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Sunday, September 27th, 2020
In Addition to the article, also included is a One America News video interview of Lee Smith, the author of the article, where he warns of domestic violence if President Trump wins the election.
AMERICA’S CHINA CLASS LAUNCHES A NEW WAR AGAINST TRUMP
The corporate, tech and media elites will not allow the president to come between them and Chinese money
Chances are that by the time you get to the end of this article, there will be news of another information operation targeting Donald Trump. There’s one a day now—each trumpeting a new mortal threat to the republic or some dastardly revelation based on sources that are usually anonymous. Whatever it is, it will serve the same purpose as the hundreds of similar sallies launched over the last four years—namely, to preserve and protect the position and privileges of America’s ruling elite.
Trump stories are rarely about Trump. The same stories, or versions of them, would have targeted anyone who threatened to sever the American political, corporate, and cultural elite’s economic lifeline to the Chinese Communist Party. It is largely because Trump sought to decouple the United States from the CCP that America’s China Class, which owns the platforms on which Americans communicate, has waged a relentless campaign of information warfare against him through its social media and prestige media brands.
Consider the last two anti-Trump info ops: He gratuitously denigrated the historical suffering of African Americans, and he expressed contempt for America’s war dead. These are the sort of false allegations that political operatives are tasked to manufacture and disseminate during election season. Their purpose is to reinforce a negative impression of the opposing party among whatever cohort is being addressed, and make the target spend resources—time and money and sometimes blood—on defense. That’s politics 101, since the time of the Romans.
What’s new is that this is now journalism too. Since the internet defunded the press at the end of the 20th century and social media became the dominant player in America’s information space, journalism has abandoned the traditional standards and practices that once defined reporting. For instance, the smear holding that Trump is contemptuous of the military was supposedly based on four anonymous sources recalling exchanges from three years ago, which have been contradicted by dozens of named sources, some of whom were physically present when the comments were supposedly made—and some of whom have been public Trump opponents. In traditional journalistic terms, that’s not a news story—that’s a failed attack line.
The press that existed in America from the end of the 19th century until the turn of this one was designed to inform, influence, and sometimes inspire or inflame fellow citizens. But for people under 30, the only kind of “journalism” they’ve ever known is more like Pravda in the old Soviet Union or the kinds of party media found throughout the Third World. Journalism is an insider’s game, in which the stories are often outlandish, but rarely true; their actual news value is the hints they may offer about shadowy maneuverings that affect people’s lives but take place out of public view, like the rise or fall of a particular colonel who is pictured standing closer to or farther away from El Caudillo or Al Rais. Stories aren’t about the realities they purport to depict; the real stories are always the stories about the story.
American journalists, who now draw their paychecks directly and indirectly from the country’s largest economic interest—technopolies like Amazon, Apple, Google, and Facebook—are now turning the public sphere into a phantasmagoria of conspiracy theories and hysteria to cement the politburo’s position and privilege.
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Saturday, September 26th, 2020
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
Obamacare’s mandate didn’t work and wasn’t needed, yet Joe Biden wants to bring it back
| September 17, 2020 Editorial
Joe Biden, as part of his campaign to revive the Obama years and be the anti-President Trump, has repeatedly vowed to bring back one of the least popular policies of the prior administration: the individual mandate.
The requirement forcing individuals to purchase health insurance under the threat of a penalty was already the subject of one high-stakes Supreme Court case. It is about to be at the center of another. But in practice, it has proven to be completely ineffective.
When Obamacare was first being debated, most healthcare experts believed it was necessary to include a requirement to purchase insurance, so as to corral young and healthy individuals into the insurance market and offset the cost of forcing insurers to cover those with preexisting conditions. Absent the mandate, the logic went, only sick people would purchase insurance, and insurers would find it impossible to continue operating, leading to a so-called death spiral of insurers leaving the market.
Though Barack Obama himself famously opposed the mandate in his 2008 campaign, he flip-flopped under pressure from healthcare experts, the insurance lobby, and the Congressional Budget Office, which warned that the price tag of any healthcare legislation would be much higher without the mandate.
The CBO’s belief in the importance of the mandate has also had dramatic policy implications during the Trump administration. It effectively tanked the effort to repeal Obamacare because all Republican plans called for the elimination of the mandate, which the CBO predicted would alone lead to 13 million people losing coverage. Projections of massive coverage losses gave pause to centrist Republicans and doomed the repeal effort.
It turns out, however, that the mandate did very little. Although lived experience has shown this to be true for years, forcing even the CBO to change its tune, this fact was further confirmed with a new report from the Census Bureau, which conducts the most widely cited survey on health insurance coverage in the United States.
What the Census data shows is that in 2019, which is the first year without the mandate’s penalties in effect, 92% of people had health insurance for at least part of the year — compared to 91.5% in 2018, the last year with the mandate in place. In other words, insurance coverage went up slightly despite the elimination of the mandate.
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Saturday, September 26th, 2020
VIDEO – LOU DOBBS AND TOM FITTON ON NEWLY RELEASED FBI REPORTS – SEPTEMBER 24, 2020
Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton talks to FOX Business’ Lou Dobbs about the Mueller team investigation and General Michael Flynn.
VIDEO – TUCKER CARLSON – THE BAIL PROJECT SEPTEMBER 25, 2020
The Bail Project has paid more than $26 million in bail. The group says it has bailed out more than 12,000 suspected criminals. Who are these people? They’re people like Samuel Lee Scott of Chicago. Scott was in jail facing assault charges for punching his wife. After he hit her, he reportedly said he, quote, “might as well finish what (he) started since (she) was going to contact the police.” The Bail Project then came to the rescue. Hours after the group sprung him from jail, Scott allegedly beat his wife to death.
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Sunday, September 20th, 2020
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
I Was Never Trump. Not Anymore.
He has weaknesses, but his presidency has been successful.
By Michael I. Krauss Mr. Krauss is a professor emeritus of law at George Mason University. September 3, 2020
In 2016 I wrote in the name of Rep. Paul Ryan for president. I knew that the policies Hillary Clinton advocated were detrimental to the nation, but I simply couldn’t bring myself to vote for her rival. I found Donald Trump boorish and misogynistic, and I was dumbfounded that he had captured the GOP nomination. When the dust settled in November 2016, I was glad Mrs. Clinton was defeated. But I winced whenever I heard the president-elect speak.
Back then I thought I was a Never Trumper. Now I realize I was wrong. If the election took place today, I would vote to re-elect President Trump.
I still find Mr. Trump’s style grating, and I cringe at his narcissism. Some of his junior subordinates are wanting in talent or experience. His friendliness with the dictators of Russia and North Korea is wrong-headed, even dangerous. As for ethics, I believe he hasn’t sufficiently ensured that his hotel empire derives no profit from hosting U.S. and foreign government officials. And I think the president clearly doesn’t understand the principle of mutual gains from trade.
Notwithstanding these weaknesses, I believe that the Trump presidency has been, to a large extent, successful. Mr. Trump survived a politicized, even somewhat corrupt impeachment campaign. He has confronted a once-in-a-century virus of foreign origin in good faith and with candor. Despite often-contemptuous hostility by the elite press, and outright civil disobedience by several federal judges, the president has performed his duties and genuinely tried to keep his promises.
He not only insisted that immigration conform to the rule of law, but advocated for and (where legally permitted) built a border wall. The president has appointed more than 200 federal judges, most of whom are superb and committed to finding the law, not making it up. He has followed through on his promise to reduce taxes and to begin deregulating the economy, creating a remarkable boom that reduced unemployment for minorities to the lowest rates ever recorded.
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Saturday, September 19th, 2020
VIDEO – AS FAR AS I CAN SEE – THE VIEW OF AN ENGLISHMAN
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Friday, September 18th, 2020
After 9/11, Biden Wanted to Send $200 Million to Islamic Terrorists
SEP 15, 2020 9:00 AM BY DANIEL GREENFIELD
“This,” Joe Biden announces, “is what I’ve spent my entire adult life preparing for.” It’s exactly three Tuesdays since the September attacks, and Biden is presiding over a morning meeting of his committee staffers…
At the Tuesday-morning meeting with committee staffers, Biden launches into a stream-of-consciousness monologue about what his committee should be doing, before he finally admits the obvious: “I’m groping here.”
Then he hits on an idea: America needs to show the Arab world that we’re not bent on its destruction. “Seems to me this would be a good time to send, no strings attached, a check for $200 million to Iran,” Biden declares.
Biden’s response to an attack by Islamic terrorists was a proposal to send $200 million to Islamic terrorists. The Obama-Biden administration topped that be sending billions to Iran. And Biden’s campaign platform calls for going back to those days.
But this is the same Joe Biden who threatened to impeach Bush if he tried to take out Iran’s nukes.
Waging a presidential campaign amid rising tensions with Iran 12 years ago, Joe Biden, then a senator from Delaware, had a warning for President George W. Bush should he decide to take military action without congressional authorization.
“I want it on the record, and I want to make it clear,” Biden said. “If he does, I will move to impeach him.”
And around whom allegations of Iranian funding have lingered.
Kaveh Mohseni, a spokesman for the Student Movement Coordination Committee for Democracy in Iran, calls Biden “a great friend of the mullahs.” He notes that Bidens election campaigns “have been financed by Islamic charities of the Iranian regime based in California and by the Silicon Iran network,” a loosely-knit group of wealthy Iranian-American businessmen and women seeking to end the U.S. trade embargo on Iran. “In exchange, the senator does his best to aid the mullahs,” Mohseni argues. Biden’s ties to pro-Tehran lobbying groups are no secret.
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Thursday, September 17th, 2020
VIDEO – TUCKER CARLSON – SEPTEMBER 17, 2020
Tucker Carlson: US health officials ignored evidence coronavirus was intentionally created
Sep. 17, 2020 – 13:35 – Tucker Carlson monologue on coronavirus.
VIDEO – What we learned about the virus and time to end the lockdown.
Dr Scott Atlas is the Robert Wesson Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution
Interviewed by Peter Robinson of the Hoover Institution
Posted in China, Coronavirus, Demographics, Dr Fauci, Economy, Education, Election 2020, Free Speech, Hydroxychloroquine, Legal Issues, Liberalism, Progressive Movement, Resistance, Social Media, Totalitarian, Transparency, Tucker Carlson, Videos, Women's Issues | No Comments »
Thursday, September 17th, 2020
Fox News’s reporting on some important subjects in the last few years has been greatly curtailed. I’ve started watching One America News, especially for more international news that Fox does not seem to cover extensively anymore. If you subscribe to DirectTV, you can find One America News at 347. Nancy
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VIDEO: FOX NEW HOST SLAMS ON THE BRAKES WHEN NEWT GINGRICH MENTIONS GEORGE SOROS IN BIZARRE SEGMENT
September 16, 2020
Video of a bizarre moment on Fox News captured a host slamming on the brakes when Newt Gingrich said that billionaire financier George Soros was supporting efforts behind the Black Lives Matter protests.
The interaction resulted in a long awkward silence from hosts Harris Faulkner and Melissa Francis during “Outnumbered” on Wednesday.
“The number one problem in almost all these cities is George Soros-elected, left-wing, anti-police, pro-criminal district attorneys who refuse to keep people locked up,” Gingrich said.
“Both [Kamala] Harris and [Joe] Biden have talked very proudly about what they call progressive district attorneys. Progressive district attorneys are anti-police, pro-criminal, and overwhelmingly elected with George Soros’s money. And they are a major cause of the violence we are seeing because they keep putting the violent criminals back on the street,” he added.
“I’m not sure we need to bring George Soros into this,” interrupted Francis.
“He paid for it,” responded Gingrich.
“No he didn’t,” said Democratic strategist Marie Harf. “I agree with Melissa, George Soros doesn’t need to be part of this conversation.”
“OK?” said Gingrich, puzzled. “So it’s verboten?”
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Wednesday, September 16th, 2020
Its been an amazing past few weeks of watching the first couple of middle east countries come to normalize relations with Israel. In fact, today as I was watching the DOW drop from its highs of the day to negative territory moments before the close, President Trump hinted that Saudi Arabia might soon be joining these countries in recognizing Israel. The DOW went from negative to positive territory in a matter of a minute or two. A very good omen of things to come – a possible Nobel Peace prize for our president ! Nancy
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
The Long Road to Israel’s Very Good Month
The Jewish state has become too valuable to the Arab world to be treated as a pariah.
by Walter Russell Mead September 15, 2020
Not since May 1948, when both the U.S. and the Soviet Union recognized the state of Israel in the critical weeks of its war for independence, has Israel had a diplomatic month like this. On Aug. 13, the United Arab Emirates and Israel signed an agreement to normalize relations, with the formal ceremony to be held Tuesday in Washington with President Trump. On Sept. 11, Bahrain followed suit. The Palestinian Authority, holding the rotating chair of the Arab League, introduced a resolution condemning the U.A.E. move at a Zoom session of Arab foreign ministers, but in a shocking departure from past practice, the motion failed to pass. On Sept. 13 another Arab nation, Oman, issued a statement of support for Bahrain’s decision to normalize relations.
Meanwhile, defying pressure from the European Union and in exchange for Israeli recognition of Kosovo’s independence, Kosovo became the first Muslim-majority country in the world to agree to place an embassy in Jerusalem in another Trump-brokered deal. (The status of a similar pledge from Serbia isn’t clear.)
With Saudi Arabia allowing flights from Israel to the U.A.E. to pass over its territory and Morocco reported to be close to allowing direct flights to the Jewish state, something of a tipping point seems to have been reached in the Middle East. Resentment of Zionism and sympathy for the Palestinians will no longer be allowed to interfere with what embattled Arab rulers see as a vital relationship.
These changes are evolutionary rather than revolutionary. Arab opposition to Israel’s existence has never been as unanimous or implacable as casual observers sometimes assume. Geopolitically, conservative Arab states have long understood that their interests and Israel’s are connected.
The strongest force in international politics is driving the change: fear. The Arab world as a whole is confronting its greatest crisis since the collapse of the Ottoman Empire. Iraq and Syria, once pillars of Arab nationalism and strength, can barely hold themselves together. Yemen and Libya are sunk in bitter civil wars. Egypt, whose economy is staggering as the pandemic slashes its income from tourism and trade, can barely manage its own security, much less export stability to the rest of the Arab world. Lebanon, for so long a financial and cultural capital of the Arab world, suffers from a failing state and Hezbollah’s heavy hand.
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Wednesday, September 16th, 2020
VIDEO – PRAGER U – WHAT’S WRONG WITH WIND AND SOLAR?
September 14, 2020
Are wind, solar, and batteries the magical solutions to all our energy needs? Or do they come with too high a price? Mark Mills, Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, analyzes the true cost — both economic and environmental — of so-called green energy.
Posted in Big Government, Conservatism, Election 2020, Energy, Environmental Issues, Environmental Protection Agency-, Fracking, Global Warming, Green New Deal, Liberalism, Political Correctness, Progressive Movement, Radical Left, Sustainability, Transparency, Videos | No Comments »
