TEACH WOMEN NOT TO DO ANY OF THAT: Ex-teacher accused of sexting 2 students, having sex with 1 in Madison County.
Author Archive: Stephen Green
May 6, 2019
THOMAS LIFSON: Why Biden won’t get the Dem nomination.
Yes, he’s really, really old, thus removing the opportunity to attack President Trump on the basis of his age.
And yes, he says really stupid stuff — and they are usually incorrectly called “gaffes,” which Michael Kinsley correctly defined as a politician accidentally telling the truth. Biden’s mouth just runs faster than his brain (not much of a feat) and he utters nonsense. Often, mean-spirited nonsense like “They’ll put y’all back in chains.”
But the real reason why Biden won’t get the nomination is that he and his family are corrupt, enriching themselves courtesy of foreign governments. Normally, that would not be a problem for a Democrat because the dominant mainstream media is not interested in scandals affecting powerful Democrats. But with 22 Democrats running for president, some of them with MSM allies, and with grave doubts about Biden’s ability to defeat Trump (their overriding goal), these scandals will not be suppressed. Especially because they involve collusion with a foreign power.
Vanity Fair and the New York Times, which are nobody’s idea of right wing publications, are onto the story of Biden helping his son make a huge fortune via deals with China.
The question isn’t so much whether the other candidates will draw their long knives over Biden, Inc.’s shady dealings in China and Ukraine, but whether the Democratic primary electorate will care.
EMBRACE THE HEALING POWER OF “AND.” Major Report Omission Shows Mueller Was Either Incompetent Or A Political Hack.
HOW THE MIGHTY HAVE FALLEN: Check Out These Pathetic Prices For ‘An Evening With The Clintons.’
BUT OF COURSE: Rashida Tlaib Attempts To Spin Hamas’ Attack On Israel.
MATTHEW BRODSKY: Iran’s Hand Behind the Latest Flare Up in Gaza, Israel.
This latest escalation is significant for several reasons. First is the deliberate increase in range in the rockets fired from Gaza. Hamas and PIJ began by targeting Israeli communities in the Strip’s periphery, such as Sderot and Ashkelon. According to the IDF, after the Home Front Command instructed residents living within 40 km of the Gaza Strip to consult with local authorities and remain near protected spaces, the terrorist groups turned to rockets with increased ranges of up to 70 km. By Sunday, several longer-range projectiles were fired, growing to encompass Ashdod further north. On Sunday, city officials opened bomb shelters as far up the coast as Netanya, which lies north of Tel Aviv.
The kinds of weapons used by terrorists in Gaza are also noteworthy. Interrupting a short lull in the rocket fire, terrorists fired a guided Kornet anti-tank weapon, targeting a car and killing a civilian in Israel. According to the IDF, militants in Gaza also tried carrying out an attack using a rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) attached to a drone, which landed on a tank but failed to detonate. The IDF, working with Israel’s internal security the Shin Bet, also thwarted a Hamas cyberattack against Israeli infrastructure and responded by destroying the building housing the headquarters of the terror group’s cyber unit. It was the first such attack while fighting was ongoing.
Much more at the link.
LIZ SHELD’S MORNING BRIEF: U.S. Sends Muscle to Middle East After Word Spreads of Possible Iran Attack. “It’s something we’ve been working on for a little while,” Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told reporters traveling with him to Europe. “It is absolutely the case that we have seen escalatory actions from the Iranians, and it is equally the case that we will hold the Iranians accountable for attacks on American interests.”
THAT’S THE PROBLEM WITH OTHER PEOPLE’S MONEY: Donations to Sanders cut in half after Biden entry, begs donors to ‘dig a little deeper.’
COLD WAR II: The Overlooked Military Implications of the 5G Debate.
There are economic implications for which entities can secure the greatest global market share of 5G technology. Technological innovation drives economic growth, job creation, and global economic influence. Huawei may have a long-term market advantage over U.S and Western telecoms because the former has been able to offer 5G products at far cheaper rates than the latter. Furthermore, there are also concerns that Chinese-built 5G technology is likely to contain backdoors that could be used to enable Chinese economic or national security espionage. It is unlikely that Beijing would actively monitor all of the content of the data that comes across Huawei owned or operated infrastructure (although it may collect and analyze metadata). However, it is conceivable that Huawei would get a proverbial “tap on the shoulder” from Beijing to share pertinent information in specific instances. This may include individually targeting senior corporate executives, which is enabled by the millimeter wave frequency that 5G networks employ.
The military applications of 5G technology have vital strategic and battlefield implications for the U.S. Historically, the U.S. military has reaped enormous advantages from employing cutting edge technology on the battlefield. 5G technology holds similar innovative potential. Perhaps most obviously, the next generation of telecommunications infrastructure will have a direct impact on improving military communications. However, it will also produce cascading effects on the development of other kinds of military technologies, such as robotics and artificial intelligence. For instance, artificial intelligence and machine learning capabilities, such as those used in the Department of Defense’s Project Maven, could be greatly enhanced when leveraging the data processing speeds made possible through 5G infrastructure. As an era of great power competition emerges between the United States and China, the United States has a compelling strategic interest in being at the forefront of these new technologies.
Indeed.
NICE: The F-35 is about to get a lot more lethal in air-to-air combat — without losing its stealth. “The new weapons rack — Sidekick — is designed to allow the fifth-generation fighters to carry an additional AIM-120 Amraam in each of its two internal weapons bays, increasing the weapons capacity to six from four.”
A national Muslim group says it will conduct an investigation into an event at a Philadelphia Islamic center last month during which a group of youngsters sang songs it said were not “properly vetted,” calling that “an unintended mistake and an oversight.”
Youngsters at the Muslim American Society Islamic Center in North Philadelphia are shown in video footage speaking in Arabic during a celebration of “Ummah Day,” said the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), a Middle East monitoring organization. One girl says “we will chop off their heads” to “liberate the sorrowful and exalted Al-Aqsa Mosque” in Jerusalem, according to the MEMRI.
“While we celebrate the coming together of different cultures and languages, not all songs were properly vetted,” the Muslim American Society, based in Washington, said in a statement issued Friday. “This was an unintended mistake and an oversight in which the center and the students are remorseful. MAS will conduct an internal investigation to ensure this does not occur again.”
Uh-huh.
ENTITLEMENT MENTALITY: Hillary Clinton Claims 2016 Election Was ‘Stolen’ From Her.
Every time she speaks in public, she damages this country’s institutions.
I FIND LEGO HAS A SIMILAR EFFECT: Women who microdose mushrooms: ‘It makes me enjoy playing with the kids.’
ANALYSIS: TRUE. Wrong, Rep. Omar: Socialism, not America, caused Venezuela’s suffering.
Any European immigrating to Venezuela today, or Cuba for that matter, should consult a headshrinker or spiritual adviser. From 1999 to the present, the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) has run the country into the ground, first with Hugo Chávez, who at least had charisma, and since his 2013 death by his successor, Nicolás Maduro, who doesn’t.
Yet somehow, Omar saw fit to assure viewers of the far-left television show “Democracy Now” that responsibility for the mayhem we see there today rests with the US.
“A lot of the policies that we have put in place has kind of helped lead the devastation in Venezuela, and we have sort of set the stage for where we are arriving today,” she claimed. “This particular bullying and the use of sanctions to eventually intervene and make regime change really does not help the people of countries like Venezuela, and it certainly does not help and is not in the interest” of the US.
No. The bullying hasn’t come from Washington. It has originated from the Miraflores palace, the Venezuelan version of the White House, and from Havana, where the Castro family has been pulling the strings of both Chávez and Maduro for decades.
Slowly at first, the PSUV took control of all of Venezuela’s institutions. The judiciary, the Supreme Court, the military top brass, the electoral council — all fell into the maw of the PSUV. This meant that there were no checks and balances, no electoral accountability. The top officials and generals Chávez and Maduro surrounded themselves with became more interested in narco-trafficking than in serving their nation.
Their economic mismanagement eventually caused GDP to shrink, from an estimated $331.6 billion in 2012 to $96.3 billion today. The breadbasket of Latin America became its beggar.
But what do facts matter when there’s an America-hating narrative to push?
ANALYSIS: DEPRESSINGLY TRUE. Jay Leno: ‘Everyone is Very Politically Correct’ Today.
THEY AREN’T WRONG: Smart home devices ‘creepy’ say two-thirds of people … who own smart home devices.
You can do some fun things you can do with LED lights which require something smarter than an old-school toggle switch, but for anything mission critical like locks, gas, or water, “smart” is kinda dumb.
GREEN NEW DEAL (PREVIEWED): Department of Justice opens investigation into failed carbon-capture plant. “The project received hundreds of millions in grants and may now be scrapped.”
RUN ALL THE CANDIDATES! And Then There Were 22: Sen. Michael Bennet Enters the Presidential Race.
IF THEY WERE SERIOUS THEY’D BAN THEM RIGHT NOW SINCE WE ONLY HAVE TEN YEARS LEFT: Los Angeles Has a Green New Deal of Its Own – No ICE Vehicles by 2050.
DEB HEINE: New York Times Discovers Yet Another Spy Deployed Against the Trump Campaign in 2016.
What did President Obama know and when did he know it?