The Greenfield Gazette

By Daniel Greenfield @ The Point 

While Biden Fundraises in Texas, Illegal Aliens Attack Border -March 22, 2024 - “100 migrants broke through razor wire and knocked over guards.”After years of denouncing the term “invasion” as fearmongering and claiming that the mass invasion of America by millions of illegal aliens is just “migration” by “refugees” suffering from “root causes” like poverty, we’re seeing the reality here. Tellingly this is happening to the Texas National Guard, not the federal authorities who have been ordered to keep the border open, because they’re actually trying to secure the border............

The Islamist Transformation of Ohio in One Video -  March 21, 2024 - Open borders is just the first step. This is the next step. If you’re wondering why they’re wearing blue, that’s the color of the Somali flag. Rep. Ismail Mohammed was one of the state legislators whom the Freedom Center covered in our Election Jihad report..............

Ex-CIA, UN Firm Backed by Hamas Sponsor Linked to Gaza Pier Project -  March 21, 2024 - “We look forward to the port transitioning to a commercially operated facility over time.”Last week, I wrote that Biden’s announcement of a two-month project to build a pier to transport aid to Gaza was a “trojan pier” that made no sense.“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. And the spokesman responded with a confusing word salad because he had no good answer..............

We Need Chinese Products to Fight a War With China - March 21, 2024 -  “Among the deficiencies: components of solid rocket motors, shell casings, machine tools” Between the “peace dividend” and “outsourcing”, our defense industry is reliant on Chinese products.  But a swift response may not be possible, in large part because of how shrunken the U.S. manufacturing base has become since the Cold War. All of a sudden, Washington is reckoning with the fact that so many parts and pieces of munitions, planes, and ships it needs are being manufactured overseas, including in China. Among the deficiencies: components of solid rocket motors, shell casings, machine tools, fuses and precursor elements to propellants and explosives, many of which are made in China and India. There’s nothing sudden about this...........

Biden Demands Majority of Americans Buy Electric Cars They Can’t Afford - March 21, 2024 - Most Americans oppose it.   The EV sales plan crashed and burned. It was always based on the lie that the majority of Americans would be able to afford electric vehicles.  They could not and would not...........

Gen. Milley: “I Don’t Know the Exact Number of Americans That Were Left Behind” - March 20, 2024  - Miley took his disputes with Trump public when no lives were at stake and kept his private with Biden when lives were at stake. We have court martialed men for less, but there’s no accountability at the top.At the Congressional hearing on Biden’s disastrous Afghanistan disaster, Gen. Milley showed the presence of mind and command of detail that he was famous for. “I’ll be candid, I don’t know the exact number of Americans that were left behind, because the starting number was never clear,” Milley admitted. “Same is true of at-risk Afghans, SIVs the commandos, other Afghans that served with us — those numbers varied so widely that they were quite inaccurate.” The upshot of the testimony from Milley and Gen. McKenzie is that the whole thing was a mess because of the State Department which refused to evacuate until the last minute....................

Illiterate Kids Will Go to School to Learn Nothing in Electric Buses -  March 20, 2024 - Finally, there’s some good news out of the Bronx.  here was a time when the Bronx was known for literary giants like Edgar Allan Poe, James Baldwin, Mark Twain, Mary Higgins Clark and Stan Lee amongst others. Today, the Bronx has the lowest literacy rate across the five boroughs and, until recently, no bookstores.  Oh wait, not that good news. This good news. Mayor Eric Adams announced Monday kids in the Bronx will be saying goodbye to diesel school buses and hello to 180 new electric ones. Due to a $77 million federal grant, the Federal Bipartisan Infrastructure law is quadrupling the number of electric buses already present in the city. It’s also funding the nation’s first-ever electric truck charging depot to be placed at the Hunts Point Market..............

Sen. Schumer Attacks Trump’s Comments on Israel - March 20, 2024 - ‘Jews for Hamas’ strike back.  After Sen. Schumer took to the floor to the Senate floor to claim that Israel, along with Hamas was an obstacle to peace, and to threaten that unless there was regime change and a terror state in Israel, there would be sanctions, he’s back complaining about President Trump’s comments. So is the rest of the ‘Jews for Hamas’ caucus. Including the No. 2’s number two.

Biden Admin Denies, Confirms It Doesn’t Want Israel to Defeat Hamas March 19, 2024 “That’s just nonsense.”  The Biden administration has continued rolling out a pressure campaign against Israel in order to save Hamas. The despicable Schumer speech was just one prong of a larger effort that includes political and economic pressure, as well as implicit threats of even worse things to come, even as the administration continues to lie about its goals and agendas. Here’s Biden’s National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan at a press conference claiming that Hamas can somehow be defeated without defeating it.........

It Takes the World’s Largest Plane to Deliver Green Energy Wind Turbine Blades - March 19, 2024 -  And specialized runways too.  Remember, we need to build solar panels and wind turbines for “clean green energy” to save the planet. Now those turbine blades are not really recyclable, have a limited shelf life and delivering them will require the world’s largest plane (which doesn’t run on wind or solar) and it will require special airport facilities.......

Anti-Racism Training Fails to Cure AI of Racism -  March 19, 2024 - What hate crimes did the AI commit? Racism is everywhere. Highways are racist. Milk is racist. AI is racist. And even trying to subject AI to struggle sessions doesn’t work. A small team of AI researchers from the Allen Institute for AI, Stanford University and the University of Chicago, all in the U.S., has found that dozens of popular large language models continue to use racist stereotypes even after they have been given anti-racism training. What hate crimes did the AI commit?.....

Supreme Court to Decide First Amendment is Null and Void - March 19, 2024 - Supreme Court Justice Kentanji Brown Jackson is getting some attention for stating that, “my biggest concern is that your view has the First Amendment hamstringing the government in significant ways.” But the only problem there is that Jackson was dumb enough to say the quiet part out loud in which the Supreme Court, notably including Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Kavanaugh appear to be leaning on the idea that the government has a right to tell companies to censor particular individuals for political reasons, as long as the government doesn’t do anything more than say it, without making further blatant threats to the company. Yes, Jackson is terrible, but consider the obnoxiousness of Justice Brett Kavanaugh, Justice Elena Kagan and Chief Justice John Roberts snickering together about the idea of government censorship.

Anybody notice what's going on in Taiwan?

By Monica Showalter  April 11, 2023

Call it the under-reported story of the year.  But if you're in Taiwan, you'd be mighty nervous, given that the Chinese navy is surrounding your entire island -- just as a military exercise, of course. According to the Washington Post:

TAIPEI, Taiwan — China’s newest aircraft carrier has for the first time practiced attacking Taiwan from the island’s east coast, demonstrating Beijing’s growing determination to project power beyond the Taiwan Strait and far into the Pacific Ocean, an area traditionally dominated by the United States and its regional allies.

Chinese saber-rattling in the Taiwan Strait, which is just 80 miles wide at its narrowest point, has become commonplace as the Communist Party under Xi Jinping becomes increasingly vehement about its intent to take control of the self-governed democracy.

But the three days of military exercises around Taiwan that concluded on Monday marked a change: They focused on dominating the air and sea in the western Pacific by simulating a carrier-based strike from the far side of the island, rather than the usual approach from the Taiwan Strait that separates the island from China.

Which is disturbing, not only because it shows China's capabilities from the far side of the island but because unlike other military exercises, which theoretically at least, are defensive, this one can only be a dress rehearsal to an offensive attack on the island. Already, there's been plenty of rhetoric about that possibility coming from China...................No one's pricing in an invasion in the western markets -- with this kind of activity going on and China's obvious military superiority an emerging issue as Gen. Mark Milley worries about pronouns and his own white supremacy privilege in the U.S. military..................To Read More....

Gen. Milley, who led the Afghanistan pullout, calls the China threat 'overheated'

April 3, 2023 By Monica Showalter

Nothing to see here, move along. So goes the thinking of Gen. Mark Milley, who 'distinguished' himself to Americans and everyone else with his 2021 Afghanistan pullout, speaking this time about China. According to Defense One, which got an exclusive:  Everyone needs to calm down about war with China, Gen. Mark Milley said on Friday. ......... Which, to paraphrase Chesterton, sounds like a guy running around with a firehose at a time of flood...............Along with his absurd caution in the face of any conflict, he's highly susceptible to over-reactions, too -- as when he called up his counterparts in Beijing and assured them during the messy U.S. presidential transition that if President Trump ordered China attacked, they should fear not, as he would give them advance warning..........To Read More....

My Take - Isn't this the guy who told the Chinese military he would tell them if Trump was going to attack?  Wow, now doesn't that just give you a truly confident, warm, and fuzzy feeling all over?  The fact is General Mark Milley is leading the charge in destroying America's military,

The Insurrection of General Milley

Daniel Greenfield January 12, 2023 @ Sultan Knish Blog 

“The riots over the summer, you know, I could make a case that those riots were riots organic to an aggrieved community that perceived that they had various injustices throughout their life,” General Mark A Milley told the J6 Committee. “It was sheer, unmitigated anger that expressed itself in the form of mass violence and rioting. And, okay, I get it, it’s illegal, it’s wrong.”

The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who had previously justified the study of “white rage”, went on to defend the riots and the double standard at the heart of the J6 Committee.

“I don’t think the intent of those riots was to overturn the United States Government and to destroy the Constitution of the United States of America,” he argued.

The mobs assaulting police officers, burning flags, attacking federal buildings in sieges, like the one in Portland, reminiscent of Fort Sumter, and calling for the destruction of America under the guidance of an organization of “trained Marxists” demonstrated that it was an insurrection.

And Gen. Milley’s testimony showed that he sympathized with the insurrectionists.

An account had described Milley pointing to a bust of Lincoln during the Black Lives Matter riots and telling Trump, “That guy had an insurrection. What we have, Mr. President, is a protest.”

The J6 testimony provided an opportunity to dig into Milley’s definition of an insurrection.

On the one hand, Gen. Milley conceded that, “All the President has to do is walk outside the White House and yell three times, you know, ‘Insurrectionists, disperse.’ And he just has to yell it, right? And then he can do it, according to the law of 1807 or whatever year it was, right?”

But Gen. Milley along with other woke brass did everything possible to dissuade Trump from doing so. Using a report assembled by his subordinates, he argued that an insurrection should have “significant national security implications”, which he claims that massive nationwide riots that included attacks on federal buildings and the White House somehow did not.

There, as so often, Gen. Milley contradicted himself, mentioning that, “I don’t want to go into anything classified, but there were other countries exploiting some of this stuff.”

A mass insurrection by Marxists, black nationalist secessionists and other domestic terror groups exploited by enemy nations is the definition of a national security threat. Gen. Milley knows this because Russian plans during the Cold War had included such scenarios.

Using his report, Gen. Milley contended that, “fifteen hundred people rioting in three or four cities of America at a moment in time” did not qualify as an insurrection, but somehow J6 did.

Gen. Milley’s definition of an insurrection involves scope and scale, but there’s no metric under which the Black Lives Matter riots at their peak were smaller in scope than J6.

And yet, Milley cheerfully told the J6 Committee that he began taking a step that he doesn’t appear to have taken during the BLM riots, that “immediately following the 6th, I knew the significance, and I asked my staff, freeze all your records, collate them, get them collected up.”

Why did records involving a riot need to be classified?

“The document — I classified the document at the beginning of this process by telling my staff to gather up all the documents, freeze-frame everything, notes, everything and, you know, classify it. And we actually classified it at a pretty high level, and we put it on JWICS, the top secret stuff. It’s not that the substance is classified. It was I wanted to make sure that this stuff was only going to go people who appropriately needed to see it, like yourselves,” Gen. Milley admitted.

On his own initiative, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs had classified documents involving a political incident, not because of any innate need, but to make sure that only the politically correct would gain access to them.

What’s in those documents? Whatever is there is meant ‘for leftist eyes only’.

Throughout his testimony, Gen. Milley insisted that he was only a public servant.

“I cannot issue orders in my name. That’s illegal,” he told the J6 Committee, describing his position as an.”advisory role, not in the chain of command, but, yes, in the chain of communication And that applies to everything, by the way. I know the Speaker Pelosi call and some other things came under a variety of criticism, but that’s all part of the role of the Chairman, is to be part of the chain of communication, not part of the chain of command.”

Gen. Milley was asked about the call involving Trump, during which Pelosi said, “‘You know he’s crazy, don’t you,’and she is reported to have said, General Milley, that you agreed with her.”

In his response, Gen. Milley appeared to confirm that he did so.

While the China phone call has been widely reported, Gen. Milley apparently placed “50 or 60” other phone calls to the Russians, the French, the Japanese and even the Islamic terror state of Qatar which is an ally of Iran and a key backer of the Muslim Brotherhood, to convey “stability”.

That is a very long chain of communication.

Gen. Milley claims to be deeply concerned about the Constitution and civilian control of the military, yet he repeatedly undermined the president, cabinet members and other civilian appointees for his own political agendas. Under the guise of being a good advisor, he initiated processes, like the political classification of materials, the double standard on riots or the phone calls that usurped the constitutional authority of the executive branch. And he’s still at it.

While belligerent in congressional hearings toward Republicans, Gen. Milley was pathetically eager to help along the J6 Committee right down to selectively classifying documents for political reasons. He decries the politicization of the military, yet everything he’s done has been to further shift the military leftward. His only resistance to leftist political pressure came when he tried to dissuade Rep. Schiff from proposals to recall and court martial General Flynn.

“I’ve become a lightning rod for the politicization of the military. And I am constantly strung out as an individual and also with Secretary Austin and others, the Chief of Naval Operations, the Sergeant Major of the Army. There’s a whole bunch of us that have been,” Gen. Milley complained.

Secretary of Defense Austin is a political appointee. Chief of Naval Operations Michael Gilday has been among the most aggressive in pushing racism and hatred for this country.

“Some of it is comments that I made in testimony about critical race theory and white rage,” Gen. Milley conceded. “Months of this constant drumbeat that is very damaging, in my view, personally, to the health of the Republic, because there is a deliberate attempt, in my view, to smear the general officer corps and the leaders of the military and to politicize the military… and I think that’s something that we need to avoid.”

Gen. Milley once again gets it backward. Military leaders like him have the obligation not to politicize the military. Civilians have a right to be critical of military leadership: especially when it stakes out political territory and takes sides.

Instead of acting to restore an apolitical military, Gen. Milley continues to help the Biden administration further politicize it while blaming retired officers and other critics of his actions.

“When 137 generals recently signed a letter that Secretary Austin and I are, you know, the worst thing since sliced bread and we’re lower than, you know, whale stuff and we should be court-martialed and treason and all that kind of stuff, all former retired flag officers — I will say, none of them were four-stars, though; we had a couple three-stars — that’s politicization,” he objected.

Retired officers are not politicizing the military when they express their opinions. Gen. Milley is politicizing the military when he states that, “if generals are out there writing editorials about politics, I think that’s an issue. If you want to be involved in politics as a general officer, retired general officer, or a retired commissioned officer, you ought to run for office.”

On Gen. Milley’s watch, active duty personnel have repeatedly been allowed to express leftist and even anti-American views, to clash with civilians on social media and berate journalists, even while any hint of criticism of the Biden administration has led to court martials.

Just compare the respective fates of Lt. Col. Stuart Scheller and Maj. Gen. Patrick Donahoe.

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Milley has used his position to, at worst, conduct and, at best, sign off on an insurrection that threatens the constitutional order he swore an oath to protect. The insurrection is cloaked in bureaucratic shenanigans like the selective classification, in providing misleading advice, using double standards and initiating treasonous actions.

Any serious investigation of the crimes committed in 2020 needs to begin with Gen. Milley.

Daniel Greenfield is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's Front Page Magazine.

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Biden and the American Military Leadership is a Disaster

By Rich Kozlovich 

I don't know if anyone watched the Senate Armed Services Committee hearings on the disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal, but Secretary of Defense Austin, General Mark Milley and General Kenneth McKenzie looked like deer in the headlights.  All answering with logical fallacies, evasions, and I think outright lies.

Milley once claimed the withdrawal from Afghanistan was a logical success but a strategic failure.  What?  Does that make sense to anyone?

I put this in the same category as Field Marshall Montgomery's analysis of the disaster of Operation Market Garden saying he was pleased because 90% of the plan was successful, and then shifted to blame from himself to the Poles, which history has shown to be a lie to cover for the failure it was. The King of Belgium said his country couldn't afford too many more of Montgomery's 90% successes. What we have here now are generals trying to put the blame on Biden, and rightly so, while avoiding any responsibility to themselves.  

Let's take Milley's call to the Chinese general. Milley Admits Rogue Plan to Share Intel with China Said I’d ‘Probably’ Call if Attack Was Coming. In short, Milley decided he was Commander in Chief, not the President of the United States, and was  willing to commit treason.  And he's still there. 

Milley thought Trump might cause a ‘Pearl Harbor’.  Well, did he bring that to Trump's attention?  Did he bring that to the attention of the Secretary of Defense.  Did he bring that to those committees that oversee the military in Congress?  Did he bring that to the attention of the Vice President.  Not as far as anyone can tell, and that's not his call.  If he really felt that was true he should have resigned and publicly stated that for the consumption of the Congress and the American people.  But he didn't because according to him that would be a political act.  What?  But deciding he was the Commander in Chief wasn't political act, a political act of treason?

He didn't, instead, he chose treason because:

"according to I Alone Can Fix It, from Washington Post reporters Carol Leonnig and Phillip Rucker, Gen. Milley believes Donald Trump is the moral equivalent of Adolph Hitler, Trump’s followers are “brownshirts,” and Trump’s complaints about voter fraud were calls for genocide

When Biden made the decision for the disastrous escape from Afghanistan, did he do that on his own? The President says he took the advice of the military experts, the generals say he didn't! That "no senior military officer advised him to leave troops behind in Afghanistan."

• Biden Waited Until 5 Days Before Aug. 31 Troop Withdrawal Deadline to Ask Military Leaders If Troops Should Stay
• What advice did Biden hear from senior military officers -- and when did he hear it?
• Generals scramble to avoid responsibility for Afghanistan
• Top Generals Contradict Biden; Testify He Was Advised to Not Withdraw All Troops From Afghanistan 
• Biden Caught Lying About Generals Recommending Prolonged Troop Presence 
• Bombshells: Biden Betrayed!  
• Biden Lied’: Blackburn Calls for POTUS to Resign over Afghanistan Debacle
• U.S. Marine Who Blasted Hasty Afghan Withdrawal in Military Lockup 

But no need to worry, we can be happy because Senator Fauxcahontas Warren has assured us:

• ‘We should be proud of President Biden’ for Afghanistan evacuation. 

Representative Gaetz takes a different view, and one I think is shared by most of the nation: ‘If we didn’t have a President that was so addled, you all would be fired!’

 

Daniel Greenfield Unleashed

By Rich Kozlovich 

Daniel allows me to publish his work appearing on his personal blog, Sultan Knish, which I really appreciate, but Daniel is as prolific as he is brilliant, and I can only publish links to his work on Frontpage Magazine.  He has a lot to say there, and I want to make sure to help and get his work as wide a distribution as possible, so here are his latest pieces reeking with leftist lunacy and hypocrisy.  

To paraphrase Captain Renault: I'm shocked, shocked I tell you. 

Hillary Clinton’s College Gig Funded by Chinese Oligarchs - Daniel Greenfield January 9, 2023 -The China Project was accused by a whistleblower of being a front for the Communist regime.  Hillary Rodham Clinton, after a lifetime of struggling to find a steady job to support her family , has finally landed a position with Columbia University. The former first lady and two-time presidential loser will become a “professor of practice” at  Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs and a “presidential fellow” at Columbia World Projects. Considering Hillary’s “practice”, the university will likely be locking the cash drawer and securing any valuable art that might perchance fall into her pantsuit pockets. “I have had the great pleasure of knowing Hillary personally for three decades,” President Lee C. Bolling, who holds the job title that she was denied, announced. He gushed over “her extraordinary talents and capacities together with her singular life experiences”..............

Car Jihadist Who Ran Over New Yorkers Pleads Guilty to Serving Allah - January 10, 2023 by Daniel Greenfield 23 Comments - "He still believes it was Allah’s will that he do what he did". n 2019, Sayfullo Saipov as the Uzbek immigrant who ran over people in New York City near Ground Zero while shouting, “Allahu Akbar” was quite clear about his motive. Speaking through an interpreter for about 10 minutes, Saipov said the decisions of a U.S. court were unimportant to him. He said he cared about “Allah” and the holy war being waged by the Islamic State…“The orders issued here have nothing to do with me,” Saipov told Judge Vernon Broderick through an Uzbek interpreter. “I am following orders of Allah.” Everyone seems to be giving up on arguing that Saipov is suffering from airborne PTSD, debts or mental illness. So the lawyer is trying an interesting courtroom strategy......................

US Atty, FBI Investigate Classified Docs at Biden Office - By Daniel Greenfield  January 10, 2023 - Where are the FBI raids?  Back when the Mar-a-Lago raid happened, I pointed out that most presidents probably accidentally take home classified documents, courtesy of incompetent staffers who are on their way out the door and aren’t necessarily paying close attention to what a document is. Unthinking abuse of classified documents is commonplace in the upper echelons never mind the thinking kind.  It’s awkward when it happens to the guy doing a victory lap over the Mar-a-Lago raid...................

 

USC Bans “Field Work” Because It’s Racist - By Daniel Greenfield  January 10, 2023 - “Phrases such as ‘going into the field’ and ‘field work’ may have connotations for descendants of slavery.  This reminds me of a professor I had in college who tried to test whether people were racist by asking them what color gorillas were under their fur. Anti-racists come up with crazy racist spins on things that non-racist normal people would never come up with. And then those people have to pause and try to understand the crazy racist Rorschach inkblot in their heads. USC’s School of Social Work didn’t come up with anything new here. There has been a gradual purge of the term “field work” in academia...............

 

Dems Opposed Office of Congressional Ethics Before They Were For It - By Daniel Greenfield January 10, 2023 - The hypocrisy is typical.   Much as in 2017, Democrats and their media are posturing as vocal defenders of the Office of Congressional Ethics against House Republican efforts to rein it in. But the leading opponents of the office have been Democrats, specifically, members of the Congressional Black Caucus.............. Now the racist OCE has become the only defense of good government.............

 

The Insurrection of General Milley  January 10, 2023 by Daniel Greenfield 42 Comments - “Okay, I get it, it’s illegal, it’s wrong.”   “The riots over the summer, you know, I could make a case that those riots were riots organic to an aggrieved community that perceived that they had various injustices throughout their life,” General Mark A Milley told the J6 Committee. “It was sheer, unmitigated anger that expressed itself in the form of mass violence and rioting. And, okay, I get it, it’s illegal, it’s wrong.”  The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who had previously justified the study of “white rage”, went on to defend the riots and the double standard at the heart of the J6 Committee..................

 

BREAKING: Top Republicans Take Milley Down – Jan 6th Committee Stunned

Kristina Wong 16 Jul 2022

Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN) called on Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley to honor his word and stop dodging questions about allegations in Bob Woodward and Robert Costa’s book Peril that he usurped President Donald Trump’s power as commander in chief after the Capitol riot on January 6, 2021, in violation of the law.