While police departments across the United States are being defunded to appease leftists, the federal government is dedicating hundreds of thousands of dollars to advance “gender equality” in the “police forces” of a Latin American nation. It is a difficult foreign grant to swallow as local law enforcement agencies nationwide suffer through major budget cuts at the request of the increasingly powerful Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement. The money will flow through the State Department’s Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL), a broad effort funded by American taxpayers to fight crime, counter production and trafficking of illicit drugs and build sound criminal justice systems in foreign countries.
Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s opposition to Amazon building a headquarters in Queens in early 2019 is coming back to bite her. A New York Post feature covered the woes of business owners in the area, as the headquarters would have provided 25,000 jobs and stimulate the local economy. Queens biz owners haunted by…
Alternate electors cast votes for President Donald Trump Monday from a number of battleground states contested by the president as the Electoral College met to finalize the results of the 2020 election. President Donald Trump’s senior adviser Stephen Miller said the move was to keep open the possibility of challenging the election up until Jan.…
Multiple top international news outlets confirm that a list of 1.95 million Chinese Communist Party members has been leaked, and in it are the names of potentially thousands of individuals who live and work in the West, including at major financial institutions, medical research and pharmaceutical companies, and foreign governments.
On Monday, NBC’s Today show did the bidding of the incoming Biden administration by wailing over a Wall Street Journal op-ed critical of soon-to-be First Lady Jill Biden for use of her academic title “Doctor.” Rather than report real news, the broadcast wasted over three minutes of air time denouncing the “sexist” article. This is the same network that just a few months ago criticized Melania Trump for condemning looting and has spent years hurling similar cheap shots at the First Lady.
“Also this morning, there’s an outpouring of support for the future First Lady Dr. Jill Biden after a controversial Wall Street Journal op-ed,” co-host Hoda Kotb sympathetically proclaimed early in the 8:00 a.m. ET hour. She then explained the minor offense that the Biden team and its leftist media allies decided was a major controversy: “The author suggested that Biden dropped the title ‘Doctor,’ even though she earned it.”
In the report that followed, correspondent Anne Thompson gushed:
You know, growing up, Jill Biden famously punched a bully in the nose to defend her sister. This morning, she finds herself at the center of another fight that she didn’t pick, this time with an op-ed columnist who questioned her use of an academic title.
The on-screen headline hyped: “Jill Biden Responds to ‘Dr.’ Controversy; Backlash Grows After WSJ Columnist Suggests Dropping ‘Doctor.’”
Making it clear that she was just another adoring fan, Thompson hailed: “Two defining characteristics of soon-to-be First Lady Jill Biden are that she is a fierce Philly girl and that she thrives on teaching at community colleges.” Touting how Biden was “known as ‘Dr. B’ to her students,” the reporter noted: “Biden earned her Doctorate of Education from the University of Delaware in 2007.”
Thompson then bitterly complained about a Saturday op-ed in the Journal: “But in a Wall Street Journal op-ed this weekend, author Joseph Epstein called on Biden to stop using the title, addressing her as ‘Madam First Lady-Mrs. Biden-Jill-Kiddo.’ He asked, “Any chance you might drop the ‘Dr.’ before your name? ‘Dr. Jill Biden’ sounds and feels fraudulent, not to say a touch comic.’”
Helpfully, the NBC correspondent had plenty of talking points lined up:
[Biden] delivered this tweet overnight, writing, “Together we will build a world where the accomplishments of our daughters will be celebrated rather than diminished.” Her response praised on social media as pure class and intelligent. Vice President-Elect Kamala Harris’s husband Doug Emhoff writing, “Dr. Biden earned her degrees through hard work and pure grit,” adding, “This story would have never written about a man.” Dr. Bernice King, daughter of civil rights icon Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., tweeting: “Dear Dr. Biden, my father was a non-medical doctor. And his work benefited humanity greatly. Yours does, too.”
Wrapping up the piece, Thompson cheered: “Now, letters to the journals editor this morning use other words, such as ‘sexist,’ ‘sour grapes,’ and ‘uninformed.’”
However, she did mention Wall Street Journal editorial page editor Paul Gigot calling out the obvious political posturing involved in pushing the story: “And the paper’s editorial page editor made his own accusations, accusing the Biden team of fanning the controversy to play identity politics, describing his encounters with them over the weekend as ‘very Trumpian.’”
Gigot went further, pointing out how the press was working with the Biden team:
This has triggered a flood of media and Twitter criticism, including demands that I retract the piece, apologize personally to Mrs. Biden, ban Mr. Epstein for all time, and resign and think upon my sins. The complaints began as a trickle but became a torrent after the Biden media team elevated Mr. Epstein’s work in what was clearly a political strategy….Why go to such lengths to highlight a single op-ed on a relatively minor issue? My guess is that the Biden team concluded it was a chance to use the big gun of identity politics to send a message to critics as it prepares to take power. There’s nothing like playing the race or gender card to stifle criticism.
Of course NBC never had qualms about going after First Lady Melania Trump, even over the most minor issues. While covering the Republican National Convention in August, Nightly News anchor Lester Holt worried that Mrs. Trump condemning looting and rioting in her speech would “raise eyebrows.” In November of 2018, Holt fretted that the First Lady was sparking a “power struggle” in the West Wing by calling for the firing of a staffer. In October that year, the evening news broadcast even highlighted a rapper’s music video that vilely sexualized the First Lady. That August, Holt complained that Melania Trump’s parents were becoming U.S. citizens.
Liberal networks like NBC have no problem going after the First Lady if she’s married to a Republican president. However, if her husband is a Democrat, all criticism must be silenced.
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Here is a full transcript of the December 14 segment:
8:05 AM ET
HODA KOTB: Also this morning, there’s an outpouring of support for the future First Lady Dr. Jill Biden after a controversial Wall Street Journal op-ed. The author suggested that Biden dropped the title “Doctor,” even though she earned it. NBC’s Anne Thompson has more. Hey Anne, good morning.
ANNE THOMPSON: Good morning, Hoda. You know, growing up, Jill Biden famously punched a bully in the nose to defend her sister. This morning, she finds herself at the center of another fight that she didn’t pick, this time with an op-ed columnist who questioned her use of an academic title.
[ON-SCREEN HEADLINE: Jill Biden Responds to “Dr.” Controversy; Backlash Grows After WSJ Columnist Suggests Dropping “Doctor”]
UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN: Please welcome Dr. Jill Biden.
THOMPSON: Two defining characteristics of soon-to-be First Lady Jill Biden are that she is a fierce Philly girl and that she thrives on teaching at community colleges.
JILL BIDEN: I have always loved the sounds of a classroom.
THOMPSON: She’s known as “Dr. B” to her students. Biden earned her Doctorate of Education from the University of Delaware in 2007.
BIDEN: Teaching is so much more than a job to me.
THOMPSON: But in a Wall Street Journal op-ed this weekend, author Joseph Epstein called on Biden to stop using the title, addressing her as “Madam First Lady-Mrs. Biden-Jill-Kiddo.” He asked, “Any chance you might drop the ‘Dr.’ before your name? ‘Dr. Jill Biden’ sounds and feels fraudulent, not to say a touch comic.” Citing a wise man, Epstein wrote, “No one should call himself ‘Dr.’ unless he has delivered a child.” For the record, Jill Biden gave birth to a child, her doctor Ashley, with President-Elect Joe Biden.
And she also delivered this tweet overnight, writing, “Together we will build a world where the accomplishments of our daughters will be celebrated rather than diminished.” Her response praised on social media as pure class and intelligent. Vice President-Elect Kamala Harris’s husband Doug Emhoff writing, “Dr. Biden earned her degrees through hard work and pure grit,” adding, “This story would have never written about a man.” Dr. Bernice King, daughter of civil rights icon Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., tweeting: “Dear Dr. Biden, my father was a non-medical doctor. And his work benefited humanity greatly. Yours does, too.”
Northwestern University, where Epstein taught for 30 years, pointed out in a statement he has not been a lecturer there since 2003. Adding, “Northwestern is firmly committed to equity, diversity and inclusion, and strongly disagrees with Mr. Epstein’s misogynistic views.”
Now, letters to the journals editor this morning use other words, such as “sexist,” “sour grapes,” and “uninformed.” And the paper’s editorial page editor made his own accusations, accusing the Biden team of fanning the controversy to play identity politics, describing his encounters with them over the weekend as “very Trumpian.” Hoda?
HODA KOTB: Alright, Anne Thompson for us. Anne, thank you.
The network newscasts on Sunday night and Monday morning were predictably silent on the shocking sexual harassment claims against Governor Andrew Cuomo, a hero among liberals. These are the same networks that praised his “excellency” and gossiped over the single Democrat.
On Sunday night, Fox News broke from the Democrat media and alerted viewers to the story. Fox Report anchor Jon Scott explained:
A former aide is accusing New York’s Governor Andrew Cuomo of misconduct. Lindsey Boylan writing on Twitter, “Yes governor Cuomo sexually harassed me for years, many saw it and watched.” Boylan worked in the Cuomo administration from 2015 to 2018, she is now a candidate for Manhattan president in New York City. The governor’s press secretary responding to the accusations saying, quote, “There is simply no truth to these claims.”
Here’s Boylan’s tweet on Sunday morning:
On Sunday night there was silence from the networks. On Monday morning, NBC’s Today, CBS This Morning and ABC’s Good Morning America all avoided the accusations against the governor, despite a combined six hours of available air time.
Here’s how Republican operative Scott Jennings mockingly responded to a USA Today effort to downplay the accusations.
Quite a contrast to how the networks have covered Cuomo during the pandemic. On June 21, 2020, CBS Sunday Morning’s Jane Pauley played up the romantic prospects of the man now accused of harassment:
You are a bachelor, you’ve got a nice house here, having a moment, and you can’t do a thing with it. Is your social life in a phase one relationship, possibly? Is that an unfortunate set of circumstances?
On July 20, 2020, NBC’s Nightly News host Lester Holt portrayed Cuomo as a hero: "As New York City entered a new phase of reopening today, Governor Andrew Cuomo headed south on a mission, he says, to prevent the virus from returning to the northeast.” On October 22, Late Show host Stephen Colbert referred to the governor as “your excellency.”
Will these shows now follow through on the idea that we should “believe all women?” Or does that only apply to Republicans and conservatives? We saw how they avoided talking about Tara Reade’s sex assault claim against Joe Biden.
The Democratic cover-up on ABC’s Good Morning America was sponsored by Amazon. On CBS This Morning, it was promoted by sponsor Mercedes Benz. On NBC’s Today, it was Cadillac.
Here is the Fox Report transcript on Boylan.
Fox Report With Jon Scott
12/14/2020
6:09 PM ET
JON SCOTT: A former aide is accusing New York’s governor Andrew Cuomo of misconduct. Lindsey Boylan writing on Twitter, “Yes governor Cuomo sexually harassed me for years, many saw it and watched.” Boylan worked in the Cuomo administration from 2015 to 2018, she is now a candidate for Manhattan president in New York City. The governor’s press secretary responding to the accusations saying, quote, “There is simply no truth to these claims.”
A forensic audit report of Dominion voting machines in Michigan’s Antrim County — which received national attention after it was discovered that an “error” “flipped” 6,000 votes for President Donald Trump to Democrat Joe Biden — was released Monday after a judge allowed the report to be unsealed. The report, produced by a group working on behalf […]
This year, fear of a deadly pandemic triggered the ruling class to spread authoritarian lockdown orders. The god of science, like a burning bush, told them to remove their sandals and deliver policies of regression. A paranoid public was quick to comply.
Humans have been battling viruses since well before the wheel was invented. According to archaeologists, a fast moving epidemic roughly 5,000 years ago wiped out a prehistoric village in what is today northeastern China. Dead bodies were stuffed inside a dwelling – the Hamin Mangha – that was later burned down.
Another mass burial, the Miaozigou site, took place about the same time and in the same general area. Together these discoveries suggest there was a rapid outbreak of an acute infectious disease. An epidemic ravaged the entire region.
The viral spread of submicroscopic pathogens has the potential to alter the flow of history. Soldiers returning to the Roman Empire after war against Parthia in 165 AD brought back more than the spoils of conquest. The Antonine Plague, which is suspected to have been smallpox or measles, claimed an estimated 5 million lives. The epidemic had devastating consequences throughout the Roman Empire; perhaps bringing forward the demise of Pax Romana.
About 1,350 years later Spanish forces, led by Hernán Cortés, delivered the gift of smallpox as they conquered the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlán. About a decade after, Spanish conquerors spread the plague to the Incas. An estimated 90 percent of the native population was killed off by the pestilence. Aztec and Inca civilizations were swiftly wiped off the map and replaced by New Spain.
Court of Sinister
Plague of Athens. Plague of Cyprian. Plague of Justinian. Black death. Cocoliztli epidemic. Great plague of London. Great plague of Marseille. Russian plague. Philadelphia yellow fever epidemic. American polio epidemic. Spanish flu. Asian flu. Swine flu. West African Ebola epidemic. Zika virus epidemic. And many others.
Indeed, plagues come and go. Yet they can dispense lasting consequences. Sometimes, as is the case with coronavirus, pandemics have much less to do with the virus than the societal change the virus activates. Marcus Aurelius, the last of the Five Good Emperors, in the time of the Antonine Plague, penned the following in his Meditations:
“To bear in mind constantly that all of this has happened before. And will happen again—the same plot from beginning to end, the identical staging. Produce them in your mind, as you know them from experience or from history: the court of Hadrian, of Antoninus. The courts of Philip, Alexander, Croesus. All just the same. Only the people different.”
Maybe so. But the plot in 2020 is staged in the court of sinister. Fear of a deadly pandemic has opened the door for madmen to walk through. Upon entering the court, they put into practice sinister plans for controlling populations and swelling dependency.
According to state and local governments, constitutional rights are not rights at all; they’re privileges. And they’ve been suspended in your best interest. To keep you safe.
Moreover, if you want to work, have extended family over for dinner, worship with a congregation, or walk down the street without a mask, you’re selfish. You’re not doing your part to stop the spread.
Klaus Schwab, a madman, and founder of the World Economic Forum (WEF) is a man of social science based totalitarian rule. Individuals that think for themselves and pay their own way in life are not part of his master plan. He prefers a docile public, subsisting one notch above poverty, that’s fully dependent on a global state.
In his new book, “COVID-19: The Great Reset,” Schwab and his co-author admit that COVID-19 is “one of the least deadly pandemics in the last 2000 years.” Yet the ruling class has acted like this is the new smallpox. What gives?
The Viral Assault On Small Businesses
COVID-19 has provided the perfect cover Schwab’s disciples to assault one of America’s remaining expressions of freedom and independence: small businesses. With lockdowns, politicians get to pick and choose what businesses survive and what businesses don’t. They get to decide who’s essential and who isn’t.
By and large, corporations, having interests aligned with politicians, are considered essential. Small businesses aren’t. Walmart lives. Dick’s barbershop dies. McDonald’s survives. Tito’s Tacos doesn’t.
What’s more, legislation with the supposed intent to stop the spread of coronavirus has devastated small businesses. Roughly 100,000 small businesses have permanently closed. At the same time, big corporations are reaping record profits.
One of the more tyrannical laws, which is acting as a viral assault on small businesses, is something warmly named the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA). Attorney Ash Staub explains:
“The FFCRA, passed in March of this year, requires businesses to provide two weeks of paid sick leave for quarantined employees and/or employees experiencing COVID-19 related symptoms. It also requires two weeks of paid sick leave at two-thirds the regular rate of pay for employees who need to care for quarantined individuals, such as elderly relatives or spouses. Furthermore, employers must also provide ten weeks of extended leave, also at two-thirds the regular rate of pay, for employees caring for their children due to school closures.
“The FFCRA only applies to employers with fewer than 500 employees.
“Thus, the FFCRA has imposed financial obligations on small businesses while exempting big businesses. Small businesses are forced to pay the cost of complying with the FFCRA, while big businesses are not. Small businesses are at risk of FFCRA-related lawsuits; big businesses are not. The FFCRA clearly disadvantages small businesses, and expecting small businesses to incur the cost of the FFCRA while their revenue plummets, and their corporate competition profits, is a recipe for widespread small business bankruptcy.”
And for every small business that’s crushed by autocratic rule there’s the corresponding loss of the owner’s dreams and their employee’s livelihoods. But that’s not all. It also denotes another step from freedom and liberty towards control and dependency… and into a darker more medieval world.
A tearful mother alleges that her family was recently kicked off a flight because her 2-year-old daughter refused to wear a face mask. The mother documented the alleged incident on video, and it has since gone viral on social media.
Eliz Orban said she was flying on a United Airlines flight from Colorado’s Denver International Airport to Newark International Airport in New Jersey this week. The couple have made it a tradition to visit the Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree, and were excited to include their daughter in the annual holiday ritual.
Orban said that the trip was coordinated with close friends and family to meet in New Jersey, including some they haven’t seen in years. The friends and family were flying in from Cleveland and Slovakia to meet up this weekend, according to Orban.
Orban, her husband, and their 2-year-old daughter boarded the airplane and were sitting in their seats. The husband and wife were wearing face masks, and their young daughter had a mask, but she didn’t want to wear the face covering. The father is seen on video attempting to put a mask on the toddler’s face several times, but the toddler continually blocks him from doing so.
Apparently, a United Airlines employee warned the couple that the 2-year-old needs to wear a face mask. The same United Airlines employee allegedly asked the family to disembark from the airliner because the 2-year-old refused to wear a mask.
"Today, we were asked to leave the plane after it had rolled out, and they had to bring it back to the gate, because our 2 year old daughter would not ‘comply’ and keep her mask on," Orban wrote on an Instagram post.
"Since our bags weren’t taken off the plane (they did get our child seat) – we have to wait until tomorrow till they deliver it to our house in Breckenridge which is 2 hours from the DIA airport," Orban wrote. "Definitely won’t make it to dinner in Jersey tonight."
Orban pointed out that the World Health Organization advises that children up to 5-years-old should not wear face masks. Regarding COVID-19, the WHO wrote in August, "Children aged 5 years and under should not be required to wear masks. This is based on the safety and overall interest of the child and the capacity to appropriately use a mask with minimal assistance."
Orban said that her daughter had already flown on four flights "since the pandemic, without ever having an issue."
Orban, who said that she and her husband are premier silver members at United, claimed that she and her husband are banned from flying on United Airlines.
According to United Airlines’ rules related to the coronavirus pandemic, "all travelers are required to wear a face covering with no vents or openings that fully covers their nose and mouth," and that "children younger than 2 years old" are exempt from the mask mandate.
At the time of publication, United Airlines did not respond to a request for comment.
The sheriff of Orange County, California, was ordered by a Superior Court judge on Friday to reduce the number of incarcerated people currently housed in the county’s jail system by fifty percent to help curb the spread of COVID-19. The Los Angeles Times reports, “the move came in response to a lawsuit filed in April […]
