economy that created more than two million jobs last year and has unemployment at a 50-year low? But the economy, even when bolstered by good economic policies, is cyclical, and Trump wants to pad the current slowing market with interest-rate cuts and other moves. As for the impact of tariffs on China, its economy is already contracting. Slowing U.S. economic growth is bad for China, too, as our consumers buy its products.

The bottom line: Economic confidence is a reflection of business and consumer confidence, and Democrats are doing everything they can to undermine both. If Democrats get the recession they are promoting and hoping for, the job and income prospects for tens of millions of American workers will fall victim to their politically induced recession.

~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/65029?mailing_id=4488&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4488&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

Mon/Med AM ~ thefrontpagecover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on August 26, 2019 at 9:13am

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

When Illegal Aliens Break the Law

Hans von Spakovsky

Monday Top News Executive Summary

Media Editors: Government & Politics

THE ART OF THE DEAL: “They want to make a deal. That’s a great thing,” President Donald Trump asserted today regarding a potential trade accord with China. Fox News reports that China is “now seeking a ‘calm’ end to its ongoing trade war with the U.S.” At least two factors have buoyed U.S. momentum. First, on Friday, “Mr. Trump said he would bolster existing tariffs on $250 billion worth of Chinese goods to 30 percent from 25 percent on Oct. 1,” The New York Times reported. “And he said the United States would tax an additional $300 billion worth of Chinese imports at a 15 percent rate, rather than the 10 percent he had initially planned.” Secondly, “Trump said Sunday that the U.S. and Japan have agreed ‘in principle’ to a bilateral trade deal involving agriculture and digital products,” according to The Hill. Heavy tariffs and the mere concept of a U.S.-Japan trade deal may be the combination that finally persuades China to made a deal.

G7 CONCLUDES: The Group of Seven summit wraps up today. “The final day was set to be pivotal for the leaders, as they sought to cap a summit marked more by whiplash, mixed signals and surprises than by concrete results,” The Washington Post reports. According to Trump, “There’s total unity. I’m talking about all the seven countries, and it’s been really good. We’ve had great unity even with Iran.”

DO AS A SAY, NOT AS I DO: In a recent Washington Post article, Andrew Freedman matter-of-factly declared, “Greenland ice melt, triggered by increased amounts of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, has worsened coastal flooding in the United States and elsewhere.” He goes on to warn, “Studies have shown that during past periods when Earth was about as warm as it is today, the entire Greenland ice sheet was lost, raising global sea levels by about 23 feet.” Barack scumbag/liar-nObama was at least rhetorically concerned as well, stating in his 2015 State of the Union address, “We’ll continue to see rising oceans … and floods.” These postulations notwithstanding, Barack and Michelle scumbag/liar-nObama are slated to purchase a multimillion-dollar oceanfront estate on Martha’s Vineyard. So much for the Huffington Post’s 2017 prediction: “Climate Change May Force Millions Of Americans To Move Inland.”

OPPORTUNISM: According to The Washington Free Beacon, “Former Illinois Republican congressman Joe Walsh announced his plans to primary President Donald Trump during a Sunday interview with George Stephanopoulos.” Political commentator Erick Erickson fumes, “He is being pushed by a bunch of people who claim character really does matter. So they’ve settled for an opportunistic grifter and birther conspiracist. They might as well back Donald Trump instead of mini-Trump humper turned Trump dumper. What a spectacular admission of failure that Walsh is the best they could come up with. And that they would settle for him suggests they really aren’t that concerned with character.”

WITCH HUNT: “The House Judiciary Committee will subpoena former White House staff secretary Rob Porter as part of its probe into President Trump’s alleged attempts to obstruct special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation. … The White House has thus far blocked senior White House officials from complying with lawmakers’ oversight requests, asserting that high-level officials enjoy ‘absolute immunity’ from testifying before Congress. That claim is now being challenged in the courts by Democrats seeking testimony from former White House counsel Don McGahn.” (National Review)

Around the Nation

WIN FOR RELIGIOUS FREEDOM: A Minnesota Christian couple in the videography business was attacked by the Rainbow Mafia, though thankfully they were vindicated last week by the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals. National Review’s David French provides background and explains why this was “a powerful blow for free speech and religious freedom.”

SMOLLET PROBED: “A Chicago judge appointed a special prosecutor on Friday morning to lead the investigation into the handling of the Jussie Smollett case. Cook County Judge Michael Toomin appointed former U.S. Attorney Dan Webb to the position to investigate the way the case was handled — specifically, why the 16 criminal charges against Smollett were dropped and to potentially reinstate the charges or even add additional charges against Smollett.”

Around the World

NOKO PROVOKES: “North Korea fired two suspected short-range ballistic missiles into the sea on Saturday morning, South Korea’s military says. The launch is the seventh carried out since North Korea ended a 17-month hiatus on testing at the end of July. … Japan’s Defence Minister, Takeshi Iwaya, confirmed the missiles had not landed in Japanese territorial waters, but described them as a clear violation of UN resolutions.” (BBC)

HONG KONG VIOLENCE: “Violence returned to the streets of Hong Kong on Saturday, as the police fired tear gas and protesters threw stones and gasoline bombs, signaling the end of a period of relative calm in the city. The clashes in the district of Kwun Tong, in eastern Kowloon, were a marked departure from the peaceful, if sometimes tense, gatherings that had taken place over much of the last two weeks.” (The New York Times)

Closing Arguments

POLICY: The right way to regulate Big Tech (National Review)

POLICY: “Green” cities: Higher costs, lower electricity reliability (Heartland Institute)

HUMOR: It’s time to address the real underlying motivation for climate denial: racism, xenophobia, and misogyny (NPC Daily)

~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/65060?mailing_id=4492&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4492&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

Jewish Rabbis and Disloyalty

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By Ilya Feoktistov

{ americanthinker.com } ~ Like the boy in the tale of the emperor’s new clothes, President Trump has once again spoken a taboo truth... Some American Jews seem to be more loyal to an increasingly anti-Jewish and far-left Democratic Party than they are to the Jewish people. That’s not necessarily an immoral position for most American Jews to take: As individuals, they have no concrete duty of loyalty to the Jewish people, and it is their absolute right to seek stronger allegiances through political, rather than through religious or ethnic affinity. But American Jewish leaders, picked and paid as such by the Jewish community, are in a different position. Those Jewish leaders whose fiduciary duty of loyalty is to the Jewish missions of their organizations, but whose primary loyalty is to the Tlaibanized progressive movement and the party that champions it, are betraying that duty in some truly indecent ways. Consider Reconstructionist Rabbi Toba Spitzer. As president of the Massachusetts Board of Rabbis (MBR), and as the long-time rabbi of the cultish Congregation Dorshei Tzedek, Spitzer has aggressively promoted extreme left-wing causes. Many are direct threats to the Jewish community: embracing anti-Semitic Islamist extremists like Linda Sarsour, hostility toward the U.S. government, hostility toward the Israeli government, support for the anti-Semitic Occupy Wall Street movement, support for the anti-Semitic Black Lives Matter movement, and open border refugee policies are some examples. Yet Rabbi Spitzer and the MBR insist that these causes are Jewish religious imperatives, even as they proclaim Jew-haters like the Hamas front group, CAIR, and the terror-affiliated Islamic Society of Boston to be their friends and allies. At the same time, Spitzer and the MBR demonize in vicious terms those fellow Jews who don’t agree with their political viewpoints. Last year, Spitzer wrote that, when it comes to Israel, American Jews should ask themselves: “Do we believe that the physical continuity of the Jewish people supersedes other Jewish values?” In other words: Should the Israelis choose to die en masse instead of committing what Rabbi Spitzer feels is the unforgivable sin of perpetuating the fight with the Palestinians? Implicitly answering in the affirmative, Spitzer challenged the “existential narrative” of Israel, arguing that Jewish sovereignty -- and the Jewish lives protected by its existence -- should not supersede the Jewish values of “lovingkindness” (chesed) and “mercy” (rachamim) toward “supporters of Hamas” -- her words, not mine. Rabbi Spitzer’s question, and the argument implicit in it, comes from ignorance. According to the Jewish canon, which deals with the laws of armed conflict at length, war against the likes of Hamas is literally a mitzvah. Beyond Judaism, the principle of individual and collective self-defense of life and property is a universal human value enshrined in the law of nations and in free sovereign legal systems like those of the United States. It is an inhuman demand, most often made by totalitarians, that a class of people die or submit to being robbed without putting up a fight -- for the good of another class or people... https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/08/jewish_rabbis_and_disloyalty.html

Iran Kicks Off ‘Massive’ War Games,

Unveils Homemade Russian Missile System

by Adam Kredo

{ freebeacon.com } ~ The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps' ground forces kicked off a "massive" set of war drills Thursday... as the country unveiled its own homemade version of Russia's advanced S-300 missile defense system in yet another showing of Tehran's growing readiness for a possible war. Iranian military leaders said the war games will mix with actual fighting as the IRGC forces seek to cleanse what they described as "anti-revolutionary terrorist groups" from along the country's borders. The operations follow an attack on IRGC units in July that killed one and injured one other. "The drill is a real one because the battlefield, enemy, and the fighters are real," Brigadier General Mohammad Pakpour, commander of the IRGC's ground force, was quoted as telling the country's state-controlled press. "Some terrorists might be hiding at the bordering areas and they will be targeted during the Qadir drills." The war games come as Iran unveiled its own version of the Russian-made S-300 missile defense system, a highly advanced radar system that Iran had been seeking to employ for years. The radar can target ballistic missiles, such as those Israel or America might use in a war, and is said to be capable of targeting multiple points at once."Bavar 373 is the most important indigenized missile defense system whose design and manufacturing started a few years ago and can engage multiple targets in high altitudes," Gen. Amir Hatami, Iran's defense minister, said at a Thursday ceremony unveiling the new military hardware. Iranian military leaders say the system is even more advanced than its Russian counterpart and can detect 60 targets simultaneously while engaging six of them at once...

https://freebeacon.com/national-security/iran-kicks-off-massive-war-games-unveils-homemade-russian-missile-system/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=adf193a85e-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_08_23_05_02_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-adf193a85e-45611665

Beijing Pledges Fight “To the End” Against

U.S. Economic Confrontation – Let It Be So

by sundance

{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ An announcement from China on Saturday, pledging a full economic war against the United States, will likely not come as a surprise for most CTH readers... However, it does serve as emphasis for our 2017 statement: “prepare your affairs accordingly“…When we followed up a few months later with the warning: “There is no upper limit to the level of economic pain Team U.S.A. (America First) is willing to inflict upon China. There is no ending perimeter of action too far for President Trump to travel. Trump will battle his adversary far beyond traditional horizons and will follow them in retreat if that’s what it takes to ensure the safety of the our economic nation.” Those words were not written lightly. We accept Trump’s history; we accept three decades of his expressed intent on these issues; and we also accept the historic and cultural position of China which takes us into this conflict. From Beijing today: China on Saturday said it would continue fighting the trade war with the US “until the end” after the two sides slapped further tariffs on each other’s goods. The commerce ministry issued a statement calling on Washington not to “misjudge the situation and underestimate the determination of Chinese people” after US President Donald Trump announced new tariffs on Chinese imports. “The US should immediately stop its wrong action, or it will have to bear all consequences,” the statement said... https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/08/24/beijing-pledges-fight-to-the-end-against-u-s-economic-confrontation-let-it-be-so/

Liberal CNN Panelist Blows Up When

Confronted Over Palestinian Terrorism

by David Rutz

{ freebeacon.com } ~ Liberal writer Peter Beinart erupted at fellow CNN panelist Rich Lowry on Monday while attempting to excuse Palestinian violence toward Israelis... saying he didn't agree but they also didn't have to be "saints" to have rights. The debate began following a news conference by Reps. worthless-Rashida Tlaib (D., Mich.) and worthless-Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.), the two Muslim congresswomen recently denied entry into Israel over their support for the BDS (Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions) movement. Condemned by the Anti-Defamation League, BDS has links to terrorism and has been called anti-Semitic by Senate Minority Leader Chuck scumbag-Schumer (D., N.Y.). Miftah, the Palestinian nonprofit that organized worthless-Tlaib and worthless-Omar's delegation to Israel, promoted the anti-Semitic "blood libel" conspiracy theory that accused Jews of putting Christian blood in matzah on Passover. It also has terrorist sympathizers among its membership. Beinart, a writer for The Atlantic, bristled when The Lead fill-in host John Berman noted Miftah's ugly background and worthless-Omar only making a passive reference to it in her comments. "Palestinians don't have to be saints in order to have the basic rights that all of us take for granted," Beinart said. "Miftah has said things that I disagree with. They made an anti-Semitic statement they apologized for … The first time I went to spend time with Palestinians in the the West Bank, it was a shattering experience." He compared their situation to the Jim Crow South in the United States. Beinart, while noting he had a friend killed in a suicide bombing, said what was most important was worthless-Omar's remarks about the state of Palestinians under Israeli occupation. Lowry responded, however, by saying the media wouldn't give a white nationalist organization the "leeway" Beinart was giving Miftah. "This is an anti-Semitic group that's supported terrorism, supports blowing up innocent civilians and children and no matter what you think of the dispute between Palestinians and Israel, that is an illegitimate tactic that no one should associate with," Lowry said...

https://freebeacon.com/politics/liberal-cnn-panelist-blows-up-when-confronted-over-palestinian-terrorism/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=adf193a85e-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_08_23_05_02_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-adf193a85e-45611665

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2YSW6HkSf0

"There Is No Christian Anymore in This Town" Persecution of Christians, June 2019

by Raymond Ibrahim

{ gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ Mali: On June 9, Islamic Fulani gunmen massacred at least 95 Christians — including women and children. During their rampage in a Christian village... they set it ablaze before leaving; several of the slain were burned alive. "About 50 heavily armed men arrived on motorbikes and pickups," a survivor recalled. "They first surrounded the village and then attacked — anyone who tried to escape was killed.... No one was spared — women, children, elderly people." Security sources confirmed that the raiders also randomly killed domestic animals in the village. It was "virtually wiped out." Burkina Faso: Islamic terrorists slaughtered 29 Christians over the course of two separate raids. The first took place on Sunday, June 9, in the town of Arbinda; 19 Christians were slaughtered. The next day, another ten Christians were murdered in a nearby town. An additional 11,000 Christians fled the region and were left displaced; they feared if they were to remain in their villages they would be next. "There is no Christian anymore in this town Arbinda," said a local contact. He added that "It's proven that terrorists were looking for Christians. Families who hide Christians are also killed. Arbinda had now lost in total no less than 100 people within six months." These June attacks follow a string of Islamic terror attacks in the West African nation over the preceding six weeks that left at least another 20 Christians dead. Nigeria: Muslim Fulani herdsmen killed at least 24 Christians in three separate raids. On June 17, the herdsmen slaughtered 13 Christians — three of whom were children, one reportedly only eight years old — in Kaduna and Plateau States. Two churches, more than 200 Christian homes, and crops were also torched to the ground. The same day, in Tarabu State, "Muslim Fulanis riding Bajaj motorcycles" raided another Christian village, where they butchered another 11 Christians. "They burned houses and shot us as we fled," a "contact" said, according to the report. According to Morning Star News: "Like Boko Haram, they are inspired by the jihad and caliphate of their Fulani kinsman Usman dan Fodio," John Eibner, chairman of international management at the Swiss-based CSI, notes on the Website. "The extensive death and destruction caused by Fulani terrorists rarely makes major headlines in the West. But, according to the Global Terrorism Index, 'In 2018 alone, deaths attributed to Fulani extremists are estimated to be six times greater than the number committed by Boko Haram'... "Fulani attacks against villages, the destruction of crops, and kidnappings tend to be directed against Christian and traditionalist villagers, with the goal of driving them off their land and occupying it," Eibner states on the Website (www.nigeria-report.org). "For the Fulani militias, the ideology and rhetoric of dan Fodio's jihad are used to legitimize land grabbing. The violence of these Muslim Fulani militias tends to be conducted with impunity. The American and British-backed Nigerian Army – the largest in Africa and a major participant in many international peacekeeping missions – is unable or unwilling to confront Fulani militias."...

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/14766/persecution-of-christians-june

When Illegal Aliens Break the Law

Hans von Spakovsky

Local officials who try to obstruct federal immigration enforcement should be condemned for endangering the public, while those who assist the federal government in ridding their communities of dangerous, criminal aliens should be commended.

Contrast the latest horrific news from Montgomery County, Maryland, a sanctuary jurisdiction, with what’s happening in Culpeper County, Virginia, whose sheriff, Scott Jenkins, makes public safety — as opposed to political correctness — his No. 1 priority.

Most Americans agree on what should be done about illegal aliens who break local criminal laws. Once they’ve served their time, they should be removed from the country, rather than sent back into the community where they can commit more crimes.

But that’s not what they do in Montgomery County. Just days after the county executive, Marc Elrich, issued an executive order prohibiting county employees from asking anyone about their immigration status and banning Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents from all county jails, two illegal aliens from El Salvador were arrested for repeatedly raping an 11-year-old girl. This is the same Marc Elrich who says President Trump’s enforcement of our immigration laws meets “the definition of terrorism.”

According to WJLA, the local ABC affiliate in Washington, D.C., Mr. Elrich was actually grinning at his press conference when he gleefully said that he couldn’t do anything about ICE waiting outside the jail house door for criminal aliens being released. But he promised that if ICE asked Montgomery County to hold criminal aliens with “anything other than a judicial order, then we’re not holding them.”

Contrast Mr. Elrich’s reckless and dangerous policy with that of Culpeper County Sheriff Scott Jenkins. He cooperates with the federal government and honors federal immigration detainer warrants issued by the Department of Homeland Security on illegal aliens who are being held in his jail because they’ve been arrested for local crimes. Liberals like Mr. Elrich hate this, which is why Mr. Jenkins was recently sued by the Legal Aid Justice Center of Falls Church for holding a criminal illegal alien until he could be picked up and deported by ICE.

Thankfully, a federal judge has now thrown out that suit.

In August 2017, Francisco Guardado Rios was arrested in Culpeper County for driving without a license and contributing to the delinquency of a minor. Mr. Jenkins received an administrative detainer from ICE asking that ICE be notified at least 48 hours before Rios’ release, and requesting that the jail also maintain custody of the illegal alien for no more than 48 hours so ICE agents could pick him up.

After serving his sentence, Rios was held for an additional two days by Mr. Jenkins before being turned over to ICE agents. Rios claimed that being held in custody after completing his sentence violated his constitutional rights, and he alleged that Mr. Jenkins had held nearly 100 other illegal aliens past their release dates in 2017 and 2018, based on ICE detainers. Good for Mr. Jenkins.

Senior U.S. District Judge Glen E. Conrad ruled, however, that Mr. Jenkins acted lawfully in cooperating with ICE. The court held that while local authorities can’t arrest an illegal alien based solely on an immigration charge, they can hold an alien who’s been arrested for committing a local crime if they get “federal direction or authorization” to hold the alien. And Mr. Jenkins had that.

When local jurisdictions refuse to cooperate with federal immigration authorities, they create de facto sanctuaries for criminals like Francisco Guardado Rios. That is exactly what Montgomery County is doing.

As Frank Madrigal, the deputy director of the Baltimore ICE office says, Montgomery County is “basically making itself into a safe haven for a criminal element.” If you “want to commit crimes” and you are here illegally, than Montgomery County is the place to go because you will “have a better opportunity to commit crimes without risk” or “facing the consequences.”

It makes no sense to release criminal aliens back into the community where they can commit more crimes. Culpeper County Sheriff Scott Jenkins understands that. Unfortunately for the citizens of Montgomery County, Marc Elrich does not. ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/opinion/64983?mailing_id=4486&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4486&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

Monday AM ~ thefrontpagecover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on August 26, 2019 at 6:48am

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~ Featuring ~

You Didn't Build That II
Cal Thomas

The HERO higher education needs

by Tim Chapman

{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ Last month, Democratic candidates for president stood on stage and said they would fix higher education with a snap of their fingers... Politicians such as Sens. Elizabeth dinky-Warren and commie-Bernie Sanders promised to make all college free and forgive student loan debt. While higher education has become an issue in our nation, these candidates’ plans would only make the crisis worse while saddling taxpayers with mountains of new debt. Fortunately, just as students head back to school, a new bill called the Higher Education Reform and Opportunity Act, or HERO, might be the fix. More people attend college every year, and the price tag continues to rise four times faster than inflation, even as its value declines. Instead of preparing their students for a good life and a meaningful career, colleges too often prepare them for a lifetime of debt. A record 45 million Americans now have outstanding student loan debt, yet a 2018 Strada Institute survey showed that 40% of new college graduates take jobs that don’t require college degrees — and those are the ones that cross the finish line.According to the National Center for Education Statistics, 40% of first-time college students won’t graduate in six years. Millions of students have gone deeply in debt with no college degree or career to show for it, largely thanks to subsidized federal loans and the misguided push for every student to obtain a four-year degree. Voters recognize this reality. In Heritage Action’s latest polling, 72% of voters said they did not believe a four-year college degree was worth the cost of tuition today. Additionally, 71% of voters in swing states said there are many skilled labor jobs available that don’t require a college degree and pay as much or more than jobs requiring a college degree. The American people understand the state of college today: it’s overpriced, overpoliticized, and overrated. They also know there are plenty of viable alternatives available to those who look. In fact, industries and employers have been suffering from a skilled labor shortage for years: There are currently more than 7 million open jobs in the United States, more than the number of job-seekers. Yet the candidates on stage last month continued to focus on increasing the number of four-year degrees and subsidizing the loans of those who have already graduated...

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/op-eds/the-hero-higher-education-needs?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTlRZNE1UQXlOMlF3T1dWbCIsInQiOiJ6KzRKNXpWUFBSSURkaUZOYU9CZ0g3VFl2SSthMWpmd1N0R0R1TFwvZkhmODVmbWd1WmpyenVqZkU2d1VMSXVvYVJrTG5Oc1ViRUpOXC9meFhmUTA1a0VZZWN6M3cya0lQSCs2cFwvZ1NYd3MxMjViNEN3ZU1lMjU2NXlGaUlNb2R6QSJ9

The Budget Is at a Crossroads

Which Path Will Congress Take?

by Justin Bogie

{ dailysignal.com } ~ Thanks to the latest massive budget deal passed by Congress, our nation’s fiscal situation is deteriorating even more quickly than before... That’s the main takeaway from the Congressional Budget Office’s updated economic projections for fiscal years 2019-2029, released on Wednesday. The latest estimates reiterate that the federal government continues to live beyond its means. The longer lawmakers delay action to curb wasteful spending and reform unsustainable entitlement programs, the larger the burden will be for younger and future generations. In May, the Congressional Budget Office projected the deficit would be $896 billion this year and showed it crossing the trillion-dollar threshold in 2022. The outlook has worsened significantly in just three months. The Congressional Budget Office now projects that by the end of September, the deficit will be $960 billion and exceed $1 trillion next year. The nation’s debt trajectory is equally alarming. Debt held by the public was 77.8% of gross domestic product in 2018. By Sept. 30, it will be an estimated 79%, and by 2029 debt held by the public is projected to reach 95.1% of GDP—an increase of 3.3 percentage points since May. In total, the Congressional Budget Office projects public debt will rise by $11.8 trillion over the next decade... Our congress needs an overhaul.

https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/08/21/the-budget-is-at-a-crossroads-which-path-will-congress-take/?utm_source=heritagefoundation&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=theinsider&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiWVRnNE1EQm1NMll3WlRBNSIsInQiOiJtTDI1Uk5zTlZjMlBtQ3lDOFE5R09ZdzUyN0Nod09BeWZDYzdYaVVGNzFjaTBOTjROeDNvYVArQ0sxbDFRUWVoMTFXN3Vxd0pTXC9RaUkzS0JyaVJIK0ZucXlYczlpTGVKb3lrYjNnYVhxTGNiWHhWVDR3TzZCYmt0dEJNWGN6XC96In0%3D

Trump Administration Working to Resolve Long-Standing Refugee Problem in North Africa

by Bob Barr

{ townhall.com } ~ President Donald Trump’s critics, including those in the media, delight in picturing him as a person unconcerned about human rights, and as a president totally unconcerned with the plight of those seeking freedom around the world... As often is the case in politics, the reality is quite different. The ongoing refugee problem in North Africa presents just such an example. Hundreds of thousands of displaced refugees in North Africa’s Western Sahara region may have more reason for hope today than ever before, thanks to the Trump Administration’s concern and involvement. In the 1970s, the people of Western Sahara, then known as the Spanish Sahara, thought for a brief moment that they would be free when Spain renounced her colonial claims, but it was not to be. The territory was soon occupied by the Kingdom of Morocco which continues to claim the area as its own, despite rulings by the International Court of Justice and numerous United Nations Resolutions recognizing the right of the region’s inhabitants, the Sahrawi, to self-determination. In 1991, after years of fighting, the UN worked out a ceasefire in which the parties agreed that the fate of the territory would be determined by referendum, giving the Sahrawi people the right to determine their own future. By that time hundreds of thousands had fled the conflict and were living in UN-administered refugee camps in Algeria. They were expecting to return home to Western Sahara after the referendum, but that vote has yet to take place and they continue to live in those same camps nearly 30 years later. In the meantime, the people of Western Sahara have prevailed at the International Court of Justice and other legal tribunals which have consistently found that Morocco has no ethnic, religious, or historical claim to the territory it has seized from them. None of these decisions nor the virtually unanimous demand that she relinquish what has come to be known as “Africa’s Last Colony” have moved Morocco from ignoring the law and world opinion...

https://townhall.com/columnists/bobbarr/2019/07/30/trump-administration-working-to-resolve-longstanding-refugee-problem-in-north-africa-n2550907

The very liberal in America are different

by Samuel J. Abrams

{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ To many, those on the extreme left appear to be more politically radical, insular, vocal and politically active than their moderate or even extremely conservative counterparts... It turns out that this is entirely correct. In addition to a host of new studies and reports showing that liberals live in a digital bubble and have less diverse social media networks than moderates or conservatives, new data from the AEI Survey on Community and Society adds another layer to the story: Extreme liberals are notably more active on social media generally and are far more politically engaged than their moderate and even very conservative counterparts. The AEI data reveals that social media has helped created an echo chamber around extreme liberals at rates significantly greater than other ideological groups. While 25% of very liberal respondents stated that social media made them “a lot” more involved with like-minded others, just 13% of moderates and very conservative identifiers believed that the internet increased their connections to similar people to that degree. In other words, extreme liberals are almost twice as likely to interact with those who share similar outlooks to themselves online compared to conservatives and centrists. Going further, progressives are also far more dominant online when expressing their views. Forty-eight percent of very liberal Americans report posting online about their politics, such as publicly supporting causes and campaigns, compared to just 23% of moderates and 30% of very conservative Americans. Once again, very liberal Americans are twice as likely to engage digitally compared to moderates. Such behaviors can further radicalize those in these echo chambers. Turning to offline activism and engagement, those who identify as very liberal are far more vigorous when it comes to promoting political views and messaging compared to the average American as well. While there is parity with reported voter turnout for extreme liberals and conservatives, extreme liberals are far more likely to engage in other forms of participation, from contacting elected officials to attending rallies and political events compared to any other ideological group... https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/op-eds/the-very-liberal-in-america-are-different/?utm_source=heritagefoundation&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=theinsider&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiWVRnNE1EQm1NMll3WlRBNSIsInQiOiJtTDI1Uk5zTlZjMlBtQ3lDOFE5R09ZdzUyN0Nod09BeWZDYzdYaVVGNzFjaTBOTjROeDNvYVArQ0sxbDFRUWVoMTFXN3Vxd0pTXC9RaUkzS0JyaVJIK0ZucXlYczlpTGVKb3lrYjNnYVhxTGNiWHhWVDR3TzZCYmt0dEJNWGN6XC96In0%3D

JW Videos of the Week

Judicial Watch Asking for Deposition of scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton

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The Untold Story of the Awan Bros/House Democrats I.T. Scandal

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NEW Docs Show Nellie Ohr Sent Anti-Trump Dirt to Top DOJ Official Working Under Bruce Ohr

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You Didn't Build That II

Cal Thomas

Remember the controversy in 2012 when President Obama said, “If you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.”

In context, the president was trying to make the point that in addition to our own hard work, others contributed to whatever level of success we have attained. The president suggested no one achieves success on his or her own. Republicans took his words as just another indicator that Democrats want more government control over our lives and businesses.

The New York Times appears to have endorsed Obama’s view and gone a step further. The newspaper’s executive editor, Dean Baquet, recently called a staff meeting to announce “The 1619 Project,” named for the year the first African slaves were brought to Virginia. Someone recorded the session and leaked it to Slate, which published a transcript. The Washington Examiner reported on it.

“The goal of the 1619 Project,” says a statement from the newspaper “is to reframe American history.” More like rewrite it. This is the stuff of totalitarian regimes where the media serve as a propaganda organ for the state, in this case the surging left wing of the Democratic Party.

No more America beginning with the Declaration of Independence, The Federalist Papers and the Constitution. Africans had no say in these, though Jefferson’s brilliant line about all of us being created equal would resound nearly a century later in a Civil War that led to the freeing of slaves and the long road to achieving Jefferson’s noble statement.

Not satisfied with practicing what used to be called journalism, it appears the newspaper’s ultimate goal is to change what is taught in public schools so that children will no longer think highly of their country because of the “stain” of slavery, a stain that has been more than paid for in blood and federal programs, which have attempted to lift some descendants of slaves out of poverty. In many cases those programs have failed, poverty having many causes, but liberals continue to promote them because it seemingly makes them feel better about themselves.

The Examiner’s Byron York writes: “The basic thrust of the 1619 Project is that everything in American history is explained by slavery and race. The message is woven throughout the first publication of the project, an entire edition of the Times magazine.”

One excerpt reveals their drift: “If you want to understand the brutality of American capitalism, you have to start on the plantation.” Never mind that “brutal” capitalism has lifted more boats than any other economic system.

There’s much more. We are led to believe that America is evil, soulless, that those at the top have always exploited those at the bottom. There’s appears to be advocacy for bigger government, reparations and never-ending guilt for things we today had nothing to do with. Is this what we want to impose on our children?

The New York Times, despite Donald Trump’s criticism, carries influence with broadcast and cable networks like CNN and MSNBC, and these networks in turn can have a collective effect on the American psyche, particularly when there is no counterbalance.

No wonder private and home schools are growing at such a rapid pace. The National Home Education Research Institute projects that by next year the number of home schools will be 2.3 million, a major increase over recent years. According to the Department of Education, about 10 percent of children in grades K through 12 now attend private schools. If politicians allowed for school choice, the number would likely be higher.

The Times’ attempt to shape history to fit its own biases is not journalism. If public schools follow its lead, they will begin to resemble schools in countries where freedom is not the prevailing tenet and antithetical to what the Founders gave us. America’s greatness eventually led to the freeing of slaves and a chance at a better life for their descendants.

~The Patriot Post

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Tlaib and Omar- The Who’s Who of Flung Poo

Posted by Craig Andresen on August 25, 2019 at 4:28am

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By Craig Andresen – Right Side Patriots on American Political Radio

So…for months, seriously from the day they entered the U.S. House, Rashida Tlaib, and Ilhan Omar have taken every opportunity they could find, and when one failed to present itself, those two islamists manufactured reasons to spew their hatred of Israel everywhere they could.

They tweeted, they FB posted, they gave interviews, and joined in on rallies and boycotts against Israel. They have had nothing but vile, vulgar and typically, liberally nasty things to say about Israel and they have openly advocated the boycotting of Israel.

When APAC put together a delegation of 72 members of congress to travel to Israel…guess who turned down the invite?

Yep…Tlaib and Omar…but…

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Posted by Rudy Tirre on August 24, 2019 at 4:04pm

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~ Featuring ~

Democrats Perpetuate Urban Poverty

Political Editors

Trump slams 'politically correct' auto

companies, 'foolish executives'

By Paul Conner

{ foxbusiness.com } ~ Wall Street Journal auto reporter Tim Higgins on automakers asking President Trump to reconsider his plan to rollback scumbag/liar-nObama-era emissions standards... President Trump slammed “politically correct” automakers Opens a New Window. on Wednesday, defending his plan to roll back scumbag/liar-nObama-era carbon emissions standards. “My proposal to the politically correct Automobile Companies would lower the average price of a car to consumers by more than $3000, while at the same time making the cars substantially safer,” Trump tweeted. In June, 17 major auto companies called on the Trump administration and the state of California to compromise on emissions standards. Then in July, four automakers came to an agreement with California on gas mileage and emissions standards, side-stepping the Trump administration.“Engines would run smoother,” Trump continued. “Very little impact on the environment! Foolish executives!”

https://www.foxbusiness.com/industrials/trump-slams-politically-correct-auto-companies-foolish-executives

VIDEO: https://video.foxbusiness.com/v/6045846642001/#sp=show-clips

Russian agent Maria Butina

confirms bombshell over FBI

by Frieda Powers

{ bizpacreview.com } ~ The attorney for Maria Butina backed up claims by former Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne that he had a relationship with the alleged Russian spy ahead of the 2016 election... Robert Driscoll spoke with Fox News host Laura Ingraham about his client, who is currently serving a sentence for felony charges of acting as a foreign agent of Russia, and Byrne, who implicated former FBI Director scumbag-James Comey and former FBI special agent Peter Strzok in his allegations that he was directed to be in a relationship with Butina. Byrne, who resigned as CEO for Overstock this week, alleged that top officials in the scumbag/liar-nObama administration had recruited him to help the Department of Justice with “political espionage,” detailing the events in wild media appearances. Byrne claimed that the FBI encouraged him in his relationship with Butina, who was attempting political lobbying of her own, and that he had informed them when things about her concerned him. Butina’s lawyers seemed to have already confirmed the relationship as a letter to the Justice Department last month revealed...

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VIDEO: https://rumble.com/v83zuf-robert-driscoll-confirms-ex-overstock-ceo-had-relationship-with-butina.html

The road not taken: Another FBI failure

involving the Clintons surfaces

By JOHN SOLOMON

{ thehill.com } ~ August in Washington can be the political equivalent of an elephant graveyard: One good rain can wash away the dirt and expose the bones of scandals past... And this August did not disappoint. Thanks to the relentless investigative work of Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), we are learning that the scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton email case may not really be settled. A staff memo updating the two senators’ long-running probe discloses that the FBI — the version run in 2016 by the now-disgraced and fired scumbag-James Comey, Andrew McCabe and Peter Strzok — failed to pursue access to “highly classified” evidence that could have resolved important questions.The failure to look at the evidence back in 2016 occurred even though the agents believed access to the sensitive evidence was “necessary” to complete the investigation into scumbag/liar-Clinton’s improper transmission of classified emails — some top-secret — on her unsecure private email server, the memos show. To make matters worse, the Trump Department of Justice (DOJ) has known about that decision since at least 2018, thanks to the work of the DOJ’s internal watchdog, Inspector General (IG) Michael Horowitz, who provided DOJ leaders and Congress with a classified appendix explaining what happened. But Johnson and Grassley have been unable to get answers for a year, even from Attorney General William Barr, about whether the FBI intends to look at the critical evidence it skipped back in 2016. The Senate staff memo succinctly lays out just how egregious the FBI’s decision was in 2016...

https://thehill.com/opinion/criminal-justice/458478-the-road-not-taken-another-fbi-failure-involving-the-clintons

Rainforest on Fire

by Alexander Zaitchik

{ theintercept.com } ~ The River Basin at the center of Latin America called the Amazon is roughly the size of Australia... Created at the beginning of the world by a smashing of tectonic plates, it was the cradle of inland seas and continental lakes. For the last several million years, it has been blanketed by a teeming tropical biome of 400 billion trees and vegetation so dense and heavy with water, it exhales a fifth of Earth’s oxygen, stores centuries of carbon, and deflects and consumes an unknown but significant amount of solar heat. Twenty percent of the world’s fresh water cycles through its rivers, plants, soils, and air. This moisture fuels and regulates multiple planet-scale systems, including the production of “rivers in the air” by evapotranspiration, a ceaseless churning flux in which the forest breathes its water into great hemispheric conveyer belts that carry it as far as the breadbaskets of Argentina and the American Midwest, where it is released as rain. In the last half-century, about one-fifth of this forest, or some 300,000 square miles, has been cut and burned in Brazil, whose borders contain almost two-thirds of the Amazon basin. This is an area larger than Texas, the U.S. state that Brazil’s denuded lands most resemble, with their post-forest landscapes of silent sunbaked pasture, bean fields, and evangelical churches. This epochal deforestation — matched by harder to quantify but similar levels of forest degradation and fragmentation — has caused measurable disruptions to regional climates and rainfall. It has set loose so much stored carbon that it has negated the forest’s benefit as a carbon sink, the world’s largest after the oceans. Scientists warn that losing another fifth of Brazil’s rainforest will trigger the feedback loop known as dieback, in which the forest begins to dry out and burn in a cascading system collapse, beyond the reach of any subsequent human intervention or regret. This would release a doomsday bomb of stored carbon, disappear the cloud vapor that consumes the sun’s radiation before it can be absorbed as heat, and shrivel the rivers in the basin and in the sky. The catastrophic loss of another fifth of Brazil’s rainforest could happen within one generation. It’s happened before. It’s happening now. One morning in April, a dugout powered by a small outboard motor appeared at a bend just upriver of the village of Kamarapa, a settlement of Apurinã Indians in Brazil’s southwestern Amazon. The dozen Apurinã squeezed inside the narrow craft represented the last of several expected delegations. The boats had been arriving since the previous morning, gliding to rest on muddy jetties after four, six, 10-hour journeys through the deep-water forest maze of the southern Amazonian floodplain during the winter rainy season. The Apurinã were gathered to discuss the emergency. In recent years, outlaws with chainsaws, known as land-grabbers, or grileiros, “locusts,” have been cutting deeper into Brazil’s Indigenous territories and other protected forests throughout the Amazon. Emboldened by the October election of Jair Bolsonaro as Brazil’s president, they are pushing more brazenly into places like Apurinã land in the roadless depths of Amazonas, the country’s biggest state and home to the world’s largest standing tracts of unbroken rainforest. “With Bolsonaro, the invasions are worse and will continue to get worse,” said Francisco Umanari, a 42-year-old Apurinã chief. “His project for the Amazon is agribusiness. Unless he is stopped, he’ll run over our rights and allow a giant invasion of the forest. The land grabs are not new, but it’s become a question of life and death.”...

https://theintercept.com/2019/07/06/brazil-amazon-rainforest-indigenous-conservation-agribusiness-ranching/?utm_source=The+Intercept+Newsletter&utm_campaign=2e96d5558a-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_08_24&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_e00a5122d3-2e96d5558a-131896129

Twitter Helped Chinese Government Promote Disinformation on Repression of Uighurs

by Ryan Gallagher

{ theintercept.com } ~ Twitter helped to promote Chinese government propaganda and disinformation about the country’s controversial internment camps in the Xinjiang region, a review of the company’s advertising records reveals... The social media company today announced a policy change that would bar such promotion following an inquiry from The Intercept and an earlier controversy over similar propaganda related to demonstrations in Hong Kong. In Xinjiang, a western province in China, the United Nations has estimated that 1 million ethnic minority Muslim Uighurs — including children, pregnant women, elderly people, and people with disabilities — have been detained under the pretext of fighting extremism. According to Human Rights Watch, Chinese authorities are “committing human rights abuses in Xinjiang on a scale unseen in the country in decades.” A review of Twitter advertisements from between June and August this year showed that the social media giant promoted more than 50 English-language tweets from the Global Times, a Chinese state media organization. Several of the tweets deliberately obscure the truth about the situation in Xinjiang and attack critics of the country’s ruling Communist Party regime..

https://theintercept.com/2019/08/19/twitter-ads-china-uighurs/?utm_source=The+Intercept+Newsletter&utm_campaign=2e96d5558a-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_08_24&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_e00a5122d3-2e96d5558a-131896129.

Democrats Perpetuate Urban Poverty

Political Editors: America’s major cities are showing increasing signs that decades of leftist Democrat policies are leading to greater dysfunction, growing crime rates, and lower standards of living. The Democrats who run these cities seek to shift the blame for the sad state of their communities onto the boogiemen of “racism” or Republicans, when in fact they are the ones responsible for enacting the policies that led to these cities’ current conditions.

There is also the problem of a shrinking middle class in major urban centers. Joel Kotkin, writing for the OC Register, notes, “Since the 1970s the middle class in cities has been in a precipitous decline while poverty has remained stubbornly high. Philadelphia’s central core, for example, rebounded between 2000 and 2014, but for every one district that gained in income, two suffered income declines. In 1970, half of Chicago was middle class; today, according to a new University of Illinois study, that number is down to 16 percent. Meanwhile, the percentage of poor people has risen from 42 to 62 percent.”

Kotkin further notes, “The most attractive blue cities — led by New York, San Francisco, San Jose, Los Angeles and Boston — now suffer, according to Pew research, the largest gaps between the bottom and top quintiles of all U.S. cities.”

One would think Democrat leaders in Baltimore, Los Angeles, and San Francisco — cities that find themselves awash in poverty-related homelessness and violence — would be working to aggressively solve these problems as soon as possible. However, many Democrat politicians are insulated from the effects of their policies because much of the old urban middle class has moved to the suburbs. Meanwhile, the Millennial hipsters attracted to these urban environments are politically more concerned over broadly nebulous leftist issues, like climate change and social justice versus the more practical and local issues like the fixing of roads and more housing availability.

In short, the Democrats who have long run America’s largest cities are failing the very ones who voted for them. ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/64974?mailing_id=4486&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4486&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

The Fediverse Social Networking Entity Is Liberal Communism On Steroids

Posted by James Allan on August 24, 2019 at 2:00pm

This social networking entity has been developing for over 10 years and nobody knows about it. After reading much literature on it my understanding it is a playground for social communists.

I keep looking around for social networking web sites where Republicans gather and I'm not surprised anymore that they are few and far between. When you find a Republican place of gathering not to many people are there. I finally realized Republicans only come out when they are stirred up and really pissed off. The democrats are buying up the (Click Pic Or Link Here To Read The Full Article)

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Posted by Rudy Tirre on August 24, 2019 at 11:35am

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

Trump Cautions Jewish Voters

Who Support Democrats

Thomas Gallatin

Debt Dwarfs China as Top

National Security Threat

By Todd Fleming

{ americanthinker.com } ~ This year's National Defense Strategy heralded the return of peer competitors and the re-emergence of long-term great power competition... The debate among national security experts that followed its publication mostly focused on whether China or Russia is the bigger long-term threat to the U.S. China is a rising power with national ambitions whose goal is to supplant U.S. atop the global hierarchy. Russia? It's a vodka-addled demographic basket case that runs a few troll farms, whose closest economic peers are Italy and Brazil. But, an increasingly dangerous China is at best the number two national security threat, dwarfed by the much clearer danger of America's spending addiction. If the U.S. is supplanted in the global order, it will have done to itself what no foreign power could ever hope to accomplish. While the national debt stands at well over $22 trillion, the better measure of the impact is in the interest that must be paid each year. The U.S. is running a trillion-plus-dollar deficit and is on pace to pay about $400B in interest on the national debt this year. In ten years, the interest on the national debt is projected to be around a cool trillion dollars, and that's assuming that the U.S. doesn't elect a socialist in the interim, which is becoming an increasingly bad bet. That's the equivalent of pulling a trillion dollar bill out of the national wallet each year and lighting it on fire. The $400B we pay now in interest is well over twice what China spends on its military. Once we get to a trillion dollars, the interest that we will have to pay on the national debt will dwarf U.S. military spending. China's debt situation is also abominable, as rising debt is a global problem. It is hard to get a real gauge on China's debt because of how much of it is built up through shadow banks and other questionable tactics. But the Chinese overall debt-to-GDP may be approaching a staggering 300%, depending on how you measure it, which is both good and bad. It's good in the sense that the Chinese are likely not as big of a global national security threat as they appear. It's bad in the sense that they also are in deep trouble and will not be able to serve as a stabilizing function when other nations' debt-laden economies start collapsing...

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/08/debt_dwarfs_china_as_top_national_security_threat.html

PA President Abbas: ‘Millions Of Fighters’

Will Take Over Jerusalem

by Adam Kredo

{ freebeacon.com } ~ Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas threatened this week that "million of fighters" would swarm Jerusalem and topple the Jewish state's capital city... warning that "no matter how many houses and how many settlements they declare that they plan to build here and there—they shall all be destroyed." Abbas, in an Arabic language speech at Jalazone Refugee Camp near Ramallah that was heavy with threats of destruction, doubled down on the Palestinian government's policy of using public money to pay convicted terrorists and their families, telling his audience, "We will not accept their designation of our martyrs as terrorists. Our martyrs are the martyrs of the homeland." Abbas went on to rally those in attendance to swarm the city of Jerusalem and destroy all Jewish people living there. His remarks are the clearest sign to date that the leader has no interest in playing a role in a revamped peace process spearheaded by President Donald Trump's White House. "To Jerusalem we march, martyrs by the millions!" he was quoted as saying, according to a translation by the Middle East Media Research Institute, or MEMRI, a media watchdog site. "We shall enter Jerusalem—millions of fighters! We shall enter it! All of us, the entire Palestinian people, the entire Arab nation, the Islamic nation, and the Christian nation," Abbas said. "They shall all enter Jerusalem." Homes and cities built by Jews and other ethnic groups living in Israel "will all go to the garbage bin of history," Abbas said... The Palestinians need to get rid of Abbas.

https://freebeacon.com/national-security/pa-president-abbas-millions-of-fighters-will-take-over-jerusalem/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=468629dad9-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_08_23_08_05_COPY_230&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-468629dad9-45611665

Palestinians: Victims of Arab

Discrimination, Racism

by Khaled Abu Toameh

{ gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ The Lebanese are angry. Why? Because Palestinians are protesting a crackdown on illegal foreign workers in Lebanon... thereby exposing Lebanese racism and a hatred of their Palestinian brothers. For the past three weeks, thousands of Palestinians in Lebanon have been demonstrating against the Lebanese authorities' crackdown on illegal workers, which is directed mainly against Palestinians and Syrians living there. "The Palestinians are not foreigners in Lebanon," said the Palestinian academic and political analyst, Abdel Sattar Qassem. "Palestinians in Lebanon are refugees and, as such, they should be treated in accordance with international regulations concerning refugees. The Palestinians have been a strong economic pillar of Lebanon. They initially contributed to the advancement of the primitive Lebanese economy; they plowed the land, planted and harvested, and set up projects that supported Palestinians and Lebanese. The Palestinians have also contributed to Lebanon's security and they are still prepared to fight to protect Lebanon and maintain its security. It is true that some Palestinian factions have made mistakes related to the civil war in Lebanon, but later they realized this mistake and fixed it." This week, Palestinian activists in Lebanon vowed to continue their protests against the crackdown after the Lebanese government rejected demands to rescind its measures against illegal workers. The activists said that despite promises from senior Lebanese officials to stop targeting Palestinian workers and businesses, the crackdown was continuing. They also pointed out that the Lebanese government has thus far failed to issue an official statement to resolve the crisis. As part of their campaign against the Lebanese measures, representatives of several Palestinian factions in Lebanon met with Hassan Huballah, an official with the Iranian-backed Hezbollah terrorist group in Beirut, and urged him to help in halting the crackdown on Palestinian workers and businesses. Hezbollah, according to reports in the Lebanese media, is opposed to the Lebanese government's measures against illegal workers... https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/14771/palestinians-arabs-discrimination-racism

Ginsburg Underwent Cancer

Treatment This Summer

by Nic Rowan

{ freebeacon.com } ~ Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg underwent three weeks of radiation treatment for pancreatic cancer... the Supreme Court disclosed on Friday. Ginsburg received treatment at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City beginning on August 5, after a localized cancerous tumor was found on Ginsburg's pancreas, according to NPR. Doctors at the hospital found that the cancer had not spread elsewhere in her body. Ginsburg's treatment included inserting a stent in her bile duct, according to the Supreme Court's statement. Ginsburg, who turned 86 in March, has been battling various forms of cancer for decades. In 1999, she was diagnosed with colon cancer, for which she underwent surgery and completed chemotherapy and radiation therapy. Ginsburg underwent surgery again in 2009 for pancreatic cancer. She had a stent placed in her right coronary artery in 2014 for discomfort she experienced while exercising with her personal trainer. Ginsburg was hospitalized in November 2018 after fracturing three ribs when she fell in her office. A subsequent scan of the affected area revealed that Ginsburg had cancerous nodules in her lungs. She received a left-lung lobectomy to remove the nodules in December 2018. Ginsburg missed an oral argument in January while she recuperated from the surgery. It was the first time she had missed a Supreme Court oral argument since taking office in August 1993. Ginsburg has 11 events planned for September and has not canceled any of them, according to NPR. The Supreme Court begins a new term in October and most justices return to work in September. President Donald Trump has already appointed two Supreme Court justices, Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) has indicated that the Republican-led Senate would not hesitate to confirm a third if a vacancy should open up before a new session of Congress begins in 2021...

https://freebeacon.com/politics/ginsburg-underwent-cancer-treatment-this-summer/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=468629dad9-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_08_23_08_05_COPY_230&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-468629dad9-45611665

Michigan, California, Georgia, Texas, Florida,

NJ public schools: Islam glorified,

Christianity vilified, US bashed

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By ROBERT SPENCER

{ jihadwatch.org } ~ There is nothing wrong with students learning about Islam in school, if what they’re taught is accurate. But it isn’t... Because of the overpowering influence of the multiculturalist ethos and fears of charges of “Islamophobia” and “racism,” public school materials on Islam and other religions are for the most part heavily biased, with scarcely a critical word about Islam, Muhammad depicted as a cross between Gandhi and Sheriff Andy Taylor, no mention of jihad or dhimmitude, and harsh criticism of Christianity. The Thomas More Law Center (TMLC), a national nonprofit public interest law firm based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, has uncovered evidence of a well-orchestrated Islamic propaganda campaign aimed at teachers in school systems throughout Michigan and several other states. Concerned about a two-day mandatory teacher-training seminar on Islam conducted by a Muslim consultant hired by Michigan’s Novi Community Schools District, TMLC filed a Freedom of Information Act request for documents related to the workshop. Richard Thompson, president and chief counsel of the Law Center, commented on the results of their investigation, “We found that the teachers were subjected to two days of Islamic propaganda, where Islam was glorified, Christianity disparaged, and America bashed—all funded by Novi taxpayers.” Moreover, during the past five years the school district has presented no teacher-training seminars focusing on Christianity, Judaism or any other religion – only Islam. The hired Muslim consultant was Huda Essa, a resident of the Dearborn area and of Arab descent. She appeared before the Novi teachers in a hijab, the Muslim headscarf, billing herself as an expert in “cultural competency” and “culturally responsive teaching.”... No wonder our schools are doing so bad.

https://www.jihadwatch.org/2019/08/michigan-california-georgia-texas-florida-nj-public-schools-islam-glorified-christianity-vilified-us-bashed

Trump Cautions Jewish Voters Who

Support Democrats

Thomas Gallatin: Once again the Leftmedia had a conniption fit over President Donald Trump’s latest comments. And once again much of the mainstream media was focused on the question, “How could he say such things?” while seemingly ignoring the deeper question, “Why is Trump saying such things?” It’s no mystery that Trump is a troll, meaning he intentionally drops rhetorical bombs to stir the pot and direct the conversation. This has been his modus operandi going back decades.

Trump on Tuesday asserted that Jewish people who vote Democrat are being “disloyal.” On Wednesday, he further clarified his comments, explaining that he meant they were being “disloyal to Jewish people and very disloyal to Israel.” In other words, Trump’s comments were clearly not the anti-Semitic trope of “dual loyalty” expressed by Democrats Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib. However, it’s easy to see why Trump’s remarks could be taken as offensive, particularly since the vast majority of Jewish Americans vote Democrat and have done so for decades.

Trump’s comments ring similar to those expressed by leftists for years. How many times have Democrats accused women who don’t support their leftist policy positions on women’s issues of voting against their own interests? How many times have black conservatives been told they are working against their own interests? In other words, this is yet another instance of Trump playing politics like a Democrat.

Clearly, Trump is attempting to put a spotlight on the growing and very real problem of anti-Semitism currently metastasizing within the Democrat Party. His calling out of Jewish Americans for supporting Democrats raises a question that has often puzzled many conservatives: Why support a party that is seemingly hell-bent on building a socialist road toward a totalitarian state, especially given the history of how socialist states have treated Jews? And why continue to support a party whose members leading this socialist crusade espouse such anti-Semitic views? Obviously, there’s great nuance involved in the reasons behind anyone’s political opinions, but the question is still valid.

And it is clear that anti-Semitism is a growing problem, specifically in the West. The European Union is poised to enact a rule that eerily harkens back to the Holocaust era. As The Washington Free Beacon reports, “The Advocate General of the European Court of Justice recently issued non-binding opinion arguing that EU law requires Israeli-made products to be labeled as coming from ‘settlements’ and ‘Israeli colonies.’”

While Trump’s methods of political engagement can be grating and off-putting, he is effective in focusing a lot of attention on issues that the MSM might otherwise choose to ignore. ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/64992?mailing_id=4486&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4486&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

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Posted by Rudy Tirre on August 24, 2019 at 9:19am

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

More Americans Have Negative

View of College

Culture Beat

Leading House Dem calls out worthless-Omar

and worthless-Tlaib amid Trump attack for

furthering anti-Semitism with 'vile' cartoon

By Sam Dorman

{ foxnews.com } ~ House Judiciary Chairman scumbag liar-Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., called out members of both parties on Thursday, claiming they helped further anti-Semitism in the nation's "political dialogue."... "The growing anti-Semitism in our political dialogue is repugnant," scumbag liar-Nadler said. He pointed to Trump's comments about "disloyalty" in Jews who voted for Democrats, as well as a cartoon forwarded by two progressive congresswomen already in the news for a failed attempt to enter Israel. "The Carlos Latuff cartoon forwarded by @RepRashida and @Ilhan can surely be read for its vile underlying message," scumbag liar-Nadler tweeted. Both Reps. worthless-Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., and worthless-Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., shared a cartoon from an artist who came in second in Iran's International Holocaust Cartoon contest. The cartoon displayed a Star of David in the center and appeared to show Trump trying to silence worthless-Omar. It also showed worthless-Tlaib with what appeared to be Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's hand over her mouth. Netanyahu's government had banned worthless-Omar and worthless-Tlaib from entering Israel, citing the congresswomen's itinerary as evidence they wanted to promote a boycott against the country. The itinerary named their destination "Palestine" rather than Israel — and the group that planned their trip has also expressed support for terrorism against the nation. It's unclear how the two will respond to scumbag liar-Nadler but, if history is any judge, they won't be afraid of taking on a leading Democrat... https://www.foxnews.com/politics/nadler-omar-tlaib-cartoon-anti-semitism

VIDEO: https://video.foxnews.com/v/6075169419001/#sp=show-clips

commie-Bernie Sanders Threatens to Use SEC

to Arrest Oil Execs, Shut Down Energy

Industry, and Wipe Out Pensions

by Daniel Greenfield

{ frontpagemag.com } ~ Also known as, "commie-Bernie Sanders makes compelling argument for eliminating SEC, entire Federal government and banning wannbe Communist dictators from running for public office."... Senator commie-Sanders unveiled his Green New Deal which tops commie-Ocasio Cortez for sheer insanity and fascism. Here's commie-Bernie threatening to use the SEC to wipe out the entire economy. Prosecute and sue the fossil fuel industry for the damage it has caused. When it was revealed in 2015 that the fossil fuel industry knew their actions were contributing to climate change decades ago, commie-Bernie sent a letter to then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch asking her to open a federal investigation to find out whether the industry violated the law. President commie-Bernie Sanders will ensure that his Department of Justice and Securities and Exchange Commission investigate these companies and bring suits — both criminal and civil — for any wrongdoing, The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will jointly develop an economy-wide survey of climate risks. To create this report, the SEC will require corporations to audit and report their climate risks. The EPA will use the information to target the worst climate risks through economy-wide regulations. Pressure financial institutions, universities, insurance corporations, and large institutional investors still invested in or insuring fossil fuels to transition those investments to clean energy bonds through executive action. When we are in the White House, we will establish new financial rules through the SEC and other regulatory agencies to pressure hedge funds, the insurance industry, and other large investors currently invested in fossil fuels to divest or pay for clean energy investments through clean energy bonds. Using the SEC to force financial institutions to divest from profitable industries and invest in politically correct industries. And, for federal workers, their pension funds will be raided to funnel money to lefties in the fake energy industry. Divest federal pensions from fossil fuels. Federal employees’ pensions are currently invested in fossil fuels. That puts their pensions at risk. The federal government must protect and grow those pension funds by instead investing in the clean energy economy. "Protect". A comie-Bernie victory would mean kissing both your pension and reliable power goodbye.

https://www.frontpagemag.com/point/274718/bernie-sanders-threatens-use-sec-arrest-oil-execs-daniel-greenfield

Trump White House Shrugs

Off New Tariffs Imposed by China

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By Susan Jones

{ cnsnews.com } ~ China's official state-run news agency Xinhua reported on Friday that China will impose additional tariffs on $75 billion worth of U.S. imports... in reaction to recently announced tariff hikes on Chinese goods. That includes 25 percent tariffs on American-made vehicles and auto parts starting in mid-December, as well as an extra 5 percent on soybean imports and an extra 10 percent on imports of U.S. pork. It's not a surprise, White House Trade Adviser Peter Navarro told Fox News on Friday: "The Chinese side had clearly signaled to us in multiple fora that they would retaliate in some way. The problem, Sandra, they have is we have a far more bullets in our gun than they do. I mean, they sell us close to $6 billion worth of exports and ours is a little over 100 billion." In fact, Navarro said he doesn't call this a "trade war." "This is not a trade war. A trade war is when two countries are fighting over lowering their tariffs. What we're fighting about with China is to have them stop stealing our intellectual property, taking our technology, dumping products into our markets, manipulating their currency and having their state-owned enterprises run rampant around the world with massive subsidies." Navarro noted that the U.S. has had tariffs in place for over a year, and "we know that China is bearing the burden of those tariffs by having to cut their prices, cut the value of their currency. They're seeing their supply chain hemorrhage out of China -- coming back here, going to Vietnam and other places, and we have absolutely seen no impact on consumers. So the people in this country -- Capitol Hill -- they're behind President Donald J. Trump with his tough stand on China." Even American farmers, who are bearing the brunt of the tariff pain, "will not be hurt," Navarro said. "We have a large program to make farmers whole, and we're using some of the money that we're collecting in tariffs and it goes right to the farm belt."... https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/susan-jones/trump-white-house-shrugs-new-tariffs-imposed-china

VIDEO: https://www.mrctv.org/videos/trump-white-house-shrugs-new-tariffs-imposed-china

North Korea Marches Ahead with

Advanced Nuclear Weapons Program

by Joseph Klein

{ frontpagemag.com } ~ Evidently, the punishing sanctions imposed on North Korea, as well as President Trump’s personal relationship with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un, are not slowing down... North Korea’s continuing march to becoming a full-scale nuclear-armed state. Not only has North Korea continued to test launch ballistic missiles, albeit with a short-range reach. According to a report of a new upcoming Japanese white paper, North Korea has managed to miniaturize nuclear warheads that are small enough to fit on ballistic missiles. Japan’s defense officials have described North Korea’s apparent success as a “serious and imminent threat.” The United States and South Korea have sounded similar alarms. Indeed, a confidential U.S. intelligence report back in 2017, which was leaked and reviewed by The Washington Post, said that the intelligence community "assesses North Korea has produced nuclear weapons for ballistic missile delivery, to include delivery by ICBM-class missiles." Tensions have been rising since President Trump’s last meeting with Kim in June. “We haven’t gotten back to the table as quickly as we would have hoped, but we’ve been pretty clear all along, we know there’ll be bumps along the way,” Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Tuesday. He expressed displeasure with the North Korean regime’s launching of short-range missiles, which threaten U.S. allies in the region and violates UN Security Council resolutions. “I wish that they would not,” he said. Referring to UN sanctions targeting key North Korean imports and exports, Secretary Pompeo added, “These are a global sanctions regime, and we hope Chairman Kim will come to the table and get a better outcome. It’ll be better for the North Korean people, it’ll be better for the world.” Kim does not appear to be listening too attentively. He was not happy with the scaled down joint U.S.-South Korean military exercises that have just ended. While these exercises consisted mostly of computer simulations, North Korea claims that President Trump has breached his alleged promise to suspend the exercises altogether. "This is an open denial and an outright challenge to the historic DPRK-U.S. joint statement in which commitments were made to establish new DPRK-U.S. relations and build lasting and durable peace-keeping mechanism on the Korean Peninsula," the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said last week, using the acronym for the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. It added that the joint military exercises "are not favorable for building mutual trust and can entail countermeasures by the DPRK" and "may render tense the situation on the Korean Peninsula again. The right answer for removing all the potential and direct threats posed to the security of our state is the constant development of powerful physical means and their deployment for an actual war. The U.S. should keep in mind that our repeated warnings are not hot air."... https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/274706/north-korea-marches-ahead-advanced-nuclear-weapons-joseph-klein

Iranian Militias Oddly Quiet

After Suspected Israeli Air Strikes

by Edy Cohen

{ israeltoday.co.il } ~ It shouldn’t come as a surprise. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman warned numerous times that Israel would not allow Iran to take steps... that jeopardize the Jewish state’s security, no matter where those activities were taking place. It is by now no secret that Israel has carried out dozens of bombing missions against warehouses and convoys bringing game-changing weapons from Iran to the Lebanese terror militia Hezbollah. Most of those strikes occurred in war-torn Syria. But now the situation is escalating. According to Arab media, at least three aerial attacks against Iranian targets have been carried out on Iraqi soil in recent weeks. The bombings destroyed caches of missiles being held by the Iran-affiliated Shiite militia Al-Hashd al-Sha’bi (Popular Mobilization Forces), presumably earmarked for later delivery to Hezbollah. Needless to say, Israel is widely suspected of carrying out these air strikes, in coordination with the Americans. Accurate intelligence provided by US forces, combined with the use of Israel’s new F-35 aircraft would certainly result in the kind of success these attacks have seen. Arab social media has featured dozens of video clips documenting these air strikes, some of which occurred not far from Baghdad. Officially, Israel maintains ambiguity on the topic, but in recent days, Netanyahu has strongly hinted as the Jewish state’s involvement. The Iraqi government, too, has refrained from singling out Israel, instead attributing the explosions to fires that broke out in these particular warehouses. To admit that Israel had successfully bombed targets in its territory would open up Baghdad either to crushing shame, or accusations that it was collaborating with the Zionists. Most interesting is that the Shiite militias themselves have remained largely mum on the matter. For years, they have been threatening to conquer Israel and liberate “Palestine.” But now that Israel has demonstrated the ability and willingness to effortlessly strike them on their own turf, they dare not respond and admit such weakness. Because it turns out the only real threat these groups pose is to the makeshift Israeli flags they love to burn...

https://www.israeltoday.co.il/read/iranian-militias-oddly-quiet-after-suspected-israeli-air-strikes/

More Americans Have Negative

View of College

Culture Beat: The Pew Research Center recently released a new survey that finds the majority of Republicans view higher education negatively. Pew further found “that only half of American adults think college and universities are having a positive effect on the way things are going in the country these days.” The survey’s results seem to confirm a poll from Gallup last year finding that Americans’ “confidence in higher education dropped 57% to 48%” from 2015 to 2018, with the greatest drop coming from Republicans.

There are a number of factors that explain Americans’ increasing negativity toward higher education, though what once held strong bipartisan support has clearly fallen on harder times. One of the most obvious contributing factors to this increased negativity is the fact that the vast majority of university and college professors lean strongly to the Left. Higher education is increasingly perceived as a domain ruled by hard-leftist ideologues, where conservatives and their views and routinely derided as backwards and unwelcome, if not banned all together.

Secondly, there’s the factor of skyrocketing costs. This is a problem that even has Democrats expressing some negativity toward the value of higher education. For Republicans, the real question becomes one of practicality: Why send your child to an institution steeped in leftist dogma while at the same time incurring a tremendous about of debt in the process?

Finally, jobs. In the past, a college degree was almost a guarantee for landing higher paying, white-collar jobs. Today, that is no longer the case. Students incur massive amounts of debt for degrees in fields that offer little in the way of lucrative opportunities, while at the same time technical schools offering specialized work training can land a student on their feet, without the debt and often an immediate job. Indeed, given all these factors, it’s little wonder that so many Americans are souring on the Ivory Tower. ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/64948?mailing_id=4483&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4483&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

Saturday AM ~ thefrontpagecover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on August 24, 2019 at 7:02am

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

Dems Feign Backing Away From

Medicare for All

Thomas Gallatin

Why scumbag/liar-nObama Dropped Biden

by Tucker Carlson and Neil Patel

{ townhall.com } ~ One of the more poignant moments of Barack scumbag/liar-nObama's presidency came at the very end, in January 2017, just days before he left the White House... He awarded Vice President loose lips liar-Joe Biden the Presidential Medal of Freedom. scumbag/liar-nObama spoke at great length about their personal friendship and praised loose lips liar-Biden's leadership. In response, loose lips liar-Biden said he knew that, no matter what, scumbag/liar-nObama would always be there for him. scumbag/liar-nObama: "It was 8 1/2 years ago that I chose loose lips liar-Joe to be my vice president. There has not been a single moment since that time that I have doubted the wisdom of that decision. ... loose lips liar-Joe's candid, honest counsel has made me a better president and a better commander in chief." loose lips liar-Biden: "Mr. President, you know as long as there is breath in me, I will be there for you, my whole family will be, and I know it's reciprocal." You didn't have to love scumbag/liar-nObama to appreciate that there was something sweet about it. But it was all fake. scumbag/liar-nObama won't be there for loose lips liar-Biden. His internal friendship has ended and didn't make it through the next presidential term. Instead of helping his trusted friend run for the presidency, scumbag/liar-nObama has refused to endorse loose lips liar-Biden. According to some reports, scumbag/liar-nObama repeatedly urged loose lips liar-Biden not to run. "You don't have to do this," he warned loose lips liar-Biden. scumbag/liar-nObama, it turns out, cares about one thing: himself. He is obsessed with his political legacy. Every day that loose lips liar-Joe Biden stays on the campaign trail, he detracts from that. As of today, the polls say loose lips liar-Biden is the Democratic front-runner. They tell you he has a good chance of becoming president. But don't believe them. Officially, loose lips liar-Biden may still be in the lead, but let's be honest, loose lips liar-Biden's campaign is not a real campaign. It is a zombie effort and lurches from one blunder to another. Some catastrophe will eventually put it out of its misery. Even loose lips liar-Biden's allies want him to stop speaking in public so often. Why? When people see loose lips liar-Biden, they realize he's not a distinguished elder statesman but a fading one. loose lips liar-Biden thinks scumbag-Cory Booker is the president of the United States. He believes the truth outweighs the facts. He thinks he was vice president during the Parkland shooting last year.

https://townhall.com/columnists/tuckercarlsonandneilpatel/2019/08/23/why-obama-dropped-biden-n2552094?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=08/23/2019&bcid=7220442bc3498cb5e2d68f3cb4d11680&recip=18305623

Top DHS spokesman Andrew Meehan

to step down, officials say

by Anna Giaritelli

{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ The Department of Homeland Security's top public affairs official and spokesman, Andrew Meehan, is leaving the Trump administration next month... after roughly four months on the job, according to three officials. Meehan was brought to DHS headquarters to serve as acting assistant secretary of public affairs after Kevin McAleenan, his former boss at U.S. Customs and Border Protection, was promoted to acting secretary in April. Meehan was axed because of his messaging and strategy in rolling out policy changes, including this week's new rule in response to the 2015 Flores settlement agreement, according to Axios. DHS did not immediately respond to a request for comment. McAleenan and one senior aide are at the center of a federal investigation into a leak of information that compromised an Immigration and Customs Enforcement raid in late June. McAleenan and Meehan were on a government plane with the reporter who broke the story a day later. Five officials told the Washington Examiner at the time they believe McAleenan, a long-time Democratic donor, had an aide leak the raids so that they could not proceed...

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/top-dhs-spokesman-andrew-meehan-reportedly-resigning?utm_source=breaking_push&utm_medium=app&utm_campaign=push_notifications&utm_source=WEX_Breaking%20News%20Alert_08/22/2019&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WEX_Breaking%20News&rid=5261

Greenland: Trump's MAGA Idea!

by Pat Buchanan

{ townhall.com } ~ To those of us of who learned our U.S. history from texts in the 1940s and '50s, President Donald Trump's brainstorm of acquiring Greenland fits into a venerable tradition of American expansionism... The story begins with colonial officer George Washington's march out toward Fort Duquesne in 1754 and crushing defeat and near death at Fort Necessity, where, according to myth, he fired the first shot of what would become the French and Indian War. With the British victory, Washington went home to Virginia, only to be called back in 1775 to lead the Continental Army in America's War of Independence, which lasted six years, until the victory at Yorktown. With the 1783 Treaty of Paris, the Americans won title to all the land between the Atlantic and Mississippi, from Canada to Florida. Twenty years later, in 1803, President Thomas Jefferson and Secretary of State James Madison seized Napoleon's offer and bought for $15 million the vast Louisiana Territory extending from New Orleans into Canada and so far west it virtually doubled the size of the United States. In 1818, Andrew Jackson, hero of the Battle of New Orleans in the War of 1812, was ordered by President James Monroe to march south to repel the murderous forays by Seminole Indians from Florida into Georgia. Exceeding his orders, Jackson stormed into Florida, crushed the Seminoles, hanged two British "spies" he found there, put the Spanish governor on a boat to Cuba and came home, a national hero again, after almost igniting another war with the British...

https://townhall.com/columnists/patbuchanan/2019/08/23/greenland-trumps-maga-idea-n2552083?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=08/23/2019&bcid=7220442bc3498cb5e2d68f3cb4d11680&recip=18305623

Teen Israeli girl killed as family

hit by bomb at West Bank spring

by JUDAH ARI GROSS

{ timesofisrael.com } ~ A teenage girl was killed and her father and brother were seriously injured in a terrorist bombing at a natural spring outside the central West Bank settlement of Dolev on Friday morning... Israeli officials said. Rina Shnerb, 17, of Lod, was critically wounded in the attack and received treatment at the scene from civilian and military medics before being pronounced dead of her injuries. Her father Eitan, a rabbi in Lod, and brother Dvir, 19, were taken by military helicopter to a Jerusalem hospital in serious condition, the Magen David Adom ambulance service said. Israel Defense Forces Spokesperson Ronen Manelis said the army considered the blast to be a “serious terror attack.”Shnerb was laid to rest on Friday afternoon, with hundreds attending her funeral in her hometown of Lod in central Israel. Her father and brother were unable to attend, due to the serious injuries they sustained.The army said an improvised explosive device was used in the attack. Police sappers determined that the bomb had been planted earlier at the spring and was triggered remotely when the family approached it...

https://www.timesofisrael.com/three-israelis-seriously-hurt-in-explosion-at-west-bank-spring/?utm_source=Breaking+News&utm_campaign=breaking-news-2019-08-23-2135013&utm_medium=email

Democrat Hypocrisy on

Family Separation at the Border

by DAVID CATRON

{ spectator.org } ~ Last year, the Democrats portrayed President Trump as a monster for authorizing an immigration policy under which border authorities separated some children from the “families” with which they had illegally entered the country... Ignoring the inconvenient fact that many of the people from whose arms these kids were “so cruelly torn” weren’t parents or relatives, they compared the president to Adolf Hitler and accused him of state terrorism. The Trump administration now plans to close the legal loophole that required the separations and is all too predictably being denounced by the Democrats for that proposal. House Speaker liar-Nancy Pelosi’s statement was typical: The Administration is seeking to codify child abuse, plain and simple…. This inhumane and utterly unconscionable rule circumvents the conditions set in the Flores settlement, and we expect the District Court to swiftly strike it down. Democrats continue to call on this Administration to end its assault on families and children, and to join us to protect families and preserve America’s heritage as a beacon of hope, freedom and opportunity for all. As it happens, the “inhumane” change proposed by the Trump administration would keep families together by preventing the separation of children from families awaiting immigration hearings. The Flores settlement that liar-Pelosi and the Democrats want so desperately to keep in place incentivizes illegal aliens to game our immigration system by bringing children to the border. Far from protecting children, it exposes them to all manner of exploitation and criminal maltreatment, including kidnapping and sexual abuse. It is also the engine that drives the notoriously ineffective “catch and release” policy that has rendered it all but impossible to enforce our immigration laws. Like so many of the statutes and federal regulations that prevent the efficient operation of federal departments, the Flores settlement is part of the scumbag/liar-Clinton legacy, and its many flaws were exacerbated by a meddling federal judge during the scumbag/liar-nObama era. In 1997, the government settled a long-standing piece of litigation that said children who had entered the country illegally would be detained in the least restrictive setting possible for the shortest period of time in order to be placed with a family member or some other qualified care provider. Then, in 2015, an scumbag/liar-nObama-appointed federal district court judge interpreted “shortest period of time” to mean “no longer than three weeks.” Because the adults with whom these children arrived were frequently detained due to eligibility issues and were unlikely to get an immigration hearing within three weeks, the DHS was faced with the choice of separating the children from their “parents” and releasing the entire “family unit” into the general U.S. population. The scumbag/liar-nObama administration chose the latter course and went with “catch and release.” It goes without saying that very few of the erstwhile detainees ever materialized for their hearings. The Trump administration’s alternative policy was subsequently demagogued by the Democrats, so DHS has proposed the new rule, the highlights of which are summarized below...

https://spectator.org/democrat-hypocrisy-on-family-separation-at-the-border/?utm_source=American%20Spectator%20Emails&utm_campaign=33b5d09a28-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_08_23_01_56&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_797a38d487-33b5d09a28-104608113

Dems Feign Backing Away From

Medicare for All

Thomas Gallatin: In an effort to court the increasingly hard-left base of the Democrat Party, several current Democrat presidential candidates eagerly jumped aboard Sen. commie-Bernie Sanders’s socialist bandwagon to cosponsor his Medicare for All bill two years ago. This represents the future, they all insisted, parroting commie-Sanders’s insistence that health care is a right. The Medicare for All cosponsors touted their support for the socialist program … until recent polling data showed that a majority of Americans aren’t fans of the obvious policy boondoggle.'

Now every Democrat presidential candidate save commie-Sanders is running away from Medicare for All as if it were toxic sludge. Sen. lowlife-Kamala Harris (CA), the first cosponsor of the bill, had been one of its most vocal supporters, but she has clearly struggled in her herky-jerky attempts to distance herself while attempting to claim that she was never fully onboard. “I have not been comfortable with commie-Bernie’s [Medicare for All] plan,” lowlife-Harris stated on Tuesday. This sentiment certainly doesn’t comport with her position back in 2017 when she defended cosponsoring the bill as “the right thing to do.” Nor does it jive with lowlife-Harris’s claim this past April that “Medicare is the most popular health plan in the country because it works.”

But lowlife-Harris isn’t the only Medicare for All cosponsor clearly flip-flopping, as Sens. scumbag-Cory Booker (NJ), Kirsten Gillibrand (NY), and even Elizabeth dinky-Warren (MA) are also seeking to distance themselves from a politically unpopular policy.

So, are Democrats suddenly having a change of heart? Not likely. In truth, they’re merely realizing that despite all their moralizing rhetoric surrounding Medicare for All, the vast majority of Americans want to keep their current health insurance. Recently, Harry dinky-Reid, a political pragmatist if there ever was one, was asked whether Medicare for All is “problematic” for Democrats. “Of course it would be,” he answered. “How are you going to get it passed?” Reid further advised Democrats to run on the message of “improving scumbag/liar-nObamaCare” because, he argued, “People understand that. They would appreciate that. It locks in many important things.” That, by the way, is loose lips liar-Joe Biden’s plan.

Many Democrat presidential candidates are attempting to rhetorically tack back toward the center. However, the question now is, having gone so far to the extreme Left, can they find their way back to even semi-reasonable ground without being exposed as complete sellouts willing to say anything to get elected? If lowlife-Harris’s sinking poll numbers are any indication, then the answer is no. ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/64967?mailing_id=4483&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4483&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

10 Things You Didn’t Know About Barry Donadio’s First Book About TWA Flight 800

Posted by Barry Donadio | Celebrity Author on August 24, 2019 at 5:00am

Here are 10 things you never knew about Barry Donadio’s First Book “TWA Flight 800 First Responder Witness Account”. This may shock you.

1. He waited 17 years to publish it.

Donadio spent his entire career in U.S. Government service in some way or another. Whether it was in the military or in the United States Secret Service, he had always served in positions that did not permit him to release a book about his experiences. On June 28th, 2013, Donadio made a career change when he went into the private sector. This move opened the door for him to publish his first book “TWA Flight 800 First Responder Account” in September 2013.

2. He had to have the book censored and approved by the U.S Government prior to being published.

Because Donadio held one of the highest security clearances that you can obtain in the United States, he is obligated to submit anything he writes to the U.S. Government for potential censorship. This is due to the knowledge of a broad spectrum of government top secret information that needs to be protected.

3. The original transcript was stored in a file only to be opened after his death.

Prior to publishing his book, Donadio had left his witness account with his will and other papers in the case he died. Donadio knew that he was a part of a mysterious national event that would have many questions asked about it for decades. Being that he was at the incident, he felt he should pass his account to his family.

4. He went to the Alamo and he consulted about publishing his book with Dr. Bruce Winders, the curator of the Alamo.

Donadio traveled to San Antonio to consult with the very respected Dr. Bruce Winders who is actually the curator of the Alamo. Texas was always a special place for Donadio because he had lived in Galveston with his mother in 1975 for about a year. He visited the Alamo for the first time during that time period and had since been intrigued by it.

5. He did not name the book

Donadio could not come up with a name for his book until he consulted with his close friend Christy Bowe of the White House Press Corps. Christy is a world-class photographer and CEO of Imagecather News. The two met at the White House while they both worked there. They still maintain a close friendship today.

6. He does not offer an opinion as to why the plane crashed.

Donadio never speaks about why the plane crashed and offers an opinion on the matter. When he is put on the spot and asked why the plane crashed he states: “I don’t talk about why the plane crashed”. This could be due to the obligations of the confidentiality agreements he signed with the government when he was employed with the military or the U.S. Secret Service. Is it that he could actually know why the plane crashed but he is concerned with potential repercussions? We may never know.

7. He does not make any bold claim to have partaken in any heroic actions during the incident.

Donadio is very open about his experience on the night of the crash of TWA Flight 800. He makes no claim to being a hero or doing much of anything during his response to the incident. He was mostly an observer on that evening because he had no live patients to attend to as an Emergency Medical Technician on the scene. Unfortunately, all of the passengers of the plane were deceased by the time they arrived to where Donadio was standing by to help them.

8. He is the only person that has written a book about the crash that was actually there on the evening it crashed.

As of today, Donadio is the only one that we know of that wrote a book about the TWA Flt. 800 crash that was actually there that evening. This gives an insight of small details that occurred during the terrible evening. Many other works that have been written about the crash are highly opinionated and some are even fictional.

9. His account of the injuries inflicted on the victims of the crash differs from newspaper accounts.

If you research public information regarding how the passengers of TWA Flight 800 died, you will find many references of burned bodies. Donadio, however makes no mention of bodies that he observed having any burns or any being burned beyond recognition. This adds to the conspiracy theory supporters point of view.

10. He wrote half of the book while sitting at his wife’s deathbed.

Donadio is only now opening up about speaking about the loss of his wife Alexandra Catalina Donadio on April 17th, 2014. Just when he began writing his book, tragedy struck in June of 2013. His wife underwent a medical procedure that took an unexpected turn leaving her in a coma for 9 months. Donadio was left caring for his 2 young daughters during the ordeal. He stayed by his wife's bedside for the entire 9 months until she died in April of 2014. It was during the worst time in his life that he worked on the book at his wife's hospital bedside.

Donadio’s book “TWA Flight 800 First Responder Witness Account” can be purchased on amazon.com

After a 6 year break, Donadio published his second book “That Day When Hell Froze Over” on August 17th, 2019. Donadio is expected to pick up the pace with his book publishing and release his next few books more quickly.

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