Thursday, December 17, 2020

A Variety of Commentaries and Biden Diary - Day 73.


 







Biden the unifier:

Breaking: Biden’s deputy chief of staff calls for unity while trashing Republicans as ‘a bunch of f***ers’

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As Trump leaves office "We The People" will have lost our best advocate:

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/12/what_the_american_aristocracy_has_wrought.html

And:

In the last few months a higher % of my memo followers have read what I am sending.  No doubt it relates to the rising interest in the election.  I always invite comments and often post some without any direct attribution.

I cannot personally wish each of you a Holiday Greeting so please accept this less personal greeting for  the Merriest of Christmases, Happiest and Healthiest of New Years and get your vaccine shot when it becomes available.
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Joe took a page from the Clinton's:

Hello Richard,

Joe Biden is proving to be just as bad and dirty a politician as we thought. The former

 VP created a cancer charity after his son Beau Biden died of brain cancer. He 

promised the charity’s mission would be to “develop and drive implementation of 

solutions to accelerate progress in cancer prevention, detection, diagnosis, research 

and care…”

But in reality Joe Biden’s charity gave ZERO money to research and handed out not 

a single grant.

Tax filings show that instead Joe paid out millions in salaries and on lavish travel.

Get all the details on dirty Joe’s charity abuse by clicking here. Despicable!

~United America News

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Republicans See Good Signs in Georgia

 

 

Erick-Woods Erickson

Things are looking up in Georgia for the GOP.

First, though they lag behind Democrats in early voting, the lag is not as dramatic as it was in the general election. In fact, if the GOP pacing holds up combined with their typical turnout in runoff elections, they should be able to offset the Democrats and win.

Second, voters who did not vote in the general election are showing up. So far, about 20,000 or so new voters who were not in the general are coming. They appear mostly in the northern suburbs of Atlanta in Republican territory. While Democrats are making some claims that these are their voters, it really does not appear to be that way. These are voters in Republican areas that did not like Trump, but otherwise like Republicans. My suspicion is these are Republican voters who didn’t want to go vote for Trump, but will vote for divided government.

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My friend Toameh writes about Iran's plans:

Iran's Plan to Topple Arab Leaders

by Khaled Abu Toameh

Iran's Islamist proxies in the Arab world have resurfaced to condemn last week's normalization agreement between Israel and Morocco just as they did with similar accords reached in the past few months with the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Sudan.

As usual, the Islamists and their patrons in Tehran, who seek the elimination of Israel, are using texts from the Koran and sayings attributed to the prophet Mohammed to justify their opposition to the normalization of relations between Arabs and Israel.

After the Israel-Morocco deal, however, the Islamists have stepped up their campaign of incitement against Arabs who want to make peace with Israel.

Now, the Islamists are calling on the Moroccan people to revolt against their government and King Mohammed VI. This call shows that the Islamists have shifted from rhetorical attacks on Arabs who establish relations with Israel to calls to violence against the Arab rulers and governments. By urging the Moroccans to "resist" the normalization agreement, Iran's proxies are sending a message to the people of Morocco to topple their "treacherous" regime by using all available methods, including terrorism.

The Iranians were among the first Muslims to condemn the Israel-Morocco agreement, paving the way for their proxies to follow suit by urging Moroccans to rise against their regime.

Morocco's normalization of relations with Israel was a "betrayal" and a "stab in the back" of the Palestinians, said Hossein Amir-Abdollahanian, an adviser to Iran's parliamentary speaker.

Shortly after the Iranian announcement, Hamas, the Iran-backed Palestinian Islamist movement that rules over the Gaza Strip, released a statement, condemning the Israel-Morocco agreement:

"Normalization with the Zionist entity is a deplorable step that is not worthy of Morocco and does not reflect the positions of the brotherly Moroccan people who have stood with Palestine, Jerusalem and the al Aqsa Mosque in all circumstances and stations."

In an indirect appeal to Moroccans to revolt against their government and monarch, Hamas called on "the authentic Moroccan people and all the free peoples to reject this agreement and all the cheap normalization agreements and to continue boycotting the Zionist occupation and not accepting it at all, notwithstanding the circumstances and temptations."

Hamas's call on Moroccans to revolt against their leaders contradicts its own declared policy that it does not intervene in the internal affairs of the Arab countries. "Hamas does not meddle in the internal affairs of Arab and Muslim countries," said senior Hamas official Salah Bardaweel.

If true, why is Hamas denouncing Morocco's decision to establish relations with Israel? Moreover, why is Hamas calling on the Moroccan people to "reject" an agreement reached by the Moroccan monarch? What is this call but a blatant intervention in the internal affairs of an Arab country?

Showing Hamas's hypocrisy out in the sunlight, Hamas maintains continuous communication with Egypt, the first Arab country to sign a peace treaty with Israel. Just last week, Egyptian intelligence officials again visited the     Gaza Strip for talks with Hamas leaders about maintaining security and stability in the Hamas-ruled coastal territory. In the past few years, Hamas officials have been regularly visiting Cairo for talks with Egyptian security officials on the situation in the Gaza Strip.

Hamas is terrified of uttering a word against Egypt because it is afraid that the Egyptians might retaliate by closing their shared border with the Gaza Strip or imposing sanctions, including travel restrictions, on Hamas leaders. It is one thing to condemn the UAE, Bahrain and Morocco, which do not have shared borders with the Gaza Strip, and a totally different thing to lash out at your powerful neighbor, Egypt.

Hamas leaders know that the moment they criticize Egypt, the Rafah border crossing between the Gaza Strip and Egypt will be slammed shut. The Egyptian authorities will close the Rafah border crossing to all Palestinian travelers and goods. Hamas leaders also know that the moment they call upon the Egyptian people to revolt against the Sisi regime, thousands of Hamas supporters in Egypt would find themselves behind bars.

Even when the Egyptians do sometimes close the Rafah border crossing, Hamas would not dare to fire one rocket or bullet toward Egypt. Evidently, Hamas leaders know that the moment they attack Egypt, they and the entire Gaza Strip would pay a heavy price, most likely by having a huge military offensive launched against the Islamist movement.

The Egyptians have frequently sent warnings to Hamas not to meddle in Egypt's internal affairs or threaten its national security. "If Hamas thinks about entering one inch of Egyptian territory, it will be their (Hamas's) last day of existence," an Egyptian military source cautioned. The warning, made in 2014, came in response to reports that Hamas was amassing its forces along the border with Egypt in preparation for launching terrorist attacks against Egyptians.

Notably, the Egyptians display patience with Hamas, an offshoot of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood terrorist organization, in spite of the Brotherhood's ongoing meddling in Egyptian internal affairs and threats to Egypt's national security.

Last month, in fact, the Egyptians did close the Rafah border crossing to vehicles and commodities because of "transgressions" by Hamas. Egypt did not provide details about what those might have been, but the Egyptian newspaper Egypt Today cryptically pointed out that Hamas "has a history of working against Egypt."

The newspaper did list some of past "transgressions" of Hamas: 1) Hamas profits from food and commodities subsidized by Egypt for low-income Palestinians, trafficking them through illegal tunnels; 2) Hamas was involved in the murder of 16 Egyptian soldiers in Rafah in August 2010; 3) Trading in the Egyptian pound in exchange for the US dollar, which damages the Egyptian economy; 4) Hamas stormed the Egyptian border in 2008 and committed various crimes; 5) Hamas also stormed Egyptian prisons in 2011 and set convicted terrorists on the loose; 6) Hamas is accused of killing protesters in Tahrir Square (in Cairo) in 2011; 7) Hamas bombed gas lines in Sinai several times and was involved in targeting military sites there.

It is because of such allegations that Hamas treads very carefully in its dealings with Egypt. The last thing Hamas wants is for the Egyptians to wipe the Islamist movement off the face of the earth. That is presumably why in recent years Hamas has been behaving itself with regards to Egypt. This behavior, of course, does not apply to Morocco, whose king has never threatened to eliminate Hamas or attack the Gaza Strip.

Last week, Zahar called on the Moroccans to "confront the policy of normalization" with Israel. He also urged the Moroccan parliament to criminalize normalization with Israel and to enact necessary laws to combat peace with Israel. Not only is the Hamas leader inciting violence and unrest in an Arab country, he is also advising that country's parliament what laws it needs to pass. One can only imagine Zahar's response if a Moroccan official called on the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip to rise up against their Hamas rulers.

In "keeping" with Hamas's policy of not intervening in the internal affairs of the Arab countries, Hamas leader Mahmoud Zahar also incited the Moroccan people to revolt against their monarchy. Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), the second largest Iran-backed terrorist group in the Gaza Strip, has joined Hamas in inciting the Moroccans to revolt against their leaders.

"We are fully confident that the Moroccan people strongly reject normalization with the Zionist occupation, and the land of the Kingdom of Morocco will not be a hotbed for the Zionists, as the Moroccan people and their political forces will reject normalization and confront it," PIJ said in a statement. "The Arab regimes and their leaders who are rushing toward the Zionist entity will be cursed."

Similarly, Lebanon's Hezbollah terrorist group, another Iranian proxy, said it was "betting on the free Moroccan people" to thwart the normalization agreement with Israel.

The threats against Morocco and other Arab countries by Iran's proxies -- Hamas, PIJ and Hezbollah -- are worrying many Arabs in the Middle East. The Arabs, especially those who want to make peace with Israel, are fully aware that Iran and its Palestinian and Lebanese militias continuously seek to stir up trouble in the region and replace Arab leaders who want peace with Israel with Muslim extremists who report to the mullahs in Tehran. These Arabs say that they hope to see the new US administration endorse a tough policy toward Iran and not send a message of weakness to the mullahs. Any attempt to appease Iran or ease the sanctions on it will only embolden the mullahs and increase their appetite to instigate coups to overthrow various Arab countries.

Khaled Abu Toameh, an award-winning journalist based in Jerusalem, is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at Gatestone Institute.

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Today our intelligence agencies announced an ongoing cyber attack basically has taken over many functions of our government as well as penetrating the myriad of agencies. It is presumed to be coming from Russia and we do not know the extent of the penetration.

A few years ago a similar attack, this presumed from China, stole files of government employees.  China now knows plenty about who works/worked for our government and this allows them to identity who best to approach in order to potentially obtain sensitive information from the likes of  Rep. Swalwell and Sen. Feinstein and who knows who else.

These attacks have been going on for years because, though we may be doing something to learn about them, we have done nothing to penalize them so they know we must not be serious.  Thus,  they will continue. We know Los Alamos and Sandia have been hacked  among other sensitive agencies etc.

Cyber attacks are the new war.

Our adversaries have accomplished a great deal to bring our republic down, outside cyber attacks, such as:

a) they have helped organize, finance and supply rioters.

b) they have fostered anti-American faculty and radical organizations that stir up riots on university campuses, preventing free speech.

c) they have flooded our nation with narcotics and, more recently, China infected America and the world with a COVID Virus attack.

d) they have engaged in disrupting our elections including a dis-information campaign used to impeach Trump.

e) they have used the U.N as a forum to attack democracies and flood our nation with spies.

f) they have stolen corporate intelligence and AI including valuable university laboratory experiments etc. 

g) we have allowed our nation to be flooded with radicals who have run for high political office and are engaged in pressing  legislation that is contrary to American values and policies. 

h) the list of foreign attacks is basically endless and we seem to simply shrug mostly because our intelligence agencies are run by incompetents who seem more bent on engaging in combat with Congress and withholding  information.

i) With respect to (h) Congress either lacks legal authority to obtain information their committees need or are run by feckless, partisan incompetents and/or outright political hacks and liars like Schiff , Nadler etc.

We The People are paying taxes and are being raped in return.

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More Hoover documents you can obtain and as Broadway Joe says: "and they are free."

Hi Richard,

Socialism failed in the Soviet Union and Cuba, and now it’s failing before our eyes in Venezuela. So can it work here in America as “New Socialists” like Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez claim? 

Hoover Institution Senior Fellow Richard Epstein answers this question in his latest online commentary, The Intellectual Poverty Of The New Socialists.

From recounting his experience as a young law student near the Berlin Wall to the massive failure of “progressivism” under Obama, Professor Epstein highlights the intellectual poverty of ignoring the real world economic principles of “scarcity” and “competition” in order to advance an agenda.

With today’s “New Socialists” calling for universal healthcare, price controls, free college tuition, and a basic universal income, this is a timely read for every American who cares about preserving liberty for the next generation. 

Please follow this link to get your free copy of The Intellectual Poverty of the New Socialists now.

Thanks,
Greg

Greg Stamps
Online Development
Hoover Institution

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https://spectator.org/brad-raffensperger-georgia-election/

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Hatefulness can boomerang!

 Cuomo's Attack on Kavanaugh Comes Back to Haunt Him

You love to see it!  [READ MORE]

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Biden breaks his silence and offers nothing revealing.

Joe Biden Breaks His Silence: ‘Confident’ Hunter Biden Did Nothing Wrong

By Emily Zanotti

Democrat Joe Biden told Fox News on Wednesday that he is “confident” his son Hunter, who is under investigation by Federal authorities, did nothing wrong, despite allegations that Hunter Biden hid income from overseas business dealings.

The interview, Fox News notes, marks the first time Joe Biden has spoken publicly about the investigation, despite persistent rumors about Hunter Biden’s work abroad, specifically with oil and gas company Burisma, which operates out of Ukraine. During the presidential campaign, Joe Biden was dogged by reports that Hunter inappropriately leveraged his connections with his father and with the Obama White House.

“Are you confident your son Hunter did nothing wrong?” Fox News’ Peter Doocy asked Biden following an interaction about Biden’s selection for Transportation Secretary, former South Bend mayor Pete Buttigieg.

“I’m confident,” Biden replied.

Before Wednesday, Biden and his transition team have said only that the Democrat, who won Monday’s vote in the Electoral College, was “proud” of his son.

The Associated Press reported on Wednesday that President Donald Trump is considering appointing a special prosecutor to look into Hunter Biden’s business dealings in Ukraine and beyond as a way of ensuring that, when Joe Biden takes over as president in January — as looks likely — the incoming Biden administration does not put a swift end to the Department of Justice’s investigation.

Republicans in Congress, who initiated their own investigation into Hunter Biden’s business dealings following reports that surfaced before the November presidential election, are also planning to continue their probe into Hunter Biden’s business dealings during his father’s presidential administration.

“Based on all the facts known to date, Joe Biden has a lot of explaining to do,” Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) said this week. “I learned a lesson long ago when I first started my oversight focus and that is: no matter how difficult the media or the other side of the aisle makes it to find the facts – never give up, keep working hard. The American taxpayer deserves nothing less.”The Associated Press reported on Wednesday that President Donald Trump is considering appointing a special prosecutor to look into Hunter Biden’s business dealings in Ukraine and beyond as a way of ensuring that, when Joe Biden takes over as president in January — as looks likely — the incoming Biden administration does not put a swift end to the Department of Justice’s investigation.

Republicans in Congress, who initiated their own investigation into Hunter Biden’s business dealings following reports that surfaced before the November presidential election, are also planning to continue their probe into Hunter Biden’s business dealings during his father’s presidential administration.

“Based on all the facts known to date, Joe Biden has a lot of explaining to do,” Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) said this week. “I learned a lesson long ago when I first started my oversight focus and that is: no matter how difficult the media or the other side of the aisle makes it to find the facts – never give up, keep working hard. The American taxpayer deserves nothing less.”

Republicans are hoping to keep control of the Senate, but that hinges on two Georgia races that will be decided on January 5th.

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Biden Diary- Day 73

I am boxed in. Investigation of Hunter not going well.  He owes taxes on a lot of money he has not paid and the path is leading to me.  I could also be nailed for  what I did to get Ukrainian Investigator fired and what we accused Trump of and was never proven factual, ie. payoffs from foreign governments - the emolument law.

Media want Kamala to become president because it would give them a lot to write about. My resignation and  first black women president and Obama always had this in the back of his mind.

https://townhall.com/columnists/victordavishanson/2020/12/17/victor-davis-hanson-biden-should-beware-of-nemesis-n2581645

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