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Title: The Patriot Post Digest 7-20-2017 Post by: nChrist on July 23, 2017, 05:09:37 PM ________________________________________ The Patriot Post Digest 7-20-2017 From The Federalist Patriot Free Email Subscription (http://patriotpost.us/subscription/new) ________________________________________ Mid-Day Digest Jul. 20, 2017 IN TODAY’S EDITION Leftists hail a cop-killing terrorist because they’re too invested in hate. Trump stops arming anti-Assad rebels. Leftmedia sees Russia collusion. Ecofascists needed an enemy, so they created one in the fossil fuel industry. Daily Features: Top Headlines, Cartoons, Columnists and Short Cuts. THE FOUNDATION “It is certainly true that a popular government cannot flourish without virtue in the people.” —Richard Henry Lee (1786) TOP RIGHT HOOKS Women’s March Celebrates a Terrorist Cop-Killer1 The Women’s March chose to honor a convicted murderer by tweeting out a birthday greeting Sunday celebrating the “revolutionary” Assata Shakur. Who is she? In 1977, Shakur, who was a member of the Black Liberation Army, was convicted of the execution-style murder of New Jersey State Trooper Werner Foerster. She was sentenced to life in prison but served only two years, as she escaped in 1979 and fled to Cuba2, where she remains today. She’s one of the FBI’s most wanted terrorists3. The Women’s March found itself receiving well-deserved criticism for its tweet honoring a terrorist cop-killer4. Rather than apologize, delete the tweet and fire the person responsible, the Women’s March doubled down in defending the tweet. One of 20 such tweets said, “#AssataShakur is a civil rights leader who used her leadership position to challenge sexism within the Black Liberation Movement.” Yet the Women’s March insisted it “is a nonviolent movement” that would “never use violence to achieve our goals.” It also tweeted, “#AssataShakur’s resistance tactics were different from ours. That does not mean that we do not respect her anti-sexism work.” So why honor a convicted cop-killer and terrorist? Because the movement works to publicly portray itself as a peaceful movement opposed to violence all while showing admiration for the violent struggle against those whom they oppose. The same goes for Black Lives Matter. In a sense, it’s a form of double speak. Declare oneself committed to peace while at the same time celebrating as heroes those leftist activists who engaged in violence to fight against the “oppressors.” Thus they can claim innocence regarding violent acts while inciting others to violence5 through their rhetoric. In this vein, leftists have been waging a war on cops6 in recent years because of alleged racism in law enforcement ranks. A black woman killing a cop is thus naturally somewhat of a hero to these purveyors of hate. The Left has a long list of these violent “revolutionaries” it venerates as heroes for the cause — cop-killer Mumia Abu-Jamal, Cuban mass murderer Che Guevara, and so on. It really comes as little surprise that these leftists would honor Shakur as a revolutionary hero. Communists have been doing that for decades. On a final note, the Women’s March is no more interested in protecting women’s rights than are communists interested in protecting democracy. Trump’s Ending CIA’s Rebel-Arming Program Is Not a Conspiracy7 The mainstream media’s obsession over anything and everything Russian is well passed reaching levels of pathology. It’s as if a story on Donald Trump can’t be reported without some reference implicating a nefarious relationship to Vladimir Putin. After hyperventilating that Trump had a not-so-secret “super-secret” meeting with Putin in a room full of people, the Leftmedia had to move on. That came in the form of this Washington Post headline on Wednesday: “Trump ends covert CIA program to arm anti-Assad rebels in Syria, a move sought by Moscow.” While the article admits that there has been a long-running debate over the value of the CIA’s covert rebel-arming program, the story insinuates that Trump’s motive for ending it is primarily due to the fact that the Russians don’t like it. A better and more logical take on Trump’s decision is a question over what the U.S.‘s primary objective is in Syria. For Trump, it’s becoming ever more clear that the first goal is defeating the Islamic State, not arming potential jihadis who oppose Bashar al-Assad. As for the Russia problem, it was Barack Obama who in 2013 jumped at Putin’s face-saving offer to take the lead in Syria by negotiating a non-military intervention with Assad after he crossed Obama’s “red line.” And the biggest problem in the region, the Islamic State, developed because of the vacuum Obama created8 in his retreat from Iraq. While the decision to stop arming Assad-opposed rebels is something Moscow wanted, it was also desired by Jordan, an important U.S. ally in the region. With the eventual goal being a lasting ceasefire in Syria, the reality is that the U.S. will have to make some deals with Russia one way or another. The challenge for Trump is to navigate the mess that Obama’s feckless leadership created. (And, by the way, the Leftmedia’s baseline assumption is that Obama could do no wrong.) The fact of the matter is Putin was involved in Syria well before Trump ever arrived on the scene. That only provides more opportunity for the MSM to spin every decision Trump makes as more “evidence” in support of their collusion delusion. Top Headlines9 Trump to GOP senators: Cancel your recess and finish health care reform. (The Hill10) Federal health spending will be double that of defense spending in FY19. (CNS News11) Pentagon set to send more U.S. troops to Afghanistan. (The Washington Times12) Trump kills 16 regulations for every new one, crushing 2-for-1 goal. (Washington Examiner13) ICE chief: 80% jump in illegal targets, readies national “sanctuary” crackdown. (Washington Examiner14) Trump to nominate Mark Esper as Army secretary following the outrageous treatment15 of Dr. Mark Green. (Washington Examiner16) Sen. Charles Grassley postpones anti-Donald Trump dossier hearing. (The Washington Times17) USPS broke law in allowing federal employees to campaign for Clinton. (Fox News18.) Louisiana Democrats purge Thomas Jefferson, the man who acquired Louisiana. (The Daily Signal19) Ben Carson: HUD will “reinterpret” Obama housing discrimination rule. (Washington Examiner20) Senator John McCain diagnosed with aggressive brain cancer. (CBS News21) Policy: 2017 Index of Culture and Opportunity. (Heritage Foundation22) Policy: There’s no brain science to college free speech. (Bloomberg view23) For more, visit Patriot Headline Report24. Don’t Miss Alexander’s Column Read Trump/Putin Collusion: What Did They Know and When Did They Know It?25. Countering the most perilous domestic threat to American Liberty: collusion between Democrats and their mainstream media partisans. If you’d like to receive Alexander’s Column by email, update your subscription here26. FEATURED RIGHT ANALYSIS Ecofascists Needed an Enemy, So They Chose Fossil Fuels27 By Caroline Camden Lewis What began as a single campaign on a college campus in 2010 has grown into a worldwide movement. It does not simply focus upon climate change or green living, but rather de-funding the fossil fuel industry. They call it divestment. Fossil fuel divestment, the opposite of investment, means the selling of fossil fuel stocks. Recalling the successful 1980s divestment campaign against Apartheid, fossil fuel divestment advocates hope to create both financial and social pressure to ruin the fossil fuel industry, thus preserving the planet. Whether it’s college students protesting for the divestment of the school’s endowment or citizens marching for the divestment of the state’s pension, the movement has become a popular way for people to feel like they’re fighting to save the earth from both the disaster of climate change and the evil of corporations. Title: The Patriot Post Digest 7-20-2017 Post by: nChrist on July 23, 2017, 05:10:45 PM ________________________________________ The Patriot Post Digest 7-20-2017 From The Federalist Patriot Free Email Subscription (http://patriotpost.us/subscription/new) ________________________________________ Bill McKibben, one of the leading advocates of the divestment movement, co-founded 350.org, a global climate change advocacy group that has held 20,000 rallies in every country in the world except North Korea (wonder why). In 2012, he wrote28 in Rolling Stone, “A rapid, transformative change would require building a movement, and movements require enemies. … And enemies are what climate change has lacked.” That’s right — in order to transform the climate change debate into a movement, McKibben and his fellow ecofascists needed an enemy. So he started the divestment movement that casts the fossil fuel industry and those who invest in its companies as the morally sinister destroyers of the environment. McKibben’s admission of creating an enemy to bolster his campaign should delegitimize the moral claims of the movement. But it hasn’t. GoFossilFree.org, one of the leading voices in fossil fuel divestment, speaks of the supposed moral motivations for its cause: Fossil fuel divestment takes the fossil fuel industry to task for its culpability in the climate crisis. By naming this industry’s singularly destructive influence — and by highlighting the moral dimensions of climate change — we hope that the fossil fuel divestment movement can help break the hold that the fossil fuel industry has on our economy and our governments. Go Fossil Free holds the fossil fuel industry responsible for destroying the planet and morally injuring its inhabitants. While McKibben created an enemy, Go Fossil Free has made the fight against that enemy a “moral” one, citing floods and natural disasters allegedly caused by climate change. However, one study29 notes that deaths related to climate (flood, drought, storms, extreme heat or cold) have dropped 98% since 1920. The energy industry has facilitated this decline through building better homes, heating, air conditioning, proper irrigation and disaster warning systems. That sort of steals the, er, thunder of the ecofascists’ hyperbolic claims. Another fallacy upon which the divestment movement relies is that fossil fuels have created extreme amounts of pollution. Yet according to Forbes30, air pollution in the U.S. has declined 72% since 1970 despite a 47% total increase in energy use. In addition, developed countries that use fossil fuels have cleaner environments than underdeveloped countries where dumping waste in rivers and streams prevents access to clean water. In fact, one of the key differences between third world and first world countries depends upon access to reliable energy. Alex Epstein, founder of the Center for Industrial Progress31 and author of the New York Times bestseller “The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels,” notes that there are seven billion people on the planet who need access to inexpensive, reliable energy in order to flourish. Yet three billion people have virtually no energy. For much of the world, lack of energy, not use of energy, has been the greatest barrier to growth and productivity. While the divestment movement has succeeded in creating both an enemy and a moral cause based upon fear and guilt, the evidence points to the reality that energy has helped hedge against climate-related disasters and provided food and health care to aid human life. Divesters fail to grasp how energy powers every modern convenience from a warm shower (natural gas), to adequate hospital care (electricity), to food (diesel-powered farm equipment), and they offer few, if any, real solutions to our planet’s energy needs. Perhaps they should invest in our future instead of trying to undermine it. MORE ANALYSIS FROM THE PATRIOT POST Defeating Progressive Ideology32 — Nothing facilitates forced subservience to the Left’s noxious way of thinking more than political correctness. Afghan Who Fought With U.S. Forces Finds Home in America33 — After five years of pressing the government, U.S. soldiers were able to welcome their buddy to his new home. BEST OF RIGHT OPINION Victor Davis Hanson: Putin’s Playthings34 Cal Thomas: Porking Out With Your Money35 George Will: Air Force Has Dug Into the Equivalent of Trench Warfare36 For more, visit Right Opinion37. OPINION IN BRIEF Victor Davis Hanson: “Putin’s Russia is in bad shape. It is economically weak and eager to do anything possible to hurt the U.S. — largely by using a fake-news disinformation campaign, spreading Kremlin cash, and playing a gullible and often unprofessional U.S. media eager to find a scandalous Russian under every American bed. So far the Russian disinformation program has worked brilliantly. What foreign government could possibly entangle in truth, lies, half-truths, rumors and scandals the Trump family, Bill and Hillary Clinton, John Brennan, James Comey, John McCain, John Podesta, Samantha Power, Susan Rice and a host of other Beltway grandees? Who could prompt enough investigations and inquiries to overwhelm and distract the entire U.S. government at a time when North Korea is aiming missiles at U.S. territory, Iran is pressing ahead to develop a nuclear weapon, Syria is a genocidal mess, and immigrants from the war-torn Middle East are sweeping across Europe? Putin is now America’s puppet master — and we are his empty-headed playthings dangling from his Kremlin strings.” SHORT CUTS For the record: “A recent Bloomberg poll asked Americans to rank the most important issues facing the country. … Only six percent of Americans said Russia was the most important issue facing the country today. Now let’s compare this to the results of a recent survey by our friends at the Media Research Center. … The left-wing media’s most important issue [Russia] ranked 6th among the public. The second most important issue to the media [climate change] tied for fourth place among the people. But the people’s number one issue — health care — ranked fourth in the media’s coverage. It’s no wonder Americans are increasingly losing faith in biased big media.” —Gary Bauer Still hasn’t learned to stop digging: “There have been numerous times when Trump should have been convicted of a crime. If Robert Mueller does the investigation that I think he’s going to do, I think he will connect the dots. I think that they’re going to find not only conflict of interest but also obstruction of justice. I think he’s in for new possibilities of either being charged criminally or, as I think, impeached.” —Maxine Waters Braying Jenny: “[The Republican budget] requires more military might. It takes us down the wrong path. We take an oath to protect and defend. … But that’s not the point of this. This is supposed to be a budget that prevents the spread of violence. Instead they have a budget that stirs it up.” —Nancy Pelosi Alpha Jackass: “Climate change deniers, by way of example, are older. It’s generational. So we’re just going to have to wait for those people to ‘age out,’ as they say. ‘Age out’ is a euphemism for ‘die.’” —Bill Nye the “Old Guy” Democrats leave no choice: “President Trump’s promise to let our health care system collapse is so, so wrong on three counts. It’s a failure morally, it’s a failure politically, and it’s a remarkable failure of presidential leadership.” —Chuck Schumer And last… “Success has a thousand fathers, the saying goes, while failure is an orphan. If so, lots of people in Washington, DC, want to conduct paternity tests over the stunning failure of Republicans to pass a repeal of ObamaCare in some form.” —Ed Morrissey Semper Vigilans Fortis Paratus et Fidelis Managing Editor Nate Jackson Join us in daily prayer for our Patriots in uniform — Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, Marines and Coast Guardsmen — standing in harm’s way in defense of Liberty, and for their families. |