THREAT MATRIX 2016

Free Republic | 01-01-2016 | TM CREW

[KC_Lion]

History has proven time and again that Utopia cannot be achieved on this earth.

We can strive to build a better U.S.A. but it will never be perfect.

Others don't see it that way, Communist or Islamist, Collectivist and Statist, they believe their dreams can be achieved in this life.

They only need to remove those who oppose them.

By whatever means necessary.

That flies in the face of Americanism that we all share.

So, out of Many Ideas, Peoples and Cultures, will we be one? (E Pluribus Unum)

Or will we be improvised divided groups living in East German-esq rundown rolling blackout cities where loudspeakers hollowly broadcast "Workers of the world, unite!"

Is The Sun Setting on America?

Or Rising on a New Morning?

[V K Lee]

Thanks, Dolly

To have a fleet of fishermen/fisherwomen makes for more fish!

[Jane Long]

Bookmarking.

[V K Lee]

:-))

[Right-wing Librarian]

Fantastic post. I hope many read and absorb it.
Thank you for articulating it so well.

[TheOldLady]

Likewise, I’m sure. ;-)

[GBA]

Interesting. You know...as weird as it might sound, that makes sense of something that doesn't make sense.

The one common thing I hear and read describing this election is that no one has ever seen anything quite like it.

I'm a believer shooting for a child-like faith, but am fairly low-info, imho. I know enough to know that I don't know very much.

When my times got tough, I started reading and studying the Bible, True Life in God, the many near death experience stories, Mother Mary and her appearances (Fatima, Garabandal, etc.), angels, Archons, modern miracles, prophecy, etc., etc. these last few, trying to answer my questions and come to a faith/working understanding of God.

Putting some of the standout pieces together from this election so far, I see a pattern that looks/feels like what I've been learning is how He works, so he could be right about Trump.

Same for the part about obama, too.

[Albion Wilde]

Bless you.

[azkathy]

I have been fishing!
Since Edward Haley is mentioned as a mentor to Heidi Cruz and as this article shows he must be a pretty good friend if “She and Ted came to brunch in our apartment in DC” where Haley and his wife Elaine were then living. “She said, ‘I’m going back with Ted. He wants to get into elective politics in Texas.’” This was in 2004.

I was curious what his background and mentoring might lead to and how it might influence Heidi Cruz and possibly Ted Cruz.

I am still not sure what I think of him but I think Heidi and Ted must be “insiders” rather than the “outsiders” Ted proclaims to be. I think I found out why Heidi did a little work with the Council on Foreign Relations.

I am interested to hear what you think.

Kathy

Read this article, paying close attention to the quotes from P. Edward Haley, the mentor of Heidi Cruz.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/11/01/house-of-cruz-the-making-of-ted-cruz.html

There is much to learn about P. Edward Haley. He has written numerous books.
http://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/fortnightly/18/05

P. EDWARD HALEY
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2002
In his forthcoming book, Strategies of Dominance, Professor P. Edward Haley argues that during the past decade American strategy has moved along an arc from the modesty, self-restraint, and multilateralism of the first Bush administration to the zeal, universalism, and unilateralism of the current Bush administration. His lecture will be a preview of this forthcoming book: a study of American strategy and diplomacy since the end of the Cold War that traces the underlying assumption of each administration about U.S. interest and threats to those interests.
Haley holds the W.M. Keck Foundation Chair of International Strategic Studies at Claremont McKenna College and is Acting Director of the Keck Center for International and Strategic Studies. His scholarly expertise lies in international security and American foreign policy, including arms control, great power relations, U.S.-European relations, and U.S. policy in the Middle East. He was an International Affairs Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, a Foreign Affairs Assistant in Congress and in the Senate, and the dean of the School of International Studies at the University of the Pacific. His education includes Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from Stanford University and a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University.
Professor Haley has edited numerous books including The United States and Europe (1999) and Nuclear Strategy, Arms Control, and the Future (1988). He is the author of Qaddafi and the United States Since 1969 (1984) and Revolution and Intervention: The Diplomacy of Taft and Wilson with Mexico, 1910-1917 (1970), which was awarded the Premio Sahagun by the Mexican National Institute for Anthropology and History. He is also a frequent contributor to the Op-ed page of the Los Angeles Times.”

P. Edward Haley is “connected.” Be sure to read the Acknowledgements available through Amazon http://www.amazon.com/P.-Edward-Haley/e/B001HPGNKS

Haley interviewed many people for the book, appointees of 3 Presidency’s, staff members of Congress, Journalists, etc.

He has authored numerous books with other CFR members. One of them is Emily Vargas-Baron.

Who is Emily Vargas-Baron besides co author of a book with Edward Haley. This is the description of her at the Rise Institute.
Emily Vargas-Barón, Ph.D.
Emily Vargas-Barón,
Ph.D.
In addition to directing and conducting activities for The RISE Institute, Emily Vargas-Barón consults internationally in the fields of education and integrated early childhood development, focusing on policy planning, training, program design and evaluation research. From 1994 to 2001, she was Deputy Assistant Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development, where she directed the Center for Human Capacity Development. Previously, she founded and directed a research and development institute for early childhood development in Austin Texas, called the Center for Development, Education and Nutrition (now called Any Baby Can). Dr. Vargas-Barón was an Education Advisor for the Bogotá Office of The Ford Foundation and a Program Specialist in Education for UNESCO in Paris. She holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology with a focus on Education from Stanford University, where she was also an Associate of the Stanford International Development Education Center (SIDEC). She is the author of many books, chapters, articles, research and evaluation studies, and she has worked in Latin America, the Caribbean, Sub-Saharan Africa, North Africa, the Middle East, Europe, Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, Central Asia, and South Asia.

I also found the links posted on the Rise institutes page interesting, see here http://www.riseinstitute.org/links.htm Early Childhood and Educational Development Isn’t Open Society a George Soros group?

Haley has been very involved in humanitarian issues and served as Director of The Center for Human Rights from 2008-2014. https://www.cmc.edu/human-rights/mission-statement

The Center, which grew out of the teachings of Professor Roth on the Holocaust in the early 1970s, has had a couple of name changes since it was launched in 2003 as The Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide and Human Rights. In 2009, the Center’s name was changed to The Center for Human Rights Leadership, and in 2014, it became The Center for Human Rights. See below for a little history on the Center.

History

“Claremont McKenna College’s mission is to provide students with a superior liberal arts education that prepares them for leadership in business, the professions, and government. In keeping with these goals, CMC began to support teaching and research about the Holocaust in the early 1970s, and launched the Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide and Human Rights in March 2003, placing the College among the forerunners in the field of Holocaust Studies. The name of the center was changed in May 2009 to The Center for Human Rights.

Founding donor Leigh Crawford ’94 made possible the establishment of the Center in March 2003. Professor John Roth, who served through 2006, was the Center’s founding director. Professor Jonathan Petropoulos, initially the Center’s associate director, succeeded Roth from 2007-2008. Professor Edward Haley directed the Center from 2008-2014.”

It appears he and Heidi may have similar views on humanitarian issues. See the video/interview below to learn a great deal more about her and hear Heidi describe how America should use our wealth, privilege and power to help those less fortunate in other countries.

You can hear Heidi Cruz in her own words describing her experiences working on the Bush campaign and the Florida recount where she became close with Bob Zoelick who would later consider her the “go to guy” when he was appointed in the treasury department. (He took Heidi Cruz with him.) Later he would go on to head of the World Bank.
https://vimeo.com/129261A

[V K Lee]

PING
Something to see here!

[hoosiermama]

Needs a thread of its own
Easier to distribute and catalog

[azkathy]

SEE PARAGRAPH TOWARDS THE BOTTOM THAT MENTIONS P. EDWARD HALEY I am looking for additional confirmation on the part about Haley and if he did actually support Frangieh.

http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/10544
The bias, questionable scholarship, and even anti-Semitism prevalent in many Middle Eastern Studies programs may have come to yet another American campus. Claremont McKenna College (CMC), the highly ranked California liberal arts school, recently inaugurated a Middle East Studies department directed by Professor of Arabic Bassam Frangieh and is trying to establish a related study abroad program that will include Frangieh’s wife, Aleta Wenger, executive director of International Programs at the school. The program is accessible to students from all the Claremont colleges, including Pitzer, Harvey Mudd, Scripps, and Pomona.

In a series of meticulously researched articles, CMC senior Charles C. Johnson exposed Frangieh and Wenger’s extremist views, powerful anti-Israel prejudices, and support for terrorist groups that make it unlikely this program can meet basic scholarly standards.

StandWithUs shares these doubts about the quality of education CMC students will receive and is deeply concerned about CMC giving its imprimatur to a program that promotes anti-Israel and anti-Jewish misinformation and bigotry. CMC’s Middle East Studies program will likely be inhospitable for Jewish and pro-Israel students and will infuse anti-Israel, anti-Semitic views on campus.

Frangieh’s expertise is in Arabic language and literature, not Middle Eastern history and politics. Some of Frangieh’s statements raise serious concerns about his qualifications to teach these other fields. In a 2007 lecture, he made the ahistorical, dubious claim that “from the beginning of Islam until the mid-13th century,” Islam was “very democratic” and had “customs” similar to “socialism.”[i]Though Frangieh railed against Arab dictators, he mentioned one exception. “The only leader of the Arab world who “really did something for his country” and who “wasn’t a thief” was Saddam Hussein.[ii]Frangieh apparently discounts Hussein’s ruthless dictatorship, genocide of Iraqi Kurds, torture of opponents, and systematic siphoning of money from the Iraqi people in the UN Oil for Food scandal.

More disturbing is Frangieh’s open support for terrorist groups like Hezbollah and Hamas and how these views might taint his analysis of the Middle East. When Hezbollah launched the 2006 war with Israel, Frangieh signed a letter that praised Hezbollah’s attack on Israel as a “heroic operation…to safeguard the dignity of the Lebanese and Arab people” and bitterly denounced the many Arab governments that opposed Hezbollah.[iii]Hezbollah is an Iranian proxy whose goal is to establish an Islamist state across the Arab world, eliminate Israel, and fight “Western Imperialism.” It is blatantly anti-Semitic. Hezbollah’s leader, Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, has said, “If the [Jews] all gather in Israel, it will save us the trouble of going after them worldwide.” Yet Professor Frangieh celebrates this violent group.

Frangieh is equally supportive of Hamas. He welcomed Hamas’ 2006 electoral victory, saying to an interviewer that “Hamas might be able to produce the beginning of salvation. I wonder what else would the Arabs have without Hamas and Hezbollah? Nothing. Except humiliation. I congratulate Hamas on its victory.”[iv]Hamas is another Iranian-supported terrorist group. Its founding charter calls for the murder of Jews, the “obliteration” of Israel and its replacement with an Islamist theocracy, and liberally borrows from the anti-Semitic forgery, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Yet Frangieh regards this violent, dictatorial, anti-Semitic group as “the beginning of salvation.”

Apparently, Frangieh also sees wider Arab violence as a “salvation.” He lionized Arab poet Abd al-Rahim Mahmud as “a symbol of heroism and pride,” though Mahmud’s poems glorify jihad and martyrs and have inspired terrorists and their sympathizers.[v]Rather than condemning the self-destructiveness of terrorism and violence, Frangieh wrote in 2000 that “even if the best one hundred Arab poets loaded themselves with dynamite and exploded in the streets of Arab capitals, it would not be enough. For real change to come about, thousands of people will have to die; thousands must martyr themselves.”[vi]

Frangieh seems to share Hamas’ and Hezbollah’s distorted history and demonic view of Israel. The 2006 pro-Hezbollah letter claimed that “the recent Israeli aggression is the latest in a long series extending back to the founding of the Zionist state and motivated by both historical ambition…and by a racist supremacist ideology that denigrates the indigenous population.” It also described the IDF as a “Zionist killing machine.”[vii]Frangieh himself wrote that “the greatest blow to the Arab soul” was the creation of Israel.[viii]Frangieh is also not averse to traditional forms of anti-Semitism. He signed a 2007 petition that called Joseph Biden’s resolution to divide Iraq into three autonomous zones “a Zionist plot.”[ix]An apparently charismatic figure, Frangieh was an extremely popular professor at Yale,[x]as he is at CMC,[xi]which means students will likely be very receptive to his extremist ideas.

Frangieh’s wife appears to share many of his views. Among the facts that Johnson uncovered was that this former American diplomat has a sinister view of Israel and is an enthusiastic supporter of the extremist Free Gaza Campaign, which seeks to “break” Israel’s legal blockade of Gaza to give support to Hamas. She is dismissive of official Israeli reports, even when they are often corroborated by other sources. Despite ample evidence to the contrary, she claimed in July 2010 that “[I] do not believe for one minute that the Israelis are allowing in food and medicine, and other commodities, to the level needed by the civilian population.”[xii] Yet, in this very period, the Financial Times reported, “Shops all over Gaza are bursting with goods,” causing prices to fall,[xiii] and the The Washington Post noted, “Grocery stores are stocked wall-to-wall....Pharmacies look as well-supplied as a typical Rite Aid in the United States.”[xiv]

The CMC administration’s response to Johnson’s exposés is equally disturbing. It defended Frangieh, comparing his support for terrorist organizations whose goal is to murder Jews with another faculty member’s analysis of the legal justifications for California’s controversial Proposition 8 regarding gay marriage as equal expressions of academic freedom. It also accepted Frangieh’s denial that he supported terrorist groups.[xv]Johnson also found that CMC’s vice president of Public Affairs and Communications had edited Frangieh’s Wikipedia page by deleting mention of his support for terrorist groups.[xvi]StandWithUs does not dispute Frangieh’s and Wenger’s rights to hold and publicize their views, reprehensible as they are, but does question the wisdom of appointing this ideologically extremist couple as directors of a Middle East Studies program.

Another unsettling development raises further concerns about anti-Israel bias at CMC. The school’s Center for the Study of Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights, founded in 2003, may not provide more accurate or more sympathetic views of Israel. John K. Roth (who is not Jewish), the center’s founder and director for three years, has compared Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians with the Nazis’ treatment of Jews in the 1930s and wrote in 1988 that Israel “would prefer to rid itself of Palestinians if it could do so. Their presence in Gaza and the West Bank is a liability and a threat to many Israeli intentions.” Though he insisted that his statement was misunderstood and though many Holocaust scholars defended him, in 1998 he was forced to resign from a position that the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., had just offered him.[xvii]Roth is still an advisory member of the CMC’s Center for Holocaust Studies. The current director, PROFESSOR EDWARD HALEY, was instrumental in recruiting Frangieh to the faculty.[xviii]In 2009, as CMC President Pamela Gann and Frangieh tried to develop the international study component of the Middle East Studies Department, the Center for Holocaust Studies was suddenly renamed. It will now be called the Center for Human Rights Leadership to “reflect broader efforts in the field of human rights,” according to CMC’s press release.[xix]Apparently, its primary focus will no longer be the historical, moral, and philosophical dimensions of the Holocaust.

StandWithUs is deeply concerned about these developments. We urge CMC to choose other directors for its Middle East Studies program. We also urge CMC to ensure that the program is not dominated by anti-Israel bias and ideological extremism but instead promotes informed, responsible, mainstream education on Middle East issues. Finally, we ask CMC to adopt the U.S. Civil Rights Commission’s working definition of anti-Semitism, which recognizes that demonization of Israel is a new form of anti-Semitism,[xx]and ensure that sincere efforts are made to prevent its appearance on campus.

[rineaux]

Okay, so I agree with you 100%.

We all know why those in power who also pray to a different god and alter do not want him in the WH.

Really think those in real power have some pansy ready to take the fall.

[Ouderkirk]

My attitude is that Trump can’t be any worse that the sodomite in chief we have now.

[PGalt]

Thanks for the pings back to the very informative TM thread. (I’ve now caught up with the thread) Thanks for your posts, azkathy. Very, very interesting and informative. Threat Matrix BTTT!

[PGalt]

Oops forgot to thank you for the ping, Albion Wilde. Threat Matrix info/comments are worth another BTTT anyway : )

[azkathy]

Glad you found the info to be worthwhile. I especially want people to listen to the video and pay attention to what she says.

It appears he and Heidi may have similar views on humanitarian issues. See the video/interview below to learn a great deal more about her and hear Heidi describe how America should use our wealth, privilege and power to help those less fortunate in other countries.

You can hear Heidi Cruz in her own words describing her experiences working on the Bush campaign and the Florida recount where she became close with Bob Zoelick who would later consider her the “go to guy” when he was appointed in the treasury department. (He took Heidi Cruz with him.) Later he would go on to head of the World Bank.
https://vimeo.com/129261A

She says at one point how she will forever be indebted to her Professors for the help they have provided which is my point exactly. She specifically states how her work on the campaign gave her access to the White House.

[V K Lee]

:-))

[PGalt]

That link does not seem to be working, azkathy. I’m looking for it but can’t seem to find it right now. Thanks very much for the information, though. (I’ll keep searching…if it’s available…I’ll find it.) I know very, very little about Heidi, Cruz.

Thanks to all posters. Threat Matrix BUMP!

[azkathy]

Access it through the daily beast article, that is where I found it. Read this article, paying close attention to the quotes from P. Edward Haley, the mentor of Heidi Cruz.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/11/01/house-of-cruz-the-making-of-ted-cruz.html

[LucyT]

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Q. So, ... who's in the boat with us? (A. site pests.)

Government Agents Hired to Argue Politics On-line

Are You Chatting With a CIA Agent On-line?

Kristan T. Harris | American Intelligence Report

(excerpted)

Operation Mockingbird historically is a secret Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) campaign to influence media to promote false propaganda or print misleading stories.

However, the program has evolved into a new brand of media control using the Internet to spread any propaganda seeming beneficial to the current political climate.

Agents create fake user accounts on social media platforms, such a as Facebook, Twitter and others, to argue any ideology they are instructed to.

According to RT news, Mb>agents have up to “10 fake shill accounts” used to troll and create the illusion of having a genuine network of friends.

“They will defend current administration decisions with relentless irrational stubbornness that one can only be paid to do.”

http://americanintelligencereport.com/government-agents-hired-to-argue-politics-on-line?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=reddit&utm_source=news