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Suggested topics to call your reps about today, 1/30/24!

I’ve been doing two subjects per call recently; one is almost always about the events in the middle east, and then one is domestic policy. I’m including a bit of verbiage you can use as basis for what you say (if you agree with me), for a few of these.

BOTH SENATE AND HOUSE:

Foreign Policy: Reinstate funding for UNRWA. While the claims made by Israel that employees of the relief agency were involved in Oct. 7th are troubling, this arm of the UN is currently providing food, water, shelter, and medical care to the 2.3 million displaced peoples of Gaza. It is especially disturbing and concerning that the many children of Gaza, who are already suffering due to this conflict, are now having this support revoked.

Warn Congress to reaaaaally think about whether a strong response to the incident in Jordan, currently attributed to an Iraqi group backed by Iran, if we're truly looking to avoid a wider regional war as claimed. There is already growing unrest in Yemen and the threat of another civil war, fire between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon, and now the situation with the Islamic Resistance. Caution them against an overreaction of the kind that the US has a tendency towards.

FOR THE SENATE: Urge your senator to put their support behind Bernie Sanders and his motion to restrict funding to Israel until a humanitarian review of the IDF’s actions in Gaza has been completed.

FOR THE HOUSE: Urge your representative to put their support behind Rep. Rashida Tlaib’s petition for the US government to recognize the IDF’s actions in Gaza as ethnic cleansing and forced displacement, and put a stop to it.

Domestic Policy

House of Representatives:

Expansion of the child tax credit. The House of Representatives is currently voting on whether or not to expand the child tax credit that was instated during COVID-19. This credit offers a return on taxes for individuals with children, but currently does not apply to families that are too poor to qualify. During COVID, this tax credit was expanded to include those families, and child poverty fell to record lows, but as it was a temporary measure, those children are getting left behind again. Given the effectiveness the expansion of this tax regulation showed in the past, it would be a net positive for the country as a whole to codify it more permanently.

Other things coming up in the next week if you think your rep might be receptive:

H.R. 6976: Protect Our Communities from DUIs Act: Vote no. This act is discriminatory and enforces harsher penalties on immigrants than in legal citizens. While DUIs are a significant issue, enacting stronger guidelines on a small portion of the population that is already at risk from discriminatory police action is not a solution.

H.R. 6679: No Immigration Benefits for Hamas Terrorists Act - Vote no or dismiss if possible. Terrorism is already considered a reason to reject immigrants. This bill is pointless peacocking. You have better things to do with your time.

H.R. 6678: Consequences for Social Security Fraud Act - Vote no. This proposed act is discriminatory and enacts unduly harsh sentences against minorities. The system already has punishments for fraud; this specific act is unnecessary.

H.R. 5585: Agent Raul Gonzalez Officer Safety Act - Are you sensing a pattern? It's discriminatory! Evading law enforcement on a motor vehicle is already illegal, you do not need to ADD IMMIGRATION PENALTIES.

Senate:

Abortion rights. Domestically, for the senate, push for abortion rights.

Specific things coming up in the next week if you think your Senator might be receptive:

H.R. 6914: Pregnant Students’ Rights Act - Call to ask that the resolution EXPLICITLY include abortion access, or otherwise vote against. This passed the house on strict party lines; other than a handful of abstentions, the vote was all republican for and all dems against. The text of the proposal is explicitly anti-abortion.

H.R. 6918: Supporting Pregnant and Parenting Women and Families Act - same as above, it was very partisan in the house vote, though less explicitly anti-abortion in the text. Nonetheless, it focuses explicitly on protecting funding to "pregnancy centers," which are often anti-choice and dedicated to pushing patients towards keeping a baby they don't want.

DOMESTIC POLICY, BOTH BRANCHES OF CONGRESS: Border policy is currently being hotly debated and negotiated. A very strong policy in favor of the Republican party is the status at the moment. Even some democrats are in favor of it due to small border communities being ill-equipped to handle large numbers of migrants, and states usually removed from the situation getting migrants bussed in from Texas despite telling Texas to knock it off. Despite some Republicans saying that they have gotten everything they could want out of the current deal, the party at large is refusing to pass it as the politics of the debate are more useful to the coming election than actually passing policy. This is also causing delays in passing the federal budget.

I... don't actually want to tell anyone WHAT to think of the border policy since I do not have any real knowledge on the budget impacts and resources dictating the actual problems (nor the racism or xenophobia, that part is obviously bullshit). I can recognize that too some degree, there is a genuine issue of manpower and budget restriction impacting the ability to house and process immigrants.

However, DREAMers are not being considered in the current deal, the delays in the deal are impacting the federal government and threatening a partial shutdown, and people are STILL getting hurt and even dying at the border.

I would focus on protection for DREAMers, chastising the Republicans for deliberately delaying the budget in order to use the border as a reelection premise instead of actually working on the policy they claim to want (emphasize that they are going to lose votes for focusing on reelection at the expense of their people), and protection for children, parents with those children, and nonviolent migrants in general.

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deborahdeshoftim5779 · 4 years ago

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MYTH Human Rights Watch has proven Israel is an “apartheid” state. FACT In its longstanding campaign of demonization of Israel, Human Rights Watch (HRW) adopted a new tack in its latest report. Knowing the absurd and ineffective efforts of anti-Israel propagandists to compare Israel to Afrikaner South Africa, HRW decided to write a new definition of “apartheid” it could selectively apply to one state – the Jewish state. HRW relies on definitions that apply to the systematic oppression and domination by one racial group over any other racial group. Neither Jews nor Palestinians are racial groups so HRW expands the definition to include groups – actually only Palestinians – that share descent, national or ethnic origin. As Professor Gerald Steinberg noted, “Beyond South Africa, no other regime or government has been deemed to meet the international definition of apartheid, not even murderous and oppressive regimes practicing separation based on race, religion, and gender such as Saudi Arabia and China” (Gerald Steinberg, “Human Rights Watch demonizes Israel via propaganda of apartheid,” Jerusalem Post, April 27, 2021). “The report mocks the history of apartheid by using its hateful memory to describe a grab bag of policies that HRW happens to disagree with, and in many cases are not in effect, or were never in effect. Apartheid is not just a term for policies one dislikes,” the Kohelet Policy Forum wrote in its response to the report (“HRW Crosses the Threshold into Falsehoods and Anti-Semitic Propaganda,” KPF, April 26, 2021). For its part, the Biden administration wasted no time rejecting HRW’s conclusion: “It is not the view of this administration that Israel’s actions constitute apartheid,” a State Department spokesperson said (“US disagrees that Israel carrying out ‘apartheid,’” France24,” April 28, 2021). Too often, however, truth does not matter. When a human rights organization, even one with a long history of anti-Israel bias, makes an inflammatory accusation it is assured of attracting media coverage, as was the case with HRW’s report. Journalists rarely factcheck the material before quoting the report and its authors in stories with incendiary headlines. By the time the information is evaluated by third parties, it is too late because the original, unverified story has been transmitted around the world to become fodder for Israel’s detractors. Graphic courtesy Elder of Zion Thus, you are unlikely to see any quotes about the report from Judge Richard Goldstone, who was appointed to the Constitutional Court of South Africa by Nelson Mandela, played an important role in that country’s transition to democracy, and was appointed by the UN Human Rights Council to investigate alleged crimes committed during Israel’s operation in Gaza in 2009. In a New York Times essay, “Israel and the Apartheid Slander,” Goldstone wrote, “In Israel there is no apartheid. Nothing there comes close to the definition of apartheid under the 1998 Rome Statute” used by HRW in an effort to get around the specious comparison to South Africa (New York Times, October 31, 2011). In a rebuke to the equally fallacious claims made in the recent B’Tselem report, Goldstone noted, “there is no intent to maintain ‘an institutionalized regime of systematic oppression and domination by one racial group.’ This is a critical distinction, even if Israel acts oppressively toward Palestinians there. South Africa’s enforced racial separation was intended to permanently benefit the white minority, to the detriment of other races. By contrast, Israel has agreed in concept to the existence of a Palestinian state in Gaza and almost all of the West Bank, and is calling for the Palestinians to negotiate the parameters.” Presciently anticipating the similarly misguided argument of John Brennan, Goldstone notes, “until there is a two-state peace, or at least as long as Israel’s citizens remain under threat of attacks from the West Bank and Gaza, Israel will see roadblocks and similar measures as necessary for self-defense, even as Palestinians feel oppressed.” Speaking to those who demonize Israel while claiming to be interested in peace, Goldstone concluded, “The charge that Israel is an apartheid state is a false and malicious one that precludes, rather than promotes, peace and harmony.” Hirsh Goodman, another native South African, said HRW “is blind to fact and reality.” He called the report, “a disgrace to the memory of the millions who suffered under that policy in South Africa” (Hirsh Goodman, “I left apartheid South Africa. Applying the term to Israel is disingenuous,” Forward, April 27, 2021). Goodman noted that HRW is an advocate of discrimination against Jews, supporting the anti-Semitic BDS movement, and that the report came out as an Israeli Arab, a member of an Arab party in the Knesset, and an Islamist no less, had the potential to determine who would be Israel’s next prime minister. In the previous election, a coalition of Arab parties was the third largest faction in the Knesset. This is discrimination? What about Palestinians who are not Israeli citizens? They have the opportunity to vote for their leaders in Palestinian elections, which were last held in 2006 (the one scheduled for May was just cancelled because the president, serving the 16th year of his four-year term, is afraid of losing). HRW apparently has no problem with the fact that a Jew cannot vote in a Palestinian election even though the outcome will affect Israel or that a Palestinian who has acquired Israeli citizenship also cannot vote in the Palestinian Authority (Elder of Ziyon, “Another Double Standard: Palestinian Law Excludes Israelis From Voting,” Algemeiner, March 26, 2021). HRW condemns Israel for treating Palestinians in the disputed territories and Israeli citizens differently, but Israel has no obligation to treat them the same. In the Oslo Accords, Israel agreed the Palestinians should be responsible for their own lives in virtually all areas except security; hence, about 98 percent of Palestinians are governed by the Palestinian Authority and Hamas. The fact that both deny their own people civil and human rights goes unmentioned by HRW. HRW also ignores reality while applying a standard that would make nearly every country, including the United States, guilty of apartheid. Take, for example, the report’s criticism of the Law of Return. Yes, it grants automatic citizenship to Jews, but non-Jews are also eligible to become citizens under naturalization procedures similar to those in other countries. More than two million non-Jews are Israeli citizens and 21% of the population are Arabs who enjoy equal rights under the law with Jewish citizens. Meanwhile, Ireland has a law allowing immigrants of “Irish descent or Irish associations” to be exempt from ordinary naturalization rules while Bulgaria, Croatia, Germany and a number of other democratic states also have policies similar to Israel’s Law of Return and yet are not labeled by HRW as apartheid. HRW apparently has no problem with Arab nations that have laws that facilitate the naturalization of foreign Arabs, with the exception of Palestinians, or with Jordan’s “law of return that provides citizenship to all former residents of Palestine – except Jews. Graphic courtesy Elder of Zion For HRW it is a crime for Israelis to want a Jewish majority in the Jewish state. Are Muslim states equally guilty for not accepting a non-Muslim majority? The report castigates Israel for placing restrictions on the movement of Palestinians, ignoring that checkpoints and the security fence were created to protect Israeli citizens – Jews and non-Jews from terrorists. It accuses Israel of “Judaization” of Jerusalem, the Galilee and the Negev, implying that Jews should not be allowed to live in parts of Israel where there are “significant Palestinian populations” (which is not the case in the Negev), including its capital. Israel is also condemned for not agreeing to commit suicide by allowing the 5.7 million Palestinians UNRWA calls “refugees” to live in Israel. To refute the charge that Israel is therefore discriminating against Palestinians simply refer to the thousands of Palestinians who left the country and were allowed to return and become citizens (“Israel Claims 184,000 Palestinian Refugees have Returned since 1948,” Al Bawaba, January 1, 2001). Israel has also repeatedly offered to accept a limited number of Palestinians as part of a peace agreement (Gene Currivan, “ISRAEL TO ACCEPT 100,000 REFUGEES; Offer, to Go Into Effect When Peace Comes, Is Delivered to Arabs at Lausanne,” New York Times, July 30, 1949). Summarizing the absurdity of HRW’s argument, one writer tweeted: “Israel: The only country that’s shrinks when it colonizes, grows the population it’s genociding, fattens the people it starves and consistently increases quality of life and freedoms on every metric for the people it apartheids” (@TheMossadIL, April 29, 2021). Contrast Israel’s behavior with that of the Arab states which deny Palestinians living within their borders, sometimes for decades, the right to become citizens. The Lebanese government goes even further by denying Palestinians a host of rights and placing limits on where they can live and work (Lisa Khoury, “Palestinians in Lebanon: ‘It’s like living in a prison,’” Al Jazeera, December 16, 2017). If you want to talk about discrimination, consider that it is a crime for a Palestinian to sell land to a Jew and a fatwa was issued by the preacher of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, Sheikh Ikrimah Sabri, saying it is permitted to kill the seller (“Khatib Al-Aqsa issues a Sharia fatwa regarding the diversion or sale of real estate to settlement associations,” Sama News Agency, April 8, 2021). Ironically, the author of the HRW report, Omar Shakir, was happy to live in Israel (imagine a black person choosing to live under the Afrikaner regime) until the Supreme Court revoked his residency permit. He is an advocate of the BDS campaign, which raises the question, Why would HRW choose someone who objects to Israel’s existence as the arbiter of its behavior (Ben-Dror Yemini, “A most dangerous and mendacious report,” Ynet, April 27, 2021)? Highlighting HRW’s hypocrisy, the Jerusalem Post reported that one of the organization’s board members runs a venture-capital fund that invests in Israeli start-ups (Lahav Harkov, “Human Rights Watch chairman invests in Israel as he calls it ‘apartheid,’” Jerusalem Post, May 2, 2021). It is also worth remembering that HRW uses its anti-Israel record as a fundraising tool, as we learned when Sarah Leah Whitson, the director of HRW’s Middle East and North Africa division, went to Saudi Arabia to raise money by highlighting the group’s demonization of Israel (David Bernstein, “Human Rights Watch Goes to Saudi Arabia,” Wall Street Journal, July 15, 2009). The founder of HRW, Robert Bernstein, said in 2009 the organization had become devoted to “helping those who wish to turn Israel into a pariah state.” Contrasting Israel with the countries HRW once focused on, he noted it had “at least 80 human rights organizations, a vibrant free press, a democratically elected government, a judiciary that frequently rules against the government, a politically active academia, multiple political parties and, judging by the amount of news coverage, probably more journalists per capita than any other country in the world.” Writing in the context of a biased HRW investigation into Israeli actions in Gaza, Bernstein lamented that “Israel, the repeated victim of aggression, faces the brunt of Human Rights Watch’s criticism” (Robert L. Bernstein, “Rights Watchdog, Lost in the Mideast,” New York Times, (October 19, 2009). Israel’s government is not immune to criticism and many of its policies are subject to vigorous debate and, in some cases, harsh condemnation by Israelis. What distinguishes Israel from the countries HRW should be investigating is the internal democratic processes that lead to self-examination, more enlightened policies and, where legally warranted, punishment for criminal activity. Nevertheless, Israel’s detractors and anti-Semites will use the report to reinforce their existing prejudices and try to convince the uninformed of HRW’s alternative reality. It also feeds into the BDS narrative by arguing it is not just the “occupation” that is bad; Israel itself “is intrinsically racist and evil” and therefore should be dismantled (Herb Keinon, “The HRW apartheid report: Does it matter?” Jerusalem Post, April 27, 2021).

Jewish Virtual Library refutes the odious myths perpetrated by “Human Rights Watch” (except Jewish rights) in their latest edition of “Myths versus Facts”.

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creepingsharia · 13 years ago

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New Jersey: Gov Christie praised Hamas-linked imam (who lied on immigration papers) as “man of great good will”

Originally posted August 6, 2011

As we told you back in 2008, when then U.S. Attorney and now New Jersey governor Chris Christie spoke out for the Hamas-linked imam, that imam was in the process of being deported for lying on his entrance application and shortly thereafter would be granted permanent residency. But it’s all “crap” according to Christie.

Chris Christie holding Koran

via Re: Standing up to Anti-Muslim American Bias « Commentary Magazine.

As I wrote back in January, Sohail Mohammed’s religion is not the issue. Nor would his role as a defense attorney for those who were arrested in the wake of 9/11 because of their ties to terror groups disqualify him for the bench. What is of interest is his role as a board member of the American Muslim Union, an extremist group that has its own questionable record in terms of rationalizing terror attacks and supporting others who do so. Of particular importance is one of Mohammed’s clients: Mohammed Qatanani, the imam of the Islamic Center of Passaic County and an influential member of the AMU. Qatanani is a Palestinian supporter of the Muslim Brotherhood. He also admitted to being a member of Hamas when Israeli authorities arrested him in 1993. Qatanani lied about all of this when he subsequently came to this country. But he evaded deportation in 2008 because his lawyer was able to persuade a judge to accept his unproven claim the Israelis had tortured him. He also benefitted from the intervention on his behalf by, of all people, the man who was then United States Attorney for New Jersey: Chris Christie.

Acting on the behest of Mohammed and the American Muslim Union, Christie spoke out on Qatanani’s behalf and even appeared at his mosque and praised the Hamas supporter as a “man of great good will.” Christie’s willingness to make nice with the AMU and help keep Qatanani in this country had very little to do with opposition to religious prejudice and everything to do with an effort to gain sympathy among New Jersey Muslims during the prelude to his campaign for the governorship in 2009.

I happen to agree with Governor Christie that much of the discussion about sharia law in this country is absurd and possibly based in prejudice. While the effort to impose Muslim religious law on non-Muslims is a critical issue in Africa and Asia where the threat of Islamist theocracy is real, in most instances sharia is probably no more of a problem for the American justice system than is Jewish religious law.

So until the imposition of Islamic sharia law becomes a critical issue, challenging sharia and those who want to impose it in the U.S. is “absurd and possibly based in prejudice?” That sounds eerily Chamberlain-esque. Would things be different in Africa and Asia if more absurd and possibly based in prejudice discussions on the threat of Islamic sharia law took place?

But the questions raised about Sohail Mohammed, the American Muslim Union and Christie’s own conduct in the Qatanani case have nothing to do with such nonsense. Rather, this is about the willingness of some Americans to turn a blind eye to the prominent role of Islamists and terror supporters like Qatanani and to the political influence of fixers like Sohail Mohammed. Smearing as bigots those who have posed questions about Christie’s bad judgment is not the same thing as standing up against religious prejudice.

Hamas imam Qatanani - Christie’s “man of great good will”

Andrew McCarthy has more on Christie’s ‘Crazies’:

Governor Christie would have you believe opposition to Mr. Mohammed was sheer bigotry: “It’s just unnecessary to be accusing this guy of things just because of his religious background,” he railed to reporters. It’s a narrative Christie fans would like to help cement. It’s not true.

For the record, Sohail Mohammed is not just an attorney. He served as a board member for an Islamist organization, the American Muslim Union, which, as Commentary’s Jonathan S. Tobin and terrorism expert Steve Emerson have shown, has a checkered past of rationalizing jihadist attacks and supporting jihadists.

Indeed, when the Holy Land Foundation was shuttered in 2001 for its facilitation of terrorist groups, Mohammed told the Bergen Record that the federal government was unjustly singling out Muslim organizations. Seven years later, a jury convicted several HLF operatives for channeling millions of dollars to Hamas, the terrorist organization that is the Muslim Brotherhood’s Palestinian branch. Mohammed also ripped the Justice Department’s prosecution of al-Arian as a “witch-hunt” and a “politically motivated indictment.” Al-Arian eventually pleaded guilty to a terrorism charge in a case that showed him to be a key operative of the murderous Palestinian Islamic Jihad organization.

One of the AMU’s most influential members is Mohammed Qatanani, a 47-year-old Palestinian firebrand from Jordan, who is not just an associate but a client of Sohail Mohammed’s. According to federal law enforcement, Qatanani is a former Muslim Brotherhood member who, when apprehended by Israeli authorities in 1993, confessed to being a member of Hamas. Not surprisingly, Qatanani is also an avowed enthusiast of the Brotherhood-Hamas one-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. As Mr. Tobin notes, he’d have the Jewish state disappear by its absorption into an Islamic “Greater Syria.”

New Jersey has one of the country’s largest Islamic populations, and Qatanani has been the imam of one of the state’s largest Muslim communities, the Islamic Center of Passaic County. His predecessor as imam there, Mohammed el-Mezain, is among the five defendants convicted of financing Hamas in the HLF case. In fact, el-Mezain boasted of raising money at the mosque for Hamas. No surprise, then, to learn, as Steve Emerson recounts, that imam Qatanani included his predecessor and the other HLF defendants in a 2007 prayer for relief from oppression

Oh Allah assist our brothers and sisters in Philistine [Palestine], and Iraq and Chechnya . . . Oh Allah remove occupation and oppression, and oh Allah improve the matters of our community . . . to assist our brothers and sisters in the Holy Land Foundation, ask oh Allah . . . to assist them and to remove the difficulty that they have been inflicted with, all of the brothers and sisters in this country, oh Allah to prove them non-guilty.

The Department of Homeland Security has been trying for some time to deport Qatanani for lying on his 1999 immigration paperwork. He’d been granted a religious-worker visa in 1996, enabling him to be the imam at the Islamic Center. When it expired in 1999, he sought to become a permanent U.S. resident. Though specifically asked about his criminal history, Qatanani failed to disclose that he was convicted in an Israeli military court for his membership in, and support of, Hamas. Mohammed’s firm helped Qatanani prepare the I-485, and Qatanani later claimed that he’d signed the form because he “trusted his attorney, Sohail Mohammed.” (See Homeland Security Investigation, Appendix, p. 4.)

The deportation case against Qatanani was heard by an immigration judge in 2008. Christie was then the Bush-appointed U.S. attorney for New Jersey, though his office did not handle the case. In light of Qatanani’s track record and the Islamic Center of Passaic County’s connections to the Bush Justice Department’s then-ongoing HLF prosecution, it is nothing short of shocking that U.S. attorney Christie went to Qatanani’s mosque for a Ramadan celebration while the immigration case was underway. There, he is reported to have embraced Qatanani and praised the former Hamas operative as “a man of great good will.”

More astoundingly, Christie permitted one of his assistant U.S. attorneys, Charles B. McKenna, to testify at the immigration hearing as a character witness on behalf of Qatanani — i.e., a Justice Department official was dispatched to undermine the Homeland Security Department’s case against Qatanani, which was built in part on an investigation conducted by the FBI, an agency of the Justice Department.

The immigration judge, Alberto Riefkohl, ultimately ruled in Qatanani’s favor, an absurd decision in which he baselessly discredited two federal agents who’d testified about Qatanani’s admission that he’d been arrested for Hamas activities, and irrationally discounted the evidence of Qatanani’s Israeli conviction. The judge stressed, in arriving at this ruling, how impressed he’d been by “law-enforcement officers that took time from their respective duties to appear before the court.” I’m sure. But the feel-good hallucinations of bridge-building can’t erase the reality of terror promotion. Judge Riefkohl was later reversed by the Board of Immigration Appeals, which found that there was no basis for Riefkohl to have ignored the government’s evidence.

The questions about Governor Christie’s appointment of Sohail Mohammed and his exertions on behalf of Mohammed’s client, Mohammed Qatanani, have nothing to do with either sharia or the all-purpose smear of Islamophobia. They are about the governor’s judgment. They are about a U.S. attorney with political ambitions pandering to a politically active constituency at the expense of national security and enforcement of the immigration laws. They are about his decision to award a state judgeship to an attorney who was an active and vocal board member of a very troubling Islamist organization — and who has a penchant for presuming that perfectly valid anti-terror prosecutions are, instead, anti-Muslim persecutions.

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hail-to-the-republic · 5 years ago

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The 99% Get a Bigger Raise

“Political discourse nowadays is enough to depress anyone, and the media don’t help by ignoring good economic news. But buck up, Americans: Worker wages are growing much faster than previously reported,” The Wall Street Journal editorial board writes.

American workers’ paychecks rose 4.5 percent in 2017 and 5 percent in 2018—$4.4 billion and $87.1 billion more than first reported, respectively. “The trend has continued into 2019, with compensation increasing $378 billion or 3.4% in the first six months alone.”

Of course, “recall how liberals blamed ‘secular stagnation’ as the reason worker incomes weren’t growing faster during the latter years of Barack Obama’s Presidency. Yet employee compensation has increased by $150 billion more in the first six months of 2019 than all of 2016.”

Click here to read more.A majority of Americans say that illegal immigration impacts their lives, Paul Bedard reports in the Washington Examiner. “The top concern about illegals was abuse of social programs like healthcare, public schools and welfare.” Three times as many Americans named illegal immigration as their top concern compared with healthcare.“According to early headlines in the media, the Department of Veterans Affairs' implementation of the MISSION Act was going to be something of a mess,” Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert Wilkie writes for Military.com. “But thanks to thousands of dedicated VA workers around the country and President Donald J. Trump's support for this historic reform, elements of the MISSION Act took effect on June 6, and veterans immediately began benefitting from the largest transformation in veterans' health care since the end of World War II.”“59 percent of voters see Big Tech bias as a problem, including 68 percent of Republicans and 53 percent of Democrats,” Harmeet Dhillon writes in Townhall. “Now that President Trump has championed the cause of internet freedom for all Americans, Big Tech has begun to fight a war of attrition — and our ability to speak and vote freely hangs in the balance.”“Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khameini last week touted Iran’s support for the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas,” White House Special Representative for International Negotiations Jason Greenblatt and U.S. Special Representative for Iran Brian Hook write in Fox News. Iran’s leader says he wants to counter the Trump Administration’s Middle East peace plan by arming Palestinians with precision rockets. “The world should be rooting for the Trump administration’s peace vision and the future generations of Israelis and Palestinians who have suffered from this decades-old conflict. The world should be united against Iran’s illicit business and terror activities.”President Trump has a simple yet holistic vision on health care that separates him from the left, according to HHS Secretary Alex Azar: “He intends to protect what works and fix what’s broken”—including protecting private insurance and Medicare, which currently cover 240 million Americans. Dr. Marc Siegel of NYU, writing in The Hill, calls the President’s strategy “refreshing to doctors, hospitals, and patients.”

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August 11, 2018: 3:54 pm:

August 11, 2018: 10:12 pm:<br><br>Below is a copy of the full text of corresp... StoneMan .Warrior - 2018-08-11T13:50:59-0400 - Updated: 2018-08-11T18:54:30-0400

August 11, 2018: 10:12 pm: Below is a copy of the full text of correspondence I received by Email today from the White House Press Secretary's Office. I will make comment regarding some of these little BS indicators below the actual BS on the bottom of this entry later on today. Make no mistake about these small snippets of informative jargon, each one of these article items has a double meaning. From the individual authors names, to the source of the media outlet, to the carefully crafted and selected quotes and statements, this is some high level, under-table communication coming from the White House and directed to specialized groups of people unknown. On the surface, these articles are dry and uninteresting, easy to skip over and move on. That is exactly the way this kind of communication is designed to work. These kinds of outwardly visible and seemingly non-threatening pieces of information are communicated daily from the White House, to those who wish to be informed in this way. The first thing to take notice of for understanding what is happening here, is to be aware that the following text is from the The White House in Washington DC, where the President of the United States lives, and where his staff works. These communications are supposed to be written by White House Government Officials, but instead, each one of these snippets is simply a quoted portion of a larger text written by a Mainstream Media author. There is absolutely no information in this White House Correspondence letter that actually comes from the White House. None. The White House has been Hijacked by the people who put this BS together and sent it to me. ==================================== resolute reads REAL NEWS PRESIDENT TRUMP DOESN'T WANT YOU TO MISS Trump’s New Short-Term Health Insurance Rule is a Major Victory for Young People and Working Families Washington Examiner “The average family enrolled in [an Obamacare] Silver Plan will pay a maximum of $13,725 for out-of-pocket expenses, with Silver Plan deductibles increasing by 13 percent in just the past year alone,” Justin Haskins of the Heartland Institute writes. “Health insurance this expensive is virtually useless.” Trump Reinstates Iran Sanctions, Slams ‘Horrible’ Nuclear Deal -Fox News In May, President Donald J. Trump announced America’s withdrawal from the flawed Iran nuclear deal. This week, the Administration followed through on that promise. On Tuesday at midnight, the Treasury Department restored many of the sanctions the Obama Administration lifted as part of the deal, Rich Edson reports. Pence Calls for Space Force to be Established by 2020 -Fox News “Vice President Pence called Thursday for America to assert its dominance in space,” Adam Shaw reports—“and revealed the Trump administration wants to create the ‘Space Force’ by 2020.” The Vice President said “our adversaries have transformed space into a warfighting domain already and the United States will not shrink from this challenge.” Israelis and Palestinians Must Unite Against Shared Threat -CNN Special U.S. Representative for International Negotiations Jason Greenblatt writes that “while Hamas focuses on violence toward their Israeli neighbors, they have neglected and utterly failed to build the infrastructure and systems to make life better in Gaza.” But Greenblatt says that today Israelis and Palestinians have a chance to finally live in peace if they work together to address the deadly threat Hamas presents. How Visa ‘Overstays’ are Fueling America’s Immigration Boom -The Washington Times Stephen Dinan reports that “more than 400,000 people came to the U.S. on legal visitor visas in 2017 but were still here six months after their time was up,” according to new information from the Department of Homeland Security. “‘Visa overstays’ account for a large percentage of new immigrants who settle illegally in the country every year.” Tax Cuts Delivering Relief Small Businesses Need http://-Cincinnati.com “It’s now been seven months since the tax cuts took effect, and small business owners are making real investments in their businesses and their employees – raising wages, providing bonuses and benefits, and creating more jobs,” Small Business Administrator Linda McMahon writes. “This truly is a golden age for small business.” Amgen Freezes Drug Prices, Credits Trump -Washington Examiner “Drug maker Amgen, which recently said that it won’t raise prices again this year, is crediting the Trump administration’s effort to steady the price of drugs,” Paul Bedard reports. President Trump has “pushed companies to lower prices and promised that many would. Amgen is one of the biggest to act since Trump made his promise.” Hardly Anyone Wants to Admit America Is Beating Poverty -The Wall Street Journal Bruce Meyer and James Sullivan write that when it comes to poverty in America, “the White House tells the truth, but partisans on both sides are wedded to the idea of failure.” Their conclusion: “Encouraging self-sufficiency used to be a bipartisan issue; it can be again.” IBD/TIPP Poll: Americans Give Trump An 'A' For Economy -Investor’s Business Daily The Investor’s Business Daily Editorial Board writes that Americans give President Trump an “A” grade on the economy, according to a new poll. The money quote—literally: “People are feeling more secure in their finances than they have at least since the early 2000s.” Cracking Down on Synthetic Opioid Sales -Tampa Bay Times “When it comes to synthetic opioids, there is no such thing as a small case,” Attorney General Jeff Sessions writes. “Three milligrams of fentanyl can be fatal. That’s equivalent to a pinch of salt. It’s not even enough to cover Lincoln’s face on a penny.” That’s why the Administration is launching Operation Synthetic Opioids Surge. The End of Veteran Homelessness is Within Reach in South Florida -Miami Herald “We have few responsibilities greater than making certain those who have sacrificed so much in service to this country have a home they can call their own,” Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Ben Carson writes. “This is a problem we can solve.” ======================================== Comments about the correspondence letter. ======================================== -------------------------------------------------------------- Cracking Down on Synthetic Opioid Sales Tampa Bay Times “When it comes to synthetic opioids, there is no such thing as a small case,” Attorney General Jeff Sessions writes. “Three milligrams of fentanyl can be fatal. That’s equivalent to a pinch of salt. It’s not even enough to cover Lincoln’s face on a penny.” That’s why the Administration is launching Operation Synthetic Opioids Surge. ------------------------------------------------------------------ I chose to pick this item first because this is blatantly a HIT order. The snippet above indicates exactly the measure of fatal and lethal dosage of fentanyl. The idea is presented in reference to a penny, or money, or more bluntly, it indicates that there is a payment system associated with killing in this way. The idea that the amount of fentanyl needed is in reference to covering a penny, that is old school Secret Society jargon for "we have made all of the arrangements, cover operations are in place, nothing to worry about, there will be no repercussions resultant of assassination in this fashion". That is what that says. I learned it in MKUltra School or had to die trying. And to wrap this comment up, the indication is "launching Operation Synthetic Opioids Surge." That's "surge", not purge, not eliminate. not reduce... "Surge". The vehicle, result, and affect of this nation wide assassination/extermination/mass murder campaign will be carried out swiftly, and large. That is what that says in "secret society" language. This order comes from the Attorney General, Jeff Sessions. ====================================== ====================================== -------------------------------------------------------------------------- August 11, 2018: 2:43 pm: Tax Cuts Delivering Relief Small Businesses Need http://-Cincinnati.com “It’s now been seven months since the tax cuts took effect, and small business owners are making real investments in their businesses and their employees – raising wages, providing bonuses and benefits, and creating more jobs,” Small Business Administrator Linda McMahon writes. “This truly is a golden age for small business.” --------------------------------------------------------------------------- This snippet does not have the strikethrough Font problem. This item is about a system through which injured terrorist soldiers receive treatment for their wounds. the term "Tax cuts" is a useful way to say the a terrorists soldier has been injured during an attack. The "small business owners" references individual family terrorist cells, and larger cells composed of family cells. Word Magic. The reference to seven years is a reference to Seventh Day Adventists. The quote “This truly is a golden age for small business.” shows association to SAG. The name Linda McMahon could mean different things. Linda means cute, pretty, beautiful. Also, there is Loma Linda California, the headquarters for Seventh Day Adventist soldiers and is famous for the Loma Linda University Hospital their where 7th Day doctors are trained. The idea that investments have been made is telling the 7th day soldiers that they are valued, they have invested time and money in training the 7th Day soldiers so, it says Don't Worry, we love you. Also, Elon Musk put a Tesla in space that has a message on the dashboard directed at 7th Day soldiers the reads "Don't Panic". The name McMahon is a reference to furniture, which translates to "fixtures". And to wrap this up... The http://Cincinati.com reference there is an indicator of Ohio, and of course, Ohio is known to be high in the middle, and round on both ends. Think of a car, or in terrorist terms, a cart, an Ala-Cart... round wheels on the ends, cab in the middle, higher than the wheels (7th Day soldiers like to blame Muslims, so they borrow Muslim ideas and use them to falsely accuse the Muslims of wrong doing, hence Ala-Cart.) More on the reference to "Linda McMahon": Mc = Cheesenurger. Ma - hon = Ma+Hon: Ma = Mom or May: Hon = bitch. In local Quebec French, the word "Hon" means "bitch". The name is puzzling. Linda = pretty, but further research also indicates soft, tender for the name meaning. And the rest of it could point towards Theresa May. Then, Pretty/tender Theresa May is a cheeseburger bitch. Or perhaps, Female soldier Theresa May is injured and needs assistance. An injury such as that would not necessarily be a physical injury. There is a lot going on in this snippet. This one is more complicated than the others, I feel a trust generating sort of indicator, however, I don't know right now. I will update this if I feel different, or new, or more revealing vibes from it.

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StoneMan .Warrior - 2018-08-11T17:41:43-0400 - Updated: 2018-08-12T11:14:24-0400

August 11, 2018: 2:15 pm: To anyone: My phone does not ring. If you have tried to call me, you did not speak to me.. I am under the impression that someone tried phoning me, and the call was answered. I did not receive a phone call. I have not spoken to anyone on the telephone since August 6, 2018. If someone called and spoke to someone on the phone and thought it was me, then, the call was hijacked by a StingRay listening devise. I have not received a phone call from any family for a long, long, long... long time. When I call my family, no one answers, the phone rings, no one answers. It has been about two years since my family answered their telephones. Please help.

StoneMan .Warrior - 2018-08-11T18:58:55-0400

August 11, 2018: 3:57 pm: Someone is removing the things I write almost as soon as I am done writing them. I told a lot of truth about the Space Force of Mike Pence and now it is all gone. Erased.

StoneMan .Warrior - 2018-08-11T23:35:28-0400

August 11, 2018: 8:23 pm: I wrote some things down today in response to an email from the White House in Washington DC. I wrote a lot of important matters of National Security. I have looked at the entry's I made a few time today. Each time I look, a little bit more has been deleted, or changed. I am not making changes that remove large portions of text. I make small additions, spelling corrections, and adjust a word or two for clarity and understanding. These are complicated ideas, and they are difficult to convey into words on a G+ profile page. My National Security work is being hacked, removed, deleted, and otherwise throttled. I have been turned into a Mandala Effect. Is there no one who does national security work? In the USA? In the World? If it happens to me it can happen to you too. There is no law enforcement anywhere around where am. The telephone only reaches terrorists who reroute my calls to a place that they choose. My incoming calls have been reduced only to those who drive ambulance cart service vehicles. And my family is all either been murdered bu the terrorists, or are being held in captivity... I don't know. Now, the only outlet to find help, here at G+, has been taken over by the terrorists also... they are removing the only report on Earth that explains the conditions of the terrorist armies that use Nitrous Oxide mixed with Versed as an offensive weapon to kill and capture American victims. Why won't the readers of this page help?

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