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Monday, October 30, 2023

Senator Claims DOJ/FBI Terminated Investigation Into Dirty Biden Family Business to Keep It Quiet During Trump Impeachment

Senator Claims DOJ/FBI Terminated Investigation Into Dirty Biden Family Business to Keep It Quiet During Trump Impeachment

BY VICTORIA TAFT

The FBI and Justice Department terminated investigations showing illegal money laundering and other dirty deals by Joe Biden and his family. The investigations used 40 confidential human sources and agents all over the country before being shut down during Biden’s run for the presidency. That stunning revelation comes from a letter sent by Senator Chuck Grassley to Attorney General Merrick Garland and FBI Director Chris Wray, who have been ordered to explain why the plug was pulled in December of 2019 — the same month Donald Trump was impeached for alleging the same dirty Biden business.

“Our Republic cannot survive such a political infection,” Senator Charles Grassley warned in a letter to the attorney general and FBI director, accusing both departments of intentionally scuttling and covering up the dozens of sources describing how dirty Joe Biden and his family are.

Fox News was given an exclusive look at the letter Grassley sent to both AG Garland and FBI Director Wray on Tuesday.

No wonder Donald Trump has such a problem with his Attorney General Bill Barr and FBI Director Chris Wray, who were in office at the time of the decision.

The letter said that the infamous FBI’s Washington Field Office halted the search warrants, subpoenas, and overall investigation undertaken by agents at several offices around the country using the 40 intelligence sources.

“Based on the information provided to my office over a period of years by multiple credible whistleblowers, there appears to be an effort within the Justice Department and FBI to shut down investigative activity relating to the Biden family,” Grassley wrote, according to Fox News. “Such decisions point to significant political bias infecting the decision-making of not only the Attorney General and FBI Director, but also line agents and prosecutors.”

To those watching with growing horror the police-state tactics of the FBI and the duplicitous actions of the people who long ago tossed out the balanced scales of justice, this may not sound like a shocking revelation — until you understand the scope of the sources arrayed against Joe Biden and the dirty “family business” with The Big Guy at the center of it.

Grassley, the former chairman and now ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said that 40 FBI sources came forward to give evidence against the president. The investigation into the entire Biden family’s shady dealings with people he oversaw in his official capacity as Barack Obama’s number two started when he was vice president and was suddenly halted in 2019 — conveniently after Joe Biden had made it known he was running for president. FBI investigators had already received and verified Hunter Biden’s laptop by that time.

Fox News reported that “at the time of the closing of the probe, in December 2019, Hunter Biden’s role on the board of Burisma was heavily under the microscope amid the first impeachment of former President Trump.”

The news network reported that “in February 2020, Grassley said a meeting took place at the FBI’s Pittsburgh Field Office, which involved discussion about investigative matters relating to the Hunter Biden investigation and related inquiries.”

Fox News reported that by March 2020, a “‘guardian’ assessment was opened in that office to analyze information about the Bidens provided by then-Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani.”

Grassley’s letter outlined the FBI forms (FD-1023s) from that assessment that included information on the Ukraine payoffs to Hunter Biden. The 2017 1023 form reportedly noted that “the handling agent deemed at the time non-relevant information to the ongoing criminal financial case.”

Rudy Giuliani was privy to Ukraine dirt on Joe Biden and had a copy of the Hunter Biden laptop. Democrats and the Biden Administration have dismissed the information found by Giuliani, the former New York mayor and former chief federal prosecutor for the Southern District of New York. Giuliani’s job included going after the mob. Since his alignment with Donald Trump, Giuliani has been derided by the Democrats as a liar. He’s been prosecuted and persecuted.

Grassley piled on more information in his letter to Garland and Wray, claiming that FBI agents at the Delaware office had evidence in October 2020 that Joe Biden knew all about Hunter Biden’s business dealings, contrary to his protests.

Indeed, Grassley wrote, “Our findings indicated potential criminal activity,” which he said included Biden family “money laundering” and dealings with “questionable foreign nationals and foreign government-linked corporate entities.”

David Weiss, who was then in charge of the Delaware office, is now the special counsel looking into Biden family dirty dealings with both Ukraine and China. The House Oversight Committee, conducting a parallel investigation into the Biden family, also says Romania and other countries were involved in shakedowns from the Biden family.

Grassley demands Garland and Wray respond by November 17.

If past is prologue, they’ll lie their way through the response as they’ve previously done.

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/victoria-taft/2023/10/25/senator-claims-doj-fbi-terminated-investigation-into-dirty-biden-family-business-to-keep-it-quiet-during-trump-impeachment-n1738003

Hakeem Jeffries' Statement on Mike Johnson's Victory Is Skin-Ripping

Hakeem Jeffries' Statement on Mike Johnson's Victory Is Skin-Ripping

BY GRAYSON BAKICH

Have you ever heard an elected official say something so egregiously obvious in its falsehood and/or so nakedly partisan that you want to tear off your own skin with how much it annoyed you?

I have–enough to have coined a new word for it: “flay-tant,” a portmanteau of “flay” as in “skinning” and “blatant.” Given how frequently elected officials say things like this, expect this to become a regular column.

As for this first example, the victory of Representative Mike Johnson (R-LA) as the new speaker of the House (finally) came with a speech by House Minority Leader Representative Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY). In it, Rep. Jeffries said the following:

We faced adversity on September 11th, 2001, when the [Twin] Towers and the Pentagon were unexpectedly struck, killing thousands of lives in an instant. We faced adversity right here in the House of Representatives when on January 6th, 2021, a violent mob of insurrectionists, incited by some in this Chamber, overran the House floor as part of an effort to halt the peaceful transition of power.

Yes, I wanted to rip my skin off too, but how exactly does this demonstrate how “flay-tant” statements work?

As mentioned, the first component of a flay-tant statement is that it is either a bald-faced lie or needlessly partisan. Jeffries here compared one of the most horrific days in American history to people walking into the Capitol building (let in by staff, no less) and possibly goaded into letting hell break loose by implanted federal agents.

But of course, since the people in the Capitol were Trump supporters, they were “a violent mob of insurrectionists,” while the people who just days ago did something similar in support of Palestine haven’t received a word of acknowledgment from Democrats.

So Jeffries’ statement here fits the bill of flay-tant in that regard.

But what really separates flay-tant statements from regular political trash-talk and opinion-spouting is the context and tone in which they are spoken.

If Jeffries said this on MSNBC or CNN or whatever DNC-friendly news outlet (read: much of them) had him, it would still be egregious and worthy of skin-ripping, but expected because that sort of talk is permitted there.

Jeffries made this comparison in a speech that did not really need to be partisan (or laughably false), and his smug, self-righteous tone only makes it look worse.

Former President Barack Obama was (and still is) a master at this. The oldest one that comes to mind is the old “bitter clinger” remark from 2008 when he ran for president for the first time. He was explaining how small-town Midwest-types were frustrated with the lack of community regeneration, and how “they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy toward people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.”

If he was trying to get their vote (he wasn’t), he could have said, “they get bitter, they get distrustful of government and wary of people who talk big about regenerating their communities.” But no, he had to make a flay-tant statement about how people who don’t want to vote for him must somehow be racist fanatical gun nuts.

Or how about when he told Christians not to “get on our high horse” in regard to ISIS and how they justified their violence through religion, because of the Crusades, the Inquisition, slavery and Jim Crow? Did he really need to say that? Of course not.

Or how about just recently, when Obama said Israel’s response to Hamas’ acts of inhuman savagery earlier this month is going to “harden Palestinian attitudes for generations”? Israel has always tried to minimize civilian casualties while Hamas intentionally tries to get as many in the crossfire as possible. Did he really feel the need to make people resist the urge to rip their own skin off at how stupid such a statement is?

I could keep going just on Obama alone, but those are old news, and any skin ripped off back then has regrown to be ripped off at what new people have to say now.

https://pjmedia.com/columns/graysonbakich/2023/10/26/hakeem-jeffries-statement-on-mike-johnsons-victory-is-skin-ripping-n1738092

Has the tide actually turned?

Has the tide actually turned?

October 25, 2023 12:53 pm Robert Zimmerman

Winston Churchill, who recognized you can't negotiate with mass murderers
Winston Churchill, who understood you can never
negotiate with mass murderers

My essay yesterday on the present unstable world situation — sparked by the murderous attack by Hamas on Israel — opened with a noteably pessimistic conclusion:

In the past week, it seems more and more that appeasement is the watchword of the day.

I had come to this conclusion by citing two unfolding events, first Israel’s seemingly endless delays in initiating its promised invasion of Gaza to destroy Hamas, and second, the apparent decision by Republicans in the House of Representatives to choose as their pick for speaker Tom Emmer, the only man running who denied any voter tampering and election fraud in the 2020 election and who also had been a spokesman for an organization funded by George Soros, making him clearly an untrustworthy person to lead conservatives.

One day later there are signs that my pessimism might have been premature. First, the Republicans in the House finally came together today to elect a speaker, choosing Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana), a man who appears not only wholly different than Emmer but in fact almost all Republican speakers since Newt Gingrich. Unlike the moderates of the past three decades, Johnson is a strongly conservative man (pro-life, opposes the queer agenda, skeptical of too much aid to the Ukraine). Maybe the best sense of his fighting spirit is gained from his comments in 2020, when he actually noted Nancy Pelosi’s violation of the law when she tore up the original of Donald Trump’s state of the union speech in January 2020.

Thus, Republican voters might finally have a speaker in the House who is more allied with their goals than the corrupt goals of the establishment based in Washington, DC. The battle itself over the speakership further suggests that the establishment itself is losing power over the Republican Party. In the end the only viable candidates that remained were all Trump supporters who had repeatedly opposed the endless continuing resolutions that the Republican leadership has forever given to its Democratic Party allies.

We shall see however. In matters of politics it always pays to never get too enthusiastic about any positive development, as for the past six decades the positive has too often quickly turned negative.

Next there is the situation in Israel. While the invasion of Gaza remains on hold, there are strong signs the delay is definitely temporary, that though Biden officials really want to convince Israel not to do it, Israel is not budging, and so the U.S. is now being forced to work with it to help make that invasion a success. For example, there are reports that the present delay is now only so that the U.S. can install its missile defense in order to supposedly defend any American troops that might be sent to the region. That this defense system will also protect Israel and its own soldiers and people was not mentioned, though this is a fact as well.

In addition, it appears the mood in Israel is unchanged and implacable. Its people will not accept compromise in this matter. They want Gaza invaded and Hamas destroyed utterly, despite whatever horrible cost this action might entail. They don’t want to kill all Gazans, but they have no stomach for any negotiation that allows its murderous leaders any chance of escape.

To illustrate this determination consider Israel’s reaction to the speech on October 24, 2023 of the UN’s Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, where he appeared to lay the blame for the Hamas massacre on Israel.

“It is important to also recognize the attacks by Hamas did not happen in a vacuum,” Guterres said at a UN Security Council meeting on the Israel-Hamas war, which erupted when the terror group ravaged Israeli border communities, killing some 1,400 people, the vast majority of them civilians.
“The Palestinian people have been subjected to 56 years of suffocating occupation. They have seen their land steadily devoured by settlements and plagued by violence; their economy stifled; their people displaced and their homes demolished.”

Guterres’ words here however are a lie. Nothing he describes has been occurring in Gaza. Israel exited Gaza unilaterially almost two decades ago, giving it back to the people there with no strings attached, even forcing Israelis to give up their settlements and businesses there. There has been no occupation of Gaza by Israel since then.

Hamas and the citizens of Gaza — given this opportunity to build their own free nation — chose instead to make bombs, fire rockets, and finally on October 7th to murder more than a thousand Israelis, including torturing and killing women, children, and babies.

In response to Guterres’ dishonest attack, Israel has not only demanded his resignation, it has now decided to no longer issue entrance visas to UN officials.

Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations Gilad Erdan says the country will deny visas to UN officials after remarks by Secretary-General Antonio Guterres that appeared to justify Hamas’s brutal assault on Israel. “Due to his remarks we will refuse to issue visas to UN representatives,” Erdan tells Army Radio. “We have already refused a visa for Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Martin Griffiths,” Erdan said. “The time has come to teach them a lesson.”

In other words, Israel is no longer interested in the opinions of these apologists for murder. It will make its own decisions, and that decision is to fight.

In fact, the increasing outrage everywhere for these apologists (who can be found everywhere in academia, Hollywood, politics, and the international community) has been most refreshing. These quislings might still be in positions of power, but increasingly larger percentages of the public are no longer accepting their efforts to excuse barbarism and savagery. Either the apologies will stop, or the apologists will have to find other work.

As always, wisdom demands we once again temper this optimism with reality. Even as a strong defiance to the modern corrupt ruling class seems to be rising, a recent poll revealed the horrible fact that more than half of all 18-24-year-olds in the U.S. believe the recent mass murder of Israeli citizens by Hamas was justified. That same poll found that almost half of those polled — with large majorities of those under 54 — think Israel still occupies Gaza, something that has not been true since 2005.

In other words, the younger generation is both ignorant and considers mass murder an acceptable tactic in politics. With numbers like this, it will be difficult for any good news to last. The future still looks grim, unless the good (and educated) people in the world rise up with courage and fight back, without hesitation.

https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/essays-and-commentaries/has-the-tide-actually-turned/

Sunday, October 29, 2023

A Question for Those Who Chant 'Palestine Must Be Free'

A Question for Those Who Chant 'Palestine Must Be Free'

Michael Brown

AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana

I have an honest question for all those who chant (or who affirm the words), “Palestine must be free!” Or, more fully, “From the River to the Sea, Palestine must be free!” My question is simply this: Where would you like the 7 million Jews currently living in Israel (or, “Palestine” in your words) to go? What is your plan?

As many have pointed out, this chant is not a call for a two-state solution. It is a call for the obliteration of Israel.

Better to chant, “We are full of hate! No more Jewish state!”

Why not spell it out?

After all, if you speak of the Israeli occupation of Palestine since 1948 (or, since 1947) and you claim that Israel as a whole is living on stolen land, you are saying, “No more Jewish state!”

More fully, Christian apologist David Wood, Ph.D., who specializes in debating Muslims, sarcastically posted: “Those Jews should go back to Isra- . . . Oops. Um. I mean, they should go back to all the Muslim countries they were kicked out of so that . . . Okay, strike that. They should go to all the Western nations where protestors are calling for their extermination!

Exactly!

More chillingly, Leeor Rose said: “They might show their true colours and follow through with what the Mufti planned from the very beginning.” (The post was accompanied by a photo of Haj Amin Al-Husseini, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem who instigated the massacre of Jews in Hebron in 1929, sitting with Adolph Hitler.)

This was affirmed by Todd Hudnall, who wrote: “From my understanding, for many who say this it means the same thing Haman and Hitler intended, annihilation of the Jewish people.”

Yes, Alexander McKnight noted, “In the sea would be their honest answer.” Or, more concisely still, by Cheeky Tommy, “To hell.”

This sounds very much like the sentiments of some of the Arab leaders who emphatically rejected the UN’s 1947 Partition Plan, just as they had previously rejected the Peel Commission’s plan in 1937.

To quote Haj Amin Al-Husseini in 1936, “There is no place in Palestine for two races. The Jews left Palestine 2,000 years ago, let them go to other parts of the world, where there are wide vacant places.”

Eleven years later, on October 11, 1947 and responding to the UN plan, Azzam Pasha, Secretary-General of the Arab League, said: “It will be a war of annihilation. It will be a momentous massacre in history that will be talked about like the massacres of the Mongols or the Crusades.”

As explained by Daniel Pipes, summarizing the important book Palestine Betrayed by the respected historian Efraim Karsh, “Far from being the hapless victims of a predatory Zionist assault, it was Palestinian Arab leaders who, from the early 1920s onward, and very much against the wishes of their own constituents, launched a relentless campaign to obliterate the Jewish national revival which culminated in the violent attempt to abort the U.N. partition resolution.”

Yes, “Palestine Betrayed reframes today's Arab–Israeli debate by putting it into its proper historical context. Proving that for 90 years the Palestinian political elite has opted to reject ‘the Jewish national revival and [insisted on] the need for its violent destruction,’ Karsh correctly concludes that the conflict will end only when the Palestinians give up on their ‘genocidal hopes.’”

Unfortunately, those genocidal hopes are burning hotter than ever. And Israel, once again engaged in an existential battle with its surrounding enemies, is reminded that it has enemies around the world, all of whom want to see and end to the Jewish state.

Meanwhile, in the UK, London’s Metropolitan Police have ruled that chanting, “From the river to the sea . . .” is not an arrestable offense. Given the trauma this must certainly cause for the UK’s Jewish residents, especially in light of the immense crowds of protesters, numbering as many as 100,000, this is quite disheartening.

It is also quite ironic, given that UK police have arrested street preachers for making LGBTQ+ identified individuals feel uncomfortable because of their religious beliefs. But calling publicly for the extermination of Israel is not arrestable.

One of my American colleagues who does humanitarian work in Israel told me that, for the first time, he has had to block dozens of people at a time for posting antisemitic comments on his social media pages. And, as if to remind us that this wretched disease of irrational Jew-hatred is not going away, one comment on my X feed said this: “Antichrist Jews are not America's responsibility! Do you fools understand that the rabbis want America to fall? They have an interest in bringing down America?”

And lest you think that it’s only Islamic extremists and wacky Jew haters who see no place for a Jewish state, the Wall Street Journal had this to say last year: “Perhaps you thought Israel had long ago established its right to exist as a Jewish state. Guess again. Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran want to eliminate Israel as we know it, but who would have thought they’d find allies in Amnesty International?”

Yes, as the Amnesty International report stated in summary, “Israel has established and maintained an institutionalized regime of oppression and domination of the Palestinian population for the benefit of Jewish Israelis—wherever it has exercised control over Palestinians’ lives since 1948.”

Note carefully those words: since 1948. Nation of Israel, there is no place for you!

I’m aware, of course, that there are plenty of peace-loving, fair-minded Christians, Muslims, and Jews who still hope for a two-state solution or the like. And there are people from all backgrounds who grieve over the suffering and death of thousands of Israeli and Palestinian civilians. I grieve alongside each of them.

But they are not the ones chanting, “From the river to the sea,” and those are the people I’m addressing here.

So, to ask again, where would you like the Jewish people to go, despite more than two thousand years of connection to the Land?

On second thought, I’d rather not know. Any answer will not be good.

https://townhall.com/columnists/michaelbrown/2023/10/25/a-question-for-those-who-chant-palestine-must-be-free-n2630331?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&bcid=15803c7fc8c68b6fd1f0a5e7f4b59fc49df45d48335d4339ad60f7b0a0c7404d&recip=28668535

Here's What Gaetz Believes Johnson's Victory Shows

Here's What Gaetz Believes Johnson's Victory Shows

Leah Barkoukis |

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) said the election of Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA) as speaker of the House shows the strength of the “MAGA movement.”

Johnson took the gavel following a unanimous vote by Republican members of Congress on Wednesday. The House had been left without a speaker for three weeks since Gaetz led a successful effort to oust Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) from the post.

"He talks about single subject spending bills being the organizing principle in the House of Representatives. That is what I've been fighting for since January," Gaetz said, referring to Johnson. "It is the reason Kevin McCarthy was vacated and despite the swamps, best efforts, we got a good godly man who's going to advance Republicans."

The election of Johnson Wednesday came after three other Republicans failed to secure enough support to become speaker.

“The swamp is on the run, MAGA is ascendant and if you don’t think that moving from Kevin McCarthy to MAGA Mike Johnson shows the ascendance of this movement, and where the power of the Republican Party truly lies, then you’re not paying attention,” Gaetz told Steve Bannon on his podcast, War Room.