World Affairs Brief, April 28, 2017 Commentary and Insights on a Troubled World.
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THE VOICES TRUMP LISTENS TO
As more and more information leaks out about who advises Trump, it’s no longer as simple as Steve Bannon and Jared Kushner or Reince Priebus, who we’ve not heard anything from in weeks. Last month I reported that globalist neocon John McCain talks almost daily with National Security Advisor HR McMaster, and weekly with Secretary of Defense Mattis and that can’t be good. The NY Times gave a rundown of who has the ear of the president, and it should worry his supporters.
As Mr. Trump’s White House advisers jostle for position, the president has turned to another group of advisers — from family, real estate, media, finance and politics, and all outside the White House gates — many of whom he consults at least once a week.
Mr. Trump’s West Wing aides, like President Bill Clinton’s staff two decades before, say they sometimes cringe at the input from people they can’t control, with consequences they can’t predict. Knowing these advisers — who are mostly white, male and older — is a key to figuring out the words coming from Mr. Trump’s mouth and his Twitter feed.
Here, based on interviews with more than a dozen friends, top aides and advisers inside and outside the White House, are 20 of Mr. Trump’s outside touchstones.
Rupert Murdock: The two share preferences for transactional tabloid journalism and never giving in to critics. (Mr. Trump said the fallen Fox star Bill O’Reilly should not have settled sexual harassment complaints.) The president’s relationship with Mr. Murdoch is deeper and more enduring than most in his life, and the two commiserate and plot strategy in their phone calls, according to people close to both.
Murdoch, who owns Fox News, is a globalist seeking to control conservative information by making sure Fox never utters a word about conspiracy issues. Any longtime friend knows Trump is a sucker for sympathy and can play him.
Sean Hannity: Presidents always deploy surrogates to appear on television to spout their talking points, but Mr. Trump has expanded on that by developing relationships with sympathetic media figures like Mr. Hannity who also serve as advisers. Mr. Hannity, the Fox News host, defends Mr. Trump’s most controversial behavior in public, but privately, according to people close to Mr. Trump, he urges the president not to get distracted, and advises him to focus on keeping pledges like repealing the Affordable Care Act.
I think Trump would like to keep his promises, but he doesn’t have the intellectual ammunition or good advice on how to counter all the demands and machinations of Washington insiders.
Chris Ruddy: The chief executive of Newsmax Media is a longtime Mar-a-Lago member and was a Trump cheerleader among conservative media well before the website Breitbart joined the parade. He employs writers and editors who tracked Mr. Trump’s career when they were at The New York Post. He recently visited the Oval Office, and he and Mr. Trump kibitz in Florida and by phone.
Ruddy did a great job exposing the Vince Foster murder and the government cover-up, but has become a conspiracy denier of sorts (never mentions it anymore) since going mainstream with NewsMax, which I call “NewsMin.”
Ex-wife of Infowars host Alex Jones wins joint custody
By Jonathan Tilove – American-Statesman Staff 9
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Kelly Jones reacts to favorable verdict in child custody case. The verdict by the Travis County jury means that the Jones children will now live with Kelly instead of Alex Jones.
Updated: 10:32 p.m. Thursday, April 27, 2017 | Posted: 6:41 p.m. Thursday, April 27, 2017
After nine hours of deliberation, a Travis County jury in the Alex Jones-Kelly Jones child custody trial gave Kelly Jones a great victory, awarding her joint custody with the right to have their three children make their primary residence with her instead of her husband for the first time since the couple’s 2015 divorce.
Alex Jones will share joint custody, which means that he will have visitation rights. …
He had predicted during the trial that a verdict like this would lead his son to run away from home.
… At stake was whether the three Jones’ children, ages 9, 12 and 14, would continue to live with Alex Jones, the provocative broadcaster whose Infowars show has made him currently the most influential conspiracy theorist, or live instead with his ex-wife, who described him on the stand as a “violent, cruel and abusive man” who is “enraged and out of control most of the time.”
In his closing argument Thursday, Kelly Jones’ attorney Robert Hoffman argued that she was the victim of parental alienation with Alex Jones brainwashing their children to align with him and turn against her.
“Mr. Jones is like a cult leader; the children appear to be cult followers, doing what Daddy wants them to do,” said Hoffman.
“Nobody knows how to stop this man,” Hoffman told the jury, and that, he said, included Judge Orlinda Naranjo, who throughout the trial repeatedly told Alex Jones to stop making faces and nodding and shaking his head in reaction to testimony.
“Nobody can stop this man except the 12 of you,” Hoffman said. “You have an unbelievable amount of power.”
But Alex Jones’ lawyers depicted Kelly Jones as emotionally unstable, self-absorbed and paranoid. …
David Minton, another of Alex Jones’ lawyers … Minton struck a rare, conciliatory note in the contentious nine-day trial, saying that while Kelly Jones wasn’t yet ready to see her children on a more regular basis, she was on her way there.
“She is working hard to get better. …
Kelly Jones’ lawyers said she now sees her children as little as four hours a month.
The case stood out mostly because of the celebrity of Alex Jones and the question of whether he would have to distance himself from his Infowars’ persona….
Yes, he sometimes engages in satire, Jones insisted, but his on-air politics are genuine.
In court, he and his lawyers simply contended that he didn’t bring his often angry, raging on-air personality home with him and into his parenting.
But Kelly Jones testified that he was the same “volatile,” “hateful,” personality on the air and at home. …
Alex Jones’ lawyers went first in presenting their case and through most of the trial, the jurors were left with the impression that Kelly Jones was an emotional mess, subject to episodes of “emotional dysfunction” in which her responses were uncontrollable and disproportionate to the circumstances. It was used to explain why the children lived with Alex Jones since even before the 2015 divorce was finalized and why Kelly Jones now had such limited access to her children.
But when her lawyers got to present their case this week, they created a picture of a woman prone to anxiety who was driven to emotional dysfunction by the threat of losing her children.
This is the full, uncut press conference on April 28th, 2017.
Alex Jones called all media outlets to the steps of the Austin Courthouse to do two things: Set the record straight concerning his child custody trial, and to say to their faces that their underhanded tactics are only helping to destroy traditional corporate media.
Wikileaks Founder and Editor-in-Chief Julian Assange joins the Liberty Report to discuss the latest push by the Trump Administration to bring charges against him and his organization for publishing US Government documents. How will they get around the First Amendment and the Espionage Act? The US government and the mainstream media — some of which gladly publish Wikileaks documents — are pushing to demonize Assange in the court of public opinion.
“No nation can continue to flaunt the laws of God and violate the laws of God and get by with it forever. It can’t happen.
This country is on a collision course with the judgment of God. And the thing that disturbs me personally the most about it is that the ‘Christians’ of this country seem to be the biggest cheerleaders for this crime of aggression. The more people we bomb, the louder ‘Christians’ shout ‘Amen!'”
– Chuck Baldwin
Transcribed by Jeff Fenske
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Message Highlight – Nations That Continue To Violate God Laws Will Suffer Consequences
America is perhaps the greatest perpetrator of the crime of aggression, but Americans believes it to be impervious to retaliation by an Almighty God. This video clip is taken from the message “Be Not Afraid, But Speak” at Liberty Fellowship on April 23, 2017. Feel free to share. To watch the complete message, go here: http://libertyfellowshipmt.com/News/t….
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“They [pastors] know that in their hearts they’re a bunch of cowards, and they’re not willing to take a stand on much of anything. And if you take away the Johnson Amendment, you would take away their excuse for not taking a stand!”
– Chuck Baldwin
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Message Highlight – 501c3 Churches Have Put Themselves Under The Authority Of Caesar, Not Jesus
The biggest opposition to the repealing of the Johnson Amendment is the church. This video clip is taken from the message “But Now Is Christ Risen From The Dead” at Liberty Fellowship on April 16, 2017. Feel free to share. To watch the complete message, go here: http://libertyfellowshipmt.com/News/t….
Trump wanted to free the churches of the free speech stifling Johnson amendment to 501(c)3, but many PASTORS are COWARDS, and want the 501C3 federal speech prohibitions KEPT as is on churches because they’re too cowardly to speak out on key issues:
“Mr. Trump, please don’t take away the 501(c)3 [Johnson amendment], if you take it away everyone might know I’m a coward!” – Chuck Baldwin
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Message Highlight – Religious Groups Want To Keep The Johnson Amendment In Tact
Most pastors hide behind their 501c3 tax-exempt status so they don’t have to speak the truth. This video clip is taken from the message “But Now Is Christ Risen From The Dead” at Liberty Fellowship on April 16, 2017. Feel free to share. To watch the complete message, go here: http://libertyfellowshipmt.com/News/t….
Jesus and His Disciples defied the authority of evil men over them. This video clip is taken from my message “But Now Is Christ Risen From The Dead” at Liberty Fellowship on April 16, 2017. Feel free to share. To watch the complete message, go here: http://libertyfellowshipmt.com/News/t….
Conservatives and Christians would be protesting the attack on Syria if Hillary Clinton had given the order. This video clip is taken from the message “His Own Received Him Not” at Liberty Fellowship on April 9, 2017. Feel free to share. To watch the complete message, go here: http://libertyfellowshipmt.com/News/t….
A real leader does not expect his followers to risk more than he is willing to risk . This video clip is taken from the message “His Own Received Him Not” at Liberty Fellowship on April 9, 2017. Feel free to share. To watch the complete message, go here: http://libertyfellowshipmt.com/News/t….
If our message was not over the target, Liberty Fellowship would not be catching flak today. This video clip is taken from the message “His Own Received Him Not” at Liberty Fellowship on April 9, 2017. Feel free to share. To watch the complete message, go here: http://libertyfellowshipmt.com/News/t….
Pastor Baldwin implores fellow pastors to preach the Gospel of Peace, not prosperity. This video clip is taken from the message “Remember Lot’s Wife” at Liberty Fellowship on April 2, 2017. Feel free to share. To watch the complete message, go here: http://libertyfellowshipmt.com/News/t….
Alex Jones’ groundless accusations against Chobani are nothing new. Stephen reminds us of a similar conspiracy theory that first appeared on ‘Brain Fight with Tuck Buckford.’
Pro-Life Christians are the biggest cheerleaders of war. This video clip is taken from my message “Remember Lot’s Wife” at Liberty Fellowship on April 2, 2017. Feel free to share. To watch the complete message, go here: http://libertyfellowshipmt.com/News/t…
Some civilian casualties are more worthy than others, it seems. While thousands of civilians have perished at the hands of the US-led “coalition” in Iraq and Syria, there is little reporting and no investigation.
However, an unproven chemical attack in Syria provides the basis for the Trump Administration to demand the UN “do something” to punish the Syrian government.
Ron Paul Institute Director Daniel McAdams speaks to RT about the double standards…
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One email in Hillary’s archive, Wikileaks #18328, shows that Hillary worked with the Obama administration to try to help Israel by orchestrating a civil war that would eventually remove Syrian President Bashar al Assad.