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Is McConnell Sabotaging MAGA Candidates to Stop Trump 2024 Run?
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The regime has its man—all it needs now is the crime.
By Conrad Black
A week after the invasion and nine-hour occupation of former President Trump’s home in Palm Beach, Florida, it is becoming clearer every day that there was no plausible legal reason for it.
It may have been, as has been widely alleged, a fishing expedition to try to find something useful for Nancy Pelosi’s January 6 kangaroo court inquiry into the “insurrection,” but if so, this was a desperation play, and since no such objective was specified in the warrant nor presumably mentioned in the affidavit supporting the warrant, such a fishing expedition is not legal, though on recent precedent, legal relevance is the last criterion this regime would take into account.
These are, if not the identical authors, certainly kindred spirits in the law enforcement bureaucracy of those who inflicted upon the much-wronged and disserved people of the United States the Trump-Russia collusion fraud, the whitewash of Hillary Clinton’s destruction of 33,000 subpoenaed emails and reckless and illegal use of a home server for confidential official information, the two spurious impeachments, and the scandalous mishandling of the Biden family’s financial shenanigans, and many other triumphs of malice and incompetence.
The burden of the deluge of semi-official leaks pipelined through the docile Trump-hating media last week gradually back-pedaled from the lofty insinuations of those elusive “high crimes and misdemeanors” equivalent to treason, to an archival dispute of the kind that all departing presidents have. The climb-down spiked briefly with the absurdity of misuse of nuclear military information in contravention of the Espionage Act, and wound up the week as a toothless, general-purpose, normal legal precaution. The normal Democrat practice in this kind of perversion of the prosecutorial apparatus is to rely upon the docile and rabidly partisan national political media to transmit a Niagara of dishonest official leaks. The New York Times, usually reliable as an administration source, has revealed that President Biden pressured the attorney general to prosecute Trump. The best he could do, apparently, was this burlesque of due process, with a feeble and belated acknowledgment that he had approved the invasion and that, of course, the fact of an investigation in progress prevented him from saying anything about it.
In this case, the spigots of leaks shut down after a few days, and in an agile act of improvisation, the anti-Trump media has taken to accusing the former president and his followers of inciting disrespect for the justice system and betraying a sense of unease at having Trump’s papers and conduct closely examined, thus inciting the inference that he must have been guilty of something. This is the familiar reasoning of people so possessed by hate that they wish to charge somebody with something, and in failing to find any useful evidence, they cite the absence of the evidence as illustrative of the fiendish cunning of the targeted person, in hiding or destroying the evidence.
This was the basis of the late Christopher Hitchens’ accusation against Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger of being responsible for the death of Chilean president Salvador Allende in 1973. And it was the essence of journeyman historian Michael Beschloss’ comments that while it was true that what was being done to President Trump was unprecedented, that was only because Trump was so obviously more criminally dishonest in his behavior than any previous American president, and so there was no need to elaborate upon it.
The fact that there is no evidence against Trump of having done anything illegal, despite years of obsessive and frequently illegal official persecution of him to unearth such evidence, merely confirms the satanic depths of his wickedness. Next we will have historian-for-hire John Meacham give us another chorus about Joe Biden’s resemblance to Franklin D. Roosevelt (who in four terms as he led the country out of the Great Depression and to the brink of victory in World War II never had one day of a negative public approval rating).
The Wall Street Journal, which has been quite professional and even-handed in its treatment of Donald Trump as a politician, warned on the weekend that it would damage his credibility if he objected to the publication of the warrant for the intrusion at his house. They need not have worried: Trump was happy to have it made public and the shoe was now on the other foot, as the Justice Department is reduced to lame excuses for not releasing the affidavit on the basis of which the judge-shopped, professedly Trump-hating, magistrate to whom the affidavit was submitted, authorized the intrusion.
Legally, it need now hardly be pointed out that the execution of the search warrant at Trump’s home was an outrage. Justice should have proceeded by subpoena, and cannot explain why it waited for 19 months since Trump left office, during which Trump claims he cooperated entirely with it, to take this step. Even if there was some dispute on the matter of the subpoena, one hardly needs to launch a major raid to handle the disposition of such a non-urgent matter. Since a president can declassify anything he wants, the regime’s media apologists are reduced to claiming he must have declassified some things incorrectly.
This is all of a piece with six years of perversion of the highest legal and intelligence offices to persecute a political opponent. The seizure of the former president’s three passports is the crowning imbecility: that the most famous person in the world is a flight-risk is a hard sell-even to the most pathological Trump-haters, and the passports are being returned, (with extensive executive and lawyer-client privileged material it is implicitly acknowledged was also seized improperly).
The only conceivable explanation for this action is not to be found in the farrago of nonsense in the deluge of official leaks; it is that the Democratic strategists believe that their only hope for retaining control of the U.S. Senate at the midterms is to shift the conversation from the fiasco of the Biden administration and focus it on the chaos that regularly erupts around Trump, even though that chaos is usually generated by his enemies and not by him. The former president seems to have recognized the intention behind this impotent pseudo-legal nonsense and has been relatively restrained in his response and has called for the de-escalation of overheated spirits.
The Democrats, who until recently subscribed to the wishful fantasy that Trump’s support was melting away, have effectively confirmed him as commander of the Republicans. They may also have finally generated some independent voter empathy for him, and enabled him to appear in a more generous light than he has had at any time in the last six years. The legal farce is de-escalating, and it will be a real challenge even for the totalitarian legions of media Trump-haters to maintain a straight face and unwavering inflection as they try to provide a legal justification for this preposterous flim-flam job.
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The west is trying to quietly forget the war in Ukraine. It does so at its own peril
Mikhail Shishkin
Even if Vladimir Putin does eventually falter, Russia’s power structure means another Putin will follow, and then another
“On the front page – war, on the back page – the crossword.” A line from my novel The Light and the Dark sprang to mind as I travelled on a train shortly after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Sitting across from me, a passenger was reading the paper: on the front page, there was the war; on the back page, the crossword. Time has passed since then, and the daily atrocities have started to disappear from the headlines, despite the battles growing more savage each day. But no one in the west wants to hear about war any more – people are tired of horror and solidarity. They want peace, no price rises, a quiet life and a nice holiday.
It’s not the first time my writing has sounded the alarm over horrors to come. Before the annexation of Crimea, I used an analogy with the Russian folk tale Teremok to describe Europe’s uncertain future. Once upon a time, there were some forest animals who lived together in a cosy little house – a teremok. One day, a frog knocks on the door. “Knock, knock! Who dwells in this teremok? Let me in, I’d like to live here with you.” The animals let the frog in, and everyone agrees that it is a happy and cosy home. They even let in Kyward the hare and Reynard the fox – there is room for everyone in the teremok. But then along comes Bruin the bear. No matter how hard he tries, he can’t fit into the teremok. The bear flies into a rage and sits down on the house. And that’s the end of the teremok – and of the fairytale.
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But no warnings were heeded. In 2014, shortly after the annexation of Crimea, I wrote, with increasing urgency, that “in the 21st century there is no such thing as a distant, localised war any more. Every war is now a European war. And this European war has already begun.” I warned that Vladimir Putin’s annexation of Crimea would “create a wave of patriotism. Sooner or later, this wave will break, and then Putin will need a fresh wind.” I wrote of how years of chronic instability in the Balkans would create cripplingly high levels of migration to European countries, with an “inconceivably greater wave of refugees from Ukraine”.
Back then, there was still a chance to stop the aggressor. Yet European politicians closed their eyes to reality in an effort to curry favour with voters. Voters wanted peace then, too; jobs, no price rises and nice holidays. Corrupt Russian experts insisted that we should understand Putin’s point of view and make concessions.
And now, here we are: in the middle of a European war, facing an unprecedented wave of refugees from Ukraine, and wondering how our politicians could have been so blind. No one listens to writers any more. The only true lesson we can draw from history is that history teaches nothing.
In Germany, intellectuals have collected thousands of signatures on a petition demanding their own government stop delivering weapons to Ukraine, because it could lead to a third world war. “We want a policy of peace, not war,” they write. But the third world war has already begun. It started in 2014. How can you cure someone’s blindness, if they want to be blind?
The question now is, how and when will this war end? The war against Nazi Germany didn’t end with Hitler’s death, but with a devastating military defeat. Putin’s death one day is inevitable, but Russia’s defeat is not.
The answer boils down to authenticity. Some tsars are real, some are fake. If Holy Russia expands its territory and other peoples bow before the autocrat in Moscow, the vassalled population that toils and struggles and heroically sheds its blood for the sacred fatherland thinks it is a blessing from God. And then it doesn’t matter very much how the tsar came to power or how he rules over his subjects. He can butcher them in their millions, destroy thousands of churches and execute the priests – all that matters is that the tsar is real, for then the enemy will tremble and the Holy Land will extend. That’s how it was with Stalin.
Conversely, military failures and the loss of even a small part of the Holy Land will be seen by the tsar’s subjects as a clear sign that the tsar is not blessed – that he is an illegitimate fake. Did he botch the war with Japan? Did he fail to subjugate the Chechens? If so, that man on the throne is a con artist posing as a tsar. That’s how it was with Nicholas II and Boris Yeltsin.
Putin legitimised his presidency by regaining Crimea, but his legitimacy is evaporating with his inability to win against Ukraine. The next tsar will, in turn, have to prove himself by achieving victories in the war against the world. And if, for this Putin, threatening to deploy tactical nuclear weapons is merely one aspect of hybrid warfare, for the next Putin deploying them may become a necessary tool in his effort to secure power.
The next Putin, too, will be nothing more than an actor who cannot change his role. His role will be pre-written by the entire Russian power structure, which doesn’t worry about how many people will die in Ukraine or Russia or wherever; it isn’t concerned about the resources it spends, the number of weapons it deploys or the level of military casualties. And if the Russian quality of life deteriorates? So be it – the regime never did care much about the happiness of its own people.
Anyone who is part of this power structure is not afraid to attack the west. After all, who should they be scared of? If a rocket lands on a Nato member’s territory, what then? More meetings, statements, declarations, calls for peace? It’s high time the free world realised that it is not fighting a mad dictator but an autonomous and self-regenerating aggressive power system.
The Russian autocracy’s ancient social structure has been preserved by the storehouse of history for centuries, and sheds its skin only to return in a new guise: as the Golden Horde’s Khanate or the tsardom of Moscow, as the Romanovs’ empire or Stalin’s communist Soviet Union, and most recently as Putin’s “managed democracy”. And now the Russian Federation is shedding its skin once more. What will emerge from the undisturbed foundations of the undefeated military dictatorship? Could it be a free constitutional democracy that willingly forgoes nuclear weapons? Does this sound likely to you?
Before the second world war, too, people wanted peace, no price rises and nice holidays. The voters hoped that their own democratic governments in France and Britain would pursue a policy of peace with Hitler rather than one of war. What followed is history, encompassed in Winston Churchill’s ruthlessly honest and tragic message to voters: “I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.”
Sooner or later, similar promises will have to be made – instead of nice holidays, European voters must steel themselves for great sacrifice, struggle and hardship, because that is the price we must pay for peace.
Mikhail Shishkin is a novelist. He has won the Russian Booker, Russian National Bestseller and Big Book prizes
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When you cannot solve the problem attack the accuser. Florida has two factors that places it ahead of Illinois and Chicago:
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Illinois Billionaire Who Fled Chicago Amid High Crime Has Poured Over $1 Billion Into New Home State Of Florida
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The former richest man in Illinois and current Citadel CEO Ken Griffin, who recently moved his company to Florida, has already poured billions of dollars into the Sunshine State.
Griffin — whose $29 billion net worth places him among the 50 richest men on the planet, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index — moved to Miami after voicing concerns about the lackluster business environment and rising crime rates in Chicago. He announced earlier this summer that Citadel, which manages $51 billion in assets, would likewise relocate to Florida.
Griffin has already spent $175 million on five acres of property in southern Florida, on which he plans to tear down the existing house and build a new one, according to a report from CNBC. He has also spent $450 million on land for a new estate north of Palm Beach — a property larger than Mar-a-Lago, the home of former President Donald Trump.
Meanwhile, Citadel has spent more than $600 million on an empty lot that will house its new headquarters, as well as a temporary office building, an apartment building, and more than 100,000 square feet of office leases from which employees will work until the new headquarters is completed.
The real estate spending spree of more than $1 billion occurs as Griffin sells his two penthouses in Chicago. Griffin was also heavily involved in contributing to Chicago nonprofits, giving more than $600 million over the course of two decades to organizations such as Northwestern Medicine and the Art Institute of Chicago, according to Bloomberg. Meanwhile, Citadel has a lease on Park Avenue in New York City, and Griffin retains a $240 million home near Central Park, which constitutes the most expensive house in America.
Griffin slammed rising crime rates in Chicago in recent comments made to The Wall Street Journal. Under the leadership of Mayor Lori Lightfoot (D), the city recorded 797 homicides in 2021 — the highest of any American city.
“If people aren’t safe here, they’re not going to live here,” Griffin told the outlet. “I’ve had multiple colleagues mugged at gunpoint. I’ve had a colleague stabbed on the way to work. Countless issues of burglary. I mean, that’s a really difficult backdrop with which to draw talent to your city from.”
Meanwhile, Griffin has a prolonged feud with Governor J.B. Pritzker (D-IL), who mocked the billionaire as he left the state. Construction machinery maker Caterpillar and airplane manufacturer Boeing also left Chicago this year.
“So like a spoiled rich kid, Griffin announced he was taking his toys and leaving Illinois,” Pritzker said in remarks for a meeting of the Florida Democrats. “Where did he move to? You guessed it. His $400 million, 20-acre Palm Beach estate. And he’s one of Ron DeSantis’ largest donors.”
“Really really sorry about that,” he continued, adding that supporting DeSantis over former President Donald Trump is “a little bit like saying you’ve never been a fan of Darth Vader but you support the Empire’s political agenda.”
Florida saw the nation’s largest net domestic migration between July 2020 and July 2021, with more than 220,000 people moving to the state, according to the Census Bureau. Florida was followed by Texas and Arizona, while New York, California, and Illinois led the nation in terms of numeric decline.
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Amy Wax accepted my invitation to speak here at The Landings but then Covid hit. I made a small contribution to her legal fund. She will win her case but it will be costly as she fights for a return to rational education. That she may not accomplish. Our colleges are too filled with radicals professors.
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Ross Rants:
The housing market is now in recession. Sales declined the most in 20 years last month. Inflation remains at or close to a 40 year high. Only the payroll report claims jobs are growing well, which raises real question as to its validity. All other jobs reports are flat or down. The EU is sliding into recession, and has runaway inflation, partjohns of China have just shut down some factories due to the drought causing power shortages where they rely on hydro power, which means more supply shortages. So why does the market still misread all of this, and believe stock prices will head higher. Because once again the market is wrong, because 75% of trading is by algorithms, and many traders just look at recent stock market data, and not the macro fundamentals. Trading momentum is not fundamental investing. As I have mentioned before, the stock and debt markets misread what was really happening in late 2007 and early 2008, and it is misreading the economy and geopolitical issues now. There is no major economy anywhere in the world that is doing well, and most are headed to recession as the year goes on. Inflation is getting worse in many places, and will continue to do so as oil and gas rise again, and as the drought pushes food commodity prices higher.
The only reason oil is lower now is demand destruction. The result is, between the anti-fossil politics, and demand destruction, no major oil company in the world is spending big on new drilling. That means oil goes back up over time as economies recover eventually, and energy demand rises again, but supplies are not there. Oil and gas are the most critical item in all economies. Economies do not function without adequate supply of oil and gas. The rush to renewables and EVs is a false promise which will mean one day soon the world will be back to burning a lot more coal, and will have power shortages. While nuclear power is a good answer, the construction and use of that power source will take many years to reach a meaningful level. The drought has caused some nuke plants to cut back operations. This may be a good time to sell a little of your portfolio and take advantage of the recent bull run.
Onshoring and getting production out of China is increasing at a more rapid pace now. Several major factories have been announced. Apple is moving some of its suppliers out of China. What is interesting is these projects will use a lot more robotics and technology to deal with labor shortages and productivity. This is helped a lot by the capital investment deductions allowed in the Trump tax law that the Dems tried, but failed, to get rid of. This trend will help the US become much less dependent on China eventually. Bad for China, good for the US. What happens to the supply chain and inflation if there is a confrontation over Taiwan. Covid would have just been a warmup.
Some money managers and stockbrokers now rely on computer models to determine the direction of the market, pick stocks, or assemble portfolios. I am a fundamental Graham & Dodd believer. Look at the balance sheet, the cash flow and cash reserves, the product line, the management, and the sources of the revenue, and then decide is this a business that can do reasonably well in a recession and come out the other side in good position, and is it a business model that has a lot of growth potential, with a solid management that can make the most of the product, and potential acquisitions. What is the PE ratio. I don't invest in companies with no cash flow, young kids as managers, and a product that is similar to lots of others, or a fad like Peleton. The strategists who are surveyed regularly, were way off in their predictions for the SPX in 2022, so now they predict SPX earnings at $225. Given their track record, I would not assume there is high likelihood of $225. I am closer to $210.Their average predictions of the SPX year end is 4400, with the dispersion of 3400- 5100. If you can assure me the Republicans will win the Senate, I would be more optimistic, but that is now in real doubt. Wall St seems to me to be over optimistic, and ignoring a lot of economic and geopolitical issues as usual. The Fed is going to call their bluff.
The geopolitical situation may be nearing a much more dangerous point. The Russians have been stopped, and their army and weapons are being blown up. Depending on whose number one believes, they may have lost to killed and wounded, anywhere from 80,000 to over 120,000 soldiers. Some units are refusing to fight. The Wagner Group which has been key is now recruiting in prisons. They have lost over 3000 armored vehicles. 20,000 Russian soldiers are trapped in Kherson and will eventually be killed, or may be forced to surrender. If that happens, the war is over. All of this will impact the home front support for the war. Depending on who you believe, the Russian economy is sliding into, or already is in major recession, or worse. The oligarchs and the powers that are behind Putin have to see what is really happening. If the Ukrainians take back Kherson, and continue to stage guerilla war in Crimea, the Russians will fall apart. What is dangerous is, Putin may be planning to cause a major reactor incident at the big nuke plant instead of using a nuke weapon. It would be his final move, but if it happens, it would do vast damage. He could have an operative do something to cause a breakdown, or timed explosion of all the ammunition stored there, after the operative fled. This is the nightmare scenario the world is so afraid of. Putin is crazy and immoral enough to do it if he knows he lost, and he might be killed. Then the Russians can try to claim it was an accident, and not a nuke attack.
If all of this has not caused you to be concerned, here is one more. China will do nothing before November and the election of Xi to his third term. Once he has that, and all of his people in key positions, then he is free to do whatever he wishes. He cannot now back down on Taiwan or he loses face and credibility. Standby in January, or maybe over Christmas, when the US is on holiday, for the blockade of Taiwan as a possible move, or maybe an invasion of Quemoy and Matsu. The US is not going to war over these two rocks. . He has now shown he can do it, and then the question is what does Biden do. What does Japan do. Does China also try to shut down the airspace and so stop chips from reaching the US. Does the US use the navy to break the blockade, or does Biden make another of his disastrous foreign policy mistakes and try to negotiate with the Chinese. If there is a war, can the US beat the Chines in the far Pacific. That is very questionable now. Does Xi use N Korea and Iran to create problems and diversions. Do we then have WWIII. I am not predicting any of that will happen, but this is why I believe the world is now in the most dangerous and unpredictable place it may ever have been due to the types of weapons that could be used. It is why I look at the world and I see 1936 Spanish civil war and 1938 invasion of Poland when I look at Ukraine. I see a powerful Asian nation run by a maniac, building a huge war machine just like Hitler did, and a desire to control commodities and geopolitics. We have a world in economic distress and getting worse, similar to the thirties. And I see a US administration and US Congress that is controlled by people who do not have any understanding at all of geopolitics nor economics. If the Republicans do not get total control of Congress in November, which is now a possible outcome, then we are in even worse trouble. Because the administration is peopled by incompetents chosen for their skin color, sexual preferences or gender, as opposed to ability, and the president continues to make the wrong decisions about everything, the situation is far more dangerous. Just look at how Fauci and CDC completely screwed up dealing with Covid and lied to us.
Then throw in possibly signing a catastrophic agreement with Iran, just to juice things
I have no way to know if any of these scenarios will happen, but the risk is very real, and the people in charge in the US and EU are grossly incompetent and weak, and Putin, Xi, Kim, and the mullahs are all insane, and without any moral restraints. The black swans are taking over. So given all of this, do you really want to assume the stock market is going to rise from here, and take risk, or do you want to be risk off until we see over the next few months where things play out. Maybe it will all be fine by January, but nobody can be sure of anything right now. The US intel agencies did a superlative job on knowing everything Putin was planning as early as October, but Biden did the opposite of what he was told was needed to stop Putin, same as in Afghanistan where he ignored the generals, so do you think he has any ability to do what is needed now. He is always wrong.
If the worst does happen, US companies dependent on Chinese factories for parts or products better hurry and build inventory, and rush and get out while they can. One day it will be too late
Oil is key to everything . The world does not function without it. Economies would collapse without it. The US is in a premier position to control its own fate and much of the world due to its vast fields of oil and the technology that the US has almost a monopoly on-fracking. Russia cannot maintain its production, nor its long pipelines without US and European technical help and spare parts. Over time it will not be able to produce anywhere near what it now can produce. Venezuela is essentially of minimal production now, and its oil infrastructure is falling apart. They just shut down shipping oil to the EU. Forget Libya, and Algeria supplies France and Italy primarily. The Mideast is the only other major place for production, and it could one day be in a major war with Iran. Mexico refuses US ownership and help, so it can supply itself but nobody else. Brazil and other Latin nations are similar. They will never be major producers without US technical help. Europe refuses fracking. The gas fields in the EU are not able to produce sufficiently to satisfy European demand, and the climate change maniacs want to shut it down. Asia is not a major fossil fuel producer. Canada has oil, but it is not all of the same type as in the US, and is much more costly to refine. There is some uncertainty as to how much more the Mideast is willing or able to produce and provide. Canada has also restricted some production and pipelines. Oil inventory at this time is the lowest since 1985. The world will be short of oil and gas for at least the next 5 years.
Result is, under Biden, the US is not going to produce what it is capable of doing if it were allowed to run full out with no limits. Granholm is misrepresenting as usual when she talks about production. The US can out produce the Saudis, but Biden prevents that. Biden could have made the US the key to the world by opening up production full out. It would have let us control geopolitics much more than we now do. We could have supplied the EU with a lot more gas, and changed the entire nature of the Russian shut down of gas to Germany and Hungry, and oil to India. China is dependent on oil imports as is Japan. If China does blockade Taiwan, we could have been in a position to blockade oil shipments to China. Energy independence as we had under Trump gave the US a lot of leverage we have now lost. Biden and the climate idiots do not understand the geopolitical problems they are creating, and the lost opportunity we gave up. Instead, he wants a deal with Iran that will allow them to pump oil. He has nearly emptied the reserve of sweet grade oil the US uses most of, putting the US in a dangerous position if there are genuine, instead of political, needs to tap the reserve. Due to the drought, the world is now rapidly shifting back to coal. There is no time to build out nuclear power plants, and not enough water flow to fully run nuke plants. And a US judge just shut down 40% of US coal production. To show how completely ignorant the administration is about the essential nature of oil, Granholm said "clean energy is the best peace plan the world has ever known because nobody can weaponize the sun or wind. " Inflation would be a lot lower if the US was fully producing. This is why I own a lot of oil and gas stocks. That is why Buffet is buying control of Occidental.
It only took a week for the lefties in the House to say, there is no way they are going along with the promise to expand leasing and permits that Manchin claimed he was getting in a follow on bill. What a surprise. Manchin is a real idiot for believing that was ever going to happen. In 1990 the government seized the Mustang Ranch (famous Nevada whore house) for tax fraud. All the ranch did was provide alcohol at the bar and girls for sex. The ranch failed under government management. If they can't figure out how to make money selling sex, how can the government figure out how to run anything.
Milankovitch Theory states that as the earth proceeds on its orbit, and as the axis shifts, the earth warms and cools depending on where it is relative to the sun over a 100,000 year, and 40,000 year cycle. So consider this: we did not suddenly get a lot more CO2 in the atmosphere this year than we had in 2019, but maybe the planet has shifted slightly as the Milankovitch Theory states, and is now a little closer to the sun, which is why we have the massive drought. Nothing man has done would suddenly make the drought so severe, but a shift in the axis or orbit bringing the planet a bit closer to the sun would. It just seems logical to me. We know from NASA that the theory is accurate, so it seems that is the real cause, but the press and politicians will claim it is all man caused. You can shut down all oil production and junk all the vehicles, and it will not matter per the Theory. Before the mid 1800's there were no factories or cars, but the earth cooled and warmed. Glaciers formed and melted. Droughts and massive floods happened.
The Amy Wax case is not about Amy, or her fight with U of P. It is about the education of our next generations at all levels, and the terrible implications to the nation of what and how is being taught in our elementary through college classes. We are up against the education industrial complex of immense corruption. Amy is an existential threat to that complex. The university has launched an all out attack on Amy, putting out false claims about what she allegedly said in an effort to discredit her. The press just repeats the lies. This is what the current case is all about. It is why the university refuses to turn over key data and documents which will prove they are lying.
The teachers contribute to the Dems, who then appoint union selected people to populate the bureaucracy, who then make rules to fit the union. The union also populates local school boards. The politicians make sure hundreds of billions go to the teachers unions and projects, and they try to stop, or shut down non-union charters, vouchers and private run technical schools. Then the teachers union takes some of that money and recirculates it back to the politicians as campaign contributions. Today future teachers are being taught woke ideology, and not teaching skills. As a recent article in the WSJ pointed out, you would be shocked to learn what left wing ideology future teachers are being schooled in, and the very low quality of the curriculum. They are being indoctrinated to teach very radical ideas, and then the teachers union pushes that ideology further on the school boards they picked. Result -by the time a kid gets to college he is indoctrinated, and very susceptible to the further indoctrination of the left wing professors who make up 95% of all college level professors. By fighting the Amy war, we are trying to force change to allow free thought and free speech to return to all levels of education before the country goes totally off track. So if you really care about this country, backing the Amy war is one of the ways to fight. It will be a long, frustrating, and very costly war, but we must win.
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(TheRedAlertNews.com) – BREAKING NOW: In a development that has sent shockwaves through the United States Department of Justice, the federal magistrate judge who issued the search warrant for the raid on former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home and office issued a formal ruling today stating the government has not met its burden of proof for keeping the affidavit in support of the search warrant sealed and he may make a significant portion of the search warrant affidavit public because of the unprecedented nature of the search.
As the Daily Caller recounts today’s events:
“U.S. Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart rejected the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) argument Monday to keep the Mar-a-Lago search warrant affidavit under wraps, saying the government has the burden of proof to show why parts of the affidavit must be sealed.” [emphasis added]
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