KABUL (REUTERS) - Afghan President Ashraf Ghani gave his first indication on Sunday that vice President Abdul Rashid Dostum could be allowed to return from exile after days of protests by the former warlord's supporters.
Ethnic Uzbek leader Dostum was forced into exile last year over accusations of human rights abuse, settling in Turkey.
In recent days supporters of Dostum's Junbish-i Milli party have staged protests across northern Afghanistan, blocking major highways and shutting down government buildings including electoral offices.
Speaking at a news conference in Kabul, Ghani said Dostum's case was under consideration and "the possibility of his return has increased."
"His case has a legal aspect and it is with the attorney general," he said, promising more information later.
Dostum, a great survivor of Afghanistan's turbulent politics who has faced multiple accusations of human rights abuses over decades, denies accusations that he ordered his guards to kidnap, beat and sexually abuse a political rival. He has not been charged.
Kabul's international partners including the United States have demanded that Dostum face justice. Last year he flew to Turkey, ostensibly for medical treatment, and has not returned since.
However, while in exile Dostum has kept his formal title of vice president and his influence among the ethnic Uzbeks of northern Afghanistan has remained strong, fueled by growing enmity among the country's mix of different ethnic groups including Pashtuns and Persian-speaking Tajiks and Hazaras.
With parliamentary elections due in October ahead of the more important presidential vote next year, tensions have risen sharply as Afghanistan's political strongmen position themselves and the cracks in Ghani's unwieldy unity government widen.
On Saturday, a meeting of the main parties demanded that voter registrations be annulled because of concerns over electoral fraud, a demand Ghani angrily rejected, pledging the elections would go ahead as planned.
Although Dostum joined Ghani as one of two vice presidents in the national unity government formed after the disputed 2014 presidential election, he has always been an uncomfortable partner.
[Zero Hedge] In my last post I set out the official Government account of the events in the Skripal Case. Here I examine the credibility of this story. Next week I shall look at alternative explanations.
Later they kissed and made up. But before that, at that NATO summit in Brussels, President Trump let them know who’s boss.
No more rolling over...and while he was respectful to the Queen, and contrary to the habits of his predecessor, he did not bow.
He focused on Angela Merkel, since she represents them all. He schooled her for double-dealing ‐ that pipeline to Russia that puts Germany at the mercy of Putin who can turn off the energy spigot any time he wants, and then who ya gonna call? The United States, of course, which will have to come to the rescue, as usual.
Which is why the 28 heads of the EU circle around Trump like small trembling fish around a Whale. Twice before America had to put Humpty Dumpty together again.
So Merkel makes that deal with Russia and then expects the United States to continue paying most of the tab for NATO, which exists as a deterrent against Russia.
#5
To listen to the Dems and left wing media after the Trump-Putin news conference, one would wonder who I was talking about in #1. The Deepstate reacts and is sniping at Trump. Shepard Smith is also carrying water for the Deepstate on Fox at this moment. He is fairly unbalanced.
Although Germany's entire defense budget is $42 billion, it is as Donald Trump provocatively observed, only twice as much -- approximately $21 billion -- as it pays to Russia in gas purchases. The facts are stark. "About 35% of Germany’s gas is imported from Russia, and fracking is banned at least until 2021. A former Chancellor of Germany sits on the Gazprom board." At a time when Putin is the international bad guy it's disturbingly hard to deny that much of his bankroll originates in Europe.
Merkel is certainly intellectually aware of the facts. In light of her country's energy dependency on Russia she warned that "all of Germany's energy policies must be reconsidered." But Merkel is captive to Germany's politics, bound by its "Energiewende policy involving phasing out nuclear power by 2023 and increasing its reliance on solar and wind power." Although fracking may provide a a technical escape from dependence on Russia it is a political impossibility.
...This mirrors the broader political situation on a continent that is both energy poor and rich in environmental zeal. "The EU is the largest energy importer in the world, importing 53% of its energy, at an annual cost of around €400 billion. ... The EU has .... an emissions trading system ... to counter climate change, and a major factor in EU energy policy. " The one constrains the other. But as with Germany, the tightness of the bonds varies by locality. Poland and other eastern European countries -- probably with the memory of the Soviet era still vivid -- are more willing to rely on coal and possibly shale gas "as a higher priority than CO2 reduction."
But in Western Europe things are different. There the long shadow of the anti-nuclear movement hangs over the electorate. Even considering non-carbon energy sources, it's interesting to compare French and German nuclear energy choices. "Nuclear power is a major source of energy in France, with a 40% share of energy consumption in 2015 ... the largest source of electricity in the country, with .... 76.3% of the country's total production of 546 TWh, the highest percentage in the world". By contrast German nuclear power is in the process of assisted suicide. "Nuclear power in Germany accounted for 17.7% of national electricity supply in 2011, compared to 22.4% in 2010. ... As of 2017, the share of nuclear power in the electricity sector in the country is decreasing following the decision of a complete nuclear phase-out by the next decade."
A special report in the Economist notes the Germans bet big on solar and wind power without realizing the complications. "Wind and sunshine have two big drawbacks as sources of power. First, they are erratic. ... The second problem ... oddly, is that ... because their power is free at the margin [it] is pushing down the clearing price and bending Germany’s energy market out of shape." At the margin the two lowest bidders to supply the electric grid, to the horror of the environmentalists, are solar and lignite. Perhaps one of the most tragicomic consequences of Berlin's decision to stop coal production in 2018 was it forced them to import coal -- 25 percent of it from Russia.
[ATimes]
If fighting breaks out between Russia and its neighbors, the Baltic States are one of the likeliest battlegrounds. Various factors make this a tricky scenario for the NATO alliance.
Anti-NATO mood, doubts about Germany
An even greater problem for the United States is why it should fight, especially if the unfolding situation is hybrid in character, or if the local states provoke matters with the Russians, as seems potentially likely the case in the power grid controversy. Today’s mood in Washington is not too friendly to NATO or to Europeans, who have not lived up to their agreed obligations and who have diluted NATO by setting up a separate and independent European command with an unclear mandate.
Then there is, in the background. the very real problem that key NATO allies could be put out of business by only the turn of a gas valve by the Russians. Germany, as US President Donald Trump recently noted, is 70% dependent on Russian natural gas that it needs to run industries, generate electricity and heat homes. Even if Washington had an inclination to fight in Poland or the Balkans, there is a very good chance its most important strategically positioned ally, Germany, won’t.
The US cannot support the Balkans or Poland without the Germans because Germany is a vital staging ground. Nor can NATO’s Article 5 work without 100% consensus. Germany presents a real problem and President Trump has laid it bare.
Without a radical upgrade in NATO’s posture and serious allied cooperation (not just some token troops rotating in and out of the Balkans), the US may not fight the next war in Europe since: NATO won’t necessarily agree; it is likely Germany might not cooperate; and the American people may see no upside to getting into a shooting war with Russia.
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There are currently German NATO troops stationed in Lithuania.
And no, Germany isn't 70% dependent on Russian gas. Germany imports about 40% of its gas from Russia, but gas only accounts for about 20% of German energy consumption. Germany can certainly not be put out of business by only the turn of a gas valve by the Russians. Actually Germany could live with a total Russian gas embargo of currently 5 months without feeling any pain. And yes, even in winter.
After that, enough alternatives could be found. Russia would be a lot more affected by a gas embargo. It depends a lot more on trade with Germany than the other way round.
Btw I don't think that Russia would invade the Baltic countries. It would once again be on fiercely hostile territory and lose EU trade. Poland? Even less.
Russia has a long term strategy of destabilizing the EU and NATO.
But if Russia invades a NATO country there is no doubt that Germany would honor Article 5.
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After that, enough alternatives could be found.
Build some more windmills wind turbines then - that'll work just dandy.
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Germany imports about 40% of its gas from Russia, but gas only accounts for about 20% of German energy consumption.
You forgot 40% of German oil imports are from Russia. Oil accounts for 33% of total German energy consumption but near zero production. That means over 20% of total German energy supplies are from Russia. Even more of the on-demand energy consumption if solar, wind and decommissioning nuclear power plants are removed.
That's quite the pretty pfennig Germans pay to Russia every year. Probably enough to warm Vlad's cold heart.
#15
Even if the numbers aren't 100%, the facts are the same.
Germany is super dependent on Russian energy sources, doesn't fund NATO well and has let their military slide to the point that it couldn't repel several grumpy cub scout troops.
England doesn't have much of a navy anymore as they had to mothball a lot of it to pay for their new carrier that still isn't operational.
The French would most likely be French and not really provide much support.
Italy is too broke to help.
Turkey is now hostile to the west.
Greece ain't doin' shit as it is pointing its guns at the Turks.
NATO is like a faberge egg. Looks pretty, but the shell is weak and there is nothing inside to hold it together. Putin is well aware of this and Trump has publicly called out the lie that was being put forth by the "elite".
That right there is the military situation in Europe.
#16
Can EC sell Europe to 'Merica?
Will Merkel look well in a burka?
Folks, tune in tomorrow,
Come joy or come sorrow...
And fire up the ol' Buna-Werke!
#17
Oil is a fungible commodity. Russia is currently the most important supplier for Germany, but only one of 23 different countries exporting oil to Germany. There are international stock exchanges for oil, which is often transported by ship. German importers could simply buy it elsewhere on the world market.
No dependency at all.
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German importers could simply buy it elsewhere on the world market.
Really? Even though all of the oil produced are already sold under contracts to other buyers? How long would Germany have to wait in order to get an oil contract delivered? My guess is years, unless they are willing to outbid for an expiring existing contract.
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And don't forget: Russia depends a lot more on trade with Germany than the other way round.
Russia also has the reputation of being a reliable supplier. Even in the Cold War the USSR always honored its commitments.
Breaking them would be a disaster for their economy. Energy and arms is all they have to trade.
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Russia cut off supply to Ukraine for non payment
just makes one wonder why Germany is allowing itself to be so dependent, while planning to shut down it's nuclear plants so there won't be any back up.
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Suppose the population controlled by the piratical beys of North Africa had tried swarming into France, Italy, and Spain in 1809 or thereabouts. What would have happened to them? It probably wouldn't have been pretty, even though the French, British, Portuguese, Neapolitans, and Spanish were busy butchering each other at the time.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Thousands take the serious risk of sailing into the Mediterranean, although they know that it may be difficult to survive the journey. They take advantage of the instability in Libya, making it their starting point towards European luxury. What is strange or probably confusing is that if you ask these people about the atheistic West, they will insult, degrade and condemn it. The question is thus why do they wish to go there and risk their lives to get there? Frankly, I cannot understand this irrational and contradictory logic which is both funny and appalling.
It becomes more confusing when you hear some of the preachers of Europe ...also known as Moslem Lebensraum... as they exploit the advantages of democracy and freedoms of speech and expression ‐ and which are guaranteed to everyone there even to foreign immigrants colonists ‐ to insult atheists. When the populist right in Europe demands to stop immigration even if it requires armed force, Arabs and Moslems in Europe begin to complain and describe those making these calls as racists and intolerant. What’s really funny is that they’d also accuse the West of being undemocratic!
I don’t blame them as if I were European, I would not hesitate standing against immigration and against receiving these people whom the roots of their culture are based on hating non-Moslems.
Mohammed Al Sheikh
To be frank, I don’t blame them as if I were European, I would not hesitate standing against immigration and against receiving these people whom the roots of their culture are based on hating non-Moslems. Examples of this in our heritage are many and different, especially among those who know nothing about loyalty and kindness to those who had no enmity for them or for their religion. Unlike what the divine command of the holy Koran stipulates, they respond to the noble and humanitarian positions with arrogance and denial, and even with trying hard to destabilize and affect the security of these societies; in a way that the West cannot accept. I believe that Arabs and specially the krazed killerMoslems are totally engrossed in the culture of hatred and aversion.
These contradictory feelings , between hatred on one side and sacrificing the most precious thing any person has, which is his life, to be able to live in these societies which he hates in order to enjoy their luxury, security and stability needs a socio-psychological study. If you hate certain people and consider them enemies to your religion and identity, then why do you do your best to live among them? Some might justify this action by saying that they (the West) are racists, and they hate foreigners and hate Islam and Moslems. Fine, just to be fair and logical, put yourself in their shoes! Why do you ask others to treat you in the way you are not treating them? Don’t the ancient Arabs say: Kindness should be repaid by kindness. Where is the kindness here?
I say it out loud, the populism waves that have started to emerge in Western societies are justified as it is kind of mutual treatment, and did not emerge without reason or justification.
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#1
Gee, why do you hate the people who just want to come take over your country, rape your women, destroy your culture and replicate their third-world shithole home in your country. Oh and they also want to kill or enslave you. Yeah, can't get why you'd hate and want to keep such people out.
#2
If you hate certain people and consider them enemies to your religion and identity, then why do you do your best to live among them?
I've never seen a decent rebuttal to The Project, a Muslim brotherhood publication discovered around 1984 in Switzerland. It purported an 100-year overthrow of the West. Has this been thoroughly discredited?
#4
1 They are colonists not migrants
2 They are parasitic and live on benefit jizya
3 they bring a whole extended family of parasites
4 they are generally genetically costly due to cousin marriage
5 the excess in extreme crimes
6 they bring their tribal culture with them which is not compatible with reciprocal civilized culture
#6
We have had Arab and Muslim migration for a long time. There has been, in the past, an expectation that migrants will assimilate and become a part of American culture and for the most part, and IMO it has worked up until recently. Groups pushing "Open borders" and unrestricted immigration have influenced and distorted the process.
As I recall, Fairbanks, something similar was found at a raided CAIR site in the U.S. Recall, CAIR is the public face of the Muslim Brotherhood in the U.S.
[Hot Air] On Friday evening there was a story at Politico which didn’t seem to gain much traction, what with all of the Trump activity going on. Congressman Elija Cummings (D-Md) is the ranking member on the House Oversight Committee and he’s demanding that committee chair Trey Gowdy issue a subpoena to the EPA over their handling of both FOIA submissions and requests from Congress for documents, saying that Scott Pruitt’s administration was "screening" requests based on political sensitivity.
These were all part of a skyrocketing number of such requests the EPA has received under the Trump administration, but we’ll have more on that below. So what was this new, secret program to allow the EPA to "screen" incoming requests?
Hot Air has received a copy of both Cummings’ letter to the EPA as well as the response sent to Cummings this weekend from Kevin Minoli, EPA’s Principal Deputy General Counsel and Designated Ethics Official. First, let’s have a look at the introductory portion of Cummings letter and what he’s clearly implying with his demand for a subpoena.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - When it became clear that President Donald Trump was seriously considering nominating Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court, the conservative judge’s former law clerks swung into action as among his most energetic public cheerleaders.
But in making the case for him in the media on issues including his stance toward abortion, healthcare and an expansive view of religious liberty, they may have opened up lines of attack on Kavanaugh by Democrats and liberal advocacy groups seeking to derail his nomination in the U.S. Senate.
Trump named Kavanaugh, 53, on July 9 to replace retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy. Before he can assume the lifetime job on the nine-member court, the Senate must vote to confirm him. No date has yet been set for the customary Judiciary Committee confirmation hearings.
Kavanaugh has served for 12 years on an influential federal appeals court in Washington. Several of the 48 lawyers who served as his clerks - a year-long job working for a judge, usually straight out of law school - appeared on cable TV shows, wrote opinion articles and spoke to reporters, often trying to shore up support among conservatives.
Their comments may have helped Kavanaugh’s cause before Trump nominated him by pushing back on complaints by some conservatives that the judge would not lean far enough to the right on social issues like abortion as well as on a conservative legal challenge to the Obamacare healthcare law.
But the chief threat to Trump’s nominee now is the Democratic campaign to block Kavanaugh’s confirmation in a Senate in which the president’s fellow Republicans hold a slim 51-49 majority.
Of the 48 clerks, 34 signed a letter calling for the Senate to confirm his appointment. Many secured prestigious Supreme Court clerkships after working for Kavanaugh and subsequently landed jobs at law firms, law schools and in government.
[The Hill] Veteran reporter Carl Bernstein on Sunday said special counsel Robert Mueller's recent indictment of 12 Russian intelligence officials proves his probe is "not a witch hunt."
"Indeed, the president’s object has been throughout to make this appear as a witch hunt," Bernstein said on CNN's "Reliable Sources."
"It is now demonstrable to all, for all to see, this is not a witch hunt," Bernstein continued.
Bernstein's comments come two days after Rosenstein announced Mueller's indictment of the Russian officials for conspiring to influence the 2016 presidential election.
Eleven of the defendants are charged with conspiring to hack into networks used by the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC). The other is charged with conspiring to hack into systems used to administer U.S. elections.
#1
Several others have said it is not a witch hunt. However, I'd bet that in the eyes of much of the American public, they view the investigation as a contrived, bogus witch hunt since the biggest witch has been largely ignored. The bogus investigation has been used to deflect, try to paint POTUS in a corner, and cover-up wrong-doing from the previous administration.
#3
What I find baffling in this Computer Age and expecting minimal degrees of BASIC Russian tradecraft in the spying business: How in the world could you be positive that these Russians did it and some random 'Ham Sandwich' didn't?
Mueller, show so spine: Indict Vladimir Putin!
#5
I can’t conceive a way reasonably competent Russian electronic intelligence agents could leave a trail that would identify themselves. But it is easy for them to do so intentionally- and it would make sense too. Quit bono?
#6
#5 I can’t conceive a way reasonably competent Russian electronic intelligence agents could leave a trail that would identify themselves.
I think the Russians are pretty competent when it comes to cyberspooking--little in the way of a trail left behind unless they want to.
I'd like to know about why the FBI showed so little curiosity about HRCs 30,000 missing emails, Weiner's computer, the DNC server and the flow of info out of her server to foreign entities.
As someone said, Hilda did what she did with her server because she was either incompetent and stupid or deliberate. I'd vote for deliberate. She was brazen and didn't think she would get caught. So far she has been correct.
#7
"However, I'd bet that in the eyes of much of the American public, they view the investigation as a contrived, bogus witch hunt"
I'd bet that when the subject of Mueller comes up the eyes of much of the American public glaze over.
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Bernstein -- almost five decades of being used as a Deep State Mouthpiece!
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What a cop out political POV from Bernstein. This has so obviously been a witch hunt. Their problem is that Trump isn't the witch no matter how hard they tried to find him to be. Its pure PR BS to "indict" these Russians-they will never come to trial. But it makes news and is an empty gesture to get those in the American public who don't understand the rules to think - wow, "if there are indictments, they must be on to something". Assuming these 12 were "Russian spies" , they were simply doing what spies do. And, since it happened on Obama's watch, the blame should be there but not with our twisted media types.
[American Thinker] President Trump’s diplomacy will continue to make America safe and strong, as long as he relies upon his own experience in negotiation and does not follow State Department guidance.
The majority of our 75,382 State Department employees do not support our president. Many are openly scornful. Several ambassadors, ready to retire anyway and with full pensions locked in, have resigned dramatically.
But because State Department protocols and diplomacy have failed us for decades ‐ in Libya, Syria, with the creation of ISIS, Russian expansion, and North Korean belligerence ‐ their "Resistance" has given President Trump the opportunity to do an end-run around them.
[WAPO] In response to Post opinion writer Paul Waldman’s essay about the current power of the minority in American politics, the American Enterprise Institute’s Norman Ornstein offered a stunning bit of data on Twitter.
In broad strokes, Ornstein is correct.
The Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service of the University of Virginia analyzed Census Bureau population projections to estimate each state’s likely population in 2040, including the expected breakdown of the population by age and gender. Although that data was released in 2016, before the bureau revised its estimates for the coming decades, we see that, in fact, the population will be heavily centered in a few states.
Eight states will have just under half of the total population of the country, 49.5 percent, according to the Weldon Cooper Center’s estimate. The next eight most populous states will account for an additional fifth of the population, up to 69.2 percent ‐ meaning that the 16 most populous states will be home to about 70 percent of Americans.
#8
Politicians in California seem to think that anybody in the whole wide world who wants to live here should be welcomed. That means sacrificing the quality of life that those of us who already live here enjoy. They are currently in the process of turning the entire state into one vast slum. The freeways are gridlocked and crumbling, we don't have enough water, schools and hospitals are vastly overcrowded and the politicians keep telling us we need more affordable housing so we can accept more people. But the more they build the higher the cost of housing rises. At the same time, people looking to escape the high taxes and the extraordinarily high cost of living are leaving the state. I can think of four families I know right now who are leaving. It all leads me to the conclusion that our politicians are either insane or crooked or both.
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The Senate and Electoral College shall thus be even more important against popular mobs in those mostly-blue states.
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Making predictions on trends continuing is foolish. At some point the Boomers living in NY and California are like to buy homes in red states so that their retirement money goes a lot, lot, further.
[Breitbart] During the Saturday MSNBC broadcast of "AM Joy," Janai Nelson, Associate Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense, argued it is "absolutely insane" that President Donald Trump is able to appoint a Supreme Court justice "when his entire authority is really suspect."
Nelson said Trump should not be able to nominate anyone while he is under investigation and the legitimacy of his presidency is in question.
"[I]t is absolutely insane to think that he can make a lifetime appointment to one of the most significant and important institutions in our democracy in this moment when his entire authority is really suspect," stated Nelson.
#3
Time to exclude the children -- Democrats -- from political power. They cannot gracefully accept losing an election, which indicates they don't really want to compete in a democratic republic but rather they want to be dictators. For their own safety, strip them of the franchise and forbid them from holding any office with more responsibility than cleaning feces off the strert.
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The unhinged left needs to get off that dime. Nothing is suspect except the whiney babies of the left who can't accept that they were outsmarted, outworked and unable to rig the election sufficiently to put a really poor candidate in office.
Donald Trump goes to Europe, scandalizes the Euroweenies, libs, and cruise-shilling grifters of Never Trump, and comes back victorious. He’s about to get his second SCOTUS justice confirmed ‐ all they have on Brett Kavanaugh is that he likes beer and is named "Brett." In Congress, the Democrats decided to go all in on abolishing ICE because Americans love open borders and welcome MS-13 or something. In the Mueller farce, the Dems decided that the smart play was to publicly run interference for creepy weirdo Peter Strzok when he went on national TV doing his impression of Lotion Boy from Silence of the Lambs.
...Look, I was not a Trump fan at the beginning ‐ I was anti-Trump but never Never Trump, both because I was Never Hillary and because I wasn’t a Beltway squishboy who would take his white paper and go home when my guy Ted Cruz lost. I just had no idea what to make of Trump at first because he didn’t look like any mainstream Republican I had seen in the last few decades. But then, I soon realized that he didn’t look like any mainstream Republican I had seen in the last few decades because he wasn’t a hapless loser. He was the anti-Jeb!.
...How did this guy win, and in doing so crush the avatar of the establishment, the smartest woman in the world, Felonia Milhous von Pantsuit? One of his secrets to success is really no secret at all. It is to embrace the obvious. Unlike our exhausted establishment, Trump rarely holds to bizarre, indefensible positions. You would think that would be an instinctive thing for politicians of both parties ‐ "I know! I’ll adopt stands on issues that won’t make my constituents ask ’What the hell is wrong with you?’" ‐ but it isn’t. Instead, the establishment has somehow talked itself into taking positions that are so clearly ridiculous that Normals scratch their heads, baffled at what they are being told by their betters via the lapdog liberal media.
...One of the secrets of Trump’s success is having really, really stupid enemies, enemies who are so tone-deaf and out-of-touch that they simply cannot adopt commonsense positions that resonate among normal Americans. The establishment instead insists on telling Americans that up is down, black is white, and girls can have penises. Nope. No wonder the Normals have gotten militant, and no wonder a leader like Donald Trump came along with the vision to exploit the opening the establishment left for an outsider to rise and prevail by embracing the obvious.
#4
#1 That's his skill and it takes a lot of brainpower to do that.
True, BP. But also greatly aided by the fact that the self-described "elites" (*spit*) value and promote idealogical conformity (whatever that happens to be this particular minute) over intelligence and skill.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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KABUL (REUTERS) - Afghan President Ashraf Ghani gave his first indication on Sunday that vice President Abdul Rashid Dostum could be allowed to return from exile after days of protests by the former warlord's supporters.
...also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
[Hot Air] On Friday evening there was a story at Politico which didn’t seem to gain much traction, what with all of the Trump activity going on. Congressman Elija Cummings (D-Md) is the ranking member on the House Oversight Committee and he’s demanding that committee chair Trey Gowdy issue a subpoena to the EPA over their handling of both FOIA submissions and requests from Congress for documents, saying that Scott Pruitt’s administration was "screening" requests based on political sensitivity. 
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - When it became clear that President Donald Trump was seriously considering nominating Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court, the conservative judge’s former law clerks swung into action as among his most energetic public cheerleaders.
[The Hill] Veteran reporter Carl Bernstein on Sunday said special counsel Robert Mueller's recent indictment of 12 Russian intelligence officials proves his probe is "not a witch hunt."
