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At Long Last, Donald Trump Previews Release of Classified JFK Files
by CHARLIE SPIERING
President Donald Trump announced on Twitter that he will release the classified CIA files on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
“Subject to the receipt of further information, I will be allowing, as President, the long blocked and classified JFK FILES to be opened,” he wrote on Twitter:
Subject to the receipt of further information, I will be allowing, as President, the long blocked and classified JFK FILES to be opened.
Trump contradicted reports that he would block the release of the information after several agencies expressed concern about its details.
The documents are scheduled for release on October 26.
13 Clueless Lowlights from George W. Bush’s Trump-bashing Speech
AP Phth They like him. They really, really like him.
Former President George W. Bush discovered this week that all he had to do to make the media finally like him was take a rhetorical swing at Donald Trump.
Former President George W. Bush discovered this week that all he had to do to make the media finally like him was take a rhetorical swing at Donald Trump.
And it didn’t hurt that he teamed up with Barack Obama to do it. The result was a media swoon. The New York Times crooned: “Without Saying ‘Trump,’ Bush and Obama Deliver Implicit Rebukes.”
The #Resistance found its new power couple!
But wait, there’s more! The Times also printed a fawning profile of Bush’s twin daughters, Barbara and Jenna. You’ve come a long way, babies, from the tabloid accounts of drunken college revelries.
Now that their father has teamed up with Obama and the Clintons, the girls are enjoying the sort of media love that only Democrat daughters get. In fact, Barbara and Jenna are kind of like a double Chelsea—with Planned Parenthood fundraising and all.
It’s as if the Obamas, Clintons, and Bushes have formed a sort of Establishment extended family. Dubya even likes to call Bill his “brother with a different mother.”
So is it any wonder that George finally joined Barry, Bill, and Hill in bashing Don? Trump, for all his wealth, has never been one of the beautiful people.
The Establishment despises Trump, but they don’t fear him. They fear his Deplorables—the ordinary Americans from every race, religion, gender, and background who catapulted Trump to victory.
The Deplorables are busy polishing their armor for Steve Bannon’s 2018 “season of war”against the Establishment, which is why Bush rose up to denounce them in his speech on Thursday.
He thinks these Deplorable populists are racists preaching the super dangerous idea that American policies should benefit Americans first (See?! That’s proof they hate foreigners!). He believes this monstrous sentiment must be consigned to the ash heap of history … or, like, wherever they hid Saddam’s weapons of mass destruction so that no one could find them.
For a man who kept quiet throughout all of the Obama years, Dubya sure had a lot to say. Let’s examine the text of his speech to understand what was on his mind—or rather his speechwriter’s mind.
Interestingly, I found the transcript of his speech on the website of Town and Country magazine, between such important articles as “10 Times Royals Wore the Exact Same Dress.”
T and C is the perfect publication for this paean to the Gospel of Globalism, which enriches the few and impoverishes the rest. Bush’s words are tucked happily between the glossy pages displayed on the mahogany coffee tables of his fellow country-club heirs. (Dubya, the son of a U.S. president and the grandson of a U.S. senator, is right at home with this crowd.)
For your amusement, I pulled out 13 key passages from his speech (or at least, 13 passages that had me snickering at my computer screen). Dubya’s words are in bold, followed by my commentary.
1. “Thank you all. Thank you. Ok, Padilla gracias. So, I painted Ramon.”
Bush was talking to former Army Sergeant First Class Ramon Padilla. Back in 2007, during the Bush presidency, Padilla, serving in Afghanistan, was hit by a rocket-propelled grenade; he lost his left arm and suffered traumatic brain injury. Bush painted his portrait, as part of his book of guilt-expiating oil portraits of the military veterans he sent to war.
The current edition includes 70 paintings. He has a very long way to go before he finishes painting all of the lives he’s damaged.
2. “It’s amazing to have Secretary Albright share the stage with Condi and Ambassador Haley”
Yes, it’s amazing that Trump’s Ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, would happily share the stage with not only an anti-Trump neoconservative such as Bush, but also with two other neocons, former Clinton Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and former Bush 43 Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
All three of them, of course, were staunch advocates of the Iraq war and all the other U.S. interventions in the last two decades. Haley should know that foreign quagmires are even worse than the D.C. swamp.
Former U.S. Secretary of State Madeline Albright, left, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley, center, and former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice participate in a panel discussion at a forum sponsored by the George W. Bush Institute in New York, Thursday, Oct. 19, 2017. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
3. “Free trade helped make America into a global economic power.”
That statement would have been news to such America-builders as Alexander Hamilton, Henry Clay, Abraham Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt.
As TR exclaimed in 1895, “Thank God I’m not a free trader. In this country pernicious indulgence in the doctrine of free trade seems inevitably to produce fatty degeneration of the moral fiber.”
It was non-free trade, also known as economic nationalism, that built America. We’ve been coasting for decades on its massive industrial legacy; but as we know, it’s grinding to a painful halt.
4. “For more than 70 years, the presidents of both parties believed that American security and prosperity were directly tied to the success of freedom in the world. And they knew that the success depended, in large part, on U.S. leadership. The mission came naturally, because it expressed the DNA of American idealism.”
Speaking of missions and idealism, the idealistic pro-freedom military mission of George W. Bush’s generation was Vietnam. And yet interestingly, with the help of his father, then a U.S. Congressman, as well as others in his well-connected social circle, young George managed to avoid active military duty.
Instead, he got himself into the Texas Air National Guard, dubbed a “champagne unit,”because it was so brimming with Bush-types. In that Guard unit, by all accounts, Bush indulged in more than champagne. Indeed, Bush had such a bumpy time that he was ultimately thrown out, although by then, the draft was over, and so it didn’t matter any more.
At any time, of course, Bush could have cleaned himself up and served, but he was in no mood to join the military. In 1973, he began attending Harvard Business School.
Congressman George H. W. Bush (R-TX) displays the officer’s bar of his son 2nd Lt. George W. Bush during a special swearing in ceremony for the Texas Air National Guard, circa 1968. (Getty Images)
5. “We know, deep down, that repression is not the wave of the future.“
Tell that to Vladimir Putin. Back in 2001, President Bush had this to say about the Russian: “I looked the man in the eye. I found him very straightforward and trustworthy. I was able to get a sense of his soul.”
I bet he found the reports about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq “very straightforward and trustworthy” too.
6. “Freedom is not merely a political menu option, or a foreign policy fad; it should be the defining commitment of our country, and the hope of the world.”
I get nervous whenever Bush starts popping off about America’s “commitment” to the world. I flashback to 2005, when Bush delivered one of the craziest inaugural addresses in U.S. history.
In it, he declared, “It is the policy of the United States to seek and support the growth of democratic movements and institutions in every nation and culture, with the ultimate goal of ending tyranny in our world.” [emphasis added].
How’s that grandiose mission working out for the world? And for America? Perhaps Bush could ask the wounded veterans whose portraits he painted.
As an aside, the White House speechwriter for that misguided inaugural screed was Michael Gerson, who is now an in-house globalist neoconservative (one of many) at the Washington Post, where he earns a few of the coins that fall off Jeff Bezos’ table by bashing Trump in every column.
7. “In recent decades, public confidence in our institutions has declined.”
Yes, Bush should know all about that. During his time in office, trust in the federal government fell by almost two-thirds, from 60 percent to 24 percent.
Let’s see… a vainglorious war sold under false pretenses, plus the mishandling of Katrina, plus the economic meltdown followed by the big Wall Street bailout… yeah, that’ll do the trick in making Americans distrust their government.
Yet today, seemingly unmindful of his own failed record, Bush wants to lecture us about restoring trust.
8. “We’ve seen nationalism distorted into nativism—forgotten the dynamism that immigration has always brought to America.”
Legal immigration, properly limited, with enough time for new arrivals to assimilate, has, indeed, been a blessing.
But the legal immigrants must come here as full citizens, not as low-wage indentured servants, which is currently the case for those coming here on H-1B visas and H-2B visas. Nor do we need low-wage illegal immigration to further drive down the wages of American workers.
And speaking of illegal immigration, we must ask: How’d that work out for the Roman empire?
9. “How do we begin to encourage a new, 21st century American consensus on behalf of democratic freedom and free markets? That’s the question I posed to scholars at the Bush Institute. That is what Pete Wehner and Tom Melia, who are with us today, have answered with ‘The Spirit of Liberty: At Home, In The World,’ a Call to Action paper.”
Brace yourself, America. The Bush globalists and neocons are back.
They’re ready with their plans and papers, eager to call us to action.
And when we invade a new country, the people there will throw flowers at us and call us liberators—just like the neocons said the Iraqis would.
10. “In serving as a shining hope for refugees and a voice for dissidents, human rights defenders, and the oppressed.”
It might be worth pointing out that Bush has left much of the Middle East in ruins, even as groups of Islamic jihadis grow ever stronger.
Have you ever noticed that when Bush wants to take a conscience-salving trip somewhere, he goes to Africa—not the Middle East?
11. “We should not be blind to the economic and social dislocations caused by globalization. People are hurting. They are angry. And, they are frustrated. We must hear and help them.”
In the White House, Bush didn’t do a thing to help the hurting.
His biggest domestic ideas were the partial privatization of Social Security and, of course, his attempt to further open the U.S.-Mexico border to depress the labor market for the working class Americans most hurt by globalization.
So why should we trust him now?
12. “The ‘Call to Action’ calls on major institutions of our democracy, public and private, to consciously and urgently attend to the problem of declining trust.”
There he goes again talking about “declining trust.” Funny, every time he says that I think of three little letters: WMD.
13. “It is time for American institutions to step up and provide cultural and moral leadership for this nation.”
Leadership from Bush? And your family, including ¡Jeb!? And your friends the Clintons? Seriously? That’s your idea?
No, please don’t “step up.” Just step away. All of you. Permanently.
In fact, remember that hidey-hole they found Saddam Hussein in? Can someone please build one of those in Dallas or Kennebunkport and escort George to it? Give him some pretzels, non-alcoholic beer, and a satellite feed of the Rangers’ games. He’ll be happy, and so will the rest of us.
If he must stay above ground, he can at least spare us any more speeches. This one was enough.
It was a feast of smirking self-satisfaction like the kind Bush was famous for, combining low ability with an unwarranted sense of superiority.
That’s our Bush. And now that he’s figured out how to make the media like him, I’m afraid we’ll be seeing a lot more of him. And his whole damn family.
Trump Issues Urgent Warning to America, Please Listen
President Donald Trump has made a name for himself as someone who is not afraid to voice uncomfortable truths. Recently, Mr. Trump took on Great Britain and its problem with crime.
On his Facebook page, President Trump wrote, “Just out report: ‘United Kingdom crime rises 13% annually amid spread of Radical Islamic terror.’ Not good, we must keep America safe!”
As with everything President Trump says, the mainstream media was quick to denounce him, and claim that his statement is factually wrong.
The media has consistently claimed that President Trump and Republicans are wrong and “Islamophobic” for saying that certain European cities have “No-Go Zones” where all non-Muslims are encouraged to avoid.
Just this week, Sweden’s centrist Moderate Party proposed sending in the Swedish Army into several high-crime areas in Stockholm’s suburbs.
“It is absolutely necessary to do something, because these gangs are like cancerous tumours in our country, and it is urgent. My absolute belief is that we, the nation of Sweden, must declare war on criminal gangs,” said Moderate Party member Mikael Cederbratt.
Most criminal gangs in Sweden are of foreign origin, with African and Arab Muslims.
Not too long ago, the media excoriated Donald Trump for saying that Sweden is an example of what America shouldn’t do in regards to law enforcement and immigration. The mainstream media here said that nothing is wrong in Sweden, a nation sometimes referred to as a “moral superpower.”
sThe uncomfortable truth for liberals is that Sweden is the “rape capital” of the Wet, and has seen a dramatic spike in grenade attacks on police officers and emergency services personnel.
2017 alone has seen a 550-percent rise in hand grenade attacks. Most of these attacks have occurred in the very same “No-Go Zones” that the media once said do not exist at all.
As for Great Britain, the country has seen a sharp uptick in terror attacks lately, from the suicide bombing at the Ariana Grande concert in Manchester, to the various vehicular assaults in London.
Despite what Labour Party officials like London Mayor Sadiq Khan say, Britain’s growing Muslim population is radicalizing, and is not interested in assimilating.
A bombshell report released last year by Channel 4 in the UK found that twenty-three-percent of British Muslims want Sharia law in the UK, eighteen-percent said that they believe homosexuality should be illegal, and forty-seven-percent said that they feel it is “unacceptable” for a gay person to be allowed to teach.
Europe has no-go zones. Do you think they’re coming to the US?
The left-wing press in the UK tried to put a positive spin on these findings by saying that a majority of British Muslims feel like they belong in the UK, but it’s hard to dispute the fact that seventy-eight-percent of British Muslims would like to assimilate into the UK only as long as Islamic schooling and Islamic teaching was supported or left alone by the state.
Islamic teaching runs counter to Western traditions, so this offer is a poisoned apple. President Trump is right to warn America about the problems associated with increased Muslim immigration.
Roger Goodell Fell for Mainstream Media’s Fake Reality and Destroyed NFL (Possibly Forever)
by JOHN NOLTE
The Associated Press
When the first half of the 21st century is way back enough for a history to be written unencumbered by agenda, President Barack Obama will be remembered as the worst thing that ever happened to the Democrat Party. And to the NFL.*
If you think that is a stretch, hear me out…
Thanks to George W. Bush’s terrible second term, two unbelievably awful Republican opponents in John McCain and Mitt Romney, not to mention the charisma and impressive political skills as the most leftwing senator in the country, Barry O won two national elections and did so by impressive margins.
The problem is that America’s so-called Smart People misread these victories. And by “Smart People,” I am, of course, sarcastically referring to Democrats, the imbecilic Republican establishment, and the corrupt national media — all of whom deluded themselves into believing that Obama’s victory meant that the country had not just moved to the left, but to the far left.
Buoyed by this mistaken belief, not only did the Democrat Party move to the far-left (Warren, Bernie, Hillary 7.0, etc), so did the media. Over Obama’s eight years, among others, the New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, and MSNBC believed they were capturing a zeitgeist by hiring tons of rabid left wing propagandists, a freak show that includes Ana Navarro, Philip Bump, Jake Tapper, Chris Cillizza, Jemele Harris, Chris Cuomo, Al Sharpton, Rachel Maddow, Joy Reid…
ESPN was so sure of this, it went from a rock n’ roll sports network to PMS-ESPN.
What no one wanted to acknowledge, though, is that almost immediately after Obama’s 2009 inauguration, voters began a major course correction. In February 2010, Republican Scott Brown’s U.S. Senate victory (to replace Ted Kennedy) in, of all places, Massachusetts, combined with the historic wipeout of Democrats just nine months later in the 2010 midterms– this should have told the so-called Smart People that Obama was an anomaly, not a trend.
But because the so-called Smart People chose not to recognize this, chose to keep the velvet bubble in place, over the next eight years, the Democrat Party has been nearly wiped out at every level, local and national.
Nevertheless, our sports and political media, which are now infested with hardcore, Obama-era leftists, have consciously refused to recognize reality. Even as Democrats lose their strongholds in New England, even as Republicans win every special election, the media not only refuse to recognize the fact that America is a right-of-center country, they are intentionally fabricating a reality that says the exact opposite.
The reason for this goes beyond personal partisan denial. It is a propaganda tactic. Basically, the media believe that the only way to push America to the far left is to manufacture a reality (backed by fraudulent polling) that says we are already there and that anyone who is not on the Progressive Express is in the minority.
Although the everyday American voters who have decimated the Democrat Party have, thankfully, not fallen for it, when you are talking about billions and billions of corporate dollars being spent on this propaganda, it is going to have an effect, and in many ways has.
For example, despite total control over the federal government, the imbecilic Republican establishment have fallen for it, and, as a result, have done absolutely nothing to keep long-held promises or to advance Trump’s agenda. As a consequence, their own base now despises them and a full-blown insurgency is already claiming scalps.
Which brings me to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, who also fell for the propaganda and who is also dealing with a five-alarm disaster of his own making.
In Goodell’s provincial world, in his deluded thinking, shaped by ESPN and CNN, he was fooled into believing America is enamored with identity politics and social justice. And so, although every other form of personal expression is banned by the NFL, Goodell actually believed it was a good idea to give the okay for spoiled millionaires to publicly express their hatred and contempt for America. Completely out of touch with the common man and fan, Goodell fell for the media’s fake reality and did irreparable damage to the NFL.
My wife is a perfect example. Since childhood, thanks to a tradition handed down by her father, the Green Bay Packers has been one of the great passions of her life — until this season. And this is what should really terrify Goodell…
My wife’s lost passion is not a political statement or protest. Her passion died a natural death as she watched something she once loved betray her country. She is not angry. She just stopped caring.
How does the NFL recover from that, from indifference, from those who have moved on?
Now that it is almost certainly too late, now that the Morning Joe scales have fallen from Goodell’s eyes, now that the ratings and empty stadiums and devastating polls make it impossible for even a somewhat powerful media to keep Goodell’s bubble afloat, the man charged with protecting this institution has finally figured out that it might not be a good idea to open every NFL game with your players giving the American flag the finger.
What a jackass, what a pathetic and delusional fool, a weakling, who allowed the media’s phony reality to drag him into deep water from which he can no longer escape.
The saddest thing, though, is that no one — not Goodell, not the Republican establishment, will acknowledge their own demise as a cautionary tale, as a valuable lesson in never again falling for propaganda.
Rather than come to terms with the reality of an America that looks like this, they would prefer to see it all burn down.
*I originally added “to America” to this sentence but then realized that President Trump is doing such a stellar job erasing Barry’s failed legacy that this is no longer true.
Playboy Introduces First Transgender Playmate, Ines Rau
"Then I was like, you know, you should just be who you are."
By ROBERT KRAYCHIK
Playboy’s November centerfold will be a “transgender playmate,” according to PR Newswire, describing French model Ines Rau as a “Parisian bombshell”:
November Playmate: Parisian bombshell and high-fashion model Ines Rau returns to the pages of the magazine (previously featured in Playboy's May 2014 A-Z issue) and makes history as Playboy's first transgender Playmate with a pictorial and centerfold, photographed by Derek Kettela.
I lived a long time without saying I was transgender. Then I was like, you know, you should just be who you are. It’s a salvation to speak the truth about yourself, whether it’s your gender, sexuality, whatever.
I'm an advocate for anyone who is scared to be who they really are because they fear being judged or rejected.
They should be empowered by their differences and not be who society tells them to be.
Given that standard poses for playmates include the "full frontal," it is unclear how Rau will be depicted in her forthcoming photo shoot. Early promotional photos show her in heels and in lingerie.
Rau's Instagram profile features the following image:
Rau appeared in Playboy in 2014, but not as a centerfold.
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