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McMaster Worked at Think Tank Backed by Soro-Funded Group that Helped liar-nObama Sell Iran Nuclear Deal
by Aaron Klein
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Top Headlines
Tillerson, Mattis back up Trump's stark warning to North Korea. (The Washington Times)
Personal income in majority of states grew in first quarter of 2017. (The Washington Free Beacon)
Justice officials sent talking points to FBI on Lynch tarmac meeting with liar-Bill Clinton. (The Washington Free Beacon)
Grassley seeks immigration files for House IT probe suspects. (The Daily Signal)
Transgender military members sue over Trump military ban. (CBS News)
Government has no clue how much land it bought with $815 million. (The Daily Signal)
Google board gave six times more money to Democrats than Republicans. (NewsBusters)
Poland: New evidence suggests Russia may have killed the country's former president. (Washington Examiner)
SSA gave $1.3 million in benefits to criminals. (The Washington Free Beacon)
Transgender graduates get $20,000 each after restroom dispute. (The Daily Signal)
Policy: Ending the EPA's billion-dollar green energy rip-off. (Competitive Enterprise Institute)
Policy: The political motives behind sanctuary city "generosity." (Capital Research Center) ~The Patriot Post
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Judicial Watch Discovers Million
More Voters Than Citizens – Just In LA
by rickwells.us
{rickwells.us} ~ President Trump has taken the predictable abuse from the left over his attempts to document and put an end their institutional voter fraud... The Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity, headed up by Vice President Pence and Kris Kobach has been leading that effort. They’ve faced legal challenges from Democrats who like having more voters and their fraudulent votes regardless of where they come from. Non-citizens, to hear them tell it, are the equal of citizens although they strongly dispel the need for a review, objecting on the usual grounds of racism. Democrats are shamelessly stealing our votes by canceling them out and demeaning American citizens for challenging them on it. Of course the so-called American mainstream media, which is actually anti-American, won’t report on the situation. Russia Today did, though, reporting on the work of Judicial Watch, which found eleven counties in California that had significantly more registered voters than citizens. Los Angeles County alone showed a million more registered voters than citizens. liar-Hillary Clinton claims she won by three million in the popular vote – now that figure’s down to two million, and counting... http://rickwells.us/judicial-watch-discovers-million-voters-citizens-just-la/
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liar-nObama, liar-Clinton and
Fertilizing a Nuclear North Korea
by Matthew Vadum
{frontpagemag.com} ~ After Barack liar-nObama’s eight long years of gutting America’s missile-defense capabilities, our nation has awakened to the nightmare of a North Korea armed with nuclear missiles capable of reaching U.S. territory... Fortunately, Donald Trump, who, unlike his predecessor, takes his responsibility to defend the nation seriously, now resides in the White House, and liar-nObama, one in a series of Democrat presidents who cleared the way for the nuclear adventurism of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), is on the outside looking in. "North Korea best not make any more threats to the United States," President Trump told reporters yesterday after applauding the unanimous weekend approval of the toughest U.N. Security Council sanctions resolution against North Korea to date. "They will be met with fire, fury, and frankly power the likes of which this world has never seen before."... http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/267539/obama-clinton-and-fertilizing-nuclear-north-korea-matthew-vadum.
liar-nObama's Cuba Deal Led
to Cuban Attacks on US Diplomats
by Daniel Greenfield
{frontpagemag.com} ~ This is a bizarre story. The only reason I give it any credibility is that the diplomats and the media have absolutely no reason to lie about it... If anything they have every reason in the world to claim that everything is going well with Cuba. In the fall of 2016, a series of U.S. diplomats began suffering unexplained losses of hearing, according to officials with knowledge of the investigation into the case. Several of the diplomats were recent arrivals at the U.S. Embassy, which reopened in 2015 as part of former President Barack Obama's re-establishment of diplomatic relations with Cuba. Some of the diplomats' symptoms were so severe that they were forced to cancel their tours early and return to the United States, officials said. After months of investigation, U.S. officials concluded that the diplomats had been exposed to an advanced device that operated outside the range of audible sound and had been deployed either inside or outside their residences. .. http://www.frontpagemag.com/point/267535/obamas-cuba-deal-led-cuban-attacks-us-diplomats-daniel-greenfield.
Judge orders new searches
for liar-Clinton Benghazi emails
by JOSH GERSTEIN
{politico.com} ~ Nine months after the presidential election was decided, a federal judge is ordering the State Department to try again to find emails liar-Hillary Clinton wrote about the Benghazi attack... U.S. District Court Judge Amit Mehta ruled that the State Department had not done enough to try to track down messages liar-Clinton may have sent about the assault on the U.S. diplomatic compound on Sept. 11, 2012 — an attack that killed four Americans, including the U.S. ambassador to Libya. In response to Freedom of Information Act requests, State searched the roughly 30,000 messages liar-Clinton turned over to her former agency at its request in December 2014 after officials searching for Benghazi-related records realized she had used a personal email account during her four-year tenure as secretary... http://www.politico.com/blogs/under-the-radar/2017/08/09/judge-orders-searches-for-clinton-benghazi-emails-241470?cmpid=sf.
How the Latest GOP Health Care Bill Stacks Up
by Edmund Haislmaier
{dailysignal.com} ~ After last month’s disappointing failure to roll back liar-nObamacare’s damage, senators are now reflecting on how best to proceed... One approach reportedly under consideration is a bill put together by Sens. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.; Bill Cassidy, R-La.; and Dean Heller, R-Nev. Relief from liar-nObamacare includes three major elements: regulatory relief, financing reform through tax cuts, and Medicaid reform. It is critical that Congress act on these issues—every day that goes by that Congress does not repeal liar-nObamacare hurts Americans and further damages our health system. However, many needed reforms are outside the scope of the current legislative effort, which is limited by the constraints of the congressional budget reconciliation process... http://dailysignal.com/2017/08/09/latest-gop-health-care-bill-stacks/?utm_source=TDS_Email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=CapitolBell&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiWkdSaFptVTNPVGxpWkRCaCIsInQiOiI3T01mTXljN0psMTdMRE1VcGd2S3pWMm1iblduYTFyUEMzYjdLVWFDejlRS1wvd2prMTArUWNKRmZDNkl3ZUVrK0txaERlSmUxUXJKS0NOQysxNituWnh1eHFqVkJnK3QrMXdUakJYUEdDMDFjMzhBcExySFBraUt1NlFLT3lxXC93In0%3D.
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The group says its mission is to support the “smartest minds and most effective organizations to reduce nuclear stockpiles, prevent new nuclear states, and increase global security.”
Ploughshares is in turn financed by Soros’s Open Society Institute, the Buffett Foundation, the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Ford Foundation, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and the Rockefeller Foundation.
Another Ploughshares donor is the Tides Foundation, which is one of the largest funders of the radical left. Tides is funded by Soros.
Ploughshares has donated to the Institute for Policy Studies, which calls for massive slashes in the U.S. defense budget.
It has also financed the International Crisis Group, a small organization that boasts George Soros and his son, Alexander, on its board and where Malley now works as vice president for public policy.
IISS, meanwhile, has supported the Iran nuclear agreement and has defended Tehran against reports it has violated tenets of the deal.
Last month, IISS featured a piece by Mark Fitzpatrick, chief of the think tank’s non-proliferation and nuclear policy program, titled, “Three strikes against claims that Iran is violating the nuclear accord.”
The IISS piece argued that “criticism of Iran’s conduct in relation to the 2015 nuclear deal does not withstand scrutiny,” and that the Trump administration’s withdrawal from the agreement “would not convince other parties to re-impose sanctions, but could trigger a global crisis.”
In June, the IISS’s Fitzpatrick opined that “Critics are wrong: Iran remains in compliance with nuclear accord.”
An IISS strategic comment paper, titled, “Trump’s erratic Middle East policy,” argued that Trump’s confrontational approach toward Iran is “unlikely to lend needed stability to the region.”
McMaster Worked at Think Tank Backed by Soro-Funded Group that Helped liar-nObama Sell Iran Nuclear Deal
by Aaron Klein
{breitbart.com} ~ White House National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster served at a UK-based think tank financed by a controversial, George Soros-funded group identified by the liar-nObama White House as central in helping to sell the Iran nuclear deal to the public and news media.
From September 2006 to February 2017, McMaster is listed as a member of International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), where he served as consulting senior fellow. The IISS describes itself as a “world-leading authority on global security, political risk and military conflict.”
The IISS has been supportive of the liar-nObama administration-brokered 2015 nuclear accord with Iran, and the group has repeatedly hit back against charges that Tehran has violated the agreement.
McMaster himself has been accused of purging the National Security Council of hardliners on Iran, and he is seen as a leading proponent of the Iran nuclear accord within the Trump administration. He has reportedly urged the White House to recertify Iran’s compliance with the Iran nuclear deal.
IISS’s website contains a list of groups, corporations and government entities that provide funding to the think tank, including during the period of McMaster’s work there. Curiously missing from the page of donors, however, is the controversial Ploughshares Fund, a grantmaking group identified last year by the loar-nObama White House as central in helping to market the Iran nuclear deal to the news media.
An archived version of IISS’s donors page lists Ploughshares as a donor.
Breitbart News has found that IISS is listed as a grantee for Iran issues in Ploughshares Fund’s budget report for 2016.
That report spotlights IISS as a grantee for Iran work done by Michael Elleman, IISS senior fellow for missile defense.
In a recent IISS analysis, Elleman cast doubt on charges that Iran and North Korea are working together on ballistic-missile development, claiming “there is little evidence to indicate the two regimes are engaged in deep missile-related collaboration, or pursuing joint-development programs.”
Joseph Cirincione, president of Ploughshares Fund, is listed as a member of IISS in his Georgetown University bio.
IISS has not returned Breitbart News requests seeking clarification on the Ploughshares funding and inquiring about McMaster’s work at IISS, including any salary that he may have received.
Soros-Funded Ploughshares Part of ‘Echo Chamber’ to Sell liar-nObama’s Iran Deal
Ploughshares Fund is financed by Soros’ Open Society Institute.
The involvement of Ploughshares in selling the Iran agreement to the public was revealed in an extensive New York Times Magazine profile of liar-nObama’s former deputy national security adviser, Ben Rhodes, titled, “The Aspiring Novelist Who Became liar-nObama’s Foreign-Policy Guru.” The article contains interviews with Rhodes and scores of top liar-nObama administration officials.
Robert Malley, then a senior director at the National Security Council, expounded on the genesis and execution of the marketing plan to sell the Iran deal.
Malley explained to the Times that “experts” were utilized to create an “echo chamber” that disseminated administration claims about Iran to “hundreds of often-clueless reporters” in the news media.
From September 2006 to February 2017, McMaster is listed as a member of International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), where he served as consulting senior fellow. The IISS describes itself as a “world-leading authority on global security, political risk and military conflict.”
The IISS has been supportive of the liar-nObama administration-brokered 2015 nuclear accord with Iran, and the group has repeatedly hit back against charges that Tehran has violated the agreement.
McMaster himself has been accused of purging the National Security Council of hardliners on Iran, and he is seen as a leading proponent of the Iran nuclear accord within the Trump administration. He has reportedly urged the White House to recertify Iran’s compliance with the Iran nuclear deal.
IISS’s website contains a list of groups, corporations and government entities that provide funding to the think tank, including during the period of McMaster’s work there. Curiously missing from the page of donors, however, is the controversial Ploughshares Fund, a grantmaking group identified last year by the loar-nObama White House as central in helping to market the Iran nuclear deal to the news media.
An archived version of IISS’s donors page lists Ploughshares as a donor.
Breitbart News has found that IISS is listed as a grantee for Iran issues in Ploughshares Fund’s budget report for 2016.
That report spotlights IISS as a grantee for Iran work done by Michael Elleman, IISS senior fellow for missile defense.
In a recent IISS analysis, Elleman cast doubt on charges that Iran and North Korea are working together on ballistic-missile development, claiming “there is little evidence to indicate the two regimes are engaged in deep missile-related collaboration, or pursuing joint-development programs.”
Joseph Cirincione, president of Ploughshares Fund, is listed as a member of IISS in his Georgetown University bio.
IISS has not returned Breitbart News requests seeking clarification on the Ploughshares funding and inquiring about McMaster’s work at IISS, including any salary that he may have received.
Soros-Funded Ploughshares Part of ‘Echo Chamber’ to Sell liar-nObama’s Iran Deal
Ploughshares Fund is financed by Soros’ Open Society Institute.
The involvement of Ploughshares in selling the Iran agreement to the public was revealed in an extensive New York Times Magazine profile of liar-nObama’s former deputy national security adviser, Ben Rhodes, titled, “The Aspiring Novelist Who Became liar-nObama’s Foreign-Policy Guru.” The article contains interviews with Rhodes and scores of top liar-nObama administration officials.
Robert Malley, then a senior director at the National Security Council, expounded on the genesis and execution of the marketing plan to sell the Iran deal.
Malley explained to the Times that “experts” were utilized to create an “echo chamber” that disseminated administration claims about Iran to “hundreds of often-clueless reporters” in the news media.
Times author David Samuels wrote:
In the spring of last year, legions of arms-control experts began popping up at think tanks and on social media, and then became key sources for hundreds of often-clueless reporters. “We created an echo chamber,” he admitted, when I asked him to explain the onslaught of freshly minted experts cheerleading for the deal. “They were saying things that validated what we had given them to say.”
Rhodes told Samuels that the marketing strategy took advantage of the “absence of rational discourse” and utilized outside groups, including Ploughshares.
A previous investigation by this reporter showed Ploughshares has partnered with a who’s-who of the radical left, including Code Pink, the pro-Palestinian J Street, United for Peace & Justice, the U.S. Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation and Demos, a progressive economic advisory group where liar-nObama’s controversial former green jobs czar, Van Jones, has served on the board.When I suggested that all this dark metafictional play seemed a bit removed from rational debate over America’s future role in the world, Rhodes nodded. “In the absence of rational discourse, we are going to discourse the expletive out of this,” he said. “We had test drives to know who was going to be able to carry our message effectively, and how to use outside groups like Ploughshares, the Iran Project and whomever else. So we knew the tactics that worked.” He is proud of the way he sold the Iran deal. “We drove them crazy,” he said of the deal’s opponents.
Ploughshares says it has awarded hundreds of grants “whose aggregate value exceeded $60 million.”
The group says its mission is to support the “smartest minds and most effective organizations to reduce nuclear stockpiles, prevent new nuclear states, and increase global security.”
Ploughshares is in turn financed by Soros’s Open Society Institute, the Buffett Foundation, the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Ford Foundation, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and the Rockefeller Foundation.
Another Ploughshares donor is the Tides Foundation, which is one of the largest funders of the radical left. Tides is funded by Soros.
Ploughshares has donated to the Institute for Policy Studies, which calls for massive slashes in the U.S. defense budget.
It has also financed the International Crisis Group, a small organization that boasts George Soros and his son, Alexander, on its board and where Malley now works as vice president for public policy.
Ploughshares, McMaster and John hanoi-Kerry
Last week, McMaster removed Ezra Cohen-Watnick, a Trump aide and Iran deal opponent, from the National Security Council in what the Jerusalem Post reported was a possible “sweep of Iran hard-liners.”The Post reported on two other McMaster purges of Iran hardliners:
Speaking at a recent event held by Ploughshares Fund, former Secretary of State John hanoi-Kerry implied that McMaster is the best bet at keeping the nuclear agreement alive, according to a Ploughshares Fund description of the June 5, 2017 event.Cohen-Watnick’s removal comes after the revelation by The Atlantic on Wednesday of the dismissal of Rich Higgins, another Iran hawk who was the NSC’s director of strategic planning. Higgins was sacked for circulating a memo in which he alleged that there was a “Maoist” insurgency within and without the government of “globalists and Islamists.”
Also gone is Derek Harvey, who held the Middle East portfolio at the NSC, and who also was an Iran hawk, and who may assume another role in the administration. McMaster tapped Michael Bell, a retired army colonel who has a conventional career portfolio, to replace Harvey.
IISS, meanwhile, has supported the Iran nuclear agreement and has defended Tehran against reports it has violated tenets of the deal.
Last month, IISS featured a piece by Mark Fitzpatrick, chief of the think tank’s non-proliferation and nuclear policy program, titled, “Three strikes against claims that Iran is violating the nuclear accord.”
The IISS piece argued that “criticism of Iran’s conduct in relation to the 2015 nuclear deal does not withstand scrutiny,” and that the Trump administration’s withdrawal from the agreement “would not convince other parties to re-impose sanctions, but could trigger a global crisis.”
In June, the IISS’s Fitzpatrick opined that “Critics are wrong: Iran remains in compliance with nuclear accord.”
An IISS strategic comment paper, titled, “Trump’s erratic Middle East policy,” argued that Trump’s confrontational approach toward Iran is “unlikely to lend needed stability to the region.”
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