Many voters within the base of both parties feel betrayed by Washington insiders, so the Democrats have a declared Independent, unabashed socialist making huge inroads within the Democratic base. Many fed-up conservatives have embraced Donald Trump’s candidacy out of total disgust and anger at the GOP establishment politicians, who routinely betray conservatives.
Perhaps, it’s just a personal call, but the Washington Post is reporting a call that Bill Clinton made to Donald Trump shortly before Trump decided to run as a Republican. As one who remains extremely wary of Trump’s motives and his rather late in life swing to the GOP, this inquiring mind keeps wondering if he is just trying to sabotage the GOP. Or more likely, the Clintons got wind of Trump considering a run, so Bill Clinton might have been trying to ferret information out of Trump or encouraged Trump to run, in hopes he would throw the GOP race into chaos. Never underestimate the Clintons when it comes to underhandedness.
“Mugabe’s autocratic rule has remained almost impossible to investigate or challenge. Opposition parties are officially permitted but unofficially not tolerated. “Human-rights abuses range from violent attacks, and sometimes murderous ones, on opposition figures to detentions and harassment,” Roth said. In June, the State Department accused Zimbabwe of not only curtailing freedoms of speech, press, assembly, association, and movement but also of abducting and torturing dissidents—with no recourse. “Corruption occurred at every level of the police force,” the annual U.S. human-rights report declared.
Last Friday, Zimbabwe demanded the extradition of Walter J. Palmer, the Minnesota trophy hunter who shot Cecil with an arrow and then, forty hours later, finished him off with a gun. The country’s environmental minister announced that the “foreign poacher” had to be held to account for his crime.”
With all the ink already spilled elsewhere about Cecil the Lion, I had resolved to hold my tongue, but seeing the reports about a petition to extradite the dastardly dentist to Zimbabwe for justice, made we want to scream, “Who in the hell is going to extradite an American citizen to Robert Mugabe’s dictatorship in Zimbabwe?” Really, over a lion, we’re going to send an American citizen to Mugabe’s justice system??? Any idiot who signed that petition should be scorned and ridiculed!!! Besides the vast, decades long history of human rights violations by Mugabe’s government, it’s also one of the world’s most corrupt governments too. Americans need to wake-up and start thinking before they follow these lunatic leftist pop culture pipers, because it’s alarming how totally ignorant vast swaths of Americans truly are, yet they run around following TV personalities and idiots in Hollywood, based on emotional theatrics.
Various TV personalities do the man-on-the-street interviews to showcase the shocking ignorance of Americans on just about any political or historical topic, but the Mark Dice video on You Tube yesterday should alarm, not entertain you. He stopped random passers by and asked them if they would support Hillary’s campaign promise to repeal the Bill of Rights if she’s elected. Now, suspend arguments that she just might do that, since she has no respect for the rule of law, but truly she hasn’t suggested that. Dice uses these outlandish videos to showcase how ignorant and way too easily led many Americans are. Perhaps, its a toss-up on whether the worst part is these people blabber on oblivious to how lost in the fog of progressive muddled thinking they are or that these are the “low-information” voters the left tries to get to the polls. Leftists rant about “their rights” constantly, so it would seem that the “Bill of Rights” might ring a bell that THE “Bill of Rights” might be something important. What these people are following is celebrity. Hillary Clinton is a celebrity figure in America.
Time to listen to that sappy song “Born Free” popularized by the Elsa the Lion story, oh my, I can ponder freedom and lions’ rights to life all at once… yippee!
Talk about serendipity, just after responding to Kinnison making the case for the Kurds, I read the latest article by G. Murphy Donovan at the New English Review, “Reform Islam? Recognize Kurdistan!” GMD writes:
“If the democratic West seeks to win the war of ideas with the theocratic East, it could do worse than support the national aspirations of a unique culture such as Kurdistan. Persians and Arabs have had their day, yet both are still yoked by religious repression. The time may have come to reward the kind of Muslim polity that the rest of the world can live with.
Recognizing Kurdistan sends a powerful message to Islam. Statehood for the Kurds could spark a reformation that enlightens the entire Muslim world. Indeed, Kurdistan would be, for example, a much more reliable Muslim “partner” in NATO than Turkish backsliders. A Kurdish state might not be the final answer, yet Kurds are surely a better bet than Turks or Palestinians – and a more enlightened addition to the community of tolerant, free nations.”
I think you guys are onto something and combine this idea with the ideas in a SSI paper from 2014 by Huba Wass de Czege, BG (ret.), that I mentioned in a May blog post, “A SSI Paper on defeating the Islamic State”and we might be on our way to a real strategy.
JK, yes, you’re right, the PKK does complicate matters and they are designated terrorists by both Turkey and the United States, but the Turks will use the latest terrorist attacks to crack down on Kurds, in general, if history is any guide.
I like considering fresh ideas to approaching old problems and this article in the latest Strategic Studies Institute newsletter looks at fragile states in a new way. Instead of looking at fragile states remedies from a top down state-building approach, Dr. Robert D. Lamb states that outsiders, to include international state-building groups, can’t fix fragile states and he suggests a bottom up approach, recognizing that some subnational groups within fragile states manage to organize themselves and even govern themselves in some cases, despite the dysfunction at the national level. His ideas deserve consideration, in light of the dismal failure of “nation-building”:
Flashback to March 2015, when Hillary Clinton first addressed her private email revelation. Remember the “two separate phones” and “two separate email accounts” rationale for the use of her private email, then the story moved to she used only her private email from her own private server. The story then expanded to her minions also used her private email server and she had her own intelligence gathers sending her intel (Sidney Blumenthal and some former CIA spook). She assured us there was absolutely no classified information ever relayed via her private email server.
Inquiring minds want to know when did she set up this private email server? Where was it located? Who maintained it for her? How many of her minions used it?
Her campaign flunkies have planned another doomed spin gambit with the release of Hillary’s medical and tax records, where they’ll try to spin it that she has nothing to hide and has released more personal information than any other candidate. She won’t answer the questions about her mishandling classified information, or the dozens upon dozens of other questions surrounding her private email server. And that server will never be turned over to Congress or any other authorities. It will be another Rose Law Firm billing records hide and seek game.
I still wonder what records Hillary and Cheryl Mills took from Vince Foster’s office before investigators ever got there. There’s a long trail of unanswered questions, heck, I’ve got my own impeachment story that I want concrete answers of who was responsible for me being attacked in my own home (Messages of mhere, tabbed at the top of my home page). I was writing snarky rebuttals to Clinton hacks spinning the impeachment drama on the Excite message boards (and mocking them).
Ad nauseum alert I’m going to rehash Messages of mhere again:
Every person mentioned in my story exists in real life. Someone higher up had to check out who mhere (I) am and they came across a retired general who hates me from some issues almost a decade before impeachment. I have no proof – in fact, saying you felt jolts that knocked you off balance sounds crazy and then saying it escalated over several weeks, sounds impossible, but it’s true. When I left my house – the feeling disappeared. When I went in my bedroom to wrap Christmas presents, I had to brace my knees against my bed to avoid being knocked to the floor – I have no idea what could have caused that. In fact, I would believe I was nuts, except I know I was attacked and some people have a very distinctive voice – that is how I know I was attacked and I know who attacked me, but I can’t prove a thing. A lot of effort went into attacking me in my home and then trying to have me locked up permanently. The only place I was talking to people besides close family was on the Excite message boards. People lied to my husband to turn him against me too. Without proof, I can’t publicly name names.
I spent 18 days involuntarily locked up in a mental facility and the details of that experience in Messages of mhere is true too. If I had not demanded an attorney, I would have been carted off to a state mental hospital. The psychiatrist called my husband at night to try and convince him I needed to be committed to the state mental hospital. No one in this mental health facility even told me there was going to be a hearing. As a law-abiding citizen, who doesn’t have so much as a speeding ticket on my record and even though most assuredly the statute of limitations is long past for most of the crimes committed against me, my intention in rehashing this old story is that I want the truth exposed and I want every person involved exposed. When I decided this was shortly after I began this blog (January 2013), I read an article where James Carville, big cheese Clinton sewer rat himself, squealed with moral indignation about the inhumane Clinton haters. The gross hypocrisy and all the years of feeling voiceless made me decide that no matter how long it takes or how many set-backs I endure – someday I am going to expose all of the people involved in attacking me. My husband was an active duty soldier getting ready to retire – he served in Grenada and Desert Storm and someone(s) sent a retired general to attack me. Someone sent him and I want to know who. I believe Army assets were used in that attack right here on American soil. Posse comitatus anyone…
Never fear, I will suck it up and move on to other news now.
McClatchyDC ran the above linked story July 30, 2015, which belies the parsing and prevaricating proffered by the smartest woman in the world. This revelation comes after an examination of just 40 of the tens of thousands of emails Hillary Clinton’s lawyers turned over to the State Department. One can only wonder what the total number of breaches of sending classified information via an insecure private email serve will be.
Most assuredly the odds are that several countries’ foreign intelligence services knew of her private server and have preserved all of her emails for future use to embarrass and/or blackmail her. She and her simpering court jesters seem to be the only ones oblivious to the reality that she is already compromised and an unparalleled national security risk among all the other candidates for President (past or present).
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