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Wednesday Noon ~ TheFrontPageCover

TheFrontPageCover
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American Leadership Is 
Still Necessary in the World 
by Lewis Morris
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Trump praises Kim Jong Un as 'strong,' 'funny,' 
'smart' and a 'great negotiator' in Hannity interview 
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{ foxnews.com } ~ President Trump, in an interview Tuesday with Fox News’ Sean Hannity, complimented North Korean leader Kim Jong Un... after their Singapore summit as a “strong guy” and a “great negotiator,” and argued his once-fiery rhetoric directed toward Kim worked. “He’s got a very good personality, he’s funny, and he’s very, very smart,” Trump said of Kim in the interview that aired Tuesday night. “He’s a great negotiator, and he’s a very strategic kind of a guy.” The president said he and Kim “got along very well” from “the beginning” of the summit. That’s in stark contrast to just a few months ago, when the president dismissively referred to Kim as “Little Rocket Man,” and warned North Korea that it “will be met with fire and the fury like the world has never seen” if it provoked the United States with its nuclear program. But Trump told Hannity he thought his tough style paved the way for Tuesday’s summit. “I think without the rhetoric, we wouldn’t have been here,” Trump said. “I really believe that.”...
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Rosenstein threatened to 'subpoena' GOP-led committee 
in 'chilling' clash over records, emails show 
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{ foxnews.com } ~ Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein threatened to “subpoena” emails, phone records and other documents from lawmakers and staff... on a Republican-led House committee during a tense meeting earlier this year, according to emails reviewed by Fox News documenting the encounter and reflecting what aides described as a "personal attack." The emails memorialized a January 2018 closed-door meeting involving senior FBI and Justice Department officials as well as members of the House Intelligence Committee. The account claimed Rosenstein threatened to turn the tables on the committee's inquiries regarding the Russia probe. “The DAG [Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein] criticized the Committee for sending our requests in writing and was further critical of the Committee’s request to have DOJ/FBI do the same when responding,” the committee's then-senior counsel for counterterrorism Kash Patel wrote to the House Office of General Counsel. “Going so far as to say that if the Committee likes being litigators, then ‘we DOJ too are litigators, and we will subpoena your records and your emails,’ referring to HPSCI [House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence] and Congress overall.”...Rosenstein should be the one being subpoena not the GOP.   http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/06/12/rosenstein-threatened-to-subpoena-gop-led-committee-in-chilling-clash-over-records-emails-show.html
VIDEO:  https://fxn.ws/2LMJdN1 #FoxNews
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Robert Mueller Asks Judge To Hide Russian Election
Evidence From The Russians Accused of Election Interference
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{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller has taken the concept of the Star Chamber to new levels of dangerous judicial prosecution... In a motion in Washington DC today Mueller’s team scramble to hide their invisible evidence after the people they indicted demand the right to see it. Everyone who has researched the actual substance behind the heavily promoted Russian indictments knows the underlying claims are centered on the thinnest of evidence. Given the nature of the politicization behind the Mueller investigation, many people even argue there is no actual evidence; it’s a manufactured ruse created only for purpose of advancing a necessary political narrative, an excuse for media column inches and pundit talks. And there is a great deal of reason to believe the cynics are entirely accurate; particularly when you overlay the series of events that highlight the prosecution never thought anyone would actually show up in court and challenge their claims....
Senator Flags ‘Highly Questionable’ 
Redactions In Peter Strzok Texts
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{ dailycaller.com } ~ The chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee is asking the FBI about “highly questionable” redactions in text messages... exchanged between two bureau officials who worked on the liar-Hillary Clinton and Trump campaign investigations. In a letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray, Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson flagged several redactions in text messages, which he said the bureau made “without apparent legitimate reasons.” Johnson singled out one October 2016 text message that suggested that FBI counterintelligence official Peter Strzok was locked in a battle with another government official over a secret surveillance warrant. In another July 2016 text, Strzok suggested that the FBI lacked the resources to conduct a thorough investigation of liar-Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server...
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The Dance of The Dragon Continues
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{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ China controls the DPRK, that’s the baseline reality... The question debated over the past several years, has been to what extent?  Having witnessed the Singapore Summit, perhaps we now have additional understanding of the scale and scope. If you accept the cunning nature of the Beijing Dragon, and the false geopolitical face of the Panda mask as historically presented by the control elements now represented by Chairman Xi Jinping, a striking probability looms. Not only does China influence North Korea, but China actually controls every element of the North Korean government that surrounds Chairman Kim Jong-un. The problem for Chairman Xi is what happens when all of the political forces align to place Chairman Kim Jong-un in a position of opening the door for the U.S. and President Trump and the West writ large to enter North Korea under the auspices of a CVID nuclear agreement. In essence, President Trump may now enter into a land where the officials report exclusively to Chairman Xi, and no-one knew. This presents a possibility the larger global community might soon discover the true nature of the Beijing/Pyongyang connection....
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American Leadership Is Still Necessary in the World 

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by Lewis Morris:  As President Donald Trump wrapped up a rocky G7 summit in order to begin a meeting with the tyrannical leader of North Korea, speculation swirls about the current state of America’s foreign policy. Is the U.S. still the world’s preeminent power? Does the world even want American leadership?

             Of course, America is still the most powerful country in the world. Our military remains the most technologically advanced and is funded well beyond the means of nearly any other nation. Our cultural influence outmatches that of any other country. Our economy remains the most dynamic and has the world’s richest consumer market. Every other country in the world desires to do business with the U.S.
               But do other countries still want America’s leadership? If you listen to the Never-Trumpers and the global elites after the powwow in Quebec, the answer would be no. They believe that Trump’s recent actions on trade, his domestic policy stances, his foreign policy views, and his existence in general are a drag on the leftist world order.
               And they’re right. Surely, the other members of the G7 would be more comfortable with American leadership if the U.S. was more closely aligned with European priorities. Germany, Great Britain, France and Canada in particular are happy with American leadership so long as America leads like they want us to. In other words, they really miss Barack liar-nObama.
                liar-nObama was tailor made for the global elite. He talked a great game but didn’t back it up with anything, and he didn’t ask anyone to make any hard choices (except when he expected Americans to forget about the Constitution and Congress and let him rule by his phone and pen). He was an internationalist, seeing the global “good” as more important than the needs of the country he was elected to serve. And that global good, defined by elites with no input from the people who elected them, has no room for the messy details of free markets, national pride and Liberty.
               Angela Merkel, Justin Trudeau and their arrogant ilk look down their noses at Donald Trump and the American voters who elected him. This doesn’t trouble Trump, nor should it. Much of the world’s view of America is based on which party is occupying the White House. In the early 2000s, American popularity with global elitists was at a low point. In the early half of this decade, it was high. Now it’s low again. It doesn’t take a PhD in world politics to see the pattern.
               Our traditional allies in the G7 thought they had America right where they wanted us. During liar-nObama’s presidency, he came on board for the Paris Climate Accord, joined the international order at shaking its collective fist at Syria, and made a deal with Iran to curb certify its nuclear program.
               This was all a farce, and President Trump knew it to be so. Since taking offices, he’s gone about systematically undoing liar-nObama’s bad decisions. He pulled out of the Paris climate deal because it was unfair to American businesses and it was ineffective at its ostensible goal of combatting climate change. When proof was found that Syria used chemical weapons, Trump sent in the U.S. military to destroy Syrian chemical weapons facilities. He also exited the Iran agreement, recognizing that it was a terrible deal that never should have been made in the first place.
               Now Trump has sat down with Kim Jong-un to see what can be done about bringing North Korea to heel with its nuclear weapons program. Trump went in face to face without looking to traditional American allies to back him up. While there are concerns giving Kim that “legitimacy,” frankly, it’s probably better this way. America’s allies east and west — along with Kim’s nuclear puppet master China — have not done much to bring North Korea under control. Maybe the art of the deal should have a shot.
               The North Korea summit could still turn out to be a disaster. Or Kim could play nice now and double-cross the U.S. down the road. The odds are slim that this meeting will be a smashing success. And even if it is, Kim is a murderous dictator who will go back home still in charge of his family’s Hermit Kingdom.
               Leftists are not even remotely optimistic about the outcome. While they fell all over themselves to praise liar-nObama over the heap of lies he delivered on Iran, they labeled the Trump-Kim meeting a failure before it even took place. Only Trump Derangement Syndrome can explain this, since leftists always support any opportunity to meet with dictators and give them whatever they want.
               Perhaps the best example of America’s power is that the U.S. is the only country in the world that could sit down with North Korea and be taken seriously. The global elites may not have much respect or desire for American leadership, but everyone is still going to have to deal with it just the same.   ~The Patriot Pos
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Wed/Med AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

TheFrontPageCover
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Trump's Real NoKo Strategy 
by Thomas Gallatin
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Wednesday Top Headlines 
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by Publius:  Small business optimism jumps to second-highest level in measure’s 45-year history; tax cuts credited (The Washington Free Beacon)
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Feds collect record individual income taxes through May; still run $532.2B deficit (CNS News)
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Charitable giving in U.S. tops $400 billion for first time (Associated Press)
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Proposal to split California into three states makes November ballot (The Washington Times)
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In primary races, Republican voters rewarded loyalty to Trump (The Wall Street Journal)
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Trump-basher Mark Sanford, who president called “nothing but trouble,” ousted in key South Carolina primary (Fox News)
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House GOP will vote on immigration next week, sinking discharge petition (The Hill)
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At the Pentagon, mass confusion over future of “war games” with South Korea (Washington Examiner)
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Trump administration condemns Iran’s role in facilitating 9/11 attacks (The Washington Free Beacon)
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Andrew McCabe alleges FBI, Justice Dept. failed to provide information on his firing in lawsuit (CBS News)
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DOJ takes down 2,300 alleged child sex abusers in massive national operation (The Daily Caller)
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Juanita Broaddrick book about liar-Clinton rape disappears from Amazon (PJ Media)
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“Not in my backyard”: Blue state rejects free electricity to avoid seeing a wind farm (Hot Air)
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AT&T wins court approval to buy Time Warner (CNBC)
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George H.W. Bush is the first U.S. president to reach 94 (Associated Press)
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Two women get kicked out of Uber after kiss — but what CNN doesn’t tell you is that the driver was Muslim (CNN)
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Humor: House Democrats draft legislation that would make it a hate crime to eat at Chick-fil-A (The Babylon Bee)
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Policy: Suspending military exercises in South Korea carries risks (The Daily Signal)
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Policy: Subsidies for coal and nuclear will harm taxpayers, ratepayers, and the free market (Washington Examiner)  ~The Patriot Post
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Here’s What Trump-Kim Jong Un Agreed Upon At Summit
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{ dailycaller.com } ~ President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un took steps toward decreasing tensions on the Korean peninsula... in a joint statement signed by the two leaders Tuesday. The text of the agreement was seen by reporters before its official release by the White House after Trump held it up during a joint signing ceremony with Kim Jong Un. The text of the agreement notes first that “the United States and the DPRK commit to establish new US-DPRK relations in accordance with the desire of the peoples of the two countries for peace and prosperity.” The text also indicates that Trump gave security guarantees to the North Korean regime in exchange for taking concrete steps towards denuclearization. Most consequentially North Korean leader Kim Jong Un signed a pledge to “work toward complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.”...
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Establishment Media Silent: Trump Gets 
Unexpected Surprise Courtesy Of Singapore Citizens 
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{ westernjournal.com } ~ Since President Donald Trump’s first day in office... the liberally biased mainstream media has perpetuated the narrative that Trump is largely despised both at home and abroad, and that in other nations he is almost universally viewed as an embarrassment to the American people. Thus, it came as no surprise whatsoever when the U.S. media essentially ignored the reception Trump received from cheering supporters upon his arrival Sunday in Singapore ahead of a high-stakes summit with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un. Coverage of the cheering crowds greeting Trump would directly contradict the “Trump is hated” narrative the mainstream media outlets push every day, so they simply ignore it and choose not to cover it...
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The Democrats' IT Scandal Cover-Up
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by Daniel John Sobieski
{ americanthinker.com } ~ Former DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz subverted our democracy and interfered in the 2016 election in ways Moscow could only dream of... yet while Special Counsel Robert Mueller continues to chase Russian phantoms, the case against Wasserman Schultz and Imran Awan, the IT director she and other Congressional Democrats employed, continues to drag on despite overwhelming evidence of criminality and clear national security implications. Schultz was forced to step down after hacked emails revealed that she and the DNC had their finger on the scales and actively worked to defeat commie-Bernie Sanders in the 2016 Democratic primaries in favor of liar-Hillary Clinton. She has been forced to step aside after a leak of internal DNC emails showed officials actively favoring liar-Hillary Clinton during the presidential primary and plotting against liar-Clinton’s rival, commie-Bernie Sanders…The commie-Sanders campaign has long claimed that the party establishment had its “finger on the scales” during the bitter and surprisingly long primary, but the embarrassing new revelations proved to be the final straw for a figure who had been a lightning rod for tension within the party...
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Paul Krugman’s Intellectual Dishonesty
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{ frontpagemag.com } ~ The discourse of today’s political left is invariably marked by jaw-dropping degrees of hypocrisy and psychological projection... Case in point: last week columnist Paul Krugman posted an opinion piece at The New York Times titled “Intellectuals, Politics and Bad Faith,” in which he strove to smear the political right as intellectually dishonest – exactly the same sin of which Krugman was guilty in his own column. Nobel Prize-winner Krugman long ago ceased being reliable as an economist but has maintained his political stature among the left as a race-obsessed smear merchant who habitually demonizes conservatives in his Times  columns. As noted in his profile at DiscoverTheNetworks.org, the David Horowitz Freedom Center’s encyclopedia of the political left, Krugman’s “view of Republicans and conservatives as hate mongers has been on display again and again.” As an example, when Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and six others were shot in Tucson, Arizona in 2011 by an obsessed lunatic, Krugman falsely blamed it on “the rising tide of violence” in America stemming from “toxic,” “eliminationist” rhetoric “coming, overwhelmingly, from the right.” In another instance, on Election Day in 2016, a bitter Krugman lashed out by attacking Donald Trump’s supporters as racist misogynists “who don’t share at all our idea of what America is about.” At least he got that last part right – Trump supporters most assuredly do not share Krugman’s Progressive vision of what America should be about...
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Yellow Alert Has Just Been Issued 
For 2 Major Volcanoes In North America 
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{ freedomoutpost.com } ~ Massive eruptions of Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano and Guatemala’s Fuego volcano have captivated the entire world in recent days... and now it looks like even more volcanoes are starting to wake up.  In fact, yellow alerts were just issued for Mexico’s Mt. Popocatepetl and Alaska’s Great Sitkin volcano.  Mt. Popocatepetl and Great Sitkin both sit along the “Ring of Fire” that roughly encircles the perimeter of the Pacific Ocean, and many are becoming concerned that we may be witnessing some sort of “chain reaction” as volcanoes all over the globe begin to exhibit signs of increased activity.  This even includes some unusual happenings at Yellowstone, and we will cover that near the end of this article.  But to start with, let’s take a look at the yellow alert that was just issued for Mt. Popocatepetl.  The following comes from a government website in Mexico…   https://freedomoutpost.com/yellow-alert-has-just-been-issued-for-2-major-volcanoes-in-north-america/
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Trump's Real NoKo Strategy 

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by Thomas Gallatin:  As any good coach will tell you, never take your eye off the ball. In the world of geopolitics, the same advice holds true: Define the goal, focus on reaching it and avoid rabbit trails. For President Donald Trump, his stated goal for North Korea is to see its regional and global nuclear threat ended via denuclearization. Everything else, such as an official end to the Korean War, is secondary. In the light of this clear goal, the historic Trump-Kim summit was a successful first step in the right direction.

             The groundwork for future developments in North Korean denuclearization was laid, but it’s also important to note that there’s still a long way to go. On Tuesday, in Singapore, Trump and Kim Jong-un signed an agreement that essentially lays out four goals both agreed to pursue going forward:

  1. The United States and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) commit to establish new US-DPRK relations in accordance with the desire of the peoples of the two countries for peace and prosperity
  2. The United States and the DPRK will join their efforts to build a lasting and stable peace regime on the Korean Peninsula
  3. Reaffirming the April 27, 2018 Panmunjom Declaration, the DPRK commits to work toward complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula
  4. The United States and the DPRK commit to recovering POW/MIA remains, including the immediate repatriation of those already identified.

               As with any negotiation, both sides conceded and received something out of this initial meeting. Obviously, Kim received a huge boost to his public image and perception on the world scene as a legitimate leader worthy of time with the American president. Yet, as many have noted, Kim is a brutal dictator, and all the positive optics at the summit featuring his meeting with Trump are unpleasant to say the least. However, if offering positive rhetoric and prestige motivates Kim to give up his nukes, then it is well worth it. (Whether it was worth it to cease military exercises with South Korea, as the North demanded and Trump granted, is up for debate.) For Kim, it is much more than presenting a good image; he’s desperate to hold on to power, and with his country on the brink of starvation, giving up his nukes and making nice with the U.S. may be his only option. His life quite literally could be on the line, depending on how this all goes down.
               For Trump, this is also a golden opportunity to do what no U.S. president has been able to accomplish in over 60 years — bring about an end to the long-running regional and global threat of North Korean militaristic aggression. Again, however, the concession is allowing Kim to retain his totalitarian rule. In fact, a deal further establishes that rule, so long as Kim continues to abide by his commitment to denuclearize. Such is the messy game of diplomacy, albeit without the $150 billion Barack liar-nObama gave Iran to make his deal.
               Finally, as noted earlier, this process is far from over, and there are bound to be some setbacks. But always keep in mind the endgame — a denuclearized North Korea. The big question is verifying that denuclearization. And don’t forget the biggest behind-the-scenes player in this whole drama is China. You can bet Trump hasn’t forgotten it.   ~The Patriot Pos
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Wednesday AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

TheFrontPageCover
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Easy Questions Only
by Tom McLaughlin
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President Donald Trump and Chairman Kim Jong-un 
Initial Meeting Remarks – Transcript and Pictures
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{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ Kim’s respiration rate is fast and deliberate; he attempts to calm his nerves with breaths while simultaneously is aware that every moment is being captured... I find myself feeling great empathy for Chairman Kim Jong-un in this video. Again, watch closely this video captures the essence of the meeting better than all others: President Donald Trump and Chairman Kim Jong-un deliver initial remarks at the beginning of their one-on-one bilateral meeting...Transcript Link:  https://publicpool.kinja.com/subject-press-conference-by-president-trump-1826758246 
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President Donald Trump and Chairman Kim Jong-un 
Signing Ceremony – Video and Pictures
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{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ President Donald Trump and North Korea Chairman Kim Jong-un held a joint agreement signing ceremony at the conclusion of their five hour summit in Singapore..
North Korea agrees to ‘complete denuclearization 
of the Korean Peninsula' after Trump-Kim summit 
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{ foxnews.com } ~ President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un signed a document on Tuesday stating that Pyongyang would work toward "complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula"... a historic concession, which was one of the requirements the U.S. sought at the summit in Singapore. The historic agreement came after the two leaders held several meetings throughout the day. Trump was asked by a reporter if Kim agreed to denuclearize and he said, “We are starting that process very quickly.” Trump did not refer to the document as a treaty or agreement. Trump said at a press conference that he will be ending joint military exercises  between the United States and South Korea. He also said Kim agreed to destroy a 'major' missile testing site, but did not offer specific details...   http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/06/12/north-korea-agrees-to-complete-denuclearization-korean-peninsula-after-trump-kim-summit.html
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Trump, Kim agree to recovering and 
returning US military remains from Korean War 
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foxnews.com } ~ President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un agreed Tuesday at a historic summit in Singapore to recover the remains of the U.S. military personnel... missing in action and presumed dead from the Korean War. In a statement signed by both leaders, the countries agreed to the recovery of the remains and the immediate repatriation of those already identified. The statement also assures North Korea would work toward "complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.” Nearly 7,800 American troops remain unaccounted for from the 1950-53 war in the Korean Peninsula. About 5,300 were lost in North Korea. According to the Pentagon’s Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, most missing Americans died in major battles or as prisoners of war in North Korea. Others died in small villages or along the wayside. Most aircraft crashes also occurred near the battle zones or roads connecting them...I wonder what rino-McCain would say about these events.
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Israelis Debate Future of U.S. Military Aid 
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{ freebeacon.com } ~ For most people, American aid to Israel is the measure of the "special relationship" between the two countries... AIPAC, the major pro-Israel lobby in the United States, considers its efforts to secure this aid its No. 1 priority. It was therefore surprising to hear senior Israeli officials in late May complain about American assistance, with one describing it as a drug addiction. Their outburst centers around two innovations introduced into the 10-year Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), the official name for the American aid agreement, which was negotiated between the liar-nObama and Netanyahu administrations in 2016. The deal, which pledges an unprecedented $38 billion to Israel over a 10-year period, insists on two Israeli concessions: 1. That Israel spend 100 percent of the aid in the United States Israel had been allowed to spend roughly 26 percent of U.S. aid on its own defense industry; and 2. Israel can't go to Congress to ask for additional funds while the MOU is in effect. Most prominent of the officials to attack the deal is Eyal Younian, the chief financial officer of government-owned Israel Aerospace Industries, who said in a radio interview, "Israel must withdraw from the U.S. aid agreement, because of the damage that it does to Israel's aircraft industry. Twenty-two thousand Israelis will be fired if it goes forward." He further warned: "If the agreement continues, we will lose the aircraft industry."...Then rewrite the agreement for a better solution.    http://freebeacon.com/national-security/israelis-debate-future-u-s-military-aid/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=e58cf7da8f-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_06_11_08_09_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-e58cf7da8f-45611665
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Easy Questions Only
by Tom McLaughlin
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{ tommclaughlin.blogspot.com } ~ “Nothing is off the table. I don’t think you could possibly insult me,” said Robert Azzi. His June 7th talk: “Ask a Muslim Anything” at the Berwick [Maine] Public Library began at 6:00 pm and I arrived five minutes late. Before I could find a seat and unpack my camera and recorder, the Q&A had started. The first question was something about President Trump not inviting Muslims somewhere. I didn’t hear it exactly and Aziz gave an answer critical of Trump and many in the audience giggled appreciatively. It was a clue about the political leanings of speaker and audience.
 
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The first questions were from women concerning Muslim women driving in Saudi Arabia and wearing head coverings. Aziz offered a short history of women in Islam going back to “The Prophet” as he referred to Muhammed, who lived 1400 years ago. He described a rising patriarchy a few centuries ago and strengthening in 20th century Saudi Arabia.
 
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Up to this point, Azzi answered questions graciously. Then a man asked: “Doesn’t that mean that she’s being ‘sharia compliant’ when she wears the head scarf?”

Azzi’s demeanor changed abruptly. “No!” he said.
 
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A woman asked him to repeat the question and he did, whereupon the questioner said: “…and by the way I have several references in the Koran to where it’s mandatory and also in Muhammed’s Sunna…”

Azzi talked over him saying: “Let’s just take one question at a time, shall we?”

“Well, I wanted to go back to the other question…”

“Well, let me — let me talk about sharia for a minute, all right?” said Azzi, clearly agitated.

“Sure, that would be good,” said the man.
 
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“I think, for example, that a lot of Muslims can lead a more sharia-compliant life the United States than they can in most Muslim majority countries, and that is…” Then he stopped, and said testily to the questioner, “Don’t look so puzzled. Let me finish here.” I recalled his opening assertion that nothing would be off the table and he couldn’t possibly be insulted.

“Sharia is not a body of law,” he claimed.
 
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“But it is a body of law,” the man said. “It was codified in ‘The Reliance of the Traveller’ back in the 14th century.”

Talking over him again and stuttering about Torquemada and the Spanish Inquisition, he raised his voice and said: “Now let me finish!”


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“Go ahead,” said the man.

“Sharia in the Koran speaks to justice, and authority, and hospitality, and equity…” Then he stopped again. “I’m not finished!” he yelled, though no one had interrupted. “We have a lot of time here. I’m here for two hours.”


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“Umm,” murmured the questioner.

“If you would kindly memorize your questions rather than looking at your tablet…” said Aziz scornfully. The man had an iPad in his lap.

Then he lectured us all, saying Americans’ views are affected by their “privilege” and that Middle Eastern countries were “exploited, marginalized, and colonized by Europeans they’re now trying to recover from.” He cited Ferguson, Baltimore, Denver, and Minneapolis/St. Paul as “our own colonies.”
 
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A woman referred to Iran under the ayatollahs, and young people rising against the totalitarian regime. “I think you need to be very careful there,” said Azzi, then blamed everything on a CIA coup more than half a century ago. My suspicion that Azzi and the audience were left-of-center was strengthened. “…if the [western imposed] burdens were lifted off all these countries equally, Iran was probably the most pro-American country in the Middle East,” he claimed.
 
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Another man said Muslims are encouraged to emulate Muhammed and compared him unfavorably with Jesus Christ citing the former’s multiple wives, sex slaves, and consummation of marriage to a nine-year-old. Then he asked how Aziz could leave Christianity and adopt Muhammed’s religion. Aziz seemed to have regained his composure and answered that difficult question fairly well. He said New Hampshire allowed 14-year-olds to marry until recently, that Muhammed’s life was in a different place in time with different mores, and made other points.

“Why are there so many suicide bombers in the Muslim religion?” asked a woman.
 
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He paused for several seconds. “[Because] we’ve entered an age of asymmetrical conflict where the marginalized and the disenfranchised don’t have the weapons and tools of resistance that their oppressors have,” he claimed.

It’s all our fault, I guess.
 
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A woman who grew up in the Middle East suggested culture there valued life less than we do. Aziz said that was racist, that she disdained Muslims because they’re not white Jews, or Christians and privileged, and her statement was offensive. Another man who spent years in Afghanistan said he agreed with the woman. The rest of the audience started snapping at them both. Azzi let that go on a while before wrapping it up.
 
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I left thinking the program might better have been called: “Ask a Muslim easy questions.”
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Tuesday PM ~ TheFrontPageCover

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The Diversity Racket 
by Arnold Ahlert
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Trump-Kim Summit - Another Result of MAGA, 
America First Policies
{ rickwells.us } ~ Nothing destroys a phantom legacy built upon false claims and excuses faster than positive results by your successor... liar-nObama and his communist, America last globalism is being shown for the failure it was doomed to be from the beginning in a most public and glaring manner with the summit between President Trump and Kim Jong Un. Like every other area of governance of America, the illegal alien imposter liar-nObama failed in 8 years to do anything close to what President Trump has done in a little over one. And that record of accomplishment would have been infinitely more extensive had he not been under constant attack by the globalists and establishment hacks intent on preserving their power by running him out of office. Camera flea Lindsey Graham says that he believes the North Koreans are afraid of President Trump because he is unpredictable. He also says that Trump has painted him into a box that he has no easy way out of. Graham’s good for latching on and co-opting a moment when he wants some of the reflective glow. It was less than a month ago that the shameless RINO was calling for a bill to protect Robert Mueller in the Senate Judiciary Committee...   https://rickwells.us/trump-kim-summit-maga/
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Larry Kudlow, National Economic Council director, 
hospitalized after suffering heart attack, Trump says
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{ foxnews.com } ~ Larry Kudlow, the National Economic Council director, has been hospitalized after suffering a heart attack... President Trump said Tuesday from Singapore. "Our Great Larry Kudlow, who has been working so hard on trade and the economy, has just suffered a heart attack," Trump tweeted ahead of his historic summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. "He is now in Walter Reed Medical Center." Kudlow, 70, a conservative commentator, had replaced Gary Cohn who resigned in March. “Earlier today National Economic Council Director and Assistant to the President Larry Kudlow, experienced what his doctors say, was a very mild heart attack," White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said in a statement...
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Nunes Accuses Justice Department 
of ‘Obstruction’ in Battle Over FBI Informant Documents
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{ dailysignal.com } ~ Devin Nunes, chairman of the House intelligence committee, is giving the Department of Justice until Tuesday to provide documents about an FBI informant used to spy on the Trump campaign... In a letter to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein on Friday, Nunes accused the agency of “obstruction” and using “an array of tactics” to withhold the documents about the spy, who is believed to be former University of Cambridge professor Stefan Halper. In the letter, Nunes said he wants the documents provided to the intelligence committee and “designated staff” instead of only to the so-called Gang of Eight, as the Justice Department has requested...
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Would a TV Judge Qualify for Appointment to the Supreme Court? 
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by Joe Wolverton, II, J.D.
{ thenewamerican.com } ~ Pirro, the host of Fox News’s Justice With Judge Jeanine, has been an unwavering supporter of President Trump since the early days of his campaign... Her ties apparently go beyond political advocate, however, as New York Magazine reports that Pirro and her husband, Albert Pirro, “did legal work for Trump and they traveled in a lot of the same Greater New York social and political circles.” Existing in the same socio-economic sphere with the president is typically not considered sufficient qualification for the Supreme Court, though. As for Pirro’s more germane entries in her curriculum vitae, her biography on the Fox News website lists her previous legal experience thus: “In 1975, she became an assistant district attorney for Westchester County, New York and was the first female to prosecute murder cases there. In 1990, Pirro was elected as the first woman to serve as a Westchester County Court judge.” An unbiased analysis of Pirro’s resume reveals that she certainly possesses the experience necessary to merit a shot at the other Trump administration position she reportedly coveted, that of attorney general. Such a nomination wouldn’t seem such a stretch, however, as would a nod to take an open seat on the Supreme Court...
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Saudi Arabia shoots down missile fired by rebels in Yemen 
{ conservativeinstitute.org } ~ The successfully intercepted attack comes after another Houthi missile strike on Jazan killed three civilians Saturday... according to Saudi state media. Saudi Arabia intercepted similar attacks over the southern cities of Jazan and Najran in May, with no casualties, according to the coalition. Houthi rebels have increased missile strikes on Saudi Arabia in recent months. Saudi Arabia has responded to the growing threat with a new siren system, which it tested last month, for its capital, Riyadh, and its Eastern Province. The missile attacks coincided with heavy fighting over the weekend between coalition-backed government forces and rebels near the rebel-held port city of Al Hodeidah, near the Red Sea. A weeks-long government advance toward the city succeeded in intensifying the fighting that has killed more than 600 in recent days, according to Yemeni security officials...   https://www.conservativeinstitute.org/national-security/saudi-arabia-shoots-down.htm?utm_source=boomtrain&utm_medium=automated&utm_campaign=ci1&utm_source=boomtrain&utm_medium=automated&utm_campaign=ci1
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The Diversity Racket 
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by Arnold Ahlert:  “Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.” —Eric Hoffer

             In modern-day America, there is no greater racket than diversity. Moreover, the American Left’s ongoing determination to eviscerate meritocracy in favor of “inclusion” is reaching metastatic levels.
               We begin in New York City, where Mayor Bill de Blasio and newly appointed schools Chancellor Richard A. Carranza  announced their intentions to diversify admissions to the city’s eight specialized high schools — by eliminating the admissions exam. “We cannot let this injustice continue,” de Blasio declared. “By giving a wider, more diverse pool of our best students an equal shot at admissions, we will make these schools stronger and our city fairer.
               What “injustice?” Asian dominance, it would seem. Asians comprise 74% of the student population at Stuyvesant, 66% at Bronx Science, 61% at Brooklyn Tech, and 82% at Queens HS for Science at York College, despite comprising only 20% of the total NYC public school population.
               How do officials intend to make the pool wider? “To remedy the dearth of black and Hispanic students, the mayor proposes expanding enrollment by 20 percent, with additional students who failed to get qualifying scores, but only from majority black and Hispanic middle schools,” columnist Lisa Schiffren explains. “And he wants to bring in the top 7 percent of each of the 600 middle schools in the city. Consider that many of those middle schools do not report even one student reading or doing math at grade level.”
               For a hack like de Blasio, dumbing down NYC’s best high schools is preferable to taking on the all-powerful teachers union and fixing the schools known as “failure factories” they have cultivated — for decades.
               In a stark and oh-so-revealing contrast to these contemptible machinations, a homeless black student educated at a NYC charter school aptly known as the Success Academy just received a full ride to MIT. “Moctar Fall, of The Bronx, is one of 16 members of the charter school network’s first graduating high-school class — all of whom nabbed spots at four-year colleges ranging from Barnard and Tufts to Stony Brook and Emory,” the New York Post reports.
               Unsurprisingly, the Success Academy and other charter schools that put the lie to leftist education schemes are considered beneath contempt by de Blasio and the teachers’ union.
               Chancellor Carranza? “Not so long ago, chancellors were hired to run schools and promote educational excellence for all students,” columnist Micheal Goodwin asserts. “Now they’re hired to engineer outcomes based on race, ethnicity and family income.”
               Tragic, life-wrecking outcomes. Where else is meritocracy on the ropes? An liar-nObama administration “diversity road map” directive released in January 2017 requires Navy commanders to “effectively manage diversity” and “refine approaches to engender a sustainable culture of inclusion.” It will be enforced by layers of bureaucracy, including the total force integration board, the executive diversity advisory council, and the diversity and inclusion council. It is part of an overall initiative spearheaded between 2012 and 2017 by the Department of Defense which asserted that diversity “is a strategic imperative, critical to mission readiness and accomplishment, and a leadership requirement.”
               As The Washington Times notes, the directive “has the hallmarks of former Navy Secretary Ray Mabus, the eight-year officeholder whose legacy is steeped in social change.” The same Ray Mabus who sought to “gender-integrate” Military Occupational Specialty (MOS) job titles by removing the word “man” from them.
               Warped priorities seemingly have their consequences. A three-month Navy review reveals that nearly 85% of its junior officers “struggled to react decisively to extricate their ship from danger when there was an immediate risk of collision,” Defense News reported.
               This stunning lack of basic seamanship included struggles with “operating radars and the associated tools at hand,” and applying international rules “practically during watch standing, especially in low-visibility situations.” And while most of the first-tour officers of the deck (OODs) demonstrated the ability to remain clear from other ships in a simulator, they nonetheless demonstrated an inability to “take immediate action to avoid collisions” when they found themselves in actual extreme situations.
               Vice Adm. Richard Brown attributes this incompetence to “a bell curve distribution.” He explained, “We had 27 who were on top, we had 108 who were in the middle and we had 29 who were kind of at the lower end.”
               One is left to wonder whether such bell curve distributions provide any comfort to the families and friends of 17 sailors on the USS Fitzgerald and USS John S. McCain killed in what a Navy report called “avoidable” collisions.
               Retired Navy admiral James A. Lyons doesn’t buy the elevation of inclusion over talent. “I believe the current problems our ships are experiencing can be traced to these mandates,” he asserts. “With the hundreds of millions of dollars that are expended to build today’s sophisticated warships, we must have the ‘best and brightest’ to man those ships. Now is the time to take the lead by breaking the shackles of political correctness and put the Navy back on an even keel.”
               From the Navy, we move to air traffic control — and utter insanity. “The safety of America’s airline passengers is being compromised for the sake of diversity in hiring air traffic controllers, an attorney suing the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) told ‘Tucker Carlson Tonight’ host Tucker Carlson on Friday,” Fox News reports. Attorney Michael Pearson stated that an FAA sub-group known as the National Black Coalition of Federal Aviation Employees determined the “workforce was too white.”
               The story has come to light due to a revived lawsuit filed by Andrew Brigida. In 2013, he graduated with two aviation-related bachelor’s degrees from Arizona State University, one of the FAA’s Collegiate Training Initiative schools. He also aced the Air Traffic Selection and Training exam (AT-SAT). Nonetheless, he hasn’t been hired in five years.
               Why? In 2013, the liar-nObama administration  determined that diversity was more important than merit. Preference was no longer given to CTI graduates, and a “biographical questionnaire” (BQ) was added to the screening process.
               Fox News obtained a copy of it. “Applicants with a lower aptitude in science got preference over applicants who had scored excellent in science,” Carlson reveals. “Applicants who had been unemployed for the previous three years got more points than licensed pilots got. In other words, the FAA actively searched for unqualified air traffic controllers.”
               Fox also obtained an internal email written by an executive at the firm that revised the BQ. It admitted the test had nothing to do with finding the most qualified controllers.
               Brigida filed a lawsuit against the FAA in 2016. It was was initially dismissed, but U.S. District Court Judge Dabney Friedrich overturned that decision. William Perry Pendley of the Mountain States Legal Foundation, a public-interest law firm representing Brigida, stated the blindingly obvious. “We’re not talking about somebody driving a truck,” he said. “We’re talking about somebody guiding an aircraft into snowbound Chicago.
               Is this the final straw for diversity mandates? Or will fear of flying give way to, say, fear of surgery? Only the diversity racketeers know for certain. 
  
~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/56463?utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.3537&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

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Tuesday Noon ~ TheFrontPageCover

TheFrontPageCover
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Trump Shakes Up G7, 
Demands Fair 'Reciprocal' Trade 
by Thomas Gallatin
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6 Big Questions About What Comes After the Trump-Kim Meeting
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{ dailysignal.com } ~ Amid intense attention to the historic meeting between President Donald Trump and North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un, optimists and skeptics alike have questions about the next step... The two leaders’ meeting in Singapore was not expected to reach a major breakthrough. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said last week the administration would seek progress toward a formal treaty to be ratified by the Senate. That would make it more difficult for a future president to unravel a deal, as Trump unraveled President Barack liar-nObama’s Iran nuclear deal. It also would provide assurance to Kim that the United States won’t pursue regime change after his country does away with its arsenal...
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Judicial Watch Sues to Expose DOJ FISA Warrant Abuses 
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by Tom Fitton
{ breitbart.com } ~ Just how much did the Department of Justice abuse the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) when it decided to go after Donald Trump?... And what is the DOJ hiding from Congress and the American people about this scandal that is worse than Watergate? Judicial Watch is determined to find out. Judicial Watch just filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Justice for all records of communications between both the DOJ and the Federal Bureau of Investigation with members of the Senate Judiciary Committee and the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence regarding the FISA warrants against foreign policy adviser Carter Page and other members of Trump campaign (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of Justice (No. 1:18-cv-01088)). Judicial Watch sued after both the Justice Department and the FBI, a division of the DOJ, failed to respond to separate February 9, 2018...
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Germany's Migrant Rape Crisis: "Failure of the State"
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{ gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ The rape and murder of a 14-year-old Jewish girl by a failed Iraqi asylum seeker has cast a renewed spotlight on Germany's migrant rape crisis... which has continued unabated for years amid official complicity and public apathy. Thousands of women and children have been raped or sexually assaulted in Germany since Chancellor Angela Merkel welcomed into the country more than one million mostly male migrants from Africa, Asia and the Middle East. The latest crime, entirely preventable, is uniquely reprehensible in that it highlights in one act the many insidious consequences of Germany's open-door migration policy — including the failure to vet those allowed into the country and the practice of releasing migrant criminals back onto German streets instead of incarcerating or deporting them. The crime also exposes the gross negligence of Germany's political class, which appears to be more concerned with preserving multiculturalism and the rights of predatory migrants than protecting German women and children from them...
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When Mental Illness Becomes an Excuse for Terrorists
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by Abigail R. Esman
{ investigativeproject.org } ~ It was a warm afternoon in the Netherlands on May 5 as the country celebrated the 73rdanniversary of its liberation from the Nazi occupation... Some had gone to the beach. Others picnicked in local parks. But in the streets beside the Hollands Spoor train station in The Hague, one man chose a different way to mark the occasion: brandishing a knife, he slashed at random bystanders, wounding three people, one seriously. Police rushed to the scene, where they shot the attacker in the leg to force him to the ground. Yet even as he lay across the sidewalk, he held tightly to his weapon. "Allahu Akbar," he cried out, the Arabic that means "Allah is greatest." Police arrested the Syrian-born attacker, later identified as "Malek F." But only hours later, authorities were forced to acknowledge that he had been in their sights for some time – not for radical Islamism, but for what they called "disturbed behavior." Media reports described the man as "troubled," and officials claimed they were searching for a motive. Even The Hague Mayor Pauline Krikke told the press that "terrorism has been ruled out as a motive," insisting "there is no sign that there was anything more to it" than that the man was mentally ill...
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NFIB v. Sebelius Comes Back to Bite liar-nObamacareGruueRxj2d2Z8oevs8CRSIpdT5R3xzUWjuWy8eqTg-CpE5Kl5yFY6RLLLxkcFzm_RvD9HpTHdSVzVp3uyhPcivrh1CtRD8HLtTWdl9dQsEeBdiXYvr7KW8SuOXJ3egpgZtlz3hY1WPh_7jeFmhYSqil8A4c8Q6eESuEWyjgWV3zwUR9syLAn4XS-XSoyokH6EfplqWba_hHGd4kpSKAGoCOnuve98BZmlqFF3dVsV_ypAtHDzs1G7nEIEJ8ss7i2VmccViNheGkWF_loQYqi9LACjgIBsT_UMxFWV9xMxpHFfGbyNEd-NbEEwL9AV5aMUCiNE3Y2bC9kX5CvYDmrSicFlx6MaQFIcC8-F4-usT-qmtVLC0W3h1ucMMQi=s0-d-e1-ft#%3Ca%20rel%3Dnofollow%20href=?width=300by DAVID CATRON
{ spectator.org } ~ Unless you have been vacationing in a far away galaxy, you will have heard the ululations of liar-nObamacare apologists... enraged by the Trump administration’s refusal to defend the health care law against a 20-state lawsuit challenging its constitutionality. liar-nObamacare advocates claim that the failure to defend the ACA in Texas v. United States is an unprecedented dereliction of duty by the Department of Justice (DOJ). This is hysterical nonsense. It is indeed unusual, but the DOJ is by no means obligated to defend a law deemed unconstitutional by the President, as Attorney General Sessions explains in his notification letter to Congress: The Department in the past has declined to defend a statute in cases in which the President has concluded that the statute is unconstitutional and made manifest that it should not be defended, as is the case here.See Seth P. Waxman, Defending Congress, 79 N.C. L.Rev. 1073, 1083 (2001). Not coincidentally, this is the very language that erstwhile Attorney General scumbag-Eric Holder used in his letter advising Congress, in February of 2011, that the liar-nObama DOJ would not defend the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). That decision was cheered by the very people who now accuse the Trump administration of “lawlessness” for not defending liar-nObamacare. Ironically, the very real threat posed by Texas v. United States has its roots in another legal travesty that these people also celebrated — the 2012 Supreme Court ruling in NFIB v. Sebelius. That decision contained the seeds of liar-nObamacare’s destruction...
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Senate Security director leaked 
anti-Page information, says indictment 
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{ washingtontimes.com } ~ Former Trump campaign volunteer Carter Page has been pursued by Christopher Steele and his dossier, the FBI, Democrats and Russia collusion-minded media... He has proclaimed his innocence throughout the two-year inquisition. Last week, he learned he had another adversary, this one hidden. A federal indictment showed that James A. Wolfe, director of security for the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, was leaking secret anti-Page information to the press. His favorite recipient was reporter Ali Watkins, who quickly rose through the Washington journalism thicket from college intern to New York Times reporter at age 26. The indictment against Mr. Wolfe, 57, said he had a romantic relationship with Ms. Watkins from December 2013, when she was an intern, to December 2017. Two plot twists that month: She won a job at The New York Times, and the FBI confronted Mr. Wolfe. The indictment charges him with three counts of lying when he denied leaking to reporters...
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Trump Shakes Up G7, Demands Fair 'Reciprocal' Trade 

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by Thomas Gallatin:  With all the mainstream media hoopla surrounding the G7 summit this past weekend in Quebec, Canada, one thing is clear: President Donald Trump, as always, dominated the narrative. And he proved once again that he relishes being the anti-establishment guy, this time sending the heads of Europe’s globalist leaders spinning. The G7 summit usually amounts to little more than a couple days of Western allies and Japan hobnobbing for photo ops while proposing various jointly agreed upon socioeconomic agendas and then jetting back home again. It’s more pageantry than policy. But this time Trump saw an opportunity to press his case that the U.S. has long been getting a raw deal from its closest allies when it comes to trade (not to mention NATO). He declared in advance, “Looking forward to straightening out unfair trade deals with the G7 countries.” But he offered the caveat, “If it doesn’t happen, we come out even better!”

             Trump caught everyone off guard by throwing out an unexpected proposal — “unexpected” in light of his recent implementation of tariffs on steel and aluminum. Trump suggested, “No tariffs, no barriers — that’s the way it should be. And no subsides. I even said no tariffs.” He added, “Ultimately that’s what you want. You want tariff-free, no barriers, and you want no subsides because you have some countries subsidizing industries and that’s not fair. So, you go tariff free, you go barrier free, you go subsidy free.”
               The G7 leaders were seemingly stunned, but it became increasingly obvious that this was not a direction they wished to go. Instead, Europe’s leaders saw the summit as an opportunity to hammer Trump’s trade policies. Trump was coming to their sandbox and they were there to scold him for failing to play by their elitist rules for their vision of globalism.
               However, even after all the tension, it appeared that the G7 summit would produce a jointly agreed upon “communique” — essentially a commitment to fight for a “rules-based international trading system and [to] continue to fight protectionism.” Trump agreed to sign the communique as he quickly dashed off to the much more important summit in Singapore with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un.
               All seemed well for a few hours … until Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s follow-up press conference. Trudeau referred to Trump’s tariffs as “insulting” and insisted that he would “move forward with retaliatory measures on July 1, applying equivalent tariffs to the ones that the Americans have unjustly applied to us.” Trump, on his way to Singapore, quickly announced that he was withdrawing his signature on the G7 communique: “Based on Justin’s false statements at his news conference, and the fact that Canada is charging massive Tariffs to our U.S. farmers, workers and companies, I have instructed our U.S. Reps not to endorse the Communique as we look at Tariffs on automobiles flooding the U.S. Market!” This was followed up by a series of messages in which Trump focused on his primary theme of America not getting a fair shake. Trump wrote, “Fair Trade is now to be called Fool Trade if it is not Reciprocal,” later adding, “We’re like the piggy bank that everybody’s robbing, and that ends.”
               Europe’s leaders have clearly become increasingly frustrated with Trump’s seemingly unpredictable behavior. He, on the other hand, appears to have accomplished exactly what he intended — exposing the unfavorable trade imbalance between the U.S. and G7 nations.   ~The Patriot Pos
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The Murder of a Jewish Girl in Germany
by Daniel Greenfield 
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Tuesday Top Headlines 
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by Political Editors:  Don’t trust, and verify: North Korea agrees to “complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula” after Trump-Kim summit (Fox News)
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Mattis: “I don’t believe” U.S. troop reduction is on the table at Trump-Kim summit (CNS News)
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Senators move to sink Trump’s ZTE deal (The Wall Street Journal)
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Jeff Sessions sets higher bar for asylum claims (The Washington Times)
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Fein-stein admits she ignored immigration issues under liar-nObama, now criticizes Trump on it (The Daily Wire)
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U.S. launching office to identify citizenship cheaters (The Washington Times)
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Barack liar-nObama is consulting with 2020 contenders on how to beat Donald Trump (Politico)
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White House economic advisor Larry Kudlow in good condition following heart attack (CNBC)
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Credit service shuts down payments on all gun purchases (New York Post)
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California man has home raided, guns confiscated after trying to register firearms (The Washington Free Beacon)
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Twitter CEO caves to leftist backlash, says he was wrong to eat Chick-fil-A (The Daily Signal)
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Supreme Court gives Ohio right to purge thousands of voters from its rolls (NBC News)
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Study: Welfare benefits, minimum-wage hikes might harm poor neighborhoods (National Review)
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Seattle City Council to consider repeal of head tax less than a month after approving it (The Seattle Times)
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Bottom story of the day: Why North Korea has to hide Kim’s poop (Washington Examiner)
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Policy: Six big questions about what comes after the Trump-Kim meeting (The Daily Signal)
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Trump praises meeting with Kim Jong Un, 
says they’re ‘going’ to a signing 
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{ foxnews.com } ~ President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Tuesday emerged from their "working lunch"... and indicated that they were about to sign something, but did give any further details. "We had a really fantastic meeting, a lot of progress, really very positive," Trump said "I think better than anybody could have expected. Top of the line, really good. We’re going right now to a signing.” Trump did not go into details about the comment. Trump shook hands with North Korean leader Kim in Singapore shortly after 9 a.m. local time Tuesday, kicking off a historic summit meeting and marking a new era in relations between the U.S. and the totalitarian state known as the Hermit Kingdom...   http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/06/12/trump-praises-meeting-with-kim-jong-un-says-re-going-to-signing.html
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Sanctuary Policies Endanger Innocent Victims
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{ frontpagemag.com } ~ The title of a June 1, 2018 ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) news release, concisely highlights how insane sanctuary policies senselessly endanger public safety... 3-month review shows how New York City's failure to honor immigration detainers leads to hundreds of dangerous criminals released — Many of those released offended again. Here are the first two paragraphs of this press release: NEW YORK — U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) in New York conducted a three-month review of detainers lodged with the New York City Police Department (NYPD) and New York Department of Corrections (NYDOC) to determine the type of criminal aliens who have been released from custody without ICE being notified. Detainers are ICE’s request to a local law enforcement agency to notify ICE when an alien in custody will be released. Within the three months, from January to mid-April this year, ICE prepared more than 440 detainers against aliens booked by NYPD or NYDOC. Nearly 40 individuals who were released from custody, re-offended and were again arrested for crimes by local law enforcement officers...
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Got ‘Scam?’ — Dairy Farmers Are Getting 
Milked By The USDA’s Checkoff Program
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{ dailycaller.com } ~ Pennsylvania dairy farmer Brenda Cochran has weathered over $600,000 in losses to her mid-sized farm... from a nearly 40 percent drop in milk prices since 2014. Further compounding Cochran’s financial strain is her forced participation in the Department of Agriculture’s dairy checkoff program, which siphons up to $4,000 from her bottom line each year to fund a network of nonprofit organizations tasked with promoting the dairy industry through advertisements and the development of new products. The organizations that receive her federally-mandated checkoff payments told Cochran that the program has had a “huge impact” on boosting dairy sales, primarily through the creation of new products for major fast food chains. But Cochran isn’t buying it. She says the organizations she’s forced to fund are doing a “pretty piss poor job” doing anything to support struggling dairy farmers...   http://dailycaller.com/2018/06/10/got-milk-usda-scam/?utm_medium=email
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Pro-Trump Jews are the Future of American Zionism
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{ frontpagemag.com } ~ President Trump boldly moved the embassy to Jerusalem. And a poll shows a nearly even split among American Jews opposing and supporting it... while 85% of Israeli Jews back the courageous decision. 77% of Israelis back Trump's handling of US-Israel relations while 57% of American Jews disapprove. How can the vast majority of Israelis be happy with the relationship while the majority of American Jews aren’t? The answer gets at the heart of the split between what American and Israeli Jews want from Israel. And also to the root of a deeper split within the Zionist tree. Modern Zionism is split between positive aspirational Zionism and negative respectability Zionism...
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Kudlow: Trudeau Betrayed Us, ‘Stabbed Us In The Back’ 
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{ dailycaller.com } ~ White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow said Sunday that Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau “stabbed” the U.S. “in the back”... when he announced his nation will impose retaliatory tariffs against America. President Donald Trump, Trudeau and other leaders of the G7 nations — Britain, Canada, Japan, Italy and Germany –met for a two-day summit over the weekend to discuss the possibility of ending a potential trade war. “We had long night sessions. He (the president) was a participant. Not only did we play, we were in the communique. Team players, really, really, team players here to help the Western alliance and then Trudeau throws him under the bus with very harsh language,” Kudlow told Jake Tapper on CNN’s “State of the Union.” “Jake, it was a betrayal. It was a kip diplomatic betrayal. That is not good, and we were close to negotiating a trade deal with Mr. Trudeau,” Kudlow said...
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Truth, Veritas, and Knowledge of History in the U.S.
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{ americanthinker.com } ~ Did you say Americans, some adults as well as many snowflakes, have got a lot to learn?... Many studies have made us aware of the civic ignorance, and the historical amnesia of citizens in the U.S. Though Thomas Jefferson is often incorrectly quoted as the author of an axiom about this, it is still true that an informed citizenry on historical matters is a crucial requisite for a democratic society. Evidence is abundant that it is time for U.S. citizenry to use their mentality and wake up to reality. For many, the past is a wasteland. One third of students consulted in a survey did not know that D-Day occurred during World War II, and 15% thought it happened in Pearl Harbor. Less than half knew that Franklin Delano Roosevelt was president during the war. In April 2018, 41% could not identify Auschwitz as a Nazi concentration or extermination camp, and 66% of Millennials could not do so. More than 11% of adults, and 22% of Millennials, had not heard of the Holocaust. More than a third did not know the century when the American Revolution took place, and only 22% knew that "government of the people, by the people, and for the people," came from the Gettysburg Address of Nov. 9, 1863. One third were unaware that FDR had introduced the New Deal. By contrast, more Americans could identify Michael Jackson as the composer of "Beat It" than the fact that the Bill of Rights comprises the first ten amendments of the U.S. Constitution...
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The Murder of a Jewish Girl in Germany
by Daniel Greenfield 


{ sultanknish.blogspot.com } ~ On May 22, Susanna Maria Feldman went missing. It was the day after the Jewish holiday of Shavuot which celebrates G-d’s revelation of the Ten Commandments to Moses and a nation of freed slaves.

The fifth commandment is, “Honor thy father and mother.” The sixth is, “Thou shalt not murder.” 

And in the German city of Mainz, whose Jewish community dates back to Roman times, a worried mother waited for the worst. Susanna had gone off with her friends. They came home. And she didn’t. 

Her mother received a WhatsApp message from her daughter's phone on the afternoon of the 22nd. "Mom, I'm not coming home. I went to Paris with my friend. Don't look for me. I'll come back after 2 or 3 weeks. Bye." 

According to Diana, Susanna’s mother, the message sounded nothing like her daughter. 4 hours later, the teenage girl’s phone was switched off. There was nothing more. 

"I hope and pray that nothing bad has happened to her," she posted on Facebook. "Please help me find my daughter safe again." 

The police reassured the frantic mother that her daughter had just gone off with some friends and would come back on her, but she feared the worst while the authorities stonewalled. 

On June 1, she published an open letter to Chancellor Angela Merkel in which she wrote, "I feel abandoned by the German state." 

Two weeks passed. The police searched. Dogs sniffed around but found nothing. And then someone noticed a flash of white among all that brown and green. It was the white of a clothing label. 

They found her body between the railroad tracks and Autobahn 66. The killer had stashed the girl under a bush and covered her over with twigs to keep the body out of sight and to buy him some time. 

Susanna’s body had been dumped a few hundred meters from the refugee shelter where her alleged killer had been living. The traffic noise of the highway would have covered any sounds the young Jewish girl might have made as a Muslim refugee brutally raped and then strangled her to death. 

At only 14, a year younger than Anne Frank when she died, Susanna had been murdered in Germany. The teenage girl had been strangled to death after being raped. Her killer then boasted of the crime. 

While the German police were searching for Susanna’s body, the Bashar family, all eight of them, were on their way back to Iraq. The Bashar clan had been living in a refugee shelter even though they were apparently able to afford to book eight tickets to Turkey. The tickets were bought under different names than the ones they had used to apply for asylum in Germany. By June 2, they were back in Iraq. 

That same day, Susanna’s mother posted a Facebook message announcing that it was the 11th day. "Every passing day is a nightmare and hell for us!!! Also her little sister misses her." 

At the airport Ali had showed his residence papers, under the name Ali Bashar, and his ticket under a different name, and a Laissez-passer emergency passport in Arabic issued by the Iraqi embassy. 

German airports had apparently become so used to migrants traveling under various names that they didn't blink an eye. 

The residents of the refugee asylum had watched the Bashar clan packing up as if they were leaving for good. They told one resident that they were facing deportation. Another resident heard that they were going on vacation. When Ali’s mother was asked where the Bashar clan was going, she answered Berlin. 

Like so much else, that was a lie. 

Around midnight, they left by the back door, got into two cars and then they were gone. 

Ali Bashar, one of the six sons, had come to Germany through Turkey and Greece. He had arrived in Germany in the fall of 2015 at the height of Merkel’s migration crisis. Since then, he had been accused of raping an 11-year-old girl in a refugee shelter, attacking a policewoman and robbing a man at knifepoint 

His asylum application had been rejected at the end of 2016. Bashar claimed to have been threatened by the PKK, a Kurdish group fighting against ISIS and Turkey. 

But he appealed, and was allowed to stay on in Germany until he finally killed. 

In April of last year, Ali Bashar was suspected of being in a brawl. In February of this year, he was linked to an assault. In March, he bumped into a policewoman and spat on her. Next month, he was accused of robbing a man with a knife. And he was caught with an illegal knife. 

Despite that, he was still allowed to stay on even as the policewoman case moved through the system. 

But next month, Ali Bashar allegedly did more than hurt his victims. He finally committed a murder. 

Ali Bashar had spent most of his time hanging out in the Wiesbaden city center, going back to the refugee shelter only to sleep, and Susanna had gone to the Wiesbaden city center with her friends. 

When the authorities moved the Bashars from Giessen to Wiesbaden, they signed a girl’s death warrant. The brand new Weisbaden refugee shelter built in 2016 has become the gateway to a cemetery. 

And the same is true of every refugee shelter. 

The 20-year-old Muslim refugee boasted of his crime to a 13-year-old in the refugee shelter. Ali’s younger brother had known Susanna and that may have made the rapist and killer’s work easier. 

With that information, the police began searching around the refugee shelter and found Susanna. Ali Bashar fled to Kurdistan. And there he made a mistake. The Kurds arrested him and sent him back.

Ali Bashar is not the first refugee to have committed an atrocity in Germany. And he won’t be the last. 

The authorities know how to handle this sort of thing. There are police officers patrolling outside the refugee shelter. Are they there to protect those on the outside from those on the inside? 

Or are they there to provide security to the denizens of the shelter? 

Despite the recent rash of anti-Semitic incidents, the authorities insisted that there had been no anti-Semitic motive in a Muslim attack on a Jewish teenage girl. But how can a motive be credibly ruled out when the alleged killer hasn’t been interviewed by the police and isn’t even in their custody? 

The Green Party's Annalena Baerbock declared that nobody should, "presume to abuse the death of this girl to sow hatred." 

That right is exclusively reserved for the migrant population that the Green Party welcomed in. 

A German poll of refugees last year found that more than half hold anti-Semitic views. Even before the migrant flood, German police had noted the rising number of Muslims arrested for anti-Semitic acts. In polls, Jews in Germany listed Muslims as the group most likely to harass or attack them.

In one Berlin school, Muslim students openly boasted, "If a Jew enters our school, he'll get beaten up - I'd beat him up too." 

In German cities, Muslim mobs have chanted, “Hamas Hamas Jews to the gas!” German courts ruled that firebombing a synagogue previously torched by the Nazis was anti-Zionist rather than anti-Semitic. 

When an Israeli Arab wore a Jewish kippa to test the level of anti-Semitism, he was assaulted by a thug shouting, “Jew” at him. The attacker was a Syrian refugee. 

After the attack, Merkel had vowed to act "with full force and resolve". Where is that resolve now? 

As the search for Susanna wrapped up, a Jewish teenager in Germany was attacked by Muslim thugs who heard the music he was listening to. “Berlin is ours now,” they shouted, “and you won’t listen to crappy Jewish music here.” 

Ali Bashar made a spot near his refugee shelter into his own. The girl who was left there will no longer listen to music. And there is no shelter anywhere, in Germany or America, from the “refugees.”

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Tuesday AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

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Is Mayor de Blasio an Anti-Asian Bigot? 
by Pat Buchanan
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Traitor rino-McCain Defends Globalists, 
Blasts America First President Trump
{ rickwells.us } ~ Two responses to President Trump’s reaction to being disrespected, deceived and targeted by liar-nObama’s homey, Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau, tell much of the story... There’s the statement of anti-American profiteer and RINO warmonger, amnesty rino-John McCain, who is currently tying up a Senate seat from his Arizona home so it can be given to his wife once he kicks off. No surprisingly, he sided with the anti-Trump cabal, currently configured as the G7-1. rino-McCain apparently still has delusions that he’s President which he lives out as a “sympathetic” pathetic figure in his national communications. He wrote following the stunt by Trudeau, “To our allies: bipartisan majorities of Americans remain pro-free trade, pro-globalization & supportive of alliances based on 70 years of shared values. Americans stand with you, even if our president doesn’t.” Like most of what rino-McCain says, that statement was wrapped in a cocoon of bull hockey. No one took a survey of the points in rino-McCain’s statement, they were his or his writer’s hyperbole. In actuality, bipartisan majorities of grass roots Americans don’t support giving away our wealth to the future home of the Islamic caliphates, Europe and Canada, nor do we accept the notion of them interfering in our affairs...    https://rickwells.us/mccain-globalists-blasts-trump/
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Israel: Only Removal of Hamas Can Solve Gaza's Problems 
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{ israeltoday.co.il } ~ Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday convened his cabinet to discuss proposals... for easing the dire humanitarian conditions effecting many residents of the Gaza Strip. The measures discussed centered primarily on providing Gaza with more electricity, fresh water and food. But by the end of the day, the cabinet couldn't come to any agreement on the proposals, and it Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman's words of warning that echoed loudest. "Whoever thinks improving the civilian and economic situation in Gaza will halt the terror kites and the violence, is simply wrong," Liberman told Army Radio ahead of the meeting...
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Pence Demands USAID Break Through Bureaucratic 
Gridlock to Help Iraqi Christians, Yazidis 
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{ freebeacon.com } ~ Incensed over bureaucratic attempts to thwart a direct White House executive order, Vice President Mike Pence is dispatching U.S. Agency for International Development Administrator Mark Green to Iraq... to ensure that U.S. taxpayer dollars are going to help save Christian and Yazidi communities decimated by the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. Pence issued the announcement Friday afternoon after waiting months for USAID to comply with a promise he issued during a dinner last October. "President Trump and Vice President Pence made restoring the rights and property of Iraq's Christian and Yazidi communities, who were nearly wiped out by ISIS's genocidal campaign against them, a top and unceasing priority of this administration," Pence spokeswoman Alyssa Farah said in a statement Friday afternoon...
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50 Media Mistakes in the Trump Era: The Definitive List 
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{ sharylattkisson.com } ~ We the media have “fact-checked” President Trump like we have fact-checked no other human being on the planet... and he’s certainly given us plenty to write about. That’s probably why it’s so easy to find lists enumerating and examining his mistakes, missteps and “lies.” But as self-appointed arbiters of truth, we’ve largely excused our own unprecedented string of fact-challenged reporting. The truth is, formerly well-respected, top news organizations are making repeat, unforced errors in numbers that were unheard of just a couple of years ago. Our repeat mistakes involve declaring that Trump’s claims are “lies” when they are matters of opinion, or when the truth between conflicting sources is unknowable; taking Trump’s statements and events out of context; reporting secondhand accounts against Trump without attribution as if they’re established fact; relying on untruthful, conflicted sources; and presenting reporter opinions in news stories—without labeling them as opinions...
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Al Qaeda in North Africa Threatens 
Attacks on Western Companies  
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{ freebeacon.com } ~ The al Qaeda terrorist group in North Africa last month issued a threat to attack Western companies... and U.S. security officials are taking the threat seriously. The May 8 statement by the group al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb indicated that attack planning against French and other Western companies is advanced and that strikes could be carried out during the Islamic holiday month of Ramadan that ends June 14. The warning of pending terrorist attacks comes as the world's attention largely is focused on Singapore and the upcoming summit between President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un...
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Is Mayor de Blasio an Anti-Asian Bigot? 
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by Pat Buchanan
{ townhall.com } ~ "Though New York City has one of the most segregated schools systems in the country," writes Elizabeth Harris of The New York Times, until now, Mayor Bill de Blasio "was all but silent on the issue."

He was "reluctant even to use the word 'segregation.'"

Now the notion that the liberal mayor belongs in the same basket as Southern governors in the '50s and '60s like Orval Faubus of Arkansas and Ross Barnett of Mississippi seems a bit of a stretch.

For what Harris means by "segregation" is that in the city's eight most prestigious schools, like Stuyvesant High School and the Bronx School of Science, where admission is by written test, the makeup of the student body does not remotely resemble the racial diversity of the city.

"Black and Hispanic students make up nearly 70 percent of the city's public school students," writes Harris, "but they received just 10 percent of offers for seats at specialized schools this fall."

"About 27 percent of the offers went to white students who make up 15 percent of the student system; 52 percent went to Asian students, who up make 16 percent."

Harris later adjusted her numbers. Asians are 62 percent of students. At Stuyvesant, only 10 of 900 students being admitted this fall are black.

At Stuyvesant, The Wall Street Journal writes, "2.8 percent of students are Latino and 0.69 percent are black. But 72.9 percent are Asian-American."

Harris decries this as "extreme school segregation."

De Blasio now demands change: "We must be sure that the very best high schools are open to ... every kind of New Yorker." The student bodies at the elite public schools "need to look like New York City."

Translation: We must have more Hispanic and black students, and if that means throwing out the entrance exam to cut the numbers of Asians and whites, throw out the exam.

Soo Kim, president of the Stuyvesant alumni association, is having none of it: "Correct me if I'm wrong, but they're saying these schools are too Asian, so there must be something wrong. ... Am I the only one who looks at that and says, 'I don't understand how that's even legal.'"

Councilman Peter Koo took it straight to the mayor:

"The test is the most unbiased way to get into a school. ... It doesn't require a resume. It doesn't even require connections. The mayor's son just graduated from Brooklyn Tech and got into Yale. Now he wants to stop this and build a barrier to Asian-Americans -- especially our children."

"I'm not sure if the mayor is a racist," says Kenneth Chiu, chairman of the New York City Asian-American Democratic Club, "but this policy is certainly discriminatory."

As Asians demonstrated this week against changing admissions standards to reduce the number of Asian students, schools chancellor Richard Carranza gave them the back of his hand: "I just don't buy into the narrative that any one ethnic group owns admissions to these schools."

Yet it is Carranza and De Blasio who are claiming an entitlement to seats at the schools based on race. The Asian protesters are insisting on maintaining merit and performance, measured by tests, as the standard of admission.

This issue is not confined to New York. It has gone national and pits Asian-Americans who believe in and benefit from a meritocracy in education against egalitarians who embrace race quotas and affirmative action to bring about a greater equality of rewards.

That Asians are the new victims of race discrimination seems undeniable. In August, the Times reported:

"A Princeton study found that students who identify as Asian need to score 140 points higher on the SAT than whites to have the same chance of admission to private colleges, a difference some have called 'the Asian tax.'

"A lawsuit cites Harvard's Asian-American enrollment at 18 percent in 2013, and notes very similar numbers ranging from 14 to 18 percent at other Ivy League colleges, like Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Princeton and Yale."

Now, compare the numbers from California:

"In the same year (2013), Asian-Americans made up 34.8 percent of the student body at the University of California, Los Angeles, 32.4 percent at Berkeley and 42.5 percent at Caltech."

Among possible reasons for the racial disparities: In 1996, by voter referendum, Californians outlawed racial preferences.

What the Ivy League is doing may be criminal in the Golden State.

In 1965, in words written by Richard Goodwin who died last month, and delivered at Howard University, LBJ declared:

"This is the next and the more profound stage of the battle for civil rights. We seek not just ... equality as a right and a theory but equality as a fact and equality as a result."

In today's clash in liberalism's citadel over which races have too many seats at Brooklyn Tech and Stuyvesant, and which races have too few, we get a glimpse of America's future.

It appears to be a future of endless collisions and conflicts over who deserves and who gets what -- based upon ethnicity and race.
 
https:///columnists/patbuchanan/2018/06/08/draft-n2488533?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=

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The Clinical Term for Liberalism

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By Craig Andresen – Right Side Patriots on American Political Radio

Today’s liberals aren’t acting like children with behavioral issues that don’t work or play well with other…thesoci-1.jpg?width=210y ARE children with behavioral issues that don’t work or play well with others.

This has been more than evident since the election of 2016 when liberals didn’t get what they wanted, and the collective has been pitching a fit…throwing a temper tantrum ever since.

Liberals, in the span of roughly 18 months, have gone from being curled up in the fetal position in safe rooms with their coloring books, Crayons, therapy puppies and bottles of bubbles…all literally, and none of that in the figurative sense…to being as outwardly obnoxious as they can possibly be.

It’s not a fine line between taking a stand for something, and just being as disruptive for the sake of being a genuine pain in the ass that we’re talking about here…it’s a chasm…and liberals have gone over the edge to such an extent that they are now in free-fall.

Let me provide just a very small sampling of what I’m talking about…

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Monday PM ~ TheFrontPageCover

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'Fake News' Is Not a Fake Term 
by David Limbaugh
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Fein-stein Trashes Trump for Standing Up for America - 
Should Have Rolled Over like liar-nObama
{ rickwells.us } ~ The left has successfully diverted attention away from President Trump’s summit with Kim Jong Un through an orchestrated stunt by Justin Trudeau... after the G7 meeting had concluded. Even when Trump is making history the long knives of the globalists, which never see the inside of a sheath, are out and slicing away at President Trump. His supposed crime is that of standing up for America after liar-nObama’s globalist choom buddy Trudeau demeaned both our nation and our leader. To the liberals we’re not a sovereign nation, we’re global citizens subordinate to the UN and President Trump should learn to kowtow to them in the proper liar-nObama manner, allowing them to pillage the United States. It’s the civilized thing to do, they tell us, and after all, the US is not exceptional and like Trump, we’re to blame for all of the world’s problems. These aren’t just any nations, after all, they’re our G7 “partners,” the ones who have been smiling and telling us “this might sting a little” as they raped us with their own tariffs and predatory trade practices as well as parasitic agreements for decades. We’re supposed to just bite our lips and let them do whatever they want, like liar-nObama did. He and Trudeau were best friends and their common view of the legitimacy of exploiting the American people was a big part of it...   https://rickwells.us/feinstein-trump-rolled-obama/
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Supreme Court gives green light to Ohio's voting roll purge
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{ foxnews.com } ~ The Supreme Court ruled Monday that Ohio is allowed to purge eligible voters from the state’s registration records if they have not cast ballots in a while... In a 5-4 ruling issued by Justice Samuel Alito, the high court ruled that Ohio’s law to trigger the removal of inactive voters from the state’s registry can be enforced. State officials argued that the process used by Ohio for more than 20 years is constitutional and legal, and meant to ensure election security. Civil liberties groups challenged the state’s program for removing thousands of people from voter rolls based on their failure to vote in recent elections, claiming it violated the National Voter Registration Act...   http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/06/11/supreme-court-gives-green-light-to-ohios-voting-roll-purge.html
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Panic time at Camp Mueller 
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{ washingtontimes.com } ~ If this is June, it must be time to indict Paul Manafort again. The clock is ticking, and the tic-tocs are getting louder... Robert Mueller is clearly feeling the hot breath of public impatience on the back of his neck. He was the great black-and-white hope for bringing down Donald Trump, and a year later the president is still not in prison stripes. Mr. Mueller has indicted Paul Manafort twice, and threatens now to jail him for tampering with a witness. If he tampered with a witness while out on bail, and Mr. Mueller can prove it, jail is where he belongs. But bringing down a witness-tamperer is not what the special counsel/prosecutor was commissioned to do. Mr. Mueller was commissioned to bring in the head of Donald Trump. Not by any means necessary, as Mr. Mueller and his team of thousand dollar-an-hour Blackstones seem to think, but by legitimate means, with evidence that would stand up in a court. They might not have the evidence they need to nail the president’s scalp on the court house wall, so the Manafort scalp might have to do, hence the multiple indictments and now the threat of prosecution for witness-tampering...
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Dangerous People Are Teaching Your Kids
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{ prageru.com } ~ You are currently funding some dangerous people... These people are indoctrinating young minds throughout the West with their ideology that’s built on resentment. In this video, Jordan Peterson, Professor of Psychology at the University of Toronto, explains who they are and how American parents and taxpayers have found themselves funding this dangerous gang of nihilists.
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EU President Donald Tusk Worries About “New
World Order” Being Dismantled – The Peasants are Revolting
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{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ European Union President Donald Tusk worries about the Bush-liar-Clinton/Bush/ liar-nObama legacy being dismantled... “What worries me most is the fact that the rules-based international order is being challenged, quite surprisingly, not by the usual suspects, but by its main architect and guarantor: the US.” Every parasite needs a host. As soon as the host refuses to remain co-dependent to its own demise, the abusers begin to panic.   https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/06/10/eu-president-donald-tusk-worries-about-new-world-order-being-dismantled-the-peasants-are-revolting/.
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'Fake News' Is Not a Fake Term 
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by David Limbaugh
{ townhall.com } ~ The left and Trump-opposing right are predictably annoyed at President Trump's persistent description of the liberal media as "fake news." Like it or not, the term as he uses it has merit.

Trump's opponents hysterically claim he threatens the free press when he uses that term to describe them, just as they accuse him of other alleged abuses of constitutional power. In fact, unlike President liar-nObama, Trump has governed within his constitutional authority. If his rhetoric scares them, then maybe they should find a safe space.

Before you accuse me of your favorite discussion stopper, "whataboutism" -- supposed efforts to excuse Trump's alleged misbehavior by citing equal or worse behavior fromliar-nObama, liar-Hillary Clinton or other Democrats -- let me repeat: I am arguing that Trump has not abused his executive powers, so I'm not seeking to excuse him at all.

As I've said before in response to Trump critics, not every criticism of liar-Clinton and liar-nObama is designed to take the heat off Trump. It is important to hold Democrats accountable, even for their past actions, and to showcase their hypocrisy.

I have often detailed President liar-nObama's misdeeds and the liberal media's deliberate refusal to report on these and therefore won't provide another comprehensive list here. But it is important for us all to understand that Democrats, as a rule, don't much care about abuses of constitutional power -- by the executive branch or by the legislative and judicial branches, not to mention the unaccountable administrative state -- when they advance their leftist agenda.

Before you scoff at this, there's a logical reason for this beyond their hyper-partisanship. They don't care as much as we do about the Constitution -- at least not as originally written. It's undeniable from their history of supporting liberal judicial activism alone, wherein liberal judges bend, amend and upend constitutional provisions and principles when it suits their policy preferences. Liberals speciously accuse conservatives of activism when our constitutionalist judges merely reverse their lawless rulings, just as they accuse President Trump of abusing his executive authority when he dips his executive pen into White House ink to lawfully repeal liar-nObama's unlawful orders.

As just one example, President liar-nObama repeatedly and publicly lamented his lack of executive authority to change immigration laws when he was trying to pressure Congress to pass the DREAM Act. But when his efforts failed, he dipped his executive pen into his executive ink and grossly abused his authority to advance his cause. And he did these types of things routinely -- thwarting the will of the people by usurping the authority of Congress.

The liberal media, who hold themselves out as objective journalists, rarely, if ever, criticized liar-nObama for such lawlessness. They are advocacy commentators disguised as journalists, and reporting on these abuses didn't serve their agenda. Seems pretty fake to many of us. Yes, many commentators on the right are biased, as well, but they usually admit their biases rather than masquerade as objective observers.

Those who insist Trump is abusing his executive authority are the same ones who are hot and bothered about his "fake news" moniker for the liberal press, arguing that it somehow threatens the First Amendment. This is nonsense.

Trump doesn't jeopardize anyone's free speech rights by calling them fake. At the risk -- again -- of whataboutism charges, Presidents liar-nObama and liar-Bill Clinton were often in public fights with Fox News and conservative talk radio. Did they threaten free speech in such instances? Moreover, are critics suggesting that Trump has a constitutional or moral duty to remain silent in the face of endless criticism from the media -- the media that are so preoccupied with discrediting him and undermining his agenda that they spend almost all their time on scandal-mongering and almost none on reporting substantive news?

The critics' incessant and unsubstantiated claim that Trump is a threat to the Constitution is itself irresponsible. Most of the examples they cite have to do with his tough rhetoric rather than his actions. They just can't stand him and have an irrational fear that he's going to end the world, maybe even the universe.

So please, the next time someone casually asserts that Trump is a danger to the Constitution, have the person specify and connect the dots between Trump's action or statement and an actual threat to our democracy.

And when you are considering Trump's claim that he's being attacked by fake news, keep in mind that the leftist media 1) aren't honest about their biases and mask their editorial opinions as news; 2) grossly underreport substantive newsworthy events; 3) make things up about Trump -- such as that first lady Melania Trump may have been in hiding to conceal evidence of physical abuse administered by this most evil of chief executives; and 4) deliberately conceal or deny indisputable evidence of Democratic abuses and corruption, the latest being the liar-nObama administration's clandestine assistance to Iran to facilitate its circumvention of financial sanctions -- and its overt lies to the American people about it.

When it comes to political reporting, the liberal media are often fake news, so don't just assume that Trump's repeated claim to that effect is nothing but counter punching noise. It's about time someone called them on it. It's wholly proper for the press to hold public officials accountable when necessary, but there's nothing whatsoever wrong about a president's holding the media accountable, as well. After all, collectively, their bully pulpit is arguably bigger than his.
 
https://townhall.com/columnists/davidlimbaugh/2018/06/08/fake-news-is-not-a-fake-term-n2488569?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=

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Islamic Anti-Semitism is Islamic Imperialism
by Daniel Greenfield 
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Chairman Bob Goodlatte Discusses Upcoming IG Report – Directs Criminal Investigative Attention Toward U.S. Attorney John Huber
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{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte, the congressional oversight representative closest to Inspector General Michael Horowitz... discusses the upcoming IG report. As background, it is Chairman Goodlatte who personally selected and selects the lawmakers who questioned FBI Counterintelligence head Bill Priestap.  Whereas HPSCI Chairman Devin Nunes holds primary ‘intelligence’ oversight; Chairman Goodlatte holds primary Justice and Judiciary oversight. It is worth noting that Goodlatte directs a great deal of attention to U.S. Attorney John Huber on the criminality behind the upcoming IG report.  The report is scheduled to be made public on Thursday June 14th..
‘Smoking gun?’ Sharyl Attkisson shares damning edits to 
Comey’s original comments on liar-Hillary scandal 
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{ bizpacreview.com } ~ In what is being called the “smoking gun that the ‘fix’ was in,” investigative reporter Sharyl Attkisson tweeted... what former FBI Director James Comey originally wrote in his comments on liar-Hillary Clinton’s handling of classified emails and what his words looked like after suggested changes from an FBI reviewing official. “Document 34: What Comey originally proposed to say about liar-Clinton classified email, and the changes FBI reviewing official suggested,” Atkisson tweeted. The original sentence: “There is evidence to support a conclusion that Secretary liar-Clinton, and others, used the private email server in a manner that was grossly  negligent with respect to the handling of classified information. The edited sentence: “Although we did not find clear evidence that Secretary liar-Clinton or her colleagues intended to violate the laws governing the handling of classified information, there is evidence that they were extremely careless in very sensitive, highly classified information.”...
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ACLU Sues to Keep Citizenship Question out of the U.S. Census 
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{ conservativefreepress.com } ~ On Wednesday, the American Civil Liberties Union made good on their threat and filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration... over plans to include a new question on the 2020 Census: Specifically, one which would ascertain whether or not the respondent is a U.S. citizen. According to the left, of which the ACLU is an undeniable agent, this question is somehow unconstitutional and unfair and will lead to an unreliable count in the next Census. “Manipulating the census to discriminate against and disadvantage certain groups violates both the Fifth Amendment right to equal protection and the constitutional obligation that the census counts every living person in the United States, not just every citizen,” writes Ceridwen Cherry, one of the ACLU’s staff attorneys. “Lower response rates will be catastrophic for communities and states with large immigrant populations. As a result of an undercounting of their residents, states may lose seats in Congress and crucial federal funding that is tied to census results. “The 2020 census data will also be used by states to draw congressional and state legislative districts,” Cherry continues. “Depressing census response rates in already underrepresented communities will allow politicians to draw even more skewed legislative districts and further dilute the political power of these communities. That result plays directly into a longstanding Trump administration plan to exclude non-citizens when apportioning legislative districts as a way to further strip the political power of immigrant communities... ACLU is totally wrong, its constitutional to ask if you are citizen of USA.
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The Left Achieves Perfection
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{ americanthinker.com } ~ Leftists have achieved perfection, and for once not only in their own minds. Yes – for the first time, modern leftists have managed to be perfectly wrong on every single issue... Let's just look at some major issues where one would think that any decent human being would get the right answer. #MeToo: All good people agree that real sexual harassment when someone uses power or force to coerce someone else to do something sexual is bad. Yet starting with liar-Bill Clinton, the left has declared that sexual harassment is not bad if it's practiced by people who  are sufficiently leftist. The recent "awakening" by leftists is not a sign that their beliefs have changed. The reality is that they view the #MeToo movement as a way to attack Trump, so they're willing to sacrifice a few pawns, like Weinstein, in order to strike at Trump...   https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2018/06/the_left_achieves_perfection.html
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The Closing of the Cultural Mind?
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{ gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ In the West, books and documentaries have been cancelled. In France, recently, a group of intellectuals published a manifesto...  asking the Islamic world to eliminate anti-Semitic verses from the Koran. The initiative followed the murder of an 85-year-old Holocaust survivor, Mireille Knoll. The Turkish Council of Higher Education responded with a moratorium on establishing additional departments of French studies in Turkey. For years, under the presidency of Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkish culture has been closing in on itself. "Going into a Turkish bookstore is like walking into a psychiatric ward," according to the British journalist Gareth Jenkins in The New Yorker. Turkey sentenced journalists and writers to prison, and put publishers of foreign novels, such as its most famous translator, Necmiye Alpay, on trial. The problem, however, may not be just Turkish, but, as the author Robert R. Reilly called it, "the closing of the Muslim mind". A new report for the Atlantic Council written by Hossam Abouzahr, the founder of the Living Arabic Project, details the dramatic cultural change in the Arab world: "The Arab world is now publishing only between 15,000 and 18,000 books annually, as many as Penguin Random House produces on its own. Egypt was once the largest producer of books with an output between 7,000 and 9,000 per year. Although its output was previously on the rise, it dropped by a whopping 70 percent after the 2011 revolution, and as of 2016 was only 'showing signs of recovery'. Greece translates five times as many books into Greek as all 22 Arab nations combined"...   https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/12373/arab-culture-literature
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Islamic Anti-Semitism is Islamic Imperialism
by Daniel Greenfield 


{ sultanknish.blogspot.com } ~ We ask that the verses of the Qur'an calling for the killing and punishment of Jews, Christians and unbelievers be rendered obsolete," the manifesto states.

It cites the murders of Sarah Halimi and Mireille Knoll, two elderly Jewish women murdered by anti-Semitic Muslim thugs, the fact that "French Jews are 25 times more likely to be attacked than their fellow Muslims", and the ongoing ethnic cleansing of Jews from the encroaching no-go zones. 

"10% of the Jewish citizens of Île-de-France - that is to say about 50,000 people - were recently forced to move because they were no longer safe in some cities and because their children could not attend the schools of the Republic,” it courageously warns. 

“This is a quiet ethnic cleansing being carried out in in the country of Emile Zola and Clemenceau." 

The manifesto was written by former Charlie Hebdo editor Philippe Val, who had republished the original Mohammed cartoons from the Jyllands-Posten despite the threats, both terroristic and legal, and its signatories include former president, Nicolas Sarkozy, the former mayor of Paris, Bertrand Delanoë, famed singer Charles Aznavour, actor Gérard Depardieu, and many other significant figures. 

The moral power and the importance of the manifesto should not be underestimated. 

After 9/11, it was American Jews who brought attention to the plight of French Jews while their community leaders often preferred to remain silent. Now it is French Jews who speak out, who march and whose LDJ even confronts Islamic thugs in the street while American Jews keep quiet or collaborate. 

The despicable alliance between AJC and ISNA, and the ADL’s attack on Canary Mission, carry with them the stench of Vichy on the spring wind. When an Islamic terrorist attacked a Kosher supermarket before the Sabbath, asking his victims if they were Jewish before he shot them, liar-nObama dismissed it as a random attack on a “bunch of folks in a deli.” It’s become virtually impossible in the United States to have a discussion about Islamic anti-Semitism without being denounced as an Islamophobe. 

Why did France and America trade places? France has faced worse terrorist attacks in recent years than we have. But, more significantly, it lacks the politically correct viewpoint consolidation of America. Despite certain views being criminalized, there are all sorts of non-traditional views in public life there that are actively debated, instead of being airbushed or silenced the way they are in the United States. 

Neither the manifesto nor Charlie Hebdo could exist in the United States. The media in this country censored the Mohammed cartoons more vigorously than the Europeans did. Without any legal threat. 

And yet, despite its moral courage and its vital message, the manifesto misses the true nature of Islamic anti-Semitism. 

It’s a lot more than a few verses. 

The verses are part of a larger Islamic narrative. They’re not random outbursts, but a story. And that story is the primal conflict between Mohammed and the Jews. It begins with the massacre of the Jews at Khaybar and concludes with an end of days that can only come when Muslims exterminate the Jews. 

It’s not a few intemperate verses. Anti-Semitism is fundamental to the story of Islam. And that story with its visions of a conquest sweeping across the world has not ended. That’s why the violence goes on. 

Jews and Christians have a paradoxical role in Islam. They are on the one hand, People of the Book, the unacknowledged originators of the ideas and texts that Mohammed looted to found Islam. But their precedence is removed by accusing them of having betrayed Allah and perverted the scriptures. 

Unlike the polytheistic pagans wiped out by Islam, Jews and Christians are in theory monotheists, with a higher status, but they’re also accused of being mushrikeen, polytheists, who take “partners” with Allah. Jews and Christians had “taken Rabbis and monks to be their lords besides Allah”. (Koran 9:31) 

The ambiguity of Jews and Christians gave them a special status and a special peril. Ritual humiliations of Jews and Christians were enacted to demonstrate their inferiority and the supremacy of the Muslim. In an honor-shame culture, Islamic superiority had to be demonstrated by humiliating other religions. 

When Jews and Christians gained independence or won battles, it called the truth of Islam into question. 

That, rather than a few verses, is what we are dealing with. The verses remain relevant to those Muslims who believe that they are in a zero-sum struggle with every other religion on a battlefield whose scope is as large as the planet and as small as a neighborhood or a building. And that’s the vast majority. 

You can try to make an idea obsolete when it’s no longer relevant. But the anti-Semitic hatred in almost every country where Jews and Muslims both live shows that anti-Semitism remains quite relevant. 

Hating Jews, attacking them and even killing them, remains a meaningful part of Islamic identity. 

The Jews were a primal Islamic enemy. That enmity is written into Islamic scriptures, traditions and prayers. All of that can’t be made obsolete because the Islamic conquest is an ongoing project. 

It’s not a few verses. It’s the context of the conquest. That’s the mission at the heart of Islam. 

The Lebensraum and Drang Nach Osten of Islam might pause for periods, but it never actually stops. Iraqis, Pakistanis and Somali migrants pour into Europe seeking Lebensraum. They move into poorer areas associated with immigrants bringing them into contact with earlier Jewish communities. 

When the second generation, usually more prone to supremacist violence and expansionism than its immigrant forebears, comes of age, the Jewish communities are violently driven out of their homes. 

The verses that justify it won’t become obsolete until the modes of behavior behind them lapse. 

Calls for the persecution of Jews and Christians won’t be outmoded relics of another time until Muslims make them so, not by changing words, but by changing deeds. The trouble is that the verses remain entirely relevant because Muslim populations around the world continue to fight religious wars. 

Muslim hatred of Jews has unique elements. As anti-Semitism usually does. But it’s still a subset of an Islamic supremacism and xenophobia that is endemic and whose consequences can be seen in clashes between Muslims and Christians in Nigeria, Muslims and Hindus in Kashmir, Muslims and Buddhists (and Hindus) in Myanmar, Muslims and Yazidis in Iraq, Muslims and Zoroastrians in Iran, Muslims and Atheists in Bangladesh, and those are just a few of the many examples around the world. 

Islam is not on good terms with any other religion. Including its own spinoffs, like the Bahai, or its own subdivisions, like the Sunnis and the Shiites. 

It’s not about the Jews. It’s about Islam. 

The truth of Islam is validated by violence. Its theological disputes are settled by force. 

The verses about Jews and Christians are not the problem. They’re a symptom of the problem. As are the terrorist attacks, stabbings, shootings, bombings, no-go zones, sharia police and sex grooming gangs. 

The response from Muslim clerics in France to the manifesto has been to claim that the verses are meant to be seen in the context of their time and that Islamic wars are only defensive. Historically, that’s nonsense. But everyone would be perfectly happy if they believed that and really lived it. 

Instead Islamic violence is always deemed to be defensive. Peace can only come from victory, not co-existence. War with non-Muslims who don’t submit to Sharia law is seen as inevitable and necessary. 

The verses libeling Christians and Jews, and justifying violence against them, are just rationalizing this fundamental Islamic worldview and applying it to specific targets. Islamic anti-Semitism is born of Islamic supremacism and imperialism. Muslims aren’t persecuting Jews just because of anti-Semitic verses in the Koran. They’re persecuting Jews because the Koran is supremacist and imperialistic. 

That’s why Muslim violence against Jews is not just a problem for Jews. It’s a problem for everyone. 

Like the Yazidis, Jews are a tiny minority and more vulnerable. That’s what makes them the canaries in the coal mine of Islamic migration. Muslim attacks on Jews in Europe date back over a generation. Long before Paris, Brussels and London were being regularly terrorized; European Jews had already retreated into fortified synagogues, stopped wearing Jewish clothing in public and maximized their security. 

That was the canary in the coal mine. If Europe had woken up then, it wouldn’t be choking now. 

American synagogues and Jewish institutions are starting to resemble their European counterparts. A decade ago, armed guards were a rarity outside synagogues. I walk past them all the time now. 

The French manifesto is an imperfect effort to call attention to a burning problem. It’s an attempt to start an urgent and necessary conversation in France that can’t even be had in the United States. 

And it’s a conversation that we must have before civilization chokes in the coal mine.

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Why Should States That Protect
Illegal Immigrants Be Rewarded?
by Hans von Spakovsky
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Pulosi Blames Trump for Wage Stagnation 
Caused by Her Open Borders, Work Visas
{ rickwells.us } ~ A reporter asked Numbskull Nancy Pulosi if the lowest  unemployment in eighteen years of 3.8% was good news... Of course it is and of course Pulosi would never admit it. Instead, she goes into one of her song and dance routines, and inadvertently points the finger of blame for low wages back at herself and her globalist Democrat comrades. Pulosi, in her customary dishonest and borderline incoherent manner, replied, “Well, as I’ve said, unemployment rate is one indication. The pract, [sic] the fact is, and this has happened before, that people say, ‘Oh, my goodness, that people are saying the unemployment rate is down, why isn’t my purchasing power increasing?'” It sounds like Pelosi’s getting ready to talk down to the crumb-munchers again, who she thinks have the intellectual capacity of a two-year-old. She informs them, “So this isn’t just about the unemployment rate, it’s about wages rising in our country.” That’s something she and her fellow swamp creatures have turned into a virtual impossibility with their importation of cheap foreign labor to compete with American workers...   https://rickwells.us/pelosi-trump-wage-open-borders/
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There's a 'special place in hell' for Trudeau 
after his G7 'stunt,' top WH Trade Adviser Peter Navarro says 
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{ foxnews.com } ~ There is a "special place in hell" for Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau... because of his decision to slam the U.S. in a post-G7 press conference, White House Director of Trade Policy Peter Navarro said on "Fox News Sunday." "There's a special place in hell for any foreign leader that engages in bad faith diplomacy with President Donald J. Trump and then tries to stab him in the back on the way out the door," Navarro said. "And that's what bad faith Justin Trudeau did with that stunt press conference. That's what weak, dishonest Justin Trudeau did. And that comes right from Air Force One." Shortly after Trump left the G7 summit, where the world leaders had reached a tentative agreement on a joint statement, Trudeau held a press conference in which he said that Canada will not be "pushed around" by the U.S...
China's ZTE Pays $1 Billion in 
Penalty Deal to the U.S. to Stay in Business 
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{ punchingbagpost.com } ~ China's telecommunications giant ZTE will remain in business thanks to a recent deal between the U.S. and China... After the telecom company was caught violating U.S. sanctions by working with Iran and North Korea, the U.S. Department of Commerce signed an order in April barring U.S. companies from selling software to ZTE for seven years. For the last two months, ZTE was basically shut down and was forced to halt the production of its smartphone products. In mid-May, President Donald Trump said that the Commerce Department was working on an agreement to get ZTE back in business...
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Democrat Server Vanished After Dem. Caucus Chair Resigned 
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{ westernjournal.com } ~ A missing server. A data breach. An arrested IT guy. Suspicious activity by the former head of the DNC... And Jeff Sessions’ Department of Justice doesn’t seem to be particularly interested in it. Oh, but the president is. And on his favorite medium, he’s demanding answers. Astute readers will no doubt remember the saga of Imran Awan, the information technology guy for plenty of House Democrats, including former DNC head Debbie Wasserman Schultz. If not, a little bit of background: Awan was arrested last year at Washington Dulles Airport attempting to leave the country for his native Pakistan shortly after smashed hard disks were recovered from his house by the FBI and months after an inspector general’s report revealed several potential violations of security protocol. I’m sure he was planning to return with all due rapidity. After he was arrested, media outlets talked about how his case had “attracted unfounded conspiracy theories and intrigue” and how “far-right news organizations seized on it as a potential coverup of an espionage ring that plundered national secrets and might have been responsible for the campaign hacking of the Democratic National Committee, a breach that intelligence agencies have linked to Russia.” At least, that’s how The Washington Post described it in September 2017...   https://www.westernjournal.com/ct/democrat-server-vanished-after-dem-caucus-chair-resigned/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=patriotupdate&utm_campaign=dailyam&utm_content=libertyalliance
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Trump Wants Belligerent Palestinian Negotiator Booted 
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{ israeltoday.co.il } ~ The Palestinian Authority's long-time chief negotiator, Saeb Erekat, has made a career of sticking to his movement's hard-line demands... and of publicly rejecting all Israeli claims, be they legal, historical or religious. And US President Donald Trump's had enough of him. An op-ed penned by Trump's Middle East envoy, Jason Greenblatt, and appearing in the Sunday issue of the daily newspaper Ha'aretz called for Erekat's immediate ouster. "We have heard your voice for decades and it has not achieved anything close to Palestinian aspirations or anything close to a comprehensive peace agreement," wrote Greenblatt. "Other Palestinian perspectives might help us finally achieve a comprehensive peace agreement where Palestinian and Israeli lives can be better."...   http://www.israeltoday.co.il/NewsItem/tabid/178/nid/34180/Default.aspx
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Why Should States That Protect
Illegal Immigrants Be Rewarded?
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by Hans von Spakovsky
{ heritage.org } ~ Alabama has filed an unprecedented but little-noticed lawsuit against the U.S. Census Bureau. If the state wins, it could have major political ramifications and restore fundamental fairness in political representation in Congress.

Alabama is arguing that by including illegal immigrants in its count of the population, the Census Bureau deprives the state — and other states with low numbers of illegal immigrants — of representation in the U.S. House of Representatives, as well as votes in the Electoral College that determine who is elected president.

Conversely, the lawsuit argues, the practice of counting illegal immigrants in the census gives states that protect them California, for example seats and votes they are not entitled to have.

The 14th Amendment to the Constitution provides that representatives in the House “shall be apportioned among the several States … according to their respective Numbers,” with the “Numbers” determined by “counting the whole number of persons in each State.”

After every census, House seats are reapportioned according to the population of each state. Electoral College votes are reapportioned according to the number of each state’s congressional representatives.

Alabama is right about the unfairness of the current system. Illegal immigrants, by definition, have no right to be in this country. It is unjust to allow states to gain a political advantage over other states by flouting federal immigration law.

The number of representatives in the House — 435 — has been fixed by law since 1910. So as Alabama says in its complaint, apportionment is “a zero sum proposition: Each state’s gain is another state’s loss.”

Alabama argues that by including illegal immigrants in apportionment, congressional seats and Electoral College votes are unfairly distributed.

Based on the 2010 Census, Louisiana, Missouri, and Ohio each lost a seat in the House and a vote in the Electoral College, while Montana failed to gain a seat and an electoral vote. By contrast, California gained two House seats and two Electoral College votes. And Florida and Texas each gained one seat and one vote.

As a result, says Alabama in its lawsuit: “Four House seats and four Electoral College votes were redistributed by the inclusion of illegal aliens in the apportionment base in the 2000 Census.”

Alabama claims that including illegal immigrants in the 2020 Census will likely cause it to lose a congressional seat and an Electoral College vote. It says this “will rob the State of Alabama and its legal residents of their rightful share of representation.”

This also violates the “one person, one vote” equal representation standard of the 14th Amendment. According to Alabama, “The gains from including illegal aliens in the apportionment base flow to citizens who live in state with large numbers of illegal aliens.”

Why? Because it means that “in a state in which a large share of the population cannot vote, those who do vote count more than those who live in states where a larger share of the population is made up of American citizens.”

This results in “representational inequality” by devaluing the vote of Alabama’s legal residents. This redistribution of political power “disincentivizes states with large illegal alien populations from cooperating with federal immigration authorities lest they lose political power that comes with additional representatives and votes in the Electoral College,” Alabama argues.

Moreover, including illegal immigrants in the census “punishes states who [sic] do cooperate with federal immigration authorities in the identification and removal” of illegal aliens, Alabama’s lawsuit states.

Alabama’s final complaint is monetary. Including illegal immigrants in the census, it says, will likely cause it to lose its fair share of the almost $700 billion distributed annually by the federal government in grants and other funds.

The key to Alabama’s case is the definition of “persons” who should be counted and thus used in apportionment. Alabama argues that the term “persons” was understood at the “time of the founding and when the 14th Amendment was ratified” to mean the “inhabitants” of a state.

Furthermore, “In the public law of the founding era, the term ‘inhabitant’ did not encompass unlawful residents because inhabitance was a legal status that depended upon permission to settle granted by the sovereign nation in which an alien wished to reside,” Alabama argues.

In other words, “persons” does not include individuals who are in the U.S. illegally, without the permission of the federal government.

The “Residence” rule adopted by the Census Bureau for the 2020 census stipulates that foreign nationals will be counted and allocated to the state where their “usual residence” is located, regardless of whether they are legally present.

Alabama argues that the rule is unconstitutional. Moreover, it claims, the rule violates the Administrative Procedure Act because it is “arbitrary and capricious” and exceeds the Census Bureau’s statutory authority.

The last time the Supreme Court had a significant case involving the census was in 1999 in Department of Commerce v. U.S. House of Representatives. The justices concluded that the Census Bureau had to do an actual count of the population — it could not use statistical sampling.

In 2015 the Supreme Court held that states could use total population numbers — which includes illegal immigrants — in drawing the boundaries of legislative districts. But that case was about redistricting, not apportionment.

Does Alabama have a case? That will largely depend on whether it can convince the Supreme Court that its understanding of the historical definition of “persons” in the apportionment clause of the Constitution is correct. This is not an issue the Court has addressed before.

But regardless of the ultimate resolution of this novel legal argument, Alabama is right about the unfairness of the current system. Illegal immigrants, by definition, have no right to be in this country. It is unjust to allow states to gain a political advantage over other states by flouting federal immigration law, as California has done with its sanctuary policies and obstruction of federal enforcement.

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TheFrontPageCover
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A Conspiracy Theory About a Conspiracy
by Daniel Greenfield
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Monday Top Headlines 
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by Political Editors:  U.S.-Canada trade feud escalates after fraught G7 summit (The Wall Street Journal)
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Merkel: EU will retaliate against Trump tariffs (The Hill)
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Trump, Kim Jong-un to open historic summit with one-on-on powwow (The Washington Times)
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Trump-Kim summit to cost Singapore $20 million (Washington Examiner)
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China hacked a Navy contractor and secured a trove of highly sensitive data on submarine warfare (The Washington Post)
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Iran admits to facilitating 9/11 terror attacks (The Washington Free Beacon)
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States battle for workers amid low unemployment (The Hill)
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Democrats propose sweeping anti-gun bill that would create national registry (The Resurgent)
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YouTube terminates channel of firearms parts retailer (National Review)
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Target: commie-Bernie Sanders — DNC votes to require Dem 2020 primary candidates be registered party members (The Washington Free Beacon)
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Vermont’s new mandate: all residents must have health insurance (The Washington Times)
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GOP embraces single-payer health care attack in California (The Hill)
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Down with the patriarchy? Women earn 57% of U.S. bachelor’s degrees — for 18th straight year (CNS News)
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scumbag-Robert De Niro yells “f—k Trump’ at Tony Awards, gets standing ovation (The Washington Free Beacon)
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Louis Farrakhan loses "blue check” verification on Twitter after anti-Semitic tweet (The Daily Wire)
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Humor: Report: More parents forcing their children to play video games so they can have successful career on YouTube one day (The Babylon Bee)
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Policy: Where homicides remain unsolved (The Washington Post)
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Trump Tells CNN Trade Talks Not About Being Mad -
Time to Do What's Best for America
{ rickwells.us } ~ The condescending, hostile nature of the reporter’s question was a dead giveaway for President Trump in an unexpected briefing... he held prior to departing from the G7 early. It had “fake news CNN” written all over it. The propagandist asked, “Coming into these G7 talks there was a sense that America’s closest allies were frustrated with you and angry with you, and that you were angry with them, and that you were leaving here early to go meet for more friendlier talks with Kim Jong Un in Singapore.” Stating that there is “a sense” is a way to present a suggestion as being fact, a smear tactic that CNN trolls are well-versed in. To propose that a meeting with Kim would be friendlier than a meeting with our allies is idiotic. Sheer idiocy is also a CNN staple. Trump sarcastically told the reporter, “that’s well put.”...  https://rickwells.us/trump-cnn-trade-mad-america/
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Poll shows deep divisions between Israeli 
and US Jews on Trump, peace, religion 
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{ timesofisrael.com } ~ An opinion poll published Sunday shows deep divisions between Israeli and American Jews... particularly in relation to US President Donald Trump, highlighting the growing rift between the world’s two largest Jewish communities. The survey by the American Jewish Committee (AJC) showed 77 percent of Israeli Jews approved of the president’s handling of US-Israel relations, while only 34 percent of American Jews did. Fifty-seven percent of US Jews disapproved, while only 10 percent of Israeli Jews did. Concerning the recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, and the relocation of the US embassy to the city, 85% of Israeli Jews support the decision, compared to just 46% of US Jews. Forty-seven percent of American Jews opposed the move, a position held by only 7% of Israelis...   https://www.timesofisrael.com/poll-shows-deep-divisions-between-israeli-and-us-jews-on-trump-peace/?utm_source=The+Times+of+Israel+Daily+Edition&utm_campaign=8ac8631562-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_06_10_06_47&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_adb46cec92-8ac8631562-54638825
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Who Is Behind the Internet Thought Police? 
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{ freedomoutpost.com } ~ An article, “What the Red Pill Means for Radicals,” published  on June 7 in the ironically named publication Fair Observer might have passed unnoticed as yet another uninformed... biased and ideologically motivated attack on all who ever get labeled “extremists.” The piece is so riddled with non-sequiturs and wild generalizations that it seems almost cruel to rip it to shreds. But the author is Bharath Ganesh. A little online research reveals that Ganesh is currently working at the Oxford Internet Institute — at the esteemed Oxford University — on a research project funded by the European Union to devise ways to disrupt the “far right” online. The project in question is under the banner of the Vox-Pol Network of Excellence, which “is designed to comprehensively research, analyse, debate, and critique issues surrounding violent online political extremism (VOPE).” This research group is only interested in violent extremism – according to their website. “The qualifier ‘violent’ is therefore employed here to describe VOX-Pol’s interest, which is in those that employ or advocate physical violence against other individuals and groups to forward their political objectives. The extremist nature of the politics in which VOX-Pol is interested is thus not decided upon by project participants, but by the decision of those involved in particular types of politics to advocate or employ violence to advance their goals.”...
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Hypocrisy: Canadian Officials Travel
 to US To Warn Immigrants Not To Head North 
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{ westernjournal.com } ~ Nine days after Donald Trump was inaugurated president — as the first travel bans began to go into place... Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau tweeted out words that would end up haunting his immigration policies like a ghost that sticks around a decrepit mansion. It only took a few words, too: “To those fleeing persecution, terror & war, Canadians will welcome you, regardless of your faith. Diversity is our strength #WelcomeToCanada.” Trudeau’s tweet was obviously intended to paint Trump’s travel bans as “Muslim bans” and position Canada as America’s caring alternative. And then things began to go seriously awry for him...
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IDF destroyed Hamas undersea tunnel 
for first time in last week’s airstrikes 
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{ timesofisrael.com } ~ The Israeli military last week bombed a previously unknown variety of Hamas tunnel in the Gaza Strip... one that extended into the sea and was apparently meant to be used by the terror group’s elite naval forces to carry out attacks from the coast, the army revealed Sunday. On June 3, in response to repeated rocket attacks from Gaza, the Israeli Air Force conducted a series of raids in the Palestinian enclave, striking “a military compound belonging to the naval force of the terror group Hamas in the northern Gaza Strip,” the army said at the time.The Hamas base was located approximately three kilometers (1.9 miles) from the Israeli border. The tunnel in question did not cross the border into Israeli territory, but instead extended dozens of meters underwater into the sea, according to IDF spokesperson Lt. Col. Jonathan Conricus...   https://www.timesofisrael.com/idf-says-it-destroyed-hamas-undersea-tunnel-in-last-weeks-airstrikes/?utm_source=The+Times+of+Israel+Daily+Edition&utm_campaign=8ac8631562-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_06_10_06_47&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_adb46cec92-8ac8631562-54638825
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A Conspiracy Theory About a Conspiracy
by Daniel Greenfield


{ sultanknish.blogspot.com } ~ "Paranoia predisposed him to believe in nefarious, hidden forces driving events," the New York Times writes of Trump. "Political opportunism informed his promotion of conspiracy theories." 

But that could just as easily apply to the New York Times. 

The Times is unaware of the sublime hypocrisy of accusing the President of the United States of "sowing widespread suspicions about the government" even as it is doing just that. 

The paper of broken record specializes in spreading conspiracy theories claiming that President Trump didn’t actually win the 2016 election but that “nefarious, hidden forces” made it happen. Its promotion of conspiracy theories about the 2016 election is obviously informed by its “political opportunism.” 

But so are most conspiracy theories. 

A conspiracy theory is usually the conspiracy. Democrats spread claims that the JFK assassination was a right-wing conspiracy. That conveniently redirected blame from the Socialist who pulled the trigger and from the Democrats who benefited from it. 9/11 conspiracy theories likewise shift blame away from Muslim terrorists and the Democrats who champion open migration from terror states like theirs. 

Before the Democrats used conspiracy theories to delegitimize Trump’s electoral victory, they used them to delegitimize Bush’s victory. You don’t need to be a deep thinker to spot the opportunism. 

Or the classic nature of the conspiracy theory: an infinitely expanding plot whose gnostic pleasures come from studying the endless roster of conspirators, the promise of a final takedown never to be delivered, and the seductive appeal of overturning an unwelcome reality with an appealing lie. 

Why don’t conspiracy theories ever prosper? Because if they appear in the New York Times, they aren’t conspiracies. What is the Timesian definition of a conspiracy theory? Anything favorable to Trump. 

Really. 

“The Conspiracy Theory That Says Trump Is a Genius,” is the actual title of a Times op-ed. 

Suggesting that the nation’s first billionaire president is a genius is an opinion. Not a conspiracy theory. On the other hand, proposing that the New York Times is biased against Trump is an indisputable fact. 

Conspiracy theories, fake news, lies, scandals, corruption and abuses of power are not defined objectively, but along party lines. Timesians are convinced that conspiracies are something that lower class and wrong party people irrationally believe in. Instead truly rational people believe that the 2016 election must be overturned and the winner locked up because of some inchoate string of sentences that begin with Moscow, end with Facebook and take scenic detours through more exotic international locations and random businesses than Anthony Bourdain and a year’s worth of Forbes issues combined. 

Successive New York Times stories have spun a web of Trump conspiracies from the Ukraine to Russia, from the United Arab Emirates to Israel. Either Trump is the world’s greatest genius or the New York Times is using crazy conspiracy theories to help sell skin care products to wealthy Manhattanites. 

The Times bemoans “baseless stories of secret plots” right before it scoops them up and sells them. The day before that accusation, it ran a story headlined, “Ivanka Trump Wins China Trademarks, Then Her Father Vows to Save ZTE.” The evidence for that secret plot is a string of conjectures and innuendo. 

Or baseless. 

But it’s not just the Russians, it’s also the Chinese. And the Germans. "Big German Bank, Key to Trump's Finances, Faces New Scrutiny," is another Times hit piece. As is, “Trump's Business Ties in the Gulf Raise Questions" which brings in the Saudis. More Timesian conspiracism includes India, Israel and Uruguay. 

The New York Times accuses President Trump of eroding trust in our institutions with conspiracy theories. But that’s exactly what the conspiracy theories it’s spreading are meant to do to elections. Spreading paranoia? That’s another conspiracy media special. The Russians are in your Facebook. Your friends are all fake. If your news isn’t certified by our fact checkers, you shouldn’t trust it. 

After an election, the old battles are set aside and everyone agrees to work together. Instead we have an endless election because the media spread conspiracy theories to erode trust in those results. 

And those conspiracy theories were based on opposition research from the losing campaign. 

President Trump didn’t erode trust in institutions, institutions eroded trust in themselves by enlisting in a partisan campaign. The partisan agenda has always been plainly obvious because these investigations inevitably lead back to the liar-Clinton campaign and its political allies. Unlike the media’s conspiracy theories about Trump conspiring with the Russians to win the election by posting ads on Facebook, the collusion between government agencies and the Democrats is an open book. Many of the media’s conspiracy theories about Trump, such as the liar-Clinton-Steele dossier, the conspiracy’s founding text, originated from that collusion between political operatives and government officials. 

Conspiracy theorists in the media left are accusing Trump of being a conspiracy theorist for questioning their conspiracy theory. But is a conspiracy theory about a conspiracy theory really a conspiracy theory? 

Is accusing your opponents of spreading conspiracy theories about you really a conspiracy theory? Especially when they’re doing it on the front pages of every major newspaper in America? The media spreads conspiracy theories. Then it accuses anyone who questions its actions of conspiracy theorizing. 

The dubious part of a conspiracy theory is not the ‘conspiracy’ part, but the ‘theory’ segment. 

An actual conspiracy can be proven. A conspiracy theory however is just that. A theory. It never gains factual proofs. Instead it diverts attention from its failure to prove its central claim by expanding its sphere and scope, by personalizing, speculating and persecuting anyone it decides is a useful target. 

And then, before you know it, you’ve spent a year blowing through millions of dollars, harassing people, breaking into their homes and accusing them of unrelated matters without ever proving collusion. 

But don’t worry. The Mueller investigation is on track. That’s why it has to be classified. Like most conspiracy theories, the juiciest parts have to be kept secret because, well, don’t ask questions. 

All will be revealed in time. 

While Republican congressional investigations sought to declassify information, Mueller, the DOJ and the FBI have built a wall of secrecy. Every detail of the investigation, especially its origins, have had to be pried out from behind that wall. And those details, especially those involving the Steele dossier and how it made its rounds through the government, are damning, proven and germane to the conspiracy. 

Unlike the media’s endless world tour of allegations, international conspiracies and vague insinuations, Spygate remains both specific and focused. And, unlike Russiagate, which has yet to even explain its central conspiracy theory of how the Russians actually rigged the election, the accusation is quite clear. 

A conspiracy theory evolves into a conspiracy not through elite influencers, sheer volume of allegations or the creativity of their inventors… but through plausible means, motive and supporting facts. 

Russiagate was always a toxic cocktail of pre-election dirty tricks and post-election sour grapes. Its central theory has never been adequately explained or justified because even its proponents are unable to explain just how the election was rigged or why Trump would turn to the Russians, instead of his own wildly successful messaging team, to run Facebook ads. If there’s one thing that everyone ought to be able to agree on, it’s that Trump has never lacked for marketing savvy. Meanwhile the most popular brand of Russian vodka is owned by the Brits and made in Illinois. 

But the conspiracy to spread the conspiracy theory is real. And its roots have been tracked back through the media, the government and back to the liar-Clinton campaign. While the liar-Clinton-Steele dossier is a series of bizarre unfounded allegations, alternately described as non-credible or as so secret that the Russians would kill for it by its proponents, the conspiracy to seed it into an investigation and the media is not a theory. We know how it happened. We know how it was done. We know who paid for it, who the central players were and why they did it. 

That’s not a theory. It’s a conspiracy.

Read more…

Please Read Part 71:

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The Most Dangerous and Treacherous Times in U.S. History! (Part 71)-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On May 30, 2018:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-most-dangerous-and-treacherous-times-in-u-s-history-part-71

The following recent thought-provoking article revealed that Hillary Clinton had come bearing a Reset Button to Russia and that Obama had run on a Russian reset and there he was on a hot mic telling Russia's Medvedev that he'd have more flexibility to sell out our interests after the election, but the whole Russian hysteria has a strange McCarthy air from the faction that turned McCarthyism into a swear word.

It also revealed that, although the left is having a good time shouting about Russian traitors with no hint of irony, it can still only last so long, but what about a conspiracy involving a country that the left really loves to hate and is often the subject of conspiracy theories and can really get its anti-Semitic juices flowing?

Additionally, it also revealed that now there's Jordan Shachtel discussing Robert Mueller's turn of interest toward Israel, along with revealing Mueller’s alleged ugly history of targeting Jews due to his suspicions of Israel and Jews as a whole, which allegedly go back to his early days as the FBI director-You Decide:

Is The Russia Conspiracy About To Morph Into An Israeli Conspiracy?-Posted on Freedom Post-By Daniel Greenfield-On June 10, 2018:

https://freedomoutpost.com/is-the-russia-conspiracy-about-to-morph-into-an-israeli-conspiracy/

Note: The following recent article was revealed in the above thought-provoking article-You Decide:

Mueller and Obama embrace

Robert Mueller’s Israel problem!-Posted on Conservative Review-By Jordan Schachtel-On June 5, 2018:

https://www.conservativereview.com/news/robert-muellers-israel-problem/

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

Confirmed: Election interference ... by Obama!: ‘Documents show Congress misled about tax money to defeat Netanyahu’!-Posted on WND.com-By Bob Unruh-On May 7, 2018:

http://www.wnd.com/2018/05/confirmed-election-interference-by-obama/#VD7IaQmyj3xAzE1y.99

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BOMBSHELL – George Soros Secretly Gave $4 MILLION to Destroy Israel, Media Hiding It!-Posted on Angry Patriot-On January 12, 2017:

http://www.angrypatriotmovement.com/soros-tried-to-destroy-israel/

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

Obama Adviser Cornered: Says Paying Iran OK Because It Was the End of Obama’s Term!-Posted on The Western Journal-By Ben Marquis-On June 10, 2018:

https://www.westernjournal.com/ct/obama-adviser-cornered-says-paying-iran-ok-because-it-was-the-end-of-obamas-term/?ff_source=Email&ff_medium=eheadlines&ff_campaign=dailyam&ff_content=ttp

Bombshell book calls out Obama for his worst betrayal!-Posted on RenewedRight.com-On June 12, 2018:

https://renewedright.com/bombshell-book-calls-out-obama-for-his-worst-betrayal/

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Don’t Repeat the “Peace Plan” Futility: ‘It’s time once again for Trump's boldness, not for business as usual’!-Posted on Front Page Magazine-By Bruce Thornton-On June 11, 2018:

https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/270406/dont-repeat-peace-plan-futility-bruce-thornton

Video: Netanyahu Makes Extraordinary Offer To Iranian People!-Posted on The Daily Wire-By Hank Berrien-On June 11, 2018:

https://www.dailywire.com/news/31684/watch-netanyahu-makes-extraordinary-offer-iranian-hank-berrien

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United Nations condemns excessive Israeli force against Palestinians!-Posted on Reuters-By Michelle Nichols-On June 13, 2018:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-un/u-n-condemns-excessive-israeli-force-against-palestinians-idUSKBN1J935B

Video: Cavuto Live 6/9/18 | Breaking Fox News | June 9, 2018!-Posted on YouTube.com-By Milo's Radio-On June 10, 2018:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kywOW5cbukU

Trump Tweets from Singapore on Results of G7 Summit!-Posted on The Post & Email-By Sharon Rondeau-On June 10, 2018:

https://www.thepostemail.com/2018/06/10/trump-tweets-from-singapore-on-results-of-g7-summit/

Merkel Favors U.S.-Russia Summit in Nod to Trump After G-7

Merkel Favors U.S.-Russia Summit in Nod to Trump After G-7!-Posted on Bloomberg News-On Jun 10, 2018:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-10/merkel-says-trump-reneging-on-g-7-statement-is-depressing

Dear NY Times columnist: Keep your ’embarrassing feeling’ to yourself about G7. Don’t you dare speak for me again!-Posted on BizPac Review-By Frieda Powers-On June 11, 2018:

https://www.bizpacreview.com/2018/06/11/dear-ny-times-columnist-keep-your-embarrassing-feeling-to-yourself-about-g7-dont-you-dare-speak-for-me-again-643668

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Sharyl Attkisson responds to Brennan’s shockingly inappropriate tweet: ‘This explains a lot …’!-Posted on BizPac Review-By Frieda Powers-On June 11, 2018:

https://www.bizpacreview.com/2018/06/11/sharyl-attkisson-responds-to-brennans-shockingly-inappropriate-tweet-this-explains-a-lot-643639

Globalists Fulminate Over Trump Smack to G7, New World Order!-Posted on The New American-By William F. Jasper-On June 12, 2018:

https://www.thenewamerican.com/world-news/north-america/item/29266-globalists-fulminate-over-trump-smack-to-g7-new-world-order

Why Canada and Germany Deserved a G7 Smackdown: ‘Both nations are failing miserably to uphold their NATO commitments’!-Posted on The Patriot Post-By Harold Hutchison-On June 13, 2018:

https://patriotpost.us/articles/56529-why-canada-and-germany-deserved-a-g7-smackdown?mailing_id=3543&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.3543&utm_campaign=digest&utm_content=body

After Trump’s Relentless Hammering, Trudeau Just Caved and Denounced Iran!-Posted on The Western Journal-By Joe Saunders-On June 13, 2018:

https://www.westernjournal.com/ct/after-trumps-relentless-hammering-trudeau-just-caved-and-denounced-iran/?ff_source=Email&ff_medium=usjf&ff_campaign=dailyam&ff_content=usjf

Thank You, President Trump, For Not Signing the G7 Communique!-Posted on The New American-By William F. Jasper-On June 12, 2018:

https://www.thenewamerican.com/world-news/north-america/item/29272-thank-you-president-trump-for-not-signing-the-g7-communique

Jake Macaulay

Accident Or On Purpose, Trump’s G7 Withdrawal Is Another Constitutional Executive Action!-Posted on NewsWithViews.com-By Jake Macaulay-On June 13, 2018:

https://newswithviews.com/accident-or-on-purpose-trumps-g7-withdrawal-is-another-constitutional-executive-action/

trump singapore welcome

President Trump Gets a Hero’s Welcome in Singapore: ‘Puts Liberal American Cities to Shame’!-Posted on The Political Insider-By Jim E-On June 11, 2018:

https://thepoliticalinsider.com/president-trump-singapore-welcome/

Old Video Surfaces, Shows Trump Was Prepping for NK Nearly 20 Years Ago!-Posted on The Western Journal-By Cillian Zeal-On June 12, 2018:

https://www.westernjournal.com/ct/old-video-surfaces-shows-trump-was-prepping-for-nk-nearly-20-years-ago/?ff_source=Email&ff_medium=conservativebyte&ff_campaign=dailypm&ff_content=libertyalliance

North Korea leader Kim Jong Un and U.S. President Donald Trump exchanged signed documents at the Capella resort on Sentosa Island Tuesday, June 12, 2018 in Singapore. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump, Kim kick off summit: 'We are going to have a terrific relationship'!-Posted on The Washington Times-By S.A. Miller and Dave Boyer, The Washington Times-On June 11, 2018:

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/jun/11/donald-trump-kim-jong-un-kick-historic-summit-hand/

Former NBA basketball player Dennis Rodman arrives at Singapore's Changi Airport on Tuesday, June 12, 2018. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)

Dennis Rodman, overcome with emotion, praises Trump for meeting with Kim!-Posted on The Washington Times-By S.A. Miller and Dave Boyer, The Washington Times-On June 11, 2018:

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/jun/11/dennis-rodman-praises-donald-trump-meeting-kim-jon/

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History Made In Singapore: Will the world soon see a denuclearized North Korea?-Posted on Front Page Magazine-By Lloyd Billingsley-On June 12, 2018:

https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/270432/history-made-singapore-lloyd-billingsley

North Korea leader Kim Jong Un and U.S. President Donald Trump prepare to sign a document at the Capella resort on Sentosa Island Tuesday, June 12, 2018 in Singapore. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump, Kim Jong-un sign document, pledge to work together for peace: ‘Sanctions to remain until nukes are no longer a factor’!-Posted on The Washington Times-By S.A. Miller and Dave Boyer, The Washington Times-On June 12, 2018:

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/jun/12/trump-kim-jong-un-set-signing-ceremony-pledge-work/

Trump Releases Document He and KJU Signed – Read It Here!-Posted on The Western Journal-By Cillian Zeal-On June 12, 2018:

https://www.westernjournal.com/ct/trump-releases-document-he-and-kju-signed-read-it-here/?ff_source=Email&ff_medium=conservativebyte&ff_campaign=dailypm&ff_content=libertyalliance

U.S. will suspend military drills with South Korea, but they can be restarted quickly

U.S. will suspend military drills with South Korea, but they can be restarted quickly!-Posted on USA Today-By Jim Michaels, USA TODAY-On June 12, 2018:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2018/06/12/trump-suspend-military-exercises-south-korea/693527002/

No 'Fake News': Trump Holds Calm, Courteous News Conference in Singapore!-Posted on CNSNews.com-By Susan Jones-On June 12, 2018:

https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/susan-jones/no-fake-news-trump-holds-calm-courteous-news-conference-singapore

Trump's Real NoKo Strategy: ‘His goal is to bring about a denuclearized North Korea. Everything else is secondary’!-Posted on The Patriot Post-By Thomas Gallatin-On June 12, 2018:

https://patriotpost.us/articles/56500-trumps-real-noko-strategy?utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.3540&utm_campaign=digest&utm_content=body

Trump Reagan comparison

MSNBC Analyst Just Compared Trump’s North Korea Diplomacy to Ronald Reagan!-Posted on The Political Insider-By Rusty, Featured Contributor-On June 12, 2018:

https://thepoliticalinsider.com/trump-reagan-comparison-north-korea-diplomacy/

Geopolitics: Trump Plays Chess, MSM Plays Checkers: ‘Trump is closer to disarming the NoKo regional and global threat than any president in 60 years’!-Posted on The Patriot Post-By Mark Alexander-On June 13, 2018:

https://patriotpost.us/alexander/56540-trump-plays-chess-while-msm-plays-checkers?mailing_id=3544&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.3544&utm_campaign=alexander&utm_content=header

Trump established dominance over Kim with his body language, expert says

Trump established dominance over Kim with his body language, expert says!-Posted on Patriot News Alerts-On June 13, 2018:

https://www.patriotnewsalerts.com/trump-established-dominance-kim/?utm_source=boomtrain&utm_medium=afternoon&utm_campaign=CNA_20180614-2

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The Trump-Kim Summit: What Lies Ahead: ‘Why President Trump has plenty of reason for optimism’!-Posted on Front Page Magazine-By Joseph Klein-On June 13, 2018:

https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/270441/trump-kim-summit-what-lies-ahead-joseph-klein

Breaking: President Trump Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize by Norwegian Lawmakers!-Posted on The Western Journal-By Erin Coates-On June 13, 2018:

https://www.westernjournal.com/breaking-president-trump-nominated-for-nobel-peace-prize-by-norwegian-lawmakers/?ff_source=Email&ff_medium=WJBreaking&ff_campaign=breaking&ff_content=western-journal

Trump Plans Military Detour to Guam Following Summit!-Posted on The Western Journal-By Cillian Zeal-On June 12, 2018:

https://www.westernjournal.com/ct/trump-plans-military-detour/?ff_source=Email&ff_medium=conservativebyte&ff_campaign=dailypm&ff_content=libertyalliance

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Kim Jong Un Accepts Trump Invitation to Visit Washington: Report!-Posted on Independent Journal Review-By KELCEY CAULDER-On June 13, 2018:

https://ijr.com/ijr/2018/06/1102830-kim-jong-un-accepts-trump-invitation/

SINGAPORE - JUNE 12: In this handout photo, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un (L) shakes hands with U.S. President Donald Trump during their historic U.S.-DPRK summit at the Capella Hotel on Sentosa island on June 12, 2018 in Singapore. U.S. President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un held the historic meeting between leaders of both countries on Tuesday morning in Singapore, carrying hopes to end decades of hostility and the threat of North Korea's nuclear program.

North Korea Begins ‘Immediate Repatriation’ of US Troops Remains From Korean War!-Posted on The Western Journal-By Sophia Clifton-On June 15, 2018:

https://www.westernjournal.com/north-korea-begins-immediate-repatriation-of-us-troops-remains-from-korean-war/?ff_source=Email&ff_medium=conservative-brief-CT&ff_campaign=dailyam&ff_content=conservative-tribune

Franklin Graham Thanks God for Trump’s Action on North Korea!-Posted on The Western Journal-By Ben Marquis-On June 15, 2018:

https://www.westernjournal.com/ct/franklin-graham-thanks-god-for-trumps-action-on-north-korea/?ff_source=Email&ff_medium=romulusconstitution&ff_campaign=can&ff_content=2018-06-16

SINGAPORE, SINGAPORE - JUNE 12: In this handout photograph provided by The Strait Times, U.S. President Donald Trump (L) with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un (R) with during their historic U.S.-DPRK summit at the Capella Hotel on Sentosa island on June 12, 2018 in Singapore. U.S. President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un held the historic meeting between leaders of both countries on Tuesday morning in Singapore, carrying hopes to end decades of hostility and the threat of North Korea's nuclear programme.

Voters Have Spoken: Trump-Kim Summit Was a Huge Win!-Posted on The Western Journal-By Ben Marquis-On June 16, 2018:

https://www.westernjournal.com/ct/voters-have-spoken-trump-kim-summit-was-a-huge-win/?ff_source=Email&ff_medium=minutemennews&ff_campaign=dailypm&ff_content=libertyalliance

SINGAPORE - JUNE 12: In this handout photo, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un (L) shakes hands with U.S. President Donald Trump during their historic U.S.-DPRK summit at the Capella Hotel on Sentosa island on June 12, 2018 in Singapore. U.S. President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un held the historic meeting between leaders of both countries on Tuesday morning in Singapore, carrying hopes to end decades of hostility and the threat of North Korea's nuclear program.

71 percent of liberal audience admit they secretly want N. Korean peace to fail so Trump wont get credit!-Posted on BizPac Review-By Vivek Saxena-On June 17, 2018:

https://www.bizpacreview.com/2018/06/17/71-percent-of-liberal-audience-admit-they-secretly-want-n-korean-peace-to-fail-so-trump-wont-get-credit-645478

Trump established dominance over Kim with his body language, expert says

Chuck Schumer Just Did Something That Could Send The U.S. To War!-Posted on Great American Daily-On June 17, 2018:

http://greatamericandaily.com/chuck-schumer-could-send-the-u-s-to-war/

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Obama holdovers at VOA failed to broadcast the Singapore summit into North Korea!-Posted on The Washington Examiner-By Ted Lipien-On June 19, 2018:

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/op-eds/obama-holdovers-at-voa-failed-to-broadcast-the-singapore-summit-into-north-korea

Image: Trump Rips Mueller's 'Rigged Witch Hunt' - Again  

Trump approval rating better than Obama and Reagan at same point in their terms. Note deafening silence?-Posted on BizPac Review-By Frieda Powers-On June 11, 2018:

https://www.bizpacreview.com/2018/06/11/trump-approval-rating-better-than-obama-and-reagan-at-same-point-in-their-terms-note-deafening-silence-643368

President Donald Trump speaks at the beginning of a National Space Council meeting in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Monday, June 18, 2018, as Vice President Mike Pence looks on. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Satisfaction with country higher than any point during Obama presidency: Poll!-Posted on The Washington Times-By Bradford Richardson, The Washington Times-On June 18, 2018:

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/jun/18/satisfaction-country-higher-any-point-during-obama/

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Establishment Media Ignores Trump Wins: Hell Hath No Fury Like a Spurned Insider!-Posted on The Western Journal-By James Wilson-On June 11, 2018:

https://www.westernjournal.com/establishment-media-ignores-trump-wins-hell-hath-no-fury-like-a-spurned-insider/?ff_source=Email&ff_medium=newsletter-WJ&ff_campaign=dailyam&ff_content=western-journal

Trump Could Be America’s Best President Ever-One Thing Stands In His Way!-Posted on The Common Sense Show-By Dave Hodges-On June 12, 2018:

http://www.thecommonsenseshow.com/trump-could-be-americas-best-president-ever-one-thing-stands-in-his-way/

The Media Enemies of Liberty: ‘Trump declared, "Our Country's biggest enemy is the Fake News." CNN objects’!-Posted on The Patriot Post-By Nate Jackson-On June 14, 2018:

https://patriotpost.us/articles/56554-the-media-enemies-of-liberty?mailing_id=3546&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.3546&utm_campaign=digest&utm_content=body

Actress Jane Fonda speaks during the 29th annual Conference of the Professional Businesswomen of California (PBWC) on April 23, 2018 in San Francisco, California. The PBWC is a day of keynote speakers and seminars by top female leaders, panels of industry experts. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Jane Fonda to Hollywood Elite: Time to Take ‘Back Our Government’!-Posted on Breitbart.com-By Ben Kew-On June 13, 2018:

http://www.breitbart.com/big-hollywood/2018/06/13/jane-fonda-to-hollywood-elite-time-to-take-back-our-government/

Lee Duigon

How The Left Will Win Us Over—Not!-Posted on NewsWithViews.com-By Lee Duigon-On June 14, 2018:

https://newswithviews.com/how-the-left-will-win-us-over-not/

Video: False Flags Are Coming Before the Midterms-The Empire Will Strike Back!-Posted on The Common Sense Show-By Dave Hodges-On June 13, 2018:

http://www.thecommonsenseshow.com/false-flags-are-coming-before-the-midterms/

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Video: Darn It! George Soros Just Isn’t Happy About Trump!-Posted on MRCTV-By Eric Scheiner, @schineman-On June. 11. 2018:

https://www.mrctv.org/blog/darn-it-george-soros-just-isnt-happy-about-trump

Evil Putin makes a Surprisingly Good Point about George Soros!-Posted on Eagle Rising-By Onan Coca-On June 11, 2018:

https://eaglerising.com/59319/evil-putin-makes-a-surprisingly-good-point-about-george-soros/

The Family Unit: the Strength and Core of the Republic for 242 Years: But Has It Been Destroyed?-Posted on The Post & Email-By Capt. Joseph R. John (Ret)-On June 12, 2018:

https://www.thepostemail.com/2018/06/12/the-family-unit-the-strength-and-core-of-the-republic-for-242-years/

President Barack Obama pauses as he speaks at McCormick Place in Chicago, Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2017, giving his presidential farewell address. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

Obama reportedly coaching 2020 hopefuls on how to defeat Trump!-Posted on The Washington Times-By Alex Swoyer, The Washington Times-On June 11, 2018:

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/jun/11/obama-coaching-2020-hopefuls-how-defeat-trump-repo/

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Obama Directing Midterms ‘Hit List’ Through Morphed Campaign Operation!-Posted on Breitbart.com-By Penny Starr-On June 14, 2018:

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/06/14/obama-directing-midterms-hit-list-morphed-campaign-operation/

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Ex-Obama Staffer Publishes Tells-All About Non-Stop Sex and Drug Use!-Posted on The Political Insider-By Thomas, Featured Commentator-On June 14, 2018:

https://thepoliticalinsider.com/obama-white-house-party-culture/

There is No Cult of Trump, but their is a Cult of Obama!-Posted on Godfather Politics-By Gary DeMar-On June 16, 2018:

https://godfatherpolitics.com/there-is-no-cult-of-trump-but-their-is-a-cult-of-obama/

A Deep State Leaker Went On The Radio And Implicated Obama In This Massive Scandal!-Posted on Great American Daily News-On June 11, 2018:

http://greatamericandaily.com/deep-state-leaker-implicated-obama-in-massive-scandal/

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Video: Rand Paul: Obama Admin Sought To Criminally ‘Entrap’ Trump Campaign!-Posted on YouTube.com-By The Next News Network-On June 9, 2018:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMQ8MEWgo9o

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Wash Post: Stone, Caputo Allege FBI Entrapment Scheme!-Posted on NewsMax.com-By Eric Mack-On June 17, 2018:

https://www.newsmax.com/politics/roger-stone-michael-caputo-met-greenberg/2018/06/17/id/866617/

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Video: Klayman Sues Hillary for Wrongful Death at Benghazi!-Posted on NRATV-By Larry Klayman (Freedom Watch)-On June 12, 2018:

https://www.freedomwatchusa.org/klayman-sues-hillary-for-wrongful-death-at-benghazi

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3 babies among 100 dead off the coast of Libya!-Posted on Patriot News Alerts-On June 30, 2018:

https://www.patriotnewsalerts.com/3-babies-dead-off-libya/?utm_source=boomtrain&utm_medium=afternoon&utm_campaign=CNA_20180701-2

WASHINGTON - MARCH 09: F.B.I. Director Robert Mueller speaks at a news conference at the bureau's headquaters March 9, 2007 in Washington, DC. Mueller was responding to a report by the Justice Department inspector general that concluded the FBI had committed 22 violations in its collection of information through the use of national security letters. The letters, which the audit numbered at 47,000 in 2005, allow the agency to collect information like telephone, banking and e-mail records without a judicially approved subpoena.

Fed Judge Rules Against Mueller: He Must Name Unidentified Persons in Manafort Indictment!-Posted on The Western Journal-By Randy DeSoto-On June 13, 2018:

https://www.westernjournal.com/fed-judge-rules-against-mueller-he-must-name-unidentified-persons-in-manafort-indictment/?ff_source=Email&ff_medium=minutemennews&ff_campaign=dailyam&ff_content=libertyalliance

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From 9/11 to Spygate: The National Security Deep State: ‘The men that failed on 9/11 used their new powers to suppress the truth about Islamic terror’!-Posted on Front Page Magazine-By Daniel Greenfield-On June 14, 2018:

https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/270430/911-spygate-national-security-deep-state-daniel-greenfield

Federal Bureau of Investigation Director Robert Mueller testifies during a hearing before the House Judiciary Committee June 13, 2013, on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. Mueller testified on the oversight of the FBI.

Dick Morris: IG Report Cuts Ground Out from Under Mueller!-Posted on The Western Journal-By Dick Morris-On June 14, 2018:

https://www.westernjournal.com/dick-morris-ig-report-cuts-ground-out-from-under-mueller/?ff_source=email&ff_medium=deepsix&ff_campaign=can&ff_content=2018-06-14

Giuliani on IG Rpt: Mueller Investigation ‘Should Be Suspended’!-Posted on Liberty Headlines-By Editor-On June 15, 2018:

https://www.libertyheadlines.com/giuliani-on-ig-rpt-mueller-investigation-should-be-suspended/

Mitch McConnell

Mitch McConnell: ‘Why Can’t the Mueller Investigation Finally Wrap Up?’-Posted on Breitbart.com-By Joshua Caplan-On June 15, 2018:

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/06/15/mitch-mcconnell-mueller-probe-gone-on-seemingly-forever-ought-to-wrap-it-up/

Paul Manafort

Manafort Headed to The Clink! POTUS Pardon Floated by Rudy G.!-Posted on Constitution.com-By Andrew West-On June 15, 2018:

https://constitution.com/manafort-headed-to-the-clink-potus-pardon-floated-by-rudy-g/

Image: Dershowitz: 9/11 Style Commission 'Only Way' To Learn Truth on 2016

Dershowitz blasts Manafort lockup as dangerous, ‘obnoxious to our Constitution’: ‘He’s as innocent as you and I’!-Posted on BizPac Review-By Frieda Powers-On June 16, 2018:

https://www.bizpacreview.com/2018/06/16/dershowitz-blasts-manafort-lockup-as-dangerous-obnoxious-to-our-constitution-hes-as-innocent-as-you-and-i-645106

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Tom DeLay Rips Manafort's Jailing as 'Tyranny'!-Posted on NewsMax.com-By Todd Beamon-On June 15, 2018:

https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/tom-delay-paul-manafort-jail-tyranny/2018/06/15/id/866505/

SHOCKER: The Judge Who Jailed Manafort Cleared Hillary After Benghazi!-Posted on ILoveMyFreedom.org-On June 16, 2018:

https://ilovemyfreedom.org/shocker-the-judge-who-jailed-manafort-cleared-hillary-after-benghazi/?utm_source=patriots&utm_medium=facebook

There Really Is No Mueller Investigation Without Manafort - Take Away Manafort And Everything Kind Of Flitters Away!-Posted on Freedom Outpost-By Elizabeth Vaughn-On June 16, 2018:

https://freedomoutpost.com/there-really-is-no-mueller-investigation-without-manafort-take-away-manafort-and-everything-kind-of-flitters-away/

Video: Tom Fitton: Manafort’s Arrest is Retaliation by Mueller for Pushing Back against Authority!-Posted on Judicial Watch-On June18, 2018:

https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/in-the-news/tom-fitton-manaforts-arrest-is-retaliation-by-mueller-for-pushing-back-against-authority/?utm_source=deployer&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=on+the+air&utm_term=members&utm_content=20180618205802

Report: Trump lawyer Cohen told friends he’ll be arrested soon

Report: Trump lawyer Cohen told friends he’ll be arrested soon!-Posted on Patriot News Alerts-On June 14, 2018:

https://www.patriotnewsalerts.com/cohen-told-arrested-soon/?utm_source=boomtrain&utm_medium=afternoon&utm_campaign=CNA_20180615-2

Video: Why Is Robert Mueller Hiding From His Own Special Counsel?-Posted on YouTube.com-By The Alex Jones Channel-On June 13, 2018:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Of1TUFRYyZ4

News With Views

Former Reagan Justice Department Prosecutor: Mueller’s Credibility Declining!-Posted on News With Views-By NWV Senior Political News Writer, Jim Kouri-On June 14, 2018:

https://newswithviews.com/former-reagan-justice-department-prosecutor-muellers-credibility-declining/

Image: Report: Mueller Report Due by Summer's End

Report: Mueller Report Due by Summer's End!-Posted on NewsMax.com-By Solange Reyner-On June 16, 2018:

https://www.newsmax.com/politics/russia-probe-mueller-report-due/2018/06/16/id/866580/?ns_mail_uid=9614347&ns_mail_job=1798182_06172018&s=al&dkt_nbr=010502iu0z0l

Image: Gingrich: 'Prepared for War' on Upcoming Mueller Report

Gingrich: 'Prepared for War' on Upcoming Mueller Report!-Posted on NewsMax.com-By Todd Beamon-On June 16, 2018:

https://www.newsmax.com/politics/gingrich-giuliani-mueller-report/2018/06/16/id/866583/#ixzz5Iga8TG00

Image: Giuliani Says Mueller Probe Should Itself Be Investigated

Giuliani Says Mueller Probe Should Itself Be Investigated!-Posted on NewsMax.com-On June 17, 2018:

https://www.newsmax.com/politics/rudy-giuliani-investigate-mueller-russia/2018/06/17/id/866629/#ixzz5IhsD1Wez

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Media: How Dare You Complain About Our Collusion With Foreign Government Hackers?-Posted on Front Page Magazine-By Daniel Greenfield-On June 18, 2018:

https://www.frontpagemag.com/point/270471/media-how-dare-you-complain-about-our-collusion-daniel-greenfield

Hillary speaks during An Evening with Hillary Rodham Clinton.

As Trump Russia Case Falls Apart, Clinton Donor and Tax Cheat Tied to Russia!-Posted on The Western Journal-By Benjamin Arie-On June 15, 2018:

https://www.westernjournal.com/ct/as-trump-russia-case-falls-apart-clinton-donor-and-tax-cheat-tied-to-russia/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=newsletter-CT&utm_campaign=dailypm&utm_content=conservative-tribune

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Comey’s latest post triggers concerns he’s preparing an insanity defense, and a presidential run in 2020!-Posted on BizPac Review-By Vivek Saxena-On June 17, 2018:

https://www.bizpacreview.com/2018/06/17/comeys-latest-post-triggers-concerns-hes-preparing-an-insanity-defense-and-a-presidential-run-in-2020-645339

This image released by Thomas Dunne Books shows "The Shadow President: The Truth About Mike Pence," by Michael D'Antonio and Peter Eisner. (Thomas Dunne Books via AP)

CNN contributor co-writes 'investigative' biography of 'Shadow President' Mike Pence!-Posted on The Washington Times-By Associated Press-On June 17, 2018:

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/jun/17/michael-dantonio-cnn-contributor-co-writes-mike-pe/?utm_source=Boomtrain&utm_medium=manual&utm_campaign=20180326&utm_term=newsalert&utm_content=newsalert

Fewer Opportunities for the Democrats to Cheat!-Posted On Godfather Politics-By Common Constitutionalist-On June 16, 2018:

https://godfatherpolitics.com/fewer-opportunities-for-the-democrats-to-cheat/

J.D. Pendry

Saving Our Democracy?-Posted on NewsWithViews.com-By J.D. Pendry-On June 15, 2018:

https://newswithviews.com/saving-our-democracy/

Ms. Smallback

Engage In The Battle To Save America – We’re Approaching Critical Mass!-Posted on NewsWithViews.com-By Ms. Smallback-On June 16, 2018:

https://newswithviews.com/engage-in-the-battle-to-save-america-were-approaching-critical-mass/

Roger Anghis

How Deep Is The Deep State! (Part 1)-Posted on NewsWithViews.com-By Pastor Roger Anghis-On June 17, 2018:

https://newswithviews.com/how-deep-is-the-deep-state-part-1/

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A New Fake News Story About the Birth of Fake News From a Purveyor of Fake News!-Posted on CDR Kerchner (Ret)'s Blog-By cfkerchner-On June 15, 2018:

https://cdrkerchner.wordpress.com/2018/06/15/a-new-fake-news-story-about-the-birth-of-fake-news-from-a-purveyor-of-fake-news/

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What Was the Purpose of the Yahoo! Obama Birth Certificate Article?-Posted on The Post & Email-By Sharon Rondeau-On June 19, 2018:

https://www.thepostemail.com/2018/06/19/what-was-the-purpose-of-the-yahoo-obama-birth-certificate-article/

Zullo on Obama Birth Certificate Forgery: “It’s All Going to Come Out”!-Posted on The Post & Email-By Sharon Rondeau-On June 16, 2018:

https://www.thepostemail.com/2018/06/16/zullo-on-obama-birth-certificate-forgery-its-all-going-to-come-out/

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Why Won’t the Obama Birth Certificate Issue Go Away? ‘The Truth About This Thing Is Going To Surface’!-Posted on The Post & Email-By Sharon Rondeau-On June 16, 2018:

https://www.thepostemail.com/2018/06/16/why-wont-the-obama-birth-certificate-issue-go-away/

Zullo Recaps Missing Records from National Archives the Week of Obama’s “Birth”!-Posted on The Post & Email-By Sharon Rondeau-On June 17, 2018:

https://www.thepostemail.com/2018/06/17/zullo-recaps-missing-records-from-national-archives-the-week-of-obamas-birth/

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

Nat. Archives Stumble onto New Obama Scandal — ‘Wholesale Destruction’ of Gov’t Records!-Posted on The Western Journal-By Cillian Zeal-On June 11, 2018:

https://www.westernjournal.com/ct/nat-archives-stumble-onto-new-obama-scandal-wholesale-destruction-of-govt-records/?ff_source=Email&ff_medium=newsletter-CT&ff_campaign=dailypm&ff_content=conservative-tribune

Zullo on Obama Birth Certificate, Selective Service Form, and More: ‘Nothing More Than A Story’!-Posted on The Post & Email-By Sharon Rondeau-On June 18, 2018:

https://www.thepostemail.com/2018/06/18/zullo-on-obama-birth-certificate-selective-service-form-and-more/

Suicide: People Are Killing Themselves Because We’re Killing Christianity!-Posted on The New American-By Selwyn Duke-On June 13, 2018:

https://www.thenewamerican.com/culture/faith-and-morals/item/29278-people-are-killing-themselves-because-we-re-killing-christianity

Please Read Part 73:

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The Most Dangerous and Treacherous Times in U.S. History! (Part 73)-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On June 18, 2018:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-most-dangerous-and-treacherous-times-in-u-s-history-part-73

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:

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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...

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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...

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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-...

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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-source-for-obama-s-online-birth-certification

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...

Nazi Collaborator Soros Continues Multi-pronged War on Trump, Calls Him “Would-be Dictator”!-Posted on The New American-By William F. Jasper-On January 4, 2017:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/nazi-collaborator-soros-...

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George Soros Secretly Gave $4 Million to Destroy Israel and The Is Media Hiding It!-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On January 12, 2017:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/george-soros-secretly-gave-4-million-to-destroy-israel-and-the

The President Must Stop Voting “Present” on Iran!-Posted on WordPress.com-On February 12, 2010:

https://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/02/12/the-president-must-stop-voting-present-on-iran/

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Blowing a whistle on Benghazi: There’s no hiding four murders!-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On May 6, 2013:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/blowing-a-whistle-on-benghazi-there-s-no-hiding-four-murders

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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...

4063359777?profile=originalNote:  The following videos wholeheartedly share my sentiments regarding what we are currently experiencing in America today-You Decide:

4063590393?profile=originalA Republic, If You Can Keep It!

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

4063360053?profile=originalThe Fightin Side of Me!

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

4063359977?profile=originalWhen Injustice Becomes Law, Resistance Becomes Duty!

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

“Food for Thought”

4063359991?profile=originalHello: 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!

Please Pray For Our Country/Republic.
Semper Fi!
Jake 
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Monday AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

TheFrontPageCover
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How the liar-nObama EPA 
Fudged Regulatory Evaluation 
by Jordan Candler
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Wasserman Shultz Stone - Faced When 
Asked About Her Role in Pakistani Spy Ring
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{ rickwells.us } ~ Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) never had a problem lying in public when she was the DNC chairman... or in her capacity as a Democrat in the House of Representatives. The fact that she refuses to respond to this reporter’s questions, or to even acknowledge her presence is an indication that the stakes surrounding her involvement in the Imran Awan House espionage case are high. Wasserman Schultz is clearly following the instructions of her attorney not to speak to the media, for the obvious reasons of implicating herself in the espionage case she’s at the center of. But there’s also the upcoming potential of immunity for her spy guy, Imran Awan, and the possible implications if she were to say the wrong thing and mess that up. She could cause a problem by saying the wrong thing and complicating matters, reducing a favorable judge’s ability to contort a ruling in her and Awan’s favor, if that is how this is playing out. Conversely she could be concerned with saying something she might have to later back away from after Awan gets immunity and turns on her. Either way it’s unlikely anything she might say would improve her situation. By keeping her mouth shut, as difficult and unnatural as it is for her, she can’t make matters any worse...   https://rickwells.us/shultz-stone-faced-spy/
Trump signs VA law to provide 
veterans more private health care choices 
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{ usatoday.com } ~ President Trump signed legislation Wednesday paving the way for a major overhaul of the Department of Veterans Affairs... and expanded access for veterans to VA-funded care in the private sector. The measure, which passed both chambers of Congress last month with overwhelming bipartisan support, delivers on a key campaign promise for Trump, who pledged to provide veterans with more non-VA health care choices. "What a beautiful word that is — choice — and freedom to our amazing veterans," Trump said at the signing ceremony. "All during the campaign I'd go out and say, 'why can't they just go see a doctor instead of standing in line for weeks and weeks and weeks?' Now they can go see a doctor."...
VIDEO:  https://usat.ly/2JgajzC via @usatoday
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Media Silent as Israel Exposed for
Aiding Saudi Arabia in Developing Nuclear Weapons 
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{ activistpost.com } ~ The Saudi Arabian government has been covertly receiving information on the creation of nuclear weapons from the government of Israel... according to Ami Dor-on, a senior Israeli official at iHLS (Israel’s Homeland Security). iHLS bills itself as the “leading hub for the homeland security ecosystem globally and in Israel” — and is partially funded by U.S. weapons manufacturer, Raytheon, according to a report by MintPress News. Israel is not a declared nuclear power, yet, but is believed to possess hundreds of nuclear weapons. The Israeli government has steadfastly refused to become a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. Israel has been a nuclear power for decades, though its nuclear arsenal is undeclared and the country has refused to sign. Estimates of its arsenal vary, with most suggesting that Israel possesses from 100 to 200 nuclear weapons. Israel was aided in the development of its nuclear program by Western powers, particularly France. Much of the Western “help” Israel received, however, was the result of covert thefts of nuclear material from countries such as the United States and Belgium...   https://www.activistpost.com/2018/06/media-silent-as-israel-exposed-for-aiding-saudi-arabia-in-developing-nuclear-weapons.html?utm_source=Activist+Post+Subscribers&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=f00d7c710a-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_term=0_b0c7fb76bd-f00d7c710a-387888649
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Brownout 
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by Joel Kotkin
{ city-journal.org } ~ Jerry Brown’s long political career will likely end in January 2019, when the 80-year-old’s second stint as California governor concludes... The growth that so impressed over the past five years has masked a multitude of policy sins, and as California’s economic engine slows down, the underlying problems are becoming harder to deny. People are moving out in greater numbers than they’re moving in. Rates of job creation—and the types of jobs being created—vary widely according to geography. The high-tech hubs of San Francisco and Silicon Valley have added tens of thousands of well-paying jobs during Brown’s tenure, but the rest of the state hasn’t done nearly as well. Brown has put California on a fiscally unsustainable path. A disproportionate share of the funds paying for his ever-expanding progressive agenda derive from Silicon Valley’s capital-gains tax revenues and inflation of the state’s coastal real-estate prices. Any slowdown in the tech money machine or drop-off in property values could prove disastrous for Sacramento’s budget—California gets half its revenue from its top 1 percent of earners. According to Pew, this makes it the major American state with the most volatile finances. Both U.S. News & World Report and the Mercatus Center ranked California 43rd among the states in fiscal health. And that was during an economic boom. Brown’s departure will also remove the last if only partial restraint on progressives in the state legislature, who largely do the bidding of California’s powerful public-employee unions and the green lobby. These forces will pressure the next governor to ram through even stricter environmental laws, more onerous labor regulations, and a single-payer health-care system. California’s teachers are even pushing for an exemption from state income taxes...Good ridden Brown, just look at the tent cities that are lighting up the street of LA. and beyond the city.   https://www.city-journal.org/html/brownout-15828.html?utm_source=City+Journal+Update&utm_campaign=26c03e3ad5-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_06_08_07_38&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_6c08930f2b-26c03e3ad5-109328273
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Iranian Officials Admit To Facilitating 9/11 Attacks 
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{ trevorloudon.com } ~ It sucks to have been right all these years. I was in Phoenix when 9/11 happened and I will never forget weeping as I saw the towers come down while almost 3,000 Americans perished that day... Now, in the cold comfort of knowing I was right when it happened, Iranian officials have now admitted to facilitating the 9/11 terrorist attacks on that bright, sunny Tuesday morning in September, 2001. They secretly aided the al Qaeda operatives who eventually went on to fly commercial airliners into the Twin Towers in New York City, according to new remarks from a senior Iranian official. This is a poke the American badger moment because we pulled out of the Iranian deal and in the mullahs’ arrogance, they are admitting the murderous truth. Why? Because war is coming between our nations and they don’t care anymore. According to the Washington Free Beacon, Mohammad-Javad Larijani, an international affairs assistant in Iran’s judiciary, disclosed in Farsi-language remarks broadcast on Iran’s state-controlled television that Iranian intelligence officials secretly helped provide the al Qaeda attackers with passage and gave them refuge in the Islamic Republic, according to an English translation published by Al Arabiya. “Our government agreed not to stamp the passports of some of them because they were on transit flights for two hours, and they were resuming their flights without having their passports stamped. However their movements were under the complete supervision of the Iranian intelligence,” Larijani was quoted as saying. You do get that this admission is an act of war, right? I’m sure President Trump does, or at least he should. You can bet that John Bolton does. The remarks represent the first time senior Iranian officials have publicly admitted to aiding al Qaeda and playing a direct role in facilitating the 9/11 attacks. The U.S. has long suspected and accused Iran of being part of the attacks...
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How the liar-nObama EPA Fudged Regulatory Evaluation 

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by Jordan Candler:  It isn’t necessarily news to say the liar-nObama administration used the Environmental Protection Agency treacherously, employing deceitful methods to enact a burdensome environmental agenda. But a recent report sheds some light on one way this was accomplished — “by gaming cost-benefit analysis to downplay the consequences of its major environmental rules,” The Wall Street Journal reveals.

             The liar-nObama EPA produced an annualized average of 565 directives, “imposing the highest regulatory costs of any agency,” according to the Journal. Legally, the EPA is generally required to submit these proposals to a cost-benefit analysis. The caveat is that the agency is also afforded considerable leeway in the process. The liar-nObama administration considered this an opportunity and proceeded to exploit the system by estimating a cost for not enacting regulations.
               The Journal explains, “By introducing ‘social costs’ and ‘social benefits,’ the EPA began factoring in speculation about how regulatory inaction would affect everything from rising sea levels to pediatric asthma. EPA optimists even included their guesses about how domestic regulations could have a global impact. Meanwhile, the agency ignored best practices from the Office of Management and Budget, juking the numbers to raise the cost of carbon emissions.”
               To illustrate, in the run-up to the superfluous and extremely costly Clean Power Plan, the Journal says “the EPA suddenly raised the social cost of a ton of carbon emissions to an average of $36 from $21. Before it embarked on new oil and gas regulations, the EPA put the social cost of methane at an average of $1,100 per ton.” After reexamining the claims using verifiable criteria, Scott Pruitt’s EPA came up with vastly different numbers. The result? “While the liar-nObama Administration claimed the Clean Power Plan would yield up to $43 billion in net benefits by 2030, the Trump EPA concluded it would carry a $13 billion net cost,” the Journal notes.
               Thankfully, Pruitt intends to ameliorate the cost-benefit analysis process. Earlier this year, “secret science” was banned, to which Pruitt explained, “We need to make sure [the] data and methodology are published as part of the record. Otherwise, it’s not transparent.” His rationalization to the cost-benefit analysis change is exactly the same. As the Journal concludes, “If Mr. Pruitt succeeds, future cost-benefit analyses will be more consistent and transparent.” Pruitt is both reining in the EPA and demonstrating the extent to which his predecessors went rogue.   ~The Patriot Pos
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https://patriotpost.us/articles/56427?utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.3533&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

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Saturday PM ~ TheFrontPageCover

TheFrontPageCover
~ Featuring ~
scumbag-Keith Ellison — The Radical's Radical 
by Michael Swartz
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Roger Stone - scumbag-Adam Schiff and Dems'
 Lies are Starting to Catch Up With Them
{ rickwells.us } ~ Laura Ingraham teases her guest, Roger Stone, at how his distress over Democrat hack scumbag-Adam “Bobble-Head” Schiff calling him a liar... must have him with his face constantly buried in his crying towel. Stone replies that “It’s just more scumbag-bullschiff from the Congressman from California.” “It’s even hard to know what he’s talking about,” says Stone. “If he’s referring to the Twitter direct messages, which were leaked to The Atlantic, that prove that I had no collaboration with WikiLeaks, I turned those over to the House Intelligence Committee last September.” Stone says, “If he’s referring to the emails that were cited by the Wall Street Journal, that prove that I had no direct contact or source and was using a back channel, why those fell outside of the precisely worded scope of the Intelligence Committee’s request, a scope co-signed by Mr. scumbag-Schiff himself.”...  https://rickwells.us/roger-stone-schiff-dems-lies/
DOJ Still Refuses to Provide Trump Russia Docs to Congress 
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{ libertyheadlines.com } ~ The Department of Justice reneged on a commitment to provide access to documents they promised to congressional lawmakers by Thursday morning... Instead, DOJ issued a press release after midnight suggesting they will only meet with a group of select lawmakers to discuss the matter on the same day the North Korea summit opens in Singapore, according to numerous sources and a DOJ statement. Moreover, the Justice Department also issued new stipulations for briefing congressional members and limited the meeting with only the Gang of Eight, which is comprised of eight leaders within Congress who are briefed on classified intelligence matters. These sources claim that briefing Gang of Eight lawmakers restricts the dissemination and discussion of the documents that will be taken for review. Although the DOJ contends that the documents are highly sensitive material, in reality, these documents are not considered to contain high-level national security information...
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Marching for Terrorism in London? No Problem
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{ gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ On Sunday June 10 in London, the yearly so-called Al Quds Day march... Al Quds is the Arabic name for both Jerusalem and for the day, invented by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, who led Iran's 1979 revolution that overthrew the Shah -- will take place. The march is, basically, a call for the destruction of Israel, sometimes also Jews in general. Many other cities, among them Toronto, Berlin and Tehran, will also be "celebrating" the day. Last year in London, around 1000 people waved countless Hezbollah flags, in honor of Iran's proxy terrorist organization, while chanting slogans such as "Zionists/ISIS are the same, only difference is the name" and "From the river to the sea - Palestine will be free". They also carried banners that said, "We are all Hezbollah," what a comforting thought for the British. The leader of last year's London Al Quds rally, Nazim Ali – director of the "Islamic Human Rights Commission", which organizes the annual march – called for the annihilation of Israel and accused British Jews -- falsely -- of being behind the 2017 fire in London's Grenfell Towers apartment complex...
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Flaws in 'Death Roe'
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{ americanthinker.com } ~ When Socrates appeared before the jury of Athens, he said he was not used to the specialized idioms and restrictive language of the court; he was a stranger there... In that spirit, let's look at Roe as outsiders. Maybe we can see flaws that the professionals don't or won't. The first point shows the weakness in our Constitution itself. State legislatures in the Roe case, it was Texas said no to abortion, and these laws were not unreasonable or unjust in themselves. They stood for long time. But Blackmun said they were indeed unconstitutional. Why the power-grab?  In Marbury v. Madison (1803), for the first time, SCOTUS gave itself permission to review legislation that the justices deemed unconstitutional. Now who can stop an aggressive left-wing judiciary that wishes to revolutionize and  overturn laws it does not like?.With so much power in the hands of the few, Justice Harry Blackmun and other liberals before and after him have become Plato's (unappealing) enlightened philosopher-kings who run roughshod over the hoi polloi and their representatives...
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Trump Inherited Corrupt Leadership at FBI
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DOJ Inspector General finds ‘Insubordinate’ Behavior by Comey
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Chris Farrell: Strzok, Page wanted to undermine then-candidate Trump
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Gingrich: System is much more corrupt than anyone imagined
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Napolitano on Gowdy's disputing of Trump's 'spygate' claims
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Joe diGenova: IG report is being scrubbed by Rosenstein
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scumbag-Keith Ellison — The Radical's Radical 

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by Michael Swartz:  After the debacle of the 2016 election, the Democrat Party began a frantic search for a different direction and new leadership. A spirited battle for DNC chair between onetime Secretary of Labor Thomas Perez and Minnesota Congressman scumbag-Keith Ellison ended with Perez on top and scumbag-Ellison with the consolation prize of deputy chair.

             So while it’s considered proof of an upcoming “blue wave” every time a Republican decides to retire from Congress, there was little talk about the opposite being true when scumbag-Ellison opted to give up his seat to run in a contested primary for Minnesota attorney general — which he no doubt sees as a stepping stone to the governorship. But what’s most telling is the fact that no key Democrats are groveling at his door to keep him in the leadership. They’re not even pretending to do that.
               Some, like Politico’s Edward-Isaac Dovere, spun scumbag-Ellison’s decision as a #Resistance move.scumbag- Ellison is “eager to take on a more prominent role in the Democratic opposition to the Trump administration,” Dovere says, and “he sees that opportunity in being attorney general and joining the legal fight, rather than continuing in Congress.” But others point to the baggage scumbag-Ellison is carrying as a national progressive leader who’s a practicing Muslim — particularly with his ties to hate-spewing Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan.
                scumbag-Ellison denies this connection to Farrakhan, although many don’t believe him because there’s evidence the two men’s paths have crossed frequently over the last decade.
               Among the skeptics is the Washington Examiner’s Philip Klein, who pointed out, “ scumbag-Ellison had graduated law school in 1990 and spent years as a civil rights lawyer by the time he began working with the Nation of Islam on the 1995 march. So it simply isn’t plausible forscumbag-Ellison to argue that somehow, ‘After the march, Mr. Farrakhan’s disparaging views on Jewish people, women and the LGBT community became clearer to me.’” And if Klein’s assertion wasn’t enough, there’s also a private dinner  scumbag-Ellison attended in 2013 with both Farrakhan and the president of Iran, Hassan Rouhani, as detailed in the Nation of Islam’s house organ, Final Call.
               Much of this was swept under the rug whenscumbag- Ellison ran for the top DNC post, but it’s all out in the open now. While the plan is for scumbag-Ellison to stay in both the DNC and Congress until after the 2018 election, it’s apparent that scumbag- Ellison and Perez don’t see eye to eye regarding the DNC.
               Take last week, for example. scumbag-Ellison wasn’t told that Perez was making an endorsement of current New York governor Andrew Cuomo — despite a pledge from Perez that the party wouldn’t endorse in contested primaries. scumbag-Ellison, who’s backing Cuomo’s primary challenger, Cynthia Nixon, took the unusual step of blasting Perez in public, revealing a further division between the Democrats’ progressive and radical-progressive camps.
                scumbag-Ellison is firmly at home within the latter group. His advocacy for government regulation of CEO pay is one example. scumbag-Ellison has also said, “I personally do think that universal basic income is an idea that has a lot of merit.”
               While those who backed commie-Bernie Sanders in the 2016 primary pushed the Democrat Party leftward, party insiders understand they run the risk of alienating independent, middle-of-the-road voters. They see that suburban soccer moms may not feel comfortable with the idea of a party leader who complains to fellow Democrats that Republicans are making inroads on a certain segment of potential voters because “I learned that a lot of Republicans will go to jails and do Bible studies and other things.” The union members who abandoned the Democrat Party to vote for Donald Trump may not be enamored with a party leader who wears a shirt at a Cinco de Mayo eventreading, “I don’t believe in borders” (written in Spanish). The ad practically writes itself: “A vote for a Democrat in November is a vote for open borders.
               The truth is that scumbag-Keith Ellison is a radical leftist, and it’s not surprising that he doesn’t feel comfortable in a body of people he can’t control — a term that describes both Congress and the DNC, which has to be a little worried about how scumbag- Ellison’s radicalism will affect Democrat electoral chances. In fact, don’t be surprised if some within the party try to push scumbag-Ellison out. But the animosity and opportunity go both ways. Should scumbag-Ellison win the election in Minnesota, it’s likely he’ll join the group of AGs around the nation who’ve tried to litigate their way into derailing the Trump agenda of reducing the regulatory size and scope of government. In that respect, he’ll be more “useful” than he is as a party leader.
               Going forward, even as scumbag-Ellison steps away from the harsh Washington spotlight, it’s worth keeping an eye on him.   ~The Patriot Pos
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https://patriotpost.us/articles/56444?utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.3533&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

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Saturday PM ~ TheFrontPageCover

TheFrontPageCover
~ Featuring ~
scumbag-Keith Ellison — The Radical's Radical 
by Michael Swartz
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Roger Stone - scumbag-Adam Schiff and Dems'
 Lies are Starting to Catch Up With Them
{ rickwells.us } ~ Laura Ingraham teases her guest, Roger Stone, at how his distress over Democrat hack scumbag-Adam “Bobble-Head” Schiff calling him a liar... must have him with his face constantly buried in his crying towel. Stone replies that “It’s just more scumbag-bullschiff from the Congressman from California.” “It’s even hard to know what he’s talking about,” says Stone. “If he’s referring to the Twitter direct messages, which were leaked to The Atlantic, that prove that I had no collaboration with WikiLeaks, I turned those over to the House Intelligence Committee last September.” Stone says, “If he’s referring to the emails that were cited by the Wall Street Journal, that prove that I had no direct contact or source and was using a back channel, why those fell outside of the precisely worded scope of the Intelligence Committee’s request, a scope co-signed by Mr. scumbag-Schiff himself.”...  https://rickwells.us/roger-stone-schiff-dems-lies/
DOJ Still Refuses to Provide Trump Russia Docs to Congress 
by Sara Carter
{ libertyheadlines.com } ~ The Department of Justice reneged on a commitment to provide access to documents they promised to congressional lawmakers by Thursday morning... Instead, DOJ issued a press release after midnight suggesting they will only meet with a group of select lawmakers to discuss the matter on the same day the North Korea summit opens in Singapore, according to numerous sources and a DOJ statement. Moreover, the Justice Department also issued new stipulations for briefing congressional members and limited the meeting with only the Gang of Eight, which is comprised of eight leaders within Congress who are briefed on classified intelligence matters. These sources claim that briefing Gang of Eight lawmakers restricts the dissemination and discussion of the documents that will be taken for review. Although the DOJ contends that the documents are highly sensitive material, in reality, these documents are not considered to contain high-level national security information...
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Marching for Terrorism in London? No Problem
by Judith Bergman
{ gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ On Sunday June 10 in London, the yearly so-called Al Quds Day march... Al Quds is the Arabic name for both Jerusalem and for the day, invented by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, who led Iran's 1979 revolution that overthrew the Shah -- will take place. The march is, basically, a call for the destruction of Israel, sometimes also Jews in general. Many other cities, among them Toronto, Berlin and Tehran, will also be "celebrating" the day. Last year in London, around 1000 people waved countless Hezbollah flags, in honor of Iran's proxy terrorist organization, while chanting slogans such as "Zionists/ISIS are the same, only difference is the name" and "From the river to the sea - Palestine will be free". They also carried banners that said, "We are all Hezbollah," what a comforting thought for the British. The leader of last year's London Al Quds rally, Nazim Ali – director of the "Islamic Human Rights Commission", which organizes the annual march – called for the annihilation of Israel and accused British Jews -- falsely -- of being behind the 2017 fire in London's Grenfell Towers apartment complex...
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Flaws in 'Death Roe'
by James Arlandson
{ americanthinker.com } ~ When Socrates appeared before the jury of Athens, he said he was not used to the specialized idioms and restrictive language of the court; he was a stranger there... In that spirit, let's look at Roe as outsiders. Maybe we can see flaws that the professionals don't or won't. The first point shows the weakness in our Constitution itself. State legislatures in the Roe case, it was Texas said no to abortion, and these laws were not unreasonable or unjust in themselves. They stood for long time. But Blackmun said they were indeed unconstitutional. Why the power-grab?  In Marbury v. Madison (1803), for the first time, SCOTUS gave itself permission to review legislation that the justices deemed unconstitutional. Now who can stop an aggressive left-wing judiciary that wishes to revolutionize and  overturn laws it does not like?.With so much power in the hands of the few, Justice Harry Blackmun and other liberals before and after him have become Plato's (unappealing) enlightened philosopher-kings who run roughshod over the hoi polloi and their representatives....
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scumbag-Keith Ellison — The Radical's Radical 

by Michael Swartz:  After the debacle of the 2016 election, the Democrat Party began a frantic search for a different direction and new leadership. A spirited battle for DNC chair between onetime Secretary of Labor Thomas Perez and Minnesota Congressman scumbag-Keith Ellison ended with Perez on top and scumbag-Ellison with the consolation prize of deputy chair.

             So while it’s considered proof of an upcoming “blue wave” every time a Republican decides to retire from Congress, there was little talk about the opposite being true when scumbag-Ellison opted to give up his seat to run in a contested primary for Minnesota attorney general — which he no doubt sees as a stepping stone to the governorship. But what’s most telling is the fact that no key Democrats are groveling at his door to keep him in the leadership. They’re not even pretending to do that.
               Some, like Politico’s Edward-Isaac Dovere, spun scumbag-Ellison’s decision as a #Resistance move.scumbag- Ellison is “eager to take on a more prominent role in the Democratic opposition to the Trump administration,” Dovere says, and “he sees that opportunity in being attorney general and joining the legal fight, rather than continuing in Congress.” But others point to the baggage scumbag-Ellison is carrying as a national progressive leader who’s a practicing Muslim — particularly with his ties to hate-spewing Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan.
                scumbag-Ellison denies this connection to Farrakhan, although many don’t believe him because there’s evidence the two men’s paths have crossed frequently over the last decade.
               Among the skeptics is the Washington Examiner’s Philip Klein, who pointed out, “ scumbag-Ellison had graduated law school in 1990 and spent years as a civil rights lawyer by the time he began working with the Nation of Islam on the 1995 march. So it simply isn’t plausible forscumbag-Ellison to argue that somehow, ‘After the march, Mr. Farrakhan’s disparaging views on Jewish people, women and the LGBT community became clearer to me.’” And if Klein’s assertion wasn’t enough, there’s also a private dinner  scumbag-Ellison attended in 2013 with both Farrakhan and the president of Iran, Hassan Rouhani, as detailed in the Nation of Islam’s house organ, Final Call.
               Much of this was swept under the rug whenscumbag- Ellison ran for the top DNC post, but it’s all out in the open now. While the plan is for scumbag-Ellison to stay in both the DNC and Congress until after the 2018 election, it’s apparent that scumbag- Ellison and Perez don’t see eye to eye regarding the DNC.
               Take last week, for example. scumbag-Ellison wasn’t told that Perez was making an endorsement of current New York governor Andrew Cuomo — despite a pledge from Perez that the party wouldn’t endorse in contested primaries. scumbag-Ellison, who’s backing Cuomo’s primary challenger, Cynthia Nixon, took the unusual step of blasting Perez in public, revealing a further division between the Democrats’ progressive and radical-progressive camps.
                scumbag-Ellison is firmly at home within the latter group. His advocacy for government regulation of CEO pay is one example. scumbag-Ellison has also said, “I personally do think that universal basic income is an idea that has a lot of merit.”
               While those who backed commie-Bernie Sanders in the 2016 primary pushed the Democrat Party leftward, party insiders understand they run the risk of alienating independent, middle-of-the-road voters. They see that suburban soccer moms may not feel comfortable with the idea of a party leader who complains to fellow Democrats that Republicans are making inroads on a certain segment of potential voters because “I learned that a lot of Republicans will go to jails and do Bible studies and other things.” The union members who abandoned the Democrat Party to vote for Donald Trump may not be enamored with a party leader who wears a shirt at a Cinco de Mayo eventreading, “I don’t believe in borders” (written in Spanish). The ad practically writes itself: “A vote for a Democrat in November is a vote for open borders.
               The truth is that scumbag-Keith Ellison is a radical leftist, and it’s not surprising that he doesn’t feel comfortable in a body of people he can’t control — a term that describes both Congress and the DNC, which has to be a little worried about how scumbag- Ellison’s radicalism will affect Democrat electoral chances. In fact, don’t be surprised if some within the party try to push scumbag-Ellison out. But the animosity and opportunity go both ways. Should scumbag-Ellison win the election in Minnesota, it’s likely he’ll join the group of AGs around the nation who’ve tried to litigate their way into derailing the Trump agenda of reducing the regulatory size and scope of government. In that respect, he’ll be more “useful” than he is as a party leader.
               Going forward, even as scumbag-Ellison steps away from the harsh Washington spotlight, it’s worth keeping an eye on him.   ~The Patriot Pos
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Crying 'Wolf' on Entitlements? 
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by Brian Mark Weber
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Senate Investigators Suspect FBI Documents Were 
Manipulated By Deputy Director Andrew McCabe
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{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ Journalist Paul Sperry dropped a bombshell tweet yesterday highlighting issues that have been longstanding within a senate investigation... This is a BIG deal, obviously. However, it is actually an even bigger deal when put into context with prior inquiry by Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley about FBI manipulating FD-302’s, notes taken by FBI agents during interviews. The current issue seems to align with Senator Chuck Grassley suspecting Andrew McCabe manipulated the FD-302 investigative notes from FBI Special Agent’s Peter Strzok and Joe Pientka, after they interviewed Mike Flynn. There is enough sketchy and contradictory information giving weight to a likelihood that Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe told FBI agents Strzok and Pientka to shape their FBI reports of the interview FD-302’s to assist a “Flynn lied” narrative...   https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/06/08/senate-investigators-suspect-fbi-documents-were-manipulated-by-deputy-director-andrew-mccabe/.
Rino Warmonger McCain Attacks Trump - 
America is Supposed to Roll Over
{ rickwells.us } ~ America and the world, with the exception of President Trump and a spattering of Senators and Congressmen... is being led towards a homogenous degradation, a race to the bottom, by traitors. None of them is more visible and more outspoken than establishment tool rino-John McCain (R-AZ). On Friday, prior to his departure for the G7, President Trump told reporters at the White House, “Why are we having the meeting without Russia being in the meeting? I would recommend — and it’s up to them, but Russia should be in the meeting, it should be a part of it. Whether you like it or not, and it may not be politically correct, but we have a world to run.” We can imagine him giving an elbow nudge to John Bolton and saying, “Watch rino-McCain,” just prior to making those comments. rino-McCain was predictable both in his furious hatred for Trump and for Russia, calling the suggestion the “antithesis” of principled realism and “a sure path to diminishing America’s leadership in the world.”...Just knock it off rino.
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Commie Cadet Spenser Rapone, Booted Out Of Army
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{ lidblog.com } ~ Near the end of September, we reported the story of Spenser Rapone, an infantry officer in the U.S. Army and a graduate of West Point...who issued support for Colin Kaepernick with a message saying, “Communism will win.” Now we learn that Rapone is being booted out of the Army. Spenser Rapone is scheduled to speak during July’s Socialism 2018 conference. His bio on the conference site revealed his fate: Spenser Rapone is a former Army Ranger and Infantry Officer recently separated from the military for speaking out against its imperialist violence. He enlisted as an infantryman out of high school in 2010, and deployed to Afghanistan in 2011. After returning from his combat tour, he applied and was accepted into the United States Military Academy at West Point, NY in 2012, graduating and receiving his commission in May 2016. Deciding he could no longer stomach the immorality of US imperialism, he spoke out against the reprehensible actions of the military in September 2017. He ultimately resigned his commission, and was separated from the Army in June 2018 with an Other Than Honorable discharge...   https://lidblog.com/spenser-rapone-commie-cadet/ 
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Democratic Support for Israel’s Right to Self Defense 
Far From Guaranteed in Congressional Battle 
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{ freebeacon.com } ~ In the wake of new congressional resolution to support Israel's right to self defense amid a massive and unending wave of Palestinian violence stoked by Hamas... Democratic support for the Jewish state's defense remains in question, according to a top lawmaker pushing the new pro-Israel measure. The bipartisan resolution, recently introduced by Reps. Lee Zeldin (R., N.Y.) and Josh Gottheimer (D., N.J.), would put Congress firmly on Israel's side as it takes defensive measure to protect its citizens from a wave of violence sponsored by the terrorist group Hamas, according to a copy of the resolution obtained by the Washington Free Beacon. While such a measure would have gained broad bipartisan support in years past, a growing anti-Israel wave in the Democratic Party is making support for the latest measure controversial, according to Zeldin, who spoke about this growing trend in an interview with Free Beacon...The Dem party is a socialist party and they are falling.
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Expect a toothless IG report: More cover-up!
by LARRY KLAYMAN

{ wnd.com } ~ With what we have seen at DOJ and on the federal bench of late with regard to the rubber stamping of government tyranny... be it a Bunkerville, Nevada, with the Bundy family, or the unchecked legal jihad of Special Counsel Robert Mueller, in which Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Deputy Attorney General Rob Rosenstein, both political hacks, are complicit – as a young lawyer I no longer would have accepted a position with DOJ as a federal prosecutor, if I had to do it all over during the early part of my legal career. Candidly, I would have been a criminal defense lawyer, which is part of my legal practice today. This is because based on experience I have come to the point of not believing a word the federal government says, but also have developed a heightened disgust for the government “yes men and women” who infest the federal judiciary, with some exceptions. Let’s also take this a step further in dissecting the rank lying and deceit the American people are fed on a daily basis from the elite government establishment in the capital of corruption, Washington, D.C. This lying and deceit is then amplified by the cable networks in particular, which tout federal government actions as if they are for real. Of course, the likes of CNN, MSNBC and, of course, Fox News give their reporting their own special political spin, but the effect of furthering government misinformation from elite establishment so-called leaders, is the same nevertheless. That is why our president and yours truly harbor such disdain for the mainstream media, as it rarely reports anything resembling the full truth about the charade in our justice system and the government in general....
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Crying 'Wolf' on Entitlements? 

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by Brian Mark Weber:  Social Security. It’s the metaphorical Third Rail of American politics. But if we don’t act soon, both Social Security and Medicare are heading off the tracks.

             “Sure,” you say. “How many times have we heard that before?” It’s almost as though the American people have become deaf to the repeated calls for Social Security reform. And it’s no wonder. We hear about it ad nauseam every election cycle, and then, when the dust settles, our elected representatives kick that can down the road. All the while, people still receive their monthly checks, so any collapse in the system seems to be a problem for the next generation. After all, why deal with something when it’s not hitting us now?
               Well, that “now” moment is looming, and it’s going to be painful if we don’t act soon.
               Ben Shapiro writes, “Medicare and Social Security, along with Medicaid, represent a majority of the federal budget each year, and represent mandatory spending. And Social Security has been running a negative cash flow for years. Our gigantic national debt number doesn’t include unfunded liabilities to these programs. According to some studies, if we include expected shortfalls from Medicare and Social Security in the debt, our debt is actually $90.6 trillion.” And what has Congress done about it? Nothing.
               It’s one thing for Democrats to be irresponsible with the federal purse, but Republicans have had plenty of opportunities over the past two decades when they either held both houses of Congress or all three branches of government. In each case, Republicans acted with the same willful neglect. Or they failed to act out of fear of being demonized.
                Every time a conservative politician utters the words “Social Security reform,” Democrats warn that grandma will be thrown off the cliff. No, really. In 2012, the leftist Agenda Project Action Fund launched an ad showing a man meant to look like then-House Budget Committee Chair Paul Ryan pushing a wheelchair-bound senior off a cliff. If you think those ads aren’t effective, consider that Speaker Ryan hasn’t talked much about saving Social Security or Medicare since.
               And while President Donald Trump has been effective in cutting taxes and rolling back federal regulations, he signed more spending into law and, as a candidate, promised not to touch entitlements. If the most brazen outsider ever to win the presidency won’t reform entitlements, who will?
               Democrats, of course, have the answer to fixing our entitlement mess: raise taxes on “the rich.
               But what about that Social Security lock box or trust fund that we always hear about?
               As the Washington Examiner’s Philip Klein reports, “The ‘trust fund’ is actually an accounting fiction that pretends that spending doesn’t ultimately all come from the bank accounts of taxpayers. But the conceit is that because the federal government for decades used money intended for Social Security to pay for other extravagant spending, the Treasury built up IOUs to the Social Security program that enable it to keep up with benefits. By 2034, however, those past program surpluses will be spent, meaning that benefits will have to be slashed by 25 percent for Americans who are around 50 years old right now.”
               More immediately, Social Security’s costs are projected to exceed its income this year for the first time since 1982, forcing the government to “unlock” the lock box. Again. Worse, The Daily Signal’s Romina Boccia notes, “Social Security is still considered solvent and able to pay full benefits because it has accumulated a $2.9 trillion trust fund, but since the entirety of its trust fund consists of IOUs, cash-flow deficits must be financed by general revenue taxes or new public borrowing.”
               Meanwhile, if nothing is done about Medicare, the program will run out of money in 2026 — just eight years from now. Yes, Democrats promised us that liar-nObamaCare would save Medicare. But according to Investor’s Business Daily, “Despite the 167 changes made by liar-nObamaCare and the $700 billion in supposed savings, Medicare’s doomsday prediction is exactly where it was 18 years ago.”
               It seems like the only solution out there involves the government taking more and giving back less to the American people. But real, commonsense solutions have been proposed. For example, private retirement accounts for younger workers just might break our dependency on a troubled government entitlement that’s on its death bed. Such ideas are innovative but complex. Implementing them will take a real effort by members of Congress who up until now have avoided Social Security like the plague.
               With Republicans holding more political power in Washington than they’ve enjoyed in a century, the time is now for conservatives to finally show some true leadership. Thirty years ago, 2034 seemed like forever. Now, forever is practically here.
               The inconvenient truth, however, is that most Americans don’t want politicians to fix it. Everyone is entitled to the money they paid into the system, after all, lest Social Security be exposed as the Ponzi scheme it really is. Thus, a conservative minority is left to cry “wolf” to a disinterested American people —only this time, the wolf is really out there.   ~The Patriot Pos
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Illegal Immigration Is a Major Crime Problem 
by Thomas Gallatin
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Hypocrite Tapper - OK for FBI to Spy 
on Trump But Not Leaking Senate Staffer, Reporter
{ rickwells.us } ~ CNN’s Jake Tapper has no problem with the DOJ spying on President Trump, even whether while he was a private citizen or since he’s become President... He’s got no problem with them, the Mueller witch hunters, or any other anti-Trump COUP participant illegally and treasonously leaking privileged information to propagandists like himself, so long as it serves their common political objectives. He doesn’t have such an open mind about privacy rights and exposing classified information when the shoe is on the other foot – his own. Tapper isn’t pleased with the arrest and charging of James Wolfe, a senior staffer with the US Senate Intelligence Committee. That committee, under the de facto leadership of Democrat Mark Warner due to RINO Richard Burr abdicating his duties, is nothing but a shill operating in the pursuit of impeachment by the swamp good old boys. They’ve been working to oust President Trump, with classified information obtained through government sources and powers being used improperly in the pursuit of their treacherous political goals. One of those who has been feeding information to the propagandists in the fake media, Wolfe, lied under questioning by the FBI about what he was doing. Now he’s going to have to answer to a judge...   https://rickwells.us/hypocrite-tapper-fbi-spy-trump/
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Mueller files new charges against Manafort, associate
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{ foxnews.com } ~ Special Counsel Robert Mueller filed new charges against former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and an associate on Friday... accusing them of obstructing justice in the investigation into Russian meddling and potential collusion with Trump campaign associates in 2016. The latest indictment against Manafort adds an associate, Konstantin Kilimnik, 48, of Moscow. Both were charged with conspiracy to obstruct justice and obstruction of justice, according to federal court filings. The filings, signed by Mueller, said that roughly between Feb. 23, 2018, and April 2018, the defendants "knowingly and intentionally attempted to corruptly persuade another person ... with intent to influence, delay, and prevent the testimony of any person in an official proceeding."...   http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/06/08/mueller-files-new-charges-against-manafort-associate.html
VIDEO at the site.
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GOP Lawmakers Pass $15 Billion Spending Rescission Package
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{ dailysignal.com } ~ The House of Representatives voted 210-206 Thursday night to claw back $15 billion in appropriated spending... making good on the lead of President Donald Trump, who submitted the rescission request last month. “The administration applauds today’s passage of H.R. 3, the Spending Cuts to Expired and Unnecessary Programs Act, in the U.S. House of Representatives and urges the Senate to quickly act on the legislation,” White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said in a statement released after the House vote Thursday night. The measure cancels expired funding from the Children’s Health Insurance Program, or CHIP, among other federal programs and will have a “$1 billion or so impact on the government’s budget deficit,” the Associated Press reported. It also includes over $4 billion in cuts to a loan program for boosting fuel-efficient, advanced-technology vehicles...
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Yellowstone Eruption Fears Spike 
As Largest Geyser Erupts For The 8th Time 
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{ freedomoutpost.com } ~ Yellowstone caldera eruption fears have spiked as the supervolcano’s largest geyser erupted for the eight time... So far, scientists aren’t certain why the Steamboat geyser continues to erupt, adding to the fears. After years of silence, Yellowstone’s Steamboat geyser, a better show than Old Faithful, has spewed boiling water hundreds of feet in the air eight times since March.  Steamboat, the tallest geyser in the vast Yellowstone National Park, isn’t reliable at all, unlike the more famous Old Faithful that belches steam with regularity. But the fact is, Steamboat has been more faithful, at least lately, spewing eight times since March 14, after being silent for nearly four years. But that regularity is terrifying and puzzling scientists. Until this recent series of eruptions, the last time Steamboat blew was in September 2014. Steamboat’s latest eruption was Monday morning when the geyser shot boiling hot water hundreds of feet into the air. Steam billowed from the geyser for hours longer. Steamboat is located in the Norris Geyser Basin, known to have the hottest and most changeable thermal area in nearly 3,500-square-mile wilderness park that sits on a volcanic hot spot called a caldera. That accounts for the geyser’s towering columns of steam (it’s very, very hot underground) but leaves a major fear-provoking question unanswered: Why now, and is it a sign the giant volcano is waking up?...
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Judicial Watch Uncovers Hidden Strzok 
Emails in liar-Clinton-Lynch Tarmac Documents
{ judicialwatch.org } ~ This is just too rich. We now have emails from notorious anti-Trump, pro-liar-Hillary Clinton FBI officials... who seem to confirm that James Comey and Loretta Lynch decided to let iar-Hillary Clinton ride on her email abuses before she was even interviewed by the FBI. The disclosure is found in 16 pages of FBI documents  related to the infamous June 2016 tarmac meeting between former Attorney General Loretta Lynch and former President iar-Bill Clinton. The FBI  originally informed us it could not locate any records related to the tarmac meeting. However, in a related FOIA lawsuit, the Justice Department located emails in which Justice Department officials communicated with the FBI and wrote that they had communicated with the FBI. As a result, by letter dated August 10, 2017, the FBI stated, “Upon further review, we subsequently determined potentially responsive documents may exist. As a result, your FOIA request has been reopened …” This is the second batch of documents the FBI produced since telling us they had no tarmac-related records. So this makes two cover-ups!...
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Illegal Immigration Is a Major Crime Problem 

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by Thomas Gallatin:  A recently released Justice Department report reveals that an astonishing one in five individuals incarcerated in federal prisons is an illegal alien, which amounts to a $1.5 million bill every day to the American taxpayer. However, the greater expense of illegal immigration is not measured in dollars. The report notes illegal alien crime statistics from the state of Texas alone between 2001 and 2018 — more than 663,000 offenses were committed, including 1,351 homicides, 7,156 sexual assaults, 79,049 assaults and 44,882 thefts, to name but a few. Acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director Thomas Homan also said this week that “nine out of 10” illegal immigrants arrested have criminal records.

             Attorney General Jeff Sessions responded to the report, stating, “The illegal immigrant crime rate in this country should be zero. Every crime committed by an illegal alien is, by definition, a crime that should have been prevented. It is outrageous that tens of thousands of Americans are dying every year because of the drugs and violence brought over our borders illegally and that taxpayers have been forced, year after year, to pay millions of dollars to incarcerate tens of thousands of illegal aliens. … Today’s report is yet another reminder that we must continue this [zero tolerance] policy and help fulfill President Trump’s goals of restoring lawfulness to our immigration system and ensure that immigration serves the good of this country.
               But despite President Donald Trump’s crackdown on illegal immigration via his “zero tolerance” policy, the number of illegal alien border crossings has steadily climbed. And one of the primary culprits for this increase can be attributed to Democrats and their huge push for lawless “sanctuary cities” that essentially act as giant magnets attracting greater numbers of illegal aliens.
               While Democrats and much of the mainstream media like to play up the plight of these illegal aliens as a justification for ignoring U.S. immigration laws, the undeniable fact is that major criminal syndicates have taken advantage of these sentiments to further their criminal enterprises. The drug trade and other nefarious criminal activity such as human trafficking exploit many migrants, often making them the biggest victims of illegal immigration. And sanctuary cities are only proving to supply these criminal organizations with more individuals to exploit — by falsely advertising protection to people who willfully break U.S. immigration law.
               Regardless of how Democrats and the Leftmedia portray the issue of illegal immigration, it is first and foremost a crime problem. And the fact is that Democrats, with their sanctuary city policies, are guilty of aiding and abetting criminals. And as this DOJ report demonstrates, Trump’s rhetoric on the problem is much closer to reality on the ground than that of the MSM and Democrats.   

~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/56447?utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.3533&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=bod

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Sat/Med - AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

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Can President Trump Shoot Jim Comey? 
by Judge Andrew Napolitano
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Why is Sessions DOJ Ignoring Open 
and Shut Case Against Dems' Pakistani Spies?
{ rickwells.us } ~ With DOJ corruption everywhere you look, it’s no surprise that the leader of a Pakistani espionage ring that obtained wide open... unfettered access to the IT systems of 44 House Democrats, including members of the Intelligence, Homeland Security, and other committees dealing with classified information is reportedly being offered a plea deal so he can escape justice. Imran Awan and his wife have a hearing set for July 3rd, a date that helps to guarantee minimal press coverage due to its proximity to the Independence Day holiday, on conspiracy and bank fraud charges, not to mention the little problem with espionage, considered to be a victimless non-crime by corrupt Democrats. Lou Dobbs notes, with his guest Luke Rosiak of the Daily Caller, “the delays, the peculiar posture that’s been assumed by the prosecutors, and the defendants in this case and the role of the former DNC head, Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz.” Rosiak, who has been all over this case since the beginning, believes the explanation is tied to Democrat rigging of the election and the Russia hoax...   https://rickwells.us/sessions-doj-dems-pakistani-spies/
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Traitor Ryan Again Rushing a Bill Americans 
Don't Want Before We Can Stop It - Amnesty
{ rickwells.us } ~ It seems as though the method by which the corruptocrats abuse their power and impose their will upon America is always the same... The corrupt leadership and members of the House and Senate wait until the last minute, until they can claim to be up against some kind of contrived deadline, like a government shutdown, and then force  a bill they should never have supported upon the people because “they have no choice, they have to act quickly.” That “legislation through contrived crisis” system has replaced the normal budgetary process, was utilized to Gruber the American people with liar-nObamacare, and is now the favored method of corrupt politicians for meeting the demands of their special interests as they are “being forced” to ignore the needs of their constituents, their campaign promises and what’s best for the nation. Swamp sleazebag Paul Ryan and some of his favorite House RINOs have maneuvered a plan to pass amnesty under the guise of choosing the best variation out of four, the now infamous “discharge petition.” It certainly smells like some sort of discharge. The scheme involves the uniparty RINOs pretending to cede power to their brethren Democrats, with the amnesty that will be the only variation supported by Democrats being the one that garners the most votes and the one Americans, if it passes the Senate and President Trump signs it, are stuck with...  https://rickwells.us/traitor-ryan-rushing-amnesty/
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Iran’s Deceptive Financial Practices 
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{ defenddemocracy.org } ~ FDD’s Center on Sanctions and Illicit Finance (CSIF) hosted a by-invitation-only lunch event on Iran's Deceptive Financial Practices... featuring remarks by Sigal Mandelker, Under Secretary of the Treasury for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence on Tuesday, June 5, 2018. Her remarks were followed by an expert panel discussion featuring Mark Dubowitz, chief executive of FDD; Richard Goldberg, Senior Advisor at FDD; Carlton Greene, Partner at Crowell & Moring; and Elizabeth Rosenberg, Senior Fellow at CNAS. Following the president’s announcement of U.S. withdrawal from the JCPOA, Under Secretary Mandelker and her team at Treasury have been tasked with applying “the strongest sanctions in history” by rebuilding the financial pressure architecture against the Iranian regime and its financiers. What actions have been taken thus far and what additional measures should the policy community, compliance officials, and the private sector expect to see in the coming weeks and months? How is Treasury working with our European, Gulf, Asian, and Latin American allies to promote a productive and effective approach in deterring Iran’s illicit financial activities? As the Iranian people have taken to the streets decrying the failures of their government, what role can Washington play in combating the corrupt Iranian regime and supporting a prosperous future for the Iranian people?...
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How Al-Qaeda Works: 
The Jihadist Group’s Evolving Organizational Design
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{ hudson.org } ~ The years following the 9/11 attacks and preceding the Arab Spring marked a period of tumult for al-Qaeda... The jihadist organization lost a number of key commanders after the United States invaded Afghanistan, including several involved in planning operations outside the region. Though al-Qaeda did prepare a credible large-scale plot against commercial aviation in August 2006 and nearly brought down an international flight over Detroit in December 2009, the organization went multiple years without a successfully  executed terrorist attack in the West. For an organization that had to a certain extent staked its credibility on its ability to sustain an armed struggle against the “far enemy,” this hiatus damaged its reputation. Compounding these problems was al-Qaeda’s Iraq affiliate, which had stubbornly ignored the al-Qaeda leadership’s guidance to tone down what they deemed to be excessively violent methods. After overplaying its hand, which provoked an organized backlash from Iraqi Sunni communities, al-Qaeda in Iraq collapsed. In turn, its collapse was a blow to the al-Qaeda organization as a whole. In his 2008 book Leaderless Jihad, psychiatrist and former C.I.A. case officer Marc Sageman reflected on the al-Qaeda of the 2000s. Sageman argued that the capabilities of al-Qaeda’s senior leadership had declined sharply, and to such an extent that the organization no longer exercised command and control over either its nominal affiliates or over like-minded jihadists operating outside Afghanistan and Pakistan...
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Blind Hate Drives a Wedge Among "Islamophobia" Hunters 
{ investigativeproject.org } ~ Wajahat Ali thinks we're a bunch of hate mongers. Islamophobes... Part of a handful of groups "primarily responsible for orchestrating the majority of anti-Islam messages polluting our national discourse," he wrote in a 2011 report for the Center for American Progress called "Fear, Inc., the Roots of the Islamophobia Network in America." But Ali also is part of a dialogue with liberal Zionists as part of the Shalom Hartman Institute's Muslim Leadership Initiative (MLI). The program includes travel to Israel to meet with Israelis and Palestinians to learn about their perspectives. For this, he is deemed insufficiently hateful about Israel. He is pilloried on social media for "faithwashing," and as "selfish parasite" willing to "throw the Palestine cause for freedom under the bus" and placed among "Muslim sell-outs who tickle Islamophobes pink but whom no other Muslims listen to." And now, he's been disinvited from speaking at this summer's annual Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) convention – touted as the largest gathering of Muslims in the country...   https://www.investigativeproject.org/7477/blind-hate-drives-a-wedge-among-islamophobia
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Can President Trump Shoot Jim Comey? 
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by Judge Andrew Napolitano
{ townhall.com } ~ Last weekend, the White House leaked a copy of a letter sent by President Donald Trump's legal team on Jan. 29 to special counsel Robert Mueller. The letter set forth the president's legal strategy, arguing essentially that he is immune from prosecution for any crime.

To soften the tone of this poorly received letter, the White House dispatched Rudy Giuliani, the president's most visible legal spokesperson, to address the issues that his colleagues had raised. He made matters worse when he suggested that if the president ordered Jim Comey "shot in the Oval Office," he couldn't be prosecuted because the president can pardon himself and because the president's personal and presidential behavior is beyond the reach of the criminal justice system.

Giuliani was supposed to be making a principled case for why the president cannot be subpoenaed to testify before a grand jury, and he ended up discussing absurd hypotheticals about a self-pardon and shooting the former FBI director in the White House.

Here is the back story.

Trump's lawyers' letter argued that obstruction of justice refers to interference with a judicial proceeding and that an FBI investigation is not a judicial proceeding. That was the law before 2002, but an amendment adopted that year provided that any corrupt interference with an FBI investigation that is aimed at producing evidence for a grand jury constitutes obstruction of justice.

The letter's second argument offered that Trump could not have committed obstruction of justice because he controls all that is done in the executive branch and decides what is just, whom to prosecute and whom to overlook. This is the Nixonian argument that "when the president does it, that means that it is not illegal," which was rejected by the lessons of Watergate.

The president is not a king. He took an oath to uphold the Constitution. That includes the rule of law. The rule of law has three unassailable elements. 1) No one is beneath the law's protections. 2) No one is above the law's requirements. 3) No one can be a prosecutor or judge in his own case. The Giuliani argument over the weekend that Trump could have Comey shot in the Oval Office with impunity is not only needlessly tasteless and patently absurd but also contrary to the rule of law, and it is an invitation to presidential lawlessness.

In Giuliani's hypothetical, Trump would be arrested for murder if Comey died. He would be indicted for murder, but he would not be tried until his term in office is complete. That's because the judicial system must respect the president's prerogatives of office while he is in office.

If Trump fired Comey as FBI director because he couldn't stand to be in a room with a guy taller than he is, Trump committed no wrong. But if he fired Comey because he wanted to stop the Russia investigation -- which is essentially what he told NBC News' Lester Holt -- that was using the machinery of the presidency for a corrupt purpose, which is the essence of obstruction.

The president can be charged with obstruction anytime a grand jury finds probable cause of his guilt, but just as in the Giuliani shooting hypothetical, he cannot be tried until the day after he leaves office.

The Trump team letter committed a third error by failing to address United States v. Nixon, a 1974 Supreme Court case that addressed subpoenas to the president. The Nixon case makes clear that the president enjoys broad and wide executive privilege -- the ability to keep presidential documents and testimony away from Congress and the courts -- in his ordinary work.

But the Nixon case also makes clear that executive privilege is reduced radically in a criminal investigation. If subpoenaed in that context, the president must surrender documents and give testimony on all relevant matters demanded by the prosecutors, except for military secrets, diplomatic secrets and sensitive national security matters. None of those pertains to Mueller's likely subpoena to Trump, and Giuliani knows that.

Can the president pardon himself?

The short answer is: No one knows. The longer answer is: Why would the president's lawyer be offering this argument? The president has vehemently denied any wrongdoing, so why discuss pardoning oneself? The president's pardoning power has no limits in the Constitution. Yet the rule-of-law principle that one cannot be the prosecutor or judge in one's own case suggests that the president's pardoning power is limited to people other than himself. It is hard for me to believe that a court confronted with an indictment of Trump would dismiss it in deference to Trump's self-pardon.

After Giuliani offered his views on a presidential self-pardon and a presidential shooting, the president jumped into the fray and tweeted that he can pardon himself; and by the way, the United States Office of Special Counsel is unconstitutional. I was shocked to see that opinion because that office is authorized by the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, which Congress adopted and has been validated by six federal judges. Moreover, the president himself sanctioned Russian intelligence agents that one of the special counsel's grand juries indicted. If that office is unconstitutional, why are the president's lawyers interacting with it?

I am unhappily surprised and deeply disappointed by the poor quality of public lawyering in Trump's behalf that we have seen thus far. The Jan. 29 letter would have flunked a law school course in criminal procedure. The Giuliani hysterics have substantially diminished the professional reputation of one of the country's more formidable ex-prosecutors, have offered known untruths and have become the legal equivalent of throwing gasoline on a fire.

None of this is good for Donald Trump, whose legal woes continue to grow in spite of his legal team's efforts to minimize them.

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Saturday AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

TheFrontPageCover
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Federal Government: By the Way, Medicare 
and Social Security Are Going Broke 
A Lot Faster Than We'd Thought 
by Guy Benson
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We will always Remember
 foxnews.com  ~ Charles Krauthammer
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Jackson Lee, Leftist Thugs Terrified
Judge Jeannine Might Replace Sessions as AG
{ rickwells.us } ~ In their typical condescending “holier and better than thou” manner, CNN bobble-head Erin Burnett reported that President Trump is considering a position... within the administration for Judge Jeanine Pirro and that she has stated an interest in replacing Numb Nuts Magoo, Jeff Sessions, as Attorney General. Burnett brought out Sheila Jackson Lee to present the globalist COUP participants’ opposition, and to see how many words she could use improperly in the seven or so minutes she was allotted. She’s asked for her reaction, and says, “Well why not give a global reaction and that is to first proclaim that we do not have a monarch or a monarchy.” Why not just answer the question? Even though she’s a globalist, she doesn’t speak for the rest of the world and she was asked for her own opinion. Naming an Attorney General, though admittedly not a racist one, as both scumbag-Holder and Lynch are, is still a prerogative of the President...If Judge Jeannine was black, Jackson won't say a negative word.   https://rickwells.us/jackson-lee-judge-jeanine-ag/
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Soon After Imran Awan’s Other Wife 
Called Police On Him, Gunmen Shot At Her
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{ dailycaller.com } ~ Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz’ indicted former IT aide, Imran Awan, was married to two Virginia women simultaneously... and 15 days after one of them told police that Imran kept her “like a slave,” gunmen shot into her family home, according to police reports filed in Pakistan. The shooting at Sumaira Siddique allegedly occurred in Pakistan in August 2016 days after the House Inspector General informed the Committee on House Administration that Imran allegedly committed cyber security violations. In a report filed with the local police, Siddique’s father, who owns the home, said he believed Siddique had been targeted. The shooting was unsolved, though in a separate case, Imran’s stepmother, Samina Gilani, alleged in court papers filed in April 2017 that Imran said he would “do harm to me and my family members back in Pakistan and one of my cousins here in Baltimore.” He also “threatened that he has the power to kidnap my family members back in Pakistan.” Imran and his family also had access to all the emails and files of 1 in 5 House Democrats. The IG found the IT aide made  “unauthorized access” to House data during the 2016 election at the same time Wasserman Schultz was dealing with the hack of the Democratic National Committee...   http://dailycaller.com/2018/06/07/gunmen-targeted-awan-wife/?utm_medium=email
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Border Region Exploited by ISIS Finally Gets Fence 
{ judicialwatch.org } ~ A Mexican border region that Judicial Watch exposed years ago as a hotbed of Islamic terrorism is finally getting a wall to replace laughable “road barriers” that... not surprisingly, have failed miserably to secure the area. The big question is, why did it take so long? The much-needed fence will be erected between Santa Teresa, New Mexico, and Ciudad Juárez in the Mexican state of Chihuahua. It’s an area where ISIS cells operate and Juárez Cartel smugglers help terrorists through the desert and across the border. A 20-mile section of existing “vehicle barrier” located west of the Santa Teresa Port of Entry will be replaced with an 18 to 30-foot high bollard-style wall, according to an announcement issued by Customs and Border Patrol (CBP). The announcement includes pictures of the existing railing, which is a joke. A local open borders group is organizing a protest All Against the Wall Rally next week near the Santa Teresa Port of Entry. “The border wall is an affront to our communities; an attack on our wildlife; and a symbol of hate, fear, and divisiveness,” the group states in its website....   https://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2018/05/border-region-exposed-jw-years-ago-isis-cells-finally-gets-fence/
Pictures of the existing railing, which is a joke:   https://www.flickr.com/photos/cbpphotos/sets/72157693474390271.
Just in time for Trump-Kim summit: 
DoJ inspector general to release Clinton email report

{ americanthinker.com } ~ Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz said in a letter to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley... that his long awaited report on the way that DoJ and the FBI handled the liar-Clinton email investigation would be released on June 14. Horowitz agreed to testify on the report before Grassley's committee on June 18. The summit between Donald Trump and Kim Kong-un is scheduled to take place June 12. Coincidence? For a year and a half, Horowitz has played this one close to his vest. There have been a few leaks - most recently, that former FBI Director Comey will come in for some harsh criticism - but otherwise, no one knows what's in the report regarding the actions of several principals....
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Federal Government: By the Way, Medicare 
and Social Security Are Going Broke 
A Lot Faster Than We'd Thought 
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by Guy Benson
{ townhall.com } ~ It's the type of unsexy story that just glides past without much notice these days -- especially with so much excitement and speculation over historic summits, presidential self-pardons, and dramatic culture war skirmishes dominating headlines. But the federal government has dug our national finances into a frighteningly deep hole, having made tens of trillions of dollars' worth in unpaid-for promises i.e. "unfunded liabilities", on which tens of millions of people are relying. We've been sounding the alarm on this for years, over the course of two presidential administrations. The looming debt bomb is a predictable crisis, and yet virtually nothing is being done about it.  

Republicans passed a number of budget resolutions during the liar-nObama years that called for the implementation of Paul Ryan's desperately-needed Medicare reforms, but those had zero chance of becoming law. The liar-nObama administration was committed to fiscal denialism and demagoguery, infamously responding to the bleak math with literally no plan to corral it. Then Donald Trump secured the GOP nomination and the presidency while pledging -- for political reasons -- not to touch the two biggest drivers of our long-term debt, discarding years of hard work Paul Ryan and his allies had undertaken to prove that pursuing entitlement reform was not a lethal third rail. Then, in February, both parties teamed up to pass an awful omnibus spending bill that blew through even the modest constraints the GOP opposition had secured during the liar-nObama era. The US government's spending trajectory remains pointed inexorably and recklessly northward, with no fiscal responsibility in sight.  And as of yesterday, we know that the unfunded liabilities problem is worse than ever:

Medicare will run out of money sooner than expected, and Social Security’s financial problems can’t be ignored either, the government said Tuesday in a sobering checkup on programs vital to the middle class. The report from program trustees says Medicare will become insolvent in 2026 — three years earlier than previously forecast. Its giant trust fund for inpatient care won’t be able to fully cover projected medical bills starting at that point. The report says Social Security will become insolvent in 2034...Unless lawmakers act, both programs face the prospect of being unable to cover the full cost of promised benefits. With Social Security that could mean sharply reduced payments for retirees, many of whom are already on tight budgets. The report said the total annual cost of Social Security is projected to exceed total annual income in 2018 for the first time since the Reagan era, meaning the program will have to tap into reserves. For Medicare, insolvency would mean that hospitals, nursing homes and other providers of medical care would be paid only part of their agreed-upon fees. Medicare is widely seen as a more difficult problem that goes beyond the growing number of baby boomers retiring.

More details on the breathtaking scope of these challenges:

Eighty-two trillion dollars. That's more than four times the size of US GDP. The cop-out "solutions" from both parties on this -- "economic growth!" (Republicans), "raise taxes on the wealthy!" (Democrats) -- are woefully, insultingly inadequate. These programs must be reformed to survive. That's a mathematical fact. Yet neither major party has the political appetite to do what it takes. One pretends to care, then runs up new bills and punts on the toughest calls when in power; the other doesn't even pretend to care, except as a means of attacking tax cuts. I'm not sure which is worse. The Examiner's Philip Klein offers this sobering perspective and context: 

The U.S. is now closer to the insolvency of the Social Security than to the attacks of Sept. 11. Trustees for the retirement and disability program revealed on Tuesday that Social Security will no longer be able to meet its obligations to beneficiaries starting in in 2034, or 16 years from now — which is less time than has elapsed since terrorists slammed airplanes into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon in 2001. In 2005, President George W. Bush was dismissed as an alarmist for highlighting projections that the program would begin spending more money on benefits than it takes in starting in 2018 and that its "trust fund" would be depleted in 2042. In reality, it has been running annual deficits since 2010, and the insolvency date has moved up eight years...As the Social Security crisis keeps getting closer, the political parties are moving further away from doing anything about it...What's scary is that Social Security is relatively easy to fix when compared to Medicare, a program where the rising retirement population is interacting with growing healthcare costs. And the trustees now say that program is going to be insolvent in 2026 — or roughly the same time as we are from the passage of liar-nObamacare.

Treaury Secretary Steve Mnuchen's quote on this state of affairs may be less atrocious than Tim Geithner's abdication, but it's still an example of classic DC delusion and avoidance: "The programs remain secure," he assured Americans before tacking on a euphemistic assurance that "long term issues persist." Calling that an understatement doesn't quite do it justice. At this stage, many millions of younger Americans are being legally compelled to pay into massive programs that will be depleted shells of their former selves -- or entirely insolvent -- by the time it's time to reap what they've contributed, as promised. This scheme is tantamount to willful generational robbery. There may still be time to move toward a more responsible model while preserving the existing structure for those at or near retirement, but that clock is expiring even faster than government accountants had previously calculated. To the extent that liberals commented on these new projections at all, they mainly seized on them to decry Republicans' pro-growth tax reform law, and to renew their predictable demands for the wealthy to pay their "fair share."  An exampleof the first talking point:

The truth is that Medicare has been on exceptionally shaky and unsustainable ground for years. "Trump's tax overhaul" is helping the US economy flourish, despite its deficit and debt implications, which I don't deny. But any attempt to pin the entitlement collapse on tax relief is dishonest sophistry.  I'd add that even after the tax cuts, federal revenues as a percentage of GDP will remain slightly above the annual average of recent decades. This is a long-term spending problem that requires root-and-branch reform. As for "the rich" and "fair shares," we've already dealt with that myth on numerous occasions.  

I'd also reiterate this point: "Democrats drone on about the importance of returning to the ' liar-Clinton-era tax rates.' They never, ever discuss liar-Clinton-era spending levels. President liar-Clinton's FY 2000 budget called for $1.77 Trillion in total federal spending." Last year, the federal government spent $4 trillion. Furthermore, the notion that the government could tax its way out of this dilemma without absolutely clobbering the middle class  and crushing the economy it cannot is dispelled by these numbers:

I'll leave you with this parting thought: The red ink described above is harrowing and daunting, for reasons that should be screamingly obvious. Please consider that a sizable contingent of the Democratic Party looks at these exact same numbers and concludes that we must expand Social Security and expand Medicare to cover more than 300 million people, at mind-blowing cost. These are dangerous, denialist fantasies, and should be treated as such: With fierce, almost existential, opposition. 

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