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The special relationship is on again
by Wesley Pruden
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Army Corps to Grant Easement Needed
to Complete Dakota Access Pipeline
by Kemberlee Kaye
by Kemberlee Kaye
{legalinsurrection.com} ~ Senator John Hoeven issued the following statement after speaking today with Vice President Pence and Acting Secretary of the Army Robert Speer... “Today, the Acting Secretary of the Army Robert Speer informed us that he has directed the Army Corps of Engineers to proceed with the easement needed to complete the Dakota Access Pipeline. This will enable the company to complete the project, which can and will be built with the necessary safety features to protect the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and others downstream. “Building new energy infrastructure with the latest safeguards and technology is the safest and most environmentally sound way to move energy from where it is produced to where people need it... http://legalinsurrection.com/2017/01/army-corps-to-grant-easement-needed-to-complete-dakota-access-pipeline/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+LegalInsurrection+%28Le%C2%B7gal+In%C2%B7sur%C2%B7rec%C2%B7tion%29
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Red-Green Axis Takes to the Streets of Chicago
by CENTER FOR SECURITY POLICY
by CENTER FOR SECURITY POLICY
{familysecuritymatters.org} ~ Violent demonstrations protesting Donald J. Trump's 20 January 2017 inauguration as 45th President of the United States erupted in Washington, DC and continued throughout the country over the subsequent weekend... Cities became staging grounds for a ‘Red-Green Axis' of groups, including the Muslim Brotherhood in America, Black Lives Matter movement, and a motley collection of anarchists, communists, and progressives whose sole unifying objective is to bring down the U.S. government. This assembly of forces coalesced on the 2016 campaign trail but now vows to continue disruptive actions. A weekend of lawless destruction, looting, and attempts to block transportation routes and deny access to emergency facilities provided a look ahead at the groups' real agenda, which is societal chaos aimed at tearing down the U.S. system of law and order. It's unlikely that most of those who took to the streets for the "Women's March on Chicago" even vaguely understood the combined threat of the Red-Green Axis... http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/red-green-axis-takes-to-the-streets-of-chicago?f=must_reads
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It’s Naive To Think Illegal Aliens
Aren’t Voting – By The Millions
by Tom Fitton
{dailycaller.com} ~ Leftists and their media outlets have been all too eager to dismiss President Donald Trump’s charge that as many as 5 million illegal aliens voted in the 2016 presidential election, enough to easily swing the popular vote to liar-Hillary Clinton... Many of these pundits, backed by an army of so-called “fact-checkers,” would have you believe that the number of illegals who are registering to vote and voting is insignificant. Oh, there may be the occasional, misguided “undocumented worker” who inadvertently wanders into the election booth, they seem to suggest. But, surely, not enough to make any difference. Anyone who thinks that needs to think again... http://dailycaller.com/2017/01/30/its-naive-to-think-illegal-aliens-arent-voting-by-the-millions/
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U.S. Equips Kurdish
Forces With Armored Vehicles
{clarionproject.org} ~ A shipment of armored vehicles has been sent to the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) by the U.S. government to help the fight against ISIS... The SDF is a coalition of militia groups led by the YPG which fights against ISIS in northern Syria. The vehicles called “Guardians” are manufactured by a Canadian firm. “American armored vehicles have arrived for the Syrian Democratic Forces for the first time," SDF spokesman Talal Sello told media. "This happened after the new U.S. administration came to power. He credited the change in support with the arrival of the new administration, saying “previously we didn't get support in this form; we would get light weapons and ammunition. There are signs of full support from the new American leadership - more than before - for our forces.”...
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ISIS Advancing Fast in
Trojan Horse Use of Low-Tech Drones
by Bridget Johnson
Iraqi special forces Counter Terrorism Service member
shoots at a drone flown by Islamic State
shoots at a drone flown by Islamic State
{observer.com} ~ An air force is not something we tend to associate with terrorist groups, but innovations being tested by ISIS against forces encroaching on Islamic State strongholds could foretell flying IEDs at the global terror level... These aren’t high-tech warfare, but popular hobby drones that can be purchased anywhere and operated without arousing suspicion. And that’s a huge concern. ISIS has released videos in which they’ve used drone photography to capture sweeping vistas of their attack convoys and training areas. They’ve used drones to conduct surveillance and assessments. And it’s not limited to the Islamic State. In Afghanistan, the Taliban recently revealed their own unmanned capability in a drone-filmed video of a suicide bombing... http://observer.com/2017/01/isis-increasing-use-low-tech-drones/?utm_campaign=Observer_National_Politics&utm_content=National%20N%2BP%202017-02-01&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_term=Observer%20News%20%26%20Politics
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The special relationship is on again
by Wesley Pruden
{jewishworldreview.com} ~ Once more, with feeling. There's a president again with the proper appreciation of "the special relationship" between the United States and Great Britain. Winston Churchill is back in the Oval OfÂfice, even if it's only his head on a pedestal.
Donald Trump and Theresa May struck it off better than expected. The Donald even took her for a stroll, holding her hand. A British journalist reminded the president not to try that with the queen when he goes to London in for a state visit in the spring. The queen is look, don't touch.
The special relationship dates from early in the 19th century. It was sometimes not as warm as at other times, particularly after the Civil War when Britain, eager for Southern cotton, flirted with recognizing the Confederacy. The relationship became the pivot of U.S.-British foreign policy during World War II, when Churchill and President Franklin D. Roosevelt enjoyed a friendship that was at first testy when FDR resisted Churchill's pressure to join the war in Europe, where Britain stood almost alone against Hitler and the Nazis.
It became warm with even a touch of schmaltz after Pearl Harbor and Hitler's inexplicable declaration of war against the United States two days later. Churchill promptly came to Washington for a visit, and charmed senators and representatives alike with a memorable speech to a joint session of Congress.
"As some of you know," he told the assembly, "my mother was born in America, and my father in Britain. I like to think that if it were the other way around, I might have made it to this chamber on my own."
The special relationship flowers when president and prime minister grow close. Maggie Thatcher was particularly close to both Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush. When Mr. Bush seemed to be wavering in pursuit of Saddam Hussein in the run-up to the first Gulf war, she famously told him, "now don't go wobbly on us, George." He didn't, and they became fast friends. "The Anglo- American relationship," Mrs. Thatcher later said, "has done more for the defense and future of freedom than any other alliance in the world."
Theresa May could similarly nudge Donald Trump, a novice in the complicated ways nations deal with each other, to do the right thing. She made a point last week to say, as they basked in the warmth of the visit, how important NATO is to the defense of the United States, Britain and the West. The next day Mr. Trump, who had gone a little bit wobbly himself during the presidential campaign on the long-standing American dedication to the alliance, said warm and positive things about it.
Guns and diplomacy have been important elements of the practical value of the special relationship, but the common language, literature, law and religious faith made such a relationship inevitable, and assured its survival. Personal relationships between president and prime minister oiled the machinery and made it hum.
As warm as that personal relationship was during World War II, frost was not only on the pumpkin during World War I, but on the relationship between Woodrow Wilson and David Lloyd George. They were first president and prime minister who met face-to-face, and not happily.
No one cultivated the relationship with greater skill than Churchill, who liked nearly all things American, and often cited the fact that his mother, Jenny Jerome, born in Brooklyn, was an American. She was a celebrated beauty in London, where she became a titled socialite. An admirer said there was "more of the panther than the woman in her look." Perhaps Churchill, with a tenacity of a wild animal stalking prey, inherited more than maternal devotion from his American mother.
Other presidents became friends with prime ministers, too, strengthening the special relationship. John F. Kennedy and Harold Macmillan became close; so did Jimmy Carter and James Callaghan, and both Bill liar-Clinton and George W. Bush worked closely with Tony Blair.
But the relationship was not always a happy one. Sentiment is not for statesmen. JFK entertained Mr. Macmillan at Key West shortly after he was inaugurated, and they got on well. The prime minister said, with his tongue not necessarily in his cheek, that "it is Britain's historical duty to guide the power of the United States as the ancient Greeks guided the Romans."
The special relationship has always been the envy of the allies. Charles de Gaulle and certain of his successors chafed under the dominance of what de Gaulle called, with a contemptuous curl of the lip, "the Anglo-Saxons." He would have liked Barack liar-nObama, who, perhaps influenced by his Kenyan father, never quite hid his disdain for the English.
But blood will out. The Donald and Theresa look like cousins, even if once removed.
Donald Trump and Theresa May struck it off better than expected. The Donald even took her for a stroll, holding her hand. A British journalist reminded the president not to try that with the queen when he goes to London in for a state visit in the spring. The queen is look, don't touch.
The special relationship dates from early in the 19th century. It was sometimes not as warm as at other times, particularly after the Civil War when Britain, eager for Southern cotton, flirted with recognizing the Confederacy. The relationship became the pivot of U.S.-British foreign policy during World War II, when Churchill and President Franklin D. Roosevelt enjoyed a friendship that was at first testy when FDR resisted Churchill's pressure to join the war in Europe, where Britain stood almost alone against Hitler and the Nazis.
It became warm with even a touch of schmaltz after Pearl Harbor and Hitler's inexplicable declaration of war against the United States two days later. Churchill promptly came to Washington for a visit, and charmed senators and representatives alike with a memorable speech to a joint session of Congress.
"As some of you know," he told the assembly, "my mother was born in America, and my father in Britain. I like to think that if it were the other way around, I might have made it to this chamber on my own."
The special relationship flowers when president and prime minister grow close. Maggie Thatcher was particularly close to both Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush. When Mr. Bush seemed to be wavering in pursuit of Saddam Hussein in the run-up to the first Gulf war, she famously told him, "now don't go wobbly on us, George." He didn't, and they became fast friends. "The Anglo- American relationship," Mrs. Thatcher later said, "has done more for the defense and future of freedom than any other alliance in the world."
Theresa May could similarly nudge Donald Trump, a novice in the complicated ways nations deal with each other, to do the right thing. She made a point last week to say, as they basked in the warmth of the visit, how important NATO is to the defense of the United States, Britain and the West. The next day Mr. Trump, who had gone a little bit wobbly himself during the presidential campaign on the long-standing American dedication to the alliance, said warm and positive things about it.
Guns and diplomacy have been important elements of the practical value of the special relationship, but the common language, literature, law and religious faith made such a relationship inevitable, and assured its survival. Personal relationships between president and prime minister oiled the machinery and made it hum.
As warm as that personal relationship was during World War II, frost was not only on the pumpkin during World War I, but on the relationship between Woodrow Wilson and David Lloyd George. They were first president and prime minister who met face-to-face, and not happily.
No one cultivated the relationship with greater skill than Churchill, who liked nearly all things American, and often cited the fact that his mother, Jenny Jerome, born in Brooklyn, was an American. She was a celebrated beauty in London, where she became a titled socialite. An admirer said there was "more of the panther than the woman in her look." Perhaps Churchill, with a tenacity of a wild animal stalking prey, inherited more than maternal devotion from his American mother.
Other presidents became friends with prime ministers, too, strengthening the special relationship. John F. Kennedy and Harold Macmillan became close; so did Jimmy Carter and James Callaghan, and both Bill liar-Clinton and George W. Bush worked closely with Tony Blair.
But the relationship was not always a happy one. Sentiment is not for statesmen. JFK entertained Mr. Macmillan at Key West shortly after he was inaugurated, and they got on well. The prime minister said, with his tongue not necessarily in his cheek, that "it is Britain's historical duty to guide the power of the United States as the ancient Greeks guided the Romans."
The special relationship has always been the envy of the allies. Charles de Gaulle and certain of his successors chafed under the dominance of what de Gaulle called, with a contemptuous curl of the lip, "the Anglo-Saxons." He would have liked Barack liar-nObama, who, perhaps influenced by his Kenyan father, never quite hid his disdain for the English.
But blood will out. The Donald and Theresa look like cousins, even if once removed.
