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Political Tensions in America: 1860 and 2018
by Tom McLaughlin
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A Cry Is Heard In Ramah But UNESCO Won’t Listen
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Thus said the Lord: A cry is heard in Ramah— Wailing, bitter weeping— Rachel weeping for her children. She refuses to be comforted for her children, who are gone. Thus said the Lord: Restrain your voice from weeping, Your eyes from shedding tears; For there is a reward for your labor —declares the Lord: They shall return from the enemy’s land. And there is hope for your future —declares the Lord Your children shall return to their country. (Jeremiah 31:15-17)

{lidblog.com} ~ Last week the UNESCO Executive Board adopted resolutions stating that the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron and Rachel’s Tomb in Bethlehem are both “an integral part of the Occupied Palestinian Territories.”... These resolutions weren’t the first UNESCO’s action against these Jewish heritage sites. In July 2017 UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee declared that the old city of Hebron and the Tomb of the Patriarchs were endangered “Palestinian” heritage sites. A 2010, report by the organization branded the Tomb of Rachel a mosque. A strategy of the Palestinians in their ultimate goal of taking over the entirety of Israel is to deny Jewish ties to the land. They do this by taking over and destroying Jewish Holy sites. It is why they’ve used the UN to target the Temple Mount, the Cave of the Patriarchs, Rachel’s Tomb, and other places holy to the Jewish people. Approximately 38 centuries ago, Abraham, our forefather purchased a cave in Hebron to bury his beloved wife, Sarah. It was the first piece of land officially owned by what would become the Jews. According to the Torah (Genesis chapter 23 verses 1-20), Abraham overpaid for the land so there would never be a doubt that he owned it fair and square I guess God didn’t tell him about Antisemitism and the UN...  https://lidblog.com/unesco-cry-ramala/
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Yes, Mr. President, the Kremlin Murders 
Its Enemies—Even in the USA
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{observer.com} ~ On 60 Minutes Sunday night, President Trump finally admitted that Vladimir Putin “probably” murders his opponents abroad... but he insisted the Kremlin wouldn’t do such a thing in the United States. Many in U.S. intelligence would disagree. The mystery on everyone’s mind right now is the October 2 disappearance of the Saudi journalist-turned-dissident Jamal Khashoggi, who went missing at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. As I explained in my last column, there’s good reason to believe that Khashoggi, a legal resident of the United States, was murdered by Saudi intelligence, a conclusion that looks firmer with each day he fails to appear. Khashoggi’s disappearance is a problem for the White House, given the close relationship between the Trump administration and Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman, the Kingdom’s de facto leader, whose dislike for the dissident was no secret. Worse, the National Security Agency gave the White House advance warning that the Saudis planned to harm Khashoggi, but Team Trump apparently did nothing or at least nothing effective to protect the doomed journalist. With trademark bluster, President Trump promised “severe punishment” if Riyadh killed Khashoggi, but this morning he undercut that with a tweet, stating“Just spoke to the King of Saudi Arabia who denies any knowledge of whatever may have happened” to the missing man, adding that he’s dispatching Mike Pompeo, our top diplomat, to discuss the case with the Saudi king. President Trump needs this embarrassing case to go away, but that’s unlikely. Our European allies are turning up the heat,  demanding answers. Worse for the White House, Congressional rumblings indicate that the Hill, too, wants to know what happened to Khashoggi. As Florida Republican Senator Marco Rubio explained, “If they lured this man into that consulate, they went medieval on him, and he was killed, and he was chopped up and they sent a death crew down there to kill him and do all this, that would be an outrage.”...  https://observer.com/2018/10/60-minutes-trump-interview-vladamir-putin-murders-enemies-in-usa-mikhail-lesin/?utm_campaign=national-politics&utm_content=2018-16-10-14767451&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_term=National%20Politics%20Minus%20Yahoo
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Turkish officials claim police found evidence
Jamal Khashoggi was murdered in Saudi consulate
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{washingtonexaminer.com} ~ Turkish officials told reporters Tuesday that police have found evidence that Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered... inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. Turkish police conducted a search of the consulate Monday and Tuesday and claim to have found "certain evidence" that Khashoggi was indeed murdered there, according to the Associated Press. Investigators spent roughly nine hours searching the consulate for clues as to the reason for Khashoggi's disappearance. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said the search was complicated because some of the rooms inside the consulate were freshly painted, raising some questions. "My hope is that we can reach conclusions that will give us a reasonable opinion as soon as possible, because the investigation is looking into many things such as toxic materials and those materials being removed by painting them over," Erdogan told reporters Tuesday. The White House did not immediately respond to request for comment regarding the findings. The journalist was last seen the afternoon of Oct. 2 entering the Saudi mission. Turkish officials believe Khashoggi was murdered inside the embassy, where he was to fill out paperwork for his wedding, and previously told U.S. officials they have audio and video evidence to prove it. The officials claim Khashoggi was dismembered at the consulate...
Lindsey Graham: ‘I’m Going to 
Sanction the Hell Out of Saudi Arabia’
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{nationalreview.com} ~ Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina attacked Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman over his alleged role in the disappearance of journalist Jamal Khashoggi... during a Tuesday appearance on Fox and Friends. “I’m not going back to Saudi Arabia as long as this guy is in charge,” Graham said of bin Salman. “I’ve been their biggest defender on the floor of the United States Senate. This guy is a wrecking ball. He had Khashoggi murdered in a consulate in Turkey and to expect me to ignore it, I feel used and abused. The MBS figure is to me toxic, he can never be a world leader on the world stage.” “It’s up to the president, but what I would do — Well, I know what I’m going to do. I’m gonna sanction the hell out of Saudi Arabia,” Graham added when asked if Trump should impose sanctions on Saudi Arabia. Khashoggi, a former Saudi royal insider who recently turned against the regime, entered the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on October 2 to finalize paperwork required for his upcoming marriage, but never emerged. After initially denying any involvement in the incident,  Saudi officials are expected to claim in a forthcoming report that Khashoggi was killed during an unapproved interrogation and abduction gone awry...
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Six dummycrats-Democratic Scandals 
the Networks Are Burying This Election Year
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by Geoffrey Dickens
{newsbusters.org} ~ As the midterms fast approach, there are a bunch of dummycrats-Democrats who find themselves embroiled in scandals and controversies... But if you only got your news from the Big Three (ABC, CBS, NBC) networks, you’ve probably never heard about them. The networks have been doing their best to protect dummycrats-Democratic midterm interests by downplaying or completely ignoring dummycrats-Democrats who have gotten into trouble this campaign season. MRC analysts looked at the network evening, morning and Sunday round table shows to see how they covered or didn’t cover various 2018 dummycrats-Democratic scandals or gaffes. From Texas Senate dummycrats-Democratic challenger socialists-Beto O’Rourke lying about his DUI arrest to dummycrats-DNC chair scumbag-Keith Ellison being accused of domestic violence, the following is a list of dummycrats-Democratic controversies that the nets are keeping their audiences for the most part in the dark about:  socialists-Beto O’Rourke Lied About DUI Arrest - Senate Admonishes Robert Menendez for Accepting Gifts - Sen. Claire McCaskill’s Husband Takes Advantage of Government Program for Poor to Make Millions - Former Staffer for dummycrats-Democratic Rep. scumbag-Sheila Jackson Lee Arrested for Doxxing Republicans - dummycrats-Democratic Governor Nominee Jared Polis Pushes Female Employee - scumbag-Keith Ellison Accused of Domestic Violence   https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/geoffrey-dickens/2018/10/15/six-democratic-scandals-networks-are-burying-election-year?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiWWpCaU9HTTRaams0TVRNMiIsInQiOiJSa0tyOW1UckFJbVwvSHZlVnFCbGlyXC9ZK0pyZWttemk5VlVpNFdQSGN3eEc5UmFWd1FjYzVVZGJHRnVvdU5DQ1ErRXRxUWFqWjV6ZXhCQ3ptczFHQ2gxNUJ3d29iT0IrQ2dwZmVnempsTGk1ajduRit2VFV5c3lRbmxmc1wvTUJIRiJ9
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Political Tensions in America: 1860 and 2018
by Tom McLaughlin
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{tommclaughlin.blogspot.com} ~ Growing political divisions in our country worry me. I used to help students understand what lead Americans to kill each other by the thousands between 1861 and 1865, and now I see tensions building again. Could America be heading for another civil war? I sure hope not, but I can’t ignore what I’m seeing around me.
 
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A left-wing sniper last year fired over 200 rounds at a group of Republican congressmen at a baseball practice just outside Washington DC and nearly killed one, crippling him for life. This year a congresswoman told her constituents to harass Trump cabinet members saying: “They won’t be able to go to a restaurant, they won’t be able to stop at a gas station, they’re not going to be able to shop at a department store. The people are going to turn on them. They’re going to protest. They’re absolutely going to harass them until they decide that they’re going to tell the president, ‘No, I can’t hang with you.’”
 
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Radical, left-wing “Antifa” groups attack whomever they perceive as “fascist” with increasing frequency and define the term to include most Republicans and conservatives. Bloody street brawls are getting commonplace. Other radical left groups advocate assassinations on twitter and other social media. Radical, right-wing activists have shot abortion doctors. The New York Times reports: “At least 11 people have been killed in attacks on abortion clinics in the United States since 1993.” A woman was run over and killed by a “Unite The Right” activist in Charlottesville last year.
 
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With all this in mind, I invited local Civil War historian William Marvel of Conway, NH to appear on my “Left and Right” show and get his opinion. He’s at work on his 18th book about that awful conflict and I opened by asking him if he sees parallels between the political divisions in 2018 and 1860.
 
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“Well, in many ways I do,” he said. “There is certainly the same sort of polarization, fragmentation among the major parties, hostility for opposing viewpoints.” He related a discussion with a friend at the local dump after the 2016 election “about whether we are more divided now than we have been since the Civil War. My conclusion was that we are as divided now. Whether it will lead to the same thing, I doubt.”
 
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“Oh good,” I said.

“But that’s only because divisions are among communities, not between communities. The geographic cohesiveness of the slave issue allowed for a regional contest… but certainly, the seeds of societal and governmental dissolution are there now, through simple fragmentation and hostility toward government, depending on who’s in charge.”
 
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I remembered sound bites preceding documentaries on the Civil War describing that conflict as father against son and brother against brother. Well, today’s divisions have affected my family,” I said. “We no longer discuss politics at family gatherings. It’s verboten now because it’s become so emotional it threatens relationships.”
 
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Marvel said he’s had similar experiences. Though his immediate family has almost all passed on, “I’ve had… virtually altercations with friends with whom I used to be in political concert.” He said he used to be liberal and twice voted for scumbag/liar-nObama, but now people perceive him as conservative. He doesn’t see that he’s changed much though. “To me, it’s society. In moving much farther to the left, society has made me look more conservative.”
 
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I then asked him to consider the Bolshevik Revolution/Russian civil war a century ago that didn’t have clear geographical delineations but was ideological with a left and right divid
 
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“Well, we have certainly a lot of mob violence now,” he said, “almost entirely on the left…” Referring to Congresswoman scumbag/mad-Maxine Waters incitement he said, “An economic uprising among urban masses is possible, but whether that would lead to bloodshed I don’t know because, well, New York certainly has strict gun laws and I don’t know if a revolution could succeed on six-round magazines.”
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He then speculated on the possibility of armed conflict that might spark a civil war. “That might come from outside. Oftentimes, when individual nations are divided between themselves, neighbors or rivals will take advantage of that. That often creates an international conflict that foments an internal rebellion. But the emotional impetus for that certainly is there.”
 
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Mention of emotion led to a discussion of the Justice Kavanaugh hearings in the Senate as a window on America’s ever-deepening political divide. “Although I don’t know… how I would feel about Kavanaugh as a Supreme Court Justice, it’s more important now that he be confirmed to discredit and disavow the process that’s been used to try to destroy him. That’s more important, I think, than whatever his rise to the Supreme Court might yield.”
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