Trump cleaning out the SWAMP.
President Trump Finally Gets Rid Of Hillary Clinton’s “FIXER” Patrick Kennedy. Remember the “QUID PRO QUO” FBI Bribe?
http://investmentwatchblog.com/president-trump-finally-gets-rid-of-hillary-clintons-fixer-patrick-kennedy-remember-the-quid-pro-quo-fbi-bribe/
Below is a summary of just why President Trump chose to fire Kennedy: Includes link to FBI Doc. (Article continues.)
Yesterday at the State Department five officials resigned or retired. Another one today.
Those ‘Resignations’: What Really Happened at the State Department
https://alethonews.wordpress.com/2017/01/27/those-resignations-what-really-happened-at-the-state-department/
The media has gone near-insane, claiming State is crumbling in protest under the Trump administration. This is not true. What happened at State is very routine.
Leaving the Department are head of the Management Bureau Pat Kennedy, Assistant Secretary of State for Administration Joyce Anne Barr, Assistant Secretary of State for Consular Affairs Michele Bond, Ambassador Gentry O. Smith, director of the Office of Foreign Missions, arms control official Tom Countryman, and Victoria Nuland (above).
Here’s the story:
— No one at the State Dept resigned in protest.
— No one was formally fired.
— Six people were transferred from or retired from political appointee positions. Technically those who did not retire can be considered to have “resigned,” but that is a routine HR/personnel term used, not some political statement. The six are career Foreign Service career personnel (FSOs) They previously left their FSO job to be appointed into political jobs and now have resigned those (or retired out of the State Department) to return to career FSO jobs. A circle. They are required to submit a letter of resignation as a matter of routine when a new president takes office.
— As for perspective: only one Under Secretary of State (Alan Larson) stayed through the transition from Bill Clinton to George W. Bush. It is routine for senior officials to leave or be reassigned.
— Several of the six are connected to the Clinton emails and/or Clinton’s handling of Benghazi. One of these people, Pat Kennedy, played a significant role in both, as well as many other controversial issues during Clinton’s term. Sources tell me that although officially Kennedy “retired,” he was more or less required to do so by the Trump administration.
— I have no information on the others, whether they were asked to retire, or just part of a reshuffling of positions and will routinely be reassigned. Most likely the latter, as such reshuffling is very common as administrations change. As everywhere in the government, the new administration fills its own political appointee slots.
— Some of the six will hit mandatory retirement age on January 31 anyway. (Article continues.)
The administration of US President Donald Trump is preparing two executive orders to drastically reduce funding for the United Nations and other international organizations, as well as begin a process to review and potentially leave some multilateral treaties, according to a new report.
Trump prepares orders to cut UN funding, leave treaties
http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2017/01/26/507869/US-Trump-UN-funding-Israel-Palestine
The first executive order, titled “Auditing and Reducing US Funding of International Organizations,” calls for terminating funding for any UN agency or other international body that meets any one of several criteria, The New York Times reported on Wednesday.
According to the report, organizations that give full membership to the Palestinian Authority or Palestine Liberation Organization, programs that fund abortions and any program that circumvents sanctions against Iran or North Korea are included in the criteria.
The draft order also calls for terminating funding for any organization that violates human rights or is controlled by any state that sponsors terrorism.
Overall, the order is aimed at cutting Washington’s funding for international organizations by 40 percent, the report added.
The second executive order, titled “Moratorium on New Multilateral Treaties,” calls for a review of all current and pending treaties with more than one other country and asks for recommendations on which negotiations or treaties Washington should abrogate.
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Washington has earmarked $594 million in the UN operations funding for next year, but the figure approaches $3 billion once peacekeeping costs are factored in.
Establishment globalists were right to be concerned about the fate of their schemes. After a fast-paced first week of putting “America First” by targeting pseudo-“free trade” regimes and rogue regulatory agencies, President Donald Trump is reportedly preparing to take on the United Nations.
Next on Trump's List: Rein in the UN Dictators Club
http://www.thenewamerican.com/world-news/north-america/item/25242-next-on-trump-s-list-rein-in-the-un-dictators-club
Under one of the two draft orders, headlined “Auditing and Reducing U.S. Funding of International Organization,” the U.S. government would cut funding to any UN agency or international organization that meets any specific criteria. One of those criteria, the Times reported, was granting full membership to the Palestinian Authority (PA) or the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). Deceitfully, the Times did not mention until close to the bottom of its report
is the fact that two 1990s-era federal laws already require the U.S. government to halt all funding to any UN entity that admits the PA or PLO as a member state. That is why the UN's extremist “education” agency UNESCO has been defunded, despite Obama's best efforts. Then-President Bill Clinton signed one of those measures into law, with the other being signed by George H.W. Bush.
Also subject to being defunded under Trump's draft executive order, according to the Times, is any UN or international outfit that “is controlled or substantially influenced by any state that sponsors terrorism
That would likely include the UN's widely ridiculed “Human Rights Council.” The extremist body, run by an Islamic dictatorship's prince who equated Trump with ISIS and claims “international law” requires “robust gun control” in America, is literally dominated by a majority of unfree regimes — including some of the most savage and murderous dictatorships on the planet that have sponsored terrorism for decades. UN entities controlled or substantially influenced by regimes that persecute marginalized groups or systematically violate human rights would also be defunded.
[...] Other requirements under the draft order include instituting cuts of “at least 40 percent” in all remaining U.S. taxpayer funding to international organizations.
[...] The first order would also establish a committee to recommend where to make cuts to U.S. funding for UN agencies and other globalist outfits. That body would be tasked with, among other specific responsibilities,
investigating U.S. funding for a number of UN agencies and bureaucracies. Among them is the International Criminal Court, which in recent months threatened that it was considering hauling U.S. troops in. The ICC tried to jail a journalist, too. Also set to be scrutinized are [b the UN's scandal-plagued “peacekeeping” missions, [/b] which have been notable primarily for the wide-scale rape of children, the slaughter of civilians, the persecution of those who blow the whistle, and other crimes.
Finally, the UN Population Fund
which has been implicated in aiding the Communist Chinese regime in its forced abortions and its savage population-control regime, is also set to be examined.
The second draft executive action purportedly seen by the Times is the “Moratorium on New Multilateral Treaties.” According to the report, the order would demand a review of all current and pending multilateral treaties involving more than one foreign government. The review would be followed by recommendations on which negotiations, conventions, or treaties the U.S. government should ditch.
That order specifically mentions the “Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women,” which has been weaponized by governments worldwide to assault freedom and family. It also mentions the UN “Convention on the Rights of the Child,” a totalitarian scheme that Scottish lawmakers cited to justify the assignment of a named bureaucrat to oversee the upbringing and indoctrination of each and every child. The U.S. Senate has refused to ratify either scheme.
The second order on multilateral treaties exempts any treaty “directly related to national security, extradition or international trade.” The Times absurdly — pathetically, almost — tried to claim that might exempt the UN's pseudo-treaty on alleged man-made global warming known as
the “Paris Agreement” because it touches on “trade.” In the real world
Trump has already promised to “cancel” that illegal UN scheme, which was never ratified by the Senate anyway. And immediately upon taking office, the White House website vowed to
dismantle Obama's illegal “Climate Action Plan,” which was the centerpiece of Obama's illegal “commitments” under the UN climate regime. Plus, without the trillions in loot from U.S. and Western taxpayers promised to the UN “Green Climate Fund,” virtually every Third World regime on Earth has already promised to walk away.
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American taxpayers pay between $8 billion and $10 billion each year to the UN, more than 185 other member states combined. And in return, the American people, their liberties, their Constitution, and their national independence are subject to constant and vicious attack from the dictators club and its leading officials. Congress is also working to defund the UN.
Of course, Trump's expected actions represent an excellent place to start — especially after eight years of Obama, who in his last speech to the dictator-dominated UN General Assembly openly called for America to “accept constraints,” “giving up some freedom of action” (also known as self-government), and “binding ourselves to international rules.” However, a much better and more permanent solution would be to get the U.S. out of the UN completely. Legislation to do that, the American Sovereignty Restoration Act (H.R. 193), is currently sitting in the House Foreign Affairs Committee. And with enough public pressure, 2017 can be the year that America finally breaks free of the dictators club.
Following through on one of the many pro-business promises he made all along the campaign trail, Trump reiterated the need to rethink the way our country buys and sells drugs to help lower costs in the public interest.
Donald Trump announces plan to hammer Big Pharma monopoly profits by requiring competitive bidding
http://www.naturalnews.com/2017-01-26-donald-trump-announces-plan-to-hammer-big-pharma-monopoly-profits-by-requiring-competitive-bidding.html
He also railed against the pharmaceutical industry, which he boldly described as “getting away with murder,” as he called for “new bidding procedures” to lower drug costs and presumably end the Big Pharma monopoly that has been strangling American healthcare for decades.
“Pharma has a lot of lobbyists and a lot of power,” the president-elect proclaimed before an eager press pool, “and there’s very little bidding. We’re the largest buyer of drugs in the world and yet we don’t bid properly.”
Daily Presidential Tracking Poll
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/political_updates/prez_track_jan27
Friday, January 27, 2017
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Friday shows that 55% of Likely U.S. Voters approve of President Trump’s job performance. Forty-five percent (45%) disapprove.
