Fire And Fury--Totally Fabricated Gossip Mongering Work Of Fiction

Nikki Haley responds to disgraceful rumor that she had an affair with President Trump

January 27, 2018

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Michael Wolff, author of Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House, recently attempted to victimize a public servant with a baseless accusation. This time it backfired, quite spectacularly.

In an interview on HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher, Wolff intimatedthat Nikki Haley, the US Ambassador to the United Nations, had, or was having, an affair with President Trump. Haley’s response was scorching. 

On Thursday’s Politico podcast Women Rule she responded, calling the accusations “highly offensive” and “disgusting.”

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In the Maher interview, Wolff stated that he was “absolutely sure” Trump was having an affair.

He stated:

There is something in the book that I was absolutely sure of, but it is so incendiary that I just didn’t have the ultimate proof.

Nevertheless, he found a way to sneak it in his book – to be found by the discerning reader. In the interview, he decided to give the reader a helping hand:

It’s toward the end of the book. You’ll know it. Now that I’ve told you, when you hit that paragraph, you’re going to say ‘Bingo.’

According to Politico, Wolff’s comments have directed readers to the following line from his book:

The president had been spending a notable amount of private time with Haley on Air Force One and was seen to be grooming her for a ntaional political future.

This, of course, led to the recent rumors that Haley had an affair with Trump.

Haley Repudiates

Considering the controversial nature of the book, which led many to question whether it is a work of fiction, Haley probably didn’t even have to respond to the accusation. But, she did, on a recent Politico podcast.

Haley stated:

It is absolutely not true. …

I have literally been on Air Force One once and there were several people in the room when I was there. He says that I’ve been talking a lot with the president in the Oval about my political future. I’ve never talked once to the president about my future and I am never alone with him.

So the idea that these things come out, that’s a problem. But it goes to a bigger issue that we need to always be conscious of: At every point in my life, I’ve noticed that if you speak your mind and you’re strong about it and you say what you believe, there is a small percentage of people that resent that and the way they deal with it is to try and throw arrows, lies or not.

This is not the first time that Haley, the first female governor of South Carolina and second Indian-American governor, had to face such an accusation:

I saw this as a legislator. I saw this when I was governor. I see it now. I see them do it to other women,” she said. “And the thing is, when women work, they prioritize, they focus, and they believe if you’re gonna to something, do it right.

Wolff seems to be guilty of one of the oldest and most sexist smears of them all: assuming a woman slept her way to success. But, Haley’s character has proved to be too strong for such accusations to have any impact.

A Book Full of Canards

By now it is well known that the claims made in Wolff’s book are hardly credible. Wolff himself has even said as much.

Becket Adams, in an op-ed for the Washington Examiner, savaged Wolff’s rumor-mongering, calling his remarks “sleazy and unsubstantiated.”

 

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He continued:

…this affair nonsense isn’t just some Internet forum rumor. Wolff and Maher have put this particularly vicious gossip into the mainstream. Maher has a significant platform on HBO, and Wolff is still reveling in the acclaim heaped on him by his news media colleagues…

The only question now is: Will Wolff’s recent supporters in the news business, including MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski, who claimed “the spirit of [his book] is completely true,” and Katy Tur, who said much of what she read in the supposed tell-all “feels true,” continue to promote his evidence-free brand of “journalism”?

Given the nature of the book, one should be even more critical of the things that he did not think he could put in.

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This is just another attempt by the left to discredit a successful woman because she doesn’t toe the line ideologically.

As Haley demonstrated, it takes more than a rumor to attack someone with real integrity.

North Korea Now Really In A Corner-- Will It Come Out Fighting?

China Announces It Will Implement Tough Sanctions Against North Korea

"...tensions continue to mount..."By Jack Davis
on August 14, 2017 at 7:09am

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For the second time in recent days, China took a major step to put pressure on North Korea to resolve its standoff with the United States over North Korea’s missile development efforts.

The Chinese government announced Monday it will implement the sanctions that were imposed against North Korea by the United Nations on Aug. 5.

The Security Council sanctions block nations from accepting North Korea’s primary exports, including coal, iron, iron ore, lead and seafood. The sanctions also target other revenue streams, such as banks and joint ventures with foreign companies. The sanctions could cost North Korea a third of its $3 billion annual export revenue.

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Although China did not block the sanctions at the U.N., it was unclear until the announcement whether China, which is North Korea’s largest trading partner, would implement them.

China also faces possible action from President Donald Trump, who has said he may order an investigation into allegations of unfair Chinese trade practices.

“It is obviously improper to use one thing as a tool to imposing pressure on another thing,” Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said Monday. “There will be no winner from a trade war, it will be lose-lose.”

China’s action to implement the sanctions came days after a state-run newspaper said that if North Korea attacks the United States, it will fight any war that results on its own.

“China should also make clear that if North Korea launches missiles that threaten U.S. soil first and the U.S. retaliates, China will stay neutral,” the Global Times editorial said.

Throughout the escalation of tensions between the United States and North Korea, China has called for restraint.

“The current situation on the Korean Peninsula is complicated and sensitive,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said in a statement Friday.

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“China hopes that all relevant parties will be cautious in their words and actions, and do things that help to alleviate tensions and enhance mutual trust, rather than walk on the old pathway of taking turns in shows of strength, and upgrading the tensions,” he said.

Writing in The Washington Post, David Von Drehle said China needs to emerge from the North Korean-American showdown with a win.

” … the audience of greatest concern to China — namely, the other leading countries in the region, including Japan, India, Australia, South Korea, the Philippines and Vietnam — faces the urgent question of whether they can trust a rising China to share in safeguarding their sphere. If the problem of Kim isn’t defused, those nations are sure to seek even deeper alliances with the United States while building their own military capacity. China’s regional influence will shrink rather than grow,” he wrote.

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It Is Time To Be Rid Of Organizations Which Do Nothing Positive

Dismantle UNRWA

By Adi SchwartzJuly 14, 2017

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UNRWA registration card recovered during counterterrorism operation in southern Gaza, 26 July 2007, via Wikimedia Commons

BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 528, July 14, 2017

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: In a surprising change of policy, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu has called for the dismantling of UNRWA. Such a move could benefit both Israel and the peace process. The new US administration might change its decades-old policy as well.

Last month, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stunned many by declaring that the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) should be dismantled.

Speaking at a weekly cabinet meeting, Netanyahu charged that “in various UNRWA institutions, there is a lot of incitement against Israel, and therefore the existence of UNRWA – and unfortunately its work from time to time – perpetuates the Palestinian refugee problem rather than solves it. … Therefore, the time has come to dismantle UNRWA and merge its components with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees [UNHCR].”

This long overdue step was rejected for years by the Israeli establishment. Up to now, Jerusalem has prevented attempts to change UNRWA’s mandate or close it down because it perceived the agency as a stabilizing factor. Israel focused instead on anti-Israeli incitement in UNRWA’s education system and on its collaboration with Hamas. That collaboration implied an international imprimatur on egregious Hamas behavior.

Instead of fighting UNRWA’s very existence, Israel focused on its actions. This time, the prime minister is talking about a bigger shift in policy.

UNRWA’s initial role was to distribute humanitarian assistance to Palestinian Arabs displaced during the 1948 war. However, over the years, instead of being a tool to solve the refugee problem, UNRWA has become a tool for its eternal perpetuation. Without UNRWA, the Palestinian refugees, and certainly their children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren, would have resettled in their Arab host countries or elsewhere in the world, as many millions of other refugees have done. They would have done so reluctantly, of course, but would have had no other choice, as no organization would have taken care of them for so many years.

Because UNRWA did nothing to reduce the number of Palestinian refugees, their numbers have swollen from 750,000 in 1949 to more than 5 million today. This was a surrender to the Arab wish to perpetuate the problem. From its earliest stages, UNRWA was a politicized agency, more interested in appeasing the Arab world’s wish to destroy Israel than in the humanitarian cause for whose sake it was established.

Without UNRWA, the Arabs could not have come to the negotiations table with international support – as embodied by UNRWA – for their ridiculous demand that 5 million refugees and their descendants be allowed to resettle in Israel, thus subverting its Jewish nature. Without UNRWA, only a small fraction of its “registered refugees” would be considered real refugees in the first place. Many of UNRWA’s refugees should never have been granted that status, and the vast majority of them are descendants who would not be granted automatic refugee status elsewhere in the world. The Arabs would likely have attempted these demands, but would not have had the backing of a special UN agency.

As the years have worn on, UNRWA has maintained a system expressly meant to perpetuate the refugee problem rather than solve it. Unlike the UNHCR, which provides six options for the cessation of the status of refugee, UNRWA offers zero. Whereas the primary concern of UNHCR is to resettle refugees and help them build new lives, UNRWA promotes only one future: repatriation to Israel. That prospect is contrary to worldwide historical practice and anathema to Israel. It is also toxic to both the prospects for a peace agreement and Palestinian national development.

In effect, UNRWA has become a spokesman – and patron – for the call to destroy the Jewish homeland by flooding it with millions of refugees and their descendants. Without UNRWA, it is hard to see how the belligerent Palestinian/Arab call for return could have survived for seven decades. Because Israel is not going to commit national suicide via demographic subversion, this UNRWA-induced intransigence is an assured recipe for the conflict’s prolongation.

Merging UNRWA into UNHCR would mean an immediate drop in the number of Palestinian refugees from more than 5 million today to a few hundred thousand, perhaps even fewer. Most of UNRWA’s refugees either never left their country (Mandatory Palestine) or became citizens of another country (Jordan) and would thus simply be omitted from the list. Moreover, this merger would mean repatriation is not the sole option for solving the Palestinian refugee problem. Both these outcomes are clearly in the interests of both Israelis and Palestinians.

The Trump administration seems open to fresh ideas. For years, the US – the biggest donor to UNRWA – did not want to deal with the agency because it feared an Arab backlash. This time, it appears Washington and the Sunni world have enough in common – from fighting Iran to signing major arm deals – that Washington should not fear making major changes to UNRWA, or even abolishing it altogether. A push from Jerusalem may well wield results this time around.

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Adi Schwartz is co-author of a forthcoming book on the perpetuation of the Palestinian refugee problem (together with Dr. Einat Wilf). He is writing his PhD thesis on the subject in Bar-Ilan University.

Anyone Who Would Ignore North Korea Or Its Ambitions Is Foolish

President Donald Trump says after North Korea's latest failed rocket launch that communist leader Kim Jong-Un will eventually develop better missiles, and "we can't allow it to happen."

South Korean protesters stage a rally to oppose a plan to deploy the advanced U.S. missile defense system called Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense, or THAAD, near U.S. Embassy in Seoul, South Korea, Saturday, April 29, 2017. A North Korean mid-range ballistic missile apparently failed shortly after launch Saturday, South Korea and the United States said. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

By FOSTER KLUG and KIM TONG-HYUNG - Associated Press

Sunday, April 30th 2017, 23:42 pm EDT

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — President Donald Trump said after North Korea's latest failed rocket launch that communist leader Kim Jong-Un will eventually develop better missiles, and "we can't allow it to happen."

In a taped interview broadcast Sunday on CBS' "Face the Nation," the president would not discuss the possibility of military action, saying: "It is a chess game. I just don't want people to know what my thinking is."

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Separately, Trump's national security adviser, Army Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster, said North Korea's most recent missile test represents "open defiance of the international community." He said North Korea poses "a grave threat," not just to the U.S. and its Asian allies, but also to China.

Speaking on "Fox News Sunday," McMaster said it is important "for all of us to confront this regime, this regime that is pursuing the weaponization of a missile with a nuclear weapon."

"This is something that we know we cannot tolerate," McMaster said.

On Saturday, a North Korean mid-range ballistic missile broke up a few minutes after launch, the third test-fire flop this month. The program's repeated failures over the past few years have given rise to suspicions of U.S. sabotage.

In the CBS interview, the president was asked why the North's rockets keep blowing up.

"I'd rather not discuss it," he said. "But perhaps they're just not very good missiles. But eventually, he'll have good missiles."

He added: "And if that happens, we can't allow it to happen."

Trump also called North Korea's leader "a pretty smart cookie" for being able to hold onto power after taking over at a young age. "People are saying, 'Is he sane?' I have no idea," the president said.

North Korean ballistic missile tests are banned by the United Nations because they are seen as part of the North's push for a nuclear-tipped weapon that can hit the U.S. mainland.

McMaster said that Trump "has made clear that he is going to resolve this issue one way or the other," but that the president's preference is to work with China and others to resolve it without military action.

That means, McMaster said, working to enforce current U.N. sanctions and perhaps ratcheting them up. "And it also means being prepared for military operations if necessary," he said.

Trump said he believes China's president, Xi Jinping, has been putting pressure on North Korea over its missile and nuclear weapons programs.

The launch comes at a point of particularly high tension in the region. Trump has sent a nuclear-powered submarine and an aircraft carrier to Korean waters.

The U.S. and South Korea also started installing a missile defense system that is supposed to be partially operational within days.

Residents in the village of Seongj, where the missile defense system is being installed, scuffled with police on Sunday. About 300 protesters faced off against 800 police and succeeded in blocking two U.S. Army oil trucks from entering the site, local media reported. A few residents were injured or fainted from the scuffle and were taken to a hospital.

The Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense system, or THAAD, is controversial in South Korea, and presidential front-runner Moon Jae-in has vowed to reconsider the deployment if he wins the May 9 election.

He has said that the security benefits of THAAD would be offset by worsened relations with China, which is the country's biggest trading partner and is opposed to its deployment.

Trump raised eyebrows in South Korea last week when he said would make Seoul pay $1 billion for the missile defense system. McMaster said Sunday that the matter is subject to negotiation.

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UN Runs Sex Ring

Sick Child Sex Ring Exposed… Dems Will be Horrified by Who They Work for

BY DAVIS
ON APRIL 13, 2017 AT 11:14AM

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Many Democrats in America like to sing the praises of the United Nations. In their eyes, the U.N. can do no wrong and it’s the solution to all the world’s problems.

Unfortunately, reality is much different than that. In fact, the U.N. actually can cause more problems than it solves. U.N. peacekeepers who are sent to bring stability to nations often end up committing gruesome acts, The Associated Press reported.

In Haiti, according to the AP, U.N. peacekeepers would often use food and money to lure children — sometimes as young as 12 — into having sex with them, yet not one of these monsters has been brought to justice.

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This same horror happens all around the world, but nothing is ever done to stop it.

The lack of justice for these victims stems from a classic U.N. problem — a lack of accountability. Legally, the U.N. cannot prosecute peacekeepers. Only the countries from which these peacekeepers originate can do that, and most often they simply don’t.

“If I heard that a U.N. peacekeeping mission was coming near my home in Chattanooga,” Tennessee Republican Sen. Bob Corker stated to the AP, “I’d be on the first plane out of here to go back and protect my family.”

Republicans have been calling for reforms at the U.N. for years, and now that President Donald Trump is in office, it is entirely possible that those reforms can take place.

Democrats should take a long hard look at the reports of rape and sexual violence that are carried out by peacekeepers before they start singing the praises of the U.N.

While the U.N. was a good idea at the time it was created (in the aftermath of World War II), history has shown that it is simply another failed experiment that should be thrown out.

The U.N. is powerless to do anything. If this organization can’t even prosecute its own people for raping children, why should we expect them to do anything to stop world leaders who are committing genocide against their own people?

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Re-Arming Japan Would Be A Big Mistake

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Japan: Open Letter to the U.S. by Amir George March 22, 2017 at 4:00 am https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/10093/japan-open-letter Share16 Comment In return for abolishing the Japanese military, the United States guaranteed peace and stability in Japan, Korea and, to a lesser degree, in various areas of the Pacific, in place of a not-yet-functioning United Nations. A new U.S. Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson, perhaps unintentionally suggested upsetting this arrangement, which has worked so well for so many years. According to reports, Tillerson "refused to rule out increased weaponization and even nuclearization of America's East Asian allies to deter North Korean aggression." Seventy years ago, a defeated and devastated Japan, fed and clothed by America, organized itself to put together a new constitution that enshrined the famous "Article 9": "Aspiring sincerely to an international peace based on justice and order, the Japanese people forever renounce war as a sovereign right of the nation and the threat or use of force as means of settling international disputes. "In order to accomplish the aim of the preceding paragraph, land, sea, and air forces, as well as other war potential, will never be maintained. The right of belligerency of the state will not be recognized." Little known, but outlined in a recently published book in Japanese, The Special Country, the Japanese constitution was written by a secret group of legal scholars and lawyers, hidden during the war, and then adopted by the administration of General Douglas McArthur as the new Japanese constitution. Article 9 came about when the Japanese Prime Minister, Kijuro Shidehara, arriving back by train through the utterly destroyed city of Tokyo, went straight from the station to meet with General McArthur and requested that an article be put in the Japanese Constitution forbidding not only a military but war itself. U.S. General Douglas McArthur signs the Japanese Instrument of Surrender on board USS Missouri, on September 2, 1945. Contrary to views that the concept of not having a standing army is foolish, the Japanese constitution rested its future on a functioning United Nations to fulfill its responsibility for collective defense; in other words, the UN would provide the "force" needed to begin a new system in which nations meeting and working together would be able to head off conflicts such as those that had led to two world wars. Japan, a warmonger of a nation that had trampled across much of Asia and the Pacific rim, leaving up to 20 million dead, including an estimated two million of its own, was transformed by an eight-year program. The Japanese people fell in love with peace. From cigarettes named "Peace" and "Hope" to a complete cultural change, Japan rebuilt itself, and set an example to a war-weary world that, in fact, national prosperity could be accomplished without violence. In return, the United States guaranteed peace and stability in Japan, Korea and to a lesser degree in various areas of the Pacific, in place of a not-yet-functioning United Nations. In each country, the host-nation pays the costs of the US military, and it is less expensive for American taxpayers to have troops stationed overseas than in the US. The rewards in trade have far outweighed the costs. A new U.S. Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson, perhaps unintentionally suggested upsetting this arrangement, which has worked so well for so many years. According to reports, Tillerson "refused to rule out increased weaponization and even nuclearization of America's East Asian allies to deter North Korean aggression." The absolute worst possible thing to happen in a finally peaceful Asia would be a nuclear arms race to rekindle the flames of the past. Nearly a half million brave Americans and many Japanese gave their lives in World War II: the world has had 70 years of peace and prosperity. It is to their memory and the many who suffered so terribly that the world owes a debt of gratitude. On the 70th anniversary of the most precious gift America could give to Japan, which she fed, clothed and rebuilt, is the time to reaffirm the role of America as the guardian, the "United Nations", whose role is to keep alive freedom in the world. Amir George, based in Japan, is author of the book, "Liberating Iraq." © 2017 Gatestone Institute. All rights reserved. The articles printed here do not necessarily reflect the views of the Editors or of Gatestone Institute. No part of the Gatestone website or any of its contents may be reproduced, copied or modified, without the prior written consent of Gatestone Institute.