Are U.S. Voters Useful Idiots?

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Beware the Useful Idiots That Follow Saul Alinsky

November 12, 2015

White House Promotes Globalism, One World Conformist Government Over United States Nationalism, Individual Rights

[From article]
It used to be only tinfoil hat types who raved about a conspiracy to establish a new world order. Such nutcases generally did not include the secretary of state of America, a country once known for common sense and pragmatism.
But the days of Harry Truman's Missourian levelheadedness and his visionary but realistic secretaries of state Dean Acheson and George Marshall appear to be long gone. That tinfoil-hat globalists are currently in charge of U.S. policy, such as it is, is now evident in Secretary of State John Kerry's proclamation to graduates of Northeastern University that they should get used to a world without walls and without borders – indeed, without nations (italics mine):
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In a couple of paragraphs, Kerry basically advocated the elimination of nation-states while advising the young that he is not particularly concerned about the safety of the land in which they live. It is, he basically announced, impossible to protect you. Get used to terrorism.
Kerry appears to be channeling Germany's Angela Merkel and Brussels's leadership, whose experiments with a borderless Germany and a nationless Europe dominated by the European Union apparently are not working out perfectly.
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But the dream of world government by supranational entities such as the EU and the U.N. is persistent and strong. Kerry has, along with president Obama, apparently embraced that dream, and both are fostering it in a number of ways, the most important of which is urging the United States to provide an example for national hara-kiri by permitting open borders, especially to the south of the United States. Another step in the process is to ensure that the individual states are rendered powerless. The federal government essentially is turning the states into satrapies that do the bidding of the U.S. government and which are to follow the ideological insanities of our current elite in the White House and beyond to the letter. Elimination of state identities means that only one entity is in charge.



This brings us to the other important component essential to the success of the one-worlders – namely, the elimination of distinct identities among humans. Ultimately, their goal is to see that men and women (pardon the politically incorrect terminology) are without a country and without identity, including any differentiation between the sexes.
The above is ultimately what the push for a genderless society is all about. There is a reason for the fight for transgender "rights" that goes far, far beyond the stated goal of civil "rights." The goal is to destroy the ancient historical, religious, and scientific reality of the human being as male or female – and with that destruction, collapse all the institutions of civilization that have existed since the dawn of history and have provided identity for human beings – namely, the family, the tribe, the town, the city, the country, and the Church.
The idea is to keep humans in a state of constant indeterminacy, as indeterminacy concerning identity renders people malleable. Indeterminacy allows almighty global institutions to determine what a human being is, what humans are to be loyal to, where humans are to live, and what value humans have. Indeterminacy allows the idea of a "citizen of the world" to take root and grow. No one is male or female, Hungarian or Chinese, English or French, Catholic or Protestant or anything in between. The human being is merely an undifferentiated unit subject to global entities who can decree, "This is who you are."



In sum, the entire globe is to become a tabula rasa on which elite powers can write the outlines of a new world order.
Huxley's dystopian fantasy of a "Brave New World" is coming to fruition. He saw in 1933 where matters were heading. In chapter 3 of Huxley's work, Mustapha Mond, the leader of the World State, gives a long speech about its history. He blames the formerly sacred institutions of family, love, motherhood, and marriage for the chaos found in the old world order. These personal institutions were causes of instability, and individuals were always capable of divided allegiances that led to conflict. Therefore, the World State destroyed all allegiances except to the world government. Peace would reign when uniformity of life and thought was achieved. Everyone is happy because everyone thinks alike, just as they do at Harvard and Princeton. The struggle for Truth is eliminated, and all is calm.



Huxley presciently foresaw the day when globalist President Obama would issue a Mothers' Day Proclamation that essentially eliminated the concept of motherhood, and thus the differentiation of the sexes. The president stated, "Regardless of sexual orientation, gender identity, or marital status, mothers have always moved our Nation forward and remained steadfast in their pursuit of a better and brighter future for their children."
So there we have stage two of Brave New World as articulated by our president, with stage one having been articulated by our secretary of state.



The only thing that stands between the new chimerical global order and its accompanying ideological insanity is the blessed resistance of sane realists. Thank God there are people who see the tinfoil hats. Thank God there are people who still realize that the human race is divided into male and female and that nations have a right to insist on their autonomy as validated and valued because of history, tradition, and faith.
Thank God they will give up neither their identities as men or women nor the identities of the countries they love.

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/05/welcoming_the_brave_new_world_order.html

May 12, 2016
Welcoming the Brave New World Order
By Fay Voshell

Can People Govern Themselves? United States Experiment in Self Government Keeps Question Alive

[From article]
It has been said by some, and not entirely without reason, that the American experiment in self-governance is failing. Is it? Are we incapable of the virtues required of sovereign citizens?
The founding principle of American civics is that "we the people" govern ourselves. As self-governing citizens, we ensure that the government does not rule over us, but rather that it act under us. It is neither our parent nor our provider, but our subordinate. We call the shots. The government follows our orders. Our representatives represent us – not themselves, not their donors.
Has all that become a pipe dream?
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Socialism is on the rise, and its roots are sinking ever deeper into the social fabric. Education, entertainment, and even religious institutions are indoctrinating our fellow citizens. There is no reasoning with socialists, because when you try to speak, they shout you down, and that in itself is the harbinger of tyranny.
As matters now stand, we are not governing ourselves. We are being ruled by a distant and largely unaccountable officialdom that operates mostly out of our view. This system is supported by a bloc of voters who are appallingly ignorant of basic civics. People who cannot raise their own children are allowed to vote, and the people for whom they vote tax you to pay for their children.
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First, it is necessary to restore citizenship to its constitutional roots. Birthright citizenship was never the bedrock of civic entitlement, but only one of several considerations.
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I would make at least one critical requirement for anyone to be a voter. That requirement would be that every voter must pass the same test that foreign applicants for citizenship must pass. Presently, most voters would fail that test, many of them miserably.
Citizenship founded upon basic knowledge of the Constitution would be a good start. The rest might then, hopefully, take care of itself.

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2016/04/can_we_really_govern_ourselves.html

April 17, 2016
Can we really govern ourselves?
By Robert Arvay

No Gods In United States, Only Mortals

[From article]
I notice Homer didn't care much for political correctness. Even for Nestor the diplomat is not particularly careful about whom he offends. As it turns out, Achilles has anger issues. No pajama boy, he rails at his rival: "Drunkard, with the face of a dog and the heart of a fawn, you never dare to go out with the army to fight. You shun fighting as you do death.”
Nestor gives a speech, ending with pragmatic advice to Achilles: Well, yes, your mom is a goddess, but Agammenon has a bigger army. You probably should take that into account.
But in spite of his goddess mother’s and Nestor’s advice to quell his anger, Achilles nurses it and pines for battle. Peace did not ensue and the Trojan war came to be. Otherwise, the saga would not have been written.
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The Greeks conceived themselves as being in constant intimacy with the gods, consulting with them over everything. The gods, only slightly more elevated but more powerful than the humans with whom they consorted and slept, take pleasure in the songs of mankind; they enjoy the feasts at the temples; they accept the drink offerings. Jove is even portrayed as staying awake while he ponders how to do honor to Achilles. Mere men and their daily affairs were always on the minds of the gods--discussed endlessly and in detail. Everything mattered to the gods.
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There is something to be learned in the relationships of gods and men as portrayed in Homer’s Iliad and in the mythology that gave meaning to Greek culture; particularly in a day and age which has sought to excise the supernatural from every aspect of life: It is better to at least believe in gods than to believe we are mere beasts with no particular purpose but to eventually die to no end. It is better to believe in a superior being than to believe there is no God at all.
Or to believe you yourself are a god.
And that is where too many are today: Mere humans pretending to be gods who permit themselves everything. For without reference to anything or anyone other than self, any action can be and will be permitted.
Taking the burden of being gods upon ourselves is too great a burden for mere human beings. The consequence of our trying to make ourselves gods is that the gods go crazy. The gods believe anything and everything is not only possible and permitted, but that every other human being must recognize and worship the ever expanding pantheon of gods and goddesses among us. Crazy gods demand we worship them and allow them every expression of self will without quibbling.
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Nothing is sacred except themselves.
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But as C.S. Lewis points out, the Christian view of mankind promises a redemption that augers a greater destiny than the flawed and fallible gods or goddesses some would make themselves out to be. He writes:
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“There are no ordinary people.
“You have never talked to a mere mortal.
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Immortality is a very different thing than making one’s self a god by an act of will. Immortality is a given. But it winds up in two differing places: Immortally pure evil or immortally pure good. We are destined for one or the other, and the path we take in this life is an indicator of our ultimate destiny.
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There are only human beings on this planet--no gods and no goddesses. As mere mortals with an immortal future, it behooves us all to see in each human being a creature of immense worth, a being we are either helping or hindering in the walk to eternity.
The measure, then, of our humanity and our destiny is how we love God and how we love our fellow human being. "'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind'; and, 'Love your neighbor as yourself.'"
That commandment is the best antidote for any god complex.

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/04/greek_gods_and_the_modern_quest_for_immortality.html

April 24, 2016
Greek Gods and the Modern Quest for Immortality
By Fay Voshell

White House Plan For A New United States

[From article]
He’s just not that into us. Barack Obama pretty clearly sees America as a malign force in the world. Wouldn’t it be nice to have a president who actually thinks America is a good country, with a noble history of creating a nation depending on the consent of the governed, freeing its slaves at great cost in blood and treasure, twice saving Europe from tyranny, rebuilding and democratizing its vanquished enemies, and providing a cornucopia of invention and culture to all humanity?
Call me a dreamer…

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http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2016/03/15_times_obama_talked_down_america_on_his_trip_to_cuba_and_argentina.html

March 26, 2016
15 times Obama talked down America on his trip to Cuba and Argentina
By Thomas Lifson

Threats To Free Speech in The United States

[From article]
Ms. [Wendy] Bell, who worked 18 years at WTAE-TV [Pittsburgh, PA] and won multiple awards, posted a Facebook comment on March 21st, several days after an as-yet unsolved multiple murder spree that left six adults and children dead. Bell speculated that the killers were probably young black men from single-parent homes with multiple siblings by different fathers, who had committed crimes before the murders. She also wrote about personally commending a young black man working at a local restaurant, and asked her readers to be kind to others around them.
Nowhere in her post did Bell use the N-word, or make any other derogatory comments about African-Americans.
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One of the TV station’s executives justified Bell’s termination thusly: “Wendy’s recent comments on WTAE Facebook page were inconsistent with the company’s ethics and journalistic standards.” Another of her former bosses allegedly asserted, “Her post offended us…. It was an egregious lack of judgment.”
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How free is speech when one has constantly to be worrying about how someone else might interpret (and react to) what he/she says?
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Sadly, Ms. Bell’s experience is not the only instance in which someone suffered following expressing sentiments alleged to be racist. Recall what happened to Donald Sterling, who was banned from the National Basketball League and forced to sell the LA Clippers in 2014 after his mistress taped his presumably privately uttered racially inflammatory comments, or to Rush Limbaugh, who had to resign from his gig on ESPN’s "Sunday NFL Countdown" after comments about Philadelphia Eagles’ quarterback Donovan McNabb and local sportswriters in 2003.
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Oddly, America’s sensitivity to racism seems one-sided. Let some white boob say something considered beyond the pale racially, and it’s Katy-bar-the-door. On the other hand, prominent blacks, such as Louis Farrakhan, Al Sharpton, Jeremiah Wright, and those in the Black-Lives-Matter movement, can rail against whitey, sometimes in the foulest language, and no one should raise an eyebrow.
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Regardless of what one thinks about Donald Trump, he should be praised for being ready, willing, and able to speak against PC.
If other American politicians and ordinary citizens would also consign PC notions to the dustbin they so richly deserve, freedom of speech and of the press would be in more robust condition.
Race is not the only factor generating calls for limiting free speech in America. On March 31st, thefederalist.com blog posted an essay noting that Senator Elizabeth Warren (D, MA), a.k.a. “Fauxahontas,” recently sent a letter to Mary Jo White, chairwoman of the Federal Elections Commission, asking for an investigation of insurance company executives who have criticized new federal regulations of their industry. Warren asked the FEC to stop these execs from “saying whatever they want about Washington policy debates.”
Warren’s assault on the First Amendment is not the only instance of a left-wing Democrat seeking to curtail freedom of speech. In 2013, Senator Diane Feinstein (D, CA), among others, tried to limit the notion of “the press” to just people who are employed by government-approved corporate mainstream media outlets. Feinstein, and those who worked with her on this effort to strip Internet and other media outlets of their First Amendment guarantees, would have had a decidedly chilling effect on press freedoms.
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Donald Trump is alleged to be hostile to freedom of the press.
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The Supreme Court has enunciated a variety of opinions affecting free speech and freedom of the press. Perhaps two of the best-known Scotus rulings regarding limits on speech entail the equivalent of yelling “fire!” in a crowded theater, and making extreme comments that constitute a “clear and present danger” to national security. Journalism is not entirely unfettered, either. A reporter, for example, cannot libel even a public figure with “malice aforethought.” Moreover, if Jones is strictly a private person, her/his rights against libel are broader than if she/he is in the public arena.

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/04/the_threat_to_free_speech_in_america.html

April 5, 2016
The Threat to Free Speech in America
By Richard Winchester

War On Christianity In The United States

[From article]
The secular extremism characterizing much of the contemporary political scene sometimes makes it hard to realize Christianity was once the primary motivating force behind the great human rights movements of America.
Men and women of faith fought for decades to achieve victory over the great human rights issue of the 19th century -- freeing the slaves. The issue of slavery had festered from the time of its introduction into the colonies in 1619. It would be Pennsylvanian Quakers, who believed in the inner light of conscience, who filed the first formal protest against slavery in 1688.
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The roots of that great reform movement as well as many of the continuing reform movements of the 19th and 20th centuries -- including the Civil Rights movement of the 1950s and 60s -- were profoundly Christian.
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The radical fringe of the sexual revolution that began in the 1960s coincided and was parallel with the Civil Rights movement, gradually poisoning and then determining to kill outright the Christian religious conscience that was and still is the backbone of reform in America. The radicals behind the sexual revolution substituted in the place of Christian conscience answerable to God a militant view of self-determination that held to no god but the inner god of human will and power.
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In an astonishing perversion of the Quaker idea of the inner voice of conscience answerable to God, the inner voice of the individual human being was determined to be infallible in matters of sex and practice -- “If it feels good; do it.”
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Over a period of a few decades, activists for the LGBT movement transitioned steadily from their initial demands for equal protection under the law to demands for gay marriage, to denaturing the very construct of humanity by insisting on a gender free society, to promoting the right to force society at large to accept as infallible an individual’s ability to discern and to declare one’s self to be whatever sex one chooses.
To put it another way, the LGBT agenda will brook no contradiction from the rest of us mere mortals to argue about the inerrant inner light of the gods and goddesses who declare themselves to have divine ability to transform themselves into any sex they wish to be. The “right” to be or not to be man or woman resulted in the fanatical demand that bathrooms must be retrofitted to conform to “gender free” standards, meaning that in practice either sex could use public facilities as they wished, including those who are physically men but believe themselves to be women.
But even victories in the bathroom bill fights have not been enough for radicals. Encouraged by the recent decision of the Supreme Court ratifying a pillar of the LGBT movement; namely, the constitutional “right” of same sex couples to marry, the movement has set its sights on destroying Christianity itself. By insisting that no minister or priest can refuse to marry gay couples, and by asserting no organization or institution, including churches, can refuse to hire people diametrically opposed to Christian beliefs, the LGBT movement reveals itself to be a cult radically and viciously antithetical to Christianity.
And, yes, it is a cult.
A basic definition of a cult is an organization whose beliefs are so far separated from the real world, that if society were to incorporate those beliefs, it too, would go mad. Therefore, insane beliefs completely divorced from the ground of being can only be established by force of law and strategies utilizing persecution aimed at eventual elimination of entities in opposition to those beliefs.
The result is that open war has been declared on Christianity in America.
For proof of that war, we need only to look at the mad consequences we now observe in Georgia, where the governor of that state has vetoed a bill that would have offered absolutely minimal protection to ministers and churches. World Magazine reports:
“Claiming the bill would ‘give rise to state-sanctioned discrimination,’ Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal today vetoed a law that would have provided legal protection for pastors, faith-based organizations, and business owners who, in good conscience, refused to service gay weddings. The veto leaves Georgians with no statewide religious liberty protection and vulnerable to lawsuits over belief in the biblical definition of marriage.”
Apparently completely ignorant of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution’s clear statement of religious protection, the governor added: “In light of our history, I find it ironic that today some in the religious community feel it necessary to ask government to confer upon them certain rights and protections.”
Let that sink in.



In an era in which our Secretary of State has finally admitted genocide is being committed against unprotected Christians in the Middle East, the governor of Georgia says religious communities don’t need the government to confer rights and protections on people of faith.
Irony of ironies, Nathan Deal is a Southern Baptist -- a Southern Baptist who just gave over his own denomination to corporations for thirty pieces of silver. That his own church holds such retrograde and discriminatory positions as marriage being a covenant between a man and a woman and that the scriptures hold very pronounced views on sexual behavior seem to come as a surprise to Governor Deal.
But they do not surprise Albert Mohler, President of Southern Baptist Seminary, and stalwart defender of orthodox Christian views on the sexes and marriage. One wonders if Deal -- what a perfect name -- is prepared to see Dr. Mohler sued and hauled away to jail for advocacy of orthodox Christian doctrine concerning marriage and sexual mores.
Certainly Deal’s capitulation to corporations and the LGBT radicals helps explain why a plurality of Georgian evangelicals, among them Southern Baptists, voted for shameless secularist Donald Trump. Apparently neither Deal nor the plurality of so-called evangelicals think faith and Christian doctrine have anything to say about the character of candidates who wish to lead a nation or about radical policies antithetical to and aimed directly at Christians.
The leftist rage directed at American Christians should come as no particular surprise.
Historically, the Left has always sought to eviscerate and even to eliminate Christianity. The all-out assault on Christians in America by the Left resembles the wars socialism and communism waged against Christianity, the most obvious example being is the attempt of the communist Soviet Union to bury Russian Orthodoxy.
A less noted example, yet a clear provider of an almost exact pattern of what is happening here in the U.S., is the persecution of Mexican Roman Catholics by radical socialists during the Cristero war of the 1920s. During that war, Mexican socialists sought to eliminate Christianity from Mexico, which at the time was 95% Catholic.
For over 70 years, from about 1917 onwards, the Roman Catholic Church was actually outlawed. It was not allowed to own property, run parochial schools or convents or monasteries. Foreign priests were deported, and many native priests killed outright. The Church was not allowed to defend itself publicly or in the courts.
As Catholic Gene writes:
[The Church] was hardly allowed to exist. According to historian Jim Tuck, “This was not separation of church and state: it was complete subordination of church to state”.
“It was not until 1992 that the Church was restored as a legal entity in Mexico. During the period of the strictest enforcement of these draconian laws beginning with the rule of President Calles in the late 1920s, Mexicans were often imprisoned for wearing religious items, saying “Adios” in public (which literally means “with God”), or even questioning the laws. Public worship was a crime punishable by hanging or firing squad.”
The Mexican Constitution of 1917 included the following restrictions on Catholics:
“According to the religious liberties established under article 24, educational services shall be secular and, therefore, free of any religious orientation. The educational services shall be based on scientific progress and shall fight against ignorance, ignorance's effects, servitudes, fanaticism and prejudice… All religious associations organized according to article 130 and its derived legislation, shall be authorized to acquire, possess or manage just the necessary assets to achieve their objectives... The rules established at this article are guided by the historical principle according to which the State and the churches are separated entities from each other. Churches and religious congregations shall be organized under the law.”
The new constitution obligated the registration of all churches, declared all priests and ministers were ineligible to hold state office; and stated they could not advocate on behalf of any political parties or candidates. The State would regulate the number of priests in designated regions and no priests could wear religious garb in public. Nor could religious ceremonies be conducted outdoors without strict regulation by the State.
One needs only to read the restrictions of the Mexican Constitution of 1917 to recognize a similar pattern of persecution and restrictions against churches and people of faith in the United States, land of the free.
In retrospect Christians, at least partially, have only themselves to blame, as they have yielded time and again to state intrusions and restrictions with only sporadic guerilla warfare. On the whole, Christians have reacted to anti-Christian decrees and restrictions such as the SCOTUS decree on abortion, the elimination of Christianity from public schools, and the muzzling of priests and pastors concerning politics by retreating into a subculture.
As the attacks ratchet up, Christians urgently need to understand continued capitulation to the demands of the radicals who are pushing for the fringe demands of the LGBT movement means the death of religious freedom in America. It also means a cult’s radical doctrines replace Christian mores.

 

Are Christians in America prepared to see their pastors sued and/or sent to jail, their children continued to be subject to indoctrination in public schools, their state and federal governments continue to kowtow to extremists determined to eradicate the influence of religion; the free exercise of religion in the public square eliminated; Christians consigned to what would essentially be a caste system, with people of faith considered untouchables who are not worthy of public office or even employment?
If they are not prepared to strongly confront a cult’s takeover of America’s governments, churches, and major institutions; if they wish to see Christianity once again regain its status as a major influence for societal reform; if they want to once again see Christianity as salt and light in the society in which they live, they have no choice but to stand and fight.
Otherwise, the Church in America will die.

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/04/killing_christianity_in_america.html

April 3, 2016
Killing Christianity in America
By Fay Voshell

Billionaire-George-Soros-Funded Move On Boasts of Violent Disruption of Presidential Campaign

Using his billions to destroy free speech, democracy, the Constitution and the United States. 

Donald Trump's campaign is not urging violence on the campaign trail.  The White House began encouraging violence to justify his violations of the Constitution. His lawlessness is imitated and instigates others to be violent attacking people with who they disagree. This is a product of the lawless seven years of this White House. Typical of propaganda, these thugs accuse others of what they do. 

[From article]
Ilya Sheyman, a failed Illinois contender for Congress and the executive director of MoveOn.org Political Action, has taken credit for the violence at a cancelled Trump event last night in Chicago. He promised similar violence and disruption will occur at future Trump political events leading up to the election.
“Mr. Trump and the Republican leaders who support him and his hate-filled rhetoric should be on notice after tonight’s events,” on the George Soros funded MoveOn web page. “To all of those who took to the streets of Chicago, we say thank you for standing up and saying enough is enough. To Donald Trump, and the GOP, we say, welcome to the general election.”
MoveOn has consistently functioned as a lobby group for the policies of the Obama administration, including the disaster of Obamacare and the continuation of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and the escalation of the war on terror that has turned America into a police and surveillance state. In 2007 it backed a bill trotted out by then Democrat Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi to continue financing the occupation of Iraq.
The group acts as a front for wealthy Democrats. It was founded with the help of the financier George Soros who donated $1.46 million to get the organization rolling. Linda Pritzker of the Hyatt hotel family gave the group a $4 million donation.
Many of the Democrat and “progressive” candidates supported by MoveOn have failed to be elected since the organization was formed in 1998.
The violent demonstration in Chicago on Friday may represent a precursor to the sort of activity the organization will engage in as it tries to “shut down” its political enemies and elect either Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders.
On Friday night many of the protesters shouted “Bernie!” and held placards announcing their support for the socialist Democrat.

http://www.infowars.com/soros-funded-moveon-org-takes-credit-for-violence-in-chicago/

SOROS FUNDED MOVEON.ORG TAKES CREDIT FOR VIOLENCE IN CHICAGO
A precursor to activity the organization will engage in as the election approaches
Kurt Nimmo

Infowars.com

MARCH 12, 2016

https://youtu.be/GepGO6HqL3o

https://youtu.be/Be7qg1SOjZ8

Denying U.S. Exceptionalism Indicates Anti Americanism

[From article]
We are surrounded by negativity. And yet most people are unaware of the dangers inherent in this morale-eroding Political Correctness. For the most part, people are focused, each day, on making a living. The true significance of what we all are doing is not always apparent. The true significance of our experience is that the era we live in, and the nation we live in, are the most extraordinary in all human history. This is the Golden Age of America.
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Consider this: through a single human link, that between Gunnar [Endenquist] and myself, we span the entire length of one of the most significant epochs in all of human history. This link extends a direct human experience from the beginning of flight to deep into the space age. Gunnar was born before the advent of flight. Behind the scenes, Gunnar made major contributions to the development of aviation. In carrying on that tradition my focus has been on the development of space technology.
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Step back for a bit and survey the past and present of this great nation. America is truly great, and truly exceptional, because it is the world’s most creative nation. Few times in human history has there been such a florescence of human imagination. And never before to such an extent, and for as long, as in this land. America may well be the exemplar of all golden ages.
What is it about America that gave the world a Constitution of genius, unmatched anywhere to this day -- a Constitution which preserves for us all our God-given individual freedoms?
Why is America the cornucopia of invention? Why did America give birth to modern industry? Why was it Americans, and no others, that gave the world controlled flight? Why did an American dream up the assembly line? What inspired our geniuses to invent electric power and electric lighting, atomic energy, the telegraph, the telephone, electronics, motion pictures, television, transistors, the microchip, cell phones, robots, GPS, weather satellites, and the internet? Masterpieces of creative art, all. Who was it that discovered new ways of marketing and of rapidly delivering products anywhere across the continent and across the world? What took us so rapidly to the moon when we decided it was necessary?
Why do we have overwhelming dominance in science and in Nobel Prizes?
Why did America give the world syncopated jazz and musicals and modern dance, feature movies and the greatest songwriters? What inspired the creation of new forms of storytelling – including animation and graphic novels? Why has American skyscraper architecture transformed the cities of the Earth?
Why are we the magnet for enterprising and creative people from all parts of the world? Why do they all want to come here to live, and to flourish?
And yes, we happily steal good ideas wherever they come from. But we transform them and creatively build on them and make them uniquely American. And then we generously give them back, very much improved, to the world at large.
Why are we fearsome in battle but magnanimous in victory – lifting the defeated back onto their feet and accepting them as friends? No other nation does this.
What is it about America?
We are different. Let no one say otherwise.
One answer to this puzzle lies in a unique combination of peoples and circumstances. In this nation there has long been a collision of cultures, ideas and genetic stock and a subsequent melding together of these human riches. All our people were drawn to this nation by the simple idea of liberty. Our ancestors were the most energetic and courageous of the people in the many lands from which they came. It takes guts to cross the sea and dive into a hazardous wilderness of nature or into an alien city where all speak an unfamiliar language. To overcome these risks individuals learned to band together and to work together in fundamentally new ways. Creative solutions to problems were valued rather than scorned as they often were in the motherlands. Creativity became ingrained, first in each of the colonial cultures, and then in the ever growing and flourishing united America.
But there is more to explain American greatness than just the mixing of diverse and enterprising peoples. The essential element is our Constitution.
Though the various colonies differed in local culture and laws they all rapidly developed experience with self-government. These varied self-rule experiments taught our forbearers what worked and what didn’t. This was a unique departure from the remote, totalitarian governance suffered by other colonial societies such as those in Spanish America.
Additional factors were held in common in our colonies: language, liberty, enterprise, a frontier, and constant danger on the land and at sea. Prior experience with these common elements provided the keys to success when the crisis of rebellion arose. Rebellion against the greatest military power in the world could not possibly succeed. And yet it did. It succeeded with innovative solutions to impossible problems. In the aftermath, a generation of brilliant men left their respective colonies and pooled their experience of the revolution, of the risks to their lives, and of their several experiments in self-government, to create the unique Constitutional foundation for our great nation.
By the time of its founding, America had long been a hotbed of entrepreneurial activity. Many of the Founding Fathers were themselves risk-taking entrepreneurs. So a central idea embodied in the Constitution was the deliberate promotion of commercially oriented creative endeavor. For two centuries our Constitution has sheltered and nurtured this creativity and the factors that spurred it on: liberty, competition, cooperation, and reward. America’s commercial and cultural landscape is dominated by corporations, many of recent origin, which started small and grew rapidly because of the value they added to society. But nowadays this fertile growth environment is under serious attack. Many of the most valuable companies are migrating overseas and innovative startups are being suffocated. There is no guarantee that America’s Golden Age will continue.
Across the political spectrum people sense that something is very wrong. Go-along-to-get-along political Washington is dysfunctional. In creating the Constitution, the Founders recognized the dangerous passions that are aroused in reaction to untrammeled government. They therefore deliberately built into the Constitution safeguards to protect against the unlimited growth of the government. But those protections have been progressively stripped away by people who are seduced by power or by self-righteous ideology. The Founders were prescient. America is being smothered in taxes and ideologically motivated regulations and is essentially bankrupt.
But there is another problem. A far worse problem. For half a century or more, our morale has been under deliberate attack by partisans of the Left. This attack is very clever and very dangerous. Break the morale of the country and our nation’s dynamism, our prosperity and our future will be broken, as well. The Left lies. They sneer at patriotism. They distort our history. We are villains. Political Correctness tries to control our thought. Fracturing the American Melting Pot into contending racial, ethnic and economic factions shatters our unity and purpose.
Much more dangerous than these tactics is denial that America is exceptional. We hear this often, nowadays. We hear it in the schools and the movies. We hear it from “progressive” politicians. We hear it in the News. We even hear it from the White House. People who propagate this fiction are not friends of America, they are America’s adversaries.
America is exceptional. America is the greatest nation in the history of the world. That is the truth!

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/03/exceptional_america.html

March 5, 2016
Exceptional America
By Chet Richards

Recognizing Dangers To United States

[From article]
Because the GOP race has now turned into naked mud-wrestling, with conservative pundits being whipped up by their liberal bosses (like the Washington Post) to jump on Trump with hobnailed boots, all reasoned discourse is out the window for now.
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Fact 1. Obama and the hard left are deadly foreign toxins imported into the American body politic, pumped into us by the remnants of the hard left that seemed to be defeated after 1990 due to the collapse of the Soviet Union. Instead of accepting its loss, the Stalinoid left went underground, as it always does when its members are identified and defeated. They infiltrated American universities, the media, the true civil rights movement, the liberal churches, on and on, and took them over.
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Fact 2. Obama, Hillary, Bernie, and their kind show us that the virus has survived in the shadows, while we have dropped our guard. The hard left now dominates the Democrats and their one-party media.
Fact 3. The hard left here and in Europe has built a malignant power axis with jihad, which rose to global prominence with OPEC around 1970. OPEC regimes are primitive jihad-preaching despotisms, which paid for 9/11/01 (all the mass killers were jihadist followers of Saudi Wahhabism).
We are still at war with them, or rather, they have always been at war with the infidels (us). Sometimes jihad goes into remission, as it did for fifty years in Turkey after Ataturk drove the Ottoman priesthood out of power in the 1920s. But then the current Islamofascist despot, Recep Erdoğan, was put into power at the insistence of the European Union (!) and supported by Obama (!), thereby showing the Left-Jihad Axis for all the world to see. Erdoğan supports ISIS, buys its stolen oil from Iraq (which ISIS controls today), and sells it to Europe.
Fact 4. Obama, Hillary, and Jarrett are in close alliance with our enemies, jihad and the hard left, after penetrating the Democratic Party and therefore the one-party media.
That is a summary of today's deadliest threat to America and Western civilization. No exaggeration. The evidence is all over the web, including American Thinker. Read the evidence, and judge for yourself.
Point 1. The Left-Jihadist Axis is the single most important strategic fact today. Bar none. Even Putin is not necessarily our biggest enemy; he has said that he wants to be our ally in the Jihad War.
Point 2. Today's GOP mud fight has to be seen in light of the much greater strategic threat. This is common sense, and it's also basic military doctrine. You deal with the biggest threat first, and never let it out of your sight.
Point 3. This is also why the Left-Jihad Axis will do anything to confuse, deny, distract, deceive, blame, throw sand in our eyes, sabotage, infiltrate, and if necessary resort to violence to force you to take your eyes off their strategic threat. War is deception, and Marxism and jihad (as well as Sun Tzu) agree that deception can destroy an enemy (us) at minimal cost.
What does all this have to do with Trump? Well, look at the poll numbers, and the betting market. Trump is favored to win the GOP nomination at this moment and to win the U.S. presidency after that. Nobody knows the future with certainty. Trump might not win. I might like Cruz better than Trump. But strategically, at this time, Trump has the odds on his side. It's reality. If the evidence changes, we change our strategy also. We want to win, and American survival is more important than any single candidate.
Because we must act strategically above all, and because the strategic war pits the Jihad-Left Axis against Western and American civilization, we have to prioritize our objectives.
We can summarize the state of the Left-Jihad war against us in one sentence: Trump is unquestionably better than Obama. Trump isn't necessarily better than another GOP candidate. But Obama and Obamanism are the strategic enemy.
Forget that Obama is supposedly not in the game this cycle. The fact is that all the Obamanoids are still our strategic enemies. Hillary is running only because she made arrangements with Obama, or she would have been destroyed by media assassination by now. Bernie Sanders is an old war horse who would not be in the race without the agreement of his radical buddies on the ex-Stalinist left. Right now the Obama left are in disarray, because they can't dislodge Hillary, even though they want to run a much stronger candidate, like Liz "Fauxcahontas" or even Bloomberg. The goal is to drive Obama's program through, and damn the constitutional torpedoes.
So it's all about Obamanism, which equals jihad + hard Left.
Strategic Goal 1. The highest objective for pro-Americans is therefore to defeat Obamanism in this election cycle, and to keep defeating and defeating it, until it is driven back into its viral hidey-holes.
Strategic Goal 2. To accomplish Goal 1, we must elect as many pro-Americans as possible. Other heights of the culture, like the schools, the media, and entertainment, must also be contested and won. Once elected, politicians have to stay true to their word or be recalled by their voters.
Strategic Goal 3. Like it or not, the current state of play shows that Trump is a "good enough" choice. No, he's not General Patton, but he's miles better than the Waffen SS. This is war, whether you like it or not. Like Lincoln, we need a general who will fight. I think Trump and Cruz will fight the real strategic enemy. Maybe some of the other candidates will, too – I can't tell right now.
The bottom line is that Trumpism is better than Obamanism. The enormous threat to our beloved country and Constitution is Obamanism, with or without Obama. Hillary is an Obama clone. So is Bernie, along with Fauxcahontas and Bloomberg.
The GOP mud fight is a distraction. It's meant to take your eyes off the ball. Don't fall for it. Remember our strategic priorities, first, last, and always.
This is George Patton and the Third Army again. Ignore static enemy strong points. Instead, go right around them and strike at Hitler's bunker, just as fast as possible.
Never allow yourself to be distracted by the enemy media. Never lose the initiative. Keep them reeling.
Never fall for fake attacks and false fronts.
Don't forget that the enemy media are always against us. Don't try reason, because they don't do that. You reason with them; they pull out a rhetorical pistol, and you're dead.
Never respond to provocations alone.
Go for the heart of the enemy and destroy it. Use Alinsky against Alinsky.
Don't give in to the temptation to be nice. The enemy is not nice, but lethal.
Listen to the language they use, if you doubt this: they use the language of rage and violence. Assassinating Trump and Cruz is common talk on the other side. They are too cowardly to do that (we hope), but it's in their dreams.
We need to destroy the Left-Jihad Axis, peacefully, of course. This is a political and culture war. If our side wins, the outcome will always remain short of violence, because we do not follow an aggressive war doctrine. Both jihad and Marxism do exactly that. If we win, we will have peace. If they win, there is no telling what might happen. The historical precedents suggest bloody war if they win.
Stay focused on strategy, strategy, and more strategy. This is a time when tactics without strategy are doomed to fail. The enemy has made this the battleground. They chose the rules of engagement, and we have to either respond effectively or lose.
Which one do you want?
If you want to fight, you must pick the strongest candidate on our side and go all out to win. If he wins and turns tail, we raise Hell.
Semper fi.

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/03/obamanism_is_the_real_enemy.html

March 3, 2016
Obamanism Is the Real Enemy
By James Lewis

Open Borders Threaten European Nations and U.S.

[From article]
the immigration crises both here and in Europe have underscored growing anger at the arrogance and incompetence of unelected bureaucrats and their rules.
The big election kerfuffle of the week was the Pope’s ill-considered attack on those who want to limit illegal immigration from Mexico by building a wall at the border. To many it seemed an attack on Donald Trump whose campaign against illegal immigration struck a receptive chord with voters. Many noted the hypocrisy of such a statement coming from the head of the Vatican state which is itself surrounded by a wall erected in the ninth, fifteenth, and sixteenth centuries to protect against pirates and invaders.
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In the United Kingdom, efforts to withdraw from the European Union are mounting, inspired in large measure by the flooding into Europe of migrants from North Africa and the Middle East -- migrants who cannot truly be assimilated, affordably supported, or expected to share the nation’s ethos on things like religious tolerance, civil liberties, women’s rights, and even the rule of law. Just another example of how softhearted empathy for others clashes with reality.
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membership of the European Union prevents us being able to change huge swathes of law and stops us being able to choose who makes critical decisions which affect all our lives. Laws which govern citizens in this country are decided by politicians from other nations who we never elected and can’t throw out. We can take out our anger on elected representatives in Westminster but whoever is in Government in London cannot remove or reduce VAT, cannot support a steel plant through troubled times, cannot build the houses we need where they’re needed and cannot deport all the individuals who shouldn’t be in this country. I believe that needs to change.
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The ability to choose who governs us, and the freedom to change laws we do not like, were secured for us in the past by radicals and liberals who took power from unaccountable elites and placed it in the hands of the people. As a result of their efforts we developed, and exported to nations like the US, India, Canada and Australia a system of democratic self-government which has brought prosperity and peace to millions.
Our democracy stood the test of time. We showed the world what a free people could achieve if they were allowed to govern themselves.
In Britain we established trial by jury in the modern world, we set up the first free parliament, we ensured no-one could be arbitrarily detained at the behest of the Government, we forced our rulers to recognise they ruled by consent not by right, we led the world in abolishing slavery, we established free education for all, national insurance, the National Health Service and a national broadcaster respected across the world.
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EU immigration policies have encouraged people traffickers and brought desperate refugee camps to our borders.
Far from providing security in an uncertain world, the EU’s policies have become a source of instability and insecurity.
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The former head of Interpol says the EU’s internal borders policy is “like hanging a sign welcoming terrorists to Europe” and Scandinavian nations which once prided themselves on their openness are now turning in on themselves. All of these factors, combined with popular anger at the lack of political accountability, has encouraged extremism, to the extent that far-right parties are stronger across the continent than at any time since the 1930s.
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The EU is an institution rooted in the past and is proving incapable of reforming to meet the big technological, demographic and economic challenges of our time. It was developed in the 1950s and 1960s and [. . .] it is now hopelessly out of date.
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The EU is built to keep power and control with the elites rather than the people.
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As a minister I’ve seen hundreds of new EU rules cross my desk, none of which were requested by the UK Parliament, none of which I or any other British politician could alter in any way and none of which made us freer, richer or fairer.
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We can take back the billions we give to the EU, the money which is squandered on grand parliamentary buildings and bureaucratic follies, and invest it in science and technology, schools and apprenticeships. We can get rid of the regulations which big business uses to crush competition and instead support new start-up businesses and creative talent.
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With few changes, Gove’s passionate protest against the EU echoes the plaints of American conservatives and libertarians against the increasing power and arrogance of our own federal government. While the immigrant crisis makes the Brexit move more popular now than it has been, it is only a catalyst for a rising tide in the West against centralized government by unelected bureaucrats.
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This is why, on 23 June, we have to vote to leave the EU. To buy into Mr Cameron's pretence is to give him and successive politicians a license to lie. If as a people, we accept this garbage, we will take anything – and deserve what we get.
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And to think that the lack of walls triggered a long overdue resurgence of nationalism is surely ironic.

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/02/good_fences.html

February 21, 2016
Good Fences
By Clarice Feldman

Muslim Terrorists Conduct Psychological Warfare in U.S.

[From article]
the FBI has issued an alert to local law enforcement regarding threats to the family of military, even though these incidents have gone largely unreported by mainstream media.
According to president of AMI Global Security and international security consultant Anthony Mele, this is just another tactic used by jihadists engaging soft targets:
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This is not just a war of inflicting mass casualties; it's a religious war. They are engaging in psychological warfare to force their enemy into submission of their ideology. They are just testing the waters right now in America; we haven't seen anything yet. This is something counter-terrorism professionals have been warning against for some time.
Psychological warfare is the use of propaganda, threats, and other psychological techniques to mislead, intimidate, demoralize, and otherwise influence the thinking or behavior of an opponent. It has been used through the ages as an effective tool against the enemy, and Mele says America is not prepared for it.
While much of the Western world is beginning to see firsthand what these people are capable of, America appears to still be the ostrich with its head in the sand. We carry on business as usual, as if the world is not at war. The American people in general are not prepared in any way for what is foreseen among the intelligence community.
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He believes that the most important thing every citizen should do is exercise his Second Amendment right to arm himself.
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We can't look to our governments to protect us from immediate threats. Even local enforcement can only do so much with response times. Those who believe their local, state or federal government is going to save them, are endangering themselves and could risk their lives with that kind of thinking.
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Other options for defense are home security and self-defense classes.
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How many people could fathom a day where there are multiple rapes and sexual assaults on the streets of a westernized society like Germany? Who would have thought just twenty years ago that individual military family members would be targeted for kidnapping or worse?
Businesses that survive over generations do so not because they keep the same "business as usual" model. They change and adapt with the times and trends. It's time for American citizens to do the same. What worked in previous decades for security and safety no longer works for citizens in this new era of terror.

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2016/02/terrorists_in_america_engaging_in_psychological_warfare.html

February 21, 2016
Terrorists in America Engaging in Psychological Warfare
By Jamie Hope

U.S. Population Fragmented, Divided, White House Proud

[From article]
Moderation is taken for apathy, and patience is looked upon as a pretext for inaction. There is mounting unrest and violence not only among university students but in society at large. The product is a weakening of confidence between young and old, between racial groups, between partisan political factions, between students and administrators, between citizens and government. An individualism of suspicion and distrust is replacing an individualism of opportunity and hope."
Written almost 50 years ago, the above aptly describes what is assailing America today. In 1968, Philip H. Rhinelander, then a professor of philosophy and humanities at Stanford University, wrote a piece entitled "Education and Society" for The Key Reporter which was delivered before the Phi Beta Kappa chapter at Stanford on June 15, 1968.
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One cannot enter a classroom of higher learning today without walking into pitched battles and extreme positioning. University students deride the idea of consensus-building and seek to run administrators out of town. Any student daring to express an opinion different from the politically correct one of the day is frightened into mental subservience, so much so that logical argumentation is in tatters. Aristotle's classifications of ethos, pathos, and logos rarely make their way into classroom discussions as shouting matches become the rule of the day.

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/02/authentic_rebellion.html

February 23, 2016
Authentic Rebellion
By Eileen F. Toplansky

Bachman Warns of Muslim Invasion To Destroy Western Civilization

Michele Bachman, Ex-US Rep. (R-MN)

[From article]

The movement of Muslims, not a few of whom are radicalized, into Europe and the United States is a “planned invasion” for the “specific purpose of destroying Western Christendom,” said former House Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.), who stressed that you do not see “this mass migration into Russia or into China” – it is “all headed toward Western Christendom.”
““We saw this mass migration, this people movement, which is a historic people movement of Muslims from Islamic nations tending to be the most radicalized nations -- from those nations into nations that are known as Western Christendom,” said Rep. Bachmann during a Feb. 6 interview on the Understanding The Times with Jan Markell radio program.
[. . .]
Bachmann then said Minnesota is expected to have its “highest level immigration” this year.
On the migration in general, she said, “The people that are coming in are not Christians, generally speaking, very, very few Christians that are being moved. It is primarily Muslims and only young men, 80% tend to be young men going into Europe right now, for instance, but they also come from the most radicalized Islamists.”
“This clearly is an invasion,” said the former congresswoman. “This is a planned invasion, not only in Europe but also in the United States.”
[. . .]
While in Congress, Bachmann had served on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, which oversees the CIA, the NSA, and the entire federal intelligence community.
Bachmann continued in the interview, “I just want to give you one example.The Gatestone Institute is a fabulous organization, and they had an article come out on the Islamization in France in 2015.
“We know that Angela Merkel, the chancellor of Germany, brought in 1.1 million Muslims last year, into Germany, just in Germany alone,” said Bachmann. “France already was further down the road, and this is a direct quote, ‘We are in a war with jihadist terrorism that threatens the entire world.’
“This is what the leader of France said, Hollande: The Muslim population of France, and I’m quoting from the Gatestone Institute, the Muslim population in France reached 6.5 million in 2015, 10% of the overall population,” she said. “In real terms, France has the largest Muslim population in the European Union, even more than Germany.”
[. . .]
“Here at the Minneapolis-St. Paul airport, the FBI picked up four who were members of the Islamic State, at the Minneapolis airport,” said Bachmann. “The more that we bring people into Western Christian countries, Islamic sympathizers and true believers, the more we will continue to see this problem.”
Michele Bachmann, 59, served four terms in the U.S. House of Representatives, from 2007 to 2015. Prior to that she was a member of the Minnesota Senate, from 2001 to 2007. She holds a law degree, and she and her husband, Marcus Bachmann, have five children and have provided foster care to 23 other children over the years.

http://cnsnews.com/blog/michael-w-chapman/bachmann-muslim-migration-planned-invasion-purpose-destroying-western

Bachmann on Muslim Migration: ‘This Is A Planned Invasion’ For The ‘Purpose of Destroying Western Christendom’
By Michael W. Chapman

February 10, 2016 | 5:30 PM EST

Gene Editing, Now Available to Scientists And Terroroists Is Declared a Weapon Of Mass Destruction By US Spy Chief

James Clapper, U.S. director of national intelligence 

[From article]
Genome editing is a weapon of mass destruction.
That’s according to James Clapper, U.S. director of national intelligence, who on Tuesday, in the annual worldwide threat assessment report of the U.S. intelligence community, added gene editing to a list of threats posed by “weapons of mass destruction and proliferation.”
Gene editing refers to several novel ways to alter the DNA inside living cells. The most popular method, CRISPR, has been revolutionizing scientific research, leading to novel animals and crops, and is likely to power a new generation of gene treatments for serious diseases (see “Everything You Need to Know About CRISPR’s Monster Year”).
[. . .]
The choice by the U.S. spy chief to call out gene editing as a potential weapon of mass destruction, or WMD, surprised some experts. It was the only biotechnology appearing in a tally of six more conventional threats, like North Korea’s suspected nuclear detonation on January 6, Syria’s undeclared chemical weapons, and new Russian cruise missiles that might violate an international treaty.
The report is an unclassified version of the “collective insights” of the Central Intelligence Agency, the National Security Agency, and half a dozen other U.S. spy and fact-gathering operations.
Although the report doesn’t mention CRISPR by name, Clapper clearly had the newest and the most versatile of the gene-editing systems in mind. The CRISPR technique’s low cost and relative ease of use—the basic ingredients can be bought online for $60—seems to have spooked intelligence agencies.
[. . .]
The concern is that biotechnology is a “dual use” technology—meaning normal scientific developments could also be harnessed as weapons. The report noted that new discoveries “move easily in the globalized economy, as do personnel with the scientific expertise to design and use them.”
Clapper didn’t lay out any particular bioweapons scenarios, but scientists have previously speculated about whether CRISPR could be used to make “killer mosquitoes,” plagues that wipe out staple crops, or even a virus that snips at people’s DNA.
[. . .]
Development of bioweapons is banned by the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention, a Cold War–era treaty that outlawed biological warfare programs. The U.S., China, Russia, and 172 other countries have signed it. Millet says that experts who met in Warsaw last September to discuss the treaty felt a threat from terrorist groups was still remote, given the complexity of producing a bioweapon. Millet says the group concluded that “for the foreseeable future, such applications are only within the grasp of states.”
The intelligence assessment drew specific attention to the possibility of using CRISPR to edit the DNA of human embryos to produce genetic changes in the next generation of people—for example, to remove disease risks. It noted that fast advances in genome editing in 2015 compelled “groups of high-profile U.S. and European biologists to question unregulated editing of the human germ line (cells that are relevant for reproduction), which might create inheritable genetic changes.”
So far, the debate over changing the next generation’s genes has been mostly an ethical question, and the report didn’t say how such a development would be considered a WMD, although it’s possible to imagine a virus designed to kill or injure people by altering their genomes.

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/600774/top-us-intelligence-official-calls-gene-editing-a-wmd-threat/

Top U.S. Intelligence Official Calls Gene Editing a WMD Threat
Easy to use. Hard to control. The intelligence community now sees CRISPR as a threat to national safety.
by Antonio Regalado

February 9, 2016

Ann Coulter On Unifying Americans

[From article]
Meanwhile, over on MSNBC, Rachel Maddow was agog at the fact that IN THIS COUNTRY, 66 PERCENT OF GOP VOTERS ARE COMFORTABLE WITH BANNING MUSLIM IMMIGRANTS.
Her neurotic repetition of the popularity of Trump’s Muslim ban should be considered an in-kind donation to his campaign. Most people heard it, and thought: “Is that true? Then I’m definitely switching to Trump.”
Even Muslim immigrants were saying, “I probably won’t commit jihad myself, but I know some of the Muslims coming definitely will.”
It’s like importing immigrants with Ebola. We feel bad for them, we know it’s not their fault, but we just can’t let them in. For every 100,000 Muslims we admit, we know that at least a few hundred either plan to engage in terrorism right away or can be persuaded to engage in terrorism later. Another 10,000 will send them money or help them hide.
Trump could probably help himself by saying: “Fine. You don’t want a temporary ban on Muslim immigrants? How about we temporarily suspend all immigration?” Let’s take a breather while we watch what happens to Europe.
[. . .]
There isn’t a lot the entire country agrees on, anymore. A few generations ago, there was so much that brought Americans together. Everyone read LIFE magazine, listened to Jack Benny on the radio, and then later watched Ed Sullivan together, every single Sunday night. All Americans watched the moon landing, were traumatized when Kennedy was shot and supported the troops.
But today, with a billion cable channels, and specialty magazines on everything from bridal gowns to automatic rifles, and a wildly heterogeneous population, there’s not a whole lot that brings us together.

http://humanevents.com/2016/02/10/new-jersey-man-slays-child/?utm_source=coulterdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl

New Jersey Man Slays Child

Ann Coulter

Wednesday Feb 10, 2016 5:39 PM

What US Conservatives Can Learn From Canadians

[From article]
The CBC is a cultural Marxist production that never met a Conservative policy it liked. It sees its mandate as constantly attacking every Conservative idea or piece of legislation while propagandizing on behalf of multiculturalism; Islam as a religion of peace; anti-Zionism; and radical movements such as Occupy Wall Street, Idle No More, and #BlackLivesMatter.
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Afraid of giving its foes something to be offended by, the Conservative government funded its own demise.
No less catastrophic, the Conservatives failed to pass legislation to radically protect free speech across the country – legislation that would outrank our provincial kangaroo courts, known as Human Rights Commissions, whose mandate has been to prosecute individual citizens and groups on the flimsy grounds of "hate speech."
[. . .]
this signal failure guarantees that open discussions essential to Canada's future as a robust democracy – especially conversations about mass immigration, Islamic terrorism, and the relation between the two – will continue to be curtailed by the left-leaning proponents of censorship in the name of social "harmony."
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Perhaps most damagingly, the Conservatives attempted to fight the election chiefly on the basis of fact and logical argument rather than engaging the passions and patriotic sentiments of the electorate. They were unable to rebut progressivist attacks portraying them as hateful, bigoted, backward, divisive, and exclusionary. They had no vision of Canada to offer that was not simply a less enthusiastic version of the feminist, multicultural, and "diverse" image championed by the other parties.
[. . .]
Canada's Conservatives lost the election in part because they shrank from being truly conservative. Similarly, should the Republicans lose in November 2016, it will be because they failed to be truly republican.

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/02/a_lesson_to_republicans_in_canadas_conservative_party_defeat.html

February 7, 2016
A Lesson to Republicans in Canada's Conservative Party Defeat
By David Solway and Janice Fiamengo

United States Is Becoming Israel

Israelis fighting terrorists

[The full list includes horrific attacks in 11 countries, from Bavaria to the United States.]
[From article]
Israelis live under constant threat of attacks that can occur anywhere, anytime, any way – from suicide bombings to stabbings to being run over with cars. (And this doesn’t even address the threat of large-scale attacks that loom on the horizon.)
The West has had the relative luxury of looking at Israel from afar and feeling a sense of how different life is here, compared to there. But times are changing as evil gains ground. Westerners can no longer cast their eyes to Israel and sense a great divide between us and them anymore. The Israeli reality has become the West’s reality as we face increasing terror attacks that crop up anywhere, anytime, any way.
[. . .]
Two people were arrested trying to join the Islamic State. An Iraqi refugee planned to join ISIS, but not before he planned to blow up malls in Houston, stating: “I am against America.” A Muslim man was indicted for joining al-Shabaab. It was discovered that the Muslim who attempted to execute a Philadelphia police officer was part of a terror cell. A Muslim man who is likely a terrorist attempted to extort a large sum of money from couple who tried to help him. (here, here, here, here, and here)
Note: This list is not exhaustive, does not include jihad attacks elsewhere around the world, creeping Sharia, daily acts of dhimmitude, the evil truth that is yet to be unearthed regarding Iran and our sailors, Guantanamo detainees who’ve been released, the Muslim Brotherhood advance, refugee resettlement (hijra), or attacks and threats we do not know about for any number of reasons,

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2016/01/weekly_round_up_from_the_religion_of_horrors.html

January 17, 2016
Weekly round up from the religion of horrors
By Carol Brown

Science Seldom Remains Settled

Seldom mentioned about the earth and its climate is the shape of entire continents has changed over time. So what is now desert was once mountain and vice versa. The entire fantasy about global warming nee climate change is pure nonsense when viewed through the prism of history. Difficulty is so many bright omniscient young people have no idea what history is. Another element is that political propaganda called climate change is one method of pushing one world government, called globalism on the human population in order to eliminate individual freedom as enjoyed in the United States and Israel.



[From article]

The favorite cudgel of leftist climate change fear mongers is the appeal to authority, as in that there is “a scientific consensus” that the earth is warming and that changes over the last century are due to human activity. The problem with appeals to authority on extremely broad scientific topics is that they are not subject to easy proof by experimentation, and are quite often wrong. Here’s a list of ten popular theories ultimately proven false, and it omits some major howlers, like therapeutically bleeding people or the geocentric theory of the solar system. Now we can add to that list the “scientific consensus” that diets rich in processed foods and fats lead to heart disease.

[link to list]

http://www.toptenz.net/top-10-most-famous-scientific-theories-that-turned-out-to-be-wrong.php



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New studies of pre-modern humans, dating back many millennia, demonstrate that arteriosclerosis (the hardening of the arterial blood vessels that causes blockages and heart attacks) afflicted people who (by necessity and not choice) followed that most rigid of diet and exercise regimens -- hunting and gathering. The mummified remains of Neolithic era humans from around the globe demonstrate that arterial disease was about as commonplace in those ancient populations as it is today. Despite the fact that these people had diets low on saturated fats, high in proteins, vegetables and fruits, and engaged in regular and strenuous exercise, they still suffered from heart disease as they aged at about the same rates as modern humans.
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one thing that is certain is that the earth’s climate has obviously undergone dramatic change in both historic and prehistoric time frames. In historic time (that is in the last 5000 years or so) there has been massive desiccation in northern Africa and the Middle East (probably due to long term warming) interspersed with mini-ice ages (countervailing periods of cooling especially in northern latitudes.) On balance, at least for people in the northern hemisphere (which is where most of the human population resides) warming has been a good thing, while cooling (with associated famines) a bad thing.

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/01/another_scientific_consensus_bites_the_dust.html

January 3, 2016
Another 'Scientific Consensus' Bites the Dust
By Jonathan F. Keiler

German Police Denying It Is Muslims Committing Sex Offenses, Imitates US Police Denying it is Black Racist Violence in The USA

This essay was published a day before a Muslim Gentleman shot a Philadelphia policeman. The detective who interviewed the suspect reported the suspect boasted he acted for Islam. But the new white mayor of Philadelphia said it had nothing to do with Islam. This is what passes for political leadership in America. 

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German officials want the world to know the 1000 African and Arab men who assaulted, robbed, rampaged and raped 100 or more German women had nothing to do with refugees.
And the Germans will not be talking about it any more, thank you, said German Justice Minister Heiko Maas.
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The Mayor of Cologne issued a “code of conduct” for German women, suggesting they be more careful lest more refugees sexually abuse them.
There was no code of conduct issued for the abusers.
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The BBC was happy to go along, saying that the attacks were just “boisterous” holiday frivolity.
That also goes for the 800 cars set on fire in France by the same kind of groups, whose race, ethnicity and religion shall not be named. Unless of course you want to provoke the ire of German and French reporters and public officials -- and Moslem clerics.
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author Mona Eltahaway, who had written about being raped and beaten during the Arab Spring.
Harris-Perry and a Harvard professor also on the show in 2013 wondered if the author should have just kept her mouth shut because her story made Moslems look bad.
Which is also why black people in America do not report violent crime, especially rape, Harris-Perry said.
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A recent story at mic.com reported that 60 percent of black women are raped before the age of 18 -- with 95 percent not reported.
The show continued as the MSNBC host brought in Harvard professor Leila Ahmed, who questioned whether Eltahawy should have written the article at all. Not because it was false, but because it was true and made Moslems look bad.
“You began, Melissa, by noting that some things in the African-American community are not publicized precisely because of the racism,” said Ahmed as Harris-Perry nodded in agreement on a split screen.
“Mona, I appreciate what you do,” continued Ahmed. “But if possible [you should not] give fuel, fodder to people who simply hate Arabs and Muslims in this climate of our day.”

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/01/german_muslim_crime_denial_looks_a_lot_like_american_black_crime_denial.html

January 8, 2016
German Muslim Crime Denial Looks a lot like American Black Crime Denial
By Willie Shields