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CNN’s Desperation to Rewrite the ‘Biden Vaccine’ History Inoculating a country from the truth. Brad Slager

Posted By on May 13th, 2021

https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/05/cnn-has-become-desperate-rewrite-biden-vaccine-brad-slager/

After President Biden gave his historic speech before (some of) Congress last Wednesday evening CNN hosted a panel of leftist sycophants to analyze the night. The blatantly slobbering affair was full with fulsome praise for the man, but then Gloria Borger took things to a new level. The expert analyst was being critical of some comments made by Donald Trump, where she was perturbed that the former President was not giving the current President proper credit on his pandemic response.

Borger made the astounding announcement that, “everybody understands that Operation Warp Speed happened under Joe Biden.” It is something to behold.

Over on CNN, Gloria Borger claims “everybody understands that Operation Warp Speed happened under Joe Biden.”

No one issues a correction. pic.twitter.com/cHBvTde32w

— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) April 29, 2021

Note here not only her fractured view of the facts, but that nobody on the panel made anything close to a correction to her statement. Later, Gloria did circle back and made a correction on her statement — sort of. She tries to have it both ways, saying Trump gets credit for Operation Warp Speed, but it is Joe Biden who is responsible for people actually becoming vaccinated.

The term “gaslighting” has become slightly overused these days, but Borger’s attempted realignment of facts here fits the term and it is hardly something isolated with her performance on Wednesday. CNN as a network has been hard at work over the past 100 days to recast the vaccine narrative and give full credit to Joe Biden for the three vaccines brought to market by Donald Trump — the vaccines he was mocked over when he made his bold announcement of their rapid arrival.

Just one day earlier CNN gave a lengthy report on Biden’s supposedly heroic effort to get America vaccinated, calling it “a wartime effort” and echoing another entry the day prior, describing the administration as having instituted a concerted effort to fix the vaccine rollout. If this sounds suspiciously like ad copy penned by the DNC, and filtered through the White House Press Office you are correct in that feeling:

The effort, described to CNN during in-depth interviews with three of the administration’s top Covid advisers and two other White House officials, has allowed the US to go from having one of the worst Covid responses in the world to being a global leader in getting shots in arms.

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The Never-Ending NeverTrumpers Serving the Democrat Party since 2015. Bruce Thornton

Posted By on May 13th, 2021

https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/05/never-ending-nevertrumpers-bruce-thornton/

In the annals of American history, the campaign and ensuing administration of Donald Trump stand out for the intensity of hatred The Donald aroused not just among Democrats, but Republicans as well. That progressives would despise a president whose slogan was “Make America Great Again” is no surprise. The Left’s hatred of the U.S. has been obvious for decades. The real surprise came from self-identified conservative Republicans whose irrational attacks on Trump’s brash, demotic persona made explicit what many of us always suspected: That they have more in common with their fellow cognitive elites than they do with their political base who do not belong with the bicoastal and university-town political grandees.

Despite the wages of functioning as a fifth column for the progressive “resistance”–– the most left-wing administration in American history–– the NeverTrump Republicans (NT) are still not giving up. Congressman Liz Cheney, the chairman of the House Republican Conference, is the current prime example, and the Republican caucus should repudiate her attacks on Trump by removing her as the third most powerful member of the House Republican caucus.

Given the stakes of letting this administration keep control of the House and Senate in 2022, Republicans must marginalize those in their caucus who continue to repeat Democrat talking-points and demonize Donald Trump, for whom 75 million people voted and still support in high numbers.

A sign that Cheney is carrying water for an administration that is not liberal or moderate, but outright Leftist, comes from the praise she is getting from Dem politicos and pundits. We need to follow the principle of Antisthenes, the Greek philosopher who after being told rascals were praising him, said he felt as if he’d done something horribly wrong. When a Democrat praises Republican politicians like John McCain, Mitt Romney, George W. Bush, or John Kasich, what they’re really saying is this chump can be rolled and serve the Dems’ partisan interests.

Liz Cheney, or “Lynne” as her new BFF Nancy Pelosi calls her, is in trouble with her caucus for taking to the progressive Pravda, The Washington Post, to attack Donald Trump and any Republican who doesn’t join in the NT damnatio memoriae of one of the most effective––and popular–– conservative presidents since Ronald Reagan. Along the way she recycled some of the partisan political folklore that has grown out of the January 6 attempted “coup” on the part of Trump supporters who supposedly had been riled up by the president’s reckless rhetoric.

Like most NTs, Cheney’s obsession with Trump leads her to unseemly virtue-signaling. In her Post op-ed, she calls for Trump’s ouster from the Republican fold with bombastic civic piety: “Trump is seeking to unravel critical elements of our constitutional structure that make democracy work — confidence in the result of elections and the rule of law. No other American president has ever done this.”

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A Dangerous Pick at Justice Susan Hennessey’s Russia role undermined electoral legitimacy.

Posted By on May 13th, 2021

https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-dangerous-pick-at-justice-11620860011?mod=opinion_lead_pos2

Even as the 2020 stolen-election myth continues to tear at the GOP, the Biden Administration is elevating a key figure in the campaign to delegitimize Donald Trump’s election in 2016.

Susan Hennessey of the Brookings Institution announced this week on Twitter that she is joining the Justice Department’s national security division, where Politico reports she will be senior counsel. The post doesn’t require Senate confirmation, but it can play a role in election-related investigations and enforcement.

Ms. Hennessey made her name as a commentator by hyping Russian collusion allegations. A former National Security Agency lawyer, she bestowed phony credibility on the Steele dossier after the 2016 election. In 2017 she wrote that the unlawful leak of National Security Adviser Michael Flynn’s conversations with the Russian ambassador “posed a countervailing set of extraordinary circumstances.” She tweeted in 2019 that the decision to drop charges against Mr. Flynn was “an astonishing assault on the rule of law.”

Ms. Hennessey has an undisguised partisan interest in the Russia probe, which is still being investigated by U.S. Attorney John Durham. After the 2020 election, Ms. Hennessey tweeted that Mr. Durham’s work was “partisan silliness.”

Then there’s the investigation of Rudy Giuliani, who was recently the target of search warrants, apparently over dealings in Ukraine. Leaks to the press—perhaps from Justice—claimed falsely that the FBI had briefed him on a Russian disinformation campaign. Ms. Hennessey is the wrong person to be anywhere near these investigations, or anything that involves her miles-long list of people she loathes.

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Biden’s Stale Rerun Of That ’70s Inflation Show

Posted By on May 13th, 2021

https://issuesinsights.com/2021/05/13/bidens-stale-rerun-of-that-70s-inflation-show/

Among the young, hip, Woke crowd, faux-nostalgia for the fabulous 1970s is all the rage these days. Well, if it’s the ’70s they want, it’s the ’70s they’ll get. And good and hard, as the saying goes. Seen inflation lately?

April consumer price inflation surged 4.2% over the last 12 months, four times higher than expected. Core inflation, which strips out volatile prices for food and energy, posted its biggest monthly increase since 1981, for a gain of 3% over the last year and the biggest annual increase since 1996.

OK, our inflation is bad, but we’re not quite at 1970s levels yet. During that nasty decade the consumer price index averaged 7.25% annual growth.

Because of inflation, the ’70s are nothing to wax nostalgic about. Energy shortages, blocks-long lines at gas stations, soaring prices for homes, groceries, cars, and restaurant meals and everything in between made the decade a miserable one.

Surging prices decimated the stock market by cutting the real value of corporate earnings and capital gains, and pushed market-based interest rates for even credit-worthy borrowers to over 20%. Gold and other commodities prices soared as investors dumped financial assets in favor of hard, tangible goods. Real investment grinded to a halt. Unemployment rose along with prices, an ugly double-whammy.

Even worse, the ’70s were the decade that the big post World War II gains made by average workers came to a sudden and devastating halt.

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Rashida Tlaib Falsely Charges ‘Settlers’ With Setting Fire to ‘Palestinian’ Land Once again Tlaib stokes the fires of Jew-hatred. T Hugh Fitzgerald

Posted By on May 13th, 2021

https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/05/rashida-tlaib-falsely-charges-settlers-setting-hugh-fitzgerald/

Rashida Tlaib (D-West Bank) has gone on a rampage again. She’s accused Israel of “apartheid” and “stealing Palestinian homes” – so far so predictable, but now she’s added a new charge – that Israel has deliberately been setting fires to Palestinian land. A report on her latest outburst is here: “Top US Jewish Group Calls for Rashida Tlaib to Remove ‘Falsehood’ About Israelis Setting Fire to Palestinian Fields,” Algemeiner, May 6, 2021

A leading US Jewish group called on Congressman Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) to remove a tweet that accused Israel of “apartheid” and “stealing Palestinian homes and burning their lands” as she shared an account of Israelis setting fires to Palestinian fields that was retracted by the Israeli NGO that originated it.

“.@RashidaTlaib, you shared a falsehood about Israeli Jews setting fire to Palestinian fields. This ugly claim has been retracted. You’re a member of Congress. Take down your tweet. Or is it okay to perpetuate untruths when they fit your policy agenda?” the American Jewish Committee (AJC) tweeted Thursday.

On Wednesday, Tlaib retweeted an article about fires near the Palestinian village of Burin, drawing from a Palestinian media sources and a May 4 tweet by the left-wing NGO B’Tselem, which shared a photo of the flames and blamed Israeli “settlers.”

“Stealing Palestinian homes and burning their lands. The actions of an apartheid state. We cannot stand by and watch this happen,” Tlaib wrote, tagging the account of US Secretary of State Antony Blinken. “Billions of US taxpayers dollars support Netanyahu’s government and this racist violence. We must condemn this swiftly.”

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Biden’s Handlers Get the Israeli/Palestinian Conflict They Wanted Once again, the Dems embolden – and enable – evil.

Posted By on May 13th, 2021

https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/05/bidens-handlers-get-israelipalestinian-conflict-robert-spencer/

On his new Save America website, former President Trump stated the obvious that the elites wish us to overlook: “When I was in office we were known as the Peace Presidency, because Israel’s adversaries knew that the United States stood strongly with Israel and there would be swift retribution if Israel was attacked. Under Biden, the world is getting more violent and more unstable because Biden’s weakness and lack of support for Israel is leading to new attacks on our allies.”

Weakness and lack of support for Israel, and open support for the Palestinian jihad. The Washington Free Beacon reported last March that “the Biden administration privately confirmed to Congress last week that the Palestinian Authority has continued to use international aid money to reward terrorists but said the finding won’t impact its plans to restart funding.”

And it didn’t. Biden’s handlers gave $235 million to the Palestinians in April. So now you can see your taxpayer dollars at work, funding the bloody Palestinian jihad against Israel, thanks to Biden’s handlers. Meanwhile, in an example of a frequent leftist tactic, the complete inversion of reality, Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Ramallah) tweeted: “American taxpayer money is being used to commit human rights violations. Congress must condition the aid we send to Israel, and end it altogether if those conditions are not followed. Statements aren’t working @SecBlinken. Enough is enough.” American taxpayer money is indeed being used to commit human rights violations, but not in the way Tlaib has in mind.

The kind of people that Tlaib and her colleagues in the American left are fronting for are epitomized by Hamas Political Bureau Member and former Minister of the Interior Fathi Hammad. According to the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), Hammad said on Hamas’ Al-Aqsa TV Friday: “People of Jerusalem, we want you to cut off the heads of the Jews with knives. With your hand, cut their artery from here. A knife costs five shekels. Buy a knife, sharpen it, put it there, and just cut off [their heads]. It costs just five shekels. With those five shekels, you will humiliate the Jewish state.”

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Blinken’s Non-Containment Policy Regarding China by Peter Schweizer

Posted By on May 13th, 2021

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/17348/china-containment-policy

“Our purpose is not to contain China, to hold it back, to keep it down. It is to uphold this rules-based order that China is posing a challenge to. Anyone who poses a challenge to that order, we’re going to stand up and defend it.” — US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, 60 Minutes interview, May 2, 2021.

For American diplomacy, this is a significant admission that America no longer wants to lead the world, but instead gracefully back away as the world’s reigning superpower.

The Chinese communists in Beijing, however, are not known for either subtlety or nuance in how they handle their affairs in their own backyard. Where China is concerned, words and statements matter. Weakness displayed is weakness exploited.

To win the Cold War in the 1980s, President Ronald Reagan’s genius was to go further than simple containment. Reagan believed a simple containment policy would always leave you on defense. He compared it to getting possession of the football and punting on first down.

So the leaders of the free world should not only be speaking – and acting – in opposition to China’s human rights abuses and expansionist, aggressive movements internationally. They should be attacking the worst, most vicious exponent of Leninism – the Chinese Communist Party – as the cause of the human rights problems and global instability that we see in the world.

It is by design and for keeps.

In various recent interviews, President Joe Biden and his top diplomat have tried to say they want China to follow “the rules” while it pushes past the United States as the dominant power in the world. That is the only way to see the signals they are sending to the Beijing regime.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken told Norah O’Donnell of CBS News’ 60 Minutes last week that the goal of the Biden administration was not to “contain” China, but to protect a “rules-based order” in international relations:

“Our purpose is not to contain China, to hold it back, to keep it down. It is to uphold this rules-based order that China is posing a challenge to. Anyone who poses a challenge to that order, we’re going to stand up and defend it.”

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Move the “Genocide Olympics” Out of China by Uzay Bulut

Posted By on May 13th, 2021

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/17334/china-genocide-olympics

The letter’s signatories remind the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Committee and the International Olympic Committee of their charter commitments and international obligations pertaining to the 1948 UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment for Genocide.

“At least one million of these victims are incarcerated in scores of concentration camps, some replete with crematoria, where they are being brainwashed, raped, forcibly aborted and sterilized, tortured, organ-harvested and forced to perform slave labor. Is that acceptable to the U.S. Olympic Committee? Would your organization want to be associated with, let alone be seen as condoning, such barbaric behavior?” — From the letter “Stop the 2022 Genocide Games” signed by at least 115 human rights and faith organizations.

“[T]he PRC has given no indication that it will abandon the genocidal oppression of Uyghurs and others, let alone dismantle the massive infrastructure used for this purpose. Rather, the CCP will no doubt exploit the ‘Genocide Games’ as proof that the world is indifferent to, if not actually implicitly endorsing, its crimes against humanity.” — From the letter “Stop the 2022 Genocide Games.”

“Then there is the matter of the Chinese Communist Party’s involuntary extraction of vital organs. Eminent international human rights experts have found that forced organ harvesting is taking place in the PRC on an industrial scale. It is estimated that hundreds of thousands of China’s own people, ethnic and religious minorities and prisoners of conscience have been murdered to profit the CCP. Is the U.S. Olympic Committee willing to associate with the perpetrators of these crimes?” — From the letter “Stop the 2022 Genocide Games.”

More than three million deaths worldwide have been caused by Communist China for failing to disclose, and even outright lying about, the human-to-human transmissibility of the Wuhan virus. Virtually every country has been victimized by what can only be regarded as Communist China’s mass murder. So why should nearly 200 countries reward China with the economic bonanza and implicit legitimacy that hosting the 2022 winter Olympics would confer?

All the countries crushed both by deaths caused by Communist China’s conscious export of its virus and the economic devastation that followed need to make sure that instead of being enriched and celebrated, Communist China should be held to account — at the very least by being invoiced for the damage it caused and removed from hosting the Olympic games.

Human rights and faith groups — such as the Committee on the Present Danger: China’s Captive Nations Coalition, Women’s Rights without Frontiers, and Save the Persecuted Christians — have requested in an open letter to the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Committee (USOPC) that the 2022 Winter Olympics be moved out of China because of its genocide against the Uyghur people in Xinjiang and severe oppression of its other citizens. The letter’s 108 signatories remind the USOPC and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) of their charter commitments and international obligations pertaining to the 1948 UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment for Genocide. The letter entitled “Stop the 2022 Genocide Games” said, in part:

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Palestinian Miscalculations Have Led to a New War Shoshana Bryen

Posted By on May 13th, 2021

https://www.jewishpolicycenter.org/2021/05/12/palestinian-miscalculations-have

Things tend to run together in the Middle East. Right now, Sheikh Jarrah, Palestinian elections, the Hamas-Fatah civil war, the Abraham Accords, U.S. recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, Iran sanctions, Jerusalem Day, the Meron tragedy, Israel’s electoral issues and American money and diplomacy are all tangled.

If you aren’t willing to untangle them, it’s probably a good idea not to say much, whether you are the Biden administration, a member of Congress or just a journalist attuned to press releases that suit your vision.

Sheikh Jarrah is not the issue, and the underlying land is not “Palestinian.” It was purchased by Jews from Ottoman authorities in the 19th century and was taken from its owners when Jordan illegally occupied the eastern part of Jerusalem in 1948. The Jordanian government’s “Custodian of Enemy Property” took possession, and the Jewish owners reclaimed it by title after 1967. The current lawsuits are between “the owners holding Israeli title and trespassers, squatters and overstaying tenants whose residency began between 20 and 70 years ago.” A final hearing has been postponed because of the violence, but in any event, the Israeli government is not involved and is not expelling Palestinians from “their property.”

So, why now?

Enter the Biden administration. Unable to openly “diss” the Trump administration’s key policy changes or the Abraham Accords, the State Department needed a Palestinian-oriented success to turn Israel’s regional positives into negatives. This was not necessarily intended to result in the horrific violence that it did in fact engender, but was rather intended to lessen Israel’s value as an ally for the U.S. and the Gulf States while Biden simultaneously pursued diplomacy with Iran.

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A look back at the first disastrous ‘two-state solution’ Victor Sharpe

Posted By on May 13th, 2021

http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/sharpe/210512

“It is not from 1947 or 1967 that the relentless aggression against Israel by the Arab and Muslim world and the so-called Palestinians began. To fully understand its origins, we must go back to the early years of the 20th century.”

In the 11th hour and 59th minute of his last term in the White House, Barack Hussein Obama struck his knife deep into the heart of the embattled Jewish state.

With the appalling anti-Israel passage of U.N. Security Council Resolution 2334, engineered by President Obama and Secretary of State Kerry on December 23, 2016, the blame for the Israel-Palestinian conflict was falsely imparted upon the easy target: Israel and the so-called “settlements.”

There were no “settlements” before the June, 1967 Six-Day War, when the Jewish state survived yet another Arab war of genocide launched against it and freed the embattled nation from the existing 1947 nine to fifteen mile-wide armistice lines, which Israel’s earlier minister of foreign affairs, Abba Eban, appropriately called the Auschwitz lines. These were the lines that existed after the fledgling Israeli forces in 1948 had pushed back the invading Egyptian, Jordanian, Syrian, Iraqi, and Lebanese armies.

It is not from 1947 or 1967 that the relentless aggression against Israel by the Arab and Muslim world and the so-called Palestinians began. To fully understand its origins, we must go back to the early years of the 20th century.

In 1920, Great Britain was given the responsibility by the League of Nations to oversee the Palestine Mandate after the ending of the 400 year old Ottoman Turkish Empire’s occupation of much of the Middle East. Britain was to uphold the League’s express intention of reconstituting within the Mandatory territory a reborn Jewish national home.