Daily News Roundup

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NOTABLE QUOTES

John D. O’Connor contributor to American Greatness: it is understandable that many are inclined to believe that our country’s current serious problems are, once again, merely the failed result of well-intentioned policies. But what if, we ask, seemingly fumbled programs were intended to be the initial throes of civilizational suicide? What if apparent missteps were actually directed at the purposeful destruction of a prosperous, free, safe, and secure society?

Thomas Catenacci for Fox Digital News: Shortly after taking office in January 2021, President Biden signed an executive order requiring that the U.S. Census Bureau factor in all residents, including noncitizens, as part of its decennial calculation of the U.S. population. As a result, the apportionment of House seats and, therefore, electoral votes for presidential elections, could be swayed as migrants continue to pour over the southern border.

Lloyd Billingsley contributor to Frontpage Magazine: Elements of Hitler’s Germany and Stalin’s USSR are now on display in the United States of America. At this point, as Hans Massaquoi discovered growing up in Nazi Germany, they are pretty much indistinguishable.

Danusha V. Goska contributor to Frontpage Magazine: Genesis and Exodus are correct. Humans are made in the image and likeness of God. We are our brother’s keeper. God commands us not to commit murder. When humans reject these basic teachings, and the faith in God that compels us to build our lives and our societies around these truths, we commit atrocities.

Peachy Keenan contributor to The American Mind: Ah, those wonderful, God-fearing Catholic charities, doing the Lord’s work by providing free getaway cars to violent thugs. I started doing some more digging. The entire illegal immigrant pipeline, from the airports in Turkey and Dubai that are sending them to South America and Central America, to the Darien Gap, across the border and into our cities is being funded by Christian and Catholic NGOs. When you learn about the betrayal Catholic and Christian NGOs have been committing, for decades, to the rights and privileges granted by America, you will go mad.

Michael Barone political analyst for Washington Examiner: It’s an unstable and dangerous situation when a largely one-party elite looks, with fear and loathing, across what Rasmussen describes as a “Grand Canyon gap” between it and its multiparty fellow citizens. It’s reminiscent somehow of the “let them eat cake” French royalists in 1789 or Russian nobles in 1917. An overclass this disconnected and contemptuous risks disruption.

Richard M. Reinsch contributor to Law & Liberty: Hayek finishes his book with the most essential truth: collectivism undermines our dignity as human persons. “Responsibility” must not be “to a superior, but to one’s conscience, the awareness of a duty not exacted by compulsion, […] and to bear the consequences of one’s own decision, [is] the very essence of any morals which deserve the name.” Ever the advocate of the individualist society, Hayek counted its virtues as “independence, self-reliance, the willingness to bear risks, the readiness to back one’s convictions against a majority, and the willingness to voluntary cooperation with one’s neighbors.” We need these virtues today, and the tradition that undergirds them.

Kurt Schlichter contributor to Townhall.com: It’s always nice to have the useless likes of dopey Thom Tillis, smarmy Mitt Romney, and lib-symp John Cornyn lecturing us about how we need to spend endless unaccountable money on Ukraine with no articulated strategic objective, as opposed to defending our own border, and how if we don’t agree we must love Vladimir Putin and blah blah blah blah blah. These guys are totally hard-core opponents of the Russians, which is really butch. I and a lot of the people they are insulting actually served in the Cold War, but somehow we are expected to defer to these guys on Russia? They’re taking a hard line against Vladimir Putin even as they take no line on the border, and they are surprised and offended that their party is rejecting them.

Richard M. Reinsch contributor to Law & liberty: Entitlements in American civic culture are now prized and valued so tenaciously that retrenching them is almost impossible, even as mathematical and actuarial tables demonstrate that in current form they will collapse.

2020 ELECTION

Talgo: Trump likely won the 2020 election after all

After extensive analysis using raw survey data coupled with mail-in vote totals, we concluded that mail-in voter fraud almost certainly changed the 2020 election outcome in all six crucial swing states. […] In reality, the 2020 election was most likely marred by widespread mail-in voting fraud. And even worse, the extensive mail-in voter fraud almost certainly tipped the election in favor of Joe Biden. In other words, had rampant mail-in voter fraud been prevented in the 2020 election, Donald Trump would have won the Electoral College and been re-elected to a second term. At this point, you may be wondering how I can be so sure that the 2020 election was tainted by mail-in voter fraud. The answer is simple: The voters have told us so. […] Here are just a few of the main takeaways: . . .

2024 ELECTION INTERFERENCE

Hoge: Nothing to See Here, Folks—Leftist Billionaire Soros to Take Control of America’s 2nd-Largest Radio Chain

George Soros is poised to take a massive stake in the nation’s second-largest radio company, which owns more than 220 stations nationwide, according to court filings and sources close to the situation. The left-leaning billionaire’s Soros Fund Management has bought up $400 million of debt in Audacy — the No. 2 US radio broadcaster behind iHeartMedia with stations including New York’s WFAN and 1010 WINS, as well as Los Angeles-based KROQ, according to bankruptcy filings. One insider close to the situation, noting that he was a Republican, said he believed it was possible Soros was buying the stake to exert influence on public opinion in the months leading up to the 2024 presidential election. “This is scary,” the source said.

GLOBALISM (GREAT RESET/NEW WORLD ORDER) & TRANS HUMANISM (AI HUMANS 2.0) ARE INEXTRICABLY LINKED

War Room: Joe Allen Forewarns Of Transhumanists Creating Techno-Religion

Watch the 8:12 minute interview: https://rumble.com/v4de67i-joe-allen-forewarns-of-transhumanists-creating-techno-religion.html

(A Tiger doesn’t change its stripes) Klaus Schwab Rebrands Great Reset: Claims Globalists Want ‘Humanocracy’ Instead of ‘Technocracy’

Speaking at the 2024 World Government Summit in Dubai on Tuesday, Schwab explained that the WEF is moving away from the “technocracy” framework for its “Fourth Industrial Revolution,” AKA the Great Reset, in favor of a more “humanist” approach he called a “humanocracy.”

“If I look forward, we don’t want to move into using the Fourth Industrial Revolution into a cold bureaucracy, we don’t want to move into a technocracy,” Schwab said. “What we want to do, we want to move in what I would call a humanocracy, a world where we use technology to use all our human potential and to create even a better world,” he said. Schwab’s sudden rebranding of the Great Reset as a “humanocracy” is especially bizarre given other WEF members are explicitly anti-human, arguing that a 90% reduction in the global population of humans would solve globalists’ “problems” and “help” them achieve their “Net Zero” goals. Top WEF member Dennis Meadows has notably called for a staggering 86% reduction in the human population, arguing that the goal can be achieved “peacefully.”

REPUBLICAN U.S. HOUSE MAJORITY

Whedon: White House fumes at Johnson for not approving foreign aid before House recess

Johnson, for his part, has remained resolute that any foreign aid must be paired with border security reforms. he House left for recess this week without approving a foreign aid packaged to provide funds to Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan, a move that has the White House fuming at House Speaker Mike Johnson.

With no votes scheduled for Friday, the House is not due to return until Feb. 28, according to The Hill, meaning the fate of the Senate-passed $95 billion aid package will remain undecided for another two weeks. […] Johnson, for his part, has remained resolute that any foreign aid must be paired with border security reforms. “House Republicans were crystal clear from the very beginning of discussions that any so-called national security supplemental legislation must recognize that national security begins at our own border. The House acted ten months ago to help enact transformative policy change by passing the Secure Our Border Act, and since then, including today, the Senate has failed to meet the moment,” he said earlier this week.

(Disappointing) Piper: ‘A PhD in recognizing bullsh*t’: MTG rips feds on COVID vax injuries amid timid GOP response

Republicans barely dispute FDA and CDC officials’ claims on COVID-19 and vaccines while sticking to safer ground: mandates and political interference. “Vaccine-preventable disease” just means jab has a “benefit.” Federal public health officials may have feared they were walking into a Republican buzzsaw at Thursday’s hearing of the doctor-heavy House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, which reviewed vaccine safety systems and injury compensation programs. But GOP members went surprisingly easy on the FDA’s Peter Marks, CDC’s Daniel Jernigan and Health Resources and Services Administration’s Reed Grimes, speaking more often in terms of disappointment than denunciation.They rarely disputed the feds’ claims about COVID-19 vaccines even when officials spoke in the language of absolutes, such as saying the jabs “prevent” rather than mitigate hospitalization and death, and accepted their statistics at face value. One exception was subcommittee Chairman Brad Wenstrup, R-Ohio, . . .

Killough: House passes bill that would strip Biden of authority to enact LNG pause

he House passed a bill that prevents President Joe Biden from implementing a pause on liquified natural gas export permits. The bill, which was sponsored by August Pfluger, R-Texas, passed in a 224 to 200 vote, with nine Democrats joining Republicans in favor of the bill.

BIDEN/HARRIS/OBAMA’S AMERICA LAST REGIME: RADICAL TRANSFORMATION OF FOREIGN POLICY

Goldman: Saving America’s Future from the Blob

How to understand—and rectify—the foreign policy disaster of 2024. ever believe what bipartisan foreign policy establishment hacks say about China and Russia. They don’t believe what they say, either. The Blob (as Obama aide Ben Rhodes called it) learned through generations of strategic blunders that if everyone closes ranks and sticks to the same story, its members will survive a strategic disaster of any magnitude with their careers intact. The same principle explains why not a single American banker went to jail after the subprime collapse of 2008, the biggest fraud in all financial history. The Blob’s logic is simple: If you go after one of us, then you have to go after all of us, and who will be left to put things back together? Whether it was right for America to go abroad seeking monsters to destroy in Moscow and Beijing, the way we went about it was abominably stupid.

BIDEN/HARRIS/OBAMA’S AMERICA LAST REGIME: RADICAL TRANSFORMATION OF AMERICA

Showalter: Illegals Nation: A ‘great replacement’ beginning to unfold?

Up until now, I’d always thought the ‘great replacement’ theory to remove the current Western electorate and replace them with third-world illegal migrants was some nutty fringe-right conspiracy theory. The idea has been roundly denounced by the establishment as racist, although the French novelist who invented the theory in 2011, Renaud Camus, insisted that his theory was about civilizational values, not skin color. These days, based on how the migrant crisis is unfolding in a couple of developments, it’s possible to wonder. According to Fox News: Immigration experts are raising the alarm about how the increasing flow of migrants illegally crossing into the U.S. may significantly impact states’ representation in the House of Representatives and Electoral College. Shortly after taking office in January 2021, President Biden signed an executive order requiring that the U.S. Census Bureau factor in all residents, including noncitizens, as part of its decennial calculation of the U.S. population. As a result, the apportionment of House seats and, therefore, electoral votes for presidential elections, could be swayed as migrants continue to pour over the southern border. […] As if that isn’t destructive enough — to democracy itself, as the Fox News report’s commentators argue, there’s also this from Steve Camerota of the Center for Immigration Studies, published in the New York Post yesterday: . . .

OTHER NEWS, COMMENTARY, OPINION

Bates: Black Americans account for 60% of firearm homicides each year, report finds

Black people continue to be disproportionately affected by gun violence, as they account for 60% of all firearm homicides yet make up just 14% of the population, according to a new study. Researchers found that the average firearm mortality homicide rate for Black people of all ages was 21.05 per 100,000 people, compared with 1.93 per 100,000 for non-Hispanic white people. The largest disparity was in the 18-to-24 age group, where Black people had a firearm mortality rate of 58.78 per 100,000 people, compared with 3.1 per 100,000 for white people.

Greenfield: Rep. Barbara Lee Explains How Every Business Can Afford a $50 Hour Minimum Wage

The California Senate primary is proving challenging for Rep. Barbara Lee. The race already has the establishment Democrat candidate, Rep. Adam Schiff, and the obnoxious leftist candidate, Rep. Katie Porter, and Rep. Lee has been working overtime to get attention. The Castro pal tried to play the victim by getting kicked out of a congressional hearing on Cuba and then she got desperate and proposed a $50 minimum wage. As John Perrazo at Discover the Networks reports in the profile of Rep. Barbara Lee, when asked to provide “a specific number [dollar amount] for what you’d like to see the federal minimum wage at,” Lee replied that an acceptable minimum wage would be “$50 an hour.” How are small businesses supposed to afford that? The Communist Senate candidate had an answer.

Lepore: Jewish singer Matisyahu says his band was forced to cancel shows in Arizona and New Mexico because venue staff REFUSED to come to work as rapper says anti-Semitism is to blame

On Wednesday and Thursday, Matisyahu had concerts canceled at Meow Wolf in Santa Fe, New Mexico and the Rialto Theater in Tucson, Arizona
Multiple left-wing and anti-Israel groups in New Mexico took credit for Wednesday’s show being canceled
Matisyahu took to social media to place blame on anti-Semitism given his outspoken pro-Israel views

Primack: Trump’s Truth Social takes big step toward going public

Donald Trump’s social media company, Truth Social, has received U.S. regulatory approval to go public by merging with a blank check company called Digital World Acquisition Corp. The big picture: This is a giant step forward for the beleaguered deal, but comes one day after a giant step backward. Details: DWAC disclosed that the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission signed off on its registration statement and that it soon will announce a shareholder vote date.

FANI & WADE

Ingraham: Laura: The Willis investigation was a political vendetta

Watch the 9:58 minute opening monologue: https://www.foxnews.com/video/6346967132112

Mittelstadt: Fulton DA Willis: ‘Not aware’ of disclosure requirement of relationship with special prosecutor

During a hearing in the election interference case against former President Donald Trump, dramatic testimony was given by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, special prosecutor Nathan Wade, and the DA’s former lover, as Willis claimed she was “not aware” that she had to disclose her romantic relationship with Wade to the county. A hearing was held on Thursday regarding Willis’ relationship with Wade and the resulting potential conflicts of interest regarding the case against Trump. […] Mike Davis, Article III Project founder, told the “War Room with Stephen K. Bannon” TV show on Friday that Willis’ testimony “was the worst testimony I think I’ve ever seen from anyone in any court proceeding ever.” He later added, “She set up her own perjury trap and walked into it. She is the dumbest prosecutor I’ve ever seen in all my time as a lawyer. And this woman, this angry, dumb woman is prosecuting a former and likely future president of the United States.”

WAR IN ISRAEL

War Room: Ralph Reed: It’s Hard To Believe How Badly The Biden Admin Has Handled Middle East Foreign Policy

Watch the 11:42 minute report from Israel: https://rumble.com/v4de4u3-ralph-reed-its-hard-to-believe-how-badly-the-biden-admin-has-handle-middle-.html

War Room: Ralph Reed: Israel Goes From Victim To Victor

Watch the 10:36 minute interview: https://rumble.com/v4dl6fu-ralph-reed-israel-goes-from-victim-to-victor.html

Fitzgerald: Hamas Data Center Found Directly Under UNRWA’s Gaza Headquarters

An unholy alliance exposed. The IDF has just uncovered a massive Hamas data center, located directly underneath UNRWA’s Gaza headquarters. This news comes soon after the revelation that at least 12 UNRWA staff members took part in the Hamas atrocities on October 7, that 3,000 UNRWA teachers sharing a Telegram channel exulted in the October 7 attack, and 12,000 members of UNRWA were found to have links to terrorist groups. UNRWA has decided to use the Lie Direct, denying any knowledge of that vast Hamas data center underneath UNRWA’s headquarters. More on this latest blow to UNRWA’s reputation can be found here: “Directly beneath UNRWA’s Gaza headquarters, IDF uncovers top secret Hamas data center,” by Emanuel Fabian, Times of Israel, February 10, 2024: . . .

INTERNATIONAL

DiedSuddenly X post: DEVELOPING: France has passed a new law which will send you to jail for 3 years if you criticize mRNA ‘vaccines’ or ‘gene therapy’ According to the law, which was passed quietly and secretly through the French parliament on Wednesday, advisement against mRNA or other treatments which are deemed ‘suitable’ based on current ‘medical knowledge’ can lead to a 3 year prison sentence and up to a $48,400 fine. Article 4 of the new law, or Article Pfizer as it’s being referred to by freedom fighters in the legislature, is a prejudgment of “alternative medicine” and a threat to whistleblowers.

Williams: The South Africa-Hamas-Iran Axis

According to NGO Monitor, South Africa’s case at the ICJ is built on reports from groups with links to terrorist organizations. “South Africa’s submission to the court contains no fewer than 45 references to NGO publications, including several from outfits linked to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a terrorist organization.” — Wall Street Journal, January 29, 2024.
“The South African government is the same thing as Hamas. It’s an Iranian proxy, and its role in the war is to fight the ideological and ideas war to stigmatize Jews around the world.” — Dr. Frans Cronje, former CEO of the South African Institute for Race Relations, justthenews.com, January 26, 2024.
While the ICJ refused to throw out the case against Israel and is likely to spend the next many years deliberating on Israel’s purported and imaginary “genocide,” John Spencer, who is both chair of urban warfare studies at the Modern War Institute at West Point and a retired US military officer, argued that Israel minimizes civilian casualties more than any military in history, and listed numerous examples of the lengths that the IDF goes to in order to protect civilians, such as warning before launching military strikes.
“Israel has taken more measures to avoid needless civilian harm than virtually any other nation that’s fought an urban war […] No military in modern history has faced over 30,000 urban defenders in more than seven cities using human shields and hiding in hundreds of miles of underground networks purposely built under civilian sites, while holding hundreds of hostages […] The sole reason for civilian deaths in Gaza is Hamas. For Israel’s part, it’s taken more care to prevent them than any other army in human history.” — John Spencer Newsweek, January 31, 2024.
Action is reportedly being taken to bring Iran before the International Court of Justice on charges of Genocide. The move is long overdue.

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