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China Aims to Block Trump Reelection
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Political Editors  
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John Ratcliffe withdraws name for top intelligence post, as Trump blames 'LameStream Media'
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By Adam Shaw 
{foxnews.com}~ President Trump announced Friday that Rep. John Ratcliffe, R-Texas, is withdrawing as his nominee for director of national intelligence, citing his tough treatment at the hands of “the LameStream Media.”... In a tweet, Trump said that Ratcliffe, whom he tapped to replace Dan Coats, will stay in Congress. “Our great Republican Congressman John Ratcliffe is being treated very unfairly by the LameStream Media. Rather than going through months of slander and libel, I explained to John how miserable it would be for him and his family to deal with these people,” he wrote. “John has therefore decided to stay in Congress where he has done such an outstanding job representing the people of Texas, and our Country.” He added that he will be announcing his new nominee to replace Coats “shortly.” Ratcliffe, a former federal prosecutor who had been a fierce defender of Trump and his agenda, was one of the most vocal critics of former Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. The congressman made headlines last month when he grilled Mueller during a hearing on Capitol Hill. "You wrote 180 pages about decisions that weren’t reached, about potential crimes that weren’t charged or decided," Ratcliffe said to Mueller. "Respectfully, by doing that, you managed to violate every principle and the most sacred of traditions about prosecutors." He also sided with Trump in taking a hard line on immigration, voting in January against the appropriations bill to end a government shutdown because it did not include all the funding for the president’s proposed border wall... 
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Antifa Says It’s Coming To
Texas On September 1st
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by Brandon Morse
redstate.com } ~ Great news, Texans! The domestic terrorist group known as Antifa is coming to our state!..' Finally, after all this time, they’ve decided to step out of locations where they’re protected by politicians, and are saying they’re going to make an appearance for a “10-day siege in El Paso, TX,” according to Antifa’s most hated reporter, Andy Ngo. Ngo sent out a tweet last Monday that showed that Antifa is apparently going on some kind of recruitment tour that ends in Texas, where a hand-drawn picture depicts Antifa shooting bows and arrows, throwing Molotov cocktails, and destroying the border barrier so that illegal migrants can get through. “Antifa is leading a ‘Border Resistance’ militancy training tour that will converge on a 10-day siege in El Paso, TX. The promotional image shows border enforcement officers being killed & government property fired bombed. Organizers asking for ‘white comrades’ to pay for others,” tweeted Ngo. The drawing has a lot of destruction in it, but as you can see, it also depicts deadly violence. Below the burning truck is depicted a dead ICE officer stuck with arrows laying in what appears to be a pool of blood. You can see in the upper right-hand part of the drawing what I assume to be more agents. One falling to his death, stuck with arrows, and another hanging on to the railing of the burning tower. If Antifa believes they’re going to overcome the border agents, they’ve got another thing coming. For one, it’s not ICE they’ll be dealing with. It’s our military, and Texas’s national guard...
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Ex-NOAA Scientist Now Climate-Change Denier
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by wnd.com ~ Censoring evidence, “fiddling” with data and silencing skeptics were part of life at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration... according to a former NOAA scientist who no longer believes carbon dioxide is causing catastrophic climate change. Rex Fleming admitted that while he worked for NOAA, he attributed global warming to carbon dioxide despite “having doubts.” “Eventually I just read enough to realize it’s a totally wrong direction,” he said in a podcast interview July 25 with British journalist James Delingpole. “And so, in the past 10 years, I’d say, I’ve been on the other side.” His conversion, however, has shut him out of academic journals, despite his Ph.D. in atmospheric science. The author of “The Rise and Fall of the Carbon Dioxide Theory of Climate Change,” he told Delingpole he had to travel to Europe to have his 2018 paper on climate change peer-reviewed and published. “The ‘deniers’ have so much evidence,” he said, while the global-warming believers “bring nothing to the table of scientific proof.” “All they have is hearsay. All they have is media coverage. All they have is government people saying it’s true,” said Fleming. He said more scientists would abandon the theory, but they are in “this groove of getting funds for huge, bigger computer systems to run these massive climate models.” “And they want their salaries to increase. They don’t want to change,” he said, describing it as “a wonderful gravy train.” Fleming agreed with Delingpole that carbon dioxide levels historically have risen due to warm temperatures rather than the other way around. “Past climates have been warm and cold and warm and cold with no changes in carbon dioxide,” he said. “How can that be a cause when there’s no correlation?” Fleming said that one of the reasons proponents of the theory of man-caused climate change target the fossil fuel industry is to push socialism...
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scumbag-Richard Blumenthal, Who Embellished Military Record, Wants Trump Nominee’s 
Resume Investigated
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by PETER HASSON
dailycaller.com } ~ Democratic Connecticut Sen. scumbag-Richard Blumenthal, who falsely claimed to have served in the Vietnam War... wants an investigation into reports that President Donald Trump’s nominee for Director of National Intelligence (DNI) embellished his resume.  DNI nominee John Ratcliffe, a Republican Texas congressman, previously said he successfully prosecuted terrorism suspects, despite a lack of evidence to support the claim, The New York Times reported Tuesday. “There needs to be a thorough investigation of his implied claims, which certainly for a director of intelligence, would be especially egregious because he’s dealing with, supposedly, the facts,” scumbag-Blumenthal told MSNBC in a little-noticed clip the network aired Wednesday. scumbag-Blumenthal’s concern about Ratcliffe’s possible embellishment of the facts comes despite the senator’s own embellishment issues.  scumbag-Blumenthal repeatedly claimed in speeches to have served Vietnam — but he never did. “He obtained at least five military deferments from 1965 to 1970 and took repeated steps that enabled him to avoid going to war, according to records,” The NYT reported in 2010... Why is this jerk still in office.
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Iran-Backed Militias Are In Iraq to Stay
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by John Hannah
fdd.org } ~ On July 1, Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi issued a decree directing that militias known as the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) take a series of steps to subjugate themselves to the Iraqi state... According to the order, those groups failing to comply by July 31 will be treated as outlaws. Don’t hold your breath. The odds are high that the deadline will come and go with no meaningful curtailment in the power of the PMF—at least not those Shiite elements allied with Iran, its Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), and Qassem Suleimani, the commander of the Quds Force, the IRGC’s deadly expeditionary arm. Iran’s proxies in Iraq may pretend to comply with the decree. The Iraqi government may pretend to enforce it. But U.S. officials should be under no illusions. Rather than enhancing the government’s control over the PMF, the order is more likely to have the opposite effect, further entrenching Iran’s chokehold on the Iraqi state. I very much hope that I’m wrong. Iraq’s success is deeply personal for me—and not just because I was a senior official in the George W. Bush administration who strongly backed the decision to remove Saddam Hussein from power. I know Mahdi well. I consider him to be a friend and a strong proponent of the U.S.-Iraqi relationship. During my time in government, we spent many hours arguing about developments in Iraq, and his assessments generally proved more right than wrong. I very much want to believe that will be the case now as well with respect to his efforts to rein in the PMF. But I fear that it won’t be. The bottom line is that Mahdi is too weak and Iran’s proxies too strong. The prime minister has the support of no political party. He controls no voting bloc in parliament. He got his position through a negotiated compromise in which Iran and its proxies had a major hand. Although a skilled and restrained technocrat, he’s not a natural political leader capable of mobilizing latent Iraqi nationalism in defense of the country’s rapidly receding independence. But that’s what is most needed if Iraq is to have any near-term chance of resisting Suleimani’s power play. In total, the PMF numbers about 130,000 to 150,000 fighters. Groups directly answerable to the IRGC make up a significant portion of that force and are far and away its most powerful element. These include the U.S.-designated terrorist militias Kataib Hezbollah and Hezbollah al-Nujaba, as well as the Badr Organization and Asaib Ahl al-Haq. In the wake of the 2003 Iraq War, several of these groups worked hand in glove with the IRGC to kill over 600 U.S. troops. They also systematically intimidated, extorted, terrorized, tortured, and killed thousands of Iraqi civilians with the aim of forcing the population to bend the knee to their vision of a pro-Iranian, Islamist Iraq...
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commie-Ocasio-Cortez: Palestinians Must 
“Riot” Against the “Criminal” Israel
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by restoreamericanglory.com ~ Not willing to give leftist ground too her anti-Semitic colleagues worthless-Ilhan Omar and worthless-Rashida Tlaib, Rep. commie-Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez proved this week that she is as extreme as any Muslim... when it comes to demanding that Israel take a backseat to the terrorists of the Palestinian Territories. In an interview with New York radio program “Ebro in the Morning,” commie-AOC said that it was the duty of Palestinians to “riot” against their “criminal” Jewish oppressors. The conversation began with host Ebro Darden asking: “How do you have white supremacist Jews? How do you have people like Stephen Miller? How do you have these individuals who are legit aligning with racism and white supremacy, but they’re Jewish? And it’s something that most people can’t wrap their brains around. But it’s a real thing.” Well, it helps to make sense of it when you realize that Miller is not a racist and that calling him a white supremacist is the very height of absurdity. But then, we assume that liberals like Darden are too far gone to consider that point of view. We see, then, how they would be very confused. “And what’s going on with Israel and Palestine,” he continued, “while it’s very, very deep, it is very, very criminal, and it is very, very unjust.” This sounds like someone who very, very much does not know what he’s talking about. But that didn’t stop commie-Ocasio-Cortez was agreeing. Of course.“Absolutely,” she said. “I think, too, where we’re at as a country when it comes to Israel-Palestine is very much a generational issue.” She said Republicans were off the mark when they criticized opponents of Israel as anti-Semitic. “Criticizing the occupation doesn’t make you anti-Israel, frankly. It doesn’t mean that you are against the existence of a nation,” she said. “It means that you believe in human rights, and it’s about making sure that Palestinian human rights are equal to Israeli human rights, and there are a lot of troubling things happening there... Like the leaders of Palestinians.  http://www.restoreamericanglory.com/breaking-news/ocasio-cortez-palestinians-must-riot-against-the-criminal-israel/  
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China Aims to Block Trump Reelection
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Political Editors:  As China and the U.S. are currently seeking to negotiate an end to the current trade war — a war President Donald Trump did not start but has shown no signs of backing down from — Beijing is looking to play dirty. According to exiled Chinese billionaire Guo Wengui, “China is not only trying [to] interfere in the domestic politics of the United States, they are interfering publicly with U.S. elections.” Wengui further elaborated, “For the 2020 U.S. presidential election, the security committee has given very clear instructions that it is not permissible for Trump to win the 2020 election. … 
President Trump has already caused a lot of damage to the [Chinese Communist Party], so they have declared he will not be allowed to have another four years in power.”

This news is sobering, but not at all surprising. We have previously noted that the Chinese government, unlike the U.S., does not have elections with which the ruling party needs to concern itself. Therefore it’s free to target specific segments of the American economy that are generally most favorable toward Trump in an attempt to threaten him into backing off his effective tariff pressure.

In a speech last October, Vice President Mike Pence acknowledged the threat China posed, warning, “Beijing is employing a whole-of-government approach, using political, economic, and military tools, as well as propaganda, to advance its influence and benefit its interests in the United States. China is also applying this power in more proactive ways than ever before, to exert influence and interfere in the domestic policy and politics of our country.”

Guo further asserted, “We must know that the 2020 presidential election is not really an election campaign between the Republican Party or the Democratic Party. In fact, it is actually a campaign between President Trump and Wang Qishan and Xi Jinping.”

Be it Russia or China or any other foreign power, Americans must be vigilant against nefarious efforts to influence us into supporting the agenda of those who are out to destroy our great nation.  ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/64628?mailing_id=4451&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4451&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body  

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