Join the Heritage Study Program’s Israel Expedition from May 20 – 30, 2017

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You are invited on Tom Trento’s Nation Security Mission to Israel, May 20-30, 2017. Along with Tom is Dan Gordon, Hollywood Screenwriter and current Israel Defense Force Reserve officer. No one knows Israel’s Military like Dan Gordon who has served there for over forty years.

After our incredible experience on the 2013, 2014 and 2015 trips, it is our pleasure to invite you to join us on the Fourth Fact Finding Expedition to Israel on May 20 – 30, 2017.

In conjunction with The United West and the Heritage Study Programs, we will be heading our third mission that will focus on and will offer most unique insights into the region’s current events. We heartily invite and welcome you to what will be a most informative and exciting expedition.

This trip incorporates visits to the Holy Land biblical and historic sites with a fact finding expedition that focuses on the region’s defense, security and intelligence. Area’s of special interest include the possible move of the American Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem and the Israeli border security system, as a possible model for the southern border of the United States.

FOR DETAILS GO HERE: http://tt.heritagestudyprograms.com/

VIDEO: The Truth About Russia Hacking the Election for Donald Trump

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Stefan Molyneux breaks down all of the information supporting the claim that Vladimir Putin’s Russia “hacked” the U.S. Presidential election between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.

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Democrats Refuse to Hire Blacks for Top Jobs in the U.S. Senate

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The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King once said, “one of the shameful tragedies [of our nation] is that eleven o’clock on Sunday morning is one of the most segregated hours, if not the most segregated hour in Christian America.”

King referred to the segregation within American churches on Sunday mornings.

I would say that the most segregated place in America is the Democratic Party, especially when it comes to Blacks holding senior-level staff jobs.

According to The Gallup Organization, Blacks make up 22 percent of the Democratic Party and Hispanics 13 percent. For decades, Blacks have been the most loyal voting bloc within the Democratic Party, but as Obama has proven, when it’s time to reward that loyalty, Blacks are often forgotten.

The Joint Center for Economic and Political Studies did a fascinating study on this issue last year. The Joint Center used to be the premiere Black think tank in the U.S., until they decided to become a radical liberal group and tool of the Democratic National Committee.

The report is titled, “Racial Diversity Among Top Senate Staff,” conducted by James R. Jones. This is one of the most explosive, damning reports of the Democratic Party’s racism I have ever read. Some of the highlights of the report are:

  • Although people of color make up over 36 percent of the U.S. population and over 28 percent of the citizen voting-age population, they represent only 7.1 percent of top Senate staffers. Of the 336 top Senate staffers, our analysis finds evidence of only 24 staffers of color (12 Asian-Americans, 7 Latinos, 3 African-Americans, and 2 Native-Americans). African-Americans make up 13 percent of the U.S. population, but only 0.9 percent of top Senate staffers and Latinos make up over 16 percent of the U.S. population, but only 2.1 percent of top Senate staffers.
  • African-Americans represent from 17 to almost 38 percent of the population in ten states (Ala., Del., Ga., La., Md., Miss., N.C., S.C., Tenn., and Va.), yet hold only 1.7 percent of the total top staff positions in the U.S. Senate offices of these states (one position in S.C.).
  • Top Democratic Senate staff members are much less diverse than the Democratic voting base. While those who self-identified as Democrats nationwide were 22 percent African-American and 13 percent Latino, top Democratic U.S. Senate staff as a group is 0.7 percent African-American and 2.0 percent Latino. There is no African-American chief of staff, legislative director, or communications director in the Washington, D.C. personal office of any Democratic Senator, according to the Joint Center’s 2015 study.

According to table 3 of this same report, “While people of color make up approximately 37 percent of those who identify as Democrats, they account for 8.1 percent of top Democratic Senate staff. In comparison, people of color make up 9 percent of those who identify as Republicans and 6.7 percent of top Republican Senate staff, the Republicans’ percentage of key staffers of color is closer to the share of their party’s voters who are people of color.”

In other words, a far left, radical Democratic group, The Joint Center, admits that the Republican Party has more diversity among their Senate staffers than their Democratic counterparts as a percentage of their makeup in their respective parties.

Why has the mainstream media not reported on this fact? They report on the fact the Democrats have little to no diversity on Senate staffs, but they never take the next step and say that the Republicans are doing a far better job than the Democrats, because to do so would undercut the liberals constant argument that Republicans are racist.

So, if the Republicans are racist, as Democrats constantly allege, what does that make the Democrats? One of their own radical liberal think tanks has now provided empirical data that shows Republicans are more diverse.

Isn’t it amazing that the only U.S. Senator that has a Black chief of staff is South Carolina Senator Tim Scott, who is Black. New Jersey Senator, Corey Booker, the only other Black Senator, doesn’t think enough of his own community to hire a Black for this position, but yet he constantly lectures others about the lack of diversity. How ironic!

So, to all my Black Democratic friends, why do you continue to work for a party that doesn’t reward your loyalty?

EDITORS NOTE: This column first appeared in Black Press USA.

Fake News by the Fake Mainstream Media

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So the media and the Left are all appalled, dismayed, horrified and aghast at fake news allegedly created and distributed by hubs in Eastern Europe and Russia — and that it may have influenced the presidential election.

This, as opposed to the fake news created by the traditional media in hubs in New York and D.C. Because mainstream media journalists, about 90 percent of whom are to the left of the American political center, get to define what is good journalism, they also get to decide what is fake news and more importantly, what is real news.

And then they most definitely do influence elections with their “journalistic” decisions.

For some evidence, here are five examples of completely fake news by the same mainstream media now lamenting fake news as something new and abhorrent.

➠ Hands up, don’t shoot 

Maybe the most egregious and damaging of mainstream media fake news was the coverage of the 2014 Ferguson, Mo. police shooting of Michael Brown.

The initial coverage, and for days and weeks afterward, was that teenager Brown, who was black, was gunned down in cold blood by a white police officer. It was reported, because someone made it up, that Brown was trying to surrender and said his hands were up, don’t shoot.

Rather than wait for any verification, the media in lockstep ran with it 24/7 until race relations were deeply inflamed, riots had started and the professional protester class had descended on the community. It was easy. It fit a left-of-center world view of a racist America and racist cops and it became a rallying cry for activists and journalists.

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Fake journalists on a fake story. Photo: CNN.

The problem is, nothing like that actually happened. Brown, who was always called a teen or a boy, but who in reality was a giant man weighing more than 300 pounds, had just robbed a convenience store and threatened the Korean clerk. It’s on camera. Then in the confrontation with the police officer, Brown attacked him, bloodied the cop, and tried to take his gun. Brown was walking away, but then turned back and was charging the cop — who was more than a 100 pounds smaller. Only then did the officer shoot and kill Brown.

Even the deeply racial Obama Justice Department could not find problems with the officer’s actions, finding them justified.

But the damage was done. Black Lives Matter was birthed. Ferguson was burned. The cop’s life was ruined. And it was all based on fake news as fake as anything allegedly out of Eastern Europe.

➠ Dan Rathergate

CBS ran a story in the heat of the 2004 presidential campaign between George W. Bush and John Kerry that purported to show that Bush’s Texas Air National Guard duty was scandalous.

Lead anchorman Dan Rather relied on a mentally unstable man with a grudge against George Bush to give CBS “copies” of documents that he claimed were received from a person who apparently never existed. Further, the documents were supposedly typed on a military typewriter in the early ‘70s, but were coincidentally the exact same font as Microsoft Word, which was on half the computers in America in 2004 and not used on typewriters. Further, the documents even used the wrong acronym for the name of the report!

In other words, these were obvious, amateurish fakes. But Dan Rather and CBS apparently wanted Bush to lose so badly that they eagerly swallowed the childish scam. It was even featured on a 60 Minutes segment.

Eventually, Rather retired and CBS issued a “we regret” sort of take-back of the story.

Then last year, Hollywood — being a fellow-traveler of the Left with the media — made a film about the scandal; not the real-life Rather/CBS scandal, the made-up Bush part.

And Rather is still venerated as one of the great journalists in American history.

➠ Doctoring the tapes

During the salacious, media sensationalized, racially charged George Zimmerman murder trial in Orlando, NBC doctored the 911 phone call Zimmerman made while following Trayvon Martin. In fact, as was later revealed, they edited the call to make Zimmerman into a despicable racist.

ABC played this from the call:

Zimmerman: This guy looks like he’s up to no good. He looks black.

But here’s everything Zimmerman did say:

Zimmerman: This guy looks like he’s up to no good. Or he’s on drugs or something. It’s raining and he’s just walking around, looking about.

Dispatcher: OK, and this guy — is he black, white or Hispanic?

Zimmerman: He looks black.

That was atrocious and when caught, NBC had to apologize and claim it was just for length.

Right.

But CNN kept trying to keep the flame of racism alive in the story. Weeks after NBC apologized for doctoring the 911 call, on CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360, a CNN audio expert digitally enhanced the audio and thought Zimmerman used a racial slur, ‘f—ing coon.’ CNN reporter Gary Tuchman readily chimed in: ‘It certainly sounds like that word to me.’

Turns out, Zimmerman said it was ‘f—king cold.’

Streams of “mistakes” such as these only ever happen one direction.

➠ Koran flushing

Newsweek ran a story in 2005, citing famed “sources” that military interrogators at Guantanamo had put Korans in the toilet and in one case flushed one down. Within the week, Newsweek had backtracked and apologized for the story, but the damage was done as rioting and violence broke out throughout the Muslim world as the fake news report spread.

How could this happen? Many on the Left have an instinctive distrust of the military and a fault-finding mentality regarding America. This thinly sourced story fit that mindset to a tee and made it all the easier to accept and run with.

Just like the Ferguson cop being a cold-blooded racist killer, just like Rather’s story on Bush, just like Zimmerman being a racist.

➠ Fake fact-checkers

This has become a somewhat comedic part of mainstream media fake news. Pretty much no conservatives put trust in it.

The formula is this: Pick the most egregious and obviously wrong or mis-interpretable statements by Republicans and slam them. Then pick the most obvious statements by Democrats — Hillary Clinton said the sun will rise in the east tomorrow — and give her a smiley pat on the back for accuracy.

Remember when Trump claimed that President Obama founded ISIS. No? Well he didn’t really. It was in the context of Obama’s lousy foreign policy in the Middle East. Trump claimed, with some legitimacy, that Obama’s policies led to the birth of ISIS. Even though he did not say “policies,” it was obvious what he was saying to any rational, mildly objective person.

But not to the fake fact-checkers.

They took the sentence literally, without any surrounding context, as if Trump was saying that Obama Skyped in with the nascent terrorist network to strategize its start. Just laughable.

➠ Fake Journalists

This is an entirely different category operating on the exact same premise. Democrat operatives and activists get media jobs, and vice versa. It’s like the politician-lobbyist revolving door in D.C. — you just don’t hear about this one.

George Stephanopoulos may be the most infamous of these. Stephanopoulos was a senior advisor in the Bill Clinton campaign of 1992 and Clinton White House Communications Director. In 1996 he stepped down to…go to work for ABC News and later took over the once-prominent This Week Sunday morning talk show. He’s also now on Good Morning America and Chief Anchor at ABC News. Wikipedia refers to him first as “an American journalist.”

Here are a couple more practicing fake journalists.

Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank reached out to Democratic National Committee Eric Walker while writing a piece entitled “Passover-themed 10 plagues of Trump.” Trolling for dirt.

New York Times/CNBC reporter and Republican debate moderator John Harwood contacted John Podesta (Hillary Clinton’s campaign chair!) for some gotcha questions he could ask Jeb Bush during a sit-down interview.

And then there are those who just switch back and forth between being journalists and working for Democrat administrations, including:

  • Jay Carney: Time magazine correspondent turned White House Press Secretary
  • Warren Bass: Former deputy editor of the Washington Post’s Sunday Outlook section turned aide to U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice
  • Geoff Morrell: ABC News reporter turned spokesman for Obama Defense Department.
  • Linda Douglas: CBS Congressional correspondent turned Obama healthcare media chief.
  • Beverley Lumpkin: Formerly of ABC and CBS turned Obama’s Justice Department employee
  • Rosa Brooks: L.A. Times columnist turned DoD employee.
  • David Hoff: Reporter for Education Week turned communications staffer at the Department of of Education
  • Peter Gosselin: L.A. Times reporter turned Treasury Secretary employee
  • Rick Weiss: Washington Post reporter turned White House employee
  • Jill Zuckman: Chicago Tribune writer turned Department of Transportation

You get the idea. In addition to fake news that has been long established in the media, there are fake journalists, too. Yes, there are a few solid, middle-of-the-road journos out there — more often than not at local, community outlets — but they are run over in content and influence by the mass unable or unwilling to see that their bias creates fake news at times.

There’s just nothing new about the fake news hyperventilating, except that it looks different now and isn’t being done only by traditional news outlets.

EDITORS NOTE: This column first appeared on The Revolutionary Act.

Assata Shakur: Black Panther, Cop Killer, Hero of the Black Lives Matter Movement

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Assata Shakur. Photo: FBI

was born as JoAnne Deborah Byron, in Queens, New York, on July 16, 1947. After dropping out of high school, she earned a GED equivalency diploma, attended the Borough of Manhattan Community College for a short time, and eventually graduated from the City College of New York (CCNY) in 1970. In April 1967 she married fellow CCNY student Louis Chesimard, and the couple divorced in December 1970. JoAnne Chesimard changed her name to Assata Shakur in 1971, later explaining, in her 1987 autobiography: “The name JoAnne began to irk my nerves…. I didn’t feel like no JoAnne, or no Negro, or no amerikan. I felt like an African woman. My mind, heart, and soul had gone back to Africa but my name was still stranded in Europe somewhere.”

In 1971 Shakur joined the Republic of New Afrika, a radical organization that called for the creation of an independent black republic in the “subjugated lands” of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana.

Around this same time, Shakur moved to Oakland, California, where she joined the local branch of the Black Panther Party (BPP). Soon thereafter, she returned to New York and became a leading member of BPP’s Harlem chapter.

Also in the early 1970s Shakur joined a BPP offshoot known as the Black Liberation Army (BLA), a violent group that was tied to the murders of more than ten police officers nationwide between 1970-73. According to former Assistant FBI Director John Miller, Shakur herself was “the soul of the Black Liberation Army.”

Because of her involvement with BPP and BLA, Shakur became a target of the FBI’s Counterintelligence Program (COINTELPRO) and thus went into hiding in the early ’70s. While underground, she was placed on the FBI’s Most Wanted List because of her involvement in three bank robberies, the kidnapping and murder of two drug dealers, and the attempted murder of two policemen.

At about 12:45 a.m. on the morning of May 2, 1973, the fugitive Shakur was being driven to a new hideout in Philadelphia by BPP Information Minister Zayd Malik Shakur (Assata’s brother-in-law) and BLA member Sundiata Acoli, when their car was pulled over by state trooper Jaibes Harper for a tail-light violation on the New Jersey Turnpike. Fellow trooper Werner Foerster provided backup for Harper. While the lawmen conducted routine questioning of the vehicle’s occupants, Shakur (who was in the front passenger’s seat) and her companions suddenly fired upon them with semi-automatic pistols. As Foerster grappled with the driver, Shakur shot the trooper twice before her gun apparently jammed. With Foerster on the ground wounded and helpless, Shakur grabbed the trooper’s own firearm and blasted two fatal shots into his head, execution-style. (Zayd Malik Shakur was also killed in the melee.)

Assata Shakur fled the scene but was apprehended by police a short time later, about five miles away. Over the ensuing four years, she was indicted ten times, resulting in seven criminal trials for offenses that included two bank robberies, one kidnapping, two attempted murders, and the Turnpike shootout. Of these trials, three resulted in acquittals, one in a hung jury, one in a change of venue, one in a mistrial, and one—the Turnpike incident—in a conviction. In that latter case, Shakur was found guilty of first-degree murder and seven additional felonies, resulting in a prison sentence of life plus 33 years.

Shakur escaped from prison on November 2, 1979—probably with the help of Cuban or Cuban-trained terrorists posing as visitors. As New Jersey State Police Lieutenant Mike Rinaldi explained in 2013: “Armed domestic terrorists gained entry into the facility, neutralized the guards, broke her free, and turned her over to a nearby getaway team.” The escape was masterminded by Shakur’s brother, BLA member Jeral Wayne Williams (a.k.a. Mutulu Shakur).

After her prison breakout, Assata Shakur lived underground in the U.S. until 1984, at which time some accomplices smuggled her to Mexico. From there, her allies used a network of Cuban intelligence officers who collaborated with American radical groups calling themselves “The Collective,” to transport Shakur to Fidel Castro‘s Cuba, which granted political asylum to the fugitive in order to embarrass the Reagan Administration. As Cuban-American author Humberto Fontova wrote in 2013: “To this day from her safe haven in Cuba [Shakur] has been given a pulpit (by Castro) to preach and profess, stirring supporters and groups to mobilize against the United States by any means necessary. She has been used by the Castro regime to greet foreign delegations visiting Cuba.”

In May 2013 the FBI announced a $1 million reward for “information leading to the apprehension” of Shakur, whom the Bureau designated as a “Most Wanted Terrorist.” The New Jersey State Police also wanted to gain custody of Shakur and added another $1 million to the pot. In response to these initiatives, Shakur in 2013 launched a propaganda offensive claiming that she was innocent of the many charges which had been levied against her, and that her trial had been nothing more than a legal lynching perpetrated by an all-white jury.

Over the years, Shakur has become a folk hero to radical leftists. They view her, as one fawning San Francisco Chronicle article put it, as “a victim and ally who gives voice to their pain.” Most notably, Shakur is the Black Lives Matter movement’s most revered icon.

Shakur’s 1987 book, Assata: An Autobiography, has been cited as an illustration of the principles that underlie critical legal studies and critical race theory. In 1993 Shakur published a second book, Still Black, Still Strong, with Mumia Abu-Jamal and BLA co-founder Dhoruba bin Wahad.

Comey calls Trump states the Russians Didn’t Influence the Election

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Frank Gaffney in a NewsMax.com column titled “Comey to Trump: The Russians Didn’t Influence the Election” reports:

In telephone conversations with Donald Trump, FBI Director James Comey assured the president-elect there was no credible evidence that Russia influenced the outcome of the recent U.S. presidential election by hacking the Democratic National Committee and the emails of John Podesta, the chairman of Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign.

What’s more, Comey told Trump that James Clapper, the director of National Intelligence, agreed with this FBI assessment.

The only member of the U.S. intelligence community who was ready to assert that the Russians sanctioned the hacking was John Brennan, the director of the CIA, according to sources who were briefed on Comey’s conversations with Trump.

“And Brennan takes his marching orders from President Obama,” the sources quoted Comey as saying.

Read more…

Yet another fake news story to help Democrats influence the election.

RELATED ARTICLE: DNC docs were leaked, not hacked, intelligence veterans say

Get ready for more Fake News: ‘Islamophobia’ reporter hired at Buzzfeed

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Let’s hope BuzzFeed is hiring reporters to also cover specific incidences of Christianophobia, Judeophobia, blackophobia, Asianophobia, Hinduphobia (and the list goes on).

The report says it right: “Get ready for more fake news…..” Maybe BuzzFeed could hire Yasmin Seweid as a consultant.

“BuzzFeed Hires Islamophobia Reporter”, by Maggie McKneely, MRC Newsbusters, December 13, 2016:

Get ready for more fake news – BuzzFeed is hiring!

In the eyes of ultra-liberal website BuzzFeed, Islamophobia in America is a legitimate beat that needs covering, and they are ready to hire a journalist dedicated solely to making sure the plight of marginalized Muslims is reported. The site recently posted a job listing for “someone to join our ambitious national news team to cover Muslim life and Islamophobia in America.”

The job listing specifies that “this is not a job for a beginner” and that “creativity in the way you think about a beat” is a requirement. Because many stories will appear to be a reaction to radical Islamic terrorism; but an “experienced” reporter will know that they are just more examples of the rampant epidemic of Islamophobia, spurred on by the election of Donald Trump.

The new reporter will also work alongside their colleagues that report on anti-Christian and Conservative actions – oh wait.

The new job posting comes from a website that has a history of mocking anything that the Left deems to be “privileged.” The site ran a “listicle” of all of the reasons white people are a menace. And last week, BuzzFeed released a hit piece on the HGTV stars Chip and Joanna Gaines for attending a church known for its stance on homosexuality: the typical Christian stance that marriage is supposed to be between a man and a woman.

BuzzFeed may be expanding its ability to paint America as a hateful country that loves persecuting minorities…

RELATED ARTICLE: Austria: Muslims attack demon Krampus in traditional Christmas parade

VIDEO: Ziegler running to become Chair of the Republican Party of Florda

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Florida has gone red but not deep red.

According to the Florida Department of State Division of Elections Donald J. Trump won 49% of the Sunshine State over Hillary Rodham Clinton’s 47.8%, a narrow margin of 1.2%. Donald Trump received 4,617,886 votes while Hillary Clinton received 4,504,975 votes.

So how does a Republican win a statewide election? How do Republicans go from 49% to 60% of the votes in 2020?

Christian Ziegler, candidate for the Republican Party of Florida believes it is through a grass roots machine that produces at the ballot box via Florida’s 67 county parties.

During the 2018 midterm elections the Governorship and one U.S. Senate seat will be on the statewide ballot. Will Republicans win both of these seats?

Perhaps Republicans can take heart in the fact that Senator Marco Rubio won re-election by a margin of 52.0%.

State Committeeman Christian Ziegler sits down with Zac Anderson from the Sarasota Herald-Tribune to discuss his campaign to serve as the next Chairman of the Republican Party of Florida.

Florida: Nearly 14% of Florida’s Election Results Automatically Audited

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BOSTON, Mass. /PRNewswire/ — Clear Ballot reported successful election audits for nearly 14% of Florida’s Presidential Election results in the counties using ClearAudit technology. The counties that used the state of the art audit system include Bay, Broward, Columbia, Leon, Nassau, Putnam, and St. Lucie.

In 2013, Florida became the first state to pass a statute giving counties the option of conducting post-election audits, either manually or through an automated, independent method. ClearAudit became the first system authorized for use under the new statute and has been adopted by seven counties. Each county has showed significant reduction in manual processes and election operation costs since adopting ClearAudit, which allows them to audit 100% of each election giving counties and voters more confidence in the election results.

Clear Ballot provides Florida counties with an automated audit, independent of the voting system, scanning ballots at a central location to produce a fully searchable visualization of voter marks. This visualization allows counties to establish, with confidence, voter intent -including write-in votes- across all ballots.

“The future of all elections is based on trust and validation.  Clear Ballot provides the visual and physical checks for verification that no other system provides with cost effective, absolute transparency and repeatability,” said Mark Andersen, Bay County Supervisor of Election, who has used ClearAudit for the past three years with great success.

Clear Ballot is privileged to work with election officials throughout the country to ensure the integrity of elections and is pleased to see the successful verification of election results.

“We’re thrilled that Florida has become a leader in conducting efficient post-election audits, providing the confidence voters need amid the chaotic recounts in several states in the Presidential Election. We’re looking forward to many more election jurisdictions finding success and reassurance in election results with voting solutions from Clear Ballot.”

ClearAudit also includes a ballot inventory tool that allows election officials to view each high-resolution digital ballot image and locate the physical ballot quickly and easily if needed.  Clear Ballot election technology was also used in Oregon, Vermont and Maryland during November’s election.

About Clear Ballot:

Clear Ballot is an emerging leader in election management innovation. Clear Ballot has introduced modern software solutions with the speed, accuracy and transparency that has been lacking in the industry. Designed for low cost and ease-of-use, Clear Ballot’s browser-based software, used with commercially available scanning hardware, scales to election jurisdictions of all sizes, responding directly to the budgetary realities of America’s counties and municipalities. For more information about Clear Ballot, please visit: www.clearballot.com.

Needed Foreign Policy Changes

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After long experience in the field, I have lately become greatly concerned seeing current U.S. foreign policies failing. Global evil forces posing great threat to us are not being contained. They are rapidly expanding. I feel two fundamental policy changes are urgently needed. First, assign the greatest priority to what is best for global stability and our own national security and give lesser priority to primarily “democratize” the Third World. Second, rather than our own “boots on the ground” rely increasingly on local forces to fight against our adversaries.

Stability vs. Democratization

Empirical experience has shown that non-democratic strongmen had been effectively keeping the lid, by force, on social upheavals whereas their downfall has been unleashing chaos enabling anti-U.S. insurgencies to fill the power vacuum and prevail.

Unlike in the West which has undergone the drastic humanistic transformations of the Age of Enlightenment some centuries ago, most of the Third World’s primitive societies are not ready and cannot yet handle democratic freedoms, at least not in the short term. Democracy has not been able to prosper in societies where traditionally laws have not been respected, vote tampering and rampant corruption have been the norm and where dissent has not been tolerated but instead considered the same as treason and has been severely punished.

In order to prevail and defeat the worse of global evil forces and defeat our most dangerous global adversaries, we must re-think and abandon our current, failing efforts to democratize the Third World. Instead, we must accept that we will only win if we “hold our noses”, work with and enlist in our fight the collaboration of lesser evil local foreign leaders even when they may not share our own values such as democratic freedoms.

Use of Local Forces

We have not been winning trying to fight simultaneously against two enemies all by ourselves: evil dictators and evil insurgencies. We need to fight primarily against just one of the two, whichever is the most imminent and greatest evil force and to encourage and assist the lesser evil local side to do the bulk of the fighting. Local fighters and their methods are far more effective, albeit more merciless, in suppressing insurgencies, and far less costly to us in terms of life and treasure, than the “soft” methods Western soldiers are accustomed to, constrained by “rules of engagement”. What is paramount is to win, at all costs.

Conclusion

In the great, current, Sunni-Shiite conflict throughout the Middle East it is best for us to side with the Sunnis, even when they are non-democratic dictators, and assist them in prevailing over insurgencies. In the longer term, we should prod Arab Sunni nations to form a military coalition to contain Iranian, Shiite, Persian imperial aspirations to attain hegemony over the whole Middle East, before acquiring nuclear capability. Both diplomatic, as well as clever, carefully planned and executed covert means exit, to get all of the region’s Arab Sunnis to jointly and effectively confront and contain Iranian expansion.

PODCAST: On Donald Trump’s Cabinet Picks and Russia

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Israel News Talk Radio: Beyond the Matrix – Is the President Elect making a Big Mistake in His Selection of Staff?

Rod Bryant and Jerry Gordon provides analysis of President Elect Donald Trump’s picks for Cabinet and White House staff.

Also, has Russia interfered in the U.S. election process? Listen to get the latest update in the World-War on Terror.

The DNC has been planning to play the Russia Card since April, 2016

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The media has fanned the fake news flames that Russia has stolen the 2016 election and is responsible for electing Donald J. Trump as the 45th President of the United States.

Since then certain establishment Democrats and Republicans have jumped on board the “Russia stole the election from Hillary” bandwagon.

A leaked Democratic National Committee email shows that this strategy of blame it on Russia was planned and is now being executed with the help of the legacy media.

Here is the email stating, “[T]he pro-Russia stuff ties in pretty well to the idea that Trump is too friendly with Putin/weak on Russia”:

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In the column “Julian Assange associate: It was a leak, not a hack and the DNC insider is NOT Russian”  from BizPac Review reports:

A hole has been blown in the Democratic Party, and mainstream media’s narrative, that Russia was behind the leak of DNC emails to Wikileaks.

On Sunday, a former British ambassador to Uzbekistan, Craig Murray, said he has met the person who gave the DNC emails and it was not the Russians.

“I know who leaked them,” Murray told The Guardian. “I’ve met the person who leaked them, and they are certainly not Russian and it’s an insider. It’s a leak, not a hack; the two are different things.

Murray, who is a close associate of Wikileaks head Julian Assange, explained it further on his website.

Read more…

There are lies, damn lies and then there is fake news.

Fake news is the new propaganda spewed by the media for a political end, in this case to discredit the Trump administration.

So much for working together and giving Mr. Trump a chance to govern.

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Trump national security advisor Gorka weakens the team

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Donald Trump has the best intentions when he selected Lieutenant General Mike Flynn as a national security advisor. Based on my knowledge of Flynn I feel he would always guide Trump in the right direction in regards to Islamic based terrorism issues. It is well known that General Flynn would have his own team of advisors to assist him. One such advisor on his team is Sebastian Gorka. Gorka lately is brought onto Fox News for his input on Islamic terrorism matters. I have known Gorka for many years and although he has the credentials, he does not have the full awareness of Islam and/or he is intentionally misleading the American people.

There are only a handful of counterterrorism professionals who have stood up and without hiding behind political correctness have defined Islam correctly and who have identified the number one enemy of the United States. For readers who do not know how to correctly define Islam I will do so now:

“Islam is a political, economic, and military ideology that uses religion as a tool to achieve their ultimate goal, which is to establish an Islamic caliphate world wide and under sharia law. Islam is not peaceful, loving, assimilating, nor non violent, and has never been so since it’s birth by the pseudo prophet Mohammed over 1400 years ago. Islam is based on hate and violence and the Islamic ideology is dangerous. Islam is the number one enemy facing non Muslim countries and people throughout the world”.

We are at war with Islam and Sebastian Gorka does not agree with this fact. Gorka is a strong believer that Islam is peaceful and it is only because of the hijacking and kidnapping of Islam by a few extremist groups that Islam is giving a name that is distasteful.

If Trump is not informed by all of his national security advisors that America is at war with Islam itself, we will continue to be defeated by Islamic terrorist groups.

His team does not need placaters of Islam such as Gorka. Gorka is fine for Fox News because his belief of Islam being peaceful is exactly the same thought process O’Reilly, and Hannity have, as does the network itself. Mr. Trump is on the right path to fully understanding Islam, but listening to the false advise by Gorka will put him and our country at grave risk of being destroyed by this satanic ideology. Forward this email to many and stress the importance that to defeat Islamic based terrorism, we must fight and defeat Islam.

America is indeed at war with Islam.

Rogue Won: A Culture War Story

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In a column titled “‘Rogue One’ Premiere Targeted by Pro-Trump Street Artist” Paul Bond from The Hollywood Reporter writes:

“I’d never seen the mainstream media sell their souls for a candidate the way they did for Hillary, and she still lost,” says Sabo, who plastered faux movie posters all over Hollywood Boulevard.

When Disney hosts its star-studded Rogue One: A Star Wars Story premiere on Saturday, guests will be greeted by artwork meant to rub it in the faces of liberal Hollywood that Donald Trump beat Hillary Clinton in the Nov. 8 presidential election.

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The faux Star Wars poster features a heroic-looking image of Trump with an ominous image of Clinton lurking in the background. Huddled around Trump are his senior counselor Steve Bannon, pundit Ann Coulter, Breitbart News tech editor Milo Yiannopoulos, Fox News host Sean Hannity, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange and Vice Media co-founder Gavin McInnes, an early Trump supporter.

At the bottom of the poster, the title of the film has been altered to read, “Rogue Won: A Culture War Story.”

Breitbart’s Charlie Nash in his column “Trump-Themed Star Wars Posters Featuring MILO Spotted Around ‘Rogue One’ Premiere Area” notes:

The posters, which were reportedly designed and placed around Hollywood by notorious conservative street artist Sabo, appear to also be a reference to the controversy surrounding Rogue One writers Chris Weitz and Gary Whitta, who seemingly attacked Trump and his supporters while comparing them to white supremacists shortly after the election.

“Please note that the Empire is a white supremacist (human) organization” posted Weitz in a since-deleted tweet shortly after the election.

Whitta responded to the tweet, pointing out that “the white supremacist” empire were also “Opposed by a multi-cultural group led by brave women”– a reference to Hillary Clinton.

Weitz also posted a picture of a safety pin, along with the comment “Star Wars against hate. Spread it.”

The comments prompted a mass boycott from Trump supporters, with the “#DumpStarWars” hashtag also trending on Twitter last week.

We are waiting for the CIA, the failed Hillary campaign, Jill Stein and John McCain to blame the Russians for these posters.

Stay tuned.

The Persian News nightmare: America’s ‘voice’ has been transformed into the Voice of Tehran

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If you had been listening to the Voice of America’s Persian News Network (PNN) in the weeks and months before the U.S. presidential elections, you would easily have believed that Donald Trump was a white supremacist in league with the Ku Klux Klan who raped underage girls, and that Hillary Clinton was a shoe-in to become president.

Sure, you would have had the same impression watching MSNBC or CNN (since merged into the DNC). But there’s a big difference: your tax dollars paid for the propaganda on the Voice of America.

So certain was the director of the VOA’s Persian Service, Setareh Derakhshesh, that Hillary Clinton was about to become president that she tasked reporters two weeks ahead of time to prepare a special program lionizing the Democratic “president-elect.” No such program was prepared on Donald Trump.

When Mrs. Clinton’s campaign chair, John Podesta, told supporters at 2 a.m. in Chicago to “go home,” PNN reporters obediently went home as well and the Persian service went off air, instead of broadcasting the real president-elect’s acceptance speech.

The next day they brought on Mehdi Nourbakhsh, the son-in-law of former Islamic Republic of Iran Foreign Minister Ibrahim Yazdi, to analyze the results. “Trump will leave the presidency to Mike Pence and will go back to what he had been doing before,” he said. “Trump will hand Syria totally to Russia Trump is not representing all America. He is representing ultra right, white color, low educated, religious fanatics who cannot see a woman in leadership.” No one challenged these assertions.

Other articles and interviews on VOA’s Persian service are all of a piece. In an editorial posted the day before the election, VOA editors wrote that Vladimir Putin was the only world leader who would welcome the arrival of Donald Trump, but that was because “Donald Trump serves Russian interests and is associated with Russian investors.”

In a post-election piece, VOA invited another Trump-hater, Reza Goharzad, to give his views of the president-elect’s Cabinet picks. He told VOA’s audience in Iran that strategic adviser Steve Bannon and U.S. Attorney General designate Sen. Jeff Sessions were “racists who have to apologize to the American people.” Education secretary designate Betsy DeVos was “going to end public education.”

VOA editors continued their war on Mr. Trump on Twitter and Facebook. After Fidel Castro died, PNN editor Mohammad Manzarpour shared a tweet praising Castro as a real giant and calling Mr. Trump “a paper giant.” (When critics of PNN exposed this, Mr. Manzarpour deleted the shared tweet).

Facing tough congressional criticism, the Broadcasting Board of Governors put out a statement in English lauding VOA’s coverage of the elections.

“VOA Persian aired two days of special election programming which included over seven hours of live elections results,” the BBG stated. “The service’s election night broadcasts included the live speeches of both Trump and Clinton with simultaneous translation. Also, their political talk show New Horizons featured a discussion with the Trump’s Middle East adviser Majid Rafiezadeh.”

That statement includes several outright lies. On election night, VOA did not broadcast speeches by either presidential candidate: Mrs. Clinton did not speak, and PNN went off air before Mr. Trump took to the podium.

As for Majid Rafiezadeh, he was no Trump adviser. “The Trump Campaign authorized me to organize a Middle Eastern American Advisory Committee but I don’t know Mr. Majid Rafizadeh and he was not on that list,” Trump Middle East adviser Hossein Karam told me in an email. “I checked with the other Iranian American on the Middle Eastern American Advisory Committee and they had not heard of this individual either,” he added.

In fact, Mr. Rafiezadeh has been an “ambassador” for the pro-Tehran advocacy group, National Iranian American Council, NIAC, which viciously denounced Donald Trump for months and, after the elections, raised money from supporters on a pledge to wage “a major public battle” against the Trump administration.

The Voice of America is terminally ill. House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Rep. Ed Royce, California Republican, has devoted an entire page on the committee’s website to long-standing unsuccessful efforts to reform the VOA. Former and current employees have set up a blog to chronicle the disaster.

The Persian Service has been rank with infighting and personnel disputes for decades. A 2015 Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey Report found widespread discontent, with only 30.2 percent of PNN employees believing that PNN’s senior leaders “maintain high standards of honesty and integrity.”

In recent years, the Obama administration has brought in more than a dozen reporters from Iranian regime media outlets who have transformed America’s “voice” into the Voice of Tehran. Some of these individuals last worked for the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps.

It may be possible to save VOA through the total overhaul of our international broadcasting being proposed by the House and Senate foreign affairs committees.

But there is no saving PNN. It is too corrupt, too riddled with regime supporters, and too toxic to the “good” employees to be reformed. It’s time to shut it down and save the taxpayers some money and our nation from public embarrassment.

EDITORS NOTE: This column originally appeared in The Washington Times.