Hi again, the reason 12 Naturalistic Alternative Medicine Doctors were Murdered this current previous last year of 2015 AD is because they all got together due to suspicion of something in vaccines making folks worse so they teamed together and did extensive research and found out that since 2014 AD an Enzyme that cancers and viruses make to cause the Immune System ignore those problems ie Nalgalase of which if given in large enough doses can cripple the human immune system,,, those 12 Doctors also found squaline in the vaccines which is a substance that causes sterilization of humans over time and all of those Doctors were murdered days before they were going to go public with their evidence,,, also concerning the zika virus, an Honest Alternative Medicine Doctor who lives in South America did when the recent outbreak of deformed babies happened did a detailed research study to find out how many of the mom's that gave birth to deformed babies had zika virus in their bodies during pregnancy and later and what else those mothers had in common and it turned out that only 10% of the mothers were infected with the zika virus whereas 100% of the mothers had received a mandatory vaccine, another reason I am a documented vaccine refuser of both my unofficial civilian capacity and my official U.S.ofA. Military and Federal Government capacity and if obama or any other left wing monster tries to get me to forcefully take a vaccine knowing what I know about vaccines which is more than what I have put here I will use my 16 plus sykic abilities to protect myself HOPEFULLY without hurting anyone just scaring the living daylights out of them so that they will leave me and my family alone,,, before I forget, in autistic children who at the time turned autistic all had Nalgalase in their bodies in massive doses,,, also an inside drug company whistleblower admitted that the drug companies know that the MMR (measles & rubela & mumps) vaccine does due to 2 things cause autism and those 2 things are # 1 the massive amount of mercury in that vaccine of which even though the drug companies claim they take the mercury out that is a known falsehood as they know that the mercury still sticks to the proteins of the vaccine even after skimming and #2 the large number of vaccines given within a very short time to children especially before 2 years of age, so all 3 things are known autism causers and during the 1990s I saw on C-SPAN hearings about autism and several autistics victims parents testified that when they gave their children chelation which removes heavy metals from the body all of their children's autistic signs disappeared, warning, you MUST consume large doses of minerals and vitamins when doing chelation as chelation removes such from the body and if you do not supplement you will die a painful death,,, GOD/Yahweh/Jehovah and His Only Begotten Son JESUS Bless all of us U.S.ofA. Tea Party Patriots!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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A few weeks ago I ran an article on TeaParty.org and here on our forum, little did I know that it was so accurate and so telling. No, I don't have a crystal ball but sometimes things just add up.
So tell me what you think? Is Goof-Ball Beck imploding? ....or just early retirement?
What about this? Beck Plasters Face
Glenn Beck revealed that he has lost $500,000 campaigning with Ted Cruz , but said that has nothing to do with the recent firing of 40 of his employees.
“We are making the hard choices,” Beck explained. “We’re choosing principles over power. We’re staying true to the Constitution.”
“There’s a story maybe you have read, that came out yesterday, that is talking about how yesterday, my company The Blaze laid off 40 people, and my media empire is crumbling, and part of it is because I’m traveling around with Ted Cruz,” he said, referencing a Daily Beast story.
“Well, I want you to know,” Beck continues. “Yes, I’ve lost a lot of money traveling around with Ted Cruz. I’ve lost about half a million dollars. That’s my choice. I believe in something.”
“Did that cause the 40 people to lose their job? No.”
- See more at: http://www.teaparty.org/glenn-beck-reveals-lost-500000-campaigning-ted-cruz-161074/#sthash.qebT348D.dpuf
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2016 The truth will set you free
Featuring:
Our Estranged Generals
Caroline Glick
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nObama Suddenly Advocates Missile Defense
Barack nObama addressed North Korea's nuclear shenanigans in an interview with CBS, attempting to look presidential while the Middle East falls apart. He told Charlie Rose, "Our first priority is to protect the American people and our allies, the Republic of Korea, Japan, that are vulnerable to the provocative actions that North Korea is engaging in." He continued, "[I]t's not something that lends itself to an easy solution. We could, obviously, destroy North Korea with our arsenals. But aside from the humanitarian costs of that, they are right next door to our vital ally, Republic of Korea."
Well, yes, and we could easily destroy Iran with our arsenals, too. Or most any other nation for that matter. But if these remarks were intended to stave off any future nuclear development, don't bet on that happening. nObama did, however, go on to say, "One of the things that we have been doing is spending a lot more time positioning our missile defense systems, so that even as we try to resolve the underlying problem of nuclear development inside of North Korea, we're also setting up a shield that can at least block the relatively low-level threats that they're posing right now."
Here, he's absolutely right. To force change, you must demonstrate strength, and a missile defense shield is an excellent way to do it. But where was this sentiment during the early stages of nObama's presidency when he outright retreated from a planned missile defense shield in Europe and cut billions from missile defense programs? Regardless of what fantasies this administration choses to indulge in, Iran still wants The Bomb and is working tirelessly underground to get it. Why should our response to Iran be any different than our response to North Korea? Or Russia? Or any other fundamentalist or geopolitical foe?
nObama's newfound revelation is also an about-face when it comes to, well, North Korea. As Ed Morrissey writes, "It's worth noting that nObama had the opportunity to demonstrate missile-shield capabilities in this region before. The US Navy has the capability to operate its ABM system in the region and at one time had deployed it there, but nObama didn't order its use when Pyongyang fired off a long-range missile a few years ago. Perhaps a demonstration of that strength might be in order soon." If there's one thing you can count on with this administration, it's unbridled flexibility. And that's the scariest thing. -The Patriot Post
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Breaking U.S. Law to Push Climate Treaty
Current U.S. law prevents the United States from forking over money to a United Nations organization if a group that is not an officially recognized state is also a member. And while it may seem like the rule splits hairs, there's good reason for it. As The Hill explains, the rule was established so that the Palestinians can't pull a foreign policy fast one and leverage the UN to declare statehood without first sitting down and negotiating a lasting peace deal with Israel. But peace in the Middle East isn't as important to Barack nObama as cementing a legacy of climate change policies that pander to ecofascists.
Senate Republicans point out that the U.S. cannot give $10 million a year to the UN's Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) because the Palestinian Authority also signed onto the framework. But as the whole climate change treaty wasn't a treaty when nObama didn't want to try winning approval from the Senate, nObama says the organization the treaty established is not an organization. "The UNFCCC is a treaty, and the Palestinians' purported accession does not involve their becoming members of any UN specialized agency or, indeed, any international organization," State Department spokesman John Kirby argued. "Further, we do not believe that it advances U.S. interests to respond to Palestinian efforts by withholding critical funds that support the implementation of key international agreements, which could undermine our ability to pursue important U.S. objectives." See? The ends justify the means.
But nObama's arguments don't hold water, according to The Heritage Foundation's Brett Schaefer and Steven Groves. The two wrote that UNFCCC is an organization established by the treaty — one that employs about 500 people, similar to organizations like INTERPOL. As a result, Congress should exercise its power of the purse and pull the strings shut on this implementation of nObama's ecofascist plan.
-The Patriot Post
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Huge Jihadists Training Camp Just
Across Mexican Border, Cartel Cover
By Rick Wells
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{rickwells.us} ~ The reported existence of a terrorist training base just across the US-Mexican border at which thousands of terrorists may be being trained, in a lawless area controlled by Mexican drug cartels, should be enough to strike fear into the hearts of the American people... If we had a government that wasn’t complicit in the targeting its own citizens, we might even expect it to prompt a response or preemptive action. Adding to the uneasiness with that possible scenario is the belief that the terrorist running the camp, Shaykh Mahmood Omar Khabir, is said to have made repeated trips across the border into the United States and back, with Mexican cartel protection. A logical assumption is that he is doing so to evaluate potential targets or identifying routes of travel and staging areas for future terrorist strikes inside the United States. Judicial Watch has provided some disturbing information that indicates just such a situation exists. The porous southern border is a very real threat to the American people, our safety and our national security. Even representatives within the Mexican government are recognizing the role the nObama regime is playing in creating a situation which threatens the United States. They reported in a Tuesday article which read in part... http://rickwells.us/archives/28860
{rickwells.us} ~ The reported existence of a terrorist training base just across the US-Mexican border at which thousands of terrorists may be being trained, in a lawless area controlled by Mexican drug cartels, should be enough to strike fear into the hearts of the American people... If we had a government that wasn’t complicit in the targeting its own citizens, we might even expect it to prompt a response or preemptive action. Adding to the uneasiness with that possible scenario is the belief that the terrorist running the camp, Shaykh Mahmood Omar Khabir, is said to have made repeated trips across the border into the United States and back, with Mexican cartel protection. A logical assumption is that he is doing so to evaluate potential targets or identifying routes of travel and staging areas for future terrorist strikes inside the United States. Judicial Watch has provided some disturbing information that indicates just such a situation exists. The porous southern border is a very real threat to the American people, our safety and our national security. Even representatives within the Mexican government are recognizing the role the nObama regime is playing in creating a situation which threatens the United States. They reported in a Tuesday article which read in part... http://rickwells.us/archives/28860
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nObama Admin Accused of Misleading
Congress on Cash Release to Iran
By Adam Kredo
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{freebeacon.com} ~ The nObama administration faces accusations it has been misleading Congress about the amount and destination of sanctions relief being provided to Iran as part of last summer’s nuclear agreement... according to lawmakers and congressional sources who expressed anger at the administration over a range of contradictory facts being offered about the payouts. Secretary of State John hanoi-Kerry came under scrutiny last week after saying in a statement that Iran has received only about $3 billion in sanctions relief to date—a figure far smaller than the $100 billion estimate administration officials had previously said Iran would receive under the deal. It also contradicts statements from top Iranian officials that they had regained control of $100 billion in foreign reserves unfrozen under the deal. The statement came amid congressional allegations, detailed by the Washington Free Beacon, that hanoi-Kerry and Iranian Foreign Minister Javid Zarif are engaged in a campaign to facilitate even more sanctions relief than Iran is entitled to under the deal. Congressional sources suggested that hanoi-Kerry’s statements about the amount and nature of this money might be part of that campaign... http://freebeacon.com/national-security/obama-admin-misleading-congress-iran/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=fdc52c4694-WFB_Morning_Beacon_04_27_164_26_2016&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-fdc52c4694-45611665
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Congressman says Most of Congress
is so Corrupt they should be in Prison
By Tim Brown
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{eaglerising.com} ~ Kentucky Congressman Thomas Massie has long taken stands for the people. Last week, Rep. Massie called for a roll-call vote on a billion-dollar foreign aid bill... Because of his demand, the people of America are able to see how their representatives voted on the bill. Without that demand, the bill would have been passed by the voices of only about twelve representatives. How is this representative government? It isn’t and Massie said if local politicians functioned in such a manner, they would find themselves in jail. Congressman Massie was interviewed on the morning after the vote by Brian Thomas at KRC-Radio in Cincinnati, Ohio. He told Thomas that the money contained in that bill was nothing more than “a one billion dollars slush fund for the president.” In fact, Massie pointed out that four bill passed by voice votes on the very same day, which he didn’t even have an opportunity to read!... http://eaglerising.com/32879/congressman-says-most-of-congress-is-so-corrupt-they-should-be-in-prison/
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Media slump liar-Trump Supporter
says slump liar-Trump is a “Centrist Democrat”
By Onan Coca
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{eaglerising.com} ~ Honestly, I know that some of our slump liar-Trump supporting readers won’t like this post, but I’m just not sure there is anything I can do about that... I have been openly supporting Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) for President for quite some time now and I am trying to maintain objectivity here, but any way I slice this race – Senator Cruz is just a better candidate for me and the things I value. I’m not upset with Mr. slump liar-Trump or his supporters — I get why they like him — but I don’t understand why some continue to pretend that he is a “conservative.” I agree with Scarborough that Mr. slump liar-Trump is most openly NOT a social conservative. He’s fine with gay marriage, he’s fine with “genderless” bathrooms, he’s fine with Planned Parenthood, and he’s sided with liberals against religious liberty. However, I’d also argue that he’s been quite liberal on fiscal policy as well. He wants to raise taxes on the wealthy, he’s a trade protectionist, he’s anti-free trade, and he currently supports a Medicaid expansion to ensure that every American has healthcare and he promises that the government will pay for those who can’t afford it. I wholeheartedly support my Republican friends who support Mr. slump liar-Trump’s candidacy, but I’d really like them to stop pretending that he is a “conservative,” because he’s just not...
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Nuclear power plant COMPROMISED: Fears grow
as power plant affected by malware
By Tom Batchelor
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{express.co.uk} ~ Gundremmingen plant in southern Germany was found to be riddled with computer viruses, including those which would allow attackers remote access to equipment for moving nuclear fuel rods... Viruses, known as W32.Ramnit and Conficker, were discovered at the plant, which is located 75 miles northwest of Munich. W32.Ramnit has the potential to give an attacker remote control over a system when it is connected to the internet and is also designed to steal files from infected computers. The virus could be used by groups such as Islamic State to obtain nuclear secrets, bringing them one step closer to building a radioactive bomb... http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/664868/German-nuclear-plant-security-breach-fears-cyber-hackers-gain-access-atomic-site
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Indiana Court Ruling Strikes a Blow Against
the Protection of Baby DNA
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{cchfreedom.org} ~ Patient privacy for some of Indiana’s youngest citizens—and the fight for the protection of baby DNA nationwide—took a blow this week, as the Indiana Court of Appeals ruled against baby “A.B. Doe,”... her parents and other families they were representing. Doe and her parents filed suit against the Indiana State Health Commissioner, the Director of the Indiana State Department of Health (ISDH) Genomics and Newborn Screening Program and the Indiana State Department of Health, stating that the baby’s dried blood spot taken at the time of her birth was stored without permission. Judge Heather A. Welch instead ruled in favor of the plaintiffs, Dr. Jerome Adams, Indiana State Health Commissioner, and Victoria Buchanan, Director of the ISDH Genomics and Newborn Screening Program, stating that Doe “had not sustained, nor was she in immediate danger of sustaining, a direct injury as a result of the storage of her dried blood spot sample,” according to court documents... http://www.cchfreedom.org/cchf.php/1151#.VyFB9OT2ZtF
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Congress Warned Against Sending Taxpayer
Funds to Russia for Rocket Engines
By Morgan Chalfant
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{freebeacon.com} ~ Conservative advocacy groups warned members of Congress against lifting restrictions on the government’s purchase of Russian-made RD-180 rocket engines for use during national security space launches... Leaders at Americans for Tax Reform and the Center for Individual Freedom appealed to members of the House Armed Services Committee ahead of a hearing Wednesday asking lawmakers to not allow the United States to send hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars to a Russian manufacturer with ties to President Vladimir Putin. Both groups reacted to suspicions that some members of Congress would propose lifting restrictions on the Pentagon’s purchase of the Russian-made rocket engines during a markup of the fiscal 2017 National Defense Authorization Act on Wednesday...
{freebeacon.com} ~ Conservative advocacy groups warned members of Congress against lifting restrictions on the government’s purchase of Russian-made RD-180 rocket engines for use during national security space launches... Leaders at Americans for Tax Reform and the Center for Individual Freedom appealed to members of the House Armed Services Committee ahead of a hearing Wednesday asking lawmakers to not allow the United States to send hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars to a Russian manufacturer with ties to President Vladimir Putin. Both groups reacted to suspicions that some members of Congress would propose lifting restrictions on the Pentagon’s purchase of the Russian-made rocket engines during a markup of the fiscal 2017 National Defense Authorization Act on Wednesday...
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Latest Defense Bill Could Decimate
Visa Program for Afghan Allies
By Alana Goodman
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{freebeacon.com} ~ Afghan interpreters who worked with the FBI, the State Department, and other U.S. agencies in Afghanistan could be deemed ineligible for U.S. visas by the 2017 defense appropriation bill, according to advocacy groups... Under the Special Immigrant Visa program, Afghans who worked as translators for the U.S. military and support operations are eligible to apply for American visas if their lives are at risk in Afghanistan. But according to advocates for the SIV program, the latest version of the 2017 National Defense Authorization Act in the House of Representatives would limit eligibility to translators who worked directly for the U.S. military or intelligence agencies. Interpreters in other support roles, such as working with the American embassy in Kabul or for base security, would no longer be qualified for the visa program... http://freebeacon.com/national-security/latest-defense-bill-decimate-visa-program-afghan-allies/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=95f8e608ed-WFB_Morning_Beacon_04_28_164_27_2016&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-95f8e608ed-45611665
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Major Iranian Missile Test to Coincide With
U.S. Presidential Inauguration
By Adam Kredo
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{freebeacon.com} ~ Iran is preparing to conduct a major ballistic missile test in February 2017, following the inauguration of the next U.S. president into the Oval Office, according to a timetable issued by the Islamic Republic... Iran is continuing work on advanced ballistic missile technology and has been engaged in various tests to perfect this work. Iran conducted a test launch earlier this month of its Simorgh space vehicle, which has emerged as a key piece of the Islamic Republic’s goal to perfect intercontinental ballistic missiles that would be capable of striking the United States with a nuclear warhead... http://freebeacon.com/national-security/iranian-missile-test-us-inauguration/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=95f8e608ed-WFB_Morning_Beacon_04_28_164_27_2016&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-95f8e608ed-45611665
{freebeacon.com} ~ Iran is preparing to conduct a major ballistic missile test in February 2017, following the inauguration of the next U.S. president into the Oval Office, according to a timetable issued by the Islamic Republic... Iran is continuing work on advanced ballistic missile technology and has been engaged in various tests to perfect this work. Iran conducted a test launch earlier this month of its Simorgh space vehicle, which has emerged as a key piece of the Islamic Republic’s goal to perfect intercontinental ballistic missiles that would be capable of striking the United States with a nuclear warhead... http://freebeacon.com/national-security/iranian-missile-test-us-inauguration/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=95f8e608ed-WFB_Morning_Beacon_04_28_164_27_2016&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-95f8e608ed-45611665
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Tom Coburn Unleashes on Congress: ‘America Doesn’t Trust You Anymore. That’s the Truth’
By Elizabeth Harrington
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{freebeacon.com} ~ Tom Coburn, the former senator currently leading a movement for a Convention of States, unloaded on Congress during a hearing before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Wednesday... “America doesn’t trust you anymore. That’s the truth,” Coburn said, appearing alongside the head of the Government Accountability Office during the hearing to discuss duplicative federal programs. The GAO recently released its annual report, finding the federal government could save hundreds of billions of dollars just by consolidating duplicative programs... http://freebeacon.com/politics/coburn-congress-america-trust/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=95f8e608ed-WFB_Morning_Beacon_04_28_164_27_2016&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-95f8e608ed-45611665
.{freebeacon.com} ~ Tom Coburn, the former senator currently leading a movement for a Convention of States, unloaded on Congress during a hearing before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Wednesday... “America doesn’t trust you anymore. That’s the truth,” Coburn said, appearing alongside the head of the Government Accountability Office during the hearing to discuss duplicative federal programs. The GAO recently released its annual report, finding the federal government could save hundreds of billions of dollars just by consolidating duplicative programs... http://freebeacon.com/politics/coburn-congress-america-trust/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=95f8e608ed-WFB_Morning_Beacon_04_28_164_27_2016&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-95f8e608ed-45611665
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Our Estranged Generals
Caroline Glick
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{frontpagemag.com} ~ It’s been a long time in coming, but it finally happened.
The IDF General Staff has lost the public trust.
This is terrible for the General Staff. But it is more terrible for the country, because the public is right not to trust our military leaders. They have earned our distrust fair and square.
The final straw came in less than optimal circumstances.
But such is life. Things are never cut and dry. On Purim, Sgt. Elor Azaria killed a terrorist in Hebron as he lay on the ground, shot, following his attempted murder of one of Azaria’s comrades.
Still today, we don’t know whether Azaria acted properly or improperly. He claims that he believed the terrorist had a bomb beneath the heavy jacket he was wearing in the middle of a heat wave.
Azaria claims that he shot him because he feared that the terrorist – who was moving – was trying to detonate the bomb. This view was shared by emergency personnel at the scene caring for the wounded soldier.
But even before he had a chance to tell his story, IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Gadi Eisenkot and Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon had already declared Azaria guilty of murder. Based on an initial field investigation and a snuff film produced by the European-funded anti-Israel group B’Tselem, Eisenkot and Ya’alon excoriated Azaria and pronounced the soldier, who was decorated for his service just last year, a rotten apple.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu initially joined them in their condemnations. But when he realized that the public wasn’t buying it and that the evidence was far from cut and dry, to his credit, Netanyahu walked back his remarks.
Ya’alon and Eisenkot, in contrast, have refused to let the uncertainty of the situation affect them.
Their continued assaults on the soldier have compounded the damage. Their stubborn refusal to give Azaria the benefit of the doubt and admit that he may well have comported himself properly indicates that they have no idea how their statements are being viewed by the public, or worse, they may not care. They may simply be playing for another audience.
And here lies the beginning of the real problem.
For the public – including the five thousand citizens who came to the support rally for Azaria at Rabin Square on Tuesday – the critical moment was when the film of Azaria being led away from the scene in handcuffs was broadcast on the evening news. That image, of a combat soldier who killed a terrorist being treated like a criminal, was the breaking point for the public. Whether he was guilty or innocent was beside the point. The point was that his commanders – beginning with the defense minister and the chief of General Staff – were treating him like a criminal instead of a combat soldier on the front lines defending our country from an enemy that seeks our destruction.
This image, combined with Ya’alon’s and Eisenkot’s increasingly shrill and caustic condemnations of Azaria, was a breach of the social contract between the IDF and the public. That social contract says that we serve in the IDF. We send our children to serve in the IDF. And the IDF values us and values our sons and daughters as its own.
The sense that our generals are not on the same page as the rest of us has been gnawing at us since at least April 2002, in the aftermath of the battle in Jenin, during the course of Operation Defensive Shield.
Back then, fearing CNN and the UN, IDF commanders sent a reserve battalion into Jenin refugee camp, the epicenter of the Palestinian murder machine, without air cover and without armored vehicles. Thirteen reservists were killed in one day. Twenty-three soldiers were killed in the three-day battle.
The sense of alienation continued through the war in Lebanon four years later when the IDF conducted one of the most inept campaigns in its history. Soldiers were sent willy-nilly into battles with no strategic purpose because the General Staff wanted to “stage a picture of victory.”
This sense has been maintained in successive inconclusive campaigns in Gaza.
Now, with the General Staff’s decision to turn Azaria into a scapegoat at a time when it is failing to defeat the Palestinian terrorist wave in Judea and Samaria, that gnawing sense that something is amiss has become a certainty.
Our generals are not on the same page as the rest of us. In fact, they aren’t even reading the same book.
Our generals are motivated by three impulses and strategic assumptions that are not shared by the majority of Israelis.
The first of those is their willingness to sacrifice soldiers in battles, and, in the case of Azaria, in show trials, in the hopes of winning the support of the Europeans and other Western elites. This impulse is not simply problematic. It is insane, because for more than a decade, it has been continuously proven futile.
At least since the battle in Jenin, it has been abundantly obvious that the Europeans will never support us. The Europeans, along with the UN and the Western media, ignored completely the lengths Israel went to prevent Palestinian civilian casualties in Jenin. They accused us of committing a Nazi-style massacre despite the fact that not only wasn’t there a shred of evidence to back their wild allegations. There were mountains of evidence proving the opposite. The Palestinians were massacring Israelis and would have continued to do so, had the IDF not retaken their population centers and so ended their ability to strike us at will.
And yet, despite the trail of UN blood libels from Jenin to the Goldstone Report and beyond, despite the faked media images of purported IDF bombings of civilians in Lebanon and Gaza, despite the hostility of EU diplomats and politicians and the open anti-Semitism of the European media and public, our generals still care what these people think about us.
Eisenkot and his generals still believe that by giving soldiers sometimes life-threateningly limited rules of engagement, by forcing every battalion commander to have a legal adviser approve his targeting decisions, the Europeans will be convinced that they should stop supporting our enemies.
The second impulse separating our generals from us is that almost to a man, members of the General Staff want a Palestinian state to be established in Judea, Samaria and Jerusalem and they want that state to be joined in some way with Gaza.
After 15 years of Palestinian terrorism and political warfare, our security brass still believe that the PLO is Israel’s partner. It doesn’t matter to them that the PLO is driving the current wave of terrorism just as it drove all the previous ones.
This is the reason that Eisenkot and his ideologically driven generals insist that we leave the Palestinian population centers after we spent so much blood and treasure fighting our way into them 14 years ago.
This is the reason that while Eisenkot and his generals insist that the PA security services are helping us fight terrorism even though no help would be necessary if the PA wasn’t inciting terrorism.
The generals’ stubborn faith in the notion that Palestinian terrorists who seek the destruction of our country will magically be transformed into allies the minute we turn the keys to our security over to them, sets them apart from the vast majority of Israelis.
Most Israelis support a theoretical Palestinian state that is at peace with us. Most Israelis would be willing to give up substantial amounts of territory if doing so would bring peace with the Palestinians.
But most Israelis also recognize that the Palestinians are not interested in peace with us and as a consequence, it makes no sense to give them any land. Most Israelis recognize that you can’t trust the good intentions of leaders who tell their school-age children to stab our school-age children.
The third impulse separating our generals from the public is their embrace and glorification of weakness. On every front, for more than 20 years, members of the General Staff have embraced the notion that there is no military solution to any of the security threats facing the country.
Until the Syrian civil war, the generals believed that if we left northern Israel vulnerable to attack and invasion by giving the Assad dynasty the Golan Heights, then the Assads would be magically convinced to ditch their Iranian sponsors and make common cause with an Israel that could no longer defend itself.
They have opposed attacking Iran’s nuclear facilities, insisting that we can trust the US, even though it has been obvious for years that the US would take no action to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons.
As for the US, the IDF embraces strategic dependency on the US. They insist that we can trust the Americans even though the nObama administration sided with Hamas in Operation Protective Edge. They continue to argue that we can depend on American even though the nObama administration is actively enabling Iran to acquire nuclear weapons. Utterly foreign to them is the notion that Israel would strengthen its alliance with the US by acting independently against Iran’s nuclear facilities, because doing so would prove that Israel is not a strategic basket case but a regional power that commands respect.
They oppose destroying Hamas’s military capabilities.
As a consequence, they have conducted four campaigns in Gaza since the 2005 withdrawal that all lacked a concept of victory. And by the way, the General Staff enthusiastically supported the strategically irrational withdrawal from Gaza.
When the public gets angry at our generals for not striving to defeat Hamas, for instance, they look at us like we fell off of Mars. Why would they want to defeat Hamas? Their job is to contain Hamas. And they are doing their job so well that Hamas managed to dig a tunnel right under their feet.
What explains our generals’ embrace of positions that most Israelis reject? Why are they willing to sacrifice soldiers and embrace Orwellian notions that weakness rather than strength is the key to peace? It is hard to say. Perhaps it’s groupthink. Perhaps it’s the selection process. Perhaps it’s overexposure to Europeans or Americans. Perhaps they are radicals in uniforms. Perhaps it is none of those things.
But whatever the cause of their behavior, the fact is that behavior has alienated them from Israeli society. In treating Palestinian terrorists with more respect than it accords its own soldiers, the IDF General Staff is earning the public’s fury. And in their contemptuous dismissal of the public’s loss of trust, our generals – including Ya’alon – are demonstrating that they have become strangers to their own society. This of course is a calamity.
The IDF lost the public’s trust at Purim. Let us hope that at Passover, our generals will leave their bubble and begin repairing the damage they caused. They are not in Europe. They are here.
And they need to be with us.
{frontpagemag.com} ~ It’s been a long time in coming, but it finally happened.
The IDF General Staff has lost the public trust.
This is terrible for the General Staff. But it is more terrible for the country, because the public is right not to trust our military leaders. They have earned our distrust fair and square.
The final straw came in less than optimal circumstances.
But such is life. Things are never cut and dry. On Purim, Sgt. Elor Azaria killed a terrorist in Hebron as he lay on the ground, shot, following his attempted murder of one of Azaria’s comrades.
Still today, we don’t know whether Azaria acted properly or improperly. He claims that he believed the terrorist had a bomb beneath the heavy jacket he was wearing in the middle of a heat wave.
Azaria claims that he shot him because he feared that the terrorist – who was moving – was trying to detonate the bomb. This view was shared by emergency personnel at the scene caring for the wounded soldier.
But even before he had a chance to tell his story, IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Gadi Eisenkot and Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon had already declared Azaria guilty of murder. Based on an initial field investigation and a snuff film produced by the European-funded anti-Israel group B’Tselem, Eisenkot and Ya’alon excoriated Azaria and pronounced the soldier, who was decorated for his service just last year, a rotten apple.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu initially joined them in their condemnations. But when he realized that the public wasn’t buying it and that the evidence was far from cut and dry, to his credit, Netanyahu walked back his remarks.
Ya’alon and Eisenkot, in contrast, have refused to let the uncertainty of the situation affect them.
Their continued assaults on the soldier have compounded the damage. Their stubborn refusal to give Azaria the benefit of the doubt and admit that he may well have comported himself properly indicates that they have no idea how their statements are being viewed by the public, or worse, they may not care. They may simply be playing for another audience.
And here lies the beginning of the real problem.
For the public – including the five thousand citizens who came to the support rally for Azaria at Rabin Square on Tuesday – the critical moment was when the film of Azaria being led away from the scene in handcuffs was broadcast on the evening news. That image, of a combat soldier who killed a terrorist being treated like a criminal, was the breaking point for the public. Whether he was guilty or innocent was beside the point. The point was that his commanders – beginning with the defense minister and the chief of General Staff – were treating him like a criminal instead of a combat soldier on the front lines defending our country from an enemy that seeks our destruction.
This image, combined with Ya’alon’s and Eisenkot’s increasingly shrill and caustic condemnations of Azaria, was a breach of the social contract between the IDF and the public. That social contract says that we serve in the IDF. We send our children to serve in the IDF. And the IDF values us and values our sons and daughters as its own.
The sense that our generals are not on the same page as the rest of us has been gnawing at us since at least April 2002, in the aftermath of the battle in Jenin, during the course of Operation Defensive Shield.
Back then, fearing CNN and the UN, IDF commanders sent a reserve battalion into Jenin refugee camp, the epicenter of the Palestinian murder machine, without air cover and without armored vehicles. Thirteen reservists were killed in one day. Twenty-three soldiers were killed in the three-day battle.
The sense of alienation continued through the war in Lebanon four years later when the IDF conducted one of the most inept campaigns in its history. Soldiers were sent willy-nilly into battles with no strategic purpose because the General Staff wanted to “stage a picture of victory.”
This sense has been maintained in successive inconclusive campaigns in Gaza.
Now, with the General Staff’s decision to turn Azaria into a scapegoat at a time when it is failing to defeat the Palestinian terrorist wave in Judea and Samaria, that gnawing sense that something is amiss has become a certainty.
Our generals are not on the same page as the rest of us. In fact, they aren’t even reading the same book.
Our generals are motivated by three impulses and strategic assumptions that are not shared by the majority of Israelis.
The first of those is their willingness to sacrifice soldiers in battles, and, in the case of Azaria, in show trials, in the hopes of winning the support of the Europeans and other Western elites. This impulse is not simply problematic. It is insane, because for more than a decade, it has been continuously proven futile.
At least since the battle in Jenin, it has been abundantly obvious that the Europeans will never support us. The Europeans, along with the UN and the Western media, ignored completely the lengths Israel went to prevent Palestinian civilian casualties in Jenin. They accused us of committing a Nazi-style massacre despite the fact that not only wasn’t there a shred of evidence to back their wild allegations. There were mountains of evidence proving the opposite. The Palestinians were massacring Israelis and would have continued to do so, had the IDF not retaken their population centers and so ended their ability to strike us at will.
And yet, despite the trail of UN blood libels from Jenin to the Goldstone Report and beyond, despite the faked media images of purported IDF bombings of civilians in Lebanon and Gaza, despite the hostility of EU diplomats and politicians and the open anti-Semitism of the European media and public, our generals still care what these people think about us.
Eisenkot and his generals still believe that by giving soldiers sometimes life-threateningly limited rules of engagement, by forcing every battalion commander to have a legal adviser approve his targeting decisions, the Europeans will be convinced that they should stop supporting our enemies.
The second impulse separating our generals from us is that almost to a man, members of the General Staff want a Palestinian state to be established in Judea, Samaria and Jerusalem and they want that state to be joined in some way with Gaza.
After 15 years of Palestinian terrorism and political warfare, our security brass still believe that the PLO is Israel’s partner. It doesn’t matter to them that the PLO is driving the current wave of terrorism just as it drove all the previous ones.
This is the reason that Eisenkot and his ideologically driven generals insist that we leave the Palestinian population centers after we spent so much blood and treasure fighting our way into them 14 years ago.
This is the reason that while Eisenkot and his generals insist that the PA security services are helping us fight terrorism even though no help would be necessary if the PA wasn’t inciting terrorism.
The generals’ stubborn faith in the notion that Palestinian terrorists who seek the destruction of our country will magically be transformed into allies the minute we turn the keys to our security over to them, sets them apart from the vast majority of Israelis.
Most Israelis support a theoretical Palestinian state that is at peace with us. Most Israelis would be willing to give up substantial amounts of territory if doing so would bring peace with the Palestinians.
But most Israelis also recognize that the Palestinians are not interested in peace with us and as a consequence, it makes no sense to give them any land. Most Israelis recognize that you can’t trust the good intentions of leaders who tell their school-age children to stab our school-age children.
The third impulse separating our generals from the public is their embrace and glorification of weakness. On every front, for more than 20 years, members of the General Staff have embraced the notion that there is no military solution to any of the security threats facing the country.
Until the Syrian civil war, the generals believed that if we left northern Israel vulnerable to attack and invasion by giving the Assad dynasty the Golan Heights, then the Assads would be magically convinced to ditch their Iranian sponsors and make common cause with an Israel that could no longer defend itself.
They have opposed attacking Iran’s nuclear facilities, insisting that we can trust the US, even though it has been obvious for years that the US would take no action to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons.
As for the US, the IDF embraces strategic dependency on the US. They insist that we can trust the Americans even though the nObama administration sided with Hamas in Operation Protective Edge. They continue to argue that we can depend on American even though the nObama administration is actively enabling Iran to acquire nuclear weapons. Utterly foreign to them is the notion that Israel would strengthen its alliance with the US by acting independently against Iran’s nuclear facilities, because doing so would prove that Israel is not a strategic basket case but a regional power that commands respect.
They oppose destroying Hamas’s military capabilities.
As a consequence, they have conducted four campaigns in Gaza since the 2005 withdrawal that all lacked a concept of victory. And by the way, the General Staff enthusiastically supported the strategically irrational withdrawal from Gaza.
When the public gets angry at our generals for not striving to defeat Hamas, for instance, they look at us like we fell off of Mars. Why would they want to defeat Hamas? Their job is to contain Hamas. And they are doing their job so well that Hamas managed to dig a tunnel right under their feet.
What explains our generals’ embrace of positions that most Israelis reject? Why are they willing to sacrifice soldiers and embrace Orwellian notions that weakness rather than strength is the key to peace? It is hard to say. Perhaps it’s groupthink. Perhaps it’s the selection process. Perhaps it’s overexposure to Europeans or Americans. Perhaps they are radicals in uniforms. Perhaps it is none of those things.
But whatever the cause of their behavior, the fact is that behavior has alienated them from Israeli society. In treating Palestinian terrorists with more respect than it accords its own soldiers, the IDF General Staff is earning the public’s fury. And in their contemptuous dismissal of the public’s loss of trust, our generals – including Ya’alon – are demonstrating that they have become strangers to their own society. This of course is a calamity.
The IDF lost the public’s trust at Purim. Let us hope that at Passover, our generals will leave their bubble and begin repairing the damage they caused. They are not in Europe. They are here.
And they need to be with us.
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The Front Page Cover
2016 The truth will set you free
Featuring:
Classification Decision of 28 Pages from
the 9/11 Report: Strategic for Bush,
Personal for nObama
Lt. Colonal James G. Zumwalt
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Broken Promises and Feckless Policy in Syria
On Monday, Barack nObama announced a change of plans for the U.S. military concerning operations in war torn Syria. With the quagmire of chaos and brutality that has ravaged Syria, Iraq and much of the Middle East, it seems as though nObama has come to the realization that airstrikes alone against Islamic State militants are just not working out as well as he expected. "Inherent Resolve," notwithstanding.
On Monday, Barack nObama announced a change of plans for the U.S. military concerning operations in war torn Syria. With the quagmire of chaos and brutality that has ravaged Syria, Iraq and much of the Middle East, it seems as though nObama has come to the realization that airstrikes alone against Islamic State militants are just not working out as well as he expected. "Inherent Resolve," notwithstanding.
Following visits to Britain and Saudi Arabia where "talks" were conducted about the Islamic State and terrorism, nObama wrapped up his trip in Germany where he announced that the United States will put an additional 250 special operations forces on the ground in Syria, bringing the total number to 300. It was the least he could do. Really.
nObama stated, "Given the success [of those 50 special operations troops already there], I've approved the deployment of up to 250 additional U.S. personnel ... to keep up this momentum." He emphasized that these additional forces will not be on the front lines, but that they will be acting in advisory roles and assisting Arab fighters and Kurdish militia on a plan to eventually take back the city of Raqqa, which is currently the "Islamic State's de facto capital in Syria."
Whatever happened to nObama's repeated promise not to put boots on the ground in Syria? You know, the promise he made 16 times. There are already as many as 5,000 pairs of boots on the ground in Iraq, and he promised that wouldn't happen either. Was there another crossing of nObama's phony red line or is it just better late than never? What gives?
As we have mentioned many times before, the rise of the Islamic State would not have happened if nObama had not acted so foolishly by withdrawing troops from Iraq in 2011. By choosing to reject George W. Bush's strategy of reaching a Status of Forces Agreement with the Iraqi government to secure our hard-won gains in the region, nObama opened the door for radical Islamic terrorists to fill the vacuum. nObama thought that if we left the region, the war would be over. His wishful thinking resulted in an enemy even more formidable and numerous than the previous one.
And it's not just Islamic terrorists with whom we must contend on this battlefront. Vladimir Putin still has Russian military forces in Syria, propping up Bashar al-Assad and fighting U.S.-backed "moderates" instead of the Islamic State.
By all indications, Putin has no intention of leaving the region any time soon. Russia has agreed to uphold its end of the deal under a current cease-fire agreement, but The Wall Street Journal reports that Moscow has redeployed many of its forces, including artillery, to northern Syria and that Iranian troops are starting to move back into government controlled areas close to the front lines.
Further, Putin has also attempted to deceive the U.S. by changing his tactics. At first, many thought the withdrawal of Russian warplanes from the region was a sign that Putin had decided to leave. But with the arrival of Russian attack helicopters, Russian troops continuing to maintain an airbase and a port, and with pressure from Iran to stay, it's likely that Putin is going to wait this out a little while longer.
As Michael Ledeen noted last month, "Putin knows time is running out on The Wonderful Thing That Happened in Washington (aka the nObama administration). So whatever he wants to get, now is the time."
So we are left with a situation in Syria that could go from awful to much, much worse. We are fighting the Islamic State and providing weapons to a group of rebels to take down Assad, while Russia and Iran have teamed up to keep Assad in power. And don't forget, nObama handed Iran a nuclear deal that has fueled the mullahs' ambitions with $150 billion in sanctions relief, which of course has enabled Iran to make the moves it has made with Russia in Syria.
Meanwhile, we have an administration that simply doesn't know what to do about Assad. Former Secretary of State Hilly Clinton called Assad a reformer. Then nObama said he had to go. And then current Secretary of State John hanoi-Kerry said he can stay for now. This is not leadership, its madness. And with the announcement that more U.S. troops are going into Syria, it's just a matter of time before tensions between the United States, Russia, Syria and Iran ramp up even more over the coming months.
In short, this isn't so much about broken promises as it is about a feckless and disastrous foreign policy. No wonder the Pentagon can't figure out what the commander in chief is doing.
May God bless and watch over our troops who are and will be sent into harm's way. -The Patriot Post
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OPINION IN BRIEF
Jeff Jacoby: "[M]ost Americans have gotten used to a system in which even their most routine and predictable medical costs must be routed through the maddening labyrinth of insurance procedures. But nothing could be more counterproductive. When Americans rely on a third party ... to pay most of their medical bills, they forfeit their power as consumers. Our ill-conceived system of subsidized health plans provided by employers and taxpayer-funded 'free' treatment through the government ends up stripping patients of their economic clout. Doctors and hospitals have little incentive to compete by lowering prices, because patients rarely bother to ask about prices. By and large, health-care providers in the United States do most of their negotiating with insurers or the government. After all, they're the ones paying the piper. It's only when medical services aren't reimbursed by a third party ... that the consumer is king. ... Nobody taps auto insurance to pay for tuneups or new tires; we use it when the car is rear-ended or stolen. We shouldn't be using health insurance to pay for routine checkups, either. If it seems odd to say so, that's only because we've convinced ourselves that normal medical expenses shouldn't be treated normally. If we want health care to cost less, we should pay for it ourselves." -The Patriot Post
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Sessions Warns –
Expect Anti-American TPP Dirty Tricks...
By Rick Wells
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{rickwells.us} ~ Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL) points to the ‘president’s’ own words in a joint press conference with Angela Merkel in Germany in sounding the alarm of TPP and other trade deals that nObama is trying to push through and force upon the American people... He quotes nObama saying, “And with respect to Congress, and the Trans-Pacific Partnership, I think after the primary season is over, the politics settled down a little bit in Congress, and we’ll be in a position to start moving forward. We had a majority of members in the past who were in favor of this deal. Otherwise we wouldn’t have gotten the authority for me to go ahead and fast track the agreement. But I think we all know that elections can sometimes make things a little more challenging. And people take positions in part to protect themselves from attacks during the course of an election season.” Senator Sessions says, “I would suggest that the American people should be very uneasy about their ‘president’ making such a statement as that. We’ve already heard that there are plans by a number of forces and interest groups to try to slip this TPP through after the election, in a lame duck congressional session.”... http://rickwells.us/archives/28836
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NY judge decides
slump liar-Trump University case going to trial
By foxnews
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{foxnews.com} ~ A New York judge decided Tuesday that a fraud case against Donald slump liar-Trump over his former school for real estate investors will go to trial... raising the possibility that the Republican presidential primary front-runner could testify during campaign season. New York County Supreme Court Judge Cynthia Kern made the decision at a hearing Tuesday, though it remains unclear whether the case will be weighed at a jury trial – which is what slump liar-Trump’s team is seeking. slump liar-Trump attorney Jeffrey Goldman said it’s possible the trial could be held this fall, and slump liar-Trump could testify. In the case, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, a Democrat, has accused slump liar-Trump and others of misleading thousands of students over the school... http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/04/26/ny-judge-decides-trump-university-case-going-to-trial.html?intcmp=hpbt1
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Reinventing slump liar-Trump Won't Make Him a Winner
By David Limbaugh
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{newsmax.com} ~ Donald slump liar-Trump is trying to establish the narrative that he's already won the Republican presidential nomination. If that's true, why is his team trying to reinvent him?... slump liar-Trump had a big win in New York, and he's likely to have another big day in other Northeastern states this week. But neither New York nor these other states are a surprise. The Ted Cruz team anticipated this and warned Cruz supporters that this would be a dry patch, adding that things will get better. slump liar-Trump understands that he's getting shellacked in the delegate selection process in the states — which means he probably won't be the nominee if he doesn't reach 1,237 delegates before the convention... http://www.newsmax.com/DavidLimbaugh/Manafort/2016/04/26/id/725769/?ns_mail_uid=29878495&ns_mail_job=1665336_04262016&s=al&dkt_nbr=pr8kxfwd
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Four Star Officers On The Chopping Block!?
By Leo Shane III
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{militarytimes.com} ~ House lawmakers want more troops in the ranks but fewer four-stars to lead them. The proposal is part of sweeping personnel reforms included in the House Armed Services Committee draft of the annual defense authorization bill, unveiled Monday... It’s also a rebuke of what some congressional leaders see as “top-heavy command headquarters” with more support staff than they need. To solve that, the bill includes a requirement to dump at least five of the 38 four-star posts across the armed services in coming years — the Coast Guard commandant would not be included in the list — and ensure that subordinate commanders within combatant commands serve at a grade no higher than three stars. The move appears specifically aimed at situations like the Defense Department’s Pacific Command, which in addition Adm. Harry Harris Jr., the unified command’s leader, boasts three other four-star officers who fill service-specific posts...
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Classified 28 Pages of the 9/11 Commission
Report Could Be Released Soon
By Warren Mass
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{thenewamerican.com} ~ Twenty-eight classified pages from the famous 9/11 Commission Report on the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, could be made public by June, according to James Clapper, the director of National Intelligence... An April 25 report from VOA quoted Clapper’s remarks made at a Christian Science Monitor breakfast. “I think that is certainly a realistic goal from where we stand with that,” said Clapper who is responsible for overseeing the redacted pages’ potential declassification. “We are in the position of trying to coordinate interagency position on the declassification of the 28 pages,” the director and retired Air Force lieutenant general added. VOA noted that only a select group of U.S. officials have read the classified report, which has been locked in a secure area of the U.S. Capitol building since a joint congressional committee compiled it in 2002. Bills have been introduced in both the Senate and House of Representatives calling for the declassification of the report’s redacted pages... http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/crime/item/23052-classified-28-pages-of-the-9-11-commission-report-could-be-released-soon
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Woman Who Ran nObamacare Defects,
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{conservativetribune.com} ~ The woman who ran nObamacare during her tenure as the administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which played a pivotal role in implementing the failed program, claimed last week that health care customers could be in for a huge sticker shock come 2017... “I’ve been asked, what are the premiums going to look like?” Marilyn Tavenner, who now works as a spokeswoman for insurers, said during an interview with the Morning Consult. “I don’t know, because it also varies by state, market, even within markets.” She added, “But I think the overall trend is going to be higher than we saw previous years … that’s my big prediction.”...
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White House Adviser: Thanks to Israel, the
US ‘Dodged a Bullet in Syria’
By Ruthie Blum
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{algemeiner.com} ~ The United States “dodged a bullet in Syria… all courtesy of the Israelis,” former US Vice President Dick Cheney’s national security adviser asserted on Monday... John Hannah, a senior fellow at the DC-based think tank the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, was referring to Operation Orchard, Israel’s September 6, 2007 bombing of the North Korean-built, plutonium-producing nuclear reactor in the town of Al-Kibar, in the desert east of Damascus. “Not only did the Israelis discover it in the nick of time,” Hannah wrote in the journal Foreign Affairs. “They also carried out the attack that was almost certainly the only means of ensuring the reactor never went hot.”... https://www.algemeiner.com/2016/04/26/former-white-house-adviser-thanks-to-israel-the-us-dodged-a-bullet-in-syria/
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Navy Digging Out Of Fighter Shortfall; Marines Still Struggling To Fly At Home
By Megan Eckstein
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{news.usni.org} ~A three-pronged approach is helping the Navy keep its strike fighter inventory shortfall at a “manageable” level –speeding up legacy Hornet life extension work, preparing to conduct the Super Hornet life extension program more efficiently, and buying new Super Hornets... though the Marines’ legacy Hornet fighter inventory is so strained there are hardly any planes available for day-to-day squadron training, Navy and Marine aviation leaders said last week. Because the Marines fly only the legacy Hornet, the service’s situation is much more dire than the Navy’s more balanced inventory of older F/A-18 A-D Hornets and F/A-18E-F Super Hornets. Deputy Commandant of the Marine Corps for Aviation Lt. Gen. Jon Davis told the Senate Armed Services seapower subcommittee last week that, according to his records from the previous day, the Marines had only 87 Hornets that were mission capable, out of the 276 planes the Marine Corps owns and the requirement for 174 at any given time. The Marine Corps will eventually transition its F-18 squadrons into F-35B Joint Strike Fighter squadrons, but in the mean time it is scavenging old planes for parts and using 3D printers to build what it cannot find lying around – trying to keep its planes flying until more come out of the depots after their Service Life Extension Program (SLEP) overhaul...Thank nObama for that. https://news.usni.org/2016/04/26/navy-digging-out-of-fighter-shortfall-marines-still-struggling-to-fly-at-home?utm_source=USNI+News&utm_campaign=0513d51ff2-USNI_NEWS_DAILY&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_0dd4a1450b-0513d51ff2-231491269&mc_cid=0513d51ff2&mc_eid=3999f18767
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Lack of Security Intelligence is Allowing
Chinese Spy Rings to Grow in the U.S.
By RYAN HEALY
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{familysecuritymatters.org} ~ On April 21, 2016, federal authorities formally charged 53-year old Amin Yu on an 18-count indictment for being a Chinese spy... She had operated discretely within the United States (U.S.) from 2002 until February 2014, and had supplied China with resources to develop their own underwater drone program. Authorities believe Yu obtained submersible materials including underwater cables, connectors, and sonar from U.S., Canadian, and European and illegally exported it to Harbin Engineering University (HEU), a state-owned university in China. HEU conducts research and development (R&D) for the Chinese government and military. Yu had worked for HEU as a researcher studying "underwater operated vehicles" until she came to the U.S. in 1998 according to the indictment. She owned two companies Amin International, based out of Mason, Ohio, and I-Four International, which she ran out of her home, to acquire the submersible parts...
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Russia and China rush to fill Mideast
void left by nObama
By AMIR TAHERI
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{familysecuritymatters.org} ~ It was meant to be a farewell visit by a cherished friend heading for retirement. Instead, Barack nObama's visit to Saudi Arabia Tuesday and Wednesday turned into an unwanted call by an uninvited guest at an inconvenient time... It started a the airport, when Saudi King Salman sent one of his nephews to greet the US president on arrival in Riyadh. The gesture was specially telling because the Saudi monarch had spent much of the day personally welcoming other leaders at the airport. It ended not much better: forced smiles, unconvincing statements of solidarity. It was typical of what has become the nObama Doctrine: dropping old allies in the hope of turning adversaries into new friends. Needless to say, the gamble has failed... http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/russia-and-china-rush-to-fill-mideast-void-left-by-obama?f=must_reads
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Classification Decision of 28 Pages from
the 9/11 Report: Strategic for Bush,
Personal for nObama
Lt. Colonal James G. Zumwalt
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{familysecuritymatters.org} ~ U.S. presidential candidates experience a learning curve. They find, once elected to office, delivering on promises, easily made as a candidate, is much more difficult. For candidates irresponsibly making such campaign promises, winning an election becomes a sobering reality.
When easily made campaign promises can, just as easily, be kept – demanding little effort by a newly elected president to do so – but are not, the obvious question becomes “why?”
As a candidate, President Barack nObama made just such a campaign promise. In 2008, he promised to release information President George W. Bush had classified as secret. Its release, after nObama took office, would clearly have generated criticism of the 43rd president for failing to release it on his own watch. Yet nObama, who has repeatedly rushed during his term to criticize Bush whenever possible, still refuses to go public with the information.
Interestingly, while Bush’s decision to classify the material had strategic purpose, nObama’s motivation is personal.
The information in question consists of 28 pages, totaling 7,200 words, of an 800-page report on the 9/11 attacks against the U.S. released in 2002 by the U.S. House and Senate Intelligence Committees. It deals with “specific sources of foreign support” for the 19 hijackers involved, 15 of whom were Saudi nationals. Implicating Saudi Arabian government officials, Bush immediately classified the pages, rejecting a demand made the next year by dozens of senators to declassify them.
Bush’s declassification refusal made the issue a no-brainer for presidential candidate nObama. What Bush would not do, nObama assured the families of 9/11 victims in 2008, he, as president, would. But once in office, nObama failed to follow through.
Pressured in 2014 to make good on his promise, nObama finally ordered a declassification review of the pages in question to be conducted. Almost two years later, that review is yet to be completed.
With a trip to Saudi Arabia coming up later this month, nObama is again on the hot seat to expedite the review and release the information. National Security Council spokesman Ned Price reported, “That review process remains underway, but every effort is being taken to complete it before the end of the Administration.”
Since the review was ordered, it has inched along at a snail’s pace. It should not be taking so long to complete, lest nObama’s true intention is the pages never be released. If so, his reasoning as to why needs to be made very clear.
Before doing so, let us examine what information has been revealed about the pages’ content.
Two members of Congress, Reps. Walter Jones (R-NC) and Stephen Lynch (D-Mass), who have read the pages, tell us, although “absolutely shocked” by the level of foreign state involvement, they are prohibited by law from disclosing the identity of the country involved.
But other sources leave no doubt Saudi Arabia is the country in question. While a 2004 9/11 Commission report found no evidence of Saudi government involvement, a CIA memo found “incontrovertible evidence” of it. Additionally, the infamous twentieth 9/11 bomber, Zacarias Moussaoui, has given sworn testimony members of the royal Saudi family were involved.
If concrete evidence of Saudi government complicity existed, it would explain Bush’s unwillingness to go public with it. It would have taken the 9/11 attack out of the realm of an act of terrorism and into the same realm as the Pearl Harbor attack 60 years earlier, an act of war.
Undoubtedly, Bush rationalized, while some Saudi government officials were involved in providing logistical and financial support to the attackers, their actions may not have been sanctioned officially by the Saudi government. Additionally, with its gun sites already targeted on Afghanistan and Iraq, America could ill afford to expand the conflict to include Saudi Arabia as well.
For nObama to declassify these pages to reveal Saudi complicity – and Bush’s underlying intentions to hide it from the American people – would have provided him with the equivalent of a drug user’s rush. nObama would be able to further denigrate his predecessor, as has always been his wont. But nObama still rejects their release, and probably always will, for one extraordinarily personal reason – for which some background is necessary.
Saudi Arabia is recognized among all Muslims as performing a critical role under Islam. It is “custodian” of two of the religion’s holiest mosques – Makkah, the birthplace of Islam and Prophet Muhammad, and Madinah, where he was buried. A sacred trust exists between Saudi Arabia and all Muslims to preserve these two sites.
Thus, existentially speaking, Saudi Arabia is Islam and Islam is Saudi Arabia. Every aspect of Islamic life and thought is manifested within Saudi life and culture.
The reason nObama refuses to release the 28 pages is that it would destroy his legacy. Remember, he is a president who has spent eight years assuring us Islam is a peaceful religion. Yet, if Saudi Arabia – a Muslim ally of the U.S. for eighty years representing the gold standard of Islamic thought – were involved in the 9/11 attacks, it destroys the myth of “peaceful” Islam. It would become impossible for the “violent extremist” link to Islam, which nObama has refused to make, to be denied by him any longer. It would put the lie to his repeated peaceful assertions, exposing him as a fool for even promoting such a claim.
Ironically, 52 years after the Warren Commission report into President John F. Kennedy’s assassination was released in 1964, conspiracy theorists abound over its failure to link the killer to one. Meanwhile, the 9/11 Commission report wreaks of killers linked to a Saudi-assisted Islamic conspiracy, but gets little attention.
Where are all the conspiracy theorists when we really need them to expose Islam’s dark side?
On April 27st 2016, Barry Donadio endorsed David Bossie for RNC Maryland National Committeeman.
David N. Bossie has served as president of Citizens United and Citizens United Foundation since 2001.
Bossie is the former Chief Investigator for the United States House of Representatives Committee on Government Reform and Oversight. He has authored four books.
In 2010, Citizens United won a landmark First Amendment decision at the United States Supreme Court in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission. The case, which saw the government assert during oral arguments that it had the Constitutional authority to ban political books, struck down two decades of unconstitutional restrictions on free speech. Most recently, Bossie was ranked number two in Politico’s top 50 most influential.
As president of Citizens United Productions, Bossie has produced 25 documentaries since 2004, most recently, Rocky Mountain Heist hosted by Michelle Malkin, Occupy Unmasked featuring the late conservative icon Andrew Breitbart, Our Sacred Honor with Senator Rick Santorum, The Gift of Life with Governor Mike Huckabee, and the award winning films Nine Days That Changed The World and Ronald Reagan: Rendezvous with Destiny hosted by Callista and Newt Gingrich.
Born in Boston, Bossie attended the University of Maryland. He proudly served for 20 years as a volunteer firefighter in Montgomery County, Maryland where he resides with his wife, Susan, and their four children; Isabella, Griffin, Lily Campbell, and Margaret Reagan.
Barry Donadio stated “I am very pleased that we have a true conservative running as a candidate for this position. Conservative Republicans that want to see change the MDGOP should join me by endorsing Mr. Bossie. As Maryland Republicans, we can not afford to continue down the same business as usual path. Members of the Maryland Republican Party now have an opportunity to obtain new leadership and ideas from people like David Bossie. I vote Bossie."
In 2014, Barry Donadio was elected to the Queen Anne's County Republican Central Committee in Maryland. He has steadily gaining popularity in the Maryland Republican Party. Prior to becoming an Elected Official, he led a long and honorable career serving the public. He also served as as a Volunteer Firefighter, as did David Bossie. Barry Donadio relocated to Maryland from New York after taking a position at the White House in the U.S. Secret Service.
Later, he formed his private security and investigation firm "Public Security LLC". He is a major player in the anti-terror and executive protection industry.
In 2013 he released his book named "TWA Flight 800 First Responder Witness Account". Donadio remains the only person to write a book about the crash of TWA Flight 800 that was actually at the scene of the rescue on the night the plane crashed, July 17th 1996.
CONDI RICE ADMITTED IGNORING VLADIMIR PUTIN’S WARNINGS OF 9/11 “TIME BOMB”. SHE MUST NOT BE VP!
By Leni Friedman Valenta
April 27, 2014
Someone please warn Donald Trump. Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is not qualified to be a heartbeat from the presidency. She has the politically correct gender and race, but she lacks the judgment. He could lose the general election because of her vociferous support of the 2003 Iraq War, but even more, her neglecting the warning of Vladimir Putin, and the repeated warnings of CIA Director George Tenet, counter-terrorism expert Dick Clarke, Gary Hart and others. Moreover, she denied the truth during her testimony before the 9/11 commission. This will come to haunt her along with the 28 pages about the Saudi’s involvement in the preparation of 9/11, also hidden by “W” and Condi.
Rice is often criticized as one of the architects of the 2003 war of choice and that is surely true. She was part of the group think that rushed to war on suspect and insufficient British intelligence. Richard Haass, the president of the Council on Foreign Relations, was the former head of the State Dept. Planning Council in 2002. He has recalled how she came to him and told him, “The decision has been made,” i.e., no further vetting was needed. Haass later excoriated the Iraq war as one of choice not necessity and indeed, the mistakes of “W” were only made worse by Obama, who pulled out too soon.
But there’s more and much worse regarding Condi. Just read the memoirs of key people involved with our 9/11 tragedy. Clarke believes Rice was primarily responsible for the deaths of almost 3,000 people who died on September 11, 2001. Our research is summed up in our published article in The National Interest, “Why Trump is Right About Bush’s 9/11 Record.” We applaud Trump for his bipartisan explanation of our government’s folly, although some might consider it sacrilege. True is, Condi, as NSA, was not up to the job and “W” was not informed enough about foreign policy to know that she wasn’t as knowledgeable as he thought; surely not on the Middle East.
“…I was taken aback by Putin’s alarm and vehemence,” wrote Condi in her own memoir, “…. Putin though, was right; The Taliban and al Qaeda were time bombs that would explode on September 11, 2001.”
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2016 The truth will set you free
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Yes, We Need a Canadian Border Wall
Michelle Malkin
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The Department of Extortion
Despite Barack nObama's repeated public statements identifying his primary regret while in office as not "healing the divisions" in Washington, he has done more to cause the problem than anyone. Take for example his recent actions rewriting a bipartisan education law. In short, he's proving that South Carolina Congressman Joe Wilson was accurate when he interrupted nObama's 2009 State of the Union Address to thunder, "You lie!"
In what has happened only a few times during nObama's tenure, bipartisan legislation was passed — this time to rewrite No Child Left Behind (NCLB) in December 2015. nObama declared at the signing that the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) was "a Christmas miracle." Further, nObama noted, "Today, I'm proud to sign a law that's going to make sure that every student is prepared to succeed in the 21st century."
Well, he was mighty proud until it became apparent his unelected federal bureaucrats couldn't make demands of your state education departments and your local school districts through the extortion of funding. And now the nObama Department of Education is rewriting rules to circumvent the law to return to their previous modus operandi: "Do what we say to get your money."
The ESSA, while emphasizing the need for standards and testing, placed that responsibility and the specific details with the states, versus a federal set of rules driven by a glut of student testing and Common Core. The law requires that states use their own "college-and-career ready standards" to measure mastery and preparedness for postsecondary education, with an intervention protocol for areas of concern. ESSA also leaves the process of testing, as well as how the scoring is interpreted, up to state governments.
The biggest disruption to any reign of political or bureaucratic power is to change its role in appropriating money — to remove the marionette strings. And ESSA significantly altered the status quo of the education dollar returned to states. Forget the fact that the average funding from the federal government back to individual states comprises only about 12% of direct education expenditures. This coveted sum is always sought by the never-ending needs (and "needs") of education.
Education Week opined, "Congress has redefined the federal role in elementary and secondary education. And it's done so in a way that aims to enhance the authority of states and school districts that had long chafed at the strictures of ESSA's predecessor, the No Child Left Behind Act."
Simply, ESSA now dictates a supplement-not-supplant use of federal funding. It equalizes funding to low-income and "disadvantaged" schools through the states' administration of Title I funding. According to The Heritage Foundation, that funding has been increased from "$14.4 billion to an authorized level of $15 billion in 2017, and to $16.2 billion by 2020."
Yet, citing civil rights concerns that states would fail to fully fund certain schools, the newly-but-barely-confirmed Secretary of Education John King (parroting nObama's talking points) was clear — he supported nObama's disregard for the law. King's 49-40 confirmation vote on March 14 demonstrated the forgotten bipartisan approach to education reform from just three months prior.
King argued that the revisions of ESSA presented by the Department of Education were meant to ensure that a Title I school "receives at least as much in state and local funding as the average non-Title I school."
Now, let's break this down into its most essential ingredients. If the Education Department ignores ESSA, it intends to fully fund schools that fit an income and racial designation regardless of merit of a school and its students. Ever hear of the term "funding failure?"
The law intentionally left criteria in place to require states regarding comparability but never intended performance measures to be stripped away.
While the legislative attempt was made to send block grants back to the state to put the education of students closer to the parent and teachers in the classroom, it is abundantly clear that two problems remain in Washington, DC. One, we have a president who not only disregards the law, but his crony collaborations reveal a lack of integrity and honesty. Two, the only way to allow states to control the education of their students is to dissolve the U.S. Department of Education.
There is no area of government or policy that nObama and his band of militant progressives have left intact that could possibly restore the confidence of the America public that their government works for them. Our Republican Congress must now rise to immediately change the appropriations of the Department of Education via the power of the purse. It's apparent these educrats live by the power of extortion. So, Republican Congress, speak their language and tighten their strings.
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OPINION IN BRIEF
John Goodman: "We naturally assume that that public policy advocates actually want to achieve the things they advocate. But there are a lot of people both on the right and the left — but especially on the left — for whom that probably isn't true. Suppose you could wave a magic wand and eliminate global warming forever. You might think that all the environmental organizations and all the environmental scientists would get out the champagne and cerebrate. More likely their offices would look like a wake. Causes are vehicles to money and power. They generate millions of dollars in donations. They create high paying jobs. They motivate millions in research grants and millions in campaign contributions. If the cause goes away, money and power go away with it. ... Ditto for race relations. What would Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton do if there were no more racial discrimination? They couldn't Mau Mau any more corporations. They couldn't shake down any more rich white guys. They would have to ... well ... they would have to go find an honest job."
-The Patriot Post
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Loretta Lynch Plotting
Politically Motivated Prosecutions...
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{teapartyupdate.com} ~ U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch and various other radical leftist are plotting and scheming to unleash politically motivated charges in order to stifle free speech and fund radical left wing activism according to the editors of National Review... The game plan is to file charges alleging that companies like Exxon Mobile are guilty of racketeering and fraud because they denied climate change and donated money to climate skeptics. The genius behind these corrupt banana republic style assaults on the rule of law is that they are are directed against very unpopular companies. Since just about everyone hates big oil, progressives hope to get away with extorting big oil for millions or even billions of dollars to fund future radical left wing activism... http://teapartyupdate.com/loretta-lynch-plotting-politically-motivated-prosecutions-you-could-be-next/
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ISIS is Harvesting Organs from Own
Recruits to Sell on the Black Market
Kerry Lear
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{punchingbagpost.com} ~ In February, Iraqi officials alerted the United Nations that ISIS was harvesting victim’s organs to make money on the black market. Apparently the financial situation of the terrorist group has become so dire that now ISIS is allegedly harvesting the organs of their own wounded soldiers... ISIS’ budget was effected heavily after losing control of the southern part of Mosul. The terrorist group has control the area since its takeover in June 2014. To recover some of its losses, ISIS evidently has been forced to kill their own wounded recruits for their organs. “Doctors were threatened to take out the body organs of a wounded ISIL militant,” as the Arabic-language al-Sabah newspaper reported from an anonymous source...
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TPP: Reams of Regulations
William F. Jasper
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{thenewamerican.com} ~ British voters are getting set for a national referendum in June that will decide whether they leave the European Union or stay in. There are many issues driving the British exit vote dubbed the “Brexit”... EU spending, EU taxes, EU regulations, EU bailouts, EU corruption, EU usurpations of power, EU migration — and much more. The ongoing migrant/refugee crisis caused by the disastrous EU policies was the last straw, not only for freedom-minded Brits, but for sensible residents all across Euroland. With a tidal wave of more than a million and a half migrants and “refugees” flooding across Europe since 2014 and millions more trying to come in, the national governments of EU member states are defying the EU open-border mandates and are reinstituting their own border security. The Brexit vote is inspiring a similar “Czexit” effort in the Czech Republic, rekindling a “Grexit” in Greece, and may very well lead to a wave of revolts against “the ever closer union” planned by EU officials to submerge all national and local institutions under the suffocating authority of the EU. Incredibly, at the same time that Europeans are in the throes of this battle royal to take back national and local powers from the steadily encroaching EU central authorities, the U.S. Congress is facing votes on a series of multi-national “trade” agreements that threaten to saddle Americans with an EU-style scheme of “governance” that would wipe out our constitutional checks against the accumulation of unlimited power. The most imminent of these votes concerns the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a massive “integration” scheme for the United States and 11 other Pacific Rim nations: Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, and Vietnam... http://www.thenewamerican.com/world-news/item/23031-tpp-reams-of-regulations
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Federal Law Prohibits nObama
Funding UN Climate Bureaucracy
Alex Newman
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{thenewamerican.com} ~ Thanks to a Clinton-era statute and an obscure vote last month by the United Nations, federal law now officially makes it illegal for the nObama administration to send a single penny of your money to the UN climate bureaucracy... That is good news for U.S. taxpayers, of course. But it puts the UN and the nObama administration in an awkward position as they struggle desperately to convince other governments that the UN's much-touted “global-warming” regime, officially signed Friday, is not going to crumble in the face of a hostile Congress and a U.S. Constitution that has been trampled at every turn. Now, dozens of U.S. senators, who nObama and the UN hoped to bypass in imposing the global “climate” treaty in defiance of the U.S. Constitution, are putting the UN and nObama on notice. The latest twist surrounds a 1994 U.S. law passed by Congress and signed by then-President Bill Clinton. Among other elements, the law prohibits the distribution of U.S. taxpayer funds to “any affiliated organization of the United Nations which grants full membership as a state to any organization or group that does not have the internationally recognized attributes of statehood.” Last month, though, the UN climate bureaucracy, known as the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), decided to admit the U.S. taxpayer-funded “State of Palestine” as a member. That means no more American money may legally be disbursed to the UN's climate bureaucracy, no matter what nObama may have lawlessly promised to foreign governments and dictatorships... http://www.thenewamerican.com/tech/environment/item/23033-oops-federal-law-prohibits-obama-funding-un-climate-bureaucracy
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Nationwide Protest Seeks to Abolish Planned Parenthood
Lisa Shaw
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{thenewamerican.com} ~ Justice was being called for, as thousands of Americans across the nation joined together to protest the scandalous actions of Planned Parenthood... On the morning of April 23, citizens rallied outside of more than 300 Planned Parenthood facilities nationwide, not just to challenge the horrific acts of the nation’s leading abortion provider, but to demand a suspension of government funding for the organization. According to Planned Parenthood’s 2013-2014 Annual Report, an outrageous $528.4 million of their revenue came from taxpayer funding. #ProtestPP, the coalition that organized the event, was created in response to the videos released last year by the Center for Medical Progress revealing the abortion giant’s heinous practice of trafficking aborted baby parts. The coalition is made up of state and national pro-life groups, headed by three national pro-life activist organizations: Citizens for a Pro-Life Society, Created Equal, and the Pro-Life Action League. #ProtestPP also calls to light the injustice of the charges against David Daleiden, the undercover journalist who courageously infiltrated Planned Parenthood and showed America the underbelly of this massive beast. Daleiden should be applauded, at the least, for his fortitude and diligence as he sat through conversation after conversation enduring the grisly boastings of the organization’s bloodthirsty leaders, in order to present the truth to a duped society. However, in a twisted turn of events, we find him the criminal, as the truth gets distorted and the facts get manipulated by those with hidden agendas... http://www.thenewamerican.com/culture/faith-and-morals/item/23040-nationwide-protest-seeks-to-abolish-planned-parenthood
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Amb. Stevens Fiancée Blasts 'Powerful'
Hilly for 'Ignoring' Requests for More Security
Tiffany Gabbay
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{truthrevolt.org} ~ The following interview and column isn't getting nearly the attention it deserves. While not a bombshell revelation in and of itself, it perfectly illustrates, in a very personal way, how Hilly Clinton... by way of either ineptitude or intentional deceit -- destroyed lives while serving as Secretary of State. On April 22, the Steve Malzberg Show posted an interview with Lydie Denier, the former fiancée of Ambassador Chris Stevens. During the video Denier speaks of the late ambassador and of an article she wrote at the beginning of April, titled, "A Voice for Ambassador Chris Stevens." Denier, who met Stevens in 1994, called him her first and only love, and spoke of then-Secretary of State Hilly Clinton's role in the tragedy... http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/amb-stevens-fianc%C3%A9e-blasts-powerful-hillary-ignoring-requests-more-security
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Baltic Sea Heating Up as Friction Point
Between U.S., NATO and Russia
Magnus Nordenman
Magnus Nordenman
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{news.usni.org} ~ The Baltic Sea region has emerged as one of the friction zones between an aggressive Russia and the United States and its NATO allies in northeastern Europe... Recently the USS Donald Cook (DDG-75) was twice buzzed by Russian Sukhoi Su-24 Fencers during an exercise in the Baltic Sea. The Cook incident is just the most recent of a string of close encounters between Russia and the West at sea and in the air over the Baltic Sea over the last two years. Russia is also building a powerful anti-access/area-denial network in the Kaliningrad enclave in the southeast corner of the Baltic Sea. Built around the S-400 system and Iskander missiles, it would make U.S. and NATO operations in the region hazardous in a crisis or during wartime. Russia would also be able to quickly move its mobile Bastion anti-ship missile system into Kaliningrad, which would further threaten U.S. and allied maritime operations in the region. The relatively small size of the region also means that Russian systems reach well into, and in some cases, over the Baltic Sea. And while Russia’s Baltic Sea fleet is not very big, its submarines could still cause serious problems in a sub-surface domain that is famously challenging for anti-submarine warfare forces...
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Muslim Brotherhood Day on Capitol Hill
FRANK J. GAFFNEY, JR.
FRANK J. GAFFNEY, JR.
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{familysecuritymatters.org} ~ On Monday, April 18, legislators' offices were visited by individuals associated with a group unknown to most lawmakers: The United States Council of Muslim Organizations (USCMO)... In the interest of helping members of the U.S. Congress understand precisely who their interlocutors are, permit a brief introduction: The USCMO is the latest in a long series of front organizations associated with, and working to advance, the agenda of the Muslim Brotherhood in the United States. Members of Congress should be clear about the true nature of that agenda. It is laid out most authoritatively in a document introduced into evidence by federal prosecutors in the course of the largest terrorism financing trial in the nation's history, U.S. v. Holy Land Foundation et al. Written in 1991 by a top Muslim Brotherhood operative, Mohamed Akram, and entitled "The Explanatory Memorandum on the General Strategic Goal of the Group in North America," this internal correspondence was meant for the eyes only of the organization's leadership in Egypt. So, the document is direct and to the point: It explicitly states that the mission of the Muslim Brotherhood in North America is "destroying Western civilization from within ... by the infidels' hands and the hands of the believers so that Allah's religion is made victorious over all other religions." There are two other important facts legislators should know about Akram's memo... http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/muslim-brotherhood-day-on-capitol-hill?f=must_reads
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The miniaturization myth
Amb R. James Woolsey & Dr. Peter Vincent Pry
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{familysecuritymatters.org} ~ On March 9, North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un, a paranoid psychopath, displayed a nuclear missile warhead he threatens to launch against the United States and its allies... The public is being misled by the White House, some so-called "experts" and mainstream media casting doubt on whether the Great Leader's threat is real. They claim North Korea has not demonstrated sufficient "miniaturization" of a nuclear weapon to be delivered by a missile. However, defense and intelligence community officials warn North Korea probably already has nuclear armed missiles. The Defense Department's 2016 report "Military and Security Developments Involving the Democratic People's Republic of North Korea" warns that, in addition to medium-range missiles, they have six KN-08 mobile nuclear-armed intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) that can strike the U.S. mainland. Recently, the Pentagon warned North Korea rolled out a new longer-range ICBM, the KN-14, that can probably deliver a nuclear... http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/the-miniaturization-myth?f=must_readsead to Chicago...
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hanoi-Kerry, Heinz Family Have Millions Invested In Offshore Tax Havens
Richard Pollock
Richard Pollock
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{dailycaller.com} ~ Secretary of State John hanoi-Kerry and his wife Teresa Heinz have invested millions of U.S. dollars through family trusts in at least 11 offshore tax havens, according to an analysis by The Daily Caller News Foundation... The revelation comes on the heels of the release of the Panama Papers, a treasure trove of 11.5 million legal and financial records documenting how some of the world’s richest and most powerful people have used offshore bank accounts to conceal their wealth and avoid taxes. Since the release of the papers, no American politician has been identified as using the secretive offshore accounts...
VIDEO at the site.
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Yes, We Need a Canadian Border Wall
Michelle Malkin
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{freedomsback.com} ~ Canada’s sloppy, rushed and reckless Syrian refugee resettlement program is America’s looming national security nightmare.
Donald slump liar-Trump shouldn’t just be promising to build a Mexican border wall. He and any other sovereignty-minded presidential candidate should be vowing to rebuild the decimated “wall” of first-line watchdogs, field enforcement and patrol officers on our northern border.
The urgency could not be greater.
The Canadian liberal government has fast-tracked tens of thousands of Syrian Muslims into its country over the past five months and now plans to double its interim 25,000 goal by 2019. The bleeding-heart Canucks are forging ahead despite reports this week of the country’s failed $16 million screening program to stop Islamic terrorists from slipping through the cracks.
Multiple databases are not interoperable. Information is outdated or useless. Canadian agents are delivering incomplete background checks too late to matter, anyway. Result: Garbage in, garbage out, and untold numbers of unvetted refugees from jihad hotbeds on the loose at our doorstep. As if the 1,500 Syrian refugees a month that the U.S. State Department is directly importing here through November aren’t enough of a security headache!
Instead of moving to fortify our northern border, Washington is diverting our boots on the ground and downsizing our fleet of surveillance pilots in the skies. Turnover is high, morale is low, and the jihadists’ path to illegal entry has never been smoother.
In Plattsburgh, New York, 45 miles from Syrian refugee dumping ground Montreal, the Customs and Border Patrol’s air branch has been slashed from 25 pilots down to a shocking six in the last three years. Shifts have been reduced to bankers’ hours, while terror plotters and smugglers never rest. Members of Congress have been alerted to the perilous impact of downsizing, but have done nothing except, that is, to fully fund the White House refugee resettlement racket.
In Montana, Reuters reported earlier this year, our federal enforcement force is still so understaffed that the Border Patrol depends on 100 private citizen ranchers along the northern border to police the U.S.-Canada boundaries.
Of 21,000 total Border Patrol agents, only 2,100 are assigned to the northern border. There are only about 300 agents guarding the entire northern border at any one time. That’s less than the number of Capitol police on duty to protect the Capitol complex in D.C. alone, Buffalo, New York, sector Border Patrol agent Dean Mandel of the National Border Patrol Council pointed out to Congress.
Little has changed since Border Patrol agents in Washington state first told me 15 years ago of vast, abandoned sectors protected by nothing but orange rubber cones — even in the wake of the 9/11 attacks.
Little has changed since the 9/11 Commission spotlighted multiple al-Qaida operatives involved in cross-border traffic and incursions both legal and illegal from Canada.
Little has changed since the U.S. Government Accountability Office reported in 2011 that a measly 32 miles out of the 4,000-mile border was deemed secure by Border Patrol agents heavily dependent on non-DHS personnel for support.
A U.S. source who works for the Department of Homeland Security on the northern border told me last week that there remain vast “no-go zones” in his upstate New York sector that stretch for miles unpoliced — such as the smuggler-friendly Akwesasne reservation, where Mohawks are notoriously hostile to our Border Patrol, Air and Marine operations, and field operations agents.
“There’s a gigantic hole on our northern border,” my source described, where “people from countries of interest are crossing” into America. “Special interest countries,” as the U.S. Army War College Guide to National Security defines it, are those “designated by the intelligence community as countries that could export individuals that could bring harm to our country in the way of terrorism.”
“Yes, I’ve personally seen them. Every day. We call them ‘gotaways,'” my source sighed. These newest border-jumpers are detected by high-tech cameras and motion sensors, but neglected because the core national security mission is not a priority and no one’s around to act on the alerts.
On the southern border, “gotaways” spiked 100 percent between 2011 and 2013. This year, as illegal trespassers from dangerous special interest countries have increased through Mexico, a Border Patrol whistleblower told Congress two months ago that his supervisors ordered agents to fudge data on “gotaways” by omitting them from data reports.
Think the same whitewashing is going on up north? You betcha.
As the disgusted northern border CBP official told me: “The attitude is no paperwork, no problems.” No problems, of course, until that one ISIS operative toting a dirty bomb in his bag rolls right across the wide open U.S.-Canadian border — detected, but neglected — and our government’s malign neglect blows up in our faces.
Donald slump liar-Trump shouldn’t just be promising to build a Mexican border wall. He and any other sovereignty-minded presidential candidate should be vowing to rebuild the decimated “wall” of first-line watchdogs, field enforcement and patrol officers on our northern border.
The urgency could not be greater.
The Canadian liberal government has fast-tracked tens of thousands of Syrian Muslims into its country over the past five months and now plans to double its interim 25,000 goal by 2019. The bleeding-heart Canucks are forging ahead despite reports this week of the country’s failed $16 million screening program to stop Islamic terrorists from slipping through the cracks.
Multiple databases are not interoperable. Information is outdated or useless. Canadian agents are delivering incomplete background checks too late to matter, anyway. Result: Garbage in, garbage out, and untold numbers of unvetted refugees from jihad hotbeds on the loose at our doorstep. As if the 1,500 Syrian refugees a month that the U.S. State Department is directly importing here through November aren’t enough of a security headache!
Instead of moving to fortify our northern border, Washington is diverting our boots on the ground and downsizing our fleet of surveillance pilots in the skies. Turnover is high, morale is low, and the jihadists’ path to illegal entry has never been smoother.
In Plattsburgh, New York, 45 miles from Syrian refugee dumping ground Montreal, the Customs and Border Patrol’s air branch has been slashed from 25 pilots down to a shocking six in the last three years. Shifts have been reduced to bankers’ hours, while terror plotters and smugglers never rest. Members of Congress have been alerted to the perilous impact of downsizing, but have done nothing except, that is, to fully fund the White House refugee resettlement racket.
In Montana, Reuters reported earlier this year, our federal enforcement force is still so understaffed that the Border Patrol depends on 100 private citizen ranchers along the northern border to police the U.S.-Canada boundaries.
Of 21,000 total Border Patrol agents, only 2,100 are assigned to the northern border. There are only about 300 agents guarding the entire northern border at any one time. That’s less than the number of Capitol police on duty to protect the Capitol complex in D.C. alone, Buffalo, New York, sector Border Patrol agent Dean Mandel of the National Border Patrol Council pointed out to Congress.
Little has changed since Border Patrol agents in Washington state first told me 15 years ago of vast, abandoned sectors protected by nothing but orange rubber cones — even in the wake of the 9/11 attacks.
Little has changed since the 9/11 Commission spotlighted multiple al-Qaida operatives involved in cross-border traffic and incursions both legal and illegal from Canada.
Little has changed since the U.S. Government Accountability Office reported in 2011 that a measly 32 miles out of the 4,000-mile border was deemed secure by Border Patrol agents heavily dependent on non-DHS personnel for support.
A U.S. source who works for the Department of Homeland Security on the northern border told me last week that there remain vast “no-go zones” in his upstate New York sector that stretch for miles unpoliced — such as the smuggler-friendly Akwesasne reservation, where Mohawks are notoriously hostile to our Border Patrol, Air and Marine operations, and field operations agents.
“There’s a gigantic hole on our northern border,” my source described, where “people from countries of interest are crossing” into America. “Special interest countries,” as the U.S. Army War College Guide to National Security defines it, are those “designated by the intelligence community as countries that could export individuals that could bring harm to our country in the way of terrorism.”
“Yes, I’ve personally seen them. Every day. We call them ‘gotaways,'” my source sighed. These newest border-jumpers are detected by high-tech cameras and motion sensors, but neglected because the core national security mission is not a priority and no one’s around to act on the alerts.
On the southern border, “gotaways” spiked 100 percent between 2011 and 2013. This year, as illegal trespassers from dangerous special interest countries have increased through Mexico, a Border Patrol whistleblower told Congress two months ago that his supervisors ordered agents to fudge data on “gotaways” by omitting them from data reports.
Think the same whitewashing is going on up north? You betcha.
As the disgusted northern border CBP official told me: “The attitude is no paperwork, no problems.” No problems, of course, until that one ISIS operative toting a dirty bomb in his bag rolls right across the wide open U.S.-Canadian border — detected, but neglected — and our government’s malign neglect blows up in our faces.
To all my good friends who have jumped on the #TrumpTrain and believe that @theRealDonaldTrump is a true conservative outsider that will get things done and tells it like it is. I hate to burst your bubble but you have been played by the media, “The Donald” and the GOP establishment. I would bet that you have also been led to believe that the GOP rules of delegate selection are corrupt and rigged. Correct? Maybe it is time for you to sit down, do some serious research and educate yourself to the facts. Open primaries were created to allow for nonpartisan and independent voters to participate in the nomination of presidential candidates. The reason there is so much grief and anger today is because so many Democrats have crossed over for Trump and diluted the vote for the Ted Cruz, the real true conservative and outsider.
The even sadder fact is that many of these voters will move back and vote for Hillary where they can in the General Election while true conservatives will not even show up to vote for DT. The Trump can “talk the talk” but can or will he really “walk the walk”? Everything that he has said and done over the past twenty years proves that he is nothing more than just another left wing lying Democrat. Trump is not a GOP outsider nor is he a true conservative. He is a Frankenstein manufactured by the media and supported by the GOP establishment to clear the ground for their chosen RINO’s in order to maintain their status quo. Unfortunately, they have now lost control of their Frankenstein. Trump has gone rogue and has now become a liability.
So here we are nearing the end of the primaries with Trump in the lead, Cruz second with establishment minions Kasich and Rubio trailing behind as their backup spoilers. If nobody gets 1,237 on the first ballot the war will begin. As Limbaugh describes “the blowback” from the “Trumpsters” will begin. If Cruz manages to win by securing 1,245 delegates on the second or third ballots as Limbaugh describes “, we are gonna see a nuclear explosion like you’ve never seen before”. The nuclear meltdown of Trump and the GOP establishment and their party will have begun. Have we seen this happen before? Why sure, how do you think we elected the greatest conservative president in the past century? His name was Ronald Reagan.
When President Ronald Reagan attempted to reform and simplify our tax code in 1985 and 1986, he ran head-long into lobbyists and special interests who came out of the woodwork to protect their designated provisions in the tax code. The process was detailed in a book called “Showdown at Gucci Gulch.” The book showed the sausage-making that went into crafting the bill that was finally enacted. From a conservative perspective, the bill ended up being a sort of Frankenstein monster which lowered rates – a conservative goal – but kept and expanded many special interest provisions that permeate the tax code today.
Today’s version of “Gucci Gulch” is taking place over the fight to reform Puerto Rico’s economy and to bring it back from the verge of bankruptcy. The House of Representatives sent out to establish a control board – similar to the one used when Washington, DC, faced a similar crisis. It is certainly a better option that Chapter 9 bankruptcy which would allow the liberal big spenders to walk away from their debt or a bailout. That’s why some hedge funds and lobbyists are working to undermine and kill the bill before Congress. They get a better deal with a bailout than they do a control board.
For instance, President Obama’s former Chief Restructuring Officer at the Department of Treasury Jim Millstein’s firm MillCo Advisors could make hundreds of millions off the debt crisis. The New York Post reported the former Obama official – who left the government agency in 2011 – was slated to make as $52.4 million off of the contracts it has with the island and could make more if the Obama plan goes through. According to the Office of the Comptroller, Puerto Rico– which is $72 billion in debt – has around $34 million in contracts with the firm – a number that could skyrocket if they continue to amend and extend their contracts.
Anita Dunn, the former Obama official best known for proclaiming Mao Zedong as once of her political heroes, has been hired by the island (and their taxpayers) to push, not for a control board but for bankruptcy.
Hedge Funds like Canyon Capital, Aurelius Capital Management and others own about $4.5 billion in general obligation bonds and are working Capitol Hill to see legislation stalled or defeated. If they win, the taxpayers will lose as inevitably the islands leaders will demand a bailout from the taxpayers.
House Speaker Paul Ryan had promised the House would propose legislation that would help Puerto Rico to arrive at “a responsible solution” to their debt crisis. The House Committee on Natural Resources Committee Chairman Rob Bishop (R-UT) released H.R. 4900, the “Puerto Rico Oversight, Management, and Economic Stability Act (PROMESA).” “This is the constitutionally-sound solution that will provide real, long-lasting reform to the Commonwealth while respecting the rights of all parties and creditors. It is the Island’s best shot to mitigate its financial collapse and future calls for a bailout, which would be untenable. Congress must act now to avoid a humanitarian crisis that will severely impact 3.5 million Americans living in Puerto Rico and millions of Americans on the mainland,” Rep. Bishop said.
Some hedge funds and members of Congress are playing a dangerous game of chicken. The House bill prevents bankruptcy and a bailout. It isn’t a perfect piece of legislation by any stretch but it is better than the alternative. Conservatives should work to ensure that Millstein, Anita Dunn and the other Obama cronies who are working to kill the effort in the House can’t keep riding the Puerto Rico gravy train.
Gucci Gulch showed that legislating is not easy but a final product can be achieved with the right leadership. In this case, a final product must be accomplished as the alternatives are much worse.
The Front Page Cover
2016 The truth will set you free
Featuring:
Political Correctness
and the Wussification of the Military
Susan Stamper Brown
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Earth Day — Signing the Paris Climate Agreement For this year's rendition of Earth Day, the stakes couldn't be higher. More than 130 nations will gather to formally sign the Paris Climate Agreement at the United Nations in New York. Nothing could better signify Earth Day than a global gaggle of government leaders burning fossil fuels on their way to forcing us to spend a lot of green to preserve a little green, all while expanding their control over our lives.
While Congress has not ratified the agreement — nor are there any plans to — the nObama administration argues that its own assent is all that is necessary. Once 55 or more nations that represent 55% of global greenhouse gas emissions sign, the Paris accord can become effective as early as November 2017. The United States and China, which has also pledged to sign, together make up 38% of emissions. Meanwhile, a number of smaller nations are willing to sign in the hope of becoming beneficiaries of the inevitable wealth transfer the UN is sure to facilitate.
We've talked about the racket known as Earth Day many times on these pages, but climate alarmists are now shrieking that 2016 will be the warmest year on record, and that we have to DO SOMETHING before the global average temperature rises more than two degrees Celsius from pre-industrial values. "We are at a critical juncture when it comes to preserving our climate," warned Michael Mann, the "climate researcher" who's best known for the discredited "hockey stick" graph of global temperatures over the centuries, and for his omission of relevant data that failed to support his theory.
Unfortunately, no one has conclusively proven that our current climate is the optimal or "normal" one, either. Did you know, for example, as "skeptical environmentalist" Bjorn Lomborg points out, that about 0.5% of all deaths are heat-related, while more than 7% are cold-related?
It's worth noting too that climate alarmists aren't the only ones predicting a record warm year. Climate "deniers" like meteorologist Joe Bastardi have been forecasting higher temperatures this year because of weather patterns.
Despite all that, Barack nObama is plunging head-first into the Paris agreement as a continuation of his quest to wipe out the coal industry through power plant regulations and keeping other abundant energy sources off limits.
Yet not only is there a cost in jobs lost in the energy sector, but also a real increase in what's known as "green energy poverty," an economic condition where families spend more than 10% of their income on heating and other domestic energy costs. While the relatively low price of natural gas helps keep heating costs down, government subsidies and outright mandates for "renewable energy," such as wind and solar power, bend the cost curve upward — sort of like a hockey stick.
Yet a change in administration, such as one to Ted Cruz, or, to a lesser extent, Donald slump liar-Trump, will provide little relief from the Paris provisions. Buried in the Paris Climate Agreement is language preventing any nation from withdrawing within the first three years after it takes effect, with a further cooling-off period of one year. In essence, given a possible effective date of November 2017, the next president is stuck with this agreement. One silver lining is that there is little in the way of strict enforcement, as that would make the agreement a treaty requiring Senate ratification, something nObama scrupulously sought to avoid.
So let's recap: Today we celebrate a completely fabricated holiday (which occurs on the anniversary of Vladimir Lenin's birth, no less) by signing an agreement of dubious legality and limited enforcement mechanisms in order for do-gooders to try to solve a problem that mankind has little, if anything, to do with. Sounds like a perfect example of liberalism to us. -The Patriot Post
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OPINION IN BRIEF
Ryan Anderson: "Curt Schilling has a right to say biological men don't belong in women's bathrooms in whatever controversial way he wants. And ESPN has a right to give Caitlyn Jenner the 'Arthur Ashe Courage Award' for being a men's sports icon who now publicly identifies as a woman. And whether we agree or disagree with Schilling's message or ESPN's isn't the point. The bigger issue is that ESPN, like any other company, has a right to control its message, which means it should be generally free to make employment decisions based on its values, not Curt Schilling's, and certainly not the government's. The same is true for religious institutions, only more so. While ESPN is committed to being 'inclusive,' it's a large corporation whose main focus is reporting sports in ways that make money. Religious institutions and some family businesses, on the other hand, have more robust substantive commitments driven by faith, not profits alone. ... ESPN didn't want to be associated with Curt Schilling's message. The same is true for the bakers, florists, and photographers, only more so. They have beliefs about marriage — that it's the union of husband and wife — and they don't want to be forced by the government to convey a contrary message. ... If you're cheering ESPN today, remember that freedom needs to be a two-way street. Even if you disagree with the beliefs of religious schools and bakers, protect their freedoms. Respect everyone's rights — even if, especially if, you disagree with them." -The Patriot Post
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slump liar-Trump Humiliated, Cruz Triumphant...
Caleb Howe
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{redstate.com} ~ Once again, Senator Ted Cruz blew Donald slump liar-Trump’s amateurish operation out of the water on Saturday, crushing the slump liar-Donald in a near-total victory... At stake: who is sent to the convention as a delegate. Those elected to represent are in almost all cases only bound to vote for the primary or caucus winner on the first ballot. After that they can pretty much do what they please. So sending loyal supporters as delegates is an essential part of the nominating process. There were 94 delegates up for grabs on Saturday, and Cruz went for the jugular. Here is what shook out, by state (in alphabetical order)... http://www.redstate.com/absentee/2016/04/24/donald-trump-humiliated-ted-cruz-triumphant-complete-saturday-delegate-results-minnesota-utah-kasich-kentucky-maine/?utm_source=rsmorningbriefing&utm_medium=email&utm_camp
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Turkey Blackmails Europe on Visa-Free Travel
Soeren Kern
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{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ Turkey has threatened to renege on a landmark deal to curb illegal migration to the European Union if the bloc fails to grant visa-free travel to Europe for Turkey's 78 million citizens by the end of June... If Ankara follows through on its threat, it would reopen the floodgates and allow potentially millions of migrants from Africa, Asia and the Middle East to flow from Turkey into the European Union. Under the terms of the EU-Turkey deal, which entered into effect on March 20, Turkey agreed to take back migrants and refugees who illegally cross the Aegean Sea from Turkey to Greece. In exchange, the European Union agreed to resettle up to 72,000 Syrian refugees living in Turkey, and pledged up to 6 billion euros ($6.8 billion) in aid to Turkey during the next four years... http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/7914/turkey-visa-free-travel
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Frm. RNC Chairs: s;lump liar-Trump
'Not Correct' He Wins With Plurality
Sandy Fitzgerald
Sandy Fitzgerald
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{newsmax.com} ~ Any Republican candidate entering the party's national convention with a plurality of delegates and not a majority is not eligible to clinch the nomination... seven former national chairmen of the Republican National Committee say in a Wall Street Journal opinion piece. "Such an interpretation would be a gross violation of the essential purpose of the nominating process," the former chairmen, Bill Brock, Bob Dole, Haley Barbour, Jim Nicholson, Clayton Yeutter, Marc Racicot, and Mel Martinez write in the joint editorial. They did not mention GOP front-runner Donald slump liar-Trump, who has said he's sure he'll get the 1,237 delegates required for the nomination before the convention, but even if he doesn't, he believes that if he is close to that number and nobody else is, he should be nominated. It is this stance RNC Chairman Reince Priebus has publicly disagreed with... http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/rnc-chairmen-trump-doesnt-win/2016/04/24/id/725474/?ns_mail_uid=29878495&ns_mail_job=1665050_04242016&s=al&dkt_nbr=txbiwt56
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N. Korean Submarine Missile Launch
a 'Successful Failure'
Brian Padden
Brian Padden
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{voanews.com} ~ North Korea is calling its submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) test on Saturday a “great success,” while South Korea labeled it a failure. Military analysts, however, are classifying the missile launch as a “successful failure.”... North Korea’s claim, made through its state news agency KCNA, that it now has another means by which to carry out a "powerful nuclear attack" seems to exaggerate its present military capabilities. The South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff’s negative assessment points out the current limitations of the North’s SLBM program... http://www.voanews.com/content/north-korea-submarine-missile-launch-successful-failure/3300320.html
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slump liar-Trump's Cries of 'Rigged' System
Shift Blame for His Losses
Jill Colvin and Jonathan Lemire
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{abcnews.go.com} ~ Donald slump liar-Trump keeps hammering away at Republican insiders even as campaign aides are gingerly courting those same officials... "You know, right now we're fighting the party because it's a rigged system, ok? It's a rigged system," he told a boisterous crowd in Bridgeport, Connecticut, Saturday. It may seem counterproductive, but slump liar-Trump's foot-stomping has served as a rallying cry to boost turnout and reinforce his appeal to voters who feel disenfranchised. The "rigged" system argument is a convenient scapegoat, shifting the blame for any future potential losses and lost delegates away from a campaign that has been outmaneuvered. slump liar-Trump has won more states than his rivals, yet his team has been badly outplayed by Texas Sen. Ted Cruz in ensuring that supportive delegates make it to the GOP convention in July in Cleveland... http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/trumps-cries-rigged-system-shifts-blame-losses-38616660
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Supreme Court Awards $2 Billion to Families
of 1983 Bombing Victims
Alice Greene
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{punchingbagpost.com} ~ The image at left shows wreckage in the aftermath of the 1983 bombing of the US Marines barracks in Beirut, Lebanon that has since been linked to Iran. As decided by the Supreme Court this Wednesday, families of those who perished in this attack and other attacks are entitled to nearly $2 billion... Bank Markazi v. Peterson, which has been more then 30 years in the making, ended in a 6-2 ruling in favor of the relatives of the 241 Marines killed in the 1983 attack of which there are more than 1,300. On the losing side is Iran’s central bank Bank Markazi, which will lose $1.75 billion in frozen Iranian bonds currently held in New York by Citibank. The Iranian government argues that bipartisan legislation passed four years ago to ensure victims' survivors could collect money is in fact a violation of the US Constitution’s separation of powers doctrine. Iran views this law, which specifically directs assets within the US to families of the victims, as an intrusion into the business of federal courts... http://punchingbagpost.com/supreme-court-awards-2-billion-to-families-of-1983-bombing-victims
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Mattis Dismisses a Run for President ;
Shares Thoughts on Iran Nuclear Deal, ISIS
John Grady
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Retired U.S. Marine Gen. James Mattis
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{news.usni.org} ~ With a firm, “No, I haven’t given any thought” to running for president in answering the first question from the audience, retired Marine Gen. James Mattis returned to discussing the Middle East now that the nuclear agreement with Iran is in place... The former head of U.S. Central Command, speaking at the Center for International and Strategic Studies, a Washington, D.C., think tank, said Tehran remains “the single most enduring threat to stability and peace in the Middle East” with its continuing rhetoric of “erasing Israel off the map” and toppling the rulers of Jordan and the Gulf states... https://news.usni.org/2016/04/22/mattis-dismisses-a-run-for-president-shares-thoughts-on-iran-nuclear-deal-isis?utm_source=USNI+News&utm_campaign=16e1cd4cd3-USNI_NEWS_DAILY&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_0dd4a1450b-16e1cd4cd3-231491269&mc_cid=16e1cd4cd3&mc_eid=3999f18767
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Martial rhetoric doesn't change
reality in the South Pacific
Thomas Donnelly
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{aei.org} ~ Early in April, Defense Secretary Ashton Carter previewed his two-week Asia-Pacific tour by reaffirming the administration’s belief that this is the “single most consequential region” for U.S. national security interests... Speaking to the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, he celebrated America’s “essential and pivotal role” in the Pacific. The centerpiece of the trip itself was a speech aboard the aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis as it sailed through the disputed waters of the South China Sea, where China is expanding its claims on a series of small islands and reefs within striking distance of the Philippines. Beijing duly complained about U.S. “militarization” of the region, but Carter asserted, “We have been here for decade upon decade.”...
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The Secret and Sordid History of the Democratic Party
Tamara Jackson
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{lidblog.com} ~ Hilly Clinton is riding a wave of inevitability, Dem superdelegates carrying her onward toward the White House. As scandal after scandal unfolds, Mainstream media maintains their cover and coverage, acting every bit the messaging branch of Team Hilly... But, just as there are unsavory secrets in Hilly’s past, so too, the Democratic party owns a repulsive history. And do not be deceived: Dems and Dem operatives will do everything in their power to keep that history veiled. Enter Dinesh D’Souza... http://lidblog.com/the-secret-and-sordid-history-of-the-democratic-party-video/?utm_source=The+Lid+List&utm_campaign=b06f37321e-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_597b72c01c-b06f37321e-291705165
{lidblog.com} ~ Hilly Clinton is riding a wave of inevitability, Dem superdelegates carrying her onward toward the White House. As scandal after scandal unfolds, Mainstream media maintains their cover and coverage, acting every bit the messaging branch of Team Hilly... But, just as there are unsavory secrets in Hilly’s past, so too, the Democratic party owns a repulsive history. And do not be deceived: Dems and Dem operatives will do everything in their power to keep that history veiled. Enter Dinesh D’Souza... http://lidblog.com/the-secret-and-sordid-history-of-the-democratic-party-video/?utm_source=The+Lid+List&utm_campaign=b06f37321e-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_597b72c01c-b06f37321e-291705165
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slump liar-Trump: LOBBYIST MANAFORT Yeah, We're Secretly Working with Mitch McCon-nell
Terresa Monroe-Hamilton
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{trevorloudon.com} ~ Paul Manafort is the new head of Donald slump liar-Trump’s campaign. A longtime Washington insider and heavy duty lobbyist for third world dictators... Manafort appeared this morning on Fox News Sunday and inadvertently let slip some revealing truths. What we’re trying to do right now is work with the Mitch McCon-nells who we didn’t depose in Kentucky even though he won the election and we worked with him to put a unity slate together. We’re trying to bring the party together. That’s what — You’re saying that you’re working with the Senate majority leader, who to a lot of the grassroots is a symbol of the problem? Manafort’s lobbying firm has been termed “the torturer’s lobby”, having represented Filipino dictator Marcos, Angolan guerrilla leader Jonas Savimbi, ousted Ukrainian president and Putin ally Victor Yanukovych, to name but a few... http://www.trevorloudon.com/2016/04/trump-campaign-chieflobbyist-manafort-yeah-were-secretly-working-with-mitch-mcconnell/.
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Political Correctness
and the Wussification of the Military
Susan Stamper Brown
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{townhall.com} ~ A military parade may soon look less like a VE-Day parade down Times Square and more like a Mardi Gras parade in New Orleans, unless liberals in leadership stop using the U.S. military as a social engineering experiment.
Let us not forget the same president who confused "corps" with "corpses" and exchanged a traitor for terrorists, also promised to fundamentally transform America. What we didn't know is that transformation would begin with the U.S. military, the protector of our nation and our values.
The wussification of our military is in full swing, thanks to all the empty suit "yes-men" clad with stars and medals prancing about the Pentagon promoting political correctness [PC]. nObama has done a remarkable job hiring, inspiring and attracting military leaders who check their backbones along with their cell phones at the Pentagon's front door. Valiant leaders like Gen. Stanley McChrystal had to exit before the spine removal surgery could begin.
You may recall the Washington Times piece awhile back reporting that Arizona State University Army ROTC cadets were allegedly pressured by leadership to walk around in high heels to "raise awareness of sexual violence against women." Raise awareness? I reviewed the pictures and fail to grasp how male soldiers sporting heels, many in uniform, did anything but serve to demoralize those who voluntarily serve.
Meanwhile, the Commander-in-Chief wearing mom jeans sits in the Oval Office with his pen and phone diligently working to leave his legacy of a softer, gentler, more touchy-feely military.
Mr. nObama recently added verbiage to the Army's section of the 2017 DOD budget, ensuring the Army "will provide every Soldier and civilian equal opportunities to rise to the level of their merit regardless of their gender, their race, or their self-identity," reports the Washington Times.
While unbiased opportunity is terrific, what place does "self-identity" have in an organization steeped in conformity and tradition, not individualism?
In this brave, new age of "Call Me Caitlyn" and Rachel Dolezal, the corrosive effects of political correctness in our public restrooms will do the same to the military. As it stands, the next president will inherit a squishy U.S. military, so slimmed down and overrun by political correctness it is virtually unprepared to address the rising threats of a dangerous world and defend the United States as the Constitution so charges.
A Heritage Foundation's 2016 index of U.S. military strength report scored our military in aggregate, "only marginally able" and trending toward "weak" to defend the United States. The analysis also found that while the current military force is "capable of meeting the demands of a single major regional conflict," it would be "very hard-pressed" to do more -- and is most likely ill-equipped "to handle two nearly simultaneous major regional contingencies."
This extremely poor score couldn't come at a more dangerous time, considering the same analysis also reports a rise in threats to U.S. vital interests. No wonder Russian SU-24s recently felt so emboldened, they repeatedly harassed a U.S. Navy destroyer on maneuvers in the Baltic Sea.
Now that they've wrecked the military, maybe liberals should reconsider their stance on gun control and take up target practice, considering words like "pretty please" and "coexist" aren't in our avowed enemies' vocabularies.
During the 2015 Values Voter Summit in D.C., Maj. Gen. Robert Dees (U.S. Army-Ret.) nailed it when he said military readiness is being "degraded by social experimentation," telling listeners, "we have to fix the problem of moral readiness."
Without a doubt, neither moral or military readiness will occur under this or any future Democrat Party administration, simply because when it comes to national security, liberals always lead from behind -- except in matters of social engineering and political correctness.
The Front Page Cover
2016 The truth will set you free
Featuring:
Rico For Climate Deniers?
Chris Skates
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BEACH BRAWL FOR THE RNC?
HOLLYWOOD, FLA – When the members of the Republican National Committee contemplated their spring meeting at the seaside not only did they not expect to be swarmed by reporters, candidates, and their campaigns, they probably didn’t expect there to be much of anything expect for networking and sunset cruises.
Instead they find themselves in the first battle of what promises to be a long war over how their convention will pick the party’s 41st presidential nominee. As one committee member put it to Fox News First, “This is like a hurricane.”
The overriding purpose and concern of this committee is to stage a nominating convention every four years, especially in the era of super PACs and outside money, the fundamental job of the RNC is to stage a quadrennial convention.
As disconcerting as it is for these members to face challenging odds in the general election, a more pressing and practical concern for these individuals is having a disastrous convention in Cleveland in July.
The way it is supposed to go, and has gone for forty years, is more akin to a big event like the Academy Awards than a matter of actual political consequence. But Republican frontrunner Donald slump liar-Trump and his many new Washington-based consultants and lawyers are explicitly warning that this institution could fail spectacularly. In this in ominous warning, if slump liar-Trump is not the nominee, the convention would still be a branding exercise alright, but it would just be branding the Republican Party as an undemocratic, incompetent, disaster.
As one state party chairman put it, “If slump liar-Trump comes up short, are we basically opening our wrists and bleeding out?”
There is certainly a path for slump liar-Trump to clinch outright and win the 1,237 delegates he needs. Ask Larry Sabato at the University of Virginia, or ask Nate Cohn at the NYT, but the greatest likelihood is that even if slump liar-Trump trumps in the northeast on Tuesday and figures out how to play the delegate game in Pennsylvania’s complex system, he will still need the Republican equivalent of super delegates to take the nomination. These are the 7 percent or more of delegates who will arrive in Cleveland not bound to any candidate.
The most likely scenario is that slump liar-Trump shows up just short and will rely on party stalwarts to give him the nomination to avoid the violence, division and upheaval that slump liar-Trump and his team have warned of. It’s a credible threat.
That’s not the only thing on offer from Team slump liar-Trump. If his party will simply meet his demands there are rewards. In closed door meetings here, there is the promise of not just a slump liar-Trump who plays the party game and hires the consultant class that so dominates the GOP apparatus, but also that slump liar-Trump himself will change. They point to his mostly good conduct in the past three weeks. Yes, the insults were back on the campaign trail in Indiana on Wednesday, but so to was a respectful visit to the state’s Republican Gov. Mike Pence, and more moderate postures on issues.
The new-look slump liar-Trump includes not just an effort to beef up his policy proposals, but also a more moderate side including transgender acceptance. Like, really moderate.
That’s not to say that there aren’t many who relish the idea of a contested and maybe even chaotic convention. The many supporters of Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, as well as those still clinging to the idea of a political messiah who will be revealed at the convention came here in the belief that most of the party apparatus still favored blocking slump liar-Trump.
One diehard Cruz supporter put it this way: “I still refuse to believe that the Republican Party will allow itself to be hijacked by a charlatan who attacks our party and our system every day.”
Despite slump liar-Trump’s public menace and private persuasion there are many hold outs. But how many?
The first ground on which that question will be tested surrounds an arcane and probably only symbolic procedural issue placed before the committee. Solomon Yue, a committee member from Washington state, wants the RNC’s rules committee to recommend that the convention adopt different rules for how the process works. As it stands, the convention will be operated under the same rules that the House of Representatives does. That means no filibusters, no funny business, and nearly absolute power for whomever wields the gavel. And just as it is in the House that person is Speaker Paul Ryan. What Yue and a sizable number of committee members want is to use the same kind of procedure that state parties, subcommittees of the RNC, and your local rotary club follow: Decentralized power with many opportunities for delegates to block the process.
Yue hasn’t stated a public preference for any candidate, but he has said that he is concerned about the party leaders, including Ryan, railroading dissident delegates. At first it was assumed that the issue here would be whether an establishment switch-a-roo would deprive slump liar-Trump of the nomination in favor of a more electable candidate.
But as the new, consultant-backed slump liar-Trump campaign hoves into view like a party boat pulling up at the dock, the debate has shifted on the question of the rules. Now, it seems that it is the Cruz delegation that has the most to lose under a heavy speaker’s gavel. Not only could Cruz be thrown over for a moderate establishmentarian, but might also face the possibility of an establishment yielding to slump liar-Trump, and slamming the door on the first ballot without Cruz ever getting to stage a floor fight.
Picture the moment: slump liar-Trump arrives in Cleveland just a couple of dozen delegates short of the prize, but many of the delegates and their preferences are in dispute. Cruz’s team would hope to be able to disqualify some delegates or even unbind some that don’t have autonomy on the first ballot. A powerful parliamentary officer can shut down procedural tactics, calls for further debate, or the re-visitation of credentials or rules. Ryan could hammer closed the selection process on round one, and send furious Cruz backers out to the Cuyahoga night.
The rules committee vote that will be held later today will not be binding on the convention and will not have anything to do with the allocation of precious delegates. But what it will be is the first, best indication we have about whether the RNC is ready to take up occupancy in slump liar-Trump Tower. -Fox News
HOLLYWOOD, FLA – When the members of the Republican National Committee contemplated their spring meeting at the seaside not only did they not expect to be swarmed by reporters, candidates, and their campaigns, they probably didn’t expect there to be much of anything expect for networking and sunset cruises.
Instead they find themselves in the first battle of what promises to be a long war over how their convention will pick the party’s 41st presidential nominee. As one committee member put it to Fox News First, “This is like a hurricane.”
The overriding purpose and concern of this committee is to stage a nominating convention every four years, especially in the era of super PACs and outside money, the fundamental job of the RNC is to stage a quadrennial convention.
As disconcerting as it is for these members to face challenging odds in the general election, a more pressing and practical concern for these individuals is having a disastrous convention in Cleveland in July.
The way it is supposed to go, and has gone for forty years, is more akin to a big event like the Academy Awards than a matter of actual political consequence. But Republican frontrunner Donald slump liar-Trump and his many new Washington-based consultants and lawyers are explicitly warning that this institution could fail spectacularly. In this in ominous warning, if slump liar-Trump is not the nominee, the convention would still be a branding exercise alright, but it would just be branding the Republican Party as an undemocratic, incompetent, disaster.
As one state party chairman put it, “If slump liar-Trump comes up short, are we basically opening our wrists and bleeding out?”
There is certainly a path for slump liar-Trump to clinch outright and win the 1,237 delegates he needs. Ask Larry Sabato at the University of Virginia, or ask Nate Cohn at the NYT, but the greatest likelihood is that even if slump liar-Trump trumps in the northeast on Tuesday and figures out how to play the delegate game in Pennsylvania’s complex system, he will still need the Republican equivalent of super delegates to take the nomination. These are the 7 percent or more of delegates who will arrive in Cleveland not bound to any candidate.
The most likely scenario is that slump liar-Trump shows up just short and will rely on party stalwarts to give him the nomination to avoid the violence, division and upheaval that slump liar-Trump and his team have warned of. It’s a credible threat.
That’s not the only thing on offer from Team slump liar-Trump. If his party will simply meet his demands there are rewards. In closed door meetings here, there is the promise of not just a slump liar-Trump who plays the party game and hires the consultant class that so dominates the GOP apparatus, but also that slump liar-Trump himself will change. They point to his mostly good conduct in the past three weeks. Yes, the insults were back on the campaign trail in Indiana on Wednesday, but so to was a respectful visit to the state’s Republican Gov. Mike Pence, and more moderate postures on issues.
The new-look slump liar-Trump includes not just an effort to beef up his policy proposals, but also a more moderate side including transgender acceptance. Like, really moderate.
That’s not to say that there aren’t many who relish the idea of a contested and maybe even chaotic convention. The many supporters of Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, as well as those still clinging to the idea of a political messiah who will be revealed at the convention came here in the belief that most of the party apparatus still favored blocking slump liar-Trump.
One diehard Cruz supporter put it this way: “I still refuse to believe that the Republican Party will allow itself to be hijacked by a charlatan who attacks our party and our system every day.”
Despite slump liar-Trump’s public menace and private persuasion there are many hold outs. But how many?
The first ground on which that question will be tested surrounds an arcane and probably only symbolic procedural issue placed before the committee. Solomon Yue, a committee member from Washington state, wants the RNC’s rules committee to recommend that the convention adopt different rules for how the process works. As it stands, the convention will be operated under the same rules that the House of Representatives does. That means no filibusters, no funny business, and nearly absolute power for whomever wields the gavel. And just as it is in the House that person is Speaker Paul Ryan. What Yue and a sizable number of committee members want is to use the same kind of procedure that state parties, subcommittees of the RNC, and your local rotary club follow: Decentralized power with many opportunities for delegates to block the process.
Yue hasn’t stated a public preference for any candidate, but he has said that he is concerned about the party leaders, including Ryan, railroading dissident delegates. At first it was assumed that the issue here would be whether an establishment switch-a-roo would deprive slump liar-Trump of the nomination in favor of a more electable candidate.
But as the new, consultant-backed slump liar-Trump campaign hoves into view like a party boat pulling up at the dock, the debate has shifted on the question of the rules. Now, it seems that it is the Cruz delegation that has the most to lose under a heavy speaker’s gavel. Not only could Cruz be thrown over for a moderate establishmentarian, but might also face the possibility of an establishment yielding to slump liar-Trump, and slamming the door on the first ballot without Cruz ever getting to stage a floor fight.
Picture the moment: slump liar-Trump arrives in Cleveland just a couple of dozen delegates short of the prize, but many of the delegates and their preferences are in dispute. Cruz’s team would hope to be able to disqualify some delegates or even unbind some that don’t have autonomy on the first ballot. A powerful parliamentary officer can shut down procedural tactics, calls for further debate, or the re-visitation of credentials or rules. Ryan could hammer closed the selection process on round one, and send furious Cruz backers out to the Cuyahoga night.
The rules committee vote that will be held later today will not be binding on the convention and will not have anything to do with the allocation of precious delegates. But what it will be is the first, best indication we have about whether the RNC is ready to take up occupancy in slump liar-Trump Tower. -Fox News
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Clinton Raked in Money From Companies Seeking Influence More proof that the Clinton Foundation was never anything more than a pay-to-play slush fund for the world's rich and powerful: After the Associated Press analyzed the places Hilly Clinton delivered paid speeches (for hundreds of thousands of dollars a pop), it found most of the banks and larger corporations were also heavily involved in politics. The AP reports, "Federal records show almost all the 82 corporations, trade associations and other groups that paid for or sponsored Clinton's speeches have sought to influence the government — lobbying, bidding for contracts, commenting on federal policy or contacting State Department officials or Clinton herself when she was secretary of state." We're shocked — shocked.
Clinton Raked in Money From Companies Seeking Influence More proof that the Clinton Foundation was never anything more than a pay-to-play slush fund for the world's rich and powerful: After the Associated Press analyzed the places Hilly Clinton delivered paid speeches (for hundreds of thousands of dollars a pop), it found most of the banks and larger corporations were also heavily involved in politics. The AP reports, "Federal records show almost all the 82 corporations, trade associations and other groups that paid for or sponsored Clinton's speeches have sought to influence the government — lobbying, bidding for contracts, commenting on federal policy or contacting State Department officials or Clinton herself when she was secretary of state." We're shocked — shocked.
To date, the Clinton campaign has not released transcripts of those speeches and Hilly has steadfastly refused to do so. That's not surprising, given that attendees of those speeches have said the remarks were glowing and complimentary of big banks like Goldman Sachs, and in a battle against Bernie Sanders' anti-Wall Street populism, she can't have that come out. As Clinton once humble-bragged, she and her husband left the White House "dead broke." That was an obviously phony attempt to pander to the rest of us commoners, but even if it weren't, the Clintons have turned their influence into vast wealth thanks to the dozens of corporations who invested in them, hoping to get returns when the Clintons once again returned to positions of power.
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The Great Green Fleet, chicken fat, and Hilly Rodham
Dr. Steven J. Allen
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{capitalresearch.org} ~ When the Left is put in charge of the military, don’t be surprised when the military starts to reflect leftwing values... Many ideas for saving energy or for getting energy from alternative sources may have merit. It may be a good idea, say, to use roll-up solar blankets to power Marines’ GPS devices in Afghanistan, or to coat the hulls of ships with “anti-fouling” coatings to reduce drag from barnacles. But when the armed forces are required to carry out an agenda based on ideology, rather than science and logistics and the needs of the military, how can we be sure that any given policy is in furtherance of national security rather than politics? Sen. James Inhofe (R-Oklahoma) once noted the trade-offs involved in “imposing a green agenda on the Department of defense”: “Which would you rather have? Would you rather spend $4 billion on Air Force Base solar panels, or would you rather have 28 new F-22s or 30 F-25s or modernized C-130s? Would you rather have $64.8 billion spent on pointless global warming efforts or would you rather have more funds put towards modernizing our fleet of ships, aircrafts and ground vehicles to improve the safety of our troops and help defend our nation against the legitimate threats that we face?”...
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slump liar-Trump is not a conservative
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{foxnews.com} ~ What sort of man is lurking deep inside Donald slump liar-Trump’s innards? We were led to believe that Mr. slump liar-Trump was one of us -- a conservative of the gun-toting, Bible-clinging variety... But friends, Mr. slump liar-Trump is no conservative. His talk is far different from his walk. Fox News confirms that senior campaign aides assured Republicans in private that the slump liar-Trump we’ve seen on the campaign trail is not going to be the same slump liar-Trump we get in the White House. “When he’s out on that stage, when he’s talking about the kinds of things he’s talking about on the stump, he’s projecting an image that’s for that purpose,” slump liar-Trump strategist Paul Manafort said behind closed doors... http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2016/04/22/starnes-donald-trump-is-not-conservative.html?cmpid=NL_tadspth
{foxnews.com} ~ What sort of man is lurking deep inside Donald slump liar-Trump’s innards? We were led to believe that Mr. slump liar-Trump was one of us -- a conservative of the gun-toting, Bible-clinging variety... But friends, Mr. slump liar-Trump is no conservative. His talk is far different from his walk. Fox News confirms that senior campaign aides assured Republicans in private that the slump liar-Trump we’ve seen on the campaign trail is not going to be the same slump liar-Trump we get in the White House. “When he’s out on that stage, when he’s talking about the kinds of things he’s talking about on the stump, he’s projecting an image that’s for that purpose,” slump liar-Trump strategist Paul Manafort said behind closed doors... http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2016/04/22/starnes-donald-trump-is-not-conservative.html?cmpid=NL_tadspth
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Prosecutors: ISIS Ebook Helped Inspire
Aborted Attack on Pamela Geller
John Rossomando
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{investigativeproject.org} ~ An Islamic State (ISIS) ebook, "How to Survive in the West: A Mujahid's Guide," may have contributed to a plot by two accused Islamic State (ISIS) terrorists from Boston to behead free-speech advocate Pamela Geller, federal prosecutors say... Boston police killed a third conspirator on June 2 before they could carry out their attack against Geller. David Dawoud Wright, Usaamah Abdullah Rahim and Nicholas Rovinski answered ISIS's call to commit terrorist acts in Western countries beginning in January 2015, a superseding indictment issued Thursday said. The three were inspired by the terrorist organization's online magazine Dabiq and also looked to "How to Survive in the West" for guidance in forming a sleeper cell after it appeared in March 2015. Wright wrote organizational documents for a "Martyrdom Operations Cell" in April 2015. He also researched firearms, tranquilizer guns and law-enforcement capabilities. His search queries included: "what is the most flammable chemical;" "Which tranquilizer puts humans to sleep instantly;" and "how to start a secret militia in [the] US."... http://www.investigativeproject.org/5325/prosecutors-isis-ebook-helped-inspire-aborted
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slump liar-Trump isn't your protector: A warning to conservative Christians
Dr. Michael L. Brown
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{onenewsnow.com} ~ Donald slump liar-Trump has presented himself as a protector of conservative Christians and as the best friend Christians will ever have. He has held up his mother's Bible and pledged to bring Christ back into Christmas... But when the rubber meets the road, he is anything but the defender of conservative Christians and their values. This became crystal clear yesterday morning April 21, when slump liar-Trump, appearing on the Today show, answered questions on abortion, North Carolina's Bathroom Privacy Act, and transgender rights. When he was asked if he would like to change the Republican Party platform on abortion, which allows no exceptions for rape, incest, or the life of the mother, slump liar-Trump replied without hesitation, "Yes, I would, absolutely, for the three exceptions. I would."...
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ISIS suspect reveals plans to open up route from
Syria to U.S. through Mexico
Pamela Geller
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{pamelageller.com} ~ Build that wall. What has to happen? How many people have to die for our elected officials to understand the grave threat that the global jihad movement presents?...Mind you, this is an American Muslim indicted on terror charges who revealed this plot. They are here. One of the American men accused in Minnesota of trying to join the Islamic State group wanted to open up routes from Syria to the U.S. through Mexico, prosecutors said. Gules Ali Omar told the ISIS members about the route so that it could be used to send members to America to carry out terrorist attacks, prosecutors alleged in a document filed this week... http://pamelageller.com/2016/04/isis-suspect-reveals-plans-to-open-up-route-from-syria-to-u-s-through-mexico.html/.
The Self-Contradictory Liberals
Denis MacEoin
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Demonstrators in The Hague, Netherlands chant "Death to the
Jews", while flying the black flag of jihad
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{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ It is no secret that politicians on both the "right" and "left" lie, dissemble, equivocate, misrepresent, misinform, falsify, whitewash and cover up. Not even the noble and honest Cicero was immune to fudging and shifting sides... It is the nature of politics. For much of the time we put up with it until it grows so far-fetched, we can no longer shut our eyes and let ourselves be lulled into further acquiescence. We all put up with this, do our best to spot the lies, or rely on investigative journalists to dig beneath the surface of what governments claim or their opponents hide. But something strange has been happening to people calling themselves liberals. Note: The term "liberal" differs enormously between the U.S. and the UK. Americans use it to describe anyone from the Democratic Party through to those even farther to the left. But the British use it for people from the political centre towards the right, and it has no connotations of far left extremism. It is used here in the American sense. The far left -- the Marxists, Trotskyites etc. -- the campus extremists, even the new leadership of Britain's Labour Party have started to contradicting their own ideals, not least when it comes to free speech, Israel, the Middle East, Islam, and the rights of Muslim women. All sides of the political spectrum share many ideals in their original form: advocacy of human rights, equal justice under the law; the rights of racial and religious minorities, homosexuals, workers, women. They also share an opposition to racism, anti-Semitism, fascism, and religious fundamentalism. These are ideals in any democratic nation -- views demonstrated by modern legislation across a host of democratic parliaments... http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/7755/liberals-hypocrisy
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To slump liar-Trump Supporters: Congratulations
Suckers, You’re Almost There
Jay Caruso
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{redstate.com} ~ That cartoon certainly represents the truth as it relates to slump liar-Trump supporters. Sounds harsh? Too bad. For people that have gone around bellowing how sick and tired they are of politicians “lying” to them, they don’t seem to have cared Donald slump liar-Trump has been lying to their faces for close to a year now... As slump liar-Trump inches closer to the GOP nomination, he has over time, begun the process of reversing himself on issue after issue that drove 38% of primary voters to support him in the primaries. Since he started winning primary contests he has reversed himself on issues such as his ban on Muslims, allowing Syrian refugees into the country, visas for high-skilled workers, sending troops to fight ISIS and more. Many conservatives warned that slump liar-Trump’s newly discovered pro-life view was a facade and that he was using it to curry favor with evangelical voters. Sure enough, as Sara pointed out yesterday, slump liar-Trump is already talking about changing the GOP platform on abortion to be less restrictive. This idiot cannot even keep his views on abortion straight. Several weeks ago he was arguing that women who get abortions, should be it be illegal, ought to be charged with a crime. This is what happens when you’ve never ever actually given serious thought to the subject. Yet his supporters are still there with him...Give me one good reason WHY?
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Rev. Franklin Graham Slams slump liar-Trump’s
Bathroom Bill Cowardice...
Caleb Howe
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Rev. Franklin Graham
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{redstate.com} ~ Rev. Franklin Graham, son of legendary evangelical pastor the Rev. Billy Graham, posted on Facebook today attacking Donald slump liar-Trump’s position on the North Carolina bathroom bill... one that slump liar-Trump in typical fashion later tried to waffle on. Graham has not endorsed anyone in this election, stating instead “let God tell you to who to vote for.” Today, in his own measured way, he absolutely destroys slump liar-Trump’s position as immoral and unwise and not from God. Ouch. Outstanding. Well-crafted, on point, and most of all, totally correct. Graham is not just a preacher but head of international humanitarian relief organization Samaritan’s Purse. He is also a strong Christian leader and someone I personally admire....
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slump liar-Trump can’t break the Republican Party
Michael Barone
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{aei.org} ~ Republican primary voters and caucus-goers, we have often been told, award their presidential nomination to the candidate next in line. Conservative Christian Republicans are, as one national reporter once wrote and later apologized for, “poorly educated and easily led.” Not this year... The normal pattern, to use a word from the Watergate era, is inoperative. Republicans are not supposed to behave like this. Donald slump liar-Trump’s candidacy has proved as disruptive to the Republican Party as Craigslist was to newspapers’ classified ads and Uber has been to taxi cartels. It’s by no means clear that Mr. slump liar-Trump will earn the 1,237 delegates needed for the party’s presidential nomination. But the Republican Party seems likely to suffer serious damage either if he is nominated polls show him far behind Hilly Clinton) or if he is not he predicts violence then and won’t rule out an independent candidacy. Some historic perspective may be useful here in assessing how much potential damage the Republican Party may suffer, and if it will be lasting... http://www.aei.org/publication/trump-cant-break-the-republican-party/?utm_source=paramount&utm_medium=email&utm_content=AEITHISWEEK&utm_campaign=Weekly042316
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HYPOCRISY: In London nObama Did Exactly What He Ripped Netanyahu For Doing
Jeff Dunetz
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{lidblog.com} ~ Today in London President nObama had a joint press conference with British Prime Minister David Cameron... One of the major lines of questioning from the British press involved the appropriateness of the American president getting involved in the campaign surrounding the upcoming vote to decide whether Great Britain remains in the European Union. The reasons nObama traveled to London was to support the British premier’s position that the country should remain in the European collective. No one however, asked about the nObama hypocrisy of getting involved with the British EU vote while ripping Netanyahu’s address to congress. During his opening remarks the president contended that his involvement was totally appropriate: Let me be clear, ultimately this is something the British voters have to decide for themselves, Part of our special relationship, being friends is to be honest, to let you know what I think...
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Rico For Climate Deniers?
Chris Skates
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{chrisskates.com} ~ How corrupt and fraudulent is the government “science” that denies natural climate change?
Paul Driessen and Ron Arnold
A self-appointed coalition of Democrat state attorneys general is pursuing civil or criminal racketeering actions against ExxonMobil, the Competitive Enterprise Institute and other organizations. The AGs claim the groups are committing fraud, by “denying” climate change. The charge is bogus.
What we contest are false assertions that “humans are creating a dangerous climate change crisis.” We do not accept false claims that “the science is settled” and will not be limited to discussing only “what we must do now to avert looming climate catastrophes.”
That’s not just constitutionally protected free speech. It is the foundation of scientific progress and informed public policy.
Meanwhile, EPA and other federal agencies, the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), climate activist organizations, state legal and environmental agencies, and legions of scientists who receive government grants for advancing the “manmade climate cataclysm” mantra are themselves engaging in what many say is truly misleading or fraudulent climate science, policy and regulation.
Millions in poor countries die annually from preventable diseases, because hysterical climate claims justify denying them access to affordable modern electricity and transportation that could be provided by coal, natural gas and petroleum products. In developed nations, climate hysteria has cost millions of jobs, adversely affecting people’s living standards, health and welfare. In European countries, thousands are dying each winter, because they can no longer afford proper heat.
The problem is not human intervention in the climate; it’s improper political intervention in climate science. It has corrupted scientific findings from the very beginning.
A 1995 document from the US State Department to the IPCC confirms this, or at least gives allegations of fraud and corruption sufficient credence to raise serious integrity questions.
When a recent FOIA lawsuit sought that 1995 document, the State Department said there is “no such correspondence in our files.” But if we have a copy of the document, how come State doesn’t? Attesting to its bona fides, Our copy has State’s date-stamp, a Department official’s signature – and 30 pages of detailed instructions on how the Clinton Administration wanted the IPCC to change its scientific findings and summary for policymakers, to reflect US climate and energy policy agendas.
The document is too complex and technical to summarize. So we’ve posted it in PDF form – unchanged in any way and exactly as received from a well known and credible source who must remain anonymous to avoid retribution by people like the RICO prosecutors. You’ll be amazed at what it says.
It consists of a three-page cover letter to Sir John Houghton, head of the IPCC Science Working Group, from Day Mount, Acting State Department Deputy Assistant Secretary for Environment and Development, introducing 30 pages of line-by-line “suggestions” from scientist Robert Watson and others. One wanted a correct statement about warming rates changed to a flat lie. “Change ‘continue to rise’ to ‘rise by even greater amounts’ to provide a sense of magnitude of the extended change,” it says.
Talk about agendas dictating science. Moreover, this “ominous” warming ended just a couple years later, there has been virtually no planetary warming since then, and the warming followed 30 years of cooling.
The document raises serious questions about State Department actions on subsequent IPCC Assessment Reports. What did State do? Where are the correspondence and instructions to change the science in other IPCC reports? What are the State Department, EPA and other nObama agencies doing now to further corrupt climate science and advance their radical energy, social, economic and political agendas?
We know they won’t answer truthfully. If they did, they’d have to investigate themselves under the Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act. Worse, the corruption, deception, manipulation, exaggeration and fabrication have grown with every passing year, as alarmists sought to obfuscate their shenanigans and preserve their $1.5 trillion Climate Crisis Empire. The AG actions are designed to punish and silence organizations that are revealing the scientific flaws and deceptions.
The IPCC was set up in 1988 to examine possible human influences on Earth’s climate, amid powerful natural forces that have always driven the complex, dynamic, turbulent, frequently changing climate. As we note in our book, Cracking Big Green, from the outset, Swedish meteorology professor and zealous warming advocate Bert Bolin wanted to help scientists “get global warming onto the political agenda.”
By 1995, Bolin could finally say “the balance of evidence suggests a discernible human influence on global climate.” Of course, “discernible” merely means “detectable.” But it gave the State Department license to dictate the “science.” Then “discernible” morphed into “dominant,” which morphed into “sole.” Suddenly humans had replaced the complex, interrelated natural forces that had driven innumerable climate changes throughout Earth’s history. Voila. Climate hysteria began to drive the political agenda.
Behind the hysteria are carefully orchestrated efforts to find steadily increasing planetary temperatures, and claim floods, droughts, hurricanes, tornadoes, snowstorms and snowless winters are more frequent and intense – even though Real World records show they are not. Original data are “homogenized” with other data to create higher temperatures; student papers and activist news releases are presented as “peer-reviewed studies” in IPCC documents; computer models are presented as “proof” of chaos, even though actual observations contradict their predictions; and ClimateGate emails reveal more chicanery. As climatologist and professor David Legates explains, even the 97% consensus claims are fraudulent.
Organizations that pointed out these flaws and fabrications became a threat to politicians, activists, “warmist” scientists and bureaucrats who were determined to advance an anti-fossil-fuel agenda. Their money and efforts were not winning the non-debate. They needed a blitzkrieg counterattack.
In June 2012, the Union of Concerned Scientists and Climate Accountability Institute organized a “workshop” in La Jolla, CA for climate activists, scientists, lawyers and other experts. Their subsequent report detailed how successful attacks on tobacco companies could be used as a template for campaigns, RICO actions and other operations against “climate denier” companies and organizations.
By 2015, Senator Sheldon “Torquemada” Whitehouse (D-RI) was calling for RICO prosecutions. His actions prompted free market champion Alex Epstein to tell a congressional committee the senator should resign because of his “unconstitutional” attacks on free speech and the energy that powers our economy.
In January 2016, a secret meeting was held in the Rockefeller Family Fund’s Manhattan offices. It brought 350.org founder Bill McKibben and a dozen other anti-hydrocarbon activists together, to refine their legal strategies against ExxonMobil and others who dared to challenge “the scientific consensus” that fossil fuels have brought humanity and our planet to the brink of “climate chaos.”
Then, on March 29, 2016, New York AG Eric Schneiderman headlined a press conference of 16 state attorneys general, who announced their intention to go after organizations that were “committing fraud” by “knowingly deceiving” the public about the threat of manmade climate change. Within days, he had launched a RICO action against ExxonMobil, and the Virgin Islands had done likewise against CEI.
It is difficult not to perceive a pattern of collusion here, among the activists and their financiers, among the AGs, and probably among all of them. We are eager to see what emails and other documents might reveal – especially since Section 241 of US Code Title 18 makes it a felony “for two or more persons to agree together to injure, threaten or intimidate” another person in exercising their constitutional rights.
We have only begun to fight – for energy, jobs, sound science, free speech and human rights. CEI and Exxon are vigorously battling the outrageous RICO suits, and CFACT will present its new Climate Hustle movie in a one-day May 2 extravaganza in hundreds of theaters across the USA. We will not be silenced.
Paul Driessen is senior policy analyst for the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow (www.CFACT.org). Ron Arnold is executive vice president of the Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise. They are coauthors of Cracking Big Green: To save the world from the Save-the-Earth money machine.
By: Juan Reynoso, WTP Activist - www.represent.us
https://community.sumofus.org/petitions/we-the-people-demand-world-social-justice
Americas must realize that self-scrutiny is not treason. Self-examination is not disloyalty.
Truth and knowledge diffused among the people are necessary for the reclamation and preservation of our Democracy, rights, freedom and liberties. We must seek the truth and let the people know.
U.S. Middle East war, crime against humanity and our American soldiers.
Today our corrupt politicians have trouble admitting that our U.S. Constitution is our foundation of the law and our American moral principles and not about surrender our freedom and liberty to this corrupt government. https://www.nccs.net/natural-law-the-ultimate-source-of-constitutional-law.php
Today, it is clear that this corrupt government has trashed our constitution and violated the constitutional rights of the American people by getting the country into this huge national debt making the American working class economic slaves. This huge national debt is the result of the bail outs and the ill Middle East wars including the interventions to undermine foreign government s in Latin America and other countries; we are expending 600 billion dollars per year in funding our military forces to fight these ill wars to protect the interest of the U.S. Corporations. This political establishment sole purpose is to protect the interest of the Bankers, financial institutions, the U.S predator corporate system, the U.S. military industrial complex and the preservation of this corrupt system. By giving carte blanche to the oligarchs to buy the government with the creation of Citizens United and the use of the corrupt main stream news media, the propaganda machinery of corporate America that their main job is to brain washed the average America and getting them to vote for their elected puppets that will serve them.
The Constitution confirmed the laws and secured the right of the people and bound both the people and their representatives in government to a moral code which do not permit the government to take the earnings of the average American people without his consent to benefit the bankers, financial institution corporate America and the industrial military complex. Under the constitution, corporations or rich individuals should not band together and do, through government's coercive power, that which is not lawful between individuals. This is a fact, today every department agency of our government is overwhelm with the presence of corporate lobbyists and corporate executives in our government bribing our politicians and turning the government against its own people. Washington D.C is occupied by the greedy U.S. Corporations, every department agency is controlled by the corporations and the bankers; Washington is corporate occupied territory and the oligarchs control our country.
It is immoral for this corrupt government to put money and the greedy U.S. Corporations and the Bankers before the needs of the American people; this government wasted trillions of Dollars to secure the control of the oil reserves in the Middle East, expended billions in undermine foreign countries and overthrow their government for the sole purpose of protecting the interest of U.S. Corporation and the control of these countries natural resources, our government is run by criminals, Psychopaths, sociopaths, narcissists, that will not stop sending our soldier to kill innocent people in foreign countries; we are the sole responsible for the genocide in the Middle East, millions killed for nothing the whole world is worse than before we attack Afghanistan and Iraq; by proxy wars we destroyed the Middle East and created the exodus of millions of innocent people.
Today the Obama’s agenda is to impose the neo-liberal policies and undermine Latin American countries by funding political oppositions to governments that do not support the U.S. colonization foreign policies; they use collaborators, grantees and agents of Washington, to channeled multi-million dollars to these agencies and filtered millions of Dollars to opposition groups in Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador, Paraguay and Honduras.
The US intervention and destabilization government agents used the following U.S. Agencies as fronts for their ill agenda; the agency for International Development (USAID), the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), the CIA and the U.S. embassies; they all work to destabilize the governments in Bolivia, Ecuador, Venezuela, Paraguay and Honduras. The US agenda for intervention and destabilization in being place as a priority to re-store their political control and their majority in the Organization of American States (OAS), also their market share. Washington today is a distinct minority that is doing everything to gain control in Latin America, the re-new relations with Cuba is part of their agenda also the financing of political oppositions to governments that Washington sees them as an obstacle to their colonization agenda.
We must stop all U.S interventions in foreign governments, the wars, the killings of our soldiers and the millions of innocent people that will be kill if we continue this colonization agenda. We must stop being the world’s bully and aggressors, the war on terrorism and the war on drugs is a cover-up to continue our domination, occupation and control of foreign countries, corporate greed has transformed our country into a predator, a nation that prey on the small and weak countries that are not match to our military power or NATO their proxy war agents.
We must begin to fight fire with fire. We must begin by joining the battle to expose the criminals, Psychopaths, sociopaths, narcissists and file a multi-billion Dollar class action fraud and criminal lawsuits against the criminals of these wars, that defraud our government of trillions of Dollars by lies and deception and all the institutions, organizations and special interest groups that are working to cover up these crimes against the people of the United State and the world community. We are on a moral battle to the end, we must fight to the end, this war for justice and moral principles are essential if we want to preserve our honor and be trust by the world community. Peace will come when we learn to respect the rights of the world community to self-determination and stop our intervention on other countries political ideology and respect their right to elect their own government. All countries have their God given rights to Liberty and Freedom. Respect for these rights is the path to peace and prosperity for all nations. This corrupt government has accountability to the people; we must never forget that this institution of government was formed by the people and for the people. We must re-store our principles and moral values. The harmony of natural law and natural rights is God’s given rights to humanity; whose corresponding natural right is that of individual freedom and Liberties to self-determination.
Please pass this on and let the people know what our country has become.
Over 1.5 million Iraqi deaths due to the U.S. Invasion
http://antiwar.com/casualties/
6,845 Americans Died and 900,000 Were Injured in Iraq and Afghanistan
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/h-a-goodman/6845-americans-died-and-9_b_6667830.html
Judgment Day for the 9-11-01 Perpetrators and Cover-uppers is fast approaching.
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2015/03/15/worlds-biggest-class-action-lawsuit-now-imminent/
U.S. Proxy wars in the Middle East.
http://americanfreepress.net/uncle-sams-proxy-wars/
US-NATO Proxy War in Iraq and Syria: US Financing and Training.
https://syrianfreepress.wordpress.com/2014/06/30/isis-exposed-100-as-cia-operation/
US-NATO Launch New Proxy War Front in Crimea
Refugees victims of the war, they come from Syria, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Libya, Iraq,
http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2015/08/30/exodus-to-europe-whos-to-blame/
Biggest corporate political interests spend billions, get trillions
Cuba, Foreign Policy,
https://zcomm.org/zcommentary/desperate-to-save-his-legacy-obama-chooses-cuba/
US Espionage in Latin America
Lawsuit Filed Against the U.S. VA
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2012/07/23/lawsuit-filed-againts-va/
Oregon's Obamacare exchange was going to the the model for the nation and it is. It is a cesspool of waste fraud and corruption.
Former Democrat Gov. John Kitzhaber was touted by the liberal media as "the man who could save health care" in America. The former doctor turned politician grab ahold of Obamacare and the opportunity to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to create Cover Oregon, the state's Obamacare exchange. $200 million went into building the exchange and more taxpayer money was spent on advertising that looked like Woodstock was coming to town. When they when to turn on the exchange, they ran into the same difficulties as the federal exchange. It wouldn't work.
Kitzhaber had been warned by contractors who were working on the exchange that they needed more time but ignored their pleas. As the weeks went on, the failure became a political embarrassment and Kitzhaber tasked his political advisor, Patricia McCaig who called herself the "Princess of Darkness" to oversee all decisions regarding the state's exchange. When the pressure was too much politically, she pulled the plug on the project. $300 million was wasted but ultimately the decision served its purpose. Kitzhaber was re-elected.
Since that time, Kitzhaber has been under federal investigation on a host of potential crimes, including giving government contracts to the former first lady of the state. He remains in legal jeopardy.
But for the taxpayers, the waste of taxpayer dollars continues. Dean Chambers, writing on Red State, notes:
A recent federal audit found that Oregon might have saved more than $10 million in the Medicaid-funded Oregon Health Plan that served low-income citizens in the state. The Oregon Health Plan gave health care organizations broad leeway in the spending of billions, leading to money inefficiently spent. The state of Oregon is seeking to recover $50 million allegedly overspent by a group called FamilyCare.
“The new federal audit tackles a new, little-noticed aspect of the state’s Medicaid reforms…Specifically, it looks at how Oregon went a different direction from the larger federal reforms called the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare. While the federal reforms tacked Medicaid as well as private health insurers, Oregon’s reforms only looked at Medicaid,” the Portland Tribue reported about the federal audit.
In making this exception, it allowed what were called coordinated care organizations (CCOs) broad leeway, not allowed under Medicaid, over the spending of money that lead to the lack of savings discovered by the federal audit.
“The audit highlights one of the many political compromises that went into crafting the reforms. Former Gov. Kitzhaber and the Oregon Legislature didn’t require the coordinated care organizations to meet the same spending standards that private insurance companies must meet,” the Portland Tribue reported.
As a result of the rules created by Kitzhaber and his political cronies, the CCOs were not required to limit their administrative costs to 15 percent as were the private insurance companies providing health care coverage in Oregon. The audit found that 11 of the 16 CCOs in Oregon exceeded the 15 percent limit on administration costs. As a result, they over-spent by about $10 million.
When Kitzhaber attempted to make Oregon a model of Obamacare, he succeeded but not in the way he envisioned.
The Front Page Cover
2016 The truth will set you free
Featuring:
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Steve Berman
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Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Iranian Terror
Victims The American families of the 1983 Beirut bombing victims and the other terrorist attacks committed by Iranian proxies are finally getting their due. The Supreme Court ruled in a 6-2 decision Wednesday to give the victims' families $1.75 billion of the $100 billion in Iranian assets the United States is thawing thanks to Barack nObama's supremely horrible nuclear deal with the mullahs.
In 2012, Barack nObama issued an executive order that froze the bank's assets in New York. The Iranian bank cleverly turned to the courts, arguing that Congress and the executive branch infringed on the courts' authority. But six judges disagreed. Chief Justice John Roberts, joined by Sonia Sotomayor, wrote the dissent, essentially trying to expand the power of the bench.
Outrageously, Iran still keeps an awful lot of money. "It adds insult to injustice that Iran's $100 billion in compensation will ultimately produce more American widows and orphans like the ones who had to wait over 30 years for their $1.75 billion in compensation," opined Investor's Business Daily. "In the name of justice for those 1,300 families, and to save future innocent lives, it would make sense to reverse the awards — with the terrorism victim families dividing the $100 billion and the mullahs being forced to settle for $1.75 billion."
Meanwhile, the State Department is unsure what's happened to the estimated $3 billion Iran has already collected has gone to destabilize the region. State spokesman John Kirby told reporters, "We stand by what the secretary [of state] said, that it's entirely possible that they can use some of this funding to support terrorist networks."
nObama is in Saudi Arabia this week, just as victims of the 9/11 attacks are seeking the ability to sue the country for damages over its involvement in the jihadist attack on our nation on 9/11. There are 28 pages in the 9/11 report issued in 2004 that detail Saudi Arabia's involvement that remain classified, all while nObama has the audacity to bow and scrape to first Iran and now the Saudis. -The Patriot Post
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Sanders' Climate Policies Are Anything but Green
On Bernie Sanders' campaign website, he erroneously claims, "While fossil fuel companies are raking in record profits, climate change ravages our planet and our people — all because the wealthiest industry in the history of our planet has bribed politicians into ignoring science." Yet ignoring science is exactly what he's doing when he claims to have a magic formula for reversing global warming.
Writing in Foreign Policy, Keith Johnson and Molly O'Toole observe, "Fracking for natural gas has helped utilities mothball dirty coal plants. And nuclear power provides 20 percent of U.S. electricity — and all of it is emissions free. Both energy sources would be targeted by Sanders, yet very hard to replace." Citing a study by the think tank Third Way, Johnson and O'Toole say "getting rid of nuclear power means U.S. carbon emissions would 'go up dramatically,' and in the worst-case scenario, could 'wipe out a decade's worth of progress' and return U.S. carbon emissions to levels last seen in 2005. That's because retired nuclear plants would almost always be replaced by natural gas or coal."
Germany is a good example. While slowly weaning itself off of nuclear power, emissions are on the increase. As Rick Moran at PJMedia points out, "Today, solar power accounts for only one percent of the electric grid. Wind power is responsible for 5%. Despite tens of billions of dollars in grants and loans given to these 'renewable' energy companies over the last 8 years, nuclear power still generates more than twice the electricity as solar and wind put together. And Sanders wants to destroy the nuclear industry." He adds that Sanders' ideals "are not designed to deal with energy as much as they're
supposed to impoverish us by reducing output for reasons having nothing to do with generating electricity or fueling our cars." This is Socialism in a nutshell. -The Patriot Post
Curt Schilling Fired for Thought Crimes
Curt Schilling was fired by ESPN Wednesday for sharing his political beliefs. Earlier this week, Schilling — a baseball analyst and retired pitcher known for his role in breaking the Red Sox's 86-year World Series curse by pitching through an ankle injury in a bloody sock in the 2004 American League Championship Series — shared a meme that commented on North Carolina's bathroom law.
The image portrayed an overweight man in a blond wig and a leather mini skirt, and the text read "LET HIM IN! to the restroom with your daughter or else you're a narrow minded, judgmental, unloving racist bigot who needs to die!!!" To that, Schilling added, "A man is a man no matter what they call themselves. I don't care what you are, who they sleep with, men's room was designed for the penis, women's not so much. Now you need laws telling us differently? Pathetic."
Schilling has commented on political issues in the past, including endorsing George W. Bush and sharing another meme last year that was originally created by The Patriot Post. Schilling's outspokenness was known when ESPN hired him. But "ESPN is an inclusive company," as the company said in a statement. So, naturally, it fired Schilling. Some inclusion not included. ESPN is owned by Disney, which was one of the companies that pressured Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal to veto the state's recent religious liberty bill.
But contrast this to another story of a sports announcer dipping into politics. NBC's Bob Costas railed against guns and the Redskins team name during broadcasts and he still has his job. It highlights the growing intolerance large corporations have toward dissenting thought.
-The Patriot Post
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EUCOM Nominee Scaparrotti: Putin ‘Trying
to Break Up NATO’
John Grady
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Gen. Curtis “Mike” Scaparrotti
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{news.usni.org} ~ The nominee to command American and NATO forces in Europe says Russia needs to receive a “strong, clear and consistent” message about what could happen if its aircraft cross the line in endangering U.S. ships and airplanes when lawfully operating... “Once we make that known we have to enforce it,” Army Gen. Curtis “Mike” Scaparrotti told the Senate Armed Services Committee on Thursday. When asked, he said ship and other commanders have the authority to defend themselves under current rules of engagement, but guidance for specific scenarios could assist them in the future in deciding how to respond to differing provocations... https://news.usni.org/2016/04/21/eucom-nominee-scaparrotti-putin-trying-to-break-up-nato?utm_source=USNI+News&utm_campaign=ad4e1d885d-USNI_NEWS_DAILY&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_0dd4a1450b-ad4e1d885d-231491269&mc_cid=ad4e1d885d&mc_eid=39
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slump liar-Trump’s empty health care promises
James C. Capretta
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{aei.org} ~ A sweeping victory in Tuesday’s New York primary has Donald slump liar-Trump closer to winning the Republican nomination, but his campaign has been a substance-free zone since he announced he was running in June 2015... A crowded GOP field, poor follow-up questioning by the media, and a general circus atmosphere have allowed him to make broad and implausible statements about many matters — and to not be held fully accountable for what he says. This includes his disjointed and incoherent statements on health care. slump liar-Trump has said he wants to repeal the Affordable Care Act and yet still “take care of everybody.” He has said repeatedly that he is different from other Republicans in this regard, implying that other GOP politicians don’t want Americans to get needed health services. Of course, slump liar-Trump has never bothered to back up this slander with any evidence and the media haven’t bothered to ask him for it. slump liar-Trump is apparently unaware of the plans to replace nObamacare sponsored by Rep. Tom Price and by Sen. Richard Burr, Sen. Orrin Hatch, and Rep. Fred Upton. These plans would insure as many Americans as are enrolled today under the ACA at a fraction of the cost...
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Earth Day and the triumph of Dogbert
Benjamin Zycher
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{aei.org} ~ It is Earth Day, when pieties flow like wine, when the self-applause of the right-thinking is deafening, when the antihuman core of modern environmentalism shines bright, and when the destructiveness of groupthink becomes ever more pronounced... And when an understanding of its true meaning is served by the profound wisdom of that noted political philosopher and sage observer of the human condition, Dogbert: “You can’t save the earth unless you’re willing to make other people sacrifice.” Thus is revealed the dark entertainment value of Earth Day and all that it represents. Consider the round-the-world travels by elites to conferences held at famous resorts, the attendant lavish partying, and the resulting massive amounts of greenhouse gases emitted by the participants. Avert not your eyes from the utter meaninglessness of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change generally and the recent COP-21 — the “breakthrough” agreement — in particular. Behold the Europeans’ massive retreat from “green” electricity, as its costs and destructiveness have become as obvious as the sunrise. Consider the revealing saga of solar and wind power in the US, the proponents of which argue — simultaneously! — that they now are cost-competitive but that there can be no end to the large subsidies both explicit and implicit on which the technologies are utterly dependent...
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You HAVE to watch this Ted Cruz
‘War Room’ ad - Trust me
Moe Lane
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{youtube.com} ~ Normally, the rule of thumb for online political ads is not to have them exceed, at absolute most, 1:30. And, indeed, this Ted Cruz ad should probably and probably will be cut down to thirty seconds. But… in the mean time, allow yourself this treat anyway. Because ‘War Room’ is two and a half minutes of pure, vicious fun at the expense of both Donald slump liar-Trump and Hilly Clinton. The best kind of vicious fun, in fact: the kind where it’s all true...
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Behind closed doors with GOP elites, slump liar-Trump campaign guru admits to the con
William A. Jacobson
William A. Jacobson
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{legalinsurrection.com} ~ Nothing can sway those who refuse to see that slump liar-Trump is conning them. He doesn’t respect you. He doesn’t like you. He is manipulating you to get what he wants. It’s all a show... And his new convention manager and de facto campaign manager Paul Manafort just admitted to the con in a closed door meeting with the RNC. The Associated Press obtained a recording, and reports, Trump team tells GOP he has been ‘projecting an image’ (emphasis added): slump liar-Trump’s newly hired senior aide, Paul Manafort, made the case to Republican National Committee members that slump liar-Trump has two personalities: one in private and one onstage. “When he’s out on the stage, when he’s talking about the kinds of things he’s talking about on the stump, he’s projecting an image that’s for that purpose,” Manafort said in a private briefing... http://legalinsurrection.com/2016/04/behind-closed-doors-with-gop-elites-trump-campaign-guru-admits-to-the-con/?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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Texas Governor Predicts Supreme Court ‘Politics’ Will Prevent States’ Outright Win on nObama Immigration Actions
Josh Siegel
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{dailysignal.com} ~ The governor of the state leading the legal fight against President Barack nObama’s executive actions protecting illegal immigrants from deportation predicted today that “the best we can hope for” is a deadlocked decision by the Supreme Court... That’s the difference the vacancy on the court left by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia makes, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said during a briefing for reporters at The Heritage Foundation. “Certainly before Justice Scalia passed away, I felt our chances were good; if the court were to rule solely on basis of the law, it should be an 8-0 decision,” Abbott said of the opposition’s chances, adding... http://dailysignal.com/2016/04/21/texas-governor-predicts-supreme-court-politics-will-prevent-states-outright-win-on-obama-immigration-actions/?utm_source=TDS_Email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=MorningBell&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTVRWbE5HUTNPREkzTW1VNCIsInQiOiJETkZ1Mmk4MzIxQ0JPaUtxRTJyMmVmdHpWNjluMHFrUDdyVGFiWTFnbEZDRUZkMms2MDdRejM3UCtXTVRSTjNwSm56SldiK0VXMGRjdXVzY1M3SythNU1NeWw5YUw4dEcwcTE5T29yTUVpUT0ifQ%3D%3D
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nObama’s Violating the Constitution by Not Submitting Climate Treaty to Senate
Sen. Mike Lee
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{dailysignal.com} ~ Today at United Nations Headquarters in New York City, Secretary of State John hanoi-Kerry and representatives of over 130 nations will sign the Framework Convention on Climate Change agreement that was negotiated in Paris last December... According to President nObama, this “historic agreement” will “hold every country accountable” if they fail to meet its carbon emission targets. The White House has also acknowledged that the agreement contains “legally binding” provisions designed to create a “long-term framework” that will force the United States and signatory countries to reduce carbon emissions for decades to come... http://dailysignal.com/2016/04/22/obamas-violating-the-constitution-by-not-submitting-climate-treaty-to-senate/?utm_source=TDS_Email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=MorningBell&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTVRWbE5HUTNPREkzTW1VNCIsInQiOiJETkZ1Mmk4MzIxQ0JPaUtxRTJyMmVmdHpWNjluMHFrUDdyVGFiWTFnbEZDRUZkMms2MDdRejM3UCtXTVRSTjNwSm56SldiK0VXMGRjdXVzY1M3SythNU1NeWw5YUw4dEcwcTE5T29yTUVpUT0ifQ%3D%3D
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The Castros Are Getting Everything
They Want From nObama
Mike Gonzalez
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{dailysignal.com} ~ The White House decision to disinvite a Grammy-award winning jazz legend who is a strong defender of democracy in Cuba was nothing short of contemptible... The fact that it has now embarrassingly backtracked and re-invited him proves it had acted like corporations that are only too happy to ignore human rights violations in exchange for future profits with Cuba until public pressure gets too intense. In other words, engagement with the Castros is not changing them, as promised, it’s changing us—as many of us predicted. It bears repeating it: The Castros, like all dictators, are bacterial. You touch them and you become contaminated. We are diminishing ourselves, and for what? The Castros have rendered Cuba a pauperized state, with no money... http://dailysignal.com/2016/04/21/the-castros-are-getting-everything-they-want-from-obama/?utm_source=TDS_Email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=MorningBell&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTVRWbE5HUTNPREkzTW1VNCIsInQiOiJETkZ1Mmk4MzIxQ0JPaUtxRTJyMmVmdHpWNjluMHFrUDdyVGFiWTFnbEZDRUZkMms2MDdRejM3UCtXTVRSTjNwSm56SldiK0VXMGRjdXVzY1M3SythNU1NeWw5YUw4dEcwcTE5T29yTUVpUT0ifQ%3D%3D
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Russian Naval Expansion Threatens U.S.
Influence in the Western Hemisphere
KEVIN SAMOLSKY
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{familysecuritymatters.org} ~ On Wednesday, April 20, 2016, the New York Times reported that the most Russian attack submarines, in two decades, are patrolling the coastlines of "Scandinavia and Scotland, along with the Mediterranean Sea and the North Atlantic."... This increased area of patrols and the Russian's build up of arms is approaching Cold War levels, and signals the increasingly competitive and uneasy relationship between the U.S. and Russia. Along with increasing its patrol routes, the Russian government has been building up its number of attack submarines in its arsenal. The Putin government has "has spent billions of dollars for new classes of diesel and nuclear-powered attack submarines that are quieter, better armed and operated by more proficient crews than in the past." Russia's activity within the Western Hemisphere has increased since the beginning of he nObama Administration. Russian activity in the Western Hemisphere first began with the sale of military equipment to Venezuela that soon transitioned into the two nations participating in joint naval exercises. It was believed that the Russia decision to launch the exercise came after the U.S. announced it would be reforming the 4th fleet to patrol the Caribbean... http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/russian-naval-expansion-threatens-us-influence-in-the-western-hemisphere?f=must_reads
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Palestinians: When in Doubt, Try Intimidation
Khaled Abu Toameh
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{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ Succumbing to Palestinian intimidation, Jordan has dropped its plan to install surveillance cameras at the Haram Al-Sharif (Noble Sanctuary), or Temple Mount... The cancellation of the plan is seen as a severe blow not only to Jordan, but also to U.S. Secretary of State John hanoi-Kerry, who, in October 2015, brokered the agreement to install the cameras at the site. hanoi-Kerry announced then that Jordan and Israel had agreed to round-the-clock video surveillance, with the goal of reducing tensions at the Temple Mount. Since then, however, the Palestinians, who have unleashed a wave of violent attacks on Israel in a purported response to Israeli "provocations" at the Temple Mount, have been campaigning against the plan to install the security cameras there. This week, it turned out that this campaign of intimidation was not in vain... http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/7894/palestinians-intimidation
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slump liar-Trump’s ‘Democratic Centralism’
Is Stealing The Nomination
Steve Berman
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{theresurgent.com} ~ Who is stealing the GOP nomination? It’s all a matter of perspective, isn’t it? Or is it really?
Unfortunately for supporters of Donald slump liar-Trump, the answer is: It isn’t. The GOP can’t steal the nomination from itself any more than you can steal your own wallet from your pocket.
When I was a young man, I met one of the most interesting people I’ve ever had the pleasure of knowing. He was a thin, older gentleman who owned a local hardware store, and I sold him a computer. His name was Herb Philbrick, and he was a Communist, and a spy. But he was really an FBI counterspy and informant. His autobiographical book, “I Led 3 Lives,” is out of print, but I have a well-worn copy. Sadly, Herb passed away in 1993, the relic of a bygone era.
One of the main themes Philbrick wrote about was how the Communists would take over real citizen organizations and turn them into false fronts.
When the issue was brought before the four of us for action, the Solomon brothers and Beecher all made their positions plain. They were in agreement, and they were directly opposed to my view. They rejected all programs of any kind to give military aid to Britain. I was in the opposite camp. I believed aid to Britain and her allies was urgently necessary.
“Look,” I said, thinking now of the job-training leaflet, “I appreciate how you feel, and you are entitled to your opinions. But there was a meeting of the Council ten days ago–remember?–and the opinion of the majority then was–”
“You’re crazy!” Stan Beecher seemed ready to use his usual battering-ram technique, but I was in no mood to temporize. I got on my feet to face him down.
“As chairman of the Council I can see no choice but to–”
“Sit down!” Beecher leaned forward and punctuated the order with a light but firm push against my chest which caught me off balance, and I plopped back into my chair. “Look,” he said, before I could recover myself, “the National Board of the American Youth Congress has already decided to go ahead. We got no choice but to send in our hundred-per-cent approval.”
“You’re confusing the issue,” I retorted. “We’re not formally affiliated with the Youth Congress.”
“We send delegates to it, don’t we?”
“Sure, we’ve voted to send delegates to it, but I don’t see that ties us to what they do. Besides, this isn’t democratic. Our members vote one way, we vote another. How can we–“
This exchange really happened, as a Cambridge, Mass. organization was first infiltrated, then taken over by Communists. A page later, after some argument, Philbrick wrote this:
His line of reasoning flashed on a light in a far corner of my brain. What was it called, this method of thinking? The Communists had a word for it–democratic centralism? The top policy makers establish the “line” on a particular issue and pass it down through channels to the mob. They agree with it, rubber-stamp it, and pass it back. The policy makers than call it “the will of the people.” Democratic centralism, that was it. Communist democracy.
My mind was suddenly clear–bitterly clear. The answer to all my doubts and questions became apparent. I had walked into a cleverly laid trap. One of the founders and the first chairman of the Cambridge Youth Council–in fact the Council itself–was nothing but a front for the plans and programs of a few behind-the-scenes operators.²
If you’re a slump liar-Trump supporter, you’ll see the GOP “Establishment” as the “top policy makers” subverting the “will of the people” to their aims. But the GOP, as much as its top dogs might want to influence policy and candidates, is truly a political party where the grassroots ultimately hold the power.
When I say “ultimately,” I mean that seismic shifts in the Republican Party don’t happen in one election cycle, or one flip of a more centrist incumbent to a more right-wing conservative. When I say “ultimately,” I mean we go through wildernesses with John McCains and Mitt Romneys as the expression of our party’s hopes, only to see them dashed at the polls because we held our noses to select these men.
But over time, candidates like Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz make their way into the power structure where they are able to mount real campaigns on real issues. Even Jeb Bush did his yeoman’s work in the GOP, as well as Chris Christie, Scott Walker, and even Lindsey Graham. There may be a vast conspiracy to place candidates on the ballot against the grassroots, but if it exists, it’s monumentally incompetent–or we’d be seeing Jeb Bush leading right now.
Raw outsiders are to be viewed with suspicion. It’s supposed to work that way. The party’s job is to protect the integrity and platform of its members. It’s not the GOP that’s stealing the nomination from Donald slump liar-Trump, it’s Donald slump liar-Trump is who attempting to use the GOP as a front organization for his own “democratic centralism.”
In 2000, the U.S. Supreme Court held that California’s Proposition 198, to create a “blanket primary,” violated the parties’ First Amendment right of free association. In California Democratic Party v. Jones, Justice Scalia wrote the opinion in the 7-2 ruling.
In no area is the political association’s right to exclude more important than in the process of selecting its nominee. That process often determines the party’s positions on the most significant public policy issues of the day, and even when those positions are predetermined it is the nominee who becomes the party’s ambassador to the general electorate in winning it over to the party’s views.
When a Donald slump liar-Trump–an outsider with zero party affiliation–seeks the nomination of the GOP, coming with his own brand of voters, who agree with his policies, his opinions, and his way to “Make America Great Again™,” those voters don’t necessarily represent the views, platform, or policy of the Republican Party. The party has its own leadership, members and activists they’re called “members” at the local, state and national level. Not everything endorsed by the RNC in Washington needs to be affirmed by the local and state parties. The GOP does not operate like the Communist Party and does not practice “democratic centralism.”
The politburo in Washington doesn’t anoint a candidate for rubber-stamping by delegates in Houston County, Georgia. No, it doesn’t work that way at all.
Local delegates come from all walks of life. They show up at precinct meetings. They show up at monthly local party meetings. Even if they don’t, they make an effort and offer themselves as delegates. Delegates are not selected by local “party bosses.” The county party meets and selects delegates, by nomination and election democratic processes, to send to the district conventions. This happens in every state, except for states where delegates are voted in directly like Pennsylvania and Michigan.
There’s no “master list” of delegates approved by Chairman Priebus and some star chamber in Washington. It doesn’t work that way. But slump liar-Trump would like voters to believe it does. The reality is that slump-Trump has benefited from GOP delegate rules, and his delegate allocation exceeds the proportional primary votes cast for him. You don’t hear slump liar-Trump complaining about that.
The GOP has a right and a responsibility as a national political party to vet its candidates against “the most significant public policy issues of the day.” Donald slump liar-Trump and his supporters, conversely, have no right to overthrow the party’s right of association and self-determination by imposing its own brand of “democratic centralism.”
When slump liar-Trump threatens that the Republican National Convention in July will “be rough” if he is not the nominee, or tweets absolute falsehoods like this:
He is not advancing the cause of real democracy and republicanism as practiced in the United States. It’s more reminiscent of the old Soviet Union, to be honest.
The GOP should properly reject an outsider who seeks to hijack the party and make it his personal front group. If slump liar-Trump wants to win the hearts and minds of America, he needs to start by winning the hearts and minds of the party he chose to run under. If he never intended to do that, he has no business demanding the nomination, or anything else, from the GOP.
http://theresurgent.com/trumps-democratic-centralism-is-stealing-the-nomination/
The Front Page Cover
2016 The truth will set you free
Featuring:
slump liar-Trump Wuz Robbed
Rich Lowry
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A Good Night for Bad Candidates
Donald slump liar-Trump has spent much of the last week complaining about how "phony," "unfair," "rigged" and "crooked" the primary process was in Colorado (among a few other states). But just because he didn't bother trying to play by the rules — or even knowing what the rules are — doesn't make them unfair. So it was rich to hear him boast after his blowout New York victory, "It is really nice to win the delegates with the votes. ... Nobody should take delegates and claim victory unless they get those delegates with voters and voting." Except that slump liar-Trump took 60% of the vote and 96% of the delegates. Indeed, slump liar-Trump has won more delegates than his share of the vote in 23 states. And overall, his 38% of the vote has netted him 47% of the delegates. How is that "fair"? He certainly isn't complaining about the rules when they benefit him.
We're being facetious to illustrate his hypocrisy. States set election rules, as proscribed by the Constitution. If some are winner-take-all, or winner-take-most, or proportionate, or use another process, that is for the people of that state to decide. Not Donald slump liar-Trump.
A couple of other pointed notes: For all his bluster about winning, New York marks the first time out of 34 states to vote so far that slump liar-Trump has actually won a majority of the votes. And he lost his native Manhattan to John Kasich.
On the Democrat side, Hilly Clinton won big in her adopted home state, further cementing her likely nomination. The amusing thing is Clinton's win broke a streak of eight straight defeats, and it comes as her overall popularity is tanking and Sanders has caught her in national polling. The only person more widely disliked than Clinton is slump liar-Trump. The latter still has a rough path to the nomination, but if he wins, both parties will be fielding very unpopular nominees. The general election should be quite entertaining. -The Patriot Post
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Bill Nye 'The Straw Man Guy'
So Bill Nye, the elementary "Science Guy" (we prefer the more accurate phrase "Science Lie"), is taking on Patriot Post contributor and veteran meteorologist Joe Bastardi. Posing with a fabricated hard copy of a Post publication in his latest video, Nye responds directly to Bastardi's November column, "Some Questions for Bill Nye Six Years After Our 'O'Reilly Factor' Debate." Nye's challenge? "Mr. Bastardi, I will bet you $10,000. I predict that the year 2016 will be among the top ten hottest years ever recorded. ... I'll take it up a notch. I'll bet you another $10,000 that the decade 2010-2020 will prove to be the hottest decade ever recorded."
Bastardi has been quite public about forecasting a warm 2016 since last year. Nye is apparently unaware of this, so he resorted to a straw man. Why would Joe bet against his own forecast? Note also that Nye did not accept Bastardi's challenge after the El Niño of 2010. Bottom line: The El Niño spike was predicted well in advance. Isn't it ironic that Nye is responding to the piece several months later — once the spike occurred as forecasted? He should take the $20,000 he would have lost after 2010 and put it toward helping feed starving people, or the homeless — either is a far more pressing problem. Nobody denies that the climate is changing — in fact, with every breath you exhale, it changes. But on the assumption that global temperatures are warming, the question is, "Why is the climate changing?" Bastardi addresses that question here.
Nye calls Joe a "climate change denier," which is the Left's catch-all moniker for those who do not attribute "global warming" exclusively to human activity, or advocate the ecofascist prescriptions for dealing with that change. Recall that when global cooling trends challenged the "global warming" rhetoric of Al Gore and his ecofascists, they adopted the ubiquitous alternative "climate change," which can encompass the whole range of climate phenomena — colder, hotter, wetter, dryer, calmer, stormier, etc. Of course, the Left's real underlying political agenda is not about "climate change" at all, but big government control. The real deniers are those who refuse to recognize that the sun, the earth, stochastic events and the very design of the system far outweigh the effects of the increase of one molecule of CO2 out of every 10,000 molecules of air over a 100-year period.
On a final note, Mr. Conservationist printed a faux paper copy of The Patriot Post, which is an online publication. What a waste! Consider all the CO2 that did not get absorbed because a poor tree was butchered for a "climate change" prop. -The Patriot Post
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In Apparent Hoax, Man Accuses Whole Foods
In Apparent Hoax, Man Accuses Whole Foods
of Discrimination In the ongoing showdown between cake bakers and the Rainbow Mafia, a homosexual pastor in Austin, Texas, accused Whole Foods of decorating a cake with a slur degrading the "LGBT community." Jordan Brown asked for the store's cake decorator to write "Love Wins," the prevailing slogan of the same-sex marriage crowd, across the top of the cake. According to a video Brown created, the decorator decided to add the word "Fag" to the confectionery. Brown claimed he didn't see the offending message when he bought the cake, only discovering it when he arrived at his car. Instead of taking the cake back, however, Brown brought it home. After receiving an unsatisfactory reply from the store, the man decided to sue the store for discrimination. As The Washington Post notes, Brown belongs to the Austin Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce, an organization whose mission is "keeping gay money within the gay-supportive community."
Quickly, people started calling Brown's accusation a hoax. The color of the frosting and handwriting between the phrases "Love Wins" and "Fag" were different, for one. Then Whole Foods responded. "After a deeper investigation of Mr. Brown's claim, we believe his accusations are fraudulent and we intend to take legal action against both Mr. Brown and his attorney," the company said in a statement. It even released surveillance video of Brown's purchase, and noted that the person who decorated Brown's cake "is a part of the LGBTQ community."
If Brown pranked himself, it only highlights attention-seeking narcissism, which is pervasive in the community of people with the gender disorientation pathology. -The Patriot Post
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nObama Threatens to Veto Bill Meant to
Improve Integrity of IRS
Trey Sanchez
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{truthrevolt.org} ~ President nObama issued a veto threat this week to one of four Republican bills that are meant to improve the integrity of the Internal Revenue Service... Three of the bills were picked apart and deemed "unnecessary" in a statement released Monday by the Office of Management and Budget: The Administration opposes H.R. 1206, the No Hires for the Delinquent IRS Act; H.R. 4890, the IRS Bonuses Tied to Measurable Metrics Act; and H.R. 3724, the Ensuring Integrity in the IRS Workforce Act of 2015. These bills would impose unnecessary constraints on the Internal Revenue Service's (IRS) operations without improving the agency's ability to administer the tax code and serve taxpayers...
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nObama Admin Awards $270K to
Terror-Tied Islamic Charity
Pamela Geller
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{pamelageller.com} ~ The nObama administration has awarded $270,000 to an Islamic charity that has been outlawed by some governments for its support of the terror group Hamas and other jihadist organizations, according to grant documents... The Department of Health and Human Services has provided a $270,000 grant to Islamic Relief Worldwide, a charity that has repeatedly been linked to terrorism financing and support for Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood, according to recent grant information. The grant was awarded as part of a larger project to provide health services in Nairobi, Kenya, through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, according to the grant...Group has been outlawed in Israel and UAE for supporting Hamas. http://pamelageller.com/2016/04/obama-admin-awards-270k-to-terror-tied-islamic-charity.html/
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Earth Day review: Polls on environmental issues
and the Flint water crisis
Karlyn Bowman & Eleanor O'Neil
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{aei.org} ~ Each year since 1994, the Pew Research Center has asked about priorities for the President and Congress. Of the eighteen issues Pew examined in early 2016, 47 percent said “protecting the environment” should be a top priority... The issue ranked low—thirteenth of 18 issues the pollsters examined. Nor do the polls this year suggest that the environment or global warming will be important election issues for most Americans. To take just one recent survey, when the Kaiser Family Foundation asked people to volunteer the issue that would be most important to their vote, 1 percent volunteered the environment/global warming. The top issue, mentioned by 15 percent of those surveyed, was the economy. These low rankings don’t mean that Americans no longer care about the environment. Having a clean and healthful environment is a core value for most people. What the responses probably tell us is that Americans think policymakers, regulators, and activists are paying sufficient attention to environmental issues and that they want them to turn their attention to more pressing concerns. Since the 2008 financial crash and recession, those issues have been mainly economic, followed by concerns about terrorism and health care... http://www.aei.org/publication/earth-day-review-polls-on-environmental-issues-and-the-flint-water-crisis/?utm_source=paramount&utm_medium=email&utm_content=AEITODAY&utm_campaign=042116
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Behind Brazil’s corruption crisis is a
deeper socialist disaster
Roger F. Noriega
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Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff
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{aei.org} ~ The looming impeachment of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff is about more than cooking the books to hide election-year spending or looting the state-owned oil company for her campaigns and cronies... What’s really on trial are Rousseff’s socialist policies. Those policies drove up deficits to win votes, bet too heavily on exports to China and not only failed to retool the world’s ninth-largest economy to compete in the world but drove it into a recession. Rousseff was first elected in 2010 on the coattails of her mentor Luiz Inácio “Lula” da Silva — a leftist labor leader who exceeded expectations as president from 2003-2011. Da Silva benefited from the windfall of revenue from exports of oil, natural gas, minerals and agriculture goods — which convinced him that his bloated anti-poverty programs were sustainable...
http://www.aei.org/publication/behind-brazils-corruption-crisis-is-a-deeper-socialist-disaster/?utm_source=paramount&utm_medium=email&utm_content=AEITODAY&utm_campaign=042116
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Cruz: If you vote for slump liar-Trump, just put a Hilly bumper sticker on your car
Sara Gonzales
Sara Gonzales
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{redstate.com} ~ Ted Cruz wasn’t fazed by the New York primary results during a radio interview Wednesday morning on the Chris Stigall show. Cruz pointed out that everyone expected slump liar-Trump to win New York, so Tuesday night was not a shocker... He also reminded voters that there is a reason Washington doesn’t like him, because he answers to his constituents instead of DC cronies. They can’t control him, so they hate him. This is an important point he is driving home- some outlets have tried to “expose” his colleagues’ contempt for him as some kind of downfall, personally I see it as the exact opposite. Honestly, why would a conservative voter would place any weight on what Mitch McCon-nell and company has to say? Anything highlighting Cruz’s contention with the Republican establishment only serves to bolster his credibility. I mean, it could be worse, he could have been funding the Washington machine for decades. But no one could ever win the nomination with that kind of sketchy, well-documented past…right? Cruz really was on fire during the entire interview, highlighting the stark differences between himself and slump liar-Trump, speaking about the importance of Pennsylvania, and also added towards the end of his interview... http://www.redstate.com/saragonzales/2016/04/21/cruz-vote-trump-just-put-hillary-bumper-sticker-car-audio/?utm_source=rsmorningbriefing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl
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U.S. Supreme Court to Iranian Bank: Pay up
William A. Jacobson
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{legalinsurrection.com} ~ The Supreme Court upheld a law which paved the way for terror victims to recover damages from Iran. The Opinion is here... The legal issue was not terrorism, but whether Congress exceeded its authority. Here’s the opening of Justice Ginsburg’s majority opinion: A provision of the Iran Threat Reduction and Syria Human Rights Act of 2012, 22 U. S. C. §8772, makes available for post judgment execution a set of assets held at a New York bank for Bank Markazi, the Central Bank of Iran. The assets would partially satisfy judgments gained in separate actions by over 1,000 victims of terrorist acts sponsored by Iran. The judgments remain unpaid. Section 8772 is an unusual statute: It designates a particular set of assets and renders them available to satisfy the liability and damages judgments underlying a on solidated enforcement proceeding that the statute identifies by the District Court’s docket number. The question raised by petitioner Bank Markazi: Does §8772 violate the separation of powers by purporting to change the law for, and directing a particular result in, a single pending case? Section 8772, we hold, does not transgress constraints placed on Congress and the President by the Constitution… http://legalinsurrection.com/2016/04/u-s-supreme-court-to-iranian-bank-pay-up/?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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Senators Demand hanoi-Kerry Obey Law &
Stop Funding of U.N. Climate Convention
Jeff Dunetz
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{lidblog.com} ~ Twenty-eight Republican senators have sent a letter to Secretary of State John hanoi-Kerry demanding he follow the law and prohibit funding for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)... The law in question is the 1994 Foreign Relations Authorization Act, which bars funding of “any affiliated organization of the United Nations which grants full membership as a state to any organization or group that does not have the internationally recognized attributes of statehood.” On March 17th of this year, the UNFCCC granted full membership to the nonexistent state of Palestine. “We request that you ensure that no disbursements of U.S. funds are made to the UNFCCC and its related entities after March 17, 2016. We believe that your failure to do so will constitute a violation of current law.” The senators say the UNFCCC’s decision to allow Palestinians to seek statehood recognition through a means other than direct negotiations with Israel undermines efforts to achieve a peace agreement... http://lidblog.com/senators-demand-kerry-obey-law-stop-funding-of-u-n-climate-convention/?utm_source=The+Lid+List&utm_campaign=63eaafbe79-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_597b72c01c-63eaafbe79-291705165
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Proof Clinton Lied about Benghazi, Phone Call
Catches Her Admitting Her Lie!
Onan Coca
Onan Coca
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{eaglerising.com} ~ Hilly Clinton is giving her Democrat supporters another opportunity to ignore her disgustingly lawless behavior. The hard working folks at Judicial Watch have finally pried a few more closely guarded documents from the cold, dead grasp of the federal government... The nObama State Department did their best to keep Clinton’s lies a secret, but a Judicial Watch lawsuit finally forced their hand. The latest forms uncovered prove unequivocally that Hilly Clinton has been repeatedly lying to the American people about what happened in the aftermath of the Muslim terrorist attack in Benghazi. The just released documents contain a transcript of Secretary Hilly Clinton’s phone conversation with then-Egyptian Prime Minister Hisham Kandil. During their conversation Clinton states that our government “knows” that the attack had nothing to do with the YouTube video and that it was indeed an attack and not a protest... http://eaglerising.com/32665/bombshell-proof-clinton-lied-about-benghazi-phone-call-catches-her-admitting-her-lie/
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The Truth About WMDs in Iraq
Natalie Myers
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{punchingbagpost.com} ~ Sarin gas, mustard gas, enough yellowcake for 100 nukes. Years after his presidency ended, George W. Bush is still criticized by the media and public for his so-called lies that led to the invasion of Iraq... The left has claimed that Bush fabricated a story about Saddam Hussein having an active weapons of mass destruction program in Iraq as a way to gain permission to launch an a war in Iraq. The source who state Iraq was interested in buy Uranium was discredited, and uproar ensued. The fact is, in an under-reported story in 2008, about 550 metric tons of yellowcake concentrated uranium was shipped out of Iraq. This massive amount of uranium is believed to be the last existing part of Hussein’s nuclear program within the country... http://punchingbagpost.com/the-truth-about-wmds-in-iraq
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House Committee Documents Suggest
Baby Parts Being Sold for Profit
Jeff Dunetz
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{mrctv.org} ~ The issue of Planned Parenthood's sale of baby parts for profit became a major issue this past summer when the pro-life Center for Medical Progress (CMP) released a series of videos... revealing executives of the country's largest abortion mill discussing and negotiating with prospective buyers who were really actors. Ever since, pro-abortion advocates have been defending Planned Parenthood with claims that the videos were edited. One pro-abortion Senate candidate in California named Kamala Harris, who is presently the state's Attorney General, ordered a raid of the home of CMP founder David Daleiden and seized videos that hadn't yet been published. Thanks to an investigation by the House Select Investigative Panel on Infant Lives, a sub-group of the Energy and Commerce Committee, CMP may be vindicated. Chaired by Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), the committee held a hearing on Wednesday interviewing witnesses to determine, as their mission statement says, "whether abortion clinics and middleman businesses were making a profit from the transfer of human fetal tissue" Prior to the meeting, however, the committee released documents that explain how the sales were made and seem to indicate that baby parts were sold for profit... http://www.mrctv.org/blog/
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slump liar-Trump Wuz Robbed
Rich Lowry
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{politico.com} ~Give Donald slump liar-Trump credit for planning ahead. He is preparing to be a sore loser.
slump liar-Trump’s complaints that he is being undone by a rigged system crafted by a corrupt Republican Party is the dress rehearsal for his campaign’s closing argument should it come up short in Cleveland. slump liar-Trump will, in his telling, have been stabbed in the back by insiders and be fully justified in wreaking a terrible revenge on the party that he briefly sought to lead.
Facts and logic don’t particularly matter to slump liar-Trump or his mouthpieces, yet the “rigged” charge is absurd even by the standards of his standard-less campaign.
Colorado occasioned the latest slump liar-Trump fusillade. Listening to him, you would think that the state is run by a cross of the Pendergast Machine and Tammany Hall which voted more people than existed in the voting population of New York City in one period of the 19th century. Colorado’s offense against fairness and decency was Ted Cruz winning all of its delegates in the same caucus system it has used for years.
The only change in the state, implemented back in August, before many people took slump liar-Trump seriously, was canceling its presidential preference poll, which didn’t have any role in binding delegates anyway.
The Colorado system — precinct caucuses electing delegates to district and state assemblies, where they are selected for the national convention — isn’t undemocratic. But it rewards a different, more demanding and engaged sort of participation than a primary.
An accent on grass-roots organizing is not, by the way, a hallmark of establishment politics. In fact, it is the opposite. The classic conservative insurgent excels at organizing as a means to bypass the party’s gatekeepers and to make up for a lack of resources and media attention. Although the Cruz campaign is well-funded, it has the grass-roots DNA of this kind of insurgency, which it began as, and, in significant respects, still is.
Its success at the delegate-selection game is a testament to its ability to connect with and organize the party’s activists, rather than to any unfair advantages lent it by the establishment. If the Republican race had developed along more conventional lines as a razor-tight Cruz-Jeb Bush fight, surely Cruz would be trying to pick Bush’s delegate pocket, and with some success, just the way he is picking slump liar-Trump’s now.
For understandable reasons, slump liar-Trump would prefer that every contest be an open primary. The Republican calendar has plenty of those. But it has other varieties of contests as well, reflecting the different histories and characteristics of the state parties. The diverse, patchwork system forces a candidate to demonstrate strength all over the geographical map and in myriad ways.
If slump liar-Trump is a master at message and free media — both driven by his outsize personality — the delegate game has exposed his campaign’s rank inferiority to Cruz’s. The Cruz team built for the long haul and learned the rules. Whereas slump liar-Trump’s campaign is in the midst of messy retooling, turning to a longtime Washington fixer to right the ship, Cruz’s campaign hasn’t had a whisper of dissension, let alone had to go to bat for a staffer arrested for battery of a female reporter.
For all of slump liar-Trump’s complaints, the nomination system was set up to favor the front-runner and get him over the top as soon as possible. It is a symptom of slump liar-Trump’s weakness that, even as he romped through the first couple of months of the race and accumulated delegates out of proportion to his popular vote about 45 percent of the delegates on 37 percent of the vote, he still might fall short of 1,237.
Still, the whining serves several slump liar-Trump purposes. It feeds his psychological compulsion to never admit he’s been beaten or outmaneuvered; it creates something for the media to chew on until he runs away with the New York primary next week; and it sets the predicate for his argument at a convention it’d be “unfair” if he didn’t get the nomination, and, more importantly, for ditching the party if he loses.
It is hard to think of a major presidential candidate, let alone a front-runner, who has ever had so little regard for the unity or interests of his own party or is so clearly preparing to bring it down, like Samson at the temple of Dagon, if it doesn’t bend to his will. slump liar-Trump is in open conflict with RNC chairman Reince Priebus and doing all he can to delegitimize the GOP in the eyes of his voters.
slump liar-Trump portrays himself as a perpetual winner yet also cultivates a sense of aggrieved victimhood that is clearly part of his appeal to his supporters. Most unsuccessful candidates seek to avoid the appearance of being a sore loser, no matter what their true feelings. In another departure from the rules of politics, slump liar-Trump would embrace the role with gusto. His signature line would go from Make America Great Again to We Wuz Robbed.
By Craig Andresen Right Side Patriots http://www.americanpbn.com/
For the love of Pete.
We have a gaggle of brain dead celebrities, and equally brain dead politicians who just can’t tolerate the most basic toilet etiquette.
Because some states have passed into law, statutes which require men to use the men’s room and women to use the women’s room, liberal moonbats are coming unglued left and…left.
What’s going on here is stupid on more than one level.
First of all…we need LAWS regarding who should be peeing where? SERIOUSLY? It’s become so much of a problem, like people who tend to use their toasters in the shower for which we have safety stickers telling us not to…that we now need LAWS, passed by individual states, telling us which bathrooms we are supposed to use?
Apparently so, but…
As Cruz-mania skyrockets exciting millions, I still get emails from professed Christians ripping me to shreds for choosing Cruz over Trump. These anti-Cruz Christians dig deep, coming up with reasons so weak not to choose Cruz that they equal saying Cruz took another kid's candy when he was seven. Then, they fall back on rehashing Cruz's eligibility.Frankly, anti-Cruz Christians have me scratching my head. Clearly, these Christians are willing to overlook all of Mr. Trump's shortcomings, anti-Christian political positions and liberal leanings.Meanwhile, they “passionately” leave no stone unturned, relentless in their attempts to discredit and disqualify the only presidential candidate with a proven record of faithfully standing up for Godly principles and values. What is up with that?A highly respected theologian used Romans 1:18-32 as the text for his sermon. The verses speak of people so stubborn and in love with their sin that God turned His back on them; giving them over to reprobate minds.The theologian asserts that our nation has become so evil that God has turned His back, abandoning America. Unarguably, wickedness is reigning supreme, unchallenged everywhere you look in America. Religious freedom in America is under assault like never before; Christians jailed for not embracing behaviors which God calls abominations.Romans 1:18-32 not only condemns certain behaviors, it expresses God's wrath against those who “approve of those who practice them.” I thought, “Whoa, by demanding that believers speak approvingly of what God calls sin, government is mandating that Christians defy God, subjecting themselves to His wrath.” Could you imagine a day would come in America when Christians would be persecuted for not placing government's authority above God's?God calls Christians to be salt; to make a difference in our world. Sadly, far too many churches are silent regarding sin, afraid of financial loss and federal government retaliation. Some churches tolerate everything in the name of love. “...if the salt loses its saltiness...it is no longer good for anything...” Matthew 5:13.Then there are Christians who believe we have already lost America's culture war, causing them to concede social issues. They ignore their selected presidential candidate praising and supporting Planned Parenthood; exposed as a dead-baby-body-parts-chop-shop for profit; intact heads selling at a premium. These Christians are willing to turn a blind eye to PP's horrors; put the issue of Americans killing over 3,000 babies per day on the back burner. Yeah, that's what Jesus would do.Cruz is the only GOP presidential contender who believes social issues are a priority; vital to who we are as a nation.Ted Cruz has a long history of defending religious liberty on numerous occasions including defeating atheists who sued to tear down a cross from a veterans' memorial.Decades of allowing the anti-Christian movement to go unchallenged has many Americans flat-out afraid of having a man of God in the Oval Office. Countless movies and TV shows portray Christians as over-the-top fanatics, haters and whackos.Ironically, America was founded upon a foundation of Christian principles and values, which have made America great and exceptional. Flipping through TV channels confirms how far off-the-rails our nation has fallen folks.
Anti-Christian zealots, typically liberals, love to point out the shortcomings of those professing Christianity. Liberals despise behavioral standards of morality, which explains their visceral hatred for Christianity. Liberals absurdly claim that unless you can walk-on-water, you have no right to espouse behavioral standards.Well, Christianity “ain't” about being perfect or doing enough good works to outweigh one's bad. Christianity is about repentance and totally trusting Jesus to get into heaven. Surrendering one's life to Christ gives them a heart for God. They desire and strive to do the right thing, though they fail repeatedly. “The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.” Matthew 26:41Ted Cruz does not profess perfection. The man was wise enough to realize that he is a sinner in need of a savior, Jesus. He surrendered his life to Christ. “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.” Proverbs 9:10History chronicles that people have suffered severely when ruled by leaders who believe there is no power above theirs. “When the righteous thrive, the people rejoice; when the wicked rule, the people groan.” Proverbs 29:2Another liberal position has me scratching my head. Islamist believe their faith permits them to kill a disobedient wife and behead homosexuals. Islam advocates violence against non-believers (infidels).
“Fight those who believe not in Allah...” Qur'an 9:29And yet, liberals passionately defend and protect Muslims while throwing everything including the kitchen sink at Christians; claiming that Christianity is the archenemy of women and homosexuals. Christianity says, “...with loving-kindness have I drawn thee.” Jeremiah 31:3
What is up with liberals' not seeing the obvious contrast between the religion they hate and the one they demand that Americans respect? Obama's DOJ vows to jail anyone speaking badly about Islam.I am voting for Ted Cruz, the only candidate I know will fight the Left's relentless insidious quest to turn our nation away from God. I pray that the theologian's scary sermon is wrong; that it is not too late – that God has not abandoned America.
“If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land.” 2 Chronicles 7:14God bless, LloydLloyd Marcus, The Unhyphenated AmericanChairman: The Conservative Campaign CommitteeLloydMarcus.comThe Front Page Cover
2016 The truth will set you free
Featuring:
Winners or Whiners?
Thomas Sowell
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Taxpayer Assistance for Deportees
A U.S. government agency gives out $50,000 a year to Salvadorians who were deported back to their country so they can start businesses there. Can anyone say government waste? As Fox News' James Rosen reports, even the Small Business Administration doesn't provide that kind of assistance. SBA only provides loan guarantees for entrepreneurs looking to start small businesses — the things that grow our economy, maybe even provide some jobs. However, the Inter-American Foundation, an independent agency founded to hand out aid to countries below our southern borders, distributes taxpayer cash to Salvadorians who were caught breaking our immigration laws. The thinking is that the seed money will encourage Salvadorians to start their own businesses, become established in their home country and never make the trek back to the States. It's all well and good until the local cartel hits up those fledgling enterprises for protection money, or a deportee takes the cash and the business never materializes. This redistribution program was highlighted in Sen. Rand Paul's recent report on government waste.
The news also comes just as IRS Commissioner John Koskinen told the Senate his agency doesn't care if illegal aliens use borrowed or stolen Social Security numbers to pay taxes — as long as the tax revenue keeps flowing. The problem is that more tax revenue flows out than in because Democrats, Washington bureaucrats and all the other 'crats want to normalize illegal immigrants to make anything short of amnesty politically impossible. -The Patriot Post
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Nine Gitmo Prisoners Granted Refuge by Instigator
of 9/11 The prisoner population at Guantanamo Bay was shrunk for the umpteenth time this weekend after nine Yemeni nationalists were transferred to Saudi Arabia to begin life anew. USA Today says "it was the first time the royal kingdom agreed to take in non-citizens from Guantanamo." Just 80 detainees are all who now stand in the way of Barack nObama achieving his goal of shuttering the facility, and a quarter of them have arrangements to be transferred.
nObama has a well-documented history of recklessly freeing Gitmo prisoners, but this one is especially difficult to swallow. "The timing of this latest release is curious considering the recent uproar over the so-called 'secret 9/11 papers' which ... implicate Saudi officials in the 9/11 terror attacks," notes Larry O'Connor.
It's even more chilling when we digest it from a historical perspective. Here's Fox News analyst Ralph Peters writing in The New York Post:
Firm figures are elusive, but estimates are that the Saudis fund up to 80% of American mosques, at least in part. And their goal is the same here as it is elsewhere in the world where Islam must compete with other religions: to prevent Muslims from integrating into the host society. ... Consider how idiotic we've been, allowing Saudis to fund hate mosques and madrassas, to provide Jew-baiting texts and to do their best to bully American Muslims into conformity with their misogynistic, 500-lashes worldview. ... Decades ago, the Saudi royal family realized it had a problem. Even its brutal practices weren't strict enough for its home-grown zealots. So the king and his thousands of princes gave the budding terrorists money — and aimed them outside the kingdom. Osama bin Laden was just one extremist of thousands. The 9/11 hijackers were overwhelmingly Saudi. The roots of the jihadi movements tearing apart the Middle East today all lie deep in Wahhabism.
Some kind of "ally" we've got there. O'Connor adds, "The president's priorities are clear: Empty Gitmo at all costs, even if it means handing terrorists over to a government that may have been complicit in the most devastating terror attacks in American history." We've been duped — and not just by the Saudis.
-The Patriot Post
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OPINION IN BRIEF
Stephen Moore: "[L]eftists care more about the supposed rise of the oceans than the financial survival of the middle class. The industrial unions made a catastrophic decision to get in bed with these radicals, and now they — and all of us — are paying a heavy price. The latest evidence came last week when another coal giant in America, Peabody Energy Corp., filed for bankruptcy. This is the same fate suffered by Arch Coal Inc., Alpha Natural Resources Inc. and other coal producers that have filed for Chapter 11 protection from creditors. This isn't a result of free-market creative destruction. This was a policy strategy by the White House and green groups. They wanted this to happen. ... America is the Saudi Arabia of coal; we have an estimated 500 years' supply. So for economic and ecological reasons, we should want American coal to dominate the world market. But the environmentalists' rallying cry is: 'Keep it in the ground.' Do liberals care that the demise of coal could lead to major disruptions in America's electric power supply? ... Perhaps the millennials will realize their mistake when they won't be able to power up their PlayStations, iPhones and laptops." -The Patriot Post
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Hilly Clinton Is ‘Utterly Corrupt,’
‘Incompetent,’ ‘Soulless’
David Rutz
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{freebeacon.com} ~ Feminist Camille Paglia unloaded on Hilly Clinton during an interview with Spiked last week, calling her incompetent, corrupt and soulless... Asked by Ella Whelan if she had to choose between Clinton and Donald slump-Trump in a general election, Paglia quickly said she would simply not vote for either candidate, adding she would either write in Sen. Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.) or the Green Party’s Jill Stein. The clip was flagged by The Federalist. “I feel Hilly Clinton is utterly corrupt,” she said. “Her current positions on the campaign trail have been just co-opted from what Bernie Sanders was saying, because her poll testing told her that that’s where the party was. I think she’s absolutely soulless. I think she’s incompetent.”... http://freebeacon.com/politics/paglia-hillary-clinton-corrupt-incompetent-soulless/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=b3e952a4c7-WFB_Morning_Beacon_04_19_164_18_2016&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-b3e952a4c7-45611665
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China Flight Tests New
Multiple-Warhead Missile
Bill Gertz
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{freebeacon.com} ~ China conducted another flight test of its newest and longest-range intercontinental ballistic missile last week amid growing tensions with the United States over the South China Sea... Pentagon officials told the Free Beacon the flight test of the new road-mobile DF-41 missile took place Tuesday with two multiple, independently targetable reentry vehicles, or MIRVs, that were monitored in flight by U.S. military satellites and other regional sensors. Officials did not say where the test took place. Past DF-41 launches were carried out from the Wuzhai Missile and Space Test Center in central China. The latest flight test followed an earlier, rail-based canister ejection test of a DF-41 on Dec. 5... http://freebeacon.com/national-security/china-flight-tests-multiple-warhead-missile/?utm_source=Freedom%20Mail&utm_campaign=b3e952a4c7-WFB_Morning_Beacon_04_19_164_18_2016&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-b3e952a4c7-45611665
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An Emerging Defense Budget Deal?
Peter Huessy
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{aim.org} ~ Last October I wrote a budget essay for FSM about the broken budget process and what could be done to fix it. An update is necessary... The American public is understandably fed up and this is in large part due to Washington’s inability to pass fiscally responsible budgets. What does that mean? Simple. The administration and Congress almost always wait until the end of the year to agree to a budget. With a filibuster rule in the Senate, efforts to cut spending which 41 Senators vote to oppose will bring the government to a halt. This gives a big spending administration a lot of power...
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Something Else Clinton Is Hiding Is Enough
To Wipe Out Her Campaign
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Just what did Lloyd Blankfein, chairman and CEO of Goldman Sachs,
expect to get out of Hillary Clinton in return for the hundreds of
thousands his company paid her to speak?
expect to get out of Hillary Clinton in return for the hundreds of
thousands his company paid her to speak?
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{investors.com} ~ Election ’16: Many voters know by now that Hilly Clinton made a speech to Goldman Sachs for which she was well paid. What they don’t know is the content of the speech... They should. It might change some votes... Clinton was paid $225,000 in 2013 to speak to Goldman Sachs executives and technology chiefs at an Arizona conference. All told, she made $675,000 for three Wall Street speeches. Politico has reported that at the Arizona speech, Clinton “spent no time criticizing Goldman or Wall Street more broadly for its role in the 2008 financial crisis,” a posture that is expected of Democrats. Instead of railing against Goldman Sachs and Wall Street as Sens. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren would if they had the chance, Clinton apparently heaped praise on the company. A person who was present at one of the speeches said her remarks were “pretty glowing about us.”...
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Conservative Groups Call on Mitch McCon-nell, Paul Ryan to Not Hold a Lame-Duck Session
Leah Jessen
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{dailysignal.com} ~ A group of 75 conservative leaders want Senate Majority Leader Mitch McCon-nell, R-Ky., and House Speaker Paul Ryano, R-Wis., to promise that Congress will not hold a lame-duck session after the November elections... “At a time when the American people’s trust in their government is near an all-time low, the Republican-led Congress should demonstrate exemplary behavior by completing its work before the November elections so that voters can judge all the legislators on the basis of the votes they have cast,” conservative leaders wrote Thursday in a letter to McCon-nell and Ryano. Sent from the Conservative Action Project, the letter includes signatures from CEOs affiliated with organizations representing economic, social, and national security elements of the conservative movement. The leaders were not speaking for their organizations...
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North Korean Missile Exploded, Damaged Launcher in Failed Test
Bill Gertz
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{freebeacon.com} ~ North Korea’s first attempt to test-launch a new intermediate-range missile last week failed after the Musudan blew up shortly after launch, causing a huge fireball that damaged the mobile launcher, according to American defense officials... “We’re still assessing the specifics of it but I can tell you that it was a fiery, catastrophic attempt at a launch,” Pentagon spokesman Navy Capt. Jeff Davis told reporters Friday. “It was not successful.” The test failure on Friday represents a setback for North Korea’s largely untested long-range nuclear missile forces that include launch pad-based Taepodong-2 missiles, and two road-mobile systems, the KN-08 and Musudan. The Pentagon last month also confirmed that a newer long-range mobile missile, the KN-14, was unveiled during a recent military parade. North Korea also is developing submarine-launched nuclear missiles... http://freebeacon.com/national-security/north-korean-missile-exploded-failed/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=d0b9afe196-WFB_Morning_Beacon_04_20_164_19_2016&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-d0b9afe196-45611665
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Stop Complaining About the Primary Process if You Haven’t Done Anything to Change It
Pamela Adams
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{constitution.com} ~ When Sen. Bernard Sanders won New Hampshire and Hilly Clinton walked away with the majority of delegates, people were shocked but made some very funny “spreading the wealth around” jokes... When Sen. Ted Cruz started winning delegates at conventions in Colorado and then Wyoming, the cries of fowl play and shouts of unfairness shook the rafters. People are beside themselves because they believe it is a rigged system. If it is, it’s nobody’s fault but our own. We have sat by, asleep, voting in the same state and federal congressmen for decades, without doing any homework on our own, because we recognize their names on the ballot. We complain about the system but what have we really done to stop it? We moan and whine about the establishment running everything but what have we really done to change it?... http://constitution.com/delegate-counts-unfair-peoples-fault-ignoring-constitution/
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New directions in the Iranian and Hezbollah threat against Israel
Michael Rubin
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{aei.org} ~ Chairman Poe, Ranking Member Keating, Chairman Ros-Lehtinen, Ranking Member Deutch, and distinguished representatives, it is an honor to speak before you today about the growing threats Israel faces to its security... Israel and, for that matter, moderate Arab states across the Middle East face a growing threat from a resurgent Islamic Republic of Iran. The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) has been a game changer, but not necessarily in the way the nObama administration recognizes. To claim a decade-long deal to be a success is disingenuous simply because the JCPOA front-loaded tens of billions of dollars in unfrozen assets, sanctions relief, and new investment. On one hand, if Tehran walks away from its commitment, it will have pocketed more than 20 times the annual budget of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. On the other hand, if Iran fully complies with the JCPOA, it will be left in little more than a decade with an industrial-scale nuclear program greater than that which Pakistan possessed when it built itself a nuclear arsenal...
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United Healthcare To Pull Out Of Most nObamacare Exchanges
Jeff Dunetz
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{lidblog.com} ~ The other shoe has dropped. Last November, United Healthcare announcing they were considering exiting the nObamacare exchange marketplace because they lost almost a half a billion dollars selling nObamacare plans... Earlier this week it was announced that United Healthcare, the country’s largest insurer announced that they will pull out of Arkansas, Georgia and Michigan exchanges. Today United Healthcare announced the will indeed stop offering plans in most of the healthcare exchanges. But UnitedHealth Group hasn’t fared so well in the exchanges created in many states by the Affordable Care Act. In an earnings call with investors Tuesday, UnitedHealth Group’s CEO Stephen Hemsley said that the smaller market size, and the higher risks in the short term of those exchanges are limiting the company’s ability to continue providing services. While the company services 795,000 people through public marketplaces as of March, that number is expected to drop to 650,000 by December. “Next year we will remain in only a handful of states,” Hemsley said, adding that the company doesn’t plan to have financial exposure to any exchanges in 2017...
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Hilly's Undeniable Terror Ties
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{americanactionnews.com} ~ Right now the Saudi Arabian government is busy lobbying the United States to stop the declassification of 28 pages of the 9/11 report that may reveal that Saudi intelligence provided material support and direction to the men who carried out the terrorist attack... If those pages are declassified, it will reveal what many Americans already suspect: that Saudi Arabia is not our friend, but a dangerous enemy engaged in a covert holy war on the United States. The Saudis obviously don't want this to happen, so they're lobbying the US government to prevent the release of this information. And when the Saudis lobby the US government, they turn to one company: The Podesta Group. Here's why that's so interesting: A major Hilly Clinton campaign funder is personally lobbying on behalf of an arm of the Saudi government, federal records show... http://americanactionnews.com/articles/hillary-s-undeniable-terror-ties
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Winners or Whiners?
Thomas Sowell
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{freedomsback.com} ~ If there is one pattern that is emerging from this year’s political campaigns, it is that rhetoric beats reality — in both parties.
The biggest surprise among the Democrats is Bernie Sanders, and among the Republicans is Donald slump-Trump. Although they are each seeking to be put in charge of the nation’s government, does anyone know — or care — what their actual track record in government has been?
slump-Trump of course has no track record at all in government. If Sanders has anything to show for his many years in Congress, no one seems to know what it is. But both are great at rhetoric.
Hilly Clinton’s biggest selling point is that she has lots of “experience” in government, having been a Senator and a Secretary of State. But what she actually accomplished in those roles gets remarkably little attention.
The foreign policies under Secretary Clinton have led to one disaster after another, whether in the Middle East, in Ukraine, or in North Korea. Where are her successes?
The Republicans began this primary election campaign with a number of candidates who did have track records as governors that could have been examined, debated and critiqued. But Donald slump-Trump’s rhetoric and antics got the lion’s share of the attention. Governors Scott Walker and Bobby Jindal were gone before most people knew much of anything about their track records.
Partly this was due to the media’s obsession with Donald slump-Trump. But the public shares responsibility for the triumph of glitter over substance, because polls repeatedly showed that the public was far more attracted to the glitter.
The current angry outcries because there was no primary vote in Colorado to choose delegates, supposedly because “the system” was “rigged” against Donald slump-Trump, is only the latest sign of a widespread lack of interest in facts.
The Colorado rules were there before the time for delegates to be chosen. If Donald slump-Trump did not bother to learn those rules, or to hire people to keep on top of such things, that was his fault. But it is all too typical of slump-Trump to cover up his own lack of knowledge or understanding by making wild accusations against others and inciting the gullible.
The convention rules that require a candidate to get a majority of the delegates, in order to become the party’s nominee for President, are also nothing new. But, here again, slump-Trump and his followers are raising an outcry by saying that it would not be “fair” or “democratic” to “steal” the nomination from slump-Trump and give it to some other candidate.
First of all, it is not slump-Trump’s nomination until after he has earned it, under the rules that apply to all candidates. Nobody can “steal” what was not his in the first place.
The rules are the rules. As an old New York Yankees fan, I still have a painful memory of the 1960 World Series, where the Yankees scored 53 runs and the Pittsburgh Pirates scored 27. But the Pirates won the World Series, because the rules go by how many games were won, not how many runs were scored.
As for “undemocratic,” institutions do not exist to exalt some principle, but to carry out whatever the missions of those institutions are. In even the most democratic countries, undemocratic institutions abound.
Families are one of those institutions. In a family with 3 children and 2 adults, the children do not run the family. In a military unit, democratic decision-making on a battlefield can cost a lot more lives.
Political parties are private institutions. They exist to choose candidates they think can win elections. How they do it is their business. Nobody has a Constitutional “right” to vote to choose a party’s nominees.
A party may decide to have voters in the primaries elect delegates. But, if that method fails to turn up anyone capable of winning a majority of the delegates’ votes on the first ballot, the party can then turn to Plan B, as has happened before, long before Donald slump-Trump came along.
The time to change rules is before the game starts. If the current rules need changing, there will be four long years before the 2020 elections in which to try to create better rules. The 1960 Yankees never whined that the World Series had been “stolen” from them. They were adults who knew the rules in advance.
By Craig Andresen Right Side Patriots http://www.americanpbn.com/
Do you know who Paul Manafort is?
Donald Trump does.
Trump, we are told, always hires the best and the brightest…right? He tells us that he always surrounds himself with the best people.
We also know that Trump has hired illegal aliens to build his empire and that he hires foreign workers over American workers whenever he can. We know that while Trump hollers and screams about businesses that locate in foreign countries and how he’s going to stick them with 45% tariffs, which would start a trade war, if they don’t come back yet his signature line of high-dollar suits and his $25 dollar campaign hats are made in foreign countries.
Now, there’s something else we know.
One of the best and brightest, one of those best people Trump surrounds himself with, is his latest hire…Paul Manafort.
Donald Trump knows who Manafort is…
But do you know?
