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Forensic Declarations in Lake v. Hobbs Addresses Election Integrity in Arizona

June 18, 2022

By Lyle J. Rapacki, Ph.D.

Below are links two legal documents filed with the court by Arizona Governor candidate Kari Lake and Arizona Secretary of State candidate Mark Finchem, written by Doug Logan who coordinated the forensic ballot evaluation in Maricopa County, Arizona. The attached documents present further compelling and sober evidence that our electoral process has been seriously compromised leaving the American people with a foreboding feeling that this most sacred privilege given to us by our Forefathers has been criminally compromised.

These two documents coupled with the recently released movie “2000 Mules” is not only a wake-up call to citizens but also a slap in the face to the many in both political parties who still deny anything irregular occurred in the last 2020 national election; even more blunt are those who claim to be conservative but have not even uttered a word of concern, much less a word suggesting steps be taken so such a heinous event never happens again. Not a word! Willful ignorance is also present among those wishing to run for office but not offend anyone. Such a shame… we have few true Servant Leaders.

Doug Logan has borne the brunt of criticism, snarky attacks and character assassination as the director of the forensic evaluation. The documents below will again demonstrate there were problems a many, and Logan took every conceivable step to expose the problems. This fact will clearly be seen within these documents, as will the lack of compliance from those who should strongly be held accountable. Doug Logan should be thanked for the service he performed, and appreciated for standing against very strong forces who did all they could to hinder his performance.

Kari Lake and Mark Finchem should be thanked for not being politically correct or safe, but for fighting to restore integrity in our electoral process.

Lake v. Hobbs Complaint — Document #1 – District Court, D. Arizona

Lake v. Hobbs Civil Cover Sheet — Document #1, Attachment #1 – District Court, D. Arizona

MISINFORMATION WATCH: act.tv and democrats.com

June 18, 2022

By Dr. Rich Swier

Misinformation is false or inaccurate information, especially that which is deliberately intended to deceive.

Disinformation is a subset of propaganda and is defined as false information that is spread deliberately to deceive people.

Malinformation or malicious information is having or showing a desire to cause harm to someone; given to, marked by, or arising from malice or malicious gossip.

In this Misinformation Watch article to expose mis, dis and malinformation we look at act.tv and democrats.com.

As JFK said,

The great enemy of truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived, and dishonest, but the myth – persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

act.tv and democrats.com

We received an email from Bob Fertik from act.tv (email: info@votedem.org). Here’s the text of Fertik’s email,

“Sedition” is defined as the act of trying to overthrow the government, and for too long people guilty of trying to wage war on the government are still running it.

People who invade the Capitol should not hold elected office. So long as Trump and his fellow violent seditionists remain at large, no one in America is truly safe. Call upon Congress to lock them up.

Trump and his cronies were violating American Democracy long before they encouraged their armed lackeys to literally invade the government. If there are no consequences, they will push further and further until something breaks.

Let’s not wait a second more to hold these seditionists responsible for their attack on the Capitol: Call upon all elected officials who encouraged the January 6th to be charged and removed from our governing body immediately.

ADD YOUR NAME

Jocelyn Macurdy Keatts

Washington Director, act.tv

From this email it appears that act.tv is the propaganda arm of the Democrat Party and is not a news organization but rather an activist organization bent on spreading malinformation. The postscript to the email states,

act.tv is a project of Democrats.com, the oldest and largest independent online community of Democratic Party and progressive activists.

Keatts in the email states that those who rallied in Washington, D.C. on January 6th, 2021 and President Donald J. Trump are “violent seditionists.” To date the “series of five scheduled hearings by the United States House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack” has not charged anyone with sedition. In fact the committee is miss named by using the word “attack.”

In fact, there was no planned attack, there was a peaceful rally that made its way to the U.S. Capital building and some members of the rally were allowed into the building by the Capital Police. It is also true that four unarmed rally members were shot inside the Capital building, yet no one has been charged with murders of any of these individuals to date.

Who is Jocelyn Macurdy Keatts?

Jocelyn Macurdy Keatts besides being the Washington Director of act.tv is a contributor to the the Huffington Post.

In 2020 Jocelyn Macurdy Keatts did an act.tv show titled “Yes, the Cops are Intentionally Murdering Black People.” This show has now been taken down by act.tv.

Keatts has two articles listed on act.tv:

I Was Raised Outside of Charlottesville- Here’s What’s True written August 16th, 2017 and published by Keatts who was the Huffington Post’s Political and Psychology Research Fellow in Washington, D.C. and
Can We Stop Love Shaming Women, Already? written on June 13th, 2016 and also published in the Huffington Post.

In her article I Was Raised Outside of Charlottesville- Here’s What’s True Keatts ending with this statement,

This fight is multifaceted. It will be won on the streets, in the ballot box, and in our communities. Most viable, though, is the fight that will be won within ourselves- on the day when all of us, in all sincerity, can find peace with our own darkness, and not transmute it into the basest forms of cowardice, barbarism, and contempt.

In here article Can We Stop Love Shaming Women, Already? Keatts wrote,

So screw the patriarchy. Be the best parts of yourself — and sometimes even the worst ones. And yes, totally: do yoga, go running, be nice to your co workers, and try not to be an alcoholic. Chase the best woman you can be, and chase her for your own benefit. Make it about you, and your loved ones, and whatever God you choose to believe in. Be sane, but if you can’t be, don’t worry about it all that much. You’re going to get called crazy anyways.

Can you say radical feminista?

The Bottom Line

WATCH: Never before seen footage of two women killed on January 6th allegedly by police. The Unselect Committee omitted this footage from their presentation during hearings on June 10th, 2022 even though it was shot by their star witness Nick Quested.

The facts show that the only people murdered, arrested and held in prison on and after January 6th were peaceful protestors who were invited into the U.S. capital building by the Capital Police and others. While there was damage done to the Capital building nothing indicates that it was those who attended the rally, nor Trump supporters in general.

It’s not enough that Democrats control the major media and social media outlets. They have to have their own propaganda arm, i.e. act.tv, to push mis, dis and malinformation about January 6th.

I’m a registered Republican and yet I got on their email list. How does that happen?

You guessed it, someone sold my email address to democrats.com and act.tv.

Gird your loins. The midterm elections are approaching and I expect to receive more mis, dis and malinformation from the likes of democrats.com and act.tv.

Stay tuned.

RELATED TWEET:

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— Giordano Bruno (@GioBruno1600) June 18, 2022

There’s No Objective Evidence the Federal “Assault Weapons” Ban Saved Lives

June 18, 2022

By James D. Agresti

In reality, Biden is confusing terms and distorting data to paint a picture that is opposed to the facts. Such facts include but are not limited to the following:

The number of people killed in mass shootings didn’t decline even after the 1986 federal ban on automatic guns, which are more capable of mass murder than the guns Biden wants to ban.
The terms “assault weapons” and “high-capacity magazines” are misleading and refer to common weapons used by citizens for hunting and home defense.
Before, during, and after the 1994 law cited by Biden, the portion of the U.S. population killed in mass shootings barely budged, and the slight changes are better explained by other factors.

Automatic Firearms Have Been Banned Since 1986

U.S. Marine Corps Sergeant Eddie Hedgepeth looks through the scope of his 5.56mm M4 Carbine. Credit: U.S. Department of Defense

Eight years before the “assault weapons” ban referenced by Biden, Congress passed and President Reagan signed a 1986 law that made it unlawful for civilians to “transfer or possess a machinegun.” Under federal law, the term “machinegun” means “any weapon” that can fire “more than one shot” with “a single function of the trigger.” Thus, the ban includes all types of automatic firearms, including machine guns, submachine guns, and assault rifles. These are the types of guns commonly used by armed forces.

The 1986 ban, which is still in effect, has an exception for guns legally owned before the law was enacted, but because automatic firearms have been heavily regulated since 1934, less than 4 million are currently owned by civilians. The relative rarity and strict regulation of these weapons are highlighted by a 2016 U.S. Department of Justice study that found “no evidence that” any owner of an automatic gun was convicted of using one to commit a crime from 2006 through 2014.

The primary purpose of the 1986 law was to reduce mass shooting deaths by limiting the availability of weapons with rapid rates of fire. As explained in the book Military Technology, “A machine gunner’s weapon fired hundreds of bullets each minute. He could point the weapon in the general direction of his enemy and fire. Even poorly-trained shooters could hit their targets. Automatic weapons made war a far more deadly business.”

Nevertheless, the portion of the U.S. population killed in mass shootings (defined in academic literature as those in which four or more people are killed), didn’t decline in the wake of the law:

Semi-Automatic “Assault Weapons” Were Banned From 1994–2004

AR-15 semi-automatic rifle. Credit: istock/Luevanos

Less than a decade after banning automatic weapons, Congress passed and President Clinton signed a 1994 law that made it illegal to “manufacture, transfer, or possess a semiautomatic assault weapon.” These guns often look like military firearms and share some characteristics with them (like detachable magazines and pistol grips), but they lack their defining feature: the ability to fire multiple bullets with a single trigger pull.

For that reason and the fact that these guns are used for hunting and home defense, firearm specialists typically don’t call them “assault weapons” but describe them as:

“modern sporting rifles,”
by their make/model (like “AR-15”), or
with functional descriptors like “semi-automatic rifle.”

Nevertheless, the politicians who sponsored the 1994 law labeled these semi-automatic guns “assault weapons.” This term sounds very similar to “assault rifles,” which happen to be the most common firearms used by soldiers and terrorists.

The lawmakers’ decision to use those easily confused terms accords with a 1988 booklet written by Josh Sugarmann, the founder of a prominent gun control organization called the Violence Policy Center. In it, he wrote about the “new topic” of “assault weapons” and laid out this strategy for banning them:

The weapons’ menacing looks, coupled with the public’s confusion over fully automatic machine guns versus semi-automatic assault weapons—anything that looks like a machine gun is assumed to be a machine gun—can only increase the chance of public support for restrictions on these weapons.

Many journalists have advanced this agenda by using the term “assault weapons” to describe a broad range of semi-automatic guns. These include the most commonly sold rifles in America, more than 19.8 million of which are now in circulation.

Numerous journalists and politicians have also conflated “assault weapons” with “assault rifles” by applying both of these terms to semi-automatic guns. This is chronicled in the nation’s leading authority on journalism lingo, the Associated Press Stylebook. A decade ago, the 2011 Stylebook distinguished between “assault weapons” and “assault rifles” as follows:

assault weapon: A semi-automatic firearm similar in appearance to a fully automatic firearm or military weapon. Not synonymous with assault rifle, which can be used in fully automatic mode.

This splitting of verbal hairs between semi-automatic “assault weapons” and military “assault rifles” led journalists to misuse these terms, but instead of fixing this confusion, the 2015 Stylebook made it worse. It did this by combining both terms into a single definition while stating that they “are often used interchangeably,” but “some” journalists “make the distinction that assault rifle is a military weapon….”

The use of similar and even identical terms to describe materially different weapons violates a basic principle of honest reporting stressed in journalism guidebooks: “use jargon only when necessary and define it carefully.”

Like the 1986 ban on automatic weapons, the 1994 ban on semi-automatic “assault weapons” had an exception for guns legally owned prior to the law’s enactment. Unlike the 1986 ban, however, the 1994 ban was not permanent. That’s because lawmakers included a provision that sunset the ban in 10 years as a compromise to secure enough votes to pass it and to provide time to “investigate and study” its “impact, if any, on violent and drug trafficking crime.”

The law required the U.S. Attorney General to conduct and publish such a study within 30 months of the ban’s enactment, and the study concluded that “the public safety benefits of the 1994 ban have not yet been demonstrated.” A similar study funded by the U.S. Department of Justice was published in 2004, the year the law was due to expire. It found that the ban had:

no discernible reduction in the lethality and injuriousness of gun violence, based on indicators like the percentage of gun crimes resulting in death or the share of gunfire incidents resulting in injury, as we might have expected had the ban reduced crimes with both AWs [assault weapons] and LCMs [large-capacity magazines].

On the other hand, the authors of the study noted that the effects of the law “are still unfolding and may not be fully felt for several years into the future,” and so it is “premature to make definitive assessments of the ban’s impact on gun violence.”

When the ban expired in 2004, various members of Congress sponsored bills to renew it, but none of them passed.

“High Capacity” Magazines Were Banned From 1994–2004

Left: 17-Round magazine for handgun. Credit: Magpul. Right: 30-Round magazine for rifle. Credit: istock/zim286

The same 1994 law which banned many semi-automatic guns until 2004 also banned “large capacity ammunition feeding devices” for the same period. The most common of these devices are detachable magazines (or “mags” for short), which hold and feed ammunition into the vast bulk of semi-automatic guns.

The politicians who wrote the law applied the term “high capacity” to mags that hold more than 10 rounds, even though these are standard on many popular handguns and rifles. For example, the stock magazine for a Glock 19, one of the best-selling handguns in the world, holds 15 rounds.

In fact, mags that hold more than 10 rounds are so common that more than 150 million of them are currently in circulation in the United States.

As a general rule, mags with more capacity are a tactical advantage because they allow the shooter to fire more bullets without reloading. However, a trained gunman can swap out a mag in one second. This allows mass shooters to effectively bypass the capacity restriction by bringing multiple mags to an attack. In contrast, it is not practical for the many millions of citizens who legally carry concealed firearms to keep a stockpile of mags on their waist.

Another tradeoff on mag size is that larger ones are bulkier, which can make weapons less concealable and harder to maneuver. Also, very large mags tend to jam, like the 100-round magazine used by the perpetrator of the 2012 “Dark Knight” movie theater massacre in Aurora, Colorado.

What Happened in the Wake of the 1994 Law?

The 1994–2004 ban on certain semi-automatic guns and 10+ round mags correlates with a slight decline in the portion of the U.S. population killed in mass shootings, but the association is weak, and there is no clear pattern:

Furthermore, the ban did not begin until the last 3.5 months of 1994, and:

production of these weapons in 1994 was more than twice that of a typical year because people rushed to buy them before the ban took effect.
a 2002 paper in the Journal of Quantitative Criminology found that the rush to buy these guns “produced the unintended consequence of making AWs more accessible” through at least mid-1996.
the portion of people killed in mass shootings was lower in 1996 than in six of the eight years that followed while the ban was in effect.

Most importantly, Biden’s statement suffers from the sophomoric myth that association proves causation. Students are taught to avoid this fallacy in high school, but reporters, commentators, and even scholars often embrace it. In the words of an academic textbook about analyzing data:

Association is not the same as causation. This issue is a persistent problem in empirical analysis in the social sciences. Often the investigator will plot two variables and use the tight relationship obtained to draw absolutely ridiculous or completely erroneous conclusions. Because we so often confuse association and causation, it is extremely easy to be convinced that a tight relationship between two variables means that one is causing the other. This is simply not true.

The reason why this is not true is because many other factors can affect events like mass shootings, and there is frequently no objective way to isolate and quantify the effects of a single factor. With regard to the 1994 ban, just a few of the many factors that could have been at play during this era include the following:

The very same 1994 law that enacted the firearm and magazine restrictions also contained a massive array of measures to reduce violent crime, including incentives for states to increase “the percentage of convicted violent offenders sentenced to prison” and increase “the average prison time which will be served in prison by convicted violent offenders.” This is significant because the vast bulk of murders are committed by people with long rap sheets.

Wall-to-wall media coverage of mass shootings—which began with the Columbine school massacre of 1999—has since motivated many copycat killers seeking fame. Notably, the infamous Columbine mass murder occurred in the midst of the 1994–2004 ban.

Less than 1% of all murders in the U.S. occur in mass shootings, and the overall murder rate fell by 39% during the years of the ban. Thus, the slight decline in mass shootings may be a consequence of the much larger decline in all murders. This is why the 2004 DOJ-funded study concluded that “we cannot clearly credit the ban with any of the nation’s recent drop in gun violence.”

Using the childish logic of Biden, one would be forced to conclude that the right-to-carry law enacted by Florida in 1987 is responsible for the massive drop in murder rates that occurred in its wake:

The chart above shows what a strong association looks like, but even still, one cannot draw definitive conclusions from it because a multitude of other factors could be at play.

Biden’s & PolitiFact’s Phony Data

As proven by the data above, Biden’s claim that “mass shootings tripled” after the 1994–2004 ban has no basis in reality. However, a PolitiFact article by Jon Greenberg alleges it is “mostly true.”

PolitiFact attempts to support this claim by citing a paper published in 2019 by the Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery. The details of this study are hidden behind a $60 paywall, but there, the authors reveal that their count of mass shootings is “restricted to incidents reported by all three” of the following sources: “Mother Jones Magazine, the Los Angeles Times and Stanford University.”

Using that methodology—which relies on the absurd notion that all three of their sources have complete data stretching back for decades—the study presents the following chart that shows zero mass shooting deaths in 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 2001, 2002, and 2004:

In other words, the paper ignores numerous people killed in mass shootings during the period of the ban, pretending as if these events and many others never took place:

The 1995 Corpus Christi, TX workplace shooting, where a gunman murdered five people.
The 1996 Fort Lauderdale, FL workplace shooting, where a gunman murdered five of his former coworkers.
The 1997 Orange, CA workplace shooting, where a gunman murdered four people.
The 2001 Melrose Park, IL workplace shooting, where a gunman murdered four people.
The 2002 Rutledge, AL farm shooting, where a gunman murdered six members of his girlfriend’s family.

Further illustrating the inanity of this study, Dr. Louis Klarevas of Columbia University, a Ph.D. who specializes in mass-casualty violence, skewered the paper for having “a large number of misclassifications.”

Yet, PolitiFact treats this deceitful data as if it were fact, and healthcare professionals are invited to be brainwashed by it because the paper is “Accredited for Continuing Medical Education.”

Summary

In his speech, Biden declared that his gun control strategy is part of “my Unity Agenda,” but he betrayed this claim in the same speech by making a partisan plea for votes while attacking Republicans. If “Congress fails” to implement his agenda, said Biden, “I believe the majority of you will act to turn your outrage into making this issue central to your vote.”

Contrary to Biden’s claim that his agenda would save lives:

there is no association between the number of people killed in mass shootings and the 1986 ban on automatic guns.
there is a weak association between the number of people killed in mass shootings and the 1994–2004 ban on certain semi-automatic guns and 10+ round mags.
the weak association is easily attributable to other factors.
the “mass shootings tripled” statistic is patently false.
bans on magazines that hold 10+ rounds give mass murderers a tactical advantage over law-abiding citizens who carry guns to protect themselves and others.

*****

This article was published by JustFactsDaily and is reproduced with permission.

Read This Book To Counter The Hopeless Lies Of ‘1619 Project’ Racial Determinists

June 18, 2022

By Casey Chalk

‘The State of Black America’ offers a much needed corrective to the cynical (and false) thinking peddled by people like Nikole Hannah-Jones.

In an op-ed for The Washington Post last month entitled “For African Americans tired of U.S. hostility, Ghana is still calling,” columnist Karen Attiah discusses the trend of African Americans moving to Africa, or what she calls “black asylum from white supremacy.” Attiah, of Nigerian and Ghanian descent, declares that “leaving is the most powerful form of resistance,” and cites prominent African Americans who move to Africa to “feel mentally and spiritually free from White America’s psychic violence.” Because, you know, Africa doesn’t suffer from much violence.

I suppose one shouldn’t be surprised to read such nonsense from a writer who two years ago blamed the “lies & tears of white women” for violence against black Americans and claimed white women were “lucky” blacks were not “calling for revenge.” But Attiah’s blinkered thinking on race in America is sadly commonplace among prominent black intellectuals on the left.

Nikole Hannah-Jones, whose “1619 Project” curriculum is now taught across the United States, has claimed America was “founded … on an ideal and a lie” as a “slavocracy,” and that “anti-blackness” is “at the core of so many of our institutions and really our society itself.” Ibram X. Kendi, perhaps the most prominent black intellectual in America, has claimed that “racial discrimination is the sole cause of racial disparities in this country and in the world at large.”

It is these theories — and the often erroneous stories that reinforce them — that define much of the discourse on race in America, especially during national Juneteenth celebrations, which commemorate the effective end of slavery. But the story doesn’t have to be told this way.

There is an alternative approach to understanding (and celebrating) black life in the United States. “The State of Black America: Progress, Pitfalls, and the Promise of the Republic,” edited by emeritus professor of political philosophy at Michigan State University W.B. Allen and featuring essays from several prominent black scholars, offers a much-needed corrective to the cynical (and false) thinking peddled by people like Attiah, Hannah-Jones, and Kendi.

In Touch With Reality

In an essay entitled “Whose Fourth of July: Black Patriotism and Racial Inequality in America,” the erudite and rhetorically effective Brown University economics professor Glenn C. Loury calls for an “unabashed black patriotism” and “forthright embrace of American nationalism by black people.” One of the keys to doing so, as Loury has regularly explained, is to “keep in touch with reality.” By that, the economist means that, whatever racism still exists in America, we must not allow that to obscure the remarkable, even unprecedented success black Americans have experienced in the United States.

“Here in America,” writes Loury, “we have witnessed since the end of the Civil War the greatest transformation in the status of an enserfed people … that is to be found anywhere in world history. Some forty million strong, we have become by far the richest and most powerful population of African descent on the planet.”

He notes several important developments for blacks in the last 75 years: the development of a large middle class, the existence of black billionaires, and the influence of blacks on American culture. “Black Americans are the richest and most powerful people in large numbers of African descent on the planet. … [African Americans] have access to five times the income of a typical Nigerian.” He also argues that the success of people like Hannah-Jones and Kendi “gives the lie” to their cynical pessimism.

Bluffs and Bludgeons

“Structural racism,” says Loury, is largely a fabrication employed as a “bluff and a bludgeon.” It is a bluff in the sense that it is presented as an explanation that is not a legitimate one, and a bludgeon in that it is leveraged as a rhetorical weapon to shame and defeat one’s opponents.

An example of the bluff is the left’s obsessions with the narrative of police brutality against black victims. Yet more whites are killed by police every year, and although blacks are overrepresented in that statistic, they are far less than the majority (about one-fourth of just over 1,000 fatal shootings by police annually).

The left-wing narrative also typically elides that many of the persons killed are engaged in violent conflict with police officers, and that, as Loury notes, almost half of the 17,000 homicides in the United States every year involve black perpetrators. “For every black killed by the police, more than twenty-five other black people meet their end because of homicides committed by other blacks,” writes Loury.

The bludgeon, of course, is even easier to identify. That weapon is employed every time someone claims that this or that institution is permeated with systemic racism, or claims systemic racism explains some news event. The reaction to Will Smith slapping Chris Rock is explained by structural racism; gun rights are based on it, and the disproportionate number of black Americans killed by Covid is because of it.

These are either overly simplistic or fallacious. Although the use of this weapon is pervasive and quite damaging, Loury is hopeful: “I believe we are already beginning to see the collapse of this house of cards.”

A More Complicated History

The introductory essay by W.B. Allen and Mikael Rose Good exposes yet another problem with the “systemic” and “structural” racism narratives on the left. For, contrary to what many have been led to believe, substantial progress toward parity with whites for black Americans occurred before the civil rights movement, and during Jim Crow — quite an achievement, given what blacks were up against. Yet the sharpest drop in intergenerational economic mobility in the United States since 1965 has been among African Americans — quite counterintuitive given this was coeval with desegregation and other race-related policies like increased government subsidies for black communities, affirmative action, and busing.

What then explains the stagnation, and even decline of black fortunes in America? Allen and Good blame, in part, administrative cantonment, by which they mean the policy of the U.S. government treating blacks as separate and apart from everyone else.

Precious D. Hall and Daphne Cooper in their essay note that “on the whole, public policies have had a negative effect on African Americans, contributing significantly to a persistent state of poverty … and causing them to face unemployment, underemployment, and inadequate access to health care, housing, and education.” Stan Parker and Robert Borens in the summary of their essay note that poverty correlates strongly with family structure, that since the 1960s marriage and the traditional family dramatically deteriorated (in large part because of changes in attitudes toward religion and government), and that these changes were bolstered, accelerated, and enabled by Supreme Court decisions such as Roe v. Wade.

Ian V. Rowe in another essay observes that “overwhelming data and common sense suggest that family stability matters significantly in virtually every facet of a child’s future life.” Yet about half of black children are living in a home headed by a single parent, increasing the likelihood of all manner of negative outcomes, including failure to graduate high school, underemployment, or prison time. As Parker and Borens mourn: “It is an unfortunate historical fact that the civil rights movement coincided with the prevalence of a certain cultural arrogance which emphasized religion and pretended like the federal government could solve all social ills.”

Which Story Will We Tell?

In other words, the very same trends that have devastated all American demographics since the 1960s — the breakdown of the family, declining religious observance and attendance, failed federal social welfare programs, and increased rates of substance abuse — have hit the black community. Many of the economic and social gains patiently and diligently accumulated among multiple black generations since emancipation — which was leading them closer to parity with white Americans — stalled, or even evaporated.

A few years ago, Hannah-Jones asserted: “None of the actions we are told black people must take if they want to ‘lift themselves’ out of poverty and gain financial stability — not marrying, not getting educated, not saving more, not owning a home — can mitigate 400 years of racialized plundering.” The story told by the contributors to “The State of Black America” quite decisively repudiates Hannah-Jones’ claim and the broader racialist accounts offered by her and others like Attiah and Kendi. This Juneteenth, which story we tell ourselves, and allow to inform our imaginations, will in large part determine the future trajectory of blacks in America.

*****

This article was published by The Federalist and is reproduced with permission.

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The highly choreographed January 6 Select Committee that is being performed on primetime TV over the next several weeks can only be described as political and partisan trash. It is not about truth or acting in the interests of American citizens. It is about the 2024 election – clear as day.

Please click here to inform our elected leaders how you feel about the partisan travesty unfolding in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Soros-Backed Media Consortium Is Buying, to Censor, Conservative Radio Stations

June 18, 2022

By Mike Gonzalez

Wait until Americans with origins in Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua, and other lands demolished by communism find out that their favorite conservative radio stations are being bought by a media consortium headed by a longtime henchman of the Marxist founder of Black Lives Matter, Alicia Garza.

And wait until Mexican Americans, with roots in this country going back to the 17th century or earlier, find out that this BLM confidant, Jess Morales Rocketto, includes as one of her goals to tear down a society and culture that has taken generations to build, or that she told Latinos to follow BLM’s lead during key moments of instability.

And wait until all these voters find out that the justification the consortium, Latino Media Network, gives for the $60 million purchase of 18 stations is that they are too stupid to be able to tell truth from lies, and have been duped by “disinformation” into voting for conservatives.

And wait until these voters hear that, indeed, a big part of the “disinformation” agenda has to do with denying them the same right enjoyed by audiences of English-language media like MSNBC, CNN, Fox, etc.—to wit, being able to choose programming that does not make their blood pressure spike.

Rocketto’s partner in the Latino Media venture, Stephanie Valencia, in fact, warns ominously that “balanced journalism” will be imposed on stations bought, such as Radio Mambi, long a mainstay of the conservative Cuban American community in Miami.

Do NPR listeners want conservative views imposed on them? No. If they did want conservative views, they’d listen to Salem Radio.

I raise the language issue not to imply that American Latins are victims (they’re not), nor to play the identity politics card. I raise it because progressives know too well that if you choose Spanish-language media because you are more comfortable with it, you can be made into a captive audience.

And they are now going to, under their ideological definition of “disinformation,” make 20 million people in the nation’s largest media markets, fully one-third of Latins in the U.S.—and a much higher percentage of those who rely on Spanish—captive to the liberal values of one ultra-lefty corporate giant owner.

Progressives are pushing for censoring conservative views in Spanish because they are panicking about the Democratic Party bleeding Latin voters. A recent Quinnipiac poll, one of several, showed President Joe Biden’s support among these voters at 26%. No wonder Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is calling the purchased media “manipulation.”

Latino Media Network’s claim that it is bipartisan is simply hogwash; the “Republican” on its board is Al Cardenas, a nice guy perhaps, but a “Never Trumper” married to CNN’s Ana Navarro. Until now, these Spanish speakers had an actual choice—Univision and Telemundo are very progressive—but now they won’t. Lest we forget, NPR, too, insists that it is “balanced.”

These 20 million will now be delivered into the hands of those with a political and cultural interest in telling them not to assimilate, or love their new country and seek to preserve its ways, but on the contrary, they’ll be told to consider themselves victims of the system and in need of government help.

Valencia is a former aide to President Barack Obama, whose well-publicized speech about the need for government to control “disinformation” curiously preceded the creation of a disinformation czar at the Department of Homeland Security. The czar position—curiously again—had as one of its main tasks to fight “disinformation” in Spanish-language radio, and was abandoned only after a public outcry.

If these Spanish-language radio listeners are not upset enough by all of the above, let’s wait until they find out that Latino Media Network is partly financed by George Soros, a billionaire whose funding of ultra-leftist causes in their countries of birth ultimately contributed to their ruin, and whose financing of very liberal prosecutors in the American cities where they now reside has, too, made them crime-infested.

If there are any media outlets left able to report the truth, these voters are sure not to be happy when they find out these things. “If,” however, has not become iffy.

In an irony of ironies, the voters of San Francisco, one of the markets where Latino Media Network is seeking to buy a station, just this Tuesday recalled the Soros-financed rogue prosecutor Chesa Boudin. Would this San Francisco station had been able to report that Boudin’s parents were both Marxist terrorists and that Boudin was raised by another set of Marxist terrorists who were associates of Obama?

The new Marxist left provides evidence that these stations were engaging in disinformation the fact that a commentator called Biden a socialista. Never mind that this is a matter of definition—was calling President Donald Trump a xenophobe, a Russia front, or an illegitimate president disinformation? Then the ownership of MSNBC, CNN, and NPR needs to change (on this last one, we wholeheartedly agree).

If “socialista” is now verboten, then these stations won’t be able to report that Garza is a bona fide capitalism-hating Marxist, and that BLM to this day is working with the Biden White House on crafting policy for the American people.

And these stations won’t be able to say that Rocketto is a longtime collaborator of Garza, with whom she serves in numerous organizations, including the National Domestic Workers Alliance, and with whom she co-founded the group Supermajority, which mobilizes people to vote for and support leftist causes.

Or they won’t likely report that Rocketto actively encouraged her Latin followers to take part in the 2020 insurrection, the costliest riots in U.S. history, and to follow BLM’s leadership during moments of instability, not just the nationwide riots in 2020 but also those in Ferguson, Missouri, in 2014, which made BLM into the political powerhouse it is today.

As she put it while Ferguson burned, “If your first instinct is to talk about the need for nonviolence, please check your privilege. Your brain is in the right place, but it lost connection with your heart somewhere.”

These stations likely won’t report either on how Rocketto, echoing the many explicit calls by BLM leaders to dismantle American society root and branch, also wants to tear down U.S. society—only she says she wants to do this destructive work out of patriotic “love.”

“This is about the love of our communities and the love that we have for this country and the people in it,” she told Time. “I get so emotional about that because I can’t imagine anything more beautiful than an expression of people who love something so much that they are willing to tear it down and recreate it again.”

This is the person who will now be in charge of a huge segment of Spanish-language views.

Some commentators may say that conservatives now upset about this impending media purchase are being inconsistent since they so cheered Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter. But in that instance Musk is promising to restore free expression to Twitter, whereas this purchase clearly is about censoring views.

The Federal Communications Commission will need to approve this transaction. Before it does that, Congress must exercise oversight.

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By the Numbers: How Many Men in California Prisons Identify as Women

June 18, 2022

By Fred Lucas

California’s prison population includes 1,115 biological males who say they identify as women, according to the state’s Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.

About 1 in 3 in that population has requested transfers to women’s prisons, but only about 1 in 10 of those requests have been approved, the corrections department says.

California’s prison agency provided the statistics in response to a Freedom of Information Act request from the Oversight Project, the government watchdog division of The Heritage Foundation. (The Daily Signal is Heritage’s multimedia news organization.)

A women’s advocacy group sued the state of California in November to overturn a law allowing biological males to be housed in women’s prisons after a female inmate said she was raped by someone the prison called a “transgender woman with a penis.”

A section of the corrections department’s website devoted to “frequently asked questions” includes this question: “Does a transgender person have to have gender-affirming surgery to be housed at an institution that matches their gender identity?”

The department provides this response: “No. All housing for incarcerated people is evaluated on a case-by-case basis, which includes their criminal history, behavior, rehabilitation opportunities, medical and psychiatric needs, [and] program needs as well as their safety and security.”

Legislation passed by the California State Assembly—SB 132, called the Transgender Respect, Agency and Dignity Act—took effect Jan. 1, 2021. The new law allows incarcerated transgender, nonbinary, and intersex individuals to request to be housed and searched in a manner consistent with their gender identity.

In 2003, Congress passed the Prison Rape Elimination Act, which prohibits making decisions on prison housing based on an incarcerated person’s genitalia.

‘A Tragedy’

California’s law could put female inmates in danger, state Assemblywoman Megan Dahle says.

“All incarcerated individuals have a basic right to safety while serving their sentence in the California prison system,” Dahle told The Daily Signal in a written statement, adding:

If people are under the prison system’s care, we should do everything in our power to prevent cases of sexual assault. I voted against SB 132 when it was in the State Assembly and it is a tragedy to hear that there are cases that have come as a result of this poor policy.

As of May 23, 1,549 state inmates identified as transgender, nonbinary, or intersex, according to the corrections department. That means the 1,115 who are biological males identifying as women make up the largest subset of that group of inmates.

Also as of May 23, a total of 342 biological male inmates who identified as women had requested to be transferred to a women’s prison. Of them, 39 were approved for transfer to a female institution, according to the corrections department. Another 14 were denied a transfer and 28 changed their minds about making the move, the agency said.

The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation “is committed to continuing to fully implement” the new law and to “safely housing everyone in its facilities,” spokesperson Terry Thornton told The Daily Signal in an email.

“This is important as national data shows transgender people experience the highest rates of sexual victimization inside prisons and jails,” Thornton said.

Heritage’s Oversight Project also asked California’s prison agency how many biologically male inmates who identify as female have at least one conviction for sexual abuse or a sexual assault.

The corrections department responded: “We are still working with another unit on this item.”

Asked how many of these inmates have been charged with a sexual abuse or sexual assault offense while in prison, the department responded that “reporting mechanisms do not track sexual assaults by gender identity.”

“Requests for transfer are voluntary; CDCR does not collect and cannot provide information on individual decisions to make, or not to make, a voluntary request for searching or housing based on gender identity,” Thornton, the department’s spokesman, said.

Related Litigation

In November, a feminist group called the Women’s Liberation Front filed a lawsuit, Chandler v. California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, accusing the state prison system of endangering women by housing biological males in women’s prisons.

The complaint argues that incarcerated women have experienced “fear, anxiety, depression, and/or post-traumatic stress disorder” because of residing, dining, and showering with biological males. SB 132, the lawsuit says, violates the First, Eighth, and 14th amendment rights of female inmates.

In April, the state filed a motion to dismiss the case. In early May, four incarcerated biological males who identify as women filed a motion to intervene in the case, to which the Women’s Liberation Front recently filed a response.

“There is more to come. We will have witness declarations, information from plaintiffs, and information from more inmates,” Lauren Adams, legal director for the Women’s Liberation Front, told The Daily Signal in a phone interview. “Some of the conditions for women in these prisons are horrifying.”

Among the plaintiffs is Krystal Gonzalez, who says she was raped at Central California Women’s Facility by a male who said he identified as a woman.

According to the lawsuit, after Gonzalez requested to be housed away from men, the prison’s response referred to her alleged attacker as a “transgender woman with a penis.” The lawsuit adds that “the psychological distress caused by her assault is exacerbated by the prison’s refusal to acknowledge the sex of her perpetrator.”

Asked about the fairly modest number of transfers compared to the prison system’s total number of males who identify as female, the Women’s Liberation Front’s Adams said: “The state started last summer making transfers. They have slowed the rate, but the transfers haven’t stopped. They were forced by security and safety reasons to put the brakes on.”

The corrections department doesn’t comment on ongoing litigation, Thornton said.

“However,” the spokesperson said, “the department is committed to continuing its full implementation of SB 132 and providing a safe, humane, rehabilitative, and secure environment for all people in its custody.”

Review Process

The website of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation has a lengthy entry on “Frequently Asked Questions” that addresses aspects of SB 132 for prisons.

The FAQ page includes this question: “Will housing transgender women in a female institution put the safety of cisgender women at risk?”

The answer: “Part of the review process for transgender, non-binary and intersex people requesting housing based on their gender identity will include an evaluation of the safety of the person making the request as well as the safety of the people at the facility where the person has asked to be housed.”

Adams, the lawyer for the Women’s Liberation Front, rejected the state’s argument that a careful review process exists.

“If it is a good review process, I would hate to see a bad process,” Adams told The Daily Signal. “Beyond our general objections to housing women with biological men, we are hearing reports of incidents of sexual acts, both consensual and non-consensual.”

The prison system’s FAQ entry also includes this question: “Is there a risk that cisgender men will falsely claim to be transgender women in order to be housed with women?”

The answer: “CDCR has the ability to deny a request based on management or security concerns.”

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VIDEO: Why Red Flag Laws are a Violation of the 4th, 5th and 14th Amendments

June 17, 2022

By Royal A. Brown III

Seems to me this recent May 17th, 2021 SCOTUS ruling in Caniglia v. Strom et al. could help in declaring Risk Protection Orders unconstitutional. I’ve often stated they not only violate the 5th and 14th Amendments requiring Due Process but the 4th Amendment involving home invasion as well. Watch:

CANIGLIA v. STROM | Supreme Court | US Law | LII / Legal Information Institute – Cornell.edu

Syllabus

CANIGLIA v. STROM

953 F. 3d 112, vacated and remanded.

Syllabus [Syllabus] [PDF]
Opinion, Thomas [Thomas Opinion] [PDF]
Concurrence, Roberts [Roberts Concurrence] [PDF]
Concurrence, Alito [Alito Concurrence] [PDF]
Concurrence, Kavanaugh [Kavanaugh Concurrence] [PDF]

NOTE: Where it is feasible, a syllabus (headnote) will be released, as is being done in connection with this case, at the time the opinion is issued. The syllabus constitutes no part of the opinion of the Court but has been prepared by the Reporter of Decisions for the convenience of the reader. See United States v. Detroit Timber & Lumber Co., 200 U. S. 321, 337.

SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES

Syllabus Caniglia v. Strom et al.

certiorari to the united states court of appeals for the first circuit

No. 20–157. Argued March 24, 2021—Decided May 17, 2021

During an argument with his wife, petitioner Edward Caniglia placed a handgun on the dining room table and asked his wife to “shoot [him] and get it over with.” His wife instead left the home and spent the night at a hotel. The next morning, she was unable to reach her husband by phone, so she called the police to request a welfare check. The responding officers accompanied Caniglia’s wife to the home, where they encountered Caniglia on the porch. The officers called an ambulance based on the belief that Caniglia posed a risk to himself or others. Caniglia agreed to go to the hospital for a psychiatric evaluation on the condition that the officers not confiscate his firearms. But once Caniglia left, the officers located and seized his weapons. Caniglia sued, claiming that the officers had entered his home and seized him and his firearms without a warrant in violation of the Fourth Amendment. The District Court granted summary judgment to the officers. The First Circuit affirmed, extrapolating from the Court’s decision in Cady v. Dombrowski, 413 U. S. 433, a theory that the officers’ removal of Caniglia and his firearms from his home was justified by a “community caretaking exception” to the warrant requirement.

Held: Neither the holding nor logic of Cady justifies such warrantless searches and seizures in the home. Cady held that a warrantless search of an impounded vehicle for an unsecured firearm did not violate the Fourth Amendment. In reaching this conclusion, the Court noted that the officers who patrol the “public highways” are often called to discharge noncriminal “community caretaking functions,” such as responding to disabled vehicles or investigating accidents. 413 U. S., at 441. But searches of vehicles and homes are constitutionally different, as the Cady opinion repeatedly stressed. Id., at 439, 440–442. The very core of the Fourth Amendment’s guarantee is the right of a person to retreat into his or her home and “there be free from unreasonable governmental intrusion.” Florida v. Jardines, 569 U. S. 1, 6. A recognition of the existence of “community caretaking” tasks, like rendering aid to motorists in disabled vehicles, is not an open-ended license to perform them anywhere. Pp. 3–4.

953 F. 3d 112, vacated and remanded.

Thomas, J., delivered the opinion for a unanimous Court. Roberts, C. J., filed a concurring opinion, in which Breyer, J., joined. Alito, J., and Kavanaugh, J., filed concurring opinions.

Why the Fed Raising Rates Means the National Debt is Going to Become An Even Bigger Problem

June 17, 2022

By Foundation for Economic Education (FEE)

The time bomb on our national debt will start counting down even faster.

With price inflation continuing to surge unchecked, America’s central bank, the Federal Reserve, is trying to raise interest rates in hopes of stopping the bleeding. Fed Chair Jerome Powell just announced the most aggressive incremental rate increase seen since 1994. Much of the response has, understandably, focused on whether this will actually be able to tamper down inflation and whether it will trigger a recession.

But there’s another important consequence that will accompany the Fed raising interest rates aggressively—the time bomb on our national debt will start counting down even faster.

Right now, we already have a serious expense in just paying the interest on the $30.5 trillion and counting national debt. Just covering the interest costs federal taxpayers about $900 million every single day!

Under the status quo, interest payments on the national debt were already projected to rise exponentially and require trillions more in federal taxes in the coming years. According to the Peter G. Peterson Foundation, interest payments are projected to “total around $66 trillion over the next 30 years and take up nearly 40 percent of all federal revenues by 2052.”

But, if rates rise more than initially projected, both our future borrowing and some of our existing debt will be much more expensive to finance.

As the Manhattan Institute’s Brian Riedl has projected, higher interest rates than expected will quickly mean the national debt becomes an even bigger headache than it was already going to be.

Click here for the Rising Interest Rates Could Push the National Debt to 300% of GDP within 30 years infographic

Let me try to put this as simply as possible.

Higher interest rates mean more interest costs on our national debt. Higher interest costs ultimately mean more taxes, direct or indirect. So, the steps the government is taking in hopes of tamping down inflation may ultimately mean a tax hike on millions of American families.

One could still argue that it’s worth it, but this real consequence must be acknowledged regardless. Policy choices inevitably have trade-offs and consequences.

Our leaders refused to spend within their means, instead running up multi-trillion-dollar deficits and printing trillions of new dollars. We got crushing price increases as a result. And we’re also going to face trillions more in taxes as interest rates rise and our debt becomes more expensive.

All of this could’ve been avoided. But all we can do now is hold our leaders accountable so that it never happens again.

WATCH: Libertarians React to Terrible Inflation Takes

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Brad Polumbo

Brad Polumbo (@Brad_Polumbo) is a libertarian-conservative journalist and Policy Correspondent at the Foundation for Economic Education.

Here’s How Gas Prices Rank Around the Country

June 17, 2022

By Casey Harper

Gas prices have hit record highs day after day in recent weeks, breaking the $5 mark over the weekend for the first time ever.

Those higher prices have put many Americans in a bind as they also deal with the highest inflation in decades.

The national average price for a gallon of regular unleaded gas hit a record-high $5.01 Monday, up from $4.43 a month ago and much higher than the price of $3.08 this time last year.

All 50 states around the country have seen major price hikes, though some more than others.

With average prices varying by state, here is the breakdown, from highest to lowest, of the regular gas price for every state in the nation.

Gas Prices State Ranking

State	Current Price	Price One Month Ago	Price One Year Ago
1. California	$6.44	$5.87	$4.23
2. Nevada	$5.66	$5.14	$3.66
3. Alaska	$5.57	$4.82	$3.37
4. Illinois	$5.56	$4.81	$3.35
5. Washington	$5.55	$4.92	$3.62
6. Oregon	$5.54	$4.90	$3.47
7. Hawaii	$5.53	$5.31	$3.97
8. Arizona	$5.32	$4.72	$3.12
9. Indiana	$5.22	$4.41	$3.05
10. Michigan	$5.22	$4.35	$3.17
11. Idaho	$5.10	$4.50	$3.29
12. Maine	$5.08	$4.46	$3.06
13. Pennsylvania	$5.07	$4.58	$3.18
14. New Jersey	$5.06	$4.50	$3.07
15. Ohio	$5.05	$4.29	$3.03
16. Massachusetts	$5.05	$4.48	$2.95
17. Vermont	$5.05	$4.48	$2.99
18. New York	$5.04	$4.68	$3.11
19. Rhode Island	$5.02	$4.46	$2.97
20. Maryland	$5.02	$4.41	$2.99
21. Utah	$5.02	$4.48	$3.37
22. New Hampshire	$5.00	$4.40	$2.94
23. Delaware	$4.99	$4.40	$2.97
24. Connecticut	$4.98	$4.40	$3.09
25. Wisconsin	$4.92	$4.20	$2.92
26. West Virginia	$4.91	$4.24	$3.00
27. Montana	$4.91	$4.27	$2.96
28. Florida	$4.89	$4.47	$2.97
29. Colorado	$4.88	$4.12	$3.22
30. Virginia	$4.86	$4.27	$2.93
31. New Mexico	$4.83	$4.28	$2.97
32. Kentucky	$4.80	$4.22	$2.91
33. North Dakota	$4.77	$4.11	$2.89
34. Minnesota	$4.76	$4.10	$2.86
35. Wyoming	$4.76	$4.24	$3.14
36. Nebraska	$4.76	$4.09	$2.91
37. Iowa	$4.74	$4.13	$2.87
38. South Dakota	$4.72	$4.14	$2.93
39. Missouri	$4.68	$4.03	$2.76
40. North Carolina	$4.67	$4.21	$2.88
41. Kansas	$4.66	$3.99	$2.85
42. Texas	$4.66	$4.11	$2.76
43. Tennessee	$4.64	$4.17	$2.88
44. Oklahoma	$4.64	$4.00	$2.75
45. Alabama	$4.63	$4.14	$2.82
46. South Carolina	$4.61	$4.13	$2.80
47. Louisiana	$4.55	$4.09	$2.72
48. Arkansas	$4.54	$4.01	$2.77
49. Mississippi	$4.52	$4.02	$2.72
50. Georgia	$4.48	$3.95	$2.91

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EXPOSED: 10 of Joe Biden’s LIES About U.S. Economy

June 17, 2022

By The Geller Report

Unchallenged by the corrupt and complicit media, here is a list debunking Joe’s latest bald faced lies.

Debunking 10 of Joe Biden’s lies about the state of the US economy

By: James Bovard, NY Post, June 15, 2022

“Inflation is the bane of our existence,” President Biden lamented last week to talk show host Jimmy Kimmel. Unfortunately, he was referring to inflation’s effect on presidential approval ratings, not the plight of average Americans brutalized to pay for gas and groceries.

The president’s speech Tuesday to the AFL-CIO was another Team Biden pity party that hard facts were not permitted to interrupt.

CLAIM: Biden boasted that he “put America in a position to tackle the worldwide problem that’s worse everywhere but here: inflation.”

REALITY: Were Biden’s speechwriters using “Common Core” math that makes all bad numbers vanish? Inflation is 8.6% in America and 5.4% in South Korea, 5.1% in Australia, 6.8% in Canada.

CLAIM: Biden continued blaming Russian President Vladimir Putin for price hikes here in America.

REALITY: National Public Radio reported earlier this year that “between 2019 and 2021, the US saw one of the biggest inflation-rate increases in the world, behind only Brazil and Turkey.” Inflation had increased fourfold under Biden — reaching 7% — before Russia invaded Ukraine. Wholesale price inflation last month was almost 11% — signaling worse times ahead for US consumers.

CLAIM: Biden on Wednesday accused US oil companies of making excessive profits. He ordered them to “take immediate actions to increase the supply” of gasoline and diesel fuels.

REALITY: Biden’s own policies have disrupted energy markets. The American Petroleum Institute issued a list of 10 steps Biden could take to reduce supply disruptions, including ending obstruction of permitting on natural gas projects, lifting development restrictions on federal lands and waters and ending Trump-era steel tariffs.

CLAIM: Biden apparently thinks that public raving can restore confidence in his leadership. He literally screamed at the AFL-CIO audience: “I don’t want to hear any more of these lies about reckless spending. We’re changing people’s lives!”

Biden brags that he cut the deficit — but US debt is actually rising, quickly

CLAIM: Biden boasted, “We opened schools and businesses that were shuttered.”

REALITY: It was the teachers unions that did more than anyone else to keep schools closed, and those unions have been an arm of the Democratic Party for decades. Democratic governors were far more aggressive in locking down state economies.

CLAIM: Biden portrayed his COVID policies as part of his economic success story: “We brought down COVID deaths by 90%.”

REALITY: More than 600,000 people have died from COVID since Biden became president, 50% more than died during the Trump administration. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was reporting more than 1 million new COVID cases a day in January. Biden had better hurry with his latest COVID victory lap since the White House forecasts up to 100 million new COVID cases this coming fall and winter.

AUTHOR

Pamela Geller

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U.S. Government PAID To Create List Of Americans Who Questioned Democrat Dogma

June 17, 2022

By The Geller Report

On side note, I am sad that I did not make the list but I suspect it’s because Twitter permanently suspended my account with 225,000 followers for … wait for it. Tweeting about election fraud.

Researchers combed through 45 million tweets that sowed doubt on the 2020 election. Here are the “top spreaders”: https://t.co/7X8u0CO61n pic.twitter.com/4lE1Xi66pH

— Dan Froomkin/PressWatchers.org ☮️ (@froomkin) June 15, 2022

The National Science Foundation funded this along with far left billionaires. That means the US Government PAID to have a list made smearing Americans for questioning the validity of ballot harvesting and mass mail-in voting. Think about that. This is what communists do.

Researchers combed through 45 million tweets that sowed doubt on the 2020 election. Here are the “top spreaders”: https://techpolicy.press/researchers-release-comprehensive-twitter-dataset-of-false-claims-about-the-2020-election/

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Pamela Geller

The Media Has Reached an Agreement on Guns, Not the Senate

June 17, 2022

By Lee Williams

If the legacy media had their way, your front door would explode and seconds later you’d be hip-deep in armed gun-grabbers delivering high-caliber butt-strokes to your noggin until you surrendered the combination to your gun safe. That is the level of anti-gun bias today’s legacy media uses whenever they report on anything related to guns or the Second Amendment. Their recent stories on developments in the Senate are no exception to this rule.

“The Senate has finally reached an agreement on guns,” a CBS news actor breathlessly announced Monday morning. Except the Senate hasn’t reached any agreement. Ten Republican Senators have agreed in theory to back a gun-control framework, which is lightyears away from agreeing to support an actual gun-control bill.

Once again, the legacy media is way ahead of the actual story. Once again, they are reporting what they want to happen, instead of what actually happened. Rather than reporting the truth, today’s media consistently pushes its own agenda, which in this case is their belief we need more gun control.

To be clear, a bipartisan group of 20 Senators – 10 Republicans and 10 Democrats – led by Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), announced yesterday their support for a proposal, which is not a bill.

According to a press release from Murphy’s office, the proposal is “a commonsense, bipartisan proposal to protect America’s children, keep our schools safe, and reduce the threat of violence across our country.”

“Families are scared, and it is our duty to come together and get something done that will help restore their sense of safety and security in their communities,” Murphy said in the statement. “Our plan increases needed mental health resources, improves school safety and support for students, and helps ensure dangerous criminals and those who are adjudicated as mentally ill can’t purchase weapons. Most importantly, our plan saves lives while also protecting the constitutional rights of law-abiding Americans. We look forward to earning broad, bipartisan support and passing our commonsense proposal into law.”

You can read the full text of Murph’s proposal, as well as which Senators have announced their support, here.

Is this development concerning to those of us who value our God-given constitutional rights? Yes, it certainly is. However, we do not yet know what provisions of the proposal will be included in the bill, or even if there will be an actual bipartisan bill.

The National Rifle Association said as much in a statement released Sunday night:

“As is our policy, the NRA does not take positions on “frameworks”. We will make our position known when the full text of the bill is available for review. The NRA will continue to oppose any effort to insert gun control policies, initiatives that override constitutional due process protections, and efforts to deprive law-abiding citizens of their fundamental right to protect themselves and their loved ones into this or any other legislation.”

While some of the concepts contained in the Senators’ proposal are likely unconstitutional, it is a proposal, not legislation, at least not yet. We need to monitor developments closely and keep in contact with our elected representatives. While the gun banners are celebrating wildly while the cameras roll, do not fall victim to the media’s spin. That friends, is exactly what they want. They survive solely on clicks and ratings. Do not feed the media beast.

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Leaked Video of Elon Musk’s Address to Twitter Employees

June 17, 2022

By Project Veritas

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Project Veritas has published the recording of another internal Twitter all-hands meeting wherein Elon Musk addressed thousands of employees for the first time since news broke of his plans to acquire the company.

Here are some of the highlights from today’s video:

“I think it’s essential to have free speech,” Musk said on the call after describing his affinity for Twitter. He added that “multiple opinions” should exist on Twitter to “make sure that we’re not sort of driving a narrative.”
On the call, Musk was asked about his political leanings, his plans for layoffs and the direction of the company.
Musk also discussed his vision for Twitter saying that traditional news media is “negative” and that they “almost never” get it right. He added that bots, spam and multi-account users must be contained. “I think an important goal for Twitter would be to try to include as, as much of the country, as much of the world as possible,” Musk added.
Musk reacted to the news of Project Veritas publishing the meeting on Twitter, posting “Exactly.”

You can watch the video HERE.

Musk described his political views as “moderate,” noting that he traditionally has voted Democrat but voted Republican for the first time in his life this week — voting for Congressional Candidate, Mayra Flores, in Texas.

He said he believes most of the world favors moderate politics, but that the far left and right should be able to voice their frustrations on Twitter.

At one point, Musk was asked if he would be taking over CEO duties of the company. Musk’s answer was that he “wants to make sure the product evolves rapidly.”

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Senator Tom Cotton to AG Garland: Resign Over DOJ Inaction on Abortion Terrorism

June 17, 2022

By Dr. Rich Swier

In a letter Thursday to U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland, Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) wrote that Garland should resign over the Justice Department’s inaction on more than 50 attacks on pro-life pregnancy centers and churches in recent weeks reportedly carried out by a “domestic terrorist organization” called Jane’s Revenge.

“Houses of worship and pro-life pregnancy centers are under attack. The Family Research Council has compiled a list of more than 50 attacks against churches, pro-life pregnancy centers, and other pro-life groups in the past few weeks,” Cotton wrote. “A left-wing extremist group called ‘Jane’s Revenge’ has taken credit for many of these attacks, including firebombings and grotesque acts of vandalism.”

Cotton noted how the same group on Tuesday “has now issued a letter declaring ‘open season’ on all so-called ‘anti-choice’ groups, and calls for terrorist attacks against these groups by anyone ‘with the urge to paint, to burn, to cut, [or] to jam.”

The senator included a list of more than a dozen attacks that Jane’s Revenge has claimed responsibility for in recent weeks following the leak of a Supreme Court draft opinion that would overturn Roe v. Wade.

“What is the Department of Justice doing to protect Americans from these violent attacks? At a minimum, you should bring federal charges against the perpetrators, where appropriate, and investigate ‘Jane’s Revenge’ as a domestic terrorist organization,” Cotton added. “If you are unwilling to protect Americans from these attacks, you should resign — although, in my opinion, you should resign in any case.”

Merrick Garland

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Garland Says “Domestic Terrorism” by “White Supremacists” Are Among America’s Leading Problems

On June 15, 2021, Garland announced the unveiling of the Biden administration’s new “First National Strategy for Countering Domestic Terrorism,” an initiative designed to combat what Garland viewed as one of America’s most serious problems: “domestic terrorism” carried out mostly by conservative adherents to a doctrine of “white supremacism.” In some of Garland’s remarks from that day, he: (a) cast the Trump supporters who had breached the U.S. Capitol on January 6 as uniquely evil; (b) warned of the allegedly enormous threat posed by violent white supremacists; (c) likened such people to genocidal Islamic terrorists; and (d) gave anecdotal examples of past terrorist incidents that had been perpetrated exclusively by whites…

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The Public Health Quacks Got COVID All Wrong

June 17, 2022

By The Daily Skirmish – Liberato.US

For those of you to whom government has become God, you might want to reconsider. Recent stories about the way public health authorities mishandled the COVID pandemic should make any sane person lose their government religion.

Public health authorities failed to anticipate the negative consequences of the lockdowns. Latest case in point: Strict lockdowns in the U.K. caused serious developmental problems in children, putting them five months behind academically and rendering the younger ones not ready for school. Some couldn’t even say their own name. In the U.S., the CDC lowered early development speech standards to hide the damage the lockdowns caused. In stark contrast, there was no learning loss in primary school students in Sweden where schools stayed open during the pandemic.

The lockdowns in the U.S. also weakened kids’ immune systems. Increased numbers are now showing up in children’s hospitals with multiple flu and respiratory infections, which is not normal and is directly attributable to the lockdowns preventing exposure to common viruses in the ordinary course of things.

The lockdowns also caused more alcohol-related deaths than would otherwise have occurred, as people drank more to deal with the stress of the lockdowns.

Despite a billion-dollar government propaganda campaign, it is now apparent COVID vaccines are not nearly as effective as the government would have you believe. A recent report from the U.K. showed that nine out of ten COVID deaths were among the vaccinated. Back in the U.S., the protection for children ages 5 to 11 receiving lower doses of Pfizer’s vaccine fell off rapidly, from 68 percent effectiveness to just 12 percent, a study showed. Moreover, vaccinated 5-to-11 year-olds have a greater chance of getting infected with COVID than the unvaxxed after just one month. Boosters are also showing what’s called ‘negative effectiveness’: People getting a booster shot are testing positive for COVID more often than those without a booster.

More studies have come in showing cloth masks are ineffective against COVID. In fact, one study actually found a “moderate positive correlation between mask usage and deaths.”

Public health officials continue revising the number of COVID death downwards, now admitting they overstated the numbers for a long time. The CDC reduced the number of pediatric COVID deaths 24 percent when it fixed a ‘coding logic error’. Whatever that means, it means they were wrong but quite content to scare the bejesus out of everybody – just like health officials in Massachusetts who had adopted a broad definition of COVID death, only recently deciding they needed a “truer picture” of COVID mortality. The death count went down by 3,700 after they narrowed the definition, no longer counting positive COVID tests within 31 to 60 days of death as a true COVID death.

The CDC finally gave up on COVID contact tracing, taking an overly long time to realize it was futile for an infectious respiratory illness that would eventually reach most of the population.

Finally, a group of scientists and scholars issued a statement blasting the government for promoting falsehoods about COVID and acting on shoddy research. The government’s role in all this “shattered the public’s trust in science and public health,” which will “take decades to repair,” they said.

Moral of the Story: the next time you’re tempted to put your faith in government, don’t. You’re better off thinking for yourself.

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23 Pro-Life Organizations Firebombed, Vandalized by Pro-Abortion Activists

June 17, 2022

By Jihad Watch

As pro-lifers try to protect the unborn from violence, they find themselves in the pathway of Leftist violence. If it isn’t Antifa being violent, it’s Black Lives Matter being violent or Leftists allying with pro-Palestinian activists in violence (campuses and beyond). But the complicit Leftist mainstream media zeroes in on two specific days in the space of four years to attack the right: the Charlottesville protest and January 6, where in both incidents, Antifa was involved. Well now, violence is being directed at pro-life organizations by pro-abortion activists.

Recall in Canada, that even though tens of thousands turned out in Ottawa to support the Freedom Convoy, Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau stirred fears of violence, and referenced Freedom Convoy supporters as “racists,” “misogynists” and even terrorists. But instead, peaceful, freedom-loving, law-abiding citizens chanted “freedom,” engaged in prayer, distributed food and set up bouncy castles for kids in freezing cold temperatures.

Leftists more readily employ violence, while searching for incidents of violence among the Right.

Most pro-abortion supporters are on the Left. Even the Leftist publication Politico published an article entitled: ”If You’re a Pro-life Democrat … You Know You’re Standing Alone.”

Though Biden campaigned on unity, he has not condemned a single one of the attacks on pro-life organizations.

Report: 23 Pro-Life Organizations Vandalized, Firebombed by Pro-Abortion Activists in Recent Weeks

by Wendell Husebo, Breitbart, June 2022:

At least 23 pro-life organizations have reportedly been vandalized in recent weeks.

The pro-life organizations have been either firebombed or vandalized by radical pro-abortion activists, according to Catholic Vote:

Hollywood, FL — South Broward Pregnancy Center and Archdiocese of Miami Respect Life Ministry

Asheville, NC — Mountain Area Pregnancy Services

Manassas, VA — First Care Women’s Health

Alexandria, VA — Concerned Women for America

Reiserstown, MD — Alpha Pregnancy Center

Frederick, MD — BirthRight of Frederick

Frederick, MD — CareNet Frederick

Reiserstown, MD — Alpha Pregnancy Center

Buffalo, NY — CompassCare Pregnancy Services

Madison, WI — Wisconsin Family Action

Des Moines, IA — Agape Pregnancy Resource Center

Denton, TX — Woman to Woman Pregnancy Resource Center

Austin, TX — Trotter House

Long Beach, CA — His Nesting Place Home for Mothers & Children

Sebastopol, CA — Pregnancy Center Billboard

Eugene, OR — Dove Medical Clinic

Keizer, OR — Oregon Right to Life

Gresham, OR — Gresham Pregnancy Resource Center

Portland, OR — Southeast Portland Pregnancy Resource Center

Vancouver, WA — Options360 Women’s Clinic

Federal Way, WA — Care Net Pregnancy and Family Services of Puget Sound

Lynnwood, WA — Next Step Pregnancy Services

The attacks follow a leaked Supreme Court decision that revealed Roe v. Wade may be overturned this month. If overturned, abortion would no longer be protected by the federal government but would still be legal in many states.

Though President Biden campaigned on unity, Biden has not condemned a single one of the attacks, the RNC reported on Monday. Moreover, many establishment television networks refuse to cover the extremism:

Pregnancy centers are being attacked by violent pro-abortion terrorists.

ABC, CBS, and NBC refuse to cover it. https://t.co/n0jrm8vGWu

— NewsBusters (@newsbusters) June 14, 2022

Many of the attacks have been brutal and vulgar in nature. “If abortions aren’t safe then you aren’t either,” vandals wrote on a Wisconsin Family Action facility…..

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The Putin/Stalin/Biden Machine and its Destruction of America

June 17, 2022

By Simona Pipko

We the people are not secure until we know the enemy. Not one citizen as not one Justice of the Supreme Court is secure in 2022 in America. The American public has no idea of who are the enemies foreign and domestic, the warning left to us by our Founding Fathers. The absence of that direct information has divided America. When the Democrats were attempting to pack the Court, I knew they were about to demolish the Constitution. But when the word assassination flied around the name Justice Kavanagh, I knew Stalinism had arrived to complete the Socialist Revolution in America.

Unfortunately, the American public and vast majority of decent Democrats and Republicans don’t know Stalinism and its Intelligence Apparatus. They have no clue that they are under the constant assault of Russian Intelligence, which has infiltrated every facet of American society—the government, sports, arts, businesses, courts, the unions, and organized crime. I have been writing about for the last thirty years—the Soviet/Russian infiltration into all strata of our society. Just go to my book What is Happening to America? The Hidden Truth of Global Destruction, XLIBRIS, 2012. The Chapter 7, WWIII: Recruitments and Drugs, Infiltration and Assassinations is directly listing the methods, tools, devises, and tricks used by the Russian Intelligence to destroy America from within—the usual way they converted to Socialism.

American national security has always been my major concern. Yes, it is WWIII that has never ended. Moreover, it is a very strange war today in 2022, when the Dems’ leadership joined the Russian Intelligence to fight the Republicans. I saw it in 2012 and I updated the book by adding it with my recent columns and republished the book in 2022. You can see it at www.simonapipko.com. With appalling filling I watched Fox News, The Five and their Debate on June 10, 2022. None of the participants knew about WWIII and the joined forces of the Dems with the Russian Intel confronted Republicans. They had no idea of the facts and therefore we have been trapped in Biden’s America run by the Putin/Stalin Machine.

Naturally, you are not ready for the story, I present; you have never read my books or columns. You don’t know the KGB Mafia/Army and Socialist Charlatans who are destroying America from within. The same happened with Bill Barr, who has betrayed the 45th President by his political ignorance—he didn’t know Russia and its Intelligence. The A.G. who doesn’t know Russian history of Stalinism should be deprived of his law license. I was sending my columns to him, but he ignored them. By his incompetence Bill Barr provided the enemies of America to catapult Biden’s presidency. Like President Trump, I also think that the 2020 election has been stolen. I know that and want you to grasp why I know that. Here is an example of why I know that:

“The events of multiple frauds were not only obvious visually, but they have been very familiar to me, as happened in the Russian election years ago. And I have described them in my books. The Navarro Report is accurate: the stories of the illegitimate ballots in suitcases and ballots driven by truck from New York to Pennsylvania happened exactly the way it occurred in the Russian 2007 election. Please, read a fragment from my book at the time:

“Have you heard the term carousel (roundabout) used in the election to Duma? Do you know what it means? Hearing this word in Russian, I did not understand its application at first. The events that followed had given me the meaning of the word. The United Russia party together with the Kremlin’s administration had organized the youth movement’s groups providing them with a caravan of buses. The vast majority of youngsters were called NASHISTS. I watched them on Russian TV. Young people, wearing shirts with Putin’s portrait, singing with enthusiasm bordering on euphoria, occupied the buses and moved along the streets to the voting precincts one after another. The voting ballots were waiting for them and they all voted for United Russia. Then they left for other voting places where they voted again and again for the United Russia (Party).

I will give you another example so you can fully comprehend what is going on in Russia. A couple of months before the election, the Kremlin had issued an order to all enterprises and offices throughout eleven time zones. The order requested all the workers of the above-mentioned plants and offices, students and teachers to take the absentee ballots from their places of residence and vote in their place of work or study. The heads of all offices were told to watch how people were voting and provide United Russia with the victory. Moreover, the policy of infiltration from the Soviet past became clear in the present Russia.” pp. 191-192, What is Happening to America? The Hidden Truth of Global Destruction, XLIBRIS, 2012.

Do you get it? Nothing substantial has changed in Russia since. Fraud is openly executed by the government. We are talking about lawlessness under Socialism and seeing the same future under Biden’s America. Don’t be surprised by several Impeachments of President Trump—they were fraudulent attempts, the Hoax of Socialist Charlatans of the Democrat Party like Pelosi, Berny Sanders, George Soros, or McAuliffe to confront the Republicans. The Democrats are now conducting for you the third fraud—the theatrical spectacle of the January 6th Committee.

Aggressive and Expansionist Socialist Ideology

But before the theatrical spectacle, let me continue presenting the joined Socialist forces confronting the American Constitutional republic. I have followed Joe Biden and his actions since 2013-2014, when Obama assigned him as a point man for Ukraine. My several columns have been describing his activities in Ukraine. Biden was on the side of old corrupt Ukraine and he collaborated with Vladimir Putin to suffocate the young Ukrainian democracy. Then, ten years ago, Biden was in his right mind and exposed himself by helping Putin. Biden now has no capacity to run the country. In my opinion, his old staff consisting of Obama’s holdovers and the bad actors from the KGB are running America. That means Putin runs America and Afghanistan was his Order, like I stated it at the time…

Please, analyze Biden’s team actions since the first day of his presidency: they all were directed against the American interests. As a result of that we have a growing inflation, high gas prices, dangerous to our national security migration, surge of crimes, weopanizing national security agencies against the population, and a variety of other patterns of aggressive Socialism confronting the American Constitutional republic and the Republican Party. At the same time we see a lot of team’s direct actions correlated to favor aggressive Socialist/Communist forces of Russia, China, and the “Axis of Evil.” There is no coincidence: those are the participants of WWIII and everything is done by them, done intentionally! They use wrong terms Radical Leftists or Liberals. In fact, those are Socialist Charlatans! The Biden team made Biden himself a typical Socialist apparatchik! The name of Biden’s current disaster is Socialism!

I am a life-witness of Stalinist Soviet Socialism and I can testify that Biden’s America has all features, patterns, conduct and behavior of the Soviet Style Stalinist Socialism, I had lived in half of my life. We can see the same in Biden’s America: demonizing opposition, blame game and secrecy. Biden’s team is regularly lying and deceiving us in respect of their activities like it was done in the Soviet Union, but we still have numbers in America and they don’t lie. I have predicted that Stalinist violence would come to America. Look at the cities run by the Dems. Listen to Chuck Schumer, encouraging violence to the mob and you have a plot to assassinate a conservative Supreme Court Justice. Don’t you see the connection between Dems’ ideology and their actions? The Democrat Party is now a Socialist Party and the enemy of the American Constitutional republic! Republicans must learn it, and expose now the real face of the enemy!

The January 6th Committee Hearing

America is a country of Law & Order, respect of rules and traditions, a country of common sense. All of that was violated in Pelosi’s preparation and creation of the January 6 Committee—she didn’t want the competing voices there and was acting by using the Soviet Style of a one party system. Her actions have stripped COMT from legitimacy. The second leader of the Democrat Party after Chuck Schumer provocative call to mob (2020), didn’t want accountability either. There are more troubles: the media and DOJ are ignoring the plot to assassinate a Conservative Supreme Justice Kavanaugh, let alone Biden’s team transiting America to Socialism. Yet, a cabal of Socialist Charlatans, the COMT wants to establish criminal liability of the former President Trump, following the main Stalinist postulate: to accuse the opposition in the crime they themselves had committed. Now is the Republican’s last chance to save our Constitutional republic before the midterm election. They must expose the Dems’ Socialist agenda now!!!

I am a former Soviet defense attorney and yes, January 6 events must be thoroughly investigated to prevent the repetition. However, the objectivity has been absent since the beginning with—there is no two opposite sides in the Committee to debate, it consist of one monolithic group of the anti-Trump haters in the Congress. It will be the third attempt to Impeach Trump. I suspect canceling the exculpatory evidence by the Dems,’ their propaganda before the midterm election will try to distract people’s attention from the crime the Dems had been committing during decades by colluding with Russia. There will be false narratives and major omissions in orchestrating anti-Trump Show Trial, Soviet Style, we have seen before…

In the climate of surging inflation, high gas prices, and national frustration, all of that has a logical explanation: America doesn’t know the enemy. Allen West counted seventy Socialists in the Congress, all of them are Democrats. There are many more Socialists in our midst undermining the country. Look at the wall behind speaking D.A. Gascon and you will see the word KPCC, the abbreviation of a Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Wow! The KGB agent George Soros is a sponsor of George Gascon and seventy-five of other D.A. Democrats. The words KPCC and assassination are inextricably connected by the Stalinist KGB Mafia/Army, I have been warning you for the last thirty years. Pay attention to Soros, he infiltrates the Spanish radio today.

I’ve been writing about Soros for the last thirty years and can testify under oath—he is the KGB agent. I can do the same concerning Berny Sanders. There are thousands like them demolishing our political system for thirty years with impunity and I know those two well. It scared me, when I heard about the debate between Sanders and Republican Senator Lindsey Graham at the Kennedy Museum. What an irony of incompetence on the part of Fox News and Senator. They demonstrated a poor knowledge of American history and disrespect to the memory of the assassinated President… History is the Mother of all sciences, especially Russian history of Stalinism and Fox News should learn it to survive. Even more repulsive is the behavior of Bill Barr: he collaborates with Socialist Charlatans against a Republican President. What a shame!!!

Who is to Blame for the Chaos in America?

Who is responsible for the suffering American families today? I have a direct answer—the policy of four recent FBI Directors and the leadership of the CIA. They didn’t know Russia and its Stalinist Intelligence Apparatus and misled the country for the last thirty years. It is no coincidence that thirty years ago Vladimir Putin moved to Moscow. He used the Collapse of the Soviet Union and entered the Yeltsin government as the adviser. The era of Reagan’s knowledge has ended in America and Putin’s monumental disinformation game has begun, including many hoaxes like “climate change” and others. That disinformation game had a goal to divide people of the U.S.A. Putin has achieved his task!!

After watching the January 6th hearing and reading the commentary of Dr. Eastman about “The Electoral Count Act” I suspect VP Pence that he is not aware of the enemies and made a mistake. Trump’s thoughts would be a crime in the Stalinist Russia. There is no coincidence that COMT didn’t touch the DNC, or Pelosi’s obligation to secure the Capitol Hill. Maybe the Dems wanted to have violence in January 6th, like they organized it in the summer 2020? The rest you have seen or can read about in my books and columns. Putin was very successful: you see total criminalization of the Republican Party in America like the opposition in Russia. Knowledge of the Stalinist Intelligence is a MUST to save America from Socialist Charlatans!

The suffering of American families compounded with the current crises. All American problems derived from the erroneous American foreign policy during the last thirty years. Yes, four FBI Directors had been duped, but the recent one is the most responsible for the current crises—Christopher Wray. He watched Putin’s disinformation game and several anti-Trump Hoaxes and he didn’t stop it and probably participated in them. He intentionally misled the public saying: “I don’t think there is any country (but China) that presents a more severe threat to our innovation, our economic security and our democratic ideals,” he was talking to Senators April 14, 2021. The FBI Director was very wrong, because there is another bad actor, who began destroying our country and the Western civilization a hundred years ago—Russia. The machinery of destruction is going on today—it is the COMT that is attempting the third time to Impeach Trump! This is the reality of the world in 2022.

The Chief Prosecutor of COMT Ms. Lofgren didn’t read my books. Does she know this reality? I am afraid she doesn’t. Socialism is her religion and she will serve it to the last day of her life. I heard the Chairman of COMT Thompson. Despite an absence of racism, he was blaming racism in America, by repeating old KGB’s narratives of “White Oppressors,” “White Privileges” and “White Supremacy.” He demonstrated the direct KGB’s influence. While a Black man was speaking I felt his pain about the past, but he didn’t know the Truth …

As a student of history I went for help to the Woodson Center. Robert Leon Woodson Sr. is an American civil rights activist, community development leader, author, and founder and President of the Woodson Center. The Center was researching the history of the Civil Rights Movement.

Bob Woodson: “The Civil Rights Movement I was a part of has been betrayed by a twisted progressive ideology.” I also heard him talking about infiltration of Soviet Intelligence into the Civil Rights Movement and recruitments there. Through the Woodson Center I also found The Communist: Frank Marshall Davis: The Untold Story of Barack Obama’s Mentor by Paul Kengor.Ph.D “Frank Marshall Davis was a pro-Soviet, pro-Red China communist. His Communist Party USA card number, revealed in FBI files, was CP number 47544.”

The erosion of American democracy by the Soviets began, at least, in the 1950s.

I am giving you this History for a reason: The Putin/Stalin Machine has quadrupled since the 1992 election of Bill Clinton. That story in detail you can read in my columns or in 2022 republished my book: What is Happening to America? Our experts on Russia and China don’t know the KGB Mafia/Army. That is why the Putin/Stalin Machine is still demolishing our country. I am the only person in America who had lived under Stalinism and as a Soviet Attorney knows the force of the entire Russian Intelligence and Security Apparatus—the necessary knowledge for all Americans. Watch the war in Ukraine, its cruelty in destruction of the land and everything alive. The Putin/Stalin Machine has the same goal for America using the KGB Mafia/Army to covertly destroy us from within…

My fellow Americans!

We can’t fail, our children and grandchildren will never forgive us! Educating yourself, knowledge, courage and perseverance can save America the Beautiful.

It is now or never!

Freedom’s torch is yours!

To be continued www.simonapipko.com and at www.drricswier.com/author/spipko/

A House Divided – An Open Letter to a Democrat

June 17, 2022

By Mark T. Cicero

We are a nation divided today: split into political divisions, Democrat, Republican, Socialist, Progressive; into racial divisions: black, white, Asian, Hispanic; into cultural and sexual divisions: straight, gay, lesbian, transexual, etc. Our entire country’s fabric is being torn asunder as these separate ‘tribes’ are set against one another. In Chapter 3 of the Gospel of Mark (verses 24 & 25), Christ stated “If a kingdom is divided against itself, it cannot stand. If a house is divided against itself, that house cannot stand”. This once great nation is being fractured and only its people can prevent it.

I had a conversation with a dear friend yesterday, who thought I might be amused by a verbal gaffe committed by President Biden. (It is important to note that he is an ardent and lifelong liberal Democrat while I have considerably more conservative leanings.) I was not amused, as I find the lack of clarity, intellect, and honesty to be severely lacking in this president. Having him prove it again by speaking publicly again does not strike me as funny. This conversation quickly devolved into an argument – left versus right which terminated when my friend hung up on me in mid-sentence. His hatred of Donald Trump was matched only by my disdain for Joe Biden. He railed on about Trump being a liar and trying to steal this election from Biden by inciting insurrection, being in bed with Russia, and being arguably the most horrible person that this planet has seen since Ivan the Terrible.

I tried to segment these issues and tackle them individually, which only increased the emotional level of the discourse. It quickly became apparent that Mr. Trump was bad because my friend’s “gut instinct” told him he was a bad guy. The rumors of his “Russian Collusion” only served to reinforce this feeling along with any coverage by ABC, NBC, CBS, MSNBC, CNBC, et cetera (“MSM – Main Stream Media”). The most difficult part of this entire conversation was that it drove us into an adversarial position with no hope of compromise. He completely discounted my research into the issues with the 2020 election: the complete failure of the swing state’s Biden vote count to pass Benford’s Law of First Digits, Peter Schweizer’s book entitled “Red Handed”, or any coverage of Hunter Biden’s laptop with his payments to the “Big Guy”.

As a result, there was literally no basis for a conversation or debate. There was no common starting point and no concrete foundation that could be agreed upon. With emotions beginning to increase and frustration on both sides ratcheting up, it quickly became apparent that this now shouting match could fracture a close friendship. In hindsight, I am glad that he chose to hang up on me before it got to that level.

While I regret the tone the conversation took, I know that he loves America and is grateful for the opportunities it has afforded him, as am I. However, in retrospect, I now know that polite discourse between our two parties will never happen until we can get common facts to rely upon. The complicity of the MSM with the Democrat party is almost total and complete and, without any opposing voice except Fox.

Until journalists start to report on events with some level of impartiality using a factual basis, the distrust of all voices will only increase (consider how every news outlet spiked the Hunter Biden laptop story until recently and then with only minimal coverage). It is time for us, as a nation, to demand honesty from our media outlets and news organizations.

For example, when Darrell Brooks Jr. drives an SUV through a Christmas parade in Wisconsin, killing 6 and injuring dozens more, it should not be reported as “An SUV killed people in a parade”. I believe that, because Mr. Brooks is a black man and most of his victims were white, this particular crime did not assist in pushing a BLM/Antifa agenda and received very little MSM attention. Now, when Peyton Gendron, walks into a Buffalo NY supermarket and kills 10 people who were primarily black, this gets put on the cover of every newspaper and leads in the MSM as a “hate crime”. Both acts are similarly heinous but received very different reporting.

An aside: It is also interesting to note that there was no one blaming the automobile manufacturers for building and promoting “weapons of war” but that’s a Second Amendment argument not for this essay.

It should be important to remember that Mr. Biden’s inaugural address included the following: “the dream of justice for all will be deferred no longer” and “my whole soul is in this: bringing America together. Uniting our people. And uniting our nation”. These were the words he spoke to our nation, his promise to America. Do we have equal justice in this nation? In the almost 18 months since his inauguration, has there been any move to create unity? Let’s examine each of those points closely.

“Justice for all” seems like the exact language our Constitutional framers would have used to describe a judicial utopian ideal that our courts and law enforcement agencies are designed to emulate. If justice is to be fair, it must also be delivered evenly, regardless of race, religion, or political party.

When you consider the treatment of Roger Stone, arrested in his home in the pre-dawn hours with a SWAT team, and Peter Navarro, who lives 50 feet from the FBI’s Washington office, being shackled with handcuffs and leg irons at National Airport after offering to surrender himself earlier that same day. Stone was arrested for lying to the FBI and Navarro for ignoring a Congressional subpoena. James Clapper and John Brennan, both staunch Democrats were guilty of lying to Congress – no arrests, no jail time, and no court appearances. Instead they were rewarded with positions on cable news.

Also consider the case of Michael Sussman, who essentially admitted to lying to the FBI and was acquitted of his crimes. In case you need a refresher, he is the DNC lawyer at the firm of Perkins Coie. Two of this law firm’s main Washington DC clients are the DNC and the Clinton family – who delivered the notorious Steele Dossier that began the entire Russian Collusion Hoax. Yes, that same Steele Dossier that was created at the request of the Clinton Campaign, paid for with Clinton campaign funds and used by the FBI to get the FISA courts to permit them to spy on the Trump campaign. Is this equal justice, when one political party has the leading law enforcement agency in the world doing its bidding, including staffing an office in the DNC’s pet law firm, Perkins Coie?

On to unity: how is that working out? Every action of this administration seems intended to fracture our society rather than bring us together. We are watching our rule of law fade into the background as the administration lets millions of unknown people stream across our southern border. Will these new ‘citizens’ help us find unity?

We know they are responsible for over 100,000 deaths of actual American citizens from fentanyl overdoses delivered to us from China via Mexico. We are also confronted by an economic tsunami that Mr. Biden and Ms. Pelosi are directly responsible for – all that Covid stimulus money inflated our money supply by 50%, which any first-year economics student will tell you produces runaway inflation.

This is further exacerbated by working to reduce and retard domestic energy exploration and production with the zeal of a PRC Security officer suppressing a Uighur neighborhood.

This is additive to the inflation from the increase in our money supply. It affects the cost of everything in our country, from your cost of energy, your latest purchase on Amazon to the family summer vacation to the cost of groceries.

We have a baby formula shortage, you can’t get glass for the windows in new home construction, and virtually every good and service cost more and is scarcer than it was 18 months ago. Inflation, by definition, creates competition for all goods and services. It pits neighbor against neighbor, further fracturing our neighborhoods and our sense of nation.

So, once again, I beg of you, my liberal friends, to help me understand why any of these policies of this administration are helping our country? How an open border flooding deadly fentanyl across our land and scattering millions of unknown people throughout our country will make America a better place to live? Why is it better to buy oil from Venezuela, Iran, or Saudi Arabia than it is to drill for it here?

I understand that we may have different world views, watch different television shows, and vote for different people, but can you please tell us how anything this administration has done to us will also be for us. Perhaps then we can have a positive and constructive conversation.

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Celebrating LGBTQ+ and Other Playacting

June 17, 2022

By Craig J. Cantoni

The phoniness of free riders who benefit from the heavy lifting of earlier generations.

Long before the word “gay” came into popular use, long before the word “pride” was modified by the word “gay,” and long before gay marriage was sanctioned, two gay guys, Ken and Gerry, were good friends of my working-class parents. Lifelong partners, both were white-collar professionals and, in my estimation as a kid, great guys. Their sexual preference was irrelevant to me and my parents, and while they didn’t hide it, they also weren’t crusaders about it.

It was the same with other gays I later came to know, whether in college, business, or the neighborhood.

Now I’m being asked in TV commercials and in messages that come across my computer screen to “Celebrate gay pride during LGBTQ+ Pride Month.”

How am I supposed to do that? Shooting off fireworks in the backyard? Tying rainbow-colored balloons to my mailbox at the street? Wearing a party hat?

And if I did that, how does it change American society for the better?

Speaking of change: Circa 1990, when I was a business executive before “transgender” became a cause du jour, an employee in one of my departments began transitioning from a man to a woman. No big deal. His preferences were accommodated on how he wanted to be addressed and what restroom he wanted to use, and I quietly got the word out to his coworkers that the company expected them to be mature adults about it.

It was a similar story at other large corporations at the time, as I knew from being a member of a business roundtable that met to discuss human resources issues.

Back then, there was not any hullabaloo about sexual and gender preferences: no rainbow banners at company facilities, no saccharine messages on company message boards, and no advertising touting how wonderfully open-minded my employer and I were or how thoroughly modern and hip we were.

Now retired, I’m getting messages like the following every day: “Improve LGBTQ+ students’ experience.”

How am I supposed to do that? And what about the experience of heterosexual students?

Another message suggests an answer: “June is LGBTQ+ Pride Month. Celebrate in classrooms across the country with GISEN. Donate now!”

The same answer about donating appeared in this message: “NBJC promotes racial equity for Black LGBTQ+/SGL people. Donate now!”

In addition to messages about sexual and gender identity, Americans are bombarded daily by a barrage of shopworn commercials, advertisements, and messages about diversity and inclusion. There are so many that companies seem to be in the business of selling diversity instead of the business of selling goods and services.

On second thought, they seem to be in the business of selling baloney.

Once again, this is quite a contrast with my experience decades ago, when my employer and I, as well as other like-minded executives and employers, engaged in quiet but effective efforts at equal opportunity, affirmative action, racial sensitivity training, and the more recent name for all this, “diversity,” which entered the lexicon after R. Roosevelt Thomas, Jr. published his landmark Harvard Business Review article on the subject.

Internal political battles were fought, racist and sexist employees and managers were fired, the numbskulls at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission were humored so that they didn’t stop progress with their bureaucratic bumbling, and the vast majority of employees heard and heeded the message without being beaten over the head. We called this leadership.

At the same time, with no fanfare, my employer addressed the woefully inadequate education of its black employees in the Deep South. Illiterate employees were given the opportunity to learn to read and write at company expense so that they could operate new manufacturing technology. Almost all of them took the opportunity, and they later beamed with pride at an in-house graduation ceremony that their families attended.

None of this was delegated to a department of diversity and inclusion because there wasn’t such a department. And there wasn’t such a department, because company leaders were doing their job of leading.

Today, whether in industry, government, or academia, leaders have become followers with respect to diversity and inclusion. They parrot platitudes and banalities, they kowtow to pressure groups, they engage in tokenism and pandering, and they run unoriginal and farfetched commercials and ads, featuring the requisite number of races, skin shades, eye shapes, mixed marriages, and sexual and gender identities.

It’s all so formulaic, superficial, and tiresome.

Today’s leaders cum followers also cater to their idealistic, naïve, and programmed employees, the ones who mistake virtue-signaling for virtue, righteousness for being right, sanctimony for seriousness, progressiveness for progress, and politically-correct pronouns for pertinence.

Most of them, executives and rank-and-file knowledge workers alike, live and work in cocoons—in places that might have some modicum of diversity in terms of race, ethnicity, gender, and sexual orientation, but are homogenous in social class, education, and, yes, privilege and power.

They benefit from the heavy lifting of those from earlier generations who fought hard battles for equal rights and risked their careers in the process. As free riders, the cocoon dwellers advance their careers, not by doing anything serious about the socio-economic issues of the day, but by putting on party hats and celebrating LGBTQ+.

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Davos Reminds: Other Countries Aren’t Committing Economic Suicide For Climate Change

June 17, 2022

By Seton Motley

In very many WEFs past, lots of countries have made lots of climate change pledges and promises. They then moved on as if they never said anything – and kept doing what they had always been doing.

“One-third of the roughly 270 WEF panel discussions in Davos will focus on climate change or its effects, with extreme weather, efforts to reach net-zero greenhouse gas emissions and finding new, cleaner sources of energy on the agenda.”

Of course, the world’s globalist billionaire “leaders” are all members of the “Do As I Say – Not As I Do” Club.

Just How Much CO2 Did Woke Elites Spew Flying Private Jets To Davos?:

“Overall, roughly 1,500 private jets flew to and from airports near Davos for the WEF annual meeting in 2019, according to an analysis from Air Charter Service, The Guardian reported at the time. The firm didn’t conduct a similar analysis for this year’s conference, a spokesperson told TheDCNF.”

Get that? When the number of private jets flying in to discuss “climate change” is an embarrassment? Stop counting the private jets.

At Davos, Are Leaders’ Private Jets and Limos Actually Hurting Climate-Change Efforts?

Gee, ya think?

If you still take these globalists seriously – about anything? You’re either not paying attention – or are irretrievably stupid.

In very many WEFs past, lots of countries have made lots of climate change pledges and promises. They then moved on as if they never said anything – and kept doing what they had always been doing.

And as is always the case when people get away with things? These countries are attempting to get away with bigger and more brazen things.

Having faced zero consequences for lying about doing climate change things?

Not a Single G20 Country Is in Line with the Paris Agreement on Climate, Analysis Shows

Nations now increasingly don’t even bother to lie. To wit: China, Russia, and India are the three biggest “emitters” not named the US….

Cop26: China, India and Russia Must ‘Do More’ to Tackle Climate Crisis

Except….

China, Russia, India, Worlds Top 3 Methane Emitters, Won’t Pledge to Cut Emissions

China, India, and Russia Aren’t Interested in Updating Their Emissions Targets Before 2025

And they tell lies so biliously preposterous – they are utterly unenforceable even if they weren’t lying.

India Targets 2070 for Net-Zero Emissions

China’s Contentious Path to Net-Zero by 2060

Russia Aims to Reach Net Zero Emissions by 2060

Just about none of the globalist fat cats (emphasis on “fat”) bearing witness to these Davos climate “pledges” will be alive in 2060 when they first begin coming due. If any of these nations actually intended on adhering to them – which they absolutely do not.

India, China, Russia Kill Climate Deal

These international climate “pledges” aren’t worth the very many dead trees on which they’re printed. They are nothing but gassy, sound-good soundbites.

Because these countries wish not to commit economic suicide. And I certainly don’t blame them.

But exceedingly awful president Joe Biden is rigorously determined to commit US economic suicide on our behalf.

Biden Commits to Cutting U.S. Emissions in Half by 2030

That means the US economy doesn’t grow – it shrinks by about 50%. In eight years. And as I’m sure you’ve noticed – what with the heinously horrendous economy in which we all are mired? Biden isn’t just saying these things – he’s actually doing them.

Video of the Day: Joe Biden Promises No More Drilling for Oil – Period

Joe Biden Just Promised No Coal Power Plants Will Ever Be Built In America

No empty economic suicide pledges from Biden. Like, say, from China, Russia and India.

China Is Investing in Its Domestic Oil and Gas Industry

Russian Oil Production Is Rebounding and Will Keep Rising

India Continues to Buy More Oil from Russia Despite the Western Pressure

India Looks To Buy More Iranian Oil

China Tells Mines to Produce ’As Much Coal as Possible’

China Needs Russian Coal. Moscow Needs New Customers

In Russia, Coal Is Still King. And The Government Wants Even More

India Ramps Up Coal Production

So as but a tiny salve to our under-climate-siege economy? Let’s tax the imports from these climate liars.

Trump Trade Principles to Mitigate the Climate Alarmists and Their Many Taxes:

“We have been artificially, dramatically increasing the cost of our energy – while no other country really has.

“Which is a de facto subsidy. By every other country – for every product, they export to us.

“Because everything they do – is cheaper than everything we do. Everything they make – is cheaper than everything we make.

“How should we rectify this idiocy? How do we get to global ‘climate change’ even?

The ‘Border Adjustment Tax’: Great Tax Reform – That Gets Us Great Trade Reform

Border Carbon Tax: DC Can Do Better – When It Chooses to Do So

Build Back Never: Let’s Carbon Tax Them – Not US:

“‘What Is a Carbon Border Tax and What Does It Mean for Trade?:

“‘A carbon border adjustment tax is a duty on imports based on the amount of carbon emissions resulting from the production of the product in question. As a price on carbon, it discourages emissions. As a trade-related measure, it affects production and exports.’

“The US imposing a carbon tax on US – will export lots and LOTS of companies and jobs. Taxing them and not US – will do exactly the opposite:

“‘Instead of taxing exports and not imports, we’d be taxing imports and not exports. Instead of reading about corporate inversions and outsourcing, we’d be reading about jobs and firms moving into the U.S. to take advantage of the favorable tax rules here.’”

Yes, please.

At the very least, it would help to mitigate the egregious “climate change” damage Biden is unilaterally doing to the US.

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This article was published by The Heartland Institute and is reproduced with permission.

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