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FBI Director Christopher Wray And Heads Of Foreign Security Agencies Convene At Stanford To Address Threat To Innovation Posed By China

In what FBI director Christopher Wray described as an “unprecedented” occasion, the internal security chiefs of the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand convened for a public conversation with Hoover Institution director Condoleezza Rice on Tuesday about how to best address threats posed by China to technological innovation in their respective societies and economies. ++++ This from a dear friend and fellow memo reader who is beside himself with rage. +++ Who Do They Think They're Kidding? By CDM Staff  The din of war drums beating hasn’t completely drowned out the barrage of lying bullshit issued by US Deep State blobsters in their effort to keep reality at bay from a citizenry gone restive and aggrieved over the seemingly deliberate ruination of our country by the people who run it.     On Thursday, FBI Director Chris Wray and Homeland Security chief Alejandro Mayorkas warned Americans that terrorist threats are rising in the US since Hamas attacked Israel, October 7th. Mr. Wray explained: “Here in the U.S., we cannot and do not discount the possibility that Hamas or other foreign terrorist organizations could exploit the conflict to call on their supporters to conduct attacks on our own soil.” We must be especially alert to the “lone wolf” lurking  amongst us, he added.     Neither of these officials noted that the rising terror threat here had any relation to the thousands of aliens streaming daily across the US border unvetted, or that the agencies under Homeland Security were helping to distribute them into every corner of America by plane and bus, giving them free cell phones, loaded debit cards, and other rewards for breaking the law.      And that “lone wolf” bit — is it possible that any number of them actually arrived as trained and pre-organized cadres or squads? How would we know? Most of them are military-age young men. Are these unreasonable questions to ask? And if Hamas was so supernaturally successful in secretly planning the mass murder and kidnapping operation of 10/7 from Gaza that the world’s supposedly top intel agencies were blindsided as it rolled out, why should Americans have any confidence that the FBI has a clue what any of those unvetted border-jumping mutts are up to here? Especially since those free phones enable them to find each other and hook-up right from the get-go, without delay. It’s even possible that those phones were preloaded with their comrades’ numbers on speed-dial. Not to mention that illegal migrants have been coming here in huge waves for years, and surely some have been busy ever since setting up networks aimed at making trouble that new arrivals can easily slot into.      Since the FBI has been so preoccupied the duration of the “Joe Biden” regime tracking down every native-born living soul who attended the 1/6/21 riot at the US Capitol, instead of using the agency’s assets to monitor alien networking, you have to wonder why Mr. Wray even bothers to comment on the current situation. He can only embarrass (or incriminate) himself more deeply. One thing for sure is not happening: any effort by Mr. Mayorkas and his 260,000 employees to make the US/Mexico border any less porous. If it hadn’t occurred to them yet, they might consider closing down the US-funded United Nations operation in Central America (with help from several international NGOs) that is running way-stations to transport aliens north to our border in hundred-plus bus fleets at a time, taking every possible advantage to accelerate the flow. I guess we’ll just have to stand by and see what happens.       Speaking of mind-blowing bullshit, emanating from a different pseudopod of the DC blob, former CIA Director Leon Panetta chimed in with Fox News’s Bret Baier last week to declare he still thinks that Hunter Biden’s laptop was a Russian dis-info operation. Mr. Panetta was a co-signer of the notorious letter from 50 other former US Intel bigwigs in October, 2020, a few weeks before the election, organized by former Acting CIA Director Mike Morell to gaslight voters after The New York Post published the existence of the Laptop from Hell and some of its sordid contents tending to incriminate the Biden family for foreign influence-peddling.      As with so many blobsters infesting government and its nether regions, Leon Panetta likes to demonstrate that his contempt for the people of this land is boundless. He can’t possibly believe what he is saying. Everyone from the FBI to The New York Times has declared Hunter’s laptop authentic. Therefore, Leon Panetta is either a fool, a lying scoundrel, or insane. This kind of self-satisfied dishonor is a new thing in the USA, at least at the colossal scale it has achieved the past decade. In 2023 it is the order-of-the-day. In this particular case, it led to putting “Joe Biden,” with his handlers and movers, in a position to destroy the country, and they are getting it done.       Yet, events are still in motion, and decades are happening in days now. We’ll learn this week whether escalation of the war involving Israel and its enemies can be averted without giving Hamas a pass on consequences for its recent murder spree. We’ll learn whether a meaningful opposition against the Party of Chaos can organize around a new House speaker. We’ll learn whether that same assembly can begin the process of laying out a president’s crimes for all in the nation to see, including the sizeable cohort of citizens who relish official lying and being lied to.

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‘Our Enemies Are the CEOs . . . Our Comrades Are in Gaza’

The SEIU equivocates about Hamas atrocities, as some lower-level leaders side with the terror group.

By Allysia Finley

Liberals and conservatives alike roundly admonished Donald Trump in 2017, when he blamed “both sides” for violence at a Charlottesville, Va., protest over the removal of a Confederate statute.

“President Trump’s remarks yesterday were reprehensible,” Service Employees International Union President Mary Kay Henry wrote in a statement. “He doubled down on blaming ‘both sides’ for the hatred, bigotry and violence” rather than stand up to “the white supremacists and their racist, anti-immigrant, anti-Semitic and anti-LGBTQ views.

Six years later, Ms. Henry and others on the left are equivocating and blaming both sides for Hamas’s terrorist war against Israel. “The violence in Israel and Palestine is unconscionable,” Ms. Henry tweeted on Oct. 10. “@SEIU stands with all who are suffering, while strongly condemning anti-Semitism, Islamophobia & hate in all forms.”

Mr. Trump’s opponents accused him of empowering neo-Nazis, but Hamas’s jihad against Israel has exposed that the fiercest anti-Semites are on the left. Perhaps that’s because left-wing activists view Israel’s economic prosperity and Gaza’s poverty through an anticapitalist lens, which holds that all wealth is generated from exploitation.

Consider statements by lower-level SEIU leaders expressing solidarity with Hamas and its cause.

“The apartheid state of Israel is continuing to break international law & wage horrific crimes against humanity. We unwaveringly stand with the families & children of Palestine,” an SEIU Starbucks Workers United affiliate in Chicago tweeted. A union affiliate in upstate New York added: “The labor movement must support liberation for all and fight all forms of oppression.”

“Freeing Palestine was never going to be flowers and baby animals. What the [expletive] did you expect?” another Starbucks Workers United activist tweeted, blaming the U.S. for being “complicit in oncoming destruction and ethnic cleansing” of Gazans by Israel.

“Our bosses, our government want us to think [Hamas] are enemies of working class people, but they are not,” Kooper Caraway, executive director of the SEIU Connecticut State Council, exclaimed at an anti-Israel rally in New Haven, Conn. “Our enemies are the CEOs,” and “our comrades are in Gaza,” he added before denouncing capitalism, “colonialism” and “occupation.”

Young liberals increasingly view these disparate systems as synonymous. They evidently believe that Israel’s relative affluence derives from its exploitation of poor Palestinians. They forget—or never learned—that during its first few decades modern Israel was socialist and poor.

Beginning in the 1980s, thanks in part to advocacy from future Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, free-market reforms unleashed economic prosperity. The nation’s per capita income is now more than 10 times that of the West Bank and Gaza. These reforms included tax cuts, privatization and financial deregulation to boost private investment.

“In the mid-1980s, Yitzhak Shamir’s Likud government, with Benjamin ‘Bibi’ Netanyahu as its United Nations ambassador, did cut taxes—increasing the rewards of work and investment by some 30 percent, dramatically boosting economic growth, and reducing inflation,” investor George Gilder wrote in a 2009 piece for City Journal, “Silicon Israel.”

“As prime minister in the 1990s, Netanyahu also ushered in dramatic deregulation, along with tax cuts that brought in floods of new revenue,” Mr. Gilder writes. Israel used this surge of revenue to create incentives for startup businesses and to develop public works such as water-desalination plants, which have supported a growing population despite Israel’s lack of natural resources.

During the 2000s, Israel legalized investment banks, international private-equity funds and performance fees for hedge funds. “Eliminated were double taxes not merely on investments in Israel but also on international investment activities by Israelis,” Mr. Gilder adds. This unleashed private capital and business development.

Between 1991 and 2000, the nation’s annual venture-capital investment surged to $3.3 billion from $58 million. “By 1998, Israel had 140 scientists and engineers per 10,000 in its labor force, becoming the world leader in these terms, followed by the United States with 80, and Germany with 55,” Israeli-Canadian economist Reuven Brenner writes in a 2019 article for Law & Liberty.

Often referred to as “startup nation,” Israel now leads the world in venture capital per capita. While it still has relatively high individual income taxes and heavy business regulation, its social-welfare spending is lower as a percentage of gross domestic product than that of the U.S. and most European countries. Israel also spends more of its GDP on defense than any other developed country, a necessity in a hostile neighborhood.

Compared with the rest of the Middle East, Israel is a free-market mecca. That’s not the only reason Israelis have grown wealthy while Palestinians and neighboring Arabs remain impoverished. Soviet emigres also provided a burst of human capital, and Israeli schools place a high emphasis on meritocracy.

Yet union and progressive activists are so blinded by their disdain for capitalism that they can’t bring themselves to acknowledge the role of economic freedom in creating Israel’s prosperity. Instead, they spin an intellectually bankrupt narrative about colonialism. Their obsession with grievance and ideology leads them to rationalize the worst of humanity.

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A dear friend and fellow memo reader disagrees and believes a recession will occur.

I disagree.

If the War widens, oil prices will sky rocket and we all know what happens to the economy when that happens.

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I suspect the odds favor his view. When has The Fed landed without crashing?

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Fence sitters

True to their reputation, economists are once again sitting on the fence. This time, the group is split on the chances of a recession, which until recently, was seen as pretty likely. Indeed, the Wall Street Journal’s latest quarterly poll found that top business and academic economists now put the chance of a US recession in the coming year at 48%, down from 54% in July.

The Federal Reserve will be pleased to see the number drop below 50:50, as the central bank has looked to curb inflation without triggering a full-blown recession — the near-mythical "soft landing".

A fine balance

The still-strong labor market and cooling inflation are winning most of the plaudits for this slightly more optimistic view — but there’s much that could still derail things. The surge in bond yields, and its effect on future government spending, is certainly high on the “worry list”, but nothing is as unpredictable as the ongoing Israel-Hamas war — with the threat of wider conflict in the region looming larger following a weekend of escalating clashes not only in Gaza, but on the Israel-Lebanon border. 

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I was wrong stating the (hospital) missile was purposely fired by Hamas but absolutely correct knowing it was not Israel.  

As we have learned, over the years, the IDF leans over backwards to avoid civilian casualties and yet, the world always cannot run fast enough to immediately attribute everything negative to Israel. The haters and anti-Semites love pinning the tail on the donkey and are always led by the New York Times.

The retraction(s) either never comes or is listed in small print on the back page and the haters always prepare to repeat their lies. The same is also method used against Trump. You can count on it.

The knee jerkers love to get out first because it is effective. The world is full of "Gulible's not Gulliver's."

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Palestinian Islamic Jihad bombs a hospital in Gaza

Yesterday, a sudden blast in Al-Ahli al-Arabi Hospital in Gaza killed an unconfirmed number of Palestinians and led to an international wave of outrage. Immediate reports blamed the blast on Israel, describing it as an "Israeli airstrike" that killed 500 civilians and reported widely in all international media despite constant warnings about the unreliability of information released by the terrorist organization, Hamas. Afterward, and following investigations by the IDF, Israeli officials determined that the blast resulted from a misfiring of a missile fired by the Iranian-backed terrorist group, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad.

Despite the IDF statements, angry protests erupted across the Middle East and several European cities, leading to an international campaign of defamation against the State of Israel. All Arab states, including those with relations with Israel, rushed to condemn Israel, and the leaders of Egypt, Jordan, and the Palestinian Authority canceled their scheduled meeting with President Biden, currently in Israel.

In the United States, multiple large media organizations, including the New York Times and radical members of Congress known as the Squad, rushed to publish the disinformation and vilify the State of Israel.

Today, President Biden announced he was shown evidence the attack was indeed the result of Palestinian missiles and not an Israeli air strike. Moreover, this statement was not solely a result of Israeli evidence but also of an independent investigation conducted by the Pentagon. Since then, the IDF has released evidence and scores of radar photos and recordings showing the Palestinian missile failing shortly after its launch and falling on the hospital. Pictures of the aftermath also demonstrated that contrary to initial reports that claimed scores of dead Palestinians under the rubbles of the hospital, the hospital building remains largely intact, and the projectile fell into the parking lot, which puts into question the initial number of casualties reported. This is not the first time an Islamic Jihad or Hamas rocket has misfired and fallen short inside Gaza. In fact, it has already happened 450 times in this war, causing an unknown number of casualties in Gaza.

We at EMET condemn the senseless death of Palestinians in this tragedy, which adds to the death toll of innocents murdered by the campaign of Palestinian terror, which started with the murder of 1,400 mostly civilian Israelis. This demonstrates the need for decisive Israeli military action in Gaza to end the reign of terror and to free Israelis and Palestinians from Iranian-funded murder and destruction. The international campaign of vilification and demonization of the State of Israel in times of crisis demonstrates the deeply biased international environment that aggravates already prevalent hatred for the Jewish state.

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Want to set the world straight?
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Fellow American, 

 

We all know history is important, lest we let it repeat itself. The question is, whose lens should that history be taught? 

 

For years, American history books have sought to tell history as it happened, including both good and evil events, and giving what most would call an unbiased version of it. 

 

But some believe that is a biased view and that history needs to be rewritten and taught differently. Specifically, critical race theory thinks we should be teaching our youth about the evils of the white man – how cruel and insensitive he is and how he should be blamed for all sin. 

 

So what do you think? Should we forego teaching actual American History and instead teach the evils of whites? Or should we continue to teach the events as history? 

 

Take our anonymous poll here to let your voice be heard. 

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Rabbi David Wolpe is a visiting scholar at Harvard Divinity School, the inaugural rabbinic fellow at the Anti-Defamation League, and the Max Webb Rabbi Emeritus of Sinai Temple in Los Angeles, CA. Named one of the 500 Most Influential People in Los Angeles in 2016 and again in 2017,Most Influential Rabbi in America by Newsweek and one of the 50 Most Influential Jews in the World by The Jerusalem Post, Rabbi Wolpe has previously taught at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America in New York, the American Jewish University in Los Angeles, Hunter College, and UCLA. A columnist for Time.com, he has been published and profiled in The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post’s On Faith website, The Huffington Post, and the New York Jewish Week. Rabbi Wolpe is the author of eight books, including the national bestseller Making Loss Matter: Creating Meaning in Difficult Times. His book David: The Divided Heart was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Awards, and has been optioned for a movie by Warner Bros.

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