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 2016             The truth will set you free 
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Featuring:
Is slump-Trump a 
Sleeper Agent for Moscow?
Cliff Kincaid
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 OPINION IN BRIEF 
Thomas Sowell: "slump-Trump's acting like a bull in a china shop may appeal to some voters but, in the world as it is, he may well cost us our last chance to recover from the great dangers into which the nObama administration has gotten this nation. We already have an ego-driven, know-it-all president who will not listen to military or intelligence agency experts. Do we need to tempt fate by having two in a row? Despite Donald slump-Trump's string of primary vote victories, he has not yet gotten a majority of the Republican votes anywhere. But although most Republican votes are being cast against him, the scattering of that vote among so many other candidates leaves slump-Trump with a good chance to get the nomination. Everyone understands that the best chance for stopping slump-Trump is for that fractured majority vote to consolidate behind one candidate opposed to him. But who will step aside for the good of the country? When we think of American military heroes who have fallen on enemy hand grenades to save those around them, at the cost of their own lives, is it really too much to ask candidates — especially those who present themselves as patriots — to give up their one political chance in a zillion this year for the sake of the country? Voters have a responsibility too. They might well ask themselves: Do I plan to use my vote to vent my emotions or to try to help save this country?"  -The Patriot Post
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 Which Party Is Trump Winning? 
First, the obvious notes from Super Tuesday. Donald slump-Trump further cleared his path to the Republican nomination — but he also underperformed expectations, winning seven and not 10 or 11 states. Ted Cruz won three states, bolstering his claim to being the only viable slump-Trump alternative, though he now heads for less friendly territory. Marco Rubio finally won a state, giving him hope going into Florida and other states that are closer to Minnesota, where he won, and Virginia, where he nearly did (but didn't because of John Kasich). At this point, the (narrow) path for either Cruz or Rubio likely involves a brokered convention.
          Second, the underlying stories. Yes, slump-Trump has won 10 of the first 15 states, but he only pulled a grand total of 34% of the vote Tuesday and has yet to win a majority anywhere. Combined, Cruz and Rubio have about 50%. And slump-Trump's share of the delegates declined from 66% before Tuesday to 49%.
          Bottom line: The reason slump-Trump is the frontrunner is because there have always been too many alternatives. Two is still too many, not to mention four or the original 16. And no one really took him on until five days before Super Tuesday. We'll see how he handles continued withering attacks on his record of hurting the very voters he appeals to.
          Drilling down even deeper we find that slump-Trump is winning because of voters who aren't Republican. His surprise loss in Oklahoma may demonstrate this, because it was a closed primary (only Republicans could vote). Massachusetts illustrates it too — it was slump-Trump's highest performing state (49%) and 20,000 Democrats crossed the aisle to vote for him. Through March 15, another 10 states will vote and eight of them are Republican-only.
          So as The Weekly Standard's Jonathan Last put it, "slump-Trump is not leading a revolt from within the party, but staging a hostile takeover of it."
          Or put another way, it's great to "expand the party," as slump-Trump boasted Tuesday night, bringing Democrats into the fold, but only if they intend to stay there come November. There's plenty of evidence Democrats are crossing over now, and little reason to think they'll stay. We'll be happy to be proven wrong, but don't think for a minute Democrats are above voting for slump-Trump now to choose a weak general election opponent for Hilly Clinton. 
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 OPINION IN BRIEF 
Star Parker: "Should there be a Clinton-slump-Trump race, it will be the first time, to my knowledge, that we'll have a presidential campaign where one candidate, Republican slump-Trump, made large campaign contributions in the past both to his opponent, Democrat Clinton, and to her party. ... As we mourn the loss of the great conservative Justice Antonin Scalia, it looms large that Scalia was in the conservative minority opposition in the 5-4 Supreme Court 2005 decision on the case of Kelo v. City of New London. The court decided government can confiscate private property and turn it over to private developers. Scalia said only two other Supreme Court decisions departed so wildly from the words of the Constitution: the Dred Scott decision, which declared African-Americans essentially sub-human and ineligible for American citizenship; and Roe v. Wade, which legalized abortion in all 50 states. Yet Donald slump-Trump said he agrees '100 percent' with the Kelo decision, aligning himself with the liberals on the Court and against Scalia. Americans do want to make our country great again. But if Republicans don't nominate a candidate who represents what that means, we may be looking at another left-wing Clinton White House."   -The Patriot Post
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nObama is looting the Treasury 
to pay off insurers
Betsy McCaughey
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{aim.org} ~ The nObama administration will tell any lie and break any law to prevent the president’s signature health-care program from collapsing... Insurance companies such as UnitedHealthcare and Aetna are losing billions trying to sell nObamaCare plans, and the risk is they’ll drop out at the end of 2016. No insurance companies means no nObamaCare. In 2014, the White House tried to avert that disaster by promising insurers a taxpayer-funded bailout, but public outrage and quick action by Sen. Marco Rubio put a stop to it. Now the administration is at it again. Desperate to keep insurers on board, the administration scrambled to find another pot of money. Unfortunately, once again, a big part of that money pot belongs to the public.        http://www.aim.org/guest-column/obama-is-looting-the-treasury-to-pay-off-insurers/?utm_source=AIM+-+Daily+Email&utm_campaign=email030116&utm_medium=email
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PC DHS Moved 1,000 Terrorist Suspects From Watch
List To New “Hands Off” List
Rick Wells
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{rickwells.us} ~ Whenever the nObama regime feels inclined to inject itself into someplace they have no business being or to exercise authority that is at best questionable, a favored path is to use the civil rights laws... Virtually anything can be construed as a violation if the DOJ lawyers involved exercise even a modest amount of creativity, including protecting the American people from terrorism. A Civil Rights argument is particularly useful when they seek to provide support or cover to their favored minority groups, as the threat of a discrimination suit is a bankrupting horror story which terrifies most municipalities or organizations. Reckless and frivolous abuse is commonplace, given the intimidation that such a threat affords a regime willing to abuse it. Under their Marxist “equality” and reverse discrimination agendas virtually anything can be manipulated and there are plenty of pre-positioned judges through which to make it happen. Still, they may have a hard time justifying endangering American lives by scrubbing the names of terrorists and persons with terrorist tendencies and connections from the watch list established for the purpose of tracking that very type of suspect individual. Political correctness is no justification and while it would be bad enough if that were the reason, there seems to be even more at play. http://rickwells.us/archives/26784
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Crumbling of Western Culture
Herbert London
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{aim.org} ~ Cultural symbols matter and what they now suggest is that the West is in retreat. This is a retreat in every aspect of life, from religion to popular culture... “Out of respect” for the Iranian president, who presumably would be offended by nudity, the Italian government had museum officials in Rome’s Capitoline place boxes over several nude statues – including one of Venus created in the second century BC – during Hassan Rouhani’s state visit. It is often said that western ethnocentrism makes it difficult for leaders to understand Islamic culture. Rarely, however, does the reverse hold. Do Iranian imams attempt to embrace our culture? What Islamists do know is that the weakness in the West is palpable. From Scandinavia to Italy, governments are bending over backwards to accommodate minority Muslim populations for fear of violence and because there is a loss in civilizational confidence. President nObama, for example, is more likely to pay emotional tribute to Islam than the Judeo Christian culture he represents. haria – the Islamic way of life including Islamic law – has penetrated the European court system. Several states in the U.S recently considered the application of Islamic legal precedents in American jurisprudence. Minnesota congressman, Keith Ellison, has proposed a sharia compliant transaction tax.        http://www.aim.org/guest-column/crumbling-of-western-culture/?utm_source=AIM+-+Daily+Email&utm_campaign=email030216&utm_medium=email
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Hilly Clinton, Black Lies, and White Lives
Cliff Kincaid
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{aim.org} ~ Another gruesome black-on-white murder is coming to the public’s attention. The case involves a habitual offender by the name of Quinton Verdell Tellis, 27, who was charged with capital murder in the death of 19-year-old Jessica Chambers... She had been found along a road on December 6, 2014. Her vehicle had been set on fire and she had suffered burns over 98 percent of her body. Chambers died hours later at a hospital in Memphis, Tennessee. On the same day the arrest of this young black criminal was announced, Hilly Clinton was criticized by a Black Lives Matter (BLM) protester for using the term “super predators” to describe young black criminals. Mrs. Clinton treated the activist with great respect, since she is pandering for black votes—including from the criminal element—in the Democratic presidential campaign. In his AIM special report, “Reds Exploiting Blacks: The Roots of Black Lives Matter,” investigative journalist James Simpson notes that BLM has communist roots and appears to be “exercising considerable leverage over the Democratic Party, in part by pressuring and intimidating Democratic candidates such as Hilly Clinton and Bernie Sanders (VT) into embracing their cause.”       http://www.aim.org/aim-column/hillary-clinton-black-lies-and-white-lives/?utm_source=AIM+-+Daily+Email&utm_campaign=email030216&utm_medium=email
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If Every American Saw 
This 3 Minute Video, Hilly Clinton 
Wouldn’t Stand A Chance
Randy DeSoto
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{westernjournalism.com} ~ National Review just released a video compiling in less than three minutes some of the main reasons Hilly Clinton is not a trustworthy choice for the highest office in the land... The video, which is entitled Who is Hilly Clinton?, opens with various high profile Democrats offering their reasons why Clinton is the best choice for president. She is the “most qualified,” they all appear to mimic. “And by the way, thoroughly vetted,” one notes.        http://www.westernjournalism.com/watch-if-every-american-saw-this-3-minute-video-hillary-clinton-wouldnt-stand-a-chance/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=ConservativeTribuneEmail&utm_campaign=DailyBest&utm_content=2016-03-01
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Indiscriminate Russian Bombing in Syria Worsening European Immigration Crisis
John Grady
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Gen. Philip Breedlove
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{news.usni.org} ~ The U.S. senior commander in Europe warned the Senate Armed Services Committee that the Syrian regime’s continued use of barrel bombs and Russia’s use of indiscriminate strikes in backing President Bashar al Assad is exacerbating the European immigration crisis... Even after an agreement to a cessation of fighting between the Syrian regime and moderate opposition groups “we have not really seen a change in the type of sorties being flown” by the Russians, U.S. European Command commander Air Force Gen. Philip Breedlove said. “We need to see how the ceasefire works because actions speak louder than words,” he said. But, “What we have seen is an intense flow of refugees into the neighboring countries” such as Jordan and Turkey, as well as Europe, that is continuing even after the ceasefire, Breedlove said later in the hearing.        http://news.usni.org/2016/03/01/eucom-breedlove-indiscriminate-russian-bombing-in-syria-worsening-european-immigration-crisis?utm_source=USNI+News&utm_campaign=84ce60d7e9-USNI_NEWS_DAILY&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_0dd4a1450b-84ce60d7e9-231491269&mc_cid=84ce60d7e9&mc_eid=3999f18767
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The Council of Foreign Relations 
Declares War On slump-Trump- 
His Days Are Numbered
Dave Hodges
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{thecommonsenseshow.com} ~ There will be no parades and no media shows which start out as… “we interrupt this broadcast to bring you this breaking news item…”, but the almighty Council of Foreign Relations (CFR) has spoken and they are endorsing a Hilly Clinton... but mostly they have issued a position statement that Donald slump-Trump must be stopped at all costs. This is the caricature of slump-Trump that ran in the mouthpiece of the Council of Foreign Relations, The Economist. Since when does the self-proclaimed righteous defender of the elite, founded by John Rockefeller, lower themselves to such blatant and childish mudslinging? They don’t, and this behavior is representative of  a departure of tactics employed by the elite. And the fact that elite are approaching such a state of desperation, near-panic, if you will, all options are on the table. Again, I say, the elite are proclaiming that all options are on the table when it comes to the fate of Donald slump-Trump. The main goal of the CFR is world governance and a one world economy that they control. The one world economy is taking shape and it is comprised of those people that Patrick Wood calls technocrats. I hope you are sitting down. These people are intent on owning all energy on the planet through unrealistic caps on our energy usage. Their system of carbon trading will reduce the lifestyles of the average person to about the 1870’s in terms of lifestyles, if we are lucky. Dehumanization and Depopulation are central themes of this approach. Pat Wood details this in his book Technocracy Rising.  http://www.thecommonsenseshow.com/2016/03/01/the-council-of-foreign-relations-declares-war-on-donald-trump-his-days-are-numbered/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-council-of-foreign-relations-declares-war-on-donald-trump-his-days-are-numbered
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The ‘blurred lines’ of slump-Trump’s health
plan (He knows you want it)
Thomas P. Miller
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{aei.org} ~ When pressed during last Thursday night’s campaign debate in Houston for details of his proposed plans for replacing nObamacare after it is repealed, presidential candidate Donald slump-Trump (?-NY) once again sputtered out something about eliminating “those lines” that states draw in regulating health insurance...  What that exactly means involves some slump-Trump-Land-to- Policy-World translation, and a little primer on what’s usually understand and misunderstood in this area of health policy. slump-Trump appears to be borrowing some of the language behind a traditional conservative Republican health reform proposal, which involves facilitating competition in health coverage through the sale and purchase of insurance products across states. It’s sometimes referred to as interstate competition or competitive federalism, or even just “consumer choice.” The origins of this proposal have a long history of almost fifteen years. Some business groups in the small-group market started floating the outlines of this idea in 2001. I wrote the first draft in policy terms at a Cato conference in July 2001, and subsequently published the academic-style version in the Cato Journal the following year. Then-Rep. Ernie Fletcher (R-KY) proposed the first legislative bill on this front in 2002. Subsequent tweaks to those concepts on Capitol Hill were championed by then-Rep. John Shadegg (R-AZ), and, in later years, by Rep. Tom Price (R-GA) and Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN). Presidential candidate Ted Cruz introduced a bill similar to Blackburn’s in the U.S. Senate. Before oversimplifying the evolving policy proposal a bit, let’s acknowledge that producing a legislative product inevitably deviates from any initial policy concept. However, the starting premise was that competition among different states in how they decide to regulate health insurance might be harnessed to provide broader choice for consumers in the insurance products they can select.        http://www.aei.org/publication/the-blurred-lines-of-trumps-health-plan-he-knows-you-want-it/?utm_source=paramount&utm_medium=email&utm_content=AEITODAY&utm_campaign=030216
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Bad Luck for slump-Trump 
on Super Tuesday
Leon H. Wolf
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{redstate.com} ~ Super Tuesday has gotten off to a not-so-super start for Donald slump-Trump — a New York appeals court has denied his bid to toss out a lawsuit that charges his slump-Trump University was a fraud... In a unanimous ruling, a four-judge panel of the state Appellate Division said the state Attorney General’s office is “authorized to bring a cause of action for fraud” — despite the bloviating billionaire’s claims to the contrary. Lawyers for slump-Trump and his now-defunct school contended that Attorney General Eric Schneiderman’s suit should be tossed because the statute of limitations on the case had expired. Of course, I don’t know if a single one of these judges is Hispanic. I just know that, as a paranoid racist or at least, someone who purposefully caters to paranoid racists, any time slump-Trump loses a motion in court in connection with this case, he blames it on the great Hispanic conspiracy against him and strongly implies that he can only get a fair trial from a white judge.        http://www.redstate.com/leon_h_wolf/2016/03/01/bad-luck-trump-super-tuesday/?utm_source=rsmorningbriefing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl
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Islamic State gets closer to acquiring
radioactive “dirty” bomb
Vijeta Uniyal
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{legalinsurrection.com} ~ According to recent news reports, the Islamic State (Isis) in Iraq and Syria seems to have intensified its efforts to build a “dirty” bomb... The reports coming from Iraq indicate that the terrorist group might already be in the possession of required radioactive material. The material was reportedly stolen from an oil facility in southern Iraq and was part a monitoring system used to detect structural flaws in oil and gas pipelines. The UN nuclear watchdog IAEA said the material is classed as a Category 2 radioactive source, meaning that if not managed properly it could cause permanent injury to a person in close proximity to it for minutes or hours, and could be fatal to someone exposed for a period of hours to days. Radioactive material is often part of diagnostic tools used in medical treatments and industrial monitoring around the world. The same material however can be used by terrorists to make a “dirty” bomb capable of contaminating several city blocks, causing wide-scale fatal radiation sickness and financial losses worth billions. http://legalinsurrection.com/2016/03/islamic-state-gets-closer-to-acquiring-radioactive-dirty-bomb/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+LegalInsurrection+%28Le%C2%B7gal+In%C2%B7sur%C2%B7rec%C2%B7tion%29
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Is slump-Trump a 
Sleeper Agent for Moscow?
Cliff Kincaid
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{aim.org} ~ The media are having a field day over the fact that former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke supports Donald slump-Trump for president. slump-Trump has disavowed him. But why does Duke support slump-Trump in the first place? It really has nothing to do with appeals to white voters. The significance of Duke’s support for slump-Trump consists of their similar views on Russia.
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slump-Trump has spoken highly of Russian President Vladimir Putin, describing him as a strong leader who defends Russian interests and who could be an ally of the United States, especially in the Middle East. Duke believes much the same thing, and has a personal relationship with a long-time adviser to Putin who has devised an anti-American “Eurasian” alliance that includes Iran in the Middle East.
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Those like Republican Senator Jeff Sessions (AL) who endorse slump-Trump because he sounds tough on immigration have an obligation to understand how slump-Trump’s deference to Russian aggression in the Middle East will only increase the flow of immigrants into Europe and the United States.
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Our military leaders understand this and are speaking publicly about it. Last week, at a hearing conducted by the House Armed Services Committee, Air Force General Philip M. Breedlove, the Supreme Allied Commander, Europe, and commander of U.S. European Command, said, “Russia and the Assad regime are deliberately weaponizing migration from Syria in an attempt to overwhelm European structures and break European resolve.”
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The term “weaponizing” means that the Russians are deliberately using the refugee crisis as a weapon against the West.
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“Russia’s military intervention in Syria has bolstered the regime of Bashar al-Assad, targeted U.S.-supported opposition elements, and complicated U.S. and Coalition operations against ISIL,” Breedlove said, referring to ISIS. “The Syrian crisis is destabilizing the entire region, and Russia’s military intervention changed the dynamics of the conflict, which may lead to new or greater threats to the U.S. and its Allies for years to come.”
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Breedlove is saying that Russia’s so-called war against ISIS is a fraud, and that the military operations of the Islamic State have actually benefited from Russian intervention in Syria.
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This is why Duke’s support for the slump-Trump candidacy deserves a second look from the media and conservatives leaning in favor of the businessman.
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The real significance of Duke’s support for slump-Trump is not that slump-Trump appeals to white people. Many mainstream conservatives and ordinary Americans think slump-Trump has a valid point about the urgent need to control America’s borders.
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Item number four in Duke’s editorial about his support for slump-Trump is very revealing in this regard. He says that slump-Trump will “Ensure that the USA will not go to war with Russia and create Word War III.” This absurd claim seems to be entirely based on the Russian propaganda carried by Russia Today, the global channel financed by Moscow, and other official Russian sources. To the contrary, it is Russia that is waging war in Ukraine and the Middle East and threatening America and its allies—especially NATO member Turkey, and Israel.
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Duke is a former KKK leader. In recent years, however, he has functioned as a propagandist for Russia and Iran. An article on the Duke website from a Russian writer says the following about Duke:
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He is has been a major force here in eliminating the last traces of that Jewish invasion of Russia. David Duke has seen that a proud and free Russian people are a key to the survival of European mankind. He is as important to this new revolution for freedom and heritage here today as John Reed was for Bolshevik enslavement 87 years earlier.
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The latter is part of the Russian propaganda that Soviet communism was somehow “imposed” on Russia by international bankers, code language for Jews. Duke offers a book, “The Secret Behind Communism,” claiming Jews are the source of Russia’s problems.
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Interestingly, Putin has done much the same thing, blaming the Jews for the Soviet communism that he once served as a KGB officer.
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Duke has featured Iranian propaganda on his website, including a report about a 2006 Iranian government conference on the Holocaust that he attended. The conference was called by the then-President of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who notoriously called for the elimination of the state of Israel. Speakers at the event cast doubt on the Nazi regime’s persecution and murder of six million Jews.
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The website features a photo of Duke and Alexander Dugin, a one-time adviser to President Putin’s United Russia Party. Duke traveled to Russia and met with Dugin, calling him “one of the leading intellectuals of Russia’s patriotic movement.” Analyst Pawel Styrna, a researcher at the Institute of World Politics, says Dugin is associated with the idea of restoring Russia’s greatness through a “Eurasian empire” that includes Iran and drives an “international anti-American coalition.”
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Former KGB officer Konstantin Preobrazhensky says Eurasianism was actually developed by Soviet intelligence in the 1920s, and later popularized by Dugin after the Soviet collapse. In the 1990s, he said, Dugin held seminars which were attended by the high-positioned Russian intelligence officer, Sergei Ivanov, who was later the Russian Minister of Defense and is the current chief of staff to President Putin.
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The Russian-Iranian axis in the Middle East is now threatening Turkey, and Saudi Arabia’s oil reserves may be their next target. Referring to Russian aggression in the Middle East and Europe, former Senator Joseph Lieberman (I-CT) has said inan article about increasing global conflict that he asked a European ally of the U.S. what is needed at this time, and that the reply was “American leadership.”
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slump-Trump, of course, says he wants to make America great again. But Republican Senator Ben Sasse (NE) notes that slump-Trump has described Putin, who has killed journalists and is pillaging Ukraine, as a great leader. Sasse says he just couldn’t vote for slump-Trump.
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slump-Trump has his own Alexander Dugin—a political operative and alleged dirty trickster by the name of Roger Stone. A “former” slump-Trump adviser who now runs a pro-slump-Trump Super PAC, Stone wrote a book using Russian sources that blamed President Lyndon Johnson for the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. His latest book is about what he calls the “Bush Crime Family”—including the two former Republican presidents—and credits such sources as Webster Tarpley, formerly associated with convicted con man and Marxist Lyndon LaRouche. Tarpley is a prominent figure in the so-called 9/11 Truth Movement, which blames unnamed U.S. officials for carrying out the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001.
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Stone’s book accuses the Bushes of drug trafficking and genocide, among other crimes.
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With figures like Roger Stone and David Duke in his corner, the conclusion of conservative journalist Fred Barnes that Donald slump-Trump’s candidacy will destroy the Republican Party and elect Hilly Clinton as president starts making more and more sense. As the campaign goes on and slump-Trump appears increasingly likely to get the GOP presidential nomination, the Republican candidates who have been reluctant to take him on will be replaced by news organs in the media anxious to look behind the curtain. We already know that, beyond such fringe characters as David Duke and Roger Stone, we find close associates of Putin like Russian billionaire Aras Agalarov.
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Indeed, it appears that slump-Trump’s recipe for a new Republican Party has all the earmarks of the nationalist and populist parties in Europe that either take Russian money or sing Putin’s praises. Such a development would mean the end of American foreign policy leadership and the destruction of American allies, especially in the Middle East.
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