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They’re back...JetBlue Park
We’ve waited for this…
All’s right with the world now...
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Navy’s New Female Quarters Regulations
Department of the Navy is now assigning females to quarters
in a separate private "OFF LIMITS" area on all aircraft carriers.
While addressing all personnel at Pearl Harbor, CINCPAC advised,
"Female sleeping quarters will be "out-of-bounds" for all males.
Anyone caught breaking this rule will be fined $50 the first time."
The Admiral continued,
"Anyone caught breaking this rule the second time will be fined $150.
Being caught a third time will cost you a fine of $500.
Are there any questions?"
At this point, a US Marine from the security detail assigned to a ship
stood up in the crowd and inquired: "How much for a season pass?"
God bless the Marine Corps ! Anchors Aweigh!
The Olympic Gold Medal for Sucking Up to a Murderous Totalitarian Regime Goes to…
by REBECCA MANSOUR
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There’s a new competitive sport at this year’s Winter Olympics in South Korea. Its participants are members of the establishment media. Their aim: to suck up to the despotic regime in North Korea. The gold medal goes to the most ingratiating and morally obtuse totalitarian ass-kisser. And though the games have just begun, I think I know who the winner is.
Though this new competition was introduced especially for the Pyeongchang Games, it has many historical antecedents, which I shall get to in a moment. For now, the current field of play is the media’s fawning coverage of Kim Yo Jong, sister of North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un, who has become the media’s belle of the ball. As a CNN headline put it, she is “stealing the show” at the Winter Olympics.
The Zucker News Network, vying for the gold, thilled about Kim’s ability to offer “a smile, a handshake and a warm message” to fellow attendees. And CNN didn’t stop there: “If ‘diplomatic dance’ were an event at the Winter Olympics,” it added, “Kim Jong Un’s younger sister would be favored to win gold.”
Not to be outdone, Reuters jumped into the competition with this headline: “North Korea heading for diplomacy gold medal at Olympics.”
But neither CNN nor Reuters—nor any of the other swooning media outlets, trying hard as they might—can top the person who I think deserves the 2018 gold medal for Best Suck-up to a Murderous Regime.
And make no mistake, it is murderous. The North Korean regime is run like a Stalinist police state, enslaving and killing millions of its own people, including Kim’s own family members. Human Rights Watch calls it “one of the most repressive authoritarian states in the world,” and Amnesty International agrees. Kim Yo Jong, who heads the “Propaganda and Agitation Department” of the country’s communist party, is a major bloody cog in that monstrous system. For the unfortunate souls who live under her family’s regime, any rejection of her propaganda will get you a death sentence or your entire family a prison sentence.
On that last point, United Nations inspector Michael Kirby spoke in 2013 about the “unspeakable atrocities” committed in North Korea’s political prison camps, including “survivors who suffered through childhoods of starvation”–forced to survive on lizards, rodents, and grass–due to the regime’s practice of “guilt by association” to punish “other generations for a family member’s perceived political views or affiliation.” Kirby also heard testimony of women forced to drown their own babies in buckets.
If there were any justice in this world, Sister Kim would be locked up for crimes against humanity. But instead, the establishment corporate media piles on the praise, making themselves once again useful idiots for a mass murderer’s propaganda machine.
Why would anyone with a scintilla of moral discernment do this? I can think of three reasons:
1. The Media ♥ Commies
The establishment media has had an historic romance with communism. Back in 1932, The New York Times won a Pulitzer Prize for its completely false coverage—whitewashing the evil darkness—of Joseph Stalin’s deliberately induced famine in Ukraine, then an unwilling part of the Soviet Union. That planned calamity killed millions (we might note that the words “killed millions” and “communism” go well together). Then, in the 1950s, the Times ladled equally laudatory coverage on another communist monster, Fidel Castro.
The more howlingly anti-American a communist regime is—and most, if not all, of them have been—the more love the media bestows on them. So, is it any wonder they love Sister Kim? After all, her brother—the man who has repeatedly threatened to nuke the U.S.—is an honorary member of the #Resistance.
2. “Okay, so he’s killed a lot of people, but I’ll ask him about that in the interview!”
In addition to its left-wing-ness, the establishment media has another ideology: ego gratification. Reporters would love nothing more than to get the “get.” And the big “get” rigjt now is an interview with Kim Jong Un. They are happy to walk over corpses to get access to him. So, they are sucking up to the North Koreans any which way they can; the industry jargon is “beat sweetening.”
Of course, there’s nothing new about this cynical tactic. Back in 2003, Eason Jordan, a top CNN executive, confessed that his network went easy on Iraq to maintain its access to Saddam Hussein. On this point, former Bush 43 press secretary Ari Fleischer nailed it when he tweeted:
Reuters/CNN/ABC don’t have bureaus in NoKorea, but their fawning coverage of NK reminds me of how CNN sucked up to Saddam so they could keep their Baghdad bureau open. Going easy on anti-American dictators is another form of Blame America First journalism. https://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/11/opinion/the-news-we-kept-to-ourselves.html …
3. Sister Kim might have murdered people, but Mike Pence won’t bake gay wedding cakes!
For the establishment media, pro-North Korea coverage is also anti-Mike Pence coverage. As The New York Times put it, “Without a word, only flashing smiles, Kim Jong-un’s sister outflanked Vice President Mike Pence in diplomacy.” Take that, Pence!
Yes, the media finds it pleasing, for PC reasons, to depict Pence as worse than the North Korean dictatrix. Okay, mass-murder is bad, but Pence-style social conservatism is worse.
You think that that’s too strong a statement? That I’m exaggerating the nature of establishment media bias?
Let me introduce you to this year’s Gold Medalist for Morally Bankrupt Murderous Tyrant Bootlicking: Jeet Heer of The New Republic.
Heer tweeted on February 10: “Do you realize how massively you have to fuck up so that Kim Jong Un’s family looks good by comparison? But Trump & Pence have pulled it off.”
So there you have it: Pence, and, of course, Trump, are worse than the murderous North Korean regime.Heer’s tweet was not only cretinous about Pence, but cruel to the millions of victims of North Korean communism—including the 36,000 Americans who died in the Korean War.
Caught in his act of idiocy, Heer responded by deleting the tweet and then following up with a 16-part thread of twitter bluster, in which he accused his critics of being “willfully obtuse.” In other words, it was their fault for not understanding his genius.
Congrats on winning the gold, Mr. Heer. Please be sure to use Little Rocket Man’s flag and anthem at the medal ceremony.
Roman Colosseum to Be Lit Blood Red for Persecuted Christians
by THOMAS D. WILLIAMS, PH.D
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The Roman Colosseum along with two churches in Mosul and Aleppo will be lit up by red lights later this month to draw attention to the global persecution of Christians.
“Christians are the victims of at least 75 percent of all religiously-motivated violence and oppression,” declared the latest report from Aid to the Church in Need (ACN), the group organizing the event, and moreover “the extent of this persecution is largely ignored by our media.”
In a gesture meant to combat global indifference to the plight of persecuted Christians, on Saturday, Feb. 24, one of Rome’s most iconic structures—the Colosseum—will be illuminated in red, representing Christians who have shed their blood for the faith.
At the same time, prominent churches in Syria and Iraq will be illuminated with red lights as well. In Aleppo, the St. Elijah Maronite Cathedral will be lit up in red, as will the Church of St. Paul in Mosul. Turning on the lights in Mosul, said the Chaldean Catholic Patriarch Louis Raphael Sako I, “means bringing back hope to Iraqi Christians who have suffered so much.”
According to Alfredo Mantovano, president of ACN-Italy, the media event is meant as a denunciation of “the martyrdom suffered by our brothers and sisters.” It is our intention, he said, “to involve them directly through two of the communities who have suffered the most in recent years, those of Syria and Iraq.”
Last year, Aid to the Church in Need organized a similar event, lighting up London’s Parliament building in red, as well as the Basilica of the Sacred Heart in Paris and the cathedral in Manila, Philippines as a sign of solidarity with persecuted Christians everywhere.
In 2016, Rome’s famous Trevi Fountain was bathed in red light in a move reminiscent of the first plague of Egypt, commemorating the many new martyrs killed in our time for their faith in Jesus Christ. The ten plagues, brought down by Moses through the power of God, were meant to soften the hard heart of Pharaoh, who held the Israelites enslaved in Egypt.
“In terms of the number of people involved, the gravity of the crimes committed and their impact, it is clear that the persecution of Christians is today worse than at any time in history,” said John Pontifex, editor of the latest ACN biennial report on Christian persecution.
In the 13 countries where Christians suffer the most intense persecution, the situation has worsened in all but one—Saudi Arabia—in the last two years, and conditions there have stayed the same.
“In almost all the countries reviewed,” the report reads, “the oppression and violence against Christians have increased since 2015 – a development especially significant given the rate of decline in the immediate run-up to the reporting period.”
“The one exception is Saudi Arabia, where the situation was already so bad it could scarcely get any worse,” the report said.
The group has also complained of culpable inaction on the part of western countries that have shown little effective support for persecuted Christians in the Middle East.
“Governments in the West and the UN failed to offer Christians in countries such as Iraq and Syria the emergency help they needed as genocide got underway,” ACN’s websiterelates. “If Christian organisations and other institutions had not filled the gap, the Christian presence could already have disappeared in Iraq and other parts of the Middle East.”
In the forward to the report, Melkite Greek Catholic Archbishop John Darwish of Lebanon noted that up to the present, “the UN and other humanitarian organizations have provided no aid” leaving the oppressed Christians to fend for themselves.
John Pontifex told the Tablet that the “pc agenda” among western governments and mainstream media is preventing the attention that the Christian community requires.
According to another watchdog organization that monitors Christian persecution, the year 2017 saw a violent and sustained attack on Christian faith, with at least 215 million Christians facing severe persecution, including 3,066 deaths, 1,020 rapes, 1,252 kidnappings and 793 attacks on churches.
Open Doors, an organization founded in 1955 to assist persecuted Christians, publishes an annual “World Watch List,” reporting on attacks against Christians and ranking the most hostile national environments for believers.
In its 2018 report, Open Doors noted that Islamic oppression fuels persecution in 8 of the top 10 countries of their Watch List.
FBI Informant Testifies Against Obama Concerning Uranium One Scandal
The investigation into Hillary Clinton and the Obama administration’s involvement in the Uranium One scandal took a shocking turn this past week as one FBI informant provided three different written testimonies to Congress accusing the Obama administration of making deals designed to benefit Clinton and help Russia gain advantages over the United States.
The informant, Douglas Campbell, said in his testimony, “I was frustrated watching the U.S. government make numerous decisions benefiting Rosatom and Tenex while those entities were engaged in serious criminal conduct on U.S. soil. Tenex and Rosatom were raking in billions of U.S. dollars by signing contracts with American nuclear utility clients at the same time they were indulging in extortion by using threats to get bribes and kickbacks, with a portion going to Russia for high ranking officials.”
Meanwhile, in exchange for the Obama administration’s help pushing through these deals, Russia reportedly sent millions of dollars to the U.S. with the expectation that it would be used to benefit Hillary Clinton and her upcoming Presidential campaign.
Ever since Campbell began blowing the whistle on this scandal, Democrats have fought to discredit him and his work. However, they are finding it hard to cast doubt on Campbell’s shocking findings given that the FBI itself deemed his work valuable enough to reward Campbell with a $50,000 check in 2016.
In spite of the FBI deeming his work valuable, Campbell reports that the Obama administration tried hard to silence him in the run-up to the 2016 election, as they didn’t want his findings to hurt Clinton’s chances of being elected. Now that Campbell is finally in a position to testify to Congress, his testimony has shined a spotlight on one concerning detail after another, showing that the Obama administration was willing to cast a blind eye to criminal wrongdoings so long as Russia kept the money flowing in.
Campbell’s testimony alleges that Moscow made the decision to hire the American lobbying firm, APCO Worldwide, because of the firm’s unique position to leverage the Obama administration, particularly then-Secretary-of-State Hillary Clinton. Campbell also says that in spite of more-than-sufficient evidence that the Russian company Rosatom was deeply involved in criminal conduct, the Uranium One deal with them was still pushed through by the Obama administration. This evidence of criminal conduct is something that President Obama himself would have been well aware of, as Campbell said the FBI told him that his work was “briefed to President Obama as part of his daily presidential briefing.”
“I remember one response I got from an agent when I asked how it was possible CFIUS would approve the Uranium One sale when the FBI could prove Rosatom was engaged in criminal conduct,” Campbell said, “His answer: ‘Ask your politics.'”
In his testimony, Campbell said that he provided documentation of crimes and corruption taking place in Russia to the Obama administration months before the administration went on to make a series of decisions that directly benefited the Russian government. He also said that he was able to provide evidence that Russia was aiding Iran in their development of nuclear capabilities months before Obama’s Iran deal.
However, in both cases, nothing was done. Campbell said that the FBI told him that politics and helping the Obama administration was a more important cause than seeking justice against the Russian officials and companies that were engaging in criminal conduct on US soil.
For a President that Democrats have praised as being “scandal-free”, this is a shocking look at just how far Obama was willing to go to benefit Hillary Clinton’s Presidential campaign. Now that Campbell is providing evidence of these wrongdoings to Congressional investigators, it’s yet to be seen what action – if any – will be taken against Clinton, Obama, and other key members of the Obama administration. What we do know for sure is that Obama’s legacy as a “scandal free” President ended the second that Douglas Campbell submitted his shocking testimony.
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The 22 agencies and programs Trump's budget would eliminate
BY BRETT SAMUELS
President Trump on Monday unveiled his budget proposal for the 2019 fiscal year, which makes significant cuts to some federal agencies and projects as part of an effort to slash the federal deficit by $3 trillion over the next 10 years.
As part of that effort, Trump has proposed eliminating funding for several agencies, grant programs and institutes.
While lawmakers are unlikely to enact most of Trump's proposal, here’s a look at some of the centers and agencies the White House wants to abolish.
As part of that effort, Trump has proposed eliminating funding for several agencies, grant programs and institutes.
While lawmakers are unlikely to enact most of Trump's proposal, here’s a look at some of the centers and agencies the White House wants to abolish.
1. The McGovern-Dole International Food for Education, which donates agricultural commodities and financial assistance to carry out school feeding programs in foreign countries.
2. The Rural Business and Cooperative Service, which provides loans, grants and payments intended to increase opportunities in rural communities.
3. The Economic Development Administration, which provides federal grants to communities in support of locally-developed economic plans.
4. The Manufacturing Extension Partnership, which subsidizes advisory and consulting services for small and medium-size manufacturers.
5. 21st Century Community Learning Centers, which helps communities establish or expand centers to provide before- and after-school programs and summer school programs.
6. Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs, an Education Department program that provides grants to support college preparation for low-income students.
7. The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, which researches ways to enhance the effectiveness of health services.
8. The Advanced Research Projects Agency, which provides support for Energy Department projects.
9. The National Wildlife Refuge Fund, which compensates communities for lost tax revenue when the federal government acquires their land.
10. The Global Climate Change Initiative, a proposal that reflects Trump’s decision last year to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement.
11. The NASA Office of Education, which provides grants to colleges and universities, museums and science centers. The funding would be redirected within NASA.
12. The Chemical Safety Board, which is tasked with investigating accidents at chemical facilities.
13. The Corporation for National and Community Service, which funds service opportunities, promotes volunteering and helps nonprofit organizations find volunteers.
14. The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which funds public television and radio stations including Public Broadcasting Service and NPR.
15. The Institute of Museum and Library Services, which funds museums and libraries nationwide with grants.
16. The Legal Services Corporation, a nonprofit that provides civil legal assistance for low-income individuals.
17. The National Endowment for the Arts, which funds American artists and projects with grants.
18. The National Endowment for the Humanities, which provides grants to American humanities scholars.
19. The Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation, which funds community development projects nationwide.
20. The Denali Commission, the Delta Regional Authority and the Northern Border Regional Commission, which fund infrastructure and economic projects in specified areas.
21. The U.S. Trade and Development Agency, which provides U.S. goods and services for foreign projects.
22. The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, a think tank focused on international affairs and foreign policy.
2. The Rural Business and Cooperative Service, which provides loans, grants and payments intended to increase opportunities in rural communities.
3. The Economic Development Administration, which provides federal grants to communities in support of locally-developed economic plans.
4. The Manufacturing Extension Partnership, which subsidizes advisory and consulting services for small and medium-size manufacturers.
5. 21st Century Community Learning Centers, which helps communities establish or expand centers to provide before- and after-school programs and summer school programs.
6. Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs, an Education Department program that provides grants to support college preparation for low-income students.
7. The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, which researches ways to enhance the effectiveness of health services.
8. The Advanced Research Projects Agency, which provides support for Energy Department projects.
9. The National Wildlife Refuge Fund, which compensates communities for lost tax revenue when the federal government acquires their land.
10. The Global Climate Change Initiative, a proposal that reflects Trump’s decision last year to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement.
11. The NASA Office of Education, which provides grants to colleges and universities, museums and science centers. The funding would be redirected within NASA.
12. The Chemical Safety Board, which is tasked with investigating accidents at chemical facilities.
13. The Corporation for National and Community Service, which funds service opportunities, promotes volunteering and helps nonprofit organizations find volunteers.
14. The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which funds public television and radio stations including Public Broadcasting Service and NPR.
15. The Institute of Museum and Library Services, which funds museums and libraries nationwide with grants.
16. The Legal Services Corporation, a nonprofit that provides civil legal assistance for low-income individuals.
17. The National Endowment for the Arts, which funds American artists and projects with grants.
18. The National Endowment for the Humanities, which provides grants to American humanities scholars.
19. The Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation, which funds community development projects nationwide.
20. The Denali Commission, the Delta Regional Authority and the Northern Border Regional Commission, which fund infrastructure and economic projects in specified areas.
21. The U.S. Trade and Development Agency, which provides U.S. goods and services for foreign projects.
22. The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, a think tank focused on international affairs and foreign policy.
[Must see] Obama HUMILIATED on stage at this big reveal
The National Portrait Gallery has unveiled portraits of former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama — and they were humiliating.
The portraits were unveiled to the public Monday at the gallery, which is part of the Smithsonian group of museums. Social media erupted in response, pointing out the poor quality of the work and the strange presentation.
And Obama was front and center during the disaster.
The gallery has a complete collection of presidential portraits. A second and different set of portraits of the former first couple will eventually hang in the White House.
Always a politician, Obama praised Baltimore-based artist Amy Sherald “for so spectacularly capturing the grace and beauty and intelligence and charm and hotness of the woman I love.” Critics weren’t so diplomatic, however.
Many Twitter users even shared a laugh over Barack sitting in the bushes. Other accounts on social media were in an all-out-war over these portraits — confused as to whether they actually represented the subjects well enough.
Take a look at these five embarrassing tweets —
These CANNOT be the official Obama White House portraits. They just can't. NOTHING is this awful on purpose.
Veterans4
AKA Crumbcollector@DeplorableJWS
Kudos to the artist! 
You really captured the true essence of Obama.
I'm in awe. 
#MAGA#ObamaGate#ObamaPortraits #ObamaForPrison#MondayMotivation
You really captured the true essence of Obama.I'm in awe. #MAGA#ObamaGate#ObamaPortraits #ObamaForPrison#MondayMotivation
Some thing seems off about Obama and Michelle's official portraits...After some deep thinking I think it's missing the wiretap earpiece for Obama's ear and just needing to be scaled to size so it can fit Inside gitmo walls. 
Obama is depicted on a chair in the bushes doing his favorite thing: spying on Americans. #ObamaPortraits
Barack’s portrait was painted by Kehinde Wiley — an artist best known for his vibrant, large-scale paintings of African-Americans. “It features a seven-foot portrait sitting in a field of flowers, including chrysanthemums, the official flower of Chicago; jasmine, a nod to Obama’s childhood in Hawaii; and African blue lilies to symbolize Obama’s late father who was from Kenya,” reports Fox News.
The portraits will be officially installed and available for public viewing starting on Feb. 13.
Obama Portrait Artist Also Painted Black Women Holding Severed White Heads
Brittany M. Hughes, @RealBrittHughesWhile the recently unveiled official portraits of Barack Obama and his wife Michelle have drawn scrutiny for being…well, kinda weird, here’s another fun fact that might be worse than the paintings themselves.
It turns out Kehinde Wiley, the artist former President Obama hand-picked to paint his Secret Garden-esque likeness, also has a penchant for painting disturbing images of black women holding severed white peoples’ heads.
Here’s a fun example:
It turns out Kehinde Wiley, the artist former President Obama hand-picked to paint his Secret Garden-esque likeness, also has a penchant for painting disturbing images of black women holding severed white peoples’ heads.
Here’s a fun example:
This particular painting is called “Judith and Holofernes,” which refers to a story from the apocryphal Book of Judith which inspired a whole bunch of art during the Renaissance and Baroque periods. While the original story did involve a woman whacking off a guy’s head, Wiley’s choice to use a black woman holding a dead white person’s severed head is clearly a deliberate one.Here’s another piece by Wiley utilizing the same myth:
For his part, Obama claimed that "what I was always struck by when I saw [Wiley's] portraits was the degree to which they challenged our ideas of power and privilege."Yeah, that must be it. A black woman holding a dead white person's head is...challenging.
Wiley’s become pretty famous for his reimagining of traditional European portraits using black people, instead -- hardly a terrible thing, in and of itself. But while the majority of Wiley’s paintings focus on black subjects who aren’t holding the decapitated heads of white folks, that doesn’t really provide much comfort for the fact that our latest presidential portrait was done by a guy who’s apparently O.K. with glorifying racial violence.
But I guess we’re not allowed to complain about that.
Dick Morris: Worse Than Watergate – Media Now Is Co-Conspirator
The current FBI/NSA/CIA/State Department/Obama scandal is far worse than the past outrages of Watergate and Iran-Contra scandals. What makes it so is that the media has switched sides.
In Watergate and Iran-Contra, the media played the role of prosecutor (or at least investigator) tracking down the scandal and reporting the developments to an aroused public. But in the current scandal, the media is the co-conspirator with the rogue spooks at the various intelligence agencies.
As we point out in our book “Rogue Spooks: The Intelligence War on Donald Trump,” the media has switched sides and is now working closely with the bad actors to slant the news and ignore bad stories.
Even as the conservative blogs — and this site — meticulously report developments, nothing makes the front pages of the nation’s main newspapers or the network TV news.
There, the only scandal you hear about is the phony, long-discredited allegation of collusion between the Kremlin and the Trump campaign.
The fact that official government agencies used material paid for, generated and likely written by the campaign of a candidate for president to get a warrant to spy on the other campaign — just months before the election — is of no interest to the media.
Nor do they seem to care that tax money was spent to pay the “expenses” of a negative researcher (Steele) employed by one of the candidates.
Nor are they particularly alarmed that there was an open channel from Hillary Clinton’s negative ops through the State Department to the FBI.
Nor does it seem to matter that, after the election, FBI agents regularly leaked to the media (to the very outlets we are talking about) to discredit a sitting president — their boss.
What makes this all particularly dangerous is that it lies within our power to discipline and reform the executive branch agencies involved in the misconduct, but we can do nothing about the corrupt, co-conspiratorial media.
By contrast, in Watergate, the media — through Deep Throat (the de facto head of the FBI Mark Felt) — guided the investigation of the malfeasance, fully aware of the danger it posed to our democratic system of government.
And when the overreach and outright violations of law in the Iran-Contra scandal were exposed, it was the media that unearthed the illegal shipment of arms to the Contras in Nicaragua and the against-policy payments to Iran.
Now the media is not the cop on the case, but is one of the miscreants.
As in the international CIA playbook, the media has been enlisted to run phony stories, generate fake news and cover up exposés of the truth. In foreign nations, bribery is necessary to suborn the media. In Washington, ideology suffices. This makes it even worse.
The intelligence community has come to regard spying, surveillance of government officials and cooperation with the establishment candidate for president as campaigning by other means. And that makes this scandal worse, far worse, than Watergate.
And harder to fix.
In Watergate and Iran-Contra, the media played the role of prosecutor (or at least investigator) tracking down the scandal and reporting the developments to an aroused public. But in the current scandal, the media is the co-conspirator with the rogue spooks at the various intelligence agencies.
As we point out in our book “Rogue Spooks: The Intelligence War on Donald Trump,” the media has switched sides and is now working closely with the bad actors to slant the news and ignore bad stories.
Even as the conservative blogs — and this site — meticulously report developments, nothing makes the front pages of the nation’s main newspapers or the network TV news.
There, the only scandal you hear about is the phony, long-discredited allegation of collusion between the Kremlin and the Trump campaign.
The fact that official government agencies used material paid for, generated and likely written by the campaign of a candidate for president to get a warrant to spy on the other campaign — just months before the election — is of no interest to the media.
Nor do they seem to care that tax money was spent to pay the “expenses” of a negative researcher (Steele) employed by one of the candidates.
Nor are they particularly alarmed that there was an open channel from Hillary Clinton’s negative ops through the State Department to the FBI.
Nor does it seem to matter that, after the election, FBI agents regularly leaked to the media (to the very outlets we are talking about) to discredit a sitting president — their boss.
What makes this all particularly dangerous is that it lies within our power to discipline and reform the executive branch agencies involved in the misconduct, but we can do nothing about the corrupt, co-conspiratorial media.
By contrast, in Watergate, the media — through Deep Throat (the de facto head of the FBI Mark Felt) — guided the investigation of the malfeasance, fully aware of the danger it posed to our democratic system of government.
And when the overreach and outright violations of law in the Iran-Contra scandal were exposed, it was the media that unearthed the illegal shipment of arms to the Contras in Nicaragua and the against-policy payments to Iran.
Now the media is not the cop on the case, but is one of the miscreants.
As in the international CIA playbook, the media has been enlisted to run phony stories, generate fake news and cover up exposés of the truth. In foreign nations, bribery is necessary to suborn the media. In Washington, ideology suffices. This makes it even worse.
The intelligence community has come to regard spying, surveillance of government officials and cooperation with the establishment candidate for president as campaigning by other means. And that makes this scandal worse, far worse, than Watergate.
And harder to fix.
Dick Morris is a former adviser to President Bill Clinton as well as a political author, pollster and consultant. His most recent book, “Rogue Spooks,” was written with his wife, Eileen McGann.
’60 Minutes’: Data Showing More Guns, Less Crime an ‘Alternative Fact’
by AWR HAWKINS
John MacDougall/AFP/Getty Image
During the February 11 airing of 60 Minutes, host Steve Kroft suggested data showing more guns equal less crime is simply one of numerous “alternate facts.”
He was intimating that pro-Second Amendment facts exist, but those facts are often dispelled by anti-Second Amendment facts.
Of course, this is not how facts work. Instead, there is what is true and what is false, and facts distinguish the former from the latter.
For instance, Democrats rail against AR-15s and AK-47s as the weapon of choice for miscreants, but unvarnished FBI stats show over four times more people were stabbed to death in 2016 than were shot and killed with rifles of any kind.
Democrats contend that gun control makes us safer, but Colorado adopted universal background checks, a “high capacity” magazine ban, and other gun controls in the wake of the Sandy Hook Elementary School attack only to witness two high profile shootings in 2015 and ten officers shot since December 31, 2017.
Moreover, gun control proponents like Piers Morgan rage against the number of guns Americans can legally buy, implying that more guns equal more crime. But a Congressional Research Service report shows that as private gun ownership expanded from 192 million firearms in 1994 to 310 million firearms in 2009, crime fell sharply. According to the report, the “firearm-related murder and non-negligent homicide” rate was 6.6 per 100,000 Americans in 1993. Following the exponential growth in the number of guns, that rate fell to 3.6 per 100,000 in 2000.
There are not “alternative facts” in play. Rather, there are facts versus claims that cannot be bolstered.
The same is true for concealed carry reciprocity. Concealed permit holders are among the most law-abiding of law-abiding citizens. On May 27, 2017, Breitbart News reported a Crime Prevention Research Center study showing that from January 1, 2005, through December 31, 2007, the yearly rate of misdemeanors and felonies by full-time police officers was .102 percent. On the other hand, the yearly rate for Texas concealed carry permit holders in the year 2015 -– the year campus carry was signed into law in that state–was .0102 percent.
Again, these are just facts.
So when national reciprocity is pushed as a way to help the common man defend himself, with claims that guns in the hands of law-abiding citizens in more places will reduce crime, the onus is on the opposing side. And the victory goes to the side with the facts, not to the bearer of “alternative facts” (whatever they are).
AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News, the host of the Breitbart podcast Bullets, and the writer/curator of Down Range with AWR Hawkins, a weekly newsletter focused on all things Second Amendment, also for Breitbart News. He is the political analyst for Armed American Radio. Follow him on Twitter: @AWRHawkins. Reach him directly at awrhawkins@breitbart.com. Sign up to get Down Range at breitbart.com/downrange.
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