Wait,… didn’t we just pay them $1.7 billion, including $400 million for ‘ransom”?  You just can’t make this stuff up folks:

Washington – The State Department issued a warning on Monday urging U.S. citizens to avoid traveling to Iran, which has made the detention of Americans a priority.

The latest travel advisory, which emphasizes Iran’s desire to capture U.S. citizens, comes on the heels of a growing scandal over the Obama administration’s decision to pay Iran $400 million in cash on the same day that it freed several U.S. hostages.

The payment has been cast by lawmakers and others as a ransom payment and prompted concern among U.S. officials that Iran is making arresting Americans a priority.

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In response to candidate Donald Trump’s policy remarks surrounding Islamic extremism, CNN’s Jake Tapper and Sarah Murray transmit the following via twitter.

Think about this carefully:

“Trump anti-ISIS speech would mark radical new U.S. policy”

Really?   So the current U.S. policy is “Pro-ISIS” and that’s “Not-Radical”?

Because everyone knows if you oppose crucifixions, drowning people in cages, chopping heads off and burning people to death, you must be embarking on some new U.S. policy that’s “radical”…. or something.

I’m going through the transcript and video now and will be expanding on the overall speech in a subsequent and substantive post.  However, a quick few notations are in order.

Candidate Donald Trump’s specific speech today was a rebuke to the 2009 speech of President Obama made in Cairo Egypt.  Don’t let the media ignoring that aspect fall silently past you, it’s critical.

The 2009 Cairo Speech by President Obama, his “Mid-east Obama Doctrine”, was the detonation tool, the exact epicenter, for the explosion that created the “Arab Spring”.  Go back and refresh your memory if needed.  It was a specific moment in time. It was a specifically worded ideological speech, and it held specific goals and intentions.

The media will now go into overdrive to protect President Obama from the bigger truth which can come out as a result of this enlarged conversation.   It was President Obama who gave rise to the “Arab Spring”.  You can guarantee the media will go nuts trying to avoid that reality. Watch…

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New York – A man suspected of gunning down a Queens imam and his friend outside a mosque was taken into custody Sunday night, sources said.

The motive in the horrific Saturday afternoon killings may be an ongoing feud between Muslims and Hispanics, according to sources. They said an NYPD Regional Fugitive Task Force was conducting what turned out to be a “brief surveillance” on the suspect in Queens when he rammed an unmarked cop car and officers nabbed him.

Police officials could not confirm whether a suspect was in custody.  Video of the Saturday night ambush showed the shooting was a planned execution. (more…)

This is a great example of the current state, and competence, of American Journalism.  Worse yet, this example shows the U.S. Secretary of State, John Kerry, didn’t even know what’s going on, and Vice-Presidential Candidate Tim Kaine also joins the crew of the clueless.

CNN and The Washington Post are both making an absurd attack Donald Trump story out of the most simple and easy to prove claim.

Donald Trump said there was video (yes, that’s a screen grab of the video above), put out by Iran, showing the United States sending pallets of cash in exchange for U.S. hostages.

Trump stated the Iranian’s were using the video to “embarrass the President“.  The Washington Post and CNN jumped on the Trump statement and immediately decried it as ridiculous and set out to prove the claim false: (more…)

There’s several ways you can look at the carefully scripted use of Khizr Muazzam Kahn by the media today in an all out effort to aid Hillary Clinton in her campaign efforts.  However, perhaps the most analogous approach is to consider the similarity to Ahmed Mohamed, aka: “Clock Boy”.

Unfortunately for the U.S. media, the transparency of narrative use becomes more obvious the more they coordinate the pile-on.   Putting the narrative front and center of every single talking point for the Sunday shows was just a little too transparent:

However, beyond the insufferable talking points, it’s worth noting there is a positive aspect behind the media need to drum up such ridiculous controversies; Hillary Clinton is a horribly weak, ineffective, and inauthentic candidate.  If she was not, the media wouldn’t need such coordinated distraction efforts.

But first, to Mr. Kahn. (more…)

Two jihadists wielding knives entered a church in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray, Normandy, during mass.  Two nuns and two parishioners were taken hostage, one nun is seriously injured.  The 84-year-old priest, Father Jacques Hamel (pictured left), was forced to kneel down and his throat was slashed while one of the Islamists’ filmed the murder.

ISIS has claimed responsibility for the attack and saying the butchery was carried out by two Islamic State soldiers. The two jihadists were known terror threats and wore ankle monitors, they were later shot by French police. An additional person has been detained as part of investigation.

French President Francois Hollande says he very angry now, and pledges to fight ISIS “using all means possible”.  With the ISIS attacks continuing inside France, Mr. Hollande has not ruled out the need for a sternly worded letter. (more…)

The Munich shooter has been identified as Ali Sonboly, an 18-year-old German with Iranian citizenship. The 18-year-old German/Iranian opened fire in a crowded Munich shopping mall and a nearby McDonald’s, killing nine people and wounding 16 others before killing himself.

However, as many are noting, the EU liberal media are trying to disconnect any reference to Islam despite the eye-witness claims.  An eye-witness who was inside the McDonalds when Ali Sonboly opened fire gave a first-hand account to CNN:

The media are even dropping his first name “Ali” and instead calling him David Sonboly.

But it doesn’t stop there; check out the pictures that are being distributed of Ali.  The Main Stream Media in both the EU and U.S. are going full Trayvon with this killer: (more…)

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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(Via BBC) More than 20 people in Germany have been injured after a man with an axe went on the rampage on a train, German media report.

A police operation including a helicopter is under way in Heidingsfeld, a part of the city of Wurzburg in southern Germany.  Details are scant and contradictory at this stage but some local media (in German) are reporting 21 casualties.

https://twitter.com/pzf/status/755166968903143424

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