President Trump reacts to bombshell recording of Program Manager at CIA describing how higher-ups at Langley withheld information from him.
“It’s shocking to see how stupid somebody can be. If this guy’s for real, you want to get rid of him. C.I.A. Central Intelligence Agency…This is not an intelligent guy, to be openly talking to a woman that walks up and starts asking him questions and talking that way. So he may be bragging or showing off to some young lady, I have no idea the conditions under which he spoke. But I’d get rid of him real fast. If he’s for real, get rid of him.”
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CIA Press Secretary Gives Statement to O’Keefe About Program Manager Caught On Tape
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“White supremacy … is the single most dangerous terrorist threat in our homeland. And I’m not just saying this because I’m at a Black HBCU. I say this wherever I go.”
President Joe Biden commencement address at Howard University.
Not long ago the Smithsonian Institution made some claims about certain human traits that anyone can choose to have, but was presumed to be white and therefore bad. Some of those traits included the use of logic, being on time, politeness, and marriage. Not bad traits at all, we think.
To ascribe characteristics to people on the basis solely of white skin color is truly racist because there can be vast differences among Caucasians. We should judge others by their behavior. So, we have the irony of those complaining about racism being the biggest racists of all.
There is an old observation once recorded on a T-shirt that went something like this: I want my mechanic to be German, my chef to be French, my policeman to be English, my lover to be Italian, my doctor to be Jewish, all organized by the Swiss. There are variations of this you likely have seen.
It implies some ethnic groups have discernable characteristics but all of the above could be “white.”
We wrote an article not long ago called “Systemic Racism Is Bogus” and our survey of reader activity shows it was the most-read piece in the history of this publication.
Because this seems to be both a hot and delicate subject, we thought we would add a bit more depth to what will likely be an ongoing dialogue.
In the past article, we mentioned that many things in life can make for differences in outcomes and that different outcomes cannot be narrowed to one thing like skin pigmentation.
Income differences are a good proxy for different outcomes, although some may object. Whatever you might think, more income usually means more opportunities for education, healthcare, recreation, life experiences like travel, and resources for raising children. In short, a better life. A happy life may be something different. Resources can help with happiness but there is no guarantee. And even with tragedy, more resources make the trauma easier to survive.
Of course, it may be that the cart is being placed before the horse. There likely are habits and attitudes that predate the achievement of wealth. For proof, we all know about lottery winners and others who receive a monetary windfall and soon are bankrupt and miserable. And we all know rich people who are not very bright and can be truly awful, often trust fund babies or the spoiled offspring of some dynamic entrepreneur. However, those who earn their wealth, usually work very hard, are tenacious, and are intelligent.
Because blacks in our society do not do as well as white people, the left and the Democrat Party believe it is the fault of white people. Strangely, this has become more intense after the nation elected our first “black President”, even though he was of mixed race.
At one time, in one area of the country, white people and their government held down black people, but Jim Crow as a policy has been gone for about 60 years. Today’s racists act as if it never ended and that things have gotten worse. Many are now actively hostile and hateful of white people and wish to confiscate their wealth. They seek collective guilt for the actions of some white people, many years ago.
Now we have a new treasury study that actively promotes the idea of taxing stocks heavily because stock ownership is largely a white thing. The redistribution of wealth from those who earned it to those who have not motivates Democrats. The production of wealth for everyone seems lost to them.
The idea of reparations or use of the tax code to racially distribute money is spreading, and even being implemented in some California jurisdictions. It is Marxism with a twist. Redistribute wealth for racial reasons, not class reasons. Let’s call it anti-white communism.
Blaming white people for everything now seems in vogue. The ever-trendy communist actress Jane Fonda recently declared that global warming is caused by white men, even while China puts more C02 in the air than all the industrial countries of Europe and North America combined. She says white men should be jailed for their “crimes.” Besides being a traitor, that woman has never been very bright. But, she has the collective guilt thing going very well.
She represents a growing and dangerous social trend. While whites, in general, are being pilloried, white men in particular seem to catch the most venom. That is truly perverted since they invented most of the things that make life prosperous and comfortable today. Fonda represents the fusion of radical feminism, cultural Marxism, environmentalism, and racism.
It is worth mentioning again that whites are only in the middle of the income spectrum with Asians at the top of the income heap. If whites have rigged the system, why did they rig it so they come out average?
In addition, we showed that where you live, how much education you have, whether you are married, and how old you are, make more of a difference than race.
But decisions about where you live, attitudes towards education, and intangibles like grit, courage, and determination, are formed largely in the family unit.
As to the latter, we just read The Two-parent Privilege: How Americans Stopped Getting Married And Started Falling Behind. It is written by an MIT economist named Melissa Kearney and is published by the University of Chicago Press.
The book is fairly short, less than 200 pages, but it includes references to a lot of studies on the problem of falling marriage rates and the tremendous growth of one-parent families.
Early on she states she has studied the problem as an economist for a quarter of a century and she has come to a firm conclusion:
“I can say with the utmost confidence that the decline in marriage and the corresponding rise in the share of children being raised in one-parent homes has contributed to the economic insecurity of American families, has widened the gap in opportunities and outcomes for children from different backgrounds, and today poses economic and social challenges that we cannot afford to ignore-but may not be able to reverse.”
The rest of the book just goes about to support that statement. And for the most part, she supports her argument well.
She finds that two-parent families, of biological parents, have the best results for children. She uses metrics like their future marriage success, educational achievement, disciplinary records, incarceration, wealth accumulation, and other metrics.
Divorced couples do well too, but step-parents, statistically speaking, do not do as well as biological parents.
Parents who cohabitate, a relationship that was popular at one time, do not come out very well. Despite all the talk about “we don’t need a piece of paper”, the fact is cohabitating relationships are much more unstable than marriage.
The “worst” family structure, is a single female-headed household. Single male-headed households do somewhat better than female, but still considerably worse than two-parent households.
In this sense, she sounds like a conservative, in that she finds the family unit critical to the outcomes of children and the future of society.
However, she sounds like a liberal in other passages, urging more government programs. This was odd since there is a large section on government programs and they show they are a poor substitute for a two-parent family. Head Start and other government programs seem to lose their effect in just a few years.
She also sounds like a conservative in that she shows the single female household is especially poor at raising males, and that the presence of a father is very beneficial to children of either sex and to the support of the mother.
Gee, I remember something in the 1970s about “a woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle.” Yet she makes no comments on feminism.
You don’t suppose feminism has had any influence on marriage patterns, do you? Maybe if you constantly degrade men as “toxic” and rage against “patriarchy”, it might influence some attitudes.
Here it really gets strange. All that feminism in college has trickled down to the lower classes, but highly educated people marry and stay married at the highest rate. It is almost as if the college-educated simply repeated the feminist answers without conviction to pass the test, but people at the lower economic rung have taken it seriously.
One of the big problems she describes is the lack of marriageable males among the poorest. Women often conceive a child with a man that they determine is not fit to be a husband or father. That decision alone is puzzling. But where do the good men come from to become marriageable partners?
Some don’t make enough money, some are in prison, and some just don’t live up to “expectations.” She does suggest though that men are shaped often by their fathers and by male role models. Do we need a university-funded study to know that?
In other places, she sounds positively Trumpian, suggesting that exporting all the manufacturing jobs to China has left the less educated men in this country unable to support a household. This is true no doubt, but she does not speak much about education reform and technical or trade schools.
Then she sounds like a liberal when she opines that government programs have not encouraged single-parent households.
Here she seems to differ from Thomas Sowell. Sowell notes that black families were fractured by slavery and that marriage patterns were disrupted. But after slavery, and even during Jim Crow in the South, blacks tended to marry at higher rates than whites. That was true until the early 1960s, when “Great Society” programs kicked in and reduced the incentive to marry. Indeed, benefits can be lost in some cases if the woman marries.
Sowell also shows that similar payment systems in England gave rise to a white underclass that mirrors many of the dysfunctional characteristics of black families in America. Dependency on the government is color blind. It is no surprise unmarried females are the backbone of the Democrat Party.
Maybe this proves whites are indeed at fault after all…specifically liberal and progressive whites that run the Democrat Party. They designed and run the programs that breed dependency and they run the tax laws and regulations that stifle economic growth and job opportunity.
TAKE ACTION
The Prickly Pear’s TAKE ACTION focus this year is to help achieve a winning 2024 national and state November 5th election with the removal of the Biden/Obama leftist executive branch disaster, win one U.S. Senate seat, maintain and win strong majorities in all Arizona state offices on the ballot and to insure that unrestricted abortion is not constitutionally embedded in our laws and culture.
Please click the TAKE ACTION link to learn to do’s and don’ts for voting in 2024. Our state and national elections are at great risk from the very aggressive and radical leftist Democrat operatives with documented rigging, mail-in voter fraud and illegals voting across the country (yes, with illegals voting across the country) in the last several election cycles.
Read Part 1 and Part 2 of The Prickly Pear essays entitled How NOT to Vote in the November 5, 2024 Election in Arizona to be well informed of the above issues and to vote in a way to ensure the most likely chance your vote will be counted and counted as you intend.
Please click the following link to learn more.
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“White supremacy … is the single most dangerous terrorist threat in our homeland. And I’m not just saying this because I’m at a Black HBCU. I say this wherever I go.”
President Joe Biden commencement address at Howard University.
Not long ago the Smithsonian Institution made some claims about certain human traits that anyone can choose to have, but was presumed to be white and therefore bad. Some of those traits included the use of logic, being on time, politeness, and marriage. Not bad traits at all, we think.
To ascribe characteristics to people on the basis solely of white skin color is truly racist because there can be vast differences among Caucasians. We should judge others by their behavior. So, we have the irony of those complaining about racism being the biggest racists of all.
There is an old observation once recorded on a T-shirt that went something like this: I want my mechanic to be German, my chef to be French, my policeman to be English, my lover to be Italian, my doctor to be Jewish, all organized by the Swiss. There are variations of this you likely have seen.
It implies some ethnic groups have discernable characteristics but all of the above could be “white.”
We wrote an article not long ago called “Systemic Racism Is Bogus” and our survey of reader activity shows it was the most-read piece in the history of this publication.
Because this seems to be both a hot and delicate subject, we thought we would add a bit more depth to what will likely be an ongoing dialogue.
In the past article, we mentioned that many things in life can make for differences in outcomes and that different outcomes cannot be narrowed to one thing like skin pigmentation.
Income differences are a good proxy for different outcomes, although some may object. Whatever you might think, more income usually means more opportunities for education, healthcare, recreation, life experiences like travel, and resources for raising children. In short, a better life. A happy life may be something different. Resources can help with happiness but there is no guarantee. And even with tragedy, more resources make the trauma easier to survive.
Of course, it may be that the cart is being placed before the horse. There likely are habits and attitudes that predate the achievement of wealth. For proof, we all know about lottery winners and others who receive a monetary windfall and soon are bankrupt and miserable. And we all know rich people who are not very bright and can be truly awful, often trust fund babies or the spoiled offspring of some dynamic entrepreneur. However, those who earn their wealth, usually work very hard, are tenacious, and are intelligent.
Because blacks in our society do not do as well as white people, the left and the Democrat Party believe it is the fault of white people. Strangely, this has become more intense after the nation elected our first “black President”, even though he was of mixed race.
At one time, in one area of the country, white people and their government held down black people, but Jim Crow as a policy has been gone for about 60 years. Today’s racists act as if it never ended and that things have gotten worse. Many are now actively hostile and hateful of white people and wish to confiscate their wealth. They seek collective guilt for the actions of some white people, many years ago.
Now we have a new treasury study that actively promotes the idea of taxing stocks heavily because stock ownership is largely a white thing. The redistribution of wealth from those who earned it to those who have not motivates Democrats. The production of wealth for everyone seems lost to them.
The idea of reparations or use of the tax code to racially distribute money is spreading, and even being implemented in some California jurisdictions. It is Marxism with a twist. Redistribute wealth for racial reasons, not class reasons. Let’s call it anti-white communism.
Blaming white people for everything now seems in vogue. The ever-trendy communist actress Jane Fonda recently declared that global warming is caused by white men, even while China puts more C02 in the air than all the industrial countries of Europe and North America combined. She says white men should be jailed for their “crimes.” Besides being a traitor, that woman has never been very bright. But, she has the collective guilt thing going very well.
She represents a growing and dangerous social trend. While whites, in general, are being pilloried, white men in particular seem to catch the most venom. That is truly perverted since they invented most of the things that make life prosperous and comfortable today. Fonda represents the fusion of radical feminism, cultural Marxism, environmentalism, and racism.
It is worth mentioning again that whites are only in the middle of the income spectrum with Asians at the top of the income heap. If whites have rigged the system, why did they rig it so they come out average?
In addition, we showed that where you live, how much education you have, whether you are married, and how old you are, make more of a difference than race.
But decisions about where you live, attitudes towards education, and intangibles like grit, courage, and determination, are formed largely in the family unit.
As to the latter, we just read The Two-parent Privilege: How Americans Stopped Getting Married And Started Falling Behind. It is written by an MIT economist named Melissa Kearney and is published by the University of Chicago Press.
The book is fairly short, less than 200 pages, but it includes references to a lot of studies on the problem of falling marriage rates and the tremendous growth of one-parent families.
Early on she states she has studied the problem as an economist for a quarter of a century and she has come to a firm conclusion:
“I can say with the utmost confidence that the decline in marriage and the corresponding rise in the share of children being raised in one-parent homes has contributed to the economic insecurity of American families, has widened the gap in opportunities and outcomes for children from different backgrounds, and today poses economic and social challenges that we cannot afford to ignore-but may not be able to reverse.”
The rest of the book just goes about to support that statement. And for the most part, she supports her argument well.
She finds that two-parent families, of biological parents, have the best results for children. She uses metrics like their future marriage success, educational achievement, disciplinary records, incarceration, wealth accumulation, and other metrics.
Divorced couples do well too, but step-parents, statistically speaking, do not do as well as biological parents.
Parents who cohabitate, a relationship that was popular at one time, do not come out very well. Despite all the talk about “we don’t need a piece of paper”, the fact is cohabitating relationships are much more unstable than marriage.
The “worst” family structure, is a single female-headed household. Single male-headed households do somewhat better than female, but still considerably worse than two-parent households.
In this sense, she sounds like a conservative, in that she finds the family unit critical to the outcomes of children and the future of society.
However, she sounds like a liberal in other passages, urging more government programs. This was odd since there is a large section on government programs and they show they are a poor substitute for a two-parent family. Head Start and other government programs seem to lose their effect in just a few years.
She also sounds like a conservative in that she shows the single female household is especially poor at raising males, and that the presence of a father is very beneficial to children of either sex and to the support of the mother.
Gee, I remember something in the 1970s about “a woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle.” Yet she makes no comments on feminism.
You don’t suppose feminism has had any influence on marriage patterns, do you? Maybe if you constantly degrade men as “toxic” and rage against “patriarchy”, it might influence some attitudes.
Here it really gets strange. All that feminism in college has trickled down to the lower classes, but highly educated people marry and stay married at the highest rate. It is almost as if the college-educated simply repeated the feminist answers without conviction to pass the test, but people at the lower economic rung have taken it seriously.
One of the big problems she describes is the lack of marriageable males among the poorest. Women often conceive a child with a man that they determine is not fit to be a husband or father. That decision alone is puzzling. But where do the good men come from to become marriageable partners?
Some don’t make enough money, some are in prison, and some just don’t live up to “expectations.” She does suggest though that men are shaped often by their fathers and by male role models. Do we need a university-funded study to know that?
In other places, she sounds positively Trumpian, suggesting that exporting all the manufacturing jobs to China has left the less educated men in this country unable to support a household. This is true no doubt, but she does not speak much about education reform and technical or trade schools.
Then she sounds like a liberal when she opines that government programs have not encouraged single-parent households.
Here she seems to differ from Thomas Sowell. Sowell notes that black families were fractured by slavery and that marriage patterns were disrupted. But after slavery, and even during Jim Crow in the South, blacks tended to marry at higher rates than whites. That was true until the early 1960s, when “Great Society” programs kicked in and reduced the incentive to marry. Indeed, benefits can be lost in some cases if the woman marries.
Sowell also shows that similar payment systems in England gave rise to a white underclass that mirrors many of the dysfunctional characteristics of black families in America. Dependency on the government is color blind. It is no surprise unmarried females are the backbone of the Democrat Party.
Maybe this proves whites are indeed at fault after all…specifically liberal and progressive whites that run the Democrat Party. They designed and run the programs that breed dependency and they run the tax laws and regulations that stifle economic growth and job opportunity.
TAKE ACTION
The Prickly Pear’s TAKE ACTION focus this year is to help achieve a winning 2024 national and state November 5th election with the removal of the Biden/Obama leftist executive branch disaster, win one U.S. Senate seat, maintain and win strong majorities in all Arizona state offices on the ballot and to insure that unrestricted abortion is not constitutionally embedded in our laws and culture.
Please click the TAKE ACTION link to learn to do’s and don’ts for voting in 2024. Our state and national elections are at great risk from the very aggressive and radical leftist Democrat operatives with documented rigging, mail-in voter fraud and illegals voting across the country (yes, with illegals voting across the country) in the last several election cycles.
Read Part 1 and Part 2 of The Prickly Pear essays entitled How NOT to Vote in the November 5, 2024 Election in Arizona to be well informed of the above issues and to vote in a way to ensure the most likely chance your vote will be counted and counted as you intend.
Please click the following link to learn more.
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Rep. Dawn Keefer and the Pennsylvania State Freedom Caucus are leading a nationally watched lawsuit against Bidenbucks.
Pennsylvania State Rep. Dawn Keefer has become the go-to legislator on election law over her four terms in office. The York County Republican with more than 20 years of public- and private-sector experience brings a passion to election integrity issues that’s unfortunately all too rare in politics.
“I have personally dug into this issue. I have colleagues come up to me all the time and ask me about election laws,” Keefer said in an interview this week. “I know how it should be done, and how it is actually being done.”
“I’m just trying to get [officials] to follow the laws in the first place.”
So it should come as no surprise that Keefer, who serves as chairwoman of the Pennsylvania State Freedom Caucus, is leading the charge against President Joe Biden’s executive order turning federal agencies into a get-out-the-vote army for his re-election.
‘The Most Important Election Integrity Lawsuit’
Keefer and her 26 legislative colleagues have sued the Biden administration, Pennsylvania leftist Gov. Josh Shapiro, and several state officials in federal court. They seek an injunction on Biden’s fiat that commands all federal “departments and agencies” to “partner” with state, local, tribal, and territorial election officials on voter registration and other GOTV initiatives.
Critics of the intrusion of federal powers call it “Bidenbucks,” a nod to Zuckerbucks, the piles of private donations that Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg dropped on local election offices. Biden claims his order is all about promoting the “exercise of the right to vote” and eliminating “discrimination and other barriers to voting.” Such lofty-sounding goals get lost in the implementation of the plan, created and apparently assisted by leftist groups selected by the White House to target traditionally Democrat voters.
Keefer and the Freedom Caucus argue that’s not the business of the federal government. They assert the constitutional rights of states under the Elections and Electors clauses to operate elections without federal meddling. “[A]ll agency action in conformity with [EO] 14019 is without congressional delegation or funding, and conducted merely by executive fiat,” the lawsuit asserts.
Stewart Whitson, the legal director at the Foundation for Government Accountability, has called the federal case “the most important election integrity lawsuit in the country.”
“The Pennsylvania Freedom Caucus is leading a critical battle against the Biden administration’s ongoing effort to turn the federal bureaucracy into a get-out-the-vote machine for the Left,” Whitson told The Federalist. “Their lawsuit should serve as a model for legislators around the country who recognize the serious threat Bidenbucks poses to the integrity of their state elections,”
But the legal battle has hit an expected snag.
A Question of Standing
Last month, a federal judge dismissed the lawsuit brought by the lawmakers, at the request of the state and the Biden administration. Middle Pennsylvania District Court Judge Jennifer P. Wilson, a Donald Trump appointee, granted the motions to dismiss because of the “Plaintiffs’ lack of standing to raise the claims at issue.” Wilson cited rulings from the U.S. Supreme Court and the U.S. 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals that found “individual legislators did not have standing to bring a challenge to an action that allegedly injured the legislature as a whole.”
“…Plaintiffs have alleged only an institutional injury resulting from ‘a general loss of legislative power,’” the judge wrote. “A vague, generalized allegation that elections, generally, will be undermined, is not the type of case or controversy that this court may rule on under Article III.”
But there’s nothing vague or generalized about the effects of Biden’s voter registration executive order that serves as a federal government-funded GOTV campaign for Democrats.
Keefer and the caucus are taking their case to the U.S. Supreme Court. Their attorney, Erick Kaardal, tells The Federalist the filing with the high court is expected any day. He said his clients want the high court to rule on the standing questions because the law is unsettled. Should the Supreme Court decide the standing claim in the Freedom Caucus’ favor, the case would go back to the lower court for a ruling on the merits.
“Our intention is to do every last thing we can to drive this case forward and get the courts to weigh in on this issue,” Keefer said.
Seeds of ‘Chaos and Confusion’
The conservative lawmaker was elected to serve the Keystone State’s 92nd Legislative District. She’s been fighting for election integrity ever since.
In Pennsylvania, that’s no small battle. Lawmakers are still dealing with the messes made by Democrat-appointed secretaries of the Commonwealth, including a flurry of guidance statements to local elections officials in the days preceding the controversial 2020 election.
“That was sowing chaos and confusion,” Keefer recalled of the unprecedented time.
As a powerful swing state, Pennsylvania found itself in the middle of myriad election integrity challenges. The problems persist.
Lawmakers in 2021 held several hearings on election laws to get a handle on the overwhelming number of codes and directives. Keefer said some of the laws conflict, including the language about what constitutes the size of a precinct. In one section, it’s 1,200 voters. In another it’s 800.
But there are counties with thousands in a precinct, Keefer said. A review found 62 counties exceeded a state recommendation on precinct sizes. Caps are supposed to prevent long lines on election day.
Then there are the legal challenges to Pennsylvania’s Act 77, a law authorizing no-excuse mass mail-in balloting that Keefer said “started out well-intentioned but quickly went off the rails.” In August 2022, the left-led Pennsylvania Supreme Court upheld the law, overturning a lower court’s decision that found Act 77 unconstitutional. The commonwealth’s constitution, after all, does require voters to cast their ballots at their polling place unless they have an acceptable reason not to.
Keefer wants Pennsylvania to join a growing list of states to leave the Electronic Registration Information (ERIC), founded by leftist activist David Becker. A report from the Public Interest Legal Foundation exposed ERIC’s zeal to target for voter registration tens of thousands of ineligible individuals — including the deceased — as “Eligible but Unregistered” in Virginia. Such election integrity concerns have given lawmakers like Keefer understandable pause.
The root of the problem, Keefer says, is that the executive branch and its vast bureaucracies have usurped the legislature and the law. Too many times, she acknowledges, lawmakers have abdicated their authority to bureaucrats to avoid responsibility. That’s why Keefer has been a vocal proponent and primary sponsor of the Regulatory Review Act to reign in out-of-control regulators.
The legislator says there is much to be concerned about on the election integrity front. She said too many good reforms have been stymied.
“We’ve done very little to give the voters confidence, in my opinion,” Keefer said.
As to the lawsuit against Bidenbucks, Keefer said it’s “monumental” in its drive to answer the question or lawmaker standing.
“It’s a critical thing for the courts to answer before this election so that we know there is actual due process,” she said. “As an elected official, we have those constitutionally appropriated rights … This not only impacts Pennsylvania, it impacts all other states.”
The Prickly Pear’s TAKE ACTION focus this year is to help achieve a winning 2024 national and state November 5th election with the removal of the Biden/Obama leftist executive branch disaster, win one U.S. Senate seat, maintain and win strong majorities in all Arizona state offices on the ballot and to insure that unrestricted abortion is not constitutionally embedded in our laws and culture.
Please click the TAKE ACTION link to learn to do’s and don’ts for voting in 2024. Our state and national elections are at great risk from the very aggressive and radical leftist Democrat operatives with documented rigging, mail-in voter fraud and illegals voting across the country (yes, with illegals voting across the country) in the last several election cycles.
Read Part 1 and Part 2 of The Prickly Pear essays entitled How NOT to Vote in the November 5, 2024 Election in Arizona to be well informed of the above issues and to vote in a way to ensure the most likely chance your vote will be counted and counted as you intend.
Please click the following link to learn more.
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In a leaked audio recording posted on social media, New Mexico Democrat Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham can be heard expressing deep frustration with Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and threatening to send a letter accusing his department of failing to work with her on border security.
“For the love of god, put [Border Patrol agents] at the border in Sunland Park where I don’t have a single Border Patrol agent — not one. And people pour over. And so I’m cranky with the Secretary,” Grisham is heard saying in the audio, which was first posted by an anonymous account on X.
The conversation appeared to largely revolve around federal government seizures of licensed medical and recreational cannabis at Border Patrol checkpoints in New Mexico.
However, it’s not immediately clear who the governor was speaking with. A spokesman for her office confirmed to the Daily Caller News Foundation that the audio was authentic, but declined to identify who the other individual was, only saying the person was a “high level admin official.”
Her office said the conversation took place sometime this week.
WASHINGTON, DC – APRIL 18: U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas is sworn in for a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs committee hearing on the department’s budget request on Capitol Hill on April 18, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
Later on in the audio, the governor can be heard threatening to write a letter accusing Mayorkas of failing to work with her office on the immigration crisis.
“But the press also knows that Border Patrol is taking a hard stance, and the only way is either we have to adjust it or I have to send you a letter saying ‘you’re persecuting the state, you are not using your discretion, you’re not working with me on immigration,’” Grisham said to the official. (RELATED: ‘F*ck That P*to’: Rank-And-File DHS Officials Applaud Impeachment Of Secretary Mayorkas)
“And I don’t want to send out a letter, but I’m, I’m boxed in hard,” she continued.
In a statement to the DCNF, Grisham’s office noted that the conversation was intended to be private.
“This unauthorized and edited recording of the governor’s private phone call reflects what she has already said publicly — that she is frustrated by federal seizures of licensed cannabis products in New Mexico, particularly those from small producers. She has expressed the same concerns in phone calls with Secretary Mayorkas,” said Michael Coleman, communications director for Grisham.
News of the audio leak comes as Mayorkas faces immense criticism of his handling of the southern border crisis.
The Republican-controlled House voted to impeach him in February, making him the first cabinet secretary to be impeached since the 19th century. However, the Democrat-controlled Senate dismissed those impeachment charges earlier this month.
The Department of Homeland Security didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.
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Good news for the Jew-hating, Soros-funded, Hamas supporters wreaking havoc on the campuses of prestigious universities all over our country: Biden’s planning to bring in the real thing: actual Jew-hating, Christian-hating, America-hating, Hamas-supporting “refugees” from…wait for it…Gaza!
You know, the terrorist-prone “Palestinians” no Arab country wants within their borders because they’ve proven so dangerous—those “refugees.”
As CBS reports: “White House considers welcoming some Palestinians from Gaza as refugees.” Nice trick to say “some,” as if they mean maybe five or six…
Leave it to Obama, I mean Biden—OK, I was right the first time—to fan the flames of antisemitism while endangering all Americans by directly importing would-be terrorists and their supporters.
Gosh, what could possibly go wrong?
Get ready to pay for their housing, healthcare, “resettlement benefits”, etc., because that’s O’Biden’s plan as well, courtesy of Cloward and Piven—Obama’s mentors.
And about these potential refugees—before we ask why they’d want to come to the “Great Satan” in the first place, it might interest people to learn what investigative journalist Daniel Greenfield revealed in an article entitled: “There Are No Innocent Civilians in Gaza”. Well, I’m sure there are some, but as we’ll see from the statistics below, they make up a tiny percentage.
In fact, hundreds of Gazan civilians gleefully participated with Hamas in the raping, torturing, burning alive, beheading and dismembering of Israeli civilians on October 7th. And many took part in the kidnappings as well.
Here are some statistics Greenfield quotes in his article:
98% of the Arab Muslim settlers in the West Bank hate America as do 96.8% of those in Gaza. That’s still better than the UK which is hated by 100% of Arab Muslim colonists in the West Bank and Gaza. They actually hate America and the UK more than Israel which is only at 97.3%.
But don’t feel too bad, Americans, Israelis and Brits, because they hate everyone.
Not a single country, and that includes Iran, gets even a 5% ‘very positive’ rating….
The ‘Palestinians’ have their own dedicated UN agency (UNRWA) and have billions of dollars lavished on them. Their needs are taken care of by the people they hate, America, Israel, Egypt and the UAE, not to mention the UN and the Red Cross, whom they repay by hating them.
And from a JNS article by Akiva van Koningsveld: “Three in four Palestinians support Hamas’ massacre”. And this: Ninety-eight percent of respondents said the Oct. 7 slaughter made them feel “prouder of their identity as Palestinians.”
The Biden administration’s latest scheme seems like a playbook for national suicide. From flinging open our borders to entertaining the WHO surrender to killing energy independence and now entertaining the idea of welcoming Palestinian “refugees” from Gaza? It’s like they’re throwing a party for America’s demise!
Let’s face the facts: the overwhelming majority of Arab Muslim settlers in the West Bank and Gaza harbor deep-seated animosity towards America. Yet here we are, discussing plans to roll out the welcome mat for them, courtesy of Uncle Sam, courtesy of taxpayers.
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With tent cities springing up across American campuses, filled with anti-Semitic activists who are openly supporting U.S.-designated foreign terrorist organizations, you could be forgiven for suspecting that this activism was not wholly organic. And you would be right.
Fingerprints of Further Funding
Take the “Gaza Solidarity Encampment” at Columbia University, where “students sleep in tents apparently ordered from Amazon and enjoy delivery pizza, coffee from Dunkin’, free sandwiches worth $12.50 from Pret a Manger, organic tortilla chips and $10 rotisserie chickens,” according to the New York Post. That is not the sort of event a campus student association organizes on its semesterly stipend — certainly not the sort of event a student association could sustain for now more than a week.
It’s not just Columbia University. These tent encampments — with an odd near-uniformity to their pup tents — have popped up at dozens of campuses all across the country. Dozens, scores, and hundreds of students have walked out of classes only weeks before finals, and they are glamping on the lawn instead of cramming in the library. Who is behind all this?
Paid Activists
The Post discovered that at least some encampments appear to be coordinated by paid activists. A left-wing activist coalition called the U.S. Campaign for Palestinian Rights (USCPR) sponsors a “Youth Organizing Fellowship” that offers college students an unheard-of $24-$28/hour wage to organize supposedly “local campaigns,” which are really backed by the training, mentorship, and ongoing support of this extremely well-funded activist network. In 2023, USCPR hired eight youth fellows, three of which have recently appeared at pro-Hamas encampments at UC Berkeley, Yale, and UT Austin, according to photographs sleuthed out by the Post.
Those who visit the USCPR website today will not find any youth fellows listed. The activist group “has just begun a new class of 2024 youth fellows,” they conveniently claim. Instead, they suggest repeatedly, “Check back for more information,” which innocently suggests to viewers they haven’t had time to update their website yet. However, according to their advertisement, applications for the position closed on April 3, just over two weeks before the recent mayhem on university campuses began.
On one hand, this could be mere coincidence. On the other hand, it could be that USCPR youth fellows (nothing said they had to only hire eight this year) have played a major role in organizing these campus encampments, at least the more influential ones. If that is the case, then USCPR deliberately timed its hiring so that its website would reveal no information about its youth fellows until after their encampment campaign — perhaps even after the semester. Given the presence of former USCPR youth fellows — who, presumably, are no longer on their payroll — at these protests, it seems likely that their current youth fellows would also be involved, simply due to running in the same circles of protest culture.
The USCPR Network
The USCPR coalition includes Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), Jewish Voices for Peace (JVP), CODEPINK, National Lawyers Guild (NLG), and the Westchester Peace Action Committee (WESPAC), among many other groups. In 2021, USCPR had a total income of $1.5 million total expenses of $1 million.
USCPR’s official name is Education for Just Peace in the Middle East. Under that name, USCPR received $355,000 from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund between 2018-2023, and it received $700,000 from the Soros family’s Open Society Foundation between 2018-2022 (the most recent years for which data is available).
In 2018, Tablet Magazine reported that USCPR was “the fiscal sponsor of a group called the Palestinian BDS [Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions] National Committee (BNC),” which in turn was linked to Palestinian terrorist groups. One of BNC’s members, listed on its website, is the Council of National and Islamic Forces in Palestine (PNIF). Five members of PNIF are U.S.-designated terrorist organizations: Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad the Palestine Liberation Front, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), and the Popular Front — General Command (PFLP-GC).
For those like me who have never run across the term before, fiscal sponsorship is where one nonprofit receives and administers donations intended for another organization that lacks nonprofit status. (The National Council of Nonprofits argues that the practice does have a place in helping new charities get started, but to the uninitiated outsider this arrangement also looks like a legal way to launder money.) Remember this term, because it will reoccur below.
Local chapters of USCPR affiliate SJP organized many of the Gaza encampments, including those at Columbia, Harvard, Yale, UC Berkeley, Ohio State, and Emory. Also involved in the Columbia occupation is JVP, another USCPR affiliate that co-organized an October 2023 protest in which demonstrators illegally entered a House office building and were arrested.
However, USCPR is not the only source of funding for organizations within its orbit organizing campus occupations. From 2017-2022, Soros’s Open Society contributed $775,000 directly to JVP, while the Rockefeller Brothers Fund gave the group $490,000 from 2019-2023.
Financial information on SJP is harder to obtain because the organization is not registered as a nonprofit. Another USCPR member, WESPAC, serves as SJP’s fiscal sponsor. It makes sense that SJP, which declared Hamas’s October 7 terror attack to be “a historic win for the Palestinian resistance,” would wish to conceal its funding streams. It also makes sense that SJP would not wish to register as a nonprofit organization, since that designation might be justly removed based on its activities and statements. Hence, it’s secretive funding mechanisms.
Headquartered in White Plains, N.Y. in Westchester County, the Westchester Peace Action Committee seems like a small, local nonprofit — at first. Nevertheless, WESPAC plays an inconspicuous but important role in supporting the national anti-Israel movement. It does this by allowing itself to be used as a fiscal sponsor to fringe extremist groups that might otherwise lose their tax-exempt status. According to the left-leaning Anti-Defamation League, WESPAC has fiscally sponsored 22 organizations since 2000, but 15 of those organizations were anti-Israel or pro-Palestine, with no more than one organization in any other category
Due to the lack of reporting requirements, it is unknown how much money WESPAC has funneled to SJP. What is known is that the organization’s revenue nearly quadrupled over four years, from $636,000 in 2021 to nearly $2.4 million in 2023. The sources of most of that revenue are not known.
Tip of the Iceberg
The organization of pro-Hamas campus encampments suggest they are being bankrolled by someone with deep pockets. The lavish supplies expended on the encampments suggest they are being bankrolled by someone with deep pockets. The high compensation paid activists receive to coordinate these encampments suggest they are being bankrolled by someone with deep pockets.
According to open-source data gathering, at least two left-wing grant-making organizations with deep pockets — the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and George Soros’s Open Society Foundations — are known to have made significant past donations to several of the groups involved in these protests.
However, the activist groups already mentioned are not the only members of the left-wing coalition organizing anti-Semitic direct action on and off university campuses, nor are they the only ones rolling in left-wing donations. Other radical groups have cooperated in staging anti-Semitic demonstrations:
If Not Now (INN) received $400,000 from Open Society in 2019-2021;
Adalah Justice Project received $550,000 from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund (passed through the left-wing Tides Center) in 2020-2023;
The Arab American Association of New York received $60,000 from Open Society in 2018;
Desis Rising Up and Moving received $30,000 from Open Society in 2020.
All these groups have participated in anti-Israel, pro-Hamas protests.
For those keeping track, the organizations sponsoring campus encampments and other anti-Semitic protests have received at least $3.36 million since 2016 from just two left-wing organizations. Meanwhile, the funding sources for other groups, such as the hyper-active SJP and Within Our Lifetime, are not known. This is based upon previously reported data that does not even account for funding these organizations may have received since Hamas’s October 7 terror attack — when the lawlessness began in earnest.
Campus protestors like to romanticize their misbehavior by comparing it to the protests of the late-1960s. But today’s protestors have access to more funding than their comrades of another era — perhaps “professors” would be a more efficient word — could have dreamed of. There are likely many deluded campuses today who deeply believe in their confused and perverted vision of the world.
Yet the amount of money involved suggests the campus occupation movement may not be as widespread a grassroots-uprising as the left-wing media is laboring to make it appear. Millions, even hundreds of thousands of dollars, can buy significant cooperation from one of the most notoriously penniless segments of society. This is perhaps especially true when the money enables agitators to utter college students’ two favorite words: “free food.”
The Left seems to believe rowdy, disruptive chanting can drive any policy change — so long as the rioters yell loud enough and long enough — and powerful progressive organizations have pulled out their pocketbooks to put that theory to the most rigorous test.
🚨Trump comments on the protests that occured across the nation and specifically at Columbia University last night:
“New York was under siege last night. The police came in exactly two hours. Everything was over. It was a beautiful thing to watch. New York’s finest!” pic.twitter.com/GHSiwgijBq
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Editors’ Note: This is a very important story. It would appear that when it comes to political dirty tricks, and the manipulation of the legal system, the Biden Administration has no peer. Not even Richard Nixon comes close to this.
This week in Florida, Judge Aileen Cannon unsealed a trove of new documents that Jack Smith fought to keep hidden. And you’ll soon find out why. Among the documents unsealed were extensive exhibits, motions, and other filings shedding light on the intricateweb of communication between the Biden White House and the National Archives and Records Administration in the lead-up to Trump’s indictment.
Investigative journalist Julie Kelly found something interesting in the documents that could change everything. The first things is testimony from an FBI agent who testified that the General Services Association (GSA) had been in possession of Trump’s boxes in Virginia before ordering Trump’s team to come get them.
“So an entire pallet full of boxes that had been held by GSA somewhere outside of DC is dumped at Mar-a-Lago,” Kelly notes. “Apparently these are the boxes that ended up containing papers with ‘classified markings.’”
“I will double check indictment but I don’t recall this event in the timeline,” she added.
So, it appears that the Biden administration may have been responsible for shipping classified information to Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home in Florida. This development is significant because Trump has previously blamed the GSA for packing the boxes that contained the classified documents, only to later accuse Trump of essentially stealing them and using that as pretext for sending the FBI to raid his Mar-a-Lago home in August 2022….
“It was a set-up from the get-go,” remarked Tom Fitton, the founder of Judicial Watch…..
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The Associated Press (AP)admitted Friday that this week’s indictment of 18 Arizona Republicans is “part of a campaign” to “deter” Republicans from raising challenges and concerns about the integrity of the 2024 election.
Democratic Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayesindicted 18 individuals, 11 of whom she claims acted illegally when they convened as alternate electors to certify the Arizona election in favor of Donald Trump while challenges to the tight election’s initial results were ongoing.
Under the headline “Charges against Trump’s 2020 ‘fake electors’ are expected to deter a repeat this year,” AP’s Nicholas Riccardi wrote the indictment of 18 people“could help shape the landscape of challenges to the 2024 election.”
“The indictment issued Wednesday is part of a campaign to deter a repeat of 2020, when Trump and his Republican allies falsely claimed he won swing states, filed dozens of lawsuits unsuccessfully challenging Democrat Joe Biden’s victory and tried to get Congress to let Trump stay in power,” Riccardi wrote.
The outlet cited Center for Election Innovation & Research founder David Becker — whose organization helped dump hundreds of millions of dollars in “Zuckbucks” into local election offices to influence election administration — toemphasize the “deterrent effect.”
“People are going to have to think twice about doing things to undermine the election,” Becker told the AP. “The deterrent effect is real.”
Riccardi also quoted Justin Levitt, a veteran of the left-wing Brennan Center who was tapped as a senior adviser for “democracy and voting rights” by the Biden White House in 2021, to cheer the “severity” of the lawfare being waged against Republicans.
“One of the things that fosters deterrence most is swiftness and severity,” Levitt reportedly said. “Though the wheels of justice are turning slow, they are turning, and we are seeing consequences for the lieutenants in this conspiracy.”
It’s not just the AP drawing the connection. A well-known election integrity advocate told The Federalist she was contacted by a New York Times reporter on Thursday and was asked whether the Arizona indictments and other “state elections cases impact your strategy/approach to the 2024 election?”
The “conspiracy” Mayes has accused 18 Republicans of, however, involves the same kind of “electoral disobedience” that Democrats have engaged in without consequence in the past.
After Election Day in 2016, many Democrats sought ways to stop electoral votes from being cast for Trump. The Atlantic — along with many other Democrats — urged electors whose states had voted for Trump to consider contradicting voters and casting their votes for Hillary Clinton instead, because “the electoral college was meant to stop men like Trump from being president.” The Washington Post published an op-ed by Lawrence Lessig that declared electors should “choose Clinton.”
Even more analogous to the alternate Trump electors in 2020 was the situation in Hawaii during the 1960 presidential election between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon, as noted by The Federalist’s Margot Cleveland.
The outcome of Hawaii’s election was debated for weeks, and even though the acting governor certified the election in Nixon’s favor in late November 1960, Democrats challenged the result. In December, both Democrat electors for Kennedy and Republican electors for Nixon cast separate votes for their respective candidates. Eventually, a judge determined Kennedy had won the election. As Cleveland noted, the judge “stressed the importance of the Democrat electors having met on Dec. 19, as prescribed by the Electoral Count Act, to cast their ballots in favor of Kennedy,” who ultimately ascended to the White House.
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In a recent tweet, a talented financial analyst and investor stated: “The “debt is unsustainable” narrative has been around for 40 years plus. What’s astonishing to me is how the people who push this narrative never ask themselves, “Why has it been sustainable for so long?”.
There is a widespread idea that the fiscal imbalances of a world reserve currency issuer would end in an Argentina-style bankruptcy. However, the manifestation of unsustainability did not even appear as drastic in Argentina itself. Hey, Argentina continues to exist, doesn’t it?
Excessive public debt is unsustainable when it becomes a burden on productive growth and leads the economy to constantly rising taxes, weaker productivity growth, and weaker real wage growth. However, the level of unsustainable accumulation of debt may continue to rise because the state itself imposes public debt on banks’ balance sheets and the state forces the financial sector to take all its debt as the “lowest risk asset.” However, law and regulation have merely imposed and forced this construct. Rising debt bloats the government’s size in the economy and erodes its growth and productivity potential.
Many diabetic and obese people continue to eat too much unhealthy food, thinking nothing has happened so far. That does not mean their eating habits are sustainable.
Those who ignore the accumulation of public debt tend to do so under the idea that nothing has happened yet. This is a reckless way of looking at the economy, a sort of “we have not killed ourselves yet; let us accelerate” mentality.
An ever-weaker private sector, weak real wages, declining productivity growth, and the currency’s diminishing purchasing power all indicate the unsustainability of debt levels. It becomes increasingly difficult for families and small businesses to make ends meet and pay for essential goods and services, while those who already have access to debt and the public sector smile in contentment. Why? Because the accumulation of public debt is printing money artificially.
When money is created in the private sector through the financial system, there is a process of wealth creation and productive money creation. The financial system creates money for projects that yield a genuine economic return. Some fail, others soar. That is the process of productive economic growth and progress. Only when the central bank manipulates interest rates, disguises the cost of risk, and increases the money supply to monetize unproductive deficit spending can it distort this process.
When the central bank wants to disguise the worsening solvency of fiscally imprudent governments, it does so by tampering with interest rates—making fiscally irresponsible governments’ borrowing cheaper—and artificially increasing the amount of currency in the system, monetizing public debt—a destructive process of money creation as opposed to the saving-investment function of banking.
When the fiscal position is unsustainable, the only way for the state to force the acceptance of its debt—newly created currency—is through coercion and repression.
A state’s debt is only an asset when the private sector values its solvency and uses it as a reserve. When the state imposes its insolvency on the economy, its bankruptcy manifests in the destruction of the purchasing power of the currency through inflation and the weakening of real wage purchasing capacity.
The state basically conducts a process of slow default on the economy through rising taxes and weakening the purchasing power of the currency, which leads to weaker growth and erosion of the middle class, the captive hostages of the currency issuer.
Of course, as the currency issuer, the state never acknowledges its imbalances and always blames inflation and weak growth on the private sector, exporters, other nations, and markets. Independent institutions must impose fiscal prudence to prevent a state from destroying the real economy. The state, through the monopoly of currency issuance and the imposition of law and regulation, will always pass on its imbalances to consumers and businesses, thinking it is for their own good.
The government deficit is not creating savings for the private economy. Savings in the real economy accept public debt as an asset when they perceive the currency issuer’s solvency to be reliable. When the government imposes it and disregards the functioning of the productive economy, positioning itself as the source of wealth, it undermines the very foundation it purports to protect: the standard of living for the average citizen.
Governments do not create reserves; their debt becomes a reserve only when the productive private sector economy within their political boundaries thrives and the public finances remain under control. The state does show its insolvency, like any issuer, in the price of the I.O.U. it distributes, i.e., in the purchasing power of the currency. Public debt is artificial currency creation because the state does not create anything; it only administers the money it collects from the same productive private sector it is choking via taxes and inflation.
The United States debt started to become unsustainable when the Federal Reserve stopped defending the currency and paying attention to monetary aggregates to implement policies designed to disguise the rising cost of indebtedness from unbridled deficit spending.
Artificial currency creation is never neutral. It disproportionately benefits the first recipient of new currency, the government, and massively hurts the last recipients, real wages and deposit savings. It is a massive transfer of wealth from the productive economy and savers to the bureaucratic administration.
More units of public debt mean weaker productive growth, higher taxes, and more inflation in the future. All three are manifestations of a slow burn default.
So, if the state can impose its fiscal imbalances on us, how do we know if the debt it issues is unsustainable? First, because of the units of GDP created, adding new units of public debt diminishes rapidly. Second, the erosion of the currency’s purchasing power persists and accelerates. Third, because productive investment and capital expenditure decline, employment may remain acceptable in the headlines, but real wages, productivity, and the ability of workers to make ends meet deteriorate rapidly.
Today’s narrative tries to tell us that nothing has happened when a lot has. The destruction of the middle class and the deterioration of the small and medium enterprise fabric in favor of a rising bureaucratic administration that consumes higher taxes but still generates more debt and deficits It does end badly. And all empires end the same way, with the assumption that nothing will happen. The currency’s acceptance as a reserve does come to an end. The persistent erosion of purchasing power and declining confidence in the legally imposed “lowest risk asset” are some of the red flags some are willing to ignore, maybe because they live off other people’s taxes or because they benefit from the destruction of the currency through asset inflation. Either way, it is profoundly anti-social and destructive, even if it is a slow detonation.
The fact that there are informed and intelligent investors who willingly ignore the red flags of weakening the middle class, declining purchasing power of the currency and deteriorating solvency and productivity shows why it is so dangerous to allow governments to maintain fiscal imprudence. The reason why government money creation is so dangerous is because the government is always happy to increase its power over citizens and blame them for the problems its policies create, presenting itself as the solution.
Can debt continue to rise? Of course. The gradual process of impoverishment and serfdom is relatively comfortable when the state can impose the use of the currency and force its debt into your pension by law and regulation. To think that it will last forever, and nothing will happen is not just reckless “accelerate, we have not crashed yet” mentality. It is ignoring the reality of money. Independent money, gold, and similar, solve this.
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The First Crusade, 15 August 1096 – 12 August 1099, was the first of a series of religious wars, or Crusades, initiated, supported and at times directed by the Latin Church in the medieval period. The objective was the recovery of the Holy Land from Islamic rule. — Wikipedia
We have been writing about the Middle East for decades. It appears we are now at a tipping point where Jews, Christians, Muslims and the state of Israel are under siege. What we are facing is a global war against those who do not follow the teachings of Mohammed.
On August 10th, 2022 The Daily Caller’sShelby Talcott reported,
Iranian operative Shahram Poursafi has been charged in an alleged plot to kill former National Security Adviser John Bolton, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Wednesday.
The DOJ noted in a press release that Poursafi was a member of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and an Iranian national. The 45-year-old is accused of attempting “to arrange the murder of” Bolton, “likely in retaliation for the January 2020 death of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps — Qods Force … commander Qasem Soleimani,” according to the department.
In March 10th, 2022 related Daily Caller article Michael Ginsberg reported,
The Biden administration has forged ahead in negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program despite reports that the country’s top leaders have ordered the assassinations of John Bolton and Mike Pompeo.
Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khameni considers former national security adviser Bolton and ex-Secretary of State Pompeo responsible for the assassination of Quds Force Commander Qasem Soleimani, the Washington Examiner first reported. As a result, he reportedly ordered Soleimani’s successor, Esmail Qaani, to avenge the dead general.
Both Pompeo and Bolton have had their Secret Service protections extended by Congress over the threats, despite their returns to private life. Agents in marked vehicles were seen by neighbors outside of Bolton’s suburban Maryland home in late January. Prosecutors reportedly have enough evidence to bring charges against conspirators, but no arrests have been made.
The Center for Security Policy (CFSP) believes Biden and Iran may be close to sealing new nuclear deal. On August 10th, 2022 CFSP’s Senior Editor Dalia Al-Aqidi wrote:
The escalation of global tensions as a result of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, China-Taiwan stand-off, the medical and economic crises, and the exchanges between the Israeli state and the militant Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement has overshadowed the Iran nuclear deal talks.
Is reviving the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action still on the table? Maybe it is no longer a breaking news story, but the Iranian regime and the US administration are definitely still trying to resurrect the 2015 agreement. On Thursday, a sudden call was made to all the international negotiating parties to resume the nuclear talks with Iran.
In fact, the indirect Vienna talks between Tehran and Washington had already begun, with a meeting between Iran’s top nuclear negotiator Ali Bagheri Kani and the EU’s European External Action Service Deputy Secretary-General Enrique Mora. The latter returned to his shuttling between Bagheri Kani and US special envoy to Iran Robert Malley.
In an op-ed published by the Financial Times late last month, EU foreign affairs chief Josep Borrell revealed that he had presented a new framework to relaunch the JCPOA.
It may indeed be the happy ending that the leaders of Iran and the US wish for if what the BBC published is proven true. It reported that an anonymous European official stated that Tehran’s demand for Washington to remove the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps from its official blacklist of “foreign terrorist organizations” had been dropped from the discussions and would instead be dealt with “in the future.” The source also revealed to the BBC that Washington would guarantee that no future US president could withdraw from the new deal.
However, the government in Tehran must realize that the US is a democratic country whose president is elected by its citizens. Therefore, no law obliges any future president not to cancel any agreement reached by a former leader.
The Iranians are clever enough to be well aware of this fact, but it does not matter what happens in the future, as long as it receives billions of dollars once the sanctions against this rogue state are lifted. As long as the Democrats are in power, nothing terrible will ever happen to them.
In the meantime, Tehran would be able to equip the IRGC to become the most significant force in the region, which would destabilize the already fragile security of some of Washington’s major allies.
During a meeting in Tehran on Saturday, IRGC head Maj. Gen. Hossein Salami told Ziad Nakhaleh, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad’s general-secretary, that his country was committed to supporting the movement until the end. Salami said that “all the anti-Zionist” capabilities “are on the scene in a united formation working to liberate Jerusalem and uphold the rights of the Palestinian people.”
It is time that the United States and its allies recognize the global red-green alliance threats and take proper action.
It is time for yet another Crusade to liberate the oppressed in the Middle Eastern dictatorships starting with Iran, free Europe of the Islamic scourge and stop the Islamization of America?
In 2024 many believe it is! Including 80% of Americans who stand with Israel.
Here it is! The full speech I gave at #CPACHungary that the establishment is losing its absolute mind about.
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Dr. John A. Gentry served as an intelligence analyst at the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Dr. Gentry is currently an adjunct professor at Georgetown University.
Dr. Gentry received his Ph.D. in political science from the George Washington University.
About John A. Gentry
Dr. John A. Gentry is an adjunct professor at Georgetown University, where teaches an undergraduate course on the U.S. intelligence community. He writes regularly on intelligence topics and security issues more generally.
He was for 12 years an intelligence analyst at the Central Intelligence Agency, where he mainly worked economic issues associated with the Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact countries. For two of those years, he was senior analyst on the staff of the National Intelligence Officer for Warning. He is a retired U.S. Army Reserve officer, with most assignments in special operations and intelligence arenas. He was mobilized in 1996 and spent much of 1996 as a civil affairs officer in Bosnia. Dr. Gentry formerly taught at the College of International Security Affairs, National Defense University, George Mason University, the National Intelligence University, and Columbia University. He is a member of the Editorial Committee of the International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence, a prominent academic journal that focuses on intelligence studies.
Dr. Gentry has an economics background and received a Ph.D. in political science from the George Washington University. His most recently published book is Neutering the CIA: Why US Intelligence Versus Trump Has Long-Term Consequences (Armin Lear Press, 2023). He co-authored (with Joseph S. Gordon) Strategic Warning Intelligence: History, Challenges, and Prospects (Georgetown University Press, 2019). And, he has published about 35 articles on intelligence topics. He can be reached at jag411@georgetown.edu.
About
Neutering the CIA is an insider look at how political bias at the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has undermined its effectiveness both domestically and internationally. The central case study is the impact of the bias on the interaction between the CIA and the Trump Administration, although the origins of the problem link to Robert Gates becoming head of CIA’s analysis directorate in 1982, and then later, director of the CIA.
Holman Jenkins, Jr. praised the book in The Wall Street Journal: “A new book from Georgetown University scholar and former CIA analyst John Gentry, Neutering the CIA, is worth your time. His academic detachment makes all the more eye-opening his chapter on how James Clapper and John Brennan used diversity as a screen to fill the intelligence community with partisan Obama allies. Only a psychiatrist, though, can explain the media’s silence on the biggest resulting disaster, the fake Russian intelligence supplied by the CIA and used by the FBI to justify its unorthodox actions in the Hillary Clinton email case, now widely understood to have inadvertently delivered Mr. Trump to the White House in 2016.” Beginning in 2016, former and currently serving US intelligence officers, mainly from the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), conducted a major political campaign featuring public commentary and leaks designed to thwart the presidential candidacy, and then the presidency, of Donald Trump.
This “politicization” of intelligence, which traditionally is defined as the injection of personal or organizational perspectives into intelligence products to serve personal, ideological, or organizational interests of intelligence officers, reflected a remarkable change from the once-strong CIA ethos of apolitical public service. This book describes the startling political activism of intelligence officers in recent years, identifies its causes, and evaluates its many negative consequences. Most importantly, the activists damaged the credibility of US intelligence in the eyes of Trump Administration officials and undoubtedly many future senior national leaders, thereby eroding the trust in intelligence that decision-makers must have if they are to use intelligence effectively. Although the overt activism subsided in 2021, the Biden administration has not addressed its causes.
The evident success of activists in helping to defeat Trump in 2020 surely has emboldened some intelligence officers, who remain poised to attack presidential candidates whose political views they dislike. This book also identifies actions needed to address this significant threat to American democracy.
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The release of 1st quarter 2024 Gross Domestic Product (GDP) on April 25th surprised virtually all forecasters. The first three months of 2024 were characterized by a notable deceleration in US economic growth, marking an almost two-year low. The same data release revealed that inflation, as measured by US GDP Personal Consumption Core Price Index (quarter-over-quarter), accelerated 3.7 percent, ahead of an expected 3.4 percent, disrupting a brief period characterized by robust demand and subdued price pressures. Those conditions previously fostered optimism for a so-called soft landing.
The initial estimate of GDP showed an annualized quarterly growth rate of 1.6 percent, falling short of all economists’ predictions (surveys anticipated 2.5 percent). This deceleration was predominantly attributed to a rapid decline of personal consumption, which increased at a slower-than-anticipated pace of 2.5 percent (versus estimates of 3.0 to 3.5 percent). Moreover, a widening trade deficit exerted the most significant downward pressure on US economic growth since 2022. These figures signal a significant loss of momentum after a surprisingly robust economic performance last year.
Business inventories weighed on growth for a second consecutive quarter, and private capital expenditure remained weak. However, upon excluding the impact of inventories, government spending, and trade, inflation-adjusted final sales to private domestic purchasers — an essential metric for gauging underlying demand — rose at a rate of 3.1 percent. The GDP report further indicated a substantial increase in spending on services, the most significant since the third quarter of 2021, driven primarily by expenditures on healthcare and financial services. But spending on goods declined for the first time in over twelve months, primarily constrained by reduced purchases of motor vehicles and gasoline.
Outbreaks of stagflation, characterized by simultaneously elevated inflation and decelerating economic growth, present a formidable challenge for policymakers. While a recession typically prompts central banks to implement interest rate cuts, stagflation has historically been associated, at least early on, with contractionary monetary policy measures — despite weakening growth trajectories. Recent financial market developments reflect an increasing recognition of this possibility, with options on Secured Overnight Financing Rate (SOFR) futures indicating a 21.4 percent probability of a Fed rate hike by December, marking its highest level since the Federal Reserve signaled the conclusion of its previous rate-hiking cycle. Of note, however, is that another feature of the outbreak of stagflationary conditions — rising unemployment — has not yet actualized. US labor markets are softening, though, and warrant continued monitoring.
Since the end of the pandemic, there have been periods of economic weakness evoking both the onset of a recession and the emergence of stagflation (“stagflation lite”). In April 2023, we forecast slowing US economic growth possibly leading to a recession by September 2024. Unlike most prognostications, which anticipated a recession by the end of 2023, our more patient position was based upon a number of factors, one of which was the acknowledgment that sizable fiscal stimulus measures could engineer higher GDP readings. (Another was our repeatedly vindicated view that pandemic-era policy distortions could persist for years.) At this juncture, it remains too early to determine whether the first quarter 2024 GDP reading is an isolated bout of weakness or the beginning of a contractionary trend. Presently, it should serve as a stark reminder of the fragility underlying much of the post-COVID economic growth, built as it has been atop the unsustainable pillars of fiscal and monetary stimuli.
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Editors’ Note: We are firm advocates of free speech, even disgusting and hateful speech. But what we are now seeing, goes into action. Intimidating other students, attacking other students, denying them an education they paid for, blocking highways, and occupying buildings, are not free speech. University authorities are derelict in their duty to maintain safety and public order, let alone breaking a contract to provide an education. Like the BLM riots of a few years ago, we see how the Left is allowed to “disrupt a public proceeding” with impunity, while J6 protestors (some of whom were in the wrong) are treated very harshly. We do not see a fair application of the law and we see outright cowardice by public safety officials. May the voters remember and it will be interesting to see how orderly the Democrat Convention will be this summer.
The pervasive and open antisemitism that has infected our academic institutions, such as Columbia University, with the chants of “Death to America”; rabid support forHamas, a designated terrorist organization; and gleeful approval of the Oct. 7 massacre of Israeli civilians makes me feel as if we are experiencing the 1930s all over again.
The fact that this is happening in the United States is shocking and disgusting. It is especially horrifying to me, given the stories I heard from my German grandmother about the rise of antisemitism that she saw during the 1930s, such as Kristallnacht in 1938.
Over the weekend, I received an email from a friend who asked me what could be done, if anything, about the college students engaged in this behavior. Is this, he asked, protected free speech under the First Amendment, or is there a legitimate way to protect America from those “who openly advocate its destruction?”
This was my answer.
First, it’s important to remember that individuals who are not citizens have limited rights in this country, a principle the courts have upheld on numerous occasions. For example, federal laws ban aliens from contributing money to, or making any expenditure on behalf of, any candidate in any federal, state, or local election, a clear restriction on First Amendment protections that doesn’t apply to citizens.
In 2011, in Bluman v. Federal Election Commission, an opinion affirmed by the U.S. Supreme Court, then-Court of Appeals Judge Brett Kavanaugh cited the Supreme Court’s “long held” view that the government can exclude aliens “from activities that are part of democratic self-government.”
That includes, for example, not only banning them from participation in our political and election process, but excluding them from “voting, serving as jurors, working as police or probation officers, or teaching at public schools.”
Under that logic, arguably any of those racist, antisemitic Hamas agitators at those universities and elsewhere who are aliens—whether they are here illegally or legally—do not have a First Amendment right that prevents them from being deported, particularly given their approval of mass murder by a terrorist organization in Israel.
Those here illegally should be immediately removed from the country.
Those aliens here legally should have their visas revoked and should also be immediately thrown out of the country. That’s well within the power of the federal government. Under 8 U.S.C. §1201, visas can be revoked “at any time” at the “discretion” of State Department officials.
Second, any of those hooligans who destroy or deface property, impede traffic, physically intimidate anyone, threaten police or Jews, or commit other crimes, and who are local, state, or federal employees, should be terminated from their jobs.
If they hold a security clearance, it should be revoked forthwith. Racist supporters of terrorism should not be working in government at any level, and certainly should not have a security clearance, since they are an obvious threat to our national security.
Third, many of those agitators cover their faces so they cannot be identified. The videos speak for themselves. In some instances, they can be seen intentionally and deliberately obstructing and blocking public roads and bridges, such as their recent blockade of the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco.
The Federalist reports that those actions are being undertaken to “identify and blockade major choke points in the economy, focusing on points of production and circulation with the aim of causing the most economic impact” in order to “disrupt and blockade economic logistical hubs and the flow of capital.”
Such behavior potentially violates 42 U.S.C. §1985, which creates a civil cause of action for anyone victimized by persons who “conspire or go in disguise on the highway or on the premises of another, for the purpose of depriving … any person or class of persons of the equal protection of the laws, or of equal privileges and immunities under the laws … whereby another is injured in his person or property, or deprived of having and exercising any right or privilege of a citizen of the United States.”
These are not victimless crimes. The victims of these terrorist supporters who are losing educational and economic opportunities—as well as being threatened, intimidated, or assaulted—have a cause of action against those arrested by law enforcement.
If so-called civil rights organizations like the ACLU weren’t denizens of the far Left these days, they would take up representation of these victims to go after the perpetrators.
Moreover, such lawless behavior is a criminal violation of 18 U.S.C. §241, which prohibits conspiring to “injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any person … in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution or laws of the United States” or to “go in disguise on the highway, or on the premises of another, with intent to prevent or hinder his free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege so secured.”
That is clearly going on here, and the FBI and the U.S. Department of Justice should open up investigations under Section 241 of those organizing and participating in these conspiratorial intimidation and blockade tactics.
Fourth, as my colleague Joel Griffith at The Heritage Foundation has pointed out, “Title VI of the Civil Rights Act protects Jews—just as every other race, color, national origin, and ethnicity—from discrimination at taxpayer-funded universities … When [antisemitic] activity breaches the bounds of free speech, universities must comply with their obligations under the Civil Rights Act.
“University-sponsored or enabled discrimination—including toleration of [antisemitic] behavior breaching the bounds of free speech—violates this Act.” That’s certainly what’s happening at universities across the country. (The Daily Signal is the news outlet of The Heritage Foundation.)
Fifth, Hamas has been designated as a terrorist organization by the U.S. State Department since 1997. Providing “material support” to a terrorist organization is a violation of federal criminal law, 18 U.S.C. §2339A.
Are those organizing and participating in these protests, economic blockades, and intimidation otherwise providing “material support” for Hamas? That should be part of any Section 241 investigation.
Finally, bloggers, reporters, and other members of the public should do everything they can to identify and publicize the names of the individuals involved in this reprehensible, despicable misbehavior, especially those arrested, so that we know who they are.
They should be fired from their jobs, not hired by anyone, nor issued professional licenses such as by state bar licensing authorities, or associated with in any way.
In other words, they should be shunned by society. If not, we will be repeating the mistakes of the 1930s that my grandmother told me about when society stood by in many countries and did nothing to protect their Jewish citizens and allowed the terrorists of that time to prevail.
The Prickly Pear’s TAKE ACTION focus this year is to help achieve a winning 2024 national and state November 5th election with the removal of the Biden/Obama leftist executive branch disaster, win one U.S. Senate seat, maintain and win strong majorities in all Arizona state offices on the ballot and to insure that unrestricted abortion is not constitutionally embedded in our laws and culture.
Please click the TAKE ACTION link to learn to do’s and don’ts for voting in 2024. Our state and national elections are at great risk from the very aggressive and radical leftist Democrat operatives with documented rigging, mail-in voter fraud and illegals voting across the country (yes, with illegals voting across the country) in the last several election cycles.
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So the continent that rid itself of its Jews is going to reward savage terrorists for the worst slaughter of Jews since the Holocaust and give them a terror state to finish the job Hitler started. Nazi bastards….
The Holocaust, while it was a German initiative, was carried out by every nation in Europe, save for the Danes. The New York Times reported the discovery of 42,500 Nazi ghettos and camps over 13 years of analysis. That number includes “killing centres,” forced labour camps, prisoner-of-war camps, brothels and “care” centres where pregnant women were forced to have abortions, the New York Times reported. 30,000 slave labour camps; 1,150 Jewish ghettos; 980 concentration camps; 1,000 prisoner-of-war camps; 500 brothels; and thousands of other camps for pregnant women and the elderly.
Europe took all the wrong lessons from World War II while ignoring the only lesson that’s really relevant, which is that you have to choose good and defend good and fight with the intention of defeating evil.
They’ve had a state – Gaza – since Israel pulled out in 2005. There hasn’t been so much as a Jewish toe in Gaza. And look what they did with it, look at the unimaginable evil they wrought. It’s not about a state. It’s about wiping the Jews off the map according to Islamic texts and teachings.
Germany is the power behind the EU, I expect them to put a stop to this devouring.
RIYADH — Several European member states are expected to recognize Palestinian statehood by the end of May, the EU’s foreign policy chief Josep Borrell says at the sidelines of a World Economic Forum special meeting in Riyadh.
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“Honesty is of God and dishonesty of the devil; the devil was a liar from the beginning.” — Joseph B. Wirthlin
“When you’re a liar, a person of low moral fortitude, really any explanation you need to be true can be true. Especially if you’re smart enough. You can figure out a way to justify anything.” — Samuel Witwer
“Half a truth is often a great lie.” — Benjamin Franklin
“By a lie, a man… annihilates his dignity as a man.” — Immanuel Kant, philosopher
“America last. America last. That’s all this is. America last, every single day.” – Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene
By now, most Americans have figured out that our new Speaker of the House of Representatives lied to us, and not just once.
In his two-hour interview with Sean Hannity after he was elected, Johnson told host Hannity that, “Someone asked me today in the media, ‘People are curious, what does Mike Johnson think about any issue under the sun?’ I said, ‘Well, go pick up a Bible off your shelf and read it. That’s my worldview.’”
Better take a look at Ecclesiastes 5:5 Mr. Speaker. You have broken every promise you vowed to keep. Yes, we can look in the Bible to know you and you seem cuddled up with the Stalinist demons of darkness.
What happened to Chip Roy (R-TX) and Byron Donalds (R-FL) working on plans for Continuing Resolutions cutting spending by eight percent and securing the border and protecting our military and veterans? That was your stated promise in the Sean Hannity interview.
You haven’t provided even one dime to protect the southern border from the swarms of people entering the country illegally.
But all three men want to open and change our US Constitution. Birds of a feather.
You, Mr. Speaker, and the Stalinist democrats, approved a nearly $100 billion foreign aid package that provides funding for Israel and Taiwan – but the bulk of the money is going to corrupt Ukraine – some $61 billion.
Promises, promises…all lies.
Tucker Carlson previously interviewed Bret Weinstein who had been to the Darien Gap at the request of Michael Yon. The Weinstein interviews and the latest interview with Michael Yon should be seen by every American.
Who is facilitating the invasion and destruction of our country? Our own government!
Obama’s “fundamental transformation of America” is taking place before our eyes.
Watch the 58 second trailer of this Tucker Carlson interview with Michael Yon.
Johnson’s Personal Life
Normally, I’d consider personal life off target, but similar to former VP Mike Pence, Speaker Johnson lauds the fact that he’s a Christian and carries his Bible out front. It seems apparent that both he and Pence carry a knife behind their backs.
Johnson claims Christianity as his faith, but he is 52 and has a 40-year-old “adopted” black son who has a lengthy criminal record, lives in Los Angeles and has fathered four children. Speaker Johnson and his wife took custody of Michael Tirrell James, but never formally adopted him. He is not included in their family pictures, by his own choice.
In 2022, the speaker revealed to media that he had installed “accountability software” between himself and his then 15-year-old biological son. The surveillance software is called Covenant Eyes and is on devices in order to abstain from internet porn and other unsavory websites. It is spyware. Covenant Eyes developed important relationships with Promise Keepers, Focus on the Family, churches and many other organizations. Their founder is Ron DeHaas, an elder in his Calvinist Presbyterian Church.
Mike Johnson and his biological son, who is now 17, receive weekly reports on sites they’ve been to on their phones and computers. One wonders if this includes his father’s political correspondence. And why would anyone use this unless there was a problem?
Promise Keepers has a radical charismatic connection and promotes strong overt ecumenicism of the movement. One variation of the charismatic movement is the Vineyard movement, which has strong links to the Kansas City Prophets — a controversial cult claiming visions and revelations from God. They believe that God is giving new revelation today and that the miraculous signs of the early church should be normative for today. These beliefs have led to much confusion and error.
Treason
Johnson must think surveillance is just fine if he’s doing it with his son and vice versa, as he was the tie breaker to pass the reauthorization of section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), without a requirement for warrants for surveillance on American citizens. This was a massive betrayal of the fourth amendment.
In a highly unusual outcome, the amendment from Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) to the reauthorization of the FISA Act tied at 212 — thereby failing. More than 80 Democrats joined with 128 Republicans in backing the measure, while 86 Republicans and 126 Democrats opposed it.
Face it! The betrayal is massive, and it’s not just the Stalinist Democrat Party; it is the majority of Trotskyite Republicans as well. Our own country comes last with the representatives in both houses of Congress. Gaetz got rid of McCarthy, and we ended up with someone equally deceptive.
There is $61 billion more for Ukraine in this bill, bringing the total with armaments to over $250 billion given to the corrupt nation of Ukraine. (Zelensky just purchased the former home of Prince Charles and Diana.) Israel will get $26.4 billion in aid and Taiwan will get $8 billion.
Johnson also buried $9 billion in aid to Gaza – meaning that money will be confiscated by Hamas.
Not a single penny went to secure our southern border.
Instead, Speaker Johnson actually endorsed the open border by making sure that another $4 billion is allocated for “migration and refugee assistance,” which is used by non-governmental organizations (NGOs) for the border invasion and migrant freebies.
The divvying up is this: $481 million in the Ukraine bill and $3.5 billion in the Israel bill.
Cindy Dyer is the U.S. Ambassador-at-Large to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons and appears to be highly qualified to lead that State Dept. office. But it’s like pulling teeth to get this woman to talk about the mass human trafficking at our compromised southern border.
Tara Lee Rodas, who worked with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Refugee Resettlement to place unaccompanied migrant children with sponsors said, “Whether intentional or not, it can be argued that the US Government has become the middleman in a large scale, multi-billion-dollar, child trafficking operation run by bad actors seeking to profit off the lives of children.”
Chinese military, dangerous criminals, terrorists, and Mexican cartels are making tons of money in child trafficking and drugs as they pour across our southern border.
Our new Speaker spoke to Hakeem Jeffries, and said he would pray about the bill and how many Republicans he could deliver. Apparently, Johnson believes the Lord told him to give billions of our tax dollars to Ukraine and Gaza and to ignore the invasion of our nation.
Democrats cheered this recent foreign aid bill and waved Ukrainian flags in the House.
Joe Biden lauded the Speaker and signed the bill.
Senator Schumer heaped praise on Johnson’s bi-partisan efforts.
Speaker Johnson has sided with the Stalinist Democrats who are decimating our country.
“Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson, has come under scrutiny following revelations that he received significant campaign contributions from a foreign lobby group, particularly known for its pro-foreign policy stance. According to analysis conducted by The Intercept based on Federal Election Commission records, this lobby group donated approximately $95,000 to Johnson’s campaign in November of last year.” Link
“In a shockingly short period of time, Speaker Johnson went from a MAGA hopeful to a Deep State stooge.” Scott Adams explains in layman terms how the CIA ‘captures’ our lawmakers right under our nose.
Betrayal
Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) was threatened with a $500 fine for posting evidence of Congressional treason with the betrayal of lawmakers waving Ukrainian flags in celebration of them passing a $95 billion foreign aid package for Ukraine and Israel.
Dinesh D’Souza reposted it on X after Massie was told by Johnson to take it down.
Johnson had to walk back the fine as there was outrage from the GOP. Instead of securing the border, Johnson caved to the Democrats.
Where in the Constitution is it legal to give tax dollars to foreign countries, and why is it that only Israel ever repays the funds and favors?
Our nation’s elected representatives are selling us down the river. They’re all in on it, other than a small handful, and Matt Rosendale, one of the good guys, is leaving at the end of the year.
Our national debt is at the untenable amount of $35 trillion, yet they’re giving away borrowed money that is losing more value every day. Inflation and shrinkflation are taxing the public into the poor house.
We’re looking at becoming the Weimar Republic in more ways than one, with hyper-inflation, Nazi rise and ultimate collapse.
Leo Hohmann writes, “Included in the package is $300 million to protect Ukraine’s border with Poland. This $300 million will be used to keep Ukrainians from fleeing into Poland to escape the military draft, which sends them into the meatgrinder and certain death at the front with a superior Russian military. No matter how hard they try to serve it up on a pretty platter, it doesn’t get any more evil than this.”
Leo ends his latest article with, “As the Bible says, woe to those who call good evil and evil good. Our politicians are on a mission to crash and burn what’s left of Western civilization.”
Johnson blew any border security leverage we had with his betrayal of the American people.
Johnson’s Advisors
Breitbart reports that Johnson’s top policy adviser is a former lobbyist who has corporate interests in the Ukraine War. Dan Ziegler was previously executive director of the conservative Republican Study Committee that Johnson chaired from 2019 to 2021, and he left the Hill in December to join Williams and Jensen as a principal.
As a lobbyist with Williams and Jensen, Ziegler had a client list prone to support the Ukraine funding. Here is a list of the groups and corporations who have retained them. Ziegler is a Heritage Action and American Energy Alliance alum, who lobbied for a range of health care clients, including Pfizer, Merck, Sanofi (the one Dr. Robert Malone loves), Owens & Minor, Eli Lilly, Novo Nordisk, PhRMA, Amgen and Elevance Health, in addition to companies like Visa, Vanguard Group, Bloom Energy and W Diamond Corporation. (Heritage Action is a sister organization of controlled-opposition Heritage Foundation.)
According to a recent Breitbart article, Ziegler also represented News Media Alliance which was lobbying congress back when Ziegler worked for Williams and Jensen, to promote a very dangerous proposal that would silence conservative media. The proposal is called the Journalism Competition & Preservation Act (JCPA). It has failed, but keeps coming back.
Johnson has several neo-con backers in his party. House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX) attacked conservatives who were against this horrendous bill in order to achieve passage. He even launched an “unhinged attack” on Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) over Ukraine aid. McCaul endorsed the bill before even having seen it.
Dan Ziegler and Josh Hodges are the top aides to Johnson and influence how he votes. Hodges is Johnson’s National Security Adviser but reports to Ziegler. Breitbart states, “Hodges is the brain behind many of the most controversial Johnson policy decisions related to funding foreign wars, FISA, foreign affairs, and national security, a source familiar with the Speaker’s office’s inner workings told Breitbart News. According to Legistorm, Hodges handles Johnson’s armed forces and national security portfolios.”
Both Zeigler and Hodges advocate the votes we’ve seen Johnson make. Johnson’s Deputy Chief of Staff for communications, Raj Shah, has refused to answer any questions. After Shah left Trump’s White House, he went to work for Fox News with Paul Ryan. Shah called out Massie and Greene for their threats to oust Johnson. Knowing that Ryan and Mike Pence were good friends in Congress doesn’t make me feel all warm and cuddly about Shah, much less about Ziegler and Hodges.
In Rep. Greene’s (R-GA) interview with Tucker Carlson, she claimed that Mike Johnson often speaks with Biden’s National Security Adviser, Jake Sullivan. ABC reported that Sullivan “pushed” Johnson to put a bipartisan foreign aid bill to a vote. He has been an adviser to Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and Joe Biden. He clerked for former Associate Justice Stephen Breyer. Sullivan is a Rhodes scholar and earned his law degree at Yale. He was an editor of the Yale Law Journal and the Yale Daily News. He interned at the globalist Council on Foreign Relations, and often writes for their Foreign Affairs Magazine.
Sullivan was a State Department official under then-U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton when in 2012, four Americans were killed in the terrorist attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya. In 2015, he was called to testify before the U.S. House Select Committee on Benghazi. Sullivan’s testimony became part of the Committee’s final report that concluded Clinton and Sullivan may have sent highly classified information using unsecured private emails rather than through secure government servers.
Jake speaks often at the Brookings Institute regarding the Biden administration’s international agenda. Its largest contributors include the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the Hutchins Family Foundation, JPMorgan Chase, the LEGO Foundation, David Rubenstein, State of Qatar, and John L. Thornton.
Edward Snowden says Johnson is a textbook case of Congressional capture. Revolver News explains, “In short, ‘Congressional capture’ is when lawmakers or legislative bodies fall under the heavy influence of outside interests, like big corporations, special interest groups, or US intel. These influences ensure that their agendas take precedence over the public’s needs. In simple terms, this means certain policies or laws that favor these groups are advanced, while criticism or resistance is quietly suppressed. Suddenly, their most ferocious critics become their biggest cheerleaders.”
We’re $35 trillion in debt, but that doesn’t even stop them! These are inflationary dollars they’re printing with no backing.
This is the Weimar Republic’s hyperinflation in America!
There is no accounting for any of the money given to Ukraine.
And no audits of the US funding.
This could be one of the greatest financial frauds in US history – Next to the Biden COVID assistance fraud. Link
The new “Christian Conservative Constitutional Attorney” is fulfilling the dreams of the Democrat Party while making Matt Gaetz’ removal of Kevin McCarthy look downright stupid.
Conclusion
President Trump said, “I stand with the Speaker,” and “Johnson is doing a very good job.”
Sorry President Trump, but Mike Johnson is being controlled by the very people stabbing you in the back.
Giving Biden’s political gestapo a brand-new FBI building bigger than the Pentagon, while not providing a dime to protect the southern border from the swarms of people entering the country illegally, is doing a “good job?
Meanwhile, Chinese military, dangerous criminals, terrorists, and Mexican cartels are making tons of money in child trafficking and drugs as they pour across our southern border.
This administration invited this invasion, and Speaker Johnson is complicit.
Judge Juan Merchan fined former President Donald Trump $9,000 Tuesday and held him in contempt for violating his gag order, warning he may impose jail time for future violations.
Merchan ordered Trump to remove the offending posts by 2:15 pm Tuesday and to pay the fine by May 3. He rejected Trump’s defense that he was simply engaging in political speech by responding to attacks by witnesses like Michael Cohen and Stormy Daniels, writing that the Court is “keenly aware of, and protective of, Defendant’s First Amendment rights, particularly given his candidacy for the office of President of the United States.”
“It is critically important that Defendant’s legitimate free speech rights not be curtailed, that he be able to fully campaign for the office which he seeks and that he be able to respond and defend himself against political attacks,” Merchan wrote. “For that reason, this Court exercised discretion when it crafted the Expanded Order and delayed issuing it until the eve of trial.”
However, Merchan warned Trump that he “will not tolerate continued willful violations of its lawful orders and that if necessary and appropriate under the circumstances, it will impose an incarceratory punishment.”
Prosecutors argued in court filings that Trump violated the order in 10 instances, arguing for the judge to impose the maximum $1,000 fine for each alleged violation. The gag order prevents Trump from making statements about witnesses, prosecutors other than the district attorney, court staff and jurors, along with family members of the staff, district attorney or judge.
Last week, prosecutors brought up four new violations of the order, which Merchan will consider during a hearing Thursday.
Now:
Justice Merchan finds Trump in contempt on all but one of the first 10 alleged violations of the gag order.
Trump must pay $1,000 per violation, and he faces a hearing later this week on the last four.
“He’s allowed to respond to political attacks, Your Honor,” Trump’s attorney Todd Blanche told the judge during a hearing last week considering the alleged violations, according to Politico. “There is no dispute that President Trump is facing a barrage of political attacks from all sides, including from the two witnesses referenced in the early post.”
Merchan imposed the gag order on Trump on March 26, but expanded it on April 1 after Trump attacked his daughter on social media.
🚨TRUMP: “The whole thing is a HOAX. They’re controlled by the White House. They’re controlled by Democrat judges and prosecutors.. they hate Trump.” pic.twitter.com/Ajgh8HKjnf
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It’s not that the police can’t end the hate camps in NYC or LA, it’s that they’ve been told not to.
Yesterday at the Sabbath table, a young man who had been on the ground at UCLA told me of watching a Jewish student being attacked while the UC campus police did nothing.
The campus police said that they would have to call the actual police, but no police came. The campus cops then admitted that they didn’t actually call 911. When one of the people on the scene called 911, the LAPD stated that they had been told not to respond to calls from UCLA.
The student then had to go down to a police station to file a report which all but ensured that nothing would happen.
Today’s assaults by pro-Hamas occupiers make it clear that’s still the policy. UC’s Mary Osako stated that UCLA will not be “preemptively” requesting a police presence.
Shame on @UCLA. Today masked pro-Hamas vandals bludgeoned and bloodied a Jewish girl and fired chemical solution into the eyes of peaceful pro-Israel protestors, all while UCPD watched and took no action. These extremists have learned well from the Hamas terrorists they idolize. pic.twitter.com/JTau1NfGDs
By the time the LAPD finally arrived, there had been assaults and the situation was out of control.
The pattern seems to be that the LAPD won’t respond to anything short of an imminent riot or displays of weapons. Unless there’s actual violence in progress or credibly imminent, the occupation area is effectively a no-go zone.
But in other parts of the country, it’s even worse.
Police in Washington, D.C., rejected requests from campus officials at George Washington University to clear anti-Israel protesters from their campus encampment this week, fearing that doing so could be bad publicity.
Although police were poised to disband the encampment at around 3 a.m. on Friday morning, city officials in the police chief’s and mayor’s office told police to stand down and said that it would look bad publicly for police to disrupt a “small number of peaceful protesters,” the Washington Post reported on Friday
So this is on Mayor Bowser.
While Mayor Eric Adams and the NYPD have been (comparatively) responsive to larger-scale violence at Columbia U, the calculus again there appears to be no police response unless there’s significant violence.
What that means is that student or individual calls for help, especially after an assault, are going unanswered, and that means that the policy of tolerating not only no-go zones, but the violence associated with them, has emboldened Hamas supporters to assault Jewish students and faculty.
That’s why there is a very clear difference between police responses in liberal and conservative areas.
It’s not that the police can’t end the hate camps in NYC or LA, it’s that they’ve been told not to.
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