REPORT: White House War Room Prepares To Fight McCarthy Impeachment Inquiry

The White House has set up a war room of two dozen lawyers, legislative aides and communications staffers to prepare a response to a potential GOP impeachment effort against President Joe Biden, a White House aide familiar with the strategy told NBC News.

Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy said Sunday that an impeachment inquiry into Biden is a “natural step forward,” adding that he plans to bring the inquiry to Congress when it returns in September. Since McCarthy’s comments, White House aides have used the August recess to research GOP’s statements and to polish their response to a possible impeachment inquiry, a source familiar with the strategy told NBC News.

“Comparing this to past impeachments isn’t apples to apples or even apples to oranges; it’s apples to elephants,” the White House aide told the outlet. “Never in modern history has an impeachment been based on no evidence whatsoever.”

The White House’s preparation for an impeachment inquiry began once the House flipped to a Republican majority earlier in 2023, NBC News reported.

McCarthy began discussing moving forward with impeachment inquiries if the Department of Justice (DOJ) used David Weiss’s position as special counsel to prevent the House Oversight Committee from investigating Hunter Biden. Hunter Biden pled not guilty to two tax misdemeanors after his plea deal and diversion agreement collapsed because scrutiny from U.S. District Judge Maryellen Noreika led to a disagreement between the DOJ and Hunter Biden’s legal team.

The DOJ alerted the House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday that it would not cooperate with subpoenas for two FBI agents as part of the committee’s investigation into IRS whistleblower testimony allegedly showing the DOJ gave Hunter Biden special treatment in its investigation for alleged tax and gun crimes.

As a model for their response, Biden’s aides have studied the time the House attempted to impeach President Bill Clinton in 1998, a source familiar with the strategy told NBC News. The aides believe the current possibility of a GOP impeachment inquiry is “not an evidence-based effort; it’s an election-focused effort,” a person familiar with the Biden campaign’s thinking told the outlet.

The White House did not immediately respond to the Daily Caller’s request for comment.

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REAGAN REESE

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Russian And Ukrainian Reactions To The Pope’s Statements About ‘The Enlightened Russian Empire’ And ‘The Great Mother Russia’

On August 25, 2023, during a video call with participants at the Russian Youth Day in St. Petersburg, Pope Francis said: “You are heirs of the great Russia, the great Russia of the saints, of kings, the great Russia of Peter the Great, of Catherine II, that great, enlightened Russian empire, of so much culture, so much humanity. Never set aside this legacy. You are heirs of the great Mother Russia, so go forward and thanks for your way of being and for your mode of being Russians.”[1]

Though Russians praised the Popes’ statements, the criticism it brought in Ukraine led to the Holy See Press Office issuing a press release, stating: “In the words of greeting addressed to several young Russian Catholics a few days ago, as is clear from the context in which he pronounced them, the Pope intended to encourage young people to preserve and promote what is positive in Russia’s great cultural and spiritual heritage, and certainly not to exalt imperialistic logics and governmental personalities, cited to indicate certain historical periods of reference.”


Following are reactions from Russia and from Ukraine to the Pope’s statements:

Russian Reactions

Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Zakharova: Moscow “Highly Appreciates The Vatican’s Balanced Line”

Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said: “[Moscow] highly appreciates the Vatican’s balanced line on the Ukrainian conflict and the efforts of the Holy See and Pope Francis personally aimed at a peaceful settlement, which unfortunately are openly rejected by the Kiev regime.”[2]

Kremlin Spokesman Peskov: “The Pope Knows Russian History”

Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said: “The Pope knows Russian history, and that is very good. [Our history] is quite deep; its roots go very deep,” Peskov said, noting that this heritage is not limited to 18th-century sovereigns Peter I and Catherine II, but “is much older.”

Ukrainian Reactions

Ukrainian FM Nikolenko: “It Is Very Unfortunate That Russian Great-Power Ideas… Are Voiced By The Pope”

Ukrainian media outlet Nv.ua wrote about Ukrainian Foreign Ministry spokesman Oleg Nikolenko’s reaction: “[Nikolenko] recalled that it is precisely this kind of imperialist propaganda, ‘spiritual bonds’[3] and the ‘need’ to save ‘great Mother Russia’ that the Kremlin uses to justify the murder of thousands of Ukrainian men and women and the destruction of hundreds of Ukrainian towns and villages. ‘It is very unfortunate that Russian great-power ideas, which are in fact the cause of Russia’s chronic aggressiveness, are consciously or unconsciously coming from the mouth of the Pope, whose mission, in our understanding, is to open the eyes of Russian young people to the destructive course of the current Russian leadership,’ Nikolenko noted.”[4]

Pravda.com.ua: Vatican News Removed The Pope’s “Particular Passage”

Ukrainian media outlet Pravda.com.ua wrote: “Interestingly, Vatican News, the information portal of the Holy See, has posted the text of the Pope’s address on its website, but this particular passage is missing. However, a video of part of the Pope’s address containing this quote is available online.

“The Pope’s words were immediately criticized also by the Ukrainian media and Sviatoslav Shevchuk, Father and Head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, stated that Pope Francis’s statements ‘inspire the neo-colonial ambitions of the aggressor country.'”[5]

Head Of The Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church: Pope Francis’ Statements “Inspire The Neo-Colonial Ambitions Of The Aggressor Country”

Sviatoslav Shevchuk, Father and Head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, stated that Pope Francis’s statements “inspire the neo-colonial ambitions of the aggressor country:” “The examples given by the Holy Father actually contradict his teachings on peace, since he has always condemned any form of manifestation of imperialism in the modern world and warned of the dangers of extreme nationalism, stressing that it is the cause of the ‘third world war in segments.”[6]

Ukrainian Top Manager Dmytro Shymkiv: The Pope “Is A Sort Of An Embodiment Of The Global South”

Ukrainian top manager Dmytro Shymkiv, former deputy head of the Ukrainian presidential administration in 2014-2018, stated: “[The Pope] is a sort of an embodiment of the Global South, which is fascinated with Russia, this is incomprehensible fact to me… The Global South has always been against empires. Even weirder is their fascination with modern Russia, which epitomizes the lowest of the low, the worst imperialist example.”[7]

Radio Host Dmitro Tuzov: Pope Francis Is “Morally Co-Responsible For The Genocide Of Russians Against Ukrainians”

Ukraine’s NV Radio host Dmitro Tuzov said that after such words on part of the pontiff, he perceives Pope Francis to be “morally co-responsible for the genocide of Russians against Ukrainians:” “The current Pope Francis is fueling Russian chauvinism and supporting Russian Nazism and Russian propaganda narratives about the ‘greatness of Russia’ during a time of war and killings of our fellow citizens… This very damn ‘greatness’ has already led to the most global catastrophe of our time – the war unleashed by Russian Nazis against peaceful Ukraine that threatens no one,” Tuzov also added that Pope Francis serving as the head of the Vatican, “inspires Russians to commit new crimes in Ukraine.”

Former Minister Of Education: Is The Pope “Uneducated” And “Irresponsible”?

Former Minister of Education of Ukraine and ex-president of the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Serhiy Kvit said: “Is the Pope simply uneducated and irresponsible, or the initiator of a radical change in values in the Vatican?”

European Solidarity Party Deputy Sofia Fedyna: The Pope’s Statement Is A “Manifestation Of Cynicism”

European Solidarity party deputy Sofia Fedyna stated: “Commenting on the words of the pontiff, I believe that talking about the greatness and humanity of Peter I during a teleconference with St. Petersburg comes as a very particular manifestation of cynicism, because Peter I built this city on the bones of Ukrainians. It is also cynical to talk about the greatness and humanity of Catherine II, when under her rule the status of a serf was de facto no different from that of a slave. In order to speak of the Moscovia Federation[8] as a ‘country of educated culture and great humanity’ one must somehow surprisingly ‘forget’ about the 12 wars unleashed by Muscovy since 1991 alone, and about the hundreds of thousands of lives destroyed in defiance of the commandment ‘thou shalt not kill.'”[9]

SOURCES:

[1] See MEMRI Special Dispatch No. 10775, Head Of The Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church: Pope Francis’ Statements ‘Inspire The Neo-Colonial Ambitions Of The Aggressor Country’, August 30, 2023.

[2] Tass.com/politics/1666865, August 29, 2023

[3] “Spiritual staples” is a common expression, meaning the values that bind Russia together into a unified country. This expression has been used by Russian President Vladimir Putin.

[4] Nv.ua/ukraine/events/papa-rimskiy-vozmutil-ukrainu-slovami-o-velikoy-rossii-ekaterine-i-petre-reakciya-novosti-ukrainy-50349661.html,
August 29, 2023.

[5] Pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2023/08/28/7417468/, August 28, 2023.

[6] See MEMRI Special Dispatch No. 10775, Head Of The Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church: Pope Francis’ Statements ‘Inspire The Neo-Colonial Ambitions Of The Aggressor Country’, August 30, 2023.

[7] Nv.ua/ukraine/events/papa-rimskiy-vozmutil-ukrainu-slovami-o-velikoy-rossii-ekaterine-i-petre-reakciya-novosti-ukrainy-50349661.html,
August 29, 2023.

[8] Derogatory term for the Russian Federation.

[9] Nv.ua/ukraine/events/papa-rimskiy-vozmutil-ukrainu-slovami-o-velikoy-rossii-ekaterine-i-petre-reakciya-novosti-ukrainy-50349661.html,
August 29, 2023.

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Mother of 4: How Can AOC Be So Oblivious About Inflation?

Friday on Fox & Friends First,  mother of four Amber Bergeron fired back at Democratic Socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) after the lawmaker shared a video that said inflation was “propaganda.”

AOC reposted a video to Instagram on Thursday from the Aotearoa Liberation League, a left-wing group based in New Zealand that lists among its values acknowledgment of “the historic and ongoing harms of colonialism” and a mission “to liberate humans from the industry-driven food myths that compel us to harm our bodies, our whenua, and millions of nonhuman animals.”

The video argued inflation was largely a “propaganda” term by “corporations” looking to avoid fault for high prices.

“The propaganda around inflation and cost of living is so powerful that we forget the very basic fact that corporations set the prices for their products. If a corporation raises its prices and then makes record profits, that’s not some invisible monster. It’s just a bunch of greedy shareholders,” the video said.

“I’m just wondering how she thinks it’s propaganda,” said Bergeron. “Has she checked her electric bill? Has she looked at the cost of groceries compared to last year? If you get on the Walmart app, she can take a look and see the difference. I’m wondering what her budget is that that’s not something that she’s concerned about. It’s obviously not a worry in her household. It’s not something she’s having to worry about. But I’m wondering how people can be so oblivious.”

Bergeron also detailed her reality living under so-called “Bidenomics.”

“[It’s] not too good, or at least it’s not for us over here,” she said. “Everything’s going up. Our electric bill projected for next month is around $500. Medical costs have gone up. Insurance premiums going up. And usually if you come into an issue and you don’t have the money in your reserves, you would go and you would get a loan. For instance, if you need to repair your AC, if you need to do any vehicle repairs. But we’re actually in a situation where our truck just broke.”

“Well, if you think about it, interest rates are so high right now, it’s making the monthly notes impossible. And I know this is something that’s typical for a lot of Americans right now, having to worry about these things,” she said.

“There’s nothing left over at the end of it,” Bergeron said. “We’re being able to make everything work. We are blessed. My husband works very hard. If it means that he’s going to put in some extra hours, he’s putting in extra hours. He’s going to do what he has to do for his family, which is what a lot of Americans are doing. But as a father of four, he can only do so much. And he’s spread thin. It’s hard.”


Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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Claiming That Most Domestic Terror Stems from “White Nationalism,” “Fascism,” “Jim Crow,” & “American Apartheid”

In an October 28, 2022 appearance on MSNBC’s All In, Ocasio-Cortez said: “We have held hearings on this [in the U.S. House of Representatives], and there is absolutely no doubt that the data shows that the vast majority of incidents of domestic terror come from white nationalism. And that we are really, truly facing the environment of fascism. And in the United States of America, this type of intimidation at the polls brings us to Jim Crow. It brings us back and harkens back to a very unique form of American apartheid that is not that long passed ago, and we have never fully healed from that. And those wounds threatened to rip back open if we do not strongly defend democracy in the United States of America.”

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Operation Depopulation: Dissecting the Death Dart Series

This is the first in a series of columns I am writing on the Covid jab.

Most of us have heard reports of the jab injuries coming out. Whether myocarditis, blood clots, the newly discovered “SADS” (sudden adult death syndrome), immune disorders and the uptick in cancers; the Covid shot is clearly not safe nor does it work. Every jabbed person I know has also gotten the virus, most multiple times. So, all these people got an experimental shot of a novel technology that has obvious risks for absolutely no reason at all. We can thank our politicians and the worthless media for this atrocity.

So why did the mainstream media, and our elected and unelected officials push this experiment on the American people without the proper safety data or trials needed to justify a mass vaccination campaign in the middle of the pandemic?

This question I will cover later in the series. Well, we can speculate for several reasons, but the most evident reasons are depopulation, money, and control. Let us break these down.

First, depopulation is an obvious reason. In 1992, at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, 178 world leaders signed the United Nation’s document called Agenda 21. The name has changed quite a few times to keep the public confused and give it a nice spin. It has also been called Agenda 2030, Smart Growth, Substantiable Development, Growth Management, among others. However, all those names are describing the original document, Agenda 21, or agenda for the 21st century.

The term Sustainable Development was coined in 1987 in a document called Our Common Future, produced by the U.N Commission on Environment and Energy Development. That committee was chaired by Gro Harlem Brundtland, the former Prime Minister of Norway, former head of the W.H.O. and the Vice President of the Socialist International organization. This document led to the Earth Summit which created the global plan included in Agenda 21.

Agenda 21 calls for a profound reorientation of human society and collective decision making, unlike anything we have ever seen before. It consists of an unprecedented deployment of human and financial resources that will affect every human interaction and will be integrated in every person’s day-to-day life. It was signed by George H.W. Bush in 1992 as a soft treaty and every president except Trump has reaffirmed its goals.

Agenda 21 can be broken down into three parts: economic equality or redistribution of wealth, social justice, and environmentalism. It calls for the elimination of private property and private transportation and replaced with urban housing and public transit. This plan was slow growing for the next thirteen years. Cities and towns worldwide joined ICLEI, a UN accredited organization that encourages smart growth. But the housing crash of 2007-2008 opened the door for Agenda 21. President Obama gave us a glimpse of this in his campaign speech in Rosenburg, Oregon. He said, “we can’t drive our SUV’s, and you know, eat as much as we want, and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times, whether we live in the desert or we live in the tundra, and just expect that every other country is going to say, “oh, okay, you go ahead and keep on using 25% of the world’s energy even though you only account for 3% of the population. We will be fine, do not worry about us.”

Since 2008, our government has been actively implementing Agenda 21 using federal grants, the HUD, and the EPA. Agenda 21’s goals are not new; they are old school Marxism repackaged.

Another goal of Agenda 21 is depopulation. The goal is to depopulate the planet by 90% to lessen the environmental impact and protect the planet for the future. So how convenient that the man made Covid pandemic comes along which has continued to kill people going on now for three years. If they do not get you with the deadly hospital protocols, then they will kill you with the genetic vaccines. The virus and the jab are both manufactured bioweapons that serve the purpose of wiping out as many people as possible. The numbers are clearly under reported, but according to the worldwide ticker, so far, the virus has killed almost seven million and the jab deaths are increasing daily.

One study stated that the jabs were killing up to 10,000 a day and that is only the start. Not to mention the reports of miscarriages and infertility in both women and men among the so called vaccinated. The rising death toll can be attributed to the following, all which will be covered in future columns of my Death Dart series:

  1. Mass vaccination in the middle of the campaign which keeps the virus mutating,
  2. The jab being made of deadly heavy metals and not effective against the virus,
  3. Denial and a disinformation campaign of safe early treatments,
  4. and Deadly, experimental hospital protocols.

We can only imagine the total number of innocent humans that these bioweapons will kill before this dark time in our history is over. But we do know this goes right in line with Agenda 21’s goals and the desires of the globalist elites, such as Bill Gates.

“If we do a really good job on vaccines, health care and reproductive services, we can at least lower the population perhaps by 10 to 15 percent.” Bill Gates

We must move quickly and create our own agenda, an agenda to destroy Agenda 21.

©2023. Carolyn Blakeman. All rights reserved.

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‘On the Verge of a Banana Republic’: Biden Used Air Force Two, Pseudonyms to Enrich His Family, GOP Says

As Barack Obama’s vice president, Joe Biden sent more than 5,000 emails under a host of false names and abused federal resources to facilitate his son, Hunter Biden’s foreign influence-peddling businesses, Republicans say. The combination of corruption and federal agencies refusing to make the records public leaves America “on the verge of being a banana republic,” according to one U.S. congressman.

Details broke this week about two scandals threatening to engulf the 46th president as the 2024 election heats up. First, Congress revealed that then-Vice President Biden improperly used Air Force Two and Marine Two to whisk Hunter Biden to 15 countries, where he often struck business deals enriching himself and at least nine members of the Biden family, possibly including “The Big Guy,” Joe Biden. Second, a legal watchdog has sued the National Archives and Record Administration (NARA) for refusing to turn over 5,138 emails that Joe Biden sent using three separate aliases — including “Robert L. Peters,” “Robin Ware,” and “JRB ware” [sic] — while he was vice president.

Video footage captured Hunter Biden accompanying his father on taxpayer-funded travel during the Obama administration, including a 2013 trip to China that cemented Hunter’s business ties to Beijing. “Then-Vice President Joe Biden abused Air Force Two by allowing his son to jet set around the world to sell ‘The Brand’ to enrich the Biden family. This is yet another example of then-Vice President Biden abusing his public office for his family’s financial gain,” said Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.), chairman of the House Oversight and Accountability Committee, which is spearheading numerous investigations into presidential corruption. He demanded NARA leader, U.S. Archivist Colleen Shogan, to turn over all travel-related records about the use of the taxpayer-funded aircraft by Hunter Biden (and his business associates Eric Schwerin, Devon Archer, and Jeffrey Cooper) by September 13.

Yet another watchdog accuses NARA of withholding records for years showing that Joe Biden would send emails under false names while vice president, and copy Hunter Biden on information related to Ukraine. The Southeastern Legal Foundation (SLF) sent a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request about Biden’s use of the pseudonymous government email account Robert.L.Peters@pci.gov, as well as two Gmail accounts: robinware456@gmail.com and JRBWare@gmail.com. The Office of Vice President copied several of the emails sent to these accounts to Hunter Biden, including a May 26, 2016, email about a scheduled phone call between then-Vice President Biden and then-Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko. At the time, Hunter received $83,333 a month as a board member of Ukrainian energy company Burisma Holdings. Biden would later admit to threatening to deny Poroshenko $1 billion in loan guarantees unless he fired prosecutor Viktor Shokin, who was investigating Burisma.

Conservatives have already waited years to see these emails. SLF first asked NARA for these emails two years ago, but NARA said it could not produce the emails until this year for technical reasons. This summer, NARA confirmed the president sent thousands of such messages — but that it may deny or heavily redact the materials before making them available.

“We have performed a search of our collection for Vice Presidential records related to your [June 9 FOIA] request and have identified approximately 5,138 email messages, 25 electronic files and 200 pages of potentially responsive records,” said a letter sent via email on June 24 by Stephannie Oriabure, the director of NARA’s archival operations division. However, the emails “must be processed in order to respond to your request,” and the legal watchdogs may not receive a copy of all messages, as some “may not be applicable to your specific topic.” NARA said it placed their “request in our Complex queue,” which will “treat everyone equitably.”

SLF sued NARA to turn over all materials immediately. “After over a year of trying to work with NARA, its continued unreasonable delays have forced SLF to file this lawsuit,” said Braden Boucek, legal director at the Southeastern Legal Foundation.

The delays and stonewalling outraged conservatives. “This administration promised transparency to the American people. Is this their idea of transparency?” asked Jody Hice, a former U.S. congressman from Georgia and senior vice president at Family Research Council, on Tuesday’s episode of “Washington Watch.” The emails show that “when he was vice president, he was doing government business and discussing government business with his son, Hunter Biden, and others. After nearly two years, not a single one of those emails has been released.”

“By all outward appearances, we are on the verge of being a banana republic,” said Rep. Randy Weber (R-Texas) on “Washington Watch.” The Biden family is “making millions and millions of dollars at taxpayers’ expense, and we’ve got federal agencies that won’t release the information.”

“American citizens ought to be able to look at these documents and make a decision about whether the law was violated,” said Weber. “The people of America ought to rise up and say they want the truth.”

Thus far, Democrats have offered only a vague defense of Biden’s character. “I’m extremely confident the American people know fundamentally that Joe Biden is a good and decent man who’s dedicated his life to public service,” said House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.). But 63% of Americans say Hunter Biden was “involved in illegal influence peddling,” and a majority of Americans (53%) believe Joe Biden participated in his crime, according to a Harvard/Harris Poll released in May.

On the campaign trail in 2019, candidate Biden promised to erect “an absolute wall” between himself and his family’s business deals. “I have never discussed, with my son or my brother or with anyone else, anything having to do with their businesses. Period.” He promised to do “the same thing we did in our administration” as vice president.

“Apparently, the ‘absolute wall’ only applied to the specific name ‘Joe Biden,’” wrote libertarian columnist James Bovard in the New York Post.

The House Oversight Committee cited the president’s comments as one of 16 times Biden lied about his family’s business schemes — each one containing video footage of Biden’s statement, which the committee then contrasts with the facts.

“How many other FBI memos exist on potential Biden bribes that we have not heard about?” asked Bovard.

For now, investigators still want to learn the details about these government emails. If federal agencies, which are supposed to be politically neutral, stonewall that effort, Weber thinks they should pay the price.

“I would hope that members of Congress actually use their power to reduce funding on some of these agencies,” said Weber. Then the American people need to “clean house” and “kick out these crazy Democrats who have zero transparency, operate under pseudonyms, claim that they had absolutely nothing to do with their son’s business, and lie with a straight face.”

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Greenhouse Gas Abatement that Makes Some Sense: Methane-Sniffing Drones

Bad old carbon dioxide is not the only gas that contributes to the earth’s net heat balance by trapping heat in the atmosphere. Another commonly used gas — methane, the chief constituent of natural gas — is more than 25 times as effective as CO₂ in trapping heat. Fortunately, methane’s lifetime in the atmosphere is much shorter: about 12 years as opposed to the hundreds of years it takes for CO₂ to go away. So doing something about methane emissions promises to have much more of a near-term effect than anything we do with CO₂.

Enter Percepto, a company founded in Israel that recently moved to Austin, Texas, to market their services of sniffing out emissions of methane and 14 other gases using artificial intelligence (AI)-equipped drones. Their target market is refineries and petrochemical plants, where methane and other hydrocarbon gases can escape in leaks that can take days or weeks to find by technicians walking around with hand-held detectors.

Percepto’s system, as outlined in an article that appeared in the Austin American-Statesman, consists of a drone equipped with a wavelength-selective camera. Most hydrocarbon gases emit and absorb characteristic infrared wavelengths, and a cleverly designed imaging spectrometer can present the user with a photograph showing a cloud of methane made as visible as a cloud of red smoke from a cherry bomb firework.

Finding and fixing such a leak is not only good safety practice. In 2024, the Biden administration will begin to implement the Methane Emissions Reduction Program, a combination of over a billion dollars of funding to pay for programs like Percepto’s, combined with steeply increasing fines for emitting methane and other greenhouse gases. Ariel Avitan, co-founder of Percepto, saw a business opportunity in providing large firms with a means of tracking leaks that is faster and more comprehensive than the older methods. So now, his firm is poised to help track down leaks and other sources of methane that have previously gone undetected.

Negligible effect

Percepto is to be congratulated for seeing a market niche and exploiting it. Methane itself is not a particularly valuable gas. When the cost of transporting it from a wellhead to the market exceeds what it can be sold for, producers typically flare it by burning it at the source. The government is coming down hard on flares, too, which may lead to other expensive issues, as even flares don’t burn 100 percent of the gas they consume.

In an ideal world, we wouldn’t waste or release any methane at all through oil and gas operations. But even if we had a magic wand to do that, it would decrease the world’s budget of methane release by only 14 percent.

According to the International Energy Agency in Paris, France, the most profligate source of methane emissions worldwide is a natural one. Methane is emitted in wetlands by natural decomposition, and unless we are willing to drain all the wetlands, there’s nothing we can do about the 32 percent that nature produces. The next largest source is agriculture, at 23 percent — think flatulent cows (there aren’t any other kind). Oil and gas come next at 14 percent, then coal operations and something labelled as “waste,” which probably means methane produced by landfills.

If anyone thinks that we’re going to stop global warming by fixing all our methane leaks, this means that there is a disappointment in store. But in the current state of climate rhetoric, few people are going to think beyond the one step that can be summarised as “Greenhouse gases bad — must stop at any cost.”

As I have mentioned elsewhere, the climate has slowly been warming and the ocean levels slowly rising (we’re talking millimetres here) since the early 1800s. And now that CO₂ levels have risen as much as they have, whatever effect that’s going to have on the climate will be with us for the next couple of hundred years, even if we stopped 100 percent of all human activity that emits CO₂, including breathing. And stopping the breath of the 8 billion or so humans on the planet is exactly what some “deep ecologists” would like us to do — the folks who regard humanity as some kind of evil infestation of an otherwise pristine Earth.

Stoking fears

The sensible thing to do — the thing that would let most of those 8 billion people enjoy some of the benefits of modern technology that we in the US have enjoyed for many decades — is to figure out how to adapt to the relatively minor and certainly gradual changes that global warming is going to make, while picking low-hanging fruit with regard to reducing emissions of greenhouse gases. If there’s a six-foot hole in a dike in one place and a three-inch crack in another, the only reasonable thing to do is go after the six-foot hole first. And if you can more easily deal with the water over the dike than fix the dike, maybe that’s the best thing to do.

Unfortunately, the debate — or more accurately, accepted doctrine — about global warming has left such notions behind. Most world leaders and their cadres of experts have bought into the easily propagated notion that if we don’t do really drastic and painful things about greenhouse gas emissions right now, we’re all going to die horrible deaths as the globe imitates an egg in a frying pan.

The fact that highly reputable people such as Steven Koonin have shown this oversimplification to be mostly false has no effect on something that has become the mass-psychology equivalent of a kind of hypochondria. It’s like a patient that comes to a doctor with a pimple on his nose and says it’s cancer and he’s sure it’s going to kill him.

We would try to talk reason to such a person, but it’s easier than trying to talk sense to an international community that has bought into a severely distorted picture wholesale, and created huge institutional incentives to keep the delusion going.

Don’t get me wrong. I’m glad Percepto saw their opportunity and took it. People have a right to profit from laws that, however misconceived, do some incremental good. And it’s certainly a good thing to stop methane leaks, even if it costs millions of dollars to do so. But one can still question the reasoning behind the laws, and wonder whether succeeding generations (if there are any) will scratch their heads over the strange panic about climate change that we are currently enduring.

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KARL D. STEPHAN

Karl D. Stephan is a professor of electrical engineering at Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas. This article has been republished, with permission, from his blog Engineering Ethics, which is a MercatorNet partner site. His eBook Ethical and Otherwise: Engineering In the Headlines is available in Kindle format and also in the iTunes store.

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Catholic Church beatifies heroic Polish family who sheltered their Jewish neighbours

1944: in a year of atrocities, March 24 was an unremarkable day. In Rome, 335 civilians and political prisoners died in the Ardeatine massacre. A few thousand more were probably gassed in death camps. The murder of 17 people — eight Jews and a Polish family of nine in the small village of Markowa — was just a drop of blood in an ocean of savagery.

However, this particular event is being memorialised as a triumph of human nobility and Christian holiness. On September 10 the Catholic Church will beatify the whole Ulma family. The father and mother, Jozef and Wiktoria Ulma, had already been included in Israel’s Vad Yeshem memorial of the “Righteous among the Nations” for protecting Jewish neighbours at the cost of their own lives.

It is the first time that the Catholic Church has officially recognised the holiness of a whole family: Jozef and Wiktoria, 8-year-old Stanisława, 6-year-old Barbara, 5-year-old Wladysław, 4-year-old Franciszek, 3-year-old Antoni, 1½ -year-old Maria and the unnamed child in Wiktoria’s womb.

The Ulma family

What little we know about their deaths is well-documented.

After the Nazis invaded Poland, helping a Jew was punishable with death, a policy which was enforced ruthlessly.

About 4500 people lived in Markowa, 120 of them Jews. The Ulma family lived on a small farm on the outskirts of the town. Jozef was a well-known local figure. He was a progressive farmer who kept bees and bred silkworms. He was also a photographer whose evocative images give some idea of life at that time. He was also the first in Markowa to have electricity, having built a windmill to power light globes. He and his wife were deeply religious.

In the summer of 1942, a number of local Jews were shot in Markowa. Some of the survivors asked Jozef to hide them – a man called Szall with his four sons, and Layka and Gołda Goldman, and a little girl, probably Layka’s daughter. The refugees lived in the attic and helped with the farm work.

Somehow, they survived like this for two years. Unfortunately, a Polish policeman working with the Germans had stolen money entrusted to him by Mr Szall. Eventually he betrayed them to cancel the debt.

Before dawn on the morning of March 24, a detachment of five German soldiers and several Polish police arrived at the farm. They shot the Jews first, then Jozef and Wiktoria. The children were shrieking and the soldiers shot them as well. Wiktoria went into labour after being shot and her child was half-delivered when she was flung into a grave. The soldiers looted the farm and ordered men from the village to bury them.

Joseph Kokott

The policeman who betrayed the Ulmas was shot by the Polish resistance a few months later. The officer in charge was identified in Germany in the 1960s but died before his case went to trial. One of the soldiers, a Czech Volksdeutscher from Sudetenland named Joseph Kokott killed three or four of the children. He was tried in 1957 and died in prison in 1980. A photo of him in uniform shows a clean-cut, handsome Justin Bieber-ish young man with wavy blond hair. None of the others were ever brought to justice.

What inspired Jozef and Wiktoria to risk their lives? We don’t know exactly. They left no letters; they made no courtroom speeches; they had no time to shape eloquent deathbed testimonies. But those who knew them said that their lives were imbued with Christian faith. The priest who prepared the documentation for the beatification said:

“I would like to put at the centre the attitude of everyday faithfulness and obedience to God. This is especially striking when it comes to the Ulma Family. It was the foundation of their lives. They were beautiful, very wise, mature people. For them, a given word had great value, if they made a promise to someone, it was absolutely sacred.”

Perhaps the Ulma family should be named patron saint of Gen X. Its slogans are love yourself, forgive yourself, affirm yourself, pamper yourself, accept yourself. The Ulmas represent the antithesis of this narcissism. In their world, “self” was a four-letter word. They lived first for God, and then for each other, for their children and for their neighbours.

What would the West look like without Christianity?  Not like Jozef and Wiktoria Ulma, for sure. But it might look strikingly like Joseph Kokott.

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MICHAEL COOK

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VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: From One Unapologetic Media Hoax To The Next

Joe Biden lied repeatedly when he claimed he knew nothing of his son Hunter’s influence-peddling businesses.

The president further prevaricated that he had no involvement in Hunter’s various shake down schemes.

Yet, the media continued to misinform by serially ignoring these facts.

Had journalists just been honest and independent, then-candidate Joe Biden might have lost a presidential debate and even the 2020 election. The public would have learned that Hunter’s business associates and his laptop proved Joe was deeply involved in his son’s illicit businesses.

Later, as the evidence from IRS whistleblowers mounted, the White House stonewalled subpoenaed efforts and sought to craft an outrageous plea deal reduction in Hunter’s legal exposure.

Reporters ignored the Ukrainians who claimed Joe Biden himself talked to them about quid pro quo arrangements.

They again discounted Hunter’s laptop that explicitly demonstrated that Hunter was whining that he had handed over large percentages of his income to his father Joe — variously referred to as the Big Guy and a “ten percent” recipient on many deals.

They played dumb about Joe Biden’s use of pseudonyms and alias email accounts to hide thousands of his communications to Hunter and associates.

They attacked the former Ukrainian prosecutor Viktor Shokin, who now claims Biden was likely bribed by Ukrainians.

Yet the media can no longer hide the reality that the president of the United States likely took bribes to influence or alter U.S. policy to suit his payers. Those two crimes — bribery and treason — are specifically delineated in the Constitution as impeachable offenses.

In denial, the media has instead pivoted with hysterical glee over various weaponized prosecutions of former President Donald Trump.

But now, to use a progressive catchphrase, the proverbial “walls are closing in” on Joe Biden.

So will we at last expect the media finally to confront the truth?

Answer — only if Joe Biden’s cognitive and physical health continues to deteriorate geometrically to the point that he can no longer finish his term or run for reelection — and thus becomes expendable.

Such a cynical view of the media is justified given their record of both incompetence and unapologetic deceit.

From 2015 to 2019, we were suffocated 24/7 with lies like “Russian collusion,” “Putin’s puppet,” “election rigging” and the “Steele dossier.”

When all such “evidence” was proven to be a complete fraud cooked up through Hillary Clinton’s stealthy hiring of and collusion with a discredited ex-British spy, a Russian fabulist at the Brookings Institution and a Clinton toady in Moscow, did the media apologize for their untruth?

Was there any media confessional that perhaps Robert Mueller and his left wing legal team (the giddy media-dubbed “all-stars,” “dream team” and “hunter killers”) proved a colossal waste of time?

Not at all.

Instead, the media went next right on to “the phone call” and “impeachment.”

The country then wasted another year.

The same biased reporters now claimed that the heroic Alexander Vindman had caught Trump fabricating lies about the Bidens — given Joe Biden was a possible 2020 opponent — to force Ukraine to investigate them or lose American foreign aid.

On that accusation Trump was impeached.

Then the truth emerged that unlike Joe Biden, Trump never threatened to cancel aid, but merely to delay it.

Trump was right that the Bidens were knee deep in Ukrainian bribes and influence peddling.

And that the whistleblower had no first-hand knowledge of the Trump call but was spoon fed a script cooked up by the gadfly Vindman and California Rep. Adam Schiff.

The result was journalistic glee that we impeached a president for crimes that he did not commit but exempted another president, Biden, who had likely committed them.

Then came the next hoax of the Russian fabricated facsimile of Hunter’s laptop.

The 2020 Biden campaign along with an ex-CIA head rounded up “51 intelligence authorities” to mislead the country into believing that Russian gremlins in the Kremlin had fabricated a fake laptop.

Ponder that absurd fantasy: Moscow supposedly had created fake nude pictures, fake photos of Hunter’s drug use and fake email and text messages from Hunter to the other Bidens.

The media preposterously convinced the country that the Russians and by extension Trump had once again sandbagged the Biden campaign.

No apologies followed when the FBI later admitted it had kept the laptop under wraps for more than a year, knew it was authentic and yet said nothing as the media and former spooks misled the country and warped an election.

Now we are enmeshed in at least four court trials on cooked-up charges that could as easily apply to a host of Democrats as to Trump.

For the last eight years, a discredited media has never expressed remorse for any of the damage they did to the country. And they will not again, when their latest mythological indictments are eventually exposed.

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VICTOR DAVIS HANSON

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Shouting at the Radio

David Carlin: Our contemporary liberal progressives may be unaware of their kinship with Lenin, Stalin, Mao, and other mass murderers. Nonetheless the kinship exists.


The only time I listen to the radio nowadays is when I’m in my car; and, since being retired, I’m not often in my car, it turns out that I don’t often hear the radio.  When I do, I like to listen to one or two National Public Radio stations that I can get.  NPR of course has a politically liberal orientation, and I, despite strongly disliking Donald Trump, am a political conservative.  As a result, NPR often grates on me.  So what?  I like to hear what the other side is saying.

In any event, the other day I had to make a visit to the supermarket, and while driving there and driving home I was listening to a talk show on the Boston NPR station.  A man phoned in and said that he deplored extremists, both left and right.  He seemed to think that the two were equally bad.

The host, an archetypal Boston-Cambridge liberal, agreed with the caller that political extremism is bad, but he informed the caller that he was badly mistaken when he equated left and right extremism.  Right extremism, which by supporting such a wicked man as Donald Trump, is a profound threat to American democracy.  By contrast, left extremism – if there is such a thing – is no more than a minor nuisance.

My late father, despite residing only 40 or 50 miles from Fenway Park, was a devoted New York Yankees fan.  He acquired this addiction when, as a teenager in the 1920s (the heyday of Babe Ruth), he spent a summer in New York with his father, a bricklayer who found work in the city during its pre-Depression construction boom.  So strong was my father’s lifelong attachment to the Yankees that he was greatly irritated whenever anybody suggested that Ted Williams should be considered the equal of Babe Ruth as a hitter.  Williams, my father held, was not worthy to lace the Babe’s baseball shoes.

Decades later, when Casey Stengel managed the Yankees, my father always relished a chance to see the Yankees on TV, a chance that didn’t come along very often in the pre-cable TV days.  He watched with a critical eye.  And when Stengel made a managerial bad decision, my father would sometimes shout at the TV, “Fire Stengel!”  He never asked the TV to fire Mickey or Whitey or Yogi.  It was always Casey.

Well, I was strongly tempted to mimic my father the other day and shout at the radio when I heard the Boston-Cambridge liberal tell us that the grand extremism of the right is a thousand times worse than the petty extremism of the left.  I didn’t shout, but if I had, it would have been along these lines.  “Wrong!  The extremism of the left is far, far worse than the extremism of the right, and that’s why I prefer associating with the nitwits of the right than with the far more dangerous nitwits of the left.”

As I see things, the American left, including the self-satisfied liberals of Boston and Cambridge, are out to destroy the ancient moral-intellectual basis of our Western civilization, a basis that has in large measure been religious (more specifically, Christian or Judeo-Christian), and replace it with a post-Christian basis; more specifically, an atheistic basis.

In the course of human history, many civilizations have risen, flourished for a while, and then fallen.  Arnold Toynbee’s A Study of History, which gives accounts of many of these fallen civilizations, is no longer fashionable, as it was 70 or 80 years ago, but it is still well worth reading.  And so I suppose we have to expect that our Christian civilization was bound to fall eventually – even though Toynbee himself thought there was some chance of its lasting indefinitely.

You cannot be blamed if, like the liberals of Boston, Cambridge, Hollywood, San Francisco, New York, Austin, and many other places, you want to destroy an old civilization and replace it with a new – provided the old is bad and the new is good, or at least clearly better than the old.

But that raises a double question: Is our old Judeo-Christian civilization that bad, and will our proposed new atheistic civilization be an improvement?

The old Christian civilization, which took two great historic forms, one Catholic and the other Protestant, was not only a great thing in itself, but it was the “mother” of almost every good idea and institution that marks the modern world – science, technology, education, law, government, human rights, etc.  This older civilization even gave birth to its great modern enemy, which may be called secular (or atheistic) humanism.

Our American world at the moment – I mean the first half of the 21st century – is an incoherent mix of Christianity and atheism.  My estimate is that the mix is still predominantly Christian; I’d say two-thirds Christian and one-third atheistic.  But the atheistic element is growing rapidly while the Christian element is shrinking.  Atheistic humanism is dynamic, Christianity mostly inert.  My expectation is that America will be a predominantly atheistic society well before the end of the current century.

In the first half of the last century, atheistic humanism made a great attempt to conquer the world in the form of Communism. It seized control of Russia, China, and many other nations.  This attempt has largely (but not entirely) failed.  Today atheistic humanism is making another great attempt, this time in America.  But not in the form of Communism, but in a form that likes to call itself “progressivism.”  Some progressives prefer the softer word “liberalism.”

I don’t say that the liberals/progressives of Boston and Cambridge understand their kinship with Lenin, Stalin, Mao, and other mass murderers.  Nonetheless, the kinship exists. They don’t even understand that they are champions of mass murder (aka abortion).  Most of all, they don’t understand what Dostoyevsky said, “If God doesn’t exist, everything is permitted.”

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David Carlin is a retired professor of sociology and philosophy at the Community College of Rhode Island, and the author of The Decline and Fall of the Catholic Church in AmericaThree Sexual Revolutions: Catholic, Protestant, Atheist, and most recently Atheistic Humanism, the Democratic Party, and the Catholic Church.

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VIDEO PROOF: U.S. Capitol and D.C. Police on January 6th 2021, ‘Let’s go f**king shoot them!’

More truth about the Pelosi, the Department of IN-JUSTICE, the FBI, the U.S. Capitol and D.C. Police setup of J6 political prisoners — they were the ones exercising the violence against the protestors — not the other way around.

Not only with rubber bullets aimed at heads at close range but with flash bang grenades raining down on people catching some on fire.

USCP Inspector Thomas Loyd Commanded Cops To Fire Munitions At Peaceful Protesters on Jan. 6 LIES And Cries To Judge Kelly During Proud Boys Sentencing Hearing

 

US Capitol Police Inspector Thomas Loyd Jr., who ordered the initial command for cops to spray lethal munitions during the Capitol riot “completely fabricated” a narrative about protesters waging a “terror attack” against police to District Federal Judge Timothy Kelly in federal court. This took place before this week’s sentencing hearing for Proud Boys Joe Biggs, Ethan Nordean, Zach Rehl, Dominic Pezzola and Enrique Tarrio.

In an effort to persuade Judge Kelly to add terror enhancement to the defendant’s sentences, Loyd alongside U.S. Capitol Police Officer Shae Cooney Mark Ode broke down in tears claiming they were traumatized victims of an insurrection that was planned and orchestrated by the former Proud Boys leaders who were found guilty of seditious conspiracy.

J6 attendees who claim they tried to help police officers or enticed police to join them in stopping the certification of the election are using the same tactics as domestic abusers trying to sweet talk their victims, Inspector Loyd argued in a victim impact statement.

“After [protesters] lost the line at Peace Circle, they established another police line at the base of the Lower West Terrace. This wasn’t good enough for the mob… they attacked [again]. I witnessed the most violent fighting in my 33-year career,” he told the judge, noting MPD officers responded without protective gear.

Loyd claimed his officers were attacked with “hammers,” “frozen water bottles,” and “poles” among other weapons and insisted police not only “the saved lives” of members of Congress, but rescued protesters that were in the fray.

“The mob made their way to the House chamber. Once again, myself and just a handful of officers established a police line at the House main door. One of my officers made a valiant attempt to reason with dozens of angry protesters, who once again breached our police line,” he said. “The strength of the door saved several protesters who would have been shot if that door had been breached.”

Lloyd recalled evacuating members of Congress while rioters breached the East side of the Capitol building.

“One protester tragically lost her life” during this breach, he noted, in reference to slain Air Force veteran Ashli Babbitt.  He then disputed allegations that police officers waved protesters into the building.

“A recent video emerged alleging my officers were ‘tour guides’ from 12:53 p.m. to approx 6 p.m.,” he said. “The mob was in control of the exterior. From 2:10 to 4:30, the mob controlled the interior. When a mob controls one-third of the US government, you’ll see disturbing videos of police being at the mercy of rioters.

“Some defendants have stated they assisted my personnel. This is the same method used by domestic violence [perpetrators] when they want to attack their victims.”

Enrique Tarrio, who was not in Washington DC during the Capitol riot. Joseph Biggs, Zachary Rehl and Ethan Nordean committed no violent crimes during the riot as they dodged rubber bullets, flash grenades and canisters of tear gas that police indiscriminately fired at demonstrators. They then walked through the Capitol building for approximately 20 minutes.

Dominic Pezzola found a police shield on the ground that he contends he used for protection during the blitz of lethal munitions by police and in a moment of rage, broke a window on the Senate wing side of the Capitol building before he walked through the building for approximately,

The government is seeking a 33-year prison sentence for Tarrio, 33 years for Joseph Biggs; 30 years for Zachary Rehl; 27 years for Nordean, and 20 years for Pezzola, the only defendant not convicted of seditious conspiracy.

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Democrat Ruling Class Mulls Post-Civil War Measures To Bar Trump From The Presidency

High treason. Did the Democrats forget they lost the last civil war? Going for two and 0.

Authoritarian Ruling Class Mulls Post-Civil War Measures To Bar Trump From The Presidency

Anti-Trump legal scholars have been arguing that the third clause of the 14th Amendment, a post-Civil War measure barring Confederates from holding public office after participating in an insurrection, can be used against Donald Trump. Attaching a broken boxcar to the back of this moving train, an Aug. 25 essay at Politico casually compares the case for 14th Amendment disqualification from the presidency to the disqualification of southern congressmen during the Civil War.

You may have already spotted a problem in that last sentence because the story Joshua Zeitz writes about Trump and the 14th Amendment has nothing to do with the 14th Amendment: It’s a story about the refusal of the House of Representatives to take notice of southern congressman in 1864, well before the Reconstruction amendments were ratified. With that in mind, go read it.

The subtext speaks louder than the text. Notice the framing; notice the language that colors the argument. Here’s how Zeitz describes the context for the 14th Amendment: “They had vanquished the Confederacy and compelled Southern states to remain in the Union.”

Here’s how he opens his description of the contest over who would be seated in the House in 1864:

These events alarmed and appalled most Republicans, and especially radicals like Rep. Thaddeus Stevens of Pennsylvania, the grim-faced, irascible “Dictator of the House.” With his piercing gaze and ruthless authority, Stevens, who served as chair of the Ways and Means Committee during the war, was also the unspoken floor leader for the House Republican caucus. He maintained tight control over the chamber, even as he advocated policies that were far more radical than his caucus in his desire to punish the South and impose Black political and economic equality. Stevens advanced the idea that the Southern states were “conquered territories,” their residents no longer citizens of the U.S. and certainly not entitled to govern themselves, let alone participate in the governance of the whole nation.

So what should we do about Donald Trump? Well, there’s this great moment in history in which a grim-faced dictator maintained tight control for the purpose of implementing radically punitive policies over conquered territories to dominate people who were not entitled to govern themselves

That’s the discussion we’re having. The people Angelo Codevilla called the American ruling class, the hegemonic academic-political-media hive people, are now casually discussing Trump and Trump voters as a conquered people who have to be dominated and kept out of the system of self-government. Because Trump is a dangerous authoritarian, you see.

Start looking for this unstated premise, and you’ll start finding it everywhere. There are no legitimate arguments to the right of Hakeem Jeffries; there is only dangerous Putin-influenced extremism that must be firmly suppressed. We are not engaged in anything resembling political debate.

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After Betraying September 11 Families, Biden to Skip 9/11 Memorials

Biden isn’t about to let the 9/11 anniversary interfere with his foreign tour schedule.

Last week thousands of 9/11 families signed a letter asking Biden not to cut a deal with Khalid Sheikh Mohammed: the Al-Qaeda mastermind of the attacks and many others.

Biden predictably didn’t give a damn.

After all, he had already conspired to free most of the imprisoned Islamic terrorists from Gitmo. And he had managed to rob 9/11 families in court and transfer the money to the Taliban.

No one was going to welcome him in New York or Pennsylvania. So Biden will become the first president to skip the official memorials. Not even Obama sank so low and that is really saying something.

Former President Joe Biden will mark the 22nd anniversary of the Sept. 11th attacks with service members in Alaska – marking the first time a U.S. president will observe the solemn anniversary at a site other than New York, Virginia, or Pennsylvania.

The White House announced the unusual locale on Monday, on the same day it revealed the president was adding another country to his itinerary – adversary turned partner Vietnam.

Biden will stop in Alaska on the return from his trip to India for the G20 summit, which will be followed by a stop in Hanoi, in a visit likely to send a signal about countering the threat from China.

Biden isn’t about to let the anniversary of the attacks interfere with his foreign tour schedule (it certainly didn’t interfere with his surrender to the Taliban) so he’ll stop off at a base in Alaska where the personnel, unlike the 9/11 families, are barred from showing their true feelings for the double-dealing son of a bitch.

And, much like with the Afghanistan withdrawal, Biden is making a point by breaking with the tradition of the 9/11 memorials, signaling that a page is being turned. Once he contrives to close Gitmo, that will be another page turned. And another betrayal by the traitor-in-chief.

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White House Doesn’t Want ‘Big Guy’ Biden Impeached: ‘Would Be a Disaster’

Members of the Biden administration do not want President Joe Biden impeached, claiming it “would be a disaster” for Republicans if they mount the courage to open an impeachment inquiry, according to Breitbart News.

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) said Sunday an impeachment inquiry could be launched as soon as late September. Such an inquiry would allow lawmakers special power to compel relevant information in their Biden family probe.

“There’s a lot of questions still,” McCarthy said Sunday. “And to be able to get the answers to these questions, you would need an impeachment inquiry to empower Congress, Republicans, and Democrats to be able to get the answers that the American people deserve to know.”

White House spokesperson Ian Sams issued a statement this week warning that an “impeachment exercise” would backfire on Republicans.

“This baseless impeachment exercise would be a disaster for congressional Republicans, and don’t take our word for it: just listen to the chorus of their fellow Republicans who admit there is no evidence for their false allegations and that pursuing such a partisan stunt will ‘backfire,’” he said.

Just this week, news broke that the National Archives possesses about 5,400 emails and records linked to Biden’s email aliases. The Archives, under the control of the White House, refuses to provide the content of those emails and records.

Powerful allegations have mounted for years against the president. The allegations — including, but not limited to, photos, texts, an audio recording, and IRS and former business partner whistleblower testimonies:

  • Biden family suspicious activity reports of wire transfers
  • Texts
  • Emails
  • WhatsApp messages
  • Photos of Joe with Hunter’s business partners
  • Joe Biden’s voicemail to Hunter
  • Five individuals referencing Joe Biden as the “big guy”
  • Two whistleblower testimonies
  • FBI FD-1023 form alleging recorded phone calls and texts between Biden and a Burisma executive
  • FBI informant alleging bribes
  • Video of Joe Biden bragging about firing the Ukrainian prosecutor
  • Hunter’s statements about giving half his income to his dad
  • Former White House Aide saying FBI ignored Joe Biden’s role in Ukraine business dealings
  • Millions flowing into Biden family bank accounts
  • Hunter paying for Joe Biden’s expenses
  • Email aliases

Despite the allegations, some Republican lawmakers have not committed to investigating Biden.

“I don’t know how anybody will take us seriously if we can’t vote on impeachment inquiry,” Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) told Breitbart News. “If you can’t vote for impeachment on Joe Biden, then how can you dare to even claim you’re willing to drain the swamp? You’re not!”


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“You Ain’t Black”

Near the end of a May 2020 interview on The Breakfast Club, a radio program popular with black listeners and hosted by a man calling himself Charlamagne tha God, the host told Biden that he would like to ask him some additional questions before the November election. In response, Biden said: “I tell you, if you have a problem figuring out whether you’re for me or Trump, then you ain’t black.”

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Agenda 21 is Agenda America Done!

Do you think they even realize their hypocrisy or just completely oblivious that they are doing EXACTLY what they said they were against. If it wasn’t so sad, it would be funny.

For example…

They don’t like Christopher Columbus , they want his statue removed because they say Columbus just barged in and claimed land that wasn’t his and ran out the people already occupying that land. Well….. isn’t that exactly what they did when they barged in and claimed 6 blocks of Seattle that wasn’t theirs and ran people out?!?

Or, they said they hate walls, claim they don’t work, are immoral , and we don’t need physical boundaries to define our borders. But …. the first thing they did was build little walls and make borders around their newly stolen land.

And… they built Chaz/Chop because of the unjust terrible murder of a black man, painting BLM everywhere and chanting black lives matter. But since the founding of their little stolen walled up nation, three black males were murdered in just 3 weeks. If you do the statistics per capita, that’s a higher rate of innocent blacks being murdered than Chicago. I didn’t hear anything said about those individuals. Where were the marches , the protests, the outrage, they didn’t matter? I think they did.

It’s really pretty sad because I do believe black lives matter , as far as the statement goes. But I don’t think the BLM organization means the same thing. At least get better leaders and stop sabotaging the “statement “ by doing the same things your movement says they are united against and trying to change. Kind of makes what is a real, an agreed on, powerful phrase at it’s core and literal meaning…look like a joke. They’d get much more support if the BLM organization actually acted and believed what the phrase actually means, as most of us do. But a rich old white guy, Soros’s, helps fund the movement and money funnels back to the DNC to a bunch of crooked old white men.

The agenda is a global Marxist movement , just read the website. Would it be better if they named it “Black Lives Matter to Americans” and then stayed true to promoting their cause and fighting injustices of black Americans , paid for by Americans and benefiting only black Americans , not crooked politicians or globalist billionaires. They are just using the movement to support their own agenda. They don’t really care or many of these problems would have been fixed by now. Shit most of them have been in power 40-50yrs. Now all the sudden they want to help, f***ing please.

The only person that has made significant improvements in the lives of black Americans and have been doing much better under is Trump. The following in just 3 years:

  • Prison reform
  • 1st Step program getting people released early, because of the unfair Clinton crime bill.
  • School choice
  • Creating opportunity zones to stimulate the economy of low income communities.
  • Giving a $365 million dollar grant to historic black universities
  • Creating the lowest black unemployment rate in US history.
  • Lower taxes

And many more.

If BLM really means BLM, then ditch the Marxist philosophy, say “no thanks” to globalist billionaire’s money and kick the do-nothing Democrats and their racist policies to the curb. Try something different to make change and support the party that was founded on and still is the pro-black agenda. Just read a history book to see that. Or vote the same people that have hurt black people since the party formed and see if this year it will change. Do you really think Biden with his clearly racist past and dementia is going go help? I wouldn’t hold my breath. They only thing they care about is your vote. That’s clearly obvious by their track record of what the haven’t done for the black community. Such a joke.

But don’t take it from me or even common sense , take it from this civil rights activist in the article, or Martin Luther King Jr’s niece, Alveda king, or Burgess Owens, Larry Elders, Candice Owens, Kanye, Allen West , Dr Carol Swain, Herman Cain, Condoleezza Rice, Tim Scott, Will Curd, Stacey Dash, Ben Carson, Allen West, Shaquille O’Neil, James earl Jones, Dwayne Johnson, LL Cool J, .50 cent and so many more.

©2023. Carolyn Blakeman. All rights reserved.

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Labor is Energy is POWER

Simply put: No Labor, NO ENERGY, NO POWER


Who supplies the Labor? The American Middleclass worker.

Why is the government planning and scheming to eliminate the American worker? Because the Globalists want you to need them so they can control you. Once you need and count on the government to survive you are their serf/slave forever. If you need them you will not vote against them and they will be in power for hundreds of years. What a future. From freedom to suppression by 2030. Remember, you will own nothing and they will be happy.

This weekend is Labor Day weekend.  Each year on the first Monday of September we celebrate those hard working Americans who power America.  Or do we?  Retailers want us to shop for Labor Day.  Fed chairman Jerome Powel wants us unemployed.   Instead of looking in the mirror and blaming himself for high inflation, he blames the struggling American worker. Americans wages are too high he moans.  We must leave the borders open to bring in  “Unvaxxed” Illegal aliens. They will work for less Since illegals get most of their living expenses paid by the American Taxpayer they are about to replace, the corporations can pay them less. Instead of celebrating the American worker, this regime wants to put them out of work.  Without the American workers and their continuous contributions to the American economy America will lose power. The work ethic that American workers have made to the development, quality, growth, endurance, prosperity, productivity of America at one time made American products the most sought after in the world. Then the greedy, immoral capitalists started raiding America’s wealth.

The greedy immoral capitalists wanted more and more and more so they created crisis after crisis. They realized if they inflicted fear into the populace and then created a crisis people would demand help. By giving free stuff the people would give up freedom to feel safe. They lied and told the workers about the glory of socialism which always leads to communism. “Socialism is the road, communism is the destination.” William Federer.  They outsourced American jobs overseas and then regulated what was left. Tax revenue went down so they printed money out of thin air. I strongly believe that We The People have no debt. The debt was created by the Federal Reserve (Neither Federal not a Reserve) to fund themselves therefore, they should be responsible to pay it back.

The communists infiltrated colleges and taught the kids to become communist activists. Activists infiltrated the unions, and pushed free stuff so workers would turn against their employers.   Many times their demands were so insane the company went out of business. For their trouble, workers were given a Federal Labor Day Holiday paid by the American taxpayer. Did the workers feel better?  Now Labor Day has become a federal holiday for Americans to gather, shop and barbeque, I wondered if anyone knows the history of Labor Day.  Is Labor Day even taught in school?

Join Bill Federer and I and learn another piece of forgotten history.

GUEST:  Bill Federer

WEBSITE: AmericanMinute.com

Get your kids out of the indoctrination clinics masquerading as public schools.  Create a MICROSCHOOL  goflca.org

Everything is connected. Nothing is random, Everything has a plan. All plans are lies. All Globalists want is MONEY, POWER, CONTROL Don’t give them yours. Challenge them with the truth. Is America worth saving?  Doing Nothing is affirmation.

©2023. Karen Schoen. All rights reserved.

Important Messages

In 2021, Florida Statute 101.5604 was signed into law. Look at the last sentence: A county must use an electronic or electromechanical precinct-count tabulation voting system.  Florida is mandated to use the corrupt machines. Call your legislator and tell them to change must to may. Does your state have a similar statute?

Call your federal Legislators tell them: NO security, NO Funding, NO Continuing resolution.

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