Weaponization of Impeachment Has Utterly Failed

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The weaponization of impeachment has utterly failed. I called this long ago and my media interviews, weekly video commentaries and articles will serve as a track record. The real and only concern about this is the potential precedent this creates moving forward into 2020 and beyond for President Trump and for future Presidents.

It’s our turn. We are now ready. Timing is everything. We shall now weaponize the truth. Team Trump has all the goods on everyone. They are all going down. And as a side note to all this, there have been nine horrific shootings over the past few weeks. Like I have stated before, the deep state orchestrates and triggers events prior to and during such times, to clog up the news cycle and divert attention away from them and their crimes. This short excerpt of a talk I gave covers it well.

30,000 Foot View

Taking a look at the big picture here’s the bottom line. First off, the grounds for impeachment has shifted with the wind day by day since day one along with the “kangaroo court” procedure for impeachment hearings, all of which are so far south from protocol, the founding fathers have been alerted and awakened and are shouting from their graves. Can you hear them?

There were no high crimes and misdemeanors. President Trump is not even remotely close to having done anything to impeach him. Even the two “articles of impeachment” drafted by Nadler and company do not cite any high crimes and misdemeanors but rather “obstruction of congress” and “abuse of power”. Lawyers, constitutional scholars and great legal minds both left and right, concur with the President, that this is a total sham, another baseless witch hunt. People like Alan Dershowitz, Mark Levin, Ken Star, Jonathan Turley, Gregg Jarret, my gosh even Gerardo Rivera, to name but a few.

Then in the midst of this sham, IGII FISA report is released along with testimony from IG Horrowitz, all of which was and is devastating to the FBI and the deep state players. Pay no attention to the fake news headlines and pompous James Comey’s statements since it’s release. Comey along with Clapper, Brennan, McCabe, Page, Strzok, Schiff and many others are among the low lying fruit about to be plucked in 2020. Like I said all along, FISA brings down the house. Indeed the findings in that report will. Then there is Durhams criminal investigation, NSA data  collection, Epstein and Assange intel and Rudy Giuliani who has all the goods on Biden and more. Timing, my friends, timing. The deep state, the dems. and the fake news both here and globally, are panicking.

What’s Next?

AG Bill Barr has become activated (NBC interview) as has Prosecutor John Durham. Believe me, there is a plan and yes it is unfolding as it should. Next year, 2020, the world will begin to see what people perhaps like you and me have known all along. I will refer once again to the article I wrote back on June 13, 2018, “Scale of Discovery and Action“. Read it. Yes we are indeed now at steps 6, 7 and 8 on this twelve step program. And the fact that I wrote this and scores of other articles before and since, most of all highly accurate on forecasts, commentary and analysis, I ask you to follow my work and the work of others and to come aboard, for WWG1WGA. Meanwhile this was sent to me as pulled from the article by Sharyl Attkisson of Epoch Times.

Below are 24 points Barr felt the need to make after the release of the Horowitz report. (All of the information is attributed to Barr.)

1. Don’t expect Durham’s findings to be announced before late spring or summer 2020.

2. The FBI did spy on the Trump campaign. That’s what electronic surveillance is.

3. Regarding the FBI’s actions in surveilling Trump campaign associates, it was a “travesty” and there were “many abuses.”

4. From “day one,” the FBI investigation generated exculpatory information (tending to point to the targets’ innocence) and nothing that corroborated Russia collusion.

5. It’s a “big deal” to use U.S. law enforcement and intelligence resources to investigate the opposing political party, and I cannot think of another recent instance in which this happened.

6. Evidence to start the FBI’s investigation into Trump associates was “flimsy” from the start and based on the idea that Trump aide George Papadopoulos expressed he may have had pre-knowledge of a Democrat National Committee computer hack. However, it was actually just an offhand barroom comment by a young campaign aide described merely as a “suggestion of a suggestion, a vague allusion” to the fact that the Russians may have something they can dump. But by that time, May 2016, there was already rampant speculation online and in political circles that the Russians had hacked Hillary Clinton’s emails in 2014 and that they might surface. So the idea that Papadopoulos’s comment showed pre-knowledge of the Democratic National Committee hack and dump “is a big stretch.”

7. It was “wrong” for the FBI to presume the Trump campaign was part of a plot. They should have gone to the campaign and discussed their suspicions.

8. The normal thing to do would be to tell the campaign that there could be attempted foreign interference. There is no legitimate explanation as to why the FBI didn’t do this. The FBI’s explanation for this was that they only do “defensive briefings” if they’re certain there’s no chance they’re tipping someone off. But this simply isn’t true, isn’t plausible, and doesn’t hold water because our intelligence officials and President Barack Obama repeatedly contacted the Russians, the guilty party, to tell them to “cut it out.”

9. If the purpose were to protect the election, you would have given the Trump campaign a defensive briefing. You could have disrupted any foreign activity in time to protect the U.S. election.

10. As to the FBI’s motive, “that’s why we have Durham.” I’m not saying the motivations were improper, but it’s premature to say they weren’t.

11. The inspector general operates differently as an internal watchdog. Horowitz’s approach is to say that if people involved give reasonable explanations for what appears to be wrongdoing, and if he can’t find documentary or testimonial evidence to the contrary, he accepts it.

12. Contrary to much reporting, Horowitz didn’t rule out improper motive; he didn’t find documentary or testimonial evidence of improper motive. Those are two different things.

13. Instead of talking to the Trump campaign, the FBI secretly “wired up” sources and had them talk to four people affiliated with the Trump campaign, in August, September, and October 2016.

14. All of the information from this surveillance came back exculpatory regarding any supposed relationship to Russia and specific facts. But the FBI didn’t inform the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance court, which approved wiretaps against former Trump campaign volunteer Carter Page four times.

15. At one point early on, the FBI didn’t have enough probable cause for a wiretap warrant, so it took the “Steele dossier” information against Trump, “which they’d done nothing to verify,” and used that to get the wiretaps.

16. The wiretaps allowed the FBI to go back and capture Page’s communications, emails, and other material from weeks, months, and even years ago.

17. Should the four FBI applications to wiretap Trump campaign aide Carter Page have ever been made, considering there were 17 critical omissions or errors by the FBI making it appear they had better evidence than they had? This is the meat of the issue, and “if you spend time to look at what happened, you’d be appalled.”

18. The FBI withheld from the court all of the exculpatory information and the lack of reliability of the main FBI source, Christopher Steele, who was being paid by the Democratic National Committee and the Hillary Clinton campaign to find evidence connecting Trump to Russia.

19. The major takeaway is that after the election in January, the FBI finally talked to one of Steele’s important sources to try to verify some of the “dossier” information and sourcing, as they’re required to do. This Steele source told the FBI he didn’t know what Steele was talking about in the dossier, and that he’d told Steele that the information he’d provided was “supposition” and “theory.” At that point, “it was clear the dossier was a sham.” Yet the FBI didn’t tell the court, and continued to get wiretaps based on the dossier.

20. Further, the FBI falsely told the court that Steele’s source had been proven reliable and truthful. In fact, what the source had told the truth about was that “the dossier was garbage.” It’s hard to look at this “and not think it was gross abuse.”

21. Were the four Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act judges who approved the four wiretaps against Trump associate Carter Page badly misled by the FBI? Yes.

22. Are people going to be held accountable, including at the very top of our intelligence agencies and FBI? Well, they’re all gone.

23. The whole Russia collusion hype was a “bogus narrative hyped by an irresponsible press” that proved entirely false in the end.

Are former FBI Director James Comey and former FBI official Andy McCabe and others implicated in the Durham investigation? I think there was a failure of leadership in that group. Quoting the inspector general, the explanations he received “were not satisfactory. You can draw your own conclusions.”

24. Why haven’t we already thrown people in prison? “These things take time.” The government has to have proof beyond a reasonable doubt before we indict; it’s a substantial hurdle. Nobody is going to be indicted and go to jail unless that standard is met.

In his interviews this week, Barr provided a treasure trove of information about what stands to be one of the most important investigations into our U.S. intelligence community of our time. His signposts indicate that we can expect a shakeup of a system that may have been broken for decades.

What’s Next?

Know this. We, Trump, AG Barr, Durham, others and we the patriots, are in control.

Seems like Mitch McConnell, and the White House Council on behalf of the President have a plan. Will the House reject these articles due to no actual impeachable evidence and procedural violations? Will this go to the supreme court to decide? Will these articles now get to the full House for a vote? How many Democrats will not vote in favor for impeachment? How many will vote only based on fear of blackmail since that’s how the swamp works? I know one thing, if it gets to a full House vote and it seems like it will, we know it is DOA in the senate. If it gets to the senate will they fast track it by not going to trial? Will they go to trial and extend the process as the President seems to indicate he is willing to do? The days and short weeks ahead will tell. I do know one thing of which I have stated all along, the President will not be impeached and removed from office. Oh and Trump’s polling numbers are soaring and the battleground states are now in jeopardy for the dems. It’s a wonderful thing.

Summary

The weaponization of impeachment and abuse of power by the dems. has utterly backfired since day one out of the gate. My position remains the same. They are all going down and President Trump, (barring successful voter fraud), will win in an absolute landslide both electoral college as well as the popular vote. In 2020 and beyond the exposure of the individuals and their crimes, along with justice finally being served, will be the bottom line. But get ready for more and more battles and false flags as time is running out on the deep state and the dems. Their time is up and they know it. They have 11 months to remove or derail Trump to avoid his forgone re-election. Pray for the President and get busy waking others and getting others to vote for freedom versus a tyrannical socialist police state.

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Decadent Democrats — From Pedophilia to Sex with Animals

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Merriam-Webster:

decadent adjective

1: characterized by or appealing to self-indulgence

2: marked by decay or decline

an increasingly decadent society

The Democratic Party has embraced extremes in sexual behaviors to the point of institutionalizing social decadence via public policy.

Decadent Democrats

The most recent example of a decadent Democrat is Cenk Uygur who is running to replace California Rep. Katie Hill’s seat, who resigned amid a bi-sexual scandal, after allegations she slept with a congressional staffer and a campaign staffer, and nude photographs of her surfaced on the internet.

Prophetic, isn’t it.

Uygur, in a video that was posted on Twitter, states that he would legalize sex with animals.

In other videos Uygur discusses “hot” Dominican women and “scoring women” on how they perform fellatio.

Other elected Democrats who have been accused of sexual misconduct include former President Bill Clinton, former U.S. Senator Al Franken, Rep. Bobby Scott (D-Va), State Rep. Ruben Kihuen (D-Nev), former Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich) and Rep. Katie Hill (D-CA).

We also have the scandal surrounding Rep. Ilan Omar who divorced her husband, the father of her three children, just weeks after her double life in D.C. with her married aide was exposed.

We also have the issue of Democratic Party mega donors Harvey Weinstein and Jeffery Epstein who epitomize decadence, including pedophilia.

Of course there are notable cases of Republicans being accused of sexual misconduct the most notable being Associate Justice Bret Kavanaugh, who has been completely vindicated.

Conclusion

The Democratic Party has devolved into the party of decadence. We are seeing transgender story hours in public libraries, the sexualization of children in our public schools, the promotion of the LGBTQ agenda, transgender athletes competing in women’s sports and, for the first time in our history, an openly gay candidate running for the Democratic nomination for president.

Decadence is becoming systemic and dangerous. Our heterosexual culture is under attack on all fronts. The fundamental idea of marriage between one man and one woman is now considered “homophobic” and hate speech. The age for legal marriage is going down in state after state. According to Wikipedia:

As of May 2019, in all but two states, a minor can marry with parental consent or with judicial authorization, with the minimum marriage age, when all exemptions are taken into account, being as low as 14, and potentially lower.

As Mark Dysan wrote in The Evil Trance, “Everyone can be corrupted, even the great and the good.”

It is time for those who are good to end the corruption of our social and moral values.

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Impeachment Implosion: Wave Of Polls Show Swing Toward Trump

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It appears that Nancy Pelosi’s initial political instincts were right: Impeaching President Trump over a phone call would be bad politics. And now with the hearings held and the two milquetoast articles of impeachment on the table, which do not even mention a Constitutionally requisite crime, it may be worse than she thought.

It’s so sudden that we are seeing about a dozen House Democrats in Trump-won districts publicly stating they would prefer censure over impeachment. They will likely be strong-armed into voting for impeachment, but we can only imagine what their internal district polling must look like.

FiveThirtyEight has created a running poll aggregator that pulls in every poll that asks some version of a yes/no question on the Trump impeachment. It’s like the RealClear Politics list of polls, but it uses a lot more polls and created a formula for aggregating them them all together. In this respect, it gives the broadest view and maybe most importantly, the trendline.

And that trendline ain’t good for Democrats.

At the beginning of the hearings last week, the FiveThirtyEight poll aggregator had Americans favoring the impeachment of Trump by 5.3 percent support. (That included polls both in impeaching and impeaching and removing.) But as of today, that gap has shrunk to 1.7 percent supporting impeachment.

The RCP composite poll on impeachment shows the same shift. It went from Americans favoring it by a 3.2 percent margin at the beginning of the hearings all the way down to Americans being dead even right now.

That’s a huge move considering both FiveThirtyEight and RCP are still pulling in those polls that were higher earlier. This aggregator is showing what the Quinnipiac and Monmouth polls showed this week — that the impeachment hearings are doing the opposite of making the case for Democrats’ impeachment claims.

Both Quinnipiac and Monmouth showed moves of up to seven points against impeachment, and gigantic swings among independent voters.

And on the bottom line — because this is all political — Firehouse Strategies released their new quarterly battleground polling results this week and found Trump surging in the battleground states of Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin — which likely mirror what Democrats are seeing in districts won by Trump.

The shift is interesting in its timing. One would suppose that once the Democrats got to make their case, with just their witnesses, in the chamber where they have a majority, that the polls would swing toward impeachment — at least until the Senate held the “trial” phase and many different witnesses were brought in.

But it was actually during this time that the polls shifted against impeachment. One possible explanation is that when Americans were only getting information filtered and fitted by the Democrat Media Establishment, they were more in favor of impeachment. When the media could not spin it for those Americans watching, the polls shifted.

Whatever the reason, impeachment was a gigantic miscalculation by Democrats, one they may pay for in November.

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Pelosi and Her Consigliore, Adam Schiff [+Videos]

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“When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.” –  Frédéric Bastiat

“Honesty is of God and dishonesty of the devil; the devil was a liar from the beginning.” –  Joseph B. Wirthlin

“‘Liar’ is just as ugly a word as ‘thief,’ because it implies the presence of just as ugly a sin in one case as in the other. If a man lies under oath or procures the lie of another under oath, if he perjures himself or suborns perjury, he is guilty under the statute law.” –  Theodore Roosevelt

The absence of God leaves a void of darkness; without the light, evil prevails. We have seen this evil in its full horrible array since the day Donald Trump declared his candidacy for president.  We know there was full bias by many in the DOJ, especially the FBI and CIA.  Strzok and Page called Mr. Trump “awful,” “loathsome,” a “disaster,” a “f***ing idiot,” an “enormous do*che,” and other disparaging names that were laced with profanity.  And those of us who supported this billionaire businessman were branded as “hillbillies,” “deplorables,” “retards,” and “crazies” who “smell.”  Strzok and Page sent over 50,000 texts to each other while at work in the FBI.

Their hatred of Donald Trump poisoned their entire investigation into Russian Collusion, their secret “insurance policy” to rid America of the man the electorate put in our White House.  When it failed, Pelosi, Schiff and Nadler, along with the new breed of young hardcore socialist Congress creatures pushed for another attack, this time against Trump for doing what all Presidents prior to Trump have done…talking to leaders of other countries.  And no quid pro quo like so many previous presidents and vice presidents, i.e. Biden and Al Gore.  This impeachment scam was corruptly formed and is being corruptly pursued.

Pelosi Appoints Shifty Schiff

When Pelosi put Congressman Schiff in charge of the impeachment inquiry, she had to know he would trample the law and abrogate legal responsibility to justify going after President Trump.  Trump Derangement Syndrome has proven the Democrats hate Trump far more than they love this country, as their desire to turn it into a socialist third world nation has become obvious.

There has been little effort to disguise the relentless desire by the Democrats to remove Trump from office come hell or high water, from the moment he won the 2016 election.  We know that Obama’s intel community spied on Trump from the moment he announced his candidacy and the bias was evident.

The Russia Collusion came to naught, but impeachment was on the back burner.  On January 20, 2017, The Washington Post published an article entitled The campaign to impeach President Trump has begun.  Matea Gold wrote about how the website, ImpeachDonaldTrumpNow.org went live right as Trump took his oath. This is the evil of the socialist leftists.  They will destroy America because they cannot accept an exchange of executive power to another party, a party who may undo their globalist agenda, especially when the executive is not one of their chosen establishment elitists.

Pelosi Prays for the President

After Pelosi’s crazed announcement of impeachment plans, reporter James Rosen asked her if she hated Trump.  She went ballistic and answered that she doesn’t hate anyone, and that she’s a Catholic and she prays for Trump.  Well, Speaker Pelosi, I’d like to know exactly what you pray for regarding our President, certainly not for his success as a president.  And as for not hating anyone, you certainly seem to hate unborn human babies who are dismembered, burned, murdered at the point of delivery, their body parts sold by the evil entity, Planned Parenthood, to the highest bidders and their pain upon death seems to not even enter your Christian Catholic conscience.

And Nancy, you seem to have no trouble as a Catholic with the organs of these babies being taken while they’re still alive, I’m talking about their hearts.  How dare you call yourself a Christian who loves everyone.  Your hatred is an abomination in God’s eyes and you should be denied communion and ex-communicated from the Church via Canon 915 for your filthy stances against the unborn human babies who cry out to God for mercy.

Nadler’s Law Professors

Oh yes, the most Obama/Hillary supporting law professors were chosen by Nadler to speak about whether or not President Trump was impeachable for his phone conversation with Ukrainian President Zelensky.  I want to scream when I look at the three leftist professors chosen by Schiff and the ultra-weak leftist chosen by our Republicans to represent us, Jonathan Turley.  They couldn’t find someone better?

Noah Feldman a professor of law at Harvard Law School. Feldman, a former clerk for Court Justice David Souter of the U.S. Supreme Court. Feldman, in opinion columns for Bloomberg News, has written here that Democrats have legitimate grounds to move ahead with impeachment because Trump has abused his power in office.  Feldman Previously Claimed Sharia Law was Superior, More “humane” Than Western Laws, and our Constitution…sounds like David Barton who thinks sharia is compatible with our Constitution.

Pamela Karlan is a professor of public interest law at Stanford Law School, oversaw voting rights at the Justice Department under former President Barack Obama and served as a law clerk to Associate Justice Harry Blackmun at the U.S. Supreme Court.  Karlan was on Hillary’s short list for the Supreme Court.  Yep, she’s ticked she didn’t get the appointment, so this academic attacked young Barron Trump’s name thinking her boorish humor would gain her points.  Link

Michael Gerhardt, a University of North Carolina law professor, said that President Donald Trump’s behavior is “worse than the misconduct of any prior president.” The remarks were submitted as part of his prepared opening statement.

Schiff Subpoenas Phone Records

Pelosi’s Consigliore, House Intelligence Committee Chairman, Adam Schiff, extended his smear campaign by subpoenaing the phone records from AT&T and Verizon of Republican Devin Nunes, Nunes’ aide, and Trump attorneys Rudy Giuliani and Jay Sekulow.  Initially it was reported that John Solomon, former Hill journalist was also subpoenaed, but they were not.  Schiff also went after former Giuliani associate Lev Parnas, and the White House itself. Requested data included phone numbers and length of calls but not the content of the calls.

Congressman Nunes said that a new precedent has been set by obtaining phone records with a subpoena without a warrant and the phone companies complied without question!  Judicial Watch’s Tom Fitton said the subpoena of Trump’s lawyers’ conversations most likely violated attorney-client privilege, but that didn’t stop the FBI from doing the same thing to Trump’s former attorney, Michael Cohen.

When the democrats gained control of the House, they had subpoena powers but it’s quite evident that the civil rights of Republicans have been violated by Schiff and his cadre of corrupt democrats.

One America News and Rudy Giuliani

Rudy Giuliani traveled to Ukraine with the conservative One America News Network (OANN) in what he described as an effort “to bring before the American people” information he said House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff “covered up.”

In a series of Twitter posts during his travels this month, Giuliani alleged that billions of dollars were “stolen by crooks, from both countries, at the highest levels.”

One America News is doing a three-part series with Giuliani on Ukraine.  Part three is in the works now, and parts one and two have already aired.  Both the Wall Street Journal and The Epoch Times have covered the investigation by OANN.

Former Ukrainian MP, Alexandr Onyshchenko, says Burisma financed the Clinton Campaign with $10 million of unmarked cash and Biden personally prevented the money laundering witness from entering America.

The former MP describes in this article how he was approached by prosecutors in the U.S. to testify in the United States on American corruption in Ukraine. He produced a copy of the letter from the Department of Justice in 2016 where they provided him a temporary visa to come to the U.S. to testify on the theft and money laundering aid to Ukraine as well as the illegal cash to the Clintons.  Then his visa was cancelled due to personal involvement by Vice President Joe Biden.

Onyshchenko also reiterated that former FBI agent Karen Greenaway was pushing hard during this time for him to not talk to the press about his knowledge of the Biden scandal, holding the threat of American law enforcement action against him to do so. Greenaway has since retired from the FBI but remains in Ukraine involved with one of the Soros foundations.  “She was pushing hard…for me to say nothing,” he declared. “She was running everything for the Democrats, all the coverup for the corruption.”  CD Media reported corroborating information on his testimony.  Here is their investigative reporting on the entire story.

Mayor Giuliani recently made the comment that the worst thing he did was pass by the opportunity to be President Trump’s Attorney General.  The former New York Mayor is a champion against corruption.  He should have accepted the job.

Greenaway, Soros and Ambassador Yovanovitch

In a March 2019 Hill article, investigative journalist John Solomon reported that in 2016 Ukrainian prosecutors ran into some unexpectedly strong headwinds as they pursued an investigation into the activities of a nonprofit in their homeland known as the Anti-Corruption Action Centre (AntAC).  The focus on AntAC was an investigation to see if $4.4 million in American aide to fight corruption in the Ukraine had been improperly diverted.

Obama’s Ambassador to the Ukraine, Marie Yovanovitch was following orders from the President to press the Ukrainian government to back off of its investigation of U.S. aide and the AntAC.  Yuri Lutsenko replaced prosecutor Shokin after Vice President Biden held back American funds from Ukraine to force out Shokin because of his investigation of Hunter Biden and Burisma.  Yovanovitch testified for Schiff’s impeachment inquiry, but she never heard the call between Trump and Ukrainian President Zelensky.  She’s sour grapes for being fired by President Trump.

Lutsenko told John Solomon that he was stunned when the ambassador “gave me a list of people whom we should not prosecute.” The list included a founder of the AntAC group and two members of Parliament who vocally supported the group’s anti-corruption reform agenda.

It turns out the group that Ukrainian law enforcement was probing was co-funded by the Obama administration and liberal mega-donor George Soros, who has extensive business interests in Ukraine.  And it was collaborating with the FBI agents investigating then-Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort’s business activities with pro-Russian figures in Ukraine.

The U.S.-Soros collaboration was visible in Kiev. Several senior DOJ officials and FBI agents appeared in pictures as participants or attendees at Soros-sponsored events and conferences.  One attendee was Karen Greenaway, then the FBI supervisor in charge of international fraud cases and one of the lead agents in the Manafort investigation in Ukraine. She attended multiple such events and won glowing praise in a social media post from AntAC’s executive director.

The implied message to Ukraine’s prosecutors was clear: Don’t target AntAC in the middle of an American presidential election in which Soros was backing Hillary Clinton to succeed another Soros favorite, Barack Obama, Ukrainian officials said.

FBI agent Greenaway recently retired, and Soros’s AntAC soon after announced she was joining its supervisory board.

Inspector General’s Report

Despite mainstream media hosts slobbering over Inspector General Horowitz’s report, the FBI is not exonerated.  What the report said was that the FBI screwed up at every level, and they failed to pay attention to problems with Christopher Steele and his past work which was never investigated.  That’s an understatement if there ever was one, Steele’s dossier was absurd from day one.  Even the Washington Post stayed away from the dossier, it was Buzzfeed who printed it.  Yet the Obama administration used this POS to spy on the Trump campaign in an effort to destroy Hillary’s opposition.

Carter Page was a former naval officer, an Annapolis grad, and had done nothing wrong, but his life was destroyed by the lies within the Steele dossier.  Horowitz’s report stated that the FISA applications were in many ways incomplete, inaccurate and unsupported. The FISA warrant to spy on Page was repeatedly renewed and the FBI not only lied, but excluded exculpatory information in order to keep the FISA warrant alive.  The FBI lied to the FISA judges.

This report was looking into whether there was abuse in the FISA process, and there is no doubt the IG found rampant abuse of the FISA process.

It was recently reported that we will not hear from federal prosecutor John Durham regarding his investigation until June or early summer.  And to date, we’ve seen no indictments by AG Barr.

Conclusion

Mueller supporter, Senator Lindsey Graham and Senate Majority Leader, Mitch McConnell have said there will be no trial in the Senate on impeachment.  The President would like to have his day in court to call witnesses and prove his innocence, but it’s a given according to some recent reports that the Senate has their own skeletons in the closet regarding the Ukraine and corruption.  Biden’s son Hunter, Romney’s top advisor, Cofer Black, Pelosi’s son Paul Jr., and Kerry’s stepson were all involved.

Since the evidence adduced thus far fails to establish treason, bribery or other high crimes and misdemeanors, Congress should not vote to impeach. If it does vote to do so along party lines, it will be acting unconstitutionally and placing itself above the supreme law of the land.

President Trump’s battle is against unknown entities.  The Democrats are just the footmen for the powers that be…pawns in the game of America’s destruction.

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Stalinist Political Charlatans in America

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The Christmas Season is a wonderful time in America—with charming music, people are happily busy with preparations for Christmas. The year 2019 has been different. The venom of hatred toward President Trump and the sounds of war between Democrats and Republicans has brought a threatening and very scary revelation–IG Horovitz’s testimony and the two articles of impeachment against President Trump produced by the Dems. Americans found out that for a decade Democrats, the FBI and CIA had not defended them from enemies foreign and domestic—on the contrary, they betrayed Americans. The Dems’ leadership, the leadership of FBI and CIA committed crime against the American Republic. The team criminally collaborated in a massive abuse of power against the leader of Republican opposition Donald J. Trump and his campaign.

Impeachment procedures revealed spectacular ignorance on the Dems’ part. Like most Americans, Mr. Ciccolini and Ms. Bass, have no knowledge pertaining the real Russia and Ukraine. I have written about those countries and the role of the KGB in the lives of their people for over thirty years. We, the former citizens of the USSR, had known the KGB as a mind-control agency and we were stunned watching the same deceit so familiar to us; distortions scam, sham, and abuse of the American system of jurisprudence, by the Dems’ House committee using a party-line vote impeachment as a political tool. Without any evidence, the Dems are trying to influence the public opinion before the upcoming election 2020, mocking the U.S. President before the world…

Knowing well Russian history, and especially the crimes against Humanity committed by Stalin and his devoted Communistic disciples, we were shocked to see the Impeachment Spectacle performed by the hostile (to the American Republic) Stalinist Political Charlatans with the familiar behaviors of the KGB… It was a performance of enormous ignorance pertaining to geopolitics, Russia, Ukraine, and many other professional topics. Ignorance is running the ball. Please, read my column: The Ideology of Soviet Fascism VS. Trump. December 5, 2019.

For Americans to grasp what was very familiar to us, we have to discuss again Stalinist Political Correctness, the Dems use constantly against their enemies (Republicans). In short, PC is a semantic-linguistic fraud to hide the truth by presenting false arguments and deceiving you. Pay attention to the language of the persons well drilled in PC, wrapping up their lies in nice words like democracy, morality, Constitution, national security, and so on. All Communists, while lying, use the Stalinist order: “Never admit crime, but accuse the opposite leader in that exact crime” The best example is Adam Schiff and the Communist Rep. Debbie Dingell. Listen to them and recall my definition of PC.

“… Political correctness is a Stalinist policy, driven by the political agenda, a skillfully crafted design of a quintessential system of lies, fraud, and a long-term strategy of war against Western civilization to create of One World Socialist Government under Kremlin’s rule.” Political Correctness and Socialist Revolution in America, October 31, 2019

This Stalinist linguistic game was currently before us in the Schiff’s committee by three law-professors, the Dems’ Donnas. They performed as un-American lawyers, forgetting the spirit of presumption of innocence, showing the Soviet Style presumption of guilt. The same exact manner of searching for Trump’s crime was offered in Nadler’s committee by Daniel Goldman and Barry Berke. You saw how suddenly the words “corruption” and “scheme” had appeared substituting “bribery” and “extortion.” The constant repetition of the words “corruption” and “scheme” by the Dems with emphasis on Trump, while constructing his high crime—a typical Stalinist PC. This way they cooked up, manufactured and concocted a criminal act, un-Constitutional Articles of Impeachment, Soviet Style—a fraud designed by Stalin…

The real Tragedy of Ukraine

The year 2014 was a tough and crucial year for Ukraine: Russia invaded and occupied Crimea and directed the Russian mob to attack the Ukrainian territory in Donbas and Lugansk—the war against Ukrainian people had begun. And the tragedy is that Ukraine wasn’t ready to fight—the country didn’t have an army, weaponry and ammunition—Ukraine was naked due to the policy of Russian crony President of Ukraine Victor Yanukovych. Thousands of Ukrainians were killed, a lot of territory was lost. Death Toll Up To 13,000 In Ukraine Conflict, Says UN Rights Office. KYIV — Some 13,000 people have been killed, a quarter of them civilians, and as many as 30,000 wounded in the war in eastern Ukraine since it broke out in April 2014, the United Nations says. The blood of those Ukrainians is on the hands of the Obama administration that offered them no defensive weaponry..

It was then that the Ukrainian people lost respect for the government of the U.S. It was then in 2014 that the Ukrainian people took their destiny in their own hands. Volunteers with hunting rifles, some with knifes went to defend their country and died in the thousands, they sacrificed for their children to live in an Independent Ukraine. Patriots saved their country in 2014-2015. Books and movies will be produced about that tragic and heroic time in Ukraine and… America’s betrayal of Ukraine in 2014. The Obama administration committed TREASON, betraying Ukraine fighting with the naked hands against aggressive and expansionist Russian forces in 2014.

Yanukovych fled to Russia to escape the wrath of the Ukrainian people and President Obama sent Joe Biden to Ukraine as a point man in 2014. Vice-President Biden did not bring the arms, ammunition or weaponry, which Ukraine desperately needed: Biden brought his son—Hunter Biden with obvious corrupt intent. And America’s Socialist mafia very easily found a common language with the Ukrainian Socialist mob—their common denomination was corruption. Burisma Holding is an epitome of corruption in Ukraine. The very corruption Trump had suspected, talking with Ukraine’s new President Zelensky. Trump has faithfully executed the duties of his office in accordance with the Treaty with Ukraine on Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters 1999

Stalinist-Fascist Methods

Writing about the Obama/Putin conspiracy for the last 8-10 years, I considered Obama a Socialist in the worse sense of the word: he weaponized all security services, like Stalin did. In this respect, I’d like to return to Russian crony President of Ukraine Victor Yanukovych. As a matter of fact, Russia has patterns in the policy against targeted countries. To pursue this policy, Russia goes to the top officials of the country. As a Russian crony, Yanukovych made Ukraine even weaker than the country was after the collapse of Socialist economy. It is not a coincidence that Russia invaded Crimea in the last year of the Yanukovych Presidency…

I am reminding you about Yanukovych for a reason. President Trump inherited a collapsing Ukraine and… America from Obama in 2016 with the same conditions: naked, blind, and barely able to defend herself. Unlike Obama, he had to deal with all the weaponized security services against him. This is a Stalinist method to defeat Western civilization worldwide. An anti-Semitic shooting in New Jersey and the events in our Colleges prompted Trump to write an executive order targeting anti-Semitism in colleges. This is another reason I am insisting to change the name of the ideology of Socialism to Soviet Fascism, to call a spade a spade. For details, please, read my column The Global Spy Ring, January, 1, 2018.

At the opening session on Nadler’s Impeachment proceeding, a protester shouted:  “Jerry Nadler and the Democrat Party are committing treason against this country,” Shroyer said in a video of his protest, which he later uploaded to Twitter. “America is sick of the treason committed by the Democrat Party,” he shouted.

I agree with him and I was writing about the death of Truman’s party and the birth of America’s Socialist mafia for over thirty years. Yet, Socialism is also dead in the country it was born and instead of failed Socialism, Russia has a Crony capitalism run by the Stalinist KGB, which is covering up under the term Socialism the reality of Soviet Fascism. Unfortunately, a fraudulent ideology of Socialism is reincarnated in America by Stalinist Charlatans and America’s Socialist mafia. To know the Truth, please read my book Socialist Lies: From Stalin to the Clintons, Obamas, and Sanders. Xlibris, 2016

Vladimir Putin is laughing hysterically in the Kremlin: the agenda of Stalinist devoted disciples to undermine and destroy America from within has been delivered by the American Democrat Party! America is divided and Republican President Donald J. Trump is impeached! What a Victory! The Kremlin rejoices! The existential threat to all Socialist Charlatans worldwide President Trump is mocked and defeated, defeated, defeated!

My fellow Americans!

The next year election 2020 is pivotal for our country to secure the unique, most humane political system designed and left to us by our Founding Fathers. The Dems’ Socialist Charlatans had a minute of revenge, yet, a brilliant design of our system gives us an incredible opportunity to totally expose them before the world. This opportunity is the Senate Trial. Like the Nuremberg Trial exposed the German brand of fascism, we now have the chance to expose before the world Socialist Charlatans and their ideology of Soviet Fascism. To educate Americans and for the sake of the humanity-we must do it!

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Leftist Jews Ally with Suit-Wearing Jihadists in New Group [Part One] by Andrew Harrod

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Anwar Khan “has been doing outreach to the Jewish community on behalf of the Muslim community for decades,” stated former American Jewish Committee (AJC) official Robert Silverman at Washington, DC’s Newseum on December 3. His praise for Khan, the director of the Hamas ally Islamic Relief USA (IRUSA), typified the unsettling leftist Jewish ignorance of jihadist threats at this launch event for the Inter Jewish Muslim Alliance (IJMA).

Silverman addressed an audience that ultimately grew during the daylong conference to about 50. This included his fellow IJMA organizer, Microsoft External Affairs Director Suhail Khan, a “conservative” political operative with deep, longstanding personal Muslim Brotherhood (MB) ties. Other faces familiar to this author included the Gülenist Rumi Forum’s public relations director, Jena Luedtke, and the Iraqi-American co-founder of the American Islamic Congress, Zainab al-Suwaij.

Silverman’s association with the dubious Khan replicated Silverman’s experience as the first director of the Muslim-Jewish Advisory Council, previously rightly mocked as the “Wolf-Sheep Advisory Council.” Therein the left-leaning American Jewish Committee (AJC) had joined with the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), a nefarious MB-legacy organization, supposedly to combat hate crimes and other manifestations of bigotry. An IJMA statement distributed among the conference handouts and now available at IJMA’s new website proclaimed that IJMA members wanted, “as a Muslim-Jewish alliance, to counter voices of hatred and bigotry within our own communities.”

Yet the day’s proceedings demonstrated a decidedly one-sided view of prejudice among Jews and Muslims, as indicated by the seminar’s first presentation by Elana Hain from the Shalom Hartman Institute (SHI) of North America. “Antisemitism is converging on Jews from both the right and the left,” she correctly noted, but while “everybody in this room knows about antisemitism on the right,” leftist antisemitism “is much harder to talk about.” Today “what we are seeing on the progressive left is a type of conversionist antisemitism that says, ‘Jew, we will accept you if you disavow your commitment to the state of Israel.’” She noted particularly that “my spouse works on a college campus, and I have seen how Jewish students are increasingly unwelcome in progressive spaces.”

However true, Hain’s remarks surprisingly contained not a single reference to antisemitism involving Muslims or Islam. Excerpts from three publications (see here, here, and here) in her handout included several dubious allegations of Donald Trump’s presidential candidacy and administration inciting antisemitism. By contrast, “Muslims” appeared only once in a Tablet article’s reference to hate crimes, even though the American Interest article she quoted briefly discussed “Islamic antisemitism” in an uncited paragraph. Meanwhile, internet searches of the Tablet for “Islamic antisemitism” find numerous articles (e.g. here).

Hain’s blind spot seemed particularly disturbing given the annual conference in Chicago of the viciously anti-Semitic American Muslims for Palestine (AMP) just days before (November 28-30). The conference featured inflammatory condemnations of Israel’s right to exist from prominent American Muslims. This included former Women’s March leader Linda Sarsour, Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) Executive Director Nihad Awad, and CAIR San Francisco chapter leader Zahra Billoo.

This author accordingly presented to Hain an audience question noting the AMP conference and that AJC CEO David Harris has previously called for “trifocal lenses” to confront antisemitism from the “far left, the far right, and the jihadists.” She responded that she was “including in progressive antisemitism” the “antisemitism that comes from the Muslim community around Israel.” She added that she had not devoted particular study to Islamic antisemitism and suggested that Muslim conference attendees might be better qualified to discuss this topic.

Just as Hain only circuitously referenced Islamic antisemitism, she similarly indulged questionable tropes commonplace among many Muslims. For example, without any indication of whether Jews or others had any valid objections to Islamic beliefs and/or behaviors she used the Orwellian phrase “Islamophobia.” Conflicts between Israel and Palestinians should not “lead to antisemitism or ‘Islamophobia,’” she said, as if irrational Jew-hatred were the same as critical inquiry into Islam.

Audience member Imam Abdullah Antepli, a leader of SHI’s Muslim Leadership Initiative (MLI), reflected Hain’s remarks with questions about “Islamophobic elements within the Jewish community.” “Within this organized anti-Muslim campaign in the United States, there are so many visible Jews,” he stated. Jews have a “fear of losing the state of Israel” and “when many Jews meet Muslims, that fear is all that they see,” she responded while again not explaining why such perceptions are meritless (consider Israel, Muslims, and Britain’s Labour Party).

Hain also equated Jewish national liberation in Israel with baseless claims that “Palestinians” represent a unique, historical nation and not merely a local collection of Levantine Arab communities. The statement “there is no such thing as a Palestinian people” is equally false as “Jews don’t have a history in that region” of Israel, she said. This is “mutual denial of peoples’ actual historical experiences,” notwithstanding numerous modern “Palestinian” fictions.

A veiled female Muslim audience member from the Sisterhood of Salaam Shalom, a group obsessed with all real and imagined “white supremacy,” prompted more historical revisionism from Hain. The Muslim claimed that historically the term “antisemitism” encompassed prejudice against both Jews and Muslims, and Hain suggested that antisemitism could include both “Judeophobia” and “Islamophobia.” In reality, the German publicist Wilhelm Marr invented the word “antisemitism” in 1879 in order to impart a scientific veneer to his rabid Jew-hatred.

The appeasing Hain, who called the leftist American rabbi Jill Jacobs a “colleague and a friend,” paralleled the reaction to Islamic antisemitism of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), an IJMA sponsor. As Islamic antisemitism scholar Andrew Bostom has documented, ADL global surveys of antisemitism in recent years have identified Muslims as world leaders in prejudice against Jews. Yet the ADL has minimized such facts.

While Hain acted conciliatory towards Muslims, they often show little reciprocity, as a following article will analyze. Conference speakers after her like the radical “Islamophobia” expert Wajahat Ali were far more direct in their accusations of bigotry against various Jews while exhibiting little interest in the anti-Semitic milieus of conference participants like ISNA members.

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7 Things I’d Do if I Wanted to Keep Poor People Poor

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Spoiler: we’re already doing all of these things.

If I wanted to keep poor people poor, there are several government policies I would favor. Let’s count them down.

For starters, I would advocate for a robust and ever-expanding welfare state—programs like Medicaid, food stamps, unemployment insurance, etc.

I would recognize that an effective recipe for keeping poor people poor is to create incentives that push them into decisions that prevent them from climbing out of poverty.

Case in point: A 2012 study by Pennsylvania’s Secretary of Public Welfare analyzed the decisions confronting individuals and families enrolled in various government welfare programs. Specifically, the study concluded that in the case of a single mother with two children ages 1 and 4 earning $29,000 a year through work would be eligible for government benefits (such as Medicaid, housing vouchers, and subsidized daycare) equivalent to roughly an additional $28,000.

Such a scenario puts this woman in a bind. If she finds a better job paying more, or picks up more hours, she risks losing substantial amounts of benefits. She would make her family financially worse off even though her paycheck would be bigger. Just to come out even, once taxes are factored in, she would need to find work paying about $69,000 a year to compensate for the lost welfare benefits. Not many low-skilled workers can make such a leap.

This scenario is commonly referred to as the welfare cliff. Confronted with this situation, many individuals understandably opt to continue receiving the government benefits. Rather than help individuals, the perverse economic incentives created by the “social safety net” trap aid recipients on welfare. And the longer they remain out of the workforce, or at lower levels of employment, the less employable they become. It is a vicious, self-reinforcing cycle that keeps people poor and dependent on the state.

Moreover, there is the impact the welfare state has on the family unit. Welfare programs break up families by replacing a father’s paycheck with a government check and benefits. Nationally, since LBJ’s Great Society ratcheted up government welfare programs in the mid-1960s, the rate of unmarried births has tripled.

In my home state of North Carolina, families are roughly five times as likely to be in poverty when there is no father in the home.

If I wanted to keep poor people poor, I also would finance the welfare state poverty trap through punitive taxes on the job and wealth creators of society.

The key ingredient to economic growth, and thus a higher standard of living for society’s poor, is through productivity gains made possible by capital investment. High marginal taxes on profitable companies and small businesses alike discourage capital investment. As businesses decide to either not expand or take their businesses to more investment-friendly countries, job opportunities dry up.

If I wanted to keep poor people poor, I would advocate for higher government-enforced minimum wages. The law of supply and demand tells us that the higher the price of a good or service, the less of it will be demanded (other things held equal, of course).

Higher minimum wages will price more and more low-skilled people out of the labor market.Meanwhile, the higher wages will attract more job seekers willing to supply their labor at the higher price. Employers will be able to be more selective in their hiring, and as such the lower-skilled job seekers will be crowded out of these opportunities by higher-skilled, less-needy candidates. Minimum wage laws are an effective tool to cut off the bottom rung of the career ladder for those most in need of establishing work experience.

If I wanted to keep poor people poor, I would support government “green energy” initiatives that make energy more expensive. State and federal initiatives that mandate more expensive “renewable” energy mean that—in the words of President Obama—utility bills “necessarily skyrocket.” Poor people trying to scrape by just to stay even can scarcely afford higher electricity bills.

If I wanted to keep poor people poor, I would see to it that government imposes many costly regulations on businesses.

meaning fewer job openings for those most in need of opportunity. And mountains of red tape force business to expend scarce resources on compliance costs rather than investing in their businesses and creating jobs. Higher-skilled compliance officer jobs will consume payroll that could have potentially gone toward opportunities for lower-skilled job seekers.

If I wanted to keep poor people poor, I would support “quantitative easing” policies. Under such programs, the Federal Reserve creates money out of thin air. The inflated money supply then erodes the value of the dollars sitting in your wallet or bank account. The poor are hit hardest by this inflation because their limited skill set makes it far more difficult for their incomes to keep up with the rising cost of living.

If I wanted to keep poor people poor, I would impose heavy tariffs on foreign goods in order to limit imports. Sure, the domestic industries protected from competition by these tariffs would prosper, but at what cost? For example, tariffs on foreign steel may help the 170,000 American workers employed by the steel industry, but higher steel prices will harm those industries using steel as inputs—and the 6.5 million workers they employ. Ultimately, more jobs are likely to be destroyed than saved.

Furthermore, the price increases passed along to consumers disproportionately harm low-income households. The combination of fewer job opportunities and a higher cost of living certainly makes it harder for the poor to climb out of poverty.

Finally, if I wanted to keep poor people poor, I would most definitely not support a competitive, free market economy. As Milton Friedman once famously schooled Phil Donahue:

So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear that there is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free enterprise system.

COLUMN BY

Brian Balfour

Brian Balfour is Executive Vice President for the Civitas Institute, a free-market advocacy organization in Raleigh, NC. He is the author of the high school economics iBook Economics in Action, creator of the Austrian Economics educational app, and has served as an adjunct economics instructor at Mount Olive University.

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Pius XII, Francis, and the Media

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William Kilpatrick: Pope Francis seems not to see a problem meeting with and embracing an anti-Semite like the Grand Imam of al-Azhar, Ahmed al-Tayyeb.

John Cornwell’s 1999 smear of Pius XII, Hitler’s Pope, became a best-seller, lauded by reviewers and excerpted in major magazines.  Cornwell portrayed Pope Pius as an anti-Semite, a supporter of Hitler, and an enabler of the Holocaust.

None of this is true, of course.  Eugenio Pacelli despised Hitler, denounced Nazi ideology on numerous occasions, and – according to historian Martin Gilbert – was responsible for saving the lives of thousands of Jews.  During the German occupation of Rome, hundreds of Jews were housed within the Vatican, 3,000 found sanctuary in Castel Gandolfo, and at Pius’s request, Roman convents and monasteries hid 5,000 Jews.

The book’s calumny was captured in the cover photo, which shows Cardinal Pacelli leaving a government building and being saluted by two German soldiers. All meant to insinuate that Pope Pius XII has just emerged from an important meeting with Hitler. But the picture was taken in 1927, long before Hitler came to power.  Nuncio Pacelli was leaving a reception for German president, Paul von Hindenburg, and the soldiers were members of the Weimar Republic, not the Third Reich. Pacelli never met Hitler. Indeed, when Hitler visited Rome in 1938, Pacelli, along with Pope Pius XI, publicly snubbed him by leaving town.  No photo of Pope Pius XII with Hitler exists. If it did, the world press would probably feature it on a regular basis along with stories condemning Pius for anti-Semitism.

Jump ahead to the present, and what do we find?  Why, it’s a photo of Pope Francis kissing a well-known anti-Semite. No need to go digging to find it.  In fact, there are several photos taken on several occasions of the pope embracing the Grand Imam of al-Azhar, Ahmed al-Tayyeb.  Yet, the Grand Imam’s anti-Semitic views are no secret, and the pope must surely have been aware of them.

During the Second Intifada, al-Tayyeb said that “The solution to Israeli terror lies in the proliferation of suicide attacks that spread terror into the hearts of Allah’s enemies.” He added, “the Palestinians have the right to blow up everything they want.”

Why, then, isn’t an outraged press running the photo on the front pages accompanied by captions such as “Pope embraces anti-Semitic Imam”?

The short answer is that they’re not outraged – at the pope or the Grand Imam.

The media, of course, does display outrage at anti-Semitism when it arises among groups or individuals considered to be white nationalists, Christian extremists, alt-right, or just plain conservatives.  But other groups and individuals seem exempt from charges of anti-Semitism.

When leftists, liberals, and Democrats express anti-Jewish sentiments, the mainstream media tends to look the other way. The other exempt group is Muslims.  They can’t be blamed because . . . well, because it’s a part of their culture.  Besides, considering all the evils that the Jewish State has visited upon Palestinians, it’s perfectly understandable that Muslims would respond with anti-Jewish sentiments – or, so the reasoning goes.

Since liberal journalists tend to favor Palestinians in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and since they are very sensitive to cultural differences, it’s not surprising that the Grand Imam, too, is given a free pass on his anti-Semitism.

Pope Francis also gets a pass because the liberal press correctly perceives him to be a fellow liberal.  So, even if they thought the embrace of al-Tayyeb to be unfortunate (which they don’t), it would be quickly forgotten in light of all of Francis’s good deeds on behalf of the environment, the poor, migrants, and world peace.  Indeed, the signing of the Abu Dhabi “Document on Human Fraternity for World Peace and Living Together” would by itself, for liberal media, be enough to absolve both men of any prejudicial thoughts.

The media is friendly to Francis because he’s part of the club of bien-pensants who only wish well for the world.  The proof of their protective attitude toward Francis is that, although Francis’s papacy is possibly the most scandal-ridden in modern history, with new scandals emerging on a weekly basis, most of the media has never looked deeply into the myriad charges.

The most serious charges have to do with cover-ups for abusive prelates in which Francis has been directly involved.  How has the media responded to these cover-ups? Basically, with a cover-up of their own.  Not that the press doesn’t run stories about the abuse cover-ups, but they are strangely restrained and muted stories, often blaming “conservatives” for using the scandals to oppose the pope.  By-and-large, they assign only minimal responsibility to Pope Francis.  Just as the media wants us to believe that terrorism has nothing to do with Islam, it would also have us believe that the abuse crisis has nothing to do with Francis even when some of his closest collaborators are implicated.

Compare this to the media feeding frenzy that followed the 1963 premier of Rolf Hochhuth’s play “The Deputy” – which vilified Pope Pius Xll as a Nazi collaborator. For the next four decades, one sloppily researched book after another portrayed Pius as an anti-Semitic Nazi sympathizer.

The slur has never really gone away.  It hangs heavily in the air waiting for the next scandalous book about the man who supposedly welcomed the Holocaust.  As I wrote five years ago, “the ‘Hitler’s Pope’ campaign was highly successful, with the result that the calumny against Pius is now almost universally accepted by the opinion-making elites and by plenty of average citizens as well.”

Despite the fact that there now exist a number of well-documented books refuting the “Hitler’s Pope” myth, there have been, as far as I know, no retractions or apologies by those who helped spread the myth.  The myth has been so widely disseminated, that few know that, in the years after World War II, Pius Xll was considered a hero by Jews throughout the world. And fewer still are aware that he was actually involved in a plot to assassinate Hitler.

The media seems to have a double standard about popes.  They’ll believe anything derogatory about the pope who was known to be a staunch defender of tradition and doctrine, and they’ll forgive everything for a pope who shares their own liberal views.  On the one hand, they’re eager to display a “fake news” photo of Pius in what appears to be a compromising position; on the other hand, they’re quite willing to ignore a photo of Francis embracing a contemporary anti-Semite.

None of this is meant to suggest that Francis himself is anti-Semitic, but it does suggest a certain carelessness on his part.  Pope Pius Xll knew enough not to give photo ops to Hitler. But Francis doesn’t seem to understand that there is a problem with showering affection on a man with pronounced anti-Semitic views, so long as they are promoting interreligious relations.

Unlike Pius, he doesn’t seem to appreciate the gravity of his office or the responsibilities that go with it.  He does seem, however, to understand that the media will put a positive spin on just about anything he does. So, perhaps, he thinks he can afford to be careless.

COLUMN BY

William Kilpatrick

William Kilpatrick is the author of Christianity, Islam and Atheism: The Struggle for the Soul of the West, and a new book, The Politically Incorrect Guide to Jihad. His work is supported in part by the Shillman Foundation. For more on his work and writings, visit his website, The Turning Point Project

EDITORS NOTE: This Catholic Thing column is republished with permission. © 2019 The Catholic Thing. All rights reserved. For reprint rights, write to: info@frinstitute.org. The Catholic Thing is a forum for intelligent Catholic commentary. Opinions expressed by writers are solely their own.

Coup Update: Impeachment Abuse of President Trump [+Video]

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Weekly Update begins as the 36 second mark:

The Impeachment Vote Farce

As I told the press today in a statement, the Judiciary Committee’s vote on the articles of impeachment was both a tragedy and a farce. Truly, it was a sad day for America because a grave injustice was committed. There is no abuse of power by President Trump, however, it is clear that abuses were committed against him by the DOJ, the State Department, the FISA court, and certainly by Democrats in the House.

This impeachment scam was corruptly formed and is being corruptly pursued. A coup cabal has hijacked the House to violate the rights of President Trump and undermine our constitutional republic. It is not too late to “stop the coup.” Americans should call their members of Congress to share their views on this wild attack on self-government.

The House vote is set for next week, so contact your congressman ASAP. You can find all the contact details here: www.house.gov.

The FBI and DOJ Massively Violated the Law

As the coup proceeds against President Trump, the Justice Department’s inspector general finally issued his report on the Russiagate Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) abuse this week, and it provides abundant evidence that the FBI and DOJ massively violated the law to obtain the Carter Page spy warrants targeting President Trump.

As IG reports are both exposés and cover-ups at the same time, it is no surprise that the IG punted on implicating senior officials directly in the spy scandal.

President Trump should appoint a special counsel from outside of the DOJ and FBI to investigate the Obama/Clinton/Deep State Spygate scandal and other crimes that are in plain sight.

In the meantime, we will continue our dozens of FOIA lawsuits and investigations, which have already revealed much of what is known about Spygate – the biggest corruption scandal of all time.

Truth is, President Trump is actually the victim of a crime, as I explain here and here. The IG report provided our team with many investigative leads – so you can be sure that your Judicial Watch will continue to uncover more truths (and get more accountability) on what is the worst corruption scandal in American history.

Court Hearing on House Democrat IT Awan Bros Scandal

While the House Democrat leadership fiddles with impeaching it President, it is also has been long busy trying to squelch a serious scandal involving the contractors who managed information technology for top Democrats.Now it seems that Deep State bureaucrats in the Justice Department are sticking their heads in the sand as well. We’re not. We sued in November 2018 to dig out the details, and this week we were in court for a hearing on the matter.

U.S. District Court Judge Amit P. Mehta ordered the hearing in our lawsuit, which we filed after the FBI failed to respond adequately to our two separate FOIA requests (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of Justice (No. 1:18-cv-02563)).

Our first request, filed on May 26, 2017, sought:

  • All records related to any investigations or preliminary investigations involving former congressional IT support staffers Abid Awan, Imran Awan, Jamal Awan, and Hina R. Alvi. As part of this request, searches should of records [sic] should include, but not be limited to, the FBI automated indices, its older manual indices, and its Electronic Surveillance (ELSUR) Data Management System (EDMS), as well as cross-referenced files.
  • All records of communication sent to or from FBI employees, officials or contractors involving the subjects in bullet item 1.

We are seeking records from May 2015 to the present.

Our second request, submitted on July 3, 2018, sought:

  • All records related to any investigations or preliminary investigations involving former congressional IT support staffers Abid Awan, Imran Awan, Jamal Awan, Hina R. Alvi and Rao Abbas. As part of this request, searches of records should include, but not be limited to, the FBI automated indices, its older manual indices, and its Electronic Surveillance (ELSUR) Data Management System (EDMS), as well as cross-referenced files.
  • All records of communications, including but not limited to emails (whether on .gov or non-.gov email accounts), text messages, instant chats or messages on the Lync system, sent to or from FBI employees, officials or contractors involving the Awan brothers, Ms. Alvi and Mr. Abbas. Records of communications searched should include but not be limited to those between FBI officials, employees and contractors and officials with the Capitol Police, the Office of the Inspector General of the House, and the Office of the Chief Administrative Officer of the House.

In August 2019, the Justice Department told the court that it would begin producing records by November 5, 2019. After producing no records, the agency told us on November 13, 2019, that it was having “technical difficulties,” and in a recent email claimed that, “difficulties with the production remain.”In a joint status report filed on December 5, 2019, we reported to the court that the DOJ claimed in a phone call that it was now unable to produce any records to either of the FOIA requests “because the agency was waiting for some unspecified action by Judge [Tanya S.] Chutkan in some other matter so as to avoid having to produce records in this case.” In that same report the DOJ told the court that Judge Chutkan is “presiding over a related sealed criminal matter” that prohibits the government from releasing the requested FOIA information. [Emphasis added]

At the court hearing today, the Court ordered the Justice Department to provide, by January 10, an explanation to him on the issues Judicial Watch raised.

Imran Awan and his family were banned from the House of Representatives computer network in February 2017 after the House’s top law enforcement officer wrote that Imran is “an ongoing and serious risk to the House of Representatives, possibly threatening the integrity of our information systems,” and that a server containing evidence had gone “missing.” The inspector general said server logs showed “unauthorized access” and procurement records were falsified.
Imran Awan was Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s (D-FL) top information technology aide. Most lawmakers fired Awan in February, but Wasserman Schultz kept him on until he was arrested in July 2017 trying to board a flight for Pakistan.

In July 2018, Imran Awan was given a plea deal, and pled guilty to federal bank fraud, but prosecutors found no evidence that Awan “violated federal law with respect to the House computer systems.”

The Awan brothers reportedly “were not given background checks before being given access to highly sensitive government information and no explanations have been given as to why.” Additionally, “If they would have run this background check it would have found out not only multiple criminal convictions, but $1 million bankruptcy, a dozen lawsuits … it would have found a whole host of major red flags and the Democrats didn’t do any of those checks.”

This scandal is a matter of national security. It involves a cover-up by House Democrat leadership and, now, the Deep State DOJ. We won’t let this go.

New York Becomes 13th State to Give Illegal Immigrants Driver’s Licenses

Given the murders committed by a Saudi national in Pensacola this week, and daily reports of violent crimes by illegal aliens across the country, everyone is more alert to who comes into our country. Everyone but New York state politicians, that is. Our Corruption Chronicles blog reports on that state’s move to make it easier for illegal aliens to reside here in violation of the law:

This month New York will become the 13th state in the U.S. to give illegal immigrants driver’s licenses, and officials in counties throughout the Empire State warn they are not equipped to handle the predicted onslaught. One state lawmaker is offering free care for the children of illegal aliens who attend a workshop to help them navigate the process of obtaining a license. More than half a million undocumented immigrants are expected to qualify, and all they need is an expired passport, consulate identification or license from their country of citizenship.

Local Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) clerks throughout New York are deeply concerned about their ability to authenticate the unfamiliar documents—written in foreign languages—acceptable under the new law to obtain a license. One county clerk in the state’s eastern region said in a local news report that his office, which services a population of about 160,000, will not issue licenses to illegal aliens and instead will let the state deal with the applicants. “They want to us to make a decision right at the window as to whether something is fraudulent or acceptable,” Rensselaer County Clerk Frank Merola said in the article. “I’m not going to make a major mistake.” In the state’s southern tier, Chemung County Clerk Catherine Hughes blasted lawmakers for leaving her and her colleagues to deal with the mess. “They don’t really realize the ramifications that it causes by doing something like this,” said Hughes, who serves a population of about 90,000. “There are no set of rules and regulations on how to get it done. And that puts us county clerks in a very precarious situation because we don’t know how to do it.”

Officials in some New York counties have filed lawsuits to block the measure, officially called the Driver’s license Access and Privacy Act but popularly known as the Green Light Law, from being implemented. It was passed by the legislature over the summer and signed by Governor Andrew Cuomo after he was assured federal immigration officials would not be able to obtain DMV records. That’s where the “privacy” portion of the bill’s language comes in. Officials in several counties—including Erie, Monroe and Rensselaer—are suing to thwart the law, which is scheduled to take effect on December 14. New York State Senator Julia Salazar, a former community organizer and proud member of the Democratic Socialists of America, announced this week that she is holding an “informational session” to guide illegal immigrants through the process of obtaining a license. Free childcare will be provided, according to the announcements, which were issued in English and Spanish.

Besides New York, a dozen states and the District of Columbia have enacted laws to allow illegal immigrants to obtain driver’s licenses, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. They include California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah, Vermont and Washington. More than half of the states passed their measures in 2013. In 2019 several states—including Florida, Kansas, Minnesota and North Carolina—introduced legislation to grant illegal aliens driver’s licenses, but those haven’t been resolved and it’s not clear if they’ll pass. This week the Department of Justice (DOJ) challenged New York’s soon-to-be-implemented measure, writing in a federal court filing that it conflicts with federal law.

New York is also undermining national security, according to a report published by a Washington D.C. think tank dedicated to researching U.S. immigration policy. New York’s Green Light Law equips illegal aliens and others with nefarious intentions with legitimate, state-issued identification, prohibits federal authorities from using information maintained by the state’s DMV and inhibits public safety as well as immigration enforcement. “The federal government should not simply surrender to the unreasonable and potentially unconstitutional limitations imposed on federal immigration and local law enforcement agencies by this law,” the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) writes in its extensive report, which includes ideas to circumvent New York’s law. Among them is withholding federal funding and taking legal action. Over the summer a federal appellate court ruled that the Trump administration could withhold federal funding to local governments that offer illegal immigrants sanctuary.

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Bloomberg: Unacceptable Presidential Candidate — An unapologetic advocate for open borders.

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New York City’s former Mayor Mike Bloomberg has announced his candidacy for the Presidency. Not unlike virtually all candidates for elected office, he has promised to help create jobs and improve opportunities for Americans.

However, as my mom used to say, “Talk is cheap” and his open-borders advocacy is inconsistent with the best interests of our nation and our fellow Americans.

Immigration is not a single issue but a singular issue that profoundly impacts nearly every challenge and threat that confronts America and Americans. The critical question therefore, is “Where does Mike Bloomberg stand on immigration?”

As it turns out, Mike Bloomberg is an unapologetic advocate for open borders. This is no surprise. After all, when he was the Big Apple’s mayor he was a strong supporter of New York City’s “sanctuary” policies that shield illegal aliens from detection from ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement).

So while Bloomberg has promised to help create new jobs, in fact he does not care who actually gets those jobs. I have often made the point that while it is good to create jobs, liberating jobs is a quicker and cheaper way to provide jobs for American and lawful immigrant workers. (Jobs are liberated when illegal aliens are removed from the jobs that they illegally take.) This is one of many missions for ICE, an agency that has come to be reviled by the globalist, open-borders immigration anarchists such as Mike.

In fact, it would appear that Mike Bloomberg would be happy if illegal aliens get those jobs and not American workers, as a means of suppressing wages.

Although Bloomberg has reportedly amassed $50 billion, making him one of the very wealthiest people on earth, in a recent interview he actually publicly stated that golf courses could not survive if they had to pay more for grass cutters, thereby acknowledging that while we are frequently told that illegal aliens do the work Americans won’t do, in reality Americans would gladly do those jobs, but for a living wage under lawful working conditions.

For Mike, screwing Americans out of jobs and wages is preferable to suffering a “hardship” that he and his super-wealthy friends would suffer if they had to pay more for their greens fees on golf courses and their country club memberships!

If you think I am making this up, the November 10, 2019 Irish Central article, “Mike Bloomberg outspoken on the Irish and the huge benefits of immigration” provides the strongest possible argument against Bloomberg’s presidential aspirations.

In that article he not only addressed the wonders of cheap labor but carefully blurred the essential distinction between illegal immigration from lawful immigration.

To provide a bit of much-needed clarity, the difference between an immigrant and an illegal alien is comparable to the difference between a houseguest and a burglar.

Here is an excerpt from that article:

On immigration, a hot topic back then, he was adamant that hardworking immigrants help.

“We should open the borders, not close them. And you need to open them in tough times more than you need to open them in good times. And government has to lead, and I don’t think most of our leaders are willing to do that.

What nobody quite understands about the undocumented, and I think it’s true no matter where they come from, all the conventional wisdoms of Lou Dobbs — who has done an enormous amount of damage to this country – the undocumented have very low (rates of) crime. Why? Because they don’t want to go near the government.

“Undocumented pay taxes. Why? Because their company deducts and there’s no place to send the refund. Undocumented don’t use our schools very much. They tend to be young people coming here who don’t go and have families. They tend to send money back home.

“Undocumented don’t use our hospitals much. Why? Because most of us use three-quarters of our medical expenses in the last three years of our life, and these are young people who come here. And the argument that undocumented take jobs away from Americans is just not true. You cannot get Americans generally to do these jobs.

“Now you can say wait a minute and pay them more, but if you did that, yes, more Americans would take them, but the organizations couldn’t survive. Golf courses can’t survive if they have high-cost grass cutters. To answer your question on what do you do, it’s the elected officials (who must act).”

We must begin by making the distinction that Bloomberg and the other open-borders advocates refuse to make: the one between lawful immigrants and illegal aliens.

I addressed that bit of linguistic sleight-of-tongue in my article, “Language Wars: The Road to Tyranny Is Paved with Language Censorship.”

On June 13th of this year I was a guest on Fox & Friends First and ended my interview by asking cohosts Jillian and Rob if they would be willing to board an airliner if they saw some of the passengers on their flight sneaking past the TSA inspectors. They reacted as I expected them to, so I then asked, “Why then are we being forced to live among millions of people who snuck past a similar vetting process conducted at ports of entry?”

America is indeed a “nation of immigrants”; however, it is not a “nation of trespassers”!

In the article Bloomberg made a number of assertions that are utterly bogus.

While it is true that lawful immigrants are among the most law-abiding segment of our nation, illegal aliens are the most crime-prone individuals. I addressed this incontrovertible fact in my earlier article which I urge you to read in its entirety, “Illegal Immigration And Crime.”

New York City’s schools are prohibited from asking students about their immigration status so there is no easy way to determine the immigration status of these students; however, each year increasing amounts of money in the Board of Education budget are allocated to providing ESL (English as a Second Language) training. This would certainly seem to suggest that many of the students in our public schools are aliens. Furthermore, so-called “sanctuary” policies attract illegal aliens.

Additionally, New York State now provides illegal aliens with driver’s licenses, which not only serves as a magnet to attract increasing numbers of illegal aliens but also undermines national security and public safety. I laid out my concerns on this lunacy in my article, “New York Will Provide Illegal Aliens With Driver’s Licenses,” in which I rhetorically asked, “Where is Gov. Cuomo’s MVP Award from terrorists?”

Make no mistake, “Sanctuary Cities Protect Crooked Employers And Human Traffickers.”

The real question that Bloomberg and all candidates for the Presidency and other elected offices on all levels of government should be asked is, “Have you read, in their entirety, the The 9/11 Commission Report and the companion report 9/11 and  Terrorist Travel?

As a follow-up, Bloomberg and the other candidates should be asked how their abhorrence for secure borders and fair but effective immigration law enforcement as evidenced in their statements square with the findings and recommendations of the 9/11 Commission.

Those reports made it clear that terror attacks, and not only the attacks of 9/11, were only possible because of multiple failures of the immigration system — a system Bloomberg is determined to undermine and obstruct in order to achieve his globalist agenda.

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Democrats in Disarray and Full of Malarkey!

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Merriam-Webster:

disarray noun

a lack of order or sequence : CONFUSION, DISORDER

malarkey noun

: insincere or foolish talk : BUNKUM

He thinks that everything politicians say is a bunch of malarkey.

The Democratic Party is in disarray.

To understand let’s look at what Maxine Waters said in 1998:

Interestingly, the House Judiciary Committee members voted on articles of impeachment on of all days Friday, December 13th, 2019. Prophetic isn’t it.

The House Judiciary Committee adopted both articles alleging: 1. abuse of power and 2. obstruction of Congress, on a party-line vote of 23-17.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell stated on the Sean Hannity Show:

The case is so darn weak coming from the House. We know how it’s going to end. There’s no chance the president’s going to be removed from office. My hope is that there won’t be a single Republican who votes for either of these articles of impeachment, and, Sean, it wouldn’t surprise me if we got one or two Democrats.

The main issue is that Speaker Pelosi, Representatives Adam Schiff and Jerrold Nadler have focused on overturning the results of the 2016 election using every and all means available.

Because of their desperate stand to impeach President Donald J. Trump it is becoming clearer with each passing day that they cannot win at the ballot box in 2020.

Here are the top reasons that the Democrats are confused and spreading disorder within their own political party:

  • The Mueller Report debunked the malarkey that there was any collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russians.
  • President Trump releasing the transcripts of his two phone conversations with the President of the Ukraine debunked the malarkey of a quid pro quo.
  • The hearings in the House Intelligence Committee, both secret and public, debunked the malarkey of a quid pro quo.
  • The hearing in the House Judiciary Committee debunked the malarkey of a quid pro quo.
  • The hearing in the House Judiciary Committee ignored the quid pro quo of former VP Biden and his son Hunter.

Democrats in a Deep Hole

During all of this time since the election of Donald J. Trump the Democrats have been trying, unsuccessfully, to dig up dirt. Again, they have kept digging and they now find themselves in a deep hole that they cannot extricate themselves from.

These continuous investigations and hearings have hurt the candidates running for president during the Democratic primary. The media has focused on the investigations and have in large part ignored giving the limelight to the Democratic candidates.

To make matters worse the polling, if you believe the polls, show President Trump has remained steady in his popularity. If anything the polls indicate that the American people have grown tired of the constant malarkey.

More telling is how the President and the Republican Party continue to stand together as never before. The Republican Party is raising money from small donors for the President’s 2020 campaign and those Republicans on the 2020 ballot in record numbers.

Finally, the Trump campaign has used this opportunity to both emphasize the Democrat’s disarray and expose their malarkey.

The Democrats are hurting their candidates for president, those seeking reelection in 2020, those in both the House and Senate, and the party as a whole.

Question: Why?

Answer: Perhaps they can’t see that their malarkey is pure bunkum.

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Guilty! I Support the Iranian Protestors

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As protests continue to wreak havoc in Iran with a breadth and intensity not seen since the 1978 revolution against the Shah, Tehran’s clerical rulers and their Revolutionary Guards enforcers have become increasingly desperate.

That could be seen in videos that recently surfaced of the horrific massacre of hundreds of unarmed protestors in Bandar-e Mahshahr, an oil town on the Persian Gulf near Iraq. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and his top Iran advisor, Brian Hook, both condemned the regime for sheer evil of this deed, worthy of Hitler’s executioners.

So what is the regime to do? Why, blame the Americans, of course!

In every Iranian media today you will find articles and columns blaming President Trump, Secretary of State Pompeo, and yes – even me! – for fueling the protests.

Hossein Shariatmadari, the executive editor of Kayhan, a daily that is run by Iran’s intelligence ministry, is a top regime propagandist. When things go wrong for his clerical brethren, he reassures them that it’s not their fault: it’s the Americans.

Over the years, he has repeatedly identified me as the head of some secret-spooky CIA HUMINT program to assist the Iranian opposition.

I’m flattered he thinks that one person, unfunded, unsupported, with only a voice, can have such an impact. And I’m positively thrilled that he actually believes that the CIA has such a program (alas, they do not).

Nevertheless, in his latest screed, published in Kayhan on December 4, he positively fumed.

“Didn’t Trump officially support the protests as soon as they started? And didn’t he announce that America will meet the needs of the rioters? I say, Damn him! Mike Pompeo, Trump’s secretary of state, and Kenneth Timmerman, former CIA member and currently director of the American institute NED [National Endowment for Democracy], also acknowledged that the CIA has not only helped the Iranian rioters by providing software systems but also has delivered them hardware.”

For years, the State Department has funded software developers to provide Persian-language messaging apps and encrypted web-browsers for Iranians. That’s a matter of public record.

Early iterations of these apps were woefully deficient, and actually caused more harm than good, since Iranian statehackers were able to penetrate them and expose the Iranians who were using them.

I am guessing that the technology has gotten better since then. Why? Because the regime felt so threatened that immediately when the protests erupted in response to the gasoline price hikes on November 15, they cut off all access to the Internet nation-wide, starting with the popular Telegram app that reportedly is now used by forty million Iranians (half the entire population).

Iran’s so-called Cyber Army monitors traffic on these apps on a regular basis. And they monitor opposition news sites, especially those that have tentacles into the regime itself and expose the abject corruption of the regime’s leaders.

Iran’s intelligence services goes to great lengths to neutralize these opponents, not just by hacking their websites, which they do frequently, but by sending assassins out to kill them.

In early November, an Iranian regime assassin gunned down a cyber activist, Massood Molavi, in the streets of Istanbul, in a brazen attack caught on live video surveillance cameras. Molavi’s sin? Exposing secret documents from within the regime’s intelligence services on a Telegram channel known as “Black Box.”

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo referred to Molavi in a recent press conference where he blasted Iran’s clerical and military leaders for their murderous crackdown on protesters and dissident.

Just one month earlier, the regime boasted of capturing the publisher of a popular opposition news site, Ruhollah Zam, luring him from Europe to Iraq with promises of big money. After they forced him to make a televised confession, he disappeared.

But no amount of bluster, and clearly, no amount of bullets, can check the will of the Iranian people to resist the tyranny of their usurper rulers.

As I wrote in 2009, on a previous occasion when IRGC Brig. Gen. Hossein Shariatmadari and others in the state-run media in Iran tried to lay the “blame” on me and my foundation for an earlier run of nation-wide protests, I would be happy to accept such an honor, however misplaced.

However, neither I nor my board can take credit for such power or influence. As I wrote then,

“The people of Iran have shown through their courage, independence and determination that they don’t need help from anyone outside their country to get them to take to the streets. I have full confidence that they will get rid of the dictators of Tehran. Apparently, so do the regime’s leaders.”

Wonder if they’ve started fueling the Leader’s escape jet yet?

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Liberals Setting the Stage to Claim 2020 Election Results Illegitimate

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In the lead-up to the 2016 election, Democrats fretted openly about the possibility that Donald Trump, being a rather poor sport, might refuse to acknowledge an election loss.

To be fair, Trump refused to state that he would accept election results, depending on the circumstances: “I’ll keep you in suspense,” he stated in his Oct. 19, 2016, debate with Hillary Clinton. Clinton, for her part, called his statement “horrifying,” adding that he was harming American democracy.

Trump, of course, won. And Clinton spent the next couple of years suggesting openly that she had been robbed in the election. Democrats blamed Clinton’s election loss on Russian interference, on voter suppression, on anything but Clinton’s campaign performance.

That wasn’t a particular shock: After George W. Bush won the 2000 election, many Democrats continued to maintain that he was an illegitimate president.

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And not much changed in the nearly two decades since: In 2018, Democrats insisted that Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams had actually defeated Brian Kemp, despite having lost by approximately 55,000 votes. To this day, Democratic presidential candidates repeat the lie that Kemp stole the election from Abrams.

Now in the run-up to 2020, Democrats are already suggesting that if Trump wins, the election will have been illegitimate.

This time, they’re pointing to Trump’s supposed attempt to gather information from the Ukrainian government on potential 2020 rival Joe Biden in return for release of much-needed military aid. In fact, Democrats state that if Trump is not impeached, the 2020 results will inevitably be deemed improper.

On Sunday, Rep. Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., who suggested way back in 2017 that though Trump was “legally elected,” he was “not legitimate,” doubled down: “The president, based on his past performance, will do everything he can to make it not a fair election. And this is part of what gives us the urgency to proceed with this impeachment.”

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said last week, “The president leaves us no choice but to act because he is trying to corrupt, once again, the election for his own benefit.”

Rep. Veronica Escobar, D-Texas, told CNN’s Jake Tapper, “If you have a corrupt executive who is willing to maintain power by corrupting our election, there’s an urgency there.”

Former federal prosecutor Anne Milgram wrote in The New York Times, “Who gets to pick the next president of the United States—President Trump, Ukraine, Russia or us?”

Impeachment, then, must be used without proper evidence of a crime in order to prevent Trump from stealing the election. By this logic, any suspicion of illegitimacy in an upcoming election becomes an excuse for ousting a legitimately elected president.

This is a vicious cycle: illegitimate impeachments based on perception of illegitimate elections. And with Pelosi promising that our very civilization is at stake—a contention she made over the weekend—over the outcome of the next election, we can be sure that the pressure will continue to rise.

Things are already ugly in American politics. A republic can only be maintained when the people have faith that even if their side loses an election, that election was legitimate—and only when people believe that there is a tomorrow.

With Democrats openly claiming that they can run an end-around with the electoral process because they don’t trust the results, and stating that any future loss is evidence of corruption and a representation of the end of the country, things are about to get a lot uglier.

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Abortion Pills: The Do-It-Yourself, Back-Alley Methods by Patrina Mosley

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It’s been no coincidence that the latest mainstream media, women’s magazines, and even Teen Vogue have been advertising abortion pills as the new wonders of women’s healthcare that can be taken in the privacy of their homes.They even have the audacity to applaud purchasing illegal abortion pills online. A New York Times columnist, a man at that, found that ordering illegal abortion pills online was quite easy during his investigation. Nothing should be scarier than a man ordering abortion pills and then titling his investigation piece “Abortion Pills Should Be Everywhere.” There have been numerous documented incidents (here, here, and here) of women being unknowingly slipped abortion pills by partners who were unwilling to become fathers or by family members who were unsupportive of the pregnancy. The abortion industry markets the abortion pill as straightforward and safe. In reality, chemical abortions are a multi-day traumatic process that comes with over 4,000 documented life-threatening and health endangering risks.

The rate at which chemical abortion is being used is currently at an all-time high. The latest statistics on abortion from the Guttmacher Institute show that 39 percent of abortions in 2017 were chemical (reported as “medical” or “medication abortion”), a 25 percent increase since 2014. This rapid increase in chemical abortions is part of the abortion industry’s long-term strategy to make abortions “self-managed” and unrestricted — despite the profound dangers such poorly-supervised medical care poses to women’s health.

Abortion lobbyists regard drug-based, do-it-yourself abortions as the best way to get around the many state-level pro-life laws being enacted around our country. Such abortions are accomplished through the abortion pill regimen, distributed under the brand name Mifeprex, which is subject to the FDA’s drug safety program — Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategies (REMS) — because it carries such life-threatening risks.

The abortion industry wants to remove the FDA’s REMS in order to have abortion pills available through the pharmacy, the mail, and even on college campuses (also currently being proposed in New York), making do-it-yourself abortions the future of the abortion industry. They have strategically discussed how the absence of the REMS would significantly expand abortion locations and providers, broaden remote prescription (in which a woman is never even examined by the prescriber), and eventually achieve over-the-counter (OTC) status for Mifeprex.

Abortion advocates once claimed that legal abortion would alleviate the danger of “back-alley” abortions for women, but now they want to place the burden of inducing abortions completely on women — despite the fact that the health complications that often result from an induced chemical abortion are eerily similar to those of “back-alley” abortions. They include severe bleeding, infection, retained fetal parts, the need for emergency surgery, and even death. In addition, the woman, who may or may not have health insurance coverage, is expected to bear the additional cost of these “chemical coat hanger” abortion complications.

Yet, abortion activists continue to market the abortion pill as “safe,” “effective,” and “simple” for women with visions of “privacy” and “simplicity.” This is demonstrably false, but it’s the lie they have to sell women so that the abortion industry can cut costs, expand their reach, and remove themselves from the pain and hurt they cause women. With all the documented dangers, it is increasingly evident that the advancement of the abortion industry’s agenda for the Mifeprex regimen is about political, ideological, and financial goals — not care for women.

To read more about the radical implications that OTC abortion drugs could have for women’s health and safety, especially as it pertains to intimate partner violence, sexual abuse and sex trafficking, and accurate patient assessment, see our new publication: The Next Abortion Battleground: Chemical Abortion. If you or a woman you know needs to know the facts about abortion drugs or wants to share their experience of a chemical abortion, please visit Abortiondrugfacts.com.

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School Tests Parents’ Limits with Prostitute

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If it’s okay for drag queens to host story hour, what about prostitutes? At one Austin, Texas elementary school, students got both! In what some parents are calling “a sign of things to come” under the city’s radical new sex ed, the kids at Blackshear Fine Arts Academy had an unexpected visitor — with an even more unexpected background. But as shocked as parents were to learn that “Miss Kitty Litter ATX” was a convicted criminal, they were even more horrified to find out that the school district knew it!

That’s the most astonishing revelation from the open records request that Texas Values filed. Thanks to internal communications between Miss Kitty Litter (real name David Robinson) and the school librarian Roger Grape, moms and dads now know that not only did Blackshear expose their children to this wild and deviant ideology but to a felon too! In texts to Grape, David admitted that he might not pass the school background check. “the guidelines for submission automatically disqualify me if the deferred adjudication for prostitution is considered a conviction… so I don’t know if [it’s] ethical to submit.”

So either the school didn’t go through with the background check — or ignored it altogether. Either option is equally distressing. “According to emails sent to parents,” Texas Values points out, “the reading event was scheduled to take place at 11 a.m. and all readers had been screened by Austin ISD.” No one knows what that screening could’ve possibly entailed, since an arrest and conviction are the first things a basic search would uncover. Or maybe Austin officials don’t see the problem in bringing in a man who sells himself for sex as an acceptable guest speaker. Based on their latest curriculum decisions, which are stunningly pornographic, it wouldn’t surprise us.

Just as startling, the records from the October 7th day when Robinson came to school show that neither he nor the school were in any hurry for him to leave. Dressed head-to-toe as a woman, he walked through the doors at 7:25 a.m. and didn’t leave until the bell almost rang at 2:11 p.m. Why was he there for so long? No one seems to know. Maybe he did more than read to the first-, second-, third-, and fourth graders. Maybe he was consulting on the recently adopted lessons about anal sex (“What’s the best way to have it?“) or contraception (“What ages you can get birth control, abortions, or other health care without your parents“).

Unfortunately for the moms and dads in the area, this isn’t their first brush with the extreme. On the Willis side of the district, a man with the stage name Lynn Adonis also visited class — this time as a guest cosmetologist. There’s just one problem: he isn’t one. He’s an entertainer — and a drag queen one at that. Like Robinson, he spent twice as much time at the school as other visitors that day. When the inviting teacher was asked, she admitted that Jerred Bridges (his legal name) spent the day putting make-up on kids, “despite having no license to do so.”

Usually, the fact that a district is willing to host one of these drag queen events is sickening enough. Imagine finding out that the person they invited wasn’t even vetted — or worse, a confirmed sex trafficker. Schools are supposed to be safe learning spaces, not a catwalk for prostitutes. Their actions would suggest that Austin officials are more interested in the sexual exploitation of kids than their actual wellbeing. In any classroom, including this one, the only thing these drag queens should be reading are the directions to the nearest exit.

Tony Perkins’s Washington Update is written with the aid of FRC senior writers.

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