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The UN has in essence declared war on both Judeo and Christian civilizations with the resolutions passed in the past few days. There will be more to come, both in the Middle East and here in the United States. The Western culture, long the bastion of prevention of crimes against humanity and a culture of laws that have helped maintain a reasonable peace through the world has been usurped by a United Nations that is anti-Semitic and assisting, along with the European Union in the establishment of a Caliphate One World Order.

This year has seen great advancement in the anti-Semites in the United Nations. It has culminated in the deligitimization of the Israeli State in a campaign that Obama has orchestrated in the final days of his administration to create an atmosphere of conflict and hate towards the Israeli people. Obama and his minions John Kerry and Samantha Powers has been instrumental in the attempt of  a “cultural genocide” of the people of Israel. It is based on lies being put forth by the Palestinian people and enforced by the Islamic Middle East and the sycophants that toe the line for them.

Resolution 2334 is a farce in so many ways. The United Nations committees and the UN General Assembly have adopted 10 different resolutions against Israel, which is the only true democracy in the Middle East. Only one resolution on the genocide in Syria, where Assad has committed genocide of his own people to the tune of over 600,000 fatalities was discussed, and weakly passed. Even here, a resolution was passed that claimed Israel was guilty of the deaths of Syrian Refugees in the Golan Heights, which has already been proven to be false, but was passed for media coverage around the world, once again blaming the Israelis for the violence.

The Palestinians in concert with the United Nations have spent the last many decades attempting to destroy Israel. The UN High Commissioner of Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad and Jordans Prince Zeid al Hussein are even now attempting to create a “blacklist” of International companies in Judea, Samaria, Jerusalem and the Golan Heights to apply pressure in the hopes of the collapse of the Israeli economy.

The UN Envoy for Children and Armed Conflict through the UN Special Rapporteur Dubravka Simonovic visited a visit to Israel and the West Bank by concluding that prolonged occupation of lands that belonged to Israel to begin with have caused oppression and violence against women, has stated Israel is the only violator of women’s right, ignoring such countries as Saudi Arabia, The Islamic State and the Taliban.

The US World Health Organization has declared that Israel is in violation of the “mental, environmental and physical health of Palestinians, even though during the constant terrorist attacks and wars that have been instigated against Israel, they were the only entity that actually provided medical assistance to those they were fighting against.

Professor Micahel Lynk, a rabid anti-Semite was placed in charge of a special investigation pf alleged Israeli rights violations. Professor Lynk is hardly impartial, being on the board of many pro-Palestinian organizations. Lynk was blaming the West for the destruction of the World Trade Center three days after the disaster. He has accused Israel of Aparthied, and has openly stated that he seeks the destruction of the Jewish State. He is a member of the Canadian-Palestinian Education Exchange  and has been instrumental in events such as the 4th Annual Israeli Apartheid Week”. He has spoken at events of popular resistance on the “International Day of Solidarity with Palestinians. In March 2009, he spoke of the “one State Solution” whose main focus was the destruction of Israel.

Even the President of the UN General Assembly Peter Thompson of Fiji has donned the keffiyah of the Palestinian resistance, giving confirmation that Palestinian violence is condoned by the United Nations. In the 71st Session of the General Assembly, Mr. Thompson declared that peace in the Middle East was “fundamental to our efforts to realize the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people”. He did not note that the majority of obstacles to the peace of a non-existent people was because of attacks, shootings and knife attacks within Israel perpetrated by these people who looks to protect and have been the major millstone around the neck of Middle East peace.

There is no tangible evidence that the Palestinians even want peace, or a state of their own. There have been workable peace accords in the past that have been rejected and lead to nothing more than more violence. As far back as 1947, the New York Times bore a headline of the General Assembly vote of Palestinian partition which the Arabs walked out and declined to take part. In 2000, and 2008 reasonable peace settlements that would have given the Palestinians control over Gaza and most of the West Banki were rejected. It was rejected because part of the agreement would have meant that the Palestinians would have to agree to Israel’s right to exist.

 

UNESCO has blindly labeled ancient Jewish Biblical lands as “Islamic” a religion that did not even exist until 600 years after the long held settlements of the Jewish people. UNESCO would only signify such areas as the Temple mount, a holy site to the Jewish religion by the Arab Name in order not to make a reference to the Jewish hold site. No compromise was allowed, even when requested by UNESCOS executive board chairman Michael Worbs. Of course, the wording on the resolution with the exclusion of any Jewish input was hailed by Mounir Anastas, the Palestinian deputy ambassador to UNESCO.     If they are now declaring that these sites are now Islamic because of its conquest, that the same parameters must be used for Israeli lands that the Isrealis were originally given and fought to return to their homeland.

There is a great deal of Resolution 2334 that will be a major impediment to any form of peace in the Middle East. This is due to the Palestinians , the Islamic countries, and those of the European Union and even our own administration that have deluded themselves into an anti-Semitic mindset which has been found to be inculcated in the progressives throughout the world. What was to be a mutual agreement of peace between the two parties involved has been hijacked by entities that seek Israel’s destruction, including our own cowardly administration in its final days.

Some points that must be made clear in the resolution are as follows:

This resolution has been adopted under the sixth chapter of the UN Charter and as such is not mandatory and any determinations made under this resolution as far as the legality of the Israeli settlements are opinion and not legal fact. Under a Chapter six resolution, there are only recommendations. There can be no sanctions on Israel, although it will surely be what the International community will attempt now. It also does not state that the settlements in question are illegal it dies assert that they are. This can be disproved by many arguments including those made above. There is an attempt by the anti-Semites to create a moral authority to shame Israel from building settlements in what in the homeland they were given and won back from Jordan during a defensive war.

The international community has for the first time indicated that a country such as Israel must be forced to return lands that belonged to them from the start and was won in  a defensive war, something that has never been a part of any conflict in the past. This same international community condemns Israel for conduct operations against terrorist organizations and yet are silent on the genocide of Assads own people or the US attacking ISIS, or other regions where terrorist organizations are being fought. This is because of the belief that those attacking Israel are not terrorists but freedom fighters fighting for a land that was never theirs to begin with.

There have been additions made to the original resolution such as “the status quo is not sustainable” “there can be no one-state reality” and others that have been direct quotes pulled from declarations by Obama, John Kerry and VP Joe Biden. There is also a statement to use the 1967 lines as a basis of negotiations, another statement made by both Obama and Kerry. By abstaining to veto this resolution, this administration has also laid waste to East Jerusalem an area that has been Jewish for thousands of years, and was never a part of any other agreement up to this point. The Oslo accords, which was agreed to by all signatories including the PLO, Egypt, and the EU significantly stated that the issues of Jerusalem and occupied territories were to be negotiated.

There is a call to enforce the BDS movement used by activists and progressives to attempt to destroy the Jewish economy. It will lead to even more terror and resolutions from the international community’s that will attempt to force the Israelis into concessions they can never agree to.

This resolution was instituted as a Chapter VI rather than a Chapter VII because the UN understood that it would be in contravention of Resolutions 242 and 336, passed in the past that give the lands in questions and do not have any mention of the Palestinians.

As stated in 1977 by PLO Executive Committee member Zahir Muhsein:

“The Palestinian people does not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a mean for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of the Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct “Palestinian people” to oppose Zionism.”

These are the people that this cowardly administration against a majority of the people in the country, both Democrats and Republicans.

We have Secretary of State John Kerry, a progressive who has been an embarrassment since VietNam stating that because he feels the Israeli government is run by right wing extremists that this had to be done.  He made the idiotic statement that Israel can be “Jewish or Democratic”.  

There will be more plots to further erode the Israeli way of life. Rather than let the next administration who is more likely to help Israel, Obama and his treasonous sycophants will do all they can to tie the hands of our country to assist Israel. But what should we expect from a lying Musilm President, a war coward like Kerry, and a UN ambassador who speaks of genocide, but ignores Syria and blames Israel.

It is up to Congress to cut off all funding, or even better, send the UN to Brussells, and out of this country. It is no longer effective, wanted or even to speak the truth.

 

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Peace through technology
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Reporter Attempts To Fabricate
liar-nObama Legacy, How About “America Killer?”
by Rick Wells
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{rickwells.us} ~ AP’s Julie Pace clearly was given the assignment, “Go out and pretend that Hussein liar-nObama was the farthest thing from what he actually was – a legitimate and good American president.”... She pulled it off, as in she got through the segment, though whether she retains a smidgen of credibility or reputation afterwards is a question that remains to be answered. “Not much,” is getting the heavy betting action right now. Commie Mika asks comrade Julie if there will be anything beyond ;iar-nObama’s black half and the Lillie Ledbetter Act that will hold up. Pace makes the critical and probing observation that his blackness won’t be taken away from him, so his chief accomplishment is a genetic one. Almost as compelling as liar-Hillary Clinton’s plumbing. It still doesn’t negate his constitutional ineligibility; nothing does...
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EU Elitist – Accept Terrorism, Worth It
To Include Jihadis In New Europe
by Rick Wells
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{rickwells.us} ~ It’s readily apparent that the chronically drunk little EU bureaucrat doesn’t know anything about fighting or self defense. His comments indicate that he’s the last guy you’d want on your side in a survival situation... such as what the European nations now find themselves in as a result of EU subversion and globalist elite mismanagement. According to the laughing stock public drunk that heads the EU, Jean-Claude Juncker, the best way to fight terror is with “openness.” That’s the very reckless idiocy that got them into this mess in the first place. More of the same is not the solution. The crooked little bureaucrat stressed that Europe must continue to import barbarian Islamists into their nations in the aftermath of the horrific Berlin truck attack. Obviously It’s not for the benefit of the locals, but for the agenda of the elites, the creation of a borderless continent and ultimately their New World Order is the reason the destruction and chaos “must” continue...  http://rickwells.us/eu-elitist-accept-terrorism-worth-include-jihadis-new-europe/
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The CIA-Media-Academia Axis
by Cliff Kincaid
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{aim.org} ~ As controversy swirled around President-elect Donald J. Trump’s battle with the CIA concerning its questionable intelligence product on Russian hacking, a strong defense of the agency and an attack on Trump came from Joshua Rovner of Southern Methodist University (SMU)... Professor Rovner declared in a press release, “By ignoring intelligence, Trump risks policy tunnel vision.” But the idea that the CIA’s “intelligence” was sacrosanct was put in question when it was suggested that liar-nObama’s CIA director John Brennan was orchestrating what Rep. Peter King (R-NY) called a “hit job” on Trump. King said, “We have John Brennan—supposedly John Brennan—leaking to The Washington Post, to a biased newspaper like The New York Times, findings and conclusions that he’s not telling the intelligence committee…There should be an investigation of what the Russians did but also an investigation of John Brennan and the hit job he seems to be orchestrating against the president-elect.”...  http://www.aim.org/aim-column/the-cia-media-academia-axis/?utm_source=AIM+-+Daily+Email&utm_campaign=email122716&utm_medium=email
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Huckabee Idea For A Better 2017 –
Jackhammer UN Into The EastWe River
by Rick Wells
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{rickwells.us} ~ Governor Mike Huckabee was once considered the front runner for the job of US Ambassador to Israel under the new incoming Trump administration. It’s not surprising he’s disheartened by the recent antics of the UN and the liar-nObama regime... with the orchestrated condemnation by abstention of hanoi-Kerry, Power and liar-nObama cooked up together as a parting shot to the Jewish nation. Governor Huckabee, in an appearance on Fox and Friends voiced a solution for the meddlesome, anti-American, anti-Israel, globalist power grabbing UN world government wannabes. He suggested, “I think we ought to get jackhammers and we ought to jackhammer the whole thing off. Float it into the East River. Ask anybody who would like to host it to come pick it up, haul it off, and it will be a lot easier to park in Manhattan after we get rid of it.”...  http://rickwells.us/huckabee-idea-for-a-better-2017-jackhammer-un-into-the-east-river/
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Turkey President Claims Has Video Evidence
liar-nObama Is Supporting ISIS
by Rick Wells
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{rickwells.us} ~ President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey is once again making accusations that the United States is directly supporting ISIS. He’s been mixed up in rumors of his supposed profiteering from the illicit ISIS oil trade in the past... so his accusations carry with them a need for healthy skepticism. Still, he is adamant in his allegations and says he’s got irrefutable evidence. His claims go beyond the single step of removal from direct involvement, our maintaining the implausible plausible deniability of aiding the so-called “freedom fighters” or rebels, the insulation the US has relied upon in arming, training and financing liar-nObama’s terrorist allies in the past. It’s more than an acknowledgment of the rebranding of ISIS terrorists, our supposed enemy, as anonymous factions under the White House subversive. It’s beyond the contention of the Russians or the photographic evidence that John McCain was foolish enough to provide, what is basically little more than a choice in headscarf colors, the difference between their equivalent of the crips and the bloods, as being the “legitimizing factor” for aiding our terrorist enemies as the non-existent moderate freedom fighters...  http://rickwells.us/turkey-president-claims-video-evidence-obama-supporting-isis/
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Peace through technology
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“TO CHANGE anything in the Navy is like punching a feather bed. You punch it with your right and you punch it with your left until you are finally exhausted, and then you find the damn bed just as it was before you started punching.”

Franklin Roosevelt, 1940

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unionleader.com} ~ What the former assistant secretary of the Navy said is descriptive of the entire military. Each service’s culture, and interservice rivalries, and bureaucratic viscosity are resistant to reform. Which is why the next secretary of defense, retired Marine Corps Gen. James Mattis, has the most difficult management challenge in American government.

He comes from a service whose core mission, small-unit combat, involves conflict at its most granular. He will now rely on companies like General Atomics here, whose business is leveraging technology to produce maximum potential military lethality with minimal costs.

The President-elect ardently advocated substantially increased defense spending, and just as ardently favors unrestrained entitlement spending. For about $500,000 in expenditures, the 9/11 attackers did over $2 trillion in damage to the United States and the world economy. The linked physical and cyber infrastructures of complex societies are vulnerable to such asymmetries. General Atomics’ scientists toil to redress this imbalance with, for example, the Predator and other remotely piloted aircraft (RPAs).

But they bristle at the word “drone,” which they think falsely suggests mindlessness on the part of aircraft that perform three “ISR” missions — intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance. RPAs can hover for 40 hours over a Middle East target and deliver, with Hellfire missiles, a munitions payload equal to an F-16’s. The “fast movers” — F-16s and the like — must refuel coming and going from the Gulf, and most have returned to their carriers without expending their ordinance. A Reaper, another type of RPA, can deliver what an F-35, the most expensive fighter aircraft, can. The Reaper is only half as fast, but is speed — aviation’s expensive goal since World War II — so important? An increasing amount of the Reaper’s and the F-35’s work, including sensing and jamming, is done at the speed of light, which is roughly 870,000 times faster than the F-35’s airspeed.

RPAs, which have logged more than 4 million flight hours looking, listening and attacking, can discover what the enemy is planning and doing, and can deliver precision strikes with minimal collateral damage. They could have been an inexpensive and low-risk way of intervening in Syria by enforcing a no-fly, no-movement zone that would have protected President Bashar Assad’s enemies and victims.

But because RPAs are unmanned, they clash with important components of the military culture. Marine jets from Miramar Air Station roar over General Atomics, making what has been called “the sound of freedom,” but some scientists here call it the sound of obsolescence.

The Navy is using high-powered electro-magnetic energy to replace steam catapults to launch 80,000-pound aircraft off carriers with less stress on the planes, and hence less maintenance expenses. Now the Navy is acquiring rail guns that use such energy to fire 15-to-25-pound, 18-inch projectiles at 5,000 miles per hour. They hit with the impact of a train slamming into a wall at 100 miles per hour. The high-speed, hence high-energy projectiles, which cost just $25,000, can radically improve fleet-protection capabilities: A barrage of them could counter an enemy’s more expensive anti-ship missiles.

The daunting challenge posed by defense against the proliferating threat of ballistic missiles is that it is prohibitively expensive to be prepared to intercept a swarm of incoming missiles. New technologies, however, can revolutionize defense against ballistic missiles because small, smart projectiles can be inexpensive. It takes 300 seconds to pick up such a launched missile’s signature, the missile must be tracked, and a vector calculated for defensive projectiles. A single 25-pound projectile can dispense over 500 three-gram tungsten impactors and be fired at hypervelocity by electromagnetic energy. Their impact force — their mass times the square of their velocity — can destroy expensive missiles and multiple warheads.

Mattis will be trying to take control of the often uncontrollable Pentagon, with its interservice rivalries and intricate problems of matching slowly developed weapons to rapidly metastasizing threats. The good news, such as it is, is this:The nation just experienced a raucous presidential campaign during which there was silence about the crisis of the entitlement state — an aging population’s pension and health care entitlements swallowing government resources, with alarming national security implications. But technology, pursued determinedly, has the potential to make peace through making deterrent strength less expensive.
 
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Not A Party Pooper
by Tom McLaughlin
 
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Alan Dershowitz on President liar-nObama...
{theconservativetreehouse.com} ~ Alan Dershowitz discusses liar-nObama’s foreign policy legacy and the recent U.N. resolution to undermine Israel. Dershowitz lambasts President liar-nObama with the strongest public criticism he’s ever displayed... All of that said, President liar-nObama doesn’t care a bit about this criticism. The recent U.N. fiasco was simply liar-nObama and Samantha Power providing sunlight upon their inherent ideology. The only reason they didn’t do it sooner was because there was always another election to worry about.  https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2016/12/26/alan-dershowitz-on-president-obama-one-of-the-worst-foreign-policy-presidents-ever/
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Dershowitz unleashes:
liar-nObama an 'appalling president'
by Bob Unruh
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{wnd.com} ~ Famed lawyer and liberal icon Alan Dershowitz, a professor emeritus at Harvard Law School, is blasting Barack liar-nObama as an “appalling president” for stabbing Israel in the back... with his decision to allow the U.S. to abstain from, and essentially support, a U.N. resolution last week. In an interview with Fox News, Dershowitz said: “What liar-nObama did was so nasty. He pulled a bait and switch. He said to the American public: This is all about the settlements deep in the West Bank. And yet he allowed his representative to the U.N. abstain, which is really support for, a resolution that says the Jews can’t pray at the Western Wall, Jewish …. students can’t go to Hebrew University, Jewish and Arab patients can’t go to Hadassah hospital, Jews can’t live in the Jewish Quarter, where they’ve lived for thousands of years, and he’s going to say ‘whoops, I didn’t mean that.’ “Well, read the resolution!” he said. “You’re a lawyer!”...
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"What Could Possibly Go Wrong?"
by CENTER FOR SECURITY POLICY
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{familysecuritymatters.org} ~ A new Center for Security Policy Occasional Paper authored by two intrepid and indefatigable researchers, Alan Jones and Mary Fanning, has brought to light a shocking fact... The family of Iraqi nuclear physicist Dr. Jafar Dhia Jafar, considered to be "the father of Iraq's nuclear weapons program," has been awarded a 35-year lease for cargo container operations at Port Canaveral, Florida. According to Mr. Jones and Ms. Fanning's paper, entitled "What Could Possibly Go Wrong?" Secret Deal Allows Company Tied to Saddam's Nuclear Bombmaker, Iran and U.A.E. to Manage Key Florida Port Facilities, Secretary of the Treasury Jack Lew unilaterally approved the lease for Gulftainer - a Middle Eastern ports company owned by the Emir of Sharjah of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Iraqi businessman Hamid Dhia Jafar - following two years of secret talks. It is deeply concerning that Lew and the Obama administration decided to forego any national security threat analysis by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) which certainly seems in order given the nature and implications of this deal...
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The UN Declares War
on Judeo-Christian Civilization
by Giulio Meotti
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President of the UN General Assembly, Peter Thomson
{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ 2016 has been a sumptuous year for the anti-Semites at the United Nations. The UN Security Council just targeted the only democracy in the Middle East: the State of Israel... The outgoing liar-nObama Administration reportedly orchestrated what even Haaretz called a "hit and run" campaign in UN to denigrate the Jewish State and leave it to a fate where only conflict and hate loom. This is a cultural genocide that is no less dangerous than terror attacks. It is based on anti-Semitic lies and creates the atmosphere not for achieving "peace", as disingenuously claimed, but for perpetuating war. UNSC Resolution 2334 is the culmination of a dizzyingly fruitful year for anti-Semites. Last November, committees of the UN General Assembly in a single day adopted 10 resolutions against Israel, the only open society in the Middle East. How many resolutions have been approved against Syria? One. How many against the rogue state of North Korea? One. How many against Russia when it annexed Crimea? One...  https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/9655/un-israel-war
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 'We are not a protectorate'
by Benny Toker
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{israelnationalnews.com} ~ Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely (Likud) told Arutz Sheva that she believes the recently-passed anti-Israel UN resolution will be rescinded by the incoming Trump administration... "This resolution is an international attempt to impose on Israel a solution to a conflict which, at the moment, is unsolvable. Because this solution does not correspond to reality, in the end it will be cancelled by the Trump administration, with the help of Israel,” Hotovely said. She added, “Unfortunately, the international community simply encourages the Palestinians to run farther and farther away from the negotiating table such that, even insofar as their interests are concerned, this resolution advances nothing.”...
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Not A Party Pooper
by Tom McLaughlin
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Happy Birthday Lila
{tommclaughlin.blogspot.com} ~ “I like birthdays,” said my granddaughter last year. “You get presents. You turn another number.” She had just turned five. “Next year, I’ll be six,” she added matter-of-factly and that day comes Saturday. She’s a New-Year’s-Eve baby who arrived just in time to give her parents a tax deduction for 2010. I’ll be in attendance, bringing her a present — the Calico Critters Hazelnut Chipmunk Family Playset. It’s a box of four tiny anthropomorphic chipmunk figurines for $25. If I were shopping blindly for a present to give her and saw this on a shelf somewhere, I would never have purchased it. It looks overpriced, but that’s what she wants according to her mother. It’s not the $25 because that’s not a big number for us; it’s the objective value — but then I’m not objective when it comes to my grandchildren. She loves those little critters.
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It so happens that I turn another number soon myself: 66. I’ll be entering my late sixties, one could say, and I’m going to start collecting Social Security. I’ll only be getting 30% of what I would have otherwise been entitled to because of a law signed by President Reagan thirty years ago to prevent double dipping by teachers in states like Maine. As a career public school teacher in this state, neither I nor my school district paid into Social Security for my teacher salary over 34 years. We both paid instead into the Maine State Retirement System. Because I worked other jobs all during that time, I paid into Social Security for those salaries, and I still do in the form of self-employment tax because I still work part time. If I’m only going to get 30% of my SS benefit, I should only pay in 30%, right? But no, I have to kick in the entire amount. Will I get back what I paid in? Well, that depends on how long I live, and who knows how long that will be? I don’t want to know.
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Will the checks continue if I make it past 80? Probably not unless serious changes are made. There are simply too many people collecting and not enough paying in. Any dummy knows that can’t go on forever but neither President liar-nObama nor President-elect Trump have any announced plans to address that. There’s nothing but IOUs in the Social Security Trust Fund. More than 90 million Americans are out of the workforce and obviously not contributing.
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Meanwhile, there’s more than $12 billion in the Maine Public Employees Retirement Fund. It’s over 80% funded and Governor LePage has made provisions to steadily increase that percentage. Compared to retired teachers in other states like California and Illinois, my pension is meager and I can’t survive on it alone. Teachers and other public employees there get defined benefits that are two, three, and in some cases ten times what mine are, but those states are close to bankruptcy because of it. According to Forbes Magazine, Illinois has a $111 billion pension shortfall in 2016. Chicago’s alone is $9.5 billion. California had an unfunded pension liability of over $500 billion in 2014. It’s worse now despite Governor Moonbeam’s rosy reports on California fiscal situation.
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Democrats have been running those states for generations. They’ve made commitments to public employee unions they knew couldn’t be kept. They also knew they’d be gone when the bills came due and they didn’t care. It’s called “kicking the can down the road.” They’re still kicking, but the end of the road is approaching fast. Should the federal government bail them out? Over my dead body.
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I’m at that stage of life during which many of my contemporaries are dying or becoming debilitated with various aliments. I’m not what I used to be, but I’m doing well compared to most, and so is my wife. We both hate to exercise, but we do it anyway and it’s paying off. She also nags me about eating vegetables. Life is good, for now. I’ve been on Medicare since my last birthday and she goes on it in 2017 when she turns 65. But Medicare is another kind of Ponzi scheme like Social Security. More and more are collecting it but the number paying in isn’t nearly keeping pace. Are our “leaders” in Washington addressing that? You know the answer.
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President liar-nObama has been patting himself on the back as his administration is about to end. When it does, he will have more than doubled our national debt from $10 trillion to $20 trillion. All I can do about that issue and the others outlined above is write about them. I’ll keep on pointing it all out to people, most of whom don’t want to hear it. When I attend my granddaughter’s birthday next Saturday where all my other grandchildren will be, I’ll think about it but I won’t say anything. Why ruin a good party?
 
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Tuesday PM ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
 The Events of the Week -- Featuring: 
Aleppo and American decline
by Charles Krauthammer
 
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 For liar-nObama, It's Muslims First, Safety Last 
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The National Security Entry-Exit Registration System (NSEERS) — designed to keep tabs on foreign visitors who occupy countries with Islamist ties — is no more. It's all thanks to Barack liar-nObama's plan to hamstring the president-elect. According to The Washington Free Beacon, "The registry ... was implemented after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, but has been dormant since 2011."
          There is fierce debate, particularly among civil liberty activists, regarding the constitutionality and effectiveness of the system. Yet one thing is clear: This move, as usual, wreaks of politics. liar-nObama had eight years to end the system, but he waited until a month before he vacates the White House to get rid of it. The timing obviously suggests liar-nObama is scoring political points against Trump, and he's doing so amid a plethora of headlines just this week about Islamic terrorism around the globe, including Berlin.
          Ironically, DHS calls NSEERS "redundant, ineffective, and provided no increase in security." That may or may not be true, but it can't be any worse than liar-nObama's idea to relocate unvetted refugees to America. According to Gary Bauer, "He has dramatically accelerated the influx of refugees from the Middle East, bringing in more than 23,000 in recent weeks." He adds, "Some politicians say that Angela Merkel has the blood of the Berlin victims on her hands. I would add that liar-nObama's hands are not clean either. He was among the most high-profile supporters of her open border policies, which allowed more than 1 million refugees into Germany."
          That's because it was politically advantageous, just like it is to trash NSEERS. liar-nObama can pretend all he wants to be protecting Muslims from unfair subjugation. But that doesn't hide an ugly truth: He owns many of the problems we face from terrorism today. At least Republicans promote safety first.  ~The Patriot Post
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 OPINION IN BRIEF 
Charles Krauthammer: "liar-nObama has never appreciated that the role of a superpower in a local conflict is not necessarily to intervene on the ground, but to deter a rival global power from stepping in and altering the course of the war. That's what we did during the 1973 Yom Kippur War, when Moscow threatened to send troops to support Egypt and President Nixon countered by raising America's nuclear alert status to Defcon 3. Russia stood down. Less dramatically but just as effectively, American threats of retaliation are what kept West Germany, South Korea and Taiwan free and independent through half a century of Cold War. It's called deterrence. Yet liar-nObama never had the credibility to deter anything or anyone. In the end, the world's greatest power was reduced to bitter speeches at the U.N. 'Are you truly incapable of shame?' thundered U.S. Ambassador Samantha Power at the butchers of Aleppo. As if we don't know the answer. Indeed the shame is on us for terminal naïveté, sending our secretary of state chasing the Russians to negotiate one humiliating pretend cease-fire after another."  ~The Patriot Post
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Trump will abolish most liar-nObama
executive orders within days
by Valerie Richardson
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{washingtontimes.com} ~ Former House speaker Newt Gingrich predicted Sunday that President-elect Donald Trump will devastate President liar-nObama’s legacy by immediately rescinding up to 70 percent of the Democrat’s executive orders... “I think in the opening couple days, he’s going to repeal 60 to 70 percent of liar-nObama’s legacy by simply vetoing out all of the various executive orders that liar-nObama used because he couldn’t get anything through Congress,” Mr. Gingrich said on the Fox Business’ “Sunday Morning Futures.” Shortly after the election, Mr. liar-nObama advised Mr. Trump to enact his agenda via Congress, saying that “going through the legislative process is always better because in part it’s harder to undo.” That’s a lesson Mr. liar-nObama may learn the hard way, Mr. Gingrich said...  http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/dec/25/newt-gingrich-trump-will-abolish-70-percent-of-oba/
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'liar-nObama could harm Israel
on his last day in office'
by Arutz Sheva Staff
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{israelnationalnews.com} ~ Foreign affairs experts are warning that the diplomatic upheavals caused by US President liar-nObama's conduct on the UN vote are not necessarily his last word on Israel... At the cabinet meeting yesterday the experts on foreign affairs presented a scenario in which liar-nObama could even on his last day in office cause harm to Israel. The concern is that liar-nObama may promote a move in the UN Security Council giving guidelines for a peace agreement between Israel and the Palestinians and the establishment of a Palestinian state. Israel would find it hard to present an alternative model after these guidelines are set...
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The Suicide of Germany
by Guy Millière
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{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ The attack in Berlin on December 19, 2016 was predictable. German Chancellor Angela Merkel created the conditions that made it possible. She bears an overwhelming responsibility... Geert Wilders, a member of Parliament in the Netherlands and one of Europe's only clear-sighted political leaders, accused her of having blood on her hands. He is right. When she decided to open the doors of Germany to hundreds of thousands of Muslims from the Middle East and more distant countries, she must have known that jihadists were hidden among the people flooding in. She also must have known that the German police had no way of controlling the mass that entered and would be quickly overwhelmed by the number of people it would have to control. She did it anyway. When hundreds of rapes and sexual assaults took place in Cologne and other cities in Germany on last year's New Year's Eve, she said that the perpetrators should be punished "regardless of their origin", but she did not change her policy...  https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/9645/germany-suicide
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liar-Clintons Busted in Massive
$145 Million Scandal With Russia
{angrypatriotmovement.com} ~ Peter Schweizer, author of “liar-Clinton Cash,” made an appearance on Lou Dobb’s Fox News Show recently. Schweizer reminded us all that The liar-Clinton Foundation received $145 million, 75 percent of the Foundation’s annual budget, from Uranium One shareholders... It seems that the only presidential candidate plotting with the Russians was liar-Clinton. As a result of this deal, Schweizer has learned, portions of American soil, in the Mid West, are now owned by the Russian government! Schweizer notes that America is one of the only places in the world in which mining for Uranium is successful. In order to protect their supply, it would make sense that the Uranium One shareholders would want Putin to own the mine locations...
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liar-nObama – the Man with Negative Coattails
by Common Constitutionalist
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{commonconstitutionalist.com} ~ The final numbers are in and they are not pretty. Barack liar-nObama, the grassroots community organizer forgot something while he was in office. He seems to have forgotten to organize the grassroots to support any one else but him... liar-nObama can talk up his wonderful and entirely fraudulent national economic recovery all he likes, but a more accurate assessment of the aftermath of liar-nObama’s eight year reign is a dived nation and a democrat party in utter ruin. The number of spots in state legislatures, governor’s mansions and Congress lost by Democrats during liar-nObama’s presidency is more than 1030 seats. And worse than that, or better for us, is a complete lack of strategy, and stable of candidates, to win them back...  http://commonconstitutionalist.com/political-stuff/obama-the-man-with-negative-coattails/#more-33444
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Aleppo and American decline
by Charles Krauthammer
{freedomsback.com} ~ The fall of Aleppo just weeks before Barack liar-nObama leaves office is a fitting stamp on his Middle East policy of retreat and withdrawal. The pitiable pictures from the devastated city showed the true cost of liar-nObama’s abdication. For which he seems to have few regrets, however. In his end-of-year news conference, liar-nObama defended U.S. inaction with his familiar false choice: It was either stand aside or order a massive Iraq-style ground invasion.

This is a transparent fiction designed to stifle debate. At the beginning of the civil war, the popular uprising was ascendant. What kept a rough equilibrium was regime control of the skies. At that point, the United States, at little risk and cost, could have declared Syria a no-fly zone, much as it did Iraqi Kurdistan for a dozen years after the Gulf War of 1991.

The U.S. could easily have destroyed the regime’s planes and helicopters on the ground and so cratered its airfields as to make them unusable. That would have altered the strategic equation for the rest of the war.

And would have deterred the Russians from injecting their own air force — they would have had to challenge ours for air superiority. Facing no U.S. deterrent, Russia stepped in and decisively altered the balance, pounding the rebels in Aleppo to oblivion. The Russians were particularly adept at hitting hospitals and other civilian targets, leaving the rebels with the choice between annihilation and surrender.

They surrendered.

liar-nObama has never appreciated that the role of a superpower in a local conflict is not necessarily to intervene on the ground, but to deter a rival global power from stepping in and altering the course of the war. That’s what we did during the 1973 Yom Kippur War, when Moscow threatened to send troops to support Egypt and President Nixon countered by raising America’s nuclear alert status to Defcon 3. Russia stood down.

Less dramatically but just as effectively, American threats of retaliation are what kept West Germany, South Korea and Taiwan free and independent through half a century of Cold War.

It’s called deterrence. Yet liar-nObama never had the credibility to deter anything or anyone. In the end, the world’s greatest power was reduced to bitter speeches at the United Nations. “Are you truly incapable of shame?” thundered U.S. Ambassador Samantha Power at the butchers of Aleppo. As if we don’t know the answer. Indeed the shame is on us for terminal naivete, sending our secretary of state chasing the Russians to negotiate one humiliating pretend cease-fire after another.

Even now, however, the Syria debate is not encouraging. The tone is anguished and emotional, portrayed exclusively in moral terms. Much less appreciated is the cold strategic cost.

Assad was never a friend. But today he’s not even a free agent. He’s been effectively restored to his throne, but as the puppet of Iran and Russia. Syria is now a platform, a forward base, from which both these revisionist regimes can project power in the region.

Iran will use Syria to advance its drive to dominate the Arab Middle East. Russia will use its naval and air bases to bully the Sunni Arab states, and to shut out American influence.

It’s already happening. The foreign and defense ministers of Russia, Iran and Turkey convened in Moscow this week to begin settling the fate of Syria. Notice who wasn’t there. For the first time in four decades, the United States, the once dominant power in the region, is an irrelevance.

With Aleppo gone and the rebels scattered, we have a long road ahead to rebuild the influence squandered over the past eight years. President-elect Donald Trump is talking about creating safe zones. He should tread carefully. It does no good to try to do now what we should have done five years ago. Conditions are much worse. Russia and Iran rule. Maintaining the safety of safe zones will be expensive and dangerous. It will require extensive ground deployments, and it risks military confrontation with Russia.

And why? Guilty conscience is not a good reason. Interventions that are purely humanitarian — from Somalia to Libya — tend to end badly. We may proclaim a “responsibility to protect,” but when no American interests are at stake, the engagement becomes impossible to sustain. At the first losses, we go home.

In Aleppo, the damage is done, the city destroyed, the inhabitants ethnically cleansed. For us, there is no post-facto option. If we are to regain the honor lost in Aleppo, it will have to be on a very different battlefield.

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Tuesday AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
 The Events of the Week -- Featuring: 
With UN Abstention President liar-nObama
Bids Israel an ‘Unhappy Hanukkah’
by Susan Stamper Brown
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 Democrats Throw Electoral Tantrum 
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Allyne Caan: If you've ever played a game with a three-year-old, you know he tends to have fun provided he's winning. But turn the tables, and suddenly the game is stupid or the rules need changing. Three-year-olds on one hand, leftist elites on the other — sometimes it's hard to tell the difference thanks to the Left's arrested development.
          Now that the Electoral College has officially elected Donald Trump as our 45th president, the game isn't so fun anymore for crybaby leftists. And the rules the Left was content to play by when liar-Hillary Clinton seemed sure to win? Well, they've simply gotta go.
          It's hardly surprising, then, that Trump's victory has ignited renewed calls to abolish the institution that denied liar-Hillary the title she thought she was owed. And apparently, any old justification will do.
          The winner of the "most creative reason to hate the Electoral College" award goes to Yale Lecturer Todd Cort, who recently blamed the EC for — wait for it — global warming.
          You just can't make this stuff up. Thanks to the Electoral College, Cort explains, both George W. Bush and Donald Trump won the presidency while losing the popular vote. Cort disliked Bush's record on climate change and predicts more of the same from Trump. Hence, the EC is ruining the planet. This, ladies and gentleman, is why Ivy League institutions shouldn't intimidate anyone.
          Then there's The New York Times, whose editorial board — sometimes difficult to distinguish from a room of three-year-olds — called for an end to the Electoral College this week because, well, liar-Hillary lost. (Seriously, do you think they would have done the same had Trump won the popular vote but liar-Hillary the presidency? Exactly.) But again, three-year-olds ... losing ... rules need changing. You get the point.
          The Times whines, "By overwhelming majorities, Americans would prefer to elect the president by direct popular vote, not filtered through the antiquated mechanism of the Electoral College. They understand, on a gut level, the basic fairness of awarding the nation's highest office on the same basis as every other elected office — to the person who gets the most votes." Yet, "for now, the presidency is still decided by 538 electors." Tossing in another trump card for good measure, the Times also claims the EC "is a living symbol of America's original sin" — slavery. Because it's just like 3/5 representation? Who knows.
          At least you can reason with three-year-olds. The Times editorial board? Not so much.
          For a company that boasts of "excellence in its journalism," the Times either isn't checking its sources, or is flat-out lying about them. All it takes is a simple read of James Madison's journals on the Constitutional Convention (which, incidentally, every American should read) to understand the electoral system was actually about preserving the rights of the minority and not about some imagined white supremacy that the Leftmedia (and academia) try to project on any white American male unfortunate enough to have lived before the current age of leftist enlightenment.
          As Red State's Jay Caruso points out, "The process of protecting smaller states from the whims of the larger, more populous states is precisely why the electoral college exists. Contrary to what the editors of the New York Times think, we are not one large nation where the federal government reigns supreme. We are a republic made up of semi-sovereign states. That sovereignty is what protects states like Wyoming and Montana from states such as New York and California." Indeed, if direct democracy ruled the day, someone could win the White House having never set foot in states like Wisconsin or Utah. Of course, elites who disdain rural America and its values wouldn't complain were this the case.
          Further, as Edward Morrissey writes, the claim that the presidency is decided by 538 electors is "flat-out wrong." On the contrary, he says, "The presidency doesn't get decided by the personal whims of 538 electors, but by the voters in the states they represent."
          And finally, 16 years ago, the Times' editorial board made the case for the Electoral College: "Yet the arguments for the Electoral College are also compelling, and in our view, outweigh the majoritarian case put forward by Mrs. liar-Clinton and others. The nation's founders sought in various creative ways to create checks and balances, both inside and outside government. The Electoral College was first and foremost a compact among states, large and small, designed to ensure that one state or one region did not dominate the others."
          Lies and wacky reasons will undoubtedly abound in the Left's continued efforts to dismantle the Electoral College. After all, as Barack liar-nObama bitterly put it, "There are some structures in our political system, as envisioned by the Founders, that sometimes are going to disadvantage Democrats."
          Because at the end of the day, the only fact that matters to the Left is their anointed candidate lost. So, like any losing child would argue, the rules must be changed.  ~The Patriot Post
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Muslim Extremists: Cheerleading the Killers
by Khadija Khan
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Abdelhamid Abaaoud, one of the planners of the
November 2015 terrorist attacks in Paris
{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ The world saw a massacre in Aleppo, the assassination of Russian ambassador in Turkey, a brazen terror attack in Berlin and a shooting incident in a Zurich mosque – all just last week... We also saw religious extremists across the Muslim world cheering for the killers of both the Russian envoy and the truck driver in Germany. ISIS hailed the Berlin terror attack and the killing of the Russian ambassador while themselves facing imminent extinction due to massive Russian, European and US led strikes against their strongholds in Mosul, Raqqa, Aleppo and other cities. Terrorists such as ISIS and their sympathizers seemed translating this chaos into another opportunity to pour the "victim narrative" into the minds of naïve Muslim youths apparently in the hope of recruiting more soldiers for their holy war...
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Ted Cruz: No US funding for UN
until Israel vote 'reversed'
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{washingtonexaminer.com} ~ Texas Sen. Ted Cruz put the United Nations on notice Saturday evening, issuing his toughest statement yet in response to Friday's vote to condemn Israeli settlement building... In a tweet, the Republican lawmaker said he spoke with Israeli Prime Minister Saturday evening to not only wish him a happy Hanukkah, but also to "assure him of strong support in Congress." "No US $ for UN until reversed," he added. That comment suggests that Cruz has made his mind up since Friday, when he said he looked forward to working with Sen. Lindsey Graham and President-elect Trump "to significantly reduce or even eliminate U.S. funding of the United Nations, and also to seriously reconsider financial support for the nations that supported this resolution."...
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'Fake' liar-nObama
birth certificate was 'inside job'
by Bob Unruh
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{wnd.com} ~ The chief investigator for Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s probe of the validity of the image Barack liar-nObama released as his birth certificate says evidence suggests the involvement of the Hawaiian government in the alleged fabrication... WND reported last week that Arpaio and his chief investigator on the liar-nObama birth certificate issue, Mike Zullo, held a news conference to reveal evidence they say shows the document was fabricated on a computer. They conclude it is not a copy of any original Hawaiian document, and while their investigation did not address whether liar-nObama is a “natural-born citizen” as the Constitution requires for presidents, or the political implications of such a forgery, they said it certainly raises many questions going forward...Evidence shows government officials involved.  http://www.wnd.com/2016/12/fake-obama-birth-certificate-was-inside-job/
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Iran Backing Out On Boeing, Same Tactics
Worked Like A Charm With hanoi-Kerry
by Rick Wells
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{rickwells.us} ~ Iran seems to be having a rather severe case of buyer’s remorse when it comes to the purchase of new aircraft from the infidel agents of the “Great Satan,” Boeing... Accordingly, they’ve decided the appropriate course of action is to pay less than they agreed to back when the deal was first negotiated, much less. Iranians cannot be trusted. They don’t honor their word; their promise isn’t worth the camel skin its inked into. Cash in advance is the only terms in which they can be trusted to hold up their end of the bargain and then you’d better still better check the serial numbers and the paper of every bill. Iran has announced that they will pay half price for their new Boeing jets in a statement from their official IRNA news agency, citing “reductions in its purchasing options, whatever that means. A new world of negotiations has just opened up for all of us...  http://rickwells.us/iran-backing-boeing-tactics-worked-like-charm-kerry/
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Cooperation With Putin Is Vital To
Protecting USA, Fighting Terrorism
by Rick Wells
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{rickwells.us} ~ Former US Representative from Colorado, a pioneer in recognizing and demanding action on the threat of illegal immigration, Presidential candidate and pretty savvy guy in general, Tom Tancredo... published his thoughts on what would be an appropriate relationship between the United States and Russia. He does so from a perspective of us having a shared common enemy that is dedicated to the destruction of each of our nations, and with a perspective of our actions in World War 2 against Nazi Germany. He published his piece at Breitbart.com, writing:...  http://rickwells.us/tancredo-cooperation-putin-vital-protecting-usa-fighting-terrorism/
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With UN Abstention President liar-nObama
Bids Israel an ‘Unhappy Hanukkah’
by Susan Stamper Brown
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{townhall.com} ~ I had to spend a good part of Christmas Eve morning in my “Mighty Thor” pajamas, sipping extra strong coffee in the dark while writing a column I had not planned to write -- because America’s “Wreck it Ralph” was at it again. This time, President liar-nObama has decided to give Israel one last (we can only pray) kick in the behind before he leaves office.

On December 23, the U.N. Security Council brought a resolution to a vote basically declaring that settlements Israel had built on and occupied since 1967 have “no legal validity." The liar-nObama administration took the bizarre and unprecedented move to turn its back on Israel when it declined to veto the resolution, which serves to end Jewish settlement building and threatens to plow Israel back to its 1967 borders, potentially leaving them indefensible.

And the enemies of God’s chosen people cheered.

I’m sorry to be the one to break the bad news to Israel’s enemies, but Bible scripture clearly states Israel will never be indefensible, because God is on its side.

Zechariah 2:8 says those who touch Israel “touch the apple of his eye.” And Isaiah 43: “…O Israel, fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name, you are mine. When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they shall not overwhelm you; when you walk through the fire you won’t be burned…For I am the Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel, Your Savior…”

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu quickly responded to the U.N. action, saying the resolution was nothing more than “old world bias against Israel,” and said the resolution is out-of-whack because it stipulates the Western Wall and Jewish quarter are “occupied” territories.

Call it “occupied” or whatever they wish, but Israel is the land God promised through a covenant to Abraham with specificity in Genesis 15, confirming it to his son, Isaac, in Genesis 26 and then to Isaac’s son, Jacob, in Genesis 28. Deuteronomy 1:8 reiterates that promise: “See, I have given you this land. Go in and take possession of the land the Lord swore He would give to your fathers – to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob – and to their descendants after them.”

One would think that with so little time left until January 20, Wreck-it-Ralph liar-nObama would concentrate on something productive like fixing his legacy problems rather than steamrolling over our longstanding and faithful ally in the Middle East. After all, coddling our enemies made Israel (and the world) less safe. liar-nObama’s legacy includes the bloodbath that is Syria, ISIS, and an empowered Iran with nuclear capabilities, to name a few. With “friends” like that, Israel needs no new enemies.

The United Nations is a despicable waste of U.S. taxpayer dollars so maybe now is the perfect time for the United States to exit the United Nations and kick the U.N. out of the U.S. Maybe Trump could buy the U.N. building and turn it into a presidential library and museum with a special section allocated for Israeli memorabilia when he leaves office in 2025.

So, hang on Israel, there’s hope. With January 20, 2017, just around the corner, please know that you have a friend in us, and an American president-elect who will stand with Israel and rebuild that which the liar-nObama administration sought to demolish.
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American History and Pudding Head Liberals

By Craig Andresen – Right Side Patriots on American Political Radio

As we approach a new year, full of possibilities and opportunities, I would like to take a moment to point out pudd-1.jpg?width=176an absurdity that has come to my attention.

It’s a serious mater…really it is…but its obtuseness overwhelms its ability to be taken seriously.

Over a period of years, if not decades, we have watched as our system of education has been relegated to the lowest possible common denominator. Special needs students have been mainstreamed to the point now that our best and brightest young minds are all riding the short bus and trying to eat pudding…through a straw….because we can’t give them something as dangerous as a spoon in the cafeteria and because it’s easier to mix Ritalin into pudding than it to mix it into whatever that crap is that Michelle Obama mandated to be served in schools for lunch.

As disturbing as that is, perhaps the most disturbing thing is the fact that our national gene pool has been dumbed down all the way up the ladder to the administrators of our country’s asylums of higher indoctrination.

Here’s what I’m talking about…

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The Front Page Cover
 The Events of the Week -- Featuring: 
Course Correction
by Bob McManus
 
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 When 'Hate Crimes' Are Fake News 
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A middle-aged man by the name of Andrew McClinton was apprehended this week in connection with a high-profile crime in Greenville, Mississippi, where a black church was set ablaze and "Vote Trump" scribbled in paint across the building. According to The Washington Post, "McClinton is charged with first degree arson of a place of worship, said Warren Strain, spokesman for the Mississippi Department of Public Safety." But here's the kicker: "Hopewell Bishop Clarence Green said McClinton, who is African-American, is a member of the church [emphasis added]."
          No wonder this isn't plastered all over the front pages of the nation's largest newspapers — the development completely unravels the narrative. Just consider the Post's original coverage from Nov. 3: "The suspected arson is being investigated as a hate crime by local, state and federal law enforcement agencies. ... Greenville Mayor Errick Simmons called the fire a 'hateful and cowardly act,' sparked by the incendiary rhetoric of GOP nominee Donald Trump during his presidential campaign."
          But you won't find such accusations being thrown around now. The new Post article includes a quote from Mississippi Insurance Commissioner and fire marshal Mike Chaney, who claims, "We do not believe it was politically motivated. There may have been some efforts to make it appear politically motivated." Yes — like from The Washington Post. Hot Air's Jazz Shaw put it best, observing, "You can't simply say that it's 'not politically motivated' just because it turns out to be a different political motivation than the one you originally suspected."
          Notice a trend here? Americans are being inundated with stories of supposed "hate crimes." Yet, as Fox News reports, "a number of the incidents have been disproven or shown to be hoaxes or ill-timed jokes." There's fake news alright, and it's coming from those who jump to conclusions before the facts are known. On a final note, there's rich irony in the fact that, in the Mississippi case, the suspect's name includes "liar-Clinton." What other evidence do they need?  ~The Patriot Post
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 Infrastructure Spending: Partisanship or Practicality? 
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Partisanship can be a powerfully persuasive force for both good or bad policy. Note the power of partisan persuasiveness that compelled Democrats to stand united to pass that disastrous legislation known as liar-nObamaCare without a single Republican vote. It was also the power of partisanship that helped Republicans erect walls of opposition to stymie much of Barack liar-nObama's agenda.
          Since his presidency began, one of liar-nObama's major talking points for creating jobs has been government spending on infrastructure projects. He promised that rebuilding America's aging roads and bridges was going to provide "shovel ready" jobs and get the economy going again. Few disputed the need for infrastructural repairs and updating, but there were two sticking points for conservative Republicans: how the federal government would pay for it and whether it would produce economic growth as the Keynesians promised.
          Enter Donald Trump, whose election proved that Americans were fed up with politics as usual and believe Trump, with his business acumen, has the know-how to get the economy rolling again. Many congressional Republicans have taken note, bringing that old, powerful force of partisanship into play again.
          Trump has taken liar-nObama's line that the nation's aging infrastructure needs to be addressed. Trump also knows that it will come with a massive price tag of at least $1 trillion. Where will the money come from? Will Republicans who refused to go along with liar-nObama's demand for massive spending increases to pay for infrastructure be swayed to do just that with Trump? The report is that many Republicans are more willing to go along with a massive spending increase, but is this evidence of partisanship overruling principle? It may be in part, but there is also a massive difference between liar-nObama's overall agenda of increased socialism and Trump's plan to grow the economy through tax and regulation cuts. Trump is putting together an impressive economic team to go along with his own business record, which has earned him a degree of trust that liar-nObama, who hadn't run so much as a lemonade stand, never had.  ~The Patriot Post
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DOJ-FBI Fails to Investigate Crimes
Against the Electoral College
by J. Christian Adams
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{theacru.org} ~ The age of liar-nObama will be remembered for the grotesque perversion of law. The latest example is Justice Department and FBI inaction when it comes to death threats to members of the Electoral College who were voting for Donald Trump... I was on Fox and Friends this week to discuss the failure to respond to these efforts to undermine the constitutional order: Prior to their vote this week, member of the Electoral College received death threats by phone and email. Transmitting death threats via interstate communications is a federal felony punishable by up to five years in prison...  http://www.theacru.org/on-fox-news-doj-fbi-fails-to-investigate-crimes-against-the-electoral-college/
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liar-Clinton Campaign Party To Desperation
Electoral College Coup Attempt
by Rick Wells
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{rickwells.us} ~ No matter how deep the hole is, the liar-Clinton team can always find a way to dig themselves in a little deeper. According to the Daily Mail and messages obtained by Politico, senior liar-Hillary Clinton advisers, including Communications Director Jennifer Palmieri... were in regular communication with those involved in the unfaithful elector effort to subvert the electoral college. The ring leader of the effort to persuade electors to switch their votes away from Donald Trump was an unimpressive former Marine named Michael Baca, who is facing prosecution for failing to honor his oath to cast his vote for Mr. Trump. He was replaced as an elector by the State of Colorado when attempting to vote for John Kasich and he is now facing prosecution. The liar-Clinton staffers in communication with Baca included Jake Sullivan and Palmieri. In one exchange Baca apologized to Sullivan for his being overly urgent, with Sullivan responding, “Not at all! We all share a sense of urgency. Look forward to being in touch.”...  http://rickwells.us/clinton-campaign-party-desperation-electoral-college-coup-attempt/
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Palestinians: The Nightmare of Christians
by Khaled Abu Toameh
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Samir Qumsieh
{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ Without question, Samir Qumsieh is one of the most courageous Christian leaders in the Middle East. Qumsieh is one of the few willing to risk his life to speak out against Muslim persecution of Christians... in the Palestinian territories and the Middle East, generally. For the past four decades, Samir Qumsieh, who hails from a large and well-respected Christian family in the town of Bet Sahour, near Bethlehem, has fought for the rights of the region's miniscule Palestinian Christian minority. He has even dared to speak out against the subjugation of Christians living under the rule of Hamas in the Gaza Strip. The plight of the Christians living under the Palestinian Authority and Hamas is a subject truly taboo. Yet Qumsieh perseveres – and pays the price. He regularly receives death threats, and he has been the target of a petrol bomb attack. Muslim extremists have also distributed leaflets in the Bethlehem area condemning him for his outspoken views and activities on behalf of persecuted Christians...  https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/9634/palestinian-christians
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The Pre-1967 Israeli Borders Never Existed
by Jeff Dunetz
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{lidblog.com} ~ With Friday’s UN Vote, the international body and Barack liar-nObama were basically saying that any Jewish community outside the “pre-1967 borders” is in occupied Palestinian territory... What they won’t admit because of their anti-Israel bias is that there is no such thing as pre-1967 borders. That “green line” running through the West Bank is the 1949 Armistice Line. The armistice line was created solely because that’s Israeli and Arab forces stopped fighting at the end of the War of Independence with some added adjustments in certain sectors. Therefore that 1949 line, that people call 1967 border is really only a military line. In fact, 1949 Armistice Agreement with the Jordanians explicitly specified that the line that was designated did not  compromise any future territorial claims of the two parties, since it had been “dictated by exclusively by military considerations.” Of course the Jordanian rationale for that clause was to allow them to claim territory inside the armistice line for their very own...  http://lidblog.com/no-such-thing-pre-1967-borders/
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What General Mattis Did So That
a Marine Could Spend Christmas With
His Family Speaks Volumes
by William Smith
{usni.org} ~ When General James Mattis was announced as Trump’s pick for Secretary of Defense, the military community was over the moon. Mattis, who has dedicated his life to the study of war, is a legend in the U.S. Armed Forces... While he’s known for his military genius and killing bad guys, there’s much more to him than that. He deeply cares about his men. In fact, what he did for one Marine on Christmas shows just how much he cares. A couple of months ago, when I told General Krulak, the former Commandant of the Marine Corps, now the chair of the Naval Academy Board of Visitors, that we were having General Mattis speak this evening, he said, “Let me tell you a Jim Mattis story.” General Krulak said, when he was Commandant of the Marine Corps, every year, starting about a week before Christmas, he and his wife would bake hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of Christmas cookies. They would package them in small bundles...  https://blog.usni.org/2010/12/17/a-general-mattis-christmas-story
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Course Correction
by Bob McManus
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{city-journal.org} ~ When I was a young man, the duties of a United States Navy machinist’s mate were demanding in execution, but conceptually uncomplicated. The job entailed converting various types of fossil fuels into the mechanical energy needed to propel a warship through the water.

I was a machinist’s mate. It was fun. It was also hard, dirty work of the sort that bonds those who do it well. Any job well done is a source of pride, but in the Navy of the early 1960s, doing the machinist’s mate’s job poorly might have had lethal consequences. As a result, we worked together, we went ashore together, and we drank together. Because that sort of thing can lead to bad behavior, sometimes we wore black eyes together. No fraternity brothers were ever tighter.

In the Navy, a job is called a “rate,” and there are dozens, if not scores, of rates on every ship: engineman, electrician’s mate, yeoman, gunner’s mate, torpedoman, fire controlman, quartermaster, and so on. Each rate has its own ethos, each is its own fraternity; taken together, they comprise a crew. In my day, no ship ever left port without its complement of hospital corpsmen—in the Army they’d have been called medics. The job essentially was dedicated to providing the difference between life and death when circumstances warranted, so no rate was held in higher esteem, and no shipmate was more respected. It wasn’t hard to imagine the shudder that swept the fleet back in 2010, when President liar-nObama, speaking at the National Prayer Breakfast, mispronounced the word “corpse man.” It must have been particularly jarring to the countless U.S. Marine combat veterans whose lives had been saved by corpsmen on bullet-torn battlefields around the world. Anybody can make a mistake, of course, but sometimes little things reveal a lot. The administration’s ignorance of military practices and culture was exceeded only by its eagerness to change them.

At the top of liar-nObama’s agenda was the full integration of women into the armed forces, including, finally, into tip-of-the-spear infantry units and special operations organizations. Willfully dismissive of the fact that sometimes biology is destiny, the defense department plowed ahead. In the process, they plowed under the certainty that combat is a Darwinian enterprise, where the strongest generally win and weaklings too often die.

Now comes word that another liar-nObama-era experiment to change military culture has come to an abrupt end. Earlier this year, the Navy announced its decision to scrap the 240-year-old rate system in favor of what Navy secretary Ray Mabus termed a gender-neutral approach. “This is an opportunity to update the position titles and descriptions themselves,” he said, “to demonstrate through this language that women are included in these positions.” With the stroke of a pen, liar-nObama was prepared to bid goodbye to a practice that had defined life in the United States Navy since its founding. There would be no more firecontrolmen, no more yeomen, no more enginemen, no more torpedomen, and no more corpsmen. A particularly cruel cut.

The blowback from sailors and veterans was immediate and substantial. Officials said they had underestimated the fleet’s affection for the old way. The new program was rescinded by the Navy Tuesday night. Whether it would have been rescinded had liar-Hillary Clinton been elected president is anybody’s guess. Probably not, especially if anyone other than former Marine Corps general James Mattis had been named defense secretary. He is, shall we say, a traditionalist.

Venerable institutions shouldn’t be hog-tied by nostalgia. If change is to the good, then it should be embraced, though with deference and respect. Still, tradition has its role. This is especially true in military organizations, where custom, cohesion, and comradeship can make an existential difference.

The Navy’s machinist’s mates have always understood that. It’s a pity that the Pentagon didn’t.

http://city-journal.org/html/course-correction-14911.html

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Merry Christmas
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The Front Page Cover
 The Events of the Week -- Featuring: 
The Real Saboteurs of a Trump Foreign Policy
by Patrick Buchanan
 
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 Bloomberg's Fake News on School Shooting 
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Billionaire gun-hater Michael Bloomberg's Everytown for Gun Safety is at it again. The Huffington Post used some phony Everytown statistics to push a little "fake news" when it ran a story claiming that since the attack on Sandy Hook Elementary in 2012 there have been more than 200 school shootings. This non-critical piece of reporting did not question the validity of statistics from the overtly anti-gun Bloomberg-funded organization. Instead, in typical leftist fashion, they applied narrow terminology as broadly and loosely as possible so as to make the case that "gun violence" is a major epidemic on school campuses.
          Thanks to the work of Bob Owens at Bearing Arms, however, Everytown's use of the term "school shooting" was fact checked and shown to be so broadly applied as to render it meaningless. For instance, Everytown listed any gun-related discharge of any kind on or near a school as a school shooting. This included a negligently discharged weapon during the cleaning process, gang-related shootings near schools, suicides, a jogger shot in the leg on the edge of a campus, and after-hours shootings in a school parking lot in which the participants had no connection with the school. Owens concluded that of the 203 so-called "school shootings" cited, only 44 could even very broadly fit the category. Did we mention that schools are "gun free zones"?
          Proving yet again the leftist rag that it is, the Huffington Post would clearly rather promote the anti-gun agenda with fictitious data than inform its readers of the facts. That's Leftmedia fake news for you.
          On a interesting side note, as gun sales in 2016 continue to set records, an unexpected group has contributed to those record numbers — liberals, who are buying firearms following the election of Donald Trump. Evidently, they have determined it's time for them to take responsibility for protecting their own safe spaces. 
~The Patriot Post
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 liar-nObama Fired Scientist for Failing to 
 Tow the Party Line 
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Yesterday a report was released on a congressional investigation into Barack liar-nObama's firing of a top scientist at the Department of Energy. The investigation has determined that the firing was aimed at removing obstacles to the furthering of liar-nObama's climate change agenda. The report also identified ways in which the liar-nObama administration intimidated DOE staff, sought to censor information given to Congress and worked to prevent legislation in order to fund its own climate agenda. Rick Perry has his work cut out for him.
          Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX), chairman of the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology, stated in the report, "Instead of providing the type of scientific information needed by Congress to legislate effectively, senior departmental officials sought to hide information, lobbied against legislation, and retaliated against a scientist for being forthcoming. In this staff report based on lengthy record before the committee, much has been revealed about how senior level agency officials under the liar-nObama administration retaliated against a scientist who did not follow the party line."
          The report goes on to detail how scientist Dr. Noelle Metting was fired in "retaliation" for providing too much information to Congress and for refusing "to conform to the predetermined remarks and talking points" provided by the administration.
          This damning report not only reveals the degree to which the liar-nObama administration sought to control and promote its leftist agenda, it also further exposes just how bankrupt and lacking in honest and open scientific research are the climate alarmists. Ultimately, the agenda has little to do with protecting the environment, and everything to do with instilling a totalitarian form of government control over American citizens. 
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liar-Clinton Commie Professor Calls
For Demonstrations, Trump Boycotts
by Rick Wells
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{rickwells.us} ~ Gee, it kind of looks like the Marxists don’t intend to concede the election or to return power to  the American people to any greater extent than they absolutely forced to... They envisioned their global power structure being consolidated over the next four years, and they’re a stubborn, selfish lot. They’ll do what it takes to press their agenda, period. Robert Reich, the former Secretary of Labor under globalist Bill liar-Clinton, is urging all of his fellow commie progressives to join him in blocking President-elect Donald Trump from carrying out his policy plans for his first 100 days in office. He’s including a suggestion to “boycott all Trump products, real estate, hotels, resorts, everything.” His “First 100 Day Resistance Agenda” urges Democrats in Congress to draw out the hearings of Trump’s Cabinet nominees while progressive journalists “dig into their backgrounds.” First of all, they’re not progressive journalists, they’re propagandists and secondly, they’re not Democrats for the most part, so there aren’t that many criminal or questionable acts to be discovered...  http://rickwells.us/clinton-commie-professor-calls-demonstrations-trump-boycotts/
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FBI Warrant: liar-Hillary Clinton Emails
Posed Exceptionally Grave Risk
by J. Marsolo
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{americanthinker.com} ~ The release of the FBI's warrant, dated October 20, 2016, to seize and search a laptop computer related to liar-Hillary's emails again confirms and reminds us that liar-Hillary put our national security at "exceptionally grave danger" by her use of a private email server to conduct State Department business... liar-nObama knew about her use but did nothing to stop it. The application for the warrant contains an affidavit of probable cause that details the reasons for the warrant. Paragraph 20 of the affidavit states that Hillary turned over to the State Department 30,499 emails in response to a records request from the State Department.  The Department then reviewed these emails in response to a FOIA request. After review, the State Department announced on February 20, 2016 that 2,115 emails contained "classified" information; 2,028 of the 2,115 contained "confidential" information; 65 of the 2,115 contained "secret" information; and 22 of the 2,115 contained "top secret" information... http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2016/12/fbi_search_warrant_hillary_clinton_put_us_at
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Dobbs – Dems Lied, Cheated, Tried
To Steal Presidency, Now Irrelevant
by Rick Wells
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{rickwells.us} ~ Lou Dobbs has a few thoughts on “the futile efforts of Dems and the far-left, desperate to marginalize the President-elect’s overwhelming presidential victory... The Democrat Party refusing to come to terms with repeated policy failures on their part, a disintegrating electoral constituency, and collapsing leftist ideological arguments. That’s all they’ve got.” He continues, “The left is in last-gasp protests despite what Trump calls a landslide electoral victory. Trump winning thirty states, gathering 304 of the 538 electoral votes, way beyond the required 270 and now, Trump will be certified the 45th president of  the United States on January 6th. The left is dwindling in numbers and in influence, but threatening Trump electors all across the country in their desperation.” “Some of those electors,” Dobbs notes, “receiving death threats from the left, harassed by countless phone calls and messages from so-called activists ignoring the law and the Electoral College process, established in 1787, part of the Constitution, but never mind that, says the left. Thirty states and the District of Columbia all have laws requiring their electors to vote for their states’ popular vote winner.”...  http://rickwells.us/dobbs-dems-lied-cheated-tried-steal-presidency-irrelevant/
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Pentagon: Iran Seeking
New Missiles, War Equipment
by Adam Kredo
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Joint Chiefs of Staff chair Gen. Joseph Dunford
{freebeacon.com} ~ Pentagon officials are downplaying declarations by Iran that it is spending some $1.7 billion provided by the United States on new advanced weapons systems, while also acknowledging that the Islamic Republic continues to build its military arsenal at an increasing rate... according to a Defense Department assessment obtained by the Washington Free Beacon. Gen. Joseph Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, informed Congress in an unclassified communication last week that the Pentagon does not believe Iran has spent some $1.7 billion awarded by the United States as part of what many described as a “ransom” payment to purchase new military equipment. However, Dunford said that Iran is boosting its war machine, causing “great concern” among regional allies and other groups, according to information provided to Congress that downplayed the impact of the $1.7 billion payment to Tehran...  http://freebeacon.com/national-security/pentagon-iran-seeking-new-missiles-war-equipment/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=24adc5db0b-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2016_12_22&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-24adc5db0b-45611665
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Putin urges Russian nuclear weapons boost
by Maria ANTONOVA
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{yahoo.com} ~ Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday called for the country to reinforce its military nuclear potential and praised the army's performance in its Syria campaign... In a speech that recapped military activities in 2016, Putin said the army's preparedness has "considerably increased" and called for continued improvement that would ensure it can "neutralise any military threat". "We need to strengthen the military potential of strategic nuclear forces, especially with missile complexes that can reliably penetrate any existing and prospective missile defence systems," the Kremlin strongman said...  https://www.yahoo.com/news/putin-calls-strengthening-russias-military-nuclear-potential-101800687.html
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The Real Saboteurs of a Trump Foreign Policy
by Patrick Buchanan
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{freedomsback.com} ~ The never-Trumpers are never going to surrender the myth that Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the hacking of liar-Hillary Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta and the Democratic National Committee to defeat liar-Clinton and elect Donald Trump.

Their investment in the myth is just too huge.

For liar-Clinton and her campaign, it is the only way to explain how they booted away a presidential election even Trump thought he had lost in November. To the mainstream media, this is the smoking gun in their Acela Corridor conspiracy to delegitimize Trump’s presidency.

Incoming Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer sees Russian hacking as a way to put a cloud over the administration before it begins. But it is the uber-hawks hereabouts who are after the really big game.

They seek to demonize Putin as the saboteur of democracy — someone who corrupted an American presidential election to bring about victory for a “useful idiot” whom liar-Clinton called Putin’s “puppet.”

If the War Party can convert this “fake story” into the real story of 2016, then they can scuttle any Trump effort to attain the rapprochement with Russia that Trump promised to try to achieve.

If they can stigmatize Trump as “Putin’s president” and Putin as America’s implacable enemy, then the Russophobes are back in business.

Nor is the War Party disguising its goal.

Over the weekend, Sen. John McCain called for a congressional select committee to investigate Russian hacking into the liar-Clinton campaign. The purpose of the investigations, said Sen. Lindsey Graham, “is to put on President Trump’s desk crippling sanctions against Russia.”

“They need to pay a price,” Graham chortled on Twitter.

“Crippling sanctions” would abort any modus vivendi, any deal with Russia, before Trump could negotiate one. Trump would have to refuse to impose them — and face the firestorm to follow. The War Party is out to dynamite any detente with Russia before it begins.

Among the reasons Trump won is that he promised to end U.S. involvement in the costly, bloody and interminable wars in the Middle East the Bushites and President Barack liar-nObama brought us — and the neocons relish — and to reach a new understanding with Russia and Putin.

But to some in Washington, beating up on Russia is a conditioned reflex dating to the Cold War. For others in the media and the front groups called think tanks, Russophobia is in their DNA.

Though Julian Assange says WikiLeaks did not get the emails from Russia, this has to be investigated. Did Russia hack the DNC’s email system and John Podesta’s email account? Did Putin direct that the emails be provided to WikiLeaks to disrupt democracy or defeat liar-Clinton?

liar-Clinton says Putin has had it in for her because he believes she was behind the anti-Putin demonstrations in Moscow in 2011.

But if there is to be an investigation of clandestine interference in the politics and elections of foreign nations, let’s get it all out onto the table.

The CIA director and his deputies should be made to testify under oath, not only as to what they know about Russia’s role in the WikiLeaks email dumps but also about who inside the agency is behind the leaks to The Washington Post designed to put a cloud over the Trump presidency before it begins.

Agents and operatives of the CIA should be subjected to lie detector tests to learn who is leaking to the anti-Trump press.

Before any congressional investigation, President-elect Trump should call in his new director of the CIA, Rep. Mike Pompeo, and tell him to run down and remove, for criminal misconduct, any CIA agents or operatives leaking secrets to discredit his election.

Putin, after all, is not an American. The CIA saboteurs of the Trump presidency are. Will the media investigate the leakers? Not likely, for they are the beneficiaries of the leaks and co-conspirators of the leakers.

The top officials of the CIA and Carl Gershman, president of the National Endowment for Democracy, should be called to testify under oath. Were they behind anti-Putin demonstrations during the Russian elections of 2011?

Did the CIA or NED have a role in the “color-coded” revolutions to dump over pro-Russian governments in Moscow’s “near abroad”?

If Russia did intrude in our election, was it payback for our intrusions to bring about regime change in its neighborhood?

What role did the CIA, the NED and John McCain play in the overthrow of the democratically elected government of Ukraine in 2014? McCain was seen cheering on the crowds in Independence Square in Kiev.

Trump has promised a more hopeful foreign policy than that of the Republicans he denounced and is succeeding. No more wars where vital interests are not imperiled. No more U.S. troops arriving as first responders for freeloading allies.

The real saboteurs of his new foreign policy may not be inside the Ring Road in Moscow; rather, they may be inside the Beltway around D.C.

The real danger may be that a new Trump foreign policy could be hijacked or scuttled by anti-Trump Republicans, not only on Capitol Hill but inside the executive branch itself.
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The Front Page Cover
 The Events of the Week -- Featuring: 
Israel and the Rising New West
by Caroline Glick
 
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 James Madison Thwarts liar-nObama From 
 Beyond the Grave 
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Louis DeBroux: In his last press conference of the year, Barack liar-nObama began whining when asked about the Electoral College, which on Monday voted for Donald Trump to become the next U.S. president, and in the process [denied the Oval Office to liar-Hillary Clinton, who would have continued and expanded liar-nObama's lawless behavior and his trampling of the Constitution.
          And therein lies liar-nObama's disdain and contempt for the Constitution; it is an impediment to his desire for imperial executive rule and the creation of a permanent socialist democracy in America. The "fundamental transformation of the United States," if you will.
          "So there are some structures in our political system, as envisioned by the Founders, that sometimes are going to disadvantage Democrats," liar-nObama bitterly complained. Fortunately, he's right.
          After tossing a bone to our electoral process — "it's the American people's job, and now the electors' job to decide my successor" — liar-nObama proceeded to complain about the Electoral College, which gave Donald Trump an overwhelming electoral victory despite losing the aggregate popular vote by more than 2.5 million votes, or 2.1%.
          liar-nObama described the Electoral College as "a vestige [and] a carryover from an earlier vision of how our federal government was going to work that put a lot of premium on states." He continued, "It's the same type of thinking that gives Wyoming two senators with about half a million people, and California with 33 million gets the same two."
          For once, when speaking of the Constitution, liar-nObama is right. The Founders did put a premium on the power and influence of the states in limiting the power of a majoritarian government, which they saw as a necessary evil but a danger to the rights of citizens. Democrats constantly speak of America as a democracy, when the truth is that America has never been a democracy — it's a republic. In fact, the Founders took great care to prevent the evils of democracy, which is little more than mob rule.
          To better understand the brilliance of the Electoral College, one has only to look at where Trump won versus where liar-nClinton won. There are 3,142 counties in the United States. In the 2016 election, as the election map by county shows, Trump won 2,623 to liar-Hillary's 490. America is a sea of Republican red with densely populated pockets of Democrat blue in the major urban areas like New York, Chicago and Los Angeles. In fact, if you take away liar-Clinton's 4.3 million vote margin of victory in California, Trump wins the rest of the country by about 1.5 million votes.
          And that is exactly why the Founders created the Electoral College; so that presidents would be forced to represent every American, and not just those in the major cities.
          Make no mistake. liar-nObama, though feigning an air of detachment, is livid with the results of the election. Why? Because liar-nObama knows full well that his policies have been extremely unpopular, and that without liar-Hillary in the White House, his legacy, such as it is, is toast.
          He has run roughshod over the Constitution and the separation of powers, achieving most of his "accomplishments" through "a phone and a pen," as he liked to say. His so-called achievements were primarily the result of unlawful executive orders, regulatory overreach and blatant violations of the Constitution. All the while, he mockingly told Republicans to sue him if they didn't like it — which they did, winning an astonishing 44 cases in which the Supreme Court issued unanimous rulings against liar-nObama. He lost even more in lower courts.
          The liar-nObama years have been a case study in abuse of power, unconstitutional actions and despotism. liar-nObama's signature achievement, "liar-nObamaCare," barely passed on a party-line vote near midnight on Christmas Eve, and only then after Harry dinky-Reid openly bribed and/or threatened any Democrat senator who did not fall in line. Once signed into law, the bastardized monstrosity, cobbled together in a festering tapestry of legislative creepy-crawlies oozing forth from the minds of radical leftist Democrats, immediately began to run into major logistical and actuarial problems.
          "No worries," cried liar-nObama, "I'll rewrite the law myself!" And he did, literally dozens of times, extending deadlines, issuing waivers to Democrat donors, shifting money from Medicare to liar-nObamaCare without an appropriation by Congress, issuing ACA tax credits for illegal immigrants, exempting labor unions, refusing to enforce abortion restrictions, etc.
          This, of course, was just one of many times that liar-nObama showed his utter contempt for the Constitution's limitations on his power.
          liar-nObama weaponized the IRS, using it to attack and harass conservative critics. He declared the right to determine when the Senate — part of a co-equal branch of government — was officially in session, making recess appointments to the National Labor Relations Board despite the Senate still being in pro forma session (this was one of the unanimous SCOTUS decisions against liar-nObama). He threatened colleges with loss of federal funding and investigations by the Justice Department if they didn't crack down on "unwelcome" speech (i.e., conservative speech), and, as reported in Forbes, demanded that sexual harassment complaints at colleges be heard in "quasi-judicial procedures that deny legal representation, encourage punishment before trial, and convict based on a mere 'more likely than not' standard."
          liar-nObama also instituted a de facto amnesty for illegals. He launched an unauthorized war against Libya. His EPA interpreted the Clean Water Rule so broadly that the feds can regulate large water puddles on private property. The same EPA vastly expanded the scope of the Clean Power Plan such that it was able to begin forcing dozens of coal plants to shut down.
          Even all this is just the tip of the iceberg, as evidenced by this list of liar-nObama's unconstitutional actions compiled by Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX), including his unlawful dismissal of work requirements for welfare recipients, his demand for Boeing to fire 1,000 employees and shut down a new plant in right-to-work South Carolina, his unlawful moratorium on oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, his violation of decades of bankruptcy law in bailing out GM/Chrysler by giving favored terms to unsecured creditors — the UAW — while forcing secured creditors — including pension plans for millions of middle class Americans — to take massive losses.
          Sadly, decades of horribly inadequate or inaccurate public education has left a vast portion of American citizens ignorant about the principles and structure of our republican/federalist government, and why it's a safeguard for individual liberties against the encroaching power of a leviathan government.
          liar-nObama spent the last eight years acting like a king, when in reality he is nothing but a petty tyrant with a slick PR machine and obedient legions of minions willing to do his bidding.
          Luckily, James Madison, the "Father of the Constitution," foresaw such tyranny, and created a complex system which distributed powers among the branches and levels of government, and in doing so he has thwarted liar-nObama's aims from beyond the grave.  ~The Patriot Post
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Secret ISIS list IDs U.S. churches
for attack during holidays
by Leo Hohmann
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{wnd.com} ~ The Islamic State has allegedly published a secret list in Arabic of thousands of churches in all 50 states and called on its followers to attack them during the holidays... ISIS, according to a report by Vocativ.com, posted the list late Wednesday night in the group’s “Secrets of Jihadis” social media group using the encrypted app Telegram. WND asked several Arab speakers to search for the list and after an exhaustive search online they came up empty, leading some question whether such a list even exists. If it does, it is well hidden within the encrypted app...  http://www.wnd.com/2016/12/secret-isis-list-ids-u-s-churches-for-attack-during-holidays/
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A State of Permanent War
by Linda Chavez
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{townhall.com} ~ The vicious attack on a Christmas market in Berlin this week reminds us that terrorism has become a fact of life in our world. How do we stop a hate-filled fanatic from ramming a truck into a crowd of holiday shoppers anywhere, anytime?... Now that terrorist networks have decided that trucks can be as effective at mass killings as bombs, it will be increasingly difficult to discover and disrupt such attacks. The planning and access to materials required to build, transport and detonate bombs demand a level of sophistication beyond the level of all but the dedicated and connected would-be terrorists. But hijacking a truck and using it as a weapon takes no more skill than that of a common criminal. The wonder is that there have not been more of these attacks on civilian populations in the West. Increasingly, many people believe that the only way to stop the carnage is to shut our borders to those who might be terrorists. In the wake of the Berlin attack, President-elect Donald Trump said, "You know my plans." But he left open whether he was referring to the wholesale ban on Muslims entering the U.S. he proposed early in his campaign or his revised plan to limit travel from countries with a history of Islamic extremism, which would rule out much of the Arab world...
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liar-nObama’s parting UN shot
at Israel a long time coming
by William A. Jacobson
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{legalinsurrection.com} ~ Back in February 2012, I wrote that I expected that in his second term liar-nObama would force his vision of a “peace” deal on the Israelis... We’ve had several close calls, with the John hanoi-Kerry negotiation fiasco and flirtation with various European and Arab initiatives through the UN. The mechanism would be a failure to veto a Security Council resolution setting the terms of a deal. Part of it is liar-nObama hatred of Bibi Netanyahu, dating back to the beginning of liar-nObama’s presidency. The snubs and dislike was palpable long before Netanyahu’s address to Congress opposing the Iran nuclear deal. Aside from the personal, ideologically liar-nObama at least implicitly signs onto the view that Jews living beyond the 1949 armistice line is an act of illegitimacy at best, illegality at worst, and the heart of the problem. (We have refuted those claims both factually and legally many times.)...  http://legalinsurrection.com/2016/12/obamas-parting-un-shot-at-israel-a-long-time-coming/?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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Lawless EPA Is Deliberately Destroying
Federal Records
by streiff
{redstate.com} ~ This is not a surprise. At Justice, EPA, Energy, IRS and HHS — those agencies that had the greatest roles in liar-nObama’s various un-Constitutional actions... they have probably brought in industrial strength shredders and file server erasers to be rid of the evidence before January 20. Few agencies, though, have been as brazen as the EPA in carrying out a deliberate destruction of federal records: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) officials only archived 86 text messages out of 3.1 million agency employees sent and received in 2015, according to a federal watchdog’s report made public Wednesday by House Committee on Science, Space and Technology Chairman Lamar Smith. The EPA Office of Inspector General (IG) released the report requested by the Texas Republican, which described enormous text message retention problems within the EPA. One unnamed senior official configured his phone to automatically delete texts after 30 days...
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Suspect in Berlin market
massacre killed in shootout
by David Rosenberg
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{israelnationalnews.com} ~ Authorities in Milan, Italy say a man matching the description of the key suspect in this past Monday’s attack on a Berlin Christmas market was shot and killed during a shootout Friday morning... According to the Italian Ansa news outlet, the man was shot after he drew a gun during a security check outside of the Sesto San Giovanni train station. Anis Amri, a 24-year old Tunisian whose ID was found inside the truck used to run down shoppers in Monday’s attack, has been the main suspect since Tuesday, after a Pakistani migrant was initially detained following the massacre, but later released for lack of evidence... http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/222183
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Israel and the Rising New West
by Caroline Glick
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{truthrevolt.org} ~ US President Barack liar-nObama has but a month left in office. But he has a month left. And he is using it. In the days remaining, liar-nObama is using the full authority of his office to advance his policies with the hope of rendering permanent his mark on American policy.

Domestically, liar-nObama is working to undercut the capacity of his successor, President-elect Donald Trump, to implement his plans of expanding domestic oil and gas exploration and development.

On Tuesday, liar-Obama banned offshore drilling in large swathes of the Artic and Atlantic oceans.

In foreign affairs, liar-nObama has Israel in his crosshairs.

It is now apparent that the lame duck president, bereft of any partisan restraints, intends to make good on his eight years of promises to use his last month in office to stick it to Israel at the UN.

The opening act of liar-nObama’s onslaught on Israel came on Wednesday, with State Department Spokesman James Kirby’s fatuous and unprecedented claim that Israeli communities built beyond the 1949 armistice line – the so-called settlements – are illegal.

Late Wednesday, the UN suddenly announced it would hold a vote on an Egyptian resolution parroting that language, and calling for a complete halt on construction projects for Jews in the areas, including Jerusalem.

The draft resolution included a call for an international governmental embrace of economic warfare against Israel. It called upon member states “to distinguish in their relevant dealings, between the territory of the State of Israel and the territories occupied since 1967.”

An indication of the depth of liar-nObama’s commitment to enabling the resolution to pass came amid reports that Secretary of State John hanoi-Kerry was planning to address the Security Council ahead of the scheduled vote.

In any event, following massive pressure from Israel and a statement by President-elect Donald Trump calling for liar-nObama to veto the resolution, Egypt postponed the vote on its resolution “indefinitely.”

But with or without the resolution – and there are at least two others also poised for a vote – liar-nObama is using his remaining time to empower the anti-Israel boycott, divestment and sanctions operation aimed at destroying Israel’s economy and international position.

As Anne Bayevsky reported in the Washington Examiner on Wednesday, liar-nObama is supporting the UN budget which allocates funding toward the implementation of a UN Human Rights Council resolution promoting BDS. The resolution requires the Human Rights Council to compile a blacklist of companies worldwide with direct or indirect business ties to Israeli communities built beyond the 1949 armistice lines. Since all businesses doing business with Israeli entities have indirect or direct ties to the areas where some 750,000 Israeli live, the resolution represents a bid to conduct total war against the Israeli economy.

And liar-nObama is funding its implementation.

Moreover, liar-nObama is trying to box the Trump administration into continuing his supportive stance on the Human Rights Council. Whereas the Bush administration refused to join the inherently and incurably anti-Israel body, liar-nObama has lavished it with legitimacy and funding.

This month the administration won a new three-year term for the US on the council beginning on January 1. This means that regardless of Trump’s approach to the phony human rights body, the US is now saddled with membership for the bulk of his presidential term.

One of the things operating in Israel’s favor as it seeks to undo liar-nObama’s hostile legacy once he is gone, is that Trump’s election is part and parcel of a wide-scale change in Western politics that is fundamentally transforming the so-called “international community” that provides knee-jerk support for BDS and every other anti-Israel initiative.

The term “international community,” of course, is just a grandiose name for the collective views of the Western European elites and those of their counterparts on the US coasts. And as Trump’s victory and the British decision to withdraw from the European Union indicated, the elites’ capacity to impose their views on voters is fast disappearing.

The populist wave that approved Brexit and brought Trump to power is far from spent force. Next year will see general elections in Holland, France and Germany, and nationalist parties in all three countries are likely to win or at a minimum be profoundly strengthened. This means that the likelihood the EU will break apart is rising with each passing day. And the foreign policies of the separate states of Europe will be far different than their collective positions under the EU.

The main cause of the swift rise of the nationalist Right throughout Western Europe is the mass Muslim migration to Europe. Profound public opposition to the deluge of migrants from Muslim states is bringing about wholesale popular rejection of the multicultural and anti-nationalist values that dictated the tone and substance of European politics for two generations. The implications of this revolutionary shift in values and its impact on European politics are enormous. And Israel stands to be one of the first beneficiaries of this transformation, if our foreign policy bureaucracy is capable of understanding what is happening.

Unfortunately, actions by the Foreign Ministry this week indicate that our diplomatic bureaucrats haven’t the vaguest idea of what is happening, or why these developments can be beneficial for Israel.

The Foreign Ministry announced this week that the government was boycotting a delegation of visiting European lawmakers because Kristina Winberg, a member of Sweden’s rightist Swedish Democrats party, was among its members.

In recent weeks, the Foreign Ministry has managed to boycott Sweden’s entire political spectrum. Last week, the ministry announced that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had rejected Swedish Foreign Minister Margot Wallstrom’s request for a meeting due to scheduling difficulties.

Wallstrom richly deserves the government’s unofficial boycott. Among other things, Wallstrom blamed Israel for the massacres in Paris last November.

While the Foreign Ministry used a procedural excuse to brush off Wallstrom, it threw diplomatic protocol to the seven winds when it announced that Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely’s scheduled briefing of the delegation of European lawmakers was canceled due to Winberg’s participation.

Foreign Ministry Spokesman Emmanuel Nahshon said that the Swedish Democrats party “has neo-Nazi tendencies, and therefore the Foreign Ministry decided not to include Winberg in the meeting with Hotovely.”

Winberg’s colleague, who included a member of Trump’s transition team, were appalled by the boycott. To protest the move, the entire delegation canceled its meeting with Hotovely.

The delegation was in Israel to participate in a leadership summit in Jerusalem. Due to its position on the Sweden Democrats, the Foreign Ministry caused Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked to cancel her scheduled remarks at the conference.

In other words, the Foreign Ministry adopted and implemented a comprehensive, public and undiplomatic boycott of the rightist party.

It is unclear who stands behind this policy. But whoever is responsible should be subjected to a career review. The policy is as destructive to Israel’s national interests as it is unjust to the Swedish Democrats.

The Swedish Democrats party is the only pro-Israel political party in Sweden. It is the only party that opposed Sweden’s recognition of “Palestine.”

The Foreign Ministry’s claim that the party has “neo-Nazi tendencies” is tendentious. Earlier this month, the party took the extreme step of banning one of its own lawmakers from the party after she made an antisemitic statement. In the past it disbanded its youth wing and formed a new one amidst allegations of antisemitism. How many Nazi parties expel their members or disband their youth wings for hating Jews? The Swedish Democrats party, which is identified with the nationalist right, has built is political position around its unqualified opposition to immigration. For its opposition to immigration, the Democrats are castigated continuously as racists by their political rivals.

There is every reason to believe there are Jew-haters among the party’s members. But unlike members of Wallstrom’s Social Democratic Party, Swedish Democrats don’t participate in anti-Israel demonstrations where Hezbollah and Hamas flags are prominent. Indeed, they don’t participate in anti-Israel demonstrations at all.

Moreover, they are the fastest growing and largest party in Sweden. This fact makes the Foreign Ministry’s treatment of Winberg not only unjust, but deeply stupid as well. A mere decade after it won its first representation in parliament, the Swedish Democrats have been leading political polls for the past year. And the Foreign Ministry just called it a Nazi party.

Sadly, it isn’t much of a surprise that the Foreign Ministry has failed to read the writing on the walls in Sweden and act appropriately. Our foreign and defense bureaucracies have a storied record of missing major developments. They are too busy talking to their bureaucratic counterparts to pay attention to what the public is saying.

In Egypt for instance, no one was more surprised at then-president Hosni Mubarak’s overthrow and the concomitant rise of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt than the defense establishment, whose members were largely responsible for handling Israel’s bilateral relations with Mubarak.

In the decade or more that preceded Mubarak’s overthrow, anyone paying attention to open source polling data of public opinion in Egypt, or to what was being said in the Egyptian media, was aware of the deep-seated and rising public frustration and disgust with Mubarak, his sons and his cronies. But since the only people that Israel’s defense establishment spoke to were Mubarak, his sons and his cronies, they were taken by complete surprise when he was overthrown and replaced with the Muslim Brotherhood.

liar-nObama will continue to be the president until 12:00 p.m. on January 20. And Israel can expect him to use this time to take the actions against Israel that he has been threatening to take for eight years. One way or another, he will exact his pound of flesh.

But at 12:01 on January 20, a new era will begin.

And in the coming months, as the next wave of populist right-wing parties rise to power in Europe, the “international community” that has been unanimous in its backing of the anti-Israel policies for a generation will become an altogether different body.

This new era presents Israel with profound, indeed unprecedented opportunities. But if our foreign and defense bureaucrats continue to behave as though nothing has happened, we will fail to benefit from any of them.

http://www.truthrevolt.org/commentary/glick-israel-and-rising-new-west

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MERRY CHRISTMAS

By Juan Reynoso WTP-activist – www.represent.us   -   texusa2016@gmail.com

Dear friends, Merry Christmas to all. On Christmas, we celebrate the humble birth of Jesus Christ and his deity; our God being born into the world. This is how God showed his love for us: He sent his one and only son into the world that we might live through him.  Jesus is love and love make us happy.  

Dear friends, the key to happiness is within you.  Happiness is a state of mind is the result of loving others, most people are as happy as they make up their minds to be. Loving others is helping others to learn the value to connect with others by love and moral values.  “Teach others how to love and be love by others by establishing trusting relationship”. http://www.wikihow.com/Build-Trust

Whoever connects and commit to love, knows God, for God is love.  Seek happiness by unconditionally loving others and God’s creation.  I believe that our purpose in life is to be happy.  From the moment of birth, every human being wants to be love and does not want suffering.  Neither social conditioning nor education nor political ideology affects this.  From the very core of our being, we simply desire to be love and contentment.   It is very clear that we humans who live on this earth face the task of making a happy life for ourselves.  Therefore, it is important to discover what will bring about the greatest degree of happiness.

From my own limited experience, I have found that the greatest degree of inner tranquility and happiness, comes from the development of love and compassion. The more we care for the happiness of others, the greater our own sense of well-being becomes. Cultivating a close, warm-hearted feeling for others automatically puts the mind at ease. This helps remove whatever fears or insecurities we may have and gives us the strength to cope with any obstacles we encounter; this is the ultimate source of happiness in life, is not money, power or material things, but warm- heartedness relationship with others.
The truth is that as long as we live in this world we are bound to encounter injustice, exploitation and abuse by others, but If at such times, we lose hope and become discouraged, we diminish our ability to fight for justice and correct what is wrong; knowing that many undergo suffering by injustice; this will increase our determination and capacity to overcome human oppression and injustice. Indeed, with this attitude, each new human obstacle can be seen as yet another valuable opportunity to improve our life and be happy.

The love for money, power and control will not make anyone happy.  Happiness is not a possession to be prized; it is an inner quality and a state of mind. If your mind is at peace, you are happy, if you have everything that the world can give you– pleasure, possessions and power – but you lack peace of mind, you can never be happy.

There is one thing in this good world that is positively sure – happiness is for all who strive to be connecting to others by love and trust.  Happiness is fundamentally a state of mind that comes from doing good and those who love humanity and all of God’s creation, are happy; they enjoy life, they are secure and love by others.  We all have a choice to be happy or being preoccupy about everything every day of our lives.  To be Happy is our choice, everybody is eligible – you – me – and others; we only has to learn to love others and do what is right. Knowing that you have done your best will give you peace of mind and that will make you happy. True happiness is to love and be love. We must always remember that God made us a family and family, is what is all about.

http://www.1000ventures.com/business_guide/crosscuttings/quotes_love.html

BELIEVE YOU CAN LOVE OTHERS AND YOU WILL BE HAPPY.

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On 12/23/2016, President Obama chose to abstain from voting on a UN Security Council issue directed at destroying Israel.

 

The Security Council has 5 permanent members: China, France, Russian Federation, the United Kingdom, and the United States.  Each of these 5 Permanent members has solitary VETO power.

 

The vote was 14 to 0 with America abstaining.  The USA, under the Obama administration, should have vetoed the UN Resolution.  This UN vote shows an absence of respect and/or support of the USA and Israel.

 

Israel is America’s best Middle Eastern friend.

 

General Assembly members elect two-year terms for ten non-permanent members and elected for two-year terms by the end of term dates: Angola (2016), Egypt (2017), Japan (2017), Malaysia (2016), New Zealand (2016), Senegal (2017), Spain (2016), Ukraine (2017), Uruguay (2017), Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) (2016).

 

Obama’s refusal to ‘VETO’ this Resolution validates his confirmation of Islam over Christianity.

 

An incoming President Trump-elect must seize this confrontation and amend this UN action; either, reversal of the UN decision, cancel a membership within the UN, and/or expel and remove the UN from the properties within the USA as President Reagan once faced.

 

Oscar Y. Harward

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Friday ~ TheFrontPageCover

Merry Christmas
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The Front Page Cover
 The Events of the Week -- Featuring: 
The 'Diversity' Fraud
by Thomas Sowell
 
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 Can the Democrat Party Recover? Let's Hope Not 
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James Shott: Having blown the 2016 "sure thing" coronation of liar-Hillary Clinton, and having magnificently failed to realize how badly they had alienated the people who live between the two coastal liberal strongholds, not noticing their growing displeasure and desire for change, we are left to wonder if the Democrats can return to Earth in time to rebuild their party and find candidates to head the party ticket in 2020. It would be better for America if the party died, to be replaced by a party that actually cared about constitutional governance and our great nation. But let's deal with what's there.
          In their desperate blame game over what happened, Democrats have blamed James Comey and the FBI, Jill Stein and Bernie Sanders, WikiLeaks, racism, sexism, fake news, Russia, and voters. Everyone and everything is to blame except the DNC itself and its horrible candidate.
          After the election there were demonstrations by liar-Clinton supporters that turned into riots, crying sessions and a search for safe spaces. Then came the panicked reports that Russian hacking impacted the election, which led to efforts to undermine the Electoral College by persuading Republican electors to not vote for Trump, as their voters have instructed them. There were instances of intimidation and death threats against some electors.
          But no evidence has been advanced to prove that the Russians actually changed votes or affected the results of the election. Besides, all the Russians really did was hack Democrat emails that were then released by WikiLeaks, which exposed the lies, deceit, corruption and collusion of the liar-Clinton campaign, the DNC and the media to the public. Since their dirty little secrets were exposed to the world, naturally the Democrats had to try to get the electors to overturn the results of the election.
          Of course, Democrats, shall we say, disagree with this analysis. But the fact remains that they are so badly flummoxed and disoriented that we have every reason to wonder if they can recover in time for their party to function well enough to field competent candidates for the next presidential election.
          Okay, we expect them to field candidates — just not competent or satisfactory ones.
          Assuming the DNC is able to establish lucidity — a big assumption — who are the potential candidates? Eight years of liar-nObama has decimated the Democrat bench of up-and-comers. Which means only a few fossils remain.
          Odds are that if liar-Clinton is still alive and well, she will put herself out there again, despite her weak performance in 2008 and her substantial defeat this year. There are alternatives, of course, but some are even older than liar-Hillary.
          The Wall Street Journal's James Taranto cites a poll by Public Policy Polling showing that "Joe loose lips-Biden leads the way for Democrats with 31 percent to 24 percent for Bernie Sanders, and 16 percent for Elizabeth dinky-Warren." As if to underscore the depths of confusion among Democrats, however, Taranto goes on to say that they also expressed preference for younger candidates: "57 percent of Democrats say they want their candidate to be under the age of 60, and 77 percent say they want their candidate to be under the age of 70. Only 8 percent actually want a candidate who's in their [sic] 70s."
          He points out that by the time of the 2020 election the favored potential candidates will be north of 70: loose lips-Biden will be 77, Sanders will be 79, and dinky-Warren, the baby of the group, will be 71. Based upon the ages of the favored Democrats, Taranto jokingly termed the DNC the "Great-Grand Old Party."
          James Hohmann, national political correspondent for The Washington Post, suggests that, since VP candidate Sen. Tim Kaine has seemingly declined to seek the presidency in 2020, the door is open for other recognizable faces to enter the fray. Those faces include New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker and New York's Kirsten Gillibrand, who took over liar-Clinton's Senate seat when she became secretary of state.
          In addition to the aforementioned possibilities, opinion writer Chris Cillizza names some other lesser-known potential candidates. California's Attorney General Kamala Harris, who was elected to the U.S. Senate in November, is the first African-American woman elected to the Senate since Carol Moseley-Braun in 1992. Cillizza points out that she also represents the largest and most-Democrat state in the country, and that her "law-and-order-background" as AG will help her.
          With first a business background, then serving as a mayor and now Colorado's governor, John Hickenlooper would have broad appeal, Cillizza believes. One negative is Hickenlooper's somewhat moderate political position, which may not appeal to the current hard-left state of the Democrat Party.
          Having demonstrated an ability to work across the aisle to achieve things for veterans and child adoption, Cillizza believes Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) has a positive profile for national office. Her state isn't exactly a fundraising hotbed for national politics, but her ambitious demeanor may be attractive to Democrats.
          Cillizza also argues that while current First Lady Michelle liar-nObama has never run for office or expressed interest in doing so, she has excellent name recognition and "star power," and she would go into a race for the nomination as a beloved figure.
          So, after loose lips-Biden, Sanders, dinky-Warren, Booker and liar-nObama, the other possibilities have the name recognition hurdle to clear. Watching who says and does what during Trump's first couple of years will help clarify the DNC's dilemma.
          Of course, if none of the above finds favor with Democrats, Kanye West has already thrown his hat into the ring, and Martin Sheen of the recent effort to persuade electors to not vote for Trump is available. He's never been a president, but he did play one on TV.
          In any case, as 2016 comes to a close, Democrats are in dire straits. Such situations rarely remain permanent in politics, but those of us who fight for Liberty can make the most of our moment.  ~The Patriot Post
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Team liar-nObama dumps oppo research
truckload on Keith Ellison’s head
by William A. Jacobson
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{legalinsurrection.com} ~ Minnesota Congressman Keith Ellison was fast out of the gate for Chair of the Democratic National Committee, amassing quick endorsements from Chuck Schumer, Elizabeth dinky-Warren, Bernie Sanders and the AFL-CIO... But Ellison was barely at the first turn when he stumbled badly in what Ellison and his supporters called a “smear campaign” against him. Ellison’s past decade-long support for Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam, his suggestion of dual loyalty from American Jews when speaking at a fundraiser for Muslim leaders, and his cozy relationship with some of the worst pro-BDS, anti-Israel groups, has disrupted what seemed like a clear trajectory to DNC Chair. And then liar-nObama/loose lips-Biden sent signals they were encouraging Labor Secretary Tom Perez to seek the position. I suggested at the time that Keith Ellison DNC bid circling Farrakhan drain as Perez set to announce...
The Disloyal Opposition
by TOM MCCAFFREY
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Europe's Compassionate Hatred of Israel
by Bat Ye'or
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During WW II, the alliance of Pétain and Hitler with the Mufti of
Jerusalem sought the extermination of the Jewish people
{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ Today we are witnessing the coming of the worldwide caliphate. This expression means that the Muslim view of history is currently prevailing in international institutions... We see it with the Jerusalem Declaration of UNESCO, this palace of revisionism. The Jerusalem Declaration seeks to Islamize, with the help of many governments in Europe and other Christian countries, the ancient history of the people of Israel.The Venice Declaration of 1980, issued by the European Community, which tried to force Israel to survive in an indefensible territory, already prescribed its disappearance and replacement with a people that had never even manifested itself before 1969 -- and all with the assistance of the Soviet Union and especially France. The Islamization of Jerusalem and the delegitimization of the State of Israel were already set out in the Venice Declaration, which to this date the European Union has continued to view as valid... https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/9613/europe-hatred-israel
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'The US should veto this anti-Israel resolution'
by Nitzan Keidar
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{israelnationalnews.com} ~ When Egypt submitted its proposal to the UN Security Council Wednesday evening condemning Israel for building in Judea and Samaria, eyebrows were not raised in Jerusalem... The Israeli delegation to the UN has long prepared for such a proposal and estimates that it has a good chance of passing, due to the fact that a majority of the Security Council is hostile towards Israel. However, the final approval of the proposal, which will be tabled for vote at 10 PM Israel time on Thursday, is dependent on whether the US uses its veto power. It is, as yet, unclear how the Americans will act in this case since their ambassador to the UN has not received a directive from President liar-nObama concerning this issue, as liar-nObama is presently on vacation... http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/222114
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System that produced German
terror thrives in U.S.
by Leo Hohmann
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{wnd.com} ~ What appears from the outside to be a bungling of basic law-enforcement operations in Germany – allowing a known illegal alien with a criminal and terrorist past to move about freely in German society for more than a year – may not be a bungling at all... Rather, it’s part of a coordinated strategy also being used by open-borders globalists in the liar-nObama administration, says a retired Homeland Security officer. Philip Haney, co-author of the whistleblower book “See Something Say Nothing,” explains how a Muslim migrant was able to stay in the country long enough to plan an attack that killed 12 and injured nearly 50 at a Berlin Christmas market Monday. This, despite being under surveillance by the German government for months...
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The 'Diversity' Fraud
by Thomas Sowell
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{townhall.com} ~ Nothing so epitomizes the politically correct gullibility of our times as the magic word "diversity." The wonders of diversity are proclaimed from the media, extolled in the academy and confirmed in the august chambers of the Supreme Court of the United States. But have you ever seen one speck of hard evidence to support the lofty claims?

Although diversity has become one of the leading buzzwords of our time, it has a history that goes back several generations. In the early twentieth century, the principle of geographic diversity was used to conceal bias against Jews in the admission of students to Harvard and other leading academic institutions.

Because the Jewish population was concentrated in New York and other east coast communities at that time, quota limits on how many Jewish students would be admitted were concealed by saying that Harvard wanted a diverse student body, consisting of students from around the country.

Therefore some highly qualified Jewish applicants could be passed over, in favor of less qualified applicants from the midwest or other regions of the country.

My own first encounter with the idea of geographic diversity occurred more than half a century ago, when I was an undergraduate at Harvard, and worked as a photographer for the university news office, in order to help pay the bills.

The instructions I was given were to concentrate on taking photos of students from other parts of the country, rather than from the east coast, from which Harvard already received more than enough applicants. The idea was to encourage applications from places that would produce a geographically diverse student body.

It struck me as an odd idea at the time, but I was being paid to take pictures, not make university policy. Moreover, I had no idea how such a policy had originated and, by the 1950s, it might have been continued from inertia, for all I know. Meanwhile, I could enjoy seeing publicity photos I took appearing in newspapers in Chicago and elsewhere beyond the east coast.

Fast forward to today. It is common, at colleges and universities across the country, for the test scores of Asian American students who have been admitted to a given college to be higher than the test scores of whites or of blacks or Hispanics.

That may not seem strange, since that is true of test scores in general. But, at any given institution, applying the same standards to all, the test scores of students at a particular institution would tend to be similar. More Asian Americans would be admitted to higher ranked colleges and universities, however, if the same standards were applied to all.

In short, something very much like the quota limits that were applied to Jews in the past are now being applied to Asian Americans -- and, once again, are being justified by diversity.

But what justifies diversity? Nothing but unsupported assertions, repeated endlessly, piously and loudly.

Today, as in the past, diversity is essentially a fancy word for group quotas. It is one of a number of wholly subjective criteria -- such as "leadership" -- used to admit students to colleges and universities according to their group membership, rather than according to their individual qualifications.

This is not something new. Nor is it something confined to the United States. Very similar patterns were found more than a decade ago, when doing research for my book "Affirmative Action Around the World."

In India, the courts' attempts to rein in some academic quotas were met by a proliferation of new, and wholly subjective, admissions criteria. Individuals from groups that were not as qualified by objective criteria were simply ranked higher on subjective criteria and admitted.

In the United States, the Supreme Court itself has long been part of such game-playing when it comes to affirmative action. Back in 1978, an opinion by Justice Lewis F. Powell banned racial quotas with one hand and created "diversity" as a criterion with the other. In other words, colleges were told in effect that they can have racial quotas, but they just can't call them racial quotas.

According to the Constitution, "We the People" are supposed to decide what laws and policies we live under. But not if we can be so easily fooled by courts using slippery words like "diversity."


http://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2016/12/20/the-diversity-fraud-n2261393?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=

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Politics and Christmas Past

By Craig Andresen – The National Patriot and Right Side Patriots on americanpbn.com

chr-1.jpg?width=224It is difficult to escape the political undertow in today’s world. Politics is in play in everything we do, from our daily routines to events half way around the world. Our schools, our streets and roads…regulations imposed on everything from our businesses to the water we drink…wars, conflicts, diplomatic relations with nations both friend and foe…we can’t get up in the morning, proceed with our daily business or go to bed at night without political interference.

This time of the year, we do our best to ignore, to whatever extent possible, the world of politics in favor of time-honored traditions that revolve around Christmas or Chanukah, but we should not forget the role of politics IN Christmas…the first Christmas to be precise.

Just as the death of Jesus on the cross was politically motivated, so too was his birth.

While the scriptures reveal that Joseph and Mary traveled to Bethlehem to pay their taxes, the truth goes politically deeper than that.

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 The Events of the Week -- Featuring: 
Trump’s Repeal/Appeal Dilemma
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 Trump Wins, Again 
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The Electoral College members cast their votes yesterday, securing Donald Trump as the next and 45th President of the U.S. In spite of all the efforts by some Democrats and the Leftmedia to convince "faithless electors" to vote against the will of the people, there was little drama. Ironically, it was liar-Hillary Clinton who ended up with more faithless electors voting against her than did Trump.
          Interestingly, the Left's attempt to sow seeds of doubt regarding the legitimacy of Trump's victory has only proved to further establish its validity. For example, Jill Stein's ridiculous demand for recounts in the states of Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin resulted in Trump gaining votes. Then there is the ploy suggesting that, because liar-Hillary won the popular vote, Trump's victory should be viewed as artificial. To that line of reasoning the best response is the Constitution and Rule of Law, which helped prove to yet another generation of Americans the wisdom of the Founding Fathers in crafting a system that preserves states' rights and limits the power of a centralized federal government.
          A final item to note is the fact that neither candidate received a majority of the popular vote; liar-Clinton received 48% to Trump's 46%. Which means even if U.S. presidential elections were decided by the popular vote, neither candidate would have received a majority, furthering the complaint expressed by the Left that a minority of Americans has decided for the majority. In other words, it would not have resolved their supposed problem. The good news is that there is little the Left can do now but whine and complain. Trump is President-elect. 
~The Patriot Post
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 FLOTUS: Say, We Sure Could Use Some Hope 
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Voters sent Barack liar-nObama to the White House in 2008 because his campaign slogan resonated: "Change We Can Believe In." In his 2008 victory speech, liar-nObama spoke of the "arc of history" bending "once more toward the hope of a better day." He added, "It's been a long time coming, but tonight, because of what we did on this date in this election at this defining moment, change has come to America." After eight long years, change did come. But hope? We'll let Michelle liar-nObama speak for herself. From a recent interview with Oprah Winfrey:
          Winfrey: "Your husband's administration, everything, the election, was all about hope. Do you think that this administration achieved that?"
          liar-nObama: "Yes. I do, because we feel the difference now. Now we're feeling what not having hope feels like. Hope is necessary."
          If that sounds contradictory, that's because it is. Here's a more accurate translation: "Michelle liar-nObama Confesses To Oprah: 8 Years Of Hope And Change Left People Without Hope."
          Exit polling shows that the overwhelming majority (82%) of Trump voters saw him as someone who could break the status quo. Moreover, 68% of his supporters said the country was on the wrong trajectory. And as Allahpundit adds, "The exit poll also asked people if they thought life for the next generation of Americans would be better than, worse than, or about the same as it is for theirs. The split was 37/33/25. The 'hope' presidency couldn't crack 40 percent on a basic question about your kids' lives being better than yours."
          Hope was a promise that was never delivered. That the liar-nObamas miss this proves just how incapable they are of seeing outside the mainstream. The only "hope" they offer now is a future that doesn't include a supposedly unfair electoral college. ~The Patriot Post.
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NSA Whistleblower Destroys CIA Narrative – “Hard Evidence Points To Inside Leak,
Not Russia Hack”
by Vin Armani
{activistpost.com} ~ “A group of retired senior intelligence officials, including the NSA whistleblower William Binney (former Technical Director, World Geopolitical & Military Analysis, NSA), have posted an open letter on consortiumnews.com that destroys the liar-nObama administration’s “Russian hacking” narrative... Within the letter, Binney argues that, thanks to the NSA’s “extensive domestic data-collection network,” any data removed remotely from liar-Hillary Clinton or DNC servers would have passed over fiber networks and therefore would have been captured by the NSA who could have then analyzed packet data to determine the origination point and destination address of those packets. As Binney further notes, the only way the leaks could have avoided NSA detection is if they were never passed over fiber networks but rather downloaded to a thumb drive by someone with internal access to servers.”  http://www.activistpost.com/2016/12/nsa-whistleblower-destroys-cia-narrative-hard-evidence-points-inside-leak-not-russia-hack.html?utm_source=Activist+Post+Subscribers&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=ad655f04b2-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_term=0_b0c7fb76bd-ad655f04b2-387888649
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Are Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Kuwait
Funding German Salafism?
by George Igler
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{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ Salafism -- from salaf, "ancestors" or "predecessors" in Arabic -- urges the emulation of the first three generations of the Islamic prophet Mohammad's companions, and Mohammad himself... It is often deemed the most fundamentalist interpretation of Islam. Security agencies in Germany claim that 9,200 such Islamic extremists currently call the country home. Another intelligence briefing cited by Süddeutsche Zeitung, warns that "the ideology already has 10,000 followers" and growing, in the country. "Almost all of the German nationals who have travelled to Syria to fight for Islamic State became radicalized by Salafis, who target low-income Muslim youths in German cities," wrote the Los Angeles Times, adding that it is proving increasingly challenging for German intelligence officials, "to differentiate between those who identify intellectually with Salafism and those who espouse using violence to realize a radical version of Islam."...
Medicaid Blew $26 Mil on
Health Coverage for Dead People
{judicialwatch.org} ~ The government spent a breathtaking $26 million to provide dead people—who were poor when they were alive—with health insurance in one state alone, according to a new federal audit... The benefit was administered through Medicaid, the federal-state health insurance program for the needy and the astonishing multi-million-dollar figure applies to just Florida but similar atrocities are likely occurring in other states. American taxpayers may wonder how this could possibly happen, though fraud and corruption are rampant in government, especially in welfare programs. First let’s explain how Medicaid, jointly funded by federal and state governments, functions. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) administers the program at the federal level. States must create CMS-approved plans to run their Medicaid programs, which provide low-income residents with medical coverage. In some states, such as Florida, the government contracts with insurance companies and makes fixed monthly payments to provide coverage. In Florida 37 insurance companies have contracts to provide coverage...
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Russia Conducts Fifth Test of
New Anti-Satellite Missile
by Bill Gertz
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{freebeacon.com} ~ Russia successfully flight tested a new missile capable of knocking out strategic U.S. communications and navigation satellites, according to Pentagon officials... The test of the PL-19 Nudol missile was carried out Dec. 16 from a base in central Russia, and was monitored by U.S. intelligence agencies. It was the fifth test of the Nudol missile and the third successful flight of a system Moscow has claimed is for use against enemy missiles, said officials familiar with the reports of the launch...
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L.A. County Pledges $3M To Fight Deportations,
While Local Schools See $333M Shortfall
by Brittany M. Hughes
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{mrctv.org} ~ Los Angeles County just pledged $3 million in taxpayer money to help illegal aliens fight deportation, in yet another example of a liberal-run bastion of "progressivism" that puts politics ahead of its own citizens... KPCC, a radio station out of Southern California, reported that the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted almost unanimously Tuesday to put millions in public funding toward the legal defense initiative over the next two years. Only one lone Republican supervisor dissented. The fund, which has a total goal of $10 million, was launched Monday by L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti in response to President-elect Donald Trump’s campaign promise to deport millions of illegal aliens living in the United States. According to Garcetti, half the money used to defend illegal aliens against being removed from the country will come from city and local governments (i.e., the taxpayers), while the other half will be supported by private donors...  http://www.mrctv.org/blog/
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Trump’s Repeal/Appeal Dilemma
by Joel Zinberg
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{city-journal.org} ~ The election of Donald Trump and the Republican Party’s retention of both houses of Congress make the repeal and replacement of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) likely. The incoming administration now has the responsibility for dealing with the ongoing appeal of a successful challenge to the liar-nObama administration’s application of the ACA’s cost-sharing subsidy program.

In House v. Burwell, the House of Representatives claimed that the liar-nObama administration unlawfully made billions of dollars in payments to reduce ACA insurance costs without an appropriation from Congress. The case centers on ACA section 1402, which requires insurance companies to reduce the out-of-pocket costs (deductibles, co-payments, and co-insurance) of ACA-exchange enrollees in so-called “silver” plans who earn incomes less than 250 percent of the federal poverty level. Approximately 7 million people—or 57 percent of exchange enrollees—are receiving such cost-sharing reductions from insurers. Section 1402 directs the federal government to offset the financial burden to insurance companies via cost-sharing reduction payments (CSRPs), but the ACA doesn’t include an appropriation to pay for them. When the liar-nObama administration’s FY2014 budget request asked for a current appropriation for CSRPs, Congress turned it down. Instead, Congress passed and the president signed an Appropriations Act that failed to appropriate any monies for CSRPs. Undeterred, the administration spent $2.8 billion dollars to reimburse insurers in 2014. The House sued.

After finding last year that the House has “standing”—the right to pursue a judicial remedy—District Court judge Rosemary Collyer this year found that the administration violated the constitution’s appropriations clause. Collyer enjoined the administration from making further payments, but stayed her ruling pending appeal. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit approved the House’s request to delay further action in the case until a February 21, 2017—after Trump is sworn in.

ACA repeal will not relieve the incoming administration of the need to decide whether to continue the appeal. Millions of people have already signed up for 2017 exchange plans with premiums calculated based on receipt of ACA subsidies. Immediate ACA repeal through the reconciliation process without any delay or replacement would remove those subsidies and leave the market in chaos. Most Republican policymakers are therefore proposing to delay implementation of repeal for a year or two. This will give the market time to adjust while a replacement plan is enacted.

The Burwell case poses two important issues for the Trump administration. The first is legal: what to do about a ruling that gives Congress “standing” to sue the executive branch? Article III of the Constitution limits courts to hearing only “cases or controversies.” A plaintiff must demonstrate it suffered a concrete, particularized injury in order to seek legal redress. Judge Collyer found the House had adequately alleged injury to its constitutionally protected interest as the only body empowered to direct expenditures from the U.S. Treasury. The liar-nObama administration argued the that House lacks standing because its lawsuit is actually about a non-justiciable dispute between the president and Congress over the interpretation of the ACA that should be resolved through the political tools Congress has at its disposal. Yet Congress already exercised its political tools by passing an appropriations bill rejecting the administration’s request for a cost-sharing appropriation. Additional legislation limiting expenditures that liar-nObama would have vetoed or ignored would have been fruitless. And no one would have welcomed an impeachment proceeding over this issue.

This is the first time a single house of Congress has been granted standing to sue the executive. Most administrations wouldn’t want to leave this potential curb on presidential power and prerogatives intact. If the administration withdraws the appeal, Collyer’s ruling stands, though the decision of a District Court is of limited precedential value. If Trump pursues the appeal, the standing decision might be reversed, but it could also be affirmed, creating a more important Court of Appeals precedent.

Trump must also consider another important issue relating to Burwell: what to do about the CSRPs? The Congressional Budget Office estimates the subsidies will cost $9 billion in 2017. Collyer’s decision enjoined payment of CSRPs without an express appropriation from Congress. If her decision on this issue is appealed and reversed, the Trump administration could pay CSRPs without going back to Congress—an outcome that will infuriate Congressional Republicans. If her decision is affirmed, or stands because the appeal is withdrawn, insurers will face huge losses. Insurers could sue the federal government to recover cost-sharing subsidies. But that is an expensive, time-consuming burden with uncertain results. Insurers might try to leave the market or increase premiums, but this may not be allowed under 2017 marketplace contracts and state laws.

The guerilla legal warfare against the ACA has left Trump with a dilemma. The best strategy is probably to withdraw the appeal and obtain a 2017 CSRP appropriation from Congress. This will give his administration time to hammer out a repeal-and-replace strategy without insurance market upheaval and financial fallout. It will also allow him to sidestep establishment of an appellate court precedent on Congressional standing that could come back to hamper him or future presidents.

http://city-journal.org/html/trumps-repeal-appeal-dilemma-14908.html

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by Thomas Sowell
 
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Long before liar-nObama lectured Putin and Trump about hacks, he was covering for Russia. (Washington Free Beacon)
 
Terrorist attack in Berlin leaves a dozen dead. (Associated Press)
 
Russian ambassador gunned down in Turkey. Shooter shouts "Allahu Akhbar." (National Review)
 
Trump picks Vincent Viola, trading executive, for Army secretary post. (The Washington Times)
 
George Soros' "staggering" campaign to swing local prosecutor elections. (The Daily Signal)
 
liar-nObama ready to block drilling in Arctic and Atlantic while claiming credit for low gas prices. (Bloomberg)
 
"Big Coal" target of liar-nObama's 11th-hour regulations. (The Washington Times)
 
Legacy record: liar-nObama grants historic number of federal prisoners clemency — 78 pardons and 153 commutations. (The Washington Post)
 
NC moves to repeal transgender bathroom law after Charlotte rescinds LGBT ordinance. (The Charlotte Observer)
 
GM sends layoff notice to 1,300 Michigan workers as sales slow. (Bloomberg)
 
Democratic women most likely to block "friends" on social media over politics. How open-minded of them. (The Washington Times)
 
Policy: How to rebuild our defense. (The Insider)
 
Policy: How to repair our society. (The Insider
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Why the UK's Sharia Courts Should Be Banned
by Abigail R. Esman
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{investigativeproject.org} ~ They are married off at 15 to men they've never met, men who may beat and rape them, or who do not permit them to leave the house. Or they marry out of love, only to learn their new husband has another wife, or plans to take one...  And so they seek counsel – and escape – not through lawyers and the traditional courts, but through sharia councils, and not in Kabul or Islamabad, but in Manchester and London. Now officials in the United Kingdom are questioning whether such councils violate secular laws and discriminate against the women who come to them for help. While still Home Secretary last March, before she became Prime Minister, Theresa May initiated the first of an ongoing series of investigations into Britain's so-called "sharia courts." Subsequent hearings have brought the issues into the public eye, but so far they have failed to provide any real resolution. Some sharia court opponents contend that they force women to remain in abusive marriages, or deprive them of their legal rights regarding division of property and other matters. In contrast, some proponents insist that too many Muslim women would be forced to stay in abusive relationships if these tribunals were shut down...  http://www.investigativeproject.org/5737/why-the-uk-sharia-courts-should-be-banned
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Broward Deputy Sheriff Leads Banquets Featuring Terror Associates
by Joe Kaufman
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{frontpagemag.com} ~ We expect members of law enforcement to protect us from harm, not have involvement with those who look to do us harm. We cannot expect that from Nezar Hamze... because, while he is a Deputy at the Broward County Sheriff’s Office, he is also the head of the Florida chapter of CAIR, a group with extensive ties to terrorism. This past month, Hamze led two banquets where groups in the hallway and people on the stage and in the audience also had well documented associations with terror. CAIR or the Council on American-Islamic Relations was created in June 1994 as part of an umbrella group led by then-global head of Hamas, Mousa Abu Marzook. CAIR has been named by the US government a co-conspirator for two federal trials dealing with the financing of millions of dollars to Hamas. In November 2014, CAIR, itself, was designated a terrorist organization by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) government. CAIR-Florida reflects the same violent extremism of its parent organization. In July 2014, CAIR-Florida co-sponsored a pro-Hamas rally in Downtown Miami, where rally goers shouted, “We are Hamas,” “Let’s go Hamas,” and “Hamas kicked your ass.” Following the rally, the event organizer, Sofian Abdelaziz Zakkout, wrote in Arabic, “Thank God, every day we conquer the American Jews like our conquests over the Jews of Israel!”... How did this deputy get his position at Broward County http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/265187/broward-deputy-sheriff-leads-banquets-featuring-joe-kaufman
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liar-nObama and Ellison: Separated at Birth
by Cliff Kincaid
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{aim.org} ~ “Barack liar-nObama is Louis Farrakhan and Karl Marx rolled into one.” Those were the words of businessman Zubi Diamond at a conference I sponsored back in 2011... That clever line might also apply to Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN), a candidate for chairman of the Democratic National Committee (DNC). liar-nObama and Ellison seem to be brothers in both ideology and approach. The combination of Black Muslim ideology and Marxism is something that courses through the veins of liar-nObama and Ellison. So why is liar-nObama opposing the Ellison bid? The answer is that liar-nObama is smarter than Ellison. liar-nObama has watched his words more carefully, and concealed his ideological predisposition when he ran for president, while Ellison is out of the closet about it. He not only has links to the Black Muslims of Louis Farrakhan, but he defended a member of the Weather Underground spin-off, the Symbionese Liberation Army. Plus, he’s an outspoken critic of the state of Israel...
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Iran’s Theater of Operations in Latin America
by Janet Levy
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{aim.org} ~ In Iran’s Strategic Penetration of Latin America (Lexington Books, 2014) authors and global security experts Joseph Humire and Ilan Berman elaborate on Kelly’s position with a collection of essays that provides an alarming look at Iran’s penetration of Latin America... That activity began in 1979 as part of Iran’s overall strategy to seek global power and develop nuclear weapons. Latin American experts featured in this revealing volume detail how Iran’s infiltration of Latin America has been pursued under the cover of commercial activities and cultural exchanges and has been aided by an alliance and shared militancy with the Latin American Left. The experts maintain that, over more than three decades, Iran has been able to forge strong economic, political, and strategic links to the region. As the authors explain, Iran began its strategic infiltration of Latin America in 1982. International proxy groups exported Muslim revolutionary ideas using a global network of embassies and mosques under the cover of legitimate commerce and diplomatic, cultural, and religious associations...  http://www.aim.org/guest-column/irans-theater-of-operations-in-latin-america/?utm_source=AIM+-+Daily+Email&utm_campaign=email122016&utm_medium=email
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liar-nObama bars future oil leases in
swaths of Atlantic, Arctic oceans
by FoxNews.com
{foxnews.com} ~ President liar-nObama on Tuesday ordered U.S.-owned waters in the Arctic Ocean and certain areas in the Atlantic Ocean placed "indefinitely" off-limits for future oil and gas leases, in a final fossil-fuel crackdown before he leaves office... The move, intended to protect the area’s ecosystem, is a final push by liar-nObama to seal his environmental legacy, and a possible way to bind the hands of his successor. “Today, in partnership with our neighbors and allies in Canada, the United States is taking historic steps to build a strong Arctic economy, preserve a healthy Arctic ecosystem and protect our fragile Arctic waters, including designating the bulk of our Arctic water and certain areas in the Atlantic Ocean as indefinitely off limits to future oil and gas leasing,” the White House said in a statement, issued while liar-nObama is on vacation with his family in Hawaii...  http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/12/20/obama-bars-future-oil-leases-in-swaths-atlantic-arctic-oceans.html
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A Public Service
by Thomas Sowell
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{townhall.com} ~ Sometimes someone inadvertently performs a public service by bringing an unbelievably stupid and dangerous idea to the surface, where it can be exposed for what it is.

The New York Times can be credited -- if that is the word -- with performing this public service in a recent editorial against proposals to allow law-abiding citizens to carry concealed guns. They refer to what they call the National Rifle Association's "fantasy that citizens can stand up to gunmen by shooting it out."

Nobody has suggested any such thing. Data collected over many years -- but almost never seeing the light of day in the New York Times or the rest of the mainstream media -- show many thousands of examples of people defending themselves with a gun each year, without having to pull the trigger.

If someone comes at you with a knife and you pull out a gun, chances are they will stop. The only time I ever pointed a gun at a human being, it was when someone was sneaking up toward me from behind a shed in the middle of the night. I never fired a shot. I just pointed the gun at him and told him to stop. He stopped.

Actually having to shoot someone is the exception, not the rule. Yet the New York Times conjures up a vision of something like the gunfight at the OK Corral.

Concealed guns protect not only those who carry them but also those who do not. If concealed guns become widespread, then a mugger or a car jacker has no way of knowing who has one and who does not. It makes being a mugger or a car jacker a less safe occupation. Gun control laws are in effect occupational safety laws -- OSHA for burglars, muggers, car jackers and others.

The fatal fallacy of gun control laws in general is the assumption that such laws actually control guns. Criminals who disobey other laws are not likely to be stopped by gun control laws. What such laws actually do is increase the number of disarmed and defenseless victims.

Mass shootings are often used as examples of a need for gun control. But what puts a stop to mass shootings? Usually the arrival on the scene of somebody else with a gun.

Mass shooters are often portrayed as "irrational" people engaged in "senseless" acts. But mass shooters are usually rational enough to attack schools, churches and other places where there is far less likelihood of someone being on the scene who is armed.

Seldom do we hear about these "irrational" shooters engaging in "senseless" attacks on meetings of the National Rifle Association or a local gun show or a National Guard armory.

The fallacy of believing that the way to reduce shootings is to disarm peaceful people extends from domestic gun control laws to international disarmament agreements. If disarmament agreements reduced the dangers of war, there would never have been a World War II.

The decades leading up to that war were filled with international disarmament agreements. As with domestic gun control laws, the agreements were followed by peaceful countries and ignored by belligerent countries that built up huge war machines, such as in Nazi Germany and imperial Japan.

The net result was that the belligerent countries had every incentive to start wars, and that they inflicted devastating losses on the peaceful countries that had drastically curtailed their own military forces.

Eventually the Western democracies got their act together and turned things around, after they belatedly beefed up their military forces. But thousands of lives were lost needlessly before that happened. World War II was in its third year before Western forces won a single battle.

Undaunted by history, the same kind of thinking that had cheered international disarmament treaties in the 1920s and 1930s once again cheered Soviet-American disarmament agreements during the Cold War.

Conversely, there was hysteria when President Ronald Reagan began building up American military forces in the 1980s. Cries were heard that he was leading us toward nuclear war. In reality, he led us toward an end of the Cold War, without a shot being fired at the Soviet Union.

But who reads history these days, or checks facts before leading the charge to keep law-abiding people disarmed?

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The Front Page Cover
 The Events of the Week -- Featuring: 
Did Russia Hack the Presidential Election?
 
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 Some Christian Leaders Feed the Crocodile 
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Robin Smith: "Do not give what is holy to dogs, and do not throw your pearls before swine, or they will trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces," said Jesus Christ as captured in Matthew 7.
          What He meant is there are beliefs and truths that those of the Christian faith should guard as holy and precious and protect from those who can't and/or won't honor.
          The political relevance of this timeless teaching? Some Christians and especially Mormons are joining forces with the so-called Lesbian, Bisexual, Gay and Transgender (LBGT) community to support federal legislation to construct a "Fairness for All" approach to their agendas. In other words, those who aim to defend religious liberty are coupling their efforts with the homosexual community.
          Understand that every human is, indeed, endowed by their Creator with unalienable rights with no basis for prejudice or discrimination. Yet the recent record of the treatment of Christians regarding their God-given and First Amendment right to "free exercise" of their faith is outrageous.
          Whether it's about the sacred beliefs of a baker or simply a woman who doesn't want a man in her restroom, established rights of believers have been trampled underfoot by the Rainbow Mafia. Believers have seen their rights sacrificed at the altar of those attempting to elevate individuals with gender disorientation pathology and those who make sexual orientation choices opposite their biological existence to a protected class.
          The mismatched "Fairness for All" coalition features a group of Christians and Mormons who are willing to accomplish their stated goals of protecting religious freedoms by becoming entangled with a group whose core activists have proven their disdain for the very teachings of the former.
          Winston Churchill had a phrase for this: "An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile hoping it will eat him last."
          Those advocating this "Fairness to All" approach emphasize a religious exemption that protects those of faith from betraying their beliefs. But please excuse the severe skepticism based on a mountain of evidence that the elasticity of tolerance of these legislative approaches will only stretch to accommodate the enemies of conservative Christianity.
          America has witnessed courts rule that business owners honoring their values must pay huge fines, even if they lose their businesses. We saw Houston's mayor subpoena copies of sermons from five local pastors in response to a proposed transgender bathroom ordinance. Similarly, a lay pastor employed by Georgia's Department of Health complied with his state employer's demand to review his sermons. He was fired two days later.
          These high-minded intellectuals are driving a utopian policy stance marrying two groups in conflict under a promise of "fairness." As mentioned, we have every reason for skepticism. But there's more.
          Just last Tuesday, The New York Times featured this headline: "Christians in U.S. Are Less Educated Than Religious Minorities, Report Says." The dutiful Presstitute of the Left's paper of record took a Pew Study and effectively twisted data to fit the narrative desired: i.e., Jesus makes you stupid.
          Citing the Pew Research Center's report, the article noted that atheists and agnostics have higher education levels than the religiously affiliated in the U.S., and that the magnitude of education corresponds to the lack of religion on a national level. Pew's analysis captured that "there were 267 million Christians in the United States when the data was collected, but only 36 percent of them had a postsecondary education."
          The Gray Lady's writer, Liam Stack, failed to address the key data regarding the world's most widely dispersed faith, Christianity, in relation to education. Pew noted, "Gaps in educational attainment are partly a function of where religious groups are concentrated throughout the world." Translation: Because Christianity has the widest distribution among diverse people groups impacting the largest number of geographies, the educational attainment is lower on a comparative basis.
          And the Leftmedia will remind any "unenlightened" Christian of this any time opposition to the homosexual agenda comes up.
          Should Americans trust the efforts being made to push the homosexual agenda that carries with it the gender and sexual-orientation crowd? Why should anyone seriously believe that the same Rainbow Mafia tactics already employed aren't the same actions ahead? "Fairness" will be defined by activist judges working on behalf of sympathetic "victims" of discrimination.
          If quoting Christ bothers you, let's quote Judge Judy of TV family court fame: "Don't pee on my leg and tell me it's raining." These "faith" leaders are willingly equivocating consecrated teachings in order to fit their god into their politics. The First Amendment enumerates the right of a believer to honor their God in their politics, their work, their educational choices, etc. Christians shouldn't compromise their rights or their beliefs for a temporary deal with the devil.  ~The Patriot Post
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Putin Goes to War… Tells Terrorists,
You’re About “to Feel It”
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{conservativetribune.com} ~ Much of the world was shocked and perhaps even a bit fearful as reports began coming in Monday of the assassination of the Russian ambassador to Turkey while delivering remarks at an art museum in Ankara... with some no doubt recalling the similarities of the incident to the one that sparked World War I. Fears of a broader world war being touched off by the horrible murder appear to have been quelled for the moment though, as Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erodgan over the phone shortly after the assassination, according to Reuters. That, however, doesn’t mean that Putin and Russia will not retaliate for what Putin described as a deliberate provocation designed to disrupt the uneasy Russian-Turkish relationship and derail efforts to wind down the civil war in Syria...  http://conservativetribune.com/putin-war-tells-terrorists-hide/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=PostUp&utm_campaign=CTBreakingEmail&utm_content=2016-12-19
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Trump's Border Wall: The Bill Was
Passed and Signed Into Law
by JIM KOURI, CPP
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{familysecuritymatters.org} ~ One of the main issues that propelled Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump to victory was the promise of a wall being built at the United States border with Mexico... The response by the news media, their favorite Democratic politicians and illegal-immigration advocates was astounding, with newspapers, magazines, television, radio and the Internet awash in comments that Trump was a racist, a bigot, and a xenophobic bully. But the truth -- noticeably avoided by the media -- is that the U.S. Congress passed a bill and it was signed into law by President George W. Bush in 2006 ordering a wall to be built at the U.S.-Mexican border and more Border Patrol agents should be hired for the Southern border. Most Americans were totally kept in the dark by the news media's hotbed of corruption when on Friday, January 14, 2011, then Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano's office announced that the liar-nObama administration canceled the 'Virtual Fence' project along the U.S.-Mexico border. They had decided a "virtual fence" would be more effective and they controlled both houses of Congress and Bush, who was never a big advocate of controlling immigration, went along with the plan... 
Merkel Government Still in Denial
by Vijeta Uniyal
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Police confer at the site attack at a Christmas market in Berlin
{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ Monday's terrorist attack on a Berlin Christmas market killed at least 12 people and injured 50 others. Islamic State took responsibility for the truck-ramming attack, as recommend by the al-Qaeda magazine, Inspire... and similar to the July 14 attack in the French city of Nice, and countless car-rammings in Israel. Now Europeans feel what Israelis live with every day. Earlier this year, Germany was hit by a series of ISIS-inspired attacks and failed terror plots. Despite that almost all the perpetrators were recent Syrian or Afghan migrants, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, in the middle of a re-election bid, has stuck to her claim that there is "no connection" between terror attacks in the country and uncontrolled mass migration from Arab and Muslim lands...
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Lt. Col. Oliver North USMC (Ret.) SLAMS
liar-nObama Claim that USA is ‘Stronger
and More Respected’ Today!
by Onan Coca
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{lidblog.com} ~ Oh. Boy! If there’s one thing that President liar-nObama should know, it’s to never upset a Marine, but that seems to be exactly what the soon to be ex-President has gone and done... President liar-nObama recently remarked “Almost every country on Earth sees America as stronger and more respected today than it was eight years ago.” That is complete nonsense and utter claptrap. You know it, he knows it, we know it, and the world knows it… but most importantly, Lt. Col. Oliver North , USMC (Ret.) knows it. Col. North took to his Facebook page to utterly dismantle liar-nObama’s ego and lay bear the truth — the liar-nObama era has demolished the American image across the globe, not strengthened it...
Lt. Col. Facebook: 
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Dobbs – Kobach On liar-nObama Legacy
Of Immigration Lies, Abusing Citizens
by Rick Wells
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{rickwells.us} ~ Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach joined Lou Dobbs on Monday to discuss a report from the Center for Immigration Studies that 820,000 serious illegal alien convicts are being allowed to roam freely on American soil by the liar-nObama regime... Dobbs says, “This is a stunning report from CIS, to say that there are that many, and one suspects even more in this country, with dangerous, dangerous criminal illegal immigrants among them not being deported.” He asks, “What is the possible explanation for it?” Kobach agrees, responding, “Well, you’re exactly right, Lou, that it is disturbing and I can tell you this. Remember when liar-nObama did those illegal executive amnesties in 2012 and 2014, his justification for not deporting millions of illegal aliens was ‘I’m doing this so I can retarget the resources of Immigration and Customs Enforcement to go after the criminals.'” Kobach continues, “Well, in federal court we have the testimony of ICE agents saying ‘he’s not doing that...   http://rickwells.us/dobbs-kobach-obama-legacy-immigration-lies-abusing-citizens/
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Did Russia Hack the Presidential Election?
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{americanlibertyreport.com} ~ Since Donald Trump’s victory in the presidential election was announced, bitter Democrats have been searching for any and all means at their disposal to invalidate or nullify his victory. They’re trying just about every strategy you can think of — a recount of the vote in multiple states, attempting to persuade members of the Electoral College to change their votes and a new gambit —accusations that Russian hackers manipulated the election by giving information to WikiLeaks and planted “fake news” stories to manipulate the public prior to the election.

These claims aren’t new; the Democrats have accused Trump’s campaign of colluding with Russia long before the election was held. While it’s true that Trump made a few positive comments about Russian leader Vladimir Putin and urged that a rapprochement take place between the U.S. and Putin’s government, the charges of “fake news” are relatively new and appear to have expanded out of original charges that fake news in general, unrelated to Russian influence, was partially responsible for steering people’s votes at the ballot box.

In essence, if fake news was responsible for how people voted, if it came from U.S. sources, there’s nothing Democrats could do other than maybe filing a few lawsuits. But if the Russians were behind it, they could try to make a claim that a foreign government interfered with the electoral process of the U.S., and that could be reason enough to hold a new election.

WikiLeaks in the past has denied that they received Democratic Party emails from Russia. The Director of National Intelligence (DNI), James Clapper, has said his department doesn’t have intelligence showing a connection between WikiLeaks and Russia.

The Democrats’ whole approach here is really a long shot, but the charges of fake news have some validity to them; there were indeed false stories promoted by both parties floating around on social media prior to Election Day.

But different people define “fake news” differently. Some readers believe it only encompasses stories that are 100 percent untrue — reports that are made up out of whole cloth. Others believe it includes stories that may be a mix of the truth with some items that are false.

And still others believe fake news can be any story that has an implicit bias. These can be stories that are actually entirely true, but leave out key facts. An example might be a story that said the late Senator Robert Byrd was a member of the Ku Klux Klan, without mentioning that he was in the organization for several years in the early 1940s but had disavowed it wholly by 1952.

All three of these scenarios were represented in posts and stories published on the web prior to the election; some were written for highly dodgy independent news sites you’ve probably never heard of while others were written for The New York Times and CNN.

The problem of “fake news” is both pernicious and widespread. Where it gets tricky, however, is when it’s discovered that someone significant is sponsoring or syndicating this fake news. If it was as simple as one political party attempting to smear another, that would merely be considered a dirty trick and would likely result in a little embarrassment, finger-pointing and not much else. But when an accusation is made that it’s a foreign power behind the stories, that’s a whole other topic and relates directly to national security.

In this case, fears of Russian hacking were propounded even prior to the election; but mostly, this was in relation to potential hacking of voting machines. After the election was held, vote fraud experts declared there were no indications of mass electronic vote hacking. But the idea that somehow the Russians were responsible for the Democrats’ loss refused to die.

Clearly, someone in the Democratic Party decided to fold this concept in with the semi-legitimate complaint about fake news. However, it’s highly doubtful that evidence can be found to back up the claims.

As for the charge regarding WikiLeaks, the Democrats have asserted that the Russians also hacked into Republican Party servers and stole information, but chose not to reveal it in order to favor a victory for Trump.

Democrats such as Representative Adam Schiff of California claim that “This was a serious attack on our democracy… To inoculate the public against further Russian meddling, the public really needs to know what the Russians were up to. But it’s also a way of deterring the Russians if they know they’ll be exposed in a very public way.”

Republican Congressman Devin Nunes of California, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, rebuked the CIA for contradicting the agency’s own forensic findings that it had presented the committee with earlier in the year. Nunes wrote to Intelligence Director Clapper, who oversees the CIA, and said that he was “dismayed that we did not learn earlier, from you directly, about… the CIA’s reported revision of information previously conveyed to this committee.” Intelligence officials rejected Nunes’ requests to appear before his committee immediately to explain the matter.

“It is unacceptable that the intelligence community directors would not fulfill the House Intelligence Committee’s request to be briefed… on the cyber-attacks that occurred during the presidential campaign,” stated Nunes when informed of this. “The legislative branch is constitutionally vested with oversight responsibility of executive branch agencies, which are obligated to comply with our requests.”

Nunes said his committee was “vigorously looking into reports of cyber-attacks during the election campaign” and wanted to “clarify press reports that the CIA has a new assessment that it has not shared with us… The Committee is deeply concerned that intransigence in sharing intelligence with Congress can enable the manipulation of intelligence for political purposes. The Committee will continue its efforts and will insist that we receive all the necessary cooperation from the relevant leaders of the intelligence community.”

It should be noted that CIA Director John Brennan is a former campaign advisor and aide to President liar-nObama. A former officer of the CIA, Kent Clizbe, claims that Brennan is attempting to politicize the well-known agency with its recent actions. “All the politicization of the CIA of the previous eight years is nothing compared to Brennan’s current operation — his vile use of the good name of the CIA is an attempt to invalidate our presidential election,” Clizbe said.

“Brennan’s misuse of the CIA in an effort to serve his political masters is unprecedented and unforgivable. These are the actions of totalitarian dictators, using foreign security services to sully political opponents. Someone needs to stop him before it’s too late.”

Initially, even President liar-nObama disagreed with the assessment that there had been Russian interference. His administration released a statement November 25 that read, “The Federal government did not observe any increased level of malicious cyber activity aimed at disrupting our electoral process.”

Since the beginning of December, however, liar-nObama has changed his tune and has ordered a review by all government intelligence agencies of any foreign actions that could have influenced any American elections from 2008 to the present. The findings of this review will be made public early next year prior to Inauguration Day.

President-Elect Donald Trump has downplayed the noise made by the Democrats on this issue, saying, “The election ended a long time ago in one of the biggest Electoral College victories in history. It’s time to move on and ‘Make America Great Again.'”

Trump reminded voters that analysts at the CIA are the same people who produced fake intelligence saying Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction as a pretense for the U.S. to invade that country in 2003.

With no clear consensus in the intelligence community on this issue and the Electoral College vote taking place on December 19, it’s improbable that these charges will stick or be able to alter the election results. It’s clear that the Democrats are grasping at straws and hoping for a “Hail Mary” pass that can save them from their loss, but it appears that their efforts will be too little and too late.

http://www.americanlibertyreport.com/articles/did-russia-hack-the-presidential-election/

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Merry Christmas
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The Front Page Cover
 The Events of the Week -- Featuring: 
Honor among thieves
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 by Gina Loudon
 
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 liar-nObama Dispenses Some Fake News 
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As Democrats continue their desperate search for culprits to blame for liar-Hillary Clinton's failure to win the election, Barack liar-nObama decided it was time to add his own "insights" and call out the fourth estate. Yep, according to liar-nObama, liar-Hillary lost because the mainstream media treated her unfairly. "I couldn't be prouder of Secretary liar-Clinton," he said. "I think she worked tirelessly on behalf of the American people and I don't think she was treated fairly during the election. I think the coverage of her and the issues was troubling." Well, he's right — it was troubling — but not in the way he imagines.
          Picking up leftists' latest pejorative for news with which they disagree, liar-nObama continued, "If fake news that's being released by some foreign government is almost identical to reports that are being issued through partisan news venues, then it's not surprising that that foreign propaganda will have a greater effect." No one has denied the authenticity of the leaked DNC emails revealing the effort to subvert Bernie Sanders. That was not fake news. Nor was it fake news that liar-Clinton operated an unsecured private email server. But liar-nObama's intentionally conflating "fake news" with WikiLeaks' release, and then he's blaming the mainstream media for falling for conservative and Russian efforts to paint the government and liar-Clinton as "malevolent actors." liar-nObama's effort is itself subversive.
          It's no secret that the Leftmedia has long acted as a super PAC for Democrats, and arguably never more so than this election. When in the past did the MSM ever openly contend that for the good of the nation it needed to throw aside objectivity and seek to prevent a candidate from winning the election? liar-nObama's assertion that the mainstream media was unfairly negatively biased in reporting on liar-Clinton is simply "fake news," and it's a pathetic excuse for a lousy candidate. ~The Patriot Post
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 Backstabbing After Hillary's Loss 
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Inevitably, failure to achieve a goal is often followed by a period of questioning, second guessing and maybe even accusations. Currently, the liar-Hillary Clinton campaign team find themselves still seeking answers to questions they thoroughly believed they would never have to answer. After liar-Clinton's stunning election loss, some Team liar-Hillary members have turned on each other. Vanity Fair recently reported on liar-Clinton's closest adviser, Huma Abedin, quoting another staffer saying, "[Abedin] was enjoying the red carpet and enjoying the photo spreads much too much in my opinion. She enjoyed being a celebrity too much."
          A story in Politico noted how several liar-Clinton staffers blamed Robby Mook and his campaign "model" as it evidently became something of a standard by which the campaign determined various strategy decisions. Examples were cited of spending too much time in Democrat strongholds such as New Orleans and Chicago and yet ignoring states like Wisconsin and Michigan that she ended up losing.
          Then there are those wealthy Democrat donors, some of whom are demanding answers and others who have become disillusioned supposedly to the point of leaving politics altogether. This may be understandable as liar-Hillary's campaign raised well over a billion dollars and yet lost.
          While all these reasons certainly contributed in some degree to her loss, nothing can change the fact that the biggest hurdle for the campaign was liar-Hillary herself. It would be difficult for any campaign to overcome what many Americans saw as one of the most disliked, legally compromised and untrustworthy candidates in the nation's history. America just didn't buy what Team liar-Hillary was selling. And now, team members are stabbing each other in the back over it. That's the liar-Clintons for you though — their failures and scandals are always someone else's fault.  ~The Patriot Post
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“Allahu Akbar!” Jihad Assassin of Russian
Ambassador was Member of Erdogan’s Special Ops
by Pamela Geller
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{pamelageller.com} ~ Mevlut Mert Altintas, 22, shot Andrei Karlov in the back at least five time as the diplomat gave a speech at an art gallery in Ankara... The off-duty officer screamed “Allahu Akbar” during the attack and shouted: “You Russians destroyed Aleppo and Syria.” Altintas was the only man standing behind the ambassador throughout his speech. According to Sky News, the attacker, who was smartly dressed in black suit and tie, shouted: “We made an oath to die in martyrdom.”...  http://pamelageller.com/2016/12/allah-akbar-jihad-assassin-russian-ambassador-member-erdogans-special-ops.html/
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Multiple States Confirm They
Suspect liar-nObama’s DHS Hacked
Their Election Networks
by Harry Hibbs
{gopthedailydose.com} ~ Well isn’t this something. No wonder Democrats are trying to say that the Russians “hacked” and stole the election. Turns out liar-nObama’s administration was the one doing all the hacking. And guess who their targets were?... Looks like we may need to fear the enemy within more than the enemy without. Three states, Georgia, Kentucky and West Virginia all want to know why the Department of Homeland Security has been hacking their election networks. That’s right… they had cyber attacks from our very own DHS. Georgia has been hit the most with ten different attacks on their firewall in the last week. Jeh Johnson tried to blame it on a contractor who was simply looking at the attorney general’s site in that state. The problem with that is it doesn’t hold water… they have not been able to recreate that scenario. Now with two other states having caught DHS and complaining, it looks like liar-nObama and Johnson have some ‘splainin’ to do. While the Democrats are screaming about Russian intrusions, they are ignoring these states who want answers on this...  http://gopthedailydose.com/2016/12/18/multiple-states-confirm-suspect-obamas-dhs-hacked-election-networks/
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Congressman King Calls for Investigation
of CIA Head John Brennan…
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{theconservativetreehouse.com} ~ Everyone reading here is old enough to remember Democrat Chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Diane Feinstein, accusing Brennan of lying to her and congress... and worse yet, accusing Brennan of illegally hacking into, and spying on, her staff and congressional oversight personnel. Now, however, all of a sudden, John Brennan is the bastion of intelligence integrity…. Ridiculous. Thankfully, not everyone has forgotten. Representative Peter King again calls out CIA Head Brennan, and better still – says Brennan should be investigated...
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The CIA’s Dirty Tricks
Against American Democracy
by Cliff Kincaid
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{aim.org} ~ There is an easy way to determine who is a faithful Democratic Party hack in the media and who on the left maintains at least some independence from the party line... Long-time Democrat Bill Moyers thinks it’s an open-and-shut case that Russia’s Vladimir Putin intervened in the election to help Trump and that our democracy is in peril. The Intercept thinks the evidence is weak, and that the CIA may have some other reason for “squaring off directly against Trump.” What could that possibly be? Could it be that CIA Director John Brennan fears that Trump as president could order an investigation into what the CIA has been up to under President liar-nObama? What could that be? Could the CIA have been interfering in foreign elections, and if so, could such efforts have provoked Russian retaliation? The folks at the Intercept are on the far-left, but have decided to maintain some semblance of objectivity when it comes to sensational claims of foreign interference in the 2016 campaign. However, the idea they propose—that the controversy can be solved by President liar-nObama declassifying evidence—is not practical. liar-nObama won’t do it, because the intelligence agencies always claim that disclosure will reveal sources and methods. If they do release “evidence,” it will be vague and mostly worthless, just like the stories in The Washington Post and New York Times, where these allegations initially surfaced. These stories are impossible to confirm or deny...http://www.aim.org/aim-column/the-cias-dirty-tricks-against-american-democracy/?utm_source=AIM+-+Daily+Email&utm_campaign=email120616&utm_medium=email
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John Roberts Rejects Lawyer's
Attempt to Force Merrick Garland Vote
by Cortney O'Brien
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{townhall.com} ~ Chief Justice John Roberts has rejected an environmental lawyer’s attempt to get the Senate to vote on the nomination of Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court... The attorney, Steven Michel, filed the suit in August but was repeatedly stymied by lower courts. President liar-nObama nominated Garland in March to replace the late conservative justice Antonin Scalia, labeling him as a moderate who Republicans should consider a bipartisan pick. Yet, conservatives had justifiable uncertainty, particularly in regards to Garland’s concerning record on gun rights. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McCon-nell refused to hold a vote on Garland for months. Thanks to his persistence, President-elect Donald Trump now has the opportunity to appoint another conservative to take Scalia’s place...
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Honor among thieves
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{wnd.com} ~In the wake of the historic Trump victory, Democrats are looking to place blame anywhere but on themselves or on liar-Hillary. For her part, the sore loser has taken to blaming Russia. She even took to Capitol Hill to support a CIA assessment calling out Russia for cyber attacks and to demand further investigations.

The idea of any foreign influence over our elections is certainly troubling, and Putin is a menace, but there are legitimate questions whether the hacks were Russian, Chinese, Julian Assange or domestic. While there certainly is plenty of evidence that Putin is no fan of liar-Hillary or liar-nObama, the bigger question is, why?

While Republicans like Mitt Romney were calling Russia the biggest threat to the U.S., liar-nObama was scoffing. In his famous hot mic gaffe, he was caught whispering the message to Putin that he would “have more flexibility” to reduce our nuclear weapons arsenal after his re-election. liar-Hillary later punctuated the administration’s interest with the silly “reset button” photo op.

When Putin objected, we scrapped our planned missile-defense system in Poland. The cozy relationship included Moscow delivering $500,000 in speaking fees to Bill and $145 million to the liar-Clinton Foundation, in exchange for liar-nObama and liar-Hillary giving Russia 25 percent of our uranium reserves. We then stand down as Russian ally China takes over the South China Sea, the biggest shipping lanes in the world, by building fake islands and air strips contrary to international law. We can be so flexible when we want to be.

Where did the love go?

According to the popular mainstream media narrative, the world loves liar-nObama. All during the election cycle, we hear that liar-Hillary is immensely competent, one

Experts on organized crime will tell you that one hallmark of Italian Mafioso and other crime syndicates are codes of honor, rules written and unwritten. Even organized criminals understand the purpose of honor for the sake of avoiding chaos.

You rarely see mobsters targeting spouses or children of competitors, for instance, because the ensuing carnage would be unthinkable. Mobsters also rarely target innocent cops who are just people doing their jobs. They have families, and that should be respected. Dirty cops, on the other hand, especially the ones who double cross you, are fair game.

All evidence suggests that liar-nObama and liar-Hillary played their roles well with the criminal, Putin. In addition to giving Russia our uranium, liar-nObillary let it take Crimea and a portion of Ukraine. liar-nObillary drew a red line in Syria, promised to depose Putin’s puppet, Bashar al-Assad and, well, there he sits.

Their European Natural Gas play to control Assad, and thus the Iranian pipeline shipping Persian Gulf natural gas to Europe through their Iran-Iraq-Syrian allied territory, is going exactly as planned. Rather than take out Assad, or arm the Kurds to do so, liar-nObillary armed ISIS, which turned on Kurds, Christians and Yazidis. What better friend could Putin ask for?

I don’t know the answer of where things went wrong between Putin and liar-Hillary. The “flexibility” promise and reset button gestures certainly put statists liar-nObama and liar-Hillary in the allied position you would expect them to have with fellow comrade, Putin. How could liar-nObama and liar-Hillary, two disciples of Marxist radical Saul Alinsky, find themselves at odds with the head of the KGB? Absent a public check on Putin’s influence, I am guessing there was a double cross, a promised benefit never delivered.

One might point to the decline of the Russian economy and sanctions liar-nObama initiated over Ukraine, but banning travel for a dozen Russian businessmen is not exactly scorched earth. During the liar-nObillary administration, the man who dreams of restored Russian greatness retained his hold on South Ossetia, took Crimea and swaths of Ukraine and enjoys Middle East dominance in the axis through Iran-Iraq and Syria.

Since liar-Hillary’s Arab Spring scheme toppled Tunisia, Libya and even our ally, Egypt, Russia has tightened ties with the new Egyptian regime and enjoys unprecedented Suez Canal and nuclear power deals.

Maybe Putin is mad at liar-Hillary for allowing our “moderate” Syrian proxies do a little more damage to Assad than what was called for in the script. Maybe she failed to honor an exception to the withering travel ban on the Russian oligarchs like allowing a visa for someone who arranged the Bill liar-Clinton speaking fee in Moscow.

There is no public explanation for Putin’s hatred of liar-Hillary. Publicly, she has been a perfect Putin puppet on the take. That means the explanation for the animosity of Putin for liar-Hillary must lie in some secret deal. Here’s hoping the Trump CIA will turn its efforts from blaming the security breach on Putin to finding the reason for any meddling and why Russia turned on its puppet, liar-Hillary.
 
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CONNECT AND COMMIT TO BE HAPPY

By Juan Reynoso WTP-activist – www.represent.us   -   texusa2016@gmail.com  

Dear friends, the key to happiness is within you.  Believe in happiness and you will be happy.  Happiness is a state of mind is the result of loving others, Most people are as happy as they make up their minds to be. Loving others is helping others to be the best they can be “Teach others how to love and be love by others by establishing trusting relationship”. http://www.wikihow.com/Build-Trust

Whoever commit to love, knows God, for God is love.  Seek happiness by unconditionally loving others and God’s creation.  I believe that our purpose in life is to be happy.  From the moment of birth, every human being wants happiness and does not want suffering.  Neither social conditioning nor education nor political ideology affects this.  From the very core of our being, we simply desire contentment.   It is very clear that we humans who live on this earth face the task of making a happy life for ourselves.  Therefore, it is important to discover what will bring about the greatest degree of happiness.

From my own limited experience, I have found that the greatest degree of inner tranquility and happiness, comes from the development of love and compassion. The more we care for the happiness of others, the greater our own sense of well-being becomes. Cultivating a close, warm-hearted feeling for others automatically puts the mind at ease. This helps remove whatever fears or insecurities we may have and gives us the strength to cope with any obstacles we encounter; this is the ultimate source of happiness in life, is not money and power, but warm- heartedness.
The truth is that as long as we live in this world we are bound to encounter problems. If, at such times, we lose hope and become discouraged, we diminish our ability to face difficulties; but if on the other hand, we know that it is not only us but everyone who has to undergo suffering; this will increase our determination and capacity to overcome troubles. Indeed, with this attitude, each new obstacle can be seen as yet another valuable opportunity to improve our life and be happy.

The love for money, power and control will not make anyone happy.  Happiness is not a possession to be prized; it is an inner quality and a state of mind. If your mind is at peace, you are happy, if you have everything that the world can give you– pleasure, possessions and power – but you lack peace of mind, you can never be happy.

There is one thing in this good world that is positively sure – happiness is for all who strive to be connecting to others by love and trust.  Happiness is fundamentally a state of mind that comes from doing good and those who love humanity and all of God’s creation, are happy; they enjoy life, they are secure and love by others.  We all have a choice to be happy or being preoccupy about everything every day of our lives.  To be Happy is our choice, everybody is eligible – you – me – and others; we only has to learn to love others and do what is right. Knowing that you have done your best will give you peace of mind and that will make you happy. True happiness is to love and be love. We must always remember that God made us a family and family is what is all about.

http://www.1000ventures.com/business_guide/crosscuttings/quotes_love.html

BELIEVE YOU CAN AND YOU WILL BE HAPPY.

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By: Juan Reynoso, WTP Activist -  www.represent.us ; -  wtp17.21@gmail.com

Americas must realize that self-scrutiny is not treason. Self-examination is not disloyalty.

Seek the truth and let the people know. Truth and knowledge diffused among the people are necessary for the reclamation and preservation of our Democracy, rights, freedom and liberties. WE THE PEOPLE ARE THE SOLUTION TO OUR PROBLEM.

Fellow Americans, we the people of these United States are the solution to our problem. The fact is that our government policies created and promoted by Washington and State politicians is destroying our country and transforming American’s standard of living into a class of poverty that is impacting our moral principles and social responsibility.

America is a country where the corporate elite, financial institutions and the Washington political elite worked in collusion to form the establishment that pray on the American working people and the poor. By exploitation and abuse of power. This system of economic exploitation and oppression was designed by the oligarchs of this country; Big money created an army of puppets that has no moral values or ethics, that are being pay good money to do the job. Today in America big money control the political system, the judicial system, our armies, the state police forces and our corporate directors and management. Their strategy is divide and conquer, for many years they worked on this logical factor; in order for them to control the whole country they must get control of the house of power that comprise the state and Washington politicians and the judicial system that control the people by laws and regulations through the use of enforcers that are the federal and police forces of this country.

The time has come to destroy this system of corruption and demise the Washington establishment; we the people are the solution, we voted for Donald Trump because we believe on his promise “To clean the Washington swamp”; this objective must become our number one priority, eliminate corruption in our country. Every citizen of this country must connect and commit to work in unity to take our country back. Honesty, moral values and ethics are the foundation of our character.  We must stop being in complete denial of what is taken place in our country. We must fight for our freedom; it is not about us as individuals and what will benefit us, but what is the best for our country and the American people, nothing matters but our freedom that is guaranteed by our constitution; we must stop this corrupt government from destroying and trashing our constitutional rights and forcing the people into subjugation and economic slavery.

JFK said, “Ask not what your country can do for you, but what can you do for your country”. We are the solution, expose and fight corruption- be a whistle-blower. This is the truth, if we know of any government or corporate crimes and corruption and fail to expose the criminals; we become part of this criminal enterprise that is destroying our country.    

Our U.S. Constitution.

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/United_States_Constitution

Report fraud and corruption- be a whistleblower.

America's Corruption -  http://www.defraudingamerica.com/war_pictures.html

http://www.defraudingamerica.com/whistleblowers_index.html

Combating corruption - whistleblowing laws

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2351667415000141

A Whistleblower’s Guide to Journalists.

http://www.bmartin.cc/dissent/documents/Jones13.html

Whistleblowers: American Heroes

http://billmoyers.com/2013/04/26/whistleblowers-american-heros/

Our Government Protects Criminals by Attacking Whistleblowers

http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/02/government-protects-criminals-by-prosecuting-whistleblower-who-expose-wrongdoing.html

Protecting Whistleblowers since 1977

http://org2.salsalabs.com/o/6319/p/salsa/web/common/public/signup;jsessionid=43BBEAB8C153E2764AA64636DDB99E4F-n2?signup_page_KEY=8610&key=41036982

Fighting for Justice, Fighting for You

http://www.howtoreportfraud.com/?gclid=CJm5trfFhdECFQ-DaQodkNYIpg

SEC Whistleblower Recovery Center

http://www.whistleblowerrecovery.com/?sctp=da&scvn=google&scsrc=google-wb&sckw=whistle%20blowers&sccrtv=dybtw-ifrfcu-lfrrslv&gclid=CNKY5KfDhdECFYa1wAodlEcMrA

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Merry Christmas
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 The Events of the Week -- Featuring: 
Hollywood Does Orwell
by Debra J. Saunders
 
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Burning our Flag
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{familysecuritymatters.org} ~ It is a practice which few Americans can think about - much less witness before them - without strong emotions in one direction or the other. It is, to some, an appalling betrayal of the sanctity of the nation... while to others it is a sacred act of defiance in itself. It is perhaps the single most controversial form of political expression possible. It is the burning of the American flag. The design of the American flag was officially approved in 1777 for the purpose of identifying and protecting United States ships sailing at sea, but generally speaking, it did not become a widely recognized symbol of the US until the Reconstruction era, following the Civil War. This was when the first laws against "desecration" of the flag were passed, as concerns were raised about possible commercial or political misuse of the national symbol. The actual burning of the flag as a form of political protest occurred only sporadically until the Vietnam War, when it was used heavily to speak out against American involvement in that conflict.  The issue came to a major head in 1984, when Gregory Johnson, an American Communist opposed to both Ronald Reagan and Walter Mondale (the Republican and Democrat candidates for President in that year's election race, respectively) burned an American flag outside the Republican National Convention in Texas as sympathetic protesters chanted "America, the red, white and blue, we spit on you." Johnson was arrested and fined...  http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/burning-our-flag?f=must_reads
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CBS News Caught Lying And Slandering
WeAreChange and Free Speech
by Luke Rudkowski
{activistpost.com} ~ The mainstream media has yet again been caught doing lazy journalism with their recent attack on alternative media and free speech with another hit piece this morning. This is not the only problem this independent news organization faces as WeAreChange was just issued a legal notice from our ad company about being labeled fake news with a verified sourced documented article.  http://www.activistpost.com/2016/12/cbs-news-caught-lying-slandering-wearechange-free-speech.html?utm_source=Activist+Post+Subscribers&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=ff7e01c84e-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_term=0_b0c7fb76bd-ff7e01c84e-387888649
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Voters Not Fooled by Democrats'
Dangerous Immigration Agenda
by Michael Cutler
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{frontpagemag.com} ~ One of the most treasured hallmarks of America’s democratic electoral process is that following every election the transference of political power is done peacefully... It is also expected that the candidate that loses an election will concede the results of the election and congratulate his/her opponent and wish that person success. However, members of the Democratic Party and others, such as Presidential candidate Jill Stein, were so upset with the outcome of the election that they have made a series of false, outrageous accusations. In so doing they not only attacked Donald Trump but our most prized democratic traditions. The inflammatory and vitriolic statements made by various Democratic politicians, on all levels of government, were followed by violent demonstrations around the United States and on college campuses spurred on by the false accusations...  http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/265157/voters-not-fooled-democrats-dangerous-immigration-michael-cutler
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Democrats Make Massive
Move to IMPEACH Donald Trump!
by Kosar
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{thepoliticalinsider.com} ~ President-elect Donald J. Trump will be inaugurated in January, but the fighting against Democrats is just starting... While Democrats are busy blaming Russians for liar-Hillary Clinton’s historic electoral failure, Senator Elizabeth dinky-Warren (D-MA) has announced that she and fellow Senators will introduce legislation to impeach Trump immediately. On what grounds? They are upset about Trump’s incredible business success around the world. Simply because the Trump Organization has ongoing foreign and domestic projects, they want Trump to divest entirely from anything that even has the remote appearance of a conflict...These liberal dems are insane.  http://www.thepoliticalinsider.com/trump-impeachment-democrats-make-massive-move/?utm_source=SailThru%26utm_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=TPI%20Newsletter%2012-19-16%20Curated/Horizon%20Tier%201&utm_term=Tier%201%20Real
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Muslim Scholar: Group That Sponsored
Ellison's Hajj a 'National Security Threat'
by John Rossomando
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{investigativeproject.org} ~ The group that paid for U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison's December 2008 hajj to Mecca is a "national security threat," a Muslim scholar wrote in a 2010 email... Ellison now is vying to become the next Democratic National Committee chief. The Muslim American Society (MAS), the group that paid $13,500 for Ellison's pilgrimage, had ties with terrorism and had a phony commitment to the American constitutional order, al-Husein Madhany wrote in the email, which was posted on the "Muslim Justice League" listserv. He made these assertions as part of a discussion of how the Muslim community should respond to the Ground Zero mosque controversy...  http://www.investigativeproject.org/5736/muslim-scholar-group-that-sponsored-ellison-hajj#
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Hollywood Does Orwell
by Debra J. Saunders
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{townhall.com} ~ When you see videos of Hollywood celebrities -- like the latest with Martin Sheen, Debra Messing and Bob Odenkirk -- earnestly telling Americans how to live up to their brand of liberal politics by rejecting the GOP, the first question you have to ask yourself is: Why? I still ask myself that after watching the latest pitch under the Orwellian hashtags #UniteForAmerica , the ad hoc group's disingenuous name, and #SupportTheElectors. A montage of stars sotto voice urges "Republican members of the Electoral College" to vote their conscience -- that is, against their own fellow citizens' considered election choice.

American history has seen occasional "faithless" electors turn against their states' popular vote, but the "faithless" have never changed an election's outcome. Unite For America wants to change that by urging "faithless" electors to go blockbuster. If when they vote on Dec. 19, 37 Republicans were to turn against their own to deny Trump the 270 votes needed to win the White House, the celebrities apparently believe the about-face would unite the country. You know, because Trump voters take rejection as gently as lambs.

Perhaps the -- all bow -- acting community really is that clueless. The actors urge GOP electors to be "brave." It's a nice good-cop appeal even as other Democratic partisans are playing ruthless hardball to intimidate GOP electors before they vote on Dec. 19. Websites have released the emails and addresses of GOP electors who have been deluged with well-meaning exhortations, as well as name-calling and lurid death threats. Michigan GOP elector Michael Banerian told The New York Post, "Somebody threatened to put a bullet in the back of my mouth."

While one website urged correspondents to write nice letters on paper to appeal to electors' better nature, there is no removing the other message behind the letters: We know where you live.

I understand the frustration Democrats must feel in winning the popular vote. That said, the Constitution is a set of rules, including the Electoral College.

As so frequently happens, critics become what they once opposed. Now the Hollywood left wants to trample and misrepresent the purpose of the Electoral College. Note to Sheen and company: The framers were less worried about their fellow white landowners electing an "unfit" candidate than the prospect of high-population states imposing their will on small states.

Also, anti-Trumpers charged The Donald cared more about himself than what is good for the country. Yet as Trump has been reaching out to supporters and critics, the Hollywood left is pushing for an outcome that would divide America even further. They must know it won't work, but they don't care, because in the end, it's only preening.
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