FAKE NEWS

But these people have put the reporters’ reputation, even their jobs, in danger. Moreover, they have engaged in a serious abuse of the public trust and an abuse of power.

Who knows how many of these mistakes, spread over numerous outlets, came from the same sources? This seems newsworthy.

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Once again the “Mainstream Media” have exhibited their bias against President Donald J. Trump in their slanted coverage and commentary of Tuesday’s State of the Union address.

This “reporting” run by major news organizations, written and “reported” by top reporters and, presumably, churned through layers of scrupulous editing, turned out to be either misrepresented or completely wrong.

If we are to accept the pleadings of journalists, in their attempts at apologetics, we have to believe these were all honest mistakes. They may be.

But a person might then ask: Why is it that every one of the dozens of honest mistakes is prejudiced in the very same way?
Why hasn’t there been a single major honest mistake that diminishes the Trump-Russia collusion story?

Why is there never an honest mistake that indicts Democrats?

Maybe the problem is that too many people are working backward from a preconception.
Maybe newsrooms have too many people who view the world through an identical prism.

This brings three lines of questioning to mind.

First: Do news organizations typically run stories about documents they’ve never authenticated? Can they point to a single story about the Obama administration CNN has written using a similar process?

Second: Why would two independent sources lie about a date on an e-mail if they didn’t want to mislead the public? And how independent could they really be? How many stories regarding the “Russian-collusion investigation” has CNN run from these same sources?

Three: If sources lie to you, why not burn them?

There may be good reasons to avoid exposing a dishonest source. Perhaps it will scare away legitimate whistleblowers. Perhaps reporters want to preserve relationships with those in power — because they may help on other stories in the future. At the end of the day, you’re in contest for information.

But these people have put the reporters’ reputation, even their jobs, in danger. Moreover, they have engaged in a serious abuse of the public trust and an abuse of power.

Who knows how many of these mistakes, spread over numerous outlets, came from the same sources? This seems newsworthy.

When honest mistakes are found, the knee-jerk reaction of many journalists has been portraying themselves as sentinels of free speech and democracy. Often they will attempt to do this by contrasting their track record on truth with that of their perception that Donald Trump is untruthful.

What that fails to do, however, is undermine the ability of the press to report stories accurately. Trump didn’t make your activist sources lie.

The fact that many journalists have a political agenda is not new, but they have become a proxy of operatives who peddle falsehoods, and they have lost credibility with an even bigger swath of the audience.

It doesn’t really matter if it through sloppy or lazy reporting or if it is because they are willing accomplices in a “soft coup” against the duly elected President of the United States. The result is the same.

The media emperor is naked and he/she is peddling fake news.

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Errors of omission

“With regard to the House Intelligence Committee’s memorandum, the FBI was provided a limited opportunity to review this memo the day before the committee voted to release it,” the statement said. “As expressed during our initial review, we have grave concerns about material omissions of fact that fundamentally impact the memo’s accuracy.”

Disingenuous? Inaccurate? Grave concerns about material omissions? HORSEHOCKEY!

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On last Sunday, prior to the House Intelligence Committee vote to release the FISA memo, FBI Director Christopher Wray was brought in to the House of Representatives secure room location to review the memo for accuracy. After 90 minutes he responded that there were no errors, in fact, contained therein.

On Wednesday, realizing that the White House was going to release the memo over his objection, the FBI issued a terse two-paragraph message laying bare its worries about the document.

Disingenuous? Inaccurate? Grave concerns about material omissions? HORSEHOCKEY!

The FBI & Justice Department had “stonewalled the House Oversight Committee for better than a year until they finally were forced to produce documents regarding the activities surrounding the FISA investigation under threat of subpoena and charges of Contempt of Congress.

After Chairman Nunes personally took FBI Director Christopher Wray to view the “Intel Memo” on Sunday night, and prior to the House Intel Committee vote to release the memo Monday evening, FBI Director Wray sent a Main Justice official and a “counterintelligence official” to view the content.

The two officials – one from the bureau’s counterintelligence division and the other from the legal division. These officials could not point to any factual inaccuracies. The top official within FBI Counter-Intelligence is still the same official who was present during the 2016/2017 “Trump Operation. His name is Bill Priestap.

On the trail to get this far, we have been introduced to a number of Department of Justice and FBI players. Names like FBI Agent Peter Strzok; his mistress FBI Attorney Lisa Page; their ideological comrade deposed Assistant FBI Director Andrew McCabe; FBI Chief Legal Counsel James Baker; DOJ-NSD head John P Carlin; along with DOJ Deputy Bruce Ohr; and his wife, Fusion-GPS contract employee Nellie Ohr. Fusion-GPS founder Glenn Simpson and his wife Mary Jacoby. These are a few of the names that have hit the headlines as a result of ongoing investigations into the politicization of the FBI and DOJ.

…. But there’s one name ALWAYS conspicuously absent, FBI Director of Counterintelligence, Bill Priestap.

When you understand how central Bill Priestap is to the entire 2016/2017 ‘Russian Conspiracy Operation‘, the absence of his name, amid all others, creates a curiosity.
Bill Priestap is the head of the FBI Counterintelligence operation. He was FBI Agent Peter Strozk’s direct boss. If anyone in congress really wanted to know if the FBI paid for the Christopher Steele Dossier, Bill Priestap is the guy who would know. That’s why Devin Nunes wanted to talk to him.

So there we have FBI Director James Comey telling congress on March 20th, 2017, that the reason he didn’t inform the statutory oversight “Gang of Eight” was because Bill Priestap (Director of Counterintelligence) recommended he didn’t do it.

Apparently, according to Comey, Bill Priestap carries a great deal of influence if he could get his boss to NOT perform a statutory obligation simply by recommending he doesn’t do it.

Then again, Comey’s blame-casting there is really called creating a “fall guy”. FBI Director James Comey is ducking responsibility in March 2017 by blaming FBI Director of Counterintelligence Bill Priestap for not informing congress of the operation that began in July 2016. (9 months prior).

At that moment, that very specific moment during that March 20th hearing, anyone who watches these hearings closely could see Comey was creating his own exit from getting ensnared in the consequences from the wiretapping and surveillance operation of President Donald Trump. In essence, Bill Priestap is James Comey’s shield from liability.

But more curiously for current discussion, there has been NO MENTION of Bill Priestap in any of the media revelations, despite his centrality to all of it.

Bill Priestap would have needed to authorize Peter Strzok to engage with Christopher Steele over the “Russian Dosssier”.

Bill Priestap would have needed to approve of the underlying documents that were used for both FISA applications (June/July and Sept/Oct).

Bill Priestap would be the person to approve of paying, or reimbursing, Christopher Steele for the Russian Dossier used in their counterintelligence operation and subsequent FISA application.

Without Bill Priestap involved, approvals, etc. the entire Russian/Trump Counterintelligence operation just doesn’t happen. Heck, James Comey’s March testimony in that regard is also evidence of Priestap’s importance.

So we all can see that Bill Priestap is a central figure.
•FBI Director James Comey defers to him;
•FBI Special Agent in Counterintelligence Peter Strzok reports to him.
Yet there’s absolutely no mention of Bill Priestap in any of the explosive investigative story-lines in the entire two months this story was breaking headlines.

Why?

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Wink, Wink, Nudge, Nudge

this is the subtle art of getting the people to give up their liberties and freedoms and make them look forward to it.

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With many from the Deep State and the DC Sewer scrabling to keep one step ahead of a vacation at the Graybar Hotel, we might want to remember a character from Barack Hussein Obama’s inner circle. A critter by the name of Cass Sunstein.

Cass Sunstein, a friend of Obama’s from his University of Chicago Law School days, spent four-plus years running the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA). It’s an obscure but exceedingly powerful perch that enabled Sunstein to put his imprint on everything from fuel efficiency standards and the redesign of the food pyramid to the rules for the landmark health care and Wall Street overhauls.

Sunstein used his office as a laboratory for his brand of “progressive paternalism” — his self-described and seemingly paradoxical approach to structuring prompts for people that promote their welfare by protecting them from their own more self-destructive impulses.

Sunstein’s approach is built on behavioral economics, which has upended centuries of belief that individuals are rational actors who will act in their own best interest left to their own devices. The science behind behavioral economics is largely accepted by academics, but applying it in the policy realm is controversial. Detractors conjure up Big Brother and with good reason.

His latest book is called “Simpler: The Future of Government”. It’s a kind of follow-up to Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness.

Sunstein drew a straight line from Obama’s embrace of the office back to Ronald Reagan. In a bid to choke off burdensome regulatory mandates, Reagan insisted that the benefits of new rules outweighed their costs.

Now why is this a big deal?
Does anyone remember Barack Hussein Obama signing an executive order instructing the Gov. to use Behavioral Science to persuade the public?”
Quote:
“Behavioral insights and public policy: Can the former be used to craft solutions for the latter?
Traditionally, many government policies are designed on the basis of how people should behave and an assumption that this behavioral is rational. Yet both individuals and organizations make many decisions that systematically depart from what is rational. The result? Policies that are ineffective or even backfire.
But using insights gleaned from behavioral economics, psychology and other social sciences, you can craft better policies that have more successful outcomes.
Better Public Policy from Behavioral Insights.”

“Led by a renowned group of scholars and practitioners working in this rapidly expanding field, this program will introduce you to cutting-edge research from various social science disciplines and how these can be used to build more effective policies. You will examine how behavioral insights can inform the development of nontraditional policy tools and why these can be more impactful and cost-effective than traditional policy tools.
OK, well this is the class that teaches this concept to future leaders and gov. officials.”

The intent is to “Nudge” people into accepting political policy even when they don’t want it.

Why should you care?

Because this is the subtle art of getting the people to give up their liberties and freedoms and make them look forward to it.

Among other directives, Obama’s order authorized the government to “recruit behavioral science experts to join the Federal Government as necessary,” and to “strengthen agency relationships with the research community to better use empirical findings from the behavioral sciences.”
In other words, it sanctioned the sharing among government agencies of an entirely new set of data points on the private activities and tendencies of the American people.

Add to this the NSA data collection of texts, phone calls and internet usage of every American and you have a true-life George Orwell scenario. And, with artificial intelligence “appliances” like “Alexa” and “Cortana” et al the populace is spending their own money to buy the eyes and ears of Big Brother. They are carefully forging the chains of their own slavery.

We can only hope that President Trump succeeds in reconciling the concept of individual sovereignty with conscientious participation in the American political process. We have closely observed the manner in which well-meaning small-town politicians and policy makers often accept, unthinkingly, their increasingly marginal role in shaping the quality of their own lives, as well as those of the people whom they serve.

American public policy is plagued by inscrutable and corrupt motives on a national scale, a fundamental problem which individuals, families and communities must strive to solve.

This can only be achieved if Americans rediscover the principal role each citizen plays in enriching the welfare of our Republic and takes personal responsibility for their actions, lives and welfare of themselves and their families.

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…and the sheep say

Back before TV, fractured families and the interwebs, a guy might go get into a fight just to entertain himself or to see how tough he is.

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There is a saying that goes something like, “When the government is telling lies, it is dangerous to be telling the truth”. There are two types of knowledge. Knowledge derived from internet or books or magazines, word of mouth, etc..

The other type on knowledge is First hand personal experience, “Boots in the Field” experience.

When the masses believe what is taught them, by people who learned what they are stating as fact from the internet, and then they run quick like a bunny to a different forum, and state what they know as the truth or the way it is based on what they know and learned from the different forums and blogs…….”In that environment it is pointless and dangerous to state what you know from first hand experience……with boots in the field.

In this “Information Age” there is a tremendous amount of information that is totally believed, everyone knows is true , common knowledge…..that is wrong to varying degrees, from totally wrong, to just a small partly inaccurate.

If there are 50 people in a discussion on a thread, stating what they think, and what they think is based on “ZERO” first hand or Boots in the field experience…….and someone enters that discussion who is old and has 50 or 60 years of first hand experience day in and day out living that subject of that thread. they will be called, “Troll” and shouted down.

The masses rule.

People without “First Hand” or Boots in the Field experience can not accept the truth, they want to believe what they have believed for a very long time. They will fight savagely to defend what they believe, even as they have zero first hand experience.

It is fun to just read threads, and watch that most say, “Well, I THINK” what they are saying is they think something is a stated way, based on zero first hand experience. This is very different from someone stating, “Well, I KNOW” this or that, based on first hand experience.

A nationwide survey of Americans finds that rude behavior is the new norm.

Experts said all the texting and social media is eating away at our manners.

When we can shoot off a two-line e-mail to get our point across we’re then taking that and acting in the same way when we’re face to face, we’re missing social cues, we’re missing emotional cues.

From road rage in the morning commute to high decibel cell-phone conversations that ruin dinner out, men and women behaving badly has become the hallmark of a hurry-up world.

Maybe older people don’t show up as often because they have their priorities straight. There’s very little internet truth. At one point I used it to gain knowledge, but I’ve had to develop the knowledge and skill to avoid the half-truths and falsehoods that it seems many take on face value. Old people don’t have time to put up with “know-it-alls” and their bull****.

I think that the rudeness which comes along with having conversations online is very off-putting to most thinking people.

Back before TV, fractured families and the interwebs, a guy might go get into a fight just to entertain himself or to see how tough he is. The only reason to be rude was to get into a fight. And the only way to avoid getting into a fight was to display some level of courteous behavior toward anyone who might take offense.

Recently, I have been blinded by the sheer lack of manners of people in today’s society. All around me, I am surrounded by rude people with no regard for the safety, concern or respect of the people who are around them and it makes me question their upbringing. Sadly, this world has become a very dark place to live in, and I feel like you cannot trust anyone. The more I look around at this world, I feel like people only have one thing they want to look out for: themselves, and that’s a shame.

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Media Nothingburgers

Sometimes what comes from the media would be amusing if it weren’t such an obvious attempt at manipulation of the public through intentional disinformation.

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Sometimes what comes from the media would be amusing if it weren’t such an obvious attempt at manipulation of the public through intentional disinformation.

Take, for example, the, (identical), screaming headlines from the “New York Times” and “Washington Post”;

“Trump Ordered Mueller Fired, but Backed Off When White House Counsel Threatened to Quit”

The story is based upon four, (un-named, as usual), sources that when examined degrades into absolute silliness and blatant false reporting trying to paint Special Counsel Robert Mueller, (he of the “Russia Collusion” investigation), as the good guy in the white hat doing battle with the villain in the “White House”.

Unfortunately, there is historical precedent for this, there is even a term for it; “Agitprop”

Agitprop: a combination of the words “agitation” and “propaganda”. It is political propaganda, especially the communist propaganda used in Soviet Russia, that is spread to the general public through popular media such as literature, plays, pamphlets, films, and other art forms with an explicitly political message.

The term originated in Soviet Russia as a shortened name for the Department for Agitation and Propaganda, which was part of the central and regional committees of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. The department was later renamed Ideological Department. Typically Russian agitprop explained the policies of the Communist Party and persuaded the general public to share its values and goals.

Soviet Russia had two main newspapers, Pravda and Izvestia. Pravda, which means “Truth”, was the official voice of the Communist Party and Izvestia, which means “News”, was the Official voice of the Soviet Government.

There was also agitprop theater, a highly politicized left-wing theater that originated in 1920s Europe and spread to the United States.

Today we seem to have our own home-grown equivalents; “The New York Times”, (Pravda), and the “Washington Post”, (Izvestia) in print and CNN and MSNBC taking the place of agitprop theater.

Russian agitprop theater was noted for its cardboard characters of perfect virtue and complete evil, and its coarse ridicule. Pretty much the same for our own home-grown broadcast agitprop theater.

One of the running jokes throughout most of the Soviet dominion over Russia was this assessment of the two newspapers by the non-Communist citizenry: “There is no Pravda in Izvestia, and there is no Izvestia in Pravda” or in English “There is no truth in News, and there is no news in Truth.” But this was said carefully and to people who would not report you to the Central Committee.

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

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(2018)

Ethics Mueller(ed)

Court documents recently filed by the government further rock the credibility of Russia Special Counsel Robert Mueller because they show that as FBI Director Mueller he worked to cover up the connection between a Florida Saudi family and the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

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There is an old saying; “never go in and gamble against the intelligence community“, yet that seems to be exactly what Rep. Nunes and other Republicans have done. With the contents of the classified Nunes memo from the Intelligence Committee still being withheld from public scrutiny and Democrats saying that the memo is a nothing burger yet blocking it’s declassification and release you have to wonder if there could be some flames in the DOJ and FBI underneath all of that smoke.

The organization Judicial Watch has been active in digging to have information released through FOI requests, going to court when necessary. They have won some important cases regarding stonewalling by the DOJ & FBI. Special Counsel Robert Mueller, (former head of the FBI who is currently “investigating” “collusion between Donald Trump and the Russians), has been the subject of Judicial Watch’s attentions. The following is the result of one of the Judicial Watch lawsuits:

By Judicial Watch —— Bio and Archives–January 23, 2018

The documents reveal that Mueller was likely involved in publicly releasing deceptive official agency statements about a secret investigation of the Saudis, who lived in Sarasota, with ties to the hijackers. A Florida journalism nonprofit uncovered the existence of the secret FBI investigation that was also kept from Congress.

Under Mueller’s leadership, the FBI tried to discredit the story, publicly countering that agents found no connection between the Sarasota Saudi family and the 2001 terrorist plot. The reality is that the FBI’s own files contained several reports that said the opposite, according to the Ft. Lauderdale-based news group’s ongoing investigation. Files obtained by reporters in the course of their lengthy probe reveal that federal agents found “many connections” between the family and “individuals associated with the terrorist attacks on 9/11/2001.” The FBI was forced to release the once-secret reports because the news group sued in federal court when the information wasn’t provided under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).

The disingenuous statements were issued by FBI officials in Miami and Tampa in a desperate effort to disparage a 2011 story exposing the agency’s covert investigation of the Sarasota Saudis as well as reporting that it had been concealed from Congress. Mueller is referenced in a document index that was ordered by a federal judge to be created in late November 2017. The south Florida judge, William J. Zloch, a Ronald Reagan appointee, asked the FBI to explain where it had discovered dozens of pages of documents in the public-records case filed six years ago. The index reference to then-FBI Director Mueller appears in an item involving an agency white paper written a week after the publication of a news story about the abrupt departure of Saudis Abdulaziz and Anoud al-Hijji from their Sarasota area home about two weeks before 9/11. The couple left behind their cars, clothes, furniture, jewelry and other personal items. “It was created to brief the FBI Director concerning the FBI’s investigation of 4224 Escondito Circle,” the al-Hijjis’ address.

As FBI director, Mueller bent over backwards to please radical Islamist groups and caved into their demands. The agency eliminated the valuable anti-terrorism training material and curricula after Mueller met with various Islamist organizations, including those with documented ties too terrorism. Among them were two organizations— Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) and Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR)—named by the U.S. government as unindicted co-conspirators in the 2007 Holy Land Foundation terrorist financing case. CAIR is a terrorist front group with extensive links to foreign and domestic Islamists. It was founded in 1994 by three Middle Eastern extremists (Omar Ahmad, Nihad Awad and Rafeeq Jaber) who ran the American propaganda wing of Hamas, known then as the Islamic Association for Palestine.

Is this one more indication that there were those in the Obama Department of justice and FBI who were dedicated to, if possible, derailing a Trump candidacy and then, when that failed, de-legitimatizing and toppling a Trump Presidency?

Liberty hiding

Un-BEAR-able speech

According to Rep. Dave Joyce (R-Ohio) the House Intelligence committee will hold a vote on the release of the memo. He states that the memo reveals systematic corruption within the DOJ and FBI; including the unlawful use of FISA-702(16)(17) data searches which were part of an elaborate DOJ-FBI surveillance program on the political campaign of candidate Donald Trump.

In a letter to Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) and Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) called for Twitter and Facebook to conduct an investigation into whether Russian troll accounts had fueled the rise of the hashtag as part of a broader campaign.

An excerpt from the letter states: “If these reports are accurate, we are witnessing an ongoing attack by the Russian government through Kremlin-linked social media actors.”

The memo itself is classified and is under the control of the House Intelligence Committee which voted yesterday on whether the memo should be declassified and released to the public.

Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa), a member of the Intel Committee stated publicly: (the memo) contains allegations of government abuses so shocking that they may be “worse than Watergate”.

Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Cal), ranking Democrat on the committee is reported as saying the the memo is misleading and complicated and that the public would not understand it.

Now there are news reports that the FBI has “lost” 5 months worth of text messages immediately prior to the naming of Mueller as Special Counsel.

The drum beat continues for release of the Nunes memo but care must be taken to assure that the correct process is followed that allows the larger story to come out without providing political cover for those intent on hiding the corruption. Immediate release might give instant gratification but would prove disastrous in the long-term.

IF we have top officials from various government agencies willing to depose an elected president, what else would they do?

Think of some of the shocking events that have happened. Would they dare?
And consider the progressives’ motto “by any means necessary”.

I believe that many citizens are either unconscious or unwilling to face what might be exposed by releasing the Nunes memo but, if done correctly to avoid shielding wrongdoers, we should remember these words from Patrick Henry at the Virginia Convention -March 23, 1775; ” For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it might cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst, and the provide for it.”

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Census Question Dreamer Nightmare?

A request by the Justice Department to ask people about their citizenship status in the 2020 census is stirring a broad backlash.

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A request by the Justice Department to ask people about their citizenship status in the 2020 census is stirring a broad backlash. “Such a question would likely depress participation in the 2020 census from immigrants who fear the government could use the information to target them,” wrote Sen. Dianne Feinstein, ranking Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, in a letter signed by her and four of her Democratic colleagues. “This chilling effect could lead to broad inaccuracies across the board, from how congressional districts are drawn to how government funds are distributed,” the senators said.

The census says some $675 billion, or nearly a fifth of all federal spending, relies on its numbers. The federal government also uses the numbers to dole out seats in the House among the states, which then use the numbers to draw their own lines.

Justice Department officials say they want citizenship information so they can enforce voting-rights laws and shore up confidence in election results.

Some analysts say that if citizenship is on the form, and immigrants refuse to answer, it could mean states such as California wouldn’t have their full population counted. That, in turn, could mean the state would lose out on a congressional seat it would otherwise get.

Apparently the Dems don’t want any questions of citizenship in a census as it would lead to uncovering the voter fraud in many liberal strongholds, like more votes than voters. That’s a real hard one to explain and they don’t like being caught.

The fact that we have elected officials more concerned about the realm of illegal groups and not the interest of the country requiring voter integrity is tragic.

If illegals shun the census then states like California might not get as much money as they have in the past to throw away on those who are not here legally. Good. Such states should not be given any money for illegals.

Some analysts say that if citizenship is on the form, and immigrants
refuse to answer, it could mean states such as California wouldn’t have
their full population counted. That, in turn, could mean the state would
lose out on a congressional seat it would otherwise get.

Where does it say in the Constitution, (or any other Federal law for that matter), that foreign nationals, illegal aliens, non-U.S. citizens are represented by a seat in the U.S. congress?

“This chilling effect could lead to broad inaccuracies across the board,
from how congressional districts are drawn to how government funds are
distributed,” the senators said.

Just exactly where in the Constitution, (or any other Federal law for that matter), does it state that illegal aliens or foreign nationals are entitled to government funds?

The census asked about citizenship during the great migrations of the 19th and 20th Centuries because the government had a legitimate reason to want to know where people came from. We now have a large immigrant population, some of whom are legal and some of whom are not. Certainly it is legitimate to want to determine who this population is.

The Democratic Party has wanted to blur differences between citizens and non-citizens with things like sanctuary cities and drivers licenses for illegal immigrants. But the citizenship question will, as it did in the past, shed light on just who is here legally and who is not. Count on a bitter fight from Democrats and liberals to keep this question off the 2020 census forms.

In ancient times the strongest words a person could utter was “Civis Romanus sum” or “I am a Roman citizen”. You could, according to legend, walk the length and breadth of the known world protected only by those words. People would refrain from harming you simply because they knew if the smallest harm came to you that the response of your government would be swift, sure, and in the case of those who did the harm, quite unpleasant.

In that spirit, we who qualify should proudly declare;

“Civis Americanus Sum”

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LAUS DEO

Do you know what it means ?
With all the uproar about removing the ten commandments, etc., this is worth a moment or two of your time. Most Americans are not aware of this amazing historical information.

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Do you know what it means ?

One detail that is never mentioned is that in Washington , D.C. There can never be a building of greater height than the Washington Monument.

With all the uproar about removing the ten commandments, etc., this is worth a moment or two of your time. Most Americans are not aware of this amazing historical information.

On the aluminum cap, atop the Washington Monument in Washington, D.C., are displayed two words:
Laus Deo.

No one can see these words. In fact, most visitors to the monument are totally unaware they are even there and for that matter, probably couldn’t care less.

These words have been there for many years; they are 555 feet, 5.125 inches high, perched atop the monument, facing skyward to the Father of our nation, over looking the 69 square miles which comprise the District of Columbia, capital of the United States of America.

Laus Deo! Two seemingly insignificant, unnoticed words. Out of sight and, one might think, out of mind, but very meaningfully placed at the highest point over what is the most powerful city in the most successful nation in the world.

So, what do those two words, in Latin, composed of just four syllables and only seven letters, possibly mean? Very simply, they say ‘Praise be to God!’

Though construction of this giant obelisk began in 1848, when James Polk was President of the United States, it was not until 1888 that the monument was inaugurated and opened to the public. It took twenty-five years to finally cap the memorial with a tribute to the Father of our nation,

Laus Deo
‘Praise be to God!‘

From atop this magnificent granite and marble structure, visitors may take in the beautiful panoramic view of the city with its division into four major segments. From that vantage point, one can also easily see the original plan of the designer, Pierre Charles l’Enfant ….. a perfect cross imposed upon the landscape, with the White House to the north. The Jefferson Memorial is to the south, the Capitol to the east and the Lincoln Memorial to the west.

A cross you ask? Why a cross? What about separation of church and state?

Yes, a cross; separation of church and state was not, is not, in the Constitution.

So, read on. How interesting and, no doubt, intended to carry a profound meaning for those who bother to notice.

When the cornerstone of the Washington Monument was laid on July 4th, 1848 deposited within it were many items including the Holy Bible presented by the Bible Society.

Praise be to God!

Such was the discipline, the moral direction, and the spiritual mood given by the founder and first President of our unique republic ‘One Nation, Under God!

I am awed by George Washington’s prayer for America ….. Have you ever read it? Well, now is your unique opportunity, so read on!

‘ Almighty God; We make our earnest prayer that Thou wilt keep the United States in Thy holy protection; that Thou wilt incline the hearts of the citizens to cultivate a spirit of subordination and obedience to government; and entertain a brotherly affection and love for one another and for their fellow citizens of the United States at large. And finally that Thou wilt most graciously be pleased to dispose us all to do justice, to love mercy, and to demean ourselves with that charity, humility, and pacific temper of mind which were the characteristics of the Divine Author of our blessed religion, and without a humble imitation of whose example in these things we can never hope to be a happy nation. Grant our supplication, we beseech Thee, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.’

Laus Deo!

It hope you will share this with every child you know; to every sister, brother, father, mother or friend. They will not find offense, because you have given them a lesson in history that they probably never learned in school. With that, be not ashamed, or afraid, but have pity on those who will never see this.

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#ReleaseTheMemo

From the beginning it was a set up to find dirt on Trump campaign insiders and if possible to topple Donald Trump’s presidential aspirations.

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From the beginning it was a set up to find dirt on Trump campaign insiders and if possible to topple Donald Trump’s presidential aspirations.

Before and after the 2016 election. And while this operation had many moving parts and alternating players, the mission to unseat Trump never changed. And it remains ongoing.

Paul Manafort was wiretapped. Cater Page was wiretapped. Donald Trump Jr. was wiretapped. Jared Kushner was wiretapped. Gen. Michael Flynn was wiretapped. And likely there were others.

And none of it was very legal.

In fact, most of it was very illegal, according to federal law enforcement sources who are blowing the whistle on a sweeping scheme to undermine the Executive branch and the electorate’s choice for president of the United States.

And according to high ranking FBI sources, the Bureau played a definitive role in plotting this sweeping privacy breach. But the FBI had much help from the NSA, CIA, the Office of of the Director of National Intelligence, Treasury financial crimes division under DHS, and the Justice Department, federal law enforcement sources confirmed.

The Deep State caretakers involved are familiar names: James Comey (FBI), John Brennan (CIA), James Clapper (ODNI), Loretta Lynch (DOJ), Jeh Johnson (DHS), Admiral Michael Rogers (NSA). And then-director of GCHQ Robert Hannigan who has since resigned from the esteemed British spy agency.

Here is what we now know…

Six U.S. agencies created a stealth task force, spearhead by CIA’s Brennan, to run domestic surveillance on Trump associates and possibly Trump himself.
To feign ignorance and to seemingly operate within U.S. laws, the agencies freelanced the wiretapping of Trump associates to the British spy agency GCHQ.
The decision to insert GCHQ as a back door to eavesdrop was sparked by the denial of two FISA Court warrant applications filed by the FBI to seek wiretaps of Trump associates.
GCHQ did not work from London or the UK. In fact the spy agency worked from NSA’s headquarters in Fort Meade, MD with direct NSA supervision and guidance to conduct sweeping surveillance on Trump associates.
The illegal wiretaps were initiated months before the controversial Trump dossier compiled by former British spy Christopher Steele.
The Justice Department and FBI set up the meeting at Trump Tower between Trump Jr., Manafort and Kushner with controversial Russian officials to make Trump’s associates appear compromised.
Following the Trump Tower sit down, GCHQ began digitally wiretapping Manafort, Trump Jr., and Kushner.
After the concocted meeting by the Deep State, the British spy agency could officially justify wiretapping Trump associates as an intelligence front for NSA because the Russian lawyer at the meeting Natalia Veselnitskaya was considered an international security risk and prior to the June sit down was not even allowed entry into the United States or the UK, federal sources said.
By using GCHQ, the NSA and its intelligence partners had carved out a loophole to wiretap Trump without a warrant. While it is illegal for U.S. agencies to monitor phones and emails of U.S. citizens inside the United States absent a warrant, it is not illegal for British intelligence to do so. Even if the GCHQ was tapping Trump on U.S. soil at Fort Meade.
The wiretaps, secured through illicit scheming, have been used by U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s probe of alleged Russian collusion in the 2016 election, even though the evidence is considered “poisoned fruit.”

Veselnitskaya, the Russian lawyer who spearheaded the Trump Tower meeting with the Trump campaign trio, was previously barred from entering the United Sates due to her alleged connections to the Russian FSB (the modern replacement of the cold-war-era KGB).

Yet mere days before the June meeting, Veselnitskaya was granted a rare visa to enter the United States from Preet Bharara, the then U.S. Attorney for the southern district of New York.

Federal law enforcement sources said Bharara was simply following the orders of Attorney General Lynch, who lobbied the State Department to issue the disavowed Russian a B1/B2 non-immigrant visa. This permitted Veselnitskaya entry into the United States for the sole purpose of entrapping Trump associates to use as fuel to commission wiretaps, federal sources said.
Veselnitskaya may have been paid as well by the U.S. government, FBI sources said. It was reported last week that Steele, who compiled the Trump dossier was paid at least $100,000 from FBI funds as well. But that came later, after the wiretapping was well underway.

The illegal eavesdropping started long before Steele’s dossier. Federal sources said the wiretaps on Trump insiders began in late 2015, almost a year before the 2016 election. The targets then were Flynn and Page, sources confirmed. When no smoking gun was recovered from those initial taps, U.S. intelligence agencies moved to broaden the scope through their newly-formed alliance.

Intelligence garnered from the British eavesdropping, which again was merely a front for the NSA, was then used in August 2016 to secure a legitimate FISA warrant on Manafort, Trump Jr. and Kushner. That warrant was issued on or about September, 2016, federal sources confirm.

It was the third time the cabal of U.S. intelligence agencies sought a FISA warrant for the Trump associates and this time it was approved.

FBI sources said finally obtaining the FISA warrant was important because it provided the agencies cover for previous illegal wiretapping which they believed would never be discovered.

“This would make for an incredible string of Senate hearings,” one federal law enforcement source said. “I don’t think they ever thought he (Trump) would win and information would come out about how they manipulated evidence.”

If they release the memo, the American taxpaying public will demand justice, the Deep State won’t be able to weasel out of it. This is the tip of the iceberg, once it’s been breached, it will be like ants on a carcass until there is nothing left but bare, dry bones.

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