Pelosi to Trump voters: Forget your wall

Posted on December 6, 2018 by Personal Liberty News Desk

President Donald Trump couldn’t get a Republican congress on board with building a border wall. Looks like he’s not going to fare any better with the Democrats.

House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi on Thursday rejected the idea of paying for President Donald Trump’s border wall in exchange for helping hundreds of thousands of young immigrants avoid deportation, the Associated Press is reporting.

In comments after the House and Senate approved a stopgap bill to keep the government funded through December 21, Pelosi rejected making any link between the Democrats’ goal of legal protection for illegals that fall under so-called “Dreamer” status and Trump’s priority – and that of his voters – of funding a wall between Mexico and the U.S.

Trump has said he wants any future funding packages to include at least $5 billion for a wall. He’s threatened to shut down the government if he doesn’t get it – a threat he’s made before and not followed through with.

According to the AP:

Most Democrats consider the wall “immoral, ineffective, expensive,” Pelosi said, noting that Trump promised during the 2016 campaign that Mexico would pay for it, an idea Mexican leaders have repeatedly rejected.

Even if Mexico did pay for the wall, “it’s immoral still,” Pelosi said.

Protecting borders “is a responsibility we honor, but we do so by honoring our values as well,” she added.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (communist-N.Y.), said the $1 billion appropriated last year for border security that could’ve been spent toward building a wall was not spent, so budgeting another $5 billion in the next fiscal year “makes no sense.”

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Twitter and AP are fake news

Twitter and AP are fake news

If you've ever wondered why it is that all coverage by the mainstream seems essentially the same, all you have to do is take a look at Twitter.

Twitter has become a mainstream press echo chamber in which the self-important journalists with blue check marks beside their names decide what stories are important and what is the proper politically-correct slant to put on them. Independent journalism in the mainstream media — that journalism where editors in the newsrooms were driving the journalists to do their best work and "scoop" the other media outlets rather than conspire with them — has long gone.




Twitter has become the lifeblood of professional journalists. Researchers Shannon McGregor of the University of Utah and Logan Molyneux of Temple University engaged in a study to find out whether that's a bad thing.

As the Columbia Journalism Review points out:

"Our results indicate that the routinization of Twitter into news production affects news judgment," the researchers write. "For journalists who incorporate Twitter into their reporting routines, and those with fewer years of experience, Twitter has become so normalized that tweets were deemed equally newsworthy as headlines appearing to be from the AP wire. This may have negative implications." Among those implications, they argue, is that journalists can get caught up in a kind of pack mentality in which a story is seen as important because other journalists on Twitter are talking about it, rather than because it is newsworthy. The researchers argue it can also distort the way a story is reported. For example, when the photo of Chris Christie looking uncomfortable while standing behind Donald Trump in 2016 was published by the AP, Twitter exploded with jokes, and multiple news outlets wrote about it, but those familiar with Christie said there was nothing unusual about his expression.

But one aspect of the study was interesting. Two-hundred Twitter-using journalists used as subjects for the research were given tweets with headlines from the Associated Press website and what they supposed were random tweets that contained AP headlines but were designed to look like tweets from anonymous sources. When asked to rate the newsworthiness of the tweets, journalists who spend a lot of time on Twitter ranked the "anonymous" tweets as more newsworthy than the AP stories; indicating even mainstream journalists recognize that AP is fake news.

Russian bots still at work

Despite Twitter's efforts to crack down of fake accounts — in which Twitter is purging conservatives and alternative media from its platform — the researchers found that more than 80 percent of the users and accounts alleged to have spread "misinformation" during the 2016 election are still active.

"Twitter has absolutely taken some measures to take some sites down, but they have not taken the vast majority of what we looked at down," one of the researchers told Politico.

The study also noted that more 30 mainstream news outlets — including NPR, The Washington Post and BuzzFeed — had posted stories with embedded tweets from the Russian "troll farm," Internet Research Agency.

Fake Dead Sea Scrolls

The Museum of the Bible opened to much fanfare in Washington, D.C.,last year It is the largest privately-funded museum in the city. Its funding comes from 51,000 donors, the largest of which is Hobby Lobby, the arts and crafts chain founded by the conservative Christian Green family.

Among the Green family's donations are about 1,000 biblical artifacts from its collection of 40,000 ancient artifacts, which is said to be among the world's largest biblical collection in the world. The Green's donations include items from Dead Sea scrolls to ancient copies of the Bible thought to be more than 1,000 years old.

But it turns out some of them are fakes. Last week the museum revealed that five of its most highly-coveted Dead Sea scrolls are forgeries, and other scroll relics from its collection may also be phonies.

As ScienceAlert.com reports:

According to the museum, independent tests by researchers in Germany indicate five of the institution's 16 Dead Sea Scrolls fragments "show characteristics inconsistent with ancient origin". "Though we had hoped the testing would render different results, this is an opportunity to educate the public on the importance of verifying the authenticity of rare biblical artefacts," explains the museum's chief curatorial officer, Jeffrey Kloha.

It's not known how much the Museum of the Bible paid for its forged fragments, but estimates run into the millions.

The five identified forgeries have been removed from display and replaced with three others. But the authenticity of those has also been questioned.

This is not the first controversy surrounding the Green family's collection. Last year Hobby Lobby agreed to pay a $3 million fine and forfeit thousands of ancient Iraqi artifacts that federal prosecutors claim were smuggled illegally from the Middle East.

Who's really in that "migrant caravan"

To hear the mainstream media tell it, the migrants currently marching northward in anticipation of picking vegetables, waiting tables in Mexican restaurants, making up hotel room beds and roofing houses in the United States are simply everyday Honduran/El Salvadoran/Guatemalan moms, pops and kids — but mostly moms and kids — eager to march 1,400 miles for a better life. And while there are some of those in the group who, as Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández described it, were fooled into joining the northward trek, many more of them are men with criminal histories and past deportations who are aggressively demanding the U.S. take them in.

Judicial Watch found some of them in the Guatemalan town of Chiquimula. The men were aged 17 to 40 and some of them were chanting "vamos para allá Trump!" (We're coming Trump) as they clenched their fists in the air while marching.

"We need money and food," said a 29-year-old man who made the trek with his 21-year-old brother.

Another man in his 30s contradicted media reports that caravan participants are fleeing violence and fear for their life. "We're not scared," he said waving his index finger as others around him nodded in agreement. "We're going to the United States to get jobs."

Guatemalan intelligence officials confirmed that the caravan that originated in the northern Honduran city of San Pedro Sula includes a multitude of Special Interest Aliens (SIA) from Africa, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and India, as well as other criminal elements and gang members.

The fake news AP is reporting that about 1,700 of the original group of migrants have given up, turned around and gone home, but many vowed to drag their kids all the way to the U.S. despite the obstacles. 

A Rape Survivor Just Won the Nobel Peace Prize. ‘Feminists’ Are Nowhere to Be Found.

From the Daily Signal

By Kelsey Harkness

A Rape Survivor Just Won the Nobel Peace Prize. ‘Feminists’ Are Nowhere to Be Found.

As feminists were busy peddling their “War on Women” narrative in the U.S., Yazidi sex slave survivor Nadia Murad was honored with the Nobel Peace Prize for fighting a real War on Women in the Middle East.

Nadia was honored for her efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war, together with Dr. Denis Mukwege of the Democratic Republic of Congo, who has been a relentless healer and advocate for women.

Their stories serve as an important reminder that as American women debate what constitutes enough evidence to block a nominee from taking a seat on the Supreme Court, corroboration and evidence are abundant in places such as northern Iraq, where hundreds of women and girls are still enslaved and routinely subjected to rape.

Nadia was abducted in northern Iraq in August 2014, when ISIS took over her village. Militants gave the Yazidi people—a Kurdish and Arabic-speaking religious minority—two choices: Convert to Islam or die. Refusing to give in, Nadia watched men get massacred and family members march to their graves.

At just 21 years old, she was kidnapped alongside an estimated 3,000 other Yazidi women and girls, traded as sex slaves from one ISIS fighter to another. She was forced to pray, dress up, and apply makeup in preparation for her rape, which was often committed by gangs.

While any comparison between Nadia’s story and the accusations leveled against newly minted Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh would be completely unfair, it is fair to wonder how news of uncorroborated allegations of gang rape brought by porn lawyer Michael Avenatti can overshadow a gang rape survivor-turned-women’s advocate being honored with the most prestigious award in the world.

For years, it seemed the world didn’t care about Nadia’s story and the thousands of others like it. It took two years for then-Secretary of State John Kerry to declare crimes against Yazidis, Christians, and Shiite Muslims genocide, and the United Nations as well.

Thousands of Yazidis remain missing, including at least 1,300 women and children, and the question of how to hold ISIS accountable for its unspeakable crimes remains unanswered.

Nadia is a lonely voice in the fight against ISIS genocide. After making the genocide designation, the Obama administration did little to hold ISIS accountable for its crimes or to alleviate the suffering of survivors. The Trump administration is trying to right those wrongs by providing aid to the most vulnerable victims of ISIS genocide, but a lot of work remains to be done.

“The world should bear its moral and legal responsibility and ensure its proper and fair accountability,” Nadia said as she accepted her Nobel Peace Prize. “The sexual violence and conflicts in our towns and cities must be stopped.”

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It’s strange how women who self-identify as feminists get so worked up over unsubstantiated allegations of sexual assault, yet so callously overlook human rights injustices staring them in the face.

Imagine the difference these “feminists” could make if, in addition to banging on the doors of the U.S. Supreme Court, they also took a few minutes to bang at the doors of the United Nations.

In the #MeToo era, feminists are rightly concerned about women being heard. It appears that Nadia’s with them, too.

“My hope is that all women who speak about their stories of sexual violence are heard and accepted, that their voices are heard so they feel safe,” she said.

But Nadia’s story is falling on deaf ears. Because being “heard” requires others to listen.

Listening to a Nobel Peace Prize winner whose mission is to bring back life after being destroyed by sexual violence and war is the least feminists can do as the freest and most liberated women in the world.

Sure, it’s easy to get caught up in the moment. There’s certainly no shortage of issues to debate. But it’s our job as feminists to look beyond ourselves and realize that Nadia’s fight is our fight, no matter what’s happening here in the U.S.

What's the Republican voter to do?

By Bob Livingston

The United States was founded on the republican principles of federalism (states' rights) and representative government. Today's government is "constitutional" in name only.

National politicians and the federal judiciary have no fealty to the Constitution. They give it lip service. Some — Republicans, at least — claim to support it and run on it, but then when elected immediately vote to cede congress' lawmaking authority to the imperial president and the myriad alphabet soup agencies of government. Now we have the IRS, the FCC, the EPA, HHS, the Department of Energy, the Department of Homeland Security, the FDA, the USDA, etc., writing and enforcing laws under the guise of "regulatory authority." The result is a contemptible abuse of the people by agents of the federal government, rising taxes and fees, closed businesses, stifled innovation, and depressed economic growth.

But few are those in government who consider the Constitution at all. That's because politics and government attract psychopaths, liars and thieves. It attracts people who are parasitic in nature, greedy and without conscience. In short, these are people who have the born mentality to live off of other people.

They are selfish and attracted to money and power. Therefore, they are easily swayed and even bought by the corporatists and banksters; and their every act is to increase their and their agency's power and sphere of influence.

The masses of people have been propagandized by the state-controlled media and the public (non)education system into believing that government is designed and tasked with looking out for the best interests of the people. But nothing could be further from the truth. They have little knowledge of the Constitution and little concept of limited government, and they believe government can and should be all things to all people… particularly if a check to them from the federal Treasury is involved.

The so-called regulatory agencies of government are typically staffed at the top by crony capitalists and lobbyists for the industries they supposedly regulate. As such, they write rules and regulations that benefit preferred large multinational corporations and government at the expense of the people.

As Benito Mussolini stated, "Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power" and "The definition of fascism is the marriage of corporation and state." That exactly explains what our former constitutional republic has become. It is benevolent totalitarianism, tyranny under the guise of democracy. But the truth is democracy = socialism = fascism = communism. They are one in the same.

Mussolini also said of his fascism, "We have buried the putrid corpse of liberty," and that is likewise the goal of the American fascist politician and federal bureaucrat. Liberty necessarily perishes under collectivism, egalitarianism and government altruism.

Republican voters are well-versed in having the party's elite slap them around. Like a battered spouse who continues to return home, Republican voters believe tomorrow will be different. "He loves me, after all," they tell themselves.

Republican voters vote — or at least think they vote — for small government, fiscal responsibility and safety at home but get massive spending bills more government bureaucracy and more wars abroad.

True conservatives reject statism, embrace small government and abhor confiscatory taxes. Conservatives believe in a strong military for the Nation's defense (not military adventurism). Conservatives advocate liberty and personal responsibility.

The Republican Party is now ruled by CINOs (conservatives in name only). I have been telling you this for a long time.

We must come to terms with the fact that voting for more Republicans to send to Washington will not change the status quo. Who remembers how big and how fast government grew under the "compassionate conservative" George W. Bush when he had a Republican Congress? In seven years under Bush, federal spending jumped from $1.86 trillion in 2001 to $2.98 trillion in 2008, a jump of 60 percent or a growth rate of 7 percent.

Bush and Republicans gave us No Child Left Behind, the USA Patriot Act, the Department of Homeland Security, perpetual war and bailouts. Those measures are certainly not conservative by any stretch of the imagination.

The current crop of Republicans are giving us massive spending bills that would make Barack Obama blush. His 8-year spending barrage pales in comparison to what the Republicans have unleashed on the American people. It is a bad day for America's economic house when Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (Communist-New York) cheers that America's "era of austerity" has "come to an end," as he did last March. The Republican spending barrage has continued into the fall.

So what is the good Republican voter to do — especially with the midterm elections looming?

Though it is certainly no guarantee for success, Republican voters should concentrate on finding candidates for state and local elections who will uphold the Constitution they swear to uphold and who are willing to take a bold stand for state's rights and against federal tyranny. It's at the state level that nullification of unconstitutional federal laws is to take place, as outlined by James Madison and Thomas Jefferson in the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions in 1789.

If you feel you must take on national issues, push for term limits and the repeal of the 16th and 17th Amendments which would end the unconstitutional income tax system and necessarily end the Federal Reserve, and restore selection of senators to the states where the Founders intended. A return to sound money and republicanism is what will save the nation.

Gradualism — the glacial move away from federalism led by national politicians who used and continue to use the Federal Treasury to buy votes and reward crony corporations and intrude into state issues, and used by an activist federal judiciary — has turned republicanism on its head and into a fascist system of tyranny and oppression. To peacefully restore constitutional governance will be a gradual and difficult process, and its probability of success remains in doubt.

But it starts with you. No national politicians will do this for you.

Kavanaugh hearing confirms the existence of the Deep State

Kavanaugh hearing confirms the
existence of the Deep State  By Bob Livingston
The Kabuki act that was the confirmation process of Brett Kavanaugh revealed something far more important than that underaged children of privilege growing up in the shadows of the District of Criminals were undisciplined and regularly engaged in parent-endorsed, if not parent-encouraged, debauchery. Unfortunately, not one in a million have grasped it, focusing instead on the licentious details Democrat senators directed them toward and whether one story was more credible than the other.

I have told you before that there are two governments in America; the one you see and the one you don't. The one you see is the politicians and the courts. They are actors who give the illusion that you have a constitutional republic based on the rule of law and that you have some input in governmental processes.

The other government is unseen. It has many names and many elements that work against the best interests of the people. It is incestuous. Among its names are shadow government, powers that be and the simple term "they." I call it the Deep State.

It is made up of faceless bureaucrats, crony corporations, the power elite, behind-the-scenes political operatives and lawyers, the banksters, the vast U.S. intelligence apparatus, the military-industrial complex (as revealed by President Eisenhower) and the globalists found in think tanks, the Council on Foreign Relations and Trilateral Commission.

The cover was pulled off a few of them these last days and weeks. They've been circling around the Christine Blasey Ford narrative like flies around a carcass. And, she, in fact, may even be one of them.

Despite hours of investigation by the Senate Judiciary Committee and the FBI, none of Ford's accusations could be corroborated. The witnesses named by Ford – and by the second Kavanaugh accuser, Deborah Ramirez – denied knowledge of the activities the two women described, according to released or leak portions of the FBI investigation.

One of Ford's witnesses is Leland Keyser, the sole female "witness" Ford named. Ford described Keyser as her best friend in their high school days at Holton-Arms preparatory school. Keyser is a former professional golfer who is now in poor health. Her health was the excuse Ford used to explain away Keyser's refusal to corroborate Ford's claims.

Keyser's friends told The Daily Mail that Keyser was "blindsided" by Ford's pulling her into the case. Ford friend Keyser was married to Bob Beckel for 10 years until they divorced in 2002.

Beckel worked for the State Department under Jimmy Carter, managed Walter Mondale's president campaign, managed other Democrat politico campaigns and worked as a lobbyist for many years. He now works as a political pundit on Fox News.

Ford's friend Monica McClean is one of the "beach friends" with whom she discussed the possibility of coming forward with her accusations against Kavanaugh. She's also the woman Ford coached on how to take a polygraph, according to a former Ford boyfriend.

McClean worked at the FBI for 24 years, retiring in 2016. She was a FBI field rep in the office of former U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara. Prior to becoming U.S. Attorney, Bharara was chief counsel to Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (Communist-NY), and played an important role on the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Keyser told investigators this week that McClean had been pressuring her tochange her story and admit that she knew about Kavanaugh's attempt to assault Ford 35 years ago. Her former partner in New York is Jim Margolin. Margolin is still with the FBI and is part of the Robert Mueller investigation into former Donald Trump fixer Michael Cohen.

Ford's lawyer, Debra Katz, is a longtime leftist political operative and fundraiser for SHillary Clinton. She is also vice chair of the George Soros-funded Project on Government Oversight. Soros money has gone to protestors interrupting the Kavanaugh nomination, and those women who cowed Senator Jeff Flake (Coward-Arizona) in an elevator last week were Soros operatives.

Ford's brother, Ralph Blasey III, was formerly a lawyer with the leftist law firm Baker, Hostetler, which created Fusion GPS, the Democrat opposition research organization that employs or employed the wife of FBI agent Bruce Ohr and which created the phony Trump-Russia dossier. Blasey left Baker, Hostetler in 2004. The building in which the offices of Baker, Hostetler reside include CIA front companies Red Coats, Inc., Admiral Security Services and Datawatch. The building is owned by Ford's father, Ralph Blasey II.

But Kavanaugh himself is a Deep State swamp creature. As told by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, the international business editor of The Daily Telegraph and long-time reporter on American government, while Kavanaugh worked for Ken Starr on the Bill Clinton Whitewater investigation, Kavanaugh actively worked to discredit a witness in the Vince Foster death case. The witness, Patrick Knowlton, was the first person at the scene of Foster's death at Fort Marcy Park.

Knowlton later sued FBI agents he claimed were working for Kavanaugh, alleging witness tampering and conspiracy to violate his civil rights. Kavanaugh later wrote the Starr Report on Foster's death, covering up the fact that Foster was murdered and his body was dumped in the park.

Kavanaugh, while working as legal counsel in the White House of George Bush the lesser, also helped push the PATRIOT Act, which destroyed due process and 4th and 5th Amendments.

Kavanaugh's lawyer for his Senate Judiciary process is Beth Wilkinson, a longtime Democrat lawyer who represented several top aides to Hillary Clinton during the FBI investigation into Clinton's homebrew server. She is married to David Gregory of CNN. Wilkinson was also on the prosecution team that convicted Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh.

That implicates her in the coverup of this false flag operation, protecting the FBI and then-U.S. Attorney Eric Holder, who provided the explosives for McVeigh and his partner, Terry Nichols.

That there exists a nebulous group or groups actively working against the wishes of the American people is a difficult concept for a people as conditioned as Americans are to grasp. But anyone telling you there is no Deep State is either blind and ignorant or is lying to you. 

Very Major Tax Cut For Middle-Income People" Before Midterms

Trump Teases "Very Major Tax Cut For Middle-Income People" Before Midterms

by Tyler Durden

Sun, 10/21/2018 - 10:48

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President Trump told reporters on Saturday that his the White House and Congressional leaders are "studying very deeply, round the clock" to roll out a phase II tax cut for middle-class Americans before midterms. 

"We are looking at putting in a very major tax cut for middle income people. And if we do that it will be sometime just prior to November," said Trump, speaking from Elko, Nevada. 

Trump said the cuts are "not for business at all." 

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In December 2017 Trump signed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, which consisted of a major tax cut for individuals and corporations, while overhauling US tax policy at large. While Republicans touted the measures as significant for the middle class, critics say the bulk of the cuts went to wealthy individuals and corporations, who pay the bulk of the taxes (In 2015, those making over $195,000 accounted for roughly 5% of all returns filed, while paying 59.58% of all federal income taxes). 

Critics of the 2017 tax cuts also noted that they are set to expire in 2025 on individuals - however Congress permanently extended the individual cuts in late September. 

In a July interview with Fox Business' Maria Bartiromo, Trump floated the idea of a "phase two" of tax cuts "probably in October" or sooner. 

"It will be more of a middle class — we did a lot for the middle class, but this will be more aimed at the middle class." 

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Italy’s interior minister vowed to close airports if Germany follows through with reported plans to send dozens of asylum-seekers back to Italy

Salvini to ‘Close Airports’ if EU or Germany Try to Fly Illegal Migrants to Italy

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ROME (AP) – Italy’s interior minister has vowed to close the country’s airports if Germany follows through with reported plans to send dozens of asylum-seekers back to Italy.

Matteo Salvini tweeted Sunday: “We’ll close our airports like we closed the [sea]ports.” Since Salvini became interior minister in June, the Italian government has blocked migrant ‘rescue’ ships operated by NGOs from docking in Italian ports.

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Se qualcuno, a Berlino o a Bruxelles, pensa di scaricare in Italia decine di immigrati con dei voli charter non autorizzati, sappia che non c’è e non ci sarà nessun aereoporto disponibile.
Chiudiamo gli aeroporti come abbiamo chiuso porti.#aeroportichiusi https://www.corriere.it/cronache/18_ottobre_07/migranti-germania-salvini-chiudiamo-aeroporti-85fd6d16-ca0d-11e8-8417-701d201b7018.shtml …

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Migranti dalla Germania, arriva lo stop di Salvini: «Chiudiamo gli aeroporti»

Il ministro replica alla proposta tedesca- Primo volo charter: la Germania riporta 40 profughi a Roma di F.Caccia

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Italian news reports have said Berlin was planning to put some migrants on charter flights from Germany to Italy. European Union rules require asylum seekers to be processed in the country they reach first, which often is Italy due to its location.

Neither Italian nor German officials have confirmed that any such flights are planned.