Friday, 27 September, al-Jazeera Arabic reported that the call for demonstrations against President as-Sisi asked for the people to hit the streets after the Friday prayers.
That has already happened early Friday morning U.S. time.
In the meantime the security services blocked off all the streets and bridges leading to midaan at-tahreer (Cairo’s center plaza which was the focus of the January 2011 Arab Spring demonstrations that brought Mubarrak down). Other areas of the city were also locked down.
This seemed to stifle the demonstrations at first, but then it seemed like the numbers picked up as the day went on as people began to gather in side streets to demonstrate. There were also demonstrations in a number of other cities in Egypt.
Since the only major Arabic news entity reporting on these events is al-Jazeera, which has an anti-President as-Sisi bias, and al-Jazeera’s only video feed are images from participators’ cell phones, It is difficult to judge exactly how extensive these demonstrations are and how numerous the demonstrators. (Note, all western news entities mentioning the demonstrations in Egypt are relying on the accounts coming out of al-Jazeera.)
My gut feeling though, is that it is not as big a deal as were those last Friday. Meaning that the heavy hand, and the lock-down of Cairo, may have succeeded in dampening the protests to some extent–in spite of al-Jazeera’s wishes.
The arrest count from last week’s protest is now at 1900 and includes people from all walks of life. There is no word yet as to the numbers arrested today, although tear gas has been used in some areas. There is some video feed of people burning pictures of as-Sisi. Unlike last week, there seems to be a lot more children and African immigrants participating in these protests.
Talk show host ‘Amru Adeeb reported on his al-hakaya (the Story) show that Muslim Brotherhood members who fled to Turkey have called for the formation of a new group which would be able to get the people out onto the streets to protest the regime. This new group is needed, according to the MB, because the regime has penetrated the previous groups it has formed.
(Note: Since the Egyptian government has declared the MB to be a terrorist group, it has been banned in Egypt. Therefore, they tried to get around that by forming new groups such as al-hasm, and al-murabitoun. Note also that the above-mentioned talk show host ‘Amru Adeeb is reputed to be close to the regime in general, and close to Egyptian intelligence in particular.)
Issues related to the current demonstrations (other than those delineated in previous reporting) include:
The government’s oppression.
The never-ending war in the Sinai which the protestors claim the government is intentionally extending so they can use the excuse of “the War on Terror” to keep the country virtually under martial law.
The “renaissance dam” in Ethiopia which Egyptians fear will cut off the flow of the Nile, Egypt’s only source of water. They blame as-Sisi for signing a protocol with Ethiopia allowing Ethiopia to go ahead with the dam’s construction.
General corruption in the regime, but more specifically:
The appointment of as-Sisi’s son, Mahmoud, as the head of Egyptian General Intelligence (EGI). The EGI includes all intelligence functions, foreign and domestic. In U.S. terms it would be like housing the FBI, CIA, DHS, and NSA all in the same agency headed by the same bureaucracy. President as-Sisi appointing his twenty-something son Mahmoud as head of the DGI would be like Donald Trump appointing Ivanka as head of the CIA, NSA, FBI, and DHS all at the same time. Imagine the uproar that would cause.
ANALYSIS: One of the major conundrums for U.S. policy makers with regards to the Middle East, is that in the Islamic Middle East it seems that the only choices for government are either a corrupt Monarchy (such as Saudi Arabia), a corrupt military dictatorship (such as Mubarak, Assad, Saddam, Qadhafi, etc.), or an equally corrupt Islamist regime such as the one Khomeini set up in Iran when the Shah was pulled down, or the MB regime in Egypt that took over when Mubarrak was pulled down.
The military dictatorships tend to become family mafia fiefdoms. We saw that in Saddam’s Iraq as he was grooming his two sons to take over. Syria is in the second generation of a family mafia rule, with both the father and the son appointing their brothers to head up Syria’s intelligence organization.
One of the final straws that broke the Mubarrak camel’s back was Mubarrak grooming one of his sons to take over after him. So, now we see as-Sisi making the same mistake by appointing his “still wet behind the ears” son to head the EGI.
President as-Sisi, on paper, has done a lot for his country. In the foreign policy arena he has developed good relations with virtually every country on the planet from the wealthy oil countries of the Gulf to the great powers of the north: Russia, Japan, China, U.S., and Europe (regardless of their antagonisms towards each other). He has good relations with both Pakistan and India, as well as both Koreas. Egypt, under as-Sisi, is at odds only with the Islamist regimes of Turkey, Iran, and Qatar.
President as-Sisi’s foreign policy successes have led to a massive uptick in foreign investments in Egypt allowing him to beef up the country’s infrastructure. This in turn has led to a roaring economy producing a Chinese-esque 5% annual GDP growth.
The carrot and stick approach as-Sisi has used to keep his people both happy and under control seemed to boost his actual popularity for awhile. However, I believe that the turning point came when he had the constitution changed Putin style allowing him to remain in office until the mid-2030s.
After the dethroning of the MB president Mursi in 2013 the new constitution that was voted in, and signed by as-Sisi after his assuming the office of president in 2014, called for the office of president to be up for election every four years, with a term limit of just two terms, as in the United States. President as-Sisi “won” re-election in 2018 (in an election in which all credible candidates were disqualified), meaning that based on the constitution he would still have to step down in 2022.
But, then (perhaps over-estimating his popularity with the folks) he had the constitution changed to make the presidential term six years, instead of four. Then, because the rules of the game were changed he had a judicial decision made that since he had never had the opportunity to run for a six-year term, he had to be granted that opportunity, i.e. to start all over under the new system with a blank slate.
Translation: When his current four-year term ends in 2022, he will now legally be able to run for one of the new six-year terms beginning in 2022, which would take him until 2028 at which time he could run for a second six-year term taking him to 2034 before he would have to retire—barring any additional changes to the constitution—and you can just imagine how “fair and legitimate” the 2022 and 2028 elections are going to be.
This move towards a Putin-esque “president for life” situation was so blatant that it embarrassed even his staunchest supporters, and no doubt poured fuel on the fire of his critics.
Thus, the appointment of his son to head the EGI may turn out to be the final straw to break the back of as-Sisi’s camel. His carrot and stick policy may have won this current round of Arab Spring 2.0, but my advice to U.S. policy makers is: don’t put all of your chickens in the pot in terms of as-Sisi’s long term survival.
In August 2019, a masked and body-armor-wearing Antifa supporter brought a .223 rifle and hundreds of rounds of ammunition to Ned Peppers Bar, a nightspot in the Oregon District of Dayton, Ohio. It was shortly after midnight and not long before closing. Patrons were gathered outside the restaurant on the sidewalk.
The gunman first fatally shot his sister and her companion, then proceeded to fire on the crowd at large, killing nine patrons and wounding 27. “I’m going to hell and I’m not coming back,” wrote Connor Betts on his social media account before the killing. “I want socialism. And I will not wait for the idiots to finally come round to understanding.” Though most of the mainstream media ignored Betts’ affiliation with the radical leftist group Antifa, it did not go unnoticed by the New York Post.
With an article by Andy Ngo, the Post ran this attention-grabbing headline:
Dayton shooter Connor Betts may be Antifa’s first mass killer
Ngo wrote, “His case … makes clear that Antifa’s violence goes far beyond the street hooliganism it has become infamous for. The group espouses the belief that liberal democracy is irredeemably oppressive — fascistic, even — and must be thoroughly destroyed.”1
Andy Ngo knows all about the violence being perpetrated against conservatives by Antifa. In July he was attacked and beaten by Antifa members while covering a protest in Portland, Ore. Ngo was hospitalized with bruises, cuts and scratches. He even suffered a brain injury. As if that wasn’t enough, his attackers also robbed him.
“The most serious injury to me was my brain in the course of the mob beating,” he told The Hill. “So going forward I will be having various forms of neurophysical therapy and speech therapy to address some of the neurological challenges that I’ll be having.”2
Antifa’s Origins
The name Antifa is a contraction of “anti-fascist.” The first Antifa group was formed in Germany in 1932, where it was known as “Antifaschistische Aktion” or Anti-fascist Action. At the time, it was involved with the Communist Party of Germany. The group operated on the assumption that the Nazi party would never have come to power if there had been more aggressive opposition in the streets in the 1920s and ’30s.
Following the collapse of Nazi Germany at the end of World War II, the group went mostly dormant. It would not become publicly visible again until the 1970s and ’80s, and especially after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1991, when neo-Nazism began gaining significant strength in Germany. Antifa also became visible in America during that time period, forming as a group called Anti-Racist Action (ARA).
The name highlights how controversy surrounding racism in America, brought into the public eye by the speeches and demonstrations led by Dr. Martin Luther King, gave Antifa a cause upon which to piggyback in the United States. The group knew that it could not gain supporters in America by opposing neo-Nazism (which barely existed in the U.S.), but racism could serve as a valuable recruiting tool to draw supporters to its socialist and anti-capitalist causes.
During the decades that followed, Antifa would broaden its outreach program to recruit anyone opposed to conservative politics or traditional Biblical values. By the time Antifa became a household name after the inauguration of President Donald Trump in 2017, the group held the position that anyone opposed to same-sex marriage, unfettered illegal immigration, abortion, socialism, gender-fluidity or government-funded healthcare and “free” college tuition was a white supremacist, fascist, Nazi or a hatemonger.
Antifa organizer Scott Crow told CNN: “The idea in Antifa is that we go where they [right-wingers] go. That hate speech is not free speech. And so we go to cause conflict, to shut them down where they are, because we don’t believe that Nazis or fascists of any stripe should have a mouthpiece.”3
Antifa Makes American Headlines
I was aware of Antifa years before they made national headlines in America, shortly after the inauguration of President Donald Trump. I met them three years earlier, as did our film crew, during our filming of Europe’s Last Stand, a documentary that detailed the aggressive rise of Islam in Western Europe.
At every demonstration opposing the Islamic infiltration of Western Europe, Antifa members by the hundreds would show up as counter-protesters. They would always outnumber demonstrators, would wear masks, and would shout epithets like “Nazi scumbags” at the anti-Islamic-takeover demonstrators. Antifa members would also throw rocks, fireworks and trash cans at those they opposed, physically beating those they could get their hands on.
At most rallies police managed to keep the competing demonstrators apart, though this was not always the case. We met them in France, England and Demark. Some members allowed us to interview them. Every Antifa member we put on camera took the position that discrimination, in any form and for any reason, was a display of fascism and Nazism. They also agreed that violence was a justifiable means to combat “fascism,” anywhere and everywhere.
It came as no surprise, then, when on January 20, 2017, the day of President Trump’s inauguration, Antifa formally introduced themselves to the American people by causing an outbreak of violence in the nation’s capital. Six police officers were injured, with one taken to the hospital. Some 217 protesters were arrested, many of them for throwing bricks and rocks, smashing windows, setting fire to trash cans and destroying a limousine. The incident caused more than $100,000 in damage in Washington, D.C. The nation’s capital was not alone in the Antifa violence of that day. Riots also broke out in New York City, Seattle, Dallas, Chicago and Portland. The Antifa protesters shouted, “Nazis go home,” and “No Nazi USA.”
One Antifa member explained the purpose of the mayhem. It was to display opposition to President Trump’s “sexism, Islamophobia, his bigotry and nationalism.”4
Six Antifa members would go on trial. A lawyer for Oliver Harris, one of the men arrested, told the jury, “These folks were engaged in protected speech.” Apparently the jury agreed, acquitting all six.5
Antifa: Who are they?
Most Antifa members are relatively young, between 20 and 29 years of age. During our undercover investigation into a branch in Pennsylvania, we discovered the majority of Antifa members were homosexual, bisexual, transsexual or “gender-fluid.” Typical Antifa members live at home with their parents, go to college and communicate with fellow members and leaders through cellphone encrypted-messaging apps like Signal.
There is no known top-down command structure to Antifa. The organization does not have a national headquarters, an official spokesman or even a known bank account. That does not mean, however, that Antifa lacks funding, organization or communications. There are approximately 200 groups in the United States that either claim to be Antifa or show up in support of Antifa-led demonstrations.
Left-wing Hungarian-American billionaire George Soros has been linked to the funding of Antifa. Researcher and author Matthew Vadum said Soros gave $100,000 to the Alliance for Global Justice, which in turn gave $50,000 to Refuse Fascism, an Antifa group that formed shortly after President Trump’s election.6
Still, little is known about Antifa’s national funding, though local groups often raise money through website donations, online social campaigns, silent auctions and special events. Funding aside, Antifa has been tremendously successful at captivating America’s attention, especially among those in the media, academic and political circles and law enforcement. Almost all of that attention has grown from their unashamed and unapologetic embrace of violence, destruction and obstruction.
On the lighter side (if there is a lighter side to this malevolence), Antifa will use human bodies to block major highways in an effort to send a threatening message. In 2018, when Antifa blocked highway traffic in downtown Portland, Ore., it almost started a riot. “Protesters started a riot in downtown Portland,” tweeted videographer Brandon Farley after 100 Antifa members not only blocked traffic but struck people’s car windows, attacked a man in a wheelchair and called another driver a “little white supremacist” because he had North Carolina license plates.7
“Go back to North Carolina! We don’t need your KKK,” the North Carolinian was told.
In a campaign called “The Nightmare Must End: The Trump/Pence Regime Must Go!” Antifa members blocked heavily traveled Highway 101 in California to publicize an upcoming November, 2018 event. The staged demonstration took place on Sept. 26, 2018, with eight Antifa activists standing in the middle of the highway for 20 minutes during rush hour to hold up signs reading, “Nov 4 It Begins.”
Antifa has proven itself to be more about violent confrontations than blocking traffic, however. This was made abundantly clear during a violent protest at the University of California at Berkeley on Feb. 1, 2017. Nearly 150 Antifa supporters participated in a demonstration against the school to shut down a scheduled speech by high-profile Trump supporter Milo Yiannopoulous. Just as they did during the violence at Trump’s inauguration, Antifa set fires on the streets and smashed windows, causing over $100,000 in damage to the university. The police took a “hands-off” approach and made only one arrest (for a minor “failure to disperse” offense).
Most importantly, Antifa achieved its goal: UC Berkeley canceled Yiannopoulous’ speaking engagement that night. The Berkeley riot has come to encapsulate, define and demonstrate the strength and essence of Antifa. Antifa is less about promoting its own message and more about using violence and intimidation to silence messages with which they disagree. The group’s goal is quite literally to shut down free speech.
Kellyanne Conway, counselor to President Trump, said on Fox & Friends, “They are a anti-First Amendment, ultra-violent terror group that wants to silence people’s free speech.”8
Clubs, Rocks, Molotov Cocktails
Antifa is less successful when it organizes demonstrations that try to advance a political message. Members tend to shy away from such rallies, the media presence is typically small and even liberal politicians keep a noticeable distance.
The “strength” of Antifa is not in promoting their own radical socialist agenda, but rather in their demonstrated ability to use counter-protests to shut down opposition views. Virtually every pundit — both liberal and conservative — would agree that Antifa’s Nov. 4, 2018 “nationwide rally” to topple the Trump/Pence “regime” was a miserable failure, with very few members showing up at designated rallying points.
The main problem with that event — for Antifa — was that there was no one to club over the head, spit on, throw things at, threaten, insult or belittle. With no visible enemy in sight at the rallying points, the event simply fizzled. Antifa activists are not interested in simply holding placards and shouting for change. They want to swing those placards at human heads. This is why the name Antifa and “black bloc” are often synonymous.
“Black bloc” is a tactic in which a group’s protesters dress in black while wearing ski masks, scarves, motorcycle helmets or other protective headgear. The main purpose is to protect themselves from injury and conceal their identities from the police. “We’re covered in black so when we attack these guys we can’t be prosecuted,” Jon Crowley, an Antifa member, said in an interview with the Boston Herald.9
Beyond the black clothing and protective gear, Antifa will show up at rallies with clubs, bricks, homemade slingshots, chains and Molotov cocktails. They have also been known to throw feces and urine at opponents. Because Antifa paints everyone who disagrees with their politics as either Nazi or fascist, it has become easy for them to embolden and inspire their members to carry out acts of violence against their perceived enemies.
One high-profile Antifa member explained it this way to The Hill, a newspaper and website that covers the daily dealings of Congress: “The justification for the use of violence is that Nazi ideology at its very core is founded on violence and on wielding power by any means,” said Mike Isaacson, one of the founders of Smash Racism D.C., an antifa organization in Washington. “There is the question of whether these people should feel safe organizing as Nazis in public, and I don’t think they should,” Isaacson said.10
That is, label your opponents as some of the worst criminals in recorded history, then proceed to practice violent vigilante justice against them. Targets of Antifa’s violence have been mainstream conservatives, white supremacist groups, neo-Nazis, Trump supporters, Trump’s White House staff and its employees and even conservative talk-show hosts, all lumped together.
Beyond targeting individuals and groups whom they label as Nazis, Antifa also targets government institutions they consider “racist,” such as the Immigration and Customs Enforcement, better known as ICE. Sixty-nine-year-old Willem Van Spronsen left a manifesto to his friends claiming, “I am Antifa,” before he left for an ICE detention center in Tacoma, Wash. on July 13, 2019. In Spronsen’s manifesto, posted just before he left his home armed with a rifle and incendiary devices, he said he wanted to take action “against the forces of evil.”11
Once he arrived at the Northwest Detention Center at around 4 a.m., Spronsen started throwing his incendiary devices and attempted to burn buildings. He set vehicles on fire and tried to ignite a propane tank. He even blew up his own car, which his daughter had loaned to him. When police arrived they shot and killed him. After his death, an Antifa group praised Spronsen. Seattle Antifascist Action called him “a good friend” who “gave his life to the struggle against fascism.”
Fear and Intimidation to Silence Conservative Free Speech
Of all the political objectives on Antifa’s docket, none is more threatening than their determination to silence conservative free speech. Because Antifa labels all conservative speech as hate speech, Antifa members feel they have just cause to employ threats of violence, and actual violence, to shut down conservative speakers and events.
The Berkeley riots proved the effectiveness of that strategy when Antifa managed to compel the university — through violence — to cancel the speech of Milo Yiannopoulous. It is Antifa’s modus operandi to make conservatives feel scared for their lives if they hold a public speech or event, or even appear on a public television or radio program. And now they know it works.
In November 2018, some 20 protesters descended on the D.C. home of Fox News talk show host Tucker Carlson. Carlson was at work at the time, but his wife was home alone. Antifa members pounded on the front door, shouting, “We will fight. We know where you sleep at night.”12
The out-of-control group of radicals banged tambourines, waved posters, shouted through a megaphone and chanted “racist scumbag, leave town.” Carlson’s wife, Susie, was so scared she locked herself up in a pantry closet. “They were threatening me and my family and telling me to leave my own neighborhood in the city that I grew up in,” Carlson would say.13
In another incident, in Pitman, N.J., Antifa managed to get a conservative conference shut down by threatening to set the venue on fire and burn those attending alive. In August 2019 a group called Minds of New Jersey wanted to host a 20-speaker conference to talk about “racism, violence and authoritarianism.” Antifa declared that the speakers were “well-known fascists and their sympathizers.”14
To stop the event, Antifa not only hijacked and held hostage the Twitter account of the hosting venue, the Broadway Theatre, but also told management that they were considering “locking them in and lighting a fire.” As a result of the threat, the conference was canceled.
Threats have also been directed at conservative Christians. Not long after a professor at Iowa’s Kirkwood Community College, Jeff Klinzman, told local media, “I affirm that I am Antifa,” it was learned that he had previously written about Evangelical Christians: “Kill them all, and bury them deep into the ground.”15
Antifa: A Terrorist Organization
As a result of Antifa’s violence against individuals and institutions, and the expressed intent to harm people with whom they disagree, some politicians are now demanding that the group be declared a domestic terrorist organization. President Trump said, “Antifa, in my opinion, is a terrorist organization. You see what they’ve been doing.”16
He also Tweeted in July 2019, “Consideration is being given to declaring ANTIFA, the gutless Radical Left Wack Jobs who go around hitting (only non-fighters) people over the heads with baseball bats, a major Organization of Terror (along with MS-13 & others). Would make it easier for police to do their job!”17
Legislation in both the Senate (Sen. Res. 279)18 and in the House (H.R. 4003)19has been introduced that would designate Antifa as a terrorist organization and impose heavy fines and imprisonment for Antifa-related violence. Sen. Ted Cruz told The Daily Caller: “Violence and the threat of violence for political ends isn’t right, and the fact that 36 ANTIFA protesters were arrested — including nine for assault and battery on a police officer and five for carrying or assault with a dangerous weapon — is yet another indication that ANTIFA is an active domestic terrorist organization.”20
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Do you find yourself scratching your head wondering why your intelligent, moral, and Christian relatives and friends continue to support the Democratic party despite its amoral, anti-Christian and anti-American agenda? A part of the problem is for decades Republicans and Conservatives have brought an olive branch to a gun fight, allowing progressives free reign to demonize Republicans and Conservatives in the minds of many Americans. Trump is a rare Republican who understands the viciousness of our enemies-within and is fighting back appropriately.
No matter how hard I try to educate relatives and friends about the benefits of conservatism and voting Republican, some persist in viewing me as an Uncle Tom black man betraying his people. Stenciled on their brains is the lie that Conservatives and Republicans are selfish, rich and racist white men who abuse and exploit everyone. Thank God for the #WalkAway Campaign, the Jexit Movement and Blexit Movement which are youths, white and black, who have finally seen the light and are exiting the Democratic party with its decades of lies and broken promises.
Still, there are Democrat walking brain-dead zombies who reject the truth that their party has been hijacked by hate-filled anti-Christian and anti-American progressives. The Bible speaks of unfortunate souls who prefer to embrace a lie rather than the truth. We must pray for them.
However, there are Democrat loyalists who simply do not realize what their “working man’s” party has become. For example: A lifelong Democrat senior relative is excited about voting for Joe Biden for president.
This relative has no idea that Biden and his fellow Democrat presidential contenders demonically seek to legalize murdering babies after the child is born. In their perverted definition of women rights, Democrats say a woman has the right to murder her healthy born baby. I pray for the right time to tell my senior relative the truth about Biden and her beloved Democratic party.
San Francisco is a Democrat controlled sanctuary city. A Democrat relative’s eyes almost popped out of her head as I told her about the poop maps distributed in San Francisco to help tourists avoid the piles of human excrement left by vagrants defecating on the streets. She knew nothing about the swiftly expanding massive tent cities, rat infestation and resurgence of old diseases due to filth. She had no idea that rather than reversing their policies which are destroying the once beautiful city by the bay, Democrats are tripling down on their insane policies.
As I stated, progressives are masters at hiding their war on all thing wholesome and good. I chatted with a Christian pastor at his church’s picnic. He never heard of the Equality Act which Democrats have already successfully passed in the house.
The pastor said in response to SCOTUS redefining marriage, his church wrote in their by-laws that they will not perform homosexual weddings nor rent their facilities for homosexual weddings. I explained to the pastor that the deceptively titled, Equality Act, will force his church to abandon their biblical convictions; making it illegal not to surrender to every demand of LBGTQ anti-Christian terrorists. A member said about 40% of that church’s congregation is Democrat. I doubt those Democrats are aware of their party’s war on their religious liberty.
A gentleman probably in his 90s was in front of me in the checkout line at the dollar store. The pleasant gentleman struck up a conversation with me about the weather. He said the unusual humidity is the result of us not taking care of the environment. He said the Arctic icebergs are melting.
I thought, “Why bother trying to educate him. He is probably an old guy, stuck in his ways.” And yet, I felt guilty for not sharing the truth with the misinformed senior.
As we exited the store, I succinctly said, “Sir, we cannot control the weather. Everything you are hearing in the news about us destroying the environment is a political attempt for government to take more control of our lives.” To my surprise, he replied, “I think you’re right.”
This is what we all must do folks. We must begin speaking up rather than assuming we have lost the battle for the hearts and minds of our fellow Americans. My wife said because she does not possess expert knowledge of every issue, she is reluctant to speak-out when someone parrots Democrat and fake news media lies. I encouraged her to confidently share what she does know about an issue. Remember, God uses ordinary people. Your little becomes much when you place it in the Master’s Hand. Spread truth and trust God to reap positive results.
“When the Supreme Court moved to Washington in 1800, it was provided with no books, which probably accounts for the high quality of early opinions.” – Robert Jackson, former Supreme Court Associate Justice
“Once the Supreme Court in 1973 decided that infanticide could be legal, it not only ended America’s ‘inalienable right to life,’ it threw the Golden Rule right off the shores of this continent.” – Actor Michael Moriarty
“I don’t think we need political activists on the Supreme Court or any other level of court.” – Dick Mountjoy, Republican, California State Senate
Recently Rush Limbaugh was talking about the latest lies by the NYTs against Justice Kavanaugh, and people were calling in asking what to do. I know Limbaugh knows about the 1964 Supreme Court case, NYTs v. Sullivan because he’s spoken about it before; yet he never mentioned it. This was the 1964 decision by the liberal Warren Court, the same court who eliminated prayer from our schools in 1962, and has caused a precipitous decline in academic achievement, a rise in out of wedlock pregnancies, a rise in drug use, a rise in juvenile crime and deterioration in student behavior.
The 9-0 decision in NYTs v. Sullivan should be overturned as it has allowed the mainstream media to lie with impunity about government officials and later public figures for over 55 years, and today the result is just as heinous for our society as the 1962 Engel v. Vital decision. There is no truth from mainstream media, only propaganda.
The landmark U.S. Supreme Court case, New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, 376 U.S. 254, 84 S. Ct. 710, 11 L. Ed. 2d 686 (1964), extended the First Amendment’s guarantee of free speech to libel cases brought by public officials. The Supreme Court sought to encourage public debate by changing the rules involving libel that had previously been the province of state law and state courts.
It was Justice Brennan who created the “right to be wrong,” the speech and press rule stipulating that even false statements about public officials should be entitled to protection under the First and Fourteenth Amendments of the Constitution of the United States unless “actual malice” could be demonstrated.
In order to prove libel, a “public official” must show that the newspaper acted “with ‘actual malice’ that is, with knowledge that it was false or with reckless disregard” for truth. And just how does one prove that? The mere fact that the federal government via the Supreme Court removed states’ rights for libel and slander in the NYTs ruling and follow-up cases is what Justice Clarence Thomas believes “were policy-driven decisions masquerading as constitutional law.”
Again, to prove actual malice under the Sullivan decision, a libel plaintiff must show that the writer knew the disputed statement was false or had acted with “reckless disregard.” That second phrase is also a term of art. The Supreme Court has said that it requires proof that the writer entertained serious doubts about the truth of the statement.
In the past 55 years, media has gone from lies of omission (Douglas Edwards and Walter Cronkite) to outright falsehoods about public figures they disdain as treacherous to the elites’ globalist agenda. Prime targets of the media are President Trump and Justice Kavanaugh.
Socialists Seek to Impeach Justice Kavanaugh
Ridiculous as it may seem to law abiding Americans, the socialist left now believes you are guilty via accusation if you are a Republican or conservative icon.
Elizabeth Warren tweeted, “Like the man who appointed him, Kavanaugh should be impeached.” Kamala Harris tweeted, “Brett Kavanaugh lied to the U.S. Senate and most importantly to the American people. He was put on the Court through a sham process and his place on the Court is an insult to the pursuit of truth and justice. He must be impeached.” These attorneys accuse the Justice of lying, yet there isn’t a scintilla of proof regarding the accusations.
Christine Blasey Ford’s allegations against Judge Kavanaugh during his confirmation hearings were not even believed by Ford’s best friend, Leland Kaiser who was pressured by Ford’s allies to change her story. Kaiser was threatened regarding cooperation and told if she didn’t cooperate, “bad things would happen to her.” Keyser’s son Alex Beckel and her former husband Bob Beckel, a prominent Democrat, are both on record stating that she “was pressured by Blasey Ford allies to lie during the Kavanaugh confirmation hearings about the incident.”
The entire “rush to judgement” circus was brought forth by Diane Feinstein. Yet, we never saw Eric Holder impeached for his gun running, or Hillary for Benghazi, or Ted Kennedy for leaving Mary Jo Kopechne to die in his car off Chappaquiddick Bridge. Liberal icons rarely suffer for misdeeds.
The socialist left uses the same modus operandi every single time they make accusations, and then they go to their comrades in the mainstream media to spew their lies with impunity, thanks to the 1964 Supreme Court decision. This is why there is a massive decline in the trust of American media.
The New York Times Piece
Robin Pogrebin, a culture reporter for TheNew York Times, and Kate Kelly, a Wall Street reporter for the same paper, got together to write The Education of Brett Kavanaugh. They debuted their new book in a NYTs article wherein they left out the pertinent information related in their book that the woman they claimed was assaulted by Kavanaugh had brushed away this claim, had no recollection of such a claim, and had refused to speak with them.
Pogrebin and Kelly’s New York Times piece also failed to tell us that their source, Max Stier, had been Bill Clinton’s lawyer. Kavanaugh had worked for Ken Starr on impeachment while Stier had worked to defend Clinton against impeachment. The Federalist’s Mollie Hemingway noted in a piece that during those proceedings Stier had “worked closely with David Kendall,” who would later defend Hillary Clinton against allegations of illegally handling classified information.
In addition to defending the Clintons during Whitewater, Stier also married U.S. Attorney Florence Yu Pan. Pan was a Democrat donor who was nominated for a federal judgeship under Barack Obama. The Republican Senate blocked the appointment. Payback is always behind the scenes.
And once again, shortly after Pogrebin and Kelly debuted an article promoting their book with another freshman year sexual allegation against Kavanaugh, three 2020 Democrats called for Kavanaugh’s impeachment.
As Daniel Greenfield said in a recent article, “The manufactured Kavanaugh scandals are subsidiary to the manufactured Trump scandals.”
Liberal Hacks Blame NYT’s Editors
President Trump said Justice Kavanaugh should sue both the New York Times and the authors of the article debuting their attack book on Justice Kavanaugh. But they quickly covered their backsides by appearing on several talk shows and blaming the editors of the newspaper.
Most likely they were told they had to clear their names and claim their article had been edited and left out an important part. Personally, I don’t believe this for one minute, but the Times realizes they can’t be sued if they claim it was an oversight. They had the women appear on mainstream media and claim it was an error. The Times put out a correction the Monday after the initial article appeared stating, “The book reports that the female student declined to be interviewed and friends say that she does not recall the incident. That information has been added to the article.”
Both reporters denied that they deliberately intended to mislead anyone and that the editors removed the piece because it had the woman’s name in it, which the Times is loath to use. In doing so, they “inadvertently” removed the rest of the statement.
The two authors were asked on one program if they hadn’t read the edited copy and they answered that they thought they did, but obviously if they did, they liked the way it read.
These women escaped being sued by backtracking quite quickly, otherwise both they and the Times would have easily been sued for “actual malice.”
Conclusion
The leftwing media didn’t make a mistake. Their attack on Kavanaugh was purposeful and vitriolic. They want the President destroyed, and they want other conservative judges to know what it will cost them to be appointed by President Trump. There really is no journalism at The New York Times. Their reactionary politics and attacks on the truth itself are disturbingly common.
Mainstream media and their socialist ilk scream impeachment…impeachment of our President and of Justice Kavanaugh. It’s time we start screaming that NYTs v. Sullivan must be overturned and libel laws returned to the states!
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http://drrich.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/logo_264x69.png00Kelleigh Nelsonhttp://drrich.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/logo_264x69.pngKelleigh Nelson2019-09-29 07:45:012019-09-29 08:04:52Fifty-Five Years of Mainstream Media Lies
Uncovered during a recent LifeSiteNews investigation, the 136-page work stems from an April meeting in Bogotá, Colombia, co-organized by REPAM (the Pan-Amazonian Ecclesial Network) and Amerindia, two leading promoters of liberation theology.
The Instrumentum Laboris confirms the significance of the meeting, referring to it as an important part of the synod’s preparatory process.
Rife with heretical statements, the Bogotá document hails ex-priest Leonardo Boff, a leading advocate of liberation theology censured by the Vatican for his attacks on Catholic doctrine.
The document scorns the salvific mission of the Catholic Church, asserting that there is no one, true faith — that all religions are capable of bringing salvation to their followers.
“It is not fair to say that only one religion is true and the others are decadent, for they all reveal the mystery of God and reveal the many ways in which we walk in fidelity and love for God,” the document states.
It adds that the Catholic Church must move “from intolerant exclusivism to an attitude of respect that accepts that Christianity does not have a historical monopoly on salvation” and that “pluralism and diversity of religions are expressions of a wise divine will.”
The work makes no mention of the Eucharist as the body, blood, soul and divinity of Jesus Christ. Instead, it reduces the Eucharist to a “symbolic” expression of “communal” experience — a blatant modernist heresy condemned by Pope Pius X in his 1907 encyclical Pascendi Dominici Gregis.
“In the liturgy, the Church expresses her faith in a symbolic and communal way,” the Bogotá document reads.
Referencing the teaching that the Eucharist is the source and summit of Christian life, it declares:
The liturgy is the “summit,” because at the foot of the table is presented the experience of people, the path of the community and the socio-cultural context in which it operates. “Source,” because from the living memory of the love of Christ and from the encounter with sisters and brothers the desire and the capacity for more coherent discipleship and more effective witness are born.
Though paying lip service to fidelity to the Magisterium, the Bogotá document depicts the male priesthood not as a bedrock dogma, but as a pliable “position” amenable to the spirit of the age:
We recommend … that theologians, respecting in a reverent way the data of faith and in profound communion with the Magisterium, may continue with complete freedom the reflection on the priestly ordination of women, enriching their analysis with resources coming from psychology, sociology, anthropology, history, philosophy and hermeneutics, in order to be able to discern the presence of the Spirit in that sign of the times which is … the presence of women in public life.
Calling for an end to the “patriarchal perspective” of the Church, the Bogotá document advocates for a “feminist and ecological theology” complete with women priests.
It also praises pagan indigenous traditions, calling for understanding and recognition of “the virtues, knowledge and cosmovisions existing among the ancestral ethnic groups, which still retain the ability to read and conceive nature as the true mother.”
Continuing its praise for indigenous traditions, the document goes on to describe God as a masculine-feminine “Creator-Creatora”:
They have their sacred histories, languages, knowledge, traditions, spiritualities and theologies. All of them seek to build a “good life” and the communion of people among themselves, with the world, with living beings and with the Creator-Creatora. They feel that they are living well in the “house” that the Creator-Creatora gave them on Earth.
Of the 28 contributors to the Bogotá document, four have played key roles in constructing the synod and two are principal authors of the Instrumentum Laboris.
As the contents of both works confirm, these architects of the Oct. 6–27 Amazon Synod are torchbearers of liberation theology. Through prayer and fasting, faithful Catholics are bracing for their impact upon the Church.
The Humanitarian Hoax is a deliberate and deceitful tactic of presenting a destructive policy as altruistic. The humanitarian huckster presents himself as a compassionate advocate when in fact he is the disguised enemy.
The entire 2020 lineup of leftist Democrats and their Congressional sycophants have assured the nation that impeachment of President Trump is necessary to protect the nation. It is an odd assertion considering that President Trump has been wildly successful by pro-America standards. Let’s review.
In less than three years President Trump has added 6 million jobs to the workforce, unemployment is the lowest it has ever been for the black, Hispanic, and Asian communities. The United States is energy independent and we are now the leading exporter of energy in the world. So, what exactly do the Democrats mean when they say that YOU, the nation, will be safer without POTUS? Let’s find out.
It appears there is pervasive pronoun confusion in the Democrat assertion! The corrupt pay-to-play Democrats would definitely be safer without America-first President Trump in charge, but YOU, the American taxpaying voter, will definitely not be safer. Let me explain.
In 1994, ice skater Tonya Harding stunned the world with her participation in the unprecedented and shocking physical attack against competitor Nancy Kerrigan. Fans were familiar with anabolic steroid doping schemes in athletics, but a physical assault intended to break Nancy Kerrigan’s leg?? The attack was simply beyond the threshold of public tolerance. Fans want a fair fight – a fair competition between athletes who perform and compete fairly for the competition prize – no cheating or dirty tricks allowed.
So it is with politics. The radical leftist Democrat party has pushed the public past the threshold of tolerance. Americans voters want a fair fight – a fair competition between politicians who present their positions and compete fairly for the election prize – no cheating or dirty tricks allowed.
The radical leftist Democrat party under Obama fully expected his legacy candidate Hillary Clinton to win the 2016 election. Clinton stupefied the Democrats when she was defeated. Instead of concentrating on providing an electable candidate in 2020, Obama’s Democrat “resistance” movement was immediately launched to disable and destroy President Trump and his America-first policies.
The Democrats have stunned the world with their shocking attacks against President Donald Trump. For the first time in American history a coup was attempted against a sitting president of the United States. Like Tanya Harding’s attack on champion Nancy Kerrigan, the coup failed and President Trump was bruised but not destroyed Uh-oh!
The failed White House coup morphed into the failed Mueller “investigation” that wasted millions of taxpayer dollars and two years trying to accomplish the overthrow of a duly elected sitting president. President Trump continued to strengthen the economy and military that Obama had intentionally weakened. What happened?
Yet another coup attempt was launched against President Trump in the form of the media made-for-television Ukraine affair. On cue, the desperate Democrats starring Adam Schiff began their hysterical, unsubstantiated, completely fraudulent calls for impeachment. Here is the problem. The Democrat bag of dirty political tricks are boomerangs that expose their own staggering malfeasance. Let’s review.
The Democrats accuse President Trump of extorting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to “manufacture” dirt on Joe Biden. President Trump knows he is innocent and the White House releases the transcript of the conversation that completely exonerates him. No matter. Lying Adam Schiff intentionally misrepresents the transcript and insists that the President has committed an impeachable offense.
In a powerful 9.27.19 article appearing in the World Tribune, writer Jeffrey T. Kuhner correctly titles his article, “Trump’s Real Crime? ‘He’s Serious About Draining the Swamp’” In the article Kuhner explains how the call to President Zelensky was completely appropriate. Zelensky was elected on a platform to crack down on graft and corruption. Plus, we have a treaty with the Ukraine to help each other investigate crimes that would include political corruption.
So, it should come as no surprise that President Trump asked President Zelensky to look into allegations of Russian meddling in the 2016 election. Kuhner quotes President Trump from the transcript. “’I would like you to find out what happened with this whole situation with Ukraine, they say Crowdstrike,’ Trump says, referring to the private security firm that examined the hacking of the Democratic National Committee’s emails. The DNC refused to hand their server over to be analyzed by FBI forensics experts. Instead, they had Crowdstrike do it. And the company’s server is based in Ukraine — meaning it could shed light on whether Russian intelligence agents really did hack the DNC’s emails.”
Crowdstrike is an American cyber-security technology company and its founder is tied to George Soros through the Atlantic Council, a think tank supported by Soros. Are you surprised?
Kuhner is quite right in his assessment – the Democrats are wildly upset because President Trump is draining the swamp. Consider the Biden boomerang. President Trump released the conversation transcripts and Kuhner explains what it exposed:
“Trump asks Zelensky to look into the firing of the former top prosecutor, Viktor Shokin, who was investigating Burisma, the natural gas company in which Hunter Biden was on the board. He was collecting $83,000 a month (for doing nothing). In May 2018, Joe Biden publicly bragged that, when he was vice president, he deliberately withheld $1 billion in U.S. aid unless Shokin was pushed out, thereby ending the investigation into Burisma — and of course, shielding Hunter from any prosecution. It was Biden who engaged in sleazy, criminal behavior, using American taxpayer dollars to blackmail a foreign government into allowing his drug addict son to continue enriching himself. In all, Hunter amassed over $3 million in Ukraine (through China his equity firm would collect $1.5 billion — an obscene sum). In short, Biden is one of the most corrupt politicians in Washington. Trump did what he is supposed to do: Investigate Biden’s illicit activity and demand the new Ukrainian government honor its commitment to tackle corruption.”
Everything the swampsters have accused President Trump of doing is precisely what they have done themselves. In psychology it is called projection. In everyday language, what the Democrats have done and continue to do is simply called lying. The Democrats are lying in the service of their political ideology in which the ends justifies the means. It is political cheating on a staggering scale.
The humanitarian hoax of impeachment is that it usurps the will of the American people by pretending to protect America. The globalist elite and their Democrat hucksters are determined to overthrow duly elected President Donald J. Trump. The Democrats, funded by globalists like George Soros, have an elitist operating principle that says, “We are superior to you, we are smarter than you, we know better than you, and we are going to remove the president you elected in 2016 and install our own puppet president against your will – for your own good of course.”
It is the same arrogant elitist operating principle that is subverting the will of the British people who voted to leave the European Union. The globalists and their political puppets in England are refusing to implement BREXIT (British exit). It is the same shocking deep state challenge to the will of the people by globalist powers who fully intend to cheat the English voters and usurp the power of the British people.
The lesson of Tanya Harding is that the international world of figure skating is diminished by cheating. The sport is not better off with an arrogant ends justifies the means attitude, and neither is America. President Donald J. Trump has proven that his America-first policies strengthen the United States domestically and internationally. He is the voters choice and the right choice for America.
President Trump insists on protecting Americans, preserving the American Constitution, our representative republic, free market capitalism, our national sovereignty, and most of all the will of the American people.
We must never allow the humanitarian hoax of impeachment to succeed. It is the dirtiest of Democrat political tricks designed to protect the corrupt Washington swamp, and deny the will of the people who have elected President Trump to drain it.
http://drrich.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/logo_264x69.png00Linda Goudsmithttp://drrich.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/logo_264x69.pngLinda Goudsmit2019-09-29 06:36:122019-09-29 06:54:07The Humanitarian Hoax of Impeachment: Killing America With Kindness
We are war. Make no mistake about this. This far transcends politics. It is a battle. A battle for the survival of our Constitutional Republic and our very way of life. We are fighting the enemy within, the Deep State, the Democrats and RINOS along with a controlled complicit government media complex, the fake news. The enemies are global. Truth be told, this battle affects all of humanity.
This is a clarion call for patriots in action! This post will also provide very specific things that we can and must be doing if we are to support this miracle President and if we are to continue to survive as a free nation. We MUST resurrect America or we shall lose it forever. The blind, the blissfully ignorant, and the apathetic, even many Republicans, go about business today as though it were business as usual. It is not business as usual, I can assure you of this. These next 14 months are beyond critical. Please keep reading. I have some very specific points to talk with you about in this somewhat lengthy blog post. But first this…
I have written over 400 articles on this website as well as several books. I have delivered hundreds of speeches in eight states and three countries to date, as well as dozens of video discussions, along with many media appearances. There is a reason that the subtitle of my book, “Trump and the Resurrection of America” is sub-titled as, “Leading America’s Second Revolution”. Why? Because we have been at war and the war is escalating as i have forecast.
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We Are At War
Our Constitutional Republic, our God given rights and civil liberties, are under attack, and have been for decades. Had the lady in the pant suit gotten elected, it would have been lights out. Let us not squander this miraculous opportunity that we have with President Donald J. Trump to resurrect God’s America. No Trump-no hope. Sorry, that’s how I see it. This is it my friends, this is for all the marbles. At the time of this writing, another in a series of fraudulent, crime infested, illegal treasonous coup d etat attempts, are yet again under way. This time with the Ukraine hoax as an attempt towards impeachment. It may or may not get the votes in the house, if it does, its DOA in the Senate. This will back fire on them, Watch this.
I am going to invest my time and resurface pertinent posts under the heading of Related Links at the end of this article, with the hope that you take the time to read them and share them. I wish that I and others had been wrong. It turns out I and others have indeed been right with highly accurate analysis and forecast the majority of the time. Often times scrutinized by some. So be it.
I urge you to heed the call. I urge you to get uncomfortable. I urge you to become a critical thinker and seek truth. In Venezuela today, they are starving for food. In America we are starving for truth. Well, its right before you. Not conspiracy theory, rather conspiracy fact. Wake up. My God, wake up! You had better grow a pair as they say and seek truth, speak truth, share truth. Even if your family, friends, peers or fellow members in your Republican and patriot focused clubs beg to differ. They will be on the wrong side of history. Get them to wake up before its too late.
Many of us have become a part of what I call the robotic hypnotic flock. Ignorant followers, so to speak. Now, being a follower is a good thing as most of us are not leaders, yet we rely on leadership. When being a follower, be a wise and discerning one and not an ignorant one. Be aware of who or what ideology you are following. Get with the program.
We are indeed living in the age of an increasing number of smarter phones and an increasing number of dumbed down people. Isaac Asimov once said, “The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.” By and large, his quote is so true today. A raised understanding is needed as to the realization that a major paradigm shift is under way and that we have been living in a web of deceitful lies designed to entrap us and move us away from truth, and from the spirit as we march on blindly like useless idiots down the road to serfdom. The opposite of love is not hate, it is fear. So, choose love. As you obtain more and more truths, then take the correct steps in implementing change, the fear subsides.
Patriots in Action To Save America
Left Wing Lunatics – Forget about them. Ignore them. Waste of time. Yuck! You will get nowhere with them. At this stage of the battle they are to be ignored. Don’t waste you effort nor energy on them. They will be dealt with accordingly as the crisis ramps up by law enforcement. They will be dealt with later. And even after that, they shall be dealt with on judgement day.
Democrats – Many, not all, will be voting for Trump. Albeit in the closet, but that matters not. Why? Because they too do not support killing new born babies, infanticide. They too do not support a 90% tax rate to fund the impossible to fund socialist platform which has never succeeded in history. They too, like to hold onto, save, and invest their money to provide safety and a better opportunity for their children and grandchildren.
Jewish Community – Some of the same criteria applies to this demographic as a part of the Democrat voting base as indicated above. Historically, Jews have been predominantly Democrats. This needs to change. Even the President scorned them in light of the Anti Semite Muslim and others in Congress who lashed out against Israel. Help our President to wake these folks up, yes our Jewish friends need a serious wake up call.
Voting Democrat in 2020 is a vote for the destruction of America. Do they want to keep and invest their hard earned money? Do the business owners in the Jewish community of which there are many, prefer Trump’s successful economic policies or do they want government to take up to 90% of it away? Do they not realize that this President has done so much for Israel that the deep state globalist controlled presidential puppets for decades would not and did not do? Get a really good voter guide put together or get with a person or group that has one. I’ll be writing a very detailed one and posting it very soon. Put a campaign together and get one in the hands of all the Jewish people you can, showing the comparisons of the key issues between Trump and the Democrat platform. This, you can do. Do it now.
Black Community – Surveys indicate that Trump had but 18% support from the black community in 2016. Today, polls indicate 39% and rising. Why? Because they are waking up and thanks in no small part to Candice Owens, Diamond and Silk, Kayne West and many others. And thanks to the individuals themselves for realizing they have been hood winked, used and controlled by the Democrat party since at least the LBJ period in history. Thank you too, Dinesh D’Souza. Perhaps partner up with a Trump supporting, God fearing brave black American patriot and get out there with him or her into the black churches and communities to help them too, see the light and to support this President. Follow the brave and patriot work of a recovering Democrat, a black man from California now in Texas, my good friend and citizen journalist, Will Johnson. Watch Interview.
Christians – Tom Trento and Trevor Louden each gave an excellent presentation at the America the Truth Conference on September 21, 2019. I will be posting these videos as soon as they are released.
Bottom line, the Christian community has not stepped up to the plate. We need more, plain and simple. If they do not, we may struggle to win this election and thus lose our country. Wake up your pastors. If they are liberals or controlled assets of the Deep State call them out with ferocity and move on. As to the good pastors, we need our black robbed regimen today in a very big way, patriot pastors.
We can also simply form clubs, groups, meetings and get information to your fellow Christian friends, family and neighbors. Show them the voter guide comparing Trump to the Democrat platform. Get creative. Get skin in the game. Get them, registered. Get them to vote and have them do the same. And for the Christians who all too often say, something like, “well it’s end times as written in the Bible so I will sit by idly and watch it all come down since I know where I’m going when I die” sort of nonsense, wake them up! God gave us free will. Use it for the good of us all. To try to extend the life of the country he gave us at the sacrifice of so many men and women. Together, we are doing God’s work. This is a battle between good and evil. You are an accomplice should you sit by and do nothing.
Republicans – Expose the RINOS and non Trump supporters. Identify them and know them well. Then spread the word and get politically active and vote them the hell out. BUT, we must have strict hard vetting before we prop up another RINO to destroy this country. And as to what is commonly known as the “Country Club Republicans,” wake up! Stop shunning other views. Just because you have not heard it before does not mean it is not true, it just means you have not heard it yet and just because I or someone else says it is true, does not mean it is true. Research. Do your own due diligence. Go down enough rabbit holes and you will more than likely find yourself agreeing with those you have shunned. I cant stress this enough. Get un-registered Republicans off the couch and help them register and see that they vote.
We must unite now, not uniting with others simply because their message is not popular as to the standard and traditions of the Republican party. Yes, I too am a registered Republican, but I think for myself. Break away from the norm. After all isnt that what Trump did and does?
My allegiance is to the truth, to Trump, to America, and to God. Why? It’s the “norms” that got us here in the first place. We cannot withstand any fighting within. All I can say here is seek truth, speak truth and move on to another club or group if your group does not align with your views or if you cannot seem to make any progress within. Having said that, there are so many amazing Republican groups of which I have spoken before, that are in fact doing great work, we all thank you so much. I have, however, made my point. Support Trump. Wake up to the REAL issues at hand, then ramp up your efforts.
Summary – As to Millennial’s and all others, I can say this. As the de-class gets underway beginning right now and throughout the next 14 months, they will see more and more. Perhaps some will come our way. Again, a voter guide pamphlet showing the comparison between Trump and the destructive Democrats may help. Get on social media. Yeah I get it, I hate FB and Twitter too. But the President uses it for a reason, and so should you. Get on there and share truth, expose the lies and the evil. Join a Trump Club, a Republican Club, Tea Party, 912 group or other Trump supporting patriot groups they will give you things to do. Get busy living or get busy dying. The hour is at hand.
Great Awakening
“The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails” – Arthur Ward. It’s time to adjust the sails.
There are four stages of denial that we find ourselves in that keep us from making any meaningful preparations for a disaster:
1) It won’t happen
2) If it does happen, it won’t happen to me
3) If it does happen to me, it won’t be that bad.
4) If it happens to me and it is that bad, there’s nothing I can do to stop it anyway.
“There is a vast spiritual awakening in progress in our world. Quietly and soulfully many are returning to the truth of who they are seeing the futility of the world’s troubles today. If you surrender to this call from within, it may lead to a deep questioning of “the way we do things”. There will surely be moments of loneliness, where you feel that you no longer belong, as the world tries to pull you back into its worn out paradigms; but if you stay in peace and follow the call, your soul will begin to see the truth in a deeper way; the remembrance of perfection, your own and that of others. This truth is the only freedom there really is and its power is beyond anything the world can offer. It is your power. It can move mountains. It can heal you. It can heal the world”. – Get with the program. WWG1WGA (Where we go one, we go all).
One form of the Hegelian Dialectic of which almost all major events in history are the result of can be simply described as; “Problem” – create and unleash a crisis (or take advantage of one already happening) in order to get the desired “Reaction” of public outcry whereby the public demands a “Solution” which as been predetermined from the beginning, thus Problem-Reaction-Solution. Once you get this, all things begin to fall into place. We must come to understand the Hegelian Dialectic and once you do, you will see many of the events unfolding in a very different light and then there is no turning back. You are then well on your way to either caving in and succumbing or gaining strength and confidence and seeking ways to spread the word and improve conditions. Watch this brief excellent explanation of this and how it is used against us almost daily. CLICK HERE
Divide and Conquer
Most information disseminated by the media machine and all its accomplices such as Hollywood for example, is nothing more than predictive programming and is false and misleading. This leads of course to division among the people, which plays right into their hands, divide and conquer. With the divide and conquer strategy we have the man behind the curtain winning as he gets his perceived opponents to fight among themselves. This is a way of keeping those in a position of power in power by making the people disagree with each other so that they are unable to join together and remove those from their position of power. The people simply regurgitate the spoon-fed talking points from the news like a well-programmed robot. And since they run the media machine, the education system and much more, you can see how powerful and how effective they are. Thus, a divisive world in chaos and crisis.
We must avoid falling for the Hegelian Dialectic and become skillful at recognizing when it is employed. This becomes as easy as breathing once you really see it and get it. Anytime a major problem or issue arises in society think about who will gain or profit from it. Turn off the mainstream news or at least completely disregard what the machine is saying so that you can remove yourself from the situation and take a step back to look at it from a third party perspective. See the so-called “problem”, look at who is reacting, why and in what way. Then look for who is offering up the solution. I listed some examples of this in another blog titled “Was this a False Flag Op” as well as “False Flags a Conspiracy Theorists Fantasy”.
Winning
Winning? Yes we are indeed winning this battle. I strongly encourage you to sign up for my free weekly alerts and follow my articles, media interviews and speeches. Subscribe to the JMC Report. We can support each other. Pick up a copy of my book, “Trump and the Resurrection of America”.
The deep state, the Democrats and the fake news are panicking. They have nothing on Trump and they, once being the hunters, have actually now become the hunted. I have written extensively about this week after week here on this site. Follow my work. Follow some of the sources I have provided. Request a copy of the Free e-book “How to Detect Truth from Lies in the Age of Fake News” which includes dozens of alternative sites and sources for information, including QANON.
Closing
Oh yes, we are at war. It’s a nasty, dirty, dangerous intelligence battle. A war that must be won or we shall lose it all forever. I hope this article and the links within are helpful if not for you, then at least for you to pass it along to others who may have not yet arrived.
TAKE NOTE: Attention group leaders and organizers of conferences and conventions. I am available to speak anywhere in the country and an honorarium can be discussed. Your support and contributions to me and my work is greatly appreciated. You can reach out to me here and learn more about my speaking engagements. My talks have been VERY well received. See what others are saying. I have heard the word. I have answered the call. In fact, I was semi retired living in Asia and came back to lend a hand and to do my part. Help me help us. Let’s help each other. It’s all or none. WWG1WGA. I am doing my part. Your help is appreciated. Pray for our President and his family. Remember, three things cannot long be hidden. The sun, the moon and the truth.
Welcome to Trump and the age of transparency. It’s going to get ugly. Yes much uglier than what you see today. But know this. We are winning. Surround yourself with people of like mind who understand the times in which we live and expand those circles. Stay the course. Trust the plan. There is one. And we are winning. And remember, freedom, it’ up to U.S.
http://drrich.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/logo_264x69.png00John Michael Chambershttp://drrich.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/logo_264x69.pngJohn Michael Chambers2019-09-29 06:09:472019-09-29 06:11:50We Are At War! A Clarion Wake Up Call
“Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives with respect to the actions of the Speaker of the House, Mrs. Pelosi of California, to initiate an impeachment inquiry against the duly elected President of the United States, Donald J. Trump.”
This resolution forced Democrats to take a stand for or against Pelosi’s impeachment inquiry before the 2020 Presidential election. It worked.
The Resolution reads:
Whereas the Speaker’s extraordinary decision to move forward with an impeachment inquiry without any debate or vote on such a resolution by the full House undermines the voting privileges afforded to each Member and the constituents they represent; and
Whereas this unprecedented and politically motivated decision by Speaker Pelosi represents an abuse of power and brings discredit to the House of Representatives;
Now, therefore, be it Resolved, That the House of Representatives disapproves of the actions of the Speaker of the House, Mrs. Pelosi of California, to initiate an impeachment inquiry against the duly elected President of the United States, Donald J. Trump.
All of the Democrats voted to table the Resolution, thereby showing their support for this illegal and improper attempt to attack President Trump and his administration.
They will have to eat their vote as the impeachment inquiry implodes and becomes Pelosi’s Folly.
Democrats just handed the Republicans and President Trump another victory. Since Pelosi’s announcement the Trump campaign has raised over $15 million including donations from over 50,000 new supporters.
Pelosi’s Folly will lead to a second term for President Trump and perhaps a change in House leadership.
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Abraham Balderson
Beatty Cheney
Clyburn Crawford
Cummings DesJarlais
Escobar
Gabbard Gallagher Higgins (LA)
Hill (CA)
Huffman Hurd (TX) Johnson (LA)
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Kuster (NH)
Lawrence
Lofgren Marchant
McEachin McHenry Norman Ratcliffe
Smith (WA) Turner
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“It is a unique and unprecedented case” – Joseph Maguire Director of National Intelligence
Dear Judge Janine and Mike Huckabee; I share your frustration over events going on in America today. But it is not McCarthyism, it is something much worse. I know the predicament when an aggressive ideology holds nations hostage–I lived half of my life under the Stalinist regime in the USSR. It held strong dictatorial control in a one-party state and I escaped it, immigrating to America. It is tragic for me to see something similar in America. Dear friends, it is not McCarthyism, it is Soviet Fascism I have been warning you about for the last decade by exposing Soviet Communism/Socialism and watching its nefarious evil-action for thirty years. Hence, I came to the conclusion that we are dealing in America with Soviet fascism implemented globally.
I insist on calling it that for a very good reason. The word “fascism” is used quite often in print these days. I am not alone using the term “fascism”–human memory can’t forget fascism’s past history and the danger of ‘fascism’ once again achieving power is not going away: it represents a formidable and alarming force waging war against Western civilization. To reflect current usage of the word “fascism,” I’d like to give you example of sentences selected by Merriam-Webster. They tell us that the views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors:
Examples of the word fascism in a Sentence
From the first hours of Hitler’s invasion of the Soviet Union, the propagandists on both sides of the conflict portrayed the struggle in stark, Manichaean language. The totalitarian nature of both regimes made this inevitable. On one side stood Hitler, fascism, the myth of German supremacy; on the other side stood Stalin, communism, and the international proletarian revolution.— Anne Applebaum, New York Review of Books, 25 Oct. 2007
Consider what happened during the crisis of global fascism. At first, even the truth about Hitler was inconvenient. Many in the west hoped the danger would simply go away. Al Gore, An Inconvenient Truth, 2006
Perhaps, the last example presents the implications of the matter and I agree totally with it: What lies in front of us are two choices: enlightenment orfascism, indeed. To prevent the freedom loving people from Chamberlain’s mistake, happening again, I have written about Soviet fascism to educate Americans for decades. Knowledge is Power! I have firsthand experience living through the regime and describing it in my books and columns. All above mentioned authors know “fascism” as a political philosophy, movement, or regime, from political literature, or their memory of global events. You can find vital data and information about Soviet fascism in my book: What is Happening to America, Xlibris, 2012
I titled the first chapter of the book: 1937—The Year of Infamy. It was a time of Stalin’s building Soviet Socialism using crimes against humanity: Show Trials, Purges, extreme abuse of investigative power, killings, and deportations. Stalin personally signed 357 proscription lists in 1937 and 1938 that condemned to execution some 40,000 people. Russia will remember this year for several generations, as each family suffered due to the aggressive crimes committed by the regime and its punitive agencies. Living and watching events in America today, I recognize definite elements of Soviet fascism in the actions of the Dems’ Socialist mafia: lies and fraud in the best traditions of Stalin’s Political Correctness, a typical Soviet style propaganda, Soviet style, baseless falls charges and prosecutions of innocent people of political opposition, an overreach of investigation in the House of Representatives – Trump’s impeachment—Stalinist personal destruction of a rival political leader…
Researching and discussing Soviet Socialism for many years, learning more and more about the KGB’s nefarious activities and agenda, I’ve renamed Soviet Socialism to Soviet Fascism. As a matter of fact, there was a logical factor to do so. The collapse of the USSR manifested as a collapse of the Socialist Economy, yet the Soviet System and its dictatorial nature of one-party rule, run by the KGB survived under Putin’s leadership. The agenda stays the same—destruction of Western civilization at all costs. Nothing substantially has changed in Russia–Today the KGB represents the country—the Russian Federation. You can find a philosophical and ideological explanation of these events in my books and columns.
A brilliant piece on the subject by Diana West is reinforcing my opinion on Soviet Fascism: “There is a sinister war underway, a war of mental conditioning, as a new united front of communists, socialists, and liberals in media and politics attacks the American mind and soul as something immoral and hateful… … all to a point of reflexive consensus in the public square. The ravages of history bear witness to the heinous results of eerily similar campaigns of public revilement in the Soviet Union, Nazi Germany, and other totalitarian echo chambers. Should the tens of millions of Americans today and every day lashed as “racists” and “white nationalists”—that is, Republicans, Democrats, and Independents who support Donald Trump—be worried? “The Brain-Washing War on America’s Mind and Soul, The Epoch Times, by Diana West, August 19, 2019
Though the author did not mention the ideology of Soviet fascism, you feel and recognize the evil she is talking about. Moreover, she exposes the culprit responsible for the current predicament in our country. Diana West is right “the primary source of the invective is not “the street” or “radical fringe,” but the top leaders and most influential figures in the Democratic Party.” I agree and in approaching the subject, recall the information I have received working in the Soviet legal community. It was predominantly discussion on the KGB Chairman, Yuri Andropov, his plans and designs to target and infiltrate American social media and all security agencies. My columns convey this information in this magazine in 2017-2018.
This knowledge had given me the opportunity to identify the ideology as the ideology of Soviet Fascism, to show the Dems leadership how they are collaborating with the KGB for the last thirty years. Actually, most of the trouble in America and the world derives from and is caused by Russia and Putin’s KGB: from brainwashing and defrauding to killing. I am emphasizing the significance of the KGB, because it represents Russia today and am using the term KGB meaning the entirety of Russian Intelligence Services. Look at current DNC Chairman Tom Lopez. His statements speak for him and you will see how a Communist is leading the Dems against the American Republic. He epitomizes the Deep State and has continued the Clinton/Obama business collaborating with Russia—Socialist Revolution is happening right now in America.
There are two intertwined facts in the Dems’ behavior, showing a striking similarity to the Soviets policy of the past. The hysteria of “climate change” is very familiar to me. I have already written in details about the Soviet slogan: “We will conquer nature.” To water the deserts cost trillions, to change a river’s course costs even more and all that money was wasted by Stalin’s Socialist economy for decades. Besides Socialism’s inability to produce, this was another reason why the Socialist economy collapsed in Russia. Considering information about “the Axis of Evil” under Russian supervision, the old Stalinist slogan had been altered to ”climate change” by the Deep State in collaboration with Putin’ KGB to destroy capitalism of Western civilization. They wish us to spend ourselves into oblivion.
Yet, there is another part of the issue inextricably connected to the first one. The Soviet educational system of public schools inculcated all students in Communist tenets and then used the students in defending the Communist policies to influence public opinion—everything was politicized, children, too. As a student, I participated in protesting “American Imperialism” numerous times in school and then at Law School. The demonstrations were organized by the local Communist Party and educational agencies. We, the students, had been prepared and used by the Party as young activists defending the Party policy and agenda. Communists do not like children, they are using them as a radical, violent force to conquer the world and build Socialism. What is going in America and the world today is known to me. That is the reason, I am warning you about the activities of “the Axis of Evil”—our foremost enemy…
Due to erroneous American foreign policy, the ideology of Soviet fascism was dispersed by “the Axis of Evil” throughout the world, starting in Asia, Eastern Europe using Stalinist Political Correctness with its application of lies, fraud, and deception, then reaching out to the rest of the globe. These tactics have now been taken into service by the Democrat Party. Look at the events in America orchestrated and provoked by Soviet fascism: from Trump/Dossier–KGB’s production to Smollett’s fraud, from whistleblower complaint of Trump violation of national security to the hysteria of “climate change.” All events have been built by the Dems’ anti-Trump narratives. Iran’s calculated attack on Saudi’s oil facility on the week of 9/11 to effect both—the Israeli election and the American market. The Axis of Evil continue fighting Western civilization under Russian control. Read my column Socialism Infects the Globe, It Must be Defeated, August 26, 2019
Fascism is Worldwide and Never Sleeps
I have already reported about Stalinist order for all Communists: Never admit any crime you committed, but accuse the opponent in this exact crime. You will see in the upcoming investigation of the Ukraine scandal how Joe Biden follows that exact recipe—he will accuse Trump in the actions he himself had committed. Tom Fitton is right “The current Ukraine scandal is another malicious effort to protect the Obama/Clinton gang, criminal classified leaks, and spying targeting.” I called this gang America’s Socialist mafia, built by Obama. This is the Deep State usual provocation originated by well-organized cabal of Obama’s CIA to divert attention from the crime committed by Obama/Clinton gang. Obama delegated Biden to deal with Ukraine and incredible corruption on global parameters is manifested by Biden’s in Ukraine. President Trump was looking for information not about the 2020 election, but for 2016 election. It would be a dereliction of duty had the President ignored the crime in foreign affairs. It is his constitutional prerogatives as a Chief Law Enforcement Officer to use the Treaty with Ukraine on Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters 1999.
There is a direct connection between Biden’s family and oligarch in Ukraine— ”Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, joined the board of Ukrainian energy … According to The New York Times, Hunter Biden helped assemble the company’s legal team, … Burisma is led by an oligarch named Mykola Zlochevsky.” Considering Hunter’s bio, he has nothing to do with energy or Law, yet he is getting big money every month from the company. In front of you is an example of America’s Socialist mafia connected to a very corrupt foreign entity with the possibility of the crimes of extortion and bribery. At the same time the Dems constantly police and investigate the U.S. President Donald J. Trump [following Stalin’s order] instead of dealing with issues of American business. Look at the impeachment led by the House of Representative—a total fraud and waste of time and money a-la Soviet Fascism, which corrupts everything it touches. Who is the beneficiary of political chaos in America??? I will try to answer the question…
When Pelosi, who was very reluctant before, suddenly approve an impeachment procedure in the House of Representative, I knew that something was coming. And I was right—the whistleblower complain has popped up with charges against Trump—the political Witch Hunt against Trump gets another round. The handwriting was familiar to me and I suspect Obama’s CIA Director and his top officers working hand in hand with the Deep State. It is the first time when I am not totally agree with the smartest man in the Earth Rush Limbaugh: Liberals corrupt everything they touch. Yes, they corrupt everything they touch, but they are not Liberals. Classic Liberalism had been annihilated by Stalinism in the 20th century. We are dealing now with extremist-leftists, Socialist Mafia, and the “Squad” as a substitute created by the KGB of Soviet Fascism. Read Socialist Lies: From Stalin to the Clinton’s, Obama’s, and Sanders, Xlibris, 2016
To investigate the Ukraine scandal, knowledge of Russia’s KGB is a must. For your information the KGB loves to fish in a murky waters and pre-election Ukraine was that exact location of murky waters. Putin’s desire to have Ukraine back will never change: the KGB has a lot of sleeper cells in Ukraine, a country of enormous corruption. This current scandal has very intriguing kinds of people involved: the top Dems Joe Biden, the KGB agent George Soros, four Dems Senators, and some even more questionable persons—a knot of possibilities that may even lead to uncover the long-term Obama/Putin conspiracy that I have written about for many years.
This anti-Trump campaign had been organized and executed by the anti-Trump cabal. I have recognized the cabal after watching and reading Trump/Dossier and reported in 2017. The anti-Trump cabal was led by the trio: Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, and Vladimir Putin. In the best traditions of Stalinism to cover-up their crime, they accused Trump in the crime they themselves have been committing for decades. They’ll never stop politically attacking Trump until exposed and brought to justice—transparency and accountability are cornerstones of the American Justice System. There has been a deep infiltration and meddling in the 2016 election by Russia, when the White House was turned into the ‘KGB’s Headquarters’, working against the opposite party—the Republican Party and its leader Donald J. Trump. The Deep State must be put on trial to discover the Truth.
Though my latest columns illustrated the way the Deep State was acting, there is a short way to investigate the crime committed—a thorough investigation of the Clinton Foundation, which I called “the eyes and ears of the KGB.” Bill Clinton is the man in the center of the entire criminal conspiracy against the American Republic. I have followed Clinton’s mafia and reported its actions since 1991. Obama merely continued the Clinton’s business within the Democrat Party. Rank-and-file Democrats have no idea about the crime committed by their leadership. When it is exposed, they will be shocked and change their affiliation to Republican or Independent.
President Trump is targeted because he presents an existential threat to both the Deep State and The Axis of Evil run by Russia. We are dealing with the army of Globalists, an aggressive international force aimed at turning the American Republic into the Union of Socialist American States. To identify the chain of events, and origin of the anti-Trump cabal it is crucial to investigate the McCabe and McAuliffe actions inflaming the events in Charlottesville, Virginia, 8 July 2017. Hence, the primary task of DOJ is investigating the investigators, the Dems’ leadership and their collaboration with the KGB–an International Watergate No.2. Alas, Tom Cotton is not the FBI Director.
My Fellow Americans!
God has given us President Donald J. Trump to defend and secure the system created by our Founding Fathers. Help him to do that. Help him to dismantle Obama’s radical socialist legacy. Fight the ideology of Soviet fascism and help President Trump to defend, and save the American Republic! Let’s revive the spirit of our Founding Fathers and repair the culture of America the Beautiful!
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Many viewers were likely left speechless last week after watching Deadline – one of Denmark’s most popular news programs — during an interview with Peter Andreas Münster, Facebook’s Head of Communications for the Nordic Region. The issue was Facebook’s decision to censor virtually everything connected to the English journalist Tommy Robinson.
Facebook censors Danish Media Outlet and Free Speech Organization
Earlier this year, Facebook banned the Danish online media news outlet 24NYT. The organization is known for criticizing the establishment and focusing on the negative consequences of Muslim immigration to Denmark.
Last week, Facebook also banned the Danish free speech organization Trykkefrihedsselskabet. The move comes after a series of posts about Facebook censorship of Tommy Robinson. The organization’s Facebook page was taken down.
In the Deadline interview, the journalist host Lotte Folke Kaarsholm asked a number of critical questions to Facebook’s official representative. There were not many clear answers. At some point during the interview, even the journalist is clearly shocked.
Facebook: Tommy Robinson is in line with a convicted war criminal
That happened when the Facebook official said that; “In this way, we consider him [Tommy Robinson] a person in line with Ratko Mladic.”
Ratko Mladic, nicknamed the “butcher of Bosnia,” is a convicted war criminal. He has been found guilty of committing war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY).
According to an BBC article; “The worst and most enduring crimes pinned on the former army chief and his men were an unrelenting three-year siege of Sarajevo that claimed more than 10,000 lives, and the massacre at Srebrenica, where more than 7,000 Bosniak men and boys were slaughtered and dumped in mass graves.”
Facebook takes down post, which encourages watching the interview
After the interview, a storm of criticism quickly spread among Danes, who were shocked by Facebook’s comparison.
Subsequently, the state-owned Danmarks Radio, which broadcasts Deadline, posted a message on their Facebook page encouraging people to watch the interview. But this post was soon deleted by Facebook.
According to journalist Lotte Folke Kaarsholm, the post is again available, after Danmarks Radio complained to Facebook.
The newly elected Danish anti-immigration party Nye Borgerlige has now requested an official meeting with the Danish Prime Minister. Facebook’s censorship is on the agenda. Before being appointed Facebook’s chief of communication for the Nordic countries, Peter Andreas Münster worked in the press department of Det Radikale Venstre – a political party, which has one of Denmark’s most radical pro-immigration policies.
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President Trump announced the U.S. will bar Iranian government officials and their relatives from entering the U.S. The announcement came at same time that Iranian President Hassan Rouhani was in New York for the UN General Assembly,
“Given that this behavior threatens peace and stability in the Middle East and beyond, I have determined that it is in the interest of the United States to take action to restrict and suspend the entry into the United States, as immigrants or non-immigrants, of senior government officials of Iran, and their immediate family members,” Trump said in the proclamation.
See shocking list below of relatives of senior Iranian government officials who are currently studying or working in the US
A U.S. government official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity explained:
“For years, the Iranian regime has attacked, criticized, and aggressively worked against the United States. Meanwhile, hypocritical regime leaders and their family members have been exploiting our freedom and prosperity.
“They come to America to go to our schools, seek jobs, enjoy our entertainment, and take in our culture.”
The official added that such “officials and their families don’t deserve the privilege and luxury of coming to the United States.”
There are currently many children and relatives of Iranian officials who reside in the U.S., having received visas to attend college, work and live in the U.S. This is despite the public hostilities of these individuals towards the U.S.
Some of the more famous relatives of Iranian government officials include:
Fatima Ardeshir-Larijani, daughter of Ali Larijani who is head of the Iranian parliament and former official in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). Fatima lives in Ohio and is studying internal medicine at the University Hospital of Cleveland (ranked as one of the U.S.’s leading health care centers).
Ali Fereydoun, whose uncle is Iranian President Hassan Rouhani. Ali Fereydoun is the chief engineer for an unnamed company in New York.
Isa Hashimi, son of Masoumeh Ebtekar (a.k.a. Sister Mary) who is the vice president for women’s affairs in Iran and former spokesperson for the students who held 52 American diplomats and citizens hostage for 444 days after the Iranian Revolution in 1979. Hashimi is a doctoral student in psychology at the University of Chicago.
Ihsan Nobakht and Nilufer Nobakht, son and daughter of Ali Nobakht who is a member of the Iranian parliament (Ihsan and Nilufer’s uncle, Ali Nobakht, is the previous spokesman for the Iranian government). Ihsan is an assistant scholar at the George Washington University and Nilufer is studying at the same university.
Seyed Hossein Mousavian is a visiting research scholar at Princeton University. Mousavian is an Iranian policymaker and scholar who served on Iran’s team during nuclear negotiations with the EU and International Atomic Energy Agency. He previously attended the California State University, Sacramento where he received a degree in engineering.
Although no longer residing in the U.S., Ali Akbar Salehi, current head of the Atomic Energy Association of Iran and former minister of foreign affairs, received a doctorate in nuclear engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1977.
Similarly, Iran’s foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, previously lived in the U.S. Zarif obtained a bachelor’s degree and master’s degree from San Francisco State University as well as a master’s degree and a doctorate from the University of Denver.
Zarif’s son, Mahdi, studied at the City University of New York.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will have the authority to make the final decisions as to who will be allowed in and who will not. Last February, Pompeo said the administration was looking into the issue of family members of Iranian regime officials living in the U.S.
In a video published on the State Department’s Farsi Twitter account, Pompeo was asked by an Iranian, “Why isn’t the United States doing anything about the family members of the regime officials living in America?”
Pompeo responded at the time, “That’s a very good question. Think about what you just asked. You have the very people who are destroying the way of life for ordinary people all across Iran, sending their kids (abroad), because they’re very wealthy, because they have stolen from you, they have taken your money corruptly, in a way that has harmed good hardworking people of Iran.”
Pompeo also said, “This issue that they [Iranian government officials] send their family members abroad bothers us too.”
The new proclamation by the president will not apply to lawful U.S. permanent residents, those granted asylum or refugees already admitted to the United States.
This latest action is part of Trump’s “maximum pressure” campaign against the Islamic Republic, the largest state sponsor of terrorism in the world.
In other news, Houthi leaders in Yemen said they covered for Iran by taking responsibility for the recent attack on the Saudi national oil company Aramco (which supplies five percent of the world’s oil supply), according to a report in The Wall Street Journal which quoted Saudi officials.
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From the rabid rants of the myriad of “Bibiphobes”, the uninformed observer would be led to believe that Netanyahu is to blame for every misfortune and every malfeasance on the face of the globe…
…for most Israelis the election results are signaling hope!… hope that we were saved from Halachic state and messianic tendencies govern[ed] by a prime minister that undermined the fabric of the collectivity!” –Prof. Yossi Shain, Georgetown & Tel Aviv University, in a Facebook exchange with me over the significance of the recent election results.
Israeli democracy this week was only a few inches from being Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s Turkey – Ehud Barak, Haaretz, Sept. 21, 2019.
Let me commence with full disclosure on two matters: First, I am a totally non-observant Jew, with little to no religious content at all in my day-to-day life—and have little vested interest in defending the religious against criticism from secular circles. Second, I am far from an uncritical Netanyahu apologist, and have severely castigated some his decisions in several columns in the past—see here, here, here & here.
Beyond limits of rational criticism & reasoned dissent
Accordingly, although I have voted for him in recent elections, this was due far more to my concern regarding his major rivals than any unswerving affinity for him personally or for his policies, regarding which I have more than a few reservations. Thus, it would probably accurate to say that I voted against his adversaries, rather for Netanyahu himself.
Perhaps another issue that nudged me into casting my ballot for Bibi was my deep distaste for the vicious and vitriolic excoriation of the man and his deeds—no matter what he did…or did not do. Indeed, I have long been appalled and astonished by the toxic tirades to which his detractors have subjected him.
Of course, after decade of unbroken tenure—and almost a decade and a half overall—as prime minister, a legitimate claim can well be raised that a change is called for. But in Netanyahu’s case, opposition to him goes well beyond legitimate concern over the need for an overdue “changing of the guard”.
Thus, over half a decade ago, well before claims of an excessively long incumbency could be plausibly, raised, I wrote, of the anti-Netanyahu pathology: “The venomous ad hominem attacks on the PM by his political opponents have long exceeded the limits of rational criticism and reasoned dissent.”
Indeed, listening to the rabid rants of the myriad of “Bibiphobes”, an uninformed observer from another planet would be led to believe that Netanyahu is to blame for every misfortune and every malfeasance on the face of the globe – from a typhoid epidemic in East Asia to the cocaine industry in Latin America.
Absurd portrayal of Israel: The myth of Israel theocracy
Moreover, to judge by the derogatory diatribes directed at him, one might get the impression that he has made Israel a dark, backward, regressive backwater, tittering on the brink of tyranny and theocracy, combining the brutality of the Congo, the repression of Sudan and the religious intolerance of Saudi Arabia.
But for anyone familiar with reality in Israel, this is an absurd portrayal of the country.
Indeed, those who have experienced Israel know it to be a vibrant, albeit raucous, democracy, with a free—if often biased—press, a legislature elected by what are, overall, free and fair elections, a vocal, unfettered parliamentary opposition and an independent judiciary. It has become a technological power house, a global leader in innovation, with internationally acclaimed achievement in art and culture and on the cutting edge in most fields of human endeavor—in computer science and IT, in medicine, in water conservation, and in agriculture to name but a few.
As for the claims of creeping theocracy: The highways have never been more congested on Saturdays, with huge traffic jams backed up for miles; shopping malls have never been more crowded with customers on the Sabbath; beaches have never been more crowded over the weekends, and the bikinis never more skimpy; non-kosher restaurants, serving every variety of seafood, have never been more packed, week-end leisure activities—from mountain biking to windsurfing—never been more popular.
With massive “gay pride parades” in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem a regular annual feature of public life, with Tel Aviv dubbed by some as the “gay capital of the world”, Israel is hardly a state in the iron grip of religious zealots!
Anyone attempting to cast it in this light is clearly either woefully misinformed or willfully misleading.
Malevolent & mendacious
Recently, in an attempt to delegitimize him, Netanyahu’s political rivals have begun to compare him to Turkey’s authoritarian leader Recep Tayyip Erdoğan—see for example here and here.
The charge is, of course, baseless.
After all, Erdoğan has conducted wide-spread purges of the judiciary and other sectors of the legal establishment – see here, here and here.
According to the Law Society, there has been “widespread and systematic persecution of members of the legal profession in Turkey” with countless suspects being convicted of terrorism “without credible evidence”.
Quoting an international coalition of lawyers, the Guardian reported that: “Trust in Turkey’s justice system is being undermined by the systematic dismissal and jailing of thousands of judges and prosecutors. Judges’ and prosecutors’ independence has been systematically undermined in Turkey”.
Moreover, Erdogan’s Turkey has won the dubious title for jailing more journalists than any other country –reportedly “more than China, Russia and Egypt combined”—see here and here. Indeed, since Erdogan became president in 2014, prosecutors have opened more than 1,800 cases against people for insulting him and a Dutch journalist of Turkish parentage was arrested while vacationing in the country for criticizing the Turkish president.
Clearly then, any comparison between the realities in Israel and those in Turkey are wildly distortive, hopelessly detached from reality and beyond reasonable doubt, deliberately deceptive.
Under Netanyahu, nary a judge nor a prosecutor has ever been charged with—much less convicted of—terrorism. Likewise, no journalist, however critical of him or his government, has ever been investigated—much less—arrested for opinions he/she expressed in the media.
Accordingly, any suggestion of similarities between the two is manifestly malevolent and mendacious.
Acrid ad hominem acrimony
In many ways, the acrid ad hominem acrimony against Netanyahu is puzzling.
After all, despite the specter of criminal indictments, he invariably tops the polls as the candidate most suited to be Prime Minister–usually outpacing his nearest rival, Blue & White’s Benny Gantz, by ten percentage points or more – see for example here, here & here.
Surprisingly—indeed, astonishingly—even among Israeli Arabs, Netanyahu was designated the “best suited for the role of premier” (23.6%)—scoring well over double the approval rate of Ayman Odeh (9.9%), head of the Arab Joint List, who was just ahead of Gantz (9.6%).
This resounding public endorsement is not undeserved. After all, despite some undeniable shortcomings, during his tenure he has accumulated an impressive record of achievement—in virtually every field of national endeavor—economic, diplomatic and security.
Under Netanyahu-led coalitions, Israel’s economy surged, with GDP per capita climbing by over 50%, equaling or surpassing that of France, UK and Japan—a feat unimaginable not many years ago. Moreover, by encouraging Israel’s pivot to the East, he considerably reduced economic dependence of an often less-than-friendly EU.
On the international front, he managed to wait out the largely antagonistic Obama incumbency, seemingly without major damage; established extremely amiable relations with the current US administration, with Russia, India and the once hostile Brazil.
Ad hominem acrimony (cont.)?
His resolve on Iran’s nuclear program helped induce the US withdrawal from the atrocious accord struck with Tehran and the re-imposition of punishing sanctions against it. In Eastern and Central Europe, he managed to forge a counter weight against an otherwise disapproving EU and made significant diplomatic inroads into Africa and South America.
With regard to security, under his premiership, the IDF have conducted highly successful operations in the north against the Hezbollah tunnel system and the Iranian build up in Syria. As to his handling of terror, apart from periodic flare-ups and excessive restraint against Hamas, he has brought attacks down to almost imperceptible levels for the majority of Israelis—and certainly far less than was the case in the gory times of his predecessors—when attacks were a regular feature of daily life here—in cafes, on buses, in shopping malls, and on crowded sidewalks.
Thus, as I observed previously, after such an extended term in office as had by Netanyahu, a valid case for change can be raised. However, since—by and large—under his leadership, Israel has prospered significantly economically, enjoyed relative security, and enhanced its international standing, the intensity and fervor of the “Bibi derangement syndrome” seems perturbingly inappropriate.
The detriments of BDS (Bibi derangement syndrome)
I have purposely avoided broaching the subject of the pending indictments against Netanyahu—as this is something I have dealt with elsewhere –and about which, I am convinced, that anyone, who is not an obsessive Bibiphobe, would tend to agree that “[t]he unrelenting drive to bring an indictment—any indictment—against Netanyahu has long exceeded the bounds of reasonable law enforcement”.
Instead, I have focused on the issue of Netanyahu’s record of governance, rather than on his alleged personal misdeeds.
It is here that his political opponents should exercise greater caution and restraint.
For in their unbridled assaults on Netanyahu and on what Israel has allegedly become under his leadership, they are playing right into the hands of the country’s most vehement detractors. Indeed, it is difficult not to imagine them rubbing their hands in malicious glee, gloating over every caustic condemnation of Netanyahu by his domestic rivals.
After all, what more need they do to prove their case that Israel has become a fascist, racist state, run by xenophobic religious zealots, nudging it ever closer to totalitarian theocracy, than to quote the largely baseless barbs, hurled at him by those struggling to dislodge him from power?
Indeed, by their own hand, they are laying the foundation for incalculable—and potentially irreversible—damage to Israel, damage which, even if they manage to remove and replace Netanyahu, they themselves will not be able to repair.
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There are a handful of real, pressing concerns on the minds of American families today.
They want pro-worker trade deals such as USMCA. Affordable prescription drug prices. Strong border security. Real gun safety. Even a bit of progress on any one of these issues would bring a huge sigh of relief from citizens that Washington is finally putting them first.
While this checklist is only a start, all of these items have something important in common: Congress could have taken meaningful action on any one of them this week.
Instead,Congressional Democrats chose to dedicate their time to yet another political circus hearing, this time about a “whistleblower” report. This latest conspiracy theory alleges that the Trump Administration tried to cover up a transcript of a phone call between President Trump and President Zelensky of Ukraine.
The White House has made the call available for all to see, but that’s not even the best part. It turns out the “whistleblower” had no first-hand knowledge of anything being alleged.
You can’t make this stuff up.
Of course, the political theater took over Washington once again with wall-to-wall coverage from the left’s usual media allies. It was yet another week completely wasted for Congress, who has real work to do keeping its promises to American voters. But like cats chasing a laser pointer, Democrats and their surrogates are jumping at anything that moves if it means they can avoid actually having to get anything done for a little bit longer.
The scariest part? This might only be the beginning. With House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s caucus increasingly dominated by a radical left wing that demands open borders, socialized medicine, and a complete government takeover of the economy under euphemisms like the “Green New Deal,” political theater for the adoring liberal press may be the only thing holding the left together. Democrat leaders have no power against the rising Democratic Socialist stars in their party, so they have no choice but to give in to their childish antics.
So while Democrats in Congress have thrown nearly 3 years down the drain as a result, President Trump is keeping his focus on what matters to working Americans, White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham said today:
“Nothing has changed with the release of this complaint, which is nothing more than a collection of third-hand accounts of events and cobbled-together press clippings—all of which shows nothing improper. The President took the extraordinary and transparent steps of releasing the full, unredacted, and declassified transcript of his call with President Zelensky, which forms the heart of the complaint, as well as the complaint itself. That is because he has nothing to hide. The White House will continue to push back on the hysteria and false narratives being peddled by Democrats and many in the mainstream media, and President Trump will continue to work hard on behalf of the American people as he always does.”
This week, President Trump was in New York for the U.N. General Assembly, where he wasted no time delivering results for American citizens while meeting with world leaders.
Each day had a different focus, but in every single one, the President put the interests of the American people above all else:
He called on world leaders to stand against Venezuela’s murderous Maduro regime, declaring that America is behind both “the Venezuelan people” and stopping socialism in this hemisphere.
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Equality Democrats sent out the following in an email:
SIGN THE CARD → Happy Bisexual Visibility Day, Kyrsten Sinema and Katie Hill!!
SIGN THE CARD ➞
This week, Equality Democrats across the nation celebrated Bisexual Visibility Day.
So in honor of this special day, we’re sending a card to Senator Kyrsten Sinema and Congresswoman Katie Hill — they’re proudly bisexual and they’re an INSPIRATION, Rich!
Kyrsten Sinema is the FIRST openly bisexual person elected to the Senate, and she has been a champion for bisexual visibility and LGBT+ rights.
And Katie Hill is the first openly bisexual congresswoman from California, who has promised to fight for equality in all of our policies.
We’re SO grateful for their leadership, so we’re sending them this card to make their day!
The unique stereotypes bisexual people have been trying to shake for years, from both within the LGBTQ community and from straight people we know, seemed like too much of a burden to overcome. Bi women are objectified in media and portrayed as manipulative and treacherous. Straight people see us as promiscuous and confused. Many monosexual people in the queer community ignore bisexual people, when they’re not mocking us for believing our sexuality exists at all.
So, there you have it. Two women/men/or both (?) representing the big “B” in LGBT in the U.S. Congress. And they have their very own holiday. I wonder what their male lovers, if any, think?
Oh, BTW the email is actually a fundraising effort by the Equality Democrats. Pay to play?
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