Sunday, March 3, 2024

"WOE IS US" ESSAY. Much More To Absorb.

Can you answer why Palestinians reject opportunities to live in peace and/or why they prefer to live and die by the sword? 

If you can, I wish you would send me your rationale. I  will gladly post it so, perhaps,
fellow memo readers will become enlightened.

Perhaps some will even forward it to our misguided youth who are being taught to hate America by college professors who have infiltered our universities, are certified Marxists hell bent on destroying our nation and poisoning the minds of our students.

This morning (Sunday, March 3rd) I listened to Maria Bartoromo interview Peter Schweitzer and the Republican Senator from Kansas. Both responded how China intends to be involved in the 2024 election and  are opening various elicit businesses for the purpose of undermining our society and laundering money through Mexican Cartels.  

Asked if the FBI was aware of this and neither felt sure they were or, if so, they were unwilling to act. Specifically. in the case of Biden they both believe he is economically compromised.

Meanwhile: Sentto me by a dear friend and fellow memo reader.
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Falling Behind Cynicism Corruption Curve
 
No matter how cynical I become, I consistently find my sense of reality trailing the march of reality. It is increasingly difficult to avoid falling behind the Cynicism Curve.
 
On this week’s Energy Realities Podcast, which I posted here earlier on Monday, Tammy Nemeth and Irina Slav, in their usual very perceptive way, raised the question of why we so often see the public revolting against these Green New Deal-style policies, yet the policies never seem to be scaled back or rescinded in any real way. This discussion starts about 3 minutes into the podcast.
 
When Irina threw the question to me, here is what I said about it:
 
Well, the obvious answer is they (the policymakers voting in seemingly odd ways) are being rewarded for doing so in one way or another, some form of fashion.
 
In the US Congress, it's the insider trading information. That's quite obvious, a big racket in the US Congress. And, you know, you get promised, board seats, very lucrative positions on corporate boards when you leave the Congress, if you do certain things and vote a certain way. And it's all about making money and setting themselves up for an easy retirement after they've served 3 or 4 terms.
 
It's why you see now - 20 years ago, in the US Congress, people held onto seats in the House of Representatives for as long as they could. They never wanted to leave. You wanted to get to at least ten terms and 20 years in Congress so that you would retire with full retirement benefits. Congressional retirement benefits today, Congressional retirement benefits are chicken feed compared to what these people can make with insider trading deals, and lucrative real estate propositions that come their way for voting a certain way on certain issues. And of course, the, you know, being paid several hundred thousand dollars a year to sit on a corporate board and work 8 or 10 days a year.
 
And so it's not about that (retirement benefits) anymore. It's why we see every election cycle now, 30 or 40 incumbent members of Congress voluntarily giving up their seats, many of them leaving their seats before their term is up. You know, to go cashing in on the deals they've made, in exchange for votes and supporting certain positions on bills, everything is corrupt now.
 
The whole process is corrupt.
 
And that's why you see these people voting in ways that seem very odd to you. In terms of how they promised to govern when they ran for office, this, and very inconsistent with the supposed party philosophy in the party that they're members of.
 
The whole proposition - the value proposition of being a member of Congress has changed.
 
And I'm sure it's the same way at the EU, being a member of the European Commission or being a member of parliament in most European countries. The whole process has been corrupted to push these policies when these people know better.
 
You catch these members of Congress, particularly Republicans, in private times, and have a conversation with them about it, they say all the right things. They understand these policies are terrible for the average person in the country, but they have all kinds of bad incentives to support these policies.
 
And, you know, it's it's mainly about personal enrichment and taking care of their own families as everything goes to hell around them.
 
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There’s a lot more discussion around this, and I urge you to go watch/listen to it.
 
Here’s the key: The value proposition of being a member of Congress shifted dramatically over the last quarter of a century.
 
25 years ago, there was a bipartisan common understanding about the importance of enforcing congressional ethics rules in a way that fairly effectively policed this kind of monetary corruption, which amounts to bribery and nothing less.
 
That all changed with the elevation of Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi as the Democrat party’s leaders in Congress. Go read up just a little bit about Reid and you will discover that he came into the US Senate with a meager net worth of less than $100,000. He somehow left office about 30 years later with a net worth north of $100 million. About 5 minutes of further research will enable you to discover Reid somehow stumbled into becoming a partner in a long string of incredibly lucrative real estate deals in and around Las Vegas while he was in the Senate.
 
Another 5 minutes of research will enable you to discover that, before he became a senator, Reid spent a decade or more on the Nevada Gaming Commission, eventually becoming its chairman during the years when the mob ran Las Vegas.
 
Oh.
 
Spend a few minutes researching Nancy Pelosi and you will discover she is the daughter of famous mob-connected Baltimore Mayor Thomas D’Alesandro. Another 5 minutes in and you will find Pelosi and her husband have become multi-hundred-millionaires in the last quarter century thanks to making amazingly lucky stock trades, and that Pelosi has been a steadfast opponent of enacting any congressional ethics prohibitions against insider trading.
 
Oh.
 
Another obvious suspect in the current congress is GOP Rep. from Colorado Ken Buck, who has voted consistently with the Democrats on every major vote over the past two years. Buck announced last fall that he will not seek re-election this time. Everyone should keep an eye on which corporate boards Mr. Buck winds up serving on after he leaves office.
 
The whole system is corrupt, and not just Congress.
 
Joe Biden last week illegally forgave the student debt of something around 150,000 Americans and proudly boasted he had done that in direct defiance of a lawful decision by the US Supreme Court. Because the Department of Justice is 100% corrupt, Biden can commit such an act with zero fear of any effort to enforce the Supreme Court’s will.
 
The entire US system of justice has been weaponized over the past 18 months in an effort by the Biden administration and corrupt prosecutors in New York, Georgia, and Florida to jail the President’s most likely Republican opponent.
 
Given all this and so much more, it is hard to maintain a sufficient level of cynicism to keep pace with this constantly accelerating Cynicism Curve.
 
But I’ll keep trying. After all, I don’t have anything better to do.
 
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WOE IS US!

November cannot come soon enough and, hopefully with it, Biden's assured defeat.  

With the passing of each day, another boat is sunk by the Houthi's, more Israeli soldiers are killed because of world pressure placed upon the IDF to go beyond what any army, at war, has ever been compelled to do and, most important of all, Israel has an ally whose president is an utter coward and should have already been impeached for crimes committed against his own country because of his disavowal of his inaugural pledge to defend America against all enemies domestic and foreign.

Should Trump be elected and MAGA becomes his renewed mantra, it is imperative Israel be allowed to accomplish what BIBI threatened immediately after Oct.7. 

Trump has raised some doubts about his willingness to reject isolationism but I believe he will be willing to support BIBI and not handcuff him in implementing his goal.

There is no alternative to utter victory, whatever that may mean, under the most unique and difficult of current circumstances. Hamas is not only a terrorist organization, but a demoniacal political entity, as well as a concept as difficult to grab as an illusive cloud.

Israeli's have been united by Hamas and are in unison as never before. No more October 7's.

Since Biden will not attack Iran and allows it's surrogates to remain financed and armed, Israel and committed members of The Abraham Accord remain threatened.  Meanwhile, The Saudi's are reluctant to join, even though they want to, and the entire world is threatened with an expanded and, perhaps, eventual nuclear war.

Biden states the latter is what he does not seek yet, as usual, everything he does brings about that which he professes he wants to avoid. 

The man has a history of inept decision making because no basic morality drives him.  He seems solely motivated by politics, lies and weakness of character which has finally been uncovered as downright out and out corruption.

America was once the leader of the Western World but our rapid descent began with Carter and Clinton , accelerated with Obama and now we have become the laughing stock of the entire world. 

America is neither respected nor feared and most assuredly not United.  

WOE IS US!

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Lara Logan outs Corporate Media-Government Collusion
Media Censorship and the First Amendment: A threat to Freedom and the Republic


By ROBERT W MALONE MD, MS



The following is a transcript of the above video, but I urge everyone to watch this video.

It is chilling. It is important. And it is truth.

Transcript.

Senator Ron Johnson:

Our next presenter is Ms. Lara Logan. Lara Logan is an award-winning investigative journalist, former 60 Minutes correspondent and Chief Foreign Correspondent and Chief Foreign Affairs correspondent for 60 Minutes and host of The Rest of the Story with Lara Logan.

Lara Logan:

Thank you, Senator Johnson. Hello everybody. I was asked to testify on media censorship and the First Amendment, the importance of free speech. And I do want to say that it is an honor and a privilege to be here with all of you and with you. Senator Johnson, thank you for hosting this “Rogue” committee.

It is important to all of us because of everything discussed today, that we address the vital principles and values that exist really only in the United States of America. And that said, these are the worst of times for the media in this country. We live in the age of information warfare where propaganda is not simply a weapon, it is the entire field of battle. This is a war for our minds that is aided by advanced technology, and we have never been here, not in all of human history.

It is a moment when we as journalists should stand together united and regardless of politics, we should fight for the truth and we should fight for freedom. Yet not very long ago, we allowed one of our own Tucker Carlson to be branded as a traitor simply for doing his job. In fact, there were many, so-called journalists who were leading the charge against Tucker, accusing him of treason for the simple fact of interviewing the President of Russia, Vladimir Putin. And to my knowledge, there was not a single legacy media institution that spoke up.

This was more than a politically motivated attack on one man. It was a betrayal of the most sacred principles of a free press. And my media colleagues know this to be true no matter what they say. My fear is that they either no longer care or that they lack the moral courage to be honest, including with themselves. I have worked at the highest levels of the media as a full-time correspondent for 60 Minutes, chief Foreign correspondent for CBS News, chief Foreign Affairs correspondent for CBS News. That was my home for 16 years. And as a journalist, I have sat down with world leaders, mass murderers and terrorists, and I have held people on both sides of the aisle accountable.

I have seen suffering and I have faced evil, and I have walked through the fires of hell on distant battlefields. I faced my own death at the hands of a mob of some 200 men in Egypt when I was gang raped and sodomized and beaten almost to death while on assignment for 60 minutes.

And yet for almost a decade, I have been targeted and falsely branded and accused of many things that I did not do. They have attacked my work, my character, my sanity, and my marriage. And I am not alone. We are many and we will not give up, and we will not give in to those who wish to censor the idea of free speech. In America and all over the world, media companies, institutions, and journalism schools have failed all of us. And for too long we have allowed nonprofit organizations to masquerade as nonpartisan media watchdogs, when in fact they are a little more than highly paid political propagandists and assassins, whose entire reason for being is to crush anyone who stands in their way.

And along with them, the long held and cherished ideas of free speech, free thinking, and free minds. This is a blood sport for them. Their political allies and their puppet masters. They know how to kill a journalist without murdering them. We call it cancel culture. In truth, it is a death sentence and they get away with it because they have information dominance. Some are strong enough to survive, but only a few like Glenn Greenwald, Tucker Carlson, Matt Taibbi, only a few like them are able to reach greater heights and thrive. These nonprofits that I'm talking about are part of a vast censorship network that includes government agencies. They use deception to mask their actions with lofty goals like preventing the spread of misinformation, disinformation hate speech. They use phrases like protecting democracy. And make no mistake, words matter. The media is collaborating with government agencies and operatives to censor and shape the information battlefield to justify certain actions.

For example, when the president of the United States threatens the unvaccinated saying his patience is wearing thin and accuses them of putting communities at risk, his words are designed to justify hatred, censorship, and intimidation. And when the Vice President compares January 6th to 9-11 and Pearl Harbor, it is a predicate to silence the opposition and justify the weaponization of the justice system.

We are already witnessing another shaping operation to influence the outcome of the 2024 election this time with the false claim that if one side wins, it'll be the end of democracy. This lie contrived to ensure a particular outcome and to sabotage free speech. Yet again, overseas taxpayer funds from hardworking Americans are being doled out by contractors under the Office of Transition Initiatives at USAID or the State Department Bureau, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor. These contractors, many of them ideological zealots, who are not even US government officials often make over a quarter million dollars a year and are outside the reach senators like yourself and committees like this.

They hand out taxpayer dollars to programs that are shaped by highly partisan NGOs who hide behind terms like interreligious dialogue, when in fact they are funding Muslim schools that train Islamic terrorists like they did in Malaysia. Another example is Humanist International. Through them, the State Department is funding atheism grants that actively cultivate an atheist advocacy network in Nepal. This is not just to attack religion and manipulate foreign politics. It is an attack on free speech, faith and God. While propaganda and censorship are not new, technology means unprecedented power and reach in the hands of a few companies like Facebook, Instagram, and Google. As you have heard many times today, they have been allowed to amass monopoly power. And as a result, they not only reach billions of people across the world every second of the day, they have absolute control over what we see and what we hear. Imagine those tools in the hands of Lenin, Stalin, Mao or Hitler.

When I became a journalist more than 35 years ago, we wanted emergency restrictions in apartheid South Africa and I was 17 years old. Public safety and security were the weapons of state senses. Ours was the truth. We had no Bill of Rights, no Constitution, no First Amendment, no Declaration of Independence, and journalists would have to hide footage from the security police sometimes sewing the tapes into their mattresses at home so they could not be seized and used to identify and target the protestors that we'd filmed. The light of freedom that set fire to our hearts in South Africa was lit thousands of miles away. It was lit right here where we sit today in the United States of America.

When the founding fathers put freedom of speech, first - it was not by chance. It was by design. The rights that followed were in part, created to protect the first Amendment. Without it, they knew that freedom itself would perish. I am reminded today of the word spoken by the British Foreign Secretary. So Edward Gray in 1914, at the beginning of the First World War, he said, “The lamps are going out all over Europe. We shall not see them lit again in our lifetime”. We are once again watching the lights of freedom go out. They're going out here and all over the world and it is up to us to determine if they will be lit again ever.

Thank you, Senator Johnson. I'm ready to take your questions.

Senator Ron Johnson:

Thank you, Ms. Logan. You said you've been targeted over the last 10 years. Can you describe what precipitated your targeting?

Lara Logan:

Yes. I'm reporting the truth about Benghazi. I was attacked by one of those NGOs that masquerades as a nonpartisan watchdog in violation of its 501c3 status. It occupies a highly partisan position. I'm talking about Media Matters for America. I'm sure there are many doctors in this room, scientists who've been attacked by the same people, the same people that run that - David Brock, for example.

And another political assassin now runs an organization called Facts First, USA, which is designed to make sure that your research, Dr. (Sabin) Hazan never reaches the people or the public. There are other organizations like Defeat Disinformation, which claims to be a PAC that goes after disinformation, particularly set up to target Covid. And throughout Covid with General Stanley McChrystal and the other people that advise that organization. But what Senator Johnson, it's not a secret that these organizations exist. What is not widely known and talked about is that it's paid for by us.

It's paid for by the taxpayers in your omnibus spending bills that get shoved through the House and the Senate against the will of the people of this country. There are cutouts for these NGOs, and what they do is they launder this money. They pass it from one NGO to the next, and in the name of preventing the spread of disinformation, they censor silence, intimidate, and punish.

I said that this is a death sentence for journalists. It's how you murder a journalist without killing them. It's how you murder a scientist without killing them. It's how you murder a doctor without killing them. It's how you murder the vaccine injured when they haven't died yet. It's how you finish them off and everybody else in their family.

And it's time for people in this building who come to work every day here to serve us. This is the only country where the people are, the government. This is a government for the people of the people and by the people. And the same is said for so-called Journalists. This man (Mr. Del Bigtree) has been targeted for simply going to the FDA hearings and filming them when they approve vaccines. Just filming them not doing a thing and putting that out and showing people there is no real approval process. They didn't actually do their jobs. And for that, he's been targeted for years long before COVID ever hit.

So, it's time now for us to stop taking taxpayer funds to slit our own throats.

Thank you.
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Recently, HonestReporting accompanied LA-based journalist Eve Barlow on a two-day tour of Israel's northern frontier.

Through interviews with regional experts and local residents, Barlow examines the tense situation along the Israel-Lebanon border, the possibility of a future Israeli war with Hezbollah, and how the military threat to the Jewish state's north has upended the lives of thousands of Israeli civilians.

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IDF nabs 80 terror suspects trying to escape with civilians in Khan Yunis
 
IAF kills Gaza Hamas recruiter in airstrike • PIJ rocket squad eliminated less than 30 minutes after firing on Kibbutz Be’eri and Kibbutz Hatzerim.
 
By JOSHUA MARKS
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Bring this man and his ideas back
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I asked a friend, who knows what he is talking about, what an Israeli Victory would mean. This was his clear, cogent response.

 Lamentably, I believe this cannot happen as long as Biden remains in office and the deranged control the Democrat Party.
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