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Cheap Talk
by Tom McLaughlin
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Monday Top Headlines
Trump administration prepared for Harvey response. (The Hill)
Trump delivers Sheriff Joe Arpaio a well-deserved pardon. (Fox News)
Sebastian Gorka, a fiery nationalist and Bannon ally, abruptly exits White House. (The Washington Post)
Yes, Russian collusion — with U.S. Energy Development opponents. (Daily Signal)
Black-clad antifa attack peaceful alt-right demonstrators in Berkeley. (The Washington Post)
Police investigate whether NBC affiliate was involved in monument vandalism. (KFYI)
Charlottesville solves Robert E. Lee statue problem by … covering it with a giant tarp. (Hot Air)
California threatens jail time for dissenters from the new transgender dogma. (National Review)
Ninth Circuit blocks praying coach’s push to get high school job back. (The Daily Signal)
Students calling for removal of “offensive” LGBT flag too. (New York Post)
Christian group sues Southern Poverty Law Center, Amazon. (Powerline)
George Soros floods local DA races with $1.7M in Philadelphia. (The Washington Free Beacon)
Navy relieves admiral in charge of 7th Fleet in wake of deadly disasters at sea. (Paywall — The Wall Street Journal)
Trump issues guidance on transgender military ban. (Fox News)
Wasserman Schultz’s “Islamophobia” claim prompts angered Marine to go public on Awans. (News World TV/YouTube)
Drowning in debt: The People’s Republic of Connecticut. (Reuters)
Bundy Ranch standoff trial ends with zero guilty verdicts. (Arizona Central)
Policy: How the smartphone affected an entire generation of kids. (Institute for Family Studies)
Policy: The change that must happen in higher ed. (The Daily Signal) ~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/50961
https://patriotpost.us/articles/50961
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The Absent-Minded PODESTA –
Forgot To Report WORKING With RUSSIA Again
by rickwells.us
{rickwells.us} ~ Snarky former liar-Clinton campaign honcho John Podesta sure seems to have a bad memory for someone who holds so many important positions involving large amounts of money and foreign governments – like Putin’s Russia, Russia, Russia... In addition to failing to register under the Foreign Agent Registration Act (FARA) for his lobbying on behalf of Russia’s largest bank, Sberbank, the Podesta Group’s 32 meetings with Ukraine as lobbyists during liar-Hillary Clinton’s tenure at the State Department, Uranium One, Joule Energy and countless other “mental lapses” when his collusion completely slipped his mind, a new instance comes to light. Just a few days ago, on August 17th, the Podesta Group belatedly filed several new disclosures with the Justice Department. They are relevant to the lobbying performed between 2012 and 2014 for a pro-Russia Ukrainian think tank. More Russian collusion by the Democrats – Adam Schiff needs to know about this. It could be vital to his “objective” Russian campaign collusion investigation...I do think he knows, but is looking the other way. http://rickwells.us/absent-minded-podesta-forgot-report-working-russia/.
{israeltoday.co.il} ~ Both sides and the mainstream media tried to give a positive spin, but there's every indication that last week's meeting between US special envoy Jared Kushner and Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas was just as stormy as the first time the two men got together back in June... Abbas reportedly told Kushner that he'd work together with the Trump Administration to find a solution to the Israeli-Arab conflict. But just days earlier, the Palestinian Authority (PA) had said that, behind closed doors, it would also give Kushner a firm ultimatum -- deliver Israeli concessions within 45 days, or we "blow up" your peace process... http://www.israeltoday.co.il/NewsItem/tabid/178/nid/32260/Default.aspx
Palestinians Threaten to 'Blow Up' Peace Process
After Trump Refuses to Back Two-State Solution
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Navy ‘Orion Hammer’ Investigation into USS
John McCain Collision Has Turned Up
No Evidence of Cyber Attack
by Sam LaGrone
{news.usni.org} ~ A Navy investigation has turned up little evidence supporting the idea that USS John S. McCain (DDG-56) was a victim of a cyber attack... making it more likely that mechanical failure or crew error is to blame for the Aug. 21 collision between the destroyer and a chemical tanker. Operation Orion Hammer, the Navy tasking to investigate potential cyber interference in the operation of the guided-missile destroyer, has not uncovered any indications that a cyber attack affected the ship’s control systems just prior to the crash, three Navy officials confirmed to USNI News on Thursday. McCain reportedly lost control of its steering just moments before the collision with tanker Alnic MC in a busy shipping channel... https://news.usni.org/2017/08/25/navy-orion-hammer-investigation-uss-john-mccain-collision-turned-no-evidence-cyber-attack?utm_source=USNI+News&utm_campaign=9a7839fc9c-USNI_NEWS_DAILY&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_0dd4a1450b-9a7839fc9c-231491269&mc_cid=9a7839fc9c&mc_eid=3999f18767.
CIA Veteran Sees Russian Connection
to 2 Groups Opposing Fracking, Pipelines
by Kevin Mooney
{dailysignal.com} ~ Some environmental activists who pressure politicians to halt production of natural gas are acting as “agents of influence” on behalf of the Kremlin and Russian energy interests... according to a retired CIA officer’s analysis of the money trail. As they lead the charge against two natural gas pipelines, activists allied with a statewide group called Virginia Organizing advance Russia’s geopolitical ambitions at the expense of U.S. energy independence, 29-year CIA veteran Kenneth L. Stiles told The Daily Signal. Two of these local environmental groups “are, without a doubt, agents of influence to Moscow through a networking system of shell companies and foundations,” Stiles said... http://dailysignal.com/2017/08/25/cia-veteran-sees-russian-connection-to-2-groups-opposing-fracking-pipelines/?utm_source=TDS_Email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=MorningBell&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTWpZME1HWmtNR015WWpJeCIsInQiOiJcL3ludzFvVWI5bmpiTnE0RVdpeW1Cd1RQdGxwRzMwU2RWeFk1ZXIrK3BpZFY0dGhpQmtUZXZ2akZUXC9cL1ZqXC8yelViQ2hzdnZMYmRoUmgyaWZreWtnRnczcGMza0ZSdHFoTDlVMDhtMnZYWGErbVBpTzBKZ1c4WkVGOExtVGhMZG8ifQ%3D%3D.
Ex-CIA Chief WOOLSEY Frustrates
LEMON “TRUMP Is CRAZY” Disinfo
by rickwells.us
{rickwells.us} ~ CNN’s resident racist in chief and anti-Trump attack poodle, Little Donnie Lemon, picked the wrong guest for his Trump hate festival that focused negatively on his Phoenix speech... After engaging with a panel of sycophantic leftists who took turns bashing our President, little Donnie played a clip of Senate perjurer and former DNI James Clapper delivering a badly acted, horribly articulated, intellectually dishonest and fact-free assault on President Trump. His guest was former CIA Director James Woolsey, a former Trump adviser, who Lemon should have known would be the UFO in the punchbowl. He responds to the comments of the admitted “downright scared and disturbed” dunderhead Clapper as Lemon obviously tries to orchestrate and elicit the demeaning response he never gets... http://rickwells.us/ex-cia-chief-woolsey-frustrates-lemon-trump-crazy-disinfo/
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Cheap Talk
by Tom McLaughlin
{tommclaughlin.blogspot.com} ~ Actions speak louder than words. Talk is cheap. Put up or shut up. Prove it.
There are many ways to say it, but they all come down to one thing: Do you mean what you say? For anyone claiming to be a leader that means warn once, then execute. Never bluff.
When Saddam Hussein first took steps develop nuclear capabilities in the Iraqi desert, Israel sent jets in to destroy his facility at Osirak. In and out went the planes — a surgical strike. That was June, 1981. When Bashar Assad built a nuclear facility in Syria called Al Kibar for the same purpose, Israeli jets destroyed that too. In and out went the planes — another surgical strike. That was September, 2007.
Syria's Al Kibar destroyed
With the destruction of Osirak, Israeli Prime Minister Menachim Begin established his doctrine: “prevent confrontation states … from gaining access to nuclear weapons.” Both Iraq and Syria had tried to invade Israel after declaring it had no right to exist.
When the Kim dynasty was threatening the United States and simultaneously building nuclear facilities in North Korea, American military officials advised sending jets in to destroy them. President liar-Clinton instead deployed former President Carter and a lead negotiator named Wendy Sherman for talks. They came up with the 1994 deal under which North Korea promised to freeze its nuclear program. In return, the United States gave $4 billion to develop nuclear reactors that would ostensibly be for generating electricity. We also gave them $100 million in oil and some food.
Then in 1998, two things happened: One — North Korea was caught sending missile technology to Pakistan, itself a nuclear power, Two — it tested an ICBM. Four years later in 2006, North Korea tested its first nuclear weapon. That same year, Israeli intelligence photos showed North Korean workers helping to build the Al Kibar reactor in Syria the Israelis later destroyed. Clearly, the liar-Clinton/Carter/Sherman agreement was a disaster and North Korea couldn’t be trusted. In the middle of all this, however, Carter won the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize.
All through the George W. Bush administration, aid to North Korea was suspended and restarted, talks were restarted and suspended and restarted over and over. Long story short, North Korea continued testing missiles and nuclear devices, just as it is today. One thing Bush did was declare Iran, Iraq, and North Korea “The Axis of Evil” which the left criticized as too simplistic. President liar-nObama repeated the bluffing and talking cycle during his eight years with about the same results.
Hey, what could go wrong?
Thus did the Kim Jong Il learn how gullible the United States and the United Nations could be. He continued promising to stop developing nuclear weapons and the missiles to deliver them — and the USA continued sending aid for his starving citizens. When he wasn’t making fools of US presidents, he would stay up late watching old Daffy Duck cartoons. Meanwhile, his chubby son Kim Jong Un was taking notes.
So were the Mullahs in Iran. They played the same game with Presidents Bush and liar-nObama and got everything they wanted. liar-nObama even used the same chief negotiator, Wendy Sherman, that President liar-Clinton used for the 1994 debacle. liar-nObama and hanoi-Kerry insist Iran will not have nukes for ten or fifteen years. Can we trust Iran to comply until then? About as much as we can trust North Korea — which is not at all. We cannot send inspectors into Iran to verify compliance because Iran inspects itself under the Wendy Sherman/John hanoi-Kerry agreement — and they get back their $150 billion in frozen assets up front.
Why didn’t anyone get tough with the Kims? Former Trump advisor Steve Bannon said out loud what everyone suspected just before he resigned: “Until somebody solves the part of the equation that shows me that 10 million people in Seoul don’t die in the first 30 minutes from conventional weapons, I don’t know what you’re talking about. There’s no military solution here; they got us.” He was talking, of course, about the 10,000 mobile artillery pieces aimed at Seoul, South Korea. We have no way of neutralizing them.
How about in Iran? Were we ever able to take out Iranian nukes militarily? Yes, but not without pain. Iran has Hezbollah proxy armies in Lebanon and Syria ready to use rockets and other assets against Israel, not to mention another proxy army in Gaza under Hamas. Nonetheless, Israel was ready and willing to attack Iran’s nuke facilities just as it had Iraq’s and Syria’s. Saudi Arabia would have allowed Israeli planes to fly over its air space to Iran. If the USA had supplied two things: in-air refueling for Israeli jets and bunker-busting technology for destroying underground facilities, Israel would have attacked. Many expected President Bush to help out, but he never did. Nobody ever expected President liar-nObama to.
In Bush’s Axis of Evil triumvirate, North Korea has nukes and Iran will soon. Thanks to Israel, Iraq won’t. Now it’s all in Trump’s hands.
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