Pandemic Industrial Complex – EcoHealth Alliance currently is receiving $50+ million in Department of Defense and NIH grants, despite having defrauded the Department of Defense, having double-billed NIH and USAID, and likely having caused a pandemic that killed 20 million and cost $25 trillion.
Related discussion on X: Virologists have some pretty strong disincentives to acknowledge the possibility that sloppy virological research killed 8++ million people.
Must watch: US coalition is falling apart with rumors France is leaving to go protect ships while DoD has virtually abandoned ships idle right NOW within Houthi missile range. I’m also deeply troubled by the sea of US Naval officers & experts here who push back hard on my concerns.
“I’ve just flown in from California, where they’ve made homosexuality legal. I thought I’d get out before they make it compulsory.”
Bend over and smile back at the camera, America.
Today the ever proliferating range of boutique identities seems relentlessly central to every aspect of public affairs, from the White House Christmas jubilations to that school-board president’s kindergarten classes to the flagpole of the abandoned Kabul embassy to Nato headquarters, where the Secretary-General now issues an annual statement against “biphobia” and “transphobia”:
Is battling “biphobia” really a strategic priority for Nato? Did he run that past the Turkish defence minister? Is that why the Nato-created “Afghan National Army” went (unlike Aidan Maese-Czeropski on the Senate Judiciary Committee table) belly up?
Well, yes, it is our strategic priority, according to a fascinating essay in The American Conservative. Helen Andrews starts with a throwaway quip by Rod Dreher – that we’re in Ukraine to “queer the Donbass” – and quickly concludes that it’s true. Most of us, according to political inclination, assume that foreign aid goes either to potable water projects in up-country villages or straight into the dictator’s retirement account in Zurich. In fact…
Read the American Conservative piece, too.
@marklevinshow – Israel should stop defeating Hamas because Iran is attacking our ships? Has any American administration ever been this nuts?!?
The left projects itself onto Trump, and understandably finds itself all too terrifying. – Victor Davis Hanson
They’ve fought Putin to the very last Ukrainian.
A series of remarkable events with enormous consequences for Ukraine tumbled in rapid succession this week, lifting the veil on years of untrammeled and proud — yet ultimately purposeless and sociopathic — lying by the Biden administration and the Pentagon about the war there.
First, ahead of a crucial vote on military aid to both Ukraine and Israel Wednesday, Joe Biden went on TV to denounce Republicans for threatening to halt the $110 billion national security package. GOP leaders had told the White House they wouldn’t support the bill without border-sealing assurances of the type they knew Democrats wouldn’t accept, so Biden was cornered and clearly pissed. Eyes snapped wide open as the (surely fantastic) drugs aides must pump in by the gallon before public appearances kicked in, Biden went off:
“Republicans think they can get everything they want without any bipartisan compromise,” he snapped. “And now they’re willing to literally kneecap Ukraine on the battlefield and damage our national security in the process.” […]
A few hours later, National Security spokesperson John Kirby upped the ante, telling ABC reporter Selena Wang that not only should we be contemplating deployment of American troops, but a possible cost in American “blood” if Putin is allowed to take Ukraine and threaten other NATO countries. (That potential cost has been the same since NATO was founded in 1949, but whatever). Kirby’s offhand observation that Ukraine would “lose this war” absent U.S. support was the actual big news, but Kirby’s “based Biden” comments about “blood” were the ones that went viral. […]
After that bang-bang-bang succession of events, proclamations of imminent doom for Ukraine issued from the mouths of every Western national security official and war-supporting politician within reach of a microphone. Then Tucker Carlson tweeted a report that Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin told House members in a classified briefing that if they didn’t approve more money for Ukraine, “we’ll send your uncles, cousins and sons to fight Russia.”
The weirdly personal threat, which Tucker insists is a verbatim quote, showed how desperate a moment this is for the national security state. Potential consequences extend far beyond loss and suffering for Ukraine. The entire interventionist project is looking at a setback on the scale of the Iraq disaster, a political fiasco so enormous it prompted four years of cuts to the defense budget. Watching Putin waltz across Ukraine after the last two years of blood, profligate spending, and premature end zone celebrations by retired brass and Beltway think-tankers would make the withdrawal from Afghanistan look like one of Biden’s tarmac stumbles by comparison.
Hunter Biden Indicted on New Criminal Charges
The indictment says Biden spent millions on an “extravagant lifestyle” – including membership to sex clubs and more than $188,000 on adult entertainment – rather than paying his taxes.
Special Counsel David Weiss has been using a federal grand jury in Los Angeles to gather evidence of possible criminal tax charges against Hunter Biden.
Hunter Biden pleaded not guilty in October to federal gun charges in U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware after being charged out of Weiss’ years-long investigation.
Fox News Digital has reached out to Hunter Biden’s legal team for comment. A spokesperson for Special Counsel Weiss declined to comment.
Questions conveniently not asked: Where did that money come from?
Jim Jordan To CIA: How Many Hunter Biden Laptop Letter Signatories Were On Your Payroll?
Sorry Joe, but they need you to go now Joe.
I don’t understand. They held talks. There were announcements. They made agreements.
Western sanctions on Russian oil — agreed upon a year ago this week — were designed to reduce funding for the Kremlin’s military assault on Ukraine. Instead, it has fostered a lucrative business for scores of difficult-to-trace traders and shipping companies, known as the shadow fleet, which moved about 45% of Russia’s oil this year. As much as $11 billion a year of petrodollars are evaporating between when the oil leaves Russia and when it reaches buyers, according to trade data compiled by Bloomberg.
It’s almost as though there’s a market for oil that doesn’t care about meetings.
So what was Old Joe Biden up to this week?
All is forgiven.
Former editor-in-chief of The Recount, Slade Sohmer, was charged for the possession and distribution of child pornography, according to Massachusetts authorities. The 44-year-old reportedly disseminated “hundreds of child pornography images and videos,” as reported by The Berkshire Eagle. Sohmer, who also worked as a camp counselor for a New York City-based nonprofit, was arrested at his residence in Otis, Massachusetts after a search warrant led to the seizure of his electronic devices. The former editor pleaded not guilty to two charges of possession and two charges of dissemination of child pornography upon his release on a $100,000 bail.
The Recount is a far-left site founded by The Circus’s John Heilemann, who hired Sohmer as editor-in-chief. While Sohmer’s LinkedIn page still lists him as the Editor-in-Chief, The Recount has recently been sold to a far-left Gen-Z news network and its “Team” page is now blank. In 2018, Buzzfeed appeared to celebrate Sohmer discussing his sexuality with 10-year-olds.
So what was the leader of the free world up to this week?
The Democratic strategist credited with leading former President Barack Obama’s 2008 victory has suggested that President Biden drop out of the 2024 presidential race after a damning poll showed him trailing behind former President Donald Trump.
David Axelrod pointed to Sunday polling from the New York Times and Siena College that shows the president lagging behind Trump in the five key battleground states of Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada and Pennsylvania — states which Biden won when he faced Trump in 2020.
Axelrod wrote on X that the data “will send tremors of doubt thru the [Democratic] Party” and will create “legitimate concern” about having the president seek re-election.
“Only Joe Biden can make this decision,” he said of having the president run in 2024.
“If he continues to run, he will be the nominee of the Democratic Party,” he posted.
“What he needs to decide is whether that is wise; whether it’s in HIS best interest or the country’s?”
And then he “backtracked” because the deed is done and he can throw the knife down a sewer grate.
So what was Old Joe Biden up to this week?
Target (TGT.N) is seeing shoppers trim spending even on groceries as household budgets are stretched due to higher prices and borrowing costs, the U.S. big-box retailer’s CEO Brian Cornell said in an interview aired on CNBC on Thursday.
“But even in food and beverage categories, over the last few quarters, the units, the number of items they’re buying, has been declining,” Cornell told CNBC.
Related – The trend for the Google search “give car back” is skyrocketing.
Other than spending time at the beach, what was Joe Biden up to this week?
