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Monday, March 18, 2024

Just In: Barack Obama Caught on Video Entering Home of UK Prime Minister—Why?

 Good Question?  Is he running that "shadow Government?"  Pulling Bidens strings?


The answer is becoming increasingly clear for anyone wondering how Joe Biden is performing his daily duties as “President of the United States.” It appears as though surrogates who were previously working behind the curtain are coming out of hiding, possibly to assure Democrats that despite Joe Biden’s obvious mental limitations, the old guard, anti-American radicals who’ve been running the party for almost two decades, are still in control.

Only moments ago, former President Barack Obama was captured on video walking up to the official residence of Britain’s Prime Minister Rishi Sunak at 10 Downing Street in London.

In another video that was taken as he exited 10 Downing Street, reporters could be heard asking Barack Obama, who was accompanied by US Ambassador to the UK Jane Hartley, is asked by the media, “President Obama, why should we care about democracy in Russia?”

Russian President Vladimir Putin was re-elected yesterday. When asked about French President Macron’s comments about sending ground troops into Ukraine, Putin warned that a “full-scale World War III” is “possible” should any Western troops enter Ukraine. “I think anything is possible in today’s world, and it’s clear to everyone that this would be one step from a full-scale World War III,” Putin said.

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There is no evidence Barack Obama discussed Russia with UK Prime Minister Sunak. The question, however, remains: WHY was Barack Obama meeting with him? 

The Sky News reporter in the video begins her segment by saying Obama had a meeting with Lord Cameron and then states that the former Prime Minister was not in the meeting at 10 Downing Street. It’s not clear if Barack Obama had a meeting with Cameron before his meeting at 10 Downing Street in London.

David Cameron is currently serving as foreign secretary and has been very critical of Israeli President Benjamin Netanyahu over his subsequent handling of the massive terror attack on innocent citizens by Hamas on October 7, 2023.

 

Following a recent meeting with Israeli Minister Benny Gantz, Lord Cameron said: “Palestinians are facing a devastating and growing humanitarian crisis.

“In my meeting with Israeli minister Benny Gantz today, we discussed efforts to secure a humanitarian pause to get the hostages safely home and lifesaving supplies into Gaza.

“I once again pressed Israel to increase the flow of aid. We are still not seeing improvements on the ground. This must change.”

 

For the most part, Democrats have taken the side of Palestine, which is governed by the Iran-backed Hamas in the Israeli conflict.

As is the case with many of Joe Biden’s appointees, they can be traced back to the Obama regime. Ms. Hartley served as the US ambassador to France and Monaco during Obama’s second term in office.

According to Sky News political correspondent Tamara Cohen –

As it was a private meeting, we will not be given a full readout of everything they discussed.
Likely topics, however, include the conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East.


 

“Whether it touches on UK or US politics, we may not find out,” Tamara says.

She adds that it “took us all by surprise to see him walking up the street” when Mr Obama arrived this afternoon.

Recently, another surrogate of Joe Biden, the far-left Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY), came under fire for his shocking public remarks where he called for new elections in Israel to replace the current President Benjamin Netanyahu:

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Now, Barack Obama, an unelected official is seen meeting at 10 Downing Street in London. Why?


https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/03/just-barack-obama-caught-video-entering-home-uk/

Bernie jumps the shark

 America’s most conspicuous political clown has finally overestimated the ignorance of his followers.

I’ve always doubted Bernie’s ability to do arithmetic, but his appeal for cutting another day off the work week without reducing a worker’s pay goes well beyond a “normal” conceptual defect.  Stepping on his own screed, he also blamed the decline in workers’ purchasing power on inflation.  Really?  What causes inflation?  Oh, yeah...Bernie and his fellow demagogues in D.C. are doing it by borrowing and printing more paper money so it can be embezzled by their cronies.

It is true that lefties have blinders on when dealing with numbers.  Years ago, I was visiting some lefty friends who both happened to have MBAs.  They strenuously advocated the four-day work week as a means to reduce unemployment.  I asked them if they would be willing to take a 20% cut in their pay in order to let this happen.  They looked at each other and blurted out, “Of course not!”  Hence the triumph of ideology over quantitative analysis.

Time passes, and Bernie’s nonsense is losing its appeal.  Americans, especially, are very, very jealous of their standard of living.  Making it more expensive for businesses to produce goods and services makes life in general more expensive.  Commies like Bernie believe that businesses should be social instruments, with the elevation of the common person as their reason for existence.  Profit, to them, is a dirty word.

Guess what, Bernie: employers are not in business for their health.

Bernie’s entrance into the national spotlight marked the beginning of the Democrat party’s profound lurch to the left — this in spite of his remaining an independent Democratic Socialist and not actually a Democrat.  So what?  “The Squad” followed his lead while also remaining under the Democrat tent.

A while back, when Bernie was considered by some to be a contender for the Democrat presidential nomination, he took tremendous offense at what he witnessed in the typical retail establishment.  There were multiple forms of what he considered the same product.  Different brands compete for the consumer’s preference.  Imagine the inefficiency!

This brought to mind a passage in Nikita Khrushchev’s memoir.  When he succeeded Stalin as general secretary of the USSR, he was tremendously disappointed to become aware of the many empty shelves in stores throughout the Soviet Union.

Meanwhile, the stations of the Soros Radio Network (formerly known as CBS-Audacy Radio) are taking Bernie’s latest rant with the utmost seriousness.  They are emphasizing the increased access to overtime pay that would come with a 32-hour work week.  What they are really trying to do is maintain the myth that prosperity comes from government edicts — rather than the improved productivity that advances in technology have been providing for hundreds of years.  True, some jobs are eliminated, but new jobs are also created.  We experienced a major shift in the late eighties and early nineties, with the introduction of the desktop personal computer.  Middle management took a big hit — but it didn’t last long.

Today’s world is wondering itself silly over what actual impact artificial intelligence (A.I.) will have on the workplace...and the rest of our lives, as well.  Meanwhile, the quest for A.I.’s development is putting many people to work.  Then what?  Ah, life goes on.  From the wheel to virtual reality, human curiosity and other mental skills continue effecting change.

Being a street-corner commie from Brooklyn, Bernie is straight from Central Casting.  He’s got the accent, the laughable dogma, and the continuing pursuit of a nonsensical utopia that are all needed to play the part.  He is a wish that won’t ever come true.


  https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/03/bernie_jumps_the_shark.html#ixzz8UsHCwa9S

The public humiliation of Joe Biden and All over but the shouting?

 Anyone who’s ever known someone with senile dementia, can see that Joe Biden’s elevator no longer goes to the top floor.

At age 81, with a history of multiple brain aneurysms and surgeries, poor Joe’s literally unravelling before our eyes.

Look at him at his campaign stops. He can barely walk and needs sneaker soles the size of pickleball paddles to stay upright. He can no longer safely navigate the main steps to Air Force One, his handlers instead using a much shorter set of stairs typically reserved for his staff and low-level functionaries.

His mouth hangs open, his pale blue eyes have that heartbreaking look of sheer panic, and he has no idea what to do with his hands, other than to mindlessly extend them in the hope that someone, anyone, will proffer a handshake.

He now frequently gets lost, wandering around event stages and unsure where to stand or exit. He often turns in circles, waiting anxiously for someone to guide him. In a pinch, the Easter Bunny will do.

Most days, his voice is shot. He whispers, coughs, mumbles, and swallows his words. He can no longer speak extemporaneously, much less handle a hostile interviewer or a debate.

To function in public, Biden needs note cards with instructions fit for a middle schooler, or a teleprompter with letters so big you could read them from across a football field. And even then, he struggles to read anything.

Think about that for a moment. The president of the United States is having an increasingly hard time reading the printed word. Soon, he’ll be illiterate.

And in his deepening confusion, Biden mixes up names, dates, and countries, delivering verbal gaffes that would cause a normal person to turn beet red and quickly apologize to his audience.

But poor old Joe doesn’t. He isn’t even aware of what he just said, not to mention that he no longer has the mental processing power to correct himself. He just plows ahead with his verbal meanderings, secure in the knowledge that his handpicked interviewers and small partisan audiences will clap like circus seals no matter what bilge he serves up.

Special Counsel Robert Hur recently opined, in so many words, that Biden had absolutely violated laws pertaining to the handling of classified info, but that no jury would convict such an obviously senile old man.

Based on my experience with patients and loved ones in the throes of dementia, our president will soon be unable to walk or read anything. And it’s only a matter of time before he’s unable to speak, or even handle solid food. Rumor has it he’s already incontinent.

Now, any honest person knows Joe Biden isn’t running anything, he’s merely a figurehead and has been for some time. Some shadowy cabal of persons unknown is running the country, and all the slimy denizens of the Swamp are fine with that.

Still, with an election coming up, it’s critically important that their pretend leader shows some signs of life. Thanks, no doubt, to better living through chemistry, Biden somehow shouted his way through a recent one-hour State of the Union address and remained upright, his pupils the size of saucers.

But whatever stimulant his handlers -- or perhaps the smartest man he knows -- gave him, it must eventually wear off, and then the vacant gaze and drooping mouth return. Just last week, the president walked face-first into a door! Forget four more years, Joe Biden’s time outside an elder care facility is rapidly coming to an end.

Still, the Democrats and Dr. Jill prop him up like a Trojan Horse in blue with a nice tie, a mere vehicle to get them past November and keep the faceless folks now running the show in power. They don’t care what happens to Joe Biden, heck, they don’t care if their pharmaceutical cocktails ultimately kill him, as long he makes it past the election.

The level of cynicism necessary to use and abuse a scared old man at the end of his life is truly breathtaking.

Then again, this is the party that likes to celebrate taking the lives of unborn babies. When you’re fine with terminating almost a million tiny humans annually, what’s one tired old man?

Nothing, really.


https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/03/the_public_humiliation_of_joe_biden.html



All over but the shouting?


Like some of you, I was a bit surprised to hear a president shout at the State of the Union address. 
 
We want an upbeat man with a little passion. 
 
What we got was a man bent on reminding his base that he was fit to twist and shout on Saturday night.
 
So the bad news is that he shouted and the good news is that he got no bounce, as they say in politics these days. 

This is from Ed Kilgore:

The State of the Union address, despite Biden’s combo platter of self-promotion and attacks on “my predecessor,” also had no palpable impact on general-election polling. In head-to-head matchups with Trump, the RCP averages showed Trump leading Biden by 1.8 percent on March 7 and by 2.4 percent today. 
 
Specific pollsters found no national pro-Biden bounce: Economist/YouGov had identical Biden/Trump numbers (a two-point Trump lead) as of March 5 and March 12. The Morning Consult tracking poll showed Biden leading by a point on March 3 and trailing by a point on March 10. Publicly available polling of a five-way contest that includes Robert F. Kennedy, Cornel West, and Jill Stein is more sporadic, but the two pos–-State of the Union surveys have given Trump a six-point (Forbes/Harris X) and a two-point (USA Today/Suffolk) lead.
 
So there you have it.  Biden shouted and no one but the super partisans listened.
 
What I remember was watching the speech and concluding that the Democrats were desperate.  It started with the topics.  It sounded more like a campaign speech in October than what the Founding Fathers had in mind when they put that clause in the Constitution.  Vice President Kamala Harris looked like a woman who was told to clap every 20 seconds.  The "girls in white" celebrated on cue.  It was all staged to get concerned Democrats out of their funk over the president's public appearances.
 
So here we are.  No bounce and no one will remember a speech that contributed little to the state of the nation.  


https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/03/all_over_but_the_shouting.html


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https://thefederalist.com/2024/03/18/democrats-want-americans-to-believe-weve-made-no-voting-rights-advances-since-1965/


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https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/03/perverse-hur-report-biden-gave-special-present-staffers/


https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/03/report-joe-biden-flipping-losing-president-trump-polls/


https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/03/mortgage_inflation_and_the_stupid_party.html


https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/03/schadenfreude_biden_is_flying_into_rages_now_against_his_staff.html




During the hearing on pivotal free speech case, Ketanji Brown Jackson has issues with that pesky First Amendment

 Looks like the idiot that can't define what a woman is has a problem with Constitutional Free Speech?  Maybe she (Woman) needs to go back to school?


In 2001, Barack Obama said something interesting about the Constitution. It was, he said, “a charter of negative liberties” setting out what the government cannot do. That’s a very peculiar formulation because, rather than seeing the Constitution from the people’s viewpoint as a leash on tyranny, he saw it from the government’s viewpoint as an irritating restraint on its power. Today, when the Supreme Court heard oral argument in a pivotal free speech case arising from the government’s pressure on social media during COVID, Ketanji Brown Jackson made the same point, only more explicitly. These people really hate that you have the right to talk back.

The case is Murthy v. Missouri. Multiple plaintiffs (state attorneys general and “epidemiologists, consumer and human rights advocates, academics, and media operators”) filed suit complaining that the government did indirectly that which it cannot do directly: Namely, it censored them, not by using its direct police power, but by putting pressure on social media outlets to censor any speech that ran counter to the government’s preferred COVID narrative (i.e., lockdowns, masks and, above all, forced vaccinations):

The plaintiffs argue that the defendants used public statements and threats of regulatory action, such as reforming Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, to induce social media platforms to suppress content, thereby violating the plaintiffs’ First Amendment rights. The States of Missouri and Louisiana also alleged harm due to the infringement of the free speech rights of their citizens.

If you’re following the oral argument in this case, it’s clear that Ketanji (“Am I A Women?”) Brown Jackson (aka KBJ), the Supreme Court’s affirmative action hire, is desperate to protect the government. Just three snippets show her desire for government censorship, with the First Amendment as something to be brushed aside.

Image: Ketanji Brown Jackson (edited). YouTube screen grab.

As a refresher, the First Amendment makes it clear that there are “no go” zones for the government because humans have inherent rights that a contractual government (and that is what our government is, via the contract known as the Constitution) cannot take away:

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

Over the years, the Supreme Court has acknowledged that there are occasions in which the government can control speech. For example, states may criminalize showing pornography (which is a form of speech) to minors, although you wouldn’t know that from the deference shown to the gay pornography flooding American schools. That’s because minors are a special, protected class. Going back to Anglo-Saxon times, the government may also criminalize speech that directly and immediately incites lawless action, such as riots or murder. We also police provably defamatory and fraudulent speech.

However, what the government cannot do per the agreement it made under the Constitution is silence opinions, especially opinions with political consequences. And yet, during COVID, the Biden administration used mafia-style threats (“nice little social media company ya got here. It’d be a shame if something happened to it”) to push social media outlets into censoring speech with which the government disagreed. And no, it doesn’t matter that some of the media outlets happily acceded to those unconstitutional demands.

Individuals and principled state attorneys general sued, leading to today’s Supreme Court arguments. Jonathan Turley has an excellent real-time thread if you’re interested in some of the details. I’m interested only in KBJ’s tyrannical take on speech. Three quotations show her fundamental misunderstanding of or, more likely, disdain for free speech.

First, KBJ seems confused about the analysis. The free speech analysis works, first, by determining whether the government censored speech; second, by using a strict scrutiny standard to determine whether there was a compelling state interest to do so; and third, if there was a compelling state interest, by determining whether the government used the least burdensome way possible to protect that interest.

However, in the following go-round with Louisiana’s Solicitor General, KBJ seems to believe that you just need to prove a state interest, and the government then has carte blanche to shut down speech. She eventually backs down, but her initial belief shines through:

And what constitutes carte blanche? An emergency:

In other words, once the government declares something—anything—to be a “once in a lifetime” whatever, it’s got the power.

But the most chilling thing of all was KBJ’s statement taking to its logical extreme Obama’s disdainful assessment of the entire concept of the Constitution; namely, that it’s a brake on the government’s power to get the job done:

We want our government to be hamstrung. The government controls the military, the police, the courts, and the prisons. The only thing protecting us against that aggregation of power is the government’s fidelity to the Constitution’s premise that we have inherent rights, as well as its willingness to abide by constitutional jurisprudence saying that, if the government infringes on those rights, it may do so only under the most compelling circumstances and in the most delicate way possible. But for KBJ, it’s the First Amendment that is the problem, for it is an irritant hamstringing a government that knows best.

I’ve been calling 2024 a year of clarity. Democrats believe that they are home-free and, therefore, can finally and fully let the mask drop. The Obama pretense of abiding by the Constitution and the Rule of Law is over. The Biden administration doesn’t even bother to pretend. In South Carolina, a representative made it clear that politicians, once elected, should ignore their know-nothing constituents. And in schools across America, teachers and administrators openly demand that children be sexualized and alienated from parents.

KBJ’s insistence that the Constitution is a barrier in the way of a benevolent, all-powerful government is just one more curtain pulled back on the Marxist revolution that the Democrat party has planned for us. The only vote for freedom in the upcoming election is for Donald Trump and those federal politicians who will support him. Any other vote will bring us four more years of Biden and the end of the Constitution.


https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/03/during_the_hearing_on_pivotal_free_speech_case_ketanji_brown_jackson_has_issues_with_that_pesky_first_amendment.html


https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/03/just-us-supreme-court-justice-kentanji-brown-jackson/



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https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/03/mendacity_and_corruption_in_the_judiciary.html


https://thefederalist.com/2024/03/18/federal-government-claims-once-in-a-lifetime-pandemic-excuses-first-amendment-violations/

Why is Klaus Schwab’s website quietly delisting the names of his American allies?

 As I’ve noted before, from time to time I’ll check in on the Young Global Leaders website, making mental notes of the newcomers. YGL is an “initiative” of the World Economic Forum to “drive public-private co-operation in the global public interest.” For context, it appears as though selected candidates will undergo a year-long initiation process, which includes WEF “programming,” networking opportunities, and seminars. After “graduation,” members of the class may apply to be incorporated into the “alumni” community.

Naturally, I focus on those in the “North America” region because those are the names I most often recognize. Yet today, while writing a blog on Tyson Foods and its decision to fire Americans and hire illegals (click here to read that one), I realized that YGL seems to be scrubbing the names of certain American acolytes.

I only discovered this when I went looking for Tyson Foods CFO John R. Tyson because he did not pop up in either the “New Class” tab or the “Community” tab (I always check both because I don’t know at what point during the year classes begin and end). I was able to find him, but only if I typed “Tyson” into the search bar—and boom! There he was.

Then, it got me thinking—was anyone else missing? By golly, yes they were! Two names (at least) that I found rather interesting: Representative Colin Allred, a Texas Democrat, and Fox Business anchor Maria Bartiromo. (Now, I’ve taken some heat in the past with readers being upset that I’ve noted this inconvenient fact regarding Maria’s alliances, but “don’t shoot the messenger” is apropos.)

And even more interesting things happen when you type “Bartiromo” or “Allred” into the search bar: Unlike Tyson, these two seem to be completely gone from the website. Now, of course, since these two profiles have seemingly been erased from YGL, I went to the Wayback Machine, which proved invaluable.

Here is Maria Bartiromo, screenshotted January 10, 2021 and here is Representative Allred, screenshotted May 26, 2022. Here’s an old press release from Allred’s office announcing his selection into the 2022 class, and, if you follow Bartiromo’s LinkedIn profile to her linked personal website, you arrive at Bartiromo.com, and find that she apparently “overseas [sic] the Board of the Young Global Leaders [emphasis added] of the World Economic Forum.”

Lastly, here’s a 2008 Bloomberg article highlighting Bartiromo as a “YGLer” — as well as Anderson Cooper, Elon Musk, Gavin Newsom, and Leonardo DiCaprio….

Did Allred and Bartiromo decide to leave the alumni community? What about Cooper, Musk, Newsom, and DiCaprio? Because none of their names appear on the YGL website either.

Is it all just a bunch of glitches?

Maybe, or maybe it’s because the battle for the American way of life is hitting fever pitch as we roll into the 2024 election, and anti-American globalists, especially ones we might consider our allies, need to fly under the radar.


https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/03/why_is_klaus_schwabs_website_quietly_delisting_the_names_of_his_american_allies.html