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THE IVY-LEAGUE ANTI-ISRAEL PROTEST MELTDOWN
Wednesday, April 24th, 2024
This is what the Far Left has sown and it has been festering and growing for many years. . Nancy
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
The Ivy League’s Anti-Israel Protest Meltdown
School officials reap what their politically monoculture faculties have sown.
April 22, 2024 by the Editorial board
Pro-Palestine supporters, some in tents, gather on the campus of Columbia University on Monday. PHOTO: SPENCER PLATT/GETTY IMAGES
Anyone who thinks concerns about antisemitism are overdone isn’t paying attention to the scenes at elite universities. Anti-Israel, antisemitic protests at Columbia, Yale and elsewhere are getting uglier, and it isn’t clear the progressives in charge of these institutions are up to the job of enforcing order or protecting Jewish students.
At Columbia in New York City, pro-Palestinian demonstrators have surrounded Jewish students to push them from a protest camp dominating the campus lawn. “Attention Everyone,” a voice says in a campus video, “Can I get everyone to form a human chain, we have a Zionist at the entrance of our encampment.”
The “Zionist” was a Jewish student whose friend wore a necklace with a Star of David, according to News Israel correspondent Neria Kraus. The Palestinian crowd followed the order to “slowly walk and take a step forward so we can push them out of the camp.”
Many protesters on and near campus wear masks or kaffiyehs to disguise their identities. Students have to walk through a gauntlet to get to class. The protesters carry banners calling to “Honor the Martyrs of Palestine” and a sign pointing to pro-Israel counterprotesters as “al-Qasam’s next targets.” Al-Qassam is the military wing of Hamas. That’s a call to kill Jews.
VIDEO – WHAT IS HAPPENING TO OUR COUNTRY?
Tuesday, April 23rd, 2024
A MUST WATCH !
VIDEO – Carl Higbie, a Newsmax host and a former U.S. Navy Seal , expresses his opinion regarding what is happening to our country !
FBI DIRECTOR WARNS OF CHINA CYBER ATTACKS
Sunday, April 21st, 2024
FBI Warns Chinese Hackers Are Poised to Hit US Infrastructure Anytime With ‘Devastating Blow’
‘Its plan is to land low blows against civilian infrastructure to try to induce panic,’ FBI Director Christopher Wray said.
FBI Director Christopher Wray testifies during a Senate Select Committee on Intelligence hearing on the “Annual Worldwide Threats Assessment” in the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill on March 11, 2024
FBI Director Christopher Wray said Thursday that hackers linked to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) have infiltrated America’s critical infrastructure and are biding their time as they wait for the right moment to strike a “devastating blow.”
Mr. Wray said in an April 18 speech at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, that the threats posed by China-sponsored hackers are no longer a matter that’s over the horizon but that “they’re upon us now.”
“A few years ago, we might have said China represents the most significant long-term threat,” he said. “That’s no longer the best way to describe the danger.”
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) assessed last year that the Chinese regime was busy building the capacity to deter American intervention in a looming crisis between China and Taiwan by 2027. But that timeline has been accelerated, Mr. Wray said, noting that some of the effects of the enormous CCP-backed hacking enterprise are already being felt today.
An ongoing Chinese hacking campaign known as Volt Typhoon has burrowed into numerous U.S. companies in various critical sectors including telecommunications, energy, and water, with 23 pipeline operators targeted, Mr. Wray said. With a hacking program that is larger than every other major nation combined, China is developing the ability to physically attack critical U.S. infrastructure at a time of its choosing, he warned.
“Its plan is to land low blows against civilian infrastructure to try to induce panic,” he said.
VIDEO – TRUMP – A MAN DESTINED FOR THE TIMES WE LIVE IN
Sunday, April 21st, 2024
VIDEO – TRUMP – A MAN DESTINED FOR THE TIMES WE LIVE IN
Tom Klingenstein
@TomKlingenstein
Now that former President Trump is the Republican nominee for President in 2024, it’s time for Republicans, including those who doubt him or even can’t stand him, to get behind him. The times demand it.
WHY I’M VOTING FOR TRUMP
Wednesday, April 10th, 2024
Letters: What I tell my friends when they ask me why I’m voting for Trump (10/31/20)
Friends, why I support Trump
When friends ask me why I am voting for President Donald Trump, I tell them I’m not voting for a personality, but for policies I believe are best for our country.
• I’m voting for tax policies that keep businesses competitive globally and sustain employment growth and economic opportunity.
• I’m voting for judges who do not legislate from the bench.
• I’m voting for properly funded and trained police departments that protect all citizens regardless of color.
• I’m voting for an accountable and functional Veterans Administration.
• I’m voting for fair trade policies.
• I’m voting for logical immigration laws consistent with international best practices.
• I’m voting for peace through strength.
• I’m voting for all NATO nations to pay their share of the burden.
• I’m voting for peace in the Middle East and the protection of Israel
• I’m voting for the continued growth of natural gas through fracking and its positive impact on CO2 emissions.
• I’m voting for sensible abortion laws that protect life in late-term situations.
• I’m voting for the Electoral College, so California and New York do not control the election.
• I’m voting for a market-based health plan that promotes competition, protects pre-existing conditions and reduces cost.
I’m sorry my friends can’t get past hating a president with a disturbing personality but also with sound policies.
Henry Rissier, Silverthorne
GENERAL FLYNN SPEAKS OUT
Monday, April 8th, 2024PLEASE CLICK ON THE LINK TO VIEW THE 2 VIDEOS AND TO READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE
A documentary on Gen. Mike Flynn, former President Donald Trump’s National Security Advisor, will pop in late April featuring in-depth interviews with Flynn, Tucker Carlson, and more.
The documentary, Flynn: Deliver the Truth Whatever the Cost, will appear on various platforms in late April.
The documentary’s trailer, obtained exclusively by Breitbart News ahead of its public release, includes a snippet of a Flynn interview for the film and viewers can hear Carlson — the former Fox News host who now runs the Tucker Carlson Network where he produces major shows and conducts massive interviews — making it clear that when Trump hired Flynn he was the “most dangerous” person to the deep state. That, Carlson says in the trailer, is because Flynn “knew exactly how the system worked, he knew exactly what the intel world had been up to, and he understood its funding.”
Flynn, of course, joined Trump’s White House as the top official on national security matters — the National Security Advisor — after the billionaire shocked the world when he won the 2016 presidential election. Flynn was the Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) for two years during former President Barack Obama’s administration.
He was a U.S. Army Lieutenant General, and when Obama pushed him out of his administration he gravitated to Trump who was then running for president on the campaign trail and began speaking out loudly
against Democrats’ policies.
Flynn’s book in 2016, the Field of Fight, was critical reading to understand the major national security issues of the day in the battle against radical Islamic terrorism. In that period, of course, the Islamic State — or ISIS — had taken over significant territory in the Middle East and Flynn was one of the few officials in the national security arena who would tell Obama he was wrong and that ISIS could be defeated. Of course, Trump went on to swiftly and quickly destroy ISIS.
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When he entered the White House and joined Trump’s administration, Flynn was under assault from the outset by deep-state actors. Flynn was actually the first casualty of what would become many deep-state-inflicted attacks on Trump’s presidency. When Flynn went down at the beginning of Trump’s presidency, in February 2017, many who were aligned with the America First movement that Trump led believed things would only go downhill.
“There’s a moment I just felt like I was drowning,” Flynn says in the trailer. “So I’m in there with all these other political appointees. They’re all supposed to go in there and tell what they believe to be the truth. What they did was they took my assessment and they wanted me to change it. I was like, ‘I’m not changing it.’”
The interest in the Flynn documentary is already exploding online. For weeks now, it has been the number one DVD bestseller on Amazon — before the filmmakers did any major promotion or interviews — ahead of Hollywood blockbusters such as Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom or Oppenheimer. Flynn, a Scott Wiper production, is produced by Aquidneck Island Productions, LLC. The executive producers are Flynn and Victor Mellor.
Flynn will join Breitbart News Saturday on SiriusXM 125 the Patriot Channel at 10 a.m. Eastern this weekend for his first interview about the documentary.
Flynn will also be doing a live tour beginning in April promoting the film, and details for that and for preordering it are available on the film’s website.
In another teaser for the documentary, Flynn talks about if he has any regrets and says he does not.
“Is there any regrets you have in life?” Flynn asks. “I should sit here and say, ‘yeah, I got a lot of them. I got a lot of regrets.’ But when I look back on my life and I understand the lives that were lost, I mean, I’m sitting here with you and I can tell my story.”
“There was deep corruption, and Flynn was the first person I knew personally who was the recipient of that — I mean, how can you take out General Flynn?” Carlson says in another documentary clip obtained by Breitbart News. “He spent his life in the U.S. Army, he ascended to the top levels, how can you take him out? Is the system really so corrupt that you can take that guy out and destroy his life and try to send him to prison? That was hard for me to believe.”
BIDEN BLOCKS TRUMP FROM FIRING BUREAUCRATS
Friday, April 5th, 2024
I seem to remember Vivek saying that you can fire unwanted bureaucrats if you fire the entire department. I’m all for that !!! Thanks to Evelyn Kober for sharing this article with us. Nancy
Biden moves to block Trump, future presidents from firing bureaucrats
President Biden finalized new civil service protections on Thursday aimed at preventing the sort of bureaucratic housecleaning that former President Donald Trump plans, should he win reelection.
At stake are potentially tens of thousands of policymaking jobs across the government and the ability to have them follow the president’s direction or face firing.
That has become a top goal of Republicans after the deep state thwarted or watered down many of Mr. Trump’s initiatives. It also has become a chief fear of Democrats.
Mr. Biden said his rules would insulate employees from such political pressure by making it tougher to reclassify their jobs and then fire them.
“Day in and day out, career civil servants provide the expertise and continuity necessary for our democracy to function,” Mr. Biden said. “This rule is a step toward combatting corruption and partisan interference to ensure civil servants are able to focus on the most important task at hand: delivering for the American people.”
The rules shield federal workers from losing civil service protections if they are involuntarily moved into job classifications that lack those protections. The rules also create an appeals process for workers who are shifted.
The target is indisputably Mr. Trump, who issued an executive order late in his administration that could have allowed thousands of career civil service positions to be reclassified, making it easier to fire workers.
Mr. Trump said removing “poorly performing employees” who fell under civil service protections had become too difficult, so reclassifying them was a way to get better results from the bureaucracy.
Known as Schedule F, the order was aimed at positions that create policy. Trump officials said those jobs ought to be responsive to the president.
The National Treasury Employees Union, a major public-sector labor union that sued to block Schedule F, said it could have swept up “tens of thousands of frontline federal employees.”
Mr. Biden revoked Schedule F when he took office, derailing the lawsuit.
Mr. Trump has been eyeing a revival should he win the White House in November.
The new rule, finalized Thursday by the Office of Personnel Management, will make it tougher for Mr. Trump or another administration, but not impossible, to surmount.
To overcome a regulation, a president must either go through the rulemaking process again, which can take months or years, or persuade Congress to pass legislation.
James Sherk, who led the Trump administration’s civil service efforts, said the new regulations will be a speed bump but not a roadblock. He said the chief wrinkle is that writing the rules could give Mr. Trump’s opponents more room for court challenges to a policy.
Mr. Sherk said federal employees have long leaned to the left but appear to have skewed hard left since the Obama years, based on campaign donation data.
“In most agencies, the career employees are more liberal than 90% of Americans,” he said.
He released a report, “Tales From the Swamp,” highlighting areas where Trump plans were thwarted by the liberal ideological bent of bureaucrats.
Among them:
Georgia Election Board Member Testifies Signatures Weren’t Verified on 147,000 ballots in 2020 Election
Tuesday, April 2nd, 2024
Mark Wingate, who served on the Fulton County Board of Registration and Elections, testified on Monday that there was no signature verification done on Fulton County absentee ballots in the 2020 election.
Wingate is testifying in the D.C. disbarment trial of Trump Administration Department of Justice official Jeffrey Clark.
The Fulton County 2020 election should never have been certified because there was no signature verification done at all on absentee ballots, he said.
Joe Biden reportedly won Georgia by about 12,000 votes.
Wingate said he voted not to certify the 2020 election twice, adding that what concerned him was there were more voters on the active rolls than eligible, which continued after the 2020 election, and nothing was done to answer his questions about it. He requested chain of custody documentation and it was never turned over to him.
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AN INVASION OF SQUATTERS
Saturday, March 23rd, 2024
IMMIGRATION / MARCH 22, 2024
An Invasion of Squatters
The ugly reality of nine million illegal aliens could be coming to a neighborhood near you.