He might have had a better chance of being acquitted if he had worked harder to fool the infidel authorities, telling them that he now realized that ISIS was un-Islamic and all the other nonsense that we so often hear from jihadis in court. And those infidel authorities are so ignorant, and so very eager to be fooled. But Augustine was honest with them, and will have a few years in prison at least to think about that and work on his prison dawah.
by Gabrielle Fonrouge, New York Post, April 7, 2022:
A California man who tried to join ISIS and wanted to encourage more English speakers to be part of the terror group was sentenced to 20 years behind bars, Brooklyn federal prosecutors announced.
Bernard Augustine, 25, represented himself during his one-week trial in August and told jurors that if he was acquitted, he’d try once again to join the terror group, prosecutors said after his Wednesday sentencing….
Around the time Augustine turned 18 while living in Keyes, a small rural community outside of Modesto, he made plans to travel in February 2016 to Tunisia from San Francisco with the goal of joining ISIS across the border in Libya.
In the months leading up to his trip, Augustine spent time watching ISIS propaganda videos that glorified the terror group’s violence and googling questions like “how to safely join ISIS,” prosecutors said.
The wannabe terrorist also visited websites on the ISIS recruitment process, including one titled: “How does a Westerner join ISIS? Is there a recruitment or application process?”
Augustine went through with his February 2016 trip to Tunisia, but before he could cross the border into Libya, he was detained for two years and then returned to the US in 2018.
During his trial, Augustine testified that he still wanted to join ISIS and described videos of the group beheading Syrian captives as “good” and “really cool.” He said he intended to help the group by providing English-language voiceovers for their propaganda videos.
Prosecutors asked him to confirm testimony he gave that he “would do it all again and would go back today” if given the chance and Augustine replied, “No, tomorrow, when they let me off.”…
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Four Secret Service employees who were special agents to the Bidens are entangled in an alleged bribery scheme carried out by two Muslim men accused of masquerading as Department of Homeland Security law enforcement agents , reports Real Clear Politics.
#Breaking Prosecutors say one of the men arrested for impersonating federal agents had visas to Pakistan and Iran and claimed a connection to Pakistani intel agency ISI. @wusa9pic.twitter.com/tzF5AQOOQs
But no one in the media is asking about the motive.
When investigators searched the defendants’ apartments, they found a drone, handguns, ammunition, bullet-proof body armor, gas masks, zip ties, handheld radios, body cameras, binoculars, a high-powered telescope, and four laptop computers. They also discovered what appeared to be official DHS patches and training manuals, scopes for weapons, components of disassembled rifles, and a list of every resident of the apartment complex.”The FBI has arrested Arian Taherzadeh, 40, and Haider Ali, who posed as Homeland Security agents for years, using their false identities to get close to actual law enforcement officials, including a Secret Service agent assigned to the detail of First Lady Jill Biden.
An affidavit filed Wednesday night in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C. revealed that one of the Secret Service agents involved in the bribery scheme was a special agent assigned to First Lady Jill Biden’s protective detail. Another was a Uniformed Division officer at the White House.
Taherzadeh and Ali allegedly obtained guns and assault rifles used by federal law enforcement agencies, as well as items carrying the insignias of those agencies.
Prosecutors say that they went so far to recruit someone to be an “employee of DHS” and “serve on their task force,” and subjected that person to what appears to be a painful hazing ritual.
“As part of the ‘recruitment process’ Taherzadeh and Ali required that the “applicant” be shot with an Airsoft rifle to evaluate their pain tolerance and reaction,” the affidavit says. “Subsequent to being shot, the applicant was informed that their hiring was in process.”
That applicant was “assigned” to conduct research on someone who “provided support to the Department of Defense and intelligence community,” the affidavit says…. more
RealClearPolitics has learned that another Secret Service special agent involved in the alleged bribery is assigned to President Biden’s detail, those agents who accompany the president nearly everywhere he goes and stand by his side during the most sensitive of discussions and private moments. A second Uniformed Division officer caught up in the bizarre scheme was assigned to protect Vice President Harris’s residence, according to sources familiar with the matter.
Two men were arrested in Washington DC Wednesday for pretending to be federal operatives who gifted Secret Service agents with lavish handouts in an effort to gain access to them
Why did they want to gain access to them?
People do this kind of thing to gain access to politicians or to decisionmakers, they don’t do it to gain access to protective detail people.
Arian Taherzadeh, 40, and Haider Ali, 36 posed as members of a fake Department of Homeland Security task force investigating violence connected to the Jan. 6, 2021 riot at the US Capitol, the feds said.
Taherzadeh is an Iranian last name. Haider Ali would also seem to come from a background that implies a Muslim country. Their religion obviously isn’t stated or commented on, but raises questions. They are at the very least from Muslim-origin countries. Shouldn’t that trigger some inquiries?
The suspects allegedly set up the ruse to ingratiate themselves with Secret Service agents, who they supplied with rent-free luxury apartments, high-end electronics and policing equipment.
One of the duped agents worked on first lady Jill Biden’s security detail and was offered a $2,000 assault rifle from Taherzadeh, according to prosecutors.
In another instance, the suspects allegedly supplied an agent with a penthouse apartment that was rented for more than $40,000 a year.
Where were they getting all this money and what was in it for them? Why throw a $2K rifle at a secret service agent working a security detail?
Questions no one in the media seems to even admit are there.
Four secret Service employees who were special agents to the Bidens are “entangled in an alleged bribery scheme carried out by two men accused of masquerading as Department of Homeland Security law enforcement agents” , reports Real Clear Politics.
Two men impersonating DHS agents allegedly attempted to bribe the four members of the Secret Service. In an affidavit, the FBI said the men “have been pretending to be DHS agents from as early as February until their arrest and noted that they carried insignias and firearms used by federal agents as part of that deception. The goal was to ‘ingratiate themselves with members of the federal law enforcement and the defense community.”
The men accused of bribery are Arian Taherzadeh and Haider Ali, both U.S. citizens with passports and visas to Iran and Pakistan who appear to have targeted an apartment complex which is home to many law enforcement employees from the Secret Service and Department of Homeland Security.
Real Clear Politics reports Taharzadeh and Ali “seemed to have control of five apartments. When investigators searched the defendants’ apartments, they found a drone, handguns, ammunition, bullet-proof body armor, gas masks, zip ties, handheld radios, body cameras, binoculars, a high-powered telescope, and four laptop computers. They also discovered what appeared to be official DHS patches and training manuals, scopes for weapons, components of disassembled rifles, and a list of every resident of the apartment complex.”
Their cover was blown when a U.S. postal inspector responded to the apartment complex to investigate an alleged assault on a letter carrier. During the investigation, the inspector spoke with Taherzadeh and Ali, who gave them wild tales about being investigators with the U.S. Special Police investigation Unit and “deputized special police” with the city of Washington.
It was revealed in an affidavit filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C. that one of the agents caught up in the bribery scheme was a special agent assigned to First Lady Jill Biden’s protective detail. A second agent was a Uniformed Division officer at the White House.
A third Secret Service special agent is assigned to President Biden’s detail, Real Clear Politics learned. The agent’s position puts him at the President’s side “nearly everywhere he goes and stands by his side during the most sensitive of discussions and private moments.”
The fourth agent, a second Uniformed Division officer, was assigned to protect Vice President Harris’s residence. Real Clear Politics details the bribery accusations:
According to court filings, one of the more troubling details of the case involves Taherzadah allegedly offering to give an assault rifle worth $2,000 to the Secret Service agent assigned to Jill Biden. The filing also says that Taherzadeh lent what he described as a “government vehicle” to the same Secret Service agent’s wife and also gave her a generator.
Taherzadeh is also accused of giving members of the Secret Service, as well as a legitimate DHS employee, “rent-free apartments (with a total yearly rent of over $40,000 per apartment), iPhones, surveillance systems, a drone, a flat-screen television, a case for storing an assault rifle, a generator and law enforcement paraphernalia,” the filing states. Prosecutors say one of the agents who received the free rent and additional gifts is the Uniformed Division officer assigned to the White House.
That agent lived rent-free in a three-bedroom apartment that generally would rent for $48,000 annually, the filing said. It was located at the same complex where Taherzadeh lived. Prosecutors said he was tricked into believing accepting the free rent wouldn’t raise ethics or conflict of interest issues because Taherzadeh told the agent that a division of DHS “had approved extra rooms as part of his operations, and that [agent] could live in one of them for free.”
“The investigation confirmed that there are no such [DHS] operations, and it authorized no such expense,” the filing said.
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Crowds are expected to come to North Carolina today to see former President Donald Trump as well as several other high-profile Republican candidates running for election.
Every decent and rational American must get behind the re-election of President Trump in 2024. The country and the world cannot withstand a second term of the Biden Administration. #Trump2024!
The “Save America” rally will be held in Selma, a town about 30 miles southeast of Raleigh, at The Farm at 95. The event venue has capacity for over 400 people in its outdoor event area.
In addition to Trump, the following are scheduled to speak: ▪ U.S. Rep. Ted Budd, who Trump has endorsed for the Republican seat in the Senate being vacated by Sen. Richard Burr. ▪ U.S. Rep. Madison Cawthorn of North Carolina’s 11th Congressional District, who is running for reelection
▪ Newsmax will carry the rally online starting at 6 p.m. Find the channel for your provider at newsmaxtv.com/findus. ▪ Rumble, a right-leaning website, is expected to livestream Trump’s speech at 7 p.m. ▪ Right Side Broadcasting Network will stream the event all day on its YouTube channel.
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Biden’s energy policies are even worse than gunning acceleration of a car in stop-and-go traffic … more like trying to move forward with one foot jamming the gas pedal and the other simultaneously clamping down on the brake.
What you wind up with is lots of smoke, a burned-out engine, and a vehicle destined to go nowhere.
Take, for example, Joe’s recent offer to help self-inflicted energy-starved Europe replace Russia as its main natural gas supplier as he works to put American producers out of business.
The White House posted a joint March 25 statement by President Biden and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen: “We’re going to have to make sure the families in Europe can get through this winter and the next,” it said in announcing a deal to “provide 15 billion cubic meters of gas this year, though not all from the U.S.”
The statement added: “At the same time, this crisis also presents an opportunity” that will “drive the investments we need to double-down on our clean energy goals and accelerate progress toward our net-zero emissions future.”
So, according to plan, this is somehow magically to be accomplished by maintaining a regulatory environment in which U.S. liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports will only be permitted to the extent that they reduce overall greenhouse emissions — for instance, by running on “clean energy.”
Read that clean energy means their preferred intermittent wind and solar panaceas.
And by the regulatory environment, the Biden administration is referring to a very formidable army of die-hard climate crusaders who are dedicated to eliminating fossil energy in all forms.
As White House Climate Adviser Gina McCarthy clarified to attendees at a March American Council on Renewable Energy forum, U.S. climate policy “is not a fight about coal anymore. It is a challenge about natural gas and infrastructure investments because we don’t want to invest in things that are time-limited. Because we are time-limited.”
Herein lies one of the big obstacles to Joe Biden’s European LNG export bailout offer: a shortage of pipeline capacity due to permitting delays that discourage industry investment.
The time required to obtain federal Energy Department permitting can take four to five years for a pipeline that can be constructed in six to nine months. Since it can require decades to recoup the costs, McCarthy’s comment about “time limits” will lend no investor confidence to future such ventures.
Although the Energy Department scrambled to finally approve two LNG export permits that it had been sitting on for more than two years, Secretary Jennifer Granholm again made it clear that this was a temporary circumstance premised upon the Ukraine invasion.
Speaking on March 9 in Houston, Granholm said: “We are on a war footing — an emergency — and we have to responsibly increase short-term [oil and gas] supply where we can right now to stabilize the market and to minimize harm to American families. … And that means you producing more right now, where and if you can …”
Adding to this investment discouragement, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) recently voted 3-1 on a proposed rule requiring public companies to disclose climate risks attributed to greenhouse gas emissions generated both by their operations (e.g., refining oil) and from their energy consumption.
Republican SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce, who voted against the proposal, warned that the rules will enrich “the climate-industrial complex” while hurting investors, the economy, and the SEC.
In November, the Labor Department also proposed a new rule that scraps and reverses a Trump administration proviso within the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) requiring retirement plan fiduciaries to act “solely in the interest” of participants and based upon a “material effect on the return and risk of an investment.”
Many LNG projects are stalled due to Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) pipeline constraints. Encouragingly, FERC recently voted 3-2 to revise a gas pipeline and export terminal approval policy which added greenhouse gas emissions to its permission analyses premised on climate impacts.
Meanwhile, Europe is finally waking up to the fact that its dependency on Russian natural gas and oil for about half of its energy in the wake of the current Ukraine experience presents greater threat risks than climate change.
Germany, a dominant EU economic power that now depends on Russia for over half of its natural gas and a quarter of its oil imports, has sabotaged itself to become even more dependent on that imported gas by already shutting down three nuclear plants in December, with three more to be mothballed this year.
Recognizing Russia’s opportunity to weaponize Germany’s vulnerable dependency, President Donald Trump sanctioned the Nord Stream 2 trans-Baltic gas pipeline development, a policy that President Joe Biden reversed upon taking office.
The Trump administration, which had presided over an America that was not only energy independent, but also a leading global exporter, had pressed Germany to build LNG import terminals to diversify its gas supply, as Poland, the Netherlands and Lithuania have done.
All that has changed over slightly more than a year as the Biden White House and Democrat-controlled Congress have devolved U.S. energy prosperity to conditions of an energy pauper pathetically pleading with Russia, OPEC, Venezuela, and Iran for help to reduce painful fuel price and inflation consequences of their policies here at home ahead of 2022 midterm elections.
Recall that soon after taking office, Joe Biden revoked a permit essential for the Keystone XL pipeline to deliver oil from Canada, empowered his agencies to slow-walk others, and launched an effort to overturn an oil drilling program in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) in Alaska.
Let’s also remember that U.S. gas prices began going up long before Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine recently provoked a bipartisan ban on Russian oil, gas, and coal imports, as did most all of America’s 40-year high of 7.9% inflation.
There should be an obvious message in all of this for Europe.
If it can’t continue to rely on Russia as a reliable energy supplier, then why would it imagine that it can count on America to make up any substantial difference so long as we have an administration headed by someone who campaigned on the pledge that “I guarantee you we’re going to end fossil fuels.”
Meanwhile as Joe, with one foot on the gas, the other on the brake — revving the engine and belching lots of smoke — America urgently awaits what may be described as a “MAGA tow truck,” driven by our 45th commander in chief; that vehicle that can’t possibly arrive soon enough.
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Like Obama, Biden has dragged us through international humiliations to weaken us.
Putin invaded Ukraine under Obama in Feb 2014 and Biden in Feb 2022.
The invasions eight years apart to the month are not a coincidence. Both times Vladimir Putin was facing a lame duck Democrat who had just flinched away from a military engagement.
Each time Putin smelled weakness and he struck.
Obama, after declaring a red line in Syria, had panicked and backed away in 2013. He then cheered on Ukrainian protests against a pro-Russian regime in Kiev and Moscow responded by calling his bluff and seizing Crimea. Afterward, Obama called Putin to warn him that Russia’s actions were in “violation of Ukraine’s sovereignty” and that “in coordination with our European partners, we are prepared to impose additional costs on Russia for its actions.”
Those “sanctions” consisted of buying twice as much Russian oil in Jan 2015 as in Feb 2014.
The latest Russian invasion followed the Fall of Kabul and the pathetic spectacle of American forces abandoning their own citizens to Taliban terror which helped make Biden a lame duck.
Would we be watching a war in Ukraine if not for Biden’s disgrace in Afghanistan?
Apart from the questions of what we should have done in Afghanistan or Syria is the issue of basic national credibility. Nations can do smart or stupid things abroad, but the one thing they can’t afford is not to be taken seriously. When the president of the United States says something, the world should sit up and take notice, instead of yawn and change the channel.
Putin is, despite the claims from the administration and its media, a rational actor. Like every tyrant he sees no value in rhetoric except as assertions of strength or admissions of weakness.
Biden, like his former boss, keeps insulting and threatening Putin not from a position of strength, but as an admission of weakness. Biden calls for regime change and war crimes trials for Putin, and then slow walks shipments of weapons and refuses to transfer planes to Ukraine.
The message is the same as when Obama condemned Putin’s invasion of Crimea and then refused to provide meaningful armaments to Ukraine while slow walking shipments of boots.
Putin understands the message the same way a big dog understands when a little dog yaps.
Moscow isn’t paying attention to what Washington D.C. says, but what it does. And the real message from Biden is that he’s afraid of Putin, but looking to cover it up with tough talk.
Biden wants all the political benefits of siding with Ukraine, with none of the military risks. Like Obama, he’s trying to prop up an international order centered around the United States while pretending that it can be done through diplomacy and sanctions without the use of force.
The real world doesn’t work that way.
The false choice between globalism and isolationism is just that. Foreign policy is not an ideology, it’s a balance. When nations embrace ideological foreign policies, they court disaster. Putin’s disaster in Ukraine put ideology ahead of strategy, embracing wishful thinking that ignored the realities of the battlefield and the cost of war. That’s something we know about.
But whatever damage Putin inflicts on Russia in Ukraine, Biden has inflicted more on us.
Beyond the economic pain, Biden has once again wrecked America’s credibility, making public commitments and private disavowals, putting our honor on the line for a war he has no intention of winning or even getting involved in. Putin understands that even a partial victory in Ukraine means not just a defeat for that country, but for the United States and Europe as paper tigers.
And Moscow may be willing to sacrifice ten or twenty thousand men for that strategic objective.
Biden has put America in the terrible position of having committed to a war that only a third party can win. And he has no intention of properly arming that third party to win on the battlefield.
What that really means is that Biden and his administration have set up America to lose.
Like Obama, the Biden administration has dragged us through a series of international humiliations that appear calculated to weaken us as a world power and wipe out our credibility.
Biden has clumsily deployed sanctions and weapons shipments behind Putin’s strategic schedule, playing catch up with the pace of events while letting Russia take the lead. That hasn’t made the war any better or safer, instead it’s become more agonizing for everyone.
If Russia is defeated after all, Biden will claim all the credit and deserve none of it.
The administration’s fearful dithering gave Putin the impression that he could quickly take Ukraine and win. After giving Putin permission for a “minor incursion” as his version of Obama’s red line, Biden was confronted with a full invasion and after a month still hasn’t made it clear to either Russia or Ukraine, or any of our allies, what they can expect America to do about it.
These mixed signals convinced both sides that they can still win and have prolonged the war.
If Biden believes that it’s in our national interest that Russia be defeated, then he should say it and act like it, instead of empty babble about who should run Moscow, something he has no say in, or even more hollow threats of war crimes trials. If he wants to arm Ukraine, then he should do it properly or stop altogether because a halfway approach will just kill more people.
Washington D.C. can reduce Ukraine, like Boko Haram and ISIS, to a hashtag war, but China and Iran are watching and drawing their lessons from what is happening. And if we treat Taiwan and the Middle East, our tech and energy regional lifelines, as disposable, there will come a war that we will have to fight. And heaven help us if we try to fight it with hashtags and sanctions.
Strong nations make it clear what they will and won’t fight for. And they don’t send mixed signals that only communicate weakness. Nor do they talk about how fearful they are of a fight.
That doesn’t mean that foreign wars are a good idea or should be embraced as a policy.
But the best way to avoid foreign wars is by having meaningful red lines and doctrines that clearly lay out national interests, and by viewing war as a choice made from a position of strength, not the catastrophic conclusion to a series of inept entanglements that alternately convince our enemies we won’t fight and that they have nothing to worry about even if we do.
Instead Biden has continued the failed policy of ambiguous global commitments under the guise of international law and the even more implausible values of the international community that have no clear red lines for engagement or disengagement. In Ukraine, Biden, like Obama, is hiding behind the Europeans, who are hiding behind us, for a global show of cowardice.
Vladimir Putin understands that wars are something you win, while the D.C. establishment doesn’t fight wars, but commits American forces to implementing multilateral values.
That’s why we never win. If you don’t fight a war, how can you possibly win one?
Putin understands why he’s in Ukraine. Do we? What are our national interests there or anywhere? How does our employment of military force make us safer, stronger, or wealthier? Are we involved to keep energy and bread prices low, or to avoid a future war on worse terms?
These are basic questions and the failure to answer them sets us up for defeat every time.
Two Democrat administrations have sent a message to our allies, enemies, and countries wondering which of these they might want to be that the American era has come to an end.
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.
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Mission: Wage lawfare to effect change across every sector of society.
If practitioners of any profession would be expected to understand and honor the notion of Free Speech it would be lawyers. In years past this would be a reasonable conclusion. However, in so many ways traditional American values have been turned upside down and inside out!
A bipartisan panel on civil liberties at Yale Law School was disrupted last week when more than 100 law students tried to drown out and intimidate the speakers, who eventually needed police to escort them out of the building, according to reports.
The school’s Federalist Society hosted the March 10 panel, which featured Monica Miller, of the progressive American Humanist Association, and Kristen Waggoner, of the conservative Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF). About 120 student protesters showed up with signs attacking the ADF to shout down the speakers, with one reportedly recorded on audio telling a member of the conservative group that she would “literally fight you, b——.”
“It was disturbing to witness law students whipped into a mindless frenzy. I did not feel it was safe to get out of the room without security,” Waggoner told the Washington Free Beacon.
The Fox News report also included this important observation by Waggoner:
Waggoner later tweeted: “My hot take: Good lawyers win with civility & persuasion, not physical intimidation and threats of violence. We aren’t afraid to engage with people and ideas we disagree with. Apparently many of the students missed this lesson.”
It is beyond disturbing that law students at one of America’s most prestigious and influential law schools would witness the sort of madness that occurred at the event described in the Fox News report.
Many of those Yale law students will not only go on to successful careers as attorneys but become judges, leaders in major corporations and law professors.
About a dozen years ago I was invited by the Federalist Society at Yale Law School to participate in a debate about Comprehensive Immigration Reform.
The debate was spirited and fair and all who attended were courteous and respectful. But that was then.
Open debate is at the heart of a free society and is enshrined in the First Amendment of the Constitution.
Indeed, you can think of debate as an example of intellectual capitalism. Competing concepts are provided to the audience who then decide which concept they are willing to “buy.”
On a personal note, I have a degree in Communications Arts and Sciences and had planned teaching speech and debate on the college level when I had the opportunity to make a career change and became a federal agent.
You never understand your side of an argument more than when you have to defend it against an opponent- in fact, one of my debate coaches would have us prepare to argue both sides of a debate and then not tell us which side we would take until 30 minutes before the debate!
The Radical Left however, knows that they cannot win a fair debate so they now seek to shut down debate as they sought to do in that debate at Yale Law School in February.
Laws can be thought of as the rulebook by which society functions. Laws control human conduct and behavior and regulate the way that corporations function.
Without laws or law enforcement anarchy follows. However, overbearing laws and law enforcement can create a dictatorship that strips the citizens of their freedoms.
It is clear that those who write the laws, along with those practice law and those who enforce our laws are at the foundation of our society and government.
For decades radicals and globalists have sought to wrest control over our government to gain control over America and Americans and strip our nation of its sovereignty.
When Obama was elected President, in his victory speech Obama declared, “Change has come to America!’
It would appear that today, Lawfare is being waged against America and Americans.
Lawfare has been defined as:
Legal action undertaken as part of a hostile campaign against a country or group.
We will explore how this is being implemented shortly, but first, consider that in the wake of the death of George Floyd riots broke out across the United States in which innocent people were killed and buildings were reduced to rubble and ashes in so-called “peaceful demonstrations” as reported on by supposed “news organizations.” These supposed news organizations were thinly veiled propaganda machines that could have been part of Orwell’s “Ministry of Truth” straight out of the pages of his novel, 1984.
The Radical Left began demanding “Criminal Justice Reform” and the defunding of police.”
Anarchistic enclaves sprung up in cities such as Seattle, Washington. In short order Americans rejected this lunacy, so the Left distanced themselves from the Defund Police movement, but their goals did not change.
Radical Leftists have simply taken a different approach to achieve the same anarchistic goals.
“Bail Reform” was implemented in many cities controlled by the Leftists under the guise that this would only involve those charged with non-violent crimes. It quickly became apparent, however, that many violent thugs were released without bail and went on to commit more violent crimes that injured or killed more innocent victims including children.
New York City, which had been the safest big city in the United States, quickly descended into violence and chaos as the newly-elected Manhattan District Attorney, Alvin Bragg, implemented new bail policies and established prosecutorial discretion policies that encouraged not deterred violent crimes.
Effective law enforcement is a system with a number of important elements. When dedicated laws enforcement officers make arrests and conduct criminal investigations, they must be supported by dedicated prosecutors who are on the same page, seeking the effective prosecution of criminals.
Today, unfortunately, in many jurisdictions, prosecutors who are supposed to work in close coordination with law enforcement officers are now acting as though they are criminal defense attorneys.
George Gascon, the infamous Los Angeles District Attorney became the veritable “poster child” of such prosecutors who sought to protect criminals and not their victims.
It has become clear that the vast majority of Americans reject the lunacy of defunding the police and many politicians who had advocated for this policy are now denying that they support this madness. However, their goals of creating anarchy, likely in order to subsequently fill the void created by anarchy with their notion of control over government and hence society.
Now we come to the issue of “Lawfare” I raised earlier in my commentary.
The idea of providing free college education for American students is a concept I personally approve of. Children growing up in poverty are not likely to be able to afford tuition for college or to attend graduate schools and therefore scholarship for such students of appropriate academic standing could be a way to help combat endemic poverty.
Yale Law School is not, however being altruistic in this case- it is clear that their actual goal is to enlist an army of lawyers who will practice Lawfare.
Consider this final paragraph in that Yale news release:
“At Yale Law School, we prepare lawyers and leaders to face the most critical challenges of the future and effect change across every sector of society,” said Gerken. “We are committed to ensuring every student can fully immerse themselves in our vibrant intellectual experience and has the tools and resources they need to leave their mark on the world. The Hurst Horizon Scholarship Program cements our commitment to access and equity for all.”
The motivation is clear- Yale Law School is not as benevolent it may may appear to be. Yale Law School is clearly determined to create an army of lawyers who are literally indebted to Yale who will engage in “Lawfare”
In his famous Iron Curtain Speech Winston Churchill delivered on March 5, 1946 at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri Churchill spoke of:
“…communist fifth columns that were operating throughout western and southern Europe. Drawing parallels with the disastrous appeasement of Hitler prior to World War II, Churchill advised that in dealing with the Soviets there was “nothing which they admire so much as strength, and there is nothing for which they have less respect than for military weakness.”
That concern voiced by Churchill about “communist fifth columns” (and other adversaries of freedom), should also have included the United States.
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In wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the Biden administration is refusing to cut its reliance on foreign oil and gas despite plenty of reserves available here at home.
According to the U.S. Energy Information Agency, reserves of U.S. crude oil and leases stand at 38.2 billion barrels as of 2020.
However, President Biden and Press Secretary Jen Psaki insist it’s the oil and gas industry’s fault for not producing more energy. Adding insult to injury, Congressional progressives want Biden to declare a climate emergency and immediately phase out fossil fuels under the guise of energy security.
On March 7, for example, Psaki said the following in an exchange with Fox News reporter Peter Doocy:
“Let me give you the facts here & I know that can be inconvenient, but…they’re important…There are 9,000 approved…permits…not being used,” she said.
Peter Doocy: “Would President Biden rescind his executive order that halts new oil & natural gas leases on public lands?”
Jen Psaki: “Well, 90% of them have been on private lands…[T]here are 9,000 unused approved drilling permits, so I would suggest you ask the oil companies…”
False. Completely make-believe.
President Biden is correct that over 9,000—9,173—Applications for Permit to Drill (APDs) were approved for drilling, according to the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) December 2021 APD Status Report. But that same report found that 4,621 APDs remain pending approval. And as Junk Science’s Steve Milloy highlighted in a twitter thread, the 9,000 unused leases would actually mean that the utilization rate is at a historic high.
Further, Psaki fails to make a clear distinction between the permitting process and the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) leasing program. Despite holding leases, oil and gas companies can’t turn on drilling operations overnight.
The American Petroleum Institute, a trade association representing the natural gas and oil industry, called Psaki’s claim about unused leases a “red herring” — “a smokescreen for energy policies that have had a hamstringing effect on the world’s leading producer of natural gas and oil.”
That’s because it’s one thing to have access to leases; it’s another to obtain permits to drill on federal oil and gas lands.
After a lease is obtained, a permit is needed to explore for oil and gas. This process could take upwards of ten years due to regulatory roadblocks and red tape stemming from the Endangered Species Act, National Environmental Policy Act, and National Historic Preservation Act. And frequently environmental groups take oil and gas companies to court, preventing them from acting on the lease in question.
The issue is much more complicated than the Biden administration would lead you to believe. In claiming that the oil and gas industry is at fault for unused leases, they’re citing a misleading statistic to shirk responsibility for high gas prices and shift the blame to anyone but themselves.
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Cancel culture is sometimes mistaken as the central problem in the life of the West. This happens, I have noticed, more among our U.K. cousins than stateside. Cancel culture, however, is merely a tool, the enforcement mechanism with which the woke left retains the cultural territory it has conquered.
The central problem facing citizens of Western countries is that a very hardcore, Marxian left has scored significant victories in its steady march toward the takeover of cultural institutions. This is a strategy first thought up by an Italian, Antonio Gramsci, who co-founded Italy’s Communist Party in 1921.
Gramsci taught Marxists that, to achieve Karl Marx’s goal of abolishing private property, the family, the church, and the nation-state, they did not need the bloody revolution that Marx had also called for. In Western countries, with their rich civil societies, it was better to infiltrate the cultural institutions, take them over, and indoctrinate the people into abandoning their love for the family, nation, etc., which Gramsci called “false consciousness.”
Indoctrination would raise their consciousness. This led to struggle sessions, which had harrowing results from China to the fields of Cambodia to the West in the 21st century.
Marxism needed coercion, despotism, and outright terror from the start, and Marx called for all three. In 1948, Marx spelled this out in his essay “The Victory of the Counter-Revolution in Vienna,” where he wrote, “There is only one way in which the murderous death agonies of the old society and the bloody birth throes of the new society can be shortened, simplified and concentrated, and that way is revolutionary terror.”
In our Western societies, state coercion of free speech must be presented in less truculent a fashion. This is why Herbert Marcuse, the Frankfurt School neo-Marxist who did so much to promote critical theory and the sexual revolution in the United States, came out with something called—we kid not—“Repressive Tolerance.”
In a 1969 essay by that name, Marcuse wrote that “In this society … false consciousness has become the general consciousness—from the government down to its last objects. The small and powerless minorities which struggle against the false consciousness and its beneficiaries must be helped: their continued existence is more important than the preservation of abused rights and liberties which grant constitutional powers to those who oppress these minorities.”
Marcuse then called for the “withdrawal of tolerance from regressive movements before they can become active; intolerance even toward thought, opinion, and word, and finally, intolerance in the opposite direction, that is, toward the self-styled conservatives, to the political Right—these anti-democratic notions respond to the actual development of the democratic society which has destroyed the basis for universal tolerance.”
That was canceled culture in its germinal stage. What it does is prevent the retaking of the ground lost to the left.
That doesn’t mean it is less of a danger. When people’s lives are canceled, they can lose their freedom of expression, their ability to make a living, and sometimes even their friends. When you have been totally canceled, Franz Kafka becomes your best friend, for only that turn-of-the-20th-century master of the absurd can make sense of your henceforth Kafkaesque existence.
That this fate can lurk around the corner in the free West is something that should concern us all and give us the encouragement we need to fight cancel culture in every way we can. We should expose it for what it is, decry it when it happens, and also summon the courage not to repeat a lie because saying the truth may result in our own canceling.
An area where people have become very cautious of late has been transgender issues. To say that a person can never become a woman, and vice versa, can get you thrown out of polite society, virtual or physical. And yet, most of us know that no matter how many puberty blockers a person takes, or how many healthy organs are mutilated, a man cannot menstruate, conceive, etc.
Indeed, Twitter this week suspended the account of The Babylon Bee, a very popular satirical website that has 1.3 million followers because it gave a transgender man who is a Biden administration official its Man of the Year Award.
The transgender issue is smack in the middle of the culture wars in America. There are many willing to take a stand and say, “No, I won’t live by lies.” Cancel culture is the left’s instrument to force them to do so.
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New details are emerging about what will happen at the southern border once COVID restrictions are lifted on illegal immigration. The Feds are expecting 18,000 border-jumpers a day. That’s more than a half a million a month.
Three states have sued to get the COVID restrictions reinstated. In addition, Texas Governor Greg Abbott said he will bus illegal aliens to the steps of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis said he will send them to Joe Biden’s home state of Delaware, as both reacted to the expected surge in illegal immigration.
So, some are fighting the Feds, but the fix is in. All that talk about addressing root causes of illegal immigration was just talk. The Biden administration is rolling out the welcome mat for the new wave of lawless border-jumpers.
A leaked DHS memo shows the administration will use “broadscale release mechanisms” to open the floodgates. In plain English, this means illegal aliens will be released on their own recognizance or with a notice to appear which, everybody knows, is often ignored. This memo follows a long list of policy changes the Biden administration has made to open the border since it’s been in office, changes I’ve documented in previous commentaries.
But the administration isn’t done yet; the Feds want to open the door even wider to illegal aliens. The administration is in discussions to roll out a smartphone app to do pre-screening BEFORE illegal aliens jump the border. Plans are also being laid to spend big on illegal aliens once they arrive: $69 million for medical support at 63 locations; $32 million for medical claims; $29 million for a new Office of the Chief Medical Officer; $140 million for a new processing center; $97 million for flights and ground transportation; $24 million for humanitarian relief necessitated by opening the border; $25 million for emergency family shelter beds; $527 million for alternatives to detention; $12 million for victim assistance necessitated by causing the immigrant crime problem in the first place; $375 million to administer looser asylum standards; and $389 million to process the application backlog caused by its own policies. By the way, there are more than 8 million pending applications – 8 MILLION. And healthcare for detained illegal aliens cost U.S. taxpayers $316 million last year.
The Biden administration is releasing single adult aliens into the interior by the hundreds every day. They’re given a cellphone so they can be tracked, but there’s nothing the Feds can do if the aliens toss the phones. The administration is also allowing illegal alien criminals to be released into the general population after they finish their sentences, instead of taking them into custody for deportation as federal law requires. The Biden administration had wanted to limit deportation to serious criminals, but a court partially blocked that for now. Finally, as previously reported, the administration is moving to take immigration courts out of the asylum process and have low-level bureaucrats quickly rubber-stamp asylum claims on the spot when illegal aliens arrive, without any serious examination.
A lot of these new changes ignore federal laws passed by Congress. So where is Congress in all this? Why aren’t the House and Senate holding oversight hearings to protect their power and insist Joe Biden faithfully execute the laws, as he is constitutionally required to do? Oh, I forgot. They’re controlled by Democrats, too.
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“It’s an organized crime that was perpetrated on Americans”
America didn’t vote for these criminals.
2020 Election Integrity: Georgia – True The Vote Geo-Location Data Reported To Identify Two Ballot Trafficking Transfer-Stations As GA Democratic Party Offices
One of the locations was her headquarters. Developing.
For more than a year and a half since the November 2020 election, debate has raged over exactly how the Democrats pulled off the rigging of the vote for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.
Very early on in the discussion of how this happened, people like Mike Lindell, Sidney Powell, General Michael Flynn, Patrick Byrne and others seized and held attention for months as they focused much of the population’s attention like a laser on the Chinese hacking theory.
Lindell spent almost 8 months crafting a narrative in which he was going to definitively prove that hackers stole the election by electronically manipulating the vote totals in all 50 states and most counties. He made a series of boastful videos with names like “Absolute Proof” and “Absolutely 9-0” [which advanced the claim that when the Supreme Court saw the evidence he was going to present to it, all nine Justices would vote to overturn the 2020 election].
All that activity culminated in two embarrassing fiascos: a Cyber Symposium where an audience was lured into attendance based on finally being able to see the much vaunted PCAPs [they were never produced] and supposed Supreme Court filing with multiple states Attorneys General signing on to challenge the 2020 election [the filing was never made].
It may be that instead of relying on electronic manipulation of vote totals by hackers in China or some other foreign venue to steal it for Joe Biden, the Democrats relied on the old tried and true method that has served them so well in the past: good old-fashioned ballot box stuffing. But done on a level never seen before the 2020 election.
This is going to be a painful admission for many like me to make after having spent over a year chasing the rainbow of PCAPs and server images and supposed absolute proof of electronic vote totals being manipulated.
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A sample of the smart people who were fooled into believing that Putin was a reformer who embraced capitalism and democracy.
Under Stalin’s reign of terror, there were many notable Americans who continued to believe that communism was an ideal political and economic system for ending class distinctions and achieving equal results, or in today’s euphemism, “equity.” During Putin’s early presidency of Russia, there were many notable Americans who believed that capitalism and democracy would bring Russia into the Western orbit and that Putin was a reformer who shared their values.
Both groups had idealism and naiveté in common. Let’s look at some of the people and publications in the second group.
The New York Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe, and Los Angeles Times
In the December 2003 Russian parliamentary elections, Putin’s United Russia party took nearly half the seats. The above newspapers lauded Russia’s move toward a liberal democracy but overlooked the rigging of the election and the scoundrels who were elected.
The Los Angeles Times went so far as to say that Putin’s parliamentary control was an opportunity for him to “push through additional reforms, including cleaning up the entrenched corruption.”
By contrast, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe questioned Russia’s commitment to European election standards. The National Post of Canada went further with this headline: “Racists, killers, and criminals run for Duma.” And an editorial in The Economist declared the death of democracy in Russia.
(Source: The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin, by Masha Gassen, Riverhead Books, 2012.)
American Presidents and Presidential Candidates
Over the years, Putin has gotten into the heads of American presidents and presidential candidates, who have had wildly inconsistent views of him and who have been driven to partisan divisiveness by his actions. Examples follow.
(Trigger warning: Democrat and Republican partisans will find something to vehemently disagree with the following.)
When George W. Bush met Putin for the first time in June 2001, he said that he “had looked the man in the eye” and “was able to get a sense of his soul.” Putin not only didn’t return the compliment but warned that the hostility between the West and Russia that began with the NATO bombings of Yugoslavia in 1999 was far from over.
It didn’t take long for Bush to change his first impression and for the relationship between the two presidents to become increasingly strained, especially over the Republic of Georgia, Iraq, and NATO expansion.
When President Obama was running for re-election in March 2012, a live microphone picked up what he whispered to then-Russian President Dmitry Medvedev at a meeting in Seoul: that it was important for incoming President Putin to “give me space” on missile defense and other issues, because he (Obama) would have “more flexibility” after the election.
On October 22, 2012, Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama had their final debate of the presidential election. Trying to portray Romney as inexperienced in foreign policy, Obama said: “A few months ago, when you were asked what’s the biggest geopolitical threat facing America, you said Russia. Not al-Qaeda. You said Russia . . . the 1980s are now calling to ask for their foreign policy back.”
Four years later, while campaigning for Hillary Clinton in 2016, Obama criticized Donald Trump’s “continued flattery of Mr. Putin and the degree to which he appears to model many of his policies and approaches” after those of Putin.
Hillary Clinton would go on to blame her election loss on Putin meddling in the election, and she and her campaign would trigger the Muller special investigation with the hawking of the Steele dossier and the fantastical story of Trump paying prostitutes to urinate on a hotel bed in Russia.
After assuming the presidency, and before a meeting with Putin, Trump blamed Obama for sour relations with Russia. He tweeted, “Our relationship with Russia has NEVER been worse thanks to many years of U.S. foolishness and stupidity and now, the Rigged Witch Hunt!”
Recently, in response to the invasion of Ukraine, Senator Mitt Romney called Putin a “small, evil, feral-eyed man.” He also said that Russia is “circling the drain” due to a declining population and that former Senator John McCain had been right when he said that he had looked into Putin’s eyes and seen the KGB.
William Browder
William Browder is an investor who went to Russia to help establish a capitalist economy and make a lot of money in the process. His strategy was to take a financial stake in mismanaged Russian companies and make them more profitable and valuable by rooting out corruption. He thought he had Putin’s backing in this.
Browder’s Hermitage Fund became the largest foreign portfolio investor in Russia.
Browder is married to a Russian woman and is the grandson of the former head of the Communist Party USA. Angry over how his grandfather had been persecuted during the McCarthy era, he relinquished his U.S. citizenship in 1998 and became a naturalized British citizen in 1999.
America was pretty good to him. After getting a degree in economics from the University of Chicago and an MBA from the Stanford School of Business, he went on to work for the Boston Consulting Group and Salomon Brothers before starting the Hermitage Fund.
Russia was also pretty good to him, at least initially. Then, under Putin’s direction, it was pretty bad to him.
On November 13, 2005, Browder was declared a threat to Russian national security and deported to the UK. Over the next two years several of his associates and lawyers, as well as their relatives, became victims of crimes in Russia, including severe beatings and robberies. For example, Hermitage Capital’s offices in Moscow were raided by agents of Russia’s Interior Ministry. Other agents raided the Moscow office of Browder’s American law firm, Firestone Duncan, seizing the corporate registration documents for Hermitage’s investment holding companies.
Sergei Magnitsky, the head of the tax practice at Firestone Duncan, later discovered that while those documents were in the custody of the authorities, they had been used to fraudulently re-register Hermitage’s holding companies in the name of an ex-convict. For exposing this fraud, Magnitsky was arrested by Russian authorities, spent eleven months in pretrial detention, and died in prison on November 16, 2009, allegedly from mistreatment and abuse.
In response to international outrage over Magnitsky’s death, the U.S. Congress passed the Magnitsky Act, which was signed into law by President Barack Obama on December 14, 2012. Under the act, Russians who had a hand in the ugly affair were prohibited from entering the United States and using its banking system.
It’s ironic that Browder’s grandfather was a communist, that Browder had renounced his U.S. citizenship over how his grandfather was treated, and that he had his property stolen and rights violated by a Russian government and its president that had a similar disrespect for property rights and civil rights as the communist government of the former Soviet Union.
Andrei Illarionov
It’s not only liberals and conservatives who were fooled by Putin. The libertarian Andrei Illarionov was also fooled.
Illarionov was a member of the St. Petersburg economists’ club when Putin appointed him in 2000 to be his economic advisor, apparently to send a message to American businesses and investors that he believed in a market economy, given that Illarionov was such a staunch proponent of free markets.
At the same time, Illarionov shared the common belief among free-market thinkers that market reforms adopted by an authoritarian state would lead to a liberalization of the political system.
He misjudged Putin.
He got crosswise with Putin in a private meeting in which he took issue with Putin’s military intervention in Chechnya, saying that he thought that Russian troops were committing a crime. He eventually became persona non gratis and resigned. He would go on to become a senior fellow at the Cato Institute in Washington, DC.
The book The Man Without a Face summarized Illarionov’s misjudgment as follows: “At base, Illarionov had a difficult time imagining he might be systematically deceived—which is exactly what allowed him to be deceived for a rather long time.”
That applied to a lot of Americans and Europeans when it came to Putin.
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Peggy Noonan, a former Reagan speechwriter and editorial columnist for the Wall Street Journal, represents in many ways, the pre-Trump Republican Party. As such, she has made it quite clear she resents the Trumpetarian upstarts that have influenced the party and yearns for the good old days of losing with what she finds to be grace and class.
The April 3, 2022 edition of the WSJ has an illustrative piece penned by Noonan, “Nixon’s Example of Sanity in Washington.”
She starts by recalling examples of past examples of political extremism and gives some illustrations of today’s partisan divide such as outrageous attacks on Justice Kavanaugh and even the private emails of Ginny Thomas, the wife of Justice Thomas, who expressed fears about the last election being a fraud. She says of Mrs. Thomas, “This is a person who lives in the heart of the Washington establishment and had no proof for any of the wild things she was saying. But when you are a conspiracist, every way you look is a grassy knoll.”
Clearly, Noonan thinks there is nothing, nothing at all to any claims the election was stolen, or perhaps purchased by Mark Zuckerberg. To suggest that elections have not honest, is apparently like questioning whether the Pope is Catholic.
But in reality, elections have been stolen and many people would agree that the current Pope does not think like a Catholic. She seems completely unaware of the many anomalies and illegalities, especially in Wisconsin, Arizona, Georgia, and Pennsylvania, that have been recently uncovered. Nor does she even hint she has read Mollie Hemingway’s book about the role of Big Tech and Zuckerbucks in the last election.
Ignorance is either bliss or material for another column.
For Noonan, the January 6th Capitol riot, is an “insurrection”, fully buying into the Democratic Party’s description of that event.
Then she shifts to the election of 1960 and admits that the bare difference in the vote, of 1/6th of one percent, was likely due to election fraud in Illinois and Texas, which gave Kennedy the victory.
Mayor Daly and the mob-dominated unions provided Illinois for the Kennedy side of the ledger.
Then she follows with, “As for Texas, everyone knew what Robert Caro later established, that Lyndon B. Johnson, Kennedy’s Vice President, had the state wired, with credible charges of ballot-box fraud going back to 1948.”
So, it would seem fraud has occurred in the past, but not in the present.
Then, she really gets at her point. Nixon refused to contest the election because he felt that given the Cold War raging, the country could not stand the risk of division. So even lacking the context of a Cold War with a nuclear threat, Nixon is now an example to all Republicans. Avoid political division even if the other guy is stealing the election results.
She points out that almost all liberal historians, who generally despised Nixon, “speak with respect of this chapter in his life.”
She closes with, “Why can’t self-professed patriots love America like that now-maturely, protectively?”
Clearly, the “self-professed patriots”, are Trumpetarians are of the worst kind. You know, the kind of Republicans that complain when billionaires insert themselves into the election process and suppress all news and opinion from getting on social media or on the major TV networks. That kind of riff-raff that doesn’t “love” America.
Why is it mature and protective of America to be silent about election fraud? How on earth does that “protect” our electoral system and love America? She admits fraud occurred and praises losing candidates who did nothing to contest the results. But to “protect” the system, the best response is silence?
If elections are rigged, what is the point of politics?
For Peggy it seems, whether it be electoral mischief in Minnesota with Norm Coleman (which helped swing Obama Care), or knocking off Alaska’s Senator Ted Stevens with bogus charges, the job of Republicans is to suck it up and take their beating. If you complain, you are not a statesman but a conspiracy theorist.
Ms. Noonan seems to have some sort of psychological aversion to fighting back even when fraud has been established. But it would seem, it is gauche to fight fraud when it occurs. It should only be established thirty or forty years later by historians. Those who knew for decades and did nothing about it are to be praised as statesmen.
Like a battered wife, the correct response for her to the signs of fraud is not to call for investigations but to quietly take the beating and come back to the electoral system bruised and bloody, and give the relationship more time to inflict more beatings. If you just keep taking the beatings, historians will finally love you.
Historically, she agrees that fraud has taken place. She denies any fraud in recent elections. But get this: where fraud has been established, the best thing is to capitulate to those who committed the fraud.
The proper role of a Republican is to support the election of any Democrat who wins through fraud. Don’t complain, and for heaven’s sake, do not investigate. It just is in bad taste.
Mr. Trump has done some wonderful things and said a number of stupid things. But what many admire is that he did not lie down to the establishment in Washington. He fights.
While personally, we are still waiting for all the information to come in, enough is already available to question the last election. At least some Republicans are trying to see that information gets out so voters can decide and then writing legislation to stop election fraud. Noonan is against both getting the information in a contemporaneous way where it will be of some practical use, and then doing anything about it.
Get it? Not only don’t investigate but if the evidence is found, capitulate for the sake of political stability and reverence for the “system”. Going along with fraud demonstrates class and maturity. How else can Republicans curry favor with historians? Getting that approval from historians and writers is more important than getting the actual winner in office.
Democracy means power is derived from the consent of the governed, through voting. It is quite legitimate to ask who voted, were they qualified to vote, did they vote once, were the votes tampered with, and were the votes counted correctly. Peggy cannot seem to chew gum and walk at the same time. But, she can write a silly column.
In corporate America, people who count money get audited all the time, in fact, audited results are required. But for Noonan, people who count votes should always be trusted, even though fraud has occurred before. It is not right to steal someone’s money but it is OK to steal their vote?
Peggy Noonan does not feel election integrity is worth fighting over. It is divisive and in poor taste to do so.
She really does represent the mindset of the Republican Party prior to Trump.
To others, it shows naivete and cowardice.
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In an ominous warning to Israel and regional Sunni countries, Major General Hossein Salami, the commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), on Wednesday threatened those nations that have “established political and security relations with the Zionist regime,” a reference to the Jewish State of Israel.
He added, “We explicitly declare and warn that the continuation of such relations is not acceptable at all.”
Coming three days before the start of Ramadan, the annual month of obligatory fasting and prayer for Muslims and one of the Five Pillars of Islam, the warning should be taken seriously by those specifically identified in Salami’s threat because Ramadan is also traditionally a time of Islamic terror attacks.
Those attacks may already have begun with a deadly spate of terrorism across Israel, in Be’ersheba, Hadera and Bnei Brak (just outside of Tel Aviv) that thus far have killed 11 people in the space of a single week. Assailants, two Arab-Israelis and the last one from the town of Ya’bad, near Jenin in Samaria, were armed with knives and guns, including an M-16 rifle, in the three attacks.
In HAMAS-ruled Gaza, sweets were handed out on the street to celebrate Israeli deaths, and in Lebanon, Hezbollah hailed the attacks with flags and music in the streets.
An official statement from Hezbollah referenced both the Abraham Accords indirectly and more specifically the tri-partite March 22 meeting of Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett at the Egyptian resort of Sharm e-Sheikh with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi and United Arab Emirates (UAE) Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, declaring that “All meetings of betrayal and the heights of normalization cannot give the enemy security.”
The fact that it was Maj. Gen. Salami, the IRGC commander, who issued the Iranian threat is significant, because it is the IRGC and its subordinate Qods Force unit that provide the support — arms, funding, training — for Islamic terror proxies across the Middle East.
The official statements coming from both Iran and HAMAS, Hezbollah and Palestinian Islamic Jihad in the wake of the Israel attacks indicate an orchestrated terror offensive, timed for the start of Ramadan. As Islamic doctrine obligates that a warning be given before attack, the Tehran regime is here putting Israel and the entire region on notice that this Ramadan, as others past, will be a violent one.
The Iranian regime understands that both within and outside of the Abraham Accords, key regional players, including Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, the UAE, Egypt, Sudan, Morocco and others are banding together with Israel in an unprecedented recognition of the threat from an aggressive and rapidly nuclearizing Iran.
Those expanding relationships with the hated Jews, as well as the centuries-old Sunni-Shi’ite split that leaves the Sunni Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in administrative charge of Islam’s Two Holy Places — Mecca and Medina — are what’s really “not acceptable at all” to the Shi’ite Twelvers who head both Iran and the IRGC/Qods Force.
It is especially incongruous that at precisely this time, in this atmosphere, the U.S. reportedly is considering removing the IRGC from the Department of State’s Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTO) list as one of a slew of concessions to Iran intended to revive the July 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) nuclear deal.
Indeed, indicative of the alarm such reports are invoking, recent articles in the Saudi press have labeled such efforts an “absurd” act and a “crime” that will threaten global security. Writing in the London-based Al-Sharq Al-Awsat on March 22, Saudi journalist Abdullah bin Bijad al-Otaibi called the idea of revoking the IRGC’s terrorist designation “a direct threat and danger not only to the Arab states but to the entire world.”
Likewise writing in Al-Sharq Al Awsat, Saudi journalist Tariq al-Homayed drew the broader implications, stating that “Removing the IRGC from the terror list will grant Iran freedom of action in the region as part of a Russian-Chinese-Iranian alliance.”
As the seasons of Ramadan, Passover and the Christian Holy Week culminating with Easter on April 16 all coincide this year, it is urgent that we understand the explicit intent of the Iranian warning to Israel and the region. It is nothing less than a declaration of war against Israel and those regional people who are choosing the pathway of peace and reconciliation with it.
Woke Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin needs to be challenged like this at every opportunity.
Same guy who ordered a 60 day “stand down” by military to look for and weed out “extremists” in the military meaning conservatives and/or Trump supporters after January 6th, 2020 events in Washington, D.C.
Austin is nothing more than an Obama clone and would not have been a 4 star and SecDef if he wasn’t totally left leaning and WOKE.
🚨Matt Gaetz drops MOAB on woke Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin:
“I’m embarrassed by YOUR leadership! I’m not embarrassed for my country. It’s disgraceful that you would sit here & conflate your failures with those of uniformed service members.” 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/ZTkUBrr6wp
Fireworks went off when Rep. Matt Gaetz clashed with Biden’s Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin who was trying to defend his request to increase the defense budget.
Gaetz accused Austin of being too focused on wokeism instead of defining the nation and called the Pentagon out for being behind China and Russia on hypersonic weapons.
“This is the most capable, most combat critical force in the world, it has been and it will be so going forward, and this budget helps us to do that,” Austin said. “Not if we continue down this path. Not if we continue to embrace socialism,” Gaetz replied.
“The fact that you’re embarrassed by your country, by your military. I’m sorry for that,” Austin shot back.
“Oh no, I’m embarrassed for your leadership,” Gaetz responded. “I am not embarrassed for my country. It’s disgraceful that you would sit here & conflate your failures with those of uniformed service members.”
Gatez started to explain how the US military has fallen behind the Chinese when Austin cut in and asked, “What do you mean? We’re behind in hypersonics? How do you make that assessment?”
There was a lot of cross-talk but then Gaetz added, “your own people brief us that we’re behind and China is winning.”
Today, I’m going to tell you how to steal an election. Everything I’m about to tell you comes from recent documented findings about problems with the 2020 elections.
If I wanted to steal an election, one thing I would do is engage in ballot harvesting, which is illegal in many places. A citizens’ group found, in Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, perhaps 7 percent of ballots put in drop boxes were in batches, not single ballots, and therefore illegal. If you extrapolate this out across the country, it could have been 5 million illegal votes in the 2020 election. A Wisconsin state senator filed a complaint with the Wisconsin Elections Commission alleging the city of Racine is currently intentionally ignoring the law and court rulings by allowing people to return ballots for other voters. The problem with ballot harvesting is you don’t know the circumstances under which the ballots were obtained, perhaps fraudulently or under pressure, or maybe they are completely made up, you just don’t know. Doesn’t sound like a free and fair election to me.
In fact, there’s surveillance video and cellphone evidence in Georgia of 2,000 mules dumping multiple ballots into drop boxes while wearing latex gloves and disguises in 2020. Not only that, they stopped off at Stacey Abrams’ headquarters and Democrat offices between runs where, it is thought, they picked up the ballots. Does that sound like a free and fair election to you? Before you answer ‘yes’, you should know an official investigation is ongoing.
Another thing I would do to steal an election is make sure the voter rolls were as dirty as possible. There’s been an awful lot of resistance in recent years from elections officials who just do not want to clean up the rolls. For example, 60,000 voters on North Carolina’s rolls are dead, registered twice, or enrolled in another state, according to a new public interest law firm report. If you’re going to steal an election, you need dirty voter rolls to supply names of real registered voters who haven’t voted to which to assign all the fake votes you generate, so things tally and look kosher at the end.
Speaking of fake votes, remember the truck driver who courageously stepped forward and told the nation he had hauled 288,000 suspicious ballots from New York to Pennsylvania in the 2020 election? The U.S. Postal Service still refuses to release its investigative report on the matter. What’s up with that?
If I wanted to steal an election, I’d get a billionaire friend of mine to dump $400 million into thinly disguised get-out-the-vote drives for Democrats. Mark Zuckerberg did that in the 2020 election, with just enough money going to Republican areas so that the people involved in the effort could think they had covered themselves. But the chickens are coming home to roost. Milwaukee city officials have just been accused of election bribery in accepting grants from a Mark Zuckerberg-funded organization, according to a complaint filed with the Wisconsin Elections Commission. The Zuckerbucks story isn’t over, not by a long shot.
Another thing I would do is rig the machines. You might recall that a court-ordered forensic audit of electronic voting machines in Antrim County, Michigan found the machines deliberately created a 68 percent error rate right off the bat. What’s that about? More recently, an examination of machine ballot images in Colorado showed new databases were created partway through the 2020 election, enabling the machines to essentially keep two sets of books. The examiners further found the numbers did not add up and the log files were overwritten, not accidentally but extensively. No wonder people want to go back to paper ballots and laws have been passed in some states to keep the machines from connecting to the Internet.
There’s lots more I would do: count absentee ballots anyway even though the signatures don’t match what’s on file; get felons to vote illegally; and get school administrators to sweep student records to find more votes for Democrat candidates.
After I did all these things, I would turn around and claim we just had the most secure election ever. The bigger the lie, the more believable it is, that’s Propaganda 101.
All kidding aside, we on the grassroots political Right are not going to let the 2020 election go. We are not going to just ‘move along’. We want all the documented problems run to ground and fixed. The way I hear the story, $20 to $30 million dollars has come from big donors on the Right to fix these problems. That’s buying an awful lot of vigilance now and new efforts from the professional Right to ensure election integrity cross my desk several times a day. So, if Democrats want to steal elections in the future, they’ll need a whole new bag of tricks. And we’re watching – closely – so good luck with that.
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Under Barack Obama, 1,000 people a day “overwhelm[ed] the system.” Anything over 4,000 was considered a “crisis.” So what does Joe Biden call 7,100 illegal border crossings every 24 hours? Just the beginning, apparently. The White House, determined to take sole ownership of the “worst administration ever” mantle, has decided to turn the catastrophe at the border up to doomsday levels by lifting the COVID restrictions that kept some migrants at bay. Starting May 23rd, agents warn, a million crossings every six months is going to sound like a dream scenario compared to what’s coming.
“Have you watched some of the footage of what goes on just on the other side of the border?” House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) asked reporters. “Looks like it comes from Ukraine.” And it’s only going to get worse. If Biden overturns Donald Trump’s Title 42, which allows the U.S. to turn away illegal immigrants because of the “communicable disease threat,” America is facing a nightmare of “cataclysmic” proportions, experts warn. According to documents, Homeland Security is preparing for 18,000 illegal encounters a day once the rule is overturned — double the record highs we’re seeing now.
To states like Arizona, Texas, and California, “it’s throwing gasoline on a fire,” state Attorney General Mark Brnovich (R-Ariz.) shook his head. And it’s not just the border states who would suffer, he pointed out on “Washington Watch.” “We know that there’s a record amount of fentanyl and methamphetamine flowing into our country… And it’s estimated that if Title 42 is rescinded, more than 500,000 people — in addition to the [ones] already illegally crossing — will cross… That’s literally like the population of Kansas City, Missouri or Baltimore, Maryland coming across in one month.” It’s already overwhelming our social systems, Brnovich warns. And what’s happening now, he explains, “is that people charged with serious crimes [and] convicted of serious crimes are just being released into our community… It is, quite frankly, making our country more dangerous. And it’s just unfair to hardworking American taxpayers.”
That’s what drove Brnovich — along with his counterparts in Missouri and Louisiana — to sue. Like everyone else who sees the writing on the wall, they’re desperate to stop the Biden administration from removing the one remaining tool our border patrol has to stem the tide. Based on the best estimates, our agents have invoked Title 42 more than 1.7 million times since 2020. If it goes, America could be staring down a literal stampede at the border, which is yet another storyline Democrats can’t afford.
But there’s nothing like an election to snap some sense into Biden’s party, who is suddenly desperate to save Title 42. Even extremists like Senator Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.) raced to get on the record opposing Biden’s plan. “This is not the right time,” he argued, “and we have not seen a detailed plan from the administration. We need assurances that we have security at the border and that we protect communities on this side of the border. Moderates like Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) and Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) were more blunt about the “human tsunami” that awaits. Manchin called the president’s plan “frightening,” reminding everyone that “we are nowhere near prepared to deal with [the] influx.” “Until we have comprehensive, bipartisan immigration reform that commits to securing our borders and providing a pathway to citizenship for qualified immigrants,” he argued, “Title 42 must stay in place.”
Senator Mark Warner (D-Va.) piled on, insisting that he would be “very reluctant to end this Trump policy until we [have] a real plan in place.” “I think we are a generous country, but we have to be a country of [the] rule of law.” Funny, Brnovich pointed out, that’s what Republicans have been saying all along. Immigrants want to come here because America cares about the rule of law, he said. “And what the Biden administration is doing is — quite frankly — undermining it.” Worse, he argues, Biden is incentivizing lawlessness either indirectly by removing the consequences or directly by offering things like welfare benefits. “It’s an insane policy. I mean, literally, the Democratic Party has gotten so Left. We’ve gone in 50 years from John F. Kennedy wanting to put a man on the moon to Joe Biden wanting to put a felon in everyone’s neighborhood.”
And, of course, the thing that really gets under Americans’ skin is the outright hypocrisy. If Democrats are declaring an end to the pandemic at the border, why not everywhere? Why are passengers still required to wear masks on planes? Why are members of our military still forced to get vaccinated against their will? And why is Congress considering a $10 billion package in COVID relief for a virus that the White House insists doesn’t exist anymore?
Obviously, the permanent solution to this crisis isn’t Title 42. It’s sound immigration policy that secures our border. Americans wouldn’t be having this debate if Democrats had kept the ideas that were working in place. Instead, in a pathetic attempt to please his open-borders radicals, Biden threw out every commonsense strategy that kept the problem under control. But then, Brnovich wonders, maybe that was the point. If the Left wants to centralize power in Washington, D.C., then “I think part of that strategy is to overwhelm the system… and essentially make [these people] dependent on a central authority.”
But until the Democratic Party succeeds in trampling our entire system of government, they still have to follow the law. If they want to change a policy, then there are rules for that. “After all, [Biden’s] not a king,” Brnovich points out. “He’s not a dictator.” And if taking him to court is the only thing that will drive that point home, so be it. The borders of Biden’s authority are just as important as the country’s borders he ignores.
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The Congressional-Executive Commission on China published its annual report on Thursday outlining human rights violations within Communist China.
Among other findings, the report reiterated the State Department’s 2021 determination that China’s attack on the reproductive rights of Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities constituted “genocide,” and even went so far as to amount to “eugenics.”
The report also proposed 18 legislative recommendations concerning the protection of human rights in China for policymakers to consider, many of which are echoed in a letter the commission sent to ranking members of the House and Senate on Monday.
A bipartisan commission released a report detailing Communist China’s gross human rights violations on Thursday.
The annual report published by the Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC) determined that China had perpetrated “systematic violations of human rights” and that it posed a “challenge to the rules-based international order,” a press release accompanying the report’s publication stated.
Echoing the Department of State’s 2021 determination, the report states “abundant evidence” was found showing “Chinese authorities had committed genocide.”
The justification for the determination hinges on the United Nations’ definition of “genocide,” which is satisfied when actions against groups “prevent births.”
The report found that “many of the most egregious abuses” targeted women and included “rape” perpetrated by concentration camp “officials and government employees.”
The report also concluded, among other atrocities, Uyghur and ethnic minority women were subject to forced sterilizations and abortions, which has caused a “drop in birth rates.” The commission characterized these practices as amounting to “eugenics.”
The report also states the CCP sought to “further the ‘sinicization’ of religions practiced by ethnic minority groups.”
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Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. said of Putin’s mass slaughter of civilians by Russian-controlled troops in the town of Bucha, northwest of Ukraine’s capital of Kyiv, “He is a war criminal…This guy is brutal…I think it is a war crime…He should be held accountable.”
On Feb. 18, 2022 the New York Times reported, “President Biden said Russia would target Kyiv, Ukraine’s capital, in the coming week. The Russian president said earlier Friday [February 18th] that he [Putin] was still open to diplomacy.”
In a February 17th, 2022 video (below) Biden states that there is a “high risk” of an invasion but that he “has no plans to call Putin. I won’t call Putin.”
Watch:
If Putin is a war criminal then so to is Biden.
Both Biden and Putin must be held accountable. Biden for his inaction and Putin for his actions.
Biden was weak and Putin knew it. Biden is the Neville Chamberlain of our time.
At least Chamberlain met with Adolf Hitler over the Nazi’s intent to seize the Sudetenland. At a meeting in Munich, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain negotiated what he famously called “peace for our time.” In the end Chamberlain allowed Hitler to dismember Czechoslovakia, which eventually led to the invasion of Poland from September 1st, 1939 – October 6th, 1939 and the beginning of WWII.
Biden is the third “progressive” president who will start yet another world war.
Biden is worse than Chamberlain in that he is not openly confronting Putin. Biden won’t go mano-a-mano with Putin, even by phone. Why? Because Biden is weak.
Today, due to Biden and his administrations weakness, war crimes have been committed. Both Biden and Putin have blood on their hands.
What did Biden expect a peaceful turn over of Ukraine to Russia like Chamberlain turned over the Sudetenland to Hitler?
Remember after Hitler saw weakness from Great Britain, America, and France he decided to invade Poland.
Today it’s Poland and the Polish people who are doing more to help Ukraine and the Ukranian people than Biden, the European nations and NATO.
We predict that our other enemies China and Iran will take advantage of a feckless Biden and his incompetent administration.
Iran already has the advantage with Biden’s Iran Nuclear Deal which includes taking the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) off of the U.S. terrorist organizations’ list.
The Bottom Line
In an April 4th, 2022 CaucusRoom post Connie Weiss wrote:
Border Patrol is expecting so many illegal crossings after Biden lifts Title 42, the administration is considering deploying a “pre-screening” app as an “easy way for folks to get in.” Under this plan, illegal immigrants would enter with “minimal biometric data and vetting” and without even confirming the right name or date of birth before being released.
Once Title 42 is lifted the Russian Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti (KGB), China’s Ministry of State Security and Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) militants can use Biden’s new “prescreening app” to expedite their collective invasion of America.
“Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned that if peace talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin fail, it will mark the start of ‘a third World War’.”
Fecklessness on the part of America always leads to a world war.
History tells us so as two progressive presidents stood on the sidelines. The first was Progressive Party President Woodrow Wilson when Germany started WWI and Democrat Party President Franklin D. Roosevelt when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941, nearly two years after the invasion of Poland.
WWI started because of militarism, alliances, imperialism and nationalism. Russia, China and Iran are displaying to the world their militarism, Russia/Iran/China have formed a long time alliance, Iran and China, along with Russia, have imperialist objectives and are all radical national socialists. In the case of China and Russia they are radical Communist nationalists. In the case of Iran they are radical Islamic nationalists.
These same ideologies are happening today and Biden is not addressing any of them with his foreign policy positions. Thus history may repeat itself.
Gird your loins. The 2022 Russian invasion of the Ukraine looks eerily like the 1939 Nazi invasion of Poland.
WWIII may start soon, followed by WWIV in the Middle East between Iran and a Arab/Israeli alliance, and WWV between Taiwan and China in the Pacific theatre.
Biden is letting all of this happen while he fiddles and watches the world burn This is why we believe that Biden is a war criminal.
Gird your loins. Hell is coming our way and there’s no one in Washington, D.C. doing a damn thing to stop it.
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The deadliest Marxist guerrilla force is fighting the biggest socialist regime.
“Socialism, this is the path to save the planet, I don’t have the least doubt. Capitalism is the road to hell,” Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez told the 2009 Copenhagen climate conference.
Rhetoric like that won the socialist dictator the admiration of socialists from Barack Obama to Noam Chomsky. But the dirty little secret of the socialist revolution in Venezuela was that it was a front for a massive drug smuggling operation. Chavez and his successor, Nicolas Maduro, gutted Venezuela’s rich oil resources and turned the country into a socialist drug cartel.
“Venezuela and its revolution will endure under the proven leadership of vice president Maduro,” Sean Penn promised. The population has fled or is starving, but the revolution endures.
In 2020, Maduro and top officials of his regime were indicted in the United States as leaders of the Cartel de los Soles for conspiring with FARC to smuggle tons of cocaine to the United States. Venezuela’s biggest asset was its border with Colombia. Cuba, which had backed FARC and other narcoterrorists in Colombia, scored a big win with the socialist takeover in Venezuela.
FARC, a Marxist-Leninist narcoterrorist group, coordinated with Venezuela’s government to smuggle drugs to Cuba and from there to the United States. Every day planes take off from Venezuela delivering hundreds of tons of Colombian cocaine each year meant for America.
Hugo Chavez once claimed that capitalism destroyed Mars. There’s no word on that, but his brand of socialism certainly destroyed Venezuela taking it from prosperity to starvation.
And it’s destroying the rest of the region.
Marxists smuggling cocaine aren’t exactly showcasing an ideal alternative socialist economic system to free enterprise. The Colombian-Venezuelan drug route is being threatened, not by Colombia which was pressured by Obama into giving in to FARC, but by two groups of Marxist-Leninist coke fiends who are fighting it out over the drug trade like filthy capitalists.
The National Liberation Army (ELN), a Marxist-Leninist terror group set up by the Cubans, has been fighting a FARC splinter group known as the 10th Front or the Eastern Bloc. Both leftist terror groups are Marxist-Leninist in orientation, although ELN has a lot more liberation theology in the mix, and both make their money from drugs and the occasional kidnapping.
ELN and the 10th Front aren’t fighting over ideological differences, but over drugs and money.
A fawning article in Jacobin magazine describes ELN as a “group of students” who were “inspired by the Cuban Revolution, Che Guevara, and Liberation Theology”. The four page article never mentions cocaine even though that’s what ELN actually does. Last year, Colombia seized $300 million in cocaine from the Marxist-Leninist narcoterrorist organization.
Che would be proud.
After FARC’s implosion as a viable force, Venezuela’s government formed a drug smuggling alliance with ELN. That drew it into a conflict with the 10th Front which is now conducting a guerrilla war against Venezuela. After a long alliance, FARC and Venezuela are fighting each other with the most fearsome Marxist guerrilla force in the region fighting the leading Socialist regime. The same forces that had terrorized Colombia for so long have turned on each other.
Venezuelan soldiers are dying in border clashes, and invading Colombia to terrorize local villagers in the hopes of shutting down the ELN’s Marxist drug rivals. They’re getting blown up, ambushed, and shot up when they’re not being hit with human rights violations complaints.
It’s socialism at its finest.
The 10th Front is allied with Brazil’s Red Command which was born as a prison pact between Communists and criminals under the slogan, “Peace, Justice and Freedom”. Red Command is involved in Brazil’s drug trafficking at every level from slum dealing to club parties for the children of the elite. The Red Command helps the 10th Front remain in the field even though Cuba is on the side of Venezuela and the ELN narcoterrorists that it had originally set up.
Neither side is even bothering to pretend that this is about any kind of ideological differences.
What’s at stake here is a simple matter of market economics. Americans spend about $25 billion on coke every year. Moving drugs through Central America to the Caribbean provides a piece of not only the American, but the European cocaine market. The rival Marxist drug smugglers are competing to be the exclusive suppliers of Colombian cocaine to that huge market.
Think of it as the cola wars, but with actual cocaine. The glorious Marxist revolution is down to two groups of Marxist-Leninists killing each other to make a killing on cocaine in California.
It’s like Coke vs. Pepsi if both companies were run by Marxist druglord terrorists.
When Obama pushed Colombia to cut a peace deal with FARC and then cut off the flow of Cuban refugees, he also helped restart the flow of cocaine to America from Cuba. The subsequent collapse of Venezuela’s economy and its oil industry has left it few options. Smuggling cocaine takes a lot less skill than refining crude or running a country. And Venezuela’s military makes it the best armed drug cartel in the hemisphere, if not the planet.
Which other drug cartel in the region has its own attack helicopters to deploy in the field?
But Venezuelan soldiers are paid with food and worthless scrip. FARC and ELN recruits are often local peasants who are kidnapped and drafted into the fight. The real money goes to the elites on both sides of a drug war that is now a cocaine civil war between narcosocialists.
Karl Marx claimed that capitalism was destined to destroy itself. Instead, Marxist regimes and movements hold the world record for self-destruction. South of the border the Marxists who once won the hearts of the American Left have become drug dealers shooting it out in the jungle over who gets a cut of the cocaine that ends up in the noses of their Yankee comrades.
Marx had metaphorically called religion the opiate of the masses. Marxism has become the actual cocaine of the masses. Just ask the Marxist-Leninists kidnapping, torturing and killing each other to socialize the cocaine market.
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.
EDITORS NOTE: This Jihad Watch column is republished with permission. All rights reserved.
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The unknowns: Did the president benefit in any way from his son’s overseas business deals, what did he know and when did he know it?
Back before the 2020 election, when Democrats and their allies in the corporate media were still claiming the Hunter Biden story was a conspiracy theory or Russian disinformation, GOP Sen. Ron Johnson released an open letter to America posing questions to then-candidate Joe Biden.
Like most Biden scandals at the time, it mostly got ignored or ridiculed. But the questions were rooted in facts and evidence gathered over two years by investigators on Johnson’s Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.
Now nearly two years later, a funny thing has happened. The giants of the corporate media – the New York Times, Washington Post, and CNN among them – have abruptly reversed course and acknowledged Hunter Biden’s foreign business pursuits raise legal issues and that content on his laptop left behind in a Delaware repair shop in 2019 was authentic all along.
And now Johnson’s unanswered questions posed in August 2020 loom larger than ever as a federal grand jury in Delaware investigates Hunter Biden for his Ukraine and China business deals, taxes, foreign lobbying, and other issues, and some Democrats reportedly brace for a possible indictment.
You can read the full letter here:
Hunter Biden has acknowledged he is under investigation but denies any illegal conduct.
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