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Thursday AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
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Where Is the Corporate
Disavowal of Black Lives Matter?
by Michelle Malkin

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 Top Headlines 
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Women charge past men in U.S. job market as economy lumbers on. (Bloomberg)
 
Feds collect record income and payroll taxes through July. (CNS News)
 
Trump names Hope Hicks as White House communications director. (Washington Examiner)
 
Trump-endorsed immigration bill would save taxpayers trillions. (The Daily Signal)
 
Faith leaders urge Secretary Tillerson to save religious minorities from ISIL. (The Washington Free Beacon)
 
The three-step argument the Left makes to justify violence against conservative speakers (The Daily Signal)
 
CBO: Eliminating cost-sharing reduction payments will increase premiums by 20%. (The Washington Free Beacon)
 
NRA endorses Ed Gillespie over Ralph Northam in Virginia race. (Washington Times)
 
Moore and Strange head to Alabama Senate runoff. (Fox News)
 
Curtis wins Republican primary in Utah, favored to replace Chaffetz. (The Washington Times)
 
Policy: How to break Silicon Valley’s anti-free-speech monopoly. (National Review)
 
Phttps://patriotpost.us/digests/50811olicy: The decline of Big Labor. (Real Clear Policy~The Patriot Post
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Al-Qaeda threatens jihad attacks on “vulnerable”
US rail system: “It’s time we instill fear”
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by Christine Douglass-Williams
{jihadwatch.org} ~ Al-Qaeda is renewing calls for jihad violence against America: O Mujahideen, it is time that we instill fear and make them impose strict security measures to trains as they did with their Air transportation... Continue to bleed the American economy to more losses, increase the psychological warfare and make it worry, fear and weaken much more. Maybe if we close our eyes and hold hands together in multicultural unity, we can just wish away the jihad threat to Western citizens and to Western civilization. As if the declaration of holy war against the West and repeated calls by the Islamic State were not bad enough, now al Qaeda has renewed its Islamic calls to “cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve” (Quran 8:12)...  https://www.jihadwatch.org/2017/08/al-qaeda-threatens-jihad-attacks-on-vulnerable-us-rail-system-its-time-we-instill-fear
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North Korea’s Head of Intelligence
and Cyber-Warfare Welcomed In Cuba
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by Humberto Fontova
{frontpagemag.com} ~ "Cuba is resolutely opposing the U.S. sanctions and pressure against North Korea and expressing full support for the just steps of North Korea in bolstering up defense capabilities including ICBM test-fires…we express our deep thanks to the Korean people who are sending  solidarity to the Cuban people's just cause." That was Ulises Rosales Del Toro, Stalinist Cuba’s “Vice President of the Council of Ministers” (i.e. eunuch  apparatchik) conveying his master’s Raul Castro’s support to Kim Yong Nam, Stalinist North Korea's "President of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly," another eunuch apparatchik. The shout-out between these Stalinist eunuchs took place last week in Teheran during Iran’s “Presidential Inauguration ceremonies,” (pow-wow among terrorists/murderers/ burglars) which also included Zimbabwe’s “President” (witch-doctor/dictator) Robert Mugabe...  http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/267591/north-koreas-head-intelligence-and-cyber-warfare-humberto-fontova
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In Odd Move, One Of Mueller’s
Investigators Leaves Trump-Russia Probe
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by Chuck Ross
{dailycaller.com} ~ One of the FBI officials recently brought onto the Trump-Russia investigation being conducted by Special Counsel Robert Mueller has left the team, according to a new report... ABC News is reporting that Peter Strzok left the position for unknown reasons. He is now working in the FBI’s human resources department. It is unclear why the move was made. CNN reported last month that Mueller had picked Strzok to manage the ever-expanding investigation into possible collusion between members of the Trump campaign and Russian government...  http://dailycaller.com/2017/08/16/in-odd-move-one-of-muellers-investigators-leaves-trump-russia-probe/
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Fighting between inmates and
security at Venezuelan prison leaves 36 dead
{foxnews.com} ~ At least 36 people in a southern Venezuela prison have died as a result of fighting between inmates and security officials, a governor in the South American country said... Fighting broke out between inmates and their jailers on Tuesday night, according to Gov. Liborio Guarulla of Amazonas state. The death toll was confirmed by an official at Venezuela’s chief prosecutor’s office. The official declined to comment further...  http://www.foxnews.com/world/2017/08/16/venezuela-governor-says-36-killed-during-fighting-at-prison.html
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Krauthammer Spars With Ingraham on Trump's Presser: It "Was a Moral Disgrace"
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Tucker on Fate of Slaveholders Washington, Jefferson

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Sec. Mattis: If North Korea fires at the U.S., it's "game on"

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Are President Trump's new Charlottesville remarks enough?

http://video.foxnews.com/v/5541131166001

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President Trump Condemns White Supremacist Groups: "Racism Is Evil"
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Gorka Spars With MSNBC Hosts Over WH Response to Mosque Bombing
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CNN Panel About Racism Gets Heated: "Shut Up for God’s Sake"
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Where Is the Corporate
Disavowal of Black Lives Matter?
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by Michelle Malkin
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townhall.com} ~ Liberal business executives are leaping like lemmings from President Donald Trump's manufacturing advisory council. Good riddance.

These silly string-spined CEOs have sided with social justice agitators, Beltway media enablers and Democratic resistance knuckleheads who believe Trump was wrong to condemn violence and hatred on all sides of the political spectrum. Never mind that of the four people arrested after the violent outbreak in Charlottesville, Virginia, this weekend, two were identified with the white nationalist movement and the other two were left-wing "antifa" counterprotesters.

One of those radical leftists is the man identified as having reportedly punched a female reporter for the D.C.-based newspaper, The Hill. But since that doesn't fit the national media narrative of journalists allegedly being victimized by right-wing incitements to violence, mum's the word from corporate media executives and the rest of the preening CEOs.

Merck CEO Kenneth C. Frazier claimed he stepped down from the Trump business panel because he felt "a responsibility to take a stand against intolerance and extremism." But Frazier, who served on President liar-nObama's Export Council, felt no equivalent responsibility to take a stand against intolerance and extremism when the White House invited leaders from the violence-inciting Black Lives Matter movement for a forum on policing in July 2016.

The invitation was a grievous affront to law enforcement officers and their families across the country outraged at the deadly ambushes committed against cops in Dallas and Baton Rouge that summer, along with several other forgotten cop-killings fueled by BLM-linked hate and vengeance. Who remembers the slaying of Kentucky state trooper Joseph Ponder by BLM marcher and "Hands up, don't shoot" slogan-spreader Joseph Thomas Johnson-Shanks in September 2015? At least 11 police have been shot dead and at least nine more wounded by BLM protesters, activists and/or supporters to date.

One of the surviving policemen in the Baton Rouge massacre filed suit last month against BLM and laid out the case against its leaders, who "not only, incited the violence against police in retaliation for the death of black men shot by police, but also did nothing to dissuade the ongoing violence and injury to police. In fact, they justified the violence as necessary to the movement and war."

The permanently disabled cop's lawsuit recounts escalating riots, arson and plundering after the police-involved deaths of Michael Brown and Freddie Gray in Ferguson, Missouri, through the ambushes in Dallas and Baton Rouge, and leading up to the liar-nObama administration's embrace of BLM's leaders. After the meeting, BLM leader DeRay McKesson responded to questions about his movement's culpability for inciting violence by asserting that his "people take to the streets as a last resort. ... So when I think about anything that happens when people are in the street, I always start by saying, 'People should not have had to have been there in the first place.'"

As the lawyers for the Baton Rouge cop, who must remain anonymous to protect his family, properly concluded: "These statements were a ratification and justification of the violence."

But instead of recriminations, the militants of BLM enjoy continued praise and coddling from corporate America. Tech execs from Netflix, YouTube and Google all donated to McKesson's failed mayoral bid in Baltimore. Business execs have been coughing up untold hundreds of millions of dollars to BLM and related causes, funneled through left-wing nonprofits such as the Ford Foundation and Borealis Philanthropy.

On Tuesday, Walmart executive Doug McMillon wagged his finger at Trump, urging "elected officials to do their part to promote a more just, tolerant and diverse society."

This from the head of a retail giant that only recently stopped selling racially divisive, anti-cop taunting, violence-glamorizing T-shirts that bragged: "Bulletproof: Black Lives Matter."

And the disavowal double standards beat goes on.
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Wednesday PM ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
~ Featuring ~
Iran on Sanctions: We Will Restart Nuclear Program
by Alice Greene
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 Top Headlines 
Protesters topple Confederate soldier statue in downtown Durham. (The Herald Sun)
 
Baltimore mayor renews efforts to remove Confederate imagery. (CBS Baltimore)
 
Timothy McVeigh wannabe arrested in plan to bomb Oklahoma bank. (Fox News)
 
Emails show Trump campaign officials rejecting opportunities to meet with Russia in 2016. (The Washington Post)
 
IRS rehires 213 employees ousted for falsifying documents, avoiding taxes and other offenses. (The Daily Signal)
 
Trump orders probe of China's theft of intellectual property. (The Washington Free Beacon)
 
North Korea won't fire at Guam, but promises to watch "the foolish and stupid Yankees." (Washington Examiner)
 
Iran lashes out at talk of new sanctions, says it could abandon nuclear deal "within hours." (Fox News)
 
Revealed: liar-nObama admin was warned in 2014 of Russian disruption efforts in the West, did little to prevent it. (Hot Air)
 
Humor: Facebook will now automatically drone strike people who post fake news. (The Babylon Bee)
 
Policy: The "alt-right" aren't on the Right; they're just racists. (The Federalist)
 
Policy: Trump on regulation: the first six months. (American Action Forum~The Patriot Post
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RINOS Ryan, McCarthy – Only WHITE
RACISTS Are REPULSIVE, No Others Exist
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{rickwells.us} ~ Despicable RINO Speaker Paul Ryan wasted no time in rushing to a keyboard in order to cast President Trump as a racist and himself as the reasonable, good guy that everyone should be siding with, including in 2020... Following President Trump’s objective and fair recognition that there was plenty of blame to go around for what happened on Saturday in Charlottesville and much of it to be borne by the aggressors on the left, the agitators who came to town looking for a fight on behalf of their Democrat masters, Ryan tweeted his position, that of the capitulating hater of all things conservative, the Constitution and the Trump agenda and base. RINO Ryan tweeted, ” We must be clear. White supremacy is repulsive. This bigotry is counter to all this country stands for. There can be no moral ambiguity.” The RINO’s comments aren’t that different from a portion of what President Trump said, that all racism is repulsive...  http://rickwells.us/rinos-ryan-mccarthy-white-racists-repulsive-no-others-exist/
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Did North Korea Get Engine
For Its New ICBM From Russia?
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by J.E. Dyer
{lidblog.com} ~ On Monday, the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), a UK-based think tank, published an article by U.S. missile expert Michael Elleman outlining his assessment that North Korea’s newest missiles have probably been made successful... by incorporating the former-Soviet-designed RD-250 liquid-fueled rocket engine. The RD-250 was used in the USSR’s R-36 ICBM program, of which the only remaining operational variant is the SS-18 (“Satan”) R-36M2 (the 10-MIRV mod, or Mod-5).  The operational SS-18s have a range of about 11,000 km (6,800 miles). The RD-250 was developed in the 1960s, when Ukraine was part of the Soviet Union. The RD-250 was developed in the 1960s, when Ukraine was part of the Soviet Union. The RD-250 was recently used for space-launch rockets through the late 2000s. The Yuzhnoye enterprise is still in business, but the RD-250 is out of production. Yuzhmash produces different, more modern engines for Ukraine’s space-launch rocket industry...  http://lidblog.com/north-korea/
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Iran building long-range
rocket factory in Syria - Israeli TV
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{jpost.com} ~ An Israeli television report said on Tuesday that Iran is building a facility in northwest Syria to manufacture long-range rockets, and showed satellite images it said were of the site under construction... Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned last week that Iran was strengthening its foothold in its ally Syria as Islamic State fighters were being displaced, and said Israel was watching developments and would act against any threat. "Our policy is clear: We vehemently oppose the military buildup by Iran and its proxies, primarily Hezbollah, in Syria and we will do whatever it takes to protect Israel's security," he said in a speech...  http://www.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-Conflict/Iran-building-long-range-rocket-factory-in-Syria-Israeli-TV-502522
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MB Groups Increasingly Open
in Endorsing Anti-Sisi Violence
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by John Rossomando
{investigativeproject.org} ~ A group of exiled Morsi-era Muslim Brotherhood politicians based in Istanbul has posted on Facebook a blueprint for overthrowing Egypt's military regime... The Egyptian Revolutionary Council (ERC) reposted several videos on July 31 that it had released on Facebook over the past month offering strategies for violently toppling the government of Egyptian President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi. Until now the ERC, which met with liar-nObama administration officials and liberal think tanks in 2015, has largely been involved in lobbying against Sisi's government. An Arabic hashtag saying, "Preparing for the Revolution#," appeared on the ERC's Facebook page...  https://www.investigativeproject.org/6510/mb-groups-increasingly-open-in-endorsing-anti
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RINO MCCAIN Pre-Judges WHITE
“RACISTS” Exonerates Radicals BLM, AntiFa
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{rickwells.us} ~ During his Tuesday Infrastructure press conference Tuesday, which turned out to be a question and answer session about the Charlottesville incident... President Trump clarified “which RINO-John McCain” a reporter was referencing in a question by asking if that’s the same one that killed the liar-nObamacare repeal in the Senate. In his subsequent answer President Trump was kinder than he could have been, stating to the questioner that he was sure RINO-McCain must know what he was talking about in his reference to the “alt-right” in Charlotte and their involvement in the chaos. There are few things the propagandists love more than quoting RINO McCain as if he were a sage of establishment GOP wisdom. The reporter couldn’t define or identify the “alt-right” but maybe RINO-McCain would take a shot. A cheap one, most likely. RINO-McCain offered his comments for the consumption and the use of his leftist allies after the press briefing, tweeting, ” There’s no moral equivalency between racists and Americans standing up to defy hate and bigotry. The President of the United States should say so.”...  http://rickwells.us/rino-mccain-pre-judges-white-racists-exonerates-radicals-blm-antifa/
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Iran on Sanctions: We Will Restart Nuclear Program
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by Alice Greene
{punchingbagpost.com} ~
On Tuesday, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani stated that Iran’s nuclear program could be restarted in a matter of “hours” if the White House imposes additional sanctions on Tehran.

If restarted, the program would be “far more advanced” than it was in 2015, said Rouhani. Several other Iranian officials have threatened to restart industrial-scale uranium enrichment, potentially as high as 20%.

Such activity was a major concern during liar-nObama’s presidency when Iran and the US signed the JCPOA (other members of the deal: China, Britain, Germany, France, and Russia). The controversial nuclear deal lifted longtime economic sanctions on Iran in return for strict limits on Tehran’s nuclear activities.

Due to liar-nObama’s lack of negotiating skills, however, the treaty is written in such a way that we have little ability to monitor Iran’s nuclear activities.

President Trump has repeatedly called the JCPOA a “disaster,” but the other signees disagree. In January, the White House declared that it would no longer “turn a blind eye to Iran’s hostile and belligerent actions.”

Rouhani’s threat to reinstate nuclear activity follows sanctions on six Iranian companies, announced in July, and a more recent sanctions package, passed in early August, that imposes penalties on Iran, North Korea, and Russia.

The new sanctions aim to punish Iran for its ongoing ballistic missile tests, but Rouhani argues that Iran has every right to conduct missile tests and that it has fully complied with the provisions of the JCPOA.

Rouhani pointed out that President Trump has either pulled out or threatened to pull out of numerous international treaties.

“It is the US government, especially the current Trump Administration, that is ignoring treaties,” said Rouhani, “showing to the world and its allies that the US is neither a good ally nor a trustworthy negotiating partner.”

The United States insists that Iran’s missile tests violate a UN resolution that calls on Iran not to “undertake any activity related to ballistic missiles designed to be capable of delivering nuclear weapons, including launches using such ballistic missile technology.”

Iran argues that the new sanctions breach the JCPOA and insists that its nuclear program is entirely peaceful.

On Sunday, Iran’s MPs passed a bill that increases the budget for Iran’s ballistic missile program and increases the country’s military budget by nearly $800 million.

“The bill has very wisely tried not to violate the nuclear deal and also gives no chance to the other party to manipulate it,” said deputy foreign minister Abbas Araghchi. “This bill is an astute response to the enmity and wickedness of the United States against Iran."

Some members of parliament chanted “death to America” as the legislation passed.
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Wed/Mid-PM ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
~ Featuring ~
Tear Down the University of Virginia!
by The Patriot Post

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 Yale Covers Over Its History, Literally 
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Over an entrance to Sterling Memorial Library on the campus of Yale University is a stone carving depicting an Indian and a Puritan. In the carving the Indian is holding a bow and the Puritan a musket ... that is until recently, when Yale decided to cover up the Puritan's musket. According to head librarian Susan Gibbons, the reason was that Yale's Committee on Art in Public Spaces decided the carving's "presence at a major entrance to Sterling was not appropriate." But she offered a caveat: The cover-up "can be removed in the future without damaging the original carving."
          This decision by Yale is reminiscent of other art controversies. Renaissance artists, philosophers and clergy who were inspired by classical Greek sculpture art often chose to paint and sculpt the ideal human form in the nude as the Greeks had done. But during the Protestant Reformation, Catholic leaders seeking to respond to the criticism of the church being corrupt and perverse decided to literally cover up their nude artwork with fig leaves of stone or paint so as not to offend their flock.
          Fast-forward 500 years and a similar mindset has appeared to grip those within academia. So afraid are they of offending, they have decided to hide the "embarrassing" parts of their history — in this case a gun — so as to appease masses. At Yale, it's not only happening with art work, it's happening with names. Recall last year that the university caved to revisionist demands that Calhoun College, named after the seventh vice president, be renamed because Calhoun was a slave owner and advocate of slavery. Once again, the justification for hiding history came out of the ill-begotten notion that protecting people from offense is more important than dealing with the challenging nuances of living in an imperfect world.
          In order for a free society to exist, its citizens must be committed to the ideal that recognizes and protects the rights of others to freely have and express opinions and ideas which one may find offensive and even reprehensible. Thus far, Yale is failing to both instruct students in and uphold this high standard. 
~The Patriot Post
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DEM COMMIE and RACIST CAUCUS
Leaders Demand HEADS Of 3 Top TRUMP Aides
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{rickwells.us} ~ More proof that the ever-increasing levels of pandering to racists of the past few decades has built to a point of critical mass and has got to come to a halt was provided by some of its biggest proponents, racist Democrats within Congress... The only group that doesn’t have a formal, race-based, divisive political caucus within the House are the white members, who represent all of their constituents, even those of a different color. Despite being accused of racism, they alone are doing or failing to do the people’s business regardless of considerations for what they look like or what type of extra privileges they demand to be entitled to. The existence of a racism-based caucus within the House of Representatives is offensive and does not represent American values or the Constitution. Yet, because they are Democrats, it is allowed and even held up reverently, as some sort of perverted justice. There’s nothing just about it aside from it being “just wrong.”...  http://rickwells.us/dem-commie-racist-caucus-leaders-demand-heads-3-top-trump-aides/
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What the President Said Is True,
Whether You Like It Or Not
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by Erick Erickson
{theresurgent.com} ~ The President saying there were “good people on both sides” of the Charlottesville protest may be the stupidest thing of all stupid things the man has said. No one should and no one to my knowledge is defending that... The other thing the President said, the thing that is actually generating way more outrage in the media, is actually true. The President again condemned the white supremacists by name as the press has wanted him to do. But he also pointed out there were violent people on the other side who showed up looking for a fight...  http://theresurgent.com/what-the-president-said-is-true-whether-you-like-it-or-not/
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On Eve of Sentencing, The Lies
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by William A. Jacobson
{legalinsurrection.com} ~ This coming Thursday, August 17, 2017, Rasmea will be sentenced in federal court in Detroit after a guilty plea to immigration fraud. By her plea agreement, Rasmea will be deported and will lose her U.S. citizenship, but will not serve any further jail time... Rasmea’s immigration plea resulted from her lies on immigration and naturalization forms in which she concealed a prior conviction and prison term for a 1969 supermarket bombing in Jerusalem that killed two Hebrew University students, Edward Joffe and Leon Kanner. Rasmea also concealed her conviction for the attempted bombing of the British Consulate that same year. Rasmea was released in a 1979 prisoner exchange for an Israeli soldier captured in Lebanon...  http://legalinsurrection.com/2017/08/on-eve-of-sentencing-the-lies-of-rasmea-odeh-and-her-supporters-exposed/
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Mahmoud Abbas Wishes
Kim Jong Un “Health and Happiness”
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by Mary Chastain
{legalinsurrection.com} ~ PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas today sent congratulations to the ruler of North Korea, Kim Jong-un, in honor of the country’s Liberation Day. In the statement released by WAFA, the official PA news agency, Abbas wished Jong-un “all health and happiness.”... His greetings did not mention the international tension following Jong-un’s threat to fire missiles toward the US Pacific territory of Guam in honor of Korea’s Liberation Day. Abbas wished “the Korean people continued stability and prosperity; and that the historical friendly relations between Palestine and North Korea and their two peoples will continue to develop and grow.” Earlier this year, Abbas sent his “blessings” to the Iranian regime in honor of the 1979 Iranian revolution:...He isn't or willing to have peace with Israel.  http://legalinsurrection.com/2017/08/mahmoud-abbas-wishes-kim-jong-un-health-and-happiness/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+LegalInsurrection+%28Le%C2%B7gal+In%C2%B7sur%C2%B7rec%C2%B7tion%29
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Sec. Mattis: If North Korea fires at the U.S., it's "game on"

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Are President Trump's new Charlottesville remarks enough?

http://video.foxnews.com/v/5541131166001

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President Trump Condemns White Supremacist Groups: "Racism Is Evil"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blmLVnnhNk4

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Gorka Spars With MSNBC Hosts Over WH Response to Mosque Bombing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0V4tOswqFGo

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President Trump's national security adviser H.R. McMaster calls violence in Charlottesville "terrorism"
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 Tear Down the University of Virginia! 
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When Thomas Jefferson died on July 4th, 1826, the 50th anniversary of our Declaration of Independence, he had left explicit instructions on what was to be engraved on his headstone: "Here was buried Thomas Jefferson, Author of the Declaration of American Independence, of the Statute of Virginia for religious freedom, and Father of the University of Virginia." In his letter of instruction, Jefferson noted that "these, as testimonials that I have lived, I wish most to be remembered."  (Notably, there is no mention of his two presidential terms.)
          Last October, a battle began brewing in Charlottesville — an effort to purge Thomas Jefferson from the University of Virginia because he had owned slaves. Jefferson reportedly even fathered a child with one of those slaves, the half-sister of his deceased wife.
          In January, after liar-Hillary Clinton's demise and Donald Trump's inauguration, Charlottesville Mayor Mike Signer hosted a rally declaring his town a "capital of resistance." Signer, who was chosen to be mayor by Charlottesville's leftist city council, a group of Berkeley wannabes, is himself a graduate of UC Berkeley and a rising darling of the Left.
          Signer is a political hack for Virginia's alien governor and noted liar-Clintonista, Terry McAuliffe. He worked with John Podesta to elect Barack liar-nObama in 2008, and the following year joined McAuliffe's finance team.
          As Charlottesville's mayor, Signer, who ironically teaches an undergraduate UVA seminar titled "Leadership, Statesmanship, and Democracy," established a "Blue Ribbon Commission on Race, Memorials, and Public Spaces" to rally support for dismantling historic statues of Virginia sons, including, most notably, Robert E. Lee. Of course, this was less about rallying support for removal of historic statues and more about rallying support for Signer's future political aspirations.
          In February, our editor Thomas Gallatin wrote about the Charlottesville council's historical purges, noting, "We betray the historical record if we erase from it the narrative and perspective of those who experienced it. Indeed, it is the fool who rejects the lessons of the past in favor of his own modern prejudices."
          Signer designated $1 million in funding to redesign parks featuring monuments to Robert E. Lee and Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, and Lee Park has since been renamed "Emancipation Park."
          Over the weekend, fascist and socialist thugs from around the nation descended on that Charlottesville park and, predictably, the opposing protests turned violent, leaving one protester dead and many injured. Notably, two Virginia State Police officers, Lt. Jay Cullen and Trooper-pilot Berke Bates, were killed when the helicopter they were using to observe the protest crashed south of Charlottesville.
          According to New York Times reporter Hawes Spencer, it was a mutual hate fest: "The entirety of Downtown Charlottesville looked like a war zone. Protesters maced each other, threw water bottles and urine balloons — some of which hit reporters — and generally beat the crap out of each other with flagpoles."
          Just as predictable was the descent of the Demo/MSM propaganda machine on Charlottesville, and the Leftmedia outlets are having a field day with this disgraceful and tragic clash of competing hate factions. It provides top-of-the-fold fodder to accuse Trump, and anyone else on the conservative side of the political ledger, of benign sympathy with Nazi white supremacists. It also provides the Beltway echo chambers an opportunity to portray such hatred as "mainstream" rather than minuscule fringe elements of our society — because such hyperbolic reporting sells advertising.
          For the record, while the white racists were being cast as "right-wing," both the clashing groups are anarchists — by definition, left-wing. Additionally, there were significant concerns about these hate factions erupting in violence well in advance of last Saturday. The current issue of The Atlantic notes the "Rise of the Violent Left." But as McAuliffe lamented, "You can't stop some crazy guy who came here from Ohio and used his car as a weapon."
          Of course, Democrat leaders, ever the consummate race-bait political hustlers, will seize every chance to divert attention from the fact that their Party has been hijacked by neo-socialists — knowing that Democrat Socialism, like Nationalist Socialism, is nothing more than Marxist Socialism repackaged.
          Condemning the violence in Charlottesville, Trump said, "We condemn in the strongest most possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence on many sides. On many sides. No matter our color, creed, religion or political party we are all Americans first."
          Naturally, that was not sufficient for the Leftmedia or Republicans who know full well those media outlets will label them as "soft on supremacists."
          Sunday, the White House communications staff followed up with this assertion in response: "The President said very strongly in his statement yesterday that he condemns all forms of violence, bigotry and hatred and of course that includes white Supremacists, KKK, neo-nazi and all extremist groups. He called for national unity and bringing all Americans together."
          Former Trump campaign adviser Michael Caputo noted, "If Donald Trump called out every single white supremacist by name it would not be enough [because] we have had [white supremacy] hanging around our neck for decades."
          Indeed, Democrats, the party of racist segregation, love to label Republicans, the party of emancipation, "racist."
          Returning to the issue that was a catalyst for the clash of thugs in Charlottesville, if the historical erasers are going to tear down statues of Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson, then most certainly any monuments to Jefferson and George Washington should be purged, including those on the National Mall. And certainly the Declaration of Independence and the Statute of Virginia should be ceremonially burned, and Jefferson's University of Virginia should be leveled. In fact, Washington and Lee High School in Arlington, Virginia — Mayor Mike Signer's alma mater — should be torn down... 
~The Patriot Post
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Beware the liar-nObamacare-Industrial Complex
by Stephen Moore
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 Trump Responds to Charlottesville Racist Violence, 
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On Saturday, the day after racist thugs rioted against each other in Charlottesville, Virginia, Donald Trump addressed the situation. He gave a thoughtful and measured response that set an appropriate tone. Trump was correct in his assessment that the "hatred and bigotry" on display came from "many, many sides." Trump, however, did not name names of the various warring thug organizations but rather chose to focus on broadly reminding Americans that we are fellow citizens of one nation. He stated, "We have to come together as Americans with love for our nation, and really, I say this strongly, with true affection for each other." Trump continued, "Above all else we must remember this truth. No matter our color, creed, religion or political party, we are all Americans first. We love our country, we love our God, we love our flag, we're proud of our country, we're proud of who we are." He then challenged Americans to "restore the bonds of trust and loyalty between one another. We must love each other, respect each other and cherish our history and our future together."
          It was a good, unifying speech, but it didn't fulfill the mainstream media's agenda. The MSM had already determined that the only acceptable narrative was to unequivocally condemn only white supremacists, not the so-called "antifascists" who showed up ready to fight them. To mention the fact of racism and bigotry espoused by the other groups is to violate the politically correct dogma of the day, which preaches that only white racists can truly be called out for their vile bigotry. Since Trump didn't specifically condemn the KKK, neo-Nazis and white supremacists, the MSM labeled him a racist. Subsequently, anyone who dares to offer any defense of Trump has also been tarred with the "racist" epithet.
          Even some conservative commentators and lawmakers seem to have drunk the MSM's Kool-Aid as they admonished Trump for not being stronger in condemning the KKK and white supremacists. The trouble is that no one seems to have actually listened to Trump's speech. They're too busy trying to lay blame for the violence at Trump's feet that they refuse to actually hear what he had to say.
          So, on Monday, Trump decided to respond to the growing media-created fervor. He addressed the nation once again on the Charlottesville riot. Trump reiterated, "We must love each other, show affection for each other and unite together in condemnation of hatred, bigotry and violence. We must rediscover the bonds of love and loyalty that bring us together as Americans." And this time Trump added, "Racism is evil. And those who cause violence in its name are criminals and thugs, including the KKK, neo-Nazis, white supremacists and other hate groups that are repugnant to everything we hold dear as Americans." Of course, that message is too little, too late for the Trump Derangement Syndrome crowd.
          But it's not too late at all. In his Inaugural Address, Trump said, "When you open your heart to patriotism, there is no room for prejudice. ... Whether we are black or brown or white, we all bleed the same red blood of Patriots, we all enjoy the same glorious freedoms, and we all salute the same great American flag." It's been his message all along. The media just don't want you to know it. ~The Patriot Post
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North Korea Backs Off Threats Against Guam
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by Martin Walsh
{westernjournalism.com} ~ North Korean leader Kim Jong-un backed down Monday from a threat to fire ballistic missiles at the U.S. territory of Guam, according to North Korean government-controlled media... Pyongyang’s state-run media agency reported Tuesday that Kim could change his mind if the U.S. continued to make “arrogant provocations” and “unilateral demands.” “If the Yankees persist in their extremely dangerous reckless actions on the Korean Peninsula and in its vicinity, testing the self-restraint of the DPRK, the North will make an important decision as it already declared,” the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported...  http://www.westernjournalism.com/north-korea-backs-off-threats-guam/ utm_source=Email&utm_medium=PostUp&utm_campaign=WJDailyEmail&utm_content=2017-08-15
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TRUMP Exposes, DESTROYS Racist
LEFTIST MEDIA Bias In Fiery Charlottesville Presser
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{rickwells.us} ~ President Trump hit a home run with his speech today, originally billed as one on infrastructure, a topic which nobody in the room seemed to want to talk about... The reporters were in a self-generating lather over Charlottesville and clearly not willing to accept the notion that BLM and AntiFa are anything other than a collection of humanitarians and saints working together for brotherly love and world peace. They’re either completely blind to or in deliberate denial of reality. President Trump responds to one vicious, loud, snarky female in the crowd to begin the video, the type of individual this is consistently part of his exchanges She asks about him waiting “so long” to attack the “neo-Nazis.” President Trump defended himself, noting that he waited for the facts, unlike most of the propagandists in the room and that some of the facts are still not known. He explains “It takes a little while to get the facts – you still don’t know the facts” to the reporter. She’s a news professional, you’d think she’d at least have that much of a basic understanding of what her job is supposed to be and the integrity that is supposedly a key element...  http://rickwells.us/trump-exposes-destroys-racist-leftist-media-bias-fiery-presser/
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{truthrevolt.org} ~ What if people have the war in Iraq backwards? What if George W. Bush and the U.S. military won it, and Barack liar-nObama and the Democrats gave it away? Well, we don't have to wonder what if, because Pete Hegseth, who served in Iraq, explains what happened...  http://www.truthrevolt.org/commentary/prager-u-how-iraq-was-won-and-lost
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Jake Tapper Comes Clean: liar-nObama Lied
and Biased Media Let Him Get Away With It
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{truthrevolt.org} ~ In a new interview with Rolling Stone, CNN host Jake Tapper spilled the beans on the biased media, saying they let President liar-nObama get away with telling lies while President Trump is always in the crosshairs... Tapper didn’t think it was fair to compare liar-nObama with Trump too much — “they’re different and the scale isn’t even remotely the same” — but he was willing to admit, “President liar-nObama said things that weren't true and got away with it more for a variety of reasons, and one is the media was much more supportive of him.” Tapper said when he was critical of the last administration, “A lot of people on the left didn't like it,” but now that he is more critical of Trump, “They like it.”...  http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/jake-tapper-comes-clean-obama-lied-and-biased-media-let-him-get-away-it
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Beware the liar-nObamacare-Industrial Complex
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townhall.com} ~ The danger of a Republican bailout of liar-nObamacare is mounting with every passing day. Moderate Republicans calling themselves the Problem Solvers Caucus are quietly negotiating with Democratic leaders Nancy Pulosi and Chuck clown-Schumer to throw a multibillion-dollar lifeline to the liar-nObamacare insurance exchanges.

This bailout, of course, would be an epic betrayal by the Republican Party, which has promised to repeal and replace the financially crumbling health law.

liar-nObamacare's apologists object to the term "bailout" for this rescue package. The left prefers the euphemism "stabilizing the insurance market." They claim this is merely a payment to low-income families to help pay for escalating premiums. These payments were allegedly always part of the law as passed.

The hypocrisy here is towering. These are the same people who told us over and over again that liar-nObamacare was going to "bend the cost curve of health care down." These are the same people who promised that liar-nObamacare was going to save the average family $2,500 a year in insurance premiums.

These were also the same people who swore to us that liar-nObamacare wasn't going to raise the federal deficit by a dime. Oh, really? Where is the $10-20 billion to pay for this new federal subsidy going to come from? Pixie dust?

Incidentally, is there even one single liar-nObamacare promise that has been kept after seven years?

So why is everyone suddenly rallying for an liar-nObamacare bailout? The answer is simple. The new health law has given rise to an liar-nObamacare-industrial complex. The health system is now like a junkie hooked on federal payments.

This addiction explains why the insurance companies are lobbying furiously for these funds alongside their newfound friends at left-wing interest groups such as the Center for American Progress. The irony of this alliance is that these left-wing "allies" hate insurance companies and want to abolish them. The insurance lobby is selling rope to its hangman.

Hospital groups, the American Medical Association and the AARP are joined by the Catholic Bishops, the American Heart Association and the American Lung Association. If you are donating money to any of these groups, you might want to think again. This health care-industrial complex has only one solution to every liar-nObamacare crackup: more regulation and more tax dollars.

Proponents argue that there was an innocent mistake in the language of the Affordable Care Act imagine that -- maybe next time they will read the bill before they vote on it and that these bailout funds were intended to be automatic entitlement payments that would not have to be appropriated annually by Congress.

If they prevail, the insurance companies will get fatter and fatter checks from the government every year, no matter how much costs escalate. Financial accountability will be thrown out the window, and liar-nObamacare will become an appendage of Medicaid, with exploding costs and a blank check from taxpayers.

This year the best estimate is that liar-nObamacare will need at least $10 billion more to keep the system solvent. The death spiral in the program is intensifying with every passing month, so it's highly predictable these costs will reach $20 billion next year and more in the years that follow.

You can call this a bailout or just a swindle of taxpayers who were fed a litany of lies about liar-nObamacare's virtues from the very start. Either way, taxpayers get shafted again and the liar-nObamacare-industrial complex gets fat and happy. If Republicans are partners to this fiscal crime, then they are as culpable as the Democrats who passed this turkey in the first place and they certainly don't deserve to be the governing party.
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Wednesday, August 16, 2017
The news media is having a melt down over President Donald Trump saying that there were at least two sides to blame in the Charlottesville, Va., riots over the past weekend. The media and the left jumped to the conclusion that the President is a racist because he isn't putting the full blame on the white supremacists. The media and the left is choosing to ignore that the riot didn't become a riot until Antifa communists and anarchists confronted the white supremacists. They see no moral equivalency between racism and anybody standing against the racists. In the minds of the left, it doesn't matter who confronted the white supremacists, and whoever says there were two sides to the violence, is a bigot and a racist.
 
To these reporters and liberals there can be no defense of the KKK, Neo-Nazis, etc., because they are race hate groups. It doesn't matter to the left if these groups were hypothetically sitting peacefully in a park and were provoked and attacked by the Democratic Party, it is the racist groups' fault because they are racist and racism cannot be defended. That's how they are looking at it. Certainly, there are likely racists and bigots among the so-called anti-fascist group Antifa, but they are self-proclaimed communists and anarchists not known for their racism. Hence, the President saying "both sides" are at fault is true, but to the left it means he's a racist because he is defending the white supremacists.
 
Trump's words were just the opening that the left needed to label him a racist once and for all and stain his presidency. They took to the airwaves to cement the image into every American's mindset. According to MRC, the big three networks spent 77.6 percent of their primetime news coverage expressing outrage over Trump "defending" white supremacists. CBS News spent its entire evening news on Trump's remarks. The networks missed stories about North Korea backing down on its nuclear threat, and how the previous "president" was warned about Russian interference in the election, but did nothing about it. NBC and ABC refused to carry Trump's strong condemnation of the murderer in the riot.
 
The truth is that club-yielding members of Antifa played a significant role in the violence of the Charlottesville riots. Trump, however, is now labeled a racist by the left because in their eyes there is no moral equivalency between racists and people standing up against them. Isaiah 59:13-14 may aptly describe the entirety of this situation, " In transgressing and lying against the LORD, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood. And justice is turned back, and righteousness stands afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter."  Racism, communism, fascism is all of the devil and have no moral equivalency.
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Bill Wilson

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NOT ONLY ITALY…GREECE is also collapsing under the flood of illegal alien migrants posing as refugees, making demands

(Muslims do not assimilate! They infiltrate! THIS WILL HAPPEN TO US IF WE DON'T STOP THE MUSLIMS INVASION AND BEGIN TO DEPORT THEM! )

African Muslim invaders are fighting with Syrian and other Middle East Muslim invaders…demanding that their asylum requests get processed faster…and when they’re rejected, they riot, but few are ever deported.

Until Italy and Greece start turning back these Muslim invader boats, the problem will metastasize, until they are overrun with so many fake refugees demanding handouts, their own citizens will have no choice but to rebel against their governments.

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The ultimate ‘victim card’ player, designated terrorist group CAIR wants you to believe that “Muslims are the new Jews”

( Muslims do not assimilate! They infiltrate! )

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Nihad Awad, the executive director and spokesjihadist for the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), has compared the plight of Muslims in America to that of the Jews in Nazi Germany.

Truthfeed Nevermind the fact that there are no mass round-ups or concentration camps, these delusional Muslims still believe they are perpetual victims like the Jewish were during WWII.

WND  The leader of a designated terrorist group named as a co-conspirator in a Hamas-funding plot claimed in a speech at Wake Forest University that Muslims and other religious minorities in America face bigotry that could lead to a holocaust similar to the one that killed 6 million Jews.

In his Wake Forest speech, the CAIR leader turned to Nazi Germany as an example of “what hate and hatemongering start and what they lead to.”

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Nihad Awad says there’s “inner core” of 33 groups in an “Islamophobia network dedicated “to stigmatize American Muslims,” reported the Triad City Beat of Greensboro, North Carolina. Among the groups are ACT! for America, Bare Naked Islam, Center for Security Policy, David Horowitz Freedom Center, Steve Emerson’s Investigative Project on Terrorism and Robert Spencer’s Jihad Watch.

CAIR was named an unindicted co-conspirator in a plot to fund the terrorist group Hamas and designated a terrorist organization by the United Arab Emirates, along with groups such as ISIS and al-Qaeda.  More than a dozen CAIR leaders have been charged or convicted of terrorism-related crimes.

Awad said in his speech that an upcoming CAIR report claims 2016 was the worst year on record for American Muslims “when it comes to hate crimes, acts of vandalism, discrimination, attacks on our civil and human rights.”

However, the latest FBI statistics, which came out last fall, showed anti-Semitic hate crimes are more than two times more common than hate crimes against Muslims, and many of the reports have turned out to be false or faked by Muslims themselves.

There is no moral or any other equivalency between Muslims and Jews:

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Minneapolis: Muslim charged with threatening to shoot his wife the night before being sworn in as a cop

( Muslims do not assimilate! They infiltrate )

Mohamed Noor, the Muslim cop who shot an unarmed woman, Justine Damond, had been fast-tracked onto the force so that the Minneapolis police could showcase their “diversity.” Now it looks as if the Minneapolis Police Department was trying to do it again with Ahmed Mohamed Jama. After the shooting of Justine Damond, there was no reevaluation of the wisdom of hiring police officers based on their religion and ethnicity rather than their merit. And so here we go again.

“Rookie Cop Breaks the Law Night Before Swearing-In Ceremony,” by Preya Samsundar, Alpha News, August 12, 2017:

MINNEAPOLIS — A Minneapolis man has been charged with Threats of Violence (Intent to Terrorize), the night before being sworn in as a Minneapolis Police Officer.

Ahmed Mohamed Jama, 29, threatened his wife with bodily harm after an argument on August 1. The criminal complaint, filed on August 4, states authorities to a report of past action domestic assault. Jama’s wife told authorities that he threatened to “shoot her in the head” because he would “get away with it.” Jama denied making the threat.

According to his personnel file, Jama first started working with the Minneapolis Police Department as a Police Cadet.

Jama filed paperwork to become a Police Cadet in August of 2016, a similar training program that Officer Mohamed Noor, the Minneapolis Officer who shot Justine Damond in July….

As Alpha News reported, MPD looked to clear up any confusion regarding time spent training. Noor spent more than a year after going through the police cadet training for the Minneapolis Police Department, while Jama started out as a Community Service Officer before working his way up to officer.

“At this point, the probationary employee you’ve inquired about, who has never worked in the capacity of a Minneapolis Police Officer, is on administrative leave,” Minneapolis Police Chief Medaria Arradondo said in a statement. “I am aware of the serious charges and will take appropriate action when necessary. The Office of Police Conduct Review has opened up a case into this matter.”

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Iran Threatens to Send Warships to Atlantic and Ramp up Nuclear Activities If U.S. Continues Sanctions

( Please do send your ships the U.S.NAVY will wipe THEM from the sea in a matter of hours the seas belong to the U.S. NAVY )

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Amid Americans’ concerns that North Korea threatened to launch a missile at Guam, Iran is planning on building up a flotilla of warships in the Atlantic Ocean, while Iranian leader Hassan Rouhani has threatened to revitalize the country’s nuclear program if the U.S. continues “threats and sanctions.”

If Washington continues with “threats and sanctions” against Iran, Tehran could easily ramp up its nuclear activities Rouhani said in Iranian Parliament, AP reported.

In an hour and a day, Iran could return to a more advanced (nuclear) level than at the beginning of the negotiations.

“The U.S. has shown that it is neither a good partner nor a trustable negotiator,” Rouhani added. “Those who are trying to go back to the language of threats and sanctions are prisoners of their past hallucinations. They deprive themselves of the advantages of peace.”

Iranian lawmakers reportedly shouted “death to America” as they passed the bill to increase military spending.

The legislation also imposes sanctions on U.S. military officials who are in the region.

Meanwhile, after the announcement of a massive $500 million investment in war spending, Iran has planned to send flotilla of warships to the Atlantic Ocean in response to the U.S. proposed sanctions against the country.

“No military official in the world thought that we can go around Africa to the Atlantic Ocean through the Suez Canal but we did it as we had declared that we would go to the Atlantic and its Western waters,” Iranian Navy Commander Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayyari said.

This comes amid previous weeks of several tense interplays where Iranian military ships have carried out a series of dangerous drills near U.S. ships.

Just last Monday U.S. military officials reported another “unsafe” encounter with an Iranian drone that was following a U.S. carrier in the Persian Gulf that allegedly came close enough to an American F-18 jet to risk the pilot’s life.

In early August, U.S. President Donald Trump signed into law new sanctions on Iran, Russia and North Korea passed by the U.S. Congress.

Iran has maintained the new U.S. sanctions amount to a “hostile” breach of the 2015 nuclear deal.

U.S. President Donald Trump has stated several times that the Iran deal was a “bad deal” and continues looking into ways to repeal the deal.

Meanwhile, Iran has just threatened Trump saying they will “abandon its nuclear agreement with world powers within hours” if the United States imposes any more new sanctions, Reuters reported.

“If America wants to go back to the experience (of imposing sanctions), Iran would certainly return in a short time — not a week or a month but within hours — to conditions more advanced than before the start of negotiations,” Rouhani told a session of parliament broadcast live on state television.

“The world has clearly seen that under Trump, America has ignored international agreements and, in addition to undermining the (nuclear deal), has broken its word on the Paris agreement and the Cuba accord…and that the United States is not a good partner or a reliable negotiator,” Rouhani added.

Another U.S. president and just more geopolitical wars mounting up. Nothing ever seems to change even though all presidents seem to campaign on ending wars. (For more from the author of “Iran Threatens to Send Warships to Atlantic and Ramp up Nuclear Activities If U.S. Continues Sanctions” please click HERE) http://joemiller.us/2017/08/iran-threatens-send-warships-atlantic-ramp-nuclear-activities-u-s-continues-

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Robert Spencer: Charlottesville Shows How Dangerous the SPLC Really Is

( The socialist Democratic Party and the leftist have now lost the south YOU WILL SEE IT ON NOV.8TH 2018 YOU MAKE NO MISTAKE ABOUT THIS A ATTACK ON THE SOUTHERN PEOPLE OF OUR COUNTRY)

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If, post-Charlottesville, the establishment media and the Left are going to embark upon a full-scale jihad (I wouldn’t want to offend Leftists by calling it a “crusade”) against neo-Nazis and white supremacists, they’re going to catch in their net a great many legitimate groups if they rely on the SPLC to direct them to the “hate groups.” My latest in PJ Media:

Charlottesville was a huge victory for the hard-Left Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). And that’s not good for anyone who loves freedom.

The driver of the car who plowed into a crowd of Leftist demonstrators in Charlottesville Saturday was a neo-Nazi, and on Monday President Trump denounced the Ku Klux Klan, “neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and other hate groups,” which he rightly said were “repugnant to everything we hold dear as Americans.”

Leftist media outlets are making all they can out of this opportunity to stigmatize and marginalize definitively all “hate groups,” using the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) list of such groups. There’s just one problem: the SPLC’s “hate group” list is an irresponsible and libelous mélange of real hate groups with organizations that simply oppose the SPLC’s hard-Left agenda.

The mainstream media has for years conferred an aura of legitimacy on the SPLC, treating this cynical gang of profiteers as if it were a neutral and reliable arbiter of what constitutes a “hate group” and what does not. Charlotte Allen wrote in The Weekly Standard last March:

It’s hard to say what’s worse: the outrageousness of the Southern Poverty Law Center in pinning the label “white nationalist” and “extremist” on anyone who bucks the prevailing politically correct narrative, or the credulity of the mainstream media in treating the SPLC as a neutral source.

Yet CNN did it again Monday in a story about how GoDaddy had revoked the account of a site called Daily Stormer in the wake of Charlottesville:

According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, “the Daily Stormer is dedicated to spreading anti-Semitism, neo-Nazism, and white nationalism, primarily through guttural hyperbole and epithet-laden stories about topics like alleged Jewish world control and black-on-white crime.” The SPLC, which tracks hate groups, says the unapologetic hatred on the Daily Stormer — which also takes aim at African-Americans and opponents of President Donald Trump, for example — is a catalyst for division.

Meanwhile, the Huffington Post reminded us:

There are 917 hate groups currently operating across the U.S., according to the Southern Poverty Law Center.

And that’s where the SPLC’s hate group listing becomes insidious. If, post-Charlottesville, the establishment media and the Left are going to embark upon a full-scale jihad (I wouldn’t want to offend Leftists by calling it a “crusade”) against neo-Nazis and white supremacists, they’re going to catch in their net a great many legitimate groups if they rely on the SPLC to direct them to the “hate groups.”

Mark Krikorian of the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) wrote in the Washington Post in March:

Since 2007, the Southern Poverty Law Center has methodically added mainstream organizations critical of current immigration policy to its blacklist of “hate groups,” including the Federation for American Immigration Reform, the Immigration Reform Law Institute and Californians for Population Stabilization, among others. In February, my own organization, the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), got its turn.

The wickedness of the SPLC’s blacklist lies in the fact that it conflates groups that really do preach hatred, such as the Ku Klux Klan and Nation of Islam, with ones that simply do not share the SPLC’s political preferences. The obvious goal is to marginalize the organizations in this second category by bullying reporters into avoiding them, scaring away writers and researchers from working for them, and limiting invitations for them to discuss their work.

Indeed. That is certainly the objective behind this hard-Left moneymaking and incitement machine’s latest dossier on “Islamophobes,” which says:

Before you book a spokesperson from an anti-Muslim extremist group or quote them in a story, research their background — detailed in this in-depth guide to 15 of the most visible anti-Muslim activists — and consider the consequences of giving them a platform.

They wish to silence those who speak honestly about the nature and magnitude of the jihad threat, blaming us for a supposed rise in “Islamophobia.” If they really want to stamp out suspicion of Islam, of course, they will move against not us, but the likes of Omar Mateen, Syed Rizwan Farook, Tashfeen Malik, Nidal Malik Hasan, Mohammed Abdulazeez, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, and the myriad other Muslims who commit violence in the name of Islam and justify it by reference to Islamic teachings.

The SPLC doesn’t do that because its objective is not really to stop “Islamophobia” at all, but to create the illusion of a powerful and moneyed network of “Islamophobes” whom can only be stopped if you write a check to the SPLC. That’s what this is really all about.

In constructing this illusory edifice, the SPLC labeled me and fourteen others “anti-Muslim extremists.”

We are, of course, no more “anti-Muslim” than foes of the Nazis were anti-German, but note the word “extremists.” In what way are we “extremists”? Has anyone on the SPLC’s hit list (and given the SPLC’s track record of inciting violence against its targets, that is exactly what it is) ever blown anything or anyone up? Beheaded anyone? Boasted of our imminent conquest of any territory and the massacre of or enslavement of its people?

No, all we have done is speak critically about jihad terror and Sharia oppression. The SPLC is trying to further the libel that we are the other side of the coin, the non-Muslim bin Ladens and Awlakis. Until we commit any terror attacks or conspire with others to do so, however, the SPLC’s libel is only that: a libel….

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Quaint U.S. Town: Hussein Tries to Behead Cop

( ,Muslims do not assimilate! They infiltrate! we did not have these problems until Obama and this Congress allowed them in our country just look at what is happening in Europe it tell it all! )

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A 46-year-old man identified as Hussein Hassan attacked a police officer in Kennewick, Washington, over the weekend with a large sword, striking at the officer’s head before he was shot and killed.

A spokesman for the police said two officers responded to a 9-1-1 call at 6:38 p.m. Sunday about a man walking down Olympia Street near 10th Avenue armed with a sword.

The two officers arrived on the scene at the same time in separate cars at about 6:40 p.m. One officer got out of his car to confront Hassan and police say the man started swinging the sword, striking the officer at least once in the head with the blade . . .

The officer was treated and released from an area hospital after receiving 17 staples to close the head wound.

Almost 24 hours later, on Monday evening, police identified the dead man as Hassan, but gave only scant details – his age and current city of residence. (Read more from “Quaint U.S. Town: Hussein Tries to Behead Cop” HERE) http://joemiller.us/2017/08/quaint-u-s-town-hussein-tries-to-behead-cop/

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PRESUMTIVE JUDGEMENT

"JUDGE YE NOT LEST YE  BE JUDGED" THERE IS AN AWFUL LOT OF JUDGEMENTS BOUT CERTAIN PEOPLE, EITHOUT AN DOECUMENTION OR OTHER PROOF THAT THEY HAVE ANY BASIS.. SL

SOME PEOPLE LIKE TO MAKE JUDGERMENTS ABOUT SOMEONE ELLSE BASED ON THEIR OWN SPECULATION. SUCH  JUDMENTS CAN DAMAGE  SOMEONE ELSE WITHOUT ANY BASIS..

THE ALT LEFT SEEM TO BE EXPERTS WITH THIS AS THEY BLIEVE THEIR OWN SPECULATION JUSTIFIES THIS KIND OF CHARACTER ASSINATETION. PRES TRUMP AND MEMBERS OF HIS STAFF APEAR TO BE THE PRIME TARGETS.. PRES TRUMP WANTS TO STUDY THE FACTS ON ANY STORY TO SEE IF IT CAN DOCUMENTED, SO HE WAITS TO SEE IF THERE IS ANY DOCUMENTARY EVIDENCE TO THE PRESUMED STATEMENTS. WHEN HE CANNOT FIND ANY VERIFICATION OF THE REMARKS, HE LABELS IT  FAKE NEWS, BUT IT IS PICKED UP AS GOSPEL TRUTH BY OTHERE. THIS IS A TYPE OSPECULATIVE LIES ABOUT HIS CHARACTER AND HE IS, BY HIS OWN DEFINATION A COUNTER PUNCHER   

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If We Erase Our History, Who Are We?
by Pat Buchanan
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 liar-nObamaCare Is Dumping Millions of Middle Class 
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Barack liar-nObama and the Democrats' "Affordable" Care Act was never really about making the cost of health care more affordable. It was never about giving Americans greater access to health care. liar-nObamaCare was always a scheme designed to give the government greater power to control and redistribute Americans' wealth, essentially taking from the middle class to give it the poor — and to insurance companies.
          While Democrats like to point to the increasing numbers of individuals receiving liar-nObamaCare's subsidized insurance coverage, they are ignoring a dirty little secret. The number of Americans with unsubsidized individual coverage has decreased precipitously. From March 2016 to March 2017, some 2.6 million fewer people had unsubsidized policies, an overall decrease of 15% in one year alone.
          But the unsubsidized coverage bleed is not limited to the individual market. Since 2013, the year before liar-nObamaCare began subsidizing plans, the number of individuals with employment-based coverage has decreased by almost three million.  
          Doug Badger of National Review describes the issue: The narrative nevertheless endures. Believing it requires indifference to millions of people who can no longer afford individual policies and to millions more who may forfeit their policies with the next round of rate hikes. For many of them, liar-nObamacare has been a serial nightmare, producing policy cancellations, skyrocketing premiums and deductibles, and a narrowing choice of doctors before finally leaving them uninsured.
          liar-nObamacare is insuring more poor people and uninsuring millions of middle-income people. That suits the Democratic party and many congressional Republicans just fine. They measure social progress in the number of people receiving government assistance. Those struggling to pay their own way evoke little sympathy. Lawmakers of both parties, whose consciences were lacerated by CBO's theory that millions would "lose" coverage under the GOP's "repeal and replace" legislation (most of those "losses" the result of people voluntarily dropping insurance once the individual mandate was repealed) are unmoved that millions actually have lost coverage under the law they fought to preserve.
          liar-nObama was a leftist who was bound and determined to foist his socialism onto the American people. Health care was his means to that end, and so far too many Americans and their representatives in Congress are content to sell their freedom for the mirage of greater security and health.  ~The Patriot Post
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MSNBC’s Ruhle Cites Incorrect Terror Statistic
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{dailycaller.com} ~ MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle incorrectly claimed Monday that right-wing extremists are responsible for “three times more deaths” than Islamic extremists... “Between 2001 and now, we have seen three times more deaths caused by right-wing extremists than Islamic terrorists,” Ruhle stated during her show. Assuming Ruhle was referencing a widely-cited report by the Government Accountability Office, Ruhle’s statement was not only misleading, but just plain wrong...  http://dailycaller.com/2017/08/14/msnbcs-ruhle-cites-incorrect-terror-statistic-video/
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The unstoppable Trump train
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{renewamerica.com} ~ Hard to know which body is held in lower esteem, Congress or the media. But for a long time, the media thought they were invincible, based largely on their success after forming the Journliar-nOlist in 2007... a cabal of 400 leftists who vowed to destroy anyone who said a single bad word about the poseur "president" Barack liar-nObama. When said poseur denied his lifelong friendships and political associations with fulminating anti-Semites, enacted the disaster of socialized medicine and socialized public education, eviscerated our military, doubled the national debt, signed a deal with genocidal Iran, and sang the praises of peaceful lslam as dozens of horrific Muslim terrorist attacks around the world attested to a decidedly sub-human species, Journliar-nOlist went into action to squash his critics like they were so many pesky cockroaches...  http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/swirsky/170814
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North Korea’s Submarine-Launched Ballistic
Missile Program: Are the Tests Poised to Accelerate?
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{38north.org} ~ Commercial satellite imagery from April 19 has identified a second submersible test stand barge for North Korea’s submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) program at the Nampo Naval Shipyard, located on the country’s west coast... The barge appears identical in size (~9 m by 22.5 m) and layout to the original barge that was first seen in 2014 at the Sinpo South Shipyard on the country’s east coast, which has been involved in at least four, and maybe as many as six, launches of the Pukguksong-1 (KN-11) SLBM since then. Both of these barges are very similar in size and layout to the old Russian PSD-4 submersible missile test stand barges. Barges such as these are used by navies to conduct underwater tests of new and modified submarine missile launch tubes and launch systems, as well as to conduct initial missile test launches before these systems are installed in a submarine. It is unclear if the new barge was acquired or manufactured by North Korea. However, a preliminary survey of the North’s naval shipyards on the west coast fails to show any indication of barge construction work during the past year, suggesting that this latest barge was acquired from abroad...  http://www.38north.org/2017/05/nampo050117/
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The Invasion of Canada
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{frontpagemag.com} ~ Saint-Bernard-de-Lacolle. 1,477 people live in this little corner of Quebec with its apple orchards, elderberry fields and small wineries. But now 400 migrants can cross the border in a single day... On the other side of the border is New York. There the language is English. In Saint-Bernard-de-Lacolle, the language of choice is French. But these days you’re a more likely to hear Arabic, Urdu or Haitian French being spoken here as Roxham Road fills with clots of migrants scampering out of America. They’re not the leftist American celebs who threaten to leave for Canada if their side doesn’t win the election. Instead they’re the illegal and dubiously legal who got the message from President Trump...  http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/267563/invasion-canada-daniel-greenfield
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Filibuster: Is the end in sight?
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{gopusa.com} ~ A pro-family organization is calling 30 Republican senators to task for supporting Democratic obstructionism by opposing an effort to end the filibuster... Republican Senator RINO-Susan Collins of Maine and Democratic Senator Chris Coons of Delaware recently authored a letter to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky stating their opposition to “any effort to curtail the existing rights and prerogatives including the 60-rule vote to end the Democratic filibuster of senators to engage in full, robust, and extended debate as the Senate consider legislation before the body in the future.” Rob Chambers, vice president of American Family Association Action, the political arm of the American Family Association, says 29 Republicans signed on to the letter, and McConnell also went along with it...  http://www.gopusa.com/filibuster-is-the-end-in-sight/?omhide=true
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If We Erase Our History, Who Are We?
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by Pat Buchanan
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townhall.com} ~ When the Dodge Charger of 20-year-old Nazi sympathizer James Alex Fields Jr., plunged into that crowd of protesters Saturday, killing 32-year-old Heather Heyer, Fields put Charlottesville on the map of modernity alongside Ferguson.

Before Fields ran down the protesters, and then backed up, running down more, what was happening seemed but a bloody brawl between extremists on both sides of the issue of whether Robert E. Lee's statue should be removed from Emancipation Park, formerly Lee Park.
With Heyer's death, the brawl was elevated to a moral issue. And President Donald Trump's initial failure to denounce the neo-Nazi and Klan presence was declared a moral failure.

How did we get here, and where are we going?

In June of 2015, 21-year-old Dylann Roof gunned down nine Christians at an evening Bible study in Charleston's Emanuel AME Church. A review of Roof's selfies and website showed him posing with the Confederate battle flag.

Gov. Nikki Haley, five years in office, instantly pivoted and called for removal of the battle flag from the Confederate war memorial on the State House grounds, as a "deeply offensive symbol of a brutally offensive past."

This ignited a national clamor to purge all statues that lionize Confederate soldiers and statesmen.

In Maryland, demands have come for removing statues and busts of Chief Justice Roger Taney, the author of the Dred Scott decision. Statues of Gen. "Stonewall" Jackson, President Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee have been pulled down in New Orleans.

After Charlottesville, pressure is building for removal of the statues of Lee, Jackson, Davis and Gen. "Jeb" Stuart from historic Monument Avenue in Richmond, capital of the Confederacy.

Many Southern towns, including Alexandria, Virginia, have statues of Confederate soldiers looking to the South. Shall we pull them all down? And once all the Southern Civil War monuments are gone, should we go after the statues of the slave owners whom we Americans have heroized?

Gen. George Washington and his subordinate, "Light Horse Harry" Lee, father of Robert E. Lee, were slave owners, as was Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe and Andrew Jackson. Five of our first seven presidents owned slaves, as did James K. Polk, who invaded and annexed the northern half of Mexico, including California.

Jefferson, with his exploitation of Sally Hemings and neglect of their children, presents a particular problem. While he wrote in the Declaration of Independence of his belief that "all men are created equal," his life and his depiction of Indians in that document belie this.

And Jefferson is both on the face of Mount Rushmore and has a memorial in the U.S. capital.

Another term applied to the "Unite the Right" gathering in Charlottesville is that they are "white supremacists," a mortal sin to modernity. But here we encounter an even greater problem.

Looking back over the history of a Western Civilization, which we call great, were not the explorers who came out of Spain, Portugal, France, Holland and England all white supremacists?

They conquered in the name of the mother countries all the lands they discovered, imposed their rule upon the indigenous peoples, and vanquished and eradicated the native-born who stood in their way.

Who, during the centuries-long discovery and conquest of the New World, really believed that the lives of the indigenous peoples were of equal worth with those of the colonizers?

They believed European Man had the right to rule the world.

Beginning in the 16th century, Western imperialists ruled much of what was called the civilized world. Was not the British Empire, one of the great civilizing forces in human history, a manifestation of British racial superiority?

And if being a segregationist disqualifies one from being venerated in our brave new world, what do we do with Woodrow Wilson, who thought "Birth of a Nation" a splendid film and who re-segregated the U.S. government?

In 1955, Prime Minister Churchill, imperialist to the core, urged his Cabinet to consider the slogan, "Keep England White."

Nor is a belief in the superiority of one's race, religion, tribe and culture unique to the West. What is unique, what is an experiment without precedent, is what we are about today.

We have condemned and renounced the scarlet sins of the men who made America and embraced diversity, inclusivity and equality.

Our new America is to be a land where all races, tribes, creeds and cultures congregate, all are treated equally, and all move ever closer to an equality of results through the regular redistribution of opportunity, wealth and power.

We are going to become "the first universal nation."

"All men are created equal" is an ideological statement. Where is the scientific or historic proof for it? Are we building our utopia on a sandpile of ideology and hope?

Nevertheless, on to Richmond!
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Tuesday PM ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
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Why is Left Wing Violence Acceptable?
by Larry Horist
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 Treason Is Now in Vogue 
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"Chelsea Manning Changed the Course of History. Now She's Focusing on Herself," is the sickening headline of the September issue of Vogue magazine. The fawning story begins with what we guess is supposed to be an endearing description of "her" appearance and newfound comfort in "her" own skin. It goes on to tell much of Manning's story, though it's factually wrong in some details. More on that in a minute, but suffice to say the Left is in full swing happily celebrating its new transgender poster child.
          We say the story is sickening for two reasons. First, Bradley/Chelsea Manning is an individual who deserves our pity, prayer and help, not vacuous celebrations. His gender dysphoria and what strikes us as narcissistic personality disorder is tragic, not heroic. He's had a difficult life, including his father leaving at a young age and his mother attempting suicide. Transgendered people are at a drastically higher risk of suicide attempts than the general population, and it's no surprise that Manning, too, has tried. And yet to Vogue, his only "problem" is that he couldn't be "herself" until taxpayer-funded transition surgery.
          Second, Manning is a traitor who released more than a million pages of classified information about U.S. intelligence operations to WikiLeaks, endangering lives and disrupting policy. He aided and abetted the enemies of America while in our nation's uniform, all because he decided, on his own authority, to stimulate "worldwide discussion, debate and reforms." Yet his disclosures were totally self-serving. And Vogue lied about some of the information: "The breach's breadth was startling, as were its contents," the magazine reports, including "the so-called Collateral Murder video, showing a U.S. helicopter killing a group of Baghdad pedestrians that included children and press."
          "On the contrary," rejoins the Washington Examiner's Tom Rogan, "it shows the lawful targeting of insurgents armed with rifles and a grenade launcher. Those 'Baghdad pedestrians' were threatening a U.S. Army unit that suffered one of the highest casualty rates of any unit in Iraq."
          In any case, it's fair to say he'd still be in prison — or the grave — if he was still a man. Barack liar-nObama would have had no politically advantageous reason to give him a ridiculous commutation deal, all while couching it as enough being enough. "Let's be clear," liar-nObama said (using a phrase typically indicating he's lying), "Chelsea Manning has served a tough prison sentence. I feel very comfortable that justice has been served."
          No, liar-nObama's political objective was served, and it is still being served by this tripe from Vogue and other outlets that sycophantically flatter Manning and their own "enlightened" cosmopolitan egos. ~The Patriot Post
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Former NSA Tech Director Bill Binney Outlines
DNC Emails Were a Leak, Not a Russian Hack
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{theconservativetreehouse.com} ~ Former NSA Technical Director Bill Binney outlines how the 2016 DNC emails were actually taken by a leaker using a portable storage device, and not taken by a computer hack initiated by the vast Russian enterprise... The reality that it was an internal leak further advances the possibility that DNC employee Seth Rich was actually the person who took the DNC email data after becoming disenfranchised by the DNC intentionally undermining Bernie Sanders and aiding candidate liar-Hillary Clinton. Seth Rich was murdered under rather unusual circumstances in 2016, shortly after WikiLeaks began releasing and publishing the emails.  https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2017/08/14/former-nsa-tech-director-bill-binney-outlines-dnc-emails-were-a-leak-not-a-russian-hack/
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Ambassador Friedman's daughter makes Aliyah
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by Yoni Kempinski
{israelnationalnews.com} ~ US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman’s daughter made Aliyah to Israel on Tuesday, along with 232 other immigrants from North America brought on a special flight chartered by Nefesh B’Nefesh... Ambassador Friedman met his daughter, Talia Friedman, on the tarmac to welcome her to her new home. “We’re so proud of our daughter Talia,” Friedman told Arutz Sheva. “She’s always wanted to live in Israel and she’s realizing her dream and the whole family is just very proud of her. We’re here to just greet her and to give her a hug and to wish her hatzlacha rabba success here in Israel. We’re very excited.”...  http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/233945
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The North Korea Gambit
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by DR. PETER VINCENT PRY
{familysecuritymatters.org} ~ Now that North Korea is recognized by the intelligence community and policymakers alike as a clear and present danger to the U.S. mainland-armed with ICBMs capable of blasting American cities with atomic warheads... possibly with much more powerful thermonuclear warheads in 6-18 months-what can we do? First, understand that North Korea is a pawn in a geostrategic chess game being played by China and Russia against the United States. The North Korean nuclear missile threat is built on technology provided by Russia and China, to threaten and if necessary wage nuclear war by proxy against the U.S. and its Pacific allies. Their North Korea gambit is to so increase the nuclear threat against the United States, that U.S. security guarantees to Japan, South Korea and other allies will no longer be credible. Will the U.S. sacrifice Chicago and Denver to protect Seoul and Tokyo? China, Russia, and North Korea don't think so...  http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/the-north-korea-gambit?f=must_reads
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Palestinians: The Honeymoon with the US is Over
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In his recent meeting with US presidential envoys Jason Greenblatt and
Jared Kushner in Ramallah, an enraged Mahmoud Abbas (right) rejected
their demand that he halt payments to terrorists and their families
by Bassam Tawil
{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ US President Donald Trump's envoys, Jason Greenblatt and Jared Kushner, are planning to return to the Middle East soon to discuss ways of reviving the stalled "peace process" between Israel and the Palestinians... Greenblatt tweeted last week that he was looking forward to returning to the Middle East "as we pursue peace." Not surprisingly, the Palestinians have returned to their old habit of accusing the US of being "biased" in favor of Israel. As the US envoys prepare to head to the Middle East, Palestinians are saying that they have lost confidence in the Trump administration, as they have done with all previous administrations...  https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/10830/palestinians-us-mediation
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BLM Founder – White Speech
Is Hate Speech, No First Amendment Rights
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{rickwells.us} ~ The agitator for criminal rights obsessed with racism who started the Black Lives Matter hate group was kicked out of her home when she was 16 by her parents... Her Wikipedia page says it was because she’s a lesbian, something her parents objected to, but it likely had more to do with the huge chip on her shoulder and the matching mouth. The name of this skin color obsessed individual is, as unbelievable or fitting as it might be, Patrisse Cullors. She’s a fulltime agitator so she’s right at home on CNN complaining about people who produce, work for a living and don’t believe in communism as an acceptable alternative to the Constitution and individual liberty. On the subject of the Constitution, this liberal pontification expert who knows better than the rest of us how we should be living our own lives, has a different translation than the one the rest of us use. It’s something along the lines of “The Racist’s Constitution – Butt-Hurt Hoodrat Version. In her special edition of the Constitution, the First Amendment text is a little longer. It contains an exclusion for hate speech...These people and people like her are so brainwashed. She needs help.  http://rickwells.us/blm-founder-white-speech-hate-speech-no-first-amendment-rights/
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Why is Left Wing Violence Acceptable?
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by Larry Horist
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punchingbagpost.com} ~ In response to the tragedy in Charlottesville, Virginia, President Trump condemned the acts of violence in the “strongest terms.” He expanded his condemnation to include ALL who promote or carry out violence. Seems like a reasonable comment.

For the next several days, and counting, the left wing news media spun a narrative that by not mentioning the perpetrators and provocateurs by name, the President was actually endorsing the white supremacy organizations. To reinforce this claim, they dredged up previous times where they, themselves, interpreted Trump’s words to mean something other than their defined meaning. Sure, he condemned David Duke, but not quickly enough. He repeatedly preached against violence, but not in the right words. It was what Trump did not say that became the point of criticism. Consider this point again. The President strong words of condemnation against those who perpetrated violence in Charlottesville and any others who have similar motives had no meaning, but what he did not say did.

His words were described as a “dog whistle,” meaning that his actual words of condemnation were to be interpreted as a subtle show of support for the hate mongers. Dog whistle is a nonsense term that self-justifies interpreting a person’s words to any meaning a critic might prefer.  A dog whistle is for dogs.

The Presidents condemnation was reiterated by virtually every person in his administration, many naming the offensive organizations. This included Vice President Pence, National Security Advisor H. R. McMaster and others. Among those strongly condemning the action AND the organizations was Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who immediately launched a federal investigation.

In the perverse world inside the New York City/D.C. press bubble, these condemnations by Trump administration officials, including his most senior staff, were interpreted as repudiations of the President’s statements. Even after the White House issued a statement on behalf of the President – his official statement – repudiating the white supremacist groups by name, the major media continued to malign the President by ignoring his more specific statements.  

The hyperbole of the media, especially CNN and MSNBC, was boundless. The mainstream media, with their panels of parroting pundits, began to characterize the President with offensive appellations that are usually the rhetoric of the absurdly ignorant. Claiming that Trump’s failure to read the script they offered up in hindsight, major news personalities called him a racist, a Nazi, a white supremacist, a provocateur of violence. They lashed out at anyone who would not take up their intellectually corrupt cause in demonizing Trump to the point of impeachment or worse. They descended on the President with all the table etiquette of a pack of jackals.

They assassinated his character over condemning violent groups “on many sides.” The fact that they found those words so offensive is due to their acquiescence, if not endorsement, of the preponderance of political violence emanating from the radical left. For proof, one only need review the NY/DC media’s coverage of the attack on Republican congressman or their limited, if any, coverage on the calls for the random killing of police officers by left wing hate groups. For years, the mainstream media has minimized the meaning of the ubiquitous left wing violence. Campus riots and the trail of crime and violence in the wake of Occupy Wall Street were largely brushed off. The left and its media spokespeople have no moral pedestal from which to pass judgment. For these reasons, the left wing press could not address the other side of the confrontation and took umbrage when Trump did.  

One thing I learned on the streets of Chicago is that when you have two gangs egging for a fight, you will get a fight. The reason for the conflict and who threw the first punch – or nowadays – fired the first shot is generally unknown and pretty much unimportant. Most times people wound up with bloody noses or black eyes, but sometimes people died.

In many ways, the tragedy that occurred in Charlottesville was similar to those urban gang wars. By both their nature and its intent the hateful white supremacist organizations are provocative and prone to violent confrontation. This is common knowledge and has been as long as I can remember.  

I recall the ragtag remnants of the staunchly anti-Semitic KKK marching in Skokie, Illinois – arguably one of the most Jewish communities in America. It was not their intention to protest, but to provoke. The arrival in Charlottesville was no different.

What gets lost in the news – intentionally, I believe – is the motivation and intention of some of those who came to Charlottesville to protest. Most came to peacefully demonstrate and show the world that the hate mongers do not represent American values. Some, however, were there to provoke physical confrontation as they have done in other areas of the country. And they did. To doubt the culpability of the rally protesters, one only need recall the violent confrontation that commenced long before the fatal act of terrorism. This was a fight that could not have been more predictable if it had been advertised as a boxing card event.

Two hateful elements met on the streets of Charlottesville egging for a fight, much like those urban gangs of my youth. Unfortunately, the police were not adequately prepared to impose order. Like any such confrontation, shouts led to shoves and the cycle of violence was begun.  When Trump condemned ALL those who promote and provoke violence, he is not wrong.
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Tues/Med-PM ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
~ Featuring ~
The 'Poor Illegal' Media
Narrative and Why It's Not Working
by Arthur Schaper
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  Top Headlines 
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liar-Clinton email case far from closure as FBI hands over more classified documents to State. (The Washington Times)
 
China to halt North Korean imports. (U.S. News)
 
China's president urges Trump to use restraint over North Korea. (The Washington Post)
 
NY Times warns climate change may be "greater threat to Guam" than North Korea. (CNS News)
 
Trump: Nukes are the greatest threat to the world, not climate change. (CNS News)
 
Some Maryland cities think it's okay to let illegal immigrants vote. (National Review)
 
Clashes over Title VII protection of sexual orientation make way toward Supreme Court. (The Washington Times)
 
Trump says he's open to military intervention in Venezuela. (Associated Press)
 
Venezuelan lawmaker may have ordered assassination of Sen. Marco Rubio. (Hot Air)
 
Yale covers up gun in stone carving of Puritan, Indian. (The Daily Signal)
 
Policy: Five facts about women and men in tech. (Institute for Family Studies)
 
Policy: Pipelines are safe and efficient. (InsideSources
~The Patriot Post
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President Trump's national security adviser H.R. McMaster calls violence in Charlottesville "terrorism
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LIMBAUGH: Mueller Investigation is the First Phase of the Attempt to IMPEACH Trump
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCwQY8QZwcQ
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Gov. Mike Huckabee: Trump "Condemned" Charlottesville Killer, "What Else Is He Supposed To Do?"
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President Trump Talks To Guam President: I Am Behind You "1,000 Percent"

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Mark Steyn Battles Supporter of LGBTQIA College Group Shunning White People

http://video.insider.foxnews.com/v/5538153661001

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President Trump holds a Press Conference (August 10,2017)
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University president warns of consequences of campus culture - "this is not a day care!"

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Leftist Thugs Destroy Govt Property,
No Police – New “Tolerant” Democrat South?
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{rickwells.us} ~ It defies logic to think that local police and officials weren’t aware of what was going on, as a sizable crowd of leftists gathered along with what are apparently some news media outlets to destroy public property, a civil war monument in Durham, NC... Increasingly protest in this country is defined as vandalism, destruction of property and lawlessness, as is the case here. The CBS affiliate described the leftist offenders as a “crowd of protesters,” although their primary objective seems to have clearly been to bring down the statue. Maybe they got all of the chanting out of their systems and needed a bigger rush. They don’t seem to be at all concerned about being arrested, which, coupled with a lack of a police response to vandalism on a government property, leads one to question whether the local and state Democrats had green-lighted the criminal activity. Just as was the case of the complicit Charlottesville mayor who ordered the police to stand down and created the violence, police were likely ordered not to intervene for political reasons...  http://rickwells.us/leftist-thugs-destroy-govt-property-no-police-new-tolerant-democrat-south/
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The Truth About the War in Ukraine
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by Nolan Peterson
{dailysignal.com} ~ In September 2014, I watched a tank battle from a hilltop in Mariupol, Ukraine. I toured that battlefield, the day the first cease-fire was signed, on Sept. 5, 2014... I witnessed a wasteland of charred, destroyed tanks, and armored personnel carriers. And scores of dead soldiers who reminded me of the plaster molds of the dead in Pompeii, the way they seemed to be frozen in the moment and the motion of their deaths. The conflict was then, and it remains today, a real war...  http://dailysignal.com/2017/08/10/truth-war-ukraine/?utm_source=TDS_Email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=MorningBell&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTmpnd1pUZ3lOREZsWTJGbSIsInQiOiJvTmFLQnZsaUpicXhQN0RYZ2FmaDdZenFVTjFiUVhna0FQeHZlZVpYQlwvWGtkVlwvU0U4MVNXUVdUaUMwV0hnSkkwMktKN1NjcTYyV1wvYTU4aVhTREw1VG9yd084UzJFMlo4U2pMSGVvcWsyaUJ4dGloR01MVmc5dUxmYTFvXC9XWXkifQ%3D%3D
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Here is Why the Violence is
Going to Escalate, And Escalate Quickly
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by Erick Erickson
{theresurgent.com} ~ There have been far more conservatives willing to call out the alt right than there have been progressives calling out the alt-left... Part of the left labeling all conservatives as bigots or enablers of bigots and all leftwing activists as moral crusaders includes prominent reporters in the mainstream media. Already, what happened in Charlottesville and its aftermath have received equal or more prominent coverage than James Hodgekinson's mass assassination attempt. Much of the press corps and major voices on the left see no difference between conservatives and white supremacists. To them, Russell Moore of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission is as much a bigot as Richard Spencer. Spencer, they think, wants to advance the white race, and Moore, they think, wants to advance Christofascist radicals. They have lost their ability to distinguish because they see anyone to right of them as equally awful...  http://theresurgent.com/here-is-why-the-violence-is-going-to-escalate-and-escalate-quickly/
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Dems’ DIXIE PURGE – First The Confederate
FLAG, Then STATUES, History And AMERICANS
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{rickwells.us} ~ The scheme is similar to the one Democrats successfully used to bring the Confederate Battle Flag out of public use throughout the south... In that instance, following a widely publicized racist attack in Charleston that permitted them to engineer an association between racism and the Confederate Flag, sellout state legislators were able to conspire with the complicit media to vilify southerners who viewed it as emblematic of their heritage. That point of view wasn’t allowed or respected. Anyone who valued the Confederate history was a smeared and labeled a racist and inevitably the weak kneed politicians joined in the assault on history and surrendered. The flags came down. Now the same political vermin have created a situation in Charlottesville that the left, from the moment sleazebag Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe gave his first speech on the topic, had designed to build public consensus against  the Democrats’ political opponents. It doesn’t matter that Democrats are the ones who have embraced slavery over the years, they’re much better liars than we are truth-tellers...  http://rickwells.us/dems-dixie-purge-first-confederate-flag-monuments-history-americans/
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The 'Poor Illegal' Media
Narrative and Why It's Not Working
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by Arthur Schaper
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townhall.com} ~ When I was training to be a teacher, my mentors taught me to be tough at the outset. I learned that to be lenient, to go by compassion rather than consistency, hurts everyone. No one learns anything. The rule of law makes learning, producing, and succeeding possible.

This lesson on learning and discipline illustrates the fundamental good that follows from our President enforcing our nation’s immigration laws. It is not compassionate to Americans or immigrants to allow illegal aliens to ignore our laws. The corruption rampant in Los Angeles County and throughout other major urban areas follows from the arbitrary disregard for our nation’s legal sovereignty and cultural integrity.

The liberal, marginalized national media still wants to push an illegal alien sob story narrative at all costs. Look over the list below of the latest sob stories the national readership endured over the past week and month:

California pastor caught in immigration enforcement net

Facing deportation, Oakland family pleads for more time

Dreams Deferred: Young Soccer Star, Brother Set for Deportation

Stay, Hide or Leave? Hard Choices for Immigrants in the Heartland

Immigrant heroes save lives

Not one of these headlines admit that those “immigrants” are actually illegal aliens. Like their rabid anti-Trump hatred, the liberal media is obsessively pushing a rigorous pro-amnesty narrative. They want everyone to believe: “Oh, the poor illegals! They haven’t done anything wrong! They’re just humble people doing their best.” Of course, the article about the California pastor did mention that he used multiple false identities to avoid capture and deportation.

Why is the media driven to bully Americans with this “illegal alien good; immigration enforcement bad” narrative? I get to read one sob story after another about immigrants who face deportation and have to struggle with difficult choices. One would think that American newspapers would talk about Americans and the issues affecting them, right? It’s crystal clear that the media wants to depict lawbreakers as tragic victims, even though these illegals have themselves to blame. Yes, we are supposed to condemn the Trump Administration as hard, uncompromising, and unkind executive overreach.

But it’s not working. Last week Ann Coulter wrote an excellent article about Donald Trump's immigration reform proposal--The RAISE Act: enact a point system, lower legal immigration, and put American workers first. Coulter pointed out that the media doesn't want to talk about the RAISE Act because they would have to connect why so many societal ills have exploded in this country: the rising suicide rate among working-class Americans, the raging opioid crisis throughout the country, as well as rising crime rates.

And yet I feel that Ann Coulter still didn't get to the real reasons why. Why is it that The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times and other major or what used to be major media outlets are so obsessed with promoting the sob stories of illegal aliens who now realize that they can no longer live in the United States without authorization? Why are we reading these stories?

I submit that the Trump-phobic, amnesty-pandering media publish these stories for the following reasons.

1. The Masters of the Universe running the media are attached to a left-wing, globalist worldview. As large corporate interests, they depend on a larger state and a larger government, which explains their essential hostility to the Trump Administration. Let's not forget that Mexican billionaire Hugo Slim has a major stake in The New York Times.

2. The new generation of journalists have been taught to be propagandists for left-wing causes. They have no profound historical perspective nor knowledge base. They are not objective reporters of fact but subjective propagandists—and they have been applauded for doing so.

3. Corporate interests want cheap labor. Therefore they want amnesty, they fight for open borders, and they want a flooded labor market to drive down labor costs. And guess what? They are the major ad purchasers for liberal media outlets. If these news organs want to print, they need ad revenue, which means any story showing illegal immigration in its proper, negative light gets killed.

4. But what about the conservative media elites who fret over the plight of illegal aliens but ignore the crises of working Americans? The Boston Globe columnist Jeff Jacoby wrote the fifth article listed above. His argument rests on a premise comparing illegal aliens to red-heads. Having red hair is not a crime. Entering the United States illegally is a crime. Jacoby’s argument is one of the most specious illogical and offensive I have read—and from a conservative! Charles Krauthammer has also caved, advocating for legal status for illegal aliens in the US, but not citizenship.

I have to surmise two reasons: they accept the white guilt narrative that America owes The Third World something. Perhaps the same media corporate donors are pressuring these “conservative” columnists. Perhaps they believe that a hard stance on immigration will cause conservatism to wane and lose future elections. Yet Donald Trump ran against that RNC Autopsy report in 2016 and won handily. Also, these columnists are white collar intelligentsia, and they do not experience the consequences of illegal immigration as the rest of us do.

Despite their best sob-story efforts, the liberal media cannot brainwash the nation on illegal immigration. President Trump’s proposed RAISE Act immigration policy secures our borders, ensures a pro-America labor market, and protects American values. Once again, Trump has trumped the progressive left’s media agenda.

Enough with the sob stories. If you break our laws, you pay the price. We have one rule of law, which must stand firm in the United States--and is the reason why so many seek our shores. We are a wonderful country where life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness are ample and available. Why? Because we are a nation of laws. President Trump's immigration policy is tough but fair; consistent and yet truly compassionate. Americans have a right to discourage any immigration policy which is partial, arbitrary, based on misplaced, fraudulent compassion.

https://townhall.com/columnists/arthurschaper/2017/08/14/the-poor-illegal-media-narrative-and-why-its-not-working-n2368158

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Tuesday Noon ~ TheFrontPageCover

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How ISIS nearly stumbled
on the ingredients for a 'dirty bomb'
by Joby Warrick & Loveday Morris
 
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Kessler Briefing Overrun By VIGILANTE MOB –
Again POLICE Protection INSUFFICIENT
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{rickwells.us} ~ If this is the kind of “protection” an obvious target of the radical violent left is provided by the Charlottesville Police, it’s not hard to imagine how little was done yesterday to ensure the safety of “Unite the Right” participants... When Governor Terry McAuliffe made his speech following the incident, placing the blame on his political enemies, he had overwhelming protection. Despite his history, and although he should be, he’s not the kind of target this man is. Through no fault of the individual officers, the response is inadequate. They’re not being allowed to do their jobs and their own safety is being put at risk in the process by their leadership. These same police who attempt to prevent attackers from physically assaulting and committing battery upon event organizer Jason Kessler as he was attempting to give a statement regarding the events, are the ones who were supposed to be guaranteeing the event’s participants’ safety the day before. The protection appears disorganized and significantly understaffed. The officers’ numbers are insufficient to permit them to take action against the any but the most violent of the leftists, who are once again clearly the aggressors...  http://rickwells.us/kessler-briefing-overrun-by-vigilante-mob-again-police-protection-insufficient/
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The U.S. House Votes against Studying Islamism
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by Clifford Smith
{meforum.org} ~ Politically, it is difficult to have an honest discussion about the difference between Islam, a religion with many interpretations, and radical Islamism, a totalitarian political ideology... In previous years, Sen. Ben Sasse, R-Neb., and now former Rep. Loretta Sanchez, D-Calif., have been criticized for remarks they made discussing this distinction, due to fear such distinctions were somehow "Islamophobic." Unfortunately, it seems that little has changed. Last month, by a vote of 208-217, the U.S. House of Representatives voted down an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) by Rep. Trent Franks (R-AZ), that would require the Defense Department to conduct "strategic assessments of the use of violent or unorthodox Islamic religious doctrine to support extremist or terrorist messaging and justification." The rejection of this amendment is disappointing on its merits. A better understanding of radical Islam would enhance our national security, and the Pentagon in particular could put these insights to use...  http://www.meforum.org/6867/franks-amendment-radical-islam?utm_source=Middle+East+Forum&utm_campaign=25e76d8320-smith_clifford_2017_08_14&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_086cfd423c-25e76d8320-33703665&goal=0_086cfd423c-25e76d8320-33703665
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Budget Experts Call for ‘Bold
Leadership’ to Cut National Debt
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by Katrina Willis
{dailysignal.com} ~ Politicians continue to put their interests first in ignoring looming consequences to the massive and growing U.S. national debt, experts on the economy said at a recent forum... “We are facing the largest, most predictable crisis in U.S. history, and almost nobody is talking about it,” warned Romina Boccia, deputy director of economic policy studies at The Heritage Foundation. “We need bold leadership,” Boccia said. “The numbers are really terrifying,” Brian M. Riedl, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, said of the mounting debt that is nearing $20 trillion, adding:...  http://dailysignal.com/2017/08/11/budget-experts-call-for-bold-leadership-to-cut-national-debt/
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OPEC Members Continue Non-compliance
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by Bob Adelmann
{thenewamerican.com} ~ The Paris-based International Energy Agency (IEA) noted in its latest report released on Friday that non-compliance among OPEC’s members, and those non-members who also agreed to cut oil production, increased again in July... Non-compliance is the death knell for any cartel, and OPEC is no exception. Specifically, non-compliance among the cartel’s members rose to 25 percent in July, the highest since the agreement was inked in January. Among non-OPEC members who signed on to that agreement, non-compliance was at 33 percent in July. Put another way, the cartel — both its members and its cooperating non-members — hoped to reduce crude oil production by enough to bring the world supply/demand equation into “balance.” That “balance” is supposed to happen when world crude supplies decline to a five-year average of around 2.7 billion barrels... https://www.thenewamerican.com/tech/energy/item/26686-opec-members-continue-non-compliance
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Unite The Right’s KESSLER Working
With SOROS, liar-nOBAMA To Ignite Conflict?
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{rickwells.us} ~ It is interesting that the organizer of the Unite the Right event in Charlottesville has a past that may include political positions at the opposite end of the spectrum... involvement with Occupy Wall Street and support for former pretend ‘president’ Hussein liar-nObama. While the Soros-funded Southern Poverty Law Center is not an objective source, it is noteworthy that they have come out and potentially exposed what would be an operative for the same left they advocate for, conducting an undercover provocation operation as an agent provocateur. That conflict in itself demands a skeptical eye in evaluating what is going on...  http://rickwells.us/unite-rights-kessler-working-soros-obama-ignite-conflict/
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How ISIS nearly stumbled
on the ingredients for a 'dirty bomb'
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by Joby Warrick & Loveday Morris
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jewishworldreview.com} ~ On the day the Islamic State overran the Iraqi city of Mosul in 2014, it laid claim to one of the greatest weapons bonanzas ever to fall to a terrorist group: a large metropolis dotted with military bases and garrisons stocked with guns, bombs, rockets and even battle tanks.

But the most fearsome weapon in Mosul on that day was never used by the terrorists. Only now is it becoming clear what happened to it.

Locked away in a storage room on a Mosul college campus were two caches of cobalt-60, a metallic substance with lethally high levels of radiation. When contained within the heavy shielding of a radiotherapy machine, cobalt-60 is used to kill cancer cells. In terrorists' hands, it is the core ingredient of a "dirty bomb," a weapon that could be used to spread radiation and panic.

Western intelligence agencies were aware of the cobalt and watched anxiously for three years for signs that the militants might try to use it. Those concerns intensified in late 2014 when Islamic State officials boasted of obtaining radioactive material, and again early last year when the terrorists took over laboratories at the same Mosul college campus with the apparent aim of building new kinds of weapons.

In Washington, independent nuclear experts drafted papers and ran calculations about the potency of the cobalt and the extent of the damage it could do. The details were kept under wraps on the chance that Mosul's occupiers might not be fully aware of what they had.

Iraqi military commanders were apprised of the potential threat as they battled Islamic State fighters block by block through the sprawling complex where the cobalt was last seen. Finally, earlier this year, government officials entered the bullet-pocked campus building and peered into the storage room where the cobalt machines were kept.

They were still there, exactly as they were when the Islamic State seized the campus in 2014. The cobalt apparently had never been touched.

"They are not that smart," a relieved health ministry official said of the city's former occupiers.

Why the Islamic State failed to take advantage of their windfall is not clear. U.S. officials and nuclear experts speculate that the terrorists may have been stymied by a practical concern: how to dismantle the machines' thick cladding without exposing themselves to a burst of deadly radiation.

More certain is the fact that the danger has not entirely passed. With dozens of Islamic State stragglers still loose in the city, U.S. officials requested that details about the cobalt's current whereabouts not be revealed.

They also acknowledged that their worries extend far beyond Mosul. Similar equipment exists in hundreds of cities around the world, some of them in conflict zones.

"Nearly every country in the world either has them, or is a transit country" through which high-level radiological equipment passes, said Andrew Bieniawski, a vice president for the Washington-based Nuclear Threat Initiative who once led U.S. government efforts to safeguard such materials.

"This," he said, "is a global problem."

The worries began within hours of the Islamic State's stunning blitz into Iraq's second-largest city.

As TV networks showed footage of triumphant terrorists parading through Mosul's main thoroughfares, intelligence agencies took quiet inventory of the vast array of military and material wealth the Islamist militants had suddenly acquired. The list included three Iraqi military bases, each supplied with U.S.-made weapons and vehicles. It also included bank vaults containing hundreds of millions of dollars in hard currency, as well as factories for making munitions and university laboratories for mixing chemicals used in explosives or as precursors for poison gas.

U.S. officials also were aware that the Islamic State had gained control of small quantities of natural or low-enriched uranium - the remnants of Iraq's nuclear projects from the time of Saddam Hussein's presidency - as well as some relatively harmless radioactive iridium used in industrial equipment.

But a far bigger radiological concern was the cobalt. Intelligence agencies knew of the existence in Mosul of at least one powerful radiotherapy machine used for cancer treatment, one that could potentially provide the Islamic State with a potent terrorist weapon.

Outside experts were becoming aware of the threat, as well.

In 2015, the Institute for Science and International Security, a nonprofit organization in Washington that monitors global nuclear threats, began conducting research to answer the basic questions: How many machines were in Mosul? Where were they deployed? And exactly how powerful were they?

The group obtained documents showing that two different medical centers in Mosul had obtained cobalt-60 machines in the 1980s. Other records showed that at least one of the devices was in active use as recently as 2008, and in the following year Iraqi officials had sought replacement parts, including new cobalt-60 cores, for both.

From the records, the institute's experts could draw broad conclusions about the cobalt inside the machines. In a draft report written in November 2015, research fellow Sarah Burkhard calculated that the radioactive cores, when new, contained about nine grams of pure cobalt-60 with a potency of more than 10,000 curies - a standard measure of radioactivity. A person standing three feet from the unshielded core would receive a fatal dose of radiation in less than three minutes.

The institute quietly shared its findings with U.S. intelligence and military officials in late 2015 but declined to publish its report, fearing that Islamic State occupiers would benefit from the information. The Washington Post became aware of the report last year but agreed to a U.S. government request to delay writing about it until after Mosul's liberation.

Because cobalt-60 decays over time, the potency of the Mosul machines' 30-year-old cobalt cores would have been far less than when the equipment was new, but still enough to deliver a lethal dose at close range, the report said.

David Albright, the president of the institute, noted that groups such as the Islamic State have long discussed the possibility of using such material in a dirty bomb, a simple device that uses conventional explosives to spread radioactive debris across densely populated urban terrain. Such a bomb would probably not cause large numbers of casualties, but it can be enormously effective, he said, as a weapon of terrorism.

"The worst case would have been the Islamic State widely dispersing the radioactive cobalt in a city, causing panic and an expensive, disruptive cleanup," said Albright, a nuclear weapons expert and former U.N. weapons inspector. "There would likely not have been that many deaths, but the panic could have been profound, leading to the emptying of parts of the city as residents fled, fearful of the effects of radiation."

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There was one question that U.S. officials and private researchers could never conclusively answer during the months of Islamic State occupation: Where was the cobalt exactly?

In strife-torn Mosul, there were no publicly available records about the city's two radiotherapy machines since 2008, when one of them was mentioned in a scholarly article. The last known addresses were a teaching hospital and a cancer-treatment clinic, both on the western side of the city, in neighborhoods that were heavily contested by Islamic State fighters and were among the last to fall to Iraqi liberators.

Finally, recently, Iraqi officials offered an explanation, saying that both machines had been in Mosul throughout the Islamic State's occupation, but not in the places where the terrorists might have thought to look for them. They had been placed out of commission for several years because of a lack of parts and had been put in storage in a building owned by the University of Mosul, somewhere in the city's eastern side.

They were still there when health officials from Nineveh province went to look for them after that sector of the city was secure, said Laith Hababa, a physician and head of the provincial health ministry.

The machines are now in secure storage and "weren't used by Daesh," Hababa said, using a common Arabic acronym for the Islamic State.

U.S. officials and nuclear experts expressed relief over what, by all accounts, had been a near-miss. Some speculated that the terrorists never learned of the whereabouts of the machines, although that explanation seemed unlikely, given the terrorists' efficiency in looting university buildings across the city.

Albright said the task of removing the cobalt cores may have been viewed as too difficult or too risky. Or maybe the group's commanders were just too busy, especially during the later months of the occupation, as government troops closed in.

"Its leaders were preoccupied elsewhere," Albright said, "and [perhaps] did not learn about the sources in Mosul, or have a chance to think through the opportunities."

Leaders of the Islamic State and al-Qaida are known to have sought materials for a dirty bomb, a threat that has added urgency to efforts by U.S. agencies and private groups to improve security for machines with heavy concentrations of cobalt-60, or other radioactive elements such as cesium-137, which comes in a powdery form that is even easier to disperse.

The machines are a necessary fixture in many cancer clinics around the world, but in Western countries efforts are underway to replace the most dangerous models with new technology that cannot be easily exploited by terrorists, said Bieniawski, the former Energy Department official. His organization, the Nuclear Threat Initiative, has raised money to try to speed up the transition, but for now, he said, older machines such as the ones in Mosul are commonly found in developing countries where the risk of theft or terrorism is greatest.

"The ones we see overseas are in the highest category - the highest levels of curies - and they are also portable," he said. "They are exactly the ones we are most worried about."
 
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4064436172?profile=original                            THANK CARTER ANC CLINTON FOR NORTH KOREA’S NUKES

 

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                                                                       Daniel John Sobieski

 

If there is anything positive about the crisis about North Korea, it is that we don’t have a President Hillary Clinton dealing with it.  The wannabe first female president, if you don’t count Obama aide Valerie Jarrett, who orchestrated the disaster in the Middle East, would no doubt have the advice of William Jefferson Clinton, the commander-in-chief who is the godfather of North Korea’s nuclear program and the winner of the Neville Chamberlain Lifetime Appeasement Award.

Between the two of them they have royally mucked up the word. Hillary was there when President Obama precipitously withdrew from Iraq, creating the vacuum ISIS filled,  and drew the red line in Syria with vanishing ink. She is the architect of the Libyan venture that turned Libya into a failed state and Benghazi a graveyard for four heroic Americans.

As for her husband,  Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter must be very proud. Their policy of appeasement of North Korea’s brutal dictatorship has now borne rotten fruit with the little fat boy, Kim Jong Un, now able to threaten the

world with horrors similar to those imposed on his own people.

When Clinton first learned of the North Korean nuclear program in 1994, a surgical strike against its Yoingbyomg reactor might have sufficed to send Pyongyang a message that a nuclear North Korea was unacceptable.

Instead Clinton allowed Jimmy Carter to engage in some private foreign policy and jet off to the last Stalinist regime on earth to broker a deal whereby North Korea would promise to forego a nuclear weapons program in exchange for a basket of goodies that included oil, fool, and, amazingly, nuclear technology.

Along the way, Carter praised North Korea’s mass-murdering dictator as a “vigorous and intelligent man.” And of North Korea itself, Carter said of this habitat for inhumanity,“I don’t see they are an outlaw nation.” Of course, the man who gave us the ayatollahs in Iran didn’t. That wouldn’t stop him from getting the Nobel Peace Prize. As Jonah Goldberg wrote in October, 2002:

Let's start with the Nobel Peace Prize Committee. On Oct. 11, the Nobel committee announced it would award its Peace Prize to Jimmy Carter. It was really an un-Peace Prize for George W. Bush, whom the Nobel crowd believes is a foolish warmongering meanie.

"In a situation currently marked by threats of the use of power," intoned the Nobel press release, "Carter has stood by the principles that conflicts must as far as possible be resolved through mediation and international cooperation based on international law, respect for human rights and economic development." Translation: Bush should be more like Carter….

… it was brother Jimmy who had the bright idea of lavishing the North Koreans with aid in exchange for their "cross-our-hearts-and-hope-to-die" promise that they would stop pursuing nuclear weapons technology. Of course, many argue it was Carter's mollycoddling of the North Koreans during his presidency that encouraged them to start their nuclear program to begin with. But hey, that's heavy water under the bridge….

The final agreement, which Clinton dubbed "a very good deal indeed," called for the United States to provide the North Koreans with $4 billion worth of light-water reactors and $100 million in oil in exchange for a promise to be good and an assurance that inspectors would be allowed to poke around at some indeterminate point down the road.

The rest, as they say, is history. Clinton, relieved perhaps that he would not have to use the military he once loathed, leapt on this deal as if it were a White House intern. In exchange for a promise to be good, Clinton accepted Carter’s deal and agreed to provide the nation that spends a quarter of its GNP on its military while its people starve in a gulag some $4 billion in economic assistance, including oil and light-water nuclear reactors.

Upon completing what became known as the “Agreed Framework” in 1994, Clinton praised it the same way Chamberlain praised the Munich deal with Nazi Germany:

At the time, Mr Clinton said: “This US-North Korean agreement will help to achieve a long-standing and vital American objective: an end to the threat of nuclear proliferation on the Korean peninsula.

“This agreement is good for the United States, good for our allies, and good for the safety of the entire world.

“It’s a crucial step toward drawing North Korea into the global community.”

Gee, where did we hear this before? Ah, yes, Neville Chamberlain, 1938, proclaiming peace in our time.

In 1998, a week after Clinton’s military chief of staff assured Congress that North Korea had no active ballistic missile program, Pyongyang launched a Taepodong ICBM over the Japanese home islands. Instead of blasting the launch sites, within two months Clinton sent North Korea another multi-million dollar aid package and reopened bilateral negotiations.

Robert Kaufmann, professor of public policy at Pepperdine University, said of the agreement Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton engineered:

"The North Korean deal of 1994 is the prototype for why open societies should not negotiate arms control agreements with rogue regimes. The North Koreans duped Jimmy Carter — an emissary of Clinton — and the Clinton administration to subsidize the North Korean nuclear program in exchange for the counterfeit promise that North Korea would limit itself to civilian nuclear power."

President Obama’ eight years of “strategic patience” sealed the deal. Unfortunately, his nuclear deal with Iran is the 1994 Framework deal with North Korea on steroids. Ironically, North Korea and Iran have worked hand-in-glove to develop the missile technology to deliver nukes. Now it has $150 billion and Obama’s blessing to test the missiles to deliver the nukes we may only have delayed the development of.

Once again we have negotiated an arms agreement with a rogue regime. Whatever transpires with North Lorea, Iran is coming up fast as a threat. And we all have Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton to thank for setting the precedent.

 

          Daniel John Sobieski is a free lance writer whose pieces have appeared in Investor’s Business Daily, Human Events, Reason Magazine and the Chicago Sun-Times among other publications.               

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AUSTRIA: Iraqi Christian woman warns that if Austria continues to cave to all the demands of these Muslim so-called “refugees,” it will become another Afghanistan in 20 years

( Muslims do nmot assimilate! They infiltrate! )

Because she speaks Arabic (and doesn’t tell them she is a Christian), the newly arrived Muslims tell her that the kind of religious freedom they have in Austria will make it easy to spread Islam with the ultimate goal of turning Austria into an Islamic state.

Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iblYsoDMtmk

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UK: MUSLIM Mayor of Oldham by Manchester mandates all council meetings begin with Islamic prayer

( Muslims do not assimilate! They infiltrate! )

What’s next? Councilwomen ordered to wear Islamic headbags? Notice how the majority of council members do not appear to be Muslim, so why doesn’t anyone object? Lemmings.

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