Andrea Shaea King noticed some interesting new design elements in the recently upgraded fence surrounding the White House.
The New York Times has an article about Donald Trump and the GOP. Within the story on the NYT website there’s a video to give the GOP story some depth. Within the video the fence design elements were first noticed.
Some additional research into the fence and how it was upgraded for security reveals those design elements are quite factually there.
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Political Islam is fraught with coded messaging used to convey intention to Islamic audiences while simultaneously presenting a false face to the West. When you know what signals to look for you are able to fully understand the ideology behind the message.
When Mohammed Morsi rose to power in Egypt his rise was on the back of the Muslim Brotherhood. The “Islamist Spring” brought forth a more radical version of Islamic sentiment – The Muslim Brotherhood, or just “Brotherhood”, is the political branch of various hardline Islamic ideologies.
The foundational ideological block under ISIS, al-Qaeda and Al Nusra, is the Muslim Brotherhood. The Brotherhood has its own signature; and when you know what to look for you can identify its appearance.
Islamist activists, and demonstrators hold four fingers in the air to display a hand sign referring to the Rabaa al-Adawiya mosque, the site of a violent confrontation between Morsi’s followers and the Egyptian army.
Reported deaths from the clash range from hundreds to thousands of Muslim Brotherhood supporters. In Arabic, “Rabba” means “four” or “the fourth;” hence the Rabaa symbol.
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Some opinion writers have surmised a possibility that Recep Erdogan created the coup in Turkey as a method to smoke out his opposition and exert even more dictatorial power. Having watched the events closely (5 years) which lead up to the coup attempt, we disagree.
All indications are the coup was genuine, albeit a long-shot, driven by the younger military leadership who remained guardians of the state after two years of Erdogan purging the top level generals.
Ideologically, Recep Erdogan has been working earnestly over the past 5+ years to extend his power and control. Erdogan has grandiose plans of rebuilding a modern Ottoman Empire with himself as the figurehead in control.
The fortuitous crisis in Syria evolved into a tool for Erdogan to expand his constituency, and the influx of 3 million non-secular conservative Muslims as refugees into Turkey was part of that dynamic.
Erdogan’s ideological outlook can be captured when you look at the 2015 decision to give safe refuge to five Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood leaders who were living in exile in Qatar and evicted after the Gulf States pressured Qatar to stop supporting extremist terrorists. Erdogan promised the Muslim Brotherhood safe harbor in Turkey and he gave it to them.
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We will locate video, and transcript, as soon as possible. [Update Video Added] However, during an incredulous speech delivered at the memorial service for fallen Dallas police officers, President Obama just gave one of the most tonally disconnected speeches we’ve ever witnessed.
If we did not know better we’d almost believe that President Obama forgot where he was. While staring at the families of the murdered police officers (seated in the front row) President Obama actually said:
…”And I understand these protests, I see em’, they can be messy” …. followed seconds later by … “police can get hurt”…
In a very casual, unsympathetic and almost incredulous *meh-stylistic* presentation. Unreal. Here’s video (prompted to 32:20 for context): (more…)
There is only one party in Washington DC, the UniParty. The professional political class support themselves beyond all other ideological factors. These are modern realities.
President Obama is in a very tenuous position this week as a nation has been stunned by the targeting of police officers. Indeed, there is a solid argument to be made that President Obama created the antagonism toward law enforcement with various speeches and cursory accusations of unequal treatment.
As a modern social justice president who embraces radical extremist groups like Black Lives Matter, and as an executive community activist who has used the cabinet offices of his administration to leverage social change, President Obama has embraced many divisive entities and expressed ideological alignment with their cause.
The gunman in Dallas who targeted white police officers, specifically because of the color of their skin, is just one visible consequence from a President who rails against a system of law and order. Obama’s ideology is more comfortable amid the chaos. (more…)
Unbelievable, President Obama needs to get his Black Lives Matter crew under control quickly… Things are rapidly spiraling out of control.
LAKESHIRE • A former Affton High School football standout forced his way into a South County home and was shot and killed by an off-duty officer inside after a Facebook dispute over Black Lives Matter apparently boiled over late Saturday afternoon.
That’s what can be pieced together from the accounts of police and an uncle of Tyler Gebhard, who said the young man had been struggling with mental health issues.
“He walked over there and into a gunfight,” Gebhard’s uncle, Patrick Brogan said, drawing on accounts offered by friends of his nephew. “When he got there, he was met with a gun and the guy killed him.” (more…)
Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani appeared on CBS Face The Nation today to discuss the racial animus driven by the professional Black Grievance Industry and Black Lives Matter activists.
With the backdrop of a growing Obama/MSM national narrative -which is leading to targeted assassination attempts of police- Mayor Giuliani pushes back hard against the divisive media intents promoted by CBS host, and best friend of Paul Ryan, John Dickerson.
President Obama is visiting Vietnam today and paused for a picture with communist party President Tran Dai Quang in front of a bust of Ho Chi Minh.
Perhaps it’s just me, but given the nature of the diplomatic relationship this specific optic seems rather inappropriate.
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Most of these reports should be filtered through the prism of a desired political narrative. President Obama’s civilian pentagon officials quickly announcing a “drone strike”, “inside Pakistan” that may have killed a high-profile Taliban leader.
Why does the administration need to specifically tell the world the details? Why put Pakistan in a position of retaliation from al-Qaeda with notification of a cross border drone strike?
Perhaps these continual and overly public releases of information are an outcome of a U.S. President being forced to act by the U.S. military. The White House not wanting to engage, puts intensely stringent rules in place to insure the continued life of the enemy.
The military follows those rules and puts the enemy directly on a tee. Obama is reluctantly forced to approve the strike lest he be clearly outlined as supporting the enemy. With no option Obama approves the strike, but then exposes every element of the attack he can, through his civilian surrogates, in order to create a hostile consequence that will diminish any possible future occurrence. (more…)