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The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Anti-Semitism Canard

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House Intelligence Committee counsel Daniel Goldman with committee chair Adam Schiff during the impeachment inquiry into Donald Trump's communications with Ukraine. ( Ha'aretz ) The so-called Jewish "leadership" has scuttled American Jews' future Recently my aunt, who is almost 70 years old, told us that the current climate is the most anti-Semitic that she's seen in the USA having lived here her entire life. But I had to struggle to keep myself from saying how surprised I was that it wasn't worse. And I'm not the only one as a friend, like myself also Jewish, has observed the House impeachment hearings and said to me "this is bad for the Jews" for weeks on end. He says this because a glaringly prominent selection of people, from the heads of the committees (Adam Schiff and Jerrold Nadler), to their majority counsels (Norm Eisen and Daniel Goldman), to the witnesses (Gordon Sondland, Alexander Vindman), to the experts (Pamela Karlan

Disenchanted voters or Trumportunists?

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Are defecting Trump voters featured in Super PAC ads truly indicative of a trend, or are the same convenient needles poking out of the haystack in the right place? In the course of his almost three years in office and previously during his presidential campaign, President Donald Trump has burned a lot of bridges, from former spokesman and New York biz pal Anthony Scaramucci to Defense Secretary James "Mad Dog" Mattis, to former Apprentice  contestant and black outreach coordinator Omarosa Manigault, the Donald hasn't been shy when it comes to dumping what he considers to be dead weight. Yet despite these high profile fall-outs it is virtually unthinkable that he could be ousted ahead of the 2020 election by a conservative challenger. While millions of Republican voters say publicly that they are not happy about supporting Trump the man, but are happy about his results, they usually acknowledge that there is no palatable alternative on the landscape.  But a Democr

The Independence manifesto: It's time to sunset foreign aid to Israel

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While none of them by their own can do it, the forces of the progressive left and paleoconservative right are gaining ground with the public in their battle to end US military aid to Israel. Supporters of the bilateral relationship should prepare for change rather than live in the past. For the past fifty years pro-Israel activists and organizations have sold their supporters on two goals being essential to Israeli security: a) ever larger loan guarantees to the Jewish state for military aid, and b) a solid bipartisan consensus in order to secure them. Accordingly, many of these organizations pour tremendous lobbying resources and public efforts in order to maintain a wall of support in Congress. As the 2000 electoral cycle heats up, the prospect that this is a sustainable way to maintain the US-Israel relationship is looking increasingly precarious. Whereas the critics of this arrangement allege that it is a direct quid-quo-pro relationship, in reality the lobbying organizations

The Ryan Dawson Refund Guide, Part 1.5

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Ryan Dawson attempts to get to the bottom of why the FBI sends footage to the CIA at the FBI Academy at Quantico. (From Da Ali G show, in case you're retarded like Ryan Dawson) Yesterday having let almost two months go by since our debate concerning the 9/11 "Dancing Israelis" saga, my opponent Ryan Dawson finally decided to address some of the inconsistencies that I had raised. Well, I guess he tried to do so after blaming a hangover and a "debate ambush" for his poor performance. For the record, the video thumbnail said the word "debate" on it, and I was drinking during  the stream. This small mini-addendum to Part 1 is in response to the video at left. It is odd that despite Dawson uploading mirrored copies of many other appearances on other YouTube channels, he has not uploaded our debate to either YouTube or BitChute. I have written two more parts that tear into other topics not yet revealed until a Part 2 happens. Dawson apparently th

Trump can't "lose" a Syria that he never had.

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The idea that the Kurds must be protected by the USA from Turkey is a geopolitical argument, NOT a moral one. No one wants to see needless bloodshed, but often these conflicts occur along practical pragmatic lines, NOT ideology or morality. According to many sources the Kurds are now set to be aided by the Assad government in Syria in a new regional conflict with Turkey. The neo-conservatives will label this as Trump "losing" the Kurds to Assad and Putin. But did we ever "have" them? The objective of the operation in Syria was the reversal and defeat of ISIS. That was mostly accomplished in 2017 and it's hard to know when if ever terror will be completely eradicated. On the other hand Syria as a nation has been allied with the Soviet Union and then Russia since at least the 1960s. The Soviet naval base in Tartus has been active since 1971. The US ambitions in the region are largely part of the broader movement to keep America closely involved in the Mid