Among the tax breaks and subsidies for the Democrat’s friends in the bill, you know the ones who say YOU don’t pay enough, is a tax subside of $50,000 for journalists.
This will certainly get more journalists hired, but since the tax subsidy expires journalists will have a big financial incentive to make sure Democrats get elected to re-authorize the subsidy so they can keep their jobs.
The Democrats’ $3.5 trillion budget bill features tax breaks for countless progressive causes, but one buried in the fine print is a doozy. The House Ways and Means Committee voted last week to subsidize journalists. Congress wants to subsidize the only institution less popular than . . . Congress.
The “Payroll Credit for Compensation of Local News Journalists” offers print and digital publishers up to $50,000 a year for each journalist on staff. The tax credits are capped at 50% of each employee’s wage in the first year and drop to 30% thereafter. “Democracy depends on original reporting, and local newspapers are responsible for more than half of that,” Senate Finance Chairman Ron Wyden told the Seattle Times last week.
Well no kidding. The data being posted by those who actually follow the science have been saying this for months and been getting banned for it. The left wing politicians and their allies in the corpomedia have been ignoring that science, as well as ignoring the science for natural immunity.
So if the poked can carry and transmit it why fire those who are naturally immune and don’t want the poke? The only science going on here is political science.
This maybe an excuse to bring back lockdowns and most people now have had the poke or are naturally immune.
NEW – CDC director Rochelle Walensky now admits that the vaccine cannot prevent transmission. A statement that got you banned on social media weeks ago. pic.twitter.com/mdd18LPC1x
Members of Congress are exempt from insider trading laws. This is one reason why politicians start out middle class and come out rich.
This list is very revealing. Big Pharma is well represented as two of the companies make the marginally effective Wuhan Poke.
You can also see that most of the others on the list have huge investments in China. This is why the corrupt establishment went after Donald Trump with such a zeal as Trump was doing much to impact China from ripping us off as they have with these one sided trade deals since the 70’s.
Imagine being in China’s backyard. On the globe that is exactly where Australia sits.
When Donald Trump was on Oprah warning how we were giving away the farm to China, Japan, Mexico and OPEC in these one sided trade deals, Mel Gibson was warning Australia of the same.
One can be sure that the politicians didn’t wake up one day thinking “America’s (or Australia’s) steel industry has an unfair advantage, so we are going to use tax dollars to help put them out of business” – they were paid by lobbyists to do it:
Under questioning by Rep. Nancy Mace, the FBI admitted that they don’t calculate or track violence committed by far-left Antifa radicals.
So when the FBI says that “the most violence” happens from the Proud Boys or something like that in spite of having next to nothing to show for it, it is because they are not even tracking certain protected left wing terrorist organizations who have been killing, burning, looting and rioting with impunity.
Just when you thought the FBI could not fail America even worse, they do.
Examples of the FBI Failing America:
New IG report on FBI Abuses Damning. Dir. Wray Promised to Fix It – It’s Worse – LINK
The FBI Fails America Again (video) – UPDATED! – LINK
The Inside Story of How “Spygate”, The FBI/DoJ Plot Against President Trump, was Uncovered (video) – LINK
FBI Document Forger Who Lied to FISA Court Walks – LINK
In July, Channing Phillips, acting AG for DC handling every J6 prosecution, dismissed an assault charge against BLM activist who allegedly attacked a federal officer in Lafayette Square during Floyd riots.
InfoWars occasionally does decent journalism and that is the problem. So much of their reporting is exaggerated and/or makes claims that are not supported by verifiable evidence. One tactic that infowars uses a great deal, and we have criticized, is they will demonstrate fact A, B and C and then go on to claim that because of that X, Y and Z are real without any evidence.
We all know what Jones said about the parents of those killed at Sandy Hook and we are not going to even repeat it here as it is so vile.
Rachel Maddow uses the same propaganda tactics as InfoWars resulting in Maddow also being sued for defamation. Maddow claimed that OAN News was Russian Propaganda, which everyone knows is a lie.
Rachel Maddow’s lawyers told to the court that no reasonable person would take anything she says as fact. Her lawyers told the court that she routinely engages in hyperbolic speculation and her audience knows that. Since everyone knows that OAN is not Russian propaganda the judges threw the suit out because a reasonable person knows that Maddow is not credible.
Jones could have used a similar defense and in our opinion he would have won if he did. Instead reports are that Jones refused to comply with court mandated discovery and if you do that a court is going to rule against you (now if we could just get judges to do that when the FBi/DoJ refuse to comply with discovery things would be fair).
So how is this good for conservatives?
The corporate media engages in the worst forms of defamation against anyone that steps out of line with the Democrat orthodoxy – racist – sexist – bigot – homophobe – white supremacist – you want to kill old people – you hate children – Hilter – NAZI etc.
The Supreme Court, in a well intentioned zeal to protect free speech, has allows the pendulum to swing too far. Big money interests are taking advantage of that to destroy people with lies maliciously and intentionally.
Every time a defamation case doesn’t get thrown out it is a win for conservatives as the legal pendulum is starting to swing the other way. The libel suits filed by Project Veritas against corporate media liars are a fine example.
The other reason this is a win or conservatives is obvious, Alex Jones’ lies and over the top rants have been used to tar all conservatives. Jones had a big audience and thus a responsibility to make a genuine effort to get it right. He failed spectacularly.
Most conservatives have always considered Jones to be a buffoon, if he could have just admitted that to the court he would have walked.
DoJ Inspector General Horowitz has issued a new report with even more abuses.
The FBI lies to the courts, knows it, doesn’t correct the record and it just gets worse. There doesn’t seem to be much punishment which means that at least some of these judges don’t mind.
To put this into context, in December 2019, after IG Horowitz detailed substantial issues with the Carter Page FISA applications, the FISA Court noted that the misconduct was serious and ordered the FBI to conduct remedial measures to fix the problems of the FBI’s own creation. The FBI promised to take corrective action.
One can’t help but speculate that the FISA Court won’t do much about these latest issues, aside from ordering the FBI to conduct more training. After all, the then-presiding judge of the FISA Court, Judge Boasberg, refused jail time for FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith after he altered an e-mail and lied about Carter Page’s relationship with the CIA.
Knowing the history of the FISA Court excusing government misconduct, we present the same question now that we did after the Clinesmith sentencing: What does it say about the FISA Court’s “heightened duty of candor” if there aren’t heightened punishments for violating that duty?
And we have one final question – one that has applied to Director Wray for the last few years: how could the FBI Director allow these abuses to continue?
NEW Episode of The Charlie Kirk Show — 'Building the Criminal Case for Conspiracy Against the Deep State with Kash Patel'
—John Durham update —Criminal Conspiracy Charges for Hillary? —Pelosi's Jan 6 Committee —Can the Deep State be beat?
FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith forged documents and lied to the FISA Court in order to ruin people’s lives by accusing them of crimes they full well knew was innocent. One such person was Carter Page.
Carter Page does international business and is also an informant for the CIA. The FBI/DoJ along with the Hillary Clinton campaign to manufactured crimes against Page and others who were doing work for the Trump Campaign.
Carter Page, George Papadopoulos, General Flynn, Trump himself and others were accused of being Russian agents falsely and not by accident. The manufactured evidence was used an an excuse to spy on the Trump campaign and destroy his presidency.
Long story short, Durham let Clinesmith walk and the sentencing memoranda Durham gave to the court simply was not honest.
After Clinesmith committed all of his crimes, the DC Bar gave Clinesmith his law license back. The Bar Association has been weaponized by Democrats in states where they have control such as New York, Illinois and DC.
When Durham unveiled his indictment against DNC/Clinton/Perkins Coie attorney Michael Sussmann we reported it and thought the indictment was rather interesting. The indictment shows a conspiracy between several actors to manufacture a case against Trump and his allies.
TUNE IN NOW: “Who else was trying to frame Donald Trump?”@dbongino calls out the Clintons, the FBI, and big tech for attempting to take down Donald Trump. pic.twitter.com/oZhVJOwoLL
DNC/Clinton/Perkins Coie lawyer Michael Sussmann has been charged with lying to the FBI and his lies weren’t small. Sussmann is also a former federal prosecutor. Even so Sussmann is low hanging fruit.
Durham gave FBI Attorney Kevin Clinesmith a slap on the wrist which certainly would not have happened if Republicans had done this. Clinesmith altered/forged a document to give to the FISA Court in order to convince the court to authorize spying on President Trump.
We are concerned that Durham is taking his time to run out the statute of limitations so key Democrats cannot be charged before he issues a scathing report to save his own credibility.
It seems, and forgive us as we have legal training but are not lawyers, that the reason Durham was so delayed in his indictment of Sussmann is that he had to go to court to penetrate attorney-client privilege in two different jurisdictions.
The Clintons, like Harvey Weinstein, do their criminal activity using an attorney as a proxy so it all falls under attorney-client privilege. Getting a court ruling to penetrate that isn’t easy and you can be sure the Clintons, DNC, and Perkins Coie resisted.
Shipwreckedcrew, who writes on substack, is obviously an attorney. Pointed this out in a rather good analysis of the Durham indictment. Most indictments about lying to the FBI are short – XXX lied about XXX and we have XXX evidence he lied, but this indictment is 27 pages long and goes into extreme detail for such a document.
My first take on the Sussmann indictment — some hints on why it took so long and why it likely portends a conspiracy charge to come. First of a few on this subject. Subscribe to my Substack and they land in you Inbox when published.https://t.co/3r5O1DbPuU
And although it all looks promising, the fact that Durham let Clinesmith walk when he could have squeezed him for more is disturbing. At this point all those interested in justice can do is wait and hope that Durham can live up to his reputation.
And Joe Biden’s National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan….yeah..
Jake Sullivan repeatedly promoted Alfa Bank story at the center of Durham indictment https://t.co/gZEk2s9TKj
Government by crisis. using a crisis to impose a solution that the people would normally never except. Exploit the crisis to increase your power. Get the people to trade in their liberty and money for the illusion of security.
There is more and more data showing that lockdowns and mask mandates don’t work. Democrats have used lockdowns to pick winners and losers, allowing groups and mega-corps they favor and donate to stay open while closing small businesses who tend to donate to Republicans.
In Australia the leftist government has used the pandemic as an excuse to greatly expand police power and ban free speech and protests of any kind resulting in 1938 levels of abuse.
COVID-19 mortality in locked down California vs. free Florida by age group through Sept. 22, 2021 (latest CDC data).
If the lockdowns accomplished anything, they harmed the old without protecting the young.
The science shows that virus’ are far too evolved to let things like mask mandates and lockdowns have much effect on them as the latest CDC dats shows.
When politically convenient Democrat opposed mask mandates, limits on movement, and government rushed vax. Everything Trump did to try to limited the spread of the virus was called racist, xenophobic, Nazi etc.
When Trump banned travel from China Democrats said it was anti–American, and Nancy Pelosi went to ChinaTown and told everyone to come on down it’s safe, but as soon as Trump was out of power Democrats shut down all of those small businesses with lock downs. Biden has even had the CDC change the definition of vaccine to something more Orwellian.
In less than a year, we've gone from the supercut below to mass firings across all industries https://t.co/tZEQECTvXl
Today, in a hearing in front of the Senate, Dr. Rand Paul destroyed Biden HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra for defiantly ignoring the science and exploiting it to gain power and set police state precedents. Notice in the video Becerra said he wasn’t familiar with the study Dr. Paul asked him about but after after he was pinned down he admitted he was familiar with the study .
Unbelievable: after 18 months of demanding everyone FOLLOW THE SCIENCE and scorning any questioning, Biden's CDC Director ignores — overrules — the overwhelming recommendation of her scientists about the Pfizer booster, to align with what Biden wanted:https://t.co/msSY2RN0OC
Former Democrat National Committee (DNC) Chairman terry McAuliffe is truly Clintonesque in his ability to to manipulate corporations and use his associations with The Clintons and the Democratic Party to enrich himself and his allies. He raised $275 million for the Clintons. He raise dover $26 million for Al Gore.
Like Hillary’s famous cattle futures trade, he invested $100,000 into Global Crossing and just before they went bankrupt he got an $18 million payout. And there is so much to report on that angle that there is too much to report, so if you are curious fire up your search engine.
Much like Hunter Biden, you get around the Clinton’s and Obama’s and all of the sudden people all around the world are giving you millions. Of course to Democrats that is considered a resume enhancement.
In the Virginia’s governor’s debate McAuliffe said when every far left and neo-Marxist indoctrinating kleptopcrat thinks but always denies:
As we said in rule number two on responsible constitutional government:
Office holders should recognize and respect the limits of the office, work within the boundaries of their charter, and not exist for the purpose of expanding their power and influence.
She gets it:
.@KristiNoem: "We never once closed a single business. In fact, I never defined even what an 'essential business' was," the Governor tells @SchmittNYC.
"When you have a leader that oversteps their authority, especially in a time of crisis, that's when you break this country." pic.twitter.com/9o1QP9lkiw
Sure we could post a list of articles and analysis here that you could easily find with a Google search, but what they are saying is so stupid it doesn’t require serious refutation.
What those who favor the enlightenment understand and leftists who have not done the reading do not – Virtually every leftist intellectual – Lenin – Stalin – Hegel – Marx – Gramsci – Lippmann – Cloward & Piven – Alinski – say in their books and writings that truth and morality are relative and that anything that supports socialism/communism at that moment is what is “true and moral.”
They literally call it “moral relativism.”
The strategy of overwhelming/jamming up/sabotaging the system and then blaming freedom for it is advocated by Cloward & Piven and Saul Alinski directly. Cloward & Piven were close to the Clintons and Alinski was a college mentor of both Hillary and Obama.
Most leftists/liberals/progressives have never read anything from the list of names I mentioned above. They lap up the propaganda and are so proud of themselves for being “informed.”
The Witcher, made famous in books/Video Game/TV/Films – was written the way it was by Andrej Sapkowski to teach Polish children the dangers of “moral relativism.”
Geralt: The Evil that witchers fight stems from chaos, from actions aimed at disturbing order. For where Evil spreads, Order cannot be established. Instead of the light of wisdom, the glimmer of hope and the glow of warmth, darkness ensues. And in darkness you find nothing but blood, fangs and claws… like in the outskirts.
Zoltan: Nicely put, but as young Cerro said to King Vridank on their first date: “Does it have any practical uses?”
Geralt: The right of witchers to live and function in this world has fallen out of balance, because the struggle between Good and Evil now plays out on a different battlefield with different rules. Evil has ceased being chaotic. No longer a blind, elemental power, Evil follows rules according to the rights it’s been granted. It functions in line with treaties…
Zoltan: That’s progress. With more of us living longer, we can slaughter one another in the thousands.
Zoltan: Progress is like a herd of pigs. The herd brings many benefits, but no one should wonder at the all the sh*t.
Geralt: Sh*t or no sh*t, witchers exist to slay monsters. How can I when the real monsters hide behind ideals, faith or the law…?
Zoltan: The biggest Evil is moral relativity, which kills more than the Catriona plague and dragons combined.
Zoltan: Witchers will always be needed, no matter where that pig herd leads us.
Geralt: Thanks, Zoltan.
Zoltan: Let me tell you something, Witcher. Once we lead a group of women and children through a war-torn land. They slowed us down. We had to feed them, protect them, and we had to hide in the woods to pee instead of pissing by the road. In short, they were a burden, and ungrateful at that. Know why we helped them?
Zoltan: It was the right thing to do.
Geralt: I understand. Thanks.
In The Witcher III there are three main endings, two happy and one tragic. It is not up to the player to chose the outcome in a momentary consideration. What affects that outcome are a long series of moral agency choices that occur long before the climax of the story. The end is a direct reflection of you and your displays of character.
Evil, much like a politician trying to fool you with two false choices, is not an exercise in binary thinking. This is why evil changes the definitions of words, plays with the language, moves the goal post and blurs distinctions – all of which are the tools of moral relativism.
Geralt of Rivia – Evil is evil. Lesser, greater, middling – it makes no difference. The degree is arbitrary. The definitions blurred. If I am to chose between one evil and another, I’d rather not choose at all.
Yahoo News reports that the CIA had a plot to kill Julian Assange. Yahoo, as well as other news reports claim that Trump CIA Director Mike Pompeo was involved. The Trump White House rejected the idea. Other reporters such as Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras were also targeted by the CIA, not to kill them but have them named as hostile “information brokers” with ties to foreign intelligence. Thus classifying them as foreign intelligence threats, no doubt in an attempt to use as an excuse to engage in illegal surveillance or ask the FISA Court for a foreign intelligence surveillance warrant.
The thinking at the CIA and other members of the Intelligence Community (IC) is pervasive, that foreign journalists are not US citizens and thus are not protected by the First Amendment, making them fair game.
Jim, our Founders considered freedom of speech & conscience to be a universal human right granted by God. "We find these truths to be self evident" – "endowed by our Creator"
I love your work man, but the "He isn't a citizen" is a cop out I cannot accept.
This is the kind of convenient thinking one expects from a juvenile. If the First Amendment doesn’t apply than neither does the right to a trial, the right to council, cruel and unusual punishments etc. The slippery slope to just killing a foreign journalist gets real short. Indeed, according to such Orwellian thinking, just killing any foreigner is almost encouraged by the Constitution. Such thinking is beyond disturbing and no one with such a view should be in a place of power.
Did Pompeo Actually Plot to Kill Assange
The corporate media is unreliable, dishonest, hyper-partisan against Republicans, easily and often willingly manipulated by the IC, and behave as apologists for the CCP. To say that they have credibility problems is an understatement. The corporate media was a willing co-conspirator in the Trump/Russian Collusion hoax among a list of lies, schemes and hoaxes.
Pompeo, in a speech to Hillsdale College on Monday, denied any personal involvement, but he did not deny that such a plot did exist at the CIA:
Pompeo’s speech was a good one and worth watching. He spoke about morality, the right to life, the Constitution, praised civil disobedience to the lock downs and everything that a student a Hillsdale would like to hear. [Editor’s Note – The entire video of Pompeo’s speech to Hillsdale will appear in the first comment below this editorial.]
We also noticed that he chose his words very carefully. Politicians by their nature are masters of “escape hatch language” – a way of speaking that gives an out if an inconvenient truth comes out.
So what is the truth?
Our honest answer is that we don’t know, but we can say that there is evidence and reporting that would point to his guilt as well as his innocence. We will lay much of that evidence here and readers will have to decide for themselves.
Was Pompeo really in Control of the CIA
History shows that the CIA has been all too willing to go rogue, disobey elected officials and meddle in domestic politics. It has done so since the days of Allen Dulles.
The CIA openly defied President Kennedy on Cuba and many credible people believe, with some supporting evidence, that Lee Harvey Oswald had some kind of relationship with the CIA since he was a young Marine.
The CIA is almost as partisan against Republicans as the corporate media.
The CIA and leadership in the IC manipulated Iran Intelligence in order to embarrass President George W. Bush. The Valerie Plame scandal was a hoax perpetuated against Bush by the CIA. The CIA, as well as former CIA Director John Brennan, was chin deep in the “insurance policy” plot to frame President Trump on Russian Collusion and the Ukraine Hoax.
“”Former”” (scare quotes intentional) CIA officials appear regularly on CNN spreading lies about President Trump, “access media” journalists who cover the CIA, as well as former CIA authors and pundits in social media, are still spreading DNC talking points and lies about Russian collusion.
Take John Sipher as one example of many:
[Editor’s Note – Notice how Sipher indicates that he works for the Atlantic Council, this is very revealing:
The United States offered billions in loan guarantees to Ukraine in an effort to divorce itself from Russian capital and re-privatize its economy.
Vice President Biden and the State Department used its influence to get certain state run assets to certain wealthy oligarchs, such as Ukrainian Billionaire Victor Pinchuk, for bargain prices. In exchange, Biden, the Clinton’s and others got a cut.
Vice President Biden got his cut via money sent to his son Hunter. Pinchuk’s political ally Nikolai Zlochevsky put Hunter Biden on the board of Burisma, a Ukrainian gas company in which Hunter Biden’s business received monthly payments of over $166,000.]
Sipher’s Twitter feed is filled with over the top Trump Delusion Syndrome. Below is what he posted in the last 24 hours at the time of this writing.
Sipher retweeted unhinged never Trumper Bill Kristol and known liars such as disgraced former FBI lead agent Peter Strzok. Strzok rigged the Hillary Clinton email investigation in her benefit and was outed by his own emails and text messages. He was a key “insurance policy” conspirator in the effort to frame President Trump for Russian collusion.
I’m not convinced about the story. I don’t believe any of the professionals at CIA actually considered this stupidity. I believe that Pompeo pushed it and some people may have pretended to listen but there is almost no way it would happen.
There is so much of this kind of partisan invective from ex CIA and “access media” that covers the IC we could keep posting virtually non-stop. Notice how Sipher calls former CIA Director Pompeo a vile dolt while claiming the CIA’s innocence.
Considering the culture of partisan animus at the CIA one must ask just how much control over the CIA did Pompeo actually have? In speeches he has declared how he faced massive bureaucratic resistance as if he was not in charge. Judicial Watch reported that while Pompeo was running the State Department under Trump, State Department lawyers were in court defending Hillary Clinton and resisting investigations of her wrongdoing from when she was Secretary of State.
There is an old saying in Washington about political appointees, “either you capture the agency or the agency captures you.” In the case of Mike Pompeo it seems the latter is the case.
President Trump benefitted from Wikileaks’ publishing of Democrat Party emails showing criminal activity at the Clinton Foundation, reporters who were secretly in collusion with the Clinton Campaign, how the Democrat Primary was rigged against Bernie Sanders, racial invective towards minorities and how Hillary was given the questions in advance that were to be used at a CNN debate.
Political wonks like yours truly were well aware of Clinton corruption since the 90’s, but the average voter didn’t have their eyes opened to the magnitude of it until WikiLeaks published the emails.
Shortly after becoming CIA Director Pompeo showed his gratitude by persecuting Wikileaks with fury:
By and large what Wikileaks published was embarrassing facts, government cover up of obvious criminal activity by those in power, and the proof delivered by Ed Snowden that the IC was engaged in mass illegal domestic surveillance of the American people.
The IC wanted to eliminate Assange for some time. Yahoo, the Washington Post, The Intercept and UK press all report that the CIA’s outrage boiled to a bloodlust after Wikileaks published Democratic Party and Clinton campaign emails which exposed their criminal activity and true nature.
From one of the Clinton emails:
The corporate media in the United States all but ignored what WikiLeaks revealed (LINK – LINK – LINK), but with alternative media the cat was out of the bag.
The CIA could not present “partisan outrage” as a reason for their new zeal for going after journalists. The cover story, and we have heard it a million times it seems, is that anyone who publishes something they don’t appreciate is a Russian agent.
For the last 5 years, the corporate media — fed and controlled as always by CIA — has pretty much accused everyone they don't like of being a Kremlin agent. That Assange is one is something they believe like a religion, even though the IC admits it had no proof of this: pic.twitter.com/k5TxTbCB1Z
By classifying journalists as “information brokers” and enemy competing intelligence organizations the CIA was able to use a loophole “offensive counterintelligence” which allows the agency to counter competing intelligence agencies without the usual reporting to Congress.
How effective was the CIA influence on press and media figures to justify the summary execution of Julian Assange and those who worked with him? Watch this:
As one can clearly see by the video, the IC wanted to bump off Assange before Trump and Pompeo came into the picture. Therefore the corporate media/IC effort to pin this on Trump and Pompeo is just more partisan gaslighting and a rewrite of history. Trump’s White House lawyers put a stop to the CIA plot to kill Assange. Some of the corporate media reported this albeit buried it many paragraphs deep.
And while I have you — liberals who spent Sunday not caring about what CIA plotted to do to journalists except to try to make it about Trump — only the dumbest people think Trump controlled CIA when his presidency was dominated by the exact opposite:pic.twitter.com/TUaYkksILG
Is Mike Pompeo responsible for the plan to kill Assange? The available evidence seems clear that the IC had the intent to kill Assange before Pompeo became CIA Director. That intent amplified to a bloodlust after WikiLeaks exposed Clinton/DNC corruption. Did Pompeo go along with it after he became director and now is double talking his way out of it? Judge the reporting and decide for yourself.
What is clear is that Pompeo did not have control of the CIA when he was Director or the State Department after he was promoted to Secretary of State. Both agencies actively worked to destroy Trump’s presidency. In their partisan derangement they hated Pompeo just as they hated Trump.
UPDATE – If Isikoff made up the plan to Kill Assange than how is it classified? How is hot air classified? Also Assange told the Washington Post much earlier that the CIA had a plot to kill him.
Says the ACLU's @benwizner: Pompeo “just verified the truth of the story. Because the only reason to prosecute someone is that they revealed legitimate classified information." https://t.co/2Pv70yyAbI
If anyone has said something more laughable please let us know as this one is a hum-dinger.
As any economist or econ text book or business owner can tell you, taxes are an expense like any other and in todays competitive times profit margins are slim.
If taxes go up, prices go up. It is simple math that if you raise taxes on a small business their prices will have to go up to cover the tax.
This is why businesses never actually pay taxes they either pass the tax on to you, or lower the cost of production like move production to China or Mexico.
So….Press Secretary Jenn Psaki actually said this:
Jen Psaki: It’s “unfair and absurd” that companies would increase costs for consumers in response to us taxing them more. 😳 pic.twitter.com/rHilrYdj4j
After the Russian Collusion hoax and the Ukraine hoax they sure tried really hard.
The FBI/CIA/DoJ was out to smear and destroy Donald Trump since he became a credible threat to Hillary Clinton. They tried to manufacture crimes, set up allies to perjure themselves, planted lies in the corpomedia, lied to the FISA Court, spied on his campaign illegally and prosecuted Trump allies while hiding the fact that they knew it was all made up.
Glenn Greenwald, who is one of the better Intelligence Community (IC) reporters, posted a report from another IC journalist John Schindler:
The Trump Tweet (below) had the IC fuming as no one had ever stood up to them before so boldly, well not at least since President Kennedy was assassinated. Schindler is not nearly as successful as Greenwald and is what is known as “access media.” Access media are those journalists who are still small time who will say whatever their sources tell them to say, are never critical of them and do what they are told in exchange for access. John Schindler is still pushing the Trump/Russian collusion hoax today even though the cat has been out of the bag for over a year.
Schindler’s credibility issues aside, he does what he is told so we believe the reported threat is accurate.
Senator Charles Schumer said that Trump’s taunting of the IC would have consequences as “they have seven ways from Sunday to get back at you.”
Tucker Carlson also reported on these threats:
A question that we and many other people are starting to ask is, “Why are the FBI and CIA still a thing?”
In case you're looking to find who actually interfered in the 2020 election with disinformation, these blatant lies were broadcast jointly by CNN and the CIA/intelligence community two weeks before Americans went to vote for president:https://t.co/kjLH42pbaf
Immunity is now irrelevant because 80 million people have natural immunity. The POKE doesn’t make you immune as they admit that it loses some of it’s effectiveness every month and you can still carry it even if you are symptom free.
If you understood or remembered only one thing from George Orwell’s dystopian novel “1984,” I’d hope it would be that the totalitarian government redefined the language in order to influence thought.https://t.co/KDeov0tpjE
This is Canada, which has more tolerance for authoritarian nonsense than Americans, but even so this attitude reflects a culture in the leadership that sees their own people as the enemy. Canadian leftist civilian leaders appointed these people. To their credit they also shut it down, but the fact that they thought they didn’t even need to ask permission to do this is troubling.
Combine what you read below with the fact that Canada uses tax dollars to subsidize and to a great deal control much of their national media and it becomes a threat to informed democratic institutions, the rule of law and the sovereignty of the people.
[Editor’s Note – This piece from the National Post was not well written. It went off into tangents and reads like the copy editor skipped it. We edited it down and the bold emphasis in the story is ours. Feel free to click the link to read the entire story.]
A plan devised by the Canadian Joint Operations Command relied on propaganda techniques similar to those employed during the Afghan war.
Canadian military leaders saw the pandemic as a unique opportunity to test out propaganda techniques on an unsuspecting public, a newly released Canadian Forces report concludes.
The federal government never asked for the so-called information operations campaign, nor did cabinet authorize the initiative developed during the COVID-19 pandemic by the Canadian Joint Operations Command, then headed by Lt.-Gen. Mike Rouleau.
But military commanders believed they didn’t need to get approval from higher authorities to develop and proceed with their plan, retired Maj.-Gen. Daniel Gosselin, who was brought in to investigate the scheme, concluded in his report.
The plan devised by the Canadian Joint Operations Command, also known as CJOC, relied on propaganda techniques similar to those employed during the Afghanistan war. The campaign called for “shaping” and “exploiting” information. CJOC claimed the information operations scheme was needed to head off civil disobedience by Canadians during the coronavirus pandemic and to bolster government messages about the pandemic.
Gosselin’s investigation discovered the plan wasn’t simply the idea of “passionate” military propaganda specialists, but support for the use of such information operations was “clearly a mindset that permeated the thinking at many levels of CJOC.” Those in the command saw the pandemic as a “unique opportunity” to test out such techniques on Canadians.
The views put forth by Rear Adm. Brian Santarpia, then CJOC’s chief of staff, summed up the command’s attitude, Gosselin noted in his report. “This is really a learning opportunity for all of us and a chance to start getting information operations into our (CAF-DND) routine,” the rear admiral stated.
The command saw the military’s pandemic response “as an opportunity to monitor and collect public information in order to enhance awareness for better command decision making,” Gosselin determined.
Gosselin also pointed out CJOC staff had a “palpable dismissive attitude” toward the advice and concerns raised by other military leaders.
The directive for the propaganda plan was issued by CJOC on April 8, 2020, but it took until May 2 of that year before Vance’s order to shut it down took effect.
Gosselin recommended a comprehensive review of Canadian Forces information operations policies and directives, particularly those that may impact any activities for domestic missions.
There is an ongoing debate inside national defense headquarters in Ottawa about the use of information operations techniques. Some public affairs officers, intelligence specialists and senior planners want to expand the scope of such methods in Canada to allow them to better control and shape government information that the public receives. Others inside headquarters worry that such operations could lead to abuses, including having military staff intentionally mislead the Canadian public or taking measures to target opposition MPs or those who criticize government or military policy.
Last year, the branch launched a controversial plan that would have allowed military public affairs officers to use propaganda to change attitudes and behaviors of Canadians as well as to collect and analyze information from public social media accounts.
The plan would have seen staff move from traditional government methods of communicating with the public to a more aggressive strategy of using information warfare and influence tactics on Canadians. Included among those tactics was the use of friendly defense analysts and retired generals to push military PR messages and to criticize on social media those who raised questions about military spending and accountability.
"CJOC claimed the information operations scheme was needed to head off civil disobedience by Canadians during the coronavirus pandemic and to bolster government messages about the pandemic."https://t.co/yvpKwY3Oiz
It is no secret that MSNBC, Chuck Todd especially, have no problem lying or saying whatever it takes to prop up the Democratic Party and their allies in the CCP.
Sometimes the truth is so bad and in your face that trying to spin it is useless. So why not gain a little credibility occasionally by just telling the truth.
MSNBC’s Chuck Todd: “Biden’s got a pretty big credibility crisis on his hands because all of these problems in some ways showed up after he said basically the exact opposite.” pic.twitter.com/8wMxHRX6PL
Conclusions: There was no reduction in per-population daily mortality, hospital bed, ICU bed, or ventilator occupancy of COVID-19-positive patients attributable to the implementation of a mask-wearing mandate.
San Antonio mask study, US Army Institute of Surgical Research:
"No reduction in per-population daily mortality, hospital bed, ICU bed, or ventilator occupancy of COVID-19-positive patients attributable to the implementation of a mask-wearing mandate."https://t.co/1gzm8m9pGz
A new study published in the The Southern Medical Journal (SMJ) found that a county-wide mask order in Bexar County, Texas, did not lead to a reduction in COVID-19 hospitalization rates or deaths.
The study, which was peer reviewed, analyzed data before and after mandates were imposed at both the state level (July 3, 2020) and in Bexar County (July 5, 2020), Texas’s fourth largest county.
“We defined the control period as June 2 to July 2 and the postmask order period as July 8, 2020–August 12, 2020, with a 5-day gap to account for the median incubation period for cases; longer periods of 7 and 10 days were used for hospitalization and ICU admission/death, respectively,” the study authors wrote. “Data were reported on a per-100,000 population basis using respective US Census Bureau–reported populations.”
Authors of the study, which was reviewed by the US Army Institute of Surgical Research, analyzed the daily average number of COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations, ICU visits, patients on ventilators, and deaths, and concluded the policy did not reduce any of these metrics.
“All of the measured outcomes were higher on average in the postmask period as were covariables included in the adjusted model,” the researchers said. “There was no reduction in per-population daily mortality, hospital bed, ICU bed, or ventilator occupancy of COVID-19-positive patients attributable to the implementation of a mask-wearing mandate.”
If Joe Biden gets his waythe government will not need a search warrant to snoop on your bank account and where you spend your money. He is proposing yo have every transaction from every bank account with a balance of over $600.00 reported to the IRS.
There is no way that this won’t be used as a political weapon. The IRA has a long history of being weaponized for partisan purposes. Both IRS Commissioners under President Obama lied under oath to Congress repeatedly about the targeting of Republicans…only to admit everything and apologize for it under President Trump. Of course since they were Democrats the DoJ refused to prosecute.
The flip side of this particular coin is that such reporting requirements will be very costly, requiring new bank fees to cover them. Call your member of Congress and Senators and demand this stopped.
The Biden administration remembers how they used the IRS against their political foes and now wants to ratchet up that power. Under the guise of increasing enforcement to stop tax evasion, Biden is asking Congress to force banks to send the IRS in-depth records of all transactions for every individual bank account in America that is larger than $600.
Six-hundred dollars, why would the cancel culture warriors in the Biden administration effectively want the banking information for almost everyone in America? Trust me, they aren’t looking for tax fraud from people with bank accounts of $600.
What they are trying to do is lay the groundwork for establishing a Chinese-style social credit system in America, by having the ability to have your and my financial records available at any time. Currently, banks are required to report cash withdrawals of more than $10,000 under the guise of tracking potential illegal drug deals, but there is no reasonable rationale for tracking every Americans bank accounts that are $600 and above.
Some will say, so what? What harm can be done? And I may have been one of those people in the past, but not anymore. In the past decade, we have seen the devastation to individual lives done by (Former IRS Commissioner) Lois Lerner’s witch hunt. An abuse of power, which she paid no personal price for conducting.
We have also seen an out of control FBI lie and make up charges, first against candidate Donald Trump and then President Trump that continued for years into his presidency. These charges were driven by the FBI and the Department of Justice’s abuse of the FISA Court to legally spy on people associated with the Trump campaign and the President himself – all based upon a politically fabricated dossier. When the dust settled and they finally had to concede that there was never any legitimate basis for the three year attempted coup, the main career bureaucrat actors in that fraud which did more damage to our nation than anything that occurred on January 6, have not seen a day behind bars, even as they financially prosper for their infamous acts.
We have seen intelligence services use the Patriot Act to spy on American citizens, enveloping the 4th Amendment to the Constitution in high tech obsolescence and no one has gone to jail.
We have seen a Lt. Colonel in the U.S. Army leak a proven lie about a conversation between the President of the United States and the President of Ukraine, in violation of his sacred trust. The President got impeached over the lie, while the Defense Department establishment sought to promote the Lt. Colonel.
We have seen much, much more, and the story remains the same. Every time we trust the administrative state with power with the understanding that it won’t be abused, it becomes a political weapon against those who seek to limit the scope and power of the federal government.
BREAKING → Democrats just blocked a Republican motion to keep the IRS from spying on your bank account.
They believe the IRS should have unlimited access to monitor your transactions. Their surveillance program is a flagrant invasion of privacy.
Democrats are trying to create a new IRS surveillance program to target anyone who relies on tips to make your living. They'll be able to spy on your bank account to monitor every single transaction you make. No warrants. No permissions. No limits.
UPDATE – See posts in the comment section for updates!
As readers may recall, at a recent protest in Washington DC the police arrested a man dressed all in black who failed to keep his firearm concealed. The man ended up being a federal agent agitator.
The dude is dressed like a terrorist…..like an agitator.
Watch: The Feds Actually Arrest One of Their Own at Staged ‘Justice for J6’ Rally https://t.co/iudWVwQViD
The government said that the video below had to be kept secret for “national security” and as you can see for yourself that is just a lie. The government was forced to release this video by the court.
The video shows men dressed the same as the federal agent who was arrested in the video above, break a window and enter the Capital. The video shows them being confronted by Capitol security who after talking with the window breakers for a few moments simply walk away. It seems obvious that the window breakers identified themselves as federal agents.
The FBI is amassing a long list of crimes they either helped orchestrate or let happen.
As Tucker explains, the worst offenders at the January 6th protests who did property damage have not been charged according to government court filings, but the FBI/DoJ is throwing the book at those who followed the crowd and took selfies. Bizpac reports that police seem to have no interest in finding the people who did property damage.
When lawyers got suspicious that it was FBI agitators who did the property damage and started asking for motions of discovery the FBI came out and said that January 6th was not a coordinated insurrection….so sorry…and even admitted there was no plot (at least by the protestors) in hopes that the courts would follow suit and toss the cases against January 6th protestors so they would not have to face court mandated discovery.
The FBI/DoJ is refusing to comply with court mandated discovery when it comes to January 6th defendants.
‘Utterly Unacceptable’: Judge Blasts DC Jail for Not Allowing Jan. 6th Capitol Defendant Access to Evidence – LINK
It is not just Tucker Carlson who has figured this out. Revolver News, Megyn Kelly, Glenn Greenwald and most recently the New York Times is reporting the FBI’s involvement. Former CIA Counterterrorism Officer Buck Sexton spoke the obvious saying anyone who believes Jan. 6 was an ‘insurrection’ is an idiot. Police saw the protestors as such a threat there is endless video of police taking selfies with them.
BREAKING: @DarrenJBeattie of Revolver News breaks down the involvement of FBI operatives who organized and participated in the January 6th Capitol riot. pic.twitter.com/t1UOnT5zgc
Tucker Carlson With An Update On His Investigation Into Whether The FBI Was Involved At All In The January 6th Protest
Tucker Interviews A Former DEA Agent Who Says He Was Invited By A FBI Informant To Go The Capitol That Day & Was Encouraged By This Man To Go Into The Capitol pic.twitter.com/iRsY2VTz79
— The Columbia Bugle 🇺🇸 (@ColumbiaBugle) July 23, 2021
Of course it wasn't. But the media spent 5 years tossing around every histrionic term — treason, traitor, Kremlin agent — so they now only know how to express themselves in the most unhinged and hysterical manner. Hence, a 3 hour riot becomes an *insurrection.* https://t.co/dew3SfcMMV
Famed Canadian lawyer Viva Frei published a video explaining how DoJ prosecutors are spreading inflammatory lies in the media about January 6th defendants in hopes of tainting the jury pool.
How many more times must the FBI fail America before something is done?
We should all hear about it! Many FBI agents don’t agree w being used as a political weapon against “we the people”. That’s why almost a year later no fake “insurrection” charges have been brought in spite of director Wray announcing months ago on 60 Minutes charges were imminent https://t.co/m51JkFxr8y
Hollywood Mogul Harvey Weinstein is a serial rapist. he got away with it because he could make or break a star just on his word. Hollywood agents and reporters were under his control through threats and bribes.
Weinstein, like the Clintons, used a network of private investigators and thugs to harass, intimidate, manufacture evidence against, and blackmail their victims. Weinstein and the Clinton’s also do their chicanery using a wealthy law firm. By using lawyers as their agents everything can fall under “Attorney-Client Privilege” which is difficult for a prosecutor to penetrate.
[Editor’s Note – House Intelligence Committee member Devin Nunes is having a similar dirty tricks campaign levied against him – LINK.]
The media totally took Weinstein’s side in spite of that fact that “everybody knew.” Weinstein’s known list of women he has attacked stands at 107 – you can examine the list HERE.
Weinstein, was a close friend of the Clintons.
Below is an interview on Larry King Live with chief Clinton political strategist Dick Morris. After serving the Clinton’s he spoke out against Hillary’s use of thugs and threats which he called Hillary’s Secret Police:
Such thugs included Jack Palladino and Anthony Pellicano. Pellicano was convicted on 76 different federal charges. Judicial Watch:
The thuggish private investigator hired by the Clintons to intimidate their political enemies and dig up dirt on Bill’s mistresses has been convicted on 76 federal criminal charges, including racketeering and wiretapping.
Anthony Pellicano, renowned private eye to Hollywood stars, has already served a 30-month prison sentence for possession of explosives and this week’s convictions by a Los Angeles jury could make jail his home for years to come. Among other things the jury found him guilty of racketeering, wiretapping, wire fraud, identity theft, conspiracy to intercept or use wire communications and manufacture or possession of a wiretapping device.
Pellicano specialized in digging up dirt for wealthy clients to use in lawsuits, divorces and contract disputes. He often bribed corrupt public officials and police officers for the information and was hired by Hollywood heavy hitters such as Tom Cruise, Michael Jackson and Elizabeth Taylor as well as the heads of major studios.
His most famous clients, however, are a powerful duo consisting of a former commander-in-chief and his senator wife. The Clintons first hired Pellicano in 1992 to contact and intimidate some of the women who had romantic affairs with Bill, including his longtime mistress Gennifer Flowers.
Weinstein’s thugs bugged McGowens home, cloned her phone, broke into her house, tried to run her off the road, followed her and her boyfriend, used drones to look into her windows, put a GPS tracker on her car and more.
Through his attorney Weinstein hired Black Cube, a private intelligence company ran by former Mossad agents.
Two private investigators from Black Cube, using false identities, met with the actress Rose McGowan, who eventually publicly accused Weinstein of rape, to extract information from her. One of the investigators pretended to be a women’s-rights advocate and secretly recorded at least four meetings with McGowan. The same operative, using a different false identity and implying that she had an allegation against Weinstein, met twice with a journalist to find out which women were talking to the press. In other cases, journalists directed by Weinstein or the private investigators interviewed women and reported back the details.
The explicit goal of the investigations, laid out in one contract with Black Cube, signed in July, was to stop the publication of the abuse allegations against Weinstein that eventually emerged in the New York Times and The New Yorker. Over the course of a year, Weinstein had the agencies “target,” or collect information on, dozens of individuals, and compile psychological profiles that sometimes focussed on their personal or sexual histories. Weinstein monitored the progress of the investigations personally. He also enlisted former employees from his film enterprises to join in the effort, collecting names and placing calls that, according to some sources who received them, felt intimidating.
In some cases, the investigative effort was run through Weinstein’s lawyers, including David Boies, a celebrated attorney who represented Al Gore in the 2000 Presidential-election dispute and argued for marriage equality before the U.S. Supreme Court. Boies personally signed the contract directing Black Cube to attempt to uncover information that would stop the publication of a Times story about Weinstein’s abuses, while his firm was also representing the Times, including in a libel case.
Boies confirmed that his firm contracted with and paid two of the agencies and that investigators from one of them sent him reports, which were then passed on to Weinstein.
Today’s Election audit results in Maricopa County Arizona were breathtaking. It is no surprise that Democrat’s did everything they could to not comply with the law. There is little doubt that the results should result in criminal prosecutions.
[Editor’s Note – This is Phase II of the audit. Phase I was completed July 15 and can be found HERE. Phase III of the audit will come as many of the ballots (provisional and undeliverable), and routers were not provided by Maricopa County and should re released now that the county has relented.]
Keep in mind what you are about to see is on one Democrat controlled county.
17,322 duplicate ballots were counted. 25% of the duplicates came in AFTER November 4th. Ballots with just scribbles for signatures or blank signature boxes were counted and “verified” Fraudulent Ballots:
Obvious computer generated counterfeit ballots. The verified stamp is supposed to be manually stamped by the elections worker after “signature verification”. As you can see these were generated with a fake stamp that was rendered by the computer below the triangle.
255,326 early votes do not have the proper database entry. 9,041 mail in ballots returned more ballots than they were sent. 23,344 mail in ballots of people who moved, 2,382 voted “in person” after they moved out of the county. 2,081 people voted after they moved out of the state. 5,047 voted in more than one county. Election servers had not had Windows or antivirus updates in a year which made them wide open to hackers. Maricopa Democrats said that this was needed because no changes can be made to the machines after they are “certified” – no real certification would force a computer network to be wide open to hacks and malware – but even after that date look at the 1,500 files on the servers that were changed by someone running executables on those machines after the “certification.”
Also against the regulations, Democrats had multiple people using the same username and password on the servers and computer stations. Is it any wonder that they used force to get Republican elections lawyers and election workers out? Election servers had two bootable drives and operating systems with the second containing non-Maricopa County data. In violation of the law, state and court subpoenas Democrats deleted over a million election files up to the day before they were handed over for the audit. An obstruction charge is possible.
Most of the Windows activity and security logs were deleted. Election servers had atypical wide open IP ports (super easy to hack), atypical anonymous logins (an indication of outside hacking or access) and check this out – Windows Remote Access and Terminal Services were turned on – you turn those on when you want to let someone run the computer from afar. Against the rules and the claims of Maricopa Democrats who said that the election machines were not connected to the internet, remaining logs show that election servers and some client stations were accessing the internet both wired and wirelessly.
"Law enforcement needs to be involved"
Sen. Petersen says "the numbers don't reconcile"
"It appears they broke the law with duplicate ballots"
Full video of the results hearing in front of the Arizona Senate:
[Editor’s Note – In the presentation the duplicate ballots Doug Logan refers to are damaged ballots that could not be scanned so they had to be hand duplicated.
In these ballots Maricopa County was only off by 360 ballots which was within the margin of error resulting in Trump getting 261 less votes and Biden getting 99 more.
This is NOT The 17,233 undamaged ballots that were duplicated and scanned 2-4 times each in the system found by Dr. Shiva Ayyadurai. Those spreading disinformation are deliberately concealing that important distinction.]
Democrats and their allies in the corpomedia went ballistic screaming that Trump was putting border crossers in cages like animals, all while showing you pictures of illegals that Obama put in cages back in 2014.
Biden is allowing 200,000 illegal border crossers a month and the conditions are far worse than cages as well have all seem. But where is the outrage now? Did Democrats even care a lick about those people?
Policy wise, there are many similarities between President John F. Kennedy and Donald Trump.
Both wanted to put an end to endless wars in the most responsible way possible.
Both thought we were over extended and on a path that is economically unsustainable.
Both warned about the dangers of a corporate media that lost journalistic principle.
Both wanted to clip the wings of the gargantuan intelligence and domestic surveillance state.
Both were taking action against a corrupt and overly powerful Pentagon establishment, or “military industrial complex” as Eisenhower put it.
Both found ways to fight corruption in effective ways. JFK appointed his brother to be the Attorney General who went after a previously untouchable mafia. Trump started slashing the corrupt one sided regulations that big donors had bought and paid for to stick it to competitors.
Both lowered taxes and increased the wealth of the middle class.
Both were genuine reformers…..who were attacked and resisted by the bureaucracy at many levels to prevent them from finishing such reforms.
Below are scenes form the film JFK explaining just how much President Kennedy shook things up and the establishment didn’t like it, just like Trump.
Instead of killing President Trump they waged never ending lawfare against him, openly defied his reforms and manufactured a long series of fake scandals such as “Russian Collusion” and “Ukraine” to keep him distracted.
One watches these video clips below and it just rings true.
“If you are not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” – Malcolm X
Among the tax breaks and subsidies for the Democrat’s friends in the bill, you know the ones who say YOU don’t pay enough, is a tax subside of $50,000 for journalists. 
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