The recent book I wrote about, which discussed the newsprint industry in a previous memos, was smack on. I mentioned the book to Mollie and she told me her husband agreed and had just written a review.
The second point she made was, the most recent election was fraught with questionable issues and the progressives took advantage of COVID and finally accomplished their long time goal of changing the way we elect. The idea of mailed balloting lends itself to all kind of fraud and hanky panky as did happen. She cited several cases of such as has already been revealed.
The last vestige, believable/trustworthy elections, has finally been pierced and, unless we make the kind of improvements Florida has made, this Republic is going to continue to do go downhill. What I found particularly interesting was her discussion of the impact that Zuckerberg's targeting 1/2 billion dollar campaign spending had. He spent predominantly in swing districts where money mattered in changing a limited number of votes. He alleged his spending was for both parties but the amounts were vastly disproportionate in favoring Democrats.
After she spoke I discussed with her my view that radical Democrats spend 24/7 doing everything in their power to win whereas, conservatives function around voting time. This mismatch in activity makes all the difference in the world. She understood what I was saying but wasn't as pessimistic as I am. I told her I was born that way.
I told her we had a mutual friend in Kim Strassel and she praised Kim's work.
I look forward to reading her book.
I just finished the biography of Soros and will review it in a forthcoming memo.
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Evidence: ISIS Behind the Texas Synagogue Hostage Crisis
The terrorist group had called for an identical scenario, and for the same reason—to free “our sisters.”
Raymond Ibrahim , Mon Feb 14, 2022
…..Missed, however, is the fact that, a few weeks before Akram stormed the synagogue, the Islamic State (ISIS) issued a directive calling on Muslims to do exactly what Akram did—and for the very same reason he cited.
On Dec. 20, 2021, the ISIS-operated Rocket.Chat communication platform did what it and other jihadist forums always do in the days and weeks leading up to Christmas: it sought to rile and incite Muslims to launch “lone wolf” attacks during the festive season, including by posting a drawing of a veiled jihadist brandishing a bloody knife in one hand while holding the severed head of Santa Claus in the other, with the following message: CONTINUE
And:
Why is no one talking about Iran digging new unbombable nuke facility? - analysis
The facility in Natanz is built deep under a massive mountain, making it extremely difficult for the IDF to ever bomb it.
By YONAH JEREMY BOB, FEBRUARY 16, 2022
…..Iran is developing a new nuclear threat that could be a game-changer and which will continue to proceed regardless of whether there is a nuclear deal or not.
It is a problem that almost no one is talking about in an area called Natanz where the Mossad allegedly blew up two different nuclear facilities in July 2020 and April 2021 respectively. CONTINUE
And:
Israel strikes Syrian targets with anti-aircraft missiles
The attack was reportedly aimed at Iranian militias located southwest of the capital Damascus. There was property damage at the scene.
Missile fire is seen from Damascus, Syria May 10, 2018. (photo credit: REUTERS/OMAR SANADIKI)
Israel attacked Syrian targets in the village of Zakia, southern Damascus, with anti-aircraft missiles fired from the Golan Heights, SANA reports.
A military source told SANA that "at around 11:35 on Wednesday, February 16, 2022, the Israeli enemy carried out an airstrike with anto-aircraft missiles fired from the occupied of the Syrian Golan region."
"The aggression targeted some points in the vicinity of the town of Zakiyah, south of Damascus, and the (Syrian) air defenses shot down some of these missiles," the source added.
The attack was reportedly aimed at Iranian militias located southwest of the capital Damascus. There was property damage at the scene.
Israel and Syria frequently engage in cross-border military strikes, with the most recent incident coming on February 8th when rocket sirens blared in and near Umm al-Fahm in northern Israel. Syrian state media reported an alleged Israeli airstrike near Damascus that night, while the IDF confirmed that an anti-aircraft missile fired from Syria was responsible for the sirens and that the missile exploded in mid-air.
This is a developing story.
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Either that is a rhetorical question or the writer is stupid.
America is a centrist nation of deplorables and from time to time some radicals believe they have the answer to what we need and try and take over things. Americans are slow to re-acts but they reject bullies, are always willing to eventually do the right thing but it takes time for "Bassett Hounds " to get around to matters.
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Good morning. Why are liberal candidates losing elections in liberal cities?
By David Leonhardt
An earthquake
Elections to the San Francisco Board of Education are not normally national bellwethers. The city is a proud symbol of liberalism, not a swing district, and school-board elections — as Thomas Fuller, The Times’s San Francisco bureau chief, notes — “have for decades been obscure sideshows to the more high-profile political contests.”
But the recall election this week that ousted three board members wasn’t about only local politics. It also reflected a trend: Many Americans, even in liberal places, seem frustrated by what they consider a leftward lurch from parts of the Democratic Party and its allies. This frustration spans several issues, including education, crime and Covid-19.
Consider these election results from last year, all in politically blue places:
In Minneapolis, voters rejected a ballot measure to replace the city’s Police Department with an agency that would have focused less on law enforcement.
In Seattle, voters elected Ann Davison — a lawyer who had recently quit the Democratic Party because she thought it had moved “so far left” — as the city’s top prosecutor. Davison beat a candidate who wanted to abolish the police.
In New York, voters elected as their mayor Eric Adams, a Democrat who revels in defying liberal orthodoxy. As a candidate, Adams promised to crack down on crime. Since taking office, he has signaled his frustration with Covid restrictions.
In the Democratic-leaning suburbs of both New Jersey and Virginia, Republican candidates for governor did surprisingly well. Several postelection analyses — including one by aides to Phil Murphy, New Jersey’s Democratic governor, who narrowly survived — concluded that anger over Covid policies played a central role.
Three reasons for change
The San Francisco school-board recall joins this list. There, three separate issues drove the campaign.
First, the school board had attempted to rename 44 schools, so that they no longer honored anybody deemed reactionary. Among the apparent reactionaries were Paul Revere, George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Senator Dianne Feinstein and John Muir, the environmentalist.
Second, the board tried to scrap an admissions system, based on grades and test scores, for Lowell High School, which Mark Barabak of The Los Angeles Times calls “one of the city’s most sacred institutions.” A lottery would have replaced it.
Third, the board kept schools closed for months during the pandemic and showed little concern for the damage. One of the since-recalled board members waved away the ineffectiveness of remote classes, saying that children were “just having different learning experiences.”
To many parents, board members have seemed overly focused on projecting symbols of virtuousness while ignoring the needs of families. “We are not getting the basics right,” Siva Raj, a father who helped organize the recall effort, said.
Another recall organizer, Autumn Looijen, used an analogy to explain the anger. Covid was akin to an earthquake that forced people to move into tents on the sidewalk, she suggested. “Finally, your elected leaders show up and you’re like, ‘Thank God, here’s some help,’” Looijen told Politico. “And they say, ‘We are here to help. We’re going to change the street signs for you.’”
What’s striking about this situation is that the Republican Party is also out of step with public opinion on many of the same issues. Republicans have defended the Confederate flag, nominated candidates who make racist comments and launched an exaggerated campaign against critical race theory. Republicans have opposed popular measures to improve police accountability and gun regulations. Republicans have made false statements about Covid vaccines and claimed that masks are a tool of government oppression.
Rather than responding with positions that are both more liberal and more popular, some Democrats and progressive activists have responded by overreaching public opinion in the other direction.
They have opposed the resumption of normal operations in schools. They have said they would no longer honor popular former presidents, like Thomas Jefferson and Theodore Roosevelt. They have called for defunding the police.
They have also called for abolishing the agency that enforces immigration laws; eliminating private health insurance, maintaining the current system of affirmative action and forbidding almost all abortion restrictions.
Dividing lines
On some of these issues, public opinion splits along racial lines, with Democrats taking the positions favored by voters of color and Republicans aligning with white voters. Many Democrats believe that it would be immoral to do otherwise, whatever the political price.
On other issues, though, the racial dynamics are messier. Many Asian and Latino voters oppose the current version of affirmative action, which helps explain why the changes to Lowell High School resonated in San Francisco. Many Black and Latino voters are to the right of Democratic politicians on abortion and crime.
Class seems to be at least as big a dividing line as race. College-educated Democrats — who dominate the ranks of politicians, campaign staffs and activist organizations — tend to be well to the left of working-class Democrats. By catering to its well-off base, the party creates electoral problems for itself, because there are more working-class Americans than college graduates.
You could see this dividing line in the New York mayor’s race. Adams won the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island with a multiracial coalition, while losing affluent white neighborhoods. (Adams’s heterodox politics are common among Black Americans, the political scientist Christina Greer has written.)
You can also see the dividing line in San Francisco, where the city’s mayor, London Breed, who is Black, endorsed the recall. In an interview with Yahoo News this week, Breed said, “It breaks my heart that kids in our public school system still have to wear masks.”
Her comments are a reminder that many elected Democrats, including President Biden, tend to disagree with the party’s left flank on several of these issues and to be more in tune with public opinion. But that flank nonetheless influences voters’ image of the party. In the most recent national elections, in 2020, Democrats fared worse than they expected, despite the highest voter turnout in decades.
+++++++++++++++++++ Last ight I finished ; The Man Behind The Curtain: Inside the Secret Network of George Soros ByLast night we attended a dinner at which Mollie Hemingway spoke and gave out her latest book: "Rigged."
The recent book I wrote about, which discussed the newsprint industry in a previous memos, was smack on. I mentioned the book to Mollie and she told me her husband agreed and had just written a review.
The second point she made was, the most recent election was fraught with questionable issues and the progressives took advantage of COVID and finally accomplished their long time goal of changing the way we elect. The idea of mailed balloting lends itself to all kind of fraud and hanky panky as did happen. She cited several cases of such as has already been revealed.
The last vestige, believable/trustworthy elections, has finally been pierced and, unless we make the kind of improvements Florida has made, this Republic is going to continue to do go downhill. What I found particularly interesting was her discussion of the impact that Zuckerberg's targeting 1/2 billion dollar campaign spending had. He spent predominantly in swing districts where money mattered in changing a limited number of votes. He alleged his spending was for both parties but the amounts were vastly disproportionate in favoring Democrats.
After she spoke I discussed with her my view that radical Democrats spend 24/7 doing everything in their power to win whereas, conservatives function around voting time. This mismatch in activity makes all the difference in the world. She understood what I was saying but wasn't as pessimistic as I am. I told her I was born that way.
I told her we had a mutual friend in Kim Strassel and she praised Kim's work.
I look forward to reading her book.
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I just finished the biography of Soros: " The Man Behind the Curtain: Inside the Secret Network of George Soros by Matt Palumbo,
The remaining chapters outline the explicit reach Soros has established using the media and how extensive it is (the entire world) and how much he has financed various entities and the amazing impact he is having in carrying out his philosophy Suffice it to say, with well over 30 billion dollars to spend, he has more influence than any one human other than Bill Gates and his former wife and maybe Facebook's, Zuckerberg.
After the ending chapter the author summarizes the various organization Soros Funded through various methods, some legal some possibly illegal.
His tentacles employ many forms: radio, print, television, investigative outlets, independent media, blogs and more. His announced goal is to press for open borders, mass refugee re-settlement, anti-law and-order narratives, racial justice and more. He actually began his political donations in 1939. In 2020 his budget through OSF (Open Society Foundation) was $25,8 million and his funding is made through OSF's "Program on Independent Journalism."
His contacts and relationships are extensive and one of his closest connections is with the President of Bard College. Soros acknowledges his Jewish background but his funding is extensively through and to organizations that are either anti-Semitic in intent or anti-Israel, such as J Street and The BDS Movement.
He was actively involved in the Impeachment Echo Chamber against Trump through his funding of the Washington-based Democracy Integrity Project. One cannot help notice that many of the projects he funds have benign names that suggest they are democratic in nature when, in fact, they are the complete reverse in terms of their functions/goals.
Though Soros' began in Europe his focus has shifted to America and his involvement and domestic political contacts are vast and predominantly with Democrats. His greatest recent political successes have been funding radical district attorney campaigns in Georgia, Seattle, Philadelphia, Los Angeles-San Francisco, New York, Arizona (he was able to defeat Sheriff Joe Arpaio), Orlando, Missouri, Illinois, Louisiana and other major cities and states.
The increase in criminal activity in each of these cities and states is directly attributable to anti-law and order programs these radical DA's have initiated once getting into office. Soros has also been effective in reducing police numbers with his funding of "defunding" police programs.
The book was published in January of this year, somewhat before Putin's move on Ukraine, so there is no information regarding the impact of Putin's initiatives On Soros' vast expenditures in that country.
Soros' is expanding his influence in Asia and Africa and even South America where his primary focus has been Brazil and Columbia. He also is beginning to fund activities in the Middle East. Soros divested his investment in Soda Stream, an Israeli Company, in keeping with his support of the BDS Movement.
In the summer of 2016 a website called "DC Leaks" leaked a massive trove of files from various Soros organizations. The documents shed light on what is going on inside the murky world of this dangerous interloper and Facebook immediately suspended "DC Leaks." I mention this because the various organizations receiving Soros funding have a habit of defending him the very minute he is attacked. It has become almost ludicrous the length to which they seek to humanize this sociopath and how many go a step further by denying his funding has any impact n their objectivity.
The author, in my opinion, ended rather abruptly and in retrospect the book is more an accounting and tracking of "follow the money trail" than a deep insight into the person. Perhaps they are one and the same. Suffice it to say I learned more than I though about this man in terms of the extensiveness of his activities and the author simply affirmed how dangerous this modern day Rasputin has come to be.
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