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Senate Blocks Trump From Making Recess Appointments Over Break

( the only way to put a stop to this Cluster F--K IS IF THE THE FREE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICAN do something about it these Republicans and  Socialist Democrats will never do it we must do it is our duty to FREEDOM as a FREE PEOPLE! This mess gets worst every day!  we must start to get ready for Nov. 8th 2018 Election NOW! )

Principles for a free society

The Senate blocked President Trump from being able to make recess appointments on Thursday as lawmakers leave Washington for their summer break.

Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), doing wrap up for the entire Senate, locked in nine “pro-forma” sessions — brief meetings that normally last roughly a minute.

The move, which requires the agreement of every senator, means the Senate will be in session every three business days throughout the August recess.

The Senate left D.C. on Thursday evening with most lawmakers not expected to return to Washington until after Labor Day.

Senators were scheduled to be in town through next week, but staffers and senators predicted they would wrap up a few remaining agenda items and leave Washington early. (Read more from “Senate Blocks Trump From Making Recess Appointments Over Break” HERE) http://joemiller.us/2017/08/senate-blocks-trump-making-recess-appointments-break/

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Friday AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
~ Featuring ~
Procter & Gamble's Identity-Politics Pandering
by Michelle Malkin
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 Unpacking the Unmasking Scandal 
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Almost immediately after Donald Trump won the election, Democrats and their cohorts in the mainstream media began pushing the narrative of a Trump/Russia collusion conspiracy. The Leftmedia ran story after story of leaked information from various government sources, spun in such a way as to imply that it was only a matter of time before Trump was found guilty of colluding with Vladimir Putin. Some of the leaked information contained the names of Trump campaign personnel, with the biggest and most damaging being that of former National Security Advisor Mike Flynn. He was forced to resign, but questions emerged about the intelligence community and "unmasking" after Trump tweeted that Barack liar-nObama had "wiretapped" his phones.
          Suddenly, questions were being asked about this unfamiliar practice. What was it, and who had the authority to do it? It was learned that the names of Americans who had been incidentally caught in intelligence surveillance of a foreign individual were to be redacted in order to protect their Fourth Amendment rights. Unmasking was the practice where special authorization was given by the appropriate authority to un-redact the name of an American caught up in surveillance. The rules for unmasking were created in 1992 and stipulated that only the director of the CIA could authorize an unmasking after providing a written reason for doing so.
          Fast forward to 2013, when James Clapper, head of the National Security Agency at the time, issued a revision to the procedures for unmasking. The updated procedures effectively made it easier for executive branch officials to unmask the names of lawmakers or congressional staffers who had been caught up in intelligence intercepts overseas. On the surface, it may appear that Clapper's reasoning for the revision was politically motivated, but there's far more to the story that is not nearly so nefarious. To put it simply, Clapper seems to have been primarily motivated by a desire to bring the official unmasking guidelines up to date with the current practice. Over the years, unmasking procedures had unofficially evolved — significantly so since 9/11. Clapper's revision did little to change the widely accepted and practiced unmasking procedures; it simply made those practices official.
          Yet while Clapper's motives may not have been politically calculated, it is clear that the liar-nObama administration took advantage of the rule changes as the number of unmaskings increased significantly following the revisions. As an intelligence official familiar with the rule changes stated, "We understood we were more than doubling the universe of those who could make special requests outside the normal de-minimization process and that language was added to ensure we did not accidentally create downstream leaking of information." And this is where the scandal lies. Who within the liar-nObama administration was responsible for leaking the information "downstream"?  ~The Patriot Post
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Dobbs, Napolitano – What GAME Is SESSIONS
Playing? No INDICTMENTS of Criminal DEMS
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{rickwells.us} ~ Lou Dobbs points out that new documents are revealing “liar-nObama administration efforts to unmask long before Donald Trump began running for President.”... He describes how pathological liar and former DNI James Clapper “revised government rules back in 2013, according to John Solomon, reporting in ‘The Hill.’ Clapper made it easier for the executive branch to unmask names of lawmakers or congressional staffers caught up in intelligence intercepts overseas.” Dobbs brings in Judge Andrew Napolitano who believes the changing of the unmasking rules may have been done for political purposes, not for national security, which, if it could be proven, would be a felony. He takes the revised rules in combination with another rule change initiated by Loretta Lynch at the behest of Hussein liar-nObama to tremendously broaden the distribution of unmasked information... http://rickwells.us/dobbs-napolitano-game-sessions-playing-no-indictments-criminal-dems/
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Debt Ceiling Debate Charade Begins, Again
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by Bob Adelmann
{thenewamerican.com} ~ Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin warned Congress in a letter sent Friday that they had precious little time to raise the federal government’s debt ceiling before his department ran out of money... He even put a date on when that would happen if the ceiling wasn’t raised: "Based upon our available information, I believe that it is critical that Congress act to increase the nation’s borrowing authority by September 29." That’s the day before the end of the government’s fiscal year, and closely coincides with the moment when the Treasury will be unable to pay the government’s bills. The Treasury’s cash balances are expected to drop close to $25 billion in September, dangerously low when compared to the government’s budget of $4 trillion. Mnuchin no doubt is referring to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report released in June that reminded citizens that the debt limit of $19.8 trillion was reached in March and that the Treasury Department has been using “extraordinary measures”... https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/congress/item/26613-debt-ceiling-debate-charade-begins-again
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Citing Indefinite Detention
Without Trial, Sen. Paul Delays NDAA
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by Alex Newman
{thenewamerican.com} ~ In an effort to secure protections for the U.S. Constitution and the inalienable rights of Americans, Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.) last week blocked a controversial effort by Senate leaders to advance the giant National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA)... The effort is expected to delay the bill until at least September. Big Government-supporting “Republicans in Name Only” (RINOs), globalists, and neocons hoping to rush the bill through without discussion, such as Senator John RINO-McCain (R-Ariz.), were outraged by the move. But among liberty-minded Americans, Paul's efforts to protect constitutional liberties received widespread praise. Specifically, Senator Paul is hoping to add two important amendments to the NDAA. The first one would prohibit the indefinite detention of American citizens by the military or other arms of the federal government, something Congress purported to authorize in 2012 in a previous NDAA. The other amendment being sought by the liberty-minded Kentucky senator deals with the so-called “Authorizations for the Use of Military Force.”... https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/constitution/item/26611-citing-indefinite-detention-sen-paul-delays-ndaa
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Kellyanne Conway Could Be Getting A Promotion
by Jason Hopkins
{westernjournalism.com} ~ White House adviser and former Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway could become the next White House communications director, an executive branch source told the The Daily Caller. .. The report came just hours after news broke that former communications director Anthony Scaramucci was let go from his position just 10 days into the job. The White House has not commented on rumors that Conway is being considered for the role of communications director.  http://www.westernjournalism.com/kellyanne-conway-rumored-getting-promotion/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=patriottribune&utm_campaign=dailypm&utm_content=libertyalliance
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Samantha Power Had No Legitimate Reason
To Unmask – So Why The 100s Of Requests?
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{rickwells.us} ~ It’s difficult to imagine a situation where a United States UN Ambassador would have a reason to unmask an American citizen in the normal course of their duties... One would expect that legitimate matters important enough to rise to the level of international relations and the attention of the Ambassador would have already resulted in all parties being identified by the security agencies involved prior to being presented to our UN Ambassador. That would probably be the case for legitimate unmaskings, but there’s no indication that any of the hundreds of requests made by Samantha Power in the last year of the liar-nObama regime and her tenure as UN Ambassador are in any way legitimate... http://rickwells.us/samantha-power-no-legitimate-reason-unmask-100s-requests/
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Procter & Gamble's Identity-Politics Pandering
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by Michelle Malkin
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townhall.com} ~ Once upon a time, brothers-in-law William Procter and James Gamble sold candles and soap. Their 19th-century family business grew into the largest consumer goods conglomerate in the world -- launching the most recognizable brands on our grocery shelves, including Tide, Pampers, Crest, Nyquil and Old Spice.

Now, Procter & Gamble want to conquer a new market: identity-politics pandering.

Industry marketers aren't satisfied with selling useful products people want and need. They're hell-bent on transforming successful businesses into social justice busybodies.

P&G's "My Black is Beautiful" campaign released a new video last week called, "The Talk." It "depicts the inevitable conversations many Black parents have with their children about racial bias to prepare, protect and encourage them" across the decades. The ad plays as a kinder, gentler version of Black Lives Matter propaganda, but the underlying themes are the same:

--Little progress has been made since the days of Jim Crow.

--Racial discrimination against black Americans is inevitable.

--Police officers are the enemy.

One especially offensive scene depicts a suburban black mom preparing her bubbly teenage daughter, a new driver, for "when you get pulled over." Not "if," you see, but "when."

As the daughter laughs her off, the mom gravely warns: "This is not about you getting a ticket. This is about you not coming home."

Because racist predator cops lurk on every corner, plotting to kidnap and kill black girls just trying to get to Forever 21? Really, Procter & Gamble?

Way to alienate the millions of law enforcement families -- of all colors -- who purchase your goods.

Naturally, media virtue signalers lavished praise on the corporate virtue signalers. It's a veritable virtue signaling bacchanalia.

Adweek raved that the video was "powerful." The Dallas Morning News cooed:

"The ad is a bold move, and the fact that a Fortune 100 company includes this cultural experience in an ad campaign not only acknowledges that the experience is real, but that it's important to a mass audience."

Yes, racial discrimination still exists. Yes, parents of all races and ethnicities must expose their children to hard truths about people who will judge them by their skin color, eye shape, socioeconomic status, physical stature and IQ instead of by their character.

But if inclusion, diversity and candid talk are such cherished values at P&G, when will they be airing bold videos about the brutal treatment Asian-American high school students have suffered at the hands of bigoted black students in Philadelphia over the past decade?

Or about the targeting of young female Asian Americans and elderly Asian-American crime victims by black gang members in New York and San Francisco?

Or on the long-simmering tensions between blacks and Latinos and blacks and Koreans in Los Angeles?

Or how about decrying the prejudice against multiracial children who are mocked for looking "too white"? Talk to black basketball star, Mike Conley, who was forced to fend off haters this week who attacked his white wife and their biracial 1-year-old baby.

Or how about monstrous, race-based hate crimes such as the kidnapping and assault of a mentally disabled white teenage boy by black thugs in Chicago who tortured him and forced him to declare on video "I love black people" and "F--- white people"?

Or how about the increasingly vile campaigns on college campuses celebrating a "Day Without White People," stereotyping diverse individuals under the dread banner of "white privilege," condemning those who believe in color-blindness as "unethical," and separating minorities into racially segregated dorms, classes and graduation ceremonies in the name of social justice?

P&G should stand for quality consumer goods, not empty Protest & Grumble that divides more than it unites.

If P&G isn't willing to tackle the full complexity of race relations in 21st-century America, perhaps the company should stick to selling diapers instead of filling them.
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By Craig Andresen – Right Side Patriots on American Political Radio

gift-1.jpg?width=234We all remember the shrimp on the treadmill…right?

That tiny, tasty crustacean, running his ass off on that little treadmill under water became a You Tube sensation once it was revealed that the U.S. government spent…HOW MUCH…on that particular study?

$682,570.00.

That’s like a gym membership, a personal trainer, a house full of gym equipment so that you could ignore the gym altogether even though you had the membership, a new car, a boat, and a really nice new house in many parts of this great country…

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Thursday PM ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
~ Featuring ~
Randi Goliath
by Larry Sand
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 Top Headlines 
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"Affordable health care"? Some insurers seek ACA premium increases of 30% and higher. (Paywall — The Wall Street Journal)
 
Senate confirms Christopher Wray as FBI director in 92-5 vote. (The Washington Times)
 
Congressional investigation into Wasserman Schultz IT scandal moves forward. (The Washington Free Beacon)
 
Justice Dept. may look into universities' affirmative action policies. (The Hill)
 
Attorney general set to block millions in funding to sanctuary cities. (The Daily Signal)
 
Retired generals, admirals thank Trump for announcing ban on transgender troops. (The Washington Times)
 
Tillerson and Graham play good cop, bad cop with North Korea. (Washington Examiner)
 
Apple appeasing Communist Chinese regulators as CEO Tim Cook hits Trump. (The Washington Free Beacon)
 
South Carolina nuclear plants scrapped, billions invested and lost. (Associated Press)
 
YouTube announces "limited state" for videos that include "controversial" content. (Hot Air)
 
Policy: Climate change isn't the end of the world. (Paywall — The Wall Street Journal)
 
Policy: There really is no "gender wage gap"; there's a "gender earnings gap." (American Enterprise Institute) 
~The Patriot Post
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President Trump, Senator Cotton and
David Perdue Introduce The RAISE Act
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{theconservativetreehouse.com} ~ Earlier today President Trump introduced a new immigration policy proposal for legal entry into the U.S. known as the RAISE Act. The RAISE Act eliminates the outdated Diversity Visa lottery system... which serves questionable economic and humanitarian interests. The RAISE Act replaces the current permanent employment-visa framework with a skills-based system that rewards applicants based on their individual merits. As a candidate, I campaigned on creating a merit-based immigration system that protects U.S. workers and taxpayers — and that is why we are here today. Merit-based... https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2017/08/02/president-trump-senator-cotton-and-david-perdue-introduce-the-raise-act/
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New York Congressman Demands
Investigation Into Iranian Funding of US Universities
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by Ben Cohen
{pamelageller.com} ~ A New York congressman is urging US Education Secretary Betsy DeVos to investigate the funneling of millions of dollars by an Iranian regime-controlled foundation... to Ivy League universities, including Harvard, Columbia and Princeton. “Did this foundation attempt to subvert American academic institutions?” Rep. Dan Donovan (R-NY), who represents the Staten Island borough, asked concerning the donations from the New York City-based Alavi Foundation, which critics say have funded anti-Israel and pro-Iran academics. “We need to investigate this, and universities have to do a better job of vetting their donors,” Donovan said on Tuesday...http://pamelageller.com/2017/08/iran-funding-us-universities.html/
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China Carries Out Flight
Test of Anti-Satellite Missile
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by Bill Gertz
{freebeacon.com} ~ China recently carried out a flight test of a new anti-satellite missile that highlights the growing threat of Beijing's space warfare capabilities... The flight test of the Dong Neng-3 direct ascent missile was tracked by U.S. intelligence agencies on July 23 from China's Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Inner Mongolia, in northwestern China, said U.S. defense officials familiar with reports of the launch. The officials said the launch was not successful and the DN-3 appeared to malfunction in the upper atmosphere after the launch at night... http://freebeacon.com/national-security/china-carries-flight-test-anti-satellite-missile/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=c8e7130349-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_08_02&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-c8e7130349-45611665
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Decision reached in Sheriff
Joe Arpaio’s criminal trial
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by Kat Shepherd
{dennismichaellynch.com} ~ On Monday, a U.S. district court judge found former Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio guilty of criminal contempt. According to the decision, Arpaio willfully violated a federal judge’s order to stop racial profiling... The charge originated with a 2011 court order issued by U.S. District Court Judge Murray Snow. The order required the Maricopa County sheriff to not racially profile Latinos in his office. Arpaio is reported to have disobeyed the order. Arpaio said that any disobedience was unintentional, but Snow decided Arpaio defied the order to help win his reelection in 2012... http://dennismichaellynch.com/decision-reached-sheriff-joe-arpaios-criminal-trial/
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Stephen Miller Wipes The Floor With
CNN Belligerent Acosta On Immigration
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{rickwells.us} ~ Fake News CNN’s Jim Acosta is in the press briefings for one purpose and that is to create conflict. He isn’t there to ask insightful, probing questions, or to enlighten their viewers... He’s there to disrupt the proceedings, try to twist the message into something negative and make someone look bad. The person who looked the worst in this exchange, by far, was the belligerent himself. Stephen Miller, President Trump’s senior adviser for policy, held a press briefing for the purpose of rolling out the new immigration RAISE Act to the press, to offer an explanation to the media and thereby to the American people. Miller made an apparent, well-advised attempt to shut out Acosta, not that the rest of the media is much better, ultimately making his the last question he took. Acosta would have been better off if he’d have been skipped over... http://rickwells.us/stephen-miller-wipes-the-floor-with-cnn-belligerent-acosta-on-immigration/
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Randi Goliath
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by Larry Sand
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city-journal.org} ~ It’s hardly news that teachers’ union honchos oppose any type of school choice, especially the kind that lets public money follow a child to a public school. But while making her case recently, American Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten descended down a rabbit hole.

It started with an event on “school vouchers and racism” hosted by the AFT and the Center for American Progress, a leftist research and advocacy organization financially supported by both the AFT and the National Education Association. CAP had just released a report claiming that educational vouchers were born in the effort by Southern states to resist racial integration after the Supreme Court’s 1954 Brown v. Topeka Board of Education ruling. In what segregationists termed “massive resistance,” Virginia’s Prince Edward County closed its public schools in 1959, and then gave vouchers to white families, which were used to pay tuition at segregated private schools. This ugly case represents the “sordid history of school vouchers,” as CAP sees it—conveniently overlooking the G.I. Bill, the country’s first significant voucher program, which was signed into law in 1944, 15 years before Prince Edward County’s gambit.

Taking the podium just a few days after the release of the CAP report, Weingarten declared that the ideas and proposals of school-voucher advocates were “only slightly more polite cousins of segregation.” She described the powerful teachers’ unions as “defenders of America’s public education system,” locked in a “David versus Goliath battle, and in this battle, we are all David.”

Weingarten’s outrageous comments did not sit well with school-choice advocates. Jeanne Allen, president of the Center for Education Reform, called Weingarten’s speech “not just ill-advised hyperbole, it is a deeply offensive, highly inflammatory insult to all the parents and people—of all races, backgrounds, and regions—who have worked to bring options, opportunities and reforms to an education system that has failed them for generations.” Kevin Chavous, founding board member of the American Federation for Children, said that Weingarten’s comments “spat in the face of every African-American and Hispanic child who’s trapped in a school that doesn’t serve him or her well.”

While Weingarten cites the segregationists of Prince Edward County, she declines to mention labor unions’ own racist history. As Herbert Hill wrote in Commentary in 1959, in various industries “trade unions practice either total exclusion of the Negro, segregation in the form of ‘Jim Crow’ locals, or ‘auxiliaries’, or enforce separate, racial seniority lines which limit Negro employment to menial and unskilled classifications. . . .  In the South, unions frequently acted to force Negroes out of jobs that had formerly been considered theirs.” Racism in unions was historically a much greater factor than it has ever been in the voucher movement.

Weingarten also ignores the popularity of private-school choice among minorities, the ostensible victims of these supposedly racist voucher programs. She is mum on the latest report from EdChoice’s Greg Forster, who regularly surveys the empirical research on private-school-choice programs. “Ten empirical studies have examined school choice and racial segregation in schools,” he writes. “Of those, nine find school choice moves students from more segregated schools into less segregated schools, and one finds no net effect on segregation. No empirical study has found that choice increases racial segregation.” Think Progress, a progressive news site associated with CAP, reports that American public schools are more segregated now than they were in 1968.

Indeed, government- and union-run schools are much more segregated than the voucher schools that Weingarten disdains. “Less recognized, but equally pernicious, is the structural segregation all across America, where zoned school systems maintain racial and economic segregation,” writes Peter Cunningham, who worked at the Department of Education during the liar-nObama administration. Cunningham also pointed out that New York City, where Weingarten formerly ran the teachers’ union, has one of the nation’s most segregated school systems.

Weingarten engaged in a telling Twitter exchange with her nemesis, Education secretary Betsy DeVos. “@BetsyDeVosED says public $ should invest in indiv students,” Weingarten wrote. “NO we should invest in a system of great public schools for all kids.” DeVos fired back: “They have made clear that they care more about a system—one that was created in the 1800s—than about individual students. They are saying that education is not an investment in individual students. They are totally wrong.” Weingarten and her cronies are more interested in keeping the government-union duopoly in place than in educating children. Protecting the system takes priority.

Responding to critics of her speech, Weingarten held her ground. “The negative reaction to the speech has been completely ideological, with personal invectives thrown at me, which reinforces my point that no amount of facts or evidence will sway voucher proponents from their agenda to starve public schools to the breaking point, then criticize their deficiencies and let the market handle the rest, all in the name of choice,” she said.

Weingarten has reason to be worried: with a pro-school-choice education secretary and looming Supreme Court decisions that could eradicate forced unionism and eliminate laws that states have used to thwart vouchers and other privatization programs, teachers’ unions face a considerable loss of power.

What Weingarten and her allies consistently overlook is that wealthy people will always have school choice. Parents of means can afford to move to an area with a superior public school, or they can send their kids to a private school. Poor parents don’t have these options, primarily because teachers’ unions fight furiously to prevent educational choice. It is no small irony that the organization howling loudest about racial inequality in education campaigns against the one policy that has been shown to ameliorate it.
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 False Health Care Choices Prevent Real Reform
by Arnold Ahlert
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 Will Trump Give Kelly the Authority to Succeed? 
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By Todd Johnson:  "Somebody's got to be in charge. Somebody's got to be the go-to guy who can go to the Oval Office and deliver a very tough message to the president." —Dick Cheney on the role of White House chief of staff
          With last Friday's appointment of retired General and Department of Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly to the White House chief of staff position, followed quickly by the firing of Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci Monday afternoon, the Trump administration is undergoing yet another radical transformation. It may look like chaos, but the moves are signs that things are being brought under control.
          While Republican operatives have lauded the latest shake-up of staff at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, there is still a fundamental question about the way ahead for this beleaguered administration. Will Trump actually empower Kelly to take on the traditional role of a chief of staff or will he continue to facilitate an environment in the executive mansion that is more reminiscent of an episode of Game of Thrones? Kelly's firing of Trump's pal Scaramucci gives an indication, as does the fact that all personnel will now go through Kelly. That wasn't the case with Reince Priebus, which handcuffed him from the beginning.
          However, before examining Trump's frenetic management style, it's important to look at the three reasons why he chose John Kelly. They will not only provide some insight into Trump's thought process but also some indicators about the future.
          First, the president viewed Kelly's performance at DHS to be top-notch, and more importantly, Kelly was incredibly loyal to Trump during the administration's bungled executive order on immigration and travel restrictions in February. Trump has said on numerous occasions that he values the trait of loyalty above all others and he believes Kelly is a person he can trust.
          Second, Kelly is a retired senior military officer and Trump loves generals, as evidenced by his selections of Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster as National Security Advisor and retired four-star Gen. James Mattis to be secretary of defense. Trump believes a military officer can bring some badly needed order and discipline to the West Wing that was sorely missing under Priebus.
          There is some precedence for his logic. Back in 1973, former Supreme Allied Commander Alexander Haig held the chief of staff position in the Nixon administration and was later credited by a former official for "holding the office together" during the final days of the Watergate crisis.
          Third, Trump values Kelly's former experiences in the nation's capital. During his storied career, Kelly served at the Pentagon and worked closely with significant decision-makers from both parties. He served as a military assistant to both Leon Panetta and Robert Gates and was lauded by both men for his dedication to duty and ability to get things done. More importantly, Kelly was exposed to the contentious political atmosphere surrounding the DC Beltway and the challenges associated with implementing policy.
          Which leads us back to the question of whether Trump is serious about enabling Kelly to thrive in his new position. While we believe Trump respects Kelly, we doubt Trump is going to change his leadership style. As a result the chaos surrounding this administration will continue to swirl.
          As a septuagenarian former businessman, Trump is loath to change. He believes his business-executive, shoot-from-the-hip style, which has earned him billions of dollars and the presidency, is the template for success. But Trump's predisposition toward listening to family members and longtime associates over professional staff makes it difficult for him to govern effectively.
          In his insightful book, "The Gatekeepers: How The White House Chiefs of Staff Define Every Presidency," Chris Whipple writes about the critical role that chiefs of staff have played since the middle of the 20th century. The major theme of the book is that a strong chief of staff is often the difference between a strong or weak presidency. Whipple writes that a chief can make or break an administration and that each president reveals himself by the choice he selects.
          Regarding Kelly, Whipple now says Scaramucci's dismissal is "a signal that everybody needs to come through [Kelly] — that there needs to be discipline." He added, "To do it on Day One is a good first step, but it's a minimal first step. Ultimately you've got a much bigger problem, which is Donald Trump."
          John Kelly certainly has the tools to be an outstanding chief of staff, but only time will tell if President Trump will allow him to do what is needed to be successful.  ~The Patriot Post
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Clapper Asks “WHAT’S The Definition of
TRUTH?” As He Continues To LIE About Trump
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{rickwells.us} ~ It’s the most hypocritical pairing and theatrical presentation imaginable, Fake News CNN’s Anderson Cooper asking James “Not Wittingly” Clapper if the White House is credible... Neither of them would recognize credibility if they stepped in a pile of it and tracked it across their living room carpet. Clapper, who was caught in the infamous moment here on video lying to Senator Wyden in response to a question he had been given beforehand, is asked by Fake News Cooper, “Does this White House, are they credible in their public statements?” In his typical, “I’m lying now so I’ll look downward and wiggle my head a little” manner that telegraphs his deceptive intent, Clapper responds, “Well there’s certainly a lot of doubt about that and what’s happened most recently just has the effect of casting more doubt on the credibility of what they say.”... http://rickwells.us/clapper-asks-whats-definition-truth-continues-lie-trump/
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Capturing the Yavneh terrorist
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by Chana Roberts
{israelnationalnews.com} ~ A new video shows footage of civilians holding the terrorist to the floor and searching him for the knife. Later, police arrive and handcuff the suspect... In the video, civilians can be heard calling, "Where's the knife? Where's the knife? Where's the knife you, son of a wh***?" and "Did you call an ambulance?" The terrorist stabbed a 43-year-old man at a supermarket in the central city of Yavneh on Wednesday morning, just before noon. Police say the incident was a terror attack... http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/233332?utm_source=activetrail&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl
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Europe's Cities Absorb Sharia Law
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If the West keeps betraying the democratic value of individual freedom,
Islamic fundamentalists, like those who imposed burqas on Libyan
women, will do the same to Western women
by Giulio Meotti
{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ Within days after the Islamic State conquered the city of Sirte in Libya two years ago, enormous billboards appeared in the Islamist stronghold warning women they must wear baggy robes that cover their entire bodies, and no perfume... These "sharia stipulations for hijab" included wearing dense material and a robe that does not "resemble the attire of unbelievers".Two years later, Europe's three most important cities -- London, Paris and Berlin -- are adopting the same sharia trend. Paris has said au revoir to "sexist" ads on public billboards. The Paris city council announced its ban after the Socialist Mayor Anne Hidalgo said the move meant that Paris was "leading the way" in the fight against sexism. London Mayor Sadiq Khan also banned advertisements that promote "unrealistic expectations of women's body image and health". Now Berlin is planning to ban images in which women are portrayed as "beautiful but weak, hysterical, dumb, crazy, naive, or ruled by their emotions". Der Tagesspiegel's Harald Martenstein said the policy "could have been adopted from the Taliban manifesto"... https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/10754/europe-sharia-law
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UN's Uselessness With North Korea
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by Joseph Klein
{frontpagemag.com} ~ With every passing day, the United Nations is becoming more useless in helping to resolve the North Korean nuclear crisis... Tough rhetoric and a series of resolutions from the UN Security Council ramping up economic sanctions on the North Korean regime have failed to slow down North Korea’s nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programs. This was evidenced again last Friday by North Korea’s second ICBM launch, following its first on July 4th. The missile involved in the latest test is said to be capable of reaching as far as the eastern portion of the United States, although there have been some reports of re-entry problems. Shortly after the July 4th ICBM test launch, the UN Security Council held an emergency session. U.S. Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley said she expected a tough new Security Council resolution to be completed in a matter of days. Four weeks and another ICBM missile launch later, there is still no draft... http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/267450/uns-uselessness-north-korea-joseph-klein
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liar-nObama Created TERRORIST FAST TRACK
With MAVNI – US Citizenship For Service Scheme
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{rickwells.us} ~ The same government that tells us they can vet Syrians in the absence of any government record keeping in their home nation is the one that is now facing a potentially serious problem of terrorists... within our military ranks due to insufficient vetting. Obviously they can’t be trusted to vet civilians when they can’t even handle the job for our military services. Of course these problems all began when Hussein liar-nObama took over, in 2009 and he recognized a need to get as many hostile foreign operatives into the country as possible. The program he created is called MAVNI, which stands for Military Accessions Vital to the National Interest. Since 2009 the program has enrolled more than 10,000 foreigners who are given a fast track to US Citizenship in exchange for joining the military. Supposedly they are high demand areas of expertise that there is a shortage of, such as language or medical skills...http://rickwells.us/obama-created-terrorist-fast-track-mavni-us-citizenship-service-scheme/
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 False Health Care Choices Prevent Real Reform 
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By Arnold Ahlert:  "Even when Republicans control the White House and both houses of Congress, liberalism remains the default ideology of the federal government." —Washington Examiner columnist W. James Antle III
          Nothing proves Antle's assertion better than the GOP's futile and apparently final attempt to pass "skinny" liar-nObamaCare repeal. Unsurprisingly, reliably liberal Senators Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska were joined by "maverick" John RINO-McCain of Arizona and every Senate Democrat in a 49-51 defeat of the measure. "I regret that our efforts were simply not enough, this time," said Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, following the debacle. "This is clearly a disappointing moment. It's time to move on."
          What remains infuriatingly elusive to McConnell and his equally myopic colleagues is that it was always time to move on. Instead, America endured a frustrating exercise whereby the party that ostensibly espouses limited-government, free-market principles was determined to replace a Democrat, government-run health care plan ... with a Republican, government-run health care plan.
          It's time for some clear thinking. And no one illuminates the "false dichotomy between doing nothing and passing a fake repeal that accelerates the death spiral without creating an alternative to the insurance cartel" better than Conservative Review's David Horowitz. Like progressives, Horowitz embraces the idea of "single-payer" health care. Unlike progressives, Horowitz envisions a transaction directly between the consumer and the provider, not the government and the myriad number of middlemen that are the primary drivers of health care's skyrocketing costs.
          "Rather than trying to fix the insurance cartel, it's time to leave them in the dust and reduce the price of health care itself," he declares. "It's time to get the government out of any third- or fourth-party payer scheme and to stop manipulating statutes, subsidies, and the tax code in order to line the pockets of third-party payers."
          OpenSecrets.org provides tremendous insight regarding why members of both political parties have focused primarily on lining the pockets of those third-party payers. It's because senators and House members were getting their pockets lined in return during the 2016 election cycle. On the Senate side, the top three recipients of insurance company campaign contributions were Republican, including Ohio's Rob Portman, whose vote in favor of liar-nObamaCare repeal in 2015 — when it faced a certain veto — became a "no" vote last week when it really mattered. On the House side, the four top recipients were also Republican, led by "mercurial" House Speaker Paul Ryan, who garnered $666,849.
          This dynamic reveals why Americans have endured the default ideologies and false dichotomies both parties contemptibly pitch as "reform." liar-nObamaCare was built on a foundation of lies and foisted on a "stupid" American public. The GOP "repeal and replace" effort? Titanic deck chair rearranging.
          Horowitz cuts through the bipartisan obfuscation with some essential guideposts. The first one is apparently as elusive as it is obvious: Medical insurance is not health care. Thus the cost problems of health care itself must be solved before the cost of insurance is determined.
          When poverty necessitates government involvement? "The best way to offer a hand out is to give a direct handout — to empower the poor consumers to pay their bills directly rather than creating a market-distorting government program or lining the pockets of the venture socialist insurance cartel to administer a convoluted third-party program," he explains.
          For the rest of America, currently enduring the increasingly catastrophic permutations of liar-nObamaCare's death spiral, we begin with price transparency. A system where "all health care providers, from hospitals and surgery centers to doctor's offices, medical labs, and pharmacies, post their prices online," Horowitz states.
          The far more critical component? Once again, sending the bill directly to the consumer, not the insurance company. "Consumers would then be able to decide whether they want to submit the claim or negotiate with the insurer to cover a certain percentage, just like they do with auto insurance claims," he explains. "Except now they would be negotiating from a position of strength, because they are not flying blind without prices. Watch the dominos of government-run health care fall and the heads of big-insurance lobbyists explode."
          One additional component is equally critical. No provider should be allowed to "charge a different rate for each patient," explains former hospital president Steven Weissman.
          Another cartel-busting idea that already exists should be expanded. A section of the "Affordable" Care Act "allows ministries to get together and form non-profit health-sharing organizations that are exempt from liar-nObamacare's regulations and subsidies and immune to the crony capitalist greed inherent in the insurance cartel," Horowitz reveals. Non-religious organizations should be able to form similar sharing organizations and receive "the same tax benefits through the individual and employer tax scheme as the insurance cartel has enjoyed for 60 years," he adds.
          On to the proverbial elephants in the room. The cost reductions arising from making a private sector approach the root of health care reform would make Medicare and Medicaid reform far simpler to accomplish.
          In fact, Medicaid could be eliminated. "Instead, we can directly pay most of the bills of the indigent and chronically ill without a government insurance program," Horowitz writes. For those who can't even afford reduced rates, "regulated escrow accounts" that directly pay medical bills, much like food stamps pay directly for food, could be created.
          Such a system would not only eliminate the middleman but fraud as well — fraud that ranges somewhere between $68 billion and $230 billion every year, according to the National Healthcare Anti-Fraud Association.
          Conservative Review offers an additional list of 20 other ideas that would radically reduce health care costs. They include ending the malpractice boondoggle, making more drugs available without prescriptions, and breaking up the AMA monopoly on medical school accreditation and physician licensing that fuels the nation's doctor shortage, to name a few.
          Why should Americans endure a system that empowers insurance cartels and government bureaucrats when they can have one that empowers patients and health care providers? If anything should die — with or without dignity — let it be the "default ideology" of false health care choices. 
~The Patriot Post
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Do New DNA Discoveries Really Disprove the Bible?
by Minister Michael Brown
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John Kelly Pushed liar-nObama’s
Jihad Policy Chief Out of DHS
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by Neil Munro
{breitbart.com} ~ The holdover official responsible for implementing former President Barack liar-nObama’s failed “Countering Violent Extremism” policy at the Department of Homeland Security finally resigned... just before DHS Secretary John Kelly departed for the White House. George Selim headed the now-defunct CVE program which tried to offer federal support and legal autonomy to Islamic political groups if they redirected Islamic immigrants and youths away from Islamic militancy and jihad. His resignation spotlighted Kelly’s decision to replace liar-nObama’s failed policy with more direct government involvement in Islamic communities. Kelly may use his new White House job to make his anti-jihad strategy a government-wide policy...http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/07/31/kelly-pushes-obama-cve-jihad-chief-out-dhs/
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Jeff Sessions Set to Block Millions
in Funding to Sanctuary Cities
by Jessica Vaughan
{dailysignal.com} ~ The Department of Justice announced last week that sanctuary jurisdictions will lose access to certain federal law enforcement grants in 2017 if they prohibit officials from communicating with Immigration and Customs Enforcement... if they block ICE from interviewing jail inmates, or if they fail to notify ICE of the pending release of criminal aliens ICE is seeking to deport. These particular grants, known as the Byrne Justice Assistance Grants, are the largest source of federal criminal justice funds for state, local, and tribal authorities. This move is helping fulfill one early promise of the Trump administration: to impose consequences on the most egregious of the more than 300 sanctuary jurisdictions...http://dailysignal.com/2017/07/31/jeff-sessions-set-block-millions-funding-sanctuary-cities/?utm_source=TDS_Email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=MorningBell&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTXpBd1l6ZzROREEzTnpZMSIsInQiOiJrUXRhVVZtSk5zSXZkYitKb1NXRzA3bXVSV1p1VjJpeE5EN2lhN0I0RjJcL3hHM05MSmRmdFlYVzl4amZJQ1RaRFBNRzNuTFpqM2RqSENyOVh0XC9IVHZHTFphQ21lMFNBYzdJVWN4RnNNUVJyR3V4VWVwbWJjV2tQTjV6dGFBRFhVIn0%3D
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Now Western media face
wrath of Islamic blasphemy laws
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by Leo Hohmann
{wnd.com} ~ A group of international Islamist organizations led by the Saudi-based Organization of Islamic Cooperation, or OIC, recently held a two-day conference on countering “Islamophobia”... in which it recommends imposing Islamic blasphemy laws on the media worldwide. Under Islamic law, it is considered a serious offense to criticize Allah, Muhammad or Islam. In countries like Pakistan, a Muslim can take a non-Muslim to court and claim he was “offended” by something that was said, resulting in a trial and jail time, even death, for the non-Muslim. Christians in Pakistan, Indonesia, Egypt, Sudan and other Muslim-dominated countries with significant Christian minorities have been the targets of brutal persecution, with the blasphemy laws often serving as the catalyst for their incarceration. Christians have been jailed, stoned, beheaded, and even had acid thrown in their faces for violating the blasphemy laws...Hopefully not here. http://www.wnd.com/2017/08/now-western-media-face-wrath-of-islamic-blasphemy-laws/
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Thanks To RINO-McCain, No One Is
Blaming McConnell For Health Care Failure
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by Phillip Stucky
{dailycaller.com} ~ Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell was unable to pass a bill repealing liar-nObamacare, but colleagues aren’t blaming him for its failure, according to a Tuesday report, Three RINO-Republicans voted against the bill... Sens. John RINO-McCain of Arizona, Susan RINO-Collins of Maine, and Lisa RINO-Murkowski of Alaska — which were enough votes to kill the measure, meaning the majority of the spotlight is going to RINO-McCain’s last-minute decision to vote against it. The president slammed the three RINO-senators on his official Twitter account minutes after the second vote took place...http://dailycaller.com/2017/08/01/thanks-to-mccain-no-one-is-blaming-mcconnell-for-health-care-failure/
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Wasserman SCHULTZ – House To Dog House
Then Big House? AWAN Spy Probes Ramp Up
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{rickwells.us} ~ Congress is moving closer to hearings and a full-fledged investigation of the exploding scandal surrounding Rep Debbie Wasserman Schultz and the Pakistani spies... she and over two dozen other Democrats employed as supposed IT specialists, gaining full access to classified government information, including Intelligence. The Awan spy family is also accused of stealing sensitive computer equipment from the offices of House members, according to senior congressional sources of the Washington Free Beacon. Based upon the unfolding developments, congressional leaders have asked the Capitol Police for a formal briefing into its ongoing investigation, now being conducted jointly with the FBI... http://rickwells.us/wasserman-schultz-house-dog-house-big-house-spy-probes-ramp/
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Do New DNA Discoveries Really Disprove the Bible?
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by Minister Michael Brown
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townhall.com} ~ There was a spate of headlines last week claiming that new scientific discoveries disproved the historical narrative of the Bible. Headlines included, “DNA vs the Bible: Israelites did not wipe out the Canaanites” and “Study disproves the Bible's suggestion that the ancient Canaanites were wiped out.” The problem is that the reverse is actually true: The discoveries confirm what the Scriptures explicitly state.

Not surprisingly, these headlines didn’t come from obscure, Bible-bashing websites. Instead, they came from Cosmos Magazine, Yahoo.com, New Scientist claiming that the discovery helped unravel the “true fate” of the Canaanites, and others. As stated in the New York Times, “There is a story in the Hebrew Bible that tells of God’s call for the annihilation of the Canaanites, a people who lived in what are now Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Israel and the Palestinian territories thousands of years ago.

“‘You shall not leave alive anything that breathes,’ God said in the passage. ‘But you shall utterly destroy them.’

“But a genetic analysis published on Thursday has found that the ancient population survived that divine call for their extinction, and their descendants live in modern Lebanon.”

The problem, again, is the word “But,” since there is no contradiction between this genetic discovery and the Old Testament accounts. A more accurate statement would have been, “But the Hebrew Bible tells us explicitly that Israel failed to complete this mission of extermination, and a genetic analysis published on Thursday lends confirmation to this account, finding that the ancient population survived that divine call for their extinction, and their descendants live in modern Lebanon.”

As for the study itself, “Dr. Tyler-Smith and an international team of geneticists and archaeologists recovered ancient DNA from bones belonging to five Canaanites retrieved from an excavation site in Sidon, Lebanon, that were 3,650 to 3,750 years old. The team then compared the ancient DNA with the genomes of 99 living people from Lebanon that the group had sequenced. It found that the modern Lebanese people shared about 93 percent of their ancestry with the Bronze Age Sidon samples.”

What did the team conclude? According to Iosif Lazaridis, a Harvard geneticist who did not participate in the study, “it turns out that people who lived in Lebanon almost 4,000 years ago were quite similar to people who lived there today, to the modern Lebanese.”

But why should this surprise us? Or why should this discovery, assuming its accuracy, be taken as a contradiction of the Bible?

You don’t need to be a Bible scholar to figure this out. You don’t even need to read the Hebrew language. Any English Bible will do. The story is forthright and clear.

After the death of Moses, it was up to Joshua to lead the people into the promised land, the land of Canaan, driving out the peoples that lived there. These included “the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites” (Exod. 3:8). According to a number of biblical passages, these peoples were notoriously wicked (see, e.g., Deut. 9:4-5). Still, God told Abraham that he would have to wait 400 years before his descendants could possess their land. At that time, their guilt and wickedness would be complete (see Gen. 15:13-21).

The Book of Joshua recounts Israel’s conquest of Canaan, with city after city falling before them. But was it a complete victory? Was it an absolute annihilation of the enemy? Not even close.

As Joshua itself states, “Now Joshua was old and advanced in years, and the LORD said to him, ‘You are old and advanced in years, and there remains yet very much land to possess.’” (Josh. 13:1). So, toward the end of Joshua’s life, Israel had hardly completed its mission.

The verses that follow contain a detailed list of all the regions that were not yet taken, including, “all Lebanon, toward the sunrise, from Baal-gad below Mount Hermon to Lebo-hamath, all the inhabitants of the hill country from Lebanon to Misrephoth-maim, even all the Sidonians” (Josh. 13:5-6, my emphasis). So, the inhabitants of Lebanon were not driven out, as these DNA discoveries seem to confirm.

Then, in the next book of the Bible, called Judges, which continues the story after Joshua’s death, an angel of the Lord rebukes the people for failing to drive these nations out. The angel even says, speaking for God, “I will not drive them out before you, but they shall become thorns in your sides, and their gods shall be a snare to you” (Judg. 2:3). In fact, the last 17 verses of Judges 1 detail all the peoples that Israel failed to drive out. Verse 31 specifically mentions “the inhabitants of Sidon,” which was one of the major cities of Lebanon.

And look at what the very next chapter states, “Now these are the nations that the LORD left, to test Israel by them, that is, all in Israel who had not experienced all the wars in Canaan. It was only in order that the generations of the people of Israel might know war, to teach war to those who had not known it before. These are the nations: the five lords of the Philistines and all the Canaanites and the Sidonians and the Hivites who lived on Mount Lebanon, from Mount Baal-hermon as far as Lebo-hamath. They were for the testing of Israel, to know whether Israel would obey the commandments of the LORD, which he commanded their fathers by the hand of Moses. So the people of Israel lived among the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites. And their daughters they took to themselves for wives, and their own daughters they gave to their sons, and they served their gods” (Judg. 3:1-6, my emphasis).

In the centuries that followed, Lebanon remained a distinct kingdom, sometimes at war with Israel and sometimes with good relations with Israel, but never conquered by Israel. All this is recorded in the Hebrew Scriptures.

So, the headlines should have read, “DNA Confirms the Bible.” Why, then, didn’t these news outlets tell us the truth? Your guess is probably similar to mine.
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McMaster Fires National Security “Staffer” Critical of Islamic Threat, Muslim Brotherhood Infiltration

Source: An NSC Staffer Is Forced Out Over a Controversial Memo – The Atlantic

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Rich Higgins, a former Pentagon official who served in the NSC’s strategic-planning office as a director for strategic planning, was let go on July 21. Higgins’s memo describes supposed domestic and international threats to Trump’s presidency, including globalists, bankers, the “deep state,” and Islamists. The memo characterizes the Russia story as a plot to sabotage Trump’s nationalist agenda. It asserts that globalists and Islamists are seeking to destroy America. The memo also includes a set of recommendations, arguing that the problem constitutes a national-security priority.

“Globalists and Islamists recognize that for their visions to succeed, America, both as an ideal and as a national and political identity, must be destroyed,” the memo warns. It argues that this has led “Islamists [to] ally with cultural Marxists,” but that in the long run, “Islamists will co-opt the movement in its entirety.”

Higgins wrote the memo in late May, and at some point afterwards it began circulating among people outside the White House associated with the Trump campaign to whom Higgins had given it.

Higgins, according to another source with direct knowledge of the incident, was called into the White House Counsel’s office the week before last and asked about the memo. On July 21, the Friday of that week, he was informed by McMaster’s deputy Ricky Waddell that he was losing his job.

Higgins had also “pushed for declassification of documents having to do with radical Islam and Iran,” according to a source close to the White House. A source close to Higgins said that specifically, Higgins had been pushing for the declassification of Presidential Study Directive 11, a classified report produced in 2010 by the Obama administration which presaged the Arab Spring, outlining unrest throughout the Middle East. The directive has become a shibboleth of activists such as Frank Gaffney, who see it as evidence of the Obama administration’s links to the Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamist groups.

Higgins’s past writings focus on similar themes. “National Security officials are prohibited from developing a factual understanding of Islamic threat doctrines, preferring instead to depend upon 5th column Muslim Brotherhood cultural advisors,” he wrote in September. Higgins gave an interview to the Daily Caller News Foundation last year that outlines many of the same ideas laid out in the memo.

Since Higgins’s removal, there have been further changes inside the council. McMaster fired Derek Harvey, the senior director for the Middle East, last week. Also a Bannon ally, Harvey had a difficult relationship with his staff. Though Harvey sent a note over the weekend to contacts and friends sharing his personal contact information and previously confirmed his departure from the council in a statement, he may get another job within the administration. Higgins appears to have been afforded less of a soft landing….

Read the excerpt from the memo:

Political warfare is warfare. Strategic information campaigns designed to delegitimize through disinformation arise out of non-violent lines of effort in political warfare regimes. They run on multiple lines of operation, support the larger non-violent line of effort, are coordinated with violent lines of effort, and execute political warfare agenda promoting cultural Marxist outcomes. They principally operate through narratives. Because the left is aligned with Islamist organizations at local, national and international levels, recognition should be given to the fact that they seamlessly interoperate through coordinated synchronized interactive narratives … These attacks narratives are pervasive, full spectrum and institutionalized at all levels. They operate in social media, television, the 24-hour news cycle in all media and are entrenched at the upper levels of the bureaucracies …

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Somali Muslim immigrant wannabes need not apply

It’s about time someone reversed Sen. Ted Kennedy’s 1965 Immigration Reform Bill which put strict limits on the number of educated and skilled Europeans and Asians entering the country, while opening the floodgates to millions of illiterate, uncivilized, and often dangerous freeloaders from the third world.

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Ohio: Muslim threatens judge, ‘you’ll be punished by Allah…or the hands of the Muslims’

Why weren’t additional charges levied for the threat? Source: Akron terrorism suspect sentenced to 20 years in prison, tells judge ‘you’ll be punished for what you do’ | cleveland.com

CLEVELAND, Ohio — An Akron terrorism suspect sentenced to 20 years in federal prison on Wednesday threatened the judge who handed down the sentence.

Terrence McNeil, 24, made the remarks to U.S. District Judge Dan Polster toward the end of a sentencing hearing on charges that he threatened members of the military and their families in the name of the Islamic State, a terrorist group also known as ISIS or ISIL.

McNeil also said he would be rewarded in the afterlife.

“Nothing you did today even matters. Jihad will continue until the day of judgment,” McNeil said. “And that’s a promise from Allah. It’s not going to change. It’s not going to stop. Neither of them are. My commission of Allah is not going to stop. So this is meaningless. I’ll be rewarded for what I do. You’ll be punished for what you do. I’m fine with that. You’re fine with that. So we’ll wait for the punishment of Allah to afflict you, either by himself or through the hands of the Muslims, and then we’ll see. Inshallah.”

Polster responded, “All right. Mr. McNeil, while I respect your opinion, I think you have confirmed the wisdom of my 20-year sentence.”

The FBI arrested McNeil in November 2015 after he used social-media websites to profess his support for ISIS, prosecutors said. A file he posted Sept. 24, 2015 on his Tumblr page had the header “Islamic State Hacking Division,” followed by “Target: United States Military” and “Leak: Addresses of 100 U.S. Military Personnel.”

The file, first posted by someone else in March 2015, is a .gif, which allows multiple images to be looped. The text of the first file encouraged people who saw it to kill the military members “in their own lands, behead them in their own homes, stab them to death as they walk their streets thinking that they are safe…”, prosecutors said.

He also made similar postings on Twitter and Tumblr at least two other times.

McNeil, who has been in federal custody since his arrest, pleaded guilty in April to 10 terrorism-related charges. While facing a life sentence if he was convicted at trial, McNeil agreed to serve between 15 and 20 years in federal prison.

On Wednesday, McNeil began the sentencing hearing by refusing to stand when the judge entered the room, a customary sign of respect done in most court cases. Before his parting words, he only gave terse “yes” and “no” answers when the judge asked him questions.

His mother looked on from the viewing gallery.

Nathan Ray, McNeil’s attorney, tried to argue for a 15-year sentence. His client, who has never been charged in another criminal case, never took any actions to carry out what he said were his beliefs other than the social media posts, Ray said.

“I don’t believe at the time, he appreciated the magnitude of what he was doing, judge” Ray said.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Christos Georgalis disputed this, saying “the whole point of the post was for Mr. McNeil to encourage others to carry out the attacks.”

Georgalis, in arguing for 20 years, also said McNeil researched gun prices from local dealers and had a document that showed how to make a homemade bomb.

He also said some military members and their families took security measures after McNeil made his posts, with some moving and others buying guns or installing home security systems.

“This threat will be there forever,” Georgalis said.

McNeil’s social media accounts were filled with ISIL propaganda and statements such as “I can’t wait for another 9/11, Boston bombing, or Sandy Hook!!!”, according to the government’s sentencing memo.

He posted videos on his Tumblr pages that showed ISIL members killing people by blowing up a car or drowning them in a cage.

Polster said he watched the videos while preparing for McNeil’s planned trial and found them to be truly disturbing.

“I had read about them, but it’s a heck of a lot different reading about then than watching them,” Polster said.

McNeil is expected to pay restitution to the military members who took security measures, though an amount has not yet been set.


Polster is the same judge who previously capitulated to the Muslim supremacist, when After refusing oath, judge asks Muslim terrorist to swear oath “under Allah.”

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UK: Christian woman prosecuted for talking about Christianity to a Muslim colleague

A Christian therapist in England who was suspended after being accused of evangelizing to a Muslim colleague has suffered another loss in court.

Would a Muslim be taken to court for sharing his or her faith with a coworker? Whether or not Victoria Wasteney was proselytizing to her Muslim colleague on the job or not is to be determined in court. However, there remains a larger issue: Western authorities are giving the impression that while Christians are studied under a microscope for accountability, Muslims are not. Some examples:

  • University of California Berkeley Muslim professor Hatem Bazian has been openly calling for an intifada in America, and he has issued these violent calls at several venues throughout the United States.
  • Nadia Shoufani, a Toronto-area school teacher who called a Palestinian jihadist who crushed the skull of a four-year-old Israeli girl a hero and martyr, was said to have been investigated by her school board and by Toronto Police. But there has been no followup.
  • Farrah Marfatia, a principal of a Muslim academy in Mississauga, near Toronto, Canada was instructing parents to teach their children that “homosexuals are cursed by Allah as are the men who imitate or dress up like women.” Once again, there was no followup.

One can imagine the public outcry if Christians or Jews were preaching those same words — the court battles, the disdain. But where is the same reaction when Muslims say this? Instead, we see Victoria Wasteney, a Christian woman, in court for imparting messages about her faith’s love and healing to a Muslim colleague with whom she developed a relationship (or so she thought). While there are rules against proselytizing in places of employment, Wasteney was discussing her faith to a colleague, not to a client.

While Ms. Wasteney is being prosecuted in London, Sharia courts in Britain are sending Muslim women back to abusive husbands.

“Christian Hospital Worker Punished for Sharing Faith Loses Again in Court”, by Samuel Smith, Christian Post, July 29, 2017:

A Christian therapist in England who was suspended after being accused of evangelizing to a Muslim colleague has suffered another loss in court.

Victoria Wasteney, the former head of Forensic Occupational Therapy at a hospital in London, was issued a nine-month suspension by East London National Health Service in 2014 after an eight-page complaint was filed against her by a Muslim colleague named Enya Nawaz.

As has been reported, Nawaz and Wasteney, a born-again Christian, developed a relationship while working at the St. John Howard Centre in East London and at points discussed religious differences.

Nawaz’s complaint accused Wasteney of trying to convert her to Christianity. Wasteney reportedly offered to pray with Nawaz, gave her a book authored by a Muslim convert to Christianity and invited her to an event organized by her church.

Wasteney was also accused of putting her hand on Nawaz’s knee while in a prayer and asking God to come to Nawaz.

Wasteney was initially thrown off by the allegations because she thought they had developed a good relationship. She told the Daily Mail in 2015 that she only put her hand on Nawaz’s knee to comfort Nawaz when she was dealing with health problems.

“I put my hand on her knee to comfort her and asked if that was okay, and said, ‘Would you like me to pray for you?'” Wasteney told the Daily Mail, “She said yes, so I asked for God to bring peace and healing. She left the office afterwards and said she was okay.”

Wasteney has denied that her act of giving Nawaz the book I Dared to Call Him Father, was an attempt to convert her.

According to The Telegraph, an East London NHS Foundation Trust disciplinary hearing in February 2014 upheld three charges against Wasteney and found five charges to be unsubstantiated. In the hearing, Wasteney was convicted of “gross misconduct.”

In October 2015, Wasteney won the right to appeal the NHS’ action to the Employment Appeal Tribunal on the basis of religious liberty. However, Judge Jennifer Eady ruled against her in April 2016.

“What the court clearly failed to do was to say how, in today’s politically correct world, any Christian can even enter into a conversation with a fellow employee on the subject of religion and not, potentially, later end up in an employment tribunal,” Wasteney was quoted as saying at the time. “If someone sends you friendly text messages, how is one to know that they are offended? I had no idea that I was upsetting her.”

According to the U.K.-based Christian Legal Centre, Wasteney filed for an appeal against Eady’s 2016 decision and appeared in court Thursday. However, a tweet from the advocacy group on Thursday explained that Wasteney’s “permission to appeal has been rejected” and the “legal battle goes on.”….

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Yes, It Really Is All About Islam

Robert Spencer: Yes, It Really Is All About Islam

My latest in the Geller Report:

Two news items this week show us once again what the establishment media and almost all political authorities in the free world are determined to deny: jihad terrorism really is all about Islam.

The first was in Australia, from which the Daily Mail Australia reported Saturday that “about 40 heavily-armed police stormed a Surry Hills home at 4pm before raiding properties in Lakemba, Punchbowl and Wiley Park in Sydney’s west. An Islamist cell is accused of planning to bring down a domestic flight with an ‘explosive device’ discovered at the Cleveland Street home.”

Neighbors of the four Muslims who were arrested professed to be shocked. One told reporters that the arrested men were “perfectly nice and normal people. We knew them to say hello to and they seemed nice.”

They probably were nice and normal. They just believed in jihad against the Infidel. Nowhere are non-Muslim governments taking that possibility into account. Australian authorities, like authorities all over the West, are indefatigably committed to the idea that Islam is a Religion of Peace, and that every last Muslim in the West is a loyal citizen who is committed to a pluralistic society and abhors jihad terror.

And if the neighbors of these Muslims in the West express the slightest doubt as to these Muslims’ abhorrence of jihad terror, they will be brought up on “Islamophobia” and “hate speech” charges and fined or jailed. Non-Muslims better assume their Muslim neighbors are “nice and normal,” or else.

Meanwhile, these “nice and normal” Muslim neighbors were plotting to bomb a commercial airliner in the name of Islam and jihad, hoping to kill hundreds and destroy the lives of countless others.

Why? Because they believed in the Qur’an and Sunnah, and in the imperatives contained in both to wage jihad against unbelievers. Islam, and only Islam, explains what would transform “nice and normal” neighbors into mass murderers. From an Islamic standpoint, there is nothing that isn’t “nice and normal” about jihad mass murder.

The second news item comes from Germany, where, according to the Associated Press, “a Palestinian man who allegedly stabbed one person to death and wounded six others in Hamburg was known to authorities as a suspected Islamic radical but is also psychologically unstable.”

As is always the case with instances such as this one, we’re told that “the man’s motive remained unclear.” However, he was screaming “Allahu akbar” as he stabbed the shoppers, and according to AP, “a friend had tipped authorities off to changes in the man, telling them that he stopped drinking alcohol and started talking about the Quran, said Torsten Voss, head of the Hamburg branch of the domestic intelligence agency.”

He “stopped drinking alcohol and started talking about the Quran.”

Before Barack Obama in 2011 ordered the scrubbing of counter-terror training materials of all mention of Islam and jihad, this would have been taken as a possible sign that a Muslim could potentially become a jihad terrorist. On October 19, 2011, Farhana Khera of Muslim Advocates wrote a letter to John Brennan, who was then the Assistant to the President on National Security for Homeland Security and Counter Terrorism. The letter was signed not just by Khera, but by the leaders of virtually all the significant Islamic groups in the United States, including CAIR, ISNA, MAS, ICNA, and MPAC.

The letter denounced what it characterized as U.S. government agencies’ “use of biased, false and highly offensive training materials about Muslims and Islam.” Khera stated:

A 2006 FBI intelligence report stating that individuals who convert to Islam are on the path to becoming “Homegrown Islamic Extremists,” if they exhibit any of the following behavior:

  • “Wearing traditional Muslim attire”

  • “Growing facial hair”

  • “Frequent attendance at a mosque or a prayer group”

  • “Travel to a Muslim country”

  • “Increased activity in a pro-Muslim social group or political cause”

But the FBI intelligence report Khera purported to be describing didn’t actually say that converts to Islam were necessarily “on the path” to becoming “extremists” if they wore traditional Muslim attire, grew facial hair, and frequently attended a mosque; it simply included these behaviors among a list of fourteen indicators to “identify an individual going through the radicalization process.” Others included “travel without obvious source of funds’; “suspicious purchases of bomb making paraphernalia or weapons”; “large transfer of funds, from or to overseas”; and “formation of operational cells.” Khera selectively quoted and misrepresented the list to give the impression that the FBI was saying that devout observance of Islam led inevitably and in every case to “extremism.”

In any case, all that was swept away. It became “Islamophobic” to take a newfound interest in Islam as any indication that an individual was on a path to jihad. And so the Hamburg supermarket attacker was free to stab people at will, because German authorities wouldn’t have dreamed of doing something so “Islamophobic” as placing him under surveillance because he stopped drinking alcohol and started talking about the Qur’an (and was already known to them as an “Islamist”).

Yet the Hamburg attack and the Sydney plot both demonstrate yet again that all this really is all about Islam, and unless and until law enforcement officials begin to take that into account, a great many more people are going to die.

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Jihadis in the U.S. military? “Security risks” found in Obama’s military recruitment of foreigners

Was there anything that Obama did that did not weaken the United States and make it more vulnerable to jihad attacks?

“Pentagon investigators find ‘security risks’ in Obama-era program to recruit foreigners into US military,” by Keith Griffith, Dailymail.com, August 2, 2017 (thanks to David):

Defense Department investigators have found ‘potential security risks’ in a program that recruits foreigners into the US military in exchange for citizenship, according to a new report.

A classified report from the Pentagon’s inspector general found that the Military Accessions Vital to the National Interest (MAVNI) program had potential monitoring and vetting problems, sources told Fox News.

MAVNI was launched in 2009 and has enrolled more than 10,000 foreign-born individuals without permanent residency status into the US military….

The program is currently not accepting new applicants as it undergoes a security review.

In September, the Department of Defense revoked the eligibility of MAVNI recruits for security clearances until the completion of their first enlistment and a positive security review – even if they had already been naturalized as US citizens.

Several naturalized MAVNI soldiers filed a lawsuit in response, saying that the order discriminated against them unconstitutionally on the basis of their national origin, and could cripple their careers by denying them security clearances.

It is unknown whether any of the security and infiltration concerns related to threats from ISIS or Al-Qaeda.

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Shall We Fight Them All?
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 Questions Grow Over Wasserman Schultz's 
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          First, why after the fraud allegations against members of the Awan family did Wasserman Schultz maintain his employment? Blackmail? Did Awan have dirt on Wasserman Schultz or the DNC? This is hardly an illegitimate question when one considers her strange demand that the Capitol Police return smashed hard drives collected from one of the Awans' properties because she claimed it to be her property.
          Second, why were the Awans paid so much for doing so little? Since 2009, the Awans have raked in $4 million for their IT "work."
          Third, why were they given access to government information without having received the required security clearances? With their close ties to Pakistan, it's highly unlikely that the Awans would have ever passed background checks, let alone been granted access to highly sensitive information. Tie in the Awans' various nefarious business dealings and one is left wondering if they aren't the Pakistani version of the Sopranos.
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U.S. town bans residents from criticizing mosque
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by Bob Unruh
{wnd.com} ~ A New Jersey township that was sued by Muslims for refusing to approve a massive mosque project is returning to court because of a settlement agreement that restricts speech regarding Islam... The settlement required the township to hold a public meeting about the mosque project, but it forbade anyone from commenting on “Islam” or “Muslims.” A key tenet of Shariah, the Muslim law that governs both personal and political life, bans any negative comments about Islam or Muslims. According to the Thomas More Law Center, which sued the township on behalf of two residents whose home is within 200 feet of the proposed mega-mosque, the settlement with Bernards Township “reads more like an instrument of surrender.”...http://www.wnd.com/2017/08/u-s-town-bans-residents-from-criticizing-mosque/
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“Why Is Marijuana Worse Than Cocaine?” Trey Gowdy Grills Clueless National Drug Policy Director
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10 Secret Places Hidden in Famous Locations
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USAF Pilots Demonstrating Their Incredible Flying Skills
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Venezuelan Opposition Leaders Taken From Their Homes In The Middle of The Night
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CNN’s Fareed Zakaria: Trump Voters Were Misogynist, Homophobic, Racist, Old, White Guys
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Gutfeld Rips The Left’s Anti-Trump Smear Tactics
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Shall We Fight Them All?
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by Pat Buchanan
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townhall.com} ~ Saturday, Kim Jong Un tested an ICBM of sufficient range to hit the U.S. mainland. He is now working on its accuracy, and a nuclear warhead small enough to fit atop that missile that can survive re-entry.

Unless we believe Kim is a suicidal madman, his goal seems clear. He wants what every nuclear power wants -- the ability to strike his enemy's homeland with horrific impact, in order to deter that enemy.

Kim wants his regime recognized and respected, and the U.S., which carpet-bombed the North from 1950-1953, out of Korea.

Where does this leave us? Says Cliff Kupchan of the Eurasia Group, "The U.S. is on the verge of a binary choice: either accept North Korea into the nuclear club or conduct a military strike that would entail enormous civilian casualties."

A time for truth. U.S. sanctions on North Korea, like those voted for by Congress last week, are not going to stop Kim from acquiring ICBMs. He is too close to the goal line.

And any pre-emptive strike on the North could trigger a counterattack on Seoul by massed artillery on the DMZ, leaving tens of thousands of South Koreans dead, alongside U.S. soldiers and their dependents.

We could be in an all-out war to the finish with the North, a war the American people do not want to fight.

Saturday, President Trump tweeted out his frustration over China's failure to pull our chestnuts out of the fire: "They do NOTHING for us with North Korea, just talk. We will no longer allow this to continue. China could easily solve this problem."

Sunday, U.S. B-1B bombers flew over Korea and the Pacific air commander Gen. Terrence J. O'Shaughnessy warned his units were ready to hit North Korea with "rapid, lethal, and overwhelming force."

Yet, also Sunday, Xi Jinping reviewed a huge parade of tanks, planes, troops and missiles as Chinese officials mocked Trump as a "greenhorn President" and "spoiled child" who is running a bluff against North Korea. Is he? We shall soon see.

According to Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Trump vowed Monday he would take "all necessary measures" to protect U.S. allies. And U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley bristled, "The time for talk is over."

Are we headed for a military showdown and war with the North? The markets, hitting records again Monday, don't seem to think so.

But North Korea is not the only potential adversary with whom our relations are rapidly deteriorating.

After Congress voted overwhelmingly for new sanctions on Russia last week and Trump agreed to sign the bill that strips him of authority to lift the sanctions without Hill approval, Russia abandoned its hopes for a rapprochement with Trump's America. Sunday, Putin ordered U.S. embassy and consulate staff cut by 755 positions.

The Second Cold War, begun when we moved NATO to Russia's borders and helped dump over a pro-Russian regime in Kiev, is getting colder. Expect Moscow to reciprocate Congress' hostility when we ask for her assistance in Syria and with North Korea.

Last week's sanctions bill also hit Iran after it tested a rocket to put a satellite in orbit, though the nuclear deal forbids only the testing of ballistic missiles that can carry nuclear warheads. Defiant, Iranians say their missile tests will continue.

Recent days have also seen U.S. warships and Iranian patrol boats in close proximity, with the U.S. ships firing flares and warning shots. Our planes and ships have also, with increasingly frequency, come to close quarters with Russian and Chinese ships and planes in the Baltic and South China seas.

While wary of a war with North Korea, Washington seems to be salivating for a war with Iran. Indeed, Trump's threat to declare Iran in violation of the nuclear arms deal suggests a confrontation is coming.

One wonders: If Congress is hell-bent on confronting the evil that is Iran, why does it not cancel Iran's purchases and options to buy the 140 planes the mullahs have ordered from Boeing?

Why are we selling U.S. airliners to the "world's greatest state sponsor of terror"? Let Airbus take the blood money.

Apparently, U.S. wars in Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq, Yemen and Somalia are insufficient to satiate our War Party. Now it wants us to lead the Sunnis of the Middle East in taking down the Shiites, who are dominant in Iran, Iraq, Syria and South Lebanon, and are a majority in Bahrain and the oil-producing regions of Saudi Arabia.

The U.S. military has its work cut out for it. President Trump may need those transgender troops.

Among the reasons Trump routed his Republican rivals in 2016 is that he seemed to share an American desire to look homeward.

Yet, today, our relations with China and Russia are as bad as they have been in decades, while there is open talk of war with Iran and North Korea.

Was this what America voted for, or is this what America voted against?
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The Front Page Cover
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U.S. Islamists Promote Nationwide
Protests Despite Israeli Concessions
by Steven Emerson

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Focus is now taxes as treasury secretary touts simple and fairer tax reform. (The Washington Free Beacon)
 
U.S. companies post profit growth not seen in six years. (Paywall — The Wall Street Journal)
 
Expedited deportations likely to expand under Trump. (The Daily Signal)
 
Refugee admissions under Trump: More Christians, fewer Muslims (CNS News)
 
Russia missile deal with Turkey raises concern inside Pentagon. (The Washington Times)
 
Trump may force Congress to act on liar-nObamaCare insurer payments. (Washington Examiner)
 
Trump could let liar-nObamaCare "implode." (Hot Air)
 
White House opioid commission to Trump: "Declare a national emergency" on drug overdoses. (The Washington Post)
 
Union PR firm, Seattle mayor coordinated on pro-$15 minimum wage Berkeley study. (The Washington Free Beacon)
 
Los Angeles reaches deal to host 2028 Olympics. (USA Today)
 
Policy: Why people like Al Gore hate the world's poor. (InsideSources)
 
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MSNBC's Brian Williams Hails "Moral Courage" of RINO-McCain for Betraying Promise to Repeal liar-nObamaCare
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White House Daily Briefing: Spokesperson Sarah Huckabee Sanders (07-31-2017)
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TUCKER: vs. Democrat on Illegal Immigrant Deported 20 Times
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TUCKER: Behind Scaramucci's removal as WH communications director
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South Korea Reportedly Developing Plans
For ‘Surgical Strike’ Against North Korea
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by Jack Davis
{westernjournalism.com} ~ A South Korean newspaper has reported that the nation’s military is developing plans for a surgical strike to eliminate missile and nuclear facilities in North Korea... The Seoul newspaper Munwha Ilbo said that Taurus cruise missiles fired from F-15 fighters would be used to destroy North Korea’s deadliest facilities if South Korean President Moon Jae-in authorizes the action. The report said South Korean special forces would take the lead in the attack, which would strike governmental targets in Pyongyang as well as military installations...http://www.westernjournalism.com/south-korea-reportedly-developing-plans-for-surgical-strike-against-north-korea/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=libertyalliance&utm_campaign=dailyam&utm_content=libertyalliance
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This Pro-Trump Senate Candidate Is
Going Full-Speed Against Mitch McConnell
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by Phillip Stucky
{dailycaller.com} ~ Rep. Mo Brooks firmly backed President Donald Trump and slammed Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell in a new ad for his bid to become Alabama’s next senator... The ad, launched Tuesday, is for the Alabama special election, and targets interim Sen. Luther Strange for allegedly misleading voters about Brooks’ support for Trump. The Republican leader is backing Brook’s opponent, but the conservative congressman is running on his strong support of the president– and took a few brutal swipes at McConnell along the way. “Luther Strange, he isn’t telling the truth again,” Brooks said in the ad, which is airing statewide on cable, broadcast and digital...http://dailycaller.com/2017/08/01/this-pro-trump-senate-candidate-is-going-full-speed-against-mitch-mcconnell/
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House Judiciary Member: Mueller Legally
Required To Resign Over ‘Conflict Of Interest’
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by Peter Hasson
{dailycaller.com} ~ Republican Arizona Rep. Trent Franks says that Robert Mueller is in “clear violation” of federal law prohibiting a special counsel from having a conflict of interest and therefore must immediately resign... as special counsel overseeing the Russia investigation. Mueller’s reported friendship with former FBI director James Comey presents a clear conflict of interest, according to Franks, who is a senior member on the House Judiciary Committee. Federal law defines a conflict of interest as: “a personal relationship with any person substantially involved in the conduct that is the subject of the investigation or prosecution.” “Bob Mueller is in clear violation of federal code and must resign to maintain the integrity of the investigation into alleged Russian ties... http://dailycaller.com/2017/08/01/house-judiciary-member-mueller-legally-required-to-resign-over-conflict-of-interest/
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Coast Guard Commandant Pledges
DEFIANCE Of President To TRANSGENDERS
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{rickwells.us} ~ The motto for the US Coast Guard is Semper Paratus – Always Ready. For some, if you identify as serving in the holdover “liar-nObama States Coast Guard,” that readiness includes having just the right shade of eye shadow and freshly painted toe nails... There’s also the taxpayer funded pills and a surgeon for turning guardsmen into guard-its. It means if you’re a mentally ill snowflake looking for a free ride and to stick someone else with the cost of your fantasies as a member of the opposite sex or a blend that’s “just so you,” you came to the right place. The American people, still reeling from eight years of fundamental transformation under Bathhouse liar-Barry, are at the ready. Our wallets stand forced open, take what you want, the Admiral says it’s okay. The silicone’s on us. That’s Admiral Paul Zukunft, which is his real name, not someone falling asleep at their keyboard or devising new vulgarities, who made the declaration...http://rickwells.us/coast-guard-commandant-pledges-defiance-president-transgenders/
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 U.S. Islamists Promote Nationwide
Protests Despite Israeli Concessions
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by Steven Emerson
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jewishworldreview.com} ~ In solidarity with Palestinian factions and terrorist groups, pro-Palestinian Islamist organizations in the United States are gearing up for more anti-Israel protests today, even though the original cause for their anger has been rescinded.

Israel removed metal detectors Tuesday which were installed near an entrance to Jerusalem's Al Aqsa Mosque in response to a deadly July 14th terrorist attack. Terrorists managed to smuggle their guns into the mosque the morning of the attack. Yet Israel's acquiescence has not silenced its main detractors.

Still, rallies planned throughout the country are being pushed by American Muslims for Palestine (AMP), the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), and Jewish Voice for Peace. Similar gatherings last week featured harsh anti-Israel rhetoric.

In a published set of talking points, AMP claimed the removal of metal detectors "doesn't mean that the sanctity of the Noble Sanctuary is guaranteed, nor that Israel will not try other methods in the future to alter the status quo in the Aqsa mosque."

This message builds on years of false Palestinian claims that Israel is keeping Muslims from praying at the mosque.

The metal detectors were installed only after Palestinian terrorists attacked and killed two police officers.

U.S.-based Islamist figures and groups are even challenging Israel's right to install additional surveillance cameras on the Temple Mount - the compound that houses the mosque and site of the last Jewish temple. While enhanced surveillance measures often follow terrorist attacks, any action to improve Israel's national security - no matter how minor - is met with a disproportionate anger from groups opposed to Israel's existence in any form.

AMP held an "All Out for Al Aqsa" rally last Saturday in Times Square, featuring speakers who called for Israel's destruction and radical chants from the crowd.

"You Israeli are a hypocrisy state that will eventually be, will eventually go away. Israel will not last long," said AMP-New Jersey president and national board member Sayel Kayed.

The rally featured similarly threatening chants made in Arabic.

"With life, with blood/we sacrifice for you Al Aqsa" and "the gate of Al Aqsa is of iron Hadid, no one can open it but a martyr [Shahid]." These chants, translated by the Investigative Project on Terrorism (IPT), show how U.S. Islamist groups cultivate an atmosphere where terrorism and violence against Israel is openly encouraged.

"There is only one solution; Intifada, revolution... "Long live the Intifada".

Other anti-Israel student groups are joining the fray. Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at the University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign (UIUC) posted a statement on Facebook last Friday inciting violence.

"Long live the Intifada!," the group exclaimed, adding in Arabic "Long live resistance," words commonly invoked by anti-Israel activists referring to violent uprisings and terrorism against Israel.

The growing anti-Israel hysteria permeated the Islamic Center of Davis in California July 21, when American imam Ammar Shahin delivered an anti-Semitic sermon.

"Oh Allah, liberate the Al-Aqsa Mosque from the filth of the Jews. Oh Allah, destroy those who closed the Al-Aqsa Mosque...Oh Allah, count them one by one and annihilate them down to the very last one. Do not spare any of them," preached Shahin, the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) reports.

Council on American-Islamic Relations Executive Director Nihad Awad did not comment on the Shahin sermon. But he did urge all imams to talk about the issue, saying "Israeli occupiers are suppressing religious freedom in #Jerusalem."

Again, this is purportedly over metal detectors and security cameras following a deadly terrorist shooting.

CAIR's St. Louis chapter organized a march last Sunday that cast metal detectors and security cameras as a "siege" of the mosque and featured chants of "free Al-Aqsa."

CAIR's Georgia chapter is co-hosting an anti-Israel event, with the far-left Jewish Voice for Peace outside the Israeli Consulate in Atlanta.

AMP alerted its network to additional nationwide protests, including today at noon outside the Israeli embassy in Washington D.C. There is also a planned demonstration the same day in downtown Chicago at 4:30 p.m. and in New York City. On Sunday, a "March for Al Aqsa" is scheduled to take place at the Wilshire Federal Building in Los Angeles at 3:00 p.m.

U.S.-based Islamists are joining Palestinian factions from across the political spectrum who continue to call on Palestinians to protest against Israel on Friday.

For the second straight week, Hamas has called for a "day of rage" while Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah incites violence by encouraging its supporters to "intensify" confrontations with Israeli authorities throughout the West Bank and Jerusalem. Abbas went a step further on Wednesday and gave the green light for Fatah's Tanzim terrorist group to organize mass demonstrations on Friday.

On July 14, the Muslim Brotherhood led the way with calls for an "Islamic Intifada" - a violent uprising - against Israel following the day's deadly Palestinian terrorist attack.

"The Muslim Brotherhood calls upon the sons of the Islamic Umma (nation), its Ulema (Muslim religious scholars), figures and blocs for an Intifada in order to stop the (alleged Israeli) violations of holy sites...," the Brotherhood wrote on its official Arabic-language website and translated by the Investigative Project on Terrorism (IPT).

The Brotherhood admitted its main motivation for "our intended uprising" is to "pressure all Western governments, Arab regimes and international organizations to intervene to stop violations by gangs of the Zionist entity..."

Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated groups in the U.S. are heeding this call, organizing nationwide protests, inciting violence, and seeking to pressure the U.S. government into forcing more Israeli concessions.
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The Front Page Cover
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'liar-nObama holdovers' in D.C.
scrubbing 'ISIS genocide against Christians'
by Bob Unruh
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Democrats and Trump: Both behaving irrationally
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by Michael Barone
{aei.org} ~ What is it about Russia — some vestige of all those Cold War spy films, perhaps — that mentioning it makes so many people, on all political sides, behave so irrationally?... Consider the behavior of Democrats who are seeking to prove that Donald Trump or his campaign “colluded” with Russia, with the implication that this “collusion” somehow determined the outcome of the 2016 election. The mainstream media feeds this narrative with breathless multiple-bylined stories about Attorney General Jeff Sessions’s casual encounter with the Russian ambassador in the Mayflower Hotel or Donald Trump Jr.’s ludicrous meeting with the Russian lady lawyer... http://www.aei.org/publication/democrats-and-trump-both-behaving-irrationally/?utm_source=paramount&utm_medium=email&utm_content=AEITODAY&utm_campaign=080117
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Tisha B'Av - Remembering
the destruction of the Temples
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{israelnationalnews.com} ~ Israel Police and Border Police are being deployed in large numbers in the Old City of Jerusalem to protect worshippers at the Western Wall for the fast of Tisha B'Av, which began tonight (Monday)... The fast, which takes place annually on the ninth day of the Hebrew month of Av, commemorates the destruction of the two Holy Temples by the Babylonian and Roman empires in 586 BCE and 70 CE, respectively. Religious Jews refrain from eating and drinking for a 25 hour period of mourning. They also refrain from wearing leather shoes and bathing and do not sit on anything higher than a 1-foot high stool until midday. They do not greet one another on the eve of the fast and there is no Torah study because it gladdens the heart... http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/233227?utm_source=activetrail&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl
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Mr. President, End The
Congressional liar-nObamacare Scam
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{conservativehq.com} ~ Our friend Rep. Ron Desantis (FL-6) got it right when he said yesterday that President Trump should follow through on his weekend threat and cancel all subsidies that federal lawmakers get to buy insurance under liar-nObamacare... "I think if he moves swiftly on it, I think you'd see a lot of these members and senators, they would want to work to repeal liar-nObamacare very quickly," DeSantis said on Fox News according to Pete Kasperowicz of the Washington Examiner. By the way, Ron DeSantis also said, "I decline the subsidy. It's not right and I don't take it because I don't think it's lawful. I think the president would be absolutely within his rights to cancel the liar-nObama rule that conferred this subsidy on Congress," he added... http://www.conservativehq.com/node/26160
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Supreme Court Justice Anthony
Kennedy Could Retire...
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by Jim E
{thepoliticalinsider.com} ~ Ever since President Trump took the oath of office, there have been rumors that another Supreme Court vacancy will soon arise... The most common assumption is that Justice Anthony Kennedy, the socially libertarian, Reagan-appointed justice, will announce his retirement. Kennedy is 81-years-old, and while he’s not the oldest justice on the Court, he likely feels most comfortable vacating his seat under a Republican president. Last month, just before the Court recessed for the summer, there was an increase in speculation that Kennedy was going to announce his retirement. But the Court’s last day came and went with no such announcement. Even so, some observers think Kennedy could throw in the towel any day now...http://thepoliticalinsider.com/anthony-kennedy-retire-2/?utm_content=4b4ea4948726422aa6473c7b9fa19141&source=CI&utm_campaign=TPI_Morning_Newsletter_8_1_2017&utm_source=TPI-Newsletter-8-1-2017-morning&utm_medium=email
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The Federal Program Funding
Hamas Supporters on College Campuses
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by Daniel Greenfield
{frontpagemag.com} ~ When President Trump presented his budget, he defunded Title VI from $72 million to zero. But it’s up to Congress to make it happen... Title VI of the Higher Education Act set out to fund international studies that would promote our national security. But on many campuses, Title VI centers undermine our national security by supporting Islamic terrorists. The Higher Education Opportunity Act mandated that Title VI centers reflect a “wide range of views”. Instead when it comes to the Middle East, Title VI centers have only one point of view...This needs to change. http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/267420/federal-program-funding-hamas-supporters-college-daniel-greenfield
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'liar-nObama holdovers' in D.C.
scrubbing 'ISIS genocide against Christians'
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by Bob Unruh
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wnd.com} ~ The liar-nObama administration repeatedly fudged on the issue of Islam.

Barack liar-nObama himself said Muslims were a key to the founding of the nation and after all, the U.S. wasn’t a Christian nation.

Muslim advocates, including some fairly radical, were installed in influential positions in Washington.

Never were the words “Muslim” and “terrorist” to be used together, it seemed.

Now, a report is confirming that those left in the government, and there are many, from liar-nObama’s tenure are busy trying to erase the references to ISIS’ “genocide” of Christians in the Middle East.

It is the American Center for Law and Justice that is, well, a little upset.

“In a startling revelation, news is breaking this week that liar-nObama holdovers within the State Department are actively attempting to scrub its records to remove any mention of the ISIS genocide against Christians,” the organization reported.

“This is outrageous and the ACLJ has had enough, so we are preparing a new set of Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests to find out why – and to expose deep state operatives who would use the delay of confirming new State Department officials as cover to strip legal protections from Christians facing genocide.”

The activist team quoted from the Washington Free Beacon that, “The State Department’s top lawyers are systematically removing the word ‘genocide’ to describe the Islamic State’s mass slaughter of Christians, Yazidis, and other ethnic minorities in Iraq and Syria from speeches before they are delivered and other official documents, according to human rights activists and attorneys familiar with the policies.’

“This is absolutely unacceptable and cannot be tolerated. And it begs the question, ‘Why?'” the ACLJ said.

It has been documented that Muslims running amok across the Middle East have burned Christians, crucified them, beheaded them, stabbed them, drowned them and more.

And not just adults, or fighting forces – the victims have repeatedly included children and women.

The ACLJ reported, “Unelected deep state holdovers are quietly trying to undo everything we have accomplished in our campaign, which began years ago, to pressure the U.S. government and the international community to recognize the ISIS atrocities against Christians and other religious minorities and to take meaningful action to protect the victims.

“We worked tirelessly making the case to the liar-nObama State Department that the legal threshold for genocide was satisfied, and that ISIS specifically targeted Christians as victims. And finally, in March of 2016, after embarrassing resistance and delay, then-Secretary of State John Kerry relented and announced his judgment that ISIS was in fact committing genocide and that Christians were victims.”

That created a new level of obligation, because of the Genocide Convention, the group said.

But instead of a federal bureaucracy that would recognize the atrocities inflicted by Muslims on Christians, and work to reduce those, something else happened.

“What became eminently clear is that the liar-nObama administration never intended for that legal determination to matter. In fact, we filed a FOIA request and subsequent lawsuit against the State Department to determine what, if anything, the liar-nObama administration did to protect Christians or end the genocide itself,” the report said.

“After more than a year of delays and stonewalling from the State Department bureaucracy, it has become crystal clear from the limited documents the State Department has finally turned over to us – under court order – that the liar-nObama administration took no discernable action to protect Christians or end the genocide. Our FOIA case continues and we hope to uncover more information, but so far what we feared appears to be reality. The liar-nObama administration was all talk and no action on genocide.”

Now, the group said, that “holdovers” from liar-nObama’s years “are actually attempting to reverse course shows that the liar-nObama administration NEVER intended its genocide recognition to carry any weight whatsoever.”

The ACLU called it “some kind of Orwellian propaganda machine” in which bureaucrats who first ignored the ISIS genocide of Christians now are working hard “censoring words that acknowledge the genocide.”

The report cites a claim from a human rights lawyer that Richard Visek, of the State Department’s Office of Legal Adviser, “is behind the decision to remove the word ‘genocide’ from official documents.”
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Iran: US “blatantly” violating nuke deal, “will be harmed”

And Iran’s lobby in the U.S. is outraged at the prospect of more inspections. Why? What does Iran have to hide?

“Iran: U.S. Violating Nuclear Deal,” by Adam Kredo, Washington Free Beacon, August 1, 2017:

Senior Iranian officials are accusing the United States of violating the landmark nuclear accord and promising to take punitive measures against America for this action, according to recent comments that come on the heels of renewed efforts by the Trump administration and Congress to sanction Tehran for its ballistic missile program and regional support for terrorism.

Ali Larijani, speaker of Iran’s parliament, lashed out Tuesday at the Trump administration and accused it of “blatantly” violating statutes in the nuclear agreement that obligate the United States to promote international trade with Iran and refrain from issuing new sanctions.

Larijana promised that Iran would “act decisively” to retaliate against the United States with its own package of sanctions and other measures, according to comments by the senior leader. Iranian President Hassan Rouhani threatened that American “will be harmed” by its recent moves….

A State Department official, speaking only on background, told the Washington Free Beacon that the comments by Iran’s leaders will not deter the Trump administration from continuing to sanction Tehran.

The U.S. government intends to continue to target Iran’s malign activity that is outside the scope of the nuclear deal, the officials said, referring to U.S. action against Tehran that is viewed as not directly violating the agreement. “We have been clear all along that there would continue to be sanctions on non-nuclear areas,” the officials said.

Iranian leaders continued to bash the United States on Tuesday, following the recent round of sanctions imposed by the Trump administration and Congress.

Rouhani issued a warning to the United States as the Iranian parliament considered emergency measures to retaliate against the United States.

“The Americans should know that they will be harmed more by such moves, as such acts will isolate them in the world,” Rouhani was quoted as saying.

Larijani, speaker of Iran’s parliament also accused the United States of violating the deal.

“Given the evidence, in our view in the nuclear committee (which supervises implementation of the nuclear deal) the Americans have blatantly violated the nuclear deal,” Larijani was quoted as telling reporters Tuesday in Tehran.

“Mr. Trump advised other countries not to invest in Iran; such remarks are against the nuclear deal and such an atmosphere shouldn’t be created based on the agreement,” Lirijani was quoted as saying. “Iran should act decisively and wisely to prevent the Americans from attaining their goals.”

Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif, who negotiated the nuclear deal, also accused the Trump administration of violating the agreement and vowed that Iran would continue its work on ballistic missile technology, which it claims does not violate international accords baring such activity.

The U.S. State Department, however, disagrees with this characterization and accused Iran of being in breach of United Nations resolutions that call on Iran to refrain from testing and constructing ballistic missiles.

Iran—which conducted a major space launch last week—has been steadfast about its commitment to pursuing advanced missile technology, an issue that has emerged as a flashpoint between Tehran and the United States in recent months.

“Iran, unlike the U.S., has complied in good faith with the letter and spirit of the JCPOA, while U.S. rhetoric and measures indicated its bad faith,” Zarif was quoted as saying this week….

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Stealth Invasion: Muslim Conquest through Immigration and Resettlement Jihad

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Source: WND Books Stealth Invasion

As veteran investigative journalist Leo Hohmann documents in Stealth Invasion: Muslim Conquest through Immigration and Resettlement Jihad, an international network of mostly Muslim Brotherhood-linked activists has been building its ranks within the United States for more than three decades, aided by a U.S. immigration system seemingly obsessed with welcoming as many unassimilable migrants with anti-Western values as possible. As a result, largely secret plans for major population changes in hundreds of U.S. cities and towns are already being implemented.

This transformation is taking place not only in gateway cities like New York, Chicago and Los Angeles, but in such all-American towns as Twin Falls, Idaho, and St. Cloud, Minnesota, where tensions brought on by the importation of hostile cultures are already causing shock waves.

As Stealth Invasion reveals, the Muslim Brotherhood has a well-defined strategy for conquering America, not necessarily with violent jihadist attacks – although we should expect those to increase – but through more subtle means collectively called “civilization jihad.”

According to the Brotherhood’s own documents seized by the FBI, “civilization jihad” involves infiltrating and conquering Western democracies from within. The goal is to partner with leftist and anarchist groups (such as “Black Lives Matter”) to tear at the fabric of Western civilization and the Judeo-Christian values that undergird it. Their intent is to use liberal immigration laws to create “settlements” for Islam in America, which in turn become enclaves of non-assimilated Muslims who can easily become “radicalized” by a preacher at a local mosque, or by watching a Youtube video posted by an imam in Pakistan.

Very simply, civilization jihad calls for changing a nation by changing its people and its values – gradually, over time.

Meanwhile, the world is undergoing a historic shift of populations – out of the Middle East and Africa, and into Europe, Canada and the United States. The fact that the majority of those coming to America as part of this new immigration wave bring a hostile value system based on sharia law, and have little interest in assimilating into American culture, seems of no concern to our leaders in the White House and Congress.

Indeed, refugee resettlement and expanded visa programs have enjoyed the full support of both major parties. Instead of learning the lessons of 9/11 and tightening up America’s immigration system, our leaders have expanded it wildly and recklessly.

Stealth Invasion connects the dots between the problems of growing violence and unrest that have plagued Europe and what is now unfolding across America. The terror attacks on Chattanooga, Orlando, San Bernardino, St. Cloud, Minnesota, and the Chelsea area of Manhattan were all carried out by Muslim immigrants, or, in the case of San Bernardino and Orlando, by sons of Muslim immigrants. A surprising number of foiled attacks have also been plotted since 9/11 by Muslim refugees and immigrants.

Stealth Invasion blows the lid off a corrupt, fraudulent program that has been secretly dumping Third World refugees, many of them radical, on American cities for three decades. Readers will meet the people and groups behind this shadowy resettlement network, which starts at the United Nations and includes the White House, the U.S. State Department, some surprising church groups, and corporate honchos involved in everything from investment banking and meatpacking, to Florida vacations and yogurt manufacturing.

Americans have been kept largely in the dark about the radical plans to permanently transform their nation. Until now.

In Stealth Invasion, Leo Hohmann reveals how Congress has turned a blind eye to the program since President Jimmy Carter signed into law the Refugee Act of 1980, allowing the United Nations – not American officials – to select the refugees sent to our cities. As a result, those selected are increasingly coming from hotbeds of Sunni radicalism like Syria, Iraq, and Somalia while a growing population of persecuted Christians are left behind.

The government uses a network of private agencies, most with churchy names tied to Lutherans, Catholics, Episcopalians, Jews and even evangelicals, to do the resettlement work, but the public is shut out of the process from beginning to end. No public hearings, no public notices in the local newspaper asking for their input.

Stealth Invasion uncovers how various cities have become refugee hot spots and examines grassroots uprisings where citizens have challenged this secret cabal and won. Armed with knowledge of the government’s methods for dealing with local resettlement backlash, Hohmann provides details on how concerned Americans can most effectively respond.

The great “melting pot” that once typified the success of America’s immigration system no longer seems to be working. The old shared values of God, country, family, and freedom that used to hold the country together are breaking down.

In Stealth Invasion, Leo Hohmann shows that the breakdown is no coincidence and it hasn’t manifested overnight. It’s been brewing since the 1980s, but is now reaching the point where it is about to metastasize and overtake us all – unless it is stopped now.

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Virginia: School lesson – ‘create poster about 5 Pillars of Islam to be displayed in classroom around the school’

More detail on the Dept of Education’s Islamic indoctrination program for public schools video we posted earlier this year. It’s not clear which schools in Virginia are assigning this to students, but it has more than 130,000 views already. That’s just one page in Virginia. It’s in your state too.

The lesson detail and requirements are disturbing to say the least.

Source: Access Islam? | We The Vigilant – Barry Secrest

It’s called “Access Islam” and it’s being pushed as an educational religious indoctrination program for millions of children in public schools across America.

Access Islam has been a growing effort, among the progressive left and the US government, to introduce the cult of Islam to millions upon millions of unsuspecting parents and school children, many of whom are not allowed to share their given Christian faith, in any form, while on public school grounds.

The initial phase of the instruction (or indoctrination) involves one of the most basic tenets of Muslimism, that being the five pillars of Islam.

According to the  Access Islam syllabus, “students explore and understand the basic beliefs of Islam as well as the Five Pillars that guide Muslims in their daily life” as follows:


The Five Pillars of Islam

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Objectives

  • Describe the basic beliefs of Islam;
  • Explain the meaning of each of the Five Pillars of Islam;
  • Compare and contrast the Five Pillars of Islam with the duties of other religions with which they are familiar.

Grade Level:

5-12

Suggested Time

Three to four 45-minute class sessions

Part I: Introductory Activity

The Basic Beliefs and Practices of Islam

  1. Explain to your students that they will be learning about some of the basic beliefs and practices of Islam, the religion followed by Muslims. Ask students to begin by brainstorming a list of things that they know about Islam. Have students record their thoughts about Islam privately, without discussing the responses as a class. Ask students to hold on to their responses (or you may collect them). Explain to them that throughout the course of the next activity they will learn more about the basic beliefs and practices of Islam, and that after they complete the activity they will have time to review and revise their responses.
  2. Explain to students that in this lesson they are going to learn about the basic beliefs of Islam and focus on learning about the core duties of Muslims, the Five Pillars. Divide the class into pairs and direct students to the Muslims Teachers Guide FRONTLINE PBS website. Provide them with a focus for media interaction, instructing them to read the sections: “Beliefs of Muslims” and “Major Practices/Duties of Muslims” and record, on their Student Response Sheet 1: The Five Pillars of Islam, the six major beliefs and the name of each of the Five Pillars and a description of that pillar. After students have recorded this information, review the major beliefs and the Five Pillars as a whole class, addressing any questions, such as vocabulary and definitions, during the discussion. Record a list of the Five Pillars on the board during the class discussion so students have a clear visual reference to all of the pillars throughout the rest of the lesson.

Part II: Learning Activity #1

Shahadah

  1. Explain to students that you will be looking at each pillar in detail beginning with the first pillar, which is Shahadah or belief. To begin, go to the BBC website www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/islam/customs/shahadah/index.shtml. Have students read about what it means to proclaim faith or belief as a Muslim. Have students, individually, silently read the Shahadah. Ask the students to think about what the Shahadah means. Why do they think that this statement is a significant part of being a Muslim? Record their thoughts on their Student Response Sheet 2: The Five Pillars of Islam handout, and discuss these questions as a class.
    How is this statement of belief similar to other religions? How is it different? Some examples are the Shema Israel and the Thirteen Articles of Faith in Judaism or the Nicene Creed in Christianity.

Part III: Learning Activity #2

Salat

  1. Next, students will look more closely at the second pillar, which is Salat or prayer. Have students watch the Muslim Prayer video as well as read the information from the BBC at www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/islam/customs/salat/index.shtml and www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/islam/worship/index.shtml and watch the two streaming video segments about prayer preparation and the set of movements for prayer. Provide them with a focus for media interaction, instructing students to view the segments and record answers to the following questions on their Student Response Sheet 2: The Five Pillars of Islam.
    • Describe the process that Muslims go through to prepare to pray.
    • Describe the process of praying in Islam. How many times each day, and when, do Muslims pray?
    • What do the prayers sound like?
    • What do the movements look like?
    • In which direction do Muslims pray?
    • Why do they face this way?
    • What are some of the things Muslims say during prayer?
    • Why do Muslims pray?
    • How is prayer in Islam similar to prayer in other religions?
    • How is it different?
    • Why is prayer important in Islam

Part IV: Learning Activity #3

Zakaat

  1. Next, students will examine the third pillar, which is Zakaat or almsgiving. Have students watch the Zakaat video and read the information about Zakaat at www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/islam/customs/zakat/index.shtml. Provide them with a focus for media interaction, instructing students to view the video segment and record answers to the following questions on their Student Response Sheet 2: The Five Pillars of Islam:
    • What is Zakaat?
    • What is emphasized in Zakaat?
    • Why do Muslims make donations?
    • How much money is a person expected to give to charitable causes?
    • What is the relationship between prayer and money?
    • How is zakaat different from ordinary charity that Muslims might give?
  2. After students have viewed the segment and the website, discuss what they have learned about Zakaat. What other religions ask believers to donate money? How is this similar to other religions? How is this different.

Part V: Learning Activity #4

Sawm

  1. Next, students will examine the fourth pillar, which is fasting or Sawm. Have students watch the Ramadan is Here video and read the information at www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/islam/customs/sawm/index.shtml. Provide them with a focus for media interaction, instructing students to view the video segment and record answers to the following questions on their Student Response Sheet 2: The Five Pillars of Islam:
    • Why is Ramadan described as “expecting a month long guest?”
    • Explain the guidelines for fasting during Ramadan. When is eating allowed? At what age does a Muslim begin fasting? Does fasting only occur during Ramadan? Are there other rules?
    • Describe some of the challenges one might encounter when fasting during Ramadan. Describe some of the benefits.
  2. After students have viewed the segment and read the information on the website, discuss what they have learned about Sawm. How does fasting from eating and other activities affect people’s spiritual state of mind? What other religions include fasting? How is Sawm similar to fasting in other religions? How is it different?

Part VI: Learning Activity #5

Hajj

  1. Finally, students will examine the fifth pillar, which is pilgrimage or Hajj. Have students view The Hajj: Islamic Sacred Pilgimage video from WGBH. Provide them with a focus for media interaction, instructing students to view the segment and record answers to the following questions on their Student Response Sheet 2: The Five Pillars of Islam:
    • What is the goal or focus of the Hajj?
    • What is the purpose of the special garments that the pilgrims wear?
    • How do these American Muslims react to the Hajj? In what ways is it a meaningful experience for them? What unanticipated responses did they have during their journey to Arabia?

    2. After students have viewed the segments and recorded information, discuss this questions with the class. What do they think it is like to be a pilgrim in Mecca? Why do they think Hajj is one of the Five Pillars? What other religions incorporate the idea of pilgrimage?

Part VII: Culminating Activity

  1. After students have looked more closely at each of the Five Pillars, divide them into pairs. Instruct each pair to create a poster about the Five Pillars to be displayed in the classroom and around the school to help educate their schoolmates about Islam. Drawing on the information they gathered and recorded on their Student Response Sheet as a resource, each poster must include: a listing of the Five Pillars, a description of each of the practices and how people fulfill these obligations, and illustrations or images that relate to each of the pillars. (For the illustrations and images, it may be helpful for students to view the segments and Web sites again, looking specifically for prevalent visual images and symbols, if they do not remember what they have seen previously. They can also look at the sites below for imagery.) Have students share their completed posters with the class, discussing the information and images used on the posters. To visually enhance their poster, students can use PBS LearningMedia to search for images of Islamic Art. Alternatively, students may wish to create a PowerPoint presentation, infographic, or video.
  2. Ask students to take out the list they brainstormed in the introductory activity. Ask them to review and revise the list based on what they’ve learned in this lesson. How have their conceptions of Islam changed?

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Community Connections

If possible, have your students meet with Muslims in your community to learn about their religious practices and views. Interview Muslims who have participated in Hajj, and talk to Muslims during the month of Ramadan to learn about fasting and almsgiving. Contact religious leaders or scholars to learn more about prayer and belief. Be sure to clarify the difference between teaching religion and teaching about religion in the classroom for any presenters.



This is not an overview of one religion, this is pure Islamic indoctrination that would be taught to someone that is about to become a Muslim. Paid for with American tax dollars via the Dept. of Education and PBS. The same stealth jihadists whose Lesson Plan Teaches Kids to Sympathize with Muslim Suicide Bombers.

Contact info for the Dept. of Education can be found here. Demand an end to tax-payer funded Islamic indoctrination.

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