The Front Page Cover
2016 The truth will set you free
Featuring:
Bedeviling Choice
by Tom McLaughlin
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Fracking Drives U.S. Emissions to Two-Decade Low
Evidence continues to show that fracking is not just financially beneficial, but safe. In 2014 the Institute for Energy Research reported findings estimating a high-end energy cost relief of a remarkable $248 billion in 2013 as a direct result of fracking. Meanwhile, in April, yet another study failed — as myriad other studies have — to link fracking to environmental contamination (naysayers, by the way, tried desperately to conceal this).
These facts alone are enough to raise serious questions about why ecofascists have launched an assault on fracking, a technology they supported before it became a concrete solution to the world's purported environmental calamities. But there's another area fracking benefits that garners hardly any attention, though it should for those who claim to be concerned about the greenhouse gas effect. The Energy Information Administration says carbon dioxide emissions are currently on pace to hit a 24-year low in the United States, according to the Washington Examiner:
Carbon emissions from fossil fuels are projected to be less than 5.2 billion metric tons this year, the lowest since 1992, said Adam Sieminski, the head of the Energy Information Administration, the Energy Department's statistical and analysis arm. "The drop in CO2 emissions is largely the result of low natural gas prices, which have contributed to natural gas displacing a large amount of coal used for electricity generation," he said, commenting on the agency's latest monthly energy forecast released Tuesday.
This should be welcome news for the International Olympic Committee considering it approved Rio's making a big deal of CO2 and "climate change" at Friday's opening ceremonies. Actually, America is doing just great. But Brazil sure could use some work — starting with less deforestation and cleaning up its junk-ridden water. -The Patriot Post
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Another 'Racist' Police Department?
Allyne Caan: From the administration that's squandered seven years of opportunity to mend racial divides — scratch that; the administration that's fomented racial divides — comes a new report that threatens to drive the wedge of racial tension even deeper. This week, Barack nObama's Social Justice™ Department issued a report concluding that the Baltimore Police Department is systemically racist. Not facing occurrences of racism. Not occasionally having some officers display racist actions. Downright racist — the whole department.
The Associated Press, which is more than happy to perpetuate the Left's racial grievance narrative, reports, "With startling statistics, a federal investigation of the Baltimore Police Department documents in 164 single-spaced pages what black residents have been saying for years: They are routinely singled out, roughed up or otherwise mistreated by officers, often for no reason."
Certainly, it would be naïve to claim racism doesn't exist or that all cops are saints — but categorically declaring the police department of an entire major city as the KKK in blue suggests there's more to the story than the so-called "startling" statistics.
Indeed, when you consider what's missing from the report from this 15-month federal investigation, the statistics may seem more selective than startling. For example, while the investigation was prompted by the death of Freddie Gray while in police custody, the Washington Post notes that "Justice Department investigators did not focus ... on Gray's death in particular. That is part of a separate, ongoing federal investigation. Instead, they assessed generally how police do their jobs in Baltimore."
You'll recall that all six Baltimore officers involved in the Gray case were either acquitted or had charges thrown out, despite the city's settling with Gray's family for an astounding $6.4 million. That notwithstanding, the city's mayor was cheered as she gaveled in the Democrat National Convention last month.
Nevertheless, the city's police are racist. This is strikingly similar to Ferguson, Missouri, where the Justice Department cleared police officer Darren Wilson in the death of Michael Brown yet still concluded Ferguson's police are racist all the same.
Also intriguing, to say the least, is that numbers provided by the Baltimore Police Department showed more than half of the city's active duty police officers are minorities — black, Hispanic, Asian or Native American — including more than half of the city's police officers with the rank of captain and higher.
What is the Justice Department really getting at by targeting the department with accusations of racism? In the end, like everything Barack nObama does, this is about one thing: control. As Jazz Shaw observes, "In perhaps the most chilling section of the account, the Attorney General is said to be seeking a court-enforceable consent decree to force the police agency to commit to improving its procedures in order to avoid a lawsuit. ... Local policing, traditionally under the control of the state or municipal government, will be met with lawsuits brought against these same local entities if Washington doesn't approve of their performance."
Yes, Baltimore, you must now conform to the federal government's dictates — or else.
Of course, this shouldn't surprise anyone. This is the same federal government that wants to control kids' education, make neighborhoods comply with federal racial quotas, dictate Americans' health care, force nuns to pay for contraception and abortion, require schools to let boys in girls' locker rooms... and the list goes on.
Just like community policing, all of these are either local, state, or "none of the government's business" issues. But when it comes to control, Washington recognizes no boundaries.
Meanwhile, following nObama's pattern of attacking the men and women in blue who keep us safe every day, liar-Hillary Clinton isn't even trying to earn the endorsement of the National Fraternal Order of Police, which represents 335,000 members. The union's president rightly observed that this "sends a powerful message" — and not a good one.
It seems the Left's new hallmark is opposing the members of the Thin Blue Line who, despite the snub, continue putting their lives on the line, even for those who least appreciate it. -The Patriot Post
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Risky US nuclear bomb gets green light
by Len Ackland
{revealnews.org} ~ The most controversial nuclear bomb ever planned for the U.S. arsenal – some say the most dangerous, too – has received the go-ahead from the Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration... The agency announced on Aug. 1 that the B61-12 – the nation’s first guided, or “smart” nuclear bomb – had completed a four-year development and testing phase and is now in production engineering, the final phase before full-scale production slated for 2020. This announcement comes in the face of repeated warnings from civilian experts and some former high-ranking military officers that the bomb, which will be carried by fighter jets, could tempt use during a conflict because of its precision. The bomb pairs high accuracy with explosive force that can be regulated... https://www.revealnews.org/blog/risky-u-s-nuclear-bomb-gets-green-light/?utm_source=Reveal%20Newsletters&utm_campaign=619dc25084-The_Weekly_Reveal_08_15_16&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c38de7c444-619dc25084-229916753
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Taliban presses offensive in multiple provinces
by Bill Roggio
{longwarjournal.org} ~ The Taliban is sustaining offensive operations throughout Afghanistan as Afghan security forces, backed by US airpower and special forces, continue to struggle with containing the jihadist group... As the Taliban continues to press Afghan forces in the southern province of Helmand and has effectively laid siege to its capital, Lashkar Gah, the group is assaulting districts in the Afghan north. One district in Baghlan has fell under Taliban control, and another in Nuristan has changed hands several times The Taliban claimed yesterday that Dahana-i-Ghuri district in Baghlan province fell “after a three-day long siege,” according to a statement released on Voice of Jihad. “Mujahideen have seized a large number of the combat posts and 4 bases, leaving dozens of the enemy soldiers dead and wounded over the last three days. Similarly, 33 puppets including soldiers of ANA [Afghan National Army], Arbakis [local militias] and police have been taken prisoner through this period of time.”... http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2016/08/taliban-presses-offensive-in-multiple-provinces.php
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nObama Releases Details of
Mass-murder by Drone Program
by Alex Newman
{thenewamerican.com} ~ The nObama administration quietly released more information on its illegal mass-murder-via-drone program, in which the White House unilaterally creates a list of people around the world to assassinate without charges, trial, or even a semblance of due process... Thousands of victims have already been executed by nObama under the program. The latest disclosure was in response to a court order. Among other points, the newly released documents give some insight into the illegal policy behind the murders. Essentially, according to the documents, any suspect nObama wants to eliminate can be executed if there is “near certainty” that he or she is present, that civilians will not be killed, and that the murder is supposedly needed to “achieve U.S. policy objectives.” It appears that even those minimal “standards” have been waived, as nObama has rained death and destruction down on thousands of people worldwide from unmanned drones. In short, if nObama does not like you, watch out — and there are a lot of people nObama does not like, though jihadists are apparently not among them... http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/constitution/item/23857-obama-releases-details-of-mass-murder-by-drone-program
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Intelligence Warning: Islamic State
“Hit Squads” Hiding Among Migrants
in Germany — and Beyond?
by Selwyn Duke
{thenewamerican.com} ~ German chancellor Angela Merkel’s mini-pep-talk slogan, relating to the Muslim wave migration into her country, has long been, “We can do it!” And the Islamic State certainly agrees — and has done it... with a leading German spy chief confirming that the terrorist group-cum-caliphate has succeeded in sneaking hit squads and sleeper cells into the European nation. All, by the way, courtesy of Merkel’s migration policies. From the get-go, The New American and other realist sources have warned that the Muslim migrants entering the West in the last years cannot be vetted and that, consequently, terrorists are certainly among them. And if jihadist attacks such as those in Paris and Brussels weren’t enough to vindicate this assessment, now we have a damning admission from the deputy head of Bavaria’s spy agency, Manfred Hauser. Writes the Sun, “ISIS hit squads and ‘sleeper cells’ intent on waging war on Europe have entered Germany disguised as refugees, a leading spy chief Hauser has confirmed. Intelligence agencies also have ‘irrefutable’ evidence they are following a command structure, meaning a coordinated attack like those seen in Paris and Brussels is ‘likely’.”... http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/immigration/item/23856-intelligence-warning-islamic-state-hit-squads-hiding-among-migrants-in-germany-and-beyond
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Venezuelans Pour Into Colombia to Buy Food...
by Bob Adelmann
by Bob Adelmann
{thenewamerican.com} ~ Marisol Sayago, a 65-year-old pensioner living in San Cristobal, Venezuela, traveled 40 miles on Saturday to buy 15 rolls of toilet paper. Crossing the border into Colombia... she did what shopping she could on her limited pension check in shops in Cucuta, saying, “It’s not economical, but what else can I do? Over there pointing back across the bridge to Venezuela you can’t find anything.” Sayago was joined by an estimated 54,000 other Venezuelans suffering under the socialist regime of her country’s Marxist president, Nicolas Maduro. Maduro closed the border with Colombia last August, claiming that smugglers were taking advantage of Venezuela’s government-subsidized gasoline by transporting it into Colombia and selling it at a profit. Said Maduro at the time: “From Colombia all of the poverty and misery is coming over.” He opened the border briefly in July and then announced that the border would remain open permanently starting on Saturday... http://www.thenewamerican.com/world-news/south-america/item/23860-venezuelans-pour-into-colombia-to-buy-food-staples-not-available-at-home
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Lou Dobbs – liar-Clinton Recruiting
Illegal Aliens To Steal Election
by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ Lou Dobbs addresses the rampant corruption and audacity of the Democrat Party and the liar-Clintons in exposing in a most searing and accurate manner... He begins with a reference to their ability to intimidate all who stand in their way, including the FBI and its director. Dobbs says, “It’s amazing to me” as he reports that “liar-Hillary Clinton is now recruiting illegal immigrants, are you ready, for her new national voter registration drive. It’s called me ‘sueno tu voto,’ which translates to my dream, your vote.” Dobbs continues, “She’s expected to talk about it all week at campaign stops all around the country. Let me repeat,” he says, “She’s going after illegal immigrants in her voter drive. Are you surprised? None of us should be. The liar-Clinton initiative comes on the four year anniversary of ‘president’ nObama’s executive orders blocking the deportation of hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants, up to five million of them. nObama wanted to block the deportation of those millions more until the Supreme Court stopped him. Well, we think it stopped him but we’re not entirely sure and no one’s following up to make sure he’s following the Supreme Court’s orders.”... http://rickwells.us/dobbs-clinton-illegals-steal-election/
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Trey Gowdy Goes NUCLEAR on AG Lynch,
One BRUTAL Question That Nails Her To
The Wall on Defending liar-Hillary
by Clyde
{gopthedailydose.com} ~ Attorney General Loretta Lynch’s lack of transparency about liar-Hillary’s emails scandal had broken the trust of the general public. Rep. Trey Gowdy unleashed on her… “This dual track, this different set of rules for certain people and for others, it frankly should not matter whether you are running for president or running late to a kid’s ball game — the same rules should apply to everyone,” he said...
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Pentagon Seeks Weapons to Counter
Hypersonic Missiles
by Bill Gertz
{freebeacon.com} ~ Foreign states are developing high-speed, maneuvering missiles, and the Pentagon and U.S. Pacific Command want weapons to counter them, a leading defense contractor involved in missile defense said Monday... Doug Graham, vice president of missile systems and advanced programs for Lockheed Martin, a major defense contractor, told reporters in a briefing that missiles pose “an accelerating threat, both in numbers and complexity.” “We’re also seeing advanced threats … hypersonic, maneuvering threats, that are being characterized as directly challenging the capabilities” of the current U.S. ballistic missile defense system, Graham said in a teleconference from Huntsville, Ala... http://freebeacon.com/national-security/pentagon-seeks-weapons-counter-hypersonic-missiles/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=2fd21b03b5-WFB_Morning_Beacon_08_16_168_15_2016&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-2fd21b03b5-45611665
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Liz Cheney poised for political
comeback Tuesday
by Susan Ferrechio
{washingtonexaminer.com| ~ Liz Cheney is poised to make a comeback on Tuesday from her last failed attempt at winning a seat in Congress... Cheney, the elder daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney, is favored to win the GOP primary for Wyoming's at-large congressional seat. Polling in the nine-person race has been limited, but a July 29 survey conducted by the Casper Star-Tribune and Wyoming PBS showed Cheney leading her nearest GOP opponent by 12 points. "She is the leading candidate and is likely to prevail," University of Wyoming political science professor James King told the Washington Examiner. "She won't get 50 percent of the vote but she'll get a plurality and become the nominee."...
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Sweden: The Silence of the Jews
by Ingrid Carlqvist
by Ingrid Carlqvist
{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ One of the most visible effects of Muslim mass immigration into Sweden is that anti-Semitism is very much on the rise in the country. Swedish Jews are being harassed and threatened, mainly in the Muslim-dense city of Malmö... where in January 2009, the friction deepened during a peaceful pro-Israel demonstration. Demonstrators were attacked by pro-Palestinian counter demonstrators, who threw eggs and bottles at the supporters of Israel. The mayor of Malmö at the time, Ilmar Reepalu, failed to take a clear stance against the violence, and was accused of preferring the approval of the city's large Muslim population to protecting Jews. He remarked, among other things, that "of course the conflict in Gaza has spilled over into Malmö." The situation in Malmö has twice been deemed so alarming that U.S. President Barack nObama sent Special Representatives to the city: Hanna Rosenthal visited in 2012, and Ira Forman came in 2015. "We are keeping an eye on Malmö," Forman told the media...
.Bedeviling Choice
by Tom McLaughlin
{tommclaughlin.blogspot.com} ~ How did we end up with two candidates most of us dislike? Well, we voted them in, that’s how. What does that say about us, the American people? That’s the essential question here. liar-Hillary and the Donald reflect us — and we don’t like what we see. This year we tend not to ask “Who are you voting for?” so much as “Who are you voting against?”
Leaked emails confirm the Democrat National Committee steered the nomination toward liar-Hillary and away from Sanders. They also confirm an incestuous relationship between Democrats and Mainstream Media. Both phenomena were long suspected but the emails are proof in black and white.
Republican leaders never hid their dismay as Trump won primaries. They maneuvered openly to deny him the nomination but failed. Trump got a record number of popular votes and won legitimately. liar-Hillary also got more votes than her opponents, but Sanders supporters ask themselves if his momentum might have carried him past liar-Hillary had the DNC had not covertly worked against him early on. We’ll never know.
Ordinary voters in both parties were dissatisfied with leadership, but only Republicans got a “change” candidate while Democrats got an old battle ax. Lately, however, Republicans feel buyer’s remorse as Trump repeatedly trips over his own tongue. liar-Hillary has political experience and it shows. She is focused and on message as the general election campaign proceeds.
With zero experience, Trump is neither. Every day he gives the hostile mainstream media more arrows to shoot at him. While he bleeds in the polls, Republicans like Ted Cruz, Susan Collins, and Ben Sasse grab life jackets and jump ship. They’re not facing reelection this year but others are. Party leader Mitch McCon-nell said he’ll understand if they want to grab their life jackets and jump too.
Aside from refusing to release his tax returns, Trump is an open book. He eschews teleprompters and speaks his mind day after day. That novel approach appealed to voters in the primaries but it’s sinking him in the general. It’s still ten weeks to election day, and that’s an eternity in politics, but it’s not looking good for him. She sticks to script while he shoots from the lip.
liar-Hillary has been caught in lie after lie, but the mainstream media virtually ignore them. Trump says dumb things almost every other day and they focus on him instead. nObama’s “Justice” Department protects liar-Hillary too, but fears more email leaks showing the liar-Clinton Family Foundation as more a money laundering operation and political slush fund than a charity. That could still sink her. If the electorate starts seeing her and Bill’s quarter million dollar “speaking fees” as bribes and payoffs, her polls could flip quickly. She’s a smooth and practiced liar as I personally witnessed last December when I had a 15-minute exchange with her. Lies roll off her tongue effortlessly and she’s been skating away from accountability for decades.
“The devil you know is better than the devil you don’t,” goes the idiom. We know what liar-Hillary will do if she gets in so she would be the devil we know. We’re not sure what Trump would do. He’s been all over the political map during the past thirty years and it’s hard to tell, so he’s the devil we don’t know.
Trump, my least-favorite of the Republicans who ran, is one of the few candidates I didn’t get a chance to interview this election cycle. He says he’s pro-life, pro 2nd Amendment, wants to beef up the military and enforce immigration law — all good, but he used to think differently on some of those issues and has not explained why he changed. He never spoke of reducing the size of government either.
Trump did release a list of judges he would appoint to the Supreme Court — all strict constructionists. The four liberals on the court do not feel bound by the Constitution and would rely on foreign law. One, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg, advised Egypt not to use the US Constitution as a model. I was more appalled, however, when Reagan-appointed Appeals Court Judge Richard Posner said: “[T]he original Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and the post–Civil War amendments (including the 14th), do not speak to today… I’m not … particularly interested in the text of the Constitution. I don’t believe that any document drafted in the 18th century can guide our behavior today.” liar-Hillary would appoint more like these.
If you’ve ever said: “This is a free country and I can do what I want,” remember: that’s true only because of the Constitution — especially the Bill of Rights. Primarily, however, the Constitution is a document that says to government: “you have these powers only and no more.” It was designed to prevent the federal government from becoming the behemoth it is.
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