Interestingly, within 72 hours of these hearings new material has emerged which offer a very high resolution lens with which to view the testimony given below.
A highly-anticipated internal FBI document – obtained by DailyMail.com – includes bombshell claims that Joe Biden and his son Hunter forced a Ukrainian oil executive to pay them $10 million in exchange for the then-Vice President’s influence in getting a senior prosecutor fired.
According to the conversation between a confidential source and Burisma CFO Vadim Pojarski in 2015, Hunter Biden was hired onto the company’s board to ‘protect us, through his dad, from all kinds of problems.’
Burisma CEO Mykola Zlochevsky told the source: ‘It costs 5 (million) to pay one Biden, and 5 (million) to another Biden.’
‘For the better part of a year, I’ve been pushing the Justice Department and FBI to provide details on its handling of very significant allegations from a trusted FBI informant implicating then-Vice President Biden in a criminal bribery scheme,’ Grassley said in a statement.
‘While the FBI sought to obfuscate and redact, the American people can now read this document for themselves, without the filter of politicians or bureaucrats, thanks to brave and heroic whistleblowers.’
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Republican New York Rep. Elise Stefanik alleged during a Thursday hearing that the censorship of Hunter Biden’s “hellhole and cesspool” laptop swung the 2020 election to Joe Biden.
Following a meeting with the FBI in which agents acknowledged the laptop’s authenticity, Twitter prohibited its users from sharing an October 2020 New York Post story about the laptop in both tweets and direct messages. Bureau officials learned in 2019 over the course of their Hunter Biden tax probe that the laptop was authentic, Internal Revenue Service whistleblower Gary Shapley testified to the House Ways and Means Committee.
Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) and a GOP witness argue wider dissemination of the Hunter Biden laptop story would have flipped the 2020 election, citing a poll saying “61% of Democrats” would have changed their vote. pic.twitter.com/RSPZ9A1SDs
“Hunter Biden’s laptop from hell, it has everything. It’s a hellhole and cesspool of corruption and criminal conduct. It has hard drugs, prostitution, pornography, money laundering. It has Biden family shell companies, Communist Chinese corruption, foreign government deals for tens of millions of dollars in exchange for access to the Biden family,” Stefanik said.
“This was illegal government censorship to protect and prop up Joe Biden on the eve of the 2020 election. And according to polling of people who were made aware of the Hunter Biden laptop story, 53% would have changed their vote, including 61% of Democrats,” she continued.
Stefanik apparently referenced a survey from TIPP Insights conducted from Dec. 7-9, 2022. The poll of 1351 people found that 501, or 37%, were “closely following” the laptop story. Of that 37%, 53% described themselves as “very” or “somewhat” likely to have changed their vote in the 2020 election if they had known. That number includes 62% of Democrats and 52% of Republicans. Overall, under 20% of people out of the initial 1351 said that knowledge of the laptop may have changed their vote.
Other conservative media outlets, including the Daily Caller News Foundation, reported on the laptop ahead of the election. White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany repeatedly referenced the story in briefings. McEnany’s Twitter account was also suspended.
A black teenager says the side effects of the abortion drug mifepristone left her permanently “sick, sore, lame and disabled” and — since abortion staffers did not realize her child survived — caused her baby to be born with lifelong, “profound birth defects.” The case shakes the foundations of the abortion debate in America, as the number of abortions using mifepristone skyrocket, and abortion advocates partner with Democratic governors to mail abortion drugs to pro-life states nationwide.
A 16-year-old black girl (whose name we’re withholding) experienced two abortions at the Choices Women’s Medical Center in the Jamaica neighborhood of Queens (formerly the Flushing Women’s Center) within less than a year, according to a host of medical and legal documents obtained by The Washington Stand. The first time she became pregnant was at the age of 15, two years younger than the state’s age of consent, from her 20-year-old boyfriend and underwent a dismemberment abortion (dilation and evacuation) at 19 weeks on December 5, 2017. There is no paperwork to indicate the facility contacted authorities over the age difference.
By September 2018, the teenager was pregnant again from the same man. “He is 21 y/o,” the abortion facility noted in internal paperwork obtained by The Washington Stand, “and she was not pressured or forced to have sex.” The paperwork notes that the teen told abortion staffers “her parents were disappointed when they found out she was pregnant and did not approve of her relationship.” The paperwork also noted the vulnerable minor “smokes marijuana.”
The teen underwent a chemical abortion at eight weeks, receiving mifepristone from abortionist Angele Meikle and taking the abortion pill “under direct supervision” of Choices staffers in October 2018. The teenager swore in court documents that she “was also given drugs to take at home to complete” the two-drug chemical abortion, which combined mifepristone and misoprostol. “I took the drugs that staff at Choice Women’s Medical Center, Inc. gave me to take home according to the instructions that they gave me,“ she swore. She returned for a follow-up visit in November 2018, where she says abortion staffers falsely told her she tested positive for HIV/AIDS, but took no blood test to assure she had aborted her child.
Three months later — on February 2, 2019 — she realized her child had survived the abortion pill. In April 2019, she gave birth to a baby with “profound birth defects,” according to legal documents suing the facility and several abortionists. The child, referred to only as “P.V.” was born with hydrocephalus (colloquially called “water on the brain”), as well as “severe brain injuries, arthrogryposis-like disorder, congenital deformities of upper and lower extremities, and other serious injuries and conditions.“ The injuries caused the mother “to incur extraordinary medical and hospital expenses.”
“Had I known of the risk that the termination of my pregnancy may not be successful and the risk that my baby P.V. could be born alive with severe birth defects after I took the chemical abortion drugs the defendants gave me, I would not have undergone the chemical medical abortion,” the teen swore in a court document reviewed by TWS.
Taking the abortion drug mifepristone left the single, teenage mother “sick, sore, lame and disabled,” and after taking the drug, the teen “sustained severe and grievous injuries to head, body and limbs … some of which will be permanent in nature,” according to her legal brief.
An OB/GYN in Connecticut who reviewed her full medical record attested in the case that Choices personnel “deviated from good and accepted medical practices in failing … to ensure the [abortion] was complete.” The abortion facility “fail[ed] to adequately and fully inform” the teen and her family about “the risks, benefits, hazards and alternatives of the … drugs” they “administered, [and] is the proximate cause of the injuries” she suffered, as well.
“The revictimization of this poor 16-year-old by the abortion industry is the norm, not the exception,” Rev. Jim Harden, CEO of CompassCare, a New York-based coalition of pregnancy resource centers, told The Washington Stand. Abortionists regularly fail to report suspected sexual abuse, often telling the potential victim they do not want to know the details, which would make them mandatory reporters. “The medical community is the knot at the end of the rope for sexually abused girls,” Harden told TWS. “Not only does the abortion industry harm women and destroy the child, it protects the abuser while the industry itself is sheltered by pro-abortion political extremists like New York Governor Kathy Hochul.”
Hochul, a Democrat, announced in April that New York will begin stockpiling abortion drugs and signed a bill granting the abortion industry immunity for mailing mifepristone to pro-life states that make the drug illegal. Abortionists affiliated with the group AidAccess have already mailed 3,500 abortion pills to pro-life states in the last month and plan to take part in 42,000 chemical abortions in life-respecting states in the next year.
Abortion drugs already account for at least 52% of all abortions, although the two-drug abortion cocktail produces four times the level of harmful side effects for women than surgical abortions. Between 2000 and 2021, the FDA documented 4,207 adverse events from mifepristone use — including 26 deaths, 1,045 hospitalizations, 603 events requiring a blood transfusion, and 413 infections. That likely understates the figures, because in 2016, the Obama-Biden administration required only deaths caused by chemical abortion to be reported to the FDA’s Adverse Events Reporting System (FAERS).
Since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, the abortion industry and its political allies have turned to mifepristone. Several national pharmacy chains have agreed to sell the abortion drug to female customers. And a coalition of congressional Democrats, led by Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.), wrote a letter to Walmart, Kroger, Costco, Safeway and Health Mart on June 14 calling their refusal to sell abortion pills “unacceptable.”
“Abortion industry abuse is exacerbated by chemical abortion, which in states like New York, can be easily accessed by sex traffickers and rapists to cover up their crimes,” Harden told TWS. “The unethical deregulation of chemical abortion by the Biden administration’s FDA and blue states — like the one New York Governor Hochul recently implemented, shielding abortion quacks from liability — heinously upend the role of government to protect all people equally, especially vulnerable women and children.”
Instead of shielding abortionists from legal consequences, governors should conduct a full-scale audit of abortion facilities to determine whether they are facilitating statutory rape or human trafficking, and whether they are injuring the mothers who come to them for aid, says Harden.
“The audit needs to include 1) how many under-aged abortions were perpetrated in their states, 2) the age of the man who impregnated the girl, 3) how many of those were rape victims, 4) how many gave consent to abortion, 5) how many were underdiagnosed, misdiagnosed, and coerced, 6) how many were transported across U.S. border or state lines in order to cover up a sex crime in violation of the Mann Act, 7) how many chemical abortions were completed in emergency rooms,” Harden concluded.
The teenage mother’s abortion malpractice lawsuit remains active in New York courts as of this writing.
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A country music star is getting backlash after releasing a music video disparaging riots and rising crime rates. Jason Aldean released a music video last week for his single “Try That In A Small Town,” a song praising the close-knit communities found in (as the title might suggest) small towns and rural areas while criticizing riots and rising crime rates common in more urban areas. Country Music Television (CMT) stopped airing the music video days after its release in the face of criticism accusing Aldean of encouraging violence and racism.
Although the song received little publicity when released as a single in May, it has shot to a number one spot on iTunes since the music video’s release, topping songs from all other genres. The song contains lyrics daring would-be criminals to “Carjack an old lady at a red light / Pull a gun on the owner of a liquor store” and “Cuss out a cop, spit in his face / Stomp on the flag and light it up” in a small town, warning ne’er-do-wells, “See how far ya make it down the road. / Around here, we take care of our own. / You cross that line, it won’t take long / For you to find out, I recommend you don’t / Try that in a small town.” The music video contains news footage of flag burnings and riots, especially the Black Lives Matter riots from 2020, and contrasts those images against home video footage of families playing ball and riding bikes, fathers and sons hunting together, and a young boy raising the American flag.
Fellow singer Sheryl Crow, a gun control activist, accused Aldean of promoting violence, tweeting, “Even people in small towns are sick of violence. There’s nothing small-town or American about promoting violence. … This is not American or small town-like. It’s just lame.” Another gun control advocate, Moms Demand founder Shannon Watts, said Aldean’s song is “about how he and his friends will shoot you if you try to take their guns.” She also publicly claimed credit for CMT scrubbing the Aldean music video, saying she is “[p]roud to have had a hand in getting CMT to reject this racist and violent song.”
The music video has also been smeared as racist, with critics saying it encourages racially-motivated violence and endorses lynchings. That claim is chiefly rooted in the location the video was shot, the Maury County Courthouse in Columbia, Tenn. The city has allegedly been the site of several lynchings in the early 20th century. Mississippi Free Press editor Ashton Pittman tweeted, “Jason Aldean shot this at the site where a white lynch mob strung Henry Choate up … after dragging his body through the streets with a car in 1927. That’s where Aldean chose to sing about murdering people who don’t respect police.” The use of Black Lives Matter riot footage has also drawn criticism, with many major media outlets referring to the images of rioters smashing windows, firebombing cars, throwing Molotov cocktails, and attacking police officers as footage of “protests.”
Aldean has vehemently denied his song endorses violence or racism. In response to criticism, the singer wrote on social media:
“In the past 24 hours I have been accused of releasing a pro-lynching song (a song that has been out since May) and was subject to the comparison that I (direct quote) was not too pleased with the nationwide BLM protests. These references are not only meritless, but dangerous. There is not a single lyric in the song that references race or points to it — and there isn’t a single clip that isn’t real news footage — and while I can try and respect others to have their own interpretation of a song with music — this one goes too far.”
He explained that the song “refers to the feeling of a community that I had growing up, where we took care of our neighbors, regardless of differences of background or belief. Because they were our neighbors, and that was above any differences.” When releasing the music video, Aldean wrote on Twitter, “It feels like somewhere along the way, that sense of community and respect has gotten lost. Deep down we are all ready to get back to that. I hope my new music video helps y’all know that u are not alone in feeling that way.”
Additionally, the production company responsible for Aldean’s music video, TackleBox Productions, clarified that the singer did not choose the location where the video was shot. TackleBox founder Shaun Silva explained, “Any alternative narrative suggesting the music video’s location decision is false.” Aldean ended his statement saying:
“My political views have never been something I’ve hidden from, and I know that a lot of us in this country don’t agree on how we get back to a sense of normalcy where we go at least one day without a headline that keeps us up at night. But the desire for it to — that’s what this song is about.”
Aldean and his wife Brittany have been supportive of former President Donald Trump, promoted anti-Biden clothes, and been critical of the trans agenda, with Brittany Aldean releasing a series of t-shirts featuring the slogan “Don’t tread on our kids.” Brittany wrote on Instagram last year, “I’d really like to thank my parents for not changing my gender when I went through my tomboy phase. I love this girly life.” Her husband responded, “I’m glad they didn’t too, cause you and I wouldn’t have worked out,” accompanied by a laughing emoji.
Despite the backlash, Aldean has also seen a rise in support after the music video’s release. In addition to the song taking the top spot on iTunes, several prominent conservatives have publicly supported Aldean and his intended message. Trump posted on Truth Social, “Jason Aldean is a fantastic guy who just came out with a great new song. Support Jason all the way.” Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) tweeted, “When the media attacks you, you’re doing something right. Jason Aldean has nothing to apologize for.” Speaking to Fox News on the subject, DeSantis quipped, “We need to restore sanity to this country. I mean, what is going on that that would be something that is censored?”
Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders (R) tweeted, “The Left is now more concerned about Jason Aldean’s song calling out looters and criminals than they are about stopping looters and criminals. That tells you everything you need to know about the priorities of Democrats and woke companies like CMT that cave to the liberal mob.” South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem (R) posted a video online, saying, “I am shocked by what I’m seeing in this country, with people attempting to cancel the song and cancel Jason and his beliefs.” She said she’s appalled that Aldean is being “persecuted” for writing a song about “law and order” and “the freedom and liberty that this country was founded on,” adding, “Thank you for writing a song that America can get behind.” She also invited Aldean to perform outside the South Dakota governor’s residence.
Fellow country singer Travis Tritt tweeted to remind Aldean “that Twitter and social media in general is not a real place. The views shared by many accounts on this platform are not actually representative of the vast majority of the population of this country.” He encouraged his friend to “[s]ay what you want to say and be who you want to be. Damn the social media torpedoes.”
Legendary gospel singer Pat Boone also weighed in on the controversy, saying that the backlash against Aldean’s song is symptomatic of a “moral sickness” in the nation. Holding a Colt .44 given to him by his grandfather, Boone explained:
“In our earliest days, our most productive, positive days, we knew that what we had these guns for was not for offense and usually not even for animal hunting — because shotguns or rifles were for that — but for a pistol, if somebody broke into your house. That’s what small town America is geared for. They’re not wanting to kill anybody in the streets. They don’t want to break into stores. They don’t want to deprive any citizen of whatever color of anything they’re entitled to, but they do want to defend their lives and their honor.”
Despite the controversy, ABC aired a live performance of “Try That In A Small Town” during Wednesday night’s Country Music Awards. The music video currently has nearly four-and-a-half million views on YouTube.
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For all the talk that America “is stronger when it’s inclusive,” the real-world consequences of Joe Biden’s transgender military policy have been deeply and painfully felt. In a force already ravaged by wokeness, overextension, and cratering recruitment, men and women on the ground are also being asked to do the impossible: function with deeply dysfunctional members — which, as one Coast Guard Chief explains, has never endangered America more.
Like most people in uniform, Rocky Rogers, a 25-year veteran of the Coast Guard, watched President Biden sign the executive order that lets trans-identifying troops back into the military and wondered how it would affect him. He didn’t have to wait long to find out. In a sobering interview with Family Research Council President Tony Perkins, he set the record straight on just how disruptive and perilous it was.
As a direct supervisor to one of nine trans-identifying Coast Guardsmen in the military from 2018-2020, Rogers had a front-row seat to the decision that’s created a huge mess for unit commanders and, more broadly, national security.
“Before that member reported to my unit, my workspace,” Chief Rogers explained, “the command briefed me what was going on and just said to look out for this person.” Almost immediately, things started to unravel. “[The problems started with] an unimaginable amount of medical appointments to where this member was rarely at work for a personal choice procedure to be done. Because of these choices, my workforce was significantly hindered in what we could respond to,” he said. It was especially frustrating, Rogers pointed out, because he was “billeted six personnel, but we only had five that were able to work any given time of the day. So that was a huge, huge impact.”
From there, it just got worse. The coast guardsman started “asking for extended lunches or for nourishment, which is always acceptable, but [on top of that, this person wanted] another hour and a half for personal medical care. And I asked the member to get the command approval, because if you give it to one, you have to give it to all. And if we were to give everyone a two-hour lunch, nothing would be completed during the normal workday. So [we’re talking about] a lot of challenges.”
But, of course, when Rogers tried to get help from his own chain of command, he got nowhere. These special accommodations were made because this individual was transitioning to another body.
Chief Rogers expected — wrongly, it turned out — that his supervisors would have his back. “During my briefing with the command before this member even reported [to me], the command asked me if I ever needed any guidance [or] any support to let them know.” When that time came, “I can count three times I reached out to the command and medical administrators directly asking for advice for … challenges with, again, an unimaginable amount of medical appointments and so forth.” In emails back, he was told, “‘Chief, figure it out. Handle it appropriately.’ And that was a sign to me that no one in a leadership role wanted their hands to be tied.”
Eventually, Rogers said, this all led to a great deal of friction with his team. “There was a lot of frustration. There was just a lot of animosity, if you will, because they knew [that] this person could not be depended on to help out with our day-to-day tasks. So it wore the morale in our workspace down very quickly.”
If a single trans-identifying guardsman is this detrimental to a unit, Perkins wondered aloud, “What if you had two individuals like that in your group?”
Rogers did the math. “I’d have 65% of a crew to do 100% of the work — [that’s] what it would come down to.”
“That seems like that has an impact on military readiness,” Perkins replied.
“Absolutely, 100%,” Rogers agrees.
His story comes days after an 18-year-old military recruit broke her silence about what it was like showering with biological men as a result of Biden’s controversial policy, putting her in an “extremely uncomfortable position.” Senator Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) relayed her testimony in an Armed Services Committee hearing last week without revealing the woman’s name because she’s so worried about retaliation.
She was in basic training, “where she was sleeping in open bays and showering with biological males who had not had gender reassignment surgery but were documented as females because they had begun the drug therapy process,” Rounds explained. “She could have basically resigned or stepped away. She could have started over again.” But, at the end of the day, he argued, “I think this is one of the reasons why we’re not meeting our recruitment goals now,” he said. It’s Biden’s “woke agenda that we now see coming down by executive order.”
Yet the Pentagon and entire Biden team continues to argue that introducing mentally unstable people to the American military “is in our national interest.” Rounds and others, who’ve heard nightmarish complications, could not disagree more. “Most of the focus [under the Biden administration] is on the transgender individuals, not on the individuals who are working with them.”
And that may be one reason recruitment is collapsing. “As of July 12 of this year — so six days ago,” Rogers said, “just the enlisted ranks alone, the Coast Guard is down 3,559 members. That’s just recruiting. That’s not counting the shortages within the ranks that are already there.”
It’s the fruit, Lt. General (Ret.) Jerry Boykin insisted, of the Left’s years-long march through our armed forces. “I mean, give me any logical reason that you would see the kinds of things that we’re seeing in our military today. If you really want to understand [what Barack Obama meant] when he said, ‘I’m going to fundamentally change this country.’ … And if you want to do that, you start with the military. Now we’re seeing the results of that effort.”
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Three blocks from where Mohamad Barakat opened fire on police officers and firefighters, the Islamic Society of Fargo-Moorhead squats across from a school bus company. Nearby are other elements of the new enclave like the Somali Community Development group which offers English and citizenship classes and the Al Hamdi Restaurant from whose vicinity an eyewitness reported hearing the shots that took the life of one police officer and wounded two others.
Officially authorities claim to be baffled by Mohamad’s decision to open fire on cops and firefighters, but the decision by the FBI, the U.S. Marshals Service and the bomb squad to search Mohamad’s apartment suggests that they privately have an explosive motive in mind.
“The first thing we always want to know in a situation like this is, ‘Why?” Why would somebody do this?’” Chief David Zibolski wondered. Perhaps he should ask in Fargo’s own Little Mogadishu and inquire of the politicians who turned Fargo into a refugee camp.
If Mohamad acted in the name of Islam, it would not be the first terror attack from Fargo.
In 2016, Dahir Adan, a Somali refugee who penetrated the country along with a massive family that was tragically resettled in Fargo, went on a stabbing spree in a St. Cloud, MN mall. The Somali refugee had gone around the mall shouting “Allahu Akbar” dedicating the violence to his Islamic deity, and demanding to know if potential targets were Muslims before stabbing them.
ISIS claimed credit for the attack after Adam, like Mohamad, was fatally shot and killed, but not until after he stabbed 10 Americans. Fargo Muslims however quickly rushed to play the victim.
“Somali mall workers are afraid to go to their jobs today. I was even afraid to use public restrooms,” Hukun Abdullahi, a local nonprofit leader, had claimed.
Moorhead Mayor Del Rae Williams admitted that her biggest concern from the Muslim terrorist attack was that, “the more we make, you know, these kind of things an issue, the more people are abusive to (refugees) publicly.”
Police Chief David Todd denied, “I don’t have any indication that radicalization is occurring here in Fargo.” Seven years later, Officer Jake Wallin, who had survived Afghanistan and Iraq, was murdered by a Muslim attacker in Fargo. There’s never any indication until someone dies.
The violent attacks by Mohamad Barakat and Dahir Adan may surprise people who still think of Fargo, North Dakota as quintessentially American. Refugee resettlement has changed that.
8% of Fargo is foreign born. Much of that population comes from the Middle East and Islamic areas in Africa like Sudan and Somalia. Even much of the European refugee contingent is Bosnian. The massive influx of refugee resettlement allowed local politicians to boast that Fargo was growing much faster than the rest of the state or the country.
Fargo’s population shot up from 74,000 in 1990 to 90,000 in 2000 to 128,000 today. Somalis flooded Fargo, as did Iraqis, Bosnians and Bangladeshis. Amid the pure snows rose mosques, ethnic welfare nonprofits, Halal markets and other outposts of the new population.
By 2000, six hundred Somali families occupied Fargo, by 2004, Somalis outnumbered Hispanics in the Fargo public school system. Refugee resettlement, led by Lutheran Social Services, continued bombarding the state with foreign migrants, 70% of them embedded into the Fargo area.
“Millennials who are increasingly working in these jobs like to have a multicultural area that has differences in people,” Fargo Mayor Tim Mahoney contended. “We really need a diverse population to be more like a normal American city.”
When Fargo City Commissioner Dave Piepkorn had warned that millions of taxpayer dollars were being spent on refugee resettlement and that the area was becoming more dangerous, Somalis launched a recall campaign. Piepkorn has since been stripped of Deputy Mayor status.
Little wonder that few elected officials have had the courage to speak out against what is being done to Fargo and North Dakota.
Lutheran Social Services of North Dakota, its coffers swollen by dumping migrants from Islamic terror states on the area, suddenly faced a dieback under the Trump administration. The organization filed for bankruptcy and shut down in 2021, but rather than offering any relief, things actually got worse for Fargo and North Dakota.
Under Republican Gov. Doug Burgum, the former head of Lutheran Social Services, became the Executive Policy Director at the state’s Department of Human Services. Burgum, who is now running for president, announced that the state would take over refugee resettlement from Lutheran Social Services. Burgum had previously turned down an offer from the Trump administration to allow governors to end the practice of refugee dumping.
While Gov. Burgum claimed that the state would handle the invasion more responsibly than Lutheran Social Services had, bringing in the head of LSS put the lie to any such notion. Gov. Burgum had proclaimed that April would be Arab American Heritage Month, not to honor the Christian Lebanese, actual refugees who had first fled Islamic terror to move to North Dakota, but those Muslims who “built the first mosque in the United States of America.”
By 2022, the Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service North Dakota had taken over for the LSS and 78 Afghans, along with Syrians, Somalis and Iraqis were being resettled in the state.
That same year Rep. Hamida Dakane, who wears a hijab, became the first Somali legislator in the state House of Representatives from a district in Fargo. Dakane had found fame after an alleged vandalism incident at the Moorhead Fargo Islamic Center, holding up a “Hate Has No Home in Moorhead” sign as representatives of “Lutheran, Catholic, Presbyterian and Satanism” movements gathered to help. Then she joined Fargo’s Human Rights Commission.
“I am not representing a Muslim state,” Dakane, who entered this country on a student visa, noted. “There is a lot of things in Islam that doesn’t align with Democrats, but that doesn’t apply to the community.”
Mohamad Barakat may have had less patience waiting for North Dakota to become Islamic.
Fargo is slowly getting there. Somali restaurants, halal markets and ethnic associations are dotting the map. Especially around the area where Mohamad Barkat murdered a police officer. School districts are spending a fortune dealing with non-English speakers, primarily Somalis and Kurds, and a great deal of money goes to subsidize Headstart and food stamps.
Gangs proliferate trafficking in drugs and prostitution. And worse crimes appear and disappear.
Omar Mohamed Kalmio, a Somali refugee who shot and killed his American Sioux girlfriend, her mother, brother and another family member in nearby Minot, is still fighting his life sentence. Kalmio should have been in ICE custody after he and a group of Somalis had previously stabbed a man in the back with a knife.
In Grand Forks, Hawo Osman Ahmed, had allegedly threatened women with a knife. “Come over here I’m going to cut you,” she had warned, “I’m going to slice your neck.”
“I feel like I’m a Muslim woman who’s being attacked because I am a Muslim woman living in Grand Forks,” she later complained.
Authorities generally steer clear of such cases if they know what’s good for them. The prosecution of a sex trafficking ring by the Somali Outlaws gang across the country which allegedly involved girls as young as twelve was shut down by federal authorities, advocates and political pressure amid claims of racism, Islamophobia and cultural differences .
“We are heartbroken by this tragic loss,” Gov. Burgum said in response to the Somali act of violence that killed one police officer and wounded two others. “We also pray for the full recovery of the officers and civilian who were wounded in this horrible incident.”
‘Horrible incidents’ like these could be averted by ending refugee resettlement.
Gov. Burgum refused to end refugee resettlement when he had the opportunity to do so. The blood of the victims of refugee resettlement are on the hands of those who enable it.
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Long time Geller Report readers know full well the sexualization and promotion of perverse sexual practices to children in our public schools is nothing new. It all began with Obama. Everything terrible thing the government is doing to the American people (and the world) was put in place during the Obama years.
ALERT: Obama, a left-wing extremist who is one of the most corrupt presidents in American history, supports pornography for children. https://t.co/G4IFTCX60e
— 𝕊𝕔𝕒𝕣𝕪 𝔼𝕝𝕖𝕔𝕥𝕚𝕠𝕟 𝔻𝕖𝕟𝕚𝕖𝕣 🇺🇸 (@nomandatesco) July 18, 2023
When they accuse us of “banning books” they’re referring to graphic books containing pornographic content offered to kids in schools across the country.
For some reason, they never show examples from the books 🤔
http://drrich.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/logo_264x69.png00The Geller Reporthttp://drrich.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/logo_264x69.pngThe Geller Report2023-07-22 06:54:372023-07-22 11:56:25Obama Comes Out, Pushing Gay Porn in School Libraries
Whistleblower testimony strongly suggests interference in the Hunter Biden tax case was meant to defuse any inquiry into Joe Biden.
Two veteran IRS agents with impeccable records have now testified under oath that federal officials not only slow-walked the Hunter Biden probe but nixed efforts to investigate Joe’s role in the family business. And though legacy media are conveniently apathetic about the developments, they seem somewhat newsworthy to me.
On Wednesday, we learned the identity of “Whistleblower X.” Joseph Ziegler, a self-proclaimed Democrat who worked at the agency since 2010, told the House Oversight Committee that he handled 95 percent of the evidence in the Hunter tax investigation. Ziegler testified that throughout the five-year investigation, he was “handcuffed,” “hamstrung,” “marginalized,” and ultimately stopped from moving forward in the manner he would for any other scofflaw.
Ziegler wrote a 99-page memo laying out the case for felony charges, wholly consistent with the IRS guidelines governing charging in tax evasion cases. He maintains that every investigator and prosecutor on the case agreed felonies were in order — all of which should be easy enough to find out.
Sure, it’s fun to talk about salacious parts of the Hunter case, but the far bigger concern should be finding out why companies operating in authoritarian nations sent Biden $17 million. It would be a fair question even if there had been no criminal investigation.
Now, I’m not saying the feds were covering up proof of Joe Biden’s illegality — though circumstantial evidence and common sense say the family business couldn’t function without his participation. I’m saying it’s increasingly clear the Justice Department didn’t want to find out if there was any evidence. No one wanted a replay of the Hillary-illegal server scandal. And that’s how Hunter got his sweet deal.
“Any time we potentially wanted to go down the road of asking questions related to the president, it was, ‘That’s gonna take too much approvals. We can’t ask those questions,’” Ziegler told CBS News. “And I mean, it created an environment that was very hard to deal with.”
Gary Shapley, the second whistleblower, also testified that every time prosecutors wanted to talk to Joe’s grown grandchildren or others who were receiving payments from foreign companies connected to the “big guy,” investigators shut them down. Shapley told the committee that every step of the way “decisions were made that benefited the subject of this investigation.” That included the Justice Department stretching out the investigation to allow the statute of limitations to expire.
Shapley says a U.S. attorney for D.C. appointed by Joe Biden was the one who had the final call on whether felony charges were brought against Hunter. U.S. Attorney David Weiss, he testified under oath, told a room filled with five other senior FBI and IRS agents that he was “not the deciding person on whether charges are filed.” Maybe Congress should get everyone else under oath and find out?
Not that any of this mattered to committee Democrats, who rarely even attempted to debunk the testimony. Most of them merely prattled on about the evils of Donald Trump and Rudy Giuliani, which is usually enough to placate their constituents. A few Democrats ludicrously argued that the president’s son, a man who allegedly tried to write off sex club memberships, prostitutes, and fancy hotel rooms for drug dealers, was the victim of zealous over-prosecution.
Though occasionally they inadvertently made important points.
http://drrich.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/logo_264x69.png00The Geller Reporthttp://drrich.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/logo_264x69.pngThe Geller Report2023-07-22 06:39:572023-07-24 06:49:39It Was Joe Biden, Not Hunter, The Feds Were Protecting
Radical delegate Stacey Plaskett (D-VI) predictably defended censorship on Thursday, declaring that “free speech is not an absolute” and that certain views should not enjoy First Amendment protections.
Plaskett, the ranking member of the minority on the House Weaponization Subcommittee, attacked the views of witness and Democrat Party presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, calling them hateful.
“This is not the free speech that I know of,” she said. She recalled a recent controversy over remarks Kennedy made about the coronavirus affecting some population groups more than others, among other past comments.
Plaskett continued: “Free speech is not an absolute. The Supreme Court has stated that.” (The Court has not restricted the content of speech, but a “time, place, and manner” exceptions for the way speech is expressed.)
She went on to claim falsely that Republicans had not invited Kennedy to testify because he had been censored on social media, but rather to associate themselves with his controversial views. She also claimed that past witnesses interviewed by the committee, such as would-be “disinformation czar” Nina Jancowicz, had been subjected to death threats, and implied that committee chair Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) supported those threats.
Republicans were not interested in defending free speech, Plaskett continued to rant, but in forcing social media companies to promote “any conspiracy theories, no matter how harmful” because “they think that’s the only way their candidate can win the 2020 [sic] election.”
In response, Kennedy devoted his opening statement to defending his record and noting that he had also been censored for talking about ordinary subjects. The purpose of free speech, he noted, was to protect speech that people did not agree with.
That concept runs counter to the worldview of a totalitarian like Plaskett, who dismisses the speech of her political opponents as “conspiracy theories.”
Defending Twitter’s Collusion with the Federal Government to Censor & Suppress Free Speech
After the multi-billionaire Elon Musk purchased the social-media platform Twitter in 2022, he permitted a small group of investigative journalists to access to a vast collection of internal and external communications that had been transmitted over the years among the company’s employees and officials. The journalists, in turn, distilled and presented those communications to the public in a series of separate installments starting on December 2, 2022. These so-called “Twitter Files” proved that Twitter – prior to being purchased by Musk — had actively cooperated with federal law-enforcement agencies to censor certain information that conflicted with the company’s leftwing political orthodoxy, and to create “secret blacklists” targeting prominent conservatives.
To investigate this improper collusion between a private-sector company and the federal government, House Republicans in January 2023 established a “House Judiciary Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government.” Just prior to a March 9, 2023 hearing held by that Subcommittee, Matt Taibbi — one of the journalists to whom Elon Musk had granted access to the aforementioned Twitter communications — released a new installment of the Twitter Files. That installment revealed that the social-media giant had established a “Censorship-Industrial Complex” whereby Twitter leaders consulted on a regular basis with the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and nongovernmental organizations like the Atlantic Council and the National Endowment for Democracy, to censor information – even if it was accurate – that might make some people reluctant to be inoculated with COVID-19 vaccination shots.
During the first round of questioning in the March 9 hearing, Rep. Plaskett, the ranking member of the Select Subcommittee, sought to dismiss witnesses’ concerns about the fact that the FBI and other federal agencies had pressured Twitter to suspend or ban the accounts of users who were guilty of spreading so-called “disinformation” vis-a-vis the COVID vaccines and other politically charged topics.
As National Review noted: “Instead of expressing outrage at the government’s role in censoring political speech, Plaskett attacked the witnesses for allegedly endangering Twitter employees by publishing their redacted internal communications.”
For example, the congresswoman cited the testimony of Yoel Roth, Twitter’s former head of trust and safety, who, during a previous committee hearing, said that he had been the target of threats and online harassment after some of the Twitter Files had exposed his role in censoring content at the behest of the FBI. Plaskett told Republican Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio, the chairman of the Subcommittee: “I am not exaggerating when I say that you have called before you two witnesses who pose a direct threat to people who oppose them.”
Plaskett further claimed that there was no “real evidence” that Twitter and the federal government had colluded in any way. Instead, she argued that the hundreds of internal Twitter communications that journalists like Matt Taibbi had exposed to the public, were nothing more than examples of benign efforts by Twitter to practice “content moderation…”
http://drrich.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/logo_264x69.png00Discover The Networkshttp://drrich.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/logo_264x69.pngDiscover The Networks2023-07-21 15:21:032023-07-23 07:57:23Plaskett Defends Democrat Censorship of Political Opponents: ‘Free Speech is Not an Absolute’
President Joe Biden and Hunter Biden “both” told the CEO of Burisma to retain the president’s son at the Ukrainian energy company, an FBI confidential source said in a report alleging a pay-to-play scheme by the Biden family.
Republican Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley released the FD-1023 document the House Oversight has been citing on Thursday as evidence pointing to Joe Biden being involved in a bribery scheme with Ukrainian oligarch Mykola Zlochevsky. House Oversight members previously viewed the document in a SCIF, but Grassley publicly released it Thursday.
A confidential human source (CHS) alleged that Joe Biden and Hunter Biden told Zlochevsky to retain the president’s on at Burisma, despite CHS’ advice, the document says.
The form reads, “CHS inquired whether Hunter Biden or Joe Biden told Zlochevsky he should retain Hunter Biden; Zlochevsky replied, ‘They both did.’ CHS reiterated CHS’s opinion that Zlochevsky was making a mistake and he should fire Hunter Biden and deal with Shokin’s investigation directly so that the matter will remain an issue in Ukraine, and not turn into some international matter. Zlochevsky responded something to the effect of, ‘Don’t worry, this thing will go away anyway.’”
The allegation made by the confidential human source runs counter to the president’s claim that he has never spoken about his son’s business dealings.
Biden dismissed the further allegations in the FD-1023 form that both he and Hunter Biden took $5 million from Zlochevsky. Biden called the allegations “malarkey.”
The CHS also alleged that Vadim Pojarskii, a conduit for Zlochevsky, said that Hunter Biden was specifically hired to be on the board of Burisma “to protect us, through his dad, from all kinds of problems.”
The CHS reported the allegations in June of 2020, and was first introduced to Burisma associates in 2015 or 2016, the form reads. The CHS met with Zlochesvky to discuss Burisma purchasing a U.S.-based oil and gas business.
Defend the Border a national educational project is based upon the life and experience of Tom Homan’s thirty-five years in law enforcement and his commitment to humanely save lives, as detailed in his book, Defend the Border & Save Lives.
Tom was the Director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) under President Trump.
Due to the Biden Administration’s planned and unplanned efforts to radically transform America, our southern border is in the midst of a devastating crisis that includes illegal entry, human trafficking, drug trafficking, child exploitation, extortion, sex and rape crimes and an all-around breakdown of the rule of law.
The solution requires action on two levels, one political, the other cultural. Politicians must be elected who understand the necessity to humanely maintain border security and sovereignty and Americans must understand the same essential elements, thereby teaching others and voting intelligently in 2024.
Tara Rodas was a federal employee for more than 20 years. While serving at the Pomona Fairplex Emergency Intake Site in Pomona, California, Tara volunteered to help place Unaccompanied Children with Sponsors in the United States. Tara saw, firsthand, how lack of transparency, lack of oversight, flawed policies, and deficiencies in HHS’ Unaccompanied Children Program resulted in children being placed with suspicious Sponsors and suspected trafficking rings throughout the United States.
http://drrich.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/logo_264x69.png00Dr. Rich Swierhttp://drrich.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/logo_264x69.pngDr. Rich Swier2023-07-21 08:14:262023-07-24 09:10:25Banned Border Exposé: ‘Death Country & The River of Broken Dreams’—A Must Watch
In a column headlined “The Children Are In Grave Danger” in the Jordanian state daily Al-Rai, Sarah Taleb Al-Souhail, a Jordanian writer of Iraqi origin, called to protect children from the pro-LGBT+ agenda which she said is embedded these days in movies and games. Al-Souhail accused Disney and Netflix of deliberately spreading this content in the Arab world in order to inure children to the concept of homosexuality, which may eventually cause them to become transgender. This, she said, is a “global catastrophe,” and the world countries must cooperate in flighting it, so as to keep children from “falling into the trap of this unnatural perversion.”[1]
The following are translated excerpts from her column:[2]
“A child is by definition a pure, blank slate, a gem that must be protected from filth and from harm and kept from being broken or corrupted. Sadly, since [the beginning] of the third millennium, children have been exposed to dangers that eliminate their natural inclinations and their humanity by means of systematic campaigns, whether through computer games that encourage violence and suicide, or by spreading drugs in schools, or by recruiting children to gangs, militias or terror [organizations] – or, as has been happening lately, by means of campaigns that seek to persuade children to deviate from nature.
“The content of these last campaigns has started to emerge. Every time one watches a program, series or new show on the media or social media [platforms], one encounters some kind of [message] that promotes this phenomenon among people. I have noticed that several media figures on the Arabic satellite channels, both men and women, address this issue in every episode of their shows, as though someone is paying them to promote it, and this [phenomenon] has thus become overt.
“The threat has reached children in their homes – through games, stories and cartoons, [and even] though the amusement parks we used to love, such as Disney World. They have actually [formulated] a systematic campaign to spread homosexuality in the world, including in the Arab region – even though this region is stricter than any other in following the precepts of the monotheistic faiths, all of which ban this unnatural perversion, not only from a religious perspective but also from a cultural and social one.
“Under humanistic slogans of freedom… in 2008 some international companies launched a campaign to promote [homosexuality] in the Arab homeland, among them Netflix and Disney, which attempt to promote it through their films and children’s games.
“American media host Megyn Kelly has already warned about this perversion and accused Disney of teaching kids homosexuality when she discussed the gay characters in the children’s movie Lightyear. According to the AP news agency, 14 Arab countries banned the movie because it contained forbidden scenes, and this hurt the moviemakers’ profits.
“This is not the first time Arab and Muslim countries have banned a Disney movie. The film Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness was [also] banned for preaching and promoting this perversion, and so was Toy Story 4, which won an Oscar in 2020. The movie Eternals and the West Side Story films [sic.][3] were likewise banned in most Arab countries for including transgender and deviant characters…
“The danger lies in the fact that Disney counts on the idea of inuring children to homosexual scenes, and [in the fact] that some Western institutions allocate vast sums to spreading this [phenomenon]. If in the past we did not understand the harmful implications of this, now we have matured and realized it…
“Doctors and medical experts stress that watching cartoons and [playing] games that promote homosexuality can lead children to change their gender by inuring them to the idea…
On March 29, 2023, Disney corporate President Karey Burke said that the company would from now on support and promote these issues.
“The problem is that Disney is invading us with this idea of homosexuality, while our [own] Arab world is unable to produce films that meet our children’s need for entertainment and excitement. [In fact,] Disney corporate President Karey Burke defied the world by announcing the production of new films with gay characters, and Disney soon intends to make 50% of its cartoon characters gay, in order to support this [community].[4]
“This catastrophe, which I regard as a global one, requires global cooperation among all of mankind to prevent the spread of these movies and raise awareness [of the issue] among families and society, so as to monitor the children and immunize them against falling into the trap of this unnatural perversion.
“The most important question in this context is how people can become convinced that children have a right to bring perdition upon themselves. Should children be free to drink gasoline or eat asphalt, for example? Should we regard this as their right? What cognitive capacities do children possess that enable them to make this choice? And if [the promoters of homosexuality] argue that children do have the right to choose, how do we prevent them from smoking or drinking alcohol at young age, for example?!”
[3] Only Steven Spielberg’s 2021 film West Side Story, which is a remake of the 1961 film adaptation of the musical, includes a transgender character.
[4] In an internal company Zoom call, Burke called for 50 percent of Disney’s characters and content to be from underrepresented groups, and vowed to increase representation of the LGBTQ community or from racial minorities. See e.g., Gbnews.com, March 30, 2022.
http://drrich.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/logo_264x69.png00Middle East Media Research Institutehttp://drrich.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/logo_264x69.pngMiddle East Media Research Institute2023-07-21 07:27:472023-07-21 07:45:35Jordanian State Daily ‘Al-Rai’: We Must Protect Our Children From Disney’s Pro-LGBT Propaganda
Before the hearing [before the House of Representatives Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government] on censorship started, the Democrats in the House tried to censor Kennedy. Over one hundred Congressional Democrats signed a letter to House Speaker Dennis McCarthy calling on him to pull Kennedy from the hearing RFK Jr has ‘no business’ testifying in Congress on government censorship, Democrats say | Fox News.
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As the hearing opened, Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Florida 25th CD) moved to adjourn the committee into Executive Session – and out of public view…
These hearings are taking place in the aftermath of the landmark July 4 ruling by District Court Judge Terry Doughty in the case Missouri v. Biden, who issued a Preliminary Injunction requiring the federal government to stop trying to pressure, induce, or collude in social media companies’ censorship of constitutionally protected speech.
This Injunction is based on a mountain of evidence that a veritable army of federal agents colluded with social media companies to censor information, viewpoints, and speakers the government didn’t want people to hear.
The Court found that “the ‘misinformation’ to be suppressed was whatever the government deemed misinformation.”
Missouri v. Biden is a landmark case — the first judicial condemnation of the federal government’s massive censorship-by-proxy campaign. It is a tremendous victory for free speech. As an appellate court has issued a stay of the injunction at the Biden administration’s request; the matter is likely destined for the Supreme Court.
I and the nonprofit I founded, Children’s Health Defense (CHD), played a major role in this case. The suit was founded on a legal theory first developed in a case CHD brought against Meta/Facebook, currently pending in the Ninth Circuit. I am co-counsel in this case. We are arguing that because of the pressure on Meta from government agencies, Meta’s censorship is state action and therefore unconstitutional. We have placed the Missouri. v. Biden discovery, fact-findings, and order before the Ninth Circuit and are hopeful it will take a stand for the First Amendment.
I and CHD are also bringing a class action suit in the Western Louisiana District Court against various government agencies on behalf of social media users, on the grounds that the First Amendment protects not only speakers, but viewers and listeners, who have a right to receive information in an uncensored public square.
Finally, we are also bringing an antitrust suit against The Washington Post and other media who were part of the Orwellian “Trusted News Initiative” (TNI). The TNI is a news censorship cartel whose members include the BBC, The Washington Post, Associated Press, Reuters, Google, Facebook, and Microsoft.
Whenever non-mainstream online news publishers report facts or viewpoints deemed by the TNI to be “misinformation,” TNI members censor, shadow-ban, or deplatform those publishers.
This so-called “misinformation” has frequently included wholly legitimate, accurate reporting, for example that COVID might have originated in a virology lab in Wuhan, or that the COVID vaccines did not prevent infection or transmission.
When companies like Facebook, Google, or The Washington Post collude with the government to censor online news, they violate the First Amendment; when they collude with each other, they violate the Sherman Act.
In 1973, the Supreme Court’s Norwood v. Harrison clearly established that indirect or outsourced censorship is unconstitutional. The Court said, “[i]t is also axiomatic that a state may not induce, encourage, or promote private persons to accomplish what it is constitutionally forbidden to accomplish.”
I have personal experience of how the Biden administration colluded with private and publicly funded organizations to restrict speech on all the largest social media platforms.
On January 23, 2021, three days after Joe Biden was sworn in as President, Clarke Humphrey (Digital Director for the White House Covid Response Team) sent an email to Twitter flagging one of my tweets and instructing Twitter to “move on the process of having it removed ASAP.”
Three weeks later, Instagram shut down my account, which had almost 600,000 followers. The company gave no explanation.
In July 2021, the White House alleged in a press briefing that 65% of online “misinformation” was being created by 12 people, including me. It got that information from a dark-money organization called the Center for Combating Digital Hate (CCHD). The White House called on internet companies to “redesign recommendation algorithms” to “address misinformation.”
The White House backed this call with a threat. On July 20, 2021, it explicitly threatened to amend or repeal the liability protections of § 230 of the Communications Decency Act if social-media companies did not increase censorship of disfavored speakers and viewpoints.
The coercion worked. Shortly thereafter, under threat of retaliation, Facebook removed dozens of pages, groups, and accounts linked to these 12 people, wiping all of them, including me, off the platform. They did so even though they knew very well that the CCHD report was baseless, as proven by emails unearthed by journalist Paul Thacker.
Facebook even posted a statement on its own platform stating that the CCHD report offered a “faulty narrative” and has “no justification” for its claim.
As it turned out, many of the “false” claims that Facebook removed turned out to be true. A July 7 Wall Street Journal op-ed, “Censorship Proved to be Deadly,” details the many truths that were suppressed as misinformation. The subhead was: “Government and social-media companies colluded to stifle dissenters who turned out to be right.”
The article confirmed that the government and social media companies worked together to suppress empirical, scientifically-based criticism of the COVID lockdowns (such as the Great Barrington Declaration) — lockdowns that resulted in trillions of dollars of needless losses, grievous medical and educational harms, but very little evidence of saving lives. They also suppressed questions on the safety of the COVID vaccines, along with research findings about alternative treatments such as Ivermectin.
The op-ed further points out that excess non-COVID deaths soared among healthy people in 2021 and 2022 — another fact that most Americans are unaware of, precisely because it, too, was censored. The reasons for this excess death are still unknown — and unless we have free and open public discussion in this country, never will be known.
Missouri v. Biden and the Twitter Files detail government agencies’ direct requests to remove people and opinions from social media. More insidiously, media companies also try to preempt these demands by conforming to the ideological preferences of politicians. All that is necessary is for officials to signal what information is good or bad, and the censorship industrial complex does the rest.
The censorship I experienced was not limited to Facebook and Instagram. In September 2021, my YouTube channel was summarily removed without warning. YouTube also removed a political speech I gave in New Hampshire in March of this year. Then YouTube took down the livestream of my Presidential candidacy announcement speech on May 19. The speech did not mention vaccines. YouTube cut it short right near the beginning when I was talking about Paul Revere. They did not specify which policy the Paul Revere story violated.
On June 16, YouTube also took down an interview I conducted with Jordan Peterson. The topic, ironically enough, was “Rekindling the Spirit of the Classic Democrat.” While I made no claims about vaccine safety, the topic of vaccines came up in an historical context, as I described how it became a forbidden topic. YouTube removed the whole video.
Apparently, certain words are unmentionable.
There are actions that Congress can take to address the rampant growth of censorship online. First, amend Section 230 to prohibit platforms from censoring political candidates and from discriminating on the basis of political opinion on issues of public concern.
Second, enact federal common carrier legislation banning political opinion discrimination by the big tech platforms, similar to what applied to the old phone networks. (They couldn’t cut service on the basis of political opinion!)
Third, amend RICO and the Lanham Act for the Digital Age to cover platforms that deceive their users and damage third parties such as CHD.
The President can also take immediate action, by revoking Executive Order 13747, (Obama’s GHSA) and dismantling White House and inter-agency censorship. It should also issue a new Executive Order adopting Judge Doughty’s injunctive terms against the government interfering with social media platforms as free speech forums.
Ultimately, the Constitution is a legal document. Endless justifications may be concocted to nullify it, bypass it, or ignore it. That document only has power to the extent that we believe in it, to the extent that we invest it with political energy, hold its ideals sacred, and apply it with courage. By “we,” I mean the American people, of course, and also the members of the executive branch, the courts, and Congress, including this very Committee.
The time to stop censorship and reclaim our Constitution is now.
http://drrich.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/logo_264x69.png00Dr. Rich Swierhttp://drrich.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/logo_264x69.pngDr. Rich Swier2023-07-21 07:04:412023-07-24 07:28:31The DNC Leadership Tried to Censor Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. — They Failed: Watch
“America is not governed by the majority; it is governed by the majority who participate.” — Thomas Jefferson
“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.” — President Abraham Lincoln
During the 2020 Presidential Election, 9 out of 10 citizens were eligible to vote, but only 6 out of 10 voted and 1 in 4 didn’t vote.
80 million registered voters stayed home and 80% of non-voters chose not to vote because they didn’t believe their vote matters and expressed widespread feelings of political alienation and apathy.
In the 2022 Midterms, only 3 in 10 voted.
The US is ranked in the bottom third of nations in voter turnout; why?
A Survey from 2014 Showed:
85% say Congress is more interested in serving special interest groups than the people they were elected to represent.
81% acknowledge that most voters are not sufficiently informed about the issues to vote wisely.
77% of Americans are concerned about the future.
74% are not satisfied with the way the nation is being governed.
74% argue that the state of moral values in the nation is getting worse.
72% perceive that America is more divided than ever.
71% say the signors of the Declaration of Independence would be disappointed in how the United States turned out.
63% believe America is in a state of decline.
63% argue that the nation is headed in the wrong direction.
Our states and nation are being run by elected officials who have the backing of less than one third of the population.
How Deep Blue States Can Become Red
Examining the Deep Blue State of California
In the 2022 Gubernatorial Race, the battle was between Democrat Gruesome Newsom (D) and Brian Dahle (R). On October 24th there were 26.9 million eligible voters and 21.9 registered voters as follows:
Registered Democrat Voters: 10.3 million
Registered Republican Voters: 5.2 million (half as many)
Registered with No Party Affiliation or Other Voters: 6.4 million
Newsom received 3.9 million votes, 55.9% of the total votes, and only 38% of Democrat registered voters.
Dahle received 1.3 million votes, 17.7% of the total votes, and only 25% of Republican registered voters.
Republicans had the votes needed to win!
A Republican Governor would have kept the Democrat majority state legislature in check and we might have seen the 52-year reign of the Democrat controlled Senate and Assembly come to an end.
California is one of 14 deep blue stateswhere Democrat incumbents ran for office in 2022. How many of them could have been unseated with stronger turnouts by conservatives?
Recently, we shared a “Liberty Scorecard” reporting 87% of Republicans were failing Americans; this is America’s scorecard.
THIS is what happens when patriots fail to vote AND voice their values to hold government accountable every day.
It’s never too late to make a U-turn and start making a difference!
Yes, there’s been cheating in elections; cheating that’s influenced the outcomes of elections. But the levers for cheating and gaming are built on the assumption that a predictable non-voter participation is at play. The Left has won by absurdly small margins in many significant races they never would have won if more of us chose to vote. Don’t let cheats dissuade you from voting!
We must rely on one anotherto show up. There’s a lot of work to do leading up to the 2024 election.
Restoring our faith in America starts with participation. The stakes have NEVER been higher.
The change we desperately need begins with us! It requires us to start talking to our friends, family and neighbors and ask them to participate by sharing this email and working together to make sure everyone within our circle of influence is registered and committed to vote.
Let’s join forces to Save America and Our Freedoms!
http://drrich.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/logo_264x69.png00ACT For America!http://drrich.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/logo_264x69.pngACT For America!2023-07-21 05:56:452023-07-21 05:58:47What The LEFT is Terrified You’ll Find Out
“It’s the economy, stupid!” — James Carville, 1992 to Clinton campaign staffers.
“You can’t tax business. Business doesn’t pay taxes. It collects taxes.” — Ronald Reagan
“Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of production and trade…” — Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
Many pundits are focused on issues like the border crisis, the war in Ukraine, the corruption of the Biden family, particularly Hunter Biden, climate change, Iran, and much more.
But what is really important to we the people?
We believe that the defining issue of every presidential campaign is the state of the U.S. economy. Men are inextricably connected to their wallets and women to their purses. The people know when things are getting more expensive.
The question is what’s in your wallets and purses today?
Here is a short one minute video from eleven years ago featuring Sean Snaith.
“It’s the economy stupid” was a phrase coined by James Carville in 1992, when he was advising Bill Clinton in his successful run for the White House.
In 1992, the US was experiencing an economic recession and the incumbent president, George HW Bush, was perceived as out of touch with the needs of ordinary Americans.
Carville told campaign staffers to hammer on the importance of the economy at every chance they got – he even went so far as to hang a sign in campaign headquarters reading, in part, “the economy, stupid.”
The phrase became a mantra for the Clinton campaign.
Since then, it’s turned into a catchphrase which pops up whenever analysts are discussing an upcoming election.
This has not changed. Everything any administration does policy wise impacts the U.S. economy. Every administration’s policies on taxes, spending, government regulation, government mandates, domestic and foreign policy impacts every American citizen’s pocketbook.
This does not change.
THE PROBLEM
The problem is that since Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. was inaugurated prices have gone up 16.6%!
But why?
It’s the policies stupid!
If you believe that fossil fuels are evil and are destroying the planet then you enact government policies that eliminate the use of all fossil fuels such as coal, oil and natural gas.
This policy immediately leads to an increase in the cost to farm, process, ship, store, and distribute food.
This same policy makes the manufacturing of automobiles, trucks, boats and airplanes more expensive.
These policies make it more expensive to build and repair homes, the staple of every economy.
Then the manufacturers, builders, farmers and distributors must pass on these increased costs directly to their consumers, i.e. we the people.
It’s simple mathematics.
When something, or some service, costs more to provide, make or sell then, to stay solvent, businesses must charge more for their products or services.
However, here’s another thing that government policy makers tend to do when their policies increase costs, they either subsidize some companies or increase welfare payments for those that the government, due to its own policies put out of work in the first place, e.g. Covid shutdowns.
Destroy the farming, manufacturing, services and housing industries and you destroy America.
This leads to increased costs for those who work and pay taxes.
Then you have the Federal Reserve raise interest rates in order to allow the government to borrow more and more money as the same government continues to go deeper in debt and the government passes on the cost of its growing interest payments, estimated to be $5 billion a day, on to future generations.
Add to this the rising costs of education at every level and you have the perfect storm.
Add to this the costs of waging a war.
Add to this the cost of an ever growing government.
Add to this the cost of crime, looting, and the destruction of property both businesses and personal properties.
Add to this the freebees given to those who do not work, aren’t citizens or nation states getting taxpayer dollars.
When you add this all up you find your nation $31 billion in debt.
The problem is felt by everyone, perhaps except those in government controlling the purse strings. It seems that government employees, especially union members, from the school house to the White House have a way of enriching themselves at the expense of the rest of us.
When it comes to the economy we the people are always the victims and the government is always the cause.
THE SOLUTION
The solution is simple.
Take away the powers of big government and return the power, and the money, to we the people.
As with every presidential election it is key to know who is focused on the economy and revitalizing it while at the same time reducing the power of the central government.
A real people’s candidate does not support more government, rather he or she cuts the size and scope of government, at every level.
It’s not only good policy it’s good politics.
That candidate is, by definition, the best and only solution.
As Harry S. Truman said, “It’s a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it’s a depression when you lose your own.”
Rush Limbaugh said, “No nation has ever taxed itself into prosperity.”
Choose your candidates with these guidelines in mind and you and your family will prosper or you will lose your job, pension and livelihood.
