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Patching It Up With Putin
by Pat Buchanan
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Trump and Putin Face Off While Media Push Collusion Conspiracy
President Donald Trump is meeting today with Russian President Vladimir Putin in what has become an increasingly tense geopolitical environment. On Thursday, Trump delivered a powerful speech in Warsaw, Poland, where he highlighted the need to defend Western values against those who actively seek to undermine them — a.k.a. Moscow. He boldly called out Russia over its aggression, saying, "We urge Russia to cease its destabilizing activities in Ukraine and elsewhere, and its support for hostile regimes — including Syria and Iran — and to instead join the community of responsible nations in our fight against common enemies and in defense of civilization itself." Indeed, Putin is actively working against U.S. and Trump administration interests in many areas. So much for the Leftmedia's narrative of Trump and Putin being best friends forever.
But even faced with a growing credibility crisis, much of the Leftmedia can't swallow conceding their anti-Trump agenda. Once again the Trump/Russia collusion conspiracy swirls despite the lack of evidence — in fact, in the face of evidence to the contrary. Why this dogged determination by the media to hold onto their anti-Trump dogma? Follow the money. Many of the Leftmedia's so-called "fact-checkers" are funded by wealthy socialists like George Soros. And "fact-checkers" are still insisting that even if the details are all wrong, the overall narrative is still valid.
If the Leftmedia were indeed most concerned with the health of American democracy rather than seeking to take down Trump, they would be raising a stink over the incessant flow of daily leaks — at least one per day — that undermine Trump and our national security. No, they'd rather pan and vilify Trump's agenda (or his humorous tweets) than actually engage in diligent journalism. Meanwhile, Trump is moving forward in his efforts to deal with the most pressing threats to the freedom of Americans and our allies. ~The Patriot Post
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John Bolton: Putin Lied to Trump on Hacking
by Todd Beamon
{newsmax.com} ~ Former United Nations Ambassador John Bolton said Friday that Russian President Vladimir Putin "looked Donald Trump directly in the eye and lied to him" when he denied Moscow's involvement in last year's election... "That's the single most important takeaway coming out of the meeting," Bolton, who served under former President George W. Bush, told Laura Ingraham on Fox News. "Vladimir Putin denied Russian interference of the election," he explained. "Everyone who has looked at the classified information says there's no doubt the Russians tried to affect the election. "That's something that should be unacceptable to all Americans...http://www.newsmax.com/Politics/john-bolton-vladimir-putin-lied-trump/2017/07/07/id/800514/?ns_mail_uid=29878495&ns_mail_job=1740626_07082017&s=al&dkt_nbr=5ycba333
Germany: Chechen Sharia Police Terrorize Berlin
A volunteer tutorinstructs an asylum-applicant from Chechnya in a German-language class
by Soeren Kern
{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ A hundred Islamists are now openly enforcing Sharia law on the streets of Berlin, according to local police who are investigating a recent string of violent assaults in the German capital... The self-appointed morality police involve Salafists from Chechnya, a predominantly Sunni Muslim region in Russia. The vigilantes are using threats of violence to discourage Chechen migrants from integrating into German society; they are also promoting the establishment of a parallel Islamic legal system in Germany. German authorities appear unable to stop them. The Sharia patrol came to public light in May 2017, when Chechen Salafists released a video warning other Chechens in Germany that those who fail to comply with Islamic law and adat, a traditional Chechen code of behavior, will be killed... https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/10632/germany-chechensA volunteer tutorinstructs an asylum-applicant from Chechnya in a German-language class
by Soeren Kern
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College Trustees Are Largely
to Blame for Today’s Campus Madness
by Walter E. Williams
{dailysignal.com} ~ Is there no limit to the level of disgusting behavior on college campuses that parents, taxpayers, donors, and legislators will accept?... Colleges have become islands of intolerance, and as with fish, the rot begins at the head. Let’s examine some recent episodes representative of a general trend and ask ourselves why we should tolerate it, plus pay for it. Students at Evergreen State College harassed biology professor Bret Weinstein because he refused to leave campus, challenging the school’s decision to ask white people to leave campus for a day of diversity programming... http://dailysignal.com/2017/07/05/college-trustees-largely-blame-todays-campus-madness/?utm_source=heritagefoundation&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=theinsider&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTnpVelkyUTJZV1EwTWpobCIsInQiOiI0MFZhTXZmOXRGWGZjb3BqWG1PZXdpMk45TllieHp1VkR4clVzMUVYQjRlUHczM0crMTRmSXNGM0hnNnRRdXZFb1dGakp6MFlwOHk4Y0M5eW1cL3Z2WFwvS01UTEJuMnRna0J3YlJpeXUwZEVaY2pXWCtieXRyM3hSaFZUbFhwY3RMIn0%3D.
$600 Million Terrorist Money
Trail Leads Back To liar-nObama
by amorgan
{consjournal.com} ~ Whether it was Jimmy Carter holding the Iranian army back in 1979, and ultimately allowing Iran’s terrorist state to overthrow of the Iranian government, or Bill liar-Clinton waging ‘Monica’s War’ on Iraq (Iran’s enemy)... it goes without saying that our most recent Democrat Presidents have been great for Iran. But make no mistake about it, folks. Barack liar-nObama is the worst of them. And here’s why. According to the account of former CIA Analyst Fred in liar-nObamabomb: A Dangerous and Growing National Security Fraud, the nuclear deal with Iran and the liar-nObama administration’s defense of it are full of deceptions and dishonesty. Yes, in order to praise the terribly flawed deal, false narratives were provided by the liar-nObama administration to the press to praise the terrible deal that involved the liar-nObama administration providing $150 billion in sanctions relief to Iran after it complied with certain requirements. However, verification of Iranian compliance with the deal and not working on gaining nuclear bomb capabilities were not included in the deal...http://consjournal.com/money-trail-leads-back-to-obama/
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Armed Man Arrested Wearing Bulletproof
Vest At Trump Tower, Looking For Ivanka
by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ Anyone who is following the Trumps and world affairs likely knows that the President and his entourage, including his daughter, Ivanka, are in Europe for the G20... They would also know that she works out of an office in the White House, not spending much of her time in Trump Tower. The violent, assault-prone leftists aren’t known for educating themselves on politics or else they wouldn’t be leftists. Liberalism is an indicator of an unstable mind, which seems to have been what prompted a visit to Trump tower by one of those violent and dangerous nutjob libtards. On Thursday, a man identified as Sixto Benitez Adames, 52, was arrested after he entered Trump Tower looking for Ivanka Trump. He told the Secret Service agents he was a US Senator and was there to meet Ivanka to discuss her clothing line...http://rickwells.us/armed-man-arrested-wearing-bulletproof-vest-trump-tower-looking-ivanka/.
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by Pat Buchanan
{townhall.com} ~ President Donald Trump flew off for his first meeting with Vladimir Putin -- with instructions from our foreign policy elite that he get into the Russian president's face over his hacking in the election of 2016.
Hopefully, Trump will ignore these people. For their record of failure is among the reasons Americans elected him to office.
What president, seeking to repair damaged relations with a rival superpower, would begin by reading from an indictment?
President Eisenhower did not begin his summit with Nikita Khrushchev by berating him for crushing the Hungarian freedom fighters in 1956 -- a more grievous crime then hacking the emails of John Podesta.
President Kennedy did not let Russia's emplacement of missiles in Cuba in 1962 prevent him from offering an olive branch to Moscow in his widely praised American University address of June 1963.
President Nixon, in first meeting Leonid Brezhnev, did not denounce him for extinguishing the Prague Spring. Were Trump to start his first summit with Putin by dressing him down, why meet with him at all?
Trump would do better to explore where we can work together, as in ending Syria's civil war and averting a new war in Korea.
Moreover, when it comes to interference in the internal politics of other nations to bring about "regime change," understandably, Putin might see himself as more sinned against than sinning.
Should Trump bring up the email hacking in 2016, Putin could ask him to explain U.S. support for the violent coup d'etat that overthrew a democratically elected pro-Russian government in Ukraine, a land with which Russia has been intimately associated for 1,000 years.
Consider the behavior of post-Cold War America, after Moscow gave up its empire, pulled all its troops out of Europe, let the USSR dissolve into 15 nations and held out a hand in friendship.
We gathered all the Warsaw Pact nations and three former Russian Federation republics into a NATO alliance targeted at Russia. We put troops, ships and bases into the Baltic on the doorstep of St. Petersburg. We bombed Russia's old ally Serbia for 78 days, forcing it to surrender its birth province of Kosovo.
Among the failings of America's post-Cold War foreign policy elites are hubris, arrogance and an utter absence of that greatest of gifts that the gods can give us -- "to see ourselves as others see us."
Can we not see why the Russian people, who saw us as friends in the 1990s, no longer do so, and why Putin, a Russia-First nationalist, has an 80 percent approval rating on the issue of standing up for his country?
Looking about the world today, do we really need any more crises or quarrels? Do we not have enough on our plate? As the Buddhist saying goes, "Do not dwell in the past ... concentrate the mind on the present moment."
Americans are rightly angry that Russia hacked the presidential election of 2016. But what was done cannot be undone. And Putin is not going to return Crimea to Kiev, the annexation of which was the most popular action of his long tenure as Russian president.
As D.C.'s immortal Mayor Marion Barry once said to constituents appalled by his latest episode of social misconduct: "Get over it!"
We have other fish to fry.
In Syria and Iraq, where the ISIS caliphate is in its death rattle, Russia and the U.S. both have a vital interest in avoiding any military collision, and in ending the war. This probably means the U.S. demand that Syrian President Assad be removed will have to be shelved.
Consider China. Asked by Trump to squeeze Pyongyang on its nuclear missile program, China increased trade with North Korea 37 percent in the first quarter. The Chinese are now telling us to stop sailing warships within 13 miles of its militarized islets and reefs in a South China Sea that they claim belongs to them, and demanding that we cancel our $1.4 billion arms sale to Taiwan.
Hong Kong's 7 million people have been told their democratic rights, secured in Great Britain's transfer of the island to China, are no longer guaranteed.
Now China is telling us to capitulate to North Korea's demand for an end to U.S. military maneuvers with South Korea and to remove the THAAD missile system the U.S. has emplaced. And Beijing is imposing sanctions on South Korea for accepting the U.S. missile system.
Meanwhile, the dispute with North Korea is going critical.
If Kim Jong Un is as determined as he appears to be to build an ICBM with a nuclear warhead that can hit Seattle or San Francisco, we will soon be down to either accepting this or exercising a military option that could bring nuclear war.
Trump cannot allow this Beltway obsession with Putin to prevent us from closing, if we can, this breach. If we do not bring Russia back into the West, where do we think she will go?
Patching It Up With Putin
{townhall.com} ~ President Donald Trump flew off for his first meeting with Vladimir Putin -- with instructions from our foreign policy elite that he get into the Russian president's face over his hacking in the election of 2016.
Hopefully, Trump will ignore these people. For their record of failure is among the reasons Americans elected him to office.
What president, seeking to repair damaged relations with a rival superpower, would begin by reading from an indictment?
President Eisenhower did not begin his summit with Nikita Khrushchev by berating him for crushing the Hungarian freedom fighters in 1956 -- a more grievous crime then hacking the emails of John Podesta.
President Kennedy did not let Russia's emplacement of missiles in Cuba in 1962 prevent him from offering an olive branch to Moscow in his widely praised American University address of June 1963.
President Nixon, in first meeting Leonid Brezhnev, did not denounce him for extinguishing the Prague Spring. Were Trump to start his first summit with Putin by dressing him down, why meet with him at all?
Trump would do better to explore where we can work together, as in ending Syria's civil war and averting a new war in Korea.
Moreover, when it comes to interference in the internal politics of other nations to bring about "regime change," understandably, Putin might see himself as more sinned against than sinning.
Should Trump bring up the email hacking in 2016, Putin could ask him to explain U.S. support for the violent coup d'etat that overthrew a democratically elected pro-Russian government in Ukraine, a land with which Russia has been intimately associated for 1,000 years.
Consider the behavior of post-Cold War America, after Moscow gave up its empire, pulled all its troops out of Europe, let the USSR dissolve into 15 nations and held out a hand in friendship.
We gathered all the Warsaw Pact nations and three former Russian Federation republics into a NATO alliance targeted at Russia. We put troops, ships and bases into the Baltic on the doorstep of St. Petersburg. We bombed Russia's old ally Serbia for 78 days, forcing it to surrender its birth province of Kosovo.
Among the failings of America's post-Cold War foreign policy elites are hubris, arrogance and an utter absence of that greatest of gifts that the gods can give us -- "to see ourselves as others see us."
Can we not see why the Russian people, who saw us as friends in the 1990s, no longer do so, and why Putin, a Russia-First nationalist, has an 80 percent approval rating on the issue of standing up for his country?
Looking about the world today, do we really need any more crises or quarrels? Do we not have enough on our plate? As the Buddhist saying goes, "Do not dwell in the past ... concentrate the mind on the present moment."
Americans are rightly angry that Russia hacked the presidential election of 2016. But what was done cannot be undone. And Putin is not going to return Crimea to Kiev, the annexation of which was the most popular action of his long tenure as Russian president.
As D.C.'s immortal Mayor Marion Barry once said to constituents appalled by his latest episode of social misconduct: "Get over it!"
We have other fish to fry.
In Syria and Iraq, where the ISIS caliphate is in its death rattle, Russia and the U.S. both have a vital interest in avoiding any military collision, and in ending the war. This probably means the U.S. demand that Syrian President Assad be removed will have to be shelved.
Consider China. Asked by Trump to squeeze Pyongyang on its nuclear missile program, China increased trade with North Korea 37 percent in the first quarter. The Chinese are now telling us to stop sailing warships within 13 miles of its militarized islets and reefs in a South China Sea that they claim belongs to them, and demanding that we cancel our $1.4 billion arms sale to Taiwan.
Hong Kong's 7 million people have been told their democratic rights, secured in Great Britain's transfer of the island to China, are no longer guaranteed.
Now China is telling us to capitulate to North Korea's demand for an end to U.S. military maneuvers with South Korea and to remove the THAAD missile system the U.S. has emplaced. And Beijing is imposing sanctions on South Korea for accepting the U.S. missile system.
Meanwhile, the dispute with North Korea is going critical.
If Kim Jong Un is as determined as he appears to be to build an ICBM with a nuclear warhead that can hit Seattle or San Francisco, we will soon be down to either accepting this or exercising a military option that could bring nuclear war.
Trump cannot allow this Beltway obsession with Putin to prevent us from closing, if we can, this breach. If we do not bring Russia back into the West, where do we think she will go?
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