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 The Events of the Week -- Featuring: 
Did Russia Hack the Presidential Election?
 
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 Some Christian Leaders Feed the Crocodile 
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Robin Smith: "Do not give what is holy to dogs, and do not throw your pearls before swine, or they will trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces," said Jesus Christ as captured in Matthew 7.
          What He meant is there are beliefs and truths that those of the Christian faith should guard as holy and precious and protect from those who can't and/or won't honor.
          The political relevance of this timeless teaching? Some Christians and especially Mormons are joining forces with the so-called Lesbian, Bisexual, Gay and Transgender (LBGT) community to support federal legislation to construct a "Fairness for All" approach to their agendas. In other words, those who aim to defend religious liberty are coupling their efforts with the homosexual community.
          Understand that every human is, indeed, endowed by their Creator with unalienable rights with no basis for prejudice or discrimination. Yet the recent record of the treatment of Christians regarding their God-given and First Amendment right to "free exercise" of their faith is outrageous.
          Whether it's about the sacred beliefs of a baker or simply a woman who doesn't want a man in her restroom, established rights of believers have been trampled underfoot by the Rainbow Mafia. Believers have seen their rights sacrificed at the altar of those attempting to elevate individuals with gender disorientation pathology and those who make sexual orientation choices opposite their biological existence to a protected class.
          The mismatched "Fairness for All" coalition features a group of Christians and Mormons who are willing to accomplish their stated goals of protecting religious freedoms by becoming entangled with a group whose core activists have proven their disdain for the very teachings of the former.
          Winston Churchill had a phrase for this: "An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile hoping it will eat him last."
          Those advocating this "Fairness to All" approach emphasize a religious exemption that protects those of faith from betraying their beliefs. But please excuse the severe skepticism based on a mountain of evidence that the elasticity of tolerance of these legislative approaches will only stretch to accommodate the enemies of conservative Christianity.
          America has witnessed courts rule that business owners honoring their values must pay huge fines, even if they lose their businesses. We saw Houston's mayor subpoena copies of sermons from five local pastors in response to a proposed transgender bathroom ordinance. Similarly, a lay pastor employed by Georgia's Department of Health complied with his state employer's demand to review his sermons. He was fired two days later.
          These high-minded intellectuals are driving a utopian policy stance marrying two groups in conflict under a promise of "fairness." As mentioned, we have every reason for skepticism. But there's more.
          Just last Tuesday, The New York Times featured this headline: "Christians in U.S. Are Less Educated Than Religious Minorities, Report Says." The dutiful Presstitute of the Left's paper of record took a Pew Study and effectively twisted data to fit the narrative desired: i.e., Jesus makes you stupid.
          Citing the Pew Research Center's report, the article noted that atheists and agnostics have higher education levels than the religiously affiliated in the U.S., and that the magnitude of education corresponds to the lack of religion on a national level. Pew's analysis captured that "there were 267 million Christians in the United States when the data was collected, but only 36 percent of them had a postsecondary education."
          The Gray Lady's writer, Liam Stack, failed to address the key data regarding the world's most widely dispersed faith, Christianity, in relation to education. Pew noted, "Gaps in educational attainment are partly a function of where religious groups are concentrated throughout the world." Translation: Because Christianity has the widest distribution among diverse people groups impacting the largest number of geographies, the educational attainment is lower on a comparative basis.
          And the Leftmedia will remind any "unenlightened" Christian of this any time opposition to the homosexual agenda comes up.
          Should Americans trust the efforts being made to push the homosexual agenda that carries with it the gender and sexual-orientation crowd? Why should anyone seriously believe that the same Rainbow Mafia tactics already employed aren't the same actions ahead? "Fairness" will be defined by activist judges working on behalf of sympathetic "victims" of discrimination.
          If quoting Christ bothers you, let's quote Judge Judy of TV family court fame: "Don't pee on my leg and tell me it's raining." These "faith" leaders are willingly equivocating consecrated teachings in order to fit their god into their politics. The First Amendment enumerates the right of a believer to honor their God in their politics, their work, their educational choices, etc. Christians shouldn't compromise their rights or their beliefs for a temporary deal with the devil.  ~The Patriot Post
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Putin Goes to War… Tells Terrorists,
You’re About “to Feel It”
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{conservativetribune.com} ~ Much of the world was shocked and perhaps even a bit fearful as reports began coming in Monday of the assassination of the Russian ambassador to Turkey while delivering remarks at an art museum in Ankara... with some no doubt recalling the similarities of the incident to the one that sparked World War I. Fears of a broader world war being touched off by the horrible murder appear to have been quelled for the moment though, as Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erodgan over the phone shortly after the assassination, according to Reuters. That, however, doesn’t mean that Putin and Russia will not retaliate for what Putin described as a deliberate provocation designed to disrupt the uneasy Russian-Turkish relationship and derail efforts to wind down the civil war in Syria...  http://conservativetribune.com/putin-war-tells-terrorists-hide/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=PostUp&utm_campaign=CTBreakingEmail&utm_content=2016-12-19
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Trump's Border Wall: The Bill Was
Passed and Signed Into Law
by JIM KOURI, CPP
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{familysecuritymatters.org} ~ One of the main issues that propelled Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump to victory was the promise of a wall being built at the United States border with Mexico... The response by the news media, their favorite Democratic politicians and illegal-immigration advocates was astounding, with newspapers, magazines, television, radio and the Internet awash in comments that Trump was a racist, a bigot, and a xenophobic bully. But the truth -- noticeably avoided by the media -- is that the U.S. Congress passed a bill and it was signed into law by President George W. Bush in 2006 ordering a wall to be built at the U.S.-Mexican border and more Border Patrol agents should be hired for the Southern border. Most Americans were totally kept in the dark by the news media's hotbed of corruption when on Friday, January 14, 2011, then Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano's office announced that the liar-nObama administration canceled the 'Virtual Fence' project along the U.S.-Mexico border. They had decided a "virtual fence" would be more effective and they controlled both houses of Congress and Bush, who was never a big advocate of controlling immigration, went along with the plan... 
Merkel Government Still in Denial
by Vijeta Uniyal
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Police confer at the site attack at a Christmas market in Berlin
{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ Monday's terrorist attack on a Berlin Christmas market killed at least 12 people and injured 50 others. Islamic State took responsibility for the truck-ramming attack, as recommend by the al-Qaeda magazine, Inspire... and similar to the July 14 attack in the French city of Nice, and countless car-rammings in Israel. Now Europeans feel what Israelis live with every day. Earlier this year, Germany was hit by a series of ISIS-inspired attacks and failed terror plots. Despite that almost all the perpetrators were recent Syrian or Afghan migrants, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, in the middle of a re-election bid, has stuck to her claim that there is "no connection" between terror attacks in the country and uncontrolled mass migration from Arab and Muslim lands...
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Lt. Col. Oliver North USMC (Ret.) SLAMS
liar-nObama Claim that USA is ‘Stronger
and More Respected’ Today!
by Onan Coca
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{lidblog.com} ~ Oh. Boy! If there’s one thing that President liar-nObama should know, it’s to never upset a Marine, but that seems to be exactly what the soon to be ex-President has gone and done... President liar-nObama recently remarked “Almost every country on Earth sees America as stronger and more respected today than it was eight years ago.” That is complete nonsense and utter claptrap. You know it, he knows it, we know it, and the world knows it… but most importantly, Lt. Col. Oliver North , USMC (Ret.) knows it. Col. North took to his Facebook page to utterly dismantle liar-nObama’s ego and lay bear the truth — the liar-nObama era has demolished the American image across the globe, not strengthened it...
Lt. Col. Facebook: 
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Dobbs – Kobach On liar-nObama Legacy
Of Immigration Lies, Abusing Citizens
by Rick Wells
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{rickwells.us} ~ Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach joined Lou Dobbs on Monday to discuss a report from the Center for Immigration Studies that 820,000 serious illegal alien convicts are being allowed to roam freely on American soil by the liar-nObama regime... Dobbs says, “This is a stunning report from CIS, to say that there are that many, and one suspects even more in this country, with dangerous, dangerous criminal illegal immigrants among them not being deported.” He asks, “What is the possible explanation for it?” Kobach agrees, responding, “Well, you’re exactly right, Lou, that it is disturbing and I can tell you this. Remember when liar-nObama did those illegal executive amnesties in 2012 and 2014, his justification for not deporting millions of illegal aliens was ‘I’m doing this so I can retarget the resources of Immigration and Customs Enforcement to go after the criminals.'” Kobach continues, “Well, in federal court we have the testimony of ICE agents saying ‘he’s not doing that...   http://rickwells.us/dobbs-kobach-obama-legacy-immigration-lies-abusing-citizens/
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Did Russia Hack the Presidential Election?
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{americanlibertyreport.com} ~ Since Donald Trump’s victory in the presidential election was announced, bitter Democrats have been searching for any and all means at their disposal to invalidate or nullify his victory. They’re trying just about every strategy you can think of — a recount of the vote in multiple states, attempting to persuade members of the Electoral College to change their votes and a new gambit —accusations that Russian hackers manipulated the election by giving information to WikiLeaks and planted “fake news” stories to manipulate the public prior to the election.

These claims aren’t new; the Democrats have accused Trump’s campaign of colluding with Russia long before the election was held. While it’s true that Trump made a few positive comments about Russian leader Vladimir Putin and urged that a rapprochement take place between the U.S. and Putin’s government, the charges of “fake news” are relatively new and appear to have expanded out of original charges that fake news in general, unrelated to Russian influence, was partially responsible for steering people’s votes at the ballot box.

In essence, if fake news was responsible for how people voted, if it came from U.S. sources, there’s nothing Democrats could do other than maybe filing a few lawsuits. But if the Russians were behind it, they could try to make a claim that a foreign government interfered with the electoral process of the U.S., and that could be reason enough to hold a new election.

WikiLeaks in the past has denied that they received Democratic Party emails from Russia. The Director of National Intelligence (DNI), James Clapper, has said his department doesn’t have intelligence showing a connection between WikiLeaks and Russia.

The Democrats’ whole approach here is really a long shot, but the charges of fake news have some validity to them; there were indeed false stories promoted by both parties floating around on social media prior to Election Day.

But different people define “fake news” differently. Some readers believe it only encompasses stories that are 100 percent untrue — reports that are made up out of whole cloth. Others believe it includes stories that may be a mix of the truth with some items that are false.

And still others believe fake news can be any story that has an implicit bias. These can be stories that are actually entirely true, but leave out key facts. An example might be a story that said the late Senator Robert Byrd was a member of the Ku Klux Klan, without mentioning that he was in the organization for several years in the early 1940s but had disavowed it wholly by 1952.

All three of these scenarios were represented in posts and stories published on the web prior to the election; some were written for highly dodgy independent news sites you’ve probably never heard of while others were written for The New York Times and CNN.

The problem of “fake news” is both pernicious and widespread. Where it gets tricky, however, is when it’s discovered that someone significant is sponsoring or syndicating this fake news. If it was as simple as one political party attempting to smear another, that would merely be considered a dirty trick and would likely result in a little embarrassment, finger-pointing and not much else. But when an accusation is made that it’s a foreign power behind the stories, that’s a whole other topic and relates directly to national security.

In this case, fears of Russian hacking were propounded even prior to the election; but mostly, this was in relation to potential hacking of voting machines. After the election was held, vote fraud experts declared there were no indications of mass electronic vote hacking. But the idea that somehow the Russians were responsible for the Democrats’ loss refused to die.

Clearly, someone in the Democratic Party decided to fold this concept in with the semi-legitimate complaint about fake news. However, it’s highly doubtful that evidence can be found to back up the claims.

As for the charge regarding WikiLeaks, the Democrats have asserted that the Russians also hacked into Republican Party servers and stole information, but chose not to reveal it in order to favor a victory for Trump.

Democrats such as Representative Adam Schiff of California claim that “This was a serious attack on our democracy… To inoculate the public against further Russian meddling, the public really needs to know what the Russians were up to. But it’s also a way of deterring the Russians if they know they’ll be exposed in a very public way.”

Republican Congressman Devin Nunes of California, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, rebuked the CIA for contradicting the agency’s own forensic findings that it had presented the committee with earlier in the year. Nunes wrote to Intelligence Director Clapper, who oversees the CIA, and said that he was “dismayed that we did not learn earlier, from you directly, about… the CIA’s reported revision of information previously conveyed to this committee.” Intelligence officials rejected Nunes’ requests to appear before his committee immediately to explain the matter.

“It is unacceptable that the intelligence community directors would not fulfill the House Intelligence Committee’s request to be briefed… on the cyber-attacks that occurred during the presidential campaign,” stated Nunes when informed of this. “The legislative branch is constitutionally vested with oversight responsibility of executive branch agencies, which are obligated to comply with our requests.”

Nunes said his committee was “vigorously looking into reports of cyber-attacks during the election campaign” and wanted to “clarify press reports that the CIA has a new assessment that it has not shared with us… The Committee is deeply concerned that intransigence in sharing intelligence with Congress can enable the manipulation of intelligence for political purposes. The Committee will continue its efforts and will insist that we receive all the necessary cooperation from the relevant leaders of the intelligence community.”

It should be noted that CIA Director John Brennan is a former campaign advisor and aide to President liar-nObama. A former officer of the CIA, Kent Clizbe, claims that Brennan is attempting to politicize the well-known agency with its recent actions. “All the politicization of the CIA of the previous eight years is nothing compared to Brennan’s current operation — his vile use of the good name of the CIA is an attempt to invalidate our presidential election,” Clizbe said.

“Brennan’s misuse of the CIA in an effort to serve his political masters is unprecedented and unforgivable. These are the actions of totalitarian dictators, using foreign security services to sully political opponents. Someone needs to stop him before it’s too late.”

Initially, even President liar-nObama disagreed with the assessment that there had been Russian interference. His administration released a statement November 25 that read, “The Federal government did not observe any increased level of malicious cyber activity aimed at disrupting our electoral process.”

Since the beginning of December, however, liar-nObama has changed his tune and has ordered a review by all government intelligence agencies of any foreign actions that could have influenced any American elections from 2008 to the present. The findings of this review will be made public early next year prior to Inauguration Day.

President-Elect Donald Trump has downplayed the noise made by the Democrats on this issue, saying, “The election ended a long time ago in one of the biggest Electoral College victories in history. It’s time to move on and ‘Make America Great Again.'”

Trump reminded voters that analysts at the CIA are the same people who produced fake intelligence saying Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction as a pretense for the U.S. to invade that country in 2003.

With no clear consensus in the intelligence community on this issue and the Electoral College vote taking place on December 19, it’s improbable that these charges will stick or be able to alter the election results. It’s clear that the Democrats are grasping at straws and hoping for a “Hail Mary” pass that can save them from their loss, but it appears that their efforts will be too little and too late.

http://www.americanlibertyreport.com/articles/did-russia-hack-the-presidential-election/

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