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Fallout From Venezuela's Sham Elections
by Lewis Morris
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Did a 'Man' Just Give Birth?
"A transgender man and his husband recently welcomed a healthy baby boy into their family in Portland, Oregon," reports The Blaze. You might need to read that sentence again. Or, we can translate: A woman with gender dysphoria has been dressing like a man and taking hormones for years, but gave up the hormones for a time during pregnancy. Because what woman who wants to be a man doesn't still want to be pregnant like a woman? And that's after adopting two children. Makes perfect nonsense to us.
"I think my body is awesome," says the woman who worked to change what God created. "I feel like it's a gift to have been born with the body that I did, and I made the necessary changes so that I could keep living in it, both through hormones and through other body modifications."
We thought the whole point of being transgender was because a person didn't feel like he or she was in fact the sex biology determined at formation in the womb. We suppose we're just not fully in line with the new way of "thinking." In truth, this is a tragic story that isn't worth celebrating. Both of these adults are in serious need of help, and that's not to mention the strange world their children are growing up in. Yet we live in a world where even some supposedly conservative news sites like The Blaze accept the Left's bizarre premise in their reporting. ~The Patriot Post
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liar-Clinton Laughing At US,
New Emails Show Pay To Play, Espionage
by rickwells.us
{rickwells.us} ~ Tom Fitton of Judicial Watch joined Tucker Carlson for an update on their continuing efforts to bring liar-Hillary Clinton and Huma Abedin to justice... Carlson introduces Fitton, revealing that they’ve just released a new trove of previously unreleased liar-Hillary Clinton emails from her tenure as Secretary of State. Those emails show Huma Abedin sending top secret classified information over unsecured networks and also show liar-Clinton Foundation donors getting special treatment from the US State Department.” Carlson asks, “First of all where’d these come from, these emails?” Fitton replies that they came from the State Department. Huma Abedin had an email account of liar-Hillary Clinton’s illicit email server, so she was doing all sorts of government business on this separate email account, was a State Department email account.”...http://rickwells.us/jw-fitton-clinton-laughing-us-new-emails-show-pay-play-espionage/
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liar-nObama Aide Ben Rhodes Now
Person of Interest in Unmasking Investigation
by Hannah Mayer
{truthrevolt.org} ~ Former liar-nObama National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes is now a "person of interest" in the House Intelligence Committee's current unmasking investigation... Details were revealed by the committee in a letter sent Tuesday to the National Security Agency (NSA), Circa reports. While those in question, including Rhodes, reportedly had legal authority to unmask in extreme circumstances, it is not common... http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/report-obama-aide-ben-rhodes-now-person-interest-unmasking-investigation
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Lock up the leakers? Sessions to unveil
crackdown, as Kelly gets White House staff in line
by Barnini Chakraborty
{foxnews.com} ~ Attorney General Jeff Sessions is set to announce a major crackdown on leakers this week, in the latest sign the administration is pushing to run a tighter ship as John Kelly seizes the reins as White House chief of staff... One of the first tasks facing the retired general and former Homeland Security boss will be plugging the leaks at the White House that his predecessor struggled to stanch. "If Reince Priebus couldn't control those leaks ... then he was the one who was ultimately responsible, and General Kelly was brought in to make sure those leaks do not continue," former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski told “Fox & Friends” on Tuesday...http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/08/01/lock-up-leakers-sessions-to-unveil-crackdown-as-kelly-gets-white-house-staff-in-line.html
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Huma Abedin’s Emails Provide Further
Evidence Of liar-Clinton Pay For Play Scandal
by Jack Crowe
{dailycaller.com} ~ Former liar-Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin used her personal email account to transmit classified documents and coordinate favors for liar-Clinton donors... according to emails obtained by Judicial Watch Wednesday. Judicial Watch obtained the documents as part of a lawsuit filed after the State Department failed to respond to a March 2015 Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request. The newly-obtained documents include 91 liar-Clinton email exchanges that were not turned over to the State Department, contradicting liar-Clinton’s claim that, “as far as she knew,” she had turned over all of her government emails. The emails reveal multiple instances in which Abedin used her personal account to send and receive classified documents as well as arrange personal favors for liar-Clinton donors and political allies on former Secretary of State liar-Hillary Clinton’s behalf... http://dailycaller.com/2017/08/02/huma-abedins-emails-provide-further-evidence-of-clinton-pay-for-play-scandal/.
Globalist McMaster Fires 3 Trump –
Bannon Loyalists In 2 Weeks...
by rickwells.us
{rickwells.us} ~ General H R McMaster continues to solidify his power as he eats away at the Trump loyalists on the NSC, bagging his third scalp in just two weeks with the Wednesday firing of Ezra Cohen-Watnick... The now departed NSC senior director for intelligence who was brought onto the Trump team by McMaster’s predecessor and Trump loyalist, General Michael Flynn. McMaster had previously tried to get rid of Cohen-Watnick but had been blocked by Steve Bannon and President Trump himself. It seems now that McMaster feels Mr. Trump has learned his lesson about crossing him, and is giving it another go. Unbelievably, this time Trump knuckled under. Bannon ally Cohen-Watnick was removed from the NSC. The White House statement said, “General McMaster appreciates the good work accomplished in the NSC’s Intelligence directorate under Ezra Cohen’s leadership. He has determined that, at this time, a different set of experiences is best-suited to carrying that work forward. General McMaster is confident that Ezra will make many further significant contributions to national security in another position in the administration.”... http://rickwells.us/globalist-mcmaster-fires-3-trump-bannon-loyalists-in-2-weeks-protects-obama-holdovers/.
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Fallout From Venezuela's Sham Elections
By Lewis Morris: Recent events in that train wreck of a nation known as Venezuela prove indisputably that we're headed back to the bad old days of Latin American dictatorship. Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has been running the tyrant's playbook step by step, complete with bogus elections to solidify his power and midnight arrests of opposition leaders. All this against the backdrop of widespread unrest in a country that is rapidly joining the ranks of the world's most economically devastated nations.
The sad, slow unraveling of this socialist state has been taking place for years. Venezuela modeled itself as a socialist paradise during the days of self-anointed revolutionary hero Hugo Chavez. Aligning his nation with Cuba, China and the other tyrannical regimes of the world, the ace that Chavez held was that the nation he ruled sat on top of a sea of oil.
By the time Chavez died in 2013, his country was already starting to come apart. Widespread corruption, tumbling oil prices and a mismanaged economy sent the nation into a tailspin. Chavez's appointed successor, Maduro, has presided over a nation in chaos. Rising through the ranks of the thug class, Maduro hasn't proved to possess the intelligence or charisma to save his country.
As the opposition grew, Maduro tightened his grip. He brutally squelched protests, jailed opposition leaders and seized control of the Supreme Court. Last Sunday, he pulled the ultimate power move by holding elections to nullify the National Assembly and replace it with a new body that would answer directly to him.
The elections held on Sunday were by all accounts, except those of the Venezuelan government, a complete sham. In fact, "sham" is the word UN Ambassador Nikki Haley used.
The government claimed there were eight million voters, a 41.5% turnout. But independent and opposition monitors reported throughout the country that polling stations remained quiet much of the day. Independent estimates by a variety of sources claim that turnout was somewhere between 9-18%, and the high number is a generous one.
The true vote count stands at closer to three million. This is considered a realistic estimate because the government's two million-plus workers were threatened with losing their jobs if they didn't go to the polls. Many of the country's poor were also compelled to vote or risk losing their government aid.
Maduro's claiming victory in his bogus election didn't quiet the opposition. They took to the streets Monday, in some cases supported by the old guard Chavezistas, supporters of the late Chavez. If these people are lamenting the days of Chavez, that's as sure a sign as any that darkness has settled upon this land.
On Tuesday, two leaders of the opposition were snatched up by masked gunman in the middle of the night. Leopoldo Lopez was Venezuela's most prominent political prisoner before being released just a month ago after serving three and a half years of a 13-year sentence for inciting riots. His declining health drew international pressure for his release, and until Tuesday he was living under house arrest. Now he and Antonio Ledezma are likely headed back to prison.
American condemnation of Maduro's actions and the election has been swift. Backed by Mexico, Canada, Argentina, Colombia, Panama, Paraguay, Spain and Great Britain, the U.S. is calling for heavy sanctions on the regime. The Trump administration plans to go one step further by placing sanctions directly on Maduro and top members of his government.
Strongmen like Maduro don't generally leave all their stolen treasure out there to be swept up by the law. He is likely to have some help from Cuba, China and Russia in his efforts to stymy American attempts to bring him to justice. However, swift U.S. action is a good start in finding a way to contain the unrest and bring an end to the carnage.
History offers many examples indicating things will likely get worse in Venezuela before they get better. The real lessons of what has happened there should not be lost on the American people. Venezuela is an oil-rich country with some of the most fertile land in South America, and yet people are starving to death and the economy is a complete shambles. Why? Because the state controls everything. It promised to give the people everything they needed and wanted. Instead, it took everything they had. Yet one more example of the "virtues" of socialism. ~The Patriot Post
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