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Home Front: Politix
Huffpoo Blog Suggests Taking Away White Men's Right to Vote
[Free Beacon] A blog post published Thursday on the Huffington Post's South African version of the site advocated stripping white men of their right to vote.

Shelley Garland is an activist and feminist completing a Master of Arts degree in philosophy and "working on ways to smash the patriarchy."

"Could It Be Time to Deny White Men the Franchise?" she asked Thursday in the title of her blog post.

"It is time to wrestle control of the world back from white males, and the first step will be a temporary restriction of the franchise to them," according to Garland.

"If white men no longer had the vote, the progressive cause would be strengthened," she explained. "It would not be necessary to deny white men indefinitely‐the denial of the vote to white men for 20 years (just less than a generation) would go some way to seeing a decline in the influence of reactionary and neo-liberal ideology in the world."
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/14/2017 04:52 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Most are keenly aware it is not simply the white man's vote that they wish to take away.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/14/2017 5:07 Comments || Top||

#2  If white men no longer had the vote, the progressive cause would be strengthened,"

Well, Ms. Garland, you might consider moving to South Africa; it might be more to your liking. File under racist, sexist, white hater, misguided, misanthropic twit.
Posted by: JohnQC || 04/14/2017 9:03 Comments || Top||

#3  The sexism, racism and hatred have really been exposed for progressives.

She should be careful who she pushes. Some men do not respond diplomatically to threats.
Posted by: DarthVader || 04/14/2017 9:44 Comments || Top||

#4  In South Africa this is a real possibility, another step in the devolution of the country and a sign for the white folk to sell out for what they can get and take themselves elsewhere. But when the same thing is written in America, it is click bait and wishful thinking.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/14/2017 11:43 Comments || Top||

#5  As long as they take away the obligation for white males to be taxed...
Posted by: Pappy || 04/14/2017 11:55 Comments || Top||

#6  And to serve in the military...
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 04/14/2017 13:37 Comments || Top||

#7  Well, Ms. Garland, you might consider moving to South Africa; it might be more to your liking.

She is South African.
Posted by: Zhang Fei || 04/14/2017 16:04 Comments || Top||

#8  Google images of Shelley Garland Huffington Post

Notice anything strange about "her"?
Posted by: Short Bluetooth4383 || 04/14/2017 16:09 Comments || Top||

#9  Google images of Shelley Garland Huffington Post

Don't do it - its a trap!

anyone have any eye bleach?
Posted by: CrazyFool || 04/14/2017 17:03 Comments || Top||

#10  That's a man...
Posted by: Crusader || 04/14/2017 17:04 Comments || Top||

#11  Dumbest article I've read in a long time.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 04/14/2017 17:14 Comments || Top||


Hollywood Celebrity Sends Voters to Georgia Polls on Wrong Day
[Free Beacon] Hollywood celebrity Chelsea Handler has helped Georgia Democrat Jon Ossoff reach record fundraising levels with her contributions, but she doesn't even know when the election is.

Handler demonstrated this Tuesday when she invited her nearly seven million Twitter followers to get out and vote for Ossoff--even though the election isn't taking place until next week on April 18.

The errant message likely didn't cause too much confusion for southern voters in Georgia, who appear less energized about next week's election than residents of liberal bastions like Hollywood. Ninety-five percent of contributions to Ossoff's campaign--including $2,700 from Handler--have come from sources outside of Georgia.

Handler's sudden interest in the Southern election comes a year after she revealed in an interview with NBC's Matt Lauer that she associates racism with "really like dumb ... people from the South."

Handler is far from the only Hollywood celebrity who has taken an interest in the 30-year-old former congressional staffer and investigative filmmaker for Al Jazeera.

Other celebrities contributing to Ossoff's effort include Ashton Kutcher's Two and a Half Men costar Jon Cryer, Rosie O'Donnell, Debra Messing, George Takei, John Leguizamo, Sam Waterston, and Kristen Bell.

Ossoff has received financial support from less-well-known members of the Hollywood scene such as Shannon Fitzgerald, a reality television producer who claims to have "discovered the Kardashian family." Fitzgerald held a fundraiser for Ossoff last month in Los Angeles.

Fitzgerald cohosted the fundraiser with Rose McGowan, who made her film debut in Encino Man before starring in Jawbreaker and the television show Charmed.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/14/2017 04:39 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Hollyweird and the dems have flooded local Atlanta teevee with Ossoff adds. I don't believe the little 30 year old rodent has a snowball's chance in hell. He does however, bear a striking, younger brother resemblance to Carlos Danger.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/14/2017 5:48 Comments || Top||

#2  From his website: "Today, I lead a company that investigates corrupt politicians and organized crime." I wonder if he will turn his sights on the corruption in his own party? What was I thinking? Color me naïve.
Posted by: JohnQC || 04/14/2017 9:20 Comments || Top||

#3  Chelsea Handler has helped Georgia Democrat Jon Ossoff reach record fundraising levels with her contributions, but she doesn't even know when the election is.

Thank God these Hollywood celebs would have trouble organizing a one-person parade.
Posted by: JohnQC || 04/14/2017 9:26 Comments || Top||

#4  Hollywood celebrity Chelsea Handler has helped Georgia Democrat Jon Ossoff reach record fundraising levels with her contributions, but she doesn't even know when the election is.

Reasonably attractive lady, and on rare occasion even vaguely amusing, but she doesn't have the brains the Good Lord gave a softball.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 04/14/2017 10:21 Comments || Top||

#5  Remember she called the FLOTUS an ignorant immigrant.
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 04/14/2017 13:15 Comments || Top||


UK's GCHQ spooks were first to spot Trump team's links with Russia
[Guardian] Britain’s spy agencies played a crucial role in alerting their counterparts in Washington to contacts between members of Donald Trump’s campaign team and Russian intelligence operatives, the Guardian has been told.
'Played Crucial role?' I could have sworn less than a month ago, the Guardian printed a categorical denial of such monitoring activities. Yes, here it is, "Utterly Ridiculous" you say. Bloodly hell! I'll put 5 quid on 'Crucial Role' in the fourth at Fakenham.
Note the very passive voice. Who, pray tell, said or wrote the words about this thing that the Guardian is now reporting?
GCHQ first became aware in late 2015 of suspicious "interactions" between figures connected to Trump and known or suspected Russian agents, a source close to UK intelligence said. This intelligence was passed to the US as part of a routine exchange of information, they added.
Yes, 'routine', nothing special here. We always collect and disseminate the mundane and routine. Move along please.
Over the next six months, until summer 2016, a number of western agencies shared further information on contacts between Trump’s inner circle and Russians, sources said.
A 'high five' to our perfidious cousins. Please keep up the effort and by the way, we may have some Requests For Information (RFI) coming your way.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/14/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Please ignore the smoke. There is no fire, you'll see.

Appears Judge Nap wasn't far off the mark after all.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/14/2017 8:01 Comments || Top||

#2  Note the very passive voice. Who, pray tell, said or wrote the words about this thing that the Guardian is now reporting?

Someone who knows they may soon be discovered and needs to install a bit of historical fact spiced with braggadocious smuggery as cover. 'First' I tell you, first, FIRST !
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/14/2017 8:10 Comments || Top||

#3  GCHQ first became aware in late 2015 of suspicious "interactions" between figures connected to Trump and known or suspected Russian agents, a source close to UK intelligence said. This intelligence was passed to the US as part of a routine exchange of information, they added.

Could you please flesh this out for the American people? You know answers to usual simple questions such as "Who? What? Where? When? Why? Impacts?" If this is not done, it is just innuendo, hearsay, and political smear.

We still haven't heard anything about any investigations into Hillary's relationships with Russia such as the selling to them of 20% of our uranium.
Posted by: JohnQC || 04/14/2017 8:33 Comments || Top||

#4  Guardian, BBC, MOD, GCHQ and MI6, thanks for coming. Obviously introductions are unnecessary, so let's get right to work shall we ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/14/2017 9:08 Comments || Top||

#5  Grauniad is a fakenews specialist
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 04/14/2017 10:12 Comments || Top||

#6  I still want to know why we're all pretending that what Hillary did to GIVE AWAY national security secrets isn't worth a trial and then followed by a sentence commensurate with the crimes committed?
Posted by: Crusader || 04/14/2017 17:28 Comments || Top||


John C. Velisek USN Ret: The Trump-Russian Collusion Lie
[Intellectual Conservative] It has been an interesting couple of weeks to say the least. The collusion being endlessly touted by the progressive/socialists and the media between the Trump administration and the Russians has been blown out of the water. CNN, NBC, ABC, and the New York Times are all showing righteous indignation about the collusion that never was. Yet they are unsurprisingly quiet about the information that Nunes may have. They will be vocal about how he got the information, in the hope to drown out what that information may say.

In the lead is Rep. Adam Schiff, a Democrat that shills from California and ranking member of the House Intelligence committee. He declared to all that there Circumstantial evidence of collusion and direct evidence of deception. After the release of the papers that Rep. Nunes was given, Schiff now says there is no definitive proof. Of course, the media played tape constantly of Schiff in the beginning, but have strangely gone silent now. Even members of the entire Intelligence committee have said that they doubt they will find a smoking gun. Perhaps that is because there isn’t one.

The White House invited members of both the House and Senate Intelligence Committees to view the documents. There has been no word from Congressman shill Adam Schiff on whether it was the "more than circumstantial evidence" that he claimed to have.

And then there is Evelyn Farkas, a former member of the Obama administration and a Clinton campaign adviser who admitted to urging the Obama administration to gather intelligence on the Trump administration it could find. It appears that the past administration had already started before this, but this is just another example out in the open of the crimes committed by the Obama administration. In her own words-

"I was urging my former colleagues and, frankly speaking, the people on the Hill, to get as much information as you can, before President Obama leaves office, Because I had a fear that somehow that information would disappear with the senior Obama people who left so it would be hidden away. That the Trump folks-if they found out how we knew what we knew about the Trump staff dealing with the Russians they would try to compromise these sources and methods"

Now why would someone such as Ms. Farkas, who was no longer in government have any information pertaining to intelligence gathering, and have the ability to send such a message to those in intelligence communities and those on "the Hill"?
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/14/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  There has been no word from Congressman shill Adam Schiff

If I were never to see or hear from him again, I'd consider it a rich blessing.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/14/2017 4:32 Comments || Top||

#2  The progressive/socialists are adept at spin and lying to achieve their ends. Once they put the lie in the echo chamber of the left-controlled MSM, some begin to fall for the lie--It's right out of Goebbel's playbook.

Besoeker, ditto your comment about Shill Schiff.
Posted by: JohnQC || 04/14/2017 8:21 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Iran is trying to provoke a Russia-US hot war in Syria
An interesting take on the events
When you boil Syria down to its principal players, there are only three: Russia, the United States and the Islamic Republic of Iran. With Assad’s chemical attack, people have been misdirected from the reality by blaming the powerless Assad. But Assad doesn’t mvoe without direct Iranian permission. So, the real question is why did Iran launch a chemical weapons attack?

The answer is simple: Iran desperately needs Russia and the United States to get into a hot war in Syria so as to enable Iran to pick up the shattered pieces. In contrast, the United States and Russia desperately need each other to defeat Iran’s waxing neo-Safavidic Empire from stretching from Iran to the Eastern Mediterranean Sea.
Not sure I'm going with this - if there's a hot war between Russia and USA in Syria,
there will be no pieces to pick up
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/14/2017 02:57 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  I think this is entirely plausible. Iran's desire to control topography from Tehran to Med is well-known. Also well-known: Arab hostility to that happening. USA and Russia have at least equal reason to defeat Salafi Jihad and Iranian Jihad. Russia even more than USA, perhaps, considering Europe is now Salafi, mirroring Salafi threat to Russia's east.

So this man's analysis, which I read through, makes sense to me. It also calls to my mind the Three Brothers Doctrine I have mentioned in these precincts once or twice before: http://theological-geography.net/?s=three+brothers
Posted by: TopRev || 04/14/2017 14:26 Comments || Top||

#2  I think this is entirely plausible

More like possible, as in "anything is possible".
Posted by: Pappy || 04/14/2017 15:57 Comments || Top||

#3  Two Christian nations fighting it out, possibly one to the death and the "survivor" with extreme casualties.

Cui bono?
Posted by: Blossom Unains5562 || 04/14/2017 16:52 Comments || Top||


Government
New Klingon Chancellor: WikiLeaks a 'non-state hostile intelligence service'
[The Hill] CIA Director Mike Pompeo on Thursday hammered WikiLeaks, calling the organization a "non-state hostile intelligence service."

Certainly 'hostile' to the Deep State. Sadly, the agency 'Obama hold-over' assimilation program appears to be working.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/14/2017 05:20 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Pay no mind to our appalling Operational Security (OPSEC) profile or the endless queue of whistleblowers. We will tell you what to believe.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/14/2017 5:39 Comments || Top||

#2  All they told was the truth. No wonder they're pissed.

The democrats never denied anything that came out of them. Telling.
Posted by: Harcourt Angoluting9366 || 04/14/2017 7:55 Comments || Top||

#3  Had Assange not spilled the beans and released Podesta's emails, we would have ended up with Hillary as POTUS. What would that be like about now? IMO, we'd all be seeking shelter somewhere. Soros' crazy progressive notions would be making huge inroads into gnawing away at our culture and society. We'd be flooded with illegals from everywhere. The Clinton Foundation and its corruption would be on steroids.
Posted by: JohnQC || 04/14/2017 9:09 Comments || Top||



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Tue 2017-04-11
  ISIS shells east of Mosul with chlorine gas, 10 casualties
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