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Who Are These People and Why Are They "The Frontrunners?"

We don't have a country anymore.

We have an Oligarchic system run by a Government/Corporate Media Complex.

BIG DONORS TO GOP CANDIDATE BEFORE DEBATE: TAKE OUT TRUMP

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In the interest of full disclosure. I don't like Trump. I don't trust him. Sorry to sound paranoid, but the Oligarchs need this guy to suck votes away from a Conservative and give them to Hillary.

That's the plan.

Oligarchs are not totalitarian. There is no such thing as a large group of people with no disagreement between them. But a system ruled by Corporate Welfare (which is not Capitalism) does create a "you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours" good old boy network in which the distinctions between interests are more minute.

The difference between Bush and Clinton is almost negligible. They would govern almost exactly the same way. But their corporate cronies are each a slightly different set. Trump is a wild card. His network is all over the place. They haven't pinned him down.

But the easiest way for him to add to his billions is to give the Oligarchs an opportunity to pin him down; to whore him out for awhile.

Running for President is good business. And the business of America is a businessman running for President, and businessmen running a businessman for President.

And what's good for the Corporate Media Complex's Election Cycle is good for America.

Meanwhile, there is the business of roping Trump in. And they will. They will use him (whether he wants to be used or not) to wreck the Conservatives in the GOP field, only to have Bush get the nomination, and Trump declare as a third party candidate. He'll get about 12-17 percent of the vote (about 80% of that will be Republican votes) and Hillary will ascend to the Presidential Throne.

Let's see if I'm right.



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By the way, Megyn Kelly should be ashamed of herself for her treatment of Trump last night. And, as I said, I don't like Trump.

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UPDATE ---

I hesitated to criticize Megyn Kelly, but I was truly offended by her behavior.

Looks like I am not the only one.

From Gateway Pundit:

Enough Is Enough: Petition Started to Ban FOX’s Megyn Kelly from Hosting Any Further GOP Debates

Conservative viewers last night were very offended at Megyn Kelly’s antics during the Republican FOX News debate. 

Twitter exploded with attacks on Kelly and FOX News for the constant attacks on the Republican candidates.

Obama Regime Deporting Iraqi Christians Who Fled ISIS After Illegally Crossing Mexican Border

Question: Is he deporting Iraqi Muslims who fled ISIS?

From Fox News:

Just a few miles from the U.S.-Mexican border, the descendants of one of the oldest Christian communities in the world wait to be delivered from purgatory. 

They came from Iraq and say they only want to practice their faith, free from the threat of ISIS. 

But for several months, 28 Chaldean Christians have had to pray behind the barbed wire fences of San Diego’s Otay Detention Facility, captives of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency and facing deportation. 

A dozen have already been ticketed for removal. 

“In Iraq, they only had three choices: convert to Islam, death by the sword or leave the country,” said Mark Arabo, head of the Minority Humanitarian Foundation. 

“They’ve refused to convert, escaped slavery and death – only to be imprisoned by our broken immigration system. 

“These aren’t people who woke up one day and said, ‘Let me walk to America.’ They were forced out of their homes because of our inaction in the region. Because of our troop withdrawal. These are people who were sentenced to death because of our involvement in the country.” 

They escaped near-certain death, but not the U.S. court system. 

The message is even stronger from Frank Wolf, a former Republican congressman who represented Virginia in the House of Representatives for more than three decades. He’s also a Senior Distinguished Fellow at the 21st Century Wilberforce Initiative, which works to protect religious freedom. 

“This administration is fundamentally anti-Christian,” Wolf said.

“after 10 years, if Iran is the same nation as it is today, we will be worse off with this agreement than without it”

Sen Chuck Schumer of NY, coming out AGAINST Obama’s Iran deal.

In fact he is precisely right.

In 10 years Israel will HAVE TO HAVE forged a nuclear first strike force within the IDF, how could NAY prudent govt NOT do this?

In 10 years KSA will HAVE to have armed themselves with weapons they HOPE will deter a nuclear Iran

In 10 years Egypt will HAVE to be matching the power of Iran as a regional power with nuclear weapons of their own, and I will remind readers that being POOR is NOT a prevention of attaining nuclear power. Just ask ZULFIKAR ALI BHUTO of Pakistan.

If India builds the bomb, we will eat grass or leaves, even go hungry, but we will get one of our own. We have no other choice.
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto - 1965

Of course, all this is true ONLY IF IRAN OBEYS THE TREATY (and of course they just broke sanctions with Russia’s cooperation TODAY)

As for the USA’s only choice being war, that is on your head, Obama, and was an integral part of how you shaped US policy, to force this kind of red herring choice.

But we don’t have to do anything.

It is Israel’s life which is at stake, and their action to take.

It is KSA’s life at stake and their Sunni action to take.

Just imagine if we had a president who lead THAT KIND OF COALITION to end Iran’s nuclear weapons program, and their regime’s blatantly racist and genocidal policies

PS, WTF are foreign diplomats doing the USA LOBBYING OUR LEGISLATURE?

Syrian Rebels, Trained By Obama To Fight ISIS, Have Disappeared

CNN JUST IN: Remaining U.S. trained rebels in Syria are unaccounted for. May have fled, or been killed; whereabouts unknown.

— Vaughn Sterling (@vplus) August 6, 2015

Maybe we could train Al Qaeda to fight ISIS.

Have we tried that yet?

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ISIS Executes 19 Girls for Not Having Sex With Them

From the Daily Mail:

ISIS fanatics have executed 19 women for refusing to have sex with its fighters, a Kurdish official has said. He claimed the women were being held hostage in Islamic State’s stronghold of Mosul, Iraq, which the terror group seized in June last year. 

Meanwhile a UN envoy investigating Islamic State’s vile sex trade has said ‘girls get peddled like barrels of petrol’ and one can be bought by six different men. 

She also verified a disturbing ISIS document which suggested the extremists sell the Yazidi and Christian women and children they have abducted, with girls aged just one to nine-years-old fetching the most money. 

ISIS stormed the Sinjar district in northern Iraq last year and captured hundreds of women belonging to the Yazidi community, who the Islamists view as heretics.

Media Challenges Waco Twin Peaks Gag Order As Questions About DA and Judge Emerge

The Waco Biker Gang Shootout Case Gets Stranger and Stranger

It's been over two months since a shootout at a Waco, TX restaurant left nine people dead and 18 wounded yet no forensics reports have been released and everyone involved in the case even peripherally still is under a gag order:

“The Houston Chronicle has jumped into the fray over a gag order issued in the case involving 177 bikers charged in Waco for their alleged roles in a melee that left nine people dead and 18 wounded,”the paper self-reported Friday. 

“The Chronicle’s parent company, the Hearst Corporation, is one of 16 news media companies that are supporting a biker’s fight against the gag order. Others include the Associated Press, New York Times and the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press.” . . . 

“Authorized journalists” doing their job and acting as a watchdog on government seems a rarity to those of us jaded from seeing the establishment media act more like propagandists and spiking stories that don’t advance a narrative. 

In this case, the joint action is the result of legal circumstances that also merit further scrutiny.“A state district judge [ruled] that a Dallas attorney can have a copy of a Twin Peaks franchisee’s video of the May 17 biker shootout, but the judge barred the release of the video to the public,” the Waco Tribune Herald reported. 

“Judge Matt Johnson of Waco’s 54th State District Court also granted a prosecution request to place a gag order in the Matthew Alan Clendennen case, preventing attorneys on both sides, law enforcement officers and witnesses from discussing that case only in the media. 

”For his part, Clendennen, per Dallas/Fort Worth’s 5NBC, maintains “he was unfairly slapped with a gag order after publicly criticizing how the investigation has been handled [and], said the order in the state’s criminal case against him is unconstitutional and outside the court’s jurisdiction because he has not been indicted. 

”That’s not the only questionable conduct on the part of both the court and the DA. For starters, again per NBC 5, Judge Johnson and prosecutor Abel Reyna, who requested the granted gag order, have enjoyed a longstanding personal and professional relationship. They’re former law partners, and Reyna contributed the maximum amount allowed by state law to the judge’s political campaign. 

Problems from the government side don’t end there. In another move gun owners will be familiar with (because the technique is used to smear them all the time) Breitbart is reporting the use of language intended by the prosecution to tarnish reputations and prejudice the public, such as “persistent and flagrant use of terms such as ‘outlaw bikers,’ ‘biker gangs,’ and ‘outlaw biker gangs’ when referring to motorcycle riders and all of the bikers in Waco on May 17th. They cite legal opinions that prevent such ‘guilt by association’ arguments by the State.  

”That flies in the face of the judge’s stated reason justifying his gag order…so that the potential jury pool would not be “tainted.” Add to that the empanelling of a grand jury under a system criticized as “pick a pal,” as opposed to random selection, and it gives credibility to allegations such as those leveled by oversight monitors like “The Aging Rebel” that “The gag order seems intended to protect public and police officials from being confronted with their own lies.” 

But wait, as late TV pitchman Billy Mays used to say, there’s more, and if not directly related to the gag order and biker shootout stories, it’s at least indicative of government personnel. 

This is the same DA’s office where one of their own negligently fired a gun inside the office, taking out a window he was pointing at and hitting a building across the street. 

Even afterward, despite intentionally pulled the trigger without determining there wasn’t a round in the chamber, the assistant prosecutor insisted he was “being extremely safe. I inspected the gun even after I was told it was not loaded, but it was just an unfortunate accident.” 

And while he made a show of being angry, DA Reyna was adamant his guys would stay armed. And rather than treating his underling like he would a citizen — arresting, charging and prosecuting him — Reyna merely demoted the guy, and even then cited “related but unspecified personnel matters” as factors for a pay cut that still compensated the shooter with a six-figure salary. 

Then there was a man who was forced to remain jailed an extra 83 days because Reyna’s office “declined his case for prosecution but failed to notify the McLennan County Jail.” The DA said he accepted responsibility, but accountability for these things always seems to come out other people’s pockets. 

This is the prosecutor who doesn’t want defense lawyers and the media to inform the public of information relevant to a high-interest case — and his crony buddy on the bench goes along with it? This is the judge,who, with colleagues, approved $1 million bonds on arrested bikers, and then “ordered no other judge could rule on motions to reduce the bonds.” 

There are plenty of questions to investigate regarding alleged criminal activities by those involved in the Twin Peaks incident. That’s what trials with a presumption of innocence are for. And investigating and reporting on all aspects of those trials, and of events leading up to them, is the purview of the “official” and alternative media, with their activities supposedly protected by the First Amendment. 

For the prosecutor and the judge to hold their interests above scrutiny is unacceptable. All Americans interested in justice should join in seeing the gag order overturned so the truth is not suppressed by those wielding power to accuse and punish.

The SEC moves to mandate wealth shaming on American corporations

From NBC:

Companies will have to provide investors with a ratio showing how the median pay of their workforce squares with their chief executive officers’ compensation, under new rules slated for adoption by U.S. securities regulators on Wednesday. 

Under the Securities and Exchange Commission’s final rules, companies will get some flexibility in how they find the median. For instance, they can exclude 5 percent of their overseas workers when arriving at the number and use statistical sampling. 

Those changes are not likely to assuage corporate trade groups, which have opposed any rule and are widely expected to file a legal challenge.  

The SEC has been under mounting pressure by Democrats, including Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, and unions, who support the rule and have lamented delays in its adoption.

We need to start publishing numbers on how much various Democrats make compared to their constituents.

Our Friends, The Iranians: Iran warship points weapons at US helicopter

AND THEN THERE'S THIS:

Pax-Obama: US-trained Syrian rebels say they won’t fight al-Qaeda

Maybe They Could Just Change The Name From "Global Warming" To WEIRD WEATHER

Global Warming Alarmists Run Into Brick Wall Of Facts

Global warming alarmists must be shaking their heads in disbelief. Just when they felt they had the stars aligned to push their anti-capitalism/free enterprise agenda on the international stage and claim the power that they crave, the climate and scientists have begun to turn against them.

Sydney, Australia, has snow for the first time since 1836. To put this in perspective: in 1836, Andrew Jackson was president of the United States, Victoria was a year away from being crowned Queen of England upon her 18th birthday, and Davy Crockett met his heroic end at the Alamo.

Needless to say, it has been a long time since Sydney has seen snow.

In other news, the Big Island of Hawaii had snowfall in July. Not to be outdone, the Sierra Nevada mountain range in California also had snowfall this July. Antarctica set a new record for ice extent in 2014 and continues to set records for how much ice covers the oceans surrounding this southern hemisphere continent as 2015 progresses.

And to confuse the science-is-settled-on-global-warming crowd even further, some solar scientists are now projecting that due to changes in the sun’s cycles, the earth is likely to suffer from what is known as a “Little Ice Age” starting in 2030, as the heat-giving star settles into a very rare pattern of inactivity. Imagine their consternation at learning that the sun actually plays a role in the earth’s temperature.

Erdoğan to open world’s largest Islamic-Ottoman social complex in US

From the Daily Sabah:

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan will reportedly open the world's largest Islamic-Ottoman social complex in Maryland, U.S. during his upcoming expected visit to America. Erdoğan recently stated that he will visit the U.S. on a diplomatic mission before attending the G20 on November 15-16 which will take place in Turkey's southern province of Antalya. During his visit to the U.S., 

Erdoğan is also expected to attend the opening ceremony of "Maryland Külliye," an Ottoman architectural concept which designates a complex with a central mosque and a series of ancillary buildings - such as a library, hospital, and public fountain - surrounding it.

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