Is America savable? Not if the following is allowed. ‘President Joe Biden’s nominee to regulate banks stole hundreds of dollars of merchandise from a discount retail store, according to a police report revealed Wednesday.
Saule Omarova, whom Biden tapped to serve as Comptroller of the Currency, was arrested after she was caught stuffing $214 worth of clothes, shoes, cologne, and belts in her purse at a T.J. Maxx in Madison, Wis., in May 1995. Omarova was 28 years old at the time and studying for her doctorate at the University of Wisconsin.
Omarova is slated to appear before the Senate Banking Committee for her confirmation hearing Thursday. If confirmed, Omarova will oversee regulation of the country’s banking system. The police report, published by the American Accountability Foundation, could get her into further hot water with Senate Republicans who say she supports radical economic policies.
Sen. Pat Toomey (R., Pa.), the ranking member of the Senate Banking Committee, has pressed Omarova to turn over a copy of a thesis she wrote on Karl Marx while studying at Moscow State University in the late 1980s. Omarova, who attended the school on a Lenin scholarship, scrubbed her résumé of a reference to the Marx thesis at some point over the last few years.
Omarova, a professor at the Cornell Law School, has said she wants to “end banking as we know it” by requiring bank deposits to be held with the Federal Reserve, rather than private banks. Omarova has also proposed the creation of a federal agency, the National Investment Authority, that would fulfill the goals of the Green New Deal by investing in infrastructure projects. Omarova said one goal of the National Investment Authority would be for oil and gas companies to go “bankrupt” in order to fight climate change.
Omarova will likely need unanimous Democratic support in order to be confirmed, but some moderates have expressed concern about her views. Sen. Jon Tester (D., Mont.), a member of the Senate Banking Committee, said he has not decided whether he will vote to confirm Omarova. Sens. Joe Manchin (D., W.Va.) and Kyrsten Sinema (D., Ariz.) are reportedly on the fence about her nomination.
The White House downplayed the theft allegations against Omarova in a statement to Fox News prior to the release of the police report. A White House spokesperson said Omarova has been “fully transparent” about the incident by disclosing it to the Senate Banking Committee, and that her arrest was the result “of a misunderstanding and confusing situation.”
The police report contradicts that claim. According to the report, Omarova “admitted to have stolen the items,” which consisted of four pairs of shoes, two bottles of cologne, two belts, and a pair of socks.
What is taking place in the Good Ole USA is also taking place here in Australia. Our politicians are enemies of the citizens as well. One can tell there is an election next year here in Australia from all the hot air blowing out of Canberra. Enough of that, the following concerns Biden’s Democrats and their anti-Americanism.
The key questions regarding this massive political shift are: Is the surge to the left just cyclical? What is behind the rapid Demo descent into the socialist authoritarian abyss? Is it the greatest threat we face under Biden?
Looking back two presidential administrations, Barack Obama’s socialists seeded this descent after his victory over “moderate Republican” John McCain in 2008. Predictably, within two years of his taking office, there was a midterm Republican wave, which formed a temporary seawall against the erosion of American Liberty.
In 2012, Republicans ran a “moderate Republican” again and, predictably, Mitt Romney was defeated by Obama. As was the case in 2010, that resulted in a 2014 midterm Republican wave, further growing the House Republican majority and restoring Senate Republican control.
But this midterm congressional cycle does not imply a balancing of political scales, and if Republicans take back the House and Senate in 2022, that will not correct the current socialist surge. Democrat presidents and their congressional lap dogs take 10 steps to the left and Republican midterm majorities either hold the line or move it back to the right a few steps. The net result is that there has been a significant central government shift toward statist authoritarianism since the 1992 election of Bill Clinton, who defeated another “moderate Republican,” George H.W. Bush.
While Presidents Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump significantly moved the political needle in the right direction toward constitutional Liberty, Republican congressional majorities since Reagan have not succeeded in holding that line against Democrat presidents.
In 2016, Trump narrowly defeated Obama’s heir apparent, Hillary Clinton, albeit not winning the popular vote. Apparently that year, Obama’s VP, Joe Biden, was too old and frail for consideration as a serious contender, and it was understood by Democrats to be “Hillary’s turn.”
He advanced conservative nominees to the Supreme Court. He cut taxes and regulations in order to unleash historic economic growth, providing the lowest unemployment for Black and Hispanic Americans in decades. Inflation and interest rates were low while GDP growth was surging. He rebuilt our military. Russia, Iran, China, and North Korea understood that Trump meant what he said, and they conducted themselves accordingly. Trump wiped out ISIS, and Afghanistan was on its way to sustainable albeit tenuous stability, the Taliban understanding full well that Trump would squash them like roaches if they stepped out of line. He took enormous steps to void unfair trade practices, particularly with China. After years of southern border security lip service from previous presidents, Trump took the most dramatic measures to curb illegal immigration of any president in recent history, including moving forward on border walls and other security measures. He moved the nation toward energy independence, lowering energy costs for all Americans. He supported law and order, which accounted for the almost universal support he received from law enforcement rank and file nationwide.
Having severely weakened Trump’s prospects for reelection, the Demos were able to field what would have otherwise been a laughable ticket. The feckless non compos mentis Joe Biden, running with a younger female VP candidate, Kamala Harris, should have been as handily dispatched as McCain running with his younger female VP candidate, Sarah Palin. But Obama had the benefit of Senate Demos setting up the 2008 financial crisis, which sealed the deal for his election, much as Biden had the benefit of the aforementioned “perfect storm” in order to limit Trump to one term.
I have characterized Biden as a “political dead man walking,” long past his cognitive expiration date. He has been so sequestered in his Beltway bubble for the last 50 years that he doesn’t give a damn about the American people he pretends to represent. All Biden and his cadre of socialist puppeteers care about is power, unbridled power, and everything they have done over the last 10 months has been with the sole objective of accumulating power, regardless of how they packaged that objective to conceal it.
It is clear that Biden’s socialists handlers behind the curtain saw him as a much more manageable puppet than lunatic Bernie Sanders.
After Biden’s “win,” the 50/50 split in the Senate, with Harris serving as the tiebreaker, gave Demos Senate control, and they maintained a narrow margin in the House. Not since Herbert Hoover lost to Franklin Roosevelt in 1933 has a Republican presidential loss left the White House, Senate, and House of Representatives under Democrat control.
Given that ability to dictate the agenda, the Biden/Harris regime would like to shutter our nation in the darkness of socialist oppression under their limitless statist power, and they have moved as rapidly as possible in that direction while they can.
They will not ultimately succeed, and though they think they are bulletproof, they are not. But the danger of their authoritarian surge can’t be discounted as something that will be corrected in 2022, much less 2024, especially if the GOP fails to embrace a formula that goes beyond the Electoral College calculation and captures a majority of American votes.
What is behind the surge toward socialist authoritarianism?
As demonstrated by the 2010 and 2014 midterm elections, Democrats know that their guaranteed window to accumulate power is two years — until the 2022 midterm elections. The recent Demo losses in Virginia ramped up their sense of urgency. Biden’s most recent approval ratings, even when polled by Leftmedia outlets, are abysmal.
As political observer Rich Lowry notes in “Biden’s Incredibly Shrinking Presidency”: “A Washington Post poll over the weekend suggested that his presidency is, for now, a smoking political crater. It had him at a 41% approval rating, despite the passage of his long-sought infrastructure bill that was supposed to buoy him and his party. Even more striking, the survey found that Republicans lead Democrats on the generic congressional ballot by 10 points, 51% to 41%, an unprecedentedly strong showing for the GOP that forecasts an earthquake, tsunami, and maybe a few more natural disasters for Democrats come next fall.”
But I’m not a gambler, and I’ve been around political cycles long enough to know that you don’t count your chickens ‘till they hatch.
Biden’s brazen disregard for the impact of his socialist handlers’ policies is astounding, the direct result of his one-term “dead man walking” status. Despite reports to the contrary, Biden will not run for reelection in 2024, which makes him a perilous threat to Liberty. He is already the oldest president in history and will turn 79 this week. (Did you get your party invitation?) For context, the average age of presidents entering office is 55. For comparison, President Reagan was 77 at the end of his second term.
Clearly, the socialist Demos know there is no time to waste, and they have wasted no time. The rapid accumulation of central government power under Biden is unprecedented, and everything this administration is doing is all about power, as is manifest in a quick survey of his most consequential policies.
Biden’s “pandemic” measures are, first and foremost, about power. His handlers are using COVID as fodder to justify his draconian vaxxing mandates and planned vax passport requirements to imprint the power of the state over the people. Despite the Fifth Circuit Court, in a unanimous panel decision, having chastised the administration for using mandates as “a one-size-fits-all sledgehammer,” don’t expect the leftists to back down.
In addition to asserting central government power, they know their statist mandate is a mechanism to expel large numbers of young healthy conservatives who reject the mandates from our military and military contractor ranks. The same is true across the spectrum of all federal employees.
Biden’s reckless open-border policy is, first and foremost, all about central government power — a crass calculation to increase the ranks of Democrat voters regardless of the cost and consequence of such immigration. With now more than two million illegal immigrants having been allowed a free pass into our nation, last month proved to be the worst October for illegal immigration in our nation’s history.
The economy is stagnant as inflation is roaring back — shades of Jimmy Carter’s “stagflation.” Our nation went from a position of great world strength under Trump to one of Biden’s weakness and appeasement. “Many people remain unsettled about the economy,” said Biden recently, “and we all know why.” Indeed we do: Joe Biden.
Of course, the Biden administration’s so-called “climate change” policies are, first and foremost, all about central government power over the economy and production. Biden slept through the recent Glasgow climate summit, but it was merely a promo for his just-passed “green infrastructure” bill’s pathway to power in the name of “climate control.”
And the final question I asked above: Is the leftist agenda the greatest threat we face under the Biden regime?
Actually, no.
What worries me most about Biden and his handlers is not all the vectors of their domestic power accumulation agenda; it is his administration’s unprecedented ineptitude regarding our national security — undermining everything Trump did to restore it. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, Joint Chiefs Chairman Mark Milley, and Secretary of State Tony Blinken in concert with Biden. What a dangerous and deadly clown show.
Case in point: Recently, Biden’s Pentagon spokesman, John Kirby, was asked, “Which is a bigger threat, the climate or China?” He responded: “Both are equally important. Both are challenges that the [SecDef] wants the senior leadership at the Pentagon to be focused on, as well as many others, too.”
Given Biden’s horrendous surrender and retreat from Afghanistan, Kirby’s answer on China should be very disconcerting. Biden’s foreign policy nescience, and that of his administration, is more dangerous than all his statist domestic policies combined, particularly as it pertains to the Red China threat.
Recall that Barack Obama’s former Defense Secretary and CIA Director Robert Gates famously wrote in 2014 that Biden “has been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades.” Clearly, Biden has accelerated his penchant for being wrong in his fifth decade in DC.
Two days ago, Biden spent more than three hours in a virtual confab with Chinese dictator Xi Jinping.
While details of that call are sketchy, insiders report that Xi unwaveringly asserted his authority and power, signaling his disregard for Biden, as made clear by China’s rapid military advances in recent months, and overt aggression with Taiwan. We know that Biden sent conflicting messages regarding Taiwan and our “One China” policy.
Humorously, Xi referred to ChiCom Joe as his “old friend,” which triggered his media spinners to assure the nation they are not actually old friends.
I can assure you that none of those overtures would have occurred with Trump. If this conference was intended to “reset relations with China,” it worked.
My reason for concern regarding China is that, according to my sources, there is something serious brewing under the waters of the Taiwan Strait.
For context, back in 1979, when Deng Xiaoping rejected Maoism and embraced capitalism under the seemingly contradictory central control of his communist dictatorship, he unleashed what would become an economic giant, now the second-largest economy on the planet after the United States. Today, that economy remains under the communist authoritarian control of Xi.
The Chinese threat to Taiwan is far more dangerous than the Russian threat at the Ukraine border under Vladimir Putin, and frankly I believe Russia’s actions may be predicated on anticipation of Chinese action against Taiwan. Laughably, Tony Blinken warned Putin that Russia should not “make the serious mistake of attempting to rehash what it undertook back in 2014, when it amassed forces along the border, crossed into sovereign Ukrainian territory.” You know, when Putin could act without concern that the Obama/Biden regime would respond accordingly.
Making China even more dangerous is the potential GDP slowdown it now faces, which means if its people become increasingly discontent, it will have to rally nationalist support. What better way to do that than retake Taiwan?
China knows it has nothing to fear from Biden. Brace yourself, America. Biden’s domestic policies are not the greatest threat to our nation. And you can be sure that Biden and his ilk will use any direct confrontation with China to do what they do best: Accumulate central government power.’https://patriotpost.us/alexander/84288-ascent-of-the-socialist-democrat-authoritarians-2021-11-17
‘Diversity, equity, inclusion; this has been the mantra of United Airlines. United pilots Stephanie and Kyle Atteberry thought the company meant it.
“United has been great to us,” Kyle, 45, told The Epoch Times. He recalls receiving blankets from the company as gifts when their six children were born. “Our expectations were, United would honor our faith.”
Kyle and wife Stephanie, 40, live in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Their jobs, flying Boeing 767 and 757 aircraft, routinely took them around the world until Oct. 1, the last day United allowed them to fly.
The couple is not getting the COVID-19 vaccine. They are among the 2,000 United employees who requested reasonable accommodations through medical or religious exemptions from the vaccine mandate. As an accommodation, United placed them on unpaid leave indefinitely. The 2,000 employees are part of Airline Employees 4 Health Freedom, a group legally challenging being placed on unpaid leave.
“They’ve already shown us what a reasonable accommodation looks like, because we’ve been doing it for a year and a half,” Kyle said. “Now they say I’m unsafe to come to work?”
While President Joe Biden announced in September mandatory vaccines for certain workers, United was already signaling in May that it was moving to a mandatory vaccine program.
In May, the company sent employees a letter with an incentive offer: pay for 13 hours of flight time, amounting to $2,600, for those who got vaccinated. And there was a penalty: those who did not get the shot would not be able to fly to as many international destinations. That means less work available for the unvaccinated. From there, the list of countries unvaccinated pilots could not fly to grew, until Germany was the only international place where the Atteberrys could fly.
Now they are both on unpaid leave.
“I feel betrayed by the airline that says it is all about love and respect, and yet here we are being sidelined. And seeing other airlines accommodating their employees—it’s frustrating,” Kyle said.
The stress of working through the situation has loomed over them for months.
This is where we are today. When the truth is told but the left doesn’t like it then there MUST be an apology or you will be sorry! So ‘Actor Ingo Rademacher, who has starred in General Hospital since 1996, has apologised for a supposed transphobic tweet.
In reality, he tweeted support for biological reality and women’s rights but has been bullied into apologising for offending a bloke who appropriates womanhood.
He retweeted a comment and image made by Allie Beth Stuckey. It referred to Rachel Levine who is male and Virginia’s new Republican lieutenant governor Winsome Sears, a black conservative woman.
“Hello and welcome to ClownTown, where the dude on the left is an empowering woman, and the woman on the right is a white supremacist,’ Stuckey penned over a side-by-side image of the women.”
His General Hospital transgender co-star and trans supporters ripped into him and he made a video to apologise.
Seemingly in defense of the sentiment of his initial post, Ingo said in the video: ‘While it’s not okay to call a Black woman a white supremacist, I don’t think it’s okay either to call a transgender an empowered woman. Because where does that leave women? Women have fought so hard to get on a level playing field with men. They weren’t allowed to have anything back in the day. They were nothing. I don’t agree with that.’
The actor went on to add the he ‘wouldn’t refer to a transgender person as a dude, if they want to be called a she, that’s totally fine.’
Then, directly to his General Hospital colleague, he said: ‘Cassandra, I apologise to you sincerely. I think you’re an absolute talent and you’re very beautiful as well. I don’t think a transphobic man would say that. I think you’re absolutely gorgeous, I really do.’
Binary spokeswoman, Kirralie Smith, said this proves we are living in a clown world.
“Rachel Levine is a dude. He is male, every single cell in his body is male,” she said.
“The same goes for actor Cassandra James. He is male.”
“It is insane and offensive that a man feels forced to apologise for calling out the facts and stating that these men are not empowered women.
Me thinks the Marxist Left want high petrol prices. “We are helpless! HELPLESS! We are at the total mercy of OPEC! Such was the pathetic message of Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm to Dana Bash on CNN. Gone from her mind was any thought of (GASP!) American energy independence which was ACHIEVED by President Trump. Contrast in this video the utter helpless whining by Granholm to a speech by President Trump in June 2017 on the subject of energy INDEPENDENCE which he ACHIEVED. That is why we didn’t have to beg for mercy from OPEC because we did NOT have to depend on them which is the sad case now.”https://rumble.com/vowkm5-energy-secretary-granholm-whines-that-we-are-at-mercy-of-opec.html?mref=6zof&mc=dgip3&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=DUmmie+FUnnies&ep=2
‘‘Hide a knife behind a smile’ is an old Chinese stratagem that explains Xi Jinping’s cynical use of the ‘Net Zero’ agenda to encourage us to self-harm.
An important new paper warns that the ‘Green Growth’ and ‘Net Zero’ policies being championed by the UK before COP26 risk handing geopolitical control to China. The paper, by Gwythian Prins, emeritus research professor at the London School of Economics, who has been involved with climate and energy issues for decades, is published today by Net Zero Watch. Professor Prins explains that the West’s decarbonisation plans are doomed to failure because they attempt to defy the laws of thermodynamics:
The story of civilisation is the story of mankind’s shift from diffuse, high-entropy fuels to concentrated, low-entropy ones. Net zero means trying to do precisely the opposite. Seen in this light, it is clear that Net Zero will fail, and in fact we can already see that it is failing.
But Professor Prins warns that the economic and military weakness that is being built in by the futile attempt to ‘decarbonise’ is a gift to the Chinese communists. He displays the evidence that Beijing has no intention of adopting the ‘green’ agenda. His paper deduces President Xi’s ‘green’ strategy, and shows how environmentalism in the west is facilitating his efforts. Professor Prins said:
We need to wake up. Xi Jinping’s strategy is one of ‘ghost attacks’ in a ‘grey war’, in which Free World ‘net zero’ obsessions have become one of his sharpest weapons. He is quite happy to indulge our fantasies.
But it doesn’t have to be like this. The paper ends by describing a Golden Bridge strategy – one which might lead to a high-energy, clean-energy, ‘China proof’ and economically prosperous future for the Free World.
Professor Prins’ paper is entitled The Worm in the Rose, and is published today by Net Zero Watch. It can be downloaded here.
Notes: The paper identifies six key fallacies that have led the energy policy debate astray:
Fallacy One: There is a ‘green’ energy transition
Fallacy Two: Energy is like other commodities
Fallacy Three: Energy efficiency will bring nett reductions
Fallacy Four: Renewables are cheaper than fossil fuels
Fallacy Five: You can legislate around the laws of thermodynamics
Fallacy Six: The UK has shown world-leading decarbonisation
It goes on to look at the strategic importance of motive power and the futility of battery electric vehicles, the threat of Chinese dominance, and then spells out thermodynamically and economically competent alternative approaches to a future of clean and abundant energy for all.’https://www.netzerowatch.com/the-worm-in-the-rose/
