THE DOCTRINE OF THE N.A.F.T.A. GLOBALIST DEMOCRATS IS TO SERVE THE BILLIONAIRE CLASS WITH ENDLESS WAVES OF INVADING 'CHEAP' LABOR SUBSIDIZED WITH WELFARE FUNDED BY TAXES ON MIDDLE AMERICA.
In many speeches, Mayorkas says he is building a mass migration system to deliver workers to wealthy employers and investors and “equity” to poor foreigners. The nation’s border laws are subordinate to elites’ opinion about “the values of our country,” Mayorkas claims.
Two U.S. military veterans, Alexander John-Robert Drueke and Andy Tai Ngoc Huynh, taken prisoner while fighting for Ukraine appear in a video airing on Russian TV, apparently in the custody of pro-Russian separatists. The Kremlin said the two men had been involved in firing on Russian forces and should be "held responsible for the crimes they have committed."
Nikki Haley: West’s ‘Total Failure of Deterrence’ Drives Putin’s War Machine
The Western world’s "total failure of deterrence" is largely to blame for Russian president Vladimir Putin’s ongoing war in Ukraine, former ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley said in a foreign policy speech Wednesday in London.
The West’s decades-long failure to confront Putin and other malign regimes like China and Iran should serve as a warning that prompts a "fundamental shift in how the West approaches our enemies," Haley said, according to an early transcript of her remarks obtained by the Washington Free Beacon. She said it is time for the Western world to cut economic ties with Russia and China to send a message to these regimes that their subversion of the international order will no longer be tolerated.
Haley, who is positioning herself as a Republican prospect for the 2024 presidential election, previewed how a future Republican administration would handle the globe’s most pressing foreign policy matters. She harshly criticized the Biden administration’s appeasement of countries like Iran but also said Europe shares blame for the world’s instability—criticism that is usually expressed behind closed doors when a foreign leader travels abroad.
"It was Western weakness that convinced Putin he could get away with attempting to swallow Ukraine," Haley said. "He saw America as too internally divided and distracted, and Europe as too bureaucratic and soft to stop him. And sadly, I have to say he wasn’t wrong."
Decades of appeasement—and fears about directly confronting the Russia-China-Iran axis—led to the worst European war in nearly 80 years.
"We should have made crystal clear to Putin the full implications of his actions ahead of time. We didn’t," Haley said. "And now we have the worst war in Europe since the Second World War. This dereliction of duty was years in the making. For too long, the West wrongly feared provoking Putin, instead of taking the steps needed to prevent him from starting a war in the first place."
The Biden administration’s recent foreign policy blunders, primarily the botched withdrawal from Afghanistan, provided the fuel that sparked Putin’s war machine, Haley said.
"It pains me to say it, but if there had been no Afghanistan disaster, there would likely have been no Ukraine invasion," she said. "Putin saw our lack of resolve in Kabul and assumed nothing meaningful would happen once his tanks rolled into Kyiv."
But the conditions that led to Putin’s war weren’t created overnight. The United States and Europe spent decades trying to integrate Russia and China into the global economy while ignoring their totalitarian tendencies and mass military buildup.
"The West’s foolishness was boundless," Haley said. "Whenever Russia tested us, the West shrugged off the necessary strong response, fearing it would do more harm than good."
"It is critical that we all understand this central point: Appeasement never satisfies the appetites of tyrants. It only makes them want more," Haley said. "Trying to be ‘inoffensive’ only emboldens our enemies. It leads to wars—like the one we are now witnessing right now in Ukraine."
Russia is not the world’s most present threat, however, according to Haley. That distinction goes to China.
There can be "no doubt that China is the biggest national security threat the world faces," she said.
There is only one solution to reassert Western dominance, Haley said. "We must economically detach from our enemies and rely more heavily on ourselves and our friends."
"That means breaking the Western addiction to Russian energy," Haley said. "It means securing strategic supply chains completely free of Chinese control or leverage. It means expecting our businesses to do their part to uphold our interests rather than those of our enemies."
The belief that "economic interdependence with hostile regimes" would dampen their worst tendencies has been "painfully disproven," according to Haley. If the West does not abandon these foolish ambitions, "our pain and vulnerability will only increase."
The Western world stands at an "inflection point," facing a "set of powerful and fanatical dictators with dreams of conquest. Imperial Russia, Communist China, and Jihadist Iran pose existential threats to us and to free peoples all over the world," Haley said. "The Western way of life depends on deterring these threats."
A stalemate, she said, "is not good enough. Victory is required."
The best-case scenario is that she’s a progressive who repeatedly violated her own principles so that she could promote her career. In the worst-case scenario, she’s just another corrupt, rotten, regressive prosecutor. JESSER HOROWITZ
Joe Biden, the corrupt, unaccomplished 47-year career politician, with a reputation of having been a proud segregationist, an unabashed plagiarist and liar, a resolute tale-teller, and a serial flip-flopper, is pretending to head up a radical social-democratic ticket for President of the United States that includes as his running mate the ambitious, disagreeable junior senator from California: Kamala Harris.
Harris is no friend of religious liberty. Her recent decision to exclaim in the year of our Lord, which has been conveniently picked up by her staff, is a ploy designed to appeal to unassuming Christian voters impressed by "God talk." As the old adage says, actions speak louder than words, and on this score, Harris fails to convince.
It is the handmaidens working for Planned Parenthood who have joked about selling aborted baby body parts. And it was Kamala Harris, when she was A.G. of California, who viciously prosecuted the young man who exposed that scandal, after she had received a hefty donation from Planned Parenthood.
THE SAN FRANCISCO CATHOLIC ARCHDIOCESE WAS VERY GENEROUS AFTER KAMAL HARRIS LET THEM AVOID PRISON…. JUST FOLLOW THE MONEY!
As most people know, prior to her being a Senator, she served as the chief prosecutor for the city of San Francisco. Now, complaints are coming forward that she flat out refused to pursue criminal cases against Catholic priests who allegedly sexually battered children.
People who say they were victims of childhood sexual abuse call out Harris for not doing all that she could to prosecute their cases.
VP Kamala Harris: ‘Nothing’ About Abortion Requires Abandoning, Changing ‘Faith’
There’s “nothing” about supporting abortion that conflicts with faith or would require anyone to “abandon” or “change” it, according to Vice President Kamala Harris, who warned of the impact of criminalizing the procedure, while arguing the government “should not have the ability to decide what an individual does with her own body.”
Asked about her work with activists on the issue of abortion and what Americans should expect in terms of executive action from the Biden administration if the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling is overturned, Harris called for patience in remarks on Friday.
“Well, let’s first wait and see exactly what the Court does, because that’ll give us a good idea of, frankly, what harm is going to result,” she said.
She then noted that she has been “convening folks around many sectors of just who we are as a society” to address “privacy issues” surrounding issues including abortion.
“Most recently, I brought together some constitutional scholars around privacy issues, because we are very concerned that the privacy right from which Roe v. Wade flows can also put at risk the right to contraception [and] the right to same-sex marriage,” she said.
“We’re very concerned about what a degradation of the right to privacy will mean, beyond the right to have access to an abortion,” she added. “So we’re going to see.”
Harris also discussed her convening of faith leaders on the issue, arguing nothing about it requires one to forsake their faith.
U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris delivers remarks during a meeting on Roe v Wade, in the ceremonial office of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, next to the White House, in Washington, DC, on June 14, 2022. (STEFANI REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)
“I’ve convened faith leaders,” she said. “And, for those of us of faith, I think that we agree, many of us, that there’s nothing about this issue that will require anyone to abandon their faith or change their faith.”
According to Harris, the issue is “simply saying that the government should not have the ability to decide what an individual does with her own body.”
“Let her make that decision with her pastor or her rabbi or whoever she consults,” she concluded. “But it should not be the government making that decision.”
In response, Arkansas State Rep. Aaron Pilkington (R) said Harris is outright “wrong.”
“To Support abortion is to stand oppose[d] to Christian Faith. Just ask any Bishop or Priest,” he wrote.
“Lord have mercy. This woman is either ignorant or deeply deceived,” wrote popular author and speaker Stephen Mansfield.
“Goodness…,” wrote Shukri Abdirahman, who is running as a Republican to unseat Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN).
“The elites now want to tell you what the God they don’t believe in requires of you, just to promote their disgusting political agenda,” wrote constitutional law attorney Jenna Ellis.
On Tuesday, Harris convened a panel of experts to discuss the potential consequences if the Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade.
“I’ve asked these experts to be here to talk with me about how we might best prepare the American people for the consequences of what this decision will be in terms of their life and the choices that they are able to make and have a right to make so that, at the very least, folks can be prepared,” she said in a statement.
“I do believe that overturning Roe could clear the way for challenges to other fundamental rights, including the right to use contraception and same-sex marriage,” she added.
Earlier this month, Harris hosted a roundtable conversation on abortion rights with faith leaders, noting the last few years had tested everyone’s faith during the coronavirus pandemic, the rise in “hate and misinformation” on the Internet, and continued gun crimes and mass shootings.
“I would like to talk with these faith leaders about the impending decision from the United States Supreme Court that we believe will undo the very principles and premise of the importance of the privacy, the right that Roe v. Wade stands for,” she said.
The right of a mother to terminate the child in her womb, Harris explained, should be “unfettered” by the government and the courts.
“So, that conversation, of course, in my mind, is a conversation that requires us to also discuss whether we value the concept of self-determination — the ability of an individual to make decisions about their own life and the future of their life and the choices that will directly impact so many other choices,” she said.
Harris has criticized the pro-life movement for pushing forward state and local laws to restrict abortions.
Last month, Harris urged people to “fight for women” after the leak of a draft opinion from the Supreme Court suggesting the court would overturn Roe v. Wade.
“This is the time to fight for women and for our country with everything we have,” she wrote in a statement released by her office.
She also rebuked the GOP, stating that the voiding of the landmark abortion ruling would be “not only an attack on women but an attack on freedom.”
“If the court overturns Roe vs. Wade, it will be a direct assault on freedom, on the fundamental right of self-determination to which all Americans are entitled,” she said.
Nearly 630,000 abortions cost the United States roughly $6.9 trillion in 2019 alone, according to a report released this week by Republicans on the Joint Economic Committee (JEC).
The committee released the report in response to claims by U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and other economists that restricting abortion would negatively effect the economy by diminishing labor market outcomes of women.
“These arguments overlook the far greater economic cost of unrestricted abortion when accounting for the lost lives of the unborn,” Republicans state in the report, entitled “The Economic Cost of Abortion.”
The report differentiated itself from previous government agency reports, noting the economic cost of abortion from the perspective of unborn babies has “been omitted from previous analyses.” The report states:
Applying standard valuation methods used by government agencies to assess the costs and benefits of policy actions that affect mortality risks, we estimate that the economic cost of abortion to unborn babies in the U.S. was $6.9 trillion in 2019, 32 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) that year. This cost is 425 times larger than the $16.2 billion loss in earnings that new mothers would be expected to incur over the first six years of the child’s life.
The report further asserted that abortion “shrinks the labor force.” Republicans calculated that if all of the estimated 63 million babies aborted since the Supreme Court’s 1973 Roe v. Wade decision had been otherwise carried to term and survived to the present time, “they would add nearly 20 percent to the current U.S. population.” Of those, 45 million would be of working age (18 to 64).
The report found that abortion also “weakens the solvency of Social Security and Medicare.” According to the report:
Older Americans (age 65 and older) comprised a record high of 16.3 percent of the U.S. population as of 2020, and this share is expected to increase to 20.4 percent by 2040. This demographic shift will make it more difficult for the relatively smaller number of children to care for their elderly parents. It will also add more pressure to Social Security and Medicare, which are funded by the wages of Americans who are currently working.
Republicans added that faster population growth is “especially pressing” given current estimates that the economic output in the U.S. will “grow at a historically slow pace” of around 1.5 percent per year. That slowed rate is credited in large part to slowed population growth arising from low fertility levels, the report states.
“The U.S. total fertility rate was 1.7 births per woman as of 2021, which is well below the replacement level of 2.1 births per woman,” according to the report.
The report also pointed to abortion’s impact on diversity in the United States. Specifically, the report addressed how black women have abortions at a rate of 23.8 percent per 1,000 women, “nearly four times the rate at which white women have abortions.”
In 2019 alone, non-Hispanic black women comprised 38.4 percent of all abortions, compared to 33.4 percent of non-Hispanic white women. The percentage is especially notable, given that 12.9 percent of all women are non-Hispanic black women and 60 percent are white, the report states. According to the report:
This disparity results in a U.S. population that is less racially and ethnically diverse than it would otherwise be if abortion were restricted. Abortion also reduces diversity through selective termination of babies with disabilities. A previous JEC Republicans report found that selective abortion will reduce the population of Americans with Down syndrome by over 200,000 people over the next 50 years.
Furthermore, JEC Republicans estimated that, based on the 3.7 million live births tallied in 2019 in the U.S., eliminating abortion would reduce the risk of mortality among unborn babies by up to 14 percentage points.
In light of all the facts and figures, Republicans acknowledged in their conclusion that abortion “at its core is a moral issue rather than an economic one.”
“But even in economic terms, arguments that abortion positively affects the economy fail to recognize the cost of abortion to unborn babies and to society more broadly. These costs far outweigh the short run labor market benefits of abortion frequently cited by economists and policymakers,” the report concludes.
The arrival of Joe Biden’s decision on a running mate is a true turning point in the history of American politics.
There has never before been a presidential candidate who, prior to entering the White House, has shown such undeniable signs of age-related neurological decay. All political disagreements disregarded, the sight of an elderly person succumbing to the demons of those dreaded cognitive ailments -- which all too often rob us of the older people we love -- is truly excruciating to behold.
The political outcome of Biden's mental state is, if possible, even more unsettling. The role of the president is meant to be powerful. All constitutional checks and balances considered, the sheer power of the chief executive, in that one single person invested with authority to counter-balance the power of the legislative and judicial branches, is truly awesome.
In our situation today, we see a man who is clearly not in full command of his mental faculties, who is allowing himself to be considered for that office of chief executive; an office which, unlike a prime minister in a parliamentary system, is intended to be stable and not prone to regular changes in leadership.
The expectation of a normal four-year presidential tenure on Biden’s part if he is elected must, at the very least, be subjected to serious doubt. If pronouncing basic words -- let alone quoting the most famous phrase of our Declaration of Independence -- is such a confusing ordeal for him, then it is our urgent duty to question whether this individual is fit to be the man who must accept the ultimate responsibility for this country’s national security and well-being.
These facts squarely cast the Democrat side of the current election as not a presidential election at all, but a vice-presidential election.
Should Biden win, the chances are very probable that his vice president will become the 47th president to finish out his first four-year term. As the vice president automatically succeeds to the Oval Office if the president dies or is rendered permanently incapacitated, the profoundly anti-democratic repercussions of this situation is worsened by whom Biden has actually chosen.
The traditional custom for presidential hopefuls is to either choose the second-highest-polling candidate in a primary race, as Ronald Reagan did with George H. W. Bush in 1980, or to choose a highly capable politician who is well-respected by most of the party, as Donald Trump did with Governor Mike Pence in 2016. In both of those cases, the aforementioned running mates reflected the Republican Party and its voters quite respectably while promoting unity.
It is highly questionable, meanwhile, whether Kamala Harris -- aside from all of the establishment media’s expected giddy cheerleading -- really represents her party all that well. She was polling at 2% nationally by the time she ended her own presidential bid on December 3, 2019.Her more radical positions, such as support for the Obama administration’s Iran deal, prosecuting a journalist who exposed Planned Parenthood’s collection and sale of aborted babies’ body parts (while receiving campaign donations from them), and defending Ilhan Omar’s anti-Semitism, may indeed sit well with a great many leftists, but her actions as Attorney General of California may not. While in that position, Harris jailed hundreds on marijuana charges and authorized anti-prostitution sting operations which, according to SF Weekly, disproportionately targeted Latino men (a crucial Democrat demographic). In addition to this -- though she later admitted it was a mistake -- she prosecuted and jailed the parents of truant teens. She even refused to release the names of Catholic priests accused of sexually molesting children, abnegating law enforcement’s most basic and humane duty -- regardless of anyone’s opinion of the Catholic Church.
it is highly debatable if these are positions that a high number of progressives who voted for the Democrat primary runner-up, Bernie Sanders, would approve of. Especially today, being tough on minority and drug crime -- to the exclusion of “white patriarchal” clergy sex abuse -- is not en vogue among the Democratic Party’s truly energized base, which is largely college-educated millennials taught to have contempt for not only aggressive inner city policing, but inner city policing overall.
It also remains a question as to how many black American voters Kamala really represents. Without doubt, she completely failed to gain these voters' support during the primary. Many black Americans responded to Barack and Michelle Obama due to their image as people who empathized authentically with the black experience of living in inner city America. Harris’s flip-flopping on criminal justice issues has clearly deprived her of the Obama touch.
What should highly concern all Americans of whatever political persuasion is the fact that, given Joe Biden’s medical condition, a Democrat victory in 2020 could very likely result in a person for whom only 2% of Democrats and Democrat-leaning Independents supported to become president.
The reasons for Biden’s choice of Kamala Harris as his running mate are as yet not entirely clear. What is very clear, however, is that a new president of the United States in the near future could be a person whom a weak and faltering man choseby fiat, and not someone whom the majority of the country elected by the ballot. That's a problem.
It's a problem for America -- and it's a serious and profound problem for American democracy. Barry Nussbaum is an exceptional American businessman and real estate mogul, whose distinguished career extends more than 38 years. He is an experienced news commentator on international affairs, who has been featured on major television networks, web-based and in print media. Visit his site: AmericanTruthProject.org.
Duplicity aside, perhaps the only details of Harris’s speech more cringeworthy than her insincerity was her inability to tell the truth about virtually anything. DAVID KELTZ
SHE’S CORRUPT, AMORAL, BRIBES SUCKING BUT ISN’T THAT WHY BIDEN WANTED HER TO BE V.P?
Tucker Carlson of Fox News calls Harris a corrupt and dangerous fraud who sees laws and powers only as means to punish her enemies, pursue her agenda, and get elected.
Does the Church Fund Kamala Harris? And Her Other Shady Shenanigans
During her decade-and-a-half tenure as a chief prosecutor, Harris would fail to prosecute a single case of priest abuse and her office would strangely hide vital records on abuses that had occurred despite the protests of victims groups. PETER SCHWEIZER
She somehow served as San Francisco district attorney from 2004 to 2011, and then as California attorney general from 2011 to 2017, and never brought a single documented case forward against an abusive priest. PETER SCHWEIZER
According to San Francisco election financial disclosures, high-dollar donations to Harris’s campaign began to roll in from those connected to the Catholic Church institutional hierarchy.” PETER SCHEIZER
“However, I would like to encourage my fellow Democrats to approach Senator Harris with a healthy dose of skepticism. As a prosecutor and California State Attorney General, Harris has engaged in blatantly unethical behavior for her profession and embraced positions that actively hurt her constituents.” JESSER HOROWITZ
Harris has often been described as a "politician on the make," someone who will do whatever is expedient. Writing for RealClearPolitics, Debra Saunders calls Harris a "progressive opportunist." Yves Smith, looking through her less than progressive record as California prosecutor, would alter that to "opportunist to the core." JEFFREY FOLKS
The best-case scenario is that she’s a progressive who repeatedly violated her own principles so that she could promote her career. In the worst-case scenario, she’s just another corrupt, rotten, regressive prosecutor. JESSER HOROWITZ
How come you wouldn’t prosecute Catholic priests for sexual and child abuse? Where was your empathy? JACK HELLNER
STEALING AMERICA!
Here’s how California surrendered to Mexico… OR WAS HANDED TO MEXICO BY NANCY PELOSI, DIANNE FEINSTEIN, KAMALA HARRIS, JERRY BROWN and GAVIN NEWSOM!
