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To: Shoot1st who wrote (16220)

6/18/2015 11:03:58 PM

From: joseffy

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Blumenthal Email Confirms: Libya Was To Be Hillary’s Crowning Accomplishment
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Paul wrote earlier today about the trove of Libya-related emails that Sidney Blumenthal has turned over to a House committee. The emails are embarrassing to Hillary Clinton because she received the emails from Blumenthal, but apparently failed to produce them to the committee. For the most part, these emails have not yet been made public, but National Review has exclusively obtained one of them; it is reproduced in full below.

This memo is dated August 22, 2011, immediately after the fall of Qaddafi’s government. It is interesting for several reasons. First, it shows Blumenthal giving Hillary political advice. Second, it confirms that Libya was intended to be Hillary’s great accomplishment as Secretary of State, for which she was to take full credit. Third, it is striking how Blumenthal’s comments about Libya sound as though he was talking about Iraq.

Blumenthal writes:

First, brava! This is a historic moment and you will be credited for realizing it.

When Qaddafi himself is finally removed, you should of course make a public statement before the cameras wherever you are, even in the driveway of your vacation house. You must establish yourself in the historical record at this moment.

The most important phrase is: “successful strategy.” …

This is a very big moment historically and for you. History will tell your part in it. You are vindicated.

This is deeply ironic and, at this point, embarrassing to Mrs. Clinton. The fact that Hillary wanted Libya to go down in history as her great achievement is not new; we wrote about it here and elsewhere. The problem with Hillary’s “successful strategy” is that she had no plan for what would follow after Qaddafi’s overthrow. (She may have had a wish, but a wish unaccompanied by the ability to influence events on the ground is not a plan.) What happened was that the vacuum caused by Qaddafi’s removal was filled–predictably–by Islamic extremists. Libya became a terrorist playground. This is why, a year after Hillary and Sid were patting each other on the back, Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans were murdered in a terrorist attack. It was the ultimate proof, but by no means the first or the last proof, of the failure of Hillary’s policy. Critics of Mrs. Clinton’s tenure as Secretary of State should talk less about Benghazi and more about Libya.

Blumenthal goes on to put Hillary’s Libyan triumph in the context of the Obama administration’s poor foreign policy record:

Be aware that some may attempt to justify the flamingly stupid “leading from behind” phrase, junior types on the NSC imagining their cleverness. To refute this passive construction on US policy and help remove it as an albatross from the administration as it enters the election year, do not be defensive but rather simply explain that the US had a clear strategy from the start, stuck with it and has succeeded.

“Flamingly stupid,” indeed. This is the first time I can recall agreeing with Sid Blumenthal.

Blumenthal goes on to supply Secretary Clinton with talking points on the reasons for overthrowing Qaddafi:

Do not skimp on the reasons in the US interest behind the successful strategy: We prevented a humanitarian tragedy on a vast scale. … The US has demonstrated its principled belief in the rule of law and acted on the basis of the United Nations resolution. We have supported the legitimate aspirations of the Libyan people for democracy and freedom. We have ousted a murderous dictator who has been terrorism, civil war throughout Africa and a prop for dictators elsewhere. By acting in Libya we have helped advance the cause of democracy and freedom throughout the Arab world. … We have put Assad on notice that the sands of time have run out for him as well. Our successful strategy in Libya stands as a warning that our strategy will work again.

Sid Blumenthal, neocon. Of course, one basic difference between Iraq and Libya is that the Bush administration had a plan for what would happen after Saddam was gone, and they executed it, with mixed results. The almost incredible fact is that the Obama administration–most notably, Hillary Clinton–had no meaningful plan for what would follow Qaddafi. The result was, almost immediately, a disaster. This is the fact that should be pounded home whenever Hillary’s tenure as Secretary of State is under discussion.

Here is the Blumenthal memo of August 22, 2011:

268992426 Sidney Blumenthal Memo

To: Shoot1st who wrote (16220)	6/18/2015 11:07:51 PM
From: joseffy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 16547

WHERE WAS THE VOTE WHETHER WE WANTED A WOMAN ON THE $10 BILL OR NOT ???

To: Shoot1st who wrote (16220)	6/18/2015 11:24:17 PM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 16547

Boehner Denies Conservative Amendments to Obamatrade Deal – But Allows Democrats to Amend the Bill .............................................................................. RightWingNews ^ \| 18 Jun 15 \| Greg Campbell

To: Shoot1st who wrote (16220)	6/19/2015 12:04:51 AM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 16547

How would the left be reacting to Charleston if it had been a Muslim shooter at a Pam Geller event.? David Burge ?@iowahawkblog 16h16 hours ago

To: Shoot1st who wrote (16220)	6/19/2015 5:55:32 PM
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Houston district opens ‘Arabic Immersion School’ to create ‘global citizens’ .......................................................................................... Education Action Group Foundation ^ \| Victor Skinner

To: Shoot1st who wrote (16220)	6/20/2015 12:51:13 PM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 16547

Black 911 caller kills responding officer Officer Sonny Kim, 48 .................................................................................................................................... Jun 20, 2015 wisn.com (CNN) —While friends were commenting on his last Facebook post Friday -- and some were reading text messages indicating his plan to commit suicide by cop -- Trepierre Hummons called 911 then waited with a gun for police to arrive, Cincinnati police said . Killer Trepierre Hummons When they did, he and shot and killed 48-year-old Officer Sonny Kim, a husband and father of three, police said. Officer Sonny Kim Then he opened fire on two more officers, said Cincinnati Police Chief Jeffery Blackwell. The police, while armed, didn't know what they'd walked into. That's because when when the 21-year-old Hummons called the emergency operator, he didn't hint at his plan. Instead he pretended to be a concerned witness who'd seen a man acting erratically with a gun, according to 911 and dispatch tapes released by police. "He's walking around getting belligerent with a gun," Hummons told the operator. Then he gave a description of himself in a shaky voice. "Very early 20s ... about like 5 (foot) 6 ... he's a little thick fellow." 'Shots fired!' The operator took down his name and number. Hummons thanked her. She ended the call and dispatched an officer. Hummons dialed 911 again to make sure police were on their way, and he repeated his location. Moments later, the dispatcher repeated to an officer the description of the irate man with the gun. "Copy, I'm in the area," the officer answered her before bursting into shouts: "Shots fired! Shots fired!" Hummons wounded Kim multiple times in spite of the protective vest he wore, the police chief said. And when a probation officer arrived moments later, Hummons shot at him, too. At some point, Hummons' mother came out to the street. Struggle for gun "The suspect then returned to Police Officer Kim, who was lying wounded on the street and began to fight with him in an effort to take the officer's firearm," Blackwell said. Kim struggled as he bled, but couldn't hang on to his weapon. When a third officer, Tom Sandmann, arrived, Hummons used Kim's gun to fire at him. But Sandmann returned fire and wounded Hummons. Both Hummons and Kim later died at a hospital. As a juvenile, Hummons had been arrested on burglary, robbery and for illegally carrying a concealed weapon, Blackwell said. As an adult, he was a member of a local gang called the Clutch Gang, the police chief said. The same day he instigated the shootout, Hummons had been reported for a sex offense, Blackwell said. No one warned police Hummons' cryptic goodbye message received dozens of comments, likes and shares. "I love every last one of y'all to whoever has been in my life .... . "You're the real mvp," he posted on Facebook, using an acronym for Most Valuable Player. He sent a handful of people text messages about his plan to commit suicide by cop. Blackwell said he wishes someone would have notified police about the messages. "That didn't happen in this case, unfortunately," he said, "and we lost one of our best police officers." Officer Kim spent his spare time as a karate instructor and was a rare sixth-degree black belt, CNN affiliate WLWT reported. His students laid bouquets of flowers outside his school.

To: Shoot1st who wrote (16220)	6/20/2015 12:59:06 PM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 16547

Dutch Government/TV station sabotage Geert Wilders’ planned broadcast VladTepes blog ^ \| June 20, 2015 \| Eeyore Posted on 6/20/2015, 8:19:43 AM by wtd Dutch Government/TV station sabotage Geert Wilders’ planned broadcastShowing that the Netherlands, like most of Europe and Canada, are at least partly under the sharia and moving more that direction and away from our own cultural and constitutionally mandated laws where they conflict with islamic values. Wilders blames sabotage for failure to broadcast Mohammed cartoonsThe national public broadcasting company NPO is investigating why a party political broadcast by the PVV showing anti-Mohammed drawings was not transmitted as planned. PVV leader Geert Wilders pledged to show the drawings during the broadcast but instead an old item was aired instead. Wilders has accused the public broadcaster of sabotage and has now placed the item featuring the cartoons, which is 2.45 minutes long, on YouTube. The video is due to be broadcast twice more later this month YouTube: Video Muhammad Cartoons - Geert Wilders (English subtitles) 2:45 (301 views at time of post) Official PVV (Freedom Party) Press Release on this issue: Dutch public television sabotaged broadcast Muhammad cartoons Today, it looks like the Dutch public television sabotaged the political broadcast by the Party for Freedom. In this broadcast, PVV leader Geert Wilders wanted to show a selection of Mouhammad cartoons from the Garland exhibition, which was attacked by terrorists last month. Geert Wilders: “It is an absolute disgrace, if the public television censored a broadcast by a political party. Freedom of speech has been violated. This is scandalous in a democratic country!” Now, we will show the cartoons on June, 24 at 17.55 pm on NPO1

To: Shoot1st who wrote (16220)	6/20/2015 1:06:05 PM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 16547

To Stop Mass Killers, We Have To Stop Drugging Our Young Boys ........................................................................................................ Breitbart - Big Government ^ \| 6-19-2015 \| Milo Yiannopoulos by Milo Yiannopoulos19 Jun 2015 1269 As America comes to terms with a monstrous shooting in Charleston that has left nine churchgoers dead, bewildered members of the public are seeking rationality in apparently wanton and inscrutable crimes. We may never know quite what drives some people to kill. But it seems that in young Dylann Storm Roof, we have further evidence of a trend that should worry us all. I’m talking about his dependence on prescription drugs: suboxone, to be precise. Roof is just the latest in a long line of young men who have committed appalling crimes after a lifetime on psychotropic drugs. If you don’t believe me, consider some of the most notorious young male shooters in American history. Sandy Hook shooter Adam Lanza? Lexapro and Celexa. Red-headed Aurora killer James Holmes? Clonazepam and sertraline. Virginia Tech mass murderer Seung-Hui Cho? Prozac. Charles Whitman, the “Texas Tower Sniper”? Dexedrine. Columbine executioners Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold? Zoloft and Luvox. You get the idea. These young men were all on prescribed medication. Feminism helped to get them there. In particular, female teachers who either dislike men or are completely ignorant of healthy behaviour norms for boys are creating a generation of emotionally stunted, drugged up young men. Millions of young American men are prescribed powerful drugs after being diagnosed with the phantom condition “ADHD,” better known as a mixture of natural boisterousness and poor parental discipline. The mere fact of being male has become pathologised. When they get into their teens and early twenties, they graduate onto drugs like Zoloft and Prozac, drugs that can produce a powerfully dissociative effect in the mind, muddying the distinctions between reality and fantasy. All this, because boys are now treated as though they are defective girls. After a year of reading the research on what America is doing to its men, and interviewing hundreds of young men in preparation for my book on the GamerGate controversy, I have come to believe that in most cases it’s not games, or movies, or “misogyny,” or “racism” that drives young men to kill. It is the increasing sense of isolation and disorientation young boys feel in a world that now feels architected against them. Dylann Roof’s actions are unlikely to have been primarily motivated by race, even though he may have identified as a white supremacist. For one thing, half his Facebook friends were black. Similarly, Elliot Rodgers wasn’t a misogynist in any meaningful sense of the word. What these terrible crimes express more clearly is a crisis in masculinity – a crisis brought about by the way we treat boys in schools. Men, in particular introverts, and especially highly intelligent introverts who sit near the top of the autistic spectrum, are routinely ridiculed in society, cast out as “manbabies” and “privileged oppressors.” The lived experience of such men is precisely the opposite of privilege: they are punished for being boys at school, branded “creeps” or, worse, rapists for showing sexual interest at college, and after all that – assuming they even graduate – they are discriminated against in job applications. If “Dylann” “Storm” “Roof” deserves ridicule for anything, it’s his ridiculous name and that 1990s lesbian pudding-bowl haircut, not the fact that he is a man struggling to find his place in an increasingly feminised culture. What was his mother thinking? Namby-pamby culture in schools is partly to blame for the current crisis in manhood. Teachers, who are overwhelmingly female, freak out at boyish things like play-fighting, cops and robbers and even playing “finger guns.” At best, this is silly over-policing of natural male exuberance. At worst, it is holding boys to feminine standards of behaviour. It’s not hard to understand why some boys, after enduring this for a decade, finally snap in a tragic violent outburst. By suppressing male behaviours in school and whacking boys on psychotropic medication, we create a perfect storm almost guaranteed to produce broken young men who want to lash out at a world they feel has hurt them. After all, the outlook for young men these days is desperately bleak, which explains why so many of them are giving up on relationships and even sex and retreating into pornography and video games. I call it the “sexodus.” Medication like Paxil, which Donald Schell was taking when he killed himself and three other people, is society’s answer to its deep discomfort with traditional masculinity. Our authorities don’t know how to stop men behaving like men, so they drug boys into submission.(A jury ruled that the drug company that makes Paxil was partly responsible for Schell’s meltdown.) It is a sadistic and high-risk strategy. And it isn’t working. Feminists like to bang on about “toxic masculinity” in wake of atrocities like Charleston. But it’s not masculinity that’s toxic: it’s the chemicals we’re pumping into our young men’s bloodstreams, frying their brains and turning them into washed-out addicts and dissociative lunatics who go out and murder anyone they can easily victimise, particularly girls. As ever, it’s women that feminism hurts the most. And it’s going to get worse before it gets better – unless we stop drugging our young men and allow boys to be boys.

To: Shoot1st who wrote (16220)	6/20/2015 1:19:28 PM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 16547

Every Mass Shooting Shares One Thing In Common & It’s NOT Weapons ........................................................................................................................... http://www.freerepublic.com/%5Ehttp://www.ammoland.com/2013/04/every-mass-shooting-in-the-last-20-years-shares-psychotropic-drugs/#axzz3dbQmg5jt \| April 1, 2013 \| Dan Roberts Nearly every mass shooting incident in the last twenty years, and multiple other instances of suicide and isolated shootings all share one thing in common, and its not the weapons used. The overwhelming evidence points to the signal largest common factor in all of these incidents is the fact that all of the perpetrators were either actively taking powerful psychotropic drugs or had been at some point in the immediate past before they committed their crimes. Multiple credible scientific studies going back more than a decade, as well as internal documents from certain pharmaceutical companies that suppressed the information show that SSRI drugs ( Selective Serotonin Re-Uptake Inhibitors ) have well known, but unreported side effects, including but not limited to suicide and other violent behavior. One need only Google relevant key words or phrases to see for themselves. www.ssristories.com is one popular site that has documented over 4500 “ Mainstream Media “ reported cases from around the World of aberrant or violent behavior by those taking these powerful drugs. The following list of mass shooting perpetrators and the drugs they were taking or had been taking shortly before their horrific actions was compiled and published to Facebook by John Noveske, founder and owner of Noveske Rifleworks just days before he was mysteriously killed in a single car accident. Is there a link between Noveske’s death and his “outting” of information numerous disparate parties would prefer to suppress, for a variety of reasons ? I leave that to the individual readers to decide. But there is most certainly a documented history of people who “knew to much” or were considered a “threat” dying under extraordinarily suspicious circumstances. (Excerpt) Read more at ammoland.com ...

To: Shoot1st who wrote (16220)	6/20/2015 1:26:41 PM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 16547

Doesn’t happen in advanced countries according to the fairy. ............................................................................................................... Muslim runs car into crowd in Austria killing 3, injuring 34 Yahoo News ^ VIENNA (AP) — A man apparently distraught over personal issues drove his SUV into a crowd in Austria's second largest city Saturday, killing three people and injuring 34 others, three of them children, officials said. (Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...