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America's Insulated Elites
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by Arnold Ahlert  
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The Khashoggi Affair
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by Matthew Continetti
{freebeacon.com} ~ Earlier this month, Jamal Khashoggi walked into the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. No one has heard from him since... Here was a legal resident of the United States he also lived in London and Istanbul, whose main English outlet was the Washington Post, vanishing suddenly after rebuking the domestic and foreign policies of Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman. What happened? Turkish authorities say he was murdered. And they are pointing fingers at a team of Saudis who entered the country a few hours before Khashoggi disappeared—and departed shortly thereafter. The Saudis deny everything. As for President Trump, he, like the rest of us, is looking for answers. This is more than an episode from a Robert Ludlum thriller. One missing man has the potential to affect the U.S.-Saudi alliance and Turkish-Saudi alliance, as well as the overall configuration of power in the Middle East, global energy prices, and Israeli security. For if the Turks are right, the Saudis would have committed a brazen, reckless, terrible act. They ought to pay a price...  https://freebeacon.com/columns/the-khashoggi-affair/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=a882a147f3-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_10_12_12_45_COPY_107&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-a882a147f3-45611665
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Lawmakers Press Company Accused of
Selling Servers Compromised by China
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by Natalie Johnson
{freebeacon.com} ~ Lawmakers are demanding answers from a server manufacturer accused of selling equipment compromised by Chinese spies to major U.S. tech companies, including Apple and Amazon... The issue captured bipartisan attention earlier this week following a Bloomberg report contending that Chinese intelligence services used subcontractors to plant malicious chips in server motherboards sold by Super Micro over a two-year span. Super Micro, Apple, and Amazon have all disputed the report's findings. Rep. Greg Walden (R., Ore.), who chairs the House Energy and Commerce Committee, said he and ranking member Frank Pallone (D., N.J.) are closely examining the report's claims. The two are pursuing legislation that would address the national security risks to the supply chains of U.S. telecommunications companies. "As we gather more information about exactly what happened in this potential compromise of America's communications supply chain, what's clear is that the seriousness of risks to the supply chain cannot be overstated," Walden told the Washington Free Beacon. "The many layers of supply chain infrastructure, from software to hardware, pose a rich target to America's adversaries and a complex environment for national security."...
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U.S. and India headed toward clash over Iranian oil sanctions
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by Behnam Ben Taleblu
{axios.com} ~ India, a country the Trump administration has called “a key security and economic partner,” will soon test U.S. resolve on Iran... Two Indian firms are reportedly seeking to purchase Iranian oil in November. Should the imports go through, they would contravene the stated U.S. aim of bringing Iran’s petroleum exports “as close to zero as possible” by Nov. 4.  Between the lines: Despite its goal of increasing pressure on Iran, the U.S. is considering “significant reduction exemptions” for countries trying to get to zero. To gain this exemption, New Delhi will likely cite current press reporting about its reduced intake of Iranian crude. However, recent data paints a different picture of India’s Iranian oil imports, which have stayed essentially the same for the past two months. The details: India is second only to China as an importer of Iranian oil. September data from Tanker Trackers showed New Delhi importing just under half a million barrels of crude oil per day from Tehran — almost one-quarter of the country’s total crude exports for that month. Washington, which left the Iran nuclear deal in May, is restoring a second, much heavier batch of sanctions on Iran in early November, targeting the country’s energy, shipping and insurance sectors. New Delhi, which initially contested the previous round of oil sanctions on Iran before reducing imports, is again publicly at odds with U.S. policy. This divergence on oil, as well as on other issues such as Russian arms imports, was on full display when Secretary of State Mike Pompeo traveled to India in September...
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The Russia Hoax As Contingency Plan
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{americanthinker.com} ~ Remember, back in August, 2016, when Peter Strzok and Lisa Page were obsessively texting one another? One exchange went something like, well, exactly like this... "Trump’s not ever going to become president, right? Right?!" Page texted Strzok. "No. No he won’t. We’ll stop it," Strzok responded.  Fast forward a couple of years and here we are in October, 2018, just about two years after Trump's electoral triumph, and for reasons best known to themselves Ben Rhodes and Jen Psaki have decided to reveal to New York Magazine that the Russia Hoax was a key part of the scumbag/liar-nObama Administration's -- and presumably the liar-Clinton campaign's -- contingency plan to, well, steal an election: scumbag/liar-nObama Had a Secret Plan in Case Trump Rejected 2016 Election Results. We're all adults -- right? -- so there's no need to quibble over the meaning of words like "results." Here's what Rhodes and Psaki are saying:  The scumbag/liar-nObama White House plan, according to interviews with Rhodes and Jen Psaki, scumbag/liar-nObama’s communications director, called for congressional Republicans, former presidents, and former Cabinet-level officials including Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice, to try and forestall a political crisis by validating the election result. In the event that Trump tried to dispute a liar-Clinton victory, they would affirm the result as well as the conclusions reached by the U.S. intelligence community that Russian interference in the election sought to favor Trump, and not liar-Clinton. Some Republicans were already aware of Russian interference from intelligence briefings given to leaders from both parties during the chaotic months before the election. “We wanted to handle the Russia information in a way that was as bipartisan as possible,” Rhodes said.  The existence of the post election plan has not been previously reported. A July 2017 op-ed by   scumbag/liar-nObama’s chief of staff, Denis McDonough, refers to scumbag/liar-nObama directing his staff to “prepare possible responses” to claims of Russian interference in the election. Psaki said the plan was one of a larger set of “red-teaming” conversations to address how the White House should respond to post election scenarios that did not have any historical precedent. “There was recognition that we had a dummycrats-Democratic president who was quite popular but also divisive for a portion of the population,” she said. “For them, just having him say the election was legitimate was not going to be enough. We didn’t spend a lot of time theorizing about the worst thing that could happen — this isn’t a science-fiction movie. It was more about the country being incredibly divided and Trump’s supporters being angry. Would there be protesting? I don’t want to say violence, because we didn’t talk about that as I recall.” [emphases added] Of course, the scumbag/liar-nObama and liar-Clinton camps never foresaw -- or so they claim -- Trump winning the election...
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Spain: Islamic State Recruiting in Prisons
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{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ Spanish police have dismantled a jihadi network operating inside and across more than a dozen Spanish prisons... The network, allegedly linked to the Islamic State, was established and operated by one of the most implacable jihadis in the Spanish prison system — apparently under the noses of prison authorities. The network's existence has called into question not only the effectiveness of security procedures in Spanish prisons, but also of Spanish "deradicalization" programs, which are aimed at "rehabilitating" Islamic militants for eventual "reinsertion" into society. The group's core members included 25 jihadis in 17 different prisons accounting for more than half of the 30 Spanish prisons equipped to house jihadi convicts, according to the Interior Ministry, which provided details of the counterterrorism operation on October 2. The group — which the Interior Ministry described as a jihadi "Prisons Front" ("frente de cárceles") — was engaged in recruiting, indoctrinating and radicalizing other inmates, as well as in plotting new jihadi attacks...  https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/13117/spain-prisons-islamic-state 
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America's Insulated Elites
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by Arnold Ahlert:  Few things are more worthy of disdain than America’s elites and their penchant for insulating themselves from the consequences of polices and ideas they inflict on the rest of us.

             In 1986, our elitist class determined that unambiguous amnesty for 2.7 million illegal aliens — in exchange for shutting down the border and cracking down on businesses who hired illegals going forward — was the way to go. Americans were also assured this was the last time they would have to endure what amounted to the elevation of political expediency over the Rule of Law. It was all lies.
               During the scumbag/liar-nObama administration, the lying got worse. Years of record-breaking border surges were sold to the American public as another dummycrats-Democrat “what about the children” effort, and the term Unaccompanied Alien Children (UACs) became part of the dummycrats-Democrat-Leftmedia lexicon, with all the attendant implications that anyone who would resist allowing illegal children to flood across the border was xenophobic and heartless.
               Again, it was all lies. In 2017, it was revealed that nearly 30% of the UACs being held by the U.S. in dormitories were teens with gang ties. “Operation Matador,” an effort by law enforcement officials aimed at combatting transnational gangs in Long Island, the New York City metropolitan area, and Hudson Valley, precipitated 475 arrests. Of those arrests, 227 were criminal arrests and 248 were “administrative immigration arrests,” as in those made to combat terror or control illegal immigration. MS-13 gang members comprised 274 of the arrests and most were apprehended in Nassau and Suffolk counties. During a May 2017 meeting of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, Suffolk County Police Commissioner Timothy Sini revealed that the MS-13 gang was linked to 38% of all the homicides in that county over the preceding 16 months, and that 4,624 UACs had been placed in the county since 2013.
               Now one might think the upsurge in the brutal gang violence that is an MS-13 speciality — including reports the gang has called for assassinating law enforcement officials — might precipitate a reassessment by our elites regarding sanctuary policies. Yet the Episcopal Diocese of Long Island has declared  itself a “sanctuary diocese,” using its 129 churches to shield illegals from arrest and deportation. Nassau County sanctuary policies protected a previously deported illegal now accused of raping a woman. And dummycrats-Democrat New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo sent a “cease and desist” letter to ICE, insisting its raids netting 225 suspected illegals — 180 of whom had criminal convictions — were unconstitutional and “un-American.
               The same Andrew Cuomo is routinely surrounded by armed security.
               Other New York elites are securing themselves as well. While ordinary folk on Long Island remain completely vulnerable to MS-13 brutality, billionaires who vacation in places like the Hamptons are turning their mansions into de facto fortresses, replete with luxury “panic” rooms. “People used to open up their garages and show off their Lamborghinis,” explains Herman Weisberg, managing director of the personal-security firm Sage Intelligence Group. “Now they take guests to the wine bar in their safe room.
               And while the safe rooms go up, so does the influx of MS-13 gang members. According to Rio Grande Valley Border Patrol Sector Chief Manuel Padilla Jr., the number of arrests of MS-13 gang members in his sector has increased by well over 200%.  How many others evaded arrest?
               East Coast elites aren’t alone. “I finished a [security] system for $100 million,” said Al Corbi, president of SAFE (Strategically Armored & Fortified Environments), in reference to a project he recently completed on the West Coast. “That sounds like a lot but there is nothing I know of, human or manmade, that could possibly harm this family for three generations, including global nuclear holocaust, a pandemic, or a second Ice Age.”
               For other elites, domestic fortresses are insufficient. Seven Silicon Valley entrepreneurs have purchased bunkers and placed them in New Zealand. “New Zealand is an enemy of no one,” said Gary Lynch, general manager of the Rising S Co. that produced the bunkers. “It’s not a nuclear target. It’s not a target for war. It’s a place where people seek refuge.”
               Refuge, or escape from the consequences of their own policies? “The communications kingpins of California have no allegiance to ordinary Californians — or ordinary Americans, for that matter,” asserts columnist Edward Ring. “To them, ordinary people are Pavlovian proles, expendable parasites that pollute the environment. To the extent these kingpins have compassion, it is to profitably create for the expendable multitudes a benign zoo; smart cities of high rises, contained in areas as geographically minute as possible, so that only wild nature, corporate farms, and private estates of the super-rich exist outside the urban containment boundaries.”
               On almost every issue that roils the nation, there is a gargantuan disconnect between elites and ordinary Americans. Those who yell loudest for gun control live in gated communities and/or are surrounded by armed guards, even as they produce  ultra-violent cultural sewage for the masses to consume; those who speak in glowing terms about a globalist economy and open borders don’t go near “flyover” America’s economically ravaged towns and cities that bear the brunt; those who rail about the ravages of global warming travel in private jets, and live in huge mansions; those who would turn you and your children into social media addicts prevent their own families from getting addicted; those who champion public education put their own children in private school.
               And if you don’t like who the “little people” elected as president? Attempt to precipitatea coup d'etat.
               That every bit of it reeks of rank hypocrisy? Communication titans make sure most Americans are too distracted and angry to notice. “If you watch TV news or read most mainstream media, you would believe our country is in meltdown,” writes columnist Salena Zito. She wrote her column while visiting Western Pennsylvania, where she spoke with Green Party mayoral candidate, and black American, Darcelle Slappy, who has it exactly right. “Unlike Washington, we are all just a few notches from each other in either direction,” Slappy asserts, referring to her community where people differing political persuasions — and ethnicities — somehow manage to get along. “We have much more that draws us together than divides us, she adds. "The real division is between the elites and us.
               These elites continue cultivating those divisions with as much relish as they can muster. “You cannot be civil with a political party that wants to destroy what you stand for, what you care about,” declares former dummycrats-Democrat Party standard-bearer liar-Hillary Clinton. “That’s why I believe, if we are fortunate enough to win back the House and or the Senate, that’s when civility can start again.
               No power, no civility? liar-Clinton has issued a clarion call to the same useful-idiot mob that made an utter mockery of the Brett Kavanaugh hearings. And if her extortionist drivel precipitates widespread violence? liar-Clinton, like all her fellow elites, will remain safe and sound.

~The Patriot Post  

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