I would urge AT&T to replace Lemon with Peter Schiff. If you want sleaze why not go for the real deal. Schiff is currently busy doctoring January 6, e mails so they will fit the narrative he wants to convey and not the facts of what actually took place.
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CNN Tops the List of Most Biased for 2021
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Senator Blumenthal, Speaks At Connecticut Communist Party Awards Ceremony, Pushes “Build Back Better”
By Art Moore(WND NEWSCENTER) Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., spoke at an awards event held by an affiliate of the Communist Party in his state, touting President Biden’s Build Back Better plan as a promoter of “economic justice.”
The Democratic senator appeared Saturday at the Connecticut People’s World Committee Amistad Awards to distribute certificates of recognition to the three recipients of the awards.
Video by the communist group posted on Facebook(LINK, total proof the event was held by COMMUNISTS) shows emcee Ben McManus inviting members of the audience to “join the Communist Party in this epic time as we make good trouble to uproot systemic racism, retool the war economy, tax the rich, address climate change, secure voting rights and create a new socialist system that puts people, peace and planet before profits.”
Blumenthal said he was there “to honor the great tradition of activism and standing up for individual workers that is represented by the three honorees here.”
“There’s a lot to be working for in economic justice, in racial equity, in establishing a $15 minimum wage and holding corporations accountable for the basic treatment of the American people,” Blumenthal said.
“We need to look at our entire tax system, beginning with Build Back Better.”
The senator concluded with thanks to the Communist Party members for “your help and support over many, many years.”
Washington Examiner columnist Quinn Hillyer commented that it’s “hard for ‘progressive’ Democrats to avoid being likened to communists when a leading Democratic U.S. senator openly consorts with, yes, communists.”
“And this wasn’t just an encounter of happenstance,” he continued. “This was a preplanned, open, full embrace of a Communist Party event, accompanied by fulsome praise for the Communist Party hosts. What it means is that even if U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut isn’t himself a communist, he is indisputably a fellow traveler.”
Nevertheless, Hillyer wrote, Blumenthal “surely will continue to enjoy all the emoluments of power and all the goodwill of his Democratic colleagues despite, or maybe because of, his enthusiastic participation in a Connecticut Communist Party awards ceremony.”
“The Democratic congressional leadership certainly won’t denounce Blumenthal, much less strip him of committee posts, because to them, communism isn’t a mortal threat but a noble ideal that just hasn’t been well-implemented.”
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The saga between Israel and the U.S vis a vis Iran continues:
Gantz was warning Washington, not Tehran
Talk about preparations for a strike on Iran is aimed at restraining American appeasement, though the tactic may not stop back channel nuclear talks that could render Israeli protests moot.
By JONATHAN S. TOBIN
It’s a classic case of good news and bad news. The good news refers to reports that the United States appears to be backing off on its plans to reopen the Jerusalem consulate to the Palestinians that was shuttered when former President Donald Trump moved the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to the Israeli capital in 2018. The bad news is that if that is true, it may be more a function of the Americans realizing that it’s not in their interests to be fighting the Israeli government on two fronts rather than just one. Meaning, if President Joe Biden is, at least for now, not going to make good on his promise to the Palestinian Authority to compromise Israeli sovereignty over its capital, it’s because he is preparing for a major fracas with Prime Minister Naftali Bennett over the Iran nuclear threat.
The problem with monitoring the U.S.-Israel relationship these days is that while some of the action is out in the open, the most important things happening are most likely going on behind the scenes. That’s par for the course in international diplomacy. The problem for Israel, however, is that while Jerusalem is sending both public and private messages to its American ally about the dangers of being led down the garden path by the Iranians into another disaster like the 2015 nuclear deal, it may be that they are being kept out of the loop when it comes to contacts between Washington and Tehran.
The loudest Israeli message to the Biden administration was sounded by Defense Minister Benny Gantz during his appearance last week at the Israeli-American National Council Summit in Hollywood, Fla. Gantz said that he had notified his counterparts in the U.S. government that he had ordered the Israel Defense Forces to prepare for a strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities.
This is far from the first indication that Israel is stepping up preparations for acting on its own to prevent Iran from attaining the status of a nuclear power. But for Gantz to come out and openly speak of IDF planning in such an open manner was a strong message.
Clearly, the Iranians took it as a threat to their facilities and their quest for a nuclear weapon. And they answered it within days with threats of their own, including having one of the regime’s press organs—the English-language Tehran Times—publish a map showing dozens of potential targets for Iranian strikes on the Jewish state under the caption of “Just One Wrong Move!”
The real intended audience for Gantz’s saber-rattling, however, wasn’t the theocrats running Iran. It was mainly intended as a warning to Israel’s American allies that they should understand that for Israel, Iran moving closer to the status of a nuclear threshold state is an existential threat as opposed to a mere security concern.
As the most recent New York Times compendium of leaks from the highly placed sources in the American government shows, the era of good feelings between the Biden administration and Israel’s coalition government may be on thin ice. The shaky alliance of right-, center and left-wing parties has done everything possible to make nice with Biden and his foreign-policy team in the hopes that they could influence U.S. attitudes towards Iran.
The spectacular failures of the American approach to Tehran are obvious. Iran has refused to re-enter the weak nuclear deal negotiated by the Obama administration in 2015—officially called the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA)—and has instead begun to move towards a nuclear bomb, all the while also rejecting Washington’s diplomatic overtures at multiple bursts of talks in Vienna since April.
Biden and the Democrats place all of the blame for this dismal state of affairs on Trump for withdrawing from the nuclear deal and trying to force Iran to negotiate an agreement that would actually forestall an Iranian nuke, which the JCPOA couldn’t accomplish since the sunset clauses in it would have eventually given the rogue regime a legal path to a weapon. This claim ignores the fact that most of the rapid progress that the Iranians have made with respect to uranium enrichment took place after Biden took office. At that point, Tehran no longer had to worry about antagonizing Trump, who was eager to further tighten sanctions on them and drag America’s reluctant European allies along with him.
The administration has been making some noises of its own about the possibility that they will have to come up with some sort of “Plan B” after diplomacy inevitably fails. But the Israelis already know that the American response to Iran’s refusal to negotiate seriously was to back down and offer them a weaker temporary deal in exchange for some sanctions relief. While Biden’s team claims this is now off the table after the Iranians blew off the talks, which were slated to resume with a sputter on Nov. 29, the Israelis are right to be skeptical of these assurances.
So it was significant that the Times article alluded to the very real possibility that both the Israelis and the American public may be in the dark about the administration’s actions.
If, as the Times reports, the Israelis fear that the United States is currently conducting secret back-channel diplomatic discussions with Iran that will lead to renewed public negotiations, whose outcome will be a pre-ordained surrender of Western interests, then they have good reason to think so.
That’s what happened nine years ago when President Barack Obama was conducting his successful re-election campaign in 2012. During his foreign-policy debate with Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, Obama promised that any nuclear agreement with Iran would mean the end of Tehran’s nuclear program. But he was already planning on ignoring that pledge. Senior White House Advisor Valerie Jarrett was conducting backchannel talks with the Iranians and preparing the way for a deal that would contradict Obama’s avowals. By the time new talks had convened in 2013, the Western slide to surrender to Iranian demands was a fait accompli.
While Jarrett is no longer on the federal payroll, most of the same cast of characters that were running foreign policy for Obama are doing the same for Biden. There’s every reason to believe that when their obsession for diplomacy for its own sake is stymied, their reaction will be to again double down on appeasement rather than honestly confront their mistakes and seek a different course.
The Israelis know their window for both attempts to influence Biden and/or to take action on their own may be closing. Once the United States and Iran are back in Vienna and moving towards concluding another nuclear pact that won’t actually stop Iran’s march to a nuclear weapon, it may be too late for the Israelis to act.
Just as troubling is the likelihood that the Americans aren’t taking Gantz’s threats seriously. They know how difficult a military campaign to take out Iran’s nuclear facilities would be even with the much greater forces that the United States can bring to bear on the problem than Israel. And, as the Israelis are finding out, American opposition to Israeli action can be made clear in ways other than diplomatic exchanges. As the Times later reported, the Americans are stalling on delivering new refueling tanker planes that will be needed if Israel is to attack Iran. That won’t impact events in the short term. But it is, at the very least, a symbolic gesture intended to warn the Jewish state to defer to Washington, even if it means sacrificing their defense interests.
At this stage, no one on either side of the alliance knows what the next move on Iran will be. But, if Israel’s all-too-realistic fears about an American secret betrayal prove justified, future protests about Biden’s policies may be a waste of time.
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Has the tide turned?
Blame Voters for the Rising Crime Rate
Just maybe, voters are starting to regret the consequences of electing progressives.
Wonder Land: As District Attorneys pull back on prosecution and focus on areas like bail reduction, crime rates are rising. Perhaps voters are now starting to regret the consequences of electing progressives
For the stressed-out voters in your political life, an aphorism to print and wrap in ribbon for Christmas giving is “Live and learn.” Though in these crime-sodden times, it might need revision: “Die and learn.”
Some 30 major cities across the U.S. are recording record or near-record homicides this year, as Rafael Mangual of the Manhattan Institute noted in these pages recently.
“Smash and grab” became a daily search term in 2021, which also saw the rise of criminals who leveraged unenforced misdemeanors into industrialized shoplifting.
In cities with strict gun laws, such as New York, stabbings have become common by criminals expert on the charging laws for using a knife or gun.
Getting blamed for this mayhem are a generation of so-called progressive prosecutors, such as George Gascón in Los Angeles, Kim Foxx in Chicago and Philadelphia’s Larry Krasner. It’s a long list that includes Baltimore, Boston, Seattle, San Francisco, St. Louis and most of New York City’s boroughs.
Across America, the principle of prevention has been displaced by “intervention,” whatever that means. Of the career criminal accused of murdering Jacqueline Avant in her bedroom in Beverly Hills, Calif., Mr. Gascón said, “As far as we can see, he never received any meaningful intervention that may have helped him set his life on a different path.” This sounds like a line usually assigned to mothers in 1930s gangster movies.
But for all the much-deserved grief getting doled out to these prosecutors, there is a large look-in-the-mirror element to this phenomenon. These progressives weren’t appointed. They didn’t seize power. They were elected by voters in all the cities they now disserve.
Starting about 2016 and again in last year’s post-George Floyd election, progressive candidates running for the office of district attorney caught an urban electoral wave of black voters frustrated by years of disorder, activists who double as university students, and upper-middle-class urbanites—retirees, Googlers—who can abstractly affirm these policies from the safety of their condos and Ubers.
Aligning himself with the summer of 2020’s Black Lives Matter protests in Los Angeles, Mr. Gascón defeated two-term incumbent District Attorney Jackie Lacey, a black woman, with 53.7% of the vote. A Los Angeles Times analysis of the vote concluded he won in plurality-black precincts and the wealthiest white neighborhoods. As has been true generally for progressive prosecutors, Mr. Gascón benefited overwhelmingly from the support of a relatively small number of wealthy donors.
Recent public statements on crime by Mr. Gascón, Philadelphia’s Mr. Krasner, John Chisholm in Milwaukee and Chesa Boudin in San Francisco included something resembling sympathy for the victims but offered no hint of revising the course they’ve set, notably on bail reduction.
Despite the human loss, especially in poor, mostly black neighborhoods, this crime wave’s tolling bells won’t stop until voters decide they’ve had enough and vote these ideas’ perpetrators out of office. How likely is that?
An initial recall effort against Mr. Gascón in L.A. failed to get enough signatures, but in San Francisco, the shoplifting capital of the world, Mr. Boudin must face all voters in a recall election next June.
Chicago and New York may offer the most interesting clues.
Kim Foxx won election in 2016 as Cook County, Ill., prosecutor with 72% of the vote. The pullback on prosecution came quickly. State Attorney Foxx said shoplifters would face only misdemeanor charges unless they stole more than $1,000 or had 10 felony convictions (that’s right, 10).
A Chicago Tribune analysis reported that in her first three years in office, Ms. Foxx dismissed all charges against nearly 30% of felony defendants, or some 25,000 felony cases including for murder, shootings and sex crimes.
In the November 2020 election, Ms. Foxx’s winning margin against a competitive Republican fell to 53%. In Cook County’s suburbs, she dropped from a previous majority to 43%. There have been more than 1,000 murders in Cook County this year.
The nation’s most significant test case on crime’s future is New York City, where Eric Adams will become mayor after running explicitly to clean up crime.
In the Democratic primary, as we’ve noted before, Mr. Adams carried virtually all the most crime-beset precincts in Harlem, the Bronx, Queens and Brooklyn. Maya Wiley, an ardent progressive, won mainly in Brooklyn’s gentrifying neighborhoods. Message sent, you’d think.
Less noticed was that Manhattan voters elected a progressive prosecutor, Alvin Bragg, who defeated a more moderate candidate, Tali Farhadian Weinstein, by 4 points in the Democratic primary. Four of New York’s five boroughs now have progressive prosecutors.
Returning New York City to its golden age of peace (1994-2013) is going to be a heavy lift for Mr. Adams, who should use his considerable political skills to mobilize the silent black majority that made him mayor to restore order. If it can happen in New York, it can happen anywhere.
Ultimately, the progressive criminal-justice project, led by these prosecutors, is a coverup. It’s a conscious decision to look away from 60 years of policy choices that have produced failed urban schools, broken families, immobility and crime.
Just maybe, amid this anarchy, voters are starting to see that.
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When Rudy was the Federal District Atty. in New York he ruled the roost . When he was mayor of New York he ruled the roost. Rudy was a tough, ruthless prosecutor and Mayor. He cleaned up New York and instituted his "broken window" program. New Yorkers revered him,, as they should, because he polished the Big Apple and made the city livable. He paved the way for Mayor Blumberg. However, when he strayed, by defending Trump, that was too much and the left turned on him with a vengeance. Now he is enduring death by a thousand cuts..
Trump was an outsider and a perceived threat to the left's power and anyone associated with Trump is being attacked from Flynn, to Rudy, to McMasters and the list is endless and still growing. This is what the left does to its enemies even those who might have been former friends. The left is ruthless as Rudy is learning.
They love breaking bones. They are as vicious as any extremist group and they will tramp on your civil rights and do whatever it takes to stay in power and bring you down. Lying, cheating and stealing is not beneath them. They come in all colors, ie from Hillary to Stacey and they are frequently more guilty of that which they accuse others. They not only will stab you but have perfected the twist. They will do anything as Rudy is learning. They are out for blood.
Rudy put my former firm, Drexel Burnham, out of business but looked the other way when it came to Goldman Sachs and Salomon Brothers who received slaps on the wrists.
What is being done done to Rudy is unconscionable but live by the sword, perish by the sword.
And:
This is a great and measured speech. Had it been made by any leftist radical progressive Democrat it would have been praised.
Because it was given by Trump it will be known as a cynical speech made by a hypocrite catering to white supremacist's.
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Dick, |
President Trump knows how much heat I took as his attorney. |
I knew full well the price I’d have to pay for defending President Trump from the bloodthirsty Deep State. |
But it didn’t matter. I could not let the Deep State take down a duly elected president all because he chose to fight for the forgotten citizens of our country. |
Now, the Deep State is on a vengeful mission to ruin me personally, professionally, and financially -- and I need YOUR help to fight for my freedom. |
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