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The ‘merciless four’ EU countries whose leaders do get it!

August 30, 2017/in Culture War, Immigration, National Security, Policy, Politics, Waste, Fraud and Abuse/by Ann Corcoran

See my previous post for background on my title!

Here is the title of this EU Bulletin story:

The Merciless Four Strike Again: Visegrad Group Sticks to “Zero Refugee Policy”

Poland and Hungary are still sticking to their unwillingness to accept any refugees despite the busy migrant relocations going on in the rest of the bloc.

Both countries are still refusing to take part in the EU-mandated resettlement despite the fact that the European Commission has initiated an infringement procedure against Warsaw, Budapest and Prague for “non-compliance” with their legal obligations on relocation.

Polish Minister of the Interior and Administration, Mariusz Blaszczak, informed Brussels that Poland has applied for cancellation of the infringement procedure.

Mr Blaszczak reiterated his country’s position when he said that “stating that the relocation system will heal the refugee problem is false, it’s a lie. EU policy is harmful, not to say suicidal, as regards open borders, ”adding that “Poland will not accept any refugees.” He also said that Poland did not agree that the Treaty grants the Commission rights to interfere in the national powers with regard to security, integration and social issues.

“Paris, Stockholm, Brussels, Berlin, Manchester, Barcelona. How many more European cities must be still attacked by terrorists to make European Union wake up?

To make the European Commission finally admit that ‘blindly’ accepting everyone who reaches Europe’s coast is like looping a rope around Europe’s neck,” Mr. Blaszczak pointed out.

All four Visegrad countries – Hungary, Poland and the Czech and Slovak Republics – have joined their forces against the EU’s 2015 migrant resettlement program that sought to resettle 160,000 refugees across EU states.

See my ‘Invasion of Europe’ archive here. And here are all my previous posts on Poland.

EDITORS NOTE: The featured image of protests is courtesy of the Middle East Eye. Two years ago the Polish people began to let it be known that they wouldn’t be pressured in to taking the EU’s migrant boat people.

False Choice: Ending DACA or Building the Border Wall

August 30, 2017/in Featured, Immigration, National Security, Policy, Politics, Regulation/by Michael Cutler

President Trump doesn’t have to choose. And he shouldn’t.

Though there is no shortage of “fake news” appearing in the mainstream media, there are a number of reports claiming that members of the Trump administration are attempting to convince President Trump to renege on his campaign promise to rollback the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program in exchange for funding for the construction of the border wall.

Before we consider this news, let’s be clear about the absolute need to secure the dangerous U.S./Mexican border. I have frequently compared securing that border with a wing on an airplane. Without a wing an airplane will not fly. However, a wing by itself goes nowhere. Though it has been estimated that nearly half of all illegal aliens did not run the southern border, and instead were admitted through America’s 325 ports of entry, securing that border is nonetheless a vital element of our immigration law enforcement system and national security.

The U.S./Mexican border is particularly dangerous because of endemic corruption of the Mexican government on all levels and the extreme level of violence in Mexico, both attributable to the Mexican drug cartels. Mexican government officials are given the choice of “silver or lead.” Either take a bribe (silver) or expect to be shot (lead).

That violence and potential for corruption flows across our border: The majority of violent crimes in the United States have a connection to the drug trade and drug addiction.

For years I have written about how the most reliable metric to determine the level of border security for the United States is not the arrest statistics by the Border Patrol, but the price and availability of heroin and cocaine in the United States since those substances are not produced in the country. Every gram of those narcotics is smuggled into the United States.

Today the United States is experiencing unprecedented levels of heroin addiction that wreaks havoc on lives and our communities. Drug smugglers also engage in human trafficking and smuggle transnational gang members into the United States.

While not all drug smuggling involves the U.S./Mexican border, a huge amount of narcotics does enter the United States along that dangerous corridor that stretches roughly 2,000 miles.

Furthermore, the 9/11 Commission made the compelling case for making border security a cornerstone of national security policy. This conclusion, in point of fact, was laid out in the preface of the official report, “9/11 and Terrorist Travel: Staff Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States.”

Now let’s consider the wrong-headed program created by the Obama administration, DACA.

The mainstream media and immigration anarchists have, since the inception of the illegal implementation of the DACA program on June 15, 2012 by the Obama administration, provided blatantly false and misleading statements about this program, duping Americans into believing that DACA is for alien children.

While President Obama sold this program to the American people as providing lawful status for young aliens, in reality aliens as old as 31 years of age could qualify if they claimed to have entered the United States prior to their 16th birthdays.

The program additionally required that these aliens continuously resided in the United States since June 15, 2007, up to the present time. Again, without face to face interviews and no field investigations, there would be absolutely no way to determine if these aliens met these requirements.

Unfortunately, there were no interviews and no field investigations to verify any of the claims made in the applications. This created an open invitation to fraud. Because of a dearth of resources, and the hundreds of thousands of applications that were filed, fraudsters are not likely to be caught.

To underscore this concern, a review of the Statistics for DACA from 2012 though June 30, 2016, as posted by United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), shows that hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens benefited from this program and that a very small percentage of the applications were denied.

Immigration fraud is not a “victimless crime.” In fact, immigration fraud was identified by the 9/11 Commission as the key entry and embedding tactic of terrorists. DACA’s integrity is undermined by an abject lack of personnel and resources.

Furthermore, while not generally reported in the media, adjudications officers can approve an application for DACA in mere minutes while a denial of an application may require hours or days to perform, in anticipation of an appeal being filed by the attorneys representing the aliens in question. This placed enormous pressure on the adjudications officers to approve the great majority of the applications so that these beleaguered officials can meet quotas that were established to achieve productivity goals.

It must also be noted how the DACA program undermines the crucially important inspections process conducted at ports of entry of aliens seeking to come into the United States.

Open-borders immigration anarchists claim that illegal aliens enter the United States “undocumented.” That term is an artifice of language that could have been created by the Ministry of Truth in George Orwell’s novel, “1984.”

In reality, aliens who run our borders, evading the U.S. Border Patrol and the inspections process, enter the United States without inspection.

Obviously no record of entry is created when illegal aliens enter the United States without inspection. Therefore, without an actual field investigation, there is no reliable way to know when, where or how such illegal aliens actually entered the United States. There may also be no reliable way to determine the true identities or criminal histories of these illegal aliens. This was much the case when, in the name of “compassion,” the Obama administration encouraged the flood of unknown “Unaccompanied Minors” across the U.S./Mexican border. This led to the influx of members of the violent and vicious gang members including MS-13.

The MS-13 problem in the has become so acute that it has been the subject of multiple congressional hearings, including the June 20, 2017 the House Homeland Security Committee, Subcommittee on Counterterrorism and Intelligence field hearing on the topic “Combating Gang Violence On Long Island: Shutting Down The MS-13 Pipeline,” and the June 21, 2017 Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on “The MS-13 Problem: Investigating Gang Membership, its Nexus to Illegal Immigration, and Federal Efforts to End the Threat.”

Advocates for immigration anarchy have become adept at providing false choices and justification for absurd policies. One of their favorites is to claim that if we cannot deport 11 million illegal aliens we should “solve the problem” by legalizing them to get them “out of the shadows.”

Of course, in reality, there are likely 30 or 40 million illegal aliens in the United States and because of the same lack of resources and lack of integrity in the administration of the DACA program, there would be no way to interview those millions of illegal aliens or conduct field investigations or even search for illegal aliens who refuse to emerge from the shadows.

These ridiculous arguments are never used where drunk driving or other such crimes are concerned. However, where immigration law enforcement is concerned, the arguments have gotten successively more absurd. Many Americans have been duped by anarchists who repeat these false arguments as frequently as possible.

The truth is that our borders must be made truly secure and, consequently, DACA must be allowed to fade out.

President Trump needs to order that when the period for aliens granted temporary lawful status under DACA expires, no action be taken to extend their authorizations, leaving them vulnerable to removal (deportation).

America has the most generous immigration policies of any country on this planet. Massive amnesty programs not only undermine national security and public safety, but insult the million lawful immigrants who are admitted into the United States each year and abide by the rule of law and the spirit of our laws. It can only be hoped President Trump recognizes his obligation with respect to DACA.

EDITORS NOTE: This column originally appeared in FrontPage Magazine.

Just A Note On Macron-Management by Hugh Fitzgerald

August 29, 2017/in Commentary, Elections, Policy, Politics/by Jihad Watch

It has just been revealed that Emmanuel Macron, President of France, has in the first three months of his presidency spent more than $30,000 on make-up services. That would be a remarkable sum for anyone to spend, but what makes it even more remarkable is that Macron is only 39, the youngest French President ever, and therefore, one might assume, someone who would be least in need of such services, and certainly not to this expensive extent.

Even before this embarrassment, Macron had been stumbling. Just a few months ago, a political neophyte, he had defeated Marine Le Pen for the French presidency with an astonishing 65% of the vote. Now his popularity has plummeted to 36%. What explains this colossal drop? Partly it has to do with Macron’s authoritarian personality, revealed only after the election, and most evident in the curt way he treated the army chief of staff, who objected to defense cuts, leading to the general’s resignation. Partly it has to do with his proposed cut of 10 billion euros to spending on research, health, and housing, and on his controversial proposal to revamp the labor laws, making it easier for employers both to hire and fire.

But Macron’s rather cavalier views on Islam may also have played a part in his drop in popularity. During the election, he said little on the subject of terrorism. It was enough for voters that he was not Marine le Pen, who had been endlessly maligned in the media, labelled an “Islamophobe’ for expressing alarm both about what the Islamic texts and teachings inculcate, and about the observable attitudes and behavior of too many Muslims. But the little that candidate Macron did say on Islamic terrorism was disturbing. “We have a share of responsibility,” he warned, “because this totalitarianism feeds on the mistrust that we have allowed to settle in society…. and if tomorrow we do not take care, it will divide them [the Muslims] from us even more.”

So for Macron, it was “we” — the French — who must acknowledge responsibility for Muslim terrorism, because it is our mistrust of Muslims that causes them, in turn, to subscribe to Islamic “totalitarianism.” We must force ourselves not to “mistrust” them. But that’s an attitude that cannot be commanded. How should the French react, after each attack by Muslim terrorists, at Charlie Hebdo, at the kosher market, along the Promenade des Anglais in Nice, at the Bataclan nightclub? How should they react as each thwarted attack — along the Champs-Elysees, outside the Louvre, in front of Notre Dame, beside the Eiffel Tower — is announced? With so much murder and so much mayhem, how can they not mistrust the Muslims in their midst? Macron followed up this impossible demand with a sentiment worthy of Pope Francis: To lessen this “mistrust,” Macron said, French society “must change and be more open.” More open to what? To Islam, of course.

On April 20, 2017, during the campaign, after an Islamic terrorist killed one police officer and wounded two others in Paris, Macron said: “I am not going to invent an anti-terrorist program in one night.” He had been a government official during two years of continuous terrorist attacks on French territory. Didn’t the public have a right to assume that he would have given some thought to anti-terrorist measures to be taken? Instead of insinuating that he was being unfairly asked to suddenly come up with “an anti-terrorist program in one night” (he was being asked no such thing), shouldn’t he at least have shown the French people that he had been thinking carefully about how to deal with the terrorist threat, and here were some of his thoughts?

Also disturbing was the revelation, during the campaign, that there were some doubtful Muslims on his staff. One of these was Mohamed Saou, who was discovered to have promoted on Twitter the Islamic statement: “I am not Charlie.” Sensing a potential scandal, Macron felt compelled to dismiss Saou on April 6. But on April 14, on a Muslim French radio station, Macron was caught on a “hot mic” describing Saou as a “good guy, a very good guy.” Is a Muslim who insists he would never express solidarity with the murdered cartoonists of Charlie Hebdo a “very good guy”?

On April 28, Mohamed Louizi, author of the book Why I Quit the Muslim Brotherhood, released a detailed article on Facebook that accused Macron of being a “hostage of the Islamist vote.” Republished by Dreuz, a Christian anti-jihad website, Louizi’s article gave names and dates, and explained how Macron’s political movement had been infiltrated by Muslim Brotherhood militants. Since Macron has not refuted the article’s facts, we can assume it is correct. And if it is correct, then we have to worry about Macron, and it’s he who, with the election behind him, has to convince the French public that he recognizes the meaning, and menace, of Islam. It’s the only way to calm their fears.

Since being elected, Macron has announced the formation of a task force on terrorism, consisting of around 20 people, chiefly intelligence analysts, who will supervise and oversee all counter-terrorism efforts directly under the president’s authority. But this, while laudable, is not nearly enough; he has to express a different vision of France, one that has no room for a supposed “amalgame” with Islam.

Is Macron an open promoter of Islam in France? It is more politically correct to say that he is a “globalist” and an “open promoter of multiculturalism.” He does not want to think of France as too French. For he wants to deny the French that heightened sense of their own country, with a specific history, art, literature, politics — a French civilization — of which they have always been proud. Instead, he thinks of Islam as part of this new, multicultural amalgam that he claims France has become. When he visited London last February 22, he told an audience of expatriates that “French culture does not exist, there is a culture in France and it is diverse.” The same day he dared to dismiss one of the greatest sources of French national pride: “French art? I never met it.” Clouet, Chardin, Manet, Monet, Cezanne, Gauguin, Derain, Bonnard, Matisse, then, are apparently not French artists, for there is no such thing as “French art.”

If France is for Macron nothing but a cultural amalgam or olla-podrida, and there is no longer anything specifically French about that county’s civilization, then the Muslims in France are just as “French” with their Muslim culture as the French are with French culture. But the Muslims do not accept the idea of an “amalgam.” They do not celebrate multiculturalism. They want not a mixture of cultures, but for Islam to dominate. Macron fails to realize that it has not been the French who rejected the Muslims; France has made great efforts, teaching its language and its culture to many different kinds of immigrants. The country has been open and welcoming to these migrants and tried, with great success in most cases, to integrate them. That program of integration worked with immigrants from Portugal in the 1950s, from the French Antilles in the 1960s and, in the half-century since, with immigrants from all over: Eastern Europeans, Hindus from India, Filipinos, Brazilians, Andean Indians, Vietnamese Buddhists, and sub-Saharan African Christians. Only the Muslims have failed to integrate, that is have failed to willingly accept the laws, customs, understandings of the Infidel French. In French schools, it is Muslim students who refuse to study topics they deem anti-Muslim, as the Crusades or the history of the French monarchy, or as likely to encourage sympathy for the Jews, as the Holocaust. Meanwhile, Muslims press for ever greater attention being given in those same schools to the study of Islam.

In May, Macron visited West Africa, where French troops are engaged in a campaign against Islamic militants in Mali, Niger, Chad, Burkina Faso and Mauritania, and where he promised to be “uncompromising” in the fight against the Jihadists. One wonders why he can be so forthright and clear-headed about the Islamic threat in West Africa, and at the same time fail to recognize the threat within metropolitan France from those millions of Muslims whose religion teaches them to hate the Kuffar, who are commanded to wage Jihad until the entire world is subjugated, and Islam everywhere dominates, and Muslims rule, everywhere. The fact that not all Muslims follow the Qur’an’s commands is slight consolation, for that may reflect not moral but prudential considerations. The time may not be ripe, as Muslims still constitute less than 10% of the French population. But the duty does not dissipate, and Muslims are patient. Macron recognizes a Muslim menace, but so far only in a not-in-my-backyard, limited-to-west-africa sort of way.

At this point, Macron has little to lose in taking a strong anti-Islam position. Everything that has happened since he won the election on May 7 has only increased alarm in France and in Europe. Just two weeks after he was elected, there was a major attack at a concert in Manchester. Other attacks have taken place since then in France, Sweden, Belgium, Spain, Finland. Jihadist attacks include the Barcelona van attack, a car attack on French police, a car attack on police in Belgium, a knife attack in Paris, a knife attack in Hamburg, an attempted bombing in Brussels, a car attack in Paris, a knife attack in London, a knife attack attempt in the United Kingdom, a knife attack in London, a hammer attack in France, a vehicle attack with knives at London Bridge, a machete attack attempt outside Buckingham Palace, a machete attack in Brussels, a second machete attack attempt in Brussels, a stabbing attack in Turku, a machete attack outside Buckingham Palace…and these are only the ones that come instantly to mind.

President Macron is surely aware of all this. It’s time he started to talk about Jihadists in Paris the way he talked about them in West Africa. He needs to stop painting his face, and start telling his own people, the French people, that this entirely factitious ‘“amalgame” of Muslim and French culture does not exist, that French civilization — its politics, its art, its literature, its music, its philosophy — is eminently worth defending, and that if Muslims have their way, France would end up looking, at best, like one of the dreary North African countries. What Macron needs most is not all that expensive makeup and the services of some pretty esthetician, but a makeover in his understanding, so that he will sound the way in these parlous times he ought to sound, which is to say, a lot less like Tariq Ramadan, and a lot more like Charles De Gaulle.

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Sacrificing the Children

August 29, 2017/in Culture War, National Security, Policy, Politics, Waste, Fraud and Abuse/by Tabitha Korol

In April of this year, The Public Broadcasting Service’s (PBS) LearningMedia featured “Dying to be a Martyr,” a classroom experience about the Middle East for students, ages 9 through 12. Taxpayer-funded educational material, provided at no cost, includes some historical documents, but delivers a strictly one-sided Islamic view of the religious and territorial conflict, without regard to suitability, accuracy or entirety.

As reported by The Blaze that same month, the premise was how religions can unite or divide people, why individuals and groups sometimes turn to tactics of terrorism, and how terrorism affects our world. The Blaze also discovered that more than 200 US-government-approved textbooks are used in the UNRWA schools, in Gaza, Judea and Samaria (West Bank), and east Jerusalem; they ignore Israel’s existence and holy sites; ignore all historical connection of Jews to the land; and encourage Moslem students to kill Israelis and become martyrs. Instead of attempting to provide these children with a precious opportunity for a better education and decent future, PBS uses our tax dollars to keep them illiterate, ignorant, and impelled to destroy Israel by martyrdom.

It should be noted that UNRWA, The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, is the largest refugee program and the only one established for area-specific aid to Palestinian refugees and their descendants, a number grown to five million. Paid staff includes Hamas members who are dedicated to Israel’s destruction and invite anti-Israel rocket and mortar launches on their premises. Between 1920 and 1970, 900,000 Jews were systematically expelled from Arab and other Moslem countries. The UN did nothing to assist the “major transnational phenomenon,” now referred to as “The Forgotten Exodus” of Jews from Islamic countries. They were ultimately absorbed into Israel, the US, Canada, and France. UNRWA remains a policy of war to keep the Palestinian Arabs homeless and ready to invade and conquer Israel.

The students watch a film of an 18-year-old Palestinian terrorist, Mohanned, who, armed with explosives, enters Israel as a suicide bomber but reverses his course and returns home. In the subsequent lesson plan, titled “Martyrdom,” Mohanned is in a jail cell where he explains why he wants to die. “Palestinians are unhappy and prefer to die, rather than live this worthless life.” He adds that Israelis are happy, go to cafes, travel worldwide, and Palestinians can’t leave Palestine,” – words that reveal his psychological state of mind, envy to fuel the flames of resentment and prime these kids for revenge. Another video features one potential terrorist and 25-year-old Majdi Amer, the successful terrorist who built a bomb that killed 17 and wounded 50.

Additional videos are shown of young men who share their reasons for becoming terrorists, the dominant messages being that the Palestinians have less land, fewer privileges, more restrictions, or that they attack to avenge an Israeli retaliation. Clearly, these are the lessons’ objectives. There are no interviews of survivors of such terror attacks or their grieving families, of which there is no dearth. They do not consider the centuries of Islamic marauders throughout the Middle East and into Europe, the decades of constant bombardment since Israel became a nation in 1948, the thousands of rocket and mortar attacks on Israel since 2001 that injured more than 1900 innocent civilians, or Israel’s numerous bids for peace negotiations that were rejected by Palestinians.

In 2016 alone, there were 12 vehicular ramming attacks and 100 stabbing attacks thwarted by security forces in Israel. From September 13, 2015 to August 2017, 55 people were killed in terrorist attacks and 812 people (including uninvolved Palestinians) injured. There were 184 stabbing attacks and 129 attempted stabbings; 161 shootings, 60 vehicular attacks, and one vehicular (bus) bombing – as well a higher rate of miscarriages, depression, and a 50% increase in post-traumatic stress disorder among young children.

Left to his underdeveloped reasoning processes, Mohanned has no way of even considering why Israelis may be happier than he. Raised in an Islamic home of a blame-and-shame culture, where a young girl has undergone Female Genital Mutilation by age 7, to be surgically undone before she marries the older man (not of her choosing) who has already learned to devalue women, Mohanned may be the son of a mother who is not out of her own childhood and ill prepared to care for her babies. Traumatic bonding with his mother, from which he cannot separate and mature, leads the male child to psychotic aggression, anxiety and violence. In this society, the child is someone to be manipulated and abused, imbued with feelings of deprivation, rage and envy of other children. Unable to sustain friendships, he bonds with hard objects – weapons, and his rage is heightened in the UNWRA schools, where the classes are dedicated to hate and to annihilate the object of his visceral resentment while also complying with the obligations of holy jihad.

Mohanned has known rigidity and compliance all his young life, with his family, his school and mosque, and the sharia laws enforced by the despotic Hamas, a fundamental terrorist organization, whose name means “violence.” He lives without kindness and learns no compassion, and the obsession with having faces covered during battle practice is obviously a way of not seeing a pained expression or developing sympathy for another child. The children also learn no history about the region, the indigenous Jewish inhabitants, or Israel’s constitution and the Torah, the central laws of Judaism that provide for respect, freedom, and an opportunity for happiness.

Although students may be asked about the effect of bombing Israelis, there is no audio/visual material or discussion to present the views of the victims. They receive only the bombers’ views – their achievements – not the pain and death they cause. They do not discuss their own parents who transmit their ideology to their children, with reinforcement in schools and mosques, or the parents of the children who are bombed in schools or exploded in buses. Neither do the teachers divulge the salaries paid to terrorists or the monetary reward given the surviving parents of martyrs.

Flooded with this misinformation in a culture that robs them of their childhood, these children may well be eager to end their lives. Having to endure the emotional and physical pain from an oppressive husband/father, subjugated and distraught wife/mother, the children become antisocial, immersed in an unidentified emotional pain, with delusional jealousy and anxiety. As explained by Nancy Hartevelt Kobrin, Ph.D., in her book, The Jihadi Dictionary, they cannot develop sincere friendships, think critically or communicate adequately – except through terror. Any friendship is fictitious because the bond is based on hatred of others. With repeated lessons on how to behave, not what to think, this is exemplary training for a generation of singularly purposed warriors – that terrorism is understandable and justifiable.

Michael Getler, American journalist and retired ombudsman for Public Broadcasting Service confirms that PBS provides no lessons on the truth of the region’s history, no chronicle of Islam and Judaism, and no lessons on the immorality of terrorism or aspirations to kill others. Although their corporate communications office has condemned terrorism for the public, it does nothing to incorporate such condemnation in the lessons. Their instructional material continues to omit the impact of terrorism on Israelis, or victims elsewhere in the world, bringing media bias to a new low. Lacking facts and context, but with clarity of purpose, PBS has taken to reinforcing the influence of a blame/shame culture to manipulate these damaged children into terrorists for politics.

Not only is PBS an apologist for Islamic terrorism, but it may now prepare the young terrorists for their moment of glory.

FBI blocks Detroit Muslim from flying to Middle East after discovering his weapons arsenal

August 29, 2017/in Courts & Law, National Security, Policy, Politics/by Jihad Watch

Clearly there is much more to this case than has come out so far. And there are no doubt many, many more Yousef Mohammad Ramadans.

“Did FBI thwart Michigan-based terror threat?,” by Robert Snell, Detroit News, August 27, 2017 (thanks to Creeping Sharia):

Detroit — The FBI’s counterterrorism team blocked an Ypsilanti man from flying to the Middle East and arrested him Friday after discovering a weapons arsenal in a storage unit, the latest national security-related case in Metro Detroit.

Yousef Mohammad Ramadan, 28, has not been charged with a terror-related crime and an FBI spokesman declined to comment, leaving it unclear why the FBI’s counterterrorism team and the head of the U.S. Attorney’s Office’s national security unit are involved in the case, whether investigators had thwarted a terror attack or stopped a man from traveling overseas to commit terror.

The case is shrouded in secrecy. The U.S. Attorney’s Office quietly brought Ramadan into federal court Saturday for a rare weekend arraignment that happened when federal court was closed to the public. The arraignment, which was not posted on the court’s calendar, ended with a federal magistrate judge ordering Ramadan be held temporarily without bond.

Ramadan has been charged with knowingly possessing a firearm with an obliterated serial number, a five-year felony….

The prosecutor overseeing the case is Assistant U.S. Attorney Jonathan Tukel, chief of the office’s national security unit who successfully prosecuted underwear bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, according to federal court records. The lead investigator is FBI Special Agent Ryan Schanberger, a member of an elite counterterrorism squad who investigated terror suspect Sebastian Gregerson, who will be sentenced to prison this week.

“Given the background of the agents and the assistant U.S. attorney, it appears to be more than a run-of-the-mill illegal gun case,” said Seamus Hughes, deputy director of George Washington University’s Program on Extremism. “The FBI devoted much more resources than they traditionally would for cases like this.”…

Ramadan has lived in Ypsilanti and near San Diego, Calif., in recent years and worked as a security guard, according to public records. While living in Chula Vista, Calif., he received a firearm permit in 2010, but it expired in 2014, according to the state Department of Consumer Affairs.

His most recent address is at the Willow Ridge Apartments in Ypsilanti, five miles east of Michigan Stadium. A neighbor, Tonia Atkins, 47, said Sunday that “I’ve never seen anyone there.”

The counterterrorism case was revealed in a criminal complaint unsealed late Friday.

The case dates to Aug. 15 when Ramadan, his wife and children tried to fly to Amman, Jordan, aboard a Royal Jordanian Airlines flight, from an airport not identified in the complaint.

Before the family could depart, U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers and an FBI special agent interviewed Ramadan.

Ramadan told investigators the family was relocating to Bethlehem territory controlled by the Palestinian Authority, according to the FBI.

During the interview, Ramadan said he owned two rifles and a Glock handgun and placed the firearms in a storage unit before arriving at the airport, court records show.

Ramadan could not remember the storage unit address but offered to take investigators to the facility.

“However, when asked to take the agents to the storage unit, Ramadan stated that he had lied about the storage unit, and actually had stored the firearms with a friend,” Schanberger wrote in the criminal complaint.

Then the story changed.

“Ramadan refused to identify the friend to whom he had allegedly given the firearms, stating he did not want to cause his friend to have problems with law enforcement,” the agent wrote.

Ramadan said the firearms were legally purchased and registered.

Then the story changed again.

“Ramadan also stated that he had made up the story about the self-storage unit,” the agent wrote.

Records showed Ramadan had legally registered the Glock handgun, but investigators would soon find more weapons after agents linked Ramadan to a unit at Devon Self Storage on South State Road in Ann Arbor.

On Aug. 23, a federal magistrate judge approved a search warrant for the storage unit.

Ramadan’s wife is listed as the primary contact for the unit; he is the emergency contact, according to the FBI, which called the move an attempt to disguise Ramadan’s involvement with the storage unit.

The lease agreement for the storage unit omitted Ramadan’s address, the FBI said. The lease agreement also omitted the fact that Ramadan and his wife were married.

The FBI special agent wrote in the complaint that he is “aware that individuals in actual or constructive control of contraband often attempt to conceal such possession.”…

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Tribal Warfare in Charlottesville Virginia

August 29, 2017/in Commentary, Culture War, Elections, Policy, Politics, Waste, Fraud and Abuse/by Nidra Poller

Politics in the United States has sunk to the lower depths. It’s tribal warfare. You can’t talk politics: everyone’s angry and full of hate. It’s impossible to debate the issues with flaming partisans. In Charlottesville VA on August 12th, warring clans marched into battle.

And the TV screen trembled with indignation! A woman was killed by a car rammer in Charlottesville VA and the president of the USA dared to condemn the violence “on both sides.” Say what? Good came to fight Evil and he can’t see the difference? Blind in both eyes, he finds excuses for the lowdown killers. The journalists, experts and guests at CNN Intl. are in heaven. Perched on the summit of an audiovisual Sinai, they throw the tablets of the new law down on the noggin of the detested president. Isn’t he the one that called out President Obama for failing to say “radical Islamic terrorism?” And now he can’t say “racist anti-Semitic white supremacist neo-Nazis”! They marched with Ku Klux Klan torches, carried crusader shields, swastika flags, and other such paraphernalia. They chanted “Jews will not replace us” [what an idea] and went in your face to remind Blacks of the good ol’ days of free-for-all lynching. Granted, antifa, Black Lives Matter, and assorted champions of noble causes-also armed with helmets, clubs, and shields-traded blows with the bad guys. But you don’t say “there was violence on both sides!” That’s a feather in the cap of sleazy whites uber alles chieftains, David Duke and Richard Spencer.

Well, for once, I agree with CNN & Cie. This is no time for wriggling. You denounce the guilty party now, and from now on, no matter what their causes or actions. And retrospectively! Back when Barack Obama was refusing to denounce Islamic terrorism, our friends at CNN poked every which way at his questionable indulgence for the racist anti-Semitic Islamists.

In fact, they didn’t.

How about the recent Temple Mount crisis? The whole world and its brother didn’t ask for both sides to reduce the temperature? Orders didn’t come from the UN to CNN not to mention, hmmm, the US president, telling Israeli authorities to lower their damn guard so the Muslim rioters could cool their heads? There wasn’t any shilly shallying about blaming the killers that stashed their weapons in the al Aqsa mosque? No one was deluded enough to equate the violence of the assassins with the violence of the metal detectors?

The truth is, they did.

North Korea is promising to send us their nuclear warheads as fast as an Amazon delivery, and this disgraceful president that doesn’t dare to condemn those evil white supremacists (the Whites akhbar) is threatening to rain down fire and fury on a North Korea known for its hypersensitivity to threats. For once he’s right? We’re not going to wait to be bombed to smithereens before defending ourselves?

Sorry to disappoint you. The Trump is accused of pouring oil on the fire.

At CNN Intl. they’ve discovered the golden moral compass and it leads them day and night. It’s not only CNN, but that channel is my window on a world gone bats. Who started trouble in the quiet college town of Charlottesville with its balmy southern climate? Certainly not the city council that voted to evict the statue of General Robert E. Lee from his park, and rename it Emancipation Park. This iconoclasm is trendy in the United States. The Black Lives Matter dudes and fellow progressives are on the warpath against symbols of the pro-slavery Confederates. The Civil War is over, the North won, the Union is clinched, but suddenly the memory got revived and it’s unbearable. In Durham North Carolina noble Progressives put a rope around the neck of the statue of the unknown Confederate soldier, brought it down, and stomped it to death. The scene was so “Saddam Hussein” that they forgot how anti-war Progressives accused our troops of staging the scene in liberated Baghdad.

And it’s all the rage. We can’t keep up with the series of statues crumpled and wrecked by furious mobs. Will nothing soothe the terrible pain of the descendants of slaves than the complete elimination of all historical evidence of the deplorable slaveholding ideology of those old time Southerners? Yes, replies Derreck Kayongo, CEO of the Virginia Center for Civil and Human Rights. Yes, we have to pull down those statues and tear down those Confederate flags to the last shred. Mister Kayongo, an American citizen born in Uganda, was one of the Top 10 Heroes honored by CNN in 2011. Which proves that America is still the land of opportunity.

And it goes on and it spreads in a molten orgy of morality. The spotlights are beamed on the white terrorists, placed at the top of the list of national security threats. Commentators get a thrill out of badmouthing Trump advisors Steve Bannon (kicked out soon afterward) and Sebastien Gorka, accused of coziness with the l’alt-Right. They guffaw over Gorka’s recent statement about how the white man is blamed for this that and everything when the real danger is Islam breathing down our necks. The neo moralists have a fit! What’s this Gorka talking about? The white supremacists are the ones that made the most casualties!

Does 9/11 ring a bell?

I agree. Questionable elements shouldn’t be hanging around the White House! That’s why you made a stink abut Huma Abedin, whose mother sits high in the Muslim Sisterhood? You put fifty and fifty together and questioned President Obama’s connivance with the Brotherhood, didn’t you? And when it came to that damned Mideast conflict, you knew how to make the moral distinctions at every turn in the road, right? You were so careful not to put the mass killer shahids on the same level as the massacred Jews?

The answer is no!

Breaking news: two or three guys set up a killing field on the terrace of the Istanbul restaurant in Ouaga. “Terrorists,” said our friends at CNN Intl., without the Islam and without the radical. Ho hum. We’ve learned a bit more about that nasty James Alex Fields Jr, who rammed his car into counter-demonstrators in Charlottesville, killing Heather Heyer and injuring several others. There’s a picture of him with the Vanguard America contingent, wearing the white polo and brandishing the logo on his shield. That’s him, a 20 year-old that French media won’t ever call a “youth.” At first his mother said she never asked him about his political activities. Then it was revealed that she’d called 911 several times. She was scared of her son. He hit her, threatened her with a knife. One time he grabbed the cell phone out of her hand and banged her on the head with it, but they’re not saying he’s mentally disturbed and I agree. He’s a killer, like Kobili Traoré who beat Sarah Halimi with a telephone, a landline in this case, and punched and bashed her, breaking the bones in her face, tortured her, mutilated her, subjected her to unspeakable abuse and then threw her to her death from her third story balcony. Who cares how much shit he smoked that afternoon, he’s a killer and he belongs in jail. He’s a jihadi that shouted allahu akhbar, boasted “I killed the shietan,” recited koranic verses so terrifying that armed policemen standing right in the building didn’t dare intervene.

That Fields guy killed in the name of White supremacy and Traoré in the name of Islam akhbar. You took care, Ladies and Gentlemen, to condemn both murderers with the same force and without ambiguity? The CNN anchor that commented with a choked voice on the memorial service for Heather Heyer, killed in cold blood by James Alex Fields Jr. whose nasty face looks down on us, it’s the same anchor that wept with the family of Sarah Halimi, and swore on his heart “never again?”

Well, no, not at all. Our media that have suddenly joined the school of the Moralist Philosophers didn’t think to place the jihadist murder of Sarah Halimi as the measure of vice.

The tragedy of Charlottesville spreads like wildfire, leaps across the ocean, sits in the front row of all our media, tells its story down to the last detail and the trumpets of universal moralization blare in all the lands. And I agree. This President Trump is not up to par. Even if there’s some truth to what he says. Here in France, we know the antifa. We remember their antics last year when they hung out with the Nuit Debout crowd, beating up riot policemen, trapping cops in their torched patrol car, throwing firebombs at the huge plate glass windows of the Necker children’s hospital… The antifa came to Charlottesville armed for the scuffle, but this isn’t the time to split hairs. The president should just have named the Evil ones and left the subtleties for another day. I’m not going to defend him. I’m up on the holy mountain with public opinion. Give us at last our sorely needed integrity. Do what you want with the statues and other Confederate relics. I stand with the decent folk, the CNN journalists and their guests. They speak of what makes us Americans. Our values. What is lodged in a man’s heart. His humanity…or its absence. They look like they’re touched by divine grace.

This isn’t the Soviet Union but there’s something of the Stalinist purges floating in the air: a familiar CNN anchor wonders how a single Republican Congressman can hold his tongue when it’s a question of Good and Evil. Are they crassly trying to hold onto their seats, their platforms, the voters’ fidelity? Aren’t they afraid of Judgement Day? They’re sellouts! [Advertising break for Dubai, that will be followed in the coming hours by Doha, Turkey, Qatar Airlines, Middle East Marketplace (without Israel of course), the Kuwait Fund, and other orientalisms]. And they go on and on, their hearts pasted on their foreheads. And they invite Blacks … excuse me, African Americans, top drawer professionals, to say the worst things about the United States, established on a foundation of genocide, slavery, Jim Crow, discrimination. The wounds are wide open and now this Charlottesville incident and this genocidal, slaveholding, racist president who doesn’t have a shred of a moral conscience… he doesn’t deserve to stay in office. Pulitzer Prize journalist and bestselling author Isabel Wilkerson tells us that America has never resolved this conflict; the Civil War is left hanging, waiting to be settled. In other wars, she says, making up world history as she goes, the losers are held accountable. Is she saying that the Southerners have never paid their dues? Maybe so. We know some wars like that: 1948, 1956, 1967, 1973 and more and better, where the defeated aggressor demands painful concessions from a miraculously victorious Israel.

We haven’t made any progress? Civil rights, desegregation, black mayors, governors, Congressmen and even a president? High class black people march from one broadcast to the next, lower lip quivering, to tell us that nothing whatsoever has been settled, the pain never goes away, you can’t imagine how much it hurts us to see in stone and in bronze these traitors to our country, these men who went to war to keep their damned slavery, it hurts right now as if it were happening today. And I do understand, you wouldn’t believe to what extent I agree with you sista’. Get rid of those statues and don’t give another penny to the Palestinian Authority that glorifies the Islamic supremacists that kill my people. Those Fatahs-lists flirt with Hamas, make junk-peace in English and vow in Arabic to exterminate us…don’t have any more truck with them, draw a line and keep them on the far side of it. From now on we don’t confuse the racists and those who defend themselves against them.

Rabbi Martin Hier of the Simon Wiesenthal Centre comes forth to say that he would have advised President Trump to make a frank clear declaration against the racist anti-Semitic neo-Nazis. No room for white supremacists, no equivalence with the Leftists. The anchor, a CNN Intl. star, is delighted to hear these words from a rabbi that pronounced a benediction at Donald J. Trump’s inauguration. But Rabbi Hier doesn’t stop there. This misunderstanding, he says, distracts from the good things the president doing elsewhere. He’s confronting the North Korean dictator. It should have been done 15 years ago, we wouldn’t be faced with the threat of ballistic missiles today. But, he warns, those fascist marches are dangerous. The Nazis started like that, an unruly marginal group. They’re not the only ones, you know. The Iranians… the biggest revisionists. And we associate with them, we shmooze with them, we have tea with them, we give them billions. The very day when Khamenei once again denied the Holocaust, the pope received Rouhani. I would have advised the pope to tell him he won’t see him again as long as he continues with this Holocaust denial. The anchor’s face decomposes. And I send kisses to Rabbi Hier.

Once upon a time the question of Good and Evil was on the table. The detested president in those days was George W. Bush and his sin was saying that the discord with Saddam Hussein was a question of Good and Evil. Wouah! They accused Bush of making holy war against Iraq. Now CNN holds up the same guy as an example of the way a proper president should behave in time of crisis. They give us a replay of G.W. Bush’s visit to a local mosque on the 17^th of September 2001, where he stands flanked by imams and declares that the terror attack that has just wiped out some 3,000 civilians has nothing to do with Islam, because Islam is a religion of peace.

Let’s admit, there might have lacked a smidgeon of discernment in that case but overall the message that radiates to the ends of the earth, this strong reaction to what might seem like presidential indulgence for a racist anti-Semitic fascist movement, is sane and healthy. The media didn’t do it before? OK, let’s not hold them to account for past mistakes. We’re in the realm of current events, the time is always ripe. Personally, I’m relieved. The lucidity that I have been pleading for over the past 17 years is finally shining. We won’t be told anymore that the women in pussyhats marching behind Linda Sarsour and her cronies in January were in the vast majority honest people defending noble values.http://familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/feminine-spring Antizionist anti-Semitic soldier of totalitarian Islam, determined to subject us to sharia slavery, Ms. Sarsour is a traitor to our cherished values. What’s more, she’s alive and active today. She’s not a monument to the glory of a Confederation defeated more than a century ago!

And we’ll shake a finger at the General Secretary of the UN who declared “Racism, xenophobia, anti-Semitism or Islamophobia are … poisons for our societies.” Whaat ? He can’t see the difference between the Islamists that want to kill us and our fear of that Islam? Where’s his moral compass?

According to the latest news, David Patterson, the driver who rammed into a pizzeria in the village of Sept Sorts, killing a teenage girl and injuring 13 people, is charged with murder and attempted murder, and under lock and key. The prosecutor had detected serious psychological problems, but the psychiatrist did not find an absence de discernment that could relieve him of responsibility for his act.

We still don’t know if Kobili Traoré will be judged for his crime.

EDITORS NOTE: This column originally appeared on Family Security Matters .

[la version française sera publiée sous peu sur le site du Times of Israel en français]

GUERRE DES CLANS A CHARLOTTESVILLE VA

Paris le 21 août 2017

La politique, appauvrie, descend au niveau des guerres de clans aux Etats-Unis. On ne peut plus parler politique : on s’enrage et on se déteste. Le débat entre partisans enflammés est impossible. A Charlottesville VA le 12 août, deux tribus en sont venues aux mains.

L’indignation crève l’écran ! Une femme est morte écrasée par une voiture bélier à Charlottesville VA et le président des USA ose condamner la violence des uns et des autres. Quoi ? Le Bien est venu combattre le Mal et lui, incapable de désigner le coupable, excuse le pire. La chaîne CNN, ses journalistes, experts et invités sont aux anges. Du haut d’un Sinaï audiovisuel, ils jettent les tablettes de la nouvelle loi sur la tête du président haï. N’avait-il pas en son temps dénoncé le refus du Président Obama de prononcer les mots « terrorisme islamique radical » ? Pour refuser à son tour de dire « suprémacistes blancs, néo-Nazis, racistes et antisémites » ! Ils ont défilé avec des flambeaux à la Ku Klux Klan, des drapeaux rouges frappés de la svastika, des boucliers de croisés et autres symboles du cru. Ils ont crié « hé ho vous les Juifs, vous n’allez pas nous remplacer » [drôle d’idée] en faisant tout pour rappeler aux Noirs le bon vieux temps des lynchages. Certes, les antifa, les Black Lives Matter et autres champions de nobles causes, eux aussi munis de casques, de bâtons et de boucliers, ont échangé des coups avec les méchants. De là à dire qu’il y avait des fautifs des deux côtés, c’est faire une fleur aux détestables chefs des blancs uber alles, David Duke et Richard Spencer.

Alors moi pour une fois je suis d’accord avec CNN et Cie. Ce n’est pas le moment de charrier. On dénonce les coupables ici maintenant et dorénavant, peu importe les causes et les actions. Et même à reculons. Quand Barack Obama refusait toujours de dénoncer le terrorisme islamique, nos amis chez CNN examinaient sa complaisance douteuse sous tous ses angles.

En fait non.

Prenons donc la récente crise au Mont du Temple. Le monde entier n’a tout de même pas demandé des gestes d’apaisement des deux côtés ? De l’ONU à CNN en passant par, tiens, la présidence des USA, on n’a pas enjoint les autorités israéliennes à baisser la garde afin de calmer les émeutiers musulmans ? On n’a pas manqué de sévérité envers les tueurs qui ont caché leurs armes dans la mosquée al Aqsa ? On n‘a pas mis sur le même plan la violence des assassins et la violence des portiques ?

A vrai dire, si.

La Corée du Nord promet de nous livrer ses armes nucléaires à la vitesse d’une commande Amazon et ce président honni, qui n’ose pas condamner sans ambiguïté les méchants suprémacistes blancs (les Whites akhbar) promet feu et colère à une Corée du Nord pourtant connue pour sa sensibilité aux menaces. Là au moins il a raison ? On ne va quand même pas attendre d’être bombardé avant de réagir. Désolée de vous décevoir. Le Trump est accusé de jeter de l’huile sur le feu.

Chez CNN on a découvert la boussole d’or et on la suit à longueur de journée et tard dans la nuit. Pas seulement CNN, mais cette chaîne-là est ma fenêtre grande ouverte sur un phénomène mondial. Qui est venu semer le trouble à Charlottesville, paisible ville universitaire au doux climat sudiste ? Certainement pas le conseil municipal qui a voté l’expulsion de la statue du Général Robert E. Lee du parc du même nom qui deviendra par la suite Emancipation Park. Cet iconoclasme est très tendance aux Etats-Unis. Les Black Lives Matter et autre progressistes font la chasse aux symboles de la Confédération esclavagiste. La Guerre Civile est achevée, le Nord a gagné, l’Union est scellée, mais soudain la mémoire ravivée devient insupportable. Si bien que des nobles Progressistes ont déboulonné, à Durham North Carolina, la statue d’un soldat inconnu de la Confédération. La scène était tellement « Saddam Hussein » qu’on a oublié que les Progressistes anti-guerre avaient à l’époque accusé les forces américaines d’une mise en scène.

Et c’est la rage. On ne compte plus les statues écrabouillées par des foules en colère. Faudrait-il, pour apaiser la souffrance des descendants d’esclaves, effacer l’évidence historique de l’adhésion des sudistes d’antan à cette institution déplorable ? Oui, répond Derreck Kayongo, P-D-G du Virginia Center for Civil and Human Rights. Oui, il faut déboulonner les statues et arracher les drapeaux de la Confédération partout et jusqu’au dernier. Né en Ouganda, devenu citoyen américain, monsieur Kayongo a figuré parmi les Top 10 Heroes nommés par la chaîne CNN en 2011. Comme quoi l’Amérique est toujours le land of opportunity.

Et ça se poursuit et ça se répand, une véritable partouze de moralité. La lumière est braquée sur les terroristes blancs, premiers sur la liste de menaces à la sécurité nationale. On dénonce tour à tour les conseillers Steve Bannon (finalement viré) et Sébastien Gorka, accusés d’affinités avec l’alt-Right. On ridiculise Gorka pour avoir dit récemment qu’on blâme à tort et à travers l’homme blanc alors que c’est l’Islam qui nous guette. Mais non, les moralistes s’insurgent, ce sont les suprémacistes blancs qui ont fait le plus de victimes.

9/11 connaît pas ?

Gare aux infréquentables sous le toit de la Maison Blanche ! Ce pourquoi vous avez dénoncé Huma Abedin, fille d’une Sœur Musulmane haut placée ? Vous avez soupçonné le président Obama de connivence avec les Frères du même non ? Quant à ce satané conflit du Moyen Orient, vous avez su à chaque tournant faire la part des choses, sans confondre les shahids massacreurs et les Juifs massacrés ?

La réponse est non !

Breaking news : deux ou trois personnes transforment la terrasse d’un restaurant à Ouaga en champs de tir. Des terroristes, dit-on chez CNN, sans Islam et sans radical. Ho hum. On en sait un peu plus sur le méchant James Alex Fields Jr, qui a foncé sur un groupe de contre-manifestants à Charlottesville, tuant une femme et blessant plusieurs personnes. Le voici en polo blanc avec le bouclier Vanguard America. C’est lui, un homme de 20 ans qu’on n’appelle pas un « jeune ». Sa mère avait dit qu’elle ne le questionnait jamais sur ses activités politiques. Par la suite, on découvre qu’elle avait téléphoné à maintes reprises à la police pour se plaindre de la violence de son fils qui la frappait, la menaçait d’un couteau. Tiens, une fois il lui a donné un coup sur la tête avec le téléphone portable qu’il lui avait arraché de la main, mais on ne le dit pas « déséquilibré » et je suis d’accord. C’est un tueur comme Kobili Traoré qui a frappé Sarah Halimi avec un téléphone, certes fixe, et lui a donné des coups de poing d’une telle violence qu’il a fracturé les os de son visage, qui l’a torturée, mutilée, qui lui a fait subir des abus innommables avant de la jeter, vivante, de son balcon du 3^e étage. On s’en fout de savoir combien de pétards il avait fumé la veille, c’est un assassin et sa place est en prison. C’est un jihadi qui a crié allahu akhbar, qui s’est vanté d’avoir tué le shietan, qui a récité des versets du coran tellement terrifiants que la police n’a pas osé intervenir.

Ce Fields a tué au nom des Blancs suprêmes et Traoré au nom de l’Islam uber alles. Vous avez su, Mesdames Messieurs, condamner les deux meurtriers avec la même force et sans ambiguïté ? Le journaliste de CNN qui commente, la voix blanche, le service à la mémoire de Heather Heyer, tuée de sang-froid par James Alex Fields Jr. dont la photo nous regarde méchamment, c’est le même qui a pleuré avec la famille de Sarah Halimi en jurant « plus jamais ça » ?

Eh ben, non, pas du tout. Nos médias devenus soudain des philosophes de la moralité n’ont pas pensé établir comme étalon de vice l’assassinat jihadiste de Sarah Halimi.

Le drame de Charlottesville court à toute vitesse comme un feu de forêt, traverse l’océan, s’imprime dans nos médias jusqu’au moindre détail et ça sonne, ça sonne, les trompettes de la moralisation universelle. Et je suis d’accord. Ce Président Trump n’est pas à la hauteur. Même s’il y a du vrai dans ce qu’il dit. Les antifa, on les connaît. On se souvient de leurs exploits en marge du mouvement Nuit Debout. Les CRS bastonnés, les policiers piégés dans leur voiture en feu, des bouteilles incendiaires lancées contre les baies vitrées de l’Hôpital Necker enfants malades… A Charlottesville aussi ils sont venus équipés, mais ce n’est pas le moment de couper les cheveux en quatre. Le président n’avait qu’à signaler le Mal en laissant les nuances pour un autre jour. Moi, je ne le défends pas. Moi, je me place aux sommets avec l’opinion publique. Donnons-nous enfin l’intégrité qui nous manque cruellement. Faites ce que vous voulez des statues et autres reliques de la Confédération. Je suis avec les gens décents, les journalistes de CNN et leurs invités. Ils parlent de ce qui fait de nous des Américains. Nos valeurs. De ce qui se loge dans le cœur d’un homme. De l’humanité et de son absence. Ils sont comme touchés par la grâce. Ce n’est pas l’Union Soviétique mais il y a comme un air de procès stalinien : on demande comment un seul élu Republican peut se taire quand il s’agit ni plus ni moins que du Bien et du Mal. Cherchent-ils tout bêtement à protéger leur siège, leur programme, la confiance de leurs électeurs ? N’ont-ils pas peur du Jugement dernier ? Espèces de vendus ! [Plage publicitaire Dubai, qui sera suivie au fil des heures par Doha, la Turquie, Qatar Airlines, Middle East Marketplace (sans Israël bien entendu), le Kuwait Fund et autres orientalismes]. Et on poursuit, le cœur sur le front. Et on invite des Noirs… excuse me des African Americans de haut niveau professionnel pour dire tout le mal qu’ils pensent des Etats-Unis fondés sur le génocide, l’esclavage, la discrimination. Les plaies restent grand ouvertes et cette histoire de Charlottesville et ce président génocidaire, esclavagiste, raciste dénué de toute conscience morale n’est pas digne de rester en place. Isabel Wilkerson, journaliste et auteur primé, nous apprend que les Américains n’ont jamais résolu ce conflit, la Guerre Civile reste comme suspendue en attente d’un bilan. Dans d’autres guerres, dit-elle, inventant l’histoire du monde au pied levé, les vaincus doivent rendre des comptes. Selon elle donc les sudistes n’ont jamais payé leur forfait ? Soit. On connaît des guerres comme ça : 1948, 1956, 1967, 1973 et j’en passe et des meilleures, où les agresseurs vaincus demandent aux Israéliens victorieux des concessions douloureuses.

On n’a pas fait des progrès ? Les droits civiques, la déségrégation, des élus noirs, un président noir, des Noirs qui défilent d’une émission à l’autre, la lèvre tremblante pour dire qu’on n’a rien réglé du tout, ça fait mal depuis toujours et tout le temps, vous ne pouvez pas vous imaginer le mal que ça nous fait de voir en pierre et en bronze ceux qui ont trahi notre pays, qui ont fait la guerre pour garder leur satané esclavage, ça nous fait mal comme si c’était aujourd’hui. Et je comprends, vous ne pouvez pas savoir à quel point je suis d’accord avec vous sista’. Enlevez les statues et ne donnez plus un centime à l’Autorité Palestinienne qui glorifie les suprémacistes islamiques qui tuent les miens. Ces Fatahs-là fricotent avec le Hamas, font la paix frelatée en anglais et promettent de nous exterminer en arabe, c’est fini l’indulgence, on tire un trait et on ne confond plus les racistes et ceux qui se défendent contre eux.

Rabbi Martin Hier du Centre Simon Wiesenthal est venu dire qu’il aurait conseillé au président Trump de faire une déclaration claire et nette contre les néonazis racistes et antisémites. Pas de quartier pour les suprémacistes blancs, pas d’amalgame avec les gauchistes. Son hôte, une star du CNN Intl., se réjouit d’entendre ces paroles de la bouche du rabbin qui avait officié à l’inauguration de Donald J. Trump. Mais Rabbi Hier poursuit : ce malentendu nous distrait du bien qu’il fait par ailleurs. Il confronte le dictateur nord-coréen. On aurait dû le faire il y a 15 ans déjà, on ne serait pas sous le menace des missiles balistiques aujourd’hui. Mais, dit-il, ces marches de fascistes sont dangereuses. Les Nazis ont commencé comme ça, un groupuscule turbulent. Il y en a d’autres, vous savez. Les Iraniens, les plus grands révisionnistes. Et on les fréquente, on shmooze avec eux, on prend le thé, on leur donne des milliards. Le jour même où Khamenei a nié, encore une fois, l’Holocauste, le pape recevait Rohani. Je lui aurais conseillé de lui dire qu’il ne le recevra plus tant qu’il continuera de nier l’Holocauste. Le visage du journaliste est défait. Et moi j’envoie des bisous au Rabbi Hier.

Du Bien et du Mal il en était question jadis. Le président honni à l’époque, c’était George W. Bush et son péché était de dire à propos de Saddam Hussein qu’il s’agissait du Bien et du Mal pardi ! On l’accusait de faire la guerre sainte contre l’Irak. Aujourd’hui CNN nous montre en replay le même personnage comme l’exemple du comportement qu’on attend d’un président en temps de crise : le 17 septembre 2001, G.W. Bush accueilli dans une mosquée de la ville déclare que l’attentat qui vient d’assassiner près de 3,000 civils n’a rien à voir avec l’Islam, car l’Islam est une religion de paix.

Admettons, ça manque un peu de discernement mais dans l’ensemble le message qui rayonne aux quatre coins du monde, cette réaction à ce qui semblerait la complaisance présidentielle envers un mouvement fasciste, raciste et antisémite est juste et salutaire. Ne tenons pas rigueur à la presse pour ses erreurs du passé. On est dans l’actualité, l’heure est toujours propice. Moi, personnellement, je suis soulagée. La lucidité que j’appelle de mes vœux depuis 17 ans brille enfin. On ne nous dira plus que les femmes qui marchaient en pussyhat derrière Linda Sarsour et consœurs en janvier étaient dans leur grande majorité des honnêtes gens voulant défendre de nobles valeurs. http://www.infoequitable.org/printemps-feminin/
Antisioniste antisémite, soldate d’un Islam totalitaire, déterminée à nous soumettre à la sharia liberticide, Ms. Sarsour trahit nos valeurs. Qui plus est, c’est actuel. Elle n’est pas un monument à la gloire de la Confédération bel et bien battue il y a plus d’un siècle.

Et on fera la leçon au Secrétaire général de l’ONU qui a déclaré « Le racisme, la xénophobie, l’antisémitisme ou l’islamophobie sont (…) des poisons pour nos sociétés ». Quoi ? On met sur le même plan les Islamistes qui veulent nous tuer et la peur de leur Islam ? Ça va pas la tête !

Aux dernières nouvelles David Patterson, le chauffeur de la voiture bélier qui a tué une adolescente et blessé 13 personnes à la pizzeria de Sept Sorts, est mis en examen et écroué. Le procureur avait décelé chez lui de graves problèmes psychologiques, mais le psychiatre n’a pas retenu l’excuse d’absence de discernement.

Nous ne savons toujours pas si Kobili Traoré sera jugé pour son crime.

VIDEO: Mark Schneider, President of Palm Beach ACLU, says ‘Nazis are Christian Terrorists’

August 29, 2017/in Courts & Law, Must Read, Policy, Politics, Video, Waste, Fraud and Abuse/by Defend The Border

If you don’t think we are in a cultural battle, a battle that seeks to destroy the very heart and soul of Western Civilization, then you have been locked in a broom closet for the past ten months!

Not content with just getting high and living in squalor, the rag-tag group of disgruntled children, wearing Halloween masks, donning Marxist clothing and calling themselves, ANTIFA, have organized to such a degree that the dopey Democrat elected leaders now praise this gang of terrorists as the second coming of America’s Founding Fathers!

We only have two problems with that arrangement. First, the Antifa scum are truly dedicated to violent overthrow of capitalism and will “jump-the-shark” to use any event to shock America into listening to their disturbed voices. Second, the Democrats are endorsing this insanity, thus a full-frontal attack against the foundations of American culture, social organization and political stability is developing right before our eyes.

In this video I issue a warning to all REAL Americans to understand that this Modus Operandi of the progressive left will actually cause their own political demise. Moreover, great damage can be done to our country unless our leaders, especially all law enforcement agencies return the rule of law to the First Amendment RIGHT of free assembly, without the threat of physical attack.

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This Will Help Fix the Dysfunction in Congress by Bill Weld

August 29, 2017/in Commentary, Elections, Policy, Politics, Waste, Fraud and Abuse/by Philip Blumel

Given the performance of Congress so far this year – and the past several years, for that matter – now is a good time to talk about term limits for the U.S. House and Senate.

Let’s face it: From the annual failure to approve a real budget to the recent healthcare legislation debacle, it has never been more clear that Congress is dysfunctional. For the most part, it is incapable of fulfilling even the most basic responsibilities.

When they return to Washington in a couple of weeks after their district and state “work periods”, the House and Senate will have only days to resolve fundamental issues of the debt ceiling and how much the government will spend in the coming year. Those are time crunches of their own making and dysfunction, and in the private sector, would be job-ending irresponsibility.

Something has to change. Electing a handful more R’s or D’s on the edges every two years isn’t going to fix it, when even in a “change” election, more than 90 percent of Congress will end up being the same career politicians who are the issue.

Getting things done for the right reasons

Imagine what would happen if Members of the U.S. House were limited by the Constitution to serving only three terms and Senators limited to two terms. Like Governors in 36 states where some degree of term limits are in place, they would know from Day 1 that they were sent to Congress to do a job, only have a certain period of time to do it, and would be driven not by securing a life-long career, but by a fear of failure in their one shot at serving and making a difference.

They might get some things done – and do them for the right reasons.

With term limits, legislators wouldn’t have time to get too comfortable in their seats, forget who sent them there, and shift their loyalties to the special interests who have literally billions of dollars invested in the status quo.

No longer would Congress be a career. It would be the opportunity to serve that the Founders envisioned.

Why Americans want term limits

The American people want term limits. Poll after poll, for many years, have shown overwhelming support. That’s why so many states have enacted them for governors and state legislatures. The problem, obviously, is that the one group who don’t want them are the people in power and the special interests who depend on them.

Congress won’t fix itself. That is abundantly clear.

Fortunately, if Congress won’t act on a constitutional amendment to put federal term limits in place, the founders presciently gave the American people a way to amend the Constitution without Congress’ approval. That solution is an Article V Convention to deal specifically with the question of term limits.

If two-thirds of the states pass bills calling for such a convention, Congress is legally bound to convene one – with the delegates chosen by the respective states. If and when the convention approves a proposed term-limit amendment, it goes to the states for ratification, bypassing Congress.

It’s a dramatic solution. But it’s a dramatic problem, and we all know that Congress won’t fix it on their own.

ABOUT BILL WELD

William “Bill” Weld was elected Governor of Massachusetts in 1990 with 51 percent of the vote and re-elected in 1994 with 71 percent of the vote. He was a Republican Governor in a highly Democratic state. He attributes his landslide victory to serving all the people, and not just voters from his political party.

In 2016, he was the Libertarian nominee for Vice-President of the United States.

EDITORS NOTE: The feature image is of Bill Weld speaking at the National Press Club in July 2016. This article originally appeared in The Jack News.

GoFundMe page demonstrates that the U.S. can’t afford more refugees!

August 29, 2017/in Culture War, Economy, Policy, Politics, Waste, Fraud and Abuse/by Ann Corcoran

What a coincidence, just as I posted my previous report from California about refugees adding poverty to already impoverished areas, here comes more news about refugees who can’t afford housing (Afghans again too). Hat tip:Joanne

It is commendable that citizens may now take up the cause of this mother and son (private charity should be the primary source of support anyway!), but notice this is temporary until this Afghan ‘refugee’ can get her Social Security Disability!

GoFundMe:

We (Chuck Ackerman & Catherine Donnelly) are looking to raise rent for our new neighbors on Cleveland’s west side, a mother and her 14-year-old son who are refugees from Afghanistan. We will call them “Aisha” and “Majid”. Because of the situation they have fled, we’re not using their real names.

US Together is a Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society subcontractor

As volunteers with refugee settlement agency US Together, we met the family soon after they arrived in the U.S. in December 2016. Aisha is an amazing cook and host while soccer-loving Majid wants to be a doctor someday. Although Aisha is working on her English, Majid uses his great English skills to translate for his mother.

But the violence they left behind has left Aisha with many physical and mental traumas that prevent her from working. As an educated woman, Aisha faced persecution in Afghanistan and bears the scars. Since her medical history has been tough to document, her first application for Social Security Disability was denied.

She is working with a great local lawyer to appeal and we feel they have a strong case. But the appeal is expected to take 12-18 months and in the meantime, the family needs to pay rent.

Their rent is $550 per month, so we are looking to raise $6,600, or 12 months of rent. That said, every cent counts! Each month of rent we can raise will get the family closer to the date they can get the benefits they need to meet their own needs. The next date they need $ for rent is December 1, 2017. We’ll be keeping the fundraiser going until we meet the goal or the family wins their appeal.

As refugee support groups face drastic funding cuts these days, the resources available for families like this one who are already here are dwindling. That’s why we are turning to you for help.

By giving to this fundraiser, you will help this family achieve the peace of mind and breathing room they need for Aisha to work on her health and recovery from trauma and for Majid to focus on succeeding in high school and build the foundation he needs to one day become a doctor and help others. [I don’t want to sound too cynical but I swear in every refugee story there is a kid who wants to be a doctor!—ed]

It’s true that the family has other needs, though this fundraiser is focused on the basics of maintaining their housing. But if you have any ideas or resources you’d like to share or have questions about their other needs, please let us know!

We are so grateful for your support!

Watch this space for updates—we may plan a good, old-fashioned rent party!

Help spread the word!

Bringing poverty to America…..

Mark Hetfield

New readers need to know that when the original Refugee Act of 1980 was debated in Congress, sponsors like Ted Kennedy, promised it was not about importing poverty!

Resettlement contractors like US Together get federal support for the family for about 3 months at which point they drop them like hot potatoes to get ready for their next paying clients.

They actually call them clients!

By the way, US Together is a subcontractor of the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society where its CEO makes over $300,000 a year. Sure hope Mark Hetfield is contributing to this poor woman’s rent as he is busy lobbying Congress for more refugees (and trashing Trump!).

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VIDEO: Antifa shuts down San Francisco public prayer meeting Democrats cheer

August 29, 2017/in Courts & Law, Culture War, Must Read, Policy, Politics, Waste, Fraud and Abuse/by Dr. Rich Swier

During a Patriot Prayer event at Crissy Field in San Francisco, California, ANTIFA and their supporters shut down the religious freedom and free speech of those gathered for to pray for peace and brotherhood.

Read more at Infowars

RELATED VIDEO: Joey Gibson – What is Patriot Prayer?

JP Morgan Chase donating $1 million to the Southern Poverty Law Center and its Hate List

August 29, 2017/in Culture War, Featured, Policy, Politics, Waste, Fraud and Abuse/by Florida Family Association

JP Morgan Chase plans to donate $1 million to the Southern Poverty Law Center and its hate list.

The Daily Caller published a news article titled JP Morgan To Donate To SPLC And ADL After Charlottesville. The article states in part:

JPMorgan will donate $1 million to the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) in response to the violent protests that took place in Charlottesville, Va., in early August.

Peter Scher, head of corporate responsibility and chairman of JPMorgan, wrote a letter to staff Monday wherein he asserted the bank “stands in support of all those who reject racism and violence,” and pledged to support both the SPLC and ADL in their campaign of “tracking, exposing and fighting” hate groups and other extremist organizations.

Scher announced that the bank will launch a two-for-one match for employee donations to groups that promote human and civil rights.

Here are some facts regarding the Southern Poverty Law Center.

The Southern Poverty Law Center’s (SPLC) wrongful labeling of some conservative organizations as hate groups unjustly harms reputations, threatens public safety and brands their followers as hate people. Some of the organizations the SPLC wrongfully lists as hate groups include D. James Kennedy Ministries, Family Research Council, Liberty Counsel and American Family Association. The Southern Poverty Law Center wrongfully lists many more conservative organizations as hate groups. Millions of Americans belong to and support these organizations.
In 2012, the Southern Poverty Law Center’s “hate catalogue made headlines in 2012 when a domestic terrorist who carried out a politically-motivated shooting at a Christian organization, the Family Research Council (FRC), admitted he got his target list from the SPLC.” Source Judicial Watch. On August 15, 2012 Floyd Lee Corkins II, wielding a 9mm pistol along with two magazines and 50 rounds of ammunition, entered the lobby of Family Research Council’s Washington, D.C. headquarters. Corkins shot an employee, 46-year-old Leonardo Johnson, in the left arm. While injured, Johnson assisted others who wrestled the gunman to the ground until police arrived and placed the gunman under arrest. During his FBI interview Corkins was asked how he chose his target. His response was “Southern Poverty Law lists anti-gay groups. I found them online”. Source Wikipedia.
In 2014, under the Obama administration, the FBI cut ties with the Southern Poverty Law Center. The Department of Justice used to provide access to the hate propaganda published online by the Southern Poverty Law Center. However, the Department of Justice removed the SPJC as a reference after more than a dozen conservative organizations complained about the erroneous labeling and public safety threats that accompany it. Source Judicial Watch.
Congressman Steve Scalise and four others were gunned down in a rampage by James T. Hodgkinson who liked the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Facebook page. In 2014, the Southern Poverty Law Center repeatedly implied that Scalise associated with white supremacists and other groups the organization had deemed “hate groups,” including the Family Research Council. Source SPLC. In 2015, SPLC implied that because Scalise lives in the same state as Ku Klux Klan members, he “associated” with them. Source SPL.

The Southern Poverty Law Center’s name calling and labeling is offensive and alarming to the millions of Americans who belong to and support many conservative organizations that are wrongfully listed as hate groups. SPLC’s list puts these organizations’ employees and the people who support them in a bull’s eye target for leftists’ hate and possible violence.

JP Morgan Chase certainly has the right to support whatever organizations it chooses. You have the same right to express your disappointment and patronize companies that do not support organizations that target conservatives with hate labels.

Florida Family Association has prepared an email for you to send to express concern to JP Morgan Chase officials regarding its plan to fund the Southern Poverty Law Center.

To send your email, please click the following link, enter your name and email address then click the “Send Your Message” button. You may also edit the subject or message text if you wish.

Click here to send your email to express concern to JP Morgan Chase officials regarding its plan to fund the Southern Poverty Law Center

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Man On the Street: Income Inequality

August 28, 2017/in Culture War, Labor & Unions, Must Read, Policy, Politics, Taxes, Waste, Fraud and Abuse/by Prager University

We know progressives deplore income inequality and believe the idea of income equality will bring about a better world, one that is more “socially just.” But do they know anything about what actually happens when their dream comes true?

Like, what do “income equality” societies (like Venezuela) look like?

Which society should the U.S. model itself after?

Documentary filmmaker Ami Horowitz asks progressives what they know about income equality. Turns out, not that much. Watch Ami’s video here.

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VIDEO: How’s Socialism Doing in Venezuela?

August 28, 2017/in Culture War, Policy, Politics, Video, Waste, Fraud and Abuse/by Robert Heller

Venezuela is falling apart. Its economy? Ruined. Its people? Hungry. Its government? Corrupt. What happened? In a word, socialism. Debbie D’Souza, a native Venezuelan and political activist, explains.

This is a video that should be viewed by the likes of Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren and everyone who seeks to bring Socialism to the United States of America.

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The Afghan Donut Speech

August 28, 2017/in Commentary, National Security, Policy, Politics/by Linda Goudsmit

President Trump faced the nation on August 21st, 2017 and delivered an impassioned three-part speech on American involvement in Afghanistan. The first part eloquently addressed the military from the perspective of a grateful nation. President Trump thanked the military and complimented their extraordinary service and sacrifice.

President Trump promised the troops full support for the equipment they need and for the freedom of the military generals in the field to make decisions without interference from Washington politicians sitting behind desks. President Trump announced a change to the rules of engagement – he promised a commitment to winning when engaged. The President spoke at great length about the exemplary military model of cohesion – the unity of men and women from all races and religions united by common cause and commitment to their pledge of allegiance to the United States of America. We are one family – one American family. The President implored the country to follow the military model of cohesion and heal the divisiveness at home.

The second part of the President’s speech announced a powerful new shift in purpose.

The United States will no longer participate in nation building – we are finally out of the business of trying to build democracies in unwilling nations. Instead, our international involvement will focus on common cause that serves American national interests. President Trump expects our friends and allies to participate in the funding of these efforts – America will no longer unfairly accept the financial burden of military engagement alone.

The third part of President Trump’s speech was directed at our terrorist enemies. The President spoke to the terrorists directly saying America will stay the course and we will prevail. Here is the problem. President Trump never identified the terrorist enemies as radical Islamists. That is the donut hole. Candidate Trump was very specific about naming radical Islam as the enemy and identifying its existential threat to Western freedom. President Trump did not. Candidate Trump understood that the misrepresentation and censorship of the colluding mainstream media gives safe haven to the radical Islamic terrorists because the void in the coverage deceitfully minimizes the Islamic threat. President Trump ignored the fake news contribution that emboldens radical Islamic terrorism.

Wars cannot be won without clarity and an explicit identification of the enemy. Worldwide Islamic terrorism is ideological. Our terrorist enemies abroad and at home are inspired by their religious commitment to Islam and their Koranic dream to re-establish the caliphate and impose supremacist Islamic sharia law worldwide. Islam is a comprehensive socio-political expansionist movement with a religious wing (mosques and imams), a military wing of jihadists (terrorists), and a political wing (Muslim Brotherhood/CAIR/MSA). Islamic terrorism is a war of ideas as much as it is a savage physical war. The war of ideas can only be won by an informed West that understands the comprehensive ideology driving the Islamic terrorism.

President Trump’s eloquent speech of determination and commitment to the troops collapses into the donut hole because without naming the ideological inspiration of Islamic megalomania the Muslim Brotherhood remains free to recruit and infiltrate every government agency in America. CAIR operatives continue to disinform the public, and the Muslim Student Association continues to infiltrate and incite violence on campuses across America. The Muslim Brotherhood is a radical Islamic terrorist organization and must be designated a terrorist organization. Candidate Trump had the courage to say so – President Trump did not.

It is not enough to supply our men and women in uniform with the commitment and necessary equipment to win on the battlefield overseas. It is essential to name the terrorist enemy as radical Islamic terrorists to rid our country of the enemy within or our fully equipped soldiers overseas will die in vain.

President Trump has surrendered to the leftover Obama national security team of McMasters and his gang. McMasters et al are loyal to the pro-Muslim Obama doctrine that adamantly refuses to identify radical Islamic terrorism as the enemy. They have deliberately and catastrophically censored every mention of the religious Islamic ideological motivation for the terrorist threat from every training manual pertaining to our national security. Instead, Obama’s leftovers continue to welcome CAIR and the Muslim Brotherhood to “tutor” America on national defense and deceitfully consider every possible motivation for terrorism except the actual radical Islamic motivation. Our national security depends on accurate information. Our intelligence depends on an intelligent policy of intelligence gathering. It is not intelligent to deny reality and pretend that Islamic terrorism is not Islamic. Even the supremacist war cry of radical Islamic terrorists screaming Allahu Akbar – Allah is greater – before they slaughter innocent “infidels” is intentionally ignored.

Candidate Trump has slid into the donut hole and is being drowned by the swamp. The echo chamber of disinformation and misinformation continues in the military, the national defense agencies, and the colluding mainstream media under President Trump. President Trump must find his way back and clear the Obama leftovers from his administration to pursue the policies of his candidacy. Only then he will be the President Trump that Americans elected and expected.

The Afghan donut speech was very sad for America – everyone knows donuts are hazardous to your health.

EDITORS NOTE: This column originally appeared on the Goudsmit Pundicity website.

VIDEO: On Hillary Clinton’s Book and Why Taylor Swift Is a Problem for Feminists

August 28, 2017/in Culture War, Policy, Politics, Science, Video/by The Daily Signal

Every week, The Daily Signal’s Facebook show “Problematic Women” highlights strong conservative women, current events, and the hypocrisy of the “feminist” left. On this week’s episode, Hillary Clinton is still complaining about losing the 2016 election in her new book “What Happened,” and the Twitterverse is up in arms over an Instagram post from Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin’s wife, Scottish actress Louise Linton.

We also address the media’s reaction to Taylor Swift’s new song, crowning her “Problematic Woman of the Week.” Check out the video above.

EDITORS NOTE: Americans need an alternative to the mainstream media. But this can’t be done alone. Find out more.