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
And I will make thee unto this people a fenced brazen wall: and they shall fight against thee, but they shall not prevail against thee; for I am with thee to save thee and to deliver thee, saith the Lord. (Jeremiah 15:20)
Stability in the fear and faith of God will make a man like a wall of brass, which no one can batter down or break. Only the Lord can make such; but we need such men in the church, and in the world, but specially in the pulpit.
Against uncompromising men of truth this age of shams will fight tooth and nail. Nothing seems to offend Satan and his seed like decision. They attack holy firmness even as the Assyrians besieged fenced cities. The joy is that they cannot prevail against those whom God has made strong in His strength. Carried about with every wind of doctrine, others only need to be blown upon and away they go; but those who love the doctrines of grace, because they possess the grace of the doctrines, stand like rocks in the midst of raging seas.
Whence this stability? “I am with thee, saith the Lord”: that is the true answer. Jehovah will save and deliver faithful souls from all the assaults of the adversary. Hosts are against us, but the Lord of hosts is with us. We dare not budge an inch; for the Lord Himself holds us in our place, and there we will abide forever.
“But for you who revere my name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its wings. And you will go out and leap like calves released from the stall” Malachi 4:2
Dear friend, you might relate to LL Barkat’s painful life journey. She was abandoned by her birth father and abused by her stepfather. As LL reached adulthood, she felt doomed by her past. She believed she had become one more broken link in the chain of her dysfunctional family.
One day while sitting in church, she was overcome by a sense of failure. Then she sensed God speaking through His Word, promising to heal her and use her. Healing came through experiencing God’s grace and love. Today she helps bring others that same hope and healing in Christ.
Friend, God can use your pain-filled past to share the heavenly message of hope in Christ.
Tell others how God loves you and by His grace gave you eternal comfort and a wonderful hope.
Stone Crossings:Finding Grace in Hard and Hidden Places by LL Barkat
The world has never been more obsessed with marketing than now. Individuals and corporate organizations alike pay brand advisors and social media platforms to boost their visibility. Websites use cookies to collect user data so that advertisers can target their products at the kind of people they think will buy them. Businesses run endless data analytics to figure out how many and what kind of people they are reaching, and how to grow their market share. Appealing to the masses, and even manipulating them, has become a science.
New Swine Flu Strains Raise Concerns about Pandemic Risks Scientists from Duke-NUS Medical School and elsewhere have identified several novel strains of swine flu viruses circulating in Cambodian pigs that pose a potential pandemic risk. The new strains include viruses that have jumped from humans to pigs and some strains with genes that originate from North America.
Biden Social Media Collusion Shut Down in Major Victory We’re celebrating a MASSIVE free speech victory as the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the ruling that President Joe Biden cannot censor conservatives on social media. A federal judge originally proclaimed this digital censorship “the most massive attack against free speech in United States’ history.” Such a Deep State attack on the First Amendment is unthinkable.
Washington, Jerusalem divided on latter’s role in new ‘economic corridor’ The White House’s 245-word fact sheet does not mention Israel at all, and Jerusalem apparently is not a signatory to the accompanying Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the Saudi, European Union, India, Emirati, French, German, Italian and American governments. The 325-word memorandum mentions Israel once, acknowledging that the two corridors will enable “goods and services to transit to, from, and between India, the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Israel and Europe.”
Putin Mocks ‘Rotten’ US System For Prosecution Of Donald Trump “This shows the whole rottenness of the American political system, which cannot claim to teach others about democracy. What’s happening with Trump is a persecution of a political rival with political motives.” pic.twitter.com/oouu6rQwyQ
“This Is Philadelphia”: A Shocking Video Of Yet Another Democrat City Imploding Approaching the 2024 presidential election cycle, which is set to commence this fall, it’s challenging to find just one well-managed major city under Democratic leadership. Many of these metro areas have collapsed into a third-world-like state, plagued with violent crime, homelessness, out-of-control shoplifting, open-air drug markets, and even some with shit-covered streets.
‘Medicane’ Breaks Dams, Floods Eastern Libya: Up to 10,000 Feared Dead A rare “medicane” or Mediterranean tropical-like cyclone battered Libya on Saturday, causing deadly floods in the eastern part of the country and resulting in the death of at least 2,000 people. Some estimates already suggest the death toll could jump to 10,000. and from the news coming to us, the death toll is huge.”
Tower and Intel reach chip production agreement After the cancelation of Intel’s acquisition of Tower Semiconductor, the two companies have now agreed to cooperate on chip production in New Mexico.
Virginia Dem Candidate Has a History of Live-Streaming Sex Acts on a Porn Site For Money According to the Associated Press, who first broke the story, 40-year-old Susanna Gibson, who’s running for a seat in the Virginia House of Delegates in a Richmond-area district on a platform largely dedicated to pushing abortion “rights,” reportedly filmed herself having sex with her husband and live-streamed it on a porn website
Flooding in eastern Libya leaves 2,000 people feared dead, prime minister says Mediterranean storm Daniel caused devastating floods in Libya that swept away entire neighborhoods and wrecked homes in multiple coastal towns in the east of the North African nation. As many as 2,000 people were feared dead, one of the country’s leaders said Monday.
‘Are Most Jews Evil?’: Top US University Hosting ‘Palestine Literature Festival’ Featuring Avid Anti-Zionists The University of Pennsylvania is preparing to host an event that will feature a gamut of anti-Zionist activists who have promoted antisemitic tropes and called for violence against Israel. On Tuesday, Middle East experts and nonprofit leaders told The Algemeiner that the event is an “Israel hate fest” and noted that City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center professor Marc Lamont Hill, a former associate of Louis Farrakhan who has accused Israeli police of training American officers to kill Black people, will be speaking there.
‘What the Hell Are They Thinking’: Republicans Slam Biden Administration’s Prisoner Deal With Iran Republicans in the US House and Senate slammed the Biden administration for the substance and the timing of a $6 billion prisoner swap deal with Iran announced on Monday, the anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. “First Joe Biden used 9/11 as an excuse to flee Afghanistan. Now he desecrates this day by paying ransom to the world’s worst state sponsor of terrorism. Shameful,” Cotton wrote
Topsy-turvy forecast: Rain and possible floods – followed by hot, dry weather The topsy-turvy weather is expected to make itself felt in the next few days: the storm “Daniel” which hit the eastern Mediterranean in the past few days is expected to arrive in Israel, bringing with it strong rains and possibly causing flooding.
Netanyahu to meet Zelenskyy on sidelines of UN General Assembly Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, for the first time since the Russian attack on his country, on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly, Kan 11 News reported on Tuesday. The meeting between the two leaders follows disappointment in Kyiv over the scale of the Israeli aid to Ukraine in its war against Russia.
Palestinians riot on Gaza border as Ben-Gvir demands prison restrictions Palestinians rioted along the border of the Gaza Strip on Tuesday evening in protest against restrictions National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir intends to implement against Palestinian prisoners. According to Palestinian reports, the rioters burned tires and set off explosives near the border fence.
Israel-UK close ties are crucial amid a shifting world order – editorial This week, British Foreign Secretary James Cleverly embarked on a significant visit to Israel, underscoring the important bonds between the two nations. His arrival coincided with the solemn anniversary of the September 11 attacks, prompting him to focus his message on the collaborative efforts of Israel and the United Kingdom in confronting terrorism. The UK stands as an enduring and vital partner of Israel. Shared values as democracies have deepened over time and economic and security ties have become fundamental pillars of our relationship.
Air Force secretary says intel ‘couldn’t be clearer’: China is preparing for war with US Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall said in a Monday speech that China is preparing for war with the United States. “Today the intelligence couldn’t be clearer. Whatever its actual intentions may be I could not say, but China is preparing for a war and specifically for a war with the United States,”
Prophetically, does it matter if Israel’s a democracy? Would Christians from democratic nations still pray for an authoritarian, communist or monarchical Israel? For many, democracy itself has become more sacred than the biblical principles it is based upon.
Why Do Christians Especially Anticipate the Feast of Trumpets? Believe it or not, the Feast of Trumpets among evangelical circles has increasingly become a high watch time for the appearing of Jesus in the clouds to collect his followers with the sound of the trumpet of God. This imminent event is called “the day or hour that no man knows.” The Feast of Trumpets is the only ambiguous date among the LORD’s seven appointed moedim due to the necessity of having to sight the new moon. Concerning his Second Coming, Jesus stated in Matthew 24:36, “But of that day and hour no man knows, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.”
Judicial reform crisis comes to a head in fateful High Court hearing Judges and gov’t representatives spar in contentious discussions. the government was the first to lay out its defense arguments. The government, including Justice Minister Yariv Levin and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, were represented by attorney Ilan Bombach instead of Israel’s State Attorney General’s Office, an exception only used in the rare situation in which the government and its legal representation don’t agree on their positions. Knesset lawyer Yitzhak Bart began the statements and was followed by Constitution, Law and Justice Committee chair Simcha Rothman, one of the judicial reform’s main architects.
Could a ‘Nuclear 9/11’ be next? 8.6 million illegals have entered US since Biden took office, including 149 on ‘terror watch list’ As Americans this week remember the horrific terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, and honor the 3,000 people who perished at the hands of al Qaeda terrorists, several critical questions must be asked. First, 22 years after Osama bin Laden hit the U.S. so hard, has Washington done everything in its power to protect the American people from another wave of foreign terror attacks? Second, has Washington done everything in its power to prevent a “Nuclear 9/11,” that is, the detonation of nuclear weapons – smuggled into the homeland from abroad – on American soil?
Archbishop Viganò: Banning abortion is essential to stopping ‘the New World Order subservient to Satan’ Abortion is an act of worship to Satan. It is a human sacrifice offered to demons, and this is proudly affirmed by the very adepts of the ‘church of Satan.’ You can go to prison because of abortion: prison is the penalty imposed in some nations for those who stop in silent prayer in front of a clinic where children are killed. But you don’t go to jail if you kill an innocent creature.
Rare weather event, seen only twice per year, to impact southwest Western Australia A severe cold front is set to impact a vast region of southern Western Australia on September 13, 2023. The event, characterized by strong winds, thunderstorms, and significant rainfall, is expected to be more intense than typical fronts, with such conditions seen only about twice annually.
Strong and shallow M6.3 earthquake hits Babuyan Islands, Philippines A strong and shallow earthquake registered by the USGS as M6.3 hit near Dalupiri Island, Babuyan Islands Region, Philippines at 11:03 UTC on September 12, 2023. The agency is reporting a depth of 41.3 km (25.6 miles). EMSC is reporting M6.3 at a depth of 37 km (22.9 miles).
Over 5 300 dead, thousands missing as Medicane “Marquesa” (Daniel) causes catastrophic flooding in Libya Medicane “Marquesa”, also known as Storm Daniel, made a devastating landfall in Libya on September 10, 2023, resulting in severe flash flooding, especially in the country’s northeast. The storm brought with it extremely heavy rainfall, leading to catastrophic flooding and a tragic death toll of over 5 300 people, with thousands still missing.
FOIA Results: $11 Million to Bribe OB-GYNs to Lie to Mothers About Safety of mRNA-Vaccines Fetal-maternal medicine specialist Dr. James Thorp has raised the alarm concerning massive damage to women and babies via mRNA injection. Following an interview with Dr. Thorp, Dr. Naomi Wolf says that what she has learned in the last few weeks is “so very devastating, regarding the plans of the evildoers of our moment, to destroy, or restrict severely the powers of humanity, via destroying babies and human fertility.”
CDC Data Reveals COVID Vaccine Could Take 24 Years Off Of Men’s Lives Slowly but surely, the long-term effects of the COVID-19 vaccines will be realized. According to data released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, men who have taken the mRNA jabs will likely see 24 years shaved off their life span.
Chinese Influence Network Used A.I. to Impersonate U.S. Voters The difference with the new network is that it began using generative A.I. in March 2023 to “mimic U.S. voters” and produce content that was “more eye-catching than the awkward visuals used in previous campaigns by Chinese nation-state actors, which relied on digital drawings, stock photo collages, and other manual graphic designs.”
“Where there is no law, there is no liberty; and nothing deserves the name of law but that which is certain and universal in its operation upon all the members of the community.” —Benjamin Rush (1788)
Fellow Patriots, on this day in 1948, Margaret Chase Smith of Maine became the first woman to be elected to both houses of Congress after winning a Senate seat in a special election. By the way, she was a Republican. In today’s news, another high-profile woman, Jennifer Granholm, struggles with traveling in an electric vehicle. —Mark Alexander
The evidence suggests Joe Biden committed impeachable offenses, but politics will certainly save him.
Nate Jackson
Impeachment is by definition a political solution to a political problem. The Founders installed the mechanism in our Constitution before political parties were a thing, but they did so with deliberately vague language left to be interpreted by Congress: “The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.”
Joe Biden perhaps took bribes as part of an influence-peddling operation via his son Hunter Biden. Obviously, we’ve been covering that corruption for some time now, but House Republicans yesterday officially launched an impeachment inquiry to ratchet up their own investigation into what we’ve called the Biden Crime Family.
“These are allegations of abuse of power, obstruction and corruption,” said House Speaker Kevin McCarthy. “They warrant further investigation by the House of Representatives. That’s why today I am directing our House committee to open a formal impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden.”
The real problem for Republicans is that Democrats grossly debased the impeachment process with their absurd witch hunt of Donald Trump. After spending years on the Russia hoax, Democrats impeached Trump for a phone call with Ukraine in which they claim he tried working out a quid pro quo for dirt on Biden — who just happened to confess on video to using U.S. aid money as leverage to fire a Ukrainian prosecutor, almost certainly for getting too close to the company Biden’s son worked for.
Based on evidence obtained by the FBI, the Bidens were allegedly paid $10 million for that quid pro quo. Through a series of shell companies, the Biden family raked in at least $20 million for other undefined services — House Republicans already have evidence of that. And as political analyst Dan McLaughlin argues, “There is hardly anything that would have alarmed the Founders more than the prospect of the president being compromised by payoffs from foreign governments.”
Unfortunately, Democrat debasement continued with the second Trump impeachment, though that one doesn’t have anything to do with what Biden actually did.
Now, they’ll debase this process. Note we used the words “absurd witch hunt” above. Well, here’s Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer: “I think the impeachment inquiry is absurd. The American people want us to do something that will make their lives better, not go off on these chases and witch hunts.”
We’d call it a hilarious lack of self-awareness, but Schumer’s no rube; he knows what he’s doing. The Democrats’ best hope is to treat any impeachment inquiry of Biden as being as irredeemably political as their own efforts against Trump.
Unlike Trump, however, Biden has a stout circle of wagons to protect him. Clearly, Schumer’s Senate would never convict Biden, no matter the evidence, even if McCarthy’s slim majority in the House were to end up voting to impeach. But the Senate didn’t convict Trump either, despite a few Republicans breaking ranks the second time.
No, the real wagons circling for Biden are sweetheart Special Counsel David Weiss and the Leftmedia. Weiss has spent years dragging his feet on investigating the Bidens and he can still hamper Republicans, while the Leftmedia worked in concert with social media to suppress information about Biden’s corruption before the 2020 election.
Just stop and think for a minute: If journalists had committed actual journalism instead of censorship before the 2020 election, Trump probably would have won. That would mean no January 6 or second impeachment. It would mean no dementia-addled Biden causing all manner of chaos around the globe and even defiling 9/11. It would mean no impeachment inquiry of a corrupt old swamp dweller because he’d still be in his Delaware basement ignoring his seventh grandchild. It would mean Biden couldn’t have ignited the inflation fire, saving American workers and their hard-earned wages.
Real journalism could’ve spared the American people an awful lot of trouble if only journalists were interested in doing it.
Alas.
Democrats know they have an incredibly valuable political action committee in the media. That’s why the White House drafted a letter to major outlets asking them to “ramp up their scrutiny” of Republicans “for opening an impeachment inquiry based on lies.” The letter is unnecessary; “reporters” know what to do without it.
So, here we are, staring down another hyper-partisan impeachment process. The facts will be obscured by the same old red vs. blue grudge match. Republicans may regret this when, like voters rallying around Trump because of his indictments, others rally around Biden because of impeachment.
At the same time, McCarthy said, “House Republicans have uncovered serious, credible, allegations into President Biden’s conduct.” That is true, and there’s a mechanism for dealing with that conduct.
Exit question: Will this somehow become the off ramp for Biden to step aside either voluntarily or by DNC demand in 2024?
Maybe Biden will say he’s “protecting” his family from being dragged through more mud. Maybe Democrats will want a more credible candidate. We’ve already said he won’t be the nominee, so now Democrats just have to figure out a way around Biden’s ultimate impeachment insurance: Kamala Harris.
An agency whistleblower claims that a CIA investigation into COVID-19’s origins was bought and paid for.
Douglas Andrews
By now, we all know that the COVID-19 pandemic didn’t originate in the wild; that its genesis wasn’t the result of a fruit bat getting frisky with a pangolin.
We all know that it came from a lab in communist China. Common sense dictates it. Senator Tom Cotton called it within days of the outbreak. The stone’s-throw proximity of the Wuhan Institute of Virology to the location of initial outbreak makes any other scenario seem about as implausible as the Steele dossier, about as unlikely as Hunter Biden’s laptop being Russian disinformation.
Indeed, we know where the virus came from despite Anthony Fauci’s best efforts to cover it up due to his agency’s funding of the ChiComs’ dangerous gain-of-function research.
These days, only the lowest of low-information voters believe the virus emerged naturally rather than artificially. Heck, even Jon Stewart long ago embraced the “chocolatey goodness” of the truth.
Looking back, we were struck by how reluctant so many ostensibly intelligent people were to come to this obvious conclusion. We always figured either money or professional embarrassment were behind it — or, in the case of Fauci, both. But now, thanks to a Central Intelligence Agency whistleblower, we have yet another reason to follow the money.
According to that longtime CIA officer, his agency commissioned an investigation into COVID-19’s origins, and then, when it didn’t like the investigative team’s findings, it paid them to change their position. A letter sent Tuesday from House Coronavirus Pandemic Subcommittee Chairman Brad Wenstrup and House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Turner to CIA Director William Burns provides the details:
A multi-decade, senior-level, current Agency officer has come forward to provide information to the Committees regarding the Agency’s analysis into the origins of COVID-19. According to the whistleblower, the Agency assigned seven officers to a COVID Discovery Team (Team). The Team consisted of multi-disciplinary and experienced officers with significant scientific expertise. According to the whistleblower, at the end of its review, six of the seven members of the Team believed the intelligence and science were sufficient to make a low confidence assessment that COVID-19 originated from a laboratory in Wuhan, China. The seventh member of the Team, who also happened to be the most senior, was the lone officer to believe COVID-19 originated through zoonosis. The whistleblower further contends that to come to the eventual public determination of uncertainty, the other six members were given a significant monetary incentive to change their position.
That last sentence is stunning. It says that the agency’s analysis is for sale. The officers on the CIA’s COVID Discovery Team were nearly unanimous in their conclusion that the coronavirus originated from the Wuhan lab, but they were then bought off.
And yet it’s not so stunning at all, is it? The CIA simply isn’t what it used to be. This morning, upon reading these revelations, one of our colleagues invoked Captain Renault: He was shocked — SHOCKED — to learn that the agency’s report was inconclusive.
The letter from Wenstrup and Turner continues: “These allegations, from a seemingly credible source, requires the Committees to conduct further oversight of how the CIA handled its internal investigation into the origins of COVID-19. To assist the Committees with their investigations, we request the following documents and information as soon as possible, but no later than September 26, 2023.”
Why would the CIA be so dead-set against acknowledging the strength of the lab-leak theory? What might cause it to essentially jump into bed with the communist Chinese? Perhaps those within the agency who bought off the investigative team were bought off themselves.
Or perhaps they were rabid partisans. Perhaps they were Trump-hating Democrats, and they were thus loath to be seen as siding with the then-president, who’d been calling COVID-19 “the China Virus” all along, and whose tough-on-China policies had not only made the communist Chinese unhappy but also discomfited the go-along get-along Washington establishment.
In any case, we see this as a deeply troubling matter of national security, and we look forward to seeing where the evidence takes these House Republicans as they do their constitutionally prescribed duty of oversight.
Incomes fall for three consecutive years, inflation’s rising again, DOJ indicts five ex-Memphis officers, and more.
Thomas Gallatin & Jordan Candler
Cross-Examination
Incomes fall three years straight: One of the major reasons why a majority of Americans aren’t buying the Bidenomics lie is because of what they are experiencing with their bank accounts. For the third straight year, American households’ inflation-adjusted median income has fallen. In 2022, median household income came in at $74,580, a decrease of 2.3% from 2021, when the number was $76,330. Despite the fact that wages have grown, sustained high inflation means the cost of everything is increasingly outpacing that wage growth, and Americans are finding themselves getting further and further behind. Demonstrating this unfortunate reality, last year the nation’s poverty rate jumped to 12.4%, more than doubling from 2020’s 5.2%. Bidenomics, folks.
Inflation is rising again: Speaking of inflation, for the second month in a row it grew again in August by 0.3%, rising to 3.7% over this time last year. Leading the way on the inflationary increase were energy prices, which rose 5.6% over the prior month, with the price of gas jumping 10.6%. Food prices rose 0.2% and housing costs increased 0.3%. This upturn in inflation effectively decreased wage earnings by 0.5% on the month. The question is whether the Federal Reserve will continue hiking interest rates, which it has increased by 5.25% since March 2022.
COVID aid theft: On Tuesday, the Government Accountability Office released a report estimating that as much as $135 billion in COVID unemployment aid had been stolen by fraudsters. To put it another way, out of every $7 in aid the government handed out, $1 of it was stolen. The GAO faulted both the Trump and Biden administrations for failing to close technical and legal loopholes that were exploited by criminals. Between April 2020 and May 2023, the time span over which the federal government declared a public health emergency, an estimated 11% to 15% of the $900 billion the federal government shelled out in unemployment insurance was stolen. The GAO also noted that the “full extent of [unemployment] fraud during the pandemic will likely never be known with certainty.”
Biden’s deadly border: According to a recently released report from the UN’s International Organization for Migration (IOM), there were 686 deaths and disappearances of migrants trekking toward the U.S. southern border last year alone. That number makes the migration routes through Mexico the world’s deadliest. Of course, this is yet another data point showing the inhumanity of Joe Biden’s de facto open border, and it should be used as a call for Biden to uphold and enforce the border more aggressively to stop this problem. As for the IOM, its response was to instead call for “decisive action to create regular legal migration pathways.”
Kamala won’t set an abortion limit: When Republicans like Florida Governor Ron DeSantis accurately note that Democrats don’t want any limits placed on abortions even all the way up to the point of birth, Democrats and the Leftmedia howl and insist that DeSantis is lying. Well, time and again when Democrat politicians are pressed on the issue, they end up proving DeSantis correct. A recent example comes courtesy of Kamala Harris, who was asked by CBS’s Margaret Brennan, “What week of pregnancy should abortion access be cut off?” Harris at first obfuscated. “We’re not trying to do something new,” she insisted, but Democrats just want to “restore the protections of Roe [v.] Wade.” To her credit, Brennan pushed back on Harris, noting that Roe was “nebulous … about viability, which could be anywhere between 20 to 24 weeks.” Harris continued to deflect by refusing to agree to any limit placed on abortion, only asserting, “Abortion should be a private matter between a woman and her doctor.”
DOJ indicts five officers in Nichols case: The federal government has indicted five former Memphis police officers with criminal charges related to the beating death of Tyre Nichols last year. Following the incident, the five officers were fired. The former officers all already have been charged by the state of Tennessee with second-degree murder and aggravated assault, among other charges. This case has failed to gain much national attention likely because it doesn’t fit the “racist cop” narrative. All individuals involved are black. Released video footage of the beating appears pretty damning. Despite this, all the former officers have maintained their innocence, with a lawyer representing one of the men calling for the release of additional footage surrounding the incident.
Headlines
Ex-FBI agent Timothy Thibault, accused of Hunter Biden political bias, meets with Congress (Washington Examiner)
Sexually explicit library books subject of congressional hearing (Just the News)
Washington University to cease all hormone treatments to minors (RedState)
Democrat AG rebuffs New Mexico governor, refuses to defend gun carry ban in court (Daily Wire)
California Dems pass concealed-carry restrictions that could lead to Supreme Court challenge (National Review)
DC teens are committing crimes in droves. Punishment is light. (Free Beacon)
Even blue-state voters oppose a ban on new gas-powered cars, poll shows (Free Beacon)
Policy: FEMA money should go to disaster-stricken Americans, not illegal aliens (Daily Signal)
Satire: McCarthy announces he has greenlit a probe to examine the possibility of investigating preliminary meetings into whether or not they should begin to consider the future likelihood of hypothetical impeachment hearings sometime later down the road (Babylon Bee)
It’s rather amusing when promoting electric vehicles goes spectacularly wrong.
Emmy Griffin
Summer road trips are always an experience, as Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm just found out. Granholm set off on a four-day excursion in an attempt to promote the ease, convenience, and necessity of electric vehicles (EVs). She had an entire entourage of EVs with her, including the Cadillac Lyriq, a Ford F-150, and a Chevy Bolt. What she didn’t quite account for was all the extra planning and thinking she had to do to make this trip feasible. Even with all the help she had at her fingertips, the trip wasn’t exactly a model vacation.
NPR sent a correspondent on the trip with Granholm to detail the journey. While documenting the trip, Camila Domonoske couldn’t help giving away important details that immediately undermined the purpose of the road trip — to be an EV advertisement. What was alluded to but not explicitly mentioned is that, along with their entourage of electric vehicles, there was also an advanced team of gas-powered cars used to ensure rescue and assuage other logistical concerns they had with their EVs. But even with NPR’s guaranteed leftist slant, it was hard to gloss over what happened next.
Granholm’s biggest hiccup happened just as she was traveling through Grovetown near Augusta, Georgia. Granholm and her team needed to stop for a fast charge, and her gas-powered advanced team encountered a major problem. The charging stations were almost full, so one of the team members used their non-electric vehicle to save the last free charging station for the energy secretary.
Along came a family on a road trip who also had planned a stop at this station. They noticed the gas car in the only free electric charging station. It was a hot day, they had an infant in the car, and their car was quickly losing charge. The injustice of being edged out of a station because of a gas car was deeply frustrating. So frustrating, in fact, that the family called the cops. Unfortunately for the family, there was nothing the police could do, so they were forced to wait. Granholm’s team eventually did some juggling, including sending the other EVs in the entourage to other, slower charging stations so that the family could charge their EV.
This ironic situation and very bad PR for the energy secretary was the icing on the cake of a frustrating road trip.
NPR’s reporter admits, “EVs that aren’t Teslas have a road trip problem.” That is probably being kind. Really, all EVs aren’t the practical road-trip choice. EVs have a logistical, infrastructure, charging speed, cost, and overall practicality problem.
On a side note, it was definitely a political snub on the part of the energy secretary not to use a Tesla as one of her road-trip cars. As Hot Air’s David Strom points out: “Teslas are … the cars that are easiest to charge, with a far more plentiful and reliable charging network. As with everything else Granholm does[,] politics trumped practicality.”
The planning that goes into a road trip with an EV is ridiculous. In spite of apps that should help locate a charging station on the fly, there is a lot more thought needed when picking one. You need to make sure there is a charging station within the EV’s driving radius. Then you need to make sure it’s the speed-charging station you need: 20-30 mins (fast) or 3-5 hours (slow). Then you have to make sure the location is compatible with your needs. Fast charging is preferable near a restaurant, and slow charging is preferable near a hotel. This is going backwards vis-à-vis all the advances that we have made in road-tripping with gas vehicles — you plug in your destination and there are easy gas stops all along the way.
Moreover, we don’t really have the infrastructure to support a high volume of EVs on the road. There aren’t enough charging stations or units at the stations. EV owners occasionally report encountering a charger that won’t work, causing more delays, frustrations, and anxieties.
Then there’s the impracticality of having to make long stops for recharging. Even having to stop 30 minutes for a fast charge is slow when compared to stopping at a gas pump.
Not only that, but charging an EV is still more expensive than pumping gas. According to Business Insider: “Charging any of these vehicles at home will run about $12.62 per 100 miles while fueling one at a gas station may run about $11.08. That difference, while not incredibly substantial, may add up — and when these drivers go to a public charging station, they’re likely to pay about $16.10 per 100 miles.”
NPR’s accounting of cost is vague and not specific, probably to make it a selling point. Only one of the vehicles in the entourage saved money, and it’s unclear if that was only on one leg of the journey or more consistently throughout. Travel cost is a very important consideration for most American families.
Perhaps the biggest hiccup of all for the “green” electric vehicles is that, ultimately, they aren’t cutting carbon emissions. Those charging stations are run by electricity, and electricity is primarily produced by carbon-emitting plants (mostly because ecofascists are against carbon-free nuclear power). The more electric needs there are, the more electric plants are going to be needed to provide enough electricity.
The “green technology” of electric vehicles doesn’t match the hype of climate activist politicians like Secretary Granholm. It is not close to where it needs to be to present a positive, practical, and energy-efficient means of transportation. If having the cops called on Granholm didn’t illustrate that fact, the other inconveniences of the trip should have.
Another point that should indicate to the “green energy”-pushing politicians that they’re doing it wrong is that they feel like they have to sell it to the American people. If the tech were practical and improved the lives of everyday Americans, they would buy it unsolicited. That’s how cars gained prevalence in the first place over horses and buggies. The fact is that green energy caters to ecofascism’s “god of the gaps.” The bogeyman of climate change is rooted in a people-last agenda, and that’s always going to be a difficult sell to a discerning public.
Americans are cutting cable at increasing rates, costing ESPN its media empire.
Thomas Gallatin
News that Disney and cable company Charter had finally reached an agreement on Monday, mere hours before the 2023 season kickoff of “Monday Night Football,” brought a sigh of relief for millions of fans who would have been blacked out of seeing the game.
However, despite the last-minute deal, this latest episode revealed the continuing slow death of cable TV, and, more particularly, ESPN’s media empire.
Sports and political commentator Clay Travis has an excellent but lengthy article explaining how and why this is happening, but we’ll hit a few important points.
First off, Disney owns ESPN, which is the number one sports media company in the country. But Disney, despite all its wokeness, is not (entirely) why ESPN is dying.
Back in 2014, ESPN was on top of the world. Launched in September 1979, it had become the most successful cable channel/network in history. Thanks to cable bundling, ESPN was in 100 million households in America.
But that same year happened to be the beginning of a steady decline for ESPN. While ESPN is certainly not dead yet, it may be without a serious course correction.
So, what is killing ESPN? The short answer is Netflix. Or, to put it more accurately, online streaming. The cable bundle package model is dying, as evidenced by Americans cutting cable at an increasing rate and switching to streaming.
As of today, ESPN is down 30% from its 2014 high. But for the last-minute deal with Charter, the sports media company would have been down to 55 million households, or just over half of its 2014 total.
Meanwhile, Netflix — which first introduced the concept of originally created content (“House of Cards”) for its streaming service back in 2013 — created the media model that has become mainstream. Not only did Netflix kill Blockbuster Video, but its streaming model is now killing cable.
Back in 2014, the market value of Disney was roughly $84 a share. At the same time, Netflix was valued at $57 a share. Today, Disney is worth $81 a share, while Netflix stock has risen to $445 a share.
Disney’s ESPN is a large part of that market stagnancy. The sports media company is taking on water with its massive contracts for sports media rights. Paying for rights to run NFL, MLB, NBA, and NHL games isn’t cheap. But with sinking viewership and revenue, at least by the old measurement, can ESPN afford multibillion-dollar contracts? The network can’t afford not to pay because, unlike Netflix, ESPN doesn’t produce much lasting content.
ESPN has simply acted as the clearinghouse for sports fans. Once the live sporting events are watched, however, most fans have little use for the channel. People tuned into ESPN because that was where they were able to see all the sports. Now, that near-monopoly is falling apart.
Finally, we said Disney and wokeness aren’t entirely responsible for ESPN’s decline, but clearly the network did itself no favors by alienating so many fans when it decided to wade into politics. When the channel took a hard-left turn, seen in such events as its ESPY “Arthur Ashe Courage Award” awarded to Bruce “Caitlyn” Jenner in 2015, the writing was on the wall. It was a slap in the face to sports fans because it was a deliberate politicization of sports and, frankly, exploitation of a men’s sports legend.
That virtue signal told American sports fans that ESPN had lost its focus on sports. The reality of the shift was only further confirmed by ESPN’s embrace of Colin Kaepernick, BLM, and other hard-left political crusades. Sports used to be a way to bring people together, even while rooting for different teams. Now it’s just another element of life politicized by the Left. Why stick around and watch?
What’s worse? When politicians shut down the government, or when they lock down businesses, stores, schools, churches and restaurants — and nearly all private commerce in America?
If you haven’t heard, the media and congressional Democrats are near cardiac arrest over the prospect of a government shutdown later this year. They may need smelling salts. How dare Congress shut down our vital government services when they are deadlocked on the budget?
But we didn’t hear these kinds of drama queen histrionics when Congress, governors and mayors locked down nearly every private business during COVID in 2020. That effectively brought our economy to a standstill for six months.
Almost overnight, millions of Americans were out of their jobs. Small business revenues collapsed, and tens of thousands of men and women who had put their whole life into their businesses were thrown into bankruptcy due to government lockdown edicts.
Some liberals want to empower the government to shut down the private economy from time to time to combat climate change.
Apparently, the new rules are: You can close the doors of every small business in America, but don’t you dare shut down the Department of Education or Interior or National Public Radio for one day or there will be blood in the streets, senior citizens won’t get their meals on wheels and disabled children won’t have access to social services.
I’m NOT in favor of a government shutdown. But they aren’t the end of the world. The Congressional Research Service reports there have been at least 20 government shutdowns since Jimmy Carter was president. Did anyone outside of Washington really notice that the Federal Trade Commission or the Commodities Future Trading Commission couldn’t meet?
By the way, only “nonessential” programs would be temporarily closed if there were a budget impasse, which raises the question of why a government $2 trillion a year in debt is spending so much money on nonessential anything.
The joke used to be that if you asked a New Yorker to draw a map of the country, they would put a line down the middle of the U.S. and declare everything on the eastern half of the U.S. New York. They had an inflated sense of self-importance.
Now that arrogance characterizes Washington — those who live in “the swamp.” THEY are essential, and the work the rest of us do is trivial. They’ve forgotten that they work for us, not the other way around.
Rather than a government shutdown, wouldn’t it be a joyous occasion if the two parties would pass a financially responsible budget that cuts wasteful spending and at least makes a pretense of trying to reach balance in the next five or eight or 10 years?
The fact that the U.S. government now spends and consumes $7 trillion, nearly one-quarter of our entire GDP, is a depressing state of affairs. Cut it to 20% and we get close to a balanced budget.
Some things are worth fighting for. The Democrats’ alternative to a partial shutdown would be to continue to borrow $2 trillion a year from now into infinity. Did you know that the fastest growing component of our debt is the interest payments on the $33 trillion negative balance on the credit card?
This is the real clear and present danger. This trend line of debt spending could plunge the economy into a deep recession, with millions of Americans plunged into poverty and unemployment lines.
Never again should we allow government to shut down our private economy. The shutdowns during COVID were one of the greatest abuses of power in American history. That’s doubly true now that we have solid evidence that lockdowns didn’t have any positive health effect.
But if it takes a short-term shutdown of some government agencies to force Congress and the White House to get serious about our fiscal ineptitude, then do it. It’s for the children.
“I think the [Biden] impeachment inquiry is absurd. The American people want us to do something that will make their lives better, not go off on these chases and witch hunts.” —Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY)
The BIG Lie
“Within that broken immigration system, we are challenged by an unprecedented level of displacement in the western hemisphere of historic proportions. We have responded with a model approach that has proven to work, which is to build lawful pathways for individuals to arrive in a safe and orderly way, and to deliver consequences for those who don’t meet them.” —DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas
Authoritarianism
“It’s not for police to tell me what’s constitutional or not. They haven’t supported … one gun violence effort in the state of New Mexico. … These are NRA talking points about their rights and not about anybody else’s. And it’s not a ban. It’s a temporary pause so that we can make this community safer.” —New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham, who banned the carrying of guns in Albuquerque for 30 days
For the Record
“[Michelle Lujan Grisham] says she wants to ‘make New Mexicans safer,’ but she might have been better off taking a cue from the ridiculous plea for a daytime cease-fire in Chicago. Criminals are about as likely to obey her order as they are to, you know, not murder someone.” —Nate Jackson
Government & Politics
“The joke used to be that if you asked a New Yorker to draw a map of the country, they would put a line down the middle of the U.S. and declare everything on the eastern half of the U.S. New York. They had an inflated sense of self-importance. Now that arrogance characterizes Washington — those who live in ‘the swamp.’ THEY are essential, and the work the rest of us do is trivial. They’ve forgotten that they work for us, not the other way around.” —Stephen Moore
“This is the American tragedy in a nutshell: The Left votes its values. The Right votes its values. Liberals do not vote their values. Liberalism has almost nothing in common with leftism, yet virtually every liberal votes for the Left.” —Dennis Prager
And Last…
“Of all the explanations for the rise in crime in America, none may be more accurate than the lack of swift and certain punishment.” —Cal Thomas
The July military coup in the west African country of Niger has once again brought attention to the fact that the U.S. government runs a global military empire that serves Washington’s special interests, and not the national interest.
Before the coup made news headlines, most Americans—including many serving in Congress—had no idea the U.S. government maintains more than 1,000 troops stationed on several U.S. bases in Niger. But it’s even worse than that. A recent report in The Intercept suggests the Pentagon repeatedly misled Congress about the extent and the cost of the U.S. presence in Niger.
According to The Intercept, “in testimony before the House and Senate Armed Services Committees in March, the chief of US Africa Command described Air Base 201 (in Niger) as ‘minimal’ and ‘low cost.’” In fact the U.S. government has spent a quarter of a billion dollars on the base since construction began in 2016.
So when did Congress declare war so as to legalize U.S. military operations in Niger? They didn’t. But as Kelley Vlahos writes in Responsible Statecraft, U.S. troops have been “training” the military in Niger since 2013 and the U.S. government has constructed a number of military bases to “fight terrorism” in the country and region.
Does that mean that the Pentagon is operating in Niger under the 2001 authorization for the use of military force (AUMF) meant to track down those who attacked the U.S. on 9/11? It’s a good question and thankfully one being asked by Sen. Rand Paul in a recent letter sent to Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin.
Senator Paul first pointed out in the letter, “the Administration’s limitless interpretation of the 9/11 AUMF and frequent use of Title 10 authorities results in military operations abroad conducted with little Congressional oversight and even less public scrutiny.” Such actions “undermine our Constitution,” he writes as he asks, “in how many countries are U.S. forces conducting operations authorized by the 2001 AUMF.”
Ironically—or maybe not—one of the coup leaders in NIger had been trained by the Pentagon at Ft. Benning, Georgia, and at the National Defense University in Washington, DC. What is the U.S. government training foreign military officers to do, exactly? Overthrow their own governments?
Whatever the case, it appears the coup government in Niger may be seeking a withdrawal of foreign military on its soil. Mass protests against French military presence has led the French government to begin talks with the coup government on withdrawal. There are rumors that the coup government may next request U.S. troops to leave the country.
We should pre-empt their possible request by withdrawing all U.S. troops immediately from Niger (and the rest of Africa) and closing all military bases. The claim that the U.S. government is fighting terrorism in the area is doubtful. After all, in both Libya and in Syria the U.S. government backed terrorist groups against governments it sought to overthrow. President Biden’s national security advisor Jake Sullivan famously wrote to his then-boss Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in 2012 that, “in Syria, al-Qaeda is on our side.”
Congress must step up and exercise its oversight authority to end the counter-productive U.S. military presence in Africa. Our military empire is bankrupting us and turning the rest of the world against us.
Bret Baier, Chief Political Anchor for Fox News & Anchor of Special Report with Bret Baier, weeknights at 6pm, and author of the upcoming book To Rescue the Constitution: George Washington and the Fragile American Experiment (Out October 10rd 2023) joined the Guy Benson Show to discuss the new impeachment inquiry into Biden made by House Republicans, as well as Biden lying about his 9/11 appearances and the state of the 2024 presidential election on both sides of the isle.
Joe Biden participates in an interview with Israeli journalist Yonit Levi, Tuesday, July 12, 2022, in the Indian Treaty Room of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building at the White House. (Official White House photo by Adam Schultz)
No sooner had House Speaker Kevin McCarthy announced an inquiry into whether Joe Biden should be impeached, based on evidence Congress already has obtained about alleged corruption, than the White House announced it wanted legacy media corporations to fight back against the review of the evidence.
A report from the Daily Mail revealed Biden’s White House plans to send letters to major news organizations including CNN and the Associated Press “demanding they probe the ‘lies’ of the House GOP’s impeachment inquiry.”
The AP, even before the letter officially was dispatched, seemed on board, with its claims that the Republicans have been “aggressively” investigating Biden and have been making claims “without evidence.”
Since gaining the House majority, House Republicans have aggressively investigated Biden and his son, claiming without evidence that they engaged in an influence peddling scheme.
That includes that “President Biden lied to the American people about knowledge of his family’s foreign business dealings,” the $20 million in payments “directed to Biden family members,” that the family has generated more than 150 “suspicious activity” reports from banks, the FBI document alleging a $10 million bribe to the Bidens, and the entire Burisma scandal, where Joe Biden, as vice president, ordered the Ukrainian government to fire a prosecutor looking into corruption at a company that was paying Hunter Biden millions of dollars.
The Daily Mail report said Ian Sams, a special assistant to the president, “penned a letter to both conservative and liberal-leaning outlets, slated to be distributed Wednesday in an apparent attempt to influence their coverage.”
Targeted are CNN, New York Times, AP, and Fox News.
The report explained Sams wrote, “It’s time for the media to ramp up its scrutiny of House Republicans for opening an impeachment inquiry based on lies.”
He continued that the inquiry should “set off alarm bells for news organizations.”
Democrats, when Nancy Pelosi was House speaker, in fact launched two impeach-and-remove campaigns against President Trump, both unsuccessful. One was based on a phone call he had raising questions about Biden family corruption in Ukraine, and the other about his comments regarding the 2020 election faults.
The second was based on no evidence submitted to Congress at all, no witnesses, and no testimony.
In response, the Daily Mail reported, journalist Matthew Keys tweeted: “This is not okay. The White House should not be encouraging, influencing or interfering in the editorial strategies of America’s newsrooms, including CNN and the New York Times.”
He continued, “The media is the problem. The bigger problem, at the moment, is what the White House is apparently planning to do, if Oliver Darcy’s reporting is correct (I have no doubt it is). And that is the kind of short-sighted move that gets Donald Trump re-elected next year.”
He was referring to CNN’s Oliver Darcy, who first broke news of the letter.
The report explained Sams described the Republican Party as including “every day liars and hucksters” who “peddle disinformation and lies everywhere from Facebook to Fox.”
Sams just hours earlier had claimed on social media there’s “no evidence” of wrongdoing by Biden.
McCarthy announced the inquiry, confirming, “‘House Republicans have uncovered serious and credible allegations into President Biden’s conduct. Taken together these allegations paint a picture of a culture of corruption.”
House Republican Conference Chair Rep. Elise Stefanik explains her support for Speaker McCarthy’s impeachment inquiry against President Biden and her opposition to New York’s consideration of work permits for migrants. #FoxNews
ALBUQUERQUE, NM — Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham called yet another news conference to announce she was now suspending the First Amendment to silence the heavy criticism she has received for suspending the Second Amendment.
“I am officially declaring that people criticizing me for stripping constitutional rights is a public health emergency,” she said when making the controversial announcement. “Due to the terrifying response to my second amendment decision, I am feeling really bad about myself I now have no choice but to suspend the First Amendment as well. So…you know…be quiet. QUIET!”
The assembled members of the media, now having the freedom of the press suspended, remained awkwardly silent for the duration of the press conference. “I’ll now open up the floor to anyone who has questions,” the governor said. “Oh, that’s right — I took away your right to speak! Haha! Whatcha gonna do now, huh? That’s right — nothing! Take that, losers!”
Constitutional scholars quickly expressed doubt over Governor Lujan Grisham’s authority to suspend entire sections of the U.S. Constitution. “Yeah, she can’t do that,” said Professor Blake Rumsey. “She’s just the governor of a state. And, let’s be real here, New Mexico is barely even a real state.”
At publishing time, Governor Lujan Grisham was last seen poring over a copy of the Constitution behind closed doors, salivating as she searched for more basic American rights she could strip away from people.
In Disney’s upcoming reboot of 1937’s Snow White, will the Prince kiss the sleeping princess? Or will he obtain her consent first?
Freedom Caucus Chairman Scott Perry (R-PA) unloaded on a reporter who claimed Republicans’ impeachment inquiry of Joe Biden is “political revenge.”
Speaker McCarthy on Tuesday announced he is directing House committees to open an impeachment inquiry against Joe Biden.
“I am directing our House committees to open a formal impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden. Over the past several months, House Republicans have uncovered serious and credible allegations into President Biden’s conduct—a culture of corruption,” McCarthy said.
A British reporter asked Rep. Perry “what actual evidence” Republicans have to show to the American public that would merit an impeachment inquiry of Joe Biden.
The reporter accused Republicans of using impeachment to enact “political revenge.”
“This is not about political revenge! We have the actual bank accounts!” Perry said. “You can see that the homes that the Bidens own can’t be afforded on a congressional or Senate salary. You also understand that it’s not normal for family members to receive millions of dollars from overseas interests. Those things aren’t normal. That’s not normal to have 20 shell companies. These things are not normal and it alludes to not only just widespread corruption, but money laundering, if not influence peddling itself.”
Perry continued, “And we also have the Vice President at the time [Biden] on record saying that the prosecutor was fired – ‘well, son of a bitch! The prosecutor was fired!’ because the prosecutor was going after the company his son [Hunter] was working on. That’s what we have! If you can’t see that! If you are that blind!”
The far-left reporter tried to push back and continued to shill for Joe Biden: “The people don’t see that. They think it’s political revenge!”
Perry blasted her again, “Because you don’t report on it!”
According to a CNN poll, the majority of Americans believe Joe Biden was involved with his son Hunter’s business dealings.
Here is just some of the evidence of Joe Biden’s corruption and bribery schemes:
House Republicans recently announced they now have reviewed 170 suspicious activity reports linked to the Biden Crime Family.
Comer identified the NINE Bidens who are implicated in the corruption.
“Bank records show the Biden family, their associates, and their companies received over $10 million from foreign nationals and their companies,” Comer said.
Senator Chuck Grassley recently released the FBI document showing Joe Biden was involved in a $10 million bribery scheme with Burisma CEO Mykola Zlochevsky.
Joe Biden publicly bragged about bribing Ukraine with $1 billion to fire Viktor Shokin, the Ukrainian Prosecutor General who was investigating Burisma corruption.
Viktor Shokin
I “said: I’m leaving in six hours. If the prosecutor is not fired, you’re not getting the money. Well, son of a bitch. He got fired,” Biden said in 2018.
WATCH:
Democrats accuse Republicans of a witch hunt when they have provided bank statements, emails, texts and documents from Hunter Biden’s laptop from hell, shell companies, trusted informants, witnesses, whistleblowers and reports of audio recordings of the Bidens.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Democrats have expressed aghastment at the GOP’s new low of using impeachment to try to get around an election system that has been thoroughly and substantially rigged.
“Those conniving Republicans are at it again,” said Senator Chuck Schumer ever so nasally from the steps of the Capitol. “They’re always trying to undermine our Constitutional structures just to get around how we undermined our nation’s election process. The nerve!”
Democrats claim Republicans are wasting taxpayer dollars by using bank records, whistleblowers, credible allegations, and first-hand witnesses to scheme their way into removing from office a man who rightfully won the election by millions of rigged votes.
At publishing time, Democrats had expressed worries House Speaker McCarthy would finish the impeachment process sometime in the next 17 years.
In Disney’s upcoming reboot of 1937’s Snow White, will the Prince kiss the sleeping princess? Or will he obtain her consent first?
America’s middle class is being systematically eviscerated. When the Federal Reserve pumped trillions of dollars into the financial system during the pandemic, most Americans didn’t realize what that would do to them. That money certainly made the wealthy a whole lot wealthier, but it also dramatically increased the cost of living for the rest of us. So now inflation has been rising much faster than paychecks have, and the cost of living has become exceedingly oppressive. In fact, last year we witnessed the largest decline in real median household income in more than a decade…
The official tally is in and it is brutal: Americans suffered the biggest drop in household income in 2022 in a dozen years.
Real median household income was $74,580 in 2022, a drop of 2.3 percent from the prior year, the Census Bureau said Tuesday.
This is the biggest drop in household income since 2010, when it household income fell 2.6 percent. That means it is worse than the pandemic decline of 2.2 percent. It is the fourth worst year in records going back to 1985.
In 2010, the U.S. economy was just coming out of the horrible recession that we had just experienced in 2008 and 2009.
Those were not fun times.
And the times that we are moving into will not be fun either.
We are being told that “high inflation” is the primary reason why real median household income is falling…
The declines were driven by high inflation. The measure of inflation that is used to calculate real income rose 7.8 percent, the worst inflation since 1981.
1981 was a long time ago.
But at that time, the U.S. economy quickly recovered under the leadership of President Ronald Reagan.
We will not be so fortunate this time around.
Our leaders flooded the system with giant mountains of money, and almost everyone cheered as they were doing it.
But now we are paying the price.
Recently, a “Gen X mom” named Jessica McCabe made headlines all over the world when she posted a video on TikTok in which she expressed how frustrating it is to watch her adult children deeply struggle in this economy…
“I am so tired of feeling helpless as a parent,” McCabe started off the video. She acknowledged that her son was 25 and her daughter was 28 and explained: “I thought by teaching them what I learned, which is you work hard, you get a good job, you’re gonna get the things in life that you need, right? Worked for me, why wouldn’t it work for them?”
Unfortunately for all of us, the rules have changed.
What worked in the 1980s and 1990s simply does not work today.
In her video, she acknowledged that struggle is a part of life, but she also said that it is just so disheartening to see her kids “get further and further down” no matter how hard they try…
She continued: “I see them struggling, and before my generation comes at me, yes, I understand struggling as a part of life. We all struggle, but there’s a difference between struggling and drowning. So we struggled, and it was tough. But you know what, we made it. We knew there was a light at the end of the tunnel with our struggle. It seems like kids today, no matter how much they struggle, they just get further and further down.”
Sadly, this is the reality of life for most Americans today.
More than 60 percent of the nation is currently living paycheck to paycheck, and former Ford CEO Mark Fields just admitted to CNBC that someone needs to make more than $100,000 a year just to be able to afford a new vehicle these days…
The former Ford CEO said that a consumer has to “make over $100,000 to afford a new car.” As a result, the price of vehicles is starting to come down, which is leading to an inventory correction.
“Vehicles are getting older, they need to be replaced.”
Americans are keeping their vehicles longer than ever, and that is because most of us simply cannot afford to replace them.
As I have discussed previously, Americans are increasingly turning to debt to help make ends meet from month to month.
Credit card debt surged dramatically during the second quarter, and this is starting to become an enormous problem…
American households now have an average of $10,170 credit card debt, as record numbers say they are worried about being cut off from access to loans.
Data from the New York Federal Reserve shows nationwide credit card debt swelled by $43 billion in the second quarter of the year – the second largest increase on record.
Meanwhile a separate survey by the Fed revealed 60 percent of respondents found it more difficult to access credit – the highest level since the data series began in June 2013.
I warned my readers that the flow of credit would start to get tighter and tighter.
And now it is happening.
Right now, so many formerly middle class Americans have been pushed into what I call “the impoverished class”, and many that were formerly poor now find themselves pushed out into the streets.
In fact, according to the Wall Street Journal we have witnessed the largest increase in homelessness ever recorded this year…
The United States has seen the biggest ever spike in homeless people living on the streets – as preliminary figures showed a record 11 percent increase in one year.
There are nearly 600,000 rough sleepers across cities and towns in America, and the jump from 2022 to 2023 so far is the highest since the government started tracking the data in 2007, according to the WSJ.
Places like Oakland and San Francisco in California have become hotbeds for homelessness, as people living on the streets are like ‘drug tourists’ who arrive to have easy access to narcotics.
So please don’t believe anyone that tries to convince you that the economy is doing just fine.
It most certainly is not.
Homeless encampments are popping up like mushrooms all over the nation, and many communities are not pleased about this at all.
For example, just check out what has been happening in Austin, Texas…
Shocking footage has exposed the scene in an Austin park filled with liquor bottles, needles, Narcan and junk ‘as far as the eye can see,’ as a homeless encampment continues to grow.
The videos were of the West Bouldin Creek Greenbelt were posted on Monday by activist Jamie Hammonds, who reports from the Texas capital on the X page @DocumentingATX.
‘Another Greenbelt destroyed here in Austin… nothing but trash and junk as far as you can see… this is absolutely horrible,’ Hammonds said, adding that the encampment was at least the size of a football field, and you could smell it ‘even before you enter the greenbelt.’
And as things get worse, the middle class will continue to shrink.
It is almost as if we are all playing a really bizarre game of musical chairs.
With each passing day, even more spots in the middle class are being removed from the game, and the ranks of “the impoverished class” continue to grow larger and larger.
Michael’s new book entitled “End Times” is now available in paperback and for the Kindle on Amazon.com, and you can check out his new Substack newsletter right here.
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.
UN Disarmarment Representative Izumi Nakamitsu: We must “make every effort for peace”
US funds for Ukraine stand at $110.97 billion, Fox News reported on Tuesday, citing a document by the Office of Management and Budget of the White House. The UN Disarmament head called on the world to “make every effort for peace.” US Chief of Staff Mark Milley believes Ukraine may only have “30 days of fighting weather left” this year.
In the week of Sept. 2-9, Ukraine lost 5,955 casualties in its slow-moving counter-offensive, the Russian Ministry of Defense claimed. On Sept. 5, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu claimed that Ukraine had lost 66,000 men since the start of its counter-offensive June 4, which was supposed to break through to Crimea and the Black Sea before the end of fighting season, when fall rains set in. Ukraine has only made minor gains despite heavy losses of men and materiel.
The Russian estimates would put total Ukrainian casualties in the counter-offensive at 72,000. Observers including Col. Douglas MacGregor and presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. had claimed Ukraine had lost approx. 350,000 men before the start of the offensive. That would put total Ukrainian casualties at 422,000 since the Russian invasion.
The Ukraine Ministry of Defense claims that Russia has lost 270,350 men since the start of the invasion Feb. 24. Other sources put the number of Russian casualties at 50,000. Russian President Vladimir Putin has claimed an 8 to 1 casualty rate in Russia’s favor.
“The most important thing, number one, is you gotta get rid of doubt.” Nipsey Hussle
Total combat losses of the enemy from February 24, 2022 to September 13, 2023: pic.twitter.com/Jyynhut35h
“The world cannot afford for this senseless war to continue,” said UN High Representative for Disarmament Affairs Izumi Nakamitsu, appealing to all Member States to “make every effort for peace”.
At the meeting of the UN Security Council Sept. 12, British-Hungarian Journalist George Szamuely testified that “war could have easily been avoided” if NATO and the USA had been willing to negotiate with Russia. “At the heart of Russia’s proposals was a commitment by NATO to no further expansion, and in particular to no NATO membership for Ukraine,” Szamuely said. “There was nothing at all unreasonable about these demands, nothing there that could not have been addressed with a little deft diplomacy.”
The UK representative Dame Barbara Woodward accused Moscow of misusing the Security Council to obfuscate its responsibility for atrocities in Ukraine, pin blame on the West and hide its own failures. “Let us call this meeting out for the farce that it is,” she said.
While pro-NATO western media report Ukrainian advances in the south, the interactive maps released by the NATO-aligned Institute for the Study of War show the front lines nearly unchanged since June.
The Kiev regime has sustained such losses in its counteroffensive attempt that “never should have taken place,” that “it could be about 30 days before the Ukrainian army would be completely out of ammunition and manpower,” retired US Army Lieutenant Colonel Earl Rasmussen told Russian government-controlled Sputnik News.
As for the looming change in the weather, it “will be so bad (the Ukrainian army) won’t be able to move forward, and will become even more of a target for Russian artillery and defensive actions,” Rasmussen said.
“They’re out of ammunition, the West is out of ammunition… They can’t get supplies quickly enough. Not only does the weather play in the ‘30 days’, but they’ve got a lot of other conditions there, too,” Rasmussen said. “I can’t see the Ukrainians doing much right now. There’s no way that they can, even if they wanted to… even before the weather. I always said that this offensive was a suicide mission, and with the weather coming in, it would definitely be a suicide mission to try to advance at all,” Rasmussen told Sputnik News.
Even US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley had to admit Ukraine may not be conquering the Russian-speaking territories in Ukraine anytime soon. Speaking to BBC with UK Chief of Defense Staff Sir Tony Radakin on Sunday , Milley estimated “There’s still a reasonable amount of time, probably about 30 to 45 days’ worth of fighting weather left.”
Milley conceded that the Ukrainians “haven’t achieved – they haven’t finished the fighting part of what they’re trying to accomplish.”
“The Ukrainians aren’t done, this battle’s not done”, Milley said. “We’ll get the cold as you mentioned. It’ll start, uh, the rains will come in, it will become very muddy and it’s be very difficult to maneuver at that point, and then you’ll get to deep winter, and then at that point we’ll see where things go. But right now, it is way too early to say that this offensive is failed or not failed,” Milley said.
Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is questioning whether President Biden has the “vigor” to handle the “very rigorous job” of president of the United States.
In an interview with Fox News Digital, the long-shot Democratic presidential primary challenger urged the 80-year-old Biden to hold “unscripted meetings and interactions with voters” so Americans can determine if the president “is up to the job.”
Biden has faced questions and concerns over his age ever since he made history in 2020 when he became the oldest person ever elected president. If the president wins re-election next year, he would be 82 at his second inauguration and 86 at the end of his second term.
Polls have long indicated that Americans have concerns over Biden’s age. The most recent survey on the issue from CNN indicated that roughly three-quarters of Americans said they were seriously concerned that the president’s age might negatively affect his current level of physical and mental competence and his ability to serve out another full four-year term if re-elected.
Republican presidential contenders have repeatedly questioned Biden over his age.
GOP White House candidate and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said Tuesday in a CBS News interview that “I think that’s absolutely a legitimate concern. The presidency’s not a job for someone that’s 80 years old.”
Now, it appears the 69-year-old Kennedy is taking a page from the same political playbook.
“A lot of people will say that ‘well President Biden is surrounded by very good people who will run the country even if he can’t,’ but I don’t think that’s a good way for democracy to work,” Kennedy told Fox News on Tuesday.
The environmental lawyer, high-profile vaccine critic, and a scion of arguably the nation’s most famous political dynasty, raised concerns that “unelected people in lanyards are going to be making critical decisions in a very, very difficult time in our history.”
“It’s important for the American people to know that their president has the vigor to handle this very rigorous job and I think there are enough doubts about that now that President Biden really needs to come out and have an unscripted meetings and interactions with voters, that he needs to do some town halls and retail politics and hopefully a debate so that the American people can make a choice about whether or not the president is up to the job,” Kennedy said.
Kennedy spotlighted concerns over Biden’s age after being asked about comments he made in an interview last week when he said people should be voting for “a president who we expect to complete the term.”
A national Democratic strategist, who asked to remain anonymous to speak more freely, took aim at Kennedy, sarcastically telling Fox News that it’s “absolutely shocking that the pro-Russia, pro-gun, anti-vaxxer candidate pretending to be a Democrat is parroting the same tired, worn out Republican talking points. Give me a break.”
Kennedy was interviewed ahead of a campaign event with voters at Robie’s General Store in Hooksett, New Hampshire, which has long been a must stop in the early voting state by White House contenders.
The candidate reiterated his claims that he’s not getting a fair shake from the Democratic National Committee (DNC).
“The DNC’s own rules say that they have to be neutral during the election but they are very open about having abandoned their neutrality and they’ve made a series of rules that make it almost — if those rules continue — it makes it almost impossible for anybody except Joe Biden to win the primary process,” Kennedy charged.
And he repeated his argument that the DNC is “disenfranchising the Democratic voters” in the primary process.
“We live in a time when a lot of people believe the system is rigged, that democracy is no longer functioning,” Kennedy warned.
He urged that “the Democratic Party ought to be a temple for Democracy. It ought to be role modeling democracy. Most Americans assume that the candidate who wins should be the candidate who gets the most votes and that we should have rules that actually reflect that assumption.”
Kennedy’s concerns with the DNC center on its often at odds roles of being the impartial referee of the presidential nominating process while at the same time following longstanding tradition and precedent of both major national party committees in endorsing and supporting a sitting president’s re-election campaign.
The candidate’s complaints about a Democratic nomination process that favors the president have been coupled in recent days with what appear to be unfounded election rigging allegations against the DNC
DNC Chair Jaime Harrison responded to Kennedy’s allegations in a letter obtained Tuesday by Fox News.
Harrison wrote that it “is clear that there are serious misunderstandings of the Democratic nominating process that are important to correct.”
“I am hopeful that a meeting with our Delegate Selection leadership team will prevent future instances of voters receiving erroneous information that could cause confusion about the equity of the Democratic nominating process,” the DNC chair added.
The latest polls in the Democratic presidential nomination race indicate that Kennedy and fellow primary challenger Marianne Williamson face steep uphill climbs against Biden.
But Kennedy does appear to be gaining some support among independent voters, Libertarians, and even some Republicans.
Asked if he would consider a third party White House run if he doesn’t succeed in the race for the Democratic nomination, Kenney said: “we are hoping that I could run in the Democratic Party and at this point that’s the plan.”
Kennedy reiterated that when it comes to the Democratic nomination race, “I’m very confident that if I’m given a fair shot, that I’m going to win.”
Some of us were concerned that the government would cover up the deaths from the COVID shots and try to move on to the next marketing opportunity (e.g. RSV shots) without any accountability or reckoning. In fact, the GOP opposition to the shots has been so muted and lame that not only has the FDA escaped punishment for approving them, but the agency has now approved new COVID shots in broad daylight … without any human clinical trials! In fact, the agency didn’t even conduct animal trials on eight blind mice, as they did with the Omicron booster!
The more you inject, the more you infect
Let’s forget the fact that the current iteration of COVID is nothing more than a cold and that all those who didn’t have their immune systems destroyed by endless boosters are now immune to serious illness from coronavirus. Thus there is no ethical rationale for even dabbling with an experimental shot, much less one that has already killed and injured millions. However, the shot that the FDA and CDC just approved makes it more likely that you will actually get COVID, and this is well known by our government, based on the last previous rounds of variant-chasing products from Pfizer and Moderna.
Anyone in the vaccinology and immunology business is well aware of the concept of immune imprinting, which creates original antigenic sin. When a therapeutic obsessively trains the body to respond to one version of a pathogen, it causes the body to respond inappropriately against different versions of it. We saw this throughout Omicron as the shots yielded negative efficacy against COVID throughout late 2021 and 2022, even for people who already had COVID.
In fact, a recent Qatari study published in top medical journal Lancet shows the negative efficacy in plain sight. Using a massive sample of testing and vaccination records covering the period from July 2020 through November 2022, the authors found that “effectiveness remained negligible in subsequent months and was notably negative during the BA.4/BA.5 wave in June and July 2022.”
Like Sherlock Holmes, they discover what we all have known about mismatched respiratory viral vaccines: “Some of the vaccine effectiveness measures post Omicron introduction, particularly for booster vaccination, were negative in value, perhaps suggesting negative immune imprinting. This effect was pronounced during the BA.4/BA.5 wave. This finding supports similar recent findings in this same population.10,52 Such imprinting effects have been observed for other infections such as influenza.”
As you can see, the vaccine achieved negative 40% “efficacy” at some points in 2022.
The beauty of “the more you inject, the more you infect” is that it is a stratagem to create even more vulnerability to both COVID and other seasonal respiratory viruses. This in turn sows more fear and, not surprisingly, creates a self-perpetuating market for even more boosters!
Thus, last year, the FDA approved the BA.4 and BA.5 “bivalent boosters” in an attempt to dig out of the original negative efficacy in Omicron. Guess what? Even the New York Times admits that last year’s booster didn’t work because it created immune imprinting.
Unlike the bivalent shots from last fall, the latest mRNA vaccines developed by Pfizer and Moderna are monovalent, meaning they are designed to protect against just one variant: XBB.1.5… Initial data from preprint studies has suggested that the bivalent formula from last year was no more effective against BA.4 and BA.5 than the original vaccine it replaced because of so-called “immune imprinting” bias.
“Our immune system, when we have seen something, is biased to seeing that again,” Dr. Ho said. “So if you include the original components, the immune system will react mostly to the original component and not to the new version of the virus.”
So here we are with round three of variant-chasing boosters promising a different result. The FDA is attempting to claim the this will rectify the problem by only using a monovalent booster for XBB.1.5. The problem with that is that the variant is almost completely extinct before the shots get out the door. So once again, the spike protein serum will train the body to respond improperly to new variants. The manufacturers claim that the antibodies work against the new “Eris” variant as well, but they said the same thing last time with BA.5 and got away with producing no human clinical trials. Now they don’t even have to produce animal trials, just lab testing of antibody titers in mice, a method that has long proven to be worthless in protection against infection, replication, or spread of this virus. The negative efficacy of the past two years stands as a testament to this insanity of repeating the same Pfizer/Moderna malfeasance.
The negative efficacy has gotten so bad that Walgreens stopped reporting positive tests by vaccination status because many of us were using the pharmacy’s data in 2021 and 2022.
Now, the FDA is giving full licensure for these new shots to those over 12 and emergency use for those over 6 months! There is nobody alive who could tell you with a straight face that:
These variants pose an emergency-level health danger to anyone.
The shots are effective.
The shots are fully tested.
The shots are safe.
What’s a little heart scarring and autoimmune disease between friends?
This violation of the Nuremberg and Helsinki protocols would be bad enough if the worst effect of the shots was to make you more vulnerable to COVID and respiratory viruses. But as we well know, they potentially harm every organ system in the body. Shockingly, the FDA printed on the label a callous admission of the risk of myocarditis but coldly dismissed the consequences. “Although some cases required intensive care support, available data from short-term follow-up suggest that most individuals have had resolution of symptoms with conservative management. Information is not yet available about potential long-term sequelae.”
In other words, now that they can no longer say myocarditis is “mild,” they contend that the serious damage it causes is only short-term. The reality is that no scarring on the heart can be assumed to be transient. In fact, a recent Hong Kong study published in the American Heart Association’s journal Circulation found, in a sample of 40 victims of vaccine-induced myocarditis, evidence of long-term heart damage 10-12 months later. The authors warn people with these long-term markers that “indicators of subclinical myocardial dysfunction and fibrosis” could induce “a long-term effect on exercise capacity and cardiac functional reserve during stress.”
So, we are now at a point when the government can openly admit the shot causes ubiquitous injury, can eliminate all pharmacovigilance to monitor injury, but push even new shots that don’t work out of the gate for a simple cold. We are even at a point when the VA is now telling its union employees that they are eligible for compensation if they were injured by the shot and missed work time.
Remember all those worker shortages over the past two years in almost every industry? This is a clear admission that the government was aware of the epidemic of “sudden illness.” Indeed, a new German study published in Public Health monitored the rate of medical absence of health care workers who received the jabs. Among 1,704 health care workers enrolled, a whopping 35% had to take sick leave following at least one COVID-19 vaccination, leading to a total number of 1,550 sick days. “Both the absolute sick days and the rate of HCWs on sick leave significantly increased with each subsequent vaccination,” observed the authors. They also revealed that the Moderna shot “induced a significantly longer and more frequent sick leave” after the third dose, which is not surprising because it is a higher dose than Pfizer.
For the love of God and his prized creation, what it is going to take to pull these shots off the market? We used to yank approval for therapeutics after a few suspected deaths or one known serious side effect linked to the new product. Now we have roughly 62% of the 24,289 Preferred Term MedDRA codes, which essentially account for the realm of possible medical diagnoses, linked to the COVID shots in VAERS. What additional information must come to light before Republicans do the right thing and defund these shots?Among all the lies the FDA has told about the shots, there is one kernel of truth expressed in its announcement: “Individuals who receive an updated mRNA COVID-19 vaccine may experience similar side effects as those reported by individuals who previously received mRNA COVID-19 vaccine.” It’s just that for some, the level of death and injury seen from the previous shots is just another day in medicine.
The White House is set to push news organizations to increase criticism of an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden by House Republicans, CNN reported Tuesday.
Your input can help us preserve liberty for future generations.
Truth2Freedom's Blog 