Saturday, September 30, 2023

Biden Disasters. Brother James Finagles. Fire Alarm Congressman. Zito. Lie We Fly. Remove Idiots.

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Even though Biden has been incapacitated because of age, mental deterioration and utter incompetence he has accomplished a great deal by using his presidential orders to circumvent Congressional oversight. The problem is, his achievements have been entirely destructive. Here are some of Biden's major disasters:
a) Returned us to being energy dependent and forcing producers to flare gas unnecessarily.
b) Most obvious is, his desire to flood our nation with illegal immigrants
c) Willingness to stand aside as Soros' financed district attorneys ignored laws causing America's streets to flood with smash and grabbers accompanied by a total break down of civil order.
d) Accompanying this collapse, in civil order, is the flood of death killing drugs and criminal behaviour.
e) Reduction of our military capability/effectiveness and sharp decline in enlistments.
d) Vast increase in inflation and deficit spending which now escalating from sharp uptick in interest rate costs.
e) Biden's press to adhere to a green initiative which reduces our competitiveness, increases productivity costs.
Eventually, Biden's economic lunacy will destroy our auto industry and enormous unemployment will ensue which has already occurred in the energy industry.
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I am rethinking getting my 4th shot. Why? Because of attached.
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17,000 Doctors Sound The Alarm on the COVID Vaccine
By Avi Abelow

17,000 Scientists and Physicians warn the COVID vaccine, which they identify as an experimental gene therapy injection, must end.

These doctors are concerned because they believe the data now clearly shows  the shots cause far more harm than good, with those who get vaccinated actually being more at risk of disease and death than the unvaccinated. They are concerned because they see a huge uptick in damage to the heart, brain, reproduction, lungs, and immune system directly linked to the vaccine.

Global COVID Summit – Declaration IV – Restore Scientific Integrity (full video of the press conference below)

17,000 physicians and medical scientists declare the state of medical emergency must be lifted, scientific integrity restored, and crimes against humanity addressed.

We, physicians and medical scientists of the world, united through our loyalty to the Hippocratic Oath, recognize  the disastrous COVID-19 public health policies imposed on doctors and our patients are the culmination of a corrupt medical alliance of pharmaceutical, insurance, and healthcare institutions, along with the financial trusts which control them. They have infiltrated our medical system at every level, and are protected and supported by a parallel alliance of big tech, media, academics and government agencies who profited from this orchestrated catastrophe.

This corrupt alliance has compromised the integrity of our most prestigious medical societies to which we belong, generating an illusion of scientific consensus by substituting truth with propaganda. This alliance continues to advance unscientific claims by censoring data, and intimidating and firing doctors and scientists for simply publishing actual clinical results or treating their patients with proven, life-saving medicine. These catastrophic decisions came at the expense of the innocent, who are forced to suffer health damage and death caused by intentionally withholding critical and time-sensitive treatments, or as a result of coerced genetic therapy injections, which are neither safe nor effective.

The medical community has denied patients the fundamental human right to provide true informed consent for the experimental COVID-19 injections. Our patients are also blocked from obtaining the information necessary to understand risks and benefits of vaccines, and their alternatives, due to widespread censorship and propaganda spread by governments, public health officials and media. Patients continue to be subjected to forced lock-downs which harm their health, careers and children’s education, and damage social and family bonds critical to civil society. This is not a coincidence. In the book entitled “COVID-19: The Great Reset”, leadership of this alliance has clearly stated their intention is to leverage COVID-19 as an “opportunity” to reset our entire global society, culture, political structures, and economy.

Our 17,000 Global COVID Summit physicians and medical scientists represent a much larger, enlightened global medical community who refuse to be compromised, and are united and willing to risk the wrath of the corrupt medical alliance to defend the health of their patients.

The mission of the Global COVID Summit is to end this orchestrated crisis, which has been illegitimately imposed on the world, and to formally declare that the actions of this corrupt alliance constitute nothing less than crimes against humanity.

We must restore the people’s trust in medicine, which begins with free and open dialogue between physicians and medical scientists. We must restore medical rights and patient autonomy. This includes the foundational principle of the sacred doctor-patient relationship. The social need for this is decades overdue, and therefore, we the physicians of the world are compelled to take action.

After two years of scientific research, millions of patients treated, hundreds of clinical trials performed and scientific data shared, we have demonstrated and documented our success in understanding and combating COVID-19. In considering the risks versus benefits of major policy decisions, our Global COVID Summit of 17,000 physicians and medical scientists from all over the world have reached consensus on the following foundational principles:

1. We declare and the data confirm that the COVID-19 experimental genetic therapy injections must end.

2. We declare doctors should not be blocked from providing life-saving medical treatment.

3. We declare the state of national emergency, which facilitates corruption and extends the pandemic, should be immediately terminated.

4. We declare medical privacy should never again be violated, and all travel and social restrictions must cease.

5. We declare masks are not and have never been effective protection against an airborne respiratory virus in the community setting.

6. We declare funding and research must be established for vaccination damage, death and suffering.

7. We declare no opportunity should be denied, including education, career, military service or medical treatment, over unwillingness to take an injection.

8. We declare that first amendment violations and medical censorship by government, technology and media companies should cease, and the Bill of Rights be upheld.

9. We declare that Pfizer, Moderna, BioNTech, Janssen, Astra Zeneca, and their enablers, withheld and willfully omitted safety and effectiveness information from patients and physicians, and should be immediately indicted for fraud.

10. We declare government and medical agencies must be held accountable.
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Biden crime family finagles his way out of corruption and probably the equally corrupt FBI will buy his lie.
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James Biden Told FBI He Tried to Help Chinese Official Buy US Facility

The president's brother, James Biden, told FBI He Tried to Help Chinese Official Buy US Facility: 
By Catherine Yang

James Biden told the FBI he had presented Chinese investors with a deal to develop a port in Louisiana and when he was interviewed as part of an investigation last year. The Chinese ultimately did not go through with the deal.

The report of the interview was made available after the Republican-led House Ways and Means Committee voted on Wednesday to release a new batch of documents obtained through two IRS whistleblowers

"James B. recalled that the life-changing meeting was the deal with Monkey Island," the memo reads (pdf).

IRS special agent Joseph Ziegler, one of the whistleblowers, had been present at the interview and prepared the report along with IRS special agent Christine Puglisi.

Mr. Biden explained in the interview that he had a close personal relationship with his nephew, and his business relationship consisted of minor ventures, beginning when Hunter Biden asked him for hedge fund recommendations after joining a law firm straight out of Yale Law.

According to the interview Mr. Biden gave in 2022, he was introduced to the Chinese energy firm CEFC by Hunter Biden in 2017.

An executive of the firm, Jianming Ye, referred to as "Chairman Ye" in the memo, had "a very close relationship" with Hunter Biden, and Hunter Biden portrayed him as a "protégé of President Xi" to Mr. Biden.

Monkey Island is a liquid natural gas company that has a 246-acre site in Louisiana, about two miles inland from the Gulf of Mexico.

Mr. Biden said that there was room for a port to be developed, and properties were pre-approved in the project, and the island had a clear passage to offload natural gas. He approached Mr. Ye with the opportunity to buy that energy facility from Monkey Island's CEO, Greg Michaels.

In the interview, Mr. Biden said he had spoken with the appropriate people in the governor's office about permits and the deal was supposed to be on a "fast track." Drills would be built in China and shipped to the port.

He said he had brought the deal to both Hunter Biden and Chairman Ye, and "the Chairman was committed to the project," according to the memo. "James B recalled that Chairman Ye was also sending his people to look at Monkey Island."

But later, after months of negotiation, the relationship with CEFC had begun to "unravel" for other reasons, and the Chinese investors became uncommunicative and dropped the deal, Mr. Biden told the FBI. No deal was signed, and he was not provided with an explanation.

Money From China

President Joe Biden has repeatedly claimed, including while he was campaigning for the presidency in 2020, that his family has not received money from China.

According to the FBI interview memo, James Biden said the Chinese energy firm was paying Hunter Biden and his business partner Rob Walker "several hundreds of thousands of dollars." James Biden said he was not paid by CEFC, but was paid by Hunter Biden through Owasco PC.

He told the FBI he did not remember a 2017 payment from Mr. Walker after they showed him a text sent to him by Mr. Walker referencing it in 2017. He said any money paid by Mr. Walker would have been on the behalf of Hunter Biden.

James Biden also said that Hunter Biden had told him he was making $100,000 from the Hudson West III deal formed with Mr. Ye's CEFC, and that he would pay James Biden $60,000 and additional fees. He also said he was still getting paid even after the Monkey Island deal fell through, and he was no longer sourcing deals.

By 2017, Hunter Biden was struggling with addiction amid his divorce. James Biden said he thought his nephew's only source of income at the time was money from the Chinese. Then, in 2018, he was informed Mr. Ye had been arrested.

Other documents released by the House committee include an email Hunter Biden sent Chinese business partners in 2017 about the Hudson West III deal. He had written (pdf) that the initial agreement with Mr. Ye was for $30 million in consulting fees over three years "based on introductions" he would make and that they had changed this to a "much more lasting and lucrative arrangement" to create a holding company they would each take 50 percent stake in.
The company was dissolved in 2018 after Mr. Ye's arrest and the conviction of another CEFC official.

The Biden family's financial dealings are being investigated by several Republican-led House committees. Hunter Biden has already been indicted on felony gun charges but is not facing any charges for tax crimes.
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House Administration Committee, Capitol Police Investigating Democrat Jamaal Bowman for Pulling Fire Alarm to Delay Government Funding Vote
By Bradley Jaye

Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) allegedly pulled a fire alarm in the United States Capitol complex moments before the House was scheduled to vote on a bill preventing a government shutdown, according to the House Administration Committee.

U.S. Capitol Police and the House Administration Committee, which oversees House operations and Capitol security, are investigating.

Rep Jamaal Bowman pulled a fire alarm in Cannon this morning. An investigation into why it was pulled is underway. – Chairman Bryan Steil

A photo, being circulated by Capitol Police, appears to show Bowman pulling the fire alarm, as reported by Punchbowl News.

Falsely reporting a fire is a misdemeanor crime in the District of Columbia punishable by a fine or up to six months’ imprisonment.

Jamaal Bowman reportedly pulled the fire alarm to further delay the CR vote. That’s legitimately a crime.

A spokesperson for Bowman released the following statement claiming that Bowman “did not realize he would trigger a building alarm as he was rushing to make an urgent vote.”

NEW: Bowman spox Emma Simon on him pulling the fire alarm.

“Congressman Bowman did not realize he would trigger a building alarm as he was rushing to make an urgent vote. The Congressman regrets any confusion.”

Bowman claims he “thought the alarm would open the door.”

Bowman tells reporters “I thought the alarm would open the door.”

Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) gave a long filibuster speech minutes later as Democrats attempted to delay the vote on a 45-day extension of government funding. The bill eventually passed by a large margin after the incident.

Rep. Jim Banks is among those calling for Bowman’s arrest, tweeting the possibility that Bowman’s actions could be part of a conspiracy among Democrats.

Many of the defendants from Jan. 6 were charged for similar conduct, as pointed out by the mainstream media and Donald Trump Jr., who called for Bowman’s immediate arrest.

Breitbart News will continue tracking this developing story.
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Ride Or Die Biden Voters; Who Are They And Why They Matter For 2024

By Salena Zito

BUTLER, PA —

Late last October, Phil Heasley traveled to Philadelphia to attend the Pennsylvania Democratic Party’s annual Independence Dinner for the sole purpose of hearing President Joe Biden rally the base ahead of last year’s midterm elections.

After hearing a fired-up Biden attack congressional Republicans, saying if they got power they would “raise prescription drug costs, cut Medicare and Social Security, get rid of the Affordable Care Act and create a national abortion ban,” Heasley saw an opportunity to meet the president when he noticed him lingering to shake hands with attendees.

“I have goose bumps just thinking about it right now,” said Heasley. “I shook his hand, and I just said, ‘Thank you, and I’m proud of you, I really am,’ and he just looked at me right in the eyes, and said, ‘I’m proud of you.’” He felt he had met “Uncle Joe.”

For Heasley, Biden has done an exemplary job as president. He dismisses passionately — despite abysmal polling numbers and deep concerns about his age — any discussion among his fellow Democrats arguing that Biden should not seek a second term.

This profile of Heasley and several other Biden supporters is the first of a three-part series looking at three very different camps of voters emerging ahead of both the primary races in January and next year’s general election: loyal Biden voters, ride-or-die Trump voters, and voters who have thrown their hands up at both men and want anyone else. The profiles will examine what drives their loyalty or frustration.
 
Interestingly none of the Biden supporters I interviewed mentioned “Bidenomics,” climate change, abortion, or social justice — the things Biden has staked out as the core of his platform — as the reason they voted for him in the first place and will again.

Heasley, 32, runs a small business with his sister in his hometown of Butler and got involved in Democratic party politics at a very young age. “I’ve been out there knocking on doors and getting petitions signed since I was 12 years old,” he said.

He began with John Kerry’s failed presidential run in 2004 against George W. Bush. Bernie Sanders was his guy in 2016 and 2020, but once Biden won, he was happily on board — especially after Biden carried the Sanders college forgiveness pledge onto his platform. “Despite the hiccups, Biden has followed through with that, and that means a lot to me,” he said.

Heasley also points to a bridge closure in Butler that had caused a grueling reroute for years finally being fixed under the infrastructure bill as another reason he believes Biden deserves a second term.

Heasley serves as a reminder that many voters form a bond with a political figure based on very personal experiences they believe the figure deserves credit for. It’s often something meaningful in their lives, such as a bridge in their community being fixed, a pricey life-saving medicine a loved one needed becoming affordable, or an education program that benefits their child being funded by the government.

He bristles at what he calls the “opportunist Democrats” who are whispering in the press that Biden is too old to run again. “They have the audacity to say that Biden’s too old whenever he’s sitting there riding his bike around on vacation and traveling through Europe, getting stuff done.”
 
Over in Indiana County, Lynne Alvine, a retired faculty member of Indiana University of Pennsylvania and current vice-chair of the county Democrats, says she blames the media for constantly pointing to the polls.

“When you keep telling people the polls are low, the polls are low, then that becomes the fact, not just a perception. That becomes the reality,” she said. “When I hear people say, ‘Oh, his polls are so low’ I just want to say, ‘Shut up. You’re creating it. You’re creating this. You’re making this the news.’”

Alvine said Biden earned her support out of the gate during the 2020 Democratic primary contest. “He just had the experience, and the wisdom, and the diplomatic skills that we needed at the time.”

She is firmly in the ride-or-die Biden camp and believes he has earned a second term based on what she says are his principles. “He puts integrity and ethics at the forefront of being the president,” she said, stressing it’s not just that he deserves to be reelected, despite his age: “It is that the young people of this nation deserve to have us reelect him.”

Chris Borick, political science professor at Muhlenberg College, said the great question going into a presumed Biden Democratic nomination is what are his strengths going into a general election? Polls currently have Biden tied or losing against almost every GOP primary candidate, including Trump.

“It’s a challenging question for Biden,” said Borick. “I think lots of Americans maintain an appreciation that he was able to in 2020 defeat Trump and so there’s some goodwill there, I think, for those who fear a Trump return to power.”

Borick anticipates that Biden will try to build a coalition through the achievements he’d like to herald about his presidency, like climate change policies for the groups who really care about that. “And of course, again, if it is Trump, hope that Trump’s liabilities would indeed provide some energy that he may not be able to generate himself.”

Late last week, an ABC News/​Washington Post poll showed 44% of Americans say they’ve gotten worse off financially under Biden’s presidency. Just 37% approve of Biden’s job performance, while 56% disapprove. Fewer still approve of Biden’s performance on the economy at 30% — and the rating of his handling of immigration at the U.S.-Mexico border is even lower, with 23% approval.

A whopping 62% of Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents said the party should pick someone other than Biden as its nominee in 2024. Just a third of them back Biden.

Judy DeAugustino Hines is solidly in that one-third camp. She’s the daughter of an Italian immigrant who came to this country at the turn of the 20th century and had six children, five of whom would become school teachers (including her), with two serving in World War II and one in the Korean War. She will remain a staunch Biden supporter because of the impact he has had on her family.

“Well, here in rural Pa., the things that a lot of people are grateful for is the cap on the insulin,” the Springfield Township retiree said. “Many of my family members that have been diabetic, and friends and neighbors have been struggling with the healthcare. Biden, he’s always put healthcare at the top of his list.”

As for other Democrats fretting about Biden’s age, she’s is having none of it: “My sister flat-lined twice at 95, and with the medicine, they brought her back, and she’s doing crossword puzzles.” He added, “When you keep your mind engaged, I don’t see age any more as an issue.”

Borick said it is incredibly valuable for a candidate to have deeply loyal voters. “They don’t have to do as much to energize and activate those voters.”

The Democrats will have a problem, however, if Biden isn’t at the top of the ticket and many of his supporters stay home. Or conversely, the president is at the top of the ticket, “and they too stay home because they have been disappointed with his presidency.”
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Israel's message to Iran.  You buy and lie we fly, you die.
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Israel Reportedly Strikes Iranian Arms Shipment near Damascus

The airstrikes targeted assets belonging to Tehran-backed groups just west of the Syrian capital.

By TPS

The Israel Defense Forces reportedly struck overnight Saturday an Iranian weapons convoy close to Damascus destined for Hezbollah in Lebanon.

The airstrikes targeted assets belonging to Tehran-backed groups in between the villages of Al-Assad and Al-Dimas, just west of the Syrian capital.

There were no immediate reports of casualties, and the extent of the damage remained unclear.

An unverified video circulating online appears to show Syrian anti-missile defense systems being activated.

Last month, two people died near Beit Jinn, west of Damascus, in an airstrike attributed to Israel. On the same day, the IDF announced its tanks had struck two buildings the Syrian army constructed in the security zone between Israel and Syria on the Golan Heights.

Earlier in September, two Syrian soldiers were killed by Israeli airstrikes targeting a military site in the port of Tartus, where Russia maintains a naval base. Hours later, the Israel Air Force carried out strikes in Hama, Syria, reportedly in the vicinity of the Scientific Studies and Research Center (known by its French acronym, CERS), which is involved in the production of chemical weapons as well as Hezbollah’s precision missile project.

The Israel Air Force is believed to have attacked hundreds of targets in Syria in recent years as part of an effort to prevent Iranian military entrenchment in the country. However, Israel rarely acknowledges these incidents.

Iran recently threatened to avenge the strikes, with Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian saying during a visit to Damscus, “The criminal practices by the Zionist entity in the region will not remain without retaliation.”

The Islamic Republic provided immense support to President Bashar al-Assad during Syria’s long civil war and continues to arm terrorist outfits such as Hezbollah.
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Fascist Weingarten:
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Friday, September 29, 2023

Read Levin's Book Or My Review Then Form Your Own Opinion. More.

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I urge you read Levin's: "The Democrat Party Hates America." and at the very least my own efforts to review his book.  You may not agree with much of what he writes but it is well researched, historically documented and hard to deny.  

I have always believed progressives are an unhappy breed because they awake dissatisfied with the  status quo and seek to replace the accepted with their own ideas which are not rooted in logic, ie. defund the police and then allow theft up to $900 without any penalty etc.

We have seen what kind of society this nonsense creates. They reject dictates of America's constitution and would rather replace it with Marxist ideology, as if, Communism and/or Socialism have produced greater good and prosperity than capitalism and democracy.  Man wants to be free, to raise and protect his family and have them benefit from his labor. He wants them to have a better future than he has and yet, Democrats have done everything in heir power to destroy the black family and make it difficult for America's middle class to prosper yet, they continue to press forward and their constituency remains mostly faithful because of welfare.

Finally, it has to gall those who want to shove down the throats of fellow citizen America is racist to learn we are not. It is as if Marxist inclined Democrats are having rugs pulled out from under their feet:

Is America Racist? | PragerU
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More “Social Justice Fallacies,” with Thomas Sowell
Featuring Thomas Sowell and Peter Robinson via Uncommon Knowledge
With his usual fierceness and feistiness intact, Thomas Sowell returns to Uncommon Knowledge with Peter Robinson for a second round of discussion on his latest book (he’s published over 40 titles over his career), Social Justice Fallacies. In this installment, Sowell discusses in great detail the recent Supreme Court decision on affirmative action, Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, and his decades-long friendship with Justice Clarence Thomas. Sowell also reacts to some YouTube videos of young people reacting to him.
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Understanding Hezbollah’s Escalation

Video with Amatzia Baram

Heightened provocations by Hezbollah on Israel’s northern border result from two developments. The organization has become more vulnerable within Lebanon and so needs an external diversion. Plus, it expects the Netanyahu government to respond in only limited ways. Is Hezbollah right? What are the implications of the tensions? How might Israel respond? 

For any questions and inquiries, please contact us at webinars@meforum.org
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Amatzia Baram is professor emeritus at the University of Haifa. He has taught at the universities of Jerusalem, Haifa, Tel Aviv and Georgetown (Washington, DC).  He is the author of  Saddam Husayn and Islam, 1968-2003 (Johns Hopkins, 2014).  Baram completed his BA, MA and PhD in the department of Islamic and Middle Eastern studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
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Israeli Concert:
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Unity Concert in Honor of the High Holidays


EMET is a cosponsor on SHIN DC: Sephardic Heritage INternational DC's Unity Concert in Honor of the High Holidays in partnership with the Embassy of Israel in the USA featuring Israeli PAYTANIT/Liturgical Artist SHIR IFRAH in Honor of the High Holidays at Sixth & I on October 3, 8-9 PM.

SHIR MALKA IFRAH is an Israeli “Gen Z” paytanit/liturgical artist with family roots in Morocco. She led the last Selihot concert in honor of the Jewish High Holidays at the President’s Residence in Israel and was featured at SHIN-DC’s 2023 Mimouna at the Smithsonian.

This concert of Sephardic/MENA music in Hebrew, Arabic and Judeo-Spanish during the Sukkot Jewish holiday will feature an ensemble of musicians of different backgrounds/religions from Israel, the USA, Morocco and Australia—highlighting the tradition that all of the nations/peoples of the world are welcome to celebrate with us as we mark the fall harvest.

According to the order of music for this part of the holidays, the first song will be in honor of Avrahsm Avinu (our father Abraham) whose legacy continues to inspire peace among nations and peoples today.
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It's only money!!!  YOURS!!!
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Thursday, September 28, 2023

The Inquiry/Circle Wagons. Chapters 7 & 8.


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Joe Biden’s so-called “Successful and Effective Presidency”
By Victor Davis Hanson
Posted by Ruth King

So, we are assured by David Ignatius that Biden has had such “a successful and effective” presidency that he must now step down, deprive us of his genius, and rest upon his laurels?

All of Biden’s initiatives now poll below 50 percent. Biden himself struggles to poll above 40 percent. That is no surprise given his record of governance.

Candidate Biden by design had told illegal aliens to come into the U.S. during the 2020 campaign. And they immediately took him up on it. Nearly eight million have now swarmed in, without background checks, medical exams, COVID vaccinations and testing, or any examination at all. We will deal with that disaster for decades to come.

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas was appointed to lie that the border was secure, on the expectation that his erasure of it altogether would not be impeachable, given political realities. So egregious were the arriving numbers and annihilation of U.S. immigration law, that even Democrats and leftists in Chicago and New York now want illegal aliens to go back to Texas (but not to Mexico), as they de facto redraw the U.S. border on Texas’s northern state boundaries.

We don’t dare call the Biden invitation to eight million, “The Great Replacement Theory” of altering the demography to ensure future leftwing voters. “They,” however, boast of just that agenda with slogans and book titles like “The New Democratic Majority” and “Demography is Destiny.”

Look at the interest rate, the inflation rate, and the price of gas and diesel since Biden took office and the squeeze explains why he does not poll 40 percent confidence on the economy. Ditto crime. The administration smiles as Soros-elected prosecutors downgrade felonies to misdemeanors, and misdemeanors to nothingness. The embarrassing lunacy of defunding the police is now rarely mentioned because police forces nationwide have been virtually defunded and even the Biden people are not happy with the scary results.

Gas has nearly doubled since Biden took office. We are to hate gasoline, diesel, and natural gas, except before midterm and general elections. Then we are to drain our strategic reserves, beg the Saudis, the Venezuelans, the Iranians, and the Russians to pump what we despise to help the Biden team’s reelection efforts—a fact known to our enemies.

Net Zero green madness is destroying the U.S. automobile industry, at just the time when new technologies are creating eternal combustion engines that are never more efficient and never more clean burning.

Race relations are at a historic low. Proportional representation has devolved into reparatory admissions and hiring. African American elites demand “reparations” from a state that outlawed slavery, in which currently 27 percent of the residents were not born in the U.S. Oddly, the demands come at a time when leadership seems to ignore the unfortunate reality that black teens are committing violent crimes at five and six times their demographics. Smash-and-grab and carjacking are nearly exempt from arrest, apparently to be passed off as cry-of-the-heart political protests.

Joe Biden’s dismal record is only one-third of the Democrats’ problems.

Another third is the Biden consortium’s family corruption. The more the laptop reveals its secrets, the more Bobulinksi and Archer are joined by a chorus of accusing voices, the more defiant the IRS whistleblowers become, the more Ukrainian prosecutors and oligarchs wish to be heard, the more the Biden narratives collapse faster than their replacement untruths, the more subpoenas blanket the executive branch requesting bank records, the more the trove of pseudonymous incriminating emails are to be subpoenaed, the more the noose tightens around Hunter, and the more Democratic purple-state representatives and senators “defer comment,” the more leftwing columnists call for Joe to “retire,” all the more the idea of a “successful and effective president” seems a poor joke.

The final third of the Biden assessment centers on his frailty. He is no more hale than was FDR in late spring 1945, a scenario foreseen and feared by Democratic polls at the 1944 Democratic convention who wisely dropped Henry Wallace, his Vice President. His workdays are starting to resemble those of Woodrow Wilson’s circa 1919.

Joe must be led by the hand up to the stage and led down as carefully. Foreign leaders now assume it is their discreet responsibility that he does not stumble, fall, or get lost on their watch at summits.

What Joe says now is so beyond the pale that he has developed his own immunity against gaffes, given they are protected by the general agreement of cognitive failure. What he says is often taken no more seriously than what is heard at rest homes, given the similar deference and empathy given those who have lost their cognition.

All that is now the Biden record. Ignatius knows it as well as any. But out of deference, he focuses only on Biden’s physical and mental frailty. And why not? Was he supposed to write “For the good of the country—given your corruption and disastrous record—let us be done with you?”

So, Democrats cannot concede the reason that Biden and Harris both must not run, is not just because Biden’s compromised health will mean a Harris presidency, but more importantly because, first, his record is an utter disaster, a fact known through the polls, and second, he is one new incriminating email, one new Hunter indiscretion, one suddenly appearing bank deposit slip from leaving office involuntarily and in disgrace.
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THE BIDEN INQUIRY HAS BEGUN AND VARIOUS DEMOCRAT DENIERS CIRCLED THE WAGONS BUT NEVER ADRESSED THE UNCOVERED FACTS. THEY DID, HOWEVER, ATTACK EVERYTHING ELSE PRAISING THE LOVE OF HIS SON MORE THAN THE NATION HE SWORE TO DEFEND.

THIS WAS THE BEGINNING SHOT ACROSS THE BOW AND MORE FACTS WILL COME. THE PROBLEM IS TWO FOLD, AS I SEE IT:

1) BIDEN COULD RELEASE INFORMATION (ROPE) VOLUNTARILY THAT WOULD PROBABLY HANG HIM BUT YOU CAN BET THAT WILL NOT HAPPEN.

IN FACT, BIDEN MIGHT DO WHATEVER HE CAN TO MAKE SURE THE FBI, THE AG AND EVERY GOVERNMENT ENTITY HE CONTROLS DOES NOT RELEASE ANYTHING THE COMMITTEE SEEKS.. THUS, THE HOUSE COMMITTEE MUST WADE THROUGH THE RIVER OF SILT DEMOCRATS WILL SEED SO THE DELAY PROCESS WILL SLOW DOWN, IF NOT TOTALLY IMPEDE, THE INVESTIGATION. 

2)  THE HOUSE COMMITTEE MADE MORE PROGRESS IN A FEW MONTHS THAN THE APPOINTED SPECIAL COUNSEL DID IN SEVERAL YEARS.  THIS IS THE SAME ATTORNEY WHO  PROPOSED THE "SWEETHEART DEAL" THE JUDGE REJECTED.

THE ONLY WAY BIDEN WILL BE DRIVEN OUT OF OFFICE, AS HE SHOULD BE, IS THROUGH THE 2024 ELECTION.  THE PROBLEM WITH RELYING UPON A LEGITIMATE ELECTION IS FRAUGHT WITH RISKS BECAUSE THE MARXIST DEMOCRATS WILL STOP AT NOTHING TO PREVENT A FAIR AND HONEST ELECTION TAKING PLACE AND TOTALLY COVERED UP BY THE MASS MEDIA WHICH IS AN EXTENSION OF THE CORRUPT DEMOCRAT PARTY.
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2 WSJ Op Ed's Are attached which buttress what Levin has written:
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America Is Desperate for a New Beginning
Nearly two-thirds of voters believe the system is ‘broken’ if it’s Trump vs. Biden.
By William A. Galston

We don’t need polls to tell us that confidence in our political institutions is at a low ebb, but they do help clarify what Americans are feeling.

In a recent poll from the Pew Research Center, 10% of Americans reported that thinking about U.S. politics made them feel hopeful, and 4% were excited. By contrast, 55% said they were angry, and 65% were exhausted.

This isn’t the first poll to note a pervasive sense of exhaustion, and I suspect it won’t be the last. Americans are tired of partisan quarrels that rarely reach a resolution. Issues like immigration reform linger for decades, and the Supreme Court has brought new ones such as abortion back into the arena.

Joe Biden was elected, in part, to calm this turbulence. Historians will debate whether he could have done so had he pursued a different agenda, but clearly his administration hasn’t reduced division, whether over economics, culture or foreign policy.

Americans blame both parties about equally for this situation. According to Pew, 60% of Americans have an unfavorable view of the Democratic Party, and 61% have an unfavorable view of the Republican Party.

A recent CBS poll found that 54% of respondents regard the Republican Party as “extreme,” one of the favorite epithets of Democrats describing the GOP. But the same percentage also regards the Democrats as extreme, and only minorities think that either political party is “reasonable.”

It isn’t surprising that the share of Americans with unfavorable views of both parties has reached a record high (28%), up from only 6% three decades ago, or that 37% wish there were more parties from which to choose. Nor is it surprising that challenges to the major-party duopoly are proliferating—from Cornel West’s Green Party and a likely No Labels bipartisan centrist ticket to the insurgent candidacy of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., whose grievances against Democratic Party officials seem to multiply by the day.

Voters might be in a better mood if they believed that these third-party campaigns were likely to improve the political system. But two-thirds of the public think it’s unlikely that an independent candidate will win in the next 25 years, and only 26% say that having more political parties would make it easier to solve the nation’s problems. (About the same proportion believe that additional parties would make problem-solving harder.)

Until an insurgency even stronger than Ross Perot’s 1992 campaign challenges these beliefs, Americans seem resigned to the choices the major parties offer, even if they don’t like them. The prospect of a rematch between Mr. Biden and Donald Trump leaves large majorities deeply dissatisfied: According to CBS, 64% of registered voters regard this outcome of the primary process as evidence that the political system is “broken.”

The reservations about Mr. Biden are well-known. He is seen as lacking the mental sharpness and physical stamina to carry out the duties of the presidency for a second term. Only 34% of Americans believe that he would be able to complete a second term. Expect Republicans to begin arguing that a vote for Mr. Biden is a vote for President Kamala Harris.

The reservations about Mr. Trump’s return to the Oval Office are very different. More than half of all Americans believe that if he gets another term, he will try to gain more presidential power than he had during his first, and 75% think that is a bad thing. Expect Democrats to argue that a vote for Donald Trump is a vote for autocracy.

Public discontent with our national institutions goes well beyond the conduct of the political parties and their candidates. Only 27% of Americans think that our political system is working “very” or “somewhat” well, only 37% express confidence in its future, and trust in the federal government has declined to 16%, near the record low. Disapproval of Congress is nothing new, but disapproval of the Supreme Court is, with 54% of Americans now expressing an unfavorable view of the court. Whatever its jurisprudential merits, the Dobbs decision overturning Roe v. Wade has accelerated the decline in the court’s public standing.

The country needs a new beginning, a reordering of policy and rhetoric in both political parties. Instead, we have a frozen politics. Donald Trump seems likely to win his party’s nomination for the third consecutive time. Joe Biden first ran for national office more than half a century ago, and he first ran for president in 1988.

This is truly the winter of our discontent, with no sun of York to unfreeze our politics. Both parties need a generational turnover in 2028, but we will probably have to wait five years for it. I hope we make it.

And:

The Retail Theft Rampage Gets Worse

Target closes nine stores in four states because of crime, as looters run riot in Philadelphia.

Big box retailer Target closes nine stores in response to theft, a $112 billion problem.

You may have heard that a mob of teenagers looted stores in downtown Philadelphia on Tuesday night, and Target said the same day it is closing nine stores in four states because of rampant crime. Rack up more victories for progressive prosecutors.

The mobs in Philly hit  AppleLululemon and Foot Locker stores in Center City, which ought to be a safe space for civilized commerce. The Foot Locker store was “ransacked in a coordinated attack,” said police. Police have made more than 50 arrests and are investigating property damage and theft elsewhere in the city. Some 76 incidents have been reported.

Interim Police Commissioner John Stanford said police are looking into whether “there was possibly a caravan of a number of different vehicles that were going from location to location.” He added, “Everyone in the city should be angry.”

Anger is justified in particular toward District Attorney Larry Krasner, who waves away property crime. His office reports 424 retail theft charges so far in 2023—compared to more than 1,500 by the same date in 2017, the year before he took office. Reports of retail theft in Philly have increased by more than 30%—to 13,330—compared to a year ago, according to the city’s latest weekly crime report.

Retail theft is a nationwide epidemic, according to a National Retail Federation (NRF) survey released Tuesday. For the 2022 fiscal year, retailers reported a “shrink” rate of 1.6%, mostly from theft, which as a percentage of all retail sales would be a $112.1 billion loss for the industry, says NRF.

“We cannot continue operating these stores because theft and organized retail crime are threatening the safety of our team and guests, and contributing to unsustainable business performance,” Target said in explaining its decision to close two stores in Seattle, three in Portland, Ore., three in San Francisco and Oakland, and one in New York. Target said the closures are despite efforts to prevent theft by “adding more security team members, using third-party guard services, and implementing theft-deterrent tools across our business.” CEO Brian Cornell said in May that Target could lose $500 million from shrink.

More than a quarter of retailers in the NRF survey reported closing stores because of violence and crime, and 45% reduced operating hours. Of the cities in Target’s closure list, all but Portland make the NRF survey’s top-10 cities for organized retail crime in 2022.

George Soros and the progressive DAs he finances claim to be helping the poor and minorities, but those communities are the main victim of rampaging theft. The Target store shutting down in New York is in Harlem, which staged a renaissance during the Rudy Giuliani and Mike Bloomberg mayoralties. It is now sliding back into crime and disorder.

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Review of Chapter 7: "War On The Constitution."

Levin begins by calling the constitution a most remarkable governing document. It creates a functioning federal government yet, protects both state and individual liberties concurrently. It also divides the federal government into 3 co-equal branches having their own responsibilities and, in doing so, protects citizens from dictatorship.

That said, ,if you wish to transform America as did Obama and now Biden then your purpose must be to destroy the constitution. Obama was relentless in looking for ways to bypass the Constitution as is Biden and their propaganda has become increasingly unhinged and shrill.  They have weaponized politics.

Levin cites leftist Ruth Colker, a professor at Moritz College of Law at Ohio State University. who link the Constitution to slavery. She avers, America is an illegitimate government and the "founding father's" spawned a corrupt society.

Meanwhile, the Democrat Party has morphed into a political home for various Marxist movements and it's link to the Klan, and support of lynching's cannot be denied. Even Frederick Douglas defended the Constitution and those who drafted it.  On the other hand, RBG, one of the most left wing Justices, said were she drafting a constitution in 2012 she would use South Africa's as her model not ours.

America is being subtly attacked from outside and within. Soros seeks to rule from the grave using his money and his son's control of his well financed "Open Society Initiative" to manipulate our nation's future to his liking. As noted previously, Soros is desirous of bringing America to it's knees by eliminating our domestic tranquility.

Radical members of the Marxist Democrat Party have other goals. They want to pack The SCOTUS, as did FDR, so as to diminish the influence of conservative Justices. Obama went so far as to track and  jail a newspaper reporter and manipulated the IRS to withhold tax exempt status from legitimate conservative organizations.

However, they are unwilling to stop there.  They also seek the elimination of The Electoral College thereby, disenfranchising millions of American who live in smaller populated rural states. Hillary called them deplorables.

The Federal Debt is both a threat to our children and, if it continues along its current pace it is projected it will reach 106 % of GDP in 10 years.  This could possibly bankrupt our nation. The current rise in interest rates is beginning to consume more of GDP as our deficits soar.

Our nation has never been so weakened fiscally as well as spiritedly since the Great Depression.

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Chapter Eight is entitled: "Stalin Would Be Proud."

Levin begins by attacking the Democrat Party for its scorched earth, unscrupulous, unconscionable political and criminal persecution of President Trump and more recently his entire family.

The goal is to disrupt Trump's ability to campaign and eventually send him to jail. Trump's popularity remains in question but the tide of unfavorable events are rising against Biden. 

The conspiracy to set up Trump occurred long before he was sworn into office. His campaign was being spied on by members of the FBI and other intelligent agencies. These agencies were engaged in harmful leaks and now we know 51 former spies wrote and signed a disinformation letter which probably had the effect of electing Biden because, had it been known to have been solicited by the current Sec. of State, the vote tally might well have swung in Trump's favor. 

Levin ends by stating the Democrat Party does not care about what it is doing to our country, system of justice or the electoral process. It has abandoned comity and civility for character assassination and joined with totalitarian organizations around the world in order to assure continuance of it authority and power.

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The Ukrainian Gordian Knot

by Victor Davis Hanson via American Greatness
Risk of being cut by a Russian nuclear sword
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CIVILITY AND NEUTRALITY MUST PREVAIL OVER SHOUT-DOWNS AND THE “HECKLER’S VETO.”
CAMPUSES STRUGGLE WITH FREE SPEECH
BY RICHARD A. EPSTEIN 
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Chapters 5 and 6.

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Reading Levin's book was like reading a more articulate expression of what I believe and have been writing since February 1960. It was as if I had come home to my own thinking that was better written.
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 Chapter 5:War On American Citizen:

Levin begins by stating citizenship's purpose is to ... unite people around common values, belief systems and principles..." This is not happening in America. The radical Democrat Party is divorced from America and marches to its own drum beat, ie. divisive Marxism. Consequently, Americans have become alienated from and distrustful of politics and government. Illegals have chosen/been encouraged to retain their language, habits and principles they brought with them and this and their enormous numbers severely impacts our society and, if allowed to persist, will achieve the American Marxist goal of destroying what our "founding fathers" crafted.

The American culture is most unique and among the freest of all nations.  It is a mixture of the English constitution, natural rights and reason. Mass immigration, and most particularly the illegal variety, tends to destroy uniformity, the national spirit and character etc. Obama knew by transforming America he could, if allowed, radically alter, if not totally destroy America. This is the purpose of open borders.  

Though most immigrants, illegal as well, do not come to destroy America but to enjoy the fruits of our freedoms but their numbers are unwholesome because they are too enormous and thus, have the most negative effect. Your throat cannot absorb water from a powerful hose and what of the criminal element and drugs and slave trafficking?

Furthermore, multi languages lead to deculturalization. Fragmentation on America's campuses drives  further wedges. Whereas, in the past, public schools promoted national identity that goal, no longer, exists. By valuing/promoting  ethnic and racial diversity we are working against our goal of unanimity breaking the link between citizen and nation. Consequently, the Democrat Party applauds this achievement and is why Biden keeps the borders open. His sole trip to El Paso, Texas was scripted. and lasted 3 whole hours. Everything Biden is and has been doing has propelled  Cartel Income into the billions and expanded the slave trafficking trade, another income producing activity.  This from a man who calls his grand children daily.  (My comment.)

It is part of the racist attitude promoted through academia that America is a white dominant society and thus, an illegitimate experiment. The American Marxist Party has reversed it's historical course of being against immigration and now supports open borders. Why?  Because radicals, who have taken over and drive the party, see this as a way to gain and retain political power since party comes before country. Driver's licenses are being handed out regardless of legal status and eventually this will morph into voting privilege's and the battle to destroy America will have been won. (California, Maryland and Vermont already allow illegals to vote in local elections.)

Being bi-lingual is suitable, even fine for individuals but not for nations.
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Chapter Six is entitled: "War On The Nuclear Family."

All nations rest upon their family foundations.  Destroy the family unit and you severely weaken, if not totally destroy the nation's underpinnings. Levin writes the Democrat Party benefits from the destruction of the family because single mothers tend to vote for Democrats and receive munificence from the government. Marriage continues to decline in America and single childless women are quite inclined to vote for Democrats and this is why they favor abortions. 

Additional efforts by the Democrat Party to destroy the family unit by redefining the parental role of the parent and child along with the matter of sexual changes without informing parents.  Another track American Marxists want to run down relates to replacing the family's relationship with union control. The manner in which the teacher union, Democrats and Fauci addressed Covid had deleterious impact on the mental and physical condition of our school children and educationally proved disastrous. Children born during the pandemic have reduced verbal, motor and cognitive performance versus those born before the pandemic.

Sen. Moynihan warned his party their programs would destroy the black family and the expanded welfare state in the '60's did. Today 72% of black children are born to unmarried mothers and the lack of a father is responsible for many of the anti-social issues impacting black youth. Moynihan's party excoriated him. (A distant cousin of mine married his daughter. They subsequently divorced.  My cousin was the great fashion photographer, Richard Avedon.)

Democrats purposely  politicized science in order to accomplish their goal of destroying/disrupting  the family unit in order to radically weaken America. Additionally, CRT was birthed by rabid America-hating Marxist elites and professors and promoted by the NYT's through the 1619 Project. The Democrats have manipulated the fight that is now to hate their country and even themselves. Bad as this is, "wokeism" and diversity is now used to reject talent for qualification.  We are getting a taste of what this means by observing Biden's press secretary and the person in charge of nuclear material who stole clothing, coming off ramps at airports. (My comments.)

Unctuous/hypocrite  Democrats continue to oppose charter and school choice which would be a blessing for black students. Those who control the Party, naturally, sent their own children to exclusive private schools.ie Obama, Buttigieg, O'Rourke, Newsom, Pritzker, Warren, Pelosi and Biden among others. 

Randi Weingarten, the powerful president of the American Federation of Teachers, hasn't taught school in a quarter of a century and was mostly a substitute teacher during her 6 year tenure. She now earns $500,000 /year. She has effectively engineered taxpayers to subsidize her union which re-launders these funds into union organization.

Levin ends the 6th chapter with commentary about how Biden wants to abolish American suburbs, which are mostly Republican, thus, fattening the tax base of absorbing cities and government control over consumer products, particularly those  that are energy centric.

Meanwhile, Biden and Obama live in their palatial homes while they seek to destroy our suburbs. American Marxists blame "white privilege" for all the social maladies impacting black lives. The means tested welfare structure actually penalizes marriage.  Rampant inflation also impacts the lower socio level disproportionately. Uncle Joe  is trying to sell Biden-omics  as a positive but has not succeeded to date. Ironically, constituents of our two party's have basically switched.