Tom Perez Elected DNC Chairman to Lead Divided Democrats

A brief excerpt from Politico t

ATLANTA — Tom Perez, the former Labor secretary for President Barack Obama, was elected as the Democratic National Committee’s new chairman on Saturday, replacing interim chair Donna Brazile after a rollicking four-month race and a chaotic final day of voting. 

Party members landed on a decision on who should be in charge of Democrats’ official party apparatus after two rounds of balloting. With 218 votes necessary to win, the final tally was 235 votes for Perez and 200 votes for Minnesota Rep. Keith Ellison.

Immediately after taking over, Perez moved to name Ellison his deputy chairman, aiming to unify a divided party.

 Ellison supporters got the participation trophy under the guise of unity:

When Perez won, Ellison backers erupted in anger, chanting “Party of the people, not big money!” But that fury turned to relief and big smiles as Ellison took the deputy chair title.

The Democratic Party is split so who are the two candidates. First, Tom Perez is the race-hustling, TPP backing, BIG BANK loving, Clinton supporting,  Bernie back stabbing neo-liberal corporate globalist hack that gets to lead the DNC.  Perez in screenshots:

In an effort to unite the party, Perez selected Ellison as his deputy chairman. Who is Keith X Ellison? Keith X is the Hamas' terror front group CAIR and Muslim brotherhood backed MN Congressman that has ties to the hate group Nation of Islam which is led by Louis Farrakhan.  Keith X's troublesome ties from his past and present raise concerns among most if not all average Americans. That is why Keith X prefers to hide behind the progressive label and backed Bernie Sanders, the 'democratic socialist'. Whether it is ties to Islamic terror front groups, the communist party USA and their affiliates Keith X has it covered.  How will the two factions really get along, even against a common enemy named Donald J. Trump is really anyones guess. Here is a little bit more about Keith X and his backers such as Hamas' Council on American-Islamic Realstions (CAIR) and the Muslim Brotherhood in screenshots and video.

A little more insight into the 'progressive' Democratic Party. The green and the red unite ...

The Democratic Party of this century is no place for an independent or 'liberal' voter.  

American Press Laments Travel Restriction for Oscar Nominated Syrian "FilmMaker'

Today the AP is running a propaganda 3 for 1 special. How can the Associated Press spin Obama's illegal war in Syria to smear Trump while tying it into the heavily politicized Hollywood award show called the Oscars? Headline, read all about it ...

SYRIAN WHO WORKED ON NOMINATED FILM CAN'T ATTEND OSCARS 

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. immigration authorities are barring entry to a 21-year-old Syrian cinematographer who worked on a harrowing film about his nation's civil war, "The White Helmets," that has been nominated for an Academy Award. 

According to internal Trump administration correspondence seen by The Associated Press, the Department of Homeland Security has decided at the last minute to block Khaled Khateeb from traveling to Los Angeles for the Oscars. 

Khateeb was scheduled to arrive Saturday in Los Angeles on a Turkish Airlines flight departing from Istanbul. But his plans have been upended after U.S. officials reported finding "derogatory information" regarding Khateeb. 

Derogatory information is a broad category that can include anything from terror connections to passport irregularities. Asked for comment, a spokeswoman for the Department of Homeland Security, Gillian Christensen, said, "A valid travel document is required for travel to the United States." 

"The White Helmets," a 40-minute Netflix documentary, has been nominated for Best Documentary Short. If the film wins the Oscar, the award would go to director Orlando von Einsiedel and producer Joanna Natasegara. Khateeb is one of three people credited for cinematography; Franklin Dow is the film's director of photography. 

Oscars: Street artist  Sabo's work meets Redbox

The film focuses on the rescue workers who risk their lives to save Syrians affected by civil war. Many of the group's members have been killed by Syrian President Bashar Assad's air forces. The group also was nominated for last year's Nobel Peace Prize. 

"The White Helmets" includes emblematic scenes of the deadly 6-year-old conflict: people digging through destroyed homes looking for survivors, at constant risk of "double tap" attacks that target first responders after they've arrived at the scene of a strike. 

Khateeb had been issued a visa to attend the ceremony with Hollywood's biggest stars. But Turkish authorities detained him this week, according to the internal U.S. government correspondence, and he suddenly needed a passport waiver from the United States to enter the country. 

The correspondence indicated he would not receive such a waiver. There was no explanation in the correspondence for why Turkey detained Khateeb.

Surely the average uninformed American would think that preventing the oscar nominee to travel to the United States is unfair but there is more to the story, Much more. The White Helmets is a propaganda piece by every measure.  Who and what are the 'White Helmets"?  What was really going in Obama's illegal war in Syria?  The Obama administration aided and funded Al Qaeda in Libya to overthrow Gaddafi and then moved on to Syria supplying and aiding rebels in Syria to overthrow Assad. Rebels that included ISIS, Al Qaeda and their affiliates.  Why do you think Benghazi was covered up? Because of the RAT LINE of arms from Libya to Syria via Turkey among other things including elections.

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Shielding Obama and his assumed successor Hillary Clinton from any criticism and scandal was eagerly performed by the legacy media in the United States and the coverage of the illegal Syrian war in general has been lacking in most other countries around the world.  In fact, coverage in Syria by CNN was exposed as fraudulent years ago with Syria Danny and now we have the 'White Helmets' What does a real independent journalist have to say about Syria, the press and the 'White Helmets' ? Watch:

Yes, Hollywood is in the propaganda business and always has been. Unfortunately, the legacy news media in the United States has totally abandoned its role as the fourth estate and the lines have been totally erased between news and entertainment, fact and fiction and speaking truth to power. The Church committee revealed decades ago that the Deep State controls the media through secret programs like Operation Mockingbird . While  newer secret programs remain unnamed, the results of their efforts are obvious to anyone that critically reads the headlines and examines the FAKE NEWS. For everyone else the Oscar goes to ....

Obama Admin Intel Community 'Overlooks' Hillary Campaign Secret Meeting With China But Targets General Flynn

The false narrative of the Russians and Trump continue in the Media in many variations. The only thing they have in common besides Russophobia/Neo-McCarthyism is there is never any real evidence. The amount of network time dedicated to the Trump and Russian nonsense is astounding. Yet, the questions of the motivation of the 'sources' won't be explored since there is no script to follow.

Yet, I have a simple question to ask. Why did the Obama Administration intelligence apparatus not leak the fact that the Hillary campaign was meeting with the Chinese communists during the election, yet President's Trump's calls to Mexico and Australia were leaked while General Michael Flynn's call to the Russian Ambassador were leaked in a way to continue the false Trump & Russia connection? Connecting Trump and Putin "bromance" was a Clinton campaign strategy that was helped along by the Obama administration and the Intelligence community.

Are the Chinese communists actions in the Pacific any less of a threat than Russia? No, if fact they are more of a threat. Read the Clinton/China emails for yourself.
Notice the CC: Podesta, Sullivan and more ...

The Obama administration and his intelligence community needs to be investigated and prosecuted along with the Hillary campaign and the Clinton Foundation as well.

Obama Group Trains Activists to Sabotage Trump Presidency

Excerpted from the NYPost

Obama-linked activists have a ‘training manual’ for protesting Trump

An Obama-tied activist group training tens of thousands of agitators to protest President Trump’s policies plans to hit Republican lawmakers supporting those policies even harder this week, when they return home for the congressional recess and hold town hall meetings and other functions.

Organizing for Action, a group founded by Obama and featured prominently on his new post-presidency website, is distributing a training manual to anti-Trump activists that advises them to bully GOP lawmakers into backing off support for repealing ObamaCare, curbing immigration from high-risk Islamic nations, and building a border wall.

In a new Facebook post, OFA calls on activists to mobilize against Republicans from now until Feb. 26, when “representatives are going to be in their home districts.”

What is OFA: 

The protesters disrupted town halls earlier this month, including one held in Utah by House Oversight Chairman Jason Chaffetz, who was confronted by hundreds of angry demonstrators claiming to be his constituents.

The manual, published with OFA partner “Indivisible,” advises protesters to go into halls quietly so as not to raise alarms, and “grab seats at the front of the room but do not all sit together.” Rather, spread out in pairs to make it seem like the whole room opposes the Republican host’s positions. “This will help reinforce the impression of broad consensus.” It also urges them to ask “hostile” questions — while keeping “a firm hold on the mic” — and loudly boo the the GOP politician if he isn’t “giving you real answers.”

“Express your concern [to the event’s hosts] they are giving a platform to pro-Trump authoritarianism, racism, and corruption,” it says.

The goal is to make Republicans, even from safe districts, second-guess their support for the Trump agenda, and to prime “the ground for the 2018 midterms when Democrats retake power.”

“Even the safest [Republican] will be deeply alarmed by signs of organized opposition,” the document states, “because these actions create the impression that they’re not connected to their district and not listening to their constituents.” 

After the event, protesters are advised to feed video footage to local and national media.

The goal is to make Republicans, even from safe districts, second-guess their support for the Trump agenda

“Unfavorable exchanges caught on video can be devastating” for Republican lawmakers, it says, when “shared through social media and picked up by local and national media.” After protesters gave MSNBC, CNN and the networks footage of their dust-up with Chaffetz, for example, the outlets ran them continuously, forcing Chaffetz to issue statements defending himself.

The manual also advises protesters to flood “Trump-friendly” lawmakers’ Hill offices with angry phone calls and emails demanding the resignation of top White House adviser Steve Bannon.

A script advises callers to complain: “I’m honestly scared that a known racist and anti-Semite will be working just feet from the Oval Office … It is everyone’s business if a man who promoted white supremacy is serving as an adviser to the president.”

The document provides no evidence to support such accusations.

Read the rest of the article 

Presidents traditionally leave Washington and let the duly elected successor step into the Oval office as part of the peaceful transition of power.  However, Barack Obama and the Democrats have chosen to sabotage the new President, aided by their allies in the media and like minded bureaucrats in the intelligence community and other branches of government. The shadow government is a danger to the Republic, not just the Donald Trump presidency.


What is the Deep State?

The General Michael Flynn resignation is a great example ...

Democratic Obstruction on Trump Cabinet Reaches Historic Levels

from the Washington Free Beacon

Democratic Obstruction on Trump Cabinet Reaches Historic Levels

Confirmation process moving slowest since George Washington admin

Not since President George Washington's initial formation of a cabinet in 1789 has an American president's cabinet picks been approved as slowly as the Senate is approving President Donald Trump's nominees. 

Trump has now been president for a full three weeks, and the number of approved members in his cabinet stands at seven—a number that was boosted by three contested confirmations last week that were opposed by almost the entire Democratic caucus. 

Senate Democrats, vowing to use "everything" they can to stop Trump's nominees, have used procedural tricks like boycotting committee meetings to slow the confirmation process to a historically slow pace. 

Recent administrations have had many more nominees approved at the three-week mark. Barack Obama had 12 out of 15 nominees approved, George W. Bush had his entire cabinet approved, and Bill Clinton had all but one approved in less than a day. 

For most of history, approving cabinet nominees has been a non-issue. Presidents John Kennedy, Richard Nixon, and Jimmy Carter had their entire cabinet approved in the first days of their presidency—a brisk pace that has been the norm for most of U.S. history. 

As noted by historian Robert David Johnson, the only confirmation process at all comparable to the current situation was that of President George H.W. Bush, and even he had 10 of his 14 nominees confirmed by the three-week mark. 

One difference between Trump and Bush, however, is that Bush was facing a Democratic-controlled Senate that actually had the power to stop his nominations.
With Republican control of 52 seats in the Senate and current rules mandating just a simple majority for approval, it seems likely that Trump's prediction that his cabinet picks will be confirmed will eventually be correct. 

Senate Democrats, however, continue to delay the inevitable. 

Ben Carson (Department of Housing and Urban Development), Rick Perry (Department of Energy), Ryan Zinke (Department of the Interior), David Shulkin (Department of Veterans Affairs), Steve Mnuchin (Department of Treasury), and Wilbur Ross (Department of Commerce) have all been approved by the necessary committees and are awaiting votes in the full Senate. 

So far, only Mnuchin and Shulkin have a vote scheduled, both for Monday.
The continuing obstruction of even uncontroversial cabinet choices is being driven by demands from the liberal base of the Democratic Party, which is demanding that Democratic lawmakers not cooperate with Trump on anything.

"Democrats, pushed by their base, are under pressure to not cooperate with the new president—on anything," wrote the Wall Street Journal following reports that Democrats boycotted committee hearings for multiple nominees. 

"Gone are the concerns about appearing overly obstructionist," Politico reported. "Officeholders are now chasing a base that will not tolerate any sign of accommodation."

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