[IsraelTimes] Jewish politician from Virginia rails at ’claims of dual loyalty’ leveled at supporters of Israel, in apparent shot at fellow Democrats Ilhan Omar ...Somali-American Dem representative from Minnesota. She was apparently married to her brother and may be her own grandmaw on her mother's side... and Rashida Tlaib
In her farewell speech to Congress, US Representative Elaine Luria, the Virginia Jewish Democrat,
...she came into office by beating a Republican, and is going out after losing to one...
called out colleagues in the House of Representatives who she said insinuated the antisemitic dual loyalty trope about Israel.
"The first time I stood in this very place to speak on the floor of the House I rose as a Jewish woman to speak out against antisemitism, which has seen a rapid and alarming rise and has even reared its head among our colleagues in our own chamber, in the forms of claims of dual loyalty to those who show support for Israel, our strongest ally in the Middle East," Luria said Wednesday.
Luria appeared to be referring to fellow Democratic Representatives Ilhan Omar of Minnesota and Rashida Tlaib of Michigan. In 2019, Tlaib attacked Republicans who backed a bill targeting the Israel boycott movement, saying in a tweet "They forgot what country they represent."
Omar the same year accused the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, a powerhouse pro-Israel lobby, of buying influence. She apologized, but not long after, she said she should not be silenced for exposing the actions of a "powerful lobbying group" and for arguing against those who say "it is OK to push for allegiance to a foreign country."
Luria, elected in 2018 among a class of women politicians who rode a wave of anger at former President Donald Trump ...Oh, noze! Not him!... , has been among the Democrats most closely allied with the traditional pro-Israel lobby. Last year she joined three other Democrats in a letter that effectively accused Omar and Tlaib of making antisemitic comments. A number of Jewish progressives have consistently defended Omar, saying accusing her of antisemitism is unwarranted.
The accusation that Jews have loyalties to countries outside of where they live and therefore cannot be trusted dates back thousands of years before the creation of the state of Israel, but American Jews’ ties to Israel have become fodder for criticism in antisemitic discourse in the decades since 1948. Former US president Donald Trump has on multiple occasions, including while in the Oval Office in 2019, invoked the idea that American Jews are disloyal if they do not wholly support Israel.
A former Navy commander, Luria won twice in a district heavy with Navy veterans that trends Republican. She took a leading role in investigating alleged wrongdoing by Trump, despite knowing that it could backfire on her in her district. In an ad explaining why she voted to impeach Trump, she spoke of the oath she took to the Constitution and held up a weathered Hebrew bible. She lost by a few percentage points in Virginia’s 2nd District in November at the end of her second term.
In her floor speech Wednesday, Luria also noted the broader rise of antisemitism and its dangers.
"I look back on that first speech I made as a member of Congress and I am even more concerned today about the rising frequency and pervasiveness of antisemitism," she said. "I implore my colleagues to continue their quest to root out the scourge of vile and pernicious antisemitism."
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She is leaving Congress but Talib and Omar remain in Congress. That is the state of the Dem Party today, she says as she passes the karaoke microphone to Kinzinger.
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Whatever her other faults or virtues, Congresswoman Luria did her best to keep the Navy brass as honest as it's possible for the Navy brass to be, like here.
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Come on over to the Dark Side, Elaine.
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[Fox News] After a leftist pro-abortion activist was publicly called out by Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., during a Congressional hearing, Mace celebrated with a victory lap on Twitter.
She asked all the witnesses whether they consider violent rhetoric against government officials on social media to be a "threat to democracy." All the witnesses answered in the affirmative, clueless they were being set up.
Caraballo was there as part of a hearing of the House Oversight Committee on links between White supremacy and anti-LGBT figures. Caraballo, who goes by "@Esqueer_" on Twitter, responded in the affirmative, giving Mace an opening to display one of her incendiary tweets on a billboard.
Caraballo's tweet called for Americans to treat the Supreme Court justices who voted to overturn Roe v. Wade "pariahs." "The 6 justices who overturned Roe should never know peace again. It is our civic duty to accost them every time they are in public. They are pariahs. Since women don’t have their rights, these justices should never have a peaceful moment in public again." Then the witness tried to "clarify" her written word, but the Pub shut her down.
"If you step into my kitchen you better be able to handle the heat," Mace wrote later in a taunting tweet.
The National Archives warned President Joe Biden's lawyers that emails related to Hunter Biden and his Burisma business deal were set to be publicly released
Insider reported Wednesday that the White House has yet to say whether Biden would stop the release of 185 emails messages and 75 partial emails
If not, the emails will be released on February 28
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[Free Beacon] President Joe Biden's Energy Department funneled millions of dollars to a green energy company in the months after the company partnered with a Chinese state-owned entity that it acknowledges could face business-crippling sanctions. less 10% for the Big Guy?
Carbon capture company LanzaTech, federal spending disclosures show, has received more than $10 million in grant payments from the Biden administration since April 2021, when the company announced a partnership with Sinopec Capital—the clean energy investment arm of the Sinopec Group, a Chinese state-owned oil conglomerate also known as the China Petrochemical Corporation—to "debut an international market of new energy and new materials."
LanzaTech has acknowledged in SEC disclosures that its association with Sinopec, which China has used to purchase oil from U.S.-sanctioned nations such as Russia and Iran, could jeopardize its bottom line. The company's financial interactions with Sinopec and other Beijing-run entities, LanzaTech wrote in a November filing, could bring "complications" and "restrictions" should the United States or other nations implement "sanctions on certain Chinese individuals."
That filing also notes "that the Chinese government may intervene or influence our operations at any time" and that LanzaTech may be unable to "protect our interests" in Chinese joint ventures "by nominating a non-Chinese director to the board of directors of any such joint venture."
Sinopec Capital managing director Bo Ren, who worked for CITIC's brokerage arm prior to joining Sinopec and who graduated from a Chinese university that sits on a U.S. trade blacklist for stealing American trade secrets, is a LanzaTech board member.
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Sinopec Capital—the clean energy investment arm of the Sinopec Group, a Chinese state-owned oil conglomerate also known as the China Petrochemical Corporation
'Clean Energy Investment' might be the key here. Are they investing 'pro' or 'con' Clean Energy?
Well, most of these green investment firms are a con anyway so we'll go with that.
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They did the pay; now they get to play.
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They gave Biden $1.5 billion. Is it any surprise that they expect something in return?
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[Free Beacon] President Joe Biden apologized for the "unimaginable cruelty" of America's "original sin" of slavery during a White House summit with African leaders this week, where at least one leader mocked America amid China's increasing influence in the continent.
"We remember the stolen men and women and children were brought to our shores in chains," Biden said Wednesday after promising the continent $55 billion to fight climate change and increase trade. "My nation’s original sin was that period."
Slavery is by not unique to America and has was practiced all over the globe throughout human history, including in Africa, where there are still an estimated 9.2 million people enslaved. The apology from Biden comes as Democrats appear increasingly open to the idea of paying reparations to the descendants of African slaves, though nobody has nailed down exactly how such a system would work. A California task force ordered by the state legislature to figure out a reparations rollout cannot agree on even simple details, such as how much money would need to be distributed and who would get it.
Reparations advocates have also set their sights on the United Kingdom, where slavery was abolished in 1833. CNN commentator Don Lemon recently pressed a British guest on the issue, and was told that Africa was the beginning of the slave supply chain.
African tribes sold and still sell conquered tribes into slavery.
Open Slavery still exists in Nigeria, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Sudan. It also exists in many other areas due to lack of any real enforcement. So Africa needs to clean up its own act.
Or like the 1994 Rwandan genocide. Where the Hutu ethnic majority, murdered almost 1 million of the Tutsi minority.
All during Bill Clinton (D) admin. Which did pretty much did nothing to stop it. Having just hosed the Oct-1993 Somalia Peace Keeping mission to save Somalia, resulting in the deaths of many US service men.
So Paying reparations is just the LSD's looking to buy
the Black-American, 2024 votes and further divide the USA on color.
Remember also the DEMOCRATS were the Political Party that fought to keep slavery and continued to inflect Racial issues for another 100 years after the civil war.
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African tribes sold and still sell conquered tribes into slavery.
And Boko Haram, which is not tribal. Other African jihadi groups capture children, too, though mostly, it’s claimed, to train the boys as fighters and take the girls as wives.
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There are many different groups in America. There is a group that looks at Africa, Iraq, Ukraine or Haiti and sees a roast turkey to be carved and served to themselves, their family and their club members. They use out tax money through the State Dept to pay the grocer dictator often in cooperation with our enemies like Klaus Schwab and the CCP. They need to apologize to all of us. Biden is in that group.
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[THEGATEWAYPUNDIT] Benny Thompson, chairman of the Jan 6 (Witch Hunt) Committee, has officially withdrawn the subpoena request on behalf of the committee for Mike Lindell’s phone records after he filed a lawsuit against the unpopular Speaker of the House, Nancy San Fran Nan Pelosi Congresswoman-for-Life from the San Francisco Bay Area, born into a family of professional politicians. On-again-off-again Speaker of the House. It's not her fault when they lose, but it's her accomplishment when they win. Noted for her heavily botoxed grimace and occasional senior... uhhh... moments... We spoke with Mike Lindell, who explained that he sued the "unselect committee" almost immediately after he received their subpoena. "Sorry, but you’re not getting my records," Mike said, adding, "It’s against the constitution, and I wasn’t even there!" Mike was referring to the Capitol building, which he was nowhere near when it was breached. Fortunately, Mr. Lindell, who is despised by the mainstream media, was being interviewed by the media when the incident occurred. It was a bitterly cold day at the Elipse; Mike headed back to his hotel room after listening to his good friend President Donald Trump ...The tack in the backside of the Democratic Party... speak. But that didn’t stop the "unselect committee," as Mike calls them, from using his presence in DC as an excuse to go after his phone records.
The rabidly anti-Trump January 6th committee has cast a wide net, hoping to catch some of America’s most influential activists and supporters of President Trump in some sort of illegal activity. So far, they’ve been unable to prove their case that some widespread plan was being hatched to take over what many still believe is an illegitimate government that was elected through mass voter fraud. The goal of the Jan. 6 committee, of course, is to neuter Trump and destroy any chance of him being able to run an effective campaign for president in 2024. But the pack of leftist hyenas made a bad decision when they chose to target the fearless My Pillow CEO, Mike Lindell.
"Courage is contagious," Mike told us as he explained that after he sued Nancy Pelosi, several others followed suit. He also said that he’d love to be invited to sit down with their "unselect committee and show evidence of election fraud" from the 2020 election.
According to Mike, the Jan 6 "unselect committee tried to come after him for a meeting that was held on January 5 at the Trump International Hotel in Washington DC. Mike was out of the country at the time of the meeting.
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Our corrupt RINO fake news such as alphanews.org are refusing to report even on the FBI ambush of Lindell. Most people have no idea how crooked the Minnesota deepstate republicans are. Over this last primary they even refused paper ballots over forcing the delegates to to "electronic" voting.
Sedition is not a light charge but I have no idea how else to describe these fecal worms.
[ZH] LOL, Deeeelicious Discovery
The son of Paul Pelosi attacker, David DePape, says his father 'is not evil,' and is 'hardly a right-wing conservative.' He also implied that the 82-year-old Pelosi may have invited DePape over for sexual activities.
Speaking with the Daily Mail, Nebosvod 'Sky' Gonzalez said "He isn't a danger to society, I don't even know if he even attacked Mr. Pelosi. For all that we know he was some sort of sex slave, as Elon Musk pointed out."
The 42-year-old DePape appeared before a San Francisco Superior Court Judge on Wednesday for a preliminary hearing, and will be arraigned on federal charges on Dec. 28, which include attempted murder, assault with a deadly weapon, elder abuse, false imprisonment of an elder, first-degree burglary and threatening the family member of a public official . He has pleaded guilty to all charges. He has also been charged in federal court.
When asked about first hearing of his father's arrest, Gonzalez said he was in shock, and that "That's not the type of person he is."
Official reports about the attack have changed several times. First, an 'unknown third party' opened the door after police arrived at the Pelosi house - after which police witnessed DePape take a hammer from Pelosi and hit him with it. Then, it was that Pelosi and DePape were both struggling with the hammer, and DePape wrested it from Pelosi and beat him with it. Then, in a now-retracted report which has gotten veteran NBC reporter banished from the air, after being alone in the home for 30 minutes, Pelosi opened the door when police arrived. However, he did not try to escape or alert police to an emergency, and he instead walked to the police and back toward DePape.
November’s elections not yet completely finalized in stray corners around the country.
[EpochTimes] A recount of votes in a Massachusetts state House of Representatives race has placed a Democratic challenger ahead of a Republican incumbent by a single vote after the latter was initially leading following the Nov. 8 elections.
Democrat Kristin Kassner, a first-time candidate, is now leading her Republican opponent Lenny Mirra in the race for the newly redrawn North Shore district, a coastal region between Boston and New Hampshire.
Prior to the recount, Mirra, a five-term Republican, had led Kassner by 10 votes out of the 24,155 votes that were cast across the district, according to the original certified results from Election Day.
However, Caliphornia hasn't yet slid into the ocean, no matter how hard it's tried... the 10-vote margin is within the legal threshold that allows for a recount, and Kassner later submitted a petition asking for a district-wide recount of the Nov. 8 election.
Secretary of State Bill Galvin agreed to the hand recount, which was ordered on Nov. 30, as well as another in the First Middlesex District race.
After officials recounted the votes on Dec. 8, the results flipped to put Kassner up 11,763 votes to Mirra’s 11,762.
Kassner picked up a total of 19 additional votes, including 10 in Ipswich, four in Rowley, three in Topsfield, one vote in Newbury, and one vote in Georgetown, according to data provided by Galvin’s office (pdf). Mirra, meanwhile, added five votes in Ipswich, three in Topsfield, and one in Newbury.
The Republican candidate also lost a single vote in Rowley, according to the data.
MIRRA TO CHALLENGE RECOUNT RESULTS
Mirra told The Boston Globe that he plans to challenge the results.
"Some [ballots] were filled out in pencil, some were filled out with different colored ink, some had stray marks. Some had a name written in the write-in and then an oval filled out," Mirra said.
"[The recount] was just really just to ensure that, between humans and machines, we really caught every vote that was counted," Kassner said. "We thank the tremendous outpouring of people that really got involved and mobilized to go through this process this weekend. It’s really a true test of democracy."
The results have yet to be certified by Gov. Charlie Baker and a council for review.
Elsewhere, Galvin ordered a recount of the First Middlesex District race, when Republican Andrew Shepherd petitioned for one after the initial count saw Democrat Margaret Scarsdale ahead by 17 votes, according to the Globe.
The recount showed that Scarsdale’s lead has since narrowed to 11 votes, according to the publication, although there were still more than 4,100 ballots that needed to be counted.
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This was more likely old fashioned vote cheating. The numbers are low enough where you could probably detect the cheating with an investigation.
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Old fashioned? Well, okee dokee.
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By old fashioned, I mean dead people voting, dummy voter registrations and drop box shenanigans. No 1AM change all the votes via satellite signal. It’s a State House seat, there isn’t enough money in the coffers for the Bughatti level stuff unless there was up ticket cheating needed. The polling didn’t indicate a need. The problem with the high level cheating is that the more you use the tools, the more people become aware.
During WWII, for instance, we had a decided advantage over Japan with respect to naval munitions and fire control. The admirals restricted the use of VT shells to the point of endangering our ships. Whatever they did, there have been no internal whistleblowers. That is tight security. That smacks of serious reprisals.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
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Congresswoman-for-Life from the San Francisco Bay Area, born into a family of professional politicians. On-again-off-again Speaker of the House. It's not her fault when they lose, but it's her accomplishment when they win. Noted for her heavily botoxed grimace and occasional senior... uhhh... moments...
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