Friday, May 19, 2017

News Items Worth Reading 1

This item offers us a sobering synopsis of our nation's leaders contributions from both political parties to destabilizing the world.  We need to acknowledge what we have done and change course. Quote: "So what can we do to stop the blowback, liberate the country from the iron-clad grip of the military industrial complex, and get back to a point where freedom actually means something?
  • For starters, get your priorities in order.
  • Stop playing politics with your principles.
  • Value all human life as worthy of protection.
  • Recognize that in the eyes of the government, we’re all expendable.
  • Demand that the government stop creating, stockpiling and deploying weapons of mass destruction: nuclear, chemical, biological, cyber, etc.
  • Finally, stop supporting the war machine.
     Until these missteps are corrected, we should probably do as Chalmers Johnson suggests and stop talking about “democracy” and “human rights.”    https://www.theburningplatform.com/2017/05/16/americas-reign-of-terror-a-nation-reaps-what-it-sows/  This is 100% right.

The continuing saga of the decline of the Democrat party just got worse.  Quote: "In the aftermath of the shooting, the Rich family hired a private investigator – Rich Wheeler, a former D.C. homicide detective who says evidence on Seth Rich’s laptop suggests he was in contact with WikiLeaks prior to his death. Of note, Wheeler does not have possession of the laptop in question – however he said specific information will be released on Tuesday (5/16).  Furthermore, Wheeler believes there has been a cover-up: “The police department nor the FBI have been forthcoming,” said Wheeler. “They haven’t been cooperating at all. I believe that the answer to solving his death lies on that computer, which I believe is either at the police department or either at the FBI. I have been told both.  When we asked Wheeler if his sources have told him there is information that links Rich to Wikileaks, he said, “Absolutely. Yeah. That’s confirmed.”    https://www.theburningplatform.com/2017/05/16/murdered-dnc-staffer-seth-rich-was-in-contact-with-wikileaks-says-former-dc-homicide-detective/   More:  http://www.wnd.com/2017/05/dead-dnc-staffer-had-contact-with-wikileaks/

This accusation made against Trump certainly warrants investigation and if true appropriate action taken.  We will just have to wait and see.   http://freebeacon.com/politics/report-comey-memo-says-trump-asked-end-investigation-flynn/?

This Democrat claims that the Deep State is attempting to take down Trump.  His observations are interesting.  Quote: "The goal of the internal attacks on President Donald Trump that manifest themselves as leaks is not to alter policy, but to subvert the president, former Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio, said Wednesday on Hannity. Kucinich said the actions of the “deep state” — a so-called group of influential government employees trying to manipulate government policy — have the Trump administration “under attack from within.” Trump’s internal threats result from agencies with their own agendas, said Kucinich, who ran for the White House in 2004 and 2008. Curious, isn't it that no one is clamoring for an investigation of the five times (at least) the Obama administration leaked classified information.  Apparently they are only concerned about protecting classified information when they are the minority party.  That must have been the reason it was okay for the Obama administration to do it and for Hillary during her four years as Secretary of State to knowingly pass hundreds of classified documents over an unclassified system.  Democrat did not raise a ruckus when any of this illegal activity was exposed.  Indeed they protected both from top to bottom of the Democrat party hierarchy.  So it seems that to them it is okay if they do it but not okay if a Republican does it.  Could one call that blatantly dishonest hypocrisy???   The fact is NO ONE should get away with breaking federal laws.   http://www.dailywire.com/news/16533/5-times-obama-administration-leaked-classified-michael-qazvini?

The government has swindled the public many times over.  Both political parties are guilty. Social Security is the worst of the lot. This item does not recount its sordid history but rest assured promises made have been callously broken by politicians using the money originally intended for citizen retirement for their political agendas. Quote: "Social Security accounted for one-quarter of the federal government’s spending in 2015. Yet the Social Security trust fund has paid out more benefits than it has collected in employee taxes across the past six years.  The fund will likely run out of money around 2030. This is a major problem as a significant number of people rely on Social Security payments for a decent quality of life during retirement. The only solution left is to privatize the program."   http://www.conservativezone.com/articles/saving-social-security-why-the-program-should-be-privatized/  

This former DOJ spokesman says that Comey is trying to take down Trump.  Quote: "Former FBI Director James Comey may have been building a legal case against President Donald Trump well before the president fired him on May 9, according to a former Department of Justice (DOJ) spokesperson. Matthew Miller, who served as the DOJ’s Director of the Office of Public Affairs under former Attorney General Eric Holder, suggested that Comey may have been building an obstruction of justice case against the president, in an interview with the Washington Post.  Miller’s suggestion carries weight not just because of his extensive background at DOJ and in government, but also because he predicted that Comey left a paper trail of his interactions with Trump. Miller sent the following tweet five days before the New York Times reported that Comey wrote a memo indicating the president had asked him to end an investigation into former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn."    http://www.libertyheadlines.com/former-doj-spokesman-comey-trying-take-trump/?

This writer is no fan of Trump but he is more put out with the lack of ethics of those who are aimlessly and viciously attacking him without any evidence.  Quote: "There’s an old saying, “Put up, or shut up.” If you’ve got the goods, let’s see them. Show me the proof and I’m ready to believe. And there are millions of Americans willing to do the same. I say this as someone with a long, documented history of not being a fan of Donald Trump. What I’m not willing to do is take the word of people unwilling to put their name to a charge, nor am I willing to believe The New York Times or any newspaper without some proof. It may not matter to them, but my integrity won’t allow it."    https://townhall.com/columnists/derekhunter/2017/05/17/what-happened-to-integrity-n2328092

This writer is no fan of Trump but he is more put out with the lack of ethics of those who are aimlessly and viciously attacking him without any evidence.  Quote: "There’s an old saying, “Put up, or shut up.” If you’ve got the goods, let’s see them. Show me the proof and I’m ready to believe. And there are millions of Americans willing to do the same. I say this as someone with a long, documented history of not being a fan of Donald Trump. What I’m not willing to do is take the word of people unwilling to put their name to a charge, nor am I willing to believe The New York Times or any newspaper without some proof. It may not matter to them, but my integrity won’t allow it."    https://townhall.com/columnists/derekhunter/2017/05/17/what-happened-to-integrity-n2328092 

This piece provides an unflattering view of the political left and its loyal mainstream media's political bias.    https://www.theburningplatform.com/2017/05/16/presumed-guilty/  

This piece suggests that Obama committed numerous impeachable offenses while in office.  But he got away with every one of them.  He was protected by the Democrat party, a fawning mainstream media and a supportive legal system.  And, in the face of the violent opposition they knew they would endure the Republicans were too chicken to take him on.  I do not know if all 25 examples summarized in this piece qualify as impeacheable but many do and collectively they together do so in spades.  This is a long article so it will take some time to read.   http://www.wnd.com/2017/05/25-impeachable-obama-scandals-far-more-serious-than-comey-firing/

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