UN news outlet deletes tweet calling on American expats to ‘stop Trump’ | TheBlaze.com:
"The United Nations’ news agency quickly shuffled Thursday evening to remove a tweet the outlet published requesting “8 million Americans abroad” register to vote to “stop Trump.”
The tweet, published at 9:14 p.m. ET by the UN News Centre, shared a link from the left-leaning activist outlet Avaaz, urging American expatriates to share a voter registration tool on the site, which suggested, “U.S. Citizens abroad could defeat Trump … if they voted.”"
Important stuff you won't get from the liberal media! We do the surfing so you can be informed AND have a life!
Sunday, October 02, 2016
Chelsea Clinton Takes Private Jet to 'Clean Energy' Conference in Hippie Paradise
Chelsea Clinton Takes Private Jet to 'Clean Energy' Conference in Hippie Paradise | Heat Street
"Chelsea Clinton was campaigning for her elderly mother in North Carolina on Wednesday — and showing off her Clinton-esque taste for expensive, carbon-emitting travel options.
"Chelsea Clinton was campaigning for her elderly mother in North Carolina on Wednesday — and showing off her Clinton-esque taste for expensive, carbon-emitting travel options.
After attending campaign events in Greenville, the former first daughter took a private jet to Asheville, just a five-hour drive away, to attend a roundtable event on “clean energy.” Asheville is a paradise for hippies who love the environment...
The Clinton campaign promised during the Democratic primary that their entire operation would be “carbon neutral” and had some friendly reporters write stories about how even campaign manager John Podesta took the bus.
The campaign doesn’t talk about that pledge much anymore, given the how much the Clintons love flying on private jets, presumably out of class envy. They may be rich AF, but it must annoy them to have to attend campaign fundraiser with so many hedge fund managers who are even richer AF than they are and own their own private jets.
For example, Bill Clinton has flown on billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein‘s private jet, affectionately nicknamed the “Lolita Express,” on numerous occasions.
Hillary, meanwhile, hates flying on commercial aircraft with commoners; she once described it as “burdensome,” but that might also be due to the fact that she is very old and mobility challenged..."
History for October 2
History for October 2 - On-This-Day.com:
Mahatma Gandhi 1869, Groucho (Julius) Marx 1890 - "Marx Brothers" movies and his quiz show "You Bet Your Life", Ruth Cheney Streeter 1895 - The first director of the U.S. Marine Corps Women's Reserve
Graham Greene 1904, George "Spanky" McFarland 1928, Don McLean 1945
1835 - The first battle of the Texas Revolution took place near the Guadalupe River when American settlers defeated a Mexican cavalry unit.
1870 - Rome was made the capital of Italy.
1937 - Warner Bros. released "Love Is on the Air." Ronald Reagan made his acting debut in the motion picture. He was 26 years old.
1944 - The Nazis crushed the Warsaw Uprising.
1947 - The Federatino Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) formally established Formula One racing in Grand Prix competition.
1950 - "Peanuts," the comic strip created by Charles M. Schulz, was published for the first time in seven newspapers.
1955 - "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" debuted on CBS-TV.
1959 - "The Twilight Zone" debuted on CBS-TV. The show ran for 5 years for a total of 154 episodes.
Saturday, October 01, 2016
H.S. football players exercise right to kneel during anthem — so sheriff’s deputies exercise a right of their own | Video | TheBlaze.com
H.S. football players exercise right to kneel during anthem — so sheriff’s deputies exercise a right of their own | Video | TheBlaze.com:
"High school football players in Louisiana exercised their First Amendment right to take a knee during the national anthem before a game, and now sheriff’s deputies are exercising their right not to work as voluntary security detail at those very events."
"High school football players in Louisiana exercised their First Amendment right to take a knee during the national anthem before a game, and now sheriff’s deputies are exercising their right not to work as voluntary security detail at those very events."
Socialist Venezuela New Food Police Unit Targeting People For Waiting In Supermarket Lines - Matt Vespa
Socialist Venezuela New Food Police Unit Targeting People For Waiting In Supermarket Lines - Matt Vespa:
"Venezuelans continue to fight for survival, as the nation’s socialist experiment has all but collapsed.
Looting is commonplace.
Hunger is rampant, with Venezuelans of every economic class eating out of garbage cans for sustenance.
And a medical system that is so starved of supplies, like soap and gloves, that newborns are reportedly being put in cardboard boxes in maternity wards.
That’s coupled with the spikes in infant deaths that began when the country started to falter.
The energy shortages haven’t helped either.
The rapid inflation has rendered the nation’s currency worthless, there’s no real domestic food production, and all of this has led to empty shelves at supermarkets.
The long lines have been a source of ire for the socialist government led by President Nicolas Maduro, the late Hugo Chavez’s successor, who says that his nation’s economic woes are brought on by outside sources.
He’s banned lines outside of bakeries and supermarkets.
Those who are willing to sleep outside of supermarkets to beat the rush are arrested and detained.
...Oh, and of course, due process is a not even considered in these proceedings.
The Post added that many that are arrested are simply trying to keep their families alive, with economists estimating that almost half of the Venezuelan workforce is dependent on black market goods to make it through the day.
When you have to mandate that people leave their jobs to work in the fields, you know your economic experiment has failed.
When the nation’s military is part of a new policing unit to monitor food distribution, you know 21st Century Socialism is a total disaster.
"Venezuelans continue to fight for survival, as the nation’s socialist experiment has all but collapsed.
Looting is commonplace.
Hunger is rampant, with Venezuelans of every economic class eating out of garbage cans for sustenance.
And a medical system that is so starved of supplies, like soap and gloves, that newborns are reportedly being put in cardboard boxes in maternity wards.
That’s coupled with the spikes in infant deaths that began when the country started to falter.
The energy shortages haven’t helped either.
The rapid inflation has rendered the nation’s currency worthless, there’s no real domestic food production, and all of this has led to empty shelves at supermarkets.
The long lines have been a source of ire for the socialist government led by President Nicolas Maduro, the late Hugo Chavez’s successor, who says that his nation’s economic woes are brought on by outside sources.
He’s banned lines outside of bakeries and supermarkets.
Those who are willing to sleep outside of supermarkets to beat the rush are arrested and detained.
...Oh, and of course, due process is a not even considered in these proceedings.
The Post added that many that are arrested are simply trying to keep their families alive, with economists estimating that almost half of the Venezuelan workforce is dependent on black market goods to make it through the day.
When you have to mandate that people leave their jobs to work in the fields, you know your economic experiment has failed.
When the nation’s military is part of a new policing unit to monitor food distribution, you know 21st Century Socialism is a total disaster.
Pakistan threatens to DESTROY India with nuclear bomb as atomic enemies edge to the brink of war
Pakistan threatens to DESTROY India with nuclear bomb as atomic enemies edge to the brink of war:
"NUKE FACE-OFF Pakistan threatens to DESTROY India with nuclear bomb as atomic enemies edge to the brink of war
Tensions have risen dramatically between the nuclear-armed neighbours
PAKISTAN’S Defence Minister has threatened to “destroy” India – after India said on Thursday it had carried out “surgical strikes” on suspected militants preparing to infiltrate from Pakistan-ruled Kashmir.
The strikes, which were a response to shots fired across the de facto border through the disputed Himalayan territory, could lead to a military escalation between the two nuclear-armed neighbours – risking a ceasefire agreed in 2003."
"NUKE FACE-OFF Pakistan threatens to DESTROY India with nuclear bomb as atomic enemies edge to the brink of war
Tensions have risen dramatically between the nuclear-armed neighbours
PAKISTAN’S Defence Minister has threatened to “destroy” India – after India said on Thursday it had carried out “surgical strikes” on suspected militants preparing to infiltrate from Pakistan-ruled Kashmir.
The strikes, which were a response to shots fired across the de facto border through the disputed Himalayan territory, could lead to a military escalation between the two nuclear-armed neighbours – risking a ceasefire agreed in 2003."
Mall shooter not a U.S. citizen – voted in 3 elections
Mall shooter not a U.S. citizen – voted in 3 elections:
"Cetin, 20, is the Turkish immigrant arrested Saturday for the Friday night shooting and killing of five people in a Burlington, Washington, mall. Security camera’s show Cetin entering the mall briefly without a weapon, leaving and then returning with a rifle.
Cetin fled but was apprehended 24 hours later. He has reportedly confessed to the five murders.
Now, election officials and Washington Secretary of State, Kim Wyman, have confirmed that Cetin was illegally registered to vote and voted in three elections in the state in 2014, 2015 and 2016."
"Cetin, 20, is the Turkish immigrant arrested Saturday for the Friday night shooting and killing of five people in a Burlington, Washington, mall. Security camera’s show Cetin entering the mall briefly without a weapon, leaving and then returning with a rifle.
Cetin fled but was apprehended 24 hours later. He has reportedly confessed to the five murders.
Now, election officials and Washington Secretary of State, Kim Wyman, have confirmed that Cetin was illegally registered to vote and voted in three elections in the state in 2014, 2015 and 2016."
Deutsche Bank Collapse: The Most Important Bank In Europe Is Facing A Major ‘Liquidity Event’
Deutsche Bank Collapse: The Most Important Bank In Europe Is Facing A Major ‘Liquidity Event’:
"The largest and most important bank in the largest and most important economy in Europe is imploding right in front of our eyes.
Deutsche Bank is the 11th biggest bank on the entire planet, and due to the enormous exposure to derivatives that it has, it has been called “the world’s most dangerous bank“.
Over the past year, I have repeatedly warned that Deutsche Bank is heading for disaster and is a likely candidate to be “the next Lehman Brothers”.
...On September 16th, the Wall Street Journal reported that the U.S. Department of Justice wanted 14 billion dollars from Deutsche Bank to settle a case related to the mis-handling of mortgage-backed securities during the last financial crisis.
As a result of that announcement, confidence in the bank has been greatly shaken, the stock price has fallen to record lows, and analysts are warning that Deutsche Bank may be facing a “liquidity event” unlike anything that we have seen since the collapse of Lehman Brothers back in 2008.
...But the size of the fine is not really the issue now.
Shares of Deutsche Bank have fallen by more than half so far in 2016, and this latest episode seems to have been the final straw for the deeply troubled financial institution.
Old sources of liquidity are being cut off, and nobody wants to be the idiot that offers Deutsche Bank a new source of liquidity at this point..."
"The largest and most important bank in the largest and most important economy in Europe is imploding right in front of our eyes.
Deutsche Bank is the 11th biggest bank on the entire planet, and due to the enormous exposure to derivatives that it has, it has been called “the world’s most dangerous bank“.
Over the past year, I have repeatedly warned that Deutsche Bank is heading for disaster and is a likely candidate to be “the next Lehman Brothers”.
...On September 16th, the Wall Street Journal reported that the U.S. Department of Justice wanted 14 billion dollars from Deutsche Bank to settle a case related to the mis-handling of mortgage-backed securities during the last financial crisis.
As a result of that announcement, confidence in the bank has been greatly shaken, the stock price has fallen to record lows, and analysts are warning that Deutsche Bank may be facing a “liquidity event” unlike anything that we have seen since the collapse of Lehman Brothers back in 2008.
...But the size of the fine is not really the issue now.
Shares of Deutsche Bank have fallen by more than half so far in 2016, and this latest episode seems to have been the final straw for the deeply troubled financial institution.
Old sources of liquidity are being cut off, and nobody wants to be the idiot that offers Deutsche Bank a new source of liquidity at this point..."
Would people die if this happened to Hillary?-----Presidential Debates Admits Trump's Mic Was Messed Up
Presidential Debates Admits Trump's Mic Was Messed Up | The Daily Caller:
"The Commission on Presidential Debates reported on Friday that there were in fact issues with Donald Trump’s microphone at the Debate Monday evening at Hofstra university in New York.
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Following the debate, Trump told the press that they “gave me a defective mic. Did you notice that? My mic was defective within the room,” CNN reports. Trump posed the question: “Was that on purpose?”
While it may be too early to call it anything other than a technical malfunction, the Commission on Presidential Debates said “there were issues regarding Donald Trump’s audio that affected the sound level in the debate hall.”
Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton responded to Trump’s claim Monday evening saying “anybody who complains about the microphone is not having a good night.”"
"The Commission on Presidential Debates reported on Friday that there were in fact issues with Donald Trump’s microphone at the Debate Monday evening at Hofstra university in New York.
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Following the debate, Trump told the press that they “gave me a defective mic. Did you notice that? My mic was defective within the room,” CNN reports. Trump posed the question: “Was that on purpose?”
While it may be too early to call it anything other than a technical malfunction, the Commission on Presidential Debates said “there were issues regarding Donald Trump’s audio that affected the sound level in the debate hall.”
Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton responded to Trump’s claim Monday evening saying “anybody who complains about the microphone is not having a good night.”"
Comey: DOJ Prosecutors Granted Clinton Attorney Cheryl Mills Immunity, Not The FBI - Katie Pavlich
Comey: DOJ Prosecutors Granted Clinton Attorney Cheryl Mills Immunity, Not The FBI - Katie Pavlich:
""Who authorized granting Cheryl Mills immunity?" Rep. John Sensenbrenner asked.
"It's a decision made by the Department of Justice, I don't know at what level inside," Comey responded. "In our investigations, any kind of immunity comes from the prosecutors, not the investigators."
Comey added he understood Mills' immunity as a request pertaining to the production of her laptop during the investigation.
"The FBI doesn't grant immunity to anybody, the Department of Justice is able to grant very different kinds of immunity," Comey said. "
""Who authorized granting Cheryl Mills immunity?" Rep. John Sensenbrenner asked.
"It's a decision made by the Department of Justice, I don't know at what level inside," Comey responded. "In our investigations, any kind of immunity comes from the prosecutors, not the investigators."
Comey added he understood Mills' immunity as a request pertaining to the production of her laptop during the investigation.
"The FBI doesn't grant immunity to anybody, the Department of Justice is able to grant very different kinds of immunity," Comey said. "
The United States' fighting ships, from smallest to largest
The United States' fighting ships, from smallest to largest:
"Introducing the fighting ship lineup for 2016
With roughly 232 fighting ships actively in commission, the U.S. Navy's fleet is the biggest and most powerful in the world.
For your viewing pleasure, we've lined them all up in order from smallest to largest -- the new $13 billion USS Gerald R Ford supercarrier.
But hey, even the small ships in this gallery play some big roles in US military operations."
"Introducing the fighting ship lineup for 2016
With roughly 232 fighting ships actively in commission, the U.S. Navy's fleet is the biggest and most powerful in the world.
For your viewing pleasure, we've lined them all up in order from smallest to largest -- the new $13 billion USS Gerald R Ford supercarrier.
But hey, even the small ships in this gallery play some big roles in US military operations."
This is NOT a joke!-----After campus clown alert, Auburn confirms students won't be punished for wearing a mask
After campus clown alert, Auburn confirms students won't be punished for wearing a mask - The College Fix:
"The Clown Panic of 2016 started in an apartment complex in South Carolina and fanned out across the country – just today schools in suburban Cincinnati were closed after a report of a clown attack.
Civil liberties like clowning are always tenuous in a panic, but Auburn University has confirmed that it won’t crack down on harlequinned students following its own clown scare.
As Reason reported last week, Auburn’s Department of Public Safety sent a campus alert saying it and the municipal police had “received a few reports of people dressed in clown costumes on campus,” as well as social media posts “that suggested the same”:
We have seen similar reports of clown sightings at other universities and towns across the State of Alabama and the Southeast. …
We also had a report of students walking around looking for people dressed as clowns. For your safety, we strongly encourage you to leave this job to Auburn Police. Please use good judgment and avoid wearing clown masks, as it could be perceived as a hazard or threat to others.
Police still haven’t tracked down any bozos, and campus authorities don’t know of “any additional clown sightings” since the bulletin went out, spokesperson Mike Clardy told The Fix in an email.
...“Students were encouraged to use good judgment, for their own safety and the safety of others, due to widespread threats and concerns involving clowns throughout the state,” Clardy said..."
"The Clown Panic of 2016 started in an apartment complex in South Carolina and fanned out across the country – just today schools in suburban Cincinnati were closed after a report of a clown attack.
Civil liberties like clowning are always tenuous in a panic, but Auburn University has confirmed that it won’t crack down on harlequinned students following its own clown scare.
As Reason reported last week, Auburn’s Department of Public Safety sent a campus alert saying it and the municipal police had “received a few reports of people dressed in clown costumes on campus,” as well as social media posts “that suggested the same”:
We have seen similar reports of clown sightings at other universities and towns across the State of Alabama and the Southeast. …
We also had a report of students walking around looking for people dressed as clowns. For your safety, we strongly encourage you to leave this job to Auburn Police. Please use good judgment and avoid wearing clown masks, as it could be perceived as a hazard or threat to others.
Police still haven’t tracked down any bozos, and campus authorities don’t know of “any additional clown sightings” since the bulletin went out, spokesperson Mike Clardy told The Fix in an email.
...“Students were encouraged to use good judgment, for their own safety and the safety of others, due to widespread threats and concerns involving clowns throughout the state,” Clardy said..."
Rosta and hijab trump US Constitution?-----Dreadlock Ban Isn’t Discrimination; Court Rejects Govt. Claim of “Racial Distinctions in the Natural Texture of Black and Non-Black Hair”
Dreadlock Ban Isn’t Discrimination; Court Rejects Govt. Claim of “Racial Distinctions in the Natural Texture of Black and Non-Black Hair” - Judicial Watch:
"A federal appellate court has ruled against the Obama administration’s claims that firing a black woman for wearing dreadlocks constitutes racial discrimination and the government agency representing the employee poses an interesting question:
Would a woman wearing a hijab face the same fate?
The answer is no.
Muslims have more rights in the U.S. workplace than African Americans, it seems.
In the aftermath of several rulings protecting Muslim rights to wear religious head covers on the job, a black woman is being prohibited from sporting a hairstyle that is physiologically and culturally associated with people of African descent.
That constitutes racial discrimination, according to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency that enforces the nation’s workplace discrimination laws.
...a 2013 federal court ruling that a Muslim woman’s civil rights were violated by an American clothing retailer that didn’t allow her to wear a hijab at work.
As it has in other instances, the EEOC accused the retailer of religious discrimination under the Civil Rights Act and a federal judge agreed.
In the ruling the judge wrote that the retailer acted with malice and reckless indifference by forcing the Muslim woman to remove her hijab, even though it had a company-wide policy prohibiting all types head cover.
The religious rights argument has also been used by the EEOC on behalf of dreadlocks.
Over the summer the EEOC sued a private business for religious discrimination after it ordered a male employee to cut his dreadlocks.
The man, a prep cook in central Florida, is Rastafari and the “Afrocentric” religion born in the slums of Jamaica requires followers to have long, matted and knotted hair.
Judicial Watch will monitor the outcome of the case, which was filed in July.
There is no formal, organized leadership in Rastafarianism which makes it difficult to accept as an official religion protected by federal law.
Rastafarians believe Haile Selassie, the former emperor of Ethiopia, is God and that he’ll help blacks living in exile as a result of the slave trade return to Africa.
Jamaican reggae singer Bob Marley, who died in Miami in 1981, was among the best known Rastafarians and more recently a famous rapper known as Snoop Dogg became Rastafari and changed his name to Snoop Lion, according to a mainstream news report.
“A key belief for Rastas is the notion of death to all white and black oppressors,” the story says, adding that “the most common outward expressions of Rastafari are Rastas’ dreadlocks, penchant for smoking marijuana and vegetarian diets.”
"A federal appellate court has ruled against the Obama administration’s claims that firing a black woman for wearing dreadlocks constitutes racial discrimination and the government agency representing the employee poses an interesting question:
Would a woman wearing a hijab face the same fate?
The answer is no.
Muslims have more rights in the U.S. workplace than African Americans, it seems.
In the aftermath of several rulings protecting Muslim rights to wear religious head covers on the job, a black woman is being prohibited from sporting a hairstyle that is physiologically and culturally associated with people of African descent.
That constitutes racial discrimination, according to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency that enforces the nation’s workplace discrimination laws.
As it has in other instances, the EEOC accused the retailer of religious discrimination under the Civil Rights Act and a federal judge agreed.
In the ruling the judge wrote that the retailer acted with malice and reckless indifference by forcing the Muslim woman to remove her hijab, even though it had a company-wide policy prohibiting all types head cover.
The religious rights argument has also been used by the EEOC on behalf of dreadlocks.
Over the summer the EEOC sued a private business for religious discrimination after it ordered a male employee to cut his dreadlocks.
The man, a prep cook in central Florida, is Rastafari and the “Afrocentric” religion born in the slums of Jamaica requires followers to have long, matted and knotted hair.
Judicial Watch will monitor the outcome of the case, which was filed in July.
There is no formal, organized leadership in Rastafarianism which makes it difficult to accept as an official religion protected by federal law.
Rastafarians believe Haile Selassie, the former emperor of Ethiopia, is God and that he’ll help blacks living in exile as a result of the slave trade return to Africa.
Jamaican reggae singer Bob Marley, who died in Miami in 1981, was among the best known Rastafarians and more recently a famous rapper known as Snoop Dogg became Rastafari and changed his name to Snoop Lion, according to a mainstream news report.
“A key belief for Rastas is the notion of death to all white and black oppressors,” the story says, adding that “the most common outward expressions of Rastafari are Rastas’ dreadlocks, penchant for smoking marijuana and vegetarian diets.”
The FBI’s Hillary email probe is looking even more like a coverup | New York Post
The FBI’s Hillary email probe is looking even more like a coverup | New York Post:
"Comey said he looked “very hard” but couldn’t make an obstruction case “against any of the subjects we looked at.” He claimed not to have the evidence.
But the case suffered from the fact that he was denied evidence by Clinton and her minions, including:"
"Comey said he looked “very hard” but couldn’t make an obstruction case “against any of the subjects we looked at.” He claimed not to have the evidence.
But the case suffered from the fact that he was denied evidence by Clinton and her minions, including:"
The Gathering Nuclear Storm
The Gathering Nuclear Storm - WSJ:
By MARK HELPRIN
"Even should nuclear brinkmanship not result in Armageddon, it can lead to abject defeat and a complete reordering of the international system.
The extraordinarily complicated and consequential management of American nuclear policy rests upon the shoulders of those we elevate to the highest offices.
Unfortunately, President Obama’s transparent hostility to America’s foundational principles and defensive powers is coupled with a dim and faddish understanding of nuclear realities.
His successor will be no less ill-equipped.
Hillary Clinton’s robotic compulsion to power renders her immune to either respect for truth or clearheaded consideration of urgent problems.
Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary of state once said that he was “pure act” (meaning action).
Hillary Clinton is “pure lie” (meaning lie), with whatever intellectual power she possesses hopelessly enslaved to reflexive deviousness.
Donald Trump, surprised that nuclear weapons are inappropriate to counterinsurgency, has a long history of irrepressible urges and tropisms.
Rather like the crazy boy-emperors after the fall of the Roman Republic, he may have problems with impulse control—and an uncontrolled, ill-formed, perpetually fragmented mind.
None of these perhaps three worst people in the Western Hemisphere, and few of their deplorable underlings, are alive to the gravest danger.
Which is neither Islamic State, terrorism, the imprisoned economy, nor even the erosion of our national character, though all are of crucial importance.
The gravest danger we face is fast-approaching nuclear instability.
Many believe it is possible safely to arrive at nuclear zero.
It is not.
Enough warheads to bring any country to its knees can fit in a space volumetrically equivalent to a Manhattan studio apartment.
Try to find that in the vastness of Russia, China, or Iran.
Even ICBMs and their transporter-erector-launchers can easily be concealed in warehouses, tunnels and caves.
Nuclear weapons age out, but, thanks to supercomputing, reliable replacements can be manufactured with only minor physical testing.
Unaccounted fissile material sloshing around the world can, with admitted difficulty, be fashioned into weapons.
And when rogue states such as North Korea and Iran build their bombs, our response has been either impotence or a ticket to ride.
Nor do nuclear reductions lead to increased safety.
Quite apart from encouraging proliferation by enabling every medium power in the world to aim for nuclear parity with the critically reduced U.S. arsenal, reductions create instability..."
Must read it all!
By MARK HELPRIN
"Even should nuclear brinkmanship not result in Armageddon, it can lead to abject defeat and a complete reordering of the international system.
The extraordinarily complicated and consequential management of American nuclear policy rests upon the shoulders of those we elevate to the highest offices.
Unfortunately, President Obama’s transparent hostility to America’s foundational principles and defensive powers is coupled with a dim and faddish understanding of nuclear realities.
His successor will be no less ill-equipped.
Hillary Clinton’s robotic compulsion to power renders her immune to either respect for truth or clearheaded consideration of urgent problems.
Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary of state once said that he was “pure act” (meaning action).
Hillary Clinton is “pure lie” (meaning lie), with whatever intellectual power she possesses hopelessly enslaved to reflexive deviousness.
Donald Trump, surprised that nuclear weapons are inappropriate to counterinsurgency, has a long history of irrepressible urges and tropisms.
Rather like the crazy boy-emperors after the fall of the Roman Republic, he may have problems with impulse control—and an uncontrolled, ill-formed, perpetually fragmented mind.
None of these perhaps three worst people in the Western Hemisphere, and few of their deplorable underlings, are alive to the gravest danger.
Which is neither Islamic State, terrorism, the imprisoned economy, nor even the erosion of our national character, though all are of crucial importance.
The gravest danger we face is fast-approaching nuclear instability.
Many believe it is possible safely to arrive at nuclear zero.
It is not.
Enough warheads to bring any country to its knees can fit in a space volumetrically equivalent to a Manhattan studio apartment.
Try to find that in the vastness of Russia, China, or Iran.
Even ICBMs and their transporter-erector-launchers can easily be concealed in warehouses, tunnels and caves.
Nuclear weapons age out, but, thanks to supercomputing, reliable replacements can be manufactured with only minor physical testing.
Unaccounted fissile material sloshing around the world can, with admitted difficulty, be fashioned into weapons.
And when rogue states such as North Korea and Iran build their bombs, our response has been either impotence or a ticket to ride.
Nor do nuclear reductions lead to increased safety.
Quite apart from encouraging proliferation by enabling every medium power in the world to aim for nuclear parity with the critically reduced U.S. arsenal, reductions create instability..."
Must read it all!
History for October 1
History for October 1 - On-This-Day.com:
James Lawrence 1781, William Boeing 1881, Jimmy Carter (U.S.) 1924
Tom Bosley 1927, Richard Harris 1930, Julie Andrews 1935
1903 - The first modern World Series took place between the Boston Pilgrims and the Pittsburgh Pirates.
1908 - The Model T automobile was introduced by Henry Ford. The purchase price of the car was $850.
1938 - German forces enter Czechoslovakia and seized control of the Sudetenland. The Munich Pact had been signed two days before.
1949 - Mao Tse-tung raised the first flag of the People's Republic of China when the communist forces had defeated the Nationalists. The Nationalist forces fled to Taiwan.
1961 - Roger Maris (New York Yankees) hit his 61st home run of the season to beat Babe Ruth's major league record of 60.
1962 - Johnny Carson began hosting the "Tonight" show on NBC-TV. He stayed with the show for 29 years. Jack Paar was the previous host.
1979 - The United States handed control of the Canal Zone over to Panama.
1982 - EPCOT (Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow) Center opened in Florida. The concept was planned by Walt Disney.
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