There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true. —Soren Kierkegaard. "…truth is true even if nobody believes it, and falsehood is false even if everybody believes it. That is why truth does not yield to opinion, fashion, numbers, office, or sincerity–it is simply true and that is the end of it" – Os Guinness, Time for Truth, pg.39. “He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God’s providence to lead him aright.” – Blaise Pascal. "There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily" – George Washington letter to Edmund Randolph — 1795. We live in a “post-truth” world. According to the dictionary, “post-truth” means, “relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief.” Simply put, we now live in a culture that seems to value experience and emotion more than truth. Truth will never go away no matter how hard one might wish. Going beyond the MSM idealogical opinion/bias and their low information tabloid reality show news with a distractional superficial focus on entertainment, sensationalism, emotionalism and activist reporting – this blogs goal is to, in some small way, put a plug in the broken dam of truth and save as many as possible from the consequences—temporal and eternal. "The further a society drifts from truth, the more it will hate those who speak it." – George Orwell “There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.” ― Soren Kierkegaard
This sermon was given by Dr. Tom Ascol on October 18, 2020 at Grace Baptist Church in Cape Coral, FL and is a part of his sermon series on Romans: The Grace of God in the Gospel.
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The Lord thy God in the midst of thee is mighty; he will save, he will rejoice over thee with joy; he will rest in his love, he will joy over thee with singing. (Zephaniah 3:17)
What a word is this! Jehovah God in the center of His people in all the majesty of His power! This presence alone suffices to inspire us with peace and hope. Treasures of boundless might are stored in our Jehovah, and He dwells in His church; therefore may His people shout for joy.
We not only have His presence, but He is engaged upon His choice work of salvation. “He will save.” He is always saving: He takes His name of Jesus from it. Let us not fear any danger, for He is mighty to save.
Nor is this all. He abides evermore the same, He saves, He finds rest in loving, He will not cease to love. His love gives Him joy. He even finds a theme for song in His beloved. This is exceedingly wonderful. When God wrought creation He did not sing but simply said, “It is very good”; but when He came to redemption, then the sacred Trinity felt a joy to be expressed in song, Think of it, and be astonished! Jehovah Jesus sings a marriage song over His chosen bride. She is to Him His love, His joy, His rest, His song. O Lord Jesus, by Thine immeasurable love to us teach us to love Thee, to rejoice in Thee, and to sing unto Thee our life-psalm.
A religion without love is an abomination to God. The church needs to learn that God desires love and compassion, not merely an adherence to ritual and sacrifice. Thus, Jesus said His Father’s house would be a “house of prayer for all the nations” (Mark 11:17). True prayer is born of love and comes in the midst of sin and need. It comes not to condemn, but to cover.
All nations sin. All cultures have seasons of moral decline and spiritual malaise. Yet these periods can become turning points if, in times of distress, intercessors cry to God for mercy. Thus, Christlike prayer brings redemption out of disaster.
The church is created not to fulfill God’s wrath, but to complete His mercy. Remember, we are called to be a “house of prayer for all…nations.” Consider passionately this phrase: “prayer for.” Jesus taught His disciples to “pray for” those who would persecute or mistreat them (Matthew5:44). When Job “prayed for” his friends, God fully restored him (Job 42:10). We are to “pray for the peace of Jerusalem” (Psalm 122:6), and “pray for” each other so that we may be healed (James 5:16). Paul wrote that God desires all men to be saved (1Timothy 2:4). Therefore, he urged “that entreaties and prayers…be made on behalf of all men, for kings and all who are in authority” (v. 1-2).
“But,” you argue, “my country (or city) is a modern manifestation of ancient Babylon.”
I don’t think so. But even if it were, when the Lord exiled Israel to Babylon, He didn’t order His people to judge and criticize their new cities. Rather, He commanded,
“Seek the welfare of the city where I have sent you…and pray to the Lord on its behalf; for in its welfare you will have welfare” (Jeremiah 29:7).
Time after time the scriptural command is to pray for, not against; to pray mercifully, not vindictively. God’s call is for prayer moved by compassion, not condemnation. Indeed, at its very essence, the nature of intercession is to appeal to God for forgiveness, and then redemption, to come to sinful people.
We have studied what is wrong with our society and can prove, with charts and surveys, the trends of iniquity, yet we have failed to appreciate the influence of the intercessions of Christ. We consider ourselves experts on the nature and cause of sin, but deny the nature and cause of Christ, which is redemption. My friends, being informed by the news media is in no way the same thing as being transformed into the nature of the Savior.
The media sees what is wrong with the world and exposes it; Christ saw what was wrong and died for it. Study Isaiah 53. It reveals in wondrous detail the Savior’s nature: Christ numbered Himself with the sinners (v. 12). He interceded for the transgressors (v. 12). He is “with us” and “for us” (Matthew 1:23; Romans 8:31), even when He is speaking to us of our iniquity.
God does not want us to be judgmental; He wants us prayer-mental. As instinctively as we have judged people, we should pray for them instead.
Nuremburg Trials for the White Coats Who Stoked the COVID Panic? Steve Deace Interviewed John Zmirak: You’ve co-authored a meticulously researched, fact-packed book with Daniel Horowitz, Rise of the Fourth Reich, about the public health dictatorship that was foisted on the public across the world on the pretext of the COVID panic. Are you overheating the rhetoric a little by invoking the Nazi precedent? please explain the Nuremburg Principles, how they came to be, and how the government response to COVID in the U.S. and elsewhere violated them?
Does Anyone Believe The Air Force’s Claim That AI Weapons Will Be Programmed With ‘Judeo-Christian’ Morality? Who would you trust more in a high-stress, high-stakes military excursion? A trained human soldier with the limitations of hunger, thirst, lack of sleep, and emotion—or a soulless, autonomous artificial intelligence system acting according to its programming? That’s a question militaries around the world—including the US military—are already facing as AI quickly advances into every industry. But the big question is this: who gets to do the programming?
US-Iran prisoner exchange could pave way to nuclear deal, according to NYT report The prisoner exchange between the United States and Iran is part of a larger framework of agreements that could lead to a nuclear deal between the two nations, Israeli defense officials told The New York Times. Under the deal announced on Thursday, the U.S. and Iran will reportedly both release five prisoners, while the U.S. will unfreeze $6 billion worth of Iranian assets, to be used for humanitarian purposes only. (yeah right)
The Pentagon just launched a generative AI task force Generative AI programs like ChatGPT and Google’s Bard have captivated public attention and lawmaker scrutiny, though so far the Pentagon has been reluctant to adopt them. But Thursday, the Defense Department announced a task force to understand how it might use such tools safely, reveal situations where it’s unsafe for the department to use them, and explore how countries like China might use generative AI to harm the United States.
Russia moves to boost army near Europe after NATO expansion Russia will boost its military forces near its borders with NATO states, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said as he lashed out at the U.S. and its allies for providing support to Ukraine. Shoigu told a meeting of defense officials Wednesday that “strengthening of troop formations” on Russia’s western borders was necessary in response to what he said was a buildup of forces by North Atlantic Treaty Organization countries.
$13 Billion For Ukrainians, $12 Billion For Devastated Hawaii Biden is expected to request $13 billion in emergency funding for… military support to Ukraine. And oh… emergency funds for Hawaii will be less, as Biden simultaneously approved $12 billion for federal disaster relief.
Another Massive Mystery Fire Strikes Moscow, This Time Just Miles From Putin’s Residence Another explosion and fire has rocked Moscow in the overnight hours, as a warehouse in Odintsovo, which lies west of Moscow, suffered reported explosions and was engulfed in flames. While no cause has as of yet been officially communicated, Russia’s defense ministry has this week said the military intercepted several waves of drones in past days,
US suicides hit an all-time high last year About 49,500 people took their own lives last year in the U.S., the highest number ever, according to new government data posted Thursday.
Drought-hit Panama Canal lets more unbooked ships pass in bid to ease queu The drought-hit Panama Canal has temporarily limited the number of new reserved passage slots to help ease a bottleneck of ships that are waiting to transit without reservations, the waterway’s authority said on Thursday.
Russia launches moon lander in race to find water on moon Russia launched its first moon-landing spacecraft in 47 years on Thursday, in a bid to be the first power to make a soft landing on the lunar south pole, a region believed to hold coveted deposits of water ice.
How bad are Iran’s supersonic cruise missile claims for Israel? Iran on Wednesday announced that it has the technology to build supersonic cruise missiles, leading to some wondering if Israel, and even some US Middle East interests, might now be in greater danger. Before dissecting what exactly the Islamic Republic really presented and how game-changing or not it is, the first thing we need to notice is that the key phrase here is “cruise missile” as opposed to “supersonic.”
Anheuser-Busch sells 8 drink brands to cannabis company in fallout from Bud Light boycott Anheuser-Busch InBev is selling off eight of its beer and drink brands to a cannabis company in the latest sign of financial woes brought on by a consumer revolt when iconic brand Bud Light decided to wade into gender politics. The news sparked a substantial backlash against the brand and its owners to the point that last month it fell out of the top 10 most popular beer brands in the United States.
Lakeville, Minnesota’s fastest growing city, bans smoking weed in public places The fastest growing city in Minnesota, and one of the fastest growing suburban communities in America, has banned the use of smokeable marijuana in its public spaces. And they’re doing it for the kids, according to city leaders. The Lakeville City Council voted this week to create a new ordinance that prohibits the smoking of cannabis and hemp in public places — including parks, streets, sidewalks and other outdoor spaces where people can gather. Violation of the new ordinance, which takes effect immediately, is a petty misdemeanor, punishable by a $300 ticket
US credit card debt tops $1 trillion, overall consumer debt little changed Americans borrowed more than ever on their credit cards in the last quarter, the New York Federal Reserve Bank said on Tuesday, with balances surpassing $1 trillion for the first time even as overall household debt loads were largely unchanged.
Worldcoin says will allow companies, governments to use its ID system Worldcoin will expand its operations to sign up more users globally and aims to allow other organisations to use its iris-scanning and identity-verifying technology, a senior manager for the company behind the project told Reuters.
Tainted Medication Fears Spur US Defense Department to Seek Outside Testing The US Department of Defense entered an agreement with Valisure, an independent lab that’s spotted dangerous chemicals in a variety of widely used pharma and consumer products, to test medications amid surging concerns about generic drug quality and shortages.
Spiritual Consequences of the Fake ‘Covid’ Vaccines Energy healers, massage therapists and craniosacral therapists in Germany, Switzerland and Austria have come together and pooled their experiences treating their vaccinated clients. They put it all in a book called Corona Vaccination from a Spiritual View
World Bank cuts funding for Uganda in response to new anti-sodomy law The World Bank has cut funding for Uganda in response to the African country’s strict anti-sodomy laws. In a statement released on August 8, the World Bank Group wrote, “Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Act fundamentally contradicts the World Bank Group’s values.”
Things are not looking good for UK’s Net Zero Zealots and offshore wind profiteers At the end of June, we wrote that things were not going as well for the Net Zero Zealots in Europe as hoped. However, the UK seemed hellbent on marching forwards, charging consumers for net zero schemes regardless of the costs. Now it seems, it is the UK’s turn to face the cold hard facts.
There Was No SARS Cov2 Disease, Just A Set of Symptoms and a Branding Campaign Dr. David Martin has been championed as a guy who has shown proof that “SARS was research developed by humans in the lab at the University of North Carolina and then weaponised and released to attack humans.” Now though, he has said that there is “no disease it was a set of symptoms and a branding campaign” Simplified he says, it is a fake virus that was merely used to convince many people to get injected.
“The policy or advantage of [immigration] taking place in a body (I mean the settling of them in a body) may be much questioned; for, by so doing, they retain the Language, habits and principles (good or bad) which they bring with them. Whereas by an intermixture with our people, they, or their descendants, get assimilated to our customs, measures and laws: in a word, soon become one people.” —George Washington (1794)
Fellow Patriots, on this day in 1924, newsreel footage showed presidential candidates for the first time. On camera: Calvin Coolidge and Robert M. La Follette. In today’s news, the president shows up on camera every day to lie to the American people. —Mark Alexander
Sanctuary states and cities weigh in on “solving” the migrant crisis.
Emmy Griffin
Democrat Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey was forced to declared a state of emergency because her state is overwhelmed with the number of migrants who need care and housing. It is a problem of her state’s own making.
As a “sanctuary state,” Massachusetts has seen an influx of 20,000 migrants this year. That’s an 80% increase from last year. In 2017, the state’s highest court refused to cooperate with U.S. immigration laws and declared that state court officers didn’t have the authority to detain migrants even if the illegal in question was named in a federal immigration request. Other sanctuary regulations soon followed, such as initiatives to help migrants delay deportation proceedings for years, allowing illegals to obtain non-commercial driver’s licenses, and allowing them to apply for state assistance programs to help pay for food. Massachusetts has made itself a haven for the illegal migrant. Those migrants are coming to where they will have the easiest time avoiding the law.
Almost humorously, Healey has resorted to asking hotels, landlords, and homeowners to open their doors for illegals.
New York City has also been griping about the struggles that come along with its own sanctimonious declaration of being a sanctuary city. Democrat Mayor Eric Adams’s current biggest complaint is that the immigration crisis is costing the city billions of dollars. He predicts that by the end of 2025, the dollar amount that will be spent on housing, feeding, and caring for the migrants in his city — should the flood of humanity keep rushing over the border and onto buses from Texas — would be around $12 billion.
Adams laughably and hypocritically blames border states for having “created a funnel” for illegals to come his way, and he wants Joe Biden to declare a state of emergency.
Illinois, another “sanctuary state,” is also taking measures to get migrants out of the shelters and into paying jobs. Democrat Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker just signed a bill that may even allow illegal migrants to become law enforcement officers. We’re sure the Chinese are loving this. They could set up a police station with some legitimacy in Illinois.
Here is the exact language from the bill:
…provides that an individual who is not a citizen but is legally authorized to work in the United States under federal law is authorized to apply for the position of police officer, subject to all requirements and limitations, other than citizenship, to which other applicants are subject.
Newsweek, of course, slapped a fact-check on people reporting on this insane new law, saying that it clearly only applies to illegals who have permits to work in the U.S. The question on any sane person’s mind is: How does that stipulation make it better? Foreign nationals arresting American citizens is a recipe for disaster. But that’s deep-blue Illinois for you.
Democrat New York Governor Kathy Hochul talked about allocating money to help the struggling NYC next fiscal year, inaccurately asserting, “This is a humanitarian crisis not of their own making.” It absolutely is a crisis of their own making. NYC officials made it their problem when they declared themselves a sanctuary city. Now they have a taste of what every border city goes through on a daily basis. Healey’s response is a little more reasonable. She has said, “This is a national issue that demands a national response.” The correct national response would be to secure the border. However, that isn’t going to happen under this president’s tender mercies.
The border is little better than a sieve at this point. Though illegal immigration numbers saw a slight decrease in June, the numbers are back to a 30% increase. According to Fox News, there are now 17 million illegals living in the United States. Yet the Biden administration is happy to brag about the slight drop in numbers at the end of Title 42 and hopes we don’t notice the newest migrant tent city cropping up down the street. President Joe Biden’s border is secure … just like Bidenomics is making us richer.
Biden is a derelict president who is intentionally allowing a full-scale invasion at our souther border, then continues to feed us all horse puckey about how numbers are down. He and his DHS secretary, Alejandro Mayorkas, should be impeached.
“I wish I hadn’t called it that,” the president said of the Inflation Reduction Act. You don’t say.
Nate Jackson
Joe Biden ignited the wildfire of inflation with his misnamed American Rescue Plan in early 2021. After calling inflation transitory and refusing to take responsibility for it rising to four-decade highs, Biden pushed the Inflation Reduction Act. Needless to say, it didn’t live up to its name, and he’s now [checks notes] admitting it.
“I wish I hadn’t called it that,” Biden confessed to reporters yesterday. “It has less to do with reducing inflation than it does providing for alternatives that generate economic growth.” That last part is a bald-faced lie. Biden’s boondoggle isn’t about economic growth but about fueling the so-called green energy radical leftists favor. See the stories we covered just this week about failed wind power and the slave-powered industries of solar panels and electric vehicles.
Nevertheless, even the senile Biden must’ve somehow realized the inconvenience of his confession because he continued, “We’re now in a situation where if you take a look at what we’re doing in the Inflation Reduction Act, we’re literally reducing the cost of people being able to make their — meet their basic needs.”
Lies. Filthy lies.
In promoting the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act, Biden boldly claimed: “The Inflation Reduction Act is the strongest bill you can pass. It will lower inflation, cut the deficit, reduce healthcare costs, tackle the climate crisis, and promote energy security.” What couldn’t it do?
Well, here we are a year later, and inflation is a persistent problem. The annual rate of inflation actually went back up to 3.2% in July from 3.0% in June, which breaks a trend of the pace gradually slowing since its high of 9.1% in June 2022. Producer prices went up even more in July, which is a bad sign for future inflation.
The bigger and more important number, however, is what inflation has done since Biden took office, and it ain’t pretty.
16.9% — that’s the rate of cumulative inflation since January 2021.
In other words, it’s not the monthly number that matters, but the increasingly crushing burden of the last two and a half years of rising prices.
And even that cumulative number is just on the wider basket of goods. It’s even higher on many grocery staple items, as well as cars, gasoline, and homes. That’s evident by looking at year-over-year numbers or comparing various prices to those in January 2021. For example, eating out costs 7.1% more than last year, and transportation services like airfare are up 9%. A gallon of gas is about 60% higher than the day Biden took office and it’s rising again. Yes, it’s fallen since last year, but that’s hardly an achievement given that last June gas was 110% higher than Inauguration Day.
Meanwhile, Americans have taken an effective pay cut because real wages are lower than when Biden took office. Savings are decimated. Credit card balances are higher than ever. Cars and homes are unaffordable — and even if you’re not in the market for them, related taxes and insurance are going way up as a result of soaring prices. Just staying in your home is increasingly unaffordable.
Not to worry. According to Joe Biden, “Bidenomics is just another way of saying restoring the American Dream.” Our dream is that Bidenomics will soon be consigned to the trash bin of history.
U.S agrees to prisoner swap extortion, peddling the Michael Brown lie, guns for Hunter, and more.
Thomas Gallatin & Jordan Candler
Cross-Examination
U.S agrees to $6 billion prisoner swap extortion: In a deal to free five Americans imprisoned in Iran on bogus charges, Joe Biden has agreed to a deal to release $6 billion of frozen Iranian assets and several Iranians serving prison sentences in the U.S. The imprisoned Iranians were sentenced for violating sanctions against Iran. According to the National Security Council, the five Americans have been moved out of prison and are being held under house arrest in Tehran awaiting the finalizing of the agreement, which isn’t the first pallet load of cash we’ve sent to the mullahs. The deal has not yet been completed, leaving open the possibility of Iran acting to seek even more concessions from Biden.
Still peddling the Michael Brown lie: Demonstrating that for the radical left, narrative matters more than the truth, on Wednesday, which was the nine-year anniversary of Michael Brown’s death after he attacked Ferguson Police Officer Darren Wilson, Democrat Representative Cori Bush said: “He would be alive today if the institutions of racism and white supremacy were eradicated. He should be alive today. We will never forget. We will continue to fight for justice and accountability.” Nope. Even Barack Obama’s Justice Department determined that Brown was at fault. But for the race-hustling Cori Bush, pushing the lie helps further the false narrative of systemic racism. It’s all about political power, not truth.
Guns for Hunter: A federal law that bans the possession of a firearm for anyone who is a “user of or addicted to any controlled substance” has been voided by the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals on the grounds that it violated the Second Amendment. The case in question, U.S. v. Daniels, involved the arrest and conviction of Patrick Daniels last year after his vehicle was searched by law enforcement officers, who found marijuana and two loaded guns. This ruling has significant implications for Hunter Biden and his charge for illegal gun possession. As in Daniels, under the now-voided law, due to his drug addiction issues Hunter was not allowed to posses a firearm. The question is, will the court’s decision get Hunter off the hook on the charge?
Lost IRS data: A report released last week from the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration found that the IRS has not been “adequately” protecting taxpayers’ information. The report focused on the IRS’s shipping process, wherein taxpayer data when being transferred between facilities has been lost. “Our review identified that the IRS is not adhering to its own internal guidelines when sending large volumes of sensitive taxpayer information to and from its Tax Processing Centers,” the report states. “As a result, the IRS is unable to identify, notify, and/or offer protection to taxpayers when sensitive tax information is lost in the mail and at risk for potential identity theft.” Making matters worse, because the IRS has lost this tax information, the agency says it doesn’t even know the identities of the taxpayers whose information has been compromised and so it cannot notify them. And this is the agency Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act has just given $80 billion in new taxpayer funding.
Squeezing China: Upwards of 70% of more than 400 import items that China depends on, from luxury goods to raw materials for its industries, come from the U.S. and our allies. These essential goods represent a value of some $47 billion annually. For example, China imports nearly all the silver powder it uses in building solar panels. Furthermore, 86% of the nickel used for its battery manufacturing industry is imported from Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom. The U.S. provides almost two-thirds of the sorghum grain China uses to make its traditional “baijiu” alcohol. The point is, with Beijing increasingly engaging in a global economic pressure game to get more nations to bend to its agenda, the U.S. and our allies are in a prime position to offer correcting measures and squeeze back. The challenge is convincing all America’s allies to work together as one to counter China.
San Fran’s 💩 tour: For fans of the dystopian genre, a chance to get a real-life tour has recently presented itself. Dubbed the “Downtown Doom Loop Walking Tour,” some creative entrepreneur is advertising a guided tour of the worst of San Francisco. “You’ve read the headlines, you’ve seen the Tweets, now get close and personal to the Doom and Squalor of downtown San Francisco,” reads the ad. At $30 a pop, a tour is scheduled for Saturday, August 26, during which tourists will trek over a mile and a half route through Mid-Market, the Tenderloin District, and Union Square. “Sneakers advised,” the ad reads, although we’re wondering if knee-high rubber boots would be a better choice. There is debate as to whether this tour is real or just a joke. Either way, locals aren’t too happy about it, with one community leader grousing that it’s “not really productive” and is “harmful to walk around showing all the bad without any proposed solution.”
Headlines
J6 Committee failed to preserve records, has no data on Capitol Hill security failures, GOP charges (Fox News)
Maui fire death toll “very likely” will “significantly exceed” 60+ people, 1,700+ buildings destroyed, governor says (Daily Wire)
“Trust the science”: Study retractions up 13,650% in 22 years (National Pulse)
Satire: Democrats say it’ll take a lot more than eyewitness testimony, bank records, audio, video, complete confessions for them to believe Biden did anything wrong (Babylon Bee)
It should’ve been a slam-dunk civil trial, but the antifa-controlled city of Portland had other ideas.
Douglas Andrews
We all remember the attack (language warning). How could we forget it? How could we forget such a vile and cowardly act of mob violence against a single unarmed man — and a journalist, no less?
“I was chased, attacked and beaten by a masked mob, baying for my blood,” Andy Ngo wrote five days after the assault, which took place on the one-year anniversary of Portland’s George Floyd protest. “Had I not been able to shelter wounded and bleeding inside a hotel while they beat the doors and windows like animals, there is no doubt in my mind I would not be here today.”
The George Floyd affiliation is a clever one because it has helped to insulate the mostly white, mostly privileged punks of antifa from justice, as any such efforts would be seen as racist.
And sure enough, in the case of the gay son of Vietnamese refugees against Rose City Antifa and its alleged affiliated members, a Portland jury found both defendants John Colin Hacker and Elizabeth Renee Richter not liable in the civil case brought against them by Ngo. As The Post Millennial, for which Ngo is a senior editor, reports, “Ngo filed a complaint in Portland, Oregon, in 2020, claiming assault and other injuries over alleged acts of violence carried out by members of Antifa, which began in 2019.”
Ngo rightly accused defendants Hacker and Richter, both alleged to be antifa doxxers, of assault, battery, and intentional infliction of emotional distress. Ngo rightly sought nearly $1 million in total damages, and the civil case was argued before a jury for more than a week at the Multnomah County Courthouse.
But to no avail — at least not to those with a modicum of respect for Rule of Law. Indeed, this was two-tiered justice at its worst.
These people are domestic terrorists. Full stop. And yet they won. In the case of Andy Ngo v. Terrorists, the terrorists won.
As PJ Media’s Victoria Taft reports: “The trial was marred by intimidation tactics — not just from the attackers but from their attorney who declared to the unidentified jury members, ‘I am Antifa’ and ‘I will remember each one of your faces.’ We’re talking Godfather stuff here.”
“I will remember each one of your faces”? Good grief. If this is true — and we have no reason to believe that it isn’t — how is it not grounds for disbarment?
Here’s how the Leftmedia scum from The Daily Beast covered this miscarriage of justice against one of their journalistic colleagues: “Activists Cleared After Right-Wing Troll Andy Ngô Accuses Them of Assault,” read their headline.
So when a journalist who’s been repeatedly targeted by a lawless and violent organization tries to report on their activities without drawing attention to himself, he’s a “right-wing troll.”
This isn’t the first time Portland has failed to defend a journalist from the mob. As Taft reports: “I sat in a Multnomah County courtroom in the trial of another journalist who was beaten by Antifa members and who pulled a pistol to fend off a second attack in 2016. Not a shot was fired, the second attack was thwarted, and instead of prosecuting his attackers, woke politicians went after Mike Strickland for showing his gun. He went to jail.”
Taft continues: “After Antifa took Strickland off the board — probation rules halted this now-convicted felon’s ability to continue plying his then-booming YouTube and other video work about the left in Portland and Seattle — Antifa started going after other right-leaning independent reporters, including a fledgling reporter named Andy Ngo. Ngo was a witness in Strickland’s trial. He took what Strickland started and continued highlighting Antifa violence and intimidation on Portland streets and the group’s corrosive effect on the psyche of the once-peaceful Rose City.”
Harmeet Dhillon, whose Center for American Liberty represented Ngo, had this to say after the verdict: “When we started [the Center for American Liberty] to stand up for the First Amendment and other civil rights of clients who would otherwise have gone unrepresented, [Andy Ngo’s] case was the first one we took. Antifa thugs had repeatedly used violence in Portland to intimidate and silence journalists and ordinary citizens, including Andy. But Andy would NOT be silenced. Though we lost against these two defendants today, we won a settlement with one of the individual defendants, and took the defaults of three of them who failed to show up for court.”
Never mind that Portland is a failed city — a city in which violent, far-left, nihilistic fascists operate with impunity. What we should mind, instead, is the city’s failure to enforce the law, protect its citizens, and render a just verdict for a vile attack on a journalist whose reporting they didn’t like.
This is what the Left does. And Portland is the embodiment of it.
From high costs to inefficiency to environmental impact, wind power is finally getting some much-needed scrutiny.
Brian Mark Weber
Wind is a powerful force of nature. Evidence of this is all around us, and we need only look at the structural damage a summertime downdraft or a tornado or hurricane can cause.
And yet there’s one thing that wind simply can’t do: power our energy grid.
It would be nice if it were otherwise. Imagine tapping into an unlimited natural energy source that would never run out. We could cut our ties with gas, oil, and even carbon-footprint-free nuclear energy forever. Unfortunately, this dream is never going to materialize — not even as the Left tries to force us toward a so-called green energy world.
The inconsistency and unreliability of wind, and its lack of relative energy density compared to, say, nuclear, are its most visible problems. But another problem is the rising cost of the wind turbines themselves due to the rare earth minerals required to build and maintain them.
“The wind business, viewed by governments as key to meeting climate targets and boosting electricity supplies, is facing a dangerous market squall,” reports The Wall Street Journal. “After months of warnings about rising prices and logistical hiccups, developers and would-be buyers of wind power are scrapping contracts, putting off projects and postponing investment decisions. The setbacks are piling up for both onshore and offshore projects.”
These projects are not only costly for investors and green energy companies but also for American taxpayers now that the Biden administration has expanded loans and tax credits. As the Journal reported back in April: “The tax-credit boom could undermine another administration talking point about the law: The claim that it will reduce long-run budget deficits. [Financial industry] analyses contend that the tax credits could cost American taxpayers three times as much as the $271 billion forecast when Congress passed the law.”
As noted above, the high cost of catching the wind is only one concern. These Cuisinarts in the sky aren’t good for bird populations, either, and they disrupt sensitive communications signals. It’s no wonder, then, that more people around the world are beginning to say enough is enough.
“In June, thousands of Druze residents in the Golan Heights rioted to stop the installation of a large wind project on their traditional lands,” writes energy expert Robert Bryce. “Last month, Australia’s largest farmers union said it wanted a moratorium on new solar projects. In May, a wind project in Colombia being pushed by the Italian company, Enel, was canceled after it met fierce opposition from the indigenous Wayuu communities.”
“Meanwhile,” Bryce adds, “here in the U.S., over the last 10 days, local governments in Illinois, Ohio, and Iowa have rejected or restricted wind and solar projects. Those moves bring the total number of rejections or restrictions in the Renewable Rejection Database to 574.”
These wind projects are also coming under scrutiny due to public health concerns. For example, both the audible and inaudible noise produced by turbines are causing sleep deprivation and sickness among a significant percentage of those living near them.
Fortunately, most wind turbines are placed in remote areas where wind speeds are greater, but that causes higher costs when it comes to connecting the grid back to population centers. Where the turbines exist, they must be constructed to reach heights of hundreds of feet in order to catch wind strong enough to make running the systems viable. Transporting these massive windmills to their sites is quite an undertaking, which adds to their overall costs. And that’s assuming land is even available.
As to our earlier point about energy density, wind power requires a massive terrestrial footprint. Just ask Harvard University, whose researchers discovered that “the transition to wind or solar power in the U.S. would require five to 20 times more land than previously thought, and, if such large-scale wind farms were built, would warm average surface temperatures over the continental U.S. by 0.24 degrees Celsius.”
So much for the Left’s concern about global warming.
Nonetheless, in states along the East Coast, Democrat governors and legislators are going full speed ahead on wind power projects that cost their taxpayers while benefiting companies like Denmark’s Orsted, which signed onto a $1.6 billion deal back in 2019 … and then came back to New Jersey to ask for more money.
As the Journal reports: “New Jersey Democrats responded with a bill that offsets a large share of Orsted’s costs. The catch is that the relief will come at the direct expense of electricity ratepayers. The law deletes a previous provision in Orsted’s agreement that required the company to use any federal tax credits it receives to offset the rates it will charge for the power it generates.”
The Danes are making their mark off the coastline of Maryland and Delaware, as well, where the company’s turbines will stand in the ocean, waiting for a breeze and powering a small fraction of homes. The cost of the project has increased nearly $3 billion since the 2021 estimates were made public.
In the end, though, all this talk about wind power is a lot of hot air. There are far cheaper and more efficient forms of energy available to us, but our elected officials still seem a long way from ditching their “green” obsession.
Somewhere out there an American Leo Amery is growing infuriated over what is being done to America.
Victor Davis Hanson
Britain slept in the 1930s as an inevitable war with Hitler loomed.
A lonely Winston Churchill had only a few courageous partners to oppose the appeasement and incompetence of his conservative colleague Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain.
One of the most stalwart truth-tellers was a now little remembered politico and public servant — Leo Amery, a polymath and conservative member of Parliament.
Yet in two iconic moments of outrage against the Chamberlain government’s temporizing, Amery galvanized Britain and helped end the government’s disastrous policies.
In the hours after Hitler invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, there was real doubt whether Chamberlain would honor its treaty and declare war on Germany.
A Labour Party member, surrogate Arthur Greenwood, got up in the House of Commons to announce that he would be speaking for Labour on behalf of his ill party leader Clement Attlee.
Immediately Amery interrupted, shouting out, “Speak for England, Arthur!”
He was met with overwhelming applause and soon public acclamation.
After all, Amery was a political voice in the wilderness warning that neither his own party nor the opposition Labour party was speaking or acting for the real interest of the British people.
Amery, a shocked Greenwood, and others had finally had enough of the partisan nonsense, and demanded the nation unite against Nazi Germany.
Hours later, Britain declared war on Germany, the first major power to do so.
On a second iconic occasion on May 7, 1940, Amery voiced even stronger views — again, widely held by the public, but rarely voiced by the timid political class.
The inept Chamberlain government had just lost a winnable Norway campaign to Germany.
Amery responded with a blistering attack on the incompetence of the conservative Chamberlain administration by quoting Oliver Cromwell’s hallmark 1653 order to the Long Parliament: “You have sat too long here for any good you have been doing. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go.”
Three days later after Amery’s speech and the invasion of France, an ill Chamberlain and most of his advisors resigned. Churchill became prime minister. The rest is history.
We need a voice like Amery’s. Like Britain from 1939 to 1940, America is in existential danger.
The Biden administration has utterly destroyed the southern border — and immigration law with it.
Biden green lighted 7 million illegal aliens swarming into the U.S. without legal sanction or rudimentary audit.
China spies inside and over the U.S. with impunity. Beijing has never admitted to its responsibility for the gain-of-function COVID virus that killed a million Americans.
President Joe Biden printed $4 trillion at exactly the wrong time of soaring post-COVID consumer demand and supply shortages. No wonder he birthed the worst inflation in 40 years.
In response, interest rates tripled, gas prices doubled.
Our military is thousands of recruits short. It lacks sufficient munitions.
Following Biden’s humiliating pullout from Afghanistan, vast troves of arms were abandoned in Kabul. Billions more in scarce weapons were sent to Ukraine.
The Pentagon’s woke agenda trumps meritocracy in promotions and advancement.
Our enemies — Russia, China, Iran, North Korea — are on the move, while the U.S. seems listless.
The Biden renegade Department of Justice, CIA and FBI have become weaponized. Ideology, politics, and race — not the law — more often guide their investigations, intelligence operations and enforcement.
The downtowns of our once majestic major cities are becoming unlivable.
They are mired in refuse and trash, violent crime and homelessness. Stores and businesses leave. Millions each year flee the blue urban coasts to the red west and south.
To even say there are still two biological genders, that global warming may not be entirely manmade or necessarily destroying the planet, or that class, not race, is the proper barometer of inequality is to face ostracism and career cancellation.
The public assumes that Biden is severely cognitively challenged, likely corrupt, and a serial fabricator.
Most know what must be done, but few will tell the truth: Balance the budget. Return to legal only immigration. Restore a well-funded, but unwoke Pentagon.
Insist on racial unity. Curb the overweening administrative state. Enforce the rule of law.
Produce more gas and oil. Reestablish civic education. Insist universities protect free speech and due process — and stop proselytizing.
In other words, restore what until recently made America the strongest, most prosperous, and freest nation in the world. And quit undoing all the great good that eight generations of prior Americans bequeathed to us.
Somewhere out there an American Leo Amery is growing infuriated over what is being done to America.
And if he finally stands up like Amery to call out our bankrupt political class, the American people will echo his famous order to this disastrous government:
“Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go.”
‘For as Long as It Takes’ — Pentagon spokesperson Air Force Brigadier General Pat Ryder says the Pentagon commits to continue supporting Ukraine with no time frame or limit given.
How the Radical Left Conquered Our Entire Culture — Christopher Rufo discusses how the Left waged a generational fight to overtake nearly every American institution, and what conservatives need to do to reclaim what has been lost.
When Should the Sexes Have Their Own Spaces? — Jordan Peterson and Helen Joyce discuss the takedown of their last interview, the true tradition of women’s rights, and the harsh reality of what women stand to lose today.
“We’re gonna stay focused on really ensuring that we’re communicating what this president has delivered for the American people.” —Biden campaign manager Julie Chavez Rodriguez
The BIG Lies
“Wages are growing faster than inflation.” —Joe Biden
“Our plan is working. It’s working. … We’ve created over 13 million brand-new jobs since I took office. Thirteen million in less than three years.” —Joe Biden
We’re Shocked — Shocked!
“I wish I hadn’t called it that. [The Inflation Reduction Act] has less to do with reducing inflation than it does providing for alternatives that generate economic growth.” —Joe Biden
Non Compos Mentis
“The problem was too many people are working. Or working people are working making too much money. That’s not the problem.” —Joe Biden
Swampthink
“Small donors are actually one of the biggest problems for democracy and for the GOP because … large donors actually have a strategic view about moderation, who can win, who can’t. Small donors really are just venting their spleen with their credit card.” —CNN’s Jonah Goldberg
Observations
“Chris Wray and his chums on the J. Edgar Hoover building’s seventh floor deserve to be thoroughly exposed for their anti-Catholic bigotry and their anti-Republican bigotry and all the rest of it. The thousands of good and decent patriots among the FBI’s 35,000 employees deserve nothing less.” —Douglas Andrews
“It’s just human nature that when something is repeated over and over, we become less attuned to each new repetition. Especially when we think at least some of it is just politics. That could be enormously frustrating to those Democrats most determined to remove Trump from the American political scene.” —Byron York
“Personal responsibility is hard. Taking responsibility for the separate human life growing inside a woman’s womb is hard for that woman. Hard things are often also right and very worthwhile things. They’re just really hard to sell politically to people who prefer what they think is the easy way out. That just means pro-lifers need to redouble our efforts to change hearts and minds.” —Nate Jackson
“The reprehensible labor conditions for mining the minerals necessary for making EV batteries are just one of many problems with forcing this green revolution. It’s painfully ironic that Kamala Harris is busy lying about Florida’s slavery curriculum while the Biden administration is seeking to force more Americans to buy into an industry that relies on slave labor.” —Thomas Gallatin
“40 years ago they told us an ice age was imminent. Now they tell us that the climate warming is an existential threat to humanity. Which is it? Neither. It’s really about dominion, control and punishing the West.” —Vivek Ramaswamy
The House Oversight Committee will subpoena President Joe Biden and his beleaguered son Hunter as Republicans approach the conclusion of their more than year-and-a-half long investigations into the Biden family.
On Friday, US Attorney General Merrick Garland announced that US Attorney for Delaware David Weiss was appointed Special Counsel in the Hunter Biden investigation.
Weiss asked for special counsel status in the Hunter Biden case.
“This appointment confirms my commitment to provide Mr. Weiss all the resources he requests,” Garland said. “It also reaffirms that Mr. Weiss has the authority he needs to conduct a thorough investigation and to continue to take the steps he deems appropriate independently based only on the facts and the law.”
Of course, this is just one big cover-up operation.
Federal prosecutors also said on Friday that Hunter Biden’s plea negotiations are at an impasse and asserted the case is headed for a trial in a court filing.
Prosecutors say the venue for Hunter Biden’s tax-related charges lies either in California or DC, not Delaware.
“Venue for these offenses does not lie in Delaware. Rather, venue for these offenses and any other related tax offenses lies either in the Central District of California or in the District of Columbia. The information was filed in this District because the parties had previously agreed that the Defendant would waive any challenge to venue and plead guilty in this District. However, during the July 26, 2023, hearing that the Court set on this matter, the Defendant pled not guilty. Since that time, the parties have engaged in further plea negotiations but are at an impasse. The Government now believes that the case will not resolve short of a trial,” the filing said.
“Now that the parties are at an impasse, a trial is in order,” they wrote. “Venue must be proper for each count of an indictment.”
The judge gave Hunter Biden until Monday to respond to the DOJ’s motion to vacate his plea schedule.
UPDATE: Judge orders Hunter Biden to respond to DOJ's motion to vacate his plea schedule by MONDAY at noon.
On Thursday, Rep. Greg Steube made a significant announcement during an appearance on Newsmax with David Harris Jr., who was filling in for Rob Schmitt. The Florida Congressman revealed his intentions to file an impeachment resolution against Joe Biden on multiple charges today, Friday.
Member of the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government, Steube, revealed his intentions to file an impeachment resolution against Biden.
“[On Friday] I intend on filing impeachment resolution on Joe Biden for bribery, for extortion, obstruction of justice, fraud, financial involvement in drugs and prostitution, all of these things,” Steube said.
According to Steube, the evidence supporting these allegations includes witness testimonies, financial records, text messages, phone conversations, and the controversial laptop that has been linked to Biden’s son, Hunter. He emphasized that Republicans have been gathering this evidence since the beginning of the Congress, and he believes there’s enough to support the impeachment articles.
“We have all the facts and evidence now… They’ll be filed [today]. So we’ll do a press release with all the details, it’s pages upon pages of all the different things that we have gathered as Republicans,” he said.
“There is a litany of evidence here that there have been crimes that have been committed. And even if it was just to the family members and not Joe, that’s still a crime. If my wife was getting millions of dollars from foreign governments, you don’t think that’s bribery or extortion, and that falls in line with us. There was things that Grassley made public on the Senate side of the $5 million payment as it relates to Burima in Ukraine. There is so much factual predicate for these articles of impeachment,” he added.
Steube expressed his hope that House Speaker Kevin McCarthy would initiate the impeachment process after the recess.
In addition to the impeachment resolution, Steube also discussed the “Hunter Act,” which he plans to introduce. This act, titled “Helping Understand Narcotic Traces at the Executive Residence,” aims to investigate drug-related use within the White House and the role of the Secret Service in covering up for the Biden crime family.
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Rep. Greg Steube: "Tomorrow, I intend on filing an impeachment resolution on Joe Biden for bribery, for extortion, obstruction of justice, fraud, financial involvement in drugs and prostitution." @RepGregSteubepic.twitter.com/cxNUcSoDIA
We’re in the middle of a battle of ideas, and Mark Levin believes that if we don’t fight back against the Democrats with our own, our country isn’t going to make it.
“I am telling you, we must engage these people, and you must engage them on ideas,” Levin says. “Marxism is an idea. Fascism is an idea.”
While all of these ideas the left espouses are full of promises, Levin is well aware that they produce the opposite.
“They never produce what they say they’re going to produce. They produce horror. They produce death. They produce impoverishment. But the promises are endless.”
“If only you would give up more liberty. If only you would give up private property. If only you would do what we’d tell you to do,” he adds.
Why do so many Americans buy into these empty promises?
“Liberty takes some explanation not to those who don’t have it, but to those who do,” Levin says. “Most countries in the world, they’re fending to survive. And even in advanced so-called societies like China, you have to watch what you say, where you say it, when you say it, or you’re disappeared.”
Levin believes if Americans don’t wake up, we’ll end up in the same place.
“It’s frightening the similarities. We are definitely on the road to totalitarianism,” he warns.
“People wrap themselves in democracy. They wrap themselves in individualism. And they get away with it because they control the culture. We have no control over the culture, and so we need to push back.”
He notes that one of the worst symptoms of a culture being lost is our “sick form of eugenics.” That is, abortion.
“No free nation on the face of the Earth kills its children in the womb a week before birth. None, except this one.”
In an appearance on Fox News’s “Mornings with Maria” on Friday, member of Senate Homeland Security and ranking member of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, Ron Johnson (R-WI), dropped a truth bomb regarding the origins and handling of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Speaking with host Maria Bartiromo, Johnson suggested that the pandemic was pre-planned by an “elite group of people” and cited Event 201, a pandemic exercise conducted in late 2019, as evidence.
“This is all pre planned by an elite group of people,” said Johnson. “That’s what I’m talking about. Event 201 that occurred in late 2019, prior to the rest of us knowing about this pandemic. Again, this is very concerning in terms of what has happened, what is happening, what continues to be planned for our loss of freedom.”
“It needs to be exposed. But unfortunately, there are very few people, even in Congress that are willing to take a look at this. They all push the vaccine. They don’t want to be made aware of the fact that the vaccines might have caused injuries, might have caused death. So many people just simply don’t want to admit they were wrong, and they’re going to do everything they can to make sure that they’re not proven wrong,” Johnson added.
“We’re up against a very powerful group of people here, Maria,” he added.
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Based Ron Johnson!🔥
On Covid: “This was all pre-planned by an elite group of people… Event 201… This is very concerning in terms of… what continues to be planned for our loss of freedom… We’re up against a very powerful group of people.”
Just a few months before the Covid-19 outbreak, an exercise was held by world elites called Event 201, where they simulated a global pandemic of a coronavirus that transmitted from bats to humans, as The Gateway Pundit reported.
Taking place in October 2019, the event was hosted by Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, Bloomberg School Of Public Health, World Economic Forum, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The simulation analyzed the health impacts, as well as the economic, lifestyle, and trade fallout from the virus.
Event 201 simulates an outbreak of a novel zoonotic coronavirus transmitted from bats to pigs to people that eventually becomes efficiently transmissible from person to person, leading to a severe pandemic. The pathogen and the disease it causes are modeled largely on SARS, but it is more transmissible in the community setting by people with mild symptoms.
The disease starts in pig farms in Brazil, quietly and slowly at first, but then it starts to spread more rapidly in healthcare settings. When it starts to spread efficiently from person to person in the low-income, densely packed neighborhoods of some of the megacities in South America, the epidemic explodes. It is first exported by air travel to Portugal, the United States, and China and then to many other countries. Although at first some countries are able to control it, it continues to spread and be reintroduced, and eventually no country can maintain control.
There is no possibility of a vaccine being available in the first year. There is a fictional antiviral drug that can help the sick but not significantly limit spread of the disease.
Since the whole human population is susceptible, during the initial months of the pandemic, the cumulative number of cases increases exponentially, doubling every week. And as the cases and deaths accumulate, the economic and societal consequences become increasingly severe.
The scenario ends at the 18-month point, with 65 million deaths. The pandemic is beginning to slow due to the decreasing number of susceptible people. The pandemic will continue at some rate until there is an effective vaccine or until 80-90 % of the global population has been exposed. From that point on, it is likely to be an endemic childhood disease.
Justice and politics demand that Biden be impeached. With the most consequential presidential election looming, House Republicans have an obligation to take the fight to Democrats.
PM Imran Khan shows the March 2022 Pakistani diplomatic cipher in which the US demands his ouster April 2022
The Biden Regime is behind the overthrow of Pakistan’s democratically elected Prime Minister Imran Khan, explosive diplomatic cables reveal. Revolver News’ Darren Beattie charges that Color Revolution insurrectionist Victoria Nuland, who is also to blame for the Ukraine Coup 2014 and the current horrific war, orchestrated the coup.
On March 7, 2022, Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs Donald Lu and Deputy Assistant Secretary Lesslie Vigueri. met with Pakistan’s ambassador to the U.S. Asad Majeed Khan in Pakistan House in Washington D.C., and threatened U.S. sanction unless Prime Minister Imran Khan is ousted. The Pakistani side comprised Deputy Chief of Mission Syed Naveed Bokhari and the defense attaché, The Dawn reports.
The next day, March 8, the Pakistani National Assembly voted to remove Khan.
On March 27, Imran Khan produced the diplomatic cipher, showing US demands to remove Khan in a coup. As early as 2021, Imran Khan had accused Victoria Nuland and the Biden administration of trying to oust him. Ironically, Khan was investigated in October 2022 over daring to reveal the diplomatic cipher’s evidence of a “foreign conspiracy,” The Dawn reported, and banned from running for re-election.
Imran Khan is a former cricket star turned Pakistan’s most popular politician, who had taken a neutral stance on the Ukraine War after the Russian invasion Feb. 24, 2022. In November 2022, Imran Khan was the target of an assassination attempt at a political rally, in an attack that wounded him and killed one of his supporters. In May 2023, he was arrested for corruption by paramilitary troops who smashed their way into the Islamabad High Court. On August 5, 2023, he was sentenced to three years in jail.
Speaking at a rally the day before the 2022 meeting between Donald Lu and the ambassador, Prime Minister Khan responded to European calls for Pakistani support for Ukraine: “Are we your slaves? What do you think of us? That we are your slaves and that we will do whatever you ask of us?” he asked. “We are friends of Russia, and we are also friends of the United States. We are friends of China and Europe. We are not part of any alliance.”
The diplomatic cipher was sent by Pakistani Ambassador in Washington Asad Majeed Khan and has now been leaked to The Intercept by Pakistani sources. It quotes Lu as saying that “people here and in Europe are quite concerned about why Pakistan is taking such an aggressively neutral position (on Ukraine), if such a position is even possible. It does not seem such a neutral stand to us.”
Lu then suggests that Pakistan authoritries find a way to rid themselves of the “aggressively neutral” Prime Minister: “I think if the no-confidence vote against the Prime Minister succeeds, all will be forgiven in Washington because the Russia visit is being looked at as a decision by the Prime Minister,” Lu said, according to The Intercept. “Otherwise,” he continued, “I think it will be tough going ahead.”
Lu expressed his “disappointment” with Prime Minister Imran Khan’s visit to Moscow on Feb. 24, the day Russia invaded Ukraine. “They pointed out how the invasion had angered the entire American nation and explained why they thought Mr Khan should have postponed his visit,” according to The Dawn.
On March 2, Donald Lu was questioned at a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing, telling Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D – Maryland), “Prime Minister Khan has recently visited Moscow, and so I think we are trying to figure out how to engage specifically with the Prime Minister following that decision.”
I was one of the last two international journalists to interview Prime Minister Imran Khan before his arrest
In this critical section of the interview, we discuss the Biden regime's role in his ouster — specifically, the wicked color revolution professional Victoria Nuland pic.twitter.com/7Uz78tVWxR
Speaking to Darren Beattie of Revolver News from house arrest in July, Imran Khan said that the diplomatic cipher “was meant for General (Qamar Javed) Bajwa,” whom he blames for orchestrating his ouster. In Pakistan, the military is considered the true center of power, not the democratically elected government. “The next day, the vote of no confidence was tabled in the National Assembly. Within weeks, the government was gone”, Khan said.
In August 2022, Imran Khan had claimed Retired Army Chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa told him he “had audios and videos of my party men”, WION News reported. “I came to know that he [Bajwa] was carefully playing a double game…and wanted to make Shehbaz Sharif the prime minister. Bajwa stabbed me in my back.”
Beattie called Donald Lu “a messenger boy” and speculated that his boss Victoria Nuland “may have a role in this.” Beattie noted that PM Imran Khan had been very critical of Barack Obama’s War on Terror drone strike campaign, with over 400 drone strikes in the allied country of Pakistan, which had been defended by Victoria Nuland at State. On 28 Jan. 2023, the current Acting Deputy Secretary of State Victoria Nuland visited India, Sri Lanka and Nepal, two weeks after US State Department Donald Lu.
Beattie pointed out the “striking parallels” between the campaign against Donald Trump and Imran Khan: “Both were international superstar celebrities in the 80s, both defeated two corrupt political dynasties to score an historic populist victory in the 2010s, both are hated by their respective deep states, both were ousted from power by their respective deep states, and both are facing multiple indictments from a corrupt justice department controlled by political enemies.”
“Khan was convicted on flimsy charges following a trial where his defense was not even allowed to produce witnesses. He had previously survived an assassination attempt, had a journalist aligned with him murdered, and has seen thousands of his supporters imprisoned. While the Biden administration has said that human rights will be at the forefront of their foreign policy, they are now looking away as Pakistan moves toward becoming a full-fledged military dictatorship,” Middle East Institute scholar Arif Rafiq, told the Intercept. “This is ultimately about the Pakistani military using outside forces as a means to preserve their hegemony over the country. Every time there is a grand geopolitical rivalry, whether it is the Cold War, or the war on terror, they know how to manipulate the U.S. in their favor.”
🚨🚨#EXCLUSIVE: Authorities banned coverage/reporting/mentioning of @theintercept story in Pakistani media. Message says “Assalamoalaikum This one is not to be aired or discussed in talk shows or any program. Thanks” pic.twitter.com/3EZYtini11
There is currently a blackout banning reporting of this explosive stroy in Pakistani media, Revolver News writes.
In March, President Donald Trump said that “For decades, we’ve had the very same people, such as Victoria Nuland and many others just like her obsessed with pushing Ukraine toward NATO, not to mention the State Department support for uprisings in Ukraine. These people have been seeking confrontation for a long time, much like the case in Iraq and other parts of the world. And now, we’re teetering on the brink of World War Three.”
Thanks Joe Biden! Ever since you entered the White House, economic conditions have taken a major turn for the worse. We have been experiencing the most painful inflation crisis since the Jimmy Carter era, more than 60 percent of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck, the U.S. actually lost 585,000 full-time jobs last month, consumers now owe more than a trillion dollars on their credit cards, the housing bubble has started to burst, and the most dramatic commercial real estate crisis in U.S. history has begun. Needless to say, the American people are fed up. According to a brand new Reuters/Ipsos survey that was just released, a whopping 73 percent of all Americans believe that the economy is in worse condition than it was five years ago…
Americans have soured on Bidenomics, concluding that the U.S. economy is worse now than it was five years ago under former President Donald Trump’s leadership, a recent Reuters/Ipsos survey found.
The overall survey found that Americans view economic issues as some of the most “pressing problems” of the day. Overall, nearly half, 49 percent, of Americans view inflation as the most important issue facing the country. Further, nearly three-quarters of Americans, 73 percent, say the economy is worse off now than it was five years ago, under Trump’s leadership. A majority, 64 percent, also believe the economy is worse off than it was in 2020, when the coronavirus took a grip, forcing businesses to close.
Those are horrible numbers Joe.
So do you actually have a plan to turn things around if you win a second term, or should we just expect more of the same?
You and your family are probably not feeling the pain of inflation because of the millions of dollars in bribes that you have received from foreign officials, but the truth is that “scorching-hot inflation” has been causing “severe financial pressures” for the rest of us…
Scorching-hot inflation has created severe financial pressures for most U.S. households, which are forced to pay more for everyday necessities like food and rent. The burden is disproportionately borne by low-income Americans, whose already-stretched paychecks are heavily affected by price fluctuations.
The latest inflation numbers just came out, and we are being told that the annual rate of inflation has gone up to 3.2 percent.
The cost of living is rising much faster than our paychecks are, and we want you to do something.
It is even becoming a lot more expensive to watch television. In less than two years, the cost of a Disney+ subscription has gone up by 75 percent…
The Disney+ streaming service lost 300,000 subscribers in the United States and Canada in the most recent quarter — an ominous sign for the studio as it continues to pour billions of dollars into new streaming content that is flopping with viewers.
To make matters worse for its fans, the Walt Disney Company is hiking Disney+’s monthly subscription price to $13.99 from $10.99 — a 27 percent increase. Last year, the price rose to $10.99 from $7.99, which means Disney+ subscribers will see their monthly bill climb a total of 75 percent in less than two years.
U.S. households are being squeezed financially like never before, and most of them are just barely scraping by from month to month…
And right now, only 46 percent of Americans say they could cover an unexpected $400 bill without taking on debt.
That’s not to mention that a majority are living paycheck to paycheck.
Credit card debt tops $1 trillion for the first time in U.S. history.
And, in the second quarter of 2023, 36 percent more people drained their retirement accounts to make ends meets, compared to the same period last year, according to Bank of America’s analysis of its clients’ employee benefits programs.
And in recent months large companies all over America have started to conduct mass layoffs.
In fact, the number of job cuts in 2023 has already exceeded the total for all of last year.
Sadly, our problems appear to be accelerating. Last week, the number of Americans filing initial claims for unemployment benefits shot up to 248,000. That was an increase of 21,000 from the week before.
Meanwhile, the housing bubble is bursting thanks to the Federal Reserve’s relentless rate hikes.
The average rate on a 30 year fixed mortgage is now hovering around the 7 percent level, and this is keeping millions of potential buyers on the sidelines…
The 7%+ mortgages are doing their magic on the housing market as they keep buyers out of the market, and home sales sagged further in late July and August, from already dismal levels, as indicated by weekly applications for mortgages to purchase a home.
The average interest rate on 30-year fixed-rate mortgages with conforming balances jumped to 7.09%, from 6.93% in the prior reporting week, the third highest since January 2002, with only two weeks last November having been marginally higher than this reporting week, according to data from the Mortgage Bankers Association today.
So what are you going to do Joe?
Do you have a way to pull us out of this mess?
Of course if you actually had a plan to save the economy you would have implemented it already.
There is no hope for our short-term economic future. Economic activity is steadily slowing down all over the nation, the U.S. consumer is reaching a breaking point, and it appears that a recession is rapidly approaching.
And if we stay on the path that we are currently on, the long-term outlook is far worse.
Bidenomics has been a complete and utter failure, and current economic conditions are starting to eerily resemble what we went through in 2008 and 2009.
It would be wonderful if you would take responsibility for your part in creating this giant mess, but I am sure that you will continue to insist that all of our problems are somebody else’s fault.
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About the Author: My name is Michael and my brand new book entitled “End Times” is now available on Amazon.com. In addition to my new book I have written six other books that are available on Amazon.com including “7 Year Apocalypse”, “Lost Prophecies Of The Future Of America”, “The Beginning Of The End”, and “Living A Life That Really Matters”. (#CommissionsEarned) When you purchase any of these books you help to support the work that I am doing, and one way that you can really help is by sending copies as gifts to family and friends. Time is short, and I need help getting these warnings into the hands of as many people as possible. I have also started a brand new Substack newsletter, and I encourage you to subscribe so that you won’t miss any of my articles. I have published thousands of articles on The Economic Collapse Blog, End Of The American Dream and The Most Important News, and the articles that I publish on those sites are republished on dozens of other prominent websites all over the globe. I always freely and happily allow others to republish my articles on their own websites, but I also ask that they include this “About the Author” section with each article. The material contained in this article is for general information purposes only, and readers should consult licensed professionals before making any legal, business, financial or health decisions. I encourage you to follow me on social media on Facebook and Twitter, and any way that you can share these articles with others is definitely a great help. These are such troubled times, and people need hope. John 3:16 tells us about the hope that God has given us through Jesus Christ: “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” If you have not already done so, I strongly urge you to invite Jesus Christ to be your Lord and Savior today.
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