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The Red Thread: A Search for Ideological Drivers Inside the Anti-Trump Conspiracy by Diana West

By on March 7th, 2019

The first investigation into why a ring of senior Washington officials went rogue to derail the election and the presidency of Donald Trump.

There was nothing normal about the 2016 presidential election, not when senior U.S. officials were turning the surveillance powers of the federal government — designed to stop terrorist attacks — against the Republican presidential team. These were the ruthless tactics of a Soviet-style police state, not a democratic republic.

The Red Thread asks the simple question: Why? What is it that motivated these anti-Trump conspirators from inside and around the Obama administration and Clinton networks to depart so drastically from “politics as usual” to participate in a seditious effort to overturn an election?

Finding clues in an array of sources, Diana West uses her trademark investigative skills, honed in her dazzling work, American Betrayal, to construct a fascinating series of ideological profiles of well-known but little understood anti-Trump actors, from James Comey to Christopher Steele to Nellie Ohr, and the rest of the Fusion GPS team; from John Brennan to the numerous Clintonistas still patrolling the Washington Swamp after all these years, and more.

Once, we knew these officials by august titles and reputation; after The Red Thread, readers will recognize their multi-generational and inter-connecting communist and socialist pedigrees, and see them for what they really are: foot-soldiers of the Left, deployed to take down America’s first “America First” and most anti-Communist president.

If we just give it a pull, the “red thread” is very long and very deep.

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San Bernardino County Says No to Big Renewables By Robert Bryce

By on March 7th, 2019

https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/03/renewable-energy-land-use-san-bernardino-county/

The biggest county in America doesn’t want big solar or wind projects.

It may be the largest county in America by land area, but San Bernardino County, Calif., has decided it doesn’t have enough room for big wind or big solar projects. On February 28, the county’s board of supervisors approved a measure that bans large renewable-energy projects on more than 1 million acres of private land.

The move provides yet another example of how the energy sprawl that inevitably comes with large-scale renewable-energy deployment is colliding with the interests of rural landowners and local governments that don’t want “green” projects in their neighborhoods. Of course, there’s no small irony that that collision is happening in California, which passed a law last year that requires utilities to be getting 60 percent of their electricity from renewables by 2030.

As Los Angeles Times reporter Sammy Roth drily noted, achieving those renewable-energy goals “will require cooperation from local governments — and big solar and wind farms, like many infrastructure projects, are often unpopular at the local level.” All across the country rural landowners and governments have been rejecting or restricting renewable projects, and they’re doing so at the very same time that left-leaning politicians and some of the country’s biggest environmental groups are claiming that the U.S. must quit using hydrocarbons and nuclear energy, and instead rely solely on renewable energy for our electricity.

In January, some 600 environmental groups, including 350.org, Food & Water Watch, Friends of the Earth, and the Environmental Working Group, submitted a letter to the U.S. House of Representatives, which said that the U.S. must shift to “100 percent renewable power generation by 2035 or earlier.” It continued, saying any “definition of renewable energy must . . . exclude all combustion-based power generation, nuclear, biomass energy, large-scale hydro, and waste-to-energy technologies.” For good measure, it said this new hypothetical electric grid must have the “ability to incorporate battery storage and distributed energy systems that are democratically governed.”

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The Democratic Crackup Pelosi and her chaotic caucus manage to overshadow Trump—a dubious achievement. By Kimberley A. Strassel

By on March 7th, 2019

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-democratic-crackup-11552003045

Americans love a good political brawl, and that’s terrible news for Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Her Democratic Party has commenced a full throw-down—with itself.

Few things have benefited Democrats more in the past few years than the Donald Trump show. The president likes to be the center of attention, and the media likes nothing more than to oblige him. This dynamic helped make the 2018 election a referendum on the man himself rather than his policies, and that made Mrs. Pelosi speaker of the House.

Democrats envisioned the same dynamic helping them win the White House in 2020. Mrs. Pelosi has been to that rodeo before, after the 2006 election, when she was first elected speaker. She mobilized her committee chairmen to launch focused investigations to keep the spotlight on George W. Bush’s Iraq war, energy policy, detainee treatment, etc. She corralled a diverse caucus to pass a modest agenda, “Six in ’06,” that showed Democrats could get things done but didn’t put them in the limelight, much less make them look crazy. This paved the way to the election of Barack Obama in 2008, and Democrats figured Mr. Trump would make a repeat even easier.

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Barack Obama Is Still Trying To Rewrite His Presidential Legacy By Matt Margolis

By on March 7th, 2019

https://pjmedia.com/trending/barack-obama-is-still-trying-to-rewrite-his-presidential-legacy/

He continues to lie about what happened during his two terms.

Have you been following Obama’s post-presidency career as a comedian? Well, I have. His most commonly used bit was the claim that he didn’t have any scandals during his presidency. Though his usual audience tends not to laugh but to cheer at this claim, it is easily debunked by anyone who paid attention during that time.

It appears that Obama is now testing out some new material. In addition to his “I didn’t have any scandals” bit, he’s now working in a couple new ones:

Former President Barack Obama says he tried to build a culture centered around problem-solving and not personal gain while in the White House.

He said on Wednesday it was an effective strategy for any organization that also prevents “big scandals and indictments.”

Obama’s comments drew applause from a crowd of about 9,000 people at a business conference in Salt Lake City.

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Erielle Davidson: Labour Party’s Response To Anti-Semitism Accusations Appears To Confirm Them A recording leaked from a recent Labour Party meeting reveals the depth of the party’s depravity, and the challenges it will likely face as it attempts to correct course.

By on March 7th, 2019

http://thefederalist.com/2019/03/07/labour-partys-response-anti-semitism-accusations-appears-confirm/

As reported here, almost a dozen people have recently left the United Kingdom’s Labour Party over what they have labeled its “culture of anti-Semitism.”

The Labour Party’s latest attempts at quelling accusations of anti-Semitism have done little to put the allegations to rest. If anything, Labour Party’s response this past week to the party’s recent exodus of members of Parliament (MPs), as well as leaked material from the past year, suggest the party’s leadership has little genuine desire to address the issue and that, more darkly, the accusations are likely true. Neither situation bodes well for the party.

A recording leaked from a recent grassroots meeting reveals the depth of the party’s depravity, and the challenges it will likely face as it attempts to correct course. In response to the defections, Chris Williamson, an MP for Derby North, delivered a speech where he celebrated the defection of MP Joan Ryan, who left the Labour Party due to the party’s growing anti-Semitism problem. In explaining her departure, Ryan had reiterated, “The Labour Party under Jeremy Corbyn has become infected with the scourge of anti-Jewish racism. The problem simply did not exist in the party before his election as leader.”

But what sparked even greater ire were Williamson’s comments regarding the party’s anti-Semitism problem, about which he felt the party had been “too apologetic”: “I have got to say I think our party’s response has been partly responsible for that because in my opinion… we have backed off on too much, we have given too much ground, we have been too apologetic.” Williamson also claimed that anti-Semitism was being “weaponized,” decrying that it was “like 1984.”

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ONE ALMOST UP (BIDEN) TWO DOWN (SHERROD BROWN AND BLOOMBERG)

By on March 7th, 2019

Sherrod Brown: “I will not run for president in 2020”https://www.cleveland.com/politics/2019/03/sherrod-brown-i-will-not-run-for-president-in-2020.htmlJoe Biden’s 2020 Plan is Almost Complete. Democrats Are Impatient.https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/07/us/politics/biden-2020.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage

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Pelosi Says House Will Condemn All Hate as Anti-Semitism Debate Overshadows Congress By Sheryl Gay Stolberg

By on March 7th, 2019

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/07/us/politics/ilhan-omar-anti-semitism-vote.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage

Democratic leaders are planning to put a far-reaching resolution condemning anti-Semitism and bigotry on the House floor for a vote on Thursday, hoping to put to rest the internal uproar that erupted after Representative Ilhan Omar insinuated that backers of Israel exhibit dual loyalty.

“I see everything as an opportunity,” Speaker Nancy Pelosi told reporters Thursday morning. “This is an opportunity once again to declare as strongly as possible opposition to anti-Semitism, anti-Muslim statements,” and “white supremacist attitudes.”

The resolution, released hours after Ms. Pelosi spoke, states that “whether from the political right, center, or left, bigotry, discrimination, oppression, racism, and imputations of dual loyalty threaten American democracy and have no place in American political discourse.” It also evokes white supremacist attacks in Charlottesville, Va., Charleston, S.C., and Pittsburgh as well as numerous attacks on Muslims and mosques.

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Democrats’ Troubling Silence on Omar’s Anti-Semitism By Charles Lipson –

By on March 7th, 2019

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/03/07/democrats_troubling_silence_on_omars_anti-semitism_139677.html

When a member of Congress makes bigoted comments, political leaders have a moral duty to condemn them. A special obligation falls on those who lead the member’s party. They should speak out in blunt, clear language and say why the comments are unacceptable. They need to “name and shame,” and demand a forthright apology. No mealy-mouth press release saying “if anyone is offended …” If the violation is egregious or repeated, the punishment should be commensurate.

House Democrats now face that test after Rep. Ilhan Omar’s repeated slurs against Jews. So far, they have failed.

Omar represents a Minnesota district heavily populated by fellow Somali immigrants. It has been characterized by illiberal politics and political representatives who defend it. Omar’s predecessor in Congress was Keith Ellison, whose close ties to Louis Farrakhan raised similar questions of anti-Semitism. He, too, escaped condemnation from his party, probably because he made few statements as raw and offensive as Omar’s, and partly because he claimed to have severed ties to Farrakhan.

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Dr. Happer will set them free By David Archibald

By on March 7th, 2019

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/03/dr_happer_will_set_them_free.html

President Trump has finally appointed someone to cure the U.S.’s disease of global warming hysteria

It was easy enough to predict that Trump would appoint Dr. William Happer to set up a Presidential Committee on Climate Science.

Two years have passed and have been lost. The first years of the Trump administration were hobbled by poor Cabinet picks, a proportion of whom conspired against him and others who were just hopeless. Scott Pruitt at the EPA should have got on with Dr Happer’s appointment straight away but instead spent $3.5 million on his own security detail. In the meantime, the climate juggernaut rolled on, producing 1,500 pages of alarmist nonsense in an official government report.

You can tell how important Dr Happer is by the forces that have been marshaled against him. The three major lefty media organizations — CNN, the Washington Post, and the New York Times — all came out to say Dr. Happer’s efforts would be wasted. The Democrats are alarmed, calling Dr Happer’s proposed panel “dangerous.”

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Senator Elizabeth Warren Accuses Jews of “Chilling” Public Discourse With False Accusations of Anti-Semitism Daniel Greenfield

By on March 7th, 2019

https://www.frontpagemag.com/point/273081/senator-elizabeth-warren-accuses-jews-chilling-daniel-greenfield

Senator Elizabeth Warren has identified her base. Bigots. And she’s pandering to them.

“In a democracy, we can and should have an open, respectful debate about the Middle East that focuses on policy. Branding criticism of Israel as automatically anti-Semitic has a chilling effect on our public discourse and makes it harder to achieve a peaceful solution between Israelis and Palestinians,” Warren claimed. “Threats of violence — like those made against Rep. Omar — are never acceptable.”

Mondoweiss or the 2020 Dem field, is there even a difference anymore?

After an initial condemnation of “anti-Semitism and Islamophobia”, Senator Warren gets down to aggressively defending Rep. Omar, picking up the anti-Israel lobby’s claim that Jews falsely accuse them of anti-Semitism to chill public discourse, and somehow linking that with threats of violence against Rep. Omar.

To recap, Rep. Omar is the victim. Jews have falsely accused her of anti-Semitism and are implicitly linked to threats against her.

So far we’ve got three of the top 2020 Dem candidates competing with each other to defend Rep. Omar and accuse Jews of attacking her. I’m sure they won’t be the last.

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