Hugh Hefner’s Legacy and the Democratic Party
By Cliff Kincaid Biden's Supreme Court nominee, Harvard-educated Kentanji Brown Jackson, says she can’t define woman. But Democratic Party icon Hugh Hefner understood the female sex, at least in terms of how to exploit and abuse them. Demonstrating he is a Democrat after all, she will receive a “yes” confirmation vote from Senator Joe Manchin (D-W.V.), a so-called moderate. One of my first books, The Playboy Foundation: A mirror of the culture?, about the Playboy Foundation of Hugh Hefner, documented how money from pornography financed the abortion rights, gay rights, and drug legalization movements. Hefner, a major contributor to the Democratic Party who died in 2017, is reported to have had 19 different wives and/or regular girlfriends and experimented in bisexuality. In total, his sexual “partners” were said to number over 1,000. The A&E cable channel is running a series, “Secrets of Playboy,” which explores some of what I had documented back in 1992. One episode, “The Big Playboy Lie,” describes “how decades of women modeled for the magazine because they believed the Playboy promise that becoming a Playmate would lead to a lucrative career in a safe environment. Instead, many faced a hostile environment rampant with drugs, pornography, and prostitution. The circumstances led former Playboy Playmate Miki Garcia to testify against Playboy before the Reagan Administration's 1980s Commission on Pornography.” Indeed, Miki Garcia testified before the Attorney General’s Commission on Pornography in 1985 and said that Hefner encouraged Playmates to come to his mansion and “partake of the activities,” including orgies and bisexual escapades. As director of Playmate Promotions from 1976 to 1982, she said she was told by models “about rapes, mental and physical abuse, attempted murder, drug addiction, attempted suicide and prostitution.” The 1980 memoir of pornography star Linda Lovelace, Ordeal, describe the Playboy founder as “a collector of eight-millimeter movies.” That is a reference to the underworld of hardcore pornography, not the “coffee-table pornography” symbolized by Playboy. Lovelace, who says Hefner sodomized her in the Playboy mansion in Los Angeles, wrote, “He supposedly has the second largest collection in the world, second only to someone in Singapore. His eight-millimeter movies go back to the first ones ever made, and they include some with actors and actresses who were to go on and become very famous. He seemed especially interested in his animal films; pigs, chickens, donkeys, horses -- he had them all.” Brenda MacKillop, a Playboy Bunny at the Playboy Club in Los Angeles, testified that illegal drug use, group sex, and homosexuality were common in the Playboy mansion and that she began to drink and use drugs to desensitize her mind to the seamy world in which she found herself. Dorothy Stratten, one of the most famous Playmates, was murdered by her estranged husband, who was competing for her affections with Hugh Hefner. This is the world that was celebrated by the media – until A&E decided belatedly to tell the truth. Bill Maher of HBO, a member of the board of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML), could sometimes be found “smoking pot and sipping pomegranate juice at the Playboy Mansion.” According to the Washington Post, Bill Cosby was reported to have “partied with Hugh Hefner and was a regular at the magazine mogul’s Playboy Mansion bacchanals,” a term which means “an occasion of wild and drunken revelry.” In other words, drunken orgies. The other dirty secret is that Hefner was a staunch Democrat. He gave then-presidential candidate Barack Obama $2,300 in 2007, according to Federal Election Commission (FEC) records. A review of FEC records shows financial contributions from the Hugh Hefner and his daughter Christie to such prominent Democrats as current and former Senators John Kerry (MA), Hillary Clinton (NY), Al Gore (TN), Barbara Boxer (CA), Dick Durbin (IL), Patty Murray (WA), Carl Levin (MI), Al Franken (MN), Charles Schumer (NY), Debbie Stabenow (MI), and Sheldon Whitehouse (RI). Hefner’s “foundation” continues to host “First Amendment Awards,” to obscure how he made his money, for liberal thinkers and activists. CNN’s Jim Acosta, a critic of Trump’s womanizing, was at the 2019 event. Judges for the awards included Karen Tumulty, a columnist and former national political correspondent for The Washington Post who covers women’s issues. What a fraud she is. For Hefner, women -- however you define the term -- were created for the convenience of men. Abortion was a public good to keep women sexually available for men. But today, Biden’s Supreme Court nominee, Harvard-educated Ketanji Brown Jackson, can’t define what a woman is. It shows Democratic Party claims about protecting women against violence is also a complete fraud. *Cliff Kincaid is president of America’s survival, Inc. www.usasurvival.org
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Educated Idiots All Around Us
By Cliff Kincaid When even the communists say Putin is giving communism a bad name, you know the Russians are in trouble. Writing in the People’s World, a top American communist says Putin, the veteran communist and KGB spy, has got to go. Putin, he claims, has gone capitalist and “nationalist” and is threatening communist plans for “collective security” through the United Nations. The communists, apparently, are calling in their chips on Ukraine because they are about to capture a seat on the Supreme Court and don’t want a foreign war as a distraction. Cultural Marxism, which includes DNA denial, is now front and center. Biden’s Supreme Court nominee, picked because she is a black woman, refused to define the word "woman" on the grounds that “I’m not a biologist.” With the Harvard-educated Ketanji Brown Jackson on the court, “I Am Woman,” a song by Helen Reddy, could be banned, as could Shania Twain’s song, “Man! I Feel Like A Woman.” During the midst of Women’s History Month, there are no women. Jackson also claimed there is a “right” to abortion in the Constitution, when no such right exists. It should be clear we are surrounded by educated idiots who obscure the basic meaning of terms for ideological purposes. The other amazing disclosure in the Jackson hearing was that she gave lenient sentences to child pornographers because it is so easy to obtain and distribute child pornography through the Internet. Feminist icon Ruth Bader Ginsburg knew what a woman was, but she was so pro-abortion that even during her confirmation hearings she refused to recognize the humanity of the unborn. For that reason, Senator Jesse Helms called her “callous.” But he was one of only three Senators to vote against her. Helms, from North Carolina, was not a member of the club. The late Justice Antonin Scalia blew the whistle on the nature of their club. In the same-sex marriage case Obergefell v. Hodges, Scalia (a Catholic) wrote that the Court was “strikingly unrepresentative” of America. Scalia wrote, “Take, for example, this Court, which consists of only nine men and women, all of them successful lawyers who studied at Harvard or Yale Law School. Four of the nine are natives of New York City. Eight of them grew up in east- and west-coast States. Only one hails from the vast expanse in-between. Not a single Southwesterner or even, to tell the truth, a genuine Westerner (California does not count). Not a single evangelical Christian (a group that comprises about one quarter of Americans19), or even a Protestant of any denomination.” Unfortunately, the author of that gay marriage decision, Anthony Kennedy, will go down in history as “the first gay justice” for his bizarre rulings in favor of homosexual rights. He also upheld Roe v. Wade, which has led to 60 million abortions. The DNA deniers like Kennedy and Jackson have undermined traditional families – a stated goal of Karl Marx. A communist writer backing Jackson notes that she may be the court’s “first former journalist,” as her disclosure form to the Senate Judiciary Committee shows that in 1992-93, concurrent with getting her undergraduate degree from Harvard and entering Harvard Law School, her first job was as a Time magazine reporter. She should be questioned as to whether the term “journalist” can be defined. By the way, the term “women” appears 27 times in her disclosure report, such as participation in an “Empowering Women of Color” event and the “Women's Bar Association of the District of Columbia.” In order to understand Cultural Marxism, which denies women are women, note that the founder of the modern gay rights movement, Harry Hay, was a member of the Communist Party who wore a dress and promoted the North American Man-Boy Love Association and the occult. He divorced his wife, after being diagnosed with a sexually transmitted disease, before heading off on his perverted journey, finally declaring himself to be a Fairy. A psychiatric report on the Harvard-educated Unabomber, Ted Kaczynski, said his mental state had deteriorated to the point where he had “fantasies of being a female” and “became convinced that he should undergo sex change surgery.” This modern-day Luddite staged an 18-year bombing campaign that killed three people and injured many more before his capture by the FBI in 1996. Today, such bizarre thoughts are apparently considered completely normal by the Democratic Party and their nominees to the High Court. *Cliff Kincaid is president of America’s Survival, Inc. www.usasurvival.org Reds Turn on Putin By Cliff Kincaid www.usasurvival.org Some communists have turned on Vladimir Putin. An article in the CPUSA's People's World now proclaims: Putin regime emerges as the main danger to global peace and security Somehow, somewhere, in the upper reaches of the hierarchy of the world communist movement, a decision has been made that Putin is doing more harm than good to the communist cause. The invasion has backfired. The CPUSA had previously been agitating against NATO and Nazis in Ukraine. Now their tune has changed. Why? Here's what the article by John Bachtell says:
Bachtell, a major figure in the CPUSA, has concluded that Putin has departed from communist orthodoxy and has instead embraced Russian nationalism, not communism. Bechtel calls for regime change in Russia! This may mean Putin's day are numbered. Bachtell's bio identifies him as president of Long View Publishing Co., the publisher of People's World. He served as national chair of the Communist Party USA from 2014 to 2019. There are a number of factors at work here. We will be exploring them in the days ahead. Suffice it to say that the pressure will increase on Putin in the days ahead. Bachtell says:
Notice his condemnation of "extreme nationalism." Putin is said to have gone capitalist. In other words, Putin went beyond communism. It's the "wealthy cabal" that may have a shot at dislodging Putin. But Putin will either kill his enemies, jail them, or make them "disappear." These developments bear close watching. The CPUSA is plugged into the world communist movement. It looks like Putin will be deposed, or at least that's the plan, so that a new system of "collective security" can be imposed. This is the old United Nations "New World Order" plan I have been writing about for decades. Bachtell says Putin is really a right-winger, alleging:
The CPUSA leader is actually referring to influence on Putin from Alexander Dugin, a figure in our Back from the Dead book. This controversy may reflect a division among factions of the KGB. The GOP’s Hunter Biden Problem
By Cliff Kincaid After the communist revolution, Russia became known as the drunken society, as a result of the alcoholism that followed the destruction of traditional morality. Russia is known for its vodka distilleries. Russia’s only other significant export is gas, a natural resource. In America, imported and home-grown dope have replaced alcohol as the drug of choice, designed to hook a new generation on a mind-altering substance that will reduce their brains to the level of Hunter Biden. Hunter Biden was doing drugs and getting a woman pregnant while the “baby mama,” a former stripper, raised the fatherless child and filed suit for child support. Hunter’s drug- and alcohol-fueled lifestyle meant that he was more than a family black sheep. He was a clear impediment to the campaign to put Joe in office as president. That’s why Big Media and Big Tech covered-up the significance of the lap top. There is still time, however, to prevent further damage to society as a whole. To cite one example, a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland from a national coalition urges him to support enforcement of federal marijuana laws. It wants mandatory reporting of the drugs involved, including marijuana, when there are acts of gun violence, mass shootings, knifings and other acts of irrational violence. At the very least, enforcement of current federal marijuana laws will save the minds of some young people and reduce the number of homeless drug addicts with mental problems running rampant in the streets of major cities and contributing to the rising crime rate. Marijuana is now being laced with fentanyl, made by Mexican cartels with chemicals from China, to increase the carnage. What’s at stake is whether the Republicans will join the Democrats in cultivating potheads and other drug abusers as a voting bloc. A major GOP power broker and financier, homosexual activist Peter Thiel, has been investing huge sums in the marijuana and psychedelic research industries and is backing Republican Senate candidates in Arizona (Blake Masters) and Ohio (J.D. Vance). The Democratic Party is pushing marijuana legalization on a national basis, with Republicans such as Florida’s Rep. Matt Gaetz, a prominent Trump supporter, actively embracing the effort. Gaetz claims marijuana has healing properties in many chronic ailments. Tell that to the victims of Nikolas Cruz. The Parkland Florida mass shooter, Nikolas Cruz pleaded guilty to murdering 17 people in 2018 and in doing so blamed marijuana for the nation’s problems. He said, in part: “I hate drugs and I believe this country would do better if everyone would stop smoking marijuana and doing all these drugs and causing racism and violence out in the streets.” He’s had a chance to clean out his system of mind-altering chemicals and is now thinking straight. Cruz had told police about extensive drug use and “demons” in his mind. In addition to marijuana, so-called progressives have been demanding easy access to “psychedelic medicine,” including LSD and Ecstasy. Working with the George Soros-funded marijuana movement, in fact, they have achieved enormous “progress” in the various states, especially Oregon, which in 2020 decriminalized cocaine, meth, and LSD by passing a measured backed by money from billionaires George Soros and Mark Zuckerberg. At an America’s Survival conference in 2017, Dr. Tina Trent explained how the movement to legalize drugs now wants to make "mind-expanding" drugs more available, even mandatory, in order to erase traditional Christianity and transform consciousness through "New Age" practices. Mind-altering drugs have become their “Soma” for our Brave New World. While these factors and dangerous influences affect our ability as a nation to survive, it doesn’t mean that those of us who are sober should give up the fight. Our society is still superior to the drunken society that has failed to come to grips with communism’s imprint on Russia and which is now waging an unprovoked war on Ukraine. In terms of the Hunter Biden problem, an example of the decline of the West in personal and political terms, the laptop scandal provides an opportunity to understand how decadent the country has become and why a moral reckoning is so necessary at this critical time in history. We have to hope the criminal justice system holds him accountable, in the same way Arkansas judge Holly Meyer ordered Hunter Biden’s cooperation in the case brought by Lunden Alexis Roberts, the former stripper with whom he has a child. CNBC reports that Clint Lancaster, the attorney representing Roberts, said he previously handed over “a significant amount of Hunter’s financial records” to federal investigators under subpoena and that “he and Roberts were interviewed by an assistant U.S. attorney, an FBI agent and an IRS agent more than a year ago about Biden’s son.” But the Republicans’ have their own scandals. Consider the extramarital affair involving the former Missouri governor, Republican Eric Greitens, now running for the Senate and seeking Trump’s endorsement. Greitens, a regular guest on Steve Bannon’s “War Room” program, has now been accused of physically abusing his ex-wife and their children at the end of their marriage. Bannon backs him enthusiastically. In John le Carre’s Cold War spy thriller, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, the Russian mole in the British intelligence service says to the spy hunter who caught him, “I had to pick a side, George. It was an aesthetic choice as much as a moral one. The West has grown so very ugly, don’t you think?” Watching scandals involving Hunter Biden and Eric Greitens reminds us of the ugly side. Still, the West is worth saving. But it can only be saved if people like the Bidens and their backers in the intelligence community are held accountable and disgraced scandal-ridden Republicans like Greitens and their backers are ostracized and ejected from public life. *Cliff Kincaid is president of America’s Survival, Inc. www.usasurvival.org ![]() What’s Really Happening in Ukraine? By Cliff Kincaid Ukrainian-Americans have welcomed an article in The Atlantic magazine saying that Ukraine is winning the war. Thousands are dead, hundreds are being buried in mass graves, there are millions of refugees, and the country is being reduced to rubble. This is winning? Another strange perspective comes from the John Birch Society’s Alex Newman, who is claiming that Ukraine President Zelensky is somehow in cahoots with Vladimir Putin, working on behalf of globalists behind the scenes. It’s a strange form of collaboration when one nation wages an illegal and unjust war on another and innocent civilians in Ukraine continue to be slaughtered by the Russians. That only serves Russia’s interests. And Putin, as Newman knows, is a communist internationalist. Unfortunately, Newman, a good journalist, has lost touch with the anti-communism that once drove the JBS and which generated the Maidan revolution in Ukraine in 2013, leading to the toppling of hundreds of Lenin statues and the eviction of a pro-Russian president. Responsible anti-communists understand that the differences between Ukraine and Russia are very real and led to the war that Putin, a former KGB spy for 25 years, is now waging. It’s distressing to see conservatives repeating the propaganda of the Lyndon LaRouche organization, which has been attacking Zelensky relentlessly as a one-time TV personality. Ronald Reagan, a great anti-communist president, was once a Hollywood actor. The late Lyndon LaRouche, a convicted con man, was considered the intellectual author of the 9/11 truth movement because he started questioning whether Muslims had staged the attacks right after they occurred. LaRouche was one of the first to insist that the U.S. and Israeli governments were behind 9/11. The LaRouche group originally came out of the Marxist left and the Students for a Democratic Society at Columbia University, with LaRouche once describing his network in a 1976 lecture, “What Only Communists Know,” as working to bring into being “a new Marxist international.” Regarded as pro-Soviet during the Cold War, the LaRouche group came to the defense of Iraq before the first Persian Gulf War, running a piece entitled “Why we must support Iraq” and insisting that Saddam Hussein was committed to transforming the Arab world through “scientific and technological progress.” Rather than hold Putin accountable for his unprovoked war on Ukraine, the LaRouche organization has been going after the “globalists” and claims to be supporting Donald J. Trump. They sent operatives into the Texas Republican caucuses and other states in support of Trump-backed candidates. LaRouche operatives also attended the 2022 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). It looks to this observer that the LaRouche propaganda has been finding its way into the conservative media. It is absolutely necessary for Russia, the clear aggressor, to lose this war in Ukraine. But as long as Biden is president, he must be held accountable for the failure to provide the weapons that Ukraine needs to win. Nonsensical claims about Ukraine, its president, and the globalists only add to the confusion. Ignoring this failure of will to win in Ukraine, some point to Biden’s remarks before the Business Roundtable’s CEO Quarterly Meeting, where he said, “…there’s going to be a new world order out there, and we’ve got to lead it. And we’ve got to unite the rest of the free world in doing it.” These remarks are seen as evidence of some nefarious globalist plot behind the war in Ukraine. But Biden has been talking about a New World Order for decades and actually wrote about it in the Wall Street Journal. The problem here is not that a New World Order is being planned but that it will be imposed by a Russian regime working in cahoots with Red China. At the same time, those who think Ukraine is David in the story of David and Goliath should take a hard look at the rising death toll. The U.S. Committee for Ukrainian Holodomor-Famine-Genocide Awareness has a realistic analysis, noting, "Stalin was afraid to lose Ukraine. His weapon was the Holodomor, the man-made famine, to crush the Ukrainian national revival that had begun in the 1920’s. Putin is afraid to lose Ukraine. His answer is the invasion of Ukraine. Russia’s current policies are an extension of that genocide. The genocide has already begun. In occupied Crimean, Donetsk, and Luhansk, Ukrainians are witnessing forced transformation to Russian by intimidation, imposition of Russian schools, and issuance of Russian passports. Now that the invasion has escalated further into Ukraine, civilians are targeted at bomb shelters to further frighten and intimidate them into submission." Russia is winning. *Cliff Kincaid is president of America’s Survival, Inc. www.usasurvival.org ![]() Biden’s Bay of Pigs By Cliff Kincaid Brain Dead Joe sent them into battle, failing to provide the weapons they needed for victory. It’s Biden’s Bay of Pigs. The humanitarian group Razom notes Ukraine doesn’t even have the air power and air support to protect the sky so that rescuers can dig out the survivors stranded under the rubble of the Drama Theater of Mariupol. The White House refused to let anti-communist Poland Warsaw send fighter jets to Ukraine. The brains at Foreign Affairs, the leading establishment journal, are starting to wake up -- too late, as usual. Their article, "What If Russia Wins? A Kremlin-Controlled Ukraine Would Transform Europe." Well, wake up -- the Russians have won. Foreign Affairs is published by the CFR, which boasted Alger Hiss as a member. Don't believe the TV generals about Russian getting "bogged down." And yes, Ukraine President Zelensky may speak like Churchill, but he's not getting the support Churchill received. Biden won't give Ukraine the weapons they need for victory. Putin is crushing them. The article by Liana Fix and Michael Kimmage in Foreign Affairs is subtitled, "A Kremlin-Controlled Ukraine Would Transform Europe." While denouncing Russia’s war as a massacre, Pope Francis is moving in the wrong direction, seemingly approving Russia's terms for a Ukraine settlement. This will be another victory for Putin. As the writers at Foreign Affairs point out: "When Russia joined the ongoing civil war in Syria, in the summer of 2015, it shocked the United States and its partners. Out of frustration, then President Barack Obama claimed that Syria would become a “quagmire” for Russia and Russian President Vladimir Putin. Syria would be Russia’s Vietnam or Putin’s Afghanistan, a grievous mistake that would eventually rebound against Russian interests. "Syria did not end up as a quagmire for Putin. Russia changed the course of the war, saving Syrian President Bashar al-Assad from impending defeat, and then translated military force into diplomatic leverage." Ukraine is NOT Russia's Vietnam. Russia is totally in command, dictating to Biden the cost of a new Iranian nuclear agreement. That cost is losing Ukraine to Russia. Ukraine may continue to exist in name only, as a small piece of territory in Europe. But Russia will be in control. All of those "conservatives" who praised Putin as a great Christian leader have blood on their hands. We warned America about the Russian infiltration of the conservative movement. Those who ignored our warnings in Back from the Dead: The Return of the Evil Empire are responsible for the death and destruction as well. A writer for a Jewish publication, Gerard Filitti of The Lawfare Project, says:
It's fitting that Putin's Russia backs Iran and makes possible its nuclear weapons program. Biden will sacrifice Ukraine on the altar of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, brokered by Russia. Russia is using the revival of the Iran Deal to evade economic sanctions for its invasion of Ukraine. Israel is next after Ukraine. How sad that so many fail to recognize what is happening right before their eyes. Ukraine has paid the price. Thousands are dead. Millions are refugees. Shame on those who turned their heads away from the truth. Don't say we didn't warn you. Others issued warnings as well. Geert Wilders, a critic of radical Islam who wrote the book, Marked for Death, noted, “…although defeated Nazi Germany was subject to de-Nazification, there was no de-Marxification after the fall of communism… And without the public accounting of a trial, people tend to forget how evil communism was.” This is why Putin, using Soviet-style propaganda tactics, speaks of the “de-Nazification” of Ukraine, ignoring the Hitler-Stalin pact that started World War II. One of my old friends, the late Jim Giurard, always use to say about Hitler and Stalin that they came to blows not because they were different but because they were so much alike. In fact, it was Putin’s brain, a Russian “thinker” named Aleksandr Dugin, who was photographed meeting with former American Ku Klux Klan leader and neo-Nazi David Duke in Russia. Duke argues, like many Russian nationalists, that communism was imposed on Russia by a Jewish banker conspiracy. Former KGB officer Konstantin Preobrazhensky says Dugin’s philosophy of Eurasianism was actually developed by Soviet intelligence in the 1920s, and later popularized by Dugin after the Soviet collapse. In the 1990s, he said, Dugin held seminars which were attended by the high-positioned Russian intelligence officer, Sergei Ivanov, who was later the Russian Minister of Defense and became the chief of staff to President Putin. This kind of thinking led to the creation of the Russian-Iranian axis in the Middle East. For these Russians, Jews are the enemy. Interestingly, Israel is now admitting thousands of Ukrainians into the tiny country. In this context, it is worth noting that Satanist Aleister Crowley, who visited Russia twice (in 1898 and in 1913), helped the Communists in Russia and his philosophy played a role in the subsequent rise of the Nazis in Germany. His associates included Walter Duranty, the correspondent for The New York Times who achieved notoriety -- and a Pulitzer Prize -- for helping cover up the crimes of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, such as his murder of millions of Ukrainians, known as the Holodomor. (Another campaign to revoke Duranty's Pulitzer is underway.) History repeats itself, except another massacre is now happening in full public view and another Bay of Pigs is underway. *Cliff Kincaid is president of America’s Survival, Inc. www.usasurvival.org ![]() Russia Has Won the War By Cliff Kincaid I received an email about an Alaskan cruise. You better go before Putin takes Alaska back for Russia. Biden won’t stop him. Putin has no soul and Biden has no brain. That’s my position. But Biden’s handlers are smart enough to know that they don’t want to offend Putin by supporting the freedom fighters in Ukraine too vigorously. They go through the motions of providing some weapons to some fighters in some areas of the country under direct Russian assault. But planes and a no-fly-zone, which could turn the tide, are off the table. That means Ukraine can’t win. It’s another no-win war. Ukraine loses more and more territory to Russia and is now engaged in “negotiations” to end the war on Russia’s terms. This means Ukraine will be neutralized and Russia will dominate Europe. Pope Francis has stepped forward, to provide religious cover for Putin’s victory. That’s what the “negotiations” are all about. Don’t believe the TV generals who say Putin is losing and is in a “desperate” situation because he has lost several thousand soldiers and key generals. Putin doesn’t care about loss of life. He certainly doesn’t care about Ukrainian losses and refugees. Ukraine is lost. The country has been devastated. What is happening is a continuation of the war against Ukraine that Russia launched in 2014, when Obama was president and Biden was vice-president. They knew what was coming. Our CIA knew what was coming. They just had to wait until they could get Trump out of office for the war to begin. The Russians accomplished that through the use of their phony dossier, provided to Hillary and the Democrats for political purposes. In a significant development, Pope Francis just discussed the war with Russian Orthodox leader Patriarch Kirill of Moscow. The Vatican said that “the two leaders agreed on the importance of current negotiations to end the war.” The Vatican’s dealings with Putin and the Russian Orthodox Church deserve major media attention. David Satter, a former Moscow correspondent, says Patriarch Kirill was exposed by material from the Soviet archives as a KGB agent. “This means he was more than just an informer, of whom there were millions in the Soviet Union. He was an active officer of the organization,” wrote Satter. Despite what you read and hear, James Pindell of the Boston Globe points out most of the world is on Russia’s side. Most nations won’t enforce sanctions. He notes that “…most of three huge continents -- Asia, Africa, and South America -- are either still working with Russia or trying to project the image of neutrality.” Even Biden is on Russia’s side, counting on Putin to make possible another Iran nuclear agreement. No wonder Ukraine is losing. They have to lose to make the Iran agreement possible. Senator Lindsey Graham has called for Vladimir Putin's assassination. Biden won’t authorize that because he knows that Putin can strike directly in the heart of Washington, D.C. Biden has enough of a brain to know that his personal survival is at stake if he goes too far. His people can't even agree to call Putin a war criminal. In 2016, in one of the most sensational cases, the Russian creator of the propaganda channel, Russia Today (RT), Mikhail Lesin, was found dead in a Washington D.C. hotel room. The speculation was that Lesin was in Washington, D.C. to cooperate with the FBI, and expose corruption and other misdeeds by the Putin regime. Former FBI agent John Whiteside, who handled Russian espionage cases, told me in an interview that it wouldn’t surprise him if Putin had engineered the death of Lesin. “Putin is a KGB guy through and through,” he noted. Since the evidence implicates the Putin regime in the murder by poisoning of former KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko, Whiteside found it reasonable to assume that he could do the same in America. He said, “Could Putin reach out to the United States? Absolutely. I wouldn’t doubt it for a minute.” The Russian government murdered former KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko in London. In 2013, as he was preparing his first invasion of Ukraine, Putin visited the Vatican and acted like a religious believer. Putin made the sign of the cross, gave the pope a Virgin Mary icon, and bent over to kiss it. The pope followed suit. There has been talk of collaboration -- even a merger -- of the Roman Catholic Church and the Russian Orthodox Church in global affairs. Discussions between these churches are already taking place under the rubric of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity. This is the real danger of a New World Order. It’s a religious New World Order conducted with the collaboration of a Marxist pope and a KGB-controlled Russian Orthodox leader. To avoid this fate, forget the talk about Biden ordering the assassination of Putin or providing enough weapons to Ukraine to make a difference. As I argued in a previous column, there is no alternative but to impeach Biden on national security grounds or remove him from office because of cognitive impairment. The war, which is already lost, should not be an excuse for inaction. In a desperate plea, Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky said, “President Biden, you are the leader of our great nation. I wish you to be the leader of the world. Being the leader of the world means being the leader of peace.” This emotional plea reflects his knowledge that Biden’s plan is for the peace of the grave for Ukraine. The country is being sacrificed to please Putin. Zelensky understands Biden has sold out his people. Forcing Biden out leaves Kamala Harris as president. But the Democrats are so embarrassed by her performance they will likely seek to remove her, too. Anything is preferable to a brain dead president pretending to lead the Free World.
OCTOBER 06, 2021
Toomey on Senate Floor: I’ve Never Seen a More ‘Radical’ Regulatory Nominee Than Saule Omarova Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senate Banking Committee Ranking Member Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) spoke on the floor of the U.S. Senate today to express concern over President Biden’s intent to nominate Saule Omarova as Comptroller of the Currency. This morning Senator Toomey released a letter to Ms. Omarova requesting a copy of her thesis, “Karl Marx’s Economic Analysis and the Theory of Revolution in The Capital,” to allow the Committee to fully assess her nomination. Ms. Omarova’s thesis, which she authored while studying at Moscow State University on the V.I. Lenin Personal Academic Scholarship, recently disappeared from her resume. Click here to watch Key Excerpts “Ms. Omarova has been celebrated on the far left for promoting ideas she herself has described as ‘radical.’ That’s a point we can agree on. These are very, very radical ideas. In fact, I don’t think I’ve ever seen a more radical choice for any regulatory spot in our federal government. I know that is a very sweeping statement to make. I think I can stand by it.” “There’s a lot that’s extraordinary and radical here—but maybe the heart of it is that Ms. Omarova doesn’t just want tightened regulation of banks. What she wants to, and I quote—this is her words—‘effectively end banking as we know it.’ Those are words she wrote just last year.” "She clearly has an aversion to anything like free market capitalism . . . in an October 2020 paper called ‘The People’s Ledger,’ she outlined a plan for ‘radically reshaping the basic architecture and dynamics of modern finance.’" “She promoted the nationalization of an entire industry: retail banking . . . a clear socialist idea.” “Ms. Omarova doesn’t just want to nationalize banking . . . she also wants the banking regulators to run the whole economy. Under her plan, laid out in a 2016 paper, the Federal Reserve would set prices in large sectors of the U.S. economy that she deems to be ‘systemically important prices,’ . . . ‘… widely used fuels, foodstuffs, and some other raw material’ and ‘wage or salary indices,’ among others. She’s openly advocated that the Federal government sets wages and prices throughout the economy. Is this not anything like a free enterprise economy? It’s unbelievable.” “In addition, citing a desire to ‘sidestep debilitating political battles over the federal budget’ . . . that fundamentally democratic process that follows our Constitution, in a 2020 white paper Omarova proposed creating a National Investment Authority to channel both public and private capital to further policies that will be set by an unelected, unaccountable board. The American people don’t get too decide how their tax dollars get allocated by holding members of Congress accountable through elections. Instead, there would be some board that would make these decisions for us.” “Where would a person even come up with these ideas? How does it even happen that it occurs to someone to think of these things? Maybe a contributing factor could be if a person grew up in the former Soviet Union and went to Moscow State University and attended on a V.I. Lenin academic scholarship.” “In 2019, she tweeted, ‘say what you will about old USSR, there was no gender pay gap there. Market doesn’t always know best.’ She followed up with another tweet, ‘I never claimed women and men were treated absolutely equally in every facet of Soviet life. But people’s salaries were set (by the state) in a gender-blind manner. And all women got very generous maternity benefits. Both things are still a pipe dream in our society!’” “Ms. Omarova clearly knows her views are far outside of the mainstream. How do we know? Well, why else would her most recent CV have been scrubbed of one particular item that was on her resume as recently as 2017? That item is the thesis she wrote as a student at Moscow on a V.I. Lenin Personal Academic Scholarship. The title was ‘Karl Marx’s Economic Analysis and the Theory of Revolution in The Capital.’” “This morning, I released a letter that I sent to Ms. Omarova requesting she provide a copy of this paper in the original Russian to the Committee in time for us to translate it so that we can fully consider her nomination. Like most committees, the Banking Committee requires nominees provide copies of any articles or papers they’ve written. That is a very important tool we use to evaluate a person’s thoughts, fitness, temperament, judgment. I’m looking forward to receiving that paper.” “In a country as big as ours where we have 330 some million people, I have no doubt that there are some individuals that we could find here and there who would think of the Soviet Union—that brutal, oppressive, totalitarian, freedom-suppressing, soul-sucking, murderous regime that was the Soviet Union--there must be some people somewhere in America that somehow would compare it favorably to the United States, as shocking as that is. What never occurred to me is that a person who thinks that way could possibly be considered for an important, powerful, and prominent position in the Federal government.” ## NOVEMBER 03, 2021 Toomey on Professor Omarova’s Refusal to Turn Over Thesis on Marxism: What is She Hiding? Washington, D.C. – The U.S. Senate Banking Committee formally received President Biden’s nomination of Professor Saule Omarova for Comptroller of the Currency. Notably missing from her paperwork, however, is a copy of her thesis, “Karl Marx’s Economic Analysis and the Theory of Revolution in The Capital.” On October 5, 2021, Senator Toomey sent a letter asking Ms. Omarova to provide the Committee with a copy of the thesis no later than October 13, 2021, to allow the Committee adequate time to translate and thoroughly review it. To this day, Ms. Omarova has neither provided a copy of her thesis to the Committee nor provided any explanation for her failure to do so. “All nominees within the Committee’s jurisdiction are required to provide their writings, articles, and papers. Unfortunately, Professor Omarova appears to believe she is exempt from these rules,” said Ranking Member Toomey. “In order for lawmakers to fully and fairly consider Professor Omarova’s nomination to serve as our nation’s top banking regulator, we need a complete picture of her policy positions. The fact that she recently deleted references to her thesis begs the question: what is she hiding?” After President Biden announced his intent to nominate Professor Omarova in late September, Committee staff reached out to both the nominee and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) requesting a copy of the thesis. Neither Ms. Omarova nor the OCC agreed to share a copy with the Committee in a timely fashion. Instead, the OCC said it would revisit the issue once her paperwork had been formally submitted to the Committee. While the nomination has now been formally submitted, the Committee has not received any indication that the OCC or the nominee will turn over the thesis. Last month, Senator Toomey spoke on the Senate floor to raise concerns over Professor Omarova’s plan to have the federal government set price controls for large sectors of the U.S. economy, including food, gas, wages, and home prices. As the Senator pointed out, Professor Omarova “has been celebrated on the far left for promoting ideas she herself has described as radical,” including advocating for “effectively end[ing] banking as we know it.” ### OFFICIAL RELEASE
FEBRUARY 07, 2022 Toomey Presses Raskin on Work for Obscure Fintech That Obtained Unusual Access to Fed’s Payment SystemConfirms Former Fed Governor Raskin Contacted Kansas City Fed on Behalf of Reserve TrustWashington, D.C. – U.S. Senate Banking Committee Ranking Member Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) is asking Sarah Bloom Raskin, President Biden’s nominee for Vice Chair for Supervision of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (the Fed), for more details on how she helped a small financial technology (fintech) company obtain unusual access to the Fed’s payment system. For seven years, Ms. Raskin served in the Obama administration, first as a Fed governor and then as the Deputy Secretary of the Treasury. In May 2017, four months after leaving Treasury, Ms. Raskin joined the Board of Directors of the Reserve Trust Company (Reserve Trust), an obscure fintech in Colorado. As Reserve Trust’s website boasts, in 2018, the year after Ms. Raskin joined the board, “Reserve Trust became the first state chartered trust company to obtain a Federal Reserve master account, granting direct access to Federal Reserve clearing, payment, and settlement services.” This came after the Kansas City Fed had originally denied Reserve Trust’s application for a Fed master account in June 2017. In 2020, Ms. Raskin received nearly $1.5 million by selling her shares in Reserve Trust to QED Investors, a firm co-managed by Amias Gerety, who was one of Raskin’s subordinates at Treasury. In questions for the record, Ranking Member Toomey asked Ms. Raskin to turn over documents and to answer a series of detailed questions regarding her work for Reserve Trust, including what actions she took to help Reserve Trust obtain a Fed master account and any communications between Ms. Raskin and the Kansas City Fed or the Fed regarding Reserve Trust’s application. “Reserve Trust appears to be the only nonbank fintech company with a Fed master account despite other banks and non-banks with non-traditional charters having applied for Fed master accounts,” Ranking Member Toomey wrote. “It remains puzzling how Reserve Trust obtained this account when other institutions have been denied access, leading one bank to file a lawsuit against the Federal Reserve Bank of New York over the issue. Yet, Reserve Trust’s application was quietly granted during the pendency of that litigation.” As Senator Toomey notes in his questions to Ms. Raskin, on a call with Banking Committee staff on January 28th, Ms. Raskin said she did not know why Reserve Trust wanted a master account. “This statement is puzzling given how much Reserve Trust and its investors tout the value of the company’s Fed master account and that you served on the company’s board when its master account application was denied but then later approved,” Senator Toomey wrote to Ms. Raskin. During the same January 28th call with Banking Committee staff, Ms. Raskin tried to avoid answering whether she communicated with the Kansas City Fed or the Fed about Reserve Trust and ultimately said that she did not remember if she had. Ms. Raskin also refused to answer whether she contacted the Fed or Kansas City Fed on behalf of Reserve Trust when asked by Senator Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.) three separate times during her nomination hearing before the Senate Banking Committee on February 3rd. “Like Senator Lummis, I have learned that you did, in fact, call the Kansas City Fed in August 2017, which was after Reserve Trust’s master account application had been denied in June 2017. We only discovered your call to the Kansas City Fed on the evening of February 2, 2022, which was the night before your nomination hearing,” Ranking Member Toomey wrote. Last week, Ranking Member Toomey sent a letter to the Kansas City Fed requesting information pertaining to its approval of Reserve Trust’s application for a Fed master account. To read Senator Toomey’s questions to Ms. Raskin, click here. To watch Senator Lummis’ questioning of Ms. Raskin during last week’s hearing, click here. LUMMIS PRESSES FED NOMINEE RASKIN OVER SUSPICIOUS INFLUENCE PEDDLING February 3, 2022 Fed Nominee Sarah Bloom Raskin helped non-bank obtain first-of-its-kind Fed master account, then reaped $1.5 million reward WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) today pressed one of President Joe Biden’s nominees for the Federal Reserve Board of Governors over her suspicious conduct in helping Reserve Trust, a non-bank trust company, obtain access to the Federal Reserve’s payment system (“master account”), a privilege exclusively reserved for banks. Reserve Trust was the first, and currently the only, non-bank FinTech company to ever obtain master account access. Raskin joined the board of Reserve Trust in 2017, and this non-bank was initially denied access to a master account that same year. Raskin made calls on behalf of Reserve Trust to the Federal Reserve, and Reserve Trust’s application for a master account was subsequently approved in 2018. Raskin was compensated for her position on the Reserve Trust board with stock, which she later sold to one of her coworkers at the Treasury Department, Amias Gerety, for $1.4 million. Gerety now works for QED Investors, which today owns a controlling interest in Reserve Trust. “Two Wyoming-chartered banks have been trying to obtain Fed master accounts for over a year. A master account is critical for banks to be able to access our Federal payment system. But both remain in limbo, though progress is being made. Yet somehow Reserve Trust – a company that had been denied this same access, doesn’t have a Federal regulator and isn’t even a bank – was granted it after Sarah Bloom Raskin joined its board,”Senator Lummis said. “This seems suspiciously convenient that Reserve Trust managed to secure the only Fed master account for a non-bank FinTech company while she was on the board. This requires further scrutiny from this committee and my colleagues in the Senate.” Wyoming’s special purpose depository institution charter (SPDI) remains under review by the Federal Reserve. This prompted Sen. Lummis to write an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal demanding answers. Click here to watch Senator Lummis’s questions. Click here to read her op-ed in the Wall Street Journal. ![]() Putin Has No Soul, Biden Has No Brain By Cliff Kincaid Christians and Jews are being killed so fast that the dead of Mariupol, Ukraine are being buried in mass graves. Hospitals are being bombed. Today, it was reported that a pregnant Ukrainian woman died, along with her unborn baby. So sad. Let’s move along. Niall Ferguson, a leading historian and intellectual, says Ukraine’s resistance will be “crushed” because the Biden Administration is weak and intimidated by Putin. By any objective standard, President Biden should be impeached on national security grounds. He could also be removed from office because of cognitive impairment. Amazingly, I am hearing from Ukrainian-Americans who think Biden has helped Ukraine more than any other politician in the world. Evidence to the contrary includes a Politico story that a Pentagon effort to send more U.S. military trainers to Ukraine was scrapped in December “amid White House fears of provoking Russia.” Remember that the Democrats accused Trump of being a Russian agent. Democrats said they were pro-Ukraine. They didn’t mean that, either. Meanwhile, Iranian missiles have hit the U.S. Consulate in the northern Iraqi city of Erbil, while the U.S. special envoy to North Korea, is warning of mounting North Korean nuclear threats. The State Department notes that North Korea lunched ballistic missiles on February 26 and March 4, described as “tests of a new DPRK [North Korea] intercontinental ballistic missile system,” the State Department says. All of this is possible because of Communist China and Russia. We are already in the middle of World War III. The gamble of the West is that while the bodies pile up, financial and economic pressure can strangle Russia. This is a test of what the Marxists call the highest stage of imperialism. It means old-fashioned capitalism is being replaced by monopoly capitalism and the power of what’s called “finance capital.” These forces are formidable. Whether we like it or not, this is to our advantage. It may be our only hope of victory. We have a government that produced hundreds of wounded warriors who sacrificed to create a democracy in Afghanistan for Muslims who didn’t understand or appreciate what was called “the foreigner’s gift” in Iraq as well. Thousands of our “boots on the ground” died. But Christians and Jews in Ukraine are not entitled to our support in the form of “boots on the ground.” This message, seen in the context of Biden’s Afghanistan withdrawal, invited Putin to attack. In terms of what the Democrats did for Ukraine, here are some key facts:
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, a Muslim, is a member of NATO and understands what it takes to stand up to Russia. “If the whole West and the whole world had raised their voices against the invasion of Crimea in 2014, would we have faced today's picture?" asked Erdogan. He’s right. We saw this coming. That’s why we published Back from the Dead: The Return of the Evil Empire in 2014. That same year, 2014, I interviewed Paweł P. Styrna, born in Zabrze, Poland, to discuss Putin's Master Plan. One of the topics was a Russian role in the April 10, 2010 Smolensk plane crash involving the deaths of Poland’s president, and almost one hundred members of Poland’s military and political elite. Anti-communist Poland has always been a target and is now a safe haven for refugees from Ukraine. But Ukraine was always the immediate target. A Russian BUK missile destroyed Malaysian flight MH17, killing all 283 passengers and 15 crew on board, in Russian-occupied eastern Ukraine on July 17, 2014. The only question is whether the missile was fired by Russian troops or terrorists under Russian control. In any case, Russian President Vladimir Putin, who ordered an invasion of eastern Ukraine, has blood on his hands. The attack on the airliner has been described as the day Russia became a state sponsor of terrorism. But I would argue that this day came decades earlier, when the Russian state was born on November 17, 1917, and the Virgin Mary warned in the Fatima revelations that same year that the errors of Russia would continue until the religious and holy consecration of Russia took place. It never has. Over the decades, the Russian KGB killed JFK and tried to kill the Polish pope. Domestic enemies have been eliminated through poisons like Novichok. Faced with the current crisis, with no “boots on the ground” in Ukraine, America’s options are limited. One Ukrainian-American has noted that the U.S. Government assassinated al Qaeda leaders Osama bin Laden and Abdul Hamid al-Matar without compunction. President Donald Trump authorized the killing of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani. Why not the biggest terrorist of all? Army Officer Nidal Malik Hasan, a self-described “soldier of Allah” with links to al Qaeda, shot and killed 13 people and injured over 30 others in the Fort Hood mass massacre on November 5, 2009. Al Qaeda leader Anwar Nasser al-Awlaki, who was in contact with Nidal Malik Hasan, was later killed in a U.S. drone strike ordered by none other than Barack Hussein Obama. “We Have Won!!!” wrote Hasan, after Biden’s withdrawal from Afghanistan. America needs a Winston Churchill who will identify all of America’s enemies, including Russia, by name. Mitt Romney did it back in 2012, when he ran against Obama for the presidency, and events proved him right. Then, denied the Secretary of State job under Trump, Romney turned on the president who did more for Ukraine than Obama/Biden. We are saddled with Biden, Obama’s vice president, who concluded that Putin had no soul after a 2011 meeting at the Kremlin. Biden said Putin “looked back at me, and he smiled, and he said, ‘We understand one another.’” Putin has no soul. Biden has no brain. “This is not just a recent trend, as your mental decline and forgetfulness have become more apparent over the past two years,” notes Representative Ronny Jackson, M.D., a former physician to three Presidents of the United States, in a letter to Biden's handlers. “On the campaign trail, you often forgot the names of states that you were in for campaign rallies. The Alzheimer’s Association points out ‘confusion with time or place’ as another of the ten signs and symptoms of mental decline. In February 2021, you publicly forgot the purpose of your visit to survey the winter storm damage in Texas. In March 2021, you forgot the name of the Pentagon, the Department of Defense, and the Defense Secretary. Lastly, in May 2021, you told a story from your tenure as Vice President in which you stated that you regularly visited your sick mother via Amtrak in 2013, even though she passed away in 2010. We must get rid of Putin and Biden. But Biden, who once wrote an article about how he loved the New World Order, is so brain dead that he continues to pursue a nuclear deal with Iran after it launched 12 ballistic missiles at the American consulate at Erbil, Iraq. To make matters worse, Biden Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson worked on behalf of suspected al Qaeda and Taliban members imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay. Putin has no soul. It turns out that Biden has no brain and no soul. And what’s why Putin is winning. The Billy Graham organization, Samaritan’s Purse, is on the ground in Ukraine, helping Christians and Jews and others fleeing Vladimir Putin’s war. Get updates here.
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