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To: Old Boothby who wrote (967540)9/26/2016 10:26:56 PM
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PBS Anchor Bummed: Both Pundits Agree Looting in Charlotte Helps Trump
NewsBusters.org by Tim Graham



On Friday’s PBS NewsHour, anchor Judy Woodruff thought the police shootings were the top news story of the week, but she wasn’t pleased when both liberal Mark Shields and pseudo-conservative David Brooks reluctantly agreed that looting and disorder were going to help Donald Trump politically.

Looting?
Woodruff hadn’t really wanted to get that specific. She suggested that wasn’t typical of Black Lives Matter protests.



To: Old Boothby who wrote (967540)9/27/2016 4:29:22 AM
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Articles: Globalism, Soros, and Charlotte: Now I Get It
By Christopher Chantrill

For the last few months I’ve had a question in my mind: Just what is George Soros up to? Because I could not understand why a great capitalist speculator, a financial operator who makes the Koch Brothers look like altar boys, would be interested in funding a lefty activist group like Black Lives Matter. It didn’t compute.

But now I understand. No doubt you readers already figured it out. Alas, I am not so smart.

The light went on when I was reading “ Progressivism Goes Global” by John Fonte and John Loo in National Review about the plans of the progressive global governance guys. The key point is articulated in a quote from Anne-Marie Slaughter, the head of policy and planning at the State Department under Hillary Clinton. Her idea is that the “global administrative state would work through the ‘coercive power of vertical [government] networks’”:
Vertical government networks pierce the shell of state sovereignty by making individual government institutions -- courts, regulatory agencies, or even legislators -- responsible for implementation of rules created by a supranational institution.

Don’t you just love that? The globalists get the power, and get to pull the strings behind the national governments, and coerce them into doing their global will.

But first, before the globalists ascend Mt. Olympus, they need to “pierce the shell” and destroy the prestige and the power of the nation state; otherwise the national governments will still have the power to tell the globalist gods to go pound sand. How do the globalists do that?

It’s obvious. They divide and conquer. They set the people in each nation state against each other. They divide them up by class, by race, by gender, by tribe: Black Lives Matter; La Raza; Human Rights Campaign, CAIR. With one ring to rule them all.

So that is why George Sauron and all the top-tier foundations are funding groups like Black Lives Matter. That is why the globalists are all in favor of unlimited immigration. The more that the people in America think of themselves as black or white or Hispanic or gay or Muslim rather than American, the easier it is for the global elite to “pierce the shell of state sovereignty” while we are all busy fighting each other.

So far so good. But there is a problem, as the globalists are finding out, to their horror.

The problem with globalism is what to do when things go wrong, as in the Euro, as in Muslim rapists in Europe and no-go areas in Sweden.

In the nation state, when things go wrong, the voters throw the rascals out and elect a new government. They might elect a Roosevelt over a blundering Hoover. Nothing changes, of course, unless they elect a Reagan, for the ruling class is still the ruling class blundering from crisis to crisis; but at least the people have a new leader and new hope.

What happens under global governance when things go wrong? Huh? Appoint a committee?

Exactly. You globalist geniuses didn’t think of that, did you?

That is what Enoch Powell meant when he said that the European project could not work because there was no European demos, no European people. You need a “people” when things go wrong, so the polity hangs together rather than separately.

Right now, of course, things are going wrong with the globalist project, and the result is that the people in the various nation states in Europe are rallying to politicians that want to re-establish the powers of the nation state to throw the globalist rascals out. While they still can.

What luck that the globalist project ran off the road so soon. Given another 20 years of Soros-funded identity politics, with Muslim Lives Matter making Black Lives Matter look like a walk in the park, the people of Europe would have split up into squabbling racial and religious identities, and with things going wrong and the failure of the globalist elite there would be no demos to throw the rascals out.

Hello globalists, progressives, and all the ships at sea. The whole point of constitutions and laws and separation of powers and elections to secure the consent of the governed is this. They help stop civil war. The political furniture that you want to “pierce” is the way for the people to check their rulers short of bloody civil war.

It is telling that in the aftermath of the Charlotte Riots, President Obama is burbling about white police officers learning about discrimination, and Hillary Clinton is missing in action. It is Donald Trump that is calling for unity.

Of course. Donald Trump stands for Making America -- the nation state of Americans -- Great Again. Obama and Clinton are globalist progressives. They don’t care about unity; they care about divide and conquer.

Now, finally, I get it.


Christopher Chantrill @chrischantrill runs the go-to site on US government finances, usgovernmentspending.com. Also see his American Manifesto and get his Road to the Middle Class.



To: Old Boothby who wrote (967540)9/27/2016 4:31:47 AM
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The 'Refugee' Agenda
By Derrick Wilburn


Lately, news outlets can barely keep pace with “Muslims killing or attempting to kill Americans” stories. Arcan Cetin, a 20-year-old Muslim male, just killed five Americans at a mall in Seattle; Ahmad Khan Rahami, a 28-year-old Muslim male is in custody for attempted murder after having set off bombs in New York and New Jersey last week; Dahir Adan, a 22-year-old Muslim male, attacked and stabbed his way through a mall in Minnesota.


(Question: What do all these perpetrators have in common? Answer: military-aged males with Arab features who practice Islam. Just like Omar Mateen, Nidil Hasan, Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Syed Rizwan Farook, and others. But that’s for another day.)


We now know that Dahir Adan was a refugee from Somalia. He was welcomed into our country and repaid us by shouting “Allahu Akbar” as he stabbed and slashed nine shoppers. Last Sunday ISIS claimed that Adan was one of their own.


For reasons none can explain, liberals like Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton simply cannot connect the dots between unfettered refugee resettlement and the threat of jihadist terrorism. Even though Adan’s terror attack came on the heels of a bomb detonation in New Jersey, a Muslim man attacking New York police with a meat cleaver, and a bomb exploding in Chelsea, Manhattan, injuring 29 civilians.

Tragic loss of life and limb by American citizens is the price being paid by innocent people for the leadership’s insistence on pursuing their agenda and those same leader’s blind spots to this dual threat. First is the threat of ISIS and other radical operatives mixing into refugee flows and coming here directly; second is that of non-radicals being entering then being contacted or radicalized via other means once here. Of course those calling the shots are largely immune from the repercussions of their own decisions. Refugees are not being resettled into Chappaqua, Georgetown, Hollywood Hills, or Martha’s Vineyard.

Obama had set a goal of resettling at least 10,000 (more) refugees from Muslim nations by the end of this month. He reached that goal ahead of schedule. He went even further by raising the 2017 refugee ceiling to a dizzying 100,000. This on top of the nearly 700,000 green cards the Obama administration has issued to migrants from Muslim nations in the past five years alone.

Last year the Washington Times reported that the Obama administration’s permanent refugee resettlement efforts have been particularly strong on the Somalia-to-Minnesota path; “The State Department has helped to relocate tens of thousands of refugees from the war-torn African nation of Somalia to Minnesota, where they can take advantage of some of America’s most generous welfare and charity programs.



But the effort is having the unintended consequence of creating an enclave of immigrants with high unemployment that is both stressing the state’s safety net and creating a rich pool of potential recruiting targets for Islamist terror groups.”

Thus making Minnesota reflective of what’s happening in Europe.


Namely, Islamic terrorism caused by Muslim migration. A Muslim populations grow, so do terror attacks. Though this connection is so simple even a caveman can see it, liberals refuse to so much as acknowledge any issues of national security and instead brand all do as bigots.

Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton declared, “Minnesota is not like it was 30, 50 years ago. Anybody who cannot accept your [Somali immigrants] right to be here should find another state.” Dayton then condemned “religious bigotry” and said, “There’s no place in Minnesota for intolerance of all Americans’ constitutional right to worship according to their beliefs.”

Apparently immigrants have a “right” to be here and its “intolerant” if you have a problem with one of your loved ones being slashed with a knife while standing in line at Macy’s.


“I ask everyone in the St. Cloud area and throughout Minnesota to rise above this atrocity and act to make religious and racial tolerance one of the ways in which Minnesotans again lead our country,” Governor Dayton added.

What Dayton, Clinton, and other liberal social planners cannot seem to grasp is the fact that Muslim refugee resettlement areas like St. Cloud, Dearborn, Michigan, and now Clearwater, Florida become active recruiting grounds for terror groups. Somalis in Minnesota are targeted by terror groups like ISIS. One such organization specifically warned of attacks on American malls, and now it’s happened.

“This population is also being targeted by Islamist terror organizations like the Islamic State and al-Shabab, a Somalia-based group with links to al Qaeda” said a U.S. official speaking on condition of anonymity, “Among Minnesota-based Somali-Americans, American converts to Islam or Somali refugees, there have been numerous convictions for various levels of collaboration with Islamist terror groups, plus reports of fighting with al-Shabab or other Islamist groups. Al-Shabab made a propaganda video warning of an attack on shopping malls around the world, including the Mall of America in Minnesota.”

In May of this year Voice of America News reported that ISIS has steadily grown stronger in Somalia and that the terror organization is now a very significant threat. In July, World Net Daily reported that Somali refugees in Minnesota regularly threaten Minnesota women with kidnapping and rape. In June, three Somalians living in Minnesota were convicted of trying to join ISIS. See the connection, liberals?

Department of Homeland Security documents show that while Hillary Clinton served as Secretary of State, over 31,000 Somali refugees were relocated to the United States. If elected, she plans on increasing the number of Muslim refugees from Syria alone by over 500%.

Breitbart News reports that under a Clinton administration, the total number of Muslim refugees permanently admitted into the U.S. could top 1 million in her first term alone.

Within the past ten days we’ve seen American men and women guilty of nothing but visiting one of our shopping malls have their faces slashed open and be stabbed repeatedly by a single ISIS convert. Yet the very idea that we should slow down our immigration roll and examine protocol and procedures to be certain we’re doing everything possible for the safety of the American people is an idea that’s rejected outright by the likes of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. They want to import hundreds and hundreds of thousands and do so as fast as possible even though it’s clear we don’t have adequate vetting processes and that Muslim immigrants and refugees are being targeted for recruitment by ISIS and other terror groups.

Considering that the most important job of any commander-in-chief is the safety and security of our citizens and homeland, it’s a very difficult policy agenda to understand.