VIDEO: Israel – A Dominant Player in Hi-Tech and Making the World a Better Place

A reader sent us this video done by One Israel Fund titled, “The Tech Guru.”

One Israel Fund states:

Global speaker, columnist and entrepreneur Hillel Fuld lives and breaths technology- especially the incredibly exciting Israeli hi-tech scene. In a conversation with Eve Harow he shares his vision for transforming start ups into businesses and how his love of Israel impacts his work.

Hillel speaks with great candor on how the murder of his brother Ari z”l put him into a depression; his personal experiences with mental health issues inspired him to talk openly to empower those who suffer in silence. Hillel does not do silence. His passion for his work, his enthusiasm for advocating for Israel and his role as connector puts him in a unique category and makes this a very enjoyable interview to watch.

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VIDEO: COVID Cases Inflated For Profit?

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A source who works for United Healthcare of Louisiana’s Inpatient Utilization Management Department is blowing the whistle on COVID cases possibly being inflated for financial incentive.

The brazen instance of such potential abuse was a patient who had multiple gunshot wounds with his primary diagnosis listed as COVID.

Here are some of the highlights from today’s video:

  • Jeanne Stagg, a whistleblower who worked in Inpatient Utilization Management, approached Project Veritas after seeing cases coded as COVID that she says should not have COVID listed as the “primary diagnosis.”
  • Stagg: “I’ve tried to raise awareness to my leadership and even with the Fraud, Waste, and Abuse Department, and it just kind of fell on deaf ears.”
  • The Chief Medical Officer for United Healthcare of Louisiana (Medicaid) opined in a recorded phone conversation that the Medicaid rate for reimbursement of COVID patients, which is faster and significantly higher, could be the motivation for the improper “primary diagnosis” codes.
  • “Oh, yes. Yeah. I would think that there’s some motivation that it’s driving higher rates of reimbursement or quicker reimbursement, or something, because otherwise there’s no reason to put, you know, something like that as a leading diagnosis in an asymptom– basically asymptomatic patients,” said Dr. Morial, Chief Medical Officer for United Healthcare of Louisiana.
  • The Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals has suspended utilization review which is the process of determining whether health care is medically necessary for a patient or an insured individual. The whistleblower says this could be a major contributing factor to spikes in COVID numbers, which then influence public health decisions.

You can watch the video HERE.

Are hospitals really inflating COVID numbers for profit?

Why is Louisiana’s Department of Health enabling hospitals to code patients’ admissions in a way where there is no accountability?

The public has a right to know what the real data is. If COVID cases are being inflated so that the government can maintain draconian laws in place and hospitals can maximize profits, it must be exposed.


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Hit Back Hard: Here’s How You DEFEAT a Racism Charge

“You’re a racist!” We’ve all heard that often enough. In fact, as was once said in saner times about opportunistic patriotism, it’s now racism charges that are the last refuge of a scoundrel. But there is a way to counter these scoundrels and seize the advantage.

No, the answer isn’t to explain yourself. It’s virtually always the case that racism-charge hurlers don’t care about Truth, anyway, but simply want to hurt you and win. The actual remedy?

Remember that the best defense is a good offense and hit them back — hard. And the following short response should become standard when accused of racism.

Simply say, “No, you are the racist — because you wouldn’t be making your accusation if I wasn’t white.”

This not only is rhetorically effective but has another upside: It’s very often true.

This can’t be said about leftists’ racism charges. As is the case with their being leveled at the currently protesting Canadian truckers, they constitute a reflexive device employed out of prejudice and/or because it works.

But don’t let it work. Fight fire with fire, intensified with the accelerant of Truth; parry faux moral outrage with real moral outrage.

Level your retaliatory charge with passion, with the righteousness that breeds bravery. Wag your finger and make it stick. If necessary, add, in reference to the accusation hurled at you, “It’s disgusting — and you ought to be ashamed of yourself. And if you continue this disgusting, racist behavior, it means you’re a bad person.”

This strategy can put the race-card accuser on his heels; if it doesn’t, it at least can enable you to push back and achieve parity.

Unsurprisingly, it also accords with a number of power-attainment rules promulgated in socialist Saul Alinsky’s book Rules for Radicals. To wit (all quotations are Alinsky’s):

  • “RULE 11: ‘The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative.’ Never let the enemy score points because you’re caught without a solution to the problem.” The aforementioned race-charge response is a solution.
  • “RULE 5: ‘Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.’ There is no defense. It’s irrational. It’s infuriating. It also works as a key pressure point to force the enemy into concessions.” Use the countering-racism ridicule — if necessary, mercilessly.
  • “RULE 6: ‘A good tactic is one your people enjoy.’ They’ll keep doing it without urging and come back to do more.” What’s more satisfying than beating a scoundrel at his own game (in this case, a racial one)?
  • “RULE 12: ‘Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.’ Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than institutions.” It you’re debating with others present, your morality-based counter-attack gives you at least a chance of winning their sympathy.

To be clear, I wouldn’t use this strategy with a liberal who debated in good faith (an ever-rarer creature, indeed); that would be dishonorable. I’d mount rational refutations in that case. But if someone attacks with fists flying, you respond in kind. If he attacks with lies flying, you likewise strike back hard — with damning Truth.

Remember here that logical arguments matter, but are weapons suitable only to certain situations and with people receptive to Truth. Consider also that just as people don’t follow ideas — they follow people — people don’t fight ideas (except metaphorically). They fight people.

You win wars by defeating the foot soldiers who, whether or not subscribing to the ideas ostensibly motivating their military campaign, are fighting against you. Cold cultural and political wars are no different.

Of course, “War is not ‘the best way of settling differences,’” as G.K. Chesterton wrote in 1915 before adding, “it is the only way of preventing their being settled for you.”

Right now matters are being settled for us in a most unsettling way, partially because conservatives are busy playing Mr. Nice Guy. But those who can’t be reasoned with can only be fought. And when in the course of trying to destroy all that is great and good evil people try to hurt you, you hurt them back — badly and repeatedly, till they can fight no more.

For those interested, a few years ago I made a video (below) about defeating racism charges.

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Pelosi Congress Claims Sovereign Immunity in Federal Court to Keep Secret January 6 Videos and Emails

Washington, D.C. – Judicial Watch announced that it filed an opposition to the U.S. Capitol Police’s (USCP) effort to shut down Judicial Watch’s federal lawsuit for January 6 videos and emails. Through its police department, Congress argues that the videos and emails are not public records, there is no public interest in their release, and that “sovereign immunity” prevents citizens from suing for their release.

Judicial Watch filed a lawsuit under the common law right of access after the Capitol Police refused to provide any records in response to a January 21, 2021, request (Judicial Watch v. United States Capitol Police (No. 1:21-cv-00401)). Judicial Watch asks for:

  • Email communications between the U.S. Capitol Police Executive Team and the Capitol Police Board concerning the security of the Capitol on January 6, 2021. The timeframe of this request is from January 1, 2021 through January 10, 2021.
  • Email communications of the Capitol Police Board with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the U.S. Department of Justice, and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security concerning the security of the Capitol on January 6, 2021. The timeframe of this request is from January 1, 2021through January 10, 2021.
  • All video footage from within the Capitol between 12 pm and 9 pm on January 6, 2021

Congress exempts itself from the Freedom of Information Act. Judicial Watch, therefore, brought its lawsuit under the common law right of access to public records. In opposing the broad assertion of secrecy, Judicial Watch details Supreme Court and other precedent that upholds the public’s right to know what “their government is up to:”

“In ‘the courts of this country’— including the federal courts—the common law bestows upon the public a right of access to public records and documents” … “the Supreme Court was unequivocal in stating that there is a federal common law right of access ‘to inspect and copy public records and documents.’” … “[T]he general rule is that all three branches of government, legislative, executive, and judicial, are subject to the common law right.” The right of access is “a precious common law right . . . that predates the Constitution itself.”

The Court of Appeals for this circuit has recognized that “openness in government has always been thought crucial to ensuring that the people remain in control of their government….” “Neither our elected nor our appointed representatives may abridge the free flow of information simply to protect their own activities from public scrutiny. An official policy of secrecy must be supported by some legitimate justification that serves the interest of the public office.”

“The Pelosi Congress (and its police department) is telling a federal court it is immune from all transparency under law and is trying to hide every second of its January 6 videos and countless emails,” stated Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “The hypocrisy is rich, as this is the same Congress that is trying to jail witnesses who, citing privileges, object to providing documents to the Pelosi rump January 6 committee.”

In November 2021, Judicial Watch revealed multiple audiovisual and photo records from the DC Metropolitan Police Department about the shooting death of Ashli Babbitt on January 6, 2021, in the U.S. Capitol Building.  The records include a cell phone video of the shooting and an audio of a brief police interview of the shooter, Lt. Michael Byrd. In October, Judicial Watch released records, showing that multiple officers claimed they didn’t see a weapon in Babbitt’s hand before Byrd shot her, and that Byrd was visibly distraught afterward. One officer attested that he didn’t hear any verbal commands before Byrd shot Babbitt.

Also in November, Judicial Watch filed a response in opposition to the Department of Justice’s effort to block Judicial Watch’s Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit asking for records of communication between the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and several financial institutions about the reported transfer of financial transaction records of people in DC, Maryland and Virginia on January 5 and January 6, 2021. Judicial Watch argues that Justice Department should not be allowed to shield “improper activity.”

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TEXAS: Mother Regrets Vote for Biden after Teen Daughter Killed by Illegal Immigrant

Election theft matters.

Texas mother regrets vote for Biden after teen daughter killed by illegal immigrant: ‘I want to know why’

By Amy Nelson | Fox News February 3, 2021:

Illegal immigrant who killed American teen won’t be deported under Biden policy

Adrienne Sophia Exum, a 19-year-old from Texas, was killed by an illegal immigrant who was driving drunk. Adrienne’s mother, Rhonda Exum, was told the man would be deported, but under President Biden’s immigration policies, he is staying in the country.

Rhonda Exum is looking for answers. She said she was never informed when the deportation decision was rescinded.

“I really want to know why,” Exum said on “Fox & Friends First” Tuesday.

“By him not being deported, it’s like you telling me my daughter’s life didn’t mean anything.”

Adrienne’s cousin, Tranette Gamboa, told Fox News’ Todd Piro that she was shocked to find out the man would not be deported.

“They don’t care,” Gamboa said.

Exum, who voted for Biden in the 2020 presidential election, said she’s disappointed.

“I thought he was going to talk for the American people, basically, and not for himself,” she said. “I don’t feel that he has done anything but disappoint.”

DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas issued the following statement regarding the administration’s updated enforcement policies: “For the first time, our guidelines will, in the pursuit of public safety, require an assessment of the individual and take into account the totality of the facts and circumstances. …”

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton responded to Mayorkas by saying it “doesn’t matter” to the administration that an illegal immigrant killed Adrienne Exum.

“I believe that Biden has betrayed our country. He’s betraying families that are losing people right and left,” Paxton said. “I think the answer to the ‘why?’ is that they have greater goals that are more important than saving members of families.”

Rhonda Exum continued to ask why her daughter’s killer is allowed to remain in the country.

“My message is: Look out for the American people first.”

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Johns Hopkins Study: LOCKDOWNS DID NOT WORK, No Impact On Death Rate

A meta-analysis out of John Hopkins shows lockdowns had “little to no public health effects.” This is what many public health experts in academia and private sector had been saying over the past 2 years. And still the Democrats demand more draconian measures.

Johns Hopkins report: Lockdowns did not work.

The Washington Times has a blockbuster story today, on a report from the highly respected Johns Hopkins University, that the draconian lockdowns has little for no impact on the Coronavirus.

“Lockdowns in the U.S. and Europe had little or no impact in reducing deaths from COVID-19, according to a new analysis by researchers at Johns Hopkins University. The lockdowns during the early phase of the pandemic in 2020 reduced COVID-19 mortality by about 0.2%, said the broad review of multiple scientific studies. “We find no evidence that lockdowns, school closures, border closures, and limiting gatherings have had a noticeable effect on COVID-19 mortality,” the researchers wrote.”

CLICK HERE TO: Read the study and judge for yourself.

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2ndVote Gun Cam AR-15 Celebrates Three Years of Not Killing Anyone

We’ve heard them all; the plethora of arguments against firearms and the second amendment are false and uninformed.

“Guns are the issue.”

“Guns are dangerous.”

“Guns kill people!”

“Guns should only be used by individuals over the age of 21.”

“We need gun-free safe spaces.”

“We need common sense gun laws.”

“Places with strict gun laws don’t have shooting problems.”

“Less guns, less gun violence.”

“Certain guns should be banned completely.”

Have you ever heard any of these arguments and just wanted to roll your eyes? Even the President of the United States has added to the long list of lies about firearms and the second amendment, after also saying that American patriots’ AR-15’s were not enough to stop his fighter jets and nuclear weapons. These anti-gun claims come from people who are lying, ignorant, or both.

These arguments are the very reason why we at 2ndVote decided to start live streaming an AR-15 three years ago. Over the last three years – starting February 1, 2019, we have proven that the gun itself is not the issue. 2ndVote founder Dr. David Black says he has spent literally hours over these past three years making sure this gun understood what America is all about, that we have come together to celebrate what we have in common, as opposed to our weaknesses and differences. The scary black military-style assault rifle has not argued, disagreed, or threatened Dr. Black or his staff even once.

We are proud to report the 2ndVote AR-15 shown in the Gun Cam live stream has not:

  • Loaded even a single round of ammunition into the magazine.
  • Aimed at even a single person.
  • Fired at any inanimate objects.
  • Shot at any living creature.
  • Shot at any human – the kill count remains at “000” despite being designed to “kill as many people as possible in as short a time as possible”.

Unfortunately, the AR-15 shown in the Gun Cam has also refused to clean itself (either field dressing or simple dusting) so we take care of that. So we must ask again…are guns really the issue? Of course not.

We hope the gun cam proves the theory that a gun is not the issue, but simply an important reminder of our American right for protection of life, liberty, and property from thieves, ne’er-do-wells and tyrants, also known as the 2nd Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.

So the next time that loud, woke friend of yours starts to go into their “guns bad…no guns solve problem” argument, before they start to sound like the droning-on talking heads on TV, make sure to show them the 2ndVote Gun Cam Livestream. If they are honest, they will have to acknowledge that guns are not the problem.

As for the 2ndVote Gun Cam, it will continue live streaming and proving the left’s false claims to be the hyperbolic deception that it always was.

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Black Lives Matter Grifter Cullors Preps Warner Bros. Projects on Reparations

The Hollywood Reporter reports that former Black Lives Matter (BLM) grifter Patrisse Cullors is working with Warner Bros. on television projects advocating for racialized reparations.

Cullors, who identifies as a “trained Marxist,” resigned from BLM in May of last year after being slammed for her hypocrisy in becoming a multi-millionaire with multiple homes while claiming to represent minorities “oppressed” by purported systemic racism.

Now, Cullors has released a book titled, An Abolitionist’s Handbook: 12 Steps to Changing Yourself and the World. In addition, she is working on several documentary projects for Warners TV, one of which argues that land must be returned to indigenous peoples as a form of racial reparations.

“My art practice and political practice are extensions of my abolitionist views,” Cullors stated. “Any project I’m working on, whether it’s art or writing, all my work now with Warner Brothers — what I have framed it as is ‘abolitionist aesthetics.’ The way that white supremacy, the way that the prison system and the police system has aestheticized itself, I want to aestheticize abolition.”

But mostly what this race hustler wants to do is continue to enrich herself by exploiting the manufactured racial division in America to which she has contributed so significantly.


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2020 Deal with Warner Brothers to Produce Race-Focused Projects

In October 2020, Cullors signed a production deal with the Warner Bros. Television Group to produce content including animation, scripted and unscripted projects, longform series, and digital projects to be aired on streaming services, television, and film. In an interview with Variety magazine, Cullors said: “Black voices, especially Black voices who have been historically marginalized, are important and integral to today’s storytelling. Our perspective and amplification is necessary and vital to helping shape a new narrative for our families and communities. I am committed to uplifting these stories in my new creative role with the Warner Bros. family. As a longtime community organizer and social justice activist, I believe that my work behind the camera will be an extension of the work I’ve been doing for the last twenty years. I look forward to amplifying the talent and voices of other Black creatives through my work.”

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Phony-Baloney Greenie Weenies

All you phony-baloney greenie weenies out there, I want you to know something:  everything you say is bunk.  Here are just the latest stories showing you the entire climate change narrative is a pack of lies.

The World Meteorological Organization got caught with its pants down.  It claimed the number of natural disasters increased five-fold over the last 50 years and human carbon dioxide emissions are to blame.  However, they admitted their numbers were all wrong because they were building their reporting system over that time and getting reports from more sources as time went on.  There’s a big difference between an increase in the number of reported disasters and the number of actual disasters, but they deliberately misrepresented the facts.

Speaking of misrepresentations, NOAA claims 2021 was the eighth hottest year on record, but the temperature has actually trended downward if you look at the period 2016 to 2021.  Moreover, NOAA made the pronouncement even though the degree of uncertainty in their data is higher than the temperature increase they claimed for 2021.  NOAA has a long history of faking its data.  Isn’t there a problem when you have to lie, repeatedly, to make your case?

Everybody knows wind and solar power are unreliable.  There are cloudy days and days with no wind.  Turns out, once you add increased power-generating capacity and battery storage to compensate for intermittency, stand-alone wind and solar power become impossibly expensive.  In fact, as another article states, “the cost of necessary storage becomes far and away the dominant cost of the overall system. Therefore, any meaningful proposal to replace fossil fuel generation with renewables must grapple with this issue.”  How come we never hear Greta Thunberg talk about this problem?

Electric cars will make you less free. In Britain, starting in May, “Electric car charging points in people’s homes will be preset to switch off for nine hours each weekday at times of peak demand because ministers fear blackouts on the National Grid.”  If you want to go somewhere and your car isn’t charged, you’re just out of luck.  Is that what you had in mind, or do you now admit you haven’t thought past your own slogans?

Speaking of not thinking things through, Europe closed a lot of coal plants in the last 20 years and replaced them with wind power.  But here’s what happened when the wind didn’t blow so much last year:  They used more natural gas, causing natural gas prices to spike all over the world.  Where do they get gas?  Russia.  Europe has been worried for decades about Russian dominance over the continent and here they voluntarily made themselves more dependent on Russia.  Smart!  Things like that happen when you put the ideological blinders on and chant slogans.

If these stories don’t give you pause, try these:  There are now 140 scientific papers documenting that CO2 has, at most, a miniscule effect on the earth’s temperature. Wind turbine blades can’t be recycled; they have to be buried.  Doesn’t sound very green to me.   Despite what Joe Biden says, tornadoes are not getting more frequent or severe, and the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) does not link them to greenhouse gas emissions.

So you phony-baloney greenie weenies can go right on believing the utterly delusional Leonardo DiCaprio when he tells you we only have nine years left before we’re all toast, but do us a favor, won’t you?  Leave public policy to the adults in the room and people who don’t have a sick need to lie their way into power.

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U.S. Should Walk Away from Iran Nuclear Talks

“Biden’s eagerness to fulfill an election promise has blinded him and made him indifferent to the interests of his country’s historically closest allies.” – Dalia Al-Aqidi


As the negotiations to salvage the 2015 Iran nuclear deal reach a critical stage, disagreements have emerged among American diplomats — who are playing an indirect role in the talks in Vienna — over how firm Washington should be with Tehran and when to say, “Enough, this ship has sailed.”

Richard Nephew, the US deputy special envoy for Iran and principal architect of the economic sanctions on Tehran, left the team last week after calling for a tougher stance. At least one other member of the US negotiating team also quit. Some even wanted to pull out entirely when new Iranian negotiators appointed by hard-line President Ebrahim Raisi following his election last year reversed most of the concessions made by their predecessors.

It is no surprise to see that the already-lenient US posture is gradually getting softer, since the negotiations are led by Robert Malley, who was the lead Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action negotiator under President Barack Obama when the original deal was signed. He naturally wants to revive what he considers his own deal at any price.

Tehran knows how fragile this US administration is. It can procrastinate until the November midterm elections to gain more leverage and ensure all its demands are met.

On Friday, Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian expressed his deep distrust in the White House during a phone call with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. He called on the US and its European allies to take practical and tangible measures in order to reach a sustainable and reliable agreement. From the Iranian point of view, a sustainable deal means one that no future American president can amend or cancel, which is impossible.

It is easy to understand why the pro-Iran Houthi militia was last year removed from the State Department’s list of foreign terrorist organizations, even though the terrorist group continued to launch drone attacks against military and civilian facilities in Saudi Arabia. It has recently also extended its attacks to the UAE. This is in addition to the US’ tolerance of attacks by pro-Iran militias against its military bases and personnel in Iraq.

President Joe Biden’s intense eagerness to implement even one of his list of promises made to the American people before the 2020 election and to increase his approval rate, which has fallen embarrassingly, has blinded him and made him indifferent to the interests of his country’s historically closest allies.

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett has repeatedly pointed out that his country will defend itself independently regardless of what happens between Iran and the world powers. “We will protect ourselves by ourselves. Even if there is an agreement, we’re not committed to it. We will preserve our freedom to act,” he told the Jerusalem Post last week.

If Bennett can see that Tehran will use any new funds it receives against the US and its regional allies, why can’t Biden? “A deal that will send tens of billions of dollars to this rotten and weak regime will be a mistake because this money will go to terror against (Israel Defense Forces) soldiers and the Americans in the region. When the money enters Iranian coffers, they attack American soldiers… through their proxies,” Bennett reiterated.

It would be a terrible mistake indeed.

As a result of America’s current policies in the Middle East and North Africa, Iran and its circle of terrorist friends — the so-called axis of resistance — will be upgraded from neighborhood bully to regional superpower, with sophisticated weapons provided by America’s archenemies, China and Russia.

Washington should correct its mistake and immediately halt its involvement in the Vienna talks.

The late, great South African leader Nelson Mandela once said: “History will judge us by the difference we make in the everyday lives of children.” Biden must not decide the fate of an entire region that is vulnerable to destruction, wars and intimidation by an extensive terrorist network for the sake of elections. Peace agreements with terrorist groups bring only tyranny, injustice and horror.

Mr. President, as you speak of humanity and human rights, do not sentence millions of people to death, as you did the innocent people of Afghanistan. Let the legacy of your time in the White House be that of a fair and firm leader. That is what is called redemption.

COLUMN BY

Dalia Al-Aqidi

Dalia Al-Aqidi is a senior fellow at the Center for Security Policy. Twitter: @DaliaAlAqidi.

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VIDEO: Transatlantic Jihad, Halimi Report, Zemmour Update and More . . .

On a cold Shabbat morning, January 15, 2022, Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker opened the door of Reform Synagogue Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville, Texas. He found a shivering “homeless” person, 44-year-old Malik Faisal Akram whom he invited in to get warm and have some tea.  Akram had flown across the Atlantic using a Visa Waiver departing from his Pakistani Muslim immigrant community in Blackburn, north of Manchester, England. He was cleared by the US Custom Border Patrol at JFK airport upon arrival in New York despite having a criminal record and having been the target of a recent MI-5 investigation in the U.K.  as a Subject of Interest. After landing at Dallas Fort Worth airport in Texas, he purchased a handgun and ammunition from a street vendor lit out for a Christian homeless shelter and used the time between January 2 and 15th to reconnoiter hostage taking opportunities.

Akram was seeking to hold hostages in a bold attempt to release a notorious fellow extremist Pakistani Muslim, Dr. Aafia Siddiqui, who was incarcerated in Carswell Federal women’s prison, 20 miles away from Colleyville.

The Rabbi and three congregants were suddenly confronted with an armed Jihadist who wanted their intercession with authorities to release Dr. Siddiqui. “After all, “he told them; “Jews have enormous power.” – a clearly anti-Semitic canard.  During the hostage taking, Akram urged Rabbi Cytron-Walker to call “a major figure of importance” in the US Reform Judaism movement, Rabbi Angela Bachdahl, spiritual leader of New York City’s venerable Central Synagogue. Akram released one of the elderly hostages during negotiations with the Police and FBI. Much of these proceedings were viewed on Facebook live by thousands who logged in for Shabbat services.

The 10-hour terror hostage standoff triggered by the Rabbi’s kindness ended at 9 PM that night when Akram threatened the hostages with his automatic pistol. The Rabbi threw a chair at him, and the two remaining hostages escaped. An elite FBI SWAT team rushed in and Akram was killed in the crossfire.  Akram’s family in Blackburn issued a press statement, saying that he was mentally ill and that they were aggrieved at his act.

Siddiqui, the object of Akram’s quest, has the sobriquet, “Lady Al Qaeda,” is a Graduate of both MIT and Brandeis University, the latter awarding her a PHD in Neuroscience.  In 2008 US Army officers and FBI Agents in Afghanistan arrested her when, during her interrogation at Bagram Airbase northeast of Kabul, she seized an M-16 rifle shot at a US Army Officer, resulting in her being shot and restrained. In 2010 in a Federal Court in New York, she was convicted and sentenced to 86 years on multiple attempted murder and terrorism charges. In her possession were found plans for dirty radioactive bombs to be planted at several prominent historical sites in New York and Washington, DC.  During her trial she demanded that prospective jurors be tested for their DNA, and Jewish ones excluded from the proceedings. It was a patent example of her extreme anti- Semitism.

Siddiqui’s release was the quest of the global Pakistani Deobandi extremist Muslim community, that Akram adhered to. In the US, Siddiqui’s freedom was the mission of many Muslim advocacy groups, led by the Council of American Islamic Relations, CAIR.  Ironically, CAIR – a Muslim Brotherhood affiliate – was convicted of providing material support for Hamas’s terrorism in a 2008 Federal trial in Dallas. The US House of Representatives passed a bill to have the Justice Department investigate instances of Islamophobia. FBI hate crime statistics 2020 indicate “Jews are the No. 1 target in America for hate crimes in proportion to population. A Jew is far more likely to be a victim of a hate crime than a black person, a Muslim, a Hispanic or an Asian.”

After the Texas synagogue hostage terror event, CAIR renewed its campaign to free Dr. Siddiqui.  The notoriously anti-Israel, Jewish Voices for Peace followed suit, calling for a rally to support Siddiqui’s release. Confounding the situation were accusations by a former congregant that the Congregation Beth Israel rabbi supported the canard of Israel as an Apartheid state.

While the Texas act of armed violent anti-Semitism was unfolding, Jews in France were “outraged” by the outcome of the Parliamentary investigation into police handling of the brutal grisly murder of retired Teacher 65-year-old Sarah Halimi in 2017.  As noted in a JTA report “Kobili Traore, a 31-year-old French-Muslim man entering her apartment beating her and throwing her out of a window — because she was Jewish. Prosecutors also already knew that Traore recited verses from the Koran and shouted antisemitic statements during the murder.”   A parliamentary committee led by French Jewish lawmaker Meyer Habib “found that police officers arrived on the scene of the 2017 murder before it occurred but did not stop it”.  Traore had been found in a 2018 court ruling to be in a drug addled condition and not capable of realizing his actions. It was an insanity defense That misguided ruling triggered outrage by the French Jewish community which led to the Parliamentary investigation. But, once again despite testimony from the victim’s neighbors, the befuddled comments of police involved in the matter the report concluded “the judiciary followed perfectly the procedure” determined by the law. The police’s handling of the case “does not represent a failure.”   The vote was 7 to 5 to accept the report.  Habib who chaired the investigation called it “a Second Dreyfus Affair.”   Eric Zemmour, the controversial Jewish candidate for the Presidency offered this ironic comment on the Parliamentary report in his Le Figaro column:

“Is it a crime? No! An antisemitic murder? Nonsense! An Islamist murders? Let’s not generalize! The experts have evaluated, studied, decided. The experts exerted their expertise, and their word is holy. Kobili Traore is crazy.”

This tragic outcome came on the 16th anniversary of the kidnapping, brutal torture and murder of French Jewish cell phone salesman, Ilan Halimi by the Muslim anti-Semitic Gang of the Barbarians.  Perhaps because of these and other atrocities committed against French Jews, more than 50,000 have made Aliyah to Israel.

Against this background, we held another in our series of monthly discussions with American ex-pat in Paris, Nidra Poller, translator investigative and author of note. Among other topics addressed are Eric Zemmour’s campaign performance in the runup to the first round of the French Presidential race, problematic French and EU counterterrorism effort in the Sahel region of Africa, French views on the US, EU-3 discussions in Vienna with Iran seeking to “revitalize” the failed 2015 JCPOA, and the threat of a conflict between Ukraine and Putin.

Nidra Poller

Jerry Gordon: I am Jerry Gordon, a senior editor at The New English Review. We are having another discussion with our friend in Paris, American ex-pat, Nidra Poller, great writer, investigator, and author of note. Before we delve into things that are going on in La Belle France, there is the interesting incident that occurred this past weekend here in the United States which has international implications. That was a terrorist hostage event at a synagogue in Fort Worth, Texas. The conclusion of which was the rescue of some remaining hostages, including a Rabbi and others. All of this was live streamed on Facebook when it occurred. It turns out that the suspect was a 44-year-old British subject by the name of Malik Faisal Akram, who came thousands of miles, and chose this synagogue in Fort Worth because it was less than 25 miles away from a prison holding a noted Pakistani terrorist, graduate of Brandeis University with a PhD in Neuroscience, by the name of Aafia Siddiqui. What was curious about this event was that the local Muslim Advocacy Group, the chapter of the Council of American Islamic Relations, said it had nothing to do with them. That was despite the fact that they had been proponents of releasing this convicted terrorist who’s been sentenced to life in perpetuity in a Women’s Federal Prison located 25 miles north of this terrorist event.  Nidra, aren’t there some more recent revelations about what went on with Mr. Akram?

TRANSATLANTIC JIHAD: Jewish hostages in a Texas synagogue

Nidra Poller: Well, what came out in The Times of Israel was that his family made a statement, of course, saying they terribly regret what happened, and they’d never condone any attack on anyone, Christian, Jewish or Muslim. His brother said the attacker had mental health problems. I was sure that would come up. I want to say that there can be all kinds of truth in these things. He could have mental health problems and be a Jihadi capable of committing an atrocity. We don’t know yet when he came, how he came. I haven’t seen any information about that. The family may well not condone what he did, it’s always possible. We’re dealing with something that’s coming from a background …like the earth we’re standing on. That’s what it is. It’s … one dandelion could pop up here, another dandelion pop up there and nobody can tell ahead of time where it’s going to pop up. And certainly, you can’t get to the root of the dandelion. We’d have to get to the root of jihad.

We know that Siddiqui was very successful. We know she was a graduate of Brandeis. So, this whole sociological argument, that Muslims in democratic countries commit attacks or crimes because they’re not accepted and can’t succeed, cases like this wipe that out. And we have many other examples. Siddiqui was so antisemitic that she wanted a DNA test for the jurors in the trial to make sure none of them were Jewish. Our friend Charles Jacobs has written about how radical she was when she was a student in Boston. When Charles Jacobs and his allies tried to warn people about this Islamization, they were slammed. They were called Islamophobes, anti-Muslims, racists, fascists. And now, it goes from Boston, to Texas, and it can be anywhere. As far as the reaction in France, the story is covered, but almost everything comes from press agencies, and there’s little new information now. However, when I want to know about an event like this, I go to The Times of Israel and that’s where I find the latest. But it was covered in other media

Jerry Gordon: What is interesting to me is that a few weeks ago, the US House of Representatives passed a bill appointing an Islamophobia monitor, you may recall.

Nidra Poller: Yes, I do recall.

Jerry Gordon: You can just imagine how that gets manipulated in the context of an event like this.

Nidra Poller: Yes, I covered that in my weekly review of the English language press for Tribune Juive. With an article by Stephen Emerson of IPT about the dangers of CAIR, their interfaith dialogue, and how the Jewish Community Establishment was sucked into this and ended up being a cover for CAIR. I think people in France don’t even know about CAIR and cannot imagine that an Islamist organization could reach that level of importance and acceptance from the general community.

Jerry Gordon: There is another aspect of this as well. It’s interesting that Aafia Siddiqui’s brother, Mohamed, who lives over in Houston put out a statement saying he was not involved. The reason for that is that the now deceased perpetrator Mr. Akram had said, “I’m her brother.” Well, what he meant was that she was part of the Jihad movement.

Nidra Poller: Yes. I read that the word, he used in Arabic does not mean a blood brother, that it means brother in the sense of haver, plus-que-frère, comrade. That kind of brother. But more information will come out this week, I think. Then we must mention the FBI officer saying it wasn’t a specifically antisemitic action. Now, what could that be? Self-imposed censorship? We know the FBI has been working with CAIR and against Islamophobia. So, it just happened in a synagogue, but that was incidental?  There’s already an uproar about that, I don’t think we’d have that kind of denial in France today.

Jerry Gordon: The rabbi at this Reform synagogue in Fort Worth was also apparently heavily involved with relations with Muslim community. While I don’t take that away from him, one of the phone calls that he may have been urged to make was to a woman rabbi in New York City asking that she seek freedom for Siddiqui.

Nidra Poller: I didn’t see any information about that, so I don’t want to comment on it. CAIR said they were looking for justice for Siddiqi.  We get this very often: interconnected attempts to impose Jihad through the courts, in the media and in the universities. Of course, the ones that are trying to impose it in the society at large will always say that they are against this kind of violence. But it serves their purpose, and in any case, if they’re against it, I don’t see them trying to stop it.

Jerry Gordon: And you also made a point earlier in our discussion that Siddiqi was obsessively anti-Semitic.

Nidra Poller: Yes, I mention that at her trial, she wanted them to do a DNA search on all the jurors to make sure none of them were Jewish.

Jerry Gordon: Great, what does that remind you about?

Nidra Poller: The Nazis. But I wouldn’t make a Nazi comparison, I never ever make a Nazi comparison.  I think she had that approach because she’s a scientist.

Jerry Gordon: Interesting to find a scientist who’s also a Jihadist.

Nidra Poller: We had some young Algerian engineers working in a nuclear power plant. They were planning something, and they were caught before they did it.  Another thing, Jerry, that I think we should point out, very often, there’s a public conception that the Jihadists are mentally disturbed, on the margins of society, criminals that can’t even read the Quran. But the masterminds are educated, they have big plans, they know how our societies work, and they can have as many foot soldiers as they want. They could never run out of foot soldiers.

Jerry Gordon: Her first husband divorced her because she was becoming increasingly extremist. But who does she marry at second time, the nephew of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the architect of 9/11 who orchestrated the murder of Wall Street Journal correspondent in Pakistan, Danny Pearl? This was as if to confirm her conversion to full Jihadism.  This is really an overpowering saga in many ways. I’d like to return to some aspects of that in France. There was another brutal attack on an older French Jewish woman.  There were reports here in the US press of criticism of the Parliamentary investigation into the police handling of the Sarah Halimi murder. Can you bring us up to date on that?

WHITEWASHED REPORT OF PARLIAMENTARY INQUIRY INTO THE SARAH HALIMI CASE

Nidra Poller:  What happened is that these very thorough investigations that were all covered on video, show the dysfunction on the level of the police and the judges. The way this case was mishandled came out clearly in those hearings, which anyone can watch on video. It’s not like in the past where things disappeared. But then someone from Macron’s party, LREM [la Republique en marche] drafted the report. And it was a whitewash. The report overlooked all the findings that were important to the committee, and concluded that there had been no major dysfunction; improvements could be made, but …

Of the 12 committee members, only seven voted in favor of accepting the report; the five that don’t belong to LREM did not. They gave a press conference, and they’re starting over again, with every kind of effort imaginable. They will never give up. This reminds me of the al-Dura case in France: attending the first court case, when France 2 sued Philippe Karsenty, we thought that justice would be done. It was rather exhilarating. And then the judgment came. In favor of France 2. I covered all those trials. The reports are in my book, Al Dura: Long range ballistic myth.  France 2, at that time, and in all the appeals, never gave any evidence to support that fake report of the “killing” of Mohammed al-Dura

So, we thought the parliamentary investigation would get the truth about the mishandling of the Sarah Halimi case.  Now, Florence Morlighem, the député who drafted the report, made a very shocking statement about the issue of non-assistance by the police:  the police came right away, after several neighbors called and reported a woman screaming. The murderer, Kobili Traoré, had entered the apartment of a family he knew. From there, he climbed over the balcony and broke into Sarah Halimi’s apartment The police had the key to that apartment. They too could have climbed across the balcony. They could have saved her. I watched the testimony of the first police officer on the scene. He was stumbling bumbling, mumbling, and saying, “Oh, maybe I had the key. Or I didn’t realize I had it, or maybe I didn’t.” He said he didn’t hear any screams. People have publicly concluded that the police must be lying when they say they didn’t hear screams.” Here’s what the member of Parliament who drafted the report said: “Given Kobili Traoré’s husky build and the photos of Sarah Halimi’s corpse, she couldn’t have been screaming for very long.” That tells everything about this report.

Jerry Gordon: Speaking about terrorism in France, we noted that the interior minister ordered the closing of the Grand Mosque in Cannes, whose leader was somehow involved with the terrorist murder of Samuel Paty by a teenage Chechen refugee as I recall.

Nidra Poller:  The only connection that’s been reported is that he was close to BarakaCity and the Collective Against Islamophobia, two organizations that were banned after the murder of Samuel Paty, because of inciting the murder. The Imam of the Cannes mosque is saying that the former Imam may have been involved with those groups, but he’s no longer connected to the mosque. It will go through the courts. These things take so long, by the time they started the procedure, there was a change of Imam. Who knows? Maybe he sneaked out and the other one came in to try to avoid the closing. There are many mosques that must be closed.

Eric Zemmour, Campaign Rally, Cannes, France, January 22, 2022

ERIC ZEMMOUR UPDATE

Jerry Gordon: I’d like to segue to Mr. Zemmour and what has transpired with him. We are not very many weeks away from a deadline in late February for submission of endorsements that are required to enter these races. What is going on with Mr. Zemmour, who has been roundly castigated, and in many ways, has shot himself in the foot repeatedly.

Nidra Poller: He repeatedly shoots himself in the foot. That could be another position for him– shooter in the foot, instead of President. Let’s start with the most recent incident. Zemmour was visiting a school, talking about his wonderful project for education, and he was asked what he thought about the integration of handicapped children in normal schools. He replied, “Oh, no, no, they should be in special institutions. I hate this obsession with inclusion. And it’s no use to them because they’ll just fall behind the other students.” It was such a shot in the foot that several of his advisors must have immediately called and told him to backtrack. He backtracked twice or three times. But it’s done. And this is very revealing of something at work behind the scenes of Zemmour, a kind of will power, and a hatred of the weak.

To say that today, that handicapped children shouldn’t be integrated into the schools, when everyone knows that heavily handicapped children who can’t handle it aren’t integrated,

For the endorsements, the general feeling is that he’ll get the 500 endorsements, because a candidate that polls at 12-13 percent should be allowed to run. However, it might be a way for him to sneak out because we don’t know if he has the money to run, and I don’t think his campaign is going anywhere, I think it’s completely blocked.

There was a program on an all-news channel, BFMTV, where Zemmour was interviewed by five journalists, asking questions him about his life, his work, his project, and his program.  It was fair, the journalists weren’t hostile, they didn’t try to stick him with cliches and stupid questions that everybody brings up. He was free to say whatever he wanted on any subject. Here’s what I observed…and it confirms I’d been saying: he’s intellectually dishonest.  When he doesn’t know, he fakes, which was obvious when he talked to an economist?  He couldn’t defend his economic program, and it didn’t feel like he knew how it would work. When the facts don’t suit him, he twists them. It makes him look weak and wobbly. He outlined his project for the schools, and, again, it’s… it’s as if you could go back to the past.

His vision of how he would govern is dictatorial:  when he proposes something, you can tell he hasn’t imagined that other forces are involved and would also have a say. When you try to reform the schools–I think it’s the same in the United States, immediately, the teachers are outraged and opposed to whatever you suggest, and you must negotiate with them. He wants to bring back school as it was in the old days, in the ’60s.  Of course, people are horrified by the sharp drop in the level of French students. Kids get out of school… they can even pass the baccalauréat, … and not be able to read and write. It’s mysterious, how they manage to pass. But he wants a school where everything would be orderly, and the children would wear smocks to hide differences of style and income.

And then, on other questions, he says, “Well, this would be a very important question, so I would want a referendum.”  I guess you would say that’s populist, because if you don’t work with the legislature, you’re not in a system of balance of power.  He has no chance whatsoever of getting a majority in the legislature, the elections are two months after the presidential election. If you don’t have a majority, you can’t pass legislation. Again, he assumes the result of a referendum will be in his favor, right? I speak for the people, so whatever I ask them, they’ll give the answer I want,

He’s very dismissive of political parties and, particularly, of the political party that is way ahead of him at all levels of government.:., les Républicains, the conservative party., He says they care more about their party than about the country. But what does it mean to govern without a party? It means a dictatorial kind of government. A political party does exactly what Zemmour’s advisors are trying to do …in a very amateur way. A political party pushes the candidate forward and, at the same time, moderates the candidate. Democracy is based on this constant moderation of all kinds of opinions, all kinds of mentalities, and trying to resolve differences peacefully.

Zemmour says he’s the only one that can unite the Right. That’s illogical:  if you’re going to unite several parties, the strongest candidate will lead, right? Anne Hidalgo, the mayor of Paris, would like to unite the Left, but she’s polling at 3 to 4%; nobody wants to line up behind her. And so, it’s a very weak argument for Zemmour. I think that French voters at the last minute when they get into the voting booth, they… we call it the “vote utile.” They vote for what’s practical. They might want to vote for Le Pen or Zemmour, but they know that Le Pen can’t win and Zemmour can’t get to the second round. If they don’t want Macron, they have to vote for Pécresse. That gives her a chance to get to the second round. There will be a constant television programs, interviews, and rallies with TV coverage. Gradually, the picture becomes clear.

But it’s important for me to have an honest evaluation of Éric Zemmour because he is Jewish, and he claims to be the one that will save France from Islamization. We know his Jewishness is variable, depending on whether or not it’s useful to him.  But we never saw him around in the early 2000s defending the Jews of France. He believes his French identity is more important than his Jewish identity. He is rather indifferent to Israel, and opposed to dual citizenship, which is important for French Jews who make aliyah, because they want to keep their dual citizenship. We’ll watch as things go, I would say his campaign is stagnating, and these shots in the foot are not helping.

Jerry Gordon: In terms of the competition coming up for the presidential race in April, you have Le Pen, but she doesn’t seem to be moving back to the position she had previously. Then you have the first woman who leads the center-right party, Pécresse.

Nidra Poller: I wouldn’t describe it as center, it’s right and center-right. Then Le Pen and Zemmour will be labelled “extreme right.  It’s a mistake to think that Pécresse is not strong on questions of immigration, protection of the frontier, citizenship, French identity or law and order.  She’s strong on those things. So, I would call les Républicains right and center. And I’d call the others the “marginal right.”

THE PANDEMIC

Jerry Gordon: In the United States, we have another issue, it’s called dealing with a pandemic, by the Biden administration, which looks like it’s in pieces now. The only redeeming quality might be a gift of rapid tests sent by mail to every American household that wants to use them. The contrast is France where the handling by Macron has been deft. This is notwithstanding some of the complaints and riots against aspects of it.  It is a lot better than some of the other major EU countries and in large measure better than the situation here in the US. Is that case reflected in the polling in France?

Nidra Poller: Strangely enough, I would say yes. That is why is he polling at 27 percent and steadily polling as winning the second round.  At the same time, criticism is not coming only from the crazies and the anti-vaxxers. Almost everybody is criticizing the way it’s being handled, which is normal, because we are faced with something that nobody can handle. They do their best, and they get little credit for it.  But I would say that it’s been handled rather steadily and with a light hand in France, trying to avoid measures like the lockdown that was necessary at the beginning. The aim here is to get a remarkably high level of vaccination, and that’s been working, we’re now getting a high percentage of people with the third dose, protecting the very vulnerable, improving hospital care, and trying to keep the hospitals from being overloaded.

We have not had some of the terrible things I saw in the US at the beginning. I saw pictures of a broom closet filled up with corpses in body bags at Maimonides hospital in Brooklyn. We have avoided these severe shocks. Some European countries had more zigging and zagging, and then suddenly made vaccination mandatory for everyone. The French won’t do that.  They have other ways to get people vaccinated: the pass.

A young person I know very well said, “That was really intelligent. You know how French people are, if you say, ‘You have to get vaccinated because you might die and cause other people to die,’ they’ll say, ‘Oh, there’s more to life than dying and living.’ But if you say you can’t go to restaurants and cafés, they’ll run and get vaccinated.”  That’s what happened. So, I would say, below the surface, yes, this is appreciated. The people that complain are loud, but they’re not the majority.  The other candidates don’t quite know what to do about that.  They can’t honestly say Macron messed up and they’ll do better.

JIHAD IN THE SAHEL

Jerry Gordon: I want to turn to something that we discussed last time, which was an under-reported story about the problems of the French-led counter-terrorism effort against the jihadists in the Sahel, and there’s the flash point with Mali. There was a coup recently, and in fact, the leader of the coup, a military leader, called in those little green men from Mr. Putin, the Wagner Group, and that has caused division within the so-called Takuba force composed of units from the EU.

Nidra Poller:  Yes, special forces from 14 EU countries.

Jerry Gordon:  What is really going on there? And how has Macron handled that?

Nidra Poller: Do you know that Ibrahim Keita, the former President, died today?

Jerry Gordon: Yes

Nidra Poller: This has been a terrible problem, and it’s been openly reported. After the coup, the French warned that if the putschists formed an Islamist government, they couldn’t maintain operation.” The French wanted to go in there and just stop the jihadists that were on their way to Bamako. Every time our democracies go into failed or failing states solely to protect our own interests–whether it’s Iraq, Libya, you can name all the examples– it doesn’t work. For a while, some of the people are relieved by the presence and others are troubled by it. There’s a bit of progress.  And then, all the other forces in these societies mobilized, and the next thing you know, they turn against the French. That is what’s happening today, and they’re also turning against their neighboring African countries because ECOWAS put sanctions on them after they announced that the elections promised in February would be postponed for four years.

Sudan, that you know so much about … guess who forgave the brutal leaders of the coup in Sudan, to get them into the Abraham Accords?  Maybe the Mali coup plotters thought they could get away with it too.  President Macron was scheduled to spend Christmas with the troops, but he didn’t go to Mali supposedly because of COVID. It was reported that he wanted to bring representatives from ECOWAS and the Sahel 8, but the leader of the Junta refused So Macron cancelled the visit.  There were anti-French, anti- ECOWAS demonstrations recently. Now the Mali government wants to complain to the UN against the sanctions.  Another quagmire. What’s the solution? If the democracies were ready to fight bravely, massively, intelligently and united against Jihad, we could have some progress.  The pinpoint strategy falls short, and the forces of Jihad run rampant. As we said, there’s no shortage of jihadists to take hostages in a synagogue or a supermarket or behead a teacher. And there’s no limit to failed countries …

Jerry Gordon: I think in part that’s because of the fall of whatever government you want to call it in Afghanistan, and the re-invigoration of the Taliban, Al-Qaeda, and ISIS, who are warring parties there. There was an interesting statistic that has been compiled and released recently, it showed ISIS that we all thought was kiboshed, is still active in Jihad.

Nidra Poller: We didn’t think so!

Jerry Gordon: ISIS perpetrated 27,000 attacks during the last year, and a lot of those occurred, as you well know, in the Sahel region.

Nidra Poller: Yes. For example, Burkina Faso.  It was so peaceful when I was there in the late ’70s. The withdrawal from Afghanistan is one of a series. It started after the Iraq operation. The idea that the “invasion” of Iraq was wrong. The French are still proud that they refused to go along with it in 2003. There are two things we might point out: The al-Dura affair in 2000– the accusation of child murder by Israel led to this wave of genocidal antisemitism, with the constant criticism of Israel that went on until the Jihadists started attacking elsewhere. For example, in France, when they started attacking the general population, the police, firefighters, hospitals, doctors …

They realized there was a serious problem. And still condemned, the intervention in Iraq. The process continued right after Bush. Obama always thought he could settle things peacefully and diplomatically. And then came President Trump. He wanted to pull the troops out of everywhere. He abandoned the Kurds in Syria, he wanted to leave NATO. And he was the one that negotiated the defeat in Afghanistan and turned it over to the Taliban. That agreement of surrender to the Taliban o.is one of the most incredible official documents I’ve ever read.

Jerry Gordon: All done in, where was it, Qatar?

Nidra Poller:  It reads like it was done on the kitchen table with a bunch of Mafiosi standing over them. It’s written like a rag. I can’t give you the exact name, it’s an “agreement with the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan that we don’t recognize.”  That’s why Bolton left the Trump administration … it was a year and a half before the withdrawal. There was a long process of criticizing those who tried to defend their countries, promising not to defend our troops, and pulling out and leaving room for these hostile forces to move in.

Then there is Zemmour:  He wants to pull out of NATO. He said we don’t need it anymore, there’s no more Soviet Union, nothing to defend, and it makes us dependent on the United States. He wants closer ties with Russia, and looser relations with the United States. Also, he’s against children learning English in primary school, and he’s proud not to speak English.  So, what’s the next President going to decide about that? The Europeans have taken note that they can’t count on the United States. But Jerry, you know much more than I do about military things. You can’t improvise a huge military machine to deal with these problems. The United States has the military. So, in a way, it’s a question of strategy. What will policy makers do so that the will United States, one day, assume this responsibility again?

RUSSIA & UKRAINE, IRAN & NUCLEAR TALKS

Jerry Gordon: Talking about that, the problem of the day is Mr. Putin may have bit off more than he can chew with these threats against Ukraine and his less than secret desire to resurrect the so-called USSR borders. And by that, I mean absorbing not only Ukraine, but also Poland, and of course, the Baltic States.

Nidra Poller:  Yes.  Isn’t it incredible that after all that Russia has gone through in the 20th century, they would think of nothing better in the 21st than to cobble together, again, the Soviet Union, and get into another cold and hot war? When you look at China, China is potentially a serious military threat.  But look at what China has done economically. Russia has done nothing.

Jerry Gordon: The GDP of Russian Federation is, I think, less than that of the state of California.

Nidra Poller: And that’s because the billionaires account for 98% of it. It’s just incredible that they would do that to themselves.

Jerry Gordon: While the two-plus two-meetings, and meetings between the US and Russia at the Deputies level, and the NATO staff have failed, the question is what next with Mr. Putin? And in that regard, what is Macron’s position regarding the dispute?

Nidra Poller:   There’s a European kind of intelligence, an understanding of the balance of power. The French try to stay in a situation where they can, as they say, talk to everyone. They always aim for a diplomatic solution. They may be trying to improve their strategy to get advantages and avoid war. They certainly have no intention of letting Ukraine fall into Russian hands. I would assume they work closely with the United States on this.

Jerry Gordon: The other issue is Mr. Macron has fashioned some bilateral relations with Israel, particularly as regards the US EU3 Iran nuclear talks, which seemed to be going nowhere. There is a reference by Israeli Prime Minister Bennett and his defense minister Gantz about a Plan B, which might mean military actions.

Nidra Poller: Secretly, Plan B means they just wish that Israel would do it. Get it done. And then afterwards they might say it was a bit too harsh, but… It’s difference from 2015.  First, the public isn’t interested. There’s been little coverage of the Vienna talks. But there’s enough information to know that Iran isn’t fooling them. They don’t think there’ll be an agreement, and they’re not pushing for a compromise. In reply to occasional statements hinting that an agreement could be close, our Minister of Foreign Affairs, Le Drian, usually differs, saying progress is too slow, too many things have happened in the interim, it’s not going to work. That’s the French position. You know, in 2015, the French wanted a tougher agreement. But Obama wanted to push through that impossibly blind JCPOA.

When we talk about democracies not wanting to get involved in military action, the plan B, look at how Israel has been striking in Syria or wherever they felt the Iranians coming too close. You haven’t heard any outcry, no heavy pressure to stop them. I think there’s a consensus that Israelis are the ones that can do it, so give them a free hand while we try to negotiate. Butut we know it won’t work. I think that’s what’s happening.

Jerry Gordon: Israel has aggressively carried out what they call “the war between the wars. “It means attacking at every opportunity Iran and proxies Lebanon and Syria, even in Iraq.

Nidra Poller: Yes.

Jerry Gordon: That would make more sense than to do a complex difficult attack on nuclear facilities now. They will do what they must do to destabilize Iran’s progress. But the reality is we don’t know whether Iran has really reached the point of nuclear breakout. There have been suggestions that that it could happen within months or years. One thing I can tell you that is concerning: during the talks, Iran launched a solid fuel rocket. Why is that significant? Because when they have typically launched satellites, they’ve been using liquid fuel rockets. Now Iran has launched solid fuel rockets which give them a range of mobility and non-detectability before they could do something. That is a threat. I’ve written about this for years. That is directed at Europe because of the range of those rockets and their ability to launch them from mobile pads, railway cars, and underground silos. That is very concerning.

Nidra Poller: I can only agree with you.  It is not going to be like the Osirak raid in 1981 in Iraq. It is not going to be a strike on one nuclear plant, and that’s the end.

Jerry Gordon: Correct.

Nidra Poller: The “good” problem now is that Europe, Asia, and the United States are all targeted, so there’s room for concerted action. We’ll see what happens right after the talks fail. They’re supposed to conclude at the end of January.  They might drag on into February.

Jerry Gordon: We shall see. On that note, we would like to thank you very much for another brilliant roundtable discussion on issues affecting the US domestically, you in France, and our dear friends in Israel.

Nidra Poller: Well, as you can see, if the Jihadi could come from the UK to a little tiny synagogue in the suburb of Dallas, then we’re all involved, but I think we can end each conversation with we’ll see, on verra bien …

Jerry Gordon: Very good. Thank you again, Nidra.

Nidra Poller: Okay. See you next month.

Watch this YouTube video of the discussion with Nidra Poller.

©Jerry Gordon. All rights reserved.

The Brandon Administration’s First Year in Review

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis labeled the current powers to be in Washington, D.C. as “The Brandon Administration.”

As luck would have it we received an email from Congressman David Rouzer (R-NC) titled “Who is Brandon.” Here is what Congressman Rouzer had to say:

President Biden’s First Year

On January 20th, President Biden’s first year in office came to a close.  Last January we had challenges, for sure.  But one year later, each of those challenges is now in the category of crisis.  Making it worse, there are now a number of significant new problems largely self-created by this administration.

The Inflation & Economic Crisis: Inflation has reached its highest level in 40 years and prices of consumer goods continue to skyrocket. Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, Democrats continued to provide massive stimulus spending under their one party rule despite the fact there was more than $1 trillion appropriated during the Trump Administration that is still unspent.  State governments have so much money they don’t know how to spend it.  Meanwhile, the Fed now has little option but to increase interest rates right at the time we are very likely on the verge of a recession.

The December jobs report was the worst of Joe Bidens presidency, and many Americans are facing empty grocery store shelves. Supply chain experts do not expect these issues to get better any time soon.  When you don’t have enough workers you can’t produce enough product to meet demand.  Nor can you get the product shipped timely. Time is money. It costs extra for product to sit idle — whether at a port or in an inland warehouse.

The Crime Crisis: Homicides and crime rates in 2021 were near record highs, with several major cities breaking annual homicide records. When you go soft on crime, you get more of it. It is that simple. The irony is liberal soft on crime policies actually increase firearm ownership as more and more law-abiding citizens purchase guns to protect themselves and their families.

The Border Security Catastrophe: The crisis at our southern border is out of control with criminal cartels flooding the U.S. with dangerous drugs, sex trafficking and who knows what else. Additionally, a recently leaked video shows how the Biden administration is immediately releasing large numbers of illegal immigrants, mostly men apprehended at our southern border, into our communities.  Another leaked video shows the administration is flying illegal immigrants in the middle of the night to locations across the country.

Make no mistake, President Biden is turning every state into a border state. Rather than enforcing our laws, he is facilitating the breaking of them.  I anticipate there will be a massive push for his impeachment in the next Congress under Republican leadership for what is truly a dereliction of duty to protect the American people.  The truth is though, such an effort will go nowhere in the Senate — regardless of which party has the majority.  It requires 2/3 vote of that chamber to remove a President from office who has been impeached by the House.

The Education Crisis: One million children started their school year dealing with sudden closures.  Congress sent billions to state governments and local school districts so they could safely reopen, not close their doors again.  Vaccine mandates and mask mandates are only dividing the country that much more.

The Energy Crisis: If you want to increase gas prices, cutting domestic production is the best way to do it. (Washington liberals like high gas prices because it makes alternative sources of fuel that much more competitive with fossil fuels.) That’s exactly what this Administration did and now we are all paying for it at the pump and for other products as well. This is part of the inflation crisis too.  Just about every product made has petroleum as part of its make, or petroleum is required to run the machines to produce the product, and to ship it.
It’s time to return to policies that provide solutions for the American people. We have enough problems without the federal government making all of them worse.

Well that about sums up the Brandon Administration’s Build Back Worse Agenda. Crisis after crisis is their nom de guerre. Biden is using the assumed label of “Build Back Better” to engage in a cultural, economic, educational and criminal war against we the American people.

Therefore, it is appropriate to call this the Brandon Administration.

Any questions?

©Dr. Rich Swier. All rights reserved.

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What is Achievable is Repeatable with Black History

As educators, we must be committed to sharing leadership examples that enlighten students to discover that what is achievable is repeatable. Thousands of black leaders have embodied the most exemplary examples for children to emulate in every vocation imaginable. These leaders were successful despite segregation, Jim Crow Laws, and discrimination. Our children must know this history to understand who they are, what their ancestors have accomplished, and where they are going.

The public’s ignorance of the importance of black history is often the root cause of the lack of pressure on public schools to teach black history throughout the year in American history. Teaching black history in one single month of February is a travesty against all students. It denies the in-depth knowledge needed to inspire, and it leaves much history undiscovered.

Subsequently, many people are unaware of the significant contributions that black inventors made to America.  For example, simple everyday practical innovations such as the mop, dustpan, fountain pen, pencil sharpener, eggbeater, tricycle, ironing board, portable fire escape, the golf tee, potato chips, or the bread making machine made our daily lives better.

One of the earliest inventors was Benjamin Banneker (1731-1806), an astronomer and almanac creator responsible for recreating the city street plan in Washington D.C.  Banneker’s pioneer work in the agricultural economy helped with water irrigation and crop rotation techniques. He was also the scientist that discovered space and time. Other black pioneers secured patents for their inventions in diverse fields, like physics, biology, math, industry, and medical science. For example, Elijah McCoy (1843-1929) obtained fifty patents. However, the most well-known was the graphite lubricator cup that could drip oil when needed on moving parts of steam engines. Other inventors tried to copy his invention, but legend says customers said no, they wanted the “real McCoy.”

James Forten (1766-1842) made his fortune by revolutionizing the sail-making business and became an African American leader in the abolitionist movement. Two of his daughters married the Purvis brothers, Robert, and Joseph, also wealthy black abolitionist leaders in Philadelphia. Additionally, Lewis Latimer (1848-1928) perfected the lightbulb with the carbon filament while working with Thomas Edison; Garrett Morgan (1877-1963) created the traffic signal and the first effective gas mask. In the 20th and 21st centuries, black inventors such as Otis Boykin (1920-1982) created resistors for pacemakers; Dr. George Carruthers (1939-2020) measured and detected ultraviolet rays; Patricia Bath (1942-2019) created a laser surgical device, and Charles Drew (1904-1950) was the pioneer of the blood bank.

We make a more robust, enlightened American society by sharing black history with all students. We must be diligent that current agendas do not distort the understanding of the past. We must teach that black history is American history.

Dr. Lonnie Bunch, the Secretary of the Smithsonian, remarked,

It is very easy to be written out of history when you are not present…the erasure of our history and that erasure of that history creates the sense that for many African Americans that they have not done anything, they have not accomplished much, they have not transformed America.”

©Sandra K. Yocum. All rights reserved.

America First PC Considers Primarying Florida RINO Carlos Gimenez (FL-26) in August 2022

WASHINGTON, D.C. /PRNewswire/ — America First Political Committee (‘America First’) announced today that their Chairman KW Miller is considering Primarying RINO Carlos Gimenez (FL-26) in August 2022. KW Miller is a long-time resident of South Florida and has significant ties to Florida’s 26th Congressional District which includes a portion of southern Dade County and all of Monroe County, Florida.

Gimenez is one of many RINO’s that America First has targeted for Primary elections across the USA in 2022. Gimenez is NOT supported by America First, Donald Trump or the Republican Party.

RINO Carlos Gimenez has voted with Nancy Pelosi and the radical leftists far too many times in Congress. Gimenez also defended disgraced RINO Liz Cheney after she voted in favor of the ‘Sham Impeachment’ against Donald Trump. Gimenez doubled down in defending Cheney after the Republican Caucus censored and removed RINO Liz Cheney from Republican Party Leadership.

RINO Gimenez also voted for the ‘January 6’ Socialist Democrat witch hunt against American Citizens and Republican voters. Gimenez, like RINO Liz Cheney openly votes and sides with the Socialist and Radical Democrats.

Some other notable examples of Gimenez Socialist votes include:

  • RINO Gimenez openly supported and voted for Hillary Clinton in 2016. That alone was grounds for expulsion from the GOP;
  • RINO Gimenez voted with Nancy Pelosi on H.R. 550, to allow the federal government to create a database, track unvaccinated Americans, who could be targeted, segregated, discriminated against, and forced to comply with vaccination mandates;
  • RINO Gimenez voted with Nancy Pelosi on Anti-Second Amendment legislation HR-8, making it more difficult for law-abiding citizens to purchase, own, carry, and use a firearm;
  • RINO Gimenez voted with Nancy Pelosi on H.R. 6 for ‘Open Borders and Amnesty’ to over 20 million criminal illegal aliens, which would permanently avoid deportation, obtain a pathway to citizenship, and full voting rights;
  • RINO Gimenez also voted with Nancy Pelosi to strip Republican Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene of all Congressional Committee positions.

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Our mission is to protect the integrity of the U.S. Constitution, promote conservative political candidates and policy that puts America First.

NORWAY: Everyone Should be Exposed to Omicron and Other Viruses in Order to Acquire Immunity

Look anywhere but America for medical truths. Obamacare politicized and weaponized the once greatest healthcare system in the world.

Translation from this MSN article: 

‘Telling the truth from Norwegian Public Health to the government. Better to open up now so everyone can get infected as the vaccines given have some effect now against severe/ICU/deaths and not later.

Let it rip, which is easy as the virus is anyway unstoppable. This is clear logic. Vaccine protection against severe infection is decreasing every week rapidly. Those with two doses and not elderly/immunosuppressed will have use from the vaccine-induced B cells response, although less than natural infected, will protect them from severe outcome. Those triple vaccinated and elderly/immunosuppressed will also have some protection. The unvaccinated will have live vaccination from omicron from this unstoppable virus.

To vaccinate now is absolutely wrong. To give a booster dose in an ongoing peak will only give you the worst of worlds. The short term reduced general immunity will let you get infected more easily and also very bad to tackle the infection when your immunity is temporary reduced by the powerful vaccines.

THE ONLY SOLUTION IS OPEN UP IMMEDIATELY EVERYTHING, NO MASKS, NO FRONTIER CONTROLS AND NO VACCINATIONS WITH THE NOW USELESS WUHAN VACCINE.’

Translation MSN:

Norska FHI vill öppna upp: ”Är bättre att smittas nu”
5 dagar sedan
”Ojämlikheten ökar – men S är tysta som möss”
Tesla missar att stanna – återkallar bilar
© Tillhandahålls av Omni

Flera miljoner norrmän kommer att smittas av omikronvarianten under vintern och våren, men landet bör ändå häva de flesta restriktionerna. Det skriver norska FHI i en ny riskbedömning enligt NRK.

Myndigheten anser att det är ett bra läge att låta smittan spridas eftersom många nyligen har fått en tredje dos. Att försöka trycka tillbaka smittan skulle kräva mycket kraftfulla åtgärder som skulle vara värre för många än konsekvenserna av att få covid-19.

– Vi har en befolkning som nyligen fått den tredje dosen och har ett bra skydd mot sjukdom och sjukhusinläggning. Det är bättre att bli smittad när man är i den situationen än när vaccineffekten har minskat, säger FHI-chefen Camilla Stoltenberg.

Relaterade länkar:

FHI beräknar att det som mest kommer att vara 175 patienter som behöver respiratorbehandling samtidigt (NRK)

Över 20 000 smittofall registrerades i går (www.dagbladet.no)

Astrid Meland: Det värsta ligger framför oss (Verdens Gang)

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