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"The return of Van Jones
Mainstream funders have helped fund BLM as well. For example, United Way has partnered with A&E and iHeartMedia to create Shining the Light Advisors, a committee of “nationally known experts and leaders in racial and social justice,” to oversee grant disbursements. These “advisors” include such radicals as Van Jones, Advancement Project co-director Judith Browne Dianis, and Rinku Sen, president of the Applied Research Center (ARC).
BLM’s mission includes a kitchen sink of favoured radical Left causes, including support of poverty elimination programs, prison deinstitutionalization, illegal immigration and gay rights. Highlighting FRSO’s orientation toward gay blacks, it describes how “Black, queer and trans folks bear a unique burden from a hetero-patriarchal society that disposes of us like garbage and simultaneously fetishizes us and profits off of us, and that is state violence.”
Its wide network of affiliates and partner organizations like CPUSA and ACORN allows BLM to turn out large crowds. Many participate simply to protest, commit violence, loot or all three.
FRSO was prominent at the Ferguson protests and videoed the event. It has even created a Black Lives Matter button. Following are more FRSO organizations involved with BLM.
• Black Left Unity – A Marxist/Leninist organization that supports favored causes of the communist Left, including unity with Cuba, war against capitalism and Occupy Wall Street.
• Black Workers for Justice – A North Carolina-based group which claims to struggle on behalf of “oppressed nationalities,” etc.
• Causa Justa/Just Cause – A Black/Latino solidarity organization allied with the Grassroots Global Justice Alliance, RTTC and others. Its 2013 revenues were $1.6 million, including $689,484 in government grants.
• Grassroots Global Justice Alliance (GGJ) – “a national alliance of US-based grassroots organizing (GRO) groups organizing to build an agenda for power for working and poor people and communities of color.”
• Hands Up United – Works for “liberation of oppressed Black, Brown, and poor people through education, art, civil disobedience, advocacy, and agriculture.”
• Intelligent Mischief – Their Black Body Survival Guide is in the works and has raised over $8,000 through IndieGoGo.
• Organization for Black Struggle (OBS)—This organization is affiliated with the CPUSA. Its website claims its allies as Black Workers for Justice and the Advancement Project. Chaired by FRSO member Montague Simmons.
• Revolutionary Student Coordinating Committee (RSCC) a militant group founded in 2012 by CUNY students. It is networked at different U.S. colleges. This group organized the infamous pro-abortion “Hail Satan” chant at Texas capital.
• Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ) is a “national network of groups and individuals organising White people for racial justice.” SURJ quotes Garza saying that “We need you defecting from White supremacy and changing the narrative of White supremacy by breaking White silence.”
• Strategic Concepts in Organizing and Policy Education (SCOPE) – Its 2013 revenues were $2.8 million. Led by Anthony Thigpenn, a former Black Panther and board member of the Apollo Alliance. Apollo is the secretive alliance of labor, environment and other Left activists that formulated Obama’s trillion dollar “stimulus” plan. Board member Van Jones described Apollo “as sort of a grand unified field theory for progressive Left causes.” It is now a project of the Blue Green Alliance."
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"BLM groups have also joined with CPUSA, CCDS, DSA, SEIU, Color of Change and many others. Anarchist and top OWS organizer Lisa Fithian, who orchestrated the 1999 Seattle World Trade Organization riots, trained Ferguson protesters. Fithian says “Create crisis, because crisis is that edge where change is possible.”
Fithian echoes Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven – creators of the infamous Cloward/Piven Crisis Strategy – who spent decades attempting to provoke ghetto blacks to riot, because “Poor people can advance only when ‘the rest of society is afraid of them.'” Rasheen Aldridge, seen above meeting President Obama, was a leader of the Ferguson protests. He has participated in numerous CPUSA events in 2013, 2014 and 2015. Another prominent CPUSA member active in BLM protests is Michael McPhearson, who leads the Don’t Shoot Coalition.
Carl Davidson and Pat Fry, co-chairs of CCDS, exploited the revolutionary atmosphere of the Ferguson riots to create an eight-point plan for “Left Unity” demanding “a common aspiration for socialism.”
Missourians Organizing for Reform and Empowerment (MORE) is Missouri’s rebranded ACORN group. It created an illustrative chart offering a snapshot of the Left’s grievance agenda. Capitalism is always the problem. Socialism is always the solution.
Interestingly, MORE doesn’t believe in socialism when it is footing the bill. MORE promised to pay Ferguson protesters $5,000/month to hang out and cause trouble. But just as ACORN stiffed its employees while preaching socialist generosity, MORE stiffed the protesters.
Islamist organizations have also jumped on the BLM bandwagon, reminding us of the unholy alliance that exists between them and the radical Left. In September 2015, the Muslim Brotherhood front-group Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) joined BLM activists in storming California Governor Jerry Brown’s office. CAIR also participated in the Ferguson protests. Meanwhile ISIS is recruiting American blacks for its cause."
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"BLM groups have also joined with CPUSA, CCDS, DSA, SEIU, Color of Change and many others. Anarchist and top OWS organizer Lisa Fithian, who orchestrated the 1999 Seattle World Trade Organization riots, trained Ferguson protesters. Fithian says “Create crisis, because crisis is that edge where change is possible.”
Fithian echoes Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven – creators of the infamous Cloward/Piven Crisis Strategy – who spent decades attempting to provoke ghetto blacks to riot, because “Poor people can advance only when ‘the rest of society is afraid of them.'” Rasheen Aldridge, seen above meeting President Obama, was a leader of the Ferguson protests. He has participated in numerous CPUSA events in 2013, 2014 and 2015. Another prominent CPUSA member active in BLM protests is Michael McPhearson, who leads the Don’t Shoot Coalition.
Carl Davidson and Pat Fry, co-chairs of CCDS, exploited the revolutionary atmosphere of the Ferguson riots to create an eight-point plan for “Left Unity” demanding “a common aspiration for socialism.”
Missourians Organizing for Reform and Empowerment (MORE) is Missouri’s rebranded ACORN group. It created an illustrative chart offering a snapshot of the Left’s grievance agenda. Capitalism is always the problem. Socialism is always the solution.
Interestingly, MORE doesn’t believe in socialism when it is footing the bill. MORE promised to pay Ferguson protesters $5,000/month to hang out and cause trouble. But just as ACORN stiffed its employees while preaching socialist generosity, MORE stiffed the protesters.
Islamist organizations have also jumped on the BLM bandwagon, reminding us of the unholy alliance that exists between them and the radical Left. In September 2015, the Muslim Brotherhood front-group Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) joined BLM activists in storming California Governor Jerry Brown’s office. CAIR also participated in the Ferguson protests. Meanwhile ISIS is recruiting American blacks for its cause."
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"Intellectual genealogy of Black Lives Matter
“We must be ready to employ trickery, deceit, law-breaking, withholding and concealing truth… We can and must write in a language which sows among the masses hate, revulsion, and scorn toward those who disagree with us.” – Vladimir Lenin
That quote from the Soviet Union’s first leader captures the entire essence of the Left’s strategy. No matter what the issue, no matter what the facts, the Left advances a relentless, hate-filled narrative that America is irredeemably evil and must be destroyed as soon as possible. The BLM movement is only the latest but perhaps most dangerous variant on this divisive theme.
Communists use language and psychology as weapons. Their constant vilification is a form of psychological terror. It puts America and Americans on trial. The verdict is always guilty. Facts don’t matter because the Left does not want to resolve the problems they complain about. They use those problems to agitate and provoke, hoping conflict becomes unavoidable – thereby creating a self-fulfilling prophecy. Their hatred is tactical.
Obama’s favorite Harvard professor Derrick Bell devised Critical Race Theory, which exemplifies Lenin’s strategy as applied to race. According to Discover the Networks:
“Critical race theory contends that America is permanently racist to its core, and that consequently the nation’s legal structures are, by definition, racist and invalid … members of ‘oppressed’ racial groups are entitled – in fact obligated – to determine for themselves which laws and traditions have merit and are worth observing…”
Bell’s theory is in turn an innovation of Critical Theory – developed by philosophers of the communist Frankfurt School. The school was founded in Frankfurt, Germany in 1923. Its Jewish communist scholars fled Hitler’s Germany in the 1930s, relocating to Columbia Teachers College in New York. Critical Theory – which discredits all aspects of Western society – rapidly infected the minds of newly-minted college professors, who then spread its poison throughout the university system. We know it today as political correctness."
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"Intellectual genealogy of Black Lives Matter
“We must be ready to employ trickery, deceit, law-breaking, withholding and concealing truth… We can and must write in a language which sows among the masses hate, revulsion, and scorn toward those who disagree with us.” – Vladimir Lenin
That quote from the Soviet Union’s first leader captures the entire essence of the Left’s strategy. No matter what the issue, no matter what the facts, the Left advances a relentless, hate-filled narrative that America is irredeemably evil and must be destroyed as soon as possible. The BLM movement is only the latest but perhaps most dangerous variant on this divisive theme.
Communists use language and psychology as weapons. Their constant vilification is a form of psychological terror. It puts America and Americans on trial. The verdict is always guilty. Facts don’t matter because the Left does not want to resolve the problems they complain about. They use those problems to agitate and provoke, hoping conflict becomes unavoidable – thereby creating a self-fulfilling prophecy. Their hatred is tactical.
Obama’s favorite Harvard professor Derrick Bell devised Critical Race Theory, which exemplifies Lenin’s strategy as applied to race. According to Discover the Networks:
“Critical race theory contends that America is permanently racist to its core, and that consequently the nation’s legal structures are, by definition, racist and invalid … members of ‘oppressed’ racial groups are entitled – in fact obligated – to determine for themselves which laws and traditions have merit and are worth observing…”
Bell’s theory is in turn an innovation of Critical Theory – developed by philosophers of the communist Frankfurt School. The school was founded in Frankfurt, Germany in 1923. Its Jewish communist scholars fled Hitler’s Germany in the 1930s, relocating to Columbia Teachers College in New York. Critical Theory – which discredits all aspects of Western society – rapidly infected the minds of newly-minted college professors, who then spread its poison throughout the university system. We know it today as political correctness."
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"White privilege
The “racist” narrative was turbocharged with the concept of “White Privilege,” the notion that whites – the dominant group in capitalist America – are irretrievably racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, fill-in-the-blank-ophobic, imperialistic oppressors who exploit everyone. Whites are the only true evil in the world and should be exterminated.
The “White Skin Privilege” idea was created in 1967 by Noel Ignatiev, an acolyte of Bell and professor at Harvard’s W.E.B. Du Bois Institute (Du Bois was a Communist black leader who helped found the NAACP). Ignatiev was a member of CPUSA’s most radical wing, the Maoist/Stalinist Provisional Organizing Committee to Reconstitute the Marxist-Leninist Communist Party (POC). POC was the intellectual forerunner to FRSO.
Writing under the alias Noel Ignatin, Ignatiev co-authored an SDS pamphlet with fellow radical Ted Allen, titled “White Blindspot.” In 1992 he co-founded “Race Traitor: Journal of the New Abolitionism.” Its first issue coined the slogan, “Treason to whiteness is loyalty to humanity.” Its stated objective was to “abolish the white race.” More specifically, the New Abolitionist newsletter stated:
“The way to abolish the white race is to challenge, disrupt and eventually overturn the institutions and behavior patterns that reproduce the privileges of whiteness, including the schools, job and housing markets, and the criminal justice system. The abolitionists do not limit themselves to socially acceptable means of protest, but reject in advance no means of attaining their goal (emphasis added).”
But do not be confused; “White” does not mean white. “White” in radical construction means anyone of any race, creed, nationality, color, sex, or sexual preference who embraces capitalism, free markets, limited government and American traditional culture and values. By definition, these beliefs are irredeemably evil and anyone who aligns with them is “white” in spirit and thus equally guilty of “white crimes.” Ignatiev still teaches, now at the Massachusetts College of Art.
The Black Lives Matter movement carries this narrative to unprecedented heights, claiming that only whites can be racists. And while justifying violence to achieve “social justice,” the movement’s goal is to overthrow our society to replace it with a Marxist one. Many members of the black community would be shocked to learn that the intellectual godfathers of this movement are mostly white Communists, “queers” and leftist Democrats".
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"White privilege
The “racist” narrative was turbocharged with the concept of “White Privilege,” the notion that whites – the dominant group in capitalist America – are irretrievably racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, fill-in-the-blank-ophobic, imperialistic oppressors who exploit everyone. Whites are the only true evil in the world and should be exterminated.
The “White Skin Privilege” idea was created in 1967 by Noel Ignatiev, an acolyte of Bell and professor at Harvard’s W.E.B. Du Bois Institute (Du Bois was a Communist black leader who helped found the NAACP). Ignatiev was a member of CPUSA’s most radical wing, the Maoist/Stalinist Provisional Organizing Committee to Reconstitute the Marxist-Leninist Communist Party (POC). POC was the intellectual forerunner to FRSO.
Writing under the alias Noel Ignatin, Ignatiev co-authored an SDS pamphlet with fellow radical Ted Allen, titled “White Blindspot.” In 1992 he co-founded “Race Traitor: Journal of the New Abolitionism.” Its first issue coined the slogan, “Treason to whiteness is loyalty to humanity.” Its stated objective was to “abolish the white race.” More specifically, the New Abolitionist newsletter stated:
“The way to abolish the white race is to challenge, disrupt and eventually overturn the institutions and behavior patterns that reproduce the privileges of whiteness, including the schools, job and housing markets, and the criminal justice system. The abolitionists do not limit themselves to socially acceptable means of protest, but reject in advance no means of attaining their goal (emphasis added).”
But do not be confused; “White” does not mean white. “White” in radical construction means anyone of any race, creed, nationality, color, sex, or sexual preference who embraces capitalism, free markets, limited government and American traditional culture and values. By definition, these beliefs are irredeemably evil and anyone who aligns with them is “white” in spirit and thus equally guilty of “white crimes.” Ignatiev still teaches, now at the Massachusetts College of Art.
The Black Lives Matter movement carries this narrative to unprecedented heights, claiming that only whites can be racists. And while justifying violence to achieve “social justice,” the movement’s goal is to overthrow our society to replace it with a Marxist one. Many members of the black community would be shocked to learn that the intellectual godfathers of this movement are mostly white Communists, “queers” and leftist Democrats".
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"The New York Times whined that,
“Mr. Cruz’s proposal that the United States carpet-bomb ISIS without hitting cities could be considered unrealistic and counterproductive. The group avoids operating in the open desert and is known to use civilians as shields. Moreover, images of ruined hospitals, schools and dead children often serve as propaganda material that terrorists can use to gain new recruits.
At the debate on Tuesday, Mr. Cruz showed little concern for the difference between carpet-bombing and targeted strikes, vowing to be the most determined foe of the Islamic State and not backing away from “making the sand glow.”
Cruz spoke with Newsmax recently and addressed his stance on bombing ISIS.
“Let’s be clear, the Bible says, ‘Thou shalt not murder,’ which is different from ‘Thou shalt not kill.’”
“Defending yourself is an obligation of any president. It is not murder,” Cruz added in the interview with Ed Berliner on “The Hard Line.”
Cruz pointed out that while America killed Nazis in World War II, it wasn’t murder.
“When you have the face of evil that has declared war … then it is the essence of duty to defend your nation, to defend the innocent,” he said. “When it comes to jihadists, they have declared war on us, and that’s what President Obama and Hillary Clinton refuse to acknowledge.”
The leader of the United States should fight radical Islam the same way President Ronald Reagan fought the Soviets when bringing an end to the Cold War, Cruz said. Reagan aimed his foreign policy around the notion of defeating communism — a strategy of “we win, they lose.”
Reagan “championed tax reform and regulatory reform,” Cruz said, which “unchained the American economy.” The economic growth that resulted from from his reform allowed the former president to rebuild the military and challenge Soviet communism “on every front, strategically we bankrupted the Soviet Union and won the Cold War.”
"The New York Times whined that,
“Mr. Cruz’s proposal that the United States carpet-bomb ISIS without hitting cities could be considered unrealistic and counterproductive. The group avoids operating in the open desert and is known to use civilians as shields. Moreover, images of ruined hospitals, schools and dead children often serve as propaganda material that terrorists can use to gain new recruits.
At the debate on Tuesday, Mr. Cruz showed little concern for the difference between carpet-bombing and targeted strikes, vowing to be the most determined foe of the Islamic State and not backing away from “making the sand glow.”
Cruz spoke with Newsmax recently and addressed his stance on bombing ISIS.
“Let’s be clear, the Bible says, ‘Thou shalt not murder,’ which is different from ‘Thou shalt not kill.’”
“Defending yourself is an obligation of any president. It is not murder,” Cruz added in the interview with Ed Berliner on “The Hard Line.”
Cruz pointed out that while America killed Nazis in World War II, it wasn’t murder.
“When you have the face of evil that has declared war … then it is the essence of duty to defend your nation, to defend the innocent,” he said. “When it comes to jihadists, they have declared war on us, and that’s what President Obama and Hillary Clinton refuse to acknowledge.”
The leader of the United States should fight radical Islam the same way President Ronald Reagan fought the Soviets when bringing an end to the Cold War, Cruz said. Reagan aimed his foreign policy around the notion of defeating communism — a strategy of “we win, they lose.”
Reagan “championed tax reform and regulatory reform,” Cruz said, which “unchained the American economy.” The economic growth that resulted from from his reform allowed the former president to rebuild the military and challenge Soviet communism “on every front, strategically we bankrupted the Soviet Union and won the Cold War.”
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"Cruz told Beck that he “strongly supports” the legislation, which would require an audit on the Federal Reserve, reminding the radio host that he was one of the original co-sponsors of the bill. But as for his reason behind missing the vote, Cruz simply said it wasn’t going to succeed anyway.
“Unfortunately, it was clear early on that yesterday’s vote wasn’t going to succeed (it fell 7 votes short),” Cruz wrote in an email, which Beck later published on his Facebook profile. “And, at the same time that the vote was scheduled, I had longstanding commitments to be in New Hampshire.”
Cruz went on to write that he was speaking at a Second Amendment rally in the Granite State and was delivering a State of the Union town hall, which the GOP hopeful says was to be attended by 1,500 people.
“If my vote would have made a difference in it passing, I would have cancelled my campaign events to be there,” Cruz reassured Beck. “Because the vote was not going to succeed, I honored my commitments to be with the men and women of New Hampshire.”
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“Unfortunately, it was clear early on that yesterday’s vote wasn’t going to succeed (it fell 7 votes short),” Cruz wrote in an email, which Beck later published on his Facebook profile. “And, at the same time that the vote was scheduled, I had longstanding commitments to be in New Hampshire.”
Cruz went on to write that he was speaking at a Second Amendment rally in the Granite State and was delivering a State of the Union town hall, which the GOP hopeful says was to be attended by 1,500 people.
“If my vote would have made a difference in it passing, I would have cancelled my campaign events to be there,” Cruz reassured Beck. “Because the vote was not going to succeed, I honored my commitments to be with the men and women of New Hampshire.”
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"Sarah Palin, the former Alaska governor and 2008 vice-presidential nominee who became a Tea Party sensation and a favorite of grass-roots conservatives, is endorsing Donald J. Trump in Iowa on Tuesday, providing Mr. Trump with a potentially significant boost just 13 days before the state’s caucuses.
“I’m proud to endorse Donald J. Trump for president,” Ms. Palin said in a statement provided by his campaign.
Her support is the highest-profile backing for a Republican contender so far. It came the same day that Iowa’s Republican governor, Terry Branstad, said he hopes that Senator Ted Cruz will be defeated in Iowa, where the Feb. 1 caucuses are a must-win for the Texas senator, who is running neck-and-neck with Mr. Trump in state polls.
The endorsement came as Mr. Trump was bearing down in the state, holding multiple campaign events and raising expectations about his performance in the race’s first nominating contest.
“I am greatly honored to receive Sarah’s endorsement,” Mr. Trump said in a statement trumpeting Mrs. Palin’s decision. “She is a friend, and a high-quality person whom I have great respect for. I am proud to have her support.”
In Iowa, where Ms. Palin spent years developing support, the endorsement could be especially helpful. Mr. Trump has faced questions about whether his campaign’s organizing muscle can draw the voters to match his poll numbers come caucus night.
”Over the years Palin has actually cultivated a number of relationships in Iowa,” said Craig Robinson, the former political director of the Republican Party of Iowa and publisher of the website The Iowa Republican. ”There are the Tea Party activists who still think she’s great and a breath of fresh air, but she also did a good job of courting Republican donors in the state,” he added.
Other conservatives said that Ms. Palin serves as a particularly effective shield against Mr. Cruz, who has assidously courted Iowa’s evangelical voters.
“Palin’s brand among evangelicals is as gold as the faucets in Trump tower,” said Ralph Reed, the chairman of the Faith and Freedom Coalition."
"Sarah Palin, the former Alaska governor and 2008 vice-presidential nominee who became a Tea Party sensation and a favorite of grass-roots conservatives, is endorsing Donald J. Trump in Iowa on Tuesday, providing Mr. Trump with a potentially significant boost just 13 days before the state’s caucuses.
“I’m proud to endorse Donald J. Trump for president,” Ms. Palin said in a statement provided by his campaign.
Her support is the highest-profile backing for a Republican contender so far. It came the same day that Iowa’s Republican governor, Terry Branstad, said he hopes that Senator Ted Cruz will be defeated in Iowa, where the Feb. 1 caucuses are a must-win for the Texas senator, who is running neck-and-neck with Mr. Trump in state polls.
The endorsement came as Mr. Trump was bearing down in the state, holding multiple campaign events and raising expectations about his performance in the race’s first nominating contest.
“I am greatly honored to receive Sarah’s endorsement,” Mr. Trump said in a statement trumpeting Mrs. Palin’s decision. “She is a friend, and a high-quality person whom I have great respect for. I am proud to have her support.”
In Iowa, where Ms. Palin spent years developing support, the endorsement could be especially helpful. Mr. Trump has faced questions about whether his campaign’s organizing muscle can draw the voters to match his poll numbers come caucus night.
”Over the years Palin has actually cultivated a number of relationships in Iowa,” said Craig Robinson, the former political director of the Republican Party of Iowa and publisher of the website The Iowa Republican. ”There are the Tea Party activists who still think she’s great and a breath of fresh air, but she also did a good job of courting Republican donors in the state,” he added.
Other conservatives said that Ms. Palin serves as a particularly effective shield against Mr. Cruz, who has assidously courted Iowa’s evangelical voters.
“Palin’s brand among evangelicals is as gold as the faucets in Trump tower,” said Ralph Reed, the chairman of the Faith and Freedom Coalition."
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Even though I oppose many of Trump's political persuasions, I am very appreciative of the wake-up call he has given many American voters. I still wish Mitt Romney had promoted the principles of the US Constitution during his two presidential campaigns. Had he done so I think he would have done a greater service to our country than he did in holding to the agenda of the "insiders".
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I can't imagine the help right wing politics would do to your country, economically (cause we can all agree on what is and isn't a strong economy) both sides call eachother the exact same names, that gets you nowhere.
My prediction, is I don't think you'll get a republican president because I don't think the majority of people want what they have to offer.
And calling them names and saying how fallen the country is becoming isn't exactly a good way to get people on your side...
Don't get me started how insane the left can be, I've lost a lot of faith in left wing politics, but I am disgusted with right wing politics so, I never know who to vote for in Canada's elections.
Why should people want what you're offering?
My prediction, is I don't think you'll get a republican president because I don't think the majority of people want what they have to offer.
And calling them names and saying how fallen the country is becoming isn't exactly a good way to get people on your side...
Don't get me started how insane the left can be, I've lost a lot of faith in left wing politics, but I am disgusted with right wing politics so, I never know who to vote for in Canada's elections.
Why should people want what you're offering?
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"AUSTRALIANS who have recently visited some countries in the Middle East will no longer be able to use the United States visa waiver program, under changes to take effect immediately.
Those who have travelled to Iran, Iraq, Sudan or Syria on or after 1 March 2011 won’t be able to enter the country under the program due to changes introduced overnight under the Visa Waiver Program Improvement and Terrorist Travel Prevention Act 2015.
The rule also applies to nationals of those countries, although limited exceptions are available for those who travelled for military or diplomatic purposes.
It means those travelling to the US who also hold a passport from any of the four countries named will have to apply for a visa through the regular process at an embassy or consulate. Those who already have valid Electronic System for Travel Authorizations (ESTA) will have them revoked.
The change comes in response to concerns over terrorism and the rise of the Islamic State, and were included in a bill passed by the US congress last month.
It will affect citizens of 38 countries, mostly in Europe, who are eligible to use the visa waiver system and a new, more detailed, ESTA questionnaire will be released in February 2016.”
"AUSTRALIANS who have recently visited some countries in the Middle East will no longer be able to use the United States visa waiver program, under changes to take effect immediately.
Those who have travelled to Iran, Iraq, Sudan or Syria on or after 1 March 2011 won’t be able to enter the country under the program due to changes introduced overnight under the Visa Waiver Program Improvement and Terrorist Travel Prevention Act 2015.
The rule also applies to nationals of those countries, although limited exceptions are available for those who travelled for military or diplomatic purposes.
It means those travelling to the US who also hold a passport from any of the four countries named will have to apply for a visa through the regular process at an embassy or consulate. Those who already have valid Electronic System for Travel Authorizations (ESTA) will have them revoked.
The change comes in response to concerns over terrorism and the rise of the Islamic State, and were included in a bill passed by the US congress last month.
It will affect citizens of 38 countries, mostly in Europe, who are eligible to use the visa waiver system and a new, more detailed, ESTA questionnaire will be released in February 2016.”
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"Palin offered her full-throated support for Trump and slammed President Barack Obama as the “capitulator in chief.”
She also took aim at the Republican establishment for “attacking their own front-runner” and offered a challenge to those who have suggested that Trump, whose positions on issues like gun control and abortion rights have shifted over the years, isn’t conservative enough.
“Oh my goodness gracious. What the heck would the establishment know about conservativism?” she said. “Who are they to tell us that we’re not conservative enough? … Give me a break.”
Trump, whose team had been touting a major, surprise announcement, praised Palin as “a friend, and a high-quality person whom I have great respect for” in a statement.
Palin will also be joining Trump at two events Wednesday, including a rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Palin was a virtual newcomer to the national political arena when 2008 GOP presidential nominee John McCain named her as his running mate. She has since risen to prominence as one of the most outspoken conservatives in the party. She signed on as a Fox News commentator after resigning as Alaska’s governor in 2010, a job she held until last year.
Trump and Palin did not discuss how the endorsement had come about, but Trump’s national political director, Michael Glassner, previously worked for her. Trump said earlier Tuesday that he doesn’t typically put much stock in endorsements, but said of this one, “I think it could very well result in votes.”
Madden also said Palin’s support could help shield Trump from charges that his past positions make him too liberal to be the GOP nominee, “giving Trump some rhetorical cover from a conservative validator in the eyes of many grassroots conservatives.”
Earlier Tuesday, Trump received an endorsement from the daughter of movie star John Wayne.
Standing in front of a life-size, rifle-toting model of the actor in full cowboy gear, Trump accepted the endorsement of Aissa Wayne at the John Wayne Birthplace Museum in Winterset, Iowa."
"Palin offered her full-throated support for Trump and slammed President Barack Obama as the “capitulator in chief.”
She also took aim at the Republican establishment for “attacking their own front-runner” and offered a challenge to those who have suggested that Trump, whose positions on issues like gun control and abortion rights have shifted over the years, isn’t conservative enough.
“Oh my goodness gracious. What the heck would the establishment know about conservativism?” she said. “Who are they to tell us that we’re not conservative enough? … Give me a break.”
Trump, whose team had been touting a major, surprise announcement, praised Palin as “a friend, and a high-quality person whom I have great respect for” in a statement.
Palin will also be joining Trump at two events Wednesday, including a rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Palin was a virtual newcomer to the national political arena when 2008 GOP presidential nominee John McCain named her as his running mate. She has since risen to prominence as one of the most outspoken conservatives in the party. She signed on as a Fox News commentator after resigning as Alaska’s governor in 2010, a job she held until last year.
Trump and Palin did not discuss how the endorsement had come about, but Trump’s national political director, Michael Glassner, previously worked for her. Trump said earlier Tuesday that he doesn’t typically put much stock in endorsements, but said of this one, “I think it could very well result in votes.”
Madden also said Palin’s support could help shield Trump from charges that his past positions make him too liberal to be the GOP nominee, “giving Trump some rhetorical cover from a conservative validator in the eyes of many grassroots conservatives.”
Earlier Tuesday, Trump received an endorsement from the daughter of movie star John Wayne.
Standing in front of a life-size, rifle-toting model of the actor in full cowboy gear, Trump accepted the endorsement of Aissa Wayne at the John Wayne Birthplace Museum in Winterset, Iowa."
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Elizabeth
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Re: USA Politics.
"A billboard on Brainerd Road that proclaims “Blue Lives Matter” and features the badges of the Chattanooga Police Department and the Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office spurred debate among locals Thursday.
Some say the message, featured on a digital billboard at 5751 Brainerd Road, is an affront to the Black Lives Matter movement that has spread nationwide in the wake of high-profile, unprosecuted police shootings of black men. But others say the message is only positive — a way to say thanks to local law enforcement.
Charlie Hunt at Lookout Advertising said his company created the advertisement in-house and put it up on their digital billboard about three months ago as a way to honour police and counter negative publicity he’s seen surrounding law enforcement. It rotates through a number of other digital billboard postings every few minutes.
“We did not want to divide anybody or anything, especially with this Black Lives Matter,” he said. “All lives matter, and there is nothing racial about that.”
“All lives matter, but we’re the ones getting killed,” countered Norman Williams, who is also known as Friday Mac. He’s organized a handful of efforts in Chattanooga to call gang members to stop the violence and said the sign felt like a personal attack from law enforcement.
“It’s disrespectful,” he said.
Williams started receiving calls and notes on social media about the billboard on Wednesday, he said. On Facebook, a photo of the billboard has been shared about 80 times and with commenters expressing anger about the message.
“They wanted to tear it down, to burn it down, but I was like, we don’t need to take that approach,” Williams said. “There are other ways.”
While many of the social media commenters believed the message was sponsored by local law enforcement, the police department and sheriff’s office did not know about the billboard before it was posted — and they did not pay for it, spokesmen for the departments said.
But Sheriff Jim Hammond said the billboard presents a positive message.
“I feel it’s great that so many people across this country, including our own county, want to recognize our local law enforcement community and all first responders who put their lives on the line for our citizens every day,” he said in a statement.
In 2015, in the United States, 52 police officers were killed because of a criminal act. Another 72 died from non-criminal circumstances like drowning or electrocution, according to the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund.” http://www.gopusa.com/?p=4427?omhide=true" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Some say the message, featured on a digital billboard at 5751 Brainerd Road, is an affront to the Black Lives Matter movement that has spread nationwide in the wake of high-profile, unprosecuted police shootings of black men. But others say the message is only positive — a way to say thanks to local law enforcement.
Charlie Hunt at Lookout Advertising said his company created the advertisement in-house and put it up on their digital billboard about three months ago as a way to honour police and counter negative publicity he’s seen surrounding law enforcement. It rotates through a number of other digital billboard postings every few minutes.
“We did not want to divide anybody or anything, especially with this Black Lives Matter,” he said. “All lives matter, and there is nothing racial about that.”
“All lives matter, but we’re the ones getting killed,” countered Norman Williams, who is also known as Friday Mac. He’s organized a handful of efforts in Chattanooga to call gang members to stop the violence and said the sign felt like a personal attack from law enforcement.
“It’s disrespectful,” he said.
Williams started receiving calls and notes on social media about the billboard on Wednesday, he said. On Facebook, a photo of the billboard has been shared about 80 times and with commenters expressing anger about the message.
“They wanted to tear it down, to burn it down, but I was like, we don’t need to take that approach,” Williams said. “There are other ways.”
While many of the social media commenters believed the message was sponsored by local law enforcement, the police department and sheriff’s office did not know about the billboard before it was posted — and they did not pay for it, spokesmen for the departments said.
But Sheriff Jim Hammond said the billboard presents a positive message.
“I feel it’s great that so many people across this country, including our own county, want to recognize our local law enforcement community and all first responders who put their lives on the line for our citizens every day,” he said in a statement.
In 2015, in the United States, 52 police officers were killed because of a criminal act. Another 72 died from non-criminal circumstances like drowning or electrocution, according to the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund.” http://www.gopusa.com/?p=4427?omhide=true" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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Elizabeth
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Re: USA Politics.
http://www.wnd.com/2016/01/glenn-beck-o ... candidate/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
"In a move he says he has never done in 40 years of broadcasting, Glenn Beck has endorsed a specific GOP candidate: Texas Republican Ted Cruz.
Speaking at a rally at Faith Bible College in Ankeny, Iowa hosted by super PACs, the conservative radio host said, “I am here to announce that I am officially endorsing Ted Cruz to become the first Hispanic president of the United States, the first first-generation president of the United States, the most conservative president of the United States since Ronald Reagan.”
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"In a move he says he has never done in 40 years of broadcasting, Glenn Beck has endorsed a specific GOP candidate: Texas Republican Ted Cruz.
Speaking at a rally at Faith Bible College in Ankeny, Iowa hosted by super PACs, the conservative radio host said, “I am here to announce that I am officially endorsing Ted Cruz to become the first Hispanic president of the United States, the first first-generation president of the United States, the most conservative president of the United States since Ronald Reagan.”
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Elizabeth
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- Posts: 11796
- Location: East Coast Australia
Re: USA Politics.
"Former Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott will travel to the United States to address a conservative Christian lobby group about his views on marriage.
Mr Abbott, who on Sunday night announced he would recontest his Sydney seat of Warringah at the next federal election, is expected to speak at the private event organised by the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) this week.
In a short statement to the ABC, an ADF spokesman described the organisation as "an alliance-building legal organisation that advocates for the right of people to freely live out their faith".
"Along with our work to defend human rights such as free speech and religious freedom, ADF affirms the good of marriage and the value of strong families around the world, particularly on behalf of children, who flourish when society honours and promotes the roles of both mothers and fathers in children's lives," the statement said.
"Mr Abbott has been a strong advocate for marriage and freedom throughout his career and has graciously agreed to address our private event."
Mr Abbott is firmly of the view marriage should remain between a man and a woman, and was the subject of significant criticism over the handling of a Coalition party room debate on same-sex marriage last August.
As a result of that marathon meeting, the Coalition agreed to hold a popular vote to decide the issue.
Mr Abbott's successor, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull had publicly lobbied in favour of same-sex marriage and criticised Mr Abbott's decision, arguing members of parliament should decide.
However, since ousting Mr Abbott from the prime ministership, Mr Turnbull has stuck to the Coalition party room's decision.
The ADF was one of the most outspoken critics of the US Supreme Court's decision last June to allow same-sex marriage, arguing it had overturned the rights of millions of Americans who had voted against gay marriage in their states.
The Alliance hosted a similar event last year, featuring the former US Ambassador to the United Nations, John Bolton."
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-01-26/t ... by/7114506" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Mr Abbott, who on Sunday night announced he would recontest his Sydney seat of Warringah at the next federal election, is expected to speak at the private event organised by the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) this week.
In a short statement to the ABC, an ADF spokesman described the organisation as "an alliance-building legal organisation that advocates for the right of people to freely live out their faith".
"Along with our work to defend human rights such as free speech and religious freedom, ADF affirms the good of marriage and the value of strong families around the world, particularly on behalf of children, who flourish when society honours and promotes the roles of both mothers and fathers in children's lives," the statement said.
"Mr Abbott has been a strong advocate for marriage and freedom throughout his career and has graciously agreed to address our private event."
Mr Abbott is firmly of the view marriage should remain between a man and a woman, and was the subject of significant criticism over the handling of a Coalition party room debate on same-sex marriage last August.
As a result of that marathon meeting, the Coalition agreed to hold a popular vote to decide the issue.
Mr Abbott's successor, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull had publicly lobbied in favour of same-sex marriage and criticised Mr Abbott's decision, arguing members of parliament should decide.
However, since ousting Mr Abbott from the prime ministership, Mr Turnbull has stuck to the Coalition party room's decision.
The ADF was one of the most outspoken critics of the US Supreme Court's decision last June to allow same-sex marriage, arguing it had overturned the rights of millions of Americans who had voted against gay marriage in their states.
The Alliance hosted a similar event last year, featuring the former US Ambassador to the United Nations, John Bolton."
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Elizabeth
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- Location: East Coast Australia
Re: USA Politics.
http://conservativebyte.com/2016/01/bre ... ots-fired/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Ammon Bundy, the leader of the armed group occupying a federal wildlife refuge near Burns, Oregon, and three others have been arrested by law enforcement amid shots being fired.
Ammon Bundy, the leader of the armed group occupying a federal wildlife refuge near Burns, Oregon, and three others have been arrested by law enforcement amid shots being fired.
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Elizabeth
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- Location: East Coast Australia
Re: USA Politics.
"Our nation is spiraling out of control. Our debt is killing the economy. Burdensome regulations are destroying jobs.
And our leaders in Washington won't do anything to save us. Most of them are part of the problem!
A Convention of States is our only hope.
You see, our Founding Fathers were brilliant men. They left an emergency clause in the Constitution in case the federal government got too big and out-of-control.
It's called Article V, and it allows the states to bypass Congress and call a Convention of States to propose amendments to our Constitution and rein in the federal government.
Well, conservative leaders all across the country believe it is time to invoke Article V and call a Convention of States.
And I hope you do too. Things are bad in America - and getting worse!
It's time for "We the People" to use the most powerful weapon in our arsenal - the Constitution - to fight back against Washington's overreach.
Please sign the National Petition for an Article V Convention of States right now, and please ask everyone you know to do the same.
Here at Convention of States Action, we are working overtime to convince the required 34 state legislatures to call for an Article V convention to place limits on the power and jurisdiction of the federal government.
We have a citizen activist army operating in all 50 states, working constantly to urge their state legislators to act in accordance with the will of the people and demand that they pass this critically important resolution.
A Convention of States is our only chance to pass important and long overdue measures like a balanced budget amendment, term limits on Congress and the Supreme Court, and limits on the scope and jurisdiction of the federal government.
The politicians in Washington wouldn't dare limit their own power. Therefore, We The People need to do it!
But in order for that to happen, we need millions and millions of patriotic Americans like you to sign this important national petition. We need to show the members of the state legislatures that the American people are ready for a constitutional solution as big as our nation's problems, an Article V Convention of States.
Washington won't fix itself. The federal government is too big, and our leaders are too invested in its growth.
We The People must take control through our state legislatures. It's our only chance to enact real change.
Please join the fight for an emergency Convention of States. Sign the petition today, and urge every freedom-loving American to do the same.
Sign The Petition at https://secure.giveworks.net/cos/call_f ... on/FRO5376" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Thank you, and may God bless America!
For America,
Mark Meckler
President
Convention of States Action"
And our leaders in Washington won't do anything to save us. Most of them are part of the problem!
A Convention of States is our only hope.
You see, our Founding Fathers were brilliant men. They left an emergency clause in the Constitution in case the federal government got too big and out-of-control.
It's called Article V, and it allows the states to bypass Congress and call a Convention of States to propose amendments to our Constitution and rein in the federal government.
Well, conservative leaders all across the country believe it is time to invoke Article V and call a Convention of States.
And I hope you do too. Things are bad in America - and getting worse!
It's time for "We the People" to use the most powerful weapon in our arsenal - the Constitution - to fight back against Washington's overreach.
Please sign the National Petition for an Article V Convention of States right now, and please ask everyone you know to do the same.
Here at Convention of States Action, we are working overtime to convince the required 34 state legislatures to call for an Article V convention to place limits on the power and jurisdiction of the federal government.
We have a citizen activist army operating in all 50 states, working constantly to urge their state legislators to act in accordance with the will of the people and demand that they pass this critically important resolution.
A Convention of States is our only chance to pass important and long overdue measures like a balanced budget amendment, term limits on Congress and the Supreme Court, and limits on the scope and jurisdiction of the federal government.
The politicians in Washington wouldn't dare limit their own power. Therefore, We The People need to do it!
But in order for that to happen, we need millions and millions of patriotic Americans like you to sign this important national petition. We need to show the members of the state legislatures that the American people are ready for a constitutional solution as big as our nation's problems, an Article V Convention of States.
Washington won't fix itself. The federal government is too big, and our leaders are too invested in its growth.
We The People must take control through our state legislatures. It's our only chance to enact real change.
Please join the fight for an emergency Convention of States. Sign the petition today, and urge every freedom-loving American to do the same.
Sign The Petition at https://secure.giveworks.net/cos/call_f ... on/FRO5376" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Thank you, and may God bless America!
For America,
Mark Meckler
President
Convention of States Action"
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skmo
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Re: USA Politics.
This would be great, and I support it as much as I can. It's a great prospect, and I've done as much as I can to promote it, because I believe it's the socially responsible thing to do, but in my heart I doubt that we're going to have the kind of success we'd like to, but just the fact that there are people still trying to salvage our drowning vessel is heartening.Elizabeth wrote:....A Convention of States is our only hope....
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Elizabeth
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Re: USA Politics.
This does not happen in Australia. Voting is compulsory and security and manual checking and rechecking is practiced.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1thcO_olHas" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
"Software programmer says US elections are rigged and that US Representatives tried to pay him to rig their election vote counts."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1thcO_olHas" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
"Software programmer says US elections are rigged and that US Representatives tried to pay him to rig their election vote counts."
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Elizabeth
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Arab Muslims in Utah
"Arab Muslim now living in Utah Mohamed Fathi Oanaw 23, his wife, 38-year-old Mayra Dinora Casas were arrested Dec.12 and face felony robbery and other charges in connection with assaults in St. George, Utah told police he assaulted the victim on two separate occasions because he’s Muslim and “hates gay boys.”
Oanaw first assaulted the victim on Dec. 11. The following day, Casas lured the victim back to the residence to collect his belongings saying it was “safe” because Oanaw wasn’t there.
However, when the victim and his female friend arrived, Oanaw surprised them by charging out of a bedroom. Oanaw punched the victim and knocked him back towards the kitchen while continuing to scream sexual slurs at him,” a police report states. Oanaw grabbed a chair to swing at the victim, but it was taken from him by Casas who yelled slurs at the victim. The victim pushed past Oanaw to escape down the hall, but Oanaw grabbed him and began punching and kicking him. Oanaw also took the victim’s $800 smart phone and shattered the screen before Casas broke it in half. When the victim’s friend tried to call police, Casas took her phone and wallet.
The arresting officer wrote. “Mohamed kept stating he hated ‘gay boys’ and that he was Muslim.” After being read his Miranda rights, Oanaw admitted to yelling sexual slurs, starting the physical fight, exposing himself and breaking the man’s smartphone.
Oanaw was charged with second-degree felony robbery and three class-A misdemeanors for lewdness, assault and criminal mischief. He was released on $13,900 bond.
Casas was charged with second-degree felony robbery, third-degree felony unlawful acquisition of a finance card, four class-A misdemeanors for assault, criminal mischief, theft and possession of another’s identifying documents, and a class-B misdemeanor for damaging a communication device. She reportedly remains in custody, with a court date set for Jan. 25."
Oanaw first assaulted the victim on Dec. 11. The following day, Casas lured the victim back to the residence to collect his belongings saying it was “safe” because Oanaw wasn’t there.
However, when the victim and his female friend arrived, Oanaw surprised them by charging out of a bedroom. Oanaw punched the victim and knocked him back towards the kitchen while continuing to scream sexual slurs at him,” a police report states. Oanaw grabbed a chair to swing at the victim, but it was taken from him by Casas who yelled slurs at the victim. The victim pushed past Oanaw to escape down the hall, but Oanaw grabbed him and began punching and kicking him. Oanaw also took the victim’s $800 smart phone and shattered the screen before Casas broke it in half. When the victim’s friend tried to call police, Casas took her phone and wallet.
The arresting officer wrote. “Mohamed kept stating he hated ‘gay boys’ and that he was Muslim.” After being read his Miranda rights, Oanaw admitted to yelling sexual slurs, starting the physical fight, exposing himself and breaking the man’s smartphone.
Oanaw was charged with second-degree felony robbery and three class-A misdemeanors for lewdness, assault and criminal mischief. He was released on $13,900 bond.
Casas was charged with second-degree felony robbery, third-degree felony unlawful acquisition of a finance card, four class-A misdemeanors for assault, criminal mischief, theft and possession of another’s identifying documents, and a class-B misdemeanor for damaging a communication device. She reportedly remains in custody, with a court date set for Jan. 25."
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Elizabeth
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- Location: East Coast Australia
Re: USA Politics.
"A veteran official with the Department of Homeland Security claims he and other staff were ordered to destroy records on a federal database that showed links between possible jihadists and Islamic terrorist groups.
"After leaving my 15-year career at DHS, I can no longer be silent about the dangerous state of America’s counter-terror strategy, our leaders’ willingness to compromise the security of citizens for the ideological rigidity of political correctness—and, consequently, our vulnerability to devastating, mass-casualty attack," the former employee, Patrick Haney, wrote in an explosive column that was published late Friday on The Hill website.
Haney alleges that the Obama administration has been "engaged in a bureaucratic effort" to destroy the raw material and intelligence the Department of Homeland Security has been collecting for years, leaving the United States open to mass-casualty attacks.
His story starts in 2009, when during the holiday travel season, a 23-year-old Nigerian Muslim, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, boarded Northwest Airlines Flight 253, with explosives packed in his underwear and the hopes of slaughtering 290 travelers flying on Christmas Day from the Netherlands to Detroit, Michigan. Passengers subdued the jihadist and he was arrested, thwarting the plot.
After the attempt, Haney writes, President Barack Obama "threw the intelligence community under the bus for its failure to 'connect the dots,' saying that it was not a failure to collect the intelligence that could have stopped the attack, but rather "'a failure to integrate and understand the intelligence that we already had.'"
But most Americans were not aware that the Department of Homeland Security's employees suffered enormous damage to their morale from Obama's words, Haney said.
Further, many were infuriated "because we knew his administration had been engaged in a bureaucratic effort to destroy the raw material — the actual intelligence we had collected for years, and erase those dots. The dots constitute the intelligence needed to keep Americans safe, and the Obama administration was ordering they be wiped away."
Just one month before the attempted attack, Haney said, his DHS supervisors ordered him to either delete or modify the records for several hundred people tied to Islamist terror organizations, including Hamas, from the Treasury Enforcement Communications System, the federal database.
Those records give DHS the ability to "connect dots," explained Haney, and every day, the agency's Custom and Border Protection officials use the database while watching people who are associated with known terrorist affiliations seeking patterns that could indicate a pending attack.
"Enforcing a political scrubbing of records of Muslims greatly affected our ability to do that," said Haney.
"Even worse, going forward, my colleagues and I were prohibited from entering pertinent information into the database," he wrote.
And even weeks after the attempted Christmas Day attack, Haney said, he was still being ordered to delete and scrub terrorists' records, making it more difficult to connect dots in the future.
The number of attempted and successful Islamic terrorist attacks kept increasing, notes Haney, including the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, conducted by Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev; Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez' shooting of two military installations in Chattanooga, Tennessee last year; the attack conducted by Faisal Shahzad in May 2010; Detroit "honor" killer Rahim Alfatlawi in 2011; Amine El Khalifi, who plotted to blow up the U.S. Capitol in 2012; and Oklahoma beheading suspect Alton Nolen in 2014.
He believes it is "very plausible" that one or more of those homeland incidents could have been prevented, if DHS subject matter experts had been allowed to keep doing their jobs.
"It is demoralizing — and infuriating — that today, those elusive dots are even harder to find, and harder to connect, than they were during the winter of 2009," Haney concluded."
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"After leaving my 15-year career at DHS, I can no longer be silent about the dangerous state of America’s counter-terror strategy, our leaders’ willingness to compromise the security of citizens for the ideological rigidity of political correctness—and, consequently, our vulnerability to devastating, mass-casualty attack," the former employee, Patrick Haney, wrote in an explosive column that was published late Friday on The Hill website.
Haney alleges that the Obama administration has been "engaged in a bureaucratic effort" to destroy the raw material and intelligence the Department of Homeland Security has been collecting for years, leaving the United States open to mass-casualty attacks.
His story starts in 2009, when during the holiday travel season, a 23-year-old Nigerian Muslim, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, boarded Northwest Airlines Flight 253, with explosives packed in his underwear and the hopes of slaughtering 290 travelers flying on Christmas Day from the Netherlands to Detroit, Michigan. Passengers subdued the jihadist and he was arrested, thwarting the plot.
After the attempt, Haney writes, President Barack Obama "threw the intelligence community under the bus for its failure to 'connect the dots,' saying that it was not a failure to collect the intelligence that could have stopped the attack, but rather "'a failure to integrate and understand the intelligence that we already had.'"
But most Americans were not aware that the Department of Homeland Security's employees suffered enormous damage to their morale from Obama's words, Haney said.
Further, many were infuriated "because we knew his administration had been engaged in a bureaucratic effort to destroy the raw material — the actual intelligence we had collected for years, and erase those dots. The dots constitute the intelligence needed to keep Americans safe, and the Obama administration was ordering they be wiped away."
Just one month before the attempted attack, Haney said, his DHS supervisors ordered him to either delete or modify the records for several hundred people tied to Islamist terror organizations, including Hamas, from the Treasury Enforcement Communications System, the federal database.
Those records give DHS the ability to "connect dots," explained Haney, and every day, the agency's Custom and Border Protection officials use the database while watching people who are associated with known terrorist affiliations seeking patterns that could indicate a pending attack.
"Enforcing a political scrubbing of records of Muslims greatly affected our ability to do that," said Haney.
"Even worse, going forward, my colleagues and I were prohibited from entering pertinent information into the database," he wrote.
And even weeks after the attempted Christmas Day attack, Haney said, he was still being ordered to delete and scrub terrorists' records, making it more difficult to connect dots in the future.
The number of attempted and successful Islamic terrorist attacks kept increasing, notes Haney, including the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, conducted by Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev; Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez' shooting of two military installations in Chattanooga, Tennessee last year; the attack conducted by Faisal Shahzad in May 2010; Detroit "honor" killer Rahim Alfatlawi in 2011; Amine El Khalifi, who plotted to blow up the U.S. Capitol in 2012; and Oklahoma beheading suspect Alton Nolen in 2014.
He believes it is "very plausible" that one or more of those homeland incidents could have been prevented, if DHS subject matter experts had been allowed to keep doing their jobs.
"It is demoralizing — and infuriating — that today, those elusive dots are even harder to find, and harder to connect, than they were during the winter of 2009," Haney concluded."
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Elizabeth
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- Posts: 11796
- Location: East Coast Australia
Re: USA Politics.
"Four years ago, James O’Keefe released a video which showed how easy it would be for people to vote in New Hampshire using the names of deceased people. As a result of that video, New Hampshire changed its voter ID laws. Project Veritas Action revisited New Hampshire during Tuesday’s presidential primary election and again showed how easy it is to cast fraudulent votes with the new law fully in place. In this new video, multiple election officials and Bernie Sanders presidential campaign staffers offered advice to journalists using hidden cameras about how to circumvent the law with voter fraud."
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Elizabeth
- Level 34 Illuminated
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- Location: East Coast Australia
Re: USA Politics.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pr1D-Hj ... .812328381" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
These excerpts are hilarious… laughter is good medicine.
The US political system is a joke.
These excerpts are hilarious… laughter is good medicine.
The US political system is a joke.
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Elizabeth
- Level 34 Illuminated
- Posts: 11796
- Location: East Coast Australia
Re: USA Politics.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vB5LK-jihgk" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
" it is quite a coincidence that Glen Beck comes out with the real truth about the private Federal Reserve, and then loses his show on Fox News. Like Ron Paul always says, the Fed is the true facilitator of big government. They could never tax enough, or borrow enough to pay for the wars and corporate welfare without the printing press and world reserve currency status. The creation of the Fed WAS A CONSPIRACY. Our forefathers fought since the founding to deny the bankers a monopoly over the control of currency and credit. We have fallen under the control of the banking establishment, and they have tied their fraudulent debt to the fiscal wellbeing of America. If you consider yourself a proponent of limited, Constitutional government, you have an obligation to fight the Federal Reserve."
" it is quite a coincidence that Glen Beck comes out with the real truth about the private Federal Reserve, and then loses his show on Fox News. Like Ron Paul always says, the Fed is the true facilitator of big government. They could never tax enough, or borrow enough to pay for the wars and corporate welfare without the printing press and world reserve currency status. The creation of the Fed WAS A CONSPIRACY. Our forefathers fought since the founding to deny the bankers a monopoly over the control of currency and credit. We have fallen under the control of the banking establishment, and they have tied their fraudulent debt to the fiscal wellbeing of America. If you consider yourself a proponent of limited, Constitutional government, you have an obligation to fight the Federal Reserve."
