Anonymous ID: bac92b March 2, 2019, 1:11 p.m. No.5468351   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>8612 >>8812 >>8903

Trump Announces He Will Sign Executive Order Protecting Campus Free Speech

 

In a speech that went past two hours at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC 2019), President Trump invited Hayden Williams—the conservative activist who was assaulted last month at the University of California in Berkeley—on stage and said he will soon sign an executive order protecting free speech on college campuses.

 

Trump hugged the American flag as he arrived to speak at CPAC 2019, in Oxon Hill, Md., on Saturday, March 2.

 

He went through a wide range of topics, from Robert Mueller’s investigation, economic success, border wall, trade negotiation with China, and freedom of speech.

 

Trump also took a humorous jab at the Democrats’ Green New Deal, a policy proposal floated by some of the more liberal Democrats in Congress and backed to varying degrees by several of the party’s 2020 presidential candidates.

 

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https://www.theepochtimes.com/trump-announces-he-will-sign-executive-order-protecting-campus-free-speech_2822066.html

Anonymous ID: bac92b March 2, 2019, 1:20 p.m. No.5468499   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>8571

With Oil, Water and Iran as Targets, US on Brink of Recognizing Israeli Sovereignty over Golan Heights

 

A new bill recently introduced in the Senate, along with its companion bill in the House, would result in the United States government recognizing Israel’s sovereignty over Syria’s Golan Heights, which has been occupied by Israel since 1967. The territory was later annexed in 1981, but the international community — including the United States — has not recognized Israel’s claim to the Syrian territory.

 

In addition, the bill would also promote the U.S. conducting “joint projects” with Israel in the Golan, including “industrial research and development.” This is sure to result in joint U.S.-Israeli efforts to extract the large oil reserves recently discovered in the Golan Heights, as the rights to extract that oil were granted to the joint U.S.-Israeli venture Genie Energy soon after its discovery was made public.

 

The move to introduce legislation regarding the contested territory has been hinted at for months by top Israeli officials, especially following the decision of the Trump administration to unilaterally recognize the city of Jerusalem as belonging exclusively to Israel and as being that country’s capital.

 

Working the Iran angle

 

Last May, Israeli Intelligence Minister Israel Katz told Reuters that Washington’s endorsement of Israel’s control of the Golan Heights was now “topping the agenda” in bilateral diplomatic talks between the two countries, and that such a move would likely come within a matter of months, though it apparently took longer than Katz had originally anticipated.

 

Katz also had stated that U.S. recognition of the Golan was being peddled to the Trump administration as a way to further counter Iran, the goal that has now become the guiding force behind President Donald Trump’s Middle East policy. In addition, Katz had stated that bilateral discussions regarding U.S. recognition of the Golan had vastly expanded to involve various levels of the U.S. administration as well as several Congressmen.

 

The effort to which Katz alluded last year appears to have paid off in the form of the recently introduced bills in both the House and the Senate. The Senate bill was introduced by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), who is the top Republican recipient of pro-Israel lobby contributions in the U.S. Senate, and Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR), who is also heavily funded by the pro-Israel lobby. Indeed, Cotton received over $700,000 from the Emergency Committee for Israel in 2014 and nearly $1 million from that same group a year later.

 

https://southfront.org/with-oil-water-and-iran-as-targets-us-on-brink-of-recognizing-israeli-sovereignty-over-golan-heights/

 

All for GENIE-ENERGY aka the Rothschild cabal and it's minions

Anonymous ID: bac92b March 2, 2019, 1:25 p.m. No.5468581   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>8614 >>8675 >>8812 >>8816 >>8903

It Might Be Time for a “War Dogs” Sequel

 

A remarkable report from the Pentagon’s inspector general released this week reveals that TransDigm Group, a parts supplier, “earned excess profit” on nearly every parts contract it made with the Defense Department.

 

Pentagon procurement officials responded to the report by vowing to seek $16.1 million in voluntary refunds from TransDigm, the approximate amount of excess profits on $26.3 million in contracts. TransDigm has yet to respond.

 

The report offers powerful evidence about TransDigm’s much-maligned pricing practices, which gained scrutiny nearly two years ago in a series of short-seller reports and news items targeting the company as the “Martin Shkreli of defense contracting.” More of a private equity conglomerate than a defense contractor, TransDigm uses mergers and acquisitions to corner the market on sole-source aircraft parts sought by the military; thereafter, critics attest that the company jacks up the price. About a third of TransDigm’s sales in 2017 were in the defense sector, according to the inspector general report.

 

Three Democrats — Reps. Ro Khanna of California, Tim Ryan of Ohio, and Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts — requested the audit to see whether TransDigm was reaping excess profits in procurement.

 

Wednesday’s report shows that, well, yes, it was.

 

The inspector general reviewed 47 of the 113 contracts TransDigm made with the Defense Department between January 2015 and January 2017. “We determined that TransDigm earned excess profit on 46 of 47 parts,” the report states. One part yielded what the inspector general considered a “reasonable” profit of 11 percent. The other 46 ranged in margins from 17 to 4,451 percent.

 

Military procurement can be a mind-numbingly complex subject, but in general, procurement officers are supposed to analyze whether they’re paying a fair and reasonable price. This is often done through competitive bidding, but the overwhelming majority of TransDigm’s parts were sole-source, meaning that the company has an effective monopoly. Even in cases with a competitive bidding process, TransDigm was in many cases the sole manufacturer: The “competitive” suppliers all bought their parts from TransDigm before selling to the government.

 

TransDigm has also been accused by Khanna of creating the illusion of multiple distributors for a product, hiding the fact that the distributors are all owned by TransDigm. The inspector general did not fully address that charge, “because it was referred to the Defense Criminal Investigative Service for action deemed appropriate.”

 

https://theintercept.com/2019/03/02/pentagon-contractor-transdigm/

 

Full IG report on 'TransDigm Group'

https://media.defense.gov/2019/Feb/27/2002093709/-1/-1/1/DODIG-2019-060.PDF

Anonymous ID: bac92b March 2, 2019, 1:30 p.m. No.5468668   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>8681 >>8812 >>8903

TAVISTOCK INSANITY: These are the psychologically demented ‘professionals’ pushing transgenderism

 

Vulnerable youngsters rushed into treatment. Staff too nervous to speak out: After resigning from controversial Tavistock gender clinic trust, a former governor says he fears we’re hurrying children down a transgender path they may bitterly regret.

 

 

As an adult psychotherapist Marcus Evans deals with patients who may express their feelings in challenging ways

 

For four decades, I have devoted my career to trying to understand people who are greatly distressed and confused.

 

As an adult psychotherapist, I deal with patients who may express their feelings in challenging ways.

 

But my role is to pay careful attention and to try to tune in to what isn’t being said; the hidden aspects of a patient’s story.

 

The key to achieving this is patience, time and slow-moving, dogged determination — words that aren’t fashionable in a fast-paced world intent on quick fixes and budget cuts.

 

But it’s my view that to try to treat vulnerable patients in any other way can be hugely damaging.

 

This is, in part, the reason I resigned from my post as governor of The Tavistock & Portman NHS Foundation Trust last week.

 

A leaked internal report had branded the Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS) at The Tavistock Centre, England’s only NHS youth gender clinic, ‘not fit for purpose’.

 

The overwhelming feeling was that some children in its care were not being given enough time in their psychological assessment and treatment.

 

It goes without saying that the area of mental health — and particularly relating to gender dysphoria — is highly complex.

 

The service was accused of being too quick to give children and young people medical treatment (hormone-blocking drugs).

 

Treatment that has unknown far‑reaching consequences and that, without sufficient exploration as to the child’s feelings and motives, can have devastating life‑long effects on their identity and development.

 

Although, following this first critical report, the Trust had subsequently commissioned its own review of the situation, I began to worry that this second report was being used to close down rather than open up the debate about the serious and sensitive clinical issues.

 

http://themillenniumreport.com/2019/03/tavistock-insanity-these-are-the-psychologically-demented-professionals-pushing-transgenderism/

 

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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6762379/Former-governor-says-fears-hurrying-children-transgender-path.html

Anonymous ID: bac92b March 2, 2019, 1:31 p.m. No.5468681   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>8812 >>8903

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But then she did admit that we know nothing about the long-term effects on the brain or other organs in the body.

 

Another real concern is that quite a high proportion of patients who have medical interventions — such as the puberty-blocking hormones — go on to have sexual reassignment surgery.

 

And although it is often claimed that patients react positively after transitioning, as I say, I know differently from my own experience.

 

We’re also navigating uncharted territory. Where there used to be a particular profile for those being referred (mostly male, with a long-standing idea — often since early childhood — that they were the wrong sex), of the 2,519 young people referred to Tavistock’s GID service in the last financial year, more than 70 per cent were born female.

 

Some parents have expressed a fear that a plethora of social media videos featuring young people (especially those born female) discussing their decision to opt for physical intervention was, at least in part, driving the trend.

 

There is also evidence of a contagion effect in close peer groups.

 

In my 40 years in psychiatry, I have learned that closing down debate and discussion creates silos that resist thoughtful examination of important issues.

 

This is a particularly worrying approach by the GID service. They are treating highly vulnerable individuals who are making decisions which will often have, as yet unknown, consequences for the rest of their lives.

 

Considering the lack of clinical evidence for the drugs used, one might question why the national service (which has been going for 30 years) hasn’t yet undertaken a research study or even collected basic follow-up outcome data?

 

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Anonymous ID: bac92b March 2, 2019, 1:33 p.m. No.5468704   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>8812 >>8903

House Leader Demands Congressperson Apologize for Telling the Indisputable Truth About AIPAC

 

"House Foreign Affairs leader tells Omar to apologize for saying pro-Israel groups push foreign allegiance

 

By Caroline Kelly, CNN

 

(CNN)The chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee called Friday for freshman Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar to apologize after insinuating that pro-Israel groups are pushing “allegiance to a foreign country.”

 

Chairman Rep. Eliot Engel’s demand comes after a bookstore event Wednesday where Omar argued that critics labeling her as an anti-Semite looked to silence a necessary conversation.

 

“I want to talk about the political influence in this country that says it is OK for people to push for allegiance to a foreign country,” Omar said, according to The New York Times.

 

In a fiery statement Friday night, Engel, a New York Democrat, took Omar to task for yet another controversial comment over the political influence of pro-Israel groups on politicians.

 

“I welcome debate in Congress based on the merits of policy, but it’s unacceptable and deeply offensive to call into question the loyalty of fellow American citizens because of their political views, including support for the US-Israel relationship,” Engel said in the statement. “We all take the same oath. Worse, Representative Omar’s comments leveled that charge by invoking a vile anti-Semitic slur.”

“Her comments were outrageous and deeply hurtful, and I ask that she retract them, apologize, and commit to making her case on policy issues without resorting to attacks that have no place in the Foreign Affairs Committee or the House of Representatives,” he added.

 

Omar’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Engel’s statement.

The Democrat from Minnesota earlier this month faced criticism from both sides of the aisle and subsequently apologized for tweets insinuating that the pro-Israel lobbying group American Israel Public Affairs Committee, or AIPAC, was effectively buying off American politicians.

 

Omar had responded to a tweet by journalist Glenn Greenwald that reads, “GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy threatens punishment for @IlhanMN and @RashidaTlaib over their criticisms of Israel. It’s stunning how much time US political leaders spend defending a foreign nation even if it means attacking free speech rights of Americans.”

 

Omar replied, “It’s all about the Benjamins baby,” followed by a musical notes emoji.

Batya Ungar-Sargon, the opinion editor of the Forward, replied, tweeting, “Would love to know who @IlhanMN thinks is paying American politicians to be pro-Israel, though I think I can guess. Bad form, Congresswoman. That’s the second anti-Semitic trope you’ve tweeted.”

Omar responded to the tweet and wrote, “AIPAC!”

 

She later apologized after Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Majority Leader Steny Hoyer and other members of House Democratic leadership said anti-Semitism had to be called out “without exception.”

 

“Anti-Semitism is real and I am grateful for Jewish allies and colleagues who are educating me on the painful history of anti-Semitic tropes,” Omar said in a tweet. “My intention is never to offend my constituents or Jewish Americans as a whole. We have to always be willing to step back and think through criticism, just as I expect people to hear me when others attack me for my identity. This is why I unequivocally apologize.”

 

https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/01/politics/ilhan-omar-engel-statement/index.html"

 

http://themillenniumreport.com/2019/03/house-leader-demands-congressperson-apologize-for-telling-the-indisputable-truth-about-aipac-video/