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Robin M. Itzler contributor to American Thinker: The United States of America has only one chance of stopping this illegal alien invasion and saving the United States of America from radical socialism. ONE CHANCE! November 5, 2024.

Yuri Bezmenov former member of the KGB: Comrades: AWFL DEI (Affluent White Female Liberal Dry Egg Incel) Karens are the biggest threat to Western Civilization.

Carson Holloway I contributor to The American Mind: Contrary to what the contemporary critics of the American Right contend, the most important change in modern American politics, and the real threat of authoritarianism, is on the Left and not the Right.

Benjamin Weingarten contributor to TomKlingenstein.com: National security officials tell us that 2024 will constitute the most “secure” election in U.S. history. Amid all the talk of “saving democracy,” and all the evidence of what such measures look like in reality, one could hardly be faulted for asking how much more security our republic can withstand.

Michael Barone contributor to Jewish World Review: Team Biden is obviously fiddling with its failed EV policies in the hopes of smoothing over the differences between its environmentalist and union constituencies, Marin County, California, and Macomb County, Michigan. That might work, up through Election Day. Then, whoever wins, there will come something you might provocatively call a bloodbath. For an industry with large capital needs and long lead times, or for environmentalists determined to phase out vehicles that most consumers prefer and can afford — maybe for both.

Fred Fleitz contributor to American Greatness: Kudos to House Speaker Mike Johnson, who yesterday extended an invitation to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to address the U.S. House of Representatives. This was an important and much-needed gesture to reassure the Israeli people that the vast majority of Americans stand with Israel in its war against the Hamas terrorists and do not agree with the surge in hostility toward the Israeli government by the Biden administration and some Congressional Democrats.

DEMOCRAT PARTY MARXIST PLAYBOOK: ABOLISH THE FIRST AMENDMENT

(2024 election interference) Weingarten: Censorship in the Group Quota Regime

Editor’s Note: What we call the “group quota regime” is an emerging totalitarianism. Like all such regimes, the group quota regime must maintain a narrative and silence those who challenge it. For this purpose, the woke radicals have developed, over the course of two elections and the COVID-19 pandemic, a vast, opaque, and intricate narrative-control apparatus — what some have referred to as the censorship-industrial complex (CIC). The CIC is a complex web of federal agencies, legacy media, Big Tech companies, and NGOs that operate in concert to form and enforce the regime narrative. Ben Weingarten, editor at large of RealClearInvestigations, explains in revealing detail where the CIC stands today and, importantly, how it might rear its head in the upcoming election. If the woke regime felt that its reign was under threat, and believed itself justified (if not morally obligated) to defend itself, what wouldn’t it do to retain power? […] Given the stakes in 2024, and with our ruling regime exhausting every possible option to win yet finding Donald Trump leading in many polls, shouldn’t we expect the regime to execute a still more pervasive and pernicious censorship effort this time around? To understand where the information war might go, it is useful to consider where it has been — and recognize how significant its impact is even at this very moment.

BIDEN CRIME FAMILY

Turley: The Dripping Away of the Democratic Party: Sir Thomas More and the Biden Corruption Scandal

In the 1966 movie “A Man for All Seasons,” Sir Thomas More faces Richard Rich, an ambitious office seeker who would ultimately lie and betray him. In this British historical drama, More warns Rich that “when a man takes an oath, he’s holding his own self in his own hands like water, and if he opens his fingers then, he needn’t hope to find himself again.” This week, Democrats appear to have finally drained away what remained of themselves and their party. For years, Democratic members and the media have demanded any evidence of the direct involvement or knowledge of President Joe Biden of the influence-peddling operation of his son, Hunter, and his brothers, James and Frank. In the hearing, witnesses testified under oath about specific meetings with Joe Biden discussing these foreign dealings and the family business interests. Bank records were introduced showing the transfers of millions going to Hunter and various Biden family members. Faced with the evidence that the president lied about his lack of any knowledge or involvement in the influence peddling, the Democrats opened their fingers wider. Rep. Dan Goldman, D., N.Y., captured the problem for Democrats in even addressing any of the mounting evidence contradicting the president. Yet, Goldman has long shown a willingness to rush in where angels fear to tread.

THE CORRUPT & DANGEROUS DEMOCRAT PARTY MEDIA INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX

Green: Google Invents a New Way to Stick It to Trump

Everyone who has ever used, heard, or read the word “bloodbath” knows it has multiple meanings. And thank goodness for that, since literal bloodbaths (like the one Hamas committed in Israel on Oct. 7, 2023) are far more rare than the figurative kind (like Google just committed against the word “bloodbath”). As you’re probably aware, Democrats and the Mainstream Media (but I repeat myself) have spent the last several days trying to convince the proles that when Donald Trump warned that a second Biden administration would lead to a figurative bloodbath against the U.S. auto industry, what he really meant was a literal bloodbath if Trump were to lose the election. And Google is happy to help by scrubbing the internet of all but the literal definition of “bloodbath.” […] Sure enough, Google now claims there’s just one definition of “bloodbath.” Worse, Google is defrauding its users.

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

Phillips: The American betrayal of Israel

The suggestion that Israel is no better than Hamas is a pernicious lie spread by those who want Israel gone. As some of us have long feared and that has now become undeniable, Israel is fighting not one but two wars of defense against a malevolent foe. The first is against the axis of Iran and its proxies: Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis of Yemen. The second is against America. The Biden administration is to construct a pier off the Gaza shore to facilitate the delivery of humanitarian aid. This week, Israeli TV’s Channel 14 reported that, astoundingly, the Americans have handed over the financing and management of this pier to Qatar, the founder, funder and protector of Hamas and therefore the godfather of the Oct. 7 pogrom.

Spencer: Biden Regime Considering New Move to Stab Israel in the Back

The Biden regime is in a tough spot. Its far-left base is enraged over its ongoing ostensible support for Israel. Instead of acting with integrity despite the electoral cost and standing by a loyal ally in its time of need, the regime is making a series of moves to betray Israel and give aid and comfort to its enemies. Now it’s mulling over a step that would constitute the biggest betrayal of all and would hand victory to the Hamas jihad terror group. For the unprincipled Biden regime apparatchiks, it’s all about winning in November. The New York Sun reported Monday that Old Joe and his henchmen are “reportedly considering leaving Israel short of the armaments it needs to fight Hamas.”

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

Nazar: White House Warns of Iran Cyberattacks on U.S. Water Infrastructures

On Tuesday, the United States government warned state governors about cyberattacks targeting water and sewage systems across the country, perpetrated by hackers associated with Iran and China. In a letter published Tuesday, White House National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan and Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan cautioned that significant cyberattacks have targeted water and wastewater systems nationwide. […] “These attacks have the potential to disrupt the critical lifeline of clean and safe drinking water, as well as impose significant costs on affected communities,” the Tuesday letter said. […] The letter from the NSC and the EPA comes as Robert Wells, the Director of the FBI’s Counterterrorism Division, recently informed the House Committee on Homeland Security that Tehran is still planning attacks against former government officials in response to the death of IRGC-QF Commander Qassem Soleimani. Wells also warned that Tehran can carry out cyber-attacks and targeted assassinations within the U.S.

Kessler: ‘Economic Disaster’: Biden’s Budget Dreams Would Add Even More Fuel To Sky-High Inflation, Experts Say

President Joe Biden recently released his budget proposal for fiscal year 2025, which, if approved, could add even more fuel to sky-high inflation, according to federal government budget experts who spoke to the Daily Caller News Foundation. The president’s proposal lays out a slew of new targeted spending measures and tax increases that, in total, would add at least $14.8 trillion to the already massive national debt by the end of Biden’s presumptive second term. Many provisions in the budget would contribute to inflationary runaway deficit spending while not addressing the real problems causing unaffordability and rising prices, experts told the DCNF. (RELATED: Iconic Discount Merchandise Brand To Shutter Around 1,000 Stores As Harsh Economic Factors Weigh On Sales)

Durden: After 625 Days, The Longest Yield Curve Inversion In History

As regular readers are aware, an inverted yield curve has been the best predictor of a US downturn of any variable through history: the yield curve has always inverted before all of the last 10 US recessions, with a lag that is usually 12-18 months, but some cycles – certainly this one – take longer . . .

DEMOCRAT PARTY CASH COW: BIG PHARMA

Bradford: Big Pharma Is More Woke Than You Imagine

BIg Pharma is not your friend. Whether it’s hiking up drug prices or bribing the Swamp, the pharmaceutical industry works against the people’s interests. Many Americans are aware of Big Pharma’s greed and the power it wields over Washington, D.C., but fewer are aware of just how left-wing the industry is. It serves as a cash cow for the left and pushes woke ideas on its employees and the country at large. This may explain why Democrats, who act like they hate Big Pharma, serve the industry’s interests. While the drugmakers spread their cash around all of DC, they overwhelmingly prefer Democrats. In recent elections, Big Pharma donated significantly more money to Democratic candidates than Republican candidates. From 2016 to 2022, the industry gave a whopping $29 million to Democratic candidates. This trend stands true for the current election cycle, with more cash going to Democrats once again. This favoritism extends to the presidential race. The drug lobby has donated four times more money to Joe Biden than it has to Donald Trump. And the industry’s generosity to Team Blue doesn’t end with individual candidates. Its chief lobby, PhRMA, also gives millions to liberal campaign arms like the Democratic Attorneys General Association.

2024 ELECTION

Bruch: Exposing the DNC Plan to Rig the 2024 Election – Former WA State Democrat Operative Blows the Whistle on Dems

David Spring is a former leader of the Washington State Democratic Party. He was the East King County Representative to the King County Central Committee and Training Advisor for King County Democrats – where he taught hundreds of volunteers how to run political campaigns using the Democratic Database called Votebuilder. Spring was on the Board of the WA Progressive Caucus – which is the largest caucus in the WA Democratic Party and ran the WA for Bernie Sanders website, where he published articles and videos teaching thousands of Sanders supporters (most of whom had never been Democrats) how to take over the Democrat party. As a result, in 2016 WA state had the highest percentage of Bernie delegates of any state in the nation. Spring was taken out of the Democratic Party for exposing a million-dollar bribe given by the leaders of the State Democrats to a Republican State Senator which induced her to drop out of the State Senate and endorse her Dem Party opponent. Spring is an accomplished scientist and computer security expert and spent 20 years teaching courses at Bellevue Community College where he taught more than 1,000 students who were employees at Microsoft. He has degrees in Science Education and Child Development from WA State University and the University of Washington. He is currently running for State Superintendent of Public Instruction (a nonpartisan office) to restore local control of public schools as required by the State Constitution – and to expose the many crimes committed by the leaders of the WA State Democratic Party.

Read more at All Things Politics Substack.

WAR IN ISRAEL

Kredo: Poll: Majority of Palestinians Want Hamas Control Over Gaza Strip When War Ends

“Gazans’ support for continued Hamas control over the Gaza Strip has increased to more than 50 percent, a 14-point rise” during the past several months, according to the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research, a nonprofit think tank that tracks public opinion in the West Bank and Gaza. “Given the magnitude of the suffering in the Gaza Strip, this seems to be the most counter intuitive finding of the entire poll.” The poll, which surveyed 1,580 adults in early March, determined that “almost all Palestinians think Israel is committing war crimes while almost all believe Hamas is not committing war crimes in the current war,” a number that has remained steady throughout the conflict.

Vespa: Watch a British Commentator Totally Embarrass an Anti-Israel News Host

Jane Dutton, a South African reporter, had Douglas Murray, a New York Post columnist, to discuss the war, which did not go well for her. She trotted out pro-terrorist talking points and flat-out incorrect information, which Murray was not going to stand for. She claimed that the illegal settlements in the West Bank brought on this war. Murray, aghast, slapped down that assumption since Hamas has been shouting their reasons for attacking innocent Israelis: they want to destroy the Jewish state.

Greenfield: Israel Won Major Victory by Ignoring Biden

The current Israeli government made the same mistake after Oct 7 that so many previous ones had by assuming that it would retain the support of the White House if it followed its parameters. Instead of a comprehensive siege and rapid forceful assaults, Israel waited. When there were complaints about casualties, it slowed down, sent warnings and put its own soldiers at risk. And lives were lost. But none of that worked. There was a ticking clock and Biden was bound to eventually pull support. It was only a matter of time. Now, Israel won a major victory by catching Hamas and Islamic Jihad by surprise. How did it do that? By ignoring the rules that the Islamic terrorists thought Israel had to operate by. . . .

PHYSICIANS MOVE TOWARD PRIMARY CARE PRACTICES

Bateman: Doctors Sick Of America’s Broken Health Care System Found A Better Way To Treat Patients

Thousands of physicians have adopted direct primary care to avoid government and insurers’ obstruction of quality, personalized health care. undreds of physicians from around the country gathered in Orlando, Florida, last week to strategize successful withdrawal from the nation’s collapsing health care system and how to improve health care using a new model: direct primary care. Direct primary care practices displace higher-cost “concierge” medicine model with monthly subscription fees often ranging from $50-$125. Independent physicians build moderate bases of 400-600 members with flat fee costs and limited overhead. Direct primary care works independently of insurance, remaining autonomous in a progressively nationalized health industry. Thousands of physicians have adopted the model.“The one-size-fits-all approach of government to Covid demonstrates the need of personalized care that fits the needs of the community,” said Dr. Lee Gross, president of Docs 4 Patient Care Foundation, a nonprofit organization that promotes direct primary care. “Practices need to be nimble and free of huge regulatory burden so that they can rapidly meet the changing needs of their community. It also shows that the financial influence of third-party payers controls how physicians are able to care for their patients.”

OTHER NEWS, COMMENTARY, OPINION

Frieman: Human Receives First Transplant Of ‘Genetically-Edited Pig Kidney’

Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) announced in a press release Thursday that its surgeons transplanted a “genetically-edited pig kidney” into Richard “Rick” Slayman, who they said will be “discharged soon.” Slayman is “recovering well” from the four-hour procedure carried out March 16. The pig kidney surgeons transplanted into the patient no longer contained dangerous pig genes as a result of its genetic modification, the press release stated. Human genes were also added to the animal organ through genetic editing.

Hoft: REVEALED: Woman Charged with Voter Fraud in Wisconsin Was ALSO INVOLVED in 2020 Election Night Absentee Ballot Flash Drive Scandal

On Wednesday, top Wisconsin Democrat Kimberly Zapata was found guilty on ALL counts against her for illegally requesting military ballots. Kimberly Zapata, the deputy director of the City of Milwaukee Election Commission, was fired for committing the then alleged election fraud back in 2022. Zapata was sending out military ballots to homes in Wisconsin. The investigation all started back In November 2022, when Wisconsin State Rep. Janel Brandtjen, then Chair of the Assembly on Campaigns and Elections, sent out an election fraud alert. Rep. Brandtjen received three authentic military ballots to her home addressed to “Holly,” a woman who has never lived there.

Le Mahieu: Public Libraries Across Country Set To Host Marxist-Led Org That Decries ‘Violent Effects Of US Border Policy’

A group that decries the “violent effects of US border policy” and downplays illegal immigration will be bringing an exhibit on migration to over a dozen libraries across America in the coming months as illegal immigrants continue to pour across the southern border. Sponsored by the American Library Association, the largest nonprofit trade organization for libraries run by a self-described “lesbian Marxist,” 15 libraries from California to New Jersey, will be hosting an exhibition called “World on the Move: 250,000 Years of Human Migration.” […] The exhibition will be featured in libraries in California, Illinois, Kansas, Louisiana, Maryland, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, and Wisconsin. Several of the hosting libraries, including Calcasieu Parish Public Library, St Mary’s County Library, K.O. Lee Aberdeen Public Library, Blount County Public Library, Amarillo Public Library, Weber County Library, and Lester Public Library are located in conservative areas. The exhibit that will be at libraries will encourage a focus on “climate change” and says that the 2016 vote by the British to leave the European Union was motivated by dislike of immigrants.

(Black on White crime you won’t read about in the MSM) LePore: Nadia Vitels, 52, who was found stuffed in duffel bag in her Manhattan apartment was ‘killed by two SQUATTERS who beat her to death’ as cops hunt male and female suspects

Police have revealed that the mother found murdered and stuffed into a duffel bag at her New York City apartment were a pair of squatters who beat the woman to death. Nadia Vitels, 52, was found dead in the East 31st Street apartment in Manhattan’s Kips Bay on March 14 after her family called the building superintendent to do a wellness check. The medical examiner ruled her death a homicide on Friday after an autopsy ruled she died from multiple facial fractures, a brain bleed, two broken ribs and blunt-force trauma to the head. Now, NYPD Chief of Detectives says the suspects – already believed to be a black male and a black female both in their 20s – were squatting in Vitels’ apartment. ‘We believe that some squatters took the apartment over and this woman came home […] and walked in on the squatters that were there,’ Kenny said.

Tobin: Harvard Professors on Israel Visit Describe ‘Existential Crisis’ for Jews Back Home–And Loss of Faith in DEI

A group of Harvard University professors visited Israel this week in a show of wartime solidarity with the Jewish state. But the visitors seemed to be just as much in need of support as their hosts. In a series of sessions at Tel Aviv University on Tuesday, members of the more-than-50-person delegation—which also included faculty from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford, Dartmouth, and Yale Universities, and elsewhere—described feeling abandoned and afraid on their campuses back home. Gabriel Kreiman, a professor at Harvard Medical School who organized the solidarity mission, said the faculty are liberals who broadly believe in “diversity, equity, and inclusion.” Since Hamas’s Oct. 7 terror attack on Israel, though, many have had their eyes opened to the anti-Semitic implications of the academy’s regnant ideology. “I don’t think a lot of people here think DEI is going very well. They’re very upset,” Kreiman told the Washington Free Beacon. “I don’t think they are ideologically opposed to the system. It’s just the current version of DEI is full of double standards and is in many cases almost openly anti-Semitic.”

DISCOVER THE NETWORKS

Pope Francis

* Calls on America to welcome illegal immigrants fleeing persecution in their homelands

* Characterizes capitalism as an economic system “where the powerful feed upon the powerless,” and which leads inevitably to “the greedy exploitation of environmental resources”

* Asserts that the “inequality” inherent in capitalist economies constitutes “the root of social ills” and “eventually engenders […] violence”

* Believes that “the bulk of global warming” is due to “the great concentration of greenhouse gases” generated by “human action”

* Opposes the death penalty and life-in-prison

Read more: https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individuals/pope-francis/

Andrew Gillum

* Became an organizer with the People For the American Way Foundation in 2002

* Was elected Mayor of Tallahassee, Florida in 2014

* Lost to Ron DeSantis in race for Florida governor in 2018

* Embraces a far-left political agenda

* Became an alcoholic and illicit drug user

* Was caught in a hotel room with a gay escort while under the influence of drugs or alcohol in 2020

Read more: https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individuals/andrew-gillum/

INTERNATIONAL

Revolver.news: Massive victory for Irish patriots as disgraced globalist prime minister suddenly bails…

Remember the nightmare incident when an illegal stabbed an Irish child to death, sparking understandable outrage and social upheaval? Rather than align with the justified anger of his people and address their rational concerns, the “woke” Indian homosexual Prime Minister of Ireland chose to criticize Conor McGregor and implement more draconian anti-free speech laws on Ireland’s citizens. McGregor wasn’t shy about condemning the riots and violence triggered by the stabbing incident, but he didn’t hold back on giving Irish law enforcement and failed leadership a verbal beatdown. […] In truth, Prime Minister Leo Varadkar, who’s a part Indian homosexual, is nothing more than a typical white-hating liberal. […] BREAKING: PM Leo Varadkar of Ireland announces his sudden resignation. This is a huge win for the Irish people. Varadkar is a globalist who infamously complained about Whites in Ireland. His recent referendums to make the Irish constitution gender-neutral got crushed electorally in landslide losses.

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