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IF REPUBLICANS CAN'T TURN BIDEN'S DESPICABLE VERSION OF HILLARY'S "DEPORABLES" INTO A CLEAR MESSAGE OF REJECTION THEN THEY ARE BEYOND HOPELESS.
THEY NEED TO TELL VOTERS HOW THEY ARE GOING TOTRN BIDEN'S MESS AROUND. YOU HAVE TO GIVE VOTERS SOMETHING TO BELIEVE IN SO THEY HAVE A BASIS FOR MAKINGAN INFORMED OPINION. DUH!
AS FOR BIDEN, HOW MANY TIMES MUST HE SHOW HIS TRUE STRIPES IN ORDER FOR VOTERSTO COME TO THE REALIZATION HE IS ONE OF THE NASTIEST AND MOST CORRUPT PRESIDENTS OUR NATION EVER ELECTED?
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WHEN THE FBI IS CORRUPTED MATTERS HAVE GOTTEN PRETTY BAD.
HAD Bobulinski SAID THIS ABOUT THE CLINTON'S NOT SURE HE WOULD STILL BE HERE. NEVERTHELESS, HE STILL NEEDS TO WATCH HIS BACK.
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FBI agent Timothy Thibault hid intel from whistleblower on Hunter and the ‘Big Guy’ Joe Biden
Miranda Devine
Timothy Thibault, the FBI agent alleged to have interfered with an investigation into Hunter Biden, was assigned by the Washington Field Office as “point man” to manage whistleblower Tony Bobulinski, the first son’s former business partner, before the 2020 election — but he suppressed his damning revelations, sources say.
Bobulinski spent over five hours secretly being interviewed by the FBI on Oct. 23, 2020, about his inside knowledge of then-presidential candidate Joe Biden’s involvement in his son’s business deals with China.
The previous day he had revealed in a press conference that Joe Biden was the “Big Guy” due to get a 10% cut of a lucrative joint venture with Chinese energy firm CEFC, according to an email found on Hunter’s abandoned laptop.
Bobulinski gave the FBI the contents of three cellphones containing encrypted messages between Hunter and his business partners, along with emails and financial documents detailing the Biden family’s corrupt influence peddling operation in foreign countries during Joe’s vice presidency.
But his evidence appears to have fallen into the same black hole at the FBI as Hunter’s laptop, never to be seen again.
The tale he told
Tony BobulinskiTony Bobulinski, a former business associate of Hunter Biden, speaks to journalists in 2020.Tom Brenner/REUTERS
Bobulinski’s FBI interview came the week after The Post published material from the laptop, including the “Big Guy” message and an email from a Ukrainian energy company executive thanking Hunter for organizing a 2015 meeting in Washington with then-VP Biden.
On the day Bobulinski went to the FBI’s Washington Field Office, 11 days before the 2020 presidential election, he was told not to walk in the front door, but to drive into an underground parking garage at the back of the nondescript eight-story building in northwest DC, one mile from FBI headquarters.
He was met by James Dawson, then-Special Agent in Charge of the Criminal and Cyber Division, and FBI Supervisory Special agent Giulio Arseni.
They turned him over to two younger agents, William Novak and Garrett Churchill, who conducted the videotaped interview and provided a receipt for Bobulinski’s digital data.
He told them about the work Hunter, his uncle Jim Biden, and partners James Gilliar and Rob Walker did during Joe’s vice presidency, in 2015 and 2016, using the Biden name to help CEFC expand into Oman, Romania, Georgia, Kazakhstan and beyond. He told them about Hunter’s lucrative personal relationship with CEFC chairman Ye Jianming at the time the company was brokering China’s $9 billion acquisition of the Russian state oil giant Rosneft. Ye was arrested in China in 2018 after the deal fell over.
CEFC was the capitalist arm of China’s Belt and Road initiative to extend the communist regime’s influence around the globe.
Bobulinski also told the FBI about Hunter’s associations with oligarch Mykola Zlochevsky, owner of corrupt Ukrainian energy company Burisma, with Romanian billionaire Gabriel Popoviciu, and with retired FBI director Louis Freeh, who was brought in by Hunter as a consultant to help Popoviciu escape corruption charges in Romania.
Novak and Churchill paused the interview to consult with Dawson a number of times, according to one insider.
Arseni came into the room occasionally and an FBI forensic team visited.
Bobulinski and his lawyer were given Thibault’s cellphone number and told that he would be their “point man” at the FBI thereafter.
That night, Bobulinski’s lawyer phoned Thibault, who said he would soon advise on next steps and whether Bobulinski should do a follow-up interview.
But neither Bobulinski nor his lawyer was contacted again. Nor was Bobulinski brought before a Delaware grand jury investigating Hunter.
Dawson moved to the field office in Little Rock, Ark., last July.
Thibault retired from the FBI last week, amid an investigation by the Office of Special Counsel into his anti-Trump social media posts, and after Republican senators made public allegations that he buried Hunter Biden material which would have damaged Joe’s candidacy.
‘Improperly discredited’
Whistleblowers alleged to Senator Chuck Grassley that, in the same month as Bobulinski’s FBI interview, then-Assistant Special Agent in Charge Thibault ordered an investigation into Hunter Biden’s alleged “criminal financial and related activity” be closed.
“In October 2020, an avenue of additional derogatory Hunter Biden reporting was ordered closed at the direction of ASAC Thibault,” Grassley wrote six weeks ago in a letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray and Attorney General Merrick Garland.
“It’s been alleged that the FBI HQ team suggested to the FBI agents that the information was at risk of disinformation; however, according to allegations, [it] was either verified or verifiable via criminal search warrants . . . Thibault allegedly ordered the matter closed without providing a valid reason, as required by FBI guidelines [and] it’s alleged that FBI officials, including ASAC Thibault, subsequently attempted to improperly mark the matter in FBI systems so that it could not be opened in the future.”
Grassley also alleged that FBI Supervisory Intelligence Analyst Brian Auten had opened an assessment in August 2020, which was used by an FBI Headquarters team to “improperly discredit negative Hunter Biden information as disinformation and caused investigative activity to cease . . . Verified and verifiable derogatory information on Hunter Biden was falsely labeled as disinformation.”
Thibault denied Grassley’s allegations last week. A statement from his pro-bono lawyer said he “did not supervise the investigation of Hunter Biden which . . . is being handled by the Baltimore Field Office.
“In particular, Mr. Thibault was not involved in any decisions related to any laptop that may be at issue in that investigation and he did not seek to close the investigation.”
But Thibault’s statement omits any explanation of what he did with Bobulinski’s information.
Did he give it to the FBI’s Baltimore field office, which was assisting Delaware US Attorney David Weiss’ four-year probe of Hunter for alleged tax evasion, money laundering and foreign agent violations?
If he did, then why has Bobulinski never testified before the grand jury convened by Weiss last year?
Other business partners of Hunter testified and at least one was asked the identity of “the Big Guy,” according to a source.
A credible source
It seems inexplicable that Bobulinski — who met twice with Joe Biden in 2017 over the CEFC deal, and provided information which corroborates damning material on Hunter’s laptop — is not a star witness, especially since the FBI has been in possession of the laptop since December 2019, and knows it is authentic.
It is not as if Bobulinski is not highly credible. He is a decorated former Naval officer with top secret security clearances from the National Security Agency and the Department of Energy. A successful businessman, he has donated to both sides of politics.
In the interests of national security, it was the FBI’s duty to investigate credible evidence suggesting the future president may have been compromised by China via millions of dollars paid to his family.
Even if the FBI was reluctant, after its 2016 Hillary email debacle, to take action that could be deemed political during an election campaign, there is no excuse for not following up with Bobulinski afterward.
The FBI’s failure to do so amounts to interference-by-omission in the 2020 election.
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THIS IS WHAT I MEAN WHEN I WRITE ABOUT THE DISCONNECT. THOSE THAT WANT TO DESTROY AMERICA ARE AT IT 24/7.
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How Teachers Are Secretly Taught Critical Race Theory
By Nicole Ault and Megan Keller
In 2018 the Tredyffrin-Easttown School District near Philadelphia signed a contract with Pacific Educational Group, a California-based consulting firm. According to the school district’s website, the partnership’s purpose was “to enhance the policies and practices around racial equity.” The district assured parents in an online update last summer that no “course, curriculum or program” in the district “teaches Critical Race Theory.”
Benjamin Auslander didn’t buy it. The parent of a high schooler in the district, he wanted to see the materials used to train teachers. Mr. Auslander, 54, made a formal document request but was denied. Officials told him the materials couldn’t be shared because they were protected by Pacific Educational Group’s copyright. His only option was to inspect them in person—no copies or photos allowed. “What are you trying to hide?” he asked school board members at a meeting in December.
Mr. Auslander accepted the district’s offer and in February went to inspect the documents in person. When he tried to record voice memos on his phone about what he was reading a district official called it a copyright violation. According to a subsequent complaint filed by Mr. Auslander in federal court, the official threatened him “with civil and criminal liability” if he kept recording. The official then ended the meeting.
In April, Mr. Auslander sued the district. His argument? The First Amendment protects his right to access information about officials’ public activities and issues of public debate without retaliation. Pacific Educational Group declined to defend its copyright claim, and in June the judge in the case vacated a confidentiality order on the training materials.
Our examination of those materials indicates that Tredyffrin-Easttown staff are being trained in critical race theory.
Documents emailed from 2019 to 2021 by Pacific Educational Group to district administrators in advance of various training seminars cite critical race theory explicitly. A rubric dated Feb. 4, 2020, encourages participants to “Deconstruct the Presence and role of Whiteness” in their lives. A March 17, 2020, presentation lists “aspects and assumptions of white culture” in the U.S. Some are negative, such as “win at all costs,” “wealth = worth,” “don’t show emotion,” and in reference to food, “bland is best.” Others are seemingly universal principles such as “cause-and-effect relationships,” “objective, rational, linear thinking,” and “plan for future.”
That presentation also spells out the “5 tenets of critical race theory” to “better understand the critical intersection of race and schooling.” One tenet is the “permanence of racism,” or the idea that “racism is endemic to all our institutions, systems and structures” in the U.S. Another is “whiteness as property.” The “critique of liberalism” tenet argues that “colorblindness,” “neutrality of the law” and the “myth of meritocracy” must be “deconstructed.”
These tenets aren’t presented as abstract notions for faculty to consider, but ideas they’re meant to apply. School staff’s ability to use “critical race theory . . . to inform racial equity leadership and analysis of school policies, practices and procedures” is considered a sign of the successful “internalization and application” of Pacific Educational Group’s framework. And a chart includes “Critical Race Theory” as a step toward “Equity/Anti-Racism School Transformation Action Planning.” A Feb. 3, 2021, seminar is even titled “Using Critical Race Theory to Transform Leadership and District.”
Brian Elias, an attorney representing the school district, told us via email that these materials “were for District leadership team training only.” He insisted that materials “were not designed to train for classroom teaching” but merely to help district leaders understand “what Critical Race Theory is.” He added that “none of the training designed for core classroom teachers included a discussion of critical race theory.”
Does that mean no Tredyffrin-Easttown teachers attended Pacific Educational Group training that discussed critical race theory? Mr. Elias refused to say.
Information on the district’s website seems to show that they did. A 2020 update on the district’s racial equity work declares that five to eight teachers from each “building” in the district would attend Site Equity Leadership Team, or E-Team, training. The material quoted above was marked to be included in E-Team training.
Perhaps districts like Tredyffrin-Easttown think they can shoo parents away by making a distinction between teacher training and curriculum. But what is the point of teacher training if not to inform teachers on how they should teach?
Teacher training is “where a lot of bad things actually happen,” says Nicole Neily, president of Parents Defending Education, a nonprofit advocacy group. She says the group’s tip line hears often from frustrated teachers forced to endure training in woke concepts. Records requests and whistleblowers have uncovered staff training, including in Loudoun County, Va., and Rhode Island, that push “antiracism” ideology.
Tredyffrin-Easttown is far from the only district contracting with teacher-training organizations like Pacific Educational Group. Lawmakers in some states are pushing—with little success—to require schools to post their classroom and teacher-training materials online. Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers vetoed a transparency bill in December. A former teacher and principal, Mr. Evers was Wisconsin’s elected superintendent of public instruction for a decade.
Mr. Auslander is still fighting in court to prove that the Tredyffrin-Easttown school district violated his rights by denying him access to the documents and allegedly threatening him with liability if he recorded what he saw. The district maintains that its actions were justified because of the copyright asserted by Pacific Educational Group at the time. If Mr. Auslander gets a favorable ruling, it may help protect Pennsylvania parents from similar stonewalling by educators. If Tredyffrin-Easttown continues to make a dubious distinction between teacher training and classroom instruction, more parents may start to wonder exactly what it is the district is trying to hide.
Ms. Ault is an assistant editorial page writer at the Journal. Ms. Keller is an assistant editorial features editor at the Journal.
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I WAS HAVING LUNCH WIH A FRIEND LAST WEEK AT ONE OF OUR CLUBS AND THE WAITRESS WAS NEW SO I ASKED HER HOW LONG SHE HAD BEEN HERE AND WHERE SHE CAME FROM. SHE SAID CALIFORNIA, SO I ASKED HER WHAT MOTIVATED HER TO COME TO SAVANNAH.
SHE SAID SHE COULD NO LONGER AFFORD CALIFORNIA AND WAS NOW SPENDING HALF AS MUCH FOR A PLACE TO LIVE THAT WAS TWICE AS LARGE AS IN CALIFORNIA, GAS WAS ALMOST HALF THE PRICE AND IT WAS SAFER HERE. SHE HAD A DEGREE IN BOTANY, WAS VERY ATTRACTIVE AND A FINE WAITRESS.
I ASKED HER WAS THERE ANYTHING SHE DID NOT LIKE AND SHE SAID IT RAINED TOO MUCH AND I TOLD HER WE WERE EXPERIENCING A WETTER THAN NORMAL SUMMER.
BY COMING TO SAVANNAH, SHE IS LIVING THE JEFFERSON'S THEME SONG - "MOVING ON UP."
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Goodbye, San Francisco. Hello, Nashville. Americans are fleeing dysfunctional cities.
Unplanned experiments can lead to breakthroughs. Two years after “the summer of COVID and crime,” when the coronavirus and surging violence swept through America’s urban areas, cities are ripe for reform.
Not since the 1990s has the need to improve and transform metropolitan areas been as great. While it’s too early to predict an urban renaissance, it is also too early to rule one out.
The failures of Great Society programs produced a flurry of reforms in American cities 30 years ago: from school choice to community policing to welfare reform. Today, high-cost and dysfunctional cities from New York to San Francisco are suffering from missteps exacerbated by the recent crises, and need to be reformed.
Before COVID-19 separated place of work from place of residence for millions of workers, larger cities could afford to be unaffordable. Their leaders could champion progressive notions of “equity” while quietly pricing out the middle class, just as they could decry “racist cops” while silently relying on police to keep their streets safe. Two years after the summer of 2020, things have changed.
Companies moving out of high-cost areas
The recent cascading announcements by companies such as Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Oracle Corp., Boeing Co., Citadel, among others, that they are leaving high-cost urban areas for more livable cities in states such as Florida, Texas and Virginia have not happened in a vacuum.
Urban leaders who have treated cost-of-living concerns, crime and schools as unworthy of their attention are discovering that many residents no longer find their cities worthy of their continued loyalty, or tax dollars.
As crime rates soared, urban elites downplayed the crime problem that every urban resident knew was worsening. They defunded or restrained the police as violence skyrocketed. People fled urban areas and others stopped moving to them.
Between 2020 and 2021, roughly the same share of Black residents left large cities as moved into the suburbs.
Historically, when people leave troubled cities, they head for places we might call “opportunity metros” (places such as Austin, Texas, Nashville, Tennessee, and Raleigh, North Carolina, for example) with good job prospects and livability.
They still do, but because the location of one’s job is less relevant for millions of workers, people have moved primarily because of quality-of-life and affordability concerns, which have exposed the deep weaknesses of America’s higher-cost cities.
So, two years after America’s unplanned COVID-and-crime experiment began, we can take stock of some lessons for reformers.
Miami is top destination for New Yorkers
First, opportunity metros did well during the pandemic. Among the 56 metro areas with more than a million residents, familiar destinations such as Austin and Raleigh continued to serve as landing pads for coastal migrants, but so did places like Jacksonville, Florida, and Oklahoma City.
Apartment rental data shows that Miami was the top destination for people fleeing New York, and data from the real estate company Redfin shows that Los Angeles was the No. 1 point of origin during the past two years for people moving to Dallas.
The common characteristics of those destination cities – relatively affordable housing, amenities, good jobs – can be found almost anywhere people have moved to during the pandemic.
Second, new business growth and business confidence have migrated to opportunity metros, heartland cities and the suburbs. In an unexpected reversal of a 40-year trend, startups increased during the pandemic, especially in places such as Houston and Charlotte, North Carolina.
Census surveys show that two years after COVID lockdowns began, Charlotte; Riverside, California; Miami and Phoenix were the four cities where most employers said their operations had returned to normal. San Francisco and San Jose were at the bottom of the list.
Employers in New York, San Francisco and San Jose were among the most likely to say COVID had hurt their businesses, while those in Indianapolis, Tampa and Denver were the least likely.
The trend is obvious. Whether expressed by footloose workers with marketable skills or employers trying to grow their businesses, the geography of opportunity has skewed away from long-established large older cities.
The third and most publicized lesson since 2020 is that devaluing policing, either by defunding or restricting police operations, is disastrous for entire metro areas. Surveys show an uptick in concern about crime even in the safer suburbs of cities that have been awash in violence.
A predictable, avoidable policy failure
Most clear-eyed observers were noting that Blacks in urban areas were among the least supportive of defunding the police as early as July 2020, and yet it was not until the New York mayoral primary the following year that progressives began, often begrudgingly, to acknowledge the crime problem.
Fourth, school districts in especially progressive urban areas unintentionally have done more to renew an interest in school choice than conservative education reform advocates could have done on their own. De-enrollment in public schools was nearly twice as high in Democratic strongholds than in Republican areas as urban progressives wrongly assumed that Democratic parents would simply comply with their draconian school closure and related policies.
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In one of the most predictable, and totally avoidable, policy failures in recent memory, their legacy will surely be staggering learning losses for some of the country’s most disadvantaged students.
Reformers would do well to remember that cities improved in the 1990s through policies that were controversial at first – such as charter schools, public housing reform and welfare reform – but produced results that urban residents ultimately embraced.
Today’s urban leaders need the courage to upset the status quo by realizing that lowering housing costs, increasing public safety, offering greater options for high-quality schooling, and being hospitable to people running small- and medium-size companies is a winning formula.
Ryan Streeter is the director of domestic policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute.
This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Goodbye, San Francisco. Hello, Nashville. Americans are fleeing dysfunctional cities.
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NO MATTER WHERE THEY GO, PALESTINIANS CAUSE TROUBLE. IT IS PART OF THEIR DNA. BY NOW IT SHOULD BE EVIDENT WE SHOULD SEEK IMMIGRANTS WHO ARE POSITIVE FOR OUR NATION'S WELFARE AND BAR THOSE WHO CAUSE GRIEF.
CALL IT RACIAL PROFILING. AMERICA DOES NOT EXIST, NOR IS OBLIGATED, TO BECOME THE WORLD'S DUMPING GROUND FOR EVERY MISERABLE RECREANT ALIVE AND/OR WHO HAS AN UNRESOLVED ISSUE.
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(SEPTEMBER 2, 2022 / ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS) The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) denounced an “anti-Semitic, anti-Israel bylaw” promoted by Berkeley Law Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) that was adopted by nine student groups at the University of California’s Berkeley Law.
Besides supporting BDS, the bylaw pledges that groups will not invite speakers who “have expressed and continued to hold views...in support of Zionism, the apartheid state of Israel, and the occupation of Palestine...in the interest of protecting the safety and welfare of Palestinian students on campus.”
“In essence, student groups that endorse this bylaw agree to exclude speakers who simply support Israel’s right to exist,” the ZOA said in a statement.
While in an email to student leaders at Berkeley Law, Dean Erwin Chemerinsky called the bylaw “troubling” and added that if “taken literally, this would mean that I could not be invited to speak because I support the existence of the state of Israel.” ZOA pointed out that neither Chemerinsky nor the law school condemned the student groups that adopted the bylaw or indicated that the law school would be taking disciplinary action against them.
ZOA President Morton A. Klein condemned the student groups that adopted the bylaw, and took the Berkeley Law administration to task for failing to sanction these groups.
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