PELOSI AND POLITICAL VIOLENCE

 

Mathew (26:52): Put up thy sword into its place: for all they that take the sword shall perish with the sword. 

Sadly, we learned today (October 28, 2022) that Mr. Paul Pelosi (husband to Nancy Pelosi, US Speaker of the House) was attacked in the early morning hours at his San Francisco home . The story is still unclear but an intruder, a 41 year old male illegal immigrant and homeless resident of SF, with a long record of  crime, broke into the rear of the Pelosi family brick home in the early morning hours —for some unknown purpose.  When confronted by Mr. Pelosi who had called 911 and may have carried a hammer for protection, confronted the intruder, and at that point a physical confrontation broke out, just as the police arrived. They were unable to prevent the attack on Mr. Pelosi, but did witness the struggle over the possession of the hammer which was used by the intruder—and witnessed by the police—to seriously batter the elderly Pelosi.  

We all wish Mr. Pelosi a rapid and full recovery. We should all be safe from violence. 

BUT:

On violence and crime, when the Democrats thought it was to their political advantage, too often  they looked the other way, condoned, or  remained silent or ignored these acts. In the case of Mr. Paul Pelosi being attacked in his own home, the Democrat chorus and main stream media are attempting to paint the nation and the GOP as culpable.  Nothing can be further from the truth. 

Let us recall the Democrats very recently claiming that urban riots and frightening street violence were only “legitimate demonstrations”.  That kind of response only encourages violence.  Then too, their own progressive, Democrat DA’s happily embraced a formal policy of “no cash bail” and intentionally set aside  prosecutions of  felonious, often violent criminals—-These elements were immediately released back into the street to commit more violent acts.  Then too, these same Democrats argued that the homeless who committed violent crimes should be “excused from culpability” based on their “disadvantaged” state.  ( in this case they uncharacteristically “threw the book” at the perpetrator. But some level of “equal justice” would have been appreciated by those ordinary folks who suffered from very similar violence at the hands of other homeless and deranged criminals.) 

During the furious and fearful  months-long, deadly BLM riots, when demonstrators burned buildings, defaced historic sites and perpetrated murderous attacks on civilians and on police, the Dems excused these acts of violence as the result of “institutional racism”. The smash and grab” mobs which have plagued our cities and small businesses were the direct result of Democrats ignoring or condoning violence and permissive policing, and “defund the police” laws and policies.All these acts of violence  ignored, disregarded and unpunished by the Democrats as “only poor folk taking what they needed”contributed to the surge in violence and disrespect for our laws we are presently experiencing. 

Democrats ignored our border crisis and the violence it engenders.  They ignored, then lied about, and defended the illegal entry, human trafficking, murder, torture and rape and other violent acts committed along the gaping wide-open southern border, claiming the misguided policy of President Biden reverting  to a “more humane” plan than that of the last administration was a “success”. 

Then too the Democrats simply ignored violent and illegal demonstrations opposing the Court’s pending decision on Roe v Wade. These noisy, threatening acts taking  place in front of the private homes of  Conservative SCOTUS members were other acts of violence condoned by Democrats which all contributed to the state of lawlessness we are presently experiencing . 

The left squealed in delight when an attempt (foiled by police) was made on the life of conservative SC Justice Cavanaugh. They ignored and downplayed the attempted murder of Congressman Scalice and wounding of other GOP members as they gathered to play a baseball game.  The violent, vicious  attack on Senator Ron Paul was widely ignored by the Democrats. And the widely reported comments by Speaker Pelosi’s own daughter who posted her opinion that the attack on Paul was “justified” was never criticized or censured as  an example of encouraging or“supporting violence”.   ( No apology was ever offered Senator Paul by the the Speaker for her daughter’s violence-encouraging  statements).  

Our recent history is rife with Democrat leaders encouraging rioters, violent demonstrations and violence. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, herself,  has recently revealed her own violent nature by publicly and proudly reaffirming her desire to “punch President Trump in the face” after the January 6,  DC demonstration and riot.   No one has ever sanctioned or even criticized the many violent statements made by civilian Democrat supporters such as the now infamous actor Robert DeNiro, who regularly publicly  threatened to “punch Trump in the face and him beat up” on Trump , or the now infamous “severed head” of President Trump carried by comedienne Kathy Griffin on stage..  

One exceptionally violent Democrat congressional  member stands out in relief.  After the May 25 killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Congresswoman Maxine Waters encouraged demonstrators to “get more confrontational” , she stirred up a crowd with violent threats, claiming that she was going to “take out President Trump” (Oct 20, 2017).  She advocated and advised demonstrators to harass any member of the Trump Cabinet encountered in a restaurant or store to “create a crowd,”  “get in their face” and “push back on them” .  She traveled across state lines to encourage riots that led to violence and community destruction.  She was eventually sanctioned by an embarrassed Congress for her violence..but to no avail, she has continued her violent speech in Congress .  

And let us not ignore the embarrassing statements of the chief advocate of violence himself, President Biden who has too often  encouraged such acts with his intemperate speech,  “name calling” and epithets ( on several infamous occasions labeling the 74 million who voted for Mr Trump in the last election “semi fascists”).   

The way I see it,  the Democrats have encouraged, accepted or ignored violence when it favored their political or ideological agenda. Sadly, they opened a Pandora box of evil outcomes with this policy.  Our cities have all seen dramatic surges in violence behavior.  Crime statistics are up across the nation. Their political agenda to maintain power has engendered a fearful, ugly  spike in US violence, lawlessness, and chaos which has in this recent case (an attack on the innocent and elderly spouse of Speaker Pelosi) come back to bite them in their backsides.  

But one does not have to be a MENSA candidate to clearly see who is responsible for encouraging and condoning violence when it serves their purposes . And being exposed to the effects and results of this failed policy for more than 20 months now, the US electorate is ready to remove them from power.  The nation’s electorate has turned on them with abhorrence for the frightening surge in crime.  This fear and aversion of continuing policies which have caused this descent into chaos and criminality. The realization of their many failures over the last two years are the main causes of their present and justified weakness in the polls.  

Let’s all hope that Paul Pelosi has a rapid recovery, and that the ideologies in the Biden White House have learned a lesson from St Mathew—about the dangers of living—- and dying by the sword. 

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STEALTH CANDIDATES: FETTERMAN- AND BIDEN AND THE MEDIA COVERUP

 STEALTH CANDIDATES AND POLITICAL COLLUSION BY MEDIA

The Fetterman vs Oz debate was sad and unpleasant to watch.  Though as an out of state observer I was not able to view it in its entirety —what was revealed about Fetterman was obvious, even on outlets which were sympathetic to Fetterman such as CNN and MSNBC.  Fetterman was at times clearly unable to understand the questions put to him and in the clips I saw unable to respond coherently.   At one point he made a complete retraction of an earlier position -statement on fracking which had been widely reported previously. Was he aware of this? Was it purposeful? Or was this the result of irreversible brain trauma?  One can not be sure.    

The lack of transparency regarding the medical circumstances affecting a candidate for one of the most prestigious and powerful positions in the State of Pennsylvania and in our nation’s government is shocking.  How could such a situation have occurred?  Why has the “Fourth Estate” abandoned its essential responsibility to Democracy?  

The scandal of the Fetterman Oz debate is that it is clear now that the people were intentionally kept in the dark.  The Democrats and their media activists colluded to hoodwink the people of Pennsylvania. They kept the extent and seriousness of this man’s  medical condition a secret so as to manipulate an election.  Perhaps we can expect such behavior from the candidate and his close advisors..but it becomes a serious threat to our democracy when major news organizations act in concert to control what information the electorate should be exposed . That outcome is what we may expect from dictatorships and communist nations.   

Just like our 46th President, Joe Biden, Mr Fetterman is a stealth candiate.  Have we learned nothing over the last twobyears?  The 46th President has proved by his missteps, his actions and abject failures to us all the awful danger of presidential stealth candidates and the sad, dangerous outcomes when the all powerful modern main-line media and a political party cooperate to control the story line..  

Joe Biden was kept in the basement of his Delaware estate for months prior to his election in 2020.  The media and insiders knew of his mental frailty, manifest evidences of family corruption, and age-related mental and physical shortcomings, but either buried reporter’s stories, lied, or simply ignored evidences that should have been reported..  The result of this unholy alliance between media and politics has been a nightmare presidency.  Joe, the “media approved stealth candidate” not only created a disastrous economic mess at home, with unprecedented inflation, racial unrest, violent street crime, a border and immigration catastrophe, gasoline and heating oil shortages, turmoil among our former allies, but also stirred up a world wide economic and military disaster which led to hot war and a potential nuclear exchange in Eastern Europe.  The media organizations that hid the family corruption and mental and physical weaknesses of this candidate prior to the election in 2020 are in good part responsible for the nightmare results of this man’s first two years in office.  Now in Pennsylvania two years later they were ready to repeat their perfidy. 

The scandal of the Pennsylvania senatorial election follows the same drastic course.  In Pennsylvania as in 2020 the candidate (after a serious stroke and other life threatening  medical conditions) was hidden away, kept incommunicado, his medical records kept secret.   Fetterman’s handlers avoided interviews with journalists who might reveal his actual condition or ask probing questions.  But even when interviewers were chosen carefully,—as when NBC New’s Dasha Burns (not a conservative or MAGA reporter) was given access to the candidate, and stated after an interview with Fetterman: “it was not clear that (the candidate) was understanding our small talk conversation”. Bash’s colleagues in the “collusion-media” came out in force to slime their colleague—claiming the NBC reporter was “prejudiced”, or  “apparently unable to make small talk”, was  lying, or was simply incompetent.  Reporters who stepped out of line and told the truth were viciously attacked. 

Let’s put the blame where it is deserved.  We as a nation threaten by powerful competitors and economic difficulties can not afford “stealth candidates”.   They are an existential threat to our nation. We are desperate for  a free, unbiased press —one not tied to either party—which will inform the public honestly—so they can learn the truth, about those who want to serve and then vote intelligently. 

TRUMP: VICTIM OF POLITICAL HARASSMENT ?

OR IS IT ONLY DEMOCRATS TRYING TO ELIMINATE A POTENT CANDIDATE 

One cannot read a newspaper, or turn to the TV without hearing of another  criminal or civil charge against just one specific and very well-known individual.  It is a phenomenon of such unusual ferocity  that  one is unable to recall any similar situation in our history.   Our nation’s past is rife with justified national efforts to bring to court major criminals and evil doers such as: Jesse James (1847-1882), John Dillinger (1903-1934), Al Capone (1899-1947) and even more recently Pablo Escobar (1949-1993).   But none of these efforts  to charge (or capture) these criminals ever attained the national level of unified collusion and fanaticism one observes in recent (unsuccessful) attempts to charge former President Donald Trump with some crime—anything will do.  

What is the motivation?   It seems unwarranted.  The former president served for four years, and brought a period of relative peace abroad, no threats of “hot wars” or of fearful nuclear holocaust, no expensive ($70 billion dollar) outlays for a costly proxy war in Eastern Europe.  At home we had the benefit of a secure border, low taxes, low inflation, inexpensive gasoline and heating fuels, low crime rate,  as well as high employment, and in general, a period of relative peace and prosperity.  We were better off then indeed. 

But being a successful  President does not protect one from politically motivated attacks and malfeasance. The many and varied charges and allegations follow:  

1 The FBI conducted a ugly and fear-filled night raid at former President  Trump’s Mar a Lago home in Florida to collect documents the national archivist claims belongs in Washing DC.  The crux of the matter is an on going disagreement as to what presidential documents belong to the former president and which ones belong in the national archives.  The raid of the President’s home and riffling through his personal and private papers was widely publicized . The FBI leaked  information much of the data to the press which joyfully con noted lurid allegations indicative of  impropriety or illegality.  

2 In New York, a civil suit brought by NY, Democrat AG Letitia James alleges  that the Trump Organization over-valued the appraisal of their real estate properties in that State, when applying for loans to area banks. The investigators allege that these subjective appraisals were examples of fraud.  

3.Another investigation in NY revolves around the charge that the Trump family company paid organization executives a “compensation bundle” which included higher “fringe benefits” in the mix  so as to avoid taxes on actual cash income.  

4. In Washington DC the House of Representatives is investigating the Jan 6 riot at the  capital . The Congressional Committee (“Jan 6 Committee) is  loaded (7 to 2) with Democrats and two well-known GOP political opponents of the former president. The  focus of the “committee” has been to attempt to support allegations that the former president, somehow had the evil thought of “supporting or encouraging the rioters.”  The tenor of the this committee, its timing, its news releases, and its media hype give it all the appearances of a show trial or kangaroo court.  Such courts—like the Jan 6  Committee— typically offer: no due process, no cross examination of witnesses, and are conducted for obvious propaganda purposes, and with a predetermined  outcome of guilt. The Jan 6 Committee fits this definition precisely.  

4. In Georgia, the former president is being investigated for a telephone call he made to the Georgia, Secretary of State, Brad Raffensberger.   In the election-night call, Mr Trump is alleged to have urged the Secretary of State  to “find 12,000 votes” to overcome  an apparent lead by Joe Biden in that state.   The alleged crime is an assumed intention to “interfere with and election”. 

5. In Westchester County, NY  local officials are investigating whether the Trump  organization misled local officials on the value of a golf course. In this case, the Trump organization is alleged to have reduced the value of the property to incur lower local taxes.

6. Again in Washington DC,  that  city is suing Mr Trump’s  inaugural committee claiming that after the 2016 election win, the committee had over-paid the candidate’s  own family business for space used at the Trump Hotel during the January 2017 inaugural celebratory event.  

7. Mr Trump is also defending himself against a charge of rape by a woman who claims Mr Trump (the period of time this occurred was well before he was a candidate) attacked her in the fitting room of a woman’s clothing store after a brief encounter.  There were no witnesses. 

What is going on here?  Harassment? Or is Mr Trump simply a bad guy as the legacy press and some TV commentators would have you conclude?  

In search of such answers I often go back to a comment made by the long-term former Prime Minister of Germany, Ms Angela Merkel.  Ms Merkel recalled that as a young girl, interested in current events, and living in Communist East Germany, she had as her only “news” source the local propaganda tabloid (i.e. Neues Deutschland). Aware that this propaganda sheet was attempting to control her thinking rather than inform her, she explained how she learned to deduce the valid information by “reading between the lines” so as to learn of the real world beyond the Iron Curtain.   

It is sad to report that here in the USA, after the Biden Administration’s rise to power, and the collaborative/collusive  relationship  it has with the news media, we find ourselves, as citizens, in a similar predicament.  To understand what is really going on we must “read between the lines” to interpret the reality from the propaganda generated too often by the  legacy press, and TV news programs. Thus like young Ms Merkel in a communist state decades ago we are forced to interpret what is reported but ignore the face value of the reporting.  Sadly our news organizations like other organs of propaganda attempt to control their readers rather than inform them. 

So why has this former servant of the state and effective president been hounded and investigated (can I say “crucified”) by almost every over-ambitions, over-eager State, or city Attorney General, author eager to sell copies of lurid stories (no need for truth)  as well as the US Congress and the Democrat party?  

What can we glean from the “between the lines” real information?  

The answer is Mr’ Trump controls a huge block of votes!  Trump lost the 2020 election while winning the loyalty of a huge block of 74 million voting citizens.    He won more votes than any other GOP presidential candidate in recent history.  This massive voting group represents a huge hurdle for any Democrat candidate to overcome.!  The fanatic, febrile, feverish, frantic attempts at investigations, and allegations of impropriety can only be the insidious effort to eliminate Mr. Trump from competition.  The host of claims are clearly “trumped up”.   Mr. Trump, with his loyal 70+million voters, can fill a 10.000 person rally venue at the drop of a hat. He  is a monumental threat to any candidate the Democrat party can field.  To Democrats Mr. Trump is an existential threat who must be eliminated at any cost.  Using the power of the FBI, the Justice Department and with the collusion of the media they are simply attempting to clear the 2024 field of a potent candidate.   

The Democrats fear the US voter.  Using their present power of  political office they would deny a large percentage of US voters the choice of their preferred candidate.  Democrats are manipulating  the system prior to an election, so as to eliminate a candidate they can not defeat.  That is not how our system should work 

AMERICAN DEMOCRACY—WHAT HAS GONE WRONG?

 DO WE LIVE IN A FOTISMENOCRACY?

What is wrong with American “Democracy”?

It is clear to any observer of the American scene that a good part of the US electorate has no respect for the political preferences of those (75 million) in the other strata of society. 

The intellectual elites are advocates of the idea that our “democracy” is some sort of oligarchic system. 

An oligarchy is a government by the “oligos”  the “few”.  But I propose here a new more valid term: I call it the fotismenocratic  system or government by the (“fotismenos”  the enlightened).    In a fotismenocracy the elite, the academics, the “enlightened” and the politically connected govern the regular folks.  

These fotismenocrats love to pepper their speeches with the term “democracy”, they even call themselves “democrats”, but they never knew or now have forgotten what the word “democracy” means! 

The  prefix “demos” of that Greek-coined concept means- “people”—all the people. The  ancient Hellenes held that the “demos” held the source of power to govern.   The basis of this concept of Hellenes is that we are all politically equal—those with college degrees and those who work on the farm, in a small business, in a garage, or a factory.  All of us have our own political, familial, economic and social preferences about governing.  In our democracy all these individuals deserve respect and the right to express their political will.  The elites must be reminded that democracies take the power to govern from all the people…not only those from one class or one intellectual or educational stratum.  

This concept of a “fotismenos-ocracy” is a pernicious one. It leads its misguided adherents to  hubris and ultimately to evil deeds such as stuffing ballot boxes, or dumping  voting evidences of certain voting groups into a nearby creek, or miscounting votes, or editors shelving stories or government judicial agencies ignoring their oaths of office to act impartially,  etcetera, etcetera.  They feel no guilt  about these un-democratic acts of bias, since the fostismenocrats fully believe that they are “saving the nation” from the ignorant, “deplorables”, “semi-fascists” —the  unenlightened. They are wiser, they follow “the science” (their interpretation of it) , they are educated, he  enlightened, and as such they are self-righteously convinced they have the right to ignore their oaths of office or professional ethics, or the law to save” the nation from the unenlightened. 

It is now apparent that they must we be reminded that in a democracy—the people rule—all the people!  Those in the majority—they  get the opportunity to make the rules—not necessarily those who claim to be “enlightened”. 

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WAR MONGER JOE BIDEN: HOISTED WITH HIS OWN PETARD

 Ironic reversal or poetic justice was well known in Elizabethan England…and was often used in comedy and drama. In Shakespeare’s Hamlet (Act 3, Scn 4) , the protagonist Hamlet discovers that there is a plot on his life by Claudius and resolves to let the plotter—the “engineer”  be “hoist with his own petard”.  (A petard was a small bomb or charge that was used by ‘engineers” in war to blow up obstructions such as entrances to buildings or to create openings in stone walls during a siege. To be hoist with one’s own “bomb”(petard)  was an ironic reversal and an example of juicy poetic justice. In such a case the instigator of harm is harmed himself.  

Joe Biden and his team of incompetents in the White House are now experiencing an ironic reversal of fortune, or  poetic justice, as the results of their war mongering  in Eastern Europe comes into better focus. Their polices rather than weakening their presumed “enemy” led to scarcity and high prices of oil and gas.  The shortage of this essential commodity has caused  great  harm to themselves and to allied nations.  As a result we now all suffer from inflation, and are threatened existentially by a potentially nuclear war that did not have to occur.  That foreign policy harm has become a political liability at home which may lead to reversals at the polls.  These “engineers’ of disaster  created an inflationary spiral, caused an incipient recession and a horrible war in Eastern Europe which threatens to expand, perhaps into a global war.

The poor judgement goes back to the  Obama foreign policy team who foolishly helped precipitate the instability in Ukraine.  President Obama supported the expansion of NATO to Putin´s front door and encouraged the unseating of a legitimately elected pro-Russian president in Ukraine. Obama using subversive secret agents, supplied with bags of cash, encouraged and paid for  an uprising in Ukraine —on Putin’s very doorstep.  When the eastern provinces (the Donbas and others ) rejected these pro-western, progressive policies, designed to create an armed-to-the-teeth military outpost, and a liberal pro-American regime,  fighting broke out in the east, in regions bordering Russia.  After several months of conflict, a peace agreement was proposed in 2014 which legislated policies for Kyiv that would have  permitted these mostly Russian speaking provinces greater political and economic autonomy.   Kyiv agreed to the peace deal.  But  with US financial and military support pouring in, their leaders found it more profitable to ignore the agreement they made with the Donbas and the Russians and take the financial offers in cash, bribes and military largess the US was offering— and forget the peace agreement they signed.  The abandonment of the Donbas agreement  festered in the Russian craw.  The Biden team was  purposely poking  its finger in the eye of the Russian bear.  It seemed to many observers a policy  unwarranted and dangerous.   

In February of this year, Vladimir Putin made a show of military force in an effort to change the status quo.. President Biden did nothing to respond. He ignored his supposed  role as senior world diplomat—seeming to welcome the conflict.  Instead of acting as world leader, he turned over any attempts at diplomatic solutions to minor actors such as French President Macron—and let the dangerous situation fester.  When fighting did break out, and the reality of perhaps a long war and its impact on Europe became manifest, Biden remained out of the loop and further attempts at diplomacy were made by President Macron.  In the end,  Russians and Ukrainians on their own, did come close to a diplomatic solution—a peace plan agreeable to both.  But  Joe Biden and his hawkish allies in the EU and UK (specifically Boris Johnson) convinced Ukrainian President  Zelenskyy to abandon any diplomatic solution.  Biden and Johnson appeared to preferred war to peace.  

The Biden team was determined to use the excuse of the Russian invasion as a means to attack and bleed the Russians and  to weaken them both militarily and economically. 

What could have been the motivation  for this seemingly dangerous and foolish action?  Perhaps such a response  is the standard behavior of all world hegemons, like the USA.  World powers  will act to destroy any political entity that might some day threaten their own hegemony.  

In this case they encouraged a war and used the Ukrainians as“cannon fodder” for war.  Their plan was to batter the Russians with a bloody “ram” of Ukrainian young men and women (and Ukrainian citizens).  The foolish Ukrainians or their complicit leaders led them into this morass of  death and destruction.  The US and EU would supply all the military hardware and the Ukrainians would supply the young men and women that would fight and die in this war for the old leaders who sat in plush leather bound seats in DC and Brussels. 

Joe, not the sharpest knife in the draw as a young man, is now approaching 80 years old and some observe evidences of mental frailty, but somehow he led the younger and “wiser” leadership in the UK and EU into following his lead like lemmings over the cliff into economic and possible nuclear conflict.  Where are the adults over there?   Attempting to weaken Russian economically, they found that the result of their acts resulted in the collapse of their own economies. Today, the EU and UK  are threatened not only with economic disaster and decline,  but with nuclear fallout should Russia feel so threatened that it unleashes its nuclear arsenal—the largest in the world.  

This disaster to the “engineers” setting their “petard” is an example of good old poetic justice—or ironic reversal.  The instigators of war are now more harmed and impacted by their belligerent acts than their opponent.  They have been “raised upon” “(blown up)  on their own petard (bomb) as per Shakespeare. 

Sanctioning Russian oil and gas…has not worked. 

Fossil fuels power 80% or more of world homes and industries. Oil and gas shortages have generated higher prices.  Russia is selling its oil and gas to others, its income on its oil and gas is now for sale at the higher prices, caused by Biden’s plan to “sanction” Russia and cut world gas and oil supplies.  Scarcity has caused the prices to rise.  At home, Joe Biden (after cutting the fossil fuel industry off at the knees on the first days of his presidency) has now attempted to tamp down gasoline prices (and inflation) by dumping 2 million barrels of oil a day into the world market.  This Biden oil is not from our own domestic suppliers,  it is  drawn (illegally and expensively ) from our national oil reserve. 

Prices did fall as a result. But OPEC does not like low prices for its “black gold” product. It has in response reduced its own production by 2 million bbl per day.  As a result, while the US and Europe shun Russian oil purchases at Biden’s behest,  the price of this essential commodity rises  The weak and incompetent leaders  in the EU, where there are no massive oil reserves to tap, are suffering a massive level of inflation, and drastic shortages of fuel for winter.  

The war has even encouraged the reactivating of coal fired plants in Germany and in Poland, overturning the green energy goals for limiting carbon reduction for many years to come.. 

How could these leaders be so easily hoodwinked by Biden?

BIDEN EXPERIMENT IN RADICAL PROGRESSIVISM- ABJECT, UTTER FAILURE

President Biden’s radical agenda—an experiment with America— has been an utter and unmitigated failure. Biden was elected in 2020 by a nation in the throes of a pandemic, and won with questionable election practices in some states with the slimmest of margins.  The electorate gave the new president no mandate for change.  Yet he forged ahead to institute a fringe-left agenda based on far-left, socialistic, radical, economic and social experiments almost all abandoned in the 1940 and 50s as impractical and unworkable.    

His policies on energy, the economy, the pandemic, domestic issues, immigration and foreign policy have all blown up in his face.  Biden reduced national security, weakened the economy,  generated a massive surge of inflation and divided the nation into two angry camps.

His “green” agenda on climate change was intended to defund, weaken and undermine the formerly robust and healthy US fossil fuel sector. This inane policy immediately led to higher gas prices and set off an inflationary spiral. Today we suffer from  a level of inflation (at over 8% ) that this nation has not experienced in over four decades.  This insidious loss of purchasing power reaches into everyone’s pocketbook, where it reduces the value of your pocket cash, your salary, your hard-earned savings and 401Ks.     But it is worse.  Inflation and attempts to control it lead to even more damaging consequences—recession. Recessions dry up business activity, stall growth, cut jobs, and eliminate opportunities.   Joe’s policies are the direct cause of these economic disasters.

In the field of foreign policy, today for the first time in decades we are faced with a growing and dangerous war in Central Europe and with an unprecedented threat of a nuclear exchange.  This conflict is one in which our President has abandoned and ignored diplomacy and  has instead focused on intensifying and expanding the conflict by feeding one side with massive deployments of military hardware, intelligence, and technical advisors.  The US has in effect entered the war as a belligerent, a dangerous policy that can easily blow up into a hot war with nuclear armed Russia.   He has abandoned any efforts at diplomacy.  His passive behavior coupled with intemperate rhetoric has only prolonged a dangerous threatening war. While his “drunken sailor” largess has cost us nearly $70 billion dollars, donated to a nation that is well known as the most corrupt in Europe. Where have those funds gone?  Could these massive funds have been better spent on our festering problems at home ?

The Biden foreign policy fumbles are not confined to Europe. In the western Pacific, the isolated nuclear armed nation of North Korea threatens Japan (and potentially the USA west coast) with flyovers of nuclear-capable ballistic missiles. At home while doing every thing in his power to undermine domestic oil production, in the Middle East, Biden humbled himself to foreign dictators to pump more oil, (in an effort to lower surging gasoline prices domestically). The OPEC nations have utterly and ignobly ignored his pleas and instead lowered  production by 2million bbl per day.   

Just as he has driven our own nation into two angry camps his penchant for causing divisiveness has encouraged a similar pattern abroad. His multiple faux pas abroad have driven Russia, China and other non-allied nations into closer cooperation and opposition to US leadership.  

Biden’s “open border” immigration policy is now an infamous scandal of incompetence and stupidity and needs no further explanation. His so-called “more humane” policies at the border have resulted in a humanitarian, legal and political disaster, as millions of illegals swarm into the nation under the umbrella of criminal gangs associated with drug and human traffickers. These inhumane evildoers (who have locked and suffocated hundreds of migrants in parked and abandoned 18 wheelers on hot southwestern highways) profited massively as a result of the Biden “humane” border policy. 

Biden supports the radical progressives who clamor for “equity of outcomes“ (rather than “equality”). These radicals insist, with no poof, that our nation is “racist” and thus all of its judicial and policing policies are invalid since they result from “racial discrimination” and .  This fact free and false revision of American history and smear on America is dangerous to our citizens of all races. It egregiously  makes victims of one group and smears others as indefensible racist—all with no facts for support. The resulting inane policy—of releasing dangerous criminals back into the street after arrest with no bail— has resulted in the highest spike in violence, and criminal behavior in this nation’s history.  The primary and principal function of government is to protect its citizens from harm.  Criminals and violent offenders  must be separated from society to protect the innocent.  Incarceration is an essential tool to protect all citizens of all races from those who commit violent acts..  Certain racial groups do commit more violent crime. That is a sad fact. We must deal with that fact reasonably and fairly and not falsely ascribe these hard statistics to some other implausible cause—such as institutional racism simple to fit into a preferred narrative.  It is always easier to blame some one else for failure…it takes honesty and courage to face up to the facts.

In only less than two years Joe Biden has made our nation and our world a more fearful, more dangerous, more expensive and less optimistic place. He has reduced our incomes and savings by close to 10%. Our future looks less and less hopeful.  He has made our walk or ride to work more fear-filled and dangerous. And under Biden we now lie awake at night and worry about the unimaginable horror of a possible nuclear war.   

Any rational person must conclude that we are much, much worse off than before Biden’s progressive experiments. 

QUI L'A FAIT ?—SABOTAGE DE NORDSTREAM I ET II

 SABOTAGE DE NORDSTREAM I ET II

 Les moulins de propagande ici chez nous, à gauche comme à droite, poussent l'idée insoutenable et idiote que la Russie, la "bête noire" actuelle du monde, était assez stupide et assez autodestructrice pour faire exploser l'un de ses atouts les plus utiles.  Ne le croyez pas.  Le contrôle de Nordstream a donné aux Russes un effet de levier.  Ils pourraient retenir ou libérer du gaz désespérément nécessaire aux nations qui ont modéré leur position par rapport à l'Ukraine.  Avec Nordstream, ils pouvaient diviser et conquérir leurs adversaires.  En sabotant les deux conduites de gaz, les saboteurs se sont assurés que cela n'arriverait pas.  Mais ce n'est pas une victoire pour les "bons".  Il s'agit d'une énorme escalade du conflit en Ukraine, qui ne résout rien et ne fait que créer une plus grande probabilité d'une nouvelle escalade imprévisible.

 Pour répondre à la question, Qui l'a fait ?  Il faut se poser la question de savoir qui en profite ?  Cette question nécessite un retour sur la stratégie américaine de longue date.  Depuis la fin de la première guerre froide, la stratégie américaine a été de contenir la Russie.  Le président Ronald Reagan a réussi dans ses efforts pour saper l'URSS et contribuer à sa disparition.  La nation qui a survécu à cette catastrophe politique et économique était la Russie moderne, un pays qui n'était que l'ombre de l'ex-URSS.  Mais au cours des deux décennies de contrôle de Poutine, la Russie a fait des progrès pour devenir au moins une puissance « locale ».

 Les États-Unis, en tant que seul hégémon mondial survivant et, à ce jour, la force économique et militaire la plus puissante au monde que le monde ait jamais connue, ont depuis longtemps une stratégie consistant à faire tout ce qui est en leur pouvoir pour conserver cette position de pouvoir.  et attaquer vicieusement toute entité qui pourrait modifier cette situation.

 C'est pourquoi la Russie est notre « bête noire ».  Nous y voyons une menace potentielle pour notre pouvoir mondial.  Comment et pourquoi Nordstream est-il une telle menace pour nous ?  Voyons pourquoi les États-Unis étaient si virulents contre le premier pipeline Nordstream I.  NordStream était un lien économique entre des partenaires probables : l'Allemagne et la Russie.  L'Allemagne est la première nation industrielle du monde et la Russie une nation riche en matières premières, minéraux et énergie.  Les États-Unis étaient catégoriquement opposés à Nordstream parce que la stratégie américaine a été et continue d'être de maintenir l'UE (et le Royaume-Uni) dépendants des États-Unis et de son parapluie militaire, et de l'empêcher de conclure des alliances économiques ou autres qui modifieraient ces circonstances.  L'UE et le Royaume-Uni sont désormais "nos" colonies.  Toute modification de cette situation menace l'hégémonie américaine.

 Imaginez ce qui se passerait si l'UE - l'entité la plus riche, technologiquement avancée et socialement cohérente du monde - se joignait économiquement (ou militairement) à la Russie - la plus grande nation du monde, avec d'énormes matières premières non développées, des forêts, des minéraux rares, de l'hydrologie et  des réserves énergétiques incalculables.  Cette entité politique combinée deviendrait la politique la plus peuplée, la plus riche, la plus riche en énergie et la plus riche en ressources du monde.  Un continent européen uni Du Portugal à la Russie ferait des États-Unis et de la Chine des nains économiques.

 Pour les États-Unis, ce serait un désastre.

 Revenons maintenant à qui a saboté Nordstream ?  Qui en profiterait ?  Seuls les États-Unis et leurs alliés, en particulier l'Ukraine.  La destruction de Nordstream s'inscrit parfaitement dans la stratégie des États-Unis et de celle de son allié d'Europe de l'Est, l'Ukraine.

 L'Ukraine est la clé de la politique américaine visant à maintenir la Russie faible et instable.  Mais est-il souhaitable d'avoir une nation qui s'effondre sur le front oriental de l'Europe ?  L'Ukraine vaut-elle la peine de mener une guerre nucléaire ?

 La menace qui pèse sur nous tous est que nous, la Russie, sommes armés jusqu'aux dents avec des armes nucléaires.  Pousser la Russie dans un coin dont elle ne peut pas s'échapper est très dangereux.  Nous pouvons en effet payer très cher pour notre besoin d'intimider d'autres nations et de les presser inutilement contre le mur sans nulle part où aller.  La réalité de la station actuelle en Ukraine devient de plus en plus dangereuse, le résultat pourrait bien être : la troisième guerre mondiale et un échange nucléaire.

WHO SABOTAGED THE RUSSIAN GAS LINES?

 SABOTAGE OF NORDSTREAM I AND II

The propaganda mills here at home on both the left and right are pushing the illogical idea that Russia, the world’s present-day “bete noire” was stupid enough and self destructive enough to blow up one of its own, most useful assets.  Don’t believe it.  

Having control over NordStream gave the Russians leverage. They could withhold or release desperately needed gas to those nations which moderated their support for Ukraine.  With NordStream they could divide and conquer their opponents.  By sabotaging both gas pipes the saboteurs made sure that that would not happen.  

But this is not a win for the “good guys”.  This descent into terrorism and sabotage is a huge escalation of the Ukraine conflict, solves nothing, and only creates a greater likelihood for further unpredictable escalation.  

To answer the question, Who did it? One must examine who benefits?  That question requires a look back at long standing US strategy.  Since the end of the first Cold War, US strategy has been to contain Russia.  President Ronald Reagan was successful in his efforts to undermine the USSR and help cause its demise.  The nation that survived that political and economic catastrophe was modern day Russia, a country only a shadow of the former USSR.  But over the two decades of Putin’s control, Russia has made some headway back to become at least a “local” power.   

The US, as the world’s only surviving global hegemon, and as of today, the world’s most powerful economic and military force the world has ever known, has had a long standing strategy to do everything in its power to hold on to that  position of power and viciously attack any entity that might alter that situation.

That is why Russia has been and remains our particular “bete noire”.  We see it as a potential threat to our global power.   How and why is Nordstream such a threat to us?   Let’s consider why the US was so vociferously against the first NordStream I pipeline. 

NordStream was an economic tie between two likely partners and close neighbors : Germany and Russia. Germany the world’s top industrial nation and Russia a nation rich in raw materials, mineral wealth and energy.  The combination was an economic threat.  The US is adamantly opposed to Nordstream  because US strategy has been and continues to be to keep the EU (and UK) economically and militarily dependent upon the USA and prevent it from making any economic or other alliances that would alter those circumstances.  The EU and UK are “our” colonies now.  Any alterations to that situation threatens US hedgemony.  

Imagine what would happen were the EU—the world’s most wealthy, technologically advanced and socially coherent entity—to develop economic or militarily  ties with Russia— world’ largest nation, with 11% of the globe in area and huge undeveloped resources of raw materials, forests, rare minerals, abundant water, and untold energy reserves. That combined political entity would become the world’s most populous, wealthy, energy rich, and resource rich polity in the world.  An economically united European Continent From Portugal to Russia would make economic midgets out of both the USA and China.  This is the USA nightmare. For the USA that now impossible dream would be an unmitigated political and economic disaster. 

Now back to who sabotaged Nordstream?  Who would profit?   Only the USA and its allies—-particularly Ukraine.  The destruction of Nordstream fits neatly into USA strategy and that of its east-European ally Ukraine.  

Ukraine is the key to the USA policy of keeping Russia weak and unstable. But for Europe and the world as a whole is it desireable to have Russia as an economic disaster nation on Europe’s eastern front, a nuclear armed outcast as a neighbor? And is Ukraine worth fighting a “no one wins” nuclear war over whether it remains a buffer state or a NATO member? 

 Pressing Russia into a corner from which it can not escape is very dangerous.  We may pay very heavily indeed for our penchant for world domination.  The reality of the present conflict in Ukraine has generated huge economic and political waves, but it is becoming even more dangerous and threatening, the outcome may well be: WWIII and a nuclear exchange.