tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25563263047295192322024-03-18T23:00:09.415-04:00Paradigms and DemographicsEverything is to be Questioned!Rich Kozlovichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13745960671409518147noreply@blogger.comBlogger35597125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2556326304729519232.post-78857799626305544122024-03-18T07:54:00.004-04:002024-03-18T07:54:39.466-04:00The Greenfield Gazette<p>By Daniel Greenfield <b><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/point/"><span style="color: #660000;">@ The Point</span></a>
</b> </p><p><b>Islam's Immigration Jihad Will Doom Western Civilization </b><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/scotlands-muslim-leader-angrily-discovers-entire-country-is-white/" target="_self">Scotland’s Muslim Leader Angrily Discovers Entire Country is White</a> <time datetime="2024-03-18T10:15:52+05:00">- March 18, 2024 </time>- White! White! White people everywhere. Pity, First Minister Humza Yousaf, the current head chief of the
notoriously corrupt SNP, and therefore of Scotland, who took the
position not realizing that the country is, dare one say it, white. Which DEI advocate can’t empathize with the White! White! White people everywhere. Scotland is some 96% white. And Humza Yousaf is running the place. Pakistani Muslim’s rage
at the persistence of white people in the highlands and all the rest of
it too.......... </p><p><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/england-scotland-and-wales-all-have-non-white-leaders-now/" target="_self">England, Scotland and Wales All Have Non-White Leaders Now</a> - <time datetime="2024-03-17T12:31:56+05:00">March 17, 2024 - </time>Apart
from Northern Ireland, the United Kingdom executives are entirely
non-white. It’s certainly an interesting phenomenon. Rishi Sunak is
serving as the Prime Minister of the UK. Pakistani
Muslim settler Humza Yousaf has taken over as the First Minister of
Scotland and Vaughan Gething (pictured above), an immigrant from Zambia,
will become the First Minister of Wales. Apart from Northern Ireland,
the United Kingdom executives are entirely non-white. It’s certainly an
interesting phenomenon that reflects a rate of not
only demographic, but political change in the UK, that has become more
rapid than the rest of Europe...........</p><p> <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/islamic-terror-state-wants-to-take-over-james-bond/" target="_self">Islamic Terror State Wants to Buy James Bond</a> - <time datetime="2024-03-17T11:26:11+05:00">March 17, 2024 - </time>After buying the King ,Qatar wants to buy Bond. Is there anywhere that Qatar, the Islamic terror state which has its
bloody fingers in everything from Hamas to the Afghanistan collapse to
Al Jazeera to 9/11 isn’t? What<a href="https://www.semafor.com/article/03/14/2024/gulf-money-stars-in-daniel-craigs-othello-push" rel="noopener" target="_blank"> about Hollywood</a>? Daniel Craig is looking for money in the desert; the financiers in the desert want Bond..............</p><p><b>Islam and Radical Leftist Insanity </b></p><p><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/schumers-rabbi-is-an-anti-israel-activist-who-protested-war-on-hamas/" target="_self">Schumer’s ‘Rabbi” is an Anti-Israel Activist Who Protested War on Hamas</a> - <time datetime="2024-03-17T13:16:35+05:00">March 17, 2024 - S</time>chumer’s
‘Rabbi’ is a J Street activist affiliated with anti-Israel groups. The
media decided to defend Sen. Schumer’s attack on Israel and
warning to spare Hamas and create a terrorist state by rushing out his
‘rabbi’ Rachel Timoner to claim that “he said what most of us think” and
“what the overwhelming majority of American Jews are saying to each
other”. The first part of that is probably true. Rachel Timoner is an
activist with such anti-Israel groups as J
Street, T’ruah and co-founded the New York Jewish Agenda leftist
organization alongside Sharon Kleinbaum who faced an exodus from her
‘temple’ after <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/rabbi-who-said-kaddish-for-hamas-threatens-to-boycott-israeli-government/">saying Kaddish for Hamas terrorists</a> with a mission of fighting the city’s Orthodox Jews..........</p><p><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/satan-officially-comes-out-for-palestine/" target="_self">Satan Officially Comes Out for ‘Palestine’</a> <time datetime="2024-03-17T11:46:15+05:00">March 17, 2024 - </time>Finally some news for Hamas. The only thing missing from “Drag Show for Palestine” that was
supposed to go forward in Phoenix, AZ was the devil. Fortunately, he
sent along a somewhat less accomplished female substitute in the form of
‘Daddy Satan’. “Join us for a night of Drag and Community as we gather at Palabras
Book Store in solidarity with Palestine,” a local leftist bookstore
announced. “We will have local organizers, speeches, education, food,
and of course, DRAG!”.............</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><b>My Take</b> - <i>I
find this mind boggling. If some Islamic group took over, these nitwits
would be among the first they'd murder, and that includes these
antisemitic American Jews. </i><br /></p><p><b>Biden </b><br /></p><p></p><p> <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/bidens-staffers-want-him-to-walk-faster-to-convince-everyone-hes-not-old/" target="_self">Biden’s Staffers Want Him to Walk Faster to Convince Everyone He’s Not Old</a> - <time datetime="2024-03-18T10:02:14+05:00">March 18, 2024 - </time>That’ll fix everything. Here’s the thing that nobody seems to believe, age isn’t really Biden’s problem............But they care a whole lot more about the miserable state of the
country and the world than Biden’s age. His age is collateral damage.
Plenty of Dems, never mind Republicans and Independents, see Biden as
inept, out of touch, and a dementia case because the country is a mess.
His shambling walk, inability to complete a sentence, and general aura
of random irritability contribute to a problem created by his actual
actions..............</p><p><b>Immigration Lies </b><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/tyson-exposes-the-jobs-americans-wont-do-lie/" target="_self">Tyson Exposes the “Jobs Americans Won’t Do” Lie</a> <time datetime="2024-03-18T09:33:55+05:00">March 18, 2024 - </time>“Not a lot of people that are going to be working labor-manufacturing jobs that are American” Wrecking the immigration system has always depended on lies. Lies like “one-time amnesty”, “thoroughly vetted refugees”, “address
the root causes of migration” and, of course, “jobs Americans won’t do.” Generations of Americans (not to mention Europeans) were assured that
the invading hordes were just there to do the scut work, the jobs that
the natives won’t do. Business groups treated us to a litany of
complaints that their members just couldn’t find Americans to fill those
jobs. And without an endless flood of migrants, the entire economy will
collapse. This was always a lie, but few companies demonstrated it as devastatingly as <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13201583/Americas-meat-poultry-firm-BOYCOTTED-sacks-1-300-staff-Iowa-pork-plant-offers-job-lawyer-packages-bid-hire-42-000-asylum-seekers-New-York.html" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Tyson Foods just did</a>...............</p><br />Rich Kozlovichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13745960671409518147noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2556326304729519232.post-3245308565966325642024-03-18T06:35:00.001-04:002024-03-18T06:35:50.700-04:00How I "Made Sea Level Rise Go Away"!<i>A short story behind the story
</i><p>John Droz jr. Mar 15, 2024 <a class="navbar-title-link" href="https://criticallythinking.substack.com/"><b><span style="color: #660000;">@ Critically Thinking About Select Societal Issues</span></b></a></p><p>
Some readers may be surprised that I’m more than a pretty face. Through persistence, invaluable help from allies, and dumb luck, I’ve had some influence on a wide variety of issues, on local, state, and national levels. A reward for this is that I’ve been repeatedly targeted by anti-science, anti-citizen, anti-American parties.</p><p>
What’s interesting, is that none of the targeting involves an accurate recounting of the relevant facts. This is a short summary about such a recent case. This example is about a major state’s legislative process, where I was a player. The scene is 2012, and North Carolina <a href="https://www.ncleg.gov/BillLookUp/2011/H819" rel="">legislation</a><span> </span> about Sea Level Rise (SLR) had just became law.</p><p>
Once that happened, the S hit the fan, as alarmists were outraged that Real Science took precedence over their political science. The “audacity” of our NC law became national news — even warranting a <span></span><a href="https://www.cc.com/video/w6itwj/the-colbert-report-the-word-sink-or-swim" rel="">major hit piece by Colbert</a><span> </span>on late-night TV!<span></span><span> </span></p><p>
There are two major sagas here: 1) how this law came about, and 2) what happened after it was passed. Part one is a fascinating tale, but it is too long to cover today. If I get inspired (and have the time), I may write about that in a future episode.</p><p>
Re #2, a LOT happened after the law was passed, and this commentary is about just one interesting part — where I again became a target (because I was instrumental in the NC SLR law being written and passed).</p><p>
I’m writing about this now as Left-wing alarmists continue to bring this up. For example, this <a href="https://prospect.org/environment/2024-03-12-against-the-wind-renewable-revolution/" rel="">lengthy hit piece</a><span> </span>appeared March 12, 2024. It attempts to tag me on a few different matters, but my Teflon shield ensures me that none of them will stick, any more than their slings and arrows have in the past. (BTW, the author here, Ms. Burns, did not contact me, so there is not even a pretension of any fact verifications.)<span> </span></p><p>
As part of her ammunition to discredit me, she referenced this well-known <span></span><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150916004213/http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-man-who-makes-sea-lev" rel="">article</a> in Scientific American (September 2013):</p><p style="text-align: center;">
<img class="_img_11jhr_52" height="107" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb1defdd2-8ada-499b-9524-a8d63514fca9_1012x270.jpeg" width="400" /></p><p>
The first thought that comes to mind is “one lies and the other swears to it.” In any case, today’s brief commentary is about how that article came about…</p><p>
In early 2013, I received a phone call from a contract journalist, who I did not know. He said that he had been hired to do an in-depth report about my role in bringing about this unique North Carolina SLR law. I asked him several questions and he seemed to be on the up-and-up. He requested an in-person interview.
</p><p>
Since he was three hours away in Raleigh, I invited him to come and visit us on the coast, promising that we would provide a very good lunch. A week or so later he did come and we had a cordial and productive four-hour session (including a superb home-made lunch). I requested that he send me a draft of what he was proposing, so that we could discuss any factual errors. He agreed to do that. Things were going well!</p><p>
A week or so later he sent me the draft of his report. I thought that he had written an interesting, accurate, and informative story about my involvement with this NC law. I suggested a few minor edits, which he agreed to make. Still going OK!</p><p>
A few weeks later he contacted me with the news that his editor had rejected his submission! I asked why and he said that the editor didn’t think that it was controversial enough… Hmmm, so for an article about what happened, the facts are not what will be reported… I asked him what he was going to do, and he said that he wouldn’t get paid unless he scrapped what he had written and started over…</p><p>
So what eventually got published was version #2, where he injected things he knew were not accurate, just to make the editor happy. (For example, he wrote that I “spends much of his time quietly and effectively plying the halls of power in Raleigh…”) The reality is that I go to Raleigh about once every 3 years, and stay for just a few hours. He also did not send me any drafts of version #2 to comment on.</p><p>
Fortunately, the article still has some remnants of truth in it — which is a credit to the journalist. In many cases (e.g., with Ms. Burns) we are not dealing with writers whose goal is to be objective and factual, but rather activists promoting undeclared agendas, posing as journalists.</p><p>
It’s fascinating that the media continues to bring up matters where I was successful over ten years ago. Don’t they realize that it’s embarrassing to them to refresh people’s memory about their past failures? (E.g., despite all their alarmist rhetoric about the NC SLR bill, here we are 12+ years later, and what harm has it caused? None!)</p><p>
Since the Left is generally adept at PR, it would seem that they would realize that they should move on. Yet they don’t!</p><p>
What they are EXTREMELY concerned about (and they can’t help themselves) is that there will be more educated, critical-thinking citizens. That is the single greatest threat to their plans to promote unscientific, anti-American ideology.</p><p>
Towards that end, take much of what you read in mainstream media about Science-related matters, with a very heavy dose of salt.</p><p>
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began with newspaper stories claiming that the VP had been pushing Joe
Biden to speak more about the “suffering” of Muslims in Gaza during the
war between Hamas and Israel.<br /><br />The break went even more public when Kamala visited the United Arab Emirates and attacked Israel, implicitly <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/kamalas-jihad/">accusing it of</a>
violating “international humanitarian law” and claiming that “the scale
of civilian suffering and the images and videos coming from Gaza are
devastating”.<br /><br />Then she warned Israel that there could be “no
forcible displacement, no reoccupation, no siege or blockade, no
reduction in territory”.<br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVLjV_eNfbLTklClwcGaVgQTVCbeToqOQ15ZxKdHMupmbJvE59juZPiVVvowuPBqY8OioPBV_Pm3Yq5pky4_PoLAMwpJmKyWL7LElkBpReDXnzT-WkN7Lez-2Ib6Qowxr-nbQ9ASYyOnBQYKv_iZkdSrLesrPhqzjfhk9zW7VJdPLocXhi0gGRtA/s818/kamala%20gaza%20frame.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="664" data-original-width="818" height="260" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVLjV_eNfbLTklClwcGaVgQTVCbeToqOQ15ZxKdHMupmbJvE59juZPiVVvowuPBqY8OioPBV_Pm3Yq5pky4_PoLAMwpJmKyWL7LElkBpReDXnzT-WkN7Lez-2Ib6Qowxr-nbQ9ASYyOnBQYKv_iZkdSrLesrPhqzjfhk9zW7VJdPLocXhi0gGRtA/s320/kamala%20gaza%20frame.png" width="320" /></a></div>At
the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Kamala hijacked the civil rights
commemoration to rant that “the Israeli government must do more to
significantly increase the flow of aid… No excuses. They must open new
border crossings. They must not impose any unnecessary restrictions on
the delivery of aid.”<br /><br />“No excuses,” she barked.<br /><br />Media
stories quickly followed claiming that Kamala’s original draft had been
even harsher on Israel but had been watered down. This was the latest in
a series of leaks from inside Kamala’s camp which all claimed that she
was much more pro-terrorist and anti-Israel in private.<br /><br />The whole
thing could be seen as political theater with the Biden administration
trying to play both sides at the same time if it were not for the media
leaks which very clearly undermine Biden. And undermining the party’s
likely nominee before an election is a very odd choice.<br /><br />Or maybe not so odd.<br /><br />Democrats
are faced with the seeming inevitability that Joe Biden, unpopular,
polling badly and rather old, will be their nominee. Removing him would
take either a convention battle or a pressure campaign convincing him to
step down. And Kamala might not be the beneficiary.<br /><br />Kamala polls
as badly, if not occasionally worse, than her boss, and if the party is
going to remove one unpopular incumbent, why not remove both of them at
the same time?<br /><br />As the Democratic National Convention approaches,
Kamala is carefully putting herself on the side of a growing split
among Democrats over the Hamas war and making sure that she will be the
default or at least the compromise candidate in any leftist effort to
remove Biden.<br /><br />Michigan <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/michigan-muslims-take-biden-hostage-to-save-hamas/">Muslim Hamas supporters</a>
and the Our Revolution activists who first put Bernie Sanders on the
map have teamed up to push ‘Uncommitted’ votes in Dem party primaries.
There are fairly few ‘Uncommitted’ delegates despite extensive media
promotion of the pro-terrorist campaign, but they are likely to be used
to disrupt the nomination process.<br /><br />Kamala already has a very good
relationship with DNC chair Jaime Harrison who could theoretically be
in a position to remove or replace Biden under certain scenarios, but
plenty of DNC figures also want Kamala gone, and the Left is not
especially friendly to her either.<br /><br />When Our Revolution set out to
shake up the 2016 primaries, it initially chose Senator Elizabeth
Warren, who refused to challenge Hillary, before<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/bernie-sanders-greedy-lying-socialist-1-percenter-daniel-greenfield/"> settling on Bernie Sanders </a>and
making him into a household name. Our Revolution has attacked Kamala
and instead spent much of its time trying to promote Rep. Ro Khanna: a
pro-terrorist leftist with deep ties to Silicon Valley.<br /><br />Kamala
has increasingly adopted Rep. Khanna’s positions and the leftist
messaging on the Hamas war in order to get on the right side of a major
faction within the Democratic Party. And it’s the faction that is also
likeliest to stage a coup against Biden at the convention. If there were
any doubt about it, the attempt to upstage Biden during the primaries
made that all too clear.<br /><br />Does Kamala really care about Gaza? While she does have <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/kamala-attacks-israel-during-civil-rights-commemoration/">a history of pandering </a>to the Islamist and anti-Israel Left, the only thing she has ever truly cared about is herself.<br /><br />After
a mostly wasted term, she’s headed into a presidential election that
will either end her career or put her on the pathway to becoming
president. Even many Democratic Party insiders are skeptical that Joe
Biden will win in 2024, let alone be able to serve out four years in
office.<br /><br />Another four years may very well turn into two or three ending with President Kamala Harris.<br /><br />And
yet there’s little confidence that Biden will be able to win a straight
up election. If he goes down, Kamala goes down with him. But the Gaza
coup offers a potential third option.<br /><br />Kamala has been signaling
to Hamas supporters and leftists that she would be friendlier to their
cause than her boss. And there’s really no reason to be doing that in a
normal election year. However Kamala appears to be betting that this may
not be a normal election year. She’s hedging her bets by publicly
pushing the administration closer to the anti-Israel side, while
privately her media leaks emphasize that she could be doing so much more
if it wasn’t for Joe.<br /><br />Biden had promised to pick a black woman
as his number two. Picking Kamala was either his dumbest or his smartest
move. Kamala’s unpopularity made it unlikely that anyone would try to
force him out because then they would be stuck with her. Her presence in
the White House was 25th Amendment insurance and a guarantee that he
wouldn’t be pushed off the ticket in 2024.<br /><br />But Biden had been
warned by his allies that she was treacherous and would stab him in the
back. Some insiders had bad memories of the time when Kamala had accused
him of racism. The accusations began again in the first year of being
in office when Kamala became obsessed with the idea that she was being
undermined and would be displaced by Buttigieg in 2024.<br /><br />One
particular red flag for Biden insiders had come during the VP search
interviews when she was asked about accusing her future boss of being a
racist. “She laughed and said, ‘that’s politics.’ She had no remorse.”
Some of those insiders worried that she would do it again.<br /><br />And now it’s happening again.<br /><br />Last
time it was busing, this time it’s Gaza, but Kamala is once again
moving leftward and playing on identity politics. She’s once again
suggesting that she’s a minority and more sensitive to the plight of
minorities than the white man she’s undermining. <br /><br /> This time, ‘it’s politics’ means siding with the terrorists and their supporters to stage a coup.<br /><br />
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</i>Rich Kozlovichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13745960671409518147noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2556326304729519232.post-32413951411509383272024-03-18T05:33:00.005-04:002024-03-18T05:33:41.544-04:00The 2024 Version of Do-It-Yourself BudgetingMarch 16, 2024 by <a href="https://danieljmitchell.wordpress.com/author/danieljmitchell/" title="Posts by Dan Mitchell">Dan Mitchell</a> <b><a href="https://danieljmitchell.wordpress.com/2024/03/16/the-2024-version-of-do-it-yourself-budgeting/"><span style="color: #660000;">@ International Liberty </a></span></b><div class="posttitle">
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<p>Last year, the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget (CRFB) released an online budget game called “Fix the National Debt.”</p>
<p>I would have preferred a game called “Reduce the Size of the Federal Government,” since that would have put the focus on <a href="https://danieljmitchell.wordpress.com/2024/03/11/must-read-book-on-fiscal-policy/">the real problem</a>.</p>
<p>But I dutifully answered all the questions, got <a href="https://danieljmitchell.wordpress.com/2023/07/06/do-it-yourself-budgeting/">my results</a>, and then had two big complaints.</p>
<ol><li>There were not nearly enough options to restrain and/or cut spending and zero options for shutting down departments (such as <a href="https://danieljmitchell.wordpress.com/2022/07/24/a-flunking-grade-for-the-department-of-education/">Education</a>, <a href="https://danieljmitchell.wordpress.com/2016/12/05/shut-down-the-department-of-energy-yesterday-if-possible/">Energy</a>, <a href="https://danieljmitchell.wordpress.com/2013/01/27/question-of-the-week-which-department-of-the-federal-government-should-be-the-first-to-be-abolished/">HUD</a>, <a href="https://danieljmitchell.wordpress.com/2015/11/28/the-department-of-agriculture-is-a-welfare-scam/">Agriculture</a>, and <a href="https://danieljmitchell.wordpress.com/2014/05/09/repeal-the-gas-tax-and-get-rid-of-the-department-of-transportation/">Transportation</a>).</li><li>There was no data on what happens to the burden of government spending as a share of GDP, which is <a href="https://danieljmitchell.wordpress.com/2020/09/22/americas-fiscal-problem-is-spending-not-red-ink/">a more important indicator</a> of good policy than what happens to debt as a share of GDP).</li></ol>
<p>We now have a 2024 version of the CRFB game.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, it still focuses on the <a href="https://danieljmitchell.wordpress.com/2024/03/04/americas-top-fiscal-problem-is/">symptom of red ink</a> rather than the <a href="https://danieljmitchell.wordpress.com/2020/09/22/americas-fiscal-problem-is-spending-not-red-ink/">real problem of excessive spending</a>.</p>
<p>But I can’t resist this kind of budget exercise. So, once again, I
went through all the options and picked the reforms that would be good
policy.</p>
<p>Here’s CRFB’s starting point.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://freedomandprosperity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Mar-16-24-Starting-point.jpg"><img class="alignnone " height="389" src="https://freedomandprosperity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Mar-16-24-Starting-point.jpg" width="400" /></a></p>
<p>And here are the debt levels based on my choices.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://freedomandprosperity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Mar-16-24-Results.jpg"><img class="alignnone " height="316" src="https://freedomandprosperity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Mar-16-24-Results.jpg" width="400" /></a></p>
<p>Since CRFB wants lower levels of debt, both by 2034 and 2050, I supposedly failed.</p>
<p>But the criticisms I made last year still apply. If more options had
existed to reduce or eliminate counterproductive programs, I easily
would have reached CRFB’s debt benchmarks.</p>
<p>More important, I would have substantially reduced the burden of government spending, thus allowing much greater prosperity.</p>
<p>By the way, here’s the breakdown of my choices. I had a small net tax
cut and opted for just about every possible spending cut (keep in mind
that CRFB uses the <a href="https://danieljmitchell.wordpress.com/2023/01/18/washingtons-fake-spending-cut-charade/">dodgy Washington definition of a budget cut</a>).</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://freedomandprosperity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Mar-16-24-Savings.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-large" height="243" src="https://freedomandprosperity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Mar-16-24-Savings.jpg" width="400" /></a></p>
<p>I’ll make two final observations.</p>
<p>First, the “investments” category deals with spending on education and infrastructure. Since the federal government has a <a href="https://danieljmitchell.wordpress.com/2022/03/30/tweeting-the-obvious-the-department-of-education-has-a-failing-grade/">horrible track record</a> in those areas, such spending is <a href="https://danieljmitchell.wordpress.com/2019/03/31/to-improve-transportation-more-private-sector-or-more-federal-involvement/">more accurately characterized</a> as “mal-investments.”</p>
<p>Second, the CRFB game assumes that fiscal policy has no impact on the economy. You <a href="https://danieljmitchell.wordpress.com/2016/11/28/oecd-economic-research-finds-that-government-spending-harms-growth/">get zero credit</a> even if you dramatically reduce the burden of taxes and spending. Likewise, there’s <a href="https://danieljmitchell.wordpress.com/2022/05/17/bigger-government-means-less-prosperity/">no penalty</a> for people who choose more spending and higher tax burdens.</p>
<p>At the risk of understatement, that <a href="https://danieljmitchell.wordpress.com/2019/12/06/class-warfare-taxation-government-spending-and-economic-growth/">grossly unrealistic</a>.</p>
<p>Then again, CRFB would probably choose an inaccurate feedback mechanism (<a href="https://danieljmitchell.wordpress.com/2021/12/06/the-economics-of-tax-financed-spending-vs-debt-financed-spending/">based on levels of red ink</a>), so maybe it’s good they don’t have any economic assumptions.</p>
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<p>The case in Fulton County, Georgia, against former President Donald
Trump and his co-defendants will go ahead, although perhaps with a
different starting line-up. Judge Scott McAffee ruled on March 15 that
District Attorney Fani Willis and her office must step away from the
trial or her handpicked prosecutor, Mr. Nathan Wade, must resign. Mr.
Wade has resigned in response.</p>
<p>Trump and others are facing a bevy of charges related to their
alleged actions around the 2020 presidential election. Just one day
before this ruling, the same judge tossed six of the counts against the
defendants but then surprised many by <a href="https://www.libertynation.com/judge-rules-on-fani-willis-read-in-full/" target="_blank">stating that</a>
– despite all the accusations and evidence against Ms. Willis, who is
responsible for bringing this prosecution – the case could continue.</p>
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</a>We spoke with <strong><em>Liberty Nation</em></strong> Legal Affairs Editor Scott D. Cosenza, Esq. to examine the details and understand what the ruling means in practice.</p>
<p><strong>Mark Angelides:</strong> Could you summarize what Judge McAffee determined for us?</p>
<p><strong>Scott D. Cosenza: </strong>McAfee ruled the defendants
challenging the indictments did not meet their burden, showing that Ms.
Willis had an actual conflict of interest. The judge explained:
“Disqualification of a prosecutor due to a conflict of interest is thus
not a creature of statute so much as it is a judicial remedy recognized
by our appellate courts…” He cited the district attorney’s testimony as
convincing evidence that her decision to indict and prosecute the case
was not motivated by financial gain, and he ruled that nothing Ms.
Willis has done so far has unfairly prejudiced the defendants.</p>
<p>Then McAfee explained that just because no impropriety had been
convincingly proven, it didn’t mean the prosecution was without legal
trouble. He wrote about how the appearance of impropriety might demand
disqualification. The judge found much to be desired from the DA and her
lover/appointee, and he ruled that they could not continue as they had
been. Willis would either have to remove herself and her office, or Wade
would have to resign.</p>
<p><strong>Mark:</strong> I’ve seen several media outlets spinning that
the judge ruled that Fani Willis “did not” have a conflict of interest. I
believe this isn’t quite right, though. Is the Fourth Estate trying to
bury the rebuke against Ms. Willis?</p>
<div class="wp-caption alignleft" id="attachment_601037" style="width: 460px;"><img alt="GettyImages-2043986256 Judge Scott McAffee" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-601037" class=" wp-image-601037" height="300" src="https://www.libertynation.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/GettyImages-2043986256-Judge-Scott-McAffee.jpg" width="450" /><p class="wp-caption-text" id="caption-attachment-601037">Judge Scott McAffee (Photo by Alex Slitz-Pool/Getty Images)</p></div>
<p><strong>Scott: </strong>She’s getting that home team treatment from
progressive media types, to be sure. McAfee ruled the defendants didn’t
prove an actual conflict to the required standard, not that there wasn’t
one. It’s a high standard the judge has a duty to maintain, but he
never exonerated her, and he was quite critical. Judge McAfee wrote that
she had a “tremendous lapse in judgment” and called out her
“unprofessional manner.”</p>
<p><strong>Mark:</strong> The ruling is a spicy summary of the district
attorney’s conduct – specifically her “playing the race card” when she
denounced what now appears to be a valid appeal from the church pulpit.
Was this a self-inflicted wound?</p>
<p><strong>Scott: </strong>Yes, it is – much as the entire circus is a
self-inflicted wound by progressives in service of defeating Trump’s
candidacy. Suppose they had only left him alone. If Fani Willis had only
kept her mouth shut and kept her letter to God between herself and the
Almighty, she would probably have won this motion – but pride goeth
before the fall.</p>
<p><strong>Mark:</strong> Law Professor Johnathan Turley suggested the
ruling was akin to finding two bank robbers in a safe and only
prosecuting one. What’s your analysis?</p>
<p><strong>Scott: </strong>I enjoyed that phrasing, but Judge McAfee’s
decision is defensible. His job was to weigh the evidence presented
against the standard the Georgia Supreme Court articulated, not “do
what’s right” or what seems reasonable.</p>
<p><strong>Mark:</strong> Let’s get down to the legal stuff. Mr. Wade
has resigned, and Ms. Willis has accepted. Is this the end of the Fani
Willis soap opera, or did the judge’s decision leave room for Trump and
his co-defendants to seek relief elsewhere?</p>
<p><strong>Scott:</strong> Early reports indicate a number of the
co-defendants, including Mr. Trump, will appeal this ruling and hope for
a complete disqualification imposed by a higher court. My initial
assessment is any appeal is likely to fail. Trial judges are afforded
broad discretion in these types of matters as the administration of
justice demands. If attorneys could challenge each motion ruling to the
state supreme court before trial, well-funded defendants could forestall
a trial in perpetuity. That doesn’t mean the issue would be forever
dead. If any defendant was convicted, the conflict of interest alleged
would be considered when granting an appeal.</p>
<p><strong>Mark:</strong> I think the question that all interested
observers want to be answered is this: Either Wade and Willis lied on
the stand, or the other witnesses did; will anyone pursue perjury
charges, and if so, against whom?</p>
<p><strong>Scott: </strong>Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr would be
the natural choice. He’s a Republican, which would give him added
incentive to go after Willis and a built-in rallying cry for her
defense. Ms. Willis could also be prosecuted by her replacement if she
loses a bid for re-election. The same is true for Mr. Wade. Another
thing is true for both – they might have another problem just as large.
An attorney needs one thing to work: a license to practice. I suspect
the State Bar of Georgia will be addressing Wade’s and Willis’ <a href="https://www.libertynation.com/pants-on-fire-terrence-bradley-testifies-for-willis-and-wade/" target="_blank">testimony</a>, too, and the result will be some damaging sanction if not disbarment.</p>
</div>Rich Kozlovichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13745960671409518147noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2556326304729519232.post-70274280076903867882024-03-17T14:37:00.007-04:002024-03-18T14:35:28.442-04:00Ohio Senate Race, Part II<p>By Rich Kozlovich </p><p>On January 9, 2024 I published this piece,<a href="https://paradigmsanddemographics.blogspot.com/2024/01/the-ohio-senate-race.html"> The Ohio Senate Race</a> noting that no matter who the Republicans pick they're going against Sherrod Brown, who isn't looking all that strong, and I outlined his positions showing why I think Ohio will send a Republican to the Senate in his place, with this link; <a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/">Discover the Networks</a>, for those who aren't aware of it, is an amazing source and here's what they have to say about <a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individuals/sherrod-brown/">Sherrod Brown</a>. However, if Dolan or LaRose get the nomination, I'm not sure Brown will lose as Ohioans may just see these two as Brown like clones. We'll come back to that. <br /></p><p>It seems all three Republicans are still in this race, Bernie Moreno, Matt Dolan and Secretary of State Frank LaRose. Both Dolan and LaRose are <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/radio/2023/11/05/exclusive-bernie-moreno-frank-larose-matt-dolan-full-blown-amnesty-supporters/">"full blown amnesty supporters"</a>,
which should disqualify both of them as candidates for any political
office by every conservative value or standard. The fact is <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/08/07/ohios-frank-larose-declared-himself-nevertrump-2016-called-trump-tweet-racist-2019-continued-opposition-through-2020/">Frank LaRose is now and has been a full blown</a> Never Trumper, even calling Trump a racist. Who supports LaRose? I don't think anyone does, at least anyone of any consequence. </p><p>While Dolan isn't getting endorsements that are worth anything, he does have the support of the <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/03/13/battle-lines-drawn-ohio-establishment-goes-all-in-dolan-america-first-movement-rallies-trump-endorsed-bernie-moreno/">Ohio</a> <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/03/13/battle-lines-drawn-ohio-establishment-goes-all-in-dolan-america-first-movement-rallies-trump-endorsed-bernie-moreno/">Republican Establishment</a>, including DeWine and Portman. And do you really need another reason to support Moreno over Dolan? </p><p>Well, how's this. They're lending support for a man who is a "former globalist institute fellow State Sen. Matt Dolan. Dolan has a controversial history. He once <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/02/03/exclusive-bernie-moreno-makes-case-against-democrat-funded-frank-larose-former-globalist-fellow-matt-dolan/"><span>served</span></a> as a fellow for the Aspen Institute — a Soros-funded globalist institution — which the <i>Economist</i> <a class="x5l" href="https://www.economist.com/1843/2019/09/06/inside-aspen-the-mountain-retreat-for-the-liberal-elite" rel="noopener external" target="_blank"><span>described</span></a> the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>as a “mountain retreat for the liberal elite." Dolan is a globalist! If elected he would just be another RINO myrmidon lacking even a modicum of conservative thought. </p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/03/13/mike-dewine-admits-bucking-trump-push-dolan-over-moreno-is-all-about-sending-more-money-ukraine/">Mike DeWine Admits Bucking Trump to Push Dolan over Moreno Is All About Sending More Money to Ukraine</a></li><li><a data-wpel-link="external" href="https://rumble.com/v4gvae3-rino-ohio-senate-candidate-matt-dolan-says-we-need-to-put-funding-ukraine-a.html" target="_blank">RINO Ohio Senate Candidate Matt Dolan Says We Need to Put Funding Ukraine Ahead of Border Security [VIDEO]</a></li></ul><p>Whether Dolan and LaRose wanted Trump's endorsement or not is immaterial because Bernie Moreno got it, along with endorsements from “......15 of the top conservative Republican US Senators supporting my campaign,” he said. That list includes Sens. J.D. Vance (R-OH), Marco Rubio (R-FL), Rand
Paul (R-KY), Mike Lee (R-UT), Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), Tommy Tuberville
(R-AR), Eric Schmitt (R-MO), and John Barrasso (R-WY)."</p><p>As of March 14th, it seems <a href="https://theohiostar.com/news/matt-dolan-leads-in-ohio-u-s-senate-gop-primary-race-poll-finds/khousler/2024/03/14/">Matt Dolan was leading in the polls, </a>but I've not believed in polls for over 30 years now, even if they agree with me. Show me the crowds, and as far as I can tell, Moreno has them, Dolan doesn't. While I don't care about the polls, let's just assume that poll is an honest poll. I have serious doubts those numbers will last very long because <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/2024-election/2024/03/16/trump-torches-dolan-goes-all-in-for-moreno-at-dayton-ohio-rally/" title="Trump Torches Dolan, Goes All in for Moreno at Dayton, Ohio Rally">Trump is all in for Moreno, and torching Dolan</a> in the process saying:</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">“Bernie is a political outsider who has spent his entire life
building up Ohio communities—and now, he is going to be your warrior in
Washington.......Bernie is strong on borders, and he will fight to crush
the cartels that are flooding our towns with fentanyl and deadly drugs.
Bernie will vote to SAVE the American Auto Industry from the Green New
Scam, he will be tough on China, ferocious on crime, great on election
integrity, he wants to get wokeness out of our military, and he will not
let the Radical Left Democrats raise your taxes......Dolan as a “weak RINO” attempting “to become the next Mitt Romney.” </p><p><a href="https://theohiostar.com/news/ohio-u-s-senator-jd-vance-to-campaign-with-bernie-moreno-ahead-of-election-day/khousler/2024/03/14/">Ohio U.S. Senator JD Vance</a>, who has been a outstanding conservative, which turned out to be a
pleasant surprise, isn't just endorsing Moreno, he's in the trenches for Moreno <a href="https://mailchi.mp/jdvance/advisory-28-17080303?e=aa35acc251">joining</a> "Moreno at six campaign events across the Buckeye State
over the weekend leading up to Election Day on March 19."</p><p>As usual with leftist, they manage to create scandals out of thin air, and the media runs with it, corrupt to the core, and now the <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/03/16/exclusive-associated-press-admits-it-has-no-geolocation-data-to-back-up-bernie-moreno-smear/">Associated Press had to admit to it's corruption.</a> Here was Ric Crenell's assessment:<br /></p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">"<a href="https://www.breitbart.com/radio/2024/03/16/ric-grenell-associated-press-political-operatives-attacked-bernie-moreno-they-oppose-america-first/">Ric Grenell, </a>who was then-President Donald Trump’s acting director of national intelligence, told <i>Breitbart News Saturday</i>
that political operatives are pushing the hit piece against Ohio Senate
Republican candidate Bernie Moreno because they oppose “America First.”</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">“First of all, I think that Bernie Moreno must sue the Associated Press
and even if that means making such a point where you put them into
bankruptcy. I’m furious about what this reporter has done. He knew it
was fake, the team, the Bernie Moreno team, presented all of the
information. They knew it was fake........” </p><p>These misfits, including DeWine, Portman, and the entire Republican Party leadership are corrupt and against all America First allies, and again, it's clear the Ohio Republican leadership is in dire need of being changed. </p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><b>Update 3/18/24: </b><a href="https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2024/03/18/law-professor-associated-press-just-opened-themselves-up-to-a-massive-lawsuit-n2636611">Law Professor Explains How the Associated Press Just Opened Themselves Up to a Massive Lawsuit</a><a href="https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa">- Matt Vespa</a>
March 18, 2024 - Republican Ohio Senate candidate Bernie Moreno was
slapped with nasty tricks during the primary's closing days. Ohioans go
to the polls on March 19 to decide whether Moreno, endorsed by Trump,
Mike Lee, Ted Cruz, and JD Vance, will prevail over Ohio Secretary of
State Frank LaRose or State Sen. Matt Dolan. The race has tightened to
the point where even Democrats are starting to meddle. Yet, one attack
was particularly slimy: Moreno signed up on Adult Friend Finder in 2008,
seeking the company of young men. It's not true. The founder of Adult Friend Finder said when he analyzed
the data, even though Moreno’s email address was used, it seemed to be
an activity you’d see from a prank. Indeed, it was a prank, as a former
intern already admitted as much. The Associated Press ran with the
story, but even their communications director admitted they <a href="https://townhall.com/tipsheet/saraharnold/2024/03/17/ap-admits-it-has-no-evidence-to-back-up-its-smear-piece-on-gop-senate-candidate-bernie-moreno-n2636601" target="_blank">had nothing to corroborate it</a>, opening the news outlet to a massive lawsuit. Jonathan Turley <a href="https://jonathanturley.org/2024/03/17/associated-press-under-fire-for-salacious-article-on-ohio-senate-candidate-bernie-moreno/" target="_blank">wrote</a>
if Moreno should file a lawsuit and it reaches the discovery phase;
embarrassment can be re-directed at AP. Who wants some scalps? I do: <br /></p><p><br /></p><p></p>Rich Kozlovichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13745960671409518147noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2556326304729519232.post-83962764508016881442024-03-17T14:37:00.005-04:002024-03-17T19:10:46.131-04:00 What do Politics, Cognitive Dissonance, and Eusapia Palladino Have in Common?<p><i>Truth is the sublime convergence of history and reality.</i></p><p>By Rich Kozlovich </p><p>Recently I came across this article, <a href="https://getpocket.com/explore/item/when-marie-and-pierre-curie-investigated-a-psychic-medium?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-us ">When Marie and Pierre Curie Investigated a Psychic Medium</a>, which I found interesting because I knew about this embrace of <span class="ILfuVd" lang="en"><span class="hgKElc">Spiritism </span></span> in the late 19th and early 20th centuries was a very real phenomenon. I also knew it was embraced by many very prominent people, including scientists, most of whom were likely adherents of Darwin's evolutionary theories, which he published in his book Origin of Species in 1859, which I <a href="https://paradigmsanddemographics.blogspot.com/2023/12/shall-every-knee-bow.html">brilliantly refute here</a>. </p><p>First, I don't believe there really are true atheists. There are intellectual atheists, but underneath all that is a foundational/emotional belief in something larger and more powerful than just the physical world. Why? Because we're designed to believe! It's part of our genetic core. Does everyone really find this to be all that extraordinary?
Anthropologists have noted that in every culture in the world, and in
all of human history, religion, the belief in higher powers, has played an important role in people’s
lives. And it's clear this embrace of Spiritism by scientists proves that. They, just like everyone else, fear finality!<br /></p><p>There was one prominent atheist, <span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antony_Flew"><span face=""calibri" , sans-serif" style="color: #0563c1; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Antony Flew</span></span></a></span><span face=""calibri" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">,</span> </span>who
claimed at the end of his life he was now a believer. Why? Could it be "there are no atheists in foxholes"? Of course the explanation by atheists was he had lost his mind. Yet even <span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein's_religious_views"><span face=""calibri" , sans-serif" style="color: #0563c1; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Albert Einstein,</span></span></a></span> who
was not a religious person in any sense, and absolutely rejected the
idea of a personal God, also rejected the idea of atheism. He felt it defied logic. <br />
<br />
For the believers among my readers the explanation is simple. We're
designed to believe. For the non-believers among my readers the
explanation is simple also. There is no other logical explanation! </p><p>One of the most successful mediums of that era was a lady named <span class="mw-page-title-main"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eusapia_Palladino">Eusapia Palladino</a></span>, and she was impressive. However, she was caught and exposed over and over again as a fraud. <br /></p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"> "Magicians such as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Houdini" title="Harry Houdini">Harry Houdini</a> and Joseph Rinn have claimed all her feats were conjuring tricks.
According to Houdini "Palladino cheated at Cambridge, she cheated in
l'Aguélas, and she cheated in New York and yet each time that she was
caught cheating the Spiritualists upheld her, excused her, and forgave
her. <span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Truly their logic sometimes borders on the humorous."</span></p><p style="text-align: left;">Okay, so what does this have to do with politics, and more importantly geopolitics? Everything! I'll tell you what, we'll come back to that. <br /></p><p style="text-align: left;">On our domestic scene we're expected to believe Joe Biden was legitimately elected President of the United States, irrespective of the<a href="https://paradigmsanddemographics.blogspot.com/search/label/My%20Voter%20Fraud%20Commentaries"> massive amount of evidence</a> he was elected via voter fraud, and those of us who stated that from the beginning were called Flat Earther conspiracy nuts. But time and truth are on the same side, and more states are having to admit to massive levels of voter fraud are showing up. And the reaction from leftists and those in the media who arrogantly and smugly laughed and ridiculed those who challenged the validity of that election are now silent as church mice on the subject.</p><p style="text-align: left;">And yet in spite of all the evidence to the contrary, they still "believe" in Biden's presidency, which means they're now forced to believe diametrically opposing things, believing they're both "truth". <span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">"Truly their logic sometimes borders on the humorous."</span></p><p style="text-align: left;">We have an administration that's tyrannically imposed fascist policies on America. Whether it involved covid, immigration, spending, energy dictates, domestic policies, foreign relation, and yet they call Trump a fascist, and he must be defeated to "save our democracy". Yet, <a data-wpel-link="external" href="https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2024/01/29/the-biden-regimes-coup-against-constitutional-america-is-leading-to-civil-war/" target="_blank">The Biden-Harris Regime’s Coup Against Constitutional America Is Leading to Civil War</a>. And we not only see leftists embracing Biden, we're seeing the media and RINO's embrace an abject rejection of Donald Trump for a second term. <span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">"Truly their logic sometimes borders on the humorous."</span></p><p style="text-align: left;">One of my pet peeves is this idiotic rationale Russia had to attack Ukraine because they were afraid of NATO, and was in dire need of creating "defensive depth". How laughable is that? NATO without America couldn't fight it's way out of a wet paper bag let alone attack Russia, and America certainly had no desire or intention of attacking Russia. </p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://paradigmsanddemographics.blogspot.com/2022/08/russia-was-scared-so-they-had-to-attack.html"> Russia Was Scared, So They Had to Attack Ukraine! Part I</a></li><li style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://paradigmsanddemographics.blogspot.com/2022/08/russia-was-scared-so-they-had-to-attack_25.html"> Russia Was Scared So They Had to Attack Ukraine, Part II</a></li></ul><p style="text-align: left;">All the political chicanery that went on that's thrown up as an argument in favor of Putin's actions is a load of horsepucky. That kind of stuff has always gone on by all the parties involved, but the fact remains Russia before this war of aggression against Ukraine was safer than it's ever been in it's entire history. <span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">"Truly their logic sometimes borders on the humorous."</span></p><p style="text-align: left;">I have seven rules of geopolitics: </p><ol style="text-align: left;"><li>First
Rule of Geopolitics: All geopolitics is about four factors,
geographics, demographics, economics, and that most elusive factor of
all, the happiness factor. <br /></li><li>Second Rule of Geopolitics:
Everything is about the basics. You have to be able to see issues at
their foundational root levels in order to understand and fix complex
problems.<br /></li><li>Third Rule of Geopolitics: History is everything
since historical events lay the foundation for the social paradigms of
nations, which have been in effect for centuries in most areas of the
world.<br /></li><li>Fourth Rule of Geopolitics: People are like nations, and will act in their own best interests, unless they don't. </li><li>Fifth Rule of Geopolitics: Nothing is ever as it appears. Look behind the curtain, there's always something hidden. </li><li>Sixth Rule of Geopolitics: The patterns of life keep repeating over and over again. <br /></li><li>Seventh Rule of Geopolitics: Everyone lies. <br /></li></ol><p style="text-align: left;"></p><p style="text-align: left;">I have a particular fondness for rules number two and three, as those lead to clarity as to the intention of world leaders. </p><p style="text-align: left;">America is stunningly unique in all of world history. We don't have the same type of foundational social paradigms as does the rest of the world. We really don't understand theirs, at least as a surface understanding. I can understand that lack of depth of understanding when it comes to
the general population, but that's inexcusable for geopolitical analysts
and world leaders. </p><p style="text-align: left;">And understand, they absolutely don't understand American democracy, personal rights, and capitalism. It's alien to them. We really need to get that if we're to understand why they do the things the do, and the things we should and shouldn't do. History is everything, and the founding fathers admonition of staying out of foreign conflicts was more prescient than we realized! </p><p style="text-align: left;">These nations all had monarchs, absolute rulers, many of whom were empire builders, and that foundational social paradigm impacts the thinking of those nations and their leaders today, including Putin. He loves Russia, Russian history, and make no mistake about it, he absolutely loves and desires the return of Russian imperialism. However, his schemes are backfiring on him. </p><p style="text-align: left;">Finland and Sweden have joined NATO, and not because they wish to attack Putin, but because they're afraid Putin will attack them, and I think their concern is justified. Here's a history lesson for you:</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Northern_War">Great Northern War </a>(1700–1721) was a conflict in which a coalition led by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsardom_of_Russia" title="Tsardom of Russia">Tsardom of Russia</a> successfully contested the supremacy of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_Empire" title="Swedish Empire">Swedish Empire</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Europe" title="Northern Europe">Northern</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Europe" title="Central Europe">Central</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Europe" title="Eastern Europe">Eastern Europe</a>. The initial leaders of the anti-Swedish alliance were <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_the_Great" title="Peter the Great">Peter I</a> of Russia, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_IV_of_Denmark" title="Frederick IV of Denmark">Frederick IV</a> of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denmark%E2%80%93Norway" title="Denmark–Norway">Denmark–Norway</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustus_II_the_Strong" title="Augustus II the Strong">Augustus II the Strong</a> of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electorate_of_Saxony" title="Electorate of Saxony">Saxony</a>–<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish%E2%80%93Lithuanian_Commonwealth" title="Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth">Poland–Lithuania</a>. </p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">Frederick IV and Augustus II were defeated by Sweden, under <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_XII" title="Charles XII">Charles XII</a>, and forced out of the alliance in 1700 and 1706 respectively, but rejoined it in 1709 after the defeat of Charles XII at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Poltava" title="Battle of Poltava">Battle of Poltava</a>. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_I_of_Great_Britain" title="George I of Great Britain">George I of Great Britain</a> and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electorate_of_Hanover" title="Electorate of Hanover">Electorate of Hanover</a> joined the coalition in 1714 for Hanover and in 1717 for Britain, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_William_I_of_Prussia" title="Frederick William I of Prussia">Frederick William I</a> of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandenburg-Prussia" title="Brandenburg-Prussia">Brandenburg-Prussia</a> joined it in 1715.
</p><p style="text-align: left;">Now <a href="https://thenationalpulse.com/2024/03/15/putin-to-redeploy-troops-along-finland-border-in-response-to-nato-expansion/">Putin has deployed troops along Finland's border.</a> In spite of Russia's huge population, he's relying on <a href="https://jamestown.org/program/after-prigozhin-the-anatomy-of-russias-evolving-private-military-and-mercenary-industry/">mercenary troops</a>, Ukraine has devastated <a href="https://jamestown.org/program/ukraine-restoring-security-to-the-black-sea/" itemprop="name">Russia's Black Sea fleet with mass drone attacks</a>, "and Russian forces continue to
trade heavy losses for minimal gains on the Ukrainian battlefield."</p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li style="text-align: left;"> <a href="https://jamestown.org/program/moscows-action-in-ingushetia-about-far-more-than-counterterrorism/">Moscow’s Action in Ingushetia About Far More Than Counterterrorism</a></li><li style="text-align: left;"> <a href="https://jamestown.org/program/russian-unity-and-western-discord-converge-in-putins-imagination/" itemprop="name">Russian Unity and Western Discord Converge in Putin’s Imagination</a> </li></ul><p style="text-align: left;">An article at Foreign Affairs entitled, <a href="https://www.foreignaffairs.com/russian-federation/vladimir-putin-end-russian-idea">The End of the Russian Idea</a>, is a great history lesson and goes on to describe how Putin became a modern Russian Tsar, and why he's doing what he's doing, and his machinations that finally led to bringing total power into his hands alone. <br /></p><p style="text-align: left;">Putin has merged the past to create his vision of the future. By merging Ivan the Terrible, Peter the Great with Joe Stalin, <a href="https://www.foreignaffairs.com/ukraine/putins-useful-priests-russia-church-influence-campaign?utm_medium=newsletters&utm_source=fatoday&utm_campaign=The%20Myth%20of%20Chinese%20Diversionary%20War&utm_content=20230915&utm_term=FA%20Today%20-%20112017">and the Russian Orthodox Church, which in the past was pretty much a organ of Tsarists governments, </a>and had a strangle hold on Russian society in the past, all in order to create the same kind of relationship with Putin's government, with the same goal, a strangle hold on Russian society by persecuting all other Christian religions, all in violation of Article 18, Section 1 of the UN Charter on Human Rights. </p><p style="text-align: left;">His goal is a vision of a return of Imperialist Russia. He wants to pursue a policy of expansive Russian imperialism against all Russia's neighbors, including Poland, all of which Putin believes rightly belong to Russia based of past history, and has said so. </p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><a href="https://jamestown.org/program/ten-things-western-experts-got-wrong-about-russia-and-its-invasion-of-ukraine/" itemprop="name">Why Russia invaded Ukraine?</a> .........<span style="font-weight: 400;">This question continues to puzzle some Western analysts and scholars
because of their inability to comprehend the true nature of Putin’s
regime. The roots of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine lie in the Kremlin
leader seeking to carve out a place in Russian history as the “gatherer
of Russian lands” (alongside Ivan the Terrible, Peter the Great, and
Joseph Stalin). This notion is a return to the imperial-nationalist
denial of Ukraine’s existence and the belief in a pan-Russian people
composed of “great,” “little,” and “white” Russians (Russians,
Ukrainians, and Belarusians, respectively) (</span><a href="http://tass.ru/politika/11884999"><span style="font-weight: 400;">TASS</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, July 12, 2021;</span><a href="https://www.rbc.ru/politics/09/06/2022/62a1fef99a79478be49a944d"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> RBC</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, June 9, 2022; see</span><a href="https://jamestown.org/program/russia-keeps-gathering-non-russian-lands-in-ukraine-and-beyond/"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> EDM</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">,
October 3, 2022). Many Kremlin leaders believed that “Little Russians”
were deluded into thinking they were Ukrainians by the Austrians and
Poles before 1914, by Vladimir Lenin when he gave them a Soviet
republic, and by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) since 1991 (</span><a href="http://kremlin.ru/events/president/news/66181"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Kremlin.ru</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, July 12, 2021;</span><a href="https://www.pravda.ru/news/world/1772589-ua1957/"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Pravda.ru</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, November 22, 2022).</span></p><p style="text-align: left;">So, based on all Putin's done, is doing, and has stated what he wants to do, why would anyone still buy into this insane argument about "fear of NATO, depth of defense" rationale to justify Putin's war of aggression against Ukraine? <span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">"Truly their logic sometimes borders on the humorous."</span></p><p style="text-align: left;">So, back to the foundational question: "What do Politics, Cognitive Dissonance, and Eusapia Palladino Have in Common?" An irrational desire to believe the unbelievable. </p>Rich Kozlovichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13745960671409518147noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2556326304729519232.post-14891483821158577252024-03-16T15:38:00.005-04:002024-03-16T16:22:42.031-04:00P&D and The Week That Was<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Great Vibes; font-size: large;"><b>Truth is the Sublime Convergence of History and Reality</b></span></div><hr />
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<span style="font-family: Vidaloka; font-size: small;"> <span>This</span><b><span> <span style="color: #660000;"><a href="https://paradigmsanddemographics.blogspot.com/search/label/My%20Commentary"><span style="color: #660000;">Link </span></a></span></span></b><span>will take you to My Commentaries. This <b><a href="https://paradigmsanddemographics.blogspot.com/2023/04/my-commentaries.html"><span style="color: #660000;">Link</span></a> </b></span>will take you to My Commentaries by topic. This <b><span><a href="https://paradigmsanddemographics.blogspot.com/search/label/My%20GW%20Commentaries"><span style="color: #660000;">Link</span> </a></span></b><span>will take you to My Global Warming Commentaries </span></span></p><p>
By Rich Kozlovich</p><p></p>
<p>There's a lot of stuff to review from this past week. I've posted 12 pieces of my own, and 36 outstanding commentaries from others, some of which many will find offensive. But the world needs to get over the idea the truth is offensive. <a href="https://paradigmsanddemographics.blogspot.com/2023/08/if-there-is-no-truth-then-neither.html">Truth is just the truth, and if you find it offensive, you're the problem, not the truth.</a></p><p></p><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;">
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</td></tr><tr></tr></tbody></table><p>The Biden administration, the Democrat party, government agencies (known as the Deep State), academia, media, entertainment industry, and commercial interests in America have done more damage to America and the Constitution than anyone could think possible. </p><p>But leftists, progressives, Democrats, communists (<i>sorry, I'm repeating myself again</i>) have been laying the groundwork for that for 150 years, and now all that scheming mendacity and corruption has come to fruition, and they're calling it "our" democracy. Well, it is "their' democracy, but "their' democracy isn't "our" Republic. "Their" democracy destroys "our" Republic.</p><p></p><p>Let's try and get that once....please, just once..., because if the nation doesn't get that now, it seems to me it's more than likely there won't be another chance. America, and western civilization is facing <a href="https://paradigmsanddemographics.blogspot.com/search/label/Treason">treason on a massive scale</a>.</p><p>
The U.S. Government is rife with the "Peter Principle". Meaning eventually every organization will be filled with employees, including managers, that are incompetent having risen beyond their abilities. That's certainly true of the Biden administration from Biden on down. The question is are their actions mere incompetence, or are those actions criminal? Clearly, in many cases, they're criminal! </p><p>I published this piece in 2014,<a href="https://paradigmsanddemographics.blogspot.com/2014/12/green-prospers-because-none-dare-call.html"> Green Prospers Because None Dare Call it Treason!, </a>saying: </p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">The title of this article is based on a quote from <span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Sir John Harington who said “Treason
doth never prosper", what's the reason[?] "For if it prosper, none dare
call it treason”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> It seems to me that </span>Harington was explaining how important it is that treason must be defined and called to account for what it is in
order to prevent the success of traitors.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
Because i</span>f their treason should prosper - none can "dare" risk calling it treason
any longer – that opportunity would have passed because the traitors are now in
charge!</span></p><p>Other than the two permanent links at the end, I've pretty much stopped posting links, but this one was necessary, <span style="color: black;"><a href="https://paradigmsanddemographics.blogspot.com/2024/03/islam-iniceland.html"><span>Islam in…Iceland?</span></a><span> Iceland, much like the other Nordic countries had a very low rate of crime, and public safely was the rule, not the exception. That level of safety is done now. They're now importing Muslims. Muslim immigration is the importation of crime, violence, discontent, and unending trouble, which I will address next week on what's happening in Europe, and around the world with cultures that have become infiltrated by Muslims.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: black;"><span>We have 1500 years of history to show Islam is a culture of crime and violence. That's history, and that history is incontestable. I can't help thinking these "leaders" who are importing Muslims en masse to their nations, turning wolves loose on their flocks, and then excusing their violence and criminal behavior, must be crazy, stupid, and dangerous. They are destroying their cultures, their own people, and their nations. These are all highly educated people, they must know the history of Islam. What's wrong with them? <br /></span></span></p><p><span style="color: black;"><span>Islam isn't a religion. </span></span></p><p><span style="color: black;"><span>Islam is a political criminal movement masquerading as a religion, and needs to be condemned as a terrorist movement. That' is if Western civilization wishes to continue to exist, and it appears ...... the "leaders" of Western civilization don't, and the media is complicit in that insanity.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: black;"><span>The legal machinations of the Democrats is now coming back to haunt them, but the fact is no matter how all this turns out they will have illegally destroyed the lives of innocent people, and that's got to be fixed, and permanently. They need to be investigated, charged with the crimes they've committed, tried, and sent to prison. Serious financial penalties need to be imposed via civil action by those they've destroyed. If this lawfare issue isn't addressed, the Constitution is done, and America as we know it is done. </span><span><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: Vidaloka; font-size: small;"><span>My Commentaries </span></span></p>
<ol style="text-align: left;"><li class="MsoNoSpacing"><a href="https://paradigmsanddemographics.blogspot.com/2024/03/march-14-1883-is-day-to-celebrate.html"><span style="color: blue;">March 14, 1883 is a Day to Celebrate</span></a></li><li>
<a href="https://paradigmsanddemographics.blogspot.com/2024/03/fani-willis-update-its-not-pretty.html"><span style="color: blue;">Fani Willis Update: It's Not Pretty</span></a></li><li>
<a href="https://paradigmsanddemographics.blogspot.com/2024/03/the-difference-between-genius-and.html"><span style="color: blue;">The Difference Between Genius and Stupid is Genius Has it's
Limits - Albert Einstein</span></a></li><li>
<a href="https://paradigmsanddemographics.blogspot.com/2024/03/the-oscars-exposes-mephitic-ooze-of.html"><span style="color: blue;">The Oscars Exposes the Mephitic Ooze of Hollywood</span></a></li><li>
<a href="https://paradigmsanddemographics.blogspot.com/2024/03/american-academia-cultural-intellectual.html"><span style="color: blue;">American Academia: A Cultural, Intellectual, and Morally
Corrupt Mephitic Ooze of Inbreeding! </span></a></li><li>
<a href="https://paradigmsanddemographics.blogspot.com/2024/03/calvin-coolidge-was-greatest-president.html"><span style="color: blue;">Calvin Coolidge Was the Greatest President of the 20th
Century</span></a></li><li>
<a href="https://paradigmsanddemographics.blogspot.com/2024/03/biden-must-be-democrat-nominee-now.html"><span style="color: blue;">Biden "Must" Be The Democrat Nominee Now!</span></a></li><li>
<a href="https://paradigmsanddemographics.blogspot.com/2024/03/bidens-war-against-misinformation-now.html"><span style="color: blue;">Biden's War Against Misinformation. Now there's a Chuckle if
There Ever Was One!</span></a></li><li>
<a href="https://paradigmsanddemographics.blogspot.com/2024/03/leftism-has-always-been-wrong.html"><span style="color: blue;">Leftism Has Always Been Wrong, Destructive, and Evil</span></a></li><li>
<a href="https://paradigmsanddemographics.blogspot.com/2024/03/there-always-be-england-dont-bet-on-it.html"><span style="color: blue;">There Will Always Be an England! Don't Bet On It!</span></a></li><li>
<a href="https://paradigmsanddemographics.blogspot.com/2024/03/junk-science-thirteen-years-ago.html"><span style="color: blue;">Junk Science Thirteen Years Ago</span></a></li><li>
<a href="https://paradigmsanddemographics.blogspot.com/2024/03/kakistocracy-we-are-ruled-by-charlatans.html"><span style="color: blue;">Kakistocracy: We are Ruled by Charlatans, Knaves, and Fools,
Part VII: Racism</span></a></li></ol><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: Vidaloka; font-size: small;"><span>Commentaries </span></span><span style="color: blue;"><br /></span></p>
<ol style="text-align: left;"><li class="MsoNoSpacing"><a href="https://paradigmsanddemographics.blogspot.com/2024/03/the-heavy-cost-of-dei-in-universities.html"><span style="color: blue;">The Heavy Cost of DEI in Universities</span></a> <b>By Kay Ballard</b></li><li>
<a href="https://paradigmsanddemographics.blogspot.com/2024/03/biden-speaks-heartlanders-critique.html"><span style="color: blue;">Biden Speaks, Heartlanders Critique</span></a><b> By Sarah
Cowgill</b></li><li>
<a href="https://paradigmsanddemographics.blogspot.com/2024/03/rfk-jr-all-new-version-of-family-feud.html"><span style="color: blue;">RFK Jr. – An All-New Version of Family Feud</span></a> <b>By
Leesa K. Donner</b></li><li>
<a href="https://paradigmsanddemographics.blogspot.com/2024/03/the-left-braces-for-racial-reckoni.html"><span style="color: blue;">The Left Braces for a Racial Reckoning</span></a> <b>By Tim Donner</b></li><li>
<a href="https://paradigmsanddemographics.blogspot.com/2024/03/shouting-into-darkness-biden-goes-full.html"><span style="color: blue;">Shouting into the Darkness: Biden Goes Full KKK on Trump</span></a><span style="color: blue;"> </span><b>By Tim Donner</b></li><li>
<a href="https://paradigmsanddemographics.blogspot.com/2024/03/the-smartest-person-in-world-wiffs.html"><span style="color: blue;">The Smartest Person in the World Wiffs</span></a> <b>By John
Droz, Jr. </b></li><li>
<a href="https://paradigmsanddemographics.blogspot.com/2024/03/more-misleading-statistics.html"><span style="color: blue;">More Misleading Statistics</span></a> <b>By John Droz, Jr</b>.</li><li>
<a href="https://paradigmsanddemographics.blogspot.com/2024/03/bidens-trojan-pier-for-gaza.html"><span style="color: blue;">Biden’s ‘Trojan Pier’ for Gaza </span></a><b>By Daniel
Greenfield</b></li><li>
<a href="https://paradigmsanddemographics.blogspot.com/2024/03/haiti-is-run-by-gangs-our-foreign-aid.html"><span style="color: blue;">Haiti is Run by Gangs. Our Foreign Aid Paid for It. </span></a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b>By Daniel Greenfield</b></li><li>
<a href="https://paradigmsanddemographics.blogspot.com/2024/03/whom-do-you-abort-when-no-one-is.html"><span style="color: blue;">Whom Do You Abort When No One is Expecting? </span></a><b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By Daniel Greenfield</b></li><li>
<a href="https://paradigmsanddemographics.blogspot.com/2024/03/palestinian-authority-forms-united.html"><span style="color: blue;">Palestinian Authority Forms United Front With Hamas to Fight
Israel </span></a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b>By Daniel Greenfield</b></li><li>
<a href="https://paradigmsanddemographics.blogspot.com/2024/03/sweet-baby-inc-how-dei-firm-is-taking.html"><span style="color: blue;">Sweet Baby Inc: How a DEI Firm is Taking Over Games </span></a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b>By Daniel Greenfield</b></li><li>
<a href="https://paradigmsanddemographics.blogspot.com/2024/03/a-despicable-speech-by-despicable.html"><span style="color: blue;">A Despicable Speech by a Despicable President </span></a><b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By Daniel Greenfield</b></li><li>
<a href="https://paradigmsanddemographics.blogspot.com/2024/03/the-greenfield-gazette_16.html"><span style="color: blue;">The Greenfield Gazette</span></a> <b>By Daniel Greenfield</b></li><li>
<a href="https://paradigmsanddemographics.blogspot.com/2024/03/the-greenfield-gazette_13.html"><span style="color: blue;">The Greenfield Gazette</span></a><b> By Daniel Greenfield</b></li><li>
<a href="https://paradigmsanddemographics.blogspot.com/2024/03/the-greenfield-gazette_9.html"><span style="color: blue;">The Greenfield Gazette</span></a> <b>By Daniel Greenfield</b></li><li>
<a href="https://paradigmsanddemographics.blogspot.com/2024/03/have-we-entered-era-of-global-cooling.html"><span style="color: blue;">Have We entered an Era of Global Cooling?</span></a> <b>By Tom Harris</b></li><li>
<a href="https://paradigmsanddemographics.blogspot.com/2024/03/patriot-neighbors.html"><span style="color: blue;">Patriot Neighbors: Saving "Our" Democracy</span></a>
<b>By Robin Itzler</b></li><li>
<a href="https://paradigmsanddemographics.blogspot.com/2024/03/fleets-of-ev-trucks-are-impossible-dream.html"><span style="color: blue;">Fleets of EV Trucks Are an Impossible Dream</span></a> <b>By
John Klar</b></li><li>
<a href="https://paradigmsanddemographics.blogspot.com/2024/03/renewables-threaten-us-power-grid.html"><span style="color: blue;">Renewables Threaten the US Power Grid</span></a> <b>By John
Klar</b></li><li>
<a href="https://paradigmsanddemographics.blogspot.com/2024/03/georgia-judge-dismisses-six-counts-in.html"><span style="color: blue;">Georgia Judge Dismisses Six Counts in Trump Indictment –
READ IN FULL</span></a><b> Liberty Nation News</b></li><li>
<a href="https://paradigmsanddemographics.blogspot.com/2024/03/can-things-get-any-worse-in-haiti.html"><span style="color: blue;">Can Things Get Any Worse In Haiti?</span></a> <b>By Francis
Menton</b></li><li>
<a href="https://paradigmsanddemographics.blogspot.com/2024/03/bastiat-and-credit-card-regulations.html"><span style="color: blue;">Bastiat and Credit Card Regulations</span></a> <b>By Dan
Mitchell</b></li><li>
<a href="https://paradigmsanddemographics.blogspot.com/2024/03/another-least-surprising-headline-for.html"><span style="color: blue;">Another “Least Surprising Headline” for High Speed Rail</span></a>
<b>By Dan Mitchell</b></li><li>
<a href="https://paradigmsanddemographics.blogspot.com/2024/03/understanding-bidens-new-budget-in.html"><span style="color: blue;">Understanding Biden’s New Budget in Three Tweets</span></a> <b>By
Dan Mitchell</b></li><li>
<a href="https://paradigmsanddemographics.blogspot.com/2024/03/must-read-book-on-fiscal-policy.html"><span style="color: blue;">Must-Read Book on Fiscal Policy</span></a><b> By Dan Mitchell</b></li><li>
<a href="https://paradigmsanddemographics.blogspot.com/2024/03/the-mystery-of-uncontrolled-hatred-of.html"><span style="color: blue;">The Mystery Of The Uncontrolled Hatred Of Fossil Fuels And
Those Who Produce Them</span></a><b> By Dan Mitchell</b></li><li>
<a href="https://paradigmsanddemographics.blogspot.com/2024/03/everything-you-need-to-know-about.html"><span style="color: blue;">Everything You Need to Know about British Government, in a
Single Tweet</span></a> <b>By Dan Mitchell</b></li><li>
<a href="https://paradigmsanddemographics.blogspot.com/2024/03/more-great-moments-in-human-rights.html"><span style="color: blue;">More Great Moments in Human Rights</span></a><b> By Dan
Mitchell</b></li><li>
<a href="https://paradigmsanddemographics.blogspot.com/2024/03/bidenomics-inching-closer-to-government.html"><span style="color: blue;">Bidenomics Inching Closer to Government Price Controls</span></a>
<b>By Andrew Moran</b></li><li>
<a href="https://paradigmsanddemographics.blogspot.com/2024/03/robert-hur-testimony-did-not-exonerate.html"><span style="color: blue;">Robert Hur Testimony Did Not Exonerate Joe Biden</span></a><b> By
Graham J. Noble</b></li><li>
<i><span style="font-size: 12pt;">.</span></i><a href="https://paradigmsanddemographics.blogspot.com/2024/03/anti-trumper-john-brennan-makes-wild.html"><span style="color: blue;">Anti-Trumper John Brennan Makes Wild Intelligence Community
Claim</span></a><b> By Graham J. Noble</b></li><li>
<a href="https://paradigmsanddemographics.blogspot.com/2024/03/are-all-races-equally-intellilgent-or.html"><span style="color: blue;">Are All Races Equally Intelligent - or - When is Knowledge,
Knowledge</span></a> <b>By John J. Ray</b></li><li>
<a href="https://paradigmsanddemographics.blogspot.com/2024/03/how-did-local-arrests-of-illegal-aliens.html"><span style="color: blue;">How Did Local Arrests of Illegal Aliens Become
Controversial?</span></a> <b>By Joe Schaeffer</b></li><li>
<a href="https://paradigmsanddemographics.blogspot.com/2024/03/fulton-countys-big-fani.html"><span style="color: blue;">Fulton County's Big Fani</span></a> <b>By Mike Shaw</b></li><li>
<a href="https://paradigmsanddemographics.blogspot.com/2024/03/whatever-happened-to-part-1.html"><span style="color: blue;">Whatever happened to... (Part 1)</span></a><b> By Mike Shaw</b></li></ol><br /><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: Vidaloka; font-size: small;"><span>Finally, here are my two permanent links: </span></span><span style="color: blue;"><br /></span></b></p>
<ol style="text-align: left;"><li style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: blue;">45 Communist Goals to Destroy America as Listed in the1963 Congressional Record</span></li><li><a href="https://paradigmsanddemographics.blogspot.com/2023/10/my-six-rules-of-geopolitics.html"><span style="color: blue;">My Seven Rules of Geopolitics</span></a></li><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span style="font-family: Dancing Script;"><span><img alt="Free North Star Clipart, Download Free North Star Clipart ..." class="n3VNCb" data-noaft="1" height="60" src="https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQyr9TRqM2RGDEFXpcieVe9eugT0SsTVAxk25hnPc5l&s" style="height: 60px; margin: 0px; width: 33px;" width="33" /></span></span></b></span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span style="font-family: Dancing Script;"><span> </span></span></b></span></div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span style="font-family: Dancing Script;"><span>Constant as the North Star</span></span></b></span>
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</ol>Rich Kozlovichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13745960671409518147noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2556326304729519232.post-71080771595883827072024-03-16T07:29:00.001-04:002024-03-16T18:05:09.147-04:00Fulton County's Big Fani<p> <a class="pencraft pc-reset _decoration-hover-underline_13a18_295 _reset_13a18_1" href="https://substack.com/@mdspov">Michael D. Shaw</a> March 15, 2024<b><span style="color: #660000;"> </span><a href="https://mdspov.substack.com/"><span style="color: #660000;">@ Mike's Point of View</span></a></b></p><p>In a ruling that can only be described as a complete inversion of the famous “Cut the baby in half” King Solomon story of 1 Kings 3:16–28, Fulton County Superior Court judge Scott McAfee ruled that either Big Fani or her boy toy Nathan Wade had to go. To no one’s surprise, Wade resigned.</p><p>
Many commentators have already likened this ruling to discovering two bank robbers locked in the vault upon its morning opening, and only arresting one. By all rights, soy boy McAfee should have recused himself based on his contributing to Fani Willis’ election campaign. But then, ethics are apparently the sole province of conservatives.</p><p>
At the same time, the pathetic members of the January 6 committee will likely be <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/03/14/house-may-refer-january-6-committee-members-for-prosecution/">referred for criminal prosecution</a>, for—among other things—destroying exculpatory evidence.</p><p>
Then, there’s the bill to<a href="https://www.reuters.com/technology/us-house-vote-force-bytedance-divest-tiktok-or-face-ban-2024-03-13/"> ban TikTok</a>. We’re being told not to worry about this opening the door to the Feds gaining a foothold to control all social media. After all, the law specially mentions ByteDance, owner of TikTok—and that should protect us, right? SURE…just like Medicare was only going to apply to old people; the Immigration Act of 1965 did not have the intent of restructuring the demographics of America; and the Patriot Act was only going to be used judiciously against terrorists, and under strict judicial control.</p><p>
In reality, it took about five years for Medicare policies to start influencing private health insurance as the program expanded its size, budget, and incredible fraud and waste. No one can deny the massive demographic changes that have occurred in the wake of the Immigration Act, and the Patriot Act has brought us a surveillance state well beyond the sick imagination of the worst early CIA spooks.</p><p>
You would think that most people would have concluded by now that giving the Feds more control over ANYTHING will be a certain disaster—but you would be wrong. Every single American alive today has always lived under a massively corrupt federal system, that wants nothing less than ever increasing control over our lives.</p><p>
The Feds got away with it mostly through incrementalism (you’ve heard the story of a frog in boiling water that started out at room temperature, with a very slow increase in temperature).</p><p>
However, there is a major silver lining here. The bad guys are not making any attempt to hide their actions anymore. They’re not even hiding in plain sight. The corruption is in your face on a daily basis—and you’re being DARED to do something about it.</p><p>
It’s a devastatingly hard lesson to realize that virtually all of our leaders are mendacious scoundrels, and a great deal of what you think you know about America is a big, fat lie. Yet, it is an immensely liberating experience, and as you know: The truth will set you free.</p><p>
Thanks for reading Mike's Point Of View!<a href="https://mdspov.substack.com/"> Subscribe </a>for free to receive new posts and support my work.</p>Rich Kozlovichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13745960671409518147noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2556326304729519232.post-11393905654544690802024-03-16T07:05:00.016-04:002024-03-16T15:04:12.610-04:00The Greenfield Gazette<p>By Rich Kozlovich</p><p>There are two things the Democrats will have to use
in their campaign against trump, and that is abortion, and fascism. The trouble
is it's blatantly obvious more and more people are realizing it's the
Democrats who are the real fascists, and more and more people are finally realizing
abortion really isn't about health care, it's about murdering the
innocent unborn. That's why the Democrats <a href="https://www.americaoutloud.news/how-the-democrats-can-steal-the-2024-election/" target="">will go all out </a>on voter fraud in this election.<b> </b><br /></p><p>Joe Biden is vile beyond belief, and virtually everything he's done in the last three and a half years has been so destructive to America it can't be called anything short of treason. He support of Islamists, his economic policies, and his support of criminals, and his immigration polices are just the tip of the ice berg of corruption, incompetence, and treason. </p><p>For him to give billions to Iran is insane, and it really is treasonous. Schumer is
completely contemptible, or the man is completely insane. Either way,
he's disgusting, he's lying, and both he and Biden are traitors to western civilization.
Israel is the canary in the coal mine, this isn't like Ukraine where we
really don't have skin in that game. The real danger to western
civilization isn't from Russia, it's from Islam. </p><p>China has infiltrated, with the help of powerful Americans, just about every American institution working to destroy America. This TikTok issue highlights that to the tee, and I have no idea what's in Trump's mind not supporting the House bill trying to fix this. </p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Make sure to read, "<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/our-cold-and-bloody-war-with-china/">Our Cold and Bloody War with China.</a>"</li></ul><p>I would like to point out all of these issues with Russia and China go back to WWII and the administration of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. His administration was considered the most heavily infiltrated government in the history of the world, and FDR had to know it, and supported it. </p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><a class="home_title" href="https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/03/the_dismantling_of_america.html">The dismantling of America</a>
<span class="home_date">March 16, 2024 by Bob Kingsley</span>
<span class="home_excerpt">Today’s liberals deplore personal freedom because it defies their desire for oversight and control. </span>
</li></ul><p></p><p>George Soros has funded the election of radicals, racists, Marxists, anti-Americans for political office, especially prosecutors who refuse to prosecute, judges who refuse to judge, and legislators who refuse to adhere to their oaths of office, and people are dying unnecessarily, including "a black 11-year-old trying to step in where an empty prison
system, police with their hands tied behind their backs and a Soros DA
left him to fight and die to save his mother's life.<i>" </i></p><p><i> Someone needs to be held accountable for that!<br /></i></p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><b><u>By Daniel Greenfield<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/point/"> <span style="color: #660000;">@ The Point</span></a><span style="color: #660000;"> </span></u></b></p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><b>Abortion </b><br /></p><p style="margin-left: 80px; text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/kamala-who-has-no-kids-to-visit-abortion-clinic/" target="_self"><b>Kamala, Who Has No Kids, to Visit Abortion Clinic</b></a> - <time datetime="2024-03-14T11:26:34+05:00">March 14, 2024 - </time>The one campaign stop that really, truly matters. The Biden campaign has nothing to run on next year except abortion. So Kamala will visit the one campaign stop that really, <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/kamala-harris-will-visit-planned-parenthood-rcna143324" rel="noopener" target="_blank">truly matters</a>. Vice President Kamala Harris plans to tour a Planned
Parenthood clinic in Minnesota that provides abortion services Thursday,
according to three sources familiar with the planning. A 59-year-old childless woman who got her political start as the
trophy girlfriend of an aging corrupt mayor is quite the ad for Planned
Parenthood’s services......</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><b>Biden, Schumer, Islam, Treason </b><br /></p><p style="margin-left: 80px; text-align: left;"><b><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/after-iran-killed-3-u-s-soldiers-biden-gives-it-10b-sanctions-waiver/" target="_self">After Iran Killed 3 U.S. Soldiers, Biden Gives It $10B Sanctions Waiver</a></b> <time datetime="2024-03-14T11:51:02+05:00">March 14, 2024 - </time>Treason. This story is worse than it sounds. And while that’s true of nearly everything this administration does, it’s<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/3-us-soldiers-died-because-biden-wont-stand-up-to-iran/"> truly true here</a>. Iran’s terror militias launched a wave of rocket attacks
against American soldiers in Iraq and Syria under Biden..........Now, three US Army soldiers were killed and over 30 were wounded in
an Iranian-backed drone attack on a position on the Jordanian-Syrian
border. This is the worst death toll in some time. Beyond that, Iran was behind the Hamas Oct 7 attack which killed over
30 Americans and we’re in a battle with its Houthi proxies over
shipping in the Red Sea.............</p><p style="margin-left: 80px; text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/biden-admin-comes-crawling-to-cair-supporters-of-oct-7-attack/" target="_self"><b>Biden Admin Comes Crawling to CAIR Supporters of Oct 7 Attack</b></a> -<time datetime="2024-03-16T05:55:12+05:00">March 16, 2024 -</time>The Biden admin condemned the “antisemitic statements” of the very Islamists it’s now appeasing. After the despicable farce of Sen. Schumer’s speech, part of the
Biden administration’s pressure campaign on Israel, the Hamas supporters
are making it clear that it’s still not enough. Back in December, CAIR boss Nihad Awad, who had a long history of defending Hamas, celebrated Oct 7..........</p><p style="margin-left: 80px; text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/sen-schumer-picks-hamas-and-biden-over-israel-video/" target="_self"><b>Sen. Schumer Picks Hamas and Biden Over Israel (VIDEO)</b></a> <time datetime="2024-03-15T19:52:12+05:00">-March 15, 2024 - </time>“Israel has a moral obligation to do better”. Sen. Schumer, claiming to speak as<span style="font-weight: 400;">
“the highest-ranking Jewish elected official in our government”,
condemned Israel’s war against Hamas, equated the Jewish State to Hamas
as an “obstacle to peace” and threatened the Jewish State with
intervention and pressure by the Biden administration unless it rejects
Netanyahu, the war and begins appeasing the terrorists and giving them a
state. </span>All of that is there..................</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><b>Bidenomics </b><br /></p><p style="margin-left: 80px; text-align: left;"><b><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/as-inflation-persists-media-doubles-down-on-calling-americans-dumb-for-noticing/" target="_self">As Inflation Persists, Media Doubles Down on Calling Americans Dumb for Noticing</a> </b>- <time datetime="2024-03-14T09:06:49+05:00">March 14, 2024 - </time>“Americans are unusually down on a solid economy.” After Biden boasted in the State of the Union how our economy is the
“envy of the world” and claimed that inflation was done, surprise, it’s
not done. </p><p style="margin-left: 120px; text-align: left;"><i>Janet Yellen warns inflation decline might not be ‘smooth – FOX Business CPI Report: Consumer Inflation and Prices Were Up Again in February – AP </i>So what’s to be done with this kind of news? </p><p style="margin-left: 80px; text-align: left;">Double down on “Let them eat cake”. After a few months of this…</p><blockquote style="margin-left: 80px; text-align: left;"><p>Americans are unusually down on a solid economy. NBC News, Why Americans Hate a Good Economy- The Atlantic, ‘The economy isn’t sick right now,’ economist says—here’s why Americans still feel like it is – CNBC</p></blockquote><div style="margin-left: 80px; text-align: left;">
</div><p style="margin-left: 80px; text-align: left;">....the media has decided to double down and declare that <a href="https://www.wsj.com/economy/consumers/grocery-prices-inflation-coffee-milk-903aead6" rel="noopener" target="_blank">people are stupid</a> for noticing inflation.....</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><b>Crime </b><br /></p><p style="margin-left: 80px; text-align: left;"><b><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/the-latest-victim-of-soros-das-is-a-black-11-year-old-who-died-defending-his-mother/" target="_self">The Latest Victim of Soros DAs is a Black 11-Year-Old Who Died Defending His Mother</a></b> <time datetime="2024-03-16T05:10:47+05:00">-March 16, 2024 -</time>“His 5-year-old brother was also in the home.” - Criminal justice reform dismantled our criminal justice system by
claiming that it was racist. These pro-crime policies unleashed a world
of terror, killed thousands of people and made our cities too dangerous
to live in. This is just the latest of these stories. It’s the story of what
happens when the criminal justice system won’t do its job. And that
leaves a black 11-year-old trying to step in where an empty prison
system, police with their hands tied behind their backs and a Soros DA
left him to fight and die <a href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2024/03/15/pregnant-woman-denied-emergency-protection-order-before-stabbed-11-year-old-son-killed" rel="noopener" target="_blank">for his mother’s life</a>.......</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><b>China, TikTok</b><br /></p><p style="margin-left: 80px; text-align: left;"><b><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/chinas-meltdown-over-tiktok-ban-tells-you-all-you-need-to-know/" target="_self">China’s Meltdown Over TikTok Ban Tells You All You Need to Know</a> - </b> <time datetime="2024-03-15T19:00:54+05:00">March 15, 2024 -</time>China would rather lose TikTok’s revenues than lose control over Americans. The pro-TikTok lobby within the conservative movement (I debated one
of them) has kept insisting that the Chinese corporation exists
separately from the regime and has nothing to do with it. That ambiguity collapsed the moment the House bill passed. Beijing is in full “Wolf Warrior” mode now. It described Congress as
“bandits”, accused America of opposing “free speech”, cited the ACLU
(ironically created by a Communist ally to support Communism), accused
America of “bullying” and warned that this “will eventually backfire on
the US itself”.................</p><p style="margin-left: 80px; text-align: left;"><b>Editor's note</b>: <i> This next piece isn't from The Point and is a regular Frontpage Magazine featured article by Daniel.</i><b> RK
</b><br /></p><p style="margin-left: 80px; text-align: left;"><b><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/our-cold-and-bloody-war-with-china/">Our Cold and Bloody War with China</a></b><span class="post-author"><span class="main-featured-post-date"><b> </b>- March 15, 2024</span></span> - Peter Schweizer reveals why the powerful turn a blind eye while China kills Americans. In November, Biden and Chinese Communist President Xi met once again,
this time at the mansion used for the exteriors of the TV show, <i>‘Dynasty’</i>,
to talk about the relationship between the two countries. And yet all
these months after the three hour meeting, nothing changed. Biden had met with Xi everywhere from the Bay Area to Bali with no result. Why?</p><p style="margin-left: 80px; text-align: left;">n <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Blood-Money-Powerful-Blind-Americans/dp/0063061198" rel="noopener" target="_blank"><i>‘Blood Money: Why the Powerful Turn a Blind Eye While China Kills Americans</i>’,</a> Peter Schweizer, the journalist and investigator behind<i> ‘Clinton Cash</i>’, follows up on his work in <i>‘Red-Handed: How American Elites Get Rich Helping China Win’ </i>to expose an entire network of corruption that is not only stealing America’s future, but has also claimed countless lives.</p><p style="margin-left: 80px; text-align: left;"><i>Blood Money</i> is a war story illustrated with the Sun Tzu
maxims that drive the larger strategic thinking of the Chinese military
apparatus about how to “subdue the enemy without fighting”..................</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><b>Eco-Terrorism</b><br /></p><p style="margin-left: 80px; text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/court-frees-eco-vandals-who-attacked-painting-to-avoid-chilling-effect-on-vandalizing-art/" target="_self"><b>Court Frees Eco-Vandals Who Attacked Painting to Avoid “Chilling Effect” on Vandalizing Ar</b>t</a> - <time datetime="2024-03-14T11:36:49+05:00">March 14, 2024 - </time>Why do leftists feel like they vandalize classic art with impunity? Because they run the system. “Treason doth never prosper, what’s the reason? For if it prosper, none dare call it Treason.” Left-wing terrorism likewise never prospers, because if it prospers, it’s just the government. Why do leftists feel like they can pull down statues, attack federal
buildings, shut down airports, stage nationwide race riots, and
vandalize classic art with impunity?............</p><br />Rich Kozlovichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13745960671409518147noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2556326304729519232.post-2700850673128834992024-03-16T05:28:00.005-04:002024-03-16T05:28:59.950-04:00Have We entered an Era of Global Cooling?<p><!--[if !mso]>
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</p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><a name="_Hlk130746428"><span lang="EN-CA">By Tom Harris March 16, 2024</span></a></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-CA"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiG1ijJ1qbuMRJvgP2NZpfmyBHvW531-igsvw5lYUNWP8oFXwvks3Bh3QvtSMzThwYiDFW0F-AqWvZIkh0XfvWy17A-C1-7_d_0zCAg5LTKfpVfdjIeH9RhXWZc-IBnlakAdIPaFmzgbu1zsJ_RJjaJ9B8zxOFmprxZQEFC-e3-TCHzpAHCfZW57i_Di1o_/s1430/Tom%20Harris%201.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="953" data-original-width="1430" height="369" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiG1ijJ1qbuMRJvgP2NZpfmyBHvW531-igsvw5lYUNWP8oFXwvks3Bh3QvtSMzThwYiDFW0F-AqWvZIkh0XfvWy17A-C1-7_d_0zCAg5LTKfpVfdjIeH9RhXWZc-IBnlakAdIPaFmzgbu1zsJ_RJjaJ9B8zxOFmprxZQEFC-e3-TCHzpAHCfZW57i_Di1o_/w554-h369/Tom%20Harris%201.jpg" width="554" /></a></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span><p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"> </span><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: black;"></span></span>From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository</p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: black;">With all the sound and fury about global warming, an important, and many
scientists now assert, more likely scenario is usually ignored—the possibility
of far more dangerous global cooling. It is more dangerous because many more
people die due to the cold than the heat. </span><a href="https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/05/150520193831.htm"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130746428;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: black;">A 2015 study in the British Medical journal <i>The
Lancet</i></span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130746428;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: black;"> found that:</span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: black;">“Cold weather kills 20 times as many people as hot weather,
according to an international study analyzing over 74 million deaths in 384
locations across 13 countries.”</span></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: black;">Indeed, hi</span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130746428;"><span lang="EN" style="color: black;">story shows that cold periods are far more hazardous
than warm times. </span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130746428;"><span style="color: black;">That is why geologists call past warm epochs “optimums”
and cold times “dark ages.” </span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130746428;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: black;">The plot of temperature versus time for Central Greenland below (used
with the permission of the originator, <span style="background: white;">petrophysicist </span></span></span><a href="https://andymaypetrophysicist.com/about/"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130746428;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: black;">Andy May</span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130746428;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: black;">) is a good illustration of the natural climate change we have seen over
the past four thousand years and the related societal impacts. Note how cold
periods coincided with hardships for humanity while, in most cases, warm
periods were beneficial.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130746428;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1p36FwnjNvHY8guCoN5f321fkNGUruD7fBYTFWMuVUsUYRJh8luBNAb9mazP6N43t7MdI665DU1l2jIurXy5z-KsQbwOBKkDVmYsr27w_gS489eUt5gaaFoZbpoILCeCHal-fykMef24agJLeesXEyg35ciUGnllaGlzearfazeZyispiFAHe0qaef1pQ/s1510/Tom%20Harris%202.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="925" data-original-width="1510" height="392" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1p36FwnjNvHY8guCoN5f321fkNGUruD7fBYTFWMuVUsUYRJh8luBNAb9mazP6N43t7MdI665DU1l2jIurXy5z-KsQbwOBKkDVmYsr27w_gS489eUt5gaaFoZbpoILCeCHal-fykMef24agJLeesXEyg35ciUGnllaGlzearfazeZyispiFAHe0qaef1pQ/w640-h392/Tom%20Harris%202.png" width="640" /></a></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130746428;"><a name="Prosper"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-no-proof: yes; mso-themecolor: text1;">
</span></a></span><span style="mso-bookmark: Prosper;"></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130746428;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: black; font-family: georgia;">Yet cities such as Ottawa, Chicago, Detroit, Minneapolis, and Montreal,
municipalities each of which experience cold weather, at times very cold, all
essentially ignore the dangerous impacts of cooling in their climate change
plans. Ottawa’s Climate Change Master Plan is especially misguided. Despite the
City’s assertion that “Ottawa must be an energy-conscious city where people can
live, work and play in all future climate conditions,” cooling adaptation is
entirely ignored. As I told the City of Ottawa Environment and Climate Change
Committee </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://youtu.be/NRM7FIQK2ok?t=11021"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130746428;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: black;">in my April 18, 2023 testimony</span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130746428;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: black;">:</span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: black;">“As
the seventh coldest capital city in the world, it is irresponsible for </span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130746428;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: black;">Ottawa to only prepare for warming when <span style="background: white;">cooling is far more dangerous and, some scientists
say, more likely. It would be like going camping in an area known to be
infested with black bears and mosquitos and only planning for the mosquitos.
Yes, the bugs can drive you crazy, but the bears can kill you. Similarly, heat
in Ottawa is not fatal except for the elderly and other vulnerable citizens,
people we need to protect. But <b>everyone</b> can die when it is minus 30 with
no heat.” </span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: black;">In my articles of past three weeks, I have written about the new theory
of cosmoclimatology—how phenomena in space, especially changes in the output of
the Sun, affect the climate on Earth. While it is scientifically interesting to
learn about what drove climate change in the past, what really matters from a
public policy perspective is what this research can tell us about climate
change in the future. This then helps us make sensible decisions about where we
should focus our efforts to ensure future generations are well-prepared for
whatever nature throws at us next. </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: black;">As I explained in previously, Earthly temperature trends apparently
follow in accordance with solar cycles. This should seriously concern
councillors from all of these cities since leading solar researchers are
convinced that we are headed for a Grand Solar Minimum by about the year 2070 when
the Sun may be at its weakest in the past 300 years. This could result in
significant global cooling, which these municipalities must prepare for. <br /></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">The first time I heard
about the coming Grand Solar Minimum was at The Heartland Institute's </span><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><a href="https://climateconferences.heartland.org/iccc4/"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130746428;"><span lang="EN-CA">Fourth
International Conference on Climate Change</span></span></a></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130746428;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><span lang="EN-CA"> </span></span><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">(ICCC-4) that took place in May 2010 in Chicago. In that
important conference, </span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130746428;"><span lang="EN" style="color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA; mso-themecolor: text1;">Dr. </span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130746428;"><span style="color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA; mso-themecolor: text1;">Habibullo Abdussamatov, </span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130746428;"><span style="color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA; mso-themecolor: text1;">a Russian expert in solar terrestrial physics<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">, head of </span>the Space Research Laboratory <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">of the Pulkovo Observatory in St. Petersburg</span> and, later, the 2013
gold medal winner from the European Scientific-Industrial Chamber, gave a
presentation titled, “THE SUN DICTATES THE CLIMATE.” <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Abdussamatov</span> </span></span><a href="https://youtu.be/bVrKPPAjRfs?t=347"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130746428;"><span style="color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA; mso-themecolor: text1;">explained</span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130746428;"><span style="color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA; mso-themecolor: text1;"> that:</span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA; mso-themecolor: text1;">“Natural bicentennial
variations in the average annual values of the TSI [</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">Total Solar
Irradiance, the amount of solar energy reaching the top of Earth’s atmosphere</span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130746428;"><span style="color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA; mso-themecolor: text1;">] caused by cyclic variations in the radius of the Sun together with
secondary feedback effects led to 18 Little Ice Ages, established within the
last 7,500 years. Every time the TSI experienced its peak (up to 0.2%) a global
warming began with a time lag of 15+/-6 years defined by thermal inertia of the
Ocean (despite the absence of anthropogenic influence [i.e., climate changed
caused by humans]) and each deep bicentennial descent in the TSI caused a
Little Ice Age.”</span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: black;">Amazingly, <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Abdussamatov</span>
said that the Sun’s radius varies by up to 250 km during the familiar 11-year
sunspot cycle (</span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130746428;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: black;">we are just starting cycle 25 now) </span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130746428;"><span style="color: black;">and up to 700 km during the bicentennial, or 200-year
cycle. And this greatly influences solar output. Specifically, when the Sun was
very weak, every 200 years or so, the Earth went into a Little Ice Age. He
explained that such research enables scientists to study how TSI has changed in
past centuries and even millennia and determine how it correlates with past
climate on Earth and so what the future holds as these cycles continue. </span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: black;">Frighteningly, we are nearing a </span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130746428;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: black;">Grand Solar Minimum </span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130746428;"><span style="color: black;">right now, a time period
when many of the cycles of the Sun hit rock bottom. <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Abdussamatov</span> predicted a deep minimum in TSI about 2042 and “a
deep global temperature minimum about 2055 – 2060. </span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130746428;"><span lang="EN" style="color: black;">The last time the Sun
was this weak, the Earth was in a particularly cold phase of the most recent
Little Ice Age that lasted from about 1350 – 1850, a period of</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130746428;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: black;"> great misery for people around the world. </span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: black;">Abdussamatov</span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130746428;"><span style="color: black;"> gave a similar talk at </span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130746428;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: black;">The Ninth International
Conference on Climate Change, which took place in 2014 in Las Vegas. The
conference attracted some 650 scientists, economists, policy experts and </span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130746428;"><span style="color: black;">Abdussamatov</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130746428;"><span style="color: black;">’s presentation was more
assertive this time and was </span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130746428;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: black;">titled </span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130746428;"><strong><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: black;">“</span></strong></span><a href="https://climateconferences.heartland.org/wp-content/uploads/Powerpoints/ICCC9/Habibullo-Abdussamatov.pdf"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130746428;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: black;">2014- The Beginning of the New Little Ice Age</span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130746428;"><strong><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: black;">.” In that talk, he
updated his estimates to t</span></strong></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130746428;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: black;">he start of the Grand Minimum of TSI being
anticipated by about solar cycle 27 around the year 2043 which would be
followed by “a phase of deep cooling [similar to] the 19th Little Ice Age … approximately
in 2060 ± 11 [years], with possible duration of 45 – 65 years.” He also
presented the following graph:</span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: black;">Abdussamatov concluded his 2014 presentation:</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: black;">“The Sun is the main factor controlling the climatic system and it is
more powerful than abilities of human beings.” <br /></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: black;">In 2020, Abdussamatov published a block-buster paper, “</span><a href="https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/9052/342acb91d4eaf9fad2625ce8fc499fe900ec.pdf"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130746428;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: black;">Energy Imbalance Between the Earth and Space
Controls the Climate</span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130746428;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: black;">” in the journal “Earth Sciences.” Once again, he did not pull his
punches and repeated his forecast of a Grand Solar Minimum by about 2043. The
Russian scientist slightly updated his prediction of when we could expect the
next Little Ice Age to really bite hard, </span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: black;">“Solar cooling has started. As a result, the Earth has, and will
continue to have, a long negative energy balance, which will ensure a slight
decrease in temperature. However, this slight decrease in temperature is
extremely important as a trigger mechanism for the subsequent chain effects of
secondary causal effects of feedback that will greatly enhance the cooling.
This will certainly lead to the onset of a phase of deep cooling of the climate
approximately in the year 2070 ± 11 [years].”</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: black;">And</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: black;">“The total rate decline in TSI from cycle to cycle is currently
accelerating and will reach maximum its acceleration in the next solar cycle.
The observed consistent downward trend decline of TSI in four consecutive
cycles suggests that such a decrease bring backs to a similar decrease during
the Maunder minimum in 1645-1715.”</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: black;">Some people may be tempted to dismiss Dr. Abdussamatov’s forecasts, as
well as the work of Svensmark, Veizer and Shaviv that I discussed in the past
two articles as unique in the scientific community. <span style="background: white;">However in “</span></span><a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7575229/#cit0001" target="_blank"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130746428;"><span class="s4"><span lang="EN-CA" style="border: 1pt windowtext; color: black; padding: 0in; text-decoration: none;">Modern Grand Solar
Minimum will lead to terrestrial cooling</span></span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130746428;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: black;">” in the August 4, 2020
edition of the journal <i><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Temperature</span></i><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">, Northumbria University professor<i> </i></span></span></span><a href="https://sites.google.com/view/solarphysicsnu/people/valentina-zharkova" target="_blank"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130746428;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: black; text-decoration: none;">Valentina </span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130746428;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="border: 1pt windowtext; color: black; padding: 0in;"> Zharkova</span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130746428;"><span class="s4"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; border: 1pt windowtext; color: black; padding: 0in;"> who holds a </span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130746428;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: black;">Ph.D. from the Solar
Division of the Main Astronomical Observatory, Kyiv, Ukraine<i><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"> </span></i>wrote:</span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: black;">“During this modern grand minimum, one would expect to
see a reduction of the average terrestrial temperature by up to 1.0°C,
especially, during the periods of solar minima between the cycles 25–26 and
26–27, e.g. in the decade 2031–2043.”</span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130746428;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: black;"></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: black;">And then there is the 2021 paper,</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #2b00fe;"> “</span><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><a href="https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1674-4527/21/6/131/meta" target="_blank"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130746428;"><span class="s3"><span lang="EN-CA" style="border: 1pt windowtext; padding: 0in;">How much has the Sun influenced Northern Hemisphere temperature
trends? An ongoing debate</span></span></span></a></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130746428;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #2b00fe;">”</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: black;"> by 23 scientists from 14
countries, the abstract of which </span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130746428;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: black;">reads, in part:</span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: black;">“It appears that previous studies (including the most recent IPCC
reports) which had prematurely concluded [that the Sun’s output contributed
negligibly to Earthly climate change] had done so because they failed to
adequately consider all the relevant estimates of Total Solar Irradiance and/or
to satisfactorily address the uncertainties still associated with Northern
Hemisphere temperature trend estimates.”<span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"> </span></span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span lang="EN-CA" style="border: 1pt windowtext; color: black; padding: 0in;"> <br /></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="apple-converted-space"><span lang="EN-CA" style="border: 1pt windowtext; color: black; padding: 0in;">And I could name many more scientists who also
attribute most recent climate change to variations in TSI. Contrary to the
claims of climate activists that “the science of climate change is settled,”
the science is very much unsettled and quickly evolving in directions that will
make today’s climate scare look like a dangerous and expensive mistake. </span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span lang="EN-CA">___________________________________________________________________________</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #212529;">Tom Harris is Executive Director of the Ottawa, Canada-based </span></i><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><a href="http://www.icsc-climate.com"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130746428;"><i><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white;">International
Climate Science Coalition</span></i></span></a></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130746428;"><i><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #212529;">.</span></i></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130746428;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #212529; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130746428;"><i><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #3e3e3e; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;"></span></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130746428;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-themecolor: text1;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130746428;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-themecolor: text1;"> </span></span></p>
Rich Kozlovichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13745960671409518147noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2556326304729519232.post-3583536824293333472024-03-16T01:02:00.009-04:002024-03-16T13:42:24.117-04:00The Left Braces for a Racial Reckoning<i>If Democrats are not panicked about it, they should be. </i><p>By <a href="https://www.libertynation.com/author/tim-donner/" rel="author" title="Posts by Tim Donner">Tim Donner</a> | <span class="published">Mar 15, 2024</span> <b><a href="https://www.libertynation.com/the-left-braces-for-a-racial-reckoning/"><span style="color: #660000;">@ Liberty Nation News,</span></a><span style="color: #660000;"> </span></b><b>Tags, </b><a href="https://www.libertynation.com/articles/" rel="category tag">Articles</a>, <a href="https://www.libertynation.com/liberty-rewind/" rel="category tag">Good Reads</a>, <a href="https://www.libertynation.com/opinion/" rel="category tag">Opinion</a>, <a href="https://www.libertynation.com/politics/" rel="category tag">Politics</a>
</p><p>If today were Election Day, Democrats would likely be in a state of
stunned disbelief after watching their most prized constituencies
abandon them in droves. Put plainly, if the left is not laser-focused –
and successful – over these next months in drawing black and Hispanic
voters back into the fold in numbers they perpetually take for granted, a
landslide and long-term realignment of the country could be in the
offing.</p>
<p><b><i>Liberty Nation</i></b> has been reporting on the changing allegiances of minority <a href="https://www.libertynation.com/super-tuesday-an-end-and-a-beginning/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">voters</a>
for some time, but the latest metrics are frankly shocking. A trend has
turned from noteworthy to startling. The results of the latest <i>New York Times</i>
poll (meaning they must be accurate, right?) are nothing less than
head-spinning. And you don’t need many of the numbers to understand the
bottom line.</p>
<p><a class="embedshortcode" href="https://dashboard.mailerlite.com/forms/569194/99761459128436097/share/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=libertynation_newsletter" style="float: right; padding: 10px 0px 10px 20px;" target="_blank"><br />
</a>While Biden crushed Trump by 50 points among non-white Americans in
2020, he is now leading by just 12. For those of you not mathematically
inclined, that is a 38% swing – and Democrats’ lowest advantage among
black, Hispanic, and Asian voters since 1960 – 64 years ago. And don’t
forget it was black voters who almost single-handedly revived Biden’s
failing campaign in 2020, which makes this turnaround that much more
momentous. No president in modern history has lost so much support from
crucial constituencies in such a short time.</p>
<p>How remarkable is it that the man who most famously descended that
golden escalator and spoke in such harsh terms about illegal immigrants
would now enjoy majority support from Hispanic voters? If that is not a
sign of transformation, nothing is. Democrats will pour tens of millions
of dollars into minority outreach in the run-up to Election Day. The
extent to which they succeed hinges on the hope that these voters will
have short memories. But crucially, the mere fact they need to spend so
much time and treasure to secure a base it has always taken for granted
is by itself an ominous sign for any campaign.</p>
<p>But looked at from another perspective, why the heck should minority
voters differ significantly from the majority? Biden’s perceived
weakness suggests that the president may struggle to earn the support of
those outside of deeply partisan voters. That is especially true when
you consider that these minority voting blocs are hit the hardest by
Biden’s failures. Rising prices for the essentials of life, the
out-of-control border, and inner-city crime most affect those with the
least financial capacity and security. And now, to make it even worse,
blacks in many cities feel edged out by an unmanageable wave of illegals
– as many as ten million by some counts. The result is growing tension
not so much between blacks and Hispanics, but between Americans and
aliens (not a racist slur, but the official government designation for
foreigners).</p>
<p><a href="https://www.libertynation.com/joe-bidens-identity-crisis-the-black-vote/" target="_blank">Black</a>
and Hispanic voters know, like everyone else, that the upheaval at the
southern border was not only the most avoidable catastrophe of modern
times but, worst of all, a crisis of choice by Joe Biden in reflexively
reversing Donald Trump’s effective border policies. Joe Biden’s cowardly
instincts led him to surrender to open-border white progressives at the
expense of everyone else. How could he not have known that this would
come back to haunt him? Did he not think through the most predictable
consequences of proclaiming America open to almost anyone willing to
show up at the border? And now, migrants from all over the world – South
America, Europe, Africa, and Asia – have joined the bandwagon marching
across the US-Mexico border to take the taxpayer-funded gift offered by
this president.</p>
<h2>Racial Realignment: A Huge Opportunity for the GOP</h2>
<p>For years, Republicans have been urging black and Hispanic voters to
finally acknowledge the repeated failures of inner-city Democratic
leaders and join the GOP fold. In fairness, though, Republicans have
done little to expand their presence in minority communities. But with
black and Hispanic support now suddenly up for grabs in a nation gripped
by progressivism, this schism on the left dovetails with Trump’s
outsized efforts to attract minority support over the course of more
than eight years.</p>
<p>Not
since the 20th century, when “bleeding heart conservative” Jack Kemp
advocated for enterprise zones in fallen inner-city neighborhoods had
the GOP organized a serious campaign to attract black voters. His
efforts did not meet with success, and Republicans since then had all
but ignored black voters, conceding 13% of the population to the
Democrats, and settling for about one-third of Hispanics.</p>
<p>But then came Trump, who broke the mold with aggressive efforts to
attract minorities in 2016 (remember “what the hell have you got to
lose?”) and particularly in 2020, when the lone bright spot in his
unsuccessful campaign was the rise in his non-white support. He
aggressively courted a long-uncourted constituency, creating an active
“Black Voices for Trump” organization in 2020. That is now less a
project than part of a viable strategy. Minority voters have felt the
pinch of Bidenomics more than anyone, and are now understanding the full
consequences of a surrender to progressives.</p>
<p>To this day, it is hard to understand the calculation made by Joe
Biden. In abandoning his traditional moderate liberalism (by today’s
standards) at the exact time the country needed it, he turned his pledge
to make unity the defining characteristic of his presidency into its
farcical opposite. Given that Trump’s liabilities had multiplied after
January 6 and that he had supposedly disqualified himself from another
run at the White House after the post-election ugliness of 2020, Biden
might have been well positioned to secure a second term if he had just
done what he promised by returning a pandemic- and riot-torn country to a
state of normalcy.</p>
<p>If Donald Trump, of all people, can roll up a big slice of
minorities, more conventional Republicans (and who isn’t conventional
compared to Trump?) going forward will be able to consolidate a hold on a
meaningful slice of black and brown voters. For while these voters have
traditionally leaned heavily Democratic, they are at the same time
largely culturally conservative, a factor which had never been decisive
until left-wing BLM-style radicals became the face of social justice.
But as the respected <i>Financial Times</i> put it, “[t]he migration
we’re seeing today is not so much natural Democrats becoming
disillusioned but natural Republicans realizing they’ve been voting for
the wrong party.”</p>
<p>Indeed, minority abandonment of the Democratic Party is not due just
to the weakness of Joe Biden, but the increasingly radical left-wing
agenda of the Democratic Party – white progressives purporting to speak
for minorities – since the rise of Donald Trump. And it looks for all
the world like these longtime Democrats are finally fed up.</p>
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Rich Kozlovichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13745960671409518147noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2556326304729519232.post-86146143471538978842024-03-16T01:00:00.003-04:002024-03-16T01:03:22.818-04:00Can Things Get Any Worse In Haiti?<p>By <a href="https://www.manhattancontrarian.com/?author=503a7965e4b0b543ed24305c" rel="author">Francis Menton</a> <a href="https://www.manhattancontrarian.com/blog/2024-3-15-can-things-get-any-worse-in-haiti"><span class="article-dateline" id="yui_3_17_2_1_1710564804246_447">
</span></a><a href="https://www.manhattancontrarian.com/blog/2024-3-15-can-things-get-any-worse-in-haiti" id="yui_3_17_2_1_1710564804246_445"><time class="published" datetime="2024-03-15">March 15, 2024</time></a><a href="https://www.manhattancontrarian.com/blog/2024-3-15-can-things-get-any-worse-in-haiti"><b style="color: #660000;"> @ Manhattan Contrarian</b></a></p><p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">For those interested in why some countries become wealthy while others remain in extreme poverty, Haiti is one of the most important case studies. Despite being only a few hundred miles from the U.S. mainland, and even closer to Puerto Rico, with investment capital readily available and unlimited opportunities for trade, Haiti has essentially no economic development and is one of the poorest countries in the world. And instead of improving, conditions in Haiti only get worse. The past few weeks have seen yet a new extreme low point, with the Prime Minister locked out of the territory and the country taken over by armed gangs.</span></p><div class="body entry-content" id="yui_3_17_2_1_1710564804246_78"><div class="sqs-layout sqs-grid-12 columns-12" data-layout-label="Post Body" data-type="item" data-updated-on="1710558762163" id="item-65f4fc0484d352307aa768bd"><div class="row sqs-row" id="yui_3_17_2_1_1710564804246_77"><div class="col sqs-col-12 span-12" id="yui_3_17_2_1_1710564804246_76"><div class="sqs-block html-block sqs-block-html" data-block-type="2" id="block-d7b58448db92f2436ef3"><div class="sqs-block-content"><div class="sqs-html-content"><p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">At this blog I have returned repeatedly to the subject of Haiti over the years, in the attempt to understand how things could have gone, and continue to go, so terribly wrong. The launch of this blog in 2012 came just over two years after the big 2010 earthquake in Haiti had brought forth an outpouring of foreign aid and private humanitarian assistance on a scale, relative to the size of the country, unprecedented in human history. Hillary Clinton was then Secretary of State, and became the face of U.S. efforts to assist Haiti in its recovery. At the same time, the Clinton Foundation was at its peak of renown, and got deeply involved in the Haiti assistance efforts. Surely, with this level of funding and star power, Haiti would shortly be on the path to wealth.</p><p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Yet in July 2014 I wrote a post titled <a href="https://www.manhattancontrarian.com/blog/2014/7/28/why-is-haiti-so-poor">“Why Is Haiti So Poor?,”</a> noting that despite the attention of world elites and the outpouring of government and charitable funds, nothing had changed. Here is an excerpt from that post:</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>Haiti is perhaps the all-time champ of foreign aid. If foreign aid worked to raise a country up out of poverty, then Haiti would be a rich country. The Center for Global Development (no enemies of foreign aid) here has a history of foreign aid in Haiti. . . "[B]y 1991, Haiti received $380 million from abroad." . . . [T]he aid thing really exploded after the big earthquake in January 2010. A compilation </i><a href="http://www.lessonsfromhaiti.org/download/International_Assistance/5-ny-pledge-total.pdf"><i>here</i></a><i> has the total of gifts and pledges to Haiti in the aftermath of the earthquake at $9,337.8 million. That's about the equivalent of a full year's GDP for Haiti! But the title of this report from Foreign Policy In Focus in January says it all: </i><a href="http://fpif.org/23183/"><i>Haiti: billions in Aid, Pennies in Progress since Earthquake.</i></a><i> You really need to read the whole thing to see how one government-imposed obstacle after another has kept Haiti from moving forward.</i></p><p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Hillary’s signature initiative through both the State Department and the Clinton Foundation was an industrial park in northern Haiti called Caracol, supposedly <a href="https://stories.clintonfoundation.org/president-clinton-announces-opening-of-caracol-northern-industrial-park-in-haiti-4176576a7838">to bring some 60,000 jobs</a> to the island country and jumpstart the economy. In <a href="https://www.manhattancontrarian.com/blog/2015/7/14/does-hillary-clinton-have-any-understanding-of-how-an-economy-creates-wealth">this post from July 2015</a> I had a picture of Hillary leading a photo op tour at the Caracol facility (the picture is from 2012): </p><p style="white-space: pre-wrap;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhf3hD4vAqOYBJCCcUse3jXNgA2dKgElMcCSsyZb2CHhwWdXBJOK9n8HSMRnlApss2_bDMkihsR5mOLlx8CAcjl7w5VITyvU_jEjb-ZOIZXsJdnMWP-eXy2Ymn5XLaCOGcDf4cTCmCTRyDwASNNHVZ_-YO3GwNrjQMvWrc5F1FFkEACSst7VwsY6o766x-_/s1436/francis%20menton.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="962" data-original-width="1436" height="372" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhf3hD4vAqOYBJCCcUse3jXNgA2dKgElMcCSsyZb2CHhwWdXBJOK9n8HSMRnlApss2_bDMkihsR5mOLlx8CAcjl7w5VITyvU_jEjb-ZOIZXsJdnMWP-eXy2Ymn5XLaCOGcDf4cTCmCTRyDwASNNHVZ_-YO3GwNrjQMvWrc5F1FFkEACSst7VwsY6o766x-_/w556-h372/francis%20menton.png" width="556" /></a></div><p></p><p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">But the Caracol project was controlled by the Haitian government, and funded largely by international development agencies rather than private investors. And thus it took forever to build and has never reached anything like its full potential. Here is <a href="https://haitiantimes.com/2022/02/24/as-haitis-caracol-park-grows-residents-demand-housing-roads-health-care/">an update from the Haiti Times in 2022</a>. Excerpt:</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>Construction began on the 608-acre industrial park in 2011, </i><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><i>attracting</i></span><i> over $234 million in initial investment from IDB, Korean apparel-maker </i><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><i>Sae-A Co. Ltd</i></span><i>, as well as both the United States and Haitian governments. In November 2021, the IDB approved an additional $65 million investment. . . . The IDB, an international institution that finances development projects, </i><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><i>said</i></span><i> the investments should bring total employment to 22,000 people, up from about</i><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><i> 14,000</i></span><i> today.</i> </p><p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">So, more than a decade after beginning construction, they were not even up to a quarter of the original projected job total, and were struggling to get to maybe a third by 2026. Then, in early 2023, the only significant employer at the Caracol park, Sae-A, <a href="https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/haiti/article271963327.html">announced a round of lay-offs</a>. That article from the Miami Herald doesn’t give any reasons for the action, but you can be certain that the bad business climate in Haiti had a lot to do with it. “Bad business climate” can include anything from violence in the neighborhood to demands for bribes to inability to get anything done with the local bureaucracies. </p><p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Meanwhile, Haiti, a country of some 11+ million people, has <a href="https://www.statista.com/statistics/808531/unemployment-rate-in-haiti/">a reported unemployment rate of about 15%,</a> meaning close to a million unemployed people. There are hundreds of thousands of young men with not enough to occupy their time. What better to do than go out and join an armed gang and fight for control of the country?</p><p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">No significant private investor will make any meaningful investment in Haiti. Until that changes, Haiti will remain poor.</p><p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">So what is the idea of our current President and Secretary of State for what to do now? As usual, they have only one idea, which is to send more money. This is from a piece in <a href="https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/03/15/haiti-crisis-us-response-biden-administration-ariel-henry-resignation/">Foreign Policy today</a>:</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken </i><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><i>traveled</i></span><i> to Jamaica on Monday to meet with Caribbean leaders on the issue, and he </i><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><i>pledged</i></span><i> an additional $100 million in U.S. funds to finance the deployment of a multinational force to help stabilize the country. The Biden administration is urging Congress to unlock even more funds.</i> </p><p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">What they will never do is advocate for moving toward an economy of private property and free enterprise like we have in the United States. They won’t do that because they don’t understand how our economy works, or why it is successful; and at some deep level they are ashamed of our success.</p>
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</div></div></div></div></div></div>Rich Kozlovichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13745960671409518147noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2556326304729519232.post-68385365985226911032024-03-16T00:50:00.001-04:002024-03-16T01:03:22.793-04:00Bastiat and Credit Card RegulationsMarch 15, 2024 by <a href="https://danieljmitchell.wordpress.com/author/danieljmitchell/" title="Posts by Dan Mitchell">Dan Mitchell</a> <a href="https://danieljmitchell.wordpress.com/2024/03/15/bastiat-and-credit-card-regulations/" rel="bookmark"><b><span style="color: #660000;">@ International Liberty </span></b></a><p>I have a three-part series on why price controls are misguided (<a href="https://danieljmitchell.wordpress.com/2020/04/16/the-case-against-price-controls/">here</a>, <a href="https://danieljmitchell.wordpress.com/2022/01/17/the-case-against-price-controls-part-ii/">here</a>, and <a href="https://danieljmitchell.wordpress.com/2022/04/04/the-case-against-price-controls-part-iii/">here</a>). In this clip from <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SY20-f3lkpI">a recent appearance</a> on Vance Ginn’s <em>Let People Prosper</em>, I look at the specific example of price controls on late fees.</p>
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<p>While I think my points are sound, I confess they are not original.</p>
<p><a href="https://danieljmitchell.wordpress.com/2016/09/09/another-lesson-from-bastiat-so-called-employment-protection-legislation-is-bad-news-for-workers/"><img class="alignright " height="165" src="https://freedomandprosperity.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Jun-12-20-Bastiat-Quote.jpg" width="313" /></a> </p><p>I’m simply recycling the <a href="https://danieljmitchell.wordpress.com/2016/09/09/another-lesson-from-bastiat-so-called-employment-protection-legislation-is-bad-news-for-workers/">wisdom of Frederic Bastiat</a>,
who succinctly and accurately explained way back in the 1800s that you
can’t analyze an issue without considering the secondary effects (the
“unseen”).</p>
<p>In this case, limiting late fees on credit cards will lead to negative effects in other areas.</p>
<p>I’m not the only one to make this point. The <em>Wall Street Journal</em> <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/credit-card-late-payment-fees-consumer-financial-protection-bureau-rule-rohit-chopra-joe-biden-108d41a3">editorialized</a> about this issue a few days ago. Here are some excerpts.</p>
<blockquote>
<p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0"><a href="https://freedomandprosperity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Mar-15-24-WSJ-Title.jpg"><img class="alignright " height="37" src="https://freedomandprosperity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Mar-15-24-WSJ-Title.jpg" width="194" /></a> <br /></p></blockquote><blockquote><p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0">If Americans see their credit
costs increase, access to credit decline, or card rewards disappear,
blame the Administration’s new price controls. The Consumer Financial
Protection Bureau (CFPB) last week finalized a rule effectively capping
credit-card late fees at $8… Yet as even the CFPB acknowledges, the
lower penalty may cause more borrowers to pay late, and as a result
incur higher “interest charges, penalty rates, credit reporting, and the
loss of a grace period.” <br /></p></blockquote><blockquote><p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0">This would make it harder to qualify for an auto loan or mortgage. The
agency concedes that credit-card issuers may also raise interest rates,
reduce rewards, “increase minimum payment amounts or adjust credit
limits to reduce credit risk associated with consumers who make late
payments.” Because some states cap credit-card interest rates, “some
consumers’ access to credit could fall.” <br /></p></blockquote><blockquote><p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0">Thanks, Mr. President. By the
way, the rule comes as credit-card delinquencies have risen to the
highest level in more than a decade. …The Biden Administration is
playing up its price controls as an election-year gambit, but it never
explains the unseen effects down the road. The forgotten man always
pays.</p>
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<p>By the way, the editorial includes this bit of bad news caused by a different example of financial intervention.</p>
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<p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0">Consumers are the biggest
losers, as we’ve learned from other such price controls. The Durbin
Amendment to Dodd-Frank directed the Fed to limit fees charged to
retailers for debit-card processing. A 2017 Federal Reserve staff study
found that as a result larger banks reduced free checking and raised
minimum balance requirements. Small banks not subject to the cap also
limited free checking because they faced less competition. Rather than
lower prices, retailers pocketed the savings.</p>
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<p>And I <a href="https://danieljmitchell.wordpress.com/2024/01/17/cfpb-price-controls-will-backfire/">wrote earlier this year</a> about another example of the Biden crowd imposing red tape on the financial services industry.</p>
<p>The bottom line is that more government is only the answer if <a href="https://danieljmitchell.wordpress.com/2009/10/26/weekly-political-humor-5/">you’ve asked a very strange question</a>.</p>
<h3 class="sd-title"><br /></h3>Rich Kozlovichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13745960671409518147noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2556326304729519232.post-72817188669448063782024-03-16T00:46:00.001-04:002024-03-16T01:03:22.807-04:00The Heavy Cost of DEI in Universities<p><i>Diversity, equity, and inclusion programs are taking a hit. </i></p><p>By <a href="https://www.libertynation.com/author/tess-lynne/" rel="author" title="Posts by Kelli Ballard">Kelli Ballard</a> | <span class="published">Mar 15, 2024<b><a href="https://www.libertynation.com/the-heavy-cost-of-dei-in-universities/"> <span style="color: #660000;">@ Liberty Nation News,</span></a></b></span> <b>Tags:</b> <a href="https://www.libertynation.com/articles/" rel="category tag">Articles</a>, <a href="https://www.libertynation.com/opinion/" rel="category tag">Opinion</a>, <a href="https://www.libertynation.com/politics/" rel="category tag">Politics</a></p><div class="et_pb_module et_pb_post_content et_pb_post_content_0_tb_body" id="post-content">
<p>Diversity, equity, and inclusion – or DEI – isn’t new to colleges
and universities, but in the last few years it has certainly grown in
controversy. Some lump it together with critical race theory, but the
growing assumption is that it’s a form of indoctrination, teaching
students that white privilege exists – and, according to opponents, is
adding to the racial divide in our country. While some states, such as
Florida, have banned DEI in schools, others cling to the practice and
pay a hefty sum each year to keep the programs afloat.</p>
<h2>The Cost of DEI in Education</h2>
<p>The University of Virginia (UVA) spends about $20 million each year
on its diversity, equity, and inclusion programs. Open the Books, a
federal spending watchdog organization, cited public records that showed
the university had at least 235 staffers in <a href="https://www.libertynation.com/dei-discriminatory-hiring-flourishing-at-national-archives/" target="_blank">DEI</a>
roles in 2023. UVA spent a whopping $15 million in wages and
compensation to those employees as well as another $5 million in
benefits such as health care, <i>Washington Examiner</i> reported. Open the Books CEO Adam Andrzejewski pointed out that the money was being spent on ideologies instead of education:</p>
<blockquote><p>“With head counts in the hundreds and spending estimated
at $20 million per year, the DEI infrastructure at UVA is funded with
the equivalent of nearly 1,000 students paying tuition. Those are
dollars not spent pursuing excellence within a college major field of
study, but instead on radical ideologies and silly notions.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Edwin Feulner, founder of The Heritage Foundation, told CNN that he
is reining in on DEI practices and that it is a priority in his role as
chairman of the Virginia Commission on Higher Education board. “[DEI]
has been perverted from the original concept. Instead, it’s become
almost an accusation of incipient racism,” he remarked.</p>
<p><a class="embedshortcode" href="https://dashboard.mailerlite.com/forms/569194/99761459128436097/share/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=libertynation_newsletter" style="float: right; padding: 10px 0px 10px 20px;" target="_blank"><br />
</a>In Ohio, Senator Jerry Cirino, a Republican, sponsored a bill that,
if successful, would ban diversity training and mandates in the Buckeye
State. “Critics say the bill promotes censorship – they have it exactly
backwards,” Sen. Cirino said in a statement. “This bill will allow
students to exercise their right to free speech without threat of
reprisal by professors or administrators. It will permit the marketplace
of ideas to flourish, which is the ideal environment for any
educational institution.”</p>
<p>However, the Inter-University Council of Ohio, which represents all
14 of the state’s universities, said the bill is vague, promotes
government overreach, and does not appreciate DEI, which it called “one
of the most potentially important parts of the bill.”</p>
<p>Andrew Gary, a senior at the University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill, told CNN he is concerned about the push to limit diversity,
equity, and inclusion programs. “They want to be able to restrict
professors’ ability to present information to their classes,” he said.
“There’s basically a push against perceived liberal bias.”</p>
<p>How much of DEI is politically motivated? Kenneth Meier, a
distinguished scholar at American University opined to CNN that higher
education isn’t even a priority in most states and that funding has
decreased a lot over the years so it’s not a huge budget item for state
lawmakers. He claims it has become a strategy for the Republican Party
to rally behind. “It allows you to focus on a group of people that are
probably perceived as privileged in some way and isolate on that,” he
claimed. “It’s unusual I would guess for higher education to be grouped
in with immigrants and others we want to demonize, but I think it’s all
part of the process.”</p>
<p>Yoleidy Rosario-Hernandez was chief diversity officer at the New
College of Florida when it was announced the program was dissolving. She
had a strong opinion on lawmakers moving to end DEI:</p>
<blockquote><p>“It’s very fearsome to hear some of the rhetoric from our
state leadership and the Board of Trustees in support of ending
diversity, equity and inclusion. Because behind that, in my opinion, is a
White nationalist rhetoric of racism, of homophobia, that’s really
looking at establishing White men in the place of power versus really
thinking about the community and what people really need.”</p></blockquote>
<p>What kind of impact will it have on colleges and universities’
enrollment numbers if they choose to limit DEI? Critics claim schools
will start losing new students who are afraid of what they consider
conservative institutions where rights such as abortion will be
withheld.</p>
<p>Meier commented, “If I were advising Ron DeSantis [Florida], I would
suggest students are probably going to react the same way Disney
reacted.” Although, some would argue it didn’t go too well for the
entertainment company.</p>
<p>Those who support limiting or banning DEI training and mandates offer
a different thought: that students will feel more comfortable attending
an educational institution that doesn’t promote politics over <a href="https://www.libertynation.com/black-lives-matter-in-your-kids-classroom-not-radical-ideology/" target="_blank">learning</a>.</p>
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<div class="author_desc author-bio"> </div><div class="author_desc author-bio"><b>Read More From <a href="https://www.libertynation.com/author/tess-lynne/">Kelli Ballard</a></b></div></div>Rich Kozlovichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13745960671409518147noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2556326304729519232.post-5182967595036200732024-03-16T00:38:00.003-04:002024-03-16T01:03:22.782-04:00Biden’s ‘Trojan Pier’ for Gaza By <a href="https://www.blogger.com/profile/13575285186581875356" rel="author" title="author profile"> Daniel Greenfield</a> <b><a href="https://www.danielgreenfield.org/2024/03/bidens-trojan-pier-for-gaza.html"><span style="color: #660000;">@ Sultan Knish blog </span></a></b><p>Five Americans are still being held
hostage by Hamas, and Biden has sent no troops to help them, but at the
State of the Union address, he promised to send troops to build a pier
for Gaza.<br /><br />The estimated over 1,000 troops will spend as long as 2
months laboring to build a floating pier in a war zone under potential
attack to help transfer aid to the Hamas supporters living in Gaza.<br /><br />Nothing about this plan makes sense.<br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEin_Ba2bHeGMY977cQEF-mUZrMXYyyRiQEfrCm9DZzBMRzWMtLNi0z1hPjkApTLiblEIlJm_vYsGzLZ0L3A83oGEI1WQhYOp59Y5mMHf2j5i0PHoLi4XCfOS6-_fBApwanitVgBm-MjOlTlFihJBsQEj9jsPXgSlTzdrV46NdilvYCS-CFR0LP8PA/s1640/image_2024-03-15_080648942.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1073" data-original-width="1640" height="209" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEin_Ba2bHeGMY977cQEF-mUZrMXYyyRiQEfrCm9DZzBMRzWMtLNi0z1hPjkApTLiblEIlJm_vYsGzLZ0L3A83oGEI1WQhYOp59Y5mMHf2j5i0PHoLi4XCfOS6-_fBApwanitVgBm-MjOlTlFihJBsQEj9jsPXgSlTzdrV46NdilvYCS-CFR0LP8PA/s320/image_2024-03-15_080648942.png" width="320" /></a></div>The
media has taken to falsely claiming that the Arab Muslims occupying
parts of Gaza are starving. Vice President Kamala Harris attacked
Israel, claiming that she had “seen reports of families eating leaves or
animal feed.” Social media <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/while-gazans-throw-us-aid-in-trash-biden-builds-pier-to-bring-them-more/">videos however show </a>the locals gorging themselves on shawarma and other foods in preparation for the Islamic period of Ramadan.<br /><br />But
if the Biden administration really believed that Gazans were starving
right now, what would be the purpose of spending two months building a
pier to deliver aid? A program with a two month lead time will not help
people who are starving right now. It would be a grim joke.<br /><br />And the pier plan only gets stranger from there.<br /><br />According
to the administration, there will be no ‘boots on the ground’
constructing the pier and according to a Pentagon spokesman, “it will
not be U.S. military personnel that are transporting the aid off of the
causeway into Gaza.” So who has the trucks and capability to actually do
it?<br /><br />The United States will build a pier for smaller ships to
transfer to a temporary causeway. According to the spokesman, the
administration is “coordinating with other nations to assist with
operating the causeway and distributing aid into Gaza.”<br /><br />Who are
those nations? They’re clearly not Israel or the United States. While
the Pentagon spokesman mentions Israel as a partner nation, the Israelis
are already able to deliver aid.<br /><br />The Pentagon spokesman mentioned the UN and nameless “ally and partner nations”.<br /><br />“Why
not just use those existing ports and have Israel look at what’s going
through and bring it in? It seems like this is a lot of work for 60
days out when there are people starving, frankly,” a reporter asked.<br /><br />And the spokesman responded with a confusing word salad because he had no good answer.<br /><br />The
actual answer is that the Biden administration does not actually
believe that the Arab Muslim occupiers in Gaza are starving, let alone
starving to death, otherwise it would be doing more than air dropping
11,000 meals and promising to have meal delivery running in 60 days.<br /><br />The temporary pier setup is about bypassing Israel to provide long term access to Gaza.<br /><br />While
administration officials describe the pier as “temporary”, a senior
official also admitted that “we look forward to the port transitioning
to a commercially operated facility over time.”<br /><br />That means it’s not actually meant to be temporary, but a permanent port for the terrorists.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiMeqfrWplzByfNUEW6tSw5wg51WdY34_REVal1Q1-siUWsxc5lKKZ-d9nCUErHvzByNhYohtALe_8Gb_zoTSTLF-OcxM_cpstx_1BEB-rEWU6zeI9DR2iYm-eneakxXV501BsHmy7CD_A8vHApxOpBEMYClNMJQBGgGHpRwH9CeB0065hvnD5QQ/s665/hamas%20frame%20america.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="371" data-original-width="665" height="179" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiMeqfrWplzByfNUEW6tSw5wg51WdY34_REVal1Q1-siUWsxc5lKKZ-d9nCUErHvzByNhYohtALe_8Gb_zoTSTLF-OcxM_cpstx_1BEB-rEWU6zeI9DR2iYm-eneakxXV501BsHmy7CD_A8vHApxOpBEMYClNMJQBGgGHpRwH9CeB0065hvnD5QQ/s320/hamas%20frame%20america.png" width="320" /></a></div><p>The
administration claims that it needs this port “to enable humanitarian
partners to safely distribute lifesaving aid throughout Gaza”, but the
claim that this is about safety makes no sense since it’s not actually
providing security for the aid deliveries. A Pentagon spokesman shrugged
off the question of whether Hamas might open fire on American forces or
the aid deliveries.<br /><br />“I mean, that’s certainly a risk, again, but
if Hamas truly does care about the Palestinian people, then again, one
would hope that this international mission to deliver aid to people who
need it would be able to happen unhindered,” he argued. Is Biden still
hoping that Hamas cares?<br /><br />The Pentagon spokesman emphasized
however that American forces would not be on the ground, would not be in
a position to secure the aid deliveries or stop Hamas from taking them.<br /><br />So
what we know about the temporary pier to safely deliver supplies into
Gaza is that it’s not temporary and the administration is taking no
responsibility for the safety of the aid deliveries.<br /><br />So what is the permanent pier actually for?<br /><br />Joint
Logistics Over-the-Shore (JLOTS), the Navy-Army capability exercised
here, has as its goal the deployment of “LOTS assets to deploy and
sustain a force” overcoming the lack of port facilities or “port
denial”. Israel certainly has ports, so the issue then is port denial.<br /><br />The
Biden administration claims that it personally will not put troops on
the ground in Gaza, but there’s no word on whether other nations might
do so. The Pentagon has claimed that security arrangements are still
being discussed with partner nations. And some of those partner nations
could include Hamas allies like Qatar or Turkey. Any armed foreign
nation entering Gaza would amount to an invasion of Israeli territory
with the ultimate aim of aiding the terrorists living on it.<br /><br />There
is no reason to assume that moving troops is a primary goal here, but
certainly ending Israel’s blockade of Gaza is. Beyond any immediate
MREs, the causeway will be inevitably used to <a href="https://twitter.com/Jewtastic/status/1766682024738504758">move supplies for the “reconstruction” of Gaza </a>as part of a new “Palestinian State”.<br /><br />The Biden administration is creating a gateway to Gaza that Israel isn’t supposed to control.<br /><br />The
Trojan pier is not only about bypassing Israel, but also Egypt. The
administration’s vision is that the new arrangement will allow it to
directly move materials into Gaza without having to get permission from
either Israel or Egypt. And that’s a major victory for the terrorists.<br /><br />Currently,
the Israeli military is saying that it will coordinate the construction
and inspect the cargo being transferred into Gaza, but that is yet
another mistake in a series of them. Once the system is in place and if
Israel has been pressured into withdrawing, it gives the terrorists a
direct connection to their allies on the outside. And that includes
so-called humanitarian groups.<br /><br />Biden’s actions are a violation of
Israel’s sovereignty. After a decade and a half of trying to bottle up
Hamas after the group seized power due to Condoleezza Rice’s push for
elections, Biden has decided to uncork the bottle. And while that’s bad
for Israel, it’s also bad for America.<br /><br />The last quarter century
has been a series of painful lessons in the cost of trying to win the
hearts and minds of Islamic terrorists. Having learned nothing from
Afghanistan and Iraq, Biden is bent on repeating the same lunatic
experiment by “flooding” Gaza with aid and rebuilding it. If he’s hoping
for gratitude, the locals throwing U.S. aid packages in the trash
aren’t showing it.<br /><br />Nor will they.<br /><br />The United States spent
American lives bailing out Iraqi Shiites and Syrian Sunnis only to have
them kill Americans. Obama’s Arab Spring toppled Yemen’s government and
turned the Red Sea into a terror zone for international shipping. The
Iran Deal gave the terror regime in Tehran billions of dollars that it
used to wage war across the region. And the Biden administration helped
negotiate the deals to appease Hamas that led directly to the Oct 7
atrocities.<br /><br />After all that, the Biden administration wants to open up Gaza to the rest of the world.<br /><br />If
this latest treasonous episode of nation building succeeds, the
Israelis will pay the price, but so will all of us. The ‘trojan pier’ is
not about delivering aid, it’s about giving the terrorists a gateway to
the world. And when that gateway is in place, the world will burn even
faster.
</p><p><i><a href="http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Daniel Greenfield</a> is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/" target="_blank">Front Page Magazine</a>. Click <a href="http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2005/03/blogging-hara.html" target="_blank">here to subscribe</a> to my articles. And <a href="http://paypal.me/DgreenfieldWriting" target="_blank">click here to support my work with a donation</a>.</i><i> Thank you for reading.
</i></p>Rich Kozlovichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13745960671409518147noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2556326304729519232.post-27711287306026116052024-03-15T12:16:00.010-04:002024-03-15T13:06:29.003-04:00March 14, 1883 is a Day to Celebrate<p>By Rich Kozlovich </p><p>Recently I posted this article,<a href="https://paradigmsanddemographics.blogspot.com/2024/03/leftism-has-always-been-wrong.html"> Leftism Has Always Been Wrong, Destructive, and Evil</a>, noting:</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">One
of the things I keep trying to point out is nothing the left ever does,
or supports, ever ends up being successful, and nothing they claim is
ever the truth.
It's either outright lies, lies of omission, obfuscation, cognitive
dissonance, projection, logical fallacies, or speculation. But most
importantly, they're always wrong. <span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">They just about have a monopoly on
"wrong"</span>. </p><p>John Hinderaker posted this piece today, <a href="https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2024/03/dont-rip-karl.php">Don’t RIP, Karl</a>, telling us this was the day Karl Marx died, and should be a worldwide holiday, saying: <br /></p><div class="entry-content" style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">Via
InstaPundit, I learn that Karl Marx died on this day in 1883. I concur
with Glenn Reynolds’ suggestion that March 14 should therefore be a
holiday: Marx performed the difficult feat of being wrong about everything.......Marx survives in historical memory for two reasons..... hardly anyone has actually read <i>Capital</i> or his lesser works......Marx’s
philosophy has served as a pretext for sadists to seize control of
governments around the globe. Which is exactly what Marx intended. Marx was a bad man, equally so in his private and public lives. <span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">He
should be remembered only as an exemplar of how much damage a
single-minded and hate-filled man can do.</span></div><div class="entry-content" style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="entry-content" style="text-align: left;">Being wrong is foundational to leftism, and it has always been so. The stupid things they say and promote is mind boggling, but as Einstein is alleged to have said the only difference between genius and stupid is genius has limits. There are not boundaries on the left, ergo, there's no limit to the stupid things they embrace, promote, and implement. <br /></div><div class="entry-content" style="text-align: left;"> </div><div class="entry-content" style="text-align: left;">In order for this evil man's influence to continue requires an absolute abandonment of education that requires work and critical thinking. For those who pay attention to these things we can see that's been the goal of public education going back to the end of the 19th century, and now 150 years later, that's been achieved, and these misfits are even saying reading is racist. Virtually everything they're promoting is destructive to our society. This is an conscience and deliberate effort at dismantling anything that's promotes the foundational traditional values that created the greatest society the world has ever known. </div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li class="entry-content" style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://theohiostar.com/commentary/commentary-colleges-embrace-deficit-framing-to-justify-students-unpreparedness/ohstarstaff/2024/03/13/">Commentary: Colleges Embrace ‘Deficit Framing’ to Justify Students’ Unpreparedness </a></li><li class="entry-content" style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://theohiostar.com/commentary/commentary-eliminating-standardized-testing-had-shockingly-bad-results/ohstarstaff/2024/03/15/">Commentary: Eliminating Standardized Testing Had Shockingly Bad Results </a></li><li class="entry-content" style="text-align: left;"><a class="home_title" href="https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/03/note_to_black_lives_matter_literacy_made_civilization.html" rel="noopener">Note to Black Lives Matter: Literacy Made Civilization</a> <br /></li><li class="entry-content" style="text-align: left;"><a class="home_title" href="https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/03/leftist_language_lies.html">Leftist language lies</a></li><li class="entry-content" style="text-align: left;"><a class="home_title" href="https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/03/leftists_retain_power_only_by_lying_to_their_base.html">Leftists retain power only by lying to their base</a><div class="home_blog"><span class="home_excerpt"> </span>
</div>
</li></ul><div class="entry-content" style="text-align: left;"><span class="post-labels"><b>Tags: </b></span></div><div class="entry-content" style="text-align: left;"><span class="post-labels"> </span></div><div class="entry-content" style="text-align: left;"><span class="post-labels"><a href="https://paradigmsanddemographics.blogspot.com/search/label/Academia" rel="tag">Academia</a></span></div><div class="entry-content" style="text-align: left;"><span class="post-labels"><a href="https://paradigmsanddemographics.blogspot.com/search/label/Education" rel="tag">Education</a> </span><span class="post-labels"><br /></span></div><div class="entry-content" style="text-align: left;"><span class="post-labels"><a href="https://paradigmsanddemographics.blogspot.com/search/label/Public%20Education" rel="tag">Public Education</a> <br /></span></div><div class="entry-content" style="text-align: left;"><span class="post-labels"><a href="https://paradigmsanddemographics.blogspot.com/search/label/Higher%20Education" rel="tag">Higher Education</a></span></div><div class="entry-content" style="text-align: left;"><span class="post-labels"><a href="https://paradigmsanddemographics.blogspot.com/search/label/Education%20and%20Racism" rel="tag">Education and Racism</a></span></div><div class="entry-content" style="text-align: left;"><span class="post-labels"><a href="https://paradigmsanddemographics.blogspot.com/search/label/Social%20Justice%20Education" rel="tag">Social Justice Education</a></span><div class="entry-content" style="text-align: left;"><span class="post-labels"><a href="https://paradigmsanddemographics.blogspot.com/search/label/Educational%20Rot" rel="tag">Educational Rot</a></span></div></div><div class="entry-content" style="text-align: left;"><span class="post-labels"><a href="https://paradigmsanddemographics.blogspot.com/search/label/Education%20in%20America%20Has%20Become%20a%20Snare%20and%20a%20Racket" rel="tag">Education in America Has Become a Snare and a Racket</a></span></div><div class="entry-content" style="text-align: left;"><span class="post-labels"> </span></div><div class="entry-content" style="text-align: left;"><span class="post-labels"> </span></div><div class="entry-content" style="text-align: left;"><span class="post-labels"> </span></div>Rich Kozlovichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13745960671409518147noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2556326304729519232.post-76107173401561245492024-03-15T06:15:00.028-04:002024-03-17T01:16:01.722-04:00Fani Willis Update: It's Not Pretty<p>By Rich Kozlovich</p><p>On February 26 I ran this piece entitled, <a href="https://paradigmsanddemographics.blogspot.com/2024/02/fanigate-its-bad-and-it-just-keeps.html">FaniGate: It's Bad, And It Just Keeps Getting Worse!,</a> with the subtitle, <i>"They treat the public treasury like a self service, all you can eat buffet." </i>I went on to say<i>:<br /></i></p><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;">
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the American people, and if allowed to happen, it will end American
democracy, capitalism, and destroy the Constitution............ Fani Willis went after Trump like a mad dog in a meat market for daring
to question the validity of the 2020 election. The charge? RICO.
Imagine that, she charged Trump and 18 others under a statute designed
to get organized criminal organizations, like the Mafia................</div><p></p>
<p></p><p>Well, that old axiom, "be careful for what you wish for" has turned out to be amazingly applicable to Fani Willis, the Biden Administration, and the entire corrupt cabal that our justice system has been turned into by a bunch of <a href="https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/03/the_face_of_democrat_justice.html">political hacks masquerading </a>as investigators, prosecutors and judges. </p><p>Well, since I published that piece a lot of information has come out since then, and I've updated my article a number of times. </p><div style="text-align: left;">Fani's in trouble, along with the Biden administration, as this really does look like it deserves a RICO investigation, so take some time and take another look at: <a href="https://paradigmsanddemographics.blogspot.com/2024/02/fanigate-its-bad-and-it-just-keeps.html">FaniGate: It's Bad, And It Just Keeps Getting Worse!</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;">A RICO investigation? Really? Well, I'm not the only one who sees this as a <a href="https://americafirstreport.com/lawfare-against-trump-who-will-be-held-accountable/">massive nationwide conspiracy to destroy Trump</a> in order to subvert the 2024 election. And guess what, the America public is convinced there's <a href="https://www.wnd.com/2024/03/voters-feds-double-standard-trump-biden-document-cases/">a double standard for Trump versus Biden</a> regarding these document cases. If that's true, and it is, then how much doubt can there be this is a national criminal conspiracy being conducted by politicized government agencies and directed by Democrat party elitists? Apparently the
<a data-ealink="lead-story-0-large-lead-story-title" data-title="true" href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/house-republicans-say-theyre-trying-to-reveal-fani-willis-collusion-5605277?ea_src=frontpage&ea_med=lead-story-0-large-lead-story-title-0" target="">
House Republicans</a> also think that's a very real possibility as they're wanting to investigate collusion between Fani Willis and the Jan. 6 Panel, which might be facing a <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/03/14/house-may-refer-january-6-committee-members-for-prosecution/">criminal investigation of it's own.</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Update, 2:13 PM: </b> </div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://thenationalpulse.com/2024/03/15/breaking-impropreity-judge-says-fani-willis-or-lover-wade-must-exit-case-for-it-to-continue/">BREAKING: ‘Impropreity’ – Judge Says Fani Willis OR Lover Wade Must Exit Case for It to Continue.</a> And it took this judge a week to come up with this decision? Amazing! But, truth be told, I expected a worse decision since it's seems clear to me he's part of this corrupt cabal. And it appears my view isn't a singular one. As <a data-author="Mike McDaniel" href="https://www.americanthinker.com/author/mikemcdaniel/">Mike McDaniel</a> states in his article, <a class="home_title" href="https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/03/fani_willis_unethical_corrupt_but_prosecutors_will_be_prosecutors.html">Fani Willis: unethical, corrupt, but prosecutors will be prosecutors</a>:</div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="margin-left: 40px;">In all my years in
law enforcement, I never saw anything like the bizarrely contradictory
and extra-legal behavior of judges in the Donald Trump affair. One can
only conclude every judge involved has decided Donald Trump must be
destroyed at all costs, even if that results in the utter destruction of
public faith in our system of justice. The latest example is provided
by Judge Scott McAfee in Fulton County Georgia. The text of his ruling<a href="https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/fani-willis-verdict-decision-trump-georgia-election-case-disqualification-today"> is available at the link.</a>
</div><div class="home_blog"><p style="margin-left: 40px;">McAfee issued his ruling on the dismissal
of Fani Willis from her bizarre persecution of Donald Trump. In a
pseudo-Solomonic muddle, he decided Willis, Wade and their supporting
witnesses are perjurers and Willis engaged in all manner of impropriety.
McAfee delivered a tongue lashing, and decided either Willis or Wade
have to go, but hey, prosecutors will be prosecutors and maybe some
other entity will do something about them.......</p>
</div></div><p>In short, this nitwit judge is declaring they're guilty of all the things they've been charged with, including perjury, which before Bill Clinton was considered a serious crime, and it seems clear Willis has misused federal funds, which also used to be considered a serious crime, but neither one of them will be charged with these crimes and one of them can stay on the case anyway. As McDaniel points out:</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">Fani will have to decide her own pseudo-punishment for actions that
would get a prosecutor disbarred, even prosecuted, elsewhere. <br /></p><p>Now, ya just gotta admit, that's bizarre, and certainly seems to prove this "judge" is in league with this leftist mephitic ooze of judicial corruption. </p><p><b>Update 3/16/24:</b></p><p></p><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;">
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<p><a href="https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/03/friendly-reminder-judge-scott-mcafee-donated-fani-williss/">Friendly Reminder: Judge Scott McAfee Donated to Fani Willis’s Campaign in 2020 – And So Did His Wife</a> <span class="byline">- by <span class="author vcard" itemprop="author" itemscope="" itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a class="url fn n" href="https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/author/jim-hoft/" itemprop="url" rel="author" title="View all posts by Jim Hoft"><span class="author-name" itemprop="name">Jim Hoft</span></a></span></span> <span class="posted-on"><time class="entry-date published" datetime="2024-03-15T09:10:27-05:00" itemprop="datePublished">Mar. 15, 2024......</time></span></p><p><span class="posted-on"><time class="entry-date published" datetime="2024-03-15T09:10:27-05:00" itemprop="datePublished">To follow up on this more completely, </time></span><time class="entry-date published" datetime="2024-03-15T09:10:27-05:00" itemprop="datePublished"><a data-author="Mike McDaniel" href="https://www.americanthinker.com/author/mikemcdaniel/">Mike McDaniel</a> published this piece on </time>March 15, 2024, <a href="https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/03/fani_willis_unethical_corrupt_but_prosecutors_will_be_prosecutors.html">Fani Willis: unethical, corrupt, but prosecutors will be prosecutors</a>, and there were a lot of comments. Here's one by someone named Eric. I didn't research the validity of his comments, and some of this speculation seems to be a bit over the top. How much? Who knows. At any rate, you judge for yourself, here's his take on this:<br /></p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">McAfee’s couldn’t do the right thing for a few big reasons…</p><div class="cvr-top" style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><div class="cvrt-right"><div class="comment-options">1-
He’s got an election coming up in Fulton County GA. Humiliating and
professionally destroying the two most deserving black lawyers in GA and
dismissing the Orange Racist Dictator’s phony case- is not going to go
over too well with black voters and white liberals. <br /><br />2- He was
appointed by Governor Kemp to conceal Kemp & Raffesberger’s
involvement in the “Shadow Campaign” to install Dementia as POTUS,, by
saving Fani, so she can save him. Fani’s case is supposed to drive the
stake through Trump’s heart, before a Trump 2.0 tasks AG Paxton with
exposing his shenanigans down in GA. <br /><br />3- Killing Jack Smith’s GA
case, is a sure fire way to get found dead. If McAfee adhered to the
law, dispensed actual justice, he’d be found dead within a week. The MSM
would report- “Judge McAfee was found dead this morning, slumped over
his steering wheel, in the parking lot of a seedy hotel.” Followed by
law enforcement concluding- “Judge McAfee died of multiple, self
inflicted gunshot wounds, to his head, back, neck and shoulders.”<br /><br />The
Deep State is NOT PLAYING AROUND these days, the evidence of this fact,
calls himself Terrence Bradley. The 180 between Bradley’s text messages
with Trump attorney Merchant and his testimony on the witness stand- is
astounding!! Bradley went from being a helpful witness, with an
outstanding memory, to a stammering, bumbling perjurer. A perjurer with
terror in his eyes.</div></div></div><p><time class="entry-date published" datetime="2024-03-15T09:10:27-05:00" itemprop="datePublished">One question Johnathan Turley asks regarding the corrupt activity of Willis and Wade I think absolutely requires an answer and that is: How can one be guilty and the other not? Okay, so Fani broke a few rules, like lying under oath, and is still keeping her job, and people are all upset at that. Imagine that, so I think it might be wise to see just <a data-wpel-link="external" href="https://pjmedia.com/victoria-taft/2024/03/16/heres-what-the-judge-had-to-blow-off-to-save-fani-willis-n4927365" target="_blank">how many of these "silly little rules" she did break, like perjury</a>.<br /></time></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Fani Willis is so crooked she ignored her prosecutor's oath to act impartially out of "political ambition"</li><li>Fani Willis is so crooked she broke her oath not take any money beyond her salary</li><li>Fani Willis is so crooked her affair with her <em>very special </em>prosecutor is a conflict of interest </li><li>Starting her affair was the "original sin" leading them to "perpetuate and conceal" their relationship</li><li>Fani Willis is so crooked she got her office to lie for her about her affair</li><li>Fani Willis's Church Speech was meant to inject alleged racism "to deflect against her own misconduct" </li><li>Fani's <em>very special</em> prosecutor lied in his divorce documents <em>and to the court</em> about the nature of their relationship</li><li>Fani and her <em>very special </em>prosecutor's
Biden White House meetings and communications are believed to be legal
strategy sessions in coordination and haven't been fully explained </li><li>Fani is so crooked she filed a protective order against the <em>very special </em>prosecutor's wife in his divorce case </li><li>Fani is so crooked her office put people on the stand they knew would lie</li><li>Fani is so crooked she broke the local ordinance about receiving gifts from contractors</li><li>She broke the federal bribery statute by receiving gifts of more than $5,000</li><li>Fani's
office is so crooked they never provided evidence to the contrary about
the boss's "invisible magic cash balancing" theory</li><li>Fani wrote a
book using secret grand jury testimony, documents, and recordings upon
which she based her book, but denied a defense motion to see them</li><li>Fani failed to disclose the gifts from her <em>very special </em>prosecutor as the law requires</li><li>Fani lied on her disclosure forms to the county and state to evade detection of her affair</li><li>Fani never got required county approval to name her boyfriend to the case</li><li>Fani's very special prosecutor "got on the stand and lied about lying in his interrogatories" about his divorce</li><li>Fani and her office "did nothing to correct obviously perjured testimony" </li><li>Fani violated her obligation as a prosecutor to serve her personal interests</li><li>Fani violated rules of professional conduct when she threatened to <em>criminally charge</em> her <em>very special</em> prosecutor's wife "to gain advantage in a civil case" (his divorce proceedings)</li><li>Fani's
prosecutors were directed to hide the affair during the hearing by
objecting on attorney-client privilege grounds on behalf of <em>very special</em> prosecutor Nathan Wade when they weren't their rights to assert</li></ul><p><time class="entry-date published" datetime="2024-03-15T09:10:27-05:00" itemprop="datePublished">And the judge didn't think she needed to be removed from this case. Perhaps other judges may find she needs to be prosecuted. <br /></time></p><p></p>
Rich Kozlovichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13745960671409518147noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2556326304729519232.post-81055030591268600342024-03-15T06:00:00.002-04:002024-03-15T06:02:33.954-04:00Another “Least Surprising Headline” for High Speed Rail<p>March 14, 2024 by <a href="https://danieljmitchell.wordpress.com/author/danieljmitchell/" title="Posts by Dan Mitchell">Dan Mitchell</a> <b><a href="https://danieljmitchell.wordpress.com/2024/03/14/another-least-surprising-headline-for-high-speed-rail/"><span style="color: #660000;">@ International Liberty </span></a></b></p><p></p><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;">
<img class="alignright" height="254" src="https://freedomandprosperity.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Screen-Shot-2022-01-14-at-7.05.14-PM-1.jpg" width="217" /></td></tr></tbody></table>California voters made <a href="https://danieljmitchell.wordpress.com/2012/05/19/californias-train-to-nowhere/">a terrible mistake</a>
back in 2008 when they narrowly approved a referendum for a $33 billion
high-speed train between San Francisco and Los Angeles. <p></p><p>
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<p>Opponents said the project was a boondoggle and they made several predictions.</p>
<ol><li>It will wind up costing far more than advertised.</li><li>It will take much longer to build than initially promised.</li><li>It will benefit special interest groups.</li></ol>
<p>Lo and behold, skeptics were right.</p>
<p>Since I’m a fiscal economist, I was especially interested in the first concern. Based on <a href="https://danieljmitchell.wordpress.com/2013/06/21/the-never-ending-story-of-government-cost-overruns/">real-world experience</a>, we know that almost everything government does winds up being very expensive.</p>
<p>Indeed, this pattern is so clear that I wrote <a href="https://danieljmitchell.wordpress.com/2017/01/15/least-surprising-headline-ever-another-giant-cost-overrun-and-huge-delay-for-a-pork-barrel-infrastructure-project/">a column</a> back in 2017 about the California project’s cost overruns and said it was the “least surprising headline ever.”</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">California's bullet train is hurtling toward a multibillion-dollar overrun,<br /> a confidential federal report warns</span></b></p><p>New we have another “least surprising headline.”</p>
<p>It’s from <i>KCRA</i> in Sacramento, California’s capital. Here’s what was <a href="https://www.kcra.com/article/california-bullet-train-project-funding-san-francisco-los-angeles/60181448#">reported</a> yesterday.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">California bullet train project needs another $100 billion to complete<br /> route from San Francisco to Los Angeles </span></b><br /></p>
<p>If you want some of the grim details, I’ve excerpted a few sections of the story.</p>
<blockquote><p>California’s mega high-speed rail project between San
Francisco to Los Angeles also faces major funding hurdles, the project’s
CEO Brian Kelly told state lawmakers… Kelly told lawmakers the
project…was still a few billion dollars short to complete the Central
Valley segment between Merced and Bakersfield. …Project leaders estimate
it will still need an additional $100 billion to finish what voters
were originally pitched in 2008: a bullet train that runs between San
Francisco and Los Angeles. A timeline on its completion has not been
set.</p></blockquote>
<p>Here’s some additional analysis on this absurd boondoggle.</p>
<p>Charles Lane of the <i>Washington Post</i> <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/10/12/california-high-speed-rail-nightmare/">opined</a> on the California project in 2022. Here’s some of what he wrote.</p>
<blockquote><p><a href="https://freedomandprosperity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Mar-14-24-Post-Title.jpg"><img class="alignright" height="40" src="https://freedomandprosperity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Mar-14-24-Post-Title.jpg" width="216" /></a> <br /></p></blockquote><blockquote><p>Originally touted as a sub-three-hour link between San
Francisco and Los Angeles, this mega-project has not carried a single
passenger in the 14 years since the state committed to building it. It
has made a lot of public money disappear, though: more than $10
billion…the public was told to expect completion by 2020.
…Early on, France’s national railroad company ended its bid to help
develop the California line and went somewhere with less red tape:
Morocco. …At this point, the best thing for California might be to cut
the project’s losses and abandon it. Yes, this would leave in place
several massive concrete structures that have been completed. Passersby
could look on them as monuments to magical thinking about
infrastructure.</p></blockquote>
<p>That same year, the <i>Wall Street Journal</i> <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/californias-laughing-rail-stock-high-speed-rail-authority-105-billion-11644444340">editorialized</a> about throwing good money after bad.</p>
<blockquote><p><a href="https://freedomandprosperity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Mar-14-24-WSJ-Title.jpg"><img class="alignright" height="44" src="https://freedomandprosperity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Mar-14-24-WSJ-Title.jpg" width="185" /></a> <br /></p></blockquote><blockquote><p>California Democrats once hoped that their 500-mile
bullet train from Los Angeles to San Francisco would be a high-speed
rail model for the nation. It’s a model, all right—in how politics can
drive public works off the rails. …The
California High-Speed Rail Authority this week increased its cost
estimate for the bullet train to $105 billion from $100 billion two
years ago. In 2008 when voters approved $10 billion in bonds for the
choo-choo, the estimated price tag was a mere $40 billion. That’s enough
to have built 10 large water reservoirs in the parched state. This
latest $5 billion doesn’t even account for rapidly rising material and
labor costs.</p></blockquote>
<p>Last but not least, the folks at <i>Reason</i> (who have <a href="https://danieljmitchell.wordpress.com/2011/05/16/dissecting-obamas-high-speed-rail-boondoggle-and-other-transportation-nightmares/">a long track record of being right</a> on this issue) published a we-told-you-so column.</p>
<p>Here are excerpts from Matt Welch’s <a href="https://reason.com/2022/10/13/we-told-you-why-and-how-californias-high-speed-rail-wouldnt-work-you-chose-not-to-listen/">article</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p><a href="https://freedomandprosperity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Mar-14-24-Reason.jpg"><img class="alignright" height="39" src="https://freedomandprosperity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Mar-14-24-Reason.jpg" width="238" /></a> <br /></p></blockquote><blockquote><p>The infamous, $113-billion-and-counting California
high-speed rail line between San Francisco and Los Angeles, which was
supposed to be completed by 2020 for a cost of $33 billion yet has only
begun tinkering on a 171-mile stretch in the Central Valley…there never
has been, at any stage of this living monument to political
unseriousness and hubris, even
a “little chance” that the S.F.-L.A. line would zip passengers between
the cities in just 160 minutes, let alone deliver on the whole ragbag of
laugh-out-loud promises that the state and federal political
establishment delivered with a straight face. …There is a point to
rehashing these old arguments beyond saying <i>we told you so</i>. The
fact is, these reality-based objections were widely known at the time.
It’s just that the people who otherwise fashion themselves as serious
thinkers about public policy made the conscious choice to jettison
rationality in favor of pie-in-the-sky dreaming.</p></blockquote>
<p>Sadly, this is not just a problem for California taxpayers.</p>
<p>People from every other state are coughing up a lot of money to finance this boondoggle.</p>
<p>One very obvious lesson, therefore, is to get the federal government <a href="https://danieljmitchell.wordpress.com/2011/04/23/bad-news-for-barack-obama-tom-friedman-and-other-statists-who-want-to-use-taxpayer-money-to-play-with-trains/">out of the high-speed rail business</a>, <a href="https://danieljmitchell.wordpress.com/2021/04/03/the-boondoggle-of-long-distance-passenger-rail/">out of the long-distance rail business</a>, <a href="https://danieljmitchell.wordpress.com/2021/07/28/there-should-be-no-federal-funding-for-mass-transit/">out of the mass-transit business</a>, and <a href="https://danieljmitchell.wordpress.com/2015/08/19/get-washington-out-of-the-business-of-redistributing-and-wasting-transportation-dollars/">out of the transportation business</a>.</p><div class="posttitle">
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<p>California has led the nation in a climate-saving push for EV
tractor-trailer trucks to replace diesel power. Fiction eventually runs
aground on reality, in this case the economic, environmental, and
scientific facts that were ignored by the California Legislature when it
implemented impossible mandates for gleaming fleets of EV trucks.
Despite glowing visions of clean power, transitioning the nation’s semi
fleet to EVs could simultaneously bankrupt the country financially and
the Earth environmentally.</p>
<p>The Golden State’s ambitious 2022 regulatory mandates require all new
cars, trucks, and SUVs sold in the region to produce “zero” emissions
by 2035. Many states have followed suit, adding massive federal subsidy
carrots and EPA tailpipe emission sticks. The illusion that these
vehicles create “zero” emissions is rapidly dissolving as the
environmental impacts of manufacturing and disposal are considered. Even
if EVs were climate-saving rather than climate-destroying, the economic
and logistical limitations of these fantastical mandates guarantee
there will be no comprehensive EV truck fleet in California by 2035 –
and probably never.</p>
<h2>A Sisyphian Plan</h2>
<p>California’s hasty collage of environmental policies falters on
several inconvenient but insurmountable truths. The electric grid cannot
handle the load. The input materials required to comply with the
mandates cannot be procured. The astronomical costs are
economy-destroying. And when the true expenses of externalized pollution
are calculated, EV trucks do not measure up to promised environmental
gains.</p>
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</a>The nation’s electric grid, a necessary infrastructure to charge the new EV semis, is <a href="https://www.libertynation.com/renewables-threaten-the-us-power-grid/" target="_blank">fragile</a>,
insufficient to carry the additional burden and competes with other
growing demands for electricity from data centers and renewables
manufacturing facilities. Energy is required to source and mine the
material to build the trucks, energize them on the road, and break them
down to reclaim the materials at disposal. Heavy batteries reduce
truck-carrying capacity, meaning many more EV trucks are required to
replace an equal fleet capacity of diesel vehicles – more trucks, more
energy, and more clogged freeways. If actually achieved, California’s
plan would increase electricity demand just for EV trucks by an
estimated 57%. A single truck charging station is predicted to draw as
much electricity as 5,000 homes.</p>
<p>The manufacturing inputs necessary to construct imagined EV trucks
were apparently ignored when California lawmakers decided to run the
economy by fantasy. Much like mandating universal incomes without
economic resources, EV truck fleets cannot be magically created from
thin air and a rosy pipe dream. A study by the American Transportation
Research Institute (ATRI) suggests that implementing California’s plan
nationally (as envisioned by the Biden administration and the
multi-state regulatory push for implementation) would require “tens of
millions of tons of cobalt, graphite, lithium and nickel … that would
take as much as 35 years at current global production rates and nearly
65% of global reserves of these minerals.” That’s a lot of mining and
transportation – the rare earth industry had better get truckin’!</p>
<h2>Unaffordable Diktats</h2>
<p>Economic reality is mathematically grounding despite vain
technocratic visions. The costs of all those rare materials mean the
price of an EV truck is approximately double that of a traditional semi
and the per-mile energy cost once on the road. Truck fleets operating on
slim margins will have to spike rates sharply just to break even. Rates
for all electric customers will skyrocket precipitously: The California
Public Utility Commission increased electric rates for the state’s
largest utility by 13% in 2023 (half of the 26% revenue increase
requested by the utility to meet infrastructure needs).</p>
<p>The inflationary impacts of this EV truck boondoggle have gone
unconsidered, but the impacts on consumers will be enormous. To install
the charging stations for EV trucks alone would cost the nation an
estimated $35 billion. Perhaps California will incur that debt to
augment its current massive deficit, but the US deficit is already
bloated by the oxymoronically monikered Inflation Reduction Act, which
was largely a grocery list of renewable energy and EV spending projects.
The fact that non-renewable, <a href="https://www.libertynation.com/al-gore-blasts-oil-and-coal-producers-at-world-climate-summit/" target="_blank">coal-plant</a>-dependent,
polluting EVs are profoundly regressive and disproportionately burden
working-class Americans does not bode well for economic health.</p>
<h2>EV Trucks Have No Clothes</h2>
<p>The list of insurmountable realities that evaded California’s naked
emperors in fashioning pie-in-the-sky EV truck mandates demonstrates
that ideological whimsy, no matter how sincere, cannot overcome reality:
The impossible fantasy <i>pollutes more than it saves</i>.</p>
<p>A 2023 study by the Manhattan Institute determined that EVs require
far more upfront emissions to manufacture than conventional vehicles,
that many modern gasoline-powered engines emit very little particulate
matter, and that EVs burn through tire rubber much faster. These
problems are amplified when applied to trucks (or tractors). The
ubiquitous cacophony that EVs necessarily reduce carbon emissions is in
serious doubt. The study notes:</p>
<blockquote><p>“Accurately estimating the actual quantities of specific
fuels used is complicated by the labyrinth of global suppliers and the
lack of transparency with many of the companies. Without knowing all
that, no one knows the ultimate real-world emissions from making an EV…</p>
<p>“The realistic potential of 43 tons of upstream emissions combined
with operating realities of 24 tons of downstream emissions (over a
vehicle lifetime) yields a total of 67 tons of EV CO2. This is 15% more
than the 59-ton baseline for a comparable gasoline-fueled SUV.”</p></blockquote>
<p>The inconvenient paradox of California’s mandates for EV trucks is
that they likely do not spare the planet more carbon dioxide – let alone
the toxins spewed from mines, the <a href="https://www.libertynation.com/novel-lithium-extraction-method-unveiled-in-utah/" target="_blank">lithium</a>
batteries with no plan for recycling or disposal, the flickering
electric grid, or the plunging of the marginalized into deeper
marginalization.</p>
<p>It is to be hoped that in view of the myriad real-life impediments
blocking their best-fantasized plans, EV emperors will glance in the
mirror and pick up some fig leaves.</p>
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<p>It’s hard to ignore a Kennedy, which is what the Democratic Party is
finding out with less than eight months to go until Election Day. The
presidential aspirations of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. – or RFK Jr., as he is
often known – are turning out to be the fly at the picnic that won’t go
away. And Democrats, as well as members of the iconic Kennedy clan, are
becoming exasperated by his atypical candidacy – exemplified by
floating the name of controversial New York Jets quarterback Aaron
Rodgers recently as a potential running mate. So it comes as no surprise
they are bringing out the heavy artillery to push him back into their
little imaginary Camelot that has been coming apart at the seams ever
since the grieving Jackie Kennedy created the metaphor.</p>
<p>That RFK Jr. is a <a class="c-link" data-sk="tooltip_parent" data-stringify-link="https://www.libertynation.com/robert-f-kennedy-jr-longshot-gadfly-or-contender/" href="https://www.libertynation.com/robert-f-kennedy-jr-longshot-gadfly-or-contender/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">threat</a>
to the sitting president becomes more apparent with each passing poll.
Of the last dozen, 11 show Republican nominee Donald Trump kicking Joe
Biden’s derriere by a high of eight points to a low of one in a
three-way match-up. Just one has Biden up by two. Meanwhile, the
70-year-old Kennedy continues his bid to become the next president of
the United States or — at the very least – spoiler-in-chief.</p>
<h2>RFK Jr. Once Met a Girl Named Maria</h2>
<p>A recurrent optic from the State of the Union address is Jill Biden
and Maria Shriver clasping hands in victory. It was a photo that did not
need a caption and signified for everyone with a dysfunctional family
that they are not alone. Shriver, RFK Jr.’s first cousin, is hardly the
only Kennedy backing Biden’s re-election. No less than three members of
his extended family serve the president in official capacities: Nephew
Joe is a special envoy to Northern Ireland, cousin Caroline is the US
ambassador to Australia, and widow of his Uncle Ted, Victoria Reggie
Kennedy, is ambassador to Austria.</p>
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<p>It’s nothing new for Kennedys to avail themselves of the Democratic
Party gravy train, but their vociferous support for Biden over a member
of their own family does appear more than a bit tawdry. But then again,
it could be said – beginning with Grandpa Joe – <span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">that the Kennedys come
from a long line of tawdry types. F</span>ast forward to today, and some
members of RFK Jr.’s family can’t queue up fast enough to denounce a
member of the clan. Cousin Jack Schlossberg (Caroline Kennedy’s son)
couldn’t resist the temptation to speak out on his Instagram account. He
stuck in the knife by saying, “He’s trading in on Camelot, celebrity,
conspiracy theories, and conflict for personal gain and fame,” then,
twisting deeper, “I’ve listened to him. I know him. I have no idea why
anyone thinks he should be president.”</p>
<p>However, RFK Jr. does not need his family to trash him, because the
media is stepping all over one another to do him dirty. The ubiquitous <i>Rolling Stone </i>magazine
recently wrote about the “Trump megadonors, venture capitalists, and
celebrities” who are backing Kennedy ostensibly to assist the former
president in vanquishing Biden.</p>
<p><i>Rolling Stone </i>claims that Kennedy megadonors like Timothy
Mellon, Papa John Pizza CEO John Schnatter, and financier Omeed Malik
are pouring millions into an RFK Jr. political action committee for the
express purpose of aiding and abetting Trump’s goal to regain the
presidency. Whether this is true or not doesn’t appear to faze Kennedy
or hinder him in his quest for the highest office in the land — an
office that his father sought when he was cut down by an assassin’s
bullet.</p>
<p>Anticipating a three-way race in some of these battleground states has <a href="https://www.libertynation.com/flyover-folk-discuss-a-kennedy-backlash-and-the-death-of-feinstein/" target="_blank">Democrats</a>
working overtime to delegitimize RFK Jr.’s candidacy. To date, the
ostracized Kennedy has enough support to get on the ballots in Nevada,
Utah, New Hampshire, and Hawaii. More importantly, he’s expected to gain
enough signatures in Georgia, South Carolina, and Arizona to have his
name appear along with Biden and Trump. Not only that, but should he
decide to take a walk on the wild side and go libertarian, the
Libertarian Party is a one-stop-shop for ballot access in all 50 states.</p>
<p>Such as it is, there are still options aplenty for the son of Robert
F. Kennedy as his political power begins to ramp up despite all the
vitriol coming from the Democratic Party apparatchiks, their media
satraps, and members of his extended family. In a way, the fact that RFK
Jr. doesn’t seem to care what these three communities say about him
represents something much more significant than faded parallels to
Camelot.</p>
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I'm not all that big a fan of videos discussing major social issues. I prefer written information for a couple of reason. I read so much I have a good idea of what going to be said, and I scan really well, missing little.</p><p>As a result I can quickly find the gold nuggets of information easily and quickly. With videos, I have to sit through the whole spiel to find a nugget of gold, and often times, there aren't any. And, while I have watched some really excellent analysts, most of the time I find they're just boring time wasting entertainers pretending to be journalists and analysts.</p><p></p><p>But today I received a TikTok video
via e-mail from a friend I thought was really worthwhile. This is a bit dated as it goes back to 2022, and some of the information is reflective of that time frame. I'm not exactly sure who originated this but it appears this was on TikTok by <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@the1sassynana">the1sassynana Donna DeLong Matthews DDM</a>, who seems to have a lot of these things, some of them "violating their community standards", including this video, and removed. Imagine that!</p><p>So I can't link it, and I also don't how it could be reproduced and sent to me, but it has. Also, I didn't research the information regarding Walmart, but I'm willing to bet most of that information, if not all, is correct. </p><p>Here's my conversion from video to print, the cartoon was added in my monologue. <br /></p><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Americans spend 36 billion dollars at Walmart in every hour of every day. That works out to 29,929 dollars profit every minute. </li><li>
Walmart will sell more from January one to St. Patrick’s Day on March 17th than Target sells all year. </li><li>
Walmart is bigger than Home Depot, Kroger, Target, Sears, Costco, and Kmart combined. </li><li>
Walmart employs 1.6 million people the world’s largest private employer and most speak English.</li><li>
Walmart is the largest company in the history of the world.</li><li>
Walmart sells more food than Kroger and Safeway. combined, and keep in mind, they did all this in only 15 years. </li><li>
During this time 31 supermarket chains sought bankruptcy. </li><li>
Walmart now sells more food than any other store in the world.</li><li>
Walmart now has 3900 stores in the USA of which 1906 are super centers, this is one thousand more than they had five years ago.</li><li>
This year 7.2 billion purchasing experiences will occur at Walmart, the Earth’s population is 6.5 billion.</li><li>Ninety percent of all Americans live within fifteen miles of Walmart.</li></ul></div><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">
You may think I’m complaining, but I’m merely laying the groundwork for suggesting we should hire the guys who run Walmart to fix the U.S. economy. This should be heard and understood by all Americans, Democrats, Republicans, and Independents, everyone! </p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">To all 435 members of Congress, and the 100 members of the Senate, the majority of you are corrupt morons.
Consider your record and reflect on your performance:</p><ul style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><li>The U.S. Postal Service was established in 1775. You’ve had 247 years to get it right and It’s broke. Stamps cost 53 cents and may be going up in November to 66. </li><li>
Social Security established in 1935. You’ve had 87 years to get it right, and it’s broke. </li><li>
Fannie Mae was established in 1938, and it’s broke.</li><li>
The war on poverty started in 1964, you’ve had 58 years go get it right. It never went anywhere and you stole from our Social Security Fund as one trillion dollars of our money is confiscated every year to transfer to the poor, and you want more.</li><li>
Medicare and Medicaid was established in 1965. You’ve had 57 years to get it right, and they’re broke. </li><li>
Freddie Mac was established in 1970. You’ve had 52 years go get it right and it’s broke.</li><li>
The Department of Energy was created in 1977 to lesson our independence on foreign oil. It has now ballooned to 16,000 employees, with a budget of 24 billion dollars a year and we’re importing more oil than ever. You’ve had 45 years to get it right and it’s an abysmal failure.</li><li>
You have failed in every government service you’ve shoved down our thoughts while over spending our tax dollars. </li></ul><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">We have a President who has 36 years as a U.S. Senator, and eight years as Vice President. A President who promised to build back better. Our current President is the epitome of a corrupt career politician. We elected an immoral, unethical free loader that never had a plan except to live on the public dole. A scoundrel who bends to the wave of political whims, who can’t even finish a sentence without losing his train of thought. </p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">And you want Americans to believe you can be trusted with a government run anything. </p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">Folks, keep this circulating maybe it will end up in the e-mails of elected officials. They never read anything, but maybe their staff will clue them in on how Americans feel. If you don’t think we don’t need to drain the swamp then you just don’t think. And please try to understand just what’s wrong. We have lost our minds on career politicians and political correctness. Someone please tell me what the hell is wrong with the people who run this country. </p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">We’re out begging Venezuela for oil, we’re broke, we can’t help our own seniors, veterans, orphans, or homeless. While in the last months we have provided aid to Haiti, Chili, Turkey, and we’re funding the world climate change, and now NATO, Afghanistan, Ukraine, Pakistan, previous home of Osama bin Laden, literally billions of dollars. </p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">Our retired seniors living on a fixed income receive no aid as our Southern border is overrun by illegals. America, where we have homeless without shelter, children going to bed hungry, elderly going without needed meds and many go without treatment. We can’t take proper care of our citizens while our illegals get everything free. They’re put up in hotels, they have free meals, health care, cash. Imagine if the government gave us the same support they’re give to illegals and other countries. </p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">Albert Einstein once said the difference between genius and stupid is genius has it’s limits. </p><p style="text-align: left;"><b>Updates: </b> I thought it would be a good idea to add appropriate links: <br /></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li style="text-align: left;"><a data-wpel-link="external" href="https://thefederalist.com/2024/03/14/hhs-secretary-refuses-to-explain-why-americans-should-pay-for-illegals-healthcare/" target="_blank">HHS Secretary Refuses to Explain Why “Hardworking Americans” Should Pay for Illegal Aliens’ Healthcare</a></li><li style="text-align: left;"><a data-wpel-link="external" href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/as-inflation-persists-media-doubles-down-on-calling-americans-dumb-for-noticing/" target="_blank">Leftist Media: It’s Not That the Economy Is Bad, It’s That Americans Are Too Dumb to Understand How Good It Is</a></li><li style="text-align: left;"><a data-wpel-link="external" href="https://www.westernjournal.com/gas-prices-become-huge-headache-biden-experts/" target="_blank">Gas Prices Are About to Become a Huge Headache for Dementia Joe</a></li><li><a data-wpel-link="external" href="https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/03/palm-beach-county-sheriff-destroys-federal-government-following/" target="_blank">Sheriff Slams the Biden-Harris Regime Following Arrest of Three Illegal Aliens for Kidnapping and Assault</a></li></ul><p style="text-align: left;"> </p>Rich Kozlovichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13745960671409518147noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2556326304729519232.post-86514469643140721702024-03-14T05:11:00.001-04:002024-03-14T05:21:43.654-04:00Robert Hur Testimony Did Not Exonerate Joe Biden<p><i>Despite Democrat efforts, the special counsel did not let Biden off the hook.</i> </p><p>By
<a href="https://www.libertynation.com/author/graham-j-noble/" rel="author" title="Posts by Graham J Noble">Graham J Noble</a> | <span class="published">Mar 13, 2024</span> <span style="color: #660000;"><b><a href="https://www.libertynation.com/robert-hur-testimony-did-not-exonerate-joe-biden/"><span style="color: #660000;">@Liberty Nation News</span></a></b></span>, Tags: <a href="https://www.libertynation.com/articles/" rel="category tag">Articles</a>, <a href="https://www.libertynation.com/liberty-rewind/" rel="category tag">Good Reads</a>, <a href="https://www.libertynation.com/opinion/" rel="category tag">Opinion</a>, <a href="https://www.libertynation.com/politics/" rel="category tag">Politics</a></p><p>Three
questions dominated Special Counsel Robert Hur’s March 12 testimony on
Capitol Hill regarding his investigation of Joe Biden’s mishandling of
classified documents: Were crimes committed – more specifically, was
there an intent to commit an act that violates federal law? Why did the
special counsel not recommend future criminal charges? Why has former
President Donald Trump been indicted for retaining classified documents
when neither Biden nor any past presidents – many of whom did the same
thing – face a similar fate? The Hur testimony answered the first two
questions unequivocally – as does his report. The answer to the third
question is still something of a head-scratcher.</p>
<p>Hur was careful to stick to what appeared in his report. At times,
that strategy – which was entirely proper – stymied both the Republicans
and the Democrats present at the hearing. One notable way in which
Democrats attempted to elicit from Hur an opinion not included in his
report concerned the matter of whether <a href="https://www.libertynation.com/biden-scandals-might-outdo-every-other-president/" target="_blank">Joe Biden</a>
had committed a crime or crimes. More than one member of the House
minority tried to get the special counsel to concede that he did not
recommend criminal charges because he had found no evidence of unlawful
activity. That was not the case, though, and Hur did not take the bait.</p>
<h2>Charging Decision Explained in Hur Testimony</h2>
<p>It was a point Hur was compelled to make several times: His decision
not to recommend charges was not wholly based upon a lack of evidence
but rather on the probability of the government getting a conviction in a
jury trial. Hur deemed that possibility to be very low – in large part
because he believed Biden, in some future trial when he is no longer in
office, would come across as an elderly man with a failing memory, a
sympathetic character unlikely to be condemned by a jury.</p>
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</a>The special counsel did agree that there was an element of intent –
of willfulness – to Biden’s retention of government documents spanning
his almost five decades of public service. The current
commander-in-chief did disclose sensitive information – material that
may have been classified – to his ghostwriter. Hur conceded, during
questioning by Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), that Biden was motivated to
retain documents to cement his legacy as a statesman – principally, in
the form of a book for which, according to Jordan, Biden received an $8
million advance. Thus, willful intent was present.</p>
<p>This point exposed one of the few discrepancies between the Hur
testimony and the final special counsel report, which did indeed cite a
lack of evidence of willful intent beyond reasonable doubt. One might
suggest that it seems Biden was afforded quite a bit of leeway: Intent
existed, but not enough – or not obvious enough – to warrant a criminal
charge. How many people serving prison sentences today would be free if
they had been afforded such a defense?</p>
<h2>Trump vs Biden Cases: The Same but Different?</h2>
<p>During the hearing – and indeed within the pages of Hur’s report,
curiously – certain comparisons were made between Biden’s handling of
classified information and Donald Trump’s. As <b><i>Liberty Nation</i></b>
predicted, there were attempts from both sides of the aisle to get Hur
to discuss the differences or similarities between the two
investigations and the special counsel declined to discuss details of
the Trump case.</p>
<p>In the matter of Special Counsel Jack Smith’s prosecution of Trump,
Democrats leaned hard into the alleged efforts by the 45th president to
defy requests to turn over documents and to otherwise obstruct the
government’s efforts to recover those materials. The argument – which
does appear to be borne out by the known facts – is that Biden took no
such actions and instead cooperated with federal authorities. That
doesn’t alter the fact that Trump is the only former president to even
be questioned or challenged on his removal of materials when he left
office. He is the only former president to be indicted for retaining
documents.</p>
<p>Whether he is guilty of obstruction or not, it seems that Trump was
singled out to be held accountable for keeping government documents –
something the National Archives and the Department of Justice have
acknowledged every president at least as far back as Ronald Reagan has
done. Had the issue of documents not been raised – as it had not been
raised to any previous president – then none of the other alleged
actions would have taken place. In fact, if Trump had been left alone,
then Hur’s testimony and his <a href="https://www.libertynation.com/transcript-of-bidens-interview-with-the-special-counsels-office-read-in-full/" target="_blank">investigation</a> of Biden would not have happened.</p>
<p>The bottom line is that neither Trump nor Biden should have been the
subject of investigations for doing what so many former presidents – and
probably many other government officials – have done for decades.</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><b>Editor's Note</b><i>: This last sentence is incorrect. The President of the United States is the ultimate classifying authority, and his mere possession of classified material declassifies them as a matter of law. Joe Biden wasn't President of the United States when he stole all those classified documents. He had no classifying authority as Vice President, in effect, he held all those documents illegally, not so for Donald Trump<b>.</b></i><i> </i></p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><i>Trump being investigated was blatantly political, with no legitimate legal standing. In Biden's case it isn't political, because he did commit crimes by stealing classified documents. Legally he should be investigated, and if there's a political downfall for that, so be it. But make no mistake, Biden most assuredly should be investigated, as he's actually committed crimes.</i> <b> RK</b> <br /></p>
<p>Still, it was clear that Democrats were on the defensive during the
hearing, even going so far as to suggest the special counsel
deliberately trashed Biden in his report so that he might be rewarded
with a federal judgeship, should Donald Trump again become president.
Though he did not let his professional demeanor slip, one could imagine
that the irony of Democrats accusing others of conducting politically
motivated investigations was not lost on Hur.</p>
<p>The Hur testimony did not exonerate Biden – and the special counsel,
in answer to one question, made it clear that the word did not appear
anywhere in his report (an attorney’s way of saying, no, he is not
exonerated). The report of the investigation points to several possible
“innocent explanations” for why Biden might have found himself with
classified documents. In short, Biden has been granted the benefit of
the doubt – something Trump has not enjoyed for a second from the moment
he first decided to run for president.</p>
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knew it was going to happen. It was always a matter not of if but when.
And sure enough, energized by big media gushing over his wrathful State
of the Union address, Joe Biden is taking it to the limit on Donald
Trump. Employing the only argument he has left – other than defending
the right to terminate the unborn up to the point of birth – the
president has upped the ante on the left’s single-minded obsession with
January 6, releasing a scurrilous ad with flashing images of Trump
adjacent to those of white-hooded marchers from the Ku Klux Klan.</p>
<p>Where to begin? For starters, this re-opens the discussion about the
long ties between the Republican Party and that vile racist
organization. Oh, wait – it was actually the <i>Democratic</i> Party
of yore who invited and embraced the rise of the KKK – symbolized by a
screening in the White House of the infamous racist film <i>Birth of a Nation</i>
by Democratic President Woodrow Wilson, himself an open racist. But
undergirded by a media entirely incurious about any history that might
cast doubt on the moral superiority of the left, Biden can release this
ad with impunity, hoping against hope that the only desperate argument
he has left in his quiver is the one voters will swallow.</p>
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</a>At the same time, to say the left has beaten the dead horse of
January 6 might rate as the understatement of the year. If the
Trump-as-dictator narrative were a cat with nine lives, all nine would
have been expended by now. Everybody in the United States of America has
had over three years to process and form their own view of J6. To lead
with that argument is a clear demonstration that Biden is <a href="https://www.libertynation.com/how-trump-can-return-to-the-white-house-without-really-trying/" target="_blank">flat-out</a> desperate – and actually hurting his own cause by admitting he has nothing else to offer.</p>
<p>He has tried and failed to <a href="https://www.libertynation.com/the-biden-bubble-bursts-what-the-heck-do-democrats-do-now/" target="_blank">gaslight</a>
the American people by saying their growing financial woes are an
illusion; that “Bidenomics” is a godsend; that the open border is
actually closed; that migrants are not really overrunning one city after
another; and that crime is under control despite the reality of one
hollowed-out city after another. Hell, the National Guard has now been
dispatched to the New York City Subway system.</p>
<h2>Biden and the Low Bar</h2>
<p>It is borderline laughable to believe that one angry,
adrenaline-induced rant shouted from the rooftops will suddenly change
the well-formed minds of Americans. The voters have made crystal clear
in overwhelming numbers their belief that Joe Biden is hardly up to the
job. The reaction of relief and giddiness on the left about the SOTU –
after setting the bar low enough that any outcome other than a physical
collapse would be deemed wildly successful – belies the reality that
lies below, that few beyond the Biden family believe he can continue to
handle the most powerful leadership position in the nation, if not the
world. Those who continue to argue that he is up to the job are
evidently just lifelong Democrats or Never-Trumpers who, in the actual
words of more than one leftist, would vote for a dead Biden over a live
Trump.</p>
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<p>If, as appears likely, the anti-Trump argument alone proves
insufficient, Biden will be forced to rely on a legal system so
exploited by the left that it has spawned a brand-new word: lawfare,
i.e. replacing voters with prosecutors and judges – a genuine
replacement theory. It makes one nostalgic for the good old days when
elections used to be decided at the ballot box. But now, the people can
no longer be trusted to make an acceptable decision, so we must deny
them the right to make it – just as we must deny parental rights
accepted since about, say, the time of Adam and Eve on issues from
abortion to transgenderism. In fact, the only cultural issue where the
left believes in choice – as opposed to making everything else either
mandatory or forbidden – is the right to end the life of a child before
it even begins, most often for convenience, i.e. the sustenance of a
“lifestyle,” devoid of any responsibility for the fact they were
impregnated in the first place – as if it was a divine curse.</p>
<p>It is getting tiring to make arguments that, a mere decade ago even
in the midst of the Obama era, would have been so obvious and
self-evident that it would be a waste of space to even fantasize about
them. But now, there are self-described progressives who <i>actually believe</i>
– or say they do – that pre-pubescent children should be free to change
genders on demand, that men can give birth, or that defunding police
will restore justice, among other arguments that should rightly be
laughed off the stage but have entered the mainstream of political
discussion.</p>
<h2>Biden’s Fatal Error</h2>
<p>As the declared winner of a tightly-contested presidential election,
Biden has abandoned any commitment to the unity he so bragged about in
his 2020 campaign and inaugural address. In fact, it would not be an
exaggeration to say he has pulled a political bait-and-switch, governing
as if he had been handed a mandate to scandalize and bury the America
First movement and transform the country into a socialist paradise. He
stood by as his increasingly radical party attempted to expand the
Supreme Court to assure a progressive majority, turn left-wing
territories into states, and ram through federal laws that would cement
the pandemic-era voting laws designed specifically to benefit Democrats.</p>
<p>In the end, Biden and his fellow travelers have made a fatal
miscalculation. They reacted as if the right-wing extremism they
perceive in Trump must be met not with moderating, center-left
solutions, but with far more radical left-wing extremism. And now it is
too little, too late to try and convince the electorate that Biden and
company have changed their ways – on illegal immigration, crime,
defunding the police, and all the other issues where Biden is well
underwater – just in time for the election. The voters are not that
stupid. On top of Biden’s palpable weakness and broad public
disapproval, the flawed strategy of going hard left has the party
gasping for air as it approaches the reckoning of November 5.</p>
<p>As Donald Trump continues his march to reclaim the White House, he
could learn from a critical observation by Richard Nixon. The 37th
president was nothing if not a crafty politician who himself pulled off
perhaps the greatest political comeback of all time, rising from the
ashes of “you won’t have Nixon to kick around anymore” to the presidency
years later. And he once intoned a view that has mostly held up over
time: when there is a movement that is anti-anybody, the one they’re
organizing against will win. Donald Trump certainly hopes that
time-tested axiom holds true once more against an opponent with nothing
more to offer an exhausted citizenry than the vision of a fantastical
hellscape replete with white-hooded thugs certain to be unleashed if his
evil opponent is allowed to return to the Oval Office.</p>
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