Confirmation hearings for Jeff Sessions  and Ted Cruz.  Listen:
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politics: workings of government
what motivated that Ft. Lauderdale guy with a jehadist identify?
The Ft. Lauderdale Airport shooter is a Muslim convert who years before joining the U.S. Army took on an Islamic name (Aashiq Hammad). Â GotNews did the investigative work.
Estaban Santiago aka Aashiq Hammad  then  downloaded terrorist propaganda and recorded Islamic religious music online.
This is according to public records dug up by the investigative news site of an award-winning, California journalist.
This is pertinent information that the Obama administration apparently wants to keep quiet, bringing up memories of the Benghazi cover up, in which the president and his cohorts knowingly lied to conceal that Islamic terrorists attacked the U.S. Special Mission in Libya.
Information is slowly trickling out that links the Ft. Lauderdale Airport shooter to radical Islam while the official story from authorities is that the gunman is a mentally ill,
Hispanic Army veteran named Esteban Santiago that became unhinged after a tour in Iraq. Only one mainstream media outlet mentions the possibility of Santiago’s “jihadist identity,â€Â burying it in a piece about New York possibly being his initial target. A paragraph deep in the story mentions that investigators recovered Santiago’s computer from a pawn shop and the FBI is examining it to determine whether he created a “jihadist identity for himself using the name Aashiq Hammad…†The reset of the traditional mainstream media coverage promotes the government rhetoric that omits any ties to terrorism even though early on a photo surfaced of Santiago making an ISIS salute while wearing a keffiyeh, a Palestinian Arab scarf.
The public records uncovered in the days after the massacre suggest Santiago (Hammad) is a radical Islamic terrorist that’s seriously committed to Islam. Besides taking on a Muslim name, he recorded three Islamic religious songs, including the Muslim declaration faith (“there is no God but Allah and Muhammad is his messengerâ€) known as the Shahada. He also posted a thread about downloading propaganda videos from Islamic terrorists on a weapons and explosives forum. The investigative news site that unearthed this disturbing information connected the dots between Santiago, who is of Puerto Rican descent, and Hammad, an identity he created in 2007.
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Firenze Sage:  Bulletin from  US intelligence agencies— Nothing to see here. Just another irate passenger. 
what one family did to help Trump & continues to shape events
who lets Ku Klux in to disrupt confirmation hearing for Jeff Sessions?
Meryl Streep says most vilified in America are Hollywood, foreigners & the press
Meryl Streep — who said she  had to read her lines —  said  that   Hollywood,  foreigners and  the press are ” the most villified” parts of America now that Trump will be President.
So who wrote those lines that Streep read at The Golden Globes 2017 awards?  Perhaps Michelle Obama?  Michelle Obama has said  that  there is no longer “hope” since Trump got elected.
In response to Streep’s criticism of Trump’s presumed mockery of a disabled reporter during a 2015 campaign speech, Conway chastised the actress for not also commenting on the recent charge of four Chicago teens after they allegedly tortured a handicapped individual and broadcast the occurrence on Facebook Live.
“I’m glad that Meryl Streep has such a passion for the disabled because I didn’t hear her weigh in and I didn’t hear her even use her platform last night, Ainsley, to give a shoutout to the mentally challenged boy who last week was tortured live on Facebook for half an hour, by four young African-American adults who were screaming racial and anti-Trump expletives and forcing him to put his head in toilet water,” Conway told FOX’s Ainsley Earhardt. “So I’d like to hear from her today, if she wants to come to come and continue platform on behalf of the disabled.”
Trump already commits treason? Will someone beam Sulu (Takei) up
Trump already commits treason?
Liberals suggest that  President-elect Donald Trump is guilty of treason  — after President Obama announced new sanctions against Russia and  Trump praised Vladimir Putin’s response to the sanctions.
The new sanctions were initiated by Obmaa on Thursday in retaliation for Russia’s alleged interference in the presidential election.  Whereupon this which prompted accusations that Trump was involved in an  apparent subversion of American democracy.
Remember: When you trade our national security for personal gain, whether pecuniary or political, there’s a word for that: Treason
— George Takei (@GeorgeTakei) December 30,Â
shovel ready jobs coming? border with Mexico?
Shovel ready jobs soon under Trump?  That stop illegals and drugs  from entering from Mexico?  What may Trump do?
In 2006, t he US passed laws for a fence. Now it’s time to see it implemented? Â What happened?
Obama only build 30 of 700 miles authorized. Â Opps!
Could the USA imitate Israel re how it keeps people out?
Megyn Kelly: Trump, women and leaving FOX
Megyan Kelly’s question to Trump on women — remember?  Now she  leaves FOX news for NBC.
At the very first Republican debate back in August, Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly posed this question to candidate Donald Trump:
Kelly: “You’ve called women you don’t like ‘fat pigs,’ ‘dogs,’ ‘slobs,’ and ‘disgusting animals.’ Does that sound to you like the temperament of a man we should elect as president?”
That question Megyn Kelly posed to  Trump  — akin to ‘when did you stop beating your wife?’ has ongoing ramifications.
Today Jan, 3, 2016 Megyn Kelly leaves FOX News for NBC.
Hilary Clinton hitched her campaign that theme — that Donald Trump  was not fit to be President and had no respect for women.
Who were the women whom Trump made comments about? Â You read and decide.
Ethnic cleansing in South Sudan aided by Obama’s child soldiers?
President Barack Obama announced in Oct. 2015  that four countries that use child soldiers — the Democratic Republic of Congo, Nigeria, Somalia, and South Sudan – will continue to receive United States military assistance.
What to do about Southern Sudan where  as of Dec. 2016 ethnic cleansing takes its toil on the country’s  60+ different ethnic groups?
Use the power of the purse:  For starters,  the U.S. Congress could stop payment immediately for child soldiers used by both  South Sudan’s President Kiir and the rebels lead by Machar.
In 2015,  Obama sent  161 MILLION  in  military aid  to African countries which use  child soldiers.
Obama has  but does not use a powerful tool at his disposal – the Child Soldiers Prevention Act – that allows him to withhold US military aid until governments end their exploitation of children in war.
Child soldiers in South Sudan —  paid by Obama — fight  on both sides, for Preident  Kiir’s government and also for the rebel forces.
A much better way to spend US taxpayer money:  teach literacy via radio to South  Sudanese children.  This project is paid for by U.S. Agency for International Development.
Various churches including the Episcopal Church seek action to prevent further deriorationin South Sudan. Â Roughly a third of all South Sudanese are Episcopalian. Â 
