08/31/18

Consumer Confidence At An 18 Year High… GDP At A 4 Year High…

By: Kent Engelke | Capitol Securities

Consumer confidence unexpectedly rose in August to the highest level since October 2000. Confidence was expected to decline from July’s level but instead surged, the result of jobs. The expectation’s gauge also climbed to a six-month high, also the opposite of the forecasted view.

Generally speaking, I regard sentiment surveys as a “backward-looking” indicator stating where we have been not where we are going. With this written, however, I forgot the last time I read a positive headline. Can I suggest there is a disconnect between reality and the media? Is all media just noise and job availability and rising home values trump everything?

Second quarter GDP was revised higher to 4.2%, the greatest growth in four years. The forward-looking indicators are suggesting momentum is continuing into the third quarter with consensus now suggesting growth over 4.5%. Wow!

Because of this growth, it appears inflationary pressures are accelerating over the Federal Reserve speed limit of 2.0%. All must remember the committee stated it would “tolerate” several quarters of inflation over the prescribed limit.

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08/31/18

WATCH: Trevor Loudon Exposes Security Risk Members of Congress #EnemiesWithin

By: Renee Nal | New Zeal

Watch Trevor’s explosive videos on Reps. Andre Carson and Rosa DeLauro.

Watch last week’s videos on Sen. Tim Kaine & Rep. Bobby Rush.

Rep. Keith Ellison and Rep. Ami Bera

This week Trevor Loudon exposes Rep. Keith Ellison, who is currently running for Minnesota Attorney General, an office that – being dominated by Democrats for fifty years – is already riddled with corruption. Trevor also exposes California Congressman Ami Bera, who has represented the 7th Congressional District since 2013.

SEE VIDEOS BELOW!

In 2016, New Zealand author and film-maker Trevor Loudon released his full-length documentary The Enemies Within, which exposed a shocking number of United States Senators and Congress members who pose a security risk to America. These elected officials were all tied to hostile foreign powers, anti-American Marxist groups or fronts for the pro-terrorist Muslim Brotherhood.

Trevor Loudon

Trevor has made a “short list” of 59 Congress members and 19 Senators who likely could not pass a basic security background check.

Unfortunately, there are no security checks for Congress members, so the United States is now suffering the consequences of highly untrustworthy people serving on sensitive Congressional Committees, including Armed Services, Homeland Security, and Intelligence.

These are the “Enemies Within.”

Trevor has made a series of 90-to-150 second mini-documentaries exposing these people. He is releasing them in batches every Thursday night on TrevorLoudon.com at 8 pm EST up until election day. Others may be released at appropriate times after the election.

Please embed these videos on your blog, tweet them to your followers, post them to Facebook, or personally email them to friends, relatives and colleagues. Every American voter needs to see these videos. If more Americans understand how badly they are being betrayed by their own elected representatives, they can help “drain the swamp” themselves, directly through the ballot box.

Enemies Within Number 5: California Congressman Ami Bera

Enemies Within Number 6: Rep. Keith Ellison, Candidate for Minnesota Attorney General

Please help Trevor continue his valuable research!




08/31/18

Regulation Is Not The Constitutional Solution To Censorship By Social Media Giants

By: Terresa Monroe-Hamilton

I had not intended to weigh in on this debate as I have been focusing more on geopolitical issues. But I saw a piece go by from Paula Bolyard over at the Washington Post and I just had to write on it. Paula is also the supervising editor at PJ Media. That is a media source I really respect and that I visit every single day. You should too. Recently, Paula wrote an article at PJ Media that President Trump quoted: “96 Percent of Google Search Results for ‘Trump’ News Are from Liberal Media Outlets.” After that, she found herself in a media maelstrom that I would not wish on anyone.

Trump’s tweet said this, “Google search results for ‘Trump News’ shows only the viewing/reporting of Fake News Media. In other words, they have it RIGGED, for me & others, so that almost all stories & news is BAD. Fake CNN is prominent. “Republican/Conservative & Fair Media is shut out. Illegal?’” Trump also added that “96% of results on ‘Trump News’ are from National Left-Wing Media, very dangerous. Google & others are suppressing voices of Conservatives and hiding information and news that is good.” He’s got a point and is right on this issue.

I’m probably not going to make anyone happy with this article, but this is how I see the situation. President Trump is upset that he is being censored by social media sites. So are most Americans. Many conservatives have been shadow banned, censored and fiscally destroyed by these tech giants. I have little to no sympathy for these tech outfits and I absolutely understand and agree with the way Trump feels. Except… when it comes to calling for regulation of social media sites. That is a very bad move constitutionally and it should give all Americans pause for thought on it. You can see Paula’s response to the call for regulating social media here. I absolutely agree with her and she is an impressive writer.

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08/30/18

The Kavanaugh Nomination is a Trojan Horse

By: Cliff Kincaid

As he was preparing to attend a White House dinner of evangelical leaders, Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council (FRC) sent out a fundraising message in support of President Trump’s nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court.  What Perkins didn’t reveal to FRC supporters is that Kavanaugh’s mentor on the court, Justice Anthony Kennedy, supported abortion-on-demand and same-sex marriage and that Kavanaugh has promised to uphold Court precedents.

While Trump has a good record of nominating conservative judges, there are growing doubts as to whether Kavanaugh will be a reliable conservative voice. Indeed, with the news that Kavanaugh’s backers include Bob Bennett, the lawyer who represented former President Bill Clinton during the Paula Jones sexual harassment case, we are seeing more indications that Kavanaugh is a Washington insider who has been rubbing elbows with the elites on both sides of the aisle. Kavanaugh was a prosecutor in the Independent Counsel investigation of President Clinton and participated in a cover-up of the murder of Clinton’s Deputy White House Counsel Vincent Foster. Kavanaugh concluded that Foster drove himself to Fort Marcy Park outside of Washington, D.C., and shot himself, even though his car was not at the park at the time and his fingerprints were not on the gun.

Since Kavanaugh participated in the ultimate Clinton cover-up, we have to conclude that much of the left-wing opposition to his nomination is for show, in the same way, that “professional” wrestlers stage their bouts. Bob Bennett’s support demonstrates that Kavanaugh is acceptable to the Swamp.

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08/28/18

Leftists Despicably Exploit McCain

By: Lloyd Marcus

Fake news media’s sudden overwhelming fondness for Republican Senator John McCain is insidiously evil and disgusting. Cold and calculating, the American Left exploits and spins every death and incident to further its mission to undermine Trump, the Constitution and traditional American principles and values.

The same Democrat hacks and leftist media operatives who are highly praising the late John McCain called McCain a racist basically for being white, Republican and running against Obama. As the GOP presidential nominee, McCain’s absurd strategy was to get into the presidential boxing ring with Obama and not lay a glove on him. McCain even instructed his team not to use Obama’s middle name, “Hussein.” Fake news media still mercilessly attacked McCain, even accusing him of “race-baiting.” https://lat.ms/2MQtfWu

These same leftist hypocrites are arrogantly attempting to dictate to Kelli Ward and President Trump how they should respond to Sen. McCain’s death.

I attended the final rally for Dr. Kelli Ward’s bus tour in Yuma, Arizona. Dr. Ward offered a moment of silence and a prayer for John McCain and his family. I guarantee Dr. Ward’s classy gesture will not be reported by fake news media.

As I stated, the American left shamefully only sees John McCain’s death as its latest bludgeon to beat up on conservatives, Republicans, and Trump.

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08/28/18

No support from supporters

By: Tabitha Korol | Renew America

Mark Blattner, CEO of the Jewish Federation of Greater Portland (JFC-GP), appears to have swallowed today’s deadly multiculturalism pill, a hallucinogenic that causes its victims to believe that mixing two disparate cultures can bring about an egalitarian Utopian society. Despite the many books written about the decline of civilizations under Islam, there are still too many misguided people on the left who, whether wittingly or not, act to bring Israel to destruction. We are already seeing evidence that while differences in race and religions can work very well, the invasion of a theocratic culture, such as Islam, can cause the demise of the host culture. This explains why there are so many Islamic tyrannical regimes in the east and why Sweden may be taking her last breath in the west.

In a world that often views Israelis and Jews as pariahs, there is only one bona fide homeland for the Jewish people who, after thousands of years of suffering on foreign soil, were finally able to reclaim their ancient homeland in 1948. They re-built and transformed the neglected desert and malarial swampland into a modern, thriving, innovative state, yet there are still some American Jews who seem to resent their brethren’s freedoms and accomplishment. These voices from the Diaspora claim to be “a strong supporter of Israel,” but the words ring empty as the ADL (Anti-Defamation League), the AJC (American Jewish Congress) and JFCGP persist in denying Israel’s right to their own complete independence, self-rule, dignity, language, flag, holidays, Jewish customs and laws, and Jewish culture, unapologetically and unbeholden to others, on this one piece of land that 22,145 km compared to the Arab world’s 12,061,226 km, with Israel’s population of 8,585,000 (in 2016) to the Arab world’s 330,000,000 (in 2007). No other country is asked to hyphenate its identity and destiny.

These “strong supporters” have not defined their support; it is an empty statement. While they try to appear altruistic, they are speaking out against the Nation-State Law that protects Israel’s interests and her continued existence. Contrary to the rhetoric, the Law does not affect the individual civil, political or human rights of Israel’s minority groups. They retain their rights to vote, to employment, housing, and transportation. It does, however, clearly reserve the collective right of national self-determination in the state to the Jewish people, the fundamental principle of Zionism. Ronald Lauder and the AJC abuse Israel’s nationalism, but it is precisely that concept of nationalism plus borders that are helping some countries (Hungary, Poland, Latvia and The Czech Republic) survive the Islamic onslaught being experienced by their less wise neighbors.

Where were the ADL, AJC, and Jewish Federations when Israel fought for her survival against Islam’s multiple wars, Intifada attacks and constant barrage of rockets since before her declaration of statehood? They were mute then and they remain mute now, through the current fire jihad that has destroyed more than 82,000 acres of forestry and agriculture, livestock, homes, livelihoods, irreplaceable personal belongings, and impaired the pulmonary and emotional health of the residents. The groups are silent when Palestinians destroy precious Hebrew artifacts beneath the Temple Mount, and absurdly absent when President Trump acknowledged and formally declared Jerusalem the Eternal Capital of Israel. We hear no voices against the anti-Semitic textbooks in American schools and they do not support President Trump’s attempt to keep Americans safe from violent Islamic migrants who cross our own borders. There is no doubt that the ADL, AJC, and regrettably others are Progressives, globalists, who desire one large chaotic world with one ruler at the top for which the masses will have neither voice nor vote.

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08/28/18

The flames of envy

By: Tabitha Korol | Renew America

The achievements of others can either inspire us to excel or foster envy that brings destruction. The choice is ours and the Islamic world has chosen the latter.

The so-called Palestinians have devised a new form of terrorism to wage against their highly achieving neighbors. Motivated by envy that springs from insecurity and bitterness, their youth are launching combustible kites and helium-filled balloons over the Gaza border that explode into an inferno in Israel. Today, a huge incendiary kite from Gaza landed on kibbutz power lines, causing loss of power for several hours. The raging fires reflect the Palestinians’ own rage that fills their illiterate, unproductive, empty lives.

During this fire jihad, they have thus far destroyed more than 82,000 acres of forest and agricultural land, with its produce and wheat fields devastated, avocado groves scorched, the bee industry and wildlife burned alive. The 7,000 acres of nature reserves, which also contains the 75-acre Karmiya Reserve, an animal and reptile habitat, are turned to cinders. The estimate of loss is in the billions of dollars. The Israelis are dealing with the loss of homes, their every possession, their livelihoods, while also suffering from respiratory illnesses from the fouled air and stench and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder from the constant barrage of rockets. Eighteen hundred acres of food are demolished. The desert and swampland that the Jewish pioneers of almost a century ago rescued and restored from Arab neglect are now in complete ruin.

Who are these despoilers and what motivates them?

Islamic jihadis are raised in a loveless household, forced marriages where the man may have four young wives with severely limited rights, bearing and treating their numerous offspring as objects, and eagerly declaring their willingness to martyr their children for the cause. From early childhood, Palestinians are taught to hate the miniscule landmass they covet for Allah and learn to detest the citizens for the happiness and innovations enjoyed in Israel. As youths, they are intentionally deprived of every creative outlet (music, dance, art), forbidden from socializing and celebrating birthdays, and commanded to pray five times a day, so that participation in riots can provide them with a welcomed, albeit perilous, excitement beyond the harsh restrictions of the culture. This upbringing prepares them for the malignant influence of Mahmoud Abbas, who keeps them distraught, agitated and provoked by announcing the next Days of Rage, rallies to explode into violence when their lives have little else to occupy them. These are the despoilers and these are their motives.

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08/28/18

An open letter to Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts

By: Tabitha Korol | Renew America

August 12, 2018

An Open Letter to Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts
139 Tremont Street
Boston, MA 02111

https://www.diomass.org/contact

Re: Gayle Elizabeth Harris, Bishop Suffragan

To the Honorable Members of the Episcopal Diocese

I have reviewed your website with dismay the most impressive service and accomplishments of Bishop Harris and witnessed a YouTube video of her egregious testimony at the Episcopal Church’s General Convention.

If this were an Islamic mosque, with their dictates that the members must speak taqiyyah (lie) so as to defame and overcome their perceived enemy, I would not be shocked, because I have read enough about Islam to know their purpose of the conquest of Jews and Christians throughout the world. We have seen the bodies, the numbers, the reports of an estimated 900 million people slaughtered since Mohammed’s first victory in Mecca and Medina in 624 AD.

But yours is a sect of Christianity, with an allegiance to the Ten Commandments and Golden Rule, an acceptance of democracy over tyranny, so how is it that an apparent member in good repute could stand in the docket and knowingly spew lies about an American ally, Israel? How is it that she had the temerity to testify against the honorable Israel Defense Forces in a country in which Christians live in security, participate in the vote, thrive in university and business, travel for enjoyable vacations? And are there more like her and are they taken to task for spreading hurtful propaganda? And what is her purpose? To spur people to take up arms against the Jews? To spill blood?

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08/28/18

Rep. Jim Jordan on Security Clearances: ‘Why’d they have it in the first place once they left government?’

By: Renee Nal | New Zeal

John Brennan lost his Security Clearance

Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan and hopefully next Speaker of the House made a statement that resonated on Security Clearances. Jordan asked simply: “Why’d they have it in the first place once they left government?” According to a new Harvard CAPS/Harris poll, Americans agree.

From The Hill:

“The majority of U.S. voters believe that former CIA Director John Brennan and former FBI Director James Comey should have their security clearances revoked, according to the Harvard CAPS/Harris poll released exclusively to The Hill.

The survey showed 59 percent of registered voters felt Brennan should have lost his security clearance, while 64 percent said Comey and others at the FBI who were fired or demoted over their actions should lose their clearance.

Overall, 60 percent of registered voters said they believed that former national security officials who become consultants and TV news contributors should give up their national security clearances.

“An overwhelming majority of the public thinks that former officials should lose their security clearance, and believe that former officials like Brennan and Coney should no longer have any clearance,” said Harvard CAPS/Harris Poll co-director Mark Penn.

“There would definitely be support for a wholesale policy revoking their clearances,” he added.”

Watch Rep. Jim Jordan on Fox Business:

Great minds…

And while we are on Security Clearances:


08/27/18

Go See Evan Sayet: September 2 Ventura Harbor Comedy Club

By: Trevor Loudon | New Zeal

If you want some belly laughs, go check out my buddy Evan Sayet at the Ventura Harbor Comedy Club, this Sunday, September 2.

Evan’s a reformed liberal turned sane person, so he knows how the left thinks. You don’t have to be political to enjoy Evan’s show but it does help. Evan has been a comedy professional for most of his life – SNL etc. He wrote President Trump’s speech for the Al Smith dinner where candidate Trump roasted Hillary Clinton.

Hillary bumps into Trump in a stairwell.

“Pardon me,” says Hillary.

“I might,” says Trump.

Wow, he’s lost some weight. About time too!