by | Apr 27, 2024 | Aggregate
Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) discussed the foreign aid package recently passed in Congress on Newsmax, telling host David Harris Jr. that Congress could have solved the southern border crisis with “just a fraction of the money” sent to Ukraine, Israel, and other conflict zones around the world.
As The Gateway Pundit reported, The House of Representatives on Saturday passed three bills to hand out $95 Billion in “foreign aid” to Ukraine, Israel, Gaza, and other non-U.S. involved conflict zones around the world. Of the $95 Billion, over $60 Billion was allocated for Ukraine.
The handout to Ukraine was sold to the American people as a “loan.” However, as The Gateway Pundit reported, the package Johnson announced Wednesday includes terms that will allow the President to cancel 50% of Ukraine’s debt after November 15, 2024, and the remaining 50% after January 1, 2024. It’s no wonder Joe Biden came out “strongly” in support of the package, urging the House and Senate to pass it.
Additionally, as The Gateway Pundit reported, Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) revealed that only $44 to $47 billion–40%–of the $113 billion that the United States has handed out to Ukraine is lethal aid.” So what was the other 66 to $69 billion for?” Roy asked on Bannon’s War Room.
Two bills from the handout package, the Indo-Pacific Security Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2024 and the Ukraine Security Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2024, both passed the House with more support from Democrats than Republicans. This comes after Republicans under Mike Johnson’s leadership gave up a $1.2 trillion spending bill, also with more support from Democrats than Republicans, and reauthorization for warrantless searches of Americans under FISA Section 702.
All 112 “Nay” votes on a bill to send $60 billion to Ukraine came from Republicans, with 101 Republicans voting “AYE” with 210 Democrats. Every single Democrat voted in favor of sending additional taxpayer money to secure a foreign border, more than doubling the number of Republican votes in favor.
BREAKING: House RINOS Pass Mike Johnson’s Biden Backed $95 BILLION in Foreign Aid Bills Including ADDITIONAL $60.84 BILLION to Ukraine – Here Are The RINOs Who Voted to Fund Conflicts Oceans Away
Speaker Johnson arrogantly declared himself a “wartime speaker” before announcing the massive foreign aid package to fund multiple countries oceans away — but not the United States. The United States is not even at war with anyone!
Johnson later told the media in a press conference following the passage of the foreign aid bills that he did “the right thing.”
Meanwhile, our border remains wide open, with dangerous criminals flooding into our country. What a shame Johnson turned out to be.
The Gateway Pundit reported that Johnson’s betrayal of the conservative agenda could be explained by the fact that one of his top handlers aides, Policy Director Dan Ziegler, is a former lobbyist with clients who have a financial interest in Ukraine aid.
Biggs said in an X post on Friday, “The DC Cartel’s foreign aid spending bills were only passed because of the Speaker’s coalition government. If we used a fraction of the money we sent overseas for border security, we could end the invasion. But the Biden regime doesn’t want to close the border.”
Watch more below:
Biggs: The Speaker tried to structure this in four separate bills. More Republicans voted against Ukraine funding than voted for it. So, the Speaker actually actually put together a coalition with Democrats to get the Ukraine funding that was $65 billion or so. The Israel funding, we had a significant number of people vote no, because as you look at it, you’ll see that there’s $9 billion going to Gaza, and they’re going to use that to supercharge some mass migration. They’re going to use it for Hamas. Even the Palestinian Authority says that Hamas steals that humanitarian aid. Taiwan got thrown into the mix. They all buy into this because they’re told that if any disaster happens, blood will be on your hands as a member of Congress for failing to fund this.
And, you know, I was just down at the border yesterday, the last couple of days, and I will tell you that we can’t solve our own border crisis, but we sure could solve it with just a fraction of the money that they spent on this bill if the Biden administration wanted to but they don’t want to.
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by | Apr 27, 2024 | Aggregate
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The US and Russia are already embroiled in a de facto proxy war in Ukraine. Now, with the escalating conflict in the Middle East, US foreign policy goals clash with Russia’s, effectively opening a second front. While it’s clear both Washington and Moscow pursue self-interest, their objectives and methods diverge significantly.
Both undertake military interventions and endorse proxy armies in the region. The distinction lies in Russia’s covert military involvement in the Middle East and Africa, primarily through private military companies (PMCs) like the Wagner Group. The US, however, overtly sends uniformed troops to the area. Russia’s PMCs have a notorious history of severe human rights violations, including rape, murder, and torture, leading to their designation as transnational terrorist organizations.
Another contrast in the policy objectives of the two countries lies in their motivations. While it’s often argued that the US only goes to war for oil, this assertion doesn’t hold up under scrutiny. Firstly, the US is among the nations with the largest proven oil reserves globally and is effectively energy independent.
Moreover, the US has participated in numerous conflicts in regions with minimal oil resources. For instance, during World War II, the US didn’t take on Japan and Germany because of their oil. Since 1945, the US has been involved in conflicts spanning Greece (1947-1949), Korea, Haiti (1959), Vietnam, Central America, Kosovo, Croatia, and many other countries. The most significant recent wars fought by the US were in Afghanistan, which lacks significant oil reserves, and Iraq, which is oil-rich. However, even in Iraq, the US didn’t seize control of the oil fields. The fields remain the property of Iraq, while they are operated by international companies, with China expanding its share.
Moscow’s interventions in the Middle East and Africa, on the other hand, are primarily driven by a quest to secure resources and strengthen the Russian economy. While the US typically backs the UN-recognized leader of a nation, the Wagner Group aligns itself with whichever strongman or dictator commands valuable resources such as gold, diamonds, or oil, funneling the proceeds back to Moscow through clandestine shell companies.
The U.S. typically ties its economic and military assistance to conditions aimed at enhancing democracy and human rights within a country. While one could argue that these conditions serve U.S. interests, they also contribute to the betterment of people’s lives.
Because Russia neglects human rights and democracy in the countries where it intervenes militarily, Moscow provides diplomatic and military backing for nefarious regimes such as Syria’s Bashar al-Assad, Libyan strongman Khalifa Haftar, or the coup leaders in the Sahel region of Africa. As a consequence of Russia’s support for these dictators, the standard of living and quality of life for the average citizens in these countries sharply decline.
Another contrast between US and Russian intervention lies in the aftermath: when a country aligns with Russia, it often severs ties with the West, as seen in the coup belt of Africa. This termination of Western influence not only hinders potential political and social transformations but also designates Russia as the principal export market, thereby reducing resource prices and exacerbating poverty.
On the other hand, countries aligning with the US effectively align with the EU, G7, and the world’s wealthiest and most developed nations. This alignment enables them to engage in international trade, access funding from traditional lenders like the IMF, World Bank, and Paris Club, and receive aid from Western sources.
Moscow and Washington have cooperated on counterterrorism issues, related to Islamic extremism, but once again, the motivations are different. Putin was quick to join US counterterrorism initiatives after the 9/11 terrorist attacks in the US, however, he was doing so, to cover for his war against separatists in Chechnya and Dagestan. Moscow’s alleged interest in counterterrorism is just the next step in a long history of repression and war against Russia’s domestic Muslim population.
Countries in the Middle East and Africa face a choice between the US and Russia as their counterterrorism and security partner. While the US seeks to balance counterterrorism efforts with maintaining relations with other Middle Eastern nations, Russia takes a different approach by indirectly supporting terrorism through its backing of Iran, which in turn supports Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis. Russia provided Hamas with weapons taken in Ukraine and has sold weapons to authoritarian regimes all over Africa. Moreover, due to human rights violations committed by Moscow-sponsored groups, Russia has been labeled a state sponsor of terror by the EU Parliament.
Additionally, in response to the Houthi attacks on ships in the Red Sea, Russia obtained an agreement wherein the Houthis would refrain from attacking Russian vessels. In contrast, the US response involved forming an international coalition to prevent the Houthis from targeting ships of any nation.
The two countries have markedly different approaches to arms control. While the US collaborates with the international community to prevent states like North Korea and Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons, Russia takes a contrasting stance by providing technology to Iran that could advance its nuclear ambitions. Russia also purchases missiles and drones from Iran, as well as assorted munitions from North Korea, despite international sanctions prohibiting such arms trade. Moreover, supplying Iran with the means to develop nuclear weapons is banned, but Russia declared last year that it no longer felt obliged to adhere to UN restrictions.
Russia maintains its position on the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) and has consistently vetoed interventions against dictators and despots. Recently, Russia vetoed a resolution aiming to ban nuclear weapons from space. This aligns with Russia’s track record of vetoing resolutions related to nuclear proliferation as well as interventions in the Middle East.
While critics may argue that the US seeks to limit the number of nuclear weapons in the world to maintain its military supremacy, it’s undeniable that a world without nuclear-armed states like North Korea and Iran would be significantly safer than the alternative presented by Russian policies. Moreover, in the Middle East, a scenario where the region’s UN-recognized and democratically elected leaders, supported by the international community, aren’t embroiled in endless conflicts against Russian proxies would undoubtedly lead to greater stability, prosperity, and, most importantly, the well-being of the Middle Eastern population.
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by | Apr 27, 2024 | Aggregate
South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem (R), who has been mentioned as a possible Trump vice presidential pick, wrote in her new book that she shot and killed her “untrainable” and “dangerous” 14-month-old wirehair pointer hunting dog named Cricket after it killed a neighbor’s chickens and attacked Noem, as well as a killing a goat the same afternoon.
Noem spoke at a Trump rally in Ohio last month.
South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem (R) speaks at a campaign ally in Dayton, Ohio for President Trump and Senate candidate Bernie Moreno, March 16, 2024, photo by Kristinn Taylor.
Noem’s book, No Going Back: The Truth on What’s Wrong with Politics and How We Move America Forward, is set for release next month, however The Guardian obtained a copy and published a report early Friday morning on Noem writing about killing her dog and goat.
Noem responded to The Guardian report Friday morning, “We love animals, but tough decisions like this happen all the time on a farm. Sadly, we just had to put down 3 horses a few weeks ago that had been in our family for 25 years. If you want more real, honest, and politically INcorrect stories that’ll have the media gasping, preorder “No Going Back””
We love animals, but tough decisions like this happen all the time on a farm. Sadly, we just had to put down 3 horses a few weeks ago that had been in our family for 25 years.
If you want more real, honest, and politically INcorrect stories that’ll have the media gasping,… pic.twitter.com/bKhpUkchHV
— Kristi Noem (@KristiNoem) April 26, 2024
According to a post by Noem, President Trump endorsed her book earlier this month:
My new book “No Going Back” is my unfiltered vision for America. We’re not going back to the old way of politics – and that’s a good thing!
Preorder your copy here: https://t.co/CCiw1mBkNa pic.twitter.com/6lyjcYkttV
— Kristi Noem (@KristiNoem) April 15, 2024
Excerpt from The Guardian report:
By taking Cricket on a pheasant hunt with older dogs, Noem says, she hoped to calm the young dog down and begin to teach her how to behave. Unfortunately, Cricket ruined the hunt, going “out of her mind with excitement, chasing all those birds and having the time of her life”.
Noem describes calling Cricket, then using an electronic collar to attempt to bring her under control. Nothing worked. Then, on the way home after the hunt, as Noem stopped to talk to a local family, Cricket escaped Noem’s truck and attacked the family’s chickens, “grabb[ing] one chicken at a time, crunching it to death with one bite, then dropping it to attack another”.
Cricket the untrainable dog, Noem writes, behaved like “a trained assassin”.
When Noem finally grabbed Cricket, she says, the dog “whipped around to bite me”. Then, as the chickens’ owner wept, Noem repeatedly apologised, wrote the shocked family a check “for the price they asked, and helped them dispose of the carcasses littering the scene of the crime”.
Through it all, Noem says, Cricket was “the picture of pure joy”.
“I hated that dog,” Noem writes, adding that Cricket had proved herself “untrainable”, “dangerous to anyone she came in contact with” and “less than worthless … as a hunting dog”.
“At that moment,” Noem says, “I realised I had to put her down.”
(SKIP)
Noem decided to kill the unnamed goat the same way she had just killed Cricket the dog. But though she “dragged him to a gravel pit”, the goat jumped as she shot and therefore survived the wound. Noem says she went back to her truck, retrieved another shell, then “hurried back to the gravel pit and put him down”.
At that point, Noem writes, she realised a construction crew had watched her kill both animals. The startled workers swiftly got back to work, she writes, only for a school bus to arrive and drop off Noem’s children.
“Kennedy looked around confused,” Noem writes of her daughter, who asked: “Hey, where’s Cricket?”
CNN gave a dramatic reading of The Guardian report:
You’ve got to see this thorough recap of what led up to Kristi “black heart” Noem, coldly shooting and killing her dog Cricket in a gravel pit.
Details you might have missed earlier was that a construction crew witnessed the entire deed. Then a school-bus drove up to the scene… pic.twitter.com/sfGhBzDppP
— Christopher Webb (@cwebbonline) April 27, 2024
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) posted a video Friday afternoon promoting rescue dogs:
Essentia is a lab/shepherd mix who was rescued from the southern border, where the border crisis affects everyone—even our canine friends. Please consider giving Essentia a great home by adopting her from Big Dog Ranch Rescue.https://t.co/2ATqP5DPQN pic.twitter.com/qMO8JD1zUw
— Ron DeSantis (@GovRonDeSantis) April 26, 2024
A podcaster named John Burk is one of the few to come to Noem’s defense, “I read the Noem hit piece. For clarity; in the book she described the dog attacking and killing a friend’s chickens on the way back from a hunting trip. Then when she tried to reel it in, it turned on her to attack. She referenced it as a worthless HUNTING dog. Folks, I’m not a fan of hers either, but context and the entirety of the statement matters. If the dog is untrainable and poses a risk to other humans, you’re risking a lawsuit if it bites someone. You need to put it down. It’s a hard situation either way, but that’s life. Take politics and emotion out of it, she wasn’t wrong. As for the goat, no idea. Didn’t even read that far because it was clear the author was full of it.”
I read the Noem hit piece. For clarity; in the book she described the dog attacking and killing a friend’s chickens on the way back from a hunting trip. Then when she tried to reel it in, it turned on her to attack. She referenced it as a worthless HUNTING dog.
Folks, I’m not a…
— John Burk (@NotJohnBurk) April 26, 2024
Burk added, “She said he wasn’t trainable and she’s trained hunting dogs before. So it really boils down to whether you believe it was or not. She made the call, so be it, but it wasn’t done out of spite like many are claiming. It makes literally zero sense into putting money and effort into raising and training a hunting dog just to kill it for joy.”
She said he wasn’t trainable and she’s trained hunting dogs before. So it really boils down to whether you believe it was or not. She made the call, so be it, but it wasn’t done out of spite like many are claiming. It makes literally zero sense into putting money and effort into…
— John Burk (@NotJohnBurk) April 26, 2024
David Limbaugh asked, “Why did Kristi Noem, a seasoned politician for crying out loud, publish that self damming revelation about her dog. That’s almost as bizarre as the act she confessed to”
Why did Kristi Noem, a seasoned politician for crying out loud, publish that self damming revelation about her dog. That’s almost as bizarre as the act she confessed to.
— David Limbaugh (@DavidLimbaugh) April 27, 2024
A popular MAGA meme maker posted a purported photo of Cricket with sharp criticism for Noem, “I don’t know who needs to hear this but “there are no bad dogs, only bad owners.” Cricket was only 14 month-old. Kristi Noem doesn’t deserve pets!”
I don’t know who needs to hear this but “there are no bad dogs, only bad owners.”
Cricket was only 14 month-old.
Kristi Noem doesn’t deserve pets! pic.twitter.com/6psLCMfi1c
— I Meme Therefore I Am (@ImMeme0) April 26, 2024
A common view that will put Noem in the hot seat for weeks (and months?) to come. At least she didn’t eat the dog like Barack Obama did (via Daily Caller):
“With Lolo, I learned how to eat small green chill peppers raw with dinner (plenty of rice), and, away from the dinner table, I was introduced to dog meat (tough), snake meat (tougher), and roasted grasshopper (crunchy). Like many Indonesians, Lolo followed a brand of Islam that could make room for the remnants of more ancient animist and Hindu faiths. He explained that a man took on the powers of whatever he ate: One day soon, he promised, he would bring home a piece of tiger meat for us to share.”
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by | Apr 27, 2024 | Aggregate
Joe Biden alone has already caused the price of everyday staples to soar, but there are other pressures also forcing an increased burden to fall on all Americans.
Thanks to those external pressures, this month, yet another staple food item has soared to prices that won’t come down any time soon.
Coffee is absolutely essential for millions, and many Americans claim they can’t get their day in gear if they don’t have a jolting cup of Joe, and they don’t mean Biden.
But there will soon be more financial pain going forward with your morning cup. Get ready to see your coffee prices given a jolt as supply problems, hoarding, and contract defaults are tearing through the coffee producing industry worldwide causing prices to soar. This is only adding to the skyrocketing costs of breakfast, which is at its highest point since 1979 as it is. And experts say those higher prices won’t go away any time soon, if ever.
The cost of robusta coffee beans soared more than 30 percent early in April and 50 percent now as a heat wave has settled in over Vietnam in one of the world’s top coffee growing regions, according to Bloomberg.
The price jump for robusta has also put pressure on arabica coffee, causing arabica futures to rise more than 3 percent, surpassing the $2-per pound mark for the first time since December, the outlet added.
“Weather conditions are not encouraging,” representatives of London-based importer DRWakefield said this week. “There are still concerns over a possible water shortage for irrigation, which may hurt the output of the next season.”
About 40 percent of the world’s coffee supply is made up of robusta beans whereas the arabica bean is the source of around 60 percent, according to Nespresso.
Analysts also say that some of the rise in prices of these two beans is due to buyers letting their stocks dwindle over past price hikes, but who are now panic buying for fear that crops will dry up on them.
In a more recent follow-up report, Bloomberg added that analysts and sellers are saying they have no idea if the prices will come down.
“We can’t tell when prices will peak,” said Tran Thi Lan Anh, deputy director of Vietnamese export company Vinh Hiep Co.
“We don’t have water for our farms,” said Vietnamese coffee bean farmer Nguyen The Hue. “If the drought persists, we won’t have lots of new beans to sell in the new season.”
The pressure is in full swing. Already, farmers and producers have reneged on coffee contracts as growers have been unable to fulfill contracts for upwards to 200,000 tons of beans, or about 13 percent of the expected harvest.
These failures will soon cause prices of coffee to skyrocket for consumers, Bloomberg warns.
Add this pressure to the rising prices already seen in most other food staples and it all adds up to a huge burden on Americans.
The price of eggs have been fluctuating wildly, for instance, after millions of laying hens had to be destroyed due to infections with the deadly bird flu. Millions of chickens have had to be destroyed this year thanks to the disease.
Bird flu is a growing threat to the American food supply outside of the poultry industry, too.
Farmers and ranchers are also worried because the bird flu has jumped to cattle and dairy herds, threatening dairy and meat producers.
H5N1 bird flu found at 4 more dairy farms, including 2 in Michigan, 1 in Texas and 1 in New Mexico, taking the total to 28 pic.twitter.com/SfzHQMIkYS
— BNO News (@BNOFeed) April 12, 2024
These pressures, along with the grueling effects of Bidenflation and Bidenomics, are causing Americans to put more of their income to just daily survival than they have had to for decades.
And it’s only going to get worse, especially if Biden is reelected in November.
This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.
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by | Apr 27, 2024 | Aggregate
For weeks now organized protests by the far-left and anti-Israeli forces have organized protests, encampments and rallies to condemn Israel, Jews, and America, on college and university campuses across America.
We have witnessed Jewish students threatened, chased, and blocked from campus. We have seen Jewish students hide in their dorm rooms and told to stay away from their schools they attend.
Of course, these protests are widely accepted on the left and in the pro-Palestinian communities.
Columbia University staff and professors overwhelming support the Pro-Palestinian protesters and join the protest against Israel on campus earlier this week.
Israeli Prime Minister condemned the open anti-semitism on display by young leftists at US colleges and universities the past several weeks.
Benjamin Netanyahu: What’s happening in America’s college campuses is horrific. Antisemitic mobs have taken over leading universities. They call for the annihilation of Israel. They attack Jewish students. They attack Jewish faculty. This is reminiscent of what happened in German universities in the 1930s. It’s unconscionable. It has to be stopped. It has to be condemned and condemned unequivocally.
But that’s not what happened. The response of several university presidents was shameful. Now, fortunately, state, local, federal officials, many of them have responded differently, but there has to be more. More has to be done. It has to be done not only because they attack Israel, that’s bad enough. Not only because they want to kill Jews wherever they are, that’s bad enough. It’s also when you listen to them, it’s also because they say not only death to Israel, death to the Jews, but death to America. And this tells us that there is an anti-Semitic surge here that has terrible consequences.
We see this exponential rise of anti-Semitism throughout America and throughout Western societies as Israel tries to defend itself against genocidal terrorists, genocidal terrorists who hide behind civilians. Yet it is Israel that is falsely accused of genocide, Israel that is falsely accused of starvation and all sundry war crimes.
It’s all one big libel, but that’s not new. We’ve seen in history that anti-Semitic attacks were always preceded by vilification and slander. Lies that were cast against the Jewish people that are unbelievable, yet people believe them.
And what is important now is for all of us, all of us who are interested and cherish our values and our civilization, to stand up together and to say, enough is enough. We have to stop anti-Semitism because anti-Semitism is the canary in the coal mine. It always precedes larger conflagations that engulf the entire world. So I ask all of you, Jews and non-Jews alike, who are concerned with our common future and our common values, to do one thing.
Stand up, speak up, be counted. Stop anti-Semitism now.
Anti-Semitism on campuses in the United States is reminiscent of what happened in German universities in the 1930s.
The world cannot stand idly by. pic.twitter.com/oHlwig1vCl
— Benjamin Netanyahu – בנימין נתניהו (@netanyahu) April 24, 2024
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