The Russians, Racism, and now the Recession haven’t done as much damage in the last 10 plus years as was the hoax that was and still is today, the ‘Birther Issue!’
The accusation is still being bantered around as I heard again today by these left wing ‘Mouthpieces’ that appear on a daily basis on those late morning to late afternoon supposedly ‘fair and balanced’ ‘FOX’ News panel discussions! These talk shows allow the Progressive members of the panels to lie out their asses without pushing back with just the littlest, but honest truth, behind those allowed to be spewed outrageous comments! To set the table for you so that you understand what I’m referring to know that, based on our founder’s Constitutional Citizenship requirement to be President, calls for that individual to be a ‘Natural Born’ Citizen and not the ‘Naturalized Citizen’ that Obama and now Kamala Harris are and always have been, which should have short circuited Obama’s run for the Presidency, and should stop Kamala Harris, who like Obama promised to use her version of Obama famous ‘Phone and Pen’ to bypass Congress and the ‘Will’ of the American people’s Second Amendment on ‘Gun Control’ if elected!
When it comes to the ‘Deep State’ Mainstream Media’s made up distraction claiming that they outed now President Trump’s racist tendencies by him questioning Obama’s citizenship with where he was born, know that it was the Media that spun private citizen Trump into the ‘Racist’ charge when in reality it had everything to do with Obama’s parents, the Constitutional requirement of citizenship by our founders in order to be eligible to be President, which has nothing to do with where he was born and everything to do with lying to the American people and bypassing the Constitutional requirement to be President of the greatest country in the world!
I know hindsight is 20:20 but with Obama’s first effort to go around the world apologizing for America and declaring America not exceptional should have been every American’s ‘Red Flag’ and with what followed with the 21 times Obama violated the Constitution, used sequestration to shrink our Military to the size of the 1940’s and the Navy to the sized of 1915, and on top of that removing the United States’ guidance and our influence from the ‘World Stage!’ My main reason for digging this up again is that FOX news’s Senior reporter Chris Stirewalt, when asked about the birther issue when it came to Kamala Harris, who like Obama is also not a ‘Natural Born’ citizen, blew off the charge by stating that it doesn’t apply because like Obama who was born supposedly in Hawaii, was born in Oakland California, which I mentioned has nothing to do with where either one was born, but the status of their parents citizenship!! ~~
It was the fear of foreign influence invading the Office of Commander in Chief of the military that prompted John Jay, our first U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice, to write to George Washington the following letter dated July 25, 1787: “Permit me to hint, whether it would be wise and seasonable to provide a strong check to the admission of Foreigners into the administration of our national Government; and to declare expressly that the Commander in Chief of the American army shall not be given to nor devolve on, any but a natural born Citizen (underlying “born” in the original). Jay’s recommendation did make it into the Constitution. Article II, Sec. 1, cl. 5 of the Constitution provides in pertinent part: “No person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President. . .” In this clause and in Articles I, III, and IV, the Founding Fathers distinguished between “Citizen” and “natural born Citizen.” Per the Founders, while Senators and Representatives can be just “citizens,” the President must be a “natural born Citizen.” Through this clause, the Founders sought to guarantee that the ideals for which they fought would be faithfully preserved for future generations of Americans. The Founders wanted to assure that the Office of President and Commander in Chief of the Military, a non-collegial and unique and powerful civil and military position, was free of all foreign influence and that its holder has sole and absolute allegiance, loyalty, and attachment to the U.S. The “natural born Citizen” clause was the best way for them to assure this.
That the “natural born Citizen” clause is based on undivided allegiance and loyalty can be seen from how the Founders distinguished between “citizen” and “natural born Citizen.” This distinction is based on the law of nations which became part of our national common law.
According to that law as explained by E. Vattel in, _The Law of Nations_ (1758), Vol.1, Section 212, Des Citoyens et Naturels, a “citizen” is a member of the civil society. To become a “citizen” is to enter society as a member thereof. On the other hand, Vattel wrote that a native or indigenes (written in French as /les naturels/ or /indigenes/) or “natural born Citizen” as the term later became translated from French into English, is a child born in the country of two citizen parents who have already entered and become members of the society. Vattel also tells us that it is the “natural born Citizen” who will best preserve and perpetuate the society. This definition of the two distinct terms has been adopted by many United States Supreme Court decisions. (The Venus, 12 U.S. 253 (1814) and Minor v. Happersett, 88 U.S. 162 (1874) to cite just two.) With the presidential qualification question never being involved, neither the 14th Amendment (which covers only “citizens” who are permitted to gain membership in and enter American society by either birth on U.S. soil or by naturalization and being subject to the jurisdiction of the United States), nor Congressional Acts (8 U.S.C. Sec. 1401), nor any case law (e.g. U.S. v. Wong Kim Ark, 169 U.S. 649 (1898)) has ever changed the original common law definition of a “natural born Citizen.” This amendment and laws have all dealt with the sole question of whether a person was going to be allowed to enter into and be a member of American society and thereby be declared a “citizen.” The 14th Amendment did not involve Article II, let alone define what a “natural born Citizen” is. Never having been changed, the original constitutional meaning of a “natural born Citizen” prevails today. We can also see from these definitions that a “citizen” could have more than one allegiance and loyalty (acquiring allegiance from one’s foreign parents or from foreign soil) but a “natural born Citizen” can have only one and that is to America (soil and parents are all united in one nation).
The original definition of “natural born Citizen” gives our Constitutional Republic the best chance of having a President and Commander in Chief of the Military who has sole and absolute allegiance, loyalty, and attachment to the United States. By satisfying all conditions of this definition, all other avenues of acquiring other foreign citizenships and allegiances (jus soli or by the soil and jus sanguinis or by descent) are cut off. Having all other means of acquiring other foreign citizenships or allegiances cut off is unity of citizenship which is what the President must have at the time of birth. Additionally, by requiring the child’s parents to be U.S. citizens best assures that those parents most likely will have absorbed American customs and values which, in turn, they will transmit to their child.
The “Natural Born Citizen” clause serves a critical purpose today and must be enforced in every Presidential election.
The President has immense power, both civil and military. The clause assures the American people that their President does not have any conflicting allegiances or loyalties. In our nuclear world, it will avoid having a President who may hesitate to act quickly and decisively in a moment of crisis due to some internal psychological conflict of allegiance or loyalty. It will avoid any foreign nation expecting and pressuring the President to act in their best interest instead of that of America. The clause gives the American people the best chance that they will not be attacked from within through the Office of President. Knowing the President is a “natural born Citizen,” the American people will trust their President with their lives. Finally, such a President can expect that the military will give him or her full trust and obedience.
When President Obama was born in 1961, under the British Nationality Act of 1948, both his father and he were British subjects/citizens. In 1963, they both became Kenyan citizens. In fact, Mr. Obama’s father was never even a legal resident or immigrant of America. Hence, regardless of where Mr. Obama was born or that he may be a United States citizen under the 14th Amendment, he is not an Article II “natural born Citizen” and not eligible to be President. This ineligibility has absolutely nothing to do with his race or class but all to do with his being born with multiple citizenship’s and allegiances and not satisfying the strict eligibility requirements of Article II. If someone believes that today the “natural born Citizen” clause no longer serves any useful purpose, then the proper way to change or abandon it is by way of constitutional amendment under Article V of the Constitution, not by usurpation. ~~by Mario Apuzzo, Esq. ~~
When it comes to the Russians working with the Trump Campaign to beat Hillary Clinton ‘hoax’ know that it is again the ‘Deep State’ run ‘Paid to Report’ Mainstream Media that helped create the delusion that started with Obama long before President Trump came down that escalator to announce his run for the Presidency! The real collusion and influence of the Obama Administration happened in other nations elections and power struggles around the world, especially in the Middle East!
In Israel:
Senate Report: State Department Funded Effort to Overthrow Netanyahu
Shocking to no one.
This comes as a shock to no one who’s witnessed the animus President Obama holds for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
A new report by the U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations (PSI) confirms the U.S. State Department did indeed fund an Israeli political organization that ran a campaign to oust Netanyahu. The subcommittee, chaired by Republican Rob Portman, found that the liberal organization dubbed OneVoice received more than $300,000 in grant funds to support so-called “peace negotiations” between Israelis and Palestinians. The funds were used to establish the infrastructure needed to facilitate those goals — that infrastructure was then repurposed to topple the Israeli Prime Minister.
The Weekly Standard parsed key findings of the report:
On December 2, 2014, at the urging of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli Knesset voted to schedule new national parliamentary elections for March 2015.
Within weeks, an international organization known as the OneVoice Movement absorbed and funded an Israeli group named Victory15 or “V15” and launched a multimillion-dollar grassroots campaign in Israel.
The campaign’s goal was to elect “anybody but Bibi [Netanyahu]” by mobilizing center-left voters.1 The Israeli and Palestinian arms of OneVoice, OneVoice Israel (OVI), and OneVoice Palestine (OVP), received more than $300,000 in grants from the U.S. State Department to support peace negotiations between Israel and Palestine over a 14- month grant period ending in November 2014.
The grants funded expanded “social media presence, built a larger voter database, and hired an American political consulting firm to train its activists and executives in grassroots organizing methods in support of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process.”
Once the infrastructure was built, it was used to topple the government of one of America’s closest allies.
Luckily, the administration was unsuccessful in this attempt to undermine Israel and the one leader who has been capable of keeping the Jewish State relatively safe (a nearly impossible feat as it is given these savages operate from within civilian areas) against terrorism.~~~
Because of the Liberal’s Russia, Russia, Russia narrative over the last couple of years, and blaming President Trump’s campaign for colluding with Russia to take down ‘crooked’ Hillary with no connection found of that for over a year, you have to wonder why, especially after the revelations coming out about Uranium One, and the Clinton Foundation’s illegal and unconstitutional lack of ethics along with their continued lack of respect for the rule of law and constitution, but more importantly, the ‘Will’ of the American people!
The Obama administration tried to negatively affect the reelection of Israel’s Bibi Netanyahu, and then there was Libya:
“We came, we saw, he died,” exclaimed an ebullient Hillary Clinton, as she exulted over the horrific death of Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi, who was sodomized with a bayonet before being brutally murdered by rampaging militiamen. Visiting Tripoli, the Libyan capital, the American Secretary of State was eager to take credit for the “liberation” of yet another Muslim country by Western powers acting in concert.
Hillary’s starring role in the events that had led to this moment. The timeline, her top policy aide, Jake Sullivan, wrote, demonstrated Mrs. Clinton’s ‘leadership/ownership/stewardship of this country’s Libya policy from start to finish.’ The memo’s language put her at the center of everything: ‘HRC announces … HRC directs … HRC travels … HRC engages,’ it read.”
Mrs. Clinton was easily won over by the Libyan rebels who presented a utopian view of what the post-revolutionary era would look like: there would be free elections, a free media, women would be able to “do it all,” and everyone would get a pony. They “’said all the right things about supporting democracy and inclusivity and building Libyan institutions, providing some hope that we might be able to pull this off,’ said Philip H. Gordon, one of her assistant secretaries. ‘They gave us what we wanted to hear. And you do want to believe.’”
Confirmation bias in a writer or reporter is fatal, but only to his/her own career: in a Secretary of State it is a death sentence for thousands. And that’s exactly how it turned out in Hillary’s case.
To this day, Clinton avers that “it’s too soon to tell” whether the Libya intervention qualifies as an unmitigated failure – even in the face of marauding militias, no less than two self-declared governments, the horrific death of an American ambassador at the hands of the very militias we empowered, and the incursion of the Islamic State, al Qaeda, and other terrorist outfits. She refused to be interviewed for the Times article.
While Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Vice President Joe Biden opposed regime change, Clinton took the side of the younger “back-benchers,” as the Times calls them, who wanted to go in there and “get on the right side of history.” The misnamed “Arab Spring” was in full bloom, and the media was pushing the idea that this was a great awakening of “democracy.”
Hillary, who had hesitated at first to jump on the bandwagon during the Egyptian events, made up for lost time in Libya. She “pressed for a secret American program that supplied arms to rebel militias, an effort never before confirmed,” the Times reports. Those arms would be used to attack a CIA outpost in Benghazi, where Ambassador Stevens would fall at the hands of these very militiamen.
While initially the US was purportedly acting only to prevent civilian deaths at the hands of Gaddafi – a “humanitarian disaster” that turned out to be nothing but media-driven war propaganda – Hillary and her staff soon fell down the slippery slope to actively aiding the rebels. The ‘responsibility to protect” soon became another regime change operation, as in Iraq. ~~By Justin Raimondo, a Friend of America
China, China, China, Not Russia, Russia, Russia!
CHINA-based hackers are suspected once again of breaking into U.S. government computer networks, and the entire federal workforce could be at risk this time.
The Department of Homeland Security said in a statement that data from the Office of Personnel Management — the human resources department for the federal government — and the Interior Department had been compromised.
U.S. officials suspect that hackers in China stole the personal records of as many as four million people in one of the most far-reaching breaches of government computers.
CHINA Is Buying Its Way into the U.S. Economy
The concept of “Made in America” is slowly giving way to “Made by China … in America,” as Chinese investors are increasingly snatching up U.S.-based companies and assets and raising the eyebrows of some regulators and market spectators.
Since the turn of the new year, Chinese suitors have either announced interest in or closed on several multibillion dollar acquisitions of American institutions, such as General Electric’s appliance wing, construction manufacturer Terex, Starwood Hotels, California-based tech company Ingram Micro and finance and production outfit Legendary Entertainment.
CHINA-North Korea Relations Can’t Be Broken
Despite North Korea’s nuclear ambitions, its ties with China have been remarkably stable — and will remain that way.
North Korea’s nuclear development has been all over the headlines lately. Accordingly, some Western media and Chinese observers seem to believe that it would be within China’s strategic interests to cool down, or even break off, its relationship with North Korea. In view of their real national interests, however, China and North Korea will not turn away from each other, despite their cooling relations. From a long-term, historical viewpoint, ties between the two countries will eventually stabilize and strengthen, but under one condition – North Korea’s nuclear impasse must not drag on forever.
CHINESE Military Bases in South China Sea
Satellite photos show China has been rapidly building military outposts on disputed islands in the South China Sea, significantly boosting its presence in the already tense region, according to a Pentagon report released Friday.
“China continues to invest in military programs and weapons designed to improve power projection, anti-access area denial and operations in emerging domains such as cyberspace, space and the electromagnetic spectrum,” said Abraham Denmark, deputy assistant secretary of defense for East Asia.
The report to Congress reveals that China has added over 3,200 acres to the seven sites it occupies in the South China Sea during the last two years. ~~~
How China Became One of America’s Biggest Bankers
China is more than happy to own almost a third of the U.S. debt.
Owning U.S. Treasury notes helps China’s economy grow by keeping its currency weaker than the dollar. It keeps Chinese exports cheaper than U.S. products. China’s highest priority is creating enough jobs for its 1.4 billion people.
The United States allowed China to become one of its biggest bankers because the American people enjoy low consumer prices. Selling debt to China funds federal government programs that allow the U.S. economy to grow. It also keeps U.S. interest rates low. But China’s ownership of the U.S. debt is shifting the economic balance of power in its favor.
Why China Owns So Much U.S. Debt
China makes sure the yuan is always lower than the U.S. dollar. Why? Part of its economic strategy is to keep its export prices competitive. It does this by holding the yuan at a fixed rate compared to a “currency basket” of which the majority is the dollar. When the dollar falls in value, the Chinese government uses dollars it has on hand to buy Treasuries. It receives these dollars from Chinese companies that receive them as payments for their exports. China’s Treasury purchases increases demand for the dollar and thus its value.
Also, China promises to redeem dollars for yuan at the fixed rate.
It must keep a good supply of Treasury notes in reserve to do that.
China’s position as America’s largest banker gives it some political leverage. Now and then, China threatens to sell part of its debt holdings. It knows that if it did so, U.S. interest rates would rise. That would slow U.S economic growth. China often calls for a new global currency to replace the dollar, which is used in most international transactions. China does this whenever the United States allows the value of the dollar to drop. That makes the debt China holds less valuable.
What Happens If China Called in Its Debt Holdings
China would not call in its debt all at once. If it did so, the demand for the dollar would plummet like a rock. This dollar collapse would disrupt international markets even more than the 2008 financial crisis.
China’s economy would suffer along with everyone else’s.
It’s more likely that China would slowly begin selling off its Treasury holdings. Even when it just warns that it plans to do so, dollar demand starts to drop. That hurts China’s competitiveness. As it raises its export prices, U.S. consumers would buy American products instead. China could only start this process if it further expands its exports to other Asian countries and increases domestic demand.
Is China’s Debt-Holder Strategy Working?
China’s low-cost competitive strategy worked. Its economy grew 10 percent annually for the three decades before the recession. Now it’s growing at 7 percent, a more sustainable rate. China has become the largest economy in the world. It’s outpaced the United States and the European Union. China also became the world’s biggest exporter in 2010. China needs this growth to raise its low standard of living. Despite its threats, China will continue to be one of the world’s largest holders of U.S. debt. ~~By Kimberly Amadeo, a Friend of America!
