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Yale Epidemiologist Dr. Risch on the devastating failure of Covid Public Health Policy -
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I attended a lecture today by Inez Stepman. She validated every concern I have been expressing in my memos. She firmly believes the inability to fire bureaucrats who run our government is one of the most serious reasons why our republic has run off the tracks.Their ability to outlast the elected allows them to basically control the operation of government. This gives them overwhelming power, so, even when a new administration is voted in, the ability to change matters is severely restricted. These bureaucrats are predominantly Democrats as well.
She ended her prepared statements stating our republic could well end if the Republicans are incapable of ousting the current members of the House and Senate AND RESTORING CHANGE.
I spoke with her afterwards and told her about my thoughts I have dubbed "the mismatch." She did not necessarily agree that it was the problem I made it out to be. She also thought that even if Republicans captured both houses they were unprepared to rule. They were divided and offered little by way of what they planned to do.
She did believe a new block of activists, seeking to end what was gripping our nation, was in ascendance and was America's best hope. She considered this group, which was fed up with what was happening, were prepared to provide the leadership we lacked.
Time will tell.
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ON PAPER SEEMS A BALANCED SELECTION
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What to know about Judge Raymond Dearie, the Mar-a-Lago search special master
BY JASPER RUPPERT
Judge Aileen Cannon has appointed Judge Raymond Dearie as the special master to review documents seized during a court-approved search of former President Donald Trump's Florida home in August.
Dearie, 78, a former chief judge of the federal court in the Eastern District of New York, was one of the special master candidates suggested by Trump whom the Justice Department did not object to.
Cannon directed Dearie to issue interim reports and recommendations "as appropriate" during the review and set a Nov. 30 deadline to complete his work. The Justice Department has said it will appeal the order for a special master.
Here's what you need to know about the special master's background.
Republican President Ronald Reagan appointed Dearie, then 41, to serve as a federal judge in New York in 1986, and he assumed senior status in 2011. Justice Department lawyers have said that Dearie has "substantial judicial experience" and is thus qualified for the special master job.
Judge appoints special master to review materials seized from Mar-A-Lago
Dearie got his law degree from St. John's University School of Law in 1969 and then eventually served as an attorney for the Eastern District of New York before Reagan tapped him to serve as a judge. He went on to serve as chief judge from 2007 to 2011.
People interviewed by NPR who know Dearie describe him as "fair"
Andrew Weissmann, a federal prosecutor, a former senior member of special counsel Robert Mueller's team and a special master himself, described Dearie as "compassionate" and "fair" and the "platonic ideal of what you want in a judge."
"If you asked both prosecutors and lawyers, they would say the same thing, that he is just so fair," Weissmann said. "It's unusual to have a judge where both sides just have enormous praise for somebody."
When Weissmann was starting out as a federal prosecutor in Brooklyn, the judge was late for a court appearance. "A few days later, I got in the mail a handwritten apology from him," Weissmann recalled. The defense lawyer got the same letter from the judge. "It was just remarkable because judges have a lot of power — they don't need to do that," Weissmann said.
And in a statement to NPR, Daniel R. Alonso, partner at Buckley LLP and a former assistant U.S. attorney in the Eastern District of New York, called Dearie an "old-school gentleman and unfailingly polite."
"Judge Dearie is a judge who, though unfailingly fair, would never tolerate the kinds of arguments that Trump's lawyers tend to put forward," Alonso said.
Dearie served a seven-year term on the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court
In this role, Dearie was one of the judges who approved an FBI and Justice Department request to surveil Carter Page, then a foreign policy adviser to the Trump campaign.
This was part of the inquiry to find out whether Russia had meddled with the 2016 presidential election. There were several errors by the FBI in this process, according to the Justice Department's Office of the Inspector General, and of the four surveillance warrants granted by the FISA court, two were declared invalid, including one approved by Dearie.
Mob figures and al-Qaida are featured in some of his most prominent cases
During his active time as judge at the U.S. District Court in Brooklyn, N.Y., Dearie sentenced Abid Naseer to 40 years in prison. The Pakistani was a member of al-Qaida and plotted, but didn't carry out, attacks on a shopping center in Manchester, England; the New York City subway system; and a Danish newspaper. Naseer had faced a possible life sentence.
Naseer, who represented himself in court, tried to appeal to the judge as someone who was not a threat to society. "Dear judge, it is true I have spent most of my life in search of studies and not extremism and fundamentalism,'' he said. ''I'm not, nor have I been, a career criminal.'' Dearie replied: ''I know you're not. You're a terrorist.''
Dearie also handled cases involving organized crime, including one against the head of a crime family who made attempts to falsify a mental illness to try to avoid standing trial, including appearing in pajamas and a bathrobe in the streets, talking to himself and even urinating in public. He was later sentenced, but not by Dearie.
In recent years, Dearie has become an advocate for sentencing reform
In remarks to the New York Criminal Bar Association in 2016, he called for the criminal justice system to be "rethought and retooled significantly."
"If society relies on the jail cell alone to bring relief to the streets of New York or Chicago, or to fight the heroin epidemic that has invaded our communities, little will change," he said, adding that he wondered "how we as a society would fare if we took a fraction of the money we spend on warehousing people and invested it in programs to reach those vulnerable to the hollow call of the streets."
Dearie admitted that at times, he wanted "to scream out in frustration, sadness and anger" when he was required to impose a mandatory sentence.
He continued: We too often ignore the issues, the causes, the needs, sit back as a society, wait for them to commit crimes, prosecute them with great gusto, root for a stiff sentence and then pat ourselves on the back for a job well done, too often filling the prisons with scores of nonviolent offenders, often destroying the salvageable with cruelly lengthy sentences and risking the well-being of innocent family members.
After 36 years on the bench, Dearie moved to inactive status
In August, Dearie decided he wanted to move to an inactive status as a judge, a step just short of formal retirement. But it's unclear yet when that shift will eventually happen, one of his staff members told NPR. As an inactive judge, Dearie could return to the bench, if needed.
"I'm going to miss it," he told New York Law Journal.
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U.S. Amb. to Israel Thomas Nides Endangers Israel’s Security & Interferes with Israeli Sovereignty, Violating International Law
Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) President Morton A. Klein released the following statement:
Under binding international law, ambassadors and other persons receiving diplomatic immunity in a foreign country are required “to respect the laws and regulations of the receiving state” and “not to interfere in the internal affairs of that State.” (Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Affairs, Article 41.) Unfortunately, the U.S. Ambassador to Israel, Thomas Nides, has ramped up his inappropriate, persistent and “aggressive” (his own word) violations of these non-interference and legal respect requirements. This is endangering Israeli security and runs roughshod over Israeli sovereignty.
Nides’ interference – including Nides’ recent calls for and efforts to achieve a Palestinian Arab terror state on Israel’s lawful land, and Nides’ pressures to surrender sovereign control to the PA – also violate the binding international law and U.S. treaty law that designates all of Israel, including Jerusalem and Judea/Samaria, for the Jewish homeland. The 1922 Mandate provided that no territory designated for the Jewish homeland “shall be ceded or leased to, or in any way placed under the control of, the Government of any foreign Power.” The UN Charter (a U.S. treaty) continued the Jewish people’s rights under the Mandate after the Mandate’s expiration, and nothing has ever abrogated this. Thus, the U.S. cannot lawfully engage in actions to cede Israel’s land to a Palestinian Arab state. (See ZOA Resource: “Israel has the Legal Right to the Land Of Israel, Including Jerusalem, Judea/Samaria & The Golan, Under Binding International Law.”)
Nides’ latest violations and interference, expressed during his briefing to reporters in Jerusalem on September 7, 2022; and during his speech at the World Summit on Counter-Terrorism of The International Institute for Counter-Terrorism (ICT) at Reichman University in Herzliya, Israel on September 11, 2022; and in a series of recent tweets.
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College Picks Official From Anti-Semitic CAIR to Investigate Antisemitism by Daniel Greenfield
POSTED BY Ruth King
Who better to watch the henhouse than the CAIR fox?
The City University of New York (CUNY) is assigning a former leader of the Hamas-linked Council for American Islamic Relations (CAIR) to investigate an antisemitism and anti-Zionism complaint made internally by a Jewish professor.
CUNY assigned its chief diversity officer, Saly Abd Alla, the former civil rights director of CAIR’s Minnesota chapter, to investigate an email sent by Kingsborough Community College (KCC) professor Jeffrey Lax, accusing its president of anti-Zionist antisemitic discrimination. CAIR is listed by the U.S. Department of Justice as an unindicted co-conspirator in funding millions of dollars to the Palestinian terrorist organization Hamas, and their leaders have previously called for the destruction of Israel.
As John Perazzo at Discover the Networks has documented, beyond supporting Hamas, CAIR has a history of antisemitism.
Including at New York area colleges.
In 1998, CAIR co-hosted a rally at Brooklyn College where Islamic militants exhorted the attendees to carry out “jihad” and described Jews as “descendants of the apes.”
Nihad Awad, CAIR’s co-founder, had his own stellar history of hating Jews.
U.S. policy in the Middle East is faulty because of Jewish influence on the White House, he told Georgetown University students in a 1998 speech organized by the Muslim Students Association. Of President Bill Clinton’s advisors, he asked, “Now, of Clinton’s advisors, who is now, who of his advisors, who… who is opposing the latest agreement with Iraq? Look at their last names. Look at their ethnic, their ethnic or religious or racial background. You will see that these are the same groups that belong to the same interest groups in the Administration.” He later added that “many Presidents are servants to Israel, and it’s hard to see someone who is, uh, disobeying the political authority of Jewish interests.”
Awad also appeared at a rally convened in April 2002 next to antisemitic Imam Abdul Alim Musa, the founder of the extremist group Sabiqun. Among other virulently antisemitic statements, Musa has claimed that the Jews ran the slave trade; that, compared to the what had been done to Native Americans and African Americans the Holocaust was “small potatoes;” that Jews are the enemy of humanity; that Jews control America and that Jews have manipulated Arab leaders into being drunk, broke and engaged in internecine warfare.
CUNY here is making a fairly clear statement that it supports antisemitism and will show nothing but contempt and a transparently rigged process, that uses members of a historically Islamist antisemitic group to determine if it has an antisemitism problem.
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McDonald’s and the Crisis of Chicago
The Editorial Board
The fast-food chain moved its headquarters to the Loop from the suburbs in 2018, and Mr. Kempczinski estimates its economic contribution to the city at $2 billion a year. But lawlessness is taking a toll. “It’s felt most significantly every single day in the restaurants,” he told the Economic Club of Chicago. “We have violent crime that is happening in our restaurants . . . we are seeing homelessness issues in our restaurants, we are having drug overdoses that are happening in our restaurants.”
Calling Mayor Lori Lightfoot. When residents no longer feel safe at a major restaurant chain and a CEO issues a public plea, social order is breaking down.
The comments won’t surprise residents who have watched their city on Lake Michigan slide into a mess of public disorder. Tent cities sprawl across lakeside parks. Crime that was once confined to certain neighborhoods now threatens the downtown business district.
Overall crime in the city is up 38% in 2022 over 2021, according to Wirepoints, and a new city policy this summer made it harder for cops to pursue criminals on foot for minor offenses. Mayor Lightfoot has given little support to the beleaguered police force that has shrunk to 11,600 officers from 13,300 in 2019.
Economic policies are also a problem. “It has become increasingly difficult to operate a global business out of the city of Chicago,” Mr. Kempczinski said, owing in part to a tax climate that the Tax Foundation says now ranks Illinois 36th of 50 states. “There are fewer big companies headquartered in Chicago this year than last year. Fewer this month than last month.” Among those fleeing have been Boeing (Virginia), Caterpillar (Texas) and Citadel, the giant hedge fund (Miami).
Ms. Lightfoot and Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker will be tempted to dismiss Mr. Kempczinski’s remarks, but they do so at the city’s peril. They might not get another wake-up call as clear as this one. “Make no mistake . . . McDonald’s commitment to Chicago is not corporate altruism,” Mr. Kempczinski said. “It’s not open ended, it’s not unconditional. As a publicly traded company, our shareholders wouldn’t tolerate that.” Chicagoans shouldn’t either.
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The Bidenomics Sham Is Collapsing
With red lights flashing nearly everywhere, the economy’s prospects look grim. Soaring inflation, crashing home sales, plunging GDP, falling real incomes. No question, the economy is a mess. So why is the Biden administration saying things are going better?
It’s not just this week’s “unexpected” 8.3% inflation jump. Or the scary plunge in stock prices, destroying trillions of dollars in household wealth in just days. It’s that the ruling party, the Democratic Party, seems utterly oblivious to the damage it’s done.
This week, President Joe Biden touted the “progress” made by his administration against inflation, just a day after the report that prices had risen 8.3% overall, and food prices by 11.4%, the fastest since 1979.
“Today’s data show more progress in bringing global inflation down in the U.S. economy,” Biden bragged. “Overall, prices have been essentially flat in our country these last two months: that is welcome news for American families, with more work still to do.”
Prices have not been “essentially flat.” They’re rising sharply, as the data clearly and unequivocally show.
But even worse, new data from the Atlanta Federal Reserve’s GDPNow data set show the economy is clearly tanking. GDPNow tells you what the economy has done so far in the quarter. With just over two weeks to go, the GDPNow growth estimate — based on real numbers, not future estimates — is 0.5% annual growth for the third quarter, down from 1.3% just two weeks ago.
That means incoming data are much weaker than anticipated. We’re just one or two “unexpectedly weak” economic reports away from shrinking for a third-straight quarter.
Don’t worry. If it happens, the Biden administration and its shills in the media will again deny the economy’s in recession. Or blame Donald Trump.
They did it before. In July, the Democrat-media axis simply denied a recession existed, despite the well-established rule that two quarters of GDP decline equals a recession.
And it took its cue from the Biden administration itself.
We credit the Washington Post for at least reporting that while a two-quarter GDP drop is “something that is generally understood to mean a recession … the Biden administration is seeking to preempt it.”
Once apprised of the White House’s stance, left-leaning columnists took up the cause, writing impassioned denials that a two-quarter drop in GDP means a recession.
Biden even sent his Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen out to defend his record.
“Even if that (GDP) number is negative, we are not in a recession now,” Yellen told NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “And I would, you know, warn that we should be not characterizing that as a recession.”
“Warn”? Message received. But here’s another warning: The Biden administration is continuing down the road to ruin for the U.S. economy.
Economist and former top White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow pithily summed up Biden’s disaster in a recent column:
You generated $5 trillion in new deficits, according to the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. You put an end to fossil-fuel permitting and leasing and you’ve implemented at least $200 billion of new regulations, roughly 40 times what President Trump imposed.
It’s a set of actions that has literally strangled business enterprise. Meanwhile, besides your tax and regulatory prosperity killers, your inflation scourge has given average working Americans a 3.4% wage cut over the past year.
Around the kitchen table, families are talking about a 16% hike in electricity prices, a 33% jump in natural gas services, and a 11.4% spike in groceries. Families are still looking for baby formula on store shelves.
And that’s just a partial indictment (a popular word these days among Democrats) of the Biden economic disaster.
Our once mighty position as the world’s most powerful and innovative economy is eroding before our very eyes. No surprise, then, that the Fraser Institute’s recent annual Survey of Economic Freedom around the world showed the U.S. plunging to its lowest reading since the stagflationary Carter era.
As the American Institute for Economic Research commented:
The United States appears to be entering the same economic malaise of bloated bureaucracy, excessive taxation, and spiraling inflation that typified the Carter years. Back then we had to wait in line, sometimes for hours, just to buy gas. Now we have rolling blackouts and energy crises in some states, impending electric vehicle mandates, perpetual budget-busting deficits that were unheard of even two decades ago, and – yes – a return of inflation that tops 8% for the year. Perhaps the most telling fact of all is that our elected officials and policymakers haven’t a clue how to reverse these trends. Indeed, they are still feeding them.
Damning stuff. Making things worse, recent data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics show that in 2021 Americans on average spent more on taxes ($16,729.73) than they did for food, clothing and health care combined ($15,495.28). We’re paying top-dollar for incompetence.
From steady, consistent growth of 2.5% a year, stock market gains of nearly 35%, and low inflation averaging around 2% during the Trump years, we have descended to this economic hell, created by an incompetent president and his team that brags about his terrible performance.
The very term “Bidenomics” is a travesty. Want your old economy back? Change who’s in charge, starting in this November’s midterm elections.
— Written by the I&I Editorial Board
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Mazie Hirono Is Literally an Embarrassment to the Senate 
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Biden Reportedly Pressuring FBI to 'Cook Up' White Supremacy Cases
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