11/30/15, "Daniel Scavino Jr.
@DanScavino
2 hours ago Watching @BretBaier discuss polls on the way to Georgia." Daniel Scavino twitter
Monday, November 30, 2015
Trump takes the stage at Macon Coliseum, Macon, Georgia, Nov. 30, 2015
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11/30/15, "Joe Kovac Jr. @joekovacjr
48 minutes ago. @realDonaldTrump takes stage in Macon Coliseum. Senior reporter for the Macon Telegraph
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25% of all US ISIS recruitment comes from Minneapolis, Minnesota, many former refugees. Two dozen have joined Al Shabab in Somalia since 2007-CBS News
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11/30/15, "U.S. Refugees and Terrorism – Minneapolis Edition…," sundance, The Conservative Treehouse
"The current discussion about potential refugees and associations with terrorism provides a backdrop for an article via CBS showing that 25% of all American ISIS recruitment comes from refugees who were placed in Minneapolis Minnesota.
"MINNEAPOLIS Via CBS — A new report by Congress says more than 250 Americans have attempted to join ISIS, and one in four of them is from Minnesota, many of them former refugees.
[…] Currently, five Somali men from Minnesota accused of trying to join terror group ISIS are awaiting trial. There are at least 15 other cases being investigated." (read more)
Back in 2014 we shared the story of Abdirahmaan Muhumed who was one of those Somali U.S. refugees who left the U.S. to join ISIS and was killed in Syria. So it comes as no surprise to see the latest CBS report.
However, the absurd discussion of un-vetted Syrian refugees, and the potential terror risk, also comes only two months after discovery of a federal program to actually pay U.S. Muslim immigrants/refugees not to begin waging Jihad.
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11/19/15, "Minneapolis community struggles with ISIS recruiting tactics," CBSNews.com, Jamie Yuccas
"A new report by Congress says more than 250 Americans have attempted to join ISIS, and one in four of them is from Minnesota, many of them former refugees.
Minneapolis might seem a long way from the wars in the Middle East and North Africa. But extremist groups have found the city to be fertile ground for recruits.
Dahir Ali is exactly who terrorist groups like ISIS are looking to recruit -- the 18-year-old is young, Muslim and often feels like an outsider..
He grew up in the Cedar Riverside community in Minneapolis, which has the largest Somali population in the country. Many came as refugees in the 1990s. The unemployment rate here is 21 percent, three times the state average. And an alarming number of young Somali men from this neighborhood have left to join extremist groups. Since 2007, two dozen have joined AL-Shabab in Somalia."
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US Rep. Cuellar says flood of Syrian refugees has already begun, US taxpayers have no choice but to finance them and many others:
11/30/15, "Cuellar: Syrians Already Entering the U.S., Plan Needed Now," WOAI.com
"Border Congressman Henry Cuellar (D-Laredo) says as the U.S. debates the fate of Syrian refugees, the refugees are coming and will continue to arrive on our southern border, and rather than debate, the country needs to start deciding how to handle the coming flood of desperate people from the Middle East, News Radio 1200 WOAI reports.
"They are going to try to short circuit that wait of 18 to 24 months," Cuellar told News Radio 1200 WOAI in an exclusive interview. "They will come in here, make their claim, and if there is nothing to hold them, they will be released."
Two groups of Syrians, mainly families, have already done that, arriving in the U.S. in the Laredo area and then immediately presenting themselves to Border Patrol officers, surrendering, and asking for political asylum.
The standard operating procedure right now is to place them into the family detention centers in Dilley or Karnes City, but many are released on bonds or on ankle monitors after a few months in the facilities. And Cuellar points out that once they are released, the demands of governor like Gov. Abbott that they not be housed in Texas are meaningless. They have the right to settle whenever in the U.S. they want, as long as they present themselves for immigration hearings, which could be set for several years in the future.
Cuellar says that has the effect of scrapping all of the talk of a lengthy wait and 'vetting period' for people seeking refugee status.
His suggestion, working together with Mexico to make it harder for refugees, many of whom enter the Americas in Central America, to make it to the U.S.
“Mexico stopped 174,00 people last year that were coming into the U.S, and they did it only with $80 million,” he said.
The Middle Eastern refugees are joining a flood of individuals from the increasingly failed states of Central America who are trying to get into the U.S. The Border Patrol reported a spike in unaccompanied minors and families from El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras entering the U.S. in September and October by using the same method...surrendering to the Border Patrol and requesting political asylum.
Add to that huge numbers of Cubans who are afraid that the new relationship between Havana and Washington will scrap their traditional right to political asylum in the U.S. and the rush of Middle Eastern refugees fleeing war at home, and Cuellar says the U.S. needs to stop arguing possibilities, and start taking action to deal with the flood of immigrants who are on the way."
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Comment: Under the guise of tolerance and compassion, US taxpayers agree with the US political class that they must fund their own genocide.
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11/30/15, "U.S. Refugees and Terrorism – Minneapolis Edition…," sundance, The Conservative Treehouse
"The current discussion about potential refugees and associations with terrorism provides a backdrop for an article via CBS showing that 25% of all American ISIS recruitment comes from refugees who were placed in Minneapolis Minnesota.
"MINNEAPOLIS Via CBS — A new report by Congress says more than 250 Americans have attempted to join ISIS, and one in four of them is from Minnesota, many of them former refugees.
[…] Currently, five Somali men from Minnesota accused of trying to join terror group ISIS are awaiting trial. There are at least 15 other cases being investigated." (read more)
Back in 2014 we shared the story of Abdirahmaan Muhumed who was one of those Somali U.S. refugees who left the U.S. to join ISIS and was killed in Syria. So it comes as no surprise to see the latest CBS report.
However, the absurd discussion of un-vetted Syrian refugees, and the potential terror risk, also comes only two months after discovery of a federal program to actually pay U.S. Muslim immigrants/refugees not to begin waging Jihad.
[…] Already, the CVE pilot program has been re-branded with a new name, Building Community Resilience. Luger’s office says it captures the essence of his vision: to keep teens from Minnesota from traveling to the Middle East and blowing themselves up.So it would appear the Counter Violent Extremism program, paying U.S. refugees not to wage jihad, *cough* “Crime Prevention” *cough*, is not quite as effective as the administration would prefer. Go figure."...
Luger says it will do so by providing $216,000 in federal funds – in addition to other local and private support – which will be disbursed to community groups through a grant-making organization. The social services supported by the funding serve as crime prevention, he contends. (read more)
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11/19/15, "Minneapolis community struggles with ISIS recruiting tactics," CBSNews.com, Jamie Yuccas
"A new report by Congress says more than 250 Americans have attempted to join ISIS, and one in four of them is from Minnesota, many of them former refugees.
Minneapolis might seem a long way from the wars in the Middle East and North Africa. But extremist groups have found the city to be fertile ground for recruits.
Dahir Ali is exactly who terrorist groups like ISIS are looking to recruit -- the 18-year-old is young, Muslim and often feels like an outsider..
He grew up in the Cedar Riverside community in Minneapolis, which has the largest Somali population in the country. Many came as refugees in the 1990s. The unemployment rate here is 21 percent, three times the state average. And an alarming number of young Somali men from this neighborhood have left to join extremist groups. Since 2007, two dozen have joined AL-Shabab in Somalia."
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US Rep. Cuellar says flood of Syrian refugees has already begun, US taxpayers have no choice but to finance them and many others:
11/30/15, "Cuellar: Syrians Already Entering the U.S., Plan Needed Now," WOAI.com
"Border Congressman Henry Cuellar (D-Laredo) says as the U.S. debates the fate of Syrian refugees, the refugees are coming and will continue to arrive on our southern border, and rather than debate, the country needs to start deciding how to handle the coming flood of desperate people from the Middle East, News Radio 1200 WOAI reports.
"They are going to try to short circuit that wait of 18 to 24 months," Cuellar told News Radio 1200 WOAI in an exclusive interview. "They will come in here, make their claim, and if there is nothing to hold them, they will be released."
Two groups of Syrians, mainly families, have already done that, arriving in the U.S. in the Laredo area and then immediately presenting themselves to Border Patrol officers, surrendering, and asking for political asylum.
The standard operating procedure right now is to place them into the family detention centers in Dilley or Karnes City, but many are released on bonds or on ankle monitors after a few months in the facilities. And Cuellar points out that once they are released, the demands of governor like Gov. Abbott that they not be housed in Texas are meaningless. They have the right to settle whenever in the U.S. they want, as long as they present themselves for immigration hearings, which could be set for several years in the future.
Cuellar says that has the effect of scrapping all of the talk of a lengthy wait and 'vetting period' for people seeking refugee status.
His suggestion, working together with Mexico to make it harder for refugees, many of whom enter the Americas in Central America, to make it to the U.S.
“Mexico stopped 174,00 people last year that were coming into the U.S, and they did it only with $80 million,” he said.
The Middle Eastern refugees are joining a flood of individuals from the increasingly failed states of Central America who are trying to get into the U.S. The Border Patrol reported a spike in unaccompanied minors and families from El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras entering the U.S. in September and October by using the same method...surrendering to the Border Patrol and requesting political asylum.
Add to that huge numbers of Cubans who are afraid that the new relationship between Havana and Washington will scrap their traditional right to political asylum in the U.S. and the rush of Middle Eastern refugees fleeing war at home, and Cuellar says the U.S. needs to stop arguing possibilities, and start taking action to deal with the flood of immigrants who are on the way."
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Comment: Under the guise of tolerance and compassion, US taxpayers agree with the US political class that they must fund their own genocide.
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US Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-Laredo) says US powerless to stop flood of refugees from Middle East, more failed countries means US must take more refugees, Texas Gov. Abbott objection meaningless-WOAI
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11/30/15, "Cuellar: Syrians Already Entering the U.S., Plan Needed Now," WOAI.com
"Border Congressman Henry Cuellar (D-Laredo) says as the U.S. debates the fate of Syrian refugees, the refugees are coming and will continue to arrive on our southern border, and rather than debate, the country needs to start deciding how to handle the coming flood of desperate people from the Middle East, News Radio 1200 WOAI reports.
"They are going to try to short circuit that wait of 18 to 24 months," Cuellar told News Radio 1200 WOAI in an exclusive interview. "They will come in here, make their claim, and if there is nothing to hold them, they will be released."
Two groups of Syrians, mainly families, have already done that, arriving in the U.S. in the Laredo area and then immediately presenting themselves to Border Patrol officers, surrendering, and asking for political asylum.
The standard operating procedure right now is to place them into the family detention centers in Dilley or Karnes City, but many are released on bonds or on ankle monitors after a few months in the facilities. And Cuellar points out that once they are released, the demands of governor like Gov. Abbott that they not be housed in Texas are meaningless. They have the right to settle whenever in the U.S. they want, as long as they present themselves for immigration hearings, which could be set for several years in the future.
Cuellar says that has the effect of scrapping all of the talk of a lengthy wait and 'vetting period' for people seeking refugee status.
His suggestion, working together with Mexico to make it harder for refugees, many of whom enter the Americas in Central America, to make it to the U.S.
“Mexico stopped 174,00 people last year that were coming into the U.S, and they did it only with $80 million,” he said.
The Middle Eastern refugees are joining a flood of individuals from the increasingly failed states of Central America who are trying to get into the U.S. The Border Patrol reported a spike in unaccompanied minors and families from El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras entering the U.S. in September and October by using the same method...surrendering to the Border Patrol and requesting political asylum.
Add to that huge numbers of Cubans who are afraid that the new relationship between Havana and Washington will scrap their traditional right to political asylum in the U.S. and the rush of Middle Eastern refugees fleeing war at home, and Cuellar says the U.S. needs to stop arguing possibilities, and start taking action to deal with the flood of immigrants who are on the way." via Drudge
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11/30/15, "Cuellar: Syrians Already Entering the U.S., Plan Needed Now," WOAI.com
"Border Congressman Henry Cuellar (D-Laredo) says as the U.S. debates the fate of Syrian refugees, the refugees are coming and will continue to arrive on our southern border, and rather than debate, the country needs to start deciding how to handle the coming flood of desperate people from the Middle East, News Radio 1200 WOAI reports.
"They are going to try to short circuit that wait of 18 to 24 months," Cuellar told News Radio 1200 WOAI in an exclusive interview. "They will come in here, make their claim, and if there is nothing to hold them, they will be released."
Two groups of Syrians, mainly families, have already done that, arriving in the U.S. in the Laredo area and then immediately presenting themselves to Border Patrol officers, surrendering, and asking for political asylum.
The standard operating procedure right now is to place them into the family detention centers in Dilley or Karnes City, but many are released on bonds or on ankle monitors after a few months in the facilities. And Cuellar points out that once they are released, the demands of governor like Gov. Abbott that they not be housed in Texas are meaningless. They have the right to settle whenever in the U.S. they want, as long as they present themselves for immigration hearings, which could be set for several years in the future.
Cuellar says that has the effect of scrapping all of the talk of a lengthy wait and 'vetting period' for people seeking refugee status.
His suggestion, working together with Mexico to make it harder for refugees, many of whom enter the Americas in Central America, to make it to the U.S.
“Mexico stopped 174,00 people last year that were coming into the U.S, and they did it only with $80 million,” he said.
The Middle Eastern refugees are joining a flood of individuals from the increasingly failed states of Central America who are trying to get into the U.S. The Border Patrol reported a spike in unaccompanied minors and families from El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras entering the U.S. in September and October by using the same method...surrendering to the Border Patrol and requesting political asylum.
Add to that huge numbers of Cubans who are afraid that the new relationship between Havana and Washington will scrap their traditional right to political asylum in the U.S. and the rush of Middle Eastern refugees fleeing war at home, and Cuellar says the U.S. needs to stop arguing possibilities, and start taking action to deal with the flood of immigrants who are on the way." via Drudge
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If you think Trump is under attack now, you ain't seen nothing yet-Sundance, The Conservative Treehouse
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11/29/15, "The Existential Threat...If You Think Trump is Under Attack Now...You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet,"...by sundance
All of the candidates with red circles are specifically on record supporting TPP; or they have participated in the legislative process to specifically advance TPP.
*Currently on leave from Goldman Sachs – While on the Council of Foreign Relations HEIDI S. CRUZ completed a task force report on Building a North American Global Community – she was also an energy investment banker with Merrill Lynch in Houston, Texas. She served in the Bush White House under Dr. Condoleezza Rice as the Economic Director for the Western Hemisphere at the National Security Council, as the Director of the Latin America Office at the U.S. Treasury Department, and as Special Assistant to Ambassador Robert B. Zoellick, U.S. Trade Representative. Prior to government service, Mrs. Cruz was an investment banker with J.P. Morgan in New York City.
Just a Reminder, this is an insurgency. The modern enemy of Wall Street is Donald Trump and a group of Main Street vulgarians. The enemy of the RNC/GOPe is not Democrats, it's those same grassroots conservatives, more main street vulgarians.
The Republican Party, and the Republican media apparatus, view us as their enemy. We are the enemy they need to protect themselves from:
Added: Dr. Angelo Codevilla says GOP elite is correct to view us as a threat:
"The mass of GOP and independent voters, having come to see themselves as disadvantaged and insulted by the ruling class, have increasingly supported anti-establishment candidates to challenge it in Republican primaries. Accurately, the Republican establishment sees this as a greater threat to themselves than any Democrats could be."...
6/30/14, "The Ruling Class Went Down to Mississippi," Angelo M. Codevilla, Liberty Law
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George Bush #1 deserves a loud shout out in Paris. Obama is merely following his lead:
Comment: The "global climate danger industry" was established in 1990 by George Bush #1. Henceforth, precious US taxpayer dollars that might otherwise help the poor and needy would flow to "climate" cronies. George Bush #1 never gets credit he deserves for financing the imaginary global climate danger industry. His 1990 Executive mandate, Global Change Research Act (also known as USGCRP) declared general global environmental crises, ordered 13 federal agencies to attend to them, and bound US taxpayers to finance them in perpetuity. Bush #1 created today's $2 billion a day imaginary climate danger cash cow from scratch. The US political class knows that continuing success of this cash cow requires permanent demonization and degradation of innocent Americans. This fits the definition of genocide.
"Global Change Research Act of 1990"
http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/STATUTE-104/pdf/STATUTE-104-Pg3096.pdf
3/6/15, "Causes and consequences of the climate science boom," William Butos and Thomas McQuade
"Funding appears to be driving the science rather than the other way around."
"2. By any standards, what we have documented here is a massive funding drive, highlighting the patterns of climate science Rand D as funded and directed only by the Executive Branch and the various agencies that fall within its purview."...
More from the paper:
"1. The Government’s Role in Climate Science Funding...[is] embedded in scores of agencies and programs scattered throughout the Executive Branch of the US government. While such agency activities related to climate science have received funding for many years as components of their mission statements, the pursuit of an integrated national agenda to study climate change and implement policy initiatives took a critical step with passage of the Global Change Research Act of 1990. This Act established institutional structures operating out of the White House to develop and oversee the implementation of a National Global Change Research Plan and created the US Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) to coordinate the climate change research activities of Executive Departments and agencies.[33] As of 2014, the coordination of climate change-related activities resides largely in the President’s Office of Science and Technology Policy, which houses several separate offices, including the offices of Environment and Energy, Polar Sciences, Ocean Sciences, Clean Energy and Materials R&D, Climate Adaptation and Ecosystems, National Climate Assessment, and others. The Office of the President also maintains the National Science and Technology Council, which oversees the Committee on Environment, Natural Resources, and Sustainability and its Subcommittee on Climate Change Research. The Subcommittee is charged with the responsibility of planning and coordinating with the interagency USGCRP. Also, the Office of Energy and Climate Change Policy is housed within the President’s Domestic Policy Council. While Congress authorizes Executive branch budgets, the priorities these departments and agencies follow are set by the White House. As expressed in various agency and Executive Branch strategic plans, these efforts have been recently organized around four components comprising (1) climate change research and education, (2) emissions reduction through “clean” energy technologies and investments, (3) adaptation to climate change, and (4) international climate change leadership.[36]....By any of these measures, the scale of climate science R&D has increased substantially since 2001. Perhaps, though, the largest funding increases have occurred in developing new technologies and tax subsidies. As can be seen from Table 1, federal dollars to develop and implement “clean energy technologies” have increased from $1.7 billion in 2001 to $5.8 billion in 2013, while energy tax subsidies have increased from zero in 2001 and 2002 to $13 billion in 2013, with the largest increases happening since 2010. The impact on scientific research of government funding is not just a matter of the amounts but also of the concentration of research monies that arises from the focus a single source can bring to bear on particular kinds of scientific research. Government is that single source and has Big Player effects because it has access to a deep pool of taxpayer (and, indeed, borrowed and created) funds combined with regulatory and enforcement powers which necessarily place it on a different footing from other players and institutions. Notwithstanding the interplay of rival interests within the government and the separation of powers among the different branches, there is an important sense in which government’s inherent need to act produces a particular set of decisions that fall within a relatively narrow corridor of ends to which it can concentrate substantial resources.
2. By any standards, what we have documented here is a massive funding drive, highlighting the patterns of climate science RandD as funded and directed only by the Executive Branch and the various agencies that fall within its purview.[40] To put its magnitude into some context, the $9.3 billion funding requested for climate science R&D in 2013 is about one-third of the total amount appropriated for all 27 National Institutes of Health in the same year,[41] yet it is more than enough to sustain a science boom. Its directional characteristic, concentrated as it has been on R&D premised on the controversial issue of the actual sensitivity of climate to human-caused emissions, has gone hand in hand with the IPCC’s expressions of increasing confidence in the AGW hypothesis and increasingly shrill claims of impending disaster.
3. The recent pattern of federal climate science funding, moving toward emphasis on the development of technologies and their subsidization through the tax system, suggests that climate change funding has become more tightly connected to agencies like the Department of Energy, NASA, the Department of Commerce (NOAA), EPA, and cross-cutting projects and programs involving multiple agencies under integrating and coordinating agencies, like the USGCRP, lodged within the Executive branch. The allocations of budgets within these agencies are more directly determined and implemented by Administration priorities and policies. We note that the traditional role of NSF in supporting basic science based on a system of merit awards provided (despite some clear imperfections) certain advantages with regard to generating impartial science. In contrast, even a casual perusal of current agency documents, such as The National Science and Technology Council’s The National Global Change Research Plan 2012-2021, shows that those driving this movement make no pretense as to their premises and starting points.[39]
4. To be sure, the very opaqueness of these allocations and their actual use only provides for “ball park” estimates. However, we believe that the results presented in Table 3 come closer to a useful accounting than what previously has been provided. We have combined data from Leggett et al. (2013) and the AAAS Reports for Fiscal Years 2012 and 2013 (the only years for which the AAAS provides detailed budgetary data for climate science R&D and climate-related funding). This constrains Table 3 to including data only from 2010 through 2013. We have adjusted budgetary data and categorized it in light of discussion points 1-5 above. Note that the estimated aggregate expenditures for climate science and climate-related funding (excluding tax subsidies) from 2010-2013 in Table 3 are about twice that of the Leggett findings.
5.5 Funds administered by the Treasury Department in Table 2 are credit lines and loans channeled through the World Bank earmarked for international organizations to finance clean technologies and sustainable practices; consequently such funds would also more accurately be considered as climate-related sustainability and adaptation....
8. This summary and the detail in Table 1, however, do not capture the full scale of federal funding for climate science R&D. Two complications must be considered to capture a more accurate estimate. First, the entries in the first row of Table 1 for climate science only refer to monies administered by the Executive branch via the office of the USGCRP and does not include all climate-related R&D in the federal budget. For example, the entry in Table 1 for the USGCRP in 2011 is just under $2.5 billion; yet the actual budget expenditures for climate science-related R&D as calculated by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) total about $16.1 billion.[38] In addition, since USGCRP funding is comprised of monies contributed from the authorized budgets of the 13 participating departments and agencies, a more accurate estimate of climate-related R&D requires deducting USGCRP funding from the aggregated budgets of those 13, most of which are included in Table 2.
9. Leggett et al. (2013) of the Congressional Research Service provides a recent account of climate change funding based on data provided by the White House Office of Management and Budget (see Table 1, below). Total expenditures for federal funded climate change programs from 2001-2013 were $110.9 billion in current dollars and $120.2 billion in 2012 dollars. “Total budgetary impact” includes various tax provisions and subsidies related to reducing greenhouse gas emissions (which are treated as “tax expenditures”) and shows total climate change expenditures from 2001-2013 to be $145.3 billion in current dollars and $155.4 billion in 2012 dollars.[37]
10. The USGCRP operates as a confederacy of the research components of thirteen participating government agencies, each of which independently designates funds in accordance with the objectives of the USGCRP; these monies comprise the program budget of the USGCRP to fund agency cross-cutting climate science R&D.[34] The departments and agencies whose activities comprise the bulk of such funding include independent agencies such as the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, National Science Foundation, Environmental Protection Agency, US Agency for International Development, the quasi-official Smithsonian Institute, and Executive Departments that include Agriculture, Commerce (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Institute of Standards and Technology), Energy, Interior (the US Geological Survey and conservation initiatives), State, and Treasury.[35]
11. The past 15 years have seen a sustained program of funding, largely from government or quasi-government entities.[31] The funding efforts are spread across a bewildering array of sources and buried in a labyrinth of programs, agency initiatives, interagency activities, and Presidential Offices, but what they seem to have in common is an adherence to the assumption that human activity is primarily responsible for the warming observed in the latter part of the 20th century. Funding appears to be driving the science rather than the other way around. And the extent of this funding appears not to have been heretofore fully documented.[32]"...
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11/29/15, "The Existential Threat...If You Think Trump is Under Attack Now...You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet,"...by sundance
"Climate Change and The TPP Agenda"...
"So it looks like we got their globalist climate treaty only they called it the Trans-Pacific Partnership treaty.So, what happens tomorrow?
Well, according to TPP anything agreed on and signed by President Obama in Paris is then enforceable under THIS TPP TREATY.All of the candidates with red circles are specifically on record supporting TPP; or they have participated in the legislative process to specifically advance TPP.
Now, ask yourself who gains benefit from TPP Passage along with the removal of Donald Trump? -And-
Who exactly has a vested interest in the rebuke of TPP along with support for Donald Trump?
Within those two answers you’ll discover why the media is hell-bent on his destruction, and massive segments of middle America are fighting on his behalf.*Footnote and Related:
*Currently on leave from Goldman Sachs – While on the Council of Foreign Relations HEIDI S. CRUZ completed a task force report on Building a North American Global Community – she was also an energy investment banker with Merrill Lynch in Houston, Texas. She served in the Bush White House under Dr. Condoleezza Rice as the Economic Director for the Western Hemisphere at the National Security Council, as the Director of the Latin America Office at the U.S. Treasury Department, and as Special Assistant to Ambassador Robert B. Zoellick, U.S. Trade Representative. Prior to government service, Mrs. Cruz was an investment banker with J.P. Morgan in New York City.
Just a Reminder, this is an insurgency. The modern enemy of Wall Street is Donald Trump and a group of Main Street vulgarians. The enemy of the RNC/GOPe is not Democrats, it's those same grassroots conservatives, more main street vulgarians.
The Republican Party, and the Republican media apparatus, view us as their enemy. We are the enemy they need to protect themselves from:
In 2014, the RNC approved selection rules that govern how each state's delegates are portioned out from the primaries. Under one of the changes, states holding their primaries between March 1 and March 14 will have their delegates doled out proportionately with election results, a change that will likely stymie a movement candidate.
States that have primaries on or after March 15 will be winner-take-all states.
That's important because another RNC rule change requires that a candidate must win a majority of delegates in eight or more states before his or her name may be presented for nomination at the 2016 Republican National Convention.
With 18 GOP presidential candidates, for now, it will be that much harder for any candidate to win a majority in any state, let alone eight. (Article July 2015)"...==================
Added: Dr. Angelo Codevilla says GOP elite is correct to view us as a threat:
"The mass of GOP and independent voters, having come to see themselves as disadvantaged and insulted by the ruling class, have increasingly supported anti-establishment candidates to challenge it in Republican primaries. Accurately, the Republican establishment sees this as a greater threat to themselves than any Democrats could be."...
6/30/14, "The Ruling Class Went Down to Mississippi," Angelo M. Codevilla, Liberty Law
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George Bush #1 deserves a loud shout out in Paris. Obama is merely following his lead:
Comment: The "global climate danger industry" was established in 1990 by George Bush #1. Henceforth, precious US taxpayer dollars that might otherwise help the poor and needy would flow to "climate" cronies. George Bush #1 never gets credit he deserves for financing the imaginary global climate danger industry. His 1990 Executive mandate, Global Change Research Act (also known as USGCRP) declared general global environmental crises, ordered 13 federal agencies to attend to them, and bound US taxpayers to finance them in perpetuity. Bush #1 created today's $2 billion a day imaginary climate danger cash cow from scratch. The US political class knows that continuing success of this cash cow requires permanent demonization and degradation of innocent Americans. This fits the definition of genocide.
"Global Change Research Act of 1990"
http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/STATUTE-104/pdf/STATUTE-104-Pg3096.pdf
3/6/15, "Causes and consequences of the climate science boom," William Butos and Thomas McQuade
"Funding appears to be driving the science rather than the other way around."
"2. By any standards, what we have documented here is a massive funding drive, highlighting the patterns of climate science Rand D as funded and directed only by the Executive Branch and the various agencies that fall within its purview."...
More from the paper:
"1. The Government’s Role in Climate Science Funding...[is] embedded in scores of agencies and programs scattered throughout the Executive Branch of the US government. While such agency activities related to climate science have received funding for many years as components of their mission statements, the pursuit of an integrated national agenda to study climate change and implement policy initiatives took a critical step with passage of the Global Change Research Act of 1990. This Act established institutional structures operating out of the White House to develop and oversee the implementation of a National Global Change Research Plan and created the US Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) to coordinate the climate change research activities of Executive Departments and agencies.[33] As of 2014, the coordination of climate change-related activities resides largely in the President’s Office of Science and Technology Policy, which houses several separate offices, including the offices of Environment and Energy, Polar Sciences, Ocean Sciences, Clean Energy and Materials R&D, Climate Adaptation and Ecosystems, National Climate Assessment, and others. The Office of the President also maintains the National Science and Technology Council, which oversees the Committee on Environment, Natural Resources, and Sustainability and its Subcommittee on Climate Change Research. The Subcommittee is charged with the responsibility of planning and coordinating with the interagency USGCRP. Also, the Office of Energy and Climate Change Policy is housed within the President’s Domestic Policy Council. While Congress authorizes Executive branch budgets, the priorities these departments and agencies follow are set by the White House. As expressed in various agency and Executive Branch strategic plans, these efforts have been recently organized around four components comprising (1) climate change research and education, (2) emissions reduction through “clean” energy technologies and investments, (3) adaptation to climate change, and (4) international climate change leadership.[36]....By any of these measures, the scale of climate science R&D has increased substantially since 2001. Perhaps, though, the largest funding increases have occurred in developing new technologies and tax subsidies. As can be seen from Table 1, federal dollars to develop and implement “clean energy technologies” have increased from $1.7 billion in 2001 to $5.8 billion in 2013, while energy tax subsidies have increased from zero in 2001 and 2002 to $13 billion in 2013, with the largest increases happening since 2010. The impact on scientific research of government funding is not just a matter of the amounts but also of the concentration of research monies that arises from the focus a single source can bring to bear on particular kinds of scientific research. Government is that single source and has Big Player effects because it has access to a deep pool of taxpayer (and, indeed, borrowed and created) funds combined with regulatory and enforcement powers which necessarily place it on a different footing from other players and institutions. Notwithstanding the interplay of rival interests within the government and the separation of powers among the different branches, there is an important sense in which government’s inherent need to act produces a particular set of decisions that fall within a relatively narrow corridor of ends to which it can concentrate substantial resources.
2. By any standards, what we have documented here is a massive funding drive, highlighting the patterns of climate science RandD as funded and directed only by the Executive Branch and the various agencies that fall within its purview.[40] To put its magnitude into some context, the $9.3 billion funding requested for climate science R&D in 2013 is about one-third of the total amount appropriated for all 27 National Institutes of Health in the same year,[41] yet it is more than enough to sustain a science boom. Its directional characteristic, concentrated as it has been on R&D premised on the controversial issue of the actual sensitivity of climate to human-caused emissions, has gone hand in hand with the IPCC’s expressions of increasing confidence in the AGW hypothesis and increasingly shrill claims of impending disaster.
3. The recent pattern of federal climate science funding, moving toward emphasis on the development of technologies and their subsidization through the tax system, suggests that climate change funding has become more tightly connected to agencies like the Department of Energy, NASA, the Department of Commerce (NOAA), EPA, and cross-cutting projects and programs involving multiple agencies under integrating and coordinating agencies, like the USGCRP, lodged within the Executive branch. The allocations of budgets within these agencies are more directly determined and implemented by Administration priorities and policies. We note that the traditional role of NSF in supporting basic science based on a system of merit awards provided (despite some clear imperfections) certain advantages with regard to generating impartial science. In contrast, even a casual perusal of current agency documents, such as The National Science and Technology Council’s The National Global Change Research Plan 2012-2021, shows that those driving this movement make no pretense as to their premises and starting points.[39]
4. To be sure, the very opaqueness of these allocations and their actual use only provides for “ball park” estimates. However, we believe that the results presented in Table 3 come closer to a useful accounting than what previously has been provided. We have combined data from Leggett et al. (2013) and the AAAS Reports for Fiscal Years 2012 and 2013 (the only years for which the AAAS provides detailed budgetary data for climate science R&D and climate-related funding). This constrains Table 3 to including data only from 2010 through 2013. We have adjusted budgetary data and categorized it in light of discussion points 1-5 above. Note that the estimated aggregate expenditures for climate science and climate-related funding (excluding tax subsidies) from 2010-2013 in Table 3 are about twice that of the Leggett findings.
5.5 Funds administered by the Treasury Department in Table 2 are credit lines and loans channeled through the World Bank earmarked for international organizations to finance clean technologies and sustainable practices; consequently such funds would also more accurately be considered as climate-related sustainability and adaptation....
8. This summary and the detail in Table 1, however, do not capture the full scale of federal funding for climate science R&D. Two complications must be considered to capture a more accurate estimate. First, the entries in the first row of Table 1 for climate science only refer to monies administered by the Executive branch via the office of the USGCRP and does not include all climate-related R&D in the federal budget. For example, the entry in Table 1 for the USGCRP in 2011 is just under $2.5 billion; yet the actual budget expenditures for climate science-related R&D as calculated by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) total about $16.1 billion.[38] In addition, since USGCRP funding is comprised of monies contributed from the authorized budgets of the 13 participating departments and agencies, a more accurate estimate of climate-related R&D requires deducting USGCRP funding from the aggregated budgets of those 13, most of which are included in Table 2.
9. Leggett et al. (2013) of the Congressional Research Service provides a recent account of climate change funding based on data provided by the White House Office of Management and Budget (see Table 1, below). Total expenditures for federal funded climate change programs from 2001-2013 were $110.9 billion in current dollars and $120.2 billion in 2012 dollars. “Total budgetary impact” includes various tax provisions and subsidies related to reducing greenhouse gas emissions (which are treated as “tax expenditures”) and shows total climate change expenditures from 2001-2013 to be $145.3 billion in current dollars and $155.4 billion in 2012 dollars.[37]
10. The USGCRP operates as a confederacy of the research components of thirteen participating government agencies, each of which independently designates funds in accordance with the objectives of the USGCRP; these monies comprise the program budget of the USGCRP to fund agency cross-cutting climate science R&D.[34] The departments and agencies whose activities comprise the bulk of such funding include independent agencies such as the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, National Science Foundation, Environmental Protection Agency, US Agency for International Development, the quasi-official Smithsonian Institute, and Executive Departments that include Agriculture, Commerce (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Institute of Standards and Technology), Energy, Interior (the US Geological Survey and conservation initiatives), State, and Treasury.[35]
11. The past 15 years have seen a sustained program of funding, largely from government or quasi-government entities.[31] The funding efforts are spread across a bewildering array of sources and buried in a labyrinth of programs, agency initiatives, interagency activities, and Presidential Offices, but what they seem to have in common is an adherence to the assumption that human activity is primarily responsible for the warming observed in the latter part of the 20th century. Funding appears to be driving the science rather than the other way around. And the extent of this funding appears not to have been heretofore fully documented.[32]"...
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Sunday, November 29, 2015
France unable to secure its airports. Extremists have access to restricted areas, Arabic graffiti placed on fuel tanks of jets at multiple French airports in past week
.
11/27/15, "Terror alert after Arabic graffiti is found daubed
on fuel tank panels of easyJet planes at French airports weeks after
Russian jet was blown up," Daily Mail, Kieran Corcoran
"EasyJet
staff are on high alert after Arabic graffiti was found daubed next to
fuel tanks on four jets parked at French airports.
Airline
workers have been warned to take extra precautions around Europe after
the messages were found on supposedly secure parts of the planes.
The
finds, made at different French locations within the past week, have
sparked fears that something more dangerous than writing could be
planted on a plane in future....
............
............
Philip
Baum, editor of Aviation Security International, told The Sun: 'Graffiti
in itself won't hurt anybody. But the ability of anyone to place a
prohibited item near fuel tanks is a concern, of course.'
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Saturday, November 28, 2015
Syrian refugees don't want to come to US says Ben Carson after touring refugee camps in Jordan. Camps aren't full, just need resources to run them, American people-not US gov.-should raise funds-AP
.
11/28/15, "Carson after tour: refugees don't want to come to US," AP, Azraq Refugee Camp, Jordan
"After touring refugee camps in Jordan, Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson on Saturday suggested that camps should serve as a long-term solution for millions, while other refugees could be absorbed by Middle Eastern countries.
"I did not detect any great desire for them to come to the United States," Carson told The Associated Press in a phone interview from Jordan. "You've got these refugee camps that aren't completely full. And all you need is the resources to be able to run them. Why do you need to create something else?"
...........
The retired neurosurgeon toured the Azraq camp in northern Jordan under heavy Jordanian security, with journalists barred. Carson's campaign also limited access, not providing his itinerary.
After the Azraq visit, Carson said he didn't learn anything that gives him confidence in authorities' ability to screen potential terrorists. "What I learned is that you're going to get a different answer from everybody depending on what their slant is," he said, reiterating his opposition to allowing any of the refugees to the United States.
"I always oppose doing unnecessary things, particularly dangerous and costly unnecessary things," he said.
Carson called on the American people — not the U.S. government — to launch a "humanitarian drive" to raise billions of dollars that officials say is needed to improve conditions for refugees settled across several countries in the Middle East.
"All they need is adequate funding. It's really quite impressive when you go over there and see it," Carson told the AP, adding that some areas had recreational facilities, schools, electricity and indoor plumbing. "They were a lot happier. They were quite willing to stay there as long as it takes before they can get back home."
Carson's visit comes as he tries to strengthen his fluency on international affairs as foreign policy becomes a greater focus in the 2016 presidential contest. Advisers have conceded that his knowledge of global affairs isn't where it needs to be and have expressed hope that missions like his two-day trip to Jordan will help.
Carson and other Republicans have adopted a harsh tone when discussing President Barack Obama's plan to welcome 10,000 Syrian refugees to the U.S. in this budget year. Debate over Syrians fleeing their war-torn country erupted after a series of attacks in Paris earlier this month that raised security concerns across the West.
Carson and his GOP rivals expressed concern that extremists may sneak into the U.S. among them. Last week, he likened blocking potential terrorists posing as Syrian refugees to handling "mad dogs."
He also suggested that it would be best to absorb Syrian refugees in Middle Eastern host countries, which have given temporary shelter to most of the more than 4 million Syrians who have fled civil war in their country since 2011.
In a separate statement, he described Syrians as "as very hard working, determined people, which should only enhance the overall economic health of the neighboring Arab countries that accept and integrate them into the general population."
And he broadened his call for financial support beyond Americans: "The humanitarian crisis presented by the fleeing Syrian refugees can be addressed if the nations of the world with resources would provide financial and material support to the aforementioned countries as well as encouragement."
More than 4 million Syrians fled their homeland since 2011, after a popular uprising erupted against President Bashar Assad and quickly turned into a devastating civil war. Most initially settled in neighboring countries, but conditions there have become increasingly difficult.
Syrian refugees are largely barred from working legally and have to resort to informal, low-paying jobs if they can find employment at all.
Overwhelmed host countries, particularly Lebanon and Jordan, have balked at the idea of longer-term integration of refugees. They have complained that they are carrying an unfair burden while the international community's support has fallen short.
An aid appeal of $4.5 billion for refugees in host countries in 2015 is only about half funded. The cash crunch has created increasingly unbearable conditions for Syrian refugees in Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq and — to a lesser extent — in economically more robust Turkey. In 2015, hundreds of thousands of refugees moved on to Europe in hopes of a better life."
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11/28/15, "Carson after tour: refugees don't want to come to US," AP, Azraq Refugee Camp, Jordan
"After touring refugee camps in Jordan, Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson on Saturday suggested that camps should serve as a long-term solution for millions, while other refugees could be absorbed by Middle Eastern countries.
"I did not detect any great desire for them to come to the United States," Carson told The Associated Press in a phone interview from Jordan. "You've got these refugee camps that aren't completely full. And all you need is the resources to be able to run them. Why do you need to create something else?"
...........
The retired neurosurgeon toured the Azraq camp in northern Jordan under heavy Jordanian security, with journalists barred. Carson's campaign also limited access, not providing his itinerary.
After the Azraq visit, Carson said he didn't learn anything that gives him confidence in authorities' ability to screen potential terrorists. "What I learned is that you're going to get a different answer from everybody depending on what their slant is," he said, reiterating his opposition to allowing any of the refugees to the United States.
"I always oppose doing unnecessary things, particularly dangerous and costly unnecessary things," he said.
Carson called on the American people — not the U.S. government — to launch a "humanitarian drive" to raise billions of dollars that officials say is needed to improve conditions for refugees settled across several countries in the Middle East.
"All they need is adequate funding. It's really quite impressive when you go over there and see it," Carson told the AP, adding that some areas had recreational facilities, schools, electricity and indoor plumbing. "They were a lot happier. They were quite willing to stay there as long as it takes before they can get back home."
Carson's visit comes as he tries to strengthen his fluency on international affairs as foreign policy becomes a greater focus in the 2016 presidential contest. Advisers have conceded that his knowledge of global affairs isn't where it needs to be and have expressed hope that missions like his two-day trip to Jordan will help.
Carson and other Republicans have adopted a harsh tone when discussing President Barack Obama's plan to welcome 10,000 Syrian refugees to the U.S. in this budget year. Debate over Syrians fleeing their war-torn country erupted after a series of attacks in Paris earlier this month that raised security concerns across the West.
Carson and his GOP rivals expressed concern that extremists may sneak into the U.S. among them. Last week, he likened blocking potential terrorists posing as Syrian refugees to handling "mad dogs."
He also suggested that it would be best to absorb Syrian refugees in Middle Eastern host countries, which have given temporary shelter to most of the more than 4 million Syrians who have fled civil war in their country since 2011.
In a separate statement, he described Syrians as "as very hard working, determined people, which should only enhance the overall economic health of the neighboring Arab countries that accept and integrate them into the general population."
And he broadened his call for financial support beyond Americans: "The humanitarian crisis presented by the fleeing Syrian refugees can be addressed if the nations of the world with resources would provide financial and material support to the aforementioned countries as well as encouragement."
More than 4 million Syrians fled their homeland since 2011, after a popular uprising erupted against President Bashar Assad and quickly turned into a devastating civil war. Most initially settled in neighboring countries, but conditions there have become increasingly difficult.
Syrian refugees are largely barred from working legally and have to resort to informal, low-paying jobs if they can find employment at all.
Overwhelmed host countries, particularly Lebanon and Jordan, have balked at the idea of longer-term integration of refugees. They have complained that they are carrying an unfair burden while the international community's support has fallen short.
An aid appeal of $4.5 billion for refugees in host countries in 2015 is only about half funded. The cash crunch has created increasingly unbearable conditions for Syrian refugees in Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq and — to a lesser extent — in economically more robust Turkey. In 2015, hundreds of thousands of refugees moved on to Europe in hopes of a better life."
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Reduced to begging for GOP VP slot, Karl Rove suggests former Indiana Gov. and current Trilateral Commission member, Mitch Daniels. In 2011 they even tried to sell Daniels as a Tea Party candidate. In May 2011 Daniels said he 'probably' couldn't debate Obama on foreign policy
.
On Nov. 25, 2015, Karl Rove suggests fellow Rockefeller Republican Mitch Daniels as a perfect VP for the 2016 Republican ticket, that it would be "good to have somebody from the Midwest." Rove didn't mention Daniels is a member of the David Rockefeller group the Trilateral Commission nor why it would be good to have a Trilateral member as GOP VP.
Some US Trilateral Commission members as of Nov. 2015:
Mitch Daniels, former Indiana Governor, now president of Purdue University.
Michael Bloomberg, former NY Mayor
David Brooks, NY Times columnist
David Gergen, CNN Sr. political analyst (Trilateral Exec. Committee)
Henry A. Kissinger
Gerald Seib, Wall St. Journal columnist
Michael Chertoff, As Bush DHS chief, said Americans who didn't want open borders "prefer illegal immigrants be killed."
Olympia Snowe, former US Senator
Austan Goolsbee, former Obama admin. economic advisor
Jamie Gorelick-former Fannie Mae official, former Clinton admin. official, member of 911 Commission
Jane Harman, former US Rep. from Calif., former Carter admin. official (Trilateral. Exec. Committee)
Adm. Mike Mullen, Bush #2 and Obama admins., Former Chmn. of Joint Chiefs of Staff, ret.
Peter Orszag, Clinton and Obama admin. official
Eric Schmidt, Exec. Chairman, google
(Membership in The Trilateral Commission is by invitation only (item VII).)
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They tried to sell Mitch Daniels as a Tea Party candidate in 2011:
In 2011, GOP E Dick Armey said Mitch Daniels would be a 'perfect' candidate for 2012 for Tea Party: "Tea Party's Armey on 2012: Daniels would be ''perfect pick for us':"
(The same Dick Armey expressed disappointment that Establishment crony Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour (R) had opted not to run for president in 2012.)
4/29/2011, "Tea Party's Armey on 2012: Daniels would be 'perfect pick for us'," The Hill, Michael O'Brien
"Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels (R) would be the "perfect pick" for the Republican presidential nominee in 2012, said Tea Party figurehead and former House Majority Leader Dick Armey (R-Texas).
Mitch Daniels said radio talk show listeners, "aren’t going to make the GOP a success in 2012....We will need people who never tune in to Rush or Glenn or Laura or Sean, who surf past C-SPAN to get to SportsCenter.’"...
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In May 2011, Mitch Daniels admits he himself is a low information person:
In May 2011, Mitch Daniels says he's "probably not" ready to debate Obama on foreign policy:
5/3/2011, "Gov. Daniels on the verge," National Review, Ramesh Ponnuru
"Indiana governor Mitch Daniels met with a group of journalists assembled by Bloomberg View in New York City today. Here’s what I picked up from the meeting:
His conservatism is not combative....
..........
His foreign-policy details are TBD....He was asked if he were ready to debate President Obama on foreign policy.
“Probably not.” (He is candid.)"...
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5/5/2011, "Republican Candidates Can't Debate Obama on Foreign Policy?" RushLimbaugh.com
"Now, folks, all of these articles, it's amazing how this works, and the lead article today AP, all these articles that we're now seeing about how the Bin Laden mission has made it impossible for any Republican candidate to ever match Obama's foreign policy achievements, never mind that before being elected president, Obama had zero experience in foreign policy, for that matter, in anything else. Even as a United States Senator, Obama never showed the slightest interest in foreign policy, apart from endlessly attacking all of the Bush foreign policies that he now embraces....And then Mitch Daniels is out there saying that he's probably not ready to debate Obama on foreign policy?... His foreign policy's a disaster. His foreign policy's been an unmitigated disaster, from Iran, to North Korea, to Libya. Where he's done well it's only because he's following Bush's foreign policies to the letter.
Folks, we know that we've got challenges on our side in the Republican Party, but we do not need to be running around and saying, "Okay, we like Mitch Daniels cause his conservatism isn't combative." Mitch Daniels pipes up and says, "I'm not ready to debate Obama in foreign policy." What? Why do we shoot ourselves in the foot? Why do we let these people set the premise and then we react?"...
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The Trilateral Commission's founding in 1973 was based on "a sense that the United States was no longer in such a singular leadership position."
"About the Trilateral Commission," trilateral.org
"When the first triennium of the Trilateral Commission was launched in 1973, the most immediate purpose was to draw together...the highest-level unofficial group possible to look together at the key common problems facing our three areas. At a deeper level, there was a sense that the United States was no longer in such a singular leadership position as it had been in earlier post-World War II years, and that a more shared form of leadership—including Europe and Japan in particular—would be needed for the international system to navigate successfully the major challenges of the coming years.
"The “growing interdependence” that so impressed the founders of the Trilateral Commission in the early 1970s has deepened into "globalization.""...
The group is funded by donations from foundations, corporations, and individual members.
Trilateral Members in the News
David Rockefeller remains Honorary Chairman of the Trilateral Commission.
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Karl Rove is reduced to pleading for VP representation for all but extinct Rockefeller Republicans:
11/25/15, "Karl Rove: Mitch Daniels Would Be Great VP," NewsMax, Bill Hoffmann
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"Influential GOP consultant and policy adviser Karl Rove says former Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels would be the perfect running mate for whoever wins the 2016 Republican presidential nomination.
And at the very least, Rove adds in an exclusive interview with Newsmax TV, the GOP's vice presidential pick should be a Midwesterner to maximize the Republican ticket's drawing power.
"It would be good to have somebody from the Midwest. I've got an out-of-the-box idea for you, how about the former governor of Indiana, Mitch Daniels," Rove said Wednesday on "Newsmax Prime" with J.D. Hayworth.
"[He's] done an exemplary job serving in the Reagan administration, serving in the Bush administration, serving as an eight-year very successful governor of a Midwestern state.
"And is now taking a strong role in reforming our education as the president of Purdue University. Anybody would be well-advised to look at him as a VP running mate."
Daniels, 66, served as governor of Indiana from 2005 to 2013. He considered a 2012 presidential run, but bowed out early citing family and personal concerns. His name was also briefly voted as a potential presidential candidate this year.
Nicknamed "The Blade" by President George W. Bush when he was director of Office of Management and Budget from 2001 to 2003, Daniels also was also a member of the National Security Council and the Homeland Security Council.
While Rove likes Daniels, he said he was one of many candidates qualified to back up the next commander-in-chief.
"Obviously every person who's running for president gets to be seriously considered, but I'm giving you the out-of-box idea here as a Thanksgiving eve present," Rove said."
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On Nov. 25, 2015, Karl Rove suggests fellow Rockefeller Republican Mitch Daniels as a perfect VP for the 2016 Republican ticket, that it would be "good to have somebody from the Midwest." Rove didn't mention Daniels is a member of the David Rockefeller group the Trilateral Commission nor why it would be good to have a Trilateral member as GOP VP.
Some US Trilateral Commission members as of Nov. 2015:
Mitch Daniels, former Indiana Governor, now president of Purdue University.
Michael Bloomberg, former NY Mayor
David Brooks, NY Times columnist
David Gergen, CNN Sr. political analyst (Trilateral Exec. Committee)
Henry A. Kissinger
Gerald Seib, Wall St. Journal columnist
Michael Chertoff, As Bush DHS chief, said Americans who didn't want open borders "prefer illegal immigrants be killed."
Olympia Snowe, former US Senator
Austan Goolsbee, former Obama admin. economic advisor
Jamie Gorelick-former Fannie Mae official, former Clinton admin. official, member of 911 Commission
Jane Harman, former US Rep. from Calif., former Carter admin. official (Trilateral. Exec. Committee)
Adm. Mike Mullen, Bush #2 and Obama admins., Former Chmn. of Joint Chiefs of Staff, ret.
Peter Orszag, Clinton and Obama admin. official
Eric Schmidt, Exec. Chairman, google
(Membership in The Trilateral Commission is by invitation only (item VII).)
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===============
They tried to sell Mitch Daniels as a Tea Party candidate in 2011:
In 2011, GOP E Dick Armey said Mitch Daniels would be a 'perfect' candidate for 2012 for Tea Party: "Tea Party's Armey on 2012: Daniels would be ''perfect pick for us':"
(The same Dick Armey expressed disappointment that Establishment crony Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour (R) had opted not to run for president in 2012.)
4/29/2011, "Tea Party's Armey on 2012: Daniels would be 'perfect pick for us'," The Hill, Michael O'Brien
"Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels (R) would be the "perfect pick" for the Republican presidential nominee in 2012, said Tea Party figurehead and former House Majority Leader Dick Armey (R-Texas).
Armey, in a video posted Friday to the website of the conservative magazine Newsmax, effused praise for Daniels and expressed a preference for one of the
other former governors expected to join the race as a possible
alternative.
"I think Mitch Daniels would be the perfect pick for us; he's exactly the man with the proven record that we're looking for," Armey said. "He has no need for sensation, but he knows how to get focused on the work and get it done."
If not Daniels, Armey said, one of the other governors should get the nod.
Armey expressed disappointment that Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour (R) passed on a run this week....
"I do think we have to look to the governors," he said....
Armey could be an influential voice during the campaign for the Tea Party; his organization, FreedomWorks, has served as one of the largest organizational resources for a number of Tea Party groups."...
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In Feb. 2011 Daniels in about as many words said GOP needs low information voters:
At Feb. 2011 CPAC, Mitch Daniels said "we" need people who don't listen to Rush Limbaugh, who "surf past C-SPAN to get to SportsCenter.’"...
"I think Mitch Daniels would be the perfect pick for us; he's exactly the man with the proven record that we're looking for," Armey said. "He has no need for sensation, but he knows how to get focused on the work and get it done."
If not Daniels, Armey said, one of the other governors should get the nod.
Armey expressed disappointment that Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour (R) passed on a run this week....
"I do think we have to look to the governors," he said....
Armey could be an influential voice during the campaign for the Tea Party; his organization, FreedomWorks, has served as one of the largest organizational resources for a number of Tea Party groups."...
........................
In Feb. 2011 Daniels in about as many words said GOP needs low information voters:
At Feb. 2011 CPAC, Mitch Daniels said "we" need people who don't listen to Rush Limbaugh, who "surf past C-SPAN to get to SportsCenter.’"...
Mitch Daniels said radio talk show listeners, "aren’t going to make the GOP a success in 2012....We will need people who never tune in to Rush or Glenn or Laura or Sean, who surf past C-SPAN to get to SportsCenter.’"...
2/14/2011, "Rush Limbaugh getting dissed by Mitch Daniels on the Right, too," Examiner.com, Scott Paulson
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In May 2011, Mitch Daniels admits he himself is a low information person:
In May 2011, Mitch Daniels says he's "probably not" ready to debate Obama on foreign policy:
5/3/2011, "Gov. Daniels on the verge," National Review, Ramesh Ponnuru
"Indiana governor Mitch Daniels met with a group of journalists assembled by Bloomberg View in New York City today. Here’s what I picked up from the meeting:
His conservatism is not combative....
..........
His foreign-policy details are TBD....He was asked if he were ready to debate President Obama on foreign policy.
“Probably not.” (He is candid.)"...
=============
5/5/2011, "Republican Candidates Can't Debate Obama on Foreign Policy?" RushLimbaugh.com
"Now, folks, all of these articles, it's amazing how this works, and the lead article today AP, all these articles that we're now seeing about how the Bin Laden mission has made it impossible for any Republican candidate to ever match Obama's foreign policy achievements, never mind that before being elected president, Obama had zero experience in foreign policy, for that matter, in anything else. Even as a United States Senator, Obama never showed the slightest interest in foreign policy, apart from endlessly attacking all of the Bush foreign policies that he now embraces....And then Mitch Daniels is out there saying that he's probably not ready to debate Obama on foreign policy?... His foreign policy's a disaster. His foreign policy's been an unmitigated disaster, from Iran, to North Korea, to Libya. Where he's done well it's only because he's following Bush's foreign policies to the letter.
Folks, we know that we've got challenges on our side in the Republican Party, but we do not need to be running around and saying, "Okay, we like Mitch Daniels cause his conservatism isn't combative." Mitch Daniels pipes up and says, "I'm not ready to debate Obama in foreign policy." What? Why do we shoot ourselves in the foot? Why do we let these people set the premise and then we react?"...
=================
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The Trilateral Commission's founding in 1973 was based on "a sense that the United States was no longer in such a singular leadership position."
"About the Trilateral Commission," trilateral.org
"When the first triennium of the Trilateral Commission was launched in 1973, the most immediate purpose was to draw together...the highest-level unofficial group possible to look together at the key common problems facing our three areas. At a deeper level, there was a sense that the United States was no longer in such a singular leadership position as it had been in earlier post-World War II years, and that a more shared form of leadership—including Europe and Japan in particular—would be needed for the international system to navigate successfully the major challenges of the coming years.
"The “growing interdependence” that so impressed the founders of the Trilateral Commission in the early 1970s has deepened into "globalization.""...
The group is funded by donations from foundations, corporations, and individual members.
Trilateral Members in the News
David Rockefeller remains Honorary Chairman of the Trilateral Commission.
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Karl Rove is reduced to pleading for VP representation for all but extinct Rockefeller Republicans:
11/25/15, "Karl Rove: Mitch Daniels Would Be Great VP," NewsMax, Bill Hoffmann
.................
"Influential GOP consultant and policy adviser Karl Rove says former Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels would be the perfect running mate for whoever wins the 2016 Republican presidential nomination.
And at the very least, Rove adds in an exclusive interview with Newsmax TV, the GOP's vice presidential pick should be a Midwesterner to maximize the Republican ticket's drawing power.
"It would be good to have somebody from the Midwest. I've got an out-of-the-box idea for you, how about the former governor of Indiana, Mitch Daniels," Rove said Wednesday on "Newsmax Prime" with J.D. Hayworth.
"[He's] done an exemplary job serving in the Reagan administration, serving in the Bush administration, serving as an eight-year very successful governor of a Midwestern state.
"And is now taking a strong role in reforming our education as the president of Purdue University. Anybody would be well-advised to look at him as a VP running mate."
Daniels, 66, served as governor of Indiana from 2005 to 2013. He considered a 2012 presidential run, but bowed out early citing family and personal concerns. His name was also briefly voted as a potential presidential candidate this year.
Nicknamed "The Blade" by President George W. Bush when he was director of Office of Management and Budget from 2001 to 2003, Daniels also was also a member of the National Security Council and the Homeland Security Council.
While Rove likes Daniels, he said he was one of many candidates qualified to back up the next commander-in-chief.
"Obviously every person who's running for president gets to be seriously considered, but I'm giving you the out-of-box idea here as a Thanksgiving eve present," Rove said."
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One month after 911 Saudi Prince in press release said US actions led to attacks, US should reconsider Mid East policies-NY Times
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Oct. 2001: Saudi Prince Alwaleed issued a press release in NY City stating that US policies led to the attack: "We must address some of the issues that led to such a criminal attack. I believe the government of the United States of America should re-examine its policies in the Middle East."...
Image caption: "One month after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal of Saudi Arabia, chairman of Kingdom Holding Company, right, hands New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, a check for $10 million for relief efforts on Thursday, October 11, 2001, in New York. Prince Alwaleed, a member of the Saudi royal family who was sixth on Forbes magazine's list of the world's richest men for 2001, also visited ground zero. (AP Photo/Stan Honda, pool)"
10/11/2001, "Giuliani Says City Won't Accept $10 Million Check From Saudi," NY Times, Jennifer Steinhauer
"Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani said today that New York City would not accept a $10 million charitable donation from a wealthy prince from Saudi Arabia who criticized the American government's policies in the Middle East.
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Oct. 2001: Saudi Prince Alwaleed issued a press release in NY City stating that US policies led to the attack: "We must address some of the issues that led to such a criminal attack. I believe the government of the United States of America should re-examine its policies in the Middle East."...
Image caption: "One month after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal of Saudi Arabia, chairman of Kingdom Holding Company, right, hands New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, a check for $10 million for relief efforts on Thursday, October 11, 2001, in New York. Prince Alwaleed, a member of the Saudi royal family who was sixth on Forbes magazine's list of the world's richest men for 2001, also visited ground zero. (AP Photo/Stan Honda, pool)"
10/11/2001, "Giuliani Says City Won't Accept $10 Million Check From Saudi," NY Times, Jennifer Steinhauer
"Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani said today that New York City would not accept a $10 million charitable donation from a wealthy prince from Saudi Arabia who criticized the American government's policies in the Middle East.
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Prince Alwaleed bin Talal bin Abdul Aziz Alsaud... attended a memorial service at the site today, where he handed
the mayor a check for $10 million for the Twin Towers Fund, one of
various charity funds set up to benefit survivors of the attack.
Mr. Giuliani initially accepted the check....Along with
it was a letter from the prince, in which he expressed his condolences
for "the loss of life that the City of New York has suffered."...
What the letter did not say was what a press release
attached to a copy of the letter did:
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"However, at times like this one,
we must address some of the issues that led to such a criminal attack. I
believe the government of the United States of America should
re-examine its policies in the Middle East and adopt a more balanced
stance towards the Palestinian cause." The press release attributed the
statement to the prince.
"'Our Palestinian brethren continue to be
slaughtered at the hands of Israelis while the world turns the other
cheek,' Prince Alwaleed stressed," the release read....
The mayor, who had been told of the press release
just moments before his daily briefing but after receiving the check,
was visibly annoyed by it. "I entirely reject that statement," he said....
"There is no moral equivalent for this act," the
mayor said. "There is no justification for it....
And to suggest that there's a
justification for it only invites this happening in the future. It is
highly irresponsible and very, very dangerous."...
His press office released a statement attributed to the mayor that the
check would not be accepted....
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The (Prince's) letter added, "I would also like to condemn all
forms of terrorism and in doing so I am reiterating Saudi Arabia's
strong stance against these tragic and horrendous acts."...
A spokesman for the prince, Amjed Shacker, who was
reached on his cell phone as he prepared to board a plane for Saudi
Arabia, said he knew of no such rejection and indeed seemed perplexed to
learn of it. "The mayor took the check at 9 a.m.," he said. "We have no
knowledge of that. He accepted the check."...
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CNN article, 10/12/2001 includes additional Giuliani response to Saudi Prince press release: "I think not only are those statements wrong, they're part of the problem....One of the reasons I think this happened is because people were
engaged in moral equivalency in not understanding the difference between
liberal democracies like the United States, like Israel, and terrorist
states and those who condone terrorism."
10/12/2001, "Giuliani rejects $10 million from Saudi prince," CNN
"Mayor Rudy Giuliani said Thursday the city would not accept a $10 million donation for disaster relief from Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal after the prince suggested U.S. policies in the Middle East contributed to the September 11 attacks.
"I entirely reject that statement," Giuliani said. "There is no moral equivalent for this [terrorist] act. There is no justification for it. The people who did it lost any right to ask for justification for it when they slaughtered 4,000 or 5,000 innocent people."
Prince Alwaleed gave the mayor a check after a Thursday morning memorial service at Ground Zero, the site of the World Trade Center towers destroyed in the attacks.
The prince offered his condolences to the people of New York, but after the ceremony he released a statement suggesting the United States "must address some of the issues that led to such a criminal attack."
"The check has not been deposited. The Twin Towers Fund has not accepted it," Giuliani said in a statement late Thursday.
The prince's statement said the United States "should re-examine its policies in the Middle East and adopt a more balanced stand toward the Palestinian cause.
"While the U.N. passed clear resolutions numbered 242 and 338 calling for the Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank and Gaza Strip decades ago, our Palestinian brethren continue to be slaughtered at the hands of Israelis while the world turns the other cheek," the statement said.
Giuliani flatly rejected the prince's position. "To suggest that there's a justification for [the terrorist attacks] only invites this happening in the future," he said. "It is highly irresponsible and very, very dangerous.
"And one of the reasons I think this happened is because people were engaged in moral equivalency in not understanding the difference between liberal democracies like the United States, like Israel, and terrorist states and those who condone terrorism.
"So I think not only are those statements wrong, they're part of the problem," Giuliani said."
10/12/2001, "Giuliani rejects $10 million from Saudi prince," CNN
"Mayor Rudy Giuliani said Thursday the city would not accept a $10 million donation for disaster relief from Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal after the prince suggested U.S. policies in the Middle East contributed to the September 11 attacks.
"I entirely reject that statement," Giuliani said. "There is no moral equivalent for this [terrorist] act. There is no justification for it. The people who did it lost any right to ask for justification for it when they slaughtered 4,000 or 5,000 innocent people."
Prince Alwaleed gave the mayor a check after a Thursday morning memorial service at Ground Zero, the site of the World Trade Center towers destroyed in the attacks.
The prince offered his condolences to the people of New York, but after the ceremony he released a statement suggesting the United States "must address some of the issues that led to such a criminal attack."
"The check has not been deposited. The Twin Towers Fund has not accepted it," Giuliani said in a statement late Thursday.
The prince's statement said the United States "should re-examine its policies in the Middle East and adopt a more balanced stand toward the Palestinian cause.
"While the U.N. passed clear resolutions numbered 242 and 338 calling for the Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank and Gaza Strip decades ago, our Palestinian brethren continue to be slaughtered at the hands of Israelis while the world turns the other cheek," the statement said.
Giuliani flatly rejected the prince's position. "To suggest that there's a justification for [the terrorist attacks] only invites this happening in the future," he said. "It is highly irresponsible and very, very dangerous.
"And one of the reasons I think this happened is because people were engaged in moral equivalency in not understanding the difference between liberal democracies like the United States, like Israel, and terrorist states and those who condone terrorism.
"So I think not only are those statements wrong, they're part of the problem," Giuliani said."
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