My Gazette: Deep State Corruption

By Rich Kozlovich  

Today I posted this January 20th article, The American Nomenklatura is Destroying the Country by Mark Lewis saying: 

Washington, D.C. is slowly strangling America.  Big government always razes a country because government never stops growing, soaks up increasing amounts of a country’s resources to spend on its own (mostly) useless interests, and thereby gradually impoverishes its people through taxation, inflation, and oppression.  Expanding government robs the people of their freedoms, and the free spirit of man will eventually rebel.  Our Founders warned us incessantly about this, but we never pay any attention to them, and truly, it is in the vested interest of Washington (the Uniparty) NOT to pay attention to them.  The people must be vigilant to protect their freedoms, but sadly, too many people aren’t vigilant, don’t even know what the word means, and thus freedom is ultimately lost.

The IRS is adding thousands of agents, irrespective of how Congress has refused to fund such an effort.  This mentality is ubiquitous in the federal government, and the best fix is the elimination of 80% of those jobs.  

Green Agenda and the EPA

Environmental Experts Tell House GOP to Fight Biden’s Green ‘Disaster’ - In a recent letter, a coalition of environmental groups called on the House Republican majority to “take note” of the Biden administration’s push for electric vehicles (EVs) and other controversial “green” policy proposals.  “President Biden’s Green New Deal climate policy agenda is also in rapid meltdown and countdown to disaster,” the letter’s signatories wrote to House Speaker Mike Johnson and Majority Leader Steve Scalise, both R-LA, as FOX News reported Monday. “Not a day seems to go by without news of some sort of EV disaster or problem,” the letter continued:

• Hertz to sell off thousands of it EVs
• The dark secret behind the drive to EVs.

The Electric Car Con Explained - January 11, 2024 By William Levin - Is electricity a source of energy? Most people will answer yes, which is incorrect. Electricity carries energy but it is not itself a source of energy, which in the U.S. is supplied 60% by natural gas and coal, 18% nuclear and 22% renewables (hydro, solar and wind).  The related question is whether cars are a major consumer of energy and hence a significant contributor of Co2 emissions? Again, most people believe both statements are self-evidently true, hence the importance of moving to electric cars. In fact, cars (light-duty transportation) account for less than 5% of global energy demand, with U.S. cars accounting for 19% of the global car fleet, declining to under 15% by 2050 as car demand grows faster outside the U.S.   Putting these facts together, and they are indisputable facts, provides a stunning insight......... 

How Biden's EPA is working to thwart his infrastructure plans - By WND News Services  January 13, 2024 - Rule change cut back on materials that are needed.  For Americans to start seeing evidence of the Biden Administration’s Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) taking shape in their hometowns, the construction industry will need the building materials to do the work. But should a newly proposed Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) particulate matter (PM) standard take effect in the next few weeks, those materials might not be readily available over the course of the next few years.....

Biden’s EPA Underreported Billions of Dollars According to Its Own Inspector General - The Biden administration’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) underreported billions of dollars of spending according to its own Office of the Inspector General (OIG).  “The EPA’s initial reporting of its fiscal year 2022 spending in USAspending.gov was not complete or accurate,” stated the EPA OIG in a January 9 report. “This occurred because the EPA’s Office of the Chief Financial Officer, or OCFO, did not follow its information technology configuration management procedures.” The OIG report indicated that “the EPA’s fiscal year 2022 award-level obligations were underreported by $1.2 billion, and its fiscal year 2022 award-level outlays were underreported by $5.8 billion.” “This means that 12.9 percent of the EPA’s total award-level obligations and 99.9 percent of the EPA’s total award-level outlays were not reported in fiscal year 2022,” continued the report:  The EPA also did not report any of its Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act outlays and underreported its coronavirus pandemic-related outlays...........

Intelligence and Law Enforcement

How the Great Cultural Revolution Transformed the CIA and FBI - By J. Michael Waller January 16, 2024 - An early Soviet active measures campaign took on a life of its own and survived the collapse of the USSR. It provided the philosophical and strategic bases for a cultural Marxist revolution so profound that it penetrated the cores of the CIA and FBI. That is one of the startling findings of scholar J. Michael Waller in his new book, Big Intel: How the CIA and FBI Went from Cold War Heroes to Deep State Villains. Published today [January 16] by Regnery, Big Intel shows how the intelligence community failed to defend the United States against a decades-old Soviet covert operation to destroy democratic Western societies from within. American Greatness is reprinting an exclusive excerpt of Big Intel to show how the Obama administration used the George W. Bush-era centralization of the intelligence community to impose critical theory and cultural Marxism on the CIA, FBI, and other intelligence services. The excerpt is slightly edited for context and clarity.......

Jan. 6: the DOJ plans to arrest everybody in the zip code - January 9, 2024 By Mike McDaniel  -Les Miserables is Victor Hugo’s morality tale of Inspector Javert and his Ahab-like pursuit of Jean Valjean. One of the great novels of all time, its message holds true in our amoral time: ........Americans are increasingly coming to understand the injustice of most Jan. 6 prosecutions. Without question, the events of Jan. 6 were not remotely an insurrection. No one was armed, and even if they were and managed to seize the Capital building, the Republic would never have been in the slightest jeopardy. Indeed, a number of leftist organizations have seized government buildings and suffered nothing for it. Jan. 6 was nothing more than a spontaneous protest that got, briefly, out of hand.

 

Rep. Clay Higgins: The FBI lured Americans into a January 6 trap - January 9, 2024 By Andrea Widburg - On January 6, 2024, the drive-by media went into overdrive, remembering (sometimes while oozing crocodile tears) the horrors of January 6, 2021. It was, they said, the day on which democracy was under attack. It seems that they may be right, although they’ve gotten their facts bass-ackwards. According to Rep. Clay Higgins (R. LA), who has been investigating what actually happened that day, when one deletes the layers of leftist propaganda, it appears that January 6 was a giant entrapment web that successfully stopped official challenges to election certification, made Trump even more toxic and, worst of all, turned his law-abiding supporters into criminals......

Judiciary

Trump’s SCOTUS Is On the Verge of DeFanging The Deep State.  - The Supreme Court (SCOTUS) heard oral arguments yesterday for two cases that may result in a significant clawback of abuse by the executive -particularly Joe Biden’s energy and climate regulations. ............

Supreme Court Must Answer Whether Judges or Bureaucrats Have Final Word on Federal Law -  Will the Supreme Court uphold the Chevron doctrine, under which courts defer to contested interpretations of law by agencies in the executive branch? Or will the high court instruct lower courts to determine the best reading of the law, as they do in virtually every non-agency case?  Those are the questions the Supreme Court must answer after hours of arguments Wednesday in Relentless v. Department of Commerce and Loper Bright v. Raimondo, two cases that challenge the Chevron doctrine.

The Roots of Lawfare - January 9, 2024 By Dennis Lund - Although the term “Lawfare” has origins going back to the 1950s, it remained relatively dormant and unknown until 1999 and 2001, where first Chinese military officers used the term in their book titled Unrestricted Warfare: China’s Master Plan to Destroy America. Two years later, the term was used in a paper by the highly respected, then-Air Force colonel (and later general) Charles Dunlap. In his several papers on the subject General Dunlap defined “Lawfare” as: “the strategy of using -- or misusing -- law as a substitute for traditional military means to achieve an operational objective.”  The first nationally infamous use of “lawfare” was most likely the battle in 2005 to remove Tom Delay (R Texas) from his position as Speaker of the House. The vendetta against Tom Delay was led by one Ronnie Earle, the DA in Austin, Texas who had a strong dislike for Delay (One might call it TDDS). Ultimately the case was overturned on appeal, but the battle was won, as Delay was removed from office. Recognize that one of the purposes of Lawfare is to remove the person from the political scene......

Military

Lloyd Austin and our government’s lack of accountability - January 15, 2024 By Ed Timperlake -  Very early in serving in uniform in the US Military, one learns a very important ironclad rule of leadership; namely, that you can delegate responsibility but not accountability. When Secretary Lloyd Austin was exposed for having committed the horrendous and dangerous act of going to the hospital in secret, he made a statement indicating that he knows about this leadership principle, although it’s questionable whether he understands it. Once outed, Austin stated, “But this is important to say: this was my medical procedure, and I take full responsibility for my decisions about disclosure.” For Democrats, that’s the end of the story. However, it should be the beginning of understanding responsibility and accountability, along with what just really happened when Austin vanished from the scene. Following the Secretary of Defense’s disappearance, the military and Biden administration should be putting jobs on the chopping block…but they’re not........

 Pentagon Fails Audit For Sixth Straight Time - For the sixth year in a row, the Pentagon failed its annual audit. The auditors “found that half of [Department of Defense’s (DoD)] assets can’t be accounted for,” according to The Hill. “This was not a surprise,” said Michael J. McCord, the Biden administration’s Comptroller of the DoD, in a Wednesday press briefing. He later acknowledged that the “audit is ultimately a pass-fail kind of metric with the public.”  “We still believe that we have seen signs of progress that are going to get us more favorable in the future,” McCord stated. “Auditing the department’s $3.8 trillion in assets and $4 trillion in liabilities is a massive undertaking,” the comptroller added. “But the improvements and changes we are making every day as a result of these audits positively affect every soldier, sailor, airman, Marine, guardian and [DoD] civilian.” Per the DoD’s website, McCord advises the Defense Secretary on “all budgetary and financial matters” and is “responsible for development and execution of annual defense budgets.” He served in the same role during the latter two-and-a-half years of the Obama administration......

Have No Fear, ‘Big Brother’ Is On - January 10, 2024 By John Green - The news is abuzz about Secretary of Defense, Lloyd Austin, landing in intensive care for 5 days and not telling anyone— including his boss. The news got even more alarming when we learned that the Deputy Secretary of Defense, Kathleen Hicks, was on vacation in Puerto Rico while Austin was incapacitated. That is a chain of leadership breach which is unacceptable for a nuclear superpower.  Of course, this lapse of leadership happened to an administration in which the Secretary of Transportation took two months off for “his” maternity leave, and the president has spent almost 40% of his time napping on the beach while a myriad of global crises failed to rise to the “cancel vacation” level. Clearly, any expectation of competence from a Biden administration will be met with disappointment. But is there a more ominous lesson to be learned from the Austin debacle than the surface level reminder that our current administration is composed of posers rather than leaders? Why didn’t it matter that Austin wasn’t on duty?

They Hate the Military - January 9, 2024 By Sloan Oliver - The Democrats of the past 50 years are certainly not our parent’s Dems.  At one time, all Americans (even Dems) honored military members.  Today’s Democrat holds extreme antipathy towards the military going back at least to the 1960s.  Recall that John Kerry rose to prominence by slandering the military.  Jimmy Carter, a Naval Academy graduate himself, drastically gutted the Armed Forces.  Bill Clinton and Hillary loathed service members.  One Clinton appointee, Sara Lister, even called the Marines “extremists” -- most likely because Marines love and defend the United States and she didn’t understand such commitment.  Then, Obama did everything he could to demoralize the military by promoting homosexuality in the ranks and allowing women in combat arms (topics for future discussion).....

Biden's ‘America Last’ Policy at Work - January 9, 2024 By Warren Beatty - While considering the bumbling joke that currently occupies the Bully Pulpit's "America Last" policy, ponder what he wrote in 2019: "By nearly every measure, the credibility and influence of the United States in the world have diminished since President Barack Obama and I left office on January 20, 2017. President Donald Trump has belittled, undermined, and in some cases abandoned U.S. allies and partners. He has turned on our own... troops. He has emboldened our adversaries and squandered our leverage to contend with national security challenges from North Korea to Iran, from Syria to Afghanistan to Venezuela..."......When Donald Trump spoke about Joe Biden at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Orlando, Florida, in February 2021, he said, "In one month we have gone from America first to America last."

 

Immigration

 

Mayorkas allegedly issued a not-so-veiled threat against House Members preparing to impeach - January By Olivia Murray - It’s almost as if the Bidenites thought they were auditioning for roles in The Godfather hoping to make it as Corleone Family extras, but never heard that the cast was selected and the movie was filmed and produced—so they’ve been method-acting ever since while waiting on the call that will never come.  When Florida congresswoman Kat Cammack joined Harris Faulkner on a Fox News segment yesterday morning, she revealed that in a closed-door exchange with Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas in which members of Congress told the Bidenite he was fixing to be impeached, he allegedly responded with the most mafia-like answer possible: “You’re not gonna like who comes next.” When Cammack asked him if that was supposed to be a threat, Mayoraks allegedly said nothing, but gave her a sinister smirk instead. See a clip from the broadcast below............:

 

Chip Roy: Why Are We Giving Money to Mayorkas then Go to the Cameras and Talk About Impeaching Him? - Jeff Poor 19 Jan 2024  - Friday, during an appearance on FBN’s “Cavuto: Coast to Coast,” Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) questioned the wisdom of funding government under the direction of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas while at the same time calling for his impeachment. “First of all, I just met with one of those mayors, a mayor that represents a city in the district I represent,” Roy said. “And I talk to people all the time about what they’re dealing with in Texas. And I can assure you they’re not excited about what they’re seeing coming out of the Senate and the White House. And with all respect to the president, who said, I don’t think there are any sticking points. He has no idea what’s in this bill. He doesn’t know what’s actually being discussed in any real granular detail. Frankly, we only know bits and pieces coming out of the Senate. We have seen some of it, and it doesn’t do the job.”

 

And finally,  the most important weapon the the Deep State's arsenal: 

 

The Fourth Estate, Fifth Column - January 10, 2024 By Frank Santarpia - The term Fourth Estate, as many know, refers to the press; “press” being a now-archaic description hearkening back to a simpler time, when delivering news was strictly a function of metal, paper, ink, and the time it took to get it to the reader—no electricity involved.  We need not go into how different things are today.  To the best of our knowledge, Edmund Burke coined the phrase in 1787 while in the House of Commons.  The first three estates, as generally defined at the time, were the clergy, the nobles, and the commoners. Burke is said to have gazed at the press gallery and said, “Yonder lies the Fourth Estate, and they are more important than them all.”......