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Useful Idiots for Hamas
By Robert Weissberg
Our universities were once viewed as America’s great strength. Today, they also produce countless useful idiots available to harebrained faculty to achieve the once unthinkable, killing millions of Jews. If only Hitler could see this theater.
Warning: Everything on Social Media Is Probably Fake
By Alicia Colon
When I first starting writing for Breitbart.com way back in its first year, I was urged by my editors to make sure I carefully researched and documented any information in my columns. I would often insert the verifying link of the videos or newspaper resources to support the charges I asserted in the piece. At that time, I had full confidence in the videos I used as proof that supported the claims I was writing about.
It is now 2024 and I have found that thanks to the technical advances in media manipulation, nothing is credible anymore.
I have already written about the danger of AI (artificial intelligence) being used to create misinformation for political purposes, but AI is now being used at an alarming rate to scam the elderly and rob the gullible of life savings. What made me cognizant of how terribly advanced the technology is was by trying out an animation app that my grandkids suggested I try.
What started as Photoshopping photographs has morphed into wholesale deliberate larceny and corruption. The app I tried was called Dance Face but there are plenty of animation apps available for anybody to download. One downloads a photo and the app animates it to dance.
I did so and was shocked at the way my photo changed into a person that shook her head, laughed and grinned and talked a blue streak. This was not me, but if I forwarded the image to my family they would almost believe it was me except that the AI image had perfect teeth and I am now snaggle-toothed. If you are on a social network like Facebook, Instagram or TikTok, do not trust any video you see, especially any that asks you for personal info or credit cards.
Advertisers are using images of well-loved celebrities to hawk their wares and I don’t know how they get away with it.
The latest one I saw was a video of Tom Hanks promoting a dental plan, but fortunately, Mr. Hanks went on several talk shows warning that his AI image was being used and he was not endorsing any dental plan.
Celebrities like Oprah Winfrey, Jennifer Garner, and others are being used to promote giveaway items like mixers and cookware for free. All that’s required is a small shipping fee but the advertiser then has the customer's credit card information.
The latest episode of CBS’s Blue Blood shows the worst possible incident when AI scammers use the voice of police officers to reveal location of key witnesses. AI scammers can access any posted images and voices on the internet and manipulate them for whatever purpose they can. They hide their identities within what is the "dark web" and they cannot be traced and apprehended.
Cyberterrorism is a great threat to the security of our nation, and one would hope that we had sufficient safeguards in place to protect us.
Unfortunately, most of this administration's actions seem to be focused on preventing Donald Trump from being elected president.
Dare I suggest that the only safeguard to avoid becoming the victim of clever hacking criminals is educating ourselves against them.
I’m pretty savvy about computers and the internet, yet I have also made terrible and costly decisions.
First, we all have to accept the fact that nothing is ever really free of charge and even small shipping charges are no guarantee that you will ever receive the item you’re ordering. Online advertisers on Facebook and Instagram are using store brands, like Nordstrom and Macys to reel in customers with ridiculously low prices, but these are probably overseas Asian companies, so check the store’s websites to verify the sales.
Scammers use logos of sites customers frequent and email them queries about their accounts to get access to passwords and security codes. Whenever I get an email from Chase Bank asking me to log in, I check where the email is actually from and even if it does come from Chase, I only login directly to the site itself not on the email.
Every click we make on our keyboard while online is being monitored by somebody, somewhere.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/05/warning_everthing_on_social_media_is_probably_fake.html
Hamas Plays Games with Unserious Ceasefire Proposal
Palestinian terrorist group feigns acceptance to paint Israel as obstructionist.
by Dave Patterson | May 7, 2024
As the Israel Defense Force (IDF) prepared to destroy the last vestige of Hamas terrorists hiding out in the southern Gaza town of Rafah, Hamas leadership said it agreed to an Egyptian and Qatari ceasefire proposal. However, the conditions appear to be the same terms Israel has consistently rejected. It is just a sham, designed to make Israel look like a ceasefire obstructionist. The IDF has told citizens of Rafah to leave immediately in anticipation of a ground operation against the Hamas stronghold.
Israel Not Unclear About Its Objectives
There has never been any fuzz on what Israel demands – hostages held by Hamas returned, Hamas destroyed, a demilitarized Gaza, and deradicalization of Palestinian society. As Liberty Nation reported, “Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has made it abundantly clear that he would not detour from the objective of destroying Hamas.” Weekend negotiations had reached an impasse, and Israel reiterated its decision to destroy the remnants of Hamas terrorist battalions in Rafah, ordering civilians to evacuate. Following the IDF announcement, Hamas had a sudden change of heart. The New York Times reported:
“Hours later, Hamas suddenly announced that its leader, Ismail Haniyeh, had accepted a ceasefire proposal based on a plan proffered by Egypt and Qatar, which have been mediating the negotiations with Israel. The terms Hamas had agreed to were not immediately clear, but a senior Israeli official quickly said that the terms were not those that Israel had agreed to.”
Some reports maintain the primary sticking point to an agreement is whether there will be a pause in fighting, during which hostages will be exchanged for Palestinian prisoners, or a cessation to fighting, leaving the Hamas terrorists in charge in Gaza. The latter condition is untenable for Israel since it allows the terrorists to reconstitute and commit, as promised, Oct. 7 redux. “A Hamas official has vowed to repeat the horrific terror attacks on Israel … ‘again and again’ until the country is completely destroyed, insisting it has ‘no place on our land,’” the New York Post reported. Why would Israel not believe Ghazi Hamad, a member of Hamas’ political decision-making group, who made the statement?
Another obstacle in the negotiations has been Hamas’ insistence that Palestinians returning to their towns and villages must do so freely without Israelis managing the return in search for Hamas and other Palestinian terrorists. Of course, this is a non-starter for the Israeli government, which insists there must be no opportunity for Hamas to reclaim its control over the Gazans. If Hamas is given license to re-establish its governmental control in Gaza, then Hamad’s threat will become a reality. Hamas is like an aggressive cancer. If one cell is left alive, it becomes two, two become four, and in a short time, the rancid stench of Hamas’ evil intent will be a menace to Israel again.
White House Content With Hamas Remaining in Gaza
The Biden administration has been cautious during the confusion over whether a possible ceasefire is in the works. However, during the daily White House press briefing, the president’s national security communications adviser, John Kirby, made clear, “We don’t support ground operations in Rafah.” What he didn’t say was how to eradicate the Hamas organization without taking the fight to Rafah, where Hamas is. “We want to get these hostages out. We want to get a ceasefire in place for six weeks. We want to increase humanitarian assistance. And the last thing I want to do is say anything at this podium that’s going to put that process at risk,” Kirby explained.
Often forgotten in the effort to protect Palestinian civilians in Gaza is that a majority of these same people have supported Hamas and Islamic Jihadists since 2007 in persistent attacks on Israel. During two days in May 2023, Israel sustained Palestinian terrorist attacks from Gaza that included 803 rockets launched against Israeli civilians. War is ugly and horrific, and every effort should be made to avoid it. However, when Hamas started this murderous business, the Palestinians who supported the training camps and provided their young men as combatants should have anticipated there would be consequences. Israel is working to ensure there will never be another Oct. 7 – a worthy objective. Don’t count your ceasefires until there is one.
https://www.libertynation.com/hamas-unserious-in-accepting-a-ceasefire-previously-dismissed/
Biden Turns Humanitarian Parole Into an Illegal Alien Bonanza
The list of 50 airports showcases an elaborate and determined effort to inundate American with migrants.
by Joe Schaeffer | May 7, 2024
The Biden administration has harnessed a limited-use “humanitarian parole” refugee program meant for catastrophic circumstances such as war to allow more than 400,000 migrants into the US through its Cuban, Haitian, Nicaraguan, and Venezuelan (CHNV) program. More than 50 airports are involved worldwide, illustrating the enormous scope of the operation.
“The parole program, launched in January 2023, was one of more than a dozen the [House Committee on Homeland Security] identified as illegal and as evidence to impeach [Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro] Mayorkas,” The Center Square reported May 1.
Mayorkas steadfastly refused to disclose the number of foreigners being imported into America under the program until forced to do so by congressional subpoena. The Homeland Security Committee released the information on April 30.
“Roughly half of those flown into the country, 200,000, entered in the first eight months of the program’s implementation from January 2023 through August 2023, according to the data,” the news site details. “By mid-October 2023, there were 1.6 million inadmissible aliens waiting for travel authorizations through the CHNV program, according to the data. None of the Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans waiting for travel authorizations have a legal basis to enter the US before being paroled through the CHNV program, the documents acknowledge.”
“All individuals paroled into the United States are, by definition, inadmissible, including those paroled under the CHNV Processes,” according to the House committee.
The CHNV arrivals have been flown into cities and towns across the US. International airports are also a part of the program, including three in Canada and one, strangely, in Ireland.
Biden and the Usual Suspects
Powerful leftist organizations are jubilant over the Biden administration’s commitment to expanding every conceivable avenue to bring illegal aliens into the American interior.
FWD.us is a group devoted to promoting massive immigration that is backed by heavyweight progressive elitist money. Its “founders and funders” include Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, and LinkedIn multi-billionaire Reid Hoffman, watchdog website Influence Watch states. The organization is upfront in praising CHNV as a wildly successful workaround to the jammed southern US border.
“Immigrants seeking safety in the US through the CHNV parole policy did not travel to the border and have dispersed across the country with the support of American sponsors,” FWD.us wrote in a January post on its website. “An already overwhelmed border regulation authority cannot handle the border consequences of limiting humanitarian parole. On the contrary, upholding the administration’s right to extend parole will allow this and future administrations to show compassion to migrants seeking safety while managing border crossings.”
It’s a somewhat absurd argument to make: FWD.us is saying Americans are only troubled by the anarchy at the southern border but otherwise have no problem with massive immigration into the US. Enter CHNV, a way to ease the border congestion and fast-track the migrant floodtide into America.
The hollowness of such a claim has been made manifestly clear now that the perils of unchecked illegal immigration have upturned progressive urbanite confines such as Denver and New York. The social and economic catastrophe has exploded to such a degree that immigration is now regularly cited as the number one issue of concern for US voters heading into November. The Biden administration’s abuse of “humanitarian parole” is fueling the disaster.
‘Threw Out the Authorized Refugee Process’
Americans should have seen it coming. The seemingly overnight creation of a vastly connected and staggeringly well-funded refugee sponsorship organization in 2021 revealed that humanitarian parole would be a key card played by open-border forces in the Biden years.
“Within a few short weeks of [President Joe] Biden’s July 2021 announcement that the US was pulling out of Afghanistan, a vast ‘national effort’ organized by the Rockefeller Foundation was up and running, urging that Afghan refugees should be granted rapid entry into America,” Liberty Nation noted in 2023. “Welcome.US billed itself as ‘the largest coalition in refugee resettlement history.’ Every living ex-president, except Donald Trump, is listed as a ‘co-chair,’ including George W. Bush. Countless leading lights from the corporate, NGO, and celebrity world were on board as ‘National Welcome Council’ members.”
Never let a crisis go to waste. By 2023, Welcome.US was eagerly supporting the CHNV program.
“Following the recent announcement from the Biden-Harris Administration that Haitians are eligible for humanitarian sponsorship through the Processes for Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans (CHNV), Welcome.US and the Haitian Bridge Alliance are partnering to mobilize sponsors interested in helping Haitians fleeing danger and seeking refuge in the United States,” the organization wrote in a January 11, 2023 release.
“Since April 2022, nearly 200,000 Americans have stepped up to sponsor Ukrainians through the successful Uniting for Ukraine program, which was used as a model for the CHNV process,” Welcome.US declared. “American citizens and lawful permanent residents now have the same opportunity to extend such compassion to Haitians fleeing gang violence, abject poverty, political instability, and gender-based violence.”
And just like that, widespread and elastic descriptors such as poverty and “gender-based violence” became as valid a reason as war to merit “humanitarian parole” into the US in the eyes of the Biden administration and its ruling progressive establishment allies.
Phillip Linderman, writing for The American Conservative in March, explained how this three-shell game works. Follow the pea.
“Biden and Mayorkas essentially threw out the authorized refugee process, which they considered too slow and too limiting, to invent their own speedy but unlawful ‘new paths’ that simply deem selected foreign nationalities as refugees and admit them,” Linderman wrote. “Therefore, almost all of Biden-Mayorkas migrants that Welcome.US is sponsoring do not even meet the US government legal definition of ‘refugee.’”
Barring a judicial ruling that has not happened yet, there is no limit to the possibilities when it comes to this administration’s abuse of “humanitarian parole.”
https://www.libertynation.com/biden-turns-humanitarian-parole-into-an-illegal-alien-bonanza/
ABC News Chief Kim Godwin Calls It Quits After Tumultuous Reign
Insiders hail the end of her “reign of error.”
by Leesa K. Donner | May 7, 2024
Kim Godwin, the first black woman to lead a major broadcast network news division, is calling it a day. And what a day it’s been. Her reign as head honcho of such well-known news programs as Good Morning America (GMA) and World News Tonight comes to an end after what many say was a tumultuous three-year period of grumbling and angst.
It couldn’t have been an easy ride for Godwin. Newsrooms are typically hotbeds of gossip, backbiting, and ego-driven conflicts. Unfortunately, much of the misery and chaos inside the ABC newsroom was leaked to other media outlets during Godwin’s tenure, and it didn’t paint a pretty picture. The grumbling must have reached the ABC brass because network executives dropped Godwin down a peg in the corporate hierarchy three months ago by appointing Debra OConnell as president of News Group and Networks at Disney Entertainment. Disney owns and operates the ABC network. Reportedly, Disney’s corporate restructuring left Godwin “apoplectic,” signaling that – one way or another — her days as ABC news chief were numbered.
In a business whose main currency is anonymous sources, a plethora of ABC News staffers have been taking public swipes at Godwin for some time now. Whether true or not, they made landfall in various media outlets. In breaking the news of the Florida A&M grad’s departure, The Wall Street Journal reported, “Critics said Godwin seemed more focused on boosting her profile than in the grind of running a news division.”
But that was only the outer edge of the newsroom sniping: The tipping point came “after it was reported that the veteran newswoman told people in a meeting that Black people don’t watch the news, an astonishing claim that first came to light via two reports in Puck and CNN’s Reliable Sources newsletter,” according to an article in The Daily Beast. They also described her tenure at ABC as “marred by scandals, missteps, and internal strife.”
ABC News — Upheaval and Disorder
Last year, ABC News had to let 50 staffers go, and while its signature programs, GMA and World News Tonight, are still ahead of CBS and NBC, the ratings aren’t as high as they had been. But even a slight slippage in network ratings means trouble for a news executive like Godwin. Still, one has to think that the dismal newsroom atmosphere must have had at least as much to do with Godwin’s departure as the ratings. As the WSJ put it:
“Though the news division was a ratings leader, many in the news division said it was suffering from a cutthroat and toxic culture.
“She [Godwin] instead became a polarizing figure inside the network. Detractors say she and her inner circle stifled discussion and dissent while failing to rise up to challenges facing the unit including a decline in ratings at ‘Good Morning America.’”
News of Godwin’s departure reached the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ), which quickly issued a statement in her defense:
“Those supporters have told NABJ that they see the attacks, perpetrated through media reports, as ‘racially motivated’ or in reaction to her not being in what some in the industry call the ‘good old boy network’ of players.
“NABJ is extremely disappointed to see such a reckless, unbalanced, and unfair style of reporting, as demonstrated in other stories that do not have alternative viewpoints and, in some cases, have racially insensitive language … ”
The Wall Street Journal also threw Godwin a bouquet, saying, “Others also credited her with cultivating a more welcoming newsroom environment for staff and dismantling a clubby culture that was detrimental to morale.”
Whatever the reason Godwin stepped down from her perch to make a final exit from the broadcast news business, it appears she left behind both friend and foe at ABC News.
https://www.libertynation.com/abc-news-chief-kim-godwin-calls-it-quits-after-tumultuous-reign/
Monday's Energy Absurdity: If You Think Your EV Saves You Money, Well, Here's Your Sign
David Blackmon
May 06, 2024
Bill Engvall is one of my favorite standup comics, most well-known for being part of the Redneck Comedy Tour along with Jeff Foxworthy, Larry the Cable Guy, and the great Ron White.
Where Foxworthy made a fortune with his “you might be a redneck” routine, Engvall created a comedy calling card of his own with his “here’s your sign” gag. In that act, Engvall would use the set-up of stories of friends, relatives, neighbors and other saying or doing stupid things, and then award them with a “Stupid” sign to glue to their foreheads.
Here are some examples:
I shot me a nice deer, and I hung it on the den wall in my house. My neighbor comes over and he says, Did you shoot that thing? I said, Nope. He ran through the wall and got stuck. Here's your sign.
One day I locked my keys in my car and as I was standing there with a hanger halfway through the top of my window, a guy walks up and says, Lock yer keys in the car? Without missin' a beat I said, Nope, Just washed it and was hanging it up to dry. Here's your sign.
I called my wife up on the cell phone and said baby you aint gonna believe this, i go, we just hit a deer with the airplane. and there was a silence on the other end of the line followed by.. OH MY GOD.! were you on the ground? I said nope, santa was makin’ one last run. Here’s your sign.
I really love that last one but do NOT recommend any of you guys using it at home. Don’t ask why, just trust me on this.
Anyway, I’m thinking Mr. Engvall needs to revive this routine for application to this miserable failure of an energy transition we are all not enjoying and not in fact even having these days.
Specifically, I think he might want to think about applying it to anyone who still claims that buying and driving an electric vehicle saves you money over buying and driving a gas- or diesel-fueled car.
The latest evidence of that reality comes to us from AutoBlog’s Chris Teague, who published a story last week detailing the results of a new study released by iSeeCars, which finds that the costs associated with EVs is wildly higher than advertised.
In fact, the study finds the costs associated with EVs to be far higher than not just internal combustion cars, but also those of Hybrids and Plug-in Hybrids.
Here’s the key excerpt from the story:
iSeeCars’ research looked at the costs to operate various fuel types between November 2022 and April 2023, finding that EV owners not only drove far fewer miles than gas owners, but their average costs to operate those vehicles over 1,000 miles were much higher.
People drove EVs an average of 10,256 miles during that period, seeing costs of $5,108 per 1,000 miles. In contrast, owners drove gas vehicles 12,813 miles, averaging $3,123 over the same distance. The costs per 1,000 miles for other fuel types in the study include:
Hybrids: $3,056
Gas Cars: $3,123
Plug-In Hybrids: $4,351
EVs: $5,108
EV owners may worry about range and spotty charging infrastructure, which could contribute to the smaller number of miles driven. The higher purchase price of each vehicle is spread over fewer miles, making them significantly more expensive to drive. iSeeCars’ study found an average EV price of $52,387, compared to the $40,009 gas buyers paid.
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Oh.
Here’s your sign.
That is all.
https://blackmon.substack.com/p/mondays-energy-absurdity-if-you-think?publication_id=712558&post_id=144371138&isFreemail=false&r=rd9j8&triedRedirect=true
Ronald Stein: A green embargo by China will trigger a financial crisis
David Blackmon
May 07, 2024
It seems that no one remembers the Oil Embargo of 1973, just 50 years ago, as America’s National Security is now with China’s monopoly of critical Minerals!
In 1973, the Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) imposed an oil embargo against the United States, triggering a crude oil crisis that sent the U.S. economy into a recession.
Move over OPEC, today, the “green” revolution to occasionally generated electricity from wind and solar has the world on the cusp of a Green Embargo by China that may trigger a financial crisis that could send the U.S. economy into a recession.
Fifty years ago, in the aftermath of the 1973 oil crisis in 1977, the Department of Energy (D.O.E) was established to lessen our dependence on foreign locations for America’s energy independence, but today, with its 14,000 employees and a 2024 budget of $52B, the D.O.E. continues to remain dead silent and has allowed foreign nations to take control of California, and for China to monopolize the supply chain of minerals and metals for America to achieve it’s “green” policies.
CALIFORNIA: The fourth-largest economy in the world has increased its imports of crude oil from 5 percent in 1992 to almost 60 percent of total consumption today.
California is home to 9 International airports, 41 Military airports, and 3 of the largest shipping ports in America. California’s growing dependency on other nations for crude oil poses a serious national security risk for America!
CHINA: For the transition to a “green” revolution reliance on electricity, the D.O.E. has remained silent while wind, solar, and electric vehicle policies have made America increasingly dependent on rare earth minerals and metals mined for those batteries under atrocious slave labor and environmental conditions in other countries that the D.O.E. and bureaucratic policymakers accept and encourage!
China controls a stranglehold of 80% of the global supply monopoly on rare earth minerals and metals, with the Congo in Africa a 90% source of vital cobalt.
Graphite: On a total component basis, graphite accounts for about 25% to 28% of an EV battery. Turkey has the largest reserves of graphite, followed by Brazil and China. Together, these three countries account for 66% of the estimated world graphite reserves.
Environmentalists’ vision just toward the wealthier countries on this planet that can afford the cost of regulations for the environmental movement, large batteries for electric cars, trucks, buses, and electricity generated occasionally by wind turbines and solar panels is tunnel vision that is hypocritical, unethical, and immoral.
China controls a stranglehold of 80% of the global supply monopoly on rare earth minerals and metals.
The Congo in Africa is a 90% source of vital cobalt.
Lithium: The Lithium Triangle, which covers parts of Argentina, Bolivia, and Chile, holds more than 50% of the world’s supply of lithium.
Graphite: On a total component basis, graphite accounts for about 25% to 28% of an EV battery. Turkey has the largest reserves of graphite, followed by Brazil and China. Together, these three countries account for 66% of the estimated world graphite reserves.
Today, a typical EV battery weighs 1,000 pounds and contains:
25 pounds of lithium,
60 pounds of nickel,
44 pounds of manganese,
30 pounds cobalt,
200 pounds of copper, and
400 pounds of aluminum, steel, and plastic.
Inside are over 6,000 individual lithium-ion cells.
It should concern everyone that all those “blood minerals” come from mining at locations in the world that are never seen by environmentalists, policymakers, or EV buyers.
For instance, to manufacture each EV auto battery, you must process 25,000 pounds of brine for lithium, 30,000 pounds of ore for cobalt, 5,000 pounds of ore for nickel, and 25,000 pounds of ore for copper. All told, just one Tesla EV battery requires the processing of more than 500,000 pounds of materials somewhere on the planet.
A battery for a heavy-duty electric truck can weigh up to 16,000 pounds, which is 16 times more than the Tesla battery! A single truck battery requires 8,000,000 pounds of earth to be dug up. That’s astounding – digging up 8 million pounds of earth for each truck battery!
EVs are heavily subsidized in multiple ways: through direct federal and state tax benefits to purchasers, through government loan incentives to manufacturers, and through added production costs passed on to gasoline vehicle purchasers.
Both China and Africa have minimal labor and environmental laws, resulting in extensive environmental degradation and humanity atrocities that support “clean” EV batteries. Both Lithium and Cobalt, the major components of the EV battery, are noted on The Periodic Table of Endangered Elements as having limited availability or experiencing a rising threat from increased usage.
It appears that it is both unethical and immoral to continue financially encouraging China and Africa to exploit “their” poor with yellow, brown, and black skin and financially supporting environmental degradation to “their” landscapes just to support clean EV batteries in “our backyards”!
The D.O.E.’s silence has become deafening as America approaches three and a half years into the Biden presidency—a presidency that from the outset promised an “all-government” regulatory onslaught to force a transition away from fossil fuels and to “green” electricity. The regulatory onslaught on fossil fuels has provided incentives for China to attain control of America’s green movement toward electricity!
China is positioned to influence lithium-ion battery production worldwide adversely. China has monopoly control over processed graphite, an essential component of almost all lithium-ion batteries. Virtually all processed graphite, natural and synthetic, is made in China and then exported to the battery makers worldwide.
These batteries are used universally in electric and electronic devices, from cell phones and watches to EVs and huge grid-scale backup batteries; they also have numerous essential military uses.
China is just now beginning to implement an export control program for processed graphite. By controlling exports, China could, to a significant degree, adversely influence lithium-ion battery production, such as by raising prices to selected producers or even blacklisting entire countries.
Thus, the potential adverse impact of the Chinese monopoly power is enormous. What they will do remains to be seen, but the threat is very real.”
Much has been written about China’s market power in other crucial materials like cobalt and rare earths. However, these cases are weak compared to its monopoly in processed graphite.
China is a major player in both cases, coincidentally producing about 70% of processed cobalt and 70% of rare earths. Numbers like this are nothing like monopoly control, as many other suppliers exist. China consumes most of its production because it makes a lot of lithium-ion batteries. It is a net importer of rare earths.
China’s stranglehold monopoly on the global supply of rare earth minerals and metals for the “green” movement to EVs and generating electricity by wind and solar is a clear and potential “embargo” danger to the American and World economies.
To reiterate, move over OPEC, the next foreign embargo may be a “GREEN” Embargo by China!
https://blackmon.substack.com/p/ronald-stein-a-green-embargo-by-china?publication_id=712558&post_id=144396337&isFreemail=false&r=rd9j8&triedRedirect=true
A boy beat me in track and sexually harassed me. Biden thinks I’m the problem
Girls shouldn't lose their spots in track to boys just because Biden rewrites Title IX
By Adaleia Cross
Published May 7, 2024 5:00am EDT
I started participating in sports at an early age and have been active my whole life. I’ve tried most sports available in my area, like soccer, swimming, cheer, dance, gymnastics, running and Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. It’s what I love. But something I love has turned into a source of pain.
When I was in 7th grade, I joined my middle school track team to compete in throwing events, just like my parents did. But that same year, a 6th-grade boy, known in court documents as BPJ, joined the girls’ team. BPJ identifies as a girl. I was forced to unfairly compete against and use the same locker room as BPJ.
In my 8th-grade year, BPJ started making extremely inappropriate comments to me and other girls that made me very uncomfortable. In any other situation, I would report the comments to my school immediately. But since BPJ identifies as transgender, I was worried I would be labeled as transphobic, and it would make things awkward on my team. So, I didn’t say anything and tried to stay as far away from BPJ as possible.
It didn’t work. I eventually told my parents about the sexual harassment, and we reported it to my school administrators. But the school did nothing to change things or help me.
To make matters even worse, I started losing to BPJ, repeatedly. Everyone knows boys are naturally bigger, stronger and more muscular than girls. It’s scientifically clear. That’s why there are girls-only categories in sports.
On the track team, I competed in shotput, discus, pole vault, the 100m dash, and the 4x100. I also filled in wherever they needed me. I loved it.
But things kept getting worse. In April 2023, BPJ completely knocked me out of one of the competitions for the throwing events, which I had been competing in for two seasons. For most meets, the athletes with the three best personal records compete in each championship event. Previously, BPJ had already replaced me in the shotput top three. I was still in the top three for discus — until the Mid-Mountain 10 meet toward the end of the season.
The whole season, BPJ had been physically changing — getting taller, shoulders broadening, voice getting deeper, as a male hitting puberty does. My coach pulled me aside before the Mid-Mountain 10 meet and informed me I had been knocked out of throwing in the competition. BPJ, a male almost two years younger than me, had officially replaced me, a female on the girls’ throwing team, in the meet.
On top of all of that, BPJ rubbed it in my face. He made me feel inferior. He trash-talked me for throwing shorter than him. It wasn’t enough to unfairly take my place. He had to belittle me.
Now the federal government is trying to re-write Title IX — the law that gave women equal opportunity in education and athletics — to erase protections for women and girls. This change would require schools to allow males who identify as females to share our locker rooms, bathrooms, showers, and, inevitably, our sports teams. So, what happened to me isn’t going to be an isolated event. It could happen to girls across the country.
The government is trying to say its new change doesn’t affect sports. But if you redefine sex in Title IX to include gender identity and redefine what it means to be a woman, schools will have to allow male students who identify as female to join female teams.
Besides, West Virginia had a state law protecting women’s sports and protecting me, but when BPJ challenged that law in court, the federal government sided with BPJ. The Department of Justice said that Title IX requires schools to let BPJ compete on women’s sports teams.
I eventually told my parents about the sexual harassment, and we reported it to my school administrators. But the school did nothing to change things or help me.
The administration is just putting up a smokescreen, hoping no one notices that this new rule is an attack on women’s sports.
None of this is fair or safe. I don’t want what happened to me to happen to other girls. So, I decided I had to speak up. My family and I took legal action Friday to challenge the government’s unlawful change related to Title IX. With the help of Alliance Defending Freedom, we hope to stop the federal government from pushing the erasure and unsafe treatment of girls and from taking away our right to privacy and fair play.
It’s 2024, and I thought things were equal for women — that if I tried my best, I had a fair chance. But now, in the name of progress and diversity, the Biden administration is trying to take away my right to safety and my right to compete in sports. That’s not progress.
I’m speaking out because I fear for my little sister and for girls across the country. No girl should have to endure sexual harassment or feel uncomfortable and anxious at school. No girl should have to compete in an unsafe and unfair system in school. I just hope my voice helps others see the truth, because I don’t want this to happen to anyone else.
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/boy-beat-track-sexually-harassed-biden-thinks-problem
NATO AND RUSSIA ARE PREPPING FOR TOTAL WAR, PUTIN ORDERS NUKE TEST REDACTED WITH CLAYTON MORRIS
https://www.bitchute.com/video/AJfAHtaNqK3m/
Israel and Iran Are Both Run by Freemasons Plotting WW3
(Albert Pike foresaw three world wars)
Lest we clap our hands raw cheering for Iran, let's not get caught up in the charade which is WW3.
Islamists (Hamas) are the Muslim equivalent of Jewish Communists or Zionists. Raisi and Satanyahu are both Freemasons.
Both sides are wings of the same satanic Masonic cult. Their dogmas are just a pretext to rob their people of freedom and property
and foment gratuitous wars. (WW3 will be a repeat of WW2, with Zionists and their allies in the role of Nazis, and Russia, Iran,
China in the role of Communists. Hitler, Churchill, FDR and Stalin were all Freemasons.)
Now they are joining to destroy us by staging a nuclear war.
Pike's prophecy below is coming true! Muslim and Zionist leaders are literally Illuminati agents.
https://www.henrymakow.com/2024/02/the-final-social-cataclysm---i.html
Democrats Fight President Trump’s Anti-Human Trafficking Efforts
Opposition From The Left
Annie Lobert, founder of Hookers For Jesus, is a dedicated and respected Christian activist
who helps women get out of the life, as evidenced by her appearance on The 700 Club.
Israel and Iran Are Both Run by Freemasons Plotting WW3
(Albert Pike foresaw three world wars)
Lest we clap our hands raw cheering for Iran, let's not get caught up in the charade which is WW3.
Islamists (Hamas) are the Muslim equivalent of Jewish Communists or Zionists. Raisi and Satanyahu are both Freemasons.
Both sides are wings of the same satanic Masonic cult. Their dogmas are just a pretext to rob their people of freedom and property
and foment gratuitous wars. (WW3 will be a repeat of WW2, with Zionists and their allies in the role of Nazis, and Russia, Iran,
China in the role of Communists. Hitler, Churchill, FDR and Stalin were all Freemasons.)
Now they are joining to destroy us by staging a nuclear war.
Pike's prophecy below is coming true! Muslim and Zionist leaders are literally Illuminati agents.
https://www.henrymakow.com/2024/02/the-final-social-cataclysm---i.html
Democrats Fight President Trump’s Anti-Human Trafficking Efforts
Opposition From The Left
Annie Lobert, founder of Hookers For Jesus, is a dedicated and respected Christian activist
who helps women get out of the life, as evidenced by her appearance on The 700 Club.
Democrats Fight President Trump’s Anti-Human Trafficking Efforts
Opposition From The Left
Annie Lobert, founder of Hookers For Jesus, is a dedicated and respected Christian activist
who helps women get out of the life, as evidenced by her appearance on The 700 Club.
Yeah, pretty scary shit Trump's BFF is doing.
Al Qaeda is on our side’: how Obama/Biden team empowered terrorist networks in Syria
https://mronline.org/2022/04/23/al-qaeda-is-on-our-side/
Obama, Biden and Schiff committed treason against America through cyber warfare election fraud
https://www.naturalnews.com/2020-12-03-obama-biden-schiff-treason-cyberwarfare-election-fraud.html
Joe Biden's agenda: The cruelest act against humanity in the modern age
By Andrew Benjamin
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2022/03/joe_bidens_foreign_policy_the_cruelest_act_against_humanity_in_the_modern_age.html
BEWARE: TERROR NEWS - THE BIDEN/OBAMA ADMINISTRATION SIDES WITH HAMAS AND TERRORISTS
May 6, 2024 by Joe Hoft
Biden/Obama Administration sides with terror. SINCE A LONG TIME:
https://www.globalresearch.ca/obama-biden-are-war-criminals-under-un-charter-analyst/5316112
The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) National President Morton A. Klein released the following statement:
https://joehoft.com/the-biden-obama-administration-sides-with-hamas-and-terrorists/
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PARASITES: The Cause Of Cancer And Covid?
https://stewpeters.com/video/2024/01/parasites-the-cause-of-cancer-and-covid/
ABORIGINAL LAW EXPERT WARNS OF PRIVATE PROPERTY RISKS OVER B.C.-HAIDA LAND AGREEMENT -
EX.GRATIA: PRIVATE PROPERTY RIGHTS AND LAND RIGHTS MEANS NOTHING TO KHAZARIANS POLITIX -
WHO JUST WANT TO ROB & STEAL AND GIVE AWAY IT ALL TO THEIR FRIENDS ! ? -
https://www.bitchute.com/video/TbNPNgqC3dk/
How does McDonald’s get away with breaking USDA laws regarding Human CANNIBAL,
Horse and Worm meat in their burgers?
Horse meat, Human Meat and Worm Meat Fillers Discovered at McDonald’s
https://stateofthenation.co/?p=604
Nothing changes until those who secretly
rule US are prosecuted for 9/11, JFK,
OK City, 5G, Chemtrails, Vaccines,
COVID-19…..
The Hidden Powers Behind
the Destruction of America
MAHA TIA - McDonalds caught using human baby CANNIBAL meat in their burgers -
Obama, Biden and Schiff committed treason against America through cyber warfare election fraud
https://www.naturalnews.com/2020-12-03-obama-biden-schiff-treason-cyberwarfare-election-fraud.html
Joe Biden's agenda: The cruelest act against humanity in the modern age
By Andrew Benjamin
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2022/03/joe_bidens_foreign_policy_the_cruelest_act_against_humanity_in_the_modern_age.html
BEWARE: TERROR NEWS - THE BIDEN/OBAMA ADMINISTRATION SIDES WITH HAMAS AND TERRORISTS
May 6, 2024 by Joe Hoft
Biden/Obama Administration sides with terror. SINCE A LONG TIME:
https://www.globalresearch.ca/obama-biden-are-war-criminals-under-un-charter-analyst/5316112
The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) National President Morton A. Klein released the following statement:
https://joehoft.com/the-biden-obama-administration-sides-with-hamas-and-terrorists/
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PARASITES: The Cause Of Cancer And Covid?
https://stewpeters.com/video/2024/01/parasites-the-cause-of-cancer-and-covid/
ABORIGINAL LAW EXPERT WARNS OF PRIVATE PROPERTY RISKS OVER B.C.-HAIDA LAND AGREEMENT -
EX.GRATIA: PRIVATE PROPERTY RIGHTS AND LAND RIGHTS MEANS NOTHING TO KHAZARIANS POLITIX -
WHO JUST WANT TO ROB & STEAL AND GIVE AWAY IT ALL TO THEIR FRIENDS ! ? -
https://www.bitchute.com/video/TbNPNgqC3dk/
How does McDonald’s get away with breaking USDA laws regarding Human CANNIBAL,
Horse and Worm meat in their burgers?
Horse meat, Human Meat and Worm Meat Fillers Discovered at McDonald’s
https://stateofthenation.co/?p=604
Nothing changes until those who secretly
rule US are prosecuted for 9/11, JFK,
OK City, 5G, Chemtrails, Vaccines,
COVID-19…..
The Hidden Powers Behind
the Destruction of America
MAHA TIA - McDonalds caught using human baby CANNIBAL meat in their burgers -
Joe Biden's agenda: The cruelest act against humanity in the modern age
By Andrew Benjamin
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2022/03/joe_bidens_foreign_policy_the_cruelest_act_against_humanity_in_the_modern_age.html
BEWARE: TERROR NEWS - THE BIDEN/OBAMA ADMINISTRATION SIDES WITH HAMAS AND TERRORISTS
May 6, 2024 by Joe Hoft
Biden/Obama Administration sides with terror. SINCE A LONG TIME:
https://www.globalresearch.ca/obama-biden-are-war-criminals-under-un-charter-analyst/5316112
The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) National President Morton A. Klein released the following statement:
https://joehoft.com/the-biden-obama-administration-sides-with-hamas-and-terrorists/
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PARASITES: The Cause Of Cancer And Covid?
https://stewpeters.com/video/2024/01/parasites-the-cause-of-cancer-and-covid/
ABORIGINAL LAW EXPERT WARNS OF PRIVATE PROPERTY RISKS OVER B.C.-HAIDA LAND AGREEMENT -
EX.GRATIA: PRIVATE PROPERTY RIGHTS AND LAND RIGHTS MEANS NOTHING TO KHAZARIANS POLITIX -
WHO JUST WANT TO ROB & STEAL AND GIVE AWAY IT ALL TO THEIR FRIENDS ! ? -
https://www.bitchute.com/video/TbNPNgqC3dk/
How does McDonald’s get away with breaking USDA laws regarding Human CANNIBAL,
Horse and Worm meat in their burgers?
Horse meat, Human Meat and Worm Meat Fillers Discovered at McDonald’s
https://stateofthenation.co/?p=604
Nothing changes until those who secretly
rule US are prosecuted for 9/11, JFK,
OK City, 5G, Chemtrails, Vaccines,
COVID-19…..
The Hidden Powers Behind
the Destruction of America
MAHA TIA - McDonalds caught using human baby CANNIBAL meat in their burgers -
THE BIDEN/OBAMA ADMINISTRATION SIDES WITH HAMAS AND TERRORISTS
May 6, 2024 by Joe Hoft
Biden/Obama Administration sides with terror. SINCE A LONG TIME:
https://www.globalresearch.ca/obama-biden-are-war-criminals-under-un-charter-analyst/5316112
The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) National President Morton A. Klein released the following statement:
https://joehoft.com/the-biden-obama-administration-sides-with-hamas-and-terrorists/
---- ----
PARASITES: The Cause Of Cancer And Covid?
https://stewpeters.com/video/2024/01/parasites-the-cause-of-cancer-and-covid/
ABORIGINAL LAW EXPERT WARNS OF PRIVATE PROPERTY RISKS OVER B.C.-HAIDA LAND AGREEMENT -
EX.GRATIA: PRIVATE PROPERTY RIGHTS AND LAND RIGHTS MEANS NOTHING TO KHAZARIANS POLITIX -
WHO JUST WANT TO ROB & STEAL AND GIVE AWAY IT ALL TO THEIR FRIENDS ! ? -
https://www.bitchute.com/video/TbNPNgqC3dk/
How does McDonald’s get away with breaking USDA laws regarding Human CANNIBAL,
Horse and Worm meat in their burgers?
Horse meat, Human Meat and Worm Meat Fillers Discovered at McDonald’s
https://stateofthenation.co/?p=604
Nothing changes until those who secretly
rule US are prosecuted for 9/11, JFK,
OK City, 5G, Chemtrails, Vaccines,
COVID-19…..
The Hidden Powers Behind
the Destruction of America
MAHA TIA - McDonalds caught using human baby CANNIBAL meat in their burgers -
Hi Al, pretty scary shit the Biden administration is throwing out there!!
PARASITES: The Cause Of Cancer And Covid?
https://stewpeters.com/video/2024/01/parasites-the-cause-of-cancer-and-covid/
ABORIGINAL LAW EXPERT WARNS OF PRIVATE PROPERTY RISKS OVER B.C.-HAIDA LAND AGREEMENT -
EX.GRATIA: PRIVATE PROPERTY RIGHTS AND LAND RIGHTS MEANS NOTHING TO KHAZARIANS POLITIX -
WHO JUST WANT TO ROB & STEAL AND GIVE AWAY IT ALL TO THEIR FRIENDS ! ? -
https://www.bitchute.com/video/TbNPNgqC3dk/
How does McDonald’s get away with breaking USDA laws regarding Human CANNIBAL,
Horse and Worm meat in their burgers?
Horse meat, Human Meat and Worm Meat Fillers Discovered at McDonald’s
https://stateofthenation.co/?p=604
Nothing changes until those who secretly
rule US are prosecuted for 9/11, JFK,
OK City, 5G, Chemtrails, Vaccines,
COVID-19…..
The Hidden Powers Behind
the Destruction of America
MAHA TIA - McDonalds caught using human baby CANNIBAL meat in their burgers -
Trump Plan: Deport 'Nearly 20 Million' Illegals
By Nick Koutsobinas | Sunday, 05 May 2024 10:02 PM EDT
Former President Donald Trump vowed to deliver the "largest mass deportation effort" in American history if elected in November.
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"For an operation of that scale," Time Magazine wrote following an interview with the 45th president, "Trump says he would rely mostly on the National Guard to round up and remove undocumented migrants throughout the country. 'If they weren't able to, then I'd use [other parts of] the military,' he says. When I ask if that means he would override the Posse Comitatus Act — an 1878 law that prohibits the use of military force on civilians — Trump seems unmoved by the weight of the statute."
The Trump campaign, according to the New York Post, has not detailed what resources would be deployed to detain and deport "nearly 20 million" illegal migrants currently residing in the U.S.Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials told the Post that carrying out an operation of that scale would likely require the State Department's involvement and funding from Congress.
Regarding the Trump campaign's claim of 20 million illegals living in the U.S., the "estimate" may not be far off, director of research at NumbersUSA, Eric Ruark, told the Post.
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"There's probably between 15 [million] and 20 million, given the number of people we've seen coming over," Ruark said while noting the official estimate of 11 million from the U.S. Census Bureau.
Tom Homan, former acting director of ICE under Trump, said the agency has "systems in place that are very good at identifying people." However, he added, the availability of resources is a looming question when it comes to deporting people.
"A lot of that is going to be up to Congress ... We need officers, we need detention beds, we need transportation contracts ... because [we would have] more flights heading out of the country and more bus removals down to the border," Homan said. "We would still prioritize criminals and national security threats first; they are the most dangerous for the country. But I would say no one is off the table. If you're in this country illegally, ... then we'll remove you."
https://www.newsmax.com/politics/donald-trump-border-deport/2024/05/05/id/1163565/?ns_mail_uid=110c4f27-b39e-4490-8c9e-becd156886f8&ns_mail_job=DM618462_05062024&s=acs&dkt_nbr=010102717up3
Government mandates that your car 'monitor' your behavior
By Eric Utter
New technologies that will make monitoring drivers' behavior easy and comprehensive … will soon also be mandatory.
H.R. 3684, an “infrastructure” bill signed by Joe Biden in 2021 included a provision mandating expanded monitoring of folks as they drive an automobile. And henceforth the intrusive technologies will be required in all new vehicles being manufactured and sold in the U.S.
New vehicles will be required to have passive monitoring systems to assess each driver’s behavior. An algorithm will determine if the driver is too impaired to operate the vehicle. If so, the vehicle will either be disabled, or some as yet unexplained system or entity will take control of it.
Several obvious questions arise.
What will constitute “impairment?” Who or what might take control of the vehicle, and in what specific circumstances? And how? How long will data detailing driver behavior be stored? Where? Who will have access to it? In what other situations might the government take control of a driver’s vehicle? Is this unconstitutional, contra to protections under the Bill of Rights?
And what about hackers?!
We have seen how other government mandates, programs, and policies, almost all supposedly “for our own good,” have worked out. Think of the “Patriot Act,” the Department of Homeland Security, the TSA, or the lockdown response to the recent coronavirus pandemic, to name but a few. If you wanted to work out at a gym, attend a family member’s wedding — or funeral— well, sorry.
Is it really far-fetched to imagine that you won’t be allowed to drive if you have exceeded your monthly greenhouse gas emission limit? Or that your car might be disabled if you are on your way to purchase a firearm or attend a Trump rally, or the future equivalent thereof?
In places like California, there is already legislation in the works to mandate that car manufacturers equip your vehicle so as to make it literally impossible for a driver to go more than 10 miles-an-hour over the speed limit, regardless of reason or situation. Perhaps the software monitoring program will similarly decide that it doesn’t care for the way you brake or change lanes. Or for the talk shows you listen to on the vehicle’s radio/sound system.
No one defends drunk driving, nor should they. But this is existentially dangerous. Automobiles granted Americans unprecedented freedom and independence. Now Big Brother will use them to spy on citizens and modify their behavior … removing their freedom and independence altogether, along with their privacy.
The relationship between Americans and their cars is long and deep. That those cars will now be used as witnesses against them is chilling, dystopian.
Sadly, in a sense, all of our vehicles going forward will be “1984” models.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/05/government_mandates_that_your_car_monitor_your_behavior.html
Biden administration continues its attack on energy
By Eric Utter
Our power plants may soon blow no smoke, but the same cannot be said of the Biden administration.
Is it a crime for politicians to pay off people to hide the truth from the public because an election is coming up?
By Jack Hellner
The threats to our democracy (Republic) are power-hungry Democrats, corrupt Justice officials throughout the country, election workers who go around the law, and a complicit media who spend their time campaigning for Democrats and seeking to destroy Trump and other Republicans.
In academia, has the monster the left created broken free?
By Lewis Dovland
In the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey, the computer HAL 9000 jumped the boundaries its creators set and took control of the vessel, killing most of the crew. Are we seeing a similar situation as the little campus Marxists, the ones whom the Democrats’ elites and intelligentsia created, burst out of their academic confines? Have their little minions escaped the lab, much as COVID-19 escaped Wuhan? As it turns out, the revolutionaries have broken free, but it turns out that they and their creators are as one.
Or is it a smokescreen to mislead the public and to stall for time? Let’s explore.
Antonio Gramsci’s ideas, from his Long March Through the Institutions, posited that it’s the West’s mainstream cultural institutions that set the tone for a nation and that whoever controls them controls the culture. Wikipedia summarizes the idea this way:
Gramsci is best known for his theory of cultural hegemony, which describes how the state and ruling capitalist class — the bourgeoisie — use cultural institutions to maintain power in capitalist societies. In Gramsci’s view, the bourgeoisie develops a hegemonic culture using ideology rather than violence, economic force, or coercion.
We have intellectuals teaching this Marxist worldview to impressionable teenagers at our cultural institutions (K-12 and university). These professors, flattered by living in their own little self-praising bubbles, mistakenly think that they are the vanguard of the revolution without realizing that they are the surrogates indoctrinating on behalf of global Marxism.
The problem for universities is that The Revolution always eats its own. In a major example, Mao turned the Chinese youth (Red Guards) against the very educators and intellectuals who likely had taught them Maoism because Mao understood the ultimate danger that the intellectual class posed to his regime. Do we now have the spawn of our elites possibly turning against their creators, and are these administrators and professors at mortal risk from the external Marxist order that is the power?
Actually, the situation here is a little different. When we witness the protests on campus, the university administrators are on the same side as the students. Negotiations over ‘terms’ with the students are merely Kabuki theater since the administrators support the position of the students. They just need to find a way to tone it down. For proof, remember that students have zero rights on campus when it comes to setting and enforcing rules, regulations, and other aspects of managing an organization, so negotiations are meaningless.
Biden has a similar problem when making any statements of condemnation without jeopardizing his supporters in Dearborn (Slogan: “America’s Jihad capital”) and Hamtramck, where the Islam-dominated City Council voted to ban the Pride Flag in all public spaces. (Hey, lefties, how’s that tolerance thing working out for you? Are you not seeing you’ve partnered with the Devil?)
We also saw that Claudine Gay was demoted at Harvard because she could not say words of condemnation about the active anti-Semitism on her campus. However, she retained her $900K (or so) annual salary and now teaches ethics. Her career trajectory shows that there is a scramble within academia to fix what academics perceive as the problem: public relations, not lawlessness.
Thankfully, other institutions have reacted well, such as UT-Austin actively arresting and charging trespassers. Fraternity brothers at Arizona State University physically tore down the tents and tossed everything in a dumpster, even as the police stood by and watched. We see similar news stories daily from other campuses. It turns out that, when citizens and not just police or administrators take action, leftists had best watch out!
In the hard-left American institutions, the takeover is complete, and the students are the institution’s foot soldiers. There will be no consequences. It is up to ordinary Americans to stand up to the Marxist evil and the Hamas violence since we cannot depend on any meaningful help from the universities or the Biden White House.
The entire K-16 educational system, including its funding, must be overhauled. The great news is that a perfect storm is brewing. The truth of what our children are being taught (Marxism and antisemitism) has escaped the lab into the sunlight of visibility, much as Dr. Frankenstein’s monster did in Shelly’s book. May that storm be the first waves of change sweeping through our entire education system to root out the evil that exists therein.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/05/in_academia_has_the_monster_the_left_created_broken_free.html
House GOP schedules Tuesday vote on Hands Off Our Home Appliances Act
https://justthenews.com/government/congress/house-gop-schedules-tuesday-vote-hands-our-home-appliances-act
The GOP-led House is scheduled to vote on the Hands Off Our Home Appliances Act on Tuesday.
According to an official summary of the legislation, the bill "modifies the process by which the Department of Energy (DOE) amends, revokes, or implements energy conservation standards for certain consumer products (other than automobiles), such as household appliances."
The bill would allow DOE to "grant a petition to revoke or amend energy conservation standards" under certain circumstances. The agency could revoke standards if it finds that they "result in additional costs to consumers," do not lead to "significant conservation of energy or water," are not "technologically feasible," or lead to an appliance "not being commercially available in the United States to all consumers."
Under the legislation, "new energy conservation standards must be technologically feasible and economically justified."
If the bill gets passed and signed into law, it would eliminate the "requirement under the Energy Policy and Conservation Act for DOE, within six years of issuing a final rule establishing or amending such standard, to issue a new proposed rule or publish a notice that the standard does not need to be amended." The agency instead would be able to "publish a notice of proposed rulemaking for prescribing a new or amended energy conservation standard for a consumer product at any time."
The legislation was proposed after the Biden Administration's Energy Department proposed a rule that would have led to a ban on the sale of about half of the gas stoves currently on the market.
How often do criminal defendants get held in contempt 10 times without being sent to jail?
— Mary L. Trump (@MaryLTrump) May 6, 2024
Why don’t college administrators know what the parents of toddlers know?
By Patricia McCarthy
Until they remember the first rule of parenting, that bad behavior must have consequences in a civilized society, we are sure to be plagued by more of the same throughout the summer and until the election.
Why are groups and individuals who support the destruction of America called philanthropies and philanthropists?
By Jack Hellner
George Soros, one of the main players behind all of these campus riots, should be accurately described as a convicted felon, not as a philanthropist. He certainly does not have any interest in the well-being of ordinary Americans…which is why he of course had great access to the White House during the Obama and Biden administrations.
A DEI military cannot protect or defend America
By M.B. Mathews
DEI has infiltrated our American military like a deadly toxin, making it incapable of defending our shores or our country. The higher-ups in the American armed forces have somehow succumbed to a racist philosophy that recruits, promotes, hires, and rewards black, brown, and Hispanic members at the expense of white people, who need not apply.
Word is out: White people will not be hired or promoted according to merit, nor will they even be allowed to function the way other races function so long as DEI has a branch in the Army, Navy, Air Force, Coast Guard, or any other American defense mechanism. In short, hiring and promoting in the military according to race seems to be more important than defending our country. This is suicidal madness.
From a report at The Daily Signal, there is this:
The Heritage Foundation recently hosted a series of panel discussions, ‘Seizing the Moment to Defeat DEI,’ that brought together top conservative minds to discuss how to combat what they regard as those divisive leftist policies. (The Daily Signal is the news outlet of The Heritage Foundation.) … a former Army infantry officer, said the military became a testing ground for non-merit-based hiring programs, mainly through affirmative action and later DEI-based hiring practices, emphasizing race and sexual orientation.
When you eliminate merit, you get mediocrity, the very thing a country cannot afford when our very survival as a nation relies on excellence, not mediocrity. When you hire for race or sex, you don’t get the best but second best. Or worse — those who couldn’t get hired anywhere else because they are simply not good enough. Merit and love of country should be the only criteria by which a person is allowed to serve in our military. This isn’t a drag queen contest nor is it a melanin-based endeavor: Our military is supposed to defend and protect our homeland, her infrastructure, and her people. It is not designed to be a venue for social experimentation or reparations. As Rush Limbaugh wisely noted, “Our military is there to kill people and break things”, — over there. If it comes here, ditto. Skin color and one’s sex life are irrelevant, or they should be.
DEI is destroying America’s ability to defend herself and her people against attacks from without and from within because it deliberately hires, fires, and recruits by racism and sexism. DEI causes not just a lack of cohesion but a distinct aversion to it. Diversity is decidedly NOT our strength because DEI fragments cohesion: You cannot have diverse opinions about whether or not America is good or whether or not she deserves defending. Military members cannot be set against each other on the basis of skin or sex if they are serious about protecting America and her people.
America in general cannot survive a DEI-based structure that pits one color against another or heterosexuality against homosexuality or transsexuality. It’s a death sentence to allow it in our military, the very places we rely upon to come to America’s rescue in troubled times, which is now.
Leave it to individuals to decide whether or not they want to engage in such practices, but for God’s sake and everyone’s else’s sake, don’t inflict DEI on the rest of us who find the practice abhorrent. DEI in the military may as well be the solvent that dissolves military cohesion at the very moment we need such cohesion if we are seriously attacked — on our shores or over there.
The Biden administration has telegraphed to the rest of the world that we are weak. DEI puts an exclamation point on our weakness and should immediately be dissolved.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/05/a_dei_military_cannot_protect_or_defend_america.html
An unholy alliance: Leftism and Islamism
By Amil Imani
American colleges, known for fostering social movements, have witnessed a curious alliance in recent decades—the Leftist-Islamist coalition, an uneasy and yet significant force. This essay delves into this collaboration, raising questions about its ideological compatibility and financial transparency.
The political leanings of American faculty have been a topic of discussion since the 1930s. Studies like those by the Carnegie Commission on Higher Education and the Higher Education Research Institute (HERI) consistently show a higher concentration of liberals, particularly in humanities and social sciences. The McCarthy era of the 1950s further intensified scrutiny of political views in academia, sparking debates about academic freedom and potential bias.
The 1990s saw the emergence of Islamist activism on U.S. campuses, with the Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at the forefront. Founded in 1992 by Hatem Bazian, SJP actively advocates for Palestinian rights and criticizes Israeli policies. The group aligns itself with the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement and promotes an “anti-normalization” stance towards Zionist and most Jewish organizations. SJP’s activities and pronouncements have been met with controversy, including accusations of anti-Semitism and support for extremism.
Despite their apparent ideological differences, Leftists (Marxists) and Islamists find common ground in shared perspectives that fuel collaboration on various issues, particularly those related to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Student organizations like SJP often partner with leftist groups to organize protests, campaigns, and initiatives—collaboration extends to academics from both backgrounds too, who engage in joint research projects, conferences, and publications that critically examine power structures, global politics, and their impact on marginalized communities.
The main problem here is that the role of academia (particularly leftist professors) in promoting a benign image of Islam while downplaying or ignoring its political aspects, is that it portrays Islam as compatible with democratic societies—this is a deliberate attempt to mislead the public about the nature of Islam.
The financial resources that sustain coalitions between the Left and Islamists on U.S. college campuses come from a variety of sources, with varying degrees of transparency. Understanding these funding streams is crucial for a comprehensive picture of this phenomenon. Islamists leverage democratic processes to gain influence and potentially undermine democratic institutions from within. There is a warning here of the potential for Islamists to establish shadow governments within democratic societies, using Sharia law as a tool for control and intimidation.
Overt funding sources are publicly known and disclosed. They include:
University Grants and Allocations: Universities often allocate funds to student organizations and initiatives aligned with their values of diversity, inclusion, and social justice. These allocations are typically made through student activity fees or departmental budgets.
Foundation Grants: Foundations supporting social justice, human rights, and academic research may provide grants to student organizations and initiatives. These grants are awarded based on the alignment of the organization’s mission with the foundation’s objectives.
Crowdfunding and Donations: Public fundraising campaigns are another source of overt funding. These campaigns are often initiated by the organizations themselves or their supporters.
Covert funding sources are less transparent and may not be publicly disclosed, and they include:
Foreign Government Funding: Reports suggest that foreign governments, particularly in the Middle East, provide funding to American organizations and initiatives aligned with the former’s political interests. This funding can be channeled through intermediaries or directly to the organizations.
Private Donations from Individuals and Entities: Private donations from individuals and entities with specific political or ideological interests can also serve as covert funding sources.
Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs): NGOs operating internationally provide funding to U.S. organizations and initiatives, especially those that align with their mission of promoting human rights, social justice, or other causes. Think, George Soros.
The distinction between overt and covert funding sources is important for understanding the financial dynamics of coalitions between the Left and Islamists on U.S. college campuses. The lack of transparency in some funding sources raises concerns about accountability, the potential for misuse of funds, and the influence of external actors on domestic politics and campus life.
Universities, student organizations, and the public must maintain high standards of transparency and accountability in the handling of funds. This includes clear disclosure of funding sources, the purposes for which funds are used, and the outcomes achieved through these investments.
This perspective presented here underscores a broader debate about the nature of Islam, the role of left-leaning academia and the media in shaping public perception, and the challenges posed by Islam to democratic societies. There is an urgent need to reflect deeply on the naive or misguided attempts to reconcile Islamism with democratic values and practices.
Finally, we need to understand that the current state of America is at a critical juncture, with various challenges facing the nation. The threat of advancing Islamist jihadists and retreating democracy is cause for alarm. Additionally, the Islamic Republic’s rapid progress towards acquiring nuclear weapons capability adds to the overall unease.
The future of America hangs in the balance, and the choices made in the upcoming elections will shape the nation's trajectory. Citizens must be informed and engaged, working towards a prosperous and secure future for America.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/05/an_unholy_alliance_leftism_and_islamism.html
Barack Obama, 21st-Century Schizoid Man
By Pete McArdle
Although not a psychologist, I nevertheless convinced thousands of trusting souls to open their mouths (and wallets) for needles, drills, forceps, foul tastes, strange smells, not-good vibrations, and bills beyond imagination for more than forty years.
And after the obligatory formalities and a couple jabs of the ol’ Novocain had been dispensed with, I’d sit, patiently waiting for profound anesthesia, and provide free psychoanalysis to my patients.
I’d listen carefully — most times — and then, no matter what the patient’s problem was, I’d say, “You have a problem with congruity.”
“Congruity” is having the things you think and deeply believe match up with your actual words and actions. Most people fall short of absolute congruity, but the smaller the gap, or “schism,” between your talk and your walk, the happier and more fulfilled you are.
And the bigger the schism, the more troubled, angry, and unhappy you are.
With that in mind, who could possibly be more conflicted, disturbed, or downright resentful than the man currently sailing our ship of state into a stone jetty at about ninety knots?
Joe Biden, you say?
No, silly! He’s not running anything, except maybe his mouth when he’s occasionally allowed to.
Watch the recent video of Crusty Joe trying to eat his dinner at the execrable White House Correspondents’ Dinner. He’s zoning out on the person talking to him. He struggles to move salad from the salad plate to his dinner plate. He then loses interest in the salad and strains mightily to rip a small dinner roll in two, finally transferring half the roll to his dinner plate.
He then loses interest in both the roll and the person animatedly yapping at him, and attempts, ever so slowly, to bring a forkful of greens up to his quivering mouth — a meeting so perilous that it recalls one of the perilous outer space hookups needed for the successful Apollo 11 mission.
No, poor old Joe isn’t running things now, nor was he back when he was “elected” and still had two neurons to rub together.
It’s always been Barack Obama.
Barry O’s the puppet master who’s been running the show for fifteen years now, eight overtly and seven covertly, leading the Deep State efforts against sitting President Trump and later telling senile Joe exactly what to say on notecards and teleprompters.
And who could be more schizoid than the Lightbringer?
He tells the world, as the self-proclaimed first black president, that Whitey is inherently and systemically racist, whether he knows it or not. And meanwhile, Barry’s half–white supremacist himself!
Imagine hating half of yourself for the sins your distant forefathers may or may have not committed against distant relatives of your other half. Terribly confusing, no?
And in a love letter, young Obama tells a girlfriend that he feels androgynous and that he “makes love to men daily, in [his] imagination,” a sentence no heterosexual man has ever written, at least in recorded history. This certainly explains Barry’s love for the LBGTetc. movement, but not his attempt to sell the American electorate on a presidential candidate ostensibly deeply in love with a woman.
And imagine pretending to the American public that you’re a devout Christian, and then saying that the adhan, the Islamic call to prayer, is “one of the prettiest sounds on Earth.”
It’s certainly all right to love Islam and feel that way about the adhan, but why pretend you follow Christ? And what is it with Obama sending pallets of hard currency under cover of darkness to Iran, the leading sponsor of terror in the world and the people ultimately responsible for October 7?
Christians certainly don’t hate Jews, with whom they share beliefs written down in the Old Testament. Why does Obama?
The schism between what Barack Obama says he is and what he really is is enormous. He must be miserable.
He carries on incessantly about the environment and global warming and then buys three mansions with an enormous carbon footprint, one a Hawaiian oceanfront property. Obama either thinks he personally did stop the rise of the oceans, in which case he’s delusional, or he never worried about it in the first place, in which case he’s a liar. Which is it, Barry: delusional or liar?
“The One” also claimed that he was president for all people, both in blue states and red. And then he promptly sicced his CIA, FBI, IRS, and State Dept. — and our vile, supine mainstream media — on President Trump and his followers. He demonized Christians, whites, males, heterosexuals, the pro-life movement, and above all MAGA-supporters. No uniter, he.
Obama has habitually harangued the wealthy, pushing them to pay more taxes and asking them, when is enough enough? But his socialist veneer has worn thin, now that he and Michelle are multi-multi-millionaires. Barry must lie awake at night, in one of his mansions, wondering when exactly enough is enough.
Poor Obama — so narcissistic, neurotic, and incongruent. Such a nowhere man, making all his nowhere plans, desperately hoping DJT won’t be re-elected. He’s black, he’s white, he’s gay, he’s straight, he’s Christian yet loves Iran and the adhan, he was president of the USA for eight years and yet he hates and has often apologized for his country.
He alone makes the sad dried up turnip in the Oval Office’s mouth move and spew socialist venom, even as he, B.O., pretends to care about democracy. After fifteen years of King Barack’s either overt or covert rule, America has been brought to her knees.
It appears Obama’s psychotic, self-hating persona has permeated the U.S. public’s consciousness (see For Palestine, Jews or Gays). After this November, either hardworking, God-fearing, patriotic Americans will be running this country, or it will be a deeply conflicted Barack Obama, 21st-century schizoid man.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/05/barack_obama_21st_century_schizoid_man.html
Ongoing Jihadist Infiltration into America
By Eileen F. Toplansky
Alleged pundits scratch their heads in puzzlement and ask: how did all these pro-Hamas outbursts suddenly appear on American universities?
They are, in fact, not some spontaneous eruption, but clearly the product of an ongoing jihadist campaign to infiltrate America’s school system. Hamas leaders Yahya Sinwar, Ismail Haniyeh, Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas, and Yasser Arafat before them have for decades educated American universities to jihad. Recent events attest to their disturbing success.
One such group, American Muslims for Palestine (AMP) was established in 2005 by University of California Berkeley lecturer Hatem Bazian. AMP “is a major promoter of the Hamas-inspired Boycott, Divestment, & Sanctions (BDS) movement.” Additionally, AMP is a major supporter of the pro-Hamas campus group Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP).
SJP is “a highly influential campus organization with chapters based at approximately 200 American colleges and universities, where it organizes and sponsors anti-Israel events and campaigns more actively than any other student group in the nation.”
Several of AMP’s recent board members and key officials ... worked closely with, now-defunct Islamic extremist groups that funded terrorist activities, i.e., the Islamic Association for Palestine (which, until its dissolution in 2004, served as the chief U.S. propaganda arm of Hamas); the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development (which from 1995-2001 contributed approximately $12.4 million in money, goods, and services to Hamas); and KindHearts for Charitable Humanitarian Development (whose assets were frozen in 2006 by the U.S. Treasury Department because of its fundraising activities on behalf of Hamas).
Moreover, “American Muslims for Palestine (AMP) provides speakers, training, printed materials, a so-called ‘Apartheid Wall,’ and [financial] grants to Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) activists.” As the Investigative Project on Terrorism notes, “AMP routinely engages in anti-Israeli rhetoric, sponsors conferences that serve as a platform for Israel bashers, and openly approves ‘resistance’ against the ‘Zionist state.’” In fact, “[a]n Arabic-language poster on display in its Chicago headquarters in 2016 included the phrase, ‘No Jew will live among them in Jerusalem.’”
Where is the money coming from to support Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP)?
Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) and National Students for Justice in Palestine (NSJP) are receiving funds from a web of Hamas-linked organizations, according to new research by The Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP).
The research, entitled ‘National Students for Justice in Palestine (NSJP): Antisemitism, Anti-Americanism, Violent Extremism and the Threat to American Universities,’ claims that non-profit organizations with links to the Hamas terror group were funding the student groups.
The report named WESPAC, Tides, American Muslims for Palestine (AMP), Americans for Justice in Palestine (AJP), and Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) as the Hamas-linked funders.
In addition, in the November 2023 report, the Institute “uncovered that more than a billion US dollars had been provided to Texas A&M (TAMU)/ Texas A&M in Qatar (TAMUQ) by the Qatar Foundation, a Qatari regime–owned foundation, as part of a contractual agreement to pay for research projects, some which could contribute to the development of military applications.”
This dovetails with another alarming aspect of the jihadists in America — “Election Jihad.” Daniel Greenfield clearly shows how Islamist political machines are transforming America and threatening both the United States and Israel.
Omar Ahmad, co-founder of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), has asserted that “Islam isn’t in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant.”
In fact, the past two election seasons have produced many “firsts” for the Islamist political machines. Consider the following jihadist successes.
In Delaware, Rep. Madinah Wilson-Anton became the first Muslim elected to the state House in Delaware. She stated that because of Israel, “baby Jesus is under rubble.”
In Georgia, Rep. Ruwa Romman, a former communications director for CAIR, described the Oct. 7 attacks as caused by Israeli settler violence.
In Ohio, Rep. Munira Abdullahi claims that Israel is the biggest child-killer in the world.
In Texas, Rep. Salman Bhojani accused Israel in engaging in the mass killing of Palestinian civilians.
In Illinois, Rep. Abdelnasser Rashid, the state House’s first Muslim “Palestinian” elected to office, accused Israel of “genocidal language.”
These jihadist elections are changing state legislatures into hostile entities for America and Israel. Jihadists are using our system to destroy our nation — e.g., Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, and Omar Fateh.
In fact, “Muslim voter turnout initiatives at mosques now feed into some of the billions flowing from Democratic Party allied organizations.”
For example, “My Muslim Vote is one of numerous national Islamic election operations that benefit from funding Democrats and their political allies on the Left.”
CAIR’s long record of antisemitism is cogently explained by Steve Emerson. In essence, “[a] virulently antisemitic terror-tied group has managed to convince media and politicians that it has been magically transformed into a respectable legitimate ‘civil rights group.’”
Put succinctly, CAIR is Hamas.
The Investigative Project on Terrorism’s new book, CAIR’s Antisemitism Unmasked, meticulously documents that “it is through an obsessive, venomous focus on Israel that CAIR has sustained its lengthy record of antisemitic rhetoric.”
As Don Feder explains, “[t]o put 300,000 terrorist sympathizers in the streets of Washington on short notice, you need a well-oiled machine that constantly requires a cause to advance its agenda.”
One week, they’re marching against racism or protesting fossil fuels. The next, they’re demanding a cease-fire in Gaza — a lifeline thrown to Hamas.
Suddenly, pro-Hamas demonstrations are popping up all over the country, like poison mushrooms after a spring rain.
They’re the result of a coalition of radicals united by their hatred of America and the West — a coalition that reduces everything to a conflict between oppressors and the oppressed and which is willing to condone the most horrific violence to advance the revolution.
They are supported by groups with wealth, prestige and political clout — all resolutely leftist, if not openly Marxist.
The never-ending assault on America is certainly due to the integration by CAIR and its allies within the Democrat party’s electoral machine. Democrats have an antisemitism problem!
It has become “so total that the Democratic operatives and donors of the Movement Voter Project are fundraising for it even though CAIR Executive Director Nihad Awad was caught on video celebrating the Oct. 7 attack.”
The Islamist Political Action Committee plans “to mobilize one million Muslim voters” and “encourage and train 200 Muslim candidates to run for office.”
The work of the jihadists is not just limited to colleges.
In its early years, AMP disseminated its ideology to young people through the Aqsa Club, an afterschool program aimed at “educating high-school students about Palestine, its history, and current affairs.”
Under the rubric of the U.S. Council of Muslim Organizations (USCMO), the following groups work to upend America. Besides CAIR, there is the Muslim American Society (MAS), the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA), the Muslim Legal Fund of America (MLFA), and the Mosque Foundation.
Of course, fundraising is fundamental, and “donors, in some cases Jewish, are donating to Islamist politicians and groups that are hounding Jews.”
It is way overdue for Jewish Democrats who, perhaps unknowingly, provide funding and comfort to Islamist political machines to be confronted. They are aiding those who would destroy them and their fellow Jews.
Members of Congress must ensure that no federal grant money be given to community groups that defend terrorism and promote hate.
Once and for all, the idea of a two-state solution must be ended.
Finally, ending refugee resettlement is vital to defeating the rise and expansion of Islamist political machines.
Over the past several decades, Israeli governments and many in the Diaspora Jewish leadership failed to grasp the gravity of these deadly accusations and the implication for the massive outbreak of antisemitism and violence against Jews.
Israel must now work with US federal and local officials to shutter every one of SJP’s campus chapters while enforcing Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. This initiative must be maximized by a massive media campaign in the US exposing the terrorist roots of this jihadist-backed and supported organization that constitutes one of the greatest threats to Israel, the Jewish people and the United States itself since the Nazi era.
Our very existence as a nation depends it.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/05/ongoing_jihadist_infiltration_into_america.html
Retail Theft Ring Busts Reveal Some Hard Truths
By John F. Di Leo
The fact that rampant crime is not just tolerated but encouraged by the policies of the modern Democrat-run city and blue state government is absolutely off the table.
False-flag Nation
By David Prentice
the Left wants – no, demands -- its power, no matter how dishonest, destructive, and ruinous to others they become, they want to define their opponents as worse. They live by the Alinsky rule to keep the pressure on, they want desperately to show anyone who will listen just how bad we are.
The Moral Imperative of October 7
By Jonathan Verlin and E. Jeffrey Ludwig
The campus demonstrations encouraged by the equivocations of our political class reveal the bankruptcy both of the Democrats and of our culture.
Parents Seek Tuition Refund Amidst College Protests
No safe spaces, but plenty of expensive ones.
by Kelli Ballard | May 6, 2024
The pro-Palestine college protests across the nation have caused disruption and unease. Jewish students have been told to stay home and do their work online, and protesters have taken over buildings and engaged in disturbing and often violent behavior. With graduation coming up soon, some schools have even elected to cancel the once-in-a-lifetime event. It seems that resentment over these institutions’ capitulation to a mob of demonstrators has reached a boiling point. Parents have certainly had it – and now many are demanding colleges refund their children’s tuition fees.
College Protests Angering Parents
Education doesn’t come cheap, especially when attending elite universities that cost upwards of $90,000 per year. The college protests, however, are disrupting the pricey classes, and parents are beginning to speak out. “They are not getting the education they expected and paid for,” Zev Gewurz, a Boston real estate lawyer whose daughter is a senior at Barnard College in New York City, told The Wall Street Journal. He said his daughter was supposed to deliver her final thesis last week and attend a luncheon, but the public presentation and guest lunch were canceled, along with in-person classes.
Lana Shami has a daughter attending the University of Southern California where the average annual tuition is nearly $70,000. Since there won’t be a graduation ceremony, she and other family members will be flying to California and going out to dinner to celebrate. “There will be no celebration at the university where we paid an exorbitant amount of tuition for the past four years,” she told The Journal. “It’s a huge letdown.”
Christopher Rim, founder and CEO of Command Education, told The WSJ he had received around 25 similar calls in a week from parents of students who attend the University of California, Los Angeles and Columbia University who wanted full or partial refunds from the institutions. “Physically blocking their child from attending class or a lecture hall is 100% not what they signed up for,” he said. “They are beyond upset at what’s going on.”
It Isn’t Just Parents
The Columbia Daily Spectator and New York magazine conducted a poll of 719 students, professors, and other active members of Columbia University between April 26 and May 2. Of the participants, 5% were conservative, 18% identified as moderate, 35% were leftist, and 40% were liberal. When asked if anti-Semitism is a problem at the university, 33% strongly agreed. But, when questioned on whether they felt they could express their political views on campus freely, only 8% strongly agreed. The participants were asked if the college protests had affected their academic work. Here are a few of the responses:
Professors are worried about speaking about the conflict due to fears of getting fired.
Students are policing one another and recording classes without consent.
As a person of color, I am scared to go to libraries knowing there are dozens of cops outside.
I lost my internship because I went crazy.
Since April 18, when 108 Columbia University students were arrested, the protests have only escalated. As of May 3, more than 2,200 people have been arrested on campuses in at least 22 states. The University of Southern California not only canceled the speech of its pro-Palestinian valedictorian, but it has also canceled the main commencement ceremony, claiming safety concerns.
“These antisemitic, anti-American radicals will seize on any opportunity to hijack the spotlight to harass and intimidate Jewish and pro-Israel students, so we expect to see disruptions at public functions, including graduations,” Liora Rez, founder and executive director of StopAntisemitism, told The Hill.
House Education Committee Chair Virginia Foxx (R-NC) said, “Instead of canceling graduation ceremonies out of fear of antisemitic disruptions, institutional leaders should grow a backbone and fight back against antisemitism on their campuses with decisive action and moral clarity.”
When parents and students fork out more money than many Americans make in one year, there are expectations. It seems that the rhetoric of tolerance espoused by elite educational institutions has morphed into cowardice from leadership and capitulation to the mob. With these supposed centers of excellence now failing to deliver even on providing in-person classes, parents have got to be asking themselves whether higher education is an investment worth making.
https://www.libertynation.com/parents-seek-tuition-refund-amidst-college-protests/
MTG Is Coming for Mike Johnson – But the Democrats Have His Back
Can Marjorie Taylor Greene rally the troops, or will even her own party leave her hanging?
by James Fite | May 6, 2024
Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) has announced that she’s finally forcing a vote on her motion to vacate the House speaker’s chair … soon. The Georgia lawmaker first filed her motion to oust Mike Johnson (R-LA) after he helped pass the $1.2 trillion spending bill to keep the government rolling back in March. Now she plans to force the vote sometime in the coming week, but does she have the support she needs to take Johnson down?
An obstacle to her aspirations seems to be the support Johnson enjoys among House Democrats. A handful of Republicans have also made public remarks either defending the speaker or criticizing Greene – or both – making the motion to vacate seem destined to fail. But what price will Johnson, or his fellow Republicans, for that matter, pay for this help from across the aisle?
Will the Democrats Save Mike Johnson?
If the Democratic caucus voted against Johnson, as it did with Kevin McCarthy’s ouster as speaker, it would take just a handful of rebel Republicans to pluck the gavel from the current speaker’s grasp. But Democratic leaders took this option out of play.
“At this moment, upon completion of our national security work, the time has come to turn the page on this chapter of Pro-Putin Republican obstruction,” read a statement in late April by the three leading Democrats in the House, Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), Katherine Clark (D-MA), and Pete Aguilar (D-CA). “We will vote to table Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Motion to Vacate the Chair. If she invokes the motion, it will not succeed.” While some Democrats might refuse to toe the party line and vote to oust Johnson for their own reasons, the majority are likely to follow their leaders in this, meaning that Johnson’s position as speaker of the House is safe – at least for now.
But what of his career in the broader sense? If a sizable group of Republicans vote to vacate the chair, there will certainly be those who say Johnson’s own party wanted him out, but the Democrats propped him up anyway – and the more Republicans that vote against Johnson, the worse that perception will be. And that isn’t the only way this can come back later to bite the speaker – or Republicans in general. By standing united behind Johnson, House Democrats get to campaign on both unity and bipartisanship. They will be able to tell voters they stood united while Republicans bickered among themselves, and they’ll get to say they were able to put people before politics and work across the aisle to get the work done and keep the wheels turning.
Indeed, Hakeem Jeffries has already started crafting this narrative on the Sunday shows. Speaking with CBS, he said:
“Even though we’re in the minority, we effectively have been governing as if we were in the majority because we continue to provide a majority of the votes necessary to get things done… Those are just the facts.
“It’s a difficult situation on the other side of the aisle, because many of my Republican colleagues are more interested in creating chaos, dysfunction, and extremism.”
New Banner Political Power PlaysSpeaker Johnson may come away from this vote looking rather blue to conservative voters if enough Republicans vote to vacate – but he and the rest of the GOP stand to lose the majority if Democrats manage to rally their base and convince enough independent voters that they are the more moderate, cooler heads in the room.
Republicans – Anything but Unified
The Democrats aren’t the only ones likely to protect Speaker Johnson; several Republicans have said they wouldn’t vote to vacate. Johnson himself has been both critical and dismissive of Greene’s threats, as might be expected, and Rep. Marc Molinaro of New York called the motion political theater, adding that “it’s time to move on and to move past this kind of nonsense.” Rep. Andy Ogles, a Tennessee Republican, called it a distraction and a mistake. Dan Crenshaw of Texas accused Greene of just looking for “her time in the spotlight,” calling the motion “one last ditch effort to get attention.” Rep. Bob Good of Virginia said his Peach State colleague isn’t “acting in the best interest of Donald Trump.”
Looking at the bigger picture, RNC Chair Michael Whatley is calling for party unity in opposition to Greene’s motion. “We need to flip the Senate, and we need to expand our majority in the House,” he said. “We’re not going to do that if we’re not unified.”
Rep. Don Bacon (R-NE) called Greene’s attempt to remove Johnson as speaker disgusting. “Ninety-eight percent of us find it disgusting,” he said. “I just try to ignore it. I can’t help what she does. I think we’ll overwhelmingly oppose it, and I think even on the Democrat side, we’ll have a lot of support. We’re tired of the chaos. We’re tired of the anarchy.” Matt Gaetz of Florida wasn’t as critical of Greene as the others, but he did say that he didn’t think the chaos of another battle for the speakership would be good for the House or the party – especially this close to Election Day.
Outside of the House, GOP Sen. Thom Tillis of North Carolina called Ms. Greene “uninformed,” “a horrible leader,” and a “total waste of time.” He added: “She, not the Democrats, are the biggest risk to us getting back to a majority.” Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) said her plan to oust Johnson is “utterly ridiculous” and warned that it might damage the Republican Party itself.
Could Bacon be on point with his 98% estimate? Perhaps – but then again, perhaps not. About half a dozen House Republicans have spoken out in criticism of the motion to vacate – and only two other GOP representatives, Thomas Massie of Kentucky and Arizona’s Paul Gosar, have openly aligned with Greene. Out of 217 Republicans, that leaves a lot of undeclared intention to account for.
https://www.libertynation.com/mtg-is-coming-for-mike-johnson-but-the-democrats-have-his-back/
Add DACA Healthcare to Your Monthly Bills
Dreamers set to enroll in Obamacare courtesy of the US taxpayer.
by Leesa K. Donner | May 6, 2024
In the never-ending list of what American taxpayers are expected to fund comes a new scheme to allow immigrants known as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients to enroll in Obamacare. The Biden administration announced the plan on Friday, May 3, and it will take effect on November 1, 2024, just a few days before the big election. Is this DACA healthcare plan just a craven ploy by the president to appeal to the Hispanic voting bloc, a part of the electorate in which polls show he is losing support?
If it isn’t, a skeptic might not be faulted for thinking it certainly has that appearance. The White House announcement for the new program stated: “Dreamers are our loved ones, our nurses, teachers, and small business owners. And they deserve the promise of health care just like all of us.” Unsaid, of course, is that deserving something and being able to afford it are two different things.
This wasn’t the administration’s original proposal. Initially, it wanted to extend Medicaid benefits to the Dreamers, but White House officials claim that was scrapped “after receiving more than 20,000 comments on the proposal”, according to a report by ABC News. It has been widely reported that the administration expects approximately 100,000 DACA recipients to sign up, though it is unclear how they came to that number. (The announcement from the White House says there are currently 800,000 Dreamers in the US.) Still, Healthcare coverage for this amount of people is expected to cost in the neighborhood of $240 million for 2025 and $300 million for 2026.
DACA Healthcare – Dreaming the Dream
Dreamers are immigrants who were brought into the country as children. The entire DACA program remains in the US court system. It began under President Obama, was slated for extinction under President Trump, and has been ping-ponging across the US court landscape since then. Because of this legal tangle, The Hill reports, “the federal government is barred from adding new beneficiaries to DACA.” But that doesn’t mean the current Dreamers are going anywhere. Apparently, this doesn’t stop the president from handing out DACA healthcare, either.
Conservatives have been quite vocal about their displeasure with the plan on the social media platform X. Replying to a post by former Trump advisor Stephen Miller, SamJ wrote: “Someone should tell Biden that Americans have dreams too: a secure and prosperous America ….a wealthy middle class….no ILLEGALS…” X poster David G. Miller chimed in with: “Once again the Biden regime continues to fight Against the AMERICAN TAXPAYER!!!” Someone who goes by “Restoring Our Republic” remarked, “My last check-up was over 10 years ago, and I still can’t afford healthcare, yet I get taxed to death. Lovely news.” Yet another cried, “Is this even legal?”
The short answer is, well … maybe – but in the meantime, the administration has cleverly accomplished an end run around Congress. A White House official claims additional money is not needed, which means Congress does not have to pass legislation to fund it. This could only indicate there is Monopoly money hanging around – perhaps a presidential community chest?
Although DACA was created in 2012, the status of those brought into the country as children remains in limbo. Meanwhile, those seeking asylum or having temporary protected status can get their health insurance through the Affordable Care Act.
Some may wonder why the White House pulled the trigger on the deal now. “It comes as federal health officials have pushed out a flurry of rules in recent weeks as the administration closes in on a deadline under the Congressional Review Act, which allows lawmakers to overturn recently finalized rules,” according to a Politico report.
When President Trump tried to ditch the DACA program during his tenure in office, the US Supreme Court ruled 5-4 against the administration. However, in 2018, US District Judge Andrew S. Hanen declared the memo by the Department of Homeland Security that initially created the program “exceeded its authority and violated federal procedural rules,” according to the LA Times. The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the judge’s ruling, but it also gave the Biden administration another bite at the apple to rewrite the DHS rule. Thus, handing out DACA healthcare to a group may only gum up the works even further. Nevertheless, the injunction remains in place, as does DACA, which means this latest move by the administration is ripe to become yet another court case.
https://www.libertynation.com/add-daca-healthcare-to-your-monthly-bills/
Prisoners of Themselves
“Ok, let’s be clear. If the intelligence community led by the CIA is not the “deep state,” what is?” — Jeffrey Tucker
James Howard Kunstler
May 06, 2024
You realize, don’t you, that the gross misconduct of government officials from RussiaGate on down to the courtroom of Judge Juan Merchan has amounted to one continuous operation against the American people? If it were ever honestly adjudicated, many hundreds of them might go to prison, or worse. Each successive seditious and treasonous action they attempt against their arch-nemesis, Mr. Trump, only compounds their criminal liability — the Steele Dossier, CIA agent Eric Ciaramella’s 2019 impeachment prank, the Covid-19 caper, the George Floyd-BLM hustle, the 2020 election hijinks, the J-6 op and the House J-6 Committee conjured up to spin it, the present battery of farcical court cases — and yet the Golden Golem of Greatness not only remains defiantly at large, but seems to amass ever more electoral mojo.
The epic failure of these mighty efforts, and the humiliation entailed, has lately driven this vast bureaucratic cabal — collectively styled as “the blob” — to a stage of abject desperation that looks a lot like insanity. They fear for their lives, their fortunes, their chattels, and their families, and they seem ready to wreck the republic to save themselves. They have so far pretty much wrecked American justice with their lawfare tactics — a degenerate campaign to use the vested authority of prosecutors and judges to twist and cheat the law at the cost of the law’s legitimacy. Merrick Garland, Norm Eisen, Andrew Weismann, Mary McCord, Lisa Monaco, Marc Elias, Christopher Wray, Letitia James, Fani Willis, Alvin Bragg have made law the enemy of the people.
All this becomes more obvious each day, for instance events of the past week in Judge Aileen Cannon’s federal courtroom in Florida where the Mar-a-Lago documents case proceeds. Turns out that Special Counsel Jack Smith has deliberately messed with the evidence, which is patently felonious. Also, turns out that sometime between the “Joe Biden” inauguration and the FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago in August, 2022, boxes of presidential documents stored by the US General Services Administration were “delivered” to Mr. Trump’s mansion without any proper accounting for what might have been in them. A set-up you suppose? Why not? After everything else the FBI and the DOJ have attempted since 2015?
Christopher Wray in particular might have wanted some surefire probable cause to get his agents into Mar-a-Lago where, rumor has it, Mr. Trump kept his own dossier of evidence against the FBI and DOJ officials who concocted the “Crossfire Hurricane” chapter of RussiaGate. Even if you assume that Mr. Trump had multiple copies of the thing, FBI Director Wray — in position since 2017 throughout most of RussiaGate — surely wanted to see what Mr. Trump was holding if it would become necessary for current and former FBI / DOJ officials to defend themselves in court against very serious charges.
You see the desperation, don’t you? And how stupendously amateurish these machinations have been? Planting evidence and then fiddling around with it? I’m waiting for the moment when Judge Cannon summons Jack Smith and announces to his face that she is tossing the case for prosecutorial misconduct. Will she add a criminal referral to that? How will that affect the other case (attempting to overturn the 2020 election) brought against Mr. Trump in Judge Tanya Chutkan’s DC federal district court? Who will prosecute it if Jack Smith can no longer function as Special Counsel? And since the case was contrived in his name — even if Eisen, McCord, Weissmann, and others are really the authors — does that case blow up, too?
Letitia James’s real estate case under Judge Arthur Engoron was so idiotic it can’t possibly survive an ultimate appeal, and the Alvin Bragg confection under Judge Merchan is playing out like something that usually only happens in places like Honduras or Liberia. Yet the American Left, the “progressive” Democratic Party, is staking everything on it. It’s all they have left Lawfare-wise, at least for now. Which brings us to the question: Why do the non-governmental elites of this land, the managerial and thinking classes, the college presidents, the cable news producers, the corporate execs, the movie directors, the whole arts establishment. . . why do they feel compelled, for nearly a decade now, to hitch their identity and their self-respect to this fantastic train of Kafka-esque corruption, tyranny, and abuse? How did they get owned by the blob?
We may never find out, and they may never know either, even after they snap out of the mass formation they’ve been in thrall to. But they have made themselves ridiculous — figures like Sam Harris, Steven Colbert, and Rob Reiner — yelling about “saving our democracy” while the blob they worship systematically disassembles the US Constitution, and makes American law a global laughingstock.
Most of my old ex-friends are riding the same ideological bus. You have to wonder: how did the likes of “Joe Biden,” Merrick Garland, Liz Cheney, Adam Schiff, Christopher Wray, Fani Willis, Anthony Fauci, Klaus Schwab, and Bill Gates become their heroes? Did the Covid vaccines destroy their minds? Are they really avid for central bank digital money and surveillance of their every move? Do they want to be told how to live by the WHO? Things are going south fast now in our country. If these people ever cherished the idea of being free to think their own thoughts and live their own lives, it’s getting late in the game. They will end up prisoners of themselves.
https://jameshowardkunstler.substack.com/p/prisoners-of-themselves?publication_id=2076970&post_id=144361665&isFreemail=true&r=rd9j8&triedRedirect=true
Pointing to the Looming EV Market Crash Suddenly Goes Mainstream
David Blackmon
May 06, 2024
Well, that didn’t take long, did it? I mean, I only started actively predicting a crash in the western world’s EV market late last year, and I’ve been skeptical about the tech’s potential all along, based on the fact that the industry still hasn’t solved the very same shortcomings and consumer concerns that caused it to crash 120 years ago. In 1901, electric cars outnumbered internal combustion cars by a wide margin. Within the next 5 years, the equation had reversed.
This isn’t anything new, and now, some legacy media outlets that have served as loyal boosters of this failing energy transition are starting to catch on.
The Times of London, one of the most shameless EV booster outlets, ran a story on Sunday headlined “The electric car crash will rival the dotcom bubble.”
That prediction could prove to be hyperbolic. Then again, maybe not.
Here’s an excerpt from that story:
What we are witnessing is an imminent business catastrophe impelled by a global corporate stampede: the herd was galvanised by governments, which have yet to recognise, let alone admit, their own responsibility.
In terms of global misallocation of capital, there has been nothing like it since the dotcom bubble. As far as the UK is concerned, the obvious thing for the government to do is to live up to Claire Coutinho’s words and abandon the attempt to force consumers to buy products they don’t entirely trust, which can only end terribly for the businesses involved.
Wow. That’s pretty damn blunt.
But the London Times isn’t the only legacy outlet commenting on the problem. Helen Thomas, a senior editor at the Financial Times, weighed in on the same day with a piece carrying this ominous headline: “The EV car crash is a warning for Europe’s industrial transition.”
But even in commenting on Europe’s approaching EV bloodbath, Thomas cannot bring herself to admit to reality.
In the piece, Thomas details how Chinese EV makers are already making big inroads into the European auto market and bemoans the fact that Europe’s own carmakers have been slow to adapt. She also pooh-poohs “complaints” by Europe’s carmakers that China has all sorts of advantages in the markets, controlling as it does supply chains for pretty much all of the minerals and parts that go into making of EVs, referring to them as “both true and slightly academic at this stage.”
Check out this excerpt:
But the sector itself continues to hedge its bets. It is still demanding “technological neutrality” from policymakers. That arguably gives policymakers an out from, say, building the dense charging network needed for widespread adoption and for reducing battery size and costs. Europe’s exemption for cars run on so-called e-fuels to Europe’s 2035 sales ban is a classic example — a political sop that spreads industry hopes across another technology that isn’t commercially viable, isn’t available at scale and will be needed in other sectors, such as aviation.
“This discussion of ‘what is the best technology’ is not helpful,” says Fabian Brandt, head of automotive at Oliver Wyman. “From an efficiency standpoint, there is no doubt that battery electric vehicles are the preferred technology. The industry needs to be decisive and go all in.”
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You have to love the part about how the industry “needs to go all in” on EVs.
Think about it: What if Ford had decided to go all-in on EVs in 2021? It would be out of business now, since it would not have been able to rely on its hugely profitable ICE models to offset the well more than $10 billion it has lost on EV investments. The same is likely true of GM and Stellantis, and is very probably true of European carmakers like BMW, Mercedes and Volvo.
In reality, a “go all in” strategic approach would become a “go broke and leave the market to China” strategy.
Thomas derides the Euro-car industry for continuing to “hedge its bets.” But what we see here is that, while the Times of London seems to understand the disaster this mad government-driven rush to EVs is going to create in Europe’s auto industry, it is the Financial Times that is still hedging its own bets.
Thomas ends her piece by quoting Harry Benham of Carbon Factor as accusing the Euro-car industry of “whistling as the darkness crept in.” In truth, the same could be said of the FT.
Thomas’s piece is, at the end of the day, a continuation of the leftist climate alarmist hubris that government policy can simply override market forces, an eternal misperception that inevitably ends in economic and financial ruin. The Times of London, amazingly, seems to no longer be laboring under such illusion.
That is all.
https://blackmon.substack.com/p/pointing-to-the-looming-ev-market?publication_id=712558&post_id=144358918&isFreemail=false&r=rd9j8&triedRedirect=true
Israeli Officials: White House Put U.S. Ammo Shipment on Hold
By Sandy Fitzgerald | Sunday, 05 May 2024 01:14 PM EDT
The Biden administration put a hold on a shipment of American-made ammunition to Israel last week amid concerns over an Israeli invasion of the Gazan city of Rafah, where more than a million Palestinian refugees are taking shelter, according to two Israeli officials.
The ammunition hold marks the first time the United States has stopped a shipment to the Israeli military since the Hamas attacks on Oct. 7, and is raising concerns inside Israel's government, officials told Axios.
The White House declined to comment on the decision, and the Pentagon, State Department, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu did not respond to questions.
However, Biden is facing criticism over his support of Israel's actions in Gaza, and the administration asked in February that the Israeli military show proof that U.S.-made weapons are being used in accordance with international law. Israel signed a letter of its assurances in March.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has insisted several times in recent days that he plans to order the invasion of Rafah, even if Israel and Hamas can reach a deal for a cease-fire and the release of hostages Hamas is still holding in Gaza.
The prime minister, in a statement on Holocaust Remembrance Day on Sunday, hinted at the tensions with the Biden administration.
"In the terrible Holocaust, there were great world leaders who stood by idly; therefore, the first lesson of the Holocaust is: If we do not defend ourselves, nobody will defend us. And if we need to stand alone, we will stand alone," he commented.
Meanwhile, Netanyahu and Secretary of State Antony Blinken had a "tough" conversation in Israel about the planned Rafah operation, sources briefed on the meeting said.
Blinken reportedly told Netanyahu that the United States would publicly oppose a strike on Rafah and that military action in the city would hurt relations between the United States and Israel.
Thursday, White House spokesman John Kirby told reporters that Israeli leaders know that Biden is "sincere" about changing policy about the war in Gaza if the ground operation "doesn't take into account the refugees."
White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan Saturday reiterated that stance, commenting at a Financial Times conference that the administration has made it clear that U.S. policy will be influenced by how the Rafah operation progresses.
Meanwhile, Netanyahu has said he will not agree to end the war as part of a hostage deal that allows Hamas to remain in power in Gaza.
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/israel-biden-ammunition/2024/05/05/id/1163544/?ns_mail_uid=110c4f27-b39e-4490-8c9e-becd156886f8&ns_mail_job=DM618014_05062024&s=acs&dkt_nbr=010502my8i9p
The Corruption of Rep. Adam Schiff is Reaching a Tipping Point
Rachel Alexander
| May 06, 2024
It is no secret that far left Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff uses sleazy tactics to go after his political opponents. While most members of Congress usually skate on ethics charges, or receive light penalties, once in a great while their behavior is so overtly criminal that they end up prosecuted. Although Democrats are far more likely to use lawfare against Republicans than vice versa, when the behavior is so criminal, even Democrats — such as New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez who is being prosecuted for bribery — can’t escape justice.
Schiff is getting dangerously close to this stage. When he became chair of the House Intelligence Committee in 2019, he made it a personal mission to investigate Donald Trump's supposed connections to Russia, completely separate from and in addition to Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation.
When Mueller concluded there was no collusion between Trump and Russia, Schiff dismissively blew off the exoneration, hinting that he would continue his own investigation. “[T]here may be, for example, evidence of collusion or conspiracy that is clear and convincing, but not proof beyond a reasonable doubt," he said during an interview in February 2019.
The nine Republican members of the House Intelligence Committee called for Schiff to resign in March 2019 due to his false claims of collusion. The Center for Renewing America sent a letter to the Office of Congressional Ethics in June 2023, outlining Schiff’s improper actions, including his attempts to get X to censure unfavorable posts and claiming the Hunter Biden collusion in Ukraine was a product of Russian disinformation. The letter asked for discipline up to expulsion.
That same month, the House of Representatives censured Schiff over the Russia collusion hoax. They listed specific instances of wrongdoing. First, they cited his memo that falsely claimed that the warrant application for the FISA wiretap of Trump associate Carter Page was accurate. The application was “later found by Inspector General Horowitz to have 17 major mistakes and omissions, provoking FISA Court Presiding Judge Rosemary Collyer to state unequivocally that the Federal Bureau of Investigation ‘misled the FISC,’” the censure said.
Next, the censure accused Schiff of “publicly, falsely denying that his staff communicated with a whistleblower to launch the first impeachment of President Trump.” Finally, the censure stated that “Schiff misled the public by reading a false retelling of a phone call between President Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.”
Now it’s come out that Schiff paid the daughter of the judge handling New York DA Alvin Bragg’s prosecution of Trump $4 million to push the Russia collusion hoax. Loren Merchan’s hatred of Trump is so extreme that she used a photo of Trump behind bars as her profile picture on X. She runs a digital marketing agency that works with Democrats and progressive groups.
Yet New York Judge Juan Merchan’s gag order against Trump prohibits him talking about his daughter. Merchan has not slapped a gag order on the prosecution or their witnesses, so Trump’s turncoat former attorney Michael Cohen has been blabbing endlessly about him, posting rants about the trial on TikTok every evening.
I would predict that any guilty verdict will be overturned based on this obvious bias by the judge, but after former Trump associate Hope Hicks surprised the politically motivated prosecutors by exonerating Trump last week, there is unlikely to be a conviction. Hicks said the money allegedly paid to porn star and liar Stormy Daniels was to protect Trump’s wife Melania, not to protect the campaign. The crux of the case against Trump is that it was an illegal campaign contribution.
An ethics complaint was filed against Schiff recently, alleging election fraud and mortgage fraud. Schiff is running for the U.S. Senate in California, but has been living in Maryland while voting in California. Former Oklahoma Rep. Steve Watkins was prosecuted for allegedly voting in the wrong Topeka City Council race after listing a UPS Store as his voting address.
While running for the U.S. Senate, Schiff has brazenly engaged in sleazy tactics. He spent $10 million promoting his Republican opponent during the primary. Since California uses “top 2” voting, which means the top two vote getters in the primary move on to the general, he wanted to ensure that Republican Steve Garvey ended up with the second most votes instead of his two Democratic challengers. On the campaign trail, Schiff brags about his political persecution of Trump as a campaign platform.
Schiff isn’t a principled leftist. In the late 1990s, he sponsored bills in the California Legislature which would have made it a felony to hire an illegal immigrant, and to allow minors 14 or older accused of serious crimes to be tried as adults.
If the roles were reversed, and Schiff had engaged in this corruption as a Republican, aggressive progressive DAs put in their positions by left-wing billionaire George Soros would have begun multiple prosecutions. His law license is safe, however, since it has been inactive since 2001.
Hinting at guilt, Schiff admitted he feared that a Trump administration might prosecute him. Trump has said that Schiff and other members of the January 6th committee, whom he labeled as corrupt, should face prosecution and imprisonment.
Schiff wants the prosecutions against Trump to occur quickly, obviously in order to influence the voters. He complained about Trump’s immunity claim, “The claim is borderline frivolous … they’re drawing it out just enough to make it almost infeasible to try [the cases] before the election,” he said. “It’s still possible to get it done. And I think voters deserve to have that information.”
Will anything be done to Schiff other than the House censure, which is meaningless in practical terms? Maybe eventually. He shows no sign of slowing down the corruption. He’s gotten so brazen about it, since no one has intervened to stop him, that he may finally engage in criminal activity so outrageous that even compromised judges draw the line.
https://townhall.com/columnists/rachelalexander/2024/05/06/the-corruption-of-rep-adam-schiff-is-reaching-a-tipping-point-n2638666
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No one has bigger blinders than liberal democrats that can't or refuse to see what a disaster the Biden administration. is. I do understand it though. There is nothing to crow about with Biden so Trump has to be the target. Everything that Biden puts out that seems positive at first falls apart under closer scrutiny.
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Pro-Hamas Protests Funded by Biden’s Own Political Donors
JOEL B. POLLAK 5 May 2024 3:51
The pro-Palestinian, antisemitic protests on university campuses across the nation are funded by President Joe Biden’s own political donors — which could explain why he hesitates to condemn them and won’t investigate them.
Biden equivocated last month when asked to react to the protests, saying that he condemned the antisemitism but also condemned those “who don’t understand what’s going on with the Palestinians,” which puzzled observers.
Research by NGO Monitor and others into the donors behind the protests has turned up familiar names from the Democratic Party bankroll — including George Soros’ Open Society Foundations and other liberal philanthropies.
Biden’s Department of Justice has notably refused to investigate the civil rights abuses being committed by the “encampments” — against Jews, journalists, and others — and has also refused to consider RICO conspiracy charges.
Biden can’t condemn antisemitism without protecting the perpetrators by condemning whatever it is they claim to be victims of. But regardless — why not go further? Where are the civil rights investigations, the RICO prosecutions? He’s protecting his donors https://t.co/V9P8jSxk6n
— Joel Pollak (@joelpollak) May 2, 2024
Always great to see you with your blinders on about your dear leader as normal people see him in actual reality.
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Horse and Worm meat in their burgers?
Horse meat, Human Meat and Worm Meat Fillers Discovered at McDonald’s
https://stateofthenation.co/?p=604
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MAHA TIA - McDonalds caught using human baby CANNIBAL meat in their burgers -
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And the pink pussy hat brigade is still MIA.
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That's some old debunked MAGAt psychobabble from the 2021 Kentucky Derby. Get some new material. #liar
Kentucky Derby winning jockey John Velazquez did not turn down White House invitation
Posts claiming that John Velazquez, the jockey for 2021 Kentucky Derby winner Medina Spirit, declined an invitation to the White House and made a comment about coming in second place are fabricated. A representative for Velazquez said he never received an invitation or said the alleged comment circulated on social media.
You babbling on about the garish face paint and makeup that your fuhrer uses daily? He uses more than the average drag queen every single day. Plus he spends more time on his hair than any known woman on earth.
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It is Your Economy .. yours, mine, our family, friends and neighbors -- EVERYONE to some degree is touched by the markets and their behavior. So we should be aware of the various mechanisms that make the markets and our economy tick. We live in a new era where politics, rumor, weather and just about anything you can think of effects the markets and our economy in some way, shape or form. Like it or not we are globally tied at the hip and in this new era where the advent of technology and the internet pushes information to the edge of the envelope, we can only hope to keep up with the many challenges ahead and the speed at which they develop. Technology is a double-edged sword and unfortunately can be used for good as well as evil, it just depends on who is holding the sword. This board was created to follow news, markets, stocks, cycles, trends, indicators and most of all to communicate and share ideas. Humor and Cartoons are welcome here, it breaks up the monotony from time to time and I am alays game for a good joke. I enjoy data mining, especially for info that the MSM (Main Stream Media) fail to or are not allowed to report. We must see things from all angles and aspects in order to verify what is true and what is false, basically becoming more atune to separating the wheat from the chaff. Hopefully in the long run this will help us all to make better and more sound decisions. This board is/was basically an information board, but all are welcome to post, (actually I encourage it because looking through another's eyes gives more perspective on issues). We can never learn too much about these ever changing times and the economy at hand.
* I have only a couple of rules and that is if you should post; NO PURE POLITICS or RELIGION and as always expected, please PLAY NICE !!!
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NOTE: What is meant by "pure politics" as stated in this boards' iBox decriptiion is just that.., it has no real ties to the economy and is mainly a composition of political innuendo. As I assume most of you know, it is difficult at times to separate politics from the economy due to the fact that politics plays a very large part in our everyday lives; be it on an economical, personal or other level altogether. Therefore this has created problems in the discernment of which posts should stay or go due to their leaning too far toward the political side and are slight on economic issues. As hard as my assistants and I try, we cannot please everyone. But we do what we do and want to be fair, we do want what should stay as part of this forums curricular. Everyone has an opinion and/or wants to be heard and I will do whatever I can to help ensure that is what takes place and hopefully most will not feel as though they are being targeted or alienated.
In the end all I can ask is that you be patient if a post of yours has been deleted, yet it has economic undertones that state otherwise and you feel should remain. If you feel you have been wronged - relax, sit back and PM me and I will make a final judgement. I am rather liberal, therefore more times than not I most likely will restore your post if it has merit and/or fallen between the cracks. Things happen or are interpreted differently and sometimes incorrectly, we are human. So do NOT throw a hissy fit nor become a foul mouth fool. Also PM harassment is frowned upon and should carry a level of disciplinary action, but I will leave that up to iHub Admin. Besides all that life is too precious to spend in a tirade. These types of behavior will get you no where except a closer view of the exit.. Treat people as you would like to be treated and we can work through most issues. It all starts with civil dialogue, respect for another's opinion even if not agreed upon. An agreement to disagree is the way I like to see things conclude when minds cannot meld. Just because an agreement cannot be reached does not mean we automatically have to trash another for their views and/or opinions. Let's face it, we all want better, we all want to be part of something bigger than ourselves and we all want to gain an edge in the game of life. This cannot be accomplished without an open mind and a certain level of tolerance for all that speak out.
As a matter of fact I encourage as many of you as possible to post, even if it is just once a month. You don't have to take the world by storm, it could be about something as simple as a neighborhood observation such as more homes up for sale than in months past or how empty the parking lots are at a traditionally known hot spot. Post an article or commentary that hits close to home, test the waters and see if others have seen similar events around the country. We have at our fingertips virtually 100s of libraries of information and cyber chat connections we can use to find out how different aspects of the economy are doing all around the nation. I truly believe we all have a lot to contribute and share and while we all will never see eye to eye on every subject or then again maybe none at all, but different points of view may enhance our own outlook or the way we see and do things. Right or wrong, the world is constantly evolving and technology will begin to pick up speed by leaps and bounds So we could serve each other better if we take what is posted for face value instead of an opportunity to lambaste someone that sees things in a different light than our own preconditioned mindset. When opposing views are met with hostile impositions it is of no service to anyone. I certainly would not want a cult following or a bunch of "yes" men setting the tone for this forum, I want diversity !!! Variety is the spice of life !!! You cannot expand your horizons if you automatically shut down and feel as though you have it all figured out. I got news for you, you don't and you won't until you are lying on your death bed. I do not care who you are or how worldly and educated you may be, we never stop learning unless we hold ourselves back with preconceived notions. Knowledge IS Power...
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It's open and ready for business. Over there you can post whatever you like to your hearts content, especially political/economic articles and commentary that does not quite fit in at YE1. So now you have 2 boards - One for economics, markets, trends, data, news, commentary, etc. - a more serious site for those who want the straight dope. And now the YE2OT board for everything else. I will play Moderator, but I am taking applications for an assistant who would control 90%+ of the interaction over there.
If people choose, they can travel between boards if they need a fix of some controlled chaos at YE2OT and then want some cold hard facts as (YE1) was intended.
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