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2016 The truth will set you free
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Twilight of American Jewry
by Caroline B. Glick
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nObama Blows Media Dog Whistle
In light of liar-Hillary Clinton's recent health episode and subsequent bed rest, Barack nObama has picked up the slack and has hit the campaign trail on her behalf. At a campaign stop in Philadelphia, nObama took the media to task for not hitting hard enough against Donald Trump. nObama said, "I'm frustrated the way this campaign is covered. Donald Trump says stuff every day that used to be considered as disqualifying for being president. And yet because he says it over and over and over again, the press just gives up and says, 'Well, yeah, you know, okay.'"
It's interesting to note that nObama chastises the Leftmedia for not being partisan enough in their coverage of the campaign. It's almost as if he were speaking to a Democrat grassroots organization. What's ironic is the fact that the mainstream press has long been heavily favorable toward Democrats and this election year is no different. Here are just a few recent examples.
First, liar-Clinton's health. On Monday night, CBS News aired a Charlie Rose interview with Bill liar-Clinton, but CBS conveniently edited out Bill's comment that liar-Hillary "frequently" had such health episodes. Why would CBS edit out liar-Clinton's remark if not to protect liar-Hillary? Other Leftmedia outlets have variously downplayed her collapse Sunday.
Second, liar-Clinton's "basket of deplorables" remark. On Tuesday, Trump's running mate Mike Pence was in Washington meeting with GOP members seeking to establish greater party unity behind Trump. The New York Times reported on this meeting, entitling its article "Mike Pence is Rebuffed as He Tries to Rally G.O.P. Leaders Over 'Deplorables.'" The article focused on Pence being put on the defensive to prove that Trump's supporters aren't a "basket of deplorables." CNN hit Pence for not calling David Duke "deplorable," even as Pence denounced Duke. The Washington Post ran an article entitled "Are some of Trump supporters 'deplorable'? Here's what the data says." The story suggests that liar-Clinton's comments about Trump supporters are actually not that far off. It concluded that upwards of 83% of Trump supporters hold "objectively 'deplorable'" views.
What nObama's comments indicate is that Democrat leadership is unnerved by that fact that Trump continues to maintain a close race despite a lot of negative press. nObama is calling on the media to push even harder against Trump and for liar-Hillary. But complaining about a lack of bias is laughable. ~The Patriot Post
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Who's Up for a Carbon Tax?
Most Beltway dwellers are notoriously oblivious to the needs of people in less affluent regions of America. Therefore most of them don't understand the importance of inflation. Take low gas prices. Taxpayer-subsidized public transit makes price swings less noticeable on the wallets of workers in large metropolitan areas and even less so for those making six-figure salaries, including your senator and representative. But for most of middle class America, the difference between spending $3 or $4 for a gallon of gasoline and $1.95 can be prodigious.
So it's hugely disappointing to see leftists exploiting low gas prices caused by the oil glut by calling for more red tape to curb driver behavior. The Washington Post editorial board laments the fact that "when oil prices sink, people worry less about conservation, no matter how environmentally desirable. In fact, higher fuel efficiency might also encourage some people to drive more than they would have otherwise, because their gas bills are lower." And though the editors believe firmly in fuel efficiency standards, lower gas prices make them less than fully effective. So why not add another disincentive in the form of a carbon tax?
"A carbon tax would put a lower ceiling on national gasoline use without more aggressive regulatory interventions," the Post writes, totally neglecting to mention that said tax is a very aggressive regulatory intervention. Hot Air's Jazz Shaw highlights a few issues: "First of all, higher gas prices disproportionately affect low income people far more than the more affluent. Wealthy citizens aren't staying up at night worrying about how much gas costs. And where are the poorer commuters going? For the vast majority of travel they are shuffling back and forth to work. ... Hourly workers of modest means have to make every penny count and if you jack up their cost of commuting they take the biggest hit. Also, gas prices aren't going to be low forever."
In a free market, competition drives innovation. But the government is going about it completely opposite by attempting to lower emissions through coercion. We're all poorer and less free as a result.
~The Patriot Post
.Judge Jeanine – FBI And DOJ Compromised
By liar-Clintons, IG Not Allowed To Inspect
by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ Bill liar-Clinton is back to using his folksy, Gomer Pyle mannerisms to try to regain the trust he and his wife never deserved to have in the first place. He told an audience as he was covering for his absent, quite ill and lying wife in Las Vegas... “After all the hullabaloo over this email deal, and you know for a year we were told ‘this is the biggest problem since the end of World War 2.” After citing distorted, irrelevant and unrelated instances where other people had used email responsibly, Predator Bill asked, “How come you only heard about liar-Hillary?” The answer that she’s the most damaging espionage criminal in American history probably won’t satisfy him, but that’s got a lot to do with it. The fact that most of the other people he’s mentioned didn’t break any laws is probably not what he’s looking for either. Judge Jeanine Pirro reminds the audience that Bill liar-Clinton is not the guy he used to be and that he was impeached for obstruction of justice as well as perjury. “So when he says what he says you have to take it with a grain of salt.”...
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Unbridled Corruption is the Hallmark
of The nObama Legacy
by Peter Mullen
by Peter Mullen
{ipatriot.com} ~ It is now clear that the touchstone of the nObama administration is not transparency and the rule of law as once proclaimed. Even Democrats acknowledge the cascading chain of events that form the basis for this conclusion... During the first two years of President nObama’s first term and the dictatorship of the Democratic Party in both congressional houses, the public was lulled into a false sense of security with the passage of nObama Care. It was the masterstroke of the consolidation of power under this administration. Almost 1/6 of the nation’s economy fell victim to government regulation. We should not forget the empty promises of, “you can keep your doctor and you can keep your plan, period”. We should not forget the promise of transparency contradicted by the Speaker of the House when she said, “you need to pass this bill in order to read it”. The vote was historical. Not one Republican voted for this bill. Health And Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sibelius was charged with implementing the plan. New regulations that violated constitutional rights were implemented despite the admonitions of legal authorities and were later overturned by the Supreme Court. The rollout of the now infamous website was predictably a “train wreck” and can now claim the title of the most costly website in history... http://ipatriot.com/unbridled-corruption-hallmark-obama-legacy/
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liar-Clinton IT Hearing No-Show
Is Red Line In The Sand Time
by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ Congressman Mark Meadows, the man responsible for the exit of former Speaker John backstabber-Boehner, may be sincere in his desire to hold liar-Clinton’s personal IT administrator and co-espionage agent Bryan Pagliano accountable... The track record for the House when it comes to defending themselves, the Constitution or the American people is pretty pathetic. In total they’re a group of cowards. Pagliano blew off and ignored a subpoena to appear before the House Oversight Committee on Tuesday. The question now becomes one of how will the House respond. In a closed-door interview with the House last year Pagliano pled the Fifth. This time around he just no-showed for a public hearing... http://rickwells.us/rep-meadows-clinton-it-hearing-no-show-is-red-line-in-the-sand-time/
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Australian Efforts to Dump
the United Nations Gain Momentum
by Alex Newman
{thenewamerican.com) ~ As the United Nations becomes increasingly radical in its assaults on liberty and national sovereignty, the movement for free nations to leave the dictator-dominated UN has now officially arrived in Australia... Speaking on the floor of Parliament in his inaugural address, newly elected Senator Malcolm Roberts with the One Nation party said Australian values were under threat from “insidious” institutions such as the unelected UN. To deal with it, he called for an “OzExit.” In a passionate defense of freedom, Roberts also blasted privately owned central banks and the incestuous relationship between global mega-banks and Big Government. The tide is already turning. Roberts said the historic Brexit vote, in which British voters decided to secede from the European Union, should be seen as a model worldwide as nations work to reclaim their sovereignty from globalist institutions. The Australian lawmaker, who represents the state of Queensland, joined a growing chorus of anti-UN voices stretching from the halls of the U.S. Congress to the Presidential Palace of the Philippines... http://www.thenewamerican.com/world-news/australia/item/24079-australian-efforts-to-dump-the-united-nations-gain-momentum
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nObama-Appointed Judge Omits ‘So Help Me God’...
by Trey Sanchez
{truthrevolt.org} ~ Five days before the 2008 election, candidate Barack nObama told an enthusiastic crowd of supporters, “We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America.”... Those prophetic words have been realized over the last eight years in more ways than one. The latest example is a judge he appointed in Washington who removed “so help me God” from the end of the naturalization oath for new citizens. The video shows Chief Judge Beryl A. Howell swearing in the new batch of Americans with the official oath yet omitting the last four words. According to the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services website, current law allows for only one exemption in the oath, that of citing religious objections to bearing arms or performing noncombatant service to the nation. There is nothing that indicates any line of the oath can be removed and still be valid under the law...
http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/watch-obama-appointed-judge-omits-so-help-me-god-naturalization-oath
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Congress investigating nObama's effort
to undermine Netanyahu
by Bob Unruh
{wnd.com} ~ A new report on Friday revealed that Congress is beginning an investigation into President nObama’s secret bankrolling of an effort to defeat Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the last election, an effort that failed... The Free Beacon reports it has obtained details about the hundreds of thousands of dollars given to a group that tried to influence Israel’s 2015 election. The probe follows an internal government report that found the State Department turned over the money, and then deleted emails from government accounts detailing the relationship with a group called OneVoice... Here we go again. http://www.wnd.com/2016/09/congress-investigating-obamas-effort-to-undermine-netanyahu/
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The "Virtuous" New Nazis
by Giulio Meotti
by Giulio Meotti
Boycotting products made by Jews, now, and then
{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ Meet the packs of new Nazis, posing as Righteousness and Virtue, pursuing new exterminationist policies against Israel and, right after that, the Jews... "In Nazi Germany," noted Brendan O'Neill in the Wall Street Journal, "it was all the rage to make one's town Judenfrei." "Now a new fashion is sweeping Europe: to make one's town or city what we might call 'Zionistfrei' -- free of the products and culture of the Jewish state. Across the Continent, cities and towns are declaring themselves 'Israel-free zones,' insulating their citizens from Israeli produce and culture. It has ugly echoes of what happened 70 years ago."... https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/8921/virtuous-new-nazis
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nObama is LITERALLY sending our Special Ops
to fight for ‘moderates’ who want to kill us
by Daniel Horowitz
{conservativereview.com} ~ It never ends. Is it too much to ask that we don’t send our brave troops into aimless quagmires full of enemy forces fighting each other with no positive outcome that fulfills our interests?... Can’t we just let our enemies fight each other? When I warned several months ago that nObama was sending our special operators into a meat-grinder, this is exactly what I meant. I guess after fighting for Iran in Iraq, including giving air cover for and sharing bases with some of the same Shia militias that blew up hundreds of U.S. soldiers, it should come as no surprise that we are now fighting for the greatest Sunni Islamist power in the region as well. After all, Recep Erdogen is the leading Muslim Brotherhood inspiration in the world...
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liar-Hillary Clinton Campaign Stealing
From Their Poorest Donors
by Jeff Dunetz
{lidblog.com} ~ liar-Hillary Clinton keeps promising to help the middle class and poor while making the rich do their “fair share.” We know that the “rich” are doing more than their fare share, and now... thanks to a report by the Observer, we also know that hypocritically, the liar-Clinton campaign is fleecing their lower-income donors. The Observer reports that the liar-Clinton’s campaign is “purposefully and repeatedly overcharging” their lower income donors by taking tiny one-shot donations and turning them into scheduled repeat donations. They are doing this to lower income donors to the website so they have the people’s credit card/debit card numbers to keep recharging. The overcharges are occurring so often that the fraud department at one of the nation’s biggest banks receives up to 100 phone calls a day from liar-Clinton’s small donors asking for refunds for unauthorized charges to their bankcards made by liar-Clinton’s campaign...I wonder if these donors going to vote for her now? http://lidblog.com/hillary-clinton-campaign-stealing-from-their-poorest-donors/
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nObama’s Latest Lie Is What Any
Tinpot Dictator Would Do
by S. Noble
{independentsentinel.com) ~ Barack nObama’s-Jeh Johnson” Department of Homeland Security has been touting numbers that suggest border patrol agents nab 80% of illegal immigrants trying to cross into America. It’s a lie... A study commissioned in 2015 by the House and Senate Appropriations Committees show that 50% of those entering illegally are successful. The report has been suppressed because according to one source, “it would ‘look bad’ and ‘help elect Donald Trump.” “The nObama administration knows that the number of illegal aliens successfully getting across the Mexican border is 158 percent higher than they are telling people,” said John Lott, president of the Crime Prevention Research Center, who is familiar with the report. “The administration has made fraudulent changes in the numbers to hide this.”... http://www.independentsentinel.com/obamas-latest-lie-is-what-any-tinpot-dictator-would-do/
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Twilight of American Jewry
by Caroline B. Glick
{jewishworldreview.com} ~ This week marked the 15th anniversary of the September 11 attacks on America. Most of us didn’t realize it at the time, but those attacks also marked the beginning of the end of the golden age of American Jewry – on both sides of the ideological divide.
Most American Jews make their home on the political Left, and together with black Americans they comprise the most loyal Democratic voting bloc. American Jews have clung to the Democratic Party despite the fact that over the past decade and a half, their position in the party has become increasingly precarious.
After the September 11 attacks, the American anti-war movement rose as a force in the party. The movement was quick to conflate its anti-Americanism with hostility for Israel. Jewish anti-war activists were forced to choose between Zionism and pacifism.
And the situation has only grown worse over time.
As Gary Gambill of the Middle East Forum wrote this week in The National Interest, since the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel was founded in 2005, its members have gone from one leftist group to another and demanded that their members embrace the cause of Israel’s destruction.
Group after group – from the feminists, to the gay rights activists, to Occupy Wall Street, to Black Lives Matter – bowed to the BDS demand. Members who refused to condemn Israel and join the call for its destruction have been booted out.
As Prof. Alan Dershowitz wrote last month, this state of affairs has brought about a situation where progressive American Jews who support Israel – that is, the majority of American Jews – are increasingly finding themselves isolated, rejected by their fellow leftists.
In his words, “Over the past several years, progressive Jews and supporters of Israel have had to come to terms with the reality that those who do not reject Israel and accept the... BDS movement’s unique brand of bigotry are no longer welcome in some progressive circles. And while both the Democratic and Republican parties have embraced the importance of the US alliance with Israel, that dynamic is under threat more so than at any point in my lifetime.”
The radicalization of the American Left has caused a radicalization of the Democratic Party. This was made clear throughout this year’s Democratic primary season and during the party’s national convention. Today, the anti-Israel Left makes up not just the Democratic grassroots but also the major donors to liar-Hillary Clinton’s campaign.
The significance of this development for American Jews cannot be overstated. Even if liar-Clinton herself doesn’t share the positions of the Bernie Sanders wing of her party, she cannot govern in defiance of its will.
And if she is elected in November, she won’t.
On the Republican side of the aisle, the situation is very different.
But it is also bad.
It isn’t that anti-Semites have taken over the party of Lincoln. To be sure, white supremacists like David Duke have made clear that they are happy to support Donald Trump. But unlike liar-Clinton and the progressives, Trump never sought nor accepted their support. Moreover, in sharp contrast to the situation on the Democrat side of the aisle, Republican support for Israel is all but unanimous.
All of the Republican primary candidates were pro-Israel to varying degrees. The GOP platform passed at the convention is the most pro-Israel document in its history.
The problem on the Republican side of the aisle then is not that the party has turned against the Jews. The problem is that a large contingent of prominent Jewish Republicans has decided to commit political suicide.
Back in the mid-1970s, disgusted by the radicalization of the Democratic Party, particularly in connection with its prosecution of the Cold War, a significant group of predominantly Jewish intellectuals led by the likes of Irving Kristol and Norman Podhoretz came to the conclusion that they could no longer maintain their loyalty to the Democratic Party – which had been their political home for decades. With the rise of Ronald Reagan on the Republican side of the aisle, these prominent Jews broke with the Democrats, called themselves neoconservatives, and cast their lot with the GOP.
Some members of this group received influential appointments in the Reagan administration. Others used their intellectual skills and their media outlets to set out the intellectual basis for much of Reagan’s foreign and economic policies.
These Jewish Republicans enjoyed a far less congenial relationship with Reagan’s successor George H.W. Bush. But all the same, by and large they remained loyal Republicans. For their efforts they were appointed to significant positions in the George W. Bush administration.
After the September 11 attacks, prominent Jewish Republicans like Bush’s deputy defense secretary Paul Wolfowitz rose to national fame as they were widely credited – and often credited themselves – with shaping Bush’s counter-terrorism policies, including his decision to overthrow the Iraqi government and to make democratizing the Islamic world the goal of his counter-terrorism strategies worldwide.
Their star rose as quickly as it fell. As the public soured on Bush’s war policies, the first to be blamed for his failures were the Jewish Republicans who had been so outspoken about their roles in shaping his policies.
Some of the criticism was substantive and deserved. Much of it was bigoted.
The Republican establishment, for its part, remained staunchly loyal to Bush’s policies. Both John McCain and Mitt Romney supported them to varying degrees during their presidential bids.
That support was not shared by Republican voters, however. Over nObama’s eight years in office, the Republican base and as well as lawmakers became increasing hostile to the democratic interventionism championed by the Bush administration and disaffected with the war in Iraq.
Seemingly unaware of the shift, the same Jewish Republican policy-makers and writers most identified in the public mind with Bush’s failures went into the 2016 race assuming that as was the case in 2008 and 2012, the party would choose a candidate that largely supported their views.
Two prominent Republican candidates, Sen. Marco Rubio and Gov. Jeb Bush, met that expectation.
But contrary to their expectations, Rubio and Bush were flops. The voters rejected them. The two candidates that secured significant support – Sen. Ted Cruz and Donald Trump, were outspoken opponents of Bush’s policies.
Rather than repeat their practice from 1992 and accept the will of their fellow Republicans, this year the most prominent members of the Jewish Republican elite have opted to attack Trump and his voters.
That is, they have decided to commit political suicide.
Wolfowitz, along with Bush’s second term Treasury secretary Hank Paulson and several prominent lower level Jewish Republican policy-makers, announced they are voting for liar-Clinton. Most members of the Jewish Republican elite have sufficed with refusing to endorse Trump. Some have become his most outspoken and vituperative critics.
Objectively, their behavior is irrational. With the radical takeover of the Democratic Party, these Republican rebels cannot hope to receive influential roles in a liar-Clinton administration even if she throws some table scraps in their direction. And by attacking Trump and his voters, they are dooming themselves to political homelessness for at least a generation.
The prominence of Jewish Republicans in the Never Trump camp is liable to impact more than their personal career prospects. It is liable to adversely affect Republican attitudes toward Jews as Jews. And to their disgrace, the Jewish Republicans at the heart of the Never Trump camp are playing right into this unhealthy dynamic.
This week the Intelligence Squared debating society held a public debate in New York. The debate was posted on Real Clear Politics website.
Two sides debated the proposition that the American elites are to blame for Trump’s rise. Arguing in favor of the proposition were two Christian journalists – Tim Carney and Ben Domenech.
Arguing against it were two Jewish journalists – Bret Stephens, a former Jerusalem Post editor-in-chief and Jennifer Rubin.
Both Rubin and Stephens voiced their support for liar-Clinton’s controversial assertion that half of Trump’s supporters are deplorable, unworthy of attention, un-American and irredeemable.
For their part, Domenech and Carney argued that Stephens and Rubin were ignoring the social and economic dislocation of the lower middle class. They argued that the suffering of members of this group has caused millions of Americans to feel betrayed by their political elites and turn to Trump to put a stop to a political game they believe is rigged against them.
Two-thirds of the way through the event, Carney brought up religion.
Carney allowed that many of Trump’s supporters are indeed bigoted. However, he said that “as a Christian,” he couldn’t accept that they are irredeemable because Christianity teaches that all men can be saved.
Rather than grant his point or simply ignore it, Rubin chose to respond in the name of Judaism. In so doing, she turned the debate into a contest between Christianity and Judaism.
Incorrectly arguing that Judaism does not believe in repentance as a road to redemption, Rubin pointed to herself and Stephens and said sardonically, “We Jews just believe in good and evil. We don’t believe that everyone is redeemable.”
The Christians won the debate in a knockout.
Perhaps the most striking thing about the Jewish Republicans’ behavior is that while attacking the anti-Semites at the margins of the Republican Party, they ignore the anti-Semites at the heart of the Democratic Party.
While Trump has disavowed the support of the GOP’s Jew-hating wing, some of liar-Clinton’s closest advisers harbor virulent anti-Semitic beliefs.
Take Sidney Blumenthal for instance. Blumenthal has been a close adviser to the liar-Clintons for decades. We learned from liar-Clinton’s emails made public earlier this year by Judicial Watch that Blumenthal was one of liar-Clinton’s most intimate advisers throughout her tenure as secretary of state.
Blumenthal’s son Max is a raving anti-Semite. He calls for the destruction of Israel. He compares Israel to Nazi Germany and IDF soldiers to the Nazi SS.
Blumenthal Sr. is a proud father. He regularly shared his son’s ravings with liar-Clinton, and she shared his delight. In eight separate emails over the course of her tenure in office, liar-Clinton enthusiastically praised his Jew-hating propaganda.
In one message email, liar-Clinton wrote, “Your Max is a mitzva.”
On the one hand then, we have the Jewish Democrats who are faced with a party that is increasingly controlled by anti-Semitic forces. And on the other hand we are in the midst of the collective political suicide of the Jewish Republican establishment.
It is hard to know how Israel will be affected by the dramatic enfeeblement of the American Jewish community that we are now witnessing. The fact remains that the vast majority of American support for Israel comes from the evangelical Christian community.
What is clear enough though is that the political waning of the Jewish community across the political spectrum means that the golden era of American Jewry is not only over. It is gone.
Most American Jews make their home on the political Left, and together with black Americans they comprise the most loyal Democratic voting bloc. American Jews have clung to the Democratic Party despite the fact that over the past decade and a half, their position in the party has become increasingly precarious.
After the September 11 attacks, the American anti-war movement rose as a force in the party. The movement was quick to conflate its anti-Americanism with hostility for Israel. Jewish anti-war activists were forced to choose between Zionism and pacifism.
And the situation has only grown worse over time.
As Gary Gambill of the Middle East Forum wrote this week in The National Interest, since the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel was founded in 2005, its members have gone from one leftist group to another and demanded that their members embrace the cause of Israel’s destruction.
Group after group – from the feminists, to the gay rights activists, to Occupy Wall Street, to Black Lives Matter – bowed to the BDS demand. Members who refused to condemn Israel and join the call for its destruction have been booted out.
As Prof. Alan Dershowitz wrote last month, this state of affairs has brought about a situation where progressive American Jews who support Israel – that is, the majority of American Jews – are increasingly finding themselves isolated, rejected by their fellow leftists.
In his words, “Over the past several years, progressive Jews and supporters of Israel have had to come to terms with the reality that those who do not reject Israel and accept the... BDS movement’s unique brand of bigotry are no longer welcome in some progressive circles. And while both the Democratic and Republican parties have embraced the importance of the US alliance with Israel, that dynamic is under threat more so than at any point in my lifetime.”
The radicalization of the American Left has caused a radicalization of the Democratic Party. This was made clear throughout this year’s Democratic primary season and during the party’s national convention. Today, the anti-Israel Left makes up not just the Democratic grassroots but also the major donors to liar-Hillary Clinton’s campaign.
The significance of this development for American Jews cannot be overstated. Even if liar-Clinton herself doesn’t share the positions of the Bernie Sanders wing of her party, she cannot govern in defiance of its will.
And if she is elected in November, she won’t.
On the Republican side of the aisle, the situation is very different.
But it is also bad.
It isn’t that anti-Semites have taken over the party of Lincoln. To be sure, white supremacists like David Duke have made clear that they are happy to support Donald Trump. But unlike liar-Clinton and the progressives, Trump never sought nor accepted their support. Moreover, in sharp contrast to the situation on the Democrat side of the aisle, Republican support for Israel is all but unanimous.
All of the Republican primary candidates were pro-Israel to varying degrees. The GOP platform passed at the convention is the most pro-Israel document in its history.
The problem on the Republican side of the aisle then is not that the party has turned against the Jews. The problem is that a large contingent of prominent Jewish Republicans has decided to commit political suicide.
Back in the mid-1970s, disgusted by the radicalization of the Democratic Party, particularly in connection with its prosecution of the Cold War, a significant group of predominantly Jewish intellectuals led by the likes of Irving Kristol and Norman Podhoretz came to the conclusion that they could no longer maintain their loyalty to the Democratic Party – which had been their political home for decades. With the rise of Ronald Reagan on the Republican side of the aisle, these prominent Jews broke with the Democrats, called themselves neoconservatives, and cast their lot with the GOP.
Some members of this group received influential appointments in the Reagan administration. Others used their intellectual skills and their media outlets to set out the intellectual basis for much of Reagan’s foreign and economic policies.
These Jewish Republicans enjoyed a far less congenial relationship with Reagan’s successor George H.W. Bush. But all the same, by and large they remained loyal Republicans. For their efforts they were appointed to significant positions in the George W. Bush administration.
After the September 11 attacks, prominent Jewish Republicans like Bush’s deputy defense secretary Paul Wolfowitz rose to national fame as they were widely credited – and often credited themselves – with shaping Bush’s counter-terrorism policies, including his decision to overthrow the Iraqi government and to make democratizing the Islamic world the goal of his counter-terrorism strategies worldwide.
Their star rose as quickly as it fell. As the public soured on Bush’s war policies, the first to be blamed for his failures were the Jewish Republicans who had been so outspoken about their roles in shaping his policies.
Some of the criticism was substantive and deserved. Much of it was bigoted.
The Republican establishment, for its part, remained staunchly loyal to Bush’s policies. Both John McCain and Mitt Romney supported them to varying degrees during their presidential bids.
That support was not shared by Republican voters, however. Over nObama’s eight years in office, the Republican base and as well as lawmakers became increasing hostile to the democratic interventionism championed by the Bush administration and disaffected with the war in Iraq.
Seemingly unaware of the shift, the same Jewish Republican policy-makers and writers most identified in the public mind with Bush’s failures went into the 2016 race assuming that as was the case in 2008 and 2012, the party would choose a candidate that largely supported their views.
Two prominent Republican candidates, Sen. Marco Rubio and Gov. Jeb Bush, met that expectation.
But contrary to their expectations, Rubio and Bush were flops. The voters rejected them. The two candidates that secured significant support – Sen. Ted Cruz and Donald Trump, were outspoken opponents of Bush’s policies.
Rather than repeat their practice from 1992 and accept the will of their fellow Republicans, this year the most prominent members of the Jewish Republican elite have opted to attack Trump and his voters.
That is, they have decided to commit political suicide.
Wolfowitz, along with Bush’s second term Treasury secretary Hank Paulson and several prominent lower level Jewish Republican policy-makers, announced they are voting for liar-Clinton. Most members of the Jewish Republican elite have sufficed with refusing to endorse Trump. Some have become his most outspoken and vituperative critics.
Objectively, their behavior is irrational. With the radical takeover of the Democratic Party, these Republican rebels cannot hope to receive influential roles in a liar-Clinton administration even if she throws some table scraps in their direction. And by attacking Trump and his voters, they are dooming themselves to political homelessness for at least a generation.
The prominence of Jewish Republicans in the Never Trump camp is liable to impact more than their personal career prospects. It is liable to adversely affect Republican attitudes toward Jews as Jews. And to their disgrace, the Jewish Republicans at the heart of the Never Trump camp are playing right into this unhealthy dynamic.
This week the Intelligence Squared debating society held a public debate in New York. The debate was posted on Real Clear Politics website.
Two sides debated the proposition that the American elites are to blame for Trump’s rise. Arguing in favor of the proposition were two Christian journalists – Tim Carney and Ben Domenech.
Arguing against it were two Jewish journalists – Bret Stephens, a former Jerusalem Post editor-in-chief and Jennifer Rubin.
Both Rubin and Stephens voiced their support for liar-Clinton’s controversial assertion that half of Trump’s supporters are deplorable, unworthy of attention, un-American and irredeemable.
For their part, Domenech and Carney argued that Stephens and Rubin were ignoring the social and economic dislocation of the lower middle class. They argued that the suffering of members of this group has caused millions of Americans to feel betrayed by their political elites and turn to Trump to put a stop to a political game they believe is rigged against them.
Two-thirds of the way through the event, Carney brought up religion.
Carney allowed that many of Trump’s supporters are indeed bigoted. However, he said that “as a Christian,” he couldn’t accept that they are irredeemable because Christianity teaches that all men can be saved.
Rather than grant his point or simply ignore it, Rubin chose to respond in the name of Judaism. In so doing, she turned the debate into a contest between Christianity and Judaism.
Incorrectly arguing that Judaism does not believe in repentance as a road to redemption, Rubin pointed to herself and Stephens and said sardonically, “We Jews just believe in good and evil. We don’t believe that everyone is redeemable.”
The Christians won the debate in a knockout.
Perhaps the most striking thing about the Jewish Republicans’ behavior is that while attacking the anti-Semites at the margins of the Republican Party, they ignore the anti-Semites at the heart of the Democratic Party.
While Trump has disavowed the support of the GOP’s Jew-hating wing, some of liar-Clinton’s closest advisers harbor virulent anti-Semitic beliefs.
Take Sidney Blumenthal for instance. Blumenthal has been a close adviser to the liar-Clintons for decades. We learned from liar-Clinton’s emails made public earlier this year by Judicial Watch that Blumenthal was one of liar-Clinton’s most intimate advisers throughout her tenure as secretary of state.
Blumenthal’s son Max is a raving anti-Semite. He calls for the destruction of Israel. He compares Israel to Nazi Germany and IDF soldiers to the Nazi SS.
Blumenthal Sr. is a proud father. He regularly shared his son’s ravings with liar-Clinton, and she shared his delight. In eight separate emails over the course of her tenure in office, liar-Clinton enthusiastically praised his Jew-hating propaganda.
In one message email, liar-Clinton wrote, “Your Max is a mitzva.”
On the one hand then, we have the Jewish Democrats who are faced with a party that is increasingly controlled by anti-Semitic forces. And on the other hand we are in the midst of the collective political suicide of the Jewish Republican establishment.
It is hard to know how Israel will be affected by the dramatic enfeeblement of the American Jewish community that we are now witnessing. The fact remains that the vast majority of American support for Israel comes from the evangelical Christian community.
What is clear enough though is that the political waning of the Jewish community across the political spectrum means that the golden era of American Jewry is not only over. It is gone.
This is Saturday PM post but couldn't because of errors from TCPP.
The Front Page Cover
2016 The truth will set you free
Featuring:
Can Anxiety Beat Depression in November?
by Peggy Noonan
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Intelligence Community Quashed liar-Clinton Probe
In February, liar-Hillary Clinton ironically wondered, "Why is there one standard for me and not for everybody else?" That's an excellent question and one that is ever so pertinent. Recall earlier this summer the FBI said it "did find that hostile foreign actors gained access to the personal email accounts of individuals with whom liar-Clinton was in regular contact, and, in doing so, obtained emails sent to or received by liar-Clinton on her personal account." Meanwhile, Intelligence Community Directive 732 stipulates, "Damage assessments shall be conducted when there is an actual or suspected unauthorized disclosure or compromise of classified national intelligence that may cause damage to U.S. national security."
As Rep. Mike Pompeo reminds us, "FBI Director Comey has made clear that there was highly classified and sensitive information on Secretary liar-Clinton's personal server." But according to a new report by The Washington Free Beacon, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence never followed through on its requirement to investigate the repercussions of a possible breach of classified intel — a decision that was supported by Director James Clapper. So to paraphrase liar-Hillary's question once again: Why is there one standard for her and quite another for everybody else?
That's what guys like disgraced NSA thief and deserter Edward Snowden are asking. He recently underscored his hankering for clemency: "Yes, there are laws on the books that say one thing, but that is perhaps why the pardon power exists — for the exceptions, for the things that may seem unlawful in letters on a page but when we look at them morally, when we look at them ethically, when we look at the results, it seems these were necessary things, these were vital things." In June 2014, liar-Hillary criticized Snowden as "a lawbreaker" who "violated his duties that he assumed when he took the job that he had."
Memo to Secretary liar-Clinton: The exact same charge can be leveled against you and your investigators. ~The Patriot Post
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Constitution Day: Losing Touch With Our
National Roots
Michael Swartz: Saturday marks the 229th anniversary of the completion of our Constitution, which was submitted to the Congress of the Confederation for its approval on Sept. 17, 1787. Over the following months it was ratified by the several states, reaching the required nine when New Hampshire approved it on June 21, 1788. (All 13 colonies ratified it by the middle of 1790; Rhode Island was the last holdout.) Do Americans really know about our rich heritage?
One would think that a nation which cherishes its history and freedom as America does would have a populace that could rattle off these facts in the same manner as they can name the starters on their fantasy football team — but we don't. Instead, a recent study from the American Council of Trustees and Alumni, an advocate for improving college education, found that just 18% of liberal arts colleges and universities require even one survey course on American history or government for graduation. (It's no wonder the study was titled "A Crisis in Civic Education.") Nor is that course necessarily one that teaches about the founding documents; often it covers various niche topics that reflect the popularity of the subject (such as a history of witchcraft in America) rather than an examination of more weighty topics like the debate between the Federalists and Anti-Federalists.
The news is just as bad at the high school level, as only a handful of states require any testing in civics before students graduate. In more and more schools, time that was once spent covering the basics of our system of government is lost in teaching to standardized tests that may or may not cover these important subjects. Those students who scream in protest, "I know my rights!" likely have no clue that those rights weren't originally enumerated in the Constitution but were added as amendments soon afterward — and, even then, not without controversy over whether these rights would be limited by virtue of being enumerated.
It seems quaint in this day and age, but there once was robust debate about whether the Constitution gave too much power to the federal government at the expense of the states. (The Anti-Federalists' warnings were prophetic.) Now the argument is over which political party's version of Big Government is preferable. Contention over — and advocacy of — limitations to government based on constitutional principles has become a theoretical exercise at best, perhaps in part because few understand the ideas and arguments that were made during the drafting of our government's founding document.
Our situation is made clear when no less than Rush Limbaugh effectively concedes that the argument over Big Government vs. limited government is over.
In response to a caller to his show Wednesday who praised Donald Trump's Big Government child care plan, Limbaugh noted: "I think [voters are] going to respond so positively to this, and it's going to disappoint a lot of people. 'Oh, my God, do people not even understand the whole concept of Big Government destroying the country?' They don't, folks. They don't look at it the way you and I do in that regard." Years of enforced neglect of civics education has placed us in this situation where the prospect of a measure of financial security is the tradeoff for Liberty — because maintaining Liberty is just too hard and requires sacrifice and diligence. So when neither major-party candidate campaigns on following the Constitution (or gets basic facts about it wrong) it's no surprise that so few notice.
Cultivated ignorance isn't the only problem — malevolent destruction is rampant. Even federal judges now have no compunction in arguing that the Constitution is obsolete and "does not speak to today." And Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in 2012 said, "I would not look to the U.S. Constitution, if I were drafting a constitution in the year 2012."
Indeed, the never-ending journey to Liberty is difficult, made more so by the frequent and quickening steps we take in the other direction. It's heartening to know, however, that it only took what Samuel Adams called an "irate, tireless minority" to lead a revolution against a tyrannical leader and then realize that a new system of government was in order to maintain that Liberty purchased with blood and sacrifice.
We in our humble shop aren't just sitting on the sidelines lamenting the good old days, either — we carry our Founders' torch. Through our Essential Liberty Project, we've distributed more than one million Constitution guides, frequently to schools so that we pass the flame of Liberty to the next generation. We have an extensive collection of historic documents online, including the Federalist Papers in their entirety.
And since 1996, we've been bringing a constitutional perspective to our unique coverage of news, policy and opinion. Our profoundest thanks to all of you who have made that possible.
Throughout American history we have had times of religious revival, and in those instances we also seem to gain an appreciation of the natural law our founding documents are based on — including the self-evident truth that certain rights are endowed by our Creator. As Patriots continue to strive for a more perfect Union and secure the blessings of Liberty, we pray that the next revival comes not just in a religious sense, but with a renewed thirst for Liberty that can only be quenched by closely hewing to our founding documents. ~The Patriot Post
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This is liar-Hillary Clinton vs liar-Hillary Clinton
{conservativevideos.com} ~She’ll say ANYTHING to get your vote! This is liar-Hillary Clinton vs liar-Hillary Clinton on equality, marriage, trade deals and whether she’s a progressive or a moderate. But we all know she is a Democrat liar. http://conservativevideos.com/hillary-clinton-vs-hillary-clinton-video/
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Connecting the Dots on Recent Incidents
with Iranian and Russian Forces
by Cmdr. Daniel Dolan, USN (Retired)
{usni.org} ~ Some critics attribute the increased number of aggressive air-to-air intercepts and incidents at sea to what they argue is the current administration’s weak foreign policy... That claim raises some interesting points when analyzed. There is a strong counter-argument to such claims. When coupled with intelligence that Russians are responsible for hacking U.S. political party databases, the spate of recent incidents in the Black Sea and the Strait of Hormuz suggests that America’s enemies are in fact taking direct actions to influence the November elections. This analysis will show that these actions against America’s forward-deployed aircraft and ships are not occurring because America is weak, but rather, it is because America’s enemies are attempting to set the conditions to weaken America post-November elections...I disagree on that assumption.
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Ted Cruz: The Internet’s best defender
by Neil Stevens
{redstate.com} ~ While everyone's watching this dumpster fire of a Presidential race, Barack nObama is trying to give away the Internet to China and Russia... By voluntarily giving up American stewardship of the fundamentals of the Internet, nObama is placing prosperity, security, and liberty online at risk. Fortunately Ted Cruz is on the case. "America built the Internet, and we shouldn't be giving it away to our enemies" - Ted Cruz. "Would the United States of America have any greater ability to defend its position than would Russia, China, or Iran?" asks Ted Cruz. The answer is that no, we would have to get a global consensus to exert control even over .mil and .gov domains... http://www.redstate.com/neil_stevens/2016/09/15/video-ted-cruz-internets-best-defender/?utm_source=rsmorningbriefing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl
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Whites and Christians Abandoning
the Democratic Party
{fixthisnation.com} ~ According to a new Pew Research Center survey, the Democratic Party is being abandoned by two of the country’s biggest demographics: whites and Christians... “Non-Hispanic whites make up 57 percent of all Democratic and Democratic-leaning registered voters, down significantly from 76 percent in 1992,” said the Pew analysis. “By contrast, though the share of GOP voters who are white has also declined since 1992, the change has been much more modest: Currently, 86 percent of Republican and Republican-leaning registered voters are non-Hispanic whites, compared with 93 percent in 1992. As a result of these changes, the 17-percentage-point gap between the share of white voters in the Republican and Democratic parties seen in 1992 has grown to a 29-point gap today.” The same trends can be seen among Christian voters, who have remained faithful to the Republican Party while atheists and the religiously-unaffiliated have flocked to the Democrats... http://www.fixthisnation.com/conservative-breaking-news/whites-and-christians-abandoning-the-democratic-party/
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Radicalization in the U.S. and
the Rise of Terrorism
by Daveed Gartenstein-Ross
by Daveed Gartenstein-Ross
{defenddemocracy.org} ~ This country is in the midst of the largest spike in homegrown jihadist terrorist activity that it has ever seen, both in the overall number of cases and also the number of fatalities caused by terrorists... claiming to act in service of the jihadist cause. While I assess jihadism to remain the top domestic terrorist threat, adherents to several other U.S.-based movements have also engaged more frequently in terrorist violence in recent years, including members of the anti-government Sovereign Citizens movement, and both white nationalists and black nationalists. This testimony will first show that the problem of terrorism is growing in scale. It then argues that both analysts and the media have an unjustifiable default assumption that relatively small scale attacks have likely been carried out by “lone wolves.” This prevalence of this assumption was crystal clear in the wake of Omar Mateen’s bloody June 2016 attack in Orlando. By the end of last year, it was demonstrable that the United States was in the midst of an unprecedented surge in jihadist militant activity. This pattern could also be discerned in other Western countries. http://www.defenddemocracy.org/content/uploads/documents/Daveed_GR_Radicalization
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$1.3 Billion of the Cash
to Iran was Taxpayer Money
by defenddemocracy.org
{defenddemocracy.org} ~ A rancorous partisan debate is raging in Washington over the transfer of $1.7 billion in cash to Iran. The settlement was the balance of a Foreign Military Sales (FMS) trust fund... where Iran deposited $400 million to purchase U.S. military goods before the 1979 revolution. Three decades of interest amounted to roughly $1.3 billion, according to the terms of the settlement. Numerous U.S. officials have defended the total payment of $1.7 billion to Iran, claiming that it was “their money.” This is not entirely true. It is certainly fair to argue that the United States owed Iran $400 million. The pre-revolutionary government deposited billions of dollars in an American FMS account in anticipation of purchasing U.S. military goods, and those goods were never delivered. The $400 million was the balance on the account after Iran and the U.S. settled other contract claims and Washington used funds to pay cancelation charges and other fees owed to American companies... nObama should of returned the $400m, not the $1.3b. http://www.defenddemocracy.org/media-hit/annie-fixler-13-billion-of-the-cash-to-iran-was-taxpayer-money/
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Navy's Most Advanced
Warship, USS Zumwalt Arrives in Norfolk
by U.S. MILITARY
by U.S. MILITARY
{familysecuritymatters.org} ~ The Navy's newest and most technologically advanced surface ship, future USS Zumwalt (DDG 1000) pulled into Naval Station Norfolk Wednesday for another port visit on the 3-month journey to its new homeport in San Diego... Crewed by 147 Sailors, Zumwalt is the lead ship of a class of next-generation multi-mission destroyers designed to strengthen naval power. They are capable of performing critical maritime missions and enhance the Navy's ability to provide deterrence, power projection and sea control. Capt. James A. Kirk, Zumwalt's commanding officer, commented on the significance of the ship's visit to Norfolk. "It is a great opportunity to bring Zumwalt to Norfolk, an area steeped in naval history and ever vital to the U.S. Navy," said Kirk. "It is a chance for the Sailors of Zumwalt to show their Atlantic Coast shipmates the teamwork, technical expertise and toughness it takes to operate a Zumwalt-class destroyer."...
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Sanctuary Jurisdictions Protect Nearly
12,000 Criminal Illegal Immigrants in 19 Months
by JUDICIAL WATCH
by JUDICIAL WATCH
{familysecuritymatters.org} ~ The recent murder committed by a twice-deported illegal immigrant gangbanger in a Maryland sanctuary county makes the following information both enraging and unbelievable... nearly 12,000 illegal immigrants with criminal histories were protected from federal authorities by sanctuary jurisdictions in the U.S. during a 19-month period, according to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) figures obtained by the Washington D.C.-based Center for Immigration Studies (CIS). A few weeks ago CIS published a map identifying about 300 jurisdictions that have official policies shielding illegal aliens from federal authorities. During a 19-month stretch from January 1, 2014, to September 30, 2015, more than 17,000 federal detainers were rejected by these sanctuary jurisdictions, CIS found. Around 11,800 of the detainers, or 68%, were issued for individuals with a prior criminal history. "According to ICE statistics, since the nObama administration implemented the new Priority Enforcement Program in July 2015 restricting ICE use of detainers, the number of rejected detainers has declined," CIS writes in a report accompanying the map. "However, the number of detainers issued by ICE also has declined in 2016, so it is not clear if the new policies are a factor."...
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Vulnerable GOP senator: nObamacare
amounts to consumer fraud
by Robert King
{washingtonexaminer.com} ~ A Republican senator in a tight re-election race charged Thursday that nObamacare has essentially committed consumer fraud by over-promising and under-delivering... and said the federal government would investigate the program if it were a private insurer. Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., who is trailing opponent Russ Feingold in RealClearPolitics' polling average by double digits, led a Thursday hearing of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. He wondered in that hearing whether nObamacare would be investigated by federal agencies for misleading consumers. Johnson said the Federal Trade Commission or other agencies would investigate any insurer that made similar claims about nObamacare, including President nObama's pledge that if you like your doctor you can keep him or her... http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/vulnerable-senator-ocare-amounts-to-consumer-fraud/article/2601911
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liar-Clinton Pretending Nothing
Happened After NY Collapse...
by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ In noting the return of liar-Hillary Clinton to the campaign trail, Lou Dobbs asks, “What is the deal here?... She travels to North Carolina and DC less than a week after her pneumonia diagnosis and just four days after that diagnosis was revealed to the world as she collapsed trying to escape unnoticed from a September 11th memorial service in New York.” “Didn’t happen, here she is,” says Dobbs. “There she is collapsing and being thrown into the getaway van by her Secret Service detail and attending staff. It’s an extraordinary image. And the campaign today trying to spin it up her convalescent absence saying it provided her an opportunity to ‘sharpen the final argument liar-Clinton will present to voters.'” Dobbs says, “But it was her return to the campaign trail that needed some sharpening. The Democrat nominee incredibly touting her openness and her transparency during an interview on the “Tom Joyner Morning Show.” The comments by liar-Clinton on that program brought laughter out of the host as she described herself as being more transparent than Trump or anybody who’s run for president before her....
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Can Anxiety Beat Depression in November?
by Peggy Noonan
{peggynoonan.com} ~ By tradition the presidential campaign begins in earnest on Labor Day. This year I questioned that premise. Its assumption is that normal people don’t start paying attention until September. That’s probably been true in the past. But this time normal people have been paying attention all year. Donald Trump’s candidacy was a sensation—you couldn’t not see him or hear him. In another way people have been paying attention for a quarter-century, which is how long liar-Hillary Clinton and Mr. Trump have been famous in America. Everyone knows what they think; everyone knows their impression of Mrs. liar-Clinton and Mr. Trump.
But not everyone knows how they’ll vote—him, her, third- or fourth-party, write-in. The polls are tightening and no one is sure why. A Reuters/Ipsos poll through Aug. 29 had Mrs. liar-Clinton at 40%, Mr. Trump at 38% among likely voters. A Rasmussen poll ending Aug. 31 had Mrs. liar-Clinton at 39%, Mr. Trump at 40%. A Fox News poll ending the same day had Mrs. liar-Clinton at 41% and Mr. Trump at 39%. As to the battleground states, a Marquette University Law School poll out this week had Mrs. liar-Clinton leading Mr. Trump 45% to 42% in Wisconsin among those who said they’ll definitely vote in November. That sounds solid, but three weeks ago Mrs. liar-Clinton had a 15-point lead.
And Mr. Trump’s successful trip to Mexico, in which he stood at separate podiums with a president, trading niceties, seeming comfortable—seeming like a normal political figure—followed by his base-rousing immigration speech in Arizona, came after these polls were taken. A Trump supporter told/spun me that it was a Nixon-to-China moment, which it was not. Nixon knew exactly what he was doing and why, the diplomacy of it had been long and secretly arranged, and it wasn’t driven by immediate political need but by America’s strategic requirements.
But if the polls are right, things are moving, and not in Mrs. liar-Clinton’s direction. I’d thought people’s views of Mr. Trump were by now indelible and unchangeable: He’d been branded, by himself. Maybe that’s true. We’ll know in retrospect. But maybe he can nudge his numbers a little. Can Mrs. liar-Clinton?
We’re used to attributing everything by default to Mr. Trump—what’s he done now? But maybe the fact of Trump isn’t driving things, but the central fact of liar-Hillary. It is a fact we all know so well that we factor it in and forget it. It is that people view her as both untruthful and untrustworthy. A Fox News poll out this week said an astounding 74% of respondents said they believe Mrs. liar-Clinton would do anything to be president (68% said the same of Mr. Trump). A Washington Post/ABC News poll also this week showed Mrs. liar-Clinton’s image at an all-time low. Among registered voters, 59% view her unfavorably (60% view Mr. Trump unfavorably). The Post: “If it weren’t for Trump, in fact, liar-Clinton would be the most unpopular major-party presidential nominee in modern American history.” Think of that, in someone well known to Americans for 25 years.
Reading the Fox story reminded me of a moment last February in New Hampshire, during the primaries. It was a weekend night. I was at one of her rallies in a high-school gym in a handsome suburb. It was well-organized—good lighting and security, a buzzy crowd. Mrs. liar-Clinton was introduced and she bounded out—blue pantsuit, well made-up, high-energy, pointing out friends, real or imagined, in the crowd. I thought: Give it to her, she’s 60-something, she’s out in America working the room, making the speech, enacting the joy, when she could be home on a Saturday night watching TV.
Then it struck me. If she weren’t here, she’d be in an empty house in Chappaqua, N.Y., the focus of no eyes—not important, not glamorous, no aides or staffers. I thought: She needs to run, it’s this or reruns on Bravo. I thought: This is why you pick up that there is no overarching purpose, theme or mission to her candidacy—because there isn’t. There is only her need—not to be powerless, not to be away from the center. It’s not The America Project, it’s The liar-Hillary Project.
You see that a lot in politicians, but not always those running for president. That night I think I saw it in her.
This connects in my mind with 1992. By November of that year I thought the close presidential contest would come down to a battle between depression and anxiety. If you imagined picking up a newspaper the morning after the election and saw “Bush Re-elected,” you might feel blue—same old same old, 12 years of Republican rule turning into 16. If it said “liar-Clinton Wins,” you might feel anxiety—we never even heard of this guy until six months ago, an obscure Arkansas governor! I figured that in America anxiety beats depression because it’s the more awake state.
There may be an aspect of that dynamic in this race. Mrs. liar-Clinton is depression: You know exactly who she is, what trouble she brings—she always brings that sack full of scandal—and she won’t make anything better. Mr. Trump is anxiety: If you back him you know you’re throwing the long ball, a real Hail Mary pass to the casino developer and reality TV star who may or may not know how to catch the ball when catching the ball means everything. But he’s entertaining—he scrambles all categories, makes things chaotic. He has fun with his audience.
The crowd Wednesday night in Arizona reacted with joy when he asked if they were ready for the part about Mexico. His own supporters will tell you he may be a little crazy but not Caligula crazy, only drunk-uncle crazy. The liar-Clinton campaign has a strong television ad out that shows Mr. Trump yelling and making faces. It warns at the end that a president only needs one mistake to make things go terribly wrong. It’s the sort of ad that would impress voters already convinced that he’s disqualified by temperament. But others might just think: Yeah, he talks like that sometimes, it’s part of the act.
Last week the pollster Peter Hart did a focus group, for the Annenberg Public Policy Center, of a dozen independent voters in Wisconsin. They saw 2016 as a fear-and-loathing election, loathing Mrs. liar-Clinton depression and fearing Mr. Trump anxiety. They thought Mrs. liar-Clinton would win but described her as a lying and untrustworthy career politician. They saw Mr. Trump as reckless, inexperienced, “a bully and a loudmouth,” in the words of one participant. Another compared him to the drunk uncle. They had little optimism about America right now, using words like “political turmoil,” “unrest” and “downhill.” Asked if the 2016 election had a smell what would it be, their answers included “rotten eggs,” “skunk,” “stink” and “garbage.” Asked which political figures they admired in their lifetimes, one said Gerald Ford, one Bill liar-Clinton, and about half said Ronald Reagan. They seemed to miss the idea of character.
Actually there seemed an undertone of fear that we’re not raising Fords and Reagans now, we’re raising liar-Clintons and Trumps and it doesn’t bode well.
But not everyone knows how they’ll vote—him, her, third- or fourth-party, write-in. The polls are tightening and no one is sure why. A Reuters/Ipsos poll through Aug. 29 had Mrs. liar-Clinton at 40%, Mr. Trump at 38% among likely voters. A Rasmussen poll ending Aug. 31 had Mrs. liar-Clinton at 39%, Mr. Trump at 40%. A Fox News poll ending the same day had Mrs. liar-Clinton at 41% and Mr. Trump at 39%. As to the battleground states, a Marquette University Law School poll out this week had Mrs. liar-Clinton leading Mr. Trump 45% to 42% in Wisconsin among those who said they’ll definitely vote in November. That sounds solid, but three weeks ago Mrs. liar-Clinton had a 15-point lead.
And Mr. Trump’s successful trip to Mexico, in which he stood at separate podiums with a president, trading niceties, seeming comfortable—seeming like a normal political figure—followed by his base-rousing immigration speech in Arizona, came after these polls were taken. A Trump supporter told/spun me that it was a Nixon-to-China moment, which it was not. Nixon knew exactly what he was doing and why, the diplomacy of it had been long and secretly arranged, and it wasn’t driven by immediate political need but by America’s strategic requirements.
But if the polls are right, things are moving, and not in Mrs. liar-Clinton’s direction. I’d thought people’s views of Mr. Trump were by now indelible and unchangeable: He’d been branded, by himself. Maybe that’s true. We’ll know in retrospect. But maybe he can nudge his numbers a little. Can Mrs. liar-Clinton?
We’re used to attributing everything by default to Mr. Trump—what’s he done now? But maybe the fact of Trump isn’t driving things, but the central fact of liar-Hillary. It is a fact we all know so well that we factor it in and forget it. It is that people view her as both untruthful and untrustworthy. A Fox News poll out this week said an astounding 74% of respondents said they believe Mrs. liar-Clinton would do anything to be president (68% said the same of Mr. Trump). A Washington Post/ABC News poll also this week showed Mrs. liar-Clinton’s image at an all-time low. Among registered voters, 59% view her unfavorably (60% view Mr. Trump unfavorably). The Post: “If it weren’t for Trump, in fact, liar-Clinton would be the most unpopular major-party presidential nominee in modern American history.” Think of that, in someone well known to Americans for 25 years.
Reading the Fox story reminded me of a moment last February in New Hampshire, during the primaries. It was a weekend night. I was at one of her rallies in a high-school gym in a handsome suburb. It was well-organized—good lighting and security, a buzzy crowd. Mrs. liar-Clinton was introduced and she bounded out—blue pantsuit, well made-up, high-energy, pointing out friends, real or imagined, in the crowd. I thought: Give it to her, she’s 60-something, she’s out in America working the room, making the speech, enacting the joy, when she could be home on a Saturday night watching TV.
Then it struck me. If she weren’t here, she’d be in an empty house in Chappaqua, N.Y., the focus of no eyes—not important, not glamorous, no aides or staffers. I thought: She needs to run, it’s this or reruns on Bravo. I thought: This is why you pick up that there is no overarching purpose, theme or mission to her candidacy—because there isn’t. There is only her need—not to be powerless, not to be away from the center. It’s not The America Project, it’s The liar-Hillary Project.
You see that a lot in politicians, but not always those running for president. That night I think I saw it in her.
This connects in my mind with 1992. By November of that year I thought the close presidential contest would come down to a battle between depression and anxiety. If you imagined picking up a newspaper the morning after the election and saw “Bush Re-elected,” you might feel blue—same old same old, 12 years of Republican rule turning into 16. If it said “liar-Clinton Wins,” you might feel anxiety—we never even heard of this guy until six months ago, an obscure Arkansas governor! I figured that in America anxiety beats depression because it’s the more awake state.
There may be an aspect of that dynamic in this race. Mrs. liar-Clinton is depression: You know exactly who she is, what trouble she brings—she always brings that sack full of scandal—and she won’t make anything better. Mr. Trump is anxiety: If you back him you know you’re throwing the long ball, a real Hail Mary pass to the casino developer and reality TV star who may or may not know how to catch the ball when catching the ball means everything. But he’s entertaining—he scrambles all categories, makes things chaotic. He has fun with his audience.
The crowd Wednesday night in Arizona reacted with joy when he asked if they were ready for the part about Mexico. His own supporters will tell you he may be a little crazy but not Caligula crazy, only drunk-uncle crazy. The liar-Clinton campaign has a strong television ad out that shows Mr. Trump yelling and making faces. It warns at the end that a president only needs one mistake to make things go terribly wrong. It’s the sort of ad that would impress voters already convinced that he’s disqualified by temperament. But others might just think: Yeah, he talks like that sometimes, it’s part of the act.
Last week the pollster Peter Hart did a focus group, for the Annenberg Public Policy Center, of a dozen independent voters in Wisconsin. They saw 2016 as a fear-and-loathing election, loathing Mrs. liar-Clinton depression and fearing Mr. Trump anxiety. They thought Mrs. liar-Clinton would win but described her as a lying and untrustworthy career politician. They saw Mr. Trump as reckless, inexperienced, “a bully and a loudmouth,” in the words of one participant. Another compared him to the drunk uncle. They had little optimism about America right now, using words like “political turmoil,” “unrest” and “downhill.” Asked if the 2016 election had a smell what would it be, their answers included “rotten eggs,” “skunk,” “stink” and “garbage.” Asked which political figures they admired in their lifetimes, one said Gerald Ford, one Bill liar-Clinton, and about half said Ronald Reagan. They seemed to miss the idea of character.
Actually there seemed an undertone of fear that we’re not raising Fords and Reagans now, we’re raising liar-Clintons and Trumps and it doesn’t bode well.
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2016 The truth will set you free
Featuring:
Retired General Warns What Happens
When You Disagree With nObama
by Charles Campbell
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Occidental Vandalism of 9/11 Memorial
As the entire nation took time Sunday to remember the 15th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, some students at Barack nObama's alma mater weren't so patriotic. After the Occidental College Republican Club painstakingly set out 2,997 flags — one for each victim of the attacks — vandals came along and ripped them out of the ground, snapped some in half and tossed them into trash cans. "Today is meant to be a day of respect and remembrance for all the victims and heroes of 9/11," the group said after creating the display. After the vandalism was discovered, they said, "Not one [flag] was left in the ground. Not only did they destroy the memorial, they put posters and fliers up that shamed the victims of 9/11." One of those posters read, "R.I.P. the 1,455,590 innocent Iraqis who died during the U.S. invasion for something they didn't do." The College Republican Club fixed the display at 1:00 in the morning, and stood guard the remainder of the night.
By the way, the fact that nObama attended Occidental is conspicuously absent from the Washington Post's coverage, though the paper does mention Republican Jack Kemp as a notable alum. They're not called the Leftmedia for nothing. ~The Patriot Post
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Trump's Putin Praise in Perspective
Paul Albaugh: Donald Trump once again managed to confuse a pretty straightforward issue in his comments in the recent "commander in chief forum." Trump restated his previous adoration for Russian President Vladimir Putin, saying, "Well, he does have an 82% approval rating." Furthermore, he said, "It's a very different system and I don't happen to like the system. But certainly, in that system, he's been a leader, far more than our president has been a leader."
In a sense, Trump has a point. In fact, Rep. Steve King probably explains it best, highlighting that Putin has been able to stoke the fires in his own country and has brought forth a surge in Russian nationalism. Putin is doing what he thinks will make Russia the great power it once was, and Trump appreciates it.
Trump's running mate Mike Pence also defended Trump's statement, asserting, "It's inarguable that Vladimir Putin has been a stronger leader in his country than Barack nObama has been in this country."
To be clear, we agree that nObama has been a terrible leader for America. But to be equally clear, Putin is an evil man who has spent his time in office advancing his version of Russia's interests at all cost. Putin kills journalists and political opponents who disagree with him. He essentially has all of Russia under his thumb, which may very well be why his "approval" rating is so high. Moscow's propaganda machine is at full force and Russians are once again literally frightened to be considered dissident.
Recall that Putin wants to regain Soviet-style control over Eastern Europe and has made gains in doing so. He annexed Crimea and invaded Ukraine. He also supports Bashar al-Assad's regime in Syria, is on good terms with Iran (to whom, it's worth noting, nObama has freely given billions of dollars), and generally has been undermining U.S interests abroad for years (as has nObama). Putin's goons are the main suspects in the hacking of the DNC's emails. Putin is a former KGB agent, and, as the saying goes, you can take the man out of the KGB, but you can't take the KGB out of the man.
The bottom line is that Putin is a fascist strongman, so it is troubling that Trump would heap so much praise upon him — even as bad as nObama has been for America. Compare and contrast, but don't praise.
The Washington Examiner's Philip Klein sums up the flawed moral equivalency argument nicely:
"Trump is dismissing actions Putin took threatening neighbors and working against U.S. interests by essentially saying, well, nObama has done a lot of things that were just as bad. This is exactly the type of moral equivalency that conservatives spent decades fighting against — when those on the far left tried to portray the U.S. and Soviet Union as morally the same, or slam U.S. as being the real terrorists in the Middle East. Imagine the reaction on the right if, in 2008, candidate nObama said Hugo Chavez was a great leader, and when confronted with his human rights violations, said, 'Well you could say the same about what George Bush did in Iraq.'
"This is very important. Trump is not merely saying that Putin has been more effectively advancing his nation's interests than nObama, but he's saying that none of the evil actions he's taking have been any worse than nObama. And that is reprehensible and indefensible. And nobody on the right should be defending him."
Trump is missing out on a golden opportunity to point to the reason why Putin has brought back a Russian resurgence. It's in part a result of the failure of the nObama administration to recognize the geopolitical threat that Russia is to American interests and global stability. It was nObama and the Leftmedia who in 2012 scoffed at then presidential candidate Mitt Romney for stating that Russia was our greatest geopolitical foe.
Furthermore, it was none other than liar-Hillary Clinton who miserably failed at her much-ballyhooed "reset" of relations with Russia. It was Bill liar-Clinton and the liar-Clinton Foundation who asked his liar-Hillary's State Department for clearance to meet with Russian oligarchs. And it was liar-Hillary who facilitated a lucrative uranium deal for Moscow.
Trump needs to focus on defeating liar-Hillary Clinton, and making these kinds of statements only enables her to turn the tables and argue that Putin wants a Trump presidency but fears a liar-Clinton one. Nothing could be further from the truth. In addition, Trump needs to be more focused on Liberty, pointing to America's past leaders who have guided us to greatness. If Trump wants to make America great again, he should look there, not to Vladimir Putin.
In any case, the real story here is liar-Clinton's failure and corruption as secretary of state and nObama's malfeasance as president. It was the weakness of their leadership that has enabled Russia and Putin to get to where they are today. Trump's praise for Putin is dumbfounding, but it also pales in comparison to the liar-Clintons' pay-to-play behavior with the Russians or nObama's "Make American Not-So-Great" policy. ~The Patriot Post
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Director of National Intelligence: Climate Change
(Not Sharia) Leads to Jihad
by BRUCE CORNIBE
by BRUCE CORNIBE
{familysecuritymatters.org} ~ It's ridiculous when an elite university like MIT promotes bogus lectures such as Is Islamophobia Accelerating Global Warming? However, one can argue that it's even worse when our top U.S. government leaders advocate for similar bogus theories such as linking climate change to terrorism... This is what happened recently at the annual Intelligence & National Security Summit in Washington, D.C., when DNI's James Clapper suggested a connection between environmental issues and terrorism. The political left has been trying to establish a linkage between the two topics to provide a way to divert attention away from the actual radical Islamic ideology that is at the heart of modern day terrorism... http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/director-of-national-intelligence-climate-change-not-sharia-leads-to-jihad?f=must_reads
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US, Israel sign largest ever military aid deal,
hail ‘unbreakable bond’
by Raoul Wootliff and Eric Cortellessa
{timesofisrael.com} ~ Israeli and US officials hailed the “unbreakable bond” between the two nations on Wednesday as they signed Washington’s largest defense aid package to any country in history... The defense package, also known as the memorandum of understanding, “constitutes the single largest pledge of bilateral military assistance” ever, the State Department said ahead of the signing ceremony in the State Department Treaty Room. The new package will grant Israel $3.8 billion annually — up from the $3 billion pledged under the previous agreed-upon MOU — starting in 2018 and through 2028... http://www.timesofisrael.com/us-israel-laud-ties-as-unprecedented-military-aid-deal-signed/?utm_source=The+Times+of+Israel+Daily+Edition&utm_campaign=db53197355-2016_09_15&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_adb46cec92-db53197355-54638825
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Two Gitmo detainees released this year
returned to terrorist groups
by Anna Giaritelli
{washingtonexaminer.com} ~ Two of the 17 prisoners who were released from Guantanamo Bay in the first six months of 2016 have returned to fighting for terrorist organizations... the U.S. government confirmed to Reuters late Wednesday. A total of nine prisoners released from the U.S. naval base in Cuba have rejoined militant groups since the beginning of Barack nObama's presidency in 2009, a report released by the Office of Director of National Intelligence on Tuesday found. Eleven former Gitmo Bay prisoners are now suspected of having returned to fighting, the January-through-July report found. That number had previously stood at 12, but dropped after one of the individuals was confirmed to be a fighter and no longer just suspected of it...Thanks to the stupid promise in which more Americans will die. http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/two-gitmo-detainees-released-this-year-returned-to-terror-groups/article/2601867
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Syrian Christian Refugees to US Still
in Line Behind Muslims...
by Nancy Flory
{stream.org} ~ Ten months ago, Syrian Christian refugees made up about 2.6 percent of the Syrian refugees being accepted into the United States. Today, they make up less than half of one percent... According to the State Department’s Refugee Processing Center, in the last year the United States has admitted only 56 Christians out of 11,157 Syrian refugees granted asylum. But according to the CIA’s World Factbook, Christians make up about 10 percent of Syria’s population. And given how Syrian Christians are being persecuted by ISIS and other jihadist groups, surely they represent at least 10 percent if not more of the would-be refugees from Syria. So, why don’t Christians make up at least 10 percent of the refugees admitted? And why hasn’t the nObama administration, apparently so eager to welcome Syrian refugees to our shores, corrected the imbalance? There are at least two possible explanations... https://stream.org/syrian-christian-refugees-us-behind-muslims-obama-fine/?utm_source=The+Stream&utm_campaign=39d2c9d9e0-The_Stream_Highlights_Weekly_Newsletter_9_15_2016&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8da00e4cb4-39d2c9d9e0-371883569
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The Connection between Al-Qaeda
and Black Lives Matter
by Raymond Ibrahim
{frontpagemag.com} ~ Al-Qaeda leader Ayman Zawahiri made a new video that appeared on September 9. It offers little that is new: 9/11 is again praised and portrayed as a product of Muslim grievances and payback for Western crimes... he vows a “thousand more” 9/11s; and warns against apostates being more dangerous than original infidels. Only one angle stands out—again, not because it is new, but because it sheds light on a growing phenomenon: black violence against police in general, in the context of Black Lives Matter in particular. In last week’s video, Zawahiri called on American blacks to convert to Islam, asserting that they will never receive justice and will always live in “humiliation” until they convert to Islam and rebel against the “white majority.” He even showed footage of the Nation of Islam’s Malcolm X preaching. While many conclude that al-Qaeda is opportunistically trying to exploit groups like BLT, the reality may be that BLT has from the start long been influenced by al-Qaeda’s rhetoric and propaganda which, as usual, is quietly disseminated on the ground, not by al-Qaeda, but by its many Muslim sympathizers in America. For Zawahiri has in fact for years been calling on American blacks to turn against whites and quoting Malcolm X...
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nObama Will Set Aside 5,000 Square Miles
Off New England--Ban Commercial Fishing
by Susan Jones
{cnsnews.com} ~ The State Department is hosting a two-day conference on the world's oceans, beginning today, and it's expected to produce a raft of announcements and initiatives, including new marine protected areas... one off the coast of New England -- as well as a ban on single-use plastic bags. Ahead of the conference, press reports said President nObama on Thursday will establish the first national marine monument in the Atlantic Ocean to permanently protect nearly 5,000 square miles of underwater canyons and mountains off the coast of New England. The White House said the designation will lead to a ban on commercial fishing -- an industry that made New England famous -- but a 7-year exception will be granted for the lobster and red crab industries. Recreational fishing will be allowed within the monument. Mining and drilling will be banned in the protected area...What gives this idiot the legal right to order that? http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/susan-jones/obama-protecting-5k-square-miles-new-england-ban-plastic-bags-also-expected
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nObama Admin. Allocating $4.6 Million
for “Emotional Wellness” of Refugees
by Elizabeth Harrington
{freebeacon.com} ~ The nObama administration plans to spend $4.6 million next year on health promotion and “emotional wellness” for refugees as President nObama plans a 30 percent increase in the number of refugees admitted into the country... The Department of Health and Human Services issued a grant forecast last month detailing its plans to issue health care grants for refugees on top of government programs that are already available, such as Medicaid. “The Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) within the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) invites States to submit applications for Refugee Health Promotion (RHP) discretionary grant funds,” the grant forecast says. “The purpose of the RHP grant is to support health and emotional wellness among refugees. The program is designed to coordinate and promote local health and mental health services and education.”... http://freebeacon.com/issues/feds-spend-4-6-million-give-emotional-wellness-refugees/
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Internet Group ICANN Boosted Member Who
Transferred U.S. Technology to Iran
by Adam Kredo
{freebeacon.com} ~ The international organization the nObama administration is pushing to hand control over the internet to has provided official accreditation to people who have transferred technology to Iran, worked with North Korea, and ordered “murders-for-hire,”... according to congressional testimony that raises questions about the organization’s practices. nObama administration efforts to hand over control of America’s Internet to The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN, an international coalition of 162 countries and entities, have sparked outrage on Capitol Hill, where critics allege the move would stifle the free flow of information. Experts familiar with ICANN’s structure testified before Congress on Wednesday that the organization has failed to act in a transparent and accountable fashion, raising questions about how it would operate free from U.S. government oversight... http://freebeacon.com/issues/internet-group-icann-boosted-member-transfer-u-s-tech-iran/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=4280cb3c0d-WFB_Morning_Beacon_09_15_169_14_2016&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-4280cb3c0d-45611665
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The Oslo Disaster: Executive Summary
by Efraim Karsh
by Efraim Karsh
{meforum.org} ~ Viewed from a 23-year vantage point, the Oslo "peace process" between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) stands as one of the worst-ever calamities to have hit Israelis and Palestinians... For Israel, it has been the starkest strategic blunder in the country's history – establishing an ineradicable terror entity on Israel's doorstep, deepening its internal cleavages, destabilizing its political system, and weakening its international standing. For West Bank and Gaza Palestinians, it has brought about subjugation to corrupt and repressive PLO and Hamas regimes – regimes that have reversed the hesitant advent of civil society in these territories, shattered their socioeconomic wellbeing, and made the prospects for peace and reconciliation with Israel ever more remote... http://www.meforum.org/blog/2016/09/karsh-oslo-disaster
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Brigitte Gabriel: Stop nObama’s Refugee
Resettlement More Than 20 Percent
Of Muslims Are Terrorists
by Dylan
{gopthedailydose.com} ~ Brigitte Gabriel hosted and spoke at the 2016, ACT for America’s National Conference and Legislative Briefing. She addressed the group in common sense terms regarding the efforts to control the threat of radical Islamic terrorism... supporting the logical steps advocated by Donald Trump as a means to defend ourselves and loved ones from the scourge that Hussein nObama and his regime are unleashing upon our nation. Gabriel told the group, “Most experts agree that more than twenty percent of Muslims are radicals. It is practically impossible to identify this group from the seventy-five or eighty percent who are not radicals; impossible. So I’m going to give you an example.” Ms. Gabriel continues, “Let’s say twenty percent of Chinese people are infected with a disease that is fatal on contact; fatal on contact. Would we just continue to allow Chinese to enter America rather than be called Chinaphobic? Or would we take the sensible approach of halting Chinese entering the country until we can figure out some way to know who was the carrier of the disease that is fatal on contact? Such as suicide bombers or terrorists when it comes to the refugee population.”... http://gopthedailydose.com/2016/09/15/brigitte-gabriel-stop-obamas-refugee-resettlement-20-percent-muslims-terrorists/
1st VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55KOiF50W0o
2nd VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVG2_jgDGsc
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Retired General Warns What Happens
When You Disagree With nObama
by Charles Campbell
{westernjournalism.com} ~ Retired four-star general and Fox News military analyst Gen. Jack Keane says disagreeing with President Barack nObama can be dangerous for the careers of military leaders.
In a radio interview on Kilmeade & Friends, Keane said there is a pattern of generals who disagree with the president leaving the military earlier than expected.
“It’s also a fact that a number of our general officers, not all of them but a number of them, were asked to leave before what would normally be accepted as the routine tenure for that particular position, and Gen. (James) Mattis is a case in point who had very strong views on Iran,” Keane said.
Keane has been a longtime critic of nObama’s foreign policy prescriptions, even going so far as to warn Congress that we are losing the war with Islamic State, and adding, “Moreover, I can say with certainty that this nObama’s strategy will not defeat ISIS.”
“Gen. Micheal Flynn, who you know very well and had on your show, was an outspoken proponent for understanding radical Islam, how dangerous this particular threat was and was trying to communicate that, he was not able to serve out his full tenure,” Keane told host Brian Kilmeade. “So yes, that’s another fact that we can substantiate, that there were generals who did leave earlier than what their tenure would be and the characteristic they all shared together is they did disagree with the administration on various points.”
Keane explained that when nObama declared his intention to defeat ISIS, he severely restricted the military’s options right from the beginning.
According to Keane, a normal military campaign procedure usually includes officials putting together different plans, each one detailing the various levels of risk. The president then makes a judgment call based on the plan, something that never happened under the current administration.
nObama wanted no boots on the ground and no civilian casualties for the air campaign. These demands hampered efforts to swiftly defeat ISIS.
When discussing the Iranian nuclear deal, Keane pointed out that Iran always cheats and the only reason we know that is not because of inspection, but because of informants. Iran is attempting to show it is the dominant power in the Middle East and the U.S. is no longer a strong ally.
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump echoed the concerns of Keane on Wednesday during the nationally televised “Commander in Chief” forum.
“I think under the leadership of Barack nObama and liar-Hillary Clinton, the generals have been reduced to rubble,” Trump told host Matt Lauer.
“They have been reduced to a point where it’s embarrassing to our country. … And I can just see the great, as an example, Gen. George Patton spinning in his grave as ISIS, we can’t beat.”
Retired Lt. Gen. Flynn echoed Trump’s sentiments, telling Fox and Friends on Thursday the Republican nominee was “absolutely right.”
“I mean, there’s a lot of frustration within the ranks and there’s a lot of frustration I know in the senior leadership about what we’re not able to do,” Flynn added.
Flynn acknowledged that he thought Trump respected the military and its leaders, and had refreshing solutions that are completely opposite to those coming from the nObama administration.
“Donald Trump has enormous respect for our military, for our military leaders and he also said last night for our intelligence professionals,” Flynn said. “I know I have been in a couple of these intelligence briefings that have been in stark contrast to the policy decisions we are seeing coming out of this White House. So this is a very dangerous time.”
In a radio interview on Kilmeade & Friends, Keane said there is a pattern of generals who disagree with the president leaving the military earlier than expected.
“It’s also a fact that a number of our general officers, not all of them but a number of them, were asked to leave before what would normally be accepted as the routine tenure for that particular position, and Gen. (James) Mattis is a case in point who had very strong views on Iran,” Keane said.
Keane has been a longtime critic of nObama’s foreign policy prescriptions, even going so far as to warn Congress that we are losing the war with Islamic State, and adding, “Moreover, I can say with certainty that this nObama’s strategy will not defeat ISIS.”
“Gen. Micheal Flynn, who you know very well and had on your show, was an outspoken proponent for understanding radical Islam, how dangerous this particular threat was and was trying to communicate that, he was not able to serve out his full tenure,” Keane told host Brian Kilmeade. “So yes, that’s another fact that we can substantiate, that there were generals who did leave earlier than what their tenure would be and the characteristic they all shared together is they did disagree with the administration on various points.”
Keane explained that when nObama declared his intention to defeat ISIS, he severely restricted the military’s options right from the beginning.
According to Keane, a normal military campaign procedure usually includes officials putting together different plans, each one detailing the various levels of risk. The president then makes a judgment call based on the plan, something that never happened under the current administration.
nObama wanted no boots on the ground and no civilian casualties for the air campaign. These demands hampered efforts to swiftly defeat ISIS.
When discussing the Iranian nuclear deal, Keane pointed out that Iran always cheats and the only reason we know that is not because of inspection, but because of informants. Iran is attempting to show it is the dominant power in the Middle East and the U.S. is no longer a strong ally.
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump echoed the concerns of Keane on Wednesday during the nationally televised “Commander in Chief” forum.
“I think under the leadership of Barack nObama and liar-Hillary Clinton, the generals have been reduced to rubble,” Trump told host Matt Lauer.
“They have been reduced to a point where it’s embarrassing to our country. … And I can just see the great, as an example, Gen. George Patton spinning in his grave as ISIS, we can’t beat.”
Retired Lt. Gen. Flynn echoed Trump’s sentiments, telling Fox and Friends on Thursday the Republican nominee was “absolutely right.”
“I mean, there’s a lot of frustration within the ranks and there’s a lot of frustration I know in the senior leadership about what we’re not able to do,” Flynn added.
Flynn acknowledged that he thought Trump respected the military and its leaders, and had refreshing solutions that are completely opposite to those coming from the nObama administration.
“Donald Trump has enormous respect for our military, for our military leaders and he also said last night for our intelligence professionals,” Flynn said. “I know I have been in a couple of these intelligence briefings that have been in stark contrast to the policy decisions we are seeing coming out of this White House. So this is a very dangerous time.”
The Front Page Cover
2016 The truth will set you free
Featuring:
Incident in Hangzhou
by Charles Krauthammer
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liar-Hillary's Unhealthy Credibility
As we reported Sunday, liar-Hillary Clinton was filmed collapsing after leaving early from that morning's 9/11 memorial tribute. The initial explanation released by her campaign was that she had become overheated. Hours later, the narrative changed as liar-Hillary emerged from her daughter's apartment waving and declaring that she felt great. It was then revealed that liar-Clinton had been diagnosed with pneumonia by her doctor on Friday, two days prior to her collapse.
Before this latest episode, questions about the status of liar-Hillary's health had been met by her campaign with accusations of unsubstantiated "conspiracy" theories or with dismissive references to minor dehydration issues. Bill liar-Clinton unhelpfully suggested such dehydration happened "frequently — not frequently, rarely but on more than one occasion." In any case, what has become increasingly evident is that liar-Clinton, similar to her responses to questions regarding her private email scandal and her involvement in Benghazi, opts for obfuscation rather than transparency every time.
Donald Trump declared that he will release his medical records and that liar-Hillary should follow suit. But yesterday, when liar-Hillary was questioned by CNN's Anderson Cooper as to why she had not revealed her pneumonia diagnosis sooner, her response was once again to deflect. She said, "Well, I just didn't think it was going to be that big a deal." All her explanation has done is fuel speculations that she is hiding some other more significant health issue. liar-Hillary's instinct to cover up rather than be open and honest effectively turned a minor news incident into a major campaign problem. As Charles Krauthammer noted, "[T]his is another case of the cover-up being worse than the crime." And her handling of this latest issue only serves as further evidence that her credibility is what's truly unhealthy. ~The Patriot Post
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NFL Throws the White Flag
This past weekend, a weekend on which we as a nation remembered those who 15 years ago died in the worst terrorist attack America has ever endured, witnessed both displays of respect and foolish insult. Appropriately, many gathered in solemn reflection at the 9/11 memorials at both the Pentagon and World Trade Center. It was a time to reflect upon how suddenly our nation was challenged by evil and changed in response to that challenge. However, there are those who through willful ignorance based on Leftist elitism deem our great nation too flawed to show even the most basic respect and honor. A nation which offers its citizens more rights and opportunity than most other peoples throughout history are privileged to experience.
This ignorant elitism was on display at several NFL football stadiums on Sunday and again Monday night as several players refused to stand for the national anthem, choosing to kneel or raise their fists in protest. This ignorant elitism wasn't confined to the sidelines, either, but was pushed by even NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, who when questioned about the appropriateness of players refusing to stand said, "You know, we encourage our players to be respectful. We want them to do this so. But they also have rights. And we have to respect that." How does one even know what constitutes "respect" from that comment?
Obviously, players are entitled to their various opinions as are all Americans, but the NFL as a private enterprise is fully within its rights to discipline players for conduct it views as inappropriate. A recent example is Goodell's four-game suspension of Tom Brady for "deflate gate." Or, if you prefer ironic contrast, the NFL on Sunday stuck to its strict uniform policy and would not allow players to wear shoes that were "patriotic" in design and color as a tribute to the 9/11 fallen.
The bottom line is that the NFL has become so blinded by its growing desire to adhere to leftist ideology that it cannot even recognize the hypocrisy of its own statements. ~The Patriot Post
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liar-Hillary Caught Using A Body Double
by Patrick Mankin
{absoluterights.com} ~ We are being lied to on an epic scale. She actually used a body double and expected that no one would notice… I’ve already gone into the reasons why that is nothing but a blatant lie. What happened after is an entirely different level of strange. In the video, you see a very healthy and even younger looking “liar-Hillary Clinton” emerge from her daughter’s apartment acting looking normal as if nothing happened to her at all. Again, not the look of someone with the infectious disease pneumonia... http://absoluterights.com/hillary-caught-using-body-double/
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North Korea and the Delusions
of International Diplomacy
by Bruce Thornton
{frontpagemag.com} ~ Last week North Korea conducted its fifth nuclear test, this one a 10-kiloton, miniaturized warhead that can be put on a missile. If North Korean claims are true, this successful test, along with the 20 long-range missile tests conducted this year... shows that a rogue thug state is on the brink of being able to send a nuclear-tipped missile as far as Chicago. President nObama responded with the usual empty diplomatic bluster, threatening “additional significant steps, including new sanctions to demonstrate to North Korea that there are consequences to its unlawful and dangerous actions.” Once again, the magical thinking of international diplomacy puts our national interests and security in mortal danger. We’re well beyond a century’s worth of the delusional idealism of what historian Corelli Barnett calls “moralizing internationalism.” This is the notion that non-violent diplomatic “engagement,” economic sanctions, and transnational covenants and institutions like the U.N. can deter or stop aggression without a credible threat to use force... http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/264146/north-korea-and-delusions-international-diplomacy-bruce-thornton
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Afghanistan: Taliban Insurgency
at Worst Point Since 2001
by Alice Greene
{punchingbagpost.com} ~ United Nations data shows that the Taliban’s power in Afghanistan has reached the highest point since its regime was overthrown by the US-led invasion in 2001... This is a massive failure for President nObama, who centered his re-election campaign on ending the war by 2014. According to a UN report obtained by the New York Times, more than 50% of Afghanistan is rated as having a “substantial, high, or extreme level of risk…more than at any time since the American invasion ousted the Taliban in 2001.” This announcement followed the evacuation of four UN provincial offices in September 2015 – the biggest evacuation the UN has ever conducted in response to a security threat... http://punchingbagpost.com/afghanistan-taliban-insurgency-at-worst-point-since-2001
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New ISIS Military Chief Trained
by nObama Administration
by Alex Newman
{thenewamerican.com} ~ Yet another top military leader for the Islamic State, or ISIS, was exposed as having been trained by the U.S. government — this one as recently as 2014 and on American soil... according to media reports confirmed as accurate by the U.S. State Department. The ISIS military leader also said in a video that he was secretly trained in Russia. The terror leader in question, Colonel Gulmurod Khalimov, who is originally of Tajikistan, is the new “minister of war” for ISIS, according to Iraq News and other sources. He took over ISIS forces after the previous U.S. government-trained ISIS military chief, Tarkhan Batirashvili (a.k.a. Abu Omar al Shishani), was reportedly killed. U.S. authorities said Khalimov, the 41-year-old new ISIS military chief, received “appropriate vetting” prior to his advanced military and terror training by the U.S. State Department, including during the terms of liar-Hillary Clinton and John hanoi-Kerry. The former Tajik official's involvement with ISIS apears to have been first reported by CNN last year, before he became “minister of war” for the terror group...
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HSBC case blows lid off
liar-Clintons' offshore empire
by Jerome R. Corsi
{wnd.com} ~ The arrest of the head of global foreign exchange cash trading at HSBC bank may shed new light on suspicions the liar-Clinton Foundation has been involved in illegal offshore money-laundering operations on a massive scale... The investigation into HSBC currency trader Mark Johnson and associate Stuart Scott for their alleged role in a “conspiracy to rig currency benchmarks” by front-running customer orders has escalated to the point where the Department of Justice is threatening to tear up a 2012 agreement to fine HSBC a historic $1.9 billion for money-laundering violations in lieu of criminal prosecutions. At issue is whether or not HSBC has honored the 2012 deferred-prosecution agreement in which the bank agreed to establish internal review procedures to catch and punish potentially criminal activities by employees... http://www.wnd.com/2016/09/hsbc-case-blows-lid-on-clintons-offshore-empire/
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The Chinese Military Buildup on American Soil
by Dave Hodges
{thecommonsenseshow.com} ~ Why did the Chinese call for gun control after Sandy Hook? Why did the Chinese hack into the VA and steal the names and addresses of 21 veterans? Simple, they need to disarm America as much as possible before they invade... As Steve Quayle and I have both reported, why are Chinese, under the cover of the UN, being spotted in Virginia, Texas and Arizona. Answer: They are are already here. The time is near. We already know that the United Nations is preparing to seize your guns. Will the Chinese military be the vanguard force in the effort to seize American guns? A very simple dot connecting exercise would suggest that will be the case... http://www.thecommonsenseshow.com/2016/09/14/the-chinese-military-buildup-on-american-soil/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-chinese-military-buildup-on-american-soil
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The Mental Health Diagnosis
of liar-Hillary Clinton
by Dave Hodges
{thecommonsenseshow.com} ~ While liar-Hillary is being looked at for Parkinson’s, there is an unanswered question as to regard to her mental health... Is liar-Hillary Clinton mentally ill? We call her a sociopath and a psychopath. But is she? Modern psychologists say that she suffers from Anti-Social Personality Disorder. What does that mean with regard to her leadership. What would a Presidency look like with regard to liar-Clinton’s mental health? The results of this mental health summary of liar-Clinton are frightening. The United States of America is presently undergoing a mental health crisis. An estimated 26.2% of Americans ages 18 and older suffer from a diagnosable mental disorder in a given year. This figure translates to almost 60 million people who have a diagnosable mental illness. Even though mental disorders are widespread within the population, the main burden of illness is concentrated in a much smaller proportion, which is confined to about 6% of the population, or about 1 in 17 who suffer from a serious mental illness. In nearly half (45%) of those with any mental disorder, they meet criteria for two or more disorders. In the U.S., mental disorders are diagnosed based on the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, fourth edition (DSM-V)...
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Barak slams Israel-US defense agreement
by Arutz Sheva Staff
{israelnationalnews.com} ~ In an op-ed written by former Prime Minister Ehud Barak that was published Wednesday in the Washington Post, Barak slammed the Prime Minister’s leadership, describing the level of mistrust between the United States and Israel... “Israel will receive $3.8 billion a year,” Barak wrote, referring to yesterday’s agreement, “an important contribution to our security but far less than what could have been obtained before the prime minister chose to blatantly interfere with U.S. politics.” Barak explained that this agreement is indicative of the level of mistrust between Prime Minister Netanyahu and the American administration and criticized the deal itself saying, “given the more than 20 percent cumulative rise in the cost of arms since the last 10-year agreement entered into force (in 2007), the newly agreed-upon amount represents no greater purchasing power - and even these funds will be conditioned on Israel refraining from requesting additional funding from Congress. Accentuating the degree of mistrust, according to new details reported Wednesday, the administration secured an Israeli written commitment to return any additional money that Congress might provide. In the past, Congress has added - with White House consent - $600 million to $700 million every year for Iron Dome and other defense systems.”... http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/217844
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How Hispanics, Blacks Have
Fared in nObama Economy
by Fred Lucas
{dailysignal.com} ~ President Barack nObama will be speaking this week for the last time during his presidency to annual dinners for black and Hispanic members of Congress, even as his record for the two largest minority groups in the country is at best questionable... based on government numbers. A Census Bureau report this week found wages have climbed back to pre-recession levels in 2015, including for blacks and Hispanics. However, throughout nObama’s two terms, the highest unemployment rates continue to be among African-Americans and Hispanics, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The president’s policies haven’t helped either group, said Horace Cooper, co-chairman of Project 21, a black conservative group...How is nObama's approval rating higher then as its ever been before? Something smell fishy to me. http://dailysignal.com/2016/09/14/how-hispanics-blacks-have-fared-in-obama-economy/?utm_source=TDS_Email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=MorningBell&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTVRKbVlXWmpNVFE1WmpnNCIsInQiOiJVMXZqZ1hIOGZVN05sMEtTZzFnUkhMd3U0WlkwSXpcL1lGbmlcL0NhOEFVY0pzb1pic3JtWE1RalFBTHRVYUR1cUVsYUxLVW0ydElRVnRrTmgwYk4xNGhuK2ozcWM5VW9vbzVnYk02UzQ5dWdVPSJ9
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Living With The Dialectic
by HERBERT LONDON
by HERBERT LONDON
{familysecuritymatters.org} ~ For devotees of Marxist-Leninist dialectical materialism the world is in motion and "progress" occurs through struggles. It follows the Hegelian principle that an evolving thesis morphs into anti-thesis resulting in synthesis... Thus history is not the unfolding of spirit or individual intervention, but of class struggle through violent revolution which is inexorable. Since all things contain within themselves internal contradictions, which are the primary cause of motion, they ipso facto possess the seeds of their own destruction. Hence the strategy for historical evolution is using the existing methods of free will to undermine freedom. For example, applying the freedom of expression guaranteed by the First Amendment allows for the expression of a theory on which free speech is not permitted. It is noteworthy that Black Lives Matter has been united with the Muslim Brotherhood in attacking the state of Israel since both of these organizations, intolerant of oppositional positions, employ the Constitution to brow-beat the American public, an almost classic use of the dialectic. Recently George Soros' Open Society Justice Initiative called for international regulation of private decisions on what information should be taken off the internet and what should remain. It is ironic - in an Orwellian sense - that an "open society" is calling for a closed society. Presumably there are those in Washington or perhaps in George Soros' circle who are best prepared to tell us what should be on the internet... http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/living-with-the-dialectic?f=must_reads
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Incident in Hangzhou
by Charles Krauthammer
{freedomsback.com} ~ The president of the United States lands with all the majesty of Air Force One, waiting to exit the front door and stride down the rolling staircase to the red-carpeted tarmac. Except that there is no rolling staircase. He is forced to exit — as one China expert put it rather undiplomatically — through “the ass” of the plane.
This happened Saturday at Hangzhou airport. Yes, in China. If the Chinese didn’t invent diplomatic protocol, they surely are its most venerable and experienced practitioners. They’ve been at it for 4,000 years. They are the masters of every tributary gesture, every nuance of hierarchical ritual. In a land so exquisitely sensitive to protocol, rolling staircases don’t just disappear at arrival ceremonies. Indeed, not one of the other G-20 world leaders was left stranded on his plane upon arrival.
Did President Xi Jinping directly order airport personnel and diplomatic functionaries to deny Barack nObama a proper welcome? Who knows? But the message, whether intentional or not, wasn’t very subtle. The authorities expressed no regret, no remorse and certainly no apology. On the contrary, they scolded the press for even reporting the snub.
No surprise. China’s ostentatious rudeness was perfectly reflective of the world’s general disdain for President nObama. His high-minded lectures about global norms and demands that others live up to their “international obligations” are no longer amusing. They’re irritating.
Foreign leaders have reciprocated by taking this administration down a notch knowing they pay no price. In May 2013, Vladimir Putin reportedly kept the U.S. secretary of state cooling his heels for three hours outside his office before deigning to receive him. Even as nObama was hailing the nuclear deal with Iran as a great breakthrough, the ayatollah vowed “no change” in his policy, which remained diametrically opposed to “U.S. arrogant system.” The mullahs followed by openly conducting illegal ballistic missile tests — calculating, correctly, that nObama would do nothing. And when Iran took prisoner 10 American sailors in the Persian Gulf, made them kneel and broadcast the video, what was the U.S. response? Upon their release, John hanoi-Kerry publicly thanked Iran for its good conduct.
Why should Xi treat nObama with any greater deference? Beijing illegally expands into the South China Sea, meeting only the most perfunctory pushback from the U.S. nObama told CNN that he warned Xi to desist or “there will be consequences.” Is there a threat less credible?
Putin annexes Crimea and nObama crows about the isolation he has imposed on Russia. Look around. Moscow has become Grand Central Station for Middle East leaders seeking outside help in their various conflicts. As for Ukraine, both the French president and the German chancellor have hastened to Moscow to plead with Putin to make peace. Some isolation.
Iran regularly harasses our vessels in the Persian Gulf. Russian fighters buzzed a U.S. destroyer in the Baltic Sea. And just Wednesday, a Russian fighter flew within 10 feet of an American military jet. The price they paid? Being admonished that such provocations are unsafe and unprofessional. An OSHA citation is more ominous.
Add to that American acquiescence not just to ransoming hostages held by Iran, but to delivering the loot by unmarked plane filled with stacks of cold (untraceable) cash, like a desert drug deal. Why the stealth? Obviously to conceal the manner of the transaction from Congress and the American public. Some humiliations are so grotesque that even the nObama team can’t miss it.
Now the latest. At the G-20, nObama said he spoke to Putin about cyberwarfare, amid revelations that Russian hackers have been interfering in our political campaigns. We are more technologically advanced, both offensively and defensively, in this arena than any of our adversaries, said nObama, but we really don’t want another Cold War-style arms race.
Instead, we must all adhere to norms of international behavior.
It makes you want to weep. This KGB thug adhering to norms? He invades Ukraine, annexes Crimea, bombs hospitals in Aleppo — and we expect him to observe cyber-code etiquette? Rather than exploit our technological lead — with countermeasures and deterrent threats — to ensure our own cyber safety?
We’re back to 1929 when Secretary of State Henry Stimson shut down a U.S. code-breaking operation after it gave him decoded Japanese telegrams. He famously explained that “gentlemen do not read each other’s mail.”
Well, comrade, Putin is no gentleman. And he’s reading our mail.
This happened Saturday at Hangzhou airport. Yes, in China. If the Chinese didn’t invent diplomatic protocol, they surely are its most venerable and experienced practitioners. They’ve been at it for 4,000 years. They are the masters of every tributary gesture, every nuance of hierarchical ritual. In a land so exquisitely sensitive to protocol, rolling staircases don’t just disappear at arrival ceremonies. Indeed, not one of the other G-20 world leaders was left stranded on his plane upon arrival.
Did President Xi Jinping directly order airport personnel and diplomatic functionaries to deny Barack nObama a proper welcome? Who knows? But the message, whether intentional or not, wasn’t very subtle. The authorities expressed no regret, no remorse and certainly no apology. On the contrary, they scolded the press for even reporting the snub.
No surprise. China’s ostentatious rudeness was perfectly reflective of the world’s general disdain for President nObama. His high-minded lectures about global norms and demands that others live up to their “international obligations” are no longer amusing. They’re irritating.
Foreign leaders have reciprocated by taking this administration down a notch knowing they pay no price. In May 2013, Vladimir Putin reportedly kept the U.S. secretary of state cooling his heels for three hours outside his office before deigning to receive him. Even as nObama was hailing the nuclear deal with Iran as a great breakthrough, the ayatollah vowed “no change” in his policy, which remained diametrically opposed to “U.S. arrogant system.” The mullahs followed by openly conducting illegal ballistic missile tests — calculating, correctly, that nObama would do nothing. And when Iran took prisoner 10 American sailors in the Persian Gulf, made them kneel and broadcast the video, what was the U.S. response? Upon their release, John hanoi-Kerry publicly thanked Iran for its good conduct.
Why should Xi treat nObama with any greater deference? Beijing illegally expands into the South China Sea, meeting only the most perfunctory pushback from the U.S. nObama told CNN that he warned Xi to desist or “there will be consequences.” Is there a threat less credible?
Putin annexes Crimea and nObama crows about the isolation he has imposed on Russia. Look around. Moscow has become Grand Central Station for Middle East leaders seeking outside help in their various conflicts. As for Ukraine, both the French president and the German chancellor have hastened to Moscow to plead with Putin to make peace. Some isolation.
Iran regularly harasses our vessels in the Persian Gulf. Russian fighters buzzed a U.S. destroyer in the Baltic Sea. And just Wednesday, a Russian fighter flew within 10 feet of an American military jet. The price they paid? Being admonished that such provocations are unsafe and unprofessional. An OSHA citation is more ominous.
Add to that American acquiescence not just to ransoming hostages held by Iran, but to delivering the loot by unmarked plane filled with stacks of cold (untraceable) cash, like a desert drug deal. Why the stealth? Obviously to conceal the manner of the transaction from Congress and the American public. Some humiliations are so grotesque that even the nObama team can’t miss it.
Now the latest. At the G-20, nObama said he spoke to Putin about cyberwarfare, amid revelations that Russian hackers have been interfering in our political campaigns. We are more technologically advanced, both offensively and defensively, in this arena than any of our adversaries, said nObama, but we really don’t want another Cold War-style arms race.
Instead, we must all adhere to norms of international behavior.
It makes you want to weep. This KGB thug adhering to norms? He invades Ukraine, annexes Crimea, bombs hospitals in Aleppo — and we expect him to observe cyber-code etiquette? Rather than exploit our technological lead — with countermeasures and deterrent threats — to ensure our own cyber safety?
We’re back to 1929 when Secretary of State Henry Stimson shut down a U.S. code-breaking operation after it gave him decoded Japanese telegrams. He famously explained that “gentlemen do not read each other’s mail.”
Well, comrade, Putin is no gentleman. And he’s reading our mail.
http://freedomsback.com/charles-krauthammer/incident-in-hangzhou/
The Front Page Cover
2016 The truth will set you free
Featuring:
Mahmoud Abbas and other Soviet ghosts
by Caroline B. Glick
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Pentagon Politics, nObama Style
Barack nObama promised fundamental transformation, and boy has he delivered. The Pentagon has borne much of the brunt, too — nObama's overall social engineering has done a number on military morale. But he's also squeezed our Armed Forces on the budget front. In 2011, nObama and Congress hammered out sequestration, which capped spending increases across the board. nObama insisted then that the military bear a disproportionate part of the burden, and he's still tying any possible defense budget increase to demands for more domestic handouts. Republicans seek to work around this temporarily and cover more basic military readiness needs by using Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO) funds, which are exempt from the sequester. But nObama's defense secretary, Ash Carter, is pushing against this and even compiling what amounts to intelligence files on lawmakers so as to effectively apply pressure. Given that national defense is one of the few constitutionally enumerated powers on which the federal government is spending money, nObama's gambit is even more egregious and dangerous.
Yesterday's anniversary of 9/11 illustrates why nObama's policies are so dangerous. nObama attended the 9/11 ceremony at the Pentagon, where he insisted the moment of silence be moved up to accommodate his schedule. Each year, the moment of silence there takes place at 9:37 a.m., the exact moment the plane hit. Not this year.
But arguably the real offense is that he used his speech made much about how "diversity" is "still and always will be one of our greatest strengths." The problem is that nObama isn't referring to the American melting pot. Instead, this was a thinly veiled rebuke of Donald Trump's policy proposals for dealing with immigrants from terrorist-hub nations. nObama couldn't have chosen a more inappropriate time or venue for a high-brow lecture about the "progressive" vision of diversity. But we also don't expect any better from him. ~The Patriot Post
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Big Gov't — The Key Ingredient in Corruption
Robin Smith: For decades, conservatives have warned about the coordinated efforts of most of the American media to frame the news and political figures in a leftist narrative. While many are dismissive of these cries in the wilderness, the reason to heed these warnings and respond is rooted in the blatant corruption on display in our government and its beneficiaries.
Thomas Jefferson prophetically declared, "Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of the body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day." Through misinformation and propaganda, the American people now have a "rigged" system that benefits and serves only those whose treasury permits the hire of Beltway lobbyists and consultants or those within the inner circles of the governing elite with no accountability to its people.
Melodramatic, you say? When did you ever believe you'd live to see the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) politicized despite the safeguards around its appointment processes and governance to prevent partisan influence? Director James Comey's 10-year appointment, like all other directors, is intended to serve as a buffer from the politics of governing. Yet, as the headlines blare regarding the liar-Hillary Clinton email scandal, the true crisis lies in the coordination of the FBI with the Department of Justice to "investigate" but do nothing with the findings that reveal illegal activity.
Not only did liar-Clinton establish an external system of communication that circumvented safeguards to protect our national secrets against forces seeking intelligence to harm our nation, the very top "civil servants" employed to serve without favor or fear of political retribution willingly operated within that same system without alarm or whistleblowing. There are no records of reports to expose this violation of laws.
Where were the informers concerned about our nation? Where were the investigative reporters who could have uncovered this corruption?
The New York Times, among other news outlets, revealed, "Mrs. liar-Clinton said in her [FBI] interview it was 'common knowledge' that she had a private email address because it was 'displayed to anyone with whom she exchanged emails.'" In other words, it was apparently widely known that liar-Clinton circumvented law set in place to protect America's intelligence. And yet no one said a word.
So we have the law enforcement agency charged to find and expose public corruption and crime for the purpose of prosecution stepping past that role and advising the Department of Justice to refrain from any prosecutorial action despite clear proof of violations of law. How does this level of corrupt complicity occur within a system that's created to serve citizens, entrusted with taxpayer money and charged with such a monumental role and jurisdiction of international relations?
When an entity grows so expansive that its accountabilities are no longer to those it serves but to its own existence and internal stakeholders, corruption is the seed that takes root and chokes out the good of that agency. And while an organization does not have its own morality, it takes that of its leaders.
The State Department was the first executive department established in 1789 and is led by the secretary of state, who serves as the president's principal foreign-policy advisor. The element of protected communications is indisputably critical. Yet disregard by one individual grew into complicit participation of teams of support staff for liar-Hillary Clinton.
The FBI is the nation's prime law enforcement agency. The bureau declares on its website, "Our priority is to help protect you, your children, your communities, and your businesses from the most dangerous threats facing our nation — from international and domestic terrorists to spies on U.S. soil, from cyber villains to corrupt government officials [emphasis added]."
If the FBI is supposed to protect us from "cyber villains" and "corrupt government officials," the bureau has failed. Arguably, this is due to the politicized leadership of Director James Comey, who answers to the Attorney General Loretta Lynch — the friend of Bill liar-Clinton who likes to talk grandchildren on private planes in the midst of criminal investigations.
And, yes, the Justice Department, created to enforce the laws of the U.S. in order to administer justice, has been weaponized to advance Barack nObama's political agenda. Is Lynch fulfilling her sworn duty to support and defend the Constitution? No. The same oath is taken by the FBI's director. Has Comey fulfilled his pledge or is he complicit in permitting corruption? He too has failed. As secretary of state, liar-Hillary Clinton clearly abdicated her sworn duties on many fronts, just one of which was successfully fleecing the taxpayers to support her family's foundation while exposing key communications to cyberspies.
The corrupt bureaucracy of the U.S. government exists because the malignant size permits unseen and unknown activity. Those in oversight roles are more interested in their self-preservation than ferreting out criminal and unethical transactions.
Founding Father Samuel Adams summed up the sad state of those who tolerate corruption: "If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom ... crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen."
It's time our elected leaders prosecute corruption and remove it; steward the people's treasury with care; and do the job they claim to be obliged through oath to do. Otherwise, they are nothing but corrupt tyrants. ~The Patriot Post
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Why liar-Hillary Continues to Lie
by Roger Aronoff
{aim.org} ~ Why does liar-Hillary Clinton continue lying and covering up her various activities, whether it is her pneumonia, or the fact that she regularly sent and received classified information on a private, unsecured server, or that she traded favors, influence and access as secretary of state for large payments to her husband or her family’s foundation?... It is because if she told the truth, she would never be elected president, and would almost certainly end up behind bars. When asked why she decided to keep secret the medical diagnosis she received on Friday, she told CNN’s Anderson Cooper on Monday night that “I just didn’t think it was going to be that big a deal. It’s just the kind of thing that if it happens to you and you’re a busy, active person, you keep moving forward.” If liar-Hillary hadn’t been caught by a bystander’s cell-phone camera nearly collapsing as she was being helped into her limousine, we probably still wouldn’t know about her pneumonia. Her lack of transparency on this matter has forced the liberal media to acknowledge liar-Hillary’s health issues, which have fueled much speculation about other possible ailments she may be hiding. With the release of the notes on the FBI investigation into Mrs. liar-Clinton’s handling of classified material, and the Bureau’s interview with her, it becomes more and more apparent that she is trying to run out the campaign clock without admitting to her many lies. When liar-Hillary first explained the use of her private server, she said it was a matter of convenience, so that she could use just one device. But the FBI summary reveals that there were actually 13 mobile devices she used, plus several iPads. At least one, maybe two, of the phones were destroyed by a hammer... http://www.aim.org/aim-column/why-hillary-continues-to-lie/?utm_source=AIM+-+Daily+Email&utm_campaign=email091316&utm_medium=email
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Virginia Dems Blocking the Truth about 100s
of Non-Citizens Engaged in Voter Fraud
by Hans von Spakovsky
{theacru.org} ~ Election integrity foes mistakenly tell us voter fraud is a myth. So when legitimate voter fraud is actually discovered, these foes pretend it didn’t happen, fail to take any steps to investigate or prosecute such cases, or, even worse, try to cover it up... Take Virginia, where the State Board of Elections and some local election officials want to hide a blatant case of voter fraud involving noncitizens. When non-citizens register or actually vote, they violate both state and federal statutes because citizenship is a requirement to vote in both state and federal elections. Falsely claiming to be a citizen on a voter registration form is a felony that violates three different federal statutes. Voting by a non-citizen under 18 U.S.C. §611 is a strict liability offense. In other words, it “does not require proof that the offender was aware that citizenship is a prerequisite to voting.” Article II, Section 1 of the Virginia constitution requires a voter to be a citizen, and §24.2-1004 of the Virginia Code makes it a felony to vote when you are “not qualified to vote” in the state. So you would think state and local election officials would treat these crimes with appropriate seriousness. Guess again...Nothing happens to these cases of voter fraud. http://www.theacru.org/virginia-dems-blocking-the-truth-about-100s-of-non-citizens-engaged-in-voter-fraud/
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US bombs ISIS chemical weapons plant
by Barbara Starr
{cnn.com} ~ The US has bombarded an ISIS chemical weapons plant that was housed in a converted Iraqi pharmaceutical factory, a top Air Force commander said Tuesday... Air Force Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Harrigian, the commander of the US Air Force's Central Command, told reporters that 12 aircraft in all were used to hit the facility, which also served as an ISIS headquarters, at 50 different points. The strike follows a United Nations-backed report issued last month that found that both the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and ISIS have used chemical weapons in the five-year-long war that has ripped the country apart... http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/13/politics/isis-chemical-weapons-plant/
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Chaffetz Served FBI With Subpoena For
liar-Clinton Documents On Live TV
by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ The game playing, cover ups, foot-dragging and hiding of information is getting old and Rep Chaffetz and his committee members have had enough... House Oversight Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) opened the hearings into the production of documents to Congress related to the liar-Hillary Clinton investigation by the FBI. He asked Acting Assistant Director Herring what documents he believes Congress is not entitled to see. Herring tried to fill up the time by going into an explanation of how the FBI reached their conclusion. Upon hearing the direction the response was being taken Chaffetz stopped him and asked for him to respond to the philosophical question. Herring says “There’s more to it than a simple answer.” He struggled, unable to come up with a response so Chaffetz rephrased it a bit, asking, “What is it that I as a member of Congress or any member on this Congress, either side of the aisle, what is it that you believe we don’t have the right to see?” Herring just looked at Chaffetz and sweated, tapping his fingers together... http://rickwells.us/napolitano-chaffetz-served-fbi-subpoena-clinton/
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Sen Grassley Has Seen What The FBI Is
Hiding, It’s Earth-Shattering
by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ Three men were invited to testify before the House Oversight and Government Reform committee today. One was Bryan Pagliano, the liar-Clinton loyalist who had already received immunity from the DOJ on the matter... He defied Congress by no-showing and claiming through his attorney to be unwilling to participate in a wholly political motivated exercise. Another liar-Clinton facilitator, who is believed to have been the individual in charge of using Bleachbit to destroy the information on the server and make it unrecoverable took the Fifth Amendment. The third individual, Justin Cooper, did attend and did testify, revealing some very damaging information. He is believed to be the individual to took a hammer to one or more of liar-Hillary Clinton’s cell phones to prevent information from being extracted. He also was involved in setting up the initial liar-Clinton system and her own email domain and accounts... http://rickwells.us/napolitano-sen-grassley-has-seen-what-the-fbi-is-hiding-its-earth-shattering/
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Will liar-Hillary Admit She Has Parkinson’s?...
by TruthFeedNews
{truthfeed.com} ~ Photos showing a mysterious woman appearing to check liar-Hillary Clinton’s pulse just before she collapsed Sunday have sparked rumors about liar-Clinton’s ‘undercover nurse’... The photos show a woman in a dark blue dress seemingly checking the candidate’s pulse, and asking her to squeeze her fingers before she was rushed away from the Ground Zero 9/11 commemoration. Now Twitter is alight with rumors that someone is keeping tabs on liar-Clinton’s health at all times, and that the candidate may even be suffering neurological damage... http://truthfeed.com/will-hillary-admit-she-has-parkinsons-traveling-doctor-caught-giving-hillary-neurological-tests-for-parkinsons/23271/
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liar-Hillary Responsible for Benghazi
Discussion Gets HEATED on the Kelly File
{conservativevideos.com} ~ In a discussion that went from civil to a yelling match on the Kelly File, Richard Fowler loses his mind and things go from bad to worse... All because the blame for the deaths of four men in Benghazi was rightly put at the feet of former secretary of state liar-Hillary Clinton. Richard Fowler is hell bent on making sure he gets every last word in to defend his precious liar-Hillary. http://conservativevideos.com/hillary-responsible-benghazi-discussion-gets-heated-kelly-file-video/
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More U.S. Ransom Payments to Iran Revealed
by FRED FLEITZ
by FRED FLEITZ
{familysecuritymatters.org} ~ The nObama administration finally admitted that, in addition to the $400 million in foreign currency secretly flown to Iran on January 17, 2016, it also sent Iran two more planeloads of $1.3 billion in cash over the following 19 days... Since these payments coincided with the release of four Americans illegally held by Iran, they have been widely condemned as ransom. The nObama administration disputes this and claims that the payments were to settle a U.S. debt to Iran incurred during the rule of the Shah. However, after initially insisting there was no link between the $400 million payment and the release of the Americans, the administration said on August 18 that it delayed this payment as leverage to ensure that Iran would release the U.S. prisoners. The additional payments were an open secret in Washington ever since an August 22 New York Sun article by Claudia Rosett revealed 13 transfers of $99,999,999.99 from the Treasury Department to the State Department's "Judgment Fund" (a fund used to resolve foreign claims) on January 19, 2016, to pay an undisclosed foreign claim. Rosett wrote that the State Department acknowledged in letters to Congress in March that the United States paid $1.3 billion out of the Judgment Fund to Iran as interest on the $400 million payment but did not explain how this money was paid... http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/more-us-ransom-payments-to-iran-revealed?f=must_reads
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Lest We Forget—Connect the Dots!
by AMBASSADOR HENRY F. COOPER
by AMBASSADOR HENRY F. COOPER
{familysecuritymatters.org} ~ Last weekend's TV shows were full of photographic remembrances of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack on America that left nearly 3000 dead, another 6000 casualties and many, many more with heartaches and bitter memories... We are less safe today after 15 years in an undeclared war with an enemy we do not name that has cost trillions, many thousands more lives and casualties, and many, many more heartaches. We need a change. They reflected a number of common themes-the most important of which, in my opinion, is that we are even less safe today than we were on that clear morning 15 years ago, that shocked all Americans and launched a conflict that continues still without promise of resolution after a major expenditure of U.S. lives and treasure... http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/lest-we-forgetconnect-the-dots?f=must_reads
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European Leaders Discuss Plan
for European Army
by Soeren Kern
Eurocorps is an intergovernmental military unit of
approximately 1,000soldiers from Belgium, France,
Germany, Luxembourg and Spain,stationed in Strasbourg.
{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ European leaders are discussing "far-reaching proposals" to build a pan-European military, according to a French defense ministry document leaked to the German newspaper, the Süddeutsche Zeitung... The efforts are part of plans to relaunch the European Union at celebrations in Rome next March marking the 60th anniversary of the Treaty of Rome, which established the European Community. The document confirms rumors that European officials are rushing ahead with defense integration now that Britain — the leading military power in Europe — will be exiting the 28-member European Union... https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/8935/european-army
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Mahmoud Abbas and other Soviet ghosts
by Caroline B. Glick
{jewishworldreview.com} ~ Israeli Channel 1’s report Wednesday that in 1983, current Palestinian Authority Chairman and PLO chief Mahmoud Abbas served as a KGB agent is hardly the story of the year, but it does remind us of certain half-forgotten facts about the Cold War that are becoming ever more relevant today.
The PLO’s close and servile relationship with the KGB was first exposed in a systematic way in 1987, with the publication of Red Horizons: Chronicles of a Communist Spy Chief, the exposé of Soviet and Romanian Cold War operations written by former Romanian intelligence chief Lt.-Gen. Ion Pacepa. Pacepa, who defected to the US in 1978 after serving as the head of the DIE – Romania’s KGB – was the highest ranking intelligence officer from the Soviet bloc to ever defect.
In his book, Pacepa revealed that “the PLO was dreamt up by the KGB.”
Pacepa explained how Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, at the direction of Moscow, convinced Yasser Arafat to employ political warfare, centered on phony protestations that he had abandoned terrorism, to weaken the West’s resolve to defend itself and to cause Israel to doubt its own legitimacy.
Wednesday’s Channel 1 report on Abbas was based on new revelations from the Mitrokhin Archive. Vasili Mitrokhin was a senior archivist in the KGB who surreptitiously copied KGB documents for many years and hid his copies in his home. In 1991 Mitrokhin defected to Britain and took his archive of 25,000 copies of documents with him.
In 2004, the second volume of his edited archive was published. The volume, titled, The World Was Going Our Way: The KGB and the Battle for the Third World, focused on the KGB’s efforts to use the Third World as a strategic weapon in its battle against the West. The volume devotes two chapters to the KGB’s campaign against Israel.
Mitrokhin revealed that for the KGB, Israel was a target of subversion second only in importance to the US. The KGB fielded multiple political agents on the Israeli Left and multiple Palestinian agents in the PLO’s terrorist nexus.
According to the Channel 1 report, Abbas began his official service for the KGB in 1983.
In truth his KGB ties were already longstanding by 1983.
In 1982 Abbas received a doctorate from the Patrice Lumumba University – or KGB U – in Moscow. According to KGB defectors, 90 percent of the university’s faculty and staff received their paychecks from the KGB. Its purpose was to train KGB agents from the developing world, including terrorists. Abbas’s fellow alumni included master terrorist Carlos the Jackal and future Iranian dictator Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Abbas received a doctorate for a thesis denying the Holocaust. That is, he used the cover of academia to vilify the Jewish state and deny Jewish history and suffering – a practice that has been his stock in trade in trade ever since.
Rather than devote his energies to murdering Israelis, along the lines of the subversive program Ceausescu presented to Arafat, Abbas’s main focus was the subversion of the European and the Israeli Left.
Until the mid-1970s, Arab terrorists were unable to make inroads in Israel because there were no significant political forces in Israeli society that questioned the justice and morality of the state or saw the PLO as anything other than a terrorist organization bent on the annihilation of Israel and the massacre of its citizens.
The situation changed with the rise of the Likud and the Right to power in 1977. As the Likud supplanted Labor as the largest party in Israel, the far Left became more susceptible to subversion.
Abbas focused his efforts on developing ties to the Israeli far Left. His efforts culminated in the 1993 Oslo peace deal which Abbas negotiated with Israeli leftist activists affiliated with then-foreign minister Shimon Peres through his deputy Yossi Beilin.
The PLO’s success in convincing the Rabin- Peres government that it had abandoned its goal of annihilating Israel came two years after the demise of the Soviet Union. In other words, the KGB’s campaign of anti-Western subversion outlived the Soviet Union.
Indeed it carries on with ever greater force and consequence. Today, the subversive campaigns that first bore fruits in the Vietnam War have brought about a situation where increasingly, Western elites cannot accept the basic morality of their societies.
Consider the case of NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick. Last month Kaepernick caused a public outcry when he refused to stand up for the US national anthem at the beginning of a football game. Kaepernick defended himself by arguing that the US is immoral. “I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color,” he said.
Rather than defend the US against his assault and insist that its symbols required respect, President Barack nObama said only that Kaepernick had a right to his opinion.
Then there is Germany. This week Chancellor Angela Merkel’s CDU party came in third place in regional elections on Merkel’s home turf behind the far-right, anti-immigration AfD party.
Merkel’s political collapse owes entirely to her refusal to budge on her open border policies.
That policy enabled more than a million, predominantly Muslim, immigrants to stream into Germany last year. An additional 300,000 are expected this year.
Merkel’s associates claim that she operates under the conviction that Germany’s Nazi past precludes any attempt to protect German society from Muslim immigrants. For Merkel, Germany is inherently immoral and therefore has no right to defend its identity or culture.
The PLO’s close and servile relationship with the KGB was first exposed in a systematic way in 1987, with the publication of Red Horizons: Chronicles of a Communist Spy Chief, the exposé of Soviet and Romanian Cold War operations written by former Romanian intelligence chief Lt.-Gen. Ion Pacepa. Pacepa, who defected to the US in 1978 after serving as the head of the DIE – Romania’s KGB – was the highest ranking intelligence officer from the Soviet bloc to ever defect.
In his book, Pacepa revealed that “the PLO was dreamt up by the KGB.”
Pacepa explained how Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, at the direction of Moscow, convinced Yasser Arafat to employ political warfare, centered on phony protestations that he had abandoned terrorism, to weaken the West’s resolve to defend itself and to cause Israel to doubt its own legitimacy.
Wednesday’s Channel 1 report on Abbas was based on new revelations from the Mitrokhin Archive. Vasili Mitrokhin was a senior archivist in the KGB who surreptitiously copied KGB documents for many years and hid his copies in his home. In 1991 Mitrokhin defected to Britain and took his archive of 25,000 copies of documents with him.
In 2004, the second volume of his edited archive was published. The volume, titled, The World Was Going Our Way: The KGB and the Battle for the Third World, focused on the KGB’s efforts to use the Third World as a strategic weapon in its battle against the West. The volume devotes two chapters to the KGB’s campaign against Israel.
Mitrokhin revealed that for the KGB, Israel was a target of subversion second only in importance to the US. The KGB fielded multiple political agents on the Israeli Left and multiple Palestinian agents in the PLO’s terrorist nexus.
According to the Channel 1 report, Abbas began his official service for the KGB in 1983.
In truth his KGB ties were already longstanding by 1983.
In 1982 Abbas received a doctorate from the Patrice Lumumba University – or KGB U – in Moscow. According to KGB defectors, 90 percent of the university’s faculty and staff received their paychecks from the KGB. Its purpose was to train KGB agents from the developing world, including terrorists. Abbas’s fellow alumni included master terrorist Carlos the Jackal and future Iranian dictator Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Abbas received a doctorate for a thesis denying the Holocaust. That is, he used the cover of academia to vilify the Jewish state and deny Jewish history and suffering – a practice that has been his stock in trade in trade ever since.
Rather than devote his energies to murdering Israelis, along the lines of the subversive program Ceausescu presented to Arafat, Abbas’s main focus was the subversion of the European and the Israeli Left.
Until the mid-1970s, Arab terrorists were unable to make inroads in Israel because there were no significant political forces in Israeli society that questioned the justice and morality of the state or saw the PLO as anything other than a terrorist organization bent on the annihilation of Israel and the massacre of its citizens.
The situation changed with the rise of the Likud and the Right to power in 1977. As the Likud supplanted Labor as the largest party in Israel, the far Left became more susceptible to subversion.
Abbas focused his efforts on developing ties to the Israeli far Left. His efforts culminated in the 1993 Oslo peace deal which Abbas negotiated with Israeli leftist activists affiliated with then-foreign minister Shimon Peres through his deputy Yossi Beilin.
The PLO’s success in convincing the Rabin- Peres government that it had abandoned its goal of annihilating Israel came two years after the demise of the Soviet Union. In other words, the KGB’s campaign of anti-Western subversion outlived the Soviet Union.
Indeed it carries on with ever greater force and consequence. Today, the subversive campaigns that first bore fruits in the Vietnam War have brought about a situation where increasingly, Western elites cannot accept the basic morality of their societies.
Consider the case of NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick. Last month Kaepernick caused a public outcry when he refused to stand up for the US national anthem at the beginning of a football game. Kaepernick defended himself by arguing that the US is immoral. “I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color,” he said.
Rather than defend the US against his assault and insist that its symbols required respect, President Barack nObama said only that Kaepernick had a right to his opinion.
Then there is Germany. This week Chancellor Angela Merkel’s CDU party came in third place in regional elections on Merkel’s home turf behind the far-right, anti-immigration AfD party.
Merkel’s political collapse owes entirely to her refusal to budge on her open border policies.
That policy enabled more than a million, predominantly Muslim, immigrants to stream into Germany last year. An additional 300,000 are expected this year.
Merkel’s associates claim that she operates under the conviction that Germany’s Nazi past precludes any attempt to protect German society from Muslim immigrants. For Merkel, Germany is inherently immoral and therefore has no right to defend its identity or culture.
The sense among Western elites that Western culture and history as a whole are morally impaired has dampened their concern about their future. This diminished commitment to securing their societies into the future is most apparent in the West’s fertility rates, which have been below replacement rate for more than a decade. Last year for the first time, deaths in Europe outnumbered births.
The situation is similarly fraught on the other side of the former Iron Curtain. Russian society was economically and culturally broken by the Soviet defeat in the Cold War and by its post- Cold War leadership’s inability to present a life-affirming vision for a new Russia.
In some ways, post-Cold War Russia is the mirror image of the subverted West. While Western leftists insist on adopting the socialist economics of swelled welfare states, which given demographic realities are unsustainable in the long-term, to expiate their guilt for capitalism and colonialism, Russia’s leaders have largely abandoned their people to their fate.
Russia spends a bit more than a third of what OECD countries spend on public health. And the low investment shows.
According to the World Health Organization, a third of all deaths in Russia in 2012 were caused by alcohol. Russian male life expectancy is 64 – lower than it was a hundred years ago.
Drug addiction rates are soaring, as are HIV infection rates.
Like the Europeans, Russians have lost interest in the future, which increasingly will not include a Russia. With fertility rates below replacement levels, the UN estimates that by 2060, Russia’s working age population will have shrunk by 15 percent.
Due to the scarcity of workers, like Europe, Russia is experiencing massive, predominantly Muslim immigration. Russian immigration levels are second only to the US. In response, xenophobia is a large and growing social force in Russia.
According to David Satter, author of the recently released, The Less You Know, the Better You Sleep: Russia’s Road to Terror and Dictatorship under Yeltsin and Putin, Russia’s gloomy prospects, reinforced by the long-term outlook for reduced oil and gas prices, have brought about a situation where President Vladimir Putin and his associates do not think about the long-term future of their country. Their international considerations, specifically, are based on their assessments of immediate potential payoffs.
Since the Russian leadership doesn’t suffer from the civilizational neurosis the Soviets inflicted on the West, like the Soviet leaders before him, Putin’s short-term game empowers him to adopt policies with potentially high short-term payoffs regardless of the long-term dangers they create. Russia’s policies in Syria and toward Iran are case in point.
On the other side of the divide in Europe, the elites devote their remaining days in power to absolving themselves of imperialist and capitalist guilt. To this end, they have adopted the causes of those they falsely believe were most victimized by their predecessors.
The same is true, albeit to a lesser degree, in the US.
This then brings us back to KGB agent Abbas and his target, Israel.
Against great odds, and at a steep price, over the past 10 years Israeli society stopped listening to the voices on the Left parroting Abbas’s lies that Israel was born in sin, as a Western colonialist implant. Given the stakes, most Israelis today also have come to realize that our national self-confidence is a vital component of our long-term survival.
This understanding, along with a clear-eyed assessment of what drives our interlocutors in Moscow, Paris, New York and Brussels, must inform our foreign policy in the coming years.
When faced with foreign governments whose societies lack long-term prospects, Israel needs to put aside its yearning for long-term peace and stability and focus on short-term cooperative ties. It must also recognize that our partners’ interests are subject to change at a moment’s notice.
The revelation of Abbas’s KGB service requires us to recognize that the Soviets’ long game of subversion continues on today. Whether or not Western societies persevere and reject the Soviets’ central contention that they are unworthy of survival is not for Israel to decide. So, too, Israel will not convince the Russians to embrace a future based on freedom and the sanctity of life.
All we can do is wish them the best and play the short-term game with them – while keeping our long-term interests front and center in our minds.
The Front Page Cover
2016 The truth will set you free
Featuring:
Sicko Terrorist Lynne Stewart,
Still Hating Cops
by Michelle Malkin
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liar-Clinton Collapses at 9/11 Memorial —
loose lips-Biden on Standby
Questions raised by The Patriot Post last month regarding the failing health of Democrat presidential candidate liar-Hillary Clinton have been largely dismissed by the mainstream media. On Sunday, liar-Clinton was hurriedly escorted out of New York's 9/11 memorial service long before the ceremony was scheduled to conclude, and she collapsed before reaching her van. She was taken to Chelsea liar-Clinton's apartment for a medical check.
After avoiding her press pool, liar-Clinton later emerged from the apartment and was asked, "What happened?" She dodged the question, responding, "It's a beautiful day in New York." According to The New York Times, liar-Clinton was "feeling overheated." But the only thing heating up is the frequency of investigations into her abject malfeasance. The Washington Post insisted this incident "will catapult questions about her health from the ranks of conservative conspiracy theory to perhaps the central debate in the presidential race over the coming days." But only on the pages of The Washington Post and liar-Clinton's other sycophantic media have concerns about her health been classified "conservative conspiracy theory."
liar-Clinton's physician claims she was diagnosed last week with pneumonia, and that her uncontrollable coughing is associated with allergies. liar-Clinton's campaign team is trying to tie off any other questions about her health with that explanation, but as we noted in August, serious questions have persisted concerning her health after she fell and suffered a concussion in 2012, which resulted in hemorrhage on her brain. liar-Clinton's senior staff members have reported, "She is often confused." Of course, all the coughing could be that she has been choking on her own lies, as her chronic allergy is to the truth. As National Review's Kevin Williamson notes, "Given her history of rampant, craven, deep, broad, sustained, overarching, continuous, relentless dishonesty about practically every aspect of her personal and public lives, is it really so implausible that she'd lie about her health? No. She'd lie about her health even if there were nothing to lie about, just to keep in practice."
Fact is, liar-Clinton will now be under more pressure to release her medical records. Recall that in 1996, after releasing his medical records, Bill liar-Clinton said, "The public has a right to know the condition of the president's health." The same is true of presidential contenders, both liar-Clinton and Donald Trump.
The strategic question now: Will her pervasive health issues provide liar-Clinton an out, given her declining poll numbers? This could provide the Democrat National Committee an "October surprise" ticket. No doubt the DNC already has a liar-Clinton forfeit folder with signatures attached, and are prepared to appoint Joe loose lips-Biden in her place. As I have warned, loose lips-Biden has always been on standby, and a loose lips-Biden-Warren ticket will prove far more formidable than the liar-Clinton-Kaine ticket.
(Footnote: It is no small irony that liar-Clinton would collapse at this ceremony given that we outlined in detail many years ago the fact Bill liar-Clinton refused to green light U.S. Special Forces operators on at least two occasions when they had Osama bin Laden in their gun sights — two years before the 9/11 attacks.) ~The Patriot Post
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liar-Hillary's Deplorable Moment
Remember just last week when liar-Hillary Clinton's campaign concluded that it needed to send a more positive message focusing on "inclusiveness"? Well, liar-Hillary has a rather strange way of telegraphing her "inclusive" views. At a fundraiser in New York Friday, liar-Hillary said of Donald Trump supporters, "To just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump's supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. Right? The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic — you name it."
Not surprisingly she was called out for her insulting remarks. Trump's running mate Mike Pence said, "liar-Hillary, they are not a basket of anything, and they deserve your respect." With criticism growing, liar-Clinton attempted to walk back her insult just a bit. She stated, "I regret saying 'half' — that was wrong." Notice that she didn't regret calling Trump supporters "deplorables." After all, it was just a couple of weeks ago that she denounced his supporters as racist. She just regrets her estimation of "half." For this "regret" she gets a pass from the Leftmedia. Remember when Mitt Romney was lambasted by the media for his comment that 47% of Americans were dependent upon the government? He was right, but he shouldn't have said it because it was dismissive of a large segment of Americans and provided political fodder for nObama and the Democrats. What is deplorable is just how condescending liar-Hillary's views of many Americans are. Leftists like liar-Hillary believe that people serve the interest of government, rather than government being beholden to citizens via the Constitution. ~The Patriot Post.
Lawmaker Subpoenas FBI Official For ALL
liar-Hillary Case Records During House Hearing
by Chuck Ross
{dailycaller.com} ~ In a dramatic moment during a House hearing on Monday, Utah Rep. Jason Chaffetz slapped an FBI official with a subpoena for all documents related to the liar-Hillary Clinton email investigation... “Will the FBI provide to Congress the full file with no redactions of personal identifiable information?” Chaffetz asked Jason Herring, the FBI’s acting assistant director of legislative affairs, during a House Oversight and Government Reform hearing. “I cannot make that commitment sitting here today,” Herring said. Chaffetz has sought all of the records related to the FBI’s liar-Clinton email investigation, including all interview notes, which are referred to as 302s. Earlier this month, the FBI released a heavily-redacted report of its conclusions from the investigation... http://dailycaller.com/2016/09/12/lawmaker-subpoenas-fbi-official-for-all-hillary-case-records-during-house-hearing-video/
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nObama Does Not Accept N. Korea as a Nuclear State. Sorry nObama, Its Too Late
by Kerry Lear
{punchingbagpost.com} ~ Following North Korea’s recent warhead launch from a submarine, which was the country’s longest flight to date, nObama has finally issued a statement condemning the communist regime’s nuclear tests... After the newest launch of the nuclear warhead, North Korea said that it was designed to mount to a ballistic missile. "As North Korea has publicly said nuclear warheads have been standardized and customized to mount on ballistic missiles, we should keep in mind that North Korea's nuclear missiles are a realistic, imminent threat targeting us, not a simple threat for negotiations," said South Korea's President Park Geun-hye... http://punchingbagpost.com/obama-does-not-accept-n-korea-as-a-nuclear-state-sorry-obama-its-too-late
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Sweden: Who Do Christian Leaders Serve?
by Nima Gholam Ali Pour
by Nima Gholam Ali Pour
Christian leaders in Sweden have re-made Christianity into a religion that serves
the political agenda of an establishment whose extreme liberal
ideology lacks popular support.
{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ Christianity is a universal religion, therefore Christianity in Sweden should have many similarities with Christianity in other countries... If Christianity in Sweden begins to embrace a doctrine that has nothing to do with the universal world religion of Christianity, Sweden has then invented a new religion. If you look at how Christianity has developed in Sweden today, it seems that this is what Sweden is about to get. Stefan Swärd is an influential Christian pastor in Sweden with a background in the Evangelical Free Church in Sweden. In an op-ed from September 2014, Swärd describes Christianity the following way:... https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/8920/sweden-church-immigration
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IDF dismisses Syria claim it shot down 2 Israeli aircraft
{timesofisrael.com} ~ Syrian state television said the Syrian army shot down an Israeli fighter jet and drone Tuesday morning, a claim swiftly denied by the IDF... The statement from the Syrian army said one aircraft was downed over the skies of the Syrian town of Quneitra, near the Israeli side of the Golan Heights, and the other, a drone, was shot down closer to Damascus. “Our air defenses blocked the attack and shot down the military aircraft in the southern province of Quneitra and a drone west of Sa’sa” in the province of Damascus, said the statement carried by state news agency SANA. The IDF in a statement confirmed it had been shot at, but said aircraft used to target Syrian positions overnight were safe... http://www.timesofisrael.com/idf-denies-syrian-claim-it-shot-down-two-israeli-aircraft/?utm_source=The+Times+of+Israel+Daily+Edition&utm_campaign=13a032c0ef-2016_09_13&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_adb46cec92-13a032c0ef-54638825
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liar-Hillary Clinton's Real Illness Revealed
by George Rasley
{conservativehq.com} ~ liar-Hillary Clinton’s collapse during the 9/11 memorial service in New York on Sunday has kept TV doctors busy and spawned a host of conspiracy theories... liar-Clinton has a body double, she has Parkinson’s Disease, or ALS, or Alzheimer’s, or Bubonic Plague. Mrs. liar-Clinton may be ill, even gravely so, but that’s not the real issue that’s relevant to voters considering liar-Clinton’s bid for the White House. The issues that voters will ultimately weigh is not “is liar-Hillary Clinton too ill to serve?” it is, “why this web of lies about her health?” and “is this web of lies surrounding her health the lie that America’s voters – long-used to liar-Clinton’s reflexive lying – will finally refuse to ignore?”...
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Gowdy Grills FBI Official On Comey Cover Up,
Refusal To Cooperate With Congress
by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ The Comey liar-Clinton cover up continues as the House Oversight and Reform Committee interviews a panel of A representative of the FBI suggested to members of the House Oversight Committee during a hearing Monday that they file a Freedom of Information Act request for documents related to the bureau’s investigation of liar-Hillary Clinton’s private email use... FBI Director Comey has refused an invitation to attend a classified briefing on the failure of the Bureau to provide Congress with access to documents resulting from the year-long investigation into liar-Hillary Clinton’s illegal secret server. Committee Chairman Chaffetz then called a public hearing with Comey’s subordinates in a panel to attempt to force some transparency from the agency that is clearly engaged in a full and complete cover up of not only the actions of liar-Clinton, but of their own as well as the DOJ. The whole nest of corruption that is mislabeled as the Department of Justice is now clearly first and foremost an arm of the nObama political machine... http://rickwells.us/gowdy-grills-fbi-official-comey-cover/
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Dr. Zuhki Jasser MD: liar-Hillary
Didn’t Pass Out from Dehydration,
It was Cardio or Neurological Disorder
by Clyde
{gopthedailydose.com} ~ PROMINENT FORMER NAVAL & CONGRESSIONAL PHYSICIAN – liar-HILLARY DIDN’T PASS OUT FROM DEHYDRATION. IT WAS CARDIO OR NEUROLOGICAL RELATED... Dr. Zuhdi Jasser M.D. joined Steve Malzberg on Newsmax TV to discuss liar-Hillary Clinton’s health concerns. Dr. Jasser was a physician for the Navy and and physician for Congress told Steve liar-Hilary’s medical emergency was not caused by dehydration. Dr. Zuhdi Jasser: What she had was a syncopal episode. She passed out. That’s either cardiovascular or neurologic. Now, her team wants us to believe it is dehydration. She didn’t appear to be dehydrated and that doesn’t get fixed in 90 minutes. So I can tell you that it really appears and if I let a patient with the condition of syncope leave my office, and not get admitted, and get evaluated immediately, that would be malpractice. So there’s something going on. http://gopthedailydose.com/2016/09/12/dr-zuhki-jasser-md-hillary-didnt-pass-dehydration-cardio-neurological-disorder-video/
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Dobbs – liar-Clinton Health Antics Reveal Her
Fear of Truth, Penchant For Deceit
by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ Lou Dobbs points out that liar-Hillary Clinton’s aversion to the truth was accentuated by her efforts of the previous day to cover up what her staff described as “overheating” at the 9/11 ceremony... Dobbs had some difficulty with “Her escape to her daughter’s apartment, no race to the hospital even though she had just collapsed, the claims she had been diagnosed with pneumonia by her doctor two days earlier and no press coverage permitted of the whole thing for an hour and a half.” Mr. Dobbs labels a David Axelrod’s tweet asking “What’s the cure for an unhealthy penchant for privacy that repeatedly creates unnecessary problems,” as actually being a benevolent act, calling it “one of the kindest ways to express the event that I could imagine.” Dobbs translates what Axelrod described as a penchant for privacy into what it really is, “a mad fear of truth and exposure on her part. Her penchant is for dishonesty and deceit. Between her private email server, thousands of deleted emails, hidden ties between the liar-Clinton Foundation, her State Department, foreign governments, leaders and corporations, the penchant for privacy translates to cover up, lies and more lies. And the American public be damned.”... http://rickwells.us/dobbs-clinton-health-antics-fear-truth/
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SOUTHCOM Raises Alarms on Sunni Extremists
Infiltrating U.S. Southern Border
by LUIS FLEISCHMAN
by LUIS FLEISCHMAN
{familysecuritymatters.org} ~ On August 21st the United States Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) confirmed what the Menges Hemispheric Security Project has been warning about for a long time... the susceptibility of our Southern border to the infiltration of Middle East Terrorism. Most recently we warned that ISIS has the potential to operate in Latin America. Reporting on cooperation between Iran or Iran's proxy groups like Hezbollah and countries in Latin America such as Venezuela as well as drug cartels has been extensive. However, this time SOUTHCOM which is responsible for all military activities in South and Central America has explicitly talked about the infiltration of Sunni extremists from the Middle East, from the Afghanistan-Pakistan region and from East Africa broaching our southern border. These infiltrations, which are carried out with the help of professional smugglers trained in smuggling illegal immigrants from Latin America, represent a major problem given the threat of the Islamic State. What is more interesting is that neither the media nor even the Donald Trump campaign raised public concern over this report. It is particularly worrisome given the fact that Southern Command reported the infiltration of 30,000 individuals from the Middle East, which is the equivalent of 10% of the total illegal smuggling coming from the southern border... http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/southcom-raises-alarms-on-sunni-extremists-infiltrating-us-southern-border?f=must_reads
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What’s happening with FOX News?
by VINCENT GIOIA
by VINCENT GIOIA
{familysecuritymatters.org} ~ For years FOX News has been the go-to alternative to the biased main stream news, but no more. Anyone who has been paying attention has seen that what was once the so-called ‘fair and balanced' news outlet has morphed into a news channel with a less than impartial tone... The question is whether FOX News is shilling for liar-Clinton or for the Republican establishment who cannot abide the possibility of having a president Trump who will topple the establishment political apple cart. We won't know until after the election but regardless of the reason for FOX News current change in news presentation, it is clear FOX News is no longer ‘fair and balanced' on major issues of the day. Rupert Murdoch and Roger Ailes in whose hands FOX News has been held since its inception are no longer on the scene and management of the Murdoch news empire is now firmly in the hands of Rupert's liberal sons. However, under Rupert and Roger FOX News has been hugely financially successful - netting $1 billion annually, which is almost 20% of Rupert's flagship company, 21st Century Fox's total profits in recent years. But to ideological, already-wealthy, Rupert's heirs, money is not the object, pushing their ideology is. There is no doubt about the political leanings of Rupert's sons, Lachlan, 43, and James, 42, who now, without Roger Ailes, are in full charge of the news channel. Although both are listed as ‘co-chairmen', Lachlan is "non-executive" co-chairman and James is the CEO who will be making the day-to-day decisions, including decisions about programming at FOX News... http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/whats-happening-with-fox-news?f=must_reads
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Sicko Terrorist Lynne Stewart,
Still Hating Cops
by Michelle Malkin
{truthrevolt.org} ~ Old age and illness have not dulled the tongue or treasonous soul of convicted jihad-enabling lawyer Lynne Stewart.
She's as vile and violence-promoting as ever.
Freed from prison two years ago on "compassionate release" after being diagnosed with advanced breast cancer, the flaming 76-year-old radical is still championing left-wing massacres against the police.
And still kicking America in the teeth.
The Associated Press reported over the holiday weekend that the mouthy menace remains stubbornly devoted to "armed struggle."
Translation: Sicko Grandma Stewart -- as unrepentant and unapologetic as the rest of her rotten hippie pals in the bloodthirsty Weather Underground, Black Liberation Army and Black Panther movement -- continues to endorse murdering her ideological enemies in the name of peace and social justice.
"Armed struggle," is that what she would callously call the 9/11 jihad attacks on 3,000 innocent men, women and children? It's what she calls domestic terrorist attacks on our police officers.
Stewart was sent up the river in 2005 after a jury found her guilty of helping terrorist Omar Abdel-Rahman -- the murderous Blind Sheik -- smuggle coded messages of Islamic violence to outside followers in violation of an explicit pledge to abide by her client's court-ordered isolation.
Rahman's idea of armed struggle: Calling on Muslims to "destroy" the West and "burn their companies, eliminate their interests, sink their ships, shoot down their planes, (and) kill them on the sea, air, or land."
Rahman greenlighted terror against Americans that led to the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, the 1997 massacre of Western tourists in Luxor, Egypt, the USS Cole bombing and 9/11. Stewart helped foment even more violence by defying the trial judge's communications ban and transmitting Rahman's edicts of violence to his followers.
"From the moment she committed the first act for which she was convicted, through her trial, sentencing and appeals," Judge Robert Sack of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals wrote, "Stewart has persisted in exhibiting what seems to be a stark inability to understand the seriousness of her crimes."
It's not that she's unable to understand. Sicko Grandma Stewart just doesn't give a flying knitting needle.
Yet, despite her barbaric lack of compassion for her fellow Americans slaughtered by the Islamic jihadists and murderous radicals she aided and adored, the Obama administration pushed successfully to spring her.
Why? Connect the dots. They're family. Barack Obama was best buds with Chicago neighbor and convicted Weather Underground domestic terrorist Bill "guilty as sin, free as a bird" Ayers. Lynne Stewart defended Weather Underground cop-killer David Gilbert, who remains in prison after his conviction in the deadly 1981 armored Brink's vehicle robbery in Nyack, New York, that claimed the lives of two police officers and a private security guard. Waverly Brown, Edward O'Grady and Peter Paige were all military veterans from working-class backgrounds.
Gilbert's convicted felon partner in cop-killing crime was the remorseless Kathy Boudin, who was freed in 2003 and now teaches at Obama's alma mater, Columbia University. Their child, Chesa Boudin, was raised by Ayers and his wife and fellow Weather Underground terrorist, Bernardine Dohrn.
She co-led the group that planted a bomb at Chicago's Haymarket Square police memorial; robbed National Guard armories and banks; bombed the Pentagon, the U.S. Capitol, and the State Department; bombed the New York Department of Corrections; bombed a judge's home, several courthouses, and an ROTC building; and bombed Chicago police cars, the NYPD headquarters and other NYPD precincts throughout the 1970s.
Fast-forward to September 2016. Several Weather Underground killers are back teaching at the campuses that bred them. The Weather Underground's Chicago apologist is wrapping up two terms in the White House.
And the group's legal handmaiden is now serving out her golden years cheering Micah Xavier Johnson, the evil, racist gunman who ambushed and killed five Dallas police officers in July as Black Lives Matter-inspired racial revenge over cop-related shootings of black men in Louisiana and Minnesota. She also embraced Gavin Long, who shot three Baton Rouge cops (both black and white) a week after Xavier's Dallas cop massacre.
The hate-filled Stewart blamed the victims for joining the thin blue line. She called the cop-killers "avengers," not murderers of heroic husbands, fathers and grandfathers keeping the peace. Most perfidiously, she championed the police massacres as a "deterrent."
That's a clear, cold incitement to more violence and anarchy.
Sicko Lynne Stewart's freedom is a middle finger to all law enforcement officers, first responders, their families, and the families of victims of Islamic jihad.
Cancer or no, Stewart's compassionate release should be revoked immediately. She is a cancer on America.
She's as vile and violence-promoting as ever.
Freed from prison two years ago on "compassionate release" after being diagnosed with advanced breast cancer, the flaming 76-year-old radical is still championing left-wing massacres against the police.
And still kicking America in the teeth.
The Associated Press reported over the holiday weekend that the mouthy menace remains stubbornly devoted to "armed struggle."
Translation: Sicko Grandma Stewart -- as unrepentant and unapologetic as the rest of her rotten hippie pals in the bloodthirsty Weather Underground, Black Liberation Army and Black Panther movement -- continues to endorse murdering her ideological enemies in the name of peace and social justice.
"Armed struggle," is that what she would callously call the 9/11 jihad attacks on 3,000 innocent men, women and children? It's what she calls domestic terrorist attacks on our police officers.
Stewart was sent up the river in 2005 after a jury found her guilty of helping terrorist Omar Abdel-Rahman -- the murderous Blind Sheik -- smuggle coded messages of Islamic violence to outside followers in violation of an explicit pledge to abide by her client's court-ordered isolation.
Rahman's idea of armed struggle: Calling on Muslims to "destroy" the West and "burn their companies, eliminate their interests, sink their ships, shoot down their planes, (and) kill them on the sea, air, or land."
Rahman greenlighted terror against Americans that led to the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, the 1997 massacre of Western tourists in Luxor, Egypt, the USS Cole bombing and 9/11. Stewart helped foment even more violence by defying the trial judge's communications ban and transmitting Rahman's edicts of violence to his followers.
"From the moment she committed the first act for which she was convicted, through her trial, sentencing and appeals," Judge Robert Sack of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals wrote, "Stewart has persisted in exhibiting what seems to be a stark inability to understand the seriousness of her crimes."
It's not that she's unable to understand. Sicko Grandma Stewart just doesn't give a flying knitting needle.
Yet, despite her barbaric lack of compassion for her fellow Americans slaughtered by the Islamic jihadists and murderous radicals she aided and adored, the Obama administration pushed successfully to spring her.
Why? Connect the dots. They're family. Barack Obama was best buds with Chicago neighbor and convicted Weather Underground domestic terrorist Bill "guilty as sin, free as a bird" Ayers. Lynne Stewart defended Weather Underground cop-killer David Gilbert, who remains in prison after his conviction in the deadly 1981 armored Brink's vehicle robbery in Nyack, New York, that claimed the lives of two police officers and a private security guard. Waverly Brown, Edward O'Grady and Peter Paige were all military veterans from working-class backgrounds.
Gilbert's convicted felon partner in cop-killing crime was the remorseless Kathy Boudin, who was freed in 2003 and now teaches at Obama's alma mater, Columbia University. Their child, Chesa Boudin, was raised by Ayers and his wife and fellow Weather Underground terrorist, Bernardine Dohrn.
She co-led the group that planted a bomb at Chicago's Haymarket Square police memorial; robbed National Guard armories and banks; bombed the Pentagon, the U.S. Capitol, and the State Department; bombed the New York Department of Corrections; bombed a judge's home, several courthouses, and an ROTC building; and bombed Chicago police cars, the NYPD headquarters and other NYPD precincts throughout the 1970s.
Fast-forward to September 2016. Several Weather Underground killers are back teaching at the campuses that bred them. The Weather Underground's Chicago apologist is wrapping up two terms in the White House.
And the group's legal handmaiden is now serving out her golden years cheering Micah Xavier Johnson, the evil, racist gunman who ambushed and killed five Dallas police officers in July as Black Lives Matter-inspired racial revenge over cop-related shootings of black men in Louisiana and Minnesota. She also embraced Gavin Long, who shot three Baton Rouge cops (both black and white) a week after Xavier's Dallas cop massacre.
The hate-filled Stewart blamed the victims for joining the thin blue line. She called the cop-killers "avengers," not murderers of heroic husbands, fathers and grandfathers keeping the peace. Most perfidiously, she championed the police massacres as a "deterrent."
That's a clear, cold incitement to more violence and anarchy.
Sicko Lynne Stewart's freedom is a middle finger to all law enforcement officers, first responders, their families, and the families of victims of Islamic jihad.
Cancer or no, Stewart's compassionate release should be revoked immediately. She is a cancer on America.
http://www.truthrevolt.org/commentary/malkin-sicko-terrorist-lynne-stewart-still-hating-cops
AVOIDING THE STONES
Americans are IN A SLUMBER! We better wake up immediately or else we will perish as other foolish nations have. Complacency is our worst enemy; it will defeat us!!! We have a choice between two very dangerous candidates; both Progressives are no choice!!! If we cannot see we will be shown;unintended consequences are final strikes against ourselves. The end of the tunnel WILL be the end of us!!! Our stupor is our demise !!! And if I say, why can't we see, it is because we refuse to open our eyes!!!
The Front Page Cover
2016 The truth will set you free
Featuring:
The Enemy of My Enemy Is Not Always My Friend
by Erick Erickson
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Questions the FBI Did NOT Ask liar-Clinton
In July, when FBI Director James Comey declared liar-Clinton was "not guilty" of any indictable offenses, that is not the same thing as declaring her "innocent" of indictable offenses. The most significant revelation from the FBI's liar-Clinton interview notes, the subject of Mark Alexander's column, liar-Clinton the Consummate "Congenital Liar," is not the questions investigators asked liar-Clinton, but the questions they did NOT ask her. That would include question about her motives for concealment, etc.
Aside from waiting until their investigation was nearly complete before interviewing liar-Clinton — standard practice would have been to interview her early in order to corroborate her story — the FBI didn't do a thorough follow-up. The Wall Street Journal writes of the investigation notes, "[T]he report shows the FBI didn't pursue evidence of potential false statements, obstruction of justice and destruction of evidence."
- Agents didn't probe for liar-Clinton's intent in setting up the server in the first place.
- They bought Huma Abedin's story that she didn't know about the server until it became public, despite the fact that Abedin had a private email address on the server, and that she recommended contacts for the server to be set up in 2008.
- They allowed liar-Clinton aide Cheryl Mills, who is almost surely a part of the cover-up, to be present for the interview as liar-Clinton's "lawyer."
- And investigators were woefully incurious about the fact that liar-Clinton ordered 30,000 of her emails deleted after a congressional subpoena. Destruction of evidence is usually, well, frowned upon, but Comey's FBI looked the other way.
Oh, and they granted immunity to Paul Combetta, the computer expert who deleted liar-Clinton's emails. Usually, immunity is for lesser accomplices so a conviction can be obtained. Not this time. The Journal is correct to conclude, "The FBI's kid-glove treatment of Mrs. liar-Clinton raises serious doubts about the seriousness of Mr. Comey's probe. His July 5 public rebuke of her 'extremely careless' handling of secrets has masked that Mrs. liar-Clinton and her aides were given a pass on much of their behavior and dubious answers. The entire episode is another Jim Comey scar on the FBI's reputation." While liar-Clinton has declared this corruption saga is "over, period," there are dozens of Freedom of Information Act lawsuits already underway, primarily led by the intrepid folks at Judicial Watch, and many more disclosures that await the State Department's review and redaction of classified information. Most notably, a federal judge ordered liar-Clinton to answer — finally under oath — 25 questions prepared by Judicial Watch lawyers regarding her corruption — questions the FBI should have asked liar-Clinton. The answers to those questions are due on Sept. 29, but expect some legal maneuver to delay her responses. ~The Patriot Post
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Is Segregation Now OK?
At California State University, Los Angeles, segregation has come full circle. No, this isn't 1950s Alabama, but 2016 California, a bastion of "progressivism." The university is justifying dormitory segregation on the basis of it being the best way to combat "microaggressions" and "racially insensitive remarks." CSLA opted for this newly "inclusive" racially segregated housing at the request of the CSLA's Black Student Union. Evidently, "separate but equal" isn't considered segregation if it's requested by black students.
A similar story has arisen on the campus of Northern Kentucky University where a poster for "Welcome Black Week" was parodied by a "Welcome White Week" flier. The parody flier advertised such events as "White Lives Matter vs. Black Lives Matter" and "Pizza Party for Tolerance." The "Welcome Black Week" is an event that has been established on several campuses across the nation in recent years. Its objective is to help introduce incoming freshman to the black experience. Of course, the parody flier has prompted cries of racism and intolerance, so the NKU administration has dutifully launched an investigation to root out those responsible. Which leaves one to wonder: Is promoting racial segregation now the hip new trend for leftists? ~The Patriot Post.
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Palestinians: Bad News for Israel-Haters
by Khaled Abu Toameh
by Khaled Abu Toameh
Sheikh Abdullah Tamimi speaks at a seminar on
relations between Jews and Arabs
{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ By all accounts, Sheikh Abdullah Tamimi, who hails from an influential clan in Hebron, is an extraordinarily courageous and unique Palestinian... His bravery lies not in rescuing a child from a burning house, and his singularity lies not in donating his salary to an orphanage. Tamimi's courage and exceptionality showed up in a different sphere: he recently spoke at a seminar organized by Jewish residents of the settlement of Efrat, in Gush Etzion (south of Jerusalem). The seminar was held under the title, "Relations between Jews and Arabs in Gush Etzion." The event was attended by another courageous Palestinian, Khaled Abu Awwad, General Manager of the Israeli-Palestinian Bereaved Families Forum, a grassroots organization that promotes reconciliation as an alternative to hatred and revenge. Thanks to this courageous move, Tamimi has now been "disowned" by his clan. This is one of the most humiliating forms of punishment in tribal systems: the individual loses the support and protection of the clan and is boycotted socially -- weddings and funerals become very lonely affairs. Moreover, Tamimi is being labelled as a "traitor" and a "collaborator" with Israel... https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/8917/palestinians-abdullah-tamimi
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nObama’s Post Presidency Plans: Anti-Capitalism
Global Warming Venture Capitalism?
by Conor Coughlin
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Gowdy On liar-Clinton Benghazi Claims,
Criminal Email System, Cover Up And FBI Failure
by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ Rep Trey Gowdy (R-SC) sat down with Bret Baier for an interview on the topic of liar-Hillary Clinton. Baier started off with a clip of liar-Clinton demeaning the results of Gowdy’s Select Committee on Benghazi, in which she noted the amount of money involved and claiming they had found nothing... Gowdy replied, “Well she’s just demonstrably wrong” and went on to cite a number of examples. He noted, “The previous committees were wrong about who rescued us, the previous committees never bothered to look at why not a single wheel was turning towards our folks in Benghazi.” He also points out flaws of relying upon the report of the ARB. He also points out that new information garnered by his committee included the presence of the liar-Clinton racketeering server by way of following the trail of missing emails. He points to the fact that not a single asset was ever headed towards our folks in Benghazi is a really big deal. He recognizes the intervention by Gaddafi loyalists rescued the Americans and it was not the Libyan loyalists that were supposedly going to assist us is also huge...
http://rickwells.us/gowdy-clinton-benghazi-criminal-fbi/
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Tn0HiB2EnA
http://rickwells.us/gowdy-clinton-benghazi-criminal-fbi/
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Tn0HiB2EnA
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9/11 Commission Members:
Terrorist Threat Worse Than Ever
by shawn
{totalconservative.com} ~ According to Thomas Kean and Lee Hamilton, two members of the 9/11 Commission, terrorism did not end with the death of Osama Bin Laden. In fact, they say, the threat the U.S. faces from global terrorism may be worse today than it was when the Twin Towers came crashing down... “According to the Global Terrorism Index, terrorist activity reached its highest recorded level in 2014, the last year with available data, with 32,685 terrorist-caused deaths. In 2001, that figure barely exceeded 5,000. Out of 162 countries studied, 93 have suffered a terrorist attack,” they wrote in a USA Today op-ed. “The approach of the past 15 years, dominated by military counterterrorism operations, will not suffice,” they write. “We have yet to match our military might with an equal focus on the ideological aspects of the struggle. Until we do, this threat will not diminish.”... http://totalconservative.com/911-commission-members-terrorist-threat-worse-ever/
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liar-Hillary Health Scare Finally Becomes News
by Cliff Kincaid
{aim.org} ~ On Saturday, The Washington Post ran a story saying Donald J. Trump was a sexist for questioning whether liar-Hillary Clinton looked healthy and fit... One day later, its email service known as “The Post Most” carried the news by Chris Cillizza, “liar-Hillary Clinton’s health just became a real issue in the presidential campaign,” after she almost collapsed when leaving a 9/11 memorial service. But it gets better than that. Just a few days earlier Cillizza, who is also an MSNBC political analyst, had written a story, “Can we just stop talking about liar-Hillary Clinton’s health now?” Phrases like “eating crow” and “egg on their faces” easily come to mind. But this particular controversy is more instructive than an “I told you so” from those questioning Mrs. liar-Clinton’s physical and mental fitness for office. Obviously, the critics were right and the Post was wrong. But don’t look for any apologies from the paper that brought down Republican Richard Nixon and covered up for Democrat Barack nObama in 2008... http://www.aim.org/aim-column/hillary-health-scare-finally-becomes-news/
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Another Illegal nObamacare Bailout
Appears to Be on the Way
by Chris Jacobs
{nationalreview.com} ~ Congress should stop another massive usurpation of its authority by an imperial executive. As Ronald Reagan might say, “There they go again.” The nObamacare Perpetual Bailout Machine went into high gear again on Friday... in a typical late-afternoon news dump released by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). In a five-paragraph memo, CMS invited insurers to settle outstanding lawsuits regarding an nObamacare bailout program — providing K Street a handy roadmap to obtaining more of federal taxpayers’ hard-earned cash, which administration officials apparently will distribute to insurers on their way out the door. The lawsuits revolve around nObamacare’s risk-corridor program, one of two ostensibly temporary programs, scheduled to expire this December, that provided a transition to the new nObamacare regime. Plans with high profits would pay into the risk-corridor program, and their spending would offset deficits incurred by insurers with large losses...
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Iran threatened to shoot down US Navy
spy planes in the Persian Gulf
by Lucas Tomlinson
{foxnews.com} ~ Iran threatened to shoot down two US Navy surveillance aircraft flying close to Iranian territory in the Persian Gulf over the weekend... the latest in a series of recent provocations between Iran and the US military in the region, three US defense officials with knowledge of the incident told Fox News. On Sept. 10, a Navy P-8 Poseidon with a crew of nine and an EP-3 Eries with a crew of roughly 24, were flying a reconnaissance mission 13 miles off the coast of Iran, in the Strait of Hormuz and Gulf of Oman, according to officials. Iran’s territorial waters—like all nations--extend 12 miles into the sea, according to international maritime law... http://www.foxnews.com/world/2016/09/12/iran-threatened-to-shoot-down-us-navy-spy-planes-near-persian-gulf.html
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CNO Calls for New Rules with Iranians,
Russians to End Harassment at Sea
by Megan Eckstein
{usni.org} ~ The Chief of Naval Operations called for a set of rules to guide at-sea interactions between the U.S. Navy and Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy, calling recent harassment from IRGCN small boats “not helpful.”... Adm. John Richardson said today at the Center for American Progress that close encounters at sea from both the Iranians and Russian ships and planes are “potentially destabilizing” and can only produce negative outcomes. “The closer and closer you get with those sorts of things, the margin for error gets smaller, and human error can play a bigger and bigger role, so I think it’s very important that we eliminate this sort of activity where we can because nothing good can come from it,” he said... https://news.usni.org/2016/09/12/cno-calls-cues-like-rules-iranians-russians-deter-aggressive-moves?utm_source=USNI+News&utm_campaign=ff788f4223-USNI_NEWS_DAILY&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_0dd4a1450b-ff788f4223-231491269&mc_cid=ff788f4223&mc_eid=3999f18767
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hanoi-Kerry’s State Department Funneled
MILLIONS To His Daughter’s Nonprofit
by Ethan Barton
Chaffetz: FBI Tried To Recover
27 liar-Clinton Emails From Congress
by Kathryn Watson
{dailycaller.com} ~ FBI officials have asked House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform (HOGR) members to return 27 emails they gave the committee in a document dump from former Secretary of State liar-Hillary Clinton’s investigative file... The FBI asked HOGR Chairman and Utah Republican Rep. Jason Chaffetz’ committee to return the emails after including them in an Aug. 17 document dump that was supposed to be identical to an Aug. 16 document — but wasn’t, according to Chaffetz. “The problem is the second set had 27 emails more than the other one, which we were grateful for … only to have the FBI try to come back and recover those,” Chaffetz said in a Monday hearing with intelligence community officials over classifications and redactions from the FBI investigation into liar-Clinton’s use of a private email server at the Department of State...
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The Enemy of My Enemy Is Not Always My Friend
by Erick Erickson
{theresurgent.com} ~ Please be careful about Julian Assange. The man is hiding in an embassy in Britain to avoid being put on trial for rape and he is a propagandist for Russia who hates the United States and has been perfectly fine seeing people die who helped the United States root out Al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan. You really should read this by Jim Geraghty.
I do not think liar-Hillary Clinton is our enemy. She is a criminal, corrupt, crooked, lying politician who supports views and ideologies I find abhorrent. But she is a political opponent, not an enemy. If you really think she is an enemy, then you as a loyal patriot have the obligation to stop her from getting to the White House by any means necessary. But the fact that the words “secret service” just went through your mind tells me deep down you too know she is a political opponent and not an enemy.
But even if you refuse to concede that and you consider her an actual enemy, you must also consider that there are other enemies far greater than her. One of those is Russia and Julian Assange is a willful collaborator with the Russians against American interests. Assange has worked to undermine American national security interests and now works with Russian propaganda outfits to sow seeds of discords in the American democratic processes.
Assange is not our friend and by our I mean both “Americans” and “conservatives.”
Just meditate on this passage written in a left of center publication about Assange:
David Leigh and Luke Harding’s history of WikiLeaks describes how journalists took Assange to Moro’s, a classy Spanish restaurant in central London. A reporter worried that Assange would risk killing Afghans who had co-operated with American forces if he put US secrets online without taking the basic precaution of removing their names. “Well, they’re informants,” Assange replied. “So, if they get killed, they’ve got it coming to them. They deserve it.” A silence fell on the table as the reporters realized that the man the gullible hailed as the pioneer of a new age of transparency was willing to hand death lists to psychopaths. They persuaded Assange to remove names before publishing the State Department Afghanistan cables. But Assange’s disillusioned associates suggest that the failure to expose “informants” niggled in his mind.
This is a man perfectly willing to let good people who helped us after 9/11 be brutally murdered.
It would be dazzlingly humorous if Assange really had the documents he claims and they really did scuttle liar-Hillary Clintons’ road to the White House. Rooting for injuries in this is commendable. But rooting for Assange is not. Did I mention he is hiding in an embassy to avoid a trial for rape and has routinely sided with tyrannical despots around the world who hate the very freedoms we cherish?
The enemy of our enemy is not always our friend. Sometimes that enemy is far worse. In seeking to stop liar-Hillary Clinton from getting into the White House, conservatives need to be careful that they do not make short term decisions that have negative long term consequences. Aligning with Assange would have long term, devastating consequences because with Assange comes his Russian puppet masters.
If you hate liar-Clinton so much that you would side with Vladimir Putin, a man who is aggressively working to destabilize Western democracies, you are the enemy of our republic, not liar-Clinton. Putin means you harm, Assange is Putin’s puppet, and if you do not realize it, perhaps you need to step away from the political process.
I do not think liar-Hillary Clinton is our enemy. She is a criminal, corrupt, crooked, lying politician who supports views and ideologies I find abhorrent. But she is a political opponent, not an enemy. If you really think she is an enemy, then you as a loyal patriot have the obligation to stop her from getting to the White House by any means necessary. But the fact that the words “secret service” just went through your mind tells me deep down you too know she is a political opponent and not an enemy.
But even if you refuse to concede that and you consider her an actual enemy, you must also consider that there are other enemies far greater than her. One of those is Russia and Julian Assange is a willful collaborator with the Russians against American interests. Assange has worked to undermine American national security interests and now works with Russian propaganda outfits to sow seeds of discords in the American democratic processes.
Assange is not our friend and by our I mean both “Americans” and “conservatives.”
Just meditate on this passage written in a left of center publication about Assange:
David Leigh and Luke Harding’s history of WikiLeaks describes how journalists took Assange to Moro’s, a classy Spanish restaurant in central London. A reporter worried that Assange would risk killing Afghans who had co-operated with American forces if he put US secrets online without taking the basic precaution of removing their names. “Well, they’re informants,” Assange replied. “So, if they get killed, they’ve got it coming to them. They deserve it.” A silence fell on the table as the reporters realized that the man the gullible hailed as the pioneer of a new age of transparency was willing to hand death lists to psychopaths. They persuaded Assange to remove names before publishing the State Department Afghanistan cables. But Assange’s disillusioned associates suggest that the failure to expose “informants” niggled in his mind.
This is a man perfectly willing to let good people who helped us after 9/11 be brutally murdered.
It would be dazzlingly humorous if Assange really had the documents he claims and they really did scuttle liar-Hillary Clintons’ road to the White House. Rooting for injuries in this is commendable. But rooting for Assange is not. Did I mention he is hiding in an embassy to avoid a trial for rape and has routinely sided with tyrannical despots around the world who hate the very freedoms we cherish?
The enemy of our enemy is not always our friend. Sometimes that enemy is far worse. In seeking to stop liar-Hillary Clinton from getting into the White House, conservatives need to be careful that they do not make short term decisions that have negative long term consequences. Aligning with Assange would have long term, devastating consequences because with Assange comes his Russian puppet masters.
If you hate liar-Clinton so much that you would side with Vladimir Putin, a man who is aggressively working to destabilize Western democracies, you are the enemy of our republic, not liar-Clinton. Putin means you harm, Assange is Putin’s puppet, and if you do not realize it, perhaps you need to step away from the political process.
The Front Page Cover
2016 The truth will set you free
Featuring:
The American Inquisition
by Caroline Glick
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liar-Clinton Asks to Be Judged by Her Record
— So Be It
Nate Jackson: On Wednesday night, voters got a pre-debate look at the dueling foreign policy and national security visions of Donald Trump and liar-Hillary Clinton. As for Trump, his lack of experience in government might play to his advantage in this election — ironic given liar-Clinton's constant harping on her experience. After all, she blustered, "I'm asking to be judged on the totality of my record." So, speaking of liar-Hillary's record, let's focus on some of her whoppers, at least two of which she characterized last night as "mistakes."
Email
Facing repeated questions about her email scandal from both host Matt Lauer and members of the audience, liar-Clinton was visibly irritated. She repeated her lie that nothing she sent or received was marked "classified," "top secret," or "secret." But she also conceded that "it was a mistake to have a personal account. ... I make no excuses." It was only a "mistake" in her mind because she got caught. And she's done nothing but make excuses.
As if to highlight that point, a retired naval officer asked her, "Had I communicated this information not following prescribed protocols, I would have been prosecuted and imprisoned. Secretary liar-Clinton, how can you expect those such as myself who were and are entrusted with America's most sensitive information to have any confidence in your leadership as president when you clearly corrupted our national security?"
The double standard is palpable. One Marine sent one email to save lives. liar-Hillary deleted thousands of emails to conceal an event that cost lives. Which one is being reprimanded?
Iraq and ISIL
"I think that the decision to go to war in Iraq was a mistake," liar-Clinton argued. "And I have said that my voting to give President [George W.] Bush that authority was, from my perspective, my mistake." Later, she asserted, "I will also be as careful as I can in making the most significant decisions any president and commander and chief can make about sending our men and women into harm's way."
liar-Clinton and many other Democrats made an extensive case for the war in Iraq before the 2003 invasion, based on the available evidence and intelligence. Those same Democrats changed positions due primarily to perceived political advantage in the 2004 election. In 2007, Harry dinky-Reid even went so far as to declare the war "lost" while our troops were still fighting it and the successful surge was just beginning. liar-Clinton and her cohorts were anything but "careful" when Patriots in uniform were actually in harm's way. She can make theoretical promises now, but she betrayed our troops when it mattered.
As for fighting the Islamic State going forward, she promised, "We are not putting ground troops into Iraq ever again and we are not putting ground troops into Syria."
There are already 5,000 troops in Iraq. She and Barack nObama just don't want you to know that.
Libya
Finally, on her disastrous record in Libya — intervening to overthrow Moammar Gadhafi and sending Libya into a chaotic spiral that yielded Benghazi — liar-Clinton had the gall to say, "We did not lose a single American in that action. And I think taking action was the right decision. Not taking it and permitting there to be an ongoing civil war in Libya would've been as dangerous and threatening as what we are now seeing in Syria."
Where to begin. We suppose by observing that Chris Stevens, Sean Smith, Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty were unavailable for comment. No, the four dead in Benghazi weren't killed "in that action" against Gadhafi, but they were murdered because of that action, which sowed chaos in that nation and allowed a new base of operations for the Islamic State. Gadhafi was not a good guy, but he had begun to cooperate with the U.S. after seeing what happened to Saddam Hussein. liar-Clinton rewarded him with a death sentence. It's also not the first time liar-Clinton has made the boneheaded assertion about not losing "a single American." She said the same thing in March.
Bottom line: Is liar-Hillary Clinton, based on her own record as she insists she be judged, really the person we want as commander in chief for the next four years? ~The Patriot Post
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liar-Clinton Announces, 'It's Over, Period'!
Mark Alexander: In a slow-pitch softball interview with her adoring fan, ABC's David Muir, liar-Hillary Clinton announced this week that there is no need to ask any more questions about her motives for concealing her communication. She declared that because the FBI released some notes from their interview with her, she's "happy it's over."
In my column, "liar-Clinton the 'Congenital Liar,'" I covered the most damning evidence from those heavily redacted FBI files about liar-Clinton's effort to conceal all of her official communications while secretary of state. Only in liar-Clinton's warped universe could the release of this information mean "it's over, period."
In excerpts from the ABC interview, most of her responses are classified "L" for "Lie," so instead of redactions, I have annotated them for clarity.
liar-CLINTON: "What I did has raised questions for people, and I deeply regret that. [She regrets getting caught.] And that's why I said there's no excuses. [All she has done for 18 months is make excuses.] I took responsibility a year ago. [No she didn't.] I take responsibility today. [No she doesn't.] I made a mistake. I've apologized for it. [Not really.] And I'm just happy it's over, because that's, you know, the end of what's been, you know, a very difficult period. [It's not over.]"
MUIR: "When Americans hear [about your effort to erase servers and destroy smart phones], do you think that feeds into what the FBI director said about you, that you were 'extremely careless' with your emails?"
liar-CLINTON: "Well, I hope not, because I take classification very seriously. [Apparently not.] Always have, ever since I was on the Senate Armed Services Committee some years ago. [Apparently not.] And what I want people to understand is really two things. I take responsibility. I have learned that trying to explain what happened made it sound to some people like I was trying to excuse it. [Again, because all she has done for 18 months is make excuses.] There are no excuses. I take responsibility, I made a mistake, I've apologized and obviously I wish I could do differently what happened. [Again, now that you got caught.] ... I take classification seriously and I think the record shows that I have. [Actually, not.]"
Muir asked a few more easy questions about the FBI file.
liar-CLINTON: "I'm glad that the FBI has released this material. [No she's not.] Our campaign called for them to release it. [No they did not.] Because we didn't want selective cherry-picking and leaks coming from Republicans on the Hill. [It's all a "vast right wing conspiracy."] We wanted people to be able to see it and at the end of all of their investigation the FBI concluded there was no basis for any further action. [Based on the limited information from the interview — in which liar-Clinton was not under oath.]"
MUIR: "The director also thought you were extremely careless. Do you agree with him?"
liar-CLINTON: "Well, I respectfully disagree..."
Does this interview sound like somebody "taking responsibility" or more like a parole hearing for somebody fishing for a pardon? Maybe she's practicing...
For the record, here's Title 18 USC §2071: "Concealment, removal, or mutilation generally — (a) Whoever willfully and unlawfully conceals, removes, mutilates, obliterates, or destroys, or attempts to do so, or, with intent to do so takes and carries away any record ... filed or deposited with ... any public office ... shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both. (b) Whoever, having the custody of any such record ... willfully and unlawfully conceals, removes, mutilates, obliterates, falsifies, or destroys the same, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both; and SHALL FORFEIT HIS OFFICE AND BE DISQUALIFIED FROM HOLDING ANY OFFICE UNDER THE UNITED STATES."
Of course, within hours of the FBI interview with liar-Clinton, Director James Comey determined there was no evidence of concealment or criminal intent. What alternate universe does he inhabit? ~The Patriot Post
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Western Publishers Submit to Islam
by Giulio Meotti
by Giulio Meotti
{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ When Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses came out in 1989, Viking Penguin, the British and American publisher of the novel, was subjected to daily Islamist harassment... As Daniel Pipes wrote, the London office resembled "an armed camp," with police protection, metal detectors and escorts for visitors. In Viking's New York offices, dogs sniffed packages and the place was designated a "sensitive location". Many bookshops were attacked and many even refused to sell the book. Viking spent about $3 million on security measures in 1989, the fatal year for Western freedom of expression. Nonetheless, Viking never flinched. It was a miracle that the novel finally came out. Other publishers, however, faltered. Since then, the situation has only gotten worse. Most Western publishers are now faltering. That is the meaning of the new Hamed Abdel-Samad affair... https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/8907/islam-publishers-censorship
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liar-Hillary Has ‘MEDICAL EPISODE’ During
9/11 Ceremony – RUSHED Out
{clashdaily.com} ~ liar-Hillary’s health: Not an issue? WRONG! She can’t hide it after THIS!... Democratic presidential nominee liar-Hillary Rodham Clinton reportedly fainted on the way to her van after she abruptly left the 9/11 memorial ceremony at Ground Zero of the attack on the 15th anniversary, having to be helped into her vehicle by a protective detail. liar-Clinton, who was here and only about 20 feet away from Republican presidential nominee Donald J. Trump, was listening along with Trump to the reading of the names lost in the terror attacks on this tragic day 15 years ago. Trump appeared at the ceremony around 8:20 a.m. receiving applause when he arrived, while liar-Clinton arrived shortly before the first bell rang at 8:46 a.m. which is a citywide moment of silence in observance of time the first plane struck the North Tower. Shortly before 9:37 a.m.–the time marked for a moment of silence in observance of the flight that struck the Pentagon down just outside Washington, D.C.–liar-Clinton was seen leaving the ceremony with her press corps in tow. liar-Clinton was leaving through a back entrance, quietly... http://clashdaily.com/2016/09/breaking-hillary-medical-episode-911-ceremony-rushed/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=219217&utm_keyword=major1&utm_content=9835110&utm_source=Email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=subscriber_id:9835110&utm_campaign=BREAKING:%20Hillary%20Has%20%E2%80%98MEDICAL%20EPISODE%E2%80%99%20During%209/11%20Ceremony%20%E2%80%93%20RUSHED%20Out.
1st VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVKVJctkvBc
1st VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVKVJctkvBc
2nd VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9QuDUheUYk
3rd VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTqqWULFToo
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Democrats block Zika funding to
get an nObamacare bailout
by Michael F. Cannon
{washingtonexaminer.com} ~ Republicans and Democrats are squabbling over funding to combat the spread of the Zika virus. President nObama wants Congress to appropriate $2 billion in emergency spending... Republicans have moved a bill that appropriates $1.1 billion. Democrats object that Republicans would fund the bill partly by cutting a $543 million of defunct nObamacare funding whose purpose has evaporated. Why would Democrats fiercely protect a completely unnecessary appropriation? A good guess is that they hope to use it after election day to bail out the crony-capitalist insurers fleeing nObamacare's health-insurance exchanges. An exodus of insurers from nObamacare has evidently left one in three counties, one in six enrollees, and now seven states with only one carrier in the Exchange. Tennessee's insurance commissioner says that state's exchange is "very near collapse." Other Exchanges could collapse soon...
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Judge Jeanine Is Not Deplorable – liar-Hillary
Is A Despicable Treasonous Criminal
by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ Judge Jeanine Pirro doesn’t appreciate the labels that the corrupt America-hating witch vying for the office of president has applied to her and many of the rest of us... The judge gives her partial credit for an apology, but barely, as it was also primarily another attack on Trump and his supporters and one that took her seventeen hours to roll out. Judge Jeanine plays a clip of liar-Clinton describing how half of Trump supporters could be placed into what she calls “the basket of deplorables.” It’s a big basket, able to hold at present one fourth of the population and growing steadily. liar-Clinton said her basket was a container for the racists, sexists, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic, you name it.” That’s one fourth of the population of this country and we are supposedly irredeemable in the eyes of the Great liar-Clinton. Judge Pirro doesn’t find herself to be deplorable, but since liar-Clinton started it, she’s removing her gloves and giving her a most public dress down and tongue lashing. Judge Jeanine says, “liar-Hillary, you bow to and take money from countries who throw gays off buildings. You take money for your so-called charity from countries that don’t allow women to drive. A so-called feminist who supports countries that force women to cover every part of their bodies but their eyeballs. And you want to call us Islamophobes? She calls liar-Clinton the “Queen of Black Lives Matter” as she chastises Cliar-linton for daring to call us racists.”... http://rickwells.us/judge-jeanine-deplorable-clinton-despicable/
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nObama Claims Defending US On 9/11 Anniversary
As He’ Sets Us Up For Disaster
by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ The beginning portion of this video had to be cut off. Listening to this phony anti-American subversive talking about the people who died on September 11th, 2001 is just too much to stomach... He’s using the same familiar language where he puts every victim into every role that he uses whenever he’s propagandizing upon an event where a large number of people lost their lives. The “sons and daughters, husbands and wives, neighbors, colleagues and friends” routine. It’s the usual, the same predictable, worn-out shtick used in San Bernardino, Orlando and everywhere else. Of course it includes a defense of “all religions,” code for “don’t blame the Islamists.” This piece of trash is setting us up for much worse, so for him to sit there and pretend to be in any way unhappy that three thousand Americans were killed and less than ecstatic with the associated symbolic triumph of his radical ideology over the Great Satan that occupies the future home of his caliphate is insulting and offensive... http://rickwells.us/obama-claims-defending-us-911-disaster/
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The Post-World War II Era Is Over. What Now?
by R. R. Reno
{mosaicmagazine.com} ~ Yoram Hazony is right: the Brexit vote in Britain is a sign that the post-World War II era has come to an end. Another sign, this time in the United States, is the failure of the conservative establishment to prevent Donald Trump’s capture of the Republican nomination... still another sign is the unpopularity of liar-Hillary Clinton. All in all, the right-left contest that defined the postwar decades is being eclipsed by a politics in which establishment powers coalesce to fend off anti-establishment challengers. In this new contest, a central and divisive issue is certain to be the role and future of the nation, Hazony’s main subject. Will we enter into the bright uplands of a prosperous, globalized fusion of civilizations managed by experts and guided by the high ideals of human rights? Or will we return to the dark days of xenophobic nationalism, war, and death camps?... http://mosaicmagazine.com/response/2016/09/the-post-world-war-ii-era-is-over-what-now/
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The crystal clear strategy of North Korea
by Nicholas Eberstadt
{aei.org} ~ As the world’s most completely closed society, there are many things about North Korea that we cannot know. For good or ill, though, the DPRK’s nuclear strategy is crystal clear... for Pyongyang has been doggedly pursing this very same game plan singlemindedly, for decades on end. It’s really very simple: North Korea is methodically and deliberately preparing to fight and win a limited nuclear war in the Korean peninsula against the USA and her allies. No: this is not Dr. Strangelove stuff. The North Korean leadership is not planning to join the Eternal President Great Leader Kim Il Sung in heaven. If things go their way, North Korea’s rulers will be safe and sound before, during, and after the confrontation they are preparing for...
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Did the Pentagon lie to Congress?
by Michael Rubin
{aei.org} ~ The Pentagon continues to reduce forces at Lajes Field in the Azores, a strategic archipelago in the mid-Atlantic. A year ago, the base was already a ghost town... After US taxpayers had spent millions of dollars on housing, schools, and other critical infrastructure, most laid vacant. Dinner at the base restaurant was like a scene from “The Shining.” The decision to withdraw forces from Lajes is curious, not only because the United States has pressed the base into service during every major crisis since World War II, but also because the Chinese are salivating at the opportunity to fill the void and establish themselves in the Atlantic Ocean should White House politicians and Pentagon strategists actually go through with their plans to abandon the field. That the United States closed the Naval Air Station Keflavik in Iceland a decade ago against the backdrop of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s augmentation of Russia’s nuclear submarines and their growing aggressiveness in the North Atlantic only makes the Pentagon’s apparent decision to walk away from the Azores even more perplexing, given its logistical importance in anti-submarine warfare... http://www.aei.org/publication/did-the-pentagon-lie-to-congress/?utm_source=paramount&utm_medium=email&utm_content=AEITODAY&utm_campaign=091216
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nObama admin attacks Netanyahu
for objecting to ethnic cleansing of Jews
by William A. Jacobson
{legalinsurrection.com} ~ The other day we reported on Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu’s video in which he pointed out that advocating the ethnic cleansing of Jews from Judea and Samaria (the “West Bank”) is hardly a path to peace... Ethnic Cleansing of Jews For Peace is Absurd: Netanyahu was factually correct on the goals of the Palestinian leadership, and not only from Hamas: And there is every reason to believe that ethnic cleansing is the goal. After all, that’s what the Jordanian’s did in the West Bank after the 1949 armistice, prior to Israel retaking the area in 1967. The small Jewish section of Hebron, reestablished after the 1929 Arab pogrom killed dozens and drove out the Jews, regularly is termed “illegal” (it’s not) and that Jews have no right to live there... http://legalinsurrection.com/2016/09/obama-admin-attacks-netanyahu-for-objecting-to-ethnic-cleansing-of-jews-seriously/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+LegalInsurrection+%28Le%C2%B7gal+In%C2%B7sur%C2%B7rec%C2%B7tion%29
Democrats Close to Replacing
liar-Hillary-Emergency Meeting to be
Held-Who Will Be Their Choice?
by Dave Hodges
{thecommonsenseshow.com} ~ Reporter David Shuster posted to his Twitter feed on Sunday evening that operatives in the Democratic Party have told him an emergency meeting by the Democratic National Committee is being considered to replace presidential nominee... liar-Hillary Clinton on the heels of her case of pneumonia allegedly causing her to collapse Sunday morning at the 9-11 commemoration at the sight of the downed Twin Towers in New York City. Both the Democrats and the Republicans have policies related to the presidential ticket with regard to last minute replacements. However, the two major political parties do not have the final word on a last minute replacement. Congress is the ultimate decision maker with regard to a change the election date under Article II of the United States Constitution. Article II allows Congress to set dates for the selection of presidential electors and when the members of the electoral college will actually vote...
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The American Inquisition
by Caroline Glick
{truthrevolt.org} ~ The cancer of Jew hatred has taken over the body of US academia.
This week we caught a glimpse of the advanced state of the disease in an email sent by a Syracuse University professor to an Israeli filmmaker in June.
As The Atlantic reported, on June 24, Syracuse professor Gail Hamner disinvited Israeli filmmaker Shimon Dotan from screening his film at the university’s film festival, scheduled for March 2017.
Hamner’s decision had nothing to do with the quality of Dotan’s work. She admitted as much, writing, “Obviously, my decision here has nothing to do with you or your work.”
Dotan was disinvited because he is Israeli and because the title of his film, The Settlers, does not make it immediately apparent whether he reviles the half million Israeli Jews who live in Judea and Samaria sufficiently.
Hamner explained, “My SU colleagues, on hearing about my attempt to secure your presentation at our upcoming film festival, have warned me that the BDS faction on campus will make matters very unpleasant for you and for me if you come.”
She then elaborated on the harm his participation would cause her, personally.
“My film colleague... who granted me affiliated faculty status in the film and screen studies program and who supported my proposal to the Humanities Council for this conference, told me point blank that if I have not myself seen your film and cannot myself vouch for it to the council, I will lose credibility with a number of film and women/ gender studies colleagues. Sadly, I have not had the chance to see your film and can only vouch for it through my friend and through published reviews.”
Hamner added, “I feel caught in an ideological matrix and by my own egoic needs to sustain certain institutional affiliations.”
Hamner’s letter to Dotan provides us with a rare opportunity to see something that people generally go to great lengths to hide. Hamner demonstrated how boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) activists have enmeshed Jew hatred into the fabric of academic life in America.
The BDS movement is qualitatively different from all other groups that operate on campuses today.
Unlike even the most radical, fringe groups, the BDS movement isn’t seeking to advance or protect the rights of anyone. All it works to accomplish is the obliteration of Jewish rights, and indeed of Jewish existence in Israel.
Like Hamas and Iran, BDS activists seek the annihilation of the Jewish state. Like Hamas and Iran, the BDS movement does not strive to bring peace or to protect the rights of anyone. Rather, like Iran and Hamas, the goal of the BDS movement is the genocide of the largest Jewish population in the world and the annihilation of the only Jewish state in the world.
Bullying is the BDS movement’s preferred tactic.
They bully faculty, administrators and students into becoming anti-Semitic by harassing, ostracizing and persecuting everyone who refuses to actively promote Jew hatred.
To force everyone into line, BDS groups have adopted two complementary tactics. First, they try to banish Israeli Jews entirely from their campuses by bullying their institutions into adopting and implementing anti-Israel boycotts.
Second, they enforce partial bans on Israeli Jews by requiring Israeli and non-Israeli Jews to behave in manners no one would never think of requiring of Israeli Arabs, or Italians or Japanese for that matter.
BDS activists achieve both aims by bullying non-activists into enforcing their anti-Semitic positions – as Hamner did when she disinvited Dotan.
These actions are a clear violation not only of the civil rights of Israeli and non-Israeli Jews. They are also an indisputable violation of the civil rights of all students, administrators and faculty at US universities. They deny everyone the right to hear viewpoints and receive knowledge from Israeli Jews and so limit the academic freedom of everyone.
BDS is a postmodern version of the pure, unrefined Jew hatred of Medieval Europe. Five hundred years ago, the only Jews permitted to enter the public square were Christians. Jews were rejected, ostracized, expelled and killed unless they could enthusiastically and soulfully recite the catechisms.
On university campuses throughout the US today, Jews – Israeli and non-Israeli – are ostracized, silenced, harassed and humiliated unless they enthusiastically, soulfully and contritely declare their support for the annihilation of the Jewish state.
Non-Jews who do not require them to do so are similarly ostracized and otherwise punished.
Case in point is the fate of Milan Chatterjee.
Chatterjee is an Indian-American law student and a Hindu. Last year he was elected president of UCLA’s Graduate Students’ Association. Last week he announced his resignation from the post and his transfer to New York University Law School to complete his degree.
In a letter to UCLA chancellor Gene Block, Chatterjee explained that his decision was the result of relentless attacks, harassment and bullying he has suffered at the hands of BDS activists and their enablers in Block’s administration.
Chatterjee wrote Block: “Your administration has not only allowed BDS organizations and student activists to freely engage in intimidation of students who do not support the BDS agenda, but has decided to affirmatively engage in discriminatory practices of its own against those same students.
“Whether you choose to acknowledge it or not, the fact is that the UCLA campus has become a hostile and unsafe environment for students, Jewish students and non-Jewish, who choose not to support the BDS movement, let alone support the State of Israel.”
Chatterjee got on the wrong side of UCLA’s anti-Semitism enforcers in November 2015 when he adopted a student government policy of strict neutrality on BDS.
Under his leadership, the graduate council would neither support nor oppose BDS. To this end, he allocated funds for a “Diversity Caucus,” with the stipulation that the caucus remain neutral on BDS.
It was for his refusal to actively endorse BDS – rather than any action to oppose BDS – that Chatterjee became a target for the BDS mob. They submitted a bid to impeach him based on frivolous claims.
To its shame, rather than stand by Chatterjee, the administration joined the mob. Chatterjee was censured by the university and subjected to disciplinary proceedings. UCLA’s administration claimed that he had “violated university policy” for refusing to fund BDS groups.
Following Chatterjee’s decision to transfer to NYU, Kenneth Marcus, president of the Louis Brandeis Center, which supported Chatterjee throughout his year of anti-Semitic persecution, issued a statement. Marcus noted, “It is disgraceful that anti-Israel extremists have managed to drive out this courageous and conscientious student leader for failing to capitulate to the demands of the anti-Semitic BDS movement. The Milan Chatterjee affair reflects the insidiousness of the anti-Israel movement’s new strategy, which is to suppress pro-Israel advocacy and intimidate not only Jewish pro-Israel students but anyone who remains neutral.”
Back at Syracuse, the ironic aspect of Hamner’s disinvitation of Dotan is that Dotan actually recites the catechism both personally and in his film. His only mistake was that he failed to make his convictions clear in the title of his movie.
The university administration was embarrassed by the publication of Hamner’s statement. As a result, last Friday Syracuse University provost Michelle Wheatley issued a mass email stating that Dotan had been reinvited to the conference and that Hamner had apologized for her letter.
The most notable aspect of Wheatley’s letter is that it contained no commitment to investigate her allegations of anti-Semitic intimidation on the part of faculty and student BDS goons. It contained no commitment to purge bigoted intimidation from campus or invite Israelis with Zionist views to speak at Syracuse or participate in university events. It contained no mention of any plans to discipline Hamner for engaging in bigoted actions.
Rather, it simply reinvited Dotan, whose anti-Israel credentials were belatedly sorted out.
For nearly eight years, US President Barack nObama’s Justice Department has refused to investigate the flagrant civil rights violations carried out by BDS activists, groups and their faculty and administration allies and enablers. So there is no reason to think that any federal investigation will be conducted any time soon.
Rather, we can expect anti-Jewish prejudice to become ever stronger and more brazen. We can expect Israeli Jews to be shunned to greater and greater degrees and for pro-Israel students, faculty and administrators – Jewish and non-Jewish – to become less and less free to voice their views.
And we can expect the US higher education system to speed up its slide into moral dystopia and intellectual corruption.
This week we caught a glimpse of the advanced state of the disease in an email sent by a Syracuse University professor to an Israeli filmmaker in June.
As The Atlantic reported, on June 24, Syracuse professor Gail Hamner disinvited Israeli filmmaker Shimon Dotan from screening his film at the university’s film festival, scheduled for March 2017.
Hamner’s decision had nothing to do with the quality of Dotan’s work. She admitted as much, writing, “Obviously, my decision here has nothing to do with you or your work.”
Dotan was disinvited because he is Israeli and because the title of his film, The Settlers, does not make it immediately apparent whether he reviles the half million Israeli Jews who live in Judea and Samaria sufficiently.
Hamner explained, “My SU colleagues, on hearing about my attempt to secure your presentation at our upcoming film festival, have warned me that the BDS faction on campus will make matters very unpleasant for you and for me if you come.”
She then elaborated on the harm his participation would cause her, personally.
“My film colleague... who granted me affiliated faculty status in the film and screen studies program and who supported my proposal to the Humanities Council for this conference, told me point blank that if I have not myself seen your film and cannot myself vouch for it to the council, I will lose credibility with a number of film and women/ gender studies colleagues. Sadly, I have not had the chance to see your film and can only vouch for it through my friend and through published reviews.”
Hamner added, “I feel caught in an ideological matrix and by my own egoic needs to sustain certain institutional affiliations.”
Hamner’s letter to Dotan provides us with a rare opportunity to see something that people generally go to great lengths to hide. Hamner demonstrated how boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) activists have enmeshed Jew hatred into the fabric of academic life in America.
The BDS movement is qualitatively different from all other groups that operate on campuses today.
Unlike even the most radical, fringe groups, the BDS movement isn’t seeking to advance or protect the rights of anyone. All it works to accomplish is the obliteration of Jewish rights, and indeed of Jewish existence in Israel.
Like Hamas and Iran, BDS activists seek the annihilation of the Jewish state. Like Hamas and Iran, the BDS movement does not strive to bring peace or to protect the rights of anyone. Rather, like Iran and Hamas, the goal of the BDS movement is the genocide of the largest Jewish population in the world and the annihilation of the only Jewish state in the world.
Bullying is the BDS movement’s preferred tactic.
They bully faculty, administrators and students into becoming anti-Semitic by harassing, ostracizing and persecuting everyone who refuses to actively promote Jew hatred.
To force everyone into line, BDS groups have adopted two complementary tactics. First, they try to banish Israeli Jews entirely from their campuses by bullying their institutions into adopting and implementing anti-Israel boycotts.
Second, they enforce partial bans on Israeli Jews by requiring Israeli and non-Israeli Jews to behave in manners no one would never think of requiring of Israeli Arabs, or Italians or Japanese for that matter.
BDS activists achieve both aims by bullying non-activists into enforcing their anti-Semitic positions – as Hamner did when she disinvited Dotan.
These actions are a clear violation not only of the civil rights of Israeli and non-Israeli Jews. They are also an indisputable violation of the civil rights of all students, administrators and faculty at US universities. They deny everyone the right to hear viewpoints and receive knowledge from Israeli Jews and so limit the academic freedom of everyone.
BDS is a postmodern version of the pure, unrefined Jew hatred of Medieval Europe. Five hundred years ago, the only Jews permitted to enter the public square were Christians. Jews were rejected, ostracized, expelled and killed unless they could enthusiastically and soulfully recite the catechisms.
On university campuses throughout the US today, Jews – Israeli and non-Israeli – are ostracized, silenced, harassed and humiliated unless they enthusiastically, soulfully and contritely declare their support for the annihilation of the Jewish state.
Non-Jews who do not require them to do so are similarly ostracized and otherwise punished.
Case in point is the fate of Milan Chatterjee.
Chatterjee is an Indian-American law student and a Hindu. Last year he was elected president of UCLA’s Graduate Students’ Association. Last week he announced his resignation from the post and his transfer to New York University Law School to complete his degree.
In a letter to UCLA chancellor Gene Block, Chatterjee explained that his decision was the result of relentless attacks, harassment and bullying he has suffered at the hands of BDS activists and their enablers in Block’s administration.
Chatterjee wrote Block: “Your administration has not only allowed BDS organizations and student activists to freely engage in intimidation of students who do not support the BDS agenda, but has decided to affirmatively engage in discriminatory practices of its own against those same students.
“Whether you choose to acknowledge it or not, the fact is that the UCLA campus has become a hostile and unsafe environment for students, Jewish students and non-Jewish, who choose not to support the BDS movement, let alone support the State of Israel.”
Chatterjee got on the wrong side of UCLA’s anti-Semitism enforcers in November 2015 when he adopted a student government policy of strict neutrality on BDS.
Under his leadership, the graduate council would neither support nor oppose BDS. To this end, he allocated funds for a “Diversity Caucus,” with the stipulation that the caucus remain neutral on BDS.
It was for his refusal to actively endorse BDS – rather than any action to oppose BDS – that Chatterjee became a target for the BDS mob. They submitted a bid to impeach him based on frivolous claims.
To its shame, rather than stand by Chatterjee, the administration joined the mob. Chatterjee was censured by the university and subjected to disciplinary proceedings. UCLA’s administration claimed that he had “violated university policy” for refusing to fund BDS groups.
Following Chatterjee’s decision to transfer to NYU, Kenneth Marcus, president of the Louis Brandeis Center, which supported Chatterjee throughout his year of anti-Semitic persecution, issued a statement. Marcus noted, “It is disgraceful that anti-Israel extremists have managed to drive out this courageous and conscientious student leader for failing to capitulate to the demands of the anti-Semitic BDS movement. The Milan Chatterjee affair reflects the insidiousness of the anti-Israel movement’s new strategy, which is to suppress pro-Israel advocacy and intimidate not only Jewish pro-Israel students but anyone who remains neutral.”
Back at Syracuse, the ironic aspect of Hamner’s disinvitation of Dotan is that Dotan actually recites the catechism both personally and in his film. His only mistake was that he failed to make his convictions clear in the title of his movie.
The university administration was embarrassed by the publication of Hamner’s statement. As a result, last Friday Syracuse University provost Michelle Wheatley issued a mass email stating that Dotan had been reinvited to the conference and that Hamner had apologized for her letter.
The most notable aspect of Wheatley’s letter is that it contained no commitment to investigate her allegations of anti-Semitic intimidation on the part of faculty and student BDS goons. It contained no commitment to purge bigoted intimidation from campus or invite Israelis with Zionist views to speak at Syracuse or participate in university events. It contained no mention of any plans to discipline Hamner for engaging in bigoted actions.
Rather, it simply reinvited Dotan, whose anti-Israel credentials were belatedly sorted out.
For nearly eight years, US President Barack nObama’s Justice Department has refused to investigate the flagrant civil rights violations carried out by BDS activists, groups and their faculty and administration allies and enablers. So there is no reason to think that any federal investigation will be conducted any time soon.
Rather, we can expect anti-Jewish prejudice to become ever stronger and more brazen. We can expect Israeli Jews to be shunned to greater and greater degrees and for pro-Israel students, faculty and administrators – Jewish and non-Jewish – to become less and less free to voice their views.
And we can expect the US higher education system to speed up its slide into moral dystopia and intellectual corruption.
http://www.truthrevolt.org/commentary/glick-american-inquisition
On September 8th 2016, Barry Donadio was re-elected to be second in charge of the Knights of Columbus 4th Degree Assembly in Chestertown, Maryland. The Assembly consists of 4th Degree Knights from 3 eastern shore councils belonging to the Knights of Columbus organization.
Barry Donadio's good friend Kenny Platt Sr. was re-elected to led the Assembly and is in his third term. Mr. Platt's official title as the leader of this group is Worthy Faithful Navigator.
Barry Donadio said this of Mr. Platt, " Kenny is wonderful and the perfect person to lead such a prestigious group. I am honored to serve in his Staff"
Mr. Donadio was re-elected as second in command of the group. His official title is Worthy Faithful Captain. He is expected to take leadership of the Assembly by September 2017.
The Father Lutz 4th Degree Assembly in Chestertown, Maryland has been active in community charity throughout the past year. Barry Donadio said, " We will be focusing most on charitable work towards helping our Military Veterans." Who else better to take up the cause then Barry Donadio, whom is a War Veteran and a former member of the U.S. Secret Service.
The Front Page Cover
2016 The truth will set you free
Featuring:
Life In The Basket Of Deplorables
by Tom McLaughlin
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Navy Mismanagement of Carrier Force Bites America
Harold Hutchison: The Navy is in a world of hurt. It's less than half the size it was when Ronald Reagan left office. Carrier air wings have fewer combat aircraft than they did in 1991 — about 33% less. We've gone from 15 carriers to 10. Now, the Navy's newest carrier, the USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78), may not be able to deploy on time, leaving America short one more carrier.
That's not a good thing. The ChiComs have played a Cersei Lannister gambit in the South China Sea — and that puts American allies like the Philippines in a bind. America also has to confront the presence of China's DF-21 anti-ship ballistic missile — which, while overhyped, still inflicts virtual attrition on a Navy with too few hulls.
How did we get here? First, the Navy chose to prematurely retire the USS Enterprise (CVN 65), banking on the Ford being ready to fill in. Even though Newport News Shipbuilding could have done a second overhaul on the Big E, the nObama administration ignored the growing threats from China, Iran (which has been harassing American ships), and the Islamic State (not to mention the fact that the Russian reset wasn't quite working), and went ahead with the scrapping process. Second, the nObama administration began to scrap seven older carriers that were being kept in reserve.
Did we mention the world was getting more dangerous while we junk eight major strategic assets?
It took almost seven years from laying the Gerald R. Ford's keel to getting her to this point, and even then, with all of the new technology on board — like the electromagnetic catapults, the AN/SPY-3 radar, and new arresting gear — it may take time even after she's commissioned for her to be ready to deploy.
You'd think that Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus would have acted to address this before it got too severe. But Mabus has been more interested in dissing Navy heroes who don't buy into the politically correct changes in DOD policy he and others have been pushing.
Sadly, the Navy's carrier force isn't the only place there the mismanagement of our forces has been a continuing trend. Three of the Navy's Freedom-class littoral combat ships have suffered damage to their engines. The Marine Corps has been struggling to find sufficient numbers of flyable F/A-18 Hornets. The Air Force is falling short of pilots. Army OH-58s are getting older as proposed replacements like the RAH-66 and ARH-70 fall victim to the budget axe. Even ground troops could see defense cuts rob them of the game-changing XM25 "Punisher," officially known as the Counter Defilade Target Engagement (CDTE) System, even though it performed well in operational testing in Afghanistan.
Cuts like these, not to mention the onslaught of political correctness and social engineering, don't just hurt the material performance of our troops. As Mark Alexander wrote Wednesday, they also kill the military's most valuable resource — morale. That means troops, some with combat experience, may retire or not re-enlist, creating a vicious cycle of declining readiness due to subpar training due to loss of experience.
Reversing this trend won't be easy, but it will be essential. Because an unprepared military invites aggression — which will be far more expensive in money, equipment and lives than it would have been to properly maintain our forces in the first place.
So how were those defense cuts a bargain, again? ~The Patriot Post
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OPINION IN BRIEF
David Harsanyi: "It's true that athletes have an outsized influence in the media. But even the wealthiest among us shouldn't be inhibited from having a say, right? After watching liberals at the Democratic National Convention cheer for laws allowing the banning of political books and movies and demand the overturning of Citizens United, it's nice to see some renewed passion regarding the First Amendment. After watching progressive mobs go after Americans who support traditional marriage, maybe we're going to see more compassion regarding opposing viewpoints. Maybe professional sports leagues and sports networks will stop injecting themselves into political and social debates and allow all people to have a say. Or, more likely, it will always depend on the topic." ~The Patriot Post.
‘Stunned’ Trey Gowdy: FBI Gave Immunity
to the “Trigger Man”...
by David Rutz
{freebeacon.com} ~ Rep. Trey Gowdy (R., S.C.) ripped the Justice Department’s “stunning” reported decision to grant immunity to the “triggerman” who deleted liar-Hillary Clinton’s emails during a Fox News appearance on Friday... “This is Prosecutor 101. You don’t give immunity to the person who actually robbed the bank,” Gowdy said. “You may want to give it to the getaway driver. You may want to give it to the person who helped them count the money afterwards, but you don’t give immunity to the person who walked in and robbed the bank. That ain’t that complicated, but that’s apparently what the FBI did.” Computer specialist Paul Combetta received immunity from the Justice Department during its investigation into liar-Clinton’s private email server, the New York Times reported Thursday. Combetta, an employee of Platte River Networks, used a program called BleachBit to permanently delete messages from liar-Clinton’s server, just weeks after her server use came to light in March 2015... http://freebeacon.com/politics/gowdy-stunning-grant-immunity-triggerman-deleted-clinton-emails/
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SHARIA LAW in America? Yes,
It’s Happening. Here’s the Proof!
by AmyElizabeth
{gopthedailydose.com} ~ Seattle’s Democrat Mayor Ed Murray is working to institute an economic portion of Sharia... Mayor Murray said, “We will work to develop new tools for Muslims who are prevented from using conventional mortgage products due to their religious beliefs.” Pamela Geller, author of “Stop the Islamization of America,” explains, “Sharia is a unified whole – a guide to every aspect of human behavior. It doesn’t just involve interest and loans. The teachings of Islam regarding war against and subjugation of unbelievers is part of Sharia as well. The mayor of Seattle is opening the door to Sharia, and because he has already shown himself to be compliant, he will receive more demands for accommodation of Sharia in the future. This is a radical, intolerant, violent, misogynistic, antisemitic ideology, and he should not be kowtowing to it.”... http://gopthedailydose.com/2015/07/27/sharia-law-in-america-yes-its-happening-heres-the-proof/
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88 U.S. Generals and Admirals Endorse
Donald Trump in Public Letter
by Alex Swoyer
{breitbart.com} ~ Some 88 retired U.S. generals and admirals are endorsing Donald Trump in an open letter... saying they support the Republican nominee and “his commitment to rebuild our military, to secure our borders, to defeat our Islamic supremacist adversaries and restore law and order domestically.” “As retired senior leaders of America’s military, we believe that such a change can only be made by someone who has not been deeply involved with, and substantially responsible for, the hollowing out of our military and the burgeoning threats facing our country around the world,” the letter states. “For this reason, we support Donald Trump’s candidacy to be our next Commander-in-Chief.”“It is a great honor to have such amazing support from so many distinguished retired military leaders,” Trump stated in response to the endorsement. “I thank each of them for their service and their confidence in me to serve as commander-in-chief.”...
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Why David Bossie Scares the liar-Clintons
by Cliff Kincaid
{aim.org} ~ Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post journalist David Maraniss passed up the opportunity to win another journalism award eight years ago when he covered up Barack nObama’s personal relationship with communist Frank Marshall Davis... He figured it was better for nObama to win the presidency than for the truth to come out. Another example of media bias can be found in the Ruth Marcus column on Donald J. Trump’s new deputy campaign manager, David Bossie, a solid conservative with a proven track record of investigating the liar-Clintons. Marcus, who is married to former nObama official Jon Leibowitz, realizes that Bossie has the inside story about liar-Clinton corruption and that he must be discredited. But the hit job she turned in for the Post was amateurish. Apparently short on time, she Googled all of the bad stories she could find in the Post and strung them together in one column. She was especially upset about how Bossie did such dastardly things as investigate the suspicious “suicide” of former liar-Clinton White House lawyer Vincent Foster... http://www.aim.org/aim-column/why-david-bossie-scares-the-clintons/?utm_source=AIM+-+Weekly+Email&utm_campaign=email091016&utm_medium=email
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Congressmen Rebuke Willfully Blind
DHS Secretary Johnson
by Secure Freedom MInute
{youtube.com} ~ Today, on the eve of the 15th anniversary of the 9/11 jihadist attacks, a conference will take place in Washington to examine whether we are safer now, a decade-and-a-half later... Unfortunately, the selection of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson to be its keynote speaker means it will be an exercise in the willfully blind leading the blind.
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liar-Hillary Email Found Showing INSTRUCTIONS For Killing Chris Stevens
by Clyde
{gopthedailydose.com} ~ liar-Hillary Clinton has been destroyed with email hacks and document leaks for nearly two months now, and she will be waking up this morning to another one. In an email released Monday regarding liar-Hillary’s Benghazi investigation... there was one specific message that detailed the exact location of Ambassador Chris Stevens. Because this email was sent through the unsecured server, it is highly probable that terrorists intercepted the message. There were five relevant emails in the cache of liar-Clinton emails that placed Amb. Stevens in harms way: March 27, 2011: This is an email between two State Department officials that was then forwarded to liar-Clinton. Regarding his location and travel plans, the email said, “The current game plan is for Mr. Stevens to move no later than Wednesday from Malta to Benghazi. He will stage off shore initially for a one day visit during which he will have meetings with TNC interlocutors and get a sense of the situation on the ground. The goal of this one day trip is for him to lay the groundwork for a stay of up to 30 days.”...
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Herridge Gave Johnson Truth-Free Disinfo
Safe Zone For “Security” Propaganda
by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ Homeland “Security” Secretary Jeh Johnson has done more to make America vulnerable and less to safeguard us than any other person on earth, with the possible exception of Hussein nObama... He has dismantled our border security and helped to usher in vast numbers of unknown persons across open borders, through the issuance of visas which are not followed up on when they expire and so-called refugees, of which most are persons allowed to enter without proper or meaningful vetting. In his interview with Catherine Herridge, the normally fairly savvy reporter nods like a transfixed school girl, letting Johnson get away with his usual vague claims and assertions. He repeats without challenge his standard excuses for not doing his job. “The enemy is much more sophisticated now” and “We have to be concerned with the terrorist inspired attacks in addition to terrorist directed attacks.” A favorite Johnson excuse is that the terrorist enemy, or allies as he may prefer to think of them, uses the Internet as a weapon against us. Given that assertion it’s even more irresponsible to be planning to turn over control of the Internet to the UN. That’s a great way to complicate things and empower the terrorists, Johnson. You and nObama out did yourselves coming up with that one...Why is he getting away with it?
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BOOM! Trey Gowdy Gets Standing Ovation
on the House Floor
{conservativebyte.com} ~ Watch as Gowdy speaks truth more than anyone we have ever heard in a very long time... We make law and while you are free to stand and clap when any president comes into this hallowed chamber and promises to do it with or without you. I will never stand and clap when ANY president no matter whether it’s your president or mine, promises to make us a constitutional anomaly and an afterthought. WE MAKE LAW. http://conservativebyte.com/2016/09/trey-gowdy-gets-standing-ovation-on-the-house-floor-video/
VIDEO: http://conservativebyte.com/2016/09/trey-gowdy-gets-standing-ovation-on-the-house-floor-video/
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FBI Director Comey’s Dirty Links To
liar-Clinton Foundation Why She Got Off
by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ It was inexplicable in July when, just a couple of days after a hurried, out of sight interview on the Saturday of the long July 4th weekend, FBI Director James Comey declined to recommend prosecution of liar-Hillary Clinton... It was also odd that he chose another long weekend to release the investigation notes and interview summary that Republican lawmakers had been demanding. Now it appears, we have an explanation for the odd behavior of Director Comey, and it has to do with his corruption, his conflict of interest and his association with the racketeering liar-Clinton Foundation. This man who was supposedly a bastion of integrity may have instead only been a little better at hiding his dishonesty. Patrick Howley, writing for Breitbart News reveals that millions of dollars flowed from liar-Clinton Foundation defense contractor Lockheed Martin into the direction of the Comey brothers, Jim the FBI Director and Peter, the well-positioned construction contractor...
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Life In The Basket Of Deplorables
by Tom McLaughlin
{tommclaughlin.blogspot.com} ~ How many times have I been called a racist? Dozens at least, perhaps hundreds. How about homophobic? Yup, about as many. Islamophobic? Check. Misogynist? Check. Xenophobic? Got it. Let’s see, what’s left? How about bigot? Yeah, that too — all of which puts me right in liar-Hillary’s “basket of deplorables.” I also qualify as one of President nObama’s “bitter clingers” and as a member of that other group liar-Hillary doesn’t like: the so-called “alt-right.” I didn’t know what alt-right was when she said it a few weeks ago but I looked it up and yes, I qualify.
The first time I remember being called racist in print was tweet years ago after I wrote a column supporting the California Civil Rights Initiative (CCRI), otherwise known as Proposition 209. It was a referendum question, which read:
The state shall not discriminate against, or grant preferential treatment to, any individual or group on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin in the operation of public employment, public education, or public contracting.
The “racist” accusations — and there were three as I recall — were in letters to both papers carrying the column, and they bothered me. I knew there was no basis, but they made me feel bad because racism is an ugly thing and I didn’t want any association with it. I’d been putting my opinions out there for three or four years by that time and I had gotten plenty of flak, but not that kind. Heck, I was writing against racial discrimination. How could that be racist?
Leftist poster from the anti-209 campaign in 1996
Proposition 209 would have made so-called Affirmative Action programs illegal because they give preference to blacks and hispanics over Asians and whites in college admissions, when hiring for teachers, police, firemen, and so forth. That’s racial discrimination, of course, but it’s the kind approved by the left — and leftists attack anyone who points that out. Since they cannot argue using facts, all they have is name-calling. They’ve flung the racist charge so often for so long, it has become a reflex. Columnist Mark Steyn calls it “Democrat Tourette’s Syndrome.”
It was good advice and someone should have given it to Maine Governor Paul LePage. He was enraged after a leftist legislator suggested he was racist. Lepage called him and left an obscenity-laced voicemail which the legislator sent to the media. That was dumb — very dumb. It’s one thing to feel like striking back but quite another do actually do it. LePage gave his enemies a club with which they will beat him as long as he’s in office.
Accuser and accused
I voted for LePage twice and I don’t regret it given the choices I had. I intend to vote for Trump too, even though I would have preferred any of the other Republicans who opposed him in the primaries. Against liar-Hillary though? I have to vote for him and I will, but I wouldn’t call myself a “Trump supporter.”
So, even though I don’t support Trump, I still belong in liar-Hillary’s “basket of deplorables.” Here are my bona fides:
I see abortion — the dismembering of babies in their mothers’ wombs — as barbaric, so I’m against “women’s health” and therefore women too according to Democrats who consider pregnancy a disease. So, I’m hopelessly “misogynist.”
I oppose importing tens of thousands of unvetted immigrants from Muslim-terrorist-dominated countries, therefore I’m both “Islamophobic” (unreasonable fear of Islam) and “xenophobic” (unreasonable fear of foreigners).
I consider it unnatural for two women or two men to “marry,” Therefore I’m “homophobic.”
I consider it unnatural for two women or two men to “marry,” Therefore I’m “homophobic.”
I cling to both my guns and my religion, so I’m a “bitter clinger.”
I believe western civilization superior to other civilizations before or since, and prefer the melting pot model to multiculturalism. Evidently that makes me “alt-right."
I believe western civilization superior to other civilizations before or since, and prefer the melting pot model to multiculturalism. Evidently that makes me “alt-right."
I’m a heterosexual white guy who doesn’t believe there’s any such thing as “white privilege.”
All this qualifies me for inclusion in liar-Hillary’s “basket of deplorables” and I move for summary judgement.
The Front Page Cover
2016 The truth will set you free
Featuring:
A Wounded Boy’s Silence, and the Candidates’
by Peggy Noonan
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China's G20 Façade
The history of totalitarian socialism is one filled with charades and symbols over and against reality and substance. A recent example of this took place this past weekend at the G20 summit in the city of Hangzhou, China. With the arrival of so many significant leaders from the world's largest and most powerful economies, the Chinese communist government staged an impressive image of a clean and well-ordered society. Days before the Chinese government had issued a mandatory seven-day "holiday" where citizens were instructed to leave the city. Almost overnight, a busy, bustling city of six million residents was reduced to a virtual ghost town. How did the Chinese authorities ensure the mass exodus of citizenry? There were positive incentives such as discounts to "places of interest" and cheaper travel fairs, and there were negative incentives of police force for those residents who were not so "voluntarily" inclined to leave.
As the world leaders arrived for the summit, there was no stinky smog in the air since all the factories had been shut down days before. The roads were free of heavy traffic, as those folks who were still left in the city had been instructed to stay home. And most importantly, there were no picketers protesting human rights issues. No, China would look good to all outsiders as a testament to the benefits of a communist society, just as China's leaders want it. (The same thing happened for the Beijing Olympics.) The message to the residents of Hangzhou and the rest of China: Government knows best, so get inline. Which is the foundational belief of leftists everywhere. ~The Patriot Post
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The Donkey Who Cried Wolf
Robin Smith: "I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you." —Friedrich Nietzsche
The 19th century German philosopher and poet perhaps had no idea how relevant this statement would be to 21st century politics. But the routine screeches of baseless alarm, manufactured crises and the hyperbole employed by Democrats, and in some cases, Republicans, are creating an authentic problem — a credibility desert. The moral to the story of Aesop's fable, "The Boy Who Cried Wolf," applies: Tell lies or exaggerate often enough, and the truth is not believed, even in times of need and danger.
How do these simple statements relate to the multi-billion-dollar campaigns employed today across all kinds of media platforms? Simply put, when the decision is made to conduct your entire campaign message in the key of panic and extremes, the consuming public becomes tone deaf to changes in pitch or appreciable variations.
With the loud protests of the Left have come these broad statements:
- "You're a racist," in response to the desire for enforcement of immigration law.
- "You're a bigot," to the beliefs of many who accept God's view that homosexuality, like adultery, is sin.
- "You're greedy," in labeling those who want to keep the money they work hard to earn instead of seeing nearly half of their earnings forcefully taken by governments.
- "You're anti-women's health," in believing the dismembering of an infant in utero is not contraception and should not be funded by tax dollars.
These and many more extreme statements are frequently employed by any number of talking heads on the Left, or are used in "news" items that masquerade as fact when, in reality, the level of opinion moves the analysis clearly to editorializing.
Let's look at a recent example. For speaking against Donald Trump, Mitt Romney is now being lauded as "reasonable" and "thoughtful" by Democrats ranging from Barack nObama to Harry dinky-Reid. But Romney is the same guy who took mortal verbal blows in 2012 from those very same Democrats. Remember?
- Mitt Romney's mythological hatred of dogs filled the headlines and the late-night shows after he built a windshield-equipped carrier to transport their family dog on top of their vehicle.
- Romney's hatred of women was a statement of fact when it was discovered that, while he served as governor of Massachusetts, he catalogued women under consideration for employment by placing their profiles in binders.
- Romney was specifically blamed for a woman's cancer death by her widower husband in a pro-nObama TV ad after he lost his insurance when a factory closed. The plant closed while Romney was running the Winter Olympics. The woman died five years after the husband lost his job.
- Romney was said to have dodged paying taxes for 10 years, according to Harry dinky-Reid, who cited an anonymous source safely from the Senate floor, to complete the Democrats' portrait of a blood-sucking capitalist criminal. dinky-Reid's charge was a complete fabrication.
But, now? Oh, "Mitt's a great guy," say the Democrats who urge his voice be heard with a newfound respect and attentiveness.
In The New York Times, Howard Wolfson, the director of communications for liar-Hillary's 2008 presidential campaign and current adviser for billionaire and former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, recently bemoaned the current mud pit. Recalling his days with both John hanoi-Kerry and liar-Hillary Clinton in their runs for president, Wolfson acknowledges, "I'm quite confident I employed language that, in retrospect, was hyperbolic and inaccurate, language that cheapened my ability — our ability — to talk about this moment with accuracy and credibility." Translation: Democrats cried wolf too many times, and now they're having a hard time turning up the volume on Trump.
Wolfson concludes, "We should take stock of this moment and recognize that our language really needs to be more accountable and more appropriate to the circumstances." Which is another way of saying he really means it this time.
Oh, there's nothing like hearing a Democrat, especially one who's affiliated with liar-Hillary Clinton, make requests for accountability. Just precious. And, so, the story goes with the credibility desert where truth has dried up from the heat of political extremes.
There's a cautionary tale in this for conservatives, too. Part of the reason for Trump's rise in the first place was that unrealistic expectations were placed upon congressional Republicans and then even solid conservatives were condemned as traitorous "establishment" when they failed to achieve constitutional government with Barack nObama still at the helm. It's true Republicans could have done more, but they didn't do nothing.
While it's appropriate to contrast the reckless policies and illegal practices of liar-Hillary Clinton, for those shrinking in number who are highly prized — the undecided voters — it's critical to hear more than shouting and name-calling that signify either liar-Clinton Derangement Syndrome or Trump Panic Attack.
That said, more often than not when conservatives point to a leftist and cry "wolf," there actually is a wolf. ~The Patriot Post
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The Dangers of Ransom Payments to Iran
by Mark Dubowitz
{defenddemocracy.org} ~ This summer marked the one-year anniversary of the announcement of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). This deal is fatally flawed in that it provides the Islamic Republic of Iran with a patient pathway to nuclear weapons capability by placing limited, temporary... and reversible constraints on Iran’s nuclear activities. These nuclear “sunset provisions,” which will begin to expire in seven years and mostly disappear over a period of ten to fifteen years, leave Iran as a threshold nuclear power with an industrial-size uranium enrichment and plutonium program, near-zero nuclear breakout capacity, an advanced centrifuge-powered clandestine sneakout capability, advanced ballistic missile and ICBM programs, access to advanced heavy weaponry, greater regional hegemony, and a more powerful economy that could be immune to Western sanctions. Even as Iran temporarily scales back some of its nuclear activities under the JCPOA, the regime’s illicit efforts to obtain proliferation-related technology continues while its other non-nuclear malign activities are expanding. The deal – as well as the interim agreement known as the Joint Plan of Action (JPOA) – provided Iran with substantial economic relief that helped the regime avoid a severe economic crisis and return to a modest recovery path. The lifting of restrictions on Iran’s use of frozen overseas assets as part of the interim agreement returned about $11.9 billion to Iran. The final agreement provided Tehran with access to a further $100 billion, including over $50 billion in unencumbered, liquid cash, according to the nObama administration. These funds gave Tehran badly needed hard currency to settle its outstanding debts, begin to repair its economy, build up its diminished foreign exchange reserves, and ease a budgetary crisis, as well as providing the regime greater resources for the financing of terrorism and other illicit activities. The nuclear deal did nothing to address the full range of Iran’s malign activities, including ballistic missile development, support for terrorism, regional destabilization, and human rights abuses... http://www.defenddemocracy.org/content/uploads/documents/Dubowitz_Mark_Fueling_Terror_.pdf
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Slithering Shape-Shifting liar-Clinton Bought,
Owned By Soros, Tech Billionaires
by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ The wily liar-Clinton shape-shifting drew the attention of Lou Dobbs as he notes how much she is trying to sound like Donald Trump these days... The reason that won’t work for her is a simple one of ownership, hers. Dobbs notes, “She’s been bought and paid for by the very establishment Donald Trump is running against.” Dobbs says, “She wants you to forget she’s one of the principle architects of the status quo that is suffocating our middle class and the working people who aspire to be part of it. She’s the elitist, she’s the corporatist, he’s the populist. She’s the globalist, he’s the nationalist. She’s about globalism no matter how high, how severe the cost to America and Americans. Trump’s all about America and Americanism.” “Look who loves her,” says Dobbs, “especially with their money. liar-Clinton’s single biggest benefactor, the left-wing billionaire George Soros. He’s given millions to liar-Clinton, pledged millions more. That’s not counting the millions he’s given to other left-wing groups as well, to help her win the presidency that he sees as important to his own influence.”... http://rickwells.us/dobbs-slithering-shape-shifting-clinton/
.Imam Reveals ISIS Planned to Attack
Christians at Mall With Chainsaw
by Mark Tapson
{truthrevolt.org} ~ ISIS planned to use chainsaws to murder Christians in a Belgian shopping center, according to the son of a radical imam... The UK Mirror reports that the teenager, who cannot be named, is the son of radical imam Shayh Alami from the eastern Belgian city of Verviers - described by Belgian media as "one of the most important breeding grounds for Islamists in Belgium." The boy told cops about the plot after being arrested for appearing in a video in which he walked down a street allegedly calling out in Arabic for the murder of Christians. In the short video published on the website of the Arabic-language media watchdog MEMRI, the teen can be seen strolling down the streets of Verviers, cursing Christians and praying for their annihilation... http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/son-imam-reveals-isis-planned-attack-christians-mall-chainsaw
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North Korea Successfully Detonates Nuke
More Powerful Than Hiroshima Bomb
by Caleb Howe
{redstate.com} ~ Early Friday morning, the 68th anniversary of its founding, North Korea conducted its fifth nuclear test, successfully detonating a nuke so powerful that it registered a 5.3-on the Richter scale... It was an explosion more powerful than that of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima according to Reuters. North Korea also claims it has perfected the technology to launch the warhead on an intercontinental ballistic missile. In response to the test, South Korean president Park Geun-hye said Kim Jon Un's pursuit of his nuclear program is “maniacal recklessness,” and she denounced it as a violation of U.N. Security Council resolutions. For its part, the Security council has announced an emergency meeting in the wake of this event...
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nObama Is Registering Undocumented
Immigrants by the Millions
by Dave Hodges
{thecommonsenseshow.comn} ~ Obama, on behalf of liar-Clinton’s candidacy is at it again! nObama and DHS are registering millions of undocumented immigrants to vote... Months after the nObama administration spent $19 million to register new immigrant voters that will likely support Democrats in November, it’s dedicating an additional $10 million in a final push as the presidential election approaches. The money is distributed by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), the Homeland Security agency that oversees lawful immigration, to organizations that help enhance pathways to naturalization by offering immigrants free citizenship instruction, English, U.S. history and civics courses. Officially, they’re known as “citizenship integration grants.” BUT THEY ARE A DECEPTION- THE DEMOCRATS DO NOT WANT A PATH TO CITIZENSHIP FOR IMMIGRANTS AND THE VIDEO BELOW DESCRIBES WHY THIS IS TRUE!...Why is nObama getting away with it? http://www.thecommonsenseshow.com/2016/09/09/obama-registering-undocumented-immigrants-millions/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=obama-registering-undocumented-immigrants-millions
Germany: Beginning of the End of the Merkel Era?
by Soeren Kern
by Soeren Kern
German Chancellor Angela Merkel (left) suffered a major blow on
September 4 when the anti-immigration party Alternative for
Germany, led by Frauke Petry (right)
{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ German Chancellor Angela Merkel suffered a major blow on September 4 when the anti-immigration party Alternative for Germany (AfD) surged ahead of her Christian Democratic Union (CDU) in elections in her home state of Mecklenburg-West Pomerania... With 20.8% of the vote, the AfD came in second place behind the center-left Social Democrats (SPD) (30.6%). Merkel's CDU came in third place, with 19% of the vote, the worst result it has ever had in Meck-Pomm, as the state is called for short. The election in Meck-Pomm was widely seen as a referendum on Merkel's open-door migration policy and her decision to allow more than one million migrants from Africa, Asia and the Middle East to enter Germany in 2015. The migrant influx has resulted in a notable increase in crime in the country. The growing sense of insecurity has been exacerbated by a series of attacks this summer by Muslim migrants in which ten people were killed and dozens more were injured... https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/8899/germany-merkel-era
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IRS Redefines ‘Husband’ and ‘Wife’ to Eliminate Sex'
by Rachel Alexander
{stream.org} ~ In a far-reaching response to the U.S. Supreme Court striking down natural marriage laws last summer in Obergefell v. Hodges, the IRS and Department of the Treasury have changed the meanings of the words “spouse,” “marriage,” “husband” and “wife.”... This change was also a response to the Court’s 2013 decision in United States v. Windsor, which ruled that the words “spouse” and “marriage” could not be limited to heterosexual marriages. “Husband” and “wife” now refers to “two individuals lawfully married to each other,” regardless of sex. The new definitions will give same-sex marriage couples job-protected leave to take care of their spouse’s family members under the Family and Medical Leave Act, and applies to the marital status of taxpayers for purposes of the income, estate, gift, excise and payroll taxes. Of course, same-sex couples will now also face the “marriage penalty” for filing their taxes jointly. The “penalty” is the higher tax rate some married couples must pay if they are a middle to upper class couple with roughly similar incomes... https://stream.org/irs-redefines-husband-and-wife-to-eliminate-gender/
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nObama’s Radical Internet Proposal Could
Result in Censorship Online
by Sen. Ted Cruz
{stream.org} ~ The nObama administration’s proposal to give away control of the internet poses a significant threat to our freedom, and it’s one that many Americans don’t know about... It is scheduled to go into effect on Sept. 30, 2016. Twenty-two days away. Just over three weeks. Now what does it mean to give away control of the internet? From the very first days of the internet, when it was developed here in America, the United States government has maintained its core functions to ensure equal access for everyone with no censorship. The government role isn’t to monitor what we say, it isn’t to censor what we say, it is simply to ensure that it works — that when you type in a website, it actually goes to that website and not somewhere else. And yet, that can change. The nObama administration is instead pushing through a radical proposal to take control of internet domain names and instead give it to an international organization, ICANN [Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers], that includes 162 foreign countries. And if that proposal goes through, it will empower countries like Russia, like China, like Iran to be able to censor speech on the internet, your speech. Countries like China, Russia, and Iran are not our friends, and their interests are not our interests... https://stream.org/obamas-radical-internet-proposal-could-result-in-censorship-online/
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Which Security Risk for President?
by Cliff Kincaid
{aim.org} ~ “Could your Congressman pass an FBI background check?” is the question posed on the cover of the DVD version of Trevor Loudon’s new film, “The Enemies Within.”... In fact, however, the FBI only provides background information about federal employees, not elected officials. In Mrs. liar-Clinton’s special case, there was an opportunity to recommend prosecution of her over her mishandling of classified information, but FBI Director James Comey declined, keeping her presidential campaign alive. At the Commander-in-Chief Forum on Wednesday night, Mrs. liar-Clinton demonstrated how much of a security risk she is. She acknowledged that “…the State Department system was hacked.” She explained, “Most of the government systems are way behind the curve. We’ve had hacking repeatedly, even in the White House.” Then she added, “There is no evidence my system was hacked.” The State Department was hacked but her emails were somehow protected? This is almost as mind-boggling as her flip-flop on whether she ever received a briefing on handling classified information...
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Why is the L.A. Times Supporting the
Anti-Israel BDS Movement?
by Roger Aronoff
{aim.org} ~ When the mainstream media get their story wrong, they are obligated as journalists to correct it. But the Los Angeles Times refuses to correct an egregious error in its own reporting... On August 21 Los Angeles Times reporter Teresa Watanabe wrote an article accusing the Maccabee Task Force of funding a poster campaign by David Horowitz’s Freedom Center. This poster campaign targeted students in the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement. It publicly named activists and accused them of anti-Semitism. “The posters were one element of ‘Stop the Jew Hatred on Campus,’ a task force-funded campaign launched in February by the David Horowitz Freedom Center in Los Angeles,” wrote Watanabe. “Horowitz declined to disclose the size of the grant he received but said it helped him wage what he called a ‘guerrilla’ campaign this spring, with posters of ‘Jew haters’ on five California campuses.”... http://www.aim.org/aim-column/why-is-the-l-a-times-supporting-the-anti-israel-bds-movement/
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A Wounded Boy’s Silence, and the Candidates’
by Peggy Noonan
{peggynoonan.com} ~ With the campaign proper about to begin, on Labor Day, a last August thought, a very simple one: War is terrible. It is my impression our candidates for president don’t really know this. They never say it, not in formal speeches or in thinking aloud, in reveries in friendly interviews. I would say of most of America’s political class that they have their heads all screwed up about war, that they approach the subject coolly, as a political and geopolitical matter, and that they see it through prisms of personal political need and ideological gain. They are missing the central fact of it—that it is terrible. Before the election is over it would be good if someone said it.
The thought arises most recently from the harrowing photo and videotape of the 5-year-old boy in Aleppo, Syria. You have seen one or both. His name is Omran Daqneesh and he lived with his parents and three siblings in the rebel-held Qaterji neighborhood, which late Wednesday night last week either Russian or Syrian forces targeted in a brutal airstrike. Omran was pulled from the rubble. He was placed on a seat in the back of an ambulance.
The left side of his head was covered in blood. His thick dark hair was stiff from smoke and dust. His legs were marked by soot and what looked like bruises. One report said he’d been in the rubble an hour before they dug him out.
They wouldn’t let the ambulance go until it was full. There was room for more children, and they came. But Omran is the one you can’t stop watching. He stares mutely, like a shocked old man. Photojournalists make flashes of light as they take his picture. No one has—or takes—a moment to call any comfort to him, to the 5-year-old boy as he stares ahead.
He can’t fully see out of his left eye, which seems damaged. Tentatively, calling no attention to himself, he brings his left hand up to his head and touches around for the wound. He seems to find it, then puts his hand down on his legs, as if not to call attention to his wounds.
Watching the videotape, posted on YouTube by an anti-Assad group, you see what is most harrowing. It isn’t only his youth, his aloneness, the blood—it’s that he isn’t crying.
Children, by nature and instinct, cry when they are infants. But as they grow older, 3 and 4 and 5, crying is sometimes more of a decision. Children who know they’re cared for cry in the expectation that someone will comfort them. If by 3 or 4 you haven’t had that, or haven’t had that enough—if circumstances were harsh enough that you couldn’t rely on help or comfort—then you might not cry. Because it won’t bring the help you need, or may in fact bring negative responses.
For all 5 years of his life, Omran Daqneesh lived in a country wracked by civil war, surrounded by the tension, fear and hardship war brings.
Anyway, he didn’t cry. He was taken to a local underground hospital called M10, treated for head wounds and released. There are reports his older brother has since died.
War is terrible. It abuses the innocent and takes their lives, it wastes all kinds of treasure, it kills generations and whole cultures. It strikes me as rather mad that our candidates for commander in chief of the most powerful armed forces in the world don’t ever simply think aloud about this.
About 18 months ago I asked a potential Republican presidential candidate, in conversation, if he hated war. He got the dart-eyed look politicians get when they sense a trick question. This startled me. How do you not know the answer? After a few seconds I said, “This is not a trick question.” I explained I was thinking of Franklin D. Roosevelt, who said, “I hate war,” roughly five years before prosecuting one with unambivalent vigor.
The potential candidate then stuttered that of course he doesn’t like war, but sometimes it’s necessary. Well, yes, sometimes it is. But why would you fear stating that war is hell, and hell ain’t where we want to be?
Afterward, and again this week, I went back to FDR’s famous speech, delivered at Chautauqua, N.Y., Aug. 14, 1936—80 years ago this month. He was “less cheerful,” he admitted, about world events than domestic ones—this at the depth of the Depression. What happens in the world may have an impact on the United States, but we can serve the cause of peace by “setting an example” and following the policy of the good neighbor—“the neighbor who resolutely respects himself and, because he does so, respects the rights of others.” Because of this practice “the whole world now knows that the United States cherishes no predatory ambitions. We are strong; but less powerful nations know that they need not fear our strength.”
He observed that “the noblest monument to peace . . . in all the world is not a monument . . . but the boundary which unites the United States and Canada—3,000 miles of friendship.” Still, so long as war exists there is danger of being “drawn into” one. That grieves him, he said, because “I have seen war. I have seen war on land and sea. . . . I have seen cities destroyed. . . . I hate war.”
It’s quite a speech, a deep and persuasive exposing of thoughts on the most essential of human and governmental subjects. But what really surprised me on rereading it was that I don’t think a Republican or Democratic candidate would feel free to speak like that anymore. They’d fear being called soft. That isn’t good, or even practical. FDR after all was pretty good at waging war. It only made him more powerful, made his decisions more convincing, that he’d laid down the predicate that he’d never wanted it and in fact hated it.
Unless I’m missing something neither candidate for president appears to have an informed or deeply felt sense of the tragedy of war. liar-Hillary Clinton was subjected, in the primaries, to sharp criticism from the left that she was too bellicose, was wrong to go all in on Iraq, wrong to support regime change in Libya, wrong to be so temperamentally activist in this area. When Moammar Gadhafi was killed in the field after the fall of his government she laughed with a reporter: “We came, we saw, he died.”
As for Donald Trump, he is usually equally aggressive in speaking of potential U.S. military actions, though it’s clear he hates war at least for himself. He did not serve and famously told Howard Stern that dodging incoming STDs was his personal Vietnam.
Our leaders are shallow on the subject of war. No, worse than shallow—they’re silent. Which is one reason they will likely not be fully trusted should they make rough decisions down the road on Syria, or Iran, or elsewhere.
War is terrible. That should be said over and over, not because it’s a box you ought to check on the way to the presidency but because you’re human and have a brain.
You should hate war. A 5-year-old knows that.
The thought arises most recently from the harrowing photo and videotape of the 5-year-old boy in Aleppo, Syria. You have seen one or both. His name is Omran Daqneesh and he lived with his parents and three siblings in the rebel-held Qaterji neighborhood, which late Wednesday night last week either Russian or Syrian forces targeted in a brutal airstrike. Omran was pulled from the rubble. He was placed on a seat in the back of an ambulance.
The left side of his head was covered in blood. His thick dark hair was stiff from smoke and dust. His legs were marked by soot and what looked like bruises. One report said he’d been in the rubble an hour before they dug him out.
They wouldn’t let the ambulance go until it was full. There was room for more children, and they came. But Omran is the one you can’t stop watching. He stares mutely, like a shocked old man. Photojournalists make flashes of light as they take his picture. No one has—or takes—a moment to call any comfort to him, to the 5-year-old boy as he stares ahead.
He can’t fully see out of his left eye, which seems damaged. Tentatively, calling no attention to himself, he brings his left hand up to his head and touches around for the wound. He seems to find it, then puts his hand down on his legs, as if not to call attention to his wounds.
Watching the videotape, posted on YouTube by an anti-Assad group, you see what is most harrowing. It isn’t only his youth, his aloneness, the blood—it’s that he isn’t crying.
Children, by nature and instinct, cry when they are infants. But as they grow older, 3 and 4 and 5, crying is sometimes more of a decision. Children who know they’re cared for cry in the expectation that someone will comfort them. If by 3 or 4 you haven’t had that, or haven’t had that enough—if circumstances were harsh enough that you couldn’t rely on help or comfort—then you might not cry. Because it won’t bring the help you need, or may in fact bring negative responses.
For all 5 years of his life, Omran Daqneesh lived in a country wracked by civil war, surrounded by the tension, fear and hardship war brings.
Anyway, he didn’t cry. He was taken to a local underground hospital called M10, treated for head wounds and released. There are reports his older brother has since died.
War is terrible. It abuses the innocent and takes their lives, it wastes all kinds of treasure, it kills generations and whole cultures. It strikes me as rather mad that our candidates for commander in chief of the most powerful armed forces in the world don’t ever simply think aloud about this.
About 18 months ago I asked a potential Republican presidential candidate, in conversation, if he hated war. He got the dart-eyed look politicians get when they sense a trick question. This startled me. How do you not know the answer? After a few seconds I said, “This is not a trick question.” I explained I was thinking of Franklin D. Roosevelt, who said, “I hate war,” roughly five years before prosecuting one with unambivalent vigor.
The potential candidate then stuttered that of course he doesn’t like war, but sometimes it’s necessary. Well, yes, sometimes it is. But why would you fear stating that war is hell, and hell ain’t where we want to be?
Afterward, and again this week, I went back to FDR’s famous speech, delivered at Chautauqua, N.Y., Aug. 14, 1936—80 years ago this month. He was “less cheerful,” he admitted, about world events than domestic ones—this at the depth of the Depression. What happens in the world may have an impact on the United States, but we can serve the cause of peace by “setting an example” and following the policy of the good neighbor—“the neighbor who resolutely respects himself and, because he does so, respects the rights of others.” Because of this practice “the whole world now knows that the United States cherishes no predatory ambitions. We are strong; but less powerful nations know that they need not fear our strength.”
He observed that “the noblest monument to peace . . . in all the world is not a monument . . . but the boundary which unites the United States and Canada—3,000 miles of friendship.” Still, so long as war exists there is danger of being “drawn into” one. That grieves him, he said, because “I have seen war. I have seen war on land and sea. . . . I have seen cities destroyed. . . . I hate war.”
It’s quite a speech, a deep and persuasive exposing of thoughts on the most essential of human and governmental subjects. But what really surprised me on rereading it was that I don’t think a Republican or Democratic candidate would feel free to speak like that anymore. They’d fear being called soft. That isn’t good, or even practical. FDR after all was pretty good at waging war. It only made him more powerful, made his decisions more convincing, that he’d laid down the predicate that he’d never wanted it and in fact hated it.
Unless I’m missing something neither candidate for president appears to have an informed or deeply felt sense of the tragedy of war. liar-Hillary Clinton was subjected, in the primaries, to sharp criticism from the left that she was too bellicose, was wrong to go all in on Iraq, wrong to support regime change in Libya, wrong to be so temperamentally activist in this area. When Moammar Gadhafi was killed in the field after the fall of his government she laughed with a reporter: “We came, we saw, he died.”
As for Donald Trump, he is usually equally aggressive in speaking of potential U.S. military actions, though it’s clear he hates war at least for himself. He did not serve and famously told Howard Stern that dodging incoming STDs was his personal Vietnam.
Our leaders are shallow on the subject of war. No, worse than shallow—they’re silent. Which is one reason they will likely not be fully trusted should they make rough decisions down the road on Syria, or Iran, or elsewhere.
War is terrible. That should be said over and over, not because it’s a box you ought to check on the way to the presidency but because you’re human and have a brain.
You should hate war. A 5-year-old knows that.
http://www.peggynoonan.com/a-wounded-boys-silence-and-the-candidates/
The Front Page Cover
2016 The truth will set you free
Featuring:
liar-Hillary Clinton and the FBI
by Judge Andrew Napolitano
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The Straw Man Quarterback
The NFL's — and specifically the San Francisco 49ers' — lack of a substantive response to Colin Kaepernick's unpatriotic and insulting behavior toward our nation and its police led the union representing the Santa Clara Police Department to send a letter to 49ers CEO Jed York warning that the department may stop working security for 49ers home games. The letter stated that failure by the 49ers to discipline Kaepernick for his insulting behavior "could result in police officers choosing not to work at your facilities." The letter made it clear that the union viewed Kaepernick's statements and behavior — including wearing socks depicting pigs as cops — as "obviously insulting, inaccurate and completely unsupported."
Not surprisingly Barack nObama, while overseas at the G20 summit, decided to weigh in on the now backup quarterback's behavior. nObama defended Kaepernick saying, "My understanding is he's exercising his constitutional right to make a statement. I don't doubt his sincerity. I think he cares about some real, legitimate issues that have to be talked about." He also argued, "Maybe some of his critics will start seeing that he has a point." Similar to his supporting statements of Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown and others, nObama relishes jumping into the "America is racist" narrative whenever an opportunity arises. This is not a First Amendment issue, this is an issue of truth and respect for our nation and its Constitution. Where was nObama defending Curt Schilling's First Amendment right to speak out against homosexuality, transgenderism and radical Islam? For nObama, appealing to the Constitution while subverting the Constitution is merely par for the course, especially when he can advance a racial narrative at the same time.
The NFL, the 49ers and nObama are using the First Amendment rights line as an excuse not to look like they are taking sides. Remember, the NFL recently nixed the Dallas Cowboys' helmet decal honoring the police, citing uniform standards that all teams are subject to. And they turned the other way when several Rams players took the field with their hands up. Is it too much to ask the National Football League to show a little patriotism? ~The Patriot Post
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Iraq Isn't Lost Yet
In 2011, having let expire the Bush administration's status of forces agreement (SOFA) that helped secure our hard-won gains in Iraq and the region, Barack nObama declared, "Everything Americans have done in Iraq, all the fighting, all the dying, the bleeding, the building and the training and the partnering, all of it has led to this moment of success. ... We're leaving behind a sovereign, stable and self-reliant Iraq." We all know how well that turned out. nObama left a vacuum that allowed for the rise of the Islamic State.
Fortunately, there's a glimmer of hope. nObama doesn't want us to know it, but there are American boots on the ground (and in the air) in Iraq again, and together with Iraqi forces they're making gains. Specifically, as Islamic State territory shrinks, another crucial battle for Mosul looms.
"nObama's decision to abandon Iraq in 2011 ranks as one of the worst strategic blunders of modern times," writes Mosul veteran David French. However, he says, "[I]t is to nObama's credit ... that he reversed course in time to save Baghdad and Kurdistan and reverse enemy momentum. The level of force hasn't been sufficient to prevent ISIS from consolidating its gains, providing a home for jihadists worldwide, and beginning the process of educating a new generation of terrorists, but a prior generation of American politicians behaved much worse than nObama when they allowed South Vietnam to fall. There was no helicopter on the roof moment in Baghdad, and instead the enemy is now in retreat."
The recent gains against the Islamic State could mean Iraq still has a chance — if this and the next administration are willing to hold those gains this time. ~The Patriot Post.
New Bill Calls on Iran
to Return nObama’s Ransom
by shawn
{totalconservative.com} ~ Congress is back in session, and Senate Republicans aren’t wasting a minute of their precious time. Florida Senator Marco Rubio introduced a piece of legislation on Tuesday that would block the nObama administration from delivering any more funds to Iran... The bill also calls on Tehran to return the $1.7 billion they’ve already received – a portion of which has been rightfully described as “ransom” by the administration’s critics. “President nObama’s disastrous nuclear deal with Iran was sweetened with an illicit ransom payment and billions of dollars for the world’s foremost state sponsor of terrorism,” Rubio said in a statement. “The U.S. government should not be in the business of negotiating with terrorists and paying ransom money in exchange for the release of American hostages.” Well…when you put it that way…But, unless you’re a shill for nObama, there’s no other way to put it. Whether or not that money was “owed” to the Iranians is completely immaterial. We managed to sit on that debt for nearly thirty years and we could have easily continued to sit on it for thirty more. But then, we might not have gotten our prisoners back. And maybe the whole nuclear deal would have toppled like so many dominoes. No, no, nObama wasn’t going to let that happen...
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nObama Admin Might Have Given Tehran
Over $30 Billion in Cash, Gold Payments
by Barney Breed-Portnoy
Foundation for Defense of Democracies Executive Director Mark Dubowitz
{algemeiner.com} ~ While the nObama administration has admitted to transferring $1.7 billion in cash earlier this year to Tehran, even more cash might have been given by the US to the ayatollahs... following the January 2014 implementation of the interim nuclear agreement reached by the Islamic Republic with six world powers, an Iran expert revealed at a congressional hearing on Thursday. According to the testimony of Mark Dubowitz, the executive director of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, “the worst-case scenario here is that Iran may have received as much as $33.6 billion in cash or in gold and other precious metals” between 2014 and 2016. Concluding his testimony, Dubowitz stated, “The illicit financial consequences of cash transfers to Iran warrant further congressional investigation beyond whether such a payment was a ransom. It is important to investigate the possibility that the Obama administration authorized the movement in cash of many billions of dollars related to JPOA and JCPOA sanctions relief as well as Tribunal claims.”... http://www.algemeiner.com/2016/09/08/iran-expert-tells-congress-obama-administration-might-have-given-tehran-over-30-billion-in-cash-gold-payments/#
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liar-Hillary's 'mystery man' spotted during
blood-clot hospitalization
by wnd.com
{wnd.com} ~ America wants to know: Who is the “mystery man” attached at liar-Hillary Clinton’s hip while she campaigns for the White House?... He’s been on the stage, in her plane, by her side and following her everywhere she goes. He touches her frequently, wrapping his arm around her or helping her up stairs, and responds immediately when liar-Clinton has one of her coughing fits. Some speculate he could be a physician on hand in case liar-Clinton experiences a health emergency, a possibility considering nearly 71 percent of physicians informally surveyed by the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons said concerns about liar-Clinton’s health are “serious” and “could be disqualifying for the position of president of the U.S.”... http://www.wnd.com/2016/09/hillarys-mystery-man-spotted-during-blood-clot-hospitalization/
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Fifteen Years After 9/11–
America’s Leaders Have Forgotten The Pain
by Jeff Dunetz
{lidblog.com} ~ Just about everyone remembers where they were when they found out about the attacks on 9/11. But many of us, especially our supposed leaders in the nObama administration, have forgotten the collective national pain... the reasons we were attacked, and have reverted to the appeasement that made the terrorists strong. Under Barack nObama, liar-Hillary Clinton, and John hanoi-Kerry, the U.S. government has returned to the pre-9/11 mindset of treating terrorist acts as crimes, and the terrorists as criminals who can be rehabilitated. Most importantly, we’ve forgotten that the hateful ideology and malignancy of their terrorist tactics that are still alive, and very well. It was fifteen years ago but the vivid memory of driving into Manhattan at six a.m. that day (as I did every day) is still fresh in my mind. For some reason as my car made its way over the bridge leading to the midtown tunnel, I gazed downtown at the two towers of the World Trade Center thinking that it was a particularly beautiful day, not a cloud in the sky. Little did I know that in just a few hours later, that view of the towers would be replaced by an impenetrable black cloud, and America —indeed the entire world, would be changed forever... http://lidblog.com/fifteen-years-after-911-americas-leaders-have-forgotten-the-pain/
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In Memory of America
by CATHY HINNERS
by CATHY HINNERS
{familysecuritymatters.org} ~ Ask most Americans where they were on September 11, 2001, and they can describe what they were doing or where they were at that very moment. Ask Americans today what the threat to America is, and the answers are astounding... From Donald Trump supporters, to Black Lives Matter activists, many believe they are the menaces to our society. How quickly Americans have forgotten. The true enemy has been living amongst us, quietly inserting themselves into positions of power, and effecting changes so seemingly inconsequential most never recognize who they are. However, those small incremental changes have led to the rise of Islamists and their radical agenda, transforming America like never before. They don't need a war, large guns and bombs, they are coming from within. This enemy is the same one that flew planes into buildings on September 11, but now they are dressed in suits and ties, they exist on college campuses, they enter your churches professing their god and yours are the same, and they roam the halls of our highest branches of U.S government... http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/in-memory-of-america?f=must_reads
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FBI Documents Show The Fix Was In For
liar-Clinton From The Beginning
by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ Judge Andrew Napolitano comments on liar-Hillary Clinton’s responses during the Commander-in-Chief forum as well as other aspects of the liar-Clinton web of criminality... He describes how “on liar-Hillary Clinton’s first day in office as Secretary of State she received a two hour tutorial from two FBI agents specializing in national security who explained to her her obligation in the proper care and handling of national security secrets.” That training included “her obligation in recognizing those secrets whether there’s a header on them or not.” He also points out that “At the end of that two hour tutorial she signed an oath promising to obey the law and to recognize secrets on the basis of their content not on the basis of what’s stamped on them.” Napolitano is disappointed that the FBI chose not to follow “a lot of trails here” in the prosecution but that their hands were tied, the fix was in from the beginning. He says, “I think the FBI was told to exonerate Mrs. liar-Clinton at the outset of their investigation and I say that for a number of reasons. No grand jury was summoned, no evidence was presented to a grand jury, no subpoena was issued, no search warrant was issued.” He points out, “If you read the FBI documents that came out the weekend before Labor Day, there are five times in there in which the author of those documents said, ‘we couldn’t find, we didn’t have, we hoped we could acquire. That’s because their hands were tied by whatever political forces are controlling the FBI.”... http://rickwells.us/napolitano-fbi-documents-fix-clinton/
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liar-Clinton Has A Lot Of Bad News On The Horizon
And More Lies Waiting To Be Told
by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ Lou Dobbs notes that the tough times liar-Hillary Clinton is experiencing are likely to get a lot worse, and runs through some of her current problems as well as those on the horizon... He notes that while the nObama FBI and DOJ may have decreed that case against liar-Hillary Clinton is closed, but sees that as “a somewhat narrow view.” Mr. Dobbs points out that, “The State Department has yet to release all of liar-Clinton’s schedule when she headed the Department. It says it will do so before the election, not later now than October 17th. We’ll see how that deadline adjusts, if it does at all.” Dobbs says, “There are convincing claims that liar-Clinton ran the State Department like a racketeering enterprise for her family foundation. Supportive evidence to that effect is mounting. Also we’ll be hearing a lot more about liar-Clinton’s conduct in a lawsuit brought by Citizens United. Yes, that Citizens United. We owe Citizens United a great deal because they do have inquiring minds and are producing answers to questions that have avoided, well, even Congress for some time.”...
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nObama administration shuts down one
prison camp at Guantanamo Bay
by foxnews.com
{foxnews.com} ~ The nObama administration has gotten one step closer to shuttering the Guantanamo Bay detention center, closing down a 100-cell maximum-security prison and moving to reduce the U.S. presence there... A military official confirmed to Fox News on Thursday that the site known as Camp 5 will be closed, with parts of it turned into a medical clinic to "improve operations." “Camp V at Joint Task Force Guantanamo has been closed as a detention facility and repurposed into another function and the detainees consolidated," spokesman Capt. John Filostrat said in a statement...This is one Hugh mistake. http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/09/08/obama-administration-shuts-down-one-prison-camp-at-guantanamo-bay.html
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The Cost of Terror & Most Hated Man in Britain
by Sharyl Attkisson
{sharylattkisson.com} ~ As the 15th anniversary of 9/11 approaches, we begin our new season of Full Measure by quantifying the Cost of Terror... How much US tax money has been spent on the War against Islamic extremism? And what are the costs to our way of life? The head of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, Sen. Ron Johnson, will tell us what vulnerability worries him most today. Also, Scott Thuman reports from the UK on the Most Hated Man in Britain: Islamic extremist recruiter Anjem Choudary. He recruited openly for decades, and his followers are said to be responsible for dozens of murders in terrorist attacks... https://sharylattkisson.com/the-cost-of-terror-most-hated-man-in-britain/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+SharylAttkisson+%28Sharyl+Attkisson%29
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Canada to pass Sharia Bill 59 to
criminalize criticism of Islam
by Clyde
{gopthedailydose.com} ~ Canada is overrun with Muslims and they are working Sharia Law into their government... Muslims are trying to implement Sharia Law in the United States too. Your Vote counts on November 8th, Vote Trump... http://gopthedailydose.com/2016/09/09/canada-pass-sharia-bill-59-criminalize-criticism-islam-video/
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liar-Hillary Clinton and the FBI
by Judge Andrew Napolitano
05T184202Z_2_LYNXNPEC84130_RTROPTP_3_USA-ELECTION-CLINTON.JPG" />{townhall.com} ~ On Sept. 2, the FBI released a lengthy explanation of its investigation of liar-Hillary Clinton and a summary of the evidence amassed against her. It also released a summary of liar-Clinton's July FBI interrogation.
The interrogation was in some respects standard and in others very troubling. It was standard in that she was confronted with emails she had sent or received and was asked whether she recalled them, and her judgment about them was challenged. The FBI was looking for gross negligence in her behavior about securing state secrets.
The failure to secure state secrets that have been entrusted to one for safekeeping is known as espionage, and espionage is the rare federal crime that does not require prosecutors to prove the defendant's intent. They need only prove the defendant's gross negligence.
At one point during the interrogation, FBI agents attempted to trick her, as the law permits them to do. Before the interrogation began, agents took the hard copy of an innocuous email liar-Clinton had sent to an aide and marked it "secret." Then, at her interrogation, they asked liar-Clinton whether she recognized the email and its contents. She said she did not recognize it, but she questioned the "secret" denomination and pointed out to the agents that nothing remotely secret was in the email.
By examining the contents of the email to see whether it contained state secrets, which it clearly did not, liar-Clinton demonstrated an awareness of the law -- namely, that it is the contents of a document or email that cause it to be protected by federal secrecy statutes, not the denomination put on it by the sender.
This added to the case against her because she later told the FBI that she had never paid attention to whether a document contained state secrets or not. In the strange world of espionage prosecution, this denial of intent is an admission of guilt, as it is profoundly the job of the secretary of state to recognize state secrets and to keep them in their secure government-protected venues, and the grossly negligent failure to do so is criminal.
The FBI notes of the interrogation recount that liar-Clinton professed serious memory lapses 39 times. She also professed ignorance over what "C" means in the margin of a government document. "C" in the margin means "confidential," which is one of the three levels of federal state secrets. The other two levels are "secret" and "top secret." Under federal law, liar-Clinton was required to keep in secure government venues all documents in those three categories. The FBI found that she had failed to do so hundreds of times.
By denying that she had paid attention to notes in margins designating the presence of secrets, by denying that she recognized a secret when she saw one and by denying that the location of planned drone strikes is secret an obvious secret with which FBI agents confronted her, she succeeded in avoiding incriminating herself.
But by saving herself from indictment, she may have doomed her campaign for president. In this dangerous world, how can a person seeking the presidency be so dumb or ignorant or indifferent or reckless or deceptive about what is a secret and what is not?
The records released last week also reveal that the FBI must have been restrained from the outset from conducting an aggressive investigation. It did not present any evidence to a grand jury. It did not ask a grand jury for any subpoenas, and hence it didn't serve any. It did not ask a judge for any search warrants, and hence it didn't serve any. The data and hardware it gathered in the case were given to it in response to simple requests it made.
I counted five times in the report where the FBI lamented that it did not have what it needed. This is the FBI's own fault. This tepid FBI behavior is novel in modern federal law enforcement. It is inimical to public safety and the rule of law. It is close to misconduct in office by high-ranking FBI officials.
Someone restrained the FBI.
The FBI did not ask liar-Clinton aggressive follow-up questions. Her interrogators just blithely accepted her answers. They failed to present her with documents she had signed that would have contradicted what she was telling them -- particularly, an oath she signed on her first day in office promising to recognize state secrets when she came upon them and to keep them in secure venues. And agents violated Department of Justice policy by not recording her interrogation when her lawyers told them she would not answer questions if her answers were recorded.
Now the FBI has interjected itself into the presidential campaign by releasing these documents. Notwithstanding the mountain of evidence pointing to liar-Clinton's guilt, it is highly improper and grossly unfair to release evidence gathered against a person who will not be prosecuted. Moreover, it is tendentious to release only part of the evidence -- only what agents want the public to see -- rather than the complete file. Yet all this evidence is secret under DOJ regulations. Had any of it been intended for or presented to a grand jury, the release of it would have been criminal.
What happened here? The FBI seriously dropped the ball, and liar-Clinton was more concerned about being indicted than she was about losing the race for the presidency.
It is apparent that some in FBI management blindly followed what they were told to do -- exonerate liar-Hillary Clinton. There is no other explanation for the FBI's failure from the outset to use ordinary law enforcement tools available to it. Yet some in the FBI are not professionally satisfied by this outcome. They know that a strong case for prosecution and for guilt is being ignored for political reasons.
What else do they know?
The interrogation was in some respects standard and in others very troubling. It was standard in that she was confronted with emails she had sent or received and was asked whether she recalled them, and her judgment about them was challenged. The FBI was looking for gross negligence in her behavior about securing state secrets.
The failure to secure state secrets that have been entrusted to one for safekeeping is known as espionage, and espionage is the rare federal crime that does not require prosecutors to prove the defendant's intent. They need only prove the defendant's gross negligence.
At one point during the interrogation, FBI agents attempted to trick her, as the law permits them to do. Before the interrogation began, agents took the hard copy of an innocuous email liar-Clinton had sent to an aide and marked it "secret." Then, at her interrogation, they asked liar-Clinton whether she recognized the email and its contents. She said she did not recognize it, but she questioned the "secret" denomination and pointed out to the agents that nothing remotely secret was in the email.
By examining the contents of the email to see whether it contained state secrets, which it clearly did not, liar-Clinton demonstrated an awareness of the law -- namely, that it is the contents of a document or email that cause it to be protected by federal secrecy statutes, not the denomination put on it by the sender.
This added to the case against her because she later told the FBI that she had never paid attention to whether a document contained state secrets or not. In the strange world of espionage prosecution, this denial of intent is an admission of guilt, as it is profoundly the job of the secretary of state to recognize state secrets and to keep them in their secure government-protected venues, and the grossly negligent failure to do so is criminal.
The FBI notes of the interrogation recount that liar-Clinton professed serious memory lapses 39 times. She also professed ignorance over what "C" means in the margin of a government document. "C" in the margin means "confidential," which is one of the three levels of federal state secrets. The other two levels are "secret" and "top secret." Under federal law, liar-Clinton was required to keep in secure government venues all documents in those three categories. The FBI found that she had failed to do so hundreds of times.
By denying that she had paid attention to notes in margins designating the presence of secrets, by denying that she recognized a secret when she saw one and by denying that the location of planned drone strikes is secret an obvious secret with which FBI agents confronted her, she succeeded in avoiding incriminating herself.
But by saving herself from indictment, she may have doomed her campaign for president. In this dangerous world, how can a person seeking the presidency be so dumb or ignorant or indifferent or reckless or deceptive about what is a secret and what is not?
The records released last week also reveal that the FBI must have been restrained from the outset from conducting an aggressive investigation. It did not present any evidence to a grand jury. It did not ask a grand jury for any subpoenas, and hence it didn't serve any. It did not ask a judge for any search warrants, and hence it didn't serve any. The data and hardware it gathered in the case were given to it in response to simple requests it made.
I counted five times in the report where the FBI lamented that it did not have what it needed. This is the FBI's own fault. This tepid FBI behavior is novel in modern federal law enforcement. It is inimical to public safety and the rule of law. It is close to misconduct in office by high-ranking FBI officials.
Someone restrained the FBI.
The FBI did not ask liar-Clinton aggressive follow-up questions. Her interrogators just blithely accepted her answers. They failed to present her with documents she had signed that would have contradicted what she was telling them -- particularly, an oath she signed on her first day in office promising to recognize state secrets when she came upon them and to keep them in secure venues. And agents violated Department of Justice policy by not recording her interrogation when her lawyers told them she would not answer questions if her answers were recorded.
Now the FBI has interjected itself into the presidential campaign by releasing these documents. Notwithstanding the mountain of evidence pointing to liar-Clinton's guilt, it is highly improper and grossly unfair to release evidence gathered against a person who will not be prosecuted. Moreover, it is tendentious to release only part of the evidence -- only what agents want the public to see -- rather than the complete file. Yet all this evidence is secret under DOJ regulations. Had any of it been intended for or presented to a grand jury, the release of it would have been criminal.
What happened here? The FBI seriously dropped the ball, and liar-Clinton was more concerned about being indicted than she was about losing the race for the presidency.
It is apparent that some in FBI management blindly followed what they were told to do -- exonerate liar-Hillary Clinton. There is no other explanation for the FBI's failure from the outset to use ordinary law enforcement tools available to it. Yet some in the FBI are not professionally satisfied by this outcome. They know that a strong case for prosecution and for guilt is being ignored for political reasons.
What else do they know?
The Front Page Cover
2016 The truth will set you free
Featuring:
Mexico Will Pay for the Wall
by Katie Kieffer
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The 15th Anniversary of 9/11
On Sunday, we'll solemnly mark the 15th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attack on our nation, when 2,977 innocents, mostly American citizens, were murdered by Islamic fascists. In keeping with the presidential proclamation designating Sept. 11 of each year as Patriot Day, all flags should be flown at half-staff in memory of those who lost their lives that day.
We invite you to join us as we offer our prayers for the families of those lost and for our Armed Forces now serving on the front lines of the Long War against Jihadistan. We are already paying the bloody price of appeasement and tolerance in the Middle East against a jihadi foe that is alive and well.
liar-Hillary Clinton, who wants to be judged by her record, says she'll defeat the Islamic State without putting boots on the ground. Never mind that there already are American boots on the ground. Or that the policies she and her boss enacted are responsible for the rise of the Islamic State in the first place. We need a leader who will fight for America's national security, not one who is responsible for the current malaise and who promises to continue it. ~The Patriot Post
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liar-Hillary Has Casual Contact With the Press
Michael Swartz: If there is a clear contrast in this campaign between Donald Trump and liar-Hillary Clinton, it is this: Trump seeks out the press and attracts them like a magnet to steel, while liar-Clinton is perfectly happy to hold scripted events and avoid answering direct questions. But her blissfulness got to be a little too obvious and the press a shade too insistent, so liar-Hillary finally relented and held a press conference. Sort of.
As with all things liar-Clinton, you have to parse the term "press conference" in order to describe it as such — liar-Hillary set up on an airport tarmac with an awaiting plane and deigned to answer a grand total of six questions from the assembled media. So the long streak "technically" came to an end, but you can bet liar-Hillary endured the entire affair — which barely took 10 minutes — only because she had to.
Still more telling is the fact that not only did this availability lack a sufficient quantity of questions, but the quality was lacking as well. (That's reminiscent of the last time she met the press.) Among the queries were ridiculous softballs about her position in the polls, the "double standard" in her treatment on the campaign trail (along with a companion question about whether the media is too easy on Trump), and reaction to the "what is Aleppo?" comment made by Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson about the Syrian situation, and a piece by Matt Olsen, the former head of the National Counterterrorism Center, who remarked on Wednesday that the Islamic State was supporting Trump. That last howler was asked by longtime liar-Clinton sycophant Andrea Mitchell as liar-Hillary was departing, and she dutifully praised Mitchell for being "indefatigable" about asking questions.
The most substantive questions were deflected by liar-Clinton, who refused to discuss her intelligence briefings (at least with the press) and reiterated her comments from the night before regarding her refusal to commit ground troops to fight the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria — you know, where our ground troops already are fighting.
"This could barely be called a press conference," wrote commentator Ashe Schow. "liar-Clinton probably gets asked more questions by coffee baristas."
In this era of 24/7 media, it's fascinating how more and more press coverage reveals less and less about certain candidates. In March, we learned that during the Republican primary season Trump was the recipient of nearly $2 billion worth in free media, almost eclipsing the rest of the GOP field combined. (By comparison, second-place liar-Hillary received just shy of $750 million worth.) Coverage of all things Trump led off newscasts for months, which allowed him to develop his own narrative against the remaining Republican field.
Yet while we have a good idea why Trump has dubbed liar-Clinton "Crooked liar-Hillary," reporters seem reticent to do much digging. (Perhaps they worry about the undertaking leading them to the undertaker.) No one dared ask these obvious questions at the brief press conference, and it's doubtful that the subject will be broached at one of the upcoming Presidential debates. It's more likely the most damaging revelations will conveniently come out in the months after the election.
Pundits dismissively speak of "low-information" voters, but it's not the lack of information that's the problem. Instead, it's the shortage of useful information provided to them by the lapdog press. In terms of a legitimate press conference, liar-Clinton sparing 10 minutes on the tarmac to field a few softballs doesn't even pass the giggle test. ~The Patriot Post
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nObama Nominates
First Muslim for Federal Judge
by Trey Sanchez
{truthrevolt.org} ~ Breitbart is reporting that President nObama nominated a Muslim lawyer to serve as a federal judge... Not only does this mark the first time that’s ever happened, but nObama becomes the first president ever to make that happen. Amid Riaz Qureshi is a lawyer in Washington D.C. and if confirmed by the Senate, would serve on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, the report states. He is a ’97 graduate of Harvard and works on health care fraud and securities violations cases for the firm Latham & Watkins LLP. nObama released the following statement: I am pleased to nominate Mr. Qureshi to serve on the United States District Court bench. I am confident he will serve the American people with integrity and a steadfast commitment to justice...You can tell by nObama actions he is destroying America. http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/obama-nominates-first-muslim-federal-judge
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Russian Fighter Came Within 10 Ft.
of Navy Surveillance Plane Over Black Sea
by Sam LaGrone
P-8A Poseidon
{usni.org} ~ A Russian fighter has come within 10 feet of a Navy surveillance flight over the Black Sea on Wednesday, defense officials told USNI News... The incident between the Navy P-8A Poseidon surveillance aircraft and a Sukhoi Su-27 Flanker occurred at about 11:20 A.M. local time in international airspace over the Black Sea, according to a statement provided to USNI News.
Russian Sukhoi Su-27 Flanker Fighter
“During the intercept, which lasted approximately 19 minutes, the Su-27 initially maintained a 30-foot separation distance then closed to within 10 feet of the P-8A, which is considered unsafe and unprofessional,” read the statement. “We have deep concerns when there is an unsafe maneuver. These actions have the potential to unnecessarily escalate tensions between countries, and could result in a miscalculation or accident which results in serious injury or death... https://news.usni.org/2016/09/07/russian-fighter-came-within-10-ft-navy-surveillance-plane-black-sea?utm_source=USNI+News&utm_campaign=88a6d186ae-USNI_NEWS_DAILY&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_0dd4a1450b-88a6d186ae-231491269&mc_cid=88a6d186ae&mc_eid=3999f18767
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Why does the South China Sea
matter to the USA? …
by Michael Mazza
{aei.org} ~ In recent years China has expanded its control over the South China Sea... but why does that matter to the United States? AEI Research Fellow Michael Mazza explains the strategic role that the South China Sea plays in the USA’s foreign, defense, and economic policies. http://www.aei.org/multimedia/why-south-china-sea-matters-to-usa-in-60-seconds/?utm_source=paramount&utm_medium=email&utm_content=AEITODAY&utm_campaign=090816
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What Happened To Syria’s Chemical Weapons?
by HERBERT LONDON
by HERBERT LONDON
{familysecuritymatters.org} ~ In August 2013 President nObama indicated President Bassar Assad of Syria had crossed the "red line" in the use of chemical weapons which killed more than 1400 people... However, instead of launching a much anticipated attack, nObama reached an accord with Russia for the removal and destruction of these chemical weapons. In July 2014 the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) announced the removal of Syria's chemical weapons stockpile. Secretary of State John hanoi-Kerry said, "we got 100 percent of the chemical weapons out." In August 2016 U.S. and European officials reported evidence of deadly chemical agents present in Syria. In fact, according to a Foreign Policy article, Assad "failed to provide sufficient access to senior leaders in its chemical weapons program or to adequately account for 2000 aerial bombs that Syria acknowledges were designed to deliver mustard gas." Despite assurances from Mr. hanoi-Kerry and pledges from Russian officials, the "red line" is now written in invisible ink. U.N. Security Council resolutions about this matter have been ignored and the Assad government has engaged in obfuscation when charges have been levelled... http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/what-happened-to-syrias-chemical-weapons?f=must_reads
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Famous Pic of Refugees
Exposed as Massive Fraud…
{conservativetribune.com} ~ One of the images that has become an icon of the pro-refugee movement from the predominantly Muslim countries has been proven to be cropped.... Oddly enough, the image, shown, has been peen portrayed all over the media as indicative of the plight that these Middle Eastern refugees endure every day. That could absolutely be done without cropping a picture, and yet here the media took another opportunity to lie to the American people. In the commonly published image, it appeared the refugees were helplessly floating in the water, fighting for their lives as best as they possibly can. There’s just one catch with that: They’re floating in about three feet of water...
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FBI 'Stonewalling' in liar-Clinton Email Case
by Jason Devaney
{newsmax.com} ~ House Speaker Paul Ryan said the investigation into liar-Hillary Clinton's email server reminds him of the one involving the IRS scandal... and both reflected "stonewalling" by the FBI. Ryan talked about the FBI's liar-Clinton investigation during an interview on "The Hugh Hewitt Show" Thursday morning. "Yes, and it's not the first time we've experienced this," Ryan said when asked if the FBI is denying the House's constitutional oversight in the liar-Clinton case. "I was part of the IRS investigation in my last job here in Congress, and I would say it's a very, very similar story. It's a story of stonewalling... http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/ryan-fbi-stonewalling-hillary/2016/09/08/id/747297/?ns_mail_uid=29878495&ns_mail_job=1685729_09082016&s=al&dkt_nbr=5f9q31ei
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liar-Clinton Lies, Espionage Further
Exposed, Dissent At The FBI
by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ Catherine Herridge reports that one of her contacts has reviewed three of the liar-Clinton emails and multiple markings on the documents, including the “C” for confidential as well as every other paragraph being marked “SBU,” which means sensitive but unclassified... She says, “You never see these codes in the context of anything but classified information.” Herridge points out that this really undercuts the laughable claims liar-Clinton made to the FBI that she misinterpreted the “C” to mean some type of alphabetical listing, which is inconsistent with the nature of the documents. She details the events of March 2015 and how they relate to liar-Clinton obstruction of justice. On March 2nd the New York Times reported on the existence of the personal account that liar-Clinton was using for government business. She says, “Then within that first week there was a preservation order and also a subpoena for all of liar-Clinton’s emails from Congress. By the 9th of March the IT firm, Platte River Networks, that was managing the server, was notified they had to preserve the records. By the 25th of that month there was a conference call with liar-Clinton’s lawyers and then shortly after that the records were deleted by Platte River Networks using that Bleachbit technology.”... http://rickwells.us/herridge-clinton-lies-espionage-fbi/
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liar-Clinton Returns To Original Lie,
No Classified On Her Illegal Server
by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ What the heck is this corrupt, demonic little woman who wants to be president claiming now? Has she gone full circle and returned to the original lie that there was no classified information on her illegal home server and that she never used it to transmit classified information?... Is she deliberately acting like she’s lost her marbles to set up an insanity defense? Classified documents were found to have been stored there and they only got there by being transmitted in some form, physically removed from the secure system and loaded onto the unsecured. Many were manipulated to remove the markings. Their existence in that unsecured setting and their transmission are not in dispute. She has already acknowledged that fact with her lie about not understanding what the “C” meant. How can she now be claiming, as her head noticeably bobs up and down in some weird, apparently involuntary motion, that the classified communications she engaged in illegally were done only on a secure system. She had only one email account and that was on the illegal, vulnerable and easily hacked system. Is she now getting to the point where she’s lied so much she literally can’t remember what her latest position is?... http://rickwells.us/clinton-returns-original-lie-classified-illegal/
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nObama Admin Wants to Cut Army’s
Force Size by 25,000 by 2018
by Adam Kredo
{freebeacon.com} ~ The nObama administration is seeking to cut the U.S. Army’s total force size by 25,000 soldiers by 2018, bringing America’s force strength down to 450,000 from its current size of 475,000... according to a new congressional report that shines a spotlight on a growing debate over how large the force should be. Both chambers of Congress and the White House hold disparate views about how large the U.S. Army should be, according to a new congressional research report that highlights the differences between the governing bodies. While the nObama administration’s Defense Department is seeking to cut the force by 25,000 over current levels, the House is proposing to grow the Army by 5,000. The Senate is proposing to cut levels by 15,000...He won't be around by 2018. http://freebeacon.com/national-security/obama-admin-wants-cut-armys-force-size-25000-2018/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=8abfbba1ca-WFB_Morning_Beacon_09_08_169_7_2016&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-8abfbba1ca-45611665
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Tomi Lahren: liar-HILLARY Is Either
‘Dumb as a Rock … or She’s Lying
by Dylan
{gopthedailydose.com} ~ liar-Hillary Clinton’s vice presidential running mate, Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine, attempted to explain liar-Clinton’s use of a private email server on ABC News, but many of his responses seemed to contradict previous statements, especially FBI findings... “She did make a mistake,” Kaine said. “She made it by deciding she wanted to use one device instead of multiple devices. She’s apologized for that. She said it was a mistake, and she’s learned from it.” His statement more than agitated conservative commentator Tomi Lahren: She used 13 or more devices! She didn’t use one device. She used at least 13 freaking devices! Are you seriously going to sit here and lie to the American people?... http://gopthedailydose.com/2016/09/08/tomi-lahren-hillary-either-dumb-rock-shes-lying-take-pick/
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Mexico Will Pay for the Wall
by Katie Kieffer
{townhall.com} ~ Mirror, mirror on Donald Trump’s 2,000-mile wall! Who will pay $25 billion for you to be built long and tall? “Mexico. Yes, Mexico, will pay for the wall,” whispers the mirror.
Last Wednesday, Trump accepted a meeting invitation that his opponent, liar-Hillary Clinton, turned down. A meeting with Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto.
Proving himself to have the thick skin necessary of America’s top executive, Trump flew to Mexico to meet Peña Nieto on his home turf, despite the fact that Peña Nieto had previously compared Trump to vile German dictator Adolf Hitler and his Italian ally, despot Benito Mussolini.
Flip-flopper! Wavering! and Photo-Op King! Such insults were hurled at Trump after he met with Mexico’s president.
Why? Because Trump supposedly reneged on his long-standing campaign promise to make Mexico pay for the wall that he plans to build along the U.S.-Mexico border.
Reality check: Trump didn’t flip-flop. Mexico will pay for the wall if Trump becomes president. Furthermore, the wall’s cost and payment are negligible in the big picture. Here’s how, and why.
November 8, 2016: America’s Big Payday
Election Day (Tuesday, Nov. 8) will be America’s big payday if Trump is elected president. Not because Mexico will literally write us a check for $25 billion with Border Wall Project on the memo line.
Every savvy businessperson knows there is more than one way in which to collect proper payment from a debtor. Banks, for example, place liens against homes for which they offer mortgages. If a bank’s customer fails to make payments, the bank will enforce the lien by initiating foreclosure procedures and seizing the home.
Every year, Mexicans working in the U.S. send at least $20 billion back to Mexico in the form of remittances, placing a huge drain on our economy. Through a combination of legal and procedural challenges, Trump could impound such remittances.
Tune into your local Spanish TV or radio network on any given day and—if you’re fluent in Spanish—you’re bound to catch frequent advertisements from organizations promising to help you send money home to Mexico. Trump’s administration could have the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) enforce large fines on networks that air such commercials.
Mexico’s government, unsurprisingly, threatens that if the U.S. impounds remittances, it will feel harsh consequences—like an uptick in money laundering. But the U.S. could easily push back even harder—legalizing drugs and effectively snuffing out Mexico’s drug cartels and crime rings overnight.
Besides cracking down on remittances, “visa fees,” “visa cancellations,” and the enforcement or enactment of “trade tariffs” are three additional ways in which Trump proposes to make Mexico pay for the wall.
Stopping Sneaking Syrians
Securing the U.S.-Mexico border is necessary because it will help safeguard our country from terrorists who originate far beyond Mexico. USA Today and many other major news outlets have confirmed that refugees originating from the terror hotbed of Syria are using our porous border with Mexico to slip into the United States without detection.
A 2016 study by the Chicago Council on Global Affairs indicates that nearly two in three Americans do not support accepting Syrian refugees into the United States. liar-Hillary, meanwhile, has voiced a willingness to outdo President nObama’s recklessness by welcoming around 550 percent more (65,000) incompletely vetted Syrian refugees into America.
Anyone who tells you that Trump’s immigration views are “hardline” or “alt-right” is disingenuous. It is liar-Clinton’s immigration policy that is “alt-left” and far outside the realm of what most Americans desire in terms of national security.
It’s Not the Money, Honey
If you still doubt Trump’s ability to compel Mexico to pay for the wall, stop focusing on the cost. The cost of building the wall—estimated to range between $10 and $25 billion—is negligible in comparison to the billions we routinely squander on programs that set back our national security.
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has an annual budget of $2 billion. For this expenditure, we the taxpayers receive a TSA that corrals us like cattle every time we fly—only to have a 96 percent fail rate at catching weapons and explosives.
Trump could ask America to cover every penny of building his “tall, physical, impenetrable, beautiful wall along the southern border to stop the influx of illegal immigration” and our country would be far more secure than after dumping billions down the TSA Toilet.
1st-Timer vs. 4th-Timer
Don’t buy into claims that Trump is a flip-flopper because he went from claiming to be “softening” to “hardening” his immigration stance within a matter of days. We can’t forget that this is Trump’s first rodeo. liar-Hillary has run for president four times if you include her husband’s two runs. She has been a politician for at least 20 years whereas Trump has been a politician for barely one year.
liar-Hillary has scripted her views to the point where even she sometimes forgets her “lines,”—like when she said she would increase taxes on the middle class. Trump, in contrast, has to force himself to use a teleprompter to organize his naturally free-flowing communication style. It takes time to convert strong ideologies and values like those Trump espouses into public policies that are applicable in the real world. Trump isn’t wavering on immigration. He’s refining.
So give Trump a chance, especially when he insists Mexico will pay for the wall. As I’ve shown above, even if Mexico didn’t pay for the wall—which it will, one way or another—the wall’s cost is negligible. And liar-Hillary’s alternative immigration plan will compel you to house and clothe improperly vetted refugees and immigrants.
It only takes one criminal crossing our border to succumb your son or daughter to the tragic fate of Kate Steinle and Sarah Root. Build it tall. Build the wall.
Last Wednesday, Trump accepted a meeting invitation that his opponent, liar-Hillary Clinton, turned down. A meeting with Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto.
Proving himself to have the thick skin necessary of America’s top executive, Trump flew to Mexico to meet Peña Nieto on his home turf, despite the fact that Peña Nieto had previously compared Trump to vile German dictator Adolf Hitler and his Italian ally, despot Benito Mussolini.
Flip-flopper! Wavering! and Photo-Op King! Such insults were hurled at Trump after he met with Mexico’s president.
Why? Because Trump supposedly reneged on his long-standing campaign promise to make Mexico pay for the wall that he plans to build along the U.S.-Mexico border.
Reality check: Trump didn’t flip-flop. Mexico will pay for the wall if Trump becomes president. Furthermore, the wall’s cost and payment are negligible in the big picture. Here’s how, and why.
November 8, 2016: America’s Big Payday
Election Day (Tuesday, Nov. 8) will be America’s big payday if Trump is elected president. Not because Mexico will literally write us a check for $25 billion with Border Wall Project on the memo line.
Every savvy businessperson knows there is more than one way in which to collect proper payment from a debtor. Banks, for example, place liens against homes for which they offer mortgages. If a bank’s customer fails to make payments, the bank will enforce the lien by initiating foreclosure procedures and seizing the home.
Every year, Mexicans working in the U.S. send at least $20 billion back to Mexico in the form of remittances, placing a huge drain on our economy. Through a combination of legal and procedural challenges, Trump could impound such remittances.
Tune into your local Spanish TV or radio network on any given day and—if you’re fluent in Spanish—you’re bound to catch frequent advertisements from organizations promising to help you send money home to Mexico. Trump’s administration could have the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) enforce large fines on networks that air such commercials.
Mexico’s government, unsurprisingly, threatens that if the U.S. impounds remittances, it will feel harsh consequences—like an uptick in money laundering. But the U.S. could easily push back even harder—legalizing drugs and effectively snuffing out Mexico’s drug cartels and crime rings overnight.
Besides cracking down on remittances, “visa fees,” “visa cancellations,” and the enforcement or enactment of “trade tariffs” are three additional ways in which Trump proposes to make Mexico pay for the wall.
Stopping Sneaking Syrians
Securing the U.S.-Mexico border is necessary because it will help safeguard our country from terrorists who originate far beyond Mexico. USA Today and many other major news outlets have confirmed that refugees originating from the terror hotbed of Syria are using our porous border with Mexico to slip into the United States without detection.
A 2016 study by the Chicago Council on Global Affairs indicates that nearly two in three Americans do not support accepting Syrian refugees into the United States. liar-Hillary, meanwhile, has voiced a willingness to outdo President nObama’s recklessness by welcoming around 550 percent more (65,000) incompletely vetted Syrian refugees into America.
Anyone who tells you that Trump’s immigration views are “hardline” or “alt-right” is disingenuous. It is liar-Clinton’s immigration policy that is “alt-left” and far outside the realm of what most Americans desire in terms of national security.
It’s Not the Money, Honey
If you still doubt Trump’s ability to compel Mexico to pay for the wall, stop focusing on the cost. The cost of building the wall—estimated to range between $10 and $25 billion—is negligible in comparison to the billions we routinely squander on programs that set back our national security.
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has an annual budget of $2 billion. For this expenditure, we the taxpayers receive a TSA that corrals us like cattle every time we fly—only to have a 96 percent fail rate at catching weapons and explosives.
Trump could ask America to cover every penny of building his “tall, physical, impenetrable, beautiful wall along the southern border to stop the influx of illegal immigration” and our country would be far more secure than after dumping billions down the TSA Toilet.
1st-Timer vs. 4th-Timer
Don’t buy into claims that Trump is a flip-flopper because he went from claiming to be “softening” to “hardening” his immigration stance within a matter of days. We can’t forget that this is Trump’s first rodeo. liar-Hillary has run for president four times if you include her husband’s two runs. She has been a politician for at least 20 years whereas Trump has been a politician for barely one year.
liar-Hillary has scripted her views to the point where even she sometimes forgets her “lines,”—like when she said she would increase taxes on the middle class. Trump, in contrast, has to force himself to use a teleprompter to organize his naturally free-flowing communication style. It takes time to convert strong ideologies and values like those Trump espouses into public policies that are applicable in the real world. Trump isn’t wavering on immigration. He’s refining.
So give Trump a chance, especially when he insists Mexico will pay for the wall. As I’ve shown above, even if Mexico didn’t pay for the wall—which it will, one way or another—the wall’s cost is negligible. And liar-Hillary’s alternative immigration plan will compel you to house and clothe improperly vetted refugees and immigrants.
It only takes one criminal crossing our border to succumb your son or daughter to the tragic fate of Kate Steinle and Sarah Root. Build it tall. Build the wall.
I am a sophomore pre-law student at Saint Vincent College in Latrobe Pennsylvania. Typically considered a very conservative college, SVC has recently posted regulations that limit students' free speech on campus. As a strong conservative myself, I see these rules as very unconstitutional and counterproductive to whole concept of college campus'. A community campus is meant to promote students to share their ideologies and opinions, but SVC is now preventing this. In fear of hurting people's feelings or expressing an opinion that not everyone agrees with, the college is over-sensitizing the students. We are adults who should be capable of disagreeing with other's views. Here is the message that the administration posted:
- All posters on campus can only be posted on boards marked “Campus Events,” including all lobbies and floors of residence halls.
- The club, organization or department is responsible for taking down all posters the day after the event.
- All fundraisers must be approved by the Office of Campus Life.
- All use of sidewalk chalk must be approved by the Office of Campus Life.
- Scotch tape should be the only tape used to hang up signs; duct tape should never be used.
- All banners hung in the Carey Lounge must be approved by the Office of Campus Life.
- Materials promoting a particular candidate, political party or a partisan political message or bias may not be posted or displayed electronically or physically around campus. This policy covers local, state and national politics and does not apply to campus activities sanctioned by the College.
- No posters may be taped to any walking surface in or around campus.
So now I can't put up a poster that simply says "Trump for President" without offending someone. Come on people, lets be adults. This kind of stuff has been happening at universities nationwide, and it's simply childish. Being a private campus, I'm not sure how well my arguments will go with administration. Let's hope for the best, and let's push for a more mature America. Students, Millennials especially, need to learn how to hear other's opinions and not be instantly offended. Let's make America Great Again.
-Mitchell Bachman
The Front Page Cover
2016 The truth will set you free
Featuring:
Presidential Pardons, Not Just for
Low-Level Offenders Anymore
by Debra J. Saunders
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Black Voters, er, Lives Matter to Democrats
The infamous hacker Guccifer 2.0 released hacked memos he claims came from Nancy Pulosi's personal computer. She and her staff have denied the allegation, saying, "Leader Pulosi does not have a personal computer at the DCCC, so no hacked, dumped or doctored documents can be attributed to her computer." In any case, the leaked memos reveal strategic guidance for Democrats as to how best to deal with the Black Lives Matter activist/agitator group. They advise Democrats to "partner" with the group and to "lead from behind," but not to "co-opt" their movement. The memo warns Democrats to steer clear of using phrases such as "all lives matter" and "black-on-black crime." You know, avoid saying true things.
Many of the demands of Black Lives Matter are outright racist, yet Democrat leadership views BLM as a movement that can help garner them more votes and support for their leftist causes. The problem is that because the BLM platform is so radical, Democrats risk looking too extreme should they be aligned too closely with BLM. In the meantime, they are content to show support for the radical movement, without getting their hands dirty, as it were.
The real story here is that the Democrat Party would want to so willingly identify itself with such a radical, racist group as Black Lives Matter. Then again, it should come as no surprise given Democrats' long, checkered history of supporting various radical and racists groups. ~The Patriot Post
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More Secret Side Deals for Iran
It seems like every time we report on Barack nObama's nuclear deal with Iran (or liar-Hillary Clinton's scandals, or nObamaCare, etc., etc.), things get worse. David Albright and Andrea Stricker of the Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS — yeah, we know), a DC think tank specializing in nuclear issues, reveal the latest problem. They write, "We have learned that some nuclear stocks and facilities were not in accordance with JCPOA limits on Implementation Day, but in anticipation the Joint Commission had earlier and secretly exempted them from the JCPOA limits." (JCPOA stands for Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, the official name for the deal.) In other words, nObama agreed to secret side deals that made Iran's compliance unnecessary. He allowed exemptions for low-enriched uranium, heavy water production and radiation containment chambers. The whole idea of secret exemptions, warn Albright and Stricker, "risks advantaging Iran by allowing it to try to systematically weaken" the JCPOA.
The Wall Street Journal writes, "The White House has waved off the ISIS report by insisting it 'did not and will not allow Iran to skirt' its commitments. The non-denial would be more credible if the Administration hadn't last year agreed to a secretive process in which Iran was allowed to inspect its own nuclear-related military facilities."
In related news, Iran has stationed Russian S-300 surface-to-air missiles at one of its key nuclear facilities — the one at Fordow. That heavily fortified facility housed a substantial part of Iran's nuclear weapons program, and Western negotiators initially sought to shut it down. So much for that — nObama caved, and now the Iranians have even more heavily fortified a critical facility. Wonder what that means...~The Patriot Post
Another secret Iran deal exposed
by Marc A. Thiessen
{aei.org} ~ First we learned last year that the nObama administration made a secret side deal with Iran which allowed the regime to effectively inspect itself – collecting its own soil samples, instead of IAEA inspectors, at the Parchin military complex... Then we learned last month that the nObama administration made secret $400 million ransom payment to Iran, in which “wooden pallets stacked with euros, Swiss francs and other currencies were flown into Iran on an unmarked cargo plane” on the very same day that US hostages were released. Now it appears the nObama administration has cut yet another secret deal with Iran – this one allowing Iran to evade some of the restrictions on its nuclear program. Reuters reports:... http://www.aei.org/publication/another-secret-iran-deal-exposed/?utm_source=paramount&utm_medium=email&utm_content=AEITODAY&utm_campaign=090716
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Lawmaker: liar-Clinton Lied to
Become Secretary of State
by shawn
{totalconservative.com} ~ Last week, the Associated Press revealed liar-Hillary Clinton’s State Department office to be a welcoming home for anyone who donated generously to the liar-Clinton Foundation... and now Senate Republican John Cornyn is accusing the former Secretary of misleading the Senate on her way to a nearly unanimous confirmation vote in 2009. At the time, Cornyn expressed grave reservations about a potential conflict of interest. He temporarily blocked her nomination due to those concerns, only giving in after receiving some assurances from liar-Clinton. “When I put a hold on Mrs. liar-Clinton’s nomination as secretary of state, she reassured me that they would take appropriate steps,” he said in an interview with The Hill. “As seems to be usual for the liar-Clintons, they crossed the line and all the concerns that she reassured me would not occur did in fact occur.” Cornyn said that liar-Clinton turned the nation’s highest diplomatic office into a center for corruption... http://totalconservative.com/lawmaker-clinton-lied-become-secretary-state/
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Matt Drudge: liar-Hillary's
press corps in new cover-up
by Joe Kovacs
{wnd.com} ~ The Internet news powerhouse tweeted an image Tuesday night mocking the national media covering liar-Hillary Clinton aboard her new plane, “Hill Force One” or as some might call it, “Ill Force One” as the Democratic presidential nominee deals with ongoing health concerns... Showing a group of reporters with masks Photoshopped onto their faces, Drudge tweeted the message: “The liar-Hillary Clinton press corps is soldiering on despite hazardous work conditions… .” The image is a spoof of one widely circulated online showing media personalities including NBC’s Andrea Mitchell sporting enthralled looks on their faces aboard liar-Clinton’s aircraft...
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nObama’s Iran Deal Is a
Fraud on the American People
by ANDREW C. MCCARTHY
by ANDREW C. MCCARTHY
{familysecuritymatters.org} ~ Iran "has fully implemented its required commitments." That was the representation nObama secretary of state John hanoi-Kerry made to the American people in announcing on January 16... "Implementation Day" of President nObama's Iran nuclear deal (aka, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, or JCPOA) - that international economic sanctions were consequently being lifted against Iran. Secretary hanoi-Kerry added that "Iran has undertaken significant steps that many, and I do mean many, people doubted would ever come to pass." Still, hanoi-Kerry promised, the nObama administration would continue watching the mullahs like a hawk, thus "assuring continued full compliance" with the regime's JCPOA commitments. The same day, President nObama signed an executive order lifting a number of U.S. economic sanctions against Iran. We now know he also set in motion a furtive $400 million cash transfer to the regime as a ransom which the administration calls "leverage" for the release of four American hostages - the first installment of a carefully structured $1.7 billion side payment to Iran ostensibly in settlement of a failed 1970s arms deal, details about which the administration continues to withhold from Congress and the public... http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/obamas-iran-deal-is-a-fraud-on-the-american-people?f=must_reads
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nObama Sent 3 Secret Shipments of $400 Million to Iran
by Daniel Greenfield
{frontpagemag.com} ~ They don't like Santa in the Islamic Republic of Iran, but they let nObama play Secret Santa anyway with planeloads and planeloads of cash... Foreign cash, of course. Shipping US money to Iran would be illegal. But then again so is funding terrorism and that didn't seem to stop nObama. It never does. The nObama administration followed up a planeload of $400 million in cash sent to Iran in January with two more such shipments in the next 19 days, totaling another $1.3 billion, according to congressional officials briefed by the U.S. State, Treasury and Justice departments. And yes, it appears to have involved foreign money and unmarked cargo planes as nObama was getting his best cartel style on...Why is Congress letting him do that? http://www.frontpagemag.com/point/264103/obama-sent-3-secret-shipments-400-million-iran-daniel-greenfield
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nObama's Most Flagrant
Violation Of the Constitution Yet
by Joseph Klein
{frontpagemag.com} ~ President nObama has just committed his most flagrant violation of the U.S. Constitution to date. He purported to commit the United States to a legally binding treaty without first obtaining consent by two thirds of the Senators present, as required under Article II, Section 2 of the Constitution... nObama is using the United Nations to end run the Senate with regard to the Paris Agreement on climate change negotiated last December. Last week, nObama submitted an instrument to United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, for deposit with the UN, which he claims signifies official “acceptance” of the Paris Agreement by the United States. nObama said he and China’s President Xi Jinping together decided to “commit formally to joining the agreement ahead of schedule.” nObama was constitutionally entitled to sign the Paris Agreement as an executive act, which he did in April of this year. However, signing the Paris Agreement was only the first step. In order for the Paris Agreement to actually take effect and enter into legal force, at least 55 countries representing at least 55 percent of global emissions need to formally join the Paris Agreement. This requires the further step of member states’ “ratification, acceptance or approval” of the Paris Agreement before their emissions can be counted towards fulfilling the 55 percent of global emissions threshold... http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/264097/obamas-most-flagrant-violation-constitution-yet-joseph-klein
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liar-Clinton the 'Congenital Liar'
by Mark Alexander
{patriotpost.us} ~ In 2001, ABC News obtained a recording between liar-Hillary Clinton and a disgruntled former campaign donor, in which she insists she would never use email because of the trail of evidence it creates... “As much as I’ve been investigated and all of that, you know, why would I ever want to do email? Can you imagine?” Well, can you? Fast forward to this week and take a guess which presidential contender accused the other of hiding critical information, declaring, “I’m going to continue to raise this because I think it is a fundamental issue in this campaign that we’re going to talk about for the next 62 days because […] clearly has something to hide. We don’t know exactly what it is, but we’re getting better guesses about what it probably is.” Now, you’re probably thinking it was Donald Trump, given liar-Hillary Clinton’s endless lies about concealing incriminating communications while she was secretary of state. Laughably, though, that was actually liar-Clinton accusing Trump of hiding his tax returns...
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Julian Assange Says
liar-Hillary Clinton Info Coming "Soon"
by Christine Rousselle
{townhall.com} ~ Appearing on Hannity on Tuesday evening, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange said that his organization has "batches" of information on liar-Hillary Clinton related to her campaign and would be releasing the documents "reasonably soon."... Assange said that there could be "teasers" of the info debuting as early as next week or the week after. Shortly after the interview, Wikileaks tweeted something about the liar-Clinton Foundation, questioning the identities of major foreign donors... http://townhall.com/tipsheet/christinerousselle/2016/09/07/julian-assange-says-hillary-clinton-info-coming-soon-n2215024?utm_source=thdailypm&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl_pm&newsletterad=
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New North American Oil
Discoveries Continue to Frustrate OPEC
by Bob Adelmann
{thenewamerican.com} ~ Apache Corporation, the sixth-largest independent oil and gas producer in the United States, announced this week that it has found a new gargantuan reserve of oil and natural gas in West Texas that could be one of the largest energy finds in the last decade... At the low end, the new “Alpine High” field could contain two billion barrels of oil plus massive natural gas reserves. More importantly, especially to OPEC members gearing up to find ways to raise prices, the company’s estimated profit margin is 30 percent after taking in account all expected development costs, even with crude selling at below $50 a barrel. Apache isn’t waiting around for higher prices but instead has already drilled 19 wells into the new field and has committed one-fourth of its capital budget this year to develop the field further. The profit potential for natural gas is nearly off the charts. So abundant is that energy source from the new field that the company’s breakeven point is just 10 cents per million British thermal units (BTUs) while the market price for natural gas closed Tuesday at $2.72. This is going to turn Apache, currently a $20 billion company, into a major player...http://www.thenewamerican.com/tech/energy/item/24009-new-north-american-oil-discoveries-continue-to-frustrate-opec
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Border Patrol Agent: 80 Percent of Those
Caught at Border Set Free in U.S.
by Warren Mass
{thenewamerican.com} ~ Border Patrol Agent Hector Garza, acting in his role as president of the National Border Patrol Council’s (NBPC) Local 2455, appeared on Fox News Channel recently and said, “Eight out of ten people that are caught entering our country illegally are not deported and are allowed to stay in the United States.”... Garza’s appearance on Fox News was heavily quoted in an article posted by Breitbart News on September 5. Garza stated further: “Unfortunately for Border Patrol agents, we are trying to do our jobs as best we can with the very limited resources that we have.” Breitbart noted that Garza, speaking on Fox News, complained about the lack of resources that the nObama administration has made available to the Border Patrol agents responsible for defending our nation’s borders: "We do not have enough vehicles for our agents to patrol with, we do not get the manpower that we need…. Through executive orders and prosecutorial discretion … most of the people that we apprehend end up getting released into the country. It is very difficult to adequately patrol the border. Keep in mind, if we don’t have enough agents out there, there are going to be people who are going to get away — and we don’t know who those people are. The only people that we know who they are, are the ones we are actually catching."... http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/immigration/item/23999-border-patrol-agent-80-percent-of-those-caught-at-border-set-free-in-u-s
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Presidential Pardons, Not Just for
Low-Level Offenders Anymore
by Debra J. Saunders
{townhall.com} ~ You don't see many Californians when you look at lists of federal inmates whose sentences President nObama has commuted. The reason is simple: The mandatory minimum sentencing system effectively has allowed federal prosecutors to choose defendants' sentences by deciding how to charge them. U.S. attorneys in California have been less heavy-handed than prosecutors in other states.
The feds sometimes can choose whether to charge buyers and sellers for dealing crack cocaine when it's still powder -- crack commands a longer sentence. Prosecutors can charge defendants for quantities that higher ups trafficked. They can include past convictions to lengthen a sentence. Or not. Thus, when a jury convicts a drug offender, the charges have already determined the sentence.
On Tuesday, the nObama administration granted presidential commutations to 111 federal inmates -- including Oakland's Darryl Lamar Reed, a.k.a. "Lil D." So Reed stands out as the rare Californian to win a commutation, as well as an exception to the criteria for nObama's 2014 Clemency Initiative. Then-Deputy U.S. Attorney General James M. Cole explained that inmates applying for a sentence reduction should be "nonviolent, low-level offenders without significant ties to large-scale criminal organizations, gangs or cartels."
Former Alameda County prosecutor Russ Giuntini was appalled to see Reed's name on a commutation list. "This is not a guy that got caught up in the draconian federal sentencing guidelines," Giuntini wrote in an email. Lil D is the kind of guy "the guidelines were made for. He headed the largest dope organization in Oakland," which was responsible for a lot of carnage, was caught "red handed" processing some 20 kilograms of cocaine into crack -- and thus landed in the federal pen.
Reed was only 20 in 1988 when police raided his apartment and found the crack, a handgun and nearly $60,000 in cash. Reed had taken over the extensive drug operation of his uncle, Felix Mitchell, the one-time kingpin who died in federal prison. Reed was no low-level grunt. The San Francisco Chronicle had reported he was "the most powerful crack cocaine gang leader in the East Bay." The feds however didn't convict Reed of a violent crime. I'll assume he did not brandish the handgun, so one can argue he was nonviolent. Nor was he convicted for firearms possession. But low level and with no significant ties to gangs? Hardly. In 2010, Reed told the Contra Costa Times he had made "millions of dollars" dealing drugs.
Reed's not the only high-level offender among the most recent commutees. Four others were convicted of "continuing criminal enterprise." Former prosecutor-turned-defense attorney James Lassart told me, "We only used it with the person who was heading the show." By definition, Lassart confirmed, these inmates are not low-level offenders.
Giuntini, who says he voted for nObama twice, wonders, "Who's doing due diligence for the president?"
The Office of the Pardon Attorney would not talk on the record about Reed. nObama has said that he departed from his initial criteria on guns. If an inmate was convicted for firearms possession, but didn't use a gun during a drug deal, for example, he would qualify as nonviolent. Now it seems the administration is focusing on the first criterion alone -- that an inmate would have "received a substantially lower sentence if convicted of the same offense(s) today." Given changes in federal drug law, Reed likely would not have been sentenced to 35 years if convicted today.
Without this commutation, Reed would be eligible for release in 2019. With it, Reed's release date is Dec. 28 --or two-and-a-half years early. He says he regrets his years peddling dope and has turned away from crime.
The pardon power is the rare power granted in the Constitution that the president can exercise with no check from Congress. nObama can devise whichever criteria he chooses. He is free to depart from his own standards. That's why modern presidents at least start off using the power sparingly. nObama was absolutely stingy. In his first term, he released only one low-level offender serving a draconian federal sentence. In 2013, he stepped up to the plate when he commuted the sentences of eight crack offenders -- six who were serving life terms, including Clarence Aaron a first-time low-level nonviolent offender sentenced to life in prison. He became comfortable reducing the sentences of little guys who never should have been sentenced to decades behind bars, and that was good. Now he's using this power to release some drug-gang big shots. Why? As Giuntini muttered, these things only happen when "people aren't running for re-election."
The feds sometimes can choose whether to charge buyers and sellers for dealing crack cocaine when it's still powder -- crack commands a longer sentence. Prosecutors can charge defendants for quantities that higher ups trafficked. They can include past convictions to lengthen a sentence. Or not. Thus, when a jury convicts a drug offender, the charges have already determined the sentence.
On Tuesday, the nObama administration granted presidential commutations to 111 federal inmates -- including Oakland's Darryl Lamar Reed, a.k.a. "Lil D." So Reed stands out as the rare Californian to win a commutation, as well as an exception to the criteria for nObama's 2014 Clemency Initiative. Then-Deputy U.S. Attorney General James M. Cole explained that inmates applying for a sentence reduction should be "nonviolent, low-level offenders without significant ties to large-scale criminal organizations, gangs or cartels."
Former Alameda County prosecutor Russ Giuntini was appalled to see Reed's name on a commutation list. "This is not a guy that got caught up in the draconian federal sentencing guidelines," Giuntini wrote in an email. Lil D is the kind of guy "the guidelines were made for. He headed the largest dope organization in Oakland," which was responsible for a lot of carnage, was caught "red handed" processing some 20 kilograms of cocaine into crack -- and thus landed in the federal pen.
Reed was only 20 in 1988 when police raided his apartment and found the crack, a handgun and nearly $60,000 in cash. Reed had taken over the extensive drug operation of his uncle, Felix Mitchell, the one-time kingpin who died in federal prison. Reed was no low-level grunt. The San Francisco Chronicle had reported he was "the most powerful crack cocaine gang leader in the East Bay." The feds however didn't convict Reed of a violent crime. I'll assume he did not brandish the handgun, so one can argue he was nonviolent. Nor was he convicted for firearms possession. But low level and with no significant ties to gangs? Hardly. In 2010, Reed told the Contra Costa Times he had made "millions of dollars" dealing drugs.
Reed's not the only high-level offender among the most recent commutees. Four others were convicted of "continuing criminal enterprise." Former prosecutor-turned-defense attorney James Lassart told me, "We only used it with the person who was heading the show." By definition, Lassart confirmed, these inmates are not low-level offenders.
Giuntini, who says he voted for nObama twice, wonders, "Who's doing due diligence for the president?"
The Office of the Pardon Attorney would not talk on the record about Reed. nObama has said that he departed from his initial criteria on guns. If an inmate was convicted for firearms possession, but didn't use a gun during a drug deal, for example, he would qualify as nonviolent. Now it seems the administration is focusing on the first criterion alone -- that an inmate would have "received a substantially lower sentence if convicted of the same offense(s) today." Given changes in federal drug law, Reed likely would not have been sentenced to 35 years if convicted today.
Without this commutation, Reed would be eligible for release in 2019. With it, Reed's release date is Dec. 28 --or two-and-a-half years early. He says he regrets his years peddling dope and has turned away from crime.
The pardon power is the rare power granted in the Constitution that the president can exercise with no check from Congress. nObama can devise whichever criteria he chooses. He is free to depart from his own standards. That's why modern presidents at least start off using the power sparingly. nObama was absolutely stingy. In his first term, he released only one low-level offender serving a draconian federal sentence. In 2013, he stepped up to the plate when he commuted the sentences of eight crack offenders -- six who were serving life terms, including Clarence Aaron a first-time low-level nonviolent offender sentenced to life in prison. He became comfortable reducing the sentences of little guys who never should have been sentenced to decades behind bars, and that was good. Now he's using this power to release some drug-gang big shots. Why? As Giuntini muttered, these things only happen when "people aren't running for re-election."
By: Juan Reynoso, WTP Activist - www.represent.us
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.
GREED DESTROYED THE MORAL LEADERSHIP OF OUR COUNTRY
Greed destroyed the moral leadership of our country- http://biblescripture.net/Bill.html
This is the truth, greed destroyed the moral leadership of our country, but thanks God almighty, God reserved few good statesman that really care about America, they know the roots of America's decay and today they are working to reclaim the American people trust in our government; I see a new American being born from an economic catastrophe that will take place in 2017, Obama will leave our country in a financial ruins but the people will be unified to recover from this self-made catastrophe and start a new economic system that will end this concentration of wealth and benefit the whole country and the world community. God will transform the man and make him social oriented, moral responsible and reward man from serving others and punish the greedy self- serving economic righteousness that lost their moral responsibility toward their fellow man.
The US political revolution will purge Washington of the corrupt politicians and replace them with a moral leadership establishment that will be focus on the people of our United States. God give us hope and the wisdom to stand united in solidarity as Americans to reclaim our country and make us to be the guiding light for the world to follow, not by force but by example.
I am 79 years old and I have experienced the takeover of our country by the oligarchs. It is the super-rich and the elite of the Republican and Democratic Party Neocons warmongers that in a partnership strategic, systematically are pushing back the progress of the American working class and all the effort of growing and improving our national economy. Via the mainstream news media propaganda machinery that feed the people their unchecked misinformation and disinformation, the Republican Party Neocon Elite has even shanghaied the emotional support of everyday ordinary Republican Americans into taking non-sensible political positions against their own best economic and self-interests.
Today the people is waking up and seeing the results of neoliberalism and free trade policies that were implemented by the puppets of the oligarchs “The majority of the neocons Republicans and the Democrats whores” that sell out to the oligarchs. Americans today find themselves to an increasingly unaffordable healthcare, a true unemployment of 12% with no private sector job growth opportunities, poor quality education and few good teachers that really care to educate our children, a police force that is overpay and abuse their power and become the number one killers of the Black and Latinos in this country. The American worker is the one that suffer the consequences, no one can denied that most American today work for slave wages they only have very little money after they paid for gas, food, housing and insurance to paid for other things they need; we are on the path toward a third-world country, but it is not too late to change this path of self-destruction, millions of people recognize what is happening and they are join the U.S political revolution to help all of us the ordinary American, in a sustained effort to get off our country from the path toward a third world country status. Thanks God we have some Republicans and Democrats that believe in our country’s mission, that our country was founded by the people and for the people; under the ideology that our government was formed to protect and defend our God given freedom and liberty to self-determination. Our US constitution and our Bill of rights it is based on the Bible principles “The laws of nature are the laws of God, whose authority can't be superseded by no power on earth.”
It is not too late to recognize, that what is happening in our country is the result of greed for power and money, the love for money destroy our nation moral responsibility. God is giving us hope to take our country back and reclaim our moral principles, take responsibility for the making of our future and embrace God’s laws as our guiding light to build a country with moral responsibility toward all humanity.
Our country was formed under the Bible’s principles.
http://www.whatchristianswanttoknow.com/was-the-american-us-constit
The US Bill of rights.
http://biblescripture.net/Bill.html
The Bible and Government
http://www.faithfacts.org/christ-and-the-culture/the-bible-and-gove
Moral Responsibility towards others.
http://folk.uio.no/jenssa/Future%20Generations.htm
Moral responsibility toward all humanity
https://books.google.com/books?id=nGoag6b3JvYC&pg=PA384&lpg
The Front Page Cover
2016 The truth will set you free
Featuring:
Colorado's Anti-Fracking Crackup
by Michelle Malkin
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Trump Aims to Set the Immigration Record Straight
Nate Jackson: As we noted back in August, Donald Trump's immigration plan was exactly why he was so appealing to Republican primary voters. Here was an outsider who promised to do what the establishment wouldn't — secure the border and deport millions of illegal aliens. Then came the general election, and Trump appeared to soften his stance. On Wednesday, however, he worked to set things straight with a significant speech on the subject. The question, then, is which Trump would take office and set policy?
Trump began the day with a huge gamble — making a visit to Mexico to meet with its president, Enrique Pena Nieto. We say gamble because it could have gone very badly for Trump if Nieto publicly repudiated him or if Trump failed to appear "presidential." But it paid off. The meeting was cordial, and Trump both appeared presidential and elevated a sense of cooperation with our southern neighbor. Such cooperation is essential to solving the immigration problem for both countries.
On the subject of deportations, Trump said yesterday, "According to federal data, there are at least two million criminal aliens now inside the country. We will begin moving them out day one, in joint operations with local, state and federal law enforcement. Beyond the two million, there are a vast number of additional criminal illegal immigrants who have fled or evaded justice. But their days on the run will soon be over. They go out, and they go out fast. Moving forward, we will issue detainers for all illegal immigrants who are arrested for any crime whatsoever, and they will be placed into immediate removal proceedings. We will terminate the nObama administration's deadly non-enforcement policies that allow thousands of criminal aliens to freely roam our streets."
He thus definitely softened his previous pledge to deport all (estimated) 11 million illegals as quickly as possible.
First deporting illegals guilty of other crimes is to us the common-sense position. But it also happens to be the position held by most of Trump's rivals for the nomination, including Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio, whom Trump and his supporters derided as "globalists" supporting "amnesty." Trump also scoffed at Mitt Romney's 2012 plan to enforce employment law in such a way as to encourage self-deportation. Now that's also part of Trump's plan, as is waiting until enforcement works before deciding what to do with "those who remain." It's good to see him come around.
Trump very effectively made his case for deporting criminals by telling the stories of five people killed by illegals. "Countless Americans who have died in recent years would be alive today if not for the open border policies of this administration."
He also clearly set the terms of the debate, while rejecting the premise of the Left. "The central issue is not the needs of the 11 million illegal immigrants," he said. "Only out of touch media elites think the biggest problem facing American society today is that there are 11 million illegal immigrants who don't have legal status. To all the politicians, donors and special interests, hear these words from me today. There is only one core issue in the immigration debate and it is this: the well-being of the American people."
In short, his position as stated yesterday is essentially the — or at least an — orthodox Republican position. So back to our opening question: Which Trump would take office? By that, we mean to ask why he let the debate over his shifting stance simmer for the last two weeks, when the overall effect of this speech was to reiterate that he'd be the toughest president on immigration in a long time. That's what matters to voters. Trusting Trump (or any politician, for that matter) to follow through is another story.
And a parting thought from Trump, just this morning, after the speech: "Oh, there's softening. ... I think you're going to see there's really quite a bit of softening." ~The Patriot Post
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OPINION IN BRIEF
Jeff Jacoby: "Political ambition and a taste for power exist in every society and era. But the insanity of marathons for the White House that last nearly two years is uniquely, humiliatingly American. I'm as ardent an American exceptionalist as they come, but not everything we do is an improvement on the way others do it. ... Canada's recent election campaign ... lasted a grand total of 78 days — the longest in Canadian history, but a blink compared with what Americans must endure. In Mexico, an election season lasts 150 days, start to finish. Britons are accustomed to election campaigns that consume five or six weeks. The preposterous duration of U.S. campaigns might be justifiable if it generated off-the-charts enthusiasm and voter participation. But it does just the opposite. Long before election day, Americans tell pollsters that they are sick and tired of the whole thing. And when the time to cast a ballot finally arrives, U.S. voter turnout is among the lowest in the world. Pretty much everything that's rotten with presidential campaigns ... is a function of their interminable length. Presidential campaigns weren't this endlessly exhausting in the past, and they don't have to be in the future." ~The Patriot Post
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ISIS Terrorists Infiltrating Canada,
May Use for Entry to US
by Eric Mack
{newsmax.com} ~ The Mexican border might be getting a lot of the attention because of Donald Trump’s wall proposal, but terrorism threats coming to and from Canada can be a cause of concern as well... The Canadian government issued a public safety report in August, detailing its threat level as "medium" — "meaning a violent act of terrorism can occur in Canada" — and reporting 180 people traveling from Canada abroad have been "suspected of engaging in terrorism-related activities and another 60" extremist travelers had returned to Canada by the end of 2015. "They may have skills, experience and relationships developed abroad that could be used to recruit or inspire individuals in Canada. They may also engage in terrorist financing, helping others to travel, or even planning attacks in Canada."...
http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/isis-threats-infiltrate canadian/2016/09/04/id/746588/
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“I’m One Of You” – Jihadi Jeh Johnson
Tells Islamic Society Of North America
by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ No one who have been watching the mad rush to import as many Islamists as possible by this regime, the proclamations that Islam has nothing to do with Islamic terrorism and the CVE Islamic hand outs to terrorist incubating mosques will be surprised by the events of last Saturday... Homeland “Security” Secretary, chief dismantler of our national defensive capabilities and invasion facilitator, Jihadi Jeh Johnson spoke to the annual meeting of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA). He delivered his speech at their conference in Chicago, declaring himself one of them and pledging his allegiance in their fight against American “injustice.” Johnson drew connections between himself, all black Americans and the Muslims intent on taking over our nation, referencing similar experiences with abuse, discrimination and disrespect delivered at the hands of the white devils...Johnson is one sick person.
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liar-Clinton Turned Away High-Level
Chinese Defector to Assist Beijing Leaders
by Bill Gertz
{freebeacon.com} ~ Former secretary of state liar-Hillary Clinton turned away a high-ranking Chinese defector who sought political asylum after the communist police chief sought refuge in a U.S. consulate in southwestern China four years ago... Critics say liar-Clinton’s handling of the defection of Wang Lijun, a close aide to a regional Communist Party leader, was a blunder and lost opportunity for U.S. intelligence to gain secrets about the leaders of America’s emerging Asian adversary. Instead of sheltering Wang and granting him political asylum, liar-Clinton agreed to turn him over to Chinese authorities in Beijing. However, the defector’s case highlights liar-Clinton’s policy of seeking to preserve U.S. ties with China’s communist leadership instead of pursuing much-needed intelligence gathering on China at a time when Beijing is emerging as an increasingly threatening power... http://freebeacon.com/national-security/clinton-turned-away-high-level-chinese-defector-assist-beijing-leaders/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=604e503397-WFB_Morning_Beacon_09_06_169_5_2016&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-604e503397-45611665
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liar-Clinton “Ignorant” About Server Scrub...
by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ The problem liar-Hillary Clinton will be facing now that she’s got the press accompanying her on her campaign plane is that they are much harder to run away from... They have microphones and cameras and sometimes will even ask questions and expect an answer. Today she was asked, deflected and asked in a follow up about her aides and her attorney David Kendall using bleach bit to get rid of any incriminating evidence on her bootleg illegal home server. As a stern-faced liar-Clinton stared on, the reporter noted, “Your aides used a method called Bleachbit to get rid of your emails 23 days after reported you had a private email server.” She asked, “Why did they do that and does that contribute to people’s suspicions about your email server?” liar-Clinton adopted her typical response, saying, “I don’t know anything about that. That was not something that I was aware of and I think the facts point out that there was no connection.”...
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As the Cultural War rages, can we live together?
by Star Parker
{aim.org} ~ Religious liberty concerns continue to weigh heavily on church-going Americans. In a recent survey from Pew Research, 40 percent of those who reported attending church in the last few months said that clergy spoke about religious liberty... No other issue received more attention from clergy. And not surprisingly so. The aggressive growth of secularism in our nation, along with the natural outgrowth of this, the tendency of secularists to turn to big government to define and implement what they perceive as fair, is on a collision course with religious liberty... http://www.aim.org/guest-column/as-the-cultural-war-rages-can-we-live-together/?utm_source=AIM+-+Daily+Email&utm_campaign=email090616&utm_medium=email
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Iran's nuclear timetable ... right now!
by Jerome R. Corsi
{wnd.com} ~ Amid the disclosure this week that the Obama administration has allowed Iran to continue secret efforts to enrich uranium and stockpile the heavy water needed to produce a plutonium nuclear weapon... a leading expert on the Iranian nuclear program remains concerned that Tehran could build a deliverable atomic bomb now. “We know for a fact that Iran already has the nuclear-capable missiles, including nose cones configured to carry nuclear weapons,” she said. “We also know that the IAEA years ago reported that Iran was working on forming the hemispheres of a bomb, as well as experiments testing the explosive charges required to set off a nuclear reaction implosion sequence.”... http://www.wnd.com/2016/09/irans-nuclear-timetable-right-now/
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Muslims complain about town's 9/11 memorial
by Todd Starnes
{foxnews.com} ~ A group of New York Muslims has taken offense at a small town’s new memorial honoring those who died in the September 11th, 2001 terrorist attacks... The Islamic Organization of the Southern Tier fired off a letter to city leaders in Owego – alleging that words engraved in the granite memorial would encourage hatred toward Muslims. The memorial, which will be dedicated on Saturday, identifies those responsible for the attacks as “Islamic terrorists.” That’s a problem for the Islamic Organization of the Southern Tier, based in nearby Johnson City, N.Y. ... http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2016/09/06/muslims-complain-about-towns-911-memorial.html?cmpid=NL_tadspth
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liar-Hillary in her own Words
by Alice Greene
{punchingbagpost.com} ~ This video clip shows Secretary of State liar-Hillary Clinton condemning security breaches following a massive release of confidential government information in November 2010... liar-Hillary says that such disclosures represent “an attack on the international community” and promises that such a breach will never happen again. Remember that while she was condemning the release of State Department cables by Wikileaks, she was leaking classified information to Russia, China, Al Quaida and whoever else, in her unsecure email service. “The United States strongly condemns the illegal disclosure of classified information. It puts peoples lives in danger, threatens our national security, and undermines our efforts to work with other countries to solve shared problems,” says liar-Clinton...Its forgotten or ok if she does it.
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Impeach liar-Clinton to Bar Her from
Holding Federal Office - It’s Constitutional.
by Andrew C. McCarthy
{nationalreview.com} ~ For months, I have been arguing that liar-Hillary Clinton should be impeached. It is all well and good to prosecute a former government official for any crimes she has committed... Indeed, the Constitution expressly provides for criminal prosecution in addition to impeachment. Nevertheless, for the Framers — and, if we had common sense, for us — the imperative was to deprive a corrupt person of any further opportunity to abuse government power. Whether the official should also be convicted and sent to prison was not unimportant but, in the greater scheme of things, decidedly secondary. Interestingly, the main pushback I received upon positing this argument was not that Mrs. liar-Clinton is undeserving of impeachment. That, of course, is a measure of the seriousness of her high crimes and misdemeanors: the e-mail scandal; the reckless mishandling of classified information that has surely exposed our national-defense secrets to hostile powers; the mass destruction of thousands of government records after Congress asked for them; the obstruction of government investigations; the serial lies to Congress and the public; the shocking failure to provide security for Americans stationed in Benghazi and the failure to attempt to rescue them during a terrorist siege; the lies to the American people and to the families of murdered American officials about the cause of the attack; the trumping up of a prosecution against the video producer scapegoated for the Benghazi attack; the Clinton Foundation corruption involving the sale of influence for donations, the favors done for shady benefactors at the expense of national security, and the use of the State Department as an arm of the liar-Clinton pay-to-play enterprise...She is getting away with murder. http://www.nationalreview.com/article/439715/impeach-hillary-clinton-congress-has-power-do-it&ct=ga&cd=CAEYBSoSNjg2MTYzMzEwMTcxMjI1MTQ4Mho1NjIzMWEyMzIyYWMxOGVkOmNvbTplbjpVUw&usg=AFQjCNEG-pjNJF4zjK_iIoJhf9zhWby0Rg?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Daily%20Trending%20Email%20Reoccurring-%20Monday%20to%20Thursday%202016-09-06&utm_term=NR5PM%20Actives
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Islamic Republic Seeking to Expand Global Reach,
Build Anti-US Axis in Latin America
by Barney Breen-Portnoy
American Foreign Policy Council Vice President Ilan Berman
{algemeiner.com} ~ Last year’s nuclear deal with world powers has emboldened Iran as it seeks to expand its global reach and build an anti-America axis in the Western hemisphere... an expert on the Islamic Republic told The Algemeiner on Tuesday. “The Iranians are really thinking big again,” Ilan Berman, vice president of the Washington, DC-based conservative think tank the American Foreign Policy Council, said. “They’ve always had a global vision, but for a long time they didn’t have the resources to capitalize on it. Now, as sanctions begin to fall away, their global vision is back front and center. They’re starting to think spatially, in terms of where they fit globally — in Europe, in Asia and in Latin America.” Iran’s relationship with Latin America, Berman said, began in the 1980s and its first significant act there was to help the Lebanese Shiite terrorist organization Hezbollah establish roots in the lawless tri-border area where Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina meet. This, Berman noted, resulted in Hezbollah developing the capability to carry out attacks in the Western hemisphere — which it did twice in Argentina in the first half of the 1990s... http://www.algemeiner.com/2016/09/06/iran-expert-post-nuclear-deal-emboldened-islamic-republic-seeking-to-expand-global-reach-build-anti-us-axis-in-latin-america-interview/#
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Phyllis Schlafly Passes Away at 92
{truthrevolt.org} ~ Longtime conservative activist and Eagle Forum founder Phyllis Schlafly, “the first lady of anti-feminism,” died today of natural causes at her home in St. Louis, Missouri. She was 92 years young... The group called its founder “an indomitable pro-family grassroots advocate and organizer”: “Her focus from her earliest days until her final ones was protecting the family, which she understood as the building block of life. ... From military superiority and defense to immigration and trade; from unborn life to the nuclear family and parenthood, Phyllis Schlafly was a courageous and articulate voice for common sense and traditional values.”...
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Colorado's Anti-Fracking Crackup
by Michelle Malkin
{patriotpost.us} ~ If a pair of extreme green ballot measures fall in the Rocky Mountains and no one in the liberal media is paying attention, does the collapse make a sound?
This week, two anti-fracking initiatives backed by deep-pocketed environmental lobbying heavyweights, such as the Sierra Club and Greenpeace, failed to gather enough signatures. The more draconian of the efforts, Initiative 78, would have imposed a mandatory 2,500-foot setback around all oil and gas operations -- essentially halting drilling in upward of 95 percent of Colorado's energy-rich land area.
These drastic attempts to sabotage the oil and gas industry didn't just miss by inches. They missed by a mile high and wide.
Colorado Secretary of State Wayne Williams announced that supporters of the two measures surpassed the required signature threshold but not by enough to compensate for the number of signatures that were rejected during a random sampling. One of the initiatives garnered 77,000 signatures out of about 98,000 needed to qualify for the ballot; the other, 79,000. Every other state initiative campaign on issues ranging from primary election reform to cigarette taxes to assisted suicide this year hit the mark.
Worse for eco-activists, the secretary of state reported that the petition for the de facto fracking moratorium included "several potentially forged signature lines" and has been referred to the state attorney general for investigation. At least one hired signature gatherer told KUSA-TV that homeless men in Denver filled out forms with "bulls---."
Election fraud? What election fraud? Yep, that election fraud.
Despite massive funding from such dark money donors as billionaire hedge fund manager turned climate change warrior Tom Steyer, the big green propaganda machine keeps coming up short. The enviros failed to gather enough signatures for a similar measure two years ago. Skittish Democrats, including Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper, have distanced themselves from the eco-radicals, as the energy sector generates thousands of jobs and billions of dollars to the state economy.
One thing the anti-frackers have been successful at: manufacturing self-serving excuses for their failures. They complained that their allies didn't spend enough on them. They carped that their opponents spent too much on opposing them. They whined that the secretary of state's office was "biased" against them for throwing out invalid signatures.
And they pouted when their phony attempt to con reporters into believing that their measures would get on the ballot blew up in their faces three weeks ago. A day after volunteers paraded into the secretary of state's office with dozens of boxes of signatures, an official noted that a large number of the boxes were half-full -- or half-empty.
Hypocritical save-the-planet soldiers who bemoan our dependence on foreign oil are hellbent on strangling the fracking revolution, which has doubled domestic U.S. oil output and helped drive gas prices down.
Here's what the job-killing fractivists just won't admit: Coloradans like their thriving energy sector, and they want to keep it.
Is liar-Hillary Clinton paying attention? She has vowed to her lefty voter base that despite reaping big bucks from fossil fuel campaign finance bundlers, she will ensure that there are not "many places in America where fracking will continue to take place." It's as clear a threat as President Barack nObama's campaign vow to make electricity rates "skyrocket."
Let's hope that as the anti-fracking crackup goes in the Rockies, so goes the nation.
This week, two anti-fracking initiatives backed by deep-pocketed environmental lobbying heavyweights, such as the Sierra Club and Greenpeace, failed to gather enough signatures. The more draconian of the efforts, Initiative 78, would have imposed a mandatory 2,500-foot setback around all oil and gas operations -- essentially halting drilling in upward of 95 percent of Colorado's energy-rich land area.
These drastic attempts to sabotage the oil and gas industry didn't just miss by inches. They missed by a mile high and wide.
Colorado Secretary of State Wayne Williams announced that supporters of the two measures surpassed the required signature threshold but not by enough to compensate for the number of signatures that were rejected during a random sampling. One of the initiatives garnered 77,000 signatures out of about 98,000 needed to qualify for the ballot; the other, 79,000. Every other state initiative campaign on issues ranging from primary election reform to cigarette taxes to assisted suicide this year hit the mark.
Worse for eco-activists, the secretary of state reported that the petition for the de facto fracking moratorium included "several potentially forged signature lines" and has been referred to the state attorney general for investigation. At least one hired signature gatherer told KUSA-TV that homeless men in Denver filled out forms with "bulls---."
Election fraud? What election fraud? Yep, that election fraud.
Despite massive funding from such dark money donors as billionaire hedge fund manager turned climate change warrior Tom Steyer, the big green propaganda machine keeps coming up short. The enviros failed to gather enough signatures for a similar measure two years ago. Skittish Democrats, including Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper, have distanced themselves from the eco-radicals, as the energy sector generates thousands of jobs and billions of dollars to the state economy.
One thing the anti-frackers have been successful at: manufacturing self-serving excuses for their failures. They complained that their allies didn't spend enough on them. They carped that their opponents spent too much on opposing them. They whined that the secretary of state's office was "biased" against them for throwing out invalid signatures.
And they pouted when their phony attempt to con reporters into believing that their measures would get on the ballot blew up in their faces three weeks ago. A day after volunteers paraded into the secretary of state's office with dozens of boxes of signatures, an official noted that a large number of the boxes were half-full -- or half-empty.
Hypocritical save-the-planet soldiers who bemoan our dependence on foreign oil are hellbent on strangling the fracking revolution, which has doubled domestic U.S. oil output and helped drive gas prices down.
Here's what the job-killing fractivists just won't admit: Coloradans like their thriving energy sector, and they want to keep it.
Is liar-Hillary Clinton paying attention? She has vowed to her lefty voter base that despite reaping big bucks from fossil fuel campaign finance bundlers, she will ensure that there are not "many places in America where fracking will continue to take place." It's as clear a threat as President Barack nObama's campaign vow to make electricity rates "skyrocket."
Let's hope that as the anti-fracking crackup goes in the Rockies, so goes the nation.
The Front Page Cover
2016 The truth will set you free
Featuring:
The End of Mahmoud Abbas
by Caroline Glick
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Pollaganda in Full Swing
Reuters recently announced a change to its polling method, and it has affected its measurement of the presidential race. In the previous five years that Reuters has been conducting polls it has included an option of "neither/other" among the available candidate choices. It decided to drop the "neither" option, offering the rational that it was skewing the data. With most other election polling showing liar-Hillary Clinton with a comfortable lead over Donald Trump, Reuters may have been inclined to question why its polling was an outlier. This method change initially favored liar-Clinton, but it has more recently shown the candidates in a virtual tie.
Irrespective of Reuters' specific reasoning, it has been well known that one of the tactics employed by Leftmedia outlets seeking to swing public opinion toward Democrats is what we have long called pollaganda. When poll numbers favor a leftist candidate or cause, the Leftmedia is quick to trumpet the results with a very positive message claiming that the country is moving in the "right" direction. When polls favor a conservative candidate or cause, the results are often either ignored by the Leftmedia or lamented as vestiges of a backwardness within the public that needs to be challenged and changed.
While polling numbers can be either encouraging or discouraging for conservatives, it does little good to either exuberantly celebrate them as justification for a candidate or cause when favorable or to decry them as fraudulent when unfavorable. The 2012 election is a testament to that folly — the polls were pretty accurate that year, and too many conservatives dismissed them. To principally stand for what is true and good irrespective of what the polls may say is historically where conservatives have staked their claim. Anything else is merely dancing to the tune of passing fancies. ~The Patriot Post
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nObama Cuts Military Pay Raises
Just back from his resort vacation with the rich and famous on Martha's Vineyard, Barack nObama announced that he is capping military pay raises at 1.6% next year, well below private sector increases. "I am strongly committed to supporting our uniformed service members," nObama claimed, "but as our country continues to recover from serious economic conditions affecting the general welfare. ... This effort requires tough choices, especially in light of budget constraints." (Oh, so now he admits we are still in a recovery and face budget constraints!)
This marks the seventh year nObama has undercut military pay raises, all of which have been under 2%.
As Mark Alexander noted in "The Most Costly Military Waste: Morale" yesterday, "While our Armed Forces personnel are the best in the world, their effectiveness is being undermined by wasteful and absurd political mandates. At the same time their CINC is asking them to do much more with far less, his statist domestic spending for special interest constituencies grows unabated. The net effect of nObama's mandates and spending priorities is destroying our military's most valuable asset, the morale of our warriors. And the decline in morale undercuts, in Washington's timeless words, 'the most effectual means of preserving peace.'" ~The Patriot Post
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The Invisible (Female) Palestinians
by Khaled Abu Toameh
by Khaled Abu Toameh
{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ In a move that has outraged Palestinian women and various Palestinian factions, a number of Palestinian lists contesting the upcoming local elections, scheduled to take place on October 8, have decided to omit the names and photos of female candidates... Instead of referring to the female candidates by name and publishing their pictures, the electoral lists are using the terms "the wife of" or "sister." Critics have denounced the move as a "sign of retardation, extremism and bigotry." Other Palestinians have gone so far as comparing the removal of the female candidates' names and photos from the lists to the cruel pre-Islamic practice of infanticide (wa'd)... https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/8861/palestinian-women
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What's Ankara Doing in Syria?
by Jonathan Spyer
by Jonathan Spyer
{meforum.org} ~ After its incursion into Syria, Turkey will have to decide whether to declare "Euphrates Shield" a success or to continue seeking to destroy the Kurdish-led SDF in the face of US opposition... The Turkish incursion into the north Syrian town of Jarabulus and its environs, which began on August 24, is the latest dramatic re-shuffling of the deck in a long and agonizing conflict. But what is its deeper significance? Does it represent a decisive Turkish entry into the broader effort to destroy the self-proclaimed Islamic State? Or is it, rather, the opening shot in a broader effort by Ankara to destroy the extensive gains made by Syria's Kurds and the putative federal entity they have established in the country's northeast? And what will it mean for US relations with both the Turks and the Syrian Kurds? As it currently appears, Turkey's intervention resembles previous foreign interventions into the Syrian war in the following way: It appears to have been more of an effort to stem an imminent unwanted outcome than an expression of a broader strategic plan... http://www.meforum.org/6242/turkey-syria-intervention
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nObama Kept His Promise, 83,000 Coal
Jobs Lost And 400 Mines Shuttered
Jobs Lost And 400 Mines Shuttered
by Andrew Follett
{dailycaller.com} ~ This Labor Day, America has 83,000 fewer coal jobs and 400 coal mines than it did when Barack nObama was elected in 2008, showing that the president has followed through on his pledge to “bankrupt” the coal industry... A 2015 study found the coal industry lost 50,000 jobs from 2008 to 2012 during nObama’s first term. During nObama’s second term, the industry employment in coal mining has fallen by another 33,300 jobs, 10,900 of which occurred in the last year alone, according to federal data. Currently, coal mining employs 69,460 Americans, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Much of the blame for the job losses is targeted at federal regulations aimed at preventing global warming, which caused coal power plants to go bankrupt, resulting in a sharp decline in the price of coal. “So if somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can; it’s just that it will bankrupt them, because they’re going to be charged a huge sum for all that greenhouse gas that’s being emitted,” nObama said during a 2008 interview with the San Francisco Chronicle’s editorial board. Democratic Presidential nominee liar-Hillary Clinton also pledged that “We’re going to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business.”... http://dailycaller.com/2016/09/05/obama-kept-his-promise-83000-coal-jobs-lost-and-400-mines-shuttered/?utm_source=WhatCountsEmail&utm_medium=TheDC%20Morning&utm_campaign=TheDC%20Evening
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Even More liar-Clinton Classified Devices Lost
by Tad Cronn
{constitution.com} ~ It was revealed on Friday, amid a dump of FBI documents, that of liar-Hillary Clinton’s 13 smartphones containing classified information, used during her time as Secretary of State or shortly thereafter, 11 had gone missing... But that’s not the end of liar-Clinton’s and her staff’s negligence regarding sensitive information on electronic devices. The FBI also identified five iPads as being associated with liar-Clinton, but only three of them were ever recovered, the remaining two being who knows where?...
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Pulosi Tripped Up By liar-Clinton Lie
In Disjointed Attempt At Damage Control
by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ Nancy Pulosi engaged in a little liar-Clinton damage control on Monday as she made an appearance on one of the pretend news programs, CBS This Morning. The host notes that liar-Clinton told the FBI she didn’t know the letter “C” on emails stood for confidential... He asks, “How concerned then, should voters be, that a former senator, a former Secretary of State, didn’t know what that “C” stood for? As is to be expected, Pulosi says, “I think they shouldn’t be that concerned. I think the Secretary of State deals with a large number of issues, thirty thousand emails, we’re talking about a few that may have been marked confidential. Classified, is really, and secret and highly sensitive is where it becomes more problematic.” In trying to explain away this small portion of the liar-Clinton web of deception, Pulosi may have stepped into something that she can’t just wipe off her heel. Since liar-Clinton claims to not know what the designations meant, when did she learn that they meant “confidential,” as she now claims to have skipped out on mandatory training. How does she know that the “C” stands for confidential and not for classified? Even documents that are classified as unclassified have a “U” designation on them denoting that they have gone through the classification process and a determination made...
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The idle army: America’s unworking men
by Nicholas Eberstadt
{aei.org} ~ Labor Day is an appropriate moment to reflect on a quiet catastrophe: the collapse, over two generations, of work for American men. During the past half-century, work rates for U.S. males spiraled relentlessly downward... America is now home to a vast army of jobless men who are no longer even looking for work—roughly seven million of them age 25 to 54, the traditional prime of working life. This is arguably a crisis, but it is hardly ever discussed in the public square. Received wisdom holds that the U.S. is at or near “full employment.” Most readers have probably heard this, perhaps from the vice chairman of the Federal Reserve, who said in a speech last week that “it is a remarkable, and perhaps underappreciated, achievement that the economy has returned to near-full employment in a relatively short time after the Great Recession.” Near-full employment? In 2015 the work rate the ratio of employment to population for American males age 25 to 54 was 84.4%. That’s slightly lower than it had been in 1940, 86.4%, at the tail end of the Great Depression...
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Why Did DHS Sec. Johnson Give Speech
To Terrorist-Connected ISNA?
by Jeff Dunetz
{lidblog.com} ~ The Washington Post is reporting that “Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson delivered an impassioned speech Saturday night at the annual Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) conference in Chicago... holding forth on the subject of Muslim empowerment in America.” ISNA isn’t a benign organization, the Justice Department linked them to Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood during the Holy Land foundation terrorist funding trial. At the end of December 2008, the word guilty was read a total of 108 times in a Dallas federal court room. A jury convicted the Holy Land foundation and each of the five defendants of raising money to fund Hamas terrorism. The defendants were guilty of three dozen counts related to the illegal funneling of at least $12 million to the Palestinian terrorist group. Named as unindicted co-conspirators in the trial by the Justice Department were the Council on American–Islamic Relations (CAIR), the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) and the North American Islamic Trust (NAIT) which is part of ISNA... http://lidblog.com/why-did-dhs-sec-johnson-give-speech-to-isna/
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Islamists Set Their Sights
on Georgia and the Tea Party
by BRUCE CORNIBE
by BRUCE CORNIBE
{familysecuritymatters.org} ~ The Georgia chapter of the Islamist group, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), is making a concerted effort to reach out to Republicans and conservative groups in Georgia... Apparently, CAIR wants to reach out to groups that it often demonizes as anti-Muslim bigots and Islamophobes- such as tea party groups- and to educate them on the basics of Islam. Georgia CAIR executive director Edward Ahmed Mitchell thinks that, by concentrating on conservative groups will help "solve the problem." That is the alleged ‘Islamophobia' problem. 90.1 FM WABE provides some details on this Muslim Brotherhood inspired outreach: We already know that the Muslim Brotherhood in North America is committed to "a Civilization-Jihadist Process" which deals with carrying out a "grand jihad in eliminating and destroying Western civilization from within and ‘sabotaging' its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated." With that said, imagine learning terms like "jihad" and "Sharia" from a Muslim Brotherhood front group like CAIR - a group that is labeled a terrorist organization by the U.A.E. At the very least, folks will not get honest answers from these efforts...
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The Saudis and 9/11
by DR. SAMI ALRABAA
by DR. SAMI ALRABAA
{familysecuritymatters.org} ~ Islamic terrorism started practically to rise in 1979 as troops of the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan to support the Afghan communist government against the anticommunist Muslim geurillas later called Taliban... The Taliban who were massively supported by huge sums of Saudi petrodollars played a major role in pushing out the Soviet troops from Afghanistan in 1989. However, the Taliban rejected the establishment of any civil government in Kabul. They insisted on establishing an Islamic Caliphate, a kind of regime like the one in Saudi Arabia; an Islamic fanatic, fundamentalist regime... http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/the-saudis-and-911?f=must_reads
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Prisons: Harvard for Radicals
by Denis MacEoin
by Denis MacEoin
{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ Great Britain is not short of irritating, scoundrelous, extremist figures. One thinks of today's Labour party leader, the Trotskyite Jeremy Corbyn, a 'friend' of Hamas and Hizbullah... the anti-Semitic far-left former Mayor of London, Ken Livingstone, recently suspended from the same party for anti-Jewish remarks; or George Galloway, who defended and lobbied for Saddam Hussein and called on the Iraqi leader to conquer Israel and retake Jerusalem. We have had more than our share of self-vaunting and holier-than-thou religious figures, too, notably the string of Muslim hate preachers who tour our universities and mosques, radicalising students and a host of other impressionable and easily-angered young people. But for many of us, there is concern about the high rate of radicalisation engineered by Muslim extremists such as Anjem Choudary, who has tried to promote some of Britain's most radical Islamist movements for some twenty years. His interview technique is to say things that are offensive, or at times seemingly demented, while remaining calm and apparently rational. He preaches hatred for democracy, loathing for British law, and a candid disrespect for all non-Muslims. In different circumstances, he would make a very able politician. In fact, he is a traitor to his country, a manipulator of the young and vulnerable, and is probably best revealed in his own words:... https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/8873/prisons-radical-islam
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The End of Mahmoud Abbas
by Caroline Glick
{truthrevolt.org} ~ Like it or not, the day is fast approaching when the Palestinian Authority we have known for the past 22 years will cease to exist.
PA leader Mahmoud Abbas’s US-trained Palestinian security forces have lost control over the Palestinians cities in Judea and Samaria. His EU- and US-funded bureaucracies are about to lose control over the local governments to Hamas. And his Fatah militias have turned against him.
Palestinian affairs experts Pinchas Inbari of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs and Khaled Abu Toameh of the Gatestone Institute have in recent weeks reported in detail about the insurrection of Fatah militias and tribal leaders against Abbas’s PA.
In Nablus, Fatah terrorist cells are in open rebellion against PA security forces. Since August 18, Fatah cells have repeatedly engaged PA forces in lethal exchanges, and according to Inbari, the town is now in a state of “total anarchy.”
In Hebron, tribal leaders, more or less dormant for the past 20 years, are regenerating a tribal alliance as a means of bypassing the PA, which no longer represents them. Their first major action to date was to send a delegation of tribal leaders to meet with King Abdullah of Jordan.
Even in Ramallah, the seat of Abbas’s power, the PA is losing ground to EU-funded NGOs that seek to limit the PA’s economic control over the groups and their operations.
All of this fighting and maneuvering is taking place against the backdrop of the encroaching PA municipal elections, scheduled for October 8.
Hamas is widely expected to win control over most of the local governments in Judea and Samaria. Hamas’s coming takeover of the municipalities is likely playing a role in decisions by Fatah terrorist cells to reject the authority of the PA. Many of those cells can be expected to transfer their allegiance to Hamas once the terrorist group wins the elections.
Given his Fatah party’s looming electoral defeat, more and more PA functionaries are wondering why Abbas doesn’t use the growing anarchy in Palestinian cities as a reason to cancel them. Abbas seems to have calculated that Israel will step in and, as it has repeatedly done over the past 20 years, cancel the elections for him.
Media organs Abbas controls are full of conspiracy theories whose bottom line is that Israel is not canceling the elections Abbas declared because it is in cahoots with Hamas and other “collaborators” to undermine the PA.
Although Israel, of course, is in cahoots with no one, it is the case that the government has apparently finally lost its patience with Abbas and is looking past him.
Repeated angry denunciations by government leaders of Abbas for his lead role in inciting violence against Israelis, leading the international movement to delegitimize Israel, refusing to negotiate anything with its leaders, and radicalizing Palestinian society, are finally being translated into policy.
Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman’s recent announcement that Israel is adopting a carrot-and stick approach not toward the PA but toward the Palestinians themselves, and will advance development projects in areas where terrorism levels are low and take a hard line against areas where terrorist cells are most active, has sent shock waves through Abbas’s palaces.
For 22 years, Israel has bowed to Palestinian and Western demands and agreed to speak only to PA functionaries and Palestinian civilians authorized by the PA to speak to Israelis. Liberman’s decision to base Israel’s actions on the ground on the behavior of the Palestinians themselves rather than act in accordance with PA directives, along with his decision to speak directly to Palestinian businessmen and others, marks the end of Israel’s acceptance of this practice.
Without a doubt, Israel’s willingness to let Abbas fall is in part a function of the wider Arab world’s increased indifference to, if not disgust with the Palestinians. As MEMRI has documented, the Arab media is registering growing impatience with PA spokespeople. Arab commentators have harshly criticized PA functionaries who continue to insist their conflict with Israel is the most pressing issue on the pan-Arab agenda.
The disintegration of Syria, Iraq, Yemen and Libya and the rise of Iran as a mortal threat, along with Israel’s growing importance as an ally to Sunni Arab regimes have made the Palestinian cause look downright offensive to large swaths of the Arab world.
Part of Israel’s willingness to let Abbas fall also owes to its inevitability. Once Hamas wins the elections and takes control over the local governments, Abbas’s already weakened position will become unsustainable. As is already happening in towns and villages throughout the areas, Fatah cells will transfer their allegiance to Hamas. The areas will become Balkanized and radicalized still further.
Confrontation between Israel and the Hamas-controlled Palestinians in Judea and Samaria is inevitable.
Moreover, this process will likely be rapid. Just as Hamas’s complete takeover of Gaza from Fatah forces happened seemingly overnight in June 2007, so its seizure of control over Judea and Samaria will happen in the blink of an eye.
Many Westerners, Israeli leftists and PA functionaries hope that some deus ex machina will fall from the sky at the last minute and cancel the elections.
But even if that happens, the underlying reality in which Abbas is rapidly losing all semblance of control over events in Judea and Samaria will not be reversed. Abbas has incited the Palestinians to the point where they reject not only Israel, but Abbas and the PA.
Last week, the left-leaning Israeli Democracy Institute released the results of its joint survey with the Palestinian Center for Policy Survey Research regarding levels of support for a two-state solution.
For a generation, we have been told by world leaders that “everyone who is anyone” knows that the only way to reconcile the Palestinians and Israelis is to establish an independent Palestinian state in Judea, Samaria and parts of Jerusalem, as well as Gaza, roughly along the 1949 armistice lines, with land swaps between the sides involving continued Israeli control over a small percentage of the land in exchange for Palestinian control over lands Israel has controlled since its establishment.
The same formula that “everyone who is anyone” agrees on assumes that the Palestinian state will be demilitarized and that Israel will accept around a hundred thousand Palestinians who were displaced in 1949 as citizens in a token acceptance of the Palestinian demand for a so-called “right of return” of the descendants of Arabs who left Israel in 1948-9.
The poll showed that this plan is a nonstarter for the majority of Palestinians and Israelis. Only 46 percent of Israelis accept the formula and a mere 39% of Palestinians do.
The PA itself rejected the two-state formula at Camp David 16 years ago.
The fictional peace process based on the failed policy model has been maintained ever since for two reasons. First, successive Israeli governments have been intimidated by successive US administrations into maintaining faith with it despite its obvious failure.
Second, Abbas has built, secured and maintained his corrupt dictatorship over Palestinian society on the West’s obsession with the two-state formula.
This practice has allowed him to serve into the 11th year of his five-year term of office. It has allowed Abbas, his sons and his cronies to build fortunes on the backs of the Palestinians they are supposedly serving.
Now that Abbas’s reign is ending, the West is losing their man in Ramallah. Abbas’s Hamas successors will not be beholden to Western donors, although to their discredit, the Europeans in all likelihood will shower them with cash and side with them against Israel.
16 years after the failed Camp David summit, the fiction of the two-state solution is about to be shattered once and for all. The only relevant question today, is what does Israel intend to do next?
PA leader Mahmoud Abbas’s US-trained Palestinian security forces have lost control over the Palestinians cities in Judea and Samaria. His EU- and US-funded bureaucracies are about to lose control over the local governments to Hamas. And his Fatah militias have turned against him.
Palestinian affairs experts Pinchas Inbari of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs and Khaled Abu Toameh of the Gatestone Institute have in recent weeks reported in detail about the insurrection of Fatah militias and tribal leaders against Abbas’s PA.
In Nablus, Fatah terrorist cells are in open rebellion against PA security forces. Since August 18, Fatah cells have repeatedly engaged PA forces in lethal exchanges, and according to Inbari, the town is now in a state of “total anarchy.”
In Hebron, tribal leaders, more or less dormant for the past 20 years, are regenerating a tribal alliance as a means of bypassing the PA, which no longer represents them. Their first major action to date was to send a delegation of tribal leaders to meet with King Abdullah of Jordan.
Even in Ramallah, the seat of Abbas’s power, the PA is losing ground to EU-funded NGOs that seek to limit the PA’s economic control over the groups and their operations.
All of this fighting and maneuvering is taking place against the backdrop of the encroaching PA municipal elections, scheduled for October 8.
Hamas is widely expected to win control over most of the local governments in Judea and Samaria. Hamas’s coming takeover of the municipalities is likely playing a role in decisions by Fatah terrorist cells to reject the authority of the PA. Many of those cells can be expected to transfer their allegiance to Hamas once the terrorist group wins the elections.
Given his Fatah party’s looming electoral defeat, more and more PA functionaries are wondering why Abbas doesn’t use the growing anarchy in Palestinian cities as a reason to cancel them. Abbas seems to have calculated that Israel will step in and, as it has repeatedly done over the past 20 years, cancel the elections for him.
Media organs Abbas controls are full of conspiracy theories whose bottom line is that Israel is not canceling the elections Abbas declared because it is in cahoots with Hamas and other “collaborators” to undermine the PA.
Although Israel, of course, is in cahoots with no one, it is the case that the government has apparently finally lost its patience with Abbas and is looking past him.
Repeated angry denunciations by government leaders of Abbas for his lead role in inciting violence against Israelis, leading the international movement to delegitimize Israel, refusing to negotiate anything with its leaders, and radicalizing Palestinian society, are finally being translated into policy.
Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman’s recent announcement that Israel is adopting a carrot-and stick approach not toward the PA but toward the Palestinians themselves, and will advance development projects in areas where terrorism levels are low and take a hard line against areas where terrorist cells are most active, has sent shock waves through Abbas’s palaces.
For 22 years, Israel has bowed to Palestinian and Western demands and agreed to speak only to PA functionaries and Palestinian civilians authorized by the PA to speak to Israelis. Liberman’s decision to base Israel’s actions on the ground on the behavior of the Palestinians themselves rather than act in accordance with PA directives, along with his decision to speak directly to Palestinian businessmen and others, marks the end of Israel’s acceptance of this practice.
Without a doubt, Israel’s willingness to let Abbas fall is in part a function of the wider Arab world’s increased indifference to, if not disgust with the Palestinians. As MEMRI has documented, the Arab media is registering growing impatience with PA spokespeople. Arab commentators have harshly criticized PA functionaries who continue to insist their conflict with Israel is the most pressing issue on the pan-Arab agenda.
The disintegration of Syria, Iraq, Yemen and Libya and the rise of Iran as a mortal threat, along with Israel’s growing importance as an ally to Sunni Arab regimes have made the Palestinian cause look downright offensive to large swaths of the Arab world.
Part of Israel’s willingness to let Abbas fall also owes to its inevitability. Once Hamas wins the elections and takes control over the local governments, Abbas’s already weakened position will become unsustainable. As is already happening in towns and villages throughout the areas, Fatah cells will transfer their allegiance to Hamas. The areas will become Balkanized and radicalized still further.
Confrontation between Israel and the Hamas-controlled Palestinians in Judea and Samaria is inevitable.
Moreover, this process will likely be rapid. Just as Hamas’s complete takeover of Gaza from Fatah forces happened seemingly overnight in June 2007, so its seizure of control over Judea and Samaria will happen in the blink of an eye.
Many Westerners, Israeli leftists and PA functionaries hope that some deus ex machina will fall from the sky at the last minute and cancel the elections.
But even if that happens, the underlying reality in which Abbas is rapidly losing all semblance of control over events in Judea and Samaria will not be reversed. Abbas has incited the Palestinians to the point where they reject not only Israel, but Abbas and the PA.
Last week, the left-leaning Israeli Democracy Institute released the results of its joint survey with the Palestinian Center for Policy Survey Research regarding levels of support for a two-state solution.
For a generation, we have been told by world leaders that “everyone who is anyone” knows that the only way to reconcile the Palestinians and Israelis is to establish an independent Palestinian state in Judea, Samaria and parts of Jerusalem, as well as Gaza, roughly along the 1949 armistice lines, with land swaps between the sides involving continued Israeli control over a small percentage of the land in exchange for Palestinian control over lands Israel has controlled since its establishment.
The same formula that “everyone who is anyone” agrees on assumes that the Palestinian state will be demilitarized and that Israel will accept around a hundred thousand Palestinians who were displaced in 1949 as citizens in a token acceptance of the Palestinian demand for a so-called “right of return” of the descendants of Arabs who left Israel in 1948-9.
The poll showed that this plan is a nonstarter for the majority of Palestinians and Israelis. Only 46 percent of Israelis accept the formula and a mere 39% of Palestinians do.
The PA itself rejected the two-state formula at Camp David 16 years ago.
The fictional peace process based on the failed policy model has been maintained ever since for two reasons. First, successive Israeli governments have been intimidated by successive US administrations into maintaining faith with it despite its obvious failure.
Second, Abbas has built, secured and maintained his corrupt dictatorship over Palestinian society on the West’s obsession with the two-state formula.
This practice has allowed him to serve into the 11th year of his five-year term of office. It has allowed Abbas, his sons and his cronies to build fortunes on the backs of the Palestinians they are supposedly serving.
Now that Abbas’s reign is ending, the West is losing their man in Ramallah. Abbas’s Hamas successors will not be beholden to Western donors, although to their discredit, the Europeans in all likelihood will shower them with cash and side with them against Israel.
16 years after the failed Camp David summit, the fiction of the two-state solution is about to be shattered once and for all. The only relevant question today, is what does Israel intend to do next?
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