In this segment we talk about revolution in Haiti and Nicaragua, Russian interference and the Marxists relationship with the Progressive Movement.

DARLENE CASELLA

Iran is the latest incarnation of Persia, which pre-dates Christ. Reza Shah Pahlavi came to power during WWII. He modernized the country and was pro-America. When he was forced to leave Iran, President Jimmy Carter supported anti American Ayatollah Khomeini as the Supreme Leader of the Islamic State. 

Sharia law governs. Homosexuals are executed. Women without veils are arrested. Media is censored. Journalists are imprisoned and tortured. Citizen executions are 2nd largest in the world.

Iran became a sponsor of terrorism during the Clinton Administration. Iran repeatedly violated the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. President Obama hailed The Nuclear Deal as "a window to resolve important issues"; when the US, "plus 5" signed it in 2016. 

President Trump announced that we are exiting the Iran Nuclear Deal. He resumed sanctions on banking, shipping, refineries, Iranian oil exports and more.  

Iran's economy is in a downward spiral with record unemployment. The rial is down 50%. Prices skyrocket. Iran banned many foreign goods from entering, and imposed restrictions of foreign exchange to stop foreign currency leaving the country. 

Fruitless government solutions and corruption pressure Iranian President Rouhani. He proclaimed "If anyone thinks the government will resign, they are mistaken".

Iran's Parliament pressures Rouhani to change his economics. Blackmail letters to France, Germany and Britain list economic demands for Iran to stay in the Nuclear Agreement. Threatening that otherwise Iran will ramp up uranium enrichment. 

Demonstrations similar to the 2009 Green Movement are taking place. The death toll is at least 25, with hundreds arrested. Protests are about the economy, corruption, funds spent on out of the country military, anti-hijab, and gender segregation. 

President Trump tweeted "All of the money that President Obama foolishly gave them went into terrorism and into their pockets. The people have little food, big inflation, and no human rights. The US is watching." 

Rouhani boasted "We will not surrender before America". Emperor Hirohito said that, and look what happened! 

Darlene Casella is a retired schoolteacher, stockbroker, and president/owner of a small corporation.

FRANK SALVATO
 
If there is a poster child for the “resist movement” it is undoubtedly US Rep. Maxine Waters (P-CA). From before the beginning of President Trump’s term, Waters has been screaming “impeachment” as if it is something that political foes can bestow upon their rivals. Of course, they cannot. Impeachment can only be the result of a Senate conviction of High Crimes and Misdemeanors. No such acts have occurred.
 
Maxine Waters continues to thump the impeachment drum, but is now calling for the open harassment of Trump Administration officials:
 
"Already you have members of your Cabinet who have been booed out of restaurants... Let's make sure we show up wherever we have to show up. And if you see anybody from that Cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd. And you push back on them. And you tell them they're not welcome anymore, anywhere."
 
This is not representative government. This is not passionate debate. This is the open obstruction of the governmental process. Waters is not bringing debate or legislation to the floor of the US House of Representatives, she is openly engaging in an overt act of aggression against people who have sworn an oath to serve, protect and defend the US Constitution and to execute the roles of their positions faithfully.
 
This is not ingenuous political opposition. This is totalitarian, ideologically based, Alinsky Progressivism. You see, Progressives saw the goal line in the re-election of Barack Obama. The sword in the bull’s neck was to be President Hillary Clinton. With her election, our constitutional Republic would have been transformed into a Democratic-Socialist oligarchy run by Progressives. The Constitution would have been effectively marginalized into a document of suggestions and the global elitists, political opportunists and disingenuous money-grubbers of the elected class would have succeeded in creating a three-tiered society where pseudo-justice and opportunity were afforded the elites while the rest of us would live in “District 12,” a reference to The Hunger Games.
 
It is time that we all took a stand and sent the Progressives, the global elites, and the manipulating pricks of the professional political class to the ash heap of obscurity where they belong. It is time for you and me to quest to be free of bureaucratic captivity and demand a return to constitutional law and a government that serves the people.
 
There is a petition to expel Maxine Waters from Congress. Everyone should sign it and pass it on. The leadership in the US House of Representatives should feel so much pressure to act that they make a harsh example of this pathetic excuse for a public servant.
 
For crying out loud, the woman doesn’t even live in the district she represents in Congress. How pathetic is that!
 
CLICK HERE to sign the petition (don’t make excuses, just do it) and then share it with your friends. Taking back the country from scum like this has to begin and end with you and me.

TONY RUBOLOTTA

The attacks on President Trump, often unleashed with a string of vulgarities and threats, are seen by most decent people as the rage of insanity. People have asked what has Trump done to warrant such savagery and hatred? Why was Trump embraced and admired by the Left at one time only to now become the target of irrational and insane anger? I saw a similar question posted on a social media site and I will repeat the answer I gave there, but in greater detail.

Donald Trump is among the elite. I mean that as a compliment. He has managed a very successful business, is a well known personality that enjoys celebrity status, and of course, is extremely wealthy. I'm defining elite in the terms we customarily use to identify people who are outstanding and excel in their field. We apply it to writers, athletes, military units and personnel, artists, financiers, businessmen and politicians.

You might think that being among the elite, Trump would be welcomed to the Left, particularly by the shallow elite, those in entertainment, sports and politics where political leanings are as much a determination of elitism as is any actual talent. Trump was embraced as one of the "elite". But unlike most on the Left, Trump is not an elitist. I was responding to an obviously false claim that Trump could not relate to "ordinary everyday people" when I came to this conclusion.

I suggested that Trump was hated because he was not one of them (elitist that is). He isn't one of them, but let's understand why. The elitists want to run everything to create their idea of the perfect state, heaven on Earth. The elitist class automatically includes most educators and media personalities. They see themselves as the more intelligent and moral people, perfectly fit and chosen by evolution to command others. Naturally, it is tempting to count oneself among the elite, fit to command the inferior mass of humanity. The "ordinary everyday people" are to be used by whatever means necessary to achieve elitist rule and the making of paradise. This explains in part the government loans and propaganda to foster the belief that a college indoctrination is necessary for success and joining the elite. It is a recruiting drive and cash transfer scheme and nothing more.

Trump doesn't fit the elitist behavior pattern. I've been critical of some of his business practices but I always notice that no matter how unethical I think his practices may be, he never dismisses anyone as inconsequential. He fights everyone equally hard and never takes the outcome for granted. He takes every obstacle as a serious challenge and trifles with no one. He respects his opponents. He does not assume the authority to command anyone except those he employs. He pays them for that right. Again, I may consider that abusive at times, but with Trump, you know what you are getting and it is your decision.

Elitists on the other hand believe everyone is inconsequential except those they share power with. Lying to the masses, misleading them and bribing them is a legitimate means to an end in the elitist mind. Ordinary people are assumed to be stupid, inferior and in need of guidance on what to think and how to act until a command government is established. In a word, they are the "deplorables". When that is achieved, the ordinary people are so much livestock to be driven as their superiors see fit.

Obama was the major breakthrough toward the authoritarian government the elitists wanted and Hillary Clinton would have been the grand finale to establish a lawless, rule by fiat administration. Trump ruined that and did not join them. He did not take the elitist ego trip he was expected to take. The fact is, Trump and an energized base are threatening the entire fabric of government by elitists. Like a cornered animal, the ferocity of the Left is driven by fear that the high water mark of elitist rule may have been the Obama administration and that tide is receding. Any disagreements I have with President Trump are secondary to draining the swamp and eliminating the elitist threat.

DARLENE CASELLA 

After 65 years of antagonism towards the outside world, the Hermit Kingdom is warming.  The Singapore Summit with President Trump and Supreme Leader Kim Jung-un strides towards denuclearization. 

North Korea and Iran each present nuclear threats to their region and to the world. Should summit efforts with North Korean prove fruitful, the American President could look to Iran with similar aspirations. 

Mohamad Reza Shah of Iran was an ally of the west until his 1979 toppling. President Carter supported the Ayatollah Khomeini as the Supreme Leader and Iran became an Islamic Republic. He was succeeded by Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.  Protests and revolts are met with government crackdowns, death, public hangings, imprisonment, and torture. 

A nervous region watched as President Obama and the 5+1 signed a Nuclear Agreement with Iran. Saudi Arabia, the Gulf Kingdoms, and Israel regarded the Iran Deal negatively.  Their concerns are about Iran's terrorist policies, ballistic missiles, and expanded influence on Iraq, the Arab Gulf, the Mediterranean Basin, and North Africa. Iran vows destruction of Israel and other nations, and has armed militias and armies in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, and Yemen. Nuclear weapons would reinforce Iran's threats.

Iran hunted for money from every president since Carter without luck. President Obama gave the Ayatollahs $150 Billion, and $1.8 Billion in cash, to sweeten the Nuclear Deal.  

In May President Trump withdrew from ‘The Iran Deal' calling it fatally flawed. He reimposed strict sanctions.  Critics rant against Trump's approach, claiming he will embolden Iran on a path to war. 

Detractors have been wrong about foretelling the results of President Trump's actions a majority of the time.  Some would rather be wrong than welcome his success. 

Darlene Casella was before retirement and English teacher, a stockbroker, and owner/president of a small corporation.

BY FRANK SALVATO 
It is true that in the United States, everyone who qualifies under the requirements of the Constitution has the right to run for office. In fact, the beauty of the American experience is that our nation is governed by her people, not a ruling class, or so it is supposed to be.
 
Currently, we are undergoing a rebellion against a professional class of politicians who have stolen government from the people. Since the beginning of our nation, opportunistic individuals have sought to manipulate the governmental system to both push ideology and enrich themselves.
 
At the national level, we have ideological groups that seek to alter the fabric of our nation; who attempt to circumvent the US Constitution at every turn. Additionally, there are political opportunists who see an avenue to wealth off the hard work of the American people. How else do people enter into office with modest means only to leave office as millionaires?
 
Then, of course – at the local levels of government, we have the “good ol’ boy” networkers. These individuals seek to maintain power in an effort to install a lingering status quo beneficial to their desires; desires that almost always end up lining their pockets and the pockets of their benefactors and cronies, even as they control our daily lives right down to the traffic patterns we have to navigate.
 
After generations of this garbage – from the local levels to national, people are rebelling. This is one reason President Trump came to office; a perceived outsider. It is also why a wave of people unfamiliar with the political world find themselves vying for office.
 
American politics is a rough and tumble game; game being a term of endearment from my perspective. Sadly, if one isn’t experienced in life, well-organized, backed by at least a modest amount of financial backing, and graced with a small army of people who will volunteer their time on behalf of the candidate, there is zero chance of being elected. And those who believe that a political campaign can be won simply through the exploitation of social media are either smoking something legal in Colorado or really haven’t been on social media lately.
 
One of the biggest pitfalls on social media platforms, where the political novice is concerned, is getting caught up in the “disingenuous debate”; getting snared by the “Internet trolls.” By common definition, a “troll” is:
 
“...a person who sows discord on the Internet by starting quarrels or upsetting people, by posting inflammatory, extraneous, or off-topic messages in an online community with the intent of provoking readers into an emotional response or of otherwise disrupting normal, on-topic discussion...”
 
This is a staple of the political operative, especially on Facebook. These people goad the novice into providing them with minutia information easily found on a campaign’s webpage. They do so in an effort to:
 

1. Occupy the novice candidate’s time;
2. Provoke the novice candidate into losing their patience/temper;
3. Drive the novice candidate to contradict themselves on matters of position;
4. Cede the narrative so as to allow the operative (read: opposition) to paint the novice candidate in a less than flattering – and often damaging – light.

 
These trolls also infect the efforts of volunteers who sincerely want to disseminate legitimate information about the candidate. The troll seeks to occupy the volunteers’ time and provoke them into sometimes heated exchanges that can often times reflect poorly on the novice candidate.
 
So, what to do about “disingenuous debater”; the Internet trolls; these political hacks (and this really is what they are)?
 
First, always take the high road. Stay focused on the primary task: disseminating fact-based, legitimate information. It takes two parties to enter into a debate, so don’t take the bait. This sometimes requires a great deal of restraint but not getting lured into a pseudo-debate with someone whose goal is disingenuous; to occupy time, capture the narrative and damage a candidate, is a great payoff for applying that restraint.
 
Then there are the nuclear options, which any candidate and/or campaign – established or otherwise – should only use as a last resort, the actions tempting to reflect directly on the campaign. One can report the “disingenuous debater” (read: political operative) to the forum’s administrators (if this avenue is chosen you have to thoroughly make your case so the administrators are sympathetic to your request and pray the administrator isn’t a troll, too) or you can block the operative, which very well may elicit calls of censorship.
 
The primary task on social media for any novice political candidate is to “identify the trolls.” Make a list of the trolls’ shine a light on them. Make sure each and everyone in your campaign knows who the trolls are and instruct them to offer a common response. This response should be to refer the troll to the webpage for more information and/or to avoid engaging them all together.
 
When a troll is left to the hollow echo of his or her own voice, the other readers of the forum are able to hear the shrill disingenuousness of their words; to see the transparent disingenuousness of their efforts. This, incidentally, leads to their efforts backfiring and painting their political choice with the stain of deception and dishonesty.

BY DARLENE CASELLA
 
National Security Advisor John Bolton is a war-mongering racist Islamophobe who recently appointed conspiracy theorist, neo-Nazi, white supremacist, Fred Fleitz to a top position at the NSC; according to media outlets.
 
Such propaganda made headlines - The Wall Street Journal “Jewish and Muslim groups object to the appointment of Fleitz; Newsweek “Anti Muslim, Anti Iran claims” by Fleitz; “Calls are mounting for the ouster of Fleitz newly named” New York Magazine’s Daily Intelligencer headlined “Bolton Installs Anti-Muslim Wingnut.”
 
Fabrications caused National Review’s Rich Lowry to write “Fred Fleitz Is Not a Neo-Nazi” calling media claims preposterous. Zionist Organization of America President, Morton Klein, slammed “Fleitz is a strong supporter of Israel who understands the Islamic Republic of Iran’s threats.”
 
Many believe former Obama Administration people are instrumental in the slander. Ties exist between them and coordinators of the smear campaigns such as the

• Council of American Islamic Relations (CAIR – representing the faith of Islam for American Muslims. Roots in terrorist groups HAMAS and Muslim Brotherhood date back to 1994.

 

• Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC - propaganda dispenser using lists of ‘hate groups’ to smear reputations. It lists David Horowitz and Dennis Prager as haters.

 

•  Anti Defamation League – (ADL fighting anti Semitism. Detractors claim ADL manipulates by applying anti-Semitic (or Islamophobic) to whatever they oppose. Current leader Jonathan Greenblatt was in the Obama Administration).

 
Fred Fleitz was a CIA analyst. His book “Obamabomb: A Dangerous and Growing National Security Fraud” provides in depth analysis of the Iran Nuclear Deal.
 
Truth seekers should call out lies. Silence allows falsehoods them to appear as facts. Abduction of truth by the left is contemptible.
 
Darlene Casella was before retirement an English teacher, a stockbroker, and owner/president of a small corporation. She can be reached here.

​The SEAL Team VI member who capped Osama bin Laden has come out and explained that people should not walk up to him and wish him a “Happy Memorial Day.” In truth, he is absolutely correct. Memorial Day is not Veteran’s Day. It is a somber day that should consume up with thought and reverence for those who have paid the ultimate price for our freedoms.
 
Because these types of holidays have been co-opted by commercialism – who wouldn’t want to buy a new mattress of a new car because, well, we just have to have a Memorial Day Sales, the meaning of the day has been destroyed. Memorial Day has become the timetable benchmark for the beginning of summer and is marked by cook-outs, get-togethers, and vacations. These “happy” and self-serving events – minus those executed with reverence for those who have fallen – betray the meaning of the day.
 
Memorial Day is reserved (or at least it is supposed to be) for the remembrance of those who have died on the fields of battle in the service to our country. It is not about the red of the barbeque sauce, it is about the red of the blood that poured from the bodies of patriots fallen in the defense of our freedoms and the liberations of the oppressed.
 
On Veteran’s Day, which happens to mark the unofficial end of summer (and which has been commercialized beyond my comfort zone as well), it is correct to walk up and thank a Veteran for his or her service to our nation. But on Memorial Day it is appropriate to reflect on the sacrifices made by those who have died in our service and the families who have been directly affected by their deaths.
 
Memorial Day is about reverence and reflection; appreciation and humility, not light-hearted celebration and commercialism. Thankfully, I live in a military community where the gatherings today will be centered on that reverence. I truly wish everyone could experience the respect and thoughtful behavior I will be engaging in today. Maybe if we all experienced such reverence we would take our military and our country for granted, such as we do.

Voting in a Constitutional Republic may be the only voice the people have in the selection of leaders and lawmakers. You can write your congressman after his election, but chances are you will get a canned response with an electronically signed form letter. Your letter may be read and tallied in an informal poll, but there is no assurance you will be heard, that is until the next election. Unfortunately, we do not elect saints to office and there are many who will gain and retain their offices by any means necessary. The temptation to rig elections becomes even more pronounced when the entire agenda of a political ideology is at stake. What the people really want is of little consequence to a driven elitist of any political party.

Daily revelations indicate our government operates more like a crime syndicate in a Banana Republic. Eliminating corruption and restoring the rule of law can only be achieved if we eliminate electoral fraud so we can elect leaders and lawmakers genuinely dedicated to reform. Finding such people will be hard enough and electing them in a rigged system will be even more difficult. But electoral fraud isn’t just about fraudulent voters; it includes government control of the political parties themselves. But first things first.

The States register voters and it is up to the states to set requirements within the boundaries established by the Constitution. There is no reason why a person should not be required to demonstrate that they meet constitutional and State requirements to vote at the time of registration. There is no reason a person should not prove their identity, that they are who they say they are. There is no reason the states cannot issue appropriate photographic or bio metric based identification cards and maintain a registry to root out frauds and duplicates. After all, it is “voter registration.”

People opposing the reduction of voter fraud have and will oppose any measures to reduce voter fraud, often giving absurd reasons why phantom voters (or dead ones) should be allowed to exist. While absentee ballots make a good deal of sense and can be policed to a reasonable extent, absentee registration makes no sense and is allowed more to create phony voters than accommodate invalids.

Government has no business in party politics. If people don’t like how a party does things, they can leave and join another party. No where in our Constitution is there any sanction for government involvement in any political party, or recognition of a two-party system. The political parties should set the rules for their primaries, the qualifications of primary voters and bear the cost of conducting a primary election if that is their chosen method of nomination, not the government. If the people don’t like it, again, they can leave and join or create another party.

Voter fraud and government manipulation of politics is the greatest threat to our liberty. The Left is trying to bring about the day we have one man (even if most are phony), one vote, one time and will do anything to bring that about. It is fraud most foul.

BY TONY RUBOLOTTA
​After the Boston Marathon bombing, the Constitution was essentially suspended as a militarized police force conducted house to house searches for ONE MAN! American citizens were forced out of their homes at gun point. Pundits have argued that search warrants were not required and if they were, it would make no difference as courts would issue warrants without hesitation. Imagine the level of Constitutional violations if TWO MEN were being sought.

The right to travel freely is the right to travel without impediment, particularly without being subject to unreasonable searches during that travel. The Constitutional protection against such searches and seizures has been suspended at airports. In the insane pursuit of “equality”, everyone is treated as a terrorist suspect, subject to intensive, intrusive searches and seizure of property at the whim of the state (TSA). Profiling, that is a common sense approach to identifying potential terrorist based of observed patterns of behavior, race and religion are cast aside. Yet the same bureaucratic mindset that devises such rules posts signs in airport, train stations and bus terminals telling us we should be aware of our surroundings and report suspicious activity. In other words, we should profile and then be subjected to personal criticism depending upon the mood of the official receiving our information.

Gun free zones are places where the government has ruled the Constitution does not apply. Criminals could care less about these Constitutional issues and are only concerned about making a statement or their survival, or both. If an individual wishes to make his private property a “gun free zone”, that is his right as long as there is no law or condition compelling an individual to visit that property and thus be forced to surrender a right.

People with malevolent intentions have made schools their stage and can do so with relative safety. The response by government, that is politicians both Left (establishment Republican) and far Left (Democrat), is to make schools secure by providing armed government employees, warrant less searches and prison-like security measures. Some bureaucrats go even further so that any behavior they deem “inappropriate” is subject to punishment.

All of these measures are quite reasonable for a nation that makes up its morality on the fly in a godless environment where right and wrong are the province of majority votes and not unchanging truth. Two of our Founders recognized this and offered these gems of wisdom which have been ignored to our detriment and for which we now pay the price:

“Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.” - Benjamin Franklin

“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” - John Adams