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As we begin the New Year I hope everything good rises in your favor.
I also hope Bama wins and my new hip works so I can get back to playing tennis in April.
Stay well, be safe and the happiest and best ever of New Years to you and yours.
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As the New Year progresses you will hear more from me about LATHAM SADDLER. Latham is running for the Senate. He is articulate, a true hero, bright and organized as can be, and once you meet him you will understand my enthusiasm.
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I know voting for Perdue is dicier for several reasons:
a) He ran a poor campaign for the Senate.
b) Having Trump support you carries some risk.
c) Kemp was not the worst Governor but I believe David is a solid business man and truly conservative.
d) Defeating Stacey is critical and "EVIL"outside money will be pouring in big time for Senator "Warlock" and Stacey among other Democrat candidates.
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This is a fund raising pitch for "Support The First. " I happen to agree with what Kelly has to say.
There was a time when just whispering the name George Soros, as even remotely connected to the downfall of our country, would get you in trouble. You were surely a bigot or a hater...Soros was a philanthropist, didn't you know?!It would take decades for the truth to be heard: that Soros is a monster, misanthrope, and quite possibly the most potent saboteur of the American way of life.
The billionaire globalist has made his intentions quite clear, leveraging his assets to finance D.A. races across the country. And his woke prosecutor beneficiaries have executed his vision of creating a lawless society, ruled by criminals. But there is so much more damage Soros would like to do.
Jesse Kelly and his super-premium panel investigate and expose the Truth about George Soros.
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https://www.pewresearch.org/
https://www.pewresearch.org/
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Something to think about. Getting what you seek can be dangerous.
Imagine Florida with a hurricane coming toward Miami. The governor orders an evacuation. All cars head north.
They all need to be charged in Jacksonville. How does that work.? Has anyone thought about this.?
If all cars were electric and were caught up in a three-hour traffic jam with dead batteries, then what.? Not to mention that there's virtually no heating or air conditioning in an electric vehicle because of high battery consumption.
If you get stuck on the road all night, no battery, no heating, no windshield wipers, no radio, no GPS (all these drains the batteries), all you can do is try calling 911 to take women and children to safety. But they cannot come to help you because all roads are blocked, and they will probably require all police cars will be electric also. When the roads become unblocked no one can move.! Their batteries are dead.
How do you charge the thousands of cars in the traffic jam.? Same problem during summer vacation departures with miles of traffic jams. Yes, AAA is starting to prepare tow trucks to charge electric vehicles. How many can they charge before returning to home base and recharge the trucks.?
There would be virtually no air conditioning in an electric vehicle.
It would drain the batteries quickly. Where is this electricity going to come from.? Today's grid barely handles users' needs
Can't use nuclear, natural gas is quickly running out. Oil fired is out of the question, then where.?
What will be done with billions of dead batteries, can’t bury them in the soil, can’t go to landfills.
The cart is way ahead of the horse. No thought whatsoever to handle any of the problems that batteries can cause.
The press doesn't want to talk or report on any of this.
“RESISTANCE IS NOT FUTILE”
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Trump Endorsement May Help David Purdue in Georgia
(JustPatriots.com)- After former Georgia Senator David Purdue announced his primary challenge to Governor Brian Kemp, a poll released by Fox 5 in Atlanta showed 41 percent of Republican voters supported Kemp while 22 percent supported Purdue.
When respondents were asked if a potential Trump endorsement of Purdue would change whom they supported, Kemp’s support in the poll dropped to 34 percent, while Purdue’s rose to 34 percent.
According to Matt Towery, the chairman of the polling outfit Insider Advantage that conducted the survey, the swing in support shows the impact an endorsement from Donald Trump could have on a primary challenger. Towery said he had never before seen that kind of swing from any other individual endorsement. Even an endorsement by former President Obama didn’t swing the results this much, Towery explained.
Governor Kemp fell out of favor with former President Trump and his supporters after the 2020 election, with Trump accusing Kemp of “caving” to Stacey Abrams and opening the door to voter fraud in Georgia.
After Purdue formally announced, Trump released a statement endorsing Purdue. In his statement, Trump asserted that Governor Kemp would not be able to defeat Stacey Abrams and accused Kemp of caving to Abrams before the 2020 election. Trump then blamed Kemp for the Republicans losing in January’s Senate run-off and he accused Kemp of costing him Georgia in the 2020 race. Trump reiterated that his supporters in Georgia would never vote for Brian Kemp.
Cody Hall, Governor Kemp’s spokesman dismissed Purdue’s entry into the race, claiming he is only running to “soothe his bruised ego” after losing his Senate seat to Democrat Jon Ossoff. Hall placed the blame for the Democrats taking over the Senate on Purdue, adding that now Purdue wants to hand the governor’s office to Stacey Abrams.
As recently as June, Purdue backed Governor Kemp, even introducing the governor at the state Republican Party convention. In response to Purdue’s flip-flop, Kemp said that he has no control over whether Purdue would be “a man of his word.”
When Stacey Abrams first announced that she was running, Governor Kemp had hoped her entry into the race would fire up Republican voters and rally them to his side. Unfortunately for Kemp, President Trump released a statement after Abrams’ announcement saying that his supporters would never vote for Kemp.
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Iran hangs tough and for good reason:
https://thehill.com/opinion/
https://thehill.com/opinion/
Meanwhile:
Biden Administration Silent Against Iran's Mullahs' Terror Threat
by Majid Rafizadeh
The US Department of Justice announced on December 7, 2021 the successful seizure and forfeiture of two large caches of Iranian weapons. The arms were being shipped from Iran to the Houthis in Yemen, in yet another Iranian violation of UN Security Council Resolution 2140. One of the Iranian leaders' main objectives in empowering their militias and terror groups in other countries is to export the Islamic Republic Revolution to other nations. Pictured: Iranian Type 358 surface-to-air missiles that were seized by the US Navy on February 9, 2020. (Image source: US Navy via US Department of Justice)
In the wake of the largest seizure of arms and fuel from Iranian terror groups to date, the Biden administration has remained silent.
The US Department of Justice announced on December 7, 2021 the successful forfeiture of two large caches of Iranian weapons. The weapons reportedly included advanced arms such as "171 guided anti-tank missiles, eight surface-to-air missiles, land attack cruise missile components, anti-ship cruise missile components, thermal weapon optics and other components for missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles [drones]". The U.S. Navy also seized Iranian petroleum products from "four foreign-flagged tankers in or around the Arabian Sea while en route to Venezuela. These actions represent the government's largest-ever forfeitures of fuel and weapons shipments from Iran."
Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) -- created as a military counterweight to the Shah's army to promote Iran's 1979 Revolution, and designated as a terrorist organization by the US Department of State -- orchestrated these shipments.
The IRGC is also the backbone of the clerical establishment in Iran. The senior cadres of the IRGC and the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei enjoy the final say in Iran's domestic and foreign policy and support for proxies. The IRGC, in addition, is engaged in the domestic repression of dissidents; the suppression of freedom of speech, press and assembly, and imprisoning political opponents. The Washington office of an Iranian opposition group, the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), has released a 175-page book, "The Rise of the Revolutionary Guards Corps Financial Empire," demonstrating that the IRGC controls more than half Iran's GDP and owns several major economic powerhouses and religious endowments, such as Astan-e Qods Razavi, in the northeastern city of Mashad. The NCRI also published another detailed book on 15 Iranian terrorist training centers, where the IRGC provides ideological, military and tactical training to foreign recruits, who are later dispatched to conduct terrorist activities in the Middle East and beyond.
These shipments of weapons, which were headed to the Houthis in Yemen, is yet another violation by Iran of United Nations Security Council Resolution 2140:
"Obligation to freeze all funds, other financial assets and economic resources that are owned or controlled, directly or indirectly, by the individuals or entities designated by the Committee, or by individuals or entities acting on their behalf or at their direction, or by entities owned or controlled by them; no funds, financial assets or economic resources to be made available to or for the benefit of such individuals or entities."
Unfortunately the Biden administration has remained silent -- presumably because it does not want to scuttle the prospect of reviving the flimsy, lethal 2015 nuclear deal, also known as the JCPOA, which in reality is a runway for the Islamic Republic, in a few years, to have an unlimited nuclear arsenal.
Meanwhile, the Houthis in Yemen have been fortunate enough to have Iran as a powerful ally in attempts to unseat the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, presumably to take possession of Islam's two holiest places, Mecca and Medina. The Houthis' Iranian backers will not let them run out of ammunition. The Iranian government continues to be persistent in smuggling illicit weapons and technology into Yemen
Iran's efforts to smuggle these illicit weapons to its militia and terror groups gives an insight into the tactics and long-term strategies of Iranian-trained and armed proxies across the Middle East. Their plans and agenda appear to be built on four pillars: destabilization, conflict, assassination, and the rejection of any solution that has Sunni or Western origins. The conflict in Yemen means more to the Iranian regime than merely taunting its Gulf rivals. Rather, it appears to be an ideological crusade to unite the Muslim world under its own Islamist rule, one that will always see any attempts at peace as merely a delay in the process.
The Iranian regime utilizes various methods -- through land, sea and commercial flights -- to smuggle weapons. According to Israel's former ambassador to the UN, Danny Danon:
"The Iranian Al-Quds Force packs weapons, ammunition and missile technology to Hezbollah in suitcases and puts them on Mahan Air flights... These planes fly directly to the airport in Lebanon or Damascus and from there the weapons are transferred on the ground to Hezbollah."
One of the Iranian leaders' main objectives in empowering their militias and terror groups in other countries is to export the Islamic Republic Revolution to other nations. This mission is, in fact, part of Iran's Constitution. The Constitution, its preamble states, "provides the necessary basis for ensuring the continuation of the Revolution at home and abroad." The Iranian Constitution goes on to say that Iran's Army and Revolutionary Guards
"will be responsible not only for guarding and preserving the frontiers of the country, but also for fulfilling the ideological mission of (Shiite) jihad in God's way; that is, extending the sovereignty of God's (Shiite) law throughout the world ... in the hope that this century will witness the establishment of a universal holy government and the downfall of all others."
The Biden administration needs, once and for all, to abandon its appeasement policy towards Iran's ruling mullahs. They are in charge of a predatory regime that has understatedly been called the world's top state sponsor of terrorism. Yet the current US administration seems hell-bent on empowering them.
Dr. Majid Rafizadeh is a business strategist and advisor, Harvard-educated scholar, political scientist, board member of Harvard International Review, and president of the International American Council on the Middle East. He has authored several books on Islam and US foreign policy. He can be reached at Dr.Rafizadeh@Post.Harvard.Edu
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US Sees Iran Nuclear Breakout Time as ‘Really Short’: Senior Official
A number of new generation Iranian centrifuges are seen on display during Iran’s National Nuclear Energy Day in Tehran, Iran April 10, 2021. Iranian Presidency Office/WANA (West Asia News Agency)/Handout via REUTERS.
The United States believes Iran‘s breakout time to producing enough highly enriched uranium for one nuclear weapon is now “really short” and alarming, a senior Biden administration official told reporters on Friday.
The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, did not have a precise time for the breakout, which has been estimated to be a matter of months.
“But it’s really short. It is unacceptably short,” the official said, calling it “alarming.”
The official said Andrea Gacki, the Treasury Department’s director of foreign asset control, was in the United Arab Emirates earlier this week urging private companies not to evade sanctions against Iran.
“If you are evading sanctions, the US will have its eye very much on you. There will be consequences,” the official said.
Negotiators at the ongoing indirect talks between the US and Iran have “weeks,” rather than months, to agree on restoring the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, European powers and the talks’ coordinator said Friday as negotiations adjourned for at least 10 days.
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This is the next book I am going to read while I kill tie waiting for my hip to heal:
How the media lost touch with reality
Batya Ungar-Sargon on the ‘Great Awokening’ of American journalism.
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How the media lost touch with reality
The American mainstream media are losing touch with reality. Journalists are increasingly drawn from elite backgrounds, and newsrooms are coalescing around a woke worldview. The media’s interest in race, gender and sexuality has exploded, while class issues and economic concerns struggle to get a look in. And when stories arrive that disrupt the woke narrative – from the acquittal of Kyle Rittenhouse to Jussie Smollett’s hate-crime hoax – journalists often find themselves on the wrong side of the truth. How did the American media get into this state? And how can proper journalism recover?
Batya Ungar-Sargon is deputy opinion editor at Newsweek and author of Bad News: How Woke Media is Undermining Democracy. She joined Brendan O’Neill for the latest episode of his podcast, The Brendan O’Neill Show. What follows is an edited extract from their conversation. Listen to the full episode here.
Brendan O’Neill: The woke have this notion that America is a white-supremacist country – that it always has been and it probably always will be. How do you think this notion of America being a permanently white-supremacist state came about?
Batya Ungar-Sargon: As racism and white supremacy in America have decreased, the obsession with race in the mainstream liberal media has absolutely skyrocketed. At the same time as our acceptance for things like interracial marriage has increased, the usage of the term ‘white supremacy’ in the liberal press has absolutely skyrocketed. It’s part of what sociologists call the ‘Great Awokening’. White liberals are becoming more extreme in their views on race than black and Latino Americans, who are much more socially conservative in general and are more moderate in their views on race.
The idea that all white people have white privilege that puts them above all people of colour started in the academy. It started with the postmodernist revolution, critical race theory (CRT), and the application of the Frankfurt School’s Marxist view in the cultural sphere. People will often call CRT ‘Marxist’, but the problem with CRT is an insufficiency of Marxism. There is no materialism in it. There is no class analysis.
This now common view that every interaction is about power is a very academic one. It was mainstreamed into American discourse through the media, which is increasingly populated by highly educated Americans, as opposed to the blue-collar journalists of yore. Today, 92 per cent of American journalists have a college degree.
O’Neill: One of the things that white, liberal journalists are very good at is self-loathing. They bash their own whiteness. Yet in some ways, this is the very mechanism through which they preserve their class interests and power. They position themselves as a special caste of people who understand society and the complexity of race relations. The lingua franca of the new elites – the language of white privilege, people of colour, BIPOC and all these other terms – is very important to learn to get ahead in the world. These journalists claim to be batting for the oppressed, but are they not actually defending their own privilege?
Ungar-Sargon: Somebody emailed me recently after reading my book and said that, in England, your accent will tell somebody roughly how much money your father made, where you grew up and what kind of school you went to. In America, it is whether someone uses woke words that will tell you how highly educated someone is. In the US, a class structure is developing in what used to pride itself as a classless society.
As a former woke myself, I think that the people who are in the grip of this mania do truly believe they are on the right side of history. But at the same time, it is so clear that they are shoring up their cultural power and lining their pockets at the expense of others.
There are a host of examples of this, but I will give just one: mass immigration. Mass immigration has been tied to a decrease of between 30 and 40 per cent in black wages over the past 30 years. When you import a whole class of low-skilled labourers, the people who are going to pay for it are the people who have not been allowed to ascend the economic ladder – the working class. Democrats used to be on the side of strong borders, whereas it was the Republicans who were saying we should open the borders – because, as somebody once put it to me, they know slave labour when they see it. Now there has been a total reversal.
It is undeniable that affluent white liberals are the ones who are benefiting economically from mass immigration. They need nannies to look after their children. They need cheap landscaping around their homes. They have literally lined their pockets with the rise in GDP that has happened due to mass immigration. Working-class black Americans are being immiserated under the banner of social justice. That is the model.
O’Neill: Going back to journalism, you talk in your book about how wokeness allows incredibly privileged journalists to feel good about themselves and to think they are still speaking truth to power. Yet as you have just outlined, they benefit enormously from some of the policies that they are pushing and they are clearly part of a new establishment. How are they still able to feel like radicals?
Ungar-Sargon: It is a big displacement exercise. Journalists really should feel immense amounts of economic guilt, but instead they feel racial guilt, which is something you can do nothing about.
This was made worse by the arrival of Donald Trump. Trump was what liberals imagine a working-class person would be like if they came into money. They would obviously get a golden toilet and buy a model wife. Trump rejected all of their liberal mores. He was a perfect aesthetic encapsulation of white, liberal-elite angst about what the working classes are imagined to want.
I have interviewed hundreds and hundreds of Trump voters. All of them, apart from one, said to me that Trump should stop tweeting and making racist comments, and should stop being so undignified. They wanted him to focus on governing. The idea that working-class people were in it for all that gross commentary was just wrong – they were not. But the media, of course, could not get enough of it. So liberals totally missed what Trump was about and what made him successful, which was the hunger for economic populism among the working classes.
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Nobetter way toend he New Yearand Begin The New Year
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