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ASSANGE: UP TO 100,000 PAGES OF CLINTON DOCUMENTS TO COME
"We have tens of thousands, possibly as many as a hundred thousand, pages of documents of different types, related to the operations that Hillary Clinton is associated with."
WikiLeaks could release as many as 100,000 pages of new material related to Hillary Clinton before the election, Julian Assange said Thursday, thanks in part to new sources who stepped forward after the organization leaked internal emails from the Democratic National Committee.
“We have tens of thousands, possibly as many as a hundred thousand, pages of documents of different types, related to the operations that Hillary Clinton is associated with,” the WikiLeaks founder said in a radio interview with Sean Hannity. “There are some, several … in response to the DNC publications, a lot of people have been inspired by the impact, and so they have stepped forward with additional material.”
Assange said his organization released internal DNC documents just before the party’s national convention because that was when staff finished vetting them, but that he hoped to have the newest documents out well before November.
100,000 Clinton Documents By Wikileaks Will Destroy Hillary!
Published on Sep 10, 2016
WikiLeaks could release as many as 100,000 pages of new material related to Hillary Clinton before the election, Julian Assange said Thursday, thanks in part to new sources who stepped forward after the organization leaked internal emails from the Democratic National Committee. http://www.infowars.com/assange-up-to...
Until Western ostriches wake up and recognize that to oppose Islamic supremacism, the worst enemy of human rights and democracy, is not remotely anti-Muslim, but a necessary defense of Western civilization, we will continue to slowly lose our freedoms.
On one side, terror will be struck into disbelievers by violent jihadists, and on the other, stealth jihadists will (and have already begun to) fully infiltrate and infect all levels of government and private enterprise, with the ultimate aim of subjugating the House of War under the House of Islam.
Recall, from the Muslim Brotherhood Explanatory Memorandum:
“The process of settlement is a ‘Civilization-Jihadist Process’ with all the word means. The Ikhwan [Muslim Brotherhood] must understand that their work in America is a kind of grand jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and “sabotaging” its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and God’s religion is made victorious over all other religions.”
The intention of any Muslim who is quick to level accusations of racism and Islamophobia is not benign.
“Jihadist terrorism enters new stage 15 years after 9/11”, Jerusalem Post, September 10, 2016:
Fifteen years after Al-Qaida perpetrated the world’s worst terrorist atrocity, targeting New York and Washington, the threat posed by jihadist terrorism remains, casting a constant shadow over international security. This threat changes form from one stage to another, and is set to remain with us for many years to come. The loss of territory by ISIS does not, unfortunately, mark its demise.
Jihadist terrorism is first and foremost an idea, and like a virus, the idea spreads, infecting minds, while thriving under certain conditions.
A brief history of this virus should begin with Egyptian hard-line Islamist ideologue Sayyid Qutb, who published the book Milestones in 1964, in which he called for the world to be divided into two camps.
The first is the House of Islam, where the most fundamentalist interpretation of Islam reigns, and the second is the House of War, which is run by the “unbelievers.”
Qutb considered Arab-Muslim states of the 20th century to be fake Western puppets that were pretending to be Muslim, and he said they belonged to the House of War. He was executed by his country in 1966.
Qutb’s ideas, however, lived on, and helped foment Islamist uprisings in Arab lands, which were suppressed. In the 1980s, jihadists began flowing into Afghanistan to fight off Soviet occupation.
Their ranks included the Palestinian sheikh Abdullah Azzam, the spiritual mentor of Osama bin Laden. Azzam, who was killed in Afghanistan in 1989, called for the establishment of a caliphate to rule the Earth and liberate humanity, while also calling for “disbelief” to be annihilated.
Azzam correctly believed that Afghanistan would be the first place where jihadists could enjoy full freedom of operation, and so they did, under the Taliban state that was formed in 1990s. Al-Qaida, using the Taliban as a base, launched the 2001 9/11 attacks, which resulted in the Taliban’s rapid destruction in US-led military action.
This marked a new stage for radical Islamists: the stage of homelessness. Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaida was being hunted in Afghanistan by an international coalition, and the jihadists were on the run.
Yet the ideas of bin Laden, Azzam, Qutb and others, were spreading fast, this time, on the Internet.
These ideas spread all over the world, and jihadist sympathizers began to grow.
Some appeared within Muslim minority communities in the West, challenging their parents’ identities, and many more became indoctrinated in the Middle East.
The 2003 US invasion of Iraq, and the years of bloody civil war that followed, provided an opportunity for the jihadists to regroup.
In 2006, the Islamic State of Iraq (ISI) was formed, and it launched a series of brutal attacks on Iraqi Shi’ites and moderate Sunnis who did not share its goal of creating a jihadist state.
Meanwhile, isolated yet devastating mass-casualty attacks rocked Madrid and London. In 2011, the Arab world experienced an earthquake of instability, setting off a domino-like collapse of states. ISI forces began spilling into the imploded Syrian state, filling a power vacuum, and joining the civil war.
ISI became the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria – the infamous ISIS. It split off from al-Qaida, and in 2014, it began a new stage, forming a “caliphate.”
The vision of a radical dystopian jihadist dictatorship became a reality. ISIS turned into a hybrid entity: a regime with its own army and international terrorist network.
It ruled over millions of people and controlled swaths of territory in the Middle East, sending out and inspiring terrorist cells in Europe. It also set up franchises in Libya and Egypt’s Sinai.
Now, a new stage appears to be looming.
ISIS will soon lose most, if not all of its territory in Iraq and Syria. It looks set to turn into an international network, much like al-Qaida was after the fall of the Taliban, but one that is far more menacing.
Those brainwashed by its ideology in Western cities may be more likely to attack at home, setting the stage for an increase in terrorism….
________________________________________________________________ 9/11: NEVER FORGET THE LIES FED TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE SEE: http://www.newswithviews.com/Devvy/kidd738.htm; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
By: Devvy Kidd
September 11, 2016NewsWithViews.com
Today is 15 years since that horrible day. Fifteen years of heartache and sorrow for those who died, their families and friends. Not just Americans, but many who died that day were here from other countries either for business or tourists.
Today also marks 15 years of lies fed to we the people as well as the world.
Fifteen years of calling anyone who questions the official 'story' - including family members of dead loved ones - conspiracy nuts. Millions here and abroad who have legitimate questions about what happened that day all written off as 'right wingers' who hate Bush, Jr and so forth.
Socialist FDR called December 7, 1941 a 'day of infamy' claiming the attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise. We know that was a bald-faced lie: “It (official document) directs the Hawaiian U.S. Army commander, Lt. Gen. Walter Short, to follow an official U.S. government desire: ‘The United States desires that Japan commit the first overt act.'” They did and FDR allowed it to happen. The American people were lied to while it took nearly 50 years for the truth to come out and other than 'alternative' media very little coverage was from the disgraced 'mainstream' media. America was dragged into WWII.
The Deputy Attorney General of the U.S. lied about the assassination of JFK in a memo fed to a grieving nation. Having read a number of books on the murder of JFK, watched the movie and read the writings of COL. L. Fletcher Prouty, Mary's Mosaic: The CIA Conspiracy to Murder John F. Kennedy, Mary Pinchot Meyer and Their Vision for World Peace by Peter Janney is a real eye opener. Highly recommend it.
LBJ lied about the Gulf of Tonkin event: "Questions about the Gulf of Tonkin incidents have persisted for more than 40 years. But once-classified documents and tapes released in the past several years, combined with previously uncovered facts, make clear that high government officials distorted facts and deceived the American public about events that led to full U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War." America was dragged into an undeclared war.
Billy Clinton, Janet Butch Reno and dozens of federal agents lied about the OKC bombing. There's no question the Murrah Building was blown from the inside out. The guilty still walk free.
Very important reads on OKC for this winter when stuck in the house:
Clinton, James Kallstrom (FBI) and dozens of other federal agents all lied through their teeth about TWA Flight 800. (Read) Kallstrom is a hypocrite. He's been on Megyn Kelly's show distressed about Clinton's email disaster and cover up while he was up to his neck in the cover up of TWA Flight 800 which happend while that pig Hillary's married to was president.
General Partin explained to me many years ago it was his firm belief a missile was fired by the Navy in an exercise gone wrong. Having spent 33 years in the Air Force designing such weapons, I have no doubt he was right. A missile that strikes, opens up tearing an aircraft in two which is exactly what was found in the debris field. A missile, allegedly, that was in violation of a US/Russia treaty. Thus the cover up immediately went into play.
The government from Bush to Cheney on down has been lying to the American people for 15 years about what really happened on September 11, 2001. Anyone who believes otherwise is simply too afraid to even look at hard evidence (nanothermite found) or is in complete denial. The sites below are not run by conspiracy nuts. They are all professionals in their respective fields who represent hundreds and hundreds of years of experience:
Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth (thousands are members) has worked tirelessly over the past years to get the truth to the American people. Without question Building 7 was a perfectly executed controlled demolition. The twin World Trade Center Towers were brought down by explosives. There's no question in my mind. Period.
How would mankind have ever advanced if no one asked questions? How can you get to the truth if no one asks questions? But, because we're talking about 9/11, well, it's sacrilege. It's okay to believe we the people were lied to about Pearl Harbor and the Bay of Tonkin and JFKs assassination, but forget 9/11. It had to have happened just the way the government has said. The lies about 9/11 have taken us into two undeclared 'wars', Iraq and Afghanistan for more than a decade.
"Bob McIlvaine and his family are not alone in having suffered a devastating personal loss on September 11, 2001. The loved ones of the nearly 3,000 victims of the destruction at the World Trade Center know what he has endured for the past 15 years.
"But McIlvaine is different from most of these families in important ways. In addition to his unwavering and often lonely fight to expose what he calls the complicity of the U.S. government in this false flag attack, he has strong forensic evidence proving that his 26-year-old son, Bobby, was killed by a powerful explosion as he was about to enter the lobby of the North Tower. That evidence is corroborated by the accounts of many FDNY members, police officers, and workers who reported that explosions went off in the lower parts of the towers before the buildings were leveled — some of them even before the first airplane struck.
"In a recent interview, McIlvaine said that his son's body was one of the first to be recovered and taken to the New York City morgue on that day. He explained that he has been able to reach more definitive conclusions about the details of his son's death only since conferring, in either 2006 or 2007, with the doctor who had examined Bobby's body at the morgue. That meeting provided McIlvaine with evidence confirming that a huge explosion — and not the North Tower's eventual demise — was responsible for killing his son."
"The most important thing is for us to find Osama bin Laden. It is our number one priority and we will not rest until we find him." George W. Bush, September 13, 2001. "I don't know where bin Laden is. I have no idea and really don't care. It's not that important. It's not our priority." George W. Bush, March 13, 2002
We must never stop demanding a real investigation and televised hearings with civilians who have unearthed a mountain of evidence on 9/11. The guilty are still walking free. A & E for 9/11 Truth has a petition you might consider signing. I did. If ten million Americans signed it and shoved it down the throats of the Homeland Security committee in Congress hopefully under a new Trump administration, we the people might actually force a new investigation.
Please don't send me email it will never happen. You don't know until you try as with all endeavors. It's also very important to keep getting the truth out to the Americans people so the numbers become so huge we cannot be ignored. The most horrendous act of terrorism on American soil was a crime that screams and begs to be solved.
"We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren till she transforms us into beasts...For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth, to know the worst, and to provide for it." -Patrick Henry
Have we less courage and determination than Patrick Henry, George Washington or the thousands who risked everything to give us this republic? Will we ignore truth in favor of comfort while our country continues to be boxed in under a police state - the construction which began after 9/11 based on endless lies? 9/11 and what really happened that day cannot be ignored and simply remembered year after year after year like Pearl Harbor until one American fought in court to get official documents released damning FDR forever. Let us not just 'remember' 9/11, let's do what it takes to bring the masterminds and players to justice. For those murdered. For their families from all countries. For our republic and all we have stood for over the centuries.
“After ripping down the posters, video footage of the incident reveals that the professor came over to tell the students that they were not allowed to put up posters on that part of campus, because it was not a free speech zone.”
In reality, the entire United States of America is a free speech zone — at least for now, until people such as Margot Lovett get their way and forcibly silence those who putatively offend their Islamic supremacist and jihadist friends and allies.
“Gender studies prof rips down 9/11 memorial posters,” by Peter Van Voorhis, Campus Reform, September 9, 2016:
Members of the Young Americans for Freedom chapter at Saddleback College had their 9/11 memorial posters ripped down and shredded by the chair of the school’s History department.
According to The New Guard, the students were participating in the Young America’s Foundation “9/11: Never Forget” project, which involves planting 2,977 American flags to remember the lives lost 15 years ago on 9/11, when they were accosted by the professor, who proceeded to rip down their posters and direct them to confine their activities to one of the “free speech areas” on campus.
Lovett “blatantly infringed on our First Amendment rights by ripping down the posters.”
Prior to that altercation, The New Guard reported Wednesday that the school administration had cancelled the planned memorial service, prompting the YAF members to defy the prohibition by waking up before dawn to plant the flags and hang posters.The students told Campus Reform that the perpetrator was Margot Lovett, a gender studies and humanities professor who has a history of controversial actions on campus. Notably, OC Weekly reported in 2001 that she had promulgated a statement by the Black Radical Congress to her colleagues blaming “U.S. Imperialism” for the 9/11 attacks.
After ripping down the posters, video footage of the incident reveals that the professor came over to tell the students that they were not allowed to put up posters on that part of campus, because it was not a free speech zone.
“I was absolutely amazed that a professor believed that they had the authority to tear down posters put up by students in remembrance of the terrorist attacks,” Audra Leslie, the president of the Saddleback’s YAF chapter, told Campus Reform. “Instead of going to a higher level student office she took it upon herself to rid a student organization’s right to free speech on campus.”After the incident, the students talked with the campus police department, student government, and school administration. All of them were unsure of the legality of the professor’s actions and the way she approached the students….
These past two weeks, the Anne Arundel County Public School system has gotten egg all over its face. A training video has gone viral that was intended only for teachers and employees of the County Public Schools. In the video, Bob Mosier, the chief communications officer for the school system, addresses “the field trip issue.” He said, If you are chaperoning an overnight school trip, and a student who is a biological male but identifies as a female wants to sleep among the girls, what do you do? “The answer is, they sleep with the females,” then he added, “That’s not the easy answer; it’s the right answer.” If that were not bad enough, he adds insult to injury saying, “because of privacy rules, teachers and others are not allowed to disclose to parents of other students what’s actually going on.” This has hit the over the top outrage button.
Video of the sermon
So the public school system wants to “support” (their term) children who are confused about who they are. Oddly what they teach in Biology class, is that in the human body, every single cell contains 23 pairs of coiled DNA, called chromosomes. Included in this group are the two sex chromosomes: simply dubbed X and Y. Cells in women's bodies have two X chromosomes (XX), while cells in men's bodies have one X and one Y (XY). But what they teach in Biology, they deny by school policy. No wonder students emerge confused, which version of realty are they to believe, the notions put forth in biology class or the notions proclaimed in every action of the school’s response to delusional kids?
The school system claims that a student may have an inner sense of gender that differs from their biological gender and that everyone must bow down to accommodate this child’s inner sense of gender in spite of the fact the the child’s feelings are completely out of touch with reality. Every cell of his body proclaims that he is male. So one’s imagination trumps reality and not just for the confused student, but for the staff, the teachers, administrators and all the other students as well. What is this teaching all the students? It teaches them to ignore what they learn in biology class, ignore all the conclusions of science because what you imagine yourself to be is really what matters.
So if today I were to image myself a bottle nose dolphin, my delusion must trump reality. And not only that but everyone else must be forced to participate in my delusion and treat me as if my delusion were reality. The public school system is teaching that delusions trump reality. Isn’t that an insane asylum? Is that really a wise lesson to be teaching students?
One of the lessons sure to be taught either in history or literature classes is the terrible injustice done at the Salem Witch Trials. Well if you know anything about what took place there, the mistakes and injustices were all based on the fact that the court relied upon the testimony of children. If those children were not making up stories about adults in their community then those children were delusional. What hypocrisy to decry the delusions of 18th century children while forcing everyone to support the delusions of 21st century children.
That Public School training video showed one stunning example of this, in the testimony of a mother of a 4 year old boy. She said her boy came home from day care one day and said he was not a boy but a girl. He came home from day care - there might be the source of the problem. There are far too many abuse cases arising in the day care industry. But the mom, rather than investigate what happened to her son at day care, began accepting his delusion that he was not a boy but a girl. Had she never taken Biology 101?This begs the question, where are all the adults. The children seem to be in charge.
The case in Virginia illustrates this very pointedly. The boy who thinks he is a girl demanded accommodation from the Schools - he demanded that he be permitted to use the girls restroom, locker room and showers. The school accommodated him in this regard, he could use a private bathroom in the nurses office but not the bathrooms of the opposite sex. He essentially threw a fit, a temper tantrum and he sued the school. The case is moving towards the Supreme Court but along the way Judges have affirmed this child’s delusions insisting that the school must comply with whatever the delusional child demands. It appears that the children are in charge, no adults to be found.
The other aspect of this training video that was disturbing, is that the Public school system was planning to implement the changes in policy long before Obama’s administration weighed in on the subject. They had been at this for years with a committee of a thousand involved. Just think of the tax payers money wasted by a thousand school employees meeting over the course of several years to develop policy and procedures to support delusional student in their delusions. Is it millions of dollars? Outrageous.
When we ask the question who stands to benefit from adopting this madness? The mental health professionals working in the school system assure them-selves and many additional colleagues of full life long profitable employment dealing with all the multitude of problems this agenda will unleash.
All of this of course is not only a denial of clear biological science and the Word of God which states in Genesis 1 that God made them male and female, it also denies the evidence that has been uncovered by researchers who began with the assumption that going along with a person’s delusion was the right thing to do. John’s Hopkins was out in front in this area of research.
“The former psychiatrist-in-chief of Johns Hopkins Hospital …In a June 12 Wall Street Journal op-ed, Dr. Paul McHugh wrote that "policy makers and the media are doing no favors either to the public or the transgendered" by not treating transgender "confusions ... as a mental disorder that deserves understanding, treatment and prevention.”
According to McHugh, the "sense of being transgendered constitutes a mental disorder in two respects." The first, he says, is that "it does not correspond with physical reality." The second, more importantly, is that not treating transgender disorder properly "can lead to grim psychological outcomes."
In his op-ed, McHugh cited a 2011 study that followed "324 sex-reassigned persons" from 1973 to 2003 in Sweden. According to the study’s abstract, it found that "persons with transsexualism, after sex reassignment, have considerably higher risks for mortality, suicidal behavior, and psychiatric morbidity than the general population.”…
The study, McHugh wrote in his op-ed, found that “beginning about 10 years after having the surgery, the transgendered began to experience increasing mental difficulties. Most shockingly, their suicide mortality rose almost 20-fold above the comparable non-transgender population.”… he concluded that medical and psychological professionals "have wasted scientific and technical resources and damaged our professional credibility by collaborating with madness rather than trying to study, cure, and ultimately prevent it.” So it is a mental disorder, it is madness.
Where did such insanity come from? I assure you it did not arrive in our land de nova. There has been a pathway laid down in our land and many devotees assiduously rolling out this greater agenda of separating children from reality, plunging them into a world of delusions. What is the root of this? This morning I hope to show you the Immorality Link. You see, immorality doesn't suddenly blossom over night; there is a time of preparation, there is a step by step development long before we see the fruits of that evil revealed in our land.
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The Failure of Public Schools is Not Transgender Perversion - Jake MacAulay
Published on Aug 30, 2016
The Anne Arundel County Public School District in Maryland has instructed teachers and faculty to let transgender students bunk with other students of the gender with which they identify — and not tell parents.
In a video of a June meeting titled, “Supporting Transgender Students in Schools,” Bob Mosier, the district’s chief communications officer, told teachers and administrators how to handle transgender issues at overnight school-related events, commenting, “The private information piece doesn’t allow you to share (the overnight presence of transgenders) with parents of all of the other campers.”
Recently, a federal judge in Texas blocked the president’s order that schools “must allow transgender students access to such facilities consistent with their gender identity,” saying the law about the biological and anatomical differences between male and female students “is not ambiguous.”
At least 11 states have sued the Obama administration over its transgender directive in their schools, but the problem is not “transgenders,” it is government schools!
You see, most folks assume that public schools were introduced and developed in order to ensure that the American populace could read and write and conduct business, but this is a myth. At the time of the “reform” movements of the 1830’s and 1840’s, the literacy rate was much higher than it is today. Some experts postulate that adult male literacy in the colonies ran from 70 to 100 percent (1). Around 170 years later, we are much worse off from a literacy standpoint, proving the “reform” to be a disaster.
So, why did there exist a desire for state-controlled schools? Primarily there were two motivating factors. The first was the desire to destroy the Christian foundations of America. The second was the humanistic belief that salvation was attainable through education. In his book, A Basic History of the United States, Clarence B. Carson concluded, “The most zealous of the reformers were determined to use the power of the state by way of the schools to break the hold of religious tradition and the inherited culture and to change society through the child’s training.” (2)
Perhaps the best known of the reformers who pushed the agenda of the public schools was Horace Mann. Contrary to Biblical teaching, Mann believed the state to be the true parent of the child, thus it was the state that had the primary responsibility of providing education. One of Mann’s followers, Robert Dale Owen, formed a secret society to work toward attaining his goals. Orestes Brownson, one of the leaders of this society, later wrote about the work of the group:
“The great object was to…establish a system of state — we said national — schools, from which all religion was to be excluded, in which nothing was to be taught but such knowledge as is verifiable by the senses, and to which all parents were to be compelled by law to send their children.” (3)
There you have it quite clearly stated. The purpose and mission of the public schools, which were to be “free to everyone at the expense of everyone,” was to get rid of Christianity, and to compel parents to give their children over to the state so that they could be trained to disrespect their parents and their Christian republic and its moral culture without parental interference.
Unless and until education is done God’s way, under the influence, control and jurisdiction of the family, there is no hope for any improvement.
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OBAMA ADMINISTRATION'S ONGOING AGENDA DEGRADES MILITARY READINESS SEE: http://newswithviews.com/NWV-News/news533.htm; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
The Department of Defense (DOD) recognizes that more than a decade of fighting Islamic terrorists, budget cuts by the Obama administration, and manpower reductions have degraded U.S. Armed Forces readiness, and the DOD has efforts under way to manage the impact of deployments on readiness. The service branches have complained repeatedly about their low levels of, which they have attributed to emerging and continued demands on their forces, reduced force structure, and increased frequency and length of deployments, according to a report released on Wednesday by the Government Accountability Office(GAO).
For example, according to the government watchdog, the Air Force experienced a 58 percent reduction in the number of fighter and bomber squadrons from 1991 to 2015 while maintaining a persistent level of demand from the combatant commands for the use of its forces. In addition, the Navy has experienced an 18 percent decrease in its fleet of ships since 1998 and an increase in demand, resulting in the deployment lengths for many ships increasing from 7 months to a less sustainable 9 months. DOD officials have indicated that overall demand has been decreasing since 2013, but the department has reported that the ability to rebuild capability and capacity is hindered by continued demand for some forces.
To mitigate the impact of continued deployments on readiness, the Joint Staff has focused on balancing the distribution of forces for high-priority missions with the need to rebuild the readiness of the force. Efforts include revising major plans to better reflect what the current and planned force is expected to achieve and improving the management of DOD's process for sourcing global demands by, among other things, balancing the supply of forces with the minimum required to meet global demands. However, it is too soon to tell what impact implementation of these initiatives will have on DOD's readiness recovery efforts because the department is still working to complete implementation.
Rep. Mac Thornberry (R-TX), Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, today commented on a Government Accountability Office Study into military readiness. The study found that "The military services have reported persistently low readiness levels, which they have attributed to emerging and continued demands on their forces, reduced force structure, and increased frequency and length of deployments.” The Study was commissioned by the HASC in the House Report that accompanied the FY16 National Defense Authorization Act.
"This study confirms what Members of our committee have been hearing and seeing. It is now impossible for senior DOD officials or their surrogates to argue that we are not approaching a severe readiness crisis. The rate of deployments has remained consistently high for over a decade, but the military resources available to meet those threats are declining. As it stands, we cannot meet combatant commander requirements, reliably maintain our equipment, or fully train and care for our troops."
"We can begin to turn this situation around, but that requires the Administration to forego political games and work with Congress to do what is right for our troops and for the country's security."
The GAO study found, “DOD still faces low overall readiness rates, however, which the services expect to persist into the next decade.”
• Army: Persistently low readiness levels due to "emerging demands, lack of proficiency in core competencies, and end strength reductions.”
• Army: "increasing emergent demands… strain existing capacity, such as the deployment of the 101st Airborne Division in Africa to respond to the Ebola crisis."
• Army: Undergoing a 12% reduction in size. "Army leadership testified in March 2015 that any end strength reductions below this level would reduce the Army’s capability to support missions identified in defense guidance."
• Navy: Persistently low readiness level due to "increased lengths of deployments for aircraft carriers, cruisers, destroyers, and amphibious ships, which has created significant maintenance challenges.”
• Navy: currently has 272 ships, a decrease from 333 ships in 1998—an 18 percent decrease. Even as the number of Navy ships has decreased, the number of ships deployed overseas has remained roughly constant at about 100 ships."
• Air Force: Decline in readiness due to "continued demands and a reduced force structure. For example, in 1991 the Air Force had 154 fighter and bomber squadrons, and as of December 2015 the Air Force had 64 fighter and bomber squadrons—a 58 percent decrease from 1991 levels.”
• Air Force: readiness levels have also declined because of persistent demand for forces, a decline in equipment availability and in experienced maintenance personnel, and the impact of high deployment rates on units’ ability to conduct needed training.”
• Marine Corps: "attributes its readiness levels to an increased frequency of deployments to support the sustained high demand for the force…"
"“We should rename Washington High School after San Francisco native, poet and author Maya Angelou. Maya Angelou High School. No schools named after slave owners,” Matt Haney wrote on his Twitter account Sunday, according to the Los Angeles Times. WND reported Joshua Charles, a WND columnist and author of “Liberty’s Secrets: The Lost Wisdom of America’s Founders,”documented that Washington worked against slavery for much of his life. “To complain about the Founders in this way is to do so in a very ignorant way about human nature,” said Charles. “It’s easy for all of us in this generation to say slavery was a moral evil. But we didn’t earn that; we grew up into a world where that was already true."
Published on Sep 10, 2016
The president of the San Francisco Board of Education wants “Washington” and “Jefferson” banned as school names, because the American Founders had slaves. http://www.infowars.com/george-washin...
