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Post by Michael Downing on Feb 1, 2017 9:07:52 GMT -5
The real traitors are still out there... theconservativetreehouse.com/2017/02/01/sorry-nevertrumpers-but-you-dont-get-to-dismount-your-high-horse-today/Sorry #NeverTrumpers But You Don’t Get To Dismount Your High Horse Today…Sorry #NeverTrumpers, but you don”t get to dismount your high horse and celebrate the nomination of Judge Neil Gorsuch today. This is NOT your victory, this is ours! There is a gobsmacking level of pontificating self-righteousness visible from the collective proletariat within your crony-conservative movement who made the decision to formulate their political argument from a position of opposition. No, today you don’t get to rejoice in victory – it isn’t yours. You are worse than the enemy. At least a righteous enemy claims opposition from outside the wire, wears identifiable uniforms and looks you in the eye. Your choice of opposition was to lay toxic land mines inside our own territory, obstruct us at every engagement, and sit back gleefully predicting our defeat. This victory today is ours. The victory belongs to all the Donald Trump supporters who absorbed your constant ridicule as fuel. The team who battled through the ridicule of the media and the ridicule of the elitist class, and stood in cold Virgina fields at 2am because we knew we needed to keep moving forward despite your efforts. You #NeverTrump crony-constitutional purists were then, and are now, just as much a part of the problem as before – there is no place for you here, we’re deplorable. Put on your pussy hats and just go join the other side. We didn’t get your support in 2016 and we won’t need it in 2020. Shut up. Be thankful, quietly. We’ve got this, and much more yet to come…
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Post by Michael Downing on Jan 30, 2017 9:37:47 GMT -5
Republicans like their Democratic counterparts are fully vested in the system as it now stands and therefore will lose as much if indeed the President does indeed drain the swamp. globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrillas/2017/01/the-rollback-of-neoliberalism.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+typepad%2FrzYD+%28Global+Guerrillas%29Trump's Rollback of the Neoliberal Market StateWhat is Trump doing? Trump is rolling back neoliberalism and everything connected to it. To understand what this means, here's a narrative of Trump's insurgency. It explains what he is doing and what he is likely to do. It starts with the rise of neoliberalism. The rise of NeoliberalismNeoliberalism is an ideology of extreme free market capitalism that was popularized by Thatcher, Reagan, and Pinochet. By the end of the cold war in the 90's, it became the default economic ideology of the United States when both the Republicans and the Democrats adopted it. Neoliberalism improved the world. Unfettered access to US markets (the most valuable in the world) led to twenty plus years of rapid economic globalization that lifted billions of people out of poverty and made many countries rich. However, neoliberalism came at a cost to the US. Worse, it destroyed the only engine of prosperity and political stability in the US, the US middle class. It did this through: •Asymmetric competition. The US was, and still is, the only major nation in the world to fully embrace neoliberalism. Every other country or economic bloc, from China to the EU, has barriers in place to rig the market to create or protect good jobs at home (think: Germany, China, South Korea, Japan...). These barriers work and incomes in these countries has zoomed while US incomes stagnated. •The Neoliberal Trade (jobs out, wealth in). For decades, the US traded millions of good jobs in manufacturing and services for tens of thousands of amazing jobs on Wall Street (NY) and Silicon Valley (CA). This inflow of wealth at the topline created a sense of prosperity even though the median income and the quality of life of the middle class collapsed. •Non-cooperative elites. It didn't take long before the power and the wealth of the elites benefiting from unfettered globalization became immense. In fact, these US neoliberal elites became so powerful, they were able to completely opt out of the US system of taxation -- none of the elites, from Apple to Google to Wall Street banks/funds to the wealthiest American citizens pay taxes. With most of the wealth generated by the US immune to taxation, the US government quickly became a bankruptcy in progress ($20 trillion in debt and growing fast). Worse, this perpetual fiscal crisis eliminated any chance that government services (like in health care, retirement, etc. proposed by Bernie Sanders) could be formulated to cushion the damage done by neoliberal economics.
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Post by Michael Downing on Jan 22, 2017 19:24:06 GMT -5
And the beat goes on... waronguns.blogspot.com/2017/01/stolen-fbi-submachine-gun-once-more.htmlStolen FBI Submachine Gun Once More Highlights Government Double Standards In other words, they don’t know where, they don’t know when, they’re not saying how, and they’re certainly not going to publicly identify who the public employee is, despite indications of personal negligence and an institutional history of chronic incompetence. [More] So much for these guys being the "Only Ones" trustworthy and trained enough...
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Post by Michael Downing on Jan 22, 2017 17:25:17 GMT -5
Interesting read...
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Post by Michael Downing on Jan 22, 2017 16:07:52 GMT -5
straightlinelogic.com/2017/01/22/being-ignored-can-be-a-blessing-by-robert-gore/Being Ignored Can Be a BlessingThere are billions of people who wish they could ignore, and be ignored by, the US government. From South and Central America to the countries joining the OBOR initiative to the Middle East and Northern Africa, the US has inflicted misery, corruption, devastation and death. Americans often cast what they do in righteous, even messianic terms, rendering foreigners as “less than” who need to be saved and protected, and Americans as their “more than” saviors. Americans are among the world’s worst listeners; the desires of the saved are usually not acknowledged, much less acted upon. The saved soon see through the charade—America does what America wants, hang the rhetoric—and the US government would undoubtedly win a global poll as the world’s most hypocritical institution. The hypocrisy leaves the government unable to acknowledge either what it has wrought or its consequences. It has made South and Central America its playpen for political meddling and the war on drugs, but will not admit that the misery it has helped create is in large part responsible for the influx of immigrants. US intervention has turned the Middle East and Northern Africa into a horror show, but policymakers refuse to publicly connect that to the obvious dots of burgeoning global terrorism and the European refugee crisis. US military “protection” comes with the usual protection racket price: you do as your protector says. Hence Europe, Japan, and a host of smaller countries are enervated US vassals. Per the reserve currency privilege, the US has papered the world with its fiat debt, setting up the global economy for the biggest financial and economic crash in history. Whether they realize it or not, countless billions of ordinary people should pray to whatever god they pray to that President Trump’s America First means America leaves them alone. Commendably, many Americans realize that would be not only best for world, but for America, too. The country faces a debt, demography, and entitlement tsunami. It can no longer afford empire and Pax Americana, if it ever could. Putting America’s own house in order, or even making a good start, would be a full-time, eight-year endeavor for the entire Trump team, and that’s if they never take vacations or sleep. There is much wisdom in the phrase: “Mind your own business.” Making America great will entail making America dispensable and irrelevant, setting it free to address its own problems, and setting the rest of the world free to address theirs.
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Post by Michael Downing on Jan 22, 2017 8:51:54 GMT -5
givemeliberty01.com/2017/01/22/trump-targets-three-liberal-favorites-with-ambitious-budget-cuts/Trump Targets Three Liberal Favorites With Ambitious Budget Cuts President-elect Donald Trump’s reported plan to gut federal spending by $10.5 trillion over the next decade includes eliminating three of iconic agencies defended as cultural mainstays by many Democrats. The next administration is working on plans to eliminate the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities and privatize the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, The Hill reported Thursday. Combined, the three departments cost around $741 million in 2016, and is a small part of a host of budget reforms needed to cut more than a trillion a year from the federal budget.
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Post by Michael Downing on Jan 22, 2017 8:48:20 GMT -5
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Post by Michael Downing on Jan 22, 2017 8:45:51 GMT -5
I like my Kriss Vector 45. Compact and easy to conceal even with extended magazine.
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Post by Michael Downing on Jan 17, 2017 11:30:52 GMT -5
globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrillas/2017/01/the-race-to-weaponize-empathy.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+typepad%2FrzYD+%28Global+Guerrillas%29The Race to Weaponize EmpathyThere's a war for the future being waged online. It's being fought across the world's online social networks, and the outcomes of these online battles increasingly dictate the outcome of what happens later in the real world. One of the most successful tactics used in this war is the manipulation of language in order to confuse, scare, nullify or outrage targeted audiences with the objective of making money, aggregating political power, and disrupting opponents. While this manipulation has ALWAYs been true of human conflict, it's being done on a scale and to a degree that we've never seen before due social networking, globalization, and social/media fragmentation. Concludes... This suggests that the current debate over "fake news" isn't due to the use of fabricated information. Instead, it's really a negative way of describing news that has an emotional context that is at odds/war with the emotions approved by the major media, academia, or government.
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Post by Michael Downing on Jan 17, 2017 11:28:38 GMT -5
Perfect...
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Post by Michael Downing on Jan 15, 2017 9:15:09 GMT -5
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Post by Michael Downing on Jan 9, 2017 21:31:48 GMT -5
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Post by Michael Downing on Jan 9, 2017 21:26:20 GMT -5
Like they weren't already??? therealrevo.com/blog/?p=155188The left has come completely unhinged… This is just bat guano crazy folks. A visit from a plumber left ThinkProgress senior editor Ned Resnikoff “rattled” due to fear that the plumber may have voted for Donald Trump. Resnikoff stated his fears in a November Facebook post, a screenshot of which is now making the rounds on the Internet. The plumbing visit, which came four days after the 2016 election, became a harrowing experience for Resnikoff even though the plumber was “a perfectly nice guy and a consummate professional.” “He was a perfectly nice guy and a consummate professional,” Resnikoff shared. “But he was also a middle-aged white man with a southern accent who seemed unperturbed by this week’s news.” Resnikoff said his fear was rooted in the chance that the plumber knew he was Jewish. “While I had him in the apartment, I couldn’t stop thinking about whether he had voted for Trump, whether he knew my last name is Jewish, and how that knowledge might change the interaction we were having inside my own home,” he said. The “uncertainty” of the situation left Resnikoff “rattled for some time.” So what is most crazy about this? a) That this tool lives in such moonbat bubble that the only person he knows who may have voted for Trump (not for sure, just maybe) is his plumber? b) That the presence of someone who may have voted for Trump leaves him “rattled”? c) That he assumes a Trump supporter must also be an antisemite? d) That this person manages to not shit his pants several times a day? e) All of the above?
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Post by Michael Downing on Jan 9, 2017 12:11:19 GMT -5
What could go wrong? www.liquor.com/articles/amazon-launches-one-hour-alcohol-delivery-in-select-cities/Amazon Launches One-Hour Alcohol Delivery in Select CitiesMinneapolis has just become the latest city in Amazon Prime’s speedy alcohol delivery service as part of the online retailer’s Prime Now program. The Minnesota city joins San Diego, Seattle, San Francisco, Chicago and Manhattan, where Amazon lets Prime subscribers order beer, wine and spirits to be delivered straight to their front door. The well-known Surdyk’s Liquor and Cheese Shop will fulfill the Midwest city’s orders of beer, wine and liquor. With long delivery hours—10 a.m. to 10 p.m.—the new delivery option has already become quite popular in the Twin Cities.
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Post by Michael Downing on Jan 9, 2017 11:59:55 GMT -5
foreignpolicy.com/2017/01/06/donald-trump-has-the-keys-to-the-most-invasive-surveillance-state-in-history-nsa-cia/Donald Trump Has the Keys to the Most Invasive Surveillance State in HistoryWill he use it to impose absolute power? Americans have been warned for decades about the potential consequences of the U.S. surveillance state — the largest, most powerful, and most intrusive in the world — falling into a would-be tyrant’s hands. With Donald Trump’s inauguration looming, I have to wonder: Was anyone paying attention? In the summer of 1975, on NBC’s Meet the Press, Sen. Frank Church issued an early admonition. He had just completed a comprehensive investigation of the U.S. intelligence community, and he came away stunned by what he discovered at the National Security Agency (NSA), even in the digital Stone Age. “That capability at any time could be turned around on the American people, and no American would have any privacy left,” Church said. “There would be no place to hide…. I know the capacity that is there to make tyranny total in America.” Thirty-six years later, while reporting on the NSA’s new data center in Utah, I heard another warning. Sitting in an Italian restaurant, William Binney, a crypto-mathematician, described how he had automated the agency’s global eavesdropping network. He had quit soon after discovering that George W. Bush’s administration had turned the system on the American public, just as Church had cautioned might happen. “They violated the Constitution setting it up,” Binney told me. “But they didn’t care. They were going to do it anyway, and they were going to crucify anyone who stood in the way.” He held his thumb and forefinger close together. “We are, like, that far from a turnkey totalitarian state,” Binney said. In 2013, Edward Snowden echoed Binney. “A new leader will be elected, they’ll find the switch, say that, ‘Because of the crisis, because of the dangers we face in the world, some new and unpredicted threat, we need more authority, we need more power,’” Snowden said in an interview with Glenn Greenwald. “And there will be nothing the people can do at that point to oppose it. And it will be turnkey tyranny.” Is Trump about to start the ignition? The public doesn’t yet know all the details of his plans for the NSA and other intelligence agencies. It probably never will, given the clandestine nature of surveillance. Yet the signals to date are disturbing.
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Post by Michael Downing on Jan 9, 2017 11:45:48 GMT -5
christianmerc.blogspot.com/2017/01/racist-bigoted-and-ignorant.htmlRacist, Bigoted and Ignorant There is a post over at WRSA where Melinda Byerley explains to all of the backwards dirt people how to be and what to do to attract people like her to the rural areas. The mistaken meme here is that those in rural areas voted for Trump, because they wanted jobs and the only reason they are not wholly behind the leftist death cult, bigotry, hatred and othering (all of which is fully on display in her rant) is because of our bigotry, hatred and othering. This is a shining example of projection. See, Melinda, this lost and horribly bigoted, hate-filled "other" thinks you want her to live with you, because that is the price of employing your backward, hate-filled self.
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Post by Michael Downing on Jan 9, 2017 11:40:57 GMT -5
dailycaller.com/2017/01/08/tech-company-founder-middle-america-is-a-shthole-filled-with-stupid-people/Tech Founder: Middle America Is Too ‘Violent, Stupid And Racist’ For New Jobs
One Silicon Valley executive had a few choice words to describe Americans living in the heart of the nation, and they were not flattering. Melinda Byerley, MBA and founder of Timeshare CMO, a Silicon Valley-based tech start-up, tweeted out Saturday afternoon describing what middle America could do to “get more jobs in their area.”
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Post by Michael Downing on Jan 8, 2017 10:38:43 GMT -5
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Post by Michael Downing on Jan 8, 2017 10:35:36 GMT -5
www.express.co.uk/news/world/751325/Czech-Republic-terror-holocaust-gun-laws-European-Union-Berlin-Christmas-market-weaponsCzech minister controversially says: Buy guns to protect from terrorist 'Super holocaust'A “SUPER holocaust” committed by Muslim terrorists is on its way and everyone should buy guns to defend themselves, the Czech Republic’s interior minister has controversially claimed as he tries to rush new gun laws through parliament. The Czech government is currently working towards amending the constitution so ordinary citizens will be allowed to shoot terrorists if police are not present. The radical new proposals are going to be presented to parliament in the coming months in a bid to ensure there is a well-equipped civilian line of defence against Islamist terror. President Milos Zeman has already told the Czech population to buy weapons in preparation for a "super Holocaust" perpetrated by Muslim terrorists.
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Post by Michael Downing on Jan 8, 2017 10:26:53 GMT -5
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Post by Michael Downing on Jan 7, 2017 9:01:18 GMT -5
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Post by Michael Downing on Jan 3, 2017 12:07:14 GMT -5
moonbattery.com/?p=79672Response to Islamic Truck Attacks: Kill Switches for TrucksWhen Muslims use guns to kill us, fools blame guns, and propose limiting our access to them. When they use trucks to kill us, fools blame trucks: A remote ‘kill switch’ to immobilise HGVs [heavy goods vehicles] is being secretly developed by Government scientists who fear a Nice-style massacre in the UK. They are investigating methods of interfering with the electronics of lorries to stop them in their tracks if hijacked or used in an attack. They fear Islamic State militants could try to emulate the horrific strike in France which left 86 people dead in July. Muslims followed up the Bastille Day truck attack in Nice with a yuletide truck attack that killed 12 at a Christmas market in Berlin. But the problem is not trucks; it is jihadists. By the time the authorities could utilize a kill switch, the damage most likely will have already been done, the vehicle already immobilized atop a pile of wreckage and corpses. But even if kill switches prevented Islamists from using trucks to kill us, they would just switch to a different tactic. The only real purpose of the switches would be to move the ratchet another notch toward absolute control by giving Big Government power over vehicles. A more sensible approach would be to close the immigration floodgates until assimilation has taken place — although in Europe, raw numbers may have already reached a level that makes assimilation impossible. In any case, no one will solve the problem without acknowledging what it is.
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Post by Michael Downing on Jan 3, 2017 11:08:09 GMT -5
h/t Gunny G... As usual Pat Buchanan shows good insight into the truth behind this issue. townhall.com/columnists/patbuchanan/2017/01/03/can-trump-and-putin-avert-cold-war-ii-n2266383Can Trump and Putin Avert Cold War II?In retaliation for the hacking of John Podesta and the DNC, Barack Obama expelled 35 Russian diplomats and ordered closure of their country houses on Long Island and Maryland's Eastern shore. Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov warned that 35 U.S. diplomats would be expelled. But Vladimir Putin stepped in, declined to retaliate at all, and invited the U.S. diplomats in Moscow and their children to the Christmas and New Year's party at the Kremlin. "A soft answer turneth away wrath, but grievous words stir up anger," reads Proverbs 15:1. "Great move," tweeted President-elect Trump, "I always knew he was very smart!" Among our Russophobes, one can almost hear the gnashing of teeth. Clearly, Putin believes the Trump presidency offers Russia the prospect of a better relationship with the United States. He appears to want this, and most Americans seem to want the same. After all, Hillary Clinton, who accused Trump of being "Putin's puppet," lost. Is then a Cold War II between Russia and the U.S. avoidable? That question raises several others. Who is more responsible for both great powers having reached this level of animosity and acrimony, 25 years after Ronald Reagan walked arm-in-arm with Mikhail Gorbachev through Red Square? And what are the causes of the emerging Cold War II? Concludes... We appear to be denouncing Putin for what we did first. Moreover, the populist, nationalist, anti-EU and secessionist parties in Europe have arisen on their own and are advancing through free elections. Sovereignty, independence, a restoration of national identity, all appear to be more important to these parties than what they regard as an excessively supervised existence in the soft-dictatorship of the EU. In the Cold War between Communism and capitalism, the single-party dictatorship and the free society, we prevailed. But in the new struggle we are in, the ethnonational state seems ascendant over the multicultural, multiethnic, multiracial, multilingual "universal nation" whose avatar is Barack Obama. Putin does not seek to destroy or conquer us or Europe. He wants Russia, and her interests, and her rights as a great power to be respected. He is not mucking around in our front yard; we are in his. The worst mistake President Trump could make would be to let the Russophobes grab the wheel and steer us into another Cold War that could be as costly as the first, and might not end as peacefully. Reagan's outstretched hand to Gorbachev worked. Trump has nothing to lose by extending his to Vladimir Putin, and much perhaps to win.
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Post by Michael Downing on Jan 3, 2017 9:32:59 GMT -5
givemeliberty01.com/2017/01/03/shes-back-jill-stein-makes-new-move-to-invalidate-trump-election-victory/She’s Back! Jill Stein Makes New Move to Invalidate Trump Election Victory Jill Stein is a media whore looking for fifteen more minutes of fame. Just when we thought the 2016 election nonsense was behind us and we could finally turn our attention to the inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump and beyond, Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein is back on the scene raising trouble again. Apparently the post-campaign fundraising queen was not content to accept the results of the election, even after her three futile recount efforts in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin were concluded and the Electoral College had already cast its official vote, as she is now calling for further investigation of the election on the federal level, according to The Hill. The team of attorneys Stein gathered to aid in her failed recount bid recently sent a letter to Attorney General Loretta Lynch requesting that Lynch launch a federal probe into the integrity of the U.S. electoral system. We write to urge the Department of Justice to launch an investigation into the integrity of our nation’s election system generally, and our nation’s voting machines specifically, based on the information we discovered in the course of this representation,” read the letter from Stein’s lawyers.
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Post by Michael Downing on Jan 3, 2017 9:20:01 GMT -5
This is a strange way to start a new session of congress or is it? I hope this is addressed by the incoming President.
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Post by Michael Downing on Jan 2, 2017 9:57:04 GMT -5
h/t WRSA... Thomas Sowell's final weekly article. He will be missed indeed. www.nationalreview.com/article/443343/Random Thoughts, Looking Back Avoiding the fatal mistake of disregarding the record of the past Any honest man, looking back on a very long life, must admit — even if only to himself — being a relic of a bygone era. Having lived long enough to have seen both “the greatest generation” that fought World War II and the gratingest generation that we see all around us today makes being a relic of the past more of a boast than an admission. Not everything in the past was admirable. Poet W. H. Auden called the 1930s “a low dishonest decade.” So were the 1960s, which launched many of the trends we are experiencing so painfully today. Some of the fashionable notions of the 1930s reappeared in the 1960s, often using the very same discredited words and producing the same disastrous consequences. The old are not really smarter than the young, in terms of sheer brainpower. It is just that we have already made the kinds of mistakes that the young are about to make, and we have already suffered the consequences that the young are going to suffer if they disregard the record of the past
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Post by Michael Downing on Jan 2, 2017 9:20:24 GMT -5
h/t Common Cents
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Post by Michael Downing on Jan 1, 2017 18:58:12 GMT -5
christianmerc.blogspot.com/Treasons Great and Small Treason is defined as giving aid and comfort to the enemy. Trump has been accused of walking a line close to treason for complimenting Vladamir Putin for refusing to take the bait thrown out when Barack Obama retaliated for fictional Russian hacking of the election. That whole premise is flawed and rife with "fake news." But, there is much more evidence in Turkey and Syria that the Obama Administration was funding and aiding ISIS fighters in Syria. The difference is this: the United States is not at war with Russia, but it is at war with ISIS. Obama's actions are a direct act of treason, Trump's, in this context, are the act of a patriot, by refusing to allow a lame duck president from destroying the fragile relationship between two nuclear powers. Treason is not limited to current conflicts and it is not limited to wartime. Treason is more often committed in the back rooms of Congress. What might sometimes be written off as ideological differences within the overall scheme of providing representation to a diverse nation, there are examples of literal treason against the entire system of governance. This is what is being contemplated by Lindsey Graham and John McCain, who seem to be willing to throw their elective futures to the winds in order to defend globalism. In a year of radical political twists and turns resulting from the arrogance of globalists enforcing their agenda against the resistance of the people of their nations, the whole concept of "Democrat vs Republican" dynamic must be thrown out. It no longer accurately represents the political divisions in America. There are only globalists and nationalists. Donald Trump's form of nationalism has struck a nerve with the people who have been deluged by illegal immigration and the crime and violence that accompanies it. The people have been in revolt over the mass immigration of un-vetted Syrians and other Middle Eastern nationalities passing themselves off as Syrian refugees. The people of America have watched as hundreds of sexual assaults have been committed in Germany in the open square during last year's New Year's celebration and do not want such atrocities to take place on American soil.
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Post by Michael Downing on Jan 1, 2017 9:41:37 GMT -5
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Post by Michael Downing on Jan 1, 2017 9:31:58 GMT -5
www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-12-31/washington-post-caught-spreading-more-fake-news-about-russian-hackers Washington Post Caught Spreading More Fake News About "Russian Hackers"Readers of the Washington Post received some alarming news yesterday when the paper published a story alleging that those pesky "Russian hackers" were up to their no good tricks again and had managed to "penetrate the U.S. electricity grid through a utility in Vermont." The full headline read as follows: The opening paragraph of WaPo's story directly linked the "hack" of the Vermont utility to the same "Russian hacking operation dubbed Grizzly Steppe" that the Obama administration has blamed for the DNC and John Podesta email hacks. Vermont's Governor, Peter Shumlin, told WaPo that "Americans should be both alarmed and outraged" by these actions perpetrated by "one of the world’s leading thugs, Vladimir Putin," before seemingly calling for further retaliatory actions from the Obama administration. Vermonters and all Americans should be both alarmed and outraged that one of the world’s leading thugs, Vladimir Putin, has been attempting to hack our electric grid, which we rely upon to support our quality-of-life, economy, health, and safety. This episode should highlight the urgent need for our federal government to vigorously pursue and put an end to this sort of Russian meddling. Moreover, Vermont Senator Patrick Leahy took the rhetoric to a whole new level by asserting a diabolical Russian plot to shut down the U.S. electrical grid in the middle of winter...a move that would most certainly kill off half the state's population in an instant. Of course, it didn't take long for the New York Times and ABC to latch on to the story since it fits their "2016 election hacking" narrative so perfectly. Alas, there was just one minor problem, namely that the entire article was completely fabricated. Apparently the esteemed "journalists" of the Washington Post didn't even bother to contact the Burlington Electric Department to confirm their bogus story...and why should they...it fit the "Russian hacking" narrative so perfectly therefore it must be true, right? Well, apparently not. The quick spread of WaPo's "fake news" story forced the Burlington Electric Department to issue a clarifying statement assuring worried residents that, indeed, their electricity grid had not been hacked, but rather a single "laptop not connected" to the grid had been found to have a malware virus.
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