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Wonder what China Joe is going to do about it?

The Chinese Are Illegally Shipping Weapons to North Korea...From California

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Russia is about to engage in a major naval exercise in the eastern Mediterranean and Russia's Defense Minister called the U.S. government to warn them about it.

This was entirely predictable after Syrian rebels seized control of Aleppo, Syria's second largest city.

Syria is a close Russian ally and provides the Russian navy with a warm-water port with access to the Mediterranean. Otherwise the Russian fleet would have to sail from the Black Sea and face possible hostile actions on the Bosporus and Dardenelles.

The Russians can ill-afford to lose Assad and his Baathist party control of Syria. The rebel coalition would probably not be very friendly to them.

From Yahoo News:

The call between Chief of Russian General Staff Gen. Valery Gerasimov and US Ch airman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. CQ Brown, which was initiated by Gerasimov, occurred November 27.

On Tuesday, the Russian Ministry of Defense announced that it had launched hypersonic missiles and cruise missiles as part of an exercise in the eastern Mediterranean Sea. Russian frigates, Admiral of the Soviet Union Fleet Gorshkov and Admiral Golovko, fired Tsirkon hypersonic missiles as part of the exercise, which included the Russian Navy and Aerospace Forces. The submarine Novorossiysk launched Kalibr cruise missiles at a naval target, according to the ministry.

The exercise involved more than 1,000 troops; 10 ships; and 24 aircraft, including MiG-31 fighter jets armed with Kinzhal hypersonic missiles, the ministry said.

Gerasimov did not explicitly mention the launch of hypersonic missiles in the call, according to the US official.

The US currently has two destroyers operating in the Mediterranean Sea, the USS Bulkeley and the USS Arleigh Burke, according to a spokesman for the Navy.

The New York Times was first to report on the call between Gerasimov and Brown.

This was the first call between Gerasimov and Brown since Brown became Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman more than one year ago. An official readout of the discussion normally follows calls between Brown and his military counterparts, but the Russians asked not to do so in this case.

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This call was to avoid any serious engagement between the Russian navy and the American in the regions, to avoid misunderstandings, but it also was intended to send us a big message.

This could easily spiral out of control.

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Big mistake; the FBI will screw Trump's nominees over if at all possible, and they will then have any dirt they can find or twist facts into dirt.

Trump transition signs agreement for FBI background checks

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Bad idea.

Missouri lawmaker proposes bounty system to report migrants

Getting people to rat out their neighbors is never a good idea, and especially when you will find it hard to differentiate legal and illegal immigrants.

I appreciate the sentiment but do not agree with the method.

How many of these reports will wind up being petty revenge on people they just don't like?

When Aragon and Castille joined together to create Spain King Ferdinand kicked out all the non-Catholics; he wanted his new nation-state (the first nation-state) to have religious homogenaity along with other cultural aspects in common. So he kicked out Jews and Muslims and many converted to avoid being tossed out. This was the beginning of the Spanish Inquisition, because many former Jews or Muslims would be accused of being secret, closeted aliens and the Inquisition would have to step in to investigate.

The Spanish Inquisition is largely misunderstood, and often it actually aided these people by taking them into custody and cooling tempers. It was the civil authorities who would torture and execute them otherwise. Read Medieval scholar Thomas Madden on the subject.

The point is that paying citizens to turn in their neighbors is precisely how the troubles in Spain started, and there is reason for concern here.

I'm all for concerned citizens turning in illegals if they know they are breaking the law, but paying people is guaranteed to get all sorts of bogus or shady accusations made for all sorts of reasons.

The bill also authorizes a bounty hunter program, paying professional bounty hunters to go after illegals. I can get behind that; we have ample experience with bounty hunting and if you have licensed people doing it all the better.

And it creates special law-enforcement agencies to deal with this.

I like most of it. I just don't think paying citizens to rat people out is a good idea.

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Don't fall for it Trump! Zuckerberg is a snake in the grass. He was pulling the same crap in the leadup to the last election he pulled in 2020.

Trump adviser on Mark Zuckerberg seeking 'active role' in tech policies: President-elect has a 'long memory'

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Iran? Just like they tried to blame Iran for the assassination attempt on Trump? Ri-ight.

Trump’s Nominee for FBI Director Targeted by Iranian Hackers

Why is it I think it was our own military and surveillance establishment?

So who is saying Iran did this? The FBI. You may remember when they called Trump to tell him that there was the Steele Dossier floating about; it justified opening an investigation into Mr. Trump himself, which is why the did it. I have no doubt at all the FBI is trying to pull this same stunt now.

They'll get a FISA warrant to start fishing.

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It worked before after all...

What a Coincidence: Alleged Scientist Peter Hotez Claims Multiple Viruses Will Strike America Immediately After Trump Takes Office

(BTW the title comes from a Japanese monster movie "Destroy All Monsters" which features the whole gang - Godzilla, Rodan, Mothra,and a host of others.)

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WEll,it IS a good way to teach math:

"Billy, if you have one penis and have it surgiccally removed, how many penises do you have?"

Chicago Teachers Union Demands Transgender Curriculum After 80 Percent of Students Can't do Math

Not sure how they'll handle fractions with this new math approach though.

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The weaponization of the pardon.

Politico Predicts Biden Will Pardon Anthony Fauci, Liz Cheney and Adam Schiff

If Biden does pardon these three perjurors then they cannot hide behind the fifth amendment if called before Congress to testify. I almost hope that this happens; they probably would avoid criminal conviction anyway, but if they are pardoned they are wide open to civil action that can ruin them.

Pardons are only good for criminal acts, not civil suits.

BTW here is one opinion on the legality or lack thereof of Biden's pardon of his son. I think there is grounds for a court challenge, if you ask me.

Personally I would have liked to see Trump issue a pardon for Hunter-provided he sang like a canary, which I suspect he would have if facing a long prison sentence; it would have shown Trump can be magnanimous. Hunter broke the law, no question, but probably not much more than everyone else in that cesspool. But since Biden did it we need to ride this thing, profit as much as possible. As Rahm Emmanuel pointed out, one should never let a good crisis go to waste.

Even if Biden pardons the dirty trio there need to be a blizzard of lawsuits against them, and they need to face a very hostile series of inquiries by Congress.

I am particularly eager to see Liz Chaney get hers; she isn't just an enemy but a renegade, a backstabbing quisling who switched sides as soon as she believed the political winds dictated. I hate Schiff but understand him. He's a scorpion and scorpions sting. But Chaney pretended to be one of us until she found favor with the Democrats and joined what she thought was the winning side. Ditto Nicki Haley.

At any rate it will be interesting to see if Biden takes this step. Shoot; why not pardon the whole Democratic Party while he's at it?

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And THIS was the finest legal mind they could find for the Supreme Court?

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson compares transgender surgeries on children to interracial marriage at Supreme Court arguments

If a 45 year old white man wanted to marry an 11 year old black girl would that make it o.k. in her book?

This is not even remotely analogous. Interracial marriage is about two consenting ADULTS making a covenant. "Gender affirming care" as they horribly misname it is legal for adults but an abomination to do to children who do not have control of their own lives and who are cognitively incapable of assenting to this. It is on a par with statutory rape; the underage person may well want sex with the old perv, too, but we as a society know the child is incapable of understanding the implications and assenting to the action from a position of wisdom.

GAF is essentially a kind of statutory rape that leaves permanent scars and warps the child's life forever.

And it is not like interracial marriage in that two adults are acting in a natural way, exercising their biological and social desires, desires that come naturally to men and women. On the other hand transgendering children is quite unnatural, relying on dangerous hormone treatments and other drugs, as well as invasive surgeries. Men who have "vaginas" created by surgeons have to spend the rest of their lives using dialators to keep the wound open; it's not a real vagina, but a wound and their bodies know it. In short the whole process is terribly unnatural and cannot be justified when used on children. If an adult wants to mutilate him or herself that is their business,but the kids cannot make these decisions. For that matter neither can their parents; parents cannot give the o.k.to men to rape their tween daughters, so why can they give the go-ahead to sexually mutilate them?

And KBJ is too stupid or too partisan to understand that. How did this woman wind up on SCOTUS?

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Update on a former story:

South Korea president ends martial law after parliament meets.

I'm sure Joe Biden is sad to hear that; if it wouldn't work in Korea it won't work here.

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Here is exactly what is wrong with globalism; a few key international pieces in the massive Rube Goldberg machine can wreck the whole market.

There have been droughts in Brazil, where most of teh world's coffee comes from at present,so prices have skyrocketed to record highs. But also "supply chain problems" and farmers sitting on their crop to drive up prices have hurt everyone worldwide.

The point is, we have overspecialized the economy. The globalization/"free trade" crowd determined long ago certain places would provide certain things and nobody else - and so when the designated producer has problems you wind up with inflationary pressure or shortages.

Coffee can be grown in many places (and is) and there is no reason why it should come mostly from Brazil. Shoot; it can be grown in Florida. Florida coffee may not be that good relative to stuff out of the Carribean (I favor Jamaican Blue Mountain myself,but it's very pricey) but it certainly would be o.k. for growing robusto - the cheap stuff. Robusto mainly comes from Vietnam.

I would think coffee could be grown in Texas, too, although it may require more water than is available in the Lone Star state.

Up until now nobody bothered with it becausethere were many reliable providers from overseas. But now we seem to be having a problem.

I've long said that the globalists want to specialize nations. Anyone who has ever seen the '70's movie Rollerball may remember then having this - corporations ruled certain cities across the globe. Houston, for instance, was an energy city, while Indianapolis was a food production city. Everything specialized, compartmentalized. I do believe that movie captured a fundamental goal of the modern internationalists.

But overspecialization is what ended the Bronze Age. Nations all had their one or two particular trading skills,and trade was easy and enriching. But then some new folks showed up - the Sea People, for example - and the supply chains broke down. The end result was a huge civilizational cololapse that took centuries to dig out from under. The overspecialization meant nobody could produce what they needed to maintain their civilzation on their own; when the trade stopped so too did the civilzations. Many completely disappeared from history. Others survived but in a different form. But everyone lost the culture, the prosperity, that they had enjoyed. All because everyone quit doing for themselves and simply bought the stuff from someone else.

That's what we've taken to doing in our modern rush towards globalism. And we have seen how badly that turned out during the pandemic.

Today it's high coffee prices, tomorrow what will it be? The engine of the world's economy can easily grind to a halt if something very bad ever happens. These supply chains are gossamer, and can quite easily be broken at any time. One big war, or a worldwide natural disaster (like an asteroid strike) could throw us back into savagery. This wasn't a problem when we made stuff for ourselves.

Part of adulthood is learning to rely on yourself. The modern man has gone full in reverse, seeking to reassert dependency. The result will be chaos and suffering - or at least coffee that is too expensive to buy.

What will all those hippie liberal coffee shop dwellers say then? They will no doubt blame Donald Trump and the free market.

Oh, one final thought; European nations believed that a country could not be strong if it did not produce everything it needed. This was the concept of Mercantilism, a much-despised idea now. It largely failed the European nations because it was far too strict. Governments used heavy regulations and taxation to force consumers to buy from within their empires. And they needed huge colonial empires to produce everything they needed, and those empires were very expensive to holed and maintain. I am not advocating that; we should allow foreign trade, no question. But there is nothing wrong with encouraging American commerce, American manufacturing. We need to make what we need in addition to buying it from elsewhere. What we have now is NOT free trade,but rather we simply closed up shop and buy from foreign entities that employ slave labor or otherwise circumvent the regulations we imposed that made our industries uncompetitive in the first place. While I think buying steel from Japan is o.k. I think selling U.S. Steel to Japan is an abomination. See the difference?  You can't just sell your country and chalk it up to free trade.

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Was this always the goal?

Yes, I know; Biden pardoned Hunter to protect not just his son but himself. However, he's not getting support from Democrats, who now want to limit the power of the President to pardon. Now why do you suppose that is? When has the Democratic party cared about anything but power?

We know why; Trump may have to use it liberally during the next four years, most especially on himself and his people. The Democrats know this, and so hope to take that tool from him.

Lawfare doesn't work unless you can make the fake charges stick. People no longer trust anyone in government, not the legislators, the bureaucrats, and not the law enforcement nor the judges. In times past just charging someone would be enough; not now. They made it so obvious that the public actually increased their support for Trump with every new charge against him. And so they cannot use public perception - they need to actually be able to convict and incarcerate. They still dream of watching Trump have the jail door slammed in his face while they jeer at him.

This stand against Biden for the pardon is but fained outrage. Biden has outlived his usefulness so they don't mind taking pot shots at him "for the greter good". They need to change the law so they can keep the lawfare dream alive.

So why did the Founding Fathers put that power into the Constitution in the first place? Simple; to act as a check on the power of the judiciary. They were putting a judiciary in place that had lifetime appointments and they feared it could use their power as jurists to do exactly what the Democrats have done to Trump - use it to manipulate the political landscape so as to empower themselves. They didn't have to run for office,but they still could want to steer the nation in a direction that the general public did not want. For that matter the judges are appointed and a string of bad Presidents could subvert the judiciary so much that we find ourselves in just the situation we are in now, with pet judges issuing rulings that are entirely political in nature.

So the Presidential pardon was put in place to overturn misrule by judges and the courts.

But we've nigh unto deified the judiciary, giving them the final say on just about everything. Congress no longer has to take controversial action - they just hand it off to the courts and get what they want that way. The courts have power far beyond anything even Alexander Hamilton wanted. (Hamilton argues in the Federalist Papers that the judiciary was far and away the weakest branch of govnerment, having neither money nor enforcement power, and that their sole power was psychological in their judgements. He clearly didn't understand how partisan they would become, and how much power they would grab for themselves. For instance,the idea of judicial review of the constituionality of laws was not part of the original constitution at all but was asserted by the Chief Justice,John Marshall, in Marbury v. Madison. In other words, he just granted himself the power to do that. Congress didn't act to stop him either. Congress is much like Adam in the Genesis story; they, like Adam, are weak and willing to let others tell them to do bad things. As steeped in the Bible as the Founders were I would think they would have realized this was going to happen, but they didn't.

At any rate now the Democrats are finding their moral outrage when they think it will benefit their august selves.

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We won a victory of sorts.

Florida Sheriff Chad Chronister, Widely Criticized for Actions During COVID, Withdraws as Trump's Nominee to Lead DEA

This is the jackass who arrested a minister and hauled him off the pulpit during church services because the minister was violating the Covid church closure orders. Those orders were blatantly unconstitutional (try reading the First Amendment cchief!) and furthermore pot shops and liquor stores and even bars were allowed to remain open but churches were ordered closed. Last time I checked there was no mention of the right of drug pushers to be exempt from "public health" edicts, but there most assuredly is for churches.

Not sure what Trump was thinking with this appointment, but the issue is now moot.We won't be stuck with Hanging Chad.

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This could end the Trump persecution once and for all in Georgia.

Fani Willis Given 5 Days to Hand Over All Communications She Had With Jack Smith, House Jan 6 Committee

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After the better part of a month of "counting" the Democrats managed to wrest away a final House of Representatives seat in the corrupt banana republic of California. ?

Two questions; how did they win a seat in the red part of California (the central valley is Republican country) and why, pray tell, does it take almost a month to count the votes in ONE CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT?

Incumbent Republican John Duarte was ahead slightly throughout the count, then suddenly new votes were found for the Democrat Adan Gray, who suddenly surged to victory.Duarte conceded last night with a scant 187 vote margin.

How many times have we seen this scenario; a close race and the Democrats ALWAYS seem to win them in the end? Probability dictates these should end both ways under fair conditions.

In other words the Democrats stole this seat right out from under the GOP noses as we were all celebrating the Trump win.

The GOP just doesn't know how to do this. They are like a second rate college football team playing against the Kansas City Chiefs. Rank amateurs. And they don't seem to want to do any better, making the same mistakes over and over. Why, it's like they are the Washington Generals, there solely to lose to the Haarlem Globetrotters (to mix my sports metaphors).

I have no doubt this election was stolen. The problem is, once done, it is almost impossible to prove.

This also shows the folly of allowing mail-in voting. Without that the Democrats would have lost this seat and probably at least six others, maybe more.

The balance in the House is no 220 to 215, but that assumes the GOP wins the special elections to fill the seats vacated by people tapped by Trump. Elise Stefanik, Matt Gaetz, and Michael Waltz are all leaving Congress and so their seats will be vacant until filled by a special election. That makes it 217 to 215, the slimmest margin imaginable just about. And if somehow the Democrats flip or steal all three of these seats it becomes a Democrat Congress and everything comes back; the endless investigations of Trump, the obstructionism, the whole nine yards.

I've said it before and I'll say it again; I believe the GOP does not want to actually win soundly but prefers the Congress to be nip-and-tuck. That empowers incumbents and RINO's, who we dare not primary lest we lose the seat. It also offers a ready-made excuse to the Republicans for failing to enact the agenda for which they were elected. They can campaign on MAGA causes but then not deliver so their monied sponsors remain happy. It's always "we don't have the numbers" but then they don't try to get the numbers, or do what it takes to show they are honest and serious, something that will draw the votes.

So now we are still vulnerable in the House, and if nothing else will probably lose it in two years anyway. And we aren't in a whole lot better shape in the Senate; we could have won big had we had someone other than Chinless Mitch tampering with things.

One thing is clear; the GOP has to learn how to stop Democrat cheating. We made a good start, catching them at all sorts of dirty tricks in this last election and preventing the same Big Steal they pulled in 2020, but they are still doing it. We must be ever vigilant, and ever willing to fight. They are. Donald Trump is. Why isn't the Republican Party?

BTW did you notice in this article how the Republican quit with such good grace? A Democrat would have fought to the end on this. Yes, it makes our side look noble and reasonable, but so what? In the end they win, we lose. Nobody remembers the loser, no matter how well he took it. And this isn't just about who wins or loses, but about the fate of the whole country. We need more Trumps and fewer Duarte's.

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70% of the Mediterranean sea evaporated into thin air 5.5 million years ago in a disappearing act not seen since Al Gore lost the 2000 election.

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A new species of Man has been found in China.

Named the Juluren (meaning "large headed people") this new species of hominid had brains larger than any other at the time - even larger than our own. But of course size doesn't always indicate smarts; they went extinct, after all.

But of course our brains don't necessarily indicate smarts either; I suspect the Juluren could tell the difference between a man and a woman.

It's known that both Neanderthal and Denisovan DNA is part of the modern human genome; these extinct species interbred with Cro-magnons and are part of modern humanity. In fact it's known that Scots have a healthy dose of Neanderthal in them. The purest Cro-magnon are probably in eastern Africa, in the rift valleys.

At any rate the more we learn the less we know about such things. The evolution of Man was far more complicated than was believed by guys like Darwin.

I would never marry a Juluren girl; the price of her hair stylists would break me, what with those giant heads and all. Hey, maybe the Easter Island folks were originally Juluren? I mean those are BIG heads!

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This is a story to watch. I assure you Joe Biden is watching with great interest and taking notes.

South Korean President Declares Martial Law

President Yoon Suk-yeol is a lame duck president, having lost the last election, and it appears he may be trying to refuse to leave office.

South Korea's parliament rejected Yoon's order and there is the threat of the military coming in to take power.

(Personally I think the man is just sour given his name...)

Suk-yeol has accused the opposition of "antistate activities" and barred the door to the National Assembly.

According to Al Jazeera:

"General Park An-soo, the martial law commander, announced a number of measures under the declaration, including prohibitions on all political activities, "including those of the National Assembly, local councils, political parties, and political associations, as well as assemblies [and] demonstrations”.'

The order prohibited labour strikes and slowdowns, as well as "gatherings that incite social disorder”. It further stated that all media will be placed under the control of the Martial Law Command.

"Any acts that deny or attempt to overthrow the liberal democratic system, as well as the dissemination of fake news, manipulation of public opinion, or false propaganda,” the order said.

Healthcare workers, including doctors who are currently on strike, must return to work within 48 hours or risk punishment.

"Violators of this proclamation will be subject to arrest, detention, and search and seizure without a warrant,” the commander noted.

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Suck-yuan has been mired in scandals, many involving his wife.

If he pulls this off one wonders if Joe Biden won't try to follow suit. Watch for a false flag event sometime in the next thirty days.

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Everything we "Covid Deniers" have been saying has now been proven true. The long-awaited report on the Covid pandemic from the House Select Subcommittee on the Covid Pandemic is now out and it vidicates the lab leak theory as well as everything else we have said.

The report concludes the virus likely escaped from a lab in China and was created by American research on "gain of function" at said lab in Wuhan. It also concludes that the way the pandemic was handled was horribly destructive.

Do read it all.

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