tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19070315204465142002024-03-15T22:11:00.917-03:00Impeach McConnell, Boehner, and Cantor TodayGeorge Soros gave Ivanka's husband's business a $250 million credit line in 2015 per WSJ. Soros is also an investor in Jared's business.susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14710989163705986252noreply@blogger.comBlogger13276125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1907031520446514200.post-72907782746491164802024-03-03T21:35:00.004-04:002024-03-03T22:00:59.651-04:00Video clips document the irreplaceable Andrew Breitbart whom we lost much too soon on March 1, 2012 at age 43. CPAC asked him to speak about "tolerance and unity." Thankfully, those weren't Andrew's priorities<p><span style="color: #f3f3f3;"> .</span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EeO6l3FDoQ&t=59s">“</a><span><b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EeO6l3FDoQ&t=59s">By the way, people that asked me to come here</a></b></span></span><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b> </b></span><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b>a</b></span><span style="color: blue;"><b>sked me to speak about tolerance and unity. </b></span><b><span style="color: #cc0000;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EeO6l3FDoQ&t=59s">I’ll get to that a little bit later.</a></span><span style="color: #cc0000;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EeO6l3FDoQ&t=59s">”</a></span><span style="color: #990000;">...</span></b><span>Andrew Breitbart, 2/10/2012 at CPAC referring to upcoming Nov. 2012 election @ 7:22. </span><span>Andrew died on March 1, 2012.</span></p><p><span> </span><a href="https://impeachobamatoday.files.wordpress.com/2024/03/andrewtolerance.png"><img alt="" class="alignnone wp-image-99419" data-attachment-id="99419" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-caption="" data-image-description="" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="andrewtolerance" data-large-file="https://impeachobamatoday.files.wordpress.com/2024/03/andrewtolerance.png?w=497" data-medium-file="https://impeachobamatoday.files.wordpress.com/2024/03/andrewtolerance.png?w=300" data-orig-file="https://impeachobamatoday.files.wordpress.com/2024/03/andrewtolerance.png" data-orig-size="964,609" data-permalink="https://impeachobamatoday.wordpress.com/2024/03/03/video-clips-document-the-irreplaceable-andrew-breitbart-whom-we-lost-on-march-1-2012-at-age-43/andrewtolerance/" height="279" src="https://impeachobamatoday.files.wordpress.com/2024/03/andrewtolerance.png?w=436&h=276" width="420" /></a></p><p><b><span style="color: #990000;">...................... <br /></span></b></p><p><span style="color: #990000;"><b>“</b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EeO6l3FDoQ&t=59s"><b>Ultimate Andrew Breitbart Compilation</b>,</a></span>” you tube…(The irreplaceable Andrew Breitbart <b><a href="https://variety.com/2012/digital/news/andrew-breitbart-dies-at-age-43-1118050918/">died on March 1, 2012 at age 43.</a></b> This <span style="color: black;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EeO6l3FDoQ&t=59s">compilation of video clips</a></span> was posted in 2018)</p>
<p><a href="https://impeachobamatoday.files.wordpress.com/2024/03/andrewprotest.png"><img alt="" class="alignnone wp-image-99414" data-attachment-id="99414" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-caption="" data-image-description="" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="andrewprotest" data-large-file="https://impeachobamatoday.files.wordpress.com/2024/03/andrewprotest.png?w=497" data-medium-file="https://impeachobamatoday.files.wordpress.com/2024/03/andrewprotest.png?w=300" data-orig-file="https://impeachobamatoday.files.wordpress.com/2024/03/andrewprotest.png" data-orig-size="969,612" data-permalink="https://impeachobamatoday.wordpress.com/2024/03/03/video-clips-document-the-irreplaceable-andrew-breitbart-whom-we-lost-on-march-1-2012-at-age-43/andrewprotest/" height="287" src="https://impeachobamatoday.files.wordpress.com/2024/03/andrewprotest.png?w=455&h=287" width="455" /></a></p>
<p><b>Above <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EeO6l3FDoQ&t=59s"><span style="color: #c42d2d;">@ :32, Andrew asks protesters chanting “No more hate,”</span> and carrying signs such as “<span style="color: blue;">Racism is wrong,” and “Glenn Beck lies</span>,”</a> “Do you even know what you’re protesting?”<span style="color: #c42d2d;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EeO6l3FDoQ&t=59s" style="color: #c42d2d;"> At 1:00, as crowd continues to chant, “No more hate,”</a></span></b> a man tells Breitbart<b> he does know</b> why he’s protesting, so<b><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EeO6l3FDoQ&t=59s" style="color: blue;"> Andrew says, “Are you here to stop the hate?”</a></span> The man says “yes.” </b>Later the man adds,<b> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EeO6l3FDoQ&t=59s"><span style="color: #c42d2d;">“I’m here to stop the hate that Glenn Beck is promulgating.”</span> <span style="color: blue;">At 1:17, Breitbart says, “Like what? Name one thing he’s said that’s hateful.</span>“</a> The man had no answer, so at 1:30 he told Breitbart,<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EeO6l3FDoQ&t=59s"><span style="color: #c42d2d;"> “I’m not going to fall into your trap.”</span></a></b></p>
<p><a href="https://impeachobamatoday.files.wordpress.com/2024/03/andrewprotest2.png"><img alt="" class="alignnone wp-image-99416" data-attachment-id="99416" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-caption="" data-image-description="" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="andrewprotest2" data-large-file="https://impeachobamatoday.files.wordpress.com/2024/03/andrewprotest2.png?w=497" data-medium-file="https://impeachobamatoday.files.wordpress.com/2024/03/andrewprotest2.png?w=300" data-orig-file="https://impeachobamatoday.files.wordpress.com/2024/03/andrewprotest2.png" data-orig-size="969,616" data-permalink="https://impeachobamatoday.wordpress.com/2024/03/03/video-clips-document-the-irreplaceable-andrew-breitbart-whom-we-lost-on-march-1-2012-at-age-43/andrewprotest2/" height="292" src="https://impeachobamatoday.files.wordpress.com/2024/03/andrewprotest2.png?w=458&h=292" width="458" /></a></p>
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EeO6l3FDoQ&t=59s"><span style="color: #c42d2d;"><b>Below, half a minute later, the protesters dispersed</b></span></a> simply because they couldn’t give Andrew a reason for their signs:</p>
<p><a href="https://impeachobamatoday.files.wordpress.com/2024/03/andrew3.png"><img alt="" class="alignnone wp-image-99418" data-attachment-id="99418" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-caption="" data-image-description="" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="andrew3" data-large-file="https://impeachobamatoday.files.wordpress.com/2024/03/andrew3.png?w=497" data-medium-file="https://impeachobamatoday.files.wordpress.com/2024/03/andrew3.png?w=300" data-orig-file="https://impeachobamatoday.files.wordpress.com/2024/03/andrew3.png" data-orig-size="978,616" data-permalink="https://impeachobamatoday.wordpress.com/2024/03/03/video-clips-document-the-irreplaceable-andrew-breitbart-whom-we-lost-on-march-1-2012-at-age-43/andrew3/" height="284" src="https://impeachobamatoday.files.wordpress.com/2024/03/andrew3.png?w=450&h=284" width="450" /></a></p>
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<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EeO6l3FDoQ&t=59s"><b><span style="color: #990000;">Below, at 7:22 Andrew speaking at CPAC in 2012</span></b></a> was for some of us a brief moment of joy since CPAC otherwise is just an ugly, Establishment parasite.<b><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqa1VqYodQw" style="color: blue;"> Andrew gave this wonderful speech on Feb. 10, 2012 </a></span></b>and would be dead only 20 days later, collapsing <b><span style="color: #c42d2d;"><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2012/05/16/politics/breitbart-autopsy/index.html" style="color: #c42d2d;"><span style="color: #333333;">from a heart attack <span style="color: #cf2b2b;">at age 43</span></span></a></span></b><b><span style="color: #c42d2d;"><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2012/05/16/politics/breitbart-autopsy/index.html" style="color: #c42d2d;"><span style="color: #cf2b2b;">.</span></a></span></b><span style="color: #333333;">…At </span>7:22, <b>referring to upcoming Nov. 2012 election</b>:</p>
<p><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EeO6l3FDoQ&t=59s" style="color: blue;">“</a><span style="color: #c42d2d;"><b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EeO6l3FDoQ&t=59s" style="color: #c42d2d;">By the way, people that asked me to come here</a> </b></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: blue;"><b>asked me to speak about tolerance and unity. </b></span></p>
<p><b><span style="color: #c42d2d;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EeO6l3FDoQ&t=59s" style="color: #c42d2d;">I’ll get to that a little bit later.”</a></span></b></p>
<p><a href="https://impeachobamatoday.files.wordpress.com/2024/03/andrewtolerance.png"><img alt="" class="alignnone wp-image-99419" data-attachment-id="99419" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-caption="" data-image-description="" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="andrewtolerance" data-large-file="https://impeachobamatoday.files.wordpress.com/2024/03/andrewtolerance.png?w=497" data-medium-file="https://impeachobamatoday.files.wordpress.com/2024/03/andrewtolerance.png?w=300" data-orig-file="https://impeachobamatoday.files.wordpress.com/2024/03/andrewtolerance.png" data-orig-size="964,609" data-permalink="https://impeachobamatoday.wordpress.com/2024/03/03/video-clips-document-the-irreplaceable-andrew-breitbart-whom-we-lost-on-march-1-2012-at-age-43/andrewtolerance/" height="276" src="https://impeachobamatoday.files.wordpress.com/2024/03/andrewtolerance.png?w=436&h=276" width="426" /></a></p>
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<p>Added:<span style="color: blue;"><b><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Righteous-Indignation-Excuse-While-World/dp/0446572829" style="color: blue;"> In 2011 Breitbart published his book,</a> “Righteous Indignation:”</b></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #990000;"><b><span class="a-size-extra-large celwidget" id="productTitle">“<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Righteous-Indignation-Excuse-While-World/dp/0446572829">Righteous Indignation: Excuse Me While I Save the World!</a></span></b></span><span style="color: #c42d2d;"><b><span class="a-size-extra-large celwidget" id="productTitle"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Righteous-Indignation-Excuse-While-World/dp/0446572829" style="color: #c42d2d;"> </a></span></b></span><span class="a-size-large a-color-secondary celwidget" id="productSubtitle"><span style="color: #c42d2d;"><span style="color: #333333;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Righteous-Indignation-Excuse-While-World/dp/0446572829" style="color: #333333;">Hardcover – </a></span><b><span style="color: #c42d2d;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Righteous-Indignation-Excuse-While-World/dp/0446572829" style="color: #c42d2d;"><span style="color: #333333;">April 15, 2011</span>,</a></span>"</b></span> by Andrew Breitbart<br />
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<p><a href="https://impeachobamatoday.files.wordpress.com/2024/03/breitbart.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-99408 alignleft" data-attachment-id="99408" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-caption="" data-image-description="" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="breitbart" data-large-file="https://impeachobamatoday.files.wordpress.com/2024/03/breitbart.png?w=337" data-medium-file="https://impeachobamatoday.files.wordpress.com/2024/03/breitbart.png?w=198" data-orig-file="https://impeachobamatoday.files.wordpress.com/2024/03/breitbart.png" data-orig-size="337,511" data-permalink="https://impeachobamatoday.wordpress.com/2024/03/03/video-clips-document-the-irreplaceable-andrew-breitbart-whom-we-lost-on-march-1-2012-at-age-43/breitbart/" height="404" src="https://impeachobamatoday.files.wordpress.com/2024/03/breitbart.png?w=267&h=404" width="267" /></a></p>
<p>Breitbart had <a href="https://www.gettyimages.com/photos/andrew-breitbart">spoken to crowds</a> across the country for several years. <span style="color: #c42d2d;"><a href="https://read.amazon.com/?asin=B0047Y16FI&ref_=dbs_t_r_kcr" style="color: #c42d2d;"><b><span style="color: blue;">As it happens, in October, 2010,</span> one month before 2010 midterm elections, he spoke to a crowd of 5000</b></a></span> in Houston, Texas. As he relates in his Epilogue<b>,</b><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://read.amazon.com/?asin=B0047Y16FI&ref_=dbs_t_r_kcr" style="color: blue;"> there was no media coverage of his speech</a></span><b>. In November, 2010, </b>voters unwanted by the entire political establishment <b><a href="https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/elections/2010/results/house.html?simple=True"><span style="color: #c42d2d;">gave the Republican House a landslide victory of 63 seats.</span></a></b> <b><span style="color: blue;"> </span></b></p><p><b><span>This enraged the GOP</span><span style="color: blue;">.</span></b> Per Rush Limbaugh, 10/16/2013, “<a href="https://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2013/10/16/gop_seeks_to_rid_itself_of_the_tea_party/"><b><span style="color: blue;">GOP Seeks to Rid Itself of the Tea Party</span>,”</b></a> Rush Limbaugh transcript:</p>
<p><span style="color: #c72c2c;"><b>“<a href="https://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2013/10/16/gop_seeks_to_rid_itself_of_the_tea_party/" style="color: #c72c2c;">Even if it takes 15 years in the wilderness</a></b></span>
to rebuild a new base of people who don’t embarrass them, of people who
are of the right temperament. Maybe that’s what they’re willing to
do.”…After all, until 1994, the <a href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/72/Combined--Control_of_the_U.S._House_of_Representatives_-_Control_of_the_U.S._Senate.png">House had been controlled by democrats for 40 straight years </a>and no one complained. Following paragraph from Epilogue of Andrew Breitbart’s 2011 book:</p>
<p><a href="https://impeachobamatoday.files.wordpress.com/2024/03/andrew1.png"><img alt="" class="alignnone wp-image-99409" data-attachment-id="99409" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-caption="" data-image-description="" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="andrew1" data-large-file="https://impeachobamatoday.files.wordpress.com/2024/03/andrew1.png?w=497" data-medium-file="https://impeachobamatoday.files.wordpress.com/2024/03/andrew1.png?w=300" data-orig-file="https://impeachobamatoday.files.wordpress.com/2024/03/andrew1.png" data-orig-size="673,568" data-permalink="https://impeachobamatoday.wordpress.com/2024/03/03/video-clips-document-the-irreplaceable-andrew-breitbart-whom-we-lost-on-march-1-2012-at-age-43/andrew1/" height="313" src="https://impeachobamatoday.files.wordpress.com/2024/03/andrew1.png?w=370&h=313" width="370" /></a></p>
<p>(Above paragraph is first page of Epilogue in Breitbart’s 2011 book).</p>
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<p>Added: <b><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/and-so-the-co-opting-begi_b_804596" style="color: blue;">GOP Establishment considered it their job to effectively nullify </a></span>the historic Nov. 2010 election: </b><span style="color: #c42d2d;"><b>“<a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/and-so-the-co-opting-begi_b_804596" style="color: #c42d2d;">As soon as they get here,” [GOP Establishment insider Trent] Lott said <span style="color: blue;">of the new wave of legislators,</span> <span style="color: blue;">[elected in Nov. 2010]</span> “we need to co-opt them.”</a></b></span></p>
<p><b>Jan. 5, 2011</b>,<span style="color: #990000;"> </span><b><span style="color: #990000;">“<a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/and-so-the-co-opting-begi_b_804596">And so the Co-Opting Begins,</a></span>” </b>Huffpost.com, by Bob Edgar, Contributor, Pres. and CEO, Common Cause</p>
<p><a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/and-so-the-co-opting-begi_b_804596"><span style="color: #c42d2d;"><b><span style="color: blue;">“Back in the summer [of 2010], when it began to look<span style="color: #c42d2d;"> like the Tea Party might get a boatload of political neophytes elected to Congress,</span></span></b> </span></a><b>senator-turned-lobbyist </b></p>
<p><b>Trent Lott sounded an alarm</b> for Washington’s influence industry.</p>
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<p><span style="color: #c42d2d;"><b>“<a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/and-so-the-co-opting-begi_b_804596" style="color: #c42d2d;">As soon as they get here,” Lott said of the new wave of legislators, <span style="color: blue;">“we need to co-opt them.”</span></a></b></span></p>
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<p><b>So as the new Congress convenes this week,</b> no one should be surprised to learn that</p>
<p><a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/and-so-the-co-opting-begi_b_804596"><span style="color: #c42d2d;"><b>the co-opting is well underway.</b></span></a></p>
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<p>On Tuesday night, just hours before they stood in the House chamber
to swear their allegiance to the Constitution, at least a dozen new
lawmakers sipped cocktails and got better acquainted<span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/and-so-the-co-opting-begi_b_804596"><b><span style="color: blue;"> with the capital’s lobbying corps at a glitzy, $2,500 per ticket reception</span> </b></a></span></p>
<p><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: #333333;">thrown in their honor….</span></span></p>
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<p>Tuesday’s gathering at the W Hotel is <b>among dozens of such meet-and-greet breakfasts, cocktail parties and other political fundraisers<a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/and-so-the-co-opting-begi_b_804596"><span style="color: #c42d2d;"> held in Washington every week when Congress is in session</span></a></b><a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/and-so-the-co-opting-begi_b_804596"><span style="color: #c42d2d;">….</span></a></p>
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<p><b><span style="color: blue;">Indeed, in the first four weeks after their election</span> in November [2010], <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/and-so-the-co-opting-begi_b_804596"><span style="color: #c42d2d;">newly-elected lawmakers were feted at 18 Washington fundraisers</span></a>,</b> where they collected cash to retire their 2010 campaign debts and <b>began stockpiling money for 2012.</b></p>
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<p><b>It’s tempting to dismiss some of <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/and-so-the-co-opting-begi_b_804596"><span style="color: #c42d2d;">these new legislators, those who ran for office promising to look out for the middle class</span></a> and to break the influence of special interests on our government,</b> as hypocrites.”<b>…</b>Jan. 5, 2011<b><br />
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<p>Added:<span style="color: #990000;"> <b><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Righteous-Indignation-Excuse-While-World-ebook/dp/B0047Y16FI/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=">Two among comments at Amazon</a> </b></span>about Andrew’s 2011 book:</p>
<p>“<a class="a-size-base a-link-normal review-title a-color-base review-title-content a-text-bold" href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews/R2TLIVU9NUYDFC/ref=cm_cr_dp_d_rvw_ttl?ie=UTF8&ASIN=0446572829"><i class="a-icon a-icon-star a-star-5 review-rating"><span class="a-icon-alt">5.0 out of 5 stars</span></i> Walk Toward The Fire</a></p>
<p><span class="a-size-base a-color-secondary review-date" style="color: #333333;">Jaci, <b>Reviewed in the United States on April 2, 2011</b></span></p>
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<p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Righteous-Indignation-Excuse-While-World-ebook/dp/B0047Y16FI/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr="><span style="color: #c42d2d;"><b>If you ever watch the news, listen to the radio or check the headlines</b></span> </a>on msn.com, you must read this book. <b>There is a battle going on for the information gateway of our country: the news media complex.</b></p>
<p><b><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Righteous-Indignation-Excuse-While-World-ebook/dp/B0047Y16FI/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr="><span style="color: #c42d2d;">And the great general leading the charge, the brilliant strategist</span> </a>who has been literally on the forefront of this fight and has seen it from the inside-out and the ground-up, </b></p>
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<p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Righteous-Indignation-Excuse-While-World-ebook/dp/B0047Y16FI/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr="><b><span style="color: blue;">who makes it possible for you and I to literally hear “the rest of the story”…<span style="color: #333333;">.is Andrew Breitbart.</span></span></b></a></p>
<p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Righteous-Indignation-Excuse-While-World-ebook/dp/B0047Y16FI/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr="><span style="color: #c42d2d;"><b>Anything we know today</b></span>,</a> about the JournoList, about ACORN, about Pigford <b>is directly because of Andrew Breitbart</b>. (And if you don’t know about any of the things I just mentioned, start researching, because this affects YOU)</p>
<p><b>“Righteous Indignation” is part memoir, part treatise, part history lesson</b>.
It begins with the infamous ACORN sting investigation, in which James
O’Keefe and Hannah Giles went to multiple ACORN offices around the
country and <b>asked ACORN to help them find <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Righteous-Indignation-Excuse-While-World-ebook/dp/B0047Y16FI/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=">tax breaks for <span style="color: #c42d2d;">their brothel, in which they claimed to employ underage illegal immigrants</span>.</a></b></p>
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<p>Yes, they explicitly stated that was their business –<b> underage human trafficking.</b></p>
<p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Righteous-Indignation-Excuse-While-World-ebook/dp/B0047Y16FI/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr="><b><span style="color: #c42d2d;">And Breitbart dropped the videos, one by one</span></b></a>. Aside from the moral repugnance of the actions of the ACORN offices,<b> the bigger story was that </b></p>
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weeks, Congress unanimously voted to defund one of the largest
community activists groups in the country. All because of some bloggers
and a couple of kids with a camera….</div>
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<div aria-expanded="true"><b><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Righteous-Indignation-Excuse-While-World-ebook/dp/B0047Y16FI/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr="><span style="color: #c42d2d;">The difference is, Breitbart isn’t a multimillionaire</span></a> doing this out of academic interest. <span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Righteous-Indignation-Excuse-While-World-ebook/dp/B0047Y16FI/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=" style="color: blue;">This is his life.</a></span> </b>This is his country. This is our country. And it’s time we stepped up and protected it. Walk toward the fire.”</div>
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<p><b><span class="a-size-base a-color-secondary review-date">Reviewed in Italy <span style="color: #c42d2d;">on April 12, 2018</span></span></b></p>
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<h3 class="sd-title"><br /></h3><h3 class="sd-title"><span style="font-weight: normal;">....................</span></h3><p> </p>susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14710989163705986252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1907031520446514200.post-19542560495486267102024-02-14T02:26:00.003-04:002024-02-14T02:28:08.292-04:00Senator Chuck Schumer joins Russian President Vladimir Putin to celebrate opening of new gas station chain, Lukoil, in New York City-Sept. 26, 2003<p><span style="color: #f3f3f3;"> .</span></p><div class="entry clear">
<p><a href="https://impeachobamatoday.files.wordpress.com/2024/02/schumer.png"><img alt="" class="alignnone wp-image-99104" data-attachment-id="99104" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-caption="" data-image-description="" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="schumer" data-large-file="https://impeachobamatoday.files.wordpress.com/2024/02/schumer.png?w=497" data-medium-file="https://impeachobamatoday.files.wordpress.com/2024/02/schumer.png?w=300" data-orig-file="https://impeachobamatoday.files.wordpress.com/2024/02/schumer.png" data-orig-size="1135,754" data-permalink="https://impeachobamatoday.wordpress.com/2024/02/14/senator-chuck-schumer-joins-russian-president-vladimir-putin-to-celebrate-opening-of-new-gas-station-chain-lukoil-in-new-york-city-sept-26-2003/schumer-2/" height="272" src="https://impeachobamatoday.files.wordpress.com/2024/02/schumer.png?w=429&h=286" width="409" /></a></p>
<p>“Sept. 26, 2003 – <b><a href="https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-sept-26-2003-new-york-new-york-us-k33082rmsenator-chuck-schumer-joins-42550134.html">New York, New York, U.S. – </a></b><a href="https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-sept-26-2003-new-york-new-york-us-k33082rmsenator-chuck-schumer-joins-42550134.html">K33082RM. </a><b><a href="https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-sept-26-2003-new-york-new-york-us-k33082rmsenator-chuck-schumer-joins-42550134.html"><span style="color: #a64d79;">SENATOR CHUCK SCHUMER JOINS RUSSIAN PRESIDENT, VLADIMIR PUTIN, TO OPEN NEW GAS STATION CHAIN</span><span style="color: #c43333;">.</span></a><span style="color: blue;">(LUKOIL)</span> IN NEW YORK.</b>. / 2003. <b><a href="https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-sept-26-2003-new-york-new-york-us-k33082rmsenator-chuck-schumer-joins-42550134.html">LUKOIL PRESIDENT VAGIT ALEKPEROV</a> </b>AND
RUSSIAN PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN WITH SENATOR CHUCK SCHUMER (Credit
Image: © Ric Captions are provided by our contributors.”…<a href="https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&sca_esv=sca_esv_fallback&tbs=lf:1,lf_ui:4&tbm=lcl&q=lukoil+stations+in+new+york+city&rflfq=1&num=10&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjnsaOlkaqEAxWshYkEHYw3DowQjGp6BAgcEAE&biw=1014&bih=545&dpr=1.5#rlfi=hd:;si:;mv:[[40.894197,-73.5700415],[40.629019,-74.2411355]];tbs:lrf:!1m4!1u3!2m2!3m1!1e1!2m1!1e3!3sIAE,lf:1,lf_ui:4">Lukoil locations in New York City and surrounding area as of Feb. 14, 2024</a></p>
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<p>“Sept. 26, 2003 –<b><a href="https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-sept-26-2003-new-york-new-york-us-k33082rmsenator-chuck-schumer-joins-42550151.html"> New York, New York, U.S. –</a></b><a href="https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-sept-26-2003-new-york-new-york-us-k33082rmsenator-chuck-schumer-joins-42550151.html"> K33082RM. </a><b><a href="https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-sept-26-2003-new-york-new-york-us-k33082rmsenator-chuck-schumer-joins-42550151.html"><span style="color: blue;">SENATOR CHUCK SCHUMER JOINS RUSSIAN PRESIDENT, VLADIMIR PUTIN TO OPEN NEW GAS STATION CHAIN (LUKOIL)</span></a><span style="color: blue;"> </span><span>IN NEW YORK</span>.</b>. / 2003( Credit Image: © Rick Mackler/Globe Photos/ZUMAPRESS.com)”</p>
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<p><a href="https://impeachobamatoday.files.wordpress.com/2024/02/schumerputin.png"><img alt="" class="alignnone wp-image-99100" data-attachment-id="99100" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-caption="" data-image-description="" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="schumerputin" data-large-file="https://impeachobamatoday.files.wordpress.com/2024/02/schumerputin.png?w=497" data-medium-file="https://impeachobamatoday.files.wordpress.com/2024/02/schumerputin.png?w=300" data-orig-file="https://impeachobamatoday.files.wordpress.com/2024/02/schumerputin.png" data-orig-size="711,448" data-permalink="https://impeachobamatoday.wordpress.com/2024/02/14/senator-chuck-schumer-joins-russian-president-vladimir-putin-to-celebrate-opening-of-new-gas-station-chain-lukoil-in-new-york-city-sept-26-2003/schumerputin/" height="247" src="https://impeachobamatoday.files.wordpress.com/2024/02/schumerputin.png?w=390&h=247" width="390" /></a></p>
<p>“Sept. 26, 2003 – <a href="https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-sept-26-2003-new-york-new-york-us-k33082rmsenator-chuck-schumer-joins-42550151.html">New York, New York, U.S. – K33082RM. <span style="color: #c43333;"><b>SENATOR CHUCK SCHUMER JOINS RUSSIAN PRESIDENT, VLADIMIR PUTIN, TO OPEN NEW GAS STATION CHAIN</b></span></a><span style="color: #c43333;"><b> (LUKOIL) </b></span><span><b>IN NEW YORK</b></span>../ 2003 (Credit Image: © Rick Mackler/Globe Photos/ZUMAPRESS.com) Captions are provided by our contributors.”</p>
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<p><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><a href="https://lukoilamericas.com/en"><b>“</b></a><b><a href="https://lukoilamericas.com/en">LUKOIL North America"</a></b><a href="https://lukoilamericas.com/en"><b></b></a><b><a href="https://lukoilamericas.com/en"><br /></a></b></span></p>
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<div class="sharedaddy sd-like-enabled sd-sharing-enabled" id="jp-post-flair"><div class="sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled"><div class="robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing"><h3 class="sd-title"><br /></h3><h3 class="sd-title"><span style="font-weight: normal;">................</span><br /></h3></div></div></div></div><p> </p>susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14710989163705986252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1907031520446514200.post-53921626236604096402024-02-12T21:06:00.000-04:002024-02-12T21:06:14.650-04:00Don Trump and Jared Kushner both favor two state solution, Jared says Palestinians need their own state. Jared and Ivanka visit attack site in Israel-Wall St. Journal, Dec. 2023 <p> <span style="color: #eeeeee;">.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/ivanka-trump-jared-kushner-visit-hamas-attack-site-in-israel-aea1ed68"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">“Trump’s plan called for a two-state solution</span> <span style="color: blue;">and investments in the Palestinian economy</span>.”</b></a>…12/21/2023, Wall St. Journal…<a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2023-10-25/jared-kushner-says-palestinians-need-a-functioning-state-video"><span style="color: #990000;"><b>Addressing Saudis in Oct., 2023, Jared Kushner said</b></span><span style="color: #a61919;"><b> <span style="color: blue;">Palestinians need their own functioning state. </span></b></span></a>10/25/2023, Bloomberg</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: large;">12/21/2023, <b><span style="color: #990000;">“<a href="https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/ivanka-trump-jared-kushner-visit-hamas-attack-site-in-israel-aea1ed68">Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner Visit Hamas Attack Site in Israel,"</a></span></b> Wall St. Journal, Sune Engel Rasmussen and Vivian Salama</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: large;">“Trip comes as U.S. voters criticize Biden over his response to war.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/ivanka-trump-jared-kushner-visit-hamas-attack-site-in-israel-aea1ed68"><b><span style="color: #990000;">“Ivanka Trump, daughter of Donald Trump and her husband Jared Kushner</span><span style="color: #bf2a2a;"> <span style="color: #333399;">landed</span></span><span style="color: #333399;"> early Thursday in Tel Aviv,</span></b></a> amid questions about how the former U.S. president would deal with Israel if he returns to the White House.</span></p>
<p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #ad2b2b;"><b><a href="https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/ivanka-trump-jared-kushner-visit-hamas-attack-site-in-israel-aea1ed68"><span style="color: #bf2a2a;">The couple were met by Knesset speaker</span> Amir Ohana and</a> <span style="color: blue;">were taken on a guided tour near the southern border with Gaza</span></b></span>, where they visited the Kfar Aza kibbutz, which was attacked in the Hamas-led assault on Oct. 7, according to Israeli media.</span></p>
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<p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0"><span style="font-size: large;">They were expected to meet Israeli President Isaac Herzog in the evening.</span></p>
<p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0"><span style="font-size: large;">Neither Ivanka Trump nor
Kushner has any plans to join any future Trump administration, although
both support the former president’s renewed bid for the White House.</span></p>
<p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0"><span style="font-size: large;">Donald Trump <a class="css-1h1us5y-StyledLink el06won0" href="https://nypost.com/2023/06/19/trump-says-ivanka-and-jared-kushner-wont-be-a-part-of-his-second-term-too-painful/" rel="">has said publicly</a> he didn’t expect Kushner or Ivanka Trump to serve in the administration again if he wins in 2024.</span></p>
<p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0"><span style="font-size: large;">A person familiar with Kushner
and Ivanka Trump’s visit to Israel said the couple traveled to the
country to show their support for its people, adding that the trip was
not directly related to politics or Trump’s re-election bid.</span></p>
<p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0"><span style="font-size: large;">The visit comes as Trump <a class="css-1h1us5y-StyledLink el06won0" href="https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/trump-takes-2024-lead-as-biden-approval-hits-new-low-wsj-poll-finds-fb4fca0c" rel="">has pulled ahead of President Biden</a> in a head-to-head test of <a class="css-1h1us5y-StyledLink el06won0" href="https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/trump-holds-32-point-lead-over-desantis-in-closely-watched-iowa-poll-a463b60d" rel="">the likely 2024 presidential matchup</a>,
according to a recent Wall Street Journal poll. Meanwhile, Biden is
facing criticism from U.S. voters for his response to the war, with 37%
of those surveyed saying they approved of Biden’s handling of the
conflict, compared with 52% of people who disapproved.</span></p>
<p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0"><span style="font-size: large;">Biden, under pressure from
some U.S. voters to stop Israel’s military operation in Gaza, has
criticized Israel for “indiscriminate bombing,” which he said could cost
the country support among Western countries outside the U.S. Yet, he
has refused to call for a cease-fire and repeatedly stated his
unwavering support for Israel.</span></p>
<p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0"><span style="font-size: large;">While supporting the war in
Israel has the potential to harm Biden at the polls, given that his
party is divided on the matter and<a href="https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/ivanka-trump-jared-kushner-visit-hamas-attack-site-in-israel-aea1ed68"><span style="color: #ad2b2b;"><b> more Democrats sympathize with the Palestinian people than with Israel</b></span></a>, it is unclear how Trump’s stance could affect his presidential run, because<span style="color: blue;"> <a href="https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/ivanka-trump-jared-kushner-visit-hamas-attack-site-in-israel-aea1ed68" style="color: blue;"><b>party affiliation is a crucial factor among Americans when it comes to support for Israel.</b></a></span></span></p>
<p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0"><span style="font-size: large;">Nearly a quarter of Democrats
said they were more sympathetic to Palestinians, compared with 17% who
said they sympathized more with the Israeli people. Just under half said
they were equally sympathetic to both.</span></p>
<p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/ivanka-trump-jared-kushner-visit-hamas-attack-site-in-israel-aea1ed68"><b><span style="color: #bf2a2a;">By contrast, more than two-thirds of Republicans</span> said they were more sympathetic to Israelis</b></a>, compared with 2% who sympathized more with the Palestinians and 17% who said they sympathized with both groups.</span></p>
<p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Another Trump presidency presents a potential wild card for Israel.</b>
Trump in 2017 ordered the relocation of the U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv to
Jerusalem, recognizing it as the capital of Israel, a decision that was
sharply criticized by Arab, Palestinian and European leaders who said
it could hamper future peace negotiations.</span></p>
<p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Israeli Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu at the time praised the decision, yet relations
between the two men have grown strained since. </b></span></p>
<p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #ad2b2b;"><a href="https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/ivanka-trump-jared-kushner-visit-hamas-attack-site-in-israel-aea1ed68" style="color: #ad2b2b;"><b>After his 2020 election loss, </b></a></span></span></p>
<p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #ad2b2b;"><b><a href="https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/ivanka-trump-jared-kushner-visit-hamas-attack-site-in-israel-aea1ed68" style="color: #ad2b2b;"><span style="color: blue;">Trump chastised Netanyahu for congratulating Biden,</span></a> </b></span></span></p>
<p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>even though the Israeli prime minister </b></span></p>
<p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>waited until after most other world leaders to do so.</b></span></p>
<p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0"><span style="font-size: large;">More recently, Trump has faced criticism for <a class="css-1h1us5y-StyledLink el06won0" href="https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/donald-trump-criticizes-benjamin-netanyahu-as-israel-wages-war-with-hamas-3ef4ec7a" rel="">remarks during a campaign speech</a> in October, when <span style="color: #bf2a2a;"><b><a href="https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/ivanka-trump-jared-kushner-visit-hamas-attack-site-in-israel-aea1ed68" style="color: #bf2a2a;">he characterized the militant group Hezbollah as “very smart”<span style="color: blue;"> and faulted Netanyahu</span></a><span style="color: blue;"> over a 2020</span> <span style="color: blue;">mission</span></b></span> that killed an Iranian military leader.</span></p>
<p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/ivanka-trump-jared-kushner-visit-hamas-attack-site-in-israel-aea1ed68"><span style="color: blue;">Among Israelis, meanwhile, Biden is more popular than Trump</span></a>.</b>
The former president stirred anger in Israel after the Oct. 7 Hamas-led
attack, which Israel says killed 1,200 people, most of them civilians,
when he <b>blamed Netanyahu for not being prepared and <a href="https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/ivanka-trump-jared-kushner-visit-hamas-attack-site-in-israel-aea1ed68"><span style="color: #bf2a2a;">said that Israelis have “to strengthen themselves up.”</span></a></b></span></p>
<p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0"><span style="font-size: large;">A survey released Thursday by
the Israeli polling company Midgam showed that while supporters of
Netanyahu’s coalition prefer Trump by a significant margin, 41% of
overall Israeli voters prefer Biden—compared with 26% who favor Trump.</span></p>
<p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/ivanka-trump-jared-kushner-visit-hamas-attack-site-in-israel-aea1ed68">During his presidency, Trump relied on Ivanka Trump as a senior adviser, </a></b></span></p>
<p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><a href="https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/ivanka-trump-jared-kushner-visit-hamas-attack-site-in-israel-aea1ed68"><span>and put Kushner</span></a></span>, </b>who at the time had limited Middle East experience,</span></p>
<p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/ivanka-trump-jared-kushner-visit-hamas-attack-site-in-israel-aea1ed68"><span style="color: blue;"> in charge</span> of what he called “the ultimate deal” <span style="color: #bf2a2a;">to broker peace in the region.</span></a></b></span></p>
<p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/ivanka-trump-jared-kushner-visit-hamas-attack-site-in-israel-aea1ed68"><span style="color: #ad2b2b;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Trump’s plan called for a two-state solution</span> </b></span></a></span></p>
<p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/ivanka-trump-jared-kushner-visit-hamas-attack-site-in-israel-aea1ed68"><span style="color: #ad2b2b;"><b>and investments in the Palestinian economy.</b></span></a></span></p>
<p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/ivanka-trump-jared-kushner-visit-hamas-attack-site-in-israel-aea1ed68">In 2019, Kushner organized a conference</a> to promote a $50 billion economic program <span style="color: #bf2a2a;">aimed at reviving talks between Israel and the Palestinians</span>. </b>Kushner
played an instrumental role in crafting the 2020 Abraham Accords that
normalized ties between Israel and several Arab states, including the
United Arab Emirates. Many Palestinians said Arab states were neglecting
their cause by forging ties with Israel.</span></p>
<p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/ivanka-trump-jared-kushner-visit-hamas-attack-site-in-israel-aea1ed68">Kushner himself benefited</a> from </b></span></p>
<p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>his previous role as </b></span></p>
<p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0"><span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;"><b>appointed Middle East peacemaker, </b></span></p>
<p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: #990000;">touring Persian Gulf monarchies</span> </b></span></p>
<p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0"><span style="font-size: large;">shortly after Biden took office<b> <span style="color: blue;">with <a class="css-1h1us5y-StyledLink el06won0" href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/jared-kushners-new-fund-looks-to-profit-from-his-middle-east-diplomacy-11645709017" rel="" style="color: blue;">a pitch for investment opportunities </a></span>in <a href="https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/ivanka-trump-jared-kushner-visit-hamas-attack-site-in-israel-aea1ed68">deals made possible by Trump-administration initiatives in the region,</a></b> including the Abraham Accords.</span></p>
<p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/ivanka-trump-jared-kushner-visit-hamas-attack-site-in-israel-aea1ed68"><b>Kushner raised money from Saudi, Emirati and Qata</b></a><b><a href="https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/ivanka-trump-jared-kushner-visit-hamas-attack-site-in-israel-aea1ed68"><b>ri investors</b> </a></b></span></p>
<p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/ivanka-trump-jared-kushner-visit-hamas-attack-site-in-israel-aea1ed68"><span style="color: #bf2a2a;">through his new fund, Affinity Partners</span></a>, </b></span></p>
<p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0"><span style="font-size: large;">leading to criticism that he capitalized on the unique position he held in the Trump White House.”</span></p>
<p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0"><span style="font-size: large;">Write to Sune Engel Rasmussen at <a class="css-1h1us5y-StyledLink el06won0" href="mailto:sune.rasmussen@wsj.com" rel="">sune.rasmussen@wsj.com</a> and Vivian Salama at <a class="css-1h1us5y-StyledLink el06won0" href="mailto:vivian.salama@wsj.com" rel="">vivian.salama@wsj.com</a></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: large;">Added, 10/25/23, <span style="color: #990000;"><b>“<a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2023-10-25/jared-kushner-says-palestinians-need-a-functioning-state-video">Jared Kushner Says Palestinians Need a Functioning State,</a></b>”</span> Bloomberg…images <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2023-10-25/jared-kushner-says-palestinians-need-a-functioning-state-video">from Bloomberg video</a></span></p>
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<p class="video-metadata__summary"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>“Jared Kushner said</b>
he believes the Hamas attack on Israel was aimed at thwarting regional
stabilization efforts, including talks between Saudi Arabia and Israel.<span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2023-10-25/jared-kushner-says-palestinians-need-a-functioning-state-video" style="color: blue;"><b> Speaking at the Future Investment Initiative summit in Saudi Arabia,</b></a></span> Kushner also said the Abraham Accords are more important now than ever before and <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2023-10-25/jared-kushner-says-palestinians-need-a-functioning-state-video"><span style="color: #bf2a2a;"><b>emphasized the importance of Palestinian people having a functioning state</b>.</span>“</a> (Source: Bloomberg)</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> ..........</span></p><p> </p>susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14710989163705986252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1907031520446514200.post-45768429328269573092024-02-10T21:50:00.006-04:002024-02-10T21:53:14.889-04:00Trump drops pledge to end “catch and release” at border over lack of space to hold record level of migrant families-Wall St. Journal, March 19, 2019 <p><span style="color: #f3f3f3;"> .</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">“</span><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-to-stop-detaining-some-migrant-families-at-border-under-new-policy-11553042424">The policy change runs counter to President Trump’s repeated pledge to end</a> what he called </span><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-to-stop-detaining-some-migrant-families-at-border-under-new-policy-11553042424"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">“catch-and-release”</span> </a></b><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-to-stop-detaining-some-migrant-families-at-border-under-new-policy-11553042424">at the border</a> in favor of “catch-and-detain.” <b><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-to-stop-detaining-some-migrant-families-at-border-under-new-policy-11553042424"><span style="color: #990000;">But as the volume of families has reached record levels</span></a></b> in the past several months, immigration authorities have struggled to make room for them all.”<a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-to-stop-detaining-some-migrant-families-at-border-under-new-policy-11553042424"> <span style="color: black;"><b>In June 2018 Trump ended family separations</b></span></a><b> amid a class-action lawsuit and outcry.</b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;">3/19/2019, <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-to-stop-detaining-some-migrant-families-at-border-under-new-policy-11553042424"><b><span style="color: #990000;">“U.S. to Stop Detaining Some Migrant Families at Border Under New Policy,”</span> </b></a>Wall St. Journal, Alicia A. Caldwell, Wed. In March 20, 2019, print ed. as <b><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-to-stop-detaining-some-migrant-families-at-border-under-new-policy-11553042424">“<span style="color: #c42f2f;">Policy on Migrant Families Shifts”</span></a></b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;">“Trump administration moves to relieve <span style="color: #990000;"><b><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-to-stop-detaining-some-migrant-families-at-border-under-new-policy-11553042424">overcrowding in facilities as immigration surges.”</a></b></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: #c42f2f;">“The Trump administration plans to start pulling back <span style="color: blue;">on a controversial plank </span></span></b><span style="color: #c42f2f;"><span style="color: #333333;">of U.S. </span></span><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-to-stop-detaining-some-migrant-families-at-border-under-new-policy-11553042424"><span style="color: #333333;">immigration policy</span></a><b><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-to-stop-detaining-some-migrant-families-at-border-under-new-policy-11553042424"> in a busy border region</a>, </b>saying Tuesday it<b> <span style="color: #2b00fe;">will stop sending some migrant families who illegally cross the border</span></b> in Texas’ Rio Grande Valley to jail.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-to-stop-detaining-some-migrant-families-at-border-under-new-policy-11553042424"><span style="color: #c42f2f;">Starting this week, hundreds of families caught each day</span> in that area <span style="color: blue;">are being released</span> by Border Patrol agents,</a> instead of being handed over to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement</b>
for potentially longer detention, government officials said. The exact
number will depend on how many there is room for in ICE detention
facilities, which have filled up</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b><a class="icon none" href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/record-immigration-surge-to-accelerate-government-projects-11552239906?mod=article_inline" rel="noopener" target="_blank">as a record volume of families</a> are crossing the border.</b></span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: large;">The officials said they are making the change because of<b><a class="icon none" href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/surge-of-migrant-families-tests-border-patrol-11545224400?mod=searchresults&page=1&pos=7&mod=article_inline" rel="noopener" style="color: #2b00fe;" target="_blank"> crowding and safety concerns</a><span style="color: #2b00fe;">.</span> </b>The
conditions under which the federal government detains migrant families,
particularly those with young children, have drawn frequent criticism
in the past few years. Two migrant <a class="icon none" href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/guatemalan-boy-dies-in-custody-of-u-s-border-patrol-11545765955?mod=searchresults&page=1&pos=3&mod=article_inline" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Guatemalan children died</a> in Border Patrol custody in December.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"><b>ICE’s three family detention centers can hold several thousand people at a time</b>. Families with children can spend</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"><b> up to 20 days in them under current law.</b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;">Under the new policy, some families will be processed by the Border
Patrol and then released and ordered to show up later to start their
deportation or asylum cases.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-to-stop-detaining-some-migrant-families-at-border-under-new-policy-11553042424"><span style="color: #c42f2f;">The policy change runs counter to President Trump’s </span></a></b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-to-stop-detaining-some-migrant-families-at-border-under-new-policy-11553042424"><span style="color: #c42f2f;"><span style="color: blue;">repeated pledge to end</span></span></a><span style="color: blue;"> what he called </span><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-to-stop-detaining-some-migrant-families-at-border-under-new-policy-11553042424"><span style="color: blue;">“catch-and-release”</span></a></b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #333333;"><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-to-stop-detaining-some-migrant-families-at-border-under-new-policy-11553042424" style="color: #333333;">at the border</a> in favor of “catch-and-detain.” </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>But as the volume of families has reached record levels</b></span><span style="color: #333333;"><b> in the past several months</b>, immigration authorities have struggled to make room for them all.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;">Migrants released directly by the Border Patrol <b>will be given a
notice to appear,</b> a legal document that orders them to report to
immigration authorities in the interior of the country. Unlike adult
migrants with children released by ICE, they will not be given ankle
monitors to track their movements.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-to-stop-detaining-some-migrant-families-at-border-under-new-policy-11553042424"><span style="color: #c42f2f;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: #333333;">For years the Rio Grande Valley has been the busiest stretch </span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;">of </span>border for families crossing into the U.S. illegally. <b>[Over a period of 5 months] </b><b>Between Oct. 1, [2018]</b> the start of the federal government’s fiscal year,<b> and the end of February [2019, five months], </b>more than 58,000 such migrants have been arrested in the area, about 42% of the <b>more than 136,000 nationwide.</b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #c42f2f;"><b>Most of the families are from Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador,</b></span> and say they are <a class="icon none" href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/as-migration-from-guatemala-surges-u-s-officials-seek-answers-1539428401?mod=searchresults&page=1&pos=10&mod=article_inline" rel="noopener" target="_blank">fleeing violence, poverty and corruption</a>.
Nearly all say they are afraid to go home and ask for asylum in the
U.S. Though winning asylum is a long shot for most migrants,<b><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-to-stop-detaining-some-migrant-families-at-border-under-new-policy-11553042424"><span style="color: blue;"> the legal process can take several years</span> to complete and<span style="color: #c42f2f;"> most families are allowed to live in the U.S.</span></a></b> while they wait for a judge to decide their fate.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;">The Trump administration has been trying to curb<b><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-to-stop-detaining-some-migrant-families-at-border-under-new-policy-11553042424"> the rising flood of families</a></b>
and last year enacted a zero-tolerance policy that led to the
separation of thousands of children from their parents, who were charged
with a misdemeanor for crossing the border illegally.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #c42f2f;"><b>Mr. Trump issued an executive order in June [2018] </b></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #333333;"><b>to end family separations </b></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;"><b>amid a class-action lawsuit and </b></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: #c42f2f;">outcry from immigration advocates and lawmakers, including some Republicans.</span> </b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Also in June [2018] a federal judge in San Diego </b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><b>ordered the government to reunite </b> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">all of the children and their parents, a process still ongoing.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;">The Trump administration has recently started to send some Central
American migrants, including families, who cross the border in
California to request asylum <a class="icon none" href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/migrants-entering-u-s-illegally-to-be-returned-to-mexico-for-proceedings-11545324934?mod=searchresults&page=1&pos=8&mod=article_inline" rel="noopener" target="_blank">back to Mexico</a> <b>to wait for a judge to decide their case.</b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;">Six migrants from the first group sent back to Mexico appeared in
federal immigration court in San Diego for the first time on Tuesday.
None of their cases was immediately decided."</span></p></div>
<p><span style="font-size: large;">“Copyright ©2022 Dow Jones & Company, Inc.” </span><span style="font-size: large;">Appeared in March 20, 2019, print edition.</span></p></div><p class="printheadline"><span style="font-size: large;">.......................................</span></p><p class="printheadline"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: #cc0000;">Added: <a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/mar/11/support-for-donald-trump-dwindles-among-ice-office/">3/11/2019, ICE officials say Trump failed to follow through </a><a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/mar/11/support-for-donald-trump-dwindles-among-ice-office/">on his promises</a><a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/mar/11/support-for-donald-trump-dwindles-among-ice-office/">.</a> </span><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Further, he refuses to end loophole that wastes 100s of hours of ICE time EVERY DAY: </span></b></span><a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/mar/11/support-for-donald-trump-dwindles-among-ice-office/"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">“Hundreds of man hours are wasted each day at a time of crisis on the
border.”</span></b></span></a><span style="font-size: large;">..."Catch and release" worse than ever: </span><b><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="printheadline"><span style="font-size: large;">3/11/2019, <b><span style="color: #cc0000;">"</span><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/mar/11/support-for-donald-trump-dwindles-among-ice-office/">Support for Donald Trump dwindles among ICE officers,</a>"</span><span style="color: #cc0000;"> </span></b>Washington Times, Stephen Dinan</span><br /></p><p class="printheadline"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>"ICE officers who endorsed President Trump in 2016 now say he <span style="color: #cc0000;"><a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/mar/11/support-for-donald-trump-dwindles-among-ice-office/">has failed to follow through on his get-tough promises</a>,</span></b> saying
<b><span style="color: #cc0000;">catch-and-release</span> </b>of immigrants living illegally in the U.S. is not only
still happening, but </span></p><p class="printheadline"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/mar/11/support-for-donald-trump-dwindles-among-ice-office/"><span style="color: #cc0000;">has gone into “overdrive.”</span></a></b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;">Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers
say they’re being <b>roped into such mundane tasks as <span style="color: #2b00fe;"><a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/mar/11/support-for-donald-trump-dwindles-among-ice-office/">opening the doors on vans</a> to release immigrants already caught by Border Patrol agents</span>.
That’s <span style="color: #cc0000;"><a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/mar/11/support-for-donald-trump-dwindles-among-ice-office/">dragging the officers from their usual duties</a> of nabbing
fugitives, or scouring local prisons and jails for immigrant criminals </span>
</b>who lived illegally in the U.S. ready to be deported.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"><b>The shell game is all the more “ridiculous,”
the officers said, because </b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: large;"><b>Border Patrol agents could fill out paperwork
and open the doors themselves, </b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/mar/11/support-for-donald-trump-dwindles-among-ice-office/">but the agency’s leaders don’t want to be part of catch-and-release.</a></b></span></p><p class="printheadline"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p><p><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/mar/11/support-for-donald-trump-dwindles-among-ice-office/">“Hundreds of man hours are wasted each day</a> at a time of crisis on the
border,”</span> </span></b><span style="font-size: large;">the leaders of the National ICE Council, the union that
represents ICE officers, said</span><b><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">in a letter sent directly to Mr. Trump on
Monday.</span></span></b></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;">The letter was sent just hours before the
Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee voted to
approve Mr. Trump’s pick, Ronald D. Vitiello, to be the new director of
ICE.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/mar/11/support-for-donald-trump-dwindles-among-ice-office/">Committee Chairman Ron Johnson waved a copy</a> of the ICE Council’s letter </b>during the vote and called the accusations <b><span style="color: #cc0000;">“troubling.”</span></b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;">“We’re going to get to the bottom of this,” he told reporters afterward."</span></p><p class="printheadline"><span style="font-size: large;">.................................... <br /></span></p><p class="printheadline"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>Added: </b><b>4/24/2019</b><b>, </b></span><b><span style="color: #cc0000;"></span><a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/04/24/dhs-releases-seven-thousand-illegal-aliens-into-u-s-in-five-days-released-every-day/#"><span style="color: #cc0000;"> Trump sends 10,000 illegal aliens to US towns and cities </span></a><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/04/24/dhs-releases-seven-thousand-illegal-aliens-into-u-s-in-five-days-released-every-day/#">every month, </a></span></b>1400 per day,<b><span style="color: #2b00fe;"> </span></b>as of April 2019<b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">.</span><span style="color: #cc0000;"> </span></b><span style="color: #cc0000;">"</span></span><span style="font-size: large;">Former Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach has <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/04/04/exclusive-kobach-three-steps-to-solve-the-border-crisis/">exclusively detailed</a>
at Breitbart News <b><span style="color: #cc0000;">three executive actions that Trump administration </span></b>and
DHS officials </span><span style="font-size: large;">could take<span style="color: #2b00fe;"> <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/04/24/dhs-releases-seven-thousand-illegal-aliens-into-u-s-in-five-days-released-every-day/#"><b>to immediately</b></a></span></span><b><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/04/24/dhs-releases-seven-thousand-illegal-aliens-into-u-s-in-five-days-released-every-day/#"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"> end catch and release</span><span style="color: #cc0000;">--</span></a><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/04/24/dhs-releases-seven-thousand-illegal-aliens-into-u-s-in-five-days-released-every-day/#">including creating additional detention space </a></span></span></b><span style="font-size: large;">where immigration court
hearings can be quickly heard."</span></p><p class="printheadline"><span style="font-size: large;">4/24/2019, <span style="color: #990000;"><b>"<a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/04/24/dhs-releases-seven-thousand-illegal-aliens-into-u-s-in-five-days-released-every-day/#">DHS Releases 7K Illegal Aliens into U.S. in Five Days; 1.4K Released Every Day,</a></b></span><span style="color: #cc0000;">"</span> Breitbart, John Binder<br /></span></p><p class="printheadline"> </p>
<p class="subheading"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>"President Trump’s Department of Homeland
Security (DHS)</b> has released about 7,000 border crossers and illegal
aliens into the interior of the United States in the last five days.</span></p>
<p class="a8d-pre"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/04/24/dhs-releases-seven-thousand-illegal-aliens-into-u-s-in-five-days-released-every-day/#"><span style="color: #990000;">The latest catch and release totals</span> </a>obtained by
Breitbart News revealed that, currently, DHS is <span style="color: #cc0000;">releasing about 1,400 </span>
border crossers and illegal aliens into the interior of the U.S.<span style="color: #cc0000;"> </span></b></span></p><p class="a8d-pre"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: #cc0000;">every
day.</span></b> <b> </b></span></p><p class="a8d-pre"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Between April 18 to April 22, DHS released about 7,000</b> border
crossers and illegal aliens into the country.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: #cc0000;"><a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/04/24/dhs-releases-seven-thousand-illegal-aliens-into-u-s-in-five-days-released-every-day/#">The catch and release process </a></span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">often entails federal immigration officials <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/03/11/dhs-continues-busing-border-crossers-illegal-aliens-into-u-s-for-release/">busing</a> border crossers into nearby border cities </span> </b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: #990000;">and <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/03/25/at-least-1-1k-border-crossers-illegal-aliens-released-into-u-s-over-weekend/">dropping them off</a></span> with
the promise that they will show up </b>for </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">their immigration and <b>asylum
hearings, sometimes years later.</b> The overwhelming majority of border
crossers and illegal aliens </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><b>are never deported from the country once
they are released into the U.S.</b></span></p>
<p class="a8d-pre"><span style="font-size: large;">Today, there are anywhere between 11 to 22 million
illegal aliens living across the country — <b>the majority of which are
concentrated in states like California, New York, Florida, Texas, and
Illinois.</b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>Over the past five days, El Paso, Texas, has had to absorb 2,800</b> </span>of
the 7,000 border crossers and illegal aliens released into the country.
Likewise, San Antonio, Texas, has had to take about 2,200, while about <b>
<span style="color: #2b00fe;">1,200 were dropped off in Phoenix, Arizona,</span></b> and 800 in San Diego,
California.</span></p>
<p><b><span style="font-size: large;">Former Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach has <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/04/04/exclusive-kobach-three-steps-to-solve-the-border-crisis/">exclusively detailed</a>
at Breitbart News <span style="color: #cc0000;">three executive actions that Trump administration and
DHS officials </span></span></b></p><p><a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/04/24/dhs-releases-seven-thousand-illegal-aliens-into-u-s-in-five-days-released-every-day/#"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">could take to immediately end catch and release — </span></span></b></a></p><p><a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/04/24/dhs-releases-seven-thousand-illegal-aliens-into-u-s-in-five-days-released-every-day/#"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">including creating additional detention space </span></span></b></a></p><p><b><span style="font-size: large;">where immigration court
hearings can be quickly heard.</span></b></p>
<p><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">The expanded use of catch and release by the Trump administration</span> has forced </span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: large;">communities like Yuma, Arizona, </span></b></p><p><b><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: large;">to declare a local</span><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: large;"> <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/border/2019/04/16/arizona-border-mayor-declares-state-of-emergency-over-migrant-crisis/">state of emergency</a> </span></b></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">as the city and county is unable to deal with soaring levels of illegal immigration.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Since December 21, 2018, about 153,000 </b>border crossers and illegal
aliens have been released into the interior of the U.S. This dictates
that DHS is releasing about<b> </b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/04/24/dhs-releases-seven-thousand-illegal-aliens-into-u-s-in-five-days-released-every-day/#"><b>38,250 border crossers and illegal aliens
into the country every month </b></a> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">with close to </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: #cc0000;"><a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/04/24/dhs-releases-seven-thousand-illegal-aliens-into-u-s-in-five-days-released-every-day/#">10,000 released every week </a>and about 1,400 released every day.</span></b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"><b>At this current trajectory, <span style="color: #cc0000;"> </span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: #cc0000;">by the end of the year [2019], DHS will have
released nearly 460,000 </span></b>border crossers and illegal aliens into American
communities —<b> <span style="color: #cc0000;"> </span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: #cc0000;"><a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/04/24/dhs-releases-seven-thousand-illegal-aliens-into-u-s-in-five-days-released-every-day/#">in addition to the</a></span><span style="color: #a64d79;"> projected </span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: #cc0000;"><a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/03/27/u-s-projected-to-add-1-5m-illegal-aliens-to-population-this-year/">half a million</a> illegal aliens who will successfully cross </span></b>the U.S.-Mexico border this year, </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b><a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/04/24/dhs-releases-seven-thousand-illegal-aliens-into-u-s-in-five-days-released-every-day/#">undetected by federal officials."</a></b></span></span></p><p>......................................... </p><p><br /></p><p>...............<br /></p><p> </p>susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14710989163705986252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1907031520446514200.post-30174729714949147732024-02-01T01:29:00.004-04:002024-02-01T01:37:29.865-04:00Sadly Don Trump inserts himself into North Carolina Republican primary for US House seat with endorsement of health industry lobbyist. Club for Growth supports a different GOP candidate-Carolina Journal, WRAL <p> .</p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://spectrumlocalnews.com/nc/charlotte/news/2023/12/14/ex-president-trump-endorses-new-candidate-mcdowell-for-central-n-c--congressional-seat">“The primary is March 5th” 2024</a></b>…<span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b>“</b><b><a href="https://www.theassemblync.com/politics/elections/6th-district-house-race-trump/">[Addison] McDowell had gone on a hunting trip with Donald Trump Jr</a></b></span><span style="color: #d92323;"><b><a href="https://www.theassemblync.com/politics/elections/6th-district-house-race-trump/" style="color: #d92323;">.</a> </b><span style="color: #333333;">a few weeks earlier,</span></span> <b><span style="color: #d92323;"><span style="color: blue;">who then set up a private meeting between</span> </span><span style="color: #2b00fe;">his father and McDowell at Mar-a-Lago.”…</span></b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;">1/22/24, <span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>“<a href="https://www.wral.com/story/club-for-growth-pac-picks-different-candidate-than-trump-in-central-nc-congressional-primary/21247531/#:~:text=Republican%20Bo%20Hines%20won%20the,of%20job%20creators%22%20if%20elected.">Club for Growth PAC picks different candidate than Trump in central NC congressional primary</a>,</b></span><span style="color: #990000;">”</span> WRAL.com</span></p>
<div class="svelte-1ybbqi8 abstract"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: #990000;"><span>“<a href="https://www.wral.com/story/club-for-growth-pac-picks-different-candidate-than-trump-in-central-nc-congressional-primary/21247531/#:~:text=Republican%20Bo%20Hines%20won%20the,of%20job%20creators%22%20if%20elected.">The Club for Growth endorsed Bo Hines</a> in North Carolina’s 6th Congressional District</span>.</span></b> Previously [in Dec. 2023], former President Donald<a href="https://www.wral.com/story/club-for-growth-pac-picks-different-candidate-than-trump-in-central-nc-congressional-primary/21247531/#:~:text=Republican%20Bo%20Hines%20won%20the,of%20job%20creators%22%20if%20elected."><b> Trump endorsed Addison McDowell.”…</b></a></span></div>
<p><span style="font-size: large;">……………………………….</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;">1/23/24, <span style="color: #d92323;"><b>“<a href="https://www.carolinajournal.com/opinion/trump-and-club-for-growth-split-in-nc-6-gop-primary/" style="color: #d92323;">Trump and Club for Growth split in NC 6 GOP Primary,</a>“</b></span> The Carolina Journal, Dallas Woodhouse</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;">“Former NC State football player and failed 2022 GOP Congressional candidate, <b><span style="color: #d92323;">Republican Bo Hines, <a href="https://www.clubforgrowth.org/candidates/bo-hines/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="color: #d92323;" target="_blank">won the endorsement of Club for Growth Action</a> </span>in the closely divided GOP primary </b>for North Carolina’s 6th Congressional District. Club
for Growth is a strong force in GOP primary circles, backing up
endorsements with large sums of outside spending. The organization spent
millions in the primary to elevate Ted Budd to the US Senate in 2022
over former GOP Gov. Pat McCrory and former GOP Congressman Mark Walker.</span></p>
<div class="articleBody mainBody">
<p><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.clubforgrowth.org/candidates/bo-hines/"><b>In endorsing Hines, the organization said: </b></a>“<b>In this crowded primary, filled with career politicians and Republicans In Name Only (RINOs</b>), the high number of undecided voters makes the race extremely competitive. It’s crucial for voters to understand that <a href="https://www.carolinajournal.com/opinion/trump-and-club-for-growth-split-in-nc-6-gop-primary/">Bo Hines stands out as the true economic conservative in this race.”</a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.carolinajournal.com/opinion/trump-and-club-for-growth-split-in-nc-6-gop-primary/"><span style="color: red;"><b>However, unlike last year, Hines no longer has the support of former President Donald Trump.</b></span></a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;">Trump, who endorsed Hines in the Raleigh-area 13th Congressional District in 2022,</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: red;"><a href="https://www.carolinajournal.com/opinion/trump-and-club-for-growth-split-in-nc-6-gop-primary/"><span style="color: red;">instead endorsed lobbyist Addison McDowell</span> late last year [Dec. 2023]</a><br />
</span></b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #333333;"> in the Greensboro-area’s 6th Congressional District.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Trump endorsed McDowell </b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.carolinajournal.com/opinion/trump-and-club-for-growth-split-in-nc-6-gop-primary/"><span style="color: red;"><b>before McDowell announced his candidacy in the race.</b></span></a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://twitter.com/Addison_McD/status/1735055502936051743/photo/1"><b>In December, Trump wrote on social media</b></a>
that, if elected, McDowell will “work hard to Secure the Border, Defend
the Second Amendment, Lower your Taxes, Grow our Economy, and
Strengthen the Military.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: red;"><a href="https://www.carolinajournal.com/opinion/trump-and-club-for-growth-split-in-nc-6-gop-primary/"><span style="color: red;">McDowell, a registered lobbyist for Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina</span></a>,</span> </b>previously worked for GOP Rep. Richard Hudson’s campaign and as a district staffer for Ted Budd when he was in the US House.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.carolinajournal.com/opinion/trump-and-club-for-growth-split-in-nc-6-gop-primary/"><b>McDowell is </b></a><b><a href="https://www.carolinajournal.com/opinion/trump-and-club-for-growth-split-in-nc-6-gop-primary/">supported by several of the GOP powerbrokers in NC</a>, </b>including state Senate President Pro-Tem Phil Berger Sr.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;">After the 2022 election, several <a href="https://newrepublic.com/article/176870/club-growth-fell-out-trump">national</a> media <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/06/us/politics/club-for-growth-trump-desantis.html">outlets</a> wrote about how the<a href="https://www.carolinajournal.com/opinion/trump-and-club-for-growth-split-in-nc-6-gop-primary/"><b> Club for Growth and former President Trump were no longer seeing eye to eye. </b></a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Former Congressman Mark Walker is also running for the Republican nomination</b>, in an attempt to reclaim the Greensboro-area district he represented for three terms. Walker has been <b>endorsed by another influential GOP aligned group, CPAC,</b> which highlighted Walker’s consistent conservative voting in Congress.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;">Walker is currently the best-known candidate in the district, having
represented some of it for six years, as well as from his previous
statewide campaigns for US Senate and governor, the latter of which he
dropped to run for Congress.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;">“We feel really good as of now,” Walker tells Carolina Journal. “We
are just going to keep focused. We have strong name identification, and
we think we are in the pole position at this point.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;">Walker tells CJ he continues to work with the faith community building support on the ground.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Democrat Kathy Manning currently represents</span> the 6th Congressional District in the US House,<a href="https://www.carolinajournal.com/opinion/trump-and-club-for-growth-split-in-nc-6-gop-primary/"><span style="color: blue;"> but is not seeking re-election after the district was reconfigured</span> </a></b>from a deep blue to a deep red district, in which the GOP primary winner is the heavy favorite in November.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Hines won the GOP nomination in the Triangle-area 13th Congressional District in 2022 in a crowded field, <span style="color: #d92323;"><a href="https://www.wral.com/story/nickel-wins-triangle-congressional-seat-boosting-nc-democrats-numbers-in-us-house/20559459/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="color: #d92323;" target="_blank">but lost to Democrat Wiley Nickel in the General Election</a>. </span></b>Hines who grew up in Charlotte and later attended Wake Forest Law School has been attacked by his other primary rivals <b>for changing districts multiple times. <a href="https://www.carolinajournal.com/opinion/trump-and-club-for-growth-split-in-nc-6-gop-primary/">Hines is currently running a television ad that features images of his previous appearances with President Trump.</a></b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;">Jay Wagner, Christian Castelli, and Mary Ann Contogiannis are also running for the GOP nomination.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;">………..</span></p>
</div>
<p><span style="font-size: large;">“Dallas Woodhouse is the NC executive director for American Majority and author of The Woodshed for Carolina Journal.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;">…………………………………….</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;">Added: <span style="color: #d92323;">“</span><b><span style="color: #d92323;"><a href="https://www.theassemblync.com/politics/elections/6th-district-house-race-trump/"><span style="color: #d92323;">McDowell had gone on a hunting trip with Donald Trump Jr</span>.</a> </span></b><span style="color: #d92323;"><span style="color: #333333;">a few weeks earlier,</span></span> <b><span style="color: #d92323;"><span style="color: blue;">who then set up a private meeting between</span> his father and McDowell at Mar-a-Lago.”</span></b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;">1/10/2024, “<a href="https://www.theassemblync.com/politics/elections/6th-district-house-race-trump/"><b>A Trump Test In the Piedmont,</b></a>” theassemblync.com</span></p>
<div class="newspack-post-subtitle"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #d42f2f;">“</span><b><span style="color: #d42f2f;"><a href="https://www.theassemblync.com/politics/elections/6th-district-house-race-trump/" style="color: #d42f2f;">Donald Trump’s surprise endorsement of a young, little-known lobbyist</a></span> has added to the unpredictability</b> of a Republican primary in the newly drawn 6th U.S. House District.”…</span></div>
<div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: white;">……</span></span></div>
<div><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://www.theassemblync.com/politics/elections/6th-district-house-race-trump/">“At a December [2023] gala in New York</a>,
former President Donald Trump weighed in on what’s likely to become one
of the country’s most divisive congressional primaries.</b></span></div>
<div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: white;">……</span></span></div>
<p><span style="font-size: large;">Standing in the crowd of supporters was <b>Bo Hines, the young North Carolina Republican <span style="color: #d92323;">who ran for Congress with Trump’s endorsement in 2022</span> </b>but fell short in the general election.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;">“<a href="https://www.theassemblync.com/politics/elections/6th-district-house-race-trump/"><b>Bo Hines is here,” Trump told the audience.</b></a> “He’s going to be a congressman very shortly.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;">But Hines wasn’t the only one jockeying for position behind the scenes. So was <a href="https://www.theassemblync.com/politics/elections/6th-district-house-race-trump/"><b>Addison McDowell, a little-known health care lobbyist </b></a>who will turn 30 years old later this month [Jan. 2024].</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: #d92323;"><a href="https://www.theassemblync.com/politics/elections/6th-district-house-race-trump/"><span style="color: #d92323;">McDowell had gone on a hunting trip with Donald Trump Jr. a few weeks earlier</span>,</a> <span style="color: blue;">who then set up a private meeting</span> <span style="color: blue;">between his father and McDowell</span> at Mar-a-Lago.</span> By the end of the meeting, Trump pledged his support to McDowell—</b>less than 72 hours after calling Hines a future congressman.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;">“Addison McDowell will be a great Congressman, and has my Complete
and Total Endorsement!” Trump wrote on Truth Social, the media platform
he founded….</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.theassemblync.com/politics/elections/6th-district-house-race-trump/"><b>It was a body blow to Hines</b>.</a>
It also hurt another candidate, former U.S. Rep. Mark Walker, who fell
out of Trump’s good graces after refusing to bow out of the 2022 U.S.
Senate race to make way for now-Sen. Ted Budd.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;">Three other Republicans are also<a href="https://www.theassemblync.com/politics/elections/6th-district-house-race-trump/"> vying in the 6th Congressional District, which straddles Interstate 85 between the Triad and Charlotte:</a> Retired Army Lt. Col. Christian Castelli, former High Point Mayor Jay Wagner, and plastic surgeon Mary Ann Contogiannis….</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Candidates still have to meet voters in a new, unfamiliar district.</b> There’s also <span style="color: #d92323;"><b>a giant variable</b> </span>lurking, as the congressional hopefuls wait to see <b>what involvement, if any,<span style="color: #d42f2f;"><a href="https://www.theassemblync.com/politics/elections/6th-district-house-race-trump/" style="color: #d42f2f;"> a prominent outside group will have: The Club for Growth…. </a></span></b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #d92323;"><b>[<a href="https://www.wral.com/story/club-for-growth-pac-picks-different-candidate-than-trump-in-central-nc-congressional-primary/21247531/#:~:text=Republican%20Bo%20Hines%20won%20the,of%20job%20creators%22%20if%20elected.">Club for Growth has since endorsed Bo Hines]</a>.</b></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"><b>In races where Trump and Club for Growth were in alignment</b> in 2022, the combination was nearly unbeatable….</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://www.theassemblync.com/politics/elections/6th-district-house-race-trump/"><span style="color: #d92323;">But when Trump and [Club for Growth President’s David] McIntosh have been </span></a><span style="color: #d92323;"><a href="https://www.theassemblync.com/politics/elections/6th-district-house-race-trump/" style="color: #d92323;">at odds</a>,<span style="color: blue;"> including in Ohio and Pennsylvania’s 2022 U.S. Senate primaries,</span></span> intraparty contests have proven far more complicated and divisive.”…</b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><b>.........................</b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">.......</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Comment: What about "loyalty" that Don values above all else? Apparently it's a one-way street. You're not allowed to change your mind about Don, but he can change his mind about you.<b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><b> </b></span></p><span style="font-size: large;"><b>.............. </b></span><p> </p>susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14710989163705986252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1907031520446514200.post-65935819384402499492024-01-29T02:18:00.004-04:002024-01-29T02:21:05.811-04:00Judge told jury to ignore Trump lawyer’s claims that Don never sexually assaulted E. Jean, that another jury has already found Trump guilty of sexual assault, it “is established”-Bloomberg, 1/26/2024 <p><span style="color: #f3f3f3;"> .</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">1/26/24, <span style="color: #2b00fe;">“<a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-26/trump-storms-out-of-carroll-defamation-trial-draws-ire-of-judge"><b>Trump Storms Out of Carroll Defamation Trial, Angers Judge,</b></a><b>"</b></span> Bloomberg.com, Patricia Hurtado, Erik Larson</span></p>
<ul class="HedAndDek_abstract-XX636-2bHQw-"><li><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-26/trump-storms-out-of-carroll-defamation-trial-draws-ire-of-judge">Ex-president leaves during Carroll lawyer’s closing arguments</a></span></li><li><span style="font-size: large;">Carroll seeks millions in damages over his defamatory comments</span></li></ul>
<p><span style="font-size: large;">(End of article): “Clash With Judge”</span></p>
<p class="Paragraph_text-SqIsdNjh0t0- paywall"><span style="font-size: large;">“Habba, in her closing statement, continued to clash with the judge when <b><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-26/trump-storms-out-of-carroll-defamation-trial-draws-ire-of-judge">she said that Trump has maintained his innocence</a> <span style="color: #2b00fe;">because he never sexually assaulted Carroll.</span></b></span></p>
<p class="Paragraph_text-SqIsdNjh0t0- paywall"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: blue;">“The president has not wavered</span>, <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-26/trump-storms-out-of-carroll-defamation-trial-draws-ire-of-judge">you know why? Because he is telling the truth,” Habba said.</a></b></span></p>
<p class="Paragraph_text-SqIsdNjh0t0- paywall"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-26/trump-storms-out-of-carroll-defamation-trial-draws-ire-of-judge"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Judge Kaplan interrupted her</span><span style="color: #bd2828;">, telling jurors they should ignore Habba’s claims</span>,</a></b> noting another jury has</span></p>
<p class="Paragraph_text-SqIsdNjh0t0- paywall"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: blue;">already found Trump sexually assaulted the Carroll.</span> </b></span></p>
<p class="Paragraph_text-SqIsdNjh0t0- paywall"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: #bd2828;">“Ms. Habba, there may be consequences</span> if you fail to follow the law,” the judge said.</b></span></p>
<p class="Paragraph_text-SqIsdNjh0t0- paywall"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-26/trump-storms-out-of-carroll-defamation-trial-draws-ire-of-judge"><span style="color: #bd2828;">Later, she repeated the claim, saying it was “not established”</span> that Trump sexually assaulted Carroll</a>. </b></span></p>
<p class="Paragraph_text-SqIsdNjh0t0- paywall"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;"><b>“It IS established, Ms. Habba,” the judge said.</b></span></span></p>
<p class="Paragraph_text-SqIsdNjh0t0- paywall"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Habba continued to try to assert that Trump was <span style="color: blue;">merely defending himself</span> </b>from false allegations. “In our country, you have a right to speak, a Constitutional right to speak,” she said.</span></p>
<p class="Paragraph_text-SqIsdNjh0t0- paywall"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Judge Kaplan, who’s ruled Trump’s statements were defamatory, cut her off,</b> saying, “You have a Constitutional right to some kinds of speech and not others.”</span></p>
<p class="Paragraph_text-SqIsdNjh0t0- paywall"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: #bd2828;">Habba belittled [E. Jean] Carroll’s motives</span> for claiming her reputation was harmed. “She capitalized on her new-found fame,” and Carroll <span style="color: blue;">only promoted her claims to get a financial windfall from Trump, Habba said.</span></b></span></p>
<p class="Paragraph_text-SqIsdNjh0t0- paywall"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: #bd2828;">Habba said Trump shouldn’t be held responsible <span style="color: blue;">for the threats Carroll received from others</span>.</span> </b>“This isn’t about President Trump and E. Jean Carroll,” she said. <b><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-26/trump-storms-out-of-carroll-defamation-trial-draws-ire-of-judge">“This is about </a></b></span></p>
<p class="Paragraph_text-SqIsdNjh0t0- paywall"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-26/trump-storms-out-of-carroll-defamation-trial-draws-ire-of-judge"><span style="color: #7f6000;">some people in their mother’s basement</span><span style="color: #7f6000;"> who will always be mean on social media.””</span></a></b></span></p><p class="Paragraph_text-SqIsdNjh0t0- paywall"><span style="font-size: large;"><b> </b></span></p><p class="Paragraph_text-SqIsdNjh0t0- paywall"><span style="font-size: large;"><b> </b></span></p><span style="font-size: large;"><b>............ </b></span><p> </p>susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14710989163705986252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1907031520446514200.post-11738137592125584802024-01-15T19:57:00.005-04:002024-01-15T19:59:34.374-04:00Media was furious when Dr. King preached that US is “greatest purveyor of violence in the world today,” led 125,000 anti-war march to U.N, and urged UN to stop US from bombing Vietnam. One year later Dr. King was murdered. <p><span style="color: #eeeeee;"> .</span></p><p><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Media was furious at Dr. King <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article2564.htm">for his April 4, 1967 anti war speech:</a><br /></span>
</b></p>
<p><span style="color: #c73434;"><b><span style="color: blue;">“<i>Time</i><a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/08/the-forgotten-martin-luther-king-a-radical-anti-war-leftist/279148/" style="color: blue;"> magazine called the speech “demagogic slander</a> </span></b></span><span><span>that </span><span>sounded like </span></span><span>a script for Radio Hanoi.”</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333399;"><b><a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/08/the-forgotten-martin-luther-king-a-radical-anti-war-leftist/279148/" style="color: #333399;"><i> The Washington Post</i> wrote that King had <span style="color: blue;">“diminished his usefulness to his cause</span></a><span style="color: blue;">, his country, his people.””…</span></b></span></p>
<p><b><span style="color: #d62727;">On <a href="https://www.mcny.org/story/harlem-hanoi-dr-king-and-vietnam-war#:~:text=Martin%20Luther%20King%20was%20killed%20on%20April%204%2C,above%2C%20by%20William%20Tarr%2C%20which%20opened%20in%201974." style="color: #d62727;">April 4, 1967, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gave his famous speech at Riverside Cathedral in NY City</a></span> urging an immediate end to <span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.mcny.org/story/harlem-hanoi-dr-king-and-vietnam-war#:~:text=Martin%20Luther%20King%20was%20killed%20on%20April%204%2C,above%2C%20by%20William%20Tarr%2C%20which%20opened%20in%201974." style="color: blue;">US government’s war in Vietnam, </a></span></b><b>and accurately calling<a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article2564.htm"> the United States <span style="color: #d62727;">“the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today.”…</span></a></b><span style="color: #d62727;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Exactly one </span><a href="https://www.mcny.org/story/harlem-hanoi-dr-king-and-vietnam-war#:~:text=Martin%20Luther%20King%20was%20killed%20on%20April%204%2C,above%2C%20by%20William%20Tarr%2C%20which%20opened%20in%201974."><span style="color: blue;">year later, April 4, 1968,</span> Dr. King was murdered. </a></b></span>He was <span style="color: #d62727;"><a href="https://pix11.com/news/marvin-scott-remembers-the-assassination-of-the-rev-dr-martin-luther-king-jr/">only 39.</a></span><span style="color: #d62727;"><b>..<span style="color: blue;">.On April 15, 1967,</span></b><span style="color: #333333;"> he had led</span><b><a href="https://www.mcny.org/story/harlem-hanoi-dr-king-and-vietnam-war#:~:text=Martin%20Luther%20King%20was%20killed%20on%20April%204%2C,above%2C%20by%20William%20Tarr%2C%20which%20opened%20in%201974."> an antiwar march from Central Park to the United Nations.</a></b></span></p>
<p><b><span style="color: #d13636;"><span style="color: blue;">“</span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40m5gBgwjQE" style="color: #d13636;"><span style="color: blue;">President Johnson let it be known that the</span> FBI is closely watching all anti-war activity</a></span>,”</b> @2:00…</p>
<p><a href="https://impeachobamatoday.files.wordpress.com/2021/04/drking.jpg"><img alt="" class="alignnone wp-image-63574" data-attachment-id="63574" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-caption="" data-image-description="" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"susan mullen","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1617598067","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="drking" data-large-file="https://impeachobamatoday.files.wordpress.com/2021/04/drking.jpg?w=497" data-medium-file="https://impeachobamatoday.files.wordpress.com/2021/04/drking.jpg?w=300" data-orig-file="https://impeachobamatoday.files.wordpress.com/2021/04/drking.jpg" data-orig-size="877,720" data-permalink="https://impeachobamatoday.wordpress.com/2021/04/05/dr-king-lead-an-anti-war-march-of-125000-to-the-un-in-april-1967-urged-un-to-force-us-to-stop-bombing-vietnam-dr-king-was-murdered-exactly-one-year-after-he-violated-code-of-silence-on-vietnam-an/drking/" height="355" src="https://impeachobamatoday.files.wordpress.com/2021/04/drking.jpg?w=469&h=385" width="432" /></a></p>
<p>(Above,<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40m5gBgwjQE&t=3s"> You Tube, @ 1:05, 4/18/1967, Universal Newsreels)</a></p>
<p><a href="https://impeachobamatoday.files.wordpress.com/2021/04/drking2.jpg"><img alt="" class="alignnone wp-image-63576" data-attachment-id="63576" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-caption="" data-image-description="" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"susan mullen","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1617598726","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="drking2" data-large-file="https://impeachobamatoday.files.wordpress.com/2021/04/drking2.jpg?w=497" data-medium-file="https://impeachobamatoday.files.wordpress.com/2021/04/drking2.jpg?w=300" data-orig-file="https://impeachobamatoday.files.wordpress.com/2021/04/drking2.jpg" data-orig-size="875,726" data-permalink="https://impeachobamatoday.wordpress.com/2021/04/05/dr-king-lead-an-anti-war-march-of-125000-to-the-un-in-april-1967-urged-un-to-force-us-to-stop-bombing-vietnam-dr-king-was-murdered-exactly-one-year-after-he-violated-code-of-silence-on-vietnam-an/drking2/" height="357" src="https://impeachobamatoday.files.wordpress.com/2021/04/drking2.jpg?w=468&h=387" width="432" /></a></p>
<p>(Above,<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40m5gBgwjQE&t=3s"> You Tube, @ 1:05, 4/18/1967, Universal Newsreels)</a></p>
<p><b><a href="https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/1964/king/acceptance-speech/"><span style="color: #c73434;">He had been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964.</span></a></b></p>
<p><a href="https://impeachobamatoday.files.wordpress.com/2021/04/mlk.png"><img alt="" class="wp-image-95255 alignleft" data-attachment-id="95255" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-caption="" data-image-description="" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="mlk" data-large-file="https://impeachobamatoday.files.wordpress.com/2021/04/mlk.png?w=497" data-medium-file="https://impeachobamatoday.files.wordpress.com/2021/04/mlk.png?w=300" data-orig-file="https://impeachobamatoday.files.wordpress.com/2021/04/mlk.png" data-orig-size="1078,604" data-permalink="https://impeachobamatoday.wordpress.com/2021/04/05/dr-king-lead-an-anti-war-march-of-125000-to-the-un-in-april-1967-urged-un-to-force-us-to-stop-bombing-vietnam-dr-king-was-murdered-exactly-one-year-after-he-violated-code-of-silence-on-vietnam-an/mlk/" height="212" src="https://impeachobamatoday.files.wordpress.com/2021/04/mlk.png?w=379&h=212" width="379" /></a>Image: 4/4/1968, Body of Dr. King lays dead on balcony of Lorraine Motel, Memphis, Tennessee. <a href="https://www.thirteen.org/blog-post/mlk-assassination-the-story-behind-the-photo/">From video taken by Joseph Louw,</a> the only photographer present at the time.</p>
<p>……………………………………………….</p>
<p>Added:<span style="color: #d62727;"><span style="color: #333333;"><b> Posted below, text</b> of</span> <b>Dr.<a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article2564.htm" style="color: #d62727;"> King’s April 4, 1967 anti-war speech at Riverside Church, </a></b></span>in which he said <b><a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article2564.htm">the United States was “the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today.”…</a></b></p>
<p><span style="color: #d62727;"><b><span style="color: blue;">“By 1967,</span><a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article2564.htm"><span style="color: blue;"> King had become the country’s most prominent opponent of the Vietnam War</span>, </a></b></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #d62727;"><b><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article2564.htm"><span style="color: #ba3244;">and a staunch critic of overall U.S. foreign policy,</span></a> </span></b></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #d62727;"><b><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: #ba3244;">which he </span><a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article2564.htm"><span style="color: #ba3244;">deemed militaristic</span>.”</a></span></b></span></p>
<p>He delivered his “Beyond Vietnam” speech at New York’s Riverside Church<a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article2564.htm"><span style="color: #d62727;"> on April 4, 1967. </span></a><b><span style="color: #333399;">Exactly</span> <a href="https://www.thirteen.org/blog-post/mlk-assassination-the-story-behind-the-photo/">one year later, on April 4, 1968, Dr. King was murdered. </a></b></p>
<p><a href="https://impeachobamatoday.files.wordpress.com/2021/04/mlk2.png"><img alt="" class="wp-image-95256 alignleft" data-attachment-id="95256" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-caption="" data-image-description="" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="mlk2" data-large-file="https://impeachobamatoday.files.wordpress.com/2021/04/mlk2.png?w=497" data-medium-file="https://impeachobamatoday.files.wordpress.com/2021/04/mlk2.png?w=300" data-orig-file="https://impeachobamatoday.files.wordpress.com/2021/04/mlk2.png" data-orig-size="1006,753" data-permalink="https://impeachobamatoday.wordpress.com/2021/04/05/dr-king-lead-an-anti-war-march-of-125000-to-the-un-in-april-1967-urged-un-to-force-us-to-stop-bombing-vietnam-dr-king-was-murdered-exactly-one-year-after-he-violated-code-of-silence-on-vietnam-an/mlk2/" height="300" src="https://impeachobamatoday.files.wordpress.com/2021/04/mlk2.png?w=401&h=300" width="401" /></a></p>
<p>4/4/1968, <a href="https://www.thirteen.org/blog-post/mlk-assassination-the-story-behind-the-photo/">Lorraine Motel, Memphis, Tennessee: “Civil rights leader Andrew Young and others</a> on balcony of Lorraine motel pointing in direction of assailant after assassination of <a href="https://www.thirteen.org/blog-post/mlk-assassination-the-story-behind-the-photo/">Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., who is lying mortally wounded at their feet</a>. Joseph Louw—The LIFE Images Collection/Getty Images”</p>
<p><b>……………………………</b></p>
<p><b>April 4, 1967, New York City, Dr. King’s speech:</b></p>
<p><b><a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article2564.htm">“<span style="color: #d62727;">Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence</span>,</a>“</b> Martin Luther King, Jr.</p>
<p>“I come to this magnificent house of worship tonight<b> <span style="color: #ba3244;">because<a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article2564.htm" style="color: #ba3244;"> my conscience leaves me no other choice</a></span></b><span style="color: #ba3244;"><a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article2564.htm" style="color: #ba3244;">.</a></span> I join with you in this meeting because I am in deepest agreement with the aims and work of the <b>organization which has brought us together: Clergy and Laymen Concerned about Vietnam.</b>
The recent statement of your executive committee are the sentiments of
my own heart and I found myself in full accord when I read its opening
lines: <b><a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article2564.htm"><span style="color: #d62727;">“A time comes when silence is betrayal</span></a>.” That time has come for us in relation to Vietnam.</b></p>
<p><b>The truth of these words is beyond doubt but <span style="color: #d62727;">the mission to which they call us is a most difficult one.</span> Even when pressed by the demands of inner truth, <span style="color: #d62727;"><a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article2564.htm">men do not easily assume the task of opposing their government’s policy,</a> especially in time of war.</span> Nor does the human spirit move without great difficulty <span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: #333333;">against</span> all the apathy of conformist thought</span> </b>within
one’s own bosom and in the surrounding world. Moreover when the issues
at hand seem as perplexed as they often do in the case of this dreadful
conflict we are always on the verge of being mesmerized by uncertainty;
but we must move on.</p>
<p><b>Some of us who have already <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/08/the-forgotten-martin-luther-king-a-radical-anti-war-leftist/279148/">begun to break the silence</a> of the night have found that <span style="color: #d62727;">the calling to speak is often a vocation of agony, but we must speak.</span>
We must speak with all the humility that is appropriate to our limited
vision, but we must speak. And we must rejoice as well, for surely this
is the first time in our nation’s history that a significant number of
its religious leaders have chosen <span style="color: blue;">to move beyond the prophesying of smooth patriotism to the high grounds of a firm dissent</span>
based upon the mandates of conscience and the reading of history.
Perhaps a new spirit is rising among us. If it is, let us trace its
movement well and pray that our own inner being may be sensitive to its
guidance, for we are deeply in need of a new way beyond the darkness
that seems so close around us.</b></p>
<p><b><span style="color: #d62727;">Over the past two years, <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article2564.htm">as I have moved to break the betrayal of my own silences</a></span> and to speak from the burnings of my own heart, <span style="color: blue;">as I have called for radical departures from the destruction of Vietnam, many persons have questioned me</span>
about the wisdom of my path. At the heart of their concerns this query
has often loomed large and loud: Why are you speaking about war, Dr.
King? Why are you joining the voices of dissent?</b></p>
<p><b> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article2564.htm"><span style="color: #d62727;">Peace and civil rights don’t mix, they say</span></a>. </b></p>
<p><b>Aren’t you hurting the cause of your people, they ask? </b></p>
<p><b>And when I hear them, though I often understand the source of their concern, I am nevertheless greatly saddened, for <span style="color: #d62727;"><span style="color: #333333;">such questions mean that the inquirers have not really known me, my commitment or my calling.</span> Indeed, their questions suggest that they do not know the world in which they live.</span></b></p>
<p><b><span style="color: #d62727;">In the light of such tragic misunderstandings,</span>
I deem it of signal importance to try to state clearly, and I trust
concisely, why I believe that the path from Dexter Avenue Baptist Church
— the church in Montgomery, Alabama, where I began my pastorate — leads
clearly to this sanctuary tonight.</b></p>
<p><b><span style="color: #d62727;">I come to this platform tonight to make a passionate plea</span>
to my beloved nation. This speech is not addressed to Hanoi or to the
National Liberation Front. It is not addressed to China or to Russia.</b></p>
<p><b>Nor is it an attempt to overlook the ambiguity of the total
situation and the need for a collective solution to the tragedy of
Vietnam. Neither is it an attempt to make North Vietnam or the National
Liberation Front paragons of virtue, nor to overlook the role they can
play in a successful resolution of the problem. While they both may have
justifiable reason to be suspicious of the good faith of the United
States, life and history give eloquent testimony to the fact that
conflicts are never resolved without trustful give and take on both
sides.</b></p>
<p><span style="color: #d62727;"><b><span style="color: #333333;">Tonight, however, I wish not to speak with Hanoi and the NLF, </span></b></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #d62727;"><b><span style="color: #333333;">but rather</span> to my fellow Americans, <span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: #ba3244;">who, with me,</span> </span></b></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #d62727;"><b><span style="color: blue;">bear the greatest responsibility in ending a conflict that has exacted a heavy price on both continents.</span></b></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #d62727;"><b>The Importance of Vietnam</b></span></p>
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<p>Since I am a preacher by trade, I suppose it is not surprising that<b><a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article2564.htm"><span style="color: #d62727;"> I have seven major reasons for bringing Vietnam into the field of my moral vision.</span></a>
There is at the outset a very obvious and almost facile connection
between the war in Vietnam and the struggle I, and others, have been
waging in America. A few years ago there was a shining moment in that
struggle. It seemed as if there was a real promise of hope for the poor —
both black and white — through the poverty program. There were
experiments, hopes, new beginnings. <span style="color: #d62727;">Then came the buildup in Vietnam</span> and I watched the program broken and eviscerated as if it were some idle political plaything of a society gone mad on war, and </b></p>
<p><b>I knew that America would never invest the necessary funds or energies in rehabilitation of its poor</b></p>
<p><b> so long as<span style="color: #d62727;"><a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/08/the-forgotten-martin-luther-king-a-radical-anti-war-leftist/279148/"> adventures like Vietnam continued to draw men and skills and money </a></span></b><span style="color: #333333;">like some demonic destructive suction tube. </span></p>
<p><b>So I was increasingly compelled <span style="color: #ba3244;">to see<a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/08/the-forgotten-martin-luther-king-a-radical-anti-war-leftist/279148/" style="color: #ba3244;"> the war as an enemy of the poor</a> and to attack it as such.</span></b></p>
<p><b><span style="color: #d62727;"><span style="color: #333333;">Perhaps the more tragic recognition of reality took place when it became clear to me that </span><a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article2564.htm"><span style="color: #333333;">the </span><span style="color: #ba3244;">war was doing far more than devastating the hopes of the poor at home.</span></a><span style="color: blue;"> It was </span><a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/08/the-forgotten-martin-luther-king-a-radical-anti-war-leftist/279148/"><span style="color: blue;">sending their</span> sons and their brothers and their husbands </a></span></b></p>
<p><b><span style="color: #d62727;"><a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/08/the-forgotten-martin-luther-king-a-radical-anti-war-leftist/279148/">to fight and to die</a> in extraordinarily high proportions </span></b></p>
<p><b><span style="color: #d62727;">relative to the rest of the population.</span> </b></p>
<p><b>We were taking the <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article2564.htm">black young men who had been crippled by our society and <span style="color: blue;">sending them eight thousand miles away</span></a></b></p>
<p><b><a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article2564.htm"><span style="color: blue;"> to guarantee liberties in Southeast Asia</span> which they had not found </a></b></p>
<p><b><a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article2564.htm">in southwest Georgia and East Harlem.</a> </b></p>
<p><b>So we have been repeatedly faced with <span style="color: #d62727;">the cruel irony of watching Negro and white boys on TV screens as they kill and die together <span style="color: blue;">for a nation that has been unable to seat them together in the same schools</span>.</span><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: #333333;">
So we watch them in brutal solidarity burning the huts of a poor
village, but we realize that they would never live on the same block in
Detroit.</span> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article2564.htm"> I could not be silent in the face of </a></span></b></p>
<p><b><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article2564.htm">such cruel manipulation of the poor.</a></span></b></p>
<p><b><span style="color: #d62727;">My third reason moves to an even deeper level</span> of awareness, for it grows out of </b></p>
<p><b>my experience in the ghettoes of the North over the last three years — </b></p>
<p><b>especially the last three summers. As I have walked </b></p>
<p><b>among the desperate, rejected and angry young men </b></p>
<p><b>I have told them that Molotov cocktails and rifles would not
solve their problems. I have tried to offer them my deepest compassion
while <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article2564.htm"><span style="color: #d62727;">maintaining
my conviction that social change comes most meaningfully through
nonviolent action. But they asked — and rightly so — what about Vietnam?</span> </a></b></p>
<p><b>They asked if our own nation wasn’t<a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article2564.htm"><span style="color: blue;"> using massive doses of violence</span> </a>to solve its problems, <span style="color: #d62727;"><a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article2564.htm"><span style="color: blue;">to bring about the changes it wanted</span></a>.</span> </b></p>
<p><b>Their questions hit home, and I knew that <span style="color: #d62727;"><a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article2564.htm"><span style="color: blue;">I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos</span> </a></span></b></p>
<p>without having first spoken clearly <b><a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article2564.htm"><span style="color: #d62727;"><span style="color: red;">to <span style="color: blue;">the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today — </span></span></span></a></b></p>
<p><b><a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article2564.htm"><span style="color: #d62727;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="color: blue;">my own government.</span></span></span></a> For the sake of those boys, for the sake of this government, </b></p>
<p><b><a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article2564.htm"><span style="color: blue;">for the sake of hundreds of thousands trembling under our violence</span>,</a></b> I cannot be silent.</p>
<p><b><span style="color: #d62727;">For those who ask the question, “Aren’t you <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article2564.htm">a civil rights leader?” and thereby mean to exclude me from the movement for peace</a>,</span> I have this further answer. In 1957 when a group of us formed the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, <span style="color: blue;">we chose as our motto: “To save the soul of America.”</span> </b>We
were convinced that we could not limit our vision to certain rights for
black people, but instead affirmed the conviction that America would
never be free or saved from itself unless the descendants of its slaves
were loosed completely from the shackles they still wear. In a way we
were agreeing with Langston Hughes, that black bard of Harlem, who had
written earlier:</p>
<p>“O, yes, I say it plain, America never was America to me, And yet I swear this oath– America will be!”</p>
<p><b>Now, it should be incandescently clear that <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article2564.htm"><span style="color: #d62727;">no one who has any concern for the integrity and life of America today can ignore the present war.</span></a> If America’s soul becomes totally poisoned, part of the autopsy must read Vietnam. It can never be saved so long as<span style="color: blue;"> it destroys the deepest hopes of men the world over.</span>
So it is that those of us who are yet determined that America will be
are led down the path of protest and dissent, working for the health of
our land.</b></p>
<p>As if the weight of such a commitment to the life and health of America were not enough,<b> another burden of responsibility was placed upon me in 1964; and I cannot forget<span style="color: #d62727;"> that the Nobel Prize for Peace was also a commission —</span> a commission to work harder than I had ever worked</b>
before for “the brotherhood of man.” This is a calling that takes me
beyond national allegiances, but even if it were not present I would yet
have to live with the meaning of my commitment to the ministry of Jesus
Christ. To me the relationship of this ministry to the making of peace
is so obvious that I sometimes <b>marvel at those who ask me why I am speaking against the war.</b>
Could it be that they do not know that the good news was meant for all
men — for Communist and capitalist, for their children and ours, for
black and for white, for revolutionary and conservative? Have they
forgotten that my ministry is in obedience to the one who loved his
enemies so fully that he died for them? What then can I say to the
“Vietcong” or to Castro or to Mao as a faithful minister of this one?
Can I threaten them with death or must I not share with them my life?</p>
<p><b>Finally, as I try to delineate for you</b> and for
myself the road that leads from Montgomery to this place I would have
offered all that was most valid if I simply said that I must be true to
my conviction that I share with all men the calling to be a son of the
living God. Beyond the calling of race or nation or creed is this
vocation of sonship and brotherhood, and because I believe that the
Father is deeply concerned <b>especially for his <span style="color: #d62727;">suffering and helpless and outcast children, I come tonight to speak for them.</span></b></p>
<p><b>This I believe to be the privilege and the burden of all of
us who deem ourselves bound by allegiances and loyalties which are
broader and deeper than nationalism and which<span style="color: #d62727;"> go beyond our nation’s self-defined goals and positions. We are called <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article2564.htm">to speak for the weak, for the voiceless, for victims of our nation</a></span> <span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article2564.htm">and for those it calls enemy,</a> for no document from human hands</span> can make these humans any less our brothers.</b></p>
<p><span style="color: #d62727;"><b>Strange Liberators</b></span></p>
<p><b><span style="color: #d62727;">And as I ponder the madness of Vietnam</span>
and search within myself for ways to understand and respond to
compassion my mind goes constantly to the people of that peninsula.<span style="color: blue;"> I speak now not of the soldiers of each side,</span> not of the junta in Saigon, but simply <span style="color: #d62727;">of the people who have been living under the curse of war for almost three continuous decades now</span>. I think of them too because it is clear to me that there will be no meaningful solution there <span style="color: blue;">until some attempt is made to know them and hear their broken cries.</span></b></p>
<p><b><span style="color: #d62727;">They must see Americans as strange liberators. The Vietnamese people <span style="color: blue;">proclaimed their own independence in 1945</span> <span style="color: #333333;">after a combined French and Japanese occupation</span>,</span> </b>and before the Communist revolution in China. They were led by Ho Chi Minh.<b> Even though they quoted the American Declaration of Independence in their own document of freedom, <span style="color: blue;">we refused to recognize them. Instead,<span style="color: #d62727;"> we decided to support France in its reconquest of her former colony.</span></span></b></p>
<p><b><span style="color: #d62727;">Our government <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article2564.htm">felt then that the Vietnamese people were not “ready” for independence</a>, and we again fell victim to <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article2564.htm">the deadly Western arrogance that has poisoned the international atmosphere for so long</a>.</span> With that tragic decision <span style="color: #d62727;">we rejected a revolutionary government seeking self-determination,</span> and <span style="color: blue;">a government <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article2564.htm">that had been established not by China (for whom the Vietnamese have no great love) but by clearly indigenous forces</a> that included some Communists</span>.<span style="color: #d62727;"> For <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article2564.htm" style="color: #d62727;">the peasants <span style="color: blue;">this new government meant real land reform,</span> one of the most important needs in their lives.</a></span></b></p>
<p><b><span style="color: #d62727;">For nine years following 1945 we denied the people of Vietnam the right of independence.</span> For nine years<a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article2564.htm"> we vigorously supported the French in their abortive effort <span style="color: blue;">to recolonize Vietnam.</span></a></b></p>
<p><b><span style="color: #d62727;">Before the end of the war <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article2564.htm"><span style="color: blue;">we were meeting eighty percent of the French war costs</span></a></span>. Even before the French were defeated at Dien Bien Phu, they began to despair of the reckless action, but we did not. <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article2564.htm"><span style="color: #d62727;">We encouraged them with our huge financial and military supplies to continue the war</span> even after they had lost the will</a>. </b>Soon we would be<b> paying almost the full costs</b> of this tragic attempt at recolonization.</p>
<p><b><span style="color: #d62727;">After the French were defeated</span> it looked as if independence and land reform would come again through the Geneva agreements. But instead <span style="color: #d62727;">there came the United States, determined that Ho should not unify the temporarily divided nation, and <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article2564.htm">the peasants watched again as we supported one of the most vicious modern dictators — our chosen man, Premier Diem.</a></span> <span style="color: #d62727;">The peasants watched and cringed as Diem ruthlessly routed out all opposition, supported their extortionist landlords</span> and refused even to discuss reunification with the north. The peasants watched as all <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article2564.htm">this was presided over by U.S. influence and then by increasing numbers of U.S. troops</a> who came to help quell the insurgency that Diem’s methods had aroused. <span style="color: #d62727;">When Diem was overthrown they may have been happy</span>, but the long line of military dictatorships seemed to offer no real change — especially in terms of<span style="color: #d62727;"> their need for land and peace.</span></b></p>
<p><b>The only change came from <span style="color: #d62727;">America</span><a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article2564.htm"><span style="color: #d62727;"> as we increased our troop commitments in support of governments which were singularly corrupt, inept</span> and without popular support</a>. All the while the people read <span style="color: #d62727;"><span style="color: blue;">our leaflets and received regular promises of peace and democracy — and land reform</span>.</span><a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article2564.htm"> Now they languish under our bombs and consider us — not their fellow Vietnamese –the real enemy.</a></b> They move sadly and apathetically <b><span style="color: #d62727;">as we herd them</span> off the land of their fathers into concentration camps where minimal social needs are rarely met</b>. They know they <span style="color: blue;"><b>must move or be destroyed by our bombs.</b></span> So they go — primarily women and children and the aged.</p>
<p><b><span style="color: #d62727;">They watch as we poison their water, as we kill a million acres of their crops.</span>
They must weep as the bulldozers roar through their areas preparing to
destroy the precious trees. They wander into the hospitals, with at
least twenty casualties from American firepower for one
“Vietcong”-inflicted injury. So far we may have killed a million of them
— mostly children. They wander into the towns and see thousands of the
children, homeless, without clothes, running in packs on the streets
like animals. <span style="color: #d62727;">They see the children,
degraded by our soldiers as they beg for food. They see the children
selling their sisters to our soldiers, soliciting for their mothers.</span></b></p>
<p><b>What do the peasants think as we ally ourselves with the landlords and as we <span style="color: #d62727;">refuse to put any action into our many words concerning land reform?</span>
What do they think as we test our latest weapons on them, just as the
Germans tested out new medicine and new tortures in the concentration
camps of Europe? <span style="color: blue;">Where are the roots of the independent Vietnam we claim to be building?</span> Is it among these voiceless ones?</b></p>
<p><b><span style="color: #d62727;">We have <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/08/the-forgotten-martin-luther-king-a-radical-anti-war-leftist/279148/" style="color: #d62727;">destroyed their two most cherished institutions: the family and the village</a>. <span style="color: blue;">We have destroyed their land and their crops</span>. We have cooperated in <span style="color: blue;">the <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/08/the-forgotten-martin-luther-king-a-radical-anti-war-leftist/279148/">crushing of the nation’s only non-Communist revolutionary political force</a></span><a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/08/the-forgotten-martin-luther-king-a-radical-anti-war-leftist/279148/"> —</a></span>
the unified Buddhist church. We have supported the enemies of the
peasants of Saigon. We have corrupted their women and children and
killed their men. What liberators?</b></p>
<p><b>Now there is little left to build on — save bitterness. <span style="color: #d62727;">Soon the only solid physical foundations remaining will be found at our military bases</span>
and in the concrete of the concentration camps we call fortified
hamlets. The peasants may well wonder if we plan to build our new
Vietnam on such grounds as these? </b>Could we blame them for such
thoughts? We must speak for them and raise the questions they cannot
raise. These too are our brothers.</p>
<p><b>Perhaps the more difficult but no less necessary task is <span style="color: #d62727;">to speak for those who have been designated as our enemies</span>.
What of the National Liberation Front — that strangely anonymous group
we call VC or Communists? What must they think of us in America when
they realize that we permitted the repression and cruelty of Diem which
helped to bring them into being as a resistance group in the south?<span style="color: #d62727;"> What do they think of our condoning the violence</span></b>
which led to their own taking up of arms? How can they believe in our
integrity when now we speak of “aggression from the north” as if there
were nothing more essential to the war? How can they trust us when now
we charge them with violence after the murderous reign of Diem and
charge them with violence while we pour every new weapon of death into
their land? <b>Surely we must understand their feelings even if we do not condone their actions. <span style="color: blue;">Surely we must see that the men we supported pressed them to their violence.</span> Surely we must see that our own computerized plans of destruction simply dwarf their greatest acts.</b></p>
<p><b>How do they judge us when <span style="color: #d62727;">our
officials know that their membership is less than twenty-five percent
Communist and yet insist on giving them the blanket name?</span> What must they be thinking when they know that we are aware of their control of major sections of Vietnam<span style="color: blue;">
and yet we appear ready to allow national elections in which this
highly organized political parallel government will have no part? <span style="color: #d62727;">They ask how we can speak of free elections when the Saigon press is censored and controlled by the military junta</span>.</span> And they are surely right to wonder <span style="color: blue;">what kind of new government we plan to help form without them —</span> the only party in real touch with the peasants. They question our political goals and they deny the reality of<span style="color: #d62727;"> a peace settlement from which they will be excluded.</span> <span style="color: #d62727;">Their questions are frighteningly relevant.</span> Is our nation planning to build on political myth again and then shore it up with the power of new violence?</b></p>
<p>Here is the true meaning and value of compassion and nonviolence when
it helps us to see the enemy’s point of view, to hear his questions, to
know his assessment of ourselves.<b> For from his view we may
indeed see the basic weaknesses of our own condition, and if we are
mature, we may learn and grow and profit from the wisdom of the brothers
who are called the opposition.</b></p>
<p><b>So, too, with Hanoi. In the north, where our bombs now pummel the land, and our mines endanger the waterways</b>,
we are met by a deep but understandable mistrust. To speak for them is
to explain this lack of confidence in Western words, and especially
their distrust of American intentions now. In Hanoi are the men who led
the nation to independence against the Japanese and the French, the men
who sought membership in the French commonwealth <b>and were betrayed by the weakness of Paris and the willfulness of the colonial armies.<span style="color: #d62727;">
It was they who led a second struggle against French domination at
tremendous costs, and then were persuaded to give up the land they
controlled</span> between the thirteenth and seventeenth parallel <span style="color: blue;">as a temporary measure at Geneva.</span> <span style="color: #d62727;">After 1954 they watched us conspire with Diem to prevent elections</span> </b>which would have surely brought Ho Chi Minh to power over a united Vietnam, <b>and they realized they had been betrayed again.</b></p>
<p><b>When we ask why they do not leap to negotiate, these things
must be remembered. Also it must be clear that the leaders of Hanoi
considered the presence of American troops in support of the Diem regime
to have been the initial <span style="color: #d62727;">military breach of the Geneva agreements concerning foreign troops,</span>
and they remind us that they did not begin to send in any large number
of supplies or men until American forces had moved into the tens of
thousands.</b></p>
<p><b><span style="color: #d62727;">Hanoi remembers how our leaders
refused to tell us the truth about the earlier North Vietnamese
overtures for peace, how the president claimed that none existed when
they had clearly been made.</span> Ho Chi Minh has watched<span style="color: blue;"> as America has spoken of peace and built up its forces,</span>
and now he has surely heard of the increasing international rumors of
American plans for an invasion of the north. He knows the bombing and
shelling and mining we are doing are part of traditional pre-invasion
strategy. Perhaps only his sense of humor and of irony can save him when
he hears the most powerful nation of the world speaking of aggression
as it drops thousands of bombs on a poor weak nation more than eight
thousand miles away from its shores.</b></p>
<p><b>At this point I should make it clear that while I have tried
in these last few minutes to give a voice to the voiceless on Vietnam</b> and to understand the arguments of those who are called enemy,<b><span style="color: #d62727;"> I am as deeply concerned about our troops there as anything else.</span> For it occurs to me that what we are submitting them to in Vietnam is not simply the brutalizing process</b> that goes on in any war where armies face each other and seek to destroy. <b>We are adding cynicism to the process of death, for they must know after a short period there that<span style="color: #d62727;"> none of the things we claim to be fighting for are really involved</span></b><span style="color: #d62727;">.</span> Before long they must know that their government has sent them into a struggle among Vietnamese, and the more sophisticated <b>surely realize that <span style="color: #d62727;">we are on the side of the wealthy</span> and the secure while we create hell for the poor.</b></p>
<p><b>This Madness Must Cease</b></p>
<p><b>Somehow this madness must cease. We must stop now.</b> I
speak as a child of God and brother to the suffering poor of Vietnam. I
speak for those whose land is being laid waste, whose homes are being
destroyed, whose culture is being subverted. I speak for the poor of
America who are paying the double price of smashed hopes at home and
death and corruption in Vietnam. I speak as a citizen of the world, for
the world as it stands aghast at the path we have taken. I speak as an
American to the leaders of my own nation. The great initiative in this
war is ours. The initiative to stop it must be ours.</p>
<p>This is the message of the great Buddhist leaders of Vietnam. <b>Recently one of them wrote these words:</b></p>
<p><b><span style="color: #d62727;">“Each day the war goes on</span> the hatred increases in the heart of the Vietnamese and in the hearts of those of humanitarian instinct.</b> <b><span style="color: blue;">The Americans are forcing even their friends into becoming their enemies.</span>
It is curious that the Americans, who calculate so carefully on the
possibilities of military victory, do not realize that in the process
they are incurring deep psychological and political defeat. <span style="color: #d62727;">The image of America will never again be the image of revolution, freedom and democracy, <span style="color: blue;">but the image of violence and militarism.”</span></span></b></p>
<p>If we continue, there will be no doubt in my mind and in the mind of
the world that we have no honorable intentions in Vietnam. It will
become clear that our minimal expectation is to occupy it as an American
colony and men will not refrain from thinking that our maximum hope is
to goad China into a war so that we may bomb her nuclear installations.
If we do not stop our war against the people of Vietnam immediately the
world will be left with no other alternative than to see this as some
horribly clumsy and deadly game we have decided to play.</p>
<p><b>The world now demands a maturity of America that we may not
be able to achieve. It demands that we admit that we have been wrong
from the beginning of our adventure in Vietnam, that we have been
detrimental to the life of the Vietnamese people. The situation is one
in which we must be ready to turn sharply from our present ways.</b></p>
<p><b>In order to atone for our sins and errors in Vietnam, we
should take the initiative in bringing a halt to this tragic war. I
would like to suggest five concrete things that our government should do
immediately</b> to begin the long and difficult process of extricating ourselves from this nightmarish conflict:</p>
<ol><li><b>End all bombing in North and South Vietnam.</b></li><li><b>Declare a unilateral cease-fire</b> in the hope that such action will create the atmosphere for negotiation.</li><li><span style="color: #d62727;"><b>Take immediate steps to prevent
other battlegrounds in Southeast Asia by curtailing our military
buildup in Thailand and our interference in Laos.</b></span></li><li>Realistically accept the fact that the National Liberation Front has
substantial support in South Vietnam and must thereby play a role in
any meaningful negotiations and in any future Vietnam government.</li><li><b>Set a date that we will remove all foreign troops from Vietnam in accordance with the 1954 Geneva agreement.</b></li></ol>
<p>Part of our ongoing commitment might well express itself in an offer
to grant asylum to any Vietnamese who fears for his life under a new
regime which included the Liberation Front. Then we must make what
reparations we can for the damage we have done. We most provide the
medical aid that is badly needed, making it available in this country if
necessary.</p>
<p><b>Protesting The War</b></p>
<p>Meanwhile we in the churches and synagogues have a continuing task
while we urge our government to disengage itself from a disgraceful
commitment. <b>We must continue to raise our voices if our nation
persists in its perverse ways in Vietnam. We must be prepared to match
actions with words by seeking out every creative means of protest
possible.</b></p>
<p><b><span style="color: #d62727;">As we counsel young men concerning military service</span> we must clarify for them our nation’s role in Vietnam and challenge them with the alternative of conscientious objection.</b>
I am pleased to say that this is the path now being chosen by more than
seventy students at my own alma mater, Morehouse College, and I
recommend it to all who find the American course in Vietnam a
dishonorable and unjust one. Moreover I would encourage all ministers of
draft age to give up their ministerial exemptions and seek status as
conscientious objectors. These are the times for real choices and not
false ones.<b> We are at the moment when our lives must be placed on the line if our nation is to survive its own folly. <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/08/the-forgotten-martin-luther-king-a-radical-anti-war-leftist/279148/"><span style="color: #d62727;">Every man of humane convictions must decide</span></a> on the protest that best suits his convictions, but we must all protest.</b></p>
<p><b>There is something seductively tempting about stopping there
and sending us all off on what in some circles has become a popular
crusade against the war in Vietnam. I say we must enter the struggle,
but I wish to go on now to say something <span style="color: blue;">even more disturbing. The war in Vietnam is but a symptom of a far deeper malady within the American spirit, </span></b>and if we ignore this sobering reality we will find ourselves organizing clergy- and laymen-<span style="color: #d62727;"><b>concerned committees <span style="color: #333333;">for the next generation</span>. They will be concerned about <span style="color: blue;">Guatemala and Peru.</span> They will be concerned about <span style="color: blue;">Thailand and Cambodia.</span> They will be concerned about <span style="color: blue;">Mozambique and South Africa</span>.</b></span> We will be marching for these and a dozen other names and attending<b><span style="color: #d62727;"> rallies without end</span> unless there is a significant and profound change in American life and policy.</b> Such thoughts take us beyond Vietnam, but not beyond our calling as sons of the living God.</p>
<p><b><span style="color: #d62727;">In 1957</span> a sensitive American official overseas said that it seemed to him that<span style="color: blue;"> our nation was on the wrong side</span> of a world revolution. <span style="color: #d62727;">During the past ten years we have seen emerge a pattern of <span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/08/the-forgotten-martin-luther-king-a-radical-anti-war-leftist/279148/">suppression which now has justified the presence of</a><a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/08/the-forgotten-martin-luther-king-a-radical-anti-war-leftist/279148/"> U.S. military “advisers” in Venezuela</a>.</span></span> This need to maintain social <span style="color: blue;">stability for our investments</span> accounts for the counter-revolutionary action of American forces in Guatemala.<a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/08/the-forgotten-martin-luther-king-a-radical-anti-war-leftist/279148/"> <span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: #d62727;">It tells why American helicopters are being used</span> against guerrillas in Colombia</span></a> and why American napalm and green beret forces have already been <span style="color: #d62727;">active against rebels in Peru.</span> It is with such activity in mind that the words of the late <span style="color: blue;">John F. Kennedy</span> come back to haunt us. Five years ago he said,<span style="color: blue;"> “Those who <span style="color: #d62727;">make peaceful revolution impossible</span> <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/08/the-forgotten-martin-luther-king-a-radical-anti-war-leftist/279148/">will make violent revolution inevitable.”</a></span></b></p>
<p><b><span style="color: #d62727;">Increasingly, by choice or by accident, <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/08/the-forgotten-martin-luther-king-a-radical-anti-war-leftist/279148/">this is the role our nation has taken –</a>– the role of those who <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/08/the-forgotten-martin-luther-king-a-radical-anti-war-leftist/279148/">make peaceful revolution impossible</a></span> by refusing to give up the privileges and the pleasures that come from <span style="color: blue;">the immense profits of overseas investment.</span></b></p>
<p>I am convinced that if we are to get on the right side of the world
revolution, we as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values.
We must rapidly begin the shift from a “thing-oriented” society to a
“person-oriented” society. When machines and computers, profit motives
and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant
triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism are incapable of being
conquered.</p>
<p>A true revolution of values will soon cause us to question the
fairness and justice of many of our past and present policies. On the
one hand we are called to play the good Samaritan on life’s roadside;
but that will be only an initial act. One day we must come to see that
the whole Jericho road must be transformed so that men and women will
not be constantly beaten and robbed as they make their journey on life’s
highway. True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it
is not haphazard and superficial. It comes to see that an edifice which
produces beggars needs restructuring. A true revolution of values will
soon look uneasily on the glaring contrast of poverty and wealth. With
righteous indignation, it will look across the seas and see<b>
individual capitalists of the West investing huge sums of money in Asia,
Africa and South America, only to take the profits out with no concern
for the social betterment of the countries</b>, and say: “This is
not just.” It will look at our alliance with the landed gentry of Latin
America and say: “This is not just.” The <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/08/the-forgotten-martin-luther-king-a-radical-anti-war-leftist/279148/"><b>Western arrogance of feeling that it has everything to teach others</b></a> and nothing to learn from them is not just. A true revolution of values will lay hands on the world order <span style="color: #d62727;"><b>and say of war: “This way of settling differences is not just.</b></span>” This business of<b>
burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation’s homes with
orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous drugs of hate into veins of
people normally humane, of <span style="color: #d62727;"><a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/08/the-forgotten-martin-luther-king-a-radical-anti-war-leftist/279148/" style="color: #d62727;">sending
men home from dark and bloody battlefields physically handicapped and
psychologically deranged, cannot be reconciled with wisdom, justice and
love</a>.</span></b> A nation that continues year after year to
spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift
is approaching spiritual death.</p>
<p>America, the richest and most powerful nation in the world, can well lead the way in this revolution of values. <b>There is nothing, except a tragic death wish, to prevent us from <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/08/the-forgotten-martin-luther-king-a-radical-anti-war-leftist/279148/">reordering our priorities, so that the pursuit of peace will take precedence over the pursuit of war.</a></b>
There is nothing to keep us from molding a recalcitrant status quo with
bruised hands until we have fashioned it into a brotherhood.</p>
<p><b>This kind of positive revolution of values is our best defense against communism. <span style="color: #d62727;">War is not the answer.<a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/08/the-forgotten-martin-luther-king-a-radical-anti-war-leftist/279148/" style="color: #d62727;"> Communism will never be defeated by the use of atomic bombs or nuclear weapons</a></span><a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/08/the-forgotten-martin-luther-king-a-radical-anti-war-leftist/279148/">.</a></b>
Let us not join those who shout war and through their misguided
passions urge the United States to relinquish its participation in the
United Nations. These are days which demand wise restraint and calm
reasonableness. We must not call everyone a Communist or an appeaser who
advocates the seating of Red China in the United Nations and who
recognizes that hate and hysteria are not the final answers to the
problem of these turbulent days. We must not engage in a negative
anti-communism, <b>but rather in a positive thrust for democracy,
realizing that our greatest defense against communism is to take
offensive action in behalf of justice</b>. We must with positive
action seek to remove those conditions of poverty, insecurity and
injustice which are the fertile soil in which the seed of communism
grows and develops.</p>
<p><b>The People Are Important</b></p>
<p><b>These are revolutionary times. All over the globe men are revolting against old systems of exploitation and oppression</b>
and out of the wombs of a frail world new systems of justice and
equality are being born. The shirtless and barefoot people of the land
are rising up as never before. “The people who sat in darkness have seen
a great light.” We in the West must support these revolutions. It is a
sad fact that, because of comfort, complacency, a morbid fear of
communism, and our proneness to adjust to injustice, the Western nations
that initiated so much of the revolutionary spirit of the modern world
have now become the arch anti-revolutionaries. <b>This has driven many to feel that only Marxism has the revolutionary spirit. Therefore, <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/08/the-forgotten-martin-luther-king-a-radical-anti-war-leftist/279148/"><span style="color: #d62727;">communism is a judgement against our failure to make democracy real and follow through</span></a> on the revolutions we initiated.</b>
Our only hope today lies in our ability to recapture the revolutionary
spirit and go out into a sometimes hostile world declaring eternal
hostility to poverty, racism, and militarism. With this powerful
commitment we shall boldly challenge the status quo and unjust mores and
thereby speed the day when “every valley shall be exalted, and every
moutain and hill shall be made low, and the crooked shall be made
straight and the rough places plain.”</p>
<p>A genuine revolution of values means in the final analysis that our
loyalties must become ecumenical rather than sectional. Every nation
must now develop an overriding loyalty to mankind as a whole in order to
preserve the best in their individual societies.</p>
<p>This call for a world-wide fellowship that lifts neighborly concern
beyond one’s tribe, race, class and nation is in reality a call for an
all-embracing and unconditional love for all men. This oft misunderstood
and misinterpreted concept — so readily dismissed by the Nietzsches of
the world as a weak and cowardly force — has now become an absolute
necessity for the survival of man. When I speak of love I am not
speaking of some sentimental and weak response. I am speaking of that
force which all of the great religions have seen as the supreme unifying
principle of life. Love is somehow the key that unlocks the door which
leads to ultimate reality. This Hindu-Moslem-Christian-Jewish-Buddhist
belief about ultimate reality is beautifully summed up in the first
epistle of Saint John:</p>
<p>Let us love one another; for love is God and everyone that loveth is
born of God and knoweth God. He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God
is love. If we love one another God dwelleth in us, and his love is
perfected in us.</p>
<p>Let us hope that this spirit will become the order of the day. We can
no longer afford to worship the god of hate or bow before the altar of
retaliation. The oceans of history are made turbulent by the ever-rising
tides of hate. History is cluttered with the wreckage of nations and
individuals that pursued this self-defeating path of hate. As Arnold
Toynbee says : “Love is the ultimate force that makes for the saving
choice of life and good against the damning choice of death and evil.
Therefore the first hope in our inventory must be the hope that love is
going to have the last word.”</p>
<p><b>We are now faced with the fact that tomorrow is today.</b>
We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding
conundrum of life and history there is such a thing as being too late.
Procrastination is still the thief of time. Life often leaves us
standing bare, naked and dejected with a lost opportunity. The “tide in
the affairs of men” does not remain at the flood; it ebbs. We may cry
out desperately for time to pause in her passage, but time is deaf to
every plea and rushes on. Over the bleached bones and jumbled residue of
numerous civilizations are written the pathetic words: “Too late.”
There is an invisible book of life that faithfully records our vigilance
or our neglect. “The moving finger writes, and having writ moves on…”
We still have a choice today; nonviolent coexistence or violent
co-annihilation.</p>
<p><b>We must move past indecision to action. We must find new ways to speak for peace in Vietnam <span style="color: #d62727;">and justice throughout the developing world</span></b>
— a world that borders on our doors. If we do not act we shall surely
be dragged down the long dark and shameful corridors of time reserved
for those who possess power without compassion, might without morality,
and strength without sight.</p>
<p><b>Now let us begin. Now let us rededicate ourselves to the long and bitter — but beautiful — struggle for a new world.</b>
This is the calling of the sons of God, and our brothers wait eagerly
for our response. Shall we say the odds are too great? Shall we tell
them the struggle is too hard? <b>Will our message be that the forces of American life militate against their arrival as full men,</b>
and we send our deepest regrets? Or will there be another message, of
longing, of hope, of solidarity with their yearnings, of commitment to
their cause, whatever the cost? <b><a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/08/the-forgotten-martin-luther-king-a-radical-anti-war-leftist/279148/">The choice is ours, and though we might prefer it otherwise</a> we must choose in this crucial moment of human history.</b></p>
<p><b>As that noble bard of yesterday</b>, James Russell Lowell, eloquently stated:</p>
<blockquote><p>Once to every man and nation<br />
Comes the moment to decide,<br />
In the strife of truth and falsehood,<br />
For the good or evil side;<br />
Some great cause, God’s new Messiah,<br />
Off’ring each the bloom or blight,<br />
And the choice goes by forever<br />
Twixt that darkness and that light.</p>
<p>Though the cause of evil prosper,<br />
Yet ’tis truth alone is strong;<br />
Though her portion be the scaffold,<br />
And upon the throne be wrong:<br />
Yet that scaffold sways the future,<br />
And behind the dim unknown,<br />
Standeth God within the shadow<br />
Keeping watch above his own.</p></blockquote>
<p><b><span style="color: #d62727;">And</span><a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/08/the-forgotten-martin-luther-king-a-radical-anti-war-leftist/279148/"><span style="color: #d62727;"> if we will only make the right choice</span>,</a></b>
we will be able to transform this pending cosmic elegy into a creative
psalm of peace. If we will make the right choice, we will be able to
transform the jangling discords of our world into a beautiful symphony
of brotherhood. If we will but make the right choice, we will be able to
speed up the day, all over America and all over the world, when
“justice will roll down like waters, and righteousness like a mighty
stream.””</p>
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<p>“Martin Luther King, Jr.<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views04/0115-13.htm"> was an American clergyman, activist, and prominent leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement.</a>
He is best known for being an iconic figure in the advancement of civil
rights in the United States and around the world, using nonviolent
methods following the teachings of Mahatma Gandhi. <span style="color: blue;"><b>In 1964, King became the youngest person to receive the Nobel Peace Prize</b></span> for his work to end racial segregation and racial discrimination through civil disobedience and other nonviolent means.<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views04/0115-13.htm"><b><span style="color: #d62727;"> By the time of his death in 1968, he had refocused his efforts on ending poverty and stopping the Vietnam War.</span> King was assassinated on April 4, 1968, in Memphis, Tennessee.”</b></a></p>
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<p>Added: <span style="color: #333333;"><b>New York City, 4/15/1967: Dr. King led<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40m5gBgwjQE" style="color: #333333;"> anti-war march of 125,000 to the UN:</a></b></span></p>
<p><a href="https://impeachobamatoday.files.wordpress.com/2021/04/drking.jpg"><img alt="" class="wp-image-63574 alignleft" data-attachment-id="63574" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-caption="" data-image-description="" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"susan mullen","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1617598067","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="drking" data-large-file="https://impeachobamatoday.files.wordpress.com/2021/04/drking.jpg?w=497" data-medium-file="https://impeachobamatoday.files.wordpress.com/2021/04/drking.jpg?w=300" data-orig-file="https://impeachobamatoday.files.wordpress.com/2021/04/drking.jpg" data-orig-size="877,720" data-permalink="https://impeachobamatoday.wordpress.com/2021/04/05/dr-king-lead-an-anti-war-march-of-125000-to-the-un-in-april-1967-urged-un-to-force-us-to-stop-bombing-vietnam-dr-king-was-murdered-exactly-one-year-after-he-violated-code-of-silence-on-vietnam-an/drking/" height="280" src="https://impeachobamatoday.files.wordpress.com/2021/04/drking.jpg?w=341&h=280" width="341" /></a></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;">“</span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40m5gBgwjQE"><b><span style="color: #333333;">Dr. King “urges UN pressure to force the US to stop bombing North Vietnam</span>,”</b></a> @1:10. <b>“<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40m5gBgwjQE">President Johnson let it be known that the <span style="color: #cc2929;">FBI is closely watching all anti-war activity</span></a><span style="color: #cc2929;">,”</span></b> @2:00…</p>
<p>“<b>Nearly all of King’s<a href="https://www.mcny.org/story/harlem-hanoi-dr-king-and-vietnam-war#:~:text=Martin%20Luther%20King%20was%20killed%20on%20April%204%2C,above%2C%20by%20William%20Tarr%2C%20which%20opened%20in%201974."> advisers had discouraged him from his antiwar activities</a></b><a href="https://www.mcny.org/story/harlem-hanoi-dr-king-and-vietnam-war#:~:text=Martin%20Luther%20King%20was%20killed%20on%20April%204%2C,above%2C%20by%20William%20Tarr%2C%20which%20opened%20in%201974.">,</a> <b>arguing that it would</b> ally him with a range of marginalized peaceniks, dilute his campaigns for racial equality, and <a href="https://www.mcny.org/story/harlem-hanoi-dr-king-and-vietnam-war#:~:text=Martin%20Luther%20King%20was%20killed%20on%20April%204%2C,above%2C%20by%20William%20Tarr%2C%20which%20opened%20in%201974."><b>ruin his relationship with President Lyndon Baines Johnson.</b></a> Sure enough, King’s Riverside Church speech garnered widespread<b> criticism from <a href="http://www.walterlippmann.com/docs1083.html">media outlets </a></b>and other civil rights figures<b>. <span style="color: #c72828;"><a href="https://www.mcny.org/story/harlem-hanoi-dr-king-and-vietnam-war#:~:text=Martin%20Luther%20King%20was%20killed%20on%20April%204%2C,above%2C%20by%20William%20Tarr%2C%20which%20opened%20in%201974." style="color: #c72828;">The <i>New York Times</i> called it “wasteful and self-defeating</a>,” and King’s </span><a href="https://www.mcny.org/story/harlem-hanoi-dr-king-and-vietnam-war#:~:text=Martin%20Luther%20King%20was%20killed%20on%20April%204%2C,above%2C%20by%20William%20Tarr%2C%20which%20opened%20in%201974."><span style="color: #c72828;">relationship with</span> <span style="color: #c72828;">Johnson soured.</span> </a></b>Critics argued that civil rights and antiwar activism should remain separate.”..<b>.</b></p>
<p><a href="https://impeachobamatoday.files.wordpress.com/2021/04/drking2.jpg"><img alt="" class="wp-image-63576 alignleft" data-attachment-id="63576" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-caption="" data-image-description="" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"susan mullen","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1617598726","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="drking2" data-large-file="https://impeachobamatoday.files.wordpress.com/2021/04/drking2.jpg?w=497" data-medium-file="https://impeachobamatoday.files.wordpress.com/2021/04/drking2.jpg?w=300" data-orig-file="https://impeachobamatoday.files.wordpress.com/2021/04/drking2.jpg" data-orig-size="875,726" data-permalink="https://impeachobamatoday.wordpress.com/2021/04/05/dr-king-lead-an-anti-war-march-of-125000-to-the-un-in-april-1967-urged-un-to-force-us-to-stop-bombing-vietnam-dr-king-was-murdered-exactly-one-year-after-he-violated-code-of-silence-on-vietnam-an/drking2/" height="270" src="https://impeachobamatoday.files.wordpress.com/2021/04/drking2.jpg?w=327&h=270" width="327" /></a>Image: Dr. King <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40m5gBgwjQE">leads 125,000 in anti-war march to the UN, 4/15/67,</a> Universal Newsreels</p>
<p>April 4, 2021, <b>“</b><span class="the-title"><b><a href="https://off-guardian.org/2021/04/04/the-assassination-and-resurrection-of-martin-luther-king/">The Assassination and Resurrection of Martin Luther King</a>,</b>” </span>Edward Curtin, Off Guardian</p>
<p><b>“Among his greatest declared enemies was FBI Director J.
Edgar Hoover, who seemed convinced that King’s backers were Communists
out to damage America’s interests. In the late 1960s, the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20051127031756/http:/www.icdc.com/~paulwolf/cointelpro/cointel.htm">FBI’s COINTELPRO program</a> created
a network of informants and agent provocateurs to undermine the civil
rights and anti-war movements with a special focus on King.[<a href="https://off-guardian.org/2021/04/04/the-assassination-and-resurrection-of-martin-luther-king/#3" id="back3">3</a>]</b></p>
<p>After King’s “I Have a Dream” speech<b> in 1963, William Sullivan, the head of the FBI’s domestic intelligence division, wrote in a post-speech memo:</b></p>
<p><b>“Personally, I believe in the light of King’s powerful,
demagogic speech that he stands head and shoulders over all other Negro
leaders put together<a href="https://off-guardian.org/2021/04/04/the-assassination-and-resurrection-of-martin-luther-king/"> when it comes to influencing great masses.</a> We must mark him now, if we have not done so before,<a href="https://off-guardian.org/2021/04/04/the-assassination-and-resurrection-of-martin-luther-king/"> as the most dangerous</a> Negro of the future in this Nation from the standpoint of communism, the Negro and national security.[<a href="https://off-guardian.org/2021/04/04/the-assassination-and-resurrection-of-martin-luther-king/#4" id="back4">4</a>]”</b></p>
<p><b>The FBI, after extensive eavesdropping on King, subsequently sent him an anonymous letter <a href="https://off-guardian.org/2021/04/04/the-assassination-and-resurrection-of-martin-luther-king/">urging him to kill himself</a> or else his extramarital sex life would be exposed. <span style="color: #d12c2c;">The FBI’s and its Director J Edgar Hoover’s hatred for King was so great</span> that nothing was too low for them.[<a href="https://off-guardian.org/2021/04/04/the-assassination-and-resurrection-of-martin-luther-king/#5" id="back5">5</a>]</b></p>
<p>This history is common knowledge as reported in the <i>Washington Post, The New York Times</i>, etc.</p>
<p>During the Senate Church Committee hearings in the mid-1970s, a parallel group within the CIA, code-named <a href="http://whale.to/b/brussell1.html">CHAOS</a>, was uncovered. <b>Despite
its charter disallowing it from operating inside the United States, the
CIA similarly used illegal means to disrupt the civil rights and
anti-war movements.</b></p>
<p><b>Because MLK, in his Riverside Church speech, spoke clearly to what he identified there as “<a href="https://off-guardian.org/2021/04/04/the-assassination-and-resurrection-of-martin-luther-king/">the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today – my own government”</a> <span style="color: #d12c2c;">and continued to relentlessly confront his own government on its criminal war against Vietnam</span>,</b> <b>he was universally condemned by the mass media and the government that later – </b></p>
<p><b>once he was long and safely dead and no longer a threat – praised him to the heavens</b>.</p>
<p>This has continued to the present day of historical amnesia.</p>
<p><b>Today Martin Luther King’s birthday is celebrated with a national holiday, <span style="color: #c72828;">but his death day disappears down the memory hole.</span> Across the country – in response to the <a href="https://off-guardian.org/2021/04/04/the-assassination-and-resurrection-of-martin-luther-king/">King
Holiday and Service Act passed by Congress and signed by President Bill
Clinton in 1994 – people are encouraged to make the day one of service</a> </b>(from Latin, <i>servus</i> = slave).</p>
<p>Etymological irony aside<b>, such service does not include King’s commitment to protesting a decadent system </b>of racial and economic injustice or non-violently <b>resisting the warfare state that is the United States.</b></p>
<p><span style="color: #c72828;"><b> Government-sponsored service is </b></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #c72828;"><a href="https://off-guardian.org/2021/04/04/the-assassination-and-resurrection-of-martin-luther-king/" style="color: #c72828;"><b>cultural neo-liberalism at its finest.</b></a></span></p>
<p><b>The word service is a loaded word; it has become a smiley face and vogue word over the past thirty-five years.</b></p>
<p><b>Its use for MLK Day is clear: individuals are encouraged to
volunteer for activities such as tutoring children, painting senior
centers, delivering meals to the elderly, etc., <a href="https://off-guardian.org/2021/04/04/the-assassination-and-resurrection-of-martin-luther-king/">activities that are </a><a href="https://off-guardian.org/2021/04/04/the-assassination-and-resurrection-of-martin-luther-king/">good in themselves but far less good when</a> </b></p>
<p><span style="color: #d12c2c;"><a href="https://off-guardian.org/2021/04/04/the-assassination-and-resurrection-of-martin-luther-king/" style="color: #d12c2c;"><b>used to conceal an American prophet’s message. </b></a></span></p>
<p><b>After all, Martin Luther King’s work was not volunteering at the local food pantry with Oprah Winfrey cheering him on.</b></p>
<p><b><span style="color: #c72828;">But <a href="https://off-guardian.org/2021/04/04/the-assassination-and-resurrection-of-martin-luther-king/" style="color: #c72828;">service without truth is slavery.</a></span> It is<a href="https://off-guardian.org/2021/04/04/the-assassination-and-resurrection-of-martin-luther-king/"> propaganda aimed at convincing decent people into thinking that they are serving</a> the essence of MLK’s message <a href="https://off-guardian.org/2021/04/04/the-assassination-and-resurrection-of-martin-luther-king/">while they are following a message of misdirection.</a></b></p>
<p><b>Educating people about who killed King, and why, and why it matters today, is <a href="https://off-guardian.org/2021/04/04/the-assassination-and-resurrection-of-martin-luther-king/">the greatest service we can render to his memory.</a></b></p>
<p><b>What <a href="https://off-guardian.org/2021/04/04/the-assassination-and-resurrection-of-martin-luther-king/">exactly is the relationship between <span style="color: #d12c2c;">King’s saying that </span></a></b></p>
<p><span style="color: #d12c2c;"><b><i><a href="https://off-guardian.org/2021/04/04/the-assassination-and-resurrection-of-martin-luther-king/" style="color: #d12c2c;">“the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today – </a></i></b></span></p>
<p><span style="color: blue;"><b><i><a href="https://off-guardian.org/2021/04/04/the-assassination-and-resurrection-of-martin-luther-king/" style="color: blue;">my own government” </a></i></b></span></p>
<p><span style="color: blue;"><b>and his murder?</b></span></p>
<p>Let’s look at the facts</p>
<p>Martin Luther King Jr was assassinated on April 4, 1968, at 6:01 PM
as he stood on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee.
He was shot in the lower right side of his face by one rifle bullet that
shattered his jaw, damaged his upper spine, and came to rest below his
left shoulder blade.</p>
<p><b>The US government claimed the assassin was a racist loner
named James Earl Ray, who had escaped from the Missouri State
Penitentiary on April 23, 1967.</b> Ray was alleged to have fired
the fatal shot from a second-floor bathroom window of a rooming house
above the rear of Jim’s Grill across the street.</p>
<p>Running to his rented room, Ray allegedly gathered his belongings,
including the rifle, in a bedspread-wrapped bundle, rushed out the front
door onto the adjoining street, and in a panic dropped the bundle in
the doorway of the Canipe Amusement Company a few doors down. He was
then said to have jumped into his white Mustang and to have driven to
Atlanta where he abandoned the car.</p>
<p>From there he fled to Canada and then to England and then to Portugal
and back to England where he was eventually arrested at Heathrow
Airport on June 8, 1968, and extradited to the US.</p>
<p>The state claims that the money Ray needed to purchase the car and
for all his travel was secured through various robberies and a bank
heist. Ray’s alleged motive was racism and that he was a bitter and
dangerous loner.</p>
<p><b>When Ray, under extraordinary pressure, coercion, and a
payoff from his lawyer to take a plea, pleaded guilty (only a few days
later to request a trial that was denied) and was sentenced to 99 years
in prison, the case seemed to be closed, and was dismissed from public
consciousness. Another hate-filled lone assassin, as the government also
termed Lee Harvey Oswald and Sirhan Sirhan, had committed a despicable
deed.</b></p>
<p><b>Ray had received <a href="https://off-guardian.org/2021/04/04/the-assassination-and-resurrection-of-martin-luther-king/">erroneous advice from his attorney, Percy Foreman.</a> Foreman had a<a href="https://off-guardian.org/2021/04/04/the-assassination-and-resurrection-of-martin-luther-king/"> long history representing government, corporate, intelligence, and mafia figures, including Jack Ruby,</a> in <a href="https://off-guardian.org/2021/04/04/the-assassination-and-resurrection-of-martin-luther-king/">cases where the government wanted to keep people silent</a>.</b>
Ray was told that the government would go after Ray’s father and
brother, Jerry, and that he’d get the electric chair if he didn’t plead
guilty,</p>
<p><b>Ray initially acquiesced. <a href="https://off-guardian.org/2021/04/04/the-assassination-and-resurrection-of-martin-luther-king/">He entered what is known as an Alford plea</a> before Judge Preston Battle. In making his plea, <a href="https://off-guardian.org/2021/04/04/the-assassination-and-resurrection-of-martin-luther-king/">Ray did not admit to any criminal act and asserted his innocence.</a> The following day, he fired Percy <a href="https://off-guardian.org/2021/04/04/the-assassination-and-resurrection-of-martin-luther-king/">Foreman, who, by offering money to induce a guilty plea, had committed a criminal offense.</a></b></p>
<p><b>Foreman had also lied to Judge Battle about his contract with
Ray. And, the transcript of Ray’s testimony was doctored to help
support the government’s case. Ray was sentenced to life in prison.
After three days, Ray tried to retract his plea and maintained his
innocence for almost 30 years until his death.</b></p>
<p><b>The United State government’s case against James Earl Ray was
extremely weak from the start, and in the intervening years has grown
so weak that it is no longer believable. A vast body of evidence has
accumulated that renders it patently false.</b></p>
<p><b>But before examining such evidence, it is important to point
out that MLK, Jr, his father, Rev. ML King Sr, and his maternal
grandfather, Rev. AD Williams, all pastors of Atlanta’s Ebenezer Baptist
Church, were spied on by Army Intelligence and the FBI since 1917.[<a href="https://off-guardian.org/2021/04/04/the-assassination-and-resurrection-of-martin-luther-king/#6" id="back6">6</a>]</b></p>
<p><b>All were considered dangerous because of their espousal of
racial and economic equality. None of this had to do with war or foreign
policy, but such spying was connected to their religious opposition to
racist and economic policies that stretched back to slavery, realities
that have been officially acknowledged today.</b></p>
<p><b>But when MLK Jr forcefully denounced unjust and immoral
war-making as well, especially the Vietnam war, and announced his Poor
People’s Campaign and <a href="https://off-guardian.org/2021/04/04/the-assassination-and-resurrection-of-martin-luther-king/">intent to lead a massive peaceful encampment of hundreds of thousands in Washington, D.C., he set off panic</a> in the inner sanctums of the government.</b></p>
<p>Seventy-five years of spying on black religious leaders here found its ultimate “justification.”</p>
<p><b>The corporate mass media has for more than fifty years echoed
the government’s version of the King assassination. Here and there,
however, mainly through the alternative media, and also through the
monumental work and persistence of the <a href="https://off-guardian.org/2021/04/04/the-assassination-and-resurrection-of-martin-luther-king/">King family lawyer, William Pepper, <span style="color: #c72828;">the truth</span></a><span style="color: #c72828;"> about the assassination has surfaced.</span></b></p>
<p>Through decades of research, a TV trial, a jury trial, and three
meticulously researched books, Pepper has documented the parts played in
the assassination by F.B.I. Director J. Edgar Hoover, the FBI, Army
Intelligence, Memphis Police, and southern Mafia figures. In his last
two books<i>, <a href="https://ratical.org/ratville/JFK/WFP020403.html">An Act of State</a> (2003) </i> and later <a href="https://isbn.nu/9781510729629"><i>The Plot to Kill King</i></a> (2016), Pepper presents his comprehensive case.</p>
<p>William Pepper’s decades-long investigation not only refutes the
flimsy case against James Earl Ray, but definitively proves that King
was killed by a government conspiracy led by J. Edgar Hoover and the
FBI, Army Intelligence, and Memphis Police, assisted by southern Mafia
figures. He is right to assert that :</p>
<blockquote><p>we have probably acquired more detailed knowledge about
this political assassination than we have ever had about any previous
historical event.”</p></blockquote>
<p><b>This makes the silence around this case even more shocking.</b></p>
<p><b>This shock is accentuated when one is reminded (or told for the first time) that<a href="https://off-guardian.org/2021/04/04/the-assassination-and-resurrection-of-martin-luther-king/">
in 1999 a Memphis jury, after a thirty-day trial with over seventy
witnesses, found the US government guilty in the killing of MLK.</a></b></p>
<p><b>In that <a href="https://ratical.org/ratville/JFK/MLKACT/index.html">1999 Memphis civil trial</a> (see
complete transcript) brought by the King family, the jury found that
King was murdered by a conspiracy that included governmental agencies.[<a href="https://off-guardian.org/2021/04/04/the-assassination-and-resurrection-of-martin-luther-king/#7" id="back7">7</a>]</b></p>
<p><b><span style="color: #c72828;">The corporate media, <a href="https://off-guardian.org/2021/04/04/the-assassination-and-resurrection-of-martin-luther-king/" style="color: #c72828;">when they reported it at all,</a></span><a href="https://off-guardian.org/2021/04/04/the-assassination-and-resurrection-of-martin-luther-king/"> dismissed the jury’s verdict</a><a href="https://off-guardian.org/2021/04/04/the-assassination-and-resurrection-of-martin-luther-king/"> and those who accepted it,</a> including the entire King family led by Coretta Scott King[<a href="https://off-guardian.org/2021/04/04/the-assassination-and-resurrection-of-martin-luther-king/#8" id="back8">8</a>], as delusional.</b></p>
<p><b><i>Time</i> magazine called the verdict a<a href="https://off-guardian.org/2021/04/04/the-assassination-and-resurrection-of-martin-luther-king/"> confirmation of the King family’s “lurid fantasies.”</a></b> <i>The Washington Post</i> compared
those who believed it with those who claimed that Hitler was unfairly
accused of genocide. A smear campaign ensued that has continued to the
present day and then <b>the fact that a trial ever occurred disappeared down the memory hole</b>
so that today most people never heard of it and assume MLK was killed
by a crazy white racist, James Earl Ray, if they know even that.</p>
<p>The civil trial was the King family’s last resort to get a public
hearing to disclose the truth of the assassination. They and Pepper
knew, and proved, that Ray was an innocent pawn, but <b>Ray had died in prison in 1998 after trying for thirty years to get a trial and prove his innocence.</b></p>
<p>During all these years, Ray had maintained that he had been
manipulated by a shadowy figure named Raul, who supplied him with money
and his white Mustang and coordinated all his complicated travels,
including having him buy a rifle and come to Jim’s Grill and the
boarding house on the day of the assassination to give it to Raul. The
government has always denied Raul existed. Pepper proved that that was a
lie.</p>
<p>Slowly, however, glimmers of light have been shed on that trial and truth of the assassination.</p>
<p><b>On <a href="https://off-guardian.org/2021/04/04/the-assassination-and-resurrection-of-martin-luther-king/">March 30, 2018,</a> <i>The Washington Post</i>’s crime reporter, Tom Jackman, published a four-column front-page article, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2018/03/30/who-killed-martin-luther-king-jr-his-family-believes-james-earl-ray-was-framed/?utm_term=.d9dbb26c1b3a">“Who killed Martin Luther King Jr? His family believes James Earl Ray was framed.”</a> </b></p>
<p><b>While not close to an endorsement of the trial’s conclusions,
it is a far cry from past nasty dismissals of those who agreed with the
jury’s verdict as conspiracy nuts or Hitler supporters. <span style="color: #c72828;">After decades of clouding over the truth of MLK’s assassination,</span> some rays of truth have come peeping through, and on the front page of the <i>WP</i> at that.</b></p>
<p>Jackman makes it very clear that all the surviving King family
members – Bernice, Dexter, and Martin III – are in full agreement that
James Earl Ray, the accused assassin, did not kill their father, and <b>that there was and continues to be a conspiracy to cover up the truth. </b>
He adds to that the words of the highly respected civil rights icon and
now deceased US Congressman from Georgia, Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.), who
said:</p>
<blockquote><p>I think there was a major conspiracy to remove Dr King from the American scene,</p></blockquote>
<p>and former U.N. ambassador and Atlanta mayor Andrew Young, who was
with King at the Lorraine Motel when he was shot, who concurs:</p>
<blockquote><p>I would not accept the fact that James Earl Ray pulled the trigger, and that is all that matters.</p></blockquote>
<p>Additionally, Jackman adds that Andrew Young emphasized that the
assassination of King came after that of President Kennedy, Malcolm X,
and a few months before that of Senator Robert Kennedy.</p>
<p><b><i>“We were living in a period of assassinations,”</i> he quotes Young as saying, a statement clearly intimating their linkages</b> and coming from a widely respected and honorable man.</p>
<p>In the years leading up to Pepper’s 1978 involvement in the MLK case,
only a few lonely voices expressed doubts about the government’s case,
such as, Harold Weisberg’s <a href="https://www.worldcat.org/title/frame-up-the-martin-luther-kingjames-earl-ray-case-containing-suppressed-evidence/oclc/148026/editions?referer=di&editionsView=true"><i>Frame Up</i></a> in 1971 and Mark Lane’s and Dick Gregory’s <a href="https://www.worldcat.org/search?qt=worldcat_org_bks&q=CODE+NAME+%E2%80%9CZORRO%E2%80%9D+The+Murder+of+Martin+Luther+King+Jr.+By+Mark+Lane+and+Dick+Gregory&fq=dt%3Abks"><i>Code Name “Zorro”</i></a> in 1977. While other lonely researchers dug deeper, most of the country put themselves and the case to sleep.</p>
<p><b>As with the assassinations of President Kennedy and his brother, Robert (two months after MLK), <a href="https://off-guardian.org/2021/04/04/the-assassination-and-resurrection-of-martin-luther-king/">all evidence points to the <span style="color: #c72828;">construction of scapegoats to take the blame for government executions</span>. </a></b>Ray, Oswald, and Sirhan Sirhan all bear striking resemblances<b> in the ways they were chosen and moved as pawns over long periods of time </b>into positions where their only reactions could be stunned surprise when they were accused of the murders.</p>
<p><b>It took Pepper many years to piece together</b> the essential truths, once he and Reverend Ralph Abernathy, Dr King’s associate, interviewed Ray in prison in 1978. <b>The first giveaway that something was seriously amiss came with the <a href="https://www.archives.gov/research/jfk/select-committee-report/part-2b.html">1979 House Select Committee on Assassinations’ report </a></b>on the King assassination.</p>
<p>Led by Robert Blakey, suspect in his conduct of the other assassination inquiries, who had replaced <a href="https://ratical.org/ratville/JFK/ToA/ToAchp17.html">Richard Sprague</a>, who was deemed to be too independent, <b><i>“<a href="https://off-guardian.org/2021/04/04/the-assassination-and-resurrection-of-martin-luther-king/">this
multi-million-dollar investigation ignored or denied all evidence that
raised the possibility that James Earl Ray was innocent,”</a></i><a href="https://off-guardian.org/2021/04/04/the-assassination-and-resurrection-of-martin-luther-king/"> </a></b></p>
<p><b><a href="https://off-guardian.org/2021/04/04/the-assassination-and-resurrection-of-martin-luther-king/">and that government forces might be involved. </a></b></p>
<p><b><span style="color: #c72828;">Pepper lists in his book over twenty such omissions</span> that rival the absurdities of the magical thinking of the Warren Commission. The HSCA report became the <a href="https://off-guardian.org/2021/04/04/the-assassination-and-resurrection-of-martin-luther-king/">template </a><i><a href="https://off-guardian.org/2021/04/04/the-assassination-and-resurrection-of-martin-luther-king/">“for all subsequent disinformation</a> in print and visual examinations of this case”</i> for the past forty-two years.</b></p>
<p><b><span style="color: #c72828;">Blocked at every turn by the authorities</span>
and unable to get Ray a trial, Pepper arranged an unscripted, mock TV
trial that aired on April 4, 1993, the twenty-fifth anniversary of the
assassination. Jurors were selected from a pool of US citizens, a former
US Attorney and a federal judge served as prosecutor and judge, with
Pepper serving as defense attorney. </b></p>
<p><b>He presented extensive evidence clearly showing that <span style="color: #c72828;">authorities had withdrawn all security for King;</span> that<a href="https://off-guardian.org/2021/04/04/the-assassination-and-resurrection-of-martin-luther-king/"> the state’s chief witness was falling down drunk</a><a href="https://off-guardian.org/2021/04/04/the-assassination-and-resurrection-of-martin-luther-king/">;</a> that the alleged bathroom sniper’s nest was empty right before the shot was fired; that three eyewitnesses, including the <i>New York Times</i>’ Earl Caldwell, said that the shot came from the bushes behind the rooming house; </b></p>
<p><b>and that two eyewitnesses saw Ray drive away in his white Mustang before the shooting, etc.</b></p>
<p><b>The prosecution’s feeble case </b>was rejected by the jury that found Ray not guilty.</p>
<p><b>As with all Pepper’s work on the case, <span style="color: #c72828;"><a href="https://off-guardian.org/2021/04/04/the-assassination-and-resurrection-of-martin-luther-king/" style="color: #c72828;">the mainstream media responded with silence</a>.</span>
And though this was only a TV trial, increasing evidence emerged that
the owner of Jim’s Grill, Loyd Jowers, was deeply involved in the
assassination. Pepper dug deeper, and<a href="https://off-guardian.org/2021/04/04/the-assassination-and-resurrection-of-martin-luther-king/"> on December 16, 1993, Loyd Jowers appeared on ABC’s <i>Primetime Live </i>that aired nationwide.</a></b></p>
<p><b>Pepper writes:</b></p>
<blockquote><p><i><b>Loyd Jowers cleared James Earl Ray, saying that he did not shoot MLK but that he, Jowers, had hired a shooter</b>
after he was approached by Memphis produce man Frank Liberto and paid
$100,000 to facilitate the assassination. He also said that he had been
visited by a man named Raul who delivered a rifle and asked him to hold
it until arrangements were finalized…<b>The morning after the Primetime Live broadcast <a href="https://off-guardian.org/2021/04/04/the-assassination-and-resurrection-of-martin-luther-king/"><span style="color: #c72828;">there was no coverage of the previous night’s program, not even on ABC</span>…</a>
Here was a confession, on prime-time television, to involvement in one
of the most heinous crimes in the history of the Republic, and virtually
no American mass-media coverage.</b></i></p></blockquote>
<p><b>In the twenty-eight years since that confession, Pepper has
worked tirelessly on the case and has uncovered a plethora of additional
evidence that refutes the government’s claims and indicts it </b></p>
<p><b>and the media for a continuing cover-up.</b></p>
<p>The evidence he has gathered, detailed and documented in <a href="https://isbn.nu/9781786635976"><i>An Act of State</i></a> and <a href="https://www.worldcat.org/title/plot-to-kill-king-the-truth-behind-the-assassination-of-martin-luther-king-jr/oclc/1030550039/editions?referer=di&editionsView=true"><i>The Plot to</i> <i>Kill King</i></a>,
proves that Martin Luther King was killed by a conspiracy masterminded
by the U.S. government. The foundation of his case proving that was
presented at the 1999 trial, while other supporting documentation was
subsequently discovered.</p>
<p><b>Since the names and details involved make clear that, as with the murders of JFK and RFK, <span style="color: #c72828;"><a href="https://off-guardian.org/2021/04/04/the-assassination-and-resurrection-of-martin-luther-king/" style="color: #c72828;">the conspiracy was very sophisticated with many moving parts</a> </span>organized at the highest level, I will just highlight a few of his findings in what follows.</b></p>
<ul><li>Pepper refutes the government and proves, through multiple witnesses, telephonic, and photographic evidence,<b> <a href="https://ratical.org/ratville/JFK/MLKACT/MLKACTvol14.html#Raul">that Raul existed</a>; that his full name is Raul Coelho and that he was James Earl Ray’s intelligence handler,</b> who provided him with money and instructions from their first meeting in the <a href="https://ratical.org/ratville/JFK/MLKACT/MLKACTvol06.html#p786">Neptune Bar in Montreal</a>, where Ray had fled in 1967 after his prison escape, until the day of the assassination. <b>It
was Raul who instructed Ray to return from Canada to the U.S. (an act
that makes no sense for an escaped prisoner who had fled the country)</b>,
gave him money for the white Mustang, helped him attain travel
documents, and moved him around the country like a pawn on a chess
board. The parallels to Lee Harvey Oswald are startling.</li><li><b>He presents <a href="https://ratical.org/ratville/JFK/MLKACT/MLKACTvol10.html#p1502">the case of Donald Wilson</a>,
a former FBI agent working out of the Atlanta office in 1968, who went
with a senior colleague to check out an abandoned white Mustang with
Alabama plates (Ray’s car, to which Raul had a set of keys)</b> and opened the passenger door to find that an envelope and <b>some papers fell out</b>
onto the ground. Thinking he may have disturbed a crime scene, the
nervous Wilson pocketed them. Later, when he read them, their <b>explosive content intuitively told him <a href="https://off-guardian.org/2021/04/04/the-assassination-and-resurrection-of-martin-luther-king/">that if he gave them to his superiors they would be destroyed.</a></b>
One piece was a torn-out page from a 1963 Dallas telephone directory
with the name Raul written at the top, and the letter “J” with a Dallas
telephone number for a club run by Jack Ruby, Oswald’s killer. The page
was for the letter H and had numerous phone numbers for H. L. Hunt,
Dallas oil billionaire and a friend of FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover.
Both men hated MLK. The second sheet contained Raul’s name and a list of
names and sums and dates for payment. On the third sheet was written
the telephone number and extension for the Atlanta FBI office. (Read
James W. Douglass’s important interview with Donald Wilson in <a href="https://isbn.nu/9780922915828"><i>The Assassinations</i></a>, pp.479-491.)</li><li><b>Pepper shows that the alias Ray was given and used from July
1967 until April 4, 1968 – Eric Galt – was the name of a Toronto U.S.
Army Intelligence operative, Eric St. Vincent Galt,</b> who worked
for Union Carbide with Top Secret clearance. The warehouse at the
Canadian Union Carbide Plant in Toronto that Galt supervised <b>“housed a top-secret munitions project funded jointly by the CIA,</b>
the U.S. Naval Surface Weapons Center, and the Army Electronics
Research and Development Command …. In August 1967, Galt met with Major
Robert M. Collins, a top aide to the head of the 902<sup>nd</sup> Military
Intelligence Group (MIG), Colonel John Downie.” Downie selected four
members for an Alpha 184 Sniper Unit that was sent to Memphis to back up
the primary assassin of MLK. Meanwhile, <b>Ray, set up as the
scapegoat, was able to move about freely since he was protected by the
pseudonymous NSA clearance for Eric Galt.</b></li><li>To refute the government’s claim that <a href="https://ratical.org/ratville/JFK/MLKACT/MLKACTvol14.html#p2205">Ray and his brother robbed the Alton, Illinois Bank</a> to
finance his travels and car purchase (therefore no Raul existed),
Pepper “called the sheriff in Alton and the president of the bank; they
gave the same statement. The Ray brothers had nothing to do with the
robbery. No one from the HSCA, the FBI, or <i>The New York Times</i> had sought their opinion.” CNN later reiterated the media falsehood that became part of the official false story.</li><li>Pepper shows that the fatal shot came from the bushes behind Jim’s
Grill and the rooming house, not from the bathroom window. He presents
overwhelming evidence for this, showing that the government’s claim,
based on the testimony on a severely drunk Charlie Stephens, was absurd.
His evidence includes the testimony of numerous eyewitnesses and that
of Loyd Jowers (<a href="https://ratical.org/ratville/JFK/MLKACT/MLKACTvol10.html#LJPoD">a nine-and-a-half-hour deposition</a>),
the owner of Jim’s Grill, who said he joined another person in the
bushes, and after the shot was fired to kill King, he brought the rifle
back into the Grill through the back door. Thus, Ray was not the
assassin.</li><li><b>He presents conclusive evidence that the bushes were cut
down the morning after the assassination in an attempt to corrupt the
crime scene. The <a href="https://ratical.org/ratville/JFK/MLKACT/MLKACTvol14.html#p2197">order to do so came from Memphis Police Department Inspector Sam Evans to Maynard Stiles</a>, </b>a senior administrator of the Memphis Department of Public Works.</li><li><b>He shows how King’s room was moved from a safe interior
room, 201, to balcony room, 306, on the upper floor; how King was
conveniently positioned alone on the balcony by members of his own
entourage for the easy mortal head shot from the bushes across the
street.</b> (Many people only remember the iconic photograph taken
after-the-fact with Jesse Jackson, Andrew Young, et al., standing over
the fallen King and pointing across the street.) <b>He uncovers
the role of black Memphis Police Department Domestic Intelligence and
military intelligence agent Marrell McCollough, attached to the 111<sup>th</sup> MIG, within the entourage. <a href="https://ratical.org/ratville/JFK/MLK-10-Point-Program.html#s4">McCollough can be seen kneeling over the fallen King</a>, checking to see if he’s dead. <span style="color: #c72828;">McCollough officially joined the CIA in 1974</span> </b>(see Douglass Valentine’s <a href="https://www.kennedysandking.com/images/pdf/valentine-kowalski.pdf">“Deconstructing Kowalski: The DOJ’s Strange MLK Report”)</a></li><li>Pepper confirms that all of this, including that the assassin in the bushes was dutifully <a href="https://ratical.org/ratville/JFK/MLKACT/MLKACTvol14.html#p2192">photographed by Army Intelligence agents</a> situated on the nearby Fire House roof.</li><li><b>He presents evidence that<a href="https://off-guardian.org/2021/04/04/the-assassination-and-resurrection-of-martin-luther-king/"><span style="color: #c72828;"> all security for Dr. King was withdrawn from the area by the Memphis Police Department,</span> including a special security unit of black officers</a>, and four tactical police units. A black detective at the nearby fire station, <a href="https://ratical.org/ratville/JFK/Unspeakable/MLKconExp.html#ER">Ed Redditt</a>, was withdrawn from his post on the afternoon of April 4<sup>th</sup>,
allegedly because of a death threat against him. And the only two black
firemen at Fire Station No. 2 were transferred to another station.</b></li><li>He confirms the presence of “Operation Detachment Alpha 184 team,” a
Special Forces sniper team in civilian disguise at locations high above
the Lorraine Motel balcony, and he names one soldier, John D. Hill, as
part of Alpha 184 and another military team, Selma Twentieth SFG, that
was in Memphis.</li><li>He explains the use of two white mustangs in the operation to frame Ray.</li><li><b>He proves that Ray had driven off before the shooting; that Lloyd Jowers took the rifle from the shooter who was in the bushes; <a href="https://off-guardian.org/2021/04/04/the-assassination-and-resurrection-of-martin-luther-king/">that the Memphis police were working in close collaboration with the FBI, Army Intelligence, and the “Dixie Mafia,</a>” particularly local produce dealer Frank Liberto and his New Orleans associate Carlos Marcello; </b>and
that every aspect of the government’s case was filled with holes that
any person familiar with the details and possessing elementary logical
abilities could refute.</li><li><b>So importantly, Pepper shows how the mainstream media and
government flacks have spent years covering up the truth of MLK’s murder
through lies and disinformation, just as they have done with the
Kennedy and Malcom X assassinations that are of a piece with this one.</b></li></ul>
<p><b>There is such a mass of evidence through depositions, documents, interviews, photographs, etc. in Pepper’s <a href="https://www.worldcat.org/title/act-of-state-the-execution-of-martin-luther-king/oclc/994531779/editions?editionsView=true&referer=br"><i>An Act of State</i></a> and <a href="https://www.worldcat.org/title/plot-to-kill-king-the-truth-behind-the-assassination-of-martin-luther-king-jr/oclc/1030550039/editions?referer=di&editionsView=true"><i>The Plot to Kill King</i></a> that
makes it abundantly clear that the official explanation that James Earl
Ray killed Martin Luther King is false and that there was a conspiracy
to assassinate him that involved the FBI and other government agencies.
Only those inoculated against the truth can ignore such evidence and
continue to believe the official version.</b></p>
<p><b>Martin Luther King was a transmitter of a radical non-violent spiritual and political energy <a href="https://off-guardian.org/2021/04/04/the-assassination-and-resurrection-of-martin-luther-king/">so plenipotent that</a></b></p>
<p><b><a href="https://off-guardian.org/2021/04/04/the-assassination-and-resurrection-of-martin-luther-king/"><span style="color: #c72828;"> his very existence was a threat to an established order based on institutionalized violence</span>,</a> racism, and economic exploitation. </b></p>
<p><b><a href="https://off-guardian.org/2021/04/04/the-assassination-and-resurrection-of-martin-luther-king/">He was a very dangerous man to the U.S. government and all the institutional and deep state forces armed against him.</a></b></p>
<p><b>Revolutionaries are, of course, anathema to <span style="color: #c72828;"><a href="https://off-guardian.org/2021/04/04/the-assassination-and-resurrection-of-martin-luther-king/" style="color: #c72828;">the power elites who, with all their might,</a></span></b></p>
<p><span style="color: #c72828;"><b><a href="https://off-guardian.org/2021/04/04/the-assassination-and-resurrection-of-martin-luther-king/" style="color: #c72828;"> resist such rebels’ efforts to transform society.</a> </b></span></p>
<p><b>If they can’t buy them off, </b></p>
<p><b>they knock them off. </b></p>
<p><b>Fifty-three years after King’s assassination, the causes he fought for – civil rights, <span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://off-guardian.org/2021/04/04/the-assassination-and-resurrection-of-martin-luther-king/" style="color: blue;">the end to US wars of aggression,</a></span> and economic justice for all – remain not only unfulfilled, but have worsened in so many respects.</b></p>
<p><b>They will not be resolved until this nation decides to confront the truth of </b></p>
<p><b>why and by whom he was killed.</b></p>
<p><b>For the g<a href="https://off-guardian.org/2021/04/04/the-assassination-and-resurrection-of-martin-luther-king/">overnment that honors Dr. King with a national holiday killed him</a></b>. This is the <a href="https://off-guardian.org/2021/04/04/the-assassination-and-resurrection-of-martin-luther-king/"><b>suppressed truth behind the highly promoted MLK Day of service</b></a><b>.</b> It is what you are not supposed to know.</p>
<p><b>But it is what we need to know</b> in order to resurrect his spirit in us, so we can carry on his mission and emulate his witness. The time is now.”</p>
<p>………………</p>
<p>“Many thanks to my good friends Dave Ratcliffe and Jim Douglass for
all their help. Edward Curtin is an independent writer whose work has
appeared widely over many years. His website is <a href="http://edwardcurtin.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">edwardcurtin.com</a> and his new book is <i><a href="https://www.claritypress.com/product/seeking-truth-in-a-country-of-lies/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Seeking Truth in a Country of Lies</a></i>.”</p>
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<p> </p><p> </p>susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14710989163705986252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1907031520446514200.post-60239444423220297262023-11-23T21:53:00.002-04:002023-11-23T22:02:18.643-04:00Like French Pres. Charles de Gaulle, his grandson Pierre admires Russia, has no interest in being subservient to US-UK, says traditional values have disappeared in the West <p><span style="color: #eeeeee;"> .</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: #990000;">President “<a href="https://uwidata.com/26237-charles-de-gaulle-on-the-us-nato-and-the-dollar/">de Gaulle considered the US as “an occupying state</a><a href="https://uwidata.com/26237-charles-de-gaulle-on-the-us-nato-and-the-dollar/"> interfering </a></span></b><span style="color: #d42c2c;"><a href="https://uwidata.com/26237-charles-de-gaulle-on-the-us-nato-and-the-dollar/"><b>in all economic, military and political processes in the world</b>…</a></span><span style="color: blue;">opposed NATO, </span><a href="https://uwidata.com/26237-charles-de-gaulle-on-the-us-nato-and-the-dollar/"><span style="color: blue;">expelled NATO</span> institutions from France </a><a href="https://uwidata.com/26237-charles-de-gaulle-on-the-us-nato-and-the-dollar/">[on March 7, 1966</a>]…<a href="https://uwidata.com/26237-charles-de-gaulle-on-the-us-nato-and-the-dollar/"><span style="color: blue;">Throughout the war, the <b>US supported the Vichy government,</b></span><b> <span style="color: blue;">headed by the Nazi collaborator Marshal Pétain.</span></b></a><b><span style="color: blue;">“</span></b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">11/21/2023, “<span style="color: #990000;"><a href="https://www.connexionfrance.com/article/French-news/Grandson-of-war-hero-Charles-de-Gaulle-wants-Russian-citizenship">Grandson of war hero Charles de Gaulle wants Russian citizenship,”</a></span><b><span style="color: #d42c2c;"> </span></b>Hannah Thompson, connexionfrance.com</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://impeachobamatoday.files.wordpress.com/2023/11/vichy.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-98211 alignleft" data-attachment-id="98211" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-caption="" data-image-description="" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="vichy" data-large-file="https://impeachobamatoday.files.wordpress.com/2023/11/vichy.png?w=497" data-medium-file="https://impeachobamatoday.files.wordpress.com/2023/11/vichy.png?w=300" data-orig-file="https://impeachobamatoday.files.wordpress.com/2023/11/vichy.png" data-orig-size="622,430" data-permalink="https://impeachobamatoday.wordpress.com/2023/11/22/like-his-grandfather-french-hero-charles-de-gaulle-grandson-pierre-admires-russia-says-traditional-values-have-disappeared-in-the-west-has-no-interest-in-being-subservient-to-us-uk/vichy/" height="254" src="https://impeachobamatoday.files.wordpress.com/2023/11/vichy.png?w=309&h=213" width="368" /></a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">[Map of <a href="https://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/francedefeat.htm">Vichy and occupied France, 1940,</a> “France in Defeat”]</span></p>
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<div class="ArticleImage_articleImage__G2_S8"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>“<a href="https://www.connexionfrance.com/article/French-news/Grandson-of-war-hero-Charles-de-Gaulle-wants-Russian-citizenship">A grandson of French war hero General Charles de Gaulle</a> </b>has said that he wants to apply to be Russian, after lamenting the “values that have disappeared from the West”.
</span><div class="ArticleText_articleText__XxtvG" id="article"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.connexionfrance.com/article/French-news/Grandson-of-war-hero-Charles-de-Gaulle-wants-Russian-citizenship"><b>Pierre de Gaulle, 60, was attending a cultural forum event in St Petersburg on November 16,</b></a> [2023] when he said: “I would be honoured to receive Russian citizenship. I am happy to see that <a href="https://www.connexionfrance.com/article/French-news/Grandson-of-war-hero-Charles-de-Gaulle-wants-Russian-citizenship"><b>you fight for traditional values; family, spirituality…all these values have disappeared in Western countries.”</b></a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">He later told the TASS news agency that he intended to apply for
Russian citizenship, and said that Russia offers “big possibilities”.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinG8_ga_ALRg6GDCLjJNSI9oat_WalCvtsZeGUI1ATUZN6dNDbMlRawx7C0oKp_NVGe8Bt9PHD17-9Yeny52hKfU5XcdNpp_BzsHv0h6wcxYEY9qY26SvC-MW0dsMCIRAICy7WZw5sUH4MNgq39T6LbiQzil8JXXayyS1r293-qF9hKZkpSaUBbIZ5czNR/s873/degaulle.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="661" data-original-width="873" height="205" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinG8_ga_ALRg6GDCLjJNSI9oat_WalCvtsZeGUI1ATUZN6dNDbMlRawx7C0oKp_NVGe8Bt9PHD17-9Yeny52hKfU5XcdNpp_BzsHv0h6wcxYEY9qY26SvC-MW0dsMCIRAICy7WZw5sUH4MNgq39T6LbiQzil8JXXayyS1r293-qF9hKZkpSaUBbIZ5czNR/w271-h205/degaulle.png" width="271" /></a>“<a href="https://www.connexionfrance.com/article/French-news/Grandson-of-war-hero-Charles-de-Gaulle-wants-Russian-citizenship">Pierre de Gaulle on the left, and his grandfather Charles on the right.</a> Pierre said he would be ‘honoured’ to receive Russian citizenship. Pic: <a href="https://www.connexionfrance.com/article/French-news/Grandson-of-war-hero-Charles-de-Gaulle-wants-Russian-citizenship">Abaca Press / dpa picture alliance / Alamy Stock Photo”</a></span></div><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.connexionfrance.com/article/French-news/Grandson-of-war-hero-Charles-de-Gaulle-wants-Russian-citizenship"><span style="color: black;">Since the start of the war in Ukraine</span>, <b>Mr de Gaulle has repeatedly said that he is a supporter of Russian President Vladimir Putin</b></a><b>.</b> He has since said that he believes that the West has “lost” the war.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #990000;"><b>Also in St Petersburg, he said: “Neither NATO nor the West can continue the war,” </b></span>suggesting that he espouses Mr Putin’s [truthful statements] rhetoric <span style="color: #990000;"><b><a href="https://www.connexionfrance.com/article/French-news/Grandson-of-war-hero-Charles-de-Gaulle-wants-Russian-citizenship">that the US and NATO are the ‘real’ antagonists in the war</a>,</b></span> and are using it as a way to weaken Moscow. He then said: “It is necessary to stop this tragedy.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Last January [2023], Mr de Gaulle told<i> Le Figaro</i>: <a href="https://www.connexionfrance.com/article/French-news/Grandson-of-war-hero-Charles-de-Gaulle-wants-Russian-citizenship"><span style="color: red;"><span style="color: #d42c2c;">“I am struck by this single-minded thought process that systematically presents Putin as the ‘bad guy’</span>,</span></a></b> and his [US controlled] Ukrainian [so-called] counterpart [President Volodymyr Zelensky] as the ‘good guy’.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://www.connexionfrance.com/article/French-news/Grandson-of-war-hero-Charles-de-Gaulle-wants-Russian-citizenship"><span style="color: blue;">In February [2023]</span></a><span style="color: blue;">, he travelled to Volgograd (previously Stalingrad) </span></b>to attend the</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://www.connexionfrance.com/article/French-news/Grandson-of-war-hero-Charles-de-Gaulle-wants-Russian-citizenship"><span style="color: #d42c2c;">80-year anniversary</span></a></b> commemorations to mark the Soviet</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.connexionfrance.com/article/French-news/Grandson-of-war-hero-Charles-de-Gaulle-wants-Russian-citizenship"><b><span style="color: blue;">victory over the Germans in 1943 </span></b></a>[in which <span style="color: #d42c2c;"><b>27 million Soviet citizens gave their lives</b></span> saving the world from Hitler].</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>As a grandson of General de Gaulle-</b>who led the fight against the Germans in France during World War Two <a href="https://www.connexionfrance.com/article/French-news/Grandson-of-war-hero-Charles-de-Gaulle-wants-Russian-citizenship"><b>and later became President of France</b></a> – Mr de Gaulle comes from a family that is typically considered to represent French pride and values.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">He is the fourth son of Philippe de Gaulle, General de Gaulle’s eldest son.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.connexionfrance.com/article/French-news/Grandson-of-war-hero-Charles-de-Gaulle-wants-Russian-citizenship"><span style="color: #d42c2c;"><b>His pro-Russia stance</b></span></a><span style="color: #d42c2c;"><b> clearly puts him [<span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://uwidata.com/26237-charles-de-gaulle-on-the-us-nato-and-the-dollar/" style="color: blue;">very much in agreement with his grandfather </a>but apparently]</span></b></span> at odds with [some of] his family, who have previously moved to distance themselves from his comments.”</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: medium;">Added: <a href="https://uwidata.com/26237-charles-de-gaulle-on-the-us-nato-and-the-dollar/"><b><span style="color: #d42c2c;">Like his grandfather Charles de Gaulle, </span></b></a>Pierre de Gaulle has no interest<a href="https://euroweeklynews.com/2023/01/04/grandson-charles-de-gaulle-defends-russia-slams-eu/"><b> in being subservient to US or its dollar monopoly,</b></a> and thinks Russia is a fine and important friend:</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">1/4/23, “<a href="https://euroweeklynews.com/2023/01/04/grandson-charles-de-gaulle-defends-russia-slams-eu/"><span style="color: #d42c2c;"><b>Grandson of former French President Charles de Gaulle defends ‘under attack’ Russia and slams EU,</b></span></a>” Euroweeklynews.com, Matthew Roscoe</span></p>
<div class="u-image-block"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://euroweeklynews.com/2023/01/04/grandson-charles-de-gaulle-defends-russia-slams-eu/">“Pierre de Gaulle, the grandson of former French President General Charles de Gaulle</a>, </b>has shared his opinions on the war [in Ukraine] and<span style="color: #d42c2c;"><a href="https://euroweeklynews.com/2023/01/04/grandson-charles-de-gaulle-defends-russia-slams-eu/" style="color: #d42c2c;"><b> has defended Russia</b>,</a> </span>which he believes is being conspired against.</span></div>
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<p><span style="font-size: medium;">The grandson of former French President General Charles de Gaulle said the West had planned a “conspiracy” <b>against Russia in advance</b> <span style="color: blue;"><b>and believes Putin is just defending himself against sanctions.</b></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: #d42c2c;">Speaking to <a href="https://inosmi.ru/20230104/frantsiya-259435835.html" rel="noopener" style="color: #d42c2c;" target="_blank"><i>AgoraVox</i></a> at the Russian Centre for Science and Culture, </span></b>Pierre de Gaulle said that he<b> considers it <span style="color: blue;">“extremely important for France to maintain and develop relations of mutual understanding and cooperation with Russia</span>, </b>primarily through historical ties, the common destinies that unite us.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">He added: “Europeans should not forget that only <span style="color: #d42c2c;"><span style="color: #333333;">maintaining relations with Russia is</span> </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://euroweeklynews.com/2023/01/04/grandson-charles-de-gaulle-defends-russia-slams-eu/"><span style="color: blue;"><b>a guarantee of stability and prosperity in Europe and in the world.</b></span></a> Unfortunately, the</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">consequences of the current crisis are reflected primarily in Europe.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: #d42c2c;">“Of course, the whole world suffers as a result of anti-Russian sanctions.<span style="color: blue;"> But above all, Russia’s recent partners in Europe are suffering</span></span><span style="color: blue;">,</span> and France is among them. </b>This crisis greatly</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: blue;">weakens the balance that my grandfather always tried to maintain</span>, </b>even in the most difficult times.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">Speaking about Russian and French historical relations, Pierre de Gaulle added: <b>“France managed to maintain this balance throughout the Cold War,</b> it began to be established between France and the USSR immediately after the Second World War.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">“After all, then<b> Russia found itself in the same camp with the countries that defeated the Nazi occupiers, and therefore with France. </b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>And that is why my grandfather </b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://euroweeklynews.com/2023/01/04/grandson-charles-de-gaulle-defends-russia-slams-eu/"><b><span style="color: #d42c2c;">always, always tried to maintain respectful relations with Russia.”</span></b></a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">The grandson of Charles de Gaulle, who was also a French army general, said that he believes<span style="color: #d42c2c;"><b> it is in “France’s interest to continue this policy and to maintain a balance between East and West</b></span> in our policy, because <b>this is essential for the stability of Europe.”</b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://euroweeklynews.com/2023/01/04/grandson-charles-de-gaulle-defends-russia-slams-eu/"><b>He then slammed the US </b></a>for its part in the war.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>He said: “I think that public opinion in France is <span style="color: #d42c2c;">beginning to understand what the <a href="https://euroweeklynews.com/2023/01/04/grandson-charles-de-gaulle-defends-russia-slams-eu/"><span style="color: #d42c2c;">evil game of the Americans is today</span></a><a href="https://euroweeklynews.com/2023/01/04/grandson-charles-de-gaulle-defends-russia-slams-eu/" style="color: #d42c2c;">.</a></span></b> By using lies primarily when communicating with allies within NATO, the United States has managed to</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>use the Ukrainian crisis to destabilise Europe.”</b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: #d42c2c;">“The Americans, as it were, cut off Europe from Russia,</span> set the Europeans against the Russians. <span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://euroweeklynews.com/2023/01/04/grandson-charles-de-gaulle-defends-russia-slams-eu/" style="color: blue;">Why would they do that?</a></span> Because Europe in alliance with Russia could be a strong bloc both politically and economically, culturally and socially –</b> in general, up to 500 million people live in the EU and Russia,” he added.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">“Ever since the Vietnam War and the economic crises that followed, <b>Americans have always tried by force, cunning and other dishonest means</b> <b>to make up for the loss of their economic and political influence, although it is inevitable.</b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>“In particular, the Americans are <span style="color: #d42c2c;"><a href="https://euroweeklynews.com/2023/01/04/grandson-charles-de-gaulle-defends-russia-slams-eu/" style="color: #d42c2c;">trying to slow down the dollar’s loss of its status as the only</a> </span></b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: #d42c2c;">(that is, monopoly) world exchange currency</span>.</b> And this policy continues.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">Speaking about the EU, de Gaulle was<b> quick to accuse the European Commission of being </b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>a haven for thieves.</b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://euroweeklynews.com/2023/01/04/grandson-charles-de-gaulle-defends-russia-slams-eu/"><span style="color: #d42c2c;">“With regard to Europe, my grandfather</span></a> really advocated a Europe of nations,</b> that is, for each country to cooperate with others in the name of the European Union, economic and political, <span style="color: blue;">but </span><b><span style="color: blue;">with a certain autonomy in politics and decision-making,” </span></b>the Frenchman [Pres. De Gaulle’s grandson] said.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://euroweeklynews.com/2023/01/04/grandson-charles-de-gaulle-defends-russia-slams-eu/"><span style="color: #d42c2c;">“Instead, we ended up in a system dominated by a technocracy</span></a> that imposes its directives on each of the member states.</b> This technocracy is, unfortunately, extremely corrupt.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>He added: “For some reason, they stopped writing about this in the press,</b>
but when Ursula von der Leyen was appointed President of the European
Commission, she was also credited with the remaining unexplained
expenses of about 100 million euros associated with the hiring of
external consultants, consulting firms, when she was defence minister.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">“<span style="color: #d42c2c;"><b>These questions are passed over in silence</b></span>. There is also a lot of talk about the ties between the President of the European Commission and pharmaceutical companies. <a href="https://euroweeklynews.com/2022/10/12/breaking-european-parliaments-mislav-kolakusic-calls-eus-covid-vaccine-purchases-biggest-corruption-scandal-in-history/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Let me remind you that <b>her son works for an American biotechnology company</b> and that the CEO of Pfizer was recently called twice to testify about strange contracts with his company</a>. He was supposed to speak before the European Commission. But both times he refused.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">“I would like a little more honesty and transparency at the level of <b>the European Commission, which adopts certain laws.</b> After all, when we talk about <b>the leaders of <span style="color: #d42c2c;">the European Commission, <a href="https://euroweeklynews.com/2023/01/04/grandson-charles-de-gaulle-defends-russia-slams-eu/" style="color: #d42c2c;">we are talking about people who were not elected by the citizens</a></span></b> of European states,” he said.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">“Unfortunately, these gentlemen from the European Commission <b>still do not know how to keep their word</b>.
It’s a disaster, but today’s European leaders are like that. I would
like at least a little more transparency in their actions.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #d42c2c;"><b><span style="color: #333333;">“Recently, as part of</span> the </b></span><a href="https://euroweeklynews.com/2022/12/23/former-eu-vice-president-eva-kaili-remanded-in-custody-after-incriminating-herself-in-qatargate-bribery-scandal/" rel="noopener" target="_blank"><span style="color: #d42c2c;"><b>case of bribery by Qatar of “Eurocrats”,</b></span> who undertook to speak only positive things about this Arab emirate </a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://euroweeklynews.com/2022/12/23/former-eu-vice-president-eva-kaili-remanded-in-custody-after-incriminating-herself-in-qatargate-bribery-scandal/" rel="noopener" target="_blank"><b>in exchange for money, whole bags of money were strangely found … </b></a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://euroweeklynews.com/2022/12/23/former-eu-vice-president-eva-kaili-remanded-in-custody-after-incriminating-herself-in-qatargate-bribery-scandal/" rel="noopener" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #d42c2c;">in the house of one of the officials of the European Commission</span></b></a><span style="color: #d42c2c;"><b>.”</b></span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: medium;">Added: <span style="color: #d42c2c;"><b><a href="https://uwidata.com/26237-charles-de-gaulle-on-the-us-nato-and-the-dollar/" style="color: #d42c2c;">de Gaulle wasn’t an “Atlanticist,”</a></b></span> had no interest in being a US-UK colony. “<b>de Gaulle took every opportunity to express <span style="color: #d42c2c;"><span style="color: blue;">his </span><a href="https://uwidata.com/26237-charles-de-gaulle-on-the-us-nato-and-the-dollar/" style="color: #d42c2c;"><span style="color: blue;">discontent with the dollar as a reserve currency:</span> <span style="color: blue;">”US imperialism leaves no field unoccupied</span></a></span>. It takes every form, </b><span style="color: blue;"><b>but the <span style="color: blue;">dollar is the most insidious”….</span></b></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">8/11/2022, “<span style="color: #d42c2c;"><a href="https://uwidata.com/26237-charles-de-gaulle-on-the-us-nato-and-the-dollar/" style="color: #d42c2c;"><b>Charles de Gaulle on the US, NATO and the Dollar,”</b> </a></span>United World International</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #333333;">“<a href="https://uwidata.com/26237-charles-de-gaulle-on-the-us-nato-and-the-dollar/" style="color: #333333;">Russia’s campaign in Ukraine </a><a href="https://uwidata.com/26237-charles-de-gaulle-on-the-us-nato-and-the-dollar/" style="color: #333333;">has opened new debates about</a></span><b><span style="color: #d42c2c;"><a href="https://uwidata.com/26237-charles-de-gaulle-on-the-us-nato-and-the-dollar/" style="color: #d42c2c;"> Europe’s historical and prospective positions </a></span></b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: #d42c2c;"><a href="https://uwidata.com/26237-charles-de-gaulle-on-the-us-nato-and-the-dollar/" style="color: #d42c2c;"><span style="color: blue;">on the US-Russia axis.</span></a></span></b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: #d42c2c;"> In 20th century European history, Charles de Gaulle</span> is one of the most prominent figures to be considered in this context.</b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">We interviewed Ali Rıza Taşdelen, a journalist and Vatan Party
(Türkiye) executive who closely follows French politics, about de
Gaulle’s life, thoughts and policies.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://uwidata.com/26237-charles-de-gaulle-on-the-us-nato-and-the-dollar/"><span style="color: #d42c2c;"><b>The symbol of the resistance against nazi occupation…</b></span></a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://impeachobamatoday.files.wordpress.com/2023/11/vichy.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-98211 alignleft" data-attachment-id="98211" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-caption="" data-image-description="" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="vichy" data-large-file="https://impeachobamatoday.files.wordpress.com/2023/11/vichy.png?w=497" data-medium-file="https://impeachobamatoday.files.wordpress.com/2023/11/vichy.png?w=300" data-orig-file="https://impeachobamatoday.files.wordpress.com/2023/11/vichy.png" data-orig-size="622,430" data-permalink="https://impeachobamatoday.wordpress.com/2023/11/22/like-his-grandfather-french-hero-charles-de-gaulle-grandson-pierre-admires-russia-says-traditional-values-have-disappeared-in-the-west-has-no-interest-in-being-subservient-to-us-uk/vichy/" height="197" src="https://impeachobamatoday.files.wordpress.com/2023/11/vichy.png?w=284&h=197" width="284" /></a><b>Charles de Gaulle is the symbol of the resistance to the Nazi occupation of France</b>
in the Second World War. He is the national hero of the French nation.
Besides being a good soldier, he is a world-class statesman who</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://uwidata.com/26237-charles-de-gaulle-on-the-us-nato-and-the-dollar/"><span style="color: #d42c2c;"><b>defended France’s independence against the USA and NATO.</b></span></a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">De Gaulle and [vs.] the Social Democrats…[Map of <a href="https://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/francedefeat.htm">Vichy and occupied France, 1940,</a> “France in Defeat”]</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>France’s political confrontation with the Nazi occupation and
its aftermath, as well as during the Cold War, can give us an idea of </b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>who de Gaulle is and what he means to France:</b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>On the one side, the Social Democrats</b>, led by their
General Secretary Paul Faur, surrendered to fascism during the Second
World War and adopted a collaborationist policy, <a href="https://uwidata.com/26237-charles-de-gaulle-on-the-us-nato-and-the-dollar/"><b><span style="color: #d42c2c;">accepted to come under the shelter of the US after the war, brought France into NATO</span> </b></a>and paved the way for NATO’s Gladio organization in the country,</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://uwidata.com/26237-charles-de-gaulle-on-the-us-nato-and-the-dollar/"><span style="color: blue;"><b>in short, pursued an Atlanticist line.</b> </span></a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: #d42c2c;"><a href="https://uwidata.com/26237-charles-de-gaulle-on-the-us-nato-and-the-dollar/"><span style="color: #d42c2c;">On the other side, General Charles de Gaulle</span></a>, who resisted <span style="color: blue;">together with the Communists the invasion of Hitler</span></span> fascism and became </b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>the symbol of the resistance, </b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #d42c2c;"><b>opposed NATO, </b></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: #d42c2c;"><a href="https://uwidata.com/26237-charles-de-gaulle-on-the-us-nato-and-the-dollar/"><span style="color: #d42c2c;">expelled NATO institutions from France </span></a></span></b><span style="color: #333333;"><a href="https://uwidata.com/26237-charles-de-gaulle-on-the-us-nato-and-the-dollar/" style="color: #333333;">[on March 7, 1966</a>],</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>became the target of the US and NATO Gladio, and </b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>defended a more popular and welfare state against the economic </b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>system imposed by the US </b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #d42c2c;"><a href="https://uwidata.com/26237-charles-de-gaulle-on-the-us-nato-and-the-dollar/" style="color: #d42c2c;"><b>and the reign of the dollar.</b></a></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">Could you elaborate on de Gaulle’s opposition to the US?</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>De Gaulle is known for his resistance against the Nazi occupation <span style="color: #d42c2c;">and for taking France out of NATO. France’s withdrawal from NATO on March 7, 1966</span> is only a consequence. The process started in the 1940s when the Nazis occupied France. </b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://uwidata.com/26237-charles-de-gaulle-on-the-us-nato-and-the-dollar/">The US hostility towards De Gaulle</a> </b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">began not with the anti-American line he pursued in the 1960s, </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: blue;"><b>but with de Gaulle’s national resistance movement against the Nazi occupation.</b></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://uwidata.com/26237-charles-de-gaulle-on-the-us-nato-and-the-dollar/"><span style="color: #d42c2c;">Throughout the war, the US supported the Vichy government, headed by the Nazi collaborator Marshal Pétain.</span> </a></b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>While the Vichy government surrendered </b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">to Hitler with the armistice agreement, </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Charles de Gaulle was preparing to fight against the occupation in London. </b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: #d42c2c;"><a href="https://uwidata.com/26237-charles-de-gaulle-on-the-us-nato-and-the-dollar/"><span style="color: #d42c2c;">On June 18, 1940, de Gaulle called for resistance for a “Free France”</span></a><span style="color: blue;"> against the invaders and then on September 24, 1941, he announced that</span> the “French Committee of National Liberation” <span style="color: #333333;">was formed</span></span><span style="color: #333333;"> to</span> unite all resistance groups. </b>On
24 December 1941, Jean Moulin returned to France on De Gaulle’s orders
to organize and unite resistance groups. In Lyon, he founded <b>the
“United Resistance Movement”, which included communists. Maurice
Thorez, Secretary General of the French Communist Party in Moscow, was
in contact with De Gaulle. <span style="color: #d42c2c;">On September 26, Stalin announced <a href="https://uwidata.com/26237-charles-de-gaulle-on-the-us-nato-and-the-dollar/" style="color: #d42c2c;">that the Soviet Union had recognized De Gaulle’s “Free France”.</a></span></b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: #d42c2c;">De Gaulle arrived in Algiers from London and took over the Provisional Government</span> on June 3, 1944. <span style="color: blue;">On June 6, Anglo-Saxon Allied Forces</span> (the US, UK and Canada) under the command of General Dwight D. Eisenhower, </b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: #d42c2c;">landed in Normandy, France.</span> </b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>As the Allied forces advance towards Paris, on August 10,
railroad workers, led by the FKP, went on strike. Subsequently, General
Confederation of Labour <a href="https://uwidata.com/26237-charles-de-gaulle-on-the-us-nato-and-the-dollar/">called for a <span style="color: #d42c2c;">general strike and took a stand against the US</span>. On August 25, 1944, Paris was liberated and De Gaulle returned to Paris.</a></b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>CIA’s aim in the Normandy landings</b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>De Gaulle declared that the aim of CIA in the Normandy landings of the Anglo-Saxon Allied Forces led by the US</b> was to eliminate him and form a government close to the US. <b>On
June 6, 1964, de Gaulle refused to attend the 20th anniversary
celebrations of the Normandy landings in France, and told Prime Minister
Pompidou, who advocated attending the ceremony the following: <span style="color: #d42c2c;">“The landings on June 6 were an Anglo-Saxon affair from which France was excluded</span>.</b>
They were determined to settle in France, which they saw as enemy
territory! Just as they had done in Italy and were going to do in
Germany! They had prepared the Allied Military Government of Occupied
Territories, which would rule France as their armies marched forward.
They had printed counterfeit money. They would have behaved as if they
were in a conquered country. <b>And now you want me to commemorate their landings.”</b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://uwidata.com/26237-charles-de-gaulle-on-the-us-nato-and-the-dollar/"><b>De Gaulle considered the <span style="color: #d42c2c;">US as “an occupying state interfering in all economic, military and political processes in the world”.</span></b></a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">NATO as a camouflage for the US takeover of Europe</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>What was de Gaulle’s view of NATO?</b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://uwidata.com/26237-charles-de-gaulle-on-the-us-nato-and-the-dollar/"><span style="color: #d42c2c;">De Gaulle believed that NATO was a tool for the US to take Europe in hand. <span style="color: blue;">He opposed US hegemonism</span></span></a><span style="color: blue;">. </span></b>In one of his conversations, he told Ahmet the following about NATO:</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://uwidata.com/26237-charles-de-gaulle-on-the-us-nato-and-the-dollar/"><span style="color: #d42c2c;">“NATO is an academy of empty words.</span> It is an organization that weakens our defense capabilities, instills the idea that defense is inconceivable without it,</a> thus numbing our sense of national independence. NATO is in fact a deception, a camouflage for the US takeover Europe”.</b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">The process of withdrawal from NATO’s military wing</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: #d42c2c;"><span style="color: blue;">Before withdrawing from NATO’s military wing, he announced</span> </span></b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: #d42c2c;"><a href="https://uwidata.com/26237-charles-de-gaulle-on-the-us-nato-and-the-dollar/"><span style="color: #d42c2c;">the withdrawal of the French representative to the Atlantic Council and</span></a> </span></b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #333333;"><b>France’s Mediterranean fleet from NATO’s Mediterranean Command on March 7, 1959. </b></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://uwidata.com/26237-charles-de-gaulle-on-the-us-nato-and-the-dollar/">In June of the same year [1959], he banned US nuclear storage on French territory.</a> </b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>In 1963, French naval power in the Atlantic and the Manche </b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>was withdrawn from NATO command, and </b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #d42c2c;"><b>in 1964, French officers from NATO’s naval command.</b></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>On March 7, 1966, de Gaulle sent a letter to US President Johnson, in which he stated <span style="color: #d42c2c;"><a href="https://uwidata.com/26237-charles-de-gaulle-on-the-us-nato-and-the-dollar/" style="color: #d42c2c;">France’s withdrawal from NATO’s military wing</a></span></b><span style="color: #d42c2c;"><a href="https://uwidata.com/26237-charles-de-gaulle-on-the-us-nato-and-the-dollar/" style="color: #d42c2c;">.</a> </span>In
the letter he stressed that the world had changed since NATO was
founded in 1949, and since then France has improved its defense
capabilities, no longer requiring any Allied military presence on French
territory, and also that <b><span style="color: #d42c2c;">France had taken sovereignty into its own hands</span> and no longer putting French military forces under NATO’s order.</b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">Killing de Gaulle</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">Some say that the US attempted a coup d’état against de Gaulle and to assassinate him. Is this true?</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Yes, that is true.<a href="https://uwidata.com/26237-charles-de-gaulle-on-the-us-nato-and-the-dollar/"><span style="color: #d42c2c;"> The US, along with Britain, tried everything to eliminate de Gaulle</span></a> during the war. <span style="color: blue;">The US and Britain continued to do so after the war,</span> </b>from the time De Gaulle became head of government<b> until his departure in 1969.</b> The CIA monitored De Gaulle’s every move and attempted to assassinate him.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Coup attempt against de Gaulle</b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">Besides, de Gaulle’s anti-US and anti-NATO policies and <b>his efforts to resolve the problem in Algeria by negotiating with the insurgents caused a great uneasiness in the US.</b> <b>With
the support of NATO’s secret organization in France (stay-behind
organization), an unsuccessful coup attempt was organized against De
Gaulle</b> by the “Secret Army Organization” (Organisation de l’armée secrete – OAS), which consists of <b>officers who were against De Gaulle and supported the French occupation of Algeria.</b> General Challe, a French General who had previously commanded NATO’s Allied Forces in Central Europe, led the coup.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">A great Europe from the Atlantic to the Urals</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Did de Gaulle’s struggle with the United States have an international aspect? Did he seek alliances against the US?</b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: #d42c2c;"><a href="https://uwidata.com/26237-charles-de-gaulle-on-the-us-nato-and-the-dollar/" style="color: #d42c2c;">In 1964, de Gaulle officially recognized the People’s Republic of China</a> </span>and welcomed China’s development of the atomic bomb. In the same year he traveled to South America. <a href="https://uwidata.com/26237-charles-de-gaulle-on-the-us-nato-and-the-dollar/">In 1966, on a trip to Asia, he criticized the US policy in Vietnam </a></b><a href="https://uwidata.com/26237-charles-de-gaulle-on-the-us-nato-and-the-dollar/">i</a>n a speech in Phnom-Penh, the capital of Cambodia.<b> He then moved on to Moscow to discuss <a href="https://uwidata.com/26237-charles-de-gaulle-on-the-us-nato-and-the-dollar/">with
Brezhnev a Pan-European defence system based on a Soviet-French basis.
He had in mind a great Europe “from the Atlantic to the Urals”.</a></b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>The third path between capitalism and collectivism</b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>We would also like to talk about his views on economic affairs </b>in addition to his political views. You mentioned that De Gaulle was in favor of a welfare state. Could you elaborate on this?</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://uwidata.com/26237-charles-de-gaulle-on-the-us-nato-and-the-dollar/"><b>De Gaulle was on the path between capitalism and collectivism</b></a>. Alain Peyrefitte, de Gaulle’s spokesman, wrote in his book “C’etait de Gaulle” that de Gaulle said of the economic system:</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>“The world is divided between two rival systems in fierce struggle: capitalism and collectivism. </b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Capitalism is unacceptable in its social consequences.</b> It crushes the most modest. It turns man into man’s wolf (author’s note: surprising to hear a Marxist slogan).</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #d42c2c;"><b>Collectivism is also unacceptable: it deprives humans of the will to fight <span style="color: blue;">transforming them into sheep</span></b><span style="color: blue;">.</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://uwidata.com/26237-charles-de-gaulle-on-the-us-nato-and-the-dollar/"><b>A third path must be invented between the wolves and the sheep.”</b> </a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">When Peyrefitte asked de Gaulle, “Which one?” he replied: “Participation and planning. <b>Participation, since one must involve employees in the functioning of the company</b>, giving them back the dignity that capitalism has taken away from them; <b>and planning, because it makes it possible to correct the failures of the market,</b>
which would blind us if we completely loose control over it.” “The
state should intervene in the public interest, when necessary. Workers
should participate in the development of their companies”.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>For De Gaulle, nothing is above the nation and the state. <span style="color: #d42c2c;">He especially opposes the market economy imposed by the US:</span> “The market is not above the nation and the state. It is the nation and the state that must dominate the market. <span style="color: #d42c2c;"><a href="https://uwidata.com/26237-charles-de-gaulle-on-the-us-nato-and-the-dollar/"><span style="color: #d42c2c;">If the market rules, the Americans would rule over it; it is all a disguise for American hegemony</span>.</a></span></b><span style="color: #d42c2c;"><span style="color: #333333;">
If we have put our faith in the free market, we would have been
colonized by the Americans. If the state does not take the necessary
initiatives, nothing will work.”</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #d42c2c;"><b>Against the Dollar as reserve currency</b></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>De Gaulle took every opportunity to express his <span style="color: #d42c2c;"><a href="https://uwidata.com/26237-charles-de-gaulle-on-the-us-nato-and-the-dollar/">discontent with the dollar as a reserve currency: ”US imperialism leaves no field unoccupied</a>.</span> </b>It takes every form, </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: #d42c2c;">but the dollar is the most insidious”.</span> </b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://uwidata.com/26237-charles-de-gaulle-on-the-us-nato-and-the-dollar/">“We pay the US to purchase us.</a>
So each time we have dollars, we will convert them into gold. Everyone
should do the same… Political pressures will no longer be used to
manipulate money.”</b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">De Gaulle was convinced that the international monetary system of the day would not work, <b>and one day the domination of the dollar would come to an end….</b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">Social democrats have adopted an anti-Gaullist line from the Nazi
occupation to the present day. Today, the de Gaullean tradition persists
to a lesser extent in the nationalist parties of the left and right.
The Gaullist legacy is partly alive in Marine Le Pen’s Rassemblement
National and Jean Luc Melenchon La France Insoumise. In addition, a few
relatively small parties also support de Gaulle.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">The last representative of the de Gaulle tradition</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: #d42c2c;"><a href="https://uwidata.com/26237-charles-de-gaulle-on-the-us-nato-and-the-dollar/">Former president Jacques Chirac was the last representative of the de Gaulle tradition.</a> Chirac opposed the US invasion of Iraq in 2003</span>. </b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #d42c2c;"><span style="color: #333333;">In Chirac’s time, France was in favour of the</span> </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://uwidata.com/26237-charles-de-gaulle-on-the-us-nato-and-the-dollar/"><b><span style="color: #d42c2c;">alliance between Germany and Russia against the US-UK alliance.</span> </b></a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://uwidata.com/26237-charles-de-gaulle-on-the-us-nato-and-the-dollar/">At that time, a Paris-Berlin-Moscow axis was formed.</a> </b>The leaders of this alliance were Chirac, Schröder and Putin.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>After the election to the presidency in 2007 of Nicolas
Sarkozy, who had risen rapidly as the representative of the pro-Atlantic
wing within Chirac’s party, the party broke with the tradition of
Charles de Gaulle and aligned itself with the US.</b> Today, there is an important faction within the Republican Party that maintains the de Gaulle tradition.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">[Really? Where is it? I’d like to join. To my knowledge, the entire
US political class including the entire Republican Party is fully on
board with endless US wars which are funded by enslaving US taxpayers
from birth. Not one single elected person has stood up for us and
demanded that we be freed from enslavement to US global genocide which
most certainly includes flattening Russia and Syria. As Philip Giraldi
accurately observed, Endless war is Deep State’s only business, it has
no other excuse for bleeding US taxpayers. (Blog editor)].</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">Today, these de Gaullist groups and parties <b>still oppose the US and NATO and are in favor of friendly relations with Russia and Bashar al-Assad.”</b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b> </b></span></p>
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<p><br /></p><p> </p>susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14710989163705986252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1907031520446514200.post-10765385023336061672023-11-10T22:41:00.003-04:002023-11-10T22:43:09.338-04:00FBI seizes phones of New York City Mayor Eric Adams, approached him on street, climbed into his SUV, in escalation of campaign finance investigation-NY Times, 11/10/23 (Sat.,11/11/23 print ed.) <p><span style="color: #eeeeee;"> .</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.dailysabah.com/gallery/migrants-on-streets-as-new-york-city-fails-to-provide-shelter/images"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">“New York’s mayor claimed that the city is full as migrants were sleeping on the street </span></a>while waiting for their asylum applications to be processed, amid sweltering summer temperatures.” 8/1/23, AFP</span></p>
<p><a href="https://impeachobamatoday.files.wordpress.com/2023/11/roosevelt2-1.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-98083 alignleft" data-attachment-id="98083" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-caption="" data-image-description="" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="roosevelt2" data-large-file="https://impeachobamatoday.files.wordpress.com/2023/11/roosevelt2-1.png?w=497" data-medium-file="https://impeachobamatoday.files.wordpress.com/2023/11/roosevelt2-1.png?w=300" data-orig-file="https://impeachobamatoday.files.wordpress.com/2023/11/roosevelt2-1.png" data-orig-size="1092,773" data-permalink="https://impeachobamatoday.wordpress.com/2023/11/10/fbi-seizes-phones-of-new-york-city-mayor-eric-adams-approached-him-on-street-climbed-into-his-suv-in-escalation-of-campaign-finance-investigation-ny-times-11-10-23-sat-11-11-23-print-ed/roosevelt2-2/" height="280" src="https://impeachobamatoday.files.wordpress.com/2023/11/roosevelt2-1.png?w=335&h=237" width="395" /></a><span style="font-size: medium;"> 8/1/23, “<a href="https://www.nydailynews.com/2023/08/01/migrants-sleep-outside-roosevelt-hotel-in-midtown/">Hundreds of migrants sleep in line early on Aug. 1, 2023,</a> for placement<span style="color: #d62424;"> </span><span style="color: #990000;">at the Roosevelt Hotel</span><span style="color: #d62424;"> </span>intake center in New York,” NY Daily News</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">11/10/23, <span style="color: #990000;">“<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/10/nyregion/adams-fbi-investigation-phones.html">F.B.I. Seizes Eric Adams’s Phones as Campaign Investigation Intensifies,</a><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/10/nyregion/adams-fbi-investigation-phones.html">”</a></span> NY Times, (Sat., <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/10/nyregion/adams-fbi-investigation-phones.html">11/11/23</a> print ed.), by William K. Rashbaum, Dana Rubenstein, Michael Rothfeld</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: medium;">[Image above, Aug. 1, 2023, AFP, <a href="https://www.dailysabah.com/gallery/migrants-on-streets-as-new-york-city-fails-to-provide-shelter/images?gallery_image=127705"><span style="color: #990000;">Migrants outside </span><span style="color: #990000;">Roosevelt Hotel in midtown Manhattan</span></a><span style="color: #990000;">.</span> “Since April last year, more than 93,000 migrants, mostly from Central and South America, have arrived <a href="https://www.dailysabah.com/gallery/migrants-on-streets-as-new-york-city-fails-to-provide-shelter/images?gallery_image=127705">in New York, which is required by [current] law to offer free housing to anyone who requests it.”]</a></span></p>
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<p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #990000;">“</span><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/10/nyregion/adams-fbi-investigation-phones.html"><span style="color: #990000;">F.B.I. agents seized Mayor Eric Adams’s electronic devices </span>early this week</a> in what appeared to be a dramatic escalation of a criminal inquiry into whether his 2021 campaign conspired with the Turkish government and others to funnel money into its coffers.</span></p>
<p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/10/nyregion/adams-fbi-investigation-phones.html">The agents approached the mayor</a> <span style="color: #990000;">after an event at New York University on Monday evening and asked his security detail to step away</span><span style="color: #d62424;">,</span> a person with knowledge of the matter said.</span></p>
<p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0"><span style="font-size: medium;">They climbed into his S.U.V. with him </span></p>
<p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0"><span style="font-size: medium;">and, pursuant to a court-authorized warrant, <span style="color: blue;">took his devices, the person said.</span></span></p>
<p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0"><span style="font-size: medium;">The devices — at least two cellphones and an iPad
— were returned to the mayor within a matter of days, according to that
person and another person familiar with the situation. Law enforcement
investigators with a search warrant can make copies of the data on
devices after they seize them.</span></p>
<p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0"><span style="font-size: medium;">A lawyer for Mr. Adams and his campaign said in a statement that the mayor was cooperating with federal authorities, and had already “proactively reported” at least one instance of improper behavior.</span></p>
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<p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0"><span style="font-size: medium;">“After learning of the federal investigation, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/10/nyregion/adams-fbi-investigation-phones.html">it was discovered that an individual had recently acted improperly,”</a>
said the lawyer, Boyd Johnson. “In the spirit of transparency and
cooperation, this behavior was immediately and proactively reported to
investigators.”</span></p>
<p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0"><span style="font-size: medium;">Mr. Johnson said that Mr. Adams has not
been accused of wrongdoing and had “immediately complied with the
F.B.I.’s request and provided them with electronic devices.” Mr. Adams
had attended <a class="css-yywogo" href="https://twitter.com/NYCMayor/status/1721946148846407732?s=20" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" title="">an anniversary celebration</a> for
the ASD Nest Support Project, an initiative at New York University that
works with public schools to enhance education for autistic learners.</span></p>
<p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0"><span style="font-size: medium;">The statement did not identify the individual, detail the conduct reported to authorities or make clear
whether the reported misconduct was related to the seizure of the
mayor’s devices. It was also not immediately clear whether the agents
referred to the fund-raising investigation when they took the mayor’s
devices.</span></p>
<p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0"><span style="font-size: medium;">Mr. Adams, in his own statement, said
that “as a former member of law enforcement, I expect all members of my
staff to follow the law and fully cooperate with any sort of
investigation — and I will continue to do exactly that.” He added that
he had “nothing to hide.”</span></p>
<p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0"><span style="font-size: medium;">The surprise seizure of Mr. Adams’s devices was an extraordinary development
and appeared to be the first direct instance of the campaign
contribution investigation touching the mayor. Mr. Adams, a retired
police captain, said on Wednesday that he is so strident in urging his
staff to “follow the law” that he can be almost “annoying.” He laughed
at the notion that he had any potential criminal exposure</span></p>
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<p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0"><span style="font-size: medium;">Spokesmen for the F.B.I. and the U.S. attorney’s office for the Southern District of New York, whose prosecutors are also investigating the matter, declined to comment.</span></p>
<p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0"><span style="font-size: medium;">The federal investigation into Mr. Adams’s campaign <a class="css-yywogo" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/02/nyregion/eric-adams-brianna-suggs-fbi-raid.html" title="">burst into public view</a> on Nov. 2, when F.B.I. agents searched the home of the mayor’s chief fund-raiser and <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/10/nyregion/adams-fbi-investigation-phones.html">seized two laptop computers, three iPhones </a></span></p>
<p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/10/nyregion/adams-fbi-investigation-phones.html">and a manila folder labeled “Eric Adams.”</a></span></p>
<p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0"><span style="font-size: medium;">The fund-raiser, <a class="css-yywogo" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/06/nyregion/eric-adams-brianna-suggs-fundraiser-fbi.html" title="">a 25-year-old former intern named Brianna Suggs</a>, has not spoken publicly since the raid.</span></p>
<p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0"><span style="font-size: medium;">Mr. Adams responded to news of the raid by </span></p>
<p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/10/nyregion/adams-fbi-investigation-phones.html"><span style="color: #d62424;">abruptly returning from Washington, D.C.,</span></a> where he had only just arrived for a day of meetings with White House and congressional leaders</span></p>
<p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/10/nyregion/adams-fbi-investigation-phones.html" style="color: blue;">regarding the migrant influx,</a> </span></span></p>
<p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0"><span style="font-size: medium;">an issue he has said threatens to <a class="css-yywogo" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/07/nyregion/adams-migrants-destroy-nyc.html" title="">“destroy New York City.”</a></span></p>
<p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0"><span style="font-size: medium;">On Wednesday, he said his abrupt return
was driven by his desire to be present for his team, and out of concern
for Ms. Suggs, who he said had gone through a “traumatic experience.”</span></p>
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<p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0"><span style="font-size: medium;">“Although I am mayor, I have not stopped being a man and a human,” he said.</span></p>
<p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0"><span style="font-size: medium;">But he also said he did not speak with
Ms. Suggs on the day of the raid, to avoid any appearance of interfering
in an ongoing investigation.</span></p>
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<p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0"><span style="font-size: medium;">The warrant obtained by the F.B.I. to search Ms. Suggs’s home sought evidence of a conspiracy to violate campaign finance law <span style="color: #990000;">between
members of Mr. Adams’s campaign, the Turkish government or Turkish
nationals, and a Brooklyn-based construction company, KSK Construction</span><span style="color: #990000;">,</span> whose owners are originally from Turkey. The warrant <span style="color: blue;">also sought records about donations from Bay Atlantic University, a Washington, D.C., college </span>whose founder is Turkish and is affiliated with a school</span></p>
<p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/10/nyregion/adams-fbi-investigation-phones.html"><span style="color: #990000;">Mr. Adams visited when he went to Turkey as Brooklyn borough president in 2015.</span></a></span></p>
<p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0"><span style="font-size: medium;">The warrant, reviewed by The New York
Times, indicated authorities were looking at whether the Turkish
government or Turkish nationals funneled <span style="color: blue;">donations to Mr. Adams using a so-called straw donor scheme,</span> in which the contributors listed were not the actual source of the money. The warrant also inquired about Mr. Adams’s campaign’s use of </span></p>
<p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #990000;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/10/nyregion/adams-fbi-investigation-phones.html">New York City’s generous public matching program,</a> in which</span><span style="color: #d62424;"><span style="color: blue;"> New York City offers an eight-to-one match</span></span> of the first $250 of a resident’s donation.</span></p>
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<p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0"><span style="font-size: medium;">This is not the first time Mr. Adams or people in his orbit have attracted law enforcement scrutiny.</span></p>
<p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #990000;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/10/nyregion/adams-fbi-investigation-phones.html">In September [2023], Eric Ulrich, Mr. Adams’s former buildings commissioner</a></span><span style="color: #d62424;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #d62424;"><span style="color: #333333;">and senior adviser, <a class="css-yywogo" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/13/nyregion/eric-ulrich-surrender-bribery.html" style="color: #333333;" title="">was indicted</a> </span></span></span></p>
<p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #d62424;"><span style="color: #333333;">by the Manhattan district attorney, Alvin L. Bragg,</span> </span></span></p>
<p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/10/nyregion/adams-fbi-investigation-phones.html"><span style="color: blue;">on 16 felony charges, </span></a>including counts of bribetaking and conspiracy.</span></p>
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<p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0"><span style="font-size: medium;">In July, Mr. Bragg <a class="css-yywogo" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/07/nyregion/eric-mayor-adams-campaign-donation.html" title="">indicted</a> six
people, including a retired police inspector who once worked and
socialized with Mr. Adams, on charges of conspiring to funnel illegal
donations to the mayor’s 2021 campaign.</span></p>
<p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0"><span style="font-size: medium;">Separately, the city’s Department of Investigation was <a class="css-yywogo" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/24/nyregion/timothy-pearson-investigation-adams.html" title="">investigating</a> the role of Timothy Pearson, one of the mayor’s closest advisers, in a violent altercation at a migrant center in Manhattan.</span></p>
<p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #990000;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/10/nyregion/adams-fbi-investigation-phones.html">Mr. Adams has also had skirmishes with the law before becoming mayor.</a></span><span style="color: #d62424;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/10/nyregion/adams-fbi-investigation-phones.html" style="color: #d62424;"> </a></span>Soon after he was elected Brooklyn borough president,
he organized an event to raise money for a new nonprofit, One Brooklyn,
which had not yet registered with the state. The invitation list was
based on donor rolls for nonprofits run by his predecessor, records
show.</span></p>
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<p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0"><span style="font-size: medium;">A city Department of Investigation inquiry concluded Mr. Adams and his nonprofit appeared to have<span style="color: blue;"> improperly solicited funding from groups that either had or would soon have matters pending before his office.</span>
Mr. Adams’s office emphasized to investigators that the slip-ups had
occurred early in his administration and promised to comply with the law
going forward.</span></p>
<p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #990000;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/10/nyregion/adams-fbi-investigation-phones.html">Earlier, while Mr. Adams was a New York state senator,</a></span> the state inspector general <a class="css-yywogo" href="https://s3.amazonaws.com/attachments.readmedia.com/files/19595/original/Inspector_General_s_Aqueduct_Report.pdf?1291270537" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" title="">found</a> that he and other Senate Democrats had fraternized with lobbyists and accepted significant campaign contributions from people affiliated with contenders for a video lottery contract at Aqueduct Racetrack.</span></p>
<p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0"><span style="font-size: medium;">In response to a Times examination of his fund-raising record in 2021,</span></p>
<p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #990000;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/10/nyregion/adams-fbi-investigation-phones.html">Mr. Adams attributed the scrutiny in part to his race.</a></span></span></p>
<p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">“Black candidates for office</span> are
often held to a higher, unfair standard — especially those from
lower-income backgrounds such as myself,” he said in a
statement then. “No campaign of mine has ever been charged with a
serious fund-raising violation, and no contribution has ever affected my
decision-making as a public official.” He added: “I did not go from
being a person that enforced the law to become one that breaks the law.”</span></p>
<p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0"><span style="font-size: medium;">Mr. Adams is not the first city
mayor whose fund-raising has attracted federal scrutiny. In 2017,
federal prosecutors examined episodes in which Bill de Blasio, who was then the mayor, or his surrogates <a class="css-yywogo" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/16/nyregion/mayor-bill-de-blasio-investigation-no-criminal-charges.html" title="">sought donations from people seeking favors</a> from the city, and then made inquiries to city agencies on their behalf.</span></p>
<p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0"><span style="font-size: medium;">In deciding not to bring charges, the
acting United States attorney, Joon H. Kim, cited “the particular
difficulty in proving criminal intent in corruption schemes where there
is no evidence of personal profit.” <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/10/nyregion/adams-fbi-investigation-phones.html">Mr. de Blasio received a warning letter about those activities from the city’s Conflicts of Interest Board.”</a></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://wabcradio.com/curtis-sids-list-of-pro-law-order-candidates-nyc-city-council/">Dist. 47, Ari Kagan</a></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://wabcradio.com/curtis-sids-list-of-pro-law-order-candidates-nyc-city-council/">Dist. 22, Kelly Klingman</a></span></p>
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<p><a href="https://www.zipdatamaps.com/politics/city/districts/map-of-new-york-city-ny-council-districts"><span style="font-size: medium;">Map of 51 NY City Council districts</span></a></p>
<p>…………………………….</p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>Added: <span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b>Two candidates in Queens districts are running on Animal Welfare Party line:</b></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Kelly_Klingman">Kelly Klingman, dist. 22, Queens,</a> is running on Republican Party, Conservative Party,<a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Kelly_Klingman"> and Animal Welfare Party</a> lines in <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/New_York,_New_York">New York City Council</a> elections to represent <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/New_York,_New_York">District 22</a>.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Robert_Holden">Robert Holden dist. 30, Queens,</a> is running on Democratic Party, Republican Party, Conservative Party, Medical Freedom Party, <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Robert_Holden">and Animal Welfare Party</a> lines is running for re-election to the <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/New_York,_New_York">New York City Council</a> to represent <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/New_York,_New_York">District 30</a>.</span></span></p><p> </p><p> <br /></p>.................... <br />susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14710989163705986252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1907031520446514200.post-91541492474679951182023-10-06T01:21:00.010-03:002023-10-06T19:31:07.983-03:00Laughing Neocon Kevin McCarthy wears Ukraine flag and Ukraine lapel pin on floor of US taxpayer funded Congress, March 1, 2022 <p><span style="color: #f3f3f3;"> .</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #990000;"><a href="https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/house-minority-leader-kevin-mccarthy-wears-a-ukrainian-flag-news-photo/1375558534">Kevin McCarthy-Neocon, displays Ukraine flag in his suit pocket</a></span> while laughing it up on floor <a href="https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/house-minority-leader-kevin-mccarthy-wears-a-ukrainian-flag-news-photo/1375558534">of US Congress, March 1, 2022:</a></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://impeachobamatoday.files.wordpress.com/2023/10/kevingetty.png"><img alt="" class="alignnone wp-image-97809" height="235" src="https://impeachobamatoday.files.wordpress.com/2023/10/kevingetty.png?w=150" width="380" /></a></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">3/1/2022, "<a href="https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/house-minority-leader-kevin-mccarthy-wears-a-ukrainian-flag-news-photo/1375558534">President Biden Delivers His First State Of The Union Address To Joint Session Of Congress,"</a> gettyimages.com, Washington, DC</span></p><div class="pp3mjv9mGW0uHosGHiCf"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #990000;">"<a href="https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/house-minority-leader-kevin-mccarthy-wears-a-ukrainian-flag-news-photo/1375558534">House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) wears a Ukrainian flag </a><a href="https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/house-minority-leader-kevin-mccarthy-wears-a-ukrainian-flag-news-photo/1375558534">lapel pin and a pocket hanky in the colors of Ukraine</a> </span>while waiting for <span style="color: blue;">U.S. President Joe Biden's State of the Union address </span>in the U.S. Capitol's House Chamber March 01, 2022 in Washington, DC." (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)," gettyimages.com</span></div><p><span style="font-size: medium;">.............................................................</span></p><p><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-size: medium;">.</span><span style="font-size: medium;">Added: Better view of last of </span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #c92a2a;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Young-Guns-Generation-Conservative-Leaders/dp/1451607342"><span style="color: #c92a2a;"><span style="color: blue;">"Young Guns:" </span></span></a></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://impeachobamatoday.files.wordpress.com/2022/05/kevin.png"><img alt="" class="wp-image-84763 alignleft" height="476" src="https://impeachobamatoday.files.wordpress.com/2022/05/kevin.png?w=339&h=431" width="374" /></a></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Above, 5/9/2022, <a href="https://twitter.com/BowTiedRanger/status/1523842644568334346">“</a><a href="https://twitter.com/BowTiedRanger/status/1523842644568334346">I refuse to let people forget about this image and all it stands for</a>.” BowTiedRanger twitter</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">..........................................</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Good riddance to last of the "Young Guns:"</span></p><p><a href="https://impeachobamatoday.files.wordpress.com/2023/10/youngguns2.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-97822 alignleft" height="427" src="https://impeachobamatoday.files.wordpress.com/2023/10/youngguns2.jpg?w=97" width="278" /></a></p><p><span style="color: #c92a2a;"><span style="color: #c92a2a;"><span style="color: blue;"> </span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #c92a2a;"><span style="color: #c92a2a;"><span style="color: blue;"> </span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #c92a2a;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Young-Guns-Generation-Conservative-Leaders/dp/1451607342"><span style="color: #c92a2a;"><span style="color: blue;">ADIOS to phony "Young Guns:" Kevin McCarthy, Paul Ryan, and Eric Cantor. </span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="color: #c92a2a;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Young-Guns-Generation-Conservative-Leaders/dp/1451607342" style="color: #c92a2a;"><span style="color: blue;">Their Sept.</span></a></span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="color: #c92a2a;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Young-Guns-Generation-Conservative-Leaders/dp/1451607342" style="color: #c92a2a;"><span style="color: blue;"> 2010 book</span></a></span></span><span style="color: #333333;"> was supposed to divert attention from the Tea Party....which in Nov. 2010 despite the Establishment's usual sabotage efforts--delivered an </span><b><span style="color: #333333;">historic landslide of 63 seats to the GOP House. </span></b><span style="color: #333333;">The GOP was enraged, urgently set out to "co-opt" the new people we gave them.<br /></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">...................... <br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"> <br /></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">................ </span>susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14710989163705986252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1907031520446514200.post-48833210226579892032023-09-10T22:27:00.007-03:002023-09-10T22:29:59.983-03:00200 Jumpers, September 11, 2001 <p><span style="color: #eeeeee;"> .</span></p>
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</span><p><span><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://www.esquire.com/features/ESQ0903-SEP_FALLINGMAN">9/10/2011, “</a><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2035720/The-9-11-victims-America-wants-forget-The-200-jumpers-flung-Twin-Towers-airbrushed-history.html">The 9/11 victims America wants to forget: <span style="color: #990000;"><b>The 200 jumpers who flung themselves from the Twin Towers </b></span><span style="color: black;">who have been ‘airbrushed from history</span></a>',” UK Daily Mail, Tom Leonard</span></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><ul><li><span><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">“<a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2035720/The-9-11-victims-America-wants-forget-The-200-jumpers-flung-Twin-Towers-airbrushed-history.html">Almost all of them</a></span></b><span style="color: #2b00fe;"> jumped alone</span>,<b> </b>although eyewitnesses talked of a couple who held hands as they fell.”…</span></span></li></ul><span style="font-size: medium;">
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</span></span><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>9/10/2011, <span style="color: #990000;"><b>“<a href="http://www.newsday.com/911-anniversary/children-of-9-11-life-with-a-parent-missing-1.3159102">Children of 9/11: Life with a parent missing</a>,</b>” </span>Newsday, Carol Polsky</span></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>
</span></span><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><b>“<span class="initial"><a href="http://www.newsday.com/911-anniversary/children-of-9-11-life-with-a-parent-missing-1.3159102" style="color: blue;">Nearly 3,000 children under the </a></span><a href="http://www.newsday.com/911-anniversary/children-of-9-11-life-with-a-parent-missing-1.3159102" style="color: blue;"> age</a> of 18</b> </span>lost a parent on Sept 11. The average age was 9. A total of 108 were born in the months after their fathers died.”…</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">[Alternate link for 3000 children citation: “<a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-14843450">More than 3,000 children lost a parent on 9/11,</a>” BBC]</span></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>
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</span></span><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>9/6/2010,<b><span style="color: #990000;"> “<a href="http://theexperiencejunkie.com/2010/09/september-11-recalling-my-day-at-the-world-trade-center/">September 11: Recalling my day at the World Trade Center</a>,</span>”</b> the experiencejunkie.com by msw</span></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>
</span></span><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><b><span style="color: #d42626;"><span style="color: blue;">“Then the crowd let out a collective gasp, I looked to see the first of many people falling</span> through the sky. The television stations and the newspapers downplayed this aspect</span> of a day already filled with enough shock and terror, but I place great importance on it</b> because it immediately human-ised the situation for both myself and those around me. <b>This wasn’t just a burning building; it was suddenly full of people, friends, and family</b>.
For me, it is the most haunting memory of the day. When I focussed on
what the crowd had noticed, I too let out a cry so involuntary and so
primeval that I barely recognised it as my own. It was not a piece of
building falling to the ground,<b> <a href="http://theexperiencejunkie.com/2010/09/september-11-recalling-my-day-at-the-world-trade-center/">but a man, recognisable by his flapping tie</a></b>
and flailing arms and legs as he fell through the air. The situation
was surreal no longer; my body shook with shock, my knees buckled and a
light-headedness overwhelmed me with such severity that I thought I was
either going to throw-up or fall down.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>
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<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>I sat down and looked up<b> <a href="http://theexperiencejunkie.com/2010/09/september-11-recalling-my-day-at-the-world-trade-center/"><span style="color: #d42626;">only to see more people jumping</span></a></b>. I thought for a moment that they might have fallen, but there were too many people, <b>their arms windmilling as they subconsciously tried to fight gravity and avoid the inevitable</b>.
Haunted by these visions numerous times since the incident, I have
tormented myself by trying to imagine the extreme conditions that those
people must have faced that they should choose certain death by leaping
from the building over clinging to any hope of rescue. What were they
thinking when they jumped; what did they think on the way down?…But my
fear is that<span style="color: #d42626;"> <b><a href="http://theexperiencejunkie.com/2010/09/september-11-recalling-my-day-at-the-world-trade-center/" style="color: #d42626;">to forget is to fail the lesson</a></b></span>
and lose the opportunity. That’s why this raw wound will never
completely heal and that things can never go back to ‘normal’. Because
even as a simple bystander<span style="color: blue;"><b> I have a responsibility to incite change for the rest of my life or I watched all those people die in vain.”</b></span></span></span></p>
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</span></span><h3 class="sd-title"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span> </span></span></h3><h3 class="sd-title"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span> .................</span></span></h3></div><p> </p><p> </p>susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14710989163705986252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1907031520446514200.post-85412909680675922962023-08-21T20:37:00.000-03:002023-08-21T20:37:08.002-03:00Surprise! Vivek Ramaswamy is a close friend of Jared Kushner and dined with Mr. Trump and Jared in Bedminster, New Jersey in 2021-NY Times, 5/28/2023<p><span style="color: #eeeeee;"> .</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/28/us/politics/trump-republican-presidential-candidates.html">“A close friend of Mr. Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, Mr. [Vivek] Ramaswamy</a></span> dined with Mr. Trump and Mr. Kushner <span style="color: black;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/28/us/politics/trump-republican-presidential-candidates.html">at the former president’s New Jersey club, Bedminster, in 2021</a></span>, according to two people familiar with the event.”…May 28, 2023, “<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/28/us/politics/trump-republican-presidential-candidates.html">Trump Looks Like He Will Get the 2024 Crowd He Wants</a>,” NY Times, Shane Goldmacher, Jonathan Swan, Maggie Haberman</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">............. </span> <br /></p>susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14710989163705986252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1907031520446514200.post-40624792843148228042023-07-30T22:24:00.005-03:002023-07-30T22:39:23.625-03:00Who hired Deborah Birx as White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator? Answer: Her “friend,” National Security Council #2 man, Matt Pottinger with help from another "friend," Pottinger's virologist wife-Debbie Lerman <p><span style="color: #eeeeee;"> .</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">"Q</span><span style="color: #990000;">: <a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/how-did-deborah-birx-get-the-job/">Who offered you the job?</a></span><span style="color: #bd2020;"><a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/how-did-deborah-birx-get-the-job/" style="color: #bd2020;"> </a></span>A: <span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/how-did-deborah-birx-get-the-job/" style="color: blue;">My friend Matt [Pottinger],</a><a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/how-did-deborah-birx-get-the-job/" style="color: blue;"> the deputy national security advisor</a></span> (p. 32)”…<a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/how-did-deborah-birx-get-the-job/"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Virologist Yen Duong reported to Dr. Birx at CDC for</span><span style="color: #c73c3c;"><span style="color: #ba303a;"><span style="color: blue;"> 3 years</span></span></span></a><a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/how-did-deborah-birx-get-the-job/"><span style="color: blue;"> sometime</span></a><a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/how-did-deborah-birx-get-the-job/"><span style="color: blue;"> between 2005-2014</span></a><span style="color: blue;">.</span><span style="color: blue;">..</span><span style="color: blue;">In 2014 </span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://millercenter.org/news-events/events/us-china-relations-turbulent-time-can-rivals-cooperate" style="color: blue;"><span style="color: blue;">virologist Yen Duong married Matt Pottinger</span></a>…</span><span style="color: black;"><a href="https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/05/30/donald-trump-matthew-pottinger-asia-218551/">Pottinger was working at a Manhattan hedge fund</a><a href="https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/05/30/donald-trump-matthew-pottinger-asia-218551/"> when he was offered</a> </span><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: #ba303a;"><span style="color: #333333;">a job as</span></span></span> <span style="color: black;"><a href="https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/05/30/donald-trump-matthew-pottinger-asia-218551/">Asia director in newly elected Pres. Trump’s National Security Council</a></span><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: #ba303a;"><span style="color: #333333;"><a href="https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/05/30/donald-trump-matthew-pottinger-asia-218551/">. </a></span></span>In Sept. 2019</span> <span style="color: black;"><span><a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/462544-trumps-top-adviser-on-asia-to-serve-as-deputy-national-security/"><span>Pottinger was promoted to #2 man in Trump’s</span> <span>National Security Council</span></a></span><a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/462544-trumps-top-adviser-on-asia-to-serve-as-deputy-national-security/"> </a></span>behind<a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/462544-trumps-top-adviser-on-asia-to-serve-as-deputy-national-security/"> Robert O’Brien.</a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">8/4/2022, <span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>“</b><span><b><a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/how-did-deborah-birx-get-the-job/">How Did Deborah Birx Get the Job?,</a></b>“</span></span> Brownstone.org, Debbie Lerman</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">“Reading Deborah Birx’s badly written, poorly edited <a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/dr-birx-praises-herself-while-revealing-ignorance-treachery-and-deceit/"><i>The Silent Invasion</i></a>, published at the end of April 2022,
is not easy. In fact, it’s mind-numbingly tedious, especially if you
try to read every word and not skim over the myriad digressions,
repetitions, and multi-paged meanderings.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">Nevertheless, according to <i>The Atlantic</i>, it is <a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/how-did-deborah-birx-get-the-job/">“the most revealing pandemic book yet,</a><a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/how-did-deborah-birx-get-the-job/">”</a> detailing how “Trump’s team botched the pandemic.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">I agree that this 521-page “excruciating story” (as <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/21/books/review/deborah-birx-silent-invasion-trump-covid.html"><i>The New York Times</i></a> calls it) is indeed revealing. However, it has little to do with Trump or what <i>The Atlantic</i> might consider pandemic botching.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/how-did-deborah-birx-get-the-job/"><span style="color: #990000;">The most revealing parts of the book are: </span></a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">1) <a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/how-did-deborah-birx-get-the-job/">the claims about Birx herself that, upon close inspection</a>, make little sense, contain strange inconsistencies, or contradict other claims made in the book and elsewhere; and</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">2) the absurd claims about epidemiology and public health generally, and <span style="color: #c73c3c;"><a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/how-did-deborah-birx-get-the-job/">SARS-CoV-2 specifically, endlessly repeated by Birx as scientific truths </a><span style="color: #333333;">when in fact they are anything but. </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #990000;"><a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/how-did-deborah-birx-get-the-job/">Investigating these claims is important</a></span> because they touch on crucial pandemic questions:</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/how-did-deborah-birx-get-the-job/"><span style="color: #c73c3c;"><span style="color: blue;">Who made the terrible pandemic policy decisions</span></span> </a>and,</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/how-did-deborah-birx-get-the-job/">perhaps most mysteriously and importantly, why?</a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">Here I investigate the</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/how-did-deborah-birx-get-the-job/" style="color: blue;"><span style="color: #ba303a;">obfuscation surrounding Deborah Birx’s appointment</span></a></span> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">as White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator, and then the garbage science she so forcefully pushed once she got there.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/how-did-deborah-birx-get-the-job/"><span style="color: #c73c3c;">How did she get the job?</span></a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">I have not interviewed Dr. Birx in person, but I have read her book,
as well as articles about her and interviews with her. Based on all of
these, I put together a <span style="color: #ba303a;">Q&A in which the questions are mine,</span> and the answers are verbatim quotes from <i>The Silent Invasion</i>, as well as <a href="https://coronavirus.house.gov/sites/democrats.coronavirus.house.gov/files/2021.10.12%20Birx%20TI%20Transcript%20%2B%20Errata.pdf">Dr. Birx’s testimony</a>
before the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis in the US
House of Representatives on October 12, 2021, and other interviews.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">Page numbers from the book and line numbers from the hearing transcript are in parentheses. Links to other articles and interviews are also included.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #c73c3c;">Q:<span style="color: #ba303a;"> <a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/how-did-deborah-birx-get-the-job/" style="color: #ba303a;">Dr. Birx,</a></span></span><span style="color: #ba303a;"><a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/how-did-deborah-birx-get-the-job/" style="color: #ba303a;"> you were officially hired</a></span> as White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator on February 27, 2020. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #ba303a;"><a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/how-did-deborah-birx-get-the-job/" style="color: #ba303a;"><span style="color: blue;">Who offered you the job?</span></a></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #ba303a;">A: <a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/how-did-deborah-birx-get-the-job/" style="color: #ba303a;">My friend Matt [Pottinger],</a></span><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: #ba303a;"><a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/how-did-deborah-birx-get-the-job/" style="color: #ba303a;"> the deputy national security advisor</a></span> </span><span style="color: blue;">(p. 32)</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">In the Congressional hearing on October 12, 2021, </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #c73c3c;"><span style="color: #ba303a;"><a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/how-did-deborah-birx-get-the-job/" style="color: #ba303a;">you said you did not know</a></span> why </span><span style="color: #c73c3c;"><a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/the-talented-mr-pottinger-the-us-intelligence-agent-who-pushed-lockdowns/" style="color: #c73c3c;">Matt Pottinger</a><span style="color: #333333;"> was the one</span> </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: blue;">to approach you for this job </span>(lines 1505-1507). <a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/how-did-deborah-birx-get-the-job/">It does seem odd</a> that Matt would be in charge of appointing a pandemic response coordinator, </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/how-did-deborah-birx-get-the-job/"><span style="color: #ba303a;">since public health and epidemiology</span></a> were not at all part of his experience. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">As Lawrence Wright reports in <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/01/04/the-plague-year"><i>The New Yorker</i> in December 2020</a>, “in a very noisy Administration, <span style="color: #c73c3c;"><span style="color: blue;">he had quietly become one of the most influential people</span> <span style="color: #333399;">shaping </span><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: #333399;">Ameri</span>can foreign policy.</span></span><span style="color: blue;">” </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/how-did-deborah-birx-get-the-job/" style="color: blue;">So why did he hire you again?</a></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #c73c3c;"><span style="color: #ba303a;"><a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/how-did-deborah-birx-get-the-job/" style="color: #ba303a;">I’ve known him through his wife. I really knew his wife.</a></span><span style="color: blue;"> I worked with her at the CDC.</span></span> [Sometime between 2005-2014] (lines 1507-1509)</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/how-did-deborah-birx-get-the-job/" style="color: blue;">Matt’s wife, Yen Pottinger, is a friend of yours?</a></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #ba303a;">A former colleague at the CDC and a trusted friend and neighbor </span>(p. 32)</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/how-did-deborah-birx-get-the-job/"><span style="color: #c73c3c;"><span style="color: blue;">So Matt Pottinger was not really a friend, it was his wife you were friends with? </span></span></a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/how-did-deborah-birx-get-the-job/"><span style="color: #ba303a;">I had known Matt through her eyes </span></a><span style="color: #ba303a;"><a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/how-did-deborah-birx-get-the-job/" style="color: #ba303a;">for the last three or four years</a>.</span></span> (lines 1526-1529)</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: blue;">What did you say in your <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/transcript-deborah-birx-on-face-the-nation-january-24-2021/" style="color: blue;">Face the Nation interview on January 24, 2021</a> </span>about your relationship with Matt and Yen Pottinger?</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #ba303a;"><a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/how-did-deborah-birx-get-the-job/" style="color: #ba303a;">I’ve known him and I’ve known his wife for a very long time. <span style="color: blue;">We’ve worked on pandemics together. </span></a></span><span style="color: blue;">Both of us were in Asia during SARS.</span> And so we understood how serious this can go. <br />
</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">Follow-up questions:</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/how-did-deborah-birx-get-the-job/"><span style="color: #c73c3c;">Matt and Yen married in 2014.</span> Did you know Matt before that? </a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">[ANSWER NOT FOUND]</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #ba303a;"><a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/how-did-deborah-birx-get-the-job/" style="color: #ba303a;">When you say you’ve worked </a></span><span style="color: #ba303a;"><a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/how-did-deborah-birx-get-the-job/" style="color: #ba303a;">on pandemics together,</a></span> you do not mean you and Matt Pottinger. <span style="color: blue;">You mean you and Yen Pottinger [then Yen Duong] worked on AIDS research<a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/how-did-deborah-birx-get-the-job/"> at the CDC at some point</a></span><a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/how-did-deborah-birx-get-the-job/"> while you were there, <span style="color: #c73c3c;">between 2007 and 2014. Correct?</span></a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/01/04/the-plague-year"><span style="color: blue;">Yes</span></a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/how-did-deborah-birx-get-the-job/"><span style="color: #ba303a;">As far as you and Matt, </span></a><span style="color: #c73c3c;"><a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/how-did-deborah-birx-get-the-job/"><span style="color: #ba303a;">when you say both of you were in Asia</span> <span style="color: blue;">during SARS – you mean back in 2002-2003</span></a>,</span><span style="color: blue;"> you were in Thailand</span> doing research on an AIDS vaccine that never came to fruition, </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #c73c3c;"><a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/how-did-deborah-birx-get-the-job/"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: #ba303a;">and Matt was a reporter</span></span></a><span style="color: blue;"> for Reuters and the </span></span><span style="color: blue;"><i>Wall Street Journal</i> in China?</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: blue;">Yes [<a href="https://www.bushcenter.org/people/fellows/deborah-birx.html" style="color: blue;">ref</a> <a href="https://www.uscc.gov/sites/default/files/2021-04/Matt_Pottinger_Bio.pdf" style="color: blue;">ref</a>]</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/how-did-deborah-birx-get-the-job/"><span style="color: #c73c3c;">You were Yen Pottinger’s [then Yen Duong] boss at the CDC</span> </a>when you worked at the Division of Global HIV/AIDS, </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">a position you left in 2014. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/how-did-deborah-birx-get-the-job/"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: #ba303a;">What can you tell us about your friendship with Yen from the time</span></span></a> you left that job </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/how-did-deborah-birx-get-the-job/"><span style="color: #ba303a;"><span style="color: blue;">until Matt offered you the Covid Task Force position?</span></span></a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #ba303a;"><a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/how-did-deborah-birx-get-the-job/" style="color: #ba303a;">In our three years working together at the CDC</a></span>, I had marveled at her abilities in the lab. (p. 32)</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/how-did-deborah-birx-get-the-job/" style="color: blue;">As early as mid-January [2020], Yen and I had been in communication</a></span> about the outbreak in China. As events unfolded, we shared whatever insights, information, and anxiety we had. (p. 32)</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #ba303a;"><a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/how-did-deborah-birx-get-the-job/" style="color: #ba303a;">You and Yen were communicating</a> about your anxieties</span> starting in mid-January [2020].<span style="color: blue;"> <a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/how-did-deborah-birx-get-the-job/" style="color: blue;">You say you were communicating with Matt even earlier than that?</a></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/how-did-deborah-birx-get-the-job/"><span style="color: #ba303a;">Off and on in early January 2020, I’d share my thoughts with Matt:</span> </a>about the larger picture,
about how the virus response in the United States should go, and about
how the White House could better manage its messaging around the virus
(p. 33)</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/how-did-deborah-birx-get-the-job/"><span style="color: #ba303a;">How did you communicate with Matt?</span></a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/how-did-deborah-birx-get-the-job/"><span style="color: blue;">In my back-channel communications with Matt</span>,</a> I pulled together all the publicly available data I’d been compiling and analyzing, connecting the dots to create a concerning picture,</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #ba303a;"><a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/how-did-deborah-birx-get-the-job/" style="color: #ba303a;">and sent it to Yen to forward to him. </a></span>(p. 34)</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/how-did-deborah-birx-get-the-job/">So were you communicating with Yen</a> as a friend or as someone who conveyed your concerns, through her husband, to the White House?</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/how-did-deborah-birx-get-the-job/"><span style="color: #ba303a;">In communicating with Matt, I had ensured</span> they would have everything I was seeing,<span style="color: blue;"> to use during White House meetings.</span></a><span style="color: #ba303a;"> I let Yen know that</span> the earliest data available showed that the Wuhan outbreak and subsequent spread <span style="color: blue;">would be, <span style="color: #ba303a;">at a minimum, ten times what SARS had been</span></span><span style="color: #ba303a;">. (</span>p. 34-35)</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/how-did-deborah-birx-get-the-job/"><span style="color: #ba303a;"><b>Why were you communicating with a deputy national security advisor through his wife?</b></span></a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">For privacy and security reasons, I wasn’t ready to use official White House email. I trusted that Matt would share the information with those who needed it and not reveal that I was his source. (p. 34)</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #ba303a;">When you say “privacy and security reasons,” what do you mean?</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">Fearing blowback for stepping outside my area of responsibility,<a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/how-did-deborah-birx-get-the-job/"><span style="color: blue;"> I asked him not to use my name when discussing the opinions and data I was providing</span>.</a> (p. 60)</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #ba303a;">You were sending Matt Pottinger, a deputy national security advisor<span style="color: blue;"> with high security clearance, data that you say was publicly available,</span> through his wife’s private email,</span> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/how-did-deborah-birx-get-the-job/"><b>to pass on to the White House without revealing you as his source?</b></a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: blue;">I had access to more unreported, real-time global data </span>(p. 57)</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">Through her work, Irum [Zaidi, my PEPFAR chief epidemiologist and data person] knew another “data person,” who had access to figures about the novel coronavirus<span style="color: #ba303a;"> from around the world and very specific data from China.</span> This individual was taking a great risk in passing it along to Irum, and his courage serves as an example for all of us. (p. 59)</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/how-did-deborah-birx-get-the-job/"><span style="color: #ba303a;">So now you’re saying you were getting secret data</span> <span style="color: blue;">(not publicly available) from China that was unavailable to Matt Pottinger</span></a> (although he was the Deputy National Security Advisor for Asia), and</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">passing it along to him </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/how-did-deborah-birx-get-the-job/">through personal communications with his wife,</a> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #ba303a;"><a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/how-did-deborah-birx-get-the-job/" style="color: #ba303a;">in the hopes of influencing White House policy?</a></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">What I wanted to do was define the actions being taken on the emerging virus based on the data. <span style="color: #ba303a;"><span style="color: blue;">In my years of working with high-level leaders around the world,</span> </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #ba303a;"><a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/how-did-deborah-birx-get-the-job/" style="color: #ba303a;"><b>I had wielded metrics to move minds </b></a></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">and formulate policies, standing behind data </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">to justify the changes (p. 34)</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: blue;">I communicated to Matt that we needed </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">to break this chain linking the novel coronavirus to SARS and the seasonal flu</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/how-did-deborah-birx-get-the-job/"><span style="color: #ba303a;">and reprioritize testing, full mitigation,</span> </a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/how-did-deborah-birx-get-the-job/"><span style="color: blue;">mask wearing,</span> </a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">improved hygiene,</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/how-did-deborah-birx-get-the-job/"><span style="color: #ba303a;">and more social isolation</span></a>.</b> (p. 38)</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/how-did-deborah-birx-get-the-job/">So you felt it was your job to give Matt Pottinger very specific </a>public health policy recommendations for the White House</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">long before you were hired for the task force position. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/how-did-deborah-birx-get-the-job/"><span style="color: #ba303a;">But he had offered you a job as early as November 2019, correct? </span></a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/how-did-deborah-birx-get-the-job/"><span style="color: #ba303a;">In November 2019,</span></a> shortly after settling into his new role, <span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/how-did-deborah-birx-get-the-job/" style="color: blue;">Matt had communicated to me that <span style="color: #ba303a;">he wanted me to work at the White House</span></a></span> in some capacity as a public health security advisor. (p. 33)</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #ba303a;">Were you aware that the timing of Matt’s offer coincided with </span><a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/intelligence-report-warned-coronavirus-crisis-early-november-sources/story?id=70031273">an intelligence report (denied by the Pentagon)</a>
from the National Center for Medical Intelligence (NCMI) about a
potentially dangerous virus already circulating in China in November
2019?</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">[ANSWER NOT FOUND]</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #ba303a;"><a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/how-did-deborah-birx-get-the-job/"><span style="color: #ba303a;">What is a public health security advisor?</span></a> </span><span style="color: #ba303a;"><span style="color: blue;">Is that related to the National Security Council (NSC)</span> <span style="color: #333333;">which, in your book, <span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/how-did-deborah-birx-get-the-job/" style="color: blue;">you say hired you through Matt?</a></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">The NSC had seen the early reports out of China and Asia before my arrival. <a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/how-did-deborah-birx-get-the-job/"><span style="color: #ba303a;">Indeed, through Matt Pottinger, it was they who had recruited me</span> to the White House to reinforce their warnings</a>. (p. 169)</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: blue;">The NSC and Matt Pottinger had already seen the early data</span> from China that </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #ba303a;"><a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/how-did-deborah-birx-get-the-job/" style="color: #ba303a;">you said you were passing along to Matt through Yen? </a></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">The NSC had seen the early reports out of China and Asia before my arrival. (p. 169)</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/how-did-deborah-birx-get-the-job/">When you recount how Matt called to offer you the task force job</a> on February 23rd and 24th, <span style="color: #ba303a;">you state that he had access to information you did not, correct?</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: blue;">Matt’s urgency represented another degree of concern:</span> the unknown. <span style="color: blue;">If he was this concerned, what else was happening?</span> What else would happen? With one of the highest security clearances, Matt had access to all kinds of information that I did not. (p. 61)</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #ba303a;"><span style="color: #333333;">So was Matt Pottinger, Deputy National Security Advisor for Asia and</span> <a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/how-did-deborah-birx-get-the-job/">a top influencer on foreign policy, with one of the highest security clearances,</a></span> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">depending on you for information unavailable to him otherwise, </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">or not? </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">[SEE ABOVE ANSWERS]</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">At the Congressional hearing in October 2021, <a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/how-did-deborah-birx-get-the-job/"><span style="color: #ba303a;">what did you say about your <span style="color: blue;">communications with Matt and Yen Pottinger regarding the pandemic?</span></span></a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #ba303a;"><a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/how-did-deborah-birx-get-the-job/" style="color: #ba303a;">[They] reached out to me about what I was seeing globally</a></span>, what
I thought this was going to become, and we were communicating primarily
around what we were seeing globally on the pandemic. And more about the
global response than specifically the White House response. (lines
308-309)</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #ba303a;">As mentioned earlier, you received a White House <span style="color: blue;">job offer from Matt Pottinger back in November 2019</span></span><span style="color: blue;">. </span>At the Congressional hearing you were asked when your <a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/how-did-deborah-birx-get-the-job/">conversations with Yen and Matt <span style="color: #ba303a;">shifted into the possibility of you “taking on a role.</span></a>” (line 318)<a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/how-did-deborah-birx-get-the-job/"> What was your answer to the Committee?</a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">The end of January [2020],<a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/how-did-deborah-birx-get-the-job/"> they were looking for someone to talk to the American people</a> about the pandemic and what was being done. (lines 319-321)</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">In your book you describe<a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/how-did-deborah-birx-get-the-job/"><span style="color: #ba303a;"> that offer, on January 28th, as being arranged </span></a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/how-did-deborah-birx-get-the-job/"><span style="color: #ba303a;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: #ba303a;">through Yen, Matt’s wife. Correct?</span></span></span></a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: blue;">On January 28th [2020]… <a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/how-did-deborah-birx-get-the-job/" style="color: blue;">I received a text from Yen Pottinger</a><a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/how-did-deborah-birx-get-the-job/" style="color: blue;">.</a></span> (p. 32) <span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: #ba303a;">Yen knew I would be on the White House complex</span> for my meeting with Erin Walsh</span>, and </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/how-did-deborah-birx-get-the-job/"><span style="color: #ba303a;">the text she sent me</span> said that Matt had a “proposition” for me.</a> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">She didn’t know any of the details, but Matt had apologized for the short notice and said he hoped we could meet face-to-face. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/how-did-deborah-birx-get-the-job/"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b>Yen arranged so that I could meet him in the West Wing,</b></span></a> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">and once we were both there,<a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/how-did-deborah-birx-get-the-job/"> Matt got to the point quickly. He offered me <span style="color: blue;">the position of White House spokesperson on the virus</span></a><span style="color: blue;">.</span> (p. 33)</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #ba303a;">Let’s recap: <a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/how-did-deborah-birx-get-the-job/" style="color: #ba303a;">You’re saying the offer</a> of a job</span> as White House spokesperson on the coronavirus came from Matt Pottinger, a high-level national security advisor <a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/how-did-deborah-birx-get-the-job/"><span style="color: #ba303a;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: #ba303a;">whose wife</span>, a senior technical advisor for laboratory surveillance at Columbia University</span>, arranged your meeting in the West Wing</span>.</a> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/how-did-deborah-birx-get-the-job/" style="color: blue;">Why was Yen involved in this hiring process?</a> </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/how-did-deborah-birx-get-the-job/" style="color: blue;">How did Yen have the authority or connections </a></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/how-did-deborah-birx-get-the-job/" style="color: blue;"><span style="color: #ba303a;">to arrange such a meeting?</span></a></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">[ANSWERS NOT FOUND]</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/how-did-deborah-birx-get-the-job/"><span style="color: #ba303a;">After you refused the spokesperson job several times,</span></a> Matt Pottinger came back with a different offer: White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator. According to <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/01/04/the-plague-year" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">Lawrence Wright’s <i>New Yorker</i> article</a>, </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #ba303a;"><a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/how-did-deborah-birx-get-the-job/" style="color: #ba303a;">it was Yen’s idea to offer you the position</a></span>. The article also makes it sound like this was the first time Matt considered you for a job:</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: blue;">At home, Pottinger fumed to Yen</span> that eight hundred million dollars was half <span style="color: #ba303a;">the sum needed just to support vaccine development</span> through Phase III trials.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #ba303a;">“Call Debi,” Yen suggested.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #ba303a;"><span style="color: blue;">Debi was Deborah Birx</span>,</span> the U.S. global <i>AIDS</i> coördinator. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #c73c3c;"><a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/how-did-deborah-birx-get-the-job/">From 2005 to 2014, she led the C.D.C.’s Division of Global H.I.V./<i>AIDS</i></a> <span style="color: #ba303a;"><a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/how-did-deborah-birx-get-the-job/" style="color: #ba303a;">(making her Yen Pottinger’s </a></span></span><span style="color: #ba303a;"><a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/how-did-deborah-birx-get-the-job/" style="color: #ba303a;">boss).</a></span> Birx was known to be effective and data-driven, but also autocratic. Yen described her as “super dedicated,” adding, “She has stamina and she’s demanding, and that pisses people off.” That’s exactly the person Pottinger was looking for.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #ba303a;">What are other reasons you’ve given</span><span style="color: #c73c3c;"><span style="color: #ba303a;"> for</span> why you were <span style="color: blue;">the right person for the Task Force job?</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #ba303a;"><a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/how-did-deborah-birx-get-the-job/" style="color: #ba303a;"><span style="color: blue;">As early as February 13 [2020],</span></a></span> the day before I left for South Africa, </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #ba303a;"><a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/how-did-deborah-birx-get-the-job/" style="color: #ba303a;"><b>Yen and I exchanged texts.</b></a> </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #c73c3c;"><span style="color: blue;">Matt had told her</span> </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/how-did-deborah-birx-get-the-job/" style="color: blue;">that there was a lack of leadership and direction</a> </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #333333;">in the CDC and the White House Coronavirus Task Force</span>. (p. 54)</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #ba303a;"><a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/how-did-deborah-birx-get-the-job/" style="color: #ba303a;">[from Yen’s text:] He thinks you should take over Azar, Fauci, and Redfield’s jobs</a>, </span>because you’re such a better leader than they are. He has been underwhelmed thus far. (p. 38)</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: blue;">On February 26 [2020], Matt called me expressing greater worry. </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/how-did-deborah-birx-get-the-job/"><span style="color: #ba303a;">He told me that every moment I delayed making my decision, </span> </a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #c73c3c;"><a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/how-did-deborah-birx-get-the-job/"><span style="color: blue;">I could potentially be costing American lives.</span></a> (p. 62)</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: blue;">Matt seemed certain I was the missing piece.<span style="color: #ba303a;"> <a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/how-did-deborah-birx-get-the-job/" style="color: #ba303a;">He knew I had worked on RNA viruses like SARS-CoV-2</a>,</span></span> from the laboratory bench to the community, developing tests, therapeutics, and vaccines. (p. 65)</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #ba303a;"><a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/how-did-deborah-birx-get-the-job/" style="color: #ba303a;"><span style="color: blue;">More specifically, what epidemics or pandemics have you dealt with?</span></a></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">I’ve also seen the devastation that viruses mete out. HIV, SARS-CoV-1, MERS-CoV, Ebolavirus—I’ve been on the front lines and have worked with many other experts in the field as the world navigated these public health crises. (p. 3)</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/how-did-deborah-birx-get-the-job/"><span style="color: #c73c3c;">But in your work you actually dealt with…?</span></a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: blue;">HIV, TB and malaria (p. 26)</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">What did your family think about the White House job offer?</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #ba303a;"><span style="color: #ba303a;"><a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/how-did-deborah-birx-get-the-job/" style="color: #ba303a;">Yen and I had a bit of a laugh when she asked me</a></span><span style="color: #333333;"> what my husband thought</span></span><span style="color: #333333;"> of my taking on a new role. I’d told her that, given that I was still in South Africa</span>
and he was in the United States, I hadn’t yet told him (not to mention
my adult daughters) about the possible White House move. (p. 63)</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">How long had you been married?</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">I’d married only a few months before (p. 202)</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #c73c3c;"><span style="color: blue;">You did not tell your brand new husband that you</span> <span style="color: blue;">were offered a top level position at the White House?</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">I was that concerned about information being leaked. Who knew who was monitoring our communications? (p. 63)”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">***********</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #ba303a;">“<a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/how-did-deborah-birx-get-the-job/" style="color: #ba303a;">EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: HOW SHE GOT THE JOB</a>“</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #c73c3c;">“<a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/how-did-deborah-birx-get-the-job/">Deborah Birx, an immunologist and Army Colonel</a></span> who worked for the <span style="color: #ba303a;"><a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/how-did-deborah-birx-get-the-job/">Department of Defense and US Military on AIDS research</a>,</span> served as <a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/how-did-deborah-birx-get-the-job/"><span style="color: #c73c3c;">Director of the CDC’s Division</span> </a>of Global HIV/AIDS and as the US Global AIDS Coordinator [<a href="https://www.bushcenter.org/people/fellows/deborah-birx.html">ref</a>], was appointed White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator <span style="color: blue;">on February 27th, 2020.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #c73c3c;"><a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/how-did-deborah-birx-get-the-job/"><span style="color: #ba303a;">She had no training or experience in epidemiology, </span></a><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: #ba303a;"><a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/how-did-deborah-birx-get-the-job/" style="color: #ba303a;">novel pathogen</a></span> </span></span><span style="color: #c73c3c;"><span style="color: blue;">pandemic response</span></span><span style="color: blue;">, </span>(unless you consider combating well-established and known diseases like AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria in developing countries such response),<span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/how-did-deborah-birx-get-the-job/" style="color: blue;"> or airborne respiratory viruses like the coronavirus.</a></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #c73c3c;"><a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/how-did-deborah-birx-get-the-job/"><span style="color: #ba303a;">She was offered the position by Matt Pottinger,</span></a> <span style="color: blue;">Deputy National Security Advisor for China,</span></span> who told Birx </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/how-did-deborah-birx-get-the-job/" style="color: blue;">if she did not take the job American lives could be lost.</a> </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #ba303a;"><a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/how-did-deborah-birx-get-the-job/" style="color: #ba303a;">According to Yen Pottinger (Matt’s wife)</a> Matt thought Birx was </span><span style="color: #c73c3c;"><a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/how-did-deborah-birx-get-the-job/"><span style="color: blue;">a better leader than the heads of NIAID, the CDC</span> </a><span style="color: blue;">and other senior public health officials.</span></span> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/how-did-deborah-birx-get-the-job/"><span style="color: #ba303a;">The basis for Matt’s very high opinion</span> of Birx’s leadership capabilities</a> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">and the importance of her appointment </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/how-did-deborah-birx-get-the-job/">to saving American lives</a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/how-did-deborah-birx-get-the-job/"><span style="color: blue;">is unknown. </span></a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #c73c3c;"><a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/how-did-deborah-birx-get-the-job/"><span style="color: #ba303a;">Yen Pottinger was a researcher who had worked in Dr. Birx’s CDC lab</span></a></span>. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/how-did-deborah-birx-get-the-job/" style="color: blue;">Yen and Deborah may or may not have been good friends who kept in touch</a> </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">after Birx left her job at that lab in 2014, the year Matt and Yen married.</span> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/how-did-deborah-birx-get-the-job/">Birx may or may not have been friends with Matt independently of Yen.</a> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #ba303a;"><a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/how-did-deborah-birx-get-the-job/" style="color: #ba303a;">Yen may or may not have been the person to suggest Birx</a></span> for the Task Force Coordinator job. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/how-did-deborah-birx-get-the-job/">Before the Coordinator job, way back</a><a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/how-did-deborah-birx-get-the-job/"> in November 2019</a></span><span style="color: #c73c3c;"><a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/how-did-deborah-birx-get-the-job/"><span style="color: #ba303a;"> <span style="color: blue;">when nobody was</span></span><span style="color: blue;"> talking about</span></a> <span style="color: blue;">a potential coronavirus pandemic,</span> </span><span style="color: #c73c3c;"><span style="color: blue;">[#2 man at National Security Council]<a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/how-did-deborah-birx-get-the-job/"> Matt Pottinger had offered Birx <span style="color: #ba303a;">a public health security advisor job.</span></a></span></span> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/how-did-deborah-birx-get-the-job/"><span style="color: #c73c3c;">This may or may not have actually been a job offer <span style="color: blue;">from The National Security Council,</span></span> </a>which may or may not have known at the time of a potentially dangerous virus circulating in China.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #c73c3c;"><a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/how-did-deborah-birx-get-the-job/"><span style="color: blue;">At the end of January 2020, Matt offered Birx a different job</span>,</a></span><span style="color: #c73c3c;"><span style="color: blue;"> as White House coronavirus spokesperson</span></span>.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #ba303a;"><a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/how-did-deborah-birx-get-the-job/" style="color: #ba303a;"> </a></span><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/how-did-deborah-birx-get-the-job/">Birx first learned of this through</a></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #ba303a;"><a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/how-did-deborah-birx-get-the-job/" style="color: #ba303a;">a text from Yen Pottinger, </a></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">who claimed not to know what Matt wanted to propose, and then proceeded</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: blue;">–<a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/how-did-deborah-birx-get-the-job/"> through unknown security clearances and connections –</a></span> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/how-did-deborah-birx-get-the-job/"><span style="color: #c73c3c;">to coordinate a meeting in the West Wing where the job offer was made.</span> </a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">Birx declined.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/how-did-deborah-birx-get-the-job/"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Starting in mid-January 2020,</span> or maybe earlier,</a> weeks before that spokesperson job offer, </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/how-did-deborah-birx-get-the-job/"><span style="color: #c73c3c;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: #ba303a;">Birx communicated with Yen and Matt </span></span></span></a>about the novel coronavirus that she supposedly learned about on January 3rd from the news (<i>The Silent Invasion</i>, p. 3).</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #ba303a;"><a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/how-did-deborah-birx-get-the-job/" style="color: #ba303a;">Birx was mostly communicating with Yen about her fears and anxieties</a></span> <span style="color: blue;">and/or she was communicating with Yen and Matt about </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: blue;">her global observations.</span> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/how-did-deborah-birx-get-the-job/"><span style="color: #c73c3c;">Or maybe she was giving Matt specific advice through Yen</span> </a>regarding pandemic policies </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">that she wanted him to transmit to the White House.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #c73c3c;"><a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/how-did-deborah-birx-get-the-job/"><span style="color: blue;">Birx was basing her public health policy recommendations, </span></a><span style="color: blue;">which she may <span style="color: #ba303a;">or may not have been sending to Matt through Yen</span></span></span> in early or mid-January 2020 (when she was officially working on AIDS in Africa) on publicly available data. Or she may have had access to secret data from China. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/how-did-deborah-birx-get-the-job/"><span style="color: #c73c3c;">Matt [as an NSC official] had access to secret data that Birx did not have</span> </a>and seemed very concerned about the situation, </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">possibly due to that secret data. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/how-did-deborah-birx-get-the-job/"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Throughout her communications with Matt and Yen Pottinger,</span></a> Birx was very worried about security and secrecy, </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">which is why </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/how-did-deborah-birx-get-the-job/">she was using personal emails and texts rather than Matt’s official White House email.</a> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">She did not even tell her grown daughters or her husband about the big White House job offer, because she thought this was such sensitive information and who knew who was monitoring her communications.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">It is unknown when Birx’s new husband learned of his wife’s big White House appointment.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">“Author:<a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/how-did-deborah-birx-get-the-job/"> Debbie Lerman, 2023 Brownstone Fellow, has a degree in English from Harvard. She is a retired science writer</a> and a practicing artist in Philadelphia, PA.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">……………………………………………..</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">Added from Ms. Lerman,<a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/best-selling-author-michael-lewis-pens-cia-covid-propaganda/"> 7/10/2023:</a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #ba303a;">“The consensus was achieved through </span>what <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/lies-my-government-told-me-with-dr-robert-malone/id1552000243?i=1000590544240">Robert Malone has described</a> as <a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/best-selling-author-michael-lewis-pens-cia-covid-propaganda/"><span style="color: #ba303a;"><span style="color: blue;">“military-grade information warfare</span></span> </a>capability and technology that was designed for our opponents outside the US and has been</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/best-selling-author-michael-lewis-pens-cia-covid-propaganda/"><span style="color: #ba303a;">turned on American citizens.” </span></a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/best-selling-author-michael-lewis-pens-cia-covid-propaganda/"><span style="color: blue;">Basically, the intelligence and national security agencies</span></a> in <span style="color: blue;">many countries, not just the US</span><span style="color: blue;">, <a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/best-selling-author-michael-lewis-pens-cia-covid-propaganda/">turned their military propaganda playbooks</a>,</span> originally intended to counter terrorists and topple foreign regimes,</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/best-selling-author-michael-lewis-pens-cia-covid-propaganda/"><span style="color: #990000;">on their own people.</span></a></span></p>
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</div><p> </p>susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14710989163705986252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1907031520446514200.post-68329511191350519422023-07-27T18:52:00.002-03:002023-07-27T18:52:41.153-03:00Media so desperate for Republicans to nominate Trump that they devote most of their programming to him. GOP candidates who don’t surrender a quote to media are accused of “enabling” Trump–Ann Coulter <p><span style="color: #eeeeee;"> .</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #990000;">“<a href="https://anncoulter.substack.com/p/gop-pledge-no-more-talking-about?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email">Democrats have won three national elections in a row</a></span><span style="color: #c43333;"><a href="https://anncoulter.substack.com/p/gop-pledge-no-more-talking-about?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email" style="color: #c43333;"> </a></span><span><a href="https://anncoulter.substack.com/p/gop-pledge-no-more-talking-about?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email"><span><span>by making them all</span></span><span> about Trump</span></a></span><span style="color: #c43333;"><a href="https://anncoulter.substack.com/p/gop-pledge-no-more-talking-about?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email" style="color: #c43333;"><span style="color: #666699;">….</span></a></span><span style="color: #444444;"><a href="https://anncoulter.substack.com/p/gop-pledge-no-more-talking-about?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email">[Republican] Candidates who aren’t talking about Trump</a></span><span style="color: #c43333;"><a href="https://anncoulter.substack.com/p/gop-pledge-no-more-talking-about?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email" style="color: #c43333;"> </a></span><span style="color: #990000;"><a href="https://anncoulter.substack.com/p/gop-pledge-no-more-talking-about?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email">are attacked for “enabling” him.”</a></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">July 26, 2023, <a href="https://anncoulter.substack.com/p/gop-pledge-no-more-talking-about?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><span>“<span>GOP Pledge: No More Talking About Trump,”</span></span></span></a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">“Please, God, can we talk about something else?”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #990000;">“<a href="https://anncoulter.substack.com/p/gop-pledge-no-more-talking-about?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email">The media are so desperate for Republicans to nominate Donald Trump</a></span> that they’ve turned over 96.7% of their programming to covering him, with brief interruptions for Emmett Till updates. Like dogs playing a game of fetch for eternity,
they never tire of rehashing Trump’s legal troubles, his behavior on
Jan. 6 (which has now been more investigated than the Kennedy
assassination), his payment to a stripper, his call to election
officials in Georgia and on and on and on.</span></p>
<p><a href="https://impeachobamatoday.files.wordpress.com/2023/07/anncoulter.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-97171 alignleft" data-attachment-id="97171" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-caption="" data-image-description="" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="anncoulter" data-large-file="https://impeachobamatoday.files.wordpress.com/2023/07/anncoulter.jpg?w=497" data-medium-file="https://impeachobamatoday.files.wordpress.com/2023/07/anncoulter.jpg?w=300" data-orig-file="https://impeachobamatoday.files.wordpress.com/2023/07/anncoulter.jpg" data-orig-size="732,467" data-permalink="https://impeachobamatoday.wordpress.com/2023/07/27/media-are-so-desperate-for-republicans-to-nominate-trump-that-theyve-devoted-most-of-their-programming-to-him-republican-candidates-exist-only-to-put-trump-in-headlines-eg-joe-smith-enab/anncoulter/" height="152" src="https://impeachobamatoday.files.wordpress.com/2023/07/anncoulter.jpg?w=207&h=131" width="239" /></a><span style="font-size: medium;">It has become clear that the media <span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://anncoulter.substack.com/p/gop-pledge-no-more-talking-about?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email" style="color: blue;">also plan </a><a href="https://anncoulter.substack.com/p/gop-pledge-no-more-talking-about?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email" style="color: blue;">to make the GOP presidential primaries entirely about Trump.</a> </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #333333;">Every Republican running for president </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #333333;"><a href="https://anncoulter.substack.com/p/gop-pledge-no-more-talking-about?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email"><span style="color: #c43333;"><span style="color: blue;">is required to spend half of any interview</span> </span></a></span><span style="color: #990000;"><a href="https://anncoulter.substack.com/p/gop-pledge-no-more-talking-about?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email">answering questions about the former president.</a></span><span style="color: #333333;"> </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #666699;">Even when they’re not saying anything at all about him, </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #666699;"><a href="https://anncoulter.substack.com/p/gop-pledge-no-more-talking-about?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email" style="color: #666699;"><span style="color: blue;">somehow the media make it about Trump.</span></a></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">E.g.<i>:</i></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Ron DeSantis gives a speech in South Carolina not mentioning Trump.</i></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">Headline: “<a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2023/06/09/ron-desantis-and-other-gopers-say-little-about-donald-trump-indictment/70292911007/" rel="">Ron DeSantis says little about Trump indictment; decries unequal justice and ‘weaponization</a>‘” — USA Today</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Mike Pence announces he’s running for president.</i></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">Headline: “<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/07/us/politics/pence-trump-2024-announcement.html" rel="">Pence Delivers Strong Rebuke to Trump in Campaign Announcement”</a> — New York Times</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Nikki Haley attacks Trump.</i></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">Headline: “<a href="https://twitter.com/GuardianAus/status/1665714098288439296" rel="">Nikki Haley accused of ‘MAGA agenda’ after supporting abortion restrictions in town hall</a>” — The Guardian</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #990000;">Candidates who aren’t talking about Trump are attacked for “enabling” him</span><span style="color: #c43333;">.</span> MSNBC’s totally objective, nonpartisan anchor (and former Biden press secretary) Jen Psaki <a href="https://www.mediaite.com/tv/exasperated-jen-psaki-demands-to-know-why-gop-candidates-refuse-to-go-after-trump-what-are-they-trying-to-get-out-of-this/" rel="">denounced</a> Republicans on Monday, complaining that,</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://anncoulter.substack.com/p/gop-pledge-no-more-talking-about?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email"><span style="color: #990000;">unless they’re constantly berating him,</span> </a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://anncoulter.substack.com/p/gop-pledge-no-more-talking-about?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email"><span style="color: blue;">“they are effectively enabling</span> a guy</a> <a href="https://anncoulter.substack.com/p/gop-pledge-no-more-talking-about?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email">who led an attempted coup</a>. And for what? To maybe win a handful of delegates?”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">Republicans, forget the pledge to support the party’s nominee. It’s pointless, irrelevant, stupid and openly defied, as it was in 2016 by Jeb! and John Kasich.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://anncoulter.substack.com/p/gop-pledge-no-more-talking-about?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email"><span style="color: #c43333;">The pledge we need candidates to take is this</span>: </a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><a href="https://anncoulter.substack.com/p/gop-pledge-no-more-talking-about?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email"><span style="color: blue;">We jointly refuse to answer any more questions about Trump</span><span style="color: blue;">.</span></a> </i>All of you, except Chris Christie.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://anncoulter.substack.com/p/gop-pledge-no-more-talking-about?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email">Do you really think the media are trying to <i>help </i>you</a> with this endless focus on Trump?</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://anncoulter.substack.com/p/gop-pledge-no-more-talking-about?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email"><span style="color: #c43333;">They’re putting Republicans in a no-win situation:</span></a> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">Either the candidates are forced to take </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">an utterly indefensible position by defending Trump, </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">or they’re required to write off the votes of all Trump supporters.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">Democrats will <i>never </i>be asked to criticize any part of their coalition — and they’ve got a much crazier base than Republicans do. <a href="https://anncoulter.substack.com/p/gop-pledge-no-more-talking-about?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email"><span style="color: #c43333;">Why are Republicans held responsible for every nut on the right</span>,</a> while Democrats are allowed to skate on the core beliefs of their base?</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://anncoulter.substack.com/p/gop-pledge-no-more-talking-about?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email"><span style="color: blue;">Here are some questions Democratic candidates ought to be asked</span></a> but never will be.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">— <span style="color: #c43333;">Do <a href="https://www.adl.org/resources/hate-symbol/white-lives-matter" rel="" style="color: #c43333;">white lives matter</a>?</span> Why did Democratic presidential candidate Martin O’Malley have to<span style="color: blue;"> <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2015/07/18/politics/martin-omalley-all-lives-matter/index.html" rel="" style="color: blue;">apologize</a> for saying “All lives matter” in 2016?</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">— What percentage of white people do you believe are racist? Should teachers and college professors who indoctrinate students to believe that all whites are guilty of “systemic racism” keep their jobs?</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">— <span style="color: #c43333;">Did Joe Biden really <a href="https://anncoulter.com/2021/12/01/tips-on-fake-news-for-twitters-new-ceox/" rel="" style="color: #c43333;">believe</a> that “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett <span style="color: blue;">was nearly lynched by white guys shouting, “This is MAGA country!”</span></span>
in the most affluent part of Chicago during a polar vortex? Did Kamala
Harris believe it? Nancy Pelosi? Cory Booker? They said they did. <a href="https://anncoulter.substack.com/p/gop-pledge-no-more-talking-about?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email">Do you think such psychotic paranoia is, as liberals like to say, “normal”?</a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">—<span style="color: #c43333;"><a href="https://anncoulter.substack.com/p/gop-pledge-no-more-talking-about?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email" style="color: #c43333;"> If one unionized teacher could stay home while still being paid, </a></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #c43333;"><a href="https://anncoulter.substack.com/p/gop-pledge-no-more-talking-about?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email" style="color: #c43333;"><span style="color: blue;">but 10 children would die, which would you choose?</span> </a></span>The American Federation of Teachers, a <a href="https://bluetent.us/articles/unions/biggest-union-donors-in-2020/" rel="">major</a> Democratic donor,</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/teachers-union-american-federation-cdc-white-house-reopen-schools" rel=""><span style="color: #c43333;">relentlessly</span></a><span style="color: #c43333;"> fought to keep schools closed throughout <span style="color: #333333;">the [so-called] pandemic.</span></span> A Reuters study later found that the <a href="https://anncoulter.substack.com/p/gop-pledge-no-more-talking-about?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email">school closures led to a <span style="color: blue;">43% rise in drug-related 911 calls for people aged 20 and younger.</span></a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">— <span style="color: #c43333;"><a href="https://anncoulter.substack.com/p/gop-pledge-no-more-talking-about?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email" style="color: #c43333;">Should the police be defunded? <span style="color: blue;">If not, will you denounce left-wing “philanthropist” George Soros?</span></a> </span>A major source of dark money for Democratic causes, this sinister figure gave $35 million to <a href="https://wset.com/news/nation-world/george-soros-gave-35-million-to-anti-police-activists-in-2021-report-says" rel="">anti-police</a> activists in 2021. Last year, as the murder rate continued to soar, he <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-i-support-reform-prosecutors-law-enforces-jail-prison-crime-rate-justice-police-funding-11659277441" rel="">pledged</a> to give more.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">—<span style="color: #c43333;"><span style="color: #c43333;"><a href="https://anncoulter.substack.com/p/gop-pledge-no-more-talking-about?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email" style="color: #c43333;"> How about ICE?</a></span><span style="color: blue;"> Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez</span><a href="https://anncoulter.substack.com/p/gop-pledge-no-more-talking-about?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email"><span style="color: #c43333;"><i> campaigned</i></span><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: #c43333;"> on abolishing ICE.</span> Other Democrats who support abolishing ICE</span></a></span> include Sens. Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders and Kirsten Gillibrand. <a href="https://anncoulter.substack.com/p/gop-pledge-no-more-talking-about?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email">House Democrats have actually introduced legislation to abolish ICE.</a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">[<a href="https://www.fairus.org/blog/2018/08/31/new-york-gov-cuomo-calls-ice-bunch-thugs">Former “New York Gov. [Andrew] Cuomo <span style="color: blue;">Calls ICE “<span style="color: #c43333;">A Bunch of Thugs</span></span><span style="color: #c43333;">”</span></a>,” 8/31/2018]<br />
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<p><span style="font-size: medium;">–<span style="color: blue;">– </span><span style="color: #c43333;"><a href="https://anncoulter.substack.com/p/gop-pledge-no-more-talking-about?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email" style="color: #c43333;">What is a woman?</a></span>
Do you think Biden’s Supreme Court pick, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson,
was lying when she claimed under oath not to know the answer to that
question, or is she stupid?</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">—<span style="color: #c43333;"><a href="https://anncoulter.substack.com/p/gop-pledge-no-more-talking-about?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email" style="color: #c43333;"> Should men be allowed</a> in girls’ <a href="https://unherd.com/thepost/girls-assaulted-in-gender-neutral-toilets-as-predicted/" rel="" style="color: #c43333;">bathrooms</a>, <a href="https://katv.com/news/nation-world/after-trans-woman-exposed-genitalia-to-freshman-girls-in-locker-room-shower-school-district-faces-legal-scrutiny" rel="" style="color: #c43333;">locker</a> rooms and <a href="https://4w.pub/male-serial-killer-housed-at-washington-womens-prison/" rel="" style="color: #c43333;">prisons</a>?</span> Should they compete in <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/olympics/2022/03/17/lia-thomas-transgender-swimmer-ncaa-title/" rel="">women’s</a> sports? Should children be allowed to poison <span style="color: blue;">and <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12157671/Detransitioned-Navy-SEAL-warns-parents-gender-surgery.html" rel="" style="color: blue;">mutilate</a> themselves under the belief that they can change genders?</span> Are Republican governors</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">who ban these practices guilty of <span style="color: #c43333;">“<a href="https://www.npr.org/2022/11/28/1138396067/transgender-youth-bills-trans-sports" rel="" style="color: #c43333;">hate</a>” —</span> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">as claimed by almost all <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/03/31/fact-sheet-biden-harris-administration-advances-equality-and-visibility-for-transgender-americans/" rel="">Democrats</a>? Do you agree with Biden that such measures are “<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/08/politics/biden-prejudiced-hysterical-lgbtq-laws/index.html" rel="">ugly</a>“ attacks from “hysterical” and “prejudiced” people?</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">— If blacks, Hispanics, whites and Asians are not<a href="https://anncoulter.substack.com/p/gop-pledge-no-more-talking-about?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email"> disciplined, arrested and imprisoned <span style="color: #c43333;">at their exact proportions in the population</span>,</a><a href="https://anncoulter.substack.com/p/gop-pledge-no-more-talking-about?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email"> i</a>s that <a href="https://anncoulter.com/2018/02/28/the-school-to-mass-murder-pipelinex/" rel="">proof</a> of racism?</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">—<a href="https://anncoulter.substack.com/p/gop-pledge-no-more-talking-about?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email"><span style="color: #c43333;"> Is it OK to be white?</span></a> If so, will you call on liberal “<a href="https://www.adl.org/resources/hate-symbol/its-okay-be-white" rel="">hate watch</a>” groups and <a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2018/11/05/campuses-confront-spread-its-ok-be-white-posters" rel="">college</a> administrators across the nation to stop treating that phrase as “hate speech”?</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">— <span style="color: blue;">Should Al Sharpton be required to pay income taxes? </span>This Democratic kingmaker has been a <a href="https://nypost.com/2021/07/08/sharpton-meets-with-biden-and-harris-on-police-reform-and-voting-rights/" rel="">guest</a> of President Biden’s at the White House at least <a href="https://nypost.com/2021/07/08/sharpton-meets-with-biden-and-harris-on-police-reform-and-voting-rights/" rel="">twice</a>, the Obama White House more than <a href="https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2018/feb/09/glenn-grothman/gop-wisconsin-house-member-sharpton-visits-obama-w/" rel="">72</a> times and has his ring kissed by any Democrat running for president.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">The last time The New York Times investigated, <a href="https://anncoulter.substack.com/p/gop-pledge-no-more-talking-about?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email">about 10 years ago, <span style="color: #c43333;">Sharpton owed more than $4 million in income taxes. </span></a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">While we’re on the <a href="https://anncoulter.com/2016/03/02/trump-wins-disavowal-game-then-super-tuesday/" rel="">subject</a>, he’s also responsible for the Tawana Brawley hate hoax in 1987, and in the 1990s <a href="https://anncoulter.substack.com/p/gop-pledge-no-more-talking-about?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email">he helped gin up angry mobs</a> in Crown Heights and at Freddy’s Fashion Mart in Harlem,</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://anncoulter.substack.com/p/gop-pledge-no-more-talking-about?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email"><span style="color: #c43333;">which resulted in eight deaths.</span></a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">True, that was a long time ago. Do you think if DeSantis had met with David Duke a r<i>eally </i>long time ago, the media would say, “no biggie”?</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://anncoulter.substack.com/p/gop-pledge-no-more-talking-about?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email"><span style="color: #c43333;">Democrats have won three national elections in a row </span></a><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://anncoulter.substack.com/p/gop-pledge-no-more-talking-about?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email" style="color: blue;">by making them all about Trump.</a> </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">Unless the GOP is intent on committing suicide,<a href="https://anncoulter.substack.com/p/gop-pledge-no-more-talking-about?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email"> their No. 1 objective has got to be preventing this from happening again</a><a href="https://anncoulter.substack.com/p/gop-pledge-no-more-talking-about?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email">.</a> Every Republican candidate for president (except Chris Christie) has got</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">to take this pledge. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><a href="https://anncoulter.substack.com/p/gop-pledge-no-more-talking-about?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email"><span style="color: #c43333;">I promise not to answer any more questions about Trump.”</span></a></i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><span style="color: #cccccc;"><u>............. </u></span> <br />
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<p><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">.................. <br /></span></p><p> </p>susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14710989163705986252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1907031520446514200.post-83046112192348345412023-07-19T00:44:00.001-03:002023-07-19T00:44:22.599-03:00Thousands of unaccompanied illegal immigrant minors with tuberculosis released into 44 states to sit next to your child in school. Feds also send states minors with venereal disease, HIV, and history of violence <p><span style="color: #eeeeee;"> .</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">July 18, 2023,<span style="color: #c73434;"><span style="color: #c73434;"><a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/jul/18/health-department-released-thousands-of-illegal-im/" style="color: #c73434;"> </a></span></span><span style="color: #990000;"><a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/jul/18/health-department-released-thousands-of-illegal-im/">“Illegal immigrant kids with tuberculosis infections released into 44 states</a></span><span style="color: #c73434;"><span style="color: #c73434;"><a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/jul/18/health-department-released-thousands-of-illegal-im/" style="color: #c73434;">,</a></span>" </span>Washington Times, S. Dinan</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: medium;">[10/22/2018, “<a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/caravan-of-central-american-migrants-continue-north-despite-warnings-to-turn-around/">Caravan of 7,000 Central American migrants continues north, defying warnings to turn back</a>,” CBS News]</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/jul/18/health-department-released-thousands-of-illegal-im/"><span style="color: blue;">“The government is releasing</span></a><a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/jul/18/health-department-released-thousands-of-illegal-im/"><span style="color: blue;"> thousands of illegal immigrant children</span></a> with latent tuberculosis infections into American communities without assurances of treatment.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/jul/18/health-department-released-thousands-of-illegal-im/"><span style="color: #990000;">Nearly 2,500 children with latent infections were</span><span style="color: #c73434;"> <span style="color: blue;">released into 44 states</span></span><span style="color: blue;"> over the past year,</span></a> according to a court-ordered report on how the Health and Human Services Department is treating the children.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">About 126,000 total were released, indicating<a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/jul/18/health-department-released-thousands-of-illegal-im/"><span style="color: #c73434;"> </span><span style="color: #990000;">an infection rate of 1 in 50 migrant children.</span></a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">The government says it can’t treat the children because they are in custody for a short time and</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: blue;">treatment requires three to nine months. </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">HHS releases infected children to sponsors and</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">[allegedly] notifies local health authorities in the hope </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: blue;">that [already overburdened local taxpayers] they can arrange for treatment </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">before the latent infection becomes active.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #333333;">Those hopes are often dashed.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/jul/18/health-department-released-thousands-of-illegal-im/"><span style="color: #c73434;">Local health officials say the notifications are infrequent</span> </a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">and the child has often already arrived </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">when they are told about a case in their jurisdiction.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/jul/18/health-department-released-thousands-of-illegal-im/" style="color: blue;">“We do not know</a> how often the sponsors follow through</span> on treatment,” the Virginia <a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/department-of-health/">Department of Health</a> told The Washington Times in a statement.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">“By the time outreach takes place, </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/jul/18/health-department-released-thousands-of-illegal-im/">the child has sometimes moved to another area or state.”</a></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: medium;">The Times reached out to HHS for this report.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #c73434;">The children in the <a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/department-of-health/" style="color: #c73434;">department</a>’s custody,</span> known in government-speak as <a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/jul/18/health-department-released-thousands-of-illegal-im/"><span style="color: blue;">unaccompanied alien</span> </a>children, or UACs, are a particularly tricky population.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black;"><a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/jul/18/health-department-released-thousands-of-illegal-im/">Under the law, Homeland Security </a></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #c73434;"><a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/jul/18/health-department-released-thousands-of-illegal-im/" style="color: #c73434;">must discharge most children quickly </a></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">and send them to HHS. The <a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/department-of-health/">department</a> holds the children in government-contracted shelters while searching for sponsors to take in the children…at the border without parents.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">The system is fraught with problems, including <span style="color: #c73434;"><span style="color: blue;">crowded shelters </span></span><span style="color: #c73434;"><span style="color: blue;">and struggles to find capable </span></span><span style="color: #c73434;"><span style="color: #333333;">and conscientious sponsors.</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/jul/18/health-department-released-thousands-of-illegal-im/"><span style="color: #c73434;">In thousands of cases, the government quickly loses track of the children….</span></a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">Treatment requires knowing where the children are </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">and having sponsors <span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: #333333;">willing to follow through</span> </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">on the lengthy course of care.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">Tuberculosis isn’t the only disease that’s challenging.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/jul/18/health-department-released-thousands-of-illegal-im/"><span style="color: #c73434;">The government had to create protocols to handle chlamydia and gonorrhea,</span> </a>according
to the court report, written by Aurora Miranda-Maese, the monitor
ordered by the court to keep tabs on how the government is treating
children in its custody.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">Ms. Miranda-Maese identified tuberculosis as one challenge. Because the</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #c73434;"><a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/jul/18/health-department-released-thousands-of-illegal-im/"><span style="color: #c73434;">government wants to rush the children out of custody </span></a><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="color: #c73434;">[</span>and deliver them to already overburdened local taxpayers across the US</span>]</span>,</span> authorities usually</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: blue;">don’t feel they have the time to begin treatment.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #c73434;"><a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/jul/18/health-department-released-thousands-of-illegal-im/" style="color: #c73434;">“Minors are not routinely treated</a></span><span style="color: #333333;"> for [latent tuberculosis infection]while in [resettlement] care</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: blue;">because the average length of stay is typically shorter than the time required</span> to complete treatment,</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">and because there could be negative effects from discontinuing …
treatment before completion, such as developing drug-resistant TB,” Ms.
Miranda-Maese wrote.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">She said the government relies on a reporting system through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to alert local health authorities.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">Virginia’s experience suggests the <span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/jul/18/health-department-released-thousands-of-illegal-im/" style="color: blue;">follow-through rate</a></span> for sponsors to obtain the needed treatment is low.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">Virginia’s health department said it focuses on connecting local
health officials with sponsors who take in children younger than 5 <a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/jul/18/health-department-released-thousands-of-illegal-im/">at high risk of latent infections progressing to active tuberculosis and juveniles </a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/jul/18/health-department-released-thousands-of-illegal-im/">who might be infected with HIV.</a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">The CDC, which runs the notification portal, didn’t respond to an inquiry from The Times.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #c73434;"><a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/jul/18/health-department-released-thousands-of-illegal-im/" style="color: #c73434;">UACs do get routine dental care and reproductive care,</a></span> including pregnancy tests, and are given information about emergency contraceptives. The <span style="color: blue;">government will also facilitate abortions,</span> including making “all reasonable efforts to secure a legal abortion” for girls in states where the procedure is restricted.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">The report details the levels of accommodation for the children, including individualized assessments of their educational attainment and daily schooling that is “sensitive to the cultural differences of the minors in care.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">Under new rules, each UAC is allowed at least 50 minutes of phone calls every five days and additional 45-minute calls on birthdays and holidays.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #c73434;"><a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/jul/18/health-department-released-thousands-of-illegal-im/" style="color: #c73434;">The report also revealed that </a><a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/jul/18/health-department-released-thousands-of-illegal-im/" style="color: #c73434;">HHS has no “secure” shelters</a></span><span style="color: #c73434;"><span style="color: #333333;"> to place UACs</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #c73434;"><span style="color: blue;">with criminal records or histories of violence, threats or</span> </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">sexually predatory behavior.<span style="color: #c73434;"><span style="color: black;"><br /></span>
</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #333333;">The report doesn’t say where those dangerous UACs are placed,</span> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">given the lack of a secure facility.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">Tuberculosis is another instance where illegal immigrants </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/jul/18/health-department-released-thousands-of-illegal-im/"><span style="color: #c73434;"><span style="color: blue;">receive better treatment than those</span> </span></a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/jul/18/health-department-released-thousands-of-illegal-im/"><span style="color: #c73434;">attempting to enter the U.S. legally.</span></a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: blue;">Those arriving as permanent legal immigrants are </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: blue;">required to undergo screening beforehand,</span> as are refugees.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #c73434;">Those with active cases can be excluded from entry.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: #333333;">Illegal immigrants who show up at the border</span> </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: blue;">are already in the country.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #333333;">In one glaring example,</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #c42121;"><a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/jul/18/health-department-released-thousands-of-illegal-im/" style="color: #c42121;"> tens of thousands of illegal immigrants being welcomed</a> </span>and “paroled” into the U.S. through Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas’ policies</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/jul/18/health-department-released-thousands-of-illegal-im/" style="color: blue;">are not required to test negative for latent tuberculosis infection </a></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">before arrival.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">Instead, they are told to be screened within 90 days of arrival.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #990000;"><a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/jul/18/health-department-released-thousands-of-illegal-im/">Homeland Security would not disclose the compliance rate</a></span> nor the consequences for those who fail to comply.<a name="pagebreak"></a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">In a brief statement to The Times, the <a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/department-of-health/">department</a> did call the rate “high” and pronounced itself “encouraged,” but acknowledged that it must prod migrants to comply.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><em>• Stephen Dinan can be reached at <a href="mailto:sdinan@washingtontimes.com">sdinan@washingtontimes.com</a>.</em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><em> </em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><em> </em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><em>............... <br /></em></span></p><p> </p>susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14710989163705986252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1907031520446514200.post-17887008279019653832023-07-14T21:10:00.000-03:002023-07-14T21:10:10.130-03:00In Venezuela Trump was deeply complicit in making ordinary people suffer for no reason except to show that US is a Big, Stupid Bully-Stephen Kinzer, Boston Globe <p><span style="color: #cccccc;"> .</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Venezuela:<span class="html-render"> <a href="https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/09/16/opinion/back-off-venezuela-already/"> “Nowhere in the Western Hemisphere is the United States more <span style="color: black;">deeply complicit in making ordinary people suffer, with less reason, than in Venezuela.</span></a></span>…<span class="html-render"><a href="https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/09/16/opinion/back-off-venezuela-already/"><span style="color: blue;">Our refusal to tolerate foreign leaders who defy us lies at the heart of this heartless campaign.</span>..<span style="color: #c22525;">.</span><span style="color: #2b00fe;">It should</span></a><a href="https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/09/16/opinion/back-off-venezuela-already/"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"> not be up to Americans</span> to decide whether Maduro is a bad leader.”</a></span><span class="html-render">…Trump continues US status quo of depraved indifference to humanity.</span><span class="html-render"><br />
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<p><span style="font-size: medium;">9/16/2020, <span style="color: #990000;">“<a href="https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/09/16/opinion/back-off-venezuela-already/">Back off of Venezuela already,</a></span><span style="color: #990000;">”</span> Boston Globe, Stephen Kinzer</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">“The American campaign against socialist leader Nicolás Maduro is only hurting the people of the country.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="html-render"><span style="color: #990000;">“Somehow, Venezuela has moved toward the top of our list</span><span style="color: #c22525;"> </span>of foreign enemies. <a href="https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/09/16/opinion/back-off-venezuela-already/">Presidents Obama and Trump <span style="color: black;">have portrayed it as </span></a></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="html-render"><a href="https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/09/16/opinion/back-off-venezuela-already/"><span style="color: #c23a3a;">a dangerous challenger to American power.</span></a></span></span></p>
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<p class="paragraph | gutter_20_0"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="html-render"><span style="color: #c22525;">It’s </span><a href="https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/09/16/opinion/back-off-venezuela-already/"><span style="color: #c22525;">an odd choice.</span> This nation of 28 million, perched on the northern coast of South America, is effectively bankrupt.</a> Its navy has six small gunboats, </span><span class="html-render">three frigates that can barely sail out of sight of land, and two 40-year-old submarines</span><span class="html-render">. Yet according to many in Washington, it ranks with China, Russia, and Iran as an urgent threat to American security.</span></span></p>
<p class="paragraph | gutter_20_0"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="html-render"><span style="color: #c22525;">In 2015,</span> evidently moved by reports of corruption and human rights violations, </span></span></p>
<p class="paragraph | gutter_20_0"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="html-render"><a href="https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/09/16/opinion/back-off-venezuela-already/"><span style="color: #c22525;">Obama declared “a national emergency</span> with respect to the unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States </a></span></span></p>
<p class="paragraph | gutter_20_0"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="html-render"><a href="https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/09/16/opinion/back-off-venezuela-already/"><span style="color: blue;">posed by the situation in Venezuela</span></a><span style="color: blue;">.</span>” He began imposing sanctions on Venezuela’s government and leaders.</span></span></p>
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<p class="paragraph | gutter_20_0"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="html-render"><span style="color: #c22525;">Trump has intensified the pressure</span>. The United States has sanctioned more than 150 Venezuelans, revoked the visas of more than 1,000 others, <a href="https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/09/16/opinion/back-off-venezuela-already/"><span style="color: blue;">and offered a $15 million bounty to anyone who delivers President Nicolás Maduro</span> into our hands</a>. We have </span></span></p>
<p class="paragraph | gutter_20_0"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="html-render">seized billions of dollars in Venezuelan assets; </span></span></p>
<p class="paragraph | gutter_20_0"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="html-render">placed Venezuela on lists of countries that support terrorism, drug trafficking, corruption, and human rights abuses; </span></span></p>
<p class="paragraph | gutter_20_0"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="html-render">and sought to prevent it from processing or buying oil, once the mainstay of its economy. </span></span></p>
<p class="paragraph | gutter_20_0"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="html-render"><span style="color: #990000;">Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, echoing Obama’s </span>exaggeration, <a href="https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/09/16/opinion/back-off-venezuela-already/">has declared </a></span></span></p>
<p class="paragraph | gutter_20_0"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="html-render"><a href="https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/09/16/opinion/back-off-venezuela-already/"><span style="color: blue;">Venezuela “a true threat to the United States.</span></a><span style="color: blue;">”</span> </span></span></p>
<p class="paragraph | gutter_20_0"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="html-render"><span style="color: #c22525;">US Navy warships, including guided-missile destroyers, conduct maneuvers</span> near the Venezuelan coast.</span></span></p>
<p class="paragraph | gutter_20_0"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="html-render"><span style="color: blue;">Last year [2019] Trump announced that the United States would no longer recognize Maduro </span>because of the doubts, shared by many Democrats, about the legitimacy of his <a href="https://www.electoralintegrityproject.com/international-blogs/2018/5/30/rigged-elections-venezuelas-failed-presidential-election" rel="noopener" target="_blank">2018 re-election</a>. </span></span></p>
<p class="paragraph | gutter_20_0"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="html-render"><span style="color: #990000;">The true president, Trump declared,</span><span style="color: #c22525;"> </span>was a little-known politician named Juan Guaidó. He invited Guaidó to be <span style="color: blue;">a guest of honor at his State of the Union address</span> last year [Feb. 2020]. Leaders of both political parties treated him like a hero. </span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="html-render"><a href="https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/09/16/opinion/back-off-venezuela-already/">Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi said he had touched “the conscience of the world.”</a> <br /></span></span></p>
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<p><a href="https://impeachobamatoday.files.wordpress.com/2020/09/guaidocheered.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-96695 alignleft" data-attachment-id="96695" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-caption="" data-image-description="" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="guaidocheered" data-large-file="https://impeachobamatoday.files.wordpress.com/2020/09/guaidocheered.jpg?w=497" data-medium-file="https://impeachobamatoday.files.wordpress.com/2020/09/guaidocheered.jpg?w=300" data-orig-file="https://impeachobamatoday.files.wordpress.com/2020/09/guaidocheered.jpg" data-orig-size="1171,663" data-permalink="https://impeachobamatoday.wordpress.com/2020/09/22/nowhere-in-the-western-hemisphere-is-trump-more-deeply-complicit-in-making-ordinary-people-suffer-with-less-reason-than-in-venezuela-stephen-kinzer-boston-glob/guaidocheered/" height="218" src="https://impeachobamatoday.files.wordpress.com/2020/09/guaidocheered.jpg?w=334&h=189" width="386" /></a><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="html-render"> </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="html-render"> </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="html-render"> </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="html-render"> </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="html-render"> </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="html-render"> </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="html-render"> </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="html-render">In mid-2019 Guaidó proclaimed the “definitive end of the usurpation” and called on Venezuelans to rise up in rebellion. Nothing happened. Then, in a bizarre escalation last April [2019], three <span style="color: #c22525;">boatloads of American mercenaries</span> <span style="color: blue;">tried to land in Venezuela <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2020/05/06/bay-pigs-style-fiasco-venezuela/" rel="noopener" style="color: blue;" target="_blank">to set off an uprising</a>.</span> Their <span style="color: #2b00fe;">“<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/in-venezuela-americans-attempt-to-stage-a-bay-of-piglets" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Bay of Piglets</a></span>” effort ended with eight would-be invaders dead and more than a dozen others arrested. </span></span></p>
<p class="paragraph | gutter_20_0"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="html-render"><span style="color: #c22525;">“</span><a href="https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/09/16/opinion/back-off-venezuela-already/"><span style="color: #c22525;">As for who bankrolled it,</span> we’re not prepared to share any more information,</a>”</span></span></p>
<p class="paragraph | gutter_20_0"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="html-render"> <span style="color: black;"><a href="https://it.usembassy.gov/secretary-michael-r-pompeo-at-a-press-availability/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Secretary Pompeo said afterward</a>.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="paragraph | gutter_20_0"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="html-render">Describing the event a few months later, <a href="https://twitter.com/chrismurphyct/status/1290656459496263687?lang=en" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Senator Chris Murphy tweeted</a>: <span style="color: #c22525;">“It got real embarrassing.</span> <span style="color: #c22525;">We tried to organize a kind of coup</span>, but it became a debacle. </span></span></p>
<p class="paragraph | gutter_20_0"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="html-render">Everyone who told us they’d rally to Guaidó <a href="https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/09/16/opinion/back-off-venezuela-already/"><span style="color: #c22525;"><span style="color: blue;">got cold feet</span></span> and the plan failed publicly and spectacularly, </a></span></span></p>
<p class="paragraph | gutter_20_0"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="html-render"><a href="https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/09/16/opinion/back-off-venezuela-already/"><span style="color: #c22525;">making America look foolish and weak.</span></a> Since then, it’s been a running comedy of errors.”</span></span></p>
<p class="paragraph | gutter_20_0"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="html-render">Realizing that he is unlikely to topple the government, Guaidó has begun negotiating.
His aides have met with Maduro supporters in Norway and Barbados. Both
sides have said they want to work together to fight the spread of
COVID-19, which has killed nearly 500 Venezuelans.<span style="color: blue;"> <a href="https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/09/16/opinion/back-off-venezuela-already/" style="color: blue;">Maduro has invited the European Union to monitor upcoming parliamentary elections.</a> </span></span></span></p>
<p class="paragraph | gutter_20_0"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="html-render">Yet the United States rejects all efforts at compromise. <span style="color: #c22525;">Regime change remains our single goal.</span></span></span></p>
<p><a href="https://impeachobamatoday.files.wordpress.com/2020/09/guaido.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-96692 alignleft" data-attachment-id="96692" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-caption="" data-image-description="" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="guaido" data-large-file="https://impeachobamatoday.files.wordpress.com/2020/09/guaido.jpg?w=442" data-medium-file="https://impeachobamatoday.files.wordpress.com/2020/09/guaido.jpg?w=300" data-orig-file="https://impeachobamatoday.files.wordpress.com/2020/09/guaido.jpg" data-orig-size="442,297" data-permalink="https://impeachobamatoday.wordpress.com/2020/09/22/nowhere-in-the-western-hemisphere-is-trump-more-deeply-complicit-in-making-ordinary-people-suffer-with-less-reason-than-in-venezuela-stephen-kinzer-boston-glob/guaido/" height="254" src="https://impeachobamatoday.files.wordpress.com/2020/09/guaido.jpg?w=299&h=200" width="381" /></a><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="html-render"> </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="html-render"> </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="html-render"> </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="html-render"> </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="html-render"> </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="html-render"> </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="html-render">Maduro’s government provides free housing to about 3 million Venezuelans, along
with subsidized food and medical care. Nonetheless the country is
suffering tremendously from a combination of mismanagement and the
weight of sanctions. Inflation is raging. Five million citizens have
fled. So why do American leaders<span style="color: #2b00fe;"> insist on crushing a nation</span><span style="color: #c22525;"> </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="html-render"><span style="color: #c22525;">that poses no conceivable threat to the United States?</span> </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="html-render">The official answer–Maduro is corrupt and repressive–is hardly credible, </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="html-render">since we happily support governments from Ukraine to Honduras to Saudi Arabia </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="html-render"><span style="color: #990000;">that are demonstrably more corrupt and repressive.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="paragraph | gutter_20_0"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="html-render">Domestic
politics is part of the explanation. Republicans and Democrats alike
have concluded that appearing militantly anti-Maduro will win votes in
Florida. <span style="color: blue;">Yet pressure on Venezuela began long before this political campaign.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="paragraph | gutter_20_0"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="html-render"><span style="color: #c22525;">The real reason for our wildly disproportionate</span></span><span class="html-render"> focus on Venezuela </span><span class="html-render">is that Maduro is an outspoken socialist</span><span class="html-render"> who regularly </span></span></p>
<p class="paragraph | gutter_20_0"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="html-render">denounces US policies in Latin America and the world. </span></span></p>
<p class="paragraph | gutter_20_0"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="html-render"><a href="https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/09/16/opinion/back-off-venezuela-already/"><span style="color: blue;">Our refusal to tolerate foreign leaders who defy us</span> lies </a></span></span></p><p class="paragraph | gutter_20_0"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="html-render">at the heart of this heartless campaign.</span></span></p>
<p class="paragraph | gutter_20_0"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #c22525;"><span class="html-render">It should</span><span class="html-render"><a href="https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/09/16/opinion/back-off-venezuela-already/" style="color: #c22525;"> not be up to Americans to decide whether Maduro is a bad leader. </a></span></span></span></p>
<p class="paragraph | gutter_20_0"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="html-render"><a href="https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/09/16/opinion/back-off-venezuela-already/">Our efforts to depose him have not only </a></span></span></p>
<p class="paragraph | gutter_20_0"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="html-render" style="color: #990000;"><a href="https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/09/16/opinion/back-off-venezuela-already/">contributed to impoverishing millions of Venezuelans</a>, </span></span></p>
<p class="paragraph | gutter_20_0"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="html-render">but have led him to build relationships with Russia and Iran–</span><span class="html-render">surely not a positive development for the United States.</span><span class="html-render"> Now that both sides in Venezuela seem ready to make a deal, compromise looks possible. </span><span class="html-render">The United States should join with the European Union in promoting talks. </span></span></p>
<p class="paragraph | gutter_20_0"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="html-render"><span style="color: #c22525;">Instead we insist on confrontation.</span> </span></span></p>
<p class="paragraph | gutter_20_0"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="html-render"><a href="https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/09/16/opinion/back-off-venezuela-already/"><span style="color: blue;">Nowhere in the Western Hemisphere is the United States more deeply complicit</span> </a></span></span></p>
<p class="paragraph | gutter_20_0"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="html-render"><a href="https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/09/16/opinion/back-off-venezuela-already/"><span style="color: #c22525;">in making ordinary people suffer, with less reason, than in Venezuela.”</span></a></span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: medium;">Images: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOibfOxrbd4">First two images are screen shots from PBS video</a>: “WATCH: Trump praises Venezuela’s Juan Guaidó at the State of the Union | <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOibfOxrbd4">2020 State of the Union,” Tues., 2/4/2020.</a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">Third image, “<a href="https://usoas.usmission.gov/united-states-stands-with-interim-president-guaido-and-venezuelas-freedom/">President Donald J. Trump</a><a href="https://usoas.usmission.gov/united-states-stands-with-interim-president-guaido-and-venezuelas-freedom/"> meets with</a> Interim President of the Bolivarian Republic of<a href="https://usoas.usmission.gov/united-states-stands-with-interim-president-guaido-and-venezuelas-freedom/"> Venezuela Juan Guaido Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2020, in the Oval Office </a>of the White House. (Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead)”</span></p>
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<p class="tagline | font_primary inline_block margin_top_32"><span style="font-size: medium;">“Stephen Kinzer is a senior fellow at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University.”</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: medium;">Added: <b>“<span style="color: #990000;"><a href="https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2016/02/18/the-media-are-misleading-public-syria/8YB75otYirPzUCnlwaVtcK/story.html">The United States has the power to decree the death of nations</a>.”</span></b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2016/02/18/the-media-are-misleading-public-syria/8YB75otYirPzUCnlwaVtcK/story.html"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">“If people in Bhutan or Bolivia misunderstand Syria, however, that has no real effect. </span></a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2016/02/18/the-media-are-misleading-public-syria/8YB75otYirPzUCnlwaVtcK/story.html"><span style="color: #990000;">Our ignorance is more dangerous, because we act on it. </span></a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2016/02/18/the-media-are-misleading-public-syria/8YB75otYirPzUCnlwaVtcK/story.html"><span style="color: #c22525;"><span style="color: blue;">The United States has the power to decree the death of nations</span></span></a><span style="color: blue;">. </span> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">In Syria, it is: <span style="color: #c23a3a;"><a href="https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2016/02/18/the-media-are-misleading-public-syria/8YB75otYirPzUCnlwaVtcK/story.html" style="color: #c23a3a;">“</a></span><span style="color: #990000;"><a href="https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2016/02/18/the-media-are-misleading-public-syria/8YB75otYirPzUCnlwaVtcK/story.html">Fight Assad, Russia, and Iran!</a></span><span style="color: #c23a3a;"> </span>Join with our Turkish, Saudi, and Kurdish friends to support peace!” </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2016/02/18/the-media-are-misleading-public-syria/8YB75otYirPzUCnlwaVtcK/story.html">This is appallingly distant from reality. It is also likely to prolong the war and condemn</a> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">more Syrians to suffering and death.” </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Feb. 18, 2016, “<a href="https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2016/02/18/the-media-are-misleading-public-syria/8YB75otYirPzUCnlwaVtcK/story.html">The media are misleading the public on Syria,</a>” Boston Globe, Stephen Kinzer, opinion</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">............................................</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Added: <b><a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/election-us-2016-35906493">"<span style="color: #990000;">Big, stupid bully" reference</span>,</a></b> per Candidate Trump in 2016:<br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">"<span style="color: black;"><a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/election-us-2016-35906493">Mr Trump insisted he</a></span> was "not isolationist" but "America First".</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">He said: "We have been disrespected, mocked, and ripped off for many, many years by people that were smarter, shrewder, tougher.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">"We were the big bully, but we were not smartly led.<a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/election-us-2016-35906493"> <span style="color: #990000;">And we were the big bully who was the big, stupid bully</span> </a>and we were systematically ripped off by everybody.""</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">March 27, 2016, "<a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/election-us-2016-35906493">US Election 2016: Trump laments 'ripped off' America,</a>" BBC</span><br /></p><p> </p><p> ...............</p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></p>
</div> </div><div class="body | gutter_16--desktop gutter_16--tablet"> </div><p><span style="font-size: medium;"> ..................</span></p><p> </p>susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14710989163705986252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1907031520446514200.post-38017164323313429752023-07-08T22:13:00.000-03:002023-07-08T22:13:18.808-03:00US objective in Ukraine is to create Hell on Earth as it does everywhere it goes. Defeat of US Empire is single precondition for solving mankind’s problems-Moon of Alabama Commenter Bevin<p><span style="color: #eeeeee;">.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>July 7, 2023, “<span style="color: #990000;"><a href="https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/07/ukraine-biden-again-escalates-war/comments/page/2/#comments">Ukraine – Biden Again Escalates</a></span><span style="color: #b82828;"><a href="https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/07/ukraine-biden-again-escalates-war/comments/page/2/#comments" style="color: #b82828;">,</a>“</span> Moon of Alabama
</span></span></p><div class="entry clear"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>…………………………………….</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>Among comments</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>……………………………………….</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>“..<span style="color: #990000;"><a href="https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/07/ukraine-biden-again-escalates-war/comments/page/2/#comments">.The underlying cause of the Ukrainian conflict </a>has not yet </span>been identified, yet alone addressed…” [commenter] too scents@82″</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>[Commenter Bevin, #103, replies to commenter “too scents”]</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="color: #b82828;">“<a href="https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/07/ukraine-biden-again-escalates-war/comments/page/2/#comments" style="color: #b82828;">The underlying cause of this-and every other conflict of the kind</a></span>– </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>is the US government’s commitment to Full Spectrum Dominance.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="color: #b82828;"><a href="https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/07/ukraine-biden-again-escalates-war/comments/page/2/#comments"><span style="color: blue;">It really is as simple as that- the US government is the</span></a> <span style="color: blue;">global equivalent of </span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="color: #b82828;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: #b82828;">Organised Crime</span>. </span></span><span style="color: #b82828;"><span style="color: blue;">And everywhere that it goes,</span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="color: #b82828;"><span style="color: blue;">from south east Asia to Europe, to Africa and Latin America,</span> </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="color: #b82828;"><span style="color: blue;">it recruits and trains the criminally inclined to work with it and for</span> </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="color: #b82828;"><a href="https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/07/ukraine-biden-again-escalates-war/comments/page/2/#comments" style="color: #b82828;">its objective which is to produce a Hell on Earth, </a></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>in which a small class of exploiters devour the substance which humanity, in harmony with nature, produces.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><a href="https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/07/ukraine-biden-again-escalates-war/comments/page/2/#comments"><span style="color: #b82828;"><span style="color: blue;">The war in Ukraine, where victory [by the Russian Federation]</span> </span></a></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="color: #b82828;"><a href="https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/07/ukraine-biden-again-escalates-war/comments/page/2/#comments"><span style="color: #b82828;">is critical to humanity’s future,</span></a> </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>is nevertheless little more than a sideshow</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="color: blue;"> in world wide struggle<span style="color: #b82828;"> between</span> imperialism, </span><span style="color: blue;">no longer masked </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: blue;">as anything more than a criminal project,</span> </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="color: #b82828;">and life.</span> </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>Life demands balance, justice and love and abhors </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>cannibalism </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="color: blue;">which is the very essence of the criminality of Empire-</span> </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><a href="https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/07/ukraine-biden-again-escalates-war/comments/page/2/#comments"><span style="color: #b82828;">a greedy minority</span> </a></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><a href="https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/07/ukraine-biden-again-escalates-war/comments/page/2/#comments"><span style="color: blue;">surrounded by the bones and the shortened, blighted lives</span></a> </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>of those whom they have devoured.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>What Biden is telling us, and those like him have been</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>telling us with increasing confidence</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="color: blue;"> for eighty years, </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><a href="https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/07/ukraine-biden-again-escalates-war/comments/page/2/#comments"><span style="color: #b82828;">is that obvious breaches of law and morality no longer matter </span></a></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>because the domination that the ruling class has over the world</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>includes control of information and opinion, which means that</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><a href="https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/07/ukraine-biden-again-escalates-war/comments/page/2/#comments"><span style="color: blue;">the criminals have the ability to re-write the law</span> </a>to ensure that they cannot be identified as breaking it.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="color: #b82828;"><a href="https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/07/ukraine-biden-again-escalates-war/comments/page/2/#comments" style="color: #b82828;">The US government has been breaking every rule in the book, </a></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>reneging on every agreement it ever made and</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>betraying both the letter and spirit of every law it runs into-</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>domestically and internationally-</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>since people started paying attention to its actions….</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="color: #b82828;"><span style="color: #333333;">But since 1945….</span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="color: #b82828;"><a href="https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/07/ukraine-biden-again-escalates-war/comments/page/2/#comments" style="color: #b82828;">it’s government has been taken over by the CIA, </a></span>an institution which is</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>not only out of but beyond control-</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="color: blue;">it runs all three branches of government,</span> </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="color: blue;">the entire law enforcement system, </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>the media, </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>the internet, </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>all means of communication and education. </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>And is rapidly taking over every other government-</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="color: #b82828;"><a href="https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/07/ukraine-biden-again-escalates-war/comments/page/2/#comments" style="color: #b82828;">it owns the UN for example.</a> </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="color: blue;">Its agents fill the legislatures across Europe-</span> </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>they command the armed forces of most of the world’s military, and they are constantly beavering away,</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>gnawing at the roots of the few power centres that it does not already control.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>But there is hope, yet, in those countries which have had, over the centuries</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>enough of imperialism-</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>as its colonised objects- <span style="color: #333333;">to teach them that</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><a href="https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/07/ukraine-biden-again-escalates-war/comments/page/2/#comments"><span style="color: #b82828;"> there is one imperative in politics today,</span> </a></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="color: blue;">one precondition to the solution of mankind’s many problems, </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/07/ukraine-biden-again-escalates-war/comments/page/2/#comments" style="color: blue;">and that is the defeat of the Empire</a> </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>and the re-education of the millions that it has corrupted.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>This last will not be hard- the basis of imperialism is the belief that it is the winning side, once that is dealt with</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="color: blue;">in the form of a comprehensive defeat, </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><a href="https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/07/ukraine-biden-again-escalates-war/comments/page/2/#comments"><span style="color: #b82828;">the Empire will expire with the whimpering of bullies </span></a>and time servers</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="color: blue;">learning that might </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="color: blue;">is not right </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>and that justice, the foundation of all physics and philosophy,</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="color: #b82828;"><a href="https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/07/ukraine-biden-again-escalates-war/comments/page/2/#comments" style="color: #b82828;">will triumph or life will end.”…</a></span></span></span></p>
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</div><p><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">.................... <br /></span></p>susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14710989163705986252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1907031520446514200.post-16695460127900665052023-06-25T03:33:00.005-03:002023-06-25T03:37:19.369-03:00The Russian Federation remains humanity’s only hope <p><span style="color: #f3f3f3;"> .</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="color: #2b00fe;">“All of life has <a href="https://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2019/03/08/is-neoliberlism-killing-russia/">an interest in a Russia too strong <span>to be attacked </span></a></span><span style="color: #bd2626;"><a href="https://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2019/03/08/is-neoliberlism-killing-russia/" style="color: #bd2626;"><span style="color: blue;">or provoked</span></a> </span>as a strong Russia is <span style="color: #2b00fe;"><a href="https://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2019/03/08/is-neoliberlism-killing-russia/">the only way to curtail the Western aggression.</a></span><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><a href="https://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2019/03/08/is-neoliberlism-killing-russia/">”</a></span>…March 8, 2019</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>……………………………………</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>“All of life has <span style="color: black;"><a href="https://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2019/03/08/is-neoliberlism-killing-russia/">an interest in a Russia too strong to be attacked or provoked</a></span> as<span style="color: blue;"> a strong Russia is <a href="https://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2019/03/08/is-neoliberlism-killing-russia/" style="color: blue;">the only way to curtail the Western aggression </a></span>that is leading to nuclear war.…<span style="color: #2b00fe;"><a href="https://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2019/03/08/is-neoliberlism-killing-russia/">As far as we can tell, the Institute of Economics of the Russian Academy of Sciences is so brainwashed by neoliberal economics</a></span> that their minds are closed to correct policies. The failure of Russian economic leadership <a href="https://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2019/03/08/is-neoliberlism-killing-russia/">imposes far more costs on the Russian economy</a> than do Washington’s sanctions. <span style="color: #2b00fe;">Intellectual leadership is <a href="https://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2019/03/08/is-neoliberlism-killing-russia/">weak with many in the intellectual class</a></span> favoring integration with the West rather than with the East.”</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>3/8/19, <span style="color: #b02c2c;">“</span><span style="color: #b02c2c;"><a href="https://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2019/03/08/is-neoliberlism-killing-russia/" style="color: #b02c2c;">Is Neoliberalism Killing Russia?</a></span>“ foreignpolicyjournal.com, Paul Craig Roberts, Michael Hudson</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>“Russia is experiencing <a href="https://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2019/03/08/is-neoliberlism-killing-russia/">capital outflows due to the Russian private sector’s repayment of loans to Western creditors. Russia has experienced over $25 </a><a href="https://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2019/03/08/is-neoliberlism-killing-russia/">billion a year of</a> <a href="https://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2019/03/08/is-neoliberlism-killing-russia/">capital outflows since the early 1990s</a>, accumulating to over a trillion dollars. This money could have been invested in Russia itself to raise the productivity and living standards of its citizens. The outflow puts the ruble under pressure, and the interest payments draw money out of the country away from Russian uses. If it were not for these outflows, the value of the ruble and Russian wages would be higher.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>The US sanctions give Russians every <a href="https://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2019/03/08/is-neoliberlism-killing-russia/">reason
not to repay their foreign loans; yet Russians continue to enable their
own exploitation by foreigners, as neoliberal economists have told them
that there is no alternative.</a></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>Russia’s economic <a href="https://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2019/03/08/is-neoliberlism-killing-russia/">problems
are due to the looting of the country during the Yeltsin years, to the
imposition of neoliberal economics by the Americans</a>, and to financialization as a result of the privatizations.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>Russia’s stock market became<a href="https://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2019/03/08/is-neoliberlism-killing-russia/">
the darling of the West in the mid-1990s as underpriced mining, oil and
infrastructure were sold for a fraction of their value to foreigners,
thus transferring Russian income streams abroad instead of leaving the
income to be invested in Russia</a>. In effect, Russians were
told that the way for their country to get rich was to let kleptocrats,
oligarchs, and their U.S. and British stock brokers make hundreds of
billions of dollars by privatizing Russia’s public domain.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="color: #b02c2c;">Washington took advantage <a href="https://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2019/03/08/is-neoliberlism-killing-russia/" style="color: #b02c2c;">of the gullible and trusting Yeltsin government<span style="color: blue;"> to do as much political and economic damage as possible to Russia</span></a><span style="color: blue;">.</span></span> The country was torn apart. Historic parts of Russia such as Ukraine were split off into separate countries. <a href="https://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2019/03/08/is-neoliberlism-killing-russia/">Washington even insisted that Crimea, long a part of Russia and the country’s warm water port, was retained by Ukraine when the Soviet Union was dismembered.</a></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>People’s savings (called the “overhang”) were wiped out with hyperinflation. Privatization was not accompanied by new investment. <a href="https://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2019/03/08/is-neoliberlism-killing-russia/">The economy was not industrialized, but financialized. </a>The
proceeds from privatization were deposited by the Russian government in
private banks where the money was used to privatize more Russian
assets. The banking system thus served to finance the transfer of ownership, not to fund new investment, and the proceeds were transferred abroad. Russia was turned into a financial colony in which proconsuls created wealth at the top.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>Today privatization continues<a href="https://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2019/03/08/is-neoliberlism-killing-russia/"> in the de facto privatization of public assets, such as charging fees for use of federal highways.</a> As the Russian economic profession has been brainwashed by the Americans, <a href="https://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2019/03/08/is-neoliberlism-killing-russia/">the country is devoid of economic leadership.</a></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>We have pointed out on more than one occasion that <a href="https://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2019/03/08/is-neoliberlism-killing-russia/">it is nonsensical for Russia to indebt itself by borrowing abroad in order to finance investments</a>. The Russians were<a href="https://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2019/03/08/is-neoliberlism-killing-russia/"> sold a bill of goods</a> that the central bank cannot issue rubles unless the rubles are backed by dollars. This advice served to prevent Russia from using its own central bank to fund public infrastructure and private investment projects by issuing rubles. In other words, Russia might as well not have a central bank.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>Apparently, Russian economists<a href="https://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2019/03/08/is-neoliberlism-killing-russia/"> do not understand that <span style="color: #b02c2c;">Russia does not spend borrowed foreign currencies inside Russia</span></a><span style="color: #b02c2c;">.</span>
If Russia takes a foreign loan, the borrowed money goes into central
bank reserves. The central bank then issues the ruble equivalent to be
spent on the project, and the cost of the project goes up by the
pointless interest paid to the foreign lender.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>As far as we can tell, <a href="https://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2019/03/08/is-neoliberlism-killing-russia/">the Institute of Economics of the Russian Academy of Sciences is so brainwashed by neoliberal economics</a> that their minds are closed to correct policies. The failure of Russian economic leadership imposes far more costs on the Russian economy than do Washington’s sanctions.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="color: #b02c2c;">Intellectual leadership is</span><span style="color: #bd2a2a;"> <a href="https://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2019/03/08/is-neoliberlism-killing-russia/" style="color: #bd2a2a;">weak with many in the <span style="color: blue;">intellectual class favoring integration with the West rather than with the East</span></a><span style="color: blue;">.</span></span> To be part of the West has been an important goal since Peter the First and Catherine the Great, and <a href="https://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2019/03/08/is-neoliberlism-killing-russia/">the Russian Atlanticist Integrationists cannot let go of the ancient goal. </a></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><a href="https://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2019/03/08/is-neoliberlism-killing-russia/">This goal no longer makes sense. Not only does it imply Russian vassalage,</a></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="color: #990000;">but also Europe is no longer the center of power.</span><span style="color: #bd2a2a;"> </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>The East is rising, and China is the center and will be until the
Chinese destroy themselves by copying the Western neoliberal policy of
financializing the economy.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>Although Putin is<a href="https://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2019/03/08/is-neoliberlism-killing-russia/"> a leader and has a sense of Russian purpose</a>,
many officials use their office not in service to Russia but in service
to their own wealth, much of which is held abroad. Corruption and
embezzlement seem to be the purpose of many office holders. Scandals abound among members of government and reflect badly on Putin and Medvedev.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="color: #b02c2c;">The Russian government’s </span><a href="https://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2019/03/08/is-neoliberlism-killing-russia/"><span style="color: #b02c2c;">popularity was at a peak when the government showed it had the intelligence and will to reincorporate Crimea into Russia</span>. </a><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2019/03/08/is-neoliberlism-killing-russia/" style="color: blue;">However,
the Russian government, hoping to reassure Washington and Europe,
refused the requests of the Luhansk and Donetsk republics to be
reincorporated into Russia.</a> </span>Russian nationalists, <a href="https://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2019/03/08/is-neoliberlism-killing-russia/">the majority of the population, saw this as kowtowing to the West. </a></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>Moreover, the Russian government’s decision has resulted in Ukraine’s ongoing military assault on the breakaway republics and to the <a href="https://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2019/03/08/is-neoliberlism-killing-russia/">arming of Ukraine by the West. </a> Instead of acting decisively, the</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><a href="https://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2019/03/08/is-neoliberlism-killing-russia/">Russian government </a></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><a href="https://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2019/03/08/is-neoliberlism-killing-russia/"><span style="color: #990000;"><span>enabled the continuation of conflict that can be exploited by Washington</span><span>.</span></span> </a></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><a href="https://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2019/03/08/is-neoliberlism-killing-russia/"><span style="color: blue;">The Russian people understand this even if the government does not.</span></a></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="color: blue;">By failing to show firmness,</span> the Russian government encourages the crony system of oligarchs who want a government that they can use for their narrow interests. <a href="https://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2019/03/08/is-neoliberlism-killing-russia/">Their interests include participating in the system of Western plunder known as “globalism.” These client elites of the West oppose a powerful Russian state </a>that could assert itself on the world stage and offer an alternative policy to <a href="https://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2019/03/08/is-neoliberlism-killing-russia/">the West’s policy of plunder.</a> The influence of this narrow interest group on government policy indicates that the Russian government is compromised.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>Putin is trying to break <a href="https://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2019/03/08/is-neoliberlism-killing-russia/">free of the West’s grip by directing Russia’s economic orientation to the East.</a> His effort is helped by the American sanctions. <a href="https://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2019/03/08/is-neoliberlism-killing-russia/">But Russia remains sufficiently mired in the Western system to be vulnerable</a> to sanctions and is only slowly extracting itself.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>Various aspects of Russia’s difficulties and transformation into a power<a href="https://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2019/03/08/is-neoliberlism-killing-russia/"> with a foot in both West and East</a> are discussed by commentators. What goes unacknowledged is that <a href="https://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2019/03/08/is-neoliberlism-killing-russia/">Russian economic policy is constrained—indeed, crippled—by the <span style="color: #b02c2c;">neoliberal brainwashing given to Russian economists by the Americans in the 1990s</span></a>. Consequently, Russia is enfeebled by an economic policy that encourages privatization and foreign ownership, and by financialization of economic rents, that is, of income streams that do not result from productive investment
but from such factors as location and rise in value due to public
infrastructure development, such as a road built across a property. In a financialized economy credit is used to transfer property ownership <a href="https://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2019/03/08/is-neoliberlism-killing-russia/">instead of to finance new plant and equipment and construction of infrastructure.</a></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>The Russian government and central bank have been <a href="https://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2019/03/08/is-neoliberlism-killing-russia/">blinded to the fact</a> that Russian
infrastructure projects and private investment are not dependent on
borrowing dollars abroad or by acquiring dollars by selling Russian
assets to foreigners. <a href="https://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2019/03/08/is-neoliberlism-killing-russia/">Such projects can be financed by ruble creation </a>by
the Russian central bank. Money that flows into productive projects
that raise output is not inflationary. Generally speaking, such projects
lower costs.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="color: #b02c2c;">For Russia to succeed, Russia <a href="https://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2019/03/08/is-neoliberlism-killing-russia/" style="color: #b02c2c;">needs an economic re-education and a government <span style="color: blue;">that finds its footing in Russian nationalism </span></a></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="color: #b02c2c;"><a href="https://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2019/03/08/is-neoliberlism-killing-russia/" style="color: #b02c2c;">and discourages Western provocations</a> </span>with firmer responses.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>It is our view that <a href="https://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2019/03/08/is-neoliberlism-killing-russia/">the Western world, indeed all of life, has an interest in a Russia too strong to be attacked or provoked</a> as a strong Russia is the only way<a href="https://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2019/03/08/is-neoliberlism-killing-russia/"> to curtail the Western aggression that is leading to nuclear war.”</a></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><i>“This article was originally published at </i><a href="https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2019/03/01/is-neoliberlism-killing-russia/">PaulCraigRoberts.org</a> <i>on March 1, 2019.”</i></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>…………………………..</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>Added: <span style="color: #333333;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1993/10/04/world/showdown-moscow-overview-yeltsin-sends-troops-oust-armed-foes-parliament-fierce.html" style="color: #333333;">Page One, NY Times</a>, 10/4/1993:<br /></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1993/10/04/world/showdown-moscow-overview-yeltsin-sends-troops-oust-armed-foes-parliament-fierce.html"><span style="color: #c42121;">10/4/1993,</span></a><span style="color: #c42121;"> </span><span style="color: #2b00fe;">President Yeltsin of democratic Russia</span><span style="color: #c42121;"> </span><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1993/10/04/world/showdown-moscow-overview-yeltsin-sends-troops-oust-armed-foes-parliament-fierce.html"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">dissolves Parliament, sends military and tanks, attacks Russian Parliament to remove political opponents</span></a><span style="color: #2b00fe;">:</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://impeachobamatoday.files.wordpress.com/2021/03/nytimes.jpg"><img alt="" class="alignnone wp-image-61772" data-attachment-id="61772" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-caption="" data-image-description="" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"susan mullen","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1615429000","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="nytimes" data-large-file="https://impeachobamatoday.files.wordpress.com/2021/03/nytimes.jpg?w=497" data-medium-file="https://impeachobamatoday.files.wordpress.com/2021/03/nytimes.jpg?w=300" data-orig-file="https://impeachobamatoday.files.wordpress.com/2021/03/nytimes.jpg" data-orig-size="854,750" data-permalink="https://impeachobamatoday.wordpress.com/2021/03/11/in-july-1993-russian-parliament-voted-166-0-in-favor-of-declaring-crimean-port-city-of-sevastopol-once-again-a-russian-city-as-it-had-been-for-centuries-until-1954-ny-times-7-10-1993/nytimes/" height="363" src="https://impeachobamatoday.files.wordpress.com/2021/03/nytimes.jpg?w=541&h=474" width="413" /></a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>10/4/1993, NY Times image caption: <a href="https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1993/10/04/869693.html?pageNumber=1">“Part of a column of 40 armored vehicles speeding early this morning into Moscow,</a>” AP photo</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">................................ <br /></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>Added: <span style="color: #b02c2c;">US supported<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/1993/oct/05/russia.davidhearst" style="color: #b02c2c;"> absolute power </a></span><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/1993/oct/05/russia.davidhearst">of Russian</a> “Strongman” Yeltsin in 1990s:</span> UK Guardian report:<span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/1993/oct/05/russia.davidhearst" style="color: blue;"> In Oct. 1993 Yeltsin closed opposition newspapers </a><span style="color: #bd2626;">and sent tanks to remove</span></span><span style="color: #bd2626;"> his opponents in Russian parliament.</span> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/1993/oct/05/russia.davidhearst">Scores were killed, hundreds wounded</a>, <span style="color: blue;">Bill Clinton said,</span><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/1993/oct/05/russia.davidhearst"><span style="color: blue;"> “President Yeltsin had no other alternative</span> but to try to restore order.”</a> </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>10/5/1993, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/1993/oct/05/russia.davidhearst"><b><span style="color: #b02c2c;">“Yeltsin crushes revolt,</span></b>“</a> UK Guardian, Jonathan Steele and David Hearst in Moscow</span></span></p>
<div class="content__standfirst"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="color: blue;">“Parliament <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/1993/oct/05/russia.davidhearst" style="color: blue;">taken in tank battle</a> </span> ·<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/1993/oct/05/russia.davidhearst"> Opposition parties and newspapers banned”</a></span></span></div>
<div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="color: white;">…………</span></span></span></div>
<div class="content__standfirst"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/1993/oct/05/russia.davidhearst">“President
Boris Yeltsin moved swiftly last night to stamp his absolute power on
Russia by suspending a range of political movements and closing
opposition newspapers</a> after the surrender of his main parliamentary opponents in the wake of the assault on the Russian White House.<span style="color: #b02c2c;"><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/1993/oct/05/russia.davidhearst" style="color: #b02c2c;"> Under a decree following the state of emergency that Mr Yeltsin imposed on Sunday</a></span>, the National Salvation Front, the Russian Communist Party, the United Front of Workers and the Union of Officers were banned, while Pravda, the former organ of the Soviet Communist Party, and a number of other papers were told to cease publication. An overnight curfew was also imposed throughout Moscow….</span></span>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/1993/oct/05/russia.davidhearst">With
elections promised in December for a new bicameral parliament, the bans
will severely limit the options for Russians who oppose Mr Yeltsin.</a>
They will also remove the risk that those unhappy with the government’s
tough economic reforms will vote for communists on the model of Poland.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>“Western leaders, warned in advance of the assault, promptly declared support,
but urged a speedy return to constitutionality amid fears that the
Russian leader could become a political hostage to the armed forces.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>“It is clear that the opposition forces started the conflict, and <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/1993/oct/05/russia.davidhearst">President Yeltsin had no other alternative but to try to restore order,’ the US president, </a></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/1993/oct/05/russia.davidhearst">Bill Clinton, said.</a> </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="color: #b02c2c;">“The US supported Yeltsin because he is Russia’s democratically-elected leader,”</span> he said. <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/1993/oct/05/russia.davidhearst">“I
have no reason to doubt the personal commitment that President Yeltsin
made to let the Russian people decide their own future in elections.’</a> </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>In Blackpool, the Prime Minister, John Major, said: “What is now necessary is that normal order is restored and that the Russians move forward to the elections they planned in December.”</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>In Brussels, the European Commission announced emergency medical aid of 300,000 ecus (around £235,000) for those wounded in the fighting.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="color: blue;">China was the only major power <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/1993/oct/05/russia.davidhearst" style="color: blue;">not to back Mr. Yeltsin</a>.</span> “We are deeply concerned about the recent bloodshed in Moscow,” the Chinese foreign ministry said in a statement.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>“As a friendly neighbour, we hope to see an end to the conflict and a proper solution to the current situation in the interest of the stability, unity and economic recovery.""</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span> </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span> ................</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></p>susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14710989163705986252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1907031520446514200.post-1462718838093073602023-06-17T17:49:00.000-03:002023-06-17T17:49:14.123-03:00Neocon Trump bragged to top GOP donors, “Nobody has been tougher on Russia than me,” US should label its F-22 planes with Chinese flag and “bomb the s–t out of Russia,” and on his watch US military had been in “skirmishes” with Russian troops and won-Washington Post, 3/6/2022 <p><span style="color: #f3f3f3;"> .</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black;"><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/03/06/trump-focuses-foreign-policy-speech-gops-top-donors/">Trump said, “he knew he had to have won Georgia</a> </span><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/03/06/trump-focuses-foreign-policy-speech-gops-top-donors/"><span style="color: black;">[in Nov. 2020] because he </span>won Alabama and South Carolina </a>by such large numbers.” (<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/11/03/us/elections/results-georgia.html">Biden won Georgia in Nov. 2020 </a>by a narrow margin.<a href="https://www.npr.org/2021/02/06/964614820/how-democrats-found-thousands-of-new-voters-and-flipped-georgias-senate-seats"> <span style="color: black;">Democrats also flipped both US Senate seats in Georgia</span> </a>in Nov. 2020 from Republican to Democrat.<a href="https://nypost.com/2021/09/25/trump-lashes-out-at-georgia-gov-brian-kemp/"> In Sept. 2021,</a> Trump told Georgia rally<span style="color: #cc0000;"><a href="https://nypost.com/2021/09/25/trump-lashes-out-at-georgia-gov-brian-kemp/"> </a></span><span style="color: black;"><a href="https://nypost.com/2021/09/25/trump-lashes-out-at-georgia-gov-brian-kemp/">he’d prefer Democrat Stacey Abrams for Georgia Governor over Republican Brian Kemp</a></span><span style="color: #b52b2b;"><a href="https://nypost.com/2021/09/25/trump-lashes-out-at-georgia-gov-brian-kemp/" style="color: #b52b2b;">.</a></span> A rally attendee yelled out, <a href="https://nypost.com/2021/09/25/trump-lashes-out-at-georgia-gov-brian-kemp/">“<span style="color: blue;">We don’t want her.”</span></a> In Nov. 2022 <span style="color: black;"><a href="https://www.npr.org/2022/11/09/1134173355/georgia-midterm-election-governor-results-kemp-abrams">Kemp defeated Democrat Abrams</a></span> by a substantial margin).</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">3/6/2022, “<span style="color: black;"><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/03/06/trump-focuses-foreign-policy-speech-gops-top-donors/">Trump muses on war with Russia and praises Kim Jong Un,</a>"</span> Washington Post, Josh Dawsey, New Orleans</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">“The former president<span style="color: #cc2f2f;"><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/03/06/trump-focuses-foreign-policy-speech-gops-top-donors/" style="color: #cc2f2f;"> </a></span><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/03/06/trump-focuses-foreign-policy-speech-gops-top-donors/">spoke to GOP donors [on March</a><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/03/06/trump-focuses-foreign-policy-speech-gops-top-donors/"> 5</a><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/03/06/trump-focuses-foreign-policy-speech-gops-top-donors/">, 2022]</a></span><span style="color: #cc2f2f;"> </span>during an 84-minute speech in New Orleans.”</span></p>
<p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" dir="null"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #cc2f2f;"><span style="color: #333333;">“Former president Donald Trump</span><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/03/06/trump-focuses-foreign-policy-speech-gops-top-donors/"> mused Saturday to the GOP’s top donors</a></span><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/03/06/trump-focuses-foreign-policy-speech-gops-top-donors/"> that the </a></span></p>
<p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" dir="null"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/03/06/trump-focuses-foreign-policy-speech-gops-top-donors/"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: #cc2f2f;">United States should label its F-22 planes with the Chinese flag</span></span> </a></span></p>
<p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" dir="null"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: blue;">and <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/03/06/trump-focuses-foreign-policy-speech-gops-top-donors/" style="color: blue;">“bomb the s–t out of Russia.”</a></span></span></p>
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<p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" dir="null"><span style="font-size: medium;">He also praised North Korean leader Kim Jong Un as “seriously tough,” <span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/03/06/trump-focuses-foreign-policy-speech-gops-top-donors/">claimed he was <span style="color: blue;">harder on Vladimir Putin than any other president</span></a><span style="color: blue;">,</span> </span>reiterated
his false claims that he won the 2020 election, urged his party to be
“tougher” on supposed election fraud, disparaged a range of prominent
party opponents and called global warming “a great hoax” that could
actually bring a welcome development: more waterfront property.</span></p>
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<p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" dir="null"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/03/06/trump-focuses-foreign-policy-speech-gops-top-donors/"><span style="color: #cc2f2f;">“And then we say, China did it, we didn’t do it, China did it, </span></a></span></p>
<p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" dir="null"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/03/06/trump-focuses-foreign-policy-speech-gops-top-donors/"><span style="color: #cc2f2f;"><span style="color: blue;">and then they start fighting with each other and we sit back and watch,</span></span></a><span style="color: blue;">”</span></span></p>
<p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" dir="null"><span style="font-size: medium;">he said</span></p>
<p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" dir="null"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/03/06/trump-focuses-foreign-policy-speech-gops-top-donors/"><span style="color: #cc2f2f;">of labeling U.S. military planes with Chinese flags and bombing Russia,</span> </a></span></p>
<p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" dir="null"><span style="font-size: medium;">which was met with laughter from the crowd of donors,</span></p>
<p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" dir="null"><span style="font-size: medium;">according to a recording of the speech obtained by The Washington Post.</span></p>
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<p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" dir="null"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #cc2f2f;"><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/03/06/trump-focuses-foreign-policy-speech-gops-top-donors/" style="color: #cc2f2f;"><span style="color: #333333;">His 84-minute address</span> to about 250 of the Republican Party’s top donors </a><span style="color: blue;">at the elite Four Seasons focused heavily on foreign policy</span></span> and
his claims that the 2020 election was “rigged,” as he ticked through a
smorgasbord of topics and perceived enemies, using vulgarities and jokes
that often drew raucous laughter. Trump also took pictures with some of
the party’s top donors and participated in a pricey roundtable for
about 10 of them.</span></p>
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<p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" dir="null"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: blue;">After coming under fierce criticism for praising Putin as “savvy”</span> and “brilliant” for the Russian leader’s moves in Ukraine last month,<span style="color: #cc2f2f;"><span style="color: blue;"> he struck a tougher tone Saturday</span> </span></span></p>
<p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" dir="null"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #cc2f2f;">—<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/03/06/trump-focuses-foreign-policy-speech-gops-top-donors/" style="color: #cc2f2f;"> claiming Putin never would have invaded the country if Trump was president</a></span> of the United States.</span></p>
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<p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" dir="null"><span style="font-size: medium;">But
he spent far more time blaming President Biden than Putin, and often
spoke in vague platitudes without specifying what he would have done
differently.</span></p>
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<p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" dir="null"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/03/06/trump-focuses-foreign-policy-speech-gops-top-donors/"><span style="color: #cc2f2f;">“I knew Putin very well. </span></a></span></p>
<p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" dir="null"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/03/06/trump-focuses-foreign-policy-speech-gops-top-donors/"><span style="color: #cc2f2f;"><span style="color: blue;">He would not have done it. </span></span></a><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/03/06/trump-focuses-foreign-policy-speech-gops-top-donors/"><span style="color: #cc2f2f;"><span style="color: blue;">He would have never done it,”</span></span> </a>Trump
said, without mentioning that, as president, he held up military aid
for Ukraine as he pushed the country to investigate Biden’s son Hunter.</span></p>
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<p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" dir="null"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/03/06/trump-focuses-foreign-policy-speech-gops-top-donors/">He
espoused praise for North Korea’s brutal leader, marveling at how Kim’s
generals and aides “cowered” when the dictator spoke to them.</a> “Total control,” Trump said of how Kim ran the country, describing generals snapping to attention and standing up on command.</span></p>
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<p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" dir="null"><span style="font-size: medium;">“His people were sitting at attention,” he added.</span></p>
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<p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" dir="null"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/03/06/trump-focuses-foreign-policy-speech-gops-top-donors/">“I looked at my people and said I want my people to act like that</a>,” he said to laughter.</span></p>
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<p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" dir="null"><span style="font-size: medium;">Trump
also spent a large portion of his speech falsely claiming that he won
Georgia, Wisconsin and other states in the 2020 election, offering
unsubstantiated theories about how he won. After not touching on the
election until minute 45 — a win for some of his advisers — he finished
the speech with a long jeremiad about it. For example,</span></p>
<p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" dir="null"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #cc2f2f;"><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/03/06/trump-focuses-foreign-policy-speech-gops-top-donors/"><span style="color: #cc2f2f;">he said, he knew he had to have won Georgia</span></a> </span></span></p>
<p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" dir="null"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/03/06/trump-focuses-foreign-policy-speech-gops-top-donors/"><span style="color: blue;">because he won Alabama and South Carolina</span></a><span style="color: blue;"> b</span>y such large numbers, </span></span></p>
<p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" dir="null"><span style="font-size: medium;">and he accused Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg of tilting the election against him.</span></p>
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<p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" dir="null"><span style="font-size: medium;">Trump made an ominous call for the party to be more loyal in backing up his claims about fraud.</span></p>
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<p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" dir="null"><span style="font-size: medium;">“The
vote counter is often more important than the candidate,” he told the
crowd, saying he had learned that from radio show host Mark Levin. “ …
We have to get a lot tougher and smarter at the polls.”</span></p>
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<p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" dir="null"><span style="font-size: medium;">If not, he said, the Republican Party would no longer exist.</span></p>
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<p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" dir="null"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #cc2f2f;"><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/03/06/trump-focuses-foreign-policy-speech-gops-top-donors/"><span style="color: #cc2f2f;">“At a certain point, they won’t show up if we allow this to happen again,”</span></a> </span></span></p>
<p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" dir="null"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #333333;">he said of Republicans.</span></span></p>
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<p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" dir="null"><span style="font-size: medium;">Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel, he added, </span></p>
<p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" dir="null"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/03/06/trump-focuses-foreign-policy-speech-gops-top-donors/"><span style="color: blue;">had vowed she would “work on it.”</span></a></span></p>
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<p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" dir="null"><span style="font-size: medium;">He also viciously mocked Republicans who didn’t back him in his crusade to hold power after he lost the 2020 election. “<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/03/06/trump-focuses-foreign-policy-speech-gops-top-donors/">Stupid, corrupt Mitch McConnell,</a>” he said of the Senate minority leader, before labeling former vice president Mike Pence a “conveyor belt — like corn” for opening and counting the electoral college votes as the Constitution requires.</span></p>
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<p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" dir="null"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: blue;">“Terrible,” he said of Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy (La.), who voted to impeach him.</span></span></p>
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<p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" dir="null"><span style="font-size: medium;">Trump
all but said he planned to run for the presidency again — and that he
wasn’t going anywhere. “I wonder who that might be,” he jokingly said of
the 2024 nominee, as the crowd broke out in “Trump!” chants.</span></p>
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<p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" dir="null"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/03/06/trump-focuses-foreign-policy-speech-gops-top-donors/">“We’ve already won two presidential elections,” Trump falsely stated.</a></span></p>
<p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" dir="null"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/03/06/trump-focuses-foreign-policy-speech-gops-top-donors/"><span style="color: #cc2f2f;">“And now I feel obligated</span></a> that we have to really look strongly at doing it again.…We are looking at it very, very strongly. We have to do it. We have to do it.”</span></p>
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<p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" dir="null"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #cc2f2f;"><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/03/06/trump-focuses-foreign-policy-speech-gops-top-donors/">“We’re doing great as a party,” he said.</a> “The Republican Party is now a fighting party.</span> We are now a winning party. <span style="color: blue;">We are never going back to what it was before</span>. It was heading in the wrong direction.”</span></p>
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<p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" dir="null"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/03/06/trump-focuses-foreign-policy-speech-gops-top-donors/"><span style="color: #cc2f2f;">Trump’s speech was a culmination of two days of events </span><span style="color: blue;">at the gilded riverfront resort here</span></a><span style="color: #cc2f2f;">, </span>where a dazzling chandelier dominates the lobby and sturgeon caviar goes for $200 an ounce and tiki cocktails go for $18.</span></p>
<p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" dir="null"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/03/06/trump-focuses-foreign-policy-speech-gops-top-donors/"><span style="color: #cc2f2f;">Donors who have written checks for tens of thousands of dollars</span> </a>walked out Saturday night holding copies of the former president’s photo book, titled “Our Journey Together,”</span></p>
<p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" dir="null"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/03/06/trump-focuses-foreign-policy-speech-gops-top-donors/"><span style="color: blue;">purchased by the RNC.</span></a></span></p>
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<p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" dir="null"><span style="font-size: medium;">The
mood has been largely ebullient at the hotel, as donors and operatives
predicted Republicans would win back congressional majorities.</span></p>
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<p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" dir="null"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #cc2f2f;">Donors have also heard from</span> Pence, senators and members of Congress, pollster Kellyanne Conway and former U.N. ambassador Nikki Haley,
according to people familiar with the events. Pence and Haley, both
potential 2024 candidates, touched on some of the same themes as Trump —
Ukraine and Russia, chiefly — but offered vastly shorter and different
speeches.</span></p>
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<p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" dir="null"><span style="font-size: medium;">Discussing future elections, Pence said Republicans needed to move past the 2020 election loss. Trump has continued to <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/01/31/trump-pence-overturned-election/?itid=lk_inline_manual_31&itid=lk_inline_manual_39">falsely claim</a>
that Pence had the authority to overturn the 2020 election during
Congress’s counting of electoral college votes, which he did not. Such
false claims helped fuel the “Hang Mike Pence!” chant that erupted among
the pro-Trump mob during the U.S. Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021.</span></p>
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<p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" dir="null"><span style="font-size: medium;">“My
fellow Republicans, we can only win if we are united around an
optimistic vision for the future based on our highest values,” he said.
“We cannot win by fighting yesterday’s battles or by re-litigating the
past.”</span></p>
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<p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" dir="null"><span style="font-size: medium;">Pence
advisers said he wanted to draw a contrast with Trump, who continues to
look back on the 2020 election, as he did on Saturday evening.</span></p>
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<p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" dir="null"><span style="font-size: medium;">Pence
obliquely chastised Trump for his comments that Putin was “savvy” and
“brilliant,” according to a copy of his remarks reviewed by The Post.</span></p>
<p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" dir="null"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #cc2f2f;"><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/03/06/trump-focuses-foreign-policy-speech-gops-top-donors/" style="color: #cc2f2f;">There is no room in this party for apologists for Putin,</a>” <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/03/05/pence-putin-russia-apologists-gop-trump/?itid=lk_inline_manual_44" rel="noopener" style="color: #cc2f2f;" target="_blank">Pence said</a>.</span> </span></p>
<p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" dir="null"><span style="font-size: medium;">Trump cited the comments Saturday night:</span></p>
<p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" dir="null"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/03/06/trump-focuses-foreign-policy-speech-gops-top-donors/"><span style="color: blue;">“Nobody has ever been tougher on Russia than me,” he retorted,</span> </a></span></p>
<p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" dir="null"><span style="font-size: medium;">adding that those who have accused him of being a “Putin apologist” disqualify themselves from being “serious leaders of our country.”</span></p>
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<p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" dir="null"><span style="font-size: medium;">Haley
did not mention Trump once in her speech, according to audio reviewed
by The Post. She largely attacked Biden and described a country in
decline that is battling over boys playing on girls’ sports teams,
gender issues in the military and curriculum fights in classrooms.</span></p>
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<p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" dir="null"><span style="font-size: medium;">“The
reason Ukraine is in this situation, the reason we have world chaos
like we are, is the United States has been completely and totally
distracted,” Haley said. “ … We have to stop this national self-loathing
that’s happening in our country.”</span></p>
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<p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" dir="null"><span style="font-size: medium;">She implicitly criticized the Trump administration for not doing more to take on China when it came to the <a class="contextual_link" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/coronavirus/?itid=lk_inline_manual_50" rel="noopener" target="_blank">coronavirus</a> pandemic and, in contrast with Trump’s comments in recent weeks, criticized Russia for its moves in Ukraine.</span></p>
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<p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" dir="null"><span style="font-size: medium;">“When
China gave covid to the world and millions of people died, what did we
do? We didn’t even call one pitiful meeting at the United Nations,” she
said. “We didn’t ask China to step up. … We’ve done nothing about it.”</span></p>
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<p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" dir="null"><span style="font-size: medium;">Several
people in the room said Trump’s speech stretched far too long and he
sounded like he was rambling more in the last 30 minutes. In the middle
of the speech, attendees said people in the crowd seemed to lose
interest.</span></p>
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<p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" dir="null"><span style="font-size: medium;">Trump
came to the dinner as the leading figure in the GOP, but his influence
has waned in recent months, according to polls and interviews with
activists and donors. Though he has raised more money than any other
Republican since leaving office — his political action committee has
more than $120 million — he has seen some erosion in support.</span></p>
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<p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" dir="null"><span style="font-size: medium;">That Trump came to New Orleans at all — he rarely leaves his properties — and that <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/03/06/trump-focuses-foreign-policy-speech-gops-top-donors/"><span style="color: #cc2f2f;">the GOP did not hold the event in Palm Beach, Fla., at his club as they did last year</span></a> [2021] were signs to some that his influence has faded. Last year, his speech was widely panned, and some donors left early, </span></p>
<p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" dir="null"><span style="font-size: medium;">as he made it all about the election.</span></p>
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<p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" dir="null"><span style="font-size: medium;">Trump
spent much of the evening talking about the fighting in Ukraine and
sought to project strength on his foreign policy record, regaling the
crowd with a long story about how his administration took on the Islamic
State militant group.</span></p>
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<p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" dir="null"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/03/06/trump-focuses-foreign-policy-speech-gops-top-donors/"><span style="color: #cc2f2f;">He bragged about pushing NATO — </span></a></span></p>
<p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" dir="null"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/03/06/trump-focuses-foreign-policy-speech-gops-top-donors/"><span style="color: #cc2f2f;"><span style="color: blue;">which he called a “paper tiger”</span></span> </a><span style="color: blue;">—</span> </span></p>
<p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" dir="null"><span style="font-size: medium;">to force its countries to pay more for joint defense, but did not mention that he threatened to pull out altogether. He attacked Biden for rising inflation and gas prices, using exaggerated numbers in some cases,</span></p>
<p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" dir="null"><span style="font-size: medium;">and said</span></p>
<p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" dir="null"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/03/06/trump-focuses-foreign-policy-speech-gops-top-donors/"><span style="color: #cc2f2f;">countries were “emptying their prisons” in the United States until he came along.</span></a></span></p>
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<p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" dir="null"><span style="font-size: medium;">He
mocked Biden for continually saying the United States would not
militarily attack Russia but offered ambivalence on exactly what he
could do. “We’re not spreading democracy at the point of a gun,” he
said. Trump said Putin had talked more about nuclear power recently
because he did not respect Biden, but he did not offer proof. And</span></p>
<p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" dir="null"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/03/06/trump-focuses-foreign-policy-speech-gops-top-donors/"><span style="color: #cc2f2f;">he said Biden should take a more belligerent tone.</span></a></span></p>
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<p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" dir="null"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: blue;">“<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/03/06/trump-focuses-foreign-policy-speech-gops-top-donors/" style="color: blue;">At what point do we say we cannot take this massive crime against humanity?</a></span> </span></p>
<p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" dir="null"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/03/06/trump-focuses-foreign-policy-speech-gops-top-donors/">We can’t let it happen. We can’t let it continue to happen,”</a> he said.</span></p>
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<p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" dir="null"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #cc2f2f;"><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/03/06/trump-focuses-foreign-policy-speech-gops-top-donors/" style="color: #cc2f2f;">He said the military, under his watch, </a></span></span></p>
<p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" dir="null"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #cc2f2f;"><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/03/06/trump-focuses-foreign-policy-speech-gops-top-donors/" style="color: #cc2f2f;"><span style="color: blue;">had gotten in “skirmishes” with Russian troops</span> </a></span></span></p>
<p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" dir="null"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #cc2f2f;"><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/03/06/trump-focuses-foreign-policy-speech-gops-top-donors/" style="color: #cc2f2f;">and won,</a> </span></span></p>
<p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" dir="null"><span style="font-size: medium;">but he did not say more.</span></p>
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<p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" dir="null"><span style="font-size: medium;">And
he ominously spoke of Putin being more willing to engage in nuclear war
— even referencing World War III — because Biden is president. He said that around the world, </span></p>
<p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" dir="null"><span style="font-size: medium;">others would become more aggressive, too, without him.</span></p>
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<p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" dir="null"><span style="font-size: medium;">“Watch China.
You watch what’s going to happen there. Everything seems to be falling
to pieces,” he said. “[Biden’s] complete and gross incompetence,</span></p>
<p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" dir="null"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #cc2f2f;"><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/03/06/trump-focuses-foreign-policy-speech-gops-top-donors/" style="color: #cc2f2f;">they threaten a much wider world.”</a></span></span></p>
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<p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" dir="null"><span style="font-size: medium;">Biden has received some plaudits for his handling of the Ukraine situation among foreign policy experts.</span></p>
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<p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" dir="null"><span style="font-size: medium;">Trump
reiterated some of his frequently repeated falsehoods and petty
grievances. “The global warming hoax, it just never ends,” he said. He
mocked the concept of sea levels rising, disputing widely held science.
“To which I say, great, we have more waterfront property,” he said.</span></p>
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<p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" dir="null"><span style="font-size: medium;">“There
was a big thing about global cooling — what will be next?” he said.
Trump said he was more concerned about “nuclear warming” than global
warming.</span></p>
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<p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" dir="null"><span style="font-size: medium;">He bragged about his crowds,
inflating numbers at recent rallies, and mocked Biden for observing
social distancing during the 2020 campaign. “He’d have eight circles and
he’d have to get the media to fill them,” he said, describing the
distanced seats Biden’s team would put out at rallies, with circles
around them.</span></p>
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<p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" dir="null"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/03/06/trump-focuses-foreign-policy-speech-gops-top-donors/"><span style="color: #cc2f2f;">Trump called George Conway,</span></a> the husband of Kellyanne Conway and a fierce critic of the former president’s, </span></p>
<p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" dir="null"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: blue;">a “stupid son of a b—-” </span></span></p>
<p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" dir="null"><span style="font-size: medium;">and
questioned why she married him, even as he extensively praised her. He
mocked several of his former aides, including John Bolton, who he said
only loved going to war. And he labeled Rep. Adam B. Schiff (D-Calif.),
who led the congressional impeachment probes against him, a “watermelon
head … because his head is shaped like a watermelon.””</span></p><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" dir="null"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">....................... </span><p> </p>susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14710989163705986252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1907031520446514200.post-11043983047018904652023-06-11T19:56:00.001-03:002023-06-11T19:57:59.857-03:00In great news for humanity, Russian scientists will introduce actual science at next CO2 conference, COP 28 in Dubai. IPCC is rule over citizens, not science, business of ‘greenhouse emissions’ created by Joyce Foundation, backed by Goldman Sachs alum-Thierry Meyssan <p><span style="color: #f3f3f3;"> .</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span>6/7/23, <span style="color: #990000;">“<a href="https://www.voltairenet.org/article219438.html">Global warming and the confrontation between the West and the rest of the world</a><a href="https://www.voltairenet.org/article219438.html">,</a></span>” Voltaire, by <span class="fn"><span lang="fr">Thierry Meyssan</span></span></span></span>
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<p><span style="font-size: large;"><span>“The theory of the anthropogenic cause of global warming <a href="https://www.voltairenet.org/article219438.html">will soon be at the center of the confrontation between the West and Russia</a><a href="https://www.voltairenet.org/article219438.html">.</a>
While no one denies that some parts of the world are warming, there is
currently no alternative explanation for this phenomenon.<a href="https://www.voltairenet.org/article219438.html"> But renowned scientists will be presenting another at COP-28 in Dubai. They happen to be <span style="color: #b52f2f;">members of the Russian Academy of Sciences.”</span></a></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"><span>“The theory that global warming is observable all over the planet and that it is caused by human activity has been <a href="https://www.voltairenet.org/article219438.html"><span style="color: blue;">popularized by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC); a United Nations commission.</span></a></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"><span>I have no expertise in climate issues and I don’t presume to judge whether this theory is true or false, but I am an expert in international politics and I can assess the work of this UN commission.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"><span>Ten years ago, I wrote that, as its name suggests, the<a href="https://www.voltairenet.org/article219438.html"><span style="color: #b52f2f;"> IPCC is not a learned academy at all, but an intergovernmental group</span></a><span class="spip_note_ref"><a href="https://www.voltairenet.org/article219438.html"> </a>[<a class="spip_note" href="https://www.voltairenet.org/article219438.html#nb1" id="nh1" rel="appendix" title="Le prétexte climatique 2/3 : « 1982-1996 : L’écologie de marché », par Thierry (...)">1</a>]</span>. Its conclusions are therefore </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"><span><a href="https://www.voltairenet.org/article219438.html"><span style="color: blue;">not the fruit of a scientific approach,</span></a> </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"><span>but of a political debate.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span style="color: #b52f2f;"><a href="https://www.voltairenet.org/article219438.html" style="color: #b52f2f;">The IPCC was created on the initiative</a> of the British Prime Minister, <span style="color: blue;">Margareth Thatcher,</span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span style="color: #b52f2f;"><span style="color: blue;"> to support her fight against the miners’ unions.</span></span> </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"><span>Unsurprisingly, it concluded</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"><span>that coal is bad for the environment, while nuclear power is desirable. </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"><span>This is not a scientific theorem, but a political statement.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"><span>Furthermore, I pointed out that <span style="color: #b52f2f;"><a href="https://www.voltairenet.org/article219438.html">t<span style="color: #b52f2f;">he creation of greenhouse gas emission rights</span></a> <span style="color: blue;">is not an intergovernmental initiative,</span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"><span> but an idea of <span style="color: #b52f2f;">the Joyce Foundation,</span> </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"><span>implemented by Climate Exchange Ltd.<span class="spip_note_ref"> [<a class="spip_note" href="https://www.voltairenet.org/article219438.html#nb2" id="nh2" rel="appendix" title="The Climate Pretext 3/3 : “1997-2010: Financial Ecology”, by Thierry Meyssan, (...)">2</a>]</span>.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"><span>Each state drafts its own legislation on the subject. It receives a
certain quantity of emission rights, which it allocates as it sees fit
to companies. Companies that only partially use their rights </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"><span><a href="https://www.voltairenet.org/article219438.html">can resell them on a specialized stock exchange in Chicago.</a></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span style="color: #b52f2f;">The articles of association for this exchange were drafted by a then unknown <a href="https://www.voltairenet.org/article219438.html"><span style="color: blue;">Joyce Foundation lawyer, a certain Barack Obama</span></a></span> (future President of the United States).</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span style="color: #b52f2f;">The call for investors to launch the exchange was organized by Al Gore</span> (future vice-president of the United States),<span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: #333333;"> and David Blood</span> (<a href="https://www.voltairenet.org/article219438.html">former director of Goldman Sachs bank)</a>. </span>Whether you consider these people to be bona fide environmental activists or high-flying swindlers is a matter of perspective.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"><span>Over time, this political device has been </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"><span><a href="https://www.voltairenet.org/article219438.html"><span style="color: blue;">cloaked in a veneer of science and good intentions</span></a>, making it difficult to question.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span style="color: #b52f2f;"> Yet there is an alternative scientific theory to explain global warming. </span>It was <span style="color: blue;">put forward by Croatian geophysicist Milutin Milanković </span>between the wars.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"><span><a href="https://www.voltairenet.org/article219438.html">The Earth’s orbit varies according to three natural cycles</a>:
eccentricity, obliquity and the precession of the equinoxes. Each of
these variations follows a cycle, between 20,000 and 100,000 years,
which is perfectly calculable. Combined, these three variations influence the Earth’s insolation and hence its climate. This theory was<span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.voltairenet.org/article219438.html"> confirmed in 1976 by the study of ice cores from the Vostok drilling project in Antarctica</a>.</span> But it doesn’t explain everything.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"><span><a href="https://www.voltairenet.org/article219438.html"><span style="color: #b52f2f;">The Russian Academy of Sciences has just put forward <span style="color: blue;">a third theory, also based on observation of nature</span></span><span style="color: blue;">.</span> </a>According to it, “The main cause of local climatic catastrophes is the<span style="color: #b52f2f;"> increasing emission of natural hydrogen</span> due to the alternating gravitational forces of the moon and sun, <span style="color: blue;">which cause holes in the ozone layer.</span> The resulting rise in temperature and <span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.voltairenet.org/article219438.html">the mixing of ozone and hydrogen</a> are the main causes of forest and steppe fires</span>“<span class="spip_note_ref"> [<a class="spip_note" href="https://www.voltairenet.org/article219438.html#nb3" id="nh3" rel="appendix" title="[Source : Communiqué of the President of the Russian Academy of (...)">3</a>]</span>].</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"><span>The Académie des Sciences not only questions the dogma of the IPCC, it <a href="https://www.voltairenet.org/article219438.html">also <span style="color: #b52f2f;">challenges the mechanism for reducing holes in the ozone layer.</span></a><span style="color: blue;"> Namely, the Vienna Convention and the Montreal Protocol</span> “whose implementation has wiped out entire sub-industries of the chemical industry </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span style="color: #b52f2f;">without affecting the size of ozone holes, </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"><span><a href="https://www.voltairenet.org/article219438.html"><span style="color: #b52f2f;"><span style="color: blue;">which have only increased”.</span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"><span>The Russian Academy of Sciences’ theory is also based on the idea that global warming </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"><span><a href="https://www.voltairenet.org/article219438.html"><span style="color: blue;">is not a comparable phenomenon in different parts of the world.</span> </a></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span style="color: #b52f2f;">Contrary to popular belief, the temperature of the Pacific Ocean is actually cooling</span><span class="spip_note_ref"> [<a class="spip_note" href="https://www.voltairenet.org/article219438.html#nb4" id="nh4" rel="appendix" title="Systematic Climate Model Biases in the Large-Scale Patterns of Recent (...)">4</a>]</span>.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"><span><a href="https://www.voltairenet.org/article219438.html">The findings of the Russian Academy of Sciences will be presented</a> at COP-28 in Dubai in late November/early December [2023]. </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span style="color: blue;">A political battle is already underway</span> to silence the scientists.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span style="color: #b52f2f;"><a href="https://www.voltairenet.org/article219438.html"><span style="color: #b52f2f;">It concerns the appointment of the session chairman</span></a>,</span> who will be able to give the floor to the troublemakers or, on the contrary, silence them. <span style="color: blue;">Mohammed ben Zayed, the ruler of the United Arab Emirates, is in charge of choosing the chairman.</span><span style="color: #333333;"> He has appointed Sultan al-Jaber, his Minister of Industry.</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span style="color: #b52f2f;"><a href="https://www.voltairenet.org/article219438.html" style="color: #b52f2f;"> US and EU parliamentarians immediately wrote</a> <span style="color: blue;">to UN Secretary-General António Guterres, asking him to oppose the move</span></span>. </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"><span><a href="https://www.voltairenet.org/article219438.html">Their argument, as ever, is irrelevant to their objective</a>. They
argue that Sultan al-Jaber is also Chairman of the Abu Dhabi National
Oil Company (Adnoc). He would therefore be judge and jury. Instead, they recommend appointing a non-fossil fuel lobbyist. </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"><span>He would also be judge and jury, but for the opposing camp.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span style="color: #b52f2f;">If Russian scientists speak out at COP-28, the assembly is likely to split in two,</span> not along scientific but political lines. </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"><span><a href="https://www.voltairenet.org/article219438.html"><span style="color: blue;">Anglo-Saxon supporters versus Russian supporters (the rest of the world)</span>.</a> </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span style="color: #b52f2f;">There’s no doubt that the IPCC dogma</span> will soon become the idée fixe of the West and </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"><span><a href="https://www.voltairenet.org/article219438.html">the laughing stock</a> of the rest of the world.”</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"><span>“Sources:</span></span></p>
<div class="notes">
<div id="nb1">
<p><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span class="spip_note_ref">[<a class="spip_note" href="https://www.voltairenet.org/article219438.html#nh1" rev="appendix" title="Footnotes 1">1</a>] </span>Le prétexte climatique 2/3 : « <a href="https://www.voltairenet.org/article164791.html">1982-1996 : L’écologie de marché</a> », par Thierry Meyssan, <i>Оdnako</i> (Russie) , <i>Réseau Voltaire</i>, 22 avril 2010.</span></span></p>
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<div id="nb2">
<p><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span class="spip_note_ref">[<a class="spip_note" href="https://www.voltairenet.org/article219438.html#nh2" rev="appendix" title="Footnotes 2">2</a>] </span>The Climate Pretext 3/3 : “<a href="https://www.voltairenet.org/article189616.html">1997-2010: Financial Ecology</a>”, by Thierry Meyssan, Translation Roger Lagassé, <i>Оdnako</i> (Russia) , <i>Voltaire Network</i>, 7 December 2015.</span></span></p>
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<div id="nb3">
<p><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span class="spip_note_ref">[<a class="spip_note" href="https://www.voltairenet.org/article219438.html#nh3" rev="appendix" title="Footnotes 3">3</a>] </span>[Source : <a class="spip_out" href="https://t.me/glazieview/3416" rel="external">Communiqué of the President of the Russian Academy of Sciences</a>.</span></span></p>
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<div id="nb4">
<p><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span class="spip_note_ref">[<a class="spip_note" href="https://www.voltairenet.org/article219438.html#nh4" rev="appendix" title="Footnotes 4">4</a>] </span><i><a href="https://www.voltairenet.org/IMG/pdf/geophysical_research_letters_-_2022_-_wills_-_systematic_climate_model_biases_in_the_large_scale_patterns_of_recent.pdf">Systematic Climate Model Biases in the Large-Scale Patterns of Recent Sea-Surface Temperature and Sea-Level Pressure Change</a></i>,
Robert C. J. Wills, Yue Dong, Cristian Proistosecu, Kyle C. Armour
& David S. Battisti, Geophysical Research Letters, DOI :
10.1029/2022GL100011.”</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"><span>………………………………..</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"><span>Added: <span style="color: #b52f2f;"><a href="http://www.uq.edu.au/news/article/2014/08/climate-change-not-so-global" style="color: #b52f2f;">2014 peer reviewed study reverses assumption that climate is “global,”</a></span> northern and southern hemispheres must be seen separately. <span style="color: #b52f2f;"><span style="color: blue;">““This study highlights the need</span> <a href="http://www.uq.edu.au/news/article/2014/08/climate-change-not-so-global"><span style="color: blue;">to understand regional climate</span></a></span> <a href="http://www.uq.edu.au/news/article/2014/08/climate-change-not-so-global"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: #b52f2f;">rather than a global one-size-fits-all,</span></span></a><span style="color: #b52f2f;">”</span>…Professor Shulmeister said….The research was conducted in collaboration with the <a href="http://www.uni-greifswald.de/">University of Griefswald</a>, Germany, the <a href="http://www.ansto.gov.au/">Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation</a>, and the <a href="http://www.canterbury.ac.nz/">University of Canterbury</a>, New Zealand,<a href="http://www.uq.edu.au/news/article/2014/08/climate-change-not-so-global"> <span style="color: #b52f2f;">and published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science in July [2014].”</span></a></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span class="date-display-single">August 4, 2014, <span style="color: blue;">“</span></span><a href="http://www.uq.edu.au/news/article/2014/08/climate-change-not-so-global"><span style="color: blue;">Climate change not so global,</span></a>” University of Queensland</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"><span>“Scientists are calling for a better understanding of regional climates, after research into New Zealand’s glaciers <span style="color: #b52f2f;">has revealed climate change in the Northern Hemisphere <a href="http://www.uq.edu.au/news/article/2014/08/climate-change-not-so-global"><span style="color: blue;">does not directly affect the climate in the Southern Hemisphere.</span></a></span></span></span></p>
<div class="field field-name-field-core-body">
<p><span style="font-size: large;"><span>The University of Queensland study showed that future climate changes may</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"><span><a href="http://www.uq.edu.au/news/article/2014/08/climate-change-not-so-global">impact differently in the two hemispheres,</a> </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"><span>meaning a generalised global approach isn’t the solution to climate issues.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"><span>UQ School of Geography, Planning and Environmental Management Head <a href="http://www.gpem.uq.edu.au/james-shulmeister">Professor Jamie Shulmeister</a> said the study provided evidence for the late survival of </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"><span>significant glaciers in the mountains of New Zealand at the end of the last ice age – </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"><span>a time when other ice areas were retreating.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span style="color: #b52f2f;"><a href="http://www.uq.edu.au/news/article/2014/08/climate-change-not-so-global"><span style="color: #b52f2f;">“This study reverses previous findings</span></a> which suggested that New Zealand’s glaciers <span style="color: blue;">disappeared at the same time as ice in the Northern Hemisphere,</span></span><span style="color: blue;">”</span> he said.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"><span>“We showed that when the Northern Hemisphere started to warm
at the end of the last ice age, New Zealand glaciers were unaffected.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span style="color: #b52f2f;">“These glaciers began to retreat several thousand years later, <span style="color: blue;">when changes in the Southern Ocean led to increased carbon dioxide emissions and warming.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"><span>”This indicates that future climate change may <a href="http://www.uq.edu.au/news/article/2014/08/climate-change-not-so-global"><span style="color: #b52f2f;">impact differently in the two hemispheres</span> and that </a></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"><span><a href="http://www.uq.edu.au/news/article/2014/08/climate-change-not-so-global">changes in the Southern Ocean </a></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"><span>are likely to be critical for Australia and New Zealand.”</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"><span>The study used exposure dating of moraines – mounds of rocks formed by glaciers
– to reconstruct the rate of ice retreat in New Zealand’s Ashburton
Valley after the last glacial maximum – the time when the ice sheets
were at their largest.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"><span>The researchers found that the period from the last glacial maximum to the end of the ice age was longer in New Zealand than in the Northern Hemisphere.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"><span>They also found that the maximum glacier extent in New Zealand occurred <span style="color: blue;">several thousand years before the maximum in the Northern Hemisphere,</span> demonstrating that</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"><span>growth of the northern ice sheets did not cause expansion of New Zealand glaciers.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span style="color: #b52f2f;"><span style="color: #b52f2f;"><a href="http://www.uq.edu.au/news/article/2014/08/climate-change-not-so-global" style="color: #b52f2f;">“New Zealand glaciers responded largely to local changes in the Southern Ocean, <span style="color: blue;">rather than changes in the Northern Hemisphere</span></a></span><span style="color: blue;"> as was previously believed</span>,</span>” Professor Shulmeister said.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"><span>“This study highlights the need to understand regional climate rather than a global one-size-fits-all.”</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"><span><a href="http://www.uq.edu.au/news/article/2014/08/climate-change-not-so-global">The research was conducted in collaboration</a> with the <a href="http://www.uni-greifswald.de/">University of Griefswald</a>, Germany, the <a href="http://www.ansto.gov.au/">Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation</a>, and the <a href="http://www.canterbury.ac.nz/">University of Canterbury</a>, New Zealand, <span style="color: #b52f2f;">and published in the <a href="http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2014/07/23/1401547111.abstract?sid=01724ef9-c5d5-4e97-be60-f310638b65ce" style="color: #b52f2f;">Proceedings of the National Academy of Science</a> in July [2014].”</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"><span>……………………………….</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"><span>“Media: Professor Jamie Shulmeister, 0401 001 254, <a href="mailto:james.shulmeister@uq.edu.au">james.shulmeister@uq.edu.au; </a>Aimee Parker, Marketing and Communication Officer, 3346 1629, <a href="mailto:a.parker3@uq.edu.au">a.parker3@uq.edu.au”</a></span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: large;">May 27, 2023,<span style="color: #2b00fe;"> </span><a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/donald-trump-boris-johnson-golf-club-us-2023-xvflbt0c3"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">“Donald Trump and Boris Johnson discuss Ukraine at golf club dinner,”</span><span style="color: #c72828;"> </span></a>Times of London, Henry Zeffman, Hugh Tomlinson</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://impeachobamatoday.files.wordpress.com/2023/06/beef.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-95916 alignleft" data-attachment-id="95916" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-caption="" data-image-description="" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="beef" data-large-file="https://impeachobamatoday.files.wordpress.com/2023/06/beef.png?w=497" data-medium-file="https://impeachobamatoday.files.wordpress.com/2023/06/beef.png?w=300" data-orig-file="https://impeachobamatoday.files.wordpress.com/2023/06/beef.png" data-orig-size="503,339" data-permalink="https://impeachobamatoday.wordpress.com/2023/06/09/in-2023-us-elites-sold-us-taxpayers-like-a-hanging-side-of-beef-to-ukraine-warmonger-boris-johnson-another-uk-leech-crossing-the-atlantic-ocean-to-bleed-us-taxpayers-on-6-9-2023-boris-resigned-his/beef/" height="168" src="https://impeachobamatoday.files.wordpress.com/2023/06/beef.png?w=250&h=168" width="250" /></a>“<a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/donald-trump-boris-johnson-golf-club-us-2023-xvflbt0c3">Boris Johnson has had dinner with Donald Trump at one of the former president’s golf clubs.</a></span></p>
<p class="responsive__Paragraph-sc-1pktst5-0 gaEeqC"><span style="font-size: large;">“In the week it emerged that Johnson could face two more police investigations over claims of lockdown rule-breaking,<span style="color: #c93030;"><a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/donald-trump-boris-johnson-golf-club-us-2023-xvflbt0c3" style="color: #c93030;"> </a></span><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/donald-trump-boris-johnson-golf-club-us-2023-xvflbt0c3">he joined Trump at the Trump National golf club outside Washington</a></span><span style="color: #c93030;"><a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/donald-trump-boris-johnson-golf-club-us-2023-xvflbt0c3" style="color: #c93030;"> <span style="color: #333333;">on Thursday [May 25].</span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="responsive__Paragraph-sc-1pktst5-0 gaEeqC"><span style="font-size: large;">A spokesman for the former prime minister said that the discussions were <span style="color: #2b00fe;"><a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/donald-trump-boris-johnson-golf-club-us-2023-xvflbt0c3">focused on [more US taxpayer funding of] Ukraine.</a></span> “Rt Hon <a class="link__RespLink-sc-1ocvixa-0 csWvlP" href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/topic/boris-johnson">Boris Johnson</a> MP
met President Donald J Trump to discuss the situation in Ukraine and
the vital importance of Ukrainian victory,” the spokesman said.</span></p>
<p class="responsive__Paragraph-sc-1pktst5-0 gaEeqC"><span style="font-size: large;">Trump is seeking the Republican nomination to face Joe Biden again for <a class="link__RespLink-sc-1ocvixa-0 csWvlP" href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/topic/us-election">the presidency</a> next year. He has adopted a significantly more equivocal position on the Ukraine war than Johnson or Biden….</span></p>
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2015 when Johnson was London mayor. Then, Johnson said that Trump’s
claim that immigration had produced no-go areas in London displayed
“stupefying ignorance that makes him frankly unfit for the office of the
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<p class="responsive__Paragraph-sc-1pktst5-0 gaEeqC" id="last-paragraph"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #c93030;"><a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/donald-trump-boris-johnson-golf-club-us-2023-xvflbt0c3"><span style="color: #c93030;">On his trip to the US this week Johnson has also met George W Bush</span></a><span style="color: #c93030;">,</span> <span style="color: #333333;">another former president,</span><span style="color: blue;"> Greg Abbott, the governor of Texas,<span style="color: #c93030;"><a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/donald-trump-boris-johnson-golf-club-us-2023-xvflbt0c3" style="color: #c93030;"> </a></span></span></span><span><span><span><a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/donald-trump-boris-johnson-golf-club-us-2023-xvflbt0c3">and Mike Pompeo, who</a></span></span><span><a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/donald-trump-boris-johnson-golf-club-us-2023-xvflbt0c3"> was Trump’s secretary of state.”</a></span></span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: large;">Added: <span style="color: #c72a2a;">Warmonger lobbyist group <a href="https://www.politico.eu/article/send-for-agent-bojo-boris-johnson-dispatched-to-texas-to-boost-republican-support-for-ukraine/" style="color: #c72a2a;">CEPA finances UK’s Boris Johnson trip to US</a> </span>to leech off defenseless US taxpayers. And why not?</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;">May 23, 2023,<span style="color: #2b00fe;"> <span>“<span><a href="https://www.politico.eu/article/send-for-agent-bojo-boris-johnson-dispatched-to-texas-to-boost-republican-support-for-ukraine/">Send for Agent BoJo! Boris Johnson dispatched to Texas to shore up Republican support for Ukraine</a></span></span></span><span style="color: #c93030;"><span style="color: #c42525;"><a href="https://www.politico.eu/article/send-for-agent-bojo-boris-johnson-dispatched-to-texas-to-boost-republican-support-for-ukraine/" style="color: #c42525;">,</a></span></span>” Politico, Annabelle Dickson, Dallas</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: large;">“Britain might have fallen out of love with Boris Johnson.<a href="https://www.politico.eu/article/send-for-agent-bojo-boris-johnson-dispatched-to-texas-to-boost-republican-support-for-ukraine/"> <span style="color: #b82828;">But Ukraine’s allies in the U.S. reckon the charismatic ex-prime minister<span style="color: blue;"> is still the perfect messenger to [leech off defenseless US taxpayers] shore up support</span><span style="color: #333333;"> for the war</span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"> in wavering Republican heartlands.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.politico.eu/article/send-for-agent-bojo-boris-johnson-dispatched-to-texas-to-boost-republican-support-for-ukraine/"><span style="color: #b82828;">Pro-Ukraine think tankers on Monday brought Johnson to </span></a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.politico.eu/article/send-for-agent-bojo-boris-johnson-dispatched-to-texas-to-boost-republican-support-for-ukraine/"><span style="color: #b82828;"><span style="color: blue;">a private lunch in Dallas, Texas, to meet two dozen</span> </span></a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #b82828;">of the state’s leading conservative figures,</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"> including politicians, donors </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;">and captains of industry.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;">The message Johnson was there to deliver was simple: America must stay the course in Ukraine.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.politico.eu/article/send-for-agent-bojo-boris-johnson-dispatched-to-texas-to-boost-republican-support-for-ukraine/">“I just urge you all to stick with it,” Johnson told those seated in the grand, wood-panelled dining room in downtown Dallas</a>, where POLITICO was also in attendance. “It will pay off massively in the long run.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.politico.eu/article/send-for-agent-bojo-boris-johnson-dispatched-to-texas-to-boost-republican-support-for-ukraine/"><span style="color: #b82828;">The former U.K. prime minister flew to Texas</span></a> as a growing number of conservative lawmakers, candidates and activists have <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/12/29/republicans-ukraine-spending-00075844" rel="noopener" target="_blank">started to question</a> the size of the U.S. support package for Ukraine….</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;">Political tensions over the war are expected to rise further as the 2024 U.S. election draws nearer….</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.politico.eu/article/send-for-agent-bojo-boris-johnson-dispatched-to-texas-to-boost-republican-support-for-ukraine/">Johnson told Texan Republicans on Monday:</a> “You are backing the right horse. Ukraine is going to win. They are going to defeat Putin.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #b82828;"><a href="https://www.politico.eu/article/send-for-agent-bojo-boris-johnson-dispatched-to-texas-to-boost-republican-support-for-ukraine/"><span style="color: blue;">The lunch was not the first time Johnson has lobbied U.S. lawmakers</span></a><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.politico.eu/article/send-for-agent-bojo-boris-johnson-dispatched-to-texas-to-boost-republican-support-for-ukraine/"><span style="color: blue;"> on</span> Ukraine’s behalf</a>.<span style="color: #333333;"> He visited Washington in January [2023]</span></span><span style="color: #333333;">,</span></span> where he publicly urged the U.S. administration to give Ukraine fighter jets, </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #c42525;"><a href="https://www.politico.eu/article/send-for-agent-bojo-boris-johnson-dispatched-to-texas-to-boost-republican-support-for-ukraine/" style="color: #c42525;">and privately met Republican lawmakers on the same trip.</a></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #b82828;">Following that visit, the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA)</span> — a bipartisan,</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.politico.eu/article/send-for-agent-bojo-boris-johnson-dispatched-to-texas-to-boost-republican-support-for-ukraine/"><span style="color: blue;">Ukraine-supporting think tank based in Washington</span> — decided to enlist Johnson’s support for a broader mission.</a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;">The group wanted him to take his energetic, [alleged] pro-conservative </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.politico.eu/article/send-for-agent-bojo-boris-johnson-dispatched-to-texas-to-boost-republican-support-for-ukraine/"><span style="color: #c42525;">case for the war out of metropolitan D.C. and deep into Republican territory.</span></a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;">“We wanted to make that case outside of Washington — where we all live in a bubble —<span style="color: #c42525;"><a href="https://www.politico.eu/article/send-for-agent-bojo-boris-johnson-dispatched-to-texas-to-boost-republican-support-for-ukraine/"> and to really take it to the heartland, to places like Texas</a>,</span> to get more support for Ukraine, and make the case to people who are skeptical about that support,” said Alina Polyakova,</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;">CEPA’s chief executive.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;">“In many ways Dallas and Texas are the center of the Republican debate,” she added.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;">Texas will be a key battleground in the 2024 Republican presidential
primary. Trump held his first presidential rally in the Lone Star State
in March, while DeSantis and former Governor of South Carolina Nikki
Haley have also been courting votes in Texas.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: #c42525;"><a href="https://www.politico.eu/article/send-for-agent-bojo-boris-johnson-dispatched-to-texas-to-boost-republican-support-for-ukraine/"><span style="color: #c42525;">Johnson is “very much seen as the [unelected] architect </span></a><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.politico.eu/article/send-for-agent-bojo-boris-johnson-dispatched-to-texas-to-boost-republican-support-for-ukraine/"><span style="color: #c42525;">of the </span></a></span></span><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span><a href="https://www.politico.eu/article/send-for-agent-bojo-boris-johnson-dispatched-to-texas-to-boost-republican-support-for-ukraine/"><span>Western</span> <span>policy” on Ukraine,</span></a> </span></span><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span>Polyakova said</span></span></b>, adding that<span style="color: blue;"> “because Trump had nice things to say about him </span>when he was the president,” </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.politico.eu/article/send-for-agent-bojo-boris-johnson-dispatched-to-texas-to-boost-republican-support-for-ukraine/">it also [allegedly] gives Johnson “a lot of credibility as well </a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.politico.eu/article/send-for-agent-bojo-boris-johnson-dispatched-to-texas-to-boost-republican-support-for-ukraine/">with the base of the Republican Party.”</a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #c42525;">As well as the private lunch with Republicans in Dallas on Monday, <a href="https://www.politico.eu/article/send-for-agent-bojo-boris-johnson-dispatched-to-texas-to-boost-republican-support-for-ukraine/">Johnson also met with former U.S. President George W. Bush</a></span><a href="https://www.politico.eu/article/send-for-agent-bojo-boris-johnson-dispatched-to-texas-to-boost-republican-support-for-ukraine/">,</a> who lives in the city with his wife Laura. Johnson is <span style="color: blue;">due to meet Texas Governor Greg Abbott</span> in Austin on Tuesday.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;">Unusually, the former U.K. prime minister,<span style="color: blue;"> who raked in almost £5 million from speaking fees in the first six months after leaving office</span>, was not paid for Monday’s lunchtime speaking engagement. <span style="color: #c42525;">However, he did arrange the Dallas trip as a stopover en route to the <a href="https://fintechmagazine.com/events/scale-global-summit-2023" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="color: #c42525;" target="_blank">SCALE Global Summit</a> in Las Vegas,</span> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.politico.eu/article/send-for-agent-bojo-boris-johnson-dispatched-to-texas-to-boost-republican-support-for-ukraine/"><span style="color: blue;">an investment conference where he will be paid an expected</span> </a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;">six-figure sum for a scheduled speech.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;">Man on a mission</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.politico.eu/article/send-for-agent-bojo-boris-johnson-dispatched-to-texas-to-boost-republican-support-for-ukraine/"><span style="color: #c42525;">Johnson has kept Ukraine at the top of his public agenda</span> </a>since
being forced to resign as PM last July over a string of personal
scandals, including his attendance at COVID-19 lockdown-busting parties
at his Downing Street home and office.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;">In power, Johnson had <a href="https://www.politico.eu/article/boris-johnson-ally-recall-harrowing-talk-volodymyr-zelenskyy-night-invasion/" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">forged a strong personal bond</a> with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;">and played a leading role in early Western efforts to [force US taxpayers to] arm Ukraine.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;">His allies even mooted the idea of him becoming a formal envoy to
Ukraine following his abrupt Downing Street exit, though the idea never
came to fruition.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;">That hasn’t stopped Johnson continuing his personal lobbying push, however. <a href="https://www.politico.eu/article/send-for-agent-bojo-boris-johnson-dispatched-to-texas-to-boost-republican-support-for-ukraine/"><span style="color: #c42525;">He visited the Ukrainian capital Kyiv in January 2023</span></a> — despite no longer being a frontline politician — and has continued to speak in support on multiple occasions.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;">At the Dallas lunch on Monday, Johnson insisted Western backing for
Ukraine need not be indefinite, telling those present he had “every hope
that the Ukrainians will be able to deliver a very substantial
counterpunch this summer,” and that he believed there was “a prospect of
a complete Russian military collapse.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;">And addressing [alleged] concerns in Republican quarters that the
U.S. should be focusing its attention on China rather than on a land war
in Eastern Europe, Johnson said victory for Putin would be “terrible in
its ramifications for south-east Asia, for the South China Sea, for all
the areas of potential conflict between the great powers in the decades
to come.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.politico.eu/article/send-for-agent-bojo-boris-johnson-dispatched-to-texas-to-boost-republican-support-for-ukraine/">By contrast, he added, [alleged] Western solidarity on Ukraine</a> had already sent a clear message to China.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;">“From Beijing’s point of view, they’re looking at this and they’re
thinking this has massively increased the strategic ambiguity and the
risk surrounding a venture against Taiwan,” Johnson said.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;">One businessman present <span style="color: #c42525;"><a href="https://www.politico.eu/article/send-for-agent-bojo-boris-johnson-dispatched-to-texas-to-boost-republican-support-for-ukraine/">pressed Johnson on corruption in Ukraine</a>,</span> which he said he had heard was “really bad again.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.politico.eu/article/send-for-agent-bojo-boris-johnson-dispatched-to-texas-to-boost-republican-support-for-ukraine/"><span style="color: #c42525;">But the former prime minister insisted the $50 billion [US taxpayer funded]</span></a> spending package agreed by President Biden would prove “value for money.” <span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.politico.eu/article/send-for-agent-bojo-boris-johnson-dispatched-to-texas-to-boost-republican-support-for-ukraine/" style="color: blue;">The U.S. is getting a “huge, huge boost for global security for a relatively small outlay</a></span>,</span>” he said….</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;">Whether Johnson retains the populist credentials to win over the
[alleged] most ardent Trump supporters Stateside remains to be seen,
however.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;">In an interview with Nigel Farage <a href="https://www.politico.eu/article/donald-trump-nigel-farage-interview-ukraine-johnson-meghan-markle/" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">on GB News last month</a>, Trump said that while Johnson was a “wonderful guy” and “a friend of mine,” he had been disappointed by his time in office.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;">Johnson had gone “a bit on the liberal side,” Trump noted sadly. “Probably in a negative way.””</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;">………………………………………</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;">Added: As usual, it turns out that <a href="https://cepa.org/about-cepa/our-supporters/"><span style="color: #c42525;">the warmonger lobbyist group financing <span style="color: blue;">Boris’s trip to US is also “supported by” global chumps</span></span>,</a> US taxpayers via<span style="color: blue;"> <a href="https://cepa.org/about-cepa/our-supporters/" style="color: blue;">NED, NATO, and US State Dept.</a></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://cepa.org/about-cepa/our-supporters/"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">CEPA “<span class="bg-light-gray">List of Supporters for the 2022 Fiscal Year”</span></span></a></span></p>
<ul class="flex flex-col md:px-29"><li class="py-[14px] md:py-5 border-b last-of-type:border-none border-[#DEDEDE] text-center list-none"><span style="font-size: large;"><a class="text-blue hover:text-red cursor-pointer text-h5" href="https://cepa.org/about-cepa/our-supporters/#" target="">Amazon Web Services</a></span></li><li class="py-[14px] md:py-5 border-b last-of-type:border-none border-[#DEDEDE] text-center list-none"><span style="font-size: large;"><a class="text-blue hover:text-red cursor-pointer text-h5" href="https://cepa.org/about-cepa/our-supporters/#" target="">Bae Systems PLC</a></span></li><li class="py-[14px] md:py-5 border-b last-of-type:border-none border-[#DEDEDE] text-center list-none"><span style="font-size: large;"><a class="text-blue hover:text-red cursor-pointer text-h5" href="https://cepa.org/about-cepa/our-supporters/#" target="">Craig Newmark Philanthropies</a></span></li><li class="py-[14px] md:py-5 border-b last-of-type:border-none border-[#DEDEDE] text-center list-none"><span style="font-size: large;"><a class="text-blue hover:text-red cursor-pointer text-h5" href="https://cepa.org/about-cepa/our-supporters/#" target="">Google LLC</a></span></li><li class="py-[14px] md:py-5 border-b last-of-type:border-none border-[#DEDEDE] text-center list-none"><span style="font-size: large;"><a class="text-blue hover:text-red cursor-pointer text-h5" href="https://cepa.org/about-cepa/our-supporters/#" target="">Hirsch Family Foundation</a></span></li><li class="py-[14px] md:py-5 border-b last-of-type:border-none border-[#DEDEDE] text-center list-none"><span style="font-size: large;"><a class="text-blue hover:text-red cursor-pointer text-h5" href="https://cepa.org/about-cepa/our-supporters/#" target="">Improbable Worlds Limited</a></span></li><li class="py-[14px] md:py-5 border-b last-of-type:border-none border-[#DEDEDE] text-center list-none"><span style="font-size: large;"><a class="text-blue hover:text-red cursor-pointer text-h5" href="https://cepa.org/about-cepa/our-supporters/#" target="">The Davis Family Fund</a></span></li><li class="py-[14px] md:py-5 border-b last-of-type:border-none border-[#DEDEDE] text-center list-none"><span style="font-size: large;"><a class="text-blue hover:text-red cursor-pointer text-h5" href="https://cepa.org/about-cepa/our-supporters/#" target="">Larry Hirsch</a></span></li><li class="py-[14px] md:py-5 border-b last-of-type:border-none border-[#DEDEDE] text-center list-none"><span style="font-size: large;"><a class="text-blue hover:text-red cursor-pointer text-h5" href="https://cepa.org/about-cepa/our-supporters/#" target="">Leonardo US Corporation</a></span></li><li class="py-[14px] md:py-5 border-b last-of-type:border-none border-[#DEDEDE] text-center list-none"><span style="font-size: large;"><a class="text-blue hover:text-red cursor-pointer text-h5" href="https://cepa.org/about-cepa/our-supporters/#" target="">Lockheed Martin Corporation</a></span></li><li class="py-[14px] md:py-5 border-b last-of-type:border-none border-[#DEDEDE] text-center list-none"><span style="font-size: large;"><a class="text-blue hover:text-red cursor-pointer text-h5" href="https://cepa.org/about-cepa/our-supporters/#" target="">Mercedes-Benz North America Corporation</a></span></li><li class="py-[14px] md:py-5 border-b last-of-type:border-none border-[#DEDEDE] text-center list-none"><span style="font-size: large;"><a class="text-blue hover:text-red cursor-pointer text-h5" href="https://cepa.org/about-cepa/our-supporters/#" target="">Microsoft Corporation</a></span></li><li class="py-[14px] md:py-5 border-b last-of-type:border-none border-[#DEDEDE] text-center list-none"><span style="font-size: large;"><a class="text-blue hover:text-red cursor-pointer text-h5" href="https://cepa.org/about-cepa/our-supporters/#" target=""><span style="color: #bf3030;">National Endowment for Democracy</span></a></span></li><li class="py-[14px] md:py-5 border-b last-of-type:border-none border-[#DEDEDE] text-center list-none"><span style="font-size: large;"><a class="text-blue hover:text-red cursor-pointer text-h5" href="https://cepa.org/about-cepa/our-supporters/#" target=""><span style="color: #bf3030;">NATO Public Diplomacy Division</span></a></span></li><li class="py-[14px] md:py-5 border-b last-of-type:border-none border-[#DEDEDE] text-center list-none"><span style="font-size: large;"><a class="text-blue hover:text-red cursor-pointer text-h5" href="https://cepa.org/about-cepa/our-supporters/#" target="">Poses Family Foundation</a></span></li><li class="py-[14px] md:py-5 border-b last-of-type:border-none border-[#DEDEDE] text-center list-none"><span style="font-size: large;"><a class="text-blue hover:text-red cursor-pointer text-h5" href="https://cepa.org/about-cepa/our-supporters/#" target="">Robert S. Gelbard</a></span></li><li class="py-[14px] md:py-5 border-b last-of-type:border-none border-[#DEDEDE] text-center list-none"><span style="font-size: large;"><a class="text-blue hover:text-red cursor-pointer text-h5" href="https://cepa.org/about-cepa/our-supporters/#" target="">Russia Strategic Initiative, US European Command</a></span></li><li class="py-[14px] md:py-5 border-b last-of-type:border-none border-[#DEDEDE] text-center list-none"><span style="font-size: large;"><a class="text-blue hover:text-red cursor-pointer text-h5" href="https://cepa.org/about-cepa/our-supporters/#" target="">Sarah Scaife Foundation</a></span></li><li class="py-[14px] md:py-5 border-b last-of-type:border-none border-[#DEDEDE] text-center list-none"><span style="font-size: large;"><a class="text-blue hover:text-red cursor-pointer text-h5" href="https://cepa.org/about-cepa/our-supporters/#" target="">Smith Richardson Foundation</a></span></li><li class="py-[14px] md:py-5 border-b last-of-type:border-none border-[#DEDEDE] text-center list-none"><span style="font-size: large;"><a class="text-blue hover:text-red cursor-pointer text-h5" href="https://cepa.org/about-cepa/our-supporters/#" target="">Thomas Firestone</a></span></li><li class="py-[14px] md:py-5 border-b last-of-type:border-none border-[#DEDEDE] text-center list-none"><span style="font-size: large;"><a class="text-blue hover:text-red cursor-pointer text-h5" href="https://cepa.org/about-cepa/our-supporters/#" target=""><span style="color: #bf3030;">US State Department</span></a></span></li><li class="py-[14px] md:py-5 border-b last-of-type:border-none border-[#DEDEDE] text-center list-none"><span style="font-size: large;"><a class="text-blue hover:text-red cursor-pointer text-h5" href="https://cepa.org/about-cepa/our-supporters/#" target="">Victor Ashe</a></span></li><li class="py-[14px] md:py-5 border-b last-of-type:border-none border-[#DEDEDE] text-center list-none"><span style="font-size: large;"><a class="text-blue hover:text-red cursor-pointer text-h5" href="https://cepa.org/about-cepa/our-supporters/#" target="">Victor Pinchuk Foundation</a></span></li><li class="py-[14px] md:py-5 border-b last-of-type:border-none border-[#DEDEDE] text-center list-none"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></li><li class="py-[14px] md:py-5 border-b last-of-type:border-none border-[#DEDEDE] text-center list-none"><br /></li><li class="py-[14px] md:py-5 border-b last-of-type:border-none border-[#DEDEDE] text-center list-none"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></li><li class="py-[14px] md:py-5 border-b last-of-type:border-none border-[#DEDEDE] text-center list-none"><span style="font-size: large;">................ </span></li></ul><p> </p>susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14710989163705986252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1907031520446514200.post-64196466922964726892023-06-06T19:23:00.006-03:002023-06-06T19:26:32.417-03:00“Lockdown was NOT a “policy mistake”…It was murder”-Off-Guardian…”New research” finds “the science of lockdowns is clear; data are in: deaths saved were drop in the bucket compared to staggering collateral costs imposed”-UK Telegraph <p><span style="color: #eeeeee;"> .</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230604225336/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/06/04/first-lockdown-prevented-1700-deaths-landmark-study-finds/">March 2020 lockdowns in UK were based on</a><span style="color: #cc0000;"> </span><span style="color: #2b00fe;">dire predictions of death</span><span style="color: #cc0000;"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230604225336/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/06/04/first-lockdown-prevented-1700-deaths-landmark-study-finds/">made by UK computer modeler, Neil Ferguson</a></span><span style="color: #ad2626;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230604225336/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/06/04/first-lockdown-prevented-1700-deaths-landmark-study-finds/" style="color: #ad2626;">.</a></span>..<span style="color: #ad2626;"><a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/06/04/first-lockdown-prevented-1700-deaths-landmark-study-finds/" style="color: #ad2626;"><span style="color: blue;">“Researchers for the Johns Hopkins study</span></a></span> said the findings showed that<span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/06/04/first-lockdown-prevented-1700-deaths-landmark-study-finds/" style="color: blue;"><span style="color: #ad2626;"> lockdowns had been “a global policy failure of gigantic proportions”.”</span></a><span style="color: #ad2626;">…</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;">6/5/23, <span style="color: #990000;">“</span><span class="the-title"><span style="color: #990000;"><a href="https://off-guardian.org/2023/06/05/offgs-quick-take-lockdown-was-not-a-policy-mistake-it-was-murder/">OffG’s Quick Take: Lockdown was NOT a “policy mistake”…It was murder.</a>”</span> Off Guardian<br />
</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #cc2727;"><a href="https://off-guardian.org/2023/06/05/offgs-quick-take-lockdown-was-not-a-policy-mistake-it-was-murder/"><span style="color: blue;">“Yesterday, the Telegraph [UK] reported</span></a><span style="color: blue;"> on <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230604225336/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/06/04/first-lockdown-prevented-1700-deaths-landmark-study-finds/" rel="noopener" style="color: blue;" target="_blank">“new research”</a></span></span> which claims that lockdowns saved only 1700 lives in England and Wales. A <i>“drop in the bucket”</i> compared to the harms done: [6/4/23, “<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230604225336/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/06/04/first-lockdown-prevented-1700-deaths-landmark-study-finds/">Lockdown benefits ‘a drop in the bucket compared to the costs’, landmark study finds,</a>” UK Telegraph, L. Donnelly]</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #b32b2b;">“</span><a href="https://off-guardian.org/2023/06/05/offgs-quick-take-lockdown-was-not-a-policy-mistake-it-was-murder/"><span style="color: #b32b2b;">The science of lockdowns is clear</span>;</a> the data are in: the deaths saved were a drop in the bucket compared to the <a href="https://off-guardian.org/2023/06/05/offgs-quick-take-lockdown-was-not-a-policy-mistake-it-was-murder/">staggering collateral costs imposed.”</a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://off-guardian.org/2023/06/05/offgs-quick-take-lockdown-was-not-a-policy-mistake-it-was-murder/">This is not a revelation, it’s not an admission,</a> it’s not the system checks-and-balances working. Rather, it is public relations, perception management. Just one more example of<span style="color: #cc2727;"> the revisionism we highlighted</span> in the most recent <i><a href="https://off-guardian.org/2023/06/04/this-week-in-the-new-normal-64/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">This Week in the New Normal</a></i>.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;">It’s a campaign which pretends to accountability and honesty,
but is really about carefully managing the covid autopsy. Ensuring any
and all Covid conversation is had purely on the establishment’s terms,
whilst</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://off-guardian.org/2023/06/05/offgs-quick-take-lockdown-was-not-a-policy-mistake-it-was-murder/">lulling those freshly-awakened by the pandemic back into a sound sleep.</a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;">The “new research” is basically a re-statement of the fundamental lie <span style="color: #cc2727;">masquerading as “confession”</span>. It “admits” that lockdown had little to no impact on “covid deaths”, which is just a backdoor way of <a href="https://off-guardian.org/2023/06/05/offgs-quick-take-lockdown-was-not-a-policy-mistake-it-was-murder/">maintaining the fiction that “covid deaths” really happened.</a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #cc2727;"><a href="https://off-guardian.org/2023/06/05/offgs-quick-take-lockdown-was-not-a-policy-mistake-it-was-murder/" style="color: #cc2727;">It doesn’t question the efficacy of the tests, the definitions of “cases” </a></span>or “deaths”, or any of the architecture of the Covid scam. It just reinforces the basic underlying assumptions:</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"><i>Covid was indeed a thing, and it did kill people.</i></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;">Both of which are proven lies.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://off-guardian.org/2023/06/05/offgs-quick-take-lockdown-was-not-a-policy-mistake-it-was-murder/">The truth is lockdowns didn’t save any lives at all,</a> and none of the “consequences” of lockdown were a surprise. We go into this in our<a href="https://off-guardian.org/2023/03/24/40-facts-you-need-to-know-the-real-story-of-covid/#iv" rel="noopener" target="_blank"> “40 Facts” on Covid</a>.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #cc2727;"><a href="https://off-guardian.org/2023/06/05/offgs-quick-take-lockdown-was-not-a-policy-mistake-it-was-murder/" style="color: #cc2727;">The poverty, the depression, despair.</a></span> <span style="color: blue;">The shuttered stores and closed hospitals and bankrupt businesses.</span> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;">They were all predictable, and all <i>deliberate</i>.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;">They knew that’s what would happen…that’s what it was <i>for</i>.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;">That’s why “Covid” was invented.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://off-guardian.org/2023/06/05/offgs-quick-take-lockdown-was-not-a-policy-mistake-it-was-murder/">Lockdown was not a policy mistake</a>, it was a policy <i>success</i>.”</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: large;">Added: <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/06/04/first-lockdown-prevented-1700-deaths-landmark-study-finds/">Further from Telegraph article</a> referenced above, notes<span style="color: #cc2727;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230604225336/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/06/04/first-lockdown-prevented-1700-deaths-landmark-study-finds/" style="color: #cc2727;"> March 2020 lockdowns in UK were based on</a> dire predictions </span><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230604225336/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/06/04/first-lockdown-prevented-1700-deaths-landmark-study-finds/"><span style="color: #cc2727;"><span style="color: blue;">made by UK</span></span><span style="color: blue;"> computer modeler, Neil Ferguson:</span></a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;">“<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230604225336/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/06/02/counter-disinformation-unit-government-covid-lockdown/">The Telegraph recently revealed</a> that a secretive government unit worked with social media companies during the pandemic in an attempt <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/06/04/first-lockdown-prevented-1700-deaths-landmark-study-finds/"><span style="color: #cc2727;">to curtail criticism of controversial lockdown policies.</span></a></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: large;">The Covid Disinformation Unit monitored social media and <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230604225336/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/06/02/covid-19-counter-disinformation-policy-forum-censorship/">asked tech companies to remove posts it considered to be “potentially harmful content</a>”.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #cc2727;">Britain’s first lockdown, in March 2020, was introduced<span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/06/04/first-lockdown-prevented-1700-deaths-landmark-study-finds/" style="color: blue;"> on the basis of modelling exercises from Prof Neil Ferguson</a></span></span> which had predicted there could be more than<a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/06/04/first-lockdown-prevented-1700-deaths-landmark-study-finds/"><span style="color: #cc2727;"> 500,000 deaths in the UK,</span></a> without action to stop the spread of the virus.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #cc2727;">His research had suggested</span> that even with mitigations such as social distancing, and household quarantines for Covid cases, there could be at least 250,000 deaths,<span style="color: blue;"> unless further measures were taken….</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #cc2727;">Modelling by <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230604225336/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/health-fitness/body/professor-neil-ferguson-breaking-rules-regrettably-contributed/" style="color: #cc2727;">Prof Ferguson and his colleagues from Imperial College London</a><span style="color: blue;"> in March 2020 had predicted</span></span> that, without action, the UK could see 510,000 deaths from Covid,</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/06/04/first-lockdown-prevented-1700-deaths-landmark-study-finds/"><span style="color: blue;">with 2.2 million in the United States. </span></a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;">After lockdown was imposed, the scientist suggested that “intense
social distancing and other interventions now in place” could reduce
that figure to 20,000 in the UK.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;">The Covid Inquiry is set to examine the Government’s decision making during the pandemic but it has already been the subject of significant criticism relating to its speed, scope and transparency.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #cc2727;"><a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/06/04/first-lockdown-prevented-1700-deaths-landmark-study-finds/" style="color: #cc2727;">Researchers for the Johns Hopkins study</a></span> said the findings showed that<span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/06/04/first-lockdown-prevented-1700-deaths-landmark-study-finds/" style="color: blue;"> lockdowns had been “a global policy failure of gigantic proportions”.”</a>…</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: large;">Among <a href="https://off-guardian.org/2023/06/05/offgs-quick-take-lockdown-was-not-a-policy-mistake-it-was-murder/">comments</a> to Off Guardian article:</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;">……………………………………….</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;">“Maxwell, Jun 6, 2023 3:06 AM:</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">............... <br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #cc2727;"><a href="https://off-guardian.org/2023/06/05/offgs-quick-take-lockdown-was-not-a-policy-mistake-it-was-murder/"><span style="color: #cc2727;">Lockdowns are crimes against humanity</span></a>, </span></span>
</p><div class="wpd-comment-text"><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #cc2727;"><span style="color: blue;">every single public leader who supports them </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #cc2727;">should be treated as a criminal.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;">Those who advocated for lockdowns are complicit in tearing families apart, in <span style="color: #cc2727;">inflicting untold suffering on millions of people around the world, <span style="color: blue;">in casting the poorest and most vulnerable</span></span> in our societies into </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #cc2727;"><a href="https://off-guardian.org/2023/06/05/offgs-quick-take-lockdown-was-not-a-policy-mistake-it-was-murder/" style="color: #cc2727;">even further grinding poverty- in murder. </a></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;">Being a decent human being and supporting lockdowns are mutually exclusive.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #cc2727;"><a href="https://off-guardian.org/2023/06/05/offgs-quick-take-lockdown-was-not-a-policy-mistake-it-was-murder/">If you supported lockdowns, you also supported:</a> </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;">suicide, depression, drug overdoses, domestic violence, child abuse, elder abuse, missed medical screenings</span> and procedures, wealth inequality, </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;">mass starvation and destitution.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://off-guardian.org/2023/06/05/offgs-quick-take-lockdown-was-not-a-policy-mistake-it-was-murder/"><span style="color: #cc2727;">In terms of the most horrendous acts on the part of mankind</span>,</a> the</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;">Lockdown ranks up there with any of the worst events in history.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;">Keep in mind the impacts of these murderous policies have just started their lifecycle.”</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: large;">Added: 6/5/23, <a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/twenty-grim-realities-unearthed-by-lockdowns/"><b>“12. <span style="color: #cc2727;">Sadism of the ruling class.</span></b></a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;">The <a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/twenty-grim-realities-unearthed-by-lockdowns/" style="color: blue;">kids were denied a year or two of school in some locations.</a></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/twenty-grim-realities-unearthed-by-lockdowns/"><span style="color: #cc2727;">People missed medical diagnostics.</span> </a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;">Weddings and funerals were on Zoom.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/twenty-grim-realities-unearthed-by-lockdowns/"><span style="color: #cc2727;">The aged were forced into desperate loneliness.</span></a> The poor suffered. People turned to substance abuse and put on added pounds. The working classes were exploited.<span style="color: blue;"> Small businesses were wrecked</span>.
Millions were forced to move and millions more were displaced from
their jobs. The ruling class that advertised its wonderful altruism and
public spiritedness became callous and <span style="color: blue;">completely disregarded all this suffering. </span>Even when the data poured in about suicide ideation and mental illness from loneliness, it made no difference. <span style="color: #cc2727;">They could not muster any concern.</span> They changed nothing. The schools stayed closed and the travel restrictions stayed in place. <a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/twenty-grim-realities-unearthed-by-lockdowns/">Those who pointed this out were called terrible names. It was a form of <span style="color: #cc2727;">grotesque sadism of which we did not know they were capable</span><span style="color: #cc2727;">.</span></a>“…6/5/23, Brownstone, Tucker</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: large;">Added: 11/5/2021,<span style="color: #cc2727;"><a href="https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/after-spending-just-153-on-campaign-truck-driver-beats-nj-senate-president/3378682/" style="color: #cc2727;"> New Jersey truck driver Edward Durr cites voter backlash <span style="color: blue;">against US “pandemic” policies for his “shock” election to NJ State Senate,</span></a></span> defeating longtime Democrat NJ State Senate head Steve Sweeney:</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;">“<a href="https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/after-spending-just-153-on-campaign-truck-driver-beats-nj-senate-president/3378682/">“It was a repudiation of the policies</a> that have been forced down their throats </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/after-spending-just-153-on-campaign-truck-driver-beats-nj-senate-president/3378682/">— people told </a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/after-spending-just-153-on-campaign-truck-driver-beats-nj-senate-president/3378682/"><span style="color: #cc2727;">they can’t have a job,</span> </a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;">they can’t go to church, </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/after-spending-just-153-on-campaign-truck-driver-beats-nj-senate-president/3378682/"><span style="color: blue;">they can’t go to school,</span> </a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;">they can’t go shopping, </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/after-spending-just-153-on-campaign-truck-driver-beats-nj-senate-president/3378682/"><span style="color: #cc2727;">they can’t go and eat dinner,”</span> </a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/after-spending-just-153-on-campaign-truck-driver-beats-nj-senate-president/3378682/">Durr told NBC New York. </a><a href="https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/after-spending-just-153-on-campaign-truck-driver-beats-nj-senate-president/3378682/">“You can’t tell people they can’t do things</a> when we live in the freest country in the world.””</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: large;">Added: <a href="https://justthenews.com/nation/economy/nearly-one-third-small-businesses-new-jersey-have-closed-beginning-pandemic"><span style="color: #cc2727;">As of Nov. 30, 2020, one third of New Jersey <span style="color: blue;">small businesses had closed permanently </span></span></a>pursuant to Trump’s March 2020 declaration of National Emergency due to a virus:<br />
</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://justthenews.com/nation/economy/nearly-one-third-small-businesses-new-jersey-have-closed-beginning-pandemic">“The Harvard-based data tracking project</a> TrackTheRecovery.org recently put out numbers indicating that 31% of businesses in New Jersey have closed,<span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://justthenews.com/nation/economy/nearly-one-third-small-businesses-new-jersey-have-closed-beginning-pandemic" style="color: blue;"> a figure slightly above the national average.”…</a></span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: large;">Added: <a href="https://www.foxbusiness.com/small-business/nearly-one-third-of-ny-nj-small-businesses-reportedly-closed-in-2020"><span style="color: #cc2727;">Nationwide,</span></a><span style="color: #cc2727;"> as of 11/29/2020, </span><a href="https://www.foxbusiness.com/small-business/nearly-one-third-of-ny-nj-small-businesses-reportedly-closed-in-2020"><span style="color: #cc2727;">about one third <span style="color: blue;">of all</span></span><span style="color: blue;"> businesses</span></a><span style="color: blue;"> had closed:</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;">11/29/2020, <span style="color: #cc2727;"><span style="color: #cc2727;">“</span><a href="https://www.foxbusiness.com/small-business/nearly-one-third-of-ny-nj-small-businesses-reportedly-closed-in-2020"><span style="color: #cc2727;">Nearly one-third of NY, NJ small businesses reportedly closed in 2020</span>,”</a></span> Fox Business News</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;">“<a href="https://www.foxbusiness.com/small-business/nearly-one-third-of-ny-nj-small-businesses-reportedly-closed-in-2020" style="color: blue;">Nearly one-third of small businesses in New York and New Jersey have closed</a> </span>because of <a href="https://www.foxbusiness.com/category/coronavirus" rel="noopener" target="_blank">the coronavirus pandemic</a>, according to <a href="https://tracktherecovery.org/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">TrackTheRecovery.org</a>….</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.foxbusiness.com/small-business/nearly-one-third-of-ny-nj-small-businesses-reportedly-closed-in-2020"><span style="color: #cc2727;">As of Nov. 16, [2020] 27.8 percent of small businesses in New York shut down for good</span> </a>– and in New Jersey the figure is 31.2 percent.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;">The stats are in line with <a href="https://www.foxbusiness.com/small-business/nearly-one-third-of-ny-nj-small-businesses-reportedly-closed-in-2020">the national average</a><a href="https://www.foxbusiness.com/small-business/nearly-one-third-of-ny-nj-small-businesses-reportedly-closed-in-2020"> at 29.8 percent</a>, <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/527901-almost-one-third-of-small-businesses-in-new-jersey-have-have-closed" rel="noopener" target="_blank">The Hill reported</a>.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;">During the first wave<span style="color: blue;"> in spring, </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.foxbusiness.com/small-business/nearly-one-third-of-ny-nj-small-businesses-reportedly-closed-in-2020"><span style="color: #cc2727;"><span style="color: blue;">52.5 percent of New York businesses and</span> </span></a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.foxbusiness.com/small-business/nearly-one-third-of-ny-nj-small-businesses-reportedly-closed-in-2020"><span style="color: #cc2727;">53.9 percent in New Jersey closed.”…</span></a></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #cc2727;"> </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">................................</span></p><p> </p>susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14710989163705986252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1907031520446514200.post-61662016780670851732023-06-02T03:19:00.000-03:002023-06-02T03:19:25.184-03:00An America First Party with no apparent connection to Trump has existed in recent years, held a convention in 2002. In April 2017 it lamented Trump bombing Syria, calling it a repudiation of America First foreign policy principles <p><br /></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">An<b><a href="http://americafirstparty.org/news/2018/PressRel2018_04_16.shtml"> America First Party</a></b> has actually existed in recent years. <a href="http://americafirstparty.org/news/2018/PressRel2018_04_16.shtml"><b>In April 2017 its website</b></a> lamented<b> <a href="http://americafirstparty.org/news/2018/PressRel2018_04_16.shtml">Trump’s 2017 bombing</a> </b>of Syria: <span style="color: #990000;"><b>“</b></span><a href="http://americafirstparty.org/news/2018/PressRel2018_04_16.shtml" rel="noopener" target="_blank"><span style="color: #990000;"><b>Syria Attack at Odds with an America First Foreign Policy </b></span>– April 16 – <b>It
is with sadness that we witnessed <span style="color: #2b00fe;">President Trump’s effective
repudiation of the principles of an America First foreign policy</span></b> last week, with his attack on <b><span style="color: #990000;">a nation which is not threatening the security interests of the United States,</span></b> and which is a natural ally with us in opposing Al-Qaeda.</a>“…The America First Party website <a href="http://americafirstparty.org/news/2018/PressRel2018_04_16.shtml">didn’t claim any connection</a> with Trump, his administration, or campaign. This was the only article I saw that mentioned Trump.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">In 2002 The America First Party</span><span style="color: #990000;"> </span><a href="http://americafirstparty.org/resolutions/committee_resolution_06_26_2002_traficant.shtml">invited Ohio Rep. Jim Traficant to speak at its convention.</a></b> Traficant was born in and beloved in his home town of Youngstown, Ohio. At one time he was <a href="http://www.americafirstparty.org/news/2014/PressRel2014_10_02.shtml">Sheriff of Mahoning County.</a> Sadly, he died in an accident in 2014. <a href="https://archive.businessjournaldaily.com/traficant-draws-cheers-tea-party-2009-9-1"><b>Traficant also spoke at a 2009 Tea Party rally in Ohio where he was greeted with cheers of “Traficant for President</b>,</a>” and “We’re with you Jim.” He was a serious advocate of enforcing the US southern border, in mid 1990s then Democrat Traficant <b><a href="https://chroniclesmagazine.org/view/america-first/">proposed a bill in the House to relocate 10,000 US troops from Europe to the US southern border:</a></b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b>May 1996, </b></span><a href="https://www.chroniclesmagazine.org/america-first-1/"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">“America First,</span>“</b> </a>James Traficant, Chronicles Magazine (subscription)</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.chroniclesmagazine.org/america-first-1/"><b>“Protecting Our Borders</b></a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span class="smallcap" style="color: #990000;">Last year [1995] I introduced</span><span style="color: #990000;"> legislation </span><a href="https://www.chroniclesmagazine.org/america-first-1/"><span style="color: #990000;">that would authorize the </span><span style="color: black;">Pentagon to redeploy American </span></a><span style="color: black;"><a href="https://www.chroniclesmagazine.org/america-first-1/">troops stationed in Europe to assist</a></span> federal law enforcement <a href="https://www.chroniclesmagazine.org/america-first-1/">officials patrolling America’s Southern border.</a> Every day dangerous <a href="https://www.chroniclesmagazine.org/america-first-1/">criminals pour into our country through our border with Mexico—unchallenged.</a></b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>My bill authorizes the Secretary of Defense–at the request of the Attorney General–<span style="color: #990000;">to<a href="https://www.chroniclesmagazine.org/america-first-1/"> transfer up to 10,000 American troops stationed in Europe back to the United States to assist the Border Patrol</a></span> and
the Immigration and Naturalization Service in preventing illegal
aliens, drug traffickers, and terrorists from entering our country. The
bill would <a href="https://www.chroniclesmagazine.org/america-first-1/">also allow American troops to assist the Customs Service </a><a href="https://www.chroniclesmagazine.org/america-first-1/">in inspecting cargo, vehicles, and aircraft</a></b> at points of entry into the United States.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Let’s be candid. The Border Patrol has only 3,800 personnel
to guard the two longest borders of one of the largest countries of the
world. Reports indicate that,<a href="https://www.chroniclesmagazine.org/america-first-1/"> at any given time,</a></b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://www.chroniclesmagazine.org/america-first-1/">only 800 patrolmen are available to protect</a></b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://www.chroniclesmagazine.org/america-first-1/">our 2,000 mile border with Mexico.</a></b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: #990000;">Congress has failed to provide funding </span>to enlarge the Border Patrol, <span style="color: #2b00fe;">and <a href="https://www.chroniclesmagazine.org/america-first-1/">until Congress can find the money, </a></span></b><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b>this military option is the best</b> </span>short-term way to address this shortage of personnel.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://www.chroniclesmagazine.org/america-first-1/"><span style="color: #990000;">We have hundreds of thousands of troops deployed throughout the world</span></a></b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">protecting European, Asian, and Latin American nations.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>If the Pentagon can send hundreds of thousands of American troops to protect our allies,<a href="https://www.chroniclesmagazine.org/america-first-1/"> it should be able to spare 10,000 military personnel to protect America.”…</a></b></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: medium;">Obviously, the bill didn’t pass, Jim was unpopular in the Beltway,
eventually was sent to prison for financial crimes. When he got out, <a href="https://archive.businessjournaldaily.com/traficant-draws-cheers-tea-party-2009-9-1">the Tea Party and America First Party greeted him with open arms. </a></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">...............................................</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"> <i>Related</i></span>
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<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><img alt="" class="spip_logo" height="228" src="https://www.voltairenet.org/local/cache-vignettes/L528xH330/_0-332-aa45d.jpg?1684237180" width="364" /></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #990000;">“<a href="https://www.voltairenet.org/article219318.html">Saudi Finance Minister Mohamed Al-Jaddan warmly welcomed</a></span><span style="color: #cc1d1d;"> </span><span style="color: #990000;">the Syrian delegation</span><span style="color: #333333;">,</span><span style="color: #333333;"> which included Foreign Affairs Minister Faisal Miqdad</span>,
Information Minister Boutros Al-Hallaq, Deputy Foreign Minister Ayman
Soussaner, as well as the Director of the Foreign Minister’s Office,
Jamal Najib.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #990000;"><a href="https://www.voltairenet.org/article219318.html">Syrian President Bashar al-Assad</a></span> has been invited to the summit, which several Western leaders are expected to attend.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #cc1d1d;"><span style="color: #333333;">Recognition of the Syrian Arab Republic’s</span> </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.voltairenet.org/article219318.html"><span style="color: #990000;">victory over Western-backed jihadists</span> </a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">and its reintegration into the League of Arab States</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.voltairenet.org/article219318.html"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">marks the end of foreign domination over the region.</span></a>” image from Voltaire</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">.................. <br /></span></p>susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14710989163705986252noreply@blogger.com0