Category: "Politics"
November 21st, 2016
"Deceitful Liars": Trump Excoriates Big Media Elites at Mainstream Media Summit Shockfest "I Hate Your Network"
Published on November 21st, 2016 @ 06:42:00 pm , using 424 words,
After 8 long years of Obama’s constant If not insistently direct broadside attacks on what was once the fledgling new conservative media,including outlets such as Fox News, Breitbart, and Rush Limbaugh just to name a few, the shoes now on the other foot.
The Donald Trump team held a closed-door summit with about 40 mainstream media big shots and reporters which actually stunned Obama’s paid stenographers into shock, after Trump went on a well-deserved tirade excoriating media attendees as being nothing more than a room full of deceitful liars….it would seem that the Left-wing’s Big Media is now completely discombobulated over the realization that they are no longer directly plugged into the power outlet that is the US presidency….now, isn’t that special?….
~ Refocus Notes
New York Post
By Emily Smith and Daniel Halper
Donald Trump scolded media big shots during an off-the-record Trump Tower sitdown on Monday, sources told The Post.
“It was like a f–ing firing squad,” one source said of the encounter.
“Trump started with [CNN chief] Jeff Zucker and said ‘I hate your network, everyone at CNN is a liar and you should be ashamed,’ ” the source said.
“The meeting was a total disaster. The TV execs and anchors went in there thinking they would be discussing the access they would get to the Trump administration, but instead they got a Trump-style dressing down,” the source added.
A second source confirmed the fireworks.
“The meeting took place in a big board room and there were about 30 or 40 people, including the big news anchors from all the networks,” the other source said.
“Trump kept saying, ‘We’re in a room of liars, the deceitful dishonest media who got it all wrong.’ He addressed everyone in the room calling the media dishonest, deceitful liars. He called out Jeff Zucker by name and said everyone at CNN was a liar, and CNN was [a] network of liars,” the source said.
“Trump didn’t say [NBC reporter] Katy Tur by name, but talked about an NBC female correspondent who got it wrong, then he referred to a horrible network correspondent who cried when Hillary lost who hosted a debate – which was Martha Raddatz who was also in the room.”
The stunned reporters tried to get a word in edgewise to discuss access to a Trump Administration.
“[CBS Good Morning co-host Gayle] King did not stand up, but asked some question, ‘How do you propose we the media work with you?’ Chuck Todd asked some pretty pointed questions. David Muir asked ‘How are you going to cope living in DC while your family is in NYC? It was a horrible meeting.”
Trump spokeswoman Kellyanne Conway told reporters the gathering went well.
November 20th, 2016
Obama in Peru Gives Soft-Attack Advice to US & Trump In Criticizing "Sharp Edges of Capitalism" and Promoting "World Order" (Youtube)
Published on November 20th, 2016 @ 11:54:00 pm , using 680 words,
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CRN Politics
By Barry Secrest
Obama, in Peru, has continued his international riff of soft-slamming America, while continuing his ongoing veiled slams of President-elect Trump, by insisting that America is “an indispensable nation in our world order.”
Trump has repeatedly railed at the new age cult-like religion of globalism that has gone a long way in de-industrializing America, in favor of empowering worldwide authoritarian systems such as China & now, the EU.
China, by the way, has continuously slammed Democratic countries as poor models for governing populations.
Obama, further, seemed to be omitting the fact that much of his term has been spent engineering a managed decline of America in order to get the nation out of the way of what globalists refer to as “The New World Order” which seeks to marginalize first world nations, on the premise of redistributing both wealth and authority to 2nd and 3rd world nations.
Obama even took a cut at capitalism, as he has often done, by alluding to its “sharp edges", as if other economic systems, such as communism or socialism, might make a better fit.
However, it has long been a known fact among historians, economic experts, and even political scientists that economic systems other than those promoting free market capitalism, sooner rather than later, run out of other people’s money.
In Peru, Obama stated:
“In terms of reflecting on the United States presidency as I have been traveling, I think the main reflection I have and the main advice that I give to the incoming president is, the United States really is an indispensable nation in our world order.
I say that as somebody who has gone out of his way to express respect for every country and its people and to consistently acknowledge that many of the challenges we face are not challenges that America can solve on our own.
But what I also know that the basic framework of the world order coming out of World War II and then on thru the end of the Cold War, was shaped by a set of ideals and principles that have worked for the vast majority of people not just in America but around the world.
The notion of democracy. And rule of law. And a free press. And independent judiciary. And open markets. And a social welfare state to moderate some of the sharp edges of capitalism.
And, you know, lifting up issues of human rights and investing in public health and development not just in our own borders but elsewhere in the world. And working with multilateral institutions, like the United Nations, making sure we’re upholding international norms and rules.
That’s what has made the modern world.
And there have been times when we have not observed some of the norms as well as we should and have been accused of hypocrisy here in Latin America.
There have been times when countries have felt disrespected and on occasion have had cause for that.
And there were teams when we haven’t observed the values in our own country and have fallen short of our ideals, but that basic structure is the reason why the world is much wealthier, much more secure, and yes, less violent, healthier, and better educated, more tolerant than 50 years ago. That requires constant work. It doesn’t just happen on its own.”
The modern world, in fact, was built upon capitalism, however, by slow evolution over time, virtually every single democratic nation has been moved into the killing field of mixed-market socialism and Keynesian economic models which have fomented a staggering amount of debt to be laid upon the planet.
In essence, as a true free market capitalist and businessman extraordinaire, President-Elect Trump is now seeking a return to the paradigm of limited government and less regulation that is even now firing America’s economy into growth & its requisite prosperity not seen since the days of Reagan.
Indeed, the only true economic system that promotes true prosperity is the original system that built America into the economic powerhouse that the world has come to know, copy, and then progressively forget, over the past 240 years.
November 19th, 2016
UK Global Warming Hoax Elites Now Targeting the Poor in Seeking Super-High Planetary Carbon Tax on Protein-Rich Foods
Published on November 19th, 2016 @ 06:01:00 pm , using 456 words,
Guest essay by Eric Worrall
A group of researchers in Oxford University, England have suggested that imposing a massive tax on carbon-intensive foods – specifically protein-rich foods like meat and dairy – could help combat climate change.
Pricing food according to its climate impacts could save half a million lives and one billion tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions
Taxing greenhouse gas emissions from food production could save more emissions than are currently generated by global aviation, and lead to half a million fewer deaths from chronic diseases, according to a new study published in Nature Climate Change.
The study, conducted by a team of researchers from the Oxford Martin Programme on the Future of Food at the University of Oxford and the International Food Policy Research Institute in Washington DC, is the first global analysis to estimate the impacts that levying emissions prices on food could have on greenhouse gas emissions and human health.
The findings show that about one billion tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions could be avoided in the year 2020 if emissions pricing of foods were to be implemented, more than the total current emissions from global aviation. However, the authors stress that due consideration would need to be given to ensuring such policies did not impact negatively on low income populations.
“Emissions pricing of foods would generate a much needed contribution of the food system to reducing the impacts of global climate change,” said Dr Marco Springmann of the Oxford Martin Programme on the Future of Food, who led the study. “We hope that’s something policymakers gathering this week at the Marrakech climate conference will take note of.”
Much of the emissions reduction would stem from higher prices and lower consumption of animal products, as their emissions are particularly high. The researchers found that beef would have to be 40% more expensive globally to pay for the climate damage caused by its production. The price of milk and other meats would need to increase by up to 20%, and the price of vegetable oils would also increase significantly. The researchers estimate that such price increases would result in around 10% lower consumption of food items that are high in emissions. “If you’d have to pay 40% more for your steak, you might choose to have it once a week instead of twice,” said Dr Springmann.
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The results indicate that the emissions pricing of foods could, if appropriately designed, be a health-promoting climate-change mitigation policy in high-income, middle-income, and most low-income countries. Special policy attention would be needed in those low-income countries where a high fraction of the population is underweight, and possibly for low-income segments within countries.
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Read more: http://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/news/2016_11_Emissions
However, this proposal, from a group of people who have probably never missed a meal in their lives, needlessly exacerbates nutrition risks to the poor, who often don’t get enough to eat, especially children and pregnant mothers…..
November 19th, 2016
Trump's NSA Appointment of Lt. Gen. Mike Flynn Fired by Obama For Calling America's Worst Enemies "Radical Jihadists"
Published on November 19th, 2016 @ 05:02:00 pm , using 1300 words,
In our view, Trump’s appointment of Flynn is nothing if not a telegraphed punch aimed directly at Obama, his supporters, his sycophantic media, Islamic supremacists, and even the globalist actors draconianly trying to reign over the EU, with their ongoing autocratic styles.
When top military officials issued dire warnings concerning the substantial risks to the US associated with the ISIS terrorist group, as reported by Reuters:
“General Martin Dempsey, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, stated officials were worried about the possibility that European or U.S. nationals, radicalized after fighting in Iraq or Syria, would return to their home countries.”
Dempsey further indicated that the Islamic State would remain a danger until it could no longer count on safe havens in areas of Syria under militant control.
“This is an organization that has an apocalyptic, end-of- days strategic vision and which will eventually have to be defeated,” Dempsey said.
Hagel even went on to state the terrorist organization was “beyond anything we’ve seen.”
After these warnings, which shocked many within the US, a large number of Americans anxiously awaited Obama’s response and his plan of action in protecting US citizens.
Only a few days later, after apparently being taken behind the woodshed for Dempsey’s alarming remarks, the top US General completely walked back his ominous warning.
In fact, a now globalist-sounding Dempsey executed an almost complete 180, as was reported by USA Today:
“Airstrikes on Islamic militants in Iraq have blunted their momentum, but defeating them will require a broad regional approach that draws support from Iraq’s neighbors and includes political and diplomatic efforts,” the top U.S. military officer said.
“The long-term strategy for defeating the militants includes having the United States and its allies reach out to Iraq’s neighbors, including Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Turkey, Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said Sunday.
“This is not just about us,” Dempsey said.
Later, after almost one full week, and upon returning from vacation, Obama, in an address to the Nation, issued tepid remarks only concerning ISIS and even admitted that there was no US strategy.
“We don’t have a strategy yet" ~President Barack Obama on 8/28/14
The overall exchange and the 180-degree correction by the General would seem to speak to the fact that Obama had no real nor actual intent to try and directly stop ISIS for reasons seemingly unknown.
During that same time period, in fact, was also when Lt. General Michael Flynn was fired from his top military posting in the war on terror, for essentially failing Obama’s Islamic litmus test.
Since that time the general has spomen out on only the surface reasons behind why he was fired, and those reasons dovetail perfectly with Flynn’s alarmingly ominous treatment of ISIS and Islamic Jihad, a thing that Obama both bristles and rails against, to this very day…..and for a certainty, one of the primary reasons Trump appointed the general as his NSA……
“Retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn has now been named as Trump’s appointment for the position of National Security Advisor. The following account tells the real story of his departure from his post and why America must change its war footing in order to defeat the now globalized fight of the anti-Christ forces of Islam and their self-stated goal of world domination….from the NY Post comes the story as recounted by none other than Michael Flynn, himself….
Two years ago, I was called into a meeting with the undersecretary of defense for intelligence and the director of national intelligence, and after some “niceties,” I was told by the USDI that I was being let go from DIA. It was definitely an uncomfortable moment (I suspect more for them than me).
I asked the DNI (Gen. James Clapper) if my leadership of the agency was in question and he said it was not; had it been, he said, they would have relieved me on the spot.
I knew then it had more to do with the stand I took on radical Islamism and the expansion of al-Qaeda and its associated movements.
I felt the intel system was way too politicized, especially in the Defense Department. After being fired, I left the meeting thinking, “Here we are in the middle of a war, I had a significant amount of combat experience (nearly five years) against this determined enemy on the battlefield and served at senior levels, and here it was, the bureaucracy was letting me go.”
Amazing.
At the time, I was working very hard to change the culture of DIA from one overly focused on Washington, DC, to a culture that focused on our forward-based warfighters and commanders. It was not an easy shift, but it was necessary and exactly the reason I was put into the job in the first place.
We’re in a global war, facing an enemy alliance that runs from Pyongyang, North Korea, to Havana, Cuba, and Caracas, Venezuela. Along the way, the alliance picks up radical Muslim countries and organizations such as Iran, al Qaeda, the Taliban and Islamic State.
That’s a formidable coalition, and nobody should be shocked to discover that we are losing the war.
Just as the Muslim world has failed, so the secular tyrants have wrecked their own countries. They hate us in part because they know their own peoples would prefer to live as we do. They hope to destroy us before they have to face the consequences of their many failures.
It infuriates me when our president bans criticism of our enemies, and I am certain that we cannot win this war unless we are free to call our enemies by their proper names: radical jihadis, failed tyrants, and so forth.”
