Posted on July 14, 2021 by abyssum
White Privilege The Left’s Bourgeoisie Bogeyman

 By Kathleen Brush, Ph.D

.July 14, 2021

Hat Tip: Rip McIntosh

White privilege is the exclusive package of unearned privileges for white people, like being able to go to any music shop and find music by white people and choosing band-aids that match their skin color. Surprised? Many politicians and allied media present it as more than the ordinary advantages of a majority population. Something akin to British bluebloods and Indian Brahmins. Funny about the arrival of white privilege in 1989. Nine years after discrimination against Italian-Americans unofficially ended, the success of Italians is chalked off to birthrights. The mass migration of Italians to America in the early 1900s motivated passage of the 1924 Immigration Act. A primary objective was to halt the immigration of racially inferior people. An estimated 1.5 million Italians were American soldiers in WWII, while 600,000 kinfolk Brahmins were surveilled and put under curfew by the US government.  The disproportionate soldier presence of Irish immigrants and citizens in the Revolutionary and Civil Wars was central to all Americans becoming free from imperial tyranny and freeing the slaves. Their overwhelming contribution was due to inordinate poverty. People of wealth were uninterested in the deprivations of soldiering. After the war, these soldiers weren’t feted. The Irish worked the dirtiest and most dangerous jobs building our nation’s infrastructure until the Italians came along. But it took the election of JFK in 1962 to end 350 years of incessant racial slurs and exclusionary actions. Imagine, 27 years later, they found their blood was blue.  What of the Jews? Like virtually every immigrant group to America before 1965, the Jews would qualify as impoverished refugees today. Could they ever imagine that after hundreds of years of heinous anti-Semitism topped with the Holocaust and followed by overt discrimination, including Congresspeople today spewing anti-Semitism that they have Aryan privilege?  The end of Italian discrimination was triggered by the 1964 Civil Rights Act. New programs focused on race to facilitate a level playing field, but not for members of the white race. Italian-Americans began improving their English and education to keep up.  The goal of the Great Society (1965) was abolishing inequality, but no one was thinking about white people. Why should they? For centuries, different white ethnicities in America had learned that the antidote to everything, including discrimination and poverty was endeavoring to become self-reliant. In America this meant speaking English, getting educated, working hard, and observing the law.       A simple formula, now seen as too demanding, was useful training. Someone has to pay for the Great Society and the 1965 immigration policy that welcomes people of all nations equally. Noncitizens are not supposed to be public charges, but today they are disproportionately welfare recipients. Poor English skills, and insufficient education and motivation to ditch dependence are faulted. Refugees, including asylees, like those streaming across the southern border, have their bills footed by American taxpayers. America did its best to ignore requests to give refuge to Jews during the Holocaust, but now these self-reliant privileged Americans disproportionately contribute to the comfort of today’s refugees. There is so much irony in American white ethnicities being given nothing, but a chance for a better life if they could win wars, endure heinous levels of discrimination, and frightening squalor being cast as despicable people of privilege that owe a cozier existence to people unkeen on self-reliance. Who knows white people might have been motivated similarly if there was an alternative to surviving and building self-esteem. But it used to be that taking welfare was not socially accepted unless it was otherwise impossible, and being a victim was not a source of self-esteem.  If politics weren’t involved, it might seem impossible that Americans are being browbeaten into seeing the outcomes of self-reliance as privilege. White people need to wake up. Socialism requires drumming up hatred for the rich, or, in this case, the white middle class — the bourgeoisie. It’s a pity to slur and guilt-trips the descendants of white ethnicities that endured hell to build a country where people of all races and ethnicities could succeed, including redistributing vast amounts of wealth from whites (and privileged self-reliant Asians) to people of color.  Politicians are creating a People’s Republic of America where systemic anti-motivation laws replace those ensuring equality of opportunity. 
The day America prioritizes dependence over self-reliance, and mediocrity over excellence is a bad day for our children and the world. 
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Jul 13, 2021, 9:05 AM (1 day ago)
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Jul 13, 2021View in browser POLITICO's Pulse newsletter logoBY ADAM CANCRYN AND SARAH OWERMOHLEPresented byPhRMAWith Rachel Roubein and Lauren GardnerEditor’s Note: POLITICO Pulse is a free version of POLITICO Pro Health Care’s morning newsletter, which is delivered to our subscribers each morning at 6 a.m. The POLITICO Pro platform combines the news you need with tools you can use to take action on the day’s biggest stories. Act on the news with POLITICO Pro.
QUICK FIX— Biden health officials believe it’s highly likely vulnerable Americans will need coronavirus booster shots, but haven’t yet decided when.— Medicare is reviewing Biogen’s Aduhelm to determine whether to limit coverage of the pricey Alzheimer’s drug.— The FDA is appending a new warning to Johnson & Johnson’s Covid-19 vaccine, after linking it to cases of Guillain-Barré syndrome.WELCOME TO TUESDAY PULSE — and here’s the latest intel on what might make it into Democrats’ partisan spending package , culled from POLITICO reporting across every policy area. Tell us what’s important in your world; send tips to acancryn@politico.com and sowermohle@politico.com. A message from PhRMA:The way insurance covers your medicine is too complicated. See how we can make the system work for patients. Not the other way around. DRIVING THE DAYTO BOOST OR NOT TO BOOST — For weeks, top Biden officials have repeatedly downplayed the need for vaccinated people to get Covid-19 booster shots, wary of undermining confidence in the vaccines and getting ahead of formal procedures.But within the administration, there’s growing belief that boosters for the most vulnerable Americans are no longer an “if” — but simply a matter of when, your authors and Erin Banco report.Officials across the health department have spent months laying the groundwork for another round of shots, poring over data and coordinating with vaccine makers in an effort to pinpoint exactly who should get them and on what timeline.So far, they’ve reached one concrete conclusion: The initial recipients will likely be the highest-risk people, such as nursing home residents who were among the first to be vaccinated or those who are immunocompromised. But little else is decided, and there’s reluctance to lay out any booster plan without hard evidence the extra shot will provide a meaningful benefit.That’s forced Biden’s team to walk a tightrope, both denying that boosters are needed now while leaving their options open down the road. “Fully vaccinated people do not need a shot at this time,” one senior administration official told us, putting extra emphasis on the last three words.It’s a position that’s getting harder to maintain: After a rush of public health experts advised recipients of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine to consider an additional dose of Moderna or Pfizer, even Andy Slavitt — a former senior adviser to the White House Covid-19 team — said on his podcast that it couldn’t hurt.Pfizer then caused a stir last week by going public with its plans for a booster – a move that blindsided and irritated officials not because the company said anything different than it had communicated privately, but because it jumped the gun on what had otherwise been a carefully managed and critical process.Still, the episodes aren’t likely to change the administration’s conservative approach. Officials have gone by the book on every big decision, waiting for the health agencies to formally weigh in despite criticism at times for moving too slow.With more than 30 percent of the U.S. still unvaccinated, the White House is eager to keep the focus on getting people their first round of shots — especially since those they’ve yet to reach are unlikely to be the high-risk individuals who’d be eligible for a booster.And then there’s the optics, as the U.S. vaccinates its way out of crisis while much of the rest of the world still struggles to find shots.“We’re in the midst of a growing two-track pandemic where the haves and have-nots, within and between countries, are increasingly divergent,” World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said Monday, blasting drug makers’ rush to develop boosters for the U.S. when many others still need their first shots.
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MEDICARE WILL REVIEW COVERAGE OF ALZHEIMER’s DRUG — The administration is launching a months-long review of Biogen’s Aduhelm to determine how Medicare should cover the pricey new treatment — a decision that comes amid rising scrutiny of its approval and $56,000 price tag.The review process known as a national coverage determination is relatively uncommon, POLITICO’s Rachel Roubein reports, and raises the prospect that CMS could limit payment for the treatment to certain patients. A 30-day comment period opened Monday, which will be followed by an analysis to determine whether the drug meets Medicare’s requirements of being “reasonable and necessary” for treating Alzheimer’s. CMS is expected to propose a coverage policy within six months and finalize it within nine months.Controversy has swirled around Aduhelm since its June approval by the FDA, which came despite thin evidence that the treatment actually worked.In the face of heavy criticism, the FDA has since agreed to narrow its recommended use to only those with early stages of the disease. Most recently, FDA Commissioner Janet Woodcock requested an independent HHS investigation of Aduhelm’s approval process.Congressional committees are also probing the FDA’s decisionmaking. The chairs of the House Energy and Commerce and Oversight and Reform committees launched a formal investigation in late June, and on Monday demanded that Biogen turn over documents related to the approval, marketing and pricing of the drug.VACCINESJ&J VACCINE HIT WITH ANOTHER WARNING — The FDA is adding a warning to the single-shot Covid-19 vaccine amid preliminary reports linking it to the development of Guillain-Barré syndrome, POLITICO’s Lauren Gardner and Erin Banco report.The cases are rare — just 100 patients are suspected to have the neurological condition out of 12.8 million who’ve been given the J&J shot. And the benefits of the vaccine still outweigh the risks of contracting Covid-19. In its letter to J&J, the FDA wrote that the fact sheet given to vaccine recipients would caution that GBS has occurred in some patients, but also that “the chance of having this occur is very low.”But the FDA caution marks yet another setback for J&J’s vaccine, which was paused earlier this year to investigate cases of severe blood clots. Production of the shot has also been hampered by contamination issues at a plan run by contract manufacturer Emergent BioSolutions.Most of the GBS cases tied to the J&J vaccine were reported roughly two weeks after vaccination, and seen predominantly in males ages 50 and older. Officials haven’t established any similar pattern with the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines.
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THE ACTIVIST ATHLETE,OUR FLAG AND OUR NATIONAL ANTHEM

By E. P. Unum

Hat Tip: Rip McIntosh

July 14, 2021

  Fox News has devoted much coverage to Gwen Berry, the third-place finisher in the female hammer throw event for the recently concluded U.S. Olympic Trials. Ms. Berry, who is black, qualified to represent the United States as part of the USA Olympic Team in Beijing, China this summer. 
It is quite an honor to be representing one’s country, but not according to this young woman. She turned her back while the National Anthem was being played, and has since stated that the American Flag does not represent black people and that the National Anthem itself is racist.  She says all we have to do is look at history to confirm this. Someone should suggest to this ill-educated young woman that she study American history just a little bit harder. Better still, perhaps she should visit the African American Medal of Honor Memorial in Wilmington, Delaware. There, she can become acquainted with the 90 African American Medal of Honor Recipients receiving the awards. She will learn about Robert Augustus Sweeney who is one of only 19 men throughout our history to have been awarded the Medal of Honor twice! There have only been 3,470 Medals of Honor awarded in U.S. History and black Americans along with whites, Indian, Korean, Japanese, Chinese…..Americans all…heroes all…have earned them. Heroism knows no color, race, creed, or religion. While this young, immature and highly confused young woman is at it, she might also learn about Sergeant William H. Carney, the first African American to have been awarded the Medal of Honor for conspicuous gallantry during the Union Army’s charge on Fort Wagner in the Civil War. 
Having seen his unit’s standard-bearer shot, Sergeant William Carney grabbed the American Flag, preventing it from falling to the ground in the middle of the battle, and carried it forward despite being shot several times. He managed to rally the troops, continued the assault, and planted the flag on the ramparts of Fort Wagner before succumbing to his mortal wounds.  Sergeant Carney perished protecting the Flag young Gwen Berry says “does not represent black people; there is no question about that”.  One more thing about the Medal of Honor:  Only Supreme Acts of Heroism are recognized by the award of the Medal of Honor. It is the highest award given by a grateful nation. Incidentally, the unit in which Sergeant Carney served, the 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, is today a volunteer unit serving at military funerals and parades. This unit was invited to march in President Obama’s Inaugural Parade. Come to think of it, I wonder what the basis is for Ms. Berry’s opinion that America is a racist nation? Didn’t our nation elect a Black President, Barack Hussein Obama…twice? Didn’t we just elect a Female Vice President who is also black? Do we not have a black Supreme Court Justice? Has she looked closely at the players on Major League Baseball Teams, the National Basketball Association, Major League Soccer and how many players are black? We have the Black Entertainment Network and Black Entertainment Awards. There are prominent black attorneys and presidents and CEOs of major corporations. Didn’t our country expend some $5 trillion over the period 1964-2020 lifting black Americans out of poverty…far more than has been expended on any other ethnic group….how does all of this happen in a nation that is supposedly prejudiced against blacks?  It seems to me that this young, opinionated activist athlete ought to first learn to put her mind in gear before she puts her mouth in motion, and save herself much embarrassment. But, if she is so disenchanted with our nation and cannot bring herself to respect our Flag or Anthem, she can certainly leave, take her skills somewhere else, and compete against America. There are no anchors on her backside preventing her from leaving. You can do this when you live in the Land of the Free because the Brave have paid for that right with their blood. But Gwen Berry is not the only headline. Now, today the news out of the Olympic and Paralympics Committee is that they are hard at work (and spending a great deal of time and money) evaluating several redesigns of the American Flag to use in their promotional materials for the upcoming Olympic Games. Apparently, they believe our Flag needs a redesign to go along with their Olympic Symbols. I find this fascinating. In my opinion, our Flag is just fine the way it is but perhaps they ought to consider first whether they have the right to tamper at all with the Flag of our country. I seem to recall that there are some fairly rigid rules to follow with respect to our Flag and authority to change it rests with the Congress of the United States.  And, while this may seem like a revolutionary and novel idea, they might want to consult with the American people and our military and get their opinion as to whether or not our Flag needs change.

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Call It the Critical Trump Theory:Free Enterprise Is a Miracle for Minorities

By: LAWRENCE KUDLOW

July 13, 2021

Hat Tip: Rip McIntosh


Critical race theory is all the rage among far-left progressive intellectuals, and at least part of it has permeated mainstream chief executives, who should know better. Systemic racism, and CRT, along with something called racial equity, have become both the diagnosis and the solution.
In other words, we need more discrimination to solve discrimination and it all started 250 years ago by a bunch of white males — pardon, white supremacist — males. While I have no doubt there is unfortunately still some discrimination in America, I also totally reject the idea of systemic racism.
It is precisely the genius of American democracy that has fostered huge and equitable changes in race, gender, color, everything. The 1619 project sponsored by the crazy people at the New York times has been disputed up and down the line by highly respected historians.
As I argued on my Independence Day Special, the solution to what ails us can be found in the 1776 project, which is about freedom and the consent of the governed, and the authority of a higher power that makes our system work.
About a year ago, when I served in the Trump administration, I was frequently attacked for my denial of systemic racism. I continue to hold that view. And I could never get straight answers from interviewers on a whole bunch of networks — CNBC, CNN, NBC, and others.
If America is so racist how is it that an African American was elected twice to the presidency? Twice mind you. And during those two victories was supported by 80 million white voters. That is not systemic racism. Nor were the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments, which were triggered by Abe Lincoln and continued under President U.S. Grant.
Nor was the turnaround of the United States military by Harry Truman and the great civil rights achievements by Lyndon Johnson with large-scale Republican help in the Senate. They passed things like the Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act, the Fair Housing Act. The fact that Ku Klux Klan Democrats in the Senate tried desperately to block these reforms, just as they had blocked them for 50 years prior, didn’t stop it from getting done in our representative democracy.
Martin Luther King has always been a hero of mine for arguing the importance of the content of our character rather than the color of our skin. Another hero was Thurgood Marshall, who ran the legal department of the NAACP. And won cases that effectively overturned bad laws. Then he went on to become an outstanding Supreme Court justice.
Now we come to the economic part of this story. Usually, welfare and entitlement subsidies are at the center of discussions of black economic development, but they didn’t work. Government dependency won out over black ownership. During the Trump years, though, a new model was put in place with great success.
In his National Review online article, my friend and Trump alumnus, Scott Turner, writes convincingly with facts about the success of African Americans under free enterprise policies. While Mr. Trump is often accused of being one of the most racist presidents, the facts are that black Americans experienced huge benefits from lower taxes and fewer regulations.
The unemployment rate, pre-pandemic, for blacks reached a record low of 5.2%. The poverty rate for black Americans hit record lows, while a total of 1 million lifted themselves out of poverty. Real median household income for black families rose above $4,000 dollars after falling over the previous 14 years. Black homeownership sky-rocketed.
Median weekly earnings grew 4.1% on average, higher than the 3.4% earnings growth for whites. Scott argues that the 2017 tax cut was crucial, as was the de-regulation of business and perhaps most important, the creation of nearly 9,000 opportunity zones, which attracted roughly $75 billion in capital for under-served communities.
That’s enough to create half a million jobs, lift another million persons out of poverty, by using a simple tool where capital gains of long-term investments were taxed at zero. These are important achievements by a Republican president and a Republican party who are always viciously attacked by the CRT, woke crowd. The wokes, though, are wrong.
And their woke economics of welfare and entitlement subsidies do African Americans over the long run a great disservice and great harm, with poor results. The same holds true for other minority groups. It’s no secret that Mr. Trump’s reelection attracted a big increase in African American voters and a whopping gain from Hispanics.
Give free enterprise a chance, and it will work economic miracles. Unfortunately, President Biden appears to be siding with the woke crowd.

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Posted on July 14, 2021 by abyssum

A MESSSAGE FROM SAINT NATHANIEL
Received: Tuesday, July 13, 2021 11:59 PM
To: S

“It is imperative that all those who are sleeping now arise
And don armor fit for battle 
And make ready their weapons that do not tarnish,
Weapons that have not been fashioned here on earth.
For the time draws short and is even now upon us 
When men must answer “yea” or “nay”
And not “I might” or “I might not.”
For men have for some time danced near the line that shall not be crossed,
Daring, with toes thrust forward here and there, to cross the line.
But alas, now the line that holy angels guard is indeed being crossed,
And with a nod from the Lord, 
The archangels draw their swords.
Oh foolish men who have made deals with the devil 
And have provoked the Lord,
The Lord has drawn a line
That shall not be crossed,
And this line has been regarded by men as movable by their hands. 
But oh the Lord has drawn this line with fire,
And those who cross it will be burned with an everlasting flame.”

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Peter Schweizer: Then-VP Biden “direct beneficiary” of Hunter’s foreign deals
By Mike HuckabeeJuly 13, 2021 |Rudy Giuliani has said that when the FBI came to his home with a warrant to search for electronics, he offered them his copy of Hunter Biden’s hard drive and they declined to take it.
Well, the FBI might not have wanted to touch it with a 10-foot pole, but Peter Schweizer, president of the Government Accountability Institute (GAI) and bestselling author of several books on grift among the political and corporate elite, was very interested to obtain one, and he did. He said Monday on the radio with Sean Hannity that he has determined from Hunter’s emails that then-Vice President Joe Biden was a “direct beneficiary” of Hunter Biden’s financial deals with foreign interests.
First, of course, he had to make sure this copy of the hard drive was the real deal — that these were Hunter Biden’s genuine emails and not some elaborate fakery. It must have been a tedious job to go through thousands of messages and cross-reference them with Hunter’s Secret Service travel records, but that’s what his staff did.
The travel records had been obtained by Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson as ranking member of the House Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. And, yes, the emails line up “absolutely, 100 percent” with them. If emails say, for example, that Hunter was in Dubai on a certain date, the Secret Service records confirm he was indeed there. If the emails on this hard drive aren’t real, that would make it a truly magnificent piece of fakery. Schweizer can say with confidence that this copy of Hunter’s hard drive has been documented as real.
And, of course, Hunter hasn’t denied this, though he just can’t remember for sure and he’s very dedicated to his art right now and is probably very busy blowing paint through a straw. This is a developing story, as it will take some time for GAI to put all the information together and investigate everything. There’s so much to go through, in fact, that Schweizer says it could take till the end of the year to get it all done.
They’re doing the job that the media should be doing but won’t. And they say that it will expose “disastrous dimensions” of the Biden family.
As they continue to work, “it will take on a far more sinister tone than it has even now in terms of what it says about the Biden family and vulnerabilities of the Biden family,” Schweizer told Hannity. 
When Sean asked him how bad it was on a scale of one to ten, he said, “The coming revelations based on what we are in the middle of right now, on a scale of one to ten –- and you know, Sean, I’m pretty cautious about this stuff –- frankly are an eleven. It’s that bad.”https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/07/12/peter-schweizer-our-copy-of-hunter-bidens-laptop-confirms-joe-biden-was-a-direct-beneficiary-of-his-sons-deals/
As for Hunter’s newfound career in art, it’s taking off, as some “experts” say they like it. In case you have seen his paintings, I feel the need to let you know that I am not kidding. There’s an article in the NEW YORK POST about it.https://nypost.com/2021/06/15/hunter-bidens-artwork-is-actually-good-experts-say/
Mike Tribe, chairman of the MFA Fine Arts Department at New York City’s School of Visual Arts, told the POST, “I think it’s pretty strong –- I like it. The colors and compelling organic forms –- it’s the kind of organic abstraction that I find easy on the eyes and provokes your curiosity.”
Alex Acevedo, who owns the Alexander Gallery in Midtown Manhattan, said, “I’ve been in the art business since 1956. I’m not impressed with modern art at all. But I was floored by that guy. The palette was wonderful. The space was well-organized. I would buy a couple of them.”
If you’ve seen the paintings and think this guy is crazy, he is –- crazy like a fox. What he says next is telling: “And anybody who buys it would be guaranteed instant profit. He’s the President’s son. Anybody would want a piece of that. The provenance is impeccable.”prov-e-nance (noun) 1. the place of origin or earliest known history of something.
Thanks to their impeccable provenance, Acevedo expects that some of Hunter’s pieces might end up topping $1 million.
Art consultant Martin Galindo is “not a fan,” he said, but is “very positive that he’s gonna do well in the market because the industry is very much about, what’s a simple way to put this? It’s like clout.”“Honestly, I mean, from an aesthetic perspective, I don’t like it. But I’m sure he’s gonna do really well.”
Looking at one particular abstract of Hunter’s, he said, “Oh, my God, that looks like COVID.”
One refreshingly candid art collector who would give her name only as “Jill” used the words “nice” and “different” but said she thought “a lot of people can do that.” And then she said she wouldn’t buy any of them. “I wouldn’t pay sh** for it because he’s a criminal.”
The NEW YORK POST also ran an opinion piece by Andrea Peyser on Friday about the latest bit of news concerning Hunter’s art career –- the fact that buyers are to remain anonymous. “Hunter Biden’s art con is an insult to ethics –- and good taste,” says the headline.https://nypost.com/2021/07/08/hunter-bidens-art-con-is-an-insult-to-ethics-and-good-taste/
Peyer takes a look at the newfound art career of someone whose artistic experience is, as far as she knows, “limited to doodles on strip club cocktail napkins.” In October, a Soho art gallery will be putting 15 of his works on the market. But first, in September, a private “VIP” viewing will be held in Los Angeles.
“It’s the kind of high profile showing that many a talented artist who lacks Hunter Biden’s pedigree and connections could only hallucinate about.” It occurs to me that by coincidence some of these paintings do look like hallucinations, of bacteria and viruses. You’d have to pay ME half a million dollars for me to put one on my wall.
The White House is insisting that the anonymity of the buyers (even to Hunter) will ensure everything is on the up-and-up, but give me a break. That makes it even worse. It’ll be easy for the Bidens to know who “invested” in Hunter’s art. Assume that they will know. The anonymity ensures WE won’t know.
The buyer could even destroy Hunter’s “masterpiece” to make sure nobody knew about the grift. Some art lovers might consider that a public service, but it doesn’t make up for the sleaziness of this operation.
Don Trump, Jr., has speculated about what the reaction would be if one of the Trump offspring had done this while Trump was in office. We all know exactly what it would be. I’d love for Don to produce a big abstract canvas of his own and offer it for “sale,” just to make the point. He could even have a showing himself if any gallery owner would play along, and call it “The Art of the Steal.”
Compare this new star of the art world to someone like former President George W. Bush, who studied art after leaving politics and has developed into a surprisingly adept portrait artist with a distinctive style.

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Peter Schweizer: Then-VP Biden “direct beneficiary” of Hunter’s foreign deals


By Mike Huckabee

July 13, 2021

HAT TIP: RIP MCINTOSH

 |Rudy Giuliani has said that when the FBI came to his home with a warrant to search for electronics, he offered them his copy of Hunter Biden’s hard drive and they declined to take it.
Well, the FBI might not have wanted to touch it with a 10-foot pole, but Peter Schweizer, president of the Government Accountability Institute (GAI) and bestselling author of several books on grift among the political and corporate elite, was very interested to obtain one, and he did. He said Monday on the radio with Sean Hannity that he has determined from Hunter’s emails that then-Vice President Joe Biden was a “direct beneficiary” of Hunter Biden’s financial deals with foreign interests.
First, of course, he had to make sure this copy of the hard drive was the real deal — that these were Hunter Biden’s genuine emails and not some elaborate fakery. It must have been a tedious job to go through thousands of messages and cross-reference them with Hunter’s Secret Service travel records, but that’s what his staff did.
The travel records had been obtained by Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson as ranking member of the House Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. And, yes, the emails line up “absolutely, 100 percent” with them. If emails say, for example, that Hunter was in Dubai on a certain date, the Secret Service records confirm he was indeed there. If the emails on this hard drive aren’t real, that would make it a truly magnificent piece of fakery. Schweizer can say with confidence that this copy of Hunter’s hard drive has been documented as real.
And, of course, Hunter hasn’t denied this, though he just can’t remember for sure and he’s very dedicated to his art right now and is probably very busy blowing paint through a straw. This is a developing story, as it will take some time for GAI to put all the information together and investigate everything. There’s so much to go through, in fact, that Schweizer says it could take till the end of the year to get it all done.
They’re doing the job that the media should be doing but won’t. And they say that it will expose “disastrous dimensions” of the Biden family.
As they continue to work, “it will take on a far more sinister tone than it has even now in terms of what it says about the Biden family and vulnerabilities of the Biden family,” Schweizer told Hannity. 
When Sean asked him how bad it was on a scale of one to ten, he said, “The coming revelations based on what we are in the middle of right now, on a scale of one to ten –- and you know, Sean, I’m pretty cautious about this stuff –- frankly are an eleven. It’s that bad.”https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/07/12/peter-schweizer-our-copy-of-hunter-bidens-laptop-confirms-joe-biden-was-a-direct-beneficiary-of-his-sons-deals/
As for Hunter’s newfound career in art, it’s taking off, as some “experts” say they like it. In case you have seen his paintings, I feel the need to let you know that I am not kidding. There’s an article in the NEW YORK POST about it.https://nypost.com/2021/06/15/hunter-bidens-artwork-is-actually-good-experts-say/
Mike Tribe, chairman of the MFA Fine Arts Department at New York City’s School of Visual Arts, told the POST, “I think it’s pretty strong –- I like it. The colors and compelling organic forms –- it’s the kind of organic abstraction that I find easy on the eyes and provokes your curiosity.”
Alex Acevedo, who owns the Alexander Gallery in Midtown Manhattan, said, “I’ve been in the art business since 1956. I’m not impressed with modern art at all. But I was floored by that guy. The palette was wonderful. The space was well-organized. I would buy a couple of them.”
If you’ve seen the paintings and think this guy is crazy, he is –- crazy like a fox. What he says next is telling: “And anybody who buys it would be guaranteed instant profit. He’s the President’s son. Anybody would want a piece of that. The provenance is impeccable.”prov-e-nance (noun) 1. the place of origin or earliest known history of something.
Thanks to their impeccable provenance, Acevedo expects that some of Hunter’s pieces might end up topping $1 million.
Art consultant Martin Galindo is “not a fan,” he said, but is “very positive that he’s gonna do well in the market because the industry is very much about, what’s a simple way to put this? It’s like clout.”“Honestly, I mean, from an aesthetic perspective, I don’t like it. But I’m sure he’s gonna do really well.”
Looking at one particular abstract of Hunter’s, he said, “Oh, my God, that looks like COVID.”
One refreshingly candid art collector who would give her name only as “Jill” used the words “nice” and “different” but said she thought “a lot of people can do that.” And then she said she wouldn’t buy any of them. “I wouldn’t pay sh** for it because he’s a criminal.”
The NEW YORK POST also ran an opinion piece by Andrea Peyser on Friday about the latest bit of news concerning Hunter’s art career –- the fact that buyers are to remain anonymous. “Hunter Biden’s art con is an insult to ethics –- and good taste,” says the headline.https://nypost.com/2021/07/08/hunter-bidens-art-con-is-an-insult-to-ethics-and-good-taste/
Peyer takes a look at the newfound art career of someone whose artistic experience is, as far as she knows, “limited to doodles on strip club cocktail napkins.” In October, a Soho art gallery will be putting 15 of his works on the market. But first, in September, a private “VIP” viewing will be held in Los Angeles.
“It’s the kind of high profile showing that many a talented artist who lacks Hunter Biden’s pedigree and connections could only hallucinate about.” It occurs to me that by coincidence some of these paintings do look like hallucinations, of bacteria and viruses. You’d have to pay ME half a million dollars for me to put one on my wall.
The White House is insisting that the anonymity of the buyers (even to Hunter) will ensure everything is on the up-and-up, but give me a break. That makes it even worse. It’ll be easy for the Bidens to know who “invested” in Hunter’s art. Assume that they will know. The anonymity ensures WE won’t know.
The buyer could even destroy Hunter’s “masterpiece” to make sure nobody knew about the grift. Some art lovers might consider that a public service, but it doesn’t make up for the sleaziness of this operation.
Don Trump, Jr., has speculated about what the reaction would be if one of the Trump offspring had done this while Trump was in office. We all know exactly what it would be. I’d love for Don to produce a big abstract canvas of his own and offer it for “sale,” just to make the point. He could even have a showing himself if any gallery owner would play along, and call it “The Art of the Steal.”
Compare this new star of the art world to someone like former President George W. Bush, who studied art after leaving politics and has developed into a surprisingly adept portrait artist with a distinctive style.https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-artist-taught-george-bush-paint

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Catholic Church Removes Priest Who Said Catholics Shouldn’t Vote for Pro-Abortion Democrats

National  |  Steven Ertelt  |   Jul 12, 2021   |   1:36PM   |  Washington, DC

A Wisconsin priest who attracted national controversy for telling Catholics to reject the Democratic Party because of its radical pro-abortion stance has been removed from ministry.

On Friday, the Diocese of La Crosse announced a decree from Bishop William Callahan for the removal of Father James Altman, the Catholic News Agency reports.

“The obligation of a bishop is to ensure that all who serve the faithful are able to do so while unifying and building the Body of Christ,” the diocese said in a statement. “Bishop William Patrick Callahan, in accordance with the norms of canon law, has issued a decree for the removal of Fr. James Altman as pastor of St. James the Less Parish.”

In May, Altman told his parishioners that Callahan accused him of being “divisive and ineffective” and asked him to resign. At the time, Altman said he obtained a canon lawyer to challenge the request.

In its statement Friday, the diocese said Callahan and other leaders “spent over a year, prayerfully and fraternally, working toward a resolution related to ongoing public and ecclesial concerns.”

Callahan’s decree is effective immediately, and the diocese said the decision will continue until Altman decides to resolve the problems. It encouraged him to seek out a 30-day retreat to “spiritually heal and recharge and to address the issues that caused the issuance of this decree.”

Under the decree, Altman is prohibited from preaching, baptizing, celebrating Mass publicly and performing marriages. It also requires him to meet with a clergy member once a month and continue to live in the diocese.

“The bishop and all the leadership of the diocese asks for the consideration of respect, safety and prayers at this time for all involved,” the diocese said.

In May, Altman pushed back against claims about being divisive in a message to his congregation.

“Why is anyone accusing me of being divisive as if that’s a bad thing?” he asked parishioners. “If we know that the truth divides exactly as Jesus says, why is any good Catholic complaining about me being divisive? … As a matter of fact good Catholics from around the world have been very supportive. Unfortunately in our cancel culture, if the left whines enough, they want to cancel me.”

Ahead of the presidential election last year, Altman made some strong, controversial statements about Catholics’ role in politics in America.

In a video that drew national attention, the priest insisted that Catholics cannot vote for Democrats because of the party’s radical pro-abortion stance. He faulted “gutless cowards in the clergy” for failing to teach Catholics the truth about God and the value of every human life.

“There will be 60 million and counting aborted babies standing at the gates of heaven barring your Democrat entrance, and nothing you can say will ever excuse you for your direct or indirect support of that diabolical agenda here in the end,” Altman said.

The video has more than 1.2 million views on YouTube.

He also faced criticism for recent comments about the COVID-19 vaccines, racism, women, President Joe Biden and Catholic bishops, according to CNA.

Here’s more from the report:

[In an April interview] Fr. Altman called President Joe Biden “kind of demented.”

In a radio interview that aired March 24 on The Station of the Cross program “The Simple Truth,” Fr. Altman referred to supporters of abortion as “vermin baby-killers.” …

The parish bulletin at St. James the Less has also called COVID-19 vaccines “experimental” and warned parishioners not to be a “guinea pig.”

A message to parishioners, published in the parish bulletin on April 18 and reported by Madison.com on April 26, called each of the three COVID-19 vaccines used in the United States “experimental” and “NOT a vaccine.”

Last year, Altman said “Baloney!” to the people who accuse him of being too political. He said politics fundamentally should be a moral enterprise, and Catholics have a “duty and obligation to speak up” when politicians act immorally.

“The problem in the world today, as it was in Noah’s day … is that there are way too many people who don’t know the first thing about Almighty God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit,” he said at the time. “So truth be told, they do not love Him. And so we can see in the many godless politicians out there … they most definitely are not serving Him. They are not fulfilling their purpose in life to know, to love and to serve God.”

In May, Bishop Joseph Strickland of the Diocese of Tyler, Texas defended Altman in a post on Twitter.

“Fr. James Altman is in trouble for speaking the truth,” Strickland wrote. “I originally supported him when he spoke bold truth during the election. I continue to support him for speaking the truth in Jesus Christ. He inspires many to keep the faith during these dark days. Let us pray for him.”

Last year, Strickland described Altman’s video as “courageous.”

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Call It the Critical Trump Theory:Free Enterprise Is a Miracle for Minorities

By: LAWRENCE KUDLOW

July 13, 2021

Hat Tip: Rip McIntosh


Critical race theory is all the rage among far-left progressive intellectuals, and at least part of it has permeated mainstream chief executives, who should know better. Systemic racism, and CRT, along with something called racial equity, have become both the diagnosis and the solution.
In other words, we need more discrimination to solve discrimination and it all started 250 years ago by a bunch of white males — pardon, white supremacist — males. While I have no doubt there is unfortunately still some discrimination in America, I also totally reject the idea of systemic racism.
It is precisely the genius of American democracy that has fostered huge and equitable changes in race, gender, color, everything. The 1619 project sponsored by the crazy people at the New York times has been disputed up and down the line by highly respected historians.
As I argued on my Independence Day Special, the solution to what ails us can be found in the 1776 project, which is about freedom and the consent of the governed, and the authority of a higher power that makes our system work.
About a year ago, when I served in the Trump administration, I was frequently attacked for my denial of systemic racism. I continue to hold that view. And I could never get straight answers from interviewers on a whole bunch of networks — CNBC, CNN, NBC, and others.
If America is so racist how is it that an African American was elected twice to the presidency? Twice mind you. And during those two victories was supported by 80 million white voters. That is not systemic racism. Nor were the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments, which were triggered by Abe Lincoln and continued under President U.S. Grant.
Nor was the turnaround of the United States military by Harry Truman and the great civil rights achievements by Lyndon Johnson with large-scale Republican help in the Senate. They passed things like the Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act, the Fair Housing Act. The fact that Ku Klux Klan Democrats in the Senate tried desperately to block these reforms, just as they had blocked them for 50 years prior, didn’t stop it from getting done in our representative democracy.
Martin Luther King has always been a hero of mine for arguing the importance of the content of our character rather than the color of our skin. Another hero was Thurgood Marshall, who ran the legal department of the NAACP. And won cases that effectively overturned bad laws. Then he went on to become an outstanding Supreme Court justice.
Now we come to the economic part of this story. Usually, welfare and entitlement subsidies are at the center of discussions of black economic development, but they didn’t work. Government dependency won out over black ownership. During the Trump years, though, a new model was put in place with great success.
In his National Review online article, my friend and Trump alumnus, Scott Turner, writes convincingly with facts about the success of African Americans under free enterprise policies. While Mr. Trump is often accused of being one of the most racist presidents, the facts are that black Americans experienced huge benefits from lower taxes and fewer regulations.
The unemployment rate, pre-pandemic, for blacks reached a record low of 5.2%. The poverty rate for black Americans hit record lows, while a total of 1 million lifted themselves out of poverty. Real median household income for black families rose above $4,000 dollars after falling over the previous 14 years. Black homeownership sky-rocketed.
Median weekly earnings grew 4.1% on average, higher than the 3.4% earnings growth for whites. Scott argues that the 2017 tax cut was crucial, as was the de-regulation of business and perhaps most important, the creation of nearly 9,000 opportunity zones, which attracted roughly $75 billion in capital for under-served communities.
That’s enough to create half a million jobs, lift another million persons out of poverty, by using a simple tool where capital gains of long-term investments were taxed at zero. These are important achievements by a Republican president and a Republican party who are always viciously attacked by the CRT, woke crowd. The wokes, though, are wrong.
And their woke economics of welfare and entitlement subsidies do African Americans over the long run a great disservice and great harm, with poor results. The same holds true for other minority groups. It’s no secret that Mr. Trump’s reelection attracted a big increase in African American voters and a whopping gain from Hispanics.
Give free enterprise a chance, and it will work economic miracles. Unfortunately, President Biden appears to be siding with the woke crowd.

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Identity and Troubled Record of Capitol Cop Who Murdered Ashley Babbitt Revealed

It can be reported with accuracy that the Capitol Police Officer who murdered Ashley Babbit on January 6 is one Lt. Michael L. Byrd.

Published 4 hours ago 

on July 13, 2021

ByWarner Todd Huston

It can be reported with accuracy that the Capitol Police Officer who murdered Ashley Babbit on January 6 is one Lt. Michael L. Byrd, an officer with a troubling record of bumbling and violations.

According to Paul Sperry of RealClearInvestigations, it is beyond doubt that Lt. Byrd, a 53-year-old black man, is the officer who illicitly shot to death unarmed MAGA protester Ashley Babbitt, a 35-year-old US Air Force veteran who was among the crowd of people who entered the Capitol Building on the eventful day of January 6, 2021.

Contrary to the lies by Democrats, there were no armed “insurrectionists” who entered the Capitol that day. And the only person who died during the incursion was Babbitt, show down by the officer who was the ONLY person to fire a shot during the several hours-long event.https://lockerdome.com/lad/10817563773098342?pubid=ld-7985-7177&pubo=https%3A%2F%2Fflagandcross.com&rid=&width=740

Babbitt served two tours in Afghanistan and Iraq before later deployments with the National Guard to Kuwait and Qatar, said her ex-husband, Timothy McEntee.take our poll – story continues below

Even today, though, the U.S. government has officially refused to outright name Byrd as the assassin who took out an innocent military veteran. However, there is one bit of incontrovertible evidence that points to Byrd as the killer.

Per RealClearInvestigations:

In a little-noticed exchange, Byrd was cited by the acting House sergeant at arms during a brief discussion of the officer who shot Babbitt at a Feb. 25 House hearing. Both C-SPAN and CNN removed his name from transcripts, but CQ Transcripts — which, according to its website, provides “the complete word from Capitol Hill; exactly as it was spoken” — recorded the Capitol official, Timothy Blodgett, referring to the cop as “Officer Byrd.” His name is clearly audible in the videotape of the hearing (see video embed further below).

Byrd appears to match the description of the shooter, who video footage shows is an African American dressed that day in a business suit. Jewelry, including a beaded bracelet and lapel pin, also match up with photos of Byrd.

In addition, Byrd’s resume lines up with what is known about the experience and position of the officer involved in the shooting — a veteran USCP officer who holds the rank of lieutenant and is the commander of the House Chamber Section of the Capitol Police.

Following the shooting, Byrd’s Internet footprint was scrubbed, including his social media and personal photos.

But Biden’s government is going all out to shield this killer from accountability.

Because Congress has exempted the USCP from Freedom of Information Act requests, the family is suing the D.C. Police “for documents that identify the officer who shot Babbitt … as well as notes and summaries of what the officer said regarding the shooting and the reasons he discharged his weapon.” (The D.C. Police has led the investigation into Babbitt’s shooting.) A hearing before a judge is scheduled for Sept. 3. Washington-based watchdog Judicial Watch also is suing for the records.

“They sit back, and they completely refuse to release the name of their own police officer that was involved in a shooting of an unarmed woman,” said Ashli Babbitt’s husband, Aaron. “It’s ridiculous, it’s absolutely ridiculous.”

Byrd has a history of questionable actions.

For instance, in 2019, Byrd was investigated for leaving his service weapon laying unattended in a Capitol bathroom. The firearm was Byrd’s service Glock 22, the same style weapon that was reportedly used to murder

Biden is shielding this out of control, dangerous cop from the public.

One has to wonder why?

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