From Ukraine With Love.

       I first began reading James Bond novels as a teenager.  A recurrent character in both novels and motion pictures that followed was Ernst Stavro Blofeld.  He was designated as Number One in SPECTRE (Special Executive for Counter-intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge, and Extortion) and his goal was world domination.  He served as James Bond's nemesis and was always scheming to gin up the Cold War.  Ian Fleming would probably not be too surprised to learn that a real life Ernst Stavro Blofeld exists and has used similar tactics.  His name is George Soros. His goals are a little more realistic as he is more interested in creating chaos as he has always been able to benefit from chaos and so when times are relatively quiet, why not manufacture some chaos as he did in France with the franc and England with the pound. He has funded many radical groups in America and through out the world to achieve his goals and amassed billions.

      With the help of Obama, HRC, Ambassador Jess Bailey, and $5 million of tax payer money, Open Borders Macedonia,  translated and passed out Alinsky's Rules for Radicals.  They achieved their goal and managed to replace the right of center government with a leftist one.  So much for meddling in the election of another country, all of those mentioned above are guilty.  Soros also sponsors J Street, an anti Zionist organization whose goal is to eliminate Israel and replace it with an Arab dominated government.  His Open Borders organization has made him a persona non grata in his native Hungary, where he survived WW2 as a Jew by pointing out Jewish families to the head of the Hungarian Gestapo for deportation to death camps.  In Ukraine, Soros, through Obama and Joe Biden had  Prosecutor Vicktor Shokin fired as he was initiating an investigation of the inappropriaterly named Anti Corruption Action Center (AntAC) founded by Soros and Obama, believing $4.4 million of American Tax payer dollars had been improperly diverted. The new prosecutor, Lutsenko was told to back off of the AntAC investigation and was also given the names of several Ukraine members of Parliament and the head of AntAC not to investigate by US Ambassador Marie Yovanovich.  This confirmed a letter that had been sent shortly before Lutsenko took office saying that Ukraine need not investigate AntAC as the US was not concerned about how the money had been spent. Later we also learned that Shokin had been investigating Buslema LLC, a natural gas company run by a Ukrainian oligarch tied to corruption and that Biden's black sheep son Hunter had been placed on the board of directors, though he had no experience in natural gas, didn't.t speak the language, and had only been to Ukraine with his father.  Yet despite this he was given a $50K/mo. salary and control of over a million in investment funds.  Joe Biden bragged that he gave the government six hours to fire Shokin or an American aid package would be cancelled.  "SOB," Shokin was fired.

      We have since learned that the roots of the Russia collusion hoax began in Ukraine. Paul Manafort, who was briefly connected to theTrump presidential campaign. had a history in Ukraine along with his partner Rick Gates, had failed to register as lobbyist for a foreign government.  This lobbying effort goes back to 2008.  Of note is that Manafort was helping the Podesta Group of Tony Podesta, whose brother was John Podesta, HRC's campaign manger.  Only Manfort was charged by Mueller, despite all of the others being involved in the same illegalities.  The Podesta Group has since closed.
      Soros has a plan to seize control of countries in chaos over corruption with resources to exploit. First he finds a suitable candidate(s) who may already have a background in corruption, but who will allow him to exploit their country in the guise that whatever money he gets will go to his Open Borders Foundation.  (We have all seen how a foundation like the Clinton Foundation, can serve as a piggy bank for personal wealth and other exploitation.)  Soros has found Africa and Central and Eastern Europe to be ripe for his exploitation as well as the oil rich former Soviet Republics of Central Asia..  In Liberia, he found  Harvard educated Ellen Johnson Sirleaf.  Then he made some grants allegedly to wipe out corruption and for charitable purposes.  This was the cover for what came next.  He bankrolled the Sirleaf campaign and when she was elected President, he convince the Nobel Committee to give her the Peace Prize as the first woman in Africa to run a country.  Of course the corruption didn't end.  Government officials were constantly being found to be corrupt, but never brought to trial.  Soros who took partial control of gold and iron mines, convinced Obama to send in American troops for training the Liberian military and for Ebola, as if there was something American troops could do, but bring the virus back to America.  This real reason was to protect the mines from rebel and terrorist violence.  Mrs. Sirleaf had no problem placing her four children in various government positions including her son in charge of Liberia's oil company that then sold drilling rights to Exxon and Chervron for more than $100 million only to have that money disappear and the oil company shut its doors.  Most believe her son pocketed the money.

     In Ukraine Soros did the same thing, this time gaining control of Naftogaz which had always been a source of corruption among oligarchs and represented Ukraine' s major industry.  This may have been the main reason Obama wanted to stop the Shorkin Investigation and have the prosecutor removed.  This explanation has fallen by the wayside as Hunter and Quid Pro Joe make a much better story and the MSM has kept Soros perfidy out of the news as usual.
      Soros continues to undermine governments that oppose Middle Eastern and African immigration. As already noted most of these immigrants have little if any education or skills, diseases, and an unwillingness to adapt to the customs of the country to which they immigrate.  Governments and their citizens are unwilling to bankroll support for immigration.  Unfortunately the EU in Brussels looks at Soros as sort of a savior believing his fake philanthropy is real or they are just bribed.  This forces those countries to look to Russia for support as all of Soros NGOs have been banned in Russia.   Putin can get more by appeasing his oligarchs than even Soros can provide.  Latvia banned them too in 1997, so Soros bought up the country's sovereign debt and now collects $1 million/day.

      I'm surprised that President Trump has yet to have our DOJ go after him.  He is outwardly very anti Trump and his meddling in foreign countries is undermining our foreign policy abroad.  Maybe next term Trump will get more aggressive.  But for now, where is James Bond 007 when we need him.

The Baltimore Syndrome: When Black Lives Don't Matter

      The city of Baltimore has been in the news lately and has been called a failing city.  It is infested with rats, drugs, and garbage that is strewn everywhere.  Crime and especially murder seem to be the rule of the day.  Sadly the name Baltimore can be interchangeable with nearly all of our major cities, especially those that have been run by Democrats, in what seems like forever.
      Why did this happen, and when did it start?  The roots of this problem go back to the post WW2 period in America.  In 1944 FDR signed into law a bipartisan bill designed to help GIs retuning from WW2 and avoid the despair of veterans after WW1.  Educational and housing benefits are the most important for this discussion.  Many retuning GIs took advantage of the no down payment low interest mortgages and combined with the building of an interstate highway system, allowed white veterans to abandon old urban areas and move almost for free into newly built homes in the suburbs, as the GI Bill of 1944 actually favored new housing. Though there were no discriminatory clauses in the legislation, administration of the GI Bill was handled much differently for African American vets, primarily because it was administered by white officials.  In the New York-New Jersey suburbs approximately 70,000 loans were insured by the GI Bill, but less than 100 were for Blacks.  Also with the bill called for free or subsidized education and many returning vets took advantage of this, so many, that colleges and universities were overwhelmed with applicants.  Even traditional black colleges could not accept all that applied.  In addition, party affiliation or at least voting tendencies changed.  Prior to the Great Depression Blacks who voted or who were allowed to vote, mostly in the North, were solidly Republicans.  After all, Abraham Lincoln was the first Republican president and he fought and won the Civil War and freed the slaves with the Emancipation Proclamation.  Democrats, especially in the South represented the KKK and Jim Crow laws. (Interestingly many Black Studies programs neglect to mention Lincoln's party affiliation.) The severity of the Great Depression forced many voting groups to seek change and  Black voters were no different.  By 1936 the number of Blacks voting for either party were about equal, but since that time voting has moved strongly and steadily toward the Democrat Party.  This can be reflected by mayoral elections in our major cities. Chicago has not had a Republican Mayor for 90 years, St. Louis 70 years, and Baltimore and Detroit more than 50 years. New York City has had an occasional Republican mayor and that usually has resulted in a decrease in crime and resurgence of the city.
      Ironically, despite growing support by Black Americans,  parts of FDR's new deal were originally meant to keep Black Americans from participating, such as Social Security and Aid to Dependent Children (ADC), originally meant to help white widows. (Social Security still discriminates against Blacks who have a shorter life span that Whites and because Social Security is a general fund, not individual savings, Blacks are actually funding Social Security for whites.)   Post WW2, Blacks were allowed to participate in ADC and this is the major cause of destruction of the Black family as its rules forced the father out of the home and Uncle Sam now became baby daddy with no restrictions on how many children could be covered, although it was apparent that rules were frequently broken as how else could women produce more children without the real baby daddy being present for at least a little while.
      Post WW2 also saw Black Americans being elected to Congress for the first time since  the Reconstruction Era.  With Whites fleeing the cities, large blocks of Blacks were left behind and so it is very reasonable to assume that more and more Blacks would get elected to office.  In the 1950s Adam Clayton Powell from Harlem was one of two  Black congressmen.  Over the next 60-70 years a number of black men and women have been elected to Congress and the Senate, enough to form a Congressional Black Caucus.  This could have been a great thing for Black Americans and our cities, but it wasn't.  Many Blacks took the same road as many whites, and looked at their election as a means to make money and gain power.  In fact some Black elected officials have become among the wealthiest in their congressional district, if they even live there.  They have learned to build powerful political machines that make it extremely difficult if not impossible to challenge them in an election and as long as they go along with the White Democrat leadership, their position will be safe and get good committee appointments as well as money from the DNC for reelection. Scandal and serious corruption seem the most common way for then to loose an election or decide not to run.  Maxine Waters, who doesn't even live in the district she represents,  now heads the Banking Committee, has had numerous run-ins with the ethics committee on banking and campaign financing issues, but the Ethics committee is a joke.
      Obeying the Democrat leadership has led to puzzling support for issues that are in fact opposite of what would be best for their black constituencies.  Immigration stands out of course.  Why would any Black representative support unbridled illegal immigration?  Since many immigrants will work off the books and for lower wages, they represent serious competition for young Blacks, trying to enter the work force at the lowest level for the first time.  Instead the Black and Democrat leadership push welfare and dependency instead of jobs.  Giving welfare, social security, free education,  and Medicaid to illegal aliens and even legal immigrants only hurts the poor including many Black Americans.  One would think that Black politicians would be the strongest supporters to keep illegals out or have them rounded up and deported, but they are not as they obey and follow the white Democrat leadership, well funded by George Soros and his Open Borders Society. The Black Congressional Caucus also follows the Democrat Party leadership in opposing school vouchers, that would allow bright Black students to go to private schools, rather than failing inner city schools. When Obama eliminated school vouchers, several girls who were in his daughters' classes at Sidwell Friends, considered one of the best private schools in the area, had to return to their failing public schools.  They give the Teachers' Unions , a major source of power and money,  preference over their own constituents.  Corruption is not limited to black politicians, they probably learned these schemes from white politicians, but it isn't as obvious to those living in the wealthy white suburbs that are not lacking for thriving public schools and services. Though Baltimore receives $1.8 billion for education and spends $16,000 per student, fourth highest in the country, the money doesn't reflect quality of education.  Instead through patronage and friendship, over a thousand people are each paid more than a $100k per year as consultants, contractors and administrators.  Proficiency in English and math is so dismal that only one student was proficient in math and none in English, yet there is a 70% graduation rate due to social promotion.  Six students were murdered at one high school.  Lacking education, Baltimore's students wind up in prison and on welfare as they do not have the necessary skills to get a job. To compensate Black students for  providing them with failing educational institutions, affirmative action was created in the 1970s, but even with affirmative action and special preadmission tutoring, college studies can be difficult for many Black Students.
      Sadly,  corruption among Black politicians is a real problem.  William Jefferson, former New Orleans congressman, was flagging down military vehicles, that were rescuing those stranded by Hurricane Katrina,  in order to rescue his furniture and belongings.  He was later found with $90k in literally cold cash in his freezer and convicted of accepting and soliciting bribes.  Adam Clayton Powell,  so long a standard for Black politicians, eventually put his mistress, who was living in Bimini on his payroll, though she never worked or spent a day in Washington, DC. Charles Rangel, who replace Powell and due to longevity became head of the powerful Ways and Means Committee, that formulates tax policy, was found to have neglected to pay his own taxes on income derived from rental property in Puerto Rico.  I  find it very interesting that large sums of money have been voted on to rehabilitate our cities, but very little or nothing gets done and the money just seems to disappear.  In NYC,  $850,000,000 handled by Mayor deBalsio's wife is unaccounted for and this is only the tip of the iceberg.  (HUD under Obama and Julian Castro lost $5 billion that has yet to be accounted for and HRC's state department misplaced $6 billion.)   Almost $2 billion of tax payer money has been given to Baltimore with no improvement and no accountability. Two hundred million was earmarked for the environment, what ever that means.  Baltimore has become even more filthy, rat, crime, and drug infested, and filled with abandoned houses and garbage.  A group of volunteers in a twelve hour period removed 12 tons of garbage.  This begs the question, why couldn't the residents do that.  If it is black on black crime or whether corrupt politicians getting wealthier on the backs of their constituents, Black lives don't seem to matter as much in Baltimore and many big cities.  They only matter when a cop shoots a young Black man.  It's hard to blame young Blacks who are frustrated, having been let down by the people who are supposed to be their advocates.
      This now brings us to Elijah Cummings who has been in Congress forever and represents the most squalid areas of Baltimore.  Through longevity, he now heads the powerful House Oversight Committee and like many congressmen has become very wealthy.  He is also corrupt.  His wife, Maya Rockeymoore, has set up a charity, Center for Global Policy Solutions that sits in he same office as her for profit consulting firm, Global Policy Solutions, LLC and even uses the same phone number and almost the same name. The charity has garnered at least $6.5 million in donations from corporations and self interest groups that have had business before her husband's Oversight Committee such as Google, JP Morgan, and Prudential.  In addition, her for profit was paid $250K in consulting fees from the charity, and that is illegal. and violates tax law  (Maybe she learned this little trick from the Clintons, who use the Clinton Foundation as their own private charity on a much grander scale.)  Meanwhile while Cummings is getting richer, his district is getting poorer.
      What I call the Baltimore Syndrome is infecting many of our great cities, that are failing their citizenry in favor of corrupt politicians and their benefactors. Whether he can turn things around in the face of so much corruption, President Trump deserves a chance.  I wouldn't bet against him.

Michelle Obama Should be the Nominee

      I don't usually agree with Michael Moore about anything, but I have to agree with his most recent out burst, that Michelle Obama should be the Democrat nominee for President of the United States.  After painfully watching two pair of debates, it is hard to find a single candidate that stands out among the two dozen or so that claim to be running.  The main policy that almost all have in common is free stuff, that of course is not really free.  The only difference seems to be who wants to give away more and destroy America.  Now I know that for the primaries and caucuses, candidates have to impress their base, but it seems that it might be difficult for any of them to be able to back track for the presidential election after sticking their necks out so far.  It is also notable how far left the Democrat Party base has come. I think we can thank George Soros and his money for that.
      Currently the leader seems to be former Obama Vice President, Joe Biden, who is one of the oldest and whitest candidates beside Bernie Sanders, who is a little bit older and maybe even whiter.  That the color of their skin.  Bernie is otherwise very very red. Biden has tried to freshen up his appearance with a recent facelift.  The hair plugs have been there for a while. Biden is a life long politician and never ever had a job outside of government and politics. Despite his lengthy political career, he has generally been on the wrong side of almost every issue. His career goes back so far that he can recall working with southern Democrat senators, all of whom were racists.  As the polling leader,  as expected, he has taken the most criticism from other candidates during the debates and this even includes attacking the Obama regime, something that many loyal Democrats could consider heresy.  Biden has always been a master of the gaff and he continues to make them with regularity. He also seems to pause in the middle of a sentence as if he doesn't remember what he wants to say.

      At this point, Biden's chief rival, as far as polling goes, is Bernie Sanders, at 77 the oldest man in the race.  Bernie claims to be a Democrat Socialist and wants free medical care, free education, and just about free everything else plus open borders. His medical care for all naturally includes illegal aliens who he thinks should also get social security.  He also wants criminals in prison to vote.  Imagine a small town located in the same voting district as a large prison and after the votes are tallied, they find that prisoners are the new mayor,  city council, sheriff,  maybe even representative to the state house and one prisoner has gotten more write in votes than any of the candidates on the ballot. (Actually we have a lot of criminals in those offices now.  They are just not in prison yet.)  He has no realistic way of paying for all of his largess, but who cares.  His mantra of tax the rich and corporations isn't going to work, even at 100% tax rate.  Bernie seems to come off as an angry old man, howling at the moon.

      The next level of hopefuls, who are ready to replace Joe or Bernie,  have all been the flavor of the month or day depending on how the MSM wants to support them, only to drop back in the polls after their names, faces, and political agendas have become more well known. They have at least got some colorful nicknames, like Pocahontas, Spartacus, Beto, Mayor Pete (his last name is a tongue twister), and the woman who moaned her way up the ladder.  There is even Sister Moonbeam running as well.  Her mantra is love will solve everything. With more and more states legalizing marijuana, she has a kind of sixties vibe of "turn on, tune in and drop out." Sadly she seems to make the most sense at times.  All believe that apocalyptic anthropogenic global warming is real and that unless we destroy our economy and go back to living as cave men, we are doomed.  There is even a third tier of candidates.  One, a tech entrepreneur wants to give every American $1000 a month whether they work or not, and another, a former Obama cabinet officer,  has a more modest proposal of only $500 per month.  Turn on the printing presses, if either gets elected. Heck turn on the printing presses, if any of them get elected. We would then see the return of the $1,000 and $10,000 bills.  You might need one just to buy groceries.  (It would then be very appropriate for Barack Hussien Obama to replace Woodrow Wilson on the $10,000 bill.) Finally, there is even a fourth tier of candidates, those polling less than 1%. whose careers are washed up, unless they get something out of running for office, like a job on CNN.  I can't remember their names or specific agendas except for one who is the worst mayor in the country, the mayor of New York City, Bill de Blasio, who seems to be more for helping illegal aliens in NYC rather than American citizens.

      Why would Michelle Obama want to join this motley crew of candidates?  She doesn't, she doesn't need to, and she won't.  Instead she will continue running her shadow campaign,  making appearance and speeches everywhere, including magazine covers and establishing an agenda similar, but just to the left of her husband's.  As the results of the primaries and caucuses come in, she will hope that no one candidate gets a majority of delegate votes and that enough candidates have the resolve, the money, and resources to stay in the race.  This means a brokered convention and she, of course, will be prominently waiting in the wings as a compromise nominee.  She will undoubtedly be on the convention program to make a speech before the voting takes place. And of all people, the Democrats at the convention will think she has the best chance of pulling off a miracle by defeating Donald Trump.  She fulfills almost all the necessary categories for Democrats.  She's not old, not white, a socialist, a woman (some think she is a transgender and that wouldn't hurt her in the Democrat crowd), and although some of Barack's legacy is starting to tarnish. he is still the most beloved president by Democrats ever, even more than FDR and JFK who are barely memories to the current crop of Democrats. The question then becomes who would she pick as her VP?  My guess is Tulsi Gabbard, who also fills in many of the necessary slots the Democrats prefer. She's mixed race, young, a woman, and not a Christian, but a practicing Hindu (Muslim would be better). HRC is also hoping for the same course to be the nominee, but she is through as she no longer has the physical or mental fitness for the ruff and tumble primaries and general election campaign, so all but the most hardened Democrat criminals know she's done (stick a pitch fork in her).

My Take on Corruption and theSo Called Mueller Investigsation

      Though the Mueller investigation is over and found that there was nothing that could tie President Trump and his campaign to colluding with the Russian government nor a reason to recommend indictment for obstruction of justice, the Democrats continue to beat a dead horse, hoping this will carry on for at least another 16 months to the 2020 elections.  As usual, this will backfire on them as their agenda seems to primarily be hurting the American people by not passing and contributing to any beneficial legislation.  My own analysis of the investigation is that it was begun to obscure the Democrats own collusion with Russia.  This is a tactic often used by the Democrats

The Democrats are pulverizing a dead horse

      The Democrat  collusion actually began while HRC was Secretary State and allowed the Uranium One deal to go through giving Putin and Russia 20% control of our uranium through a wholly owned Canadian subsidiary of the Russian state owned nuclear company Rosatom.  The Clintons claimed it was just a coincidence that Bill was given a $500K speaking fee to address a group in Moscow and that Russian oligarchs, all of whom made up the BOD of Rosatom, out of the goodness of their heart, gave $145 million to the crooked Clinton Foundation.  In addition HRC and the DNC paid Christopher Steele for a Russian generated dossier claiming all sorts of allegations about Trump in Russia, saying that Putin could use these to bribe and extort President Trump to do his bidding.  This of course begs the question that no one has asked or answered.  If Putin was able to bribe HRC and then allow the salacious Steele dossier to be given to the DNC and HRC via Fusion GPS, a Democrat research resource, and through Marc Elias, an attorney of the Perkins Coie Law Firm, with HRC being a known quantity that would do anything, if the bribe was large enough, why would they want to help Trump, an unknown quantity, win?  It just doesn't make sense.  Although Mueller found Russian interference in the 2016 election process, it had nothing to do with President Trump.  A number of people were indicted, including Russians, none of whom will ever be extradited to the United States for trial, and Gen. Michael Flynn for lying about Turkish representation and George Papadopolus, who was set up by a Russian agent from Malta with the slimmest of a case.  The Russians also paid APCO Worldwide, a lobbying firm, $3 million to lobby CFIUS (Committee for Foreign Investment in the United States) on its behalf to approve the Uranium One deal.  Is it another coincidence that Mueller happened to be head of the FBI at the time and was charged by DOJ attorney Rod Rosenstein to look into the deal? An FBI informant William Campbell, testified before Congress that the Russians wanted to bribe HRC and had tapes to prove it, but then I guess $145.5 million isn't much of a bribe. (Recall that Bill allowed his pal Bernie Schwartz, CEO of Lorel Aerospace, to sell missile guidance technology to the Red Chineses Army in 1996 for only $20 million in illegal campaign contributions.)  In addition the Obama administration were well aware of Russia's attempts to interfere with our elections well before 2016, but did nothing to inform candidate Trump and his team.  Could this be part of a set up?  Then when the DNC was hacked, they blamed it on the Russians and Trump, when everyone knows that a disillusioned Seth Rich downloaded the files onto a thumb drive, sent them to Wikileaks, and was then murdered as a result.  The FBI never examined the Democrat server, but instead relied on the DNC's tech support company Crowd Strike.  Everyone knows that the FBI has the best equipment to check for hacking.
     When Mueller recently testified before Congressional committees on July 24, it was obvious that he served mainly as a figurehead as he sat in on few if any interviews and probably allowed defamed attorney Andrew Weissmann to pick an investigative team nearly all of whom contributed to the Clinton campaign, including Jeannie Rhee who represented the Clinton Foundation.  In fact Mueller showed up at the Congressional hearings with Aaron Zebley, an attorney who represented Justin Cooper, the IT aide who set up and maintained the illegal Clinton server. (You just can't make this up.)  Weissmann may have even made most of the decisions. Mueller shocked us with how little he knew about his team and said that he never heard of Fusion GPS, the research company that obtained the Steele dossier that served as the basis for all of this hogwash and the fraudulently obtained FISA warrants on Carter Page in the first place.  He failed to answer many questions and didn't always know what was in his report.

The Mueller report down in flames 

Has Mueller switched parties?

Has he gone deaf, dumb and blind?

     Knowing before hand that there was really no there there, why did so many put their careers in jeopardy and even risk treason?  There were several reason.  First and foremost HRC and her cronies including Obama, who had much to risk if HRC didn't get elected, feared a Trump presidency.  As an outsider,  he might uncover and wish to investigate and prosecute all of their corruption.  Higher ups in the FBI and NSA also hoped to get jobs, if they helped Clinton, especially Comey.  The corruption was so deep within the DOJ, that it was now learned that they never intended to prosecute HRC.  Comey wrote his July speech, even before she had been interrogated.  Unheard of immunity deals were given to HRC's aides, Cheryl Mills and Helen Samuelson, who were allow to lie and destroy important government property in violation of the Espionage Act and should have negated any immunity deal. Once Trump won, there was no going back.  Reports are soon due from Horwitz the Inspector General of the DOJ and Durham looking into malfeasance by the Obama adminstration as to the origin of the investigation including the dossier and FISA warrants.  A lot of people including Obama, Susan Rice, Valerie Jarrett, Samantha Power, Comey, Lynch, McCabe, Strzok, Page, Brennan and Clapper could be indicted on many charges up to and including treason.
      Of course, the final reason for beating the dead horse even after the report and testimony, was that Democrats and HRC supporters wanted this to serve as a diversion from HRC's and Obama's crimes and corruption. That is the main reason why the Democrats won't accept the obvious continuing to lie and harass the President, hoping for a win in 2020 that would make all of this go away. Unfortunately the Democrats have brought out a circus of candidates, much like the little car that enters the center ring and unloads several dozen clowns.  If the Republicans can reverse the House and build in the Senate, it will be great for the American people.

No milk from a dead cow.

only a few of the clowns

     

The Far Left Is Still Pushing Global Warming

      Its been a while since I last posted, things have been happening quickly and investigations winding up and I had tried not to post another article on global warming.  Unfortunately, the far left is doubling down on global warming that they now call climate change.  Intelligent people are really frightened that the world is coming to an end because of fossil-based fuels and are even seeking psychiatric care.  I sometimes answer questions on Quora and I am asked what can be done to stop the earth from ending in ten years.  We recently learned of AOC's "green new deal" that would destroy capitalism and send us back to the stone age  It amazes me that a poorly educated young socialist could be believed by so many people.
      I am told that I am a climate change denier, that, of course, is not true.  I believe in climate change as it has been going on for millions of years since earth was formed and is primarily due to the earth's relationship with the sun and solar activities.  Therefore, those who believe in apocalyptic anthropogenic climate change are the real deniers of climate change.  In his book published in 1956, Dance with the Devil, Gunther Schwab, an Austrian Nazi, gave use fifty years to stop CO2 or we would be underwater. Interestingly, Schwab tried to document all things wrong that Man is doing to the planet using scientific articles to prove his point.  On global warming, which only occupied two paragraphs in his book, he offered none. The purpose of his book was an expression of anger against America, the West, and capitalism.  The book even had a whole chapter on Nazi-like eugenics.  In the early 1960s, his book was translated into many languages, became widely available and made quite a bit of money from it.   He set up a foundation and placed his pal and fellow Nazi, Werner Haverbeck, in charge of the foundation. Imagine a foundation dedicated to saving the planet run by two Nazis, one who was involved with Hitler Jugen and whose wife was a Holocaust denier.
      Somehow this duo was picked up by the UN in the early 60s and Schwab became something of a consultant to the UN until his death in 2004.  At the UN, he met another America hater, Maurice Strong, who had the guile to force the global warming apocalypse on the world by organizing the first Rio conference in 1972.  Strong passed this on to Al Gore in 1993 as Gore brought Strong taxpayer dollars in one of Strong's scams. Strong and Gore subsequently became partners in business deals in which they could make fortunes off the global warming hoax. Strong was on a shortlist of those to become the next secretary-general of the UN, when an audit uncovered a $970,000 bribe from Saddam Hussien, while he oversaw the "oil for food" program in Iraq.  Eventually Strong and the UN parted ways.  Strong now lives in Beijing and serves as an environmental consultant to the Communist Chinese Government in one of the most polluted cities in the world.
      Now let's look at the argument for AACC.  As early as the 1800's scientists were concerned that industrialization may have an effect on climate.  If it did, they thought that it would be very minor.  This proved the case, that despite massive industrialization, the main effect was environmental.  If CO2 is responsible for warming, then why didn't at least a tiny bump in world temperatures occur immediately, during, or after two major carbon events, the eruption of Mt. St. Helens and the torching of the Kuwaiti oil fields by Saddam Hussien.  A carbon cloud could be seen from space circling the earth.  Some scientists tell us that volcanos also produce sulfur dioxide. and that protects from warming, but if that is the case then why aren't we burning more high sulfur coal that also produces the same sulfur dioxide. Hmm.
      I have lived on the east coast of the United States for forty years and look at the Atlantic Ocean and/or intercostal waterway every day. One would think that if the apocalypse, predicted more than 60 years ago, were well on its way, there would have been an appreciable rise in water levels, but this has not occurred.  Despite all of the models and data by so-called scientists, nothing is happening and much of the data has been found to be inaccurate, purposefully fudged, or just plain wrong.  Recent papers from the UN and NASA have grudgingly admitted that world temperatures are inaccurate as they are being taken in or near an urban setting.  Secondly, there is more Antarctic ice than ever, and finally, the Yacobshavn Glacier in Greenland, which had been receding, is now rapidly growing again.
      There must be some purpose to this madness, so let's look at who is trying to force this garbage down our throats. Leftists and left-leaning governments are the most powerful forces behind this fraud.  Their goals are simple to understand.  They are interested in control and power.  By controlling energy, along with healthcare, and education, the left can control almost 60% of your life.  This will destroy the middle-class and redistribute wealth to the poor and unemployed.  After all, we could never let the poor go without energy or medical care so they would be highly subsidized or given it for free. It is the middle-class who would pay for this through taxes and increased fees.  "Free" education is another means of control.  Remember Obama seized control of the student loan program and now a trillion-dollar is owed and there is talk of just writing it off and putting taxpayers on the hook for it.  Next, we have greedy scientists who now know that governments will pay out a lot of money for climate research.  That money would at least in part dry up if the hoax were fully exposed.  Next, we have anti-Americans and socialists who want to see America punished and become a third world country.  I don't think Al Gore is an America hater, just greedy and stupid.  Finally AOC's "green new deal" is a catastrophe waiting to happen.  Imagine us all becoming vegans, but remember, though we have huge herds of cattle, they have essentially replaced the massive herds of buffalo that roamed the Great Plains.
      Don't let the left confuse you, it is climate change that is apocalyptic and anthropogenic that you are denying, not climate change the phenomenon that has been going on for millions of years.  Also don't confuse the environment or weather with climate.  In the 1970s the media and scientists told us to beware of anthropogenic global cooling,  All of the Great Lakes were frozen over at the same time and for the first time in recorded history.  In the winter of 1978-79, I looked out my window while living in Chicago overlooking Lake Michigan, which appeared to look like a frozen Tundra with piles of ice and snow everywhere.
     Please don't give in to these evil leftists.  They will rob you of your freedom and money and force you to live an unwanted and unnecessary lifestyle.
   

Was There an Insurance Policy, I Smell it with Smollett.

      Dropping all 16 charges against Jussy Smollett, has begun a new controversy in Chicago.  Prosecutor Kim Foxx, who has a  reputation for reducing charges in criminal prosecutions, recused herself after being contacted by a former official with ties to Michelle Obama, but then apparently unrecused herself and dropped the charges and quickly sealed the records.  Much money, time, and resources were spent investigating Smollett's original complaint, that a hate crime had been perpetrated against him, $130,000 according to Chicago Police Chief Eddie Johnson.  To the credit of the often maligned Chicago PD, they did a very thorough investigation and discovered that the hate Crime was a fake. Their investigation uncovered that Smollett had thought up the assault and paid the so called assailants $3500, in order to make a higher salary for his role in Empire.  His selfishness will undoubtedly affect the public's belief of others who are true victims of hate crimes.  The Chicago PD and Mayor Rahm Emmanuel are disgusted with Foxx's action. Smollett still proclaims his innocence even though he had to forfeit his 10K bond.  In addition, Smollett's attorney has hinted that she is planning to sue the City of Chicago for the way the police treated and charged her client.
      This all seems part of Obama's effort to reduce prosecution and sentencing.  I have published previous articles on this  It should also be known that George Soros contributed $400,000 to Foxx's campaign in 2016 in which she defeated two other Democrat candidates including the incumbent by a two to one margin.   Soros has also contributed to the anarchist organization Black Lives Matter.
      Fortunately, the FBI has stepped in and will investigate not only Smollett on mail fraud charges, but also the Foxx hijinks.  An effort is also being made to unseal the documents that Foxx sealed so quickly.  The Smollett incident is just another in a long series of crimes that Obama has encouraged including the drug epidemic as Obama comminuted the sentences of 1700 drug dealers and  the Parkland massacre when an Obama administration official reduced school contacts with the police for students with criminal intent.
    Throughout this misadventure, Smollett has remained defiant and denied his obvious culpability.
Why would he do so, when the entire plot was discovered by police and reported nationally?  It  would seem that a quick plea, with no jail time, a fine, and community service might have silenced his critics.  But maybe, just maybe he had an "insurance policy," a get out of jail free card, so to speak.  We all know that Jussie Smollett is not the sharpest crayon in the box, so maybe he didn't dream up this caper by himself.   Maybe he was promised greater roles at another time,  but if in the unlikelihood that he would be caught he knew he had an "insurance policy."   Of course there would be a short passage of time, before a particular Hollywood producer would hire him, but the increase in pay would makeup for the delay.   He could still accept his award from the NAACP (or NAALCP if you choose).  That would certainly explain his arrogance and defiance in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary.
      What they didn't count on was the FBI coming in and launching both a probe of corruption involving Kim Foxx and mail fraud involving Smollett. He might indeed still have to plead guilty in order to get a fine and community service.  For Kim Foxx, her future could be in doubt.  She better start deleting emails and loosing any incriminating evidence.  She should ask Hillary Clinton for advice.

   
     

Mueller Investigation is Over: What's Next

      The Mueller investigation into collusion by President Trump during the 2016 presidential election with the Russians is finally over after almost 2 years.  Obstruction of justice in the firing of FBI  Director Comes was really never as serious an issue as the MSM made out as the President has the right to hire and fire anyone within the executive branch of government for any or no reason at all. There is little to show for it as far as President Trump is concerned.   Mueller said that no future indictments by him are forthcoming. We did learn that the Russians did play a part by buying space on social media for both candidates and tried to divide the American people by organizing demonstrations for both sides, even at the same time. A number of Russians were indicted, but they will never set foot in an American courtroom.
     Several people very close to the president were indicted in an attempt to gain leverage for charges against the President, but no one could say anything to save himself that could be verified from other sources.  Both Michael Cohen, President Trump's personal attorney, and Paul Manafort, a campaign manager during the election campaign, were indicted and convicted or pled guilty to numerous charges, non related to Russia collusion and will spend time in prison.  Process crimes were claimed for George Papodoupolus and Gen. Michael Flynn for leverage purposes, and very short sentences of 14 days was meted out to the former.  Flynn who apparently cooperated with Mueller's investigation is still awaiting sentencing for lying to the FBI.
     Some material was turned over to very liberal, anti Trump, prosecutors for the Southern District of New York and it  may still do some investigating into other campaign irregularities, but similar violations by other candidates in previous elections have either been dropped, ignored, or treated with a fine.
      For two years, the MSM continued to talk about Russia, until recently as it was quickly becoming apparent that no collusion or obstruction existed and now that Mueller's investigation is complete and no high crimes and misdemeanors by our President have been found.  Nothing to impeach him has been found to exist so they ware weeping like little babies as they did on election night when it became obvious that Donald Trump had defeated Hillary Clinton and was to become our next POTUS.  CNN has patted themselves on the back for their biased and fake coverage.  CNN is becoming more and more significant as a news source everyday.
      So what's next.  Both Adam Shiff, Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, and  Jerry Nadler, Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, want to carry out their own investigations.  Nadler has already sent out 81 subpoenas and Shiff wants to subpoena Mueller himself, claiming that Mueller is hiding evidence.  Shiff has been stating for the past two years that he has evidence of collusion, but has yet to produce one shred.  Now his removal as head of the Intelligence Committee has become an issue as he has lied continuously to the American public. Most Americans will look at this in a very negative way in the wake of Mueller investigation, knowing that these two are wasting time and money and it is time to move on and do something productive for the people of the United States, who they are supposed to represent.  Those far left crackpots like Maxine Waters and her ilk, who have been screaming to impeach the president, even look more like crazy people shouting at the moon. Speaker Pelosi should rein them in, if she can, as they will only be perceived as a negative come the 2020 elections, especially by moderates and independents.
      On other factor may comes into play.  The Mueller investigation has managed to divert and delay what may be the real crimes of the 2016 election campaign, namely those committed by the Clinton Campaign, Clinton Foundation, and high ranking Justice, FBI, and official in the Obama Administration, including President Obama himself.  The Steele Dossier has served as the basis for this investigation and despite it not being verifiable was used in obtaining FISA warrants to wiretap and unmask American citizens at an alarming rate.  A number of high ranking members of the FBI have already been singled outs as potential targets for indictments and this could extend to the DOJ,   some Obama administration officials, and even Obama himself.  The plot  to overthrow a sitting American President may have serious consequences, as this is certainly considered treason. It is up to the newly appointed Attorney General William Barr on whether to proceed, possibly appointing a new special consul to look into this can of worms.
      In the end, President was correct.  His campaign was indeed spied upon by the Obama administration.

Stop the Nonsense

      I thought that I could stop writing about anthropogenic global warming and climate change, but  a sense of urgency due to the coming of a prolonged cold spell is driving the left to make ridiculous claims and demand destructive solutions to a nonexistent problem.  False information is being driven by far left politicians seeking  money and power, but also by unethical scientists seeking more research money and willing to cook the books so to speak. A policy of confusion is being used to force fake science on the public, and to a certain extent, it is succeeding.  Some are teaching this lie to our children in the name of science and documentaries I see on TV often mention it in passing.

      When discussing climate change, the left conveniently leaves out the word anthropogenic implying that all climate change is due to Man and that deniers of anthropogenic climate change are deniers of climate change in general.  In reality, climate change is a naturally occurring phenomenon that has been going on for millions of years and, unless you skipped your fourth grade science class, due to the Earth's relationship with the Sun and solar activity.  Things haven't changed.  As early as the 19th century, during the beginning of the industrial revolution, some scientists predicted that industrialization may have a very slight effect on the climate, but it wasn't until 1956 that a Nazi named Gunther Schwab predicted apocalyptic anthropogenic global warming was going to destroy the Earth within 50 years in his fictional novel Dance With the Devil.  The book was written as an attack on capitalism and America, as he blamed both for the defeat and suicide of his beloved Hitler.   By the early 1960s the book had gained enough popularity that anti Americans had decided that it could be used as fact rather than fiction, ignoring the chapter on Nazi like eugenics. This included the UN and a double dealing Canadian at the UN named Maurice Strong.  Strong who ironically had made his billions in Canadian oil, gas, and coal, organized the first Rio Conference and continued to push anthropogenic global warming via the UN as its driving force.  Eventually, he found the perfect person to spread these lies to Americans, namely Al Gore.  The two have partnered on several projects included the now failed Chicago Carbon Exchange.  Strong's veracity came under attack when it was discovered he accepted a $997K  bribe from Saddam Hussein during the oil for food program imposed by the first Bush Presidency and continued under Clinton.  Strong had been on the short list to become Secretary General of the UN, but instead he was banished to the Peace University in Costa Rica to stay out of the limelight.  Now he lives in the most polluted city in the world, Beijing, as an environmental advisor to the Chnese government,  claims to be a communist, and partners up in deals with George Soros and Al Gore to destroy the American economy. 

      I don't think Gore wants to destroy America, but I think he is a willing dupe in the conspiracy, especially since it has made him very rich and rescued him from obscurity.  In his case, it is pure greed.  His 97% consensus  of all scientists was found to be based on a questionnaire sent out by grad students to selected scientists, and only those returned were counted.  Much of the data determined by models and some climate scientists  like that at East Anglia University was found to be faked and more and more important climate scientists are coming out against anthropogenic global warming.  That is why its proponents and leftists keep moving the goal posts back.  Their apocalyptic predictions just don't seem to happen.  More responsible scientists predict only very moderate ocean rises in the next 50 years. Now we are told we have 12 years left to save the planet according to New York socialist Congresswoman Alexandria Ocosio-Cortez  She has introduced a Green New Deal in which all we have to do is kill all the cows, stop driving cars and trucks using fossil fuels, give up air and sea travel, and even stop having children as some radicals in England have recommended.  After all, who wants to bring children into the world to pollute the world,  contribute to the problem, and who are going to die in 12 years anyway.  Communist Mayor of New York City, De Blasio has recommended that we start by instituting meatless Mondays to get used to doing without in order to save the planet.  The $900 million his wife can't seem to find might be a reason he wants us to do without. We have just experienced a horrific event in New Zealand by a radical from a group with admiration for Communist China and belief that immigrants contribute to global warming, so it was necessary to murder 49 of them.  

      If what I have said so far has not convinced you that anthropogenic global warming is a hoax please read an article published on climatedepot.com on October 28, 2016 by Marc Morano, summarizing the argument against anthropogenic global warming and multiple books and articles by scientists who not only debunk the myth of anthropogenic global warming, but predict the coming of a mini ice age.  

Bribery vs Affirmative Action

       The MSM has been abuzz over the lastest college admissions scandal.  Some are calling it another example of white privilege totally gone awry.  It seems that wealthy parents using a phony charity as a cover have been paying loads of cash to get their mostly undeserving children into prestigious schools that they otherwise probably would have been denied admission.  In some cases very bright students would be paid to take SAT and/or ACT college entrance examinations, assuring a high score, worthy of admission.  Some were done through outright bribes to college admissions officers or to athletic coaches to request that a student be admitted to play on a college team. Photoshopped pictures of the head of a student involved  placed on that of someone playing the sport and on an athletic body were sometimes included.  In most instance that child never even played the sport.  The money was funneled through a phony charity set up by Richard Singer to at least give parents a tax write off.  Over all about $25 million was paid into this scheme.
      The FBI in operation "Varsity Blue" uncovered the scheme and has indicted more than 50 individuals  on a variety of chargers including money laundering and tax evasion.  Since wealthy parents were involved who were mostly white, the MSM has looked at this a white privilege gone completely off the deep end.  Think of it, children being admitted to prestigious colleges for which they probably would not be admitted otherwise. Even several Hollywood liberal actresses have been indicted. These cheaters have taken the places of other applicants who are more qualified according to admission standards to matriculate at these universities.  Law suits by students denied admission have started to pop up.
      But colleges have always admitted students who did not meet the academic standards meant for their average admission..  The student athlete is a good example.  At least these students may earn large sums of money for the university totaling in the millions of dollars.  Although grading scandals occasionally arise, most universities have a means to make students eligible with mandatory study halls, tutoring, and class attendance monitoring as the student athlete can't earn tons of monet for the university, if he is academically ineligible.  The money the University receives from ticket sales, bowl games, and happy alumni is used for scholarships and other school projects.  Legacy students may also see standards eased a bit, especially if their parent or grandparent are regular donors, the more donated the better the chance of securing admission.
      There are other ways to cheat.  President Obama was able to transfer to Columbia University from Occidental even though he had a B- average,  using his Indonesian passport to secure admission and access to scholarship money as a foreign student.
      The most glaring example of the bending of admission standards is affirmative action. Liberals have decided that even though their efforts at improving education for minorities has failed, it just doesn't matter.  Bussing to integrate mostly segregated schools failed, because it not only wasted money that could have been used for books, supplies, teachers' salaries on bussing itself, but de facto segregation within the school house occurred, as newly arriving minority students needed to be placed in classes in which they could compete.  In most cases, their previous education had failed to keep pace with those of whiter students so they were behind through no fault of their own.  Although some bright and determined students could be move into normal classes as their education progressed many could not catch up and so forced bussing is considered a failure.  Affirmative action at all levels placed students who were less qualified ahead of those that would otherwise be admitted.  The United States Supreme Court in 5-4 decisions has sided with affirmative action, though a limit on for how many years it should go on was discussed.  Realistically though, why should skin color be a better indicator for admission than money.  After all money allows the University to build better dorms and classrooms and hire top professors.
      Now I'm not saying that bribing ones way into a university is the equivalent of affirmative action, far from it as the former is illegal and those involved should be and are being prosecuted.  Besides the obvious that has already been mention, all minority students are tagged as affirmative action whether they are or not. It also demonstrates that the liberal approach to education has been a failure.