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Every time former CIA Director John Brennan appears on cable news to warn about some new “insidious threat to democracy,” I am reminded again that he deserves to be in federal prison.
In this corrupt media environment, however, the official who oversaw an illegal domestic-spying operation on the legislative branch of the US government, who tried to cover it up and blame innocent Senate staffers when discovered and who then brazenly lied about it to legislators and the American people — this man is held up as a paragon of civic virtue.
We still don’t even know what role Brennan played in spying on his political opponents during the 2016 campaign. We do know he went on TV for years after, alleging to have insider knowledge of an unprecedented seditious criminal conspiracy against the United States. Never once was he challenged by his hosts. And when an independent multimillion-dollar investigation couldn’t pull together a single indictment related to those claims, Brennan shrugged it off by saying that he may have “received bad information.”
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In his inauguration speech, President Biden pledged to “defend the truth and to defeat the lies.”
So let’s start by being brutally honest about Dr. Anthony Fauci, who has been the source of some of the most damaging misinformation about COVID-19.
At the very least, the nation’s top infectious-diseases expert and chief medical adviser to Biden is loose with the facts and is prone to changing his mind.
This is the man who dictated coronavirus policy in the Trump administration. If mistakes were made, as the Biden administration claims, they are Fauci’s.
Yet, astonishingly, Fauci told CNN Friday that a “lack of candor” from the Trump administration had cost American lives.
But if people’s lives really were at stake last year, why did he wait until now to tell us?
Chalk it up to another convenient fib from a habitual fibber, who has deceived us on everything from masks to herd immunity.
Even if you decide these are not lies but lapses of judgment by Fauci, they had potentially lethal consequences.
Take, for instance, Fauci’s serenity back on Jan. 21 last year, when he assured us that the virus convulsing China at the time “is not something the citizens of the United States should be worried about.”
To be fair, the pandemic caught a lot of people unaware, but the thing about Fauci is that he always is so sure of himself.
The following week, he was at it again, vehemently opposing Donald Trump’s proposed flight ban from China, which Biden at the time decried as “xenophobia.”
It was Jan. 28, and Trump had asked his trade adviser, Peter Navarro, into the Situation Room to convince Fauci and other officials that the China travel ban would save lives.
“The guy I fought the most that day was Fauci,” Navarro told me Sunday. “He was adamantly opposed to the travel ban. All he kept saying was travel restrictions don’t work.”
Navarro pushed back, “ ‘If you stop 20,000 Chinese nationals coming in every day and some are infected, you’re telling me that’s not going to spread the virus?’ It was like talking to a brick wall.”
The next day, Navarro wrote a memo outlining three options: If you do nothing and there’s no danger, that’s OK; if you do the travel ban and there’s no danger, you lose a few million dollars; but if you do nothing and there is danger, the risk is a million American lives and more than $2 trillion in damages.
“I papered everybody in the task force with the memo and . . . it flipped everyone to supporting the president,” Navarro said.
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The manager of a Brooklyn warehouse was charged with reckless endangerment after fire inspectors nabbed him with a stash of more than 900 propane cylinders, officials said.
Mohamed Mohamed, 58, who runs the Gowanus warehouse, was arrested after fire inspectors uncovered the combustible stockpile of 20-pound propane tanks on Friday, the FDNY said on Twitter.
“If not for the due diligence of our fire inspectors, there’s a great danger,” FDNY spokesman James Long said Sunday. “It could let loose and explode in a manner that could be deadly.”
“You introduce a fire to that scenario and it’s a fire that is advanced,” Long said. “It could level a city block.”
Fire inspectors said the cylinders were stacked “from floor to ceiling.”
“He was charged with storing over 900 propane tanks in an unoccupied building,” a police source said.
Mohamed, of Bayonne, NJ, admitted that he was ordering the tanks in bulk so he could sell them to someone else, who in turn was peddling the propane to Big Apple restaurants so they could heat their outdoor serving areas during indoor-dining prohibitions due to the coronavirus pandemic, officials said.
In all, the fire marshals uncovered 904 of the cylinders, the department said.
Mohamed did not return a call seeking comment on Sunday.
He was released on a desk appearance ticket, police said.
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Joe Biden insisted repeatedly during his campaign that he had a definitive plan on how to combat COVID-19 as opposed to President Trump’s policies on the pandemic. Prior to the election, Biden’s campaign revealed the ambitious “Biden plan to combat coronavirus and prepare for future global health threats.”
Biden outlined a medical response including “a decisive public health response that ensures the wide availability of free testing; the elimination of all cost barriers to preventive care and treatment for COVID-19; the development of a vaccine; and the full deployment and operation of necessary supplies, personnel, and facilities.” He also detailed an economic response in which he would “start with emergency paid leave for all those affected by the outbreak and gives all necessary help to workers, families, and small businesses that are hit hard by this crisis,” as well as taking “further decisive action to address the larger macro-economic shock from this outbreak.”
In a tweet just prior to the election, Biden assured the American public that “We’re eight months into this pandemic, and Donald Trump still doesn’t have a plan to get this virus under control. I do.”
Biden stressed that “in a moment of crisis, leadership requires listening to experts and communicating credible information to the American public. We must move boldly, smartly, and swiftly.”
Yet just days into his presidency, the “credible information to the American public” appeared in the form of another tweet stating that “There’s nothing we can do to change the trajectory of the pandemic in the next several months.” If there is nothing that we can do, how could Biden have touted such a detailed plan in recent months and how could he say that “we must move boldly and swiftly” if, having attained the presidency, he does not intend to move at all “in the next several months”? Could it be that Biden thought he had a plan but later realized that whatever he was suggesting had already been implemented but had not succeeded in curbing COVID-19? Or did he know at the time that his plan was just a pipe dream designed to persuade a frightened, COVID-stricken electorate to vote for him?
Whatever the case, Biden needs to inject some hope into the nation and not claim so swiftly that “there’s nothing we can do.”
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Violence in Bnei Brak reached a new level late Sunday night, as violent Hafganos took place around the city, and a group that locals have decided to label “CHARIEID ANTIFA” are causing destruction around the city.
At one location, protesters stopped a bus on Kahneman Street, attacked the driver, forced him off, and literally set the bus on fire.
People began calling the fire department, but they refused to respond until they received a police escort – due to the fact that they are repeatedly attacked by Chareidi extremists when responding to Chareidi neighborhoods. They eventually responded – after more than 30 minutes – and extinguished the blaze.
Local residents reported that there are hundreds of boys roaming the streets since all Yeshivas are closed, and are literally terrorizing the entire city – which is prompting a forceful response from police.
The bus fire was just one items of violence by this marauding gang of “Chareidi ANTIFA”.
Earlier on Sunday, the Mayor of Bnei Brak, R’ Avrohom Rubenstein the former Mayor of Bnei Brak, R’ Chanoch Zeibart, and MK R’ Yitzchok Pindrus came under attack from an angry mob while walking in Bnei Brak.
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As you all know and hear that the RBS"O sent this deadly virus so that we could reflect on our way of life and maybe try to improve our Middos and Torah Hashkafois and to learn that Hashem controls the world and that we have absolutely no power or say about anything....in a way it's comforting to know that ..
But the virus unfortunately brought out the worst in us ...
And I'll give you an example ....
In Israel the government ruled that all Yeshivah Boys that are in dormitories would first have to go to one of the "Corona Hotels" to quarantine for two weeks..
So Chareidie Boys, Chassidishe Boys and "Mizrachi (Dati)" Boys were all quarantined in the same hotels......
An amazing thing happened .....
Sit tight guys because you are going to freak out when you hear what happened ....
Chareidie and Chassidishe boys found the Dati contingent in Bais Medrish were all learning all day with geshmak...
They learned that they had been fed lies about the Dati way of life ... they learned that their Roshei Yeshivas and Chassidishe Rebbes were a bunch of liars ... they learned that their parents fooled them into thinking that Mizrachists are all "bar hopping" and all are "club goers" ....
Boy... did their eyes open up when they realised themselves and saw with their very own eyes that while they were hanging out smoking and schmoozing in the hallways, their counterparts... the "Dati Mizrachists" were all in Bais Medrish "shteiging away"
So when the Chareidim came out of quarantine and went home for Shabbos and related to their parents what they witnessed ....the parents threw a Sh__ fit.... but didn't know what to do...
To make matters worse, the Chareidie and Chassidishe boys began to write to the press about what they saw and went to the Chareidie radio station to actually talk and allowed themselves to be interviewed... they flooded all weekly newsletters ..and hundreds of letters were published this weekend ..
Here is just one example of one of the letters..this one was sent to "Matzav Ruach" a weekly Dati newsletter ..
Now for the punch line....
The Chareide press could no longer ignore this as the press was widely reporting this and showing live videos of Dati Boys learning together with Chareidim...
Chareidie boys were identifying themselves on radio with relentless stories of how they were duped .... and so
They freaked out and started to write against this .... worrying that if this would get any more publicity the whole entire world would see that they are all liars, fakes and frauds...
Just wondering ...Why is it that the "Dati" world isn't afraid of the Chassidishe and Yeshivisheh hashkafah? HMMMMMMM??
Well below is the response from the Israeli Yated!
Loose Translation:
"In reference to the Corona Hotels, it became clear to us that there is a lot of spiritual obstacles there... specifically those hotels designated for Yeshivah Boys.
The atmosphere over there is not fitting for Bnei Torah that looking to grow in Torah and Fear of G-d.
All this is separate from the negative spiritual influences over there...(and this is not the place to discuss at length) especially to the elementary school children ....
These hotels are spiritually dangerous! "
So "this is not the place to discuss at length" .... so where and when is the place to discuss this?
I know... and I'm not a fly on their wall.... the time to discuss this is when all the Charedie leaders can get together to ban "Corona Hotels" before this dreadful secret gets out! ...
Mizrachistin and Yeshivishe Boys Together in Dining Room |
The genie is out of the bottle and there is no way to get it back in folks!
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The joke survives the test of time and, under the circumstances, deserves repeating. As the late journalist Mickey Carroll told it, a suburban town with a population 90 percent Irish and 10 percent Jewish held a mayoral election involving two candidates — one Irish and one Jewish.
The Irish candidate won with — wouldn’t you know it? — 90 percent of the vote. Whereupon he immediately denounced the clannishness of the Jews!
The story offers a useful way to view Joe Biden’s calls for national unity. Let’s just say our president is as sincere as the fictional Irish mayor.
Biden won the right to pursue the leftist agenda he campaigned on. But his promise that he will also work for the Americans who didn’t vote for him is more fig leaf than honest invitation.
As John Mitchell famously said about Richard Nixon’s White House, “Watch what we do, not what we say.”
Applying that standard to Biden, we should ignore the unity talk because everything he has done leans far left.
Again, he’s entitled — elections have consequences. But knitting together a fractured America around a far-left agenda was never going to work. And Biden knows it.
In fact, his actions suggest the “Kumbaya” appeal is not directed at Trump voters or even the public in general.
It’s really a disguised call to the factions in his own party to stick together, to give him a chance. I’ll keep you all happy, he’s saying, just watch.
Biden kept Dems together during the campaign because everyone wanted to dump Trump.
Now that he’s won, he’s got to find other ways to keep the fault lines from widening. Early signs show he believes he can straddle the divide by staffing his administration with establishment veterans and party warhorses while giving the passionate far left early policy victories.
President Biden is eager to reengage with Iran and return to the nuclear deal. Yet the murderous regime has no interest in changing its ways. It is boosting its nuclear-weapon development and its network of deadly militias across the Middle East in its continued drive for hegemony.
Biden said during the campaign he’d rejoin the nuclear deal “as a starting point for follow-on negotiations” if “Iran returns to strict compliance,” working “to strengthen and extend the nuclear deal’s provisions, while also addressing other issues of concern,” such as Iran’s ballistic-missile program, human-rights abuses and “destabilizing activity.”
That was always naïve, and Javad Zarif, Iran’s foreign minister, confirmed it Friday: “There cannot be any renegotiations,” he wrote in Foreign Affairs. “Iran’s defense and regional policies were not up for discussion,” since the West won’t withdraw from the region and stop selling arms to its allies.
Zarif proudly declared, “Iran has significantly increased its nuclear capabilities,” and indeed, the International Atomic Energy Agency revealed this month in a confidential report that Iran took a crucial step in December, starting an assembly line to make uranium metal, a key nuclear-weapon component prohibited by the nuclear deal. France, Germany and Britain jointly warned of the “grave military implications,” noting that the metal “has no credible civilian use.”
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Police shut down at least three shuls in Outremont, Montreal on Friday night and Shabbos morning that were open in defiance of COVID enforcement.
Police said they were assaulted while trying to shut down one of the locations on Friday night.
Video footage from Friday night shows a large crowd screaming at police. Shouts of Nazi! can be heard as children are seen running from the building.
One person can be heard yelling “Jews Lives Matter”!
Officers took the names of people present at the scenes and will submit reports to Quebec’s office of criminal prosecutions, which will decide whether to pursue further penalties.
On Motzei Shabbos, Quebec’s Hasidic Jewish council made a public call asking all community members to follow public health guidelines after the incidents which have since been published on many Canadian news outlets.
“It is with regret that the Council of Hasidic Jews of Quebec has learned that certain members of the community have not respected the public health guideline limiting the number of people in a religious institution to 10,” the council said in a statement Saturday night.
While the Council of Hasidic Jews is denouncing any illegal gatherings that took place, the organization is also accusing the SPVM of not properly enforcing the law. At least one of the establishments in question has three separate entrances into three separate closed off spaces, the council said, allowing them to safely accommodate 10 people each.
“This misunderstanding of the regulations by police authorities adds to the confusion,” the council said in its statement.
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President Joe Biden’s United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on Thursday stopped executive orders from his predecessor designed to significantly lower prescription drug prices for Americans, including insulin and epinephrine.
The new administration will apparently re-evaluate the executive action from President Donald Trump toward the end of March. It remains unclear if it will be reinstated.
“The HHS Thursday froze the former Trump administration’s December drug policy that requires community health centers to pass on all their insulin and epinephrine discount savings to patients,” Bloomberg Law reported Thursday. “Centers that don’t pass on the savings wouldn’t qualify for federal grants.”
“This freeze is part of the Biden administration’s large-scale effort announced this week that will scrutinize the Trump administration’s health policies,” the report noted. “If the previous administration’s policies raise ‘fact, law, or policy’ concerns, the Biden HHS will delay them and consult with the Office of Management and Budget about other actions.”
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‘I Was Lied To’: Meghan McCain Lashes Out At Biden, Fauci And Amazon Over COVID Hypocrisy https://t.co/0CrUTtRKZY via @dailycaller
— Laura Ingraham (@IngrahamAngle) January 23, 2021
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There is one reason, and one reason only, why Abbas is now talking about holding general elections: to continue milking the cash cow he has in the form of American and European governments.
By Bassam Tawil, The Gatestone Institute a Muslim Arab,
One week after he entered the 17th year of his four-year term in office, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas finally announced new parliamentary and presidential elections, scheduled to take place in May and July 2021.
His announcement was carefully timed to coincide with the inauguration week of President Joe Biden and in response to immense pressure from the European Union.
Abbas’s announcement, which many Palestinians take as seriously as they would take the alleged sighting of a UFO, is part of an attempt to curry favor with the Biden administration and the EU.
There is only one word to describe Abbas’s announcement: deception.
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The threat comes on the heels of a ceremony during which Ambassador David Friedman said that the site was a testament to America’s Judeo-Christian heritage.
By JNS
The Palestinian Authority is threatening to sue outgoing U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman in international courts for recognizing the City of David as a testament to America’s Judeo-Christian heritage and founding principles, Palestinian affairs expert Khaled Abu Toameh tweeted this week.
The announcement by the PA came on the heels of a special ceremony held earlier this week the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem to commend the archaeological site for the “seminal role it plays in connecting its visitors to the origins of the values that helped shape America.”
During the ceremony, in which Friedman dedicated a plaque in the City of David’s honor, the ambassador said, “In modern America, we are inspired by many monuments that remind us of the history of our republic. I’ve often wondered what monuments inspired our Founding Fathers. When the drafters of the Declaration of Independence proclaimed that our Creator had endowed each and every American with certain unalienable rights, what monuments inspired them? I suggest that those monuments are located right here, in the ancient city of Jerusalem.”
Friedman also said that he hoped that the plaque would prompt all those who read it to think of the Judeo-Christian values upon which America was founded and “how those values were inspired by ancient Jerusalem and its inhabitants.”
This is not the first time that the PA has threatened to file a complaint against Friedman in international courts. In June 2019, Al Jazeera reported that the ambassador angered the PA Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates in comments he made to The New York Times about the U.S. peace plan for Israel and the Palestinians.
In his interview with the Times, Friedman said, “Under certain circumstances, I think Israel has the right to retain some, but unlikely all, of the West Bank.”
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