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NOTABLE QUOTES

Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò wrote regarding the globalist Covid-19psycho-pandemic farce: “These murderers will soon find themselves answering for their crimes, if not before the tribunal of the world, then certainly before God.”

James Comer (R-KY ) House Oversight Committee Chair: “Without firing a single bullet, the Chinese Communist Party is waging war against the U.S. by targeting, influencing, and infiltrating every economic sector and community in America.”

New York Times: The top Senate Democrat, the highest-ranking Jewish elected official in the United States, spoke from the Senate floor to condemn Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and call for elections to replace him.

Sen Tom Cotton (R-Ark.): “Chuck Schumer’s demand for new Israeli elections is inappropriate and offensive. Israel is a close ally and a healthy, vibrant democracy. The last thing Israel needs is the ‘foreign election interference’ that Democrats so often decry here.”

Elliott Abrams contributor to Council Foreign Relations: What is a colony? The dictionary definition is “an area over which a foreign nation or state extends or maintains control.” Today Sen. Chuck Schumer tried to turn the State of Israel into one—an American colony. In a Senate speech he demanded new elections in Israel and said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is an “obstacle to peace.” Schumer also decided that “The Netanyahu coalition no longer fits the needs of Israel after Oct. 7.” Schumer concluded that “The world has changed – radically – since then, and the Israeli people are being stifled right now by a governing vision that is stuck in the past.”

Dr. Ben Carson contributor to The Federalist: Our American founding, premised on the idea that our rights come from our shared Creator, is a bulwark against that sort of tyranny that springs up all too frequently in other countries. If that is what we are calling Christian nationalism these days, then count me in.

Zachary Mettler contributor to The Federalist: Courage is contagious. So, fathers of America, the ball is in your court. Your daughters are waiting for you to protect and take care of them. This is your job. This is your responsibility. This is your duty.

Theresa Bonopartis contributor to The Federalist: When I was 17, I caved into abortion in fear — I thought to save myself. There are millions of us out there who did the same for whatever reason. I am glad I saw my aborted son myself so I could never deny the truth about abortion. God forbid I ever stay quiet or deny the reality of abortion to save myself again, no matter what happens. I pray every day to have the courage to speak the truth, the truth of what I saw and what abortion truly is — the killing of innocent unborn babies under the guise of women’s rights.

James Reinl reporter for The Daily Mail: Reparations activists have opened a new front in their battle for compensation for slavery-era abuses — huge tax breaks for black people.

BIDEN CRIME FAMILY

Devine: Hunter Biden witness may be self-serving but his China cover-up info is accurate

The former Israel Defense Force lieutenant colonel, who worked with the same Chinese energy company, CEFC, that paid Hunter and Jim Biden more than $8 million, skipped bail in Cyprus last year after being charged with attempted gun-running, acting as a foreign agent for China and lying to the FBI. While his attacks on federal prosecutors clearly are self-serving, his disclosures so far have proven accurate, and his ongoing conversations with former employees of CEFC while on the run have produced new information about how influential Americans on both sides of the aisle in Washington were recruited to serve China’s imperialist Belt and Road Initiative.

Hazard: Manhattan DA Bragg’s office open to a 30-day delay in Trump trial

“Although the People are prepared to proceed to trial on March 25, we do not oppose an adjournment in an abundance of caution and to ensure that the defendant has sufficient time to review the new materials,” the filing reads, according to NBC News.

You can read the filing here: File Manhattan filing .pdf

BIDEN’S DEMOCRAT PARTY MARXIST PLAYBOOK: PERSECUTE YOUR OPPOSITION, PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP & HIS FORMER TRUMP EMPLOYEES, SUPPORTERS & WH STAFF

Julie Kelly Threadreader: NEW: From FLA courthouse in Trump’s classified documents case with a prediction. Robert Hur report and testimony is the biggest elephant in the room. The term “arbitrary enforcement” used frequently by both the defense and Judge Aileen Cannon. Cannon hammered the fact no former president or vice president has been charged under Espionage Act for taking and keeping classified records including national defense information–which represents 32 counts against Trump in Jack Smith’s indictment.

Scarry: Fani Willis Case’s Judge Is Probably Too Scared To Do The Right Thing

Before the end of the week, we’re supposed to know whether Georgia Democrat District Attorney Fani Willis’s ridiculous street-gang prosecution of Donald Trump and associates will be killed off before it goes to trial. But for that to happen, it’s going to take an extraordinary act of bravery from Judge Scott McAfee and, well, the record so far is that he’s not exactly Rambo in a robe.

THE CORRUPT & DANGEROUS U.S. INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES & THE ADMINISTRATIVE STATE APPARATUS

Fleitz: Biden Administration Abuses U.S. Intelligence Community to Undermine Netanyahu’s Leadership

One has to ask why criticism of Netanyahu and the prospects of him remaining in power would be part of an unclassified intelligence report on worldwide threats to the U.S. Shouldn’t such a report be devoted to the analysis of nations and groups that threaten our country? This was politicization of intelligence, pure and simple, and followed a long tradition of Democratic administrations using intelligence agencies as proxies to promote their policies. By asserting that U.S. intelligence is strictly nonpartisan, expect White House officials to claim these findings are authoritative and nonpolitical. Unfortunately, it has been well established—especially during the Trump Administration—that U.S. intelligence agencies are far from nonpolitical. […] Given how closely the report’s criticism of Netanyahu tracks with Biden Administration policy, I believe this language wasn’t just reviewed by National Security Council officials; it was drafted by them. In effect, this was an attempt by the Biden White House to dress up their criticism of Netanyahu as an intelligence assessment. This is not the first instance of tawdry treatment of Israel by the Biden Administration.

TYRANNY IN THE NAME OF CLIMATE DOOM MYTH: GLOBALIST POLITICIANS & BIG BUSINESS ACCUMULATE MORE POWER & CONTROL

Chemnick & Lee: EPA’s hard-fought climate rule for cars expected next week

The announcement concerns “EPA’s work to address climate change, improve air quality and protect public health,” according to the invite, which POLITICO’s E&E News reviewed. The regulation on passenger cars and light trucks, first announced last spring, is a cornerstone of the Biden administration’s campaign to address climate change. Transportation is the nation’s biggest source of carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases, and passenger cars and trucks account for most of those emissions. The rule would require carmakers to cut their average emissions of carbon dioxide 52 percent between 2027 and 2032. EPA projects that the standard would push the car industry to ensure that electric cars and light trucks make up about 67 percent of new vehicles by model year 2032. A separate climate rule for heavy-duty trucks is expected to be announced later.

Throckmorton: Time to Put Team E.V. on Defense

We must now put the E.V. advocates on the defensive, making them fear they might lose their precious vehicles as a consequence of their attempted I.C.E. ban. They came after us and we repelled their first assault, but simply repelling an adversary’s attack only sets the stage for their next assault. They must suffer a loss, and they must put all their energy into not suffering any more losses, to ensure that they don’t get the opportunity to come after our gasoline-powered cars again. In warfare, the only things that counts is the unconditional surrender of the enemy. […] for now, the I.C.E. abolitionists are not feeling any pain. They still consider the E.V. transition a fait accompli, albeit one that may take a little longer to fully achieve than they first anticipated. They actually see the rapid growth in hybrid vehicle sales as validation that consumers want to abandon I.C.E. cars, but that consumers simply need “a bridge” vehicle before fully abandoning the gas pump. […] In the spirit of the emissions mandates and other dictates that have been imposed on legacy auto manufacturers, I might recommend that we impose the following on electric vehicles:…

CHINA: AMERICA’S MORTAL ENEMY

Husebo: ‘Blood Money’: House Panel Launches ‘Government-Wide’ Investigation into Chinese Communist Subversion of U.S.

The probe comes in the wake of Peter Schweizer’s new book, Blood Money: Why the Powerful Turn a Blind Eye While China Kills Americans. Blood Money landed at number one on the New York Times bestseller list one week after its release by HarperCollins. Among several bombshells, Blood Money revealed how the Biden family bagged $5 million from the business partner of the “White Wolf,” the head of a gang involved in the drug trade. It also exposed how China is involved in the fentanyl crisis throughout North America. In addition, the book uncovered how the CCP uses TikTok as a “modern day Trojan Horse” to push propaganda into the United States. […] Comer’s probe will demand federal agencies provide information on how the United States is combatting the CCP’s warfare that influences several significant sectors: […] “Without firing a single bullet, the Chinese Communist Party is waging war against the U.S. by targeting, influencing, and infiltrating every economic sector and community in America,” Comer said in a statement:

REPUBLICAN U.S. HOUSE MAJORITY

Moran: Johnson Will Send Ukraine Aid Package to the Senate After all

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) has bowed to pressure from Senate Republicans and will send a Ukraine aid package to the Senate soon. The aid bill will not resemble the $95 billion aid package the Senate passed in February. Instead, it will probably be in the form of loans or lend-lease structure to make it appear Ukraine would be paying it back. Johnson unveiled the plan during a question-and-answer session at the annual Senate Republican retreat, which took place at the Library of Congress.

War Room: Matthew Boyle On Biden’s Failure To Improve American National Economy

The inflation number is out of control. We are becoming more dependent on China and other adversaries. Anti-Trump Republicans remain a problem.

Watch the 18:47 minute interview: https://rumble.com/v4j8vvu-matthew-boyle-on-bidens-failure-to-improve-american-national-economy.html

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

(Interfering in the election of a sovereign country) Pearce: Schumer Calls For Netanyahu’s Ouster, New Elections In Israel Amid War With Hamas

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) on Thursday called for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to step down and his government to be dissolved. Schumer took the extraordinary step in a speech on the Senate floor. The New York Democrat said that Netanyahu “has lost his way” and “has been too willing to tolerate the civilian toll in Gaza.” Israel’s standing in the international community is suffering under the prime minister’s leadership, Schumer said. […] Schumer said the will of the Israeli people has been “stifled” by “the Netanyahu coalition.” Israelis would choose a different policy toward bringing an end to the war if Netanyahu stepped aside, Schumer suggested. […] Schumer threatened to leverage U.S. aid to Israel in order to get changes in policy out of the government.

Goldberg: Biden continues Iran’s access to $10 billion just weeks after its proxy killed three American soldiers

Just six weeks after an Iran-backed drone strike killed three American soldiers in Jordan, President Biden has approved a sanctions waiver giving Tehran continued access to more than $10 billion — money it can use to import goods and repay debts, freeing up $10 billion elsewhere to spend on terrorism, missiles, nuclear weapons and the repression of Iranian women. The Senate is sitting on a bill that would lock down the money, and Republicans should do whatever it takes to force an up-or-down vote. Thursday isn’t the first time Biden has granted Iran massive sanctions relief.

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

(Are children being sex-trafficked?) Muckraker.com: lllegal Alien Foster Homes Exposed | EXCLUSIVE FOOTAGE OF GOVERNMENT CONTRACTORS DELIVERING CHILDREN: Muckraker has obtained never-before-seen footage of government contractors escorting illegal alien children through LaGuardia Airport and into foster homes in the middle of the night. The illegal alien foster home system is an industry worth billions of dollars. Unaccompanied children who are trafficked into the United States via the southern border are a major revenue stream for foster homes across the country. We witnessed deliveries of children from LaGuardia Airport to four New York foster homes in the middle of the night. Three of the four homes are facing serious sexual assault allegations, and all of them receive millions of dollars in federal funding. Through exclusive footage and research, Muckraker has exposed the illegal alien foster home system. One-third of the children placed with sponsors have never been heard from again.

Watch the 13:20 minute video: https://twitter.com/realmuckraker/status/1767210036500001085

Carson: Leftists Hate Natural Law Because It’s The Only True Bulwark Against Tyranny

Politico Reporter Heidi Przybyla recently appeared on MSNBC to attack an “extremist element” in the Republican Party that she refers to as “Christian nationalism.” As Przybyla explained, “The thing that unites them as Christian nationalists […] is that they believe that our rights as Americans, as all human beings, don’t come from any earthly authority. They don’t come from Congress, they don’t come from the Supreme Court. They come from God.” This is not only an unfair attack on people of faith, it also gets wrong the entire foundation of our country’s beginning and constitutional order. Our nation’s founding document, the Declaration of Independence itself, cites “the laws of Nature and of Nature’s God” in its central assertion, which lays the groundwork for our entire experiment in self-government: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.” […] Looking around at our country today, as the left tries to strip us of our rights to participate in free and fair elections, raise our children with our values, worship God genuinely and faithfully, speak freely in the online public square, and more, maybe it is unsurprising that they are also trying to shift our understanding of rights as a gift from God to a gift from government.

2024 ELECTION

Continetti: America’s Political Realignment Is Real

If Donald Trump is elected president in November, he will have assembled a coalition unlike any Republican nominee in my lifetime.[…] My colleague at the American Enterprise Institute Ruy Teixeira, as well as GOP pollster Patrick Ruffini, have storehouses of data that show Democrats losing non-college-educated minority voters—Hispanic voters in particular—to Republicans. Each new survey confirms their findings. The evidence is overwhelming. The latest example: AEI researcher Nate Moore investigated Trump’s growing favorability rating and found that the former president is more popular now than at any point since he left office. The source of this newfound popularity is minority voters. “While his support has ticked up among white and black Americans,” Moore wrote this week in The Liberal Patriot, “the share of Hispanic Americans who have a favorable view of Trump has doubled over the last year from around 20 percent to 40 percent.”

Stein: Why this Democratic Nikki Haley backer is endorsing Trump for president

It’s time for America to come together and make Donald Trump the next president of the United States. I was one of those who doubted he could pull off a second presidential victory and backed Nikki Haley. I was wrong — Trump is ready to be president again, and the country needs him.

[…] Nikki Haley has a distinguished record as a governor and appealed to independent voters and Democrats but never really found a compelling message to energize the broader Republican Party. She says she’s a good conservative Republican, but she’s failed to endorse Trump despite taking a pledge to support the GOP winner. It’s time she encourage her voters to get behind Trump as the one candidate who can put America First and actively campaign for him. Winning Vermont and DC is not enough.

DEMOCRAT PARTY MARXIST PLAYBOOK: CHILDREN ARE THE TARGET OF THE DARKNESS AFFECTING OUR NATION

Watch As A Convicted Felon Tries To Kidnap A 14-Year-Old Girl In Broad Daylight

Watch the 1:18 minute video: https://vidmaxviral.com/video/222574-watch-as-a-convicted-felon-tries-to-kidnap-a-14-year-old-girl-in-broad-daylight

TheLibertyDaily: Get Your Kids Out of Woke Public Schools Until Creeps Like This Guy Are All Fired

Watch the 1:00 minute video: https://rumble.com/v4j6w8x-get-your-kids-out-of-woke-public-schools-until-creeps-like-this-guy-are-all.html

WAR IN ISRAEL

Tobin: Schumer provides cover for Biden’s smears of Israel

The self-proclaimed “shomer” of the Senate is at odds with Israel’s people, not Netanyahu, in order to convince Israel-hating Democrats not to defect. In a city packed with cynical opportunists, few people in Washington can match the cynicism and opportunism that are on display when Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) speaks. He’s been in public office continuously since the age of 25, and the 73-year-old Senate Majority Leader has spent his adult life grandstanding for the cameras and the press while always seeking some momentary political advantage as he schemed, back-stabbed and bloviated his way to the top of his profession. Yet in a career replete with disingenuous rhetoric and Machiavellian maneuvering, nothing Schumer had done before was ever quite as loathsome as his most recent speech on the floor of the Senate. In it, he demanded a change in the government of the State of Israel and for the Jewish state to change its policies on the war against Hamas. He also pushed for post-war policies that the people of Israel adamantly oppose.

Limor: The target: Hamas’ strategic brain

It isn’t difficult to understand the considerable degree of caution being adopted by Israel with regard to the possibility that one of the most senior figures in Hamas, Marwan Issa, was killed in an IDF targeting operation on Saturday night. On numerous occasions in the past, Israel has bragged about targeting senior terrorists, only to later discover that they were in fact completely unharmed. Mohammed Deif is a living example of this: Despite a number of attempts to target him and hopes that he had indeed been killed or at least severely wounded, photos and video clips captured by the IDF during the current war have clearly shown that he is in much better shape than anybody in Israel could have possibly imagined. Issa, better known in the Gaza Strip by his nom de guerre Abu al-Baraa, is the less well-known member of the Hamas ‘triumvirate’ that has ruled the Gaza Strip in recent years.

21^ST CENTURY ACADEMIA

Costescu: Israeli Lawyer Ran Bar-Yoshafat Will Return to Berkeley After Anti-Semitic Mob Shut Down His Speech

Ran Bar-Yoshafat, the Israeli lawyer whose University of California, Berkeley, speech was shut down last month by an anti-Semitic mob, will return to the school next week to deliver a new talk. Bar-Yoshafat will speak on Berkeley’s campus at a Monday event sponsored by Tikvah Students for Israel and other pro-Israel groups. His appearance comes just weeks after a talk he was scheduled to deliver at Berkeley was shut down by violent demonstrators, who choked a female student attendee, spit in another’s face, and shouted “Jew, Jew, Jew.” The lawyer and Israel Defense Forces reservist told the Washington Free Beacon he plans to give an altered speech that will address the ordeal and subsequent attempts to shut down his speech. “I really think this is bigger than an Israeli issue or a Jewish issue,” Bar-Yoshafat said. “This is Western civilization collapsing because people are not willing to even let me speak.”

OTHER NEWS, COMMENTARY, OPINION

(updated) Chang: Boeing whistleblower John Barnett ate quesadilla, drank coke, and ‘did not seem upset at all’ on night before he was found dead with ‘self-inflicted’ gunshot wound, hotel staff say

Barnett, 62, was found with a ‘self-inflicted’ gunshot wound in Charleston, where he had been in the middle of depositions in a bombshell lawsuit related to the production of the 787 Dreamliner plane. Staff at the Holiday Inn where Barnett was found dead revealed that the former quality manager seemed fine in the evening before his ‘suicide’, as questions surfaced about where he took his own life. […] His lawyer previously questioned the coroner’s office findings that the gunshot wound was ‘self-inflicted,’ saying Barnett was in good spirits in between his depositions.

Silverstein: Inside the super-secret Washington club – whose patrons include Hunter Biden and disgraced Senator Bob Menendez – where government deals affecting billions of dollars are done behind closed doors

The 116 Club is a members-only venue in DC whose patrons have included Senators Bob Menendez and Mitch McConnell and Hunter Biden
DailyMail.com was able to confirm the names of about 100 current and former club members, including at least 40 members of Congress
‘There’s less chance of being seen or overheard at the 116,’ a former Senate staffer told DailyMail.com

Its members and patrons have included Sen. Bob Menendez, now under indictment on bribery charges, banker Robert Tillery, who pled guilty to bilking a mentally frail military widow out of $83,800 – and Hunter Biden. A hostess at the venue in its previous incarnation had an affair with John F. Kennedy before being unmasked as a Communist spy. Together the clubs have had membership rolls teeming with carousers, skirt chasers, string-pullers and influence peddlers, at least five of whom later served time in prison on corruption charges. […] We learned that numerous other influential figures are club regulars as well, including Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, who lives on the block, his deputy John Cornyn, and Jerry Moran who sits on the Intelligence Committee and is ranking member on the Veterans Affairs Committee.

Griswold: This Little-Known Option Saves Mothers From Killing Their Babies For Being Disabled

Most women receiving scary prenatal diagnoses don’t know about helpful perinatal hospice, but most doctors push them toward abortion. […] Sadly, as prenatal testing advanced in the years following Roe v. Wade, the number of elective abortions in response to fetal anomalies rose. Parents in the United States kill an alarming percentage of pre-born babies diagnosed — possibly incorrectly — with Down syndrome, Trisomy 18, spina bifida, cystic fibrosis, and many other conditions. At best, it’s euthanasia. At worst, it’s eugenics.

Faberov: Anti-Israel protesters swarm The Post, NY Times printing plant before 124 are arrested while shutting down Gray Lady’s Midtown HQ

The protesters — many masked and wearing traditional Palestinian keffiyeh scarves — laid down, linked together with tubes to create a human chain, blocking one of the largest printing facilities in the country, which also produces the Wall Street Journal, Newsday, and USA Today. They carried anti-Israel signs reading, “Stop the presses. Free Palestine” and “Consent for genocide is manufactured here.”

INTERNATIONAL

Whitlocks: Surviving inhabitants of top secret Soviet-era town where more than 400 NUCLEAR BOMBS were detonated reveal horrors of living in ‘the most nuked place on Earth’ where radiation left ‘everyone’ riddled with cancer

Filmmakers Thomas Brag and Staffan Taylor ventured to Kurchatov, which was a top secret town established in 1947 as the headquarters of the Soviet Union’s nuclear weapons program. At the time, it was not even visible on maps due to the high level of secrecy. It is estimated that more than one million people lived in and around the remote settlement when the nuclear program was running from 1949 to 1989 – but today there just a few thousand people remaining and many of the buildings are stripped bare and derelict. In their eye opening YouTube documentary titled ’50hrs in the most nuked place on Earth erased from maps,’ Thomas and Staffan find four Kurchatov locals who are willing to talk about the nuclear testing they witnessed. All of them make it clear that they had no idea what was happening at the time, as the authorities succeeded in keeping people in the dark.

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