Fork-Tongued Pols, Knife-Stabbed Allies, and the Spoon-Fed Children

AS U.S. COLLEGES and universities futilely attempt to cope with ‘micro-intifada’ training, comprised of protests, occupations, and violence from pro-Hamas demonstrators in ‘Gaza Solidarity Encampments’ on campus, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu struggles to save his nation, faith, political career, and legacy. For him, it’s existential. 

There have been rumors since early May that the International Criminal Court may issue an arrest warrant against him and other Israeli leaders for allegedly waging a genocidal campaign in Gaza. News isn’t always true these days, to be sure, but it seems Netanyahu has been fairly restrained and sober in his response to the Hamas threat. And, IMO, he has also been too deferential to the corrupt senile occupant of the White House, Joe Biden, who seems to think the Israeli leader should roll over and play dead, but maybe not before the I.C.C. acts. 

“Israel expects the leaders of the free world to come out strongly against this scandalous step, a step that will harm the self-defense not only of the State of Israel, but of all democracies,” the  P.M. prodded world leaders. Netanyahu, who typically overstates his positions, said that issuing a warrant against him would be an “antisemitic hate crime.” And why not? Isn’t everyone antisemitic these days? And isn’t everything a ‘hate’ crime?

The illicit and corrupt Biden regime says it opposes such an action against Netanyahu because Israel has not recognized the I.C.C.’s jurisdiction, a claim the U.S. also made over I.C.C. actions against itself in Afghanistan. Russia was quick to point out the hypocrisy that the U.S. not only supported, but encouraged the issuance of I.C.C. warrants against Russian President Vladimir Putin last year for its military action in Ukraine. Yet neither Russia nor Ukraine are parties either.

And still, Biden has done absolutely nothing to lessen the hostilities. If anything, he has fomented dissent by pandering to pro-Hamas protesters at least in part because they are a target demographic in his inexplicable and reprehensible campaign for president. It is also why he now placates them by bringing Gaza refugees to the U.S. and making them U.S. citizens by executive order, something hardly anyone supports or should support, especially in light of the U.S. border crisis. However, despite his inaction, there has slowly been a reduction in violence at the campuses due to arrests, and the occupations have finally begun to be broken up by police. This was a big breakthrough since most school administrators and educators are, like Biden, so ineffectual or are part of the problem themselves.  

Netanyahu has recently become emboldened to make his own demand for the U.S. to crack down on pro-Hamas student protests, calling a failure to do so ‘antisemitism.’ He’s not wrong, but that doesn’t mean he’s right, because in fact, many of the protesters are Jewish themselves. And never mind Palestinians are Arabs and Arabs are Semitic people, too. 

You’d think Biden would have the human decency to at least be embarrassed by his ineptitude, insincerity, and hypocrisy, but he just plays both sides. His is an existential political journey, too. And one he absolutely must lose, if America is to retain any credibility in the world.

The Biden regime recently urged Congress and the hopelessly feckless and naive new House Speaker, Mike Johnson (R-La.), to pony up more big bucks hustled from American taxpayers for Israel, but it was a gratuitous insult to also include funds for Hamas, who, after all, instigated this latest round of violence in the Holy Land. (Would Biden’s handlers similarly offer charitable aid to Russia in addition to funding the Ukraine regime, for example?) 

Also insulting was the amount of money was dwarfed by the heaps of cash and weapons the U.S. has bestowed on Ukraine’s corrupt President Volodymyr Zelensky, though in fairness, Israel has always been the recipient of disproportional aid packages, amounting to $3.8 billion annually, thanks to extremely effective lobbying by AIPAC. A cutback is certainly in order, though the timing is unfortunate.  

AIPAC will be spending oodles of money—in a way, offset by American aid in a cynical sort of way—on the U.S. elections, which is another reason the dangerous kook in the White House is attempting to talk through both sides of his mouth. Even with his rapidly progressing dementia, though, Biden groks the threat from the AIPAC website: “[AIPAC] is the largest pro-Israel PAC in America and contributed more resources directly to candidates than any other PAC. 98% of AIPAC-backed candidates won their general election races in 2022.” (Emphasis added.) And as between Biden and pro-Israeli Donald Trump, guess who AIPAC will endorse? The only question is whether American Jews will care what AIPAC thinks, given Jews tend to vote  Democrat. They just might not now.

Indeed, Israel clearly learned the business of government from its America masters over the decades, just as Netanyahu learned activism, propaganda, and the art of politics from M.I.T. and Harvard. For anyone not clear on this point need only look at Netayahu’s massive Israeli settlement expansion, turning an obvious provocation into a political fait d’accompli. 

The pledge of additional aid from the U.S. last month may metaphorically become a mirage in the Negev, however. Biden has placed often changing conditions on how the aid can be used by Jerusalem. And for the most part, Netanyahu had obeyed the Big Guy.

For example, Netanyahu held off on initiating an operation to demolish a massive maze of tunnels to Rafah, on the Israeli border town of Gaza and Egypt which was engineered to deliver weapons and supplies to Palestinians to fight Israel. It was considered the last stronghold of Hamas in Gaza. But it is also being used as a lifeline to transport humanitarian aid to Gazans—at least until Israel issued an evacuation call this month in anticipation of its planned offensive. (A fairly accurate, albeit Arab description is here.) 

Some, but not all in the U.S., including Biden, agreed and still agree with the United Nations, that this operation could be a humanitarian disaster, however, and the American regime is now withholding delivery of long-awaited supplies to its best Middle Eastern ally.

For its part, the State Department has concluded it is “reasonable to assess” that Israel has violated international law by pursuing its military operation in Gaza (a belief echoed by an independent task force), yet remarkably didn’t find its offense such that aid should be withheld. Such conflicting messaging is both confusing and angering its recipient. 

Whether the operation would or would not result in a humanitarian disaster is not dispositive of the fact that the U.S. has unequivocally betrayed Israel by withholding aid, pure and simple. It’s not a good look, nor is it promising for international relationships with present and future allies who will no longer trust American promises of international support or military largess.

That it may, indeed, become a humanitarian crisis, also doesn’t address whether and to what extent Hamas has some culpability here, too. After all, Israel was attacked first by Hamas. The duplicity of the Biden regime continues to amaze. Would it, for example, tell its comrades in Ukraine to stop winning, but still send it weapons bought and paid for by weary U.S. taxpayers? 

A big takeaway is that Rafah was a figurative bomb waiting to explode for years, and should’ve been shut down by Israeli Defense Forces earlier. As it stands on Friday, Israel’s Security Cabinet has voted to expand the Rafah operation while keeping settlement talks with Egyptian mediators open in an effort to obtain the release of at least 128 hostages still held by Hamas since Oct. 7th, the day its terrorists invaded Israel, killing 1,139, taking 200 hostage.

 Egypt waits and worries as to what comes next. After translating it into Hebrew, Netanyahu gave Biden an unequivocal middle finger and sent the I.D.F. to the Palestine side of Rafah to conduct aircraft strikes, which apparently killed ‘terrorists.’ 

As an aside, I don’t recall common usage of the word ‘terrorist’ until Netanyahu arrived on the public scene in the early ‘90s, even though tensions in the region have been present since the establishment of Israel in 1948. He overstates things, so one can only hope, in a perverse sort of way, that they really were terrorists.

Notably on Friday, the U.N. General Assembly voted, 143-9, for a resolution to confer to the “state of Palestine” certain rights and privileges reserved only for member states, which, of course, ‘Palestine’ is not. In fact, most people probably don’t even know the U.N. recognized Palestinian ‘statehood’ for its own purposes back in 2012, allowing it observer status in the Assembly. It’s sort of an international legal fiction. 

But a U.N. member? The U.S., and obviously Israel, voted nay. True statehood would have to be recognized bilaterally with other states. And full U.N. membership will still need to go back to the Security Council. Joe Lauria of Consortium News explains it well, here. 

The problems with the U.N. resolution are myriad. It defies principles in the U.N. Charter, for one thing. It renders definitions of terms in major international documents into a mockery of law and language, for another. It also essentially rewards terrorism. And it renders the U.S. financially liable for yet another U.N. undertaking—and one it doesn’t even support. And now an Israeli envoy is demanding the U.S. cut U.N. funding, which is actually a good idea. It starts to look a lot like NATO and the foolhardy plan to invite Ukraine to an outdated relic of history at enormous cost to the U.S., both fiscally and politically. 

Sadly, a two-state solution was always rejected by the Palestinian Authority and its military arm, Hamas. Now it is an impossibility, and renders statehood an impossibly fluid concept for the rest of the world. Optimistically, the U.S. may, at least, shed itself of the burden of paying for the U.N., albeit, as it recklessly shifts the money to any of a number of corrupt or hostile states.

As it turns out, back in the U.S., just as many of us suspected, CAIR, the Muslim Brotherhood, and other agitpropists such as George Soros’ Open Society Foundation are behind the bedlam. Most of their useful idiots don’t even know what they’re protesting about, other than evil ‘Zionists,’ transparently meaning all Jews. Ask the protesters, donning their designer unisex keffiyehs, for example, what river and sea it is that they refer to in their chant, ‘From the river to the sea, Palestine shall be free.’ They have no idea. 

The protesters just tear down the American flag on campus and replace it with a Palestinian one, but we shouldn’t wonder why. After all, they saw former Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her comrades feverishly waving Ukraine flags or watched her unceremoniously and disrespectfully rip up a State of the Union Address delivered by President Trump inside the House chamber. They don’t know any better.

What these student protesters do know is they’re getting paid (!), given tents in which to occupy the campus grounds, and that their demands are being largely met by the Biden regime. An extremely enlightening article about this is here. 

Their demands for delicious hot meals and regular heath monitoring from school administrators are largely being ignored, though. And why not? It turns out, most aren’t even matriculated, so the schools have no obligation to cater to them. And those demanding passing grades and degrees have done little to earn them. Between this, Covid, and the Occupy movement, this will surely be the stupidest generation ever produced! 

The protesters whine about not having their voices heard, especially by the free-speech advocates they so detest, but it is their acts that makes them repelled. In that regard, they are zealots like those they are defending—they demand one listen to them and by extension, do as they say, without delay or contradiction, or else…  Whatever happened to debate clubs or moot courts? They must’ve gone the way of five-and-dime stores and integrity.

When Sympathy-Fatigue Becomes Narcoleptic

HAITI HAS BEEN A DISASTER for many years. Throughout most of those years, American pols have been interfering with, and heightening the conflict there, much to our shame. Joe Biden is only the latest to muck up the works in this poor, corrupt, and failed nation, by facilitating the migration of its middle class to our weary shores (along with the rest of the world) after the recent collapse of the Haitian government. (Background here & here.)

With Haiti’s best and brightest lured away by Biden, there are few remaining to fill in the governance gap in this nation. In 2021 alone, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas welcomed at least 46,000 illegal alien Haitians to the U.S. and in 2022, gave ‘Temporary Protected Status’ to 110,000 more. The total amounts to 250,000 illegal aliens from Haiti.

Nominally, Haiti has been being run by an unelected prime minister (with U.S. help), Ariel Henry, who has neither the internal support or resources to control the escalating violence. (Haiti has, in fact, been run by gangs since the assassination of its president, Jovenel Moïse, back in 2021.) Henry left the country early this month for Kenya where he asked for help from President William Ruto in providing police officers for a United Nations-approved Multinational Security Support mission. 

Things only got worse. When Henry was away, armed militias, headed by a notoriously violent thug and G9 gang boss named Jimmy “Barbecue” Cherizier, freed 4,000 criminals from prison, who surrounded Port-au-Prince’s airport, thereby preventing Henry’s return. Henry is presently stranded in Puerto Rico, where he announced last week he would resign after the establishment of a ‘Transitional Presidential Council,’ which Barbecue naturally opposes. Civil war is imminent. Reports of cannibalism have been headlined.

Haiti shares the island of Hispaniola with the Dominican Republic, and the U.N. apparently thought it could just set up an ‘airbridge’ to ferry in aid by plane from there to Haiti, but it didn’t bother running the scheme by the D.R. In fact, the Dominicans were rather pissed, as the U.N. had, in no uncertain terms, discouraged them from deporting Haitians, for whom the Dominicans had no real means to help, especially in light of the national security issues it would surely face. 

Typical of the U.N., it thought it could just demand compliance from this peaceful nation, making money from tourism, to voluntarily take on the burdens of another of the world’s failed states. The U.N. was ignorantly oblivious to the fact that Dominican President Luis Abinader had, in fact, made it a campaign pledge in 2022 to combat illegal immigration there and build a 250-mile border wall between the two diametrically different nations sharing one island. 

Naturally, this crisis is only exacerbating the American illegal migrant crisis, and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, for one, is very concerned. His office issued a statement on Wednesday (here), falling short on declaring an invasion—yet. On Friday, he said Florida had intercepted a vessel transporting 25 military-age Haitian males carrying guns, drugs, and night vision equipment.

In other words, they weren’t just rag-tag huddled masses in danger in international waters on unseaworthy vessels who were simply yearning to be free and rescued by the U.S. Coast Guard—and getting a so-called ‘shark visa.’ DeSantis turned these men over to the Coast Guard for deportation, but who knows if, under the Biden regime, this happened. The Sunshine State’s governor made clear he was not going to let Haitians, or any illegal aliens, enter Florida, however. He deployed additional assets to ensure it in ‘Operation Vigilant Sentry,’ by adding 39 officers from the Department of Law Enforcement, 23 from the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, 48 more Florida National Guardsmen, and 30 Highway Patrol officers. 

These 25 men were traveling recklessly, DeSantis said, and were only 40 miles south of Port Canaveral, home of one of the busiest international cruise terminals in the world, close to famous vacation city of Orlando, and the center of the Space Coast, from where rockets, both government and civilian, are routinely launched, often carrying payloads of sensitive satellites. Of note, Port Canaveral is halfway up the eastern coast of the long state, not just off the peninsular tip where one might more reasonably expect migrants to attempt to set foot. In other words, the port is an attractive target for terrorism. It has every reason in the world to worry.

DeSantis is also signed a new law on Friday, Senate Bill 1036, which increases the penalties for crimes committed by repeat offenders who crossed the border illegally. Effective Oct. 1st, the new law will treat these crimes as second- rather than third degree felonies, and will carry up to 15 years in prison. Other new laws are also designed to make life harder for illegal aliens in the state. (Summary here.) In his press conference, he said, “The federal government has failed in its responsibility to secure our southern border, leaving states to fend for themselves. In Florida, we do not tolerate illegal immigration, let alone lawlessness committed by illegal aliens who shouldn’t be here in the first place.” 

Usually liberal Palm Beach County has taken a stand, too. County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw severely criticized the Biden regime for its exceedingly dangerous immigration policies after three Guatemalan illegal aliens were arrested for kidnapping and sexual assault of a woman—twice— west of Lake Worth Beach on Tuesday. He fears his office will be deluged with alien criminals, and he is surely correct in his concerns.

Florida’s officials are mere fingers in a dyke, however. Biden not only implemented a ‘fast-track’ visa program for Haitians, he has simply opened the borders to criminals from other countries, including Haiti. The U.S. Executive Office for Immigration Review (who knew it even existed?) reports a 19.5% increase in arrests of Haitian migrants from FY23 compared to FY22. This isn’t particularly surprising, given 15,000 Haitians illegally entered the U.S. in a 5-day period in 2021. Antony Blinken dispatched a $4 billion aid package at that time, which, like money sent to Ukraine, has not benefitted anyone except corrupt foreign regimes. Americans are now the tired, poor, huddled masses yearning to breathe free, and no one in Washington hears their weary cries.

Illegal Aliens Seem to Invade Our Nation for the Fire Sales on Our Assets

THIS WEEK, REPORTS confirmed that Nazi collaborator, George Soros and his Open Society Foundation, was buying up a major stake in over two hundred radio stations in 45 markets in the U.S. ahead of the November election. The stations constitute the nation’s second-largest chain and will give a powerful bull[sh!t]horn to amplify his toxic fascistic views and those of whom he supports. The chain, formerly known as radio.com or Entercom, and known post-bankruptcy as Audacy, is second in size only to the iHeartMedia stations. While the bankruptcy court will have to approve the sale, it’s not clear if the FTC or FCC will have much, if any real say in the matter. 

AM Radio has long been the province of the conservative talk format. Liberal talk has usually failed miserably on the medium. It is estimated 15 million Americans tune into the top 15 overwhelmingly conservative radio talk shows every week. All know it’s highly influential.

This is hardly Soros’ first foray into media purchases. He has also purchased 18 Spanish language radio stations, bailed out Vice Media, bought out 22 newspapers in Maine, and recently backed an army of TikTok ‘influencers’ supporting the Big Guy illicitly occupying the White House. The Maine newspapers included the largest, most read, and most respected and included the Portland Press Herald, the Lewiston Sun Journal, and the Kennebec Journal. (With no Audacy stations, Mainiacs had to be reached.) Read more about Soros here, here, here and here.

Breaking the Bank of England by shorting the British pound, or Amplitude and Frequency Modulation radio waves aren’t the only things Soros is interested in, as impactful as they are. He has also bought up American farmland and, shocking to some people, actually sold gold to get it. 

But right now, farmland is clearly a better investment than gold, as high as gold has gone. Farmland? It was up 1,200% between 20’0 and 2010 alone. It can only be worse now, given how many nations have foolishly limited the use of fertilizers on crops because ‘climate change.’ (It all goes a long way in explaining the massive food inflation we’ve experienced lately.) Soros and his Open Society aren’t the only ones who is in on the open secret about farmland investments. So, too, are foreigners, including some from nations with which we have strained relations, such as (and especially) China. In 2022 alone, foreigners acquired over 3.4 million acres, so they now hold a total of 43.4 million acres, or 3.4% of all private farm land in the U.S. These purchases also add to inflation in real estate, the land on which improvements are situated, as well as to the food itself that is grown on subject land. (Former Microsoft exec Bill Gates emulates Soros.)

This could truly mean tyrants, the U.N., and W.E.F. will be able to control what the world eats (bugs) and where they can travel (’15 minute cities’) in the future. The decline in standards of living will be blamed on so-called ‘climate change,’ everyone’s favorite boogeyman after Putin.

Laundering and Spinning the Dirty UN/NGO Illegal Alien Whitewash

TODD BENSMAN from the Center for Immigration Studies has been one of several people reporting candidly and thoroughly about the border crisis in the U.S. If not for his ilk, Americans would be duped into believing MSM and White House claims everything’s just hunky-dory. In an article penned by Bensman, The New York Post warned readers, “Don’t believe the lies: The UN is paying illegals using US taxpayer cash.” Read it and weep.

Bensman recalls that in 2021, he wrote that the United Nations was abetting the crisis by giving away debit cards and cash vouchers to illegal aliens breaching the U.S. border. At the time, he said, 21 border security-minded lawmakers advocated a bill that would mandate the U.S., the U.N.’s largest benefactor, to cease and desist using taxpayer money this way.  H.R. 6155, however, never became law, in part because ‘fact checks’ claimed there was no problem because it wasn’t happening. Surprise! They lied. 

The U.N. just released its 2024 “Inter-Agency Coordination Platform for Refugees and Migrants from Venezuela” (R4V), a planning and budget plan for distributing $1.6 billion in 17 Latin America countries. The funding comes largely from U.S. taxpayers and confirms the U.N. and some 248 named non-governmental organizations is, in fact, providing debit cards to illegal aliens invading the country. (N.B.: a footnote on p. 14 and paragraph on p. 43 of the R4V document makes clear the ‘free money’ isn’t limited to Venezuelans, but is provided to “all nationalities.”)

Bensman states, “In a nutshell, the UN and its advocacy partners want to spread $372 million in “Cash and Voucher Assistance (CVA),” and “Multipurpose Cash Assistance (MCA)” to 624,300 immigrants who in-transit to the United States during 2024.” He further notes the money is usually in the form of debit cards, but also may include “cash in envelopes,”  bank transfers, and mobile transfers.

Unfortunately, the U.N. nightmare doesn’t end there. It is a small part of a much larger scheme that looks to spend $1.59 billion in assistance to about 3 million aliens in 17 nations who emigrated from home nations. The U.N. projects the illegal alien crisis will continue to increase in 2024 and admits that, in addition to “xenophobia” in home countries, the main reason for the increase is Biden policies which have created “newly established opportunities for regular pathways to move to the United States of America.”

Despite one small effort at adding fine print to the R4V document stating the U.N. doesn’t ‘officially endorse’ illegal border crossings, there is no indication the U.N. means or intends to do anything to curtail the illegal acts, only to encourage them with ‘free’ U.S. taxpayer money. The U.N. and N.G.O.s are just laundering the money so taxpayers won’t be the wiser.

You Are Not in Control of Any of This.

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IT WAS A BIT MYSTERIOUS why Israel was taking so damn long to attack Hamas in response to its deadly multi-front surprise attack on innocent unsuspecting Israelis on Oct. 7th. Some have speculated that Biden has been barking characteristically nonsensical orders at the disgraced Benjamin Netanyahu. It’s certainly plausible even if you realize Biden isn’t really running the show in the United States—someone or something else is, maybe even the devil himself. 

Then finally, on Friday, Israel sent thousands of troops into, and launched heavy airstrikes on Gaza as a phase one “rolling start” to the anticipated massive ground invasion meant to annihilate Hamas commenced. Internet was then cut to millions in Gaza, causing some media to erroneously complain the Israel Defense Forces’ urgent warning to Palestinians to evacuate Gaza went unheard—the warnings were issued at the outset and it would seem impossible Gazans didn’t know.  

Yet, despite the news, the world didn’t take a collective sigh of relief—quite the antithesis. Instead, the world mobilized and protested in support of—HAMAS?! It appeared to begin in colleges and universities, but soon included significant portions of populations in cities across the globe. Law schools topped the list, leading some professors (but not all), to condemn the students’ ignorance and hatred and to even tell potential employers to not hire their students. Other instructors, however, gave students extra credit for attending demonstrations or scolded administrators who condemned Hamas’ terror tactics. Schools fretted about future donations, grants, and endowments as alum began to threaten withholding financial support.

Then on Friday night at rush hour, Grand Central Terminal in midtown Manhattan was shut down because of hordes of pro-Palestine/anti-Israel protesters and rioters. New York’s finest arrested some 300 of them. Local media said it was organized by something called Jewish Voice for Peace which the Anti-Defamation League claims has blamed the violence on “Israeli apartheid and occupation—and United States complicity in that oppression.” The JVP also believes Israel is the “root cause” of the violence, and in “Palestinians’ right to resist,” which on the surface doesn’t sound all that terribly controversial. But of course a right to resist isn’t a right to slaughter innocents (or rape, kidnap, or otherwise harm them, all of which have been done.)  On Saturday, the Brooklyn Bridge was also shut down due to thousands of pro-Palestinian protesters demanding Israel be abolished. Jews were cautioned to avoid protests in Crown Heights, where many Hassidic Jews reside.

Also on Saturday, about 15,000 protesters in San Francisco closed down the Central Freeway, and a group called the Palestinian Youth Movement organized a protest of thousands in Los Angeles. Boston, Washington, D.C., Chicago, and Minneapolis (with a high Muslim population) had their own protests, too. Saturday also saw 70,000 people protested in London, effectively taking over the Waterloo Bridge, though something called the Palestine Solidarity Committee estimated 500,000 total attendees. Some called for violent revolution or another intifada. Australia had 50,000 marching in protest in Sydney on Sunday.

Saturday also brought hundreds of thousands of pro-Palestinian or pro-Hamas protesters to Istanbul where President Recep Tayyip Erdogan spoke to the assembly. And in Baghdad, demonstrators with Palestinian flags blocked Iraqi oil trucks from entering Jordan in protest of Israel. There are some good photographs here. 

There were similar occurrences elsewhere, including, incongruously enough, Indonesia, Malaysia, Morocco, Venezuela, and South Africa. While some of these nations have large and presumably sympathetic Muslim populations, the protests were so well orchestrated, they couldn’t be organic uprisings of the grassroots—someone or something planned it and paid for it similar to how it was done with Black Lives Matter.

Mysteries abound, not only about the intelligence and security failures in Israel, which is known for probably the most secure borders and shrewdest intelligence services in the world. Or about the reason(s) for the delay in Israel’s response. Who or what is running this shit show and the corresponding propaganda? Where, pray tell, has all the antisemitism come from all of a sudden? What is the end game here and whose agenda is being furthered? (Is it the usual nation-state suspects like China, Ukraine, Russia, or Iran? Entities such as the World Economic Forum or the United Nations? Wealthy individuals with political bents, like George Soros? Some or all of the above?) Has World War III begun? (This last question is asked widely on the internet, with search engines rendering dozens and dozens of results with varying credibility in the affirmative, e.g., here, here, and here.)

Where has the puppet illicitly occupying the White House been and what has he been doing? Biden has been on a perpetual vacation sunbathing and walking the shores at his home at Rehoboth Beach, and recently celebrated George Floyd’s 50th birthday and something called Intersex Awareness Day when he wasn’t worrying (not) about American hostages held in Gaza who he has done little or nothing to assist. When Biden has been sleeping (which is a lot), he has dreamt about novel ways to break the bank accounts, patience, and resolves of those whom he purports to govern—by, for instance, sending taxpayer money to Hamas to rebuild Gaza and drafting U.S. soldiers in a new mideast war.

Stayed tuned for phase two of the Israeli response. Once Hezbollah arrives on the scene (which seems inevitable), things will get much worse—not just for Israel and the United States, but for the Middle East and the world as a whole. World War III may have begun and we just don’t know it because we aren’t in control of anything and we aren’t always getting accurate information anyway.

A Global Day of Jihad

FRIDAY THE THIRTEENTH was declared a global day of jihad by Hamas. Astonishingly, some people, including in the West, took it to heart. Thousands protested across the Middle East in support of the Palestinian cause, as well as throughout Europe. France actually banned the demonstrations after violence erupted. Even Australia had its share of protests. People allegedly gave Nazi salutes outside of the Jewish Museum in Sydney. Dumb, spoiled ‘snowflakes’ protested at their Ivy League schools in the U.S. in antisemitic hissy fits. At Harvard, students blamed Israel for Hamas attacks. Columbia actually closed its campus due to protests.

At best, it’s embarrassing. There is no nuanced thought anymore. Once-upon-a-time, the Palestinian plight was something you could be sympathetic to—back during WWI when Britain wanted to find a place for Jews and the 1917 Balfour Declaration was penned, establishing that little patch of ‘holy’ land as a perfect homeland for them. It was the beginning of Zionism. The fact others—Palestinians— would be displaced was an afterthought to the extent it was thought about at all. 

Fast-forward to the formal creation of the State of Israel in 1948, after all the horrors of Naziism and WWII. The world’s sympathies flipped. Palestinians did, in fact, get screwed, but never managed to muster a world audience willing to hear its legitimate claims and complaints, especially after it became de rigueur for them to protest using violence, which Israel successfully portrayed as terrorism. Eventually, Israel became sophisticated at playing a good hand its benefactors dealt, and it remains so today. The Holy Land is, in fact, a master at propaganda. 

Despite the West’s stacked deck in Israel’s favor, it doesn’t follow Israelis deserve to die at Palestinian hands. A two-state solution is probably the best even if it’s not ideal, but the two primary parties and regional neighbors need to negotiate any future deal. Israel will not, however, negotiate with ‘terrorists,’ nor should it be expected to. Both sides have valid points, not necessarily equally compelling ones, but points nonetheless. If this were an easy problem, it would’ve been solved already. 

The consensus is that Iran and its Gaza-based proxy, Hezbollah, is behind this. Exactly why is less clear since historically, Palestinians had a hard time even getting Arabs to meaningfully support them, let alone, Persians. Some, including The Epoch Times’ C.C.P. expert Joshua Phillip, have surmised there is a concerted effort by China to put the United States in a four-front war that will exhaust all its resources and ultimately divest it of its world hegemony. One of those wars, it is said, must be a terrorist war. What could be better than Hezbollah, which wants to take down America’s staunchest middle eastern ally, Israel?

The four fronts are, ostensibly, Russia/Ukraine, Iran/Israel, China/Taiwan, and Mexico/America (i.e., the border crisis). Three of the four are already in play. What could be better than to have the illegitimate occupant of the White House running the show? He’s a Chinese hand puppet himself and will help move things along swimmingly. Undoubtedly, there are others in government, specifically the House and Senate, who are also corrupted by the C.C.P., especially some from the West Coast, including former Speaker of the House (D-Calif.) Nancy Pelosi. In this framework, things start to make sense, although maybe it’s all just a coincidence. 

Old Joe now says he won’t forward the $6 billion to Iran in the prisoner deal it made after being criticized for effectively financing the Hamas attacks on Israel.  The money, however, is apparently in Qatar, whose Prime Minister said he’d keep the money out of Iranian hands but then said he intends to honor the agreement Israel and Iran made. Israel Defense Forces has made a “very intentional” plea to evacuate Gaza to prevent harm to one million civilians, but Hamas is apparently blocking them from doing so. Hamas is also putting up roadblocks in Gaza City. Egypt and Syria are refusing the mass exodus of refugees they envision and have closed the borders. This has resulted in the U.N. pleading with Israel to rescind its Gaza evacuation order. 

Anyone should be able to see how this plays out. The U.S. will pay Egypt and Jordan and perhaps others to take in the refugees in a financial package that will break the bank. Those the U.S. cannot find homes for there will be given clandestine instructions to the Darien Gap to get into the U.S. furtively. U.S. taxpayers will be on the hook, and their so-called leaders will be hailed as ‘problem solvers.’ It’s not far-fetched. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken isn’t in Jordan to test this years’ wine bouquet after a quick dip in the Dead Sea. Thank God or Allah or Whoever that Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is also abroad, meeting with Israelis in Tel Aviv. That plays out in concert, too. The Israelis will give a list of weapons they need, like maybe batteries for the Iron Dome, and they will be ceremoniously provided. 

Meanwhile, in just a few days, Old Joe gave Ukraine another $200 million in aid and another few million illegal aliens got free passes to their favorite U.S. cities…

A Decade Later…

A WEB SEARCH indicates the U.S. has no day to honor press freedom. The world does, though. It’s on May 3rd and is called, cleverly enough, World Press Freedom Day. Of all people, Biden issued a statement about it.

On May 3rd, businesses are all open, including banks. So are government facilities and post offices. Schools aren’t recessed. No one takes a long weekend to celebrate it. Hardly anyone even knows about it even though it was first celebrated a little over thirty years ago. It’s just as opaque as the newly minted ‘woke’ holiday of ‘Juneteenth,’ which no one can clearly or consistently explain. Press Freedom? That’s easy and important. I’d propose that we declare our own national version of the international one established by the United Nations all those decades ago. 

And what better time to do it? According to a Pew Research Center survey of almost 12,000 U.S.-based journalists, a majority are highly concerned about potential restraints on press freedoms at home, with 33% being “extremely” so; 24% “very,” and 23% “somewhat.” Eleven percent were concerned “a little,” with a mere nine percent, “not at all.” The concerns are supported by the fact the U.S. ranks only 42 worldwide for press freedom per Reporters Without Borders.

We could select June 5th as the day the U.S. celebrates press freedom. The day marks the anniversary of whistleblower (and Freedom of the Press Foundation board member) Edward Snowden’s astonishing revelations of likely unconstitutional warrantless indiscriminate mass surveillance of innocent Americans by the unrestrained National Security Agency. (This year was the tenth anniversary of the revelations.) It was the press that Snowden sought to help blow the whistle, most specifically, The Guardian and The Washington Post. Their journalists did their jobs judiciously and fervently, leaving Americans stunned. 

These newspapers have since changed editorially and Americans have seemingly forgotten about N.S.A. transgressions. New laws have barely scratched the surface in establishing any limiting principles on these unwarranted warrantless searches that sound an awful lot like strictly unconstitutional general warrants. How quickly we forget! How surely we shouldn’t ever forget. To that end, the government must declassify much more than it does, repeal Sec. 702 of FISA, enact the PRESS Act, and designate a day to honor and promote elusive press freedom here at home.

Nuclear, Biological, Chemical, and Conventional Weapons Everywhere. Oh My!

FOR YEARS, THE U.S. AND ITS ERSTWHILE PARTNERS have been wringing their hands over the inevitable Manhattan Project that Iran was pursuing. Tehran’s nuclear ambition was insatiable and weapons-grade uranium was said to be imminent. Today, there appears to be evidence it is true. 

A report released by the International Atomic Energy Agency (the U.N. watchdog)  was leaked on Tuesday which said IAEA inspectors found 83.7% enriched uranium in the Islamic State’s Fordo underground nuclear site near the holy Shiite city of Qom, 55 miles southwest of Tehran. Weapons grade is 90%. The report did not specify the number of particles found, but confirmed Iran is not stockpiling uranium enriched beyond 60% purity, used for a nuclear power plant to produce electricity. 

Naturally, Iran denies any desire to create weapons-grade uranium, saying the 83.7% particles may have formed accidentally during ‘cascade configuration,’ which caused “unintended fluctuations” in enrichment levels. So far, the IAEA buys the explanation, but if configuring ‘a cascade’ can generate enrichment to 83.7%, it sounds as though the mullahs are onto something hot. 

Yet on Sunday, C.I.A. Director William Burns told CBS News‘ “Face the Nation”that Iran is “not resuming” its nuclear weapons program. For decades, Tehran has denied trying to use uranium for anything other than peaceful purposes, so the admission by Burns was novel coming from Langley. 

In 2018, 45th President Donald Trump withdrew from a hastily negotiated and poorly drafted nuclear treaty with Iran. That treaty had been made between then-Secretary of State John Kerry, under the Barack Obama administration, and Iranian diplomat Mohammad Javad Zarif, during 2015 Iran nuclear talks in Vienna. 

Since then, Biden waived sanctions against Iran, but has been unwilling or unable to renegotiate a sensible treaty with the Supreme Leader, despite overtures from the Islamic government to do so. The spooky question is begged as to whose interests are advanced by this leak, as well as from Burns’ admission.

On Monday, reports that the Covid pandemic originated from a lab leak at the Wuhan virology lab were bandied about by the Dept. of Energy as if it was news. Recently the F.B.I., too, reached this conclusion. It isn’t. But at least it’s not repeating the World Health Organization’s and others’ propaganda that a lab leak was “highly unlikely.” The roughly 83.7% with an IQ higher than Biden’s have known the virus came from the Wuhan lab for years. Some have further suggested it wasn’t a lab leak, but an intentional weapon released by the C.C.P., presumably to cause economic turmoil throughout the world (which it certainly did in spades.) 

Yet others have been quick to claim the Pentagon and C.I.A. were behind the viral pandemic by funding the gain-of-function research that produced it. Until a vigorous investigation is concluded and more data released to the public, it is hard to tell what is really true, but I would not be surprised to learn that the C.C.P. weaponized the virus, engineered illegally using Pentagon funds and/or other U.S. taxpayer money, and either intentionally or accidentally released it, causing a worldwide disaster. U.S. and allied intelligence probably figured it out and realized they shouldn’t let this good opportunity go to waste in tyrannizing, locking down, and controlling their populations. And, as luck would have it, it was election time in the U.S. 

No one pays attention to Syria anymore, but earlier this month, Russia claimed a chemical attack blamed on Syria in Douma (slightly northeast of Damascus) in 2018 was a political hit piece by a chemical weapons watchdog, Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, to rationalize continued military aggression by the West against the Syrian government. Syria has been blamed for such attacks with some regularity for years, but accusations are, at best, below the fold, or at worst, buried in the classified section these days. It’s Ukraine all the time now.

The one-year anniversary of the Russian incursion into Ukraine was marked by the regime in Washington, D.C. by announcing another $2 billion arms package for conventional weapons for the corrupt nation, along with more sanctions targeting Russia. For now, Joey Biden won’t send them F-16 fighter jets, but may do so later. 

And finally, on Monday, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen visited Ukraine with a promise of $10 billion from U.S. taxpayers to fund the government in Kyiv for government services and pensions for…Ukrainians.

Lucky for the world, the IAEA has publicly released a report on nuclear safety in Ukraine. The gist of the 52-page report (here) is that they’re on the case. Whew! The Military Industrial Complex is alive and well.

Untethered to Reality

ON TUESDAY, JOE BIDEN, illegitimate sometimes-occupant of the White House, will deliver his State of the Union address. Anyone even remotely tethered to reality can tell you the state of the union is not good, but Biden is never, ever constrained by reality. The Federalist has devised a list of what’s a disaster. It isn’t inclusive, but it’s a good start. Here we go.

First, the economy is “in shambles.” Second, the southern border is nonexistent. Third, taxpayers are burdened with payments (without oversight) to corrupt Ukraine to engage in a proxy war with Russia. Fourth, our other borders have been breached by Red China, which owns the compromised, corrupt WH occupant. Moreover, there is a consensus that Biden himself is responsible for this.  Seventy-one percent believe the country is on the wrong track. Four in 10, the most in 27 years, claim to be financially worse off now compared to before Biden was installed, according to an ABC News/Washington Post poll. Only 37 percent of Democrats even want Biden to seek reelection in 2024. Polls aren’t necessary to show just how bad things are, however. 

We can expect Biden to boast the economy is roaring back, but it isn’t. Inflation is at rates not seen for decades, especially for food and other necessary purchases. Eggs, for example, are now up 60 percent from 2021, and gas, which has only recently come down, is still well above $3/gallon. Inflation, costing American households $6.8 trillion in 2022 alone, falls squarely on Biden’s failed policies. That the annual interest payment on government debt is now $850 billion and growing only ensures things won’t get better any time soon. 

The border is also solely Biden’s fault. In fact, despite alarmed calls to do so, he didn’t even visit the border until this Jan., and it was only to El Paso, where it had been cleared in advance. But his promise to let illegal aliens in has caused a veritable invasion of foreigners, way too many of whom are human traffickers, drug cartels, drug smugglers, child abusers, prior deportees, and miscellaneous criminals along with the others ‘just looking for a better life’ on American taxpayer’s backs. The numbers are unprecedented and are not letting up. 

Biden will ignore the money pit Ukraine has become $113 billion U.S. into the proxy war. He will keep on giving and giving to his launderer, Volodymyr Zelensky, to pay him back for dirty money funneled to Biden’s son. Or that he’s agreed to sent longer-range missiles to Ukraine, just to piss off Russia. He won’t tell us how much he’ll squander to fund Ukraine as promised for “as long as it takes.” He won’t say how close we are to WWIII, which will almost surely go nuclear. Biden will gloss over the Chinese spy balloon, but no one can possibly say Biden has been tough on China, our single-most dangerous foreign policy threat. In fact, he sold our emergency oil reserves to his son’s pals at a Chinese state-controlled gas company before begging the Saudis to pump more oil for the CCP. And that we’ll be at war with China by 2025, according to his own people.

Then, The Federalist predicts, Biden will try to persuade Americans he is a ‘moderate’ and a ‘unifier.” He is neither, of course, using the divide-and-conquer method of advancing very radical and dangerous policies. 

I’d just add Biden will talk about his success ‘beating’ Covid, a favorite boogeyman, as well as ‘Big Pharma,’ no matter how inconsistent the claims are. He will also brag about giving away free college educations to some who refuse to pay back their debts. 

Biden won’t say that almost everything we’re being told about Ukraine and Covid is just an official narrative, and not true. He won’t say that our elections are compromised by techniques mastered by the Democrats, and the G.O.P. probably won’t win again without their consent.  He won’t say electric vehicles and all this other ‘green’ shit, are meant to be an important step in further control of the hoi polloi by an increasingly fascist government. He won’t say the world economy, as well as our own, is being controlled to produce results the U.N. and W.E.F. desire. He won’t say our country is under attack, not just by China, but from the inside, with fascistic deep staters looking to limit our constitutional rights and economic freedom.  He won’t say governments around the world are aiming for a one-world government where food shortages and other ‘inconveniences’ are contrived to ensure conformity and obedience to the overlords. And he won’t say that the one-world government has ‘partners,’ to wit, Big Tech, Big Pharma, Big Defense, Big Biz, and anything else that may serve their purpose. Lastly, he won’t tell you polls show he is beyond his prime and that Trump has surged in a new 2024 poll and could win if the election isn’t rigged. 

If that all sounds cynical or paranoid, just remember, this is the Covidean Era, where the weirder it is, the truer it is, even if it isn’t. Which is why Biden will get away with all his corruption: we just aren’t that tethered to reality.

Dutch Treat

THE STRANGEST THING is happening to Dutch farmers. Their government last week closed about 3,000 farms because owners aren’t complying with onerous, nonsensical rules that have been imposed by Brussels to combat the ‘global warming’ and climate changing boogeyman. Yeah, Brussels, not Amsterdam, because…New World Order and Great Reset. The farmers protested to no avail, except to get an agricultural minister to resign. Canadian farmers even protested in support of their brethren across the Atlantic. 

The Netherlands’ nitrous oxide and ammonia emissions are just too high for the European Union’s liking. It also happens to be the second-largest food exporter in the world. The European Court of Justice ordered the little nation to address those emissions back in 2018, which it did, or tried to. It reduced fertilizer use, stopped new construction, imposed speed limits, required ‘nitrogen permits,’ and other things that didn’t reduce emissions enough. Ultimately attributing the problem to livestock, it decided to engage in a forced buyout, and subsequent closure, of offending farms. Farmers were given the Hobson’s choice of ‘voluntarily’ complying with the E.U. climate rules, or having a compulsory buyout. 

Germany has since ordered its farmers to reduce their use of fertilizers to meet these same ‘green’ agenda goals. Just as the U.S. has seen dramatic increases in the price food, so, too, has Europe. The continent experienced a 17.26 percent year-over-year increase in October, the latest statistic available. One wonders what Brussels has in mind to fight famine. Combined food and energy crises cannot end well, yet the E.U. is bracing for both. These problems are, however, largely self-imposed. And some might call that failure a ‘war against humanity.’

These measures won’t solve the problem. Someone, somewhere will have to produce food the nations need, whether it’s internal or external. Nearby nations that are less efficient at producing food will also have to get it elsewhere. And, there is transportation, which not only adds to the cost of food itself, but to those dreaded emissions, too. Not to worry, though, plans are underway to tax nitrogen emissions.It all seems quite futile. Unless, of course, they start eating bugs, which is the point according to the United Nations and World Economic Forum, organizations held in reverence by the E.U.