Wednesday, December 30, 2020

ARE GLOBALIST DEMOCRATS ANTI-SEMITIC?

 

Mark Levin: Democrats Shamelessly Back ‘Anti-Semites like Raphael Warnock for the U.S. Senate’

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Conservative talk radio host Mark Levin stated Wednesday it is “truly shocking” Democrats will openly support “anti-semites like Raphael Warnock for the U.S. Senate” without any pushback, noting that it “portends a dangerous immorality by a party that has a long history of hatred dating back before the Civil War.”

“We’ve now reached a point in our country where the Democrat Party will nominate and support, with the media’s backing, anti-Semites like Raphael Warnock for the U.S. Senate,” the Life, Liberty & Levin host said in a viral social media post.

“In fact, Biden and Harris have campaigned for him and are headed back to Georgia to try and carry him to victory. No criticism. No pushback. Nothing. It’s truly shocking” he continued, adding that it “portends a dangerous immorality by a party that has a long history of hatred dating back before the Civil War”:

Levin’s remarks come less than a week from the January 5 runoff elections, which will determine the balance of power in the U.S. Senate in an increasingly tight race.

Dozens of Democrat politicians and celebrities have rallied behind Democrat Senate hopefuls Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff, working to make Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s (D-NY) call to “take Georgia” and “change the world” a reality.

Warnock, Sen. Kelly Loeffler’s (R-GA) challenger, has struggled to defend his anti-Israel record in the weeks leading up to the election.

“.@ReverendWarnock has a long history of anti-Israel extremism. He defended Jeremiah Wright’s anti-Semitic comments. He embraced the anti-Zionist BLM organization. And he thinks Israel is an ‘oppressive regime’ for fighting back against terrorism,” Loeffler noted last month:

Per the Jewish Journal:

In 2019, Georgia Democratic Senate candidate Reverend Raphael Warnock signed a letter comparing Israel to apartheid South Africa, Jewish Insider reported.

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Warnock is also listed as a delegation member on a Progressive National Baptist resolution that called on the United States to cease all military aid to Israel and urged Israel to stop building “illegal Israeli settlements, checkpoints and apartheid roads in the occupied Palestinian territories,” Fox News reported.

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Stephen Lawson, communications director for incumbent Senator Kelly Loeffler’s (R-Ga.) campaign, told Fox News that “Warnock has a history of anti-Israel positions, from embracing anti-Zionist Black Lives Matter and defending anti-Semitic comments made by Rev. Jeremiah Wright, to calling Israel an ‘oppressive regime’ for fighting back against terrorism.”

Earlier this month, a group of traditional rabbis, part of the Coalition for Jewish Values, formally denounced Warnock of using “antisemitic rhetoric.”

MITCH McCONNELL - FUCK MIDDLE AMERICA!!! - I'VE GOT RED CHINA AND WALL STREET TO TAKE CARE OF!!!

 

McConnell Blocks Sen. Sanders' Call to Vote on $2,000 Stimulus

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McConnell Blocks Sen. Sanders' Call to Vote on $2,000 Stimulus

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On Tuesday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) objected to Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-VT) call for the $2,000 relief check bill to be passed via unanimous consent. Sanders threatened to delay the override of President Trump’s defense bill veto until New Year's if McConnell resists. Keeping the senators at work through the holidays could put a dent in the campaign plans of Republican Sens. Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue, both fighting for re-election and the continuing GOP control of the Senate.

"Let me be clear: If Senator McConnell doesn't agree to an up or down vote to provide the working people of our country a $2,000 direct payment, Congress will not be going home for New Year's Eve," Sanders said on Monday. "Let's do our job."

But as soon as Sanders made the call on the Senate floor on Tuesday, McConnell objected.

President Trump signed the second COVID relief package last week, yet told Congress he wants to see an edited version that increases the $600 stimulus payments to $2,000 and gets rid of unnecessary spending. The House voted to increase the stimulus by a vote of 275-134 on Monday. But McConnell has not indicated that he'll schedule a vote on the amended amount. 

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Several conservative lawmakers have objected to the second COVID relief bill. 

Freedom Caucus member Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX), for instance, called it an "irresponsible swamp bill." 

Gingrich: Middle Class Have Been the ‘Big Losers’ in Pandemic; Says $2,000 Checks Will ‘Help’ Struggling Americans

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As Congress weighs to increase coronavirus stimulus checks to individuals from $600 to $2,000, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich on Tuesday joined President Donald Trump’s call to increase the payout in the coronavirus stimulus checks from $600 to $2,000.

On FNC’s “Fox & Friends,” Gingrich acknowledged the importance of balancing the federal budget but said that middle-class Americans have been the “big losers” from the shutdowns put in place to help mitigate the spread of the coronavirus, particularly in Democratic states. He added that $2,000 checks would “help” the average American struggling from the “mess” created by some governments.

“This is like being in World War II. We have a disaster in this country made dramatically worse by Democratic governors in places like California, Illinois, New York who have been crushing small business, killing the restaurant industry,” Gingrich outlined. “You know, the big losers have been middle-class Americans. The big winners have been the very rich and government employees who got paid for not doing any work, including millions of members of the teachers union who didn’t do any work, but got … collectively billions of dollars for sitting around.”

He continued, “So, I think if you are an average everyday person, you look at all of this mess, and you think the government has clearly not done its job, particularly the state governments led by Democrats, and $2,000 will help me. I think that’s what’s going on.”

“[T]his is not about deficit spending. That train is long gone. We’re in the middle of a disaster. I think the average American deserves some help,” Gingrich later added.

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House Passes CASH Act to Increase Payments to $2,000, 60 Votes Needed in the Senate
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The U.S. House of Representatives passed the CASH Act on Monday, aimed at increasing coronavirus relief payments from $600 to $2,000, thereby kicking the legislation to the Senate, which needs 60 votes to make the increase — pushed by President Donald Trump — a reality.

Upon announcing he would sign the $2.3 trillion coronavirus relief and government spending bill Sunday, Trump demanded Congress eliminate wasteful spending and increase the amount of the direct payments going to the American people.

The House successfully passed the legislation 275-134, though most Republicans voted against it — 130 compared to the 44 who supported it. Twenty-one Republican lawmakers did not vote and all but two Democrats supported the measure. Reps. Daniel Lipinski (D-IL) and Kurt Schrader (D-OR) opposed it.

Schrader referred to the measure as a “last-minute political maneuver by the president and extremists on both sides of the political spectrum who have been largely absent during months of very hard negotiations.”

“People who are making six-figure incomes (and) have not been impacted by COVID-19 [Chinese coronavirus], do not need checks. We’ve had nine months to fix this program, to get it to people who need it most, that has not happened,” he said on the House floor.

“Let’s reverse course and target those in need,” he added.

His remarks drew ire from Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), who noted the amount “starts phasing out at $75k”:

Regardless of the opposition in the House, the measure now moves to the Senate, where leadership has remained relatively mum on increasing direct payments to the American people. The measure needs sixty votes in the Senate to pass, requiring support from at least 12 Republican lawmakers.

There is chatter that Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) will “block consideration of the NDAA veto override until Senate Majority Leader MITCH MCCONNELL schedules a vote on the $2,000 check bill,” according to Politico’s Playbook. Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) is among GOP lawmakers who remain explicitly on board with increasing the amount of individual stimulus checks, releasing an official statement Monday.

A “Republican source” reportedly told Axios that “it might get 60” votes if McConnell brings it to the floor. “Then Trump can claim victory,” the GOP source added.

IT’S NOT JUST THE OLD WHORE DIANNE FEINSTEIN AND THE BIDEN BOYS, JOE AND HUNTER WHO HAVE SERVED RED CHINA, WALL STREET MITCH’S WIFE IS A DEDICATED WHORE TO THE CHINESE INTERESTS! 

Mr. McConnell benefited from his marriage into the Chao family

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The first $10,000 came in June 1989. In the 30 years since, 13 members of the extended Chao family have given a total of more than $1 million to Mr. McConnell’s campaigns and to political action committees tied to him. In 2008, James Chao gave the couple a gift of as much as $25 million, vaulting Mr. McConnell into the ranks of the richest senators.

In a statement, Mr. McConnell said he was proud to have his family’s support.

It is little wonder that Mitch McConnell turned on Trump in recent days even though the President helped him get re-elected. Mr. McConnell’s wife, Elaine Chao’s family earns money from a shipping company with Chinese ties and Chao likes to help out.

Across America, breaking the law often means there are no consequences

By Jerold Levoritz 

Let’s begin with the conclusion so as not to keep anyone waiting: Punishment under the law is no longer acceptable in a “woke” society. One may still be subjected to legal prosecution if the crime threatens the Left, as happened to Donald Trump, Carter Paige, and Michael Flynn. “Truth,” however, has nothing to do with such prosecutions of convenience, although punishment is highly acceptable under informal social norms. So, we have “cancel culture” that can ruin a person’s life in an afternoon, moving right along until the victim enters his eternal rest.

Rejecting legal punishment except in political cases can be seen in the West Coast’s aversion to prosecuting street crimes such as trespassing, mugging, and serious violence resulting in bodily injury. Just this afternoon, as I am writing, Portland, Oregon has decided not to prosecute someone who drove into a Proud Boy in a parking lot and then left the scene. In the olden days, this was a pure crime, but unworthy of charges at this time and in that venue.

In another case, the prosecutor of a case told the murder victim’s family to “keep their mouth shut.” If victims and their families have no standing, punishment is increasingly irrelevant. The proper “woke” attitude towards victims is that all that happened to them was they had some really bad luck.

From where does this impulse to ignore punishment arise? Most rationalizations explaining this phenomenon do not interest me. I have my own!

Those holding political power who downplay punishment desperately need a punishment-free society to protect themselves from investigation and jail time. If everyone else can get away scot-free, so can those who wield power.

In fact, not only should everyone be allowed to get away scot-free, but they should not even be subjected to questioning about their deeds. My wife keeps laughing at me for continuing to believe Hillary should be wearing orange.

Donald Trump is hated because he blew the whistle on the big game. He brought the entire official Washington world down on him by talking about the “swamp” and calling the fake news “fake.”

It is little wonder that Mitch McConnell turned on Trump in recent days even though the President helped him get re-elected. Mr. McConnell’s wife, Elaine Chao’s family earns money from a shipping company with Chinese ties and Chao likes to help out. The continuation of Mr. Trump’s tough line against China could easily cause the collapse of Ms. Chao’s portfolio and that loss of income can only be prevented with Mr. Trump’s timely retirement.

From the Chao example, does it not seem logical and desirable to the average person that our lawmakers should be conflict-of-interest free when they consider our national legislation. Under benign business conditions, having important connections is a good thing, an advantage that helps businesses prosper, but things can quickly get out of hand.

What we have here is a feeding frenzy. As the Federal honey pot keeps growing, gorging by the elected elite has become the rule. If China offers cash upfront, who’s to say no now that the Chinese are defined as “good guys”? In this way “treason” loses its nasty edge. If the New World Order is an ethical position, how can a “local” government like the United States impose punishment for treason on those who work for One World!

So, what we have here, in the end, is a problem of values. For the individual, voting gives him the status of being an American citizen, but the “swamp” can argue that the horrible ignorance of the average voter is too much for a modern functioning government to bear. What the “swamp” never argues is that it too is too ignorant to control a complex system that changes without notice. As long as it can call itself and the money men “good,” there are no crimes either it or its voters can commit; there are only political crimes the other side commits.

The genius of Trump is his extraordinary flexibility. That is what is necessary to respond to quickly changing conditions. Without that extreme flexibility, which requires high intelligence, rejection of dogma, and the complete refutation of self-interest, there is no hope of “making things better.” We will spiral out of control as we bathe in increasing amounts of misallocated money until the monetary system collapses.

It is for this reason that we must beg each other to do the right thing by giving Trump his due – four more years. Maybe the behemoth of government and its enticement to riches can be reduced in that time.

 

For the Chao Family, Deep Ties to the

As transportation secretary, Elaine Chao is the top Trump official overseeing the maritime industry. Her family owns Foremost Group, a shipping company. Credit...Sarah Silbiger/The New York Times

 

By Michael Forsythe and Eric Lipton

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The family of Elaine Chao, the transportation secretary and wife of Mitch McConnell, the Senate majority leader, has high-level political connections not only in the United States but also in China. That gives the family unusual status in the world’s two largest economies.

Through interviews, industry filings and government documents from both countries, The New York Times found that the Chaos, and by extension Mr. McConnell, prospered as the family’s shipping company developed deeper business ties in China. Along the way, one of the company’s boosters was Ms. Chao, who now oversees efforts to promote America’s own maritime industry, which is in steep decline as China’s shipping sector rises in global dominance. Here are five takeaways.

The Chao family’s connections to the Chinese state go back decades

James S.C. Chao, 91, Ms. Chao’s father, studied navigation at a university in Shanghai before fleeing the mainland ahead of the Communist takeover in 1949. His schoolmate for a time was Jiang Zemin, who would become China’s president.

As China was emerging from decades of turmoil in 1984, the Chao family took a stake in a state-owned Chinese manufacturer of marine electronic equipment, documents show. The company targeted sales to China’s military, among other sectors, and was closely affiliated with a ministry run by Mr. Jiang. After Mr. Jiang came to lead the Communist Party a few years later, Mr. Chao met with him at least six times, including in August 1989 in Beijing — inside the party’s secretive leadership compound. Chao family members said they could not recall this investment.

The family shipping company is centered on China

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The main gate of the Shanghai Waigaoqiao shipyard, a building site for Foremost ships.Credit...Giulia Marchi for The New York Times

Foremost Group, the New York-based shipping company founded by Mr. Chao in 1964, landed its first big contract with the United States government, shipping rice to Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War.

Now, it builds most of its ships in state-owned shipyards in China, with some financed by Chinese government loans. In at least two instances, those Chinese-backed, Chinese-built ships entered long-term contracts to deliver iron ore for a state-owned steel maker.

More than 70 percent of Foremost’s freight goes to China, and most of that is iron ore, according to recent shipping data. The cargo helps feed China’s industrial machine, which manufactures steel products that are a point of dispute in the deepening trade war between China and the United States. The company describes itself as a small international business and says it does not have a particular focus on China, beyond what most dry bulk carriers have in a world dominated by Chinese manufacturing.

As budget cuts have targeted America’s shipping sector, the Trump administration’s commitment under Ms. Chao has been questioned

The Trump administration has left little doubt that the federal government is willing to use its clout to boost certain American industrial sectors, including coal and steel. Those efforts have not extended to the maritime industry under Ms. Chao’s leadership.

The Transportation Department budget during her tenure has repeatedly called for cuts for programs intended to support the depressed system of American-flagged ships. The agency budget has also called for scaling back plans to replace up to five academy ships to train a new generation of American mariners.

Agency officials noted that many of the cuts were forced on the department by the White House, and that some of the same programs had been previously targeted, only to see the money restored by Congress, as happened again with the Trump cuts.

With the action by Congress, the plans to build the new training ships are now back on track, and overall maritime spending is up. But the proposed cuts have led to bipartisan questions about the Trump administration’s commitment to shipping.

Transportation Department officials say that Ms. Chao has been a champion for the United States maritime system, and that her actions as the head of the agency have nothing to do with her family’s business in China. In China, the Chao family has for decades offered scholarships to students training to join the fast-growing shipping industry there.

“My family are patriotic Americans who have led purpose-driven lives and contributed much to this country,” Ms. Chao said in a statement.

Ms. Chao’s family ties to the shipping company and her dealings in China raise ethical issues

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A certificate being presented to Ms. Chao in her role as an international adviser to the city of Wuhan.Credit...Imaginechina, via Associated Press Images

Ms. Chao hasn’t held a formal position at Foremost since the late 1970s, but she has repeatedly used her connections and status to boost the company’s reputation and visibility.

As transportation secretary, she attended a Foremost contract-signing ceremony in New York in 2017. The other party to the contract, the Sumitomo Group of Japan, was subject to Transportation Department oversight for transit projects. Two months later, she canceled a China trip after officials at the American embassy in Beijing raised ethical concerns when her office asked to have family members from the shipping company participate in events.

The Transportation Department provided no reason for the trip’s cancellation, though a spokesman later cited a cabinet meeting President Trump had called at the time.

At her confirmation hearing, Ms. Chao did not mention her family’s extensive ties to the Chinese maritime industry. She also did not disclose several accolades she had received in China — including a role as an international adviser to the city of Wuhan — though the Senate questionnaire requires nominees to list all honorary positions. An agency official described that as an oversight.

Marilyn L. Glynn, a former general counsel at the Office of Government Ethics, said Ms. Chao should recuse herself from decisions that broadly impacted the shipping industry. “She might be tempted to make sure her family company is not adversely affected in any policy choices, or it might even just appear that way,” Ms. Glynn said.

The department spokesman denied the existence of any conflict, saying that “the family business is not in U.S.-flag shipping.” Angela Chao, Foremost’s chief executive, said her sister Elaine attended Foremost events “as a family member.”

Mr. McConnell benefited from his marriage into the Chao family

s. Chao and Mr. McConnell married in 1993, but her campaign donations, along with those of her parents, sisters and brothers-in-law, began flowing years before the wedding. The first $10,000 came in June 1989. In the 30 years since, 13 members of the extended Chao family have given a total of more than $1 million to Mr. McConnell’s campaigns and to political action committees tied to him. In 2008, James Chao gave the couple a gift of as much as $25 million, vaulting Mr. McConnell into the ranks of the richest senators.

In a statement, Mr. McConnell said he was proud to have his family’s support.

  

 


LA RAZA MEXICAN CRIMINALS AND THE MEX WELFARE STATE

 

Feds: Hundreds of Victims of Illegal Alien Crimes Sought Relief in 2020

FLORENCE, AZ - FEBRUARY 28: Immigration detainees stand behind bars at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), detention facility on February 28, 2013 in Florence, Arizona. With the possibility of federal budget sequestration, ICE released 303 immigration detainees in the last week from detention centers through outArizona. More than 2,000 …
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Hundreds of Americans victimized by illegal aliens sought relief from the Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Victims Of Immigration Crime Engagement (VOICE) this year, an office created by President Trump.

This year, VOICE officials said they received about 700 calls from Americans and surviving family members who were victims of illegal alien crimes. VOICE was first created in 2017 by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) at the request of Trump to better help Americans who are often left navigating the criminal justice system, and immigration system, by themselves.

“In FY 2020, ICE’s VOICE hotline received approximately 700 calls from victims requesting assistance,” the year-end ICE report reveals. This is not a full tally of all Americans who have been the victims of illegal alien crimes this year but rather a total of the calls VOICE received by victims requesting relief.

The majority of calls to VOICE by victims were to request the case status of an illegal alien suspect. Others requested victim information, assistance in getting automated updates on a case which is known as “VINE,” and general information.

(Immigration and Customs Enforcement)

In October, Trump issued a presidential proclamation that makes November 1 of every year the “National Day of Remembrance for Americans Killed by Illegal Aliens” to honor citizens who have been killed at the hands of illegal immigration.

Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) estimates that about 2,000 Americans are killed by illegal aliens every year.

John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter at @JxhnBinder

SENATOR DIANNE FEINSTEIN - I MADE CHINA GREAT! - CHINA MADE ME RICH!

 

China Marches On

It's time for the West to start deceiving China. 

 

It has long been clear that Chinese data has been systematically distorted by Chinese reporters themselves. The first statement to this effect was made in the initial report by the Joint Congressional Commission, of which I was co-author, which stated that all Chinese data were based on a hoax. I have repeated this claim several times.

The motive for this distortion is easily discerned: the taxes levied on the provinces by the central government, once the data have been filed. The provincial governments do not wish to share their wealth with the federal government, and hence they deliberately understate their income. The net effect of these changes is to report inflated income at the federal level, restrict the overall taxation of the provinces, and increase cash flow to provincial government treasuries. That is why the cash flow to the central government has been so low for such a long time. It is also the reason for the ongoing investigations by the Chinese federal government into regional withholding by regional administrations, and mounting accusations of cheating against regional officers.

China penetrates Communist Party organizations all over the world to make sure it knows what competing parties are up to, and to spread disinformation about pro-Soviet operations. The struggle between pro-Chinese and pro-Russian forces has been very intense for several decades, and is likely to continue for many decades. The newfound friendship between Beijing and Moscow has not brought peace to the two powers, as they compete for global hegemony. There is limited cooperation, but nothing like a strategic alliance. There is no treaty between the two former superpowers, and no detailed agreement on how to wage a mutual war against their common enemies in the West, from North America to Central and South America, from Europe to Israel, from Australia to New Zealand.

The great debate over the future of China has centered on her choices in the near term. These are largely cultural choices. Will Beijing follow the American model, thereby creating ideological and political rigidity that would make it impossible for the Chinese to compete effectively in the international marketplace? Or will they instead find a way to compete with the West?

It has long been a basic assumption of modern geopolitics that contemporary creativity requires free experimentation, and that systems imposing hard-and-fast rules are destined to fail. That is why modern authoritarian states have employed subversion so extensively. Copying the Western production methods has enabled them to make products similar to our own, while depending on us to develop the technology and assembly lines required to make the system work. 

It is up to the West to deceive China, luring Beijing to steal technology that doesn't work, thereby preserving the real secrets of our military system, and enabling us to penetrate the enemy network. If we fail to do this, we leave the Chinese in firm control of modern military technology, and their own increasingly well-trained and disciplined men and women.