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Speaker Johnson’s Ignominious Betrayal

Speaker Johnson’s Ignominious Betrayal

by | Apr 19, 2024 |

Speaker Johnson’s ignominious betrayal of fiscal sanity might well be the death knell for the GOP. He is apparently risking his speakership on behalf of $95 billion of foreign aid boondoggles that Uncle Sam cannot remotely afford, and which actually provide zero benefit to the homeland security of America. And we do mean zero, as in nothing, nichts, nada, nyet and nugatory, as we amplify below.  What Johnson’s impending Waterloo means, therefore, is not merely the prospect of another wild...

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US/EU Lobby Against Georgian Law That Would Reveal Their Secret Influence

US/EU Lobby Against Georgian Law That Would Reveal Their Secret Influence

by | Apr 19, 2024 |

The government of Georgia has tried for some time to implement a law "On transparency of foreign influence”. Its aim is to publicly identify organizations and parties who receive a significant amount of their budget from abroad: The draft law “In order to ensure transparency”, initiated for the second time by the Georgian Dream faction, envisages the registration of such non-entrepreneurial (non-commercial) legal entities and media outlets, whose income – more than 20% – is received from...

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The Second Round of Retaliation Between Israel and Iran Has Just Begun

The Second Round of Retaliation Between Israel and Iran Has Just Begun

by | Apr 19, 2024 |

Given the lying and fact twisting that have routinely been part and parcel of accounts of what is occurring in the Middle East, the past several weeks have nevertheless been shocking in terms of how an abysmally low standard of truth can be reduced even farther. Looking at developments objectively, one comes up with a series of facts. First of all, Israel was not at war with either Syria or Iran during the first weeks in April. Iran had never attacked Israel prior to that point and Syria last...

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Speaker Mike Johnson: The Only Options are Ukrainian or American Troops at War with Russia

Speaker Mike Johnson: The Only Options are Ukrainian or American Troops at War with Russia

by | Apr 18, 2024 |

United States House of Representatives Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) has turned out to be an uber warmonger. He put this attitude on display in a Wednesday press conference in which he declared “I would rather send bullets to Ukraine than American boys” as support for his push for the House to approve spending billions of dollars more in support of Ukraine’s war effort against Russia. Of course, the choice Johnson presented is a false choice that would only be acceptable to someone intent on war...

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Down with Big Brother: Warrantless Surveillance Makes a Mockery of the Constitution

Down with Big Brother: Warrantless Surveillance Makes a Mockery of the Constitution

by | Apr 18, 2024 |

The government long ago sold us out to the highest bidder. The highest bidder, by the way, has always been the Deep State. What’s playing out now with the highly politicized tug-of-war over whether Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act gets reauthorized by Congress doesn’t just sell us out, it makes us slaves of the Deep State. Read the fine print: it’s a doozy. Just as the USA Patriot was perverted from its stated intent to fight terrorism...

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The Right to Assembly

The Right to Assembly

by | Apr 18, 2024 |

Last week, the Supreme Court effectively abolished the right to assembly in three Southern states. By refusing to hear an appeal of a speaker accused of being liable for what a protester did in an audience the speaker addressed, the court exposed all protest organizers and speakers to potentially ruinous financial penalties for what unknown persons have done. Here is the backstory. The right to taunt the tyrant -- whether the tyrant be a king or a president or local police -- is among the...

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The National-Security Branch Rules the Roost

The National-Security Branch Rules the Roost

by | Apr 17, 2024 |

If there is anything that confirms that the national-security branch of the federal government rules the roost within the federal governmental structure, it is the Pentagon/CIA torture and indefinite-detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. That facility stands as an ongoing testament to the overarching power of the Pentagon, the CIA, and the NSA within America’s governmental structure and the deference to their authority displayed by the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of the...

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‘Do Not Touch Me…I am a Faculty Member’: Cornell Professor Disrupts Coulter Speech

‘Do Not Touch Me…I am a Faculty Member’: Cornell Professor Disrupts Coulter Speech

by | Apr 17, 2024 |

Monica Cornejo, an assistant professor of interpersonal communication, was forcibly removed from a Cornell University event this week after disrupting a speech by conservative commentator Ann Coulter. She is only the latest faculty member to seek to prevent others from hearing opposing views. The question now is what Cornell will do about her conduct. To its credit, Cornell resolved to reinvite Coulter to speak after a prior event was disrupted by protesters. On March 13, Cornell Provost...

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FISA Exchanges Real Liberty for Phantom Security.

FISA Exchanges Real Liberty for Phantom Security.

by | Apr 15, 2024 |

House Speaker Mike Johnson betrayed liberty and the Constitution by making a full-court press to get a “clean” reauthorization of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance (FISA) Act through the House. Section 702 authorizes warrantless surveillance of foreign citizens. When the FISA Act was passed, surveillance state boosters promised that 702 warrantless surveillances would never be used against American citizens. However, intelligence agencies have used a loophole in 702,...

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Iranian Missiles Hit Israel

Iranian Missiles Hit Israel

by | Apr 14, 2024 |

Iran fired several hundred drones, cruise and ballistic missiles towards Israel. With the help of the U.S., UK and Jordan most of the incoming items were intercepted. The expense of several hundred of air defense missiles, at a cost of more than $1 billion, was significant as these are currently hard to get items. More such attacks would soon deplete those which are left. Iran's missiles, for which the drones flew cover, hit their targets. The Nevatim Air Base (vid) and...

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The Missiles of April

The Missiles of April

by | Apr 14, 2024 |

Iran’s retaliatory attack on Israel will go down in history as one of the greatest victories of this century. I’ve been writing about Iran for more than two decades. In 2005, I made a trip to Iran to ascertain the “ground truth” about that nation, a truth which I then incorporated into a book, Target Iran, laying out the US-Israeli collaboration to craft a justification for a military attack on Iran designed to bring down its theocratic government. I followed this book up with...

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The CIA Wants More Power to Spy on Americans!

The CIA Wants More Power to Spy on Americans!

by | Apr 11, 2024 |

Americans need to be aware of the unbridled propensity of federal intelligence agencies to spy on all of us without search warrants as required by the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. These agencies believe that the Fourth Amendment -- which protects the individual right to privacy -- only regulates law enforcement and does not apply to domestic spying. There is no basis in the constitutional text, history or judicial interpretations for such a limiting and toothless view of this...

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Why the JFK Assassination Still Matters

Why the JFK Assassination Still Matters

by | Apr 11, 2024 |

Someone might reasonably ask, “What difference does the JFK assassination make to those of us living today? The assassination took place more than 60 years ago. Everyone involved in it is now dead. Why not just forget it and move on?’ Those are reasonable questions, especially when they come from young people. Why should they care about who killed Kennedy? The reason lies in the governmental structure under which all of us have been born and raised — a national-security state form of...

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The Deep State Prepares for a Trump Victory

The Deep State Prepares for a Trump Victory

by | Apr 10, 2024 |

We’ve all wondered if the fix is already in. Given the irregularities of the last election, and the manner in which the whole of the U.S. establishment rallied around one side, maybe a Biden victory in November is a foregone conclusion. I’m guilty of believing this. I’ve doubted every prediction that Donald Trump or RFK, Jr. can win. This is not because they won’t get votes. It’s because those votes might not matter enough. The power of haters is awesome and ubiquitous. The whole of legacy...

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NPR Editor Blasts the Public-Funded Company for Political Bias and Activism

NPR Editor Blasts the Public-Funded Company for Political Bias and Activism

by | Apr 10, 2024 |

In a scathing account from within National Public Radio (NPR), Senior Editor Uri Berliner blasted the company for open political bias and activism. Berliner, who says that he is liberal politically, wrote about how NPR went from a left-leaning media outlet to a virtual Democratic operation echoing narratives from figures like Rep. Adam Schiff (D., Cal.). The objections have long been voiced, including on this blog, but this account is coming from a long-standing and respected editor from...

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Tyranny by the Numbers: The Government Wants Your Money Any Way It Can Get It

Tyranny by the Numbers: The Government Wants Your Money Any Way It Can Get It

by | Apr 10, 2024 |

The government wants your money. It will beg, steal or borrow if necessary, but it wants your money any way it can get it. This is what comes of those $1.2 trillion spending bills: someone’s got to foot the bill for the government’s fiscal insanity, and that “someone” is the U.S. taxpayer. The government’s schemes to swindle, cheat, scam, and generally defraud taxpayers of their hard-earned dollars have run the gamut from wasteful pork barrel legislation, cronyism and graft to asset...

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