The Capital Note: Surge in Entrepreneurship amid Pandemic

From National Review.com (Sept. 30):

Spike in New Business Formation

The wreckage of the Covid pandemic is not enough to stop Americans from opening up new businesses. The Department of Commerce reported a massive spike in new-business applications in the third quarter. While partially a reflection of the backlog in applications that built up during the lockdowns earlier this year, the spike is a surprising sign of the ability of the U.S. economy to weather the storm of the pandemic.

It also shows how unusual this year’s recession is. After the 2008 financial crisis, new-firm formation fell by roughly 25 percent, bringing real per capita GDP growth down by 2.5 percent. Despite a massive decline in real GDP this year, new businesses have increased in quantity and quality, according to Goldman Sachs Research:

[N]ew business applications have surged in Q3, with “high-propensity to succeed” business applications—those with similar characteristics to those that have historically led to firm creation—reaching their highest quarterly level on record, following a sharp virus-driven decline in March and April.

In large part, the surge in business formation reflects the forceful policy response to the pandemic. Near-zero interest rates, as well as an increase in personal income thanks to the CARES Act, have made it relatively easy for entrepreneurs to open new firms. It’s also a response to the changes ushered in by the pandemic, such as remote work and the increasing digitization of services.

Along with good news on payrolls and vaccines, the business formation numbers suggest a relatively swift labor-market recovery: Goldman Sachs researchers expect the unemployment rate to drop to 7 percent by the end of this year and to 5.6 percent by the end of 2021. [read more]

Excerpts from the book Red Famine–The Peasants

Threatened by violence and afraid of hunger, hundreds of thousands of peasants finally relinquished their land, animals and machines to the collective farms. But just because they had been forced to move, they did not become enthusiastic collective farmers overnight. The fruits of their labour no longer belonged to them; the grain they sowed and harvested was now requisitioned by the authorities.

Collectivization also meant that peasants had lost their ability to make decisions about their lives. Like the serfs of old, they were forced to accept a special legal status, including controls on their movement: all collective farmers, kolkhozniks, would eventually need to seek permission to work outside the village. Instead of deciding when to reap, sow and sell, kolkhozniks had to follow decisions made by the local representatives of Soviet power. They did not earn regular salaries but were paid trudodni or day wages, which often meant payment in kind—grain, potatoes or other products—rather than cash. They lost their ability to govern themselves too, as collective farm bosses and their entourages supplanted the traditional village councils.

As a result, men and women who had so recently been self-reliant farmers now worked as little as possible. Farm machines were not maintained and frequently broke down. In August 1930 some tractors out of 16,790 in Ukraine were in need of repair. The problem was cynically blamed on "class struggle" and "wreckers" who were allegedly sabotaging the farm machinery.

Even when peasants did sow and till the fields, they often did their work without the care and enthusiasm they had shown in the past. Collective farms produced dramatically less than they could or should have done. Everyone tried to or take from the collective as much as possible: after all, the state's grain belonged to "no one." Men and women who would never have considered stealing in the past now had no compunction about taking from state organizations that no-one owned or respected. This form of "everyday resistance" was not unique to the peasantry.

Source: Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine (2017) by Anne Applebaum.

CAUGHT WITH THEIR PANTS DOWN! Apparently The PENTAGON Has Been ILLEGALLY SURVEILLING Americans After The George Floyd Incident

From The Patriot Nation.net (Aug. 30):

Once the mainstream media began reporting on the George Floyd incident, it definitely was the spark for all kinds of massive riots and looting all across this great country. People needed to take action, but apparently, the Pentagon thought they needed to do so as well. They began launching “covert spying” aircraft into our airspace. Their purpose? To spy on Americans. However, per this report this is something that they cannot do. In a word, this type of practice is indeed illegal.

Of course, the Pentagon was quick to defend their actions. While they did admit that the operation was illegal, they said that it was a necessary evil simply because they wanted to keep track of the things that were going on in our American streets. They said this was similar to what the National Guard did when they launched reconnaissance drones and aircraft over four major U.S. cities simply because they needed to collect data on all of the “protests.” The National Guard has since been exonerated of their activities.

Defense Secretary Mark Esper is now claiming that he had never personally signed off on any of the spying activities of the National Guard. However, there is a litany of Guard officials who insist that their activities simply did not require any approval from the “top brass.” They said that the reason these activities didn’t require any higher-up approval is because the military wing of the Guard was simply trying to “observe the crowds” and assess all of the developments. In a nutshell, the Guard was more concerned with whether “things like large fires” were beginning to develop.

An Air Force inspector weighed in, saying that yes, the general investigation had indeed been ordered by Esper, but the surveillance aircraft was not used to “monitor anyone”, but simply just to “gain some information regarding fires, crowd size, and crowd flows.”

“This probe was indeed ordered by Defense Secretary Mark Esper. However, it was simply due to a response regarding some questions in the department and Congress in regards to whether the military was engaging in illegal action and conducting surveillance of American citizens regarding the unrest after the shooting of George Floyd.” [read more]

Congressional China Task Force Releases Findings From Report On Threat From Communist China

From Daily Wire.com (Sept. 30):

The congressional China Task Force released a 141-page report on Wednesday outlining 82 key findings about the threat that the Chinese Communist Party poses to the United States and making 430 policy recommendations on how the U.S. needs to respond.

The task force was led by Republicans — despite being in the minority in the House of Representatives — because Democrats refused to participate. Democrat presidential nominee Joe Biden, who declared during last night’s debate that he is “the Democratic Party,” has repeatedly downplayed the threat that China poses to the U.S. and recently refused to call China an “opponent” during a CNN town hall.

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy forged ahead with the task force, despite receiving no help from Democrats, putting 15 Republicans on the Committee who represent 11 other committees of the House of Representatives.

The Committee focused on investigating six CCP-related challenges that the U.S. faces, including Ideological Competition, Supply Chains, National Security, Technology, Economics and Energy, and Competitiveness. [read more]

Another article about China:

Communists taking over Christian churches by putting themselves on managing boards

Wife of Boston Marathon Bombing Hero Says Biden Touched Her in an "Inappropriate and Uncomfortable Way"

From Red State.com (Sept. 30):

According to a report from Joseph Simonson in the Washington Examiner, then-Vice President Joe Biden inappropriately touched the wife of a police officer injured while apprehending the Boston Marathon bombing suspects and made a suggestive comment to her during a remembrance ceremony in April 2013. Kim Donohue, whose husband was shot in the leg during the manhunt, said in a Facebook post that Biden even “pushed” her husband aside. [read more]

Johnson & Johnson launches massive human trial of COVID-19 vaccine

From The Washington Times.com (Sept. 23):

Pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson started a massive human trial of its coronavirus vaccine Wednesday, lining up another option as federal officials told Congress they will resist political pressure ahead of an unprecedented push to inoculate the country.

The Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of J&J said it plans to enroll up to 60,000 adults at nearly 215 clinical research sites in the U.S. and abroad. The company said its vaccine candidate offers twin advantages over some of its competitors — it can be delivered in a single dose and doesn’t require unusually cold storage temperatures.

The Trump administration, through “Operation Warp Speed,” is supporting private drugmakers as it tries to lock down a successful vaccine before the end of the year. [read more]

Excerpts from the book Red Famine–Family Relations

Family relationships changed too. Fathers, deprived of property, could no longer bequeath land to their sons and lost authority. Before collectivization it was very unusual for parents to abandon children, but afterwards mothers and fathers often went to seek work in the city, returning sporadically or not at all. As elsewhere in the USSR, children were instructed to denounce their parents, and were questioned at school about what was going on at home. Traditions of village self-rule came to an abrupt end too. Before collectivization, local men chose their own leaders; after collectivization, farcical "elections" were still held, with candidates making speeches exhorting their neighbours to join the great Soviet project. But everyone knew that the outcome was determined in advance, guaranteed by the omnipresent police.

Finally, and perhaps most ominously, collectivization left the peasants economically dependent on the state. Once the collective farms were established, nobody who lived on them had any means of earning a salary. The farm bosses distributed food products and other goods according to the quality and quantity of work. Theoretically, the system was supposed to provide an incentive to work. In practice, it  also meant that peasants had no cash, no way to purchase food, and no mobility. Anyone who left without permission or refused to work could be deprived of his or her ration. When their family cows and garden plots were taken away, as they would during the autumn and winter of 1932-3, the peasants had nothing left at all.

Source: Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine (2017) by Anne Applebaum.

Joe Biden Wants Christians on Terror List for Opposing LGBTQ Agenda

From The Washington Sentinel.com (Oct. 12, 2019):

Former Vice President Joe Biden just announced that he wants Christians to be put on a terror watch list if they commit the crime of opposing the LGBTQ agenda.

At CNN’s LGBT town hall on Thursday, Biden advocated for a registry of all religious organizations that won’t toe the line of the radical gay agenda. Looks like Biden wants to pin a yellow star on Christians who oppose the gay mafia.

Worse, Biden’s proclamation at the townhall was his way of signing onto an idea pushed by the left-wing, hate-group called the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC).

Biden pushed three things to help end “hate crimes” against gays: passing the Equality Act, monitoring groups that are similar to terrorist groups, and rewrite federal civil rights laws to prevent discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity. [read more]

And Biden says it’s a “time to heal?” Really? Come on man!

Vote rigging: How to spot the tell-tale signs

From BBC.com (Sept. 2016):

Too many voters

Watch the turnout figures ‒ they can be a big giveaway.

You never get a 98% or 99% turnout in an honest election. You just don't.

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A high turnout in specific areas

Even where the turnout is within the bounds of possibility, if the figure is wildly different from the turnout elsewhere, it serves as a warning.

Why would one particular area, or one individual polling station, have a 90% turnout, while most other areas register less than 70%?

Something strange is almost certainly going on, especially if the high turnout is an area which favours one particular candidate or party over another.

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Large numbers of invalid votes

There are other, more subtle ways that riggers can increase votes ‒ or reduce them.

Keep an eye on the number of votes excluded as invalid. Even in countries with low literacy rates this isn't normally above 5%.

High numbers of invalid votes can mean that officials are disqualifying ballots for the slightest imperfection, even when the voter's intention is perfectly clear, in an attempt to depress votes for their opponents.

More votes than ballot papers issued

When the polls close, and before they open the boxes, election officials normally have to go through a complicated and rather tedious process known as the reconciliation of ballots.

After they have counted how many ballot papers they received in the morning, they then need to count how many are left, and how many ‒ if any ‒ were torn or otherwise spoiled and had to be put aside.

The result will tell them how many papers should be in the box. It should also match the number of names checked off on the register.

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Delay in announcing results

Finally something that is not necessarily a sign of rigging, but it is often assumed to be so.

Election commissions, particularly in Africa, can appear to take an inordinately long time to publish official results.

This is not helped by local observer networks and political parties who, tallying up the results sent in by their agents on mobile phones, have a good idea of the result long before the more cumbersome official process is completed.

But the official process takes time, especially in countries with poor communications, and the introduction of modern electronic transmission systems has not necessarily helped. [read more]

Interesting…. To the Left vote rigging is no problem at all. In war you can deceive, trick and confuse your enemy. This is called the "fog of war." I believe they have planned this ever since Trump got elected president. Covid-19 or no Covid-19. The Coronavirus just gave the Left an opportunity. 

Other illegal voting articles:

• Pennsylvania received 10,000 mail-in ballots after polls closed on Election Day
• Pennsylvania Is A Mess: Tens of Thousands of Pennsylvania Ballots Were Returned Before They Were Sent Out
  
• A Sampling of Recent Election Fraud Cases from Across the United States
• Election Integrity
• Lawsuit alleges election fraud in Detroit, provides sworn affidavits by witnesses
• Dominion Voting Systems
  
• 4 Things to Know About Voting Machine Company That’s Causing Stir
• Software that incorrectly gave Biden thousands of Michigan votes used in 28 other states
• Election Fraud Expert Warned About Dominion Voting Machines “It’s the Optical Scanners Where the Largest Chance of Cheating Occurs”
  
• Dominion Voting Systems: Glitch, Clinton Tie Cause Scrutiny in 2020 Election
  
• Dominion Voting Software Officer Admitted Officials Have Access to Manipulate Votes
  
• Democratic senators warned of potential 'vote switching' by Dominion voting machines prior to 2020 election
  
• The Dominion software story keeps getting worse
  
• Tech expert says Dominion Voting Systems VERY easy to hack [video]
  
• If the 2020 Election Was Held in a Foreign Country, the State Department and Western Media Would Declare it “Fraudulent”
• MICHIGAN WITNESS: Detroit Tabulation Machines were Illegally Connected to the Web [video]
  
• An Engineer Explains Why We Must Kill Software-Based Voting
  
• The Trump campaign has released 234 pages of affidavits regarding alleged voting irregularities in Michigan. Here's what they say.
  
• Milwaukee Trying to Cover Its Tracks After Initially Reporting Seven Wards Had More Votes than Registered Voters
  
• Democrat canvassers in disputed Michigan county doxxed and harassed Republican colleagues
  
• WAYNE ROOT: Vegas Oddsmaker Says, “The Fix Was In, Trump was Robbed, This Election Was Stolen”
  
• FEC Chairman Trey Trainor: “I Do Believe There Is Fraud in These Places — If The Law Is Not Followed It Makes This an Illegitimate Election”
  
• Texas Social Worker Charged With 134 Felony Counts Of Elections Fraud
  
• Data Error in Arizona Reveals 86 Percent of the Vote Counted, Not 98 Percent
  
• Nevada Whistleblower Says He Was Told To Process Ballots Without Signature Verification
  
• In Nevada, A Corrupt Cash-For-Votes Scheme Is Hiding In Plain Sight
  
• Here Are the Lessons We’ve Learned So Far From the 2020 Election
  
• Nearly 200 boxes of uncounted ballots uncovered in Puerto Rico a week after election
  
• Georgia Recount Reveals 2,600 Uncounted Ballots In Pro-Trump County
  
• Second Georgia county finds nearly 3,000 previously uncounted votes
  
• Mass Voter Fraud In Calif. Tied To MS-13 Gang, Occult Author
  
• Voter fraud charges filed against two men who allegedly submitted thousands of voting applications on behalf of homeless people
  

Surge in Illegal Immigrants Smuggled into U.S. Packed in Commercial Tractor-Trailers

From Judicial Watch.org (Sept. 29):

As COVID-19 ravages Latin America—especially Mexico—a record number of illegal immigrants are being smuggled into the United States through the southern border in commercial tractor-trailers. Human smugglers cram the migrants, mostly from Central America, in large trailers with no ventilation, water or food for days, according to the U.S. Border Patrol. “The tractor-trailer is the final trap of their 1,600 mile treacherous journey from Central America to the United States,” the agency writes in a statement issued this month. “Migrants are exposed to these dangers by smugglers who know the life-threatening journey will be in vain given increased border enforcement and partnerships with affected governments.”

The frontline Homeland Security agency says two Texas border crossings that are typically hot spots for tractor-trailers loaded with migrants have seen a 37% increase this fiscal year. The sectors, Rio Grande Valley and Laredo, have intercepted more than 226 tractor-trailer cases through August with 3,740 illegal immigrants packed in “dangerous and life threating conditions.” Federal authorities estimate that travel restrictions designed to stop the spread of COVID-19 have made commercial tractor-trailers the “conveyance of choice to smuggle large numbers of people into the United States.” Smugglers usually charge each person between $6,000 and $12,000 to make the life-threatening journey in a jam-packed trailer, according to the Border Patrol. “Smugglers are unscrupulous criminals and will stop at nothing to enrich their pockets, even if it involves locking human beings in trailers intended for animals,” said Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Mark A. Morgan. “They treat illegal aliens as a commodity, inhumanely holding them captive in overcrowded stash houses with limited access to food and water.”

Federal agents often find human remains or encounter lost migrants abandoned by smugglers when they become sick or injured. Smuggling operations are run by drug cartels and other criminal enterprises, federal authorities assure. They undoubtedly increase the risk of COVID-19 infection among illegal aliens and those charged with processing them, the Border Patrol points out. The agency provides a gripping video testimonial of a young Central American mother who describes the horrific conditions in tractor-trailer boxes where breathing is difficult and sexual abuse rampant. Though her identity is protected, Homeland Security officials say the woman is the voice of thousands of Central American migrants, including unaccompanied children that have endured a “myriad of atrocities,” including sexual abuse, assault and kidnapping by the criminals they pay to bring them to the U.S. [read more]

Under a Biden administration this will continue because ICE will be weakened if it still exists.

Another similar article:

ICE Releases 250 Immigrants With Violent Criminal Histories. The Reason Why Is Infuriating

Study Finds 1 COVID Mutation More Contagious on Second Wave

From News Max.com (Sept. 23):

A study of the mutations of COVID-19 show one particularly problematic strain that delivers a higher viral load, making the virus more contagious than before, The Washington Post reported.

The higher viral load contributed to the rapid spread in the second wave, but the Houston-based researchers noted the mutations do not make the virus deadlier or change clinical outcomes, per the report.

All viruses develop mutations, but most are insignificant, according to researchers studying the 5,000 genetic sequences of the coronavirus. But, this one strain is mutating like the flu, which would mean the vaccines would have to "chase" it and evolve as well, according to experts.

The report noted 99% of the Houston second wave samples contained the mutation. It changed the structure of the "spike protein" that might have caused the massive spread of the strain, per the Post.

"We have given this virus a lot of chances," study author James Musser of Houston Methodist Hospital told the Post. "There is a huge population size out there right now." [read more]

Excerpts from the book Red Famine – Oppressing Christian Churches

Churches—where villagers had gathered over many decades or centuries—remained a potent symbol of the link between the present and the past. In most Russian and many Ukrainian cities, the Bolsheviks had immediately sacked churches—between 1918 and 1930 they shut down more than 10,000 churches across the USSR, turning them into warehouses, cinemas, museums or garages. By the early 1930s few urban churches were still functioning as places of worship. The fact that they had continued to exist in so many villages was one of the things that made the peasants seem suspicious to urbanites, and especially to the urban agitators who arrived to help carry out collectivization.

Churches also served a social function, especially in poorer villages that had few other social institutions. They provided a physical meeting place that was not controlled by the state, and at times were centres of opposition to it. During a series of violent peasant riots in Ryazan province, near Moscow, church bells had served as a call to arms, warning the farmers that the brigadiers and soldiers from the capital had arrived. Above all, the church was an institutional umbrella under which people could organize themselves for charitable and social endeavours. During the 1921 famine Ukrainian priests and church institutions had helped organize assistance for the starving.

Once the churches were gone, no independent bodies in the countryside remained capable of motivating or organizing volunteers. The church's place in the cultural and educational life of the village  was taken instead by state of institutions--"houses of culture," registry offices, Soviet schools—under the control of the Communist Party. Churches were eliminated in order to prevent them from becoming a source of opposition; in practice, their absence also meant that they could not be a source of aid or comfort when people began to die from hunger.

Source: Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine (2017) by Anne Applebaum.

Countering Threats From Russia, Iran, North Korea, and Radical Islamist Terrorists

From The Daily Signal.com (Sept. 25):

Russia

The Trump administration has enhanced NATO’s capabilities while pushing back against Russian aggression. It has introduced multiple rounds of sanctions on Russia, closed the Russian consulates in San Francisco and Seattle, and expelled 60 Russian diplomats and spies from U.S. soil. It has sold Javelin missiles and patrol boats to Ukraine and Javelin and Stinger missiles to Georgia to deter Russian aggression.

The administration has also pushed back against Nord Stream 2, a proposed natural gas pipeline directly connecting Russia to Germany that would undermine Europe’s energy security, and has increased U.S. exports of liquefied natural gas to Europe and championed energy alternatives like the Southern Gas Corridor to reduce Europe’s reliance on Russian gas.

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Iran

Policy toward Iran has also been largely successful, with the current administration returning to the historical framework of U.S.-Iran policy that the Obama administration abandoned in its pursuit of a nuclear deal.

The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action front-loaded sanctions relief for Iran and removed key restrictions on Iran’s uranium enrichment program after 10 to 15 years.

The Obama administration rewarded Iran for what could be temporary and easily reversible concessions and handed it a better deal on uranium enrichment than previous administrations gave to such U.S. allies as South Korea, Taiwan, and the United Arab Emirates.

After the U.S. withdrew from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action on May 8, 2018, the Trump administration launched a “maximum pressure” strategy to force Iran to return to the negotiating table and agree to a more restrictive deal.

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North Korea

Regrettably, less progress has been made on North Korea. In dealing with Pyongyang, the Trump administration has repeated some of the failings of previous administrations while making new mistakes of its own.

Since assuming power in 2011, Kim Jong Un has exponentially increased testing of nuclear weapons and the missiles to deliver them against the U.S. and its allies. The international community has responded by imposing stronger measures on North Korea in response to its serial violations of United Nations resolutions and international law.

The U.N. Security Council toughened sanctions against Pyongyang’s nuclear and missile programs and for the first time constrained North Korea’s trade with other nations.

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Radical Islamic Terrorism

On counterterrorism, the Trump administration’s policies have not marked a radical break from previous administrations. However, some of the changes that have been made are welcome course corrections.

The administration oversaw the destruction of the caliphate in Iraq and Syria, loosening Obama-era tactical restrictions imposed on the U.S. military in order to hasten the downfall of ISIS. This has caused both the flow of ISIS foreign fighters and the ability of ISIS to launch terrorist attacks around the world to be reduced.

Precipitous withdrawal of U.S. troops from Syria threatens long-term U.S. security interests in the region, which include not only the permanent defeat of ISIS, but ensuring the security of regional allies, minimizing Iranian influence, preventing a new wave of refugees, and creating positive conditions for the return of refugees who have already fled Syria. [read more]

Pompeo Warns That China’s Propaganda Efforts Are ‘Increasing in Intensity’

From The Daily Signal.com (Sept. 24):

The Chinese Communist Party’s propaganda campaigns in the U.S. are “increasing in intensity,” Secretary of State Mike Pompeo warned in a speech to Wisconsin state lawmakers Wednesday.

Speaking at an event in Madison, Pompeo described the Chinese Communist Party’s multifaceted influence effort, in which operatives directly lobby public officials, to use front groups to spread messaging sympathetic to Beijing, collect intelligence on Chinese nationals living in the U.S., and push propaganda through state-controlled media outlets.

“We watch the CCP campaigns targeting state-level officials, local interests. We’ve seen them at PTA meetings. They have been in full swing for years, and they’re increasing in intensity,” Pompeo said.

He used the example of the Chinese Communist Party influence operation aimed at Roger Roth, the president of the Wisconsin State Senate. A Chinese Consulate official emailed Roth in February asking him to vote on a resolution praising the Chinese government over its handling of the coronavirus pandemic.

Roth shot down the request, writing “Nuts” to the diplomat.

Pompeo asserted that the approach to Roth “is happening all across the world, it’s happening all across the United States, it’s happening in state houses all across America.” [read more]

More articles about China:

• 6 Cases of Chinese Infiltration of Universities and Research—and What Trump Is Doing About It
• China Is an Expansionist Threat to the Free World
• Communists Warn Citizens: ‘Christianity Does Not Belong in China’
• Christian Bookseller Sentenced to 7 Years by Chinese Government, Over 12,000 Texts Destroyed
• Understanding the Chinese Challenge to the United States
• China seen leveraging expanded nuclear forces against U.S.
• Facing Up to the China Threat

Bill Clinton reportedly met secretly with Ghislaine Maxwell for ‘intimate dinner’

From NY Post.com (Sept. 22):

Bill Clinton secretly met socialite-turned-accused sex-trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell for an “intimate” dinner in 2014 — well after allegations that she and perv pal Jeffrey Epstein had abused at least one teen, a report said Tuesday.

The former president joined Maxwell — who is now cooling her heels in a Brooklyn jail cell on charges involving the alleged sex abuse of young women — and a small group of friends for the meal in Los Angeles after a celebrity gala that February, sources told the Daily Beast.

“This is an intimate dinner with Clinton in LA,” an aghast source told the website.

“Think of all the people [Clinton] knows in LA — and Ghislaine gets to attend.”

Another source added that the Clinton camp was relieved that news of Maxwell at the dinner didn’t get out at the time. [read more]

Chinese virologist: China's government 'intentionally' released COVID-19

From Fox News.com (Sept. 15):

The Chinese government intentionally manufactured and released the COVID-19 virus that led to mass shutdowns and deaths across the world, a top virologist and whistleblower told Fox News host Tucker Carlson on Tuesday.

Carlson specifically asked Dr. Li-Meng Yan whether she believed the Chinese Communist Party released the virus "on purpose." "Yes, of course, it's intentionally," she responded on "Tucker Carlson Tonight."

Yan said more evidence would be released but pointed to her own high-ranking position at a World Health Organization reference lab as a reason to trust her allegation.

"I work[ed] in the WHO reference lab, which is the top coronavirus lab in the world, in the University of Hong Kong. And the thing is I get deeply into such investigation in secret from the early beginning of this outbreak. I had my intelligence because I also get my own unit network in China, involved [in] the hospital ... also I work with the top corona[virus] virologist in the world," she said.

"So, together with my experience, I can tell you, this is created in the lab ... and also, it is spread to the world to make such damage." [read more]

I believe it was a manufactured virus too. It affected too many different biological systems and killed mainly the elderly and the sick and leaves the young untouched? Hmmm.

Another story about the Chinese virologist:

Twitter Blacklists Chinese Virologist Who Claims Coronavirus Was Manufactured in Wuhan Lab

Dan Crenshaw highlights 10 radical bills the Democrat-led House passed, offers a look at what could happen if Joe Biden wins

From The Blaze.com (Sept. 30):

Republican Rep. Dan Crenshaw (Texas) warned in a video that Democrats would dismantle the country in a video highlighting radical legislation advanced by the Democratic majority in the House over the past two years.

"In two minutes, I'm going to tell you about all the radical Democrat policies that passed out of the House this session," Crenshaw said in the video. "Ever wonder what it would be like if they had all three branches of government?"

Crenshaw highlighted 10 bills that have passed in the House. If there were currently a Democratic majority in the Senate and a Democratic president, they could have become law.

Here are the 10 bills:

• H.R. 1, the For the People Act, would overhaul the U.S. election system. It would impose new restrictions on lobbying that are so severe the left-leaning American Civil Liberties Union blasted the bill as unconstitutional on First Amendment grounds. The bill also would provide public funding for political campaigns. "They're going to use your tax dollars to pay for political campaigns," Crenshaw said. "Six-to-one match for small-dollar donations. That ends up being billions of dollars in taxpayer funding for bad political ads.

• H.R. 3, the Lower Drug Costs Now Act, would impose foreign price controls on the U.S. market, lowering drug prices but also cutting into pharmaceutical company revenue that would otherwise be used to reinvest in research for new cures for disease. One study showed this policy would reduce the Medicare Part D revenues for U.S. companies by $358 billion over the next five years, a 58% reduction before interest and taxes. The study found that such a drastic reduction would reduce the number of new medicines brought to market by as much as 88% across the U.S. Crenshaw cited a Congressional Budget Office report that estimated eight fewer drugs would be brought to market in the U.S. between 2020 and 2029 and 30 fewer drugs over the subsequent decade.

• H.R. 8, the Bipartisan Background Checks Act, is a bill that would require universal background checks for gun purchases. Gun Owners of America has said the bill would criminalize private firearms sales that were not pre-approved by the government. The bill would outlaw the "transfer" of a firearm without a background check. "Transfer" is not defined in the bill, and Crenshaw suggested that borrowing your neighbor's gun may be a felony if this bill were law.

• H.R. 6, the American Dream and Promise Act, is legislation that would grant amnesty to as many as 2.5 million illegal immigrants brought to the U.S. as minors or who have been in the United States on temporary protected status. The legislation also would provide a path to citizenship and voting rights for those who qualify and cost $34.6 billion while providing no additional border security measures. [read more]

Judging Amy: The Left’s Proclivity for Believing and Empowering Women Is Limited to Its Own

From The Daily Signal.com (Oct. 23):

“Believe women.”

The slogan, born out of the #MeToo movement, was a common refrain during the Senate Judiciary hearings in September 2018 leading up to Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation to the Supreme Court of the United States. Some even inserted an “all” to make it “Believe all women.” Essentially, the message of “Believe women” was to forsake bias and take women at their word.

During the confirmation hearings for Judge Amy Coney Barrett last week, the “Believe women” refrain was absent. Maybe it shouldn’t have been. Not because any women were accusing the nominee of sexual misconduct (there are no such allegations against Barrett) but because time and again, the Democratic members of the Senate Judiciary—as well as members of the media—refused to take the judge at her word.

Not only did they often refuse to believe Barrett, but numerous journalists and political pundits also violated a list of rules for reporting on female candidates for public office.

The list was sent by a coalition of powerful, progressive women to the news media ahead of Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden’s announcement of his vice presidential running mate.

The list of sexist pitfalls to avoid included:

• Reporting on a woman’s ambition.
• Reporting on a woman’s likability.
• Reporting on a woman’s appearance or tone of voice.
• Reporting on doubts about a woman’s qualifications, despite her being equally or more qualified than her male peers.

Each of the rules listed above were broken during the Barrett confirmation process. This not only reveals inconsistencies between the way the media chooses to report about men and women, but it also reveals inconsistencies between the way the ideological left insists women ought to be treated and how some of its own treat more moderate and conservative-minded women.

Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, tweeted in support of Barrett, alleging that the left “doesn’t like women that have their own mind” and said that Barrett is attacked and denigrated because she does not fit the left’s idea of a “perfect woman.” [read more]

USB drives used to program Philadelphia voting machines have been stolen from city warehouse

From Just the News.com (Oct. 1):

Memory sticks that are used to program Philadelphia voting machines have been stolen along with a worker's laptop, according to The Philadelphia Inquirer.

The outlet reported that assurances have been made that the thefts from a city warehouse will not impair the integrity of the elections. "We are confident that this incident will not in any way compromise the integrity of the election," said Nick Custodio, who serves as a deputy to the chair of the city commissioners.

Custodio noted that the stolen laptop was remotely disabled after the crime had been uncovered. The missing device “did not have any of our election material on it,” he reportedly said.

The encrypted USB sticks are linked to specific voting machines, according to the outlet. “Upon programming, these encryption keys ‘marry’ the USB with the machine, and if placed in another machine, it will cause an error and the machine will not work,” a company spokesperson reportedly said. [read more]

Other election news:

• Florida man who requested mail-in ballot for dead wife hit with voter fraud charge
• DNI Ratcliffe, FBI say Iran, Russia attempting to interfere with 2020 election
• US officials say Russian hackers targeted networks of dozens of state and local governments in recent days
• Are Recent Reports of COVID Surges an Attempt to Suppress In-Person Voting?
  

Kamala Harris Caught on Hot Mic Forgetting the City She’s Campaigning in: ‘Are We in Cleveland?’

From Breitbart.com (Oct. 24):

Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) appeared to forget what city she was campaigning in Saturday, asking someone nearby if she was in Cleveland before addressing a group of supporters.

“Are we in Cleveland?” Harris asked an individual nearby before addressing the group.

“Hey Cleveland! It’s Kamala!” she continued, waving to supporters:

Harris delivered a speech at the Tri-C Cleveland campus in the crucial battleground state on Saturday, encouraging Democrats to rally together and cast their votes early. According to 19 News, the campaign extended an invitation to “about” 75 guests.

“The people will make the decision because the power is indeed with the people,” Harris said told supporters.

“We were out and engaged with people who are early voting and people are standing in line, they’ve been waiting in line for hours because we know our power and we are not going to let anyone take our power away from us,” she continued, telling voters that they are facing two “clear choices.”

“On the one hand you have Joe Biden, who says, ‘The way I measure the economy– if you want me to tell you how the economy is doing– then tell me how are working people doing in America.’ That’s how Joe Biden measures our economy,” she said, contending that Trump measures the economy by the stock market alone. [read more]

Sounds like Harris had a Joe Biden moment. That’s not good.

Obama conference call leaked to Burisma: Biden emails

From NY Post.com (Oct. 14):

The Obama administration let a Democratic p.r. company that worked for Ukrainian energy firm Burisma take part in a conference call about an upcoming visit to Ukraine by then-Vice President Joe Biden, emails obtained by The Post show.

An associate at Blue Star Strategies then emailed a memo with minutes of the conference call hosted by the White House to a top Burisma executive, Vadym Pozharskyi, as well as to Joe Biden’s son Hunter and Hunter’s business partner, Devon Archer, both of whom sat on Burisma’s board.

The trip, in December 2015, turned out to be the one during which Biden later bragged about forcing Ukrainian officials to fire a state prosecutor who was investigating Burisma by threatening to withhold a $1 billion US loan guarantee.

The memo, sent shortly after the Dec. 2, 2015, call, also “outlined the trip’s agenda and addressed several questions regarding US policy toward Ukraine.” [read more]

More articles on Hunter Biden and Burisma:

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• Breaking! Hunter’s dangerous business relationship with CCP leaders revealed in new emails
• Documents show alleged Hunter Biden signature, FBI contacts with computer repair store owner
• Rudy Giuliani: Purported Hunter Biden emails will 'shock the hell out of you'
• New Twist in the Hunter Biden Saga: A White House Meeting for Elite Chinese Group
• Hunter Biden Scandal Has JUST Taken A SICK And Dark Turn -FBI’s Top Lawyer On Child Porn Now Involved In Case
• Laptop connected to Hunter Biden linked to FBI money laundering probe
• Bombshell Statement: Biden Insider Claims He Was ‘Recipient of the Email’, Says He Witnessed Joe, Hunter Discussing Deals
• GLENN’S THEORY: This is why Hunter Biden allegedly abandoned his laptop
• 'Here are the Facts': Bobulinski Brings Trove of Receipts on Biden Family Foreign Deals
• NEW AUDIO: Hunter Biden caught discussing partnership with China 'spy chief'
• Biden Whistleblower: Jim Biden Told Me Joe Biden Wouldn’t Get Hurt By Their Actions Due To ‘Plausible Deniability’
• EXCLUSIVE: Senate Committee Successfully Verifies All Bobulinski Materials Reviewed To Date