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Iran's atomic chief says he doesn't think
Trump will scrap the nuclear deal
by Ishaan Tharoor
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Preparing a Smooth Transition for the
Repeal of liar-nObamacare
by Nina Owcharenko and Edmund F. Haislmaier
by Nina Owcharenko and Edmund F. Haislmaier
{heritage.org} ~ It is vital that the new Administration, Congress, and state officials orchestrate a smooth and methodical transition for the repeal of liar-nObamacare... For this smooth transition to take place, Congress should act immediately to initiate repeal and the Administration should take aggressive administrative actions to stabilize the private market for the upcoming 2018 plan cycle. The Administration, Congress, and the states should then coordinate efforts to begin the process to have a set of reforms in place for the 2019 plan cycle. The timing is crucial with respect to provisions affecting private insurance markets. For 2017, insurance plans are already set, and the 2017 annual enrollment period will still be underway as the new Congress and Administration take office. At the same time, insurers will be preparing their 2018 plan offerings, which they will need to finalize by May 2017... http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2016/11/preparing-a-smooth-transition-for-the-repeal-of-Obamacare
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UK: Two Systems of Justice
by Douglas Murray
by Douglas Murray
Anjem Choudary Tommy Robinson
{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ So farewell, then, Anjem Choudary. For two and half years at least. On September 6, the radical cleric was sentenced by a British judge to five and a half years in prison for encouraging people to join the Islamic State... If he behaves himself in prison he could be out in half that time, although whenever he emerges, it is unlikely that it will be as a reformed character. But the law has taken its course and in a rule-bound society has responded in the way that a rule-bound society ought to behave -- by the following due process. So it is useful to compare the experience of Anjem Choudary and the way in which the state has responded to him with the way in which it has responded to another person. It is now seven years ago that a young British man from Luton going by the name of Tommy Robinson formed the English Defence League (EDL). He did so after he and other residents of the town of Luton were appalled by a group of radical Muslims who protested a home-coming parade for British troops... https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/8893/uk-justice
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Chicago Protester:
No reason to vote in this country
by gopusa.com
{gopusa.com} ~ For the second year in a row, protesters rallied along Chicago’s Magnificent Mile urging a Black Friday boycott to raise awareness of police misconduct toward minorities and other inequalities in the city’s poorest neighborhoods... Protesters gathered about 10 a.m. near Chicago’s old Water Tower monument on North Michigan Avenue. Activists spoke to the gathering about police shootings and the need for action. Some in the crowd chanted “No justice. No peace,” and “Hey, hey. Ho, ho. Rahm Emmanuel has got to go.” Shortly after 11 a.m. the crowd of about 150 to 200 people marched south along the Michigan Avenue sidewalk. Some gathered in front of the Ralph Lauren store and yelled, “Shut it down!” The group passed several high-end retail shops that dot the Magnificent Mile, breaking off into smaller groups...
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The Facts About the Dakota Access Pipeline That Protesters Don’t Want You to Know
by Kevin Cramer
{dailysignal.com} ~ For more than three months, thousands of protesters, most of them from out of state, have illegally camped on federal land in Morton County, North Dakota, to oppose the construction of a legally permitted oil pipeline project that is 85 percent complete... The celebrities, political activists, and anti-oil extremists who are blocking the pipeline’s progress are doing so based on highly charged emotions rather than actual facts on the ground. This 1,172-mile Dakota Access pipeline will deliver as many as 570,000 barrels of oil a day from northwestern North Dakota through South Dakota and Iowa to connect to existing pipelines in Illinois. It will do this job far more safely than the current method of transporting it by 750 rail cars a day... http://dailysignal.com/2016/11/17/the-facts-about-the-dakota-access-pipeline-that-protesters-dont-want-you-to-know/?utm_source=TDS_Email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Top5&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiW
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Here’s Why the Election Results Weren’t Wrong
by John Sexton
{conservativebyte.com} ~ J. Alex Halderman, at the University of Michigan is trying to have the election results and eat them too. First he says the results look tampered with and then he says it is most likely not happening... What? I guess he just wants a recount and the resulting turmoil. Very unscientific behavior, if you ask me. Yesterday I noted a story at New York magazine which reported liar-Hillary Clinton’s senior advisers were being urged to demand a recount in three swing states which determined the outcome of the election. The basis of those requests was an analysis by University of Michigan computer scientist J. Alex Halderman who claimed to have found a discrepancy between liar-Clinton’s performance on paper ballots compared to computer ballots. The suggestion was that maybe someone had tampered with the voting machines in those states. Today, Halderman has written a long post at Medium in which he admits pushing the liar-Clinton camp to demand a recount but says he does not believe it’s likely the election results were hacked by Russia:...Halderman sounds confused to me. http://conservativebyte.com/2016/11/heres-why-the-election-results-werent-wrong/
Iran's atomic chief says he doesn't think
Trump will scrap the nuclear deal
by Ishaan Tharoor
{jewishworldreview.com} ~ Throughout the U.S. presidential election campaign, Donald Trump repeatedly articulated disgust for the nuclear deal reached last year between Iran and world powers and promised to scrap it if he took office. But though Trump won the election about two weeks ago, the head of Iran's nuclear program, Ali Akbar Salehi, doesn't appear too concerned about the president-elect's threat.
Alongside President Hassan Rouhani and Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, Salehi was one of the main Iranian officials to take part in negotiations with counterparts from the United States and the other permanent members of the U.N. Security Council. The agreement put limits on Tehran's nuclear program in return for sanctions relief and the unfreezing of Iranian funds locked in foreign bank accounts.
Iranian officials have warned the United States that any steps to renege on the deal would potentially kill it - sounding the drums of war in the Middle East and sparking an international diplomatic crisis, with allies in Europe likely to be aggrieved by Washington's rejection of what took years of multilateral negotiation and coordination.
"The Islamic Republic of Iran acts upon its undertakings under the nuclear deal and we expect the other side to act upon its undertakings as well," Salehi said Tuesday, according to a report in the semiofficial Fars News Agency. "I imagine when the U.S. president practically takes the country's leadership, he will take actions on the basis of the realities."
Salehi added: "It is an international issue and we think that we will not face so many problems."
His public calm belies divisions within Iranian politics over the deal and the wisdom of negotiating anything with the United States, a longtime geopolitical foe. Some hard-liners close to the inner circle of Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, also have indicated their desire to tear up the agreement. Khamenei, for his part, said earlier this year that if Trump scraps the deal, "we will set fire to it."
Meanwhile, policy experts and officials in Washington, including those who staunchly opposed the Iran deal during its inception, also are cautioning against scrapping it - a move that would profoundly antagonize U.S. allies. Rather, they're pushing for a tightening of conditions and a re-imposition of sanctions so that Tehran will feel compelled to renegotiate some of the terms of the deal.
"We gave up . . . all of our leverage on the front end when we gave away the moneys that were stashed in various countries around the world, and so now the leverage is with them," Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., told MSNBC last week. "I think the beginning point is for us to cause them to strictly adhere [to the deal]. And I think that what we have to remember is, we have to keep the Europeans and others with us in this process."
Salehi had also played it cool before Trump was elected.
"You can [use] many words, slogans, but then, at the end of the day, you are constrained by the realities," he said in September, referring to the rhetoric of the U.S. election campaign
Alongside President Hassan Rouhani and Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, Salehi was one of the main Iranian officials to take part in negotiations with counterparts from the United States and the other permanent members of the U.N. Security Council. The agreement put limits on Tehran's nuclear program in return for sanctions relief and the unfreezing of Iranian funds locked in foreign bank accounts.
Iranian officials have warned the United States that any steps to renege on the deal would potentially kill it - sounding the drums of war in the Middle East and sparking an international diplomatic crisis, with allies in Europe likely to be aggrieved by Washington's rejection of what took years of multilateral negotiation and coordination.
"The Islamic Republic of Iran acts upon its undertakings under the nuclear deal and we expect the other side to act upon its undertakings as well," Salehi said Tuesday, according to a report in the semiofficial Fars News Agency. "I imagine when the U.S. president practically takes the country's leadership, he will take actions on the basis of the realities."
Salehi added: "It is an international issue and we think that we will not face so many problems."
His public calm belies divisions within Iranian politics over the deal and the wisdom of negotiating anything with the United States, a longtime geopolitical foe. Some hard-liners close to the inner circle of Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, also have indicated their desire to tear up the agreement. Khamenei, for his part, said earlier this year that if Trump scraps the deal, "we will set fire to it."
Meanwhile, policy experts and officials in Washington, including those who staunchly opposed the Iran deal during its inception, also are cautioning against scrapping it - a move that would profoundly antagonize U.S. allies. Rather, they're pushing for a tightening of conditions and a re-imposition of sanctions so that Tehran will feel compelled to renegotiate some of the terms of the deal.
"We gave up . . . all of our leverage on the front end when we gave away the moneys that were stashed in various countries around the world, and so now the leverage is with them," Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., told MSNBC last week. "I think the beginning point is for us to cause them to strictly adhere [to the deal]. And I think that what we have to remember is, we have to keep the Europeans and others with us in this process."
Salehi had also played it cool before Trump was elected.
"You can [use] many words, slogans, but then, at the end of the day, you are constrained by the realities," he said in September, referring to the rhetoric of the U.S. election campaign
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