What a Biden Administration Means for Border Security - Chris Farrell

 

​ by Chris Farrell

Biden's reversals spell doom for overloaded (and closed) hospitals, schools, public housing, and courts. Remember: Biden (and the rest of the Democratic presidential field) promised free healthcare to all illegal aliens.

• "Whenever Obama was in there, drug cartels were so bad that it didn't seem like anybody was fighting the drug cartels... the cartels ruled everything. They ran the dope, they trafficked the young girls, and there were so many more killings." — Border resident, US Southwest.

• "Trump had more Customs and Border Patrol agents at the border. Cattle crossings from Mexico were checked, inspected and limited. The cartels have used cattle to move dope for years. Now they'll go back to moving cattle and laundering money back through the crossing here [Santa Teresa, NM] with less law enforcement. It will be a serious step backwards." — Border resident, US Southwest.

• The Americans paying the very high price for Biden/Harris reckless open borders policy are in border communities. Biden's reversals spell doom for overloaded (and closed) hospitals, schools, public housing, and courts. Remember: Biden (and the rest of the Democratic presidential field) promised free healthcare to all illegal aliens.

• U.S. Customs Service Officer Patricia Cramer, president of the Arizona chapter of the National Treasury Employees Union, revealed in an interview that persons crossing into the United States from Mexico are not health-screened in any way. No temperature taken, no cursory visual exam, nothing.

• Remember: In "COVID-world," you cannot go to the gym, and you must "social distance" in absurd ways -- but the border is open, and no one is screened.

In "COVID-world," you cannot go to the gym, and you must "social distance" in absurd ways -- but the border is open, and no one is screened. Pictured: A fence on the border of Sunland Park, New Mexico, and Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. (Photo by Paul Ratje/AFP via Getty Images)

A Biden administration means two dramatic and dangerous reversals on Trump policies that will endanger the American public: 1. Termination of President Trump's signature 2016 campaign issue -- The Wall; and 2. Loosening of immigration restrictions.

"There will not be another foot of wall constructed on my administration, No. 1," Biden told National Public Radio earlier this year. "I'm going to make sure that we have border protection, but it's going to be based on making sure that we use high-tech capacity to deal with it."

Biden is not really promising any border protection at all. It sounds good, but it is a hollow falsehood. Most of the American public does not know about or has forgotten the $30 billion dollar disaster known as "SBInet." We have been down this "high-tech virtual wall" road before. The only winners were defense contractors. The virtual wall does nothing to deter or prevent unlawful entry across the border. It merely provides surveillance and recording of the illegal activity. Thousands of hours of video recordings of such crossings are available on the internet right now. Technology contractors are encouraged that a Biden administration would like to continue watching and recording millions of people entering the country illegally.

The Americans paying the very high price for Biden/Harris reckless open borders policy are in border communities. Biden's reversals spell doom for overloaded (and closed) hospitals, schools, public housing, and courts. Remember: Biden (and the rest of the Democratic presidential field) promised free healthcare to all illegal aliens.

Biden will reverse Trump policies and rules governing legal immigration. He will -- no doubt -- cancel Trump's so-called "Muslim ban" that barred immigrants from certain countries and curtailed legal immigration, including restrictions on asylum claims.

Biden has a long public record, so you will not be surprised to learn that a few years ago he was proudly in favor of building 700 miles of border fence. Biden had a border hawk position back on November 27, 2006 at a Q&A with a Columbia, SC Rotary Club meeting. Notably, Biden has faced criticism for his past track record on immigration issues. Obama/Biden deported 3 million illegal aliens. The Trump administration deported fewer than 1 million over the last 3+ years.

Court battles will continue, of course. Some Trump administration initiatives are still working their way through the judicial process. Biden has committed to restoring the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which gives deportation relief and work permits to those brought illegally to the U.S. as children. Please remember, many of those "children" are now in their early 30s. The Trump administration tried to end the program, but that effort was blocked by the Supreme Court.

Biden has also glommed onto the "Comprehensive Immigration Reform" mantra, and vowed to initiate a complete system overhaul not accomplished since Reagan's well-intentioned error of 1986. While making that pledge, Biden disavowed workplace enforcement raids and sees no reason why illegal aliens cannot immediately begin receiving public assistance from taxpaying Americans.

Setting aside big national policy considerations, let us focus again on the border communities and the Americans directly at risk. Almost seven years into a Judicial Watch investigation dealing with Mexican Cartel penetration of federal, state and municipal law enforcement organizations in the El Paso, Texas region, we uncovered facts that resulted in the Department of Justice Inspector General taking direct action. Corrupt law enforcement officials at the federal, state and municipal level were removed. Other corrupt officials were effectively "neutralized" through exposure and pressure, even if they were not publicly acted against criminally or administratively. We also uncovered and exposed an El Paso-based narco-terror ring headed by Al Qaeda's director of operations for North America, Adnan El Shukrijuma (deceased), targeting Chicago landmarks. A 48-minute documentary explaining the plot, "The Sun City Cell," can be found on YouTube.

What are Americans in El Paso, Texas, Nogales, Arizona, and San Diego, California concerned about with respect to Biden administration border security? Over the past two weeks, in emails and phone interviews, border residents provided the following observations:

• "Whenever Obama was in there, drug cartels were so bad that it didn't seem like anybody was fighting the drug cartels... the cartels ruled everything. They ran the dope, they trafficked the young girls, and there were so many more killings."
• "Trump had more Customs and Border Patrol agents at the border. Cattle crossings from Mexico were checked, inspected and limited. The cartels have used cattle to move dope for years. Now they'll go back to moving cattle and laundering money back through the crossing here [Santa Teresa, NM] with less law enforcement. It will be a serious step backwards."
• "What happens when the next 'caravan' from Honduras and Guatemala shows up? Does everyone gain immediate access to the country and get free healthcare, no questions asked? That's what they promised. They show crying women and children on the news, but that is a tiny percentage of the people in the 'caravans' -- they are almost all young men -- but the media lies about that and doesn't show the real story. God, help us!"

U.S. Customs Service Officer Patricia Cramer, president of the Arizona chapter of the National Treasury Employees Union, revealed in an interview that persons crossing into the United States from Mexico are not health-screened in any way. No temperature taken, no cursory visual exam, nothing. The "locked-down border" under President Trump is a lie. Now, imagine the health and safety conditions under a Biden administration. Remember: In "COVID-world," you cannot go to the gym, and you must "social distance" in absurd ways -- but the border is open, and no one is screened.

The (purportedly incoming) Biden administration is promoting a 4 to 6 week national lockdown. The country is in the midst of an "Alice in Wonderland" public health crisis -- and the Biden administration is promoting border security and immigration policies that are completely contradictory to what American citizens are enduring.

Is this what we all have to look forward to over the next four years?

 

Chris Farrell is a former counterintelligence case officer. For the past 20 years, he has served as the Director of Investigations & Research for Judicial Watch. The views expressed are the author's alone, and not necessarily those of Judicial Watch. 

Source: https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/16795/biden-administration-border-security 

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The main goal: A united front against Iran - Daniel Siryoti

 

​ by Daniel Siryoti

Despite increasingly warm relations, Saudi officials say that their government will stop short of open normalization with Israel, but is willing to cooperate on issues as diverse as Turkish influence in Jerusalem and the region and peace talks with the Palestinians.

 

The main issue discussed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman in their meeting Monday was the establishment of a joint front against Iran and the nascent administration of President-elect Joe Biden, Saudi officials told Israel Hayom on Monday.

According to high-ranking officials involved in the talks, the Saudis are certain that Biden and his people have already prepared a plan for a new nuclear agreement with the Iranians and want to minimize damage. The officials also said that Riyadh saw Israel as a key ally on the Iranian issue.

Despite the increasing public warmth between the two countries, the Saudi officials stressed that Riyadh would maintain the current status of its relations with Israel, which is what the crown prince told Netanyahu. Nevertheless, Bin Salman presented Netanyahu with surveys by an internationally-renowned research institute that showed that nearly half of Saudis supported normalizing ties with Israel.

The Saudis are worried that the Bin Salman and other officials could be the targets of sanctions and arrest warrants issued by the Biden administration over the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. If that were to happen, Bin Salman told Netanyahu, the Saudis would need Israel's help in dealing with the Americans.

Another subject discussed was the Palestinian question. The Saudis would like to see Israel renew peace talks with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, and agree to the main points of a long-term truce with the Gaza Strip to be brokered by Egypt. Apparently, the Saudis are willing to help supply money to the PA and to Gaza.

Netanyahu and Bin Salman also reportedly discussed Saudi Arabia's concerns about Turkey and the activities of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and a number of Turkish charity organizations that are active on and around the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. In an attempt to check Erdogan's growing influence in the city, Israel will allow the Saudis to operate charity organizations in east Jerusalem. Likewise, Israel will reportedly support the appointment of Saudi representatives to the Muslim Waqf that oversees the Temple Mount.

 

Daniel Siryoti 

 Source: https://www.israelhayom.com/2020/11/24/the-main-goal-a-united-front-against-iran/ 

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Iran Can’t Wait for Biden - Daniel Greenfield

 

​ by Daniel Greenfield

And everyone else is preparing for a war.

 

President Hassan Rouhani celebrated media claims of Biden's victory as “an opportunity for the next US government to make up for past mistakes." “The next American administration will surrender to the Iranian nation," the Iranian leader boasted after the election.

The terrorist state’s vice president hailed the end of President Trump’s “warmongering”.

The Islamic terrorist state has every reason to want Biden in the White House. The full scope of Iran’s interference in our presidential election still remains unknown, but one dirty trick involved sending threatening emails to Florida and Arizona voters from “Trump supporters”. A video showed Iranian hackers supposedly sending in illegitimate absentee ballots using stolen voter data, and the Director of National Intelligence warned that Iran had accessed voter data.

“Iran has no interest in interfering in the U.S. election and no preference for the outcome,” Iran's spokesman at the UN claimed.

But Iran’s preference for Biden is an even worse kept secret than its nuclear program. The Iran Lobby had been investing in Biden before anyone outside D.C. or Delaware knew him.

Forty years ago during the Iran Hostage Crisis, Biden had been against rescuing the American hostages, putting him even further on the appeasement side than the Carter administration.

After September 11, Biden even suggested, “this would be a good time to send, no strings attached, a check for $200 million to Iran.”

In a speech to the American Iranian Council that same year, Biden argued that, "We cannot simply dismiss Iran's security concerns” and urged that American gestures to the Islamic terror state should “not rest on the principle of reciprocity” because Iran wouldn’t respond to them.

He also urged that Iran be allowed to join the World Trade Organization, receive refugee aid, and maintain relations through the AIC and George Soros’ Open Society Institute.

At a 2003 Senate hearing, Biden suggested that Iran was pursuing nuclear weapons because it felt “isolated”, and that its pursuit of weapons of mass destruction had nothing to do with Islam.

During the 2008 election, Biden wanted to reopen a US diplomatic presence in Tehran.

Behind the scenes, Biden had tapped into the Iran Lobby’s fundraising apparatus, raising tens of thousands, which, by the 2020 election had turned into hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Right before the election, Biden released his list of fundraising bundlers. In an exclusive story, Front Page Magazine’s investigation revealed that they included Jamal Abdi, the executive director of NIAC Action. The National Iranian American Council (NIAC), often described as the Iran Lobby, claimed its members had run phone banks and donated $385,000 to Biden.

NIAC Action had endorsed Biden and declared, “our long, national nightmare is almost over. AP has called the race for Joe Biden”. If the Iran Lobby gets its man into the White House, the region will once again fall apart into the brutal war zone that it was under Obama.

The Trump era has seen the signing of multiple peace accords between Israel and Sunni Arab nations. These accords represented a new and unprecedented alliance against Iran and its Islamist allies, both Shiite and Sunni. The latter include Al Qaeda, whose number two was recently assassinated by Israel, acting on intelligence from the United States, in Tehran.

Despite media claims that the Trump administration was dangerous and irresponsible, it pursued a classical foreign policy that minimized our military intervention by bringing together allies who shared common strategic goals to stabilize the region while letting them do the heavy lifting. Israel’s assassination of Al Qaeda’s likely next chief was an example of that. As are the growing commercial and military ties between Israel and some Arab countries that have key things in common: they’re small, vulnerable, and face a likely conflict with Iran and Islamists.

The Trump plan was a mirror image of the Obama plan to withdraw from the region by creating a regional alliance between Iran and Islamists to atone for generations of American foreign policy while hanging Israel out to dry. The Cairo strategy, after toppling multiple Arab governments, turned the region into a bloody war zone and finally collapsed in Syria.

While President Trump had often been attacked for having no plan in Syria, his plan was very clear. He imposed sanctions on Iran, cutting off the cash flow that had been financing its war machine, and made it clear to the Arab governments that America would not intervene. Syria is still a bloody mess, but it lacked the disastrous momentum that Obama provided by supplying the Shiites with money and the Sunnis with weapons while issuing meaningless warnings.

Biden would inevitably jumpstart that bloody civil war. The only question is whether he would do it by just opening up Iran’s banking system while dismantling sanctions, or whether he would also appease Arab countries by supplying Sunni Jihadists with weapons for the full apocalypse. That choice would also determine how much of Joe Biden is actually owned by the Iran Lobby.

Unlike Obama, who was closest to the Muslim Brotherhood, Biden is much closer to Iran.

There is little doubt that Biden would fulfill his old proposal from after September 11. One of his first coronavirus proposals had nothing to do with America, instead it urged the Trump administration to “streamline channels for banking” to the Islamic state and its terrorist forces.

A Biden administration, if allowed to take office, would quickly rush out to convene a sham conference with Iran, in which once again fake metrics would be traded for an end to sanctions. The cash would start to flow again and so would the terror. The Iranian regime would invest its newfound wealth into the Houthis in Yemen, into Hezbollah in Lebanon, and Hamas in Israel.

Along with the IRGC’s worldwide hub of operations which stretch into Africa and Latin America, encompassing drug trafficking into America, and aid to Marxist terrorists in Latin America.

But it’s no coincidence that the peace treaties between Israel and Arab countries were being put into place toward the election. This was not, as some media cynics insisted, an election strategy, but a preparation for four years of American greatness or four years of treason.

The Trump administration’s foreign policy was meant to survive even a renewed Iran.

Putting a Sunni-Israeli alliance into place would limit the need for American intervention if President Trump were in office and, even more importantly, if he were no longer in office. The real test of that alliance will come if Iran renews its closeness to a Democrat administration.

Obama’s old foreign policy operatives have made it clear that they want to turn back the clock. They will try to break up the new alliance between Israel and the Sunni states by offering to back a new campaign in Syria, but the one thing they demonstrated last time around is that the Muslim Brotherhood is at least as dangerous to the Arabs as it is to Israel. Perhaps, more so.

They will also double down on a new effort to force Israel to make concessions to the terrorists while trying to erode President Trump’s efforts to move beyond the “Palestinian” model.

But as long as Iran poses an existential threat to the Arab world, few in the region will care.

Obama signed off on Iran’s nuclear program and the terrorist state is closer than ever to the bomb. If Biden takes office, it is quite possible that Iran will carry out its first nuclear test.

That is why the Iran Lobby invested so much time and energy into backing Biden.

The Obama administration did everything possible to protect Iran’s nuclear program, even long before its nuclear sellout, spying on Israel’s military plans and leaking them to the media, spying on Prime Minister Netanyahu, and even on members of Congress. Biden would do the same.

Forty years ago, Joe Biden opposed military action to rescue American hostages. After four decades of being in bed with the Mullahs, they’re counting on him to help them get the bomb.

Meanwhile the Trump administration is racing against the clock so that no matter what happens in December and January, Biden’s friends in Tehran will run into a region of roadblocks.

Iran went into the Trump era convinced that it just had to hold out for four years. Now Israel and the Arab world are preparing to hold out for another four years against Iran and Biden.

 

Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.  

Source: https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2020/11/iran-cant-wait-biden-daniel-greenfield/ 

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Before peace: The Saudi crown prince's real interests - Oded Granot

 

​ by Oded Granot

Mohammed Bin Salman is very worried about the future, mainly the possibility that a new administration in the White House will harm his country's vital interests.

 

Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman listens during his meeting with US President Donald Trump on the sidelines of the G-20 summit in Osaka in 2019 | Photo: AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File

Israeli flags were not flying in Neom, the futuristic Saudi "smart" city being built on the shores of the Red Sea. National anthems, too, were not played. A photograph with the Saudi crown prince and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wasn't handed to the press, and the official statements emanating from Riyadh only mentioned the bilateral meeting between the Saudi leader and US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.

The Saudi foreign minister, who just a few days ago declared there would be no normalization with Israel before it reaches an agreement with the Palestinians, hastily denied via a tweet on Monday that the meeting with the Israeli premier happened.

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The only plausible inference from the denials in Riyadh is that the young Saudi leader, Mohammed bin Salman, for whom the gigantic Neom initiative comprises part of the vision for marching his country into the future after its oil reserves dry up, still fears making his country's relations with Israel public. These relations, which were kept under wraps for many years, were significantly bolstered over the past four years of US President Donald Trump's presidency.

The crown prince's concerns stem from his father's opposition to any upgrade in relations with Israel that don't coincide with the Arab peace initiative spearheaded by Saudi Arabia nearly 20 years ago, and from assessments that prematurely declaring normalization with Israel could create a rift within the Saudi monarchy – which could sabotage his chances of becoming king.

None of this has prevented the crown prince from energetically encouraging a host of other countries to normalize diplomatic relations with Israel – namely the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain in the Persian Gulf and Sudan in eastern Africa. On Monday, incidentally, Israel sent its first delegation to Sudan to discuss economic and humanitarian cooperation.

Bin Salman opened his country's skies to Israeli flights and signaled, on more than one occasion, that he will not mortgage Saudi Arabia's interests for a resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

All these factors notwithstanding, Bin Salman went ahead with the Netanyahu and Pompeo meeting in Neom, despite the risks of a leak to the media. The reason: Bin Salman is very worried about the future, mainly the possibility that a new administration in the White House will harm his country's vital interests. He is concerned that a Biden administration could return to the nuclear deal with Iran, creating conditions that will only enhance Tehran's appetite for undermining the Saudi monarchy and helping the Houthi rebels in Yemen target the kingdom's oil facilities.

Bin Salman is also worried that a new American administration could be far less tolerant than Trump about human rights violations in Saudi Arabia.

It was amid this backdrop that the alleged non-meeting took place on the Red Sea shores. The Saudi crown prince wants a united front with Israel against the new American administration and its approach to the Iran nuclear deal and he is relying on Israel's past warm relations with Biden's people to also help him open a new page between Riyadh and Washington.

He wants all of this, as stated, without having to sign on the dotted line of a peace deal with Israel and perhaps even open an embassy in Tel Aviv or Jerusalem.

 

Oded Granot  

Source: https://www.israelhayom.com/2020/11/24/before-peace-the-saudi-crown-princes-real-interests/ 

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Are the Republicans Writing Their Own Political Obituaries? - Shama Tobin

 

​ by Shama Tobin

Having your win stolen blatantly and yet concede it without a fight is not a sign of the moral high ground. Instead, it is a death sentence to your political future.

The Republican establishment is trying hard to convince President Trump to concede. Some of the so-called conservative pundits are eager to assure their viewers and readers that now is the time to look forward to 2022 and 2024. There is only one perfect label for them: cowards!

There is massive evidence showing that the Left have committed the greatest election theft in history. Anyone with an open mind can find on the Internet numerous highly credible analyses and facts that show the myriad fraudulent practices the Left used to rig the election. To simply ignore it and hand power to the Democrats means that the Republicans will have written their own political obituaries. Few of the current GOP legislative and executive members will survive in the next elections.

One, under the Biden administration, the investigation on the election fraud will be thrown into the dust bin immediately. Not only that, the Left will be emboldened to expand and improve their manipulative practices in both midterm and general elections. It can easily be conceivable that the Democratic Party will control at least 55 seats in the Senate and 240 seats in the House after the next midterm election. They would also have no trouble winning the White House in 2024 as no Republican candidate will ever stand a chance to win the currently disputed states. Donald Trump will be the last Republican president.

Two, it is true that some support Trump due to his charisma and no-nonsense personality. However, a greater number of those who passionately support him are driven by his America First message and his deep love of country. These are the voters who are tired of being ruled for decades by the ruling class from both sides of the aisles. They have seen enough of the collusion of this class with big business to promote their own self-interest rather than national and middle-class interests. They are globalists who use the American public to boost their political and economic interests.  In Trump, the U.S. middle class found a man with enormous wealth and a great life who used to have friends from both sides of the political spectrum, and yet was willing to enter the political arena only to be tortured mercilessly by his foes and abandoned by his ‘friends.’ For them Trump is akin to a billionaire Robin Hood. They love Trump because he loves them.

Overwhelmingly, these Trump’s supporters see that Trump won the election until the Left stole it from him. They want their President to fight by all legal means until he eventually wins. If this election theft is allowed to pass, they will not bother to vote for Republicans in future elections.

Third, during the last presidential debate, Biden has made it clear that within 100 days of his presidency, he will be sending to the United States Congress a pathway to citizenship for over 11 million undocumented aliens. As I analyzed its potential political impact, this initiative could immediately add at least eight million voters to Democrat voting blocs. This would turn Texas, Florida, and Georgia blue and thus eliminate the possibility of Republican president and Senate as well as a House majority for an unforeseeable future.  

Losing in a fair and honest political race is natural. In such a case, the best way going forward is indeed to regroup and prepare for the next race. But having your win stolen blatantly and yet concede it without a fight is not a sign of the moral high ground. Instead, it is a death sentence to your political future.

The so-called conservative pundits who have such an attitude have nothing much to lose. They will still have their jobs. But the defeatist Republican politicians have no business being in politics.  

The single admirable trait of the Left is their tendency to be united in fighting their political opposition. As President Trump and his legal team are mounting the fight against overwhelming opposition due to the Left’s total control of the media and narrative, the GOP must be united. For starters, all the current and upcoming GOP senators and congressmen/women may need to come together to the White House to express unity. After all, whether they realize it or not, the result of this election fiasco will determine not only the fate of the Republic, but also their own political survival. 

Image: Bernard DuPont

 

Shama Tobin  

Source: https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/11/are_the_republicans_writing_their_own_political_obituaries.html 

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Why Industrial Scale Fraud Is Just So Hard To Hide - Jay Valentine

 

​ by Jay Valentine

The bigger the fraud, the harder it is to hide and thus the greater probability it is all going to come out.

People, we need to talk.

Way too many are caught in a media-induced despondency, knowing the presidential election was stolen, in the dark of night, vote counting suddenly stopped, vote counts on the television switched from Trump to Biden – yet each thinks he or she is the only one who saw it.

Why do I feel so alone?

Nobody can hide industrial scale fraud, of any sort, for long:  Medicaid fraud, stock manipulation, fake invoices.  The bigger the fraud, the harder it is to hide and thus the greater probability it is all going to come out.  The words "…this would be the crime of the century" will likely be Tucker Carlson's "read my lips, no new taxes…." a year from now.

Let's talk about industrial level fraud. 

It's all over the place. 

Our teams uncovered some of the largest Medicaid fraud rings in the country.  Doctors, attorneys, chiropractors, groups of recent immigrants all living in the same apartment building in Patterson, NJ.  These connections were one of the largest "swoop and squat" insurance frauds ever discovered.

We broke the largest internet auction fraud in history and built the technology that enabled a major tech company to determine that Mary Jones was actually Sam McCarthy and Steven Simms, even though they had not a single field in common.

We know a bit about industrial scale fraud.  So do a lot of people. 

Remember Bernie Madoff?

Bernie was able to defraud some of the greatest talents in America for decades because he was just a charming guy.  Or so they said. 

Meet Harry Markopolos.  Harry is reported to be a bit of an eccentric, as many fraud investigative types are, and beginning as early as 2001 he started sending the Securities and Exchange Commission materials showing the Madoff stuff was a scam.

Nobody listened.  People kept investing.  $50 billion of fraud here, so it does qualify as industrial scale even though one guy did all the work.  Apparently, Bernie and Harry were not pals so Harry did not get subjected to the Bernie charm.  Harry saw the fraud – just like the "Emperor has no clothes" tale we learn as children.  Nobody paid attention.  It all fell apart because Bernie could not continually increase the scale of a Ponzi scheme.  That is the fatal flaw in Ponzi stuff.

Meet Elizabeth Holmes.  Liz is the poster child (she was 19) who founded Theranos, a Silicon Valley company who created a machine to spin straw into gold.  Or more accurately, a machine that could take a pinprick of blood and diagnose scores of diseases or conditions.  Elizabeth Holms was far more colorful than Bernie Madoff always being photographed in a black turtleneck with her remarkable blue eyes and blonde hair.

Elizabeth ran an industrial scale fraud.  She is now awaiting trial and her counsel is looking to make the insanity defense.  Really, no kidding.

The insanity was her board of directors:  Henry Kissinger, William Perry (former Secretary of Defense), Mad Dog Jim Mattis, remember him?  And rounding out the team with a core Republican, meet George Shultz.

Everything was just going swimmingly for Liz and the team.  Google her name and see the adoring press.  Except there was this one guy, John Carreyrou, an intrepid reporter at the Wall Street Journal.  Acting on a tip, he started digging in and learned the machines not only did not work, the blood tests were faked.

Carreyrou wrote a book and I commend it to you for the details.  But what is relevant here is how these famous names, and their lead attorney, David Boies, circled the wagons to essentially deny the allegations.  Apart it fell.  Investors sued.  Board members quit.  You know the drill.

What is important in both examples is that smart people who should have known better denied the fraud even when an outside person showed it to them in black and white.  Shultz even had his nephew, who worked at Theranos, tell him it was a scam and he believed Liz.  Wonder where the nephew is having his Thanksgiving dinner.

Smart people do that.  It is one of the best covers for fraud – people will fight their own lying eyes, their own common sense, because they want to believe they were not stupid.  They want to believe Liz and Bernie are just great people.  So they do. 

The problem starts with Harry Markopolos and Carreyrou, and now Sidney Powell and Lin Wood.  These people are a major pain in the butt. 

First, they won't go away.  Second, they keep digging, third, they find stuff, then they pull a thread and they get a starting point.

That one honest person or two, here, are Kryptonite to industrial scale fraud.

When investigating industrial level fraud, the most important part is the starting point.  "Why is this thing happening this way?"  "This is peculiar."  "Hmmmm."

Sidney Powell, Lin Wood and their team are pulling a bunch of threads, starting points.  When things start to fall apart, they cascade.  First a few clues come in, then a bunch then everything comes loose.

In the early day, which is now, there is a human tendency for many not believe their lying eyes.  The media, all in on this, promote that the Liz and Bernie equivalents are nice people, there is no proof of fraud.  That's what Markopolos and Carreyrou heard too.

Witnesses were threatened.  Attorneys attacked for probing.  Carreyrou saw a bit of that.  Even after Carreyrou published his first story about Theranos fraud, the Wall Street Journal management had Liz at one of their events.  This is how this stuff works!

In the end, which is not far out, it all comes apart.

It always does.  Industrial scale fraud is not sustainable because lies that big just cannot be hidden.

Sidney Powell and Lin Wood aren't going away.

Get some sleep.

Jay Valentine's website is www.JayValentine.com.

 

Jay Valentine  

Source: https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/11/why_industrial_scale_fraud_is_just_so_hard_to_hide.html 

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Cooperate with China or World War 3: Kissinger - Gordon G. Chang

 

​ by Gordon G. Chang

[I]n a little over 14 minutes Kissinger managed to totally misinterpret Chinese history, support Beijing's most important foreign policy goal, and give deeply misguided advice to Joe Biden.

• [I]n a little over 14 minutes Kissinger managed to totally misinterpret Chinese history, support Beijing's most important foreign policy goal, and give deeply misguided advice to Joe Biden. Kissinger has evidently learned nothing from years of dangerous Chinese behavior, which is partly the result of his policy formulations.

• China's troubled past, in short, is an excuse. What, after all, is it in history that justifies present-day Chinese aggression against India, Bhutan and Nepal, or its designs on Tajikistan, the Philippines and Malaysia? Moreover, what justification is there for the Communist Party's declaration of a "people's war" on the United States in May of last year?

• Xi Jinping, the one man in China's system, is now propagating the audacious concept of tianxia, that "all under heaven" owe allegiance to Beijing.

• There are, unfortunately, some points in history when dialogue makes matters worse because hardline leaders perceive others' desire to talk as a sign of weakness.

• What is the best indication that Kissinger is wrong? Beijing at the moment is waging a concerted propaganda campaign to push his views as widely as possible. When your enemy wants you to do something, it is almost always not in your interest.

China is aggressive and militant at this moment because of the nature of its communist regime, which is quickly driving the country back to one-man rule and totalitarianism. Xi Jinping, the one man in China's system, is now propagating the audacious concept of tianxia, that "all under heaven" owe allegiance to Beijing. (Photo by Kevin Frayer/Getty Images)

"I would think we need first of all a dialogue with the Chinese leadership in which we are defining what we're attempting to prevent and in which the two leaders agree that whatever other conflicts they have they will not resort to military conflict," Henry Kissinger told Bloomberg News Editor-in-Chief John Micklethwait on November 16 at the Bloomberg New Economy Forum. "Unless there is some basis for some cooperative action, the world will slide into a catastrophe comparable to World War I."

Of course no one wants war of any type with China, but in a little over 14 minutes Kissinger managed to totally misinterpret Chinese history, support Beijing's most important foreign policy goal, and give deeply misguided advice to Joe Biden. Kissinger has evidently learned nothing from years of dangerous Chinese behavior, which is partly the result of his policy formulations.

We start with history, because Kissinger was once an accomplished historian and his incorrect opinions on China today appear to flow from his unsupportable views of the Chinese past. He makes the case that Americans cannot understand Beijing's insecurity.

"Americans have had a history of relatively uninterrupted success," he noted. "The Chinese have had a very long history of repeated crises. America has had the good fortune of being free of immediate dangers. Chinese have usually been surrounded by countries that have had designs on their unity."

Even if his comments were true, no country now threatens China. China, in fact, has not faced any credible external threat to its unity for more than seven decades. The Communist Party dwells on history, such as the so-called "Century of Humiliation," the subject of ruler Xi Jinping's National Day speech last October, because that telling of history suits the needs of today's insecure regime.

China's troubled past, in short, is an excuse. What, after all, is it in history that justifies present-day Chinese aggression against India, Bhutan and Nepal, or its designs on Tajikistan, the Philippines and Malaysia?

Moreover, what justification is there for the Communist Party's declaration of a "people's war" on the United States in May of last year?

China is aggressive and militant at this moment because of the nature of its communist regime, which is quickly driving the country back to one-man rule and totalitarianism. Xi Jinping, the one man in China's system, is now propagating the audacious concept of tianxia, that "all under heaven" owe allegiance to Beijing.

There are, unfortunately, some points in history when dialogue makes matters worse because hardline leaders perceive others' desire to talk as a sign of weakness.

In any event, dialogue assumes that Chinese leaders can compromise, which at this point is a dubious proposition. For instance, Beijing last compromised a territorial claim in 2011 — with Tajikistan, when it took Tajik territory — but now is trying to reopen the settlement to grab even more. Since then, Beijing has added new claims — to the South China Sea — and has laid the groundwork for additional ones, especially over Japan's Ryukyu chain.

The absence of Chinese goodwill leaves America a last resort: deterrence.

Kissinger, often cited as a deterrence expert, is now not a fan of it. When Micklethwait asked him whether he favored the notion of Biden advisors that democracies should unite in a coalition, the 97-year-old "grand consigliere of American diplomacy" — the Financial Times's description — was noncommittal. "I think democracies should cooperate wherever their convictions allow it or dictate it," he replied. "I think a coalition aimed at a particular country is unwise, but a coalition to prevent dangers is necessary where the occasion requires it." In Kissinger-speak, that is a "no" to international cooperation against Beijing.

Given what could be happening inside Communist Party political circles, there may now be no way to avoid war with a militant Chinese state. Yet whether peace is possible or not, it should be clear to Kissinger that the approach he has supported, and which has been adopted by every American president since President Nixon went to China in 1972, has contributed to Chinese aggressiveness. Kissinger, by urging conciliation when Beijing has made clear it cannot be appeased, has helped produced today's grave situation.

Let us remember that Kissinger has always been intimidated by large communist states. He advocated détente in the early 1970s when he assumed there was no way to prevail over the Soviet Union. Reagan, after refusing to accept the USSR as a given, proved him dead wrong.

And Kissinger is dead wrong now. "Trump has a more confrontational method of negotiation than you can apply indefinitely," Kissinger told Micklethwait, appearing to speak to Joe Biden. That, James Fanell, the noted Swiss-based China strategist told Gatestone, is "an unambiguous declaration of Dr. Kissinger's defeatism."

As Fanell, a former director of Intelligence and Information Operations of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, said, Kissinger believes the U.S. "cannot compete with the People's Republic of China."

America, however, is far stronger than China's regime and has allies, which China, other than North Korea, does not. Moreover, the U.S. is knitting together a formidable coalition — the Quad with Australia, India, and Japan — giving Washington the ability to continue to confront Beijing on every front. The Chinese state is no match for nations, both near and far, it seems determined to antagonize.

What is the best indication that Kissinger is wrong? Beijing at the moment is waging a concerted propaganda campaign to push his views as widely as possible. When your enemy wants you to do something, it is almost always not in your interest.

Kissinger essentially said the choice for America is cooperation or war, a narrative he has propagated in recent interviews. Yet repetition will not make his false dichotomy so. Countries can, between these two extremes, choose confrontation and deterrence. World War II in Europe, for example, started because Britain and France chose not to confront the Third Reich when doing so — in 1936 during the attempted remilitarization of the Rhineland — would have ended the German military threat.

Micklethwait started out the interview by asking about the Congress of Vienna, the subject of Kissinger's A World Restored: Metternich, Castlereagh and the Problems of Peace 1812-22. "Whenever peace—conceived as the avoidance of war—has been the primary objective of a power or a group of powers, the international system has been at the mercy of the most ruthless member of the international community," he wrote. "Whenever the international order has acknowledged that certain principles could not be compromised even for the sake of peace, stability based on an equilibrium of forces was at least conceivable."

Kissinger ducked the question and, for some reason, is now suggesting the United States put itself at the mercy of the world's most ruthless regime.

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Gordon G. Chang is the author of The Coming Collapse of China, a Gatestone Institute Distinguished Senior Fellow, and member of its Advisory Board. Follow him on Twitter and Parler @GordonGChang.

Source: https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/16785/china-kissinger-war 

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it's in the Code: Hanky-Panky in Virginia's Votes - Nick Chase

 

​ by Nick Chase

Hundreds of thousands of "votes lost, " a sure indicator of fraud, even though those votes are not being recounted, nor are there legal challenges

Based on Internet blogger "Pede's" analysis of "votes switched" from Trump to Biden, and of "votes lost" (thrown away) -- mostly votes for Trump, and my own analyses to detect imaginary "votes added" for Biden, I have decided to continue examining states where everylegalvote.com says ballot fraud occurred in the 2020 presidential election.

 

"Pede" identified two states -- Virginia and Minnesota -- where there were hundreds of thousands of "votes lost, " a sure indicator of fraud, even though those states' votes are not being recounted, nor are there legal challenges. Additionally, AT's Andrea Widburg, on November 16 in "There may have been massive voter fraud in Virginia", noted strange happenings in the vote totals and allocations in the wee hours of November 4. I have read the JSON code provided by the New York Times (see below), and I concur.

 

 

Translating the code in the graphic above, we see that at 11:03 PM EST on November 3, total votes were 2,724,165, and Trump had 1,419,290 votes (52.1%), Biden had 1.258,564 votes (46.2%), other candidates had 46,311 votes (1.4%).

 

Between 11:14 and 11:42 came a big Biden vote dump. At 11:43, when the dump had ended, total votes were 3,368,181, and Trump had 1,512,627 votes (45.8%) and Biden had 1,771,663 votes (52.6%). During this half-hour period when the fraudsters switched the lead from Trump to Biden, Trump gained 93,337 votes (a 6.58% increase), and Biden gained 513,099 votes (a 40.77% increase). That is, there were about 5.5 Biden votes for every Trump vote during this interval.

 

Before the dump, during the heat of the count, Trump votes were rolling in at the rate of almost 8,000 per minute. After the dump (in the half-hour that followed), Trump votes accumulated at the rate of about 1,900 per minute. During the dump, Trump votes piled up at the rate of 2300 per minute, so it appears to me that those Trump votes were being counted more-or-less honestly, without any "votes switched" or "votes lost". So, Biden's outsized vote tally I rate as "votes added", and by my calculation this means about 479,337 fraudulent votes were created for Biden.

 

Now we come to the real craziness that happened just after midnight on November 4. Here is the JSON code from the New York Times between 12:04 AM and 12:01 PM EST:

 

 

And here is my line-by line description of the "events" that the code identifies. I've numbered these lines so I can refer back to them:

 

1.     12:04 AM, total votes 3,524,459; Trump 1,617,727 votes (45.9%), Biden 1,846,817 votes (52.4%).

2.     12:07 AM, total votes 3,572,807; Trump, 1,643,491 votes (46.0%), Biden 1,872,151 votes (52.4%).

3.     12:12 AM, total votes 3,199,165; Trump, 1,605,981 votes (50.2%), Biden 1,541,998 votes (48.2%).

4.     12:26:21 AM, total votes 3,390,813; Trump, 1,678,452 votes (49.5%), Biden 1,654,717 votes (48.8%).

5.     12:26:48 AM, total votes 3,782,386; Trump, 1,758,890 votes (46.5%), Biden 1,963,058 votes (51.9%).

6.     12:30 AM, total votes 3,390,813; Trump, 1,678,452 votes (49.5%), Biden 1,654,717 votes (48.8%).

7.     12:38 AM, total votes 3,439,609; Trump, 1,699,167 votes (49.4%), Biden 1,685,408 votes (49.0%).

8.     12:42 AM, total votes 3,441,979; Trump, 1,700,338 votes (49.4%), Biden 1,686,570 votes (49.0%).

9.     12:43 AM, total votes 3,442,999; Trump, 1,700,841 votes (49.4%) Biden 1,687,070 votes (49.0%).

10.  12:58 AM, total votes 3,488,507; Trump, 1,709,368 votes (49.0%), Biden 1,719,834 votes (49.3%).

11.  1;34 AM, total votes 3,498,592; Trump, 1,717,808 votes (49.1%), Biden 1,724,806 votes (49.3%).

12.  2:17 AM, total votes 3,894,363; Trump, 1,795,301 votes (46.1%), Biden 2,032,857 votes (52.2%).

13.  4:00 AM, total votes 4,157,392; Trump, 1,916,558 votes (44.8%), Biden 2,224,204 votes (53.5%).

14.  4:59 AM, total votes 4,312,181; Trump, 1,927,545 votes (44.7%), Biden 2,315,641 votes (53.7%).

15.  8:02 AM, total votes 4,312,181; Trump, 1,927,545 votes (44.7%), Biden 2,315,641 votes (53.7%).

 

Here is, in my opinion, the explanation for the screwy stuff that was going on between midnight and 4 AM on November 4:

 

Remember, earlier in the evening of November 3 Trump had a huge lead of 500,000-plus votes which the crooks had to eliminate; thus between 11:14 and 11:43 they created an enormous, out-of-thin-air surge of almost a half-million votes for Biden which, at 11:33 PM on November 3, suddenly flipped the lead in the race from Trump to Biden.

 

But this fraudulent maneuver had two problems. First, it was hard to believe, a sudden vote swing of 4.5% in just 8 minutes; and second, those half-million fake Biden votes might show more "votes" cast than there were registered voters to cast them, making the fraud immediately obvious. So the crooks had to lower the overall vote total to bring it more into line with the 2016 and prior presidential elections.

 

In Line 2 you see what was probably the running count of the total votes before the fakers got to work -- 3,572,807 votes.

 

In Line 3, at 12:12 AM, the fraud began, by calling up data that looks like was from an hour earlier. Total votes suddenly shrank to 3,199,165, a loss of 373,462 votes.

 

In an honest election the vote totals never go backwards. They always get larger, because votes are continually being counted and added to the totals. This is prima facie evidence of fraud being committed, by humans directly intervening in the tabulation of votes, in real time. Software "algorithms" don't work this way; the do their dirty work surreptitiously, in small increments.

 

However, the old data in Line 3 also flipped the election back to Trump (50.2%) from Biden (48.2%) -- definitely not what the crooks wanted. Also, from Line 2 to Line 3 Biden lost 37,510 votes, and it was important to the fraudsters to recover those. So in Lines 4 and 5 they got to work, restoring Biden's lead (51.9%) by adding 421,060 Biden votes compared to Trump's (46.5%) additional 152,909 votes.

 

But this action inflated the overall vote total to 3,782,386, which re-created the problem of too many total votes. So the crooks backtracked. They "deleted" Line 5 by "restoring" the data in Line 4. If you look at Line 4 and Line 6 (highlighted in yellow), you will see that they have identical data, except for the timestamp.

 

Thereafter, the vote thieves proceeded more cautiously, slowly bleeding votes from Trump and adding them to Biden (Lines 7 through 14) until, at 5 AM, the race was over.

 

As far as I can tell, the 372,462 votes that were thrown away at 12:12 AM never came back, except to the extent the fraudsters created votes out of thin air for Biden.

 

During the past two decades, enough D.C. swamp dwellers have settled in the northern Virginia suburbs to turn the state from red to purple, so it's possible that Basement Biden would have won the state without the fraud. But that’s not the point.

 

The point is that the U.S.A won't survive as a free country without honest elections. The evidence I have shown here, by itself, should be sufficient to say that the Virginia 2020 election has been irredeemably corrupted, and the results should not be certified. And if they are certified, they should be contested in court. And a criminal investigation should be opened to identify and prosecute the vote thieves, and when they're found guilty, they should be put in jail for a long, long time.

 

Virginia

 

November 21 unofficial vote totals: Trump -- 1,958,619, Biden -- 2,384,014.

"Pede's" numbers: Votes switched from Trump to Biden -- 12,163; "Lost votes" -- 789,023.

    (remember, I'm allocating 85% of "lost votes" to Trump, 15% to Biden)

Deduction for fraudulent electronic votes added to Biden: -- 479,337.

Adjusted totals: Trump -- 2,629,289 (56.5%), Biden -- 2,023,030 (43.5%).

Trump wins (13 electoral votes).

 

Previous articles in this series: Examining the code, internet geeks conclude 'Trump's win was yuuuge'; 'Lost votes' are fraud votes; It's in the code: Trump won Michigan and Wisconsin.

 

Nick Chase is a retired but still very active writer, editor and webmaster, and records classical music concerts for radio broadcast. You can read more of his work on the American Thinker website and at contrariansview.org.

Source: https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/11/its_in_the_code_hankypanky_in_virginias_votes.html 

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A song of gratitude - Joseph Frager, MD

 

​ by Joseph Frager, MD

It is time for a song of thanks in gratitude for the events of last week.

 

Pompeo and Netanyahu                                                           Matty Stern/U.S. Embassy Jerusalem

It is said that King Hezekiah would have become the Messiah had he sung Shirah (Song of Thanks) after God miraculously delivered 185,000 Assyrian soldiers into his hands on one fateful night around 700 BCE. Unfortunately, he failed to do so. We cannot make the same mistake.

After the events of last week, it is again time to sing Shirah, and we should not miss the opportunity. For the very first time in American history a U.S. secretary of state visited areas of Israel that—until the Trump administration came along—were not fully recognized or even acknowledged as part of the land of Israel.

On Nov. 18 last year, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo took the unprecedented step of declaring that the cities and towns of Judea and Samaria are not “inconsistent with international law.”

Last week, he went further by visiting Judea and Samaria, illustrating that the settlements there not only are “not illegal,” but—without using the word—part of Israel’s “sovereign” territory.

It would be great, of course, if the Trump administration approved the extension of Israeli sovereignty once and for all over all of Judea and Samaria. Pompeo should be applauded not only for his visits to the City of David in Jerusalem, Psagot and the Golan Heights, but for his pronouncement that the United States would henceforth view the international BDS movement as anti-Semitic.

The second event that the Jewish people must sing the “Song of Thanks” for is the U.S. Justice Department’s decision to declare that Jonathan Pollard, after 30 years in prison and another five on restricted parole, was free to emigrate to Israel. The Justice Department declared, “This is in accordance with the statute, the commission has ordered that, as of today, his parole supervision is terminated and he is no longer subject to the conditions of parole.”

These are great accomplishments for the Jewish people. The Pompeo visit and the Pollard decision should give the younger generations a great deal of inspiration. So much more has to be accomplished. Besides extending Israeli sovereignty to all of Judea and Samaria, the Jewish people in America and in Israel have to be brought back to their roots, to the straight and narrow—to Torah Judaism.

This is not a fantasy. It can be done. Not many thought the State of Israel would be reestablished after 2,000 years, but sure enough it was. Hard work pays off. Keep the faith and sing Shirah.

 

Dr. Joseph Frager is first vice president of the National Council of Young Israel.

Source: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/291820 

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