8-9-18, * -- Austin’s Equity Office has recommended renaming the Texas city because of Stephen F. Austin's alleged views on slavery. But why stop at just renaming Austin when Amerigo Vespucci took and sold slaves and was the source of America’s name?

New York City has been tearing out plaques memorializing Robert E. Lee attached to a tree that he had once planted. The city is named after King James II whose Royal African Company branded thousands of slaves with DY for the Duke of York. Queens is named after the wife of King Charles II (James’ brother) whose husband was also quite active in the slave trade.

The Maryland charter was received by Cecil Calvert, the second Lord Baltimore, whose family owned slaves. Anne Arundel County is named after Cecil's wife. New Jersey was named by George Carteret under a grant from Charles II. Carteret was connected to the African slave trade through the Royal African Company. A number of areas in New Jersey are named after him and his family. That includes the city of Elizabeth, New Jersey, named after Carteret’s wife. South and North Carolina, named after Charles I, and Maryland, named after his wife, who had authorized a trade in African slaves.

Virginia and (West Virginia) are named after Elizabeth I who authorized a trade in slaves and at least one of whose ships carried slaves. Delaware is named after Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr, who served as governor of Virginia. Louisiana is named after Louis XIV, the Sun King, whose Code Noir (Black Code) set out the parameters of slavery.

William Penn, the Quaker and liberal role model after whom Pennsylvania is named, owned slaves. Nor does heading west offer any escape from history.

In California, its leftist city of Berkeley has an even bigger problem. It’s named after the Irish empiricist George Berkeley. Berkeley was not only a slave owner, but a vigorous advocate for the enslavement of Africans and Indians. His name has touched off controversy at Yale and UC Berkeley.

To rename the nation of America we can start off by renaming eleven states: New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, California, Washington, and Maryland.

Or we can stop the insanity right now. Our choice is clear; reject the left or rename America.

John Casor, Slave of Anthony Johnson Black man in Virginia more here

*Excerpted and adapted full message here from Daniel Greenfield

8-18-18, In 2018, the term “racist” has lost virtually all meaning. It’s a shame because there are still real racists in 2018. Neo-Nazis and Ku Klux Klan members are walking proof. However, when anything that offends even the smallest of minorities is conflated to be on equal racist footing as the KKK, it becomes an active disservice to the cause.
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Case in point, according to WMAZ-TV in Macon, Georgia, cheerleaders at Dodge County High School in Eastman, Georgia, have come under fire for a supposedly “racist” T-shirt. They're selling them to raise funds for their cheer leading squad.

The shirts read: “In Dodge County, we stand for the flag, kneel for the cross, that’s Indian pride.”

To most people reading it is simply pro America, pro Christ and pro school; and it is. However, to Eastman resident, Deneen McLeod, the shirt is racist.  More here

8-13-18, * -- A parody [joking] tweet featuring a faked except from Michael Wolff's Fire and Fury book created the Gorilla Channel meme as media types quickly fell for the idea that President Trump spent 17 hours a day watching an imaginary cable channel where gorillas fight each other. But that's nothing.

Simon and Schuster [S&S] is a subsidiary of CBS. The entanglement between fake books and fake news is a current phenomenon that pervades the various sectors of the media as reporters write and report on books. Reportedly, a S&S subsidiary paid the ex-White House woman adviser, Omarosa Manigault, seven figures for a book in which she claims that Trump wanted to take his oath of office on a copy of his book, The Art of the Deal instead of the Holy Bible. Few noticed that the source of the story was a popular Las Vegas NV Trump impersonator, John Di Domenico [1].

When fake news meets fake books, there’s no time to check the stories that are considered by some too good not to print. The seemingly endless appetite of lefties for Trump bashing touched off a gold rush in the media and its allied publishing companies to mint new bestsellers.

“Unhinged”, the Omarosa book in question, was apparently sold in July 2018 and published in August 2018. That’s a ridiculously quick turnaround making any serious fact checking impossible. Frank Luntz [2] who is named in the claims that she makes about President Trump using racial slurs, say that apparently no serious fact-checking was even attempted.

Omarosa is making dubious claims, invoking a journalistic journey, contradicting herself, blaming the contradictions on everyone else and distorting the events that she supposedly witnessed to make bizarre and inflammatory claims about President Trump.

Meanwhile she’s dropped illegally recorded audio tapes that only address her own egotistical careerism. The tapes were her big ticket item; they were intended to back up her narrative of being unfairly fired. They failed.

​So the publishing giant, S&S quickly signed a deal with Omarosa and filled its August hole with her crazy claims. The title of Unhinged could easily refer to Omarosa herself. It really isn’t a crazy book; it’s a deeply cynical one. It takes media conspiracy theories and feeds them right back into the media. No matter how bizarre, she gave fake media the stamp of approval as a White House ‘insider’ telling them their beliefs are really true. Unhinged is unhinged nonsense; but what’s better for fake news than a fake book?

Omarosa’s Unhinged may be the fake book that broke the fake publishing camel’s back.

​OMAROSA ‘OFFERED’ PIERS MORGAN SEX ON ‘CELEBRITY APPRENTICE,’ HE CLAIMS
8-14-18, On Fox News - Tucker Carlson interviews Piers Morgan when he sounds off on Omarosa's antics on the 2008 'Celebrity Apprentice' TV show saying she offered me sex ... she is the worst human being ...

[Note: I haven't read the book -- Annette]
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*Excerpted and adapted full report from Daniel Greenfield here 
[1] Art of Deal here
Las Vegas impersonator John DiDomenico here 
[2]  Frank Luntz here

ESPN president Jimmy Pitaro: No national anthem on 'MNF' telecast
Whatever the players do will not be viewed by TV audience
ESPN's Monday Night Football preseason game aired Aug 16, 2018

Washington Redskins vs New York Jets game - victor Redskins 15-13. Espn President Jimmy Pitaro was hired March 5, 2018 following the abrupt departure of John Skipper, told reporters in Bristol, Conn., that the network hasn't previously shown the national anthem during its Monday Night Football broadcasts and doesn't have plans to change — at least, not in the immediate future.  According to the Associated Press, annually ESPN pays $2 billion to broadcast Monday Night Football.

8-15-18, President Trump fulfilled another of his duties to protect America. He revoked the security clearance of Obama's CIA chief John Brennan; the following nine are also at risk:

1. Director CIA John Brennan – revoked 8-15-18
2. director of national intelligence James Clapper
3. FBI director James Comey
4. CIA director Michael Hayden-
5. national security adviser Susan Rice
6. deputy FBI director Andrew McCabe
7. National Security Agency, Sally Yates
8. FBI Agent, Peter Strzok
9. FBI Lawyer Lisa Page
10. Assoc Deputy attorney general, Bruce Ohr

 
The entire process of granting, denying or revoking someone’s security clearance is derived from the president’s Article II authority as commander in chief. The president is the ultimate classifier of who is granted access to classified information [Executive Order 12968 (as amended)]. Section 5.2(e) of the order permits an agency to revoke someone’s security clearance without appeal rights if, but only if, the agency head states in writing that those procedures cannot be invoked in a manner that is consistent with national security.
 
When an individual is granted a security clearance, that person has been favorably adjudicated and is “eligible for access” to classified information at a particular level (whether confidential, secret or top secret). Access, in and of itself, is the subsequent step taken by the agency to provide the cleared individual with the means by which to use classified email accounts, utilize classified databases and work in a classified office space.
 
There are a few options to revoke clearance; President Trump could claim the inherent constitutional authority to revoke the clearance eligibility of individuals without any due process. No president (at least as far as I am aware) has ever personally intervened in the clearance revocation of an individual. Past presidents— whatever their flaws or scandals— knew there were certain institutional customs that a president didn’t disturb. President Trump however, is not burdened with an affinity for respecting institutional norms; if he were to take the step, it’s anyone’s guess how the courts would construe the issue. It would set up a serious clash of constitutional questions between the inherent authority of the president regarding classified information, the procedural due-process rights of clearance holders under the Fifth Amendment [1], and the extent to which the judiciary is even permitted to rule on the matter.

Key GOP senators say they have no issue with Pres Trump
Revoking Brennan's Security
 8-16-18, Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn, the chamber's second-ranking Republican, said: "I don't understand why former employees have access to classified information at all. I hardly believe Brennan was assisting the Trump White House -- [a reason given for why some former intelligence community employees maintain their security clearance]. Unless there is some justification not to; it might be worth having all former employees lose their clearances when they have completed their time in office."
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Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr, Why didn't you do something?:
"Director Brennan's recent statements purport to know as fact that the Trump campaign colluded with a foreign power. If Director Brennan's statement is based on intelligence he received while still leading the CIA, why didn't he include it in the Intelligence Community Assessment released in 2017? If, however, Director Brennan's statement is purely political and based on conjecture, the president has full authority to revoke his security clearance as head of the Executive Branch."

Rand Paul launches talking filibuster against John Brennan
Mar 6, 2013 - "I will speak until I can no longer speak," Rand Paul spoke for 13 hours objecting to John Brennan as Obama's CIA director ..

*Excerpted and adapted full original report from Bradley Moss, LawFarBlog here
[1] Fifth Amendment here

8-14-18, President Trump has demanded the release of the American Christian Pastor Andrew Brunson. Turkey has him under house arrest for the outrageous charge of espionage. Tariffs have been imposed on Turkey and a defense bill blocking Turkey's access to the F-35 fighter jet has been signed.

President Tayyip Erdoğan’s defiance indicated that he had little appetite to resolve the diplomatic spat with the US. He has said the judiciary will rule independently on the case, and any move to release Brunson could be seen domestically as caving in to Washington. He also has declared a boycott against American electronic products. More here
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Animosities Turkey & USA:

1. TURKEY vs USA: American Arrested Visas Canceled - August 2016, The USA stores appx FIFTY nuclear warheads at INCIRLIK IN TURKEY ... The base is only 8 km away from Ardana, the fifth most important city in Turkey and the largest one in the southern part of the country. It is also around 50 km from the Mediterranean Sea, close to the Middle East. The population is mostly American – over 5000 troops and storehouse of dozens of nuclear weapons. The base also hosts a few hundred British and Turkish soldiers. The place has two runways. More here
2. Turkey: Leader Erdogan Threatened EU, 'not safe in the streets.' - Aug 1, 2016 - TURKISH citizens and police have 'surrounded' the Incirlik Air Base...
3. Turkey's Erdogan: "Over a Priest!" Aug 13, 2018, Trump threats over a pastor. Erdogan said, "I am calling on those in America again. Shame on you, shame on you. You are exchanging your strategic partner in Nato for a priest. We have not made concessions on justice so far [on Brunson] and we will never make any!"

U.S. commander neither confirms nor denies nuclear weapons in Turkey - Jul 2, 2018 - The commander of the United States Incirlik Air Base in Turkey's southern Turkish province of Adana Colonel David S Eaglin stressed that the U.S. presence in İncirlik was symbolic of its desire to work with Turkey which is an ally and strategic partner...

39-ton weapons container removed from İncirlik airbase - Apr 3, 2018 - 39-ton weapons container removed from İncirlik airbase ... Turkey's deteriorating relations with the United States have led to discussion by ... U.S. commander neither confirms nor denies nuclear weapons in Turkey air base.
Analysts question security of U.S. nukes in Turkey - Jan 22, 2018 - As a result, the United States “could (end) up fighting a proxy war against Turkey, a NATO ally that holds dozens of US tactical nuclear weapons”, wrote Alex ... could be in question as the NATO allies fight a proxy war in Syria.

8-15-18, Many US Military Officers Claim that the U.S. military represents the best in America. However, it doesn’t actually represent America. For that to be true, two thirds of our military would have to consist of obese, under-educated former drug users and convicted criminals.

The good news is that while the military takes pride in attracting those who are:
Fit, Educated, Law Abiding and Drug-free.

The bad news is they’re having difficulty finding them—manifestly because fewer of them actually exist.

President Trump's goals to improve and increase the numbers in the US Military is not currently attainable. The Army needs to find 17,500 new soldiers every year, it needs to find replacements for those who retire or leave the service every year—about 20 percent of the force. The Army set its 2018 recruiting goal at 80,000 soldiers. Initially the target seemed modest and reachable. It wasn't.
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Here’s the arithmetic: 

• one in three potential recruits are disqualified from service because they’re overweight
• one in four cannot meet minimal educational standards (a high school diploma or GED equivalent)
• one in 10 have a criminal history
• many are drug addicts
• the pool of remaining potential recruits, only one in eight actually want to join the military
• of the potentially qualified 30 percent of those who have the requisite high school diploma or GED equivalent fail to pass the Armed Forces Qualification Test (the AFQT), which is used to determine math and reading skills can't read, write or count.

There are tutoring companies producing tests and there’s an “AFQT for Dummies” on the shelves. Here’s a sample question: “Five workers earn $135/day. What is the total amount earned by the five workers?” Put more simply, the purpose of the AFQT isn’t to identify the most qualified, but to winnow out the illiterate. More here

2-15-18, * -- We’ve spent the last 60 years telling God to get lost from our public schools. It should come as no surprise that He’s not there. We don’t have enough God on our campuses and we don’t have enough guns. Interesting and significant that the first and second amendments in the Bill of Rights to the US Constitution is:
#1 God
#2 Guns

We pray for the families who lost kids in these recent school shootings; why don’t we pray before these shootings happen instead of waiting until somebody’s dead? Why don’t we have protection against the wicked killers?

Contrary to what the ACLU, the Freedom From Religion Foundation and activist judges believe, there is absolutely NO constitutional prohibition against prayer in schools. Schools routinely incorporated prayer into their school days from the Founding until 1963, when activist judges mangled the Constitution removing God & prayer from schools. "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances." [2] 

It was never intending to be a restraint on states or schools. James Madison, wrote: “Thus, the whole power over the subject of religion is left exclusively to the state governments, to be acted upon according to their own sense of justice, and the state constitutions.”
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Prayer removed from US Public Schools in 1963
School Shootings [1] 1900 until 1970

1. 30 (in the 1970s)
2. 39, 62, 60, and 145 (from 2010 to 2018, with the number growing virtually by the month)
3. Deaths in the six decades prior to 1963 (1900-1960): 62 deaths … just over 10 per year
4. Deaths since 1963 (1960-2017) 419 deaths … an average of appx 70 per year

It has always been a matter of obvious and demonstrable fact that the only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun and the wicked killers choose ‘soft targets’ where the innocent have no protection. In our schools there is rarely anyone - a teacher or an administrator - who is armed and able to stop him. The 2nd Amendment quite conspicuously protects the “right of the PEOPLE” (not just the military or law enforcement) “to keep and bear arms.” It’s there for self-defense and for the protection of vulnerable people who look to us for protection - our families and our students. 

Bottom line, according to the Founders’ Constitution, if a state wants to allow prayer in school, it’s absolutely free to do so. It’s time for state governments to start reclaiming that constitutional right whether a federal court likes it or not since federal courts have no jurisdiction in the matter. We can’t very well blame God for not coming to our aid if we fail to use the tools (prayer and the Second Amendment) He has graciously given to us.
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*Excerpted and adapted full original report from Bryan Fischer here
[1] History of school shootings here

Alabama Restores Ten Commandments to School Campuses

8-12-18, Alabama public schools are hoping to bring God back into their schools by displaying the US motto “In God We Trust” on school buildings. In February, the Alabama legislature approved a new law allowing such displays on public property, and now is giving schools the right to exhibit the motto as well. The national motto, approved by Congress in 1956, is already displayed in 17 public venues in Alabama, and the Blount County school board plans to be the first to implement the motto in its schools. Officials say the legislation is not a mandate, like what was approved by Tennessee lawmakers this spring requiring the motto to be on display inside all public schools. Republican state Rep. David Standridge, who sponsored the original legislation that took effect July 1, said it seemed like a better approach to make it permissive rather than a mandate. More here

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God's Ten Commandments
​ Exodus 20:3-17

8-12-18, President Trump announced punitive doubling tariffs against the nation of Turkey in protest over the detention of American Christian Pastor Andrew Brunson who was arrested on terrorism charges after the attempted coup against Mr Erdogan in 2016, saying: “Our relations with Turkey are not good at this time!”

The Turkish lira tumbled more than 16 per cent on Friday, 8/10/18 – a record low against the dollar – after Washington imposed sanctions as well as steel and aluminum tariffs demanding that jailed American pastor Andrew Brunson be released. ​The US is the biggest destination for Turkish steel exports with 11 per cent of the Turkish export volume.

On July 25, 2018 it was reported that Pastor Brunson was released to house arrest ... apparently not or not good enough!

President Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey said: “It is wrong to dare bring Turkey to its knees through threats over a pastor. I am calling on those in America again. Shame on you, shame on you. You are exchanging your strategic partner in Nato for a priest. We have not made concessions on justice so far [on Brunson] and we will never make any!" More here

8-11-18, BEDMINSTER, N.J. — On a rainy Saturday at Pres Trump's Bedminster Golf Club, he met with appx 170 leather clad motor cycle 'bikers.' They call themselves “Bikers for Trump.”  Dozens of gleaming Harleys, Hondas and other motorcycles descended on the central New Jersey property in the pouring rain with flash-flood warnings. The soggy bikers met the president inside a crystal-chandeliered clubhouse ballroom, where Trump signed autographs and posed for selfies and his guests booed reporters. It was a classic, chaotic Trump scene reminiscent of his jovial early campaign events.

Couple sues Sewickley Heights PA over order banning  Bible Studies
Jul 19, 2018 - The owners of a historic farm in Sewickley Heights, Scott and Terri Fetterolf have been in a quiet, but lengthy [Since Oct 2017] battle over whether they're allowed to host Bible studies in their private home. ​
 The Harrisburg-based Independence Law Center filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday on behalf of Scott and Theresa Fetterolf alleging the borough’s attempts to keep them from using their farm for religious purposes violates their civil rights.
“The borough has no business overseeing a group of people reading and discussing a book together on private property — even if that book is the Bible,” Randall Wenger, chief counsel for the Independence Law Center, said in a statement.
The lawsuit said the 32-acre property has been used for such events by its prior owner “for many decades.” According to her 2012 obituary, the previous owner, Nancy Doyle Chalfant, one of the founders of the nonprofit Verland, “opened her home, and her beloved Dundee Farm, to church retreats, seminary picnics, youth groups and many other organizations she supported."
The Fetterolfs attended church with Chalfant and bought her property in 2003. The Fetterolfs bought the property carrying on the traditions started by Nancy Chalfant. They did so without incident until Oct. 5, 2017, when the borough served a notice of violation and cease and desist order on the Fetterolfs. It said that activities including a Bible study, worship night, religious retreats and fundraisers were not permitted in the borough’s historical rural and residential zone without a variance.
The Fetterolfs appealed to the borough’s zoning hearing board. Several meetings have been held since January, but the matter remains unresolved.  More here

[Note: I called Sewickley Heights PA Admin Offices [(412) 741-5119] trying to get information of the cost and process required for the Fetterolf's to acquire the 'variance,' but they're not answering the phone. I did however reach the offices of Sewickley Borough and was told theirs is $550.00 to apply. Not saying I agree that they should be required to get the variance however. -- Ed.]

8-10-18, President Donald Trump’s star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame was destroyed by ax wielding haters. It has multiplied over night ... now there are dozens. The effort comes from a conservative street artist who wishes to remain anonymous. He was motivated - not only by the destruction of the president’s real star - but also because of the recent unanimous vote by the West Hollywood City Council not to replace it. Strange considering the stars of Kevin Spacey, Bill Cosby and Michael Jackson remain in place and untouched in spite of multiple rape and child molestation allegations — and a conviction, in Cosby’s recent trial. 

The crew laminated the vinyl stars and placed them on blank squares on the Walk of Fame, though kept them covered until all were secured into place so that onlookers would not know exactly what was happening. ​More here

See video here

170 Voters in Ohio Race 'Over 116 Years Old
8-8-18,  It's becoming clear that Democrats will stop at nothing in it's attempt to jump start their “blue wave. In June 2018, the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 in favor of Ohio’s system for the badly needed purge of ineligible voters from the voter rolls.

​What Voter Fraud? 670 Ballots Were Cast in Georgia Precinct Only 270 registered voters
8-7-18, Georgia -- On Tuesday morning the number of registered voters changed from 276 to 3,704 on the secretary of state's website. Questions of electronic malfunction, outside tampering, and voter fraud — particularly in light of a pending investigation into alleged voter fraud during the Atlanta mayoral election runoff in December — linger over the state. McClatchy reports that "The odd turnout figures last Friday, 8-3-18 were filed as part of a federal lawsuit against the state by election security activists that included a number of sworn statements and exhibits from activists and voters who experienced a series of bizarre and confusing issues at the state’s polling places." Important to note that Georgia is one of only a handful of states that rely totally on electronic voting machines, negating a paper trail to be audited. The Atlanta Journal Constitution reported that currently a federal judge is considering whether the state should switch to paper ballots come November, report here.

8-8-18, Canada Free Press -- Internet "lights" have been dimmed on the likes of Alex Jones, but the lights of Islamic terror group ISIS, the mega producers of porn and the likes of Louis Farrakhan still burn brightly.

The social media of Facebook, Apple, Google, YouTube etc qualify for social media’s pretentious “codes of conduct”, easily stretched for the political election season and socialist social inclusion. The sweetheart deals Obama, Mrs Clinton and company likely made with social media giants must have been staggering, including ‘no government interference of any kind if you jump in the tank with us’.

Now that the socialist socials are ganging up and piling on them, Obama, Clinton and the rest of the deranged Dems are waiting patiently on the sidelines for a crowd-cheering return back to power come November 2018.

More than ironic that holier-than-thou, sanctimonious social media are gravely offended by the conspiracy theories of Alex Jones and InfoWars, even though the government pals with whom they work are the the biggest purveyors of conspiracy of them all. Access to the World Wide Web belongs as much to amateur citizen journalists and life’s little people as it does to the professional so called ‘journalists’ and ‘researchers.’

In 2016 Facebook and Google not only failed—but failed abysmally—when they tried to elect Mrs. Clinton as America’s 45th President. Currently their 2016 Midterms Redux is destined for the same kind of failure.

Voters are resilient when it’s the survival of a beloved country is at stake. For all of those conservative reporters that are being thrown off the Internet, the lights WILL come back on. Their followers, who will continue to search for them and patiently waiting for their return. 

There's life beyond Facebook and all socialist socials. ​More here

'Anne Frank' Holocaust drama changes historic facts -- Jews hiding from Nazis ... to illegal migrants on run from American Immigration
8-4-18, FoxNews -- A new stage production of 'The Diary Of Anne Frank' rewrites the heart-wrenching history of Jews being hidden from the brutality of the holocaust Nazis ... Scheduled to open on 9/6/18 at the Dorie Theater in L.A. California. Directed by Stan Zimmerman, a "Roseanne" writer.
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8-8-18, FrontPage --  A new leftist politics-tainted theatrical production of The Diary of Anne Frank outrageously compares President Trump's administration to the German Nazi regime. It has replaced the Nazis hunting for Jews with America's immigration authorities; ICE agents tracking down Latino illegal migrants. The comparison between Anne Frank and illegal aliens in the United States is beyond disgraceful. Illegal migrants are, legally speaking, the authors of their own misfortune as they are illegally entering America without going through proper channels; they are criminals - the holocaust surviving Jews were not criminals. When ICE apprehends them, they are at all times, treated humanely. They are given a hearing and due process of American law. If they are found to be present unlawfully in the country, they are removed from it, THEY ARE NOT SENT TO NAZI LIKE FORCED LABOR OR DEATH CAMPS.

It is horrendous that this theater group trivializes the suffering of millions of Jews; and the good work done by the girl Anne Frank; besmirching the reality with this piece of leftist propaganda. The play treats those who enforce America's immigration laws as monstrous genocidal brutes and absurdly equates the idea of maintaining national borders with violent governmental persecution. ​More here
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​Anne Frank Biography - Biography
Anne Frank was a Jewish teenager who went into hiding during the Holocaust ... Published in 1947. Fleeing Nazi persecution of Jews, the family moved to Amsterdam and later went into hiding for two years. She was 15 when the family was found and sent to concentration camps, where she died sometime in March 1945 from typhus, only a few weeks before British soldiers liberated the concentration camp where she was a prisoner.

8-6-18, Federalist -- The New York Times’ Frank Bruni really upped his game this week. In an atrociously brutal piece, he called Vice President Mike Pence a “holy terror,” claiming he’s multiple degrees more sinister than President Trump, the otherwise most sinister person on the planet. Bruni actually warns the best case against impeaching Trump is the much greater danger of Pence.

Think about that a moment. For all the venom and apocalyptic hysteria being spewed at everything President Trump has ever said and done  — and there is plenty; there is someone even “worse” than this president. Bruni makes Chicken Little seem measured.

Bruni describes VP Pence as “self-infatuated,” "bigot,” “liar,” “cruel” and the VP's most damning sin is that he’s a Christian who actually believes what Christians actually believe. Bruni adds that Pence is a greater threat to the universe than Trump because he holds, “…the conviction that he’s on a mission from God and a determination to mold the entire nation in the shape of his own faith, a regressive, repressive version of Christianity.”

Bruni fails to see — as do most of his peers — that it is precisely this kind of elitist bigotry that fueled Trump’s ascendancy. Publicly pronounced hatred of Evangelicals, faithful Catholics and white men are the only allowable bigotries, and that prejudice seems to be demonstrated with greater nastiness with each passing day.

Pence is really no different than your run-of-the-mill evangelical Christians [those who believe the Bible and share God's good news], like millions of Americans. He believes that God governs the affairs of men, that prayer is effectual and worth doing, that marriage and family are best when built upon a married mother and father, that life is sacred and abortion destroys life, and that God appoints our government’s leaders, even those who are hostile to Him.

It is sad that those who put themselves out there as those who singularly carry the burden of dividing fact from delusion not only regularly trade in such bigotry, but can’t even see it for what it is. And they wonder why their readership is declining and people continue to vote for candidates they believe are crazy. ​More here

1. Trade in gold or precious metals;
2. Direct or indirect sale, supply, or transfer to or from Iran of graphite, raw, or semi
3. Finished metals such as aluminum and steel, coal, and software for integrating industrial processes;
4. Purchase or sale of Iranian Rials [currency], or the maintenance of significant funds or accounts outside the territory of Iran denominated in the Iranian Rial;
5. Purchase, subscription to, or facilitation of the issuance of Iranian sovereign debt;
6. Automotive sector [details not specified]
7. Revoke importation into the United States of Iranian carpets and foodstuffs and certain related financial transactions
8. Specific licenses issued in connection with the Statement of Licensing Policy for Activities Related to the Export or Re-export to Iran of Commercial Passenger Aircraft and Related Parts and Services
9. Contingent contracts for activities eligible for authorization under the Iran Nuke deal [JCPOA] SLP

 
The 180-day wind-down period ends on November 4, 2018, and the remaining sanctions that had been lifted or waived pursuant to the JCPOA come back into full effect on November 5, 2018.

For information about which sanctions will be reimposed on November 5, 2018, see FAQ 1.3 of the Frequently Asked Questions Regarding the Re-Imposition of Sanctions Pursuant to the May 8, 2018 National Security Presidential Memorandum Relating to the JCPOA. 
 
More here
https://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/sanctions/Programs/Documents/jcpoa_winddown_faqs.pdf

8-2-18, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the country’s most famous female “democrat socialist” is a Congressional candidate for New York’s 14th Congressional District. She has been proving herself to be a national embarrassment when it comes to being interviewed by anyone other than a fawning fan.

The recent and numerous love chats called 'interviews' with Ms Cortez gave Ben Shapiro ammunition for his own satirical interview with the Democrat candidate: "I finally had the opportunity to sit down with Cortez for the Sunday Special, and it went great! [1] She's truly The Gift That Keeps Giving."

If a Democrat “It” girl can’t make it through a series of softball questions from a liberal host with a liberal audience like Trevor Noah and “The Daily Show” without embarrassing herself, she wouldn’t have a prayer against a conservative who was really trying to do damage.

Alexandria unfortunately, is probably a lock to win her race in New York, in a district where Republicans are so rare as to be considered an endangered species. She is, however, proving to be a real boon for the conservative comedy sector of the economy.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is one very low-information voter on ...
Twenty-eight-year-old socialist sensation Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez ... who asked her to explain comments she made demonstrating how her shallow and ignorant she truly is ...

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez makes another embarrassing gaffe ...
In an embarrassing gaffe that is being ridiculed by left and right, far left New York candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez accidentally misidentified what party she is campaigning for.​

[1] pic.twitter.com/WhR7fcM5FT More here

DNC Refuses To Play RNC In Time-Honored Annual Ballgame ...

​7-31-18, Despite being a time-honored tradition going back many years, the Democrat National Committee [DNC] is refusing to play the Republican National Committee [RNC] at this year’s annual softball game. The RNC said they were “stunned” when Democrats abruptly pulled out of the good-natured game between leadership and staffers at opposing political organizations. The game is an opportunity to put aside the partisan bickering and come together in friendly competition. The decade-old tradition typically ended in staffers having a drink at a nearby bar. 

​RNC sources familiar with the decision said the DNC told them that “all our players are out in the field this year. We won’t be able to play.” ["Out in the field?" oh yeah, getting ready to loose in the mid term election November 2018]

​However, on June 14, 2018 the Congressional parties Dem & GOP did play their annual game; the Dems prevailed 21-5. More here

NOTE: People really should be up in arms that they were able to get a FISA warrant on an American citizen, Carter Page, based on political opposition research and speculative newspaper articles and no direct evidence of any actual collusion as required to get the warrant. More here

Clearly as outlined in this time-line, the criminals activated their plan to frame Trump who was nominated as the GOP candidate for the Presidential election. [3] This could be the greatest crime in US history and Obama was right in the middle of it. [Worse that President Nixon's Watergate Dem office break in of 1972.]
 
The arrogant criminals tried to rig the 2016 election destroying innocent citizens in the process [Genl Mike Flynn, Carter Page & Manafort who is in jail]. They NEVER thought Clinton would lose.

We will witness Trump's righteous take down of these crooks, on behalf of the American people. Eagerly waiting.

1] Obama’s Presidential Policy Directive [PPD]
July 26, 2016 ... Today, Obama approved a Presidential Policy Directive (PPD) on United States Cyber Incident Coordination. This new PPD puts FBI in charge of cyber attacks here
[2] Washington Post Timeline Steele Dossier here
[3] 7/20/16 Trump GOP Candidate here
[4] Clinton paid for the dossier - Washington Post
[5[ The dossier was used to obtain FISA warrant against Carter Page

*Excerpted and adapted full original report from Twitter, REX@_ImperatorRex

Don’t Be Concerned About Michael Cohen -- Rush Limbaugh7-27-18, Transcript from radio show: 

RUSH: In the past couple of days, CNN and the Drive-By Media have been making some ridiculous statements. And it’s once again time to interject a little common sense here. CNN has been breathlessly reporting that Michael Cohen has secretly recorded tapes with candidate Donald Trump. They claim Trump said incriminating things and then that Michael Cohen said that Trump knew about the Trump Tower meeting that his son took with the Russian honey pot and all of that and that Trump has denied knowing anything. By the way, Cohen doesn’t have any evidence for this. He has literally no evidence, and even CNN’s been forced to admit this. 

THIS SALACIOUS REPORT WAS ABOUT AN EVENT THAT
SUPPOSEDLY TOOK PLACE TWELVE YEARS AGO ... YES IN 2006
The tape is of little value and inclusive at best. Robert Mueller is relying so little on Cohen that he gave that case to the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York. 

From the surreptitiously recorded audio tape: In September 2016 the business mogul Donald Trump and Attorney Cohen appeared to be discussing buying the rights to Ms Karen McDougal’s story from the Enquirer’s parent company. When Cohen began to discuss financing, Trump interrupted him and asked, “What financing?”

“We’ll have to pay,” Cohen responded. Though the audio was muddled, Mr Trump was heard what sounded like “pay with cash.” The president’s current attorney and former New York City Mayor, Rudy Giuliani said he got the recording enhanced by an expert and what Trump said was “don’t pay with cash.” Giuliani said: “It clearly indicates that then candidate Trump did not want to pay with cash. Suggesting otherwise is ridiculous and is inconsistent with the rest of the conversation, during which it was discussed doing it through a corporation.”

“Cohen says I have to pay him. Trump brings up cash and says don’t pay with cash and says ‘check,’ He wants it memorialized [a record]. Cohen then says ‘No, no, no, no’ and he cuts off the tape. He obviously cuts it off in mid-sentence and that in itself is suspicious,” he added.

Who Is Karen McDougal? - Claim to fame by Ex Playboy Model
2006 Affair with Private Citizen Donald Trump

Mar 20, 2018, Exquire.com -- The 1998 Playmate of the Year claims she had an affair with businessman Donald Trump in 2006 ... 
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You without sin cast first stone ... where'd everybody go?!!
​John 8:7-10

7-19-18, FrontPage -- Before Republican Abraham Lincoln took office, the newspaper 'Salem Advocate' from his home state of Illinois editorialized that “he is no more capable of becoming a statesman, nay, even a moderate one, than the braying ass can become a noble lion.” Lincoln’s “weak, wishy-washy, namby-pamby efforts, imbecile in matter, disgusting in manner, have made us the laughing stock of the whole world.”

Just as Republican President Donald Trump’s critics today hysterically shout that he embarrassed Americans before the world: “the European powers will despise us because we have no better material out of which to make a President.”

Since his death, Lincoln has been revered although he was a wildly unpopular President in his day, even within his own party. Likewise Pres Trump also has fanatical critics; but his base of supporters is growing with 80% approving his Helsinki summit with Russia's Putin. Despite a booming economy and outstanding success against ISIS and North Korea and possible good terms with Russia, the onslaught of negativity from leftist liberals continues.
When Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation [freeing slaves], the Chicago Times decried it as “a monstrous usurpation, a criminal wrong, and an act of national suicide.” 
As hysterically former CIA chief John Brennan [under Obama] crying treason after Trump’s press conference with Vladimir Putin; Lincoln's haters said: “We have no doubt that this Proclamation seals the fate of this Union as it was and the Constitution as it is.…The time is brief when we shall have a DICTATOR PROCLAIMED, for the Proclamation can never be carried out except under the iron rule of the worst kind of despotism.”

On January 1, 1863, the day the Emancipation Proclamation was issued, former Supreme Court Justice Benjamin R. Curtis said that Lincoln was “shattered, dazed and utterly foolish. It would not surprise me if he were to destroy himself.” [..snip]

This is not to say that Trump is a new Lincoln, or that he will be as heralded after his administration as a distant memory the way Lincoln has been. But the lesson is clear: contemporary opinion doesn’t always line up with historical assessment.  It could happen again, and likewise the reverse could happen: the cheers that today greet Barack Obama may one day, in the harsh light of history reveal they have been undeserved, naïve, wrongheaded and foolish in the extreme – at best. More here

7-17-18, RT.com -- Former US Senator Ron Paul said the meeting between US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin is a "step in the right direction."  While addressing the "propaganda" notion that the US must have an enemy in Russia, he said, "I was very pleased with what went on today. I guess it would come out on how much we've [the US] been involved when we shouldn't be involved, for instance in Ukraine, and how that occurred. The media is almost unanimously endorsing the idea that we have to have an enemy, and at this point – especially for the last 20 years – they've been working very hard to make Russia the enemy, and I think this is wrong." Regarding the recent indictment of 12 Russian individuals by Robert Mueller, Paul said, "There is an argument why Russia is an enemy and we have to quit talking to them and I think it's just a propaganda stunt and I think those indictments were more about propaganda than seeking justice." More here

​How Russia Became the Leader of the Global Christian Right
Feb 9, 2017 - While the U.S. has legalized same sex marriage and other law protecting homosexuality, Moscow moved hard the other way. Pat Buchanan said, “In the culture war for the future of mankind, Putin is planting Russia’s flag firmly on the side of traditional Christianity.” Russia has placed rewards for families having children trying to lessen the nations abortion. Vladimir Putin has spoken against immorality he said: "The destruction of traditional values not only entails negative consequences for society, but is also inherently anti-democratic because it is based on an abstract notion and runs counter to the will of the majority of people. There can be no benefit for society for treating ‘good and evil’ equally.”

Little known facts that the Soviet Union lost more than 20 million people in World War II and bore the brunt of the fighting in Europe between 1941 and 1944. Almost everyone in Russia has a forebear who fought or died as a result of the war. More little known facts about this situation between USA and Russia:
​2016 Election

• US has long history of meddling in foreign elections [in 2015 Obama used taxpayer money trying to block Israel's]
• Russian meddling had no effect on the outcome of the USA 2016 election
• DNC never handed over internet email server to investigators
• Indictments are not convictions 
• Media overplaying story because they dislike Trump

US Agencies

• Trump appeared to side with Russia over US Intel agencies on election interference
• American public largely distrusts FBI, CIA, and other government agencies [ala Strzok & Comey!]
• Hillary Clinton still hasn’t been indicted

And Syria:

• Russia has a vested interest in Syria - warm water port
• Russia was instrumental to the Fall of ISIS in Syria
• The US, under the Obama administration, played a role in the Islamic State’s rise
• Syrian people better off under Assad than Islamist rebels
• Syrian Rebels are Islamic terrorists, usually rebrandings of Islamic terror group Al Qaeda
• Assad regime doesn’t persecute Christians as alternatives have or would Christians support Assad
• “Syrian Rebels” [supported by Obama] have no strategic leverage, are fighting a lost war
• Government war atrocities, alleged or proven, have not occurred in territory held by Assad Forces
• NATO ally Turkey performing land grab in Syria

And Ukraine:

• Democratically elected government in Ukraine overthrown in a coup backed by EU
• Russia annexed Ukraine following a referendum vote
• Polling shows Crimeans uninterested in becoming Ukrainian again
• Ukraine helped North Korea
• Ukraine colluded with Hillary campaign for damaging information on Trump

​More here and here

7-17-18, FOLLOW-UP: President Trump said he mis-spoke
Pres Trump said he stands behind the intelligence community. "I accept our intelligence community's conclusion that Russia’s meddling in the 2016 election took place. It could be other people also. I came back and said, 'What is going on, what’s the big deal?' I reviewed the transcript and realized that there is a need for some clarification. I meant to say I don't see why Russia "wouldn't" be responsible. I said the word 'would' instead of 'wouldn't' ... sort of a double negative."

Why should President Trump trust the assessment of the US Intelligence Agency heads who have falsely accused him?
Give me a reason.
7/17/2018, There is much hand-wringing and consternation over Pres Trump-Putin's press conference in Helsinki Finland yesterday. No response was more over the top than that of John Brennan. We have been told over and over and over that the Russians were trying to hack the election; but Obama was still in charge in 2016. Today Ezra Klein wrote that the 2016 election was "sabotaged." The talking heads are so sure but has anyone seen proof? Have you? We were told over and over that 17 agencies agreed on the assessment. That was a lie. Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper does not know what caused the now-debunked claim that all 17 intelligence agencies backed an assessment that Russia interfered in the election. On what evidence was the assessment made? The FBI was never allowed to examine the DNC servers. The spying on candidate Trump was worse than Watergate under Pres Nixon in 1972 - Nixon resigned and many were jailed ... why no arrests now?

7-16-18, Yikes! hysteria has begun over the Helsinki Press Conference! Pres Trump angered members of both USA political parties by saying both countries, USA & Russia, share blame for damaged relations. He did not firmly stand by U.S. intelligence agencies assessments that Russia meddled in the 2016 elections. See it here
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Brennan [and others] Claim Pres Trump Committed Treasonous Act in Helsinki
7-16-18, Former CIA Dir Brennan under Obama stated today that Pres Trump committed "treasonous" acts during his news conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki, Finland because when he was asked if he defended Russia over our own agencies investigating Russia - Pres T gave the following answer: All I can do is ask the question - my people came to me, Dan Coats came to me and some others, they said they think it's Russia. President Putin just strongly and powerfully said "it's not Russia." I will say this, I don't see any reason why it would be, but I really want to see the server - where's the DNC server? And Hillary's 33000 emails? I have confidence in both parties.

DNC email server most wanted evidence for Russia Collusion Investigation
Jul 05, 2017 -- Democratic National Committee last year did not release server to FBI ...James Comey said the DNC denied FBI direct access to servers during Russia hacking probe. Mr. Comey said, “It’s not the way we would prefer to do the investigation.” He said he did not know for sure why the DNC did not provide the FBI direct access to the email servers.

No wonder Pres T couldn't defend our agencies - they're corrupt and biased - screaming about Russia yet ignoring illegalities by Dems and Clinton. Tonight on Fox News THE FIVE had a reasonable discussion on both sides of the question, TUCKER CARLSON asked the question why does NATO still exist? LOU DOBBS said all this hysteria is just 'nuts!'
 And SEAN HANNITY did a good job outlining all the reasons this Pres is doing a good job and had an interview with Pres Trump here.
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"Putin and I Want ‘Safety for Israel" Pres Trump Declared at
Joint Helsinki Summit News Conference With Russian Leader
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​Wasserman Schultz’s Muslim IT SPY Arrested Fleeing
The Country After Smashed Hard Drives Seized
July 2017, Florida Democrat Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s right-hand information technology (IT) aide was arrested attempting to leave the country after the FBI seized hard drives from his home. Imran Awan had been under investigation for stealing classified intel, potentially blackmailing house members and various other data breaches.This is the biggest blockbuster spy story.of the 21st century that no one is talking about.
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7-16-18, Time.com -- The US President Donald Trump met with Russian President Vladimir Putin today in Helsinki Finland. For over two hours they talked one-on-one, in the presence of only translators, before they were then joined by a group of advisors.

Following their meeting they held a press conference when Pres Trump said: “Our relationship has never been worse than it is now. However, that changed as of about four hours ago. I really believe that.”

Trump and Putin summarized the gist of what they had covered. They addressed:

1. nuclear weapons
2. denuclearization in North Korea
3. crisis in Syria, where Russia has been criticized for supporting President Assad’s regime
4. the natural gas pipeline between Russia and Germany
5. US election interference: Putin publicly denied [again] “so-called interference” allegations as expected

More photos here and transcript here

Takeaways From The Hearing With FBI Agent Peter Strzok
7-13-18, The Federalist -- The bogus so called 'dossier' was fed to the FBI  by Bruce Ohr that Steele created ... 
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​Peter Strzok hearing: FBI agent feuds with GOP critics - The ...
Republicans fought bitterly with FBI agent Peter Strzok at a congressional hearing that frequently devolved into shouting matches about Peter's bias against Trump between GOP and Democrats who ran interference for Peter.
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​7-12-18, Flopping Aces -- The FBI Agent Peter Strzok Congressional hearing was a circus because democrats made it a circus. Any and every time a GOP question zeroed in on the target accusing him of bias against the President Trump they interrupted with spurious and specious hoops and hollers. Despite that, much was learned; the most important thing to come out? Peter Strzok is a sociopath.
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Despite his protestations to the contrary, Strzok without any doubt mean every word that he wrote: “F Trump”, Trump is a “douche” and a “f**king idiot”, his supporters smell and they are ignorant hillbillies. He sees himself as the king of the world, the same kind of Savior Comey saw himself as. Strzok bristled at every personal criticism, letting Congress know that he was merely tolerating them. He sees Americans as his servants, incapable and unworthy of judging him.

Were the scary Peter Strzok a prosecutor or a judge on any other case and this bias and animus was discovered, he’d be removed immediately. Strzok showed himself to be hostile, callous, deceitful, lacking in empathy and unwilling to accept any responsibility. Those are some of the characteristics of a sociopath.

Watching the maniacal faces he made during his comments and questioning, it will remove all doubt of his true self. This will creep you out that guy was near the top of the FBI [he has been demoted to Personnel]. If his actions weren't based on his bias ... there is no such thing as bias. See videos here

Congressional Chaos: Dems Explode During Questioning
​ of Disgraced FBI Agent Peter Strzok
On July 12, 2018 in the joint House hearing featuring embattled FBI Agent Peter Strzok. ... Texas Republican Congressman Louie Gohmert asked Strzok if he used that same smirk to "look into your wife's eye and lie to her about Lisa Page," referring to the former FBI lawyer with whom Strzok had an affair.