Trump Was Right!

Trump said a LOT of crazy stuff in his tweets the past four years… Let’s examine them:

He said: My offices are bugged. He was right.

He said: The FBI, CIA, DOJ and the Obama administration were plotting against him. He was right.

He said: The media both liberal and social are liars . He labeled them FAKE NEWS. He was right.

He said: Russian collision was a hoax. He was right.

He said: He could bring manufacturing back. He was right.

He said: If we build a wall and manage immigration it will create jobs. He was right.

He said: Joe and Hunter got rich off of shady corrupt deals with the Ukraine and China. He was right.

He said: new trade deals would be better for the people. He was right.

He said: Moving the embassy to Jerusalem would be the right decision. He was right.

He said: getting us out of un-winnable wars would create peace. He was right.

He said the Clintons were corrupt. He was right. And still are!

He said: locking up minority’s for decades for non violent offenses was wrong so he changed it. He was right.

He said: Jobs are worth way more than welfare so he gave the people jobs.He was right.

He said: our government is filled with corrupt people and he will fight to drain the swamp and right the wrongs. He is right

President Trump has been right on just about everything he said. So when he says the election was rigged I’ll bet my life on him being right. 74 million strong Sir, we got your back.

Suspect dead, Walmart reopened, video emerges, after “wild” Redding crime spree

From My Neck of The Woods!

REDDING, Calif. — Authorities say a wild and chaotic crime spree, during which a woman shot one person then carjacked and shot at another victim, before crashing into and driving through a Redding Walmart- destroying both main entrances and leaving a wake of destruction inside the store in the process – led to a deadly officer-involved shooting on Christmas Eve, Thursday, Dec. 24.

Later, while officers worked at the scene of the fatal shooting in the area of Old Alturas Road and Browning Street, an allegedly drunk driver plowed into a marked patrol vehicle. Nobody was injured in the crash and the driver was later arrested for DUI.

The Christmas Eve crime spree began around 7 p.m., when City of Redding police officers responded reports of a shooting in the 2500 block of Irwin Road, Redding Police Lieutenant Levi Solada later said of the multiple violent incidents that led to the deadly officer-involved shooting. 

When officers arrived in the area they learned a man had already been rushed to a local hospital with two gun shot wounds.

“This victim is currently in the hospital and is expected to survive his injuries,” said Solada.

Officials work at the scene of a fatal officer involved shooting that left a knife-wielding woman dead. The shooting happened after the suspect shot one victim, carjacked and shot at another, and then drove the victim’s carjacked vehicle into, through, and then back out of a Redding Walmart. RPD photo

As their investigation was getting underway, officers learned that the female shooter had contacted SHASCOM and made statements about being involved with the Irwin Road shooting, “and advised she was going to shoot additional people,” according to the Lieutenant.

“As this was still unfolding, officers received a report of an armed carjacking that just occurred at the Dominos Pizza on Cypress Avenue,” Solada explained.

The carjacking victim told officers they were approached by a woman who was armed with a handgun and that a struggle had ensued between the armed suspect and victim.

“During the struggle, the victim was trying to wrestle the firearm out of the suspect’s hand,” Solada continued; adding, “As this was happening, the firearm discharged and did not strike anyone.”

After that shooting, the suspect was able to steal the victim’s car and fled the Dominos parking lot.

A description of the vehicle was broadcast to all law enforcement agencies in the area and officials from multiple surrounding agencies began searching for the carjacked vehicle and female suspect.

A short time later, SHASCOM emergency dispatchers began receiving multiple calls reporting that a vehicle had just crashed through the front doors of the Walmart on Dana Drive before driving through the store and crashing back out through a second set of doors on the other end of the business.

“The vehicle drove through the front doors of Walmart and around the cashiers area before exiting the store,” Solada described.

The vehicle, which matched the description of the carjacking victim’s vehicle, had already fled Walmart prior to officers arrival.

Both sets of sliding doors outside both main entrances to the Redding Walmart were destroyed by a woman who first shot one victim, then carjacked another, before crashing into and driving through the store. She was later fatally shot by a Redding police officer. KRCR images

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Shock report: Up to 90% of COVID-positive Americans were possibly not even contagious

The vast majority of the nearly 6 million coronavirus diagnoses in the United States likely were not contagious, according to the New York Times. POLL: Who had the best speech at Night 4 of the RNC?

Despite continued widespread COVID-19 panic, which includes many virus-related restrictions, up to 90% of individuals who have tested positive for COVID-19 potentially carried such “insignificant” amounts of the virus that they were not contagious, the Times reported.

What are the details?

The most widely used diagnostic test for COVID-19 is called the PCR test, which, according to the FDA, tests for the virus’ genetic material.

The problem with the test is that it only reports the presence of the genetic material being searched. It does not report the amount of genetic material, meaning individuals with such insignificant levels of COVID-19 genetic material will still test positive even if they aren’t really sick.

From the Times:

The PCR test amplifies genetic matter from the virus in cycles; the fewer cycles required, the greater the amount of virus, or viral load, in the sample. The greater the viral load, the more likely the patient is to be contagious. This number of amplification cycles needed to find the virus, called the cycle threshold, is never included in the results sent to doctors and coronavirus patients, although it could tell them how infectious the patients are. In three sets of testing data that include cycle thresholds, compiled by officials in Massachusetts, New York and Nevada, up to 90 percent of people testing positive carried barely any virus, a review by The Times found.

Dr. Michael Mina, an epidemiologist at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, said testing thresholds are currently too sensitive. The problem, he told the Times, is akin to finding an individual hair in a room long after the person who was responsible for dropping the strand of hair had left.

The solution is to drop the cycle threshold used to determine whether an individual is infected.

Currently, the standard is 37 or 40 cycles, the Times reported. But Dr. Mina told the newspaper that it should be fewer than 30. Then, only individuals with 100 to 1,000 times the genetic material above the current standard would return a positive COVID-19 test result, Dr. Mina said.

Anything else?

Nearly six months after the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic, questions continue to rise over the extent of the viral problem.

The CDC, for example, released a report last week indicating that just 6% of Americans who are classified as having died from COVID-19 died solely from coronavirus.

That means that up to 94% of Americans who have died from the virus died because COVID-19 worsened the effects of other viruses, diseases, or comorbidities.

Source: https://www.theblaze.com/news/shock-report-up-to-90-of-covid-positive-americans-were-possibly-never-even-contagious?utm_content=buffer1b7f2&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=fb-inthewoodswithphil&fbclid=IwAR2e-xXlhuwKH8E0HuOcGToqvc5LSvF8jqxa9n39_DiU22aFSBhePQ7vQrc

Breathe Free: Capitalism Helps Protect the Environment

A recent Rasmussen poll found 20% of voters feel we should eliminate capitalism to protect the environment. That’s like saying we should eliminate teachers to improve education.

Truth be told, capitalism has helped cleanse our planet—improving living standards while protecting the environment. Rather than eliminate capitalism, policymakers need to unleash it.

Markets incentivize efficiency by rewarding people for coming up with ways to do more or do better with less. People choose—and businesses make—more efficient products because it saves them money while delivering what customers want.

Over the past decade, market forces have driven a massive transition within the energy industry. In 2008, coal provided roughly half of the country’s electricity generation. Now, coal’s share is about a quarter. Increased production of natural gas has driven energy bills and emissions downward.

In direct response to cheap gas, the Nuclear Energy Institute organized nuclear power plants nationally to find operating efficiencies that have reduced costs by 19%, saving consumers $1.6 billion and keeping emissions-free electricity in the marketplace.

The energy industry is far from the only sector that has made positive economic and environmental contributions. For instance, the cement industry is collaborating with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to explore how to refine its processes in ways that will improve resiliency, reduce emissions, and save lives. Investments in cement, steel, plastic, and other building materials will make our houses and highways sturdier and our products more durable—with a smaller environmental footprint.

All of these activities result directly from free enterprise—companies providing consumers with the goods and services they want while using fewer resources and emitting fewer unwanted emissions.

The rest here: https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/10/22/breathe-free-capitalism-helps-protect-the-environment/?fbclid=IwAR3SN1widue1FCbWHtAAn0LQtaZ-ilrMSUPwVfjTWMn4f2cInfeLrn3sq7A

Attorney for Kyle Rittenhouse explains EXACTLY what happened in Kenosha last week on Tucker Carlson

WATCH: Attorney for Kyle Rittenhouse explains EXACTLY what happened in Kenosha last week on Tucker Carlson

Watch What They Don’t Want You To See (Before it’s gone!) This involves every American citizen!!!

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A Winning Trifecta for Climate Science and Rationality

Reposted from American Thinker

By Charles Battig

First there was Michael Moore’s Planet of the Humans, then came Bjorn Lomborg’s False Alarm, and now Michael Schellenberger’s Apocalypse Never. All three authors sound the common theme that the hyper-green environmental activists who have captured, politicized, and monetized the concern for the environment have, as Lomborg explains, created a false climate alarm which has “costs us trillions, hurts the poor, and fails to fix the planet.” To varying degrees, all three authors come from a strong environmental activist background, which observation makes their public revelations even more noteworthy.

Planet of the Humans, the recent film produced by Michael Moore, caused consternation and a considerable backlash from the green activists and their allied backers by pointing out how traditional energy companies had co-opted the environmental movement by donning a green alter-ego and embracing renewable energy.  By doing so, the corporations gained access to government funding/subsidies for wind turbine and commercial solar power installations and created a public relations victory for their vociferous eco-shareholders.  Moore’s revelation that the reality of needing to provide 24/7 reliable electricity to consumers ensures that fossil fuel plants will remain the primary energy sources because of the failure of wind or solar to provide power if there is no wind or sufficient sun.  Renewables do not displace reliable fossil-fuel power plants.  Consumers energy bills do not go down, but go up, when renewables are imposed.

Moore also documented that renewables require large amounts of rare earths, cement, and fossil fuel energy in their production.  They are both notoriously inefficient in land use, and impose destruction of large areas of native habitats.  Further environmental destruction is due to the fact that the best wind or solar location is often remote from the most needed consumer base, thereby requiring the construction  of massive electric transmission lines.  “Factories claiming to have gone ‘beyond coal’ again and again turn out to be relying on natural gas.”

The film notes that biomass/wood chip power plants in England now rely on American forests.  Rather than just using lumber waste as was first proposed, this has now turned into a major sub-set of the logging industry.  Our southern forests are leveled and the trees turned into wood chips.  The whole process of logging, processing, and trans-Atlantic shipping is all powered by fossil fuels.  The basic premise of using “renewable” lumber as a bio-fuel is that the carbon dioxide released upon its burning will become fertilizer for a new generation of trees and thus the cycle is carbon neutral. The basic fallacy of it is that the time scale of new tree growth greatly exceeds the day-to-day weather cycle.  No matter. Just imagine, American lumber keeping England eco-green — a country well versed in cutting down its own forests. 

With his recent book, False Alarm, Bjorn Lomborg continues to straddle the fence on global warming, aka climate change.  As the original “skeptical environmentalist,” Bjorn has argued that there are more productive ways to aid humanity than spending billions trying to influence climate change. He has argued for improving sanitation, clean water supplies, basic nutrition, and providing paths out of poverty for the millions living in underdeveloped countries.  In this book, he continues to press for a concerted effort to alleviate these ills, rather than accepting the decades of panic driven calls for “fixing the climate.”

He provides numerous references to substantiate his claims that climate change is real but is not the apocalyptic threat so widely advertised.  Science, he says, “shows that landfalling hurricanes in the US are not more frequent than in the past.  Droughts here have actually become shorter, less frequent, and cover a smaller area.  Seventeen times more people currently die from cold than heat, and these people will benefit from moderate warming.  In fact, global climate related deaths are an all-time low.”

He claims:

…the projections of Earth’s imminent demise are based on bad science and even worse economics.  In a politicized panic, world leaders have committed to wildly expensive, but largely ineffective policies, that hamper growth and crowd out other pressing investments in a better world, from immunization to education.

 

 

 

 

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Green New Deal: Destroyer of economies and the environment

The Green New Deal is anything but ‘clean’ or ‘green.’ Even the relatively modest numbers of solar and wind installations in the United States today are causing serious environmental damage.

Paul Driessen

The Federalist

Why the Green New Deal would destroy the environment

A few minutes of serious thought from self-described environmentalists would prompt a realization that if the Green New Deal, a program championed by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, were implemented, it would create an environmental disaster.

In recent decades, policymakers have forced public utilities to generate increasingly more electricity from fashionable “renewable energy” sources, especially wind and solar, and pushed automakers to manufacture more electric vehicles. Their chief goal is to eliminate reliable, affordable, generally clean fossil fuels, including natural gas, even though they generate most of America’s electricity and power most U.S. transportation.

Environmentalists claim to worry that carbon dioxide from these fuels will cause devastating global warming. Many would also eliminate nuclear power, which they say is inherently unsafe.

As I argue in a new Heartland Institute policy study, however, environmentalists have paid too little attention to the serious harm Green New Deal policies would inflict on the environment — including scenic lands, wildlife habitats, and threatened and endangered species. Implementing the Green New Deal would undermine the very values environmentalists have espoused for decades.

America faces a dilemma. Will it focus on real environmental problems that do measurable harm to human and ecological wellbeing, or will it mandate policies to head off climate disasters that are based on warming predictions have been repeatedly proven wrong by real-world empirical observations? Will it recognize that harnessing intermittent, weather-dependent wind and solar energy requires enormous amounts of raw materials and mining, resulting in massive land-use impacts and human rights abuses, and is anything but clean, green, renewable, and sustainable? Or will it ignore all this?

The Green New Deal Would Inflict Countless Costs

Before formulating your own opinion, consider just some of the damage the Green New Deal would inflict.

Solar farms generate only 1.5 percent of the nation’s electricity and would be an inefficient way to generate the more than 8 billion megawatt-hours of power that fossil fuels and nuclear provide each year to meet industrial, commercial, residential, and automotive transportation needs and charge backup-power batteries. Using cutting-edge Nellis Air Force Base solar panels to generate that electricity would require completely blanketing 57,000 square miles of land — equivalent to the land area of New York and Vermont — with 19 billion photovoltaic solar panels. Because billions would be placed in less-sunny places, the area required would certainly be higher still. The effects on habitats and wildlife would be incalculable.

Onshore wind turbines are no better. Indiana’s Fowler Ridge Wind Farm covers 68 square miles, an area larger than Washington, D.C. Using similar facilities to replace all our country’s fossil fuel and nuclear power would require more than 2 million turbines on more than 500,000 square miles of farm, wildlife habitat, and scenic lands. That’s equivalent to the combined acreage of Arizona, California, Nevada, Oregon, and one-quarter of Washington state. Consider also that many of the huge number of turbines needed to meet Green New Deal requirements would have to be placed in lower-quality, less-windy sites, which would certainly drive the amount of required land and raw materials even higher.

Environmental groups have long expressed concern that onshore wind turbines kill bats and birds. In fact, the 56,000 turbines we now have could already be slaughtering millions every year, including many protected and endangered species. Remember that these birds and bats eat insects, which, when left alive, can ravage crops and harm humans. The millions of turbines required by the Green New Deal could even threaten the existence of some species.

Renewable energy proponents tout offshore wind turbines as superior to those on land because ocean winds blow more steadily. Yet because of opposition from environmental groups, only one relatively small offshore facility is operating today off Rhode Island’s coastline.

Turbines ruin scenic views, kill countless birds and bats, and harm marine mammals, which is why environmentalists — and even the late leftist icon Sen. Ted Kennedy — have long opposed the planned Vineyard Wind facility off the Massachusetts coast. To provide enough power for the country, Green New Deal advocates would have to build hundreds of thousands of truly gigantic offshore turbines.

Environmentalists Should Shun This Policy

Green New Deal-mandated solar and wind facilities would need to be located further from populated urban areas than natural gas, coal, and nuclear facilities, meaning a major expansion of high-voltage transmission lines. But as recent wildfires in California show, power lines can cause major environmental damage if brush, trees, and grass are not cleared regularly. Environmental groups have opposed new power lines, and consistently oppose clearing vegetation, calling it “unnatural” or “harmful to wildlife,” thereby making deadly, habitat-destroying fires more probable.

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Climate experts confirm Trump’s assertion that bad forest management is responsible for California wildfires

Roughly 75% of damage stemming from California’s wildfires was a result of “the way we manage lands and develop our landscape,” Scott Stephens, a professor of fire science at the University of California, Berkeley, said Wednesday at a conference in Washington.

Chris White

Daily Caller

Climate experts are apparently backing President Donald Trump’s repeated arguments that California’s wildfires were a result of poor land management rather than climate change, E&E reported Thursday.

Roughly 75% of damage stemming from California’s wildfires was a result of “the way we manage lands and develop our landscape,” Scott Stephens, a professor of fire science at the University of California, Berkeley, said Wednesday at a conference in Washington.

Wildfires used to burn through 4.5 million acres a year in the 18th century, when indigenous communities populated California’s countryside, Stephens noted. “Fire was almost as important as rain to ecosystems,” he added.

Stephens was not the only researcher at the National Council for Science and the Environment to made that point. “Wildfire is not really wildfire — it’s not pointy green trees,” Jennifer Montgomery, director of the California Forest Management Task Force, added.

Montgomery continued: “You get these so-called wildfires at intersection of development.” Trump makes similar arguments.

“There is no reason for these massive, deadly and costly forest fires in California except that forest management is so poor,” the president tweeted in September 2018 when fires were scorching their way across the Golden State.

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D.C. swamp creatures freak over BLM’s “common sense” move to western Colorado

BLM’s employees work in the West, its top officials work in a high-rise office building just steps from the Washington Nationals baseball stadium. BLM Headquarters’ staff is located thousands of miles and at least two time zones away from the lands they manage; the representatives of state, local and tribal governments with which they are required — by law — to interact with; and the people whose lives are affected mightily by their decisions.

William Perry Pendley

Casper Star Tribune

Pendley: The reality of the BLM’s move west

Ever since I joined the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) in mid-July, things have been pretty hectic here in Washington, D.C. Around this time, Interior Secretary David Bernhardt announced the relocation of the BLM, leaving many Washington insiders asking, “Why?”

As Westerners, you immediately understood why: plain common sense! After all, 99.99 percent of the 245 million acres of federal land managed by the BLM is in 11 western States and Alaska. While BLM’s employees work in the West, its top officials work in a high-rise office building just steps from the Washington Nationals baseball stadium. BLM Headquarters’ staff is located thousands of miles and at least two time zones away from the lands they manage; the representatives of state, local and tribal governments with which they are required — by law — to interact with; and the people whose lives are affected mightily by their decisions.

So, with the support of the administration, Congress and local leaders, we announced a new BLM headquarters in Grand Junction, Colorado and the relocation of about 150 top posts to the West in close proximity to the work they perform: oil and gas experts were assigned to New Mexico to assist with the Permian Basin; wild horse and burro experts were assigned to Nevada, the epicenter of that activity; renewable energy experts were assigned to California, where wind and solar power play such a big role; and so forth.

One would think the move is a no-brainer, right?

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“Renewable energy” subsidies are ripping off taxpayers to support a money pit industry

Clean energy’s dirty secret is that such subsidies benefit the wealthy. First, most of the tax credits actually go to the companies that finance the expensive installations, including investment bankers, hedge fund operators, and the solar companies themselves.

 

Greg Walcher

The Economic Standard

Clean Energy has a Dirty Secret

“Governments should temporarily provide funding for new energy technologies so that they can become market competitive with traditional energy resources.” So the Global Energy Network Institute and other renewable energy advocates have been saying for decades. Taxpayers have been assured such subsidies would be “temporary,” just to “level the playing field” until the renewable industry is big enough to compete. When might that be?

The solar energy association says the U.S. industry has grown by more than 10,000 percent since solar tax credits began fifteen years ago, with an average annual growth of 52% over the last decade. Installations doubled in one year, with the industry now in all 50 states and a record 25 billion watts of new solar installations on order.

Congress and the industry agreed that this would be the result of “temporary” subsidies. Thus, the Solar Investment Tax Credit was created in 2005, to jump-start the emerging industry, with an agreement to wind it down in ten years when the industry was competitive. Predictably, in 2015 the industry said it needed just a little more time, so Congress agreed to a “temporary” extension. The agreement was for a 30 percent credit for residential and commercial solar systems installed before 2020. That amount would then ratchet down each year, phasing out by 2022. That was the deal, but sure enough, solar lobbyists are back before the first click of the ratchet, pressing Congress for another “temporary” renewal.

A package of “tax extenders” is one of the items Congress must pass before adjourning, but if such legislation includes another extension of the solar subsidy, who will benefit? Not you.

Clean energy’s dirty secret is that such subsidies benefit the wealthy. First, most of the tax credits actually go to the companies that finance the expensive installations, including investment bankers, hedge fund operators, and the solar companies themselves. Second, very few landlords invest in energy improvements at investment properties, because tenants normally pay utilities. That leaves wealthy property owners as the main buyers, since residential systems range from $18,000 to $100,000. Poor people do not buy them. In fact, Vox.com, a liberal media outlet, studied tax return data and called this a regressive tax, because the top 40 percent of income earners have received about 90 percent of the tax credits.

No wonder the green industry’s favorite celebrity billionaires support green subsidies.

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Trump Destroys Dems in Scathing Letter, Blasts Their “Illegal, Partisan” Coup

President Trump sent the following letter to Speaker Pelosi:

Dear Madam Speaker:

I write to express my strongest and most powerful protest against the partisan impeachment crusade being pursued by the Democrats in the House of Representatives.  This impeachment represents an unprecedented and unconstitutional abuse of power by Democrat Lawmakers, unequaled in nearly two and a half centuries of American legislative history.

The Articles of Impeachment introduced by the House Judiciary Committee are not recognizable under any standard of Constitutional theory, interpretation, or jurisprudence.  They include no crimes, no misdemeanors, and no offenses whatsoever.  You have cheapened the importance of the very ugly word, impeachment!

By proceeding with your invalid impeachment, you are violating your oaths of office, you are breaking your allegiance to the Constitution, and you are declaring open war on American Democracy.  You dare to invoke the Founding Fathers in pursuit of this election-nullification scheme—yet your spiteful actions display unfettered contempt for America’s founding and your egregious conduct threatens to destroy that which our Founders pledged their very lives to build.  Even worse than offending the Founding Fathers, you are offending Americans of faith by continually saying “I pray for the President,” when you know this statement is not true, unless it is meant in a negative sense.  It is a terrible thing you are doing, but you will have to live with it, not I!

Your first claim, “Abuse of Power,” is a completely disingenuous, meritless, and baseless invention of your imagination.  You know that I had a totally innocent conversation with the President of Ukraine.  I then had a second conversation that has been misquoted, mischaracterized, and fraudulently misrepresented.  Fortunately, there was a transcript of the conversation taken, and you know from the transcript (which was immediately made available) that the paragraph in question was perfect.  I said to President Zelensky:  “I would like you to do us a favor, though, because our country has been through a lot and Ukraine knows a lot about it.”  I said do us a favor, not me, and our country, not a campaign.  I then mentioned the Attorney General of the United States.  Every time I talk with a foreign leader, I put America’s interests first, just as I did with President Zelensky.

 

 

You are turning a policy disagreement between two branches of government into an impeachable offense—it is no more legitimate than the Executive Branch charging members of Congress with crimes for the lawful exercise of legislative power.

You know full well that Vice President Biden used his office and $1 billion dollars of U.S. aid money to coerce Ukraine into firing the prosecutor who was digging into the company paying his son millions of dollars.  You know this because Biden bragged about it on video.  Biden openly stated:  “I said, ‘I’m telling you, you’re not getting the billion dollars’…I looked at them and said: ‘I’m leaving in six hours.  If the prosecutor is not fired, you’re not getting the money.’  Well, son of a bitch.  He got fired.”  Even Joe Biden admitted just days ago in an interview with NPR that it “looked bad.”  Now you are trying to impeach me by falsely accusing me of doing what Joe Biden has admitted he actually did.

President Zelensky has repeatedly declared that I did nothing wrong, and that there was No Pressure.  He further emphasized that it was a “good phone call,” that “I don’t feel pressure,” and explicitly stressed that “nobody pushed me.”  The Ukrainian Foreign Minister stated very clearly:  “I have never seen a direct link between investigations and security assistance.”  He also said there was “No Pressure.”   Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, a supporter of Ukraine who met privately with President Zelensky, has said: “At no time during this meeting…was there any mention by Zelensky or any Ukrainian that they were feeling pressure to do anything in return for the military aid.”  Many meetings have been held between representatives of Ukraine and our country.  Never once did Ukraine complain about pressure being applied—not once!  Ambassador Sondland testified that I told him: “No quid pro quo.  I want nothing.  I want nothing.  I want President Zelensky to do the right thing, do what he ran on.”

The second claim, so-called “Obstruction of Congress,” is preposterous and dangerous.  House Democrats are trying to impeach the duly elected President of the United States for asserting Constitutionally based privileges that have been asserted on a bipartisan basis by administrations of both political parties throughout our Nation’s history.  Under that standard, every American president would have been impeached many times over.  As liberal law professor Jonathan Turley warned when addressing Congressional Democrats: “I can’t emphasize this enough…if you impeach a president, if you make a high crime and misdemeanor out of going to the courts, it is an abuse of power.  It’s your abuse of power.  You’re doing precisely what you’re criticizing the President for doing.”

Everyone, you included, knows what is really happening.  Your chosen candidate lost the election in 2016, in an Electoral College landslide (306-227), and you and your party have never recovered from this defeat.  You have developed a full-fledged case of what many in the media call Trump Derangement Syndrome and sadly, you will never get over it!  You are unwilling and unable to accept the verdict issued at the ballot box during the great Election of 2016.  So you have spent three straight years attempting to overturn the will of the American people and nullify their votes.  You view democracy as your enemy!

 

 

Speaker Pelosi, you admitted just last week at a public forum that your party’s impeachment effort has been going on for “two and a half years,” long before you ever heard about a phone call with Ukraine.  Nineteen minutes after I took the oath of office, the Washington Post published a story headlined, “The Campaign to Impeach President Trump Has Begun.”  Less than three months after my inauguration, Representative Maxine Waters stated, “I’m going to fight every day until he’s impeached.”  House Democrats introduced the first impeachment resolution against me within months of my inauguration, for what will be regarded as one of our country’s best decisions, the firing of James Comey (see Inspector General Reports)—who the world now knows is one of the dirtiest cops our Nation has ever seen.  A ranting and raving Congresswoman, Rashida Tlaib, declared just hours after she was sworn into office, “We’re gonna go in there and we’re gonna impeach the motherf****r.”  Representative Al Green said in May, “I’m concerned that if we don’t impeach this president, he will get re-elected.”  Again, you and your allies said, and did, all of these things long before you ever heard of President Zelensky or anything related to Ukraine.  As you know very well, this impeachment drive has nothing to do with Ukraine, or the totally appropriate conversation I had with its new president.  It only has to do with your attempt to undo the election of 2016 and steal the election of 2020!

Congressman Adam Schiff cheated and lied all the way up to the present day, even going so far as to fraudulently make up, out of thin air, my conversation with President Zelensky of Ukraine and read this fantasy language to Congress as though it were said by me.  His shameless lies and deceptions, dating all the way back to the Russia Hoax, is one of the main reasons we are here today.

You and your party are desperate to distract from America’s extraordinary economy, incredible jobs boom, record stock market, soaring confidence, and flourishing citizens.  Your party simply cannot compete with our record: 7 million new jobs; the lowest-ever unemployment for African Americans, Hispanic Americans, and Asian Americans; a rebuilt military; a completely reformed VA with Choice and Accountability for our great veterans; more than 170 new federal judges and two Supreme Court Justices; historic tax and regulation cuts; the elimination of the individual mandate; the first decline in prescription drug prices in half a century; the first new branch of the United States Military since 1947, the Space Force; strong protection of the Second Amendment; criminal justice reform; a defeated ISIS caliphate and the killing of the world’s number one terrorist leader, al-Baghdadi; the replacement of the disastrous NAFTA trade deal with the wonderful USMCA (Mexico and Canada); a breakthrough Phase One trade deal with China; massive new trade deals with Japan and South Korea; withdrawal from the terrible Iran Nuclear Deal; cancellation of the unfair and costly Paris Climate Accord; becoming the world’s top energy producer; recognition of Israel’s capital, opening the American Embassy in Jerusalem, and recognizing Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights; a colossal reduction in illegal border crossings, the ending of Catch-and-Release, and the building of the Southern Border Wall—and that is just the beginning, there is so much more.  You cannot defend your extreme policies—open borders, mass migration, high crime, crippling taxes, socialized healthcare, destruction of American energy, late-term taxpayer-funded abortion, elimination of the Second Amendment, radical far-left theories of law and justice, and constant partisan obstruction of both common sense and common good.

There is nothing I would rather do than stop referring to your party as the Do-Nothing Democrats.  Unfortunately, I don’t know that you will ever give me a chance to do so.

After three years of unfair and unwarranted investigations, 45 million dollars spent, 18 angry Democrat prosecutors, the entire force of the FBI, headed by leadership now proven to be totally incompetent and corrupt, you have found NOTHING!  Few people in high position could have endured or passed this test.  You do not know, nor do you care, the great damage and hurt you have inflicted upon wonderful and loving members of my family.  You conducted a fake investigation upon the democratically elected President of the United States, and you are doing it yet again.

 

 

There are not many people who could have taken the punishment inflicted during this period of time, and yet done so much for the success of America and its citizens.  But instead of putting our country first, you have decided to disgrace our country still further.  You completely failed with the Mueller report because there was nothing to find, so you decided to take the next hoax that came along, the phone call with Ukraine—even though it was a perfect call.  And by the way, when I speak to foreign countries, there are many people, with permission, listening to the call on both sides of the conversation.

You are the ones interfering in America’s elections.  You are the ones subverting America’s Democracy.  You are the ones Obstructing Justice.  You are the ones bringing pain and suffering to our Republic for your own selfish personal, political, and partisan gain.

Before the Impeachment Hoax, it was the Russian Witch Hunt.  Against all evidence, and regardless of the truth, you and your deputies claimed that my campaign colluded with the Russians—a grave, malicious, and slanderous lie, a falsehood like no other.  You forced our Nation through turmoil and torment over a wholly fabricated story, illegally purchased from a foreign spy by Hillary Clinton and the DNC in order to assault our democracy.  Yet, when the monstrous lie was debunked and this Democrat conspiracy dissolved into dust, you did not apologize.  You did not recant.  You did not ask to be forgiven.  You showed no remorse, no capacity for self-reflection.  Instead, you pursued your next libelous and vicious crusade—you engineered an attempt to frame and defame an innocent person.  All of this was motivated by personal political calculation.  Your Speakership and your party are held hostage by your most deranged and radical representatives of the far left.  Each one of your members lives in fear of a socialist primary challenger—this is what is driving impeachment.  Look at Congressman Nadler’s challenger.  Look at yourself and others.  Do not take our country down with your party.

If you truly cared about freedom and liberty for our Nation, then you would be devoting your vast investigative resources to exposing the full truth concerning the FBI’s horrifying abuses of power before, during, and after the 2016 election—including the use of spies against my campaign, the submission of false evidence to a FISA court, and the concealment of exculpatory evidence in order to frame the innocent.  The FBI has great and honorable people, but the leadership was inept and corrupt.  I would think that you would personally be appalled by these revelations, because in your press conference the day you announced impeachment, you tied the impeachment effort directly to the completely discredited Russia Hoax, declaring twice that “all roads lead to Putin,” when you know that is an abject lie.  I have been far tougher on Russia than President Obama ever even thought to be.

Any member of Congress who votes in support of impeachment—against every shred of truth, fact, evidence, and legal principle—is showing how deeply they revile the voters and how truly they detest America’s Constitutional order.  Our Founders feared the tribalization of partisan politics, and you are bringing their worst fears to life.

 

 

Worse still, I have been deprived of basic Constitutional Due Process from the beginning of this impeachment scam right up until the present.  I have been denied the most fundamental rights afforded by the Constitution, including the right to present evidence, to have my own counsel present, to confront accusers, and to call and cross-examine witnesses, like the so-called whistleblower who started this entire hoax with a false report of the phone call that bears no relationship to the actual phone call that was made.  Once I presented the transcribed call, which surprised and shocked the fraudsters (they never thought that such evidence would be presented), the so-called whistleblower, and the second whistleblower, disappeared because they got caught, their report was a fraud, and they were no longer going to be made available to us.  In other words, once the phone call was made public, your whole plot blew up, but that didn’t stop you from continuing.

More due process was afforded to those accused in the Salem Witch Trials.

You and others on your committees have long said impeachment must be bipartisan—it is not.  You said it was very divisive—it certainly is, even far more than you ever thought possible—and it will only get worse!

This is nothing more than an illegal, partisan attempted coup that will, based on recent sentiment, badly fail at the voting booth.  You are not just after me, as President, you are after the entire Republican Party.  But because of this colossal injustice, our party is more united than it has ever been before.  History will judge you harshly as you proceed with this impeachment charade.  Your legacy will be that of turning the House of Representatives from a revered legislative body into a Star Chamber of partisan persecution.

Perhaps most insulting of all is your false display of solemnity.  You apparently have so little respect for the American People that you expect them to believe that you are approaching this impeachment somberly, reservedly, and reluctantly.  No intelligent person believes what you are saying.  Since the moment I won the election, the Democrat Party has been possessed by Impeachment Fever.  There is no reticence.  This is not a somber affair.  You are making a mockery of impeachment and you are scarcely concealing your hatred of me, of the Republican Party, and tens of millions of patriotic Americans.  The voters are wise, and they are seeing straight through this empty, hollow, and dangerous game you are playing.

I have no doubt the American people will hold you and the Democrats fully responsible in the upcoming 2020 election.  They will not soon forgive your perversion of justice and abuse of power.

There is far too much that needs to be done to improve the lives of our citizens.  It is time for you and the highly partisan Democrats in Congress to immediately cease this impeachment fantasy and get back to work for the American People.  While I have no expectation that you will do so, I write this letter to you for the purpose of history and to put my thoughts on a permanent and indelible record.

One hundred years from now, when people look back at this affair, I want them to understand it, and learn from it, so that it can never happen to another President again.

Sincerely yours,

DONALD J. TRUMP
President of the United States of America

H/T Todd Starnes https://www.toddstarnes.com/values/war-trump-destroys-dems-in-scathing-letter-blasts-their-illegal-partisan-coup/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social-pug&fbclid=IwAR2-KGFyWs4Iym2zIALBlaeZXeFsdMt87UQD3yFv3uToIZrnbVI3ECl2ges

Oregon Loses $1 billion Timber Lawsuit to Rural Counties

The jury found that the state owed those counties $1.1 billion in damages, including $674 million the counties contend they lost since 2001 because the state didn’t cut enough trees. The verdict also includes $392 million in future damages, which assumes the state will continue to manage the state forests in the same fashion, and fail to maximize timber revenues for the next 50 years.

Oregon loses $1 billion timber lawsuit to rural counties

The state of Oregon breached its contract with 13 rural counties and 151 local taxing districts by failing to maximize timber harvests on state forests and resulting payments to those counties during the last two decades, a jury in Linn County found on Wednesday after nearly a month-long trial.

The jury found that the state owed those counties $1.1 billion in damages, including $674 million the counties contend they lost since 2001 because the state didn’t cut enough trees. The verdict also includes $392 million in future damages, which assumes the state will continue to manage the state forests in the same fashion, and fail to maximize timber revenues for the next 50 years.

The verdict, delivered mere hours after deliberations began, is a blow to the state, its beleaguered Department of Forestry, and environmental and recreational groups around the state. But the decision was not entirely unexpected. Observers say the plaintiffs aggressively venue-shopped the case to find a sympathetic judge and jury, and the state had lost almost all the significant pre-trial rulings.

The state is likely to appeal the verdict, but the judgement will accrue interest at 9%, or $90 million a year, which ups the ante considerably to resolve the case quickly.

The rest here: http://freerangereport.com/oregons-rural-counties-sue-the-state-for-impeding-timber-harvests-and-win-1-1-billion/?fbclid=IwAR3Dhb1utB763CH87MPuQ1ui5QrQJvcDFD52HYzXIj7bv21JJgQiHRLJhZQ

 

Melting Glaciers Are Nothing to Panic About

This Guy Gets It!

Climate is always changing and humans are always adapting, writes Iceland’s former prime minister, so people should stop panicking over global warming.

Despite the stories delivered by “teary-eyed reporters” about the tragedy of melting glaciers, the fact is that some glaciers melt while others grow and it has been this way for all of history, says David Gunnlaugsson, who served as Iceland’s prime minister from 2013 to 2016.

“Our climate changes, but humans adapt. Instead of scaremongering, we should approach this situation on a scientific and rational basis,” Gunnlaugsson writes in the latest issue of the Spectator.

While distancing himself from the label of climate change “denier,” Gunnlaugsson insists that it is “nonsense” to suggest that humans need to “sacrifice the achievements of modern civilisation if we are to save the planet.”

Iceland offers unique insight into the relationship between man and nature, showing that environmental change is natural and nothing to be afraid of, he writes.

“Take Iceland’s melting glaciers. Troubling as a calving glacier might seem, such a phenomenon is by no means out of the ordinary,” he notes. “In fact, this process defines a glacier: they move. Glaciers shed ice at their edges as ice builds up closer to the centre. It is a spectacle we have witnessed in Iceland since the first settlers arrived in the ninth century.”

The Rest Here: https://www.breitbart.com/environment/2019/11/22/former-prime-minister-of-iceland-melting-glaciers-are-nothing-to-panic-about/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&fbclid=IwAR3lFIAkz0Q4FyH4WT04U6o02Iy6U7QdU7pS-WXyDGaIGl-zjkip46qXINU

The case for abolishing the federal Indian reservation system, from a real Indian

An open letter from Native American policy expert, Elaine Willman, to President Donald J. Trump.

originally posted by Libertysentinel.org

Federal Indian Policy is Destroying America: Open Letter to President Trump

ASSERTION: Since its origins in the 1830’s (judicial, legislative, administrative), all of federal Indian policy is: 1) entirely unconstitutional; 2) denies full American citizens enrolled in tribal governments their 14th Amendment protections and civil rights; 3) compels forced reparations in perpetuity upon American taxpayers to annually subsidize all basic needs and services of 573 tribal governments; and 4) permits tax-exempt casinos and other tribal enterprises to determine the marketplace of the tax-paying economy in thousands of communities across the nation.

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Dear President Trump:

I have attached a brief professional statement supportive of the contents of this letter. Below is a cursory chronology that describes the increasing spread of tribalism as a governing system replacing our Republic form of government in America, and supports the assertion noted above.

1830 Chief Justice James Marshall issued three Indian-related rulings known as the Marshall Trilogy in 1830. With no support found in the U.S. Constitution, Marshall instead drew from international law to declare that the federal government has a “trust” relationship with its Indians. The Judiciary, Congress and the Executive Branch forged the Bureau of Indian Affairs and began the incremental expansion of tribalism as a governing system in the United States increasingly expanding for two centuries.

1871 The first half of the 1800s brought the formation of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, congressional statues and administrative laws, managing Indian treaties, tribes, annual subsidies, and peacekeeping needs.

1887 Congress implemented efforts from the 1870s through 1924 to bring American Indians to full and equal citizenship with all other citizens, by ending the reservation system, tribal governments, and allowing Indians to be individual landowners and full citizens of their respective states.

1924 Congress passed the Snyder Act of 1924 making all American Indians full citizens.

1934 An avowed and self-proclaimed Communist, John Collier, became Commission of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, and persuaded Congress to pass the Indian Reorganization Act (IRA) of 1934. This created separate communal tribal governments and created dual citizenship that denies enrolled tribal members their 14th Amendment and Civil Rights. IRA has been an intentional and incremental deterrent for individual tribal ownership of land.

1968 Congress passed the Indian Civil Rights Act (ICRA) to provide tribal members with civil rights but failed to provide any enforcement process for aggrieved tribal members. For over fifty years Congress has assumed that tribal members have civil rights under ICRA, but the reality is, lacking enforcement mechanism, tribal members have nothing.

1978 Congress passed the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) transferring full parental authority from tribal parents to the tribal government. The benign intent was to preserve culture, but the reality for tribal families is that ICWA is often used as a weapon to punish or otherwise influence tribal families at risk of the tribal government taking their children – sometimes forever. ICWA, drug addiction and suicides have been completely devastating to family units within Indian reservations.

1988 Congress passed the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act (IGRA) to provide tribes with economic self-sufficiency and ultimately offset and reduce annual federal subsidies. These tax-exempt gaming profits are ‘free money’ to tribes, since federal subsidies continue to annual fund all basic services of 573 tribal governments. Casino funds are used to acquire land, hire legal counsel, hire lobbyists and fund candidate campaigns.

2000 Federal Election Commission Advisory Opinion (FEC-AO 2000-05) authorized tribal governments to financially and directly participate in funding political parties, incumbents or candidates. No other American governments may do so. But 573 tribal governments monetize America’s elections while being exempt from most federal and state decisions made by legislators that tribes elect.

2012 Congress passed the HEARTH Act under the Obama administration, allowing tribal governments to long-term lease federal Indian ‘trust’ lands to middle eastern countries for up to 75 years, without BIA oversight or approval. Note that in 1904, Secretary of Interior A.B. Fall required all major dams, water and energy systems in Western states to be located on or near Indian reservations. This act affords opportunity for adversaries of this country close proximity to the nation’s energy systems and power grids on lands receiving little or no state or local observation or oversight.

A lot more here with video interviews with the author: http://freerangereport.com/the-case-for-abolishing-the-federal-indian-reservation-system/?fbclid=IwAR2Sq_NkT3G_NFeTvSUpdi42mMd9-QC7z_WS7EQKE1qejvBJCCcXirWuFnk

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Having lived by choice for thirty years on three different Indian reservations (Yakima in Washington, Oneida in Wisconsin, and Flathead in Montana), I feel compelled to write my first letter to an American President who listens to its citizens and loves this country as much as you. I am of strong Cherokee ancestry, my spouse is a descendant of Sacajawea’s adopted son, Basil, and we very much respect our family ancestries, American Indian history and culture. Naturally, many of my closest friends over the years are enrolled tribal members. That said, I make a clear distinction between respect for culture – all cultures – and government decision-making.

I have been researching federal Indian policy (Congressional statues, administrative regulations, judicial rulings) for over 25 years, and have published two books on the subject. In 2004, I made a journey across 17 Indian reservations from Washington State to New York, capturing the reality of life on these reservations from the voices of tribal members, farmers, teachers, sheriffs, etc. Mainstream media rarely conveys the dire living conditions of families on Indian reservations, so my first book, Going to Pieces…the dismantling of the United States of America (2005) captures this reality from the citizens that endure life under direct and indirect federal/tribal government conditions. By 2016, conditions had worsened so significantly that I published a second book, Slumbering Thunder…a primer for confronting the spread of federal Indian policy and tribalism overwhelming America.

Recent rhetoric of most Democrat candidates for President are pandering for forced slavery “reparations,” so it seems timely for me to assert that the current tax burden upon American citizens annually funding all basic needs of 573 Indian tribes would now require those same taxpayers to shoulder yesterday’s alleged burden of slavery reparations. Add to this the potential of taxpayers funding medical and other services for illegal aliens, resulting in the American taxpayer being utterly indentured in perpetuity to three ethnicities…and financially crushed.

I have a master’s in Public Administration from California State University (1990), and 96 credits toward a doctoral in public policy (Walden University). In addition, there are numerous online YouTube videos of talks and workshops that I have presented over the years and numerous written articles posted online and in national publications.