Russia has continued its air campaign against the Syrian opposition, despite its claims to temporarily suspend airstrikes against Syrian al Qaeda-affiliate Jabhat al Nusra and the opposition...

Russian Airstrikes in Syria:  April 30 - May 26, 2016

By Genevieve Casagrande Russia has continued its air campaign against the Syrian opposition, despite its claims to temporarily suspend airstrikes against Syrian al Qaeda-affiliate Jabhat al Nusra and the opposition. The Russian Ministry of Defense announced a temporary pause in its air campaign against Jabhat al Nusra in order to give opposition groups time to distance themselves from the jihadist group on May 25 and again on May 27. The withdrawal of opposition forces from key frontlines jointly held with Jabhat al Nusra - particularly in Aleppo - would likely render core opposition-held terrain vulnerable to advances by pro-regime forces. Russia is conducting a concerted effort against opposition forces in Aleppo, following opposition gainsagainst pro-regime forces in southern Aleppo throughout April and May 2016. Russian air operations have largely concentrated against positions along the opposition's last remaining supply route into Aleppo City from May 13 - 26, including against towns northwest of the city and areas in Aleppo's northern industrial outskirts. Pro-regime forces remain positioned to encircle and besiege opposition forces in Aleppo City by severing this supply route. Pro-regime forces continued low-levelground operationssupportedbyRussian airstrikes from May 12 -17 to complete the encirclement through the city's northern industrial districts, although these efforts were unsuccessful. Russia remains a decisive military force in the Syrian conflict, despite its alleged drawdown. Operation Inherent Resolve Spokesperson Col. Steve Warren stated that Russian currently retains "almost identical" military capabilities following Russian President Vladimir Putin's announcement of a partial withdrawal on March 14. The distribution of Russian air operations in northwestern Syria demonstrates Russia's continued prioritization of support to the Assad regime. The military assets that Russia maintains in theater allow it to respond within 24 hours to threats to regime terrain. Russian airstrikes escalated against opposition forces in northern Homs Province and southern Hama Province from May 12 - 16 and again from May 19 - 22 in response to renewed opposition operations against regime forces in the area. This concentration of strikes in defense of pro-regime terrain, however, was largely unable to reverse opposition gains. Russia has meanwhile continued to present itself as an effective partner in the fight against terrorism, while continuing to function as a destabilizing force in the Syrian conflict. Russian Minister of Defense Sergei Shoigu announced on May 20 that Russia had presented a plan to the U.S.-led anti-ISIS coalition to begin joint airstrikes against "international terrorist and illegal armed groups" that violate the cessation of hostilities agreement. U.S. officials subsequently denied the existence of any such agreement. Russia caveated its proposal for joint strikes, stating that Russia would not accept any arrangement that prevented it from conducting unilateral airstrikes in Syria. Russia is unlikely to halt military action against mainstream elements of the Syrian opposition, which remain the Assad regime's largest adversaries. Russia has continued to indiscriminately target both Jabhat al Nusra and mainstream opposition factions in northwestern Syria despite the International Syria Support Group's agreement to new measures to reinforce a nationwide cessation of hostilities on May 17. Russian airstrikes continued to primarily target opposition forces in northwestern Syria from May 13 - 26, rather than terrorist organizations such as ISIS. ISW was only able to assess one Russian airstrike against ISIS for the two-week period from May 13 - 26 with low confidence, despite continued ISIS operations throughout Syria.   The following graphic depicts ISW's assessment of Russian airstrike locations based on reports from local Syrian activist networks, Syrian state-run media, and statements by Russian and Western officials. This map represents locations targeted by Russia's air campaign, rather than the number of individual strikes or sorties.   High-Confidence reporting. ISW places high confidence in reports corroborated both by official government statements reported through credible channels and documentation from rebel factions or activist networks on the ground in Syria deemed to be credible. Low-Confidence reporting. ISW places low confidence in secondary sources that have not been confirmed or sources deemed likely to contain disinformation.

The Harry Reid crowd won't like this A must read !

 

Absolutely Jaw Dropping !!

PAUL RYAN'S PROPOSED BUDGET CUTS

A List of Republican Budget Cuts

Notice S.S. And the military are NOT on this list.

These are all the programs that the new Republican House has proposed cutting.

Read to the end.

> * Corporation for Public Broadcasting Subsidy -- $445 million annual savings.
> * Save America 's Treasures Program -- $25 million annual savings.
> * International Fund for Ireland -- $17 million annual savings.
> * Legal Services Corporation -- $420 million annual savings.
> * National Endowment for the Arts -- $167.5 million annual savings.
> * National Endowment for the Humanities -- $167.5 million annual savings.
> * Hope VI Program -- $250 million annual savings.
> * Amtrak Subsidies -- $1.565 billion annual savings.
> * Eliminate duplicating education programs -- H.R. 2274 (in last Congress), authored by Rep. McKeon , eliminates 68 at a savings of $1.3 billion annually.
> * U.S. Trade Development Agency -- $55 million annual savings.
> * Woodrow Wilson Center Subsidy -- $20 million annual savings.
> * Cut in half funding for congressional printing and binding -- $47 million annual savings.
> * John C. Stennis Center Subsidy -- $430,000 annual savings.
> * Community Development Fund -- $4.5 billion annual savings.
> * Heritage Area Grants and Statutory Aid -- $24 million annual savings.
> * Cut Federal Travel Budget in Half -- $7.5 billion annual savings
> * Trim Federal Vehicle Budget by 20% -- $600 million annual savings.
> * Essential Air Service -- $150 million annual savings.
> * Technology Innovation Program -- $70 million annual savings.
> *Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) Program -- $125 million annual savings..
> * Department of Energy Grants to States for Weatherization -- $530 million annual savings.
> * Beach Replenishment -- $95 million annual savings. 
> * New Starts Transit -- $2 billion annual savings.

* Exchange Programs for Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians, and Their Historical Trading Partners in Massachusetts -- $9 million annual savings

> * Intercity and High Speed Rail Grants -- $2.5 billion annual savings.

> * Title X Family Planning -- $318 million annual savings.

> * Appalachian Regional Commission -- $76 million annual savings.

> * Economic Development Administration -- $293 million annual savings.

> * Programs under the National and Community Services Act -- $1.15 billion annual savings.

> * Applied Research at Department of Energy -- $1.27 billion annual savings.

> * Freedom CAR and Fuel Partnership -- $200 million annual savings..

> * Energy Star Program -- $52 million annual savings.

> *Economic Assistance to Egypt -- $250 million annually.

> * U.S.Agency for International Development -- $1.39 billion annual savings.

> * General Assistance to District of Columbia -- $210 million annual savings.

> * Subsidy for Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority -- $150 million annual savings.

> *Presidential Campaign Fund -- $775 million savings over ten years.

> * No funding for federal office space acquisition -- $864 million annual savings.

> * End prohibitions on competitive sourcing of government services.

> * Repeal the Davis-Bacon Act -- More than $1 billion annually.

> * IRS Direct Deposit: Require the IRS to deposit fees for some services it offers (such as processing payment plans for taxpayers) to the Treasury, instead of allowing it to remain as part of its budget -- $1.8 billion savings over ten years. 

> *Require collection of unpaid taxes by federal employees -- $1 billion total savings. WHAT'S THIS ABOUT?

> * Prohibit taxpayer funded union activities by federal employees -- $1.2 billion savings over ten years.

> * Sell excess federal properties the government does not make use of -- $15 billion total savings.

> *Eliminate death gratuity for Members of Congress. WHAT???

> * Eliminate Mohair Subsidies -- $1 million annual savings.

> *Eliminate taxpayer subsidies to the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change -- $12.5 million annual savings. WELL ISN'T THAT SPECIAL

* Eliminate Market Access Program -- $200 million annual savings.

> * USDA Sugar Program -- $14 million annual savings.

> * Subsidy to Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) -- $93 million annual savings.

> * Eliminate the National Organic Certification Cost-Share Program -- $56.2 million annual savings.

> *Eliminate fund for Obamacare administrative costs -- $900 million savings.

> * Ready to Learn TV Program -- $27 million savings..

> * HUD Ph.D. Program.

> * Deficit Reduction Check-Off Act.

> *TOTAL SAVINGS: $2.5 Trillion over Ten Years

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My question is, what is all this doing in the budget in the first place?!

 

Maybe this is why the Democrats are attacking Paul Ryan.

 

Please Send to everyone you know who might care and who WILL VOTE in November!.

Black Lives Matter WHAT IF ALL BLACKS SUDDENLY LEFT AMERICA....

 

(13.3% OF THE TOTAL POPULATION, 45,220,000 PEOPLE)

The prison population would go down by 37%

 

There would be 53% less gang members

 

 Obesity percentage would drop 11%

 

 

Average IQ would go up 7.4 points putting us 3rd in the world tied with Japan

 

Average Sat scores would go up almost 100 pts

 

Average ACT scores would go up 5.5 pts

 

AIDS & HIV would go down by 65%

 

Chlamydia cases would go down 54%

 

Gonorrhea would go down 69%

 

Syphilis would go down 58%

 

The average income for Americans would go up over 20,000 dollars a year

 

Amount of people in poverty would drop 34%

 

Homelessness would go down 57%

 

Welfare recipients would go down by 42%

 

DEMOCRATS WOULD LOSE 76% OF THEIR VOTING BASE

 

Members of the Gulf Cartel in Matamoros interrogates an alleged group of kidnappers and extortionist who will kill their victims to leave no evidence. They were at the end killed with a shot in the head...

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Narcos back to the old days. CDG recorded the confession of alleged kidnappers before killing them. (Video) Posted: 27 May 2016 07:39 PM PDT Members of the Gulf Cartel in Matamoros interrogates an alleged group of kidnappers and extortionist who will kill their victims to leave no evidence. They were at the end killed with a shot in the head. On a video uploaded to several social network sites specialized on warning people of danger in Tamaulipas, armed men can be seen in military uniforms questioning six alleged kidnappers who are tied and blindfolded. The video begins with the image of a large narco banner ensuring that the  "Old School CDG" is not involved in any of all the robberies, kidnappings and extortion's that have arisen lately in this plaza. "We will not tolerate or allow such atrocities in our group," the statement said. The six alleged kidnappers, who were recorded kneeling with a blindfold and their hands tied behind their backs, responded to the interrogation of suspected members of the CDG. They confess to have engaged in kidnapping and extortion and they identified the ringleader as "Pancho".   During the interrogation they described a kidnapping victim who was held captive for a million pesos in ransom, but they only received 40 thousand pesos. One of the alleged kidnappers described that they killed their victim by placing a plastic bag over her head to suffocate her and then she was buried. Each of the alleged kidnappers talk about their role in the group and why they were engaged in extortion. At the end of the video you can see the six bodies with bloodstains and apparently lifeless. At the end of the video a text signed by "Gulf Cartel from H. Matamoros, Tamaulipas" can be seen. "The Gulf Cartel Task Force in Matamoros, Tams has taken down a group of kidnappers and extortionists who had been operating in the area. Proving that our priority is first and foremost the welfare and safety of the people of Matamoros. We will not allow such actions, "concludes the text. The "Old School CDG," which is also similar at Los Zetas group, are now saying that the organized crime groups are returning to their original business: drug trafficking, and to stop kidnapping, robbing and extorting money from the population.    However, most of the fractions of both groups continue to commit such crimes and they refuse to stop other businesses such as the lucrative fuel theft. In recent months, Ciudad Victoria and Matamoros averaged a total of 14 kidnappings per month according to figures from complaints filed with the State Office of Justice. This article was translated from Proceso

This year, ISIS will likely take action to reverse serious losses in Iraq and Syria while expanding its attacks against the non-Muslim world in an attempt to spark an apocalyptic total war...

New Report ISIS Forecast: Ramadan 2016 By Jessica Lewis McFate, Harleen Gambhir, Christopher Kozak, and Jennifer Cafarella with Dina Shahrokhi Executive Summary: The next 45 days constitute a high-risk period for a surge of attacks by ISIS during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan. ISIS traditionally uses Ramadan - which begins on June 6 and ends on July 5, 2016 - as a justification for its attacks and as an occasion to reorient its strategy. This year, ISIS will likely take action to reverse serious losses in Iraq and Syria while expanding its attacks against the non-Muslim world in an attempt to spark an apocalyptic total war. ISIS is still operationally capable in its core terrain and stands poised to expand its operations over the next six weeks, particularly in Turkey, Lebanon, and Jordan. This forecast will outline the most likely and most dangerous targets that ISIS may seek to operate against during Ramadan. ISIS will implement its global strategy with simultaneous and linked campaigns across multiple geographic rings. ISW has refined its previous assessment of these geographic campaigns to identify the following four rings: core terrain, including Iraq, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, Israel, and the Sinai Peninsula; regional power centers, including Saudi Arabia, Iran, Turkey, and Egypt; the remainder of the Muslim world; and the non-Muslim world. ISIS will pursue different strategic objectives in each ring in order to advance its grand strategic objective to expand its caliphate across all Muslim lands while provoking and winning an apocalyptic war against the West.ISIS has suffered numerous losses within Iraq and Syria that it will likely seek to reverse by setting new conditions during Ramadan. ISIS will attempt to exploit an ongoing political crisis in Iraq by targeting demonstrators or other soft targets in a mass casualty event that prompts the mobilization of Iraqi Shi'a and sparks reprisals against Iraqi Sunnis. ISIS will also launch attacks in Homs, Tartous, and Latakia Provinces in Syria to exploit the current focus of pro-regime elements upon other major cities such as Aleppo and Damascus. ISIS has already demonstrated this capability and will continue to pursue these courses of action in April - May 2016 leading up to Ramadan. ISIS will also seek to generate new conditions in Iraq and Syria by launching attacks within neighboring countries, including Turkey, Lebanon, and Jordan. ISIS will likely select targets in neighboring states that relieve pressure from the group in Syria while setting conditions for future expansion in those states. Targets that serve this dual purpose include foreign tourists, state security forces, and U.S. military elements in Turkey and Jordan. ISIS has already accelerated its attacks within Turkey and Lebanon since November 2015. Jordanian Special Operations Forces uncovered an operational ISIS presence in Irbid in March 2016, indicating that ISIS is developing the capability to conduct attacks inside Jordan as well. ISIS is similarly organizing campaigns to weaken regional power centers - including Saudi Arabia, Iran, Turkey, and Egypt - in order to eliminate its rivals for leadership within the Muslim world. ISIS has pursued an indirect campaign against Iran that focuses upon its proxies in Iraq and Syria. Meanwhile, ISIS is escalating its attacks against security forces in Saudi Arabia with targets including the capital of Riyadh, Shi'a populations of Eastern Saudi Arabia, and potentially the holy city of Mecca, based upon recent arrests. These attacks may serve to boost regional recruitment for ISIS while signaling its long-term intent to seize control of the holy cities of Mecca and Medina. ISIS will also likely take advantage of political discontent against Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi to further drive disorder in mainland Egypt and delegitimize the rival version of Islamism espoused by the Muslim Brotherhood. ISIS will likely also announce new global affiliates elsewhere in the Muslim world during Ramadan, continuing a trend from previous years. ISIS is particularly likely to announce new governorates in Bangladesh and Southeast Asia over the next forty-five days, although new governorates in the Sahel and Somalia are also possible. ISIS will likely launch attacks during Ramadan in each of these locations in order to claim a presence in the far corners of the Muslim world, where it is directly competing with al-Qaeda and staging for future attacks against the non-Muslim world. ISIS could also declare a governorate in Tunisia over Ramadan, although conditions may not be set for such an announcement in the near-term. ISIS will expand its control and influence in Libya from its stronghold in Sirte, which it can use as a platform to escalate its expansion into Tunisia and Northern Africa. ISIS will likely attack the West during Ramadan, particularly Europe. ISIS may well attempt to target major sporting events and other crowded public venues, including the Euro 2016 soccer tournament between June 10 and July 10. In a most dangerous course of action, ISIS could target Great Britain in an effort to exacerbate underlying tensions over refugee policy, accelerate its exit from the European Union, and break a key alliance in the West. ISIS could also conduct attacks against Canada and the U.S. over this period, particularly around the respective Independence Days of each country on July 1st and July 4th. The risk of 'lone wolf attacks' across the West will rise during Ramadan, as indicated in a recent speech by the group's spokesperson urging followers to target the Crusaders in the West. The anticipated surge in attacks by ISIS during Ramadan coincides with other precarious geopolitical trends that may allow ISIS to achieve outsized effects against its adversaries. ISIS could attempt to provoke an escalation in the Kurdish-Turkish conflict by launching cross-border attacks from Syrian Kurdish terrain or deploying ethnic Kurds as suicide bombers in Turkey. An intensification in this conflict could exacerbate tensions between the U.S. and Turkey over anti-ISIS strategy given the current reliance upon Syrian Kurds linked to the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) as the primary ground partner against ISIS in Syria. Meanwhile, Russia has also leveraged the Kurds as one vector to challenge Turkey amidst a wider campaign to pressure NATO through its southern flank. These additive pressures create an unstable security environment in which ISIS can generate asymmetric effects in the absence of U.S. support. ISIS's Ramadan campaign thus threatens to inflict dangerous pressure upon the global system of U.S.-led security alliances even as it challenges domestic security across Europe. Countering this campaign will require the U.S. to dedicate increased resources towards disrupting its ground campaign, protecting vulnerable targets, and reinforcing key global and regional alliances. Read this post online

There is no country where Islam is dominant that can be considered a democracy with freedom of speech and equal justice under law...

Sweden: Is Islam Compatible with Democracy? Part I of a Series: The Islamization of Sweden by Ingrid Carlqvist  •  May 28, 2016 at 5:00 am It is not a secret that democracy can be used to abolish democracy. It may have finally begun to dawn on the people that Swedish Sweden will soon be lost forever, and in many areas replaced by a Middle Eastern state of affairs, where different immigrant groups (mainly Muslims) make war on each other as well as on the Swedes. According to Dr. Peter Hammond, in his book Slavery, Terrorism and Islam: The Historical Roots and Contemporary Threat, the goal of Islam is not to convert the whole world, but rather, to establish sharia law all over the world. There is no country where Islam is dominant that can be considered a democracy with freedom of speech and equal justice under law. While the establishment closes its eyes to the problems that come with a rapidly growing Muslim population in Sweden, ordinary Swedes seem to be growing increasingly upset. Prime Minister Stefan Löfven (right), however, appears to be at a complete loss as to why this is. Pictured at left: The results of rioting in a Stockholm suburb, December 2014. In Sweden's last census in which citizens were asked about their religious beliefs, in 1930, fifteen people said that they were Muslims. Since 1975, when Sweden started its transformation from a homogenous, Swedish country into a multicultural and multi-religious one, the number of Muslims has exploded. Now, approximately one million Muslims live here -- Sunni, Shia and Ahmadiyya from all the corners of the world -- and Mosques are built and planned all over the country. No one, however, seems to have asked the crucial question upon which Sweden's future depends: Is Islam compatible with democracy? The Swedish establishment has not grasped that Islam is more than a private religion, and therefore it dismisses all questions about Islam with the argument that Sweden has freedom of religion. Continue Reading Article

So Much Wrong and So Few Seem to Care...

 

Word for word from the Cornell Law Library 

Former United States Attorney General Michael Mukasey tells MSNBC that not only is Hillary Clinton's private email server illegal, it "disqualifies" her from holding any federal office. Such as, say, President of the United States. Very specifically points to one federal law, Title 18. Section 2071.

For those of us who do not have United States Code committed to memory, here's what it says:

 

“(a) Whoever willfully and unlawfully conceals, removes, mutilates, obliterates, or destroys, or attempts to do so, or, with intent to do so takes and carries away any record, proceeding, map, book, paper, document, or other thing, filed or deposited with any clerk or officer of any court of the United States, or in any public office, or with any judicial or public officer of the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.

 

(b) Whoever, having the custody of any such record, proceeding, map, book, document, paper, or other thing, willfully and unlawfully conceals, removes, mutilates, obliterates, falsifies, or destroys the same, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both; and shall forfeit his office and be disqualified from holding any office under the United States. As used in this subsection, the term “office” does not include the office held by any person as a retired officer of the Armed Forces of the United States.”

 

Yes, it explicitly states "shall forfeit his office and be disqualified from holding any office under the United States."

Shouldn't voters know that? The media won't tell them. So it's up to us. Can you help hold Hillary accountable?  

 

Pass this on, please.

 

Now !!  Does anyone believe that this will make a difference ??

 

just a note!

 

Now if Hillary is allowed to run for an office of any kind,  it will show us that the Washington D.C. establishment is so much more corrupt than we thought.