For State and Country

Melissa Toomim is running for the 32rd Congressional District in California which includes the west San Fernando Valley, Pacific Palisades and Malibu. Learn about how she will fight for California and the USA at toomim4congress.com Donate to Melissa at https://secure.anedot.com/toomim-for-.... ANYTHING WILL HELP! As an investigative journalist covering Afghanistan and Pakistan, I was offered funding by the Russians (RT), the Muslim Brotherhood (Al Jazeera) and Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI). To all of them I said, NO THANK YOU! There was no way I was going to accept funding from any of our nation’s enemies. I have always been dedicated to truth and integrity. Every day the halls of Congress are filled with lobbyists challenging the honesty of our representatives, but my integrity has been challenged in the past, and I am confident that I will have no more difficulty saying ‘no thank you’ to lobbyists than I had with the Russians, Muslim Brotherhood and ISI. My name is Melissa Toomim, and Toomim means integrity." This film is dedicated to Daniel Pearl, Andy Skrzypkowiak and Mirwais Jalil - three journalists who were killed by Pakistani intelligence for their efforts to tell the truth about Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Melissa Toomim is running for the 32rd Congressional District in California which includes the west San Fernando Valley, Pacific Palisades and Malibu. Learn about how she will fight for California and the USA at toomim4congress.com Donate to Melissa at https://secure.anedot.com/toomim-for-.... ANYTHING WILL HELP! Part Two of CONFLICT OF INTEREST also reveals that when the Pakistani government claims to be fighting the Taliban in its western provinces, it is actually fighting Balochi and Pashtun separatist rebels. Hundreds of their local leaders have been assassinated and replaced with radical Islamist Taliban, who have been terrorizing the people of the region. It is noteworthy that Pakistans treaties with the Taliban, always result in the Taliban receiving millions of dollars. Treaty or contract? Every report coming out of Pakistan is sourced to a government official, and that government knows that if the world learns what it has been doing to its own people and to Afghanistan, the generous flow of assistance it has been receiving for decades will come to an abrupt halt. Moreover, Pakistani intelligence is very effective at controlling the message outside of Pakistan. An example is use of the term insurgency to describe the Taliban. Every Afghan knows that the Taliban is an invading force. They are from Pakistan! They are from Pakistan! is a constant refrain cried by the Afghans. It is stunning how few people are listening. A genocide is being committed against the Pashtun people on both sides of the border. The world needs to know.

Melissa Toomim is running for the 32rd Congressional District in California which includes the west San Fernando Valley, Pacific Palisades and Malibu. Learn about how she will fight for California and the USA at toomim4congress.com Donate to Melissa at https://secure.anedot.com/toomim-for-.... ANYTHING WILL HELP! Afghans tell me that if the U.S. and NATO withdraw, it will be an utter disaster for their country. It is no accident that the campaign in Afghanistan was severely understaffed and under-funded for the past eight years. Since 2002, the word on the streets of Kabul has been that the Katrina-style approach to reconstruction and security in Afghanistan would lead to an easy re-invasion by the Taliban which is exactly what has happened. Since taking office, President Barack Obama and his envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan, Richard Holbrooke, have both complained about the inadequacy of intelligence and the United States incoherent policy in the region. The stakes cannot be overstated.

She sat me down and said, "Melissa. What office are you going to run for?" Melissa Toomim is running for the 32rd Congressional District in California which includes the west San Fernando Valley, Pacific Palisades and Malibu. Learn about how she will fight for California and the USA at toomim4congress.com Donate to Melissa at https://secure.anedot.com/toomim-for-.... ANYTHING WILL HELP! "My name is Melissa Toomim, and, as a candidate to represent California’s 32rd Congressional District, I am truly looking forward to meeting you and doing everything I can to manifest the renaissance of our beautiful Los Angeles County. I have an unusual last name. It is a Hebrew word meaning “integrity” and “truth.” “Urim va toomim” is the motto of Yale University. In English it means “light and truth.” During ancient times, the high priest in the Holy of Holies of King Solomon’s Temple wore a breast plate with pockets containing two tokens: the urim and the toomim. He would toss one or the other to indicate judicial decisions — urim for guilty, toomim for not guilty. I take this heritage very much to heart. As an investigative journalist covering Afghanistan and Pakistan, I was offered funding by the Russians (RT), the Muslim Brotherhood (Al Jazeera) and Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI). To all of them I said, NO THANK YOU! There was no way I was going to accept funding from any of our nation’s enemies. I have always been dedicated to truth and integrity. Every day the halls of Congress are filled with lobbyists challenging the honesty of our representatives, but my integrity has been challenged in the past, and I am confident that I will have no more difficulty saying ‘no thank you’ to lobbyists than I had with the Russians, Muslim Brotherhood and ISI. My name is Melissa Toomim, and Toomim means integrity." Produced by No One Else Media nooneelsemedia.com