John Kerry under fire for reported 'shadow diplomacy' to save Iran deal | Fox News

John Kerry under fire for reported 'shadow diplomacy' to save Iran deal | Fox News:

"Former Secretary of State John Kerry is under fire over a report claiming that he has been engaged in “shadow diplomacy” with officials from Iran and Europe as part of a final attempt to save the seemingly doomed 2015 Iran nuclear deal."

Carbon Dioxide: U.S. Emissions Down, European Emissions Up - Hit & Run : Reason.com

Carbon Dioxide: U.S. Emissions Down, European Emissions Up - Hit & Run : Reason.com:
"...As the International Energy Agency recently reported,
Global energy-related CO2 emissions grew by 1.4% in 2017, reaching a historic high of 32.5 gigatonnes (Gt)...
While most major economies saw a rise, some others experienced declines, including the United States, United Kingdom, Mexico and Japan.
The biggest decline came from the United States, mainly because of higher deployment of renewables.
The U.S.'s performance contrasts with that of the European Union, whose carbon dioxide emissions increased by 1.8 percent last year. 
...This drop is largely attributable to a continuing market-driven switch from coal to natural gas...
...a World Resources Institute report last fall concluded that the greenhouse gas emissions of 49 countries (including the U.S.) have already peaked.
The majority of countries whose emissions have peaked did so well before any international climate agreement such as the Kyoto Protocol came into effect."

AM Fruitcake

History for May 7

History for May 7 - On-This-Day.com:
Robert Browning 1812 - Poet, married to poet Elizabeth Barrett, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 - Composer, Gabby (George Francis) Hayes 1885 - Actor


Gary (Frank James) Cooper 1901 - Actor ("Sergeant York [1941]", "The Virginian"), Eva (Evita) Peron 1919 - Actress, wife of Argentina President Juan Peron, subject of the Broadway musical and film "Evita", Johnny Unitas 1933 - Football player


1763 - Indian chief Pontiac began all out war on the British in New York.


1915 - The Lusitania, a civilian ship, was sunk by a German submarine. 1,201 people were killed.


1940 - Winston Churchill became British Prime Minister.


1946 - Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering Corp. was founded. The company was later renamed Sony.


1954 - French Colonial Forces surrendered to the Vietminh at Dien Bien Phu after 55 days of fighting.


1977 - Rookie Janet Guthrie set the fastest time on opening day of practice for the Indianapolis 500. Her time was 185.607.


1998 - Daimler-Benz bought Chrysler Corp. for close to $40 billion. It was the largest industrial merger on record.


2000 - Russian President Vladimir V. Putin named First Deputy Premier Mikhail Kasyanov as premier.

NRA's Chris Cox: 'It's either going to be Nancy Pelosi's vision, or ours' - Washington Times

NRA's Chris Cox: 'It's either going to be Nancy Pelosi's vision, or ours' - Washington Times:

"Chris Cox, who heads the National Rifle Association’s legislative-lobbying arm, on Saturday warned that “everything will be on table” if Democrats gain ground in coming national elections, saying the agenda of his group’s opponents include impeaching President Trump and abolishing the Second Amendment."

The way we were-----Sammy Davis Jr. - Mr. Bojangles

Boob-tube-----The Little Rascals - 4 classic episodes

Starbucks Drops ADL From Anti-Bias Training; Are Anti-Semitic Farrakhan Supporters Among Black Lives Matter to Blame?

Starbucks Drops ADL From Anti-Bias Training; Are Anti-Semitic Farrakhan Supporters Among Black Lives Matter to Blame?:
"Black Lives Matter activists, not content with Starbucks shutting down locations on May 29 to host an anti-bias training in response to an incident with police in Philadelphia, later pushed the company to drop the nation's most prominent Jewish defense group from that training. 
On Monday, Starbucks announced it would drop the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), one of America's most well-respected civil rights groups, from the training.
...The Black Lives Matter movement has a long history of anti-Semitism.
In 2016, the Movement for Black Lives, an umbrella of BLM-affiliated groups, accused the state of Israel of committing genocide.
The ADL supports the state of Israel and a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Cat Brooks, co-founder of the Anti Police-Terror Project, told ABC News, "You can't be a piece of an anti-bias training when you openly support a racist, oppressive and brutal colonization of Palestine."...
Read on!

About that Logan Act... | Trending

About that Logan Act... | Trending
"One of the spurious grounds for launching the entire "Russian collusion" assault on the presidency was the notion that former national security adviser Mike Flynn somehow violated the Logan Act as he prepared to take up his duties -- a position in which, thanks to James Comey's crack FBI, the malice of the defeated Democrats, and a thoroughly dishonest media, he lasted only a couple of weeks. 
So what now do we make of this?

John Kerry’s bid to save one of his most significant accomplishments as secretary of state took him to New York on a Sunday afternoon two weeks ago, where, more than a year after he left office, he engaged in some unusual shadow diplomacy with a top-ranking Iranian official.

He sat down at the United Nations with Foreign Minister Javad Zarif to discuss ways of preserving the pact limiting Iran’s nuclear weapons program. 

...Kerry also met last month with German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, and he’s been on the phone with top European Union official Federica Mogherini, according to the source, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to reveal the private meetings. Kerry has also met with French President Emmanuel Macron...

The Logan Act, which dates from 1799, states:

Any citizen of the United States, wherever he may be, who, without authority of the United States, directly or indirectly commences or carries on any correspondence or intercourse with any foreign government or any officer or agent thereof, with intent to influence the measures or conduct of any foreign government or of any officer or agent thereof, in relation to any disputes or controversies with the United States, or to defeat the measures of the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.

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BOMBSHELL: Federal Judge Accuses Mueller's Team Of 'Lying,' Trying To Ruin Trump | Daily Wire

BOMBSHELL: Federal Judge Accuses Mueller's Team Of 'Lying,' Trying To Ruin Trump | Daily Wire:

"On Friday, U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis III blasted Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team during a hearing on former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, saying that they are only concerned with trying to take down President Donald Trump."

Incel: The Death Spiral of Identity Politics | Intellectual Takeout

Incel: The Death Spiral of Identity Politics | Intellectual Takeout
"The incel movement (short for “involuntarily celibate”) movement has been linked to a recent mass killing, mainly of women, in Toronto. 
On April 23, 25-year-old Alek Minassian drove a van through a suburban business district, killing eight women and two men and injuring 16 others.

The spark for the movement – if you can call it that – was a mass murder in 2014 by 22-year-old Elliot Rodger. 

He killed six people and injured 14 others before shooting himself. 

Subsequently, his ravings on YouTube and in a 107,000-word manifesto in which he complains that he had been “forced to endure an existence of loneliness, rejection and unfulfilled desires all because girls have never been attracted to me”.

His sentiments seem to have struck a chord with other young men who rant on internet sites about their inability to have relationships with women. 

Minassian even posted on Facebook that "the Incel Rebellion has already begun" shortly before his attack.

Incels are sexually frustrated men hostile toward sexually successful men and towards women. 

These are called Brads and Staceys in incel jargon, words that suggest worldly, well-adjusted people who have no trouble getting mates.

What makes such a dark and destructive movement possible?...

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The Social Contract - The Southern Poverty Law Center - Institution of weaponized hate

The Social Contract - The Southern Poverty Law Center - Institution of weaponized hate:

"Since the election of Donald Trump as 45th president of the United States, the leftist under-ground has surfaced in an unprecedented, full-throated effort to neutralize his historic victory. 

This underground includes violent communist, socialist, and anarchist street thugs from groups like Refuse Fascism (the Revolutionary Communist Party),¹ Antifa (anarchists and anarcho-syndicalists)²and Black Lives Matter (socialists).³ 

But it also includes many Democrat politicians, judges, and bureaucrats at all levels of government, for example judges essentially governing from the bench with unconstitutional restraint orders, elected officials erecting sanctuary policies in direct defiance of the federal government, and media willing to give them all rhetorical cover.

Running interference are groups like the 

• American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and 
• the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), who have joined the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) 

...in an unholy alliance to attack and silence the Left’s critics. 

...while CAIR goes on the warpath, the SPLC assists by labeling individuals and groups “bigots,” “racists,” “xenophobes,” “Islamophobes,” “white nationalists,” and “haters.” 

The SPLC can claim responsibility more than any other group for popularizing the “hate” narrative, now ubiquitous in the popular press.

The SPLC claims to target “right-wing militias,” “white supremacists,” and other varieties of “far-right extremists.” 

It publishes a “Hatewatch” list and an annual “Year in Hate” publication..."

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WALSH: What My Sons Can Learn From The Self-Destruction Of The Boy Scouts | Daily Wire

WALSH: What My Sons Can Learn From The Self-Destruction Of The Boy Scouts | Daily Wire
"The process is complete.
The Boy Scouts, a once proud and important organization that helped shape boys into young men, is dead. 
It had been dying for sometime, but now it is official.
In an announcement that would have seemed like an outlandish parody only ten years ago, the Boy Scouts said today that they will be dropping "Boy" from their name.
They shall henceforth be known only as Scouts.
The Boy Scouts giving up its name is the inevitable last step in a devolution that began when the Boy Scouts gave up its spine.

• First, they ceded to the Left's demands and admitted gay scouts. 
• Then it surrendered again and admitted gay scout leaders. 
• Then it surrendered again and admitted "transgenders." 
• Then it surrendered again and admitted girls. 
• Then it surrendered once more and abandoned its name and any last vestige of its identity. 

Now it is just a dry, pitiful husk, curled in a fetal position in the corner, muttering, "No more, no more."
I won't let my sons anywhere near this embarrassment of an organization.
I want them to be men, not simpering, pathetic, little effeminate weaklings, which is what the "Scouts" embody at this point.
But the Scouts will provide a very helpful example for my boys.
I plan to use this sad story as a cautionary tale to teach them one crucial thing:
Never, ever, ever, ever surrender to the enemies of truth and reason..."
Read it all!

Lunch video-----Boy Scouts Go Full Social Justice Warrior

Noon-toon

Facebook Enlists Eric Holder's Law Firm to 'Advise' on Anti-Conservative Bias | Breitbart

Facebook Enlists Eric Holder's Law Firm to 'Advise' on Anti-Conservative Bias | Breitbart:

"The former attorney general is still a partner at Covington & Burling, and was recently retained by the state of California for their expected legal showdowns with the Trump Administration. Holder has publicly flirted with the idea of running for president in 2020, telling reporters earlier this year that he would make a decision by the end of 2018.
So, to sum up: Facebook, a California-based company, has enlisted the same firm that is providing legal advice to their state against the Trump administration, through none other than Eric Holder, to advise them on combating perceptions of bias against conservatives."

‘Grand Paris’ Race Canceled Over Migrant Camps Blocking Route

‘Grand Paris’ Race Canceled Over Migrant Camps Blocking Route: 
"A popular running event in Paris has been canceled due to thousands of migrants establishing a sprawling encampment on the race route.

The annual ‘Grand Paris’ 10 kilometer run drew over 6,500 attendees last year, but has been called off over safety concerns, in deference to illegal immigrants who have been allowed to commandeer the banks of Canal Saint-Denis, a key stretch of the race.
“The Great Paris Grand Race is a race for sporting values, but also ecological, solidarity and humanistic,” organizers wrote in an official statement. 
“Today, more than 1,800 refugees from various backgrounds have settled under the bridges along the Saint-Denis Canal, taken by our route.”
“These makeshift camps grow and spread from day to day. 
According to the most recent estimates, they will gather more than 2,500 refugees in the coming weeks.”
...French President Emmanuel Macron recently espoused the idea that 150-200 million Africans will inevitably migrate to Europe over the next 30 years, and called for measures to be taken to prepare for their arrival.
(PHOTO: Mustafa Yalcin/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)"

#1 This day 1964-----Louis Armstrong - Hello Dolly

5 Things That Disappeared During the Collapse of Venezuela

5 Things That Disappeared During the Collapse of Venezuela:
"They say nothing lasts forever. 
But sometimes, I know there are situations that seem to be eternal, and that is how it has seemed during the collapse of Venezuela.

The agony of the Venezuelan induced crisis is about to produce an output. 
How this results, it will depend on how much external assistance is required.

Many things have disappeared as the military and government continue to control and subjugate the population.

• Self-Defense...
• Venezuelans do not have weaponry at home. The right to defend our own lives was seized in 2014 under threat of 25 years of jail for those who don´t give their guns...
• Money...
• Utilities...
• Food...
• Transportation... READ ALL!!

Leaving was the only option.

I think many of those with some military training reading this will agree with my comment about how military strategies are being used with our civilian population. 
The reasons are plenty. 
They have killed people. 
They know that the international justice is after them and it is just a matter of time before they have to run. 
They know they have endangered their very own families, in their blindness and immeasurable greed.

They try to cover and silence everyone who is opposed to their plans.

But finally, my family is here, and in good shape.
My younger son is under a normal weight for his size, he is happy, and that is what really matters. Thanks to all of those who have found useful our bitter experience and have contributed willingly with some very needed assistance.

It is a journey that I would not wish even to my worst enemy, indeed.

God bless us all, people.

About the Author

Jose is an upper middle class professional. He is a former worker of the oil state company with a Bachelor’s degree from one of the best national Universities. He has a small 4 members family, plus two cats and a dog. An old but in good shape SUV, a good 150 square meters house in a nice neighborhood, in a small but (formerly) prosperous city with two middle size malls. Jose is a prepper and shares his eyewitness accounts and survival stories from the collapse of his beloved Venezuela. Thanks to your help Jose has gotten his family out of Venezuela. They are currently setting up a new life in another country. paypal.me/JoseM151

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Dave Rubin's Message To Liberal Professors: They'll Destroy You, Too | Daily Wire

Dave Rubin's Message To Liberal Professors: They'll Destroy You, Too | Daily Wire:

"So it makes sense that he's the latest addition to the upcoming film "No Safe Spaces." The Fall release, spearheaded by podcast king Adam Carolla and conservative talker Dennis Prager, reveals the war on free speech on college campuses nationwide. Right-of-center speakers are under physical assault for simply expressing an opposing point of view. Students call anyone who doesn't align with their progressive world view "racist," "Nazi" or worse."