The ‘Biden’ Administration’s Extremism Is Fuel For Domestic Unrest

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“Once a country accepts censorship of speech, then nothing can be won without violence. This is the life and death issue in this country.” – Ayn Rand

Every change in practical politics has been preceded by a cultural change – – that is, a change in the philosophy dominating the culture.

The Biden Administration’s Extremism Is Fuel For Domestic Unrest

Establishment gaslighting and threats from the Biden regime’s increasingly unhinged national security surrogates is itself becoming a radicalizing agent.

By: Max Morton,  The Federalist, August 11, 2021:

Recently, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki announced the White House is working with various social media companies to flag and remove alleged COVID-19 misinformation. Psaki went so far as to suggest that if distributors of “misinformation”—as defined by the administration—were censored from one platform, they should be censored from all platforms. The Biden regime is getting serious about removing your access to the public square—all for your safety and security.

Likewise, the Department of Justice, the FBI, and their big-tech enablers are on the hunt for domestic extremists and general all-around infidels from the church of neo-Marxist globalism. So far they’ve had a fairly easy go of it, rounding up the January 6 protesters, deplatforming the distributors of so-called extremist misinformation, and blacklisting individual citizens who publicly speak against the Biden regime’s ideologies. All of this was made easy because the offending citizens, thinking they had constitutional rights, used digital platforms to challenge questionable claims from our ruling elites, their duplicitous medical “experts,” and the courtesans in the White House and Congress.

ust so we’re on the same sheet of music, because there’s a bunch of protesters sitting in solitary in a DC jail who didn’t get the message: The government is using the social media postings and digital communications of American citizens to target them for speaking against the establishment.

You are now the target of the enormous and deadly mass surveillance and security state you voted for back when you couldn’t have imagined that neo-Marxist elites would gain control of the government. Consider using digital countermeasures to protect yourself. For pointers, see here, here, and here.

Blacklisting for Sport and Profit

Last week, PayPal announced it is partnering with the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) to investigate and close accounts the ADL has deemed as belonging to extremists. In February, PayPal had already begun closing accounts flagged by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) for allegedly being associated with “extremists” and “hate” groups. This is the same SPLC that runs a giant hate-grift that funnels donations to private Cayman Islands accounts and blacklists conservative organizations like the Family Research Council and media personalities like Tucker Carlson.

It appears PayPal is setting up a blacklist to deny banking and commercial payment services to individuals and businesses that fall outside woke culture. In an essay by PayPal co-founder David Sacks on Bari Weiss’s Substack, Sacks details the dangers of financial institutions blacklisting businesses and individuals who have been labeled as “extremist” by unaccountable and often partisan private organizations, like the ADL and SPLC. In Sacks’s foreboding words, “Silenced voices and empty stomachs are fuel for the very extremism you claim to oppose.”

In the digital public square, giants such as Facebook, Twitter, and Google have begun working with The Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism (GIFCT) to identify and remove what they consider extremist online content. Since 2017, the GIFCT has served as a private database of extremist and terrorist online content.

Like many of the post-9/11 NGOs that monitored online terrorist activity, GIFCT started out documenting content created by, or supportive of, al-Qaeda, ISIS, and the Taliban. The GIFCT is now shifting its focus to U.S. domestic extremists and white supremacists—as identified by activist groups like the SPLC. GIFCT is also working with Amazon, Dropbox, Mailchimp, and LinkedIn, to name just a few. What could possibly go wrong here?

Hanlon’s Razor

Those in Washington, DC, whether at the White House or the Capitol building, continuously bombard Americans with scary talk about domestic terrorism and extremism, as if we were living in 2006 Iraq. Last month the White House even unveiled a new domestic counterterrorism strategy to deal with this epidemic of uncooperative subjects. However, these “experts” in DC seem to have forgotten one of the maxims of counterterrorism strategy: Counterterrorism strategy should not produce more terrorism than existed before the strategy was implemented.

Calling the 1/6 non-surrection an attack worse than 9/11 is idiotic. The vast majority of those arrested are charged with misdemeanors yet rotting in jail for months under extreme conditions.

Placing hundreds of sad-sack Trump supporters in pre-trial solitary confinement for misdemeanor trespassing charges, denying access to exculpatory evidence, then delaying their show trials for 12-24 months is not exactly what the Founders had in mind when they ratified the Bill of Rights that contains the Sixth Amendment guarantee to a speedy trial and the ability to face your accuser and the evidence against you. I’m sure the DC judges and federal prosecutors got a good chuckle out of their manipulation of habeus corpus, but we see what they did there.

The FBI instigating and amplifying terror plots, which allows them to ride to the rescue, bag some promotions, justify their enormous budget, and provide their political benefactors scary stories to frighten the public—well, we see that too. Like with arsonist firefighters, however, if you start the fire, it doesn’t count.

Establishment gaslighting and threatening wonky-talk from the Biden regime’s increasingly unhinged national security surrogates is itself becoming a radicalizing agent across much of America. But to the likes of Biden’s Domestic Policy Advisor Susan Rice, is that a bug or a feature?

Hanlon’s Razor states to never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity, and Rice has a long tradition of, well, flawed judgement. Perhaps there is more at play here than Hanlon can account for.

Afraid of Americans

Our national security apparatus—namely, the FBI, Department of Homeland Security, their partners in law enforcement, the U.S. Postal Service (again, why?) and big tech—are busy monitoring social media looking for the next III% patch-wearing dupe they can peg as a dangerous Hawaiian shirt-clad terrorist. This seems like a waste of time.

I doubt a real terrorist is going to publicize his evil plots or conduct operational planning on Instagram or Facebook Messenger. As we plainly saw with the Gov. Gretchen Witmer faux-kidnapping plot, most people on social media talking about violence are LARPers, foreign influence operations, and government informants.

I’m not saying there are not dangerous men and women in America. Absolutely there are. After all, America was founded and made the world’s greatest superpower through the sacrifice of dangerous men and women, but modern versions of these dangerous men and women aren’t on social media jabbering about violence or overthrowing the government.

These dangerous men and women have jobs, they have families to support and mortgages to pay. They’re focused on trying to pay for their kid’s braces or college tuition while keeping an increasingly woke and hostile mob at bay.

They are hard men and women, many of them combat veterans, who are not afraid to do what it takes to protect what is theirs. More importantly, they are not a threat—unless someone makes them one.

The establishment elites are now moving to do exactly that by depriving Americans of their employment, access to financial services, free speech, liberty, and their way of life. You won’t hear these dangerous men and women whining about it or talking tough on social media, but rest assured, they see what these elites are doing.

Targeting Political Opponents

In this country of 330 million people, actual political violence is a statistical anomaly. There just isn’t enough white supremacy or extremist activity to justify the entire bloated domestic terrorism industry of Joint Terrorism Task Forces, Fusion Centers, and “Countering Violent Extremism” NGO contracts. In post-9/11 fear, we incentivized a national security apparatus that now sees traditional Americans as the greatest threat to establishment power—and that’s a problem.

Our national security apparatus desperately needs a threat to justify its existence. The Biden administration has promised them one: dissident America.

Corporate media and various Biden regime surrogates are openly discussing making second-class citizens of the vaccine wary, effectively establishing a medical caste system. Companies are putting on unemployment lines people who won’t take an experimental medical therapy. Others are advocating vaccine mandates for employment, government benefits, and medical care. All while government, corporations, and nonprofits are working to remove citizens’ access to financial, e-commerce, and internet services because of their political beliefs.

If one wanted to create a particularly ferocious enemy out of a normally respectful and amenable segment of the population—an enemy that would aggressively fight back in response to maltreatment, thus providing a pretext for all manner of draconian security measures, budget increases, and “emergency” powers, I can think of no better way than to make them hungry, broke, powerless, and persecuted second-class citizens. One might label this method intentional radicalization.

Radicalization. Sometimes it’s more than just a word. Sometimes, for the tyrant, it’s a strategy.

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Basheer Jones Hates America. He Wants to Be Mayor of Cleveland.

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My latest in PJ Media:

Basheer Jones is a Cleveland city councilman and a candidate for mayor of Cleveland in the upcoming September 14 primary election. He is also unusually forthright, even for a twenty-first-century Democratic politician, about his contempt for the land in which he seeks elected office.

Jones is a devout, observant Muslim, and already, according to CleveScene, his “personal religious beliefs and organizational ties have become linked with his campaign. Jones made a number of questionable campaign expenditures in 2020 to international Muslim organizations and figures, including expenses likely related to his December travels in Egypt and the sponsorship of a Muslim orphanage there and a Quranic school in Senegal.”

What’s more, “a recent controversial video shows Jones saying, ‘women are not our leaders.’” Jones, like Muslim spokesmen all over the Western world when confronted with statements that are politically inconvenient, insists that his words were “taken out of context.”

But that is not remotely the worst of it. On Sunday, the RAIR Foundation published an exposé on Jones that contained audio of Jones speaking on January 3, 2016, and making fun of Muslim immigrants who were thankful to be in the United States, and recited the Pledge of Allegiance.

“Before 9/11,” Jones asserts, “our people, our brothers and sisters from the immigrant communities, like, ‘America is a great place. Oh, it’s the land of the free, home of the brave.’ You’d see the imams, big imams, on the stage, singin’, you know.” Here the crowd starts to laugh softly; Jones chuckles a bit along with them and continues: “‘I pledge allegiance to the flag,’ you know, ‘this is the greatest place in the world.’ And we were tellin’ you, ‘Ah, no it’s not. Ah, we know about this place. This place, we know, we know that guy, somethin’ about him.’ And then 9/11 hit. Everybody started comin’ to us. ‘Brothers, please, come, come march with us, stand –’ Brother, we been tellin’ you, that they’ll change on you just like that, man.”’

Jones was apparently referring to American authorities supposedly turning on Muslim communities after 9/11 and subjecting them to “Islamophobic” counter-terror measures. In any case, his contempt for the grateful immigrants, and I-told-you-so implication that he had somehow been vindicated after 9/11, when America proved to be not so great a place after all, ought to have raised eyebrows among those who backed Jones for Cleveland City Council and are now supporting his mayoral ambitions.

There is no indication, however, that anyone was concerned in the slightest with their candidate’s anti-Americanism. We are, after all, talking about the Democratic Party. This is the party that stood by and did nothing when Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Kabul) tweeted: “We must have the same level of accountability and justice for all victims of crimes against humanity. We have seen unthinkable atrocities committed by the U.S., Hamas, Israel, Afghanistan, and the Taliban. I asked [Secretary of State Antony Blinken] where people are supposed to go for justice.”

There is more. Read the rest here.

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AN AMERICAN STORY: Tennessee Girl Discards Christianity, Becomes Climate Change Activist, Joins ISIS

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My latest in PJ Media:

Ariel Bradley wasn’t even the only Islamic jihadi from Chattanooga, Tennessee. On July 17, 2015, a fellow resident of the Chattanooga suburb of Hixson, Mohammad Abdulazeez, murdered four Marines at a Navy base in Chattanooga. This delighted Bradley, who wrote: “Gifted this morning not only with Eid but w/ the news of a brother puttin fear n the heart of kufar [non-believers] n the city of my birth. Alhamdullilah [thanks be to Allah].” By that time, Bradley was far from Chattanooga; she was living in the domains of the Islamic State (ISIS) in Syria, and was calling herself Umm Aminah, that is, Aminah’s mother, after her two-year-old daughter, Aminah Mohamad. Six years later, Ariel Bradley is dead, and Aminah is being brought back to a United States that is even more riven now by the divisions and confusions that drove her mother’s life so wildly off course than it was when her mother made her fateful choices.

Ariel Bradley grew up in Chattanooga as a member of the Pentecostal Church of God, and according to a man with whom she shared a home much later, her parents zealously endeavored to “keep her away from materials that would make her question Christianity,” even to the point of not teaching her to read until she was almost a teenager. Not unexpectedly, Ariel rebelled, running away from home when she was 15 or 16. Like so many Americans today, she ended up adrift, searching for an identity and a purpose. A friend characterized Ariel’s life as “a solar system without a star, without a sun.” She got pregnant and had an abortion. She got a lot of tattoos. She did a lot of drugs. She studied for her GED but never got it.

Ultimately she found the Left, and dived in wholeheartedly. According to a 2015 BuzzFeed profile, “When she wasn’t working, she was active in many social justice groups in Chattanooga, protesting and raising awareness of issues facing the city’s working poor and often traveling out of state to march in rallies for teachers’ rights or protests against America’s overseas military actions. In the biography of the Twitter account @LadyAppleSeed, which she created in May 2009, Ariel describes herself as an ‘activist,’ and friends say she considered that a huge part of her identity; they also said she called herself a feminist.” A photo of Ariel at a demonstration survives; she is holding up a sign emblazoned with the slogan “SYSTEM CHANGE NOT CLIMATE CHANGE.”

There is more. Read the rest here.

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Why Smart People Get Suckered By ‘Trust the Science’

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Has there ever been a time in history when the public has been asked to “trust the science” more?

This week the the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released a report which UN Secretary General António Guterres described as “a code red for humanity”. It predicts catastrophic climate change unless nations make draconian cuts in greenhouse gas emissions. Nearly a hundred scientists were listed as the authors of the report.

At the same time, most of the world is being advised to take vaccines against Covid-19 and submit to onerous lockdowns and social distancing. Epidemiologists announce guidelines flanked by politicians.

Critics of climate change science and Covid-19 vaccines are fighting back with their own studies. Some is science; some is pseudoscience. US President Joe Biden has savagely criticised social media companies for allowing “fake news” to reinforce anti-vaxxers. “They’re killing people,” he said last month.

Fake news is putting the mantra of “trust the science” through a fearful stress test. Is it possible to create a vaccine against this blizzard of misinformation?

Some social science researchers have experimented with “cognitive vaccines” in the hope of getting people to examine the evidence and make rational decisions, rather than relying on advice from their cousins or Instagram influencers.

But says an article in the leading science journal PNAS, “researchers have found that this is not as simple as providing people with correct information and hoping it will supplant false beliefs”.

One disturbing feature of fake news is that a willingness to “trust the science” does not necessarily inoculate people against the allure of pseudoscience.

In a recent article in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, researchers from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign found that the mantra “trust the science” does not work.

Paradoxically, they found that people who trusted science could be more vulnerable to being duped:

We identify two critical determinants of vulnerability to pseudoscience. First, participants who trust science are more likely to believe and disseminate false claims that contain scientific references than false claims that do not.

Second, reminding participants of the value of critical evaluation reduces belief in false claims, whereas reminders of the value of trusting science do not. We conclude that trust in science, although desirable in many ways, makes people vulnerable to pseudoscience.

As the researchers lamented, this is “paradoxical”. People who trust science, who are presumably reasonably well educated, are supposed to spurn “fake news”. However, they found that “the mere presence of scientific labels in the article facilitated belief in the misinformation and increased the probability of dissemination”. In other words, a gloss of scientific credibility actually increased people’s vulnerability to pseudoscience.

And this seemed to be true even for many people with higher degrees.

The authors of the study conclude that public officials need to urge people to be curious and critical – to think for themselves, in other words – rather than swallow the recommendations of scientists (or pseudoscientists) uncritically.

As the astronomer and popular science writer Carl Sagan said: “One of the great commandments of science is, ‘Mistrust arguments from authority.’ … Too many such arguments have proved too painfully wrong. Authorities must prove their contentions like everybody else.”

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Biden’s Immigration Policies vs. National Security & Public Safety

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Administration orders “shields down” in the midst of numerous foreign threats.

With just about all attention focused on the crisis on the U.S./Mexican border, scant if any attention is being paid to the many other ways aliens may enter the United States in violation of our immigration laws.

I have frequently written about the irrefutable fact that the United States has 50 border states and not just the four border states that abut with the Mexican border.

In addition to the four “border states” that everyone is well aware of, any state that lies along our nation’s northern border, lies along our nation’s 95,000 miles of coastline or has an international airport are all “border states.”

Aliens who run our nation’s borders are entering the United States without inspection, but then so do aliens who stow away on ships and then sneak off those ships.  Boats undoubtedly make landfall along our 95,000 mile coastline and enable aliens to also evade the inspections process that is mandated by immigration laws and protect the United States from the entry and presence of aliens who may pose a threat to national security, public safety, public health and the jobs and wages of Americans.

On June 6, 1993 a dilapidated and vermin-infested boat, the Golden Venture ran aground in the Rockaways, a coastal neighborhood in Queens, New York.  On board were some 300 illegal aliens from China who had paid alien smugglers thousands of dollars to enter the United States without inspection and they hoped, without detection.

On June 7, 2018 a local newspaper, The Rockaway Times, published a detailed report about that event, The Golden Venture: 25 Years Later.

Authorities only became aware of that aliens smuggling / human trafficking criminal enterprise because it failed.  The obvious question is how many such efforts have been successful?  As the saying goes, “You don’t know what you don’t know.”

Numerous reports prepared by the GAO also point to another means by which aliens enter the United States in violation of our immigration laws.  These aliens enter the United States and violate their immigration status.  All too frequently such aliens are referred to as “Visa Overstays.”  This tends to sound less ominous that the reality.  The notion that aliens remain past their authorized period of admission does not sound particularly  worrisome, after all, we have all had houseguests who stay too late and ruin our nights sleep.

Why then should we be concerned about aliens who don’t leave when they are supposed to?

The more accurate way of describing aliens who violate the terms to their admission is “Visa Violators.”  They not only remain beyond their authorized period of admission but likely violate other terms of their admission into the United States by, perhaps, accepting illegal employment or by committing serious crimes.

Many visa violators also lie on their applications for visas that they file at U.S. embassies and consulates around the world and also lie to the CBP (Customs and Border Protection) inspectors at ports of entry.

For the first four years of my thirty year career with the former INS (Immigration and Naturalization Service) I was an Immigration Inspector assigned to John F. Kennedy International Airport before I became an INS Special Agent.  The frustrations of that job were constant and enormous.

Inspectors are generally expected to take about one minute to complete the inspection of an alien seeking entry into the United States.  On a limited basis when there are serious doubts about the alien’s admissibility into the United States that alien may be sent for a more in-depth “Secondary” inspection.  However, with CBP’s limited resources many aliens are simply admitted into the United States and they simply go hiding in plain sight.

Biden’s edict that illegal aliens not be arrested by ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) agents unless they not only have outstanding Warrants of Removal (Deportation) but must also have convictions for serious crimes meant that aliens who can game the legal entry process at ports of entry and then violate our immigration laws have nothing to fear- but Americans most certainly do!

In fact, on May 11, 2006 I testified before a hearing conducted by the House Committee on International Relations, Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations on the topic, Visa Overstays: Can We Bar The Terrorist Door?  That hearing was convened because of serious concerns about how terrorists were able to easily game the immigration system to supposedly enter the United States legally, embed themselves in communities around the United States and go about their deadly preparations.

The preface of the official government report, “9/11 and  Terrorist Travel – Staff Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States” begins with the following paragraph:

It is perhaps obvious to state that terrorists cannot plan and carry out attacks in the United States if they are unable to enter the country. Yet prior to September 11, while there were efforts to enhance border security, no agency of the U.S. government thought of border security as a tool in the counterterrorism arsenal. Indeed, even after 19 hijackers demonstrated the relative ease of obtaining a U.S. visa and gaining admission into the United States, border security still is not considered a cornerstone of national security policy. We believe, for reasons we discuss in the following pages, that it must be made one.

Page 54 of above-noted report contained this excerpt under the title, “Terrorist Travel Tactics by Plot”-

Although there is evidence that some land and sea border entries (of terrorists) without inspection occurred, these conspirators mainly subverted the legal entry system by entering at airports.

In doing so, they relied on a wide variety of fraudulent documents, on aliases, and on government corruption. Because terrorist operations were not suicide missions in the early to mid-1990s, once in the United States terrorists and their supporters tried to get legal immigration status that would permit them to remain here, primarily by committing serial, or repeated, immigration fraud, by claiming political asylum, and by marrying Americans. Many of these tactics would remain largely unchanged and undetected throughout the 1990s and up to the 9/11 attack.

Thus, abuse of the immigration system and a lack of interior immigration enforcement were unwittingly working together to support terrorist activity. It would remain largely unknown, since no agency of the United States government analyzed terrorist travel patterns until after 9/11. This lack of attention meant that critical opportunities to disrupt terrorist travel and, therefore, deadly terrorist operations were missed.

Last month my article, Alleged Iranian Kidnap Plot Targeted Iranian/American Dissident In Brooklyn Connecting the immigration dots Biden ignores, focused on how an Iranian woman was able to enter the United States to participate in what was a foiled plot to kidnap a naturalized American citizen who had been born in Iran and has been writing articles critical of the Iranian regime.

On July 22, 2021 the Department of Justice (DOJ) issued a press release, Nine Individuals Charged in Superseding Indictment with Conspiring to Act as Illegal Agents of the People’s Republic of China.  The subtitle stated, “PRC Prosecutor Allegedly Traveled to the United States, Directed Stalking of U.S. Residents, and Obstructed Criminal Investigation.”

Here is the salient excerpt from that press release:

According to court documents, Tu Lan, 50, and Zhai Yongqiang, 46, both of China, are the latest two of nine charged in the superseding indictment. Co-defendants Hu Ji, 46 and Li Minjun, 65, both of China; Zhu Feng, 34, a Chinese national residing in Queens, New York; Michael McMahon, 53, of Mahwah, New Jersey; Zheng Congying, 24, of Brooklyn, New York; and Zhu Yong, aka Jason Zhu, 64, of Norwich, Connecticut, were previously charged in a related criminal complaint issued in October 2020 and a related indictment in May 2021. The name of the ninth defendant remains under seal.

According to court documents, the defendants allegedly acted at the direction and under the control of PRC government officials, conducted surveillance of and engaged in a campaign to harass, stalk and coerce certain residents of the United States to return to the PRC as part of a global, concerted and extralegal repatriation effort known as “Operation Fox Hunt.” The superseding indictment also alleges that Tu Lan, a new defendant who was employed as a prosecutor with the Hanyang People’s Procuratorate, traveled to the United States, directed the harassment campaign and ordered a co-conspirator to destroy evidence to obstruct the criminal investigation.

There was no mention of how the alleged Chinese prosecutor procured a visa to enter the United States, to allegedly oversee the operation.

This case was the subject of an earlier DOJ press release, dated October 28, 2020, Eight Individuals Charged With Conspiring to Act as Illegal Agents of the People’s Republic of China.  That press release also included a link to the initial Criminal Compaint which disclosed that most of the defendants in the case were either lawfully admitted permanent resident, aliens of the United States or a naturalized United States citizen.

In both of the above noted Iranian and Chinese cases, governments that are hostile to the United States were able to insert their operatives into the United States by potentially committing immigration and visa fraud. Nevertheless, a review of DOJ press releases shows that no attention is being given to visa fraud by the Biden administration. Indeed, as I noted in a recent report in which I addressed another case involving alleged Chinese espionage, Biden Dept. of Justice Drops Criminal Charges Lodged Against Five Chinese Spies.

America’s adversaries are having a field day while America’s national security and public safety are undermined by the Biden administration, even as the 20th anniversary of the terror attacks of 9/11 looms large on the horizon.

©Michael Cutler. All rights reserved.

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STOLEN ELECTION: Georgia Ballots Rejected By Machines Were Later Altered By Election Workers [Democrats] To “Count”

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Georgia ballots rejected by machines were later altered by election workers to count

Records obtained by Just the News provide unprecedented glimpse into human adjudication of thousands of ballots, where marks for candidates like Trump were sometimes removed so ballots could count for Biden.

By: John Solomon, Daniel Payne and Natalia Mittelstadt, JTN, August 9, 2021:

A day after the November election, as Donald Trump and other Republican candidates clung to evaporating leads in Georgia, vote counters in Atlanta were confronted by a paper ballot known only by its anonymizing number 5150-232-18.

A Dominion Voting machine had rejected the ballot on election night because the voter had filled in boxes for both Trump and his Democratic opponent Joe Biden, an error known as an “overvote.” The machine determined neither candidate should get a tally, and the ballot was referred for human review.

The image of the ballot, obtained by Just the News, shows the voter messily scribbled a large blob in the box to select Trump as president while also putting a thinner check mark next to Biden’s name.

At 6:10 p.m. ET on Nov. 4, 24 hours after the ballot was first scanned and rejected by Machine 5150, a panel of humans decided the vote should be awarded to Biden, with the notation “mark removed for Donald J. Trump.” You can see that ballot here:

Scores of additional ballots that same day had checks manually removed next to Trump’s name as well as many other candidates up and down the ticket — Libertarians, Democrats and write-ins alike — and the votes awarded instead to other candidates.

Welcome to the arcane process known as adjudication, where human judgment is substituted for machine scanning in cases where voters incorrectly filled out a paper ballot. Election officials and official observers have dealt with it for years, with everyday citizens mostly oblivious to the process.

But in 2020, adjudication played a much larger role in states like Georgia, which allowed hundreds of thousands of additional citizens to vote absentee for the first time during the COVID-19 pandemic.

In all, more than 5,000 of the 148,000 absentee ballots cast — or about 3% — in Georgia’s largest county required some form of human intervention, according to logs obtained from Fulton County by Just the News under an open records act request.

The adjudication ballots alone are not enough to change a Georgia election in which Biden and Trump were separated by less than 13,000 votes. However, they reveal an imperfect system vulnerable to chaos, subjectivity, or political dirty tricks, especially in a county like Fulton where state officials documented widespread irregularities and misconduct and now want to take over election counting.

Just the News reviewed 1,604 pages of adjudication logs from Fulton County and reviewed 4820 of the 5064 ballot images where human vote counters reviewed or overrode the Dominion Voting machines. The JTN review provided an unprecedented window into the extraordinary discretion accorded adjudication judges to interpret a voter’s intent on a flawed ballot.

It also raised another troubling question, at least in Georgia, where election regulations create two conflicting imperatives. One regulation, which is quoted on each absentee ballot, emphatically declares that a paper ballot should be deemed “spoiled” and uncountable if a voter makes any mistakes or unauthorized marks.

“If you make a mistake or change your mind or change your mind on a selection do not attempt to mark through the selection or attempt to erase. Write ‘Spoiled’ across the ballot and across the return envelope” and get a new ballot, language on each ballot reads.

Just the News reviewed hundreds of ballots that met the “spoiled” definition — ballots that voters had in some way altered, defaced, or corrected — that were still allowed to count after adjudication. The reason? Another Georgia regulation gives election officials broad discretion to try to determine the intent of a confused voter, and actually encourages them to find a way to make flawed ballots count.

The Georgia code stipulates that voting tabulators must be programmed to “reject any ballot, including absentee ballots, on which an overvote is detected,” with those ballots to be “manually reviewed” by a review panel following their rejection.

If a voter “has marked his or her ballot in such a manner that he or she has indicated clearly and without question the candidate for whom he or she desires to cast his or her vote,” the state code says elsewhere, then the ballot “shall be counted and such candidate shall receive his or her vote.”

Yet state law also directs that a ballot should be considered “spoiled” if, in part, a voter has used it to “cast more than the permitted number of votes.” A spoiled ballot “shall not be reinstated,” the code states, suggesting that any ballots deemed as such should not be counted.

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How Cultural Marxists In Our Midst Are Grinding Christianity Down

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During a pre-election prayer session in support of Black Lives Matter, the pastor of St. Xavier Catholic Church in New York City instructed white congregants that they must renounce their white privilege to help “transform the church culture.” Using the noble cause of racial equality as a fig leaf, Black Lives Matter is in fact a violent political organization whose Marxist ideology is anti-American—anti-Christian—in the most profound meaning of those terms. In many churches across America, cultural Marxists in the pulpit are quietly supplanting traditional Christian values with those of the hammer and sickle.

“Cultural Marxism” is the gradual process of grinding down western democracies by subverting the pillars of their culture, the structures and institutions of family, religion, education, politics, law, the arts and the media, as they provide the social cohesion necessary to a functioning society. Challenge the legitimacy of these institutions, and a capitalist society can be overthrown from within without firing a shot. Known as the father of cultural Marxism, 20th century Italian communist Antonio Gramsci summarized his stratagem for dismantling Christian nations thusly:

“Socialism is precisely the religion that must overwhelm Christianity. Socialism will triumph by first capturing the culture via infiltration of schools, universities, churches and the media by transforming the consciousness of society.”

Gramsci referred to his stratagem as “the long march through the institutions,” i.e. infiltrating a society’s cultural institutions and gradually supplanting their traditional values and principles with those of communism. Operating via stealth and deception, Gramsci’s disciples in this country have diligently labored to grind down every cultural institution in America, including its predominant religion, Christianity.

Communism cannot flourish in a society with a strong religious footing. In his best-selling book, “The Naked Communist,”former FBI Special Agent Cleon Skousen listed 45 communist goals to subvert America from within. Two of those goals pertain to diminishing Christianity:

Goal No. 27 calls on communist warriors to infiltrate churches and replace revealed religion with “social” religion. Revealed religion is based on Scripture; the communist concept of social religion teaches citizens to look to government, rather than God, for their daily salvation. Scriptural religion is about individual salvation; social religion is about collective salvation, a concept that does not exist in Christianity. In many churches on the religious left, the communist goal of replacing revealed religion with social religion has largely been accomplished, as evidenced by the constant refrain of religious-left pastors who sermonize about their undying commitment to the cause of “social justice.” The term refers to justice within a society that allocates wealth according to Marxism’s foremost command: “From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.”

Goal No. 28 calls on communist warriors to infiltrate schools and eliminate prayer and every type of religious expression on the grounds that it violates the principle of separation of church and state.

Cultural Marxism has a simple message to Christians: sit down and shut up. In attempting to drive Christianity from the public square, cultural Marxists in our midst, nearly all of whom vote Democrat, routinely mock and ridicule Christianity and its believers. The following sacrileges were carried out by members of the entertainment industry:

  • Bill Maher began one of his programs on HBO with an attack on Christianity by comparing Holy Communion to gay sex.
  • On his nationally-syndicated radio show, Howard Stern said, “If I was president, I would have you pro-lifers gassed. I would have you marched into the ovens.”
  • Upon receiving an award for her cable reality show, comedienne Kathy Griffin said, “A lot of people come up here and thank Jesus for this. No one had less to do with this award than Jesus. All I can say is suck it, Jesus.”
  • In an episode of HBO’s “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” the star of the show, Larry David, urinated on a picture of Jesus.
  • In an in-your-face to Christians, the Netflix film, “The First Temptation of Christ,” portrays Jesus as a homosexual, and depicts God the Father as a lecherous seducer of women.
  • Using “diversity, equity and inclusion” as justification, cultural Marxists throughout our society regularly scold, threaten and punish Christians, as well as censor religious activities by Christians and Christian organizations:
  • Employee of major package shipper ordered on administrative leave for wearing a Christian cross on her dress while at work.
  • Christmas decorations banned at Florida’s turnpike toll booths.
  • NBC edited out “under God” from pledge of allegiance sung by children during broadcast of U.S. Open golf tournament.
  • Pentagon orders Air Force officer to remove Bible from his desk.
  • Court of Appeals upholds school district’s ban on Christmas carols.
  • The ACLU filed suit to force removal of 8-foot cross erected on remote federal land
    to honor soldiers killed in war. See video about the Mojave Desert Cross here.
  • Army warns soldiers that pro-life Christians are “tearing the country apart” and constitute a “radical threat to the nation.”
  • Obama DOJ defunds at-risk youth program after it refused to ban prayer.
  • VA hospital refuses “Merry Christmas” cards sent by 4th graders to sick and wounded veterans.
  • High school prohibits valedictorian from telling how Jesus changed his life.
  • Military base takes down Nativity scene after atheists complain.
  • Federal judge prohibits high school band from playing “How Great Thou Art.”
  • Texas school bans Christmas trees, red & green colors from holiday party due to fear of “offending others.”
  • “Introduction to Humanities” professor fails student because she refused to renounce her Christian faith.
  • University prohibits Christian club from setting up table at meet-and-greet for new students.
  • Children banned from saying ‘Merry Christmas’ at elementary school’s “Winter Party.”
  • High school prohibits students from praying together, cites “separation of church and state.”
  • University de-certifies campus Christian club for insisting on having a Christian as its leader.
  • Government tells ministry that feeds the poor to remove portrait of Jesus.
  • University’s diversity guidelines warn: “Make sure your holiday party isn’t a Christmas party in disguise.”

The above instances are but the tip of a massive iceberg aimed squarely at driving every vestige of Christianity from the public arena.

Disciples of Antonio Gramsci have infiltrated top leadership positions of every major branch of the Christian religion, including the Catholic Church. In February 2020, Pope Francis announced his support for the Global Education Pact, a United Nations-backed initiative that will usher in a “new humanism,” under which God “withdraws” so all of humankind can be “free.” Under the Pact, children of the world will be indoctrinated with social justice (Marxist) propaganda designed to pave the way for a New World Order under the banner of global communism. Operating by stealth and deception, Marxists have seized control of the Vatican in a way that went virtually unnoticed by most Catholics until after the fact, just as Gramsci planned. While pretending to do God’s bidding, Marxists in the Vatican hiding under the ecclesiastical robes of the Christian faith are knowingly subverting their professed religion from within.

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A Red State Icon With Revolutionary Ideas About Families is Running for the U.S. Senate [Video]

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By all accounts, J. D. Vance, author of the critically acclaimed book Hillbilly Elegy, is a mild-mannered, soft-spoken, affable sort. But he just sparked a firestorm of resentment from the empire’s chattering class – and ensured his enshrinement as deplorable first-class, by those-who-know-better-than-the-rest-of-us.

Vance’s life trajectory thus far is the all-American Horatio Alger story. From a hardscrabble Appalachian childhood, he joined the Marines after high school. Next stops were university and an Ivy League law school, then high finance. But to his credit, he never forgot where he came from. His book Hillbilly Elegy offers a glimmer of insight into his origin and into the lives of forgotten Americans resident in “flyover country.”

Now Vance is running for the US Senate in Ohio – as an unabashed family values guy. Being the fearless and outspoken sort that he is, it’s clear that Vance is altogether different from the lightweight invertebrate politicos who ceaselessly invoke “family values” while posturing and pandering for votes.

But, why the firestorm? It happened because J.D. voiced an opinion publicly that, although shared by millions, is viewed as deplorableif not outright criminal. And his enemies want him to pay dearly for it.

What did Vance say?

At a forum on the “Future of American Political Economy,” sponsored by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI) on July 23, 2021, while discussing the up-and-coming leaders of the Democrat Party, he said this:

They’re well-known people. Kamala Harris; Mayor Pete Buttigieg; who’s now the secretary of transportation; Cory Booker; AOC… What is the one thing that unites every single one of them? Not a single one of them has any children.            

Why is that? Why have we let the Democrat Party become controlled by people who don’t have children? And why is this just a normal fact of American life? That the leaders of our country should be people who don’t have a personal and direct stake in it via their own offspring, via their own children and grandchildren?

With those words, J.D. hit a nerve. New York Magazine called him “homophobic.” The Washington Post said his ideas were “bizarre and obviously indefensible.” Paul Krugman of the New York Times said his comments were “a sign of intellectual and perhaps moral bankruptcy.” Tom Nichol, a writer for the left-wing Atlantic, called Vance “a contemptible and cringe-inducing clown.”

Chasten Buttigieg complained that Vance was heartless while pointing out that he and husband Pete were looking to adopt. An op-ed in the People’s World, a publication of the Communist Party, called Vance the “hillbilly Trump.” And former Democratic Senator from Missouri Claire McCaskill, now with MSNBC, called Vance a “jerk.”

There’s more, but you get the idea. J. D. probably didn’t get invited to Obama’s birthday bash on Martha’s Vineyard. Glad all this happened after publication of Hillbilly Elegy. Otherwise we’d have never heard of J. D. Vance.

To many of these wizards of wokedom, not procreating is a badge of honor. They tell themselves they are protecting the environment and shrinking the carbon footprint. If being childless enables them to enjoy a more upscale lifestyle (travel, $5 lattes, etc.), then so be it.

The fact is, having children or not having children does influence how people think about things on an intensely personal and political level. Merely calling attention to it is impolitic, and it cuts to the quick on how folks look at the world. Now if the Hillbilly Elegy guy had left it at that, things would have riled up those-who-know-better-than-the-rest-of-us enough. But there’s more:

It’s one thing to recognize that there are people who don’t have children through no fault or choice of their own. But it’s something else to build a political movement, invested theoretically in the future of this country, when not a single one of them actually has any physical commitment to the future of this country.                

…what society has built its entire civilization, the flow of information, the leaders of its country, political and governmental, and also corporate, around completely childless adults? It’s never happened. This is a new thing in American life, but I think probably a new thing in world history.         

It’s not good. It’s not healthy.

And Vance didn’t stop there. He further compounded his deplorable cred in the eyes of the Woke a few days later when he appeared on Tucker Carlson’s Fox News TV program. That’s when he repeated to millions of viewers some nice things he told the ISI confab about Hungary and its president, Viktor Orbán.

Now regular MercatorNet readers will recall that praising Hungary and Orbán is akin these days to praising Hitler. But Vance, brave and forthright fellow that he is, continued on:

…they [the government of Hungary] offer loans to new married couples that are forgiven at some point later if those couples eventually stay together and have children.             

Why can’t we do that here?…Why can’t we give resources to parents who tell us the only reason they’re not having kids is because they can’t afford it?               

This is a civilizational crisis…. We should give resources to parents who are going to have kids. We should make it easier to raise American families. And we should send the signal to the culture that we are the pro-family party and we’re going to back it up with real policy.

Finally, to cap it all off, when most aspiring politicians would have long ago given it a rest, Vance actually proposed an old idea whose time is nigh:

The Democrats are talking about giving the vote to sixteen-year olds. But let’s do this instead: let’s give votes to all children in this country, but let’s give control over those votes to the parents of those children. When you go to the polls in this country, as a parent, you should have more power. You should have more of an ability to speak your voice in our democratic republic than people who don’t have kids. Let’s face the consequences and the reality. If you don’t have as much of an investment in the future of this country, maybe you shouldn’t get nearly the same voice.             

Now people will say, and I’m sure the Atlantic and the Washington Post and all the usual suspects will criticize me about this in the coming days. “Well, doesn’t this mean that non-parents don’t have as much of a voice as parents? Doesn’t this mean that parents get a bigger say in how our democracy functions?” Yes. Absolutely.

How about that? A thinking man running for the US Senate. I hear he even has a shot at getting elected. Let’s keep our eyes on that Ohio Senate race.

COLUMN BY

Louis T. March

Louis T. March has a background in government, business and philanthropy. A former talk show host, author and public speaker, he is a dedicated student of history and genealogy. Louis lives with his family… More by Louis T. March

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Crooked Senate Democrats Determined To Pass Pro-Election Theft Bill Before Recess

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Now that the Democrats have stolen the presidential election and consolidated their power across every branch of government, they are going for the kill – ensuring one party rule for time for the foreseeable future through pro-election fraud, anti-integrity bill.

They had to steal the Senate. This is why.

Senate Democrats planning procedural vote on new voting rights bill before recess

Sen. Merkley says the bill will include a ‘national set of standards’ for voting in elections

By Nicholas Ballasy, August 6, 2021:

Senate Democratic leaders are planning to hold a procedural vote on new election reform bill before the August recess begins, a senator close to the process said Friday.

“We anticipate that we will again try to move a bill to the floor before we leave here sometime this coming week,” Oregon Democratic Sen. Jeff Merkley said during a press conference with Texas state representatives who fled Texas for D.C. last month in protest of state GOP voting legislation. “You never know with the U.S. Senate how long things will take.”

Merkley described the legislation as “Manchin 2.0,” referring to the proposal West Virginia Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin supported as a replacement to the Democrats’ “For the People Act.” He said the new proposal will include a “national set of standards” for voting.

“It takes on dark money. It takes on gerrymandering by setting standards for redrawing districts. It takes on early voting, vote by mail protections, registration protections, polling day protections, so standards that will ensure a clean, clear path for every American to cast their ballot,” Merkley said.

Merkley said the Democrats must “find a way” to pass national voting legislation if the latest proposal fails to garner enough votes in the Senate.

He was asked if Democrats will add voting provisions to the $3.5 trillion filibuster-proof reconciliation bill

“I am going to defer to the majority leader to lay out how that vote will be held,” he replied.

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COVID-19 — Special Reports:

Short superior video: A clear counter-argument to getting the “vaccine”

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Very worthwhile: Plague Rats

Our Report: How the Medical Establishment Dropped the Ball re COVID-19

COVID-19 — Therapies:

Ivermectin is effective for COVID-19 when used early. Analysis of 61 studies

Double-blind study: Ivermectin reduces COVID-19’s duration and infectiousness

COVID: 90% of patients treated with new Israeli drug discharged in 5 days

COVID-19 — Vaccines:

COVID-19 Natural Immunity vs Vaccine Induced Immunity Guide

The Vaccine Causes The Virus To Be More Dangerous

COVID Outbreak On Carnival Cruise Despite ALL ABOARD Jabbed

CDC study shows 74% of people infected in MA Covid outbreak were fully vaccinated

Over 25% of COVID-19 cases in LA are fully vaccinated people

Are Vaccines Driving the Surge in New COVID Infections?

Poll: Most unvaccinated Americans believe vaccine riskier than virus

Kaiser Poll Shows It’s Not Republicans Who Are COVID Vaccine Resisters

Biden’s Vaccine Push: A Mandate with Destiny

Study: First postmortem study in a patient vaccinated against SARS-CoV-2

Document Reveals ‘Shocking’ Terms of Pfizer’s International Vaccine Agreements

Experts Warn of Increased Risks of Infertility, Death after COVID Vaccines

COVID-19 — Models and Data:

FDA Issues Recall for Defective COVID Tests Made by ‘World’s Largest Mfg’

Which masks protect against delta COVID-19 variant?

NYT: CDC Statistic is a Huge Exaggeration

Study finds unhealthy levels of carbon dioxide in kids wearing face masks

Johns Hopkins Study Found Zero COVID Deaths Among Healthy Kids

Startling Discovery Suggests 40% of US Wild Deer have had the Coronavirus

COVID-19 — Misc:

Tucker Carlson: This isn’t about the science, here’s proof

‘CDC Has Destroyed Their Credibility’

The COVID Lies: Who is Behind them and What They Want

How a Psychic Healer Convinced the Gov’t to Fund “Long Covid” Research

Why Did the WHO Alter Its Definition of “Herd Immunity?”

The coming Delta lockdown is designed to invoke nationwide protests…

China seals city as its worst virus outbreak in a year grows

Short video: Walkout Wednesday (Noon: August 11th)

The Nuremberg Code

Renewable Energy Health and Ecosystem Consequences:

Michigan denies permit for wind project over wildlife concerns

Renewables: Oh, the Waste!

Turbine noise goes on trial (in Australia)

Tesla big battery fire in Victoria under control after burning more than three days

Offshore Wind Turbine Noise Raises Concerns About Marine Life

Wind Energy:

Bradford (PA) says no to wind turbines

The Big Battery Myth: Why Battery Storage Can’t Save Intermittent Wind & Solar

‘I can see our industry disappearing’: US fishermen sound alarm at offshore wind

Offshore Wind Fight Shifts to NY Bight as Scallop Industry Calls for Changes

Sorry, But Those Wind and Solar Numbers Just Don’t Add Up

The Block Island wind project has largely shut down

North Dakota regulators order removal of wind turbine too close to residence

Solar Energy:

Major Report: Overview of Solar Energy Concerns

Behind The Rise Of U.S. Solar Power, A Mountain of Chinese Coal

Solar Framing Is A Problem No Matter How One Interprets It

TV Report: Home Solar Panel Pitfalls

True solar farmers sound alarm on ‘green energy’ panels

Nuclear Energy:

Short worthwhile video: The Green Atom

Company searching for ‘Holy Grail’ of energy

State, federal efforts “too late to save Exelon’s Illinois nuclear plants”

Fossil Fuel Energy:

Why Does Biden Want to Kill Our Oil and Gas?

If Coal Is Dead, Then Why Are Ships So Full Of It?

US DOE Drops $52.5 Million Green Hydrogen Bomb On Natural Gas

U.S. Interior secretary accused of defying federal judge’s oil lease ruling

Misc Energy:

Clean electricity standard would have ‘cataclysmic’ impact on state economies

RGGI is but the Classic “Solution in Search of a Problem”

Going Green Relies Heavily On Chinese Slave Labor

Germany’s Green Energy Shift Is More Fizzle Than Sizzle

The hydrogen economy is about to get weird

Energy CEO claims iron-air battery can “fully retire thermal assets”

Manmade Global Warming — Some Deceptions:

Report debunking the IPCC

How Climate Scenarios Lost Touch With Reality

Can we trust the climate scientists?

Bjorn Lomborg: The truth about extreme weather events

How Climate Scenarios Lost Touch With Reality

To Advance the Climate Agenda: Never Waste Bad Weather

Climate Change Doesn’t Cause All Disasters

The Greens threaten us with floods but fail to protect against them

IPCC’s Gold-Standard Temp Data: Last 7.25 Years World Has Been Cooling

Is the Earth Actually Getting Hotter?

Michael Mann’s Lawsuit Stumbles On

Study: Three Americans create enough carbon emissions to kill one person

Video: Claims carbon dioxide is destroying the planet are ‘antiscientific

Manmade Global Warming — Misc:

Biden’s 30×30 Land Grab ’

Climate scientists prepare to clamp down on the world’s freedoms

Climate Scientist Warns ‘Next 20-30 Years Will Be Cold

Could Pacific NW Heat Wave, European Floods Have Been Caused by the Sun?

Earth’s interior is swallowing up more carbon than thought

Climate hyperbolists are finding the pandemic stole their thunder

CA Climate Initiative Support Drops Like Rock

Comments On Federal Scientific Integrity

China, India ignore UN deadline to update emissions targets in COP26 warning shot

Gratitude for CO2: It Continues to Feed the World

COP26 summit ‘too big’ to happen in person, warns climate change negotiator

ClimateClips.com: A collection of good short videos about climate

Short video: Floods, Heat Waves and an Ice Age

Video: Studying Sunspot Activity Cycles: Hindcasting and Forecasting

China rolls back climate policy, reopens closed coal mines as power demand surges

A climate test showing 70 % error in the calculated 2019 temperature

US Election:

Biden AG Threatens Prison Time for Anyone Organizing “Election Forensic Audits”

Gen. Flynn: 10 Indisputable Facts on the 2020 Election that Argue for Audits

10 Reasons to Question the Election

A.U.D.I.T. of Elections: Shock and Awe or Calm Before the Storm?

Evidence to be Presented to Citizens Grand Jury of Interstate Election Conspiracy

Justice Dept’s Guidance on Statutes Regarding Voting Methods and Audits

Majority vote ‘No’ on Democratic plan to federalize elections

HR4 – The Pelosi Power Grab Act

US Election — Arizona:

A.U.D.I.T. of Elections: Grassroots Pressure Begins to Pay Off

AZ Audit Update w AZ GOP Chairwoman Dr. Kelli Ward, July 28, 2021

Maricopa: What happened to 443K excess ballots?

Senator Fann Explains Path to Decertification of 2020 Election Results

Arizona Senate liaison granted ‘full access’ to Maricopa audit

US Election — Other State Issues:

More votes counted than cast in Nevada 2020 General Election

Pulitzer Says He Has Funding for Kinematic Forensic Audit of Michigan

Trump Victory Margin in Michigan at 373,000 Votes

Zuckerberg-Funded Nonprofit Paid $11.8 Million to MI Dem Consulting Firms

PA County Declines Election Audit Without New Voting Machines

Texas Dems to huddle with Clintons, Abrams as they bid to regain momentum

US Politics and Socialism:

Nothing Is Ever As It Appears In China: Military Intimidation

The Jan. 6th Show Trials Threaten All of Us

GOP Reps Denied Entry to Prison Where Jan. 6 Prisoners Being Held

The Mayor: Police Protection for Me, not for Thee

Parents Defy “No National Anthem” at Softball Game

Why I Am Deleting All Content After 48 Hours

US Infrastructure Bill:

Just Say “NO” To This Corrupt Phony Infrastructure Bill!

Wharton School Analysis Destroys Budget Claim Underlying New Infrastructure Bill

Infrastructure Bill Contains Mileage Tax – Goal Is Make It Too Expensive To Drive

Other US Politics and Related:

Biden Follows Biles Example, and Quits Presidency to Focus on Mental Health

A Stark Report of Biden’s First Six Months in Office

A Conservative Plan to Replace the Progressive Welfare State in 2024

Report of Investigation into Allegations of Sexual Harassment of Gov Cuomo
Racial Reckoning, Ignores Democratic Party Racism

Let’s not Force America’s Daughters to Register for the Draft

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Gender Ideology Run Amok

How Science Becomes Religion

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How to Challenge a School Board in 3-5 Minutes

Academia’s hostility to intellectual diversity suffers a courtroom setback

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Why Private Schools Have Gone Woke

Communism Overtakes Union-Controlled Government Schools

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The Tyranny of Consensus Thinking

3 near-term tech advances that could change the future

Archive: The Birth of Experimental Science

Does the Biden Administration Understand Inflation?

Strawman Arguments: What They Are and How to Counter Them

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DEMOCRAT WAR ON AMERICA: Biden Wants To Cut Funding for ‘Border Security Assets and Infrastructure’ by 96%

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No borders? No country.

Biden Wants To Cut Funding for ‘Border Security Assets and Infrastructure’ by 96%

President Joe Biden has now revealed there is at least one area in which he is a fiscal conservative: When it comes to providing the infrastructure needed to secure the border, he wants to spend far less than the government currently spends.

By Terence P. Jeffrey | August 4, 2021 | CNS News:

His administration has presented Congress with a Department of Homeland Security budget proposal that calls for slashing spending on what it calls “Border Security Assets and Infrastructure” by 96%.

In fiscal 2021, Congress approved $1,513,000,000 in funding for border security assets and infrastructure. Biden is now asking that Congress approve just $54,315,000 for fiscal 2022. That is a reduction of $1,458,685,000 — or 96.4%.

What exactly is Biden cutting?

Biden’s DHS has presented Congress with a 562-page “overview” of its fiscal 2022 budget proposal for Customs and Border Protection. The explanation for its “Border Security Assets and Infrastructure” plan is presented on pages 326 through 350 of this document.

The presentation divides “Border Security Assets and Infrastructure” into six categories: Integrated Fixed Towers (IFT); Remote Video Surveillance Systems (RVSS); Mobile Video Surveillance System (MVSS); MVSS-M2S2 Modular Mobile Surveillance System; Border Security Assets and Infrastructure End Items; and Border Wall System Program.

In fiscal 2020, it received $1,375,000,000. In fiscal 2021, it received the same amount.In the past two fiscal years — as reported in Biden’s proposal — the Border Wall System Program has been the most significant of these. “This investment,” it says, “includes real estate and environmental planning, land acquisition, wall system design, construction, and construction and oversight of a physical barrier system.”

Now, if Biden gets his way, the federal government will not spend one penny in fiscal 2022 on planning or constructing a “physical barrier system” at the border.

“Integrated Fixed Towers” are the next item in DHS’s budget proposal for border security. “This investment,” according to the proposal, “provides automated, persistent wide-area surveillance for the detection, tracking, identification and classification of illegal entries in threat areas where mobile surveillance systems are not a viable and/or long-term solution.”

How much does Biden want for this piece of infrastructure? Nothing.

In fiscal 2020, Congress approved $1,142,000 for these towers. This fiscal year, it approved nothing. Biden wants to make sure it approves nothing again.

“Remote Video Surveillance Systems” are the next item in DHS’s budget proposal for border security. “This investment,” says the proposal, “consists of permanently mounted remotely controlled systems of daylight or infrared cameras, which enhance situational awareness of border activity and facilitate proper law enforcement resolution.”

How much does Biden want for this piece of infrastructure? Nothing.

In fiscal 2020, Congress approved $40,740,000 for these surveillance systems. This fiscal year, it approved nothing. Biden wants to make sure it approves nothing again.

“Mobile Video Surveillance System” is the next item. “This investment consists of sensor equipment mounted on a telescoping mast of a light-duty pickup truck,” the proposal says. “MVSS can be rapidly deployed to provide the best visual range for surveillance of several miles and provide situational awareness to the USBP.”

In fiscal 2020, Congress approved $14,800,000 for these systems. This year, it approved nothing. Biden wants nothing again.

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Federal Government Released Over 7,000 COVID-Positive Migrants In McAllen, TX Alone

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The Democrats have declared war on us. Are we going to fight back?

Federal Government Released Over 7,000 COVID-Positive Migrants in McAllen, TX

“On Monday, we watched Border Patrol drop off bus loads of migrants in downtown McAllen all day long. Every 30 minutes.”

Posted by Mary Chastain, Legal Insurrection, Wednesday, August 4, 2021:

Fox News reporter Bill Melugin tweeted that the federal government has released over 7,000 COVID-positive migrants into McAllen, TX.

Hidalgo County Judge Richard Cortez declared the local state of disaster on Monday.

Local 23 reported:

According to the city of McAllen, since mid-February of 2021, there have been over 7,000 confirmed COVID-19 positive immigrants released into the City of McAllen by CBP, including over 1,500 new cases in the past seven days.

The Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley previously released a statement explaining that migrants were tested before entering the facility, negative cases were allowed in and positive cases were placed in other areas to avoid the continued spread of COVID-19.

McAllen Mayor Javier Villalobos signed the Disaster Declaration on Monday night:

Cortez and three other South Texas county judges from Willacy, Cameron and Starr counties have held firm against issuing disaster declarations that coincide with Gov. Greg Abbott’s declaration. But Cortez said Monday’s declaration was necessary and these “extraordinary measures” were taken to help the county hopefully qualify for additional funding to help mitigate untold costs associated with the migrants.

On Monday evening, McAllen Mayor Javier Villalobos, whose city is the largest in Hidalgo County, also issued a disaster declaration. The city’s declaration is due to the high numbers of migrants that the city is dealing with as the Department of Homeland Security releases hundreds of migrants per day in downtown McAllen to the care of the nonprofit Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley, which is operating out of a building owned by the city.

The county’s two-page declaration, which declares that “U.S. Customs and Border Protection is releasing an alarmingly substantial number of immigrants into the City of McAllen,” is different from the disaster proclamation issued by Abbott on May 31, 2021.

The city’s two-page declaration was similar in text and tone and also is valid for seven days at which time it will require a vote of the city commission to extend.

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Florida OKs School CHOICE Vouchers For Parents In Districts Requiring Masks, FREED From Public School Tyranny

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Finally school choice. Parents won’t go back to pubic schools. Watch.

Silver linings playbook.

Texas A.G. Ken Paxton said this is an excellent idea for Texas.

Florida OKs school vouchers in districts requiring masks

Florida’s Board of Education has approved an emergency rule to allow private school vouchers to parents who say their school district’s mask-wearing mandates amount to child harassment

August 6, 2021:

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida’s Board of Education decided Friday to provide private school vouchers to parents who say a public school district’s mask-wearing requirements amount to harassment of their children.

The move to take private tuition costs from public school funding created yet another flashpoint in the fight between local school boards and Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis over coronavirus safety measures in schools. DeSantis has long supported efforts to expand school privatization and says parents should be able to decide how to provide for their children’s health and education.

DeSantis had ordered the state education department to come up with ways to pressure school districts against creating mask mandates and punish them if they do. He said the rules could include withholding money from school districts or other actions allowed under Florida law.

The board then invoked an existing law to clarify eligibility for the Hope Scholarship, which is meant to protect children against bullying, adding “COVID-19 harassment” as a prohibited form of discrimination. It defined this as “any threatening, discriminatory, insulting, or dehumanizing verbal, written or physical conduct” students suffer as a result of COVID-19 protocols such as mask or testing requirements and isolation measures that “have the effect of substantially interfering with a student’s educational performance.”

“We’re not going to hurt kids. We’re not going to pull money that’s going to hurt kids in any way,” said board member Ben Gibson.

But he said the rule the board approved has the effect of law, and that if school districts don’t comply, the board could hold up the transfer of state money.

“If a parent wants their child to wear a mask at school, they should have that right. If a parent doesn’t want their child to wear a mask at school, they should have that right,” Gibson said.

In response to the governor’s order, the Department of Health approved a rule saying students can wear masks, but school districts must allow parents to opt their children out of any local mandates.

So far, three Florida school districts have decided to follow recommendations from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and require masks when they restart classes next week, citing Florida’s dramatic rise in coronavirus infections.

More than a dozen Florida parents filed a lawsuit Friday in Miami federal court against DeSantis, the state Department of Education and some of the largest school districts, alleging that the ban on mask mandates violates the Americans with Disabilities Act. They say their disabled children will be unable to attend public schools with unmasked classmates because they are at high risk of COVID-19 infection.

Florida leads the nation in COVID-19 related hospitalizations, rising from 12,516 on Thursday to 12,864, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Hospital data shows 2,680 of those patients required intensive care, using about 42% of the ICU beds in the state, compared with less than 20% they were using two weeks ago.

The Florida Department of Health published its weekly statistics showing a rise of seven-day average cases from 15,817 last Friday to 19,250, the highest average in the pandemic for the third time this week. The state tallied 616 deaths in one week, raising the total COVID-19 death toll to 39,695.

The number of people getting vaccinated is also rising, with more than 380,000 people getting them in the last seven-day period, compared with 334,000 the previous week.

At a news conference Friday, DeSantis reiterated his general opposition to restrictions, such as lockdowns, business closures and mask mandates.

“In terms of imposing any restrictions, that’s not happening in Florida. It’s harmful. It’s destructive. It does not work,” he said, noting that Los Angeles County had a winter surge despite all its restrictions. “We really believe that individuals know how to best assess their risks. We trust them to be able to make those decisions. We just want to make sure everybody has information.”

For years, Republicans have pushed to expand the school voucher programs, which include vouchers for low-income families and students with disabilities. The board said it was appropriate to expand the vouchers to protect children from bullying to include COVID-19 protocols. Voucher opponents say money is diverted from public to private schools once the child transfers.

School boards in Orange County, home to Orlando; Duval County, home to Jacksonville; and Alachua County, home to Gainesville, decided this week to require mask-wearing indoors.

The Duval and Orange boards are allowing parents to submit paperwork if they want their children not to wear masks. The Alachua board said it had voted to require masks for the first two weeks of school, a decision that will be reevaluated in two weeks. Students in all three districts go back to school Tuesday.

South Florida districts remained undecided Friday on their mask directives.

The Broward County School Board, which covers Fort Lauderdale and suburbs, had voted to require masks after hours of contentious debate that included a screaming match from angry anti-mask parents who set fire to masks and held picket signs outside. The board reversed course Monday over fear of losing funding, but on Wednesday said on Twitter that they are “waiting for guidance” in light of the governor’s orders.

The Miami-Dade school district hasn’t said whether masks will continue to be optional, as they were, or required.

Separately, late Thursday, Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava announced that weekly COVID-19 testing will be required for all 29,000 non-school county employees unless they show proof of vaccination amid a surge of infections from the delta variant of the coronavirus. The policy takes effect Aug. 16.

“We’ve endured too much and seen too many families hurting. We have the power to avoid what is truly preventable,” the mayor said in a tweet on Thursday urging people to get the vaccine,” Cava said.

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Over 1,500 American Rabbis Agree: ADL is NOT ‘Competent’ to Combat Anti-Semitism

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Over 1,500 rabbis agree that the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) is “no longer competent to identify, let alone combat, antisemitism.’”

An ADL spokesperson, describing the new initiative, wrongly claimed that “Anti-Israel activism in and of itself is not antisemitism” and that they would need to “carefully evaluate” student government resolutions supporting BDS, the international Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement that seeks to destroy the State of Israel.

As explained by Discover the Networks:

The Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement is a Hamas-inspired initiative that aims to use various forms of public protest, economic pressure, and court rulings to advance the Hamas agenda of permanently destroying Israel as a Jewish nation-state. While Hamas pursues this goal in its low-intensity war against Israel by means of terrorism and bloodshed, BDS supplements those efforts in the United States.

In June, the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement slammed Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh for “betraying” Palestinians because he met with the Moroccan Prime Minister. The rage was due to Morocco’s normalization agreement with Israel.

Coalition for Jewish Values (CJV) Southern Regional Vice President Rabbi Moshe B. Parnes rightly states:

“Only someone with no sense of Jewish history could claim that BDS is not antisemitic.”

On May 31, I wrote an extensive article about the ADL and its “Brief History on Antisemitism,” which focuses on Christians, while completely avoiding the ongoing jihad against Israel. Even some churches today, as well as the World Council of Churches, ruled by globalist doctrine and liberation theology, sympathize with the Palestinian resistance against Israel. They buy into the lie that the Palestinians are the victims while Israel, struggling for its survival since 1948, is the “oppressor.” See the Kairos Palestine document, which drives this agenda, HERE.

Those with common sense and a minimum knowledge of history should be questioning the willful blindness and the agenda of the ADL.

1,500+ rabbis say ADL no longer competent to identify, let alone combat, antisemitism

Coalition for Jewish Values, August 3, 2021:

Coalition for Jewish Values (CJV) took renewed aim at the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today, after the ADL announced a partnership with Hillel International, the Jewish college organization, to document antisemitism on American campuses. While such an effort is noble and worthwhile, the ADL, CJV points out, demonstrated that it lacks the moral clarity to properly identify antisemitism, let alone combat it. An ADL spokesperson, describing the new initiative, wrongly claimed that “Anti-Israel activism in and of itself is not antisemitism” and that they would need to “carefully evaluate” student government resolutions supporting BDS, the international Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement that seeks to destroy the State of Israel.

“Only someone with no sense of Jewish history could claim that BDS is not antisemitic,” said CJV Southern Regional Vice President Rabbi Moshe B. Parnes. “The first Nazi edict was a boycott of Jewish businesses; economic warfare directed against the Jewish people was then and has always been one of the first signs of systemic Jew-hatred. Combating antisemitism in all its forms defined the ADL’s mission throughout its long and storied history, and it is crucial that it return to its core goals.”

For millennia, antisemitism has been driven by fabricated conspiracy theories regarding Jewish supremacists acquiring wealth by means of thievery and fraud. In the modern era, the same fictional beliefs are applied to the State of Israel. BDS arose from and is perpetuated by the same concocted claims expressed as land theft, apartheid, ethnic cleansing and similar terms, providing a prime example of ancient antisemitism in new dress….

COLUMN BY

CHRISTINE DOUGLASS-WILLIAMS

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Leftists Support White Supremacy, Could Learn from Classics

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The American Left continues to shut down mascots and products that celebrate minorities while being fine with those that uphold whites.

From Indians and Redskins to Uncle Ben and Aunt Jemima, the Left clears the aisles, stadiums and airwaves of venerable and wholesome images of black Americans and Native Americans — often without the support of blacks and natives. But these same Leftists are totally find with the Fighting Irish, Celtics, Vikings and Patriots along with every white face in your local grocery store aisle.

Of course they have eschewed history and the classics. Such a shame.

Our modern-day American Left stands much to learn from Greek mythology, specifically Erysichthon’s tragic plight. Erysicthon was a mythological king of the Greek region known as Thessaly who became so overwhelmed by the insatiable hunger cursed upon him by vengeful nymph that he eventually ate himself into oblivion.  The same thing is now happening to the Left, with its insatiable drive to teach white people a lesson.

As Americans, we have witnessed the unnecessary deletion of the word “Redskins” from the still-nameless Washington football team.  Although those few thin-skins who complained about “Redskins” were ostensibly attempting to combat stereotyping, in reality they accomplished the suppression of a celebration of positive qualities Native Americans displayed throughout their proud history.  In naming the team “Redskins” the Washington organization was tapping into the strength, heroism, fierceness and loyalty Native Americans displayed to their land and to each other when confronted with the brutal attacks from the incoming Europeans.  Clearly, Washington did not choose the name as a result of some racist drive, but rather they found something inspirational in the Redskin.  Still, the Left and a band of irrational thin-skins doubled down on America’s troubled history of prejudice bounded to skin color.  No matter how earnestly the Washington apologists made their point, the thin-skins argued the problem was the attention the name brought to our differences in skin color.

But if the Left’s mission is merely over skin color, then why go after teams named “Indians”?

Hold on to that thought.

Let’s first review the other slogans and marketing brands upon which the Left has concentrated its efforts.  Due to the Left’s Erysichthonian obsession with all things perceived to be racist, in one felt swoop, it erased the gentle, heart-warming, African-American face of Aunt Jemima from syrup bottles, the very distinguished dark-skinned façade of Uncle Ben from rice boxes, and the absolutely beautiful and untainted appearance of Mia, the Native American Indian woman, from butter boxes.  In each case, the selected brand was meant to bring out positive qualities of the represented group.  Aunt Jemima was a symbol of stability, hospitality, and love. Uncle Ben was an inherently virtuous man who could be trusted.  And Mia was a woman deeply rooted in her land, a symbol of purity and honesty, the same qualities that could be found in the butter she was offering.

There is only one conclusion to be gleamed from the furious attacks on Indians, Mia, Uncle Ben, and Aunt Jemima:  the Left, in its own racism cannot stand to leave undisturbed symbols of wholesomeness, virtue, and purity emanating from people of color!

Don’t believe me?  Then take a look at the things the Left has left undisturbed.  Why can a team not exalt qualities of resilience and relentlessness of the American Indian while the same qualities are highlighted in Notre Dame’s Fighting Irish?  Is it because the Irish, despite their stubborn embrace of Catholicism, are white?

How about the Vikings?  They were from the whitest parts of Europe, and they were ruthless and fierce, great qualities for sports team and shared by Atlanta’s Braves, Cleveland’s Indians, and Washington’s Redskins, yet, according to the Left, these qualities are acceptable in Swedes, Norwegians, and Irish, but not in Native Americans.

How about Boston’s Celtics?  Few greater symbols of whiteness exists than the Celtic tribe inhabiting England and northern Europe that held off Rome, but the Left has no problems with them.

And just in case the Left tries to base its weak defense on a contrived concern over the stereotypical features of ethic groups, one can simply direct it to the caricature of the Irishman in Notre Dame’s logo.

And why does a team calling itself “Patriots” plaster an image of a colonial white man on its helmets?  Is it saying that only white people can be Patriots? I, for one, would be proud to play under the image of Crispus Attucks, Peter Eastabrook, or a Danbury slave named Adams on my helmet . . . look them up.

Oh, and no problem with the white Sam Breakstone (even though he was one of the most demanding men alive), Mr. Clean, the Brawny Guy, or Cap’n Crunch.  Somehow, they’re okay, but not Mia, Aunt Jemima, or Uncle Ben.

But so far, I have left untouched the greatest real-world casualty of the Left’s ignorant drive for its self-defined and misguided sense of social justice.  Most assume that the Indians were named in honor of the continent’s original inhabitants.  They would be wrong.  The Cleveland Indians were named in 1915 as a tribute to the then Cleveland Spiders player Louis Sockalexis, the first Native American major league baseball player to play the game and a member of the Penobscot tribe.  Ignorantly, or worse yet, purposely, in trading “Indians” for “Guardians” the Cleveland organization cut the last remaining cryptic tie to the Jackie Robinson of Native Americans-Louis Sockalexis. Which brings up the question, “Guardians” of what?  Cleveland’s baseball team is certainly not the guardian of tradition, history, Native Americans, or even diversity.  Indeed, if it was any of these attributes that Cleveland was guarding, it would have named the team the Cleveland Sockalexians,  which actually has a nice ring to it!  Oh, and by the way, in one last ironic twist of fate, the group that today vociferously celebrates the name change–journalists–is the same group that selected the name “Indians” in 1914!  (seriously, you cannot make this stuff up.)

Our cursory review of the Left’s charge at ethnic and cultural symbols leads to only one inescapable conclusion: to liberals, positive qualities in ethnic groups, symbols, or persons are only acceptable when they are encountered in whites.  If one is black or Native American and displays attributes of virtuousness, wholesomeness, honesty, integrity, strength, vigor, tenacity, or bravery, one’s legacy is to be erased from our nation’s collective consciousness, but if they are encountered in Celts, Vikings, Irish, Britons, or even Cowboys, then celebrate away!

In Greek mythology, so voracious was Erysichthon’s appetite for food that he devoured himself into oblivion.  One can only hope that the Left will do the same today with its craving for cancel culture and mass harassment.

COLUMN BY

Julio Gonzalez, M.D., J.D.

Dr. Julio Gonzalez is an orthopaedic surgeon and lawyer living in Venice, Florida.  He served in the Florida House of Representatives.  He is the author of numerous books including The Federalist Pages, The Case for Free Market Healthcare, and Coronalessons.  He is available for appearances and book signings, and can be reached through www.thefederalistpages.com.

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