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January 28, 2022
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SC Rep. James Clyburn forced Biden to promise to appoint a black woman to SCOTUS . . . Biden has lost in Iowa and New Hampshire. He was desperate to win in the 2020 South Carolina primaries. And so, he caved. And now, with the first vacancy of his presidency, that’s what he’s gonna do. In their book “Lucky”, journalists Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes wrote that a frustrated Clyburn confronted Biden off-stage during a debate in
February 2020 and urged him to pledge to nominate a Black woman to the nation’s highest court. Biden made the pledge later in the debate and received Clyburn’s endorsement the next day which many believe catapulted his struggling campaign to the front of the pack. “Not a single time has a Black woman ever been seriously considered,” the South Carolina Democrat told the Washington Post. “And so I took that issue up with then candidate Biden back in 2020. Twenty that I thought that the time
of the right for us to do something about that. How many times have you heard it said that black women are the backbone of the Democratic Party?” White House Dossier
Police union official warns: Murder, mayhem fomented by ongoing anti-cop rhetoric . . . Five people were shot, one fatally, at a hotel Thursday in the nation’s capital. On Monday, three people were gunned down in separate shootings in Chicago. The previous day, six people were found shot to death at a home in Milwaukee. These major cities reported the deadly shootings as a national police union warned that an uptick in homicides across
the country over the past two years will carry over into 2022 if a wave of anti-police rhetoric continues.
FBI statistics show that homicides jumped by nearly 30% in 2020 compared with 2019, from 16,669 to 21,570, and a report released this week shows that the trend worsened in 2021.
The Council on Criminal Justice report shows that the number of homicides in 22 major cities — including Chicago, the District of Columbia and Milwaukee — was 5% higher last year than in 2020, with 218 more homicides, and 44% higher than in 2019, with 1,298 more homicides. Washington Times
Leftists have our police officers' blood on their hands with their anti-police rhetoric. Whom do they want to protect Americans, George Floyd types? Not talking about skin color here -- there are plenty white skin criminals and good honorable black police officers, who are getting murdered now. What the heck does skin color have to do with ANYTHING?!
US-Russia Showdown . . .
I gave a couple interviews to Fox News Digital for these stories below and to Sean Hannity:
As Russian cyberattack looms, cyberspace is '21st century battleground': experts . . . Concerns have mounted that Russia’s next move in the Ukrainian crisis could embroil the U.S. in a targeted cyberattack – a strategy that experts argue is a battlefront already embedded in how global superpowers engage.
Earlier this week, reports surfaced showing that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued an internal memo to law enforcement agencies warning that Russia could launch a cyberattack against the U.S. if it interprets the response by Washington or NATO as a threat to its "long-term national security."
"The Russians…call it a bloodless way," Rebekah Koffler, a former Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) intelligence officer for Russian doctrine and strategy, told Fox News Digital. "You don’t have to spill blood to destabilize the society and gradually weaken it and achieve your objectives." "Ideally they want to achieve their goals by weakening us gradually without kinetic action," she continued, referring to the Kremlin’s goal to destabilize the U.S. without traditional military
strikes. Experts told Fox News Digital that cyberwarfare is not some far-off strategy of the future, but rather a tactic that has already become fully embedded in how global superpowers confront one another.
Germany's soft stance on Russian aggression toward Ukraine concerns NATO allies . . . Germany’s refusal to join other NATO members in providing weapons to Ukraine has caused some allies to question Berlin’s resolve to oppose Russia. Former German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, also known as "Putin's pal," pushed for the original Nord Stream pipeline during his term but did not see activation until the Obama administration, at which point he
joined the board to oversee its growth and maintenance. Newly-elected German Chancellor Olaf Scholz insisted that the pipeline is a "business project" – nothing more and nothing less. Rebekah Koffler, a former DIA intelligence officer and author of " Putin's Playbook: Russia's Secret Plan to Defeat
America," told Fox News Digital that Biden’s decision to remove sanctions on Nordstream 2 was indeed a mistake.
Koffler explained that Putin rose to power using dossiers he gathered during his time as a KGB agent – a role he largely fulfilled while stationed in Dresden, meaning he spent time recruiting and running a network of agents in East Germany. Most of this information would have been destroyed during the fall of the Soviet Union, but that doesn’t change the fact that some German officials may have formerly worked with the current president of Russia. Those ties could play into how
Germany is responding to Russia, according to Koffler. Fox News
FYI - I am on The Ben Shapiro Radio (with vid) today, recording this AM. Not sure about the time it will air. I will announce the time on Twitter and GETTR. Follow me there:
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Biden's Supreme Court pledge is not Reagan's nor Trump's—it's unfair . . . With the retirement of Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, President Joe Biden was immediately challenged by Democrats to make good on his pledge during the 2020 presidential campaign to only consider black females for his first vacancy on the Court. When he made that pledge, some of us raised concerns that he was adopting a threshold racial
and gender qualification for the Court. That claims were immediately challenged by liberal commentators and their authority was somewhat surprising: Ronald Reagan. Fox News
Biden’s Supreme Court Risk . . . Given the alacrity with which the White House seized on Justice Stephen Breyer’s retirement, the administration is clearly banking on a confirmation fight giving the Democratic Party a midterm lift. That calculation may prove as misguided as any other so far in Joe Biden’s presidency. Especially if the president again dances to progressive demands.
Justices often give the White House an early heads-up about retirement plans with the expectation the news will remain confidential until later in the court’s term. So eager was the Biden administration to change the headlines from inflation, Covid and the president’s crummy ratings, it didn’t grant Justice Breyer that courtesy. The Wednesday news leaks force-marched Justice Breyer into penning an official retirement letter the next day.
Democrats are reveling in the distraction while assuring the media that the coming confirmation fight will galvanize its base for the midterms—especially given Mr. Biden’s vow to name the court’s first black woman. Wall Street Journal
Elon Musk says Biden treats Americans 'like fools' after president meets with GM, Ford execs on electric cars . . . Tesla CEO Elon Musk said that President Biden "is treating the American public like fools" after Biden met with executives from rival car companies General Motors and Ford Motor earlier this week. Biden invited GM CEO Mary Barra and Ford CEO Jim Farley to the White House along with other business leaders to discuss his
administration's $1.75 trillion Build Back Better legislation, which has stalled in the evenly split Senate after U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., refused to support the legislation. The massive spending bill would bump up the $7,500 tax credit to $12,500 for union-made electric vehicles and would also make GM and Tesla eligible for the existing tax credit again after they hit the 200,000-vehicle limit for the credit. Fox Business
Left says they're not to blame for Biden's problems . . . Progressives are pushing back at the idea that they are to blame at all for President Biden’s dismal poll numbers, arguing the White House’s problems have more to do with it moving away from a progressive agenda. They argue the anemic polls largely reflect an unimpressed base disillusioned that Biden has been unwilling to deliver on issues such as voting rights, healthcare, gun
control and climate change. “Biden’s popularity was high when he ran on a progressive agenda — and it dropped when he let corporate Democrats take the reins,” said Varshini Prakash, executive director of the Sunrise Movement. “It shouldn’t be a surprise that voters are becoming impatient.” A Pew Research Center survey released on Wednesday found Biden with just a 41 percent approval rating, down from 59 percent in April 2021. Among Black adults, a key constituency for Biden,
just 60 percent approved of Biden’s job performance, down from 67 percent in September. The Hill
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Russia-Ukraine conflict threatens U.S. prestige . . . The U.S. risks another hit to its prestige as the Biden administration weighs how to confront Russian aggression in its first major international crisis since withdrawing from Afghanistan. As Russia escalates tensions with Ukraine with its buildup of troops at the border, President Biden must balance projecting strength in the global power struggle with a U.S. wary of engaging in
foreign military conflicts. It's also renewed complaints from some Republicans that Biden risks looking weak without an aggressive response. “Biden’s withdrawal from Afghanistan showed weakness. If this administration doesn’t show strength right now, I'm afraid that Russia is going to invade Ukraine,” Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas), ranking member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, told The Hill in a statement. The Hill
Ukraine’s Bulked-Up Military Is Still Outgunned by Russia . . . Eight years after Russia seized Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula and fomented war in the country’s east, Kyiv’s once-feeble military is bigger and better armed. It is still far outgunned by Moscow, but it could inflict a high price on any invading army, its leaders and analysts say. Facing off against the troops and tanks that Russian President Vladimir Putin has massed around
Ukraine in recent months is a force of roughly 260,000, trained by Western advisers and equipped with its own upgraded armored vehicles, U.S. and British antitank missiles and Turkish armed drones. Ukrainian officers, however, say the biggest difference from 2014, when Kyiv’s forces failed to stop the Kremlin’s territorial grab, is the combat experience gained over years battling Russian-backed forces in eastern Ukraine and a much stronger sense of national identity that has resulted from
the conflict. “It’s a completely different army,” said Oleksiy Danilov, the top national security adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Wall Street Journal
What Russia Wants and What the U.S. Is Proposing in the Ukraine Crisis . . . Russia has issued security-related demands about Ukraine while building up forces along border shared by the two countries. Russia has issued a series of demands to address what it says are security concerns about Ukraine while mounting a large-scale military build-up along the border shared by the two countries. The U.S. and its allies have discussed Russia’s demands
in several rounds of negotiations and offered counterproposals to Moscow this week. Western officials warn that a Russian assault may occur in coming weeks, with Moscow citing threats to its security. Here’s a look at what Russia wants, based on documents issued by the Russian foreign ministry, and what the U.S. is proposing or has said about those demands, culled from public statements and Wall Street Journal reporting. Wall Street Journal
Can Ukraine Survive Putin and Biden? . . . Opinion. By Cliff Kincaid. There is no doubt that NATO, once an anti-communist alliance, has been expanded too fast and was illegally transformed into an offensive force, such as we saw in the former Yugoslavia, and which was ordered by Democratic President Bill Clinton. It has become weak and ineffective, especially because its key member, Germany, was ruled by an alleged Russian agent,
Angela Merkel. She made Germany dependent on Russian energy while terminating the nation’s nuclear power program. A true whistleblower with direct knowledge and access to incriminating documents, not hearsay, the late Soviet dissident Vladimir Bukovsky exposed how America’s “progressive” elites served as apologists for communism and documented how the European Union was a Soviet project from the start. Bukovsky co-authored (with Pavel Stroilov) the eye-opener, EUSSR: The Soviet Roots of
European Integration, which examines “secretive discussions between Western and Soviet Union leaders planning to create a collectivist European Union State.” This outcome is the subject of the “negotiations” between Putin and Biden. USAsurvival.org
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If Trump were president, China would be paying reparations . . . Opinion. By Kelly Sadler. Two years ago, a pandemic emerged from China that has since killed more than 5 million people worldwide, cost trillions of dollars in lost economic output, shuttered schools and businesses, and ruined countless lives. And what has the Chinese Communist Party paid for it? Absolutely nothing. The Biden administration hasn’t held China’s
leaders accountable for their actions, refuses to even state forthrightly and with force that the virus most likely originated in a government lab in Wuhan, and is even allowing Beijing to profit from its misdeeds. None of this ever would have happened under the Trump administration.
Last year, China’s global trade surplus surged to $676.4 billion — what economists believe is the highest ever for any country — as exports rose nearly 30%. Its surplus with the U.S. — one of the irritants behind former President Donald Trump’s tough-on-China policies — increased 25.1% in 2021 to $396.6 billion, as pandemic-struck Americans bought “Made in China” goods like home electronics and bicycles. Washington Times
Biden is completely compromised.
China backs Russia’s ‘security concerns’ in crisis with west over Ukraine . . . China has offered support for Russia in the face of its stand-off with the US and Nato over Ukraine, saying Moscow had “reasonable security concerns” that Washington and its allies should take “seriously”. Wang Yi, the Chinese foreign minister, told Antony Blinken, US secretary of state, that European regional security could not be guaranteed by “strengthening
or even expanding military blocs”, in comments that appeared to back Russian opposition to Ukraine joining Nato in the future. Speaking on Thursday on a videoconference call with Blinken, Wang urged all parties to “abandon the cold war mentality” and called for “balanced” negotiations to resolve tensions over Ukraine, according to a Chinese foreign ministry statement. Financial Times
Chinese elite have paid some $31 million to Hunter and the Bidens . . . For those wondering why Joe Biden is soft on China, consider this never-before-reported revelation: the Biden family has done five deals in China totaling some $31 million arranged by individuals with direct ties to Chinese intelligence — some reaching the very top of China’s spy agency. Indeed, every known deal that the Biden family enjoyed with Beijing was reached
courtesy of individuals with spy ties. And Joe Biden personally benefitted from his family’s foreign deals.
What are these deals? And who are the individuals who made them happen for the Bidens? Here, then, are a few key facts about the Biden family’s five million-dollar-plus deals with individuals in bed with Chinese intelligence. New York Post
U.S. mulls evacuating Beijing embassy over COVID rules . . . China’s draconian pandemic control measures have prompted the State Department to consider evacuating American diplomats and their families from the U.S. Embassy in Beijing. A State Department spokeswoman told “Inside the Ring” no decision has been made on pulling out the officials and dependents. “The operating status at our mission in the [People’s Republic of China] has
not changed,” the spokeswoman said. “Any change in operating status of this nature would be predicated solely on the health, safety and security of our colleagues and their family members.” Washington Times
Here’s What US Can Do to Weaken Moscow-Beijing Partnership . . .One dangerous response to the Ukraine crisis is that the U.S. should make nice with the Russians so they can either help, or at least not distract from, dealing with the threat from China, or at the very least find a way to keep Moscow and Beijing from ganging up on the U.S. This is an approach that is doomed to fail, and will do nothing to enhance the safety and security of the
American people. Why Splitting Moscow and Beijing Won’t Work: There are four big reasons why Russia and the West could never team up to deal with China. First, Russia and China’s goals in Europe are identical. They want a weakened and divided Europe that both can exploit. They both want to eclipse the U.S. partnership with Europe so that the free world is divided and more vulnerable. Russia won’t help the U.S. work against this most basic Russian interest. Read the rest in Daily Signal
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‘Allow People to Exercise Their Natural Immunity’: Former HHS Adviser . . . Several prominent doctors joined about 30,000 demonstrators in the “Defeat the Mandates” march in Washington on Jan. 23. Among them was former federal government adviser Dr. Paul Alexander, who declared that COVID-19 mandates and rules have failed to prevent transmission of the virus. “Society has been so terrorized for two years,” Alexander
told EpochTV’s “American Thought Leaders” program. “We found the science shows us lockdowns, school closures, mask mandates; they all failed. Those policies have failed. “And it’s time now to end this pandemic emergency. The time has come now for us to move forward.” In some highly vaccinated places, such as Israel, which also has a vaccine passport system in place for restaurants and similar businesses, COVID-19 cases have soared. On Jan. 22, the country set its all-time record for
cases, despite having one of the highest vaccination rates in the world. Epoch Times
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U.S. Employers Confront Highest Labor Costs in 20 Years, Fueling Inflation . . . The cost of hiring new employees and retaining existing ones in the nation’s tight labor market is growing at nearly its fastest pace in a generation. That is helping to fuel inflation as employers pass labor costs to customers. The U.S. employment-cost index—a quarterly measure of wages and benefits paid by employers—is expected to show
that costs continued to rise at the highest rate in two decades of available records. Economists surveyed by The Wall Street Journal expect a seasonally adjusted increase of 1.2% in the fourth quarter of 2021 over the prior three months, which experienced a similar increase. The third-quarter gain, when compared with the same quarter from a year earlier, rose 3.7% on a non-seasonally adjusted basis. Wall Street Journal
Has America sold her soul for money? Listen to my friend and fearless journalist, Cheryl Chumley of The Washington Times, interviewing Tom Garrett on her podcast Bold & Blunt
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A suicide hotline’s use of data echoes Silicon Valley’s privacy debates . . . Crisis Text Line is one of the world’s most prominent mental health support lines, a tech-driven nonprofit that uses big data and artificial intelligence to help people cope with traumas such as self-harm, emotional abuse and thoughts of suicide. But the data the charity collects from its online text conversations with people in their darkest
moments does not end there: The organization’s for-profit spinoff uses a sliced and repackaged version of that information to create and market customer service software. Politico
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The FBI Probes of MLK and Trump
What are the differences and similarities between the FBI probes of Martin Luther King, Jr. and President Trump? . . . Tristan Justice of The Federalist and ASI host Cliff Kincaid discuss this subject as the nation continues to honor MLK for his moral teachings while Trump is still under . . . USAsurvival
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'Putin's Playbook' is unfolding in front of our eyes with the US-Russia potentially deadly showdown, as I forecasted in my book. When the US national security establishment had plenty of time (more than 10 years!) to develop a counter-strategy to Putin's plan, the bureaucrats did
not act because of their incompetence.
Now, Biden is sleepwalking into a war with nuclear Russia, risking American's lives and the disruptions to public safety, due to Russia's impending cyber attacks, as warned by the DHS.
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The bureaucrats tried to hide their incompetence, in handling the Russia threat, from the American people. See how US government's censorship works:
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