PARTISAN 'AGENDA JOURNALISM' MUST STOP AT THE WATER'S EDGE!!

By Jonathan E.P. Moore, and Friends of America!

PARTISAN 'AGENDA JOURNALISM' MUST STOP AT THE WATER'S EDGE!! 

I’m watching the press conference with our President Trump in Poland, and thought about how Obama's first tour of the world was about apologizing to the world for America's magnanimous gestures by the American people, while coming to the aid of every tragedy, and conflict with no questions asked. Agenda Journalist didn’t disappoint, and asked our President Two Questions, which are all that’s allowed by each side of the

participating country’s media, and so, what did our bipartisan ‘Paid to Report’ Media choose to ask, and the world is watching!..... They asked about his tweets, and whether or not he believed that the Russians hacked our last election. ......Hmmm, are you telling me that with the importance of these meetings in the next couple of days, and the future of America, that that's all they got?

Does polarization in domestic politics affect foreign policy as well? There is a long-standing belief that it should not. A classic statement of that view can be found in the widely cited words of a leading Republican senator in the early days of the Cold War. Speaking in 1947, Sen. Arthur Vandenberg (Mich.), the influential chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, provided key support to Democratic President Harry S. Truman and admonished his colleagues that “We must stop partisan politics at the water’s edge.” 

I was listening to Chris Wallace (in my opinion not a Friend of President Trump) on FOX news and heard him commenting about how he couldn't believe that President Trump was bringing up CNN and the Russian hacking, but what Mr. Wallace either intentionally, or not doing his job, doesn't realize, President Trump was just answering the questions that were asked of the agenda journalists who were only allowed just two questions! Maybe, like during the campaign when the questions asked of Hillary Clinton were either pre-screened, planted, or given to her in advance would have been the way to go, and if Mr. Wallace cares to check out the replay he might consider retracting, or at least straightening out the record!  

I also watched MSNBC yesterday who were still pushing the impeachment thing, and reporting that 54% of Senate Democrats thought that if President Trump doesn't bring up the Hacking of our election to Putin, that it would be a clear case of dereliction of duty! Now that's what I call news, and  has to mean that 46% of the Democratic Senators didn't believe that it was a dereliction of duty, and possibly worthy of a second look when it comes to assisting in saving America's healthcare. These results kind of remind me about the questionable disapproval rating of President Trump, and then finding out that 38% of the people polled after 'not 'approving of the President, approved the direction the country is moving in under President Trump's leadership, and that was months ago!  Hmmm,  I think I would call this busted!!

Never has a quote been more appropriate than the one Edward R. Murrow warned by back in 1964:

“When news divisions decide that the news has to make money, and has to get ratings, it’s no longer news—it’s entertainment. So, if people are bothered by the fact that we seem to be having entertainment as news, it’s because the news divisions decided that money and ratings were more important than reporting.”

I think it’s time to import honest news organizations from other countries that believe in the true meaning of honest and accurate journalism, and to compete in our tabloid driven market place. Fox, even though I can’t listen to all of their fair and balanced perceived agenda, is not perfect in any stretch of the imagination, but the one place it gives both sides of the argument is early in the morning with ‘FOX and Friends,’ with their common-sense breakdown of the current issues of the day. I’m sure you all have heard about the New York female police officer that was assassinated yesterday while sitting in her car, right? Well, according to the ‘Paid to Report’ Media that it’s become an everyday occurrence over the last Administrations ‘Extreme Recklessness,’ and not news worthy enough to report on.

The number one issue should be about North Korea and their nuclear testing program that is being funded by Iran, and backed by our supposed new friend and huge trading partner China. Obama, who knew about the Russian hacking back in August before the election, but did nothing about it, but thought Hillary was going to win, and when she didn’t used it to cover his own ass by using it against the ‘Will’ of the American people first, and then our President of the United States, Donald J. Trump!

I was listening this morning to this supposed credible and knowledgeable representative of the facts from the 'left' about what President Obama did to stop North Korea and their nuclear ambitions by using sanctions, and then blaming President Trump because of the escalation of Korea’s testing since he came to office.

Where does the truth begin, and the lies end when it comes to the truth that America’s media chooses not to share with its ‘nose ringed’ blind followers and supporters of ‘fake news?’   …. did anyone ever hear from the ‘Paid to Report’ Media about this?

For all the Progressives who think they can break down the facts, or ‘Cliff Note’ version of the facts before President Trump utters a word on this trip overseas, let me enlighten you….One of Iran’s top trading partners since the 90’s is North Korea, so when President Obama decided to bypass the already 191 nations who agreed to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty that came into force in 1970 to save the planet from destroying itself, basically knew that what he was doing, and bypassing the accepted treatment of Iran since 1970 with nothing else needed to be done. Obama intentionally gave Iran a clear path to expanding its  Nuclear Capabilities 10 fold, and gave them the upper hand over our number one ally in the region, Israel, and then stabbed them in the back again by abstaining on the U.N resolution vote about the continuation of the building of settlements:

“The Obama administration secretly cooked up with the Palestinians an extreme anti-Israeli resolution behind Israel’s back which would be a tail wind for terror and boycotts and effectively make the Western Wall occupied Palestinian territory,” he said calling it “an abandonment of Israel which breaks decades of US policy of protecting Israel at the UN.” 

Since 1970 we basically have confiscated some $1.7 Billion Dollars in sanction money with held since 1970, but President Trump decided to lift the Sanctions and in the dark of night give Iran back its money in untraceable cash and gold, etc., which in turn, like China, being spent on outsourcing its nuclear capabilities program to North Korea!

In fact, China accounts for 90 percent of North Korea's trade, including virtually all of North Korea's exports, but if the administration is looking for leverage, it should look no further than China, the destination of more than 90 percent of North Korean trade. China's trade with North Korea has grown more than tenfold over the past 15 years, while trade with other countries has dwindled to virtually nil.

When it comes to a recourse for America to take against China because of not living up to promises made in assisting in reigning in North Korea’s nuclear ambition, you have to look at the U.S. debt, and the $1.24 trillion, or about 30% of the over $4 trillion in Treasury bills, notes, and bonds held by foreign countries. You also have to look at the President’s ability, through his executive power to keep America safe, just like the travel ban that was upheld, and why the block by Progressive lower court justices was overturned by the Supreme Court, can block any imports coming this way from China until they do their due diligence, and apply pressure on the rogue nation of North Korea!

North Korea is a rogue nation, and when it comes to China and Iran, just what the doctor ordered, and that’s ‘Pay to Play’ in the Nuclear arms race with a supposed hands-off '0' involvement appearance to the world when it comes to their clandestine Nuclear escalation ambition when we all know better!

I know hindsight is 20/20, and that the ‘will’ of the American people was more than right when electing the ‘America First’ President, Donald J. Trump to lead this country back to where it belongs on the world stage, and making America great again.

HIND SIGHT WARRANTED WHEN LOOKING BACK ON CHINA’S TRUE ASPIRATIONS WHEN IT COMES TO THE NUCLEAR RACE!      (2014)

HOW CHINA IS BEHIND THE NUCLEAR PROGRAM OF IRAN, AND EVERY OTHER ROGUE STATE!

Beijing proved masterful at enabling Pyongyang to expand its program, and did the same for Pakistan. Now it’s Tehran’s turn.

With regularity, officials in Asia have confiscated shipments of equipment and materials sold by Chinese state enterprises to Iranian companies in contravention of international treaties and U.N. rules. In March 2011, Malaysian police in Port Klang seized two containers from a ship en route to Iran from China. Authorities suspected that items labeled “goods used for liquid mixing or storage for pharmaceutical or chemical or food industry” were actually parts for nuclear warheads. Recently Chinese entities have been implicated in transfers of maraging steel, ring-shaped magnets, and valves and vacuum gauges, all apparently for use in Iran’s atom bomb effort.

There appears to have been a recent decline in direct Chinese shipments to the Iranian program, due to two factors. First, Beijing has already transferred most of what the “atomic ayatollahs” need for a splendid weapon. Second, the Chinese are, from all indications, letting the North Koreans take the lead proliferation role. Maybe that is why Fakhrizadeh was spotted in China on his way to North Korea for the regime’s third test.

Fakhrizadeh’s unimpeded passage through China tells us that, if there is such a thing as “managed proliferation,” the Chinese are its masters. Beijing, to borrow a Middle Kingdom metaphor, has been “killing with a borrowed knife.”  And it looks like it is boldly working both sides of the street. In the past, China used Pakistan to transfer nuclear weapons tech to Iran, and now it is employing North Korea for the same purpose. At the same time, it may be reactivating the Pakistani channel to aid’s Iran’s adversaries, especially Saudi Arabia. There are reports that Islamabad may transfer completed nukes to Riyadh, and any such move would almost certainly require Beijing’s approval. China itself signed a nuclear cooperation pact with the Saudis in 2012.

So, Pakistan and North Korea have done Beijing’s bidding.  Will Iran be tomorrow’s dagger for China? Whether or not the Chinese proliferate nuclear technology through the Iranians, there is one thing we know. “There is a circle of countries that want nuclear weapons,” says Rick Fisher, a leading analyst of the Chinese military, “and in the center of that circle of evil is China.”

Despite what Beijing would have us believe, China has not stopped playing “the proliferation card,” its most powerful tool for accomplishing its most important strategic objectives. And as much as we would like to think otherwise, the Chinese are willing to risk nuclear winter to get their way in the world. Today, they see the mullahs as a tool, so we should not be surprised that Beijing is arming them, even though they lead what could be the world’s most dangerous rogue regime. ~~ By Gordon G. Chang, a Friend of America!

OBAMA’S UNFORGIVABLE BETRAYAL!

The president's nuclear accommodation of radical Islamist theocrats threatens Israel's survival.

Never! Never would Iran be allowed to have a nuclear weapon. That was the pledge of the Clinton and Bush administrations. Not only that. “Never” was the purpose of 191 nations in agreeing to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. It came into force in 1970 to save the planet from destroying itself and all human life. Hence the near universal agreement, a unique adherence for an arms control measure.

But the story since then is maddening and ominous. One of the parties to the treaty was Iran, and Iran has been in almost continuous noncompliance with the treaty it agreed to.

Flash forward to the Obama administration. Now the president is no longer trying to stop Iran from going nuclear. “Never” has been slimmed down to 13 years – at best! The Iranians have secured enough nuclear fuel to make the first generation bomb small enough to be dropped from a transport plane. The former International Atomic Energy Agency inspector, Olli Heinonen, reckons the proposed agreement from the Lausanne talks leaves Iran “a threshold breakout nuclear state for the next 10 years.” But we may have only the mirage of an agreement since Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and his associates are Producing tons of ambiguity about what was agreed – and on our side, where unity is essential in dealing with a very slippy adversary, there are troubling discrepancies between the French and U.S. understandings.

Just look at the wriggles and evasions since Lausanne. President Barack Obama said the sanctions would be lifted only after Iran has delivered on its commitments. Supreme Leader Khamenei and President Hassan Rouhani draw new red lines. They insist on the immediate removal of sanctions on agreement; they reject monitoring of Iran’s military sites and have the nerve to say its subversion – assistance to “resistance” groups – will continue.

Yet the sanctions that took years to put in place are being removed almost immediately, unlinked to a change in Iran’s behavior. The symmetry is grim: The Iranians walk away from long-standing commitments and the Americans compromise on long-standing demands.

Obama had previously stated that “the deal we’ll accept” with Iran “is that they end their nuclear program” and abide by the U.N. resolutions that have been in place. Yet more enrichment will continue with 5,000 centrifuges per decade and all restraints will end in 15 years.

That is the key. By making a breakout time the central measure by which to judge the effectiveness, the administration has made verification the most important part of the agreement. We must be in a position to show that we can detect what the Iranians are doing and when they are doing it. The IAEA inspectors must have access to declared and undeclared sites. The artificial deadline the administration imposed has had the perverse effect of pressuring Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry, and not the Iranian government, to make concessions. On almost every key issue, the Iranians won the day as the Obama administration folded. The entire infrastructure of the Iranian nuclear weapons program remains intact.

There is no way to reconcile Obama’s acceptance of Iran as a threshold nuclear state with a safe fate for Israel. Thus, the view overwhelmingly shared by Israelis that he is risking the Jewish state’s future. A deal based on this framework after all would threaten the survival of Israel. Obama has broken with Israel on an existential and unforgivable level. When Obama finally tightened the sanctions forcing Iran to the table, he surrendered, especially on the issue of centrifuges that Iran has developed. Perhaps Obama can afford a bad deal because he has a year and a half left of his presidency. But the people in the Middle East have to live with the consequences of Obama’s agreement with Iran long after he is gone. For that is when the bulk of the nuclear deal with the world powers will be in effect.

Obama deliberately wrote off the inconvenient view of the country that is most endangered, Israel. He accommodated radical Islamist theocrats when he should have insisted on the opposite, that the survival of Israel is non-negotiable. In effect, he betrayed the trust of the Jewish state. And it is not just Israel that opposes Obama’s deal. The Arab leaders, especially our closest friends, Saudi Arabia and Egypt, have made clear they share Israel’s view.

Linda Chavez asks whether any of our allies even trust our word any longer? Why should they when the president failed to live up to promises, for example, to stop Russian aggression in Ukraine, or to keep the murderous Assad regime from killing Syrian civilians. The Iranian deal is more capitulation to those who threaten U.S. national security. Iran will even get an immediate economic boost when we lift sanctions, which will strengthen a regime that is already ascendant as a regional power.

Obama has regularly tried to oversell Americans on this issue. When he became president, Iran had “thousands of centrifuges” which now would be cut down to around 6,000. In fact, according to the New York Post, in 2008 Iran only had 800 centrifuges. It was on Obama’s watch, and because of his perceived weakness, that Iran accelerated its nuclear program. Then, the president asserted that all of Iran’s “paths” to developing a nuclear arsenal would be blocked. Yet, he still acknowledged what is now the common perception that Iran might still be able to build a bomb in just a year.

The president offers false choices between something like this deal and U.S. involvement in another ground war in the Middle East. Why does he not acknowledge the third choice is to force Iran to behave: wider sanctions, diplomatic action and proximity pressures to force Iran to abide by six U.N. resolutions?

In fact, to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons capability, the U.S. must impose the most stringent possible limits on Iran’s ability to produce fissile material. It means permitting Iran only a civilian nuclear power program without enrichment facilities or capabilities. This must be joined with a strict and comprehensive inspection regime underpinned by credible and concrete promises to punish noncompliance. Such a deal must extend as long as the U.S. and its partners believe Iran retains its nuclear weapons ambition, which will threaten its neighbors, and remains the unsettling force in the Middle East.

But none of Iran’s nuclear facilities, including the Fordow center will be closed, as The Washington Post noted. Not one of the country’s 19,000 centrifuges will be dismantled. Tehran’s existing pile of enriched uranium will be “reduced” but not necessarily shipped out of the country. In effect, then, Iran’s nuclear infrastructure will remain intact even though some of it will be mothballed for 10 years. But when the accord lapses the Islamic Republic will instantly become a threshold nuclear state.

Most upsetting is that even with much greater restriction the deal would not be permanent but instead one or more sunset clauses whereby all limits would ultimately be lifted.

Congress fears it has no substantive input, which means a deal would be implemented without its consent. The vote and voice of Congress is vital to the credibility and durability of a final deal that would be acceptable to the U.S. and not just to this administration.

The Senate Foreign Relations Committee understands that breakout time is crucially related to the size of Iran’s stockpile of fissile material. How much of its existing stockpile would Iran be required to ship out of the country? It has reneged on one deal and will try to do it on another if it is allowed to continue its efforts to increase the efficiency of its operating centrifuges. We need prohibitions on such activity, which would also include bans on any and all work on centrifuges other than those currently installed or operated, as well as clear restrictions on when, where, why and how Iran could replace the installed centrifuges.

Graphic quote by Mort Zuckerman: "There is no way to reconcile Obama’s acceptance of Iran as a threshold nuclear state with a safe fate for Israel."

What would an acceptable deal look like? We need an end to all research and development activity on advanced centrifuges in Iran; a significant decrease in the number of centrifuges that are operational or become operational if Iran breaks the agreement and decides to build a bomb; the closing of the Fordow facility as an enrichment site, even if enrichment is suspended there; an agreement to ship Iran’s stockpile of enriched uranium out of the country; a commitment to scale back its nuclear programs significantly

for 10 to 15 years and to accept intense international inspections; a willingness to limit enrichment of uranium at its Natanz facility to a level needed only for civilian purposes; to cut back installed centrifuges by about two-thirds, while converting Fordow into a center for peaceful research and foregoing enriching uranium there for at least 15 years; as well as modifying its Arak heavy-water reactor to render it incapable of producing plutonium for a bomb.

Limits on when, where, why and how Iran would replace centrifuges during a breakout time would be crucial to preventing Iran from developing more efficient centrifuges for use immediately after an agreement expires. Iran believes it can continue to use the Fordow underground uranium enrichment plant for developing centrifuges, while the U.S. says no enrichment could take place there for 15 years.

The United States should stand by its original demands to shut down the facility altogether with the purpose of limiting total output of Iran’s enrichment facilities to its current capability. That would prevent it from cutting breakout times with the flip of a switch if it chooses to renege on the deal. The next few months will be nothing less than a supreme test of our skill and our resolve and give the Obama administration the opportunity to manage a fundamental change that improperly handled would threaten American allies and the United States itself. ~~By Mortimer B. Zuckerman, a Friend of America!

Progressive Democrats have decided that ‘not’ doing the right thing for the American people, but supporting lawlessness, destroying our Constitutional Republic, bypassing our Constitution and ‘Rule of Law, and believing in ‘Fake News’ is the road to take! You can still be a loyal Democrat, and you can change the face of your party before it becomes extinct, which is today’s Democratic leadership’s of Chuck-e (Cheesy) Schumer, and Nancy Pelosi’s gamble, and like Obama, will walk away unscathed leaving the Traditional Democratic Party in ruins with nothing to show for the loyal years that many Americans supported for generations, but now find themselves cast aside after being used as a stepping stone to secure their attempted, but failed, global Socialism agenda! 

WHY DEMOCRATS VOTED AGAINST BILLS TO PROTECT AMERICANS!  

Only in Washington, D.C. will you find politicians so wrapped up in themselves, their party, crazed ideology, or something -- that they will not come together to pass legislation for the sake and safety of the American people.

Even though the House managed to pass two common sense, safety-focused bills on June 29, it is beyond comprehension that most Democrats voted against Kate’s Law and the No Sanctuary for Criminals Act. The GOP did have a handful of rogue nays, but very few in comparison.

What were they thinking?

Whatever they were thinking, it had little to do with safety and security of Americans. Leftists do their best to hoodwink normal Americans into accepting their San Francisco-style values like the absurd presumption that it is moral to break federal immigration law and shelter those who illegally cross our borders instead of following the rule of law to protect U.S. citizens.

A little background on the two bills. Lawmakers introduced Kate’s Law after an illegal immigrant killed a beautiful, young San Francisco woman named Kate Steinle. Although her killer, Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez, had a lengthy list of felony convictions and multiple deportations, sanctuary city policies meant the San Francisco Sheriff’s Department would not honor a detainer issued by U.S. Immigration and Customs [ICE]. Sheriff officials said they found no active warrant for his arrest, so rather than contacting ICE to pick him up, they released him and the rest is history.

The San Francisco which Lopez-Sanchez found sanctuary in, Miss Steinle did not. Kate’s Law serves to enforce immigration laws already on the books, imposing mandatory minimum prison sentences for lawbreakers like Lopez-Sanchez should they reenter the U.S. post-deportation.

The No Sanctuary for Criminals Act cuts off federal grant money to safe harbor cities and forces sanctuary city leadership to take responsibility for their actions, opening the way for victims of illegal immigrant crimes to sue.

You would never know it from the uproar by the left, but we are only talking about illegal immigration, not legal immigration, albeit Washington Democrats and their corporate media sidekicks have an astonishingly tough time differentiating between the two.

The left’s obsession with protecting lawbreakers at taxpayers’ expense is baffling.  Taxpayers in San Francisco are set to foot the bill for a $190,000 lawsuit brought by an illegal immigrant who sued because a police officer had the audacity to obey federal immigration laws and report his whereabouts to ICE, reports CBS’s KPIX-TV.

It comes as no surprise that a Harvard-Harris Poll survey taken earlier this year found that 80 percent of voters surveyed reject sanctuary cities because they believe “local authorities should have to comply with the law by reporting to federal agents the illegal immigrants they come into contact with.”

Regardless of surveys or polls or public opinion, Senate Democrats will try to defeat these two bills using the lame excuse they have already raised that supporting this legislation might somehow ramp up fear in the immigrant community.

Apparently, there is nothing more petrifying than obeying the law.

Democrats’ fear of ramping up fear in the immigrant community is misdirected. They should instead focus on the fact that besides the Almighty, the only thing Democrats should fear is themselves. They alone are responsible for the mess they are in and the chaos they have created.

It would be nice to believe Senate Democrats will set aside their partisanship and emotions long enough to do what’s right by the American people to vote “yes” on this legislation.  But, if history is a prognosticator, don’t hold your breath.

So, with countenances drawn and somber defeat on their faces, Democrats will march lockstep into the 2018 midterm elections as weak on crime and weedy on principles as ever. ~~ Susan Stamper Brown, a Friend of America!

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