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		<title>Why It Doesn&#8217;t Matter Whether North Korea Hacked Sony</title>
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<p>The most important part of the Sony story was never the identity of the hackers. It was how Sony, the media and major theater chains reacted.</p>
<p>If it turns out that the Sony hack was carried out by North Korea, Joe Biden in an Ambien daze, Koko the gorilla or a bored Sony employee, that will be significant to investigators, but it won&#8217;t change how major corporations allowed themselves to be bullied into pulling a movie from theaters based on some leaked emails and empty threats.</p>
<p>This isn&#8217;t a whodunit. It&#8217;s a whydidtheyreacthatway.</p>
<p>The Sony hack consisted of a typical media cycle in which the media first blew up a scandal, sourcing controversial material from the emails from clickhole sites like Buzzfeed and Gawker, taking private information that was illegally hacked and using it to accuse Sony execs of racism. This was behavior just as illegitimate as reprinting private celebrity photos in a previous Hollywood hack.</p>
<p>Once the mission had been accomplished, the media pivoted to calling Sony cowards for pulling The Interview and cheered its release.</p>
<p>This is a typical media scam in which the media creates a scandal and then creates a backlash to the scandal reporting.</p>
<p>But Sony did indeed allow itself to be bullied by a combination of viral stories and hacker threats. So did major theaters who are part of the ironically named NATO.</p>
<p>Paramount cut off attempts to screen Team America World Police.</p>
<p>The larger problem is that this was the tip of the iceberg. China had already bullied Hollywood into favorable portrayal in movies. North Korea was the only remaining safe enemy. Now that&#8217;s done too.</p>
<p>Hollywood acts tough when it comes to bashing America, but it&#8217;s afraid to take on any actual enemy nations. That&#8217;s what the Sony hack showed yet again.</p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>Editor&#8217;s note: Below are the video and transcript to Ronald Kessler&#8217;s address at the Freedom Center&#8217;s Dec. 10, 2014, gathering of the Wednesday Morning Club. </em></p>
<p><strong><em>To order Ronald Kessler&#8217;s &#8220;The First Family Detail,&#8221; click <a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-First-Family-Detail-Presidents/dp/0804139210">here</a>. </em></strong></p>
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<p><strong>Ronald Kessler:</strong> Thank you so much for having me.  And it&#8217;s a real honor to be with such sophisticated people who understand everything, know everything.</p>
<p>(Laughter)</p>
<p>And as you can tell from the titles of my books, I like to probe secret organizations, secret subjects.  And this sometimes gets me into trouble.</p>
<p>One of my books, called &#8220;Moscow Station,&#8221; revealed that a KGB archivist had defected from Russia to the FBI.  And I knew that he was safe, and revealing this would not jeopardize him.  But nevertheless, the FBI started a leak investigation.  And I heard about it from the inside.  I heard the agents were going to come out and try to interview me.</p>
<p>And I went through in my mind how I would greet them &#8212; I would offer them coffee, I would schmooze them.  And of course, I would try to develop them as sources.</p>
<p>And a few days later, I was in my house in Potomac, Maryland, which is a quiet suburb; very few people ring the bell.  And I had this idea &#8212; since I&#8217;ve written so many books about the FBI, and covered it for so long, and interviewed so many agents, that I have an idea of what FBI agents look like, which is pretty silly.</p>
<p>But nevertheless, the bell rang, I opened the door.  And there were these two very intense-looking young men with narrow ties, white shirts.  And I said &#8212; well, where have you guys been?  I&#8217;ve been expecting you, come on in.</p>
<p>(Laughter)</p>
<p>And they looked at me a little &#8212; almost a little afraid, a little strangely.  And they held out these pamphlets, the &#8220;The Watchtower.&#8221;</p>
<p>(Laughter)</p>
<p>I like a challenge.  The fact that these are secret organizations, and also very important organizations that can engage in abuses that are so important to our national security &#8212; all that attracts me.  And in the case of the Secret Service, it is really the most secret of all the organizations, even more so than the CIA or the FBI, both of which I&#8217;ve written about.</p>
<p>And I began with a tip about mismanagement by the Secret Service.  And then, as I got into it, I found that was really the tip of the iceberg.  But at the same time, I got the cooperation of the Secret Service.  I think they felt that I would tell an honest story, which is what I try to do.</p>
<p>For example, with the FBI, when they do good, as they have since 9/11 &#8212; we have not had a successful foreign terrorist attack since 9/11, and it&#8217;s largely because of the FBI that I say that.  And that is unusual in journalism today, even though I&#8217;m actually much younger than Michael thinks.</p>
<p>(Laughter)</p>
<p>But on the other hand, when they engage in abuses, I reveal that.  In the case of the FBI, I revealed that William Sessions, the FBI director, had been engaging in abuses of all kinds, and I exposed that.  And that led to his dismissal by President Clinton.</p>
<p>In the case of the Secret Service books, I&#8217;ve now written two.  They both reveal the deficiencies in the agency and also what agents see behind the scenes.  I know this is too tawdry for all of you to hear, but there&#8217;s quite a bit that they see.</p>
<p>For example, actually before the first chapter, I began with a prologue which reveals that Bill Clinton has a mistress who has been unofficially codenamed by agents &#8220;Energizer.&#8221;</p>
<p>(Laughter)</p>
<p>And Energizer was chosen because the first letter of every family&#8217;s codename is always the same.  So in the case of the Clintons, Bill is &#8220;Eagle,&#8221; and Hillary is &#8220;Evergreen.&#8221;  And so the mistress, busty blonde mistress, became &#8220;Energizer.&#8221;</p>
<p>And as soon as Hillary leaves the home in Chappaqua, Energizer shows up.  Unlike Hillary, who&#8217;s so nasty to agents that being assigned to her detail is considered a form of punishment &#8211;</p>
<p>(Laughter)</p>
<p>&#8211; the mistress is very nice to agents.  She&#8217;ll even bring them cookies sometimes.</p>
<p>One day, during the summer, she brought cookies, she drove up to the gate.  The agents are instructed not to ever ask for her ID or log her in, whereas even Clinton relatives have to be logged in.  And she held out this platter of cookies through the window of her vehicle to the agent.  And he noticed that she was wearing a low-cut tank top.  And he described in great detail her breasts, that they&#8217;re enhanced.  There was no question in his mind.  And so we have every single detail in this book, &#8220;The First Family Detail.&#8221;</p>
<p>In the case of Hillary, she&#8217;ll just make life miserable for agents.  She&#8217;ll blow up at them.  They can never do anything right.  She&#8217;ll even complain when the limousine goes over a bump in the road.  Being assigned is considered the worst assignment in the Secret Service to be assigned to Hillary&#8217;s detail.</p>
<p>And so yes, these stories are titillating; yes, they&#8217;re revealing.  But they also tell you something about our leaders and who we should be electing for President.  Should we elect someone who treats other people in such a shabby way, who at the same time claims to be compassionate, to care about the little people?  She&#8217;s going to be a champion of the middle class?  And yet, she cannot treat agents who are there to protect her, and even take a bullet to protect her, with decency.</p>
<p>And people just, you know, sort of ignore this.  They look at how well someone speaks, they look at what someone promises.  They&#8217;ll ignore the track record &#8212; for example, the fact that President Obama spent 20 years listening to the anti-white, anti-America, anti-Israel rantings of Reverend Wright.  People just &#8212; you know, they&#8217;re in denial.</p>
<p>My most liberal friends, my most liberal family members, say they would&#8217;ve walked out if they&#8217;d heard that, in any situation.  And yet, Obama exposed his kids to that, as well as, of course, Michelle, who was even more entranced by Reverend Wright.</p>
<p>Joe Biden &#8212; he goes back to his home in Wilmington several times a week on Air Force Two.  And that has cost our taxpayers $1 million since he took office.  And this is in the book.  I got it from the Air Force under the Freedom of Information Act.  And yet, nobody in the mainstream media has picked this up.</p>
<p>You know, it&#8217;s one thing to go back home a few times a year.  But he has a job in Washington, he has a home, paid for by taxpayers, in Washington, with five navy stewards who make pastries every night and cater to all of his wishes.  Both homes have pools.  He has no business going back and forth, sometimes even twice a day, on Air Force Two.  Sometimes, he&#8217;ll even go back to Wilmington, and then come back just for the day to play golf with Obama at Andrews Air Force Base, and then go back to Wilmington.</p>
<p>The fact that he has a pool is intriguing.  Because he has a habit of skinny dipping.  And this offends female Secret Service agents.  They signed up to take a bullet for the President, but not to see Joe Biden run around naked.</p>
<p>(Laughter)</p>
<p>And on top of all that &#8212; and this is probably the worst of all &#8212; when he goes up to Wilmington, Biden instructs his agents to keep the military aide with the nuclear football for unleashing a nuclear counterstrike at least a mile behind in the motorcade.  Biden, like most politicians, is fixated on his image.  He wants to maintain the image of the regular Joe, working-class guy.  So he doesn&#8217;t want to have a long motorcade when he goes to Wilmington.</p>
<p>But the result is that if Obama were taken out, we would be defenseless against a nuclear attack.  Because, of course, there wouldn&#8217;t be time for the nuclear football to catch up with Biden.  Height of irresponsibility.  The worst judgment you can imagine.  And again, the mainstream media have ignored this revelation in the book.</p>
<p>The book is nonpartisan.  It says that Obama and his wife do treat agents with respect and consideration.  On the other hand, agents have been dismayed to overhear Michelle urge her husband to be more aggressive in attacking Republicans and in siding with blacks in racial controversies, which of course we see him do over and over again.</p>
<p>And I think that certainly has contributed to the violence and the rioting.  Because he&#8217;s essentially sanctioning the idea that we&#8217;re all racists.  And of course, that goes back to Reverend Wright.  That was exactly his mindset.  And we&#8217;re seeing it now with President Obama.</p>
<p>Going back to President Johnson &#8212; he was probably the most outrageous of all.  When he was Vice President, he was late for an appointment with JFK.  The agent was driving him along Pennsylvania Avenue &#8212; it was rush hour.  And he told his agent to drive up on the sidewalk to get there faster.  Well, the sidewalk was full of people coming out of office buildings.  The agent refused, of course, as he should&#8217;ve.  And Johnson took a newspaper and hit this agent on the head and said &#8212; you&#8217;re fired.  This is all on the record; at least half of the material in the book is on the record.</p>
<p>Johnson was having sex with five of his eight secretaries.  One time his wife, Ladybird, caught him having sex in the Oval Office with one of his secretaries.  And Johnson blew up at the Secret Service and said, you should&#8217;ve warned me, and insisted that they install a buzzer system to warn him in the future, if he was having sex and Ladybird was in the area.</p>
<p>He would also sit on the toilet and defecate as he&#8217;s being briefed by aids.  He would give press conferences in Texas and begin urinating in front of female reporters, as well as male reporters.  Of course, none of this was ever reported at the time.</p>
<p>The first time that the press began to report the sexual activities and other unpleasant activities of presidents and candidates was with Gary Hart, with the Donna Rice incident.  But actually, that was just the tip of the iceberg.  Agents who were protecting Donna Rice found that Hart&#8217;s buddy, Warren Beatty, would arrange to have these gorgeous starlets show up at Warren Beatty&#8217;s home in LA.  And Hart would go there, and they&#8217;d all jump in a hot tub.  Not with Warren Beatty, just the girls.  And Gary Hart &#8212; they&#8217;d jump in the hot tub, the girls would undress.  They&#8217;d stay overnight.  And the agents would go &#8212; there&#8217;s a 10, there&#8217;s a 9, there&#8217;s a 10, there&#8217;s a 9.  They were just totally overwrought by the gorgeous starlets.</p>
<p>Jimmy Carter, again, was this guy who pretended to be a jolly peanut farmer, a man of the people, a populist.  But behind the scenes, he was so nasty to agents that he would tell them he didn&#8217;t want them to say hello to him in the morning on the way to the Oval Office.  It was just too much bother to say hello back to another human being.  What kind of a person is that?</p>
<p>And he would pretend to carry his own luggage in front of the cameras, to try to show that he&#8217;s a man of the people.  But then, as soon as the cameras were gone, he would give the luggage to aides to carry, or the luggage was empty in the first place.</p>
<p>(Laughter)</p>
<p>Carter would sometimes show up in the Oval Office at 5:00 in the morning and tell the Press Office to tell the press that he was in there working hard for the American people at 5:00 a.m.  But then he&#8217;d nod off to sleep on the couch in the Oval Office.</p>
<p>So, you know, again and again, we fall for these charades.  And the press just keeps focusing on the horserace.  They don&#8217;t look at character.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s something that we look at in our daily lives all the time.  We don&#8217;t choose a friend who would be nasty to other people, we don&#8217;t choose a new employee who would treat other people indecently.  And yet, here we have people who, you know, just cannot be trusted.  And it comes out eventually in their policies and in the way they interact with the country.  The other side is that the &#8212; in this book &#8212; the Secret Service has become so lax, and engages in so much corner-cutting, that everywhere you look, they&#8217;re really risking an assassination.</p>
<p>One thing in the book that hasn&#8217;t been picked up by the press is that on a regular basis, agents under pressure from either the Bush or the Obama White House or from campaign staffs will let people into events without magnetometer or metal detection screening.  It&#8217;s just like letting passengers into an airplane without doing that.  And if everybody did that, they would be fired and possibly prosecuted.</p>
<p>But the Secret Service management &#8212; it&#8217;s the management that&#8217;s at fault, not the agents, who really are brave and dedicated; they&#8217;ll take a bullet for the President &#8212; but the management has this arrogant culture that says &#8212; we&#8217;re the great Secret Service, we can take care of any problem.  We don&#8217;t have to even lock the front door of the White House.  And therefore, we can let people into events without magnetometer screening.</p>
<p>And when I confronted a high-ranking Secret Service official about this, he hemmed and hawed.  First he was saying &#8212; you know, now we have magnetometers, it&#8217;s much safer.  And I said &#8212; well, what about the times when you don&#8217;t use them, when you let people in under pressure?  Because there&#8217;s a line outside, and the staff says &#8212; let them in, let them in; and sure enough they let them in.</p>
<p>And then he started making excuses.  They&#8217;re wonderful at making excuses.  And he said &#8212; well, you know, if someone comes in without magnetometer screening, we keep those people further back.  Well, of course, in one second, you could have five terrorists come in with grenades and run from the back of an event and take out the President.  These are things that are just common sense.</p>
<p>And when you see what the Secret Service said after the penetration of the White House by Gonzales, which was &#8212; first of all, they lied about where he was apprehended &#8212; they said that he was stopped at the door; he actually penetrated the whole White House. They said he was not armed; that was a lie, he was armed with a knife.  And then they said &#8212; the Secret Service director, Julia Pierson, said that the agents exercised tremendous restraint in not killing him.  Well, is that what they&#8217;re there for, to exercise restraint?</p>
<p>I can tell you, FBI officials were horrified at that comment and laughing at it.  Because absolutely, he could&#8217;ve had explosives, he could&#8217;ve had WMD.  They wouldn&#8217;t know it until the White House was blown up.  And you have to use lethal force if everything else has failed.</p>
<p>And why did it fail?  Well, the guy who was supposed to release a canine unit, as they call them &#8212; and I did interview a canine unit when I was doing the book &#8212; they introduced me to one, and he went around and found explosives &#8212; that guy was on a personal cell phone call in his van.</p>
<p>But why would all this happen?  Why would you have agents hiring prostitutes?  Why would you have the uniform division letting the Salahis, the glamorous couple, into the White House; along with a third intruder, Carlos Allen, which is a story that I also broke &#8212; why would they be doing that?  Because you have this broken management culture.  And these agents say &#8212; well, management is breaking the rules.  They&#8217;re taking risks with assassinations; why should we do whatever we feel like doing?</p>
<p>This is just basic in any organization, that if you don&#8217;t maintain the right standards at the top, the whole place is going to crumble.  And that includes the infrastructure.  They don&#8217;t polygraph agents the way the FBI does, they don&#8217;t have the latest intrusion devices at the White House itself.</p>
<p>There&#8217;s this myth that somehow if you push the perimeter of the White House gate further back, somehow we&#8217;re not going to have access to the President.  Hey, nobody has access to the President, unless they have an appointment and have been cleared by the Secret Service.  And I don&#8217;t see that there&#8217;s anything to be lost by pushing that perimeter back.</p>
<p>You could have 30 ISIL terrorists come in with grenades from all directions.  And to keep the perimeter where it is now is simply asking for trouble.</p>
<p>The question often is asked of me &#8212; how do I get them to cooperate?  Usually, I water-board them, that works pretty well.</p>
<p>(Laughter)</p>
<p>But I think that, as I said before, I do tell an honest story.  They respect that.  I think it&#8217;s pretty unusual in journalism today, given all the slant that you see.  And also, I&#8217;m genuinely interested in what they do.  I love to hear about profiling.  Before it became a nasty word, I broke the first story about FBI profiling in 1985.  And I think they think I already have a lot of sources, I already know a lot.  And they figure they might as well cooperate.</p>
<p>In my previous book, the secrets of the FBI, Bob Mueller, the FBI director, personally approved giving me access to their most secret tool, which is how they break into homes and offices to plant bugging devices &#8212; all court-authorized, of course.  But it&#8217;s an incredible story.  And let&#8217;s say they want to break into an embassy or some other secure location, or a mafia home, they will essentially case the joint for about two weeks beforehand.  They&#8217;ll watch who goes in, who goes out.</p>
<p>And on the night of the break-in, they&#8217;ll have agents watch at the homes of those people to make sure they don&#8217;t go back to the premises.  And if they do, oh, there&#8217;ll be a little traffic accident, or there&#8217;ll be a little ticket written.  Because the agents might dress in police uniforms in order to delay anybody going back.</p>
<p>The agents will bring in their own dust, in case they disturb any dust on a coffee table or a desk.  They will take a photo of any dog on the premises, and show that photo to a veterinarian who&#8217;s on contract.  And he prescribes just the right amount of tranquilizer to shoot into the dog with a dart gun.  And at the end of the break-in, they wake up the dog, because they don&#8217;t want any sleepy dogs around to create suspicion.</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s say they want to put bugs in an office suite.  They&#8217;ll go in during the day and take control of one of the elevators; they go to elevator school.  And they&#8217;ll go up on the roof of the elevator in the middle of the night, get off, go in the suite, put the bugs in.  And they actually showed me a real bug, it&#8217;s about the size of a postage stamp.  And it will record for 20 hours, or transmit, as you wish.  And then, during the day, they&#8217;ll get back in the elevator, they&#8217;ll come back.  They&#8217;ll go out wearing business suits, and nobody&#8217;s the wiser.</p>
<p>And then, one other technique is &#8212; let&#8217;s say they want to put a bug in a home in the middle of the night.  They will take a photo of the front of the house.  They&#8217;ll blow that up into a huge tarp, drape that over the front of the house, so that any bystanders walking by will think that&#8217;s the front of the house.  But in fact, the agents are behind the tarp, defeating the alarms, defeating the lock systems; and they&#8217;ll put the bugs in.</p>
<p>And just one anecdote about this is they were to put bugs in a mafia hangout in Philadelphia.  It was an electronics store that was actually a front for the mafia.  And they couldn&#8217;t go &#8212; they didn&#8217;t want to go in the back door to put in bugs, because often that could be booby-trapped.  So they would have to go in the front.  But the front overlooked an all-night bar.</p>
<p>So how do they go in without being seen by the patrons?  They borrowed a city bus.  The agents got on the bus.  They rode in front of the premises.  They got out, they put the hood of the bus up to make it look as if it had broken down.  They went in, they defeated the locks and the alarm systems.  The bus then went around the block to pick them up.</p>
<p>And it went by a bus stop.  And there were two patrons in the bar waiting for the bus.  And the bus went whizzing by them, and they were furious.  And they went running for the bus.  And they got in as the agents were getting in, in front of the premises.  And the agents were all from different offices, including from this secret team called Tac-Ops that puts in bugs.  And they didn&#8217;t realize that these guys don&#8217;t belong with them.</p>
<p>(Laughter)</p>
<p>So then, a few of the agents, started taking off their weapons and their pit walkie-talkies, and these guys got scared, you know.  And they started ringing to get off &#8212; ding-ding-ding, let me off, let me off.  And the agent who was driving the bus said &#8212; hey, guys, stop bothering me, I&#8217;m having enough trouble driving this bus.</p>
<p>But then, another agent got up, and he had a shotgun over his shoulder.  And they started ringing again &#8212; ring, ding-ding-ding, let me off, let me off.</p>
<p>(Laughter)</p>
<p>And finally, the agent who was driving figured out what was happening.  Let them out, they went running down the street, and nobody ever heard from them again.</p>
<p>(Laughter)</p>
<p>One other book that I did is mentioned in the New York Times today, and other publications, because the Senate Intelligence Committee&#8217;s report cites my interaction with the CIA when I did this book, &#8220;The CIA At War,&#8221; along with a New York Times reporter.  So it couldn&#8217;t be too bad if a New York Times reporter was involved.  And has the spin that somehow the CIA was leaking material about what they had done with the enhanced interrogation and how effective it was to me and to this New York Times reporter.</p>
<p>Well, the reality is I went to the CIA to get cooperation in the book.  They arranged a number of interviews on a lot of subjects.  Some of the interviews had to do with this.  It wasn&#8217;t as if I was being bamboozled by the CIA.  I corroborated what I used with the FBI.  But the implication is if the White House agrees to an interview, or the CIA or another institution agrees to an interview, somehow that means you&#8217;re already being propagandized and you shouldn&#8217;t listen to anything.</p>
<p>And that&#8217;s in fact what this Democratic staff did.  They refused to interview any of the CIA officials or officers involved in this whatsoever.  And in addition, they excluded the Republicans.</p>
<p>So the whole thing is a joke.  And what they have done is they&#8217;ve cherry-picked a few things, an email here, an email there.  That&#8217;s not the way you present how an investigation proceeded, you know.  If you think of gathering facts about any subject, it&#8217;s a very complex process.  You know, you may be impressed by one fact, you may hear about a fact and ignore it.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s the way the whole Watergate investigation proceeded.  I sat next to Carl Bernstein during Watergate at the Washington Post.  Woodward would come over every night, and they would write their stories together.  I would overhear what they were saying &#8211; they were knocking on doors until midnight.  And you see some critics on the right who are claiming that they embellished what they did, that they made up Deep Throat, that they didn&#8217;t really reveal the important stories.</p>
<p>That is B.S.  Because I was there, I saw what they did.  And they never claimed that Deep Throat gave them everything, but rather every now and then, he would give them a clue.  He would say &#8212; you&#8217;re on the right track.  And given the fact that the reporters and the Post were really, really scared of what might happen &#8211; they were being threatened by Mitchell &#8211; this reassurance and these clues every now and then helped their investigation.</p>
<p>And I actually was the first to present real information indicating who Deep Throat was before he came out.  I was doing another FBI book called &#8220;The Bureau.&#8221;  I went to interview Mark Felt, who turned out to be Deep Throat, in California.  And his daughter greeted me and said &#8212; you know, there&#8217;s this guy, Bob Woodward, who was out here about a year ago.  And he went to lunch with my father.  And you know what?  He came in a white limousine, but he had the limousine parked 10 blocks away, and then he walked to our house.  Well, that was a tipoff right away this is Deep Throat.  There&#8217;s no way Woodward would&#8217;ve done that otherwise.</p>
<p>And this daughter was sort of a flowerchild; she didn&#8217;t even recognize who Woodward was.  She knew he was a reporter, but didn&#8217;t know anything about Watergate and whatnot.</p>
<p>So, I&#8217;ve been into a lot of interesting subjects.  One other subject is in one of my books, just about the FBI&#8217;s counterintelligence program, the only book about how they catch spies.  I interviewed Karl Koecher and his wife, Hana, in Prague after they had been caught by the FBI and returned to Czechoslovakia.</p>
<p>Karl was a mole in the CIA, you don&#8217;t hear much about it.  But he was a very effective mole.  And one of his methods, besides being a very high-level translator, was that he and his gorgeous blonde wife, Hana, would go to orgies and sex parties with White House people, Defense Department people.  And of course, those people would feel compromised, because they were at these parties that they shouldn&#8217;t be attending.  Because they could be blackmailed.  And so they would get bits of information from them, as well as enjoying the parties.</p>
<p>(Laughter)</p>
<p>Hana actually &#8212; Hana enjoyed the parties more than Karl.</p>
<p>The first part was where they refused to cooperate because of &#8211;</p>
<p><strong>Audience Member:</strong> (Inaudible) was just gossip.</p>
<p><strong>Ronald Kessler:</strong> Oh, yeah.  Well, they are not supposed to talk about what they see behind the scenes.  And that&#8217;s just an understanding.  And after I revealed the prostitution scandal, they required agents to sign documents saying that they would not disclose anything.</p>
<p>And so, yeah, I would say the majority did not want to talk about that.  But others did.  And you know, it&#8217;s a legitimate point to say that maybe protectees would be a little more cautious about having agents near them if they think they&#8217;re going to reveal what they&#8217;re doing in their private lives.  But the other side is &#8212; A, we should know about the character of our leaders and prospective leaders; and B, if they&#8217;re engaging in something, some kind of subterfuge which they could be blackmailed for, they shouldn&#8217;t be running for office in the first place.</p>
<p>And in fact, when you&#8217;re talking about having sex, the agents are not there anyway.  For example, with Monica Lewinsky, she was in the Oval Office with Bill Clinton; the agents never saw what was actually happening.  So that&#8217;s my, you could call it, excuse for revealing these secrets.</p>
<p>And of course, the other side of exposing the shortcomings, the corner-cutting, is that they could change these practices overnight.  It&#8217;s not like when the AP revealed that the CIA had a source in Yemen who was telling them about prospective plots to blow up airplanes.  In that case, there was not news.  The CIA was doing its job.  There was no abuse.  There was no failure.  Just the opposite &#8212; it was a success.  And by compromising that source, we lost potential lives.  Because that source could no longer report on what was happening.  I thought that was outrageous.</p>
<p>But in the case of the Secret Service, they could change these practices overnight, they could stop the corner-cutting.  They could ask for more money, which I think is necessary.  Their budget is only $1.6 billion a year, which is the price of one stealth bomber.  And yet, they not only protect the President and others, the Vice President; but they also do counterfeit investigations and other financial investigations.</p>
<p>So there was an expose in the classic sense, where you hope for reform.  And I think it is contributing to the understanding of what&#8217;s wrong with the Secret Service.  It&#8217;s not just some error here and there; it&#8217;s a culture that has to be changed.  And I think the only way to do that is to bring in a director who was from the outside, such as a former high-ranking FBI official, who will shake things up, who will not be beholden to interests within the agency, who will understand that &#8212; yes, you have to polygraph agents, which is what the FBI does.  And that&#8217;s my purpose in writing these books.</p>
<p>Yes?</p>
<p><strong>Audience Member:</strong> Oh, hello?  Over here.</p>
<p><strong>Ronald Kessler:</strong> Oh, sorry.</p>
<p><strong>Audience Member:</strong> That&#8217;s okay.</p>
<p>You talked about the Energizer for Bill. But what about Hillary?  What&#8217;s she up to?</p>
<p><strong>Ronald Kessler:</strong> Yeah.</p>
<p>(Laughter)</p>
<p><strong>Ronald Kessler:</strong> Well, maybe she&#8217;s so nasty because she&#8217;s not up to anything, you know.</p>
<p>(Laughter)</p>
<p>She is not up to anything.  You know, there are rumors about her being a lesbian, and agents say that&#8217;s not true.  But I have a whole chapter in the book about Hillary&#8217;s nastiness.  It&#8217;s just unbelievable, including her chief of staff, who&#8217;s been in the news because her husband was &#8212; is Anthony Weiner.  Just as nasty, you know.  Do you know who I am, she would say to an agent when she doesn&#8217;t have proper ID.  Just high-handed arrogance.  Nasty, nasty people.  It&#8217;s unbelievable.</p>
<p>And you know, you wonder &#8212; there are so many millions of people in this country who have qualifications that are similar, who are lawyers, who are not people who are nasty to people, and who understand that companies actually do create jobs.  And she said companies don&#8217;t create jobs.  You understand that you should not respect your enemies.  She said we should respect our enemies.  What kind of a &#8212; who would vote for anybody like that, even for dogcatcher?</p>
<p>You know, that&#8217;s how broken our politics is.</p>
<p>Yes?</p>
<p><strong>Audience Member:</strong> Well, I have a question, just quickly &#8212; it sort of goes to Georgette&#8217;s question &#8212; and then my real question.  But does Hillary know about the Energizer?</p>
<p><strong>Ronald Kessler:</strong> Well, she does now.</p>
<p>(Laughter)</p>
<p>But, you know, agents feel that they have a political partnership, and it&#8217;s not a real marriage.  And that&#8217;s why they&#8217;re staying together.  That&#8217;s why she stays with Bill.  You know, she&#8217;s power-hungry.  That&#8217;s what she wants.  And she&#8217;ll overlook all of this in order to achieve power.</p>
<p><strong>Audience Member:</strong> Okay.  My initial question is &#8211;</p>
<p><strong>Ronald Kessler:</strong> Your real question.</p>
<p><strong>Audience Member:</strong> &#8212; it became apparent after 9/11 that there wasn&#8217;t a lot of cooperation between the FBI and the CIA.</p>
<p><strong>Ronald Kessler:</strong> Right.</p>
<p><strong>Audience Member:</strong> There was a lot of rivalry and competition.  So I&#8217;m wondering, has that changed?  What is the state at the relations between these two agencies?</p>
<p><strong>Ronald Kessler:</strong> That has totally changed.  And now, if you don&#8217;t cooperate, you&#8217;re in trouble.  Whereas before, it was the other way around.  Part of the problem was there was the so-called wall that said that you can&#8217;t &#8212; CIA can&#8217;t talk to the FBI and vice-versa, which is just something that a bureaucrat under Janet Reno came up with.  It was not based on any legal precedence whatsoever.  Previous cases had gone down to appeals without any problem.  But he just decided to write this, and then they all accepted it.  And so they stopped talking to each other, it was unbelievable.</p>
<p>But now, Bush established the Counterterrorism Center in McLean, Virginia, where CIA and FBI sit side-by-side, 24 hours a day, analyzing information.  So they&#8217;re talking to each other all day long now.  And there is very good cooperation.  And that&#8217;s one reason we have not had another attack.</p>
<p>Every few months, you see in the papers arrests by the FBI of terrorists.  And that&#8217;s the bottom line.  That&#8217;s why &#8212; that&#8217;s the result of this cooperation and the result of the FBI&#8217;s efforts and CIA&#8217;s efforts.  And yet, all we hear in the press is demonizing these people, who are working to protect us, who are not paid a whole lot compared with what they could get in the private sector.  And it&#8217;s just outrageous, in my opinion.</p>
<p><strong>Audience Member:</strong> I would like your comments, please, on the First Ladies, the last several First Ladies, of what the agents think about them; as well as their spouses.</p>
<p><strong>Ronald Kessler:</strong> Right.  Well, the first First Lady that comes to mind is Pat Nixon.  She had a big alcohol problem.  It got worse when they left the White House.  One time, at San Clemente, an agent heard rustling in the bushes at night.  He cocked his shotgun.  And it turned out it was Pat Nixon, totally drunk, crawling on the ground, trying to find her house.</p>
<p>And she and Nixon never talked.  They would play golf together, but they wouldn&#8217;t say a word throughout the whole golf game.</p>
<p>Nixon was a very strange guy, as you might&#8217;ve surmised.  One day, he was watching TV at San Clemente.  An agent was watching through a window at the home.  And Nixon was feeding his dog dog biscuits.  And then he took one of the biscuits and put it in his mouth and ate it.</p>
<p><strong>Audience Member:</strong> Oh, my God.</p>
<p><strong>Ronald Kessler:</strong> Another time &#8212; you know, he loved to have fireplaces going all through the summer.  And at one time, he forgot to open the damper.  And so the whole house filled with black smoke.  And there was something about &#8212; let&#8217;s see, how&#8217;s this go?  One of the agents said &#8212; where is the son of a bitch, referring to Nixon?  Didn&#8217;t know where Nixon had gone.  And Nixon overheard this, you know.  And Nixon said &#8212; son of a bitch is over here.</p>
<p>So, Nixon did have a sense of humor.</p>
<p>(Laughter)</p>
<p>Betty Ford also had, as you know, both a drug and a drinking problem.  Sometimes she would be so inebriated when she was in the White House, they&#8217;d have to actually hold her as she went out of Air Force One.  Ford seemed to be oblivious to all this.</p>
<p>But to her credit, when she left the White House, she not only went to a rehab center, but she established the Betty Ford Clinic.  And agents admire that.  She&#8217;s spent a tremendous amount of time establishing that to help other people.  So unlike Pat, who never helped anybody with this problem, Betty Ford did.</p>
<p>Ford, of course, had this reputation of being clumsy.  The press beat up on him all the time.  And that was another myth.  He was a former high school football player.  He was a remarkable skier.  The Secret Service would assign their best skiers to go skiing with him in Colorado.  One of the agents would ski backwards to sort of taunt him.</p>
<p>But on the other hand, Ford &#8212; especially after he left the White House &#8212; turned out to be incredibly cheap.  He would tip caddies in California a dollar or two dollars.  He would have bellhops with carts full of luggage for both of them at the Plaza New York, and he would tip a dollar.  He would try to get gifts.  He would try to, you know, take golf sets from people in Japan who invited him for talks.  So that was the other side of Gerald Ford.</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s see, who else?  Well, Ronald Reagan and Nancy.  Ronald Reagan was just as genuine as he appeared to be on TV, just as gracious.  He would &#8212; whenever he went into Air Force One, he would greet the pilots and the copilots in the cockpit.  Jimmy Carter did that only once during his whole four-year term.</p>
<p>One day, Reagan was coming down &#8212; about to go into the elevator in the residence in the White House.  And an aide came up and told him about the Donna Rice affair with Gary Hart, and it was going to be in the paper the next day.  And Reagan said &#8212; well, boys will be boys.  And then he went up in the elevator with this agent.  And then he said to the agent &#8212; but boys will not be President.</p>
<p>(Laughter)</p>
<p>Nancy could be cold and difficult.  Of course, she was very loyal to her husband.  She seemed to not like it when he would schmooze with agents.  And she would give him instructions &#8212; you know, you wear your gloves, you wear your hat.  And sometimes he would agree, and sometimes they would get in a fight over it.</p>
<p>And one time actually, at the ranch, they were about to go horseback riding, which Reagan loved to do, and she didn&#8217;t like it so much.  She liked to be with her friends in Beverly Hills.  And he would ring a bell for her to come out to go horseback riding.  She wasn&#8217;t coming out.  So he went inside.  And next thing agents knew was that the telephone reception at the house, at the ranch, had stopped.  And it turned out that Reagan had seen her talking to one of her friends in Beverly Hills on the phone, and just got enraged, and took the phone and threw it on the floor.  And so, that was the end of the telephone connection.</p>
<p>So, Reagan was human, like all of us.  I interviewed agents who were with him after he left office.  He would make it a point of going out to schmooze with them.  And then, of course, when he got Alzheimer&#8217;s, they started to notice the difference.  But that was only after he left office, not when he was in the White House.  He remembered the names of every agent and was, you know, the genuine article.  And I think that is reflected in the success of his presidency.  Because people do sense &#8212; you know, I think, even with Hillary, even without knowing what goes on behind the scenes &#8212; people do sense that she&#8217;s not a very nice person.</p>
<p>Any other First Ladies that you wanted to ask about?</p>
<p><strong>Audience Member:</strong> The Bushes.</p>
<p><strong>Ronald Kessler:</strong> Ah.  Well, Laura was just beloved by agents.  She would make it a point of going back to the ranch the day after Christmas Day, so that the agents could be with their families, and would ask about their families.  George Bush, very similar.</p>
<p>Of course, he loved to go running, and the agents would have to assign their fastest runners.  When his father, George H.W. Bush, was Vice President, he was in the Vice President&#8217;s residence at the Naval Observatory.  And during the day, the naval stewards, as I said, would make pastries and cookies.  And then they would hide them, because the agents would come out in the middle of the night and steal some of them.</p>
<p>So one morning, at 3:00 a.m., one of the agents was looking for the cookies in the kitchen.  And he heard this voice behind him &#8212; where are the cookies?  And he turned around, it was George Bush.  And so, together they went looking for the cookies.</p>
<p>(Laughter)</p>
<p>They had them together with milk.</p>
<p>And Barbara Bush &#8212; same.  Very decent.  She would even offer to do the laundry of agents when they were up at Kennebunkport.  She would make sure that agents wore hats.  If they didn&#8217;t have a hat, she would insist that her husband go and get his hat and give the hat to the agent.  Just very, very decent, admirable people.  And we need more of those in the White House.</p>
<p><strong>Unidentified Speaker:</strong> Think we have time for one last question.</p>
<p><strong>Audience Member:</strong> Hi.  I just would like to have your comments on what appears to me to be an increasingly governmentalized media, especially television, and how it seems to resemble Pravda more than the media I was used to.</p>
<p><strong>Ronald Kessler:</strong> Yeah.  You know, I&#8217;m just as perplexed as you are.  I can&#8217;t understand it.  It&#8217;s just a trend.  You could say it&#8217;s because of more pressure because of the Internet.  But that doesn&#8217;t excuse anything.</p>
<p>And I think the Washington Post, as Michael mentioned, has been doing a very fair job lately.  It&#8217;s really turned around.  And I think ultimately, that&#8217;s going to help its circulation and its pickup on the web.  Because people do want to be able to trust the information that they get.  New York Times, not so much.  Quite the opposite.</p>
<p>But you know, it perplexes me.  Why would Rolling Stone, for example, run the story without talking to the so-called assailants of this woman who claimed she was raped?  How could anybody in his right mind not do that?  You know, it&#8217;s beyond me.  Maybe they&#8217;re on marijuana, I don&#8217;t know.</p>
<p><strong>Unidentified Speaker:</strong> Thank you.</p>
<p><strong>Ronald Kessler:</strong> Thank you.</p>
<p>(Applause)</p>
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<p><strong>Recently, China overtook the United States as the largest Economy in the World &#8212; at least when measured by the PPP (Purchasing Power Parity) metric. In Bill Whittle&#8217;s latest Firewall, he shows why this is not just a crying shame &#8212; it&#8217;s a crime &#8212; and he tells us what we can do about it. See the video and transcript below.</strong></p>
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<p>Hi everybody. I’m Bill Whittle and this is the Firewall.</p>
<p>A few days ago, we rather quietly passed a milestone – a big one. For the first time since the 1870’s – that would be during the administration of President Ulysses S Grant – The United States is no longer the worlds largest economy.<br />
“Hold on to your hats, America,” reports Brett Arends of MarketWatch in his online article, “And throw away that big fat Styrofoam finger while you’re at it.”<br />
Now I don’t know anything about Brett Arends politics, but throwing away that big fat Styrofoam finger – the red, white and blue one that says “we’re number one!” is a long held-wish of the progressive left. It’s so gauche, so unspeakably vulgar, this Phillistine business of having pride in yourself.</p>
<p>This news about us taking second place, economically, to China is not a bug for the left – it’s a feature. They hate this country. Collectivists – like our President, let’s say &#8212; have always hated capitalism, always hated individuality, always hated the idea that more work leads to more rewards… in other words, always hated everything that America has stood for.</p>
<p>Just before he was elected, Barack Obama famously bragged that he and the progressive movement would “fundamentally transform the United States of America.” Is that something you would want to do to something or someone you loved – fundamentally transform it? Would the first promise you made to a new bride you claimed to adore be that you could not wait to fundamentally transform her? Progressives are happy we’ve fallen to second. It reduces global inequality.They’ll be happier yet when we’ve fallen to third, or tenth, or twentieth – the way our education system did when they got their hands on it.</p>
<p>Now China, needless to say, has a little more than four times the population of the United States. Surely we should be satisfied with that, right? That one-quarter of China’s population – America – produces just slightly less than they do?<br />
No, dammit, we should not be satisfied. First place is not a statistic. First place is an attitude. First place is an identity. First place is destiny, and the instant you become willing to come in second at anything you will find second place is a sliding slope to nowhere. not where you will remain.</p>
<p>That China is growing at an incredible pace is self-evident. A lot of that is not something we can do anything about – but a lot of it is something we can do something about, but won’t. A significant portion of China’s tech industry is – how should I put this delicately – STOLEN from western research and development. We don’t retaliate because we can’t add; our deficit spending makes us their slaves.<br />
And another significant portion – everything from pirated movie disks to “Adidos” running shoes to “Boreos” cookies to “Arm and Hatchet” baking soda are just flagrant theft worth trillions. But put all that aside. That’s just bitching about a bad call. Or two. Or three. Million.</p>
<p>The reason China has surpassed the US economy is pretty simple, really. The Socialist Chinese leadership has kept the dictatorial essence of socialism while allowing the Chinese people to embrace a capitalist ethic of hard work and reward for effort. Meanwhile, on the other side of the ocean the American Progressives are trying, and succeeding, in foisting laziness, envy, irresponsibility, government dependency and sloth – in other words, socialism &#8212; on the American people.</p>
<p>Record numbers of Americans are on food stamps, unemployment, and other forms of taxpayer support – in other words government forced redistribution of income, at the cost of long-term growth and prosperity. But it’s much worse than that.<br />
The Progressive left has throttled what might have been the most booming economic recovery in American history through irresponsible fiscal policy, higher taxes, and absurd regulations – mostly regulations advocated by environmental hysterics. And none of them make the slightest lick of sense: While doing everything he can to prevent America from cleanly burning the plentiful, inexpensive fossil fuels right beneath our feet, he then sells coal and oil to China – where it’s burned, and not very cleanly, in the same atmosphere we inhabit.</p>
<p>World dominant militaries depend on world dominant economies. World dominant research and innovation depends on the incentive of financial reward and freedom from ridiculous levels of regulation. When guys like Steve Jobs, the founder of the most cash-rich company in the world, says he could never start Apple in America today, that’s not because we’ve run out of garages, or capital, or people willing to risk that capital. Virtually all of the great ideas still come from right here. But the Progressive left, which is significantly too stupid and infinitely to lazy to go out and make their own wealth, taxes and regulates new start-ups to death to feed a government that costs about four thousand billion dollars a year… then you know these shackles are self-imposed, and what we could do if we would just release ourselves from these self-imposed chains would not just astonish the Chinese and the rest of the world – it would astonish us ourselves.</p>
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		<title>Senators Vow to Halt Obama&#8217;s Castro Odyssey</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2014 05:58:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Matthew Vadum]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[But is Congress a match for the president's pen and phone?]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/obama-on-cuba.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-247802" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/obama-on-cuba-450x300.jpg" alt="Barack Obama" width="375" height="250" /></a>Lawmakers opposed to President Obama&#8217;s sudden move to cozy up to Communist Cuba are vowing a full-court press to prevent official diplomatic recognition of the tropical prison republic from going forward.</p>
<p>But it is far from clear if lawmakers will be able to do much about Obama&#8217;s Cuban escapades. Presidents typically enjoy great latitude in foreign policy, especially concerning recognition of foreign governments. Lawmakers are probably on stronger ground in resisting repeal of the trade embargo that has been in place since the 1960s. On the other hand, Obama has a pen and a phone, as he likes to say, a reference to his brazen contempt for the rule of law and the strictures of the Constitution.</p>
<p>Obama&#8217;s dramatic actions are setting off a feeding frenzy as American companies salivate at the prospect of doing business in Cuba. Little do they realize that Cuba, a dilapidated Stalinist state that, thanks to the absence of good paying jobs, serves largely as a seedy sex tourism destination for Europeans and hardly has an economy at all. Some business restrictions were already eased by the U.S. around 2000. Some companies are allowed to sell medical equipment to the Cuban government. There is not much money to be made, at least not initially.</p>
<p>Sens. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and Robert Menendez (D-N.J.), who are both of Cuban ancestry, have made strong statements about their intentions.</p>
<p>Rubio said it mattered not a whit to him if &#8220;99 percent of people in polls&#8221; disagreed with his position. &#8220;Appeasing the Castro brothers will only cause other tyrants from Caracas to Tehran to Pyongyang to see that they can take advantage of President Obama&#8217;s naivete during his final two years in office.&#8221;</p>
<p>Rubio said he reserved the right &#8220;to do everything within the rules of the Senate to prevent that sort of individual from ever even coming up for a vote,&#8221; a reference to confirmation proceedings for a prospective U.S. ambassador to Cuba.</p>
<p>Menendez said he was &#8220;deeply disappointed&#8221; and that it was &#8220;a fallacy to believe that Cuba will reform because an American president opens his hands and the Castro brothers will suddenly unclench their fists.&#8221;</p>
<p>The chill in relations between the two countries has its roots in the Cold War.</p>
<p>Cuban dictator Fidel Castro, whose forces overthrew the comparatively mild authoritarian regime of Fulgencio Batista, tried to start a nuclear war with the United States and in 1963 openly called for the assassination of President John Kennedy and his brother Robert, the U.S. attorney general. War was only narrowly averted after the Soviet Union turned around ships that were carrying nuclear weapons to Cuba. A short time later one of Castro&#8217;s followers, a man named Lee Harvey Oswald, murdered President Kennedy in Dallas, Texas. Cuba is a longtime state sponsor of terrorism and has meddled militarily and otherwise in the affairs of its neighbors and in faraway countries such as Angola. President Reagan ordered an invasion of Grenada after its Marxist dictatorship grew too close to Cuba and he struggled heroically to aid the anticommunist contras in their war against the Cuban-backed Communist regime in Nicaragua.</p>
<p>Many conservatives in Congress and elsewhere are saying Obama is a weak leader.</p>
<p>For example, former Ambassador to the UN John Bolton said on the Fox News Channel on Wednesday that Obama&#8217;s moves on Cuba constitute &#8220;appeasement&#8221; and are a &#8220;very, very bad signal of weakness and lack of resolve by the president of the United States.&#8221;</p>
<p>Bolton and others are correct in terms of how the U.S. is perceived abroad under Obama but this does not reflect weak leadership on Obama&#8217;s part. This president knows what he is doing and when given the opportunity to do the right thing reliably chooses to do the wrong thing. Obama is taking the country&#8217;s foreign policy in exactly the right direction in terms of his sinister ideology. Obama does not mean well. He does not, unlike traditional U.S. presidents, think of himself as the leader of the free world. He wants to fundamentally transform America inside and out and is quite content to enfeeble the nation by crippling its military, betraying its allies, and embracing its enemies.</p>
<p>All of this excitement follows the sudden release Wednesday of Alan Gross, a U.S. development worker held in a Cuban prison. (An intelligence operative loyal to the U.S. was also released as part of the deal. Details about that individual are scarce.) Gross is a garden-variety leftist who is being used by President Obama to justify establishing diplomatic and trade relations with Cuba.</p>
<p>Obama is repaying a debt to his Marxist friends and allies. Just as President Bill Clinton rewarded his neo-communist supporters by pardoning Marxist Puerto Rican terrorists, Obama is rewarding his Castro-admiring base by freeing Communist spies working for a hostile foreign power.</p>
<p>Gross was reportedly a subcontractor for the U.S. Agency for International Development, which is frequently a home for meddling left-wing activists. He reportedly worked on a program aimed at improving Internet access for Cuban Jews. Why the Obama administration would knowingly send an American into Cuba to perform services they had to have known were considered illegal by Cuban authorities is not clear. The free flow of information is a threat to any totalitarian regime, so a Cuban court convicted Gross of crimes against the state in 2011, sentencing him to a 15-year prison term.</p>
<p>Under a deal that Pope Francis, among others, helped to facilitate, Gross was <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2014/12/17/meet-the-cuban-five-at-the-center-of-the-blockbuster-u-s-announcement-on-cuba/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">exchanged</span></a> for the remaining three members of the so-called Cuban Five &#8212; Gerardo Hernández, Antonio Guerrero, and Ramón Labañino &#8212; who had been held in U.S. prisons.  All five Cuban nationals were convicted of spying in 2001. They gathered information on Cuban exiles in the U.S. in order to lay the ground for violent action against them in the future. Hernández was also convicted of conspiring to commit murder.</p>
<p>As Gross prepared for his press conference Wednesday, there was a portrait of  Communist mass murderer Che Guevara <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2014/12/17/why-does-freed-cuban-prisoners-lawyer-have-a-picture-of-che-on-his-wall/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">clearly visible</span></a> in the Washington, D.C. office of Gross&#8217;s lawyer, high-profile attorney Scott D. Gilbert of Gilbert LLP. The bloodthirsty Guevara was minister of industry and president of the Cuban National Bank. He also administered kangaroo courts that condemned enemies of Fidel Castro&#8217;s regime to death. In other words, as Gross prepared his statement about being freed from a Cuban jail, an iconic photograph honoring Cuba&#8217;s most infamous jailer stared down at him.</p>
<p>Guevara, incidentally, wanted to annihilate the United States.</p>
<p>&#8220;If the nuclear missiles [from the missile crisis] had remained [in Cuba] we would have fired them against the heart of the U.S. including New York City,&#8221; he said. &#8220;The victory of socialism is well worth millions of atomic victims.&#8221;</p>
<p>In the press conference Gross maligned the U.S., <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-TV/2014/12/17/Freed-Prisoner-Alan-Gross-Slams-Two-Governments-Mutually-Belligerent-Policies"><span style="color: #0433ff;">pulling</span></a> a cowardly pox-on-both-your-houses stunt. Gross drew a moral equivalency between the U.S. and the ruthless authoritarian regime he just escaped:</p>
<blockquote><p>I also feel compelled to share with you my utmost respect for and fondness of the people of Cuba. In no way are they responsible for the ordeal to which my family and I have been subjected. To me <i>cubanos</i>,<i> </i>or at least most of them, are incredibly kind, generous and talented. <strong><i>It pains me to see them treated so unjustly as a consequence of two governments&#8217; mutually belligerent policies.  Five and a half decades of history show us such belligerence inhibits better judgment. Two wrongs never make a right. I truly hope that we can now get beyond these mutually belligerent policies and I was very happy to hear what the president had to say today.</i></strong> It was particularly cool to be sitting next to the secretary of state as he was hearing about his job description for the next couple of months. In all seriousness, this is a game-changer, which I fully support. [Emphasis added.]</p></blockquote>
<p>Who condemns his own countrymen as imperialist warmongers after they cut a deal to get him repatriated from the clutches of a dictatorship? And why would he use his opportunity in the spotlight to praise President Obama’s decision to normalize relations with the regime that he believes unjustly imprisoned him?</p>
<p>The whole thing doesn&#8217;t smell right. Clearly it was in the works for a long time.</p>
<p>Interestingly enough, Gross thanked Jill Zuckman of left-wing PR firm SKDKnickerbocker for helping to free him. SKDKnickerbocker also employs former resident Maoist in the Obama White House, Anita Dunn, and Democrat operative Hilary Rosen. Gross also thanked Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) and Communist-friendly lawmakers Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), and Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) for freeing him.</p>
<p>Those who follow President Obama&#8217;s policy initiatives already know that he delights in trading Americans who hate America for foreign terrorists and murderers who also hate America. Not so long ago there was the swap of U.S Army deserter and Taliban collaborator Bowe Bergdahl for five members of the Taliban&#8217;s high command.  Not exactly a good deal for America.</p>
<p>What&#8217;s next for Obama, who is hellbent to knock America down a few pegs?</p>
<p>Diplomatic recognition for Iran? At first glance such a development might seem unlikely, but Obama does harbor deep affection for hardline Islamic states. He aided Mohamed Morsi&#8217;s Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and during anti-government unrest that began in Iran in 2009, Obama effectively propped up the Islamist regime there by doing nothing to oppose it.</p>
<p>Anything could happen with Obama in his final two years in the White House.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[The team reveals what lies ahead for the new Freedom Center initiative.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong style="color: #232323;">Below are the video and transcript to a panel discussion on the new Freedom Center initiative &#8220;<a href="http://www.ctghq.org">Change the Game</a>,&#8221; which was featured at the David Horowitz Freedom Center’s 20th Anniversary Restoration Weekend. The event was held Nov. 13th-16th at the Breakers Resort in Palm Beach, Florida. </strong></p>
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<p><strong>Sonnie Johnson: </strong>About four years ago I met my political soulmate.  We were young.  We knew nothing.  We came straight from the ghetto, and we saw the problems in our community.  And we fell under our elders, as youths should do, and we listened to their advice, and we did what they said until we said, you know what?  Y’all don’t know what y’all doing.  It’s time for us to start doing something on our own.</p>
<p>For four years when I need prayer, when I need counsel, when I’m down, when I’m knocked out, when I have no breath left, when I feel like I can’t fight anymore, I call this man, and he prays with me, he counsels me, he gives me advice, and then in the end he says, it’s your job now and lays everything on my footsteps.  And because he did that, I feel strong enough to take it on.  Mr. Kevin Daniels.</p>
<p><strong>Kevin Daniels: </strong>When I met Sonnie four years ago, she was right, we had no idea what we were getting ourselves into, but it’s something, when you find someone that you believe in so much, that God gives you the foresight to see not what that person is but what that person could become, and I walk with her side by side with what she is trying to do.  She has a huge vision, and she’s going to share it, and everyone else is going to share their pieces in it.  But being able to walk with her through this journey has been great for me.  And she is a jewel.  She is a diamond in the rough.  And with the vision that she laid out for Change the Game, I’ll just give a brief overview of it, then I’ll step aside.</p>
<p>It’s an ambitious vision.  A lot of people said that it can’t be done.  A lot of people said that we shouldn’t do it.  And when you look at, from the right and from the conservatives and Republican movement, they talk a lot about not engaging this population of people because they’re not going to support us anyway. It’s a waste of time, it’s a waste of money.  Sonnie disagrees with that, as well as I, because in these communities that we’re going after, that we’re targeting, there’s a lot of people that are like Sonnie and I, that may not have gotten the right start, but the finish, the potential, the possibilities that they all have is something that we’re really going to push with Change the Game.</p>
<p>When we launched this project &#8212; we launched in September, September 2, right, Tracy?  September 2 we launched the web site.  Three months later when you go on the Internet and you look at the organizations that have similar structures that we do, we are ranked No. 2 in the nation in that, and we haven’t even gotten started yet.  So far our activities have been web site primarily.  We do radio interviews, well, they do radio interviews, and you won’t see me doing any of that stuff.  I’m a behind the scenes guy.  But when we leave here, we are going to implement a ground game where we are going into these historically black colleges and universities, we’re going into these inner city neighborhoods, and we’re going to push the twin pillars of freedom and liberty everywhere that we go.  And we’re going to be very strategic and deliberate in our actions.  I’m not a big fan of activity with no goals.  So we’re setting goals.  We’re going to be very targeted in our efforts.  But not only that, the umbrella of the Freedom Center, there’s a lot of projects that are up underneath it, and we want to make sure that we don’t operate independently of them.  So we’re going to connect with TruthRevolt, we’re going to work with FrontPage, we’re going to work with everyone that’s up underneath that umbrella to try to undergird them so we can all reach that same goal.  David is here now, and he has a great vision with the Freedom Center, and we’re going to connect with all those different organizations so we can move the needle forward.</p>
<p>Now when people say that this thing won’t work, they look at Sonnie, they see how she’s dressed, they look at Kevin, they see how he’s dressed, they look at the suits and the dresses, but someone had to engage us.  Someone had to empower us.  Someone had to give us the information that we needed in order for that light to be turn on in our lives, in our eyes, so that we can understand what conservative principles are and what they mean, and then how to apply it to our lives and live it.  My background is, I was born and raised in Westchester County, New York, lived in Section 8 housing for the first 17 years of my life, parents separated when I was six, my mother died of AIDS when I was 15 years old.  I attempted to go to college, didn’t work out that well.  I didn’t have a great foundation.  How many more people in these inner cities have a similar story?  How many people in these inner cities have a similar story to myself and Sonnie, as well as the other panelists that are up here?</p>
<p>So before we launched the web site September 2, a week prior we launched a Liberalville video.  We’re not going to call Chicago, Illinois &#8212; there’s too many cities out there to name.  But what Sonnie did four years ago, and it’s ironic that she mentioned four years ago when we met, because she created this video called Liberalville that we didn’t actually release until August of this year.  And so when we look at Liberalville, Sonnie says something very powerful in there.  She says I want to show you what I see when you remove the Democratic elite.  She goes on to talk about eight individuals, eight characters in the Liberalville video, and she doesn’t look at what they are and what they’re doing. She looks at the possibilities that this individual has, and that’s what we’re looking at doing when we look at people.  We have initiatives &#8212; taking people to street corners, to corner offices &#8212; that&#8217;s an initiative that we have where we’re going to push entrepreneurship, we’re going to push small business to these communities because these communities need an economic base.  We’re going to push education, school of choice, and I can run down a list of things that we’re going to do, but we’re going to have an aggressive, ambitious agenda.  So I encourage you all to go to the web site that Tracy’s going to talk about soon, but look at this video Liberalville.  It’s about three minutes long, and it’s a spoken word piece.  And look at the foresight that Sonnie had back then, and then look at what’s happening in these inner cities and these communities now.  There’s one that just came to mind.  She’s talked about the politician, and we all know what’s going on in Ferguson right now.  But she said back then, she said the politician has no desire until shots are fired and people need someone to blame.  Sonnie was talking about this years ago.  The vision that she is laying out for Change the Game, what we’re going to do when we leave this Restoration Weekend is going to be impactful, and we are No. 2 now, but we’re coming for that No. 1 spot.  So that organization that is there, they got to move to the side.  So thank you for your time.  I think you all for your support.  Appreciate what you’re doing, and thank you.</p>
<p><strong>Sonnie Johnson: </strong>Okay. About two years ago or three years ago I was in Providence, Rhode Island, just one of my kind of very first events that I went to, and I really didn’t know anyone so I was kind of always by myself, and I’m walking down this hall, and I hear, “Sonnie freaking Johnson!”  And it stopped me in my tracks.  I stopped in my tracks.  And I turn around, and this girl is standing there, and she said, “We’re going to be best effing friends,” but she used the word.  And I, oh my gosh, this big bubble of personality, this big bubble of light, and for the last three years she has helped to sharpen me mentally.  We talk about everything.  Hardly do we ever agree, but we are friends first and foremost before anything started with us working together.  Last year she had the chance to operate her panel, and she said I want you to come and be on my panel.  It took me less than two seconds to say of course, if you need it, you got it.  Now, we work together with Change the Game, and she is going to show you the awesomeness that is Ms. Tracy Connors.</p>
<p><strong>Tracy Connors: </strong>All right.  I wanted to give everybody a brief tour of the site. If you haven’t been there, I suggest going.  You might not like everything that you see, but that’s not the point.  David came to me and said, “Hey, I hear there’s a web site called Buzz Feed.  Could we get something like Buzz Feed going on?”  I still don’t think he’s ever visited Buzz Feed, but we said okay, we can do something like that.  I apologize about the dimensions on this right now, but this is our main page.  So you can see, hang on, this is unacceptable.  Yeah, it’s cutting off part of the page.  All right there we go.  Now you can see the page.  All right.  Now I’ll make it bigger.  There we go.  Okay.  So as you can see, you probably don’t think you’re on a political web site at all, right?  Anyway, so we’ve got stories about pop culture mixed in with stories about news and issues that we care about and we think we can reach our readers with and the audience that we’re bringing in.  So the people that care that the BET just cancelled one of their favorite shows, they’re going to go and read this story, and then over on the side they’re going to find commentary by Sonnie, which you can’t see over here, where it’s talking about Jimmy Fallon insulting Mia Love, but not in the way that you would think.  So it’s a way to get people into our world that would never come and visit to begin with.</p>
<p>When you get to go to the site &#8212; which is ctghq.org, or for those who struggle with initials, it’s changingthegame.org as well you can get there &#8212; you search around and you’ll see that on the sides, you can catch it kind of a little bit, you’ll be confronted with our issues section and our knowledge section of the site.  And this is where we’re really pushing the things that Kevin touched on and Sonnie talked about.  So we find stories that we can put an entertaining spin on but to deal with these kind of issues.  And then for people that aren’t totally familiar with everything we’re talking about we’ve started to build out a whole section where they can learn some history that they might not have known, understand basic economics, read speeches, read our founding documents, learn more about the progressive movement, and if they don’t understand the language we’re using, I put together an entire dictionary of political words and phrases, and it’s linked back in articles, and we use stuff that we think, hey, the average person might not know what that means.  So let’s never talk down to our audience.  Let’s make sure they have all the information we can possibly share with them.</p>
<p>And we’ve got a great selection of videos too so if you’re looking for that Liberalville video that Kevin talked about, you’ll find it in the videos section.  And now, speaking of videos, I’ve got one to show all of you guys to catch you up on what we’ve been doing.</p>
<p><b>[Video Recording]</b></p>
<p><strong>Sonnie Johnson: </strong>I have to share a moment of clarity with you real quick.</p>
<p>I’m guessing the moment should have came,<br />
When my brain was lit on fire with facts and names,<br />
I had never known.<br />
I’m guessing you will all question the lesson I learned,<br />
To turn me to the right side or the white side,<br />
Depending on who asks.<br />
I’m guessing that’s why you look surprised,<br />
That instead of pulling out a prerecorded line,<br />
From my talking points bag,<br />
I rhyme instead.<br />
I’m guessing some are saying, &#8220;She’s on a college campus.<br />
She should be serious.&#8221;<br />
I am.<br />
So serious in fact, to give you my moment of clarity,<br />
First I have to give you all of me.<br />
Poetry.<br />
I stopped one step short of asking for a beat.<br />
Now back to this moment of clarity of which I speak.<br />
I always get asked the same question.<br />
What made you a conservative?<br />
I hate that damn question.<br />
Apathy, indifference or frustration,<br />
Five years later God speaks, revelation,<br />
Time has been wasted on irrelevant procrastination,<br />
Because my moment didn’t come from man.<br />
My moment didn’t come from the church.<br />
My moment didn’t come from politics.<br />
My moment didn’t come from culture.<br />
My moment started with the people.<br />
How much death could we take?<br />
How much poverty could we embrace,<br />
Where hopes and dreams are at stake?<br />
How many God-given talents would we waste,<br />
And the only place that I can find,<br />
Voices that sound like mine,<br />
That cry the same tears,<br />
Experience the same fears,<br />
With the same goals and aspirations,<br />
The same drives and calculations,<br />
The same observations,<br />
That make hope and change negligible as an actual destination,<br />
Are in hip-hop.<br />
So I rhyme because I’m serious,<br />
I rhyme because I’m furious.<br />
I don’t care who doesn’t like it.<br />
I need young ones to hear this:<br />
We are dying.<br />
Whether we kill our babies in the womb,<br />
Or follow drugs to the tomb,<br />
Or lay unemployed in our mother’s living room,<br />
Whether we pull triggers and kill our own reflection,<br />
Or use the haves and have-nots in our selection,<br />
Or destroy the lives of others due to our own depression.<br />
If you want to talk police brutality,<br />
Then stop pushing gun laws that lessen citizens&#8217; protection,<br />
Because we are dying.<br />
And that’s my moment clarity.<br />
And if I had to say it without rhyme,<br />
There would be tears in my eyes and a frog in my throat,<br />
And I wouldn’t be able to cope,<br />
Because when I say that we’re dying,<br />
I don’t mean it as a political trope,<br />
We are dying,<br />
Leaving our streets blood soaked.<br />
Enough.</p>
<p>And that’s why I do what I do.  That’s why I created Change the Game.  To me this isn’t about politics.  This isn’t about garnering political favor.  I am tired of seeing people I love die.  I am tired of seeing people I love incarcerated.  I am tired of seeing people who look like me don’t feel like they’re a part of the America that I know blood has been split for them to be a part of.  That is why this is so important.  I don’t care if you like hip-hop.  It is not meant for you to like. It is meant for me to take a conservative message into the black community and show them there is a methodology to stopping the death in our communities.  And that’s what I will do until I have no more breath in my body.</p>
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<p><strong>Sonnie Johnson: </strong>And so as you can see, I have my right hand and my left hand thoroughly taken care of.  Two of my favorite people in the entire world, Kevin Daniels and Tracy Conners.  So I’m going to take a few minutes to speak now, and then we’re going to go ahead and introduce the rest of the panel, and we’re going to have some fun.  But I want to take a few minutes to speak on some things before we go.</p>
<p>I guess we’re in a celebratory mood.  We got to see the Republicans take over the Senate, and we got to see a lot of House seats, state House seats, change over.  We got to see Republicans become governors in states we never thought we would never see a republican governor in.  Even though I’m sad that Maryland went red, and I live in Virginia and we’re still blue.  So I was a little upset and hurt by that.  If we are getting close to Maryland I’m scared, and I might be looking for a place to relocate.  West Palm Beach is very nice this time of year.</p>
<p>So we have a lot of things to celebrate, but I want to question how we celebrate.  So please indulge me for a moment, and I want to talk about Mia Love.  Let’s see if you’ll be clapping when I finish.  I love Mia Love.  I had the opportunity of meeting her and speaking with her and hearing her conservative principles, and last time when she ran she told me the struggle she was having with having conservatives come and back her, getting help for her race.  She lost.  So instead of giving up, she said I’ll do it, and I’ll do it my way.  I’m not going to wait until campaign season.  I’m going to keep going from where I finished and never stop.  So this year when she ran, we all cheered.  Until the next morning.  And I got up, and I scrolled through my Facebook page, and I scrolled through Twitter, and there was not a mention of her conservative principles.  There was no mention of what she had fought for and how hard she had fought to get where she was.  There was no mention of her story.  There was no mention of her fight.  There was no mention of her tactics.  The only mentioned about Mia Love was she was black, she was a woman, she was a Mormon, and she was a Republican.  And everybody cheered.  And then they say, I’m glad we’re not the party of identity politics.</p>
<p>I don’t believe we are the party of identity politics.  What we are is reactive.  Whatever progressives do, we react.  So they ignore Mia Love, so we take it upon ourselves to make sure that everyone knows her name.  And that’s cool because if we don’t do it, who is going to do it?  But we don’t talk about her principles. We don’t talk about any of those things.  No, we stay on the identity of it because we want them to know that we are not racist.  Guess what?  They’re still calling you racist.  It does not work.  It is a fallacy that I have watched for four years, time and time again.  And it’s very funny because we have their playbook.  We have Alinsky&#8217;s &#8220;Rules for Radicals.&#8221;  We know what they’re going to do before they do it.  So what have we done to Mia Love?  And that’s a serious question.  What have we, as conservatives, done to Mia Love.  We have painted a bull&#8217;s-eye on her back.  All they have to do now is destroy her because it’s not about her policies, it’s not about her principles, it’s not about her fight, it’s not about her struggle, it’s not about her tactics, it is about her.  What do they do?  They target, they ridicule, they separate, they demonize and they destroy, and we give them the targets.</p>
<p>I’ll give you an example of this from something that happened in the last two years with Cliven Bundy.  Instead of making it about government against the people, which was the issue, instead of making it about private property, which was the concept, instead of making it about liberty and justice and big government coming in and crushing the individual &#8212; no.  We didn’t make it about those things.  We made it about Cliven Bundy.  So as soon as Cliven Bundy opens his mouth and says something stupid, we lose everything.  Because it’s no longer about what we’re fighting for. Now they have someone to demonize.  Do you remember how many times they put his face everywhere?  And they took what we had as a perfectly good message, and they destroyed us with it.  And the funny part was yet again we gave them the target by making it about the individual.  In this we know what they’re going to do, and we must become the people that no longer play by their rules and their game, hence change the game.</p>
<p>See?  I told you all.  It’s a question of whether or not you’ll like it at the end.  Because it’s an uncomfortable truth.  You want to feel good.  You have this joy.  You want it expressed, but we have to understand how we’re expressing it.  We can’t be them and beat them.  We can’t do it.  So we know what happens next.  Everyone knows what happens next.  The road will be paved for Hillary, and we will have a war on women, and we will have a war on race, and there will once again be a war on poverty, and we’re going to have more separation.  They&#8217;re going to say again that you hate the rich.  As soon as a Republican dares decide that they want to cut something: &#8220;You will hate the rich! you hate them!&#8221; I mean the poor.  [Laughter.]  You hate the poor. But it turns into, &#8220;You hate the poor! You hate minorities! You hate women! You hate dogs!&#8221;  I’m guessing they’re going to tell you you hate whatever it is they want to throw at you at that moment. So we know what’s coming.  Do we wait and do we react to this?  Or do we say not this time?  Because I’m on the not this time bandwagon.  I can&#8217;t sit by and watch it anymore when I know what happens next.  So if no one else is going to say it, then I’ll be the one to say it.  If I say it alone, I’ve done it before.  It doesn’t bother me one bit.</p>
<p>They’re coming at us, and instead of this time us saying &#8212; anyone remember Andrew Breitbart?  Andrew &#8212; if you have ever seen Hating Breitbart, he has this excellent piece in Hating Breitbart, and he has all these progressives standing around him, and they’re yelling in his face, they’re calling him racist, they’re calling him this, they’re calling him that, and Andrew, cool as a cucumber, said, “And?”  One word had never been so powerful to me in my entire life because I knew what he meant.  I’m not wasting my time playing these games with you.  You still never answered my question about whatever it was he was asking at the time.  I’m not going to sit here and play your games.  You can call me all the names you want.  Still, would you like to answer my question anytime in that response?  What that does is it takes away their argument because you don’t care.  In order for them to be effective, you have to care.  So when they call you names, you have to get offended.  When they call you out of character, then you have to say, &#8220;But I’m not!&#8221;  &#8220;All Republicans are racist!&#8221;  &#8220;We have Mia Love!&#8221; The same point still applies.  We aren’t moving the needle.  We aren’t changing anything.  Didn’t we have Clarence Thomas before?  Didn’t we have Condoleezza Rice?  Did any of that change anything?  What makes you think mere Love is going to change something?  Not politically speaking.  Good gracious, I love the woman. Go to Congress, do what you do.  I’m talking from the progressive point of view.  It’s not going to change them.  So we know their tactics, we know where they’re coming at.  So this is what we’re going to do for next year.  Trust this little bit of this vision for you guys.  We love capitalism and we’re not running from it.  You say we love the rich, yes we do.  So those of us who are not rich yet, we’re on our way.</p>
<p>We have some stuff we got to make up, and we’re not there yet, but I tell you one thing, we’re hustling every day of the week to get there.  And you’re not going to make us feel bad about it.  You’re not going to make me feel sad about it.  You’re not going to make me cry about it.  People who want to live in the situation of poverty, people who want to live in public housing, people who want food stamps, people who want welfare, you are perfectly fit to be a Democrat.  We don’t want you.  You can stay all day long, and it’s fine with us.  What we want is the get up, get out and get something generation.  We want the ones who are not satisfied with what they have.  We want the ones who say, you know what?  This isn’t going to be my life.  One day, I’m going to be in the governor’s office like Kevin Daniels.  One day I am going to run The Blaze, and I’m going to do investigative work, and I’m going to shake up Texas.  One day I am going to start writing a blog that makes everyone stand up and take notice so when my Karen Davis piece comes out it’s 2,000 hits instantly.  Those are the people we want.  Those are the people we’re going after.  And this is how we’re doing it.  Come and eat at our table.</p>
<p>You say we’re the party of the rich.  Think about how good the food tastes over here.  And we’re not asking you to bring anything, just yourself.  We don’t care about your past.  We don’t care about your situation.  We don’t care about any of that.  We got a place open at our table for you to sit down and eat.  The only condition that we put on to you coming and eating at our table is that next time we’re coming to your house to eat at your table because that’s what we do.  You come eat with us, you become part of a family.  You get a network.  You get a backdrop.  You get not just politics, you get prayer.  You get acceptance.  You get people who care about what’s going on in your family life, not just what’s going on in the polls.  You get something that a lot of us in the black community definitely don’t get from Democrats, that’s why they didn’t show up in this last election.  We have the table, and we’re opening that table for you to come and eat with us.  Our table starts with Change the Game at the web site.  Come and eat from our politics.  Come and eat from our culture.  Come and eat from our history.  Come and eat from our economics.  Come and eat from our spoken word.  Come and eat until you are so full you have no choice but to say get up and let somebody else come and have a seat.  That’s how we want you to eat because then we know you walk away feeling inspired, feeling empowered.  So what do you do?  You go make your own table.  And then you start feeding the people around you.</p>
<p>Do you know the best way to cut welfare?  Make people not want to be in poverty.  That way there’s no congressional vote, there’s no demonization, it’s none of that because you have people who willingly leaving the system because they want something more.  They see the American dream, and now they know that they can be a part of it.  Where they saw no route before, they saw no way before, impossibility like they told me a thousand times it can’t be done &#8212; ha-ha.  We got our table.  It can be done.  Those doubts should not exist.  Come and eat with us.  The simplicity of it.  And that’s what we’re going to do next year as far as our overall mission and our overall focus.  We know they’re going to demonize us, we know they’re going to hate us, we know that some people like where they are and they’re going to want to stay where they are.  But we know that a lot of black people like money, a lot, especially when you didn’t have it growing up.  So that’s our message, an economic message, a platter full of food to eat, a family that you become a part of, an American dream realized.  And to me that encompasses what Change the Game is.</p>
<p>So that’s what we plan on doing going forward, and that’s my vision of how we’re going to do this, not distracted when they want to call us names.  We’re going to stand in their face and say, and you still haven’t answered my question about school choice, you’re just a show for the conservatives.  You still didn’t answer my question.  We’re not going there.  If that’s the conversation you want to have then you can go to your table and have that conversation.  Don’t come over here with that.  So that’s what we’re going to do.  I’m going to stop because you all know how I get if I don’t.</p>
<p>So what I want to do now is in addition to my right and my left hand, I started to build a tent.  And I love the idea of &#8212;  Tracy created this wonderful graphic for  me, and I absolutely adore it, so I wanted to make sure everyone got to see it.  That’s our Change the Game tent.  That’s our table.  It signifies to me, I loved it the moment I saw it, but I said I have to start filling this tent.  So I had to pick some of my favorite people, and I wanted people who were already active, I wanted people who had already been beaten down, I wanted people who had already took their strikes and were still fighting.  Those that didn’t give up, those that refuse to give up, come to eat at my table.  Those are the kind of people that I love.</p>
<p>So I’m going to introduce to you all them one by one.  I’m going to let each one of them talk, and then we’re going to have some fun.  First up, I want to, from Washington D.C., he is PopGlitz, he is DC Pundit, and he’s one of my favorite people because his favorite place to go is Democrat headquarters, Javonni Brustow.</p>
<p><strong>Javonni Brustow: </strong>Hello, everyone.  I wanted to go over the reason why I’m a Republican because I felt that I am the elephant in the room, and that needed to be addressed.  As we know, Sonnie Johnson’s project, Change the Game, is about minority outreach, and I felt who else would be better than the super minority in the room to go over there.  So I live in liberal Washington as we know.  I’m a writer and a conservative that is pretty visible in both conservative circles and in Democrat headquarters.  Why I put myself through that, sometimes I have no idea.  I get beat up on a daily basis, but such is life.  That’s what I chose.  For starters, I am a Republican based on my hard work.  It’s not something that’s taught by the left.  If I were to listen to Democrats, I feel that they would let me know that by myself being in DC and where I am, I wouldn’t be able to hang around there for long.</p>
<p>I was able to spend the last couple days with Ann Coulter, and for me to be around her as I took pictures and sent it back through social media over the last few days, the responses that I got were absolutely unbelievable.  If I were to listen to my liberal followers, they would let me know that Ann would have flown up here on the dais on her broom with her witch hat, and I probably would have been shot and wouldn’t make it out of Florida.  I’m pretty sure that’s not going to happen.  I work out every day, I think I could take her, a couple pounds give or take, I don’t know.</p>
<p>I have beaten every Democrat stereotype.  I have to deal with the question of how did you end up in the Republican Party?  What went wrong?  I know so many liberal politicians, and it’s the same thing, and they’re like, okay, when that’s done, you can come over here.  It hasn’t happened yet.</p>
<p>My thing is that I have &#8212; when I was a teenager I worked three jobs in order to move into my first place, which was a luxury apartment building.  Again, that was not easy.  Hard work is just one of my things.  For anyone who’s ever questioned what type of work ethic that I have, I feel like that is the basis or the crux of the Republican Party.  It’s about hard work.  I had a very hard-ass family.  They were very tough, and if anyone were to question if I actually work, those are like fighting words for me.  Aside from Change the Game, I do have an entertainment site, a political site.  I just joined Hip-Hop Republican, I’m with the Examiner.</p>
<p>I’m working 24 hours a day, and as for any of the arguments about racism and discrimination, they’ve never played any part in life for me.  I’ve never accepted excuses.  They don’t make any sense because I’m always too busy working.  I don’t have time to go over statistics.  Thank you.  When I turn on MSNBC and I see Al Sharpton speaking and I’m hearing about how awful things are &#8212; number one, I wouldn’t be able to get out of bed if I listened to him.  It’s too depressing.  But with that being said, I don’t have the time to look at it.  I have things to do. I work with staff, I have staff, and again, 24 hours a day.  I don’t drink coffee until 1:00 in the morning for nothing every night.</p>
<p>So that’s that, hard work, and the other thing, I wanted to mention: gay marriage.  Now, I don’t want to be shot up here.  I know that’s a form of profanity, and be nice because I can hear gag reflexes.  What I wanted to mention is that, in case no one’s noticed, I don’t think that I have to go over that, but I think that I would like to have a long-term relationship, and one of the arguments that I tend to have is, they say, well, you’re in a party that doesn’t like you.  And I said well, what are we, 12?  I think that I last stopped caring about anyone’s opinion in high school.  And I just explained to someone earlier, I said I went to four schools.  One closed for money laundering.  I moved around a couple times.  And I have never seen any of these people since then, which means that I am pretty sure that I have come out successful.  I think that’s really all that matters, and I don’t think that the government has any type of say in the end result of my life or anyone else’s life, period.  So a sheet of paper for anything really does not make that much of a difference.  If you decide to do something, I can have an attorney and say at the end of the day this is my shit, this is yours, when it is over you don’t touch my shit over here, and I will not touch yours over there.  End of discussion.  No one’s opinion mattered, and, again, the government, it didn’t matter.  I didn’t care.  In fact, I was engaged before, and I don’t think I even ever looked up to find out if it were legal.  I didn’t care.  I said I guess whenever it happens, hey, I have an attorney on speed dial.  That will be it.  But I just wanted to explain myself and how I’ve become a Republican, and that there is a myriad of people in demographics that are within the party.  So wanted to thank you.</p>
<p><strong>Sonnie Johnson: </strong>The very first time I met with Javonni I didn’t know what to expect.  He had me laughing for three hours.  He is one of the funniest people that I have ever met in my entire life, and I am so proud to have him part of our team.</p>
<p>Now, our cowboy, because I told him, I said you kind of fit the stereotype, Billy.  Your name is Billy, dude, come on.  But if you don’t know this man, you might remember that some Obamacare people down in Texas got their money revoked. Obamacare &#8212; what are they called? &#8212; the navigators.  They got all of their financing snatched.  That’s my cowboy.  And now you can see him as a regular on Dana Loesch&#8217;s TV show on The Blaze, and he’s one of my favorite people in this entire world, Lawrence Billy Jones III.</p>
<p><strong>Lawrence Jones: </strong>Thank you for having me, and I want to thank my big sis for just inviting me to break bread with you guys and just talk about some issues.  I’m going to be very brief because we want to have some fun.  Years ago Frederick Douglass had given a speech, and he was really rallying the people in Washington DC to make a difference, and there were a lot of young people there.  And one of them, after the speech was over, Frederick Douglass, he was tired, and he was just ready to get back home, and that one child came up to him.  He said, Mr. Douglass, &#8220;Mr. Douglass, what can I do? How can I get involved? How can I make a difference?&#8221;  And Frederick Douglass gave him three words &#8211; agitate, agitate, agitate.</p>
<p>And when I joined my big sis’ organization I was pretty skeptical about joining any organization, but I knew that she knew what the real mission was, and she said, Lawrence, your name is going to be the community agitator.  And that’s exactly what I do.  I come from a background, my mom was 16 when she had me.  We had never had anything the easy way.  Everything was about working hard.  Ninth grade I was recruited by the Democratic Party to work for Obama.  They flew me out to DC.  We laid the groundwork to get him elected, working with Organizing for America, and they told me, sir, I don’t care what you believe, but you can never be a conservative because you are black.  Even though I agreed with the ideology, you could never be a conservative.</p>
<p>Well, we never had anything easy.  I had my first job when I was 15.  I was working at a leasing agency, and my godmother was white, and I said look, you’re different.  Well she said, I’m a Republican, and you see things just like me.  It was at that moment that I opened myself to what Republicans in the conservative movement were doing, and I figured out that I was lied to.  Oh, I was pissed.  I was mad as hell.  Y’all don’t understand, when I worked for the Democrats I did research.  I’m a private investigator by trade, and I dug up dirt.  I went after conservatives because I thought they were on the other side.  But when I got mad at liberals, they had something coming.</p>
<p>I spent two years traveling with organizations like Freedom Works trying to get the conservative message out there, and I was speaking from my investigative skills that we have to expose the left for what they really are.  We know what they’re about.  It’s about power, money and greed and whatever they need to do to deceive you to believe that Republicans and conservatives are against you, they will do it.</p>
<p>And I’m speaking this speech, and the crowd is like, what is he talking about?  And this man comes up to me, and he says, I need to really introduce you to somebody, and he introduces me to James O’Keefe.  I spent the next year undercover in the Democratic Party in Battleground Texas, and because of that we shut down the whole Navigator program in the state of Texas.  You can have Obamacare, but you can’t sign up in Texas.</p>
<p>And so back to my mission.  And been on cable news.  And that’s all fine and dandy.  Giving speeches is all fine and dandy, but if we cannot attract a different generation of leaders, if we cannot go to all communities across America, then we have done nothing.  And so what I do, I don’t come with my suit and tie on to those communities. I come with my Jordans, my Nikes, I come with sweats sometimes on, my cowboy boots and my hat, and I agitate the community because what is the problem today?  And we see this in Ferguson.  People are angry, but they’re mad at the wrong people.  And so it’s time for a new generation of leaders that aren’t afraid to go into different types of communities.  You know, I didn’t accept the RNC job because, like I told them, y’all trying to have a one night stand with black voters, and game recognize game.  You will never get them to vote for you if you just come during election time.  And so I go into these communities, and I agitate them.  You see what your congressman is doing?  Yeah, he’s black, too.  Do you realize he’s voting against your community?  What?  I got it on tape, you want to see it?  Do you see that when they sign you up for Obamacare they are storing your personal information then selling it out for political purposes?</p>
<p>What we have to realize is that we have a group of people that once they get sick and tired of being sick and tired, they will change the way they vote.  Once they get tired of being on food stamps, on housing, when they get tired of the government taking their money, when they get tired of staying in failing schools, they will change the way they vote.</p>
<p>It was when I realized that my parents worked for every single thing that we had and that my 16-year-old mother married my father and they built the family together, and nobody was going to rob me from that, that I changed the way I believed.  We got to get it, conservative, because we’re hooraying about this conservative victory that’s just taken place, but like I said on The Blaze the other day, we didn’t do anything.  We did absolutely nothing.  Candidates went around the country campaigning against Obama.  We didn’t really present our proposal.  That’s what we have to do conservatives.  The battle is not over yet.  We have to go into these communities, agitate, let them know who’s really against them, and once we expose the Democratic Party, the liberals and progressives for the frauds they are, it’s game over.  Time to change the game.</p>
<p><strong>Sonnie Johnson: </strong>And they keep trying to tell me I’m the only one.  All right, Ms. Kira. I bonded with her in a cornfield.  It’s true.  Look, everybody would laugh when they hear that.  No, we bonded in a cornfield, literally out in the middle of nowhere, and I found that just like me and Tracy, me and Kira don’t agree on everything.  But she is my favorite person on this earth to disagree with. Five minutes after our disagreement, we have a scotch in hand.  That’s my Kira Davis.</p>
<p><strong>Kira Davis: </strong>Yeah, you can clap for that.  Okay, thank you, Sonnie.  Yes, we did.  That’s a true story.  We did meet in the middle of a cornfield, and maybe I’ll tell that to you to you later if you want to hear it.  But one of the reasons that we don’t always agree on everything, my background’s a little different.  I’m actually an immigrant.  I immigrated from Canada at the age of 17.  I was born to a black American father and a white Canadian mother, and I was raised in eastern Canada for most of my life.  I didn’t meet my own father until I was ten years old.  He had left before my mother even knew she was pregnant.</p>
<p>But when I was ten, I had the opportunity to travel to the United States for the first time, a place I had only ever seen on TV.  I knew there were other black people, I just didn’t know where they were.  So I was really excited.  I flew by myself, and my dad’s family picked me up in Boston.  I got off the plane at Boston Logan Airport.  First time I ever set foot on American soil.  And I will never forgot how it smelled and felt and looked.  It was so different than where I had come from, a rural kind of fishing community, and it was vibrant.  There were so many different types of people I had never seen, black and brown and orange and yellow, and yeah, people with &#8212; and I was so amazed at how you could go anywhere and buy anything.  I know a lot of people are surprised to hear a Canadian say that, but Canadians don’t have the same kind of freedom that Americans have.  This brand of freedom we have in this country is very unique.  It’s unique to us.  It really does need to be protected.  I don’t think you realize that until you travel outside, but I remember that moment of all of those sights and sounds and smells coming down on me and thinking to myself, I’m going to be an American someday.</p>
<p>And from that moment on, it was my goal in life to become an American.  And I left home as soon as I could.  I came to school here in the U.S. and went to school in Iowa.  I met my husband there.  We married.  It still took ten years and thousands of dollars to get my citizenship, but I did it the right way.  It’s a privilege to be an American.  I can’t emphasize enough how honored I am to be American, and when I began serving in the black community, my husband and I had an after-school program, we would invite children to come and use computers, and we would tutor them and mentor them for free.  And I was, even though I was very passionate about America, I still was a socialist liberal because you’re in Canada you’re just by default hockey and socialism, they just go together.</p>
<p>And I realized, I’m serving this community, I’m realizing, all these policies that I have supported my whole life, I’m watching how they work, and they don’t.  And I just thought one day, I can’t do this anymore.  I’m not helping these kids, I’m distancing them from success with the politics of victimization and by telling them that white people don’t want you in their places.  I wasn’t incentivizing them, they were just becoming cogs in the machine.  And so it was during that time that I realized, no, I really am a conservative.  This is what I believe.  I started studying American history, and when I read the constitution for the first time, mind blown, like this is one of the most inspired documents on the face of the planet, the Bible, the Constitution of the United States of America.  Which is not an accident, which is not an accident.  They go hand in hand.</p>
<p>But I want to wrap up because we want to do some Q&amp;A. We want you guys to know how we view things as black Americans so that you might not be able to do what we do, but that you know what we want to do so you can at least support us, and that’s who we’re going to win this battle, that’s how we’re going to win back this country, by understanding we can’t all be on all fronts.  This is a war, but you have to know which battle you’re in.  Pick that battle, and do it.  So we’re in this battle, and so we want you to know a little bit about what we want to do. But before I go, this is what I want to say.  When I came here, even though as a teenager I was still pretty liberal, I still had the innate sense that there was something very special about the brand of freedom that is America, and now I tell my kids, look, just by being born in this country you are already five steps ahead of the game.  You’re already five steps ahead simply by accident of birth.  You need to nothing more than be born here to have more than almost everybody on this planet.  I don’t care if you live in the hood or the suburbs, it’s the same thing.  I say this all the time.  America doesn’t owe you an opportunity, America is the opportunity.</p>
<p><strong>Audience Member: </strong>One think I would ask is that you have a menu because in the beginning you said when you started this that we really need to know how to address the attacks, and you have given us some good examples today, and I appreciate that immensely.  So I would say at that table you need a menu for us, something that perhaps the Horowitz group can continue to share with us on how to handle some of these situations and issues.</p>
<p><strong>Sonnie Johnson: </strong>I will gather all my blog posts because basically that’s what I write about.  Continuously, personally, me, I have no choice but the two-pronged  approach because while I’m talking to the black community, I also have a conservative base, and my base doesn’t understand when I’m talking to the community, and my community doesn’t understand when I’m talking to the base.  So I always do a two-pronged approach.  I always will make sure that I have an argument that’s framed that fits the black community, and I have an argument that’s framed that conservatives can understand.  The problem is when people hear this they call it pandering.  No.  It’s knowing who your audience is.  It is the first step of owning any business or running any venture or anything else you do.  If you don’t know who your audience is, you will fail.  So I always take into account who it is I’m talking to.  It doesn’t matter, you’re going to get Sonnie Johnson either way.  That part of it isn’t going to change.  But I am aware and alert enough to understand that, and I will do that.  I will make that something that I do and make sure that, I guess I’ll work with David to see how we can make it available for everyone to be able to grab hold of it.</p>
<p><strong>Kira Davis: </strong>In the next few years it’s going to be really important, there’s going to be a lot of these young groups, these kids coming up, groups like us that will need your support.  So yeah, you might not be able to go into the hood and walk in and talk to people, and that’s fine, that’s okay.  But to find the people who are doing that and support them, that support is as valuable as a dynamic personality like a Sonnie Johnson.  So just keep that in mind as we move forward.  Find someone you like and can support and throw everything behind them.  It’s going to be more important than ever.  The field is ripe for the picking, and we’re on our way to a big win in 2016 if we can hold that.</p>
<p><strong>Lawrence Jones: </strong>Kira has been nice, but some conservatives just need to shut up when it comes to &#8212; seriously, and this is where Sonnie’s little bro comes into effect.  There are a lot of conservatives, some of them are black conservative, that are screwing it when it comes to race relations and going into these different communities because they do not know what to say.  If you don’t know what to say, shut up, it’s okay.  Get behind organizations that know exactly what they’re doing.  The RNC is not one.  They fail.  Okay.  So what we need is for people all across that are in Freedom Center to continue to support this movement.  It is proven, there’s a track record there where people are beginning to change their minds.  They’re listening in whether it’s a podcast, radio show or TV show because they want to know what these type of conservatives are talking about.  Thank you.</p>
<p><strong>Sonnie Johnson: </strong>As you can see, I am a lucky girl.  I am a happy girl, and David wasn’t here to hear this, but I am a sharp girl.  We look forward to 2015, and we’re going to show America how restoration starts with Change the Game.  Thank you all for coming.</p>
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		<title>Life in Post-Truth America</title>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/lies.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-247298" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/lies-450x211.jpg" alt="lies" width="303" height="142" /></a>Next month Americans will experience the fifteenth anniversary of the time that the President of the United States shook his finger at the country and informed it, “I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky. I never told anybody to lie, not a single time; never.”</p>
<p>Bill Clinton was lying. But the lie was more significant than the thing that he was lying about.</p>
<p>When the lie came crashing down, Clinton and his defenders deconstructed the English language, questioning the meaning of every word in his sentence rather than admit that the lie was a lie.</p>
<p>Given a choice between telling the truth or challenging the definitions of such words as “sex” and “is”, they decided to burn their dictionary.</p>
<p>Clinton’s antics set the stage for a current administration which can never be caught in a lie because it’s lying all the time. Obama and his people don’t just lie, they lie about the lies and then they lie about those lies. Bringing them in to testify just clogs the filters with an extra layer of lies.</p>
<p>Invite Gruber to testify about the time that he admitted that the administration had been lying and the only thing that will happen is more lies being told by a man who is there only because he lied.</p>
<p>Like the old lady who explained her cosmology to Bertrand Russell as being “turtles all the way down”, with modern progressives it’s lies all the way down.</p>
<p>Lena Dunham served up a rape accusation against a conservative Republican named Barry only to hide behind the ambiguity of being an unreliable narrator. The unreliable narrator likewise takes the stage at the University of Virginia where a high profile case has dissolved into contradictory stories in which it becomes difficult to tell whether it was the reporter or her subject who was doing the lying.</p>
<p>The unreliable narrator has crossed over from a fictional device in novels to memoirs, journalism and into politics.</p>
<p>Journalists repeatedly dismissed ObamaCare scandals by arguing that no one could have taken Obama’s claims at face value anyway. When Obama promised Americans that they could keep their doctors, the housewife in Topeka, the freelance programmer in San Francisco and the geologist in Tulsa were supposed to be as knowing as the Washington press corps and realize that he didn’t mean it.</p>
<p>Like Lena Dunham, Obama was an unreliable narrator. No one was ever supposed to expect the truth from him.</p>
<p>The significance of Bill Clinton was not in his affairs, but in his cynicism. He got away with lying by dismissing the idea that anyone should have ever expected the truth from him. Obama expanded on his work by eliminating the base truth underneath the lies.</p>
<p>The device of the unreliable narrator puts truth out of reach. It says that there is no such thing as truth, only various perspectives on an event.</p>
<p>Lena Dunham doesn’t claim to be providing facts, only different versions of a story. The facts themselves cannot be retrieved because there are no facts. The man in question is no longer named Barry. Every descriptive detail about him might be equally false. The whole thing may never have happened, but it’s important to believe that it happened without ever expecting it to be true.</p>
<p>This is the Doublethink state of our progressive Oceania. We are expected to believe a lie while remembering that it’s a lie and therefore never really fooled us or caused anyone any harm.</p>
<p>We were supposed to believe Obama’s assurances about ObamaCare while knowing them not to be true. We are supposed to believe Lena Dunham and Jackie and Gruber while disbelieving them. “The essential act of the Party is to use conscious deception while retaining the firmness of purpose that goes with complete honesty,” Orwell wrote.</p>
<p>The conscious deceptions of the modern Doublethinkers depend on them telling a lie in the service of the greater truth. That pursuit of a greater truth built out of lies is what motivated a Rolling Stone article about fraternity rapists that even Mike Nifong would have turned his nose up at or Gruber’s arrogant truths about lying. The greater truth gives them the firmness of purpose and the complete honesty.</p>
<p>Lena Dunham in BuzzFeed, the apologists for ObamaCare and the activist cheerleaders for Rolling Stone, insist that the facts are a technicality that is obstructing the greater truth. And the greater truth is a worldview that is out of the reach of facts and can never be disproven.</p>
<p>Bill Clinton and his allies deconstructed the English language rather than admit a lie. Their successors deconstruct reality. They deny that objective truth exists or even matters. They didn’t lie because there is no such thing as truth. There are perspectives, some of which agree with Bill Clinton’s version of reality or Lena Dunham’s version of reality.</p>
<p>And then there is Obama’s version of reality.</p>
<p>Obama is the nexus of Doublethink. He is the man whom reporters have denounced as the greatest enemy of press freedom in a generation and whom they compulsively defend with every possible lie. Why do journalists protect and serve the man who threatened them, bugged and even tried to lock them up? They too have long ago become unreliable narrators of their own profession.</p>
<p>In the absence of facts, there can be no reality. There is only ideology.</p>
<p>Obama doesn’t simply lie. He exists in a truth-free zone. He doesn’t stumble with any construction as clumsy as Kerry’s “I actually did vote for the $87 billion, before I voted against it.” He does not start with truthful facts. His starting point is in an imaginary territory. It ends in an imaginary territory. If the two imaginary territories are different, it scarcely matters because neither place was ever real.</p>
<p>When he came into office Obama insisted that we had to pivot to fighting Al Qaeda in Afghanistan even though it was no longer in Afghanistan. He went on claiming victory over an enemy that didn’t exist while dismissing ISIS as a jayvee team even when it was capturing entire cities in Iraq.</p>
<p>These weren’t mere lies. This was a foreign policy being conducted in an imaginary territory. It was Wag the Dog being played out in real life. But then again what is real around Obama anyway?</p>
<p>Bill Clinton lied. Obama tells stories. None of these stories have anything to do with reality.</p>
<p>Lena Dunham’s biography is a peek into a disordered mind that is incapable of grasping the concept of truth. In her world there are no facts, only stories that elicit emotional reactions. Obama’s entire career rests on the same technique of telling stories for emotional effect without any regard for reality.</p>
<p>ObamaCare was an ugly collectivist bureaucratic dinosaur clothed in imaginary stories. The stories about it, about the economy, about the war are still being told. Added to it are new stories about racism. The stories are passionate, compelling and appealing. They are also completely unreal.</p>
<p>Progressives don’t only live in a post-American world; they live in a post-Truth world. A world without facts and without truth is one in which the America that was cannot exist.</p>
<p>America had prospered because of a firm belief in a discoverable and exploitable reality. That was the country that could build skyscrapers and fleets in a year. Post-Truth America has little interest in big buildings because it’s too busy enacting a psychodrama in which the earth is about to be destroyed. And fleets, like horses and bayonets and facts, are 19<sup>th</sup> century toys that are much less interesting than the manipulation of people through lies and deceit.</p>
<p>Lena Dunham’s Barry and Obama’s Barry are both imaginary creatures. They are the sophisticated products of disordered minds and a disordered civilization whose leading figures lie as instinctively and as shamelessly as any pre-rational culture that could not distinguish between lies and truth.</p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2014 05:05:22 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/ahqdefault.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-247171" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/ahqdefault-450x337.jpg" alt="ahqdefault" width="345" height="258" /></a>UC Irvine history professor Mark LeVine, who recently suffered a <a href="http://www.campus-watch.org/blog/2014/11/mark-levine-meltdown"><span style="color: #0463c1;">meltdown</span></a> after being called “anti-Israeli,” has since proven the point by posting this profanity-laden, unhinged <a href="http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=2zrq1jd&amp;s=8#.VItkwTHF-Sq"><span style="color: #0463c1;">rant</span></a> on Facebook:</p>
<blockquote><p>[P]eople like Carey Nelson and other “machers” [Yiddish for a self-important person] in the American Jewish community get up in arms about BDS [boycott, divestment, sanctions]. Well, Cary Nelson and the rest of you: F— you. Call me uncivil, but still, f— you. F— all of you who want to make arguments about civility and how Israel wants peace when this is what Israel does, it’s “mowing the lawn” and “defending” freedom. This is, in no uncertain terms, genocide. If you want to argue about it, come to Gaza with me. Come look at Palestinians in the eye and talk about how uncivil Steven Salaita is and how you are in fact a “critic” of Israel. There is only one criticism of Israel that is relevant: It is a state grown, funded, and feeding off the destruction of another people. It is not legitimate. It must be dismantled, the same way that the other racist, psychopathic states across the region must be dismantled. And everyone who enables it is morally complicit in its crimes, including you.</p></blockquote>
<p>LeVine was commenting on a photograph from French freelance photographer <a href="https://www.facebook.com/anne.paq.7"><span style="color: #0463c1;">Anne Paq</span></a>, who, according to her <a href="http://www.annepaq.com/cv-references/"><span style="color: #0463c1;">bio</span></a>, has been “based in Palestine since 2003,” and who specializes in the sort of emotionally-charged—and, <a href="http://www.theaugeanstables.com/reflections-from-second-draft/pallywood-a-history/"><span style="color: #0463c1;">all too often</span></a>, staged or manipulated—<a href="http://www.annepaq.com/occupation/"><span style="color: #0463c1;">imagery</span></a> regularly employed by Hamas and others to demonize Israel in the international media. Paq’s photograph certainly elicited that reaction in LeVine, who, one can safely assume, would be quick to “dismantle” the allegedly illegitimate nation of Israel long before he gets to the other unnamed “racist, psychopathic states.”</p>
<p>LeVine’s primary target is Cary Nelson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) Jubilee Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences and past president of the American Association of University Professors. Nelson has been an outspoken opponent of BDS, including <a href="http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/157273"><span style="color: #0463c1;">co-editing</span></a> the recently published <span style="color: #0463c1;">book</span> of essays, <i>The Case Against Academic Boycotts of Israel</i>. His principled defense of academic freedom <a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/08/15/cary-nelson-faces-backlash-over-his-views-controversial-scholar"><span style="color: #0463c1;">has not</span></a> gone over well with BDS <a href="http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/9711"><span style="color: #0463c1;">supporters</span></a> such as <a href="http://www.campus-watch.org/blog/2012/09/profs-levine-and-zunes-plot-to-globalize-bds"><span style="color: #0463c1;">LeVine</span></a>, who signed an August, 2014 <a href="http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/18811/over-100-middle-east-scholars-and-librarians-call-"><span style="color: #0463c1;">letter</span></a> calling on Middle East studies scholars and librarians to boycott Israeli academic institutions. Accordingly, at the annual Middle East Studies Association (MESA) convention last month, members voted overwhelmingly in favor a <a href="http://mesana.org/annual-meeting/2014-resolution-information.html"><span style="color: #0463c1;">resolution</span></a> that sets the stage for MESA to adopt BDS in 2015.</p>
<p>In his diatribe, LeVine alludes to Nelson’s public <a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2014/08/08/essay-defends-university-illinois-decision-not-hire-steven-salaita"><span style="color: #0463c1;">support</span></a> of UIUC’s decision to withdraw an offer of tenured professorship to former Virginia Tech University English professor Steven Salaita. UIUC made its <a href="http://illinois.edu/blog/view/1109/115906"><span style="color: #0463c1;">choice</span></a> based on Salaita’s <a href="https://www.facebook.com/martinkramer.page/posts/10152355398877293"><span style="color: #0463c1;">atrocious</span></a> academic <a href="http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/183813/steven-salaita-academic-work"><span style="color: #0463c1;">record</span></a> and <a href="https://www.facebook.com/martinkramer.page/photos/a.103151622292.93283.21262362292/10152390955067293/?type=1"><span style="color: #0463c1;">inflammatory</span></a>, anti-Israel, anti-Semitic <a href="http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/183274/salaita-tweets"><span style="color: #0463c1;">Twitter posts</span></a>, which went far beyond incivility, the charge leveled at the time by some of his critics.</p>
<p>As LeVine demonstrates with his ad nauseam repetition of “uncivil” and “civility,” the terms have become rallying cries both for Salaita’s defenders and for the now-famous ex-academic himself, who, speaking on the “Scholars Under Attack” <a href="http://www.jta.org/2014/11/11/news-opinion/united-states/one-year-after-boycott-vote-israel-issue-still-divides-asa"><span style="color: #0463c1;">panel</span></a> at the annual meeting of the American Studies Association in November, made this <a href="http://www.campus-watch.org/quotes.php"><span style="color: #0463c1;">inane</span></a> proclamation:</p>
<blockquote><p>Civility is the language of genocide. It’s inherently a deeply violent word. It’s a word whose connotations can be seen as nothing if not as racist.</p></blockquote>
<p>Indeed, Salaita has become a cause célèbre in academia, even warranting his <a href="http://www.campus-watch.org/blog/2014/10/stacked-mesa-panel-to-praise-steven-salaita"><span style="color: #0463c1;">own panel</span></a> at the recent MESA convention, at which he was <a href="http://dc-web1.commentarymagazine.com/2014/11/25/heros-welcome-for-hater-of-israel-at-mesa/"><span style="color: #0463c1;">hailed</span></a> as a hero and a martyr. LeVine sees him as a victim of nefarious forces, ludicrously <a href="http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/13987"><span style="color: #0463c1;">blaming</span></a> his “dehiring” on the “wrath of pro-Israel conservatives in the United States.” Lost amidst the pity party is the fact that Salaita’s “<a href="http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/14280"><span style="color: #0463c1;">scholarship</span></a>” was never up to the task. As <a href="http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2014/12/02/mesa-resolution-shows-whats-wrong-with-academe/"><span style="color: #0463c1;">Michael Rubin</span></a>, writing for <i>Commentary</i>, put it:</p>
<blockquote><p>The scandal isn’t so much that the University of Illinois rescinded its preliminary tenure offer after learning about Salaita’s incitement on twitter; rather, it’s that he was seriously considered in the first place.</p></blockquote>
<p>It’s not difficult to ascertain why LeVine would defend Salaita: both of them embody the <a href="http://www.campus-watch.org/blog/2014/11/ucla-sondra-hale-supports-asa-boycott"><span style="color: #0463c1;">activist academic</span></a> that has <a href="http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2014/12/03/boycott-fever-at-mesa/"><span style="color: #0463c1;">overtaken</span></a> the field of Middle East studies; both are incredibly thin-skinned; both are prone to posting juvenile, profanity-riddled rants on social media; and both, LeVine’s disingenuous protestations notwithstanding, are unambiguously anti-Israel.</p>
<p>Nor is it a mystery as to why LeVine would accuse Nelson of being “morally complicit” in Israel’s purported “crimes,” given that he sees those who “enable” the nation simply by supporting its existence to be responsible for (an imaginary) “genocide.”</p>
<p>With his immature, petulant, and hateful <a href="https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=750302261691105&amp;id=221916871196316"><span style="color: #0463c1;">outbursts</span></a>, LeVine has shown his true face. When hotheaded advocates take the place of objective scholars, this is the result. And it isn’t pretty.</p>
<p><i>Cinnamon Stillwell is the West Coast Representative for</i> <a href="http://www.campus-watch.org/"><span style="color: #0463c1;"><i>Campus Watch</i></span></a><i>, a project of the</i> <a href="http://www.meforum.org/"><span style="color: #0463c1;"><i>Middle East Forum</i></span></a><i>. She can be reached at</i> <span style="color: #0463c1;"><i>stillwell@meforum.org</i></span><i>.</i></p>
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		<title>The New York Times Hits Rock Bottom with Max Blumenthal</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2014 05:02:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ari Lieberman]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/max-blumenthal.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-247115" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/max-blumenthal.jpg" alt="max-blumenthal" width="255" height="255" /></a>The New York Times, the paper that earned the dubious distinction of being the recipient of the “<a href="http://honestreporting.com/a-year-of-biased-reporting-why-the-new-york-times-won/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Most Dishonest Reporting</span></a>” award for 2013 is at it again. This time, The Gray Lady <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2014/12/07/if-israel-turns-right-where-will-it-end-up-12/a-rightward-shift-in-israel-would-reflect-whats-always-been-true"><span style="color: #0433ff;">featured</span></a> an op-ed piece by the notorious anti-Semite Max Blumenthal, providing this provocateur with a mainstream platform to express his odious views.</p>
<p>True to form, Blumenthal, the darling of radical extremists, conflates, distorts and simply makes things up. But I’m not here to analyze Blumenthal’s arrant nonsense. <a href="http://tabletmag.com/scroll/187518/rolling-stone-apologized-will-the-times"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Others</span></a> have already done a <a href="http://www.algemeiner.com/2014/12/08/new-york-times-attempts-to-resuscitate-reputation-of-american-anti-semite-max-blumenthal/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">good job</span></a> of that. What I wish to highlight is the depths to which the New York Times has sunk.</p>
<p>To be sure, the New York Times has in the past given a broad range of anti-Israel types a platform to express their opinions in the op-ed section, far more than those expressing positive views of Israel. But Blumenthal’s pernicious views veer uncomfortably close to old fashion anti-Semitism and this time, the New York Times exceeded the bounds of decency and fair play and has partnered with those who openly express Jew-hatred.</p>
<p>An analysis of Blumenthal’s history reveals the following disturbing facts;</p>
<p>•Blumenthal was <a href="http://www.algemeiner.com/2014/11/06/german-opposition-party-cancels-event-featuring-american-anti-semite-max-blumenthal/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">disinvited</span></a> from a scheduled speaking engagement by the German “Die Linke” (The Left) party due to his <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/ari-lieberman/max-blumenthal-rejected-by-german-radicals/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">anti-Semitic</span></a> (not to mention anti-Israel) views.</p>
<p>•Blumenthal’s antics earned him a <a href="http://www.dw.de/israel-critics-visit-to-parliament-turns-ugly-for-gysi/a-18059221"><span style="color: #0433ff;">lifetime ban</span></a> from the German parliament.</p>
<p>•The Simon Wiesenthal Center has labeled Blumenthal an anti-Semite and his comments earned him a spot in the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s “<a href="http://www.wiesenthal.com/atf/cf/%7B54d385e6-f1b9-4e9f-8e94-890c3e6dd277%7D/TOP-TEN-2013.PDF"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Top 10</span></a>” list of anti-Semitic slurs.</p>
<p>•Blumenthal’s “works” have been cited and praised by radical extremists and <a href="http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/2014/04/antisemite-max-blumenthal-incites-murder-of-three"><span style="color: #0433ff;">neo-Nazis</span></a>  and have been <a href="http://www.brandeiscenter.com/images/uploads/articleuploads/marquardt-Bigman_research_paper.pdf"><span style="color: #0433ff;">featured</span></a> on the anti-Semitic blog, <i>Electronic Intifada</i> as well as the neo-Nazi Internet forum, <i>Stormfront</i>.</p>
<p>•Blumenthal’s comments have been cited with approval by <a href="http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/2014/04/antisemite-max-blumenthal-incites-murder-of-three"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Frazier Glenn Miller</span></a>, the KKK murderer who massacred three people at two separate Jewish community centers in Overland Park, Kansas.</p>
<p>•The Left-leaning <i>Forward</i> referred to Blumenthal’s book as so anti-Israel it, “<a href="http://forward.com/articles/186557/max-blumenthals-goliath-is-anti-israel-book-that-m/?p=all"><span style="color: #0433ff;">makes even anti-Zionists blush</span></a>.”</p>
<p>•Prominent liberal Eric Alterman of <i>The Nation</i> referred to Blumenthal’s book as a screed that belongs in the “<a href="http://forward.com/articles/186557/max-blumenthals-goliath-is-anti-israel-book-that-m/?p=all"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Hamas Book-of-the-Month Club</span></a>.”</p>
<p>•Blumenthal compared Israel with ISIS (the group that lops people’s heads off for eating dinner with the wrong fork) calling the Jewish state “JSIL” or the “Jewish State of Israel and the Levant.”</p>
<p>•Blumenthal called Israelis “Judeo-Nazis.” (I wonder if he could say that to a Holocaust survivor and walk away with his head intact.)</p>
<p>•Writing for the Hezbollah paper <i>Al-Akhbar</i>, Blumenthal stated that American law enforcement is “<a href="http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/occupation-%E2%80%9Coccupy%E2%80%9D-israelification-american-domestic-security"><span style="color: #0433ff;">schooled in Israeli killing methods</span></a>.”</p>
<p>•Blumenthal was caught red-handed <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2011/12/did-israel-train-american-interrogators-in-torture-updated/249630/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">conjuring up fictitious quotes</span></a> maligning Israel.</p>
<p>And that’s Max Blumenthal in a nutshell. One wonders whether Hillary Clinton’s senior advisor Sidney Blumenthal, Max’s father and <a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/rosiegray/clinton-adviser-sid-blumenthals-new-cause-his-sons-anti-isra"><span style="color: #0433ff;">passionate defender</span></a> had anything to with the Times’ decision to host the notorious anti-Semite. Either way, the Times’ demonstrates that it has tossed journalistic standards and any semblance of decency out the window.</p>
<p>So what’s next for the New York Times? I hear former KKK “Grand Wizard” David Duke is in town. Perhaps the Times can enlighten its readership and provide the former Klan leader a forum on its op-ed pages to explain how the diabolical Zionists were responsible for the Holocaust or alternatively, how the Zionists propagated the Holocaust hoax to inflict suffering on the poor Palestinians. That should make for interesting reading.</p>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Arnold Ahlert]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="color: #232323;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/feinstein.png"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-247160" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/feinstein-432x350.png" alt="feinstein" width="315" height="255" /></a>On Tuesday, the Senate Intelligence Committee released the 500-page executive summary of the report on the CIA’s enhanced interrogation of terrorist detainees. Democrats, the media and Republican Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) are using it as an opportunity to <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2014/12/09/politics/cia-torture-report/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">hammer</span></a> the CIA and the Bush administration, while American embassies, military units and other U.S. interests are <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/us-prepares-security-risks-torture-report-080155482--politics.html"><span style="color: #1255cc;">preparing</span></a> for possible reprisals. But adding further threats to Americans already in harm&#8217;s way matters not. Beleaguered congressional Democrats are desperate for a political boon and have turned to an old standby: sabotaging national security and sacrificing American lives.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Since their betrayal of the Iraq war, Democrats, particularly in the Senate, have panned the techniques used by the CIA to garner critical information in the days following 9/11 as “torture,” and have claimed that they yielded no useful intel. Though the use of these techniques was long known to Democrats — with virtual indifference toward them at the outset — many Democrats have since claimed they were unaware of what was occurring, which explains their lack of opposition to their government supposedly engaging in “torture.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Leading the way on the latter fabrication was then-House Majority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA). Her ongoing denials regarding knowledge of the CIA&#8217;s waterboarding of terrorists were ultimately undone by Pelosi herself in 2009, when she finally <a href="http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/14/pelosi-cia-misled-congress-over-waterboarding/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">admitted</span></a> she had known about the program since 2003. Yet even as she admitted it, she continued to promote the “Bush lied, people died” lie, insisting that &#8220;the C.I.A. was misleading the Congress and at the same time the administration was misleading the Congress on weapons of mass destruction.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Those would be the same weapons of mass destruction whose existence was <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/10/14/world/middleeast/us-casualties-of-iraq-chemical-weapons.html?smid=tw-share&amp;_r=3"><span style="color: #1255cc;">acknowledged</span></a> by the <i>New York Times</i> last October.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">As for so-called torture, the report <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/10/world/senate-intelligence-committee-cia-torture-report.html?emc=edit_na_20141209&amp;nlid=23627335&amp;_r=0"><span style="color: #0433ff;">cited</span></a> sleep deprivation, threatening subjects with death, “rectal feeding” or “rectal hydration” described by the CIA&#8217;s chief of interrogations as a way to exert “total control over detainees,” and waterboarding, as in simulating near drowning. The report further stated that former CIA directors George J. Tenet, Porter J. Goss and Michael V. Hayden hyped the value of those techniques in secret briefings with the White House and Congress.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Intelligence Committee Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein admitted that she “could understand the C.I.A.&#8217;s impulse to consider the use of every possible tool to gather intelligence and remove terrorists from the battlefield, and the C.I.A. was encouraged by political leaders and the public to do whatever it could to prevent another attack,” but that “such pressure, fear and expectation of further terrorist plots do not justify, temper or excuse improper actions taken by individuals or organizations in the name of national security. The major lesson of this report is that regardless of the pressures and the need to act, the intelligence community’s actions must always reflect who we are as a nation, and adhere to our laws and standards.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">The hypocrisy is breathtaking. While the Left wrings its collective hands about “torture,” they remain silent to Barack Obama’s <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/10/how-team-obama-justifies-the-killing-of-a-16-year-old-american/264028/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">drone program</span></a>. One that has not only killed terrorists, but America citizens, Samir Khan, and Anwar al-Awlaki. Both men were traitors, but they were executed without the due process the Left supposedly reveres so much in the case of terrorist detainees. So was Awlaki’s 16-year-old son, as well as innocents who were victims of collateral damage. No one was reported to have been killed by the Bush administration&#8217;s enhanced interrogation techniques, yet somehow Bush and former Vice President Dick Cheney are routinely <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=Bush+Cheney+war+criminals&amp;ie=utf-8&amp;oe=utf-8"><span style="color: #1255cc;">referred</span></a> to as “war criminals” while Obama largely gets a pass.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">The <i>Washington Post’s</i> Bill Gerson cuts right through the double-standard, noting intelligence personnel now being excoriated received the same “direction and protection,” consisting of presidential approval, congressional briefing, lawfulness determined by the U.S. Attorney General and target value determined by the CIA Director as those currently participating in the drone program. &#8220;Some may argue a subtle moral distinction between harshly interrogating a terrorist and blowing his limbs apart,” Gerson writes. &#8220;But international human rights groups and legal authorities generally look down on both. The main difference? One is Obama’s favorite program. A few years from now, a new president and new congressional leaders may take a different view.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">This double standard puts the lie to Democrats’ seriousness toward the claim that the Bush administration engaged in “torture,” illegality and human rights abuses in its mission to thwart terrorist attacks against the homeland. In truth, the campaign against tough interrogation is a political cudgel that Democrats have employed to bludgeon their political enemies, no matter the national security cost. It amounts to nothing less than a revisionist effort to turn those entrusted with protecting the country in the immediate aftermath of the worst domestic attack in American history into pariahs, even as the war remains ongoing. As Gerson so rightly notes, the report’s release is an act of &#8220;exceptional congressional recklessness” engineered by Feinstein, whose &#8220;legacy is a massive dump of intelligence details useful to the enemy in a time of war.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Our allies are equally appalled. ”Foreign leaders have approached the government and said, &#8216;You do this, this will cause violence and deaths,&#8221;&#8217; <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/12/08/house-intelligence-chairman-rogers-report-will-spur-attacks/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">warned</span></a> Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI), Chairman of the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. &#8220;Our own intelligence community has assessed that this will cause violence and deaths.&#8221;</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest acknowledged such concerns, but insisted the administration &#8220;strongly supports the release of this declassified summary of the report.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">No doubt. The release neatly coincided with ObamaCare mega-consultant Jonathan Gruber’s Congressional <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2014/12/09/politics/gruber-hearing/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">testimony</span></a> regarding his contempt for the American public, and the deception employed to get the ACA passed. Thus, the administration has once again employed a bait and switch effort to distract the public, despite the fact that distraction imperils Americans and our allies.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">CIA veteran Jose A. Rodriguez Jr., who ran the enhanced interrogation program, <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/todays-cia-critics-once-urged-the-agency-to-do-anything-to-fight-al-qaeda/2014/12/05/ac418da2-7bda-11e4-84d4-7c896b90abdc_story.html"><span style="color: #1255cc;">destroys</span></a> the contention that Democrats were out of the loop, and that the enhanced interrogation techniques yielded no useful information. &#8220;The leaders of the Senate and House Intelligence Committees and of both parties in Congress were briefed on the program more than 40 times between 2002 and 2009,” he reveals, noting those same lawmakers &#8220;urged us to do everything possible to prevent another attack on our soil.” He was equally forthright about the intel that was garnered. &#8220;After extraordinary CIA efforts, aided by information obtained through the enhanced-interrogation program, Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the self-proclaimed architect of the 9/11 attacks, was captured in Pakistan,&#8221; he explains.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">He is especially critical of “hypocritical&#8221; Democrats. He cites Feinstein&#8217;s 2002 <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/26/weekinreview/all-fronts-getting-more-than-one-step-ahead-of-an-attack.html"><span style="color: #1255cc;">assertion</span></a> that &#8220;we have to do some things that historically we have not wanted to do to protect ourselves,” as well as an <a href="http://votesmart.org/public-statement/15557/cnn-late-edition-with-wolf-blitzer#.VIdvyifFm3d"><span style="color: #1255cc;">interview</span></a> between CNN’s Wolf Blitzer and Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV (D-WVA), then the ranking Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee. In response to Blitzer’s question about whether Khalid Sheik Mohammed might be turned over to friendly countries with no restrictions on torture, the Senator admitted it was possible. “I wouldn’t take anything off the table where he is concerned, because this is the man who has killed hundreds and hundreds of Americans over the last 10 years,” he replied.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Rodriguez then adds a dose of devastating perspective to the mix. &#8220;If Feinstein, Rockefeller and other politicians were saying such things in print and on national TV, imagine what they were saying to us in private….Our reward, a decade later, is to hear some of these same politicians expressing outrage for what was done and, even worse, mischaracterizing the actions taken and understating the successes achieved,” he states.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Current and former CIA leaders <a href="http://thehill.com/policy/defense/226465-spies-push-back-on-senate-report"><span style="color: #1255cc;">bitterly contested</span></a> the report. Bush-era CIA Director George Tenet labeled it &#8220;biased, inaccurate, and destructive,” adding that it &#8220;does damage to U.S. national security, to the men and women of the Central Intelligence Agency, and most of all to the truth.” CIA Director John Brennan said the agency made mistakes, but insisted &#8220;the record does not support the study’s inference that the agency systematically and intentionally misled each of these audiences on the effectiveness of the program.” A <a href="http://ciasavedlives.com/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">website</span></a> launched by a number of intelligence officials blasted the report:</p>
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<p style="color: #232323;"><i>The recently released Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) Majority report on the CIA&#8217;s Rendition, Detention, and Interrogation Program is marred by errors of facts and interpretation and is completely at odds with the reality that the leaders and officers of the Central Intelligence Agency lived through. It represents the single worst example of Congressional oversight in our many years of government service.</i></p>
</blockquote>
<p style="color: #232323;">Cheney also remains <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/09/us/politics/white-house-and-gop-clash-over-torture-report.html?emc=edit_th_20141209&amp;nl=todaysheadlines&amp;nlid=62431058&amp;_r=1"><span style="color: #1255cc;">resolute</span></a> about the necessity and legality of the program. “What I keep hearing out there is they portray this as a rogue operation, and the agency was way out of bounds and then they lied about it,” he said in a telephone interview with the <i>New York Times</i>. “I think that’s all a bunch of hooey. The program was authorized. The agency did not want to proceed without authorization, and it was also reviewed legally by the Justice Department before they undertook the program.” Cheney also had nothing but praise for those who participated. “As far as I’m concerned, they ought to be decorated, not criticized,” he added.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">The alternative viewpoint? &#8220;Showing respect even for ones enemies. Trying to understand and in so far as psychologically possible, empathize with their perspective and point of view,” <a href="http://www.ijreview.com/2014/12/212850-hillary-remarks-beat-enemies-may-just-killed-chances-presidency/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">said</span></a> Secretary of State and likely presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. Americans have a choice to make between competing worldviews. The wrong choice will have deadly consequences.</p>
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		<title>MSNBC: &#8220;Arson and Looting&#8230; are not Necessarily Violence.&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2014 04:37:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cleaning out a local bakery is a violent attack on its owner's ability to earn a living]]></description>
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<p>If you or anyone you know has plans to loot and burn MSNBC headquarters, please keep in mind that MSNBC employees <a href="http://newsbusters.org/blogs/mark-finkelstein/2014/12/06/harris-perry-burn-b-ch-down-arson-looting-not-necessarily-violence">would consider that to be non-violent</a> civil disobedience.</p>
<blockquote><p>Melissa Harris-Perry commented on the news that authorities are considering charges against Michael Brown&#8217;s stepfather Louis Head, who on the night the grand jury declined to indict, jumped on a car and implored the crowd &#8220;burn this mother&#8212;&#8212; down! Burn this b&#8211;ch down!&#8221;</p>
<p>Melissa Harris-Perry: &#8220;Let me also just point out, arson and looting, while illegal and not things that I support and I think also counterproductive in many ways, are also not necessarily violence in that they are they are violence against property, and that does actually carry a legal difference, right? I mean, violence against property ought to be different than violence against bodies.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>We are seriously in rape-rape territory here. After first claiming that burning and robbing stores isn&#8217;t violence, she attempts to claim that it&#8217;s distinct from beating someone over the head.</p>
<p>This is the sort of brilliant legal reasoning to be expected from a woman who has degrees in English and Political Science, a failed career in African-American studies and time spent studying theology and makes her living denouncing Republicans.</p>
<p>Al Sharpton could offer more informed commentary on the legal ramifications of arson vs assault, but at least he would be speaking from experience.</p>
<p>But Harris-Perry isn&#8217;t speaking in isolation. After the riots, the left attempted to fasten on to the distinction between violence and property like the good little Marxists that they are. It&#8217;s a distinction that no one is debating and is utterly besides the point. Like the rest of their arguments. Burning down a building or looting a store are violent acts. Cleaning out a local bakery whose owner is just getting by is not merely an attack on property, but on the ability of that person to earn a living, feed their family and provide for their own medical care.</p>
<p>Those aren&#8217;t concepts that Harris-Perry seems to understand. That&#8217;s why she&#8217;s a liberal.</p>
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		<title>Biden Spins Fantasies, Middle East Heats Up</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2014 05:22:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reports: Israel hits targets in Syria.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/628x471.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-247032" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/628x471-450x321.jpg" alt="628x471" width="374" height="267" /></a>Speaking to the Saban Forum in Washington on Saturday, Vice-President Joe Biden <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2014/12/07/remarks-vice-president-joe-biden-2014-saban-forum"><span style="color: #0433ff;">said</span></a> that the talks with Iran, which began about a year ago and recently were extended for another seven months, had “brought significant benefits” and slowed down Iran’s nuclear program.</p>
<p>Biden added that the talks were providing time to “see if it’s possible to reach a comprehensive agreement that can peacefully ensure that Iran will not develop a nuclear weapon,” and that “all of this was accomplished with very modest sanctions relief.”</p>
<p>The speech also included very positive words about Israel and the U.S.-Israeli alliance. Israel, however, needs more than words.</p>
<p>On Sunday, one day later, Israeli national security adviser Yossi Cohen gave a briefing to the Israeli cabinet that <a href="http://www.jpost.com/israel-news/politics-and-diplomacy/iran-retains-its-nuclear-capabilities-as-sanctions-regime-eroding-nsc-chief-says-383899"><span style="color: #0433ff;">contradicted Biden on every point</span></a>.</p>
<p>In a statement that later was issued by the office of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, Cohen said that Iran was continuing to pursue a nuclear weapon, that the extension of the talks was enabling it to maintain and even strengthen its nuclear capabilities, and that the sanctions are “in danger of collapse. This is something that could lead to a regional nuclear arms race in the Middle East.”</p>
<p>Cohen also said Israel had played an important role in ensuring that the U.S.-led P5+1 countries did not reach a “bad” agreement with Iran last month, but that meanwhile Iran was continuing a huge military buildup and masterminding terrorism all over the globe.</p>
<p>That was Sunday morning. On Sunday afternoon two sites near Damascus were bombed from the air. Although Israeli officials are not saying a word about the incident, reports outside of Israel, as well as statements from Syria, Iran, and Hezbollah, say Israel was responsible.</p>
<p>In a <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,l-4600771,00.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">commentary</span></a>, Israeli military analyst Ron Ben-Yishai said Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps was</p>
<blockquote><p><i>continu[ing] to play with fire by equipping Hezbollah with arms that have the capability to cause widespread losses and destruction in Israel…. It is widely believed that shipments of missiles and other arms destined for Hezbollah land in Iranian cargo jets at the airport in Damascus, then [are] transferred to a Syrian military storage site, until they are sent over the border to Lebanon.</i></p></blockquote>
<p>On Monday, Arab media <a href="http://www.jpost.com/israel-news/politics-and-diplomacy/report-two-hezbollah-operatives-killed-in-sundays-alleged-iaf-strikes-in-syria-384003"><span style="color: #0433ff;">were cited as reporting</span></a> that</p>
<blockquote><p><i>the airstrikes destroyed a storage facility housing anti-aircraft missiles and drones belonging to Hezbollah, and cut off the power supply from Damascus International Airport.</i></p></blockquote>
<p>It was also reported that “two Hezbollah militants were killed” during the strikes, one of them a “senior military official.”</p>
<p>According to reports outside of Israel, never officially confirmed by Jerusalem, in 2013 Israeli planes struck at least five weapons consignments in Syria that were on their way to Hezbollah, and earlier this year struck a Hezbollah base within Lebanon.</p>
<p>Although in most of these cases Hezbollah and the Syrian regime, both of them embroiled in the fighting in Syria, have refrained from retaliating, accounts say that in this latest case Israeli forces have been on high alert for a possible counterstrike.</p>
<p>Meanwhile it was also <a href="http://www.jpost.com/middle-east/russia-wants-israeli-explanation-for-aggressive-actions-in-syria-383986"><span style="color: #0433ff;">reported</span></a> on Monday that Russia was “demand[ing] an explanation” for Israel’s “aggressive action” in Syria and was “deeply worried by this dangerous development.”</p>
<p>And finally, a <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/12/07/us-iran-economy-iduskbn0jl0h320141207?feedtype=rss&amp;feedname=topnews"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Reuters report</span></a> bears out the words of the Israeli national security adviser and belies the cheerful words of Vice-President Biden:</p>
<blockquote><p><i>Iranian President Hassan Rouhani will hike military spending by more than a third in the next fiscal year despite presenting a “cautious, tight” budget to parliament on Sunday in response to falling oil prices…. [D]efense expenditure will rise 33.5 percent to about 282 trillion rials, most of which will be assigned to the elite Revolutionary Guards…. Iran is stockpiling rockets, missiles and other conventional weapons…. Nuclear talks between Iran and six powers have been extended until June. In the meantime, Iran can still access $700 million per month of frozen oil revenue held abroad. </i></p></blockquote>
<p>In other words: thanks to the talks Iran can keep funding its needs.</p>
<p>This confluence of events gives rise to two points.</p>
<p>One is that a belligerent, confident Iran, a belligerent, intrusive, and threatening Russia, is how the Middle East looks at a time of feckless U.S. policy based—at best—on self-delusion.</p>
<p>The other is that, even though Netanyahu’s government now faces an election campaign and is in a lame-duck status, no one should think it will take its eye off the ball.</p>
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		<title>The Presbyterian Church USA&#8217;s Terrorist Ties</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2014 05:02:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ari Lieberman]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why the Hezbollah-allied church could soon lose its tax-exempt status. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/pcusa.gif"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-247061" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/pcusa.gif" alt="pcusa" width="233" height="235" /></a>On April 18, 1983, an explosive laden truck driven by a Hezbollah terrorist slammed into the U.S. embassy in Beirut killing 63 people, including 17 Americans, some of whom were CIA operatives. According to the CIA, it was the <a href="https://www.cia.gov/news-information/featured-story-archive/2014-featured-story-archive/flashback-april-18-1983-u-s-embassy-bombed-in-beirut.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">most lethal</span></a> attack ever against the Agency. Just six months later, Hezbollah terrorists struck again, this time hitting the <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2013/06/13/world/meast/beirut-marine-barracks-bombing-fast-facts/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">U.S. Marine compound</span></a> in Beirut.  In a repeat of the embassy bombing, a Hezbollah homicide bomber crashed his explosive laden truck into the barracks killing 220 marines and another 21 U.S. service personnel. It was the largest single-day loss of life sustained by the marines since Iwo Jima.</p>
<p>Hezbollah’s atrocities against the United States and its allies did not cease with the embassy and marine compound outrages and have in fact, continued unabated in intensity and scope since that time. Hezbollah has recently carried out a global campaign of terror spanning five continents including an attack and bombing of a civilian tourist bus in Bulgaria that resulted in the deaths of six civilians.</p>
<p>Despite Hezbollah’s involvement in international terrorism and its designation as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) by the United States, the Presbyterian Church USA (PCUSA) has had extensive contacts with the organization according to a federal complaint filed by the legal advocacy group, Shurat HaDin, Israel Law center.</p>
<p>The 38-page complaint filed with the Internal Revenue Service alleges that PCUSA has engaged in “a range of activities prohibited under U.S. tax law” which are wholly inconsistent with PCUSA’s stated aims when it filed for tax exempt status in 1964.</p>
<p>In its 1964 filing with the IRS, PCUSA posed as a religious body whose purpose was to engage in “peaceful relationships with individuals of all faiths and wholly unengaged in political activities.” But the federal complaint filed by Shurat HaDin paints a completely different picture and alleges that PCUSA has repeatedly met and established dialogue with Hezbollah terrorist officials.</p>
<p>The complaint also alleges that PCUSA violated its tax-exempt status by “publishing anti-Semitic materials, enacting a racist policy to divest from American companies doing business with Israel, lobbying the U.S. Congress, and distributing political advocacy materials&#8230;”</p>
<p>Indeed, as far back as 2004 PCUSA officials met with Hezbollah operatives in Lebanon with one PCUSA official, perhaps in an attempt to endear himself to his Hezbollah hosts, making crude <a href="http://www.memritv.org/clip/en/294.htm"><span style="color: #0433ff;">anti-Jewish</span></a> remarks. Though PCUSA subsequently disavowed itself from the remarks as well as the meeting, PCUSA sanctioned meetings with Hezbollah continued.</p>
<p>In October 2005, a PCUSA delegation headed by Robert Morley and Father Nihad Tomeh <a href="http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/1535.htm"><span style="color: #0433ff;">met with</span></a> Nabil Qaouk, a senior Hezbollah commander in Lebanon. During the exchange, Qaouk complained that U.S. policies in the region were dictated by Israel. It is the same banal complaint often regurgitated by an assortment anti-Semitic groups and conspiracy types. Nevertheless, the delegation, rather than challenging Qaouk, concurred with him stating that PCUSA was blameless because its members had voted for the Democratic Party and the organization was under pressure from U.S. Jewish groups due to its divestment efforts against Israel.</p>
<p>The Israel-Palestine Mission Network of the PCUSA has been engaged in a relentless effort to delegitimize Israel. As <a href="http://www.camera.org/index.asp?x_context=7&amp;x_issue=37&amp;x_article=2712"><span style="color: #0433ff;">detailed</span></a> by the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA), the IPMN has been linked to a number of anti-Israel initiatives the most notorious of which is a malevolent publication called “Zionism Unsettled.”</p>
<p>“Zionism Unsettled” adopts a viscerally anti-Israel narrative, in line with the views of Hamas and has won praise from the who’s who of Judeophobes including former KKK “Grand Wizard” David Duke.  Among its many pernicious lies is that Jews had “harmonious relations” with Muslims prior to the ascendancy of Zionism and that Zionism is the sole cause for Palestinian suffering. The screed was peddled and offered for sale on PCUSA’s website and was taken down only after encountering extremely negative feedback and intense public pressure.</p>
<p>PCUSA took its anti-Israel political advocacy to new levels when in June 2014, its General Assembly <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/presbyterian-shame-article-1.1844099"><span style="color: #0433ff;">voted</span></a> by a narrow margin to attack Israel’s legitimacy by divesting itself from three companies doing business with Israel. A similar resolution in 2012 failed but remains testament to the relentless effort PCUSA places on political advocacy when it comes to harming relations with the Jewish State.</p>
<p>PCUSA, by both word and deed, has made itself out to be a leading purveyor of anti-Semitism. Its divestment initiatives hold Israel to a standard expected of no other nation. By peddling an anti-Semitic screed on its website, it becomes an integral party to anti-Semitism. By meeting and maintaining dialogue with Hezbollah, a Foreign Terrorist Organization that next to al-Qaida was responsible for more American deaths than any other terrorist group, it provides aid and comfort to the enemy.</p>
<p>In 1964, PCUSA presented itself to the IRS as a benign religious organization with an apolitical agenda. The facts however, prove otherwise. As Shurat HaDin’s founder, Nitsana Darshan-Leitner accurately summed it up in an email to me; “The Presbyterian church long ago abounded any claim that they are not a political organization with ties to terror groups and an Israel-bashing agenda.  The IRS is obligated to investigate PCUSA and strip it from its tax free status. The PCUSA would need to decide ultimately whether they are a church or a political group.”</p>
<p>Given the PCUSA’s aggressive political agenda and its anti-Israel machinations, it is patently clear that they’ve already made that decision.</p>
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		<title>Fort Hood Jihad Victims Won&#8217;t Be Getting Purple Hearts As Long as Obama is in Office</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Dec 2014 17:07:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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<p>Senate Democrats have apparently decided to stop fighting a<a href="http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/fort-hood-victims-set-to-receive-purple-hearts-combat-status/article/2556950?utm_campaign=Fox%20News&amp;utm_source=foxnews.com&amp;utm_medium=feed"> measure that would allow the American servicemembers</a> wounded <a href="http://www.militarytimes.com/story/military/capitol-hill/2014/12/03/purple-heart-expansion/19834457/">and killed by</a> Fort Hood Muslim Jihadist Nidal Hassan.</p>
<blockquote><p>Congress is set to make victims of the 2009 Fort Hood shootings eligible for Purple Hearts and combat injury benefits after the Obama administration has denied them the status for the past five years.</p>
<p>House Republicans, working with the Democratic-controlled Senate Armed Services Committee, added a provision to the defense authorization bill that would give battlefield recognition for the victims of the deadliest attack on a domestic military installation in U.S. history. It passed on a voice vote with strong bipartisan support.</p>
<p>The measure, which is expected to pass Congress next week, also would end a five-year effort by Texas GOP Reps. John Carter, Michael Conaway and Roger Williams to give the victims the status, the Military Times first reported. Texas GOP Sens. Ted Cruz and John Cornyn introduced the bill in the Senate.</p>
<p>The victims have long asked the Pentagon to label the attack terrorism so they would be eligible for the Purple Hearts and added combat-related benefits. But Defense Secretaries Robert Gates, Leon Panetta and Chuck Hagel have stuck to the original assessment that the attack by Army psychiatrist Maj. Nidal Hasan was an act of workplace violence.</p></blockquote>
<p>And Ashton Carter will go on sticking to it. Obama won&#8217;t veto over this, though he has made threats in the past, but there&#8217;s no way that he is going to allow Hassan to be viewed as an enemy terrorist. Neither will the Pentagon bureaucracy which has gone to great lengths to prevent even Hassan&#8217;s stated motive from becoming a factor.</p>
<p>The idea of it is so dangerous to the Jihad Denial establishment because it recognizes that &#8220;domestic terrorist attacks&#8221; are not domestic or civilian, but the work of a foreign enemy. We&#8217;re at war. And that&#8217;s something liberals have desperately tried to cover up.</p>
<p>The unfortunate truth is that even if Romney had won in 2012, there would be a great deal of resistance to this from within.</p>
<blockquote><p>The latest authorization draft stipulates that Purple Heart medals will be awarded to &#8220;members of the armed forces killed or wounded in domestic attacks inspired by foreign terrorist organizations.&#8221;</p>
<p>The new measure would make Purple Hearts available to those injured or killed by attackers who had been “in communication with the foreign terrorist organization before the attack” and whose actions were “inspired or motivated by the foreign terrorist organization.”</p>
<p>Pentagon officials for years have said the shooting victims are not eligible for the Purple Heart and certain combat-injury compensation. Families of the victims have said they&#8217;ve faced thousands of dollars in uncovered medical expenses that would have been covered if the same injuries occurred in Iraq or Afghanistan.</p>
<p>The new Purple Heart regulations would change that, allowing defense officials to review the cases and award both the medal and the benefits to the Fort Hood victims as well as victims of similar domestic attacks.</p></blockquote>
<p>You can guess how that will work out. This was never an issue of the letter of the law. The letter of the law doesn&#8217;t exist under Obama except when it comes to blocking something he doesn&#8217;t want anyway on a technicality. Removing the technicality removes the excuse, it doesn&#8217;t get it done.</p>
<p>The problems though go beyond Obama. The military has been infected with a culture that says that covering up Islamic terrorism is the only way to defeat it and that therefore granting Purple Hearts and treating Fort Hood as an enemy attack would actually be a victory for Al Qaeda.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s utterly perverse thinking that is frighteningly commonplace in the military and law enforcement.</p>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Dec 2014 13:21:14 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>What a difference four years made. It&#8217;s not hard to spot the devolution of The New Republic from think pieces to clickbait for morons.</p>
<p>The liberal media is rapidly being divided into two categories. Prestige publications subsidized by a billionaire and clickbait.</p>
<p>On the one hand you have the Washington/Amazon Post. On the other Buzzfeed. But the problem with being a billionaire liberal&#8217;s toy is that he may just decide that he wants value for his money. That&#8217;s what <a href="http://tabletmag.com/scroll/187440/frank-foer-leon-wieseltier-out-at-the-new-republic">happened to the New Republic</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>Just after celebrating its 100th anniversary, The New Republic has lost its top two editors, as Frank Foer and Leon Wieseltier resigned their posts, in the face of pressure from owner Chris Hughes to dramatically revamp the magazine. Gabriel Snyder, formerly of Gawker, Bloomberg and The Atlantic Wire, will be the new editor, as TNR looks to become, in Hughes’s phrase, “a digital media company.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Snyder was Gawker&#8217;s managing editor which tells you all need to know. If you don&#8217;t know what Gawker is, imagine a nastier version of the Huffington Post.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s a long way down from being the prestige publication of liberalism. But this happened to Slate too when Bill Gates got tired of subsidizing a former New Republic editor&#8217;s experiment. These days Slate occasionally runs journalistic pieces, but mostly goes with lefty clickbait and its most popular feature is a made up advice column that is little more than an edgier Dear Abby.</p>
<p>The usual eulogies are being written with little to no honesty in the mix. What killed the New Republic is that there was no marketplace for its offerings. The audience on the left most valued by advertisers is not looking for deep thoughts, it wants sheer raw hate.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s what sites like Gawker or the Huffington Post deliver really well.</p>
<p>It wants memes, snide remarks about how stupid Republicans are and how all of America&#8217;s problems can be fixed with 3D printers and a TED talk.</p>
<p>Even before the resignations, The New Republic had already begun turning into Slate or New York Magazine. Its leading stories have Buzzfeedy and Slate titles like &#8220;This Radiohead Song Perfectly Explains John Boehner&#8217;s Immigration Problem&#8221; and &#8220;Russia&#8217;s Maternity Leave for Expectant Mothers Puts America&#8217;s to Shame&#8221;.</p>
<p>There&#8217;s an ad that&#8217;s indistinguishable from a news story. The front page is clotted with worthless viral content pandering to a dimmer class of progressives who want their ideas pre-chewed and vomited into their mouths. Call it the Chris Hughes demo.</p>
<p>The New Republic is already indistinguishable from Slate, Salon and a host of similar sites. It&#8217;s brain dead, but so is liberalism.</p>
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		<title>Forget ObamaCare, Boehner Wants Congressional Hearings on Garner</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2014 13:27:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[No reason to waste time on crazy stuff like defunding ObamaCare.]]></description>
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<p>No reason to waste time on crazy stuff like defunding ObamaCare. <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/dec/4/john-boehner-on-eric-garner-americans-deserve-more/">Let&#8217;s pander to the left </a>and the rioters instead.</p>
<blockquote><p>House Speaker John Boehner said Thursday that he hasn’t ruled out holding congressional hearings on the circumstances surrounding the police killing of Eric Garner.</p>
<p>“The American people deserve more answers about what really happened here,” the Ohio Republican said, Buzzfeed reported. “And was our system of justice handled properly?”</p></blockquote>
<p>It&#8217;s not &#8220;our&#8221; system John, unless you&#8217;re planning to move down to New York City. It&#8217;s the New York system of justice and it worked as intended.</p>
<p>If you do, maybe you can have Mike Rogers make out the report. He did such a bang up job on Benghazi.</p>
<blockquote><p>Buzzfeed notes that Mr. Boehner’s comments differ from those by fellow Republican Reps. Michael Grimm and Peter King.</p>
<p>Mr. Grimm said in a statement that he has “full faith” that the grand jury’s decision was “fair and reasoned.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Because they&#8217;re New Yorkers. And they listen to their constituents, not to their political consultants.</p>
<p>A number of other Congressional Republicans have also decided to jump on the fat criminal bandwagon because apparently they think that&#8217;s what they were elected to do.</p>
<p>So now we&#8217;ve got Republicans doing their own &#8220;acted stupidly&#8221; bit and second guessing a grand jury based on misstatements about a chokehold in the hopes of looking cool by embracing the left&#8217;s cause. Are we the Rand Paul party now?</p>
<p>We&#8217;ve got self-proclaimed &#8220;libertarians&#8221; cheering on Holder&#8217;s Federal investigation of a local police matter. Did they just misspell liberal?</p>
<p>We have a GOP patting itself on the back for rejecting the base and desperately pandering to people who burn small businesses, instead of small businesses.</p>
<p>ObamaCare? We can&#8217;t touch that. Let&#8217;s help the Dems stage some race riots instead.</p>
<p>Has it occurred to the GOP that they just won precisely because they got the sort of white voters who are disgusted by this race-baiting garbage?</p>
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		<title>Senator Landrieu is 97% for Obama, But Totally Against Him</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2014 14:22:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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<p>Senator Mary Landrieu is against Obama before she was for Obama and then she was against him. And then for him. Also Maria Cantwell and her windmills. It<a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2014/12/mary-landrieu-barack-obama-113242.html"> all depends on her audience</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>Depending on whose vote she’s after, Mary Landrieu either stands with Barack Obama — or hardly knows the guy.</p>
<p>The Louisiana Democrat, who is trailing in the polls ahead of Saturday’s Senate runoff, has been quietly running ads on urban radio stations that criticize the GOP’s treatment of the country’s first black president, while her aides and surrogates have boasted to predominantly black audiences of how often she’s supported him.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, when addressing mostly white audiences, Landrieu has been adamant that the election has nothing to do with Obama, and that she can think for herself.</p></blockquote>
<p>This election has nothing to do with Obama except when it does. Senator Landrieu can think for herself&#8230; except when she can&#8217;t.</p>
<blockquote><p>In a 60-second spot that emerged Monday, Rep. Cedric Richmond, a black congressman who represents the New Orleans area, warns that the GOP will impeach Obama if Landrieu’s Republican challenger, Bill Cassidy, wins this weekend.</p>
<p>“They have shown our president so much disrespect,” Richmond says. “They said he wasn’t a U.S. citizen, they even sued him and, if Cassidy wins, they will impeach him. … The president needs you to have his back now more than ever.”</p>
<p>The pro-Obama radio ad was first reported by BuzzFeed. Landrieu’s campaign did not circulate it to the press, and a spokesman declined to comment on the record for this story.</p></blockquote>
<p>Hiding your black campaign ads like a dirty little secret seems a little disrespectful.</p>
<blockquote><p>Her television commercials on general-interest stations have said “she took on the president.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Now Senator Landrieu is disrespecting Obama.</p>
<blockquote><p>Landrieu’s chief of staff, meanwhile, bragged to a roomful of African-Americans at a recent event that his boss votes with Obama 97 percent of the time and will continue to support the president’s agenda if reelected, according to a hidden-camera <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kmmpWSXNsA">video released by the Black Conservatives Fund</a>.</p></blockquote>
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		<title>When Black Lives Don&#8217;t Matter</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2014 05:50:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Left reveals how racist it really is.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/BlackLivesMatter.png"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-246639" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/BlackLivesMatter-450x313.png" alt="BlackLivesMatter" width="312" height="217" /></a>The slogan of the wave of Ferguson protests is “Black Lives Matter.” But progressives are far more interested in toting around the corpse of Michael Brown to their protests than in the living man he was.</p>
<p>Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown and countless others like them grew up in broken families, their lives haunted by fathers and stepfathers with gang ties. The only masculine culture they had was that of the thug and that culture eventually killed them.</p>
<p>Criminal culture is even more fatal to criminals than it is to their victims. If you attack enough people, eventually one of them will fight back. Eventually one of them will kill you.</p>
<p>It wasn’t Darren Wilson who decided that black lives don’t matter. Michael Brown did. He did not grow up with a sense that his life was worth anything more than violent posturing could make of it. Just like Martin, that violent posturing eventually killed him.</p>
<p>Rappers recorded a tribute song to Michael Brown titled, “Don’t Shoot.” But Brown’s own songs had a different theme <a href="http://www.youngcons.com/michael-brown-made-some-very-graphic-rap-songs-and-the-lyrics-are-troubling/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">with lyrics like</span></a> “My favorite part of killing people is when they hit the ground.”</p>
<p>Black criminals victimize other black people first. The Ferguson looters went after businesses serving the black community and businesses owned by black people. That’s the way it always is.</p>
<p>Which black lives really matter in Missouri; the lives of criminals shot by police officers or the black lives taken by criminals?</p>
<p>Missouri has a black homicide rate that is nearly double the nationwide homicide rate for black people. And it’s nearly six times higher than the overall murder rate in Missouri.</p>
<p>If the media were really outraged by lost black lives, they would be outraged by those numbers. If the protesters really wanted to say that black lives matter, they would fight those murder rates instead of contributing to them with their protests.</p>
<p>The story of Missouri’s murder rate is the story of the left. From the beginning to the end of the 1960s, murder rates doubled, rapes, robberies and car thefts doubled, assaults tripled and thefts quadrupled.</p>
<p>A decade in which America changed left a bloody trail of death and misery in its wake. The victims of the left’s transformation of America filled the gutters, morgues, prisons and hospitals.</p>
<p>When Giuliani pointed out that the police were there to protect black people, he was asserting that black lives matter. And unlike every single one of his self-righteous critics, he actually saved black lives.</p>
<p>The decision of his Socialist successor, Bill de Blasio, to move criminals back into housing projects was a statement that they don’t. Housing projects in the pre-Giuliani era belonged to drug dealers. Getting criminals out of housing projects saved black lives, especially those of children.</p>
<p>The “Black Lives Matter” protesters claim that there’s a crisis of police shootings. There isn’t. There is a crisis of young black men shooting each other.</p>
<p>After the shooting of drug dealer Derrick Jones, the NAACP breathlessly reported that 37 black people were shot by police in Oakland over four years. Meanwhile there were 1,594 shooting victims in Oakland in one year.</p>
<p>The vast majority of the perpetrators were black. The <a href="https://oaklandnorth.net/2012/03/19/oakland-homicides-in-2011-a-statistical-breakdown/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">majority of murder victims</span></a> were young black men. So were their killers.</p>
<p>The leading cause of death for young black men is murder. The perpetrators are other young black men.</p>
<p>If black lives really mattered, then the life of a young black man shot down by a criminal would matter at least as much as Michael Brown. But those black lives don’t matter.</p>
<p>The progressive Ferguson protesters not only don’t care about them, but they want to take more black lives by empowering criminals and crippling the police.</p>
<p>The gang is to the black community as the cartel is to lawless parts of Mexico, except that the American equivalents of the Narcocorrido, the songs glamorizing cartel drug dealers, are distributed by major music labels and their performers are invited to the White House.</p>
<p>While Mexico tries to fight drug and gang music, American progressives make it mainstream.</p>
<p>Gang culture in Black America, which is responsible for most of the gun violence in the country, isn’t the work of a few thugs in a burned out building; it’s promoted by progressives in the entertainment industry. The black lives taken by its glamorization of drug dealing and violent killing also don’t matter.</p>
<p>You don’t show that black lives matter by supporting criminal control over entire black neighborhoods. When you fight the criminals who are taking black lives, when you roll back crime, then you show that black lives really matter. When you help criminals you are announcing that black lives don’t matter.</p>
<p>Despite its self-righteousness about black lives mattering, the left isn’t any good at saving them. It is however really good at taking them. Planned Parenthood’s black outreach arm announced on Twitter that it was joining the Ferguson protests <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/group-promoting-black-abortions-joins-blacklivesmatter-campaign/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">because #BlackLivesMatter</span></a>.</p>
<p>More African-American lives were ended at abortion clinics in the United States than anywhere else. But those black lives also don’t matter.</p>
<p>The 6,000 black people murdered in one year don’t matter. The <a href="http://www.lifenews.com/2014/04/14/african-american-pastor-horrified-when-he-learns-how-abortion-targets-blacks/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">400,000 black babies</span></a> killed in one year don’t matter.</p>
<p>Does a black man have to be killed by a white cop for his life to matter to the left? That’s the only conclusion that can be drawn from Ferguson.</p>
<p>To the #BlackLivesMatter crowd, the furious white hipsters crowding malls and staging die-ins, black lives only matter when they feed their own political agendas, their grudges and their own egos.</p>
<p>If black lives really mattered to the left, it would not have built an entire industry, an entire culture and an entire political movement around taking them.</p>
<p>Progressives only care about black people when they’re using them as weapons. For black lives to matter to them, they have to be dead at the hands of a white man. For black unemployment to matter to them, they have to be able to blame it on Republicans. Black poverty, black homelessness only matter to them when they can cash in on a social justice solution that doesn’t fix the problem.</p>
<p>The rest of the time they don’t pay attention and don’t care.</p>
<p>Black people exist for the political convenience of progressives. Black lives don’t matter to them except when they can make use of them. The master-slave relationship has shifted from the plantation to the poll inflating the self-esteem and power of the masters while destroying the lives of their slaves.</p>
<p>The Ferguson protests are not about saving black lives, but promoting the pro-crime politics that take them. Its message is that all black people are criminals and have to be protected from law enforcement. By turning Michael Brown into the ubiquitous black man, the left reveals how racist it really is.</p>
<p>If black lives truly matter, then they matter when the conditions of their misery can’t be blamed on white people. If black lives truly mattered to the protesters, they would fight crime instead of supporting the criminals taking black lives.</p>
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		<title>The Real War on Women</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2014 05:20:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mark Tapson]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Their oppression under Islam intensifies.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/th.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-246566" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/th.jpg" alt="th" width="300" height="203" /></a>It’s been a busy week for the oppression of women under Islam.</p>
<p>A day or two before Americans sat down to turkey dinner on Thanksgiving, Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Erdogan – President Obama’s best friend in the Middle East, a man who has made it <a href="http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2007/09/there-is-no-moderate-islam.html">abundantly clear</a> how he feels about moderate Islam and who has <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/29/turkey-women-laugh_n_5630416.html">warned</a> that women shouldn’t laugh in public – further endeared himself to feminists everywhere at a summit hosted by an Istanbul-based women’s group when he <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2014/11/25/world/europe/turkey-erdogan-women/">declared</a> that a woman cannot do every job that a man can do because “it is against her delicate nature.” He dug the hole deeper for himself by <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/turkish-president-equality-between-men-and-women-is-against-nature-9879993.html">claiming</a> that Islam dictated motherhood to be the primary role of women. However, he insisted that his government has always supported equal rights for women and always would.</p>
<p>If that’s true, then perhaps his government could turn its attention to the <a href="http://m.clarionproject.org/news/turkey-epidemic-murders-women-seeking-divorce">epidemic</a> of honor murders being committed against Turkish women, many of whom were murdered for seeking to divorce their husbands. Last month in Istanbul, a young mother in the middle of divorce proceedings was <a href="http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/woman-murdered-by-husband-in-istanbul-.aspx?PageID=238&amp;NID=73418&amp;NewsCatID=341">stabbed to death </a>by her husband in front of their child. Her murder is the latest of 287 cases documented by a Turkish human rights and advocacy group known as “We Will Stop Women Murders.”</p>
<p>As <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/11/19/turkish-women-divorce_n_6133470.html">reported by <em>Huffington Post</em></a>, the numbers are up from 238 last year, including the slaying of a 30-year old mother of two seeking a divorce. Her abusive husband simply walked into the hair salon where she worked and stabbed her to death without a word. This was after having abused her, forcing a miscarriage, and holding her hostage in their home.</p>
<p>Despite its modern reputation, Turkey has some of the highest levels of violence against women in Europe (as well as some of the lowest levels of <a href="http://online.wsj.com/articles/eu-urges-members-to-stop-stalling-with-turkey-1412764978">female participation in politics</a> and education). Rights activists claim that violence against women has skyrocketed since 2003 when the Islamist AKP party came into power. According to the Turkish Ministry of Justice, from 2003 until 2010, there was a 1,400 percent increase in the number of murders of women.</p>
<p>“The AKP government came under harsh criticism after the release of this information,” <a href="http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2014/09/turkeywomenmurder.html">says Pinar Tremblay</a>, a Turkish journalist. “So in a last-ditch effort to save its reputation, [after 2010] it started altering the numbers.” The government simply did not report on thousands of women who were murdered, Tremblay says.</p>
<p>She puts forth three reasons why have the numbers increased so dramatically. First, the value of women in Turkish society has always been low, but it has sunk even lower in the ten years under the AKP. Second is the notion of honor; Turkish society traditionally blames the woman for a variety of offenses to honor such as seeking a divorce, and the harm done to a man’s reputation is considered a partial or complete justification for murder. As the Freedom Center’s own Robert Spencer <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2008/09/does-islam-justify-honor-killings">writes</a>, “No passage in the Koran discusses honor killings, but Muslim clerics justify them and secular Muslims either do not punish them or pass laws to mitigate punishment for them. With this, Muslims make honor killings a part of Islam.”</p>
<p>The third reason is leniency in punishment for honor violence. “If the murderer behaves properly, he can receive amnesty in a year or two,” says Tremblay. “This leniency feeds from the fact that a woman’s life is worthless in Turkey and encourages other murderers. Indeed, there have been police reports that perpetrators have Googled possible punishments they might receive before killing their woman,” she added.</p>
<p>Meanwhile in India, TV presenter and actress Gauhar Khan was <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2014/12/01/tv-presenter-assaulted-for-showing-to-much-skin-report-says/?intcmp=features">assaulted</a> last week by an audience member who thought her clothing bared too much skin. “Being a Muslim woman, she should not have worn such a short dress,” the man <a href="http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/horrified-tv-presenter-attacked-live-4726226">reportedly said</a> when arrested for assault.</p>
<p>But Khan’s slap on the cheek was a slap on the wrist compared to Bollywood actress Veena Malik, who was <a href="http://www.christianpost.com/news/pakistan-sentences-bollywood-actress-to-26-years-in-prison-for-marriage-scene-depicting-the-prophet-muhammads-daughter-130370/"><span><span><span>sentenced</span></span></span></a><span><span> to 26 years in prison for blasphemy by Pakistan’s anti-terrorism court for appearing in a televised wedding scene based on the marriage of the Muslim prophet Muhammad’s daughter. Depictions of Muhammad are considered blasphemous under Islam. Malik has been a target of Islamic fundamentalists ever since a 2011 <span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-MyoBmGF_g"><span><span>video interview</span></span></a></span> in which she boldly lashed out at a mufti’s disapproval of her un-Islamic dress and behavior.<span> </span></span></span></p>
<p><span><span><span><span><span>The </span></span></span>court also convicted Malik’s husband and the host of the show which aired the offending scene. Both were sentenced to 26 years in jail as well, and all three will have to pay an additional fine of nearly $50,000, surrender their passports and sell their properties. “The malicious acts of the proclaimed offenders ignited the sentiments of all the Muslims of the country,” the court order read, “and hurt their feelings, which cannot be taken lightly and there is need to strictly curb such tendency.” </span></span></p>
<p>Such mistreatment of women isn’t limited to Islamic territories. In England (although some could argue that England itself is now an Islamic territory), news broke last week that thirteen Somali men were <a href="https://bbc1.azurewebsites.net/news/uk-england-bristol-30095960">convicted</a> of a string of child sex abuse crimes in Bristol, and one of the convicted told the court that sharing girls for sex “was part of Somali culture” and “a religious requirement.” To <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/11/uk-muslim-rape-gang-member-says-raping-girls-a-religious-requirement">quote</a> Spencer again, “The savage exploitation of girls and young women is, unfortunately, a cross-cultural phenomenon, but only in Islamic law does it carry divine sanction”:</p>
<blockquote><p>According to Islamic law, Muslim men can take “captives of the right hand” (Qur’an 4:3, 4:24, 33:50). The Qur’an says: “O Prophet! Lo! We have made lawful unto thee thy wives unto whom thou hast paid their dowries, and those whom thy right hand possesseth of those whom Allah hath given thee as spoils of war” (33:50). 4:3 and 4:24 extend this privilege to Muslim men in general. The rape of captive women is also sanctioned in Islamic tradition.</p></blockquote>
<p>The rape of captive women is the ongoing nightmare currently faced by the thousands of Kurdish and Yazidi women <a href="http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=21795">enslaved</a> by the Islamic State. The practice “accords with Islamic law and the parameters of Islamic morality,” as Spencer <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/11/uk-muslim-rape-gang-member-says-raping-girls-a-religious-requirement">noted</a> in relation to a female Kuwaiti politician who <a href="http://www.translatingjihad.com/2011/06/video-kuwaiti-activist-i-hope-that.html">spoke out</a> in favor of the sexual slavery of non-Muslim women.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, in the Western media, the focus on the oppression of women is reserved for such idiocy as the “unattainable” <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/30/disney-princess-real-waistline_n_6076634.html">waistlines on Disney princesses</a>. Now that’s a <em>real</em> war on women.</p>
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<p>A week after grand jurors in Ferguson, Mo., did their civic duty and resisted pressure from President Obama on down to lynch an innocent police officer, Al Sharpton and Ferguson riot leaders gathered at the White House yesterday to make plans to further exacerbate the racial tensions they created in order to cripple the economy and attack civil society.</p>
<p>These domestic subversives refuse to accept the official finding Nov. 24 that no probable cause existed to charge police officer Darren Wilson, who is white, in the Aug. 9 death of Michael Brown, who was black.</p>
<p>The finding of &#8220;no true bill&#8221; contradicts the Left&#8217;s preferred narrative that racist white cops are gunning down innocent blacks with impunity. The failure to indict Wilson, who has since resigned from the Ferguson police department, has driven left-wingers and racial grievance mongers into an exquisite state of apoplexy. They refuse to accept that the evidence considered by the grand jury overwhelmingly, indisputably demonstrated that Brown tried to seize Wilson&#8217;s gun in an attempt to do the officer harm. To put it more bluntly, there is proof that in their fateful 90-second encounter Brown tried to kill Wilson, even though the media has consistently identified Wilson as the aggressor.</p>
<p>But facts are rarely obstacles when left-wingers set their minds on something.</p>
<p>At the initial White House meeting of the Michael Brown truther brigade, Obama <a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/DC-Decoder/2014/1201/Ferguson-day-at-the-White-House-What-did-Obama-accomplish"><span style="color: #0433ff;">proceeded</span></a> from the demonstrably false assumption that a tragic injustice was done to the late teenaged thug. The president <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2014/12/01/remarks-president-after-meeting-elected-officials-community-and-faith-le"><span style="color: #0433ff;">said</span></a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>As I said last week in the wake of the grand jury decision, I think Ferguson laid bare a problem that is not unique to St. Louis or that area, and is not unique to our time, and that is a simmering distrust that exists between too many police departments and too many communities of color. The sense that in a country where one of our basic principles, perhaps the most important principle, is equality under the law, that too many individuals, particularly young people of color, do not feel as if they are being treated fairly.</p></blockquote>
<p>To remedy this problem that was far less of a problem before Obama was inaugurated, the president announced he was appointing two left-wing establishment puppets to head a useless task force</p>
<blockquote><p>to reach out and listen to law enforcement, and community activists and other stakeholders, but is going to report to me specifically in 90 days with concrete recommendations, including best practices for communities where law enforcement and neighborhoods are working well together &#8212; how do they create accountability; how do they create transparency; how do they create trust; and how can we at the federal level work with state and local communities to make sure that some of those best practices get institutionalized.</p></blockquote>
<p>Even though there is no evidence of wrongdoing on the part of Darren Wilson, police officers are going to receive stricter scrutiny. Obama also proposed spending $263 million to put body cameras on cops.</p>
<p>Much of this soothing, focus group-tested Washington-speak sounds fairly innocuous until the guest list for the event is revealed. The same people who instigated the riots and looting in Ferguson <a href="http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2014/12/unreal-obama-meets-with-ferguson-riot-organizer-at-white-house-to-discuss-police-brutality/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">were in attendance</span></a> listening to the Community Organizer in Chief. Among the attendees were: Ashley Yates, Millennial Activists United; Rasheen Aldridge, Young Activists St. Louis; Brittany Packnett, St. Louis educator and activist; T-Dubb-O, St. Louis hip-hop artist; James Hayes, Ohio Students Association; Phillip Agnew, Dream Defenders; and Jose Lopez, Make the Road New York.</p>
<p>These people are the problem, not the solution. They had no business being at the table (but then again, neither does Obama).</p>
<p>Yates went so far as to go on record the month before the grand jury decision as saying violence would be a legitimate response to a non-indictment in the Darren Wilson case.</p>
<p>“If they can’t serve justice in this, the people have every right to go out and express their rage in a manner that is equal to what we have suffered,” Yates said at the time.</p>
<p>“We’re going to take our anger out on the people who have failed us, and if they are prepared to deal with that, then let them have at it,” he said.</p>
<p>New York&#8217;s radical mayor Bill de Blasio and Al Sharpton, whose racist, hate-filled rants <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1527"><span style="color: #0433ff;">have gotten Americans killed</span></a> on more than one occasion, were also in attendance at the White House yesterday.</p>
<p>The day before, Sharpton was in Ferguson pledging more violent protests. &#8220;You won the first round, Mr. Prosecutor, but don&#8217;t take your gloves off,&#8221; Sharpton said. &#8220;Justice will come to Ferguson.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re not gonna stop marching and protesting until we do,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>Sharpton isn&#8217;t even the most radical member of the leftist lynch mob screaming for Wilson&#8217;s blood.</p>
<p>The most explicit of the fire-breathing racist filth-purveyors in the Brown saga has to be professional white-hater and anti-Semite <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1325"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Louis Farrakhan</span></a>. Before an audience at Baltimore&#8217;s Morgan State University he <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2014/11/29/farrakhan-on-ferguson-well-tear-this-gdamn-country-up-video/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">promised</span></a> a violent uprising. If the demands of demonstrators who want Wilson dead are not met, “we’ll tear this goddamn country apart!”</p>
<p>Peaceful protests are only in the interest of “white folks,” said Farrakhan, who himself ought to be under constant FBI surveillance. “We going to die anyway,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Let’s die for something,” the Nation of Islam (NOI) head said to enthusiastic applause.</p>
<p>The parents of teenaged children need to show their kids how to lob Molotov cocktails, said Farrakhan, who is essentially the Islamic version of Obama&#8217;s longtime preacher Jeremiah Wright. “Teach your baby how to throw the bottle if they can. Fight,” he said, gesturing as if throwing an incendiary device.</p>
<p>Farrakhan said there is a “law of retaliation” in both the Bible and the Koran that demands the use of deadly force. “A law for retaliation,” he repeated while holding what appeared to be the NOI version of the Koran.</p>
<p>White Americans will only start taking black concerns seriously if blacks begin killing them, he said.</p>
<p>“As long as they [whites] kill us [blacks] and go to Wendy’s and have a burger and go to sleep, they’ll keep killing us,” said Farrakhan, who openly supports Islamic terrorist regimes abroad. “But when we die and they die, then soon we’re going to sit at a table and talk about it! We’re tired! We want some of this earth or we’ll tear this goddamn country up!”</p>
<p>Although President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder and their confederates in the media set the stage for the Ferguson-related civil unrest, publicly urging restraint and nonviolent protest on the one hand while claiming that police departments are hotbeds of racism that need to be reformed, Farrakhan attacked the two men for their perceived willingness to compromise.</p>
<p>Obama, Holder, and other black leaders show how out of touch they are with young blacks when they embrace what Farrakhan called &#8220;compromise.&#8221; By urging calm these leaders are betraying blacks and doing the bidding of “white people.”</p>
<p>“Tonight in Ferguson everybody is on edge,&#8221; Farrakhan said, implying the terror innocent citizens feel at the prospect of mob violence is a wonderful, useful thing.</p>
<p>In a way his comments echo those made a century earlier by Felix Dzerzhinsky, the founder of the Soviet secret police. &#8220;We stand for organized terror &#8212; this should be frankly admitted. Terror is an absolute necessity during times of revolution.&#8221;</p>
<p>Whatever makes whites nervous furthers the fundamental transformation of the United States, as the Left sees it.</p>
<p>&#8220;White folks have never been on edge after they killed a black man. Tonight they’re on edge; so on edge that our president has come out from behind the curtain to ask young black people: ‘Cool it. That’s not our way.’” Farrakhan said. “I heard you, Mr. President; and I asked myself a question: What brings you out of the shadows?&#8221;</p>
<p>Anyone who has followed Farrakhan knows he is dangerously mental unstable even on a good day but his lack of sound mind has never prevented him from spreading his gospel of hate or from winning fans on the Left. Anyone who is honest will acknowledge that the American activist Left has a long history of embracing deranged cult leaders from Rev. Jim Jones of the Peoples Temple in Guyana and Charles Manson to Revs. Jeremiah Wright and Al Sharpton.</p>
<p>Insanity is not in short supply on the topic of Michael Brown. Following the announcement of the non-indictment a week ago, Michael Brown’s stepfather <a href="http://www.thesmokinggun.com/buster/ferguson/burn-this-bitch-down-879056"><span style="color: #0433ff;">urged an angry mob</span></a> consisting of several hundred protesters to “Burn this bitch down!” This incitement to riot committed by Louis Head was captured on video.</p>
<p>Head, by the way, <a href="http://gotnews.com/breaking-cops-michaelbrown-stepfather-inciting-ferguson-race-riot-blood-gangbanger/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">is a member</span></a> of the notorious criminal street gang known as the Bloods. This may help to explain why photos exist showing Brown flashing Blood gang signals and why Brown&#8217;s family wore red, the Bloods&#8217; color, to his funeral. Head has two felony narcotics convictions. When released on parole, he violated probation and was remanded to state prison.</p>
<p>Strong-arm robbery is apparently a favorite crime in Brown&#8217;s family. Both Head and Brown&#8217;s mother Lesley McSpadden are themselves <a href="http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/Michael-Brown-family-merchandise-brawl-687543"><span style="color: #0433ff;">being investigated</span></a> by Ferguson police for the Oct. 18 robbery and assault of three vendors who were selling &#8220;Justice for Mike Brown&#8221; merchandise. A police report indicated 20 to 30 people rushed the sellers, taking $400 in cash and $1,500 in goods. McSpadden herself reportedly punched one of the vendors, Brown&#8217;s grandmother Pearlie Gordon.</p>
<p>The night of the announcement a minimum of 10 businesses and two police cars were destroyed or damaged by fire in Ferguson, and police arrested 61 individuals. Inexplicably on Nov. 24 Democratic Gov. Jay Nixon ordered the Missouri National Guard to stand down. Nixon had mobilized the Guard to deal with potential post-announcement unrest. Perhaps Obama&#8217;s people, who believe that blacks are entitled to riot at perceived injustices, got to him.</p>
<p>On the evening of the announcement, a 20-year-old man named Deandre Joshua <a href="http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/crime/item/19621-was-murdered-ferguson-man-a-grand-jury-witness"><span style="color: #0433ff;">was killed and set on fire</span></a> in his car, mere feet from where Brown died months before. Joshua, a friend of Brown&#8217;s robbery accomplice Dorian Johnson, may have been a grand jury witness who corroborated Wilson&#8217;s story. One theory is he was killed in retaliation for his testimony.</p>
<p>Johnson is the recidivist lowlife who gave birth to the Big Lie that Brown tried to surrender to Wilson and was then gunned down by the police officer in cold blood. Even though Johnson&#8217;s false testimony was ultimately demolished by the evidence, scientific and otherwise, it helped to spur the &#8220;Hands Up, Don&#8217;t Shoot&#8221; protest movement.</p>
<p>It could be argued that Johnson is at least as morally culpable of attempting to murder Wilson as Brown was because Johnson tried to frame Wilson. If Wilson had been convicted of murder he could have faced the death penalty for murder. Supporters of Wilson are <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/InstaBlog/2014/11/26/Darren-Wilson-Allies-Want-Perjury-Charges-For-Dorian-Hands-up-Don-t-shoot-Johnson"><span style="color: #0433ff;">trying to obtain</span></a> a least a small measure of justice by having Johnson indicted for perjury but these efforts seem pointless in the current political climate.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, the Left is now trying to inflict as much pain as possible on black Americans in order to drive them to open revolt. The more black businesses are burnt to the ground, the better, in their view. Anyone killed in the process can be celebrated as a martyr for the cause.</p>
<p>Citing the purchasing power of black Americans, activists have been urging blacks and others to boycott retailers. Those involved in the Black Friday protests at big-box stores and sophomoric &#8220;die-ins&#8221; in major cities across the country four days ago are the same people who show up at Occupy Wall Street protests and demonstrations supporting minimum wage increases. The Left excels at recycling its activists. More actions were scheduled for yesterday, informally dubbed Cyber Monday, supposedly the biggest e-commerce sales day of the year.</p>
<p>Profit-generating businesses that communities need in order to survive are fair game in this effort to stamp out the parts of civil society that the Obama junta hasn&#8217;t gotten around to obliterating yet. This sick vengeance directed against people who had nothing to do with the demise of Michael Brown is justified because, as a Sixties radical once wrote, “The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution.” To left-wing sociopaths, innocent people are mere pieces on a chessboard.</p>
<p>Saul Alinsky-inspired groups have been busy agitating this holiday season.</p>
<p>As this writer <a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2014/10/is_acorn_behind_violent_unrest_in_ferguson.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">previously reported</span></a>, the remnants of the ACORN activist empire have been deeply involved in the unrest in Ferguson. Missourians Organizing for Reform and Empowerment (MORE), a nonprofit group, is the rebranded Missouri branch of the former Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN). President Obama used to work for ACORN, and he represented it in court as a lawyer.</p>
<p>MORE has been active in the protests and in efforts to free jailed demonstrators so they can continue vandalizing businesses, intimidating perceived adversaries, setting fires, throwing projectiles and urine at cops, and engaging in the left&#8217;s usual modes of so-called nonviolent protest. MORE believes that protesters should be given a blank check to inflict whatever harm they wish on the community in pursuit of social justice.</p>
<p>We now learn that an ACORN successor group was involved in recent post-grand jury decision unrest in Brooklyn, N.Y. New York Communities for Change (NYCC), another offspring of ACORN, <a href="http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/37/48/dtg-downtown-ferguson-protest-2014-12-05-bk_37_48.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">was involved in</span></a> disruptive demonstrations alongside Al Sharpton’s group, National Action Network. The Working Families Party, founded in New York State in the 1990s by ACORN members, is also involved in Ferguson-related actions.</p>
<p>But there is some good news.</p>
<p>There is evidence that ordinary Americans are beginning to fight back against all this mindless, destructive activism by left-wingers who want to hurt blacks and the American system as a whole.</p>
<p>An Internet video that has gone viral shows angry employees trying to get to work last Wednesday <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-California/2014/11/29/Driver-Confronts-Ferguson-Protesters-for-Making-Him-Late-to-Work-Deal-With-it-the-Right-F-ing-Way"><span style="color: #0433ff;">giving activists</span></a> blocking a highway a major dressing-down.</p>
<p>&#8220;I gotta go to Ross right now, homie,&#8221; Tyree Landrum said on Interstate 5 near San Diego. &#8220;If I don&#8217;t get there, I&#8217;m gonna get fired. I got six f***ing kids to feed, I gotta get this car off the&#8230; Day goes on homie. M*****f***ers get shot every f***ing day. Deal with it the right f***ing way, not like this.&#8221;</p>
<p>Landrum appears in the video yelling at a road-blocking protester. &#8220;I&#8217;m about to lose my f***ing job, and you guys are f***ing out here protesting?&#8221;</p>
<p>A woman wearing medical scrubs was shown leaving her vehicle and joining in the yelling. &#8220;Arrest them!&#8221; the nurse shouted. &#8220;We have doctors and nurses that have to save lives here.&#8221;</p>
<p>Landrum told reporters he works three jobs. When an activist put a megaphone in his face, Landrum fought back.</p>
<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m like get this bullhorn out of my face,&#8221; he said. &#8220;At that point I was confused, frustrated, and completely angry.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m nobody special,&#8221; Landrum said. &#8220;Just doing what I thought was right.&#8221;</p>
<p>Tyree Landrum&#8217;s expletive-laden protest against demonstrators trying to deprive black men like him of a living is eloquent testimony to the desperation that normal Americans feel in the face of the crazy race-hatred and chaos that the Left has unleashed in this country.</p>
<p>If righteous explosions like Landrum&#8217;s start breaking out more regularly on the fruited plain, the Left won&#8217;t have a chance.</p>
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<p>Michael Bloomberg has become infamous for funding political activism undermining the Bill of Rights in the United States, but interestingly enough he&#8217;s also funding anti-Israel campaigns inside Israel<a href="http://www.breakingisraelnews.com/24710/new-israel-fund-supports-groups-hurt-jewish-state/#QUry1H67cOOqGKui.97">, as Ronn Torossian reveals.</a></p>
<p>Bloomberg donated to the New Israel Fund which is, despite its name, a virulently anti-Israel organization that feeds money to &#8220;Destroy Israel&#8221; type groups.</p>
<blockquote><p>For example, Alma Biblash, the Executive Director of the Human Rights Defenders Fund (HRDF) an organization to which the NIF authorized grants worth $332,625 from 2011-2013, has called Israel “racist,” and “murderous,” and described the country as a “temporary Jewish apartheid state.” Ms. Biblash supports Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaigns and promotes the Palestinian ‘right of return,’ meaning the elimination of Israel as the nation state of the Jewish people.</p>
<p>Another recipient of NIF money was the Coalition of Women for Peace, which demands a boycott of all things Israeli, and has established a well-oiled database called “Who Profits” that targets Israeli businesses. NIF’s financial records indicate that it granted $109,615 to Breaking the Silence, which tours campuses accusing Israel of war crimes; $255,477 to B’Tselem, which provides cameras to groups that harass Israeli soldiers hoping to videotape the reaction and harm Israel’s image worldwide; and $209,161 to Adalah, which works to get Israel prosecuted in foreign jurisdictions and erase Israel’s Jewish identity. These three groups are among many NIF grantees that operate at the front line of anti-Israel agitation.</p>
<p>In July 2014, 10 NIF grantees launched a campaign to convince the UN Human Rights Council that Israel must be brought to justice for war crimes and targeting of civilians</p></blockquote>
<p>While Ronn doesn&#8217;t believe that Bloomberg knows where his money is going, he&#8217;s a savvy businessman and I have trouble believing that he doesn&#8217;t understand what the NIF&#8217;s politics are. Yes out front the New Israel Fund talks about helping disadvantaged groups, but even the briefest look beyond its own publicity <a href="http://www.ngo-monitor.org/article/new_israel_fund">material at a site like NGO Monitor </a>shows exactly what it really does.</p>
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