Joe Biden needs to understand the Middle East has changed
Biden needs to understand that the world has changed: countries like UAE & Israel lead the MENA.
By Yaakov Lappin
Israel, Bahrain and UAE have stressed the concern they all share over Tehran’s nuclear program, ballistic missiles, and activities across the Middle East. As well as this, a joint regional position on these issues will exert greater influence on the United States. However, the question remains, how much of that will president Joe Biden listen to?
With the Palestinian authority calling for an election, and president Joe Biden’s indication of his desire to re-join the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, this will mean that negations will arise as Iran will ask the Hamas terrorist militia to hijack the election and the chances of them taking over PLO will be very high. This act could infiltrate the idea of peace, and certify the Iranian revolutionary guards mini state on the borders of Jorden and Israel. MORE
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Will Biden screw Israel and it's new Sunni allies?
Biden decision on weapons sales to Gulf states ‘important test’ for Israeli-Sunni alliance
The forthcoming decision by the Biden administration on whether or not to proceed with major weapons sales to Gulf states, signed by the previous Trump administration in the context of the Abraham Accords, form an important test of Washington’s commitment to the regional anti-Iranian alliance, an Israeli expert on U.S. policy in the Middle East has said.
Eytan Gilboa,
professor of political science at Bar-Ilan University and a senior research
associate at the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, told JNS
that the weapons deals should be examined through “a wider context of the
radical elements in the Democratic Party, domestic economic and political
factors, and a new American policy in the Middle East that primarily touches on
negotiations with Iran.”
Gilboa stressed that
three separate weapons deals need to be taken into account.
The first involves the
sale of 50 F-35 stealth fighter jets to the United Arab Emirates; the second is
based on the sale of 3000 precision-guided bombs to Saudi Arabia; and the third
involves $1 billion worth of drones and precision-guided weapons to Morocco.
“There should be continuity between administrations on such sales,” said Gilboa “It is not unusual for an incoming administration to review significant aspects of foreign-policy strategy, and weapons sales are, of course, a part of this.”
On the other hand, it
is clear that this particular announcement is sending a message, argued Gilboa,
since the Biden administration had ample time to conduct the review in question
and has done so already. As a result, the announcement of a review should be
seen as a signal of the administration’s reservations, according to Gilboa.
Reasons for this,
including the Democratic Party’s emphasis on human rights, and pressure from
the party’s progressive element, which have been heavily critical of the Gulf
states’ environmental policies and human rights record, especially in their war
in Yemen
“Those who call
themselves progressives in the party consider the Gulf states as the most
reactionary in the world. This is true especially for Saudi Arabia and the
sheikhdoms in the Gulf,” said Gilboa. “After the murder of [Saudi dissident
Jamal] Khashoggi, these elements applied pressure on Biden to cancel the deals.
They want the deals frozen.”
He drew a distinction
between the various deals, saying that the transaction with Sunni powerhouse
Saudi Arabia is an especially sensitive issue in Washington due to “its alleged
bombings of civilians in the civil war in Yemen. This is another dimension that
is related to the progressive branch of the Democratic administration,” he
said.
Yet such pressure is
counteracted by strong domestic political and economic considerations. Lockheed
Martin, the maker of the F-35, maintains a large production facility in Fort
Worth, Texas, where the planes are assembled, and where large numbers of
personnel are employed.
“That means that the
36 Congress representatives from Texas—13 of whom are Democrats—are not going
to accept a cancellation of the UAE deal,” said Gilboa, “as this would
undermine their own political base.”
‘This
is not a foreign-aid issue’
From a regional
strategic perspective, an American cancellation would constitute a serious blow
to Washington’s commitment to the Sunni-Israeli alliance against Iran, and harm
the U.S.’s own posture in the region, he cautioned.
“Obviously, Iran is a
very significant part of the Abraham Accords. So canceling these deals would be
tantamount to the Americans robbing themselves of a strong card against Iran,”
said Gilboa.
The Department of
State, responsible for coordinating American strategic interests, will lead the
review.
Looking ahead, Gilboa
assessed that it’s unlikely that the United States will block the F-35
deliveries to the UAE, although the number of jets could be reduced to a
degree.
However, the deal with
Saudi Arabia could face disruption, he noted, while the Morocco deal is also
likely to go ahead.
“There are all types
of forces at play. Everyone has an agenda and an interest. Eventually, I think
it is going to be Biden who will make a final decision,” said Gilboa.
The administration can
override Congress in the event that it objects to the deals, he added.
“Congress has a loud voice on spending, but not on profits. This is not a
foreign-aid issue. The Pentagon, too, is unlikely to block it.”
In the less likely
scenario of America blocking the deals, this would constitute an early warning
that Washington is on course to making a “terrible agreement” with Iran,
cautioned Gilboa, saying “the administration’s ability to negotiate with Iran
is already under doubt. It is showing eagerness, which shows inferiority. If
there is no military option on the table, this, too, will harm negotiations.”
“Hence, the decision
on the weapons deals forms a test, both for the U.S.’s conduct in the face of
Iran, and for the solidification and expansion of the Israeli-Sunni strategic
alliance,” he said. “If they block the F-35 deal, it would mean that they do
not care about this strategic alliance.”
And:
With Rice, Holder and Obama pulling his strings can and/or does Biden want to comprehend the changed Middle East Trump, his son-in-law and others helped bring about?
Joe Biden needs to understand that the Middle East has changed
Amjad Taha, 2/2/21
Biden needs to understand that the world has changed: countries like UAE & Israel lead the MENA.
Israel, Bahrain and UAE have stressed the concern they all share over Tehran’s nuclear program, ballistic missiles, and activities across the Middle East. As well as this, a joint regional position on these issues will exert greater influence on the United States. However, the question remains, how much of that will president Joe Biden listen to?
With the Palestinian authority calling for an election, and president Joe Biden’s indication of his desire to re-join the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, this will mean that negations will arise as Iran will ask the Hamas terrorist militia to hijack the election and the chances of them taking over PLO will be very high. This act could infiltrate the idea of peace, and certify the Iranian revolutionary guards mini state on the borders of Jorden and Israel. MORE
Salena and faith restored:
How a Lost iPhone Restored Faith in humanity By Salena Zito
LAUREL HIGHLANDS, Pennsylvania — Andrea Rodi began Saturday morning with her boyfriend enjoying a mini-vacation in Stoystown; it was the final day of their weekend getaway spent traversing the Laurel Highlands Hiking Trail.
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Lynn and I watched: " The Pat Tillman Story" this evening. It is the story of how the government and the Army covered up fratricide by his own platoon mates of his death. Pat was a great professional football player who gave up his multi-million dollar career to join the Rangers and Special Ops forces after 9/11. His mother did not believe the lies about her son's death being told to her and persisted until a Congressional Committee investigated the event. They too accepted the lies told to them by the top brass and former Sec. of Defense, Rumsfeld.
It is obvious, there have been times, as now, when we do not have people of integrity at the top of our country. It is sad to learn this because it means we are no better than our worst enemies.
As I watched the movie I kept thinking of Durham and his, yet to be released, report. Will it too turn out to be another acid wash thrown in the face of Americans.
The president sets the tone they say:
Biden Walks Away When Asked About the Sacrifices He's Asking American Workers to Make as He Kills Thousands of Jobs (VIDEO)
Our emperor get's sued:
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I have a variety of
sources of economic information available to me, plus I try to pay attention to
public statements from the Biden economics team. What follows are the underlying
theories and beliefs of the White House economic advisors that are driving much
of the executive orders and policy positions you are hearing. What is below is
not my interpretation, but is based on things the White House economics people
or their primary consultants have actually said, and are quoted, and what other
sources have confirmed as accurate.
The spending policies
driving much of the economic policies is the belief that the primary goal is to
get back to full employment as soon as possible-full employment in their view
is 4.1% unemployment. They believe the way to accomplish this is an
expansive fiscal policy driven by government spending and government
investment. The private sector is downgraded as the source of economic growth
and investment as the primary driver to the economy. Their real goal is clearly
stated to be to “reallocate cash to workers from corporations.” That underlies
everything. They acknowledge that corporate profits and dividend growth will be
modest at best over the medium to longer term, and that higher corporate taxes
will restrict dividend payments. These factors will combine to provide a very
modest growth of stock prices in the future after a 2021 burst up.
Their models show debt
to GDP will rise to 120% in 4 years, and continue to grow from there, but they
believe that due to what they believe will be continued ultra-low interest
rates, this makes no difference. They say they believe that it will be a few
years before rates rise, and so it is OK to have massive deficits now.
Apparently they do not consider a lower dollar to be an issue nor do they feel
inflation will be an issue despite key commodities like corn, copper, and soy
rising by 30%-50% recently, and oil now rising substantially. This is Modern
Monetary Theory which I believe is very misguided. One day rates rise and the
government debt service crushes all other needs, meaning taxes go up more, or
services and defense go down. If progressives continue to hold sway, defense
will go down just before China takes military action.
An underlying policy
position is the belief, there are major benefits from the flood of social
programs and that high income people and corporations need to pay higher
taxes to pay for it because they believe wealthy people don’t really spend all
they earn so they can reallocate that money to lower income people and have no
impact on the economy, -the goal is transfer of wealth from the
wealthy-(successful job creators) to the workers. They ignore the huge impact
of charitable giving that builds a wide variety of institutions and pays for
many educational and poverty programs. They believe that government spending is
the source of reducing unemployment, and not private sector investment, so then
you see how all of their spending plans fit this theory. You maybe now conclude
this is socialism. The result of all of this will be lower stock prices which
they acknowledge will happen in two or three years under these policies. They
believe stocks will rise by 5.4% in 2022, but then be rising at an even lower
rate for the rest of the decade. They see unemployment at 4.1% as full
employment, and labor participation at around 63.7% and GDP growing at 1.8% by
2024. Interest rates will rise by 2024, but they think not by a lot. They have
detailed models for all of this, but the models have a strong left leaning
political bias built into them. Models require assumptions, and it is the
assumptions that drive the result.
Another underlying
position is the belief that higher stock prices mainly help the wealthy, and
that the lower cost of capital derived from higher stock prices does not really
do much to add to economic growth. They say that the Trump tax cuts did almost
nothing to grow the economy and benefited the wealthy disproportionately. They
really believe this. Likewise they believe all the deregulation was only
helpful to oil and gas and banking, and had no real impact on economic growth.
They strongly believe that increasing regulation on fossil fuels makes
sense given climate change as an existential threat in their view. They seem to
really believe they will create millions of new jobs through the
government spending trillions on clean energy. Note the private sector creating
jobs is nowhere in these policy statements. Therefore the attacks on fossil
fuels will intensify. They also believe that raising the minimum wage to $15
will happen in steps so will have no negative impact on jobs or the economy and
will help transfer cash from corporations to workers. This is despite several
academic research projects and the CBO that have all proved the opposite
will happen. Hundreds of thousands or more will lose jobs, and small companies
will go out of business. It was proven in Seattle when they raise the minimum
wage and several restaurants closed as a result, and others reduced staffing.
All this approach does is to accelerate technological advances to replace human
workers with robots and other technology like avatars answering customer
service calls. They believe green jobs, solar panels, etc will pick up all of
these displaced people. In my view that is naïve at best. Solyndra here we
come.
A key construct of
theirs is that economic growth depends on immigration growth and that is
driving some of the immigration policies Biden is putting forth. Part of it is
also to satisfy the left wing, and part is they believe these people will
become counted in the census and give them more seats in Congress (that is why
Trump tried to stop that in this year’s census), and then those people will
be allowed to vote in local elections as they now are in some places on
the left coast. Immigration is seen by them to be the main driver of economic
growth, (that is a quote) and that is why they will push it hard. They believe
that when Trump reduced immigration, it inhibited economic growth. Not
clear to me what they think happened in the period up to March when economic
growth was excellent, and unemployment was at record low.
They understand that
cost of labor and production is key to where things get manufactured, and that
the truth is Biden’s talk of bringing jobs back to the US is total BS because
any special targeted tax breaks and other programs will not really work to
bring jobs back.
One of the key players
in the economic plans has told me they see the stock market booming right now,
so they take that as confirmation that Wall St thinks their policies are
wonderful. I have explained there is a major difference between short
term trading which is why short term Wall St traders love the massive stimulus plans,
and long term investors like me, and true investors all think this is very bad
policy long term. He rejects that thesis even though he admits the longer
term will see a stock market under performance and rising rates, but he says
that is not for a while, and the short term goals are more important to Biden
and Dems. That sort of sums up how they think now in this administration, and
why we are headed for a very bad situation one day down the road as the deficit
overwhelms important priorities, and economic policies for the long term. I
believe they are trying to give a sugar high to the economy now so they can
have a booming economy going into 2022 elections, when they will try to
solidify their ultimate control of power through HR1. This bill is a massive attempt
to take control of the government, and destroy any chance the Republicans have
to regain any control. HR1 is the most dangerous threat to democracy ever put
forward. It is Pelosi’s master effort to seize permanent real power for the
Democrats before she retires. Pay real attention to HR1.
So, bottom line, there
is no economic crisis in the US now, and the CBO says with no more stimulus we
will be back at the levels before March by this June. See next paragraph. The
White House economic policies are a policy program of what amounts to
government takeover of the factors of the economy and production. The exact
definition of socialism. The stock market will do poorly after 2021 or early
22, and if you earn a big income, or your company does, it will be taxes away
to carry out these programs because tax cuts do nothing but help the wealthy
and they want to transfer your hard earned money to the workers. If you follow
all of the above you will have a clear picture of all of the rhetoric and the
policy statements from the White House and Congress. If you combine all of this
with the cancel culture and social media and the mainstream media online
censoring, you see where this is all heading, and why the election of 2022 is
so critical to the future of the country. Just consider if Joe does not last 4
years and Kamala takes over, it will be much worse unless the Republicans take
back all of Congress.
Some data that counters
the Biden economists: 16 million of the 22 lost jobs have been recovered
despite the CA, NY and IL lockdowns and school closures by the unions.
Government personal transfers were up $893 billion in the second and third
quarters compared to wage comp down $215 billion. In Q2 real per capita
disposable income rose 10.5% compared to Q1 and 25 times as fast as average
quarterly growth in the prior two years. All driven by government stimulus of
$2.6 trillion. That was more than all private sector wages in Q1 of 2020.
For all 2020, per capita disposable income rose 5.5% the most since 1984.
And none of this counts the last $900 billion stimulus. Quarterly savings rose
by $800 billion giving a savings rate in Q@ of 26% compared to a normal 8%.
Total savings in 2020 was $1.6 Trillion more than is 2019. There is your pent
up spending coming later this year. If we get a $15 minimum wage it will impede
hiring, and paying $400 a week will kill hiring like the $600 did as more than
50% of those people will make more not working plus they would get $2000 as a
bonus for not working. Since the proposed spending would not really get out
until August or September, (there is still $1 trillion unspent from the last
two stimulus plans) there would be a added $311 billion a month of more
stimulus hitting consumers bank accounts. Fed reserves are up 78% in one
year.M2 is up 28.3%. Compare that to the seventies hyper-inflation period where
that number was only 13.8% and everyone was freaking out over that. Housing is
up 14% and business investment thru the end of 2020 was up 25%. The
manufacturing index was at a 6 year high and ag prices are at a 8 year high.
Jobs created in December other than in hospitality were 358,000. In 2020 the
bottom 20% of income cohort received $45,000 from over 100 government programs
and credits. Plus 22 million received food stamps. The entire press and Biden
mantra of food insecurity is defined by an advocacy group Feeding America as
survey respondents saying they were “worried “ about food security AT LEAST ONE
DAY IN THE LAST YEAR. A Harvard research found that when food aid is increased
the survey responses did not change. When they say millions worry about
eviction or foreclosure, it is largely those who voluntarily choose not to pay
anything because they know they cannot be thrown out under the current
prohibitions. Now they worry they owe so much they cannot catch up.
The end game for all of this is there will be higher rates and inflation
at some point and then it will be too late to stop it without the sort of pain
we had under Volker. The Dem stimulus bill just accelerates and exacerbates the
problem. It is bad policy.
When they go to raise
taxes and tell you we don’t pay our fair share: the top 1% pays 40% of all
taxes but earns 20.9% of all income. The top 1% pays $615 billion the bottom
90% pays $440 billion. The bottom 50% pays 3% of taxes, but the top 1% pays an
average of 25.4%.
The truth of the
economic and the vaccine situation is both are doing well. Cases are down
41% since the peak in December. Likely because the holiday season is over.
Shots per day are ramping up quickly, and are now around 1,300,000+-,per day,
moving soon to 1.5 million per day average with some days as much as 2 million
as the drug stores begin giving shots and J&J is being administered. Over
10% of total population has now had a shot. If we add 30+million had the
disease that is 20% are immune or will soon be, and another 23% are children
under 18. So +-43% of all people have had the shot, the virus, or are kids. So
that is the real number to pay attention to. By March 1 it is likely that over
55% will be in this group. By April 1 we should be close to herd immunity
levels of over 70% once J&J is fully deployed in late February. Perspective.
Ignore the scare rhetoric out of the White House which has not yet had time to
change much of anything about the distribution. The drug companies have figured
out ways to get more shots per vial and J&J will be released this
month which will materially add to that number. With the new cases
dropping rapidly, we should be in good shape by June to have shots for anyone
who wants one, and maybe at or near herd immunity. The issue will be to get
everyone to get a shot. That is the real problem now. The economy is now doing
very well and needs no more stimulus. Factories can’t keep up with
demand. However, Biden will take full credit for the strong economic recovery
that will happen in Q2, but the truth is it would have happened with no
stimulus package. Keep eye on oil prices now already up to $54 from under $50.
That is just the start as more oil production gets shut down by Biden. My
estimate that oil prices will not get much over $65 looks like it could have
been too optimistic. Energy prices impact inflation. While there are industries
that have huge layoffs like travel and restaurants, the current programs of an
added $300 a week plus $600, plus added PPP should do the job if the teachers
union will stop their destructive actions to keep schools closed keeping people
from going to work, and if CA and NY and IL will reopen as the rest of the
country is.
Of the $67 billion
allocated to K-12 schools in the last two bills they have only drawn $.45
billion half way through the school year. And now the Dems want to add $130
billion more to no end use. It is a pure payoff to teachers unions to zero
benefit to taxpayers, the kids, or the economy. We do not need more stimulus,
and Biden and his people are lying about an economic crisis. GDP is growing
well now, and by Q2 as the shots are much more widespread, it will boom with
all that pent up demand and huge excess savings. The $1.9 trillion is not
really stimulus, it is a way to pay off teachers and other favored groups of
Dem supporters. Despite all of this Biden has done very little to get schools
to reopen because the teachers are huge donators to Dem elections. The kids be
damned. They should fire any teacher not willing to work now. They are not
working anyway so just fire them as Regan did with the air controllers. They
will come back without the union since they need to work.
The false political
narrative about Robinhood is doing as expected, and ramping up. As I have
explained, brokers are required to keep capital in line with volume to make
sure there are no fails due to the required two days it takes to settle trades.
One solution would be real time settlement which I would think can be done in
today’s high tech instant world. Based on what we know now they did noting
wrong, but that does not matter to social media nor to the Dem chairs of House
committees who have zero knowledge of how Wall St works. Ignore all the
crap about the little guy getting screwed by Robinhood. The houses that clear
for Robinhood required them to put on the limits to protect themselves and
Robinhood and their customers from a meltdown. If Robinhood collapsed, the
market would be at risk of others collapsing, and we would have possibly had a
real problem. Instead the markets functioned as designed. Those
investors who were playing with those stocks knew they were taking a real risk,
and some won big and some lost. That is what markets are. They do not protect
investors from losses if a stock declines, which seems to be the
political victimization mantra we are hearing about the little guy getting
screwed. It is all crap. Expect the hearings next week to be a total circus
with the Dems screeching about how bad Wall St is and needs more regulation
etc. There will be all sorts of attacks on hedge fund short sellers as
some type of crooks. All that should be done to solve the short sale issues is
to bring back the uptick rule that means you can only do a short sale when
there is an uptick in the share price. This stops short runs on a
declining stock. It is all political theater in Congress.
Everything now depends
on Manchin and the Senate parliamentarian. He made some very encouraging
statements on Tuesday evening. Between them, the $1.9 trillion package will not
be able to be approved as is. $15 minimum wage cannot be part of the package
under the Byrd rule. The $1400 will not go to nearly as many people, and
the amount may be reduced. Two income families earning $75,000 might be the
limit. It all makes no sense to hand $2000 to a family making $75,000 and
employed now, which is like a giant bonus, when they don’t really need it to
live on in most of the country. It is purely just a political
bribe. A lot less than $350 billion will go to cities. Manchin holds all the
cards now, and at 72 and reelected, he has little to lose no matter the
pressure. This is his last roundup. If he holds to his positions, and resists
pressure from Schumer and Biden, then the damage will materially reduced. The
final deal is likely to be closer to $1 trillion. The next two weeks will be
critical. Reality is we do not need any new stimulus as they have not even
spent all of the money from the first $3 trillion package, and only a small
portion of the $900 billion. The as yet unspent amount right now is estimated
to be $1 trillion. As the economy opens there is no need for any new payments
to individuals other than possibly those in the hospitality business. As
this whole thing goes on, it is clear Joe has no idea what is going on,
and hasn’t the smarts to understand the ramifications of what he is doing. He
looks like an avatar sitting there signing all these exec orders.
Before the election I
said I would get out of the market if Biden got elected since I was convinced
he would do what he is now doing, issuing all sorts of terrible policies. Then
the vaccines were announced, and that changed everything. I decided to hold on,
and for now I remain invested. It is clear the economy will boom as the year
goes on and the $1.5 trillion of excess savings of consumers hits the retailers
as shutdowns are ended and schools reopen. That will spur factory production
even more than it already is, which is full out. Now it appears 2021 could have
a GDP growth of 6%-8%. The problem is Biden’s flood of executive orders
reversing all of Trump’s deregulation, and Biden’s other executive orders are
job killers. The new approach to kill fossil fuels will run up costs (oil is
already at $55), added to labor regs that are coming, and other EPA rules to
come, will be job killers. I believe there will not be a $15 minimum wage as
Manchin is against it. It is likely that as the terrible Biden policies take
hold, and taxes are raised, there will be material negative impacts on the
economy, but they won’t show up until later this year, or in 2022. As a
result I changed my investment strategy to stay in for now and ride the wave
until things turn negative later this year.
My warnings about Taiwan
being the test for Biden are playing out already. Air intrusions by Chinese
bombers and fighters is now a daily occurrence and getting worse. Chinese
warplanes staged a mock attack on a US carrier group a few days ago. They
sanctioned Pompeo last week. Biden has only said we need to work with China on
things like climate change. He should have loudly said these things cannot
continue if China wants a good relationship with the US, and will not be
tolerated. He will not say that. The Taiwan situation is now at a very
dangerous point, and that could be the first major foreign policy crisis in the
making, with Iran right alongside. The world is in an extremely dangerous place
right now with Biden seemingly more interested in climate and open borders and
$1.9 trillion waste of money that foreign policy. Standby for a major
black swan.
Merkel has now made it
official what I had warned the EU would do. At Davos last week she announced
that the EU will not participate in any actions by the US against China or
Russia, and that trading with China outweighs any geopolitical issues Biden
thought he could get them to cooperate on. In simple terms, the unilateral
approach Trump pursued was the only realistic approach to the China and Russia
problems. That is essentially what she said in different words. The Europeans
do not believe military power matters anymore, and they are not interested in
expending much funding on it unless they are against the Russian border like
Poland or Lithuania. They believe they can trade their way to peace, and are
ignoring Hong Kong and the threats to Taiwan which they deem not of real
interest to them compared to trade with China. The whole pitch of Biden to have
alliances against Russia and China is dead on arrival in the real world. The
recent investment treaty the EU signed with China is far more important to them
than NATO or Taiwan, and they signed that just before the inauguration despite
Biden asking them to wait until he weighed in. They told him no waiting, which
was a clear message of where the EU stands, and how little they care about an
alliance with the US against China. The current US liberal foreign policy
basic ideas of old alliances is dead. It proves Trump was correct to go it
alone, and to build up US military capacity as fast as we can. All of the press
and foreign policy wonks in DC and on campus are living in a world that has
left them behind with the rise of China as a major world economic and military
power that is buying off the rest of the world. The only issue now is will
Japan, S Korea and Australia stand with us if Taiwan is attacked. S Korea is
doubtful and Japan is an unknown. Nobody else other than maybe Australia will
be there. The EU is far more concerned about the far right winning the next
elections given the bad economy, than they are about China or Russia. If the EU
loses the Chinese market, their economy really goes into the toilet, so that now
with Covid, China has a stranglehold on the EU. That is the reality the Biden
foreign policy team does not seem to understand. Biden already blew it with
Putin by signing the 5 year extension of the START treaty. Trump had been in
negotiation to correct serious issues with the treaty, and to have a one year
extension. Biden simply signed it for 5 years and got zero in return. Great
start with Putin, and great message to Iran.
The teachers union
continues to demonstrate that they are all about getting more money and power
and not caring at all about kids who are being destroyed and in some cases
committing suicide now. The Chicago and VA situations are beyond disgraceful
and the Dem mayor and governor have no clue how to beat the union. The union is
now even bragging that it is winning. The parents are screaming that the kids
and parents are losing permanently. Study after study shows schools can be open
safely and in fact are in FL and many other places. The damage the union is
doing to an entire generation of kids, and especially minority kids is
irretrievable now, and is worse than any terrorists could ever hope to do.
Biden says nothing. Catholic and regular private schools have for the most part
stayed open throughout. Nil cases. Proves the teaches unions are ignoring the
reality of medical science and actual facts to the detriment of the kids.
Teachers union should be fined millions and barred from new contracts for what
they are doing to a whole generation of poor kids.
One thing I hear from
virtually everyone now is the enormous concern for freedom of speech being shut
down. It is a major crisis now, and we all need to speak up and stop what is
happening on campus, the press, publishers, online social media, and now in
corporations. It began with speech codes and “safe Places’ on campus, and has
now become the norm in all sorts of places. Campus ideology is rapidly
spreading and destroying what we all believe in, and some of us went to war
for. We need to fight back.
Too bad we can’t shut
off the US and reboot it
I regularly get emails
from subscribers with attachment of things they get off the internet. Many of
these, on checking, are bogus, and often some sort of conspiracy theory. If you
are going to send me one of these, please verify the credibility and truth
before you send it. I have far too many subscribers to be able to read or deal
with so many fake news stories.
You may recall I said
2021 will be more chaotic than 2020. Welcome to 2021, and just look at all the
chaos already in just 5 weeks. It is just beginning.
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Sent to me by a dear friend and memo reader who happens to be a liberal. He hated Trump's behavior and sends me material to buttress his viewpoint. Draw your own conclusions.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/
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Yesterday we went for our second Pfizer Vaccine. So far we have had no reaction. The Pfizer Company also had a raffle for those getting their second shot and we entered. The drawing will take place in June and :
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