[Breitbart] On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” former San Francisco Assistant District Attorney Brooke Jenkins
...involved in the effort to to recall SF District Attorney Chesa Boudin...
argued that the criminal justice system needs to be reformed, but there is a belief that “anyone who wants order in society” should be demonized, and “If you believe that murderers should go to prison, then somehow, you are a beacon of white supremacy or you’re a racist.”
Jenkins stated, “I think we are in a culture now where radical extremism is what’s cool. And they have found it appropriate to demonize anyone who wants order in society, who wants to hold perpetrators of crime accountable in society. If you believe that murderers should go to prison, then somehow, you are a beacon of white supremacy or you’re a racist. And so, we’ve found it acceptable that if somebody disagrees with these radical beliefs, that they are the enemy of social justice.”
She added that there are reforms needed to the criminal justice system, saying, “I think we have to take advantage of when the criminal justice system has jurisdiction over someone who’s committed a crime, and if they’re a drug addict or if they have mental health issues, we have to use that jurisdiction to sort of propel them into treatment, the appropriate treatment, so that they put their lives on a better trajectory, right? If it’s a youthful offender, that we help them get vocational training, resources to get their GED, so that they don’t simply use the courthouse as a revolving door, committing further crimes.”
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Civilization is a thin veneer over savagery. The savages are out to toss off the veneer.
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This week we learned that bike helmets are white supremacist, racist items and the enforcement of laws requiring them are racist. But take heart, because there’s a huge upside to the governmental response to perceived racism. Wait for it.
This week the King County, Wash. (greater Seattle) health poobahs rescinded the laws requiring bicyclists in the state’s most populous county to wear helmets. The King County Board of Health voted 11-2 to get rid of the requirement because “BIPOC riders and riders experiencing homelessness … are bearing the brunt of disproportionate enforcement, citations and fees,” Board Chair Joe McDermott declaimed.
Encouraging people to use helmets and directing them to cheaper helmets is the new course of action. Of course, bike enthusiasts have agitated for years to deep-six the helmet law, but the health board needed a better reason than mere freedom to get rid of it. As we learned this week on the pages of the Washington Post, “freedom” is a white supremacist construct. Voila! Helmets are racist because black people and the homeless and others get ticketed at a greater rate to the proportion of ridership.
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Now their heads will get cracked disproportionately. That will also be whitey's fault.
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[American Thinker] "The Science," which leftists always speak of as an oracle independent from petty human concerns, has spoken: Outside of well-fitted N95 masks, the cloth or loose-fitting paper masks that people have been wearing for almost two years do nothing to stop COVID’s spread. When it comes to kids, we also have some generally accepted science about COVID and masks—and none of it supports either COVID-panic or mask-wearing. Yet National Geographic, once a respectable magazine, insists that masks not only don’t harm children, but they’re actually beneficial.
My home in the 1960s and early 1970s was probably like most lower- and middle-class homes in America: We had a National Geographic subscription. The magazine, which was founded in 1888, brought the world into people’s homes. Suddenly, sitting in your living room or kitchen, you could see indigenous people in Africa, Latin America, Asia, and Australia, as well as get a look at the folk cultures of Europe. It was a cruise around the world for the price of a magazine subscription. This picture, for example, shows that in 1921, ordinary people could see the Taj Mahal in color, which was very cool for that time:
That National Geographic no longer exists. In December 2016, right after Trump was elected president, National Geographic showed its woke credentials by doing a "gender" issue that featured, on the cover, a sad-looking little boy dressed up in girl’s clothes with his long hair dyed pink. This, we were told, was a "transgender girl."
But back to the magazine. The issue is behind a paywall so I won’t bother linking, but a HuffPost article excitedly reporting on National Geographic’s gender issue gives you a feel for what’s in it:
[AT - Clarice Feldman] From the 18th of this month through the 25th, national leaders are meeting in Munich in an apparent effort to deescalate the situation in Ukraine. The administration has pulled together its putative allies to forestall what it claims is an imminent threat by Russia to invade Ukraine. In fact, it discouraged (apparently unsuccessfully) Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky from attending on the ground that war could start any minute and his absence from Ukraine would be taken as flight. Heading the U.S. delegation is Vice-President Kamala Harris, which hardly comforts me. She threatens severe economic sanctions against Russia if they invade. (But this is from the very same administration which has done so much to strengthen Putin’s hand -- for example, by scotching the Israeli gas pipeline to Europe, giving a thumbs up to the Russian gas pipeline to Europe and reducing in every possible way U.S. energy production, all of which enriches Russia. President Trump used economic warfare and would have allowed completion of the domestic and Israeli pipelines and prevented the construction of the Russian pipeline to limit Russian power over Europe, as opposed to the saber rattling from the present White House.) The one thing you can count on with the Biden-Harris administration is inconsistency and incoherence.
Critics claim the entire business is a wag-the-dog scenario -- a distraction from the Democrats' (and the President’s) tumbling approval and disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal. They assert the contretemps on the eastern Ukraine border is a legitimate effort by the mostly Russian settlers there to rejoin Russia and not a false-flag operation. Moreover, they agree with Putin that we agreed not to expand NATO to Ukraine. This week the critics of the administration got a bombshell that supports Putin’s position. It was discovered by a professor at Boston University, unveiled by the German media, and is a clear indication that Germany will not be onboard whatever nitwittery Biden-Harris propose.
David Goldman (Spengler) has done some significant coverage. Like me, he thinks NATO has gone far beyond its intended purpose and actual power.
He tweets:
The damage from Ukrainistan will be much worse than Afghanistan: Biden frog-marched our NATO allies into this one. They’re looking for excuses to bolt and when they do, NATO will be a grease patch on a side road near Fulda. With a defensible perimeter we could keep NATO.
The Bombshell
Contemporaneous records found in the UK national archives by Boston University political science professor Joshua Shifrinson and given to the German magazine Der Spiegel showed that on March 6, 1991 U.S., UK, French, and German foreign ministries indeed promised the then-Soviet Union "that we do not intend to benefit from the withdrawal of soviet troops from eastern Europe" and that "NATO should not expand to the east, either officially or unofficially." This account with the copy of the document appears in the Soviet news service
The story was first carried in Der Spiegel and Die Welt. As Die Welt notes, the document supports the Russian claim.
That the document account surfaced on German media during the security conference is a sure bet to my mind that the Germans will have a political fight on their hands if they join in slouching with Biden-Harris to war over the right of NATO to expand by adding Ukraine to its ever-larger grab bag of weak states we defend.
The 1991 protocol just released this week is in direct conflict with NATO’s 2008 commitment to Ukraine and Georgia that one day they, too, could become alliance members. That’s Russia’s position.
Missiles stationed there would be able to hit Russian targets within minutes and the protocol, if accurately reflecting the agreements made -- and there’s no reason to believe it does not -- conflicts directly with NATO and U.S. contentions about our agreement with Russia.
We claim, as Reuters summarizes, that Russia is demanding an effective veto on NATO membership; NATO Secretary-general Jens Stoltenberg parroted our claim: "It is a fundamental principle that every nation has the right to choose its own path... including what kind of security arrangements it wants to be part of." Maybe. But if the countries that make up NATO already told a neighboring country they would not admit Ukraine to its rolls, it should drop the idea of breaking the agreement.
Goldman was there and vouches for the narrative in the protocol, though until this week he had not seen the documentation. He calls Secretary of State Anthony Blinken a "a liar."
What is the Contrary Evidence?
There’s Blinken and there’s Steven Pifer. He was our ambassador to Ukraine 1998 to 2000. Writing in 2014, he denies any promises were made to the Soviets about not enlarging eastward. Pifer wasn’t there in 1990 and claims as his basis for contention an article in the Washington Quarterly by Mark Kramer (who did not see the formerly marked "secret" document in the UK archives) to argue we had only promised that "no additional troops would be deployed; no weapons of mass destruction would be placed" in the former German Democratic Republic. This pledge was, in fact, incorporated into Article 5 (signed September 12, 1990).
Pifer also quotes a publication (Russia Behind the Headlines) of a purported interview with former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev. Gorbachev was reportedly asked why he had not insisted that U.S. Secretary of State James Baker’s promise that NATO would not expand into the East be legally encoded and responded, according to that report, NATO expansion was "not discussed at all." He did, however, call NATO eastward expansion "a violation of the spirit of the assurances given Moscow in 1990."
Eight years after the agreement detailed in the newly-found protocol, NATO did move eastward, admitting Poland, Hungary, and Czechia. Fifteen years later in 2204, it added Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. Russia grumbled, but perhaps felt it was in too weak a position to do much then to halt NATO’s eastward expansion.
Russia now draws the line on NATO expansion into Ukraine and Georgia.
It might be useful for a reporter who might care to ask James Baker about the protocol and any assurances made to the Soviets by him and other NATO members.
If this were a legal case in the U.S., I believe the protocol could be entered into evidence under the Ancient Documents Rule even if the purported agreement had not been formalized in writing, although Russia’s acquiescence over the years to NATO’s eastward expansion would also be considered to weaken its case.
But all this business about credibility of the various parties and legalisms seems somewhat extraneous to me at this point. I think the German media has forced Germany’s hand and it will bolt and not stand with us. If it doesn’t go along, others will follow and the wag-the-dog effort will fail.
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Kamala Harris in Munich:
"I mean, listen guys, we're talking about the potential for war in Europe. I mean, let's really take a moment to understand the significance of what we're talking about."
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Right after the Joint Chiefs have been fired and Darth Lunch is sent to Gitmo, a presentation at the Pentagon: "This time, gentlemen, we have devised a scenario where the eurines and the cossacks can obliterate each other and we can watch from a safe distance..."
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...well, that would certainly solve their 'immigration' problem that doesn't want to fit in to Euro culture.
Q Would you be willing to talk a little bit about how the U.S. would get out of this potential conflict with Russia? What is the endgame? How does the U.S. — after imposing some of these sanctions and possible military action, how does the U.S. disentangle from this?
THE VICE PRESIDENT: I would characterize it differently. I don’t — we don’t consider ourselves to be entangled. But we’re very clear of our principles
"clear of"? Like, "clear of the trees"? Speak English, you moron
THE VICE PRESIDENT: ...and our purpose, which is to be aligned with our Allies, understanding that — I mean, listen, guys, we’re talking about the potential for war in Europe.
I mean, let’s really take a moment to understand the significance of what we’re talking about. ... We are talking about the real possibility of war in Europe....
Like, yeah-uh. I mean, like, fer sure, we need to have that conversation.
THE VICE PRESIDENT: ...So our position is, for us, very clear, which is as a leader —
"Our position is as a leader." We know your position, skank.
THE VICE PRESIDENT: ...which we have been, bringing together the Allies, working together around our collective and unified position — that we would all not just prefer, we desire,
Not just 'prefer.' Desire. True diplomatic finesse, at its most subtle.
THE VICE PRESIDENT: ...we believe it is in the best interest of all that there is a diplomatic end to this moment. And so where do we want this to end? That is where we want it to end.
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Is that drool on her lip, or a quip
From the Injun who's driving the ship,
Who's parting the waters
And leading the plotters
To port and a comfortable slip?
[DW] The Ukraine crisis, which has been brewing for years, does not come as surprise. But President Vladimir Putin’s actions stem from more than just Russian trauma.
This year's Munich Security Conference has been concentrated on Russian President Vladimir Putin ...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances... 's clear but unspoken threat of a military attack against Ukraine.
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Besides the oddly long protracted Saber Rattling with mid-term's campaigning starting and C-19 controls finally being openly challenged for the Voters.
I still end up asking the same question of the Biden Admin, that I have asked for about 2+ months.
Why is the Biden Admin willing to engage in a war 7,000+ miles away, and offer up US soldier lives, to protect another countries borders. But refuses to properly protect US Border, resulting in an estimated 2 Million violations in 1 year?
A process that has allowed ANTI-USA focused terrorists, Drug Cartels, and other such elements to gain easy entry to US Soil.
A process that can be tied directly to US Citizen deaths and murders?
Is increasing future Democrat Plantation Voter rolls more important to them than USA citizen lives?
Note to Magoo and his fellow numbskulls: not going to "invade." The tactic is called hybrid warfare, and the strategic goal is to thwart NATO expansion on Russia's front porch without getting bogged down in a conventional war
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If Frank Luntz or George Lakoff were advising them, we'd hear a lot of talk now about independence for Ukraine.
Which is easily satisfied by simply giving the Russians their #1 objective, an ironclad guarantee, in a formal signed agreement, that Ukraine shall be independent... of NATO.
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^ Cats understand going to the litter box to do their business. I don't grant the top people in the state dept or NSA that degree of knowledge.
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Putin senses weakness. Afghanistan didn't help. The fact that we can't protect our own borders projects weakness. Bad left-wing policies and poor focus also communicates weakness.
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An History repeats itself yet again.
A Liberal political group using a reworded underlying Socialist Political Agenda has reached its usual climatic peak and the people are fed up.
Either his Admin must use Dictatorial level FORCE to stay in control, or be removed from power and face charges for the civil rights abuses they have inflicted?
[Townhall] Closing paragraphs:
Will the nation ever demand an investigation to find out how and to what extent Hillary Clinton's subordinates and contractors infiltrated the private communications of the president of the United States?
Will the people ever learn how such false information was seeded throughout the government and media in a conspiratorial effort to destroy a sitting president?
Hillary Clinton by now is an old master of scandals. Her lifelong oeuvre is vast - the cattle futures scam, Rose law firm missing documents, Travelgate, Uranium One shenanigans, missing emails, and the Steele dossier.
But the ongoing effort of her paid associates to tap into the top-secret communications of a presidential candidate and further use such illicit information to ruin the American presidency will go down as her greatest masterpiece of deceit.
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Answer: No.
The Clintons, like Bathhouse, are above the law.
We Deplorables are below the law.
[The Federalist] As Republicans consider who ought to be tasked with responding to President Biden’s State of the Union address on March 1, they have the luxury of an obvious, unobjectionable choice whose message speaks to the moment, and to their priorities in 2022: Virginia’s Lieutenant Governor, Winsome Sears.
The San Francisco school board recalls are just the latest sign that American voters are fed up with the state of things in almost every arena, but particularly when it comes to school closures, mask and vaccine mandates, and the racial politicization of education.
They are tired of a White House and Democratic leadership in Washington which has spent the past year squabbling with its own flanks, left and center, and pretending despite all evidence that it is intolerant intransigent insurgency-minded Republicans who are the problem — not inflation.
The White House’s massive miscalculations over the past year are obvious. Instead of taking the win with Operation Warp Speed’s vaccines and using their wide availability as a path to get life, schools, and government policy back to normal as soon as possible, they doubled down on performative emergencies as a justification for insane policy packages no one understood. They doubled down on the Sunday show musings of Anthony Fauci, the arbitrary guidance of Rochelle Walensky, and the whiplash recommendations of their supposed experts at an alphabet soup of agencies. They doubled down on bureaucratic mandates and pressure campaigns that ran into the harsh reality of the Constitution.
Tedros is a Marxist stooge for the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).1 The Chinese Communist influence over WHO has been solid for more than a decade, and the party was able to install Tedros without any competition. He became the first and only Director-General who is not a physician and instead is a communist politician.
Now the Director-General of WHO, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus—known simply as Tedros—has unveiled plans to take charge of all global health.
While addressing the WHO Executive Committee on January 24, 2022, Director-General Tedros spelled out his global health plan, including his final priority for his enormous scheme:2
"The fifth priority is to urgently strengthen WHO as the leading and directing authority on global health, at the center of the global health architecture."
Tedros’s closing words to his report to the executive committee are chilling in their grandiosity and echo Marxist exhortations to cheering mobs by a Stalin, Mao, or Xi Jinping:
"We are one world, we have one health, we are one WHO."
Tedros seeks to become super-Fauci for the world, and, like Fauci, he will do it on behalf of the global predators.
IT BEGAN WITH THE DECADE OF VACCINES
The COVID-19 pandemic, organized by the global predators, was the spearhead of the first attack, and relied heavily on their manipulation of WHO for its cover-up of China’s release of SARS-CoV-2 and for justifying vastly destructive shutdowns. In our new book, COVID-19 and the Global Predators: We Are the Prey; we go into great detail about the draconian plans for the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic that originated at least as early as 2010 when Bill Gates announced the Decade of Vaccines at Davos with Klaus Schwab, the founder of the World Economic Forum (WEF).3
Gates and Schwab were joined by the CEO of the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI), a consortium devoted to bloating the wealth of the pharmaceutical industry through the massive distribution of vaccines with public financing. At the same time, Anthony Fauci was brought onto Bill Gates’ vaccine advisory board at his Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, guaranteeing U.S. support for Gates’ plans through Fauci’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID).
A theme for the Decade of Vaccines was "Public-Private Partnerships Drive Progress in Vaccine Development, Delivery"—essentially the precursor to the Great Reset establishing a world governance of public and private health united in the spirit of fascism. By 2012, Gates achieved official UN approval for his scheme, establishing a broad network of global predators aimed at exploiting and dominating humanity through public health. Communist China would play a prominent role through its control over the UN and WHO and through its close relationships with global predators like Bill Gates, Klaus Schwab, Mike Bloomberg, Big Tech executives, and many other billionaires and world leaders.
A decade and more later, during COVID-19, WHO has proven its usefulness to the predators in orchestrating science, medicine, and public health in the suppression of human freedom and the generation of wealth and power for the globalists.
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Government control of health care will allow parties like the Democrats to realize their dream and final solution - to be able to completely deny access to health care to Christians. This is the brass ring, the final step they need to obliterate the religion that poses the greatest threat to the supremacy of the state.
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"Are you a doctor or a gummint agent? You have three seconds to respond. We will hold you to your answer. For the rest of your life..."
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We will make Fauxi, Dasazk and Collins draw straws to see who pulls the switch on who. That will be compelling pay-per-view.
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"Bill Gates made me do it. Spare me and I'll tell all..."
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So now there are reports that the MapleStasi have put out an arrest warrant for the dissident epidemiologist and former Trump administration Thought-Criminal, Dr Paul E. Alexander
#7
"Your cancer is very treatable at this stage, but nither I nor any of my colleagues will treat you..."
"What? You can't do that!"
"Why not, minister? You jailed my classmate and colleague because it was politically convenient for you. Now it's not politically convenient for any of us to treat you."
"But, but..."
"You should have thought this through before you wound up in this situation, you know..."
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Tedros & Tedros cartoons need to become a thing.
[Jpost] Human rights experts have noted that the Baha’is are the most persecuted non-Muslim religious minority group in Iran.
It’s a Muslim heresy dating back to the latter half of the 19th century. Of course they’re sheep for Muslim shearing. This kind of thing is why the administrative and pilgrimage center of the faith was moved to Haifa, near where their prophet, the Baháʼu'lláh, died after a thirty year exile imposed by the Ottomans.
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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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[The Federalist] As Republicans consider who ought to be tasked with responding to President Biden’s State of the Union address on March 1, they have the luxury of an obvious, unobjectionable choice whose message speaks to the moment, and to their priorities in 2022: Virginia’s Lieutenant Governor, Winsome Sears.
