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To: bart13 who wrote (123753)	11/2/2016 1:43:50 PM
From: bart13	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 218857

Meet the new 'self-hating Americans' Joseph Farah explains real meaning behind Hillary Clinton quote Published: 18 hours ago Joseph Farah In many ways, the 2016 presidential election is a referendum on America. One candidate says he wants to “Make America Great Again.” The other essentially deplores America as a racist, bigoted, xenophobic, homophobic, Islamophobic, hateful place with an even worse history. According to most polls, the candidate highly critical of her country – one in which she has held high positions of authority in government and wielded profound influence for 25 years – has the edge. To me this suggests America has reached a tipping point at which there may be more “self-hating Americans” than there are citizens who believe their country is actually one of the freer, fairer, kinder, more compassionate places in the world – even a beacon for the rest of the world. Who are these “self-loathing Americans”? The younger you are, the more likely you are one of them. Why would that be? Easy. Being a miserable, self-hating, self-loathing, self-deprecating American is a learned trait. It’s what is taught in government schools. Colleges and universities are institutions of higher learning for hatred of America’s past and present. The more you get your news and information from what are euphemistically called “the mainstream media,” the less respect you have for America’s history and the less regard you have for America’s standing in the world today. The more you consume “popular culture” in America – meaning TV entertainment, movies, social media, the less likely you are to think your country represents anything special in the world, anything positive. Think about it. Where can one hear positive messages about America exceptionalism today? talk radio the New Media Am I leaving anything out? That means respect for America’s history and founding vision today represents a distinctly “underground” culture. The most powerful and pervasive institutions are all pushing, to one degree or another, anti-Americanism. Is it any wonder the biggest political party in the country is dominated by this ideology? Is it any wonder that it gets more difficult every presidential election year to find a path to victory for candidates who are not self-hating Americans? In fact, isn’t it shocking that with all these powerful and influential cultural institutions under the domination of this ideology and worldview that there are still so many Americans who understand the light our nation actually represents around the world and throughout history? After all, where do people want to go when given the opportunity? To America. And it’s scary for those of us Americans who see the attacks on all that has made and continue to make America good and great. Unlike our ancestors who discovered the “new world,” we have nowhere else to go. Hillary Clinton has made a point of saying something in her stump speeches and debates. She used these words – you’ve probably heard them: “America is great because America is good”: Some will recognize that quote – one often attributed to Alexis de Tocqueville, but certainly unverified. But here’s the actual inspirational quote it is lifted from (author unknown): “I sought for the greatness and genius of America in her commodious harbors and her ample rivers – and it was not there … in her fertile fields and boundless forests – and it was not there … in her rich mines and her vast world commerce – and it was not there … in her democratic Congress and her matchless Constitution – and it was not there. Not until I went into the churches of America and heard her pulpits aflame with righteousness did I understand the secret of her genius and power. America is great because she is good, and if America ever ceases to be good, she will cease to be great.” Whoever said it or wrote it was clearly right. What made America great were the ingredients for an experiment in liberty and self-government – a system of morality that allowed people to live together without killing each other or victimizing each other as a matter of course. I believe that. Do you think Hillary Clinton believes that? Do you think she believes America was ever great? Do you think she believes that obedience to a Creator God makes a country more likely to be good and great? I don’t think she does. And I suspect that most self-hating Americans do not understand what either greatness or goodness means – nor where they come from.

To: bart13 who wrote (123753)	11/2/2016 4:16:57 PM
From: Haim R. Branisteanu	2 Recommendations Recommended By 3bar ggersh Respond to of 218857

Commentary: Don't be so sure Russia hacked the Clinton emails reuters.com A week later, Vice President Joe Biden said on NBC’s Meet the Press that "we're sending a message" to Putin and "it will be at the time of our choosing, and under the circumstances that will have the greatest impact." When asked if the American public would know a message was sent, Biden replied, "Hope not." Remark - very smart On Monday, the Shadow Brokers released more information, including what they claimed is a list of hundreds of organizations that the NSA has targeted over more than a decade, complete with technical details. This offers further evidence that their information comes from a leaker inside the NSA rather than the Kremlin. The Shadow Brokers also discussed Obama’s threat of cyber retaliation against Russia. Yet they seemed most concerned that the CIA, rather than the NSA or Cyber Command, was given the assignment. This may be a possible indication of a connection to NSA’s elite group, Tailored Access Operations, considered by many the A-Team of hackers. Remark - not at all idiots That could then trigger a major retaliatory cyberattack against the U.S. cyber infrastructure, which would call for another reprisal attack ? potentially leading to Clarke’s fear of a cyberwar triggering a conventional war. President Barack Obama has also not taken a nuclear strike off the table as an appropriate response to a devastating cyberattack. It was determined that the explosion was caused by computer code sent from hundreds of miles away. But how or why was the question. Even within U.S. Cyber Command, there were grave concerns about the blast. One Army study that discussed the explosion referred to Marine General Robert E. Schmidle, the deputy commander of Cyber Command, and suggested that he had “speculated this was a possible network attack.” Shortly after the power-plant explosion, computers at the U.S. Department of the Interior were targeted and an unknown hacker stole a sensitive index of vulnerabilities at thousands of U.S. dams. Remark - actual geniuses Obama was told that the computer viruses would not escape the facility, would not affect any other computers if they did escape, and would never be traced back to the United States in any case. All three claims turned out to be incorrect. The viruses did escape, they infected tens of thousands of computers in many countries and they were quickly traced back to the United States. The operation was also a bust: It destroyed a small fraction of the intended centrifuges and only slightly delayed Iran’s enrichment. It also caused Iran to create its own cyber command and retaliate by destroying 30,000 computers belonging to a U.S. oil supplier. U.S. banks were also attacked. Rather than launch a dangerous covert cyberattack with unknown consequences ?as the administration did against Iran ? it would be far wiser for Obama to press for further economic sanctions, as the administration did with North Korea. At the same time, Washington could begin focusing on cyber defense, long neglected as billions go instead to cyber offense. Remark - unbelieved wisdom “I think the public believes that the U.S. government – Cyber Command, NSA, FBI, Homeland Security – has the capability to defend the electric power grid, pipelines, trains, banks that could be attacked by other nations through cyber,” Clarke told me. “The truth is the government doesn’t have the capability, doesn’t have the legal authority and doesn’t have a plan to do it.” Washington could also begin exploring new Internet and cyber technologies that are not as easy to attack and destroy, as well as opening an international dialogue on ways to achieve cyberarms control. “People say that’s going to be very, very difficult and verification will be very, very hard,” said Clarke. “I heard that a long time ago about nuclear arms control and then about chemical-arms control – about biological-arms control. But we achieved all of those . . . . Therefore, we should start talking about cyberarms control and cyber peace now.” Starting with Vietnam, the list of wars the United States has entered with disastrous results continues to grow. Engaging Russia in a potentially endless cyberwar based on questionable evidence will only make it longer. It’s time to find better alternatives.