Legitimacy To Stupidity. Soros Stuffs Stacey. Biden's Fear - Revealing Alleged Corruption. Iranian Dome Threat. Competitor Or Enemy?

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2022/10/14/mollie_hemingway_by_democrat_standards_biden_pressuring_saudis_on_oil_prices_is_an_impeachable_offense.html

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Biden gives legitimacy to stupidity. Biden is one mean spirited. divisive SOB.
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Biden Calls Supreme Court 'More Of An Advocacy Group'

President Joe Biden called the US Supreme Court "more of an advocacy group these days," casting doubt on the court's legitimacy in the aftermath of its decision to overturn Roe v Wade. Mr. Biden made the remark during a virtual fundraiser on Tuesday .

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SOROS buying Stacey her seat? He already bought her large breasts and stuffed them with Soros Dollars.  Virtually everything that has allowed her to campaign is sourced from outside Georgia.  You have a radical, who hates this nation, stuffing a candidate with money so he can control our state and make sure we have radical attorney generals and all the other nonsense he espouses because he wants America to embrace socialism and chuck capitalism.  

Soros is an evil, dangerous man and he has chosen Stacey to target Georgia because she too is evil and easily manipulated..
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George Soros Send $1 Million to Fledging Dem Candidate

Liberal billionaire George Soros made another large contribution to one of the Democrat’s candidates.

Georgia candidate for Governor, Stacy Abrams, just received another $1 million for her leadership committee from Soros’ Democracy PAC II, according to Fox News.

This is in addition to $2.5 million Soros already handed over to Abram’s leadership committee One Georgia Inc.

Abrams certainly can use the cash as recent polling from the Trafalgar Group shows her trailing incumbent Governor Brian Kemp by 9 points.

Abrams has been a recurring recipient of Soros’ family cash.

In addition to Soros’ millions, his daughter Andrea Soros Colombel poured $100,000 into One Georgia in August, the filings show. Soros’ daughter-in-law, Jennifer Allan Soros, also donated $500 to One Georgia in September. Soros and his relatives have added $60,000 directly to Abrams’ campaign this cycle. 

Abrams has a history with Soros-related entities dating back at least six years. In 2016, a company owned by Abrams, Sage Works LLC, received $15,000 in consulting payments from the Georgia Safety & Justice PAC, which was funded entirely by $147,000 from Soros, Fox News Digital previously reported. 

Two years after the payment, Abrams attended a 2018 Atlanta gathering of the Democracy Alliance donor club, a network of wealthy progressives Soros co-founded that helps set the Democratic agenda. While there, Abrams headlined a closed-door speech, the Washington Free Beacon reported. 

Soros’ Open Society Policy Center later donated $850,000 to the New Georgia Project Action Fund, an Abrams-founded dark money voter registration group, tax forms show. Georgia Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock chaired the group at the time of the donation and also appeared at the donor confab alongside Abrams.

With less than a month until Election Day, it remains to be seen if Soros’ latest infusion of cash into Abrams’ campaign can close a 9 point gap against a seemingly popular incumbent Governor.

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Empowering Mexican Cartels With Biden’s Open Border Is Even Worse Than You Think

BY: TODD BENSMAN

Mexico’s paramilitary armies have an unprecedented amount of military-grade weaponry, paid for by millions of illegal border crossers.

Mexico is a war zone again. But anyone who believes that’s just Mexico’s problem, think again; American national interests are at unprecedented risk.

Cartels’ smuggling syndicates are at each other’s throats along Mexico’s northern border and in Pacific states known as the Tierra Caliente (Hot Zone) as Mexico sends in its military. The warfare has left hundreds dead and whole city blocks scorched, vehicles burning, and citizens taking shelter from hours-long gun-battles. Millions of Mexicans are readying for worse to come.

But so too should Americans. Because, unlike past drug war conflicts in Mexico, the paramilitary armies are swollen like never before with military-grade weaponry bought and paid for by millions of foreign nationals who answered the siren call of President Joe Biden’s open-doors border over the last 20 months, paying cartels huge amounts of money to cross into the United States. The cartels’ growing arsenals and Mount Everest-sized piles of new cash may inalterably compromise Mexico’s central and state governments like never before.

The very real prospect that America would lose even its current imperfect, wanting partnership with Mexico’s government portends serious security, public safety, and even wide-ranging economic impacts on the American people.

I’m not alone in my estimation that Biden’s cartel-enriching mass migration crisis poses serious threats to important U.S. national interests, including many that are rarely discussed out loud, such as Mexican oil and auto-parts exports.

“The criminal organizations in Mexico have made a lot of money off our lax border enforcement, and it stands to reason they’d invest a substantial percentage of that money into the thing that gives them their power,” Christopher Landau, ambassador to Mexico from 2019 to 2021, told me in a recent telephone interview. “Their power is measured in terms of money and weapons. The more money and weapons they have, the larger stick they’ll be carrying and the more influence they carry in Mexico.”

“It stands to reason that anything that increases the power of the cartels in Mexico is adverse to our interests,” he said.

The U.S. needs at least a minimally reliable Mexican government partner for matters of tracking fugitives, controlling illegal immigration when desired, interdicting drug trafficking, and intelligence-sharing for bi-national criminal investigations, and on a wide range of other national security matters.

Empowered Cartels Might Threaten Exports to US

In the past, the cartels avoided actions most likely to provoke U.S. demands that Mexico conduct military crackdowns, raids, arrests, and (worst of all) extraditions of cartel suspects to the United States for prosecution. All of that was bad for business.

But what happens when what is left of Mexican government autonomy is reduced any further, or entirely, too intimidated or bought off to retaliate on behalf of America?

The probability that Mexico’s newly muscular cartels become true puppet masters of Mexico’s central government stands at a high water mark, only rising the longer Biden allows his mass migration over the southern border to continue fabulously enriching them.

Dare anyone finally say this aloud, but: the more militarily powerful the cartels become compared to Mexico’s military, the more likely they will feel free to press a thumb down on the 212 million barrels of Mexican heavy crude oil the U.S. imported in 2021, and nearly a million barrels a day now. Perhaps, for any number of petty reasons of their own — say the U.S. incarcerates a beloved drug-trafficking relative — vengeful paramilitary overlords might want to meddle in Mexico’s huge auto part export business upon which American car makers heavily depend.

Cartel puppet masters less worried about American-ordered retaliations against them inside Mexico might feel emboldened to make thousands of American companies feel less secure operating in the country. Or they might do the same to the hundreds of thousands of American expatriates who make their homes and lives in Mexico. More Americans are concentrated in Mexico than anywhere else outside the U.S., an estimated 1.6 million.

When cartel power and whim to target American communities in Mexico overtakes the power and autonomy of Mexico’s central government to protect and deter on their behalf, what then?

“Your hypothesis does not seem far-fetched to me, in that the more power these groups have in Mexico, the less we can count on Mexico as a partner and the greater the challenge for us on everything dealing with Mexico,” Landeau said. “Even on energy … on auto component supply. It’s conceivable. Our economy is very bound up with Mexico.”

Cartels Own Enormous Amounts of Weaponry

It’s impossible to know how much military hardware the Biden border crisis bought and paid for, but the cartels are clearly reinvesting their massive profits into the sort recently uncovered in historic amounts from a northern State of Sonora raid. Inside four houses controlled by a faction of the Sinaloa Cartel, the Mexican army recovered 2.8 million rounds of ammunition, 89 hand grenades, 20 machine guns, six .50 caliber sniper rifles, more than 150 handguns and automatic rifles, and bulletproof vests.

The list of seizures involving high-grade military weapons is far too long to list here. The cartels have gone on an international shopping spree for weaponry that includes land mines, shoulder-fired rocket launchers, and belt-fed fully automatic machine guns. They make their own tanks and bomb-dropping drones. Their soldiers are as well-equipped and trained as any first-world nation’s, arguably better than those of the Mexican military.

In recent months, for instance, the Sinaloa Cartel has shifted major weapons acquisition activity southward into Central American black trade routes through which they are collecting the Israeli-made Galil ACE rifle made in Colombia, and automatic M16s and 5.56 mm rifles in El Salvador. But the weaponry is coming in from every direction, including from Mexico’s own military, its corrupted personnel selling advanced firepower to the cartels.

In May 2022, U.S. authorities broke up a Cartel del Noreste scheme to buy $500,000 worth of machine guns, grenades, and rocket-propelled launchers to be smuggled south from the U.S. into Mexico. An August 2022 report showed that the state of Tamaulipas seized 257 shop-built armored “narco-tanks” from the cartels in recent years, so-called “monsters” made of semis, SUVs, or pickup trucks encased in thick steel with machine-gun ports. Video shows well-kitted masked cartel soldiers filling them.

These are armies, with highly trained special forces units, supported by professional intelligence operations and run by warlords. They threaten one of the most important partners in the economic well-being of all Americans.

Debate has swirled for many years around the question of whether Mexico long ago fell into failed statehood. The reality is that the United States made do with a fairly compromised Mexico that was hanging in there. The sub-state paramilitary cartel armies reduced the Mexican government’s ability to act for America, but usually not enough to stop business continuity over the American border.

“In the past, when the criminal elements have gotten emboldened, the Mexican government has taken them on,” former Ambassador Landau told me. “But it’s not clear that’s in the cards right now. It’s far from clear, and I think the impacts will be massive.” 

Millions of Border Crossers Paying Fees to Cross

Biden’s election brought big change to cartel fortunes. Whereas before Biden, the cartels concentrated on smuggling drugs into America, they took a passive interest in the human smuggling business. They’d typically have third-party smugglers move migrants over the border areas they controlled and take a small cut for the crossing. But the gully washers of new human traffic that Biden spurred after his election — in their unprecedented millions — commanded their full attention. The potential earnings were far too great to be ignored, said retired Texas Department of Public Safety Capt. Jaeson Jones, probably one of the nation’s most knowledgeable cartel experts.

“People became the gift that just keeps giving,” he said. Like real estate yielding extremely high rent or toll roads, “They look at it as the best kind of commodity. It’s a commodity that can be told to move on its own and then it does, and at the same time, have to pay just for the crossing.”

Biden’s open-door border policies lured in more than 4 million foreign nationals since Inauguration Day 2021 to date apprehended by Border Patrol and another million who got through to become “got-aways.” Biden created a Frankenstein of a mass migration crisis, the largest in American history by every metric.

The majority of those 5 million would have had to pay. For the first time in memory, reporting indicates that human smuggling had become a multi-billion-dollar business in 2021 and may even have surpassed drug smuggling proceeds in 2022.

No one knows how much cartels really make, but Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) intelligence has taken stabs at it. ICE’s Acting Deputy Director Patrick Lechleitner told Congress the human smuggling industry was generating somewhere in the neighborhood of $500 million a year for the cartels prior to 2018. That revenue went as high as $13 billion through the end of 2021. A lower estimate came from John Condon, acting assistant director of international operations at ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations. He told a congressional committee the revenue ranged between $2 billion to $6 billion per year.

How much they earn is murky because smuggling fees can range widely, depending on how far an immigrant is traveling and nationality.

Immigrants have told me they’ve paid anywhere from a few hundred dollars just to swim the river to $12,000 per head to travel from Guatemala or Honduras. Cartels adapt prices and pricing strategy quickly to changes in American practice and policy.

Border Patrol agents tell me, for instance, that the Gulf Cartel came up with a pricing strategy to account for the pandemic-related rapid expulsion measure under Title 42. Illegal aliens returned multiple times could not be expected to pay $1,500-$2,500 each time. So the cartels offered Title 42 package deals, where a couple of thousand dollars buys a package of three guaranteed post-expulsion crossings.

In those areas, the migrants are all required to buy plastic bracelets proving payment, like at a water park. This innovation reflected a recognition that cartels can be overrun and that they simply created an inventory control system to capture the revenue.

That’s what legitimate business owners call a good problem to have.

Outgunning the Mexican Government?

As the next cartel war kicks into overdrive, the thing to watch is whether the cartels totally dominate Mexico’s central government with their new bribery cash and firepower.

Will the Mexican military, which is now deployed, be able or willing to bring the cartel warfare under control? Recent history shows that Mexico’s military, at least under President Andrés Manuel Lopez-Obrador, will accede to back-channel cartel demands at the point of their guns.

Consider an incident in 2019, when the Mexican army stormed a house in the Sinaloan city of Culiacan and arrested the 28-year-old son of convicted Sinaloa Cartel “Los Chapitos” faction boss Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman. The eldest son, Ivan Guzman, quickly mustered a very significant private army and retook the entire city with armored vehicles and .50 caliber sniper rifles. They outmaneuvered and outfought the Mexican forces during hours of gun battles and took families hostages. They threatened a bloodbath if Guzman’s son was not released.

The Mexican government capitulated and released Guzman’s son in what was widely regarded as a humiliating military defeat at the hands of a mere paramilitary group.

When we see more such defeats — or perhaps worse, no effort to even try — we’ll know to worry.

Todd Bensman is a Texas-based senior national security fellow for the Center for Immigration Studies, a Washington D.C.-based research institute, and a writing fellow for the Middle East Forum. His book, "Overrun: How Joe Biden Unleashed the Greatest Border Crisis in U.S. History," (Bombardier Books) will be released in February. For nearly a decade, Bensman led counterterrorism-related intelligence efforts for the Texas Department of Public Safety's Intelligence and Counterterrorism Division. Follow him on Twitter @BensmanTodd.

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This gives ne a Norman Rockwell feeling.

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Yes, Russia's  (Iran's) drones increase threats but are poorly made.

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The Russia-Iran Drone Axis Is Now a Global Threat

by Seth J. Frantzman, JPOST

Because Iranian-style drones have been exported, either in pieces or blueprints, to Houthis, Hezbollah, Hamas, and Russia, they are now a threat on a global scale.

Russia’s use of Iranian drones in Ukraine is growing and it is clear that the threat now must be taken seriously – not just in the Middle East or Ukraine, but on a global scale.

This is because Iranian-style drones have also been exported, either in pieces or their blueprints, to the Houthis in Yemen, Hezbollah and Hamas. They now have much larger ranges than in the past and new technology that enables more precise strikes.

Russia’s Iranian Kamikaze drones

The fact that Russia is openly using these types of “kamikaze” drones, or what are known as “loitering munitions,” shows that Iran’s drone program is now growing beyond something that is used by militant and terror groups.

According to reports on Thursday, Moscow used a “kamikaze” drone in an attack on the Kyiv region.

“Initial reports indicate a kamikaze drone attack. Rescuer teams have responded,” Ukrainian authorities said.

This type of drone, the Shahed-136, is now being used often in attacks by Russia, which may have ordered thousands of these drones, or is making them locally.

Not much is known about how Russia procures the drones or what it may have added to them. Nevertheless, it is clear from the tail numbers on those that have crashed, been downed or hit targets, that there are hundreds of these drones.

A report today at The Jerusalem Post noted that some 60 percent of the drones Russia has launched have been shot down or crashed.

Israel has been providing Ukraine with “basic intelligence” on the Iranian drones used by Russia in its invasion, The New York Times said on Wednesday.

This illustrates two key points. First, countries are now concerned about the proliferation of Iran’s armed drones. Russia is trying to wreak havoc with them and this harms civilians. In addition, the US and others have been concerned about Iran’s drones for years, especially in the Yemen war, Iraq and the Gulf.

Expansion of the Iranian drone axis

The expansion of the Iran-Russia drone axis means that Iran’s drones may now be acquired by more countries, such as Ethiopia, Venezuela and the drones are apparently being made in Tajikistan.

With Iran’s attendance at meetings of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia (CICA) this week in Kazakhstan and the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) in Uzbekistan recently, its drones may find customers in even more countries in Asia, Africa, the Middle East and other places.

The call by Western countries to supply Ukraine with increased air defenses is also tied to the drone threat. It is Russia’s strikes on Ukrainian cities that are mobilizing the West to up support for Kyiv in the war in the air.

Stopping Russia’s drones – and in a sense stopping Iran’s drones – is therefore on the agenda of Western air defenders. US Central Command has warned for years about the growing drone threat.

The US military and Department of Defense are rushing ahead to field systems that can counter unmanned aerial systems. This includes the Joint Counter-small Unmanned Aircraft Systems Office (JCO), which leads and directs joint Counter-small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (C-sUAS). Other US defense offices, such as the DoD’s Irregular Warfare Technical Support Directorate (IWTSD), care about these issues as well.

Across the Western world, there is greater interest in drones and countering drone threats. US Central Command’s naval component, Navcent, also fields drones at sea – and the UAE and Gulf states are interested in countering the threats.

As the world watches the war in Ukraine, everyone is beginning to understand that drones are not just a growing threat, but that Iran’s are increasingly a threat to the region and the world.

Seth Frantzman is a Ginsburg-Milstein Writing Fellow at the Middle East Forum and senior Middle East correspondent at The Jerusalem Post.

      

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 Legitimate competitor or dangerous enemy?

'This is World War III,' Counterintelligence Expert Says of China Threat

And:

After China these are the real enemies of America:

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Hoover Education Success Initiative (HESI) Launches New Interactive Map Illustrating School Choice Options across America

Hoover Education Success Initiative

The Hoover Education Success Initiative (HESI) has launched a new interactive map that illustrates the variety of school choice options available for students and families in all fifty US states, the District of Columbia, and the nation’s 25 largest school districts. As users click on any state or location designated by a marker, there appears a display box that contains a list of its respective school choice programs, as well as social media buttons that enable this information to be easily shared. The map website includes a glossary of school choice terms, as well as links to resources produced by the Hoover fellowship

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One can argue Trump was not strong enough regarding his response to Jan 6 but the entire hearings are nothing but another staged event to craft a reason to harrie this man and try and find a basis for depriving him of his constitutional rights as a citizen and former president.  It is all timed theater and should be testify he will make a fool out of them.

American see this for what it is and it has turned them  off and is deemed another programmed circus aided and supported by the biased mass media.

Biden is scared if  Republicans win The House will investigate and reveal his alleged corruption.

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https://thenationalpulse.com/2022/07/29/jan-6-producer-posted-about-assaulting-trump-supporters/

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Jan. 6 Committee Think They’ve Got Trump Backed Into a Corner, But His Testimony Could Destroy Them: Report

T. Belman. No way. No how. The “source close to Trump” is simply testifying for him. Trump must resist at all c0sts testifying before this kangaroo court.  It is not about adding his evidence, its about hanging him. After the midterms the GOP will have a majority and will either cancel the hearings or take them over and present their won facts and lawyers.

By Elizabeth Stauffer, WESTERN JOURNAL

On Thursday, members of the House select committee investigating Jan. 6 unanimously voted to subpoena former President Donald Trump to testify about events leading up to and on the day of the Capitol incursion.

A source close to Trump told Fox News Digital that the former president “loves the idea of testifying.”

The source said if Trump actually does appear before the committee, he will “talk about how corrupt the election was, how corrupt the committee was, and how [House Speaker] Nancy Pelosi did not call up the National Guard that Trump strongly recommended for her to do three days earlier on January 3, 2021.”

The source added that it is “unclear” if Trump plans to comply with the subpoena.

In a Thursday interview with Fox, Trump said, “The committee is a hoax, a sham, a partisan witch hunt which is a continuation of the witch hunt that has gone on since the great day for our country that I came down the golden escalator with our future first lady. … They have no case, they have no ratings, so they have to try to do this to get publicity.”

Referring to Republican Reps. Liz Cheney of Wyoming, who lost her primary in August, and Adam Kinzinger of Illinois, who is not seeking re-election, Trump said the probe has been a “partisan witch hunt, together with two Republicans that have been thrown out of the party — one not wanting to run because he couldn’t win, and another losing by a record number of more than 40 points.”

Trump noted that the committee “never covered the important subject of election fraud, or why Pelosi and the mayor of D.C. did not call up the National Guard — which I strongly recommended.”

“They didn’t do their job. I believed the crowd was going to be bigger — just my instinct — and they had the chance to call up the National Guard three days before Jan. 6, and if they did, Jan. 6 would have been a very different day,” he explained. “But they didn’t do it. … They were derelict in their duty. I gave them the authorization and the recommendation to call up the National Guard.”

Trump spokesman Taylor Budowich reacted to news of the subpoena in a Twitter thread.

Thursday’s hearing was no different than the previous nine. The seven Democrats and two anti-Trump Republicans, speaking in the gravest tones, leveled the same baseless accusations against Trump as they always do.

They should hope he doesn’t call their bluff and testify. Because it will leave many Democrats and liberal bureaucrats flat-footed and scrambling for alibis themselves.

If Republicans win control of the House next month as anticipated, it’s doubtful the current Jan. 6 committee will continue. It is highly likely that a new committee will be established to investigate the roles of other key players such as Pelosi and Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser, who declined Trump’s offer of National Guard protection.

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The activities and conduct of the Capitol Police and the FBI and their use of confidential sources will also be examined. Even the Justice Department’s handling of its investigation will be subject to oversight.

The hypocrisy and dishonesty of the committee members and their liberal supporters always reminds me of the well-known story from the Gospel of John about the adulteress brought before Jesus by a group of scribes and Pharisees.

They say, “In the Law, Moses commanded us to stone such women. So what do you say?” Jesus replied, “Let him who is without sin among you be the first to throw a stone at her.”

If Republicans take back the House, this story might end a little differently. Instead of the scribes and Pharisees skulking off in shame, they may instead find themselves detained by an army of investigators.

The hunters may soon become the hunted.

      

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