I suggest purchasing the book, The Devil and Bella Dodd: The Story of One Woman’s Struggle Against Communism and Her Redemption, and providing copies to your friends, Catholics and non-Catholics. It may help us understand the signs of the times.
At the same time, I suggest that Catholics restrict their donations to the church to lay associations, such as the Knights of Columbus, and local Catholic groups, such as the Seton Center in northern Frederick County, Maryland, which serves as a social service outreach program.
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![]() The Solution to Open Borders By Cliff Kincaid Every day I read and hear complaints about open borders and illegal aliens flooding in. It’s gotten worse lately – the coverage and the illegal entries. The reason is that rich people who employ illegals as maids, gardeners, and servants want more cheap labor. They think the publicity will cause the Congress to pass an amnesty for the millions already here and the millions coming. Consider Fox News, leading the drumbeat. Fox owner Rupert Murdoch is co-chair of the Partnership for a New American Economy, along with liberal moneybags and billionaire Michael R. Bloomberg. The Partnership for a New American Economy is based on bringing in immigrant labor described as “new Americans.” As we watch the breathless coverage of the open borders, ask yourself: who among the Fox pundits has a plan to deport them? What will a Republican House do about this? These people stoke outrage and anger and do nothing. But the Murdoch group knows where this is all going. The organization insists that “…immigrants fuel our nation’s $100 billion agriculture industry, doing the toughest jobs that keep our farms running,” the implication being that you want food to eat, right? But you also want people to serve your food and build your homes, right? You want people to mow your lawn. Under the heading, “Undocumented Immigrants,” we read that illegals are “playing integral roles in agriculture, construction, hospitality, and other industries that are essential to the U.S. economy.” This is the dirty little secret that is now out in the open The organization says illegal aliens are “economic contributors.” Like you, I yearn for the restrictions on the border put into place by Trump. But we know what happened. JoeBama opened the borders and millions are flooding in. It’s a deliberate policy to make the situation so bad that politicians will use the crisis to grant amnesty and make the illegals into legal citizens to take care of the jobs they tell us Americans don’t want. Years ago, commentator Michael Lind said openly what we all know to be true. Speaking of the media elite, he said that journalists do not oppose illegal immigration because they benefit from it. Lind said journalists belong to an affluent class in America that employs immigrant maids, nannies and gardeners. The same is true of the elites in politics. I would even bet that some of the “conservative” commentators generating viewers for their sensational coverage of the problem are benefiting from the cheap labor. “People like me are the great beneficiaries of this,” Michael Lind said “There’s a buyers’ market in inexpensive unskilled labor.” He said there used to be a time when you had to be wealthy to afford such help. But more and more people in higher paying jobs can now afford to hire immigrants who will work for below the minimum wage. So how do we round them up? Does anyone have a plan? Have you used illegal immigrant labor? Do they serve your meals? Do they work on your lawn? Did they build your house? Let's face it -- they're not going anywhere. They're staying here. Our country depends on them. We need this cheap labor. Lind explained this is especially true of those in the rich journalism establishment. “I’ve been in journalism for most of the past two decades,” he said. “Most journalists, most editors, most TV producers are employers of immigrant labor. If they married they have a nanny who comes part of the time. They have gardeners, they have maids and so on. So they belong to the top 5 or ten percent of the United States whose entire lifestyle depends on the supply of cheap labor.” He said people in this class tend to eat out a lot, and so they also benefit from immigrants working in restaurants and hotels. If trends continue, he said “before long? another decade or two — I should be able to afford my own butler [and] my own chauffeur?” So what do we do about this? Trump did something. But he’s gone. We hear a lot from JoeBama about root causes. Their answer is to spend more money on governments south of the border, no matter how they are governed. That only perpetuates corruption. Tragically, too many critics ignore the real root cause -- communism. Communists use refugees against the West. They create global chaos and conflict and the victims flee to the good old USA. They have done it in Europe and they are doing it in Latin America. I suggest my old article, The Border Wars Plot. Liberation from the Gringos. Until communism is defeated worldwide and communist governments are replaced, the refugee and border crisis will continue. That's because America is still seen as the land of opportunity. Don't expect any solutions on a national basis. Al of the talk and coverage of the problem will not result in a solution. There is no solution until communism is eliminated from the face of the earth. Communist policies produce death, destruction, and refugees. It’s an old story. Let's face it - most of the people coming here have a legitimate gripe about their own countries and governments. They are good people seeking a better future. But as we know, criminals carrying drugs are using them for their own purposes. In extreme circumstances, we would have a CIA that overthrows regimes like those in Cuba and Venezuela. Look at Chile, where the CIA helped General Pinochet overthrow the Marxist Allende. The country is free today and enjoys a form of capitalism. That happened under Nixon. Under Trump, unfortunately, he relied on a CIA that had been heavily compromised by enemy agents. They wanted to spend their time overthrowing Trump. Consider Venezuela. All freedom-loving people support the overthrow of the tyrannical communist Nicolás Maduro regime in Venezuela. But Trump’s proposed replacement, Juan Guaido, was another socialist. His Popular Will party is a “progressive” party and a member of the Socialist International. It was President Trump who told the United Nations, “All nations of the world should resist socialism and the misery that it brings to everyone.” Yet he proposed fighting communism with socialism in Venezuela. In terms of foreign policy closer to home, conservatives should focus on countries like El Salvador, where a former leftist politician by the name of Nayib Bukele was elected and is in the process of rounding up and imprisoning the gang members and terrorists. A true patriot, he went from leftism to conservatism and is cleaning up the corruption. He should be invited to speak to the new Congress. He has an amazing story to tell. But JoeBama does not like him. He is not a leftist like Lula in Brazil. The U.S. liberal media do not like him, either. They call Bukele an authoritarian. People actually want to live in El Salvador now. I know. I talk to them. When people like their country and enjoy freedom and prosperity, they don’t want to leave.
![]() Florida’s False Prophet By Cliff Kincaid UPDATED The Just the News headline, “DeSantis' power move on COVID vaccines targets drugmakers, possibly Trump legacy,” means that the Florida Governor wants to destroy Trump’s plan to run again in 2024. It will backfire on DeSantis because his attacks on Big Pharma and Trump for the “Warp Speed” vaccines will only result in more evidence that, in the long run, the vaccines saved lives. The story about DeSantis “empaneling a state grand jury to investigate whether drugmakers and federal agencies hid potential risks or problems posed by the COVID-19 mRNA vaccines” indicates either that DeSantis is a total hypocrite or that he is getting bad political and medical advice. First of all, the companies were ordered to develop the vaccines because of the dangers posed by a virus that has killed more than one million Americans. One study finds that the Covid vaccines have averted over 3 million deaths in the U.S. Yes, the vaccines have side-effects, some of them deadly. All vaccines and drugs have side effects. That's a given. I take lisinopril for high blood pressure and it probably has saved my life. The side effects of lisinopril include a dry, tickly cough that does not get better, feeling dizzy or lightheaded, headaches, being sick (vomiting), diarrhea, itching or a mild skin rash, and blurred vision. My guess is that most people reading this column take drugs or medications of some kind, to alleviate one health problem or another. Big Pharma is a convenient target. But America has the best biotech in the world. Trump didn't have the luxury of waiting 5 or 10 years for the COVID vaccines to be tested in traditional ways. By then, 25 - 50 million Americans would have been dead. The idea that DeSantis would target the companies, rather than the source of the virus, China, is madness. A grand jury is a political stunt meant to target Trump. It is what we would expect from the Democrats. The Just the News website said that the governor’s “power move” could “reshape the debate over whether federal science agencies and drugmakers can share legal blame for any harms the vaccines are believed to have caused.” The report added, “It also opens a political avenue to attack Donald Trump's administration for its Warp Speed program to approve the vaccines on an accelerated timetable.” That accelerated timetable was because the virus was spreading. What’s more, DeSantis advised people in his own state to take the vaccines. So will the grand jury investigate him? This is political suicide by DeSantis. He cannot survive this big-league mistake. More than a year ago, according to one report, DeSantis stressed “the importance of Floridians getting a COVID-19 vaccine.” He said, “So here’s, I think, the most important thing with the data: if you are vaccinated—fully vaccinated—the chance of you getting seriously ill or dying from COVID is effectively zero,” DeSantis said. “If you look at the people who are being admitted to hospitals, over 95 percent of them are either not fully vaccinated or not vaccinated at all. These vaccines are saving lives. They are reducing mortality.” Its easy enough to find these references to DeSantis advocating the vaccines. Now, for political reasons, he is turning into an opponent of the vaccines because he thinks he can take advantage of the fact that they were launched under his likely 2024 opponent, Donald J. Trump. People will see through the DeSantis ploy. It is very stupid on the part of the Florida governor. He promoted the vaccines because he had reason to believe they saved lives and prevented hospitalizations. But now he is seizing on the hospitalizations and deaths from those who have been vaccinated. What this shows, if you take the trouble to analyze the evidence, is that this is one mighty dangerous virus. And so the logical target is China, not Big Pharma, which was pushed into developing the vaccines on short notice. China is the source of the death, destruction, and suffering. Before he held a coronavirus “vaccine accountability” roundtable, consider another story on the governor’s position: “DeSantis urges public to get vaccinated: These shots are ‘saving lives.’” This report stated that while DeSantis was opposed to enforcing mask mandates, he was for getting vaccinated, saying “…I think that the data has been really, really good in terms of preserving people …. saving people’s lives … reducing mortality dramatically.” One reporter noted that “DeSantis even celebrated Florida vaccinating one million seniors by appearing live on Fox & Friends with a 100-year-old World War II veteran, [Henry Sayler] who received his COVID-19 shot as the governor stood nearby.” A report about that television appearance noted that DeSantis said about his vaccination policy, “We said seniors first, OK? This is something we need to focus on, the 65 and up population.” He added, “There are young and healthy workers getting it in other states, God bless them. But I want to protect our vulnerable. So that’s what we are doing.” That policy made sense, since older people were more vulnerable to the effects of the China virus. DeSantis sent a Tweet, saying, “It was an honor to witness Henry Sayler receive his first dose of the vaccine today. Florida is rapidly approaching a monumental milestone of 1 million seniors vaccinated.” Now, however, DeSantis wants a grand jury to investigate the shots he recommended. The use of a grand jury implies criminal negligence on the part of the companies. In response, Trump says, “…I think the vaccines saved tens of millions of people throughout the world.” His position is buttressed by a new analysis finding that in the two years since the first U.S. patient received a COVID-19 vaccine, “the country’s vaccination program has prevented more than 18 million hospitalizations and more than 3 million deaths.” What’s more, the Commonwealth Fund study says the U.S. COVID vaccination program “has saved the U.S. more than $1 trillion in medical costs and other benefits. Would DeSantis now prefer the situation in China, where the Covid lockdowns are continuing because the communist authorities will not use American-made vaccines? He can’t have it both ways, and yet he’s trying to play both sides. The communists release a virus and their own people get killed. That’s not surprising. But the rest of the world was at risk as well. Trump did what he could at the time, in terms of the revolutionary Warp Speed vaccines, and the evidence shows they saved millions of lives. It was comparable to General George Washington’s decision, during the Revolutionary War, to authorize an experimental smallpox inoculation program. It saved lives and turned the tide in the war against the British. More than a year ago, in Communist Cuba, while the China virus was killing people in large numbers, the Wall Street Journal reported that “Thousands of Cubans took to the streets in a wave of demonstrations in Havana and at least 14 other cities throughout the Communist island, demanding an end to the 62-year dictatorship and protesting the lack of food and Covid-19 vaccines.” National Public Radio said, “Although the protesters were asking for food, medicine and vaccines, the loudest cries were for an end to the communist regime.” On the right, we all oppose communism. But the vaccines, as Trump recognized, were enabling us to survive the communist China virus. That’s why he personally took them. What’s more, earlier this year DeSantis acknowledged that he took the vaccine but wouldn’t say if he took the booster. He calls it a private matter. What a complete fraud. Once the truth emerges about this life and death matter, his national political aspirations will be toast. He can’t play games with peoples’ lives. He should quickly reverse course and request a grand jury to investigate Red China, demanding compensation for the millions of deaths caused by the China virus. That’s what an anti-communist governor would do. What’s more, since DeSantis is among the 80 percent of the population which has received at least one dose of the vaccine, let him be honest with the American people about whether he has been receiving the vaccine boosters or not. Otherwise, he will be exposed as just another politician trying to gain a political advantage by flip-flopping on a matter of life and death. Rather than get him the 2024 presidential nomination, this crass maneuvering could spell the end of his political career.
![]() A Top to Bottom Housecleaning of America By Cliff Kincaid When we clean our house, my wife has a slogan, “Top to bottom,” meaning you have to target the whole house. The same advice applies to nations. We have one advantage. The USA has not gone full communist – at least not yet. This gives us an opportunity for redemption and reform. Former President Trump grasps this fact. “Our country is going – not socialist, they’ve skipped over that, they’ve skipped over socialism – our country is going Communist,” Trump said in a recent message to imprisoned January 6 protesters. What he meant was that the JoeBama Administration not only has socialist economic policies but is full-blown communist in its political strategy and tactics. “It’s the weaponization of the Department of Justice, and we can’t let this happen in this country,” Trump noted. It is happening and Trump is the prime target and victim. But the corruption goes far beyond Trump. If you took the time to watch Tuesday’s hearing, “Investigating the Collapse of FTX,” you begin to understand that while the JoeBama Administration facilitated this theft and deception to benefit Sam Bankman-Fried, a Democrat mega-donor, the Republicans have no clue about what happened and were paid to look the other way as well. As noted by committee member and Democrat Brad Sherman, Ryan Salame, the co-CEO of Bahamas-based FTX Digital Markets, donated over $23 million to Republican candidates and conservative campaign groups in 2022. He adds, “When you examine FTX efforts to influence Washington, you have to look at both CEOs, not just the eccentric guy wearing the shorts.” That eccentric guy is SBF, who has been indicted and doesn’t want to be extradited without his anti-depressant meds. Salame was the Republican side of the influence operation. Both major political parties have dirty hands and the American people are depressed. However, it’s important to note that SBF backed Joe Biden during the 2020 race and hinted earlier this year that he would spend $1 billion to stop Trump in 2024. What is it about Trump that makes those who conduct business as usual so scared of this man? This is what makes Trump attractive to the masses. Even if we can’t immediately turn the tide domestically, as a result of corruption that runs deep in the political and economic systems, there are hopeful signs internationally. The Department of Defense can’t pass an audit but enough money and arms are getting through to Ukraine to stop the Russian advance. Hence, Ukraine’s anti-communist revolution is still alive. What’s more, countries like South Korea and Japan understand they must rearm so they can be a bulwark against Communist China. Their self-defense forces are in a major rebuilding phase. South Korea has developed its own arms industry and just delivered a first shipment of tanks and howitzers to Poland, on the front lines against Russian expansion. Korean-made fighter jets are on the way to Poland as well. In Europe, consider that, even with the incompetent JoeBama in charge of foreign policy, pro-Putin commentators admit that the former KGB colonel Putin has been equally incompetent, mismanaging the war to the point where Germany, once in Putin’s pocket, has flipped. The German weekly Zeit reports German Chancellor Olaf Scholz stated openly what we have to accept as fact – that Putin’s goal is a new Russian empire. Scholz added that Putin is destroying Russia's future with the war, “and that's what he has to justify to his own country and his own people.” Unfortunately, JoeBama just gave Putin a propaganda victory with his release of a Soviet military officer in exchange for a pothead basketball player. It was another politically correct or “woke” move on the part of JoeBama. The basic problem for Putin, who is trying to capitalize on the propaganda victory, is that he doesn’t understand what communism has done to Russia and wants somehow to bring back the Soviet Empire without a total housecleaning from top to bottom of the old communist order. Of course, he can’t move forward on this basis because he was and is a member of that order, which rotted Russia out from the core. Hence, Russia is still, for all intents and purposes, Red Russia, even without the “Soviet” nomenclature. Putin can’t escape the communist thinking that guided his service to the Soviet state, including his work as a spy in East Germany. Here, in the United States, not everything is going the communists’ way, either. They are fretting that new Twitter owner Elon Musk is undergoing a “rightward evolution,” as a result of his comments on various issues. Musk doesn’t call it communism. But he seems to understand what’s happening. Evidence from inside the company demonstrates interference in the 2020 election, in favor of JoeBama and against Trump. Equally significant, Twitter accounts are being restored, making free speech a distinct possibility on this important platform. This still leaves social media platforms like Google (YouTube) engaging in massive censorship. My YouTube channel of 500 anti-communist videos was deleted earlier this year. Meanwhile, in terms of the total top to bottom housecleaning we need and require, the role of religious institutions, especially the Roman Catholic Church, must be reckoned with. This church of 1.2 billion people has been thoroughly corrupted. Consider that, in Maryland, a heavily Catholic state, the Maryland Catholic Conference has reportedly spent more than $200,000 hiring former lawmakers and government officials and consultants as lobbyists to stop legislation expanding the state’s statute of limitations on lawsuits arising from sexual abuse claims. The church doesn’t want the truth to come out and doesn’t want to pay the victims. How can a church this compromised by evil play a role in saving America? American society needs a top to bottom housecleaning. Each one of us has a part to play.
![]() Putin’s Soviet-style Power Politics By Cliff Kincaid As many have commented, the release of former Soviet military officer Viktor Bout demonstrates the weakness of Joe Biden and the strength of Russian President Vladimir Putin. America was humiliated. But Ukraine will suffer as a result. At a time when Ukraine had turned the corner against Russia in the war, Putin has achieved an incredible propaganda victory that can keep the war going and even turn the tide in Russia’s favor. Biden is more concerned about the feelings of a black lesbian who smokes pot than the brave and courageous people of Ukraine. By contrast, Putin saved a Soviet military officer from an American jail who has now become a Russian hero singing the praises of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. He specialized in killing people for the fun and profit of Red Russia. Keep in mind the difference between the two cases. Bout was caught by the Americans planning to kill Americans and arm communist terrorists. Brittney Griner tried to smuggle a marijuana canister device into Russia, where she was supposed to play basketball for $1 million. She pleaded guilty. The outcome demonstrates these are dangerous times for America – and Ukraine. The former KGB colonel running Russia believes this confirms his determination to continue the war on Ukraine. He now has reason to believe that the weak-kneed Biden will ultimately pressure Ukraine to make a deal with Russia, rewarding Putin for his military aggression. The release of the “Merchant of Death” also demonstrates the relationship between the Soviet Union and Russia today. One is an outgrowth of the other, and no clear break between the two exists. That fact, of course, was always visible in Putin himself. He was a Soviet KGB colonel. It must be recalled, as we detailed in our book, Back from the Dead: The Return of the Evil Empire, that Putin never repudiated the Soviet state. His invasion in 2008 of Georgia, the former Soviet Republic, was evidence of his true intentions. The invasion of Ukraine in 2014 (under Obama) and then in 2022 (under Biden) confirmed the direction he is taking. For Putin, there is no turning back. Putin perceives that Biden put more value on a lesbian WNBA pothead than the security of Ukraine. After all, Viktor Bout is an arms dealer who knows how to arm anti-American states and movements. He says he supports the war and would “certainly go as a volunteer” if he could. But he will be called back into service to figure out more ways to kill the people of Ukraine. Supporters of Ukraine have to take this fact into account. Russia now has a potential military edge that was not anticipated. Bout’s connections, just like the remnants of the old KGB, are still available for military operations and terrorism. With Bout back in the Russian arsenal, we can anticipate a new phase in the war. There is a lesson here for conservatives and Republicans. The ranting against Ukraine by figures such as Tucker Carlson has to be understood as rhetoric that only motivated Putin to fight harder and take advantage of Biden. Of course, conservatives have to understand as well that Biden bears ultimate responsibility for this catastrophe. Biden encouraged the “minor incursion” unto Ukraine in the first place. When it happened, he had no alternative but to supply Ukraine with some self-defense weapons. But he drew the line at supplying war planes, which could have turned the tide against Russia. The result has been hundreds of thousands of dead and wounded, not to mention another refugee crisis for Europe. All of this is Russia’s fault. Of course, Europe ignored former President Trump’s advice to prepare for Putin’s oil blackmail scheme. That made the problem into a global economic crisis. With the release of Bout, America now has to prepare for more war and respond accordingly. Unfortunately, America is still saddled with Biden, a weak vessel doing the bidding of Barack Hussein Obama, who laid the groundwork for Putin’s first invasion of Ukraine. We are also saddled with “conservative” commentators like Tucker Carlson, who have been arguing against war with Russia but in fact have made it possible for Russia now to expand that war. To surrender to Putin at this point might be Tucker’s position. But it would be a disaster not only for Ukraine but a geopolitical disaster for the United States. We have no alternative but to insist on more funding for Ukraine’s self-defense needs. The answer to Biden’s capitulation to Putin is not to hold hearings or investigate, as we have done in regard to his disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan, which turned that country over to terrorists. The answer is to help Ukraine take the war to Russia itself. This is an urgent matter. Congress has to respond by making sure there are no “rules of engagement” that hobble Ukraine’s war effort. It’s fine to audit the money and arms going to Ukraine. We have a right to know that the country gets everything they need. We also have a right to know that our money isn’t being wasted. But let’s keep our eyes on the ball. With Biden’s release of this arms dealer, it should be clear, even to the pro-Putin commentators on Fox News, that Putin is a holdover from the Soviet days who is deadly serious about taking back the former Soviet republics. Biden, by contrast, is a political weakling who never intended to pursue a “peace-through-strength” victory over this former KGB colonel. If Ukraine can survive Biden, perhaps America can, too.
Putin’s Patsy: Biden Plays Sucker to the Russkies
By Paul Kengor The American Spectator Back in August, I wrote a piece on Brittney Griner, America’s most famous WNBA player turned vaper-doper and political prisoner to Vladimir Putin and the Russians. Last February, the 31-year-old Griner illegally brought drugs into Russia. That is not a wise thing to do, dear reader. I strongly advise against it. Specifically, Griner carried into the country vape cartridges with cannabis oil whilst flying to Moscow to play basketball in the city of Yekaterinburg — the city where the Bolsheviks detained and executed the Romanovs in July 1918. Griner pled guilty to the possession charge. Russian authorities quickly threw her into the slammer. Back home, the United States immediately protested her confinement. President Joe Biden and Secretary of State Antony Blinken made public statements, with Biden asserting: “Russia is wrongfully detaining Brittney. It’s unacceptable, and I call on Russia to release her immediately so she can be with her wife, loved ones, friends, and teammates.” But there was much more going on. In that article in August, I had warned, “That is just the start of it. There is much more going on behind the scenes. It seems clear that Vladimir Putin and his teammates have a crafty game plan to check both the WNBA star and the United States of America.” I was not alone in raising a dismal prospect that others likewise feared, namely that Putin and pals were hoping to use Brittney Griner to secure a prisoner swap for one Viktor Bout, a notorious Russian arms dealer known as the “Merchant of Death,” who was serving a 25-year sentence here in the United States for conspiracy to kill U.S. citizens and aiding terrorists. I stated: “Putin and the boys are playing hardball, potentially using Brittney and her vape pipes to spring Bout and his weapons. For Putin and the Russkies, this could be a slam dunk.” But could it really? Biden and his administration wouldn’t actually do something that stupid, would they? A hoops player for an arms dealer? The Kremlin clearly hoped so. The Russkies licked their chops at the prospect of Biden and boys and gals playing their sucker. And so, Moscow turned up the heat. About four weeks ago, Vlad and boys, Soviet-style, dispatched Brittney to the gulag. Griner “is now on her way to a penal colony,” her attorneys said in a dire statement at the time. The Russians were ramping up, and their latest action struck fear into the hearts of the tender wimps in the Biden administration. The Kremlin informed the West that Brittney was in handcuffs and off to nine years of hard labor, away from her “wife” and her vape pipe. Well, that was apparently the bargaining chip that worked. Biden and Kamala and their State Department folded like a pile of cheap lawn chairs. Apparently, they crawled on their knees to Moscow pleading for any concession. The grinning Russians knew what to do; they smiled and informed their craven American interlocutors: “We want Viktor, comrades!” And just like that, a deal was in process. Shortly before Christmas, in a big gift wrapped with a shiny red bow, the Biden administration agreed to swap a notorious Russian arms dealer for an American vaper. Thanks to Biden and friends, Brittney can go back to shooting hoops and smoking hash while Viktor can get back to selling weapons to terrorists. Great job, Joe. Really magnificent. You are a total dupe to Vladimir Putin. To be sure, I’m happy for Ms. Griner and her ticket home. I mean that sincerely. Congratulations to her in finding freedom again. But prudent statesmen do not negotiate deals like this. You don’t make a high-stakes swap like this. But don’t tell that to Joe Biden. He and his veep were all grins for Griner. “She’s safe, she’s on a plane, she’s on her way home,” Biden said at the White House Thursday morning alongside Vice President Kamala Harris and Griner’s wife, Cherelle. “This is a day we’ve worked toward for a long time. We never stopped pushing for her release.” Worse is the long-term signal this sends to Putin (and other U.S. adversaries) about Joe Biden’s weakness. I’m reminded of what President John F. Kennedy told James “Scotty” Reston of the New York Times after he met with Nikita Khrushchev at the Vienna Summit following the disastrous Bay of Pigs fiasco. “It was the worst thing in the world,” said JFK. “He rolled right over me. Khrushchev thinks I’m weak.” Not long after that, Khrushchev and the Kremlin were placing nuclear missiles in Cuba. We soon faced that near nuclear Armageddon that Joe Biden was recently squawking about. And so, who knows what Putin’s next hard-ball move will be against America. Biden and Kamala and the LGBTQIA+ community are ga-ga that Brittney is back home smoking weed with her wife. She can once again ingratiate herself to liberals by heroically protesting our national anthem at basketball games — the anthem of the nation that just pulled her butt out of a nine-year sentence at a Russian penal colony. She ought to feel a little differently about America now, eh? One would hope that her image of America now stands a little improved. As for Putin’s image of America, unfortunately, it is once again diminished under this president who is playing Putin’s patsy. JOEBAMA has freed the Russian arms dealer and former Soviet military officer Viktor Bout, the legendary “Merchant of Death” who was serving a 25-year sentence in U.S. federal prison. In return the U.S. gets a WNBA pothead.
Bout was lured out of Russia, where he was living openly, and arrested in a sting operation in Thailand by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). Some of the weapons Bout was selling were for communist Colombian terrorists to use against Americans. WNBA pothead Brittney Griner was arrested in Russia, where she was supposed to play basketball for $1 million, with cartridges of marijuana oil. She claimed it was for a medical condition. The good news: Glenn Greenwald associate Edward Snowden, the NSA defector, stays in Russia, where he will go insane. I thought at one time that Putin would give us Snowden for Bout. Another NSA defector, Victor Norris Hamilton, who defected to the Soviet Union in 1963, was found in a psychiatric prison near Moscow in 1992. Perhaps he realized, too late, that he had made a drastic mistake. Snowden gave much of his stolen NSA material to Glenn Greenwald, now a regular on Tucker Carlson TV. He left the British Guardian newspaper to work for billionaire eBay founder Pierre Omidyar and The Intercept. Then he left to start his own business. Greenwald had been a regular participant in communist conferences, featuring Marxist enemies of the United States, and spoke to a conference of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a Muslim Brotherhood front. Lt. Gen. Ion Mihai Pacepa, the highest-ranking Soviet bloc intelligence official ever to defect to the West, said he believes that Snowden “is an agent of the Russian foreign intelligence service.” The communist FARC has been shipping drugs to the U.S. for decades, with a senior FARC commander extradited from Colombia on charges of “leading a continuing criminal enterprise and participating in an international cocaine manufacture and distribution conspiracy.” While the DEA tries to bring drug traffickers to justice, JOEBAMA's open borders policy makes their job far more difficult, with cocaine and fentanyl flowing into the United States, the latter made possible by Chinese chemicals provided to the drug cartels. ![]() Security Risks in the Senate By Cliff Kincaid Ex-communist and internal security expert Herb Romerstein was a walking encyclopedia of knowledge about the communist conspiracy. Although Herb passed away in 2013, we have Trevor Loudon to continue his work. His KeyWiki Internet encyclopedia brings everything we know about the communist conspiracy up to date, even with “Weekly Profiles” of communists, socialists and subversives. In addition, he records films for Epoch TV and publishes books on the latest scandals, including Security Risk Senators, Parts One and Two. With Democratic Party control of the Senate, these last two books have to be read in detail and understood. His Epoch TV video, “US Senate Has Been Deeply Infiltrated by Enemies Foreign and Domestic,” summarizes his new books. It’s impossible in this one column to summarize the evidence of treason and betrayal Trevor documents in these volumes. He analyzes the backgrounds and records of dozens of Senators. It’s the epilogue that offers solutions, including a new security agency for the United States and establishing a public register of subversive organizations. Practically speaking, before these proposals are implemented, we need a House of Representatives in the firm hands of a conservative majority dedicated to restoring a committee to monitor internal security. However, Rep. Kevin McCarthy, who is running for speaker, purged Rep. Steve King from the Congress after he spoke publicly in favor of saving Western civilization. King had also been vocal in supporting establishment of a House Committee on Un-American Activities. This proposal harkens back to the time when the security of the United States was taken seriously. Herb Romerstein worked for the House Committee on Un-American Activities, the House Internal Security Committee and the House Intelligence Committee. He also headed the Office to Counter Soviet Disinformation and Active Measures of the United States Information Agency. Except for the House Intelligence Committee, these committees and offices are either now defunct or under Democratic Party control. The House Intelligence Committee will now be under Republican leadership. Rep. Mike Turner (Ohio), the likely new chairman, can make a difference by bringing back oversight of the communist networks linked to China and Russia. On the Senate side, consider that in 2004 the Senate voted unanimously voted to recognize the “loyal service” of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the scientific director of the World War II Manhattan Project that produced the atomic bomb. But the overwhelming evidence shows that Oppenheimer was a communist. Romerstein, co-author of a book on Soviet espionage, The Venona Secrets, told me at the time, “There isn’t any question that Oppenheimer was a traitor to the United States and doesn’t deserve any of the honors that these people [in the Senate] want to give him.” The evidence was based on several sources. One is the American interception of communications by the Soviet intelligence service during World War II. The code name for that interception was Venona. They identify and describe the activities of Soviet agents. The second source is the Soviet spymaster Gen. Pavel Sudoplatov, who, when he fell out of favor with the Soviet establishment, wrote a letter to the then-head of the Soviet Communist Party, Yuri Andropov. Sudoplatov boasted about his achievements, including getting information on the U.S. atom bomb. One of the critical sources of information for the Soviets, Sudoplatov said, was J. Robert Oppenheimer. Sudoplatov had no reason to lie because he knew that Andropov could easily have verified this information. Romerstein, who worked on Capitol Hill for 18 years, told me at the time that the resolution honoring Oppenheimer was passed by unanimous consent when it was likely that few Senators were even on the Senate floor. Out of the 100 Senators, he said, there probably aren’t five of them who know anything about Oppenheimer. One factor may have been a controversial development that occurred during the Clinton administration, when a statement from FBI Director Louis Freeh was released, taking issue with the evidence that Oppenheimer had knowingly supplied classified information to the Soviets. However, this was before the Venona secrets were released, confirming Oppenheimer’s espionage activity. Whatever the explanation and circumstances, it is a sign of the times that the Senate honored a figure who was a member of a group that betrayed our secrets to our enemies. This problem has only gotten worse over the years, leading to the significance and relevance of Trevor Loudon’s books on Security Risk Senators. There’s not much we can do about the Senate, except continue to expose the Security Risk Senators and ask that patriots like Republican Senator Ron Johnson pursue this line of inquiry. Johnson and Senator Chuck Grassley have been investigating Hunter Biden’s and James Biden’s financial connections to foreign governments and questionable foreign nationals. They should begin investigating their Senate colleagues. Even though they will not chair any Senate committees, they can hold informal hearings into the activities of their colleagues that undermine national security. For example, Biden owes his political career to a group called the “Council for a Livable World,” started by alleged Soviet agent Leo Szilard. The Council was supported by money from Al Gore Sr., who in turn was funded by Soviet agent Armand Hammer. This connection goes directly to Biden, not just his son, Hunter, the drug addict. The Council for a Livable World is the key to understanding Biden and many Democratic Party Senators. Biden, of course, is also linked through his son Hunter to the Chinese communists, a story suppressed by Big Tech as people were voting in the U.S. This kind of censorship, now documented by Elon Musk, should be enough to declare the election anything but honest and fair. On the House side, my group America’s Survival, Inc. has been advocating an anti-communist House committee for years. However, some are skeptical. A troll sent me this message:
Much will depend on what happens in the House leadership races. The much-maligned House Committee on Un-American Activities, known as HCUA, uncovered dramatic communist infiltration of Hollywood and forced the studios to clean house. As noted, Then-Rep. Steve King (R-IA) expressed agreement with my suggestion at that time that re-establishment of such a committee would be a good idea. “I think that is a good process and I would support it,” he said. The oath of office for members of Congress requires that they support and defend the Constitution of the United States “against all enemies, foreign and domestic.” HCUA is a model for how such a problem can be identified and confronted. Trevor Loudon’s proposal for a “public register of subversive organizations” is not new. The HCUA once published a “Guide to Subversive Organizations and Publications.” But he also proposes an amnesty for foreign agents, if they confess their crimes and expose their networks. As researcher Trevor Loudon documents in his books White House Reds and Security Risk Senators, there are no background checks on U.S. Senators – some of the most powerful lawmakers on the planet. He says a new security agency to conduct such probes would have to be staffed by former intelligence officials “who left service at the beginning of the Obama era or before contamination really set in.” The situation is dire: Democrats now have an absolute majority in the chamber, with 51 seats to the Republicans' 49, and firm control over all committees. I endorsed Trevor’s books, saying, “Exposing the unvetted, the compromised, and the blackmailed, Trevor Loudon applies the CARL Test to Congress and does the work the FBI can’t or won’t. He documents how communists help elect security risks whose Character, Associates, Reputation, and Loyalty to the United States are in doubt.” The CARL Test was at one time used to conduct background checks on people for high-level positions. No such vetting was done in the Obama and Biden cases. They could never have passed. No such vetting is done in the case of members of Congress. Indeed, candidates for federal office, in contrast to federal employment, do not undergo any background checks at all. Read Trevor Loudon’s books Security Risk Senators and learn the terrible truth. Then demand that the incriminating information be examined by Congress. This scandal goes far beyond the Biden Family.
![]() The Best Christmas Bargain: A Free Ukraine By Cliff Kincaid As people buy bargains on Black Friday and Cyber Monday, America is getting one of the best bargains of all time – a free Ukraine and a humiliated Russian dictator Vladimir Putin, whose “neo-con” foreign policy of gobbling up former Soviet republics is on the rocks. While the forces of freedom may be losing here at home, the forces of freedom in Ukraine are winning. This paradoxical outcome gives us hope during this Christmas season that America can be free again. I made this case in my recent column, “Saving America By Saving Ukraine.” America couldn’t have been born without foreign support – specifically the French. That is why France is indeed our oldest ally. By the same token, Ukraine will forever be grateful that America was there for Ukraine. And the freedom movement can then expand into more of Europe, even Russia itself. And even into China. We might even learn a lesson or two about freedom from the long-suffering people of Ukraine. They suffered through one forced starvation, ordered by Stalin, and are preparing to suffer through another phase of suffering ordered by former KGB colonel Putin. We must help them survive. Currently, even under the impact of the Red Russian Army, backed by drones from Iran, the Ukraine resistance is holding its own and making progress. And all this is costing the United States several billion dollars. What a bargain! Russia thought Ukraine was ripe for the picking. As we note in our book, Back from the Dead: The Return of the Evil Empire, Russia in 1994 had signed an international document respecting Ukraine’s territorial integrity. The document, known as the Budapest Memorandum, was made in response to Ukraine giving up its Soviet nuclear weapons and returning them to Moscow. Then-Senators Barack Hussein Obama (D-IL) and Richard Lugar (R-IN) had traveled to Russia and Ukraine in 2005, urging Ukraine to destroy its conventional weapons stockpiles as well. With the abandonment of its nuclear weapons and destruction of many conventional weapons, Ukraine was ripe for the first Putin invasion in February of 2014. That occurred under President Obama. Since Biden has been trusting Russia as a player in negotiations for a new Iran nuclear agreement, the odds were that Biden was planning to trust Russia again on Ukraine. Remember that Biden had even encouraged a “minor incursion” into Ukraine. But Ukraine didn’t comply. The people wanted their freedom, not membership in what Biden in the Wall Street Journal had called his “New World Order.” Everybody knows that Biden should have given Ukraine far more military assistance, including war planes. He refused. With that kind of support, Ukraine could have forced a Russian retreat from the country months ago. Still, Ukraine is winning. These people want an anti-communist future. They have toppled hundreds of Lenin statues and want a future without Lenin, Stalin, or Putin. I sometimes hear from “conservatives” opposed to aid for Ukraine that there is too much corruption there. Yes, they are hobbled by corruption. But so are we. Money is wasted whenever government does anything. But having corruption does not mean we lose sight of what the ultimate fight is all about. Undoubtedly, money has been wasted in this effort. We deserve and demand a full accounting. But enough arms and money are getting through to make a difference for freedom. And to repeat: except for some American volunteers going to war against Russia, the American Armed Forces do not have to sacrifice their lives and blood to make Ukraine free. The Ukrainians are fighting their own battles. This is not “neo-conservatism.” This is old-fashioned military aid to a country that wants to be free. It's Putin exercising his own “neo-con” strategy of trying to expand his empire. And it’s failing. I don’t think Biden ever thought Ukraine could be so successful. I think he wanted to tolerate that “minor incursion” and then make a deal with Putin. That would have made Biden’s proposed “New World Order” possible. But Ukraine did not want to fight just to make a deal. The people wanted the Russians out. And they are forcing Biden and Congress by their sheer determination to at least provide the weapons to make ultimate victory possible. A desperate Putin's war strategy now is to freeze Ukraine to death by bombing its power grid with Iranian drone weapons. Writing in Chronicles, in an article entitled, Why Putin Will Have to Go, foreign policy expert Srdja Trifkovic says that the former KGB colonel has totally mismanaged his intervention. He writes, "It is unlikely that Putin can pull off a winter surprise in Ukraine. The Russian army could not hold the suburbs of Kiev in April and Kharkov in September, which were but an hour’s drive from the borders of Belarus or Russia. It abandoned the city of Kherson just five weeks after formally welcoming it into Russia, even though keeping its garrison supplied and reinforcing it was well within its logistic capability. Its capacity for major combined-arms operations is uncertain." Trifkovic concludes, “Putin is a failed manager, a security bureaucrat who had never had the capacity to become a statesman. He must go if Russia is to recover from the current impasse created by him, if she is to avoid becoming China’s supplicant, or a brutally carved-up Western colony." But Putin, of course, is already a junior partner to dictator Xi. Victory is within Ukraine's grasp and that means that Putin could be deposed, put on trial, and Russia’s oppressed population could once and for all reject Russian Communism. It could be the dawning of a new anti-communist age, with dictator Xi the next target and victim of the people. After that, Biden and his New World Order could be consigned to the ash heap of history. · Cliff Kincaid is president of America’s Survival, Inc. www.usasurvival.org ![]() Breaking Up Media Monopolies By Cliff Kincaid Have you noticed that conservatives are always a step or two behind their opponents? It’s “Big News” that Big Tech has been collaborating with the Democratic Party. Elon Musk has found Twitter documents proving that Big Tech was sabotaging President Trump’s 2020 campaign. Conservative commentators are going crazy, calling for new hearings and investigations. They are more than two years too late. I hate to break the news to these Johnny-come-latelies. But Trump adviser Peter Navarro had announced that Trump, if elected president in 2016, would “break up the new media conglomerate oligopolies that have gained enormous control over our information, intrude into our personal lives, and in this election, are attempting to unduly influence America’s political process.” But the Republicans did nothing. A professor of economics and public policy at the Paul Merage School of Business at the University of California, Irvine, Navarro had identified the corporations with a monopoly over news and information as some of the same ones ripping off American consumers and shipping jobs overseas. “The very corporations that have gained from shipping America’s factories and jobs offshore are the very same media conglomerates now pushing Hillary Clinton’s agenda,” he said in a statement. “She is the official candidate of the multinational ruling elite.” It was true – and Trump defeated her. But nothing was done about the media monopoly, leading to the scandal of the “laptop from hell,” now documented more than two years later by Elon Musk. Thanks for telling us what we already knew. The communists don’t care about evidence. They don’t care about truth. On the eve of July 4, 2022, as Obama hit the campaign trail for the midterms, my entire collection (500) of anti-communist videos was “removed” or banned by YouTube. I said at the time, “This further represents the consolidation of a communist dictatorship in America, with control by the elites over the means of communication, a key plank of the communist manifesto. They feared our message. They feared our influence. I expected it. YouTube doesn’t permit you to challenge the legitimacy of the current one-party state, or raise legitimate questions about Barack Hussein Obama’s background and history. “ Exposing Obama and his mentor, communist Frank Marshall Davis, is what prompted the Big Tech targeting of my group. It goes back many years. How interesting that Obama is now in Georgia, campaigning for Raphael Warnock to solidify Democratic Party control of the Senate. As conservatives shed crocodile tears over what Musk has revealed, those associated with Barack Hussein Obama are gathering steam, moving ahead with his Obama Foundation in the middle of a massive fundraising campaign that seeks to bring in $1.6 billion for his presidential center and library. He’s also using the money for “community organizing.” Obama is cementing his legacy as America’s first Marxist President and making sure America has a Marxist future. It is anticipated that Obama’s name will be put on thousands of schools around the country, in addition to roads and highways. Obama will replace George Washington as America’s founding father. The publication Inside Philanthropy has a fascinating look at the big money donors behind this new phase of Obama’s career. “Some of the foundation’s top donors include supporters and friends of the Obamas, including high-ranking figures from tech, business and entertainment,” it reported. These are the people running America. They are running the Biden Administration. On the other hand, it is Big News, from the point of view of Rupert Murdoch, that the billionaires are deserting Trump. “GOP megadonors ditch Donald Trump’s 2024 White House run” was the screaming headline of the New York Post. That means Trump will only have the people to depend on for support. The billionaires are important, since their influence increasingly suggests America is becoming not a “democracy” but what PJ Media accurately calls a functional oligarchy. The publication cites an academic study and concludes “What that means, in a nutshell, is that, unless you are a privileged member of the D.C.-centric governing class, your preferences about what should happen in your own country matter not at all, full stop.” Despite the good work done by the New York Post’s Miranda Devine over the laptop from hell, Murdoch has now decided to use his vast resources to destroy Trump. Let’s talk about that. Trump seems to be the one conservative who can rally his base and the nation. No matter what they throw at him, he grows stronger and more determined to win – again. His supporters are sticking with him, aware that if he goes down, America goes down with him. In the midst of this media turmoil, you need a solid and a reliable source of information. Needless to say, the Murdoch empire is not reliable and Twitter may not survive. That’s why I am trying to assemble a team for a new channel on a new platform, since YouTube took down my 500 anti-communist videos. Help us and get our special World Revolution Report on why the “Red Wave” stories perpetuated by the conservative media were pure propaganda. The media monopoly on the right has to be broken up as well.
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