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“…Unemployment fraud now ranks as the 4th biggest federal COVID expenditure…”
“…A federal judge in Texas this week blocked the Biden administration from distributing grants in a COVID-19 restaurant relief program that prioritizes applicants by their race and/or gender…”
“…Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s spokesperson has reportedly announced that she will only give interviews to “Black or Brown” journalists on the occasion of reaching the halfway point in her term as mayor…”
As @chicagosmayor reaches her two year midway point as mayor, her spokeswoman says Lightfoot is granting 1 on 1 interviews – only to Black or Brown journalists pic.twitter.com/PAUsacD9Gj
— Mary Ann Ahern (@MaryAnnAhernNBC) May 18, 2021
“…We are going to talk about and work together — and again, I want to thank Chairman Ruiz for the work that we are going to do together as it relates to my — one of my areas of focus, which is the Northern Triangle and looking at how we can address the root causes of migration and work together in a way that is a continuation of the work we’ve already begun and the progress we’ve already seen around bringing federal agencies together to enhance their focus or renew their focus in that region, ranging from the Department of Agriculture, to Secretary of Commerce and hosting a Virtual Trade Mission, to the work that we are doing to bring American foundations in to renew their interest in the region and increase their capacity to support the region…”
Hamas launched an intensive mortar attack as 24 trucks were attempting to deliver supplies through the Kerem Shalom crossing.
“…What just happened at the Kerem Shalom Crossing leading from Israel into Gaza is a pretty good metaphor for the entire psychopathic Hamas and Palestinian terror group pathology.
Kerem Shalom is the main crossing terminal through which commercial trucks and supplies reach Gaza. The crossing had been closed due to the rocket fire from Gaza, but yesterday Israel agreed to reopen the crossing to allow a convoy of 24 trucks to enter Gaza with humanitarian supplies.
So what did Hamas do? It launched a mortar attack on the crossing as the trucks were entering Gaza, wounding an Israeli soldier:
The Israel Defense Forces says the person injured in the mortar attack was an IDF soldier assisting in the transfer of humanitarian aid shipments into the Gaza Strip through the Erez Crossing.
The soldier sustained light injuries and has been taken to Ashkelon’s Barzilai Medical Center for further care, medics say.
Earlier today, Israel temporarily reopened both the Erez and Kerem Shalom crossings into Gaza, allowing many truckloads of fuel, medical equipment and animal feed into the enclave, according to Israel’s military liaison to the Palestinians.
While the crossings were opened, terrorists in the Strip launched a large mortar barrage across the border, including at Kerem Shalom and Erez….”
If the Palestinians put down their weapons today, there would be peace with Israel and they would have their own state.
If Israel put down their weapons today, they would be mercilessly attacked and driven from their land.
That is the problem. Israel wants peace. Palestinians want to destroy Israel.
“…White House press secretary Jen Psaki fell face-first into foolishness when she attempted to downplay former President Donald Trump’s progress with working towards peace in the Middle East. During a recent conversation with reporters, the press secretary attempted to demean the peace deals the U.S. helped to broker between Israel and Arab nations under the former president.
During a Tuesday trip to Michigan on Air Force One, Psaki said: “Aside from putting forward a peace proposal that was dead on arrival, we don’t think they did anything constructive really to bring an end to the long-term conflict in the Middle East.”
The press secretary’s comments were a response to a reporter’s question about the Trump administration’s Abraham Accords which were designed to normalize diplomatic relations between Israel and other Middle Eastern countries. Apparently, she missed the widespread celebration of the various peace deals between Israel and previously hostile Arab nations that the Trump administration facilitated.
In September 2020, it was announced that the United Arab Emirates and Israel would enter into a peace agreement. This accord was a significant step toward Middle East peace as it was the first domino to drop in the quest for less volatility. With this new agreement in place, trade between the two nations can flourish.
Less than 30 days later, the Trump administration scored another diplomatic victory when it succeeded in persuading Bahrain to also normalize ties with Israel. When Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke with Bahrain’s King Hamad Bin Isa Al-Khalifa on the phone, the leaders agreed to establish full relations between their countries.
Next was Sudan, which announced in October last year that it would start to establish diplomatic ties with the Jewish state after its historically antagonistic stance against the nation. This development was rather significant in that it had engaged in military conflict with Tel-Aviv in the past. In a piece for the Times of Israel, author Raphael Aren noted:
Sudan, on the other hand, has been a bitter enemy of the Jewish state since its founding. During the 1948 War of Independence, six Sudanese army companies joined the Egyptians in fighting the nascent Jewish state.
The animosity continued for seven decades. Until 2016, Sudan was a staunch ally of Iran, helping the Islamic Republic smuggle rockets and other weapons to Palestinian terror groups in Gaza. This prompted Israel to repeatedly bomb military facilities in the country, according to foreign reports.
Lastly, Morocco became the fourth Arab nation to declare that it would establish diplomatic relations with Israel. The two countries stated they would reopen economic liaison offices that were closed in 2002 and work towards exchanging ambassadors while restarting direct flights.
These accomplishments were a great boon to Israel and others who seek peace in the Middle East. The nation was unable to enjoy normalized relations with most Arab nations, and President Trump began the process towards remedying the issue.
Psaki’s comments are especially ludicrous considering the fact that violence once again broke out between the Israelis and Palestinians with President Joe Biden in the White House. “Violence in the region under Biden’s leadership is at the highest level since at least 2014, before Trump was president,” according to Breitbart News…”
Related:
Biden Snatched War From the Jaws of Israel Peace Deals. Pence Explains How He Did It
Weakness, confusion, bumbling wrong headedness.
“…Tell me again, who’s the Russian agent in the White House?
For four years just about every Democrat who got within spitting distance of a microphone accused Donald Trump of being Putin’s stooge at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
The Mueller report disproved that. Facts didn’t matter. The Democrats, and the cable nets and their gasbag hosts, went right along nesting one lie inside another, inside another.
Now Trump is out, Joe Biden is in. Trump had approved the Keystone XL Pipeline, which would have united Canada and the United States and enhanced both countries’ energy security, which enhances national security.
Biden nixed that pipeline with an executive order on his first day in office.
Environment czar John Kerry famously told the workers Biden had summarily laid off to go get jobs making solar panels.
But Kerry knew those are not made by free Americans, but by slaves in China.
Was Kerry telling American workers to enslave themselves to Xi, or merely telling them that he and Biden would condemn them to having to economically compete with slave labor — because Biden wasn’t about to rescind his Keystone cancellation?
Biden said he’d be tougher on Russia than Trump was.
Like many things Biden said during the campaign, such as that he’s a political moderate, that’s not turning out to be the case. Axios reports he’s waiving objections to a Russian pipeline to Germany.
The Biden administration will waive sanctions on the corporate entity and CEO overseeing the construction of Russia’s Nord Stream 2 pipeline into Germany, according to two sources briefed on the decision.
Why it matters: The decision indicates the Biden administration is not willing to compromise its relationship with Germany over this pipeline, and underscores the difficulties President Biden faces in matching actions to rhetoric on a tougher approach to Russia.
Between the lines: This planned move also sets up a bizarre situation in which the Biden administration will be sanctioning ships involved in the building of Nord Stream 2 but refusing to sanction the actual company in charge of the project.
The big picture: As Axios has previously reported, the completion of Nord Stream 2 would be a huge geopolitical win for Putin and give him substantial new leverage in Europe.
The geopolitics of this are not good. When you link it up to Biden’s decision to cancel the Keystone and begin strangling U.S. energy production on federal lands, it’s even worse.
Again, who’s the Russian stooge in the White House? The president who made America energy independent and always prioritized America’s interests around the globe, or the president who returned America to energy dependence, killed an international pipeline that would have benefited America and Canada, cut American energy production, and then empowered Putin?…”
“..People are tortured mentally, physically, socially, emotionally, legally, and spiritually,” Jacob Lang wrote to his dad. He has been in a federal jail since he was arrested on January 16 for his part in the mostly peaceful demonstration at the Capitol on January 6.
“I’ve been in solitary confinement for a hundred days now and haven’t been convicted of any crime with no end in sight,” he continued.
Lang is accused of assaulting a Capitol police officer with a dangerous or deadly weapon. He has pleaded not guilty to all charges. As per a text message received by his mother, Lang was reportedly locked in an empty cell with no toilet paper, chair, or blanket for 14 hours after being accused of advising other Capitol protestors to not take a plea deal.
Shockingly (or not), members of the left’s darling street militias, BLM and antifa, have seen a different side of the “system.” People arrested for rioting, looting, burning federal buildings, and assaulting police officers are seeing little, if any, time behind bars. Roughly half of those arrested for federal crimes have had their charges dropped. Most are granted bail and many have had their bail paid by organizations such as the Minnesota Freedom Fund...”
— Kyrsten Sinema (@SenatorSinema) May 18, 2021
I think her statement is good. The loony left have gone bonkers over this.
Former staffers of The Gates Foundation said Bill and Melinda knew about Epstein’s reputation and his conviction but Bill carried on with the relationship because he though tit could be beneficial philanthropically, and could earn him a Nobel Peace Prize. More details of his relationship with Epstein have emerged since he announced his divorce on May 4
.@RandPaul may deserve a medal for how much he has exposed Dr. Fauci in the last several months.
— Young Americans for Liberty (@YALiberty) May 18, 2021
First it was no masks.
Then it was wear a mask.
Then it was wear two masks.
Then it was back to one mask.
Now it is no masks.
This is the highest paid person in the federal government.
