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Netanyahu hails end of ‘worst gov’t in Israeli history,’ as new elections are on the horizon From the outset, it was clear that the coalition was destined to fail. Ultimately, the desire to keep Benjamin Netanyahu out of office wasn’t enough to keep a group that agreed on little else together.

NEWS / Knesset to disband, Israel set for new round of elections JNS   OPINION / The solutions and dissolutions that bedevil Israeli politics MATI TUCHFELD / ISRAEL HAYOM

Police Report Proves Plainclothes Electronic Surveillance Unit Members Were Embedded Among Jan. 6 Protesters Source: The Epoch Times While there is growing speculation that federal agents and Capitol Police were involved in instigating acts of violence during the Jan. 6, 2021 protests and recording responses for the purposes of entrapment, evidence now proves that “plainclothes” members of a special Electronic Surveillance Unit (ESU) were embedded among the protesters for the purposes of conducting video surveillance. READ MORE

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Colombia Elects Communist Terrorist as President

 

This Sunday, June 19, Gustavo Petro was elected as the new president of Colombia. In a fierce fight against populist conservative Rodolfo Hernández, Petro won by only 3.13% of the vote.

This is the first time Colombia will be ruled by a leftist president. Petro is a former communist terrorist who belonged to the M19 guerilla group.

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Dear Fellow Investor, On Sunday March 13 on Meet the Press, Ambassador Nikki Haley said -

"When tyrants speak we should listen. Putin said he was gonna take Ukraine and he is.

China said they were gonna take Hong Kong and they did. China says they're going to take Taiwan next - we should be ready for that."

Here are 3 steps you can take to prepare for a Chinese attack on Taiwan >>>

And: The Simple Economics Of Why San Francisco Is Not Recovering by Lee Ohanian via California on Your Mind San Francisco’s business district is on life support. Compared to before the pandemic, vacant office space has increased by 290 percent.  Convention attendance is down by 86 percent. Use of the city’s BART subway system in commercial corridors is down by 75 percent. And it is not just the city’s commercial districts that are struggling; San Francisco lost 6.5 percent of its population in just one year, more than any other major city. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ DAILY FOLIOS AND CONSECUTIVE SENTENCES    Why the January 6 Committee Will Ride Pelosi to a Midterm Landslide She had it all figured out, no less a wise guy than Biden. By DOV FISCHER Frailty, thy name is politics. Nancy Pelosi was so sure she had perfected the recipe to control the House forever and to tie up the GOP. It began with her first bogus impeachment of Trump during the halcyon days when no one ever before had heard of Zelensky or of Hunter Biden’s Burisma gambit. She tied up America for months and gained control of the 24/7 news cycle with her impeachment nonsense and abuse, reinforced by public liar Adam Schiff and Low Life Jerrold Nadler. Ultimately, the House voted to indict (“impeach”), and the Senate rapidly threw it all out — although Mitt Romney got his chance to avenge his jealousy that Trump successfully got elected in 2016 while Romney got beaten by Candy Crowley in 2012. It was a Christmas Season Impeachment, and Pelosi liked it so much that she disseminated souvenir pens. In fact, it played so well for her that she repeated her anti-Trump Christmas Impeachment Passion Play the following December. By now, Trump was departing from office, but she proceeded anyway to impeach him a second time even though he was, shall we say, unimpeachable. Again, she got her Democrat House to vote to indict. Again, the Senate threw it out. And again Romney voted with the Democrats to convict. Ho-hum. But what next for Pelosi? With Trump out of office, how continue the annual impeachment game? She decided on a January 6 committee to investigate whether Trump had instigated an insurrection. She had two purposes: As with the two prior impeachments, she anticipated her January 6 circus would dominate the 24/7 news cycle for the next year or two, assuring Democrats continued control of the House with the 2022 bi-elections. Under explicit American law, anyone who has sworn allegiance to America but thereafter has engaged in insurrection — that specific word: “insurrection” — may never hold office again. That would keep Trump off future ballots. To give her January 6 committee the appearance of bipartisan legitimacy, Pelosi hand-picked Republican House representatives to sit with her hatchet wielders. So, after rejecting Kevin McCarthy’s selection of the likes of Jim Jordan, she appointed Never Trump fanatics Liz Cheney and some guy in Chicago named Kinzinger. Kinzinger is toast and won’t be back next term. Cheney is more interesting. It is family. It is blood. It is genetic. Never underestimate the role of family in guiding politicians. They are human beings. Liz’s father, Dick Cheney, was very close to the Bush family. He served under the father as Secretary of Defense and under the son as Vice President. He liked them so much that he never shot either during a hunt. Alas, Trump ripped the Bushes. He criticized the two Georges for so many of their RINO policies, and he especially launched into Jeb! because, well, Jeb! was running against him. And, honestly, Jeb! really did manifest low energy. So, it is personal. Trump laid into the Bushes, and Liz is there to avenge just as George Dubya 43 was there to avenge Saddam Hussein’s effort to assassinate George H.W. 41. Trump proved a Republican could win the industrial White ethnic blue-collar Midwest vote, a feat Romney could not attain, so Romney is jealous, too. That’s how it goes. Personal. Nevertheless, Pelosi failed to anticipate three factors that would cause Americans to lose interest in her bogus January 6 committee: 1. January 6 happened a year and a half ago. Old news, like barbary pirates and Roman legions. No one cares about pirates these days — except for those following the Johnny Depp–Amber Heard trial. 2. Maybe some political junkies still would have fixated on January 6 if there actually had been an insurrection. But everyone knows there was no insurrection. There was a kid dressed like a caveman. Another fellow dressed like an elk. Look at the Russia-Ukraine mess. Any of them dressed like Hanna-Barbera characters? Or watch Ken Burns’s fabulous documentary on the Civil War. Did Stonewall Jackson come dressed like an elk? By contrast, every sane American knows that January 6 was an angry assemblage that got out of control. Trump explicitly urged the demonstrators to act peacefully and lawfully. It is on video record. Even now, people being convicted are getting 30-day or six-month-type sentences, not the kinds of life imprisonments or death penalties meted to insurrectionists. Many Americans, even those on the Left, personally know people and have friends or family who were there that day in D.C. to protest a stolen election. Demonstrators were there to voice anger over a corrupt presidential election stained by ballot harvesting, by Twitter and Facebook suppressing news of the Hunter Biden laptop, by the abrupt cancellation of the second of the three scheduled debates, and by a biased moderator “pulling a Candy Crowley” by interjecting his unsolicited and absolutely incorrect view that the Hunter Biden laptop was an irrelevant diversion. Well, it sure is relevant today, nearly two years later. So no one serious really perceives that January 6 was an “insurrection” rather than a demonstration that got out of hand. 3. Pelosi failed to anticipate what I call the “DREAMERS” factor: (a) Defunding the police: the massive national effort by Democrats and their Soros-supported DAs to end bail, to downgrade felony prosecutions to misdemeanors, to release prisoners, and to defund police departments. With police under attack and morale destroyed, we now are living through the worst surges in violent crime and murder in decades. Before Biden, who even heard the term “Smash and Grab”? (b) Race: Americans are disgusted with Critical Race Theory and the “1619” lies being spoon-fed to the public. Is there “Systemic Racism”? “White Privilege”? The average independent White voter knows he or she is not a racist and has struggled for whatever job opportunities, promotions, and benefits achieved. People do not need to prove their bona fides to Nancy Pelosi. They hated being called a “basketful of deplorables,” and they hate the new iteration. (c) Education: Parents do not want their first-, second-, and third-graders being taught about transgenderism and sex-change surgery — or about non-binary genderism at all. They don’t want their kids sacrificed to Woke Math and 1619 history. And they sure don’t want to be tagged by Joe Biden’s attorney general as “Domestic Terrorists” just because they are fulfilling their duties as responsible parents. Consider the recent Virginia elections that saw voters turn out Democrats and elect a Republican governor, lieutenant governor, and attorney general. (d) Afghanistan. Biden’s entire foreign policy is a disaster. His evacuation from Afghanistan killed 13 military heroes. North Korea has resumed nuclear-arms testing. China has his number. Had he acted promptly and permitted Poland to send Ukraine the MiG 29’s that Warsaw offered, we might not now be sending $40 billion to Ukraine to help them catch up. He has completely messed up the Abraham Accords, and several of the Arab co-signers refuse even to accept his phone calls. And his outreach to Iran… (e) Mexico border. What to say? Trump had secured the border, and now illegal immigration registers numbers never before seen. One million Illegals? Two million? Where does it end? Biden puts them on planes secretly in the middle of the night, flying them to bolster voter replacement to turn red districts blue, as it has done to California, which once gave us Reagan and Nixon but now gives us Newsom and Kamala. (f) Energy. He has canceled leases for exploring for oil and gas. He closed off ANWR. Canceled the Keystone XL Pipeline. Incorporated in his executive orders his determination to take down the fossil-fuels industries to make place for the exorbitantly higher-cost “Green Energy” that excites his radical-left base. Gasoline prices never have been higher. Home heating bills. And indeed everything’s prices have gone through the roof because everything depends on energy costs: from operating machinery to trucking goods. (g) Religion. Although Biden and Pelosi present “As a Catholic,” they are at war with religion. From forcing their LGBTQIA+ same-sex transgender queer pangender ideas onto little kids to their refusing to condemn those demonstrating outside Supreme Court justices’ homes over abortion to their imposing rules on churches and synagogues, they are at war with religion. (h) Shortages. Parents cannot obtain baby formula in the United States? Really? Not enough supplies of Similac or Enfamil? Bernie Sanders praised the bread lines he saw when he honeymooned in the Soviet Union. But who else likes that? Is that America? Moreover, to add insult to injury, he ships palettes of bab?y formula to Illegals at the border? Really? So you take Biden’s and Pelosi’s “DREAMERS” government, with its record-high 8.3 percent inflation and with home mortgage rates now at 5.3 percent, double what they were a year ago — with many food staples’ prices now inflated even into twenty percent — and, really, who except for Pelosi, Cheney, and the Woke media care at all about January 6? Pelosi thought her January 6 committee would ride her to an election landslide in November 2022. Well, with her obstinate focus there, it sure will Read Dov Fischer every Monday and Thursday in The American Spectator and follow him on Twitter at @DovFischerRabbi To at/tend any or all of Rav Fischer’s weekly 90-minute live Zoom classes on the Weekly Torah Portion, the Biblical Prophets, the Mishnah, Rambam Mishneh Torah, or Advanced Judaic Texts, send an email to: shulstuff@yioc.org (Please note that Rav Fischer’s classes will be on hiatus during May and June.) ++++++++++++++++++++ Next year there should be a holiday for all oppressed legal immigrants who came to America for various reasons and were excluded and treated unfairly. Being Jewish I believe all private "white shoe" clubs, that excluded Jews and Irish, should be open for one day/night and drinks and food should be provided free as well as an 18 hole round of golf. Then I also believe this nonsense should cease.  If black citizens continue to demand they be recognized specially for past sins there are plenty of nations they can go and enjoy the benefits of non-oppression and exclusion.  America's crime, literacy and poverty rate would decline, tax money spent on welfare and other such  benefits could be re-directed toward increased spending for our military upgrade and veteran's needs and reduction on our crippling debt. +++  VP Harris botches Juneteenth history lesson about ‘400 years of slavery’ By Steven Nelson Vice President Kamala Harris bungled a history lesson about the Juneteenth holiday Monday, telling kids that black people were enslaved in America for 400 years — overstating the actual time period by more than 150 years. “I think that we all know today is a day to celebrate the principle of freedom,” Harris told a group of about two dozen elementary school-aged children at the National Museum of African American History & Culture in Washington. “And think about it in terms of the context of history, knowing that black people in America were not free for 400 years of slavery.” “Let this be a day that is a day to celebrate the principle of freedom, but to speak about it honestly and accurately, both in the context of history and current application,” Harris went on during her apparently extemporaneous remarks. The first African slaves in the American colonies arrived in 1619 in Virginia. Slavery was abolished through the 13th Amendment, which was ratified in 1865 — ending 246 years of the practice, not 400. A White House official acknowledged Harris’ error, telling The Post that “the vice president was referring to 400 years since slavery began.” Vice President Kamala Harris bungled a history lesson about the Juneteenth holiday Monday.EPA/Yuri Gripas / POOL Vice President Kamala Harris visits with families for a celebration of Juneteenth at the National Museum of African American History and Culture, Monday, June 20, 2022.AP Photo/Patrick Semansky Harris, the first vice president of partial African ancestry, also said that Juneteenth, which became a federal holiday last year and has its roots in a Texas emancipation celebration, is an opportunity to reflect on the nature of freedom. “With the Emancipation Proclamation and Civil War, it required America to really ask itself, who is free? How do we define freedom? Freedom in terms of the autonomy one should have? Is freedom given to us or are we born with freedom? Right?” Harris said. “I would argue it is our God-given right to have freedom. It is your birthright to have freedom. And then during slavery, freedom was taken. And so we’re not going to celebrate being given back what God gave us anyway, right?” A White House official acknowledged VP Kamala Harris’ error, telling The Post that “the vice president was referring to 400 years since slavery began.”AP Photo/Patrick Semansky “Amen!” a member of her audience said. “We should think about it also in terms of current application, asking is everyone we know free?” Harris went on. “Do we know anyone who is not free? Around the world do all people have freedom? Are there those who are without freedom? When we talk about freedom, are we talking about freedom from — or are we talking about the freedom to?”

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Providing Former Taliban Associates with Visas and Asylum

The Biden administration continues its assault on U.S. national security.

Biden’s botched withdrawal from Afghanistan has created unprecedented threats to U.S. national security as I noted in an earlier article, Biden’s Catastrophic Policies: Immigration and Afghanistan and those threats are about to be exacerbated by a policy change of the Biden administration.

On June 14, 2022 The Los Angeles Times reported, Some Afghan refugees now have chance to avoid terrorism designation that blocked path to U.S.

Here is how this disconcerting news report begins:

Doctors, teachers, engineers and other Afghans who were forced to associate with the Taliban will now have a chance at asylum or visas after the Biden administration loosened a terrorism-related designation on Tuesday, according to government officials and documents reviewed by the Los Angeles Times.

The exemption will be applied on a case by case basis after security vetting and is expected to help Afghans who fled their country after U.S. troops withdrew and the Taliban took over last August, as well as some Afghans who entered the U.S. earlier, said officials from the Department of Homeland Security.

The administration assurances that each case will be adjudicated on a case by case basis that will involve security vetting does absolutely nothing to assuage my serious concerns.

The fact that among the refugees are doctors, teachers and engineers does nothing to prove that these individual do not pose a threat to US security.  I would remind you that Osama bin Laden had a degree in civil engineering (which, in fact, made him all the more dangerous) and George Habash the founder of the PFLP (Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine) an exceedingly violent terrorist organization, was a pediatrician.

That news report and the policy change of the Biden administration comes on the heels of a February 18, 2022 Fox News report: Pentagon IG report says 50 Afghan evacuees brought to US had 'potentially significant security concerns'

Here is how that report began:

A Pentagon inspector general report released this week found that officials identified at least 50 Afghan evacuees who were brought to the United States in the wake of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan whose information indicated "potentially significant security concerns" --and were unable to locate dozens of those who it said had "derogatory information" that would make them ineligible for parole.

The report, released on Thursday, found that U.S. agencies "did not use all available data when vetting Afghan evacuees." The National Ground Intelligence Center (NGIC) later expanded its review to fill the gaps in screening, the report said.

The Fox News report is only the tip of a very huge iceberg.

There is a Yiddish expression that states, “When the fish goes bad, it smells from the head!”

The head of DHS is Alejandro Mayorkas the very same Mayorkas who now promises that the applications for visas and asylum will be carefully scrutinized.

Putting Mayorkas in charge of DHS is the equivalent of putting an arsonist in charge of the fire department!

In short, Mayorkas, who demanded that those who worked for him at USCIS approve virtually all applications for visas, demonstrated serious malfeasance that undermined the integrity of the visa issuing process. 

Even before Biden was sworn in as President, he announced that Mayorkas would be his pick to become the Secretary of DHS (Department of Homeland Security).  I wrote an article about Biden’s choice for this important position in my December 7, 2020 article, Biden's DHS: Department of Homeland Surrender: Alejandro Mayorkas, architect of DACA, picked by Biden to head DHS.

My article included a link to an Inspector General report that was issued on March 24, 2015 into allegations made by employees of USCIS (United States Citizenship and Immigration Services)that were, at the time under the direction of Mayorkas.  Here is how the cover letter from the Inspector General began:

Attached is our report of the investigation on the allegations made against Deputy Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. I have also attached the written statement he gave to our investigators. The report is furnished for whatever action you consider appropriate.

This report resulted from employees within USCIS who stepped forward to tell us what they witnessed. We will protect the confidentiality of these courageous employees, who are protected from retaliation by the Whistleblower Protection Act and whose identities are protected under the provisions of the Inspector General Act. We hope that their actions will set an example for all potential whistleblowers who look to the Office of Inspector General to give them a voice.

My article also included this excerpt:

ABC News published several in-depth articles about the troubling findings of the Office of the Inspector General (OIG).

On March 24, 2015 ABC News reported, “Top Homeland Official Alejandro Mayorkas Accused of Political Favoritism Alejandro Mayorkas oversaw controversial $500,000 visa program.

The above-noted report was preceded by two ABC News reports that were published on February 3, 2015 which illustrate a clear nexus between these visas and national security:

“Whistleblowers: US Gave Visas to Suspected Forgers, Fraudsters, Criminals Internal documents show feds ignored warnings from FBI.”  This report began with this excerpt:

Officials overseeing a federal program that offers an immigration short-cut to wealthy foreign investors have ignored pointed warnings from federal agents and approved visas for some immigrants suspected of having committed fraud, money laundering, and even one applicant with alleged ties to a child porn website, an ABC News investigation has found. The shortcomings prompted concerns within the Department of Homeland Security that the boutique immigration program would be exploited by terrorists, according to internal documents obtained by ABC News.

“It is shocking,” said Sen. Charles Grassley, an Iowa Republican. “Particularly when you have F.B.I. and other law enforcement agencies that are saying national security could be compromised or is being compromised -- that's enough for us to be concerned.”

“Feds Investigating Iran Ties to Firm Involved in US Visa Program Documents: Iranian operatives may be abusing program to "infiltrate" U.S.”  This report began with these excerpt:

Federal agents in Los Angeles are investigating an L.A. shipping firm and its Iranian-born owner who for years have participated in and promoted an obscure U.S. immigration program -- allowing the company to recruit wealthy foreign investors to receive visas and potentially Green Cards, law enforcement sources told ABC News.

The company’s name surfaced in a confidential Department of Homeland Security government document, which raised “concerns that this particular visa program may be abused by Iranian operatives to infiltrate the United States.”

Whistleblowers inside the federal agency that oversees the immigration program told ABC News they have been deeply frustrated by an inability to de-certify the company, even after they became aware of the investigation and saw the company’s name surface in an alarming internal Department Homeland Security memo. The memo, shared with ABC News, outlines concerns that Iran’s Revolutionary Guards have attempted to exploit the visa program “to infiltrate the United States.”

The ABC report included this excerpt about one company in particularly, TTC (Total Transportation Concepts):

The records show that the TTC employee was suspected of ties to an Iranian terror network that was involved in bombing plots and attempted assassinations. In 2012, federal investigators sent an email to immigration officials to advise them against re-certifying American Logistics for the immigration program, warning that an approval “would likely have serious national security implications.”

“I strongly advise against a favorable adjudication,” wrote a Homeland Security Special Agent in the Counter-Proliferation Investigations Center in the April 30, 2012 email.

But agents with United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) moved forward and green-lighted American Logistics and Mahdavi, to continue overseeing a designated “regional center” for a special U.S. immigration program for wealthy foreigners known by its visa classification, EB-5.

Under the best of circumstance, vetting aliens, particularly those who come from countries that are under the control of hostile governments is daunting, to say the least. 

My December 2019 article, Terror Attack At Naval Air Station Highlights Immigration Catastrophe- Limitations in the vetting process endanger national security.was predicated on the deadly shooting at the Pensacola Air Naval Station by a 21 year old member of the Saudi military, Mohammed Saeed Alshamrani, a second lieutenant in the Saudi Air Force as reported in the New York Times on December 6, 2019, Trainee on Military Base Mounts Deadly Attack.

That article included links to reports about other terrorists who were not stopped by the vetting process:

On December 3, 2019 the DOJ reported, Hizballah Operative Sentenced to 40 Years in Prison for Covert Terrorist Activities on Behalf of Hizballah’s Islamic Jihad Organization; Ali Kourani Was Trained by Hizballah’s External Terrorist Operations Component and Gathered Intelligence in New York City in Support of Attack-Planning Efforts.

My recent article, Alleged Hezbollah “Sleeper” Arrested In NYC By Joint Terrorism Task Force included this paragraph:

On September 19, 2019 the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York issued a press release that announced, Manhattan U.S. Attorney Announces Indictment Of New Jersey Man For Terrorist Activities On Behalf Of Hizballah’s Islamic Jihad Organization. The subtitle of that press release provides more disturbing information, Alexei Saab Allegedly Was Trained by Hizballah’s External Terrorist Operations Component in Bomb-Making and Conducted Intelligence-Gathering in New York City and Washington, D.C., and Elsewhere in Support of Hizballah’s Attack-Planning Efforts.

On August 2, 2019 the Justice Department posted thus extremely this worrying news release, Afghanistan National and Former U.S. Military Interpreter Charged for Role in Human Smuggling Conspiracy.

On August 20, 2018 the Department of Justice issued a press release, Two Individuals Charged for Acting as Illegal Agents of the Government of Iran. 

My piece written in February 2018, Saudi Graduate Of Al Qaeda Terror Training Camp Arrested In Oklahoma -  Alleged classmate of 9/11 hijackers attended US flight school in 2016 included a link to the DOJ press release, Saudi Citizen Charged in Oklahoma With Concealing Attendance at Al Qaeda Training Camp.

When you add to the mix the mindset of an individual such as Mayorkas, who has refused to secure our borders, enforce our immigration laws from within the interior of the United States and refuse to pursue immigration fraudsters, as I wrote in my October 22, 2022 article, Biden Administration Plans To Protect Immigration Fraudsters we have a potentially catastrophic situation even as intelligence services warn that within a couple of years ISIS and other terror groups will be in the position to carry out deadly terror attacks within the borders of the United States- the borders the Biden administration refuses to secure.

As I noted in a recent article, Mayorkas is not America’s guardian -- he's its innkeeper.

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