Monday, December 19, 2022

Two Party Comments. Reckless FBI. Despicable NYT's And Islamist Influence.

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The Pentagon’s Latest Leadership Failure

By Kurt Schlichter

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Joe Manchin Refuses to Answer Whether He Is Going to Leave the Democratic Party Or Not

By Sarah Arnold

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Biden Plans to 'Celebrate' His So-Called 'Great' Achievements Before Christmas

By Sarah Arnold

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The two parties are as far apart as possible and in most every way.


Democrats march in lock step and follow whomever their Fuhrer is and mouth the same message. Consistency is their method, power is their goal.


Republicans are an unruly and disorganized lot. They would rather lose and be independent.


Frankly, I do not know which extreme is preferable.  I tend to believe neither and this is why I consider myself an independent. However, given the two choices I am persuaded by my conservatism.  Even there I find Republicans are whorish . In the current budget bill they seem to be signing on to more spending and are unable to find anything they do not like.

They can't even decide on a Speaker. They are truly pathetic but the Democrats have chosen to be radical and led by Muslim extremists and antisemites so I find nothing favorable about them and their policies border on the  insane.


No wonder America is sinking.

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Then, if we turn to specific laws, Democrats are against free speech. They believe government should determine and monitor what we say. They will go to any length to intimidate and choke us.

Republicans disagree but are too timid to do much about it. The technology billionaires who own the social media companies are now in control of what we say. Our thoughts are restricted by them and were it not for Elon Musk we might never have had the facts that match our suspicions. Big Brother has arrived. 

If we deplorables allow this trend to continue,  America will become Russia.  We have already accepted criminals and tolerate various district atty generals who ignore laws. Consequently, crimes have escalated and some cities have turned into jungles.  

Even the once respected FBI has been corrupted:

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Evidence shows FBI, Biden campaign and Twitter worked together to suppress Hunter story

By Post Editorial Board


FBI.It's increasingly obvious that the FBI had a heads up that the Hunter Biden story was about to be published. NurPhoto via Getty Images


Members of the intelligence community, and censors at Twitter, stress that they just didn’t know the Hunter Biden laptop was real, so they erred on the side of caution. “It has all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation,” the infamous letter from 50 former officials said.

Now we know that was a lie.

The FBI already had Hunter’s laptop — it was handed over to them by the owner of a Delaware repair shop, the same man who would provide it to The Post nearly a year later.

It’s also increasingly obvious that the FBI had a heads up that the information was about to be published.

The Twitter Files show how Yoel Roth, the platform’s head of trust and safety, was briefed by the FBI about possible “misinformation,” and that Hunter’s name was specifically brought up.

The latest bombshell, released Monday by journalist Michael Shellenberger, shows an intriguing timeline:

* The Post calls Hunter Biden’s lawyer for comment the day before publication.

* The lawyer calls John Paul Mac Isaac, the computer repairman. Side note, for all those who accused The Post of not doing due diligence on the laptop: We never provided the lawyer with Mac Isaac’s name. Told that we had Hunter’s laptop, he knew which repair shop to call, which provided another level of confirmation. Also: Hunter and the Biden campaign never denied the laptop was his, they just disparaged how we got it.

FBI Special Agent Elvis Chan sent 10 documents to Twitter’s then-head of site integrity Yoel Roth.FBI

* A little more than two hours after the lawyer’s phone call to Mac Isaac, “FBI Special Agent Elvis Chan sends 10 documents to Twitter’s then-Head of Site Integrity, Yoel Roth, through Teleporter, a one-way communications channel from the FBI to Twitter,” Shellenberger writes. What’s in those documents? We don’t know, but … 

* The Post publishes the first Hunter Biden story the next day, and Twitter moves almost immediately to ban us.

It’s impossible to believe that Chan and other officials in the FBI — not to mention the still-well-connected former intelligence operatives who signed that letter — didn’t know that Hunter Biden’s files were already in the wild. And that they knew they weren’t “hacked” or made up.

The Twitter Files show how Yoel Roth was briefed by the FBI about possible “misinformation,” and that Hunter Biden’s name was specifically brought up.REUTERS

Knowing that eventually the information would leak, “experts” spent months prepping for how to suppress it. Shellenberger notes that in September 2020, a month before The Post broke the news, Roth “participated in an Aspen Institute ‘tabletop exercise’ on a potential ‘Hack-and-Dump’ operation.” The “example” they came up with? Hunter Biden! They outlined a fake scenario where Burisma documents were leaked online outlining payments to the former vice president’s son.

So, of course, when legitimate news about Hunter Biden did break, Roth was ready to doubt everything.

What the Twitter Files show is not caution, but a coordinated effort between the Biden campaign and the FBI to cast aspersions and limit the reach of a story damaging to Joe Biden.

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Menorah from iconic photo with Nazi flag to be lit at Berlin Hanukkah ceremony

Candle-lighting event will be held with photographer’s grandchildren and German president on second night of holiday, 90 years after family fled looming genocide

By Michael Horovitz


The iconic photo of a Hanukkah menorah with Nazi flags waving across the road, taken by Rachel Posner, wife of then-Kiel Rabbi Akiva Posner, in Kiel, Germany, 1931. (Courtesy)

A Hanukkah menorah captured in a famous 1931 photograph symbolizing the defiance of German Jews against rising Nazi powers will be lit in Berlin on Monday, almost 90 years after its owners fled Germany for British Mandatory Palestine.

The picture, taken by Rachel Posner, wife of Rabbi Akiva Posner, shows the candelabra sitting on a window ledge of their home in Kiel overlooking a building across the street adorned with Nazi flags.

The menorah, borrowed by the couple’s descendants from its permanent home at Yad Vashem memorial museum in Jerusalem, will be lit at sundown in Berlin on the second night of Hanukkah, in the presence of the Posners’ grandchildren and Germany’s President Frank-Walter Steinmeier.

Before its journey to Berlin, the menorah was displayed for three days in an exhibit at Kiel’s municipal museum delving into the history of Jewish life in the city, with the Posners’ story taking center stage.

The original photo and the camera that took the image are also on display at the exhibit.

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On the back of the iconic photo, Rachel wrote in German: “Hanukkah 5692, ‘Death to Judah,’ So the flag says, ‘Judah will live forever,’ So the light answers.’”

The back of the photograph of the Posner family’s Hanukkah menorah taken in Kiel Germany.

On it Rachel Posner has written what translates as:

"Death to Judah"

So the flag says

"Judah will live forever"

So the light answers. https://t.co/fHo6ant8Nf pic.twitter.com/qui5C37Qra

— ✡ Igor S. de Lendorff (@I_Lendorff) December 18, 2022

Rabbi Posner, who served as Kiel’s rabbi from 1924 to 1933, was an outspoken critic of the surge of antisemitic sentiment in the city and urged Jews to flee Germany.

The Posners ultimately escaped with their three children in 1933 and arrived in Palestine in 1934.

The photo first gained attention after Rachel answered a request broadcast by the Kiel museum in 1974, calling for artifacts telling the story of everyday Jewish life in the city.

“Rachel sent them around 17 of her photographs of everyday life,” Yehuda, one of the Posners’ grandsons, told The Guardian. “The window picture was just one of them but is the one that most struck a chord with people.”

The photo then went “on its own journey,” Yehuda said, appearing in publications worldwide and becoming a symbol of defiance against Nazism.

Times of Israel staff contributed to this report.

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In a previous memo I posted an article pertaining to Bibi's attack on The NYT's as being anti Israel and here is some evidence. Tom Friedman is generally wrong in his commentary and The NYT's Editorial Board is now influenced by Muslim Advocacy.

Bibi in his own words:

 https://www.hoover.org/research/bibi-my-story-benjamin-netanyahu-his-life-and-times 

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Intentional or Coincidence? Far-Left New York Times Publishes Crossword Puzzle Resembling Nazi Swastika on the First Day of Hanukkah

By Jim Hoft


The far-left New York Times, known for spreading fake information like the Trump-Russia collusion hoax and the Covid vaccine myth that the shots can stop transmission, was criticized after its Sunday crossword puzzle resembled a Nazi swastika.

The Sunday crossword puzzle in The New York Times drew widespread criticism after many people, including Donald Trump Jr., noticed the uncanny resemblance to a Nazi symbol, which was published on the first day of Hanukkah.

“Disgusting! Only the New York Times would get Chanukah going with this is the crossword puzzle,” wrote Trump Jr.

“Imagine what they would do to someone who did this and was not ideologically aligned with them? I’ll give them the same benefit of the doubt they would give those people… EXACTLY ZERO,” he continued.

Hanukkah (or Chanukah) is the eight-day Jewish celebration that commemorates, in particular, the rededication of the Second Temple of Jerusalem by the lighting of candles on each day of the festival.

Hanukkah 2022 began in the evening of Sunday, December 18 and ends in the evening of Monday, December 26.

Ryan McCarty, a principal consulting manager from Washington, D.C., who has made 22 other puzzles for the publication, came up with the concept for Sunday’s puzzle titled “Some Theme’s Missing,” and it was edited by Will Shortz.

“Ryan McCarty of Washington, D.C., is a principal consulting manager at a company specializing in data analytics for clients in the federal government. He is also a baritone in several vocal ensembles. Weekend solvers will be very familiar with his name, even though this puzzle is Ryan’s Sunday debut. This is his 23rd Times puzzle, and nearly every one has been a Saturday the me less construction,” according to NYT.

“One day after its editorial board published an OP-ED attacking Israel, this was today’s [New York Times] crossword puzzle,” wrote Israel National News, the largest news conglomerate in the Jewish world

On Thursday, NYT’s Thomas Friedman wrote an opinion piece calling Israel “a cauldron of instability and a source of anxiety for the U.S. government.”

The Gateway Pundit has reached out to New York Times for comment.

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