Showing posts with label whistle blower. Show all posts
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Monday, November 4, 2024

November, Part 1, Political Class Inanity: A Tax Delinquent Politician, More Illegal Immigrant Violence, Overall Violent Crime Rate Is Way Up Under Biden, and More

  Every month we devote posts to just general political class insanity that is running rampant through the country. The members of the American political class continue to show that they are incapable of efficiently operating any level of government in this country. 

Even their best efforts are almost always ineffective at resolving any problem facing Americans. They spend a great amount of time not trying to improve the lives of their citizens but continually ensuring their reelection and enriching themselves, their families, and their friends in the process, all at taxpayer expense.


1)We have always said that most American politicians abide by the old saying, “do as I say, not as I do.” Many times they seem to think and assume that the very laws they pass do not apply to them, that they are somehow above the law. A politician running for the U.S. Senate in Maryland is the latest example:

  • Angela Alsobrooks is running for the U.S. Senate representing the state of Maryland.

  • The problem is that she apparently owes $47,580.56 in property taxes on a home that she used to own in Washington D.C.

  • Apparently she accepted the fact that she had not paid the necessary taxes on the property but as always, the politician had an excuse,  namely that she had never been sent the property tax bills.

Although she has paid back some of the unpaid taxes, she still owes almost $30,000. And yet, she is running for the U.S. Senate. Ain’t America great, not pay taxes and still be eligible to serve in the U.S. Senate?

2)A primary, basic function of any government entity is to protect the lives and property of the citizens they serve. Unfortunately, Biden’s  failed immigration policies have allowed all sorts of nefarious types to enter the country: organized crime organizations, drug cartels, human traffickers, etc. The actions of these folks have resulted in the  rapes, murders, thefts, and drug overdoses of an untold number of Americans.

We did a series of posts on these atrocities against American citizens starting with:

https://loathemygovernment.blogspot.com/2024/07/bidens-failed-immigration-policies-and.html

And the carnage has not ended:

  • A Chicago Jewish gentleman was recently walking towards his synagogue to worship when he was shot for no other reason than being Jewish.

  • The shooter is allegedly an illegal immigrant who crossed into this country illegally in California.

  • He also allegedly is from an Arab country since during the shooting and the following shooting against the first responders he was shouting “Allahu Akbar.”

So  not only are illegal  immigrants committing run of the mill violence and criminal acts but at least one of them is intent on doing violent, anti-semetic hate crimes.

3)We have often discussed the reality that Biden’s failed economic programs and policies have resulted in double digit inflation over the course of his time in office.  In fact, at one point, the  monthly annual estimate of inflation had hit a 40 year high.

But the high information rates are not the only very high,  and very undesirable rate, of his administration:

  • In 2021, Biden took apart the existing and reliable long term FBI crime reporting system and replaced it with an optional system that allowed local law enforcement agencies to make their crime submission to the FBI optional.

  • This resulted in over 6,000 law enforcement agencies across the country opting out of reporting their crime statistics.

  • This is almost 30% of the total number of law enforcement agencies in the  country.

  • Thus, overnight, the rate of violent crime  officially decreased by about 30% simply because crimes were not being reported.

  • And some of the agencies that bailed out of reporting their crime were crime infested cities like New York City and  Los Angeles.

  • When the latest crime statistics were released it showed a decrease in violent crime by 2.1% and Biden claimed success in reducing violent crime.

  • But the FBI quietly admitted later that violent crime actually increased by 4.5%.

  • This increase was the result of an additional 1,699 murders, 80,029 violent crimes, 7,780 more rapes, 33.459 robberies, and  37,091 aggravated assaults that were eventually counted in the final estimate.

  • Thus, the Feds via the FBI and Biden administration tried to cover up well over 100,000 violent crimes that Americans had suffered.

  • With their credibility destroyed, it is  worthwhile looking at a  non-FBI and non-Biden crime reporting source.

  • The National Crime  Victimization  Survey is that source since it relies on reports from victims, not corrupted government sources.

  • Their analysis and reporting actually found that there was a whopping 55% increase in violent crime since Biden and Harris took office.

  • And while the real statistics show the steep increase in violent crime, there is also anecdotal evidence of how bad crime is rampaging.

  • For example, the city government in Chicago has not renewed a contract with a “gun-fire detection agency” because there were just too many guns being fired in the city.

  • There is now so much gunfire that Chicago police respond to gunfire only if someone is actually shot.

  • In New York City violent subway crime has gotten so bad that the governor had to deploy the National Guard to patrol the subway system.

More government corruption to  cover up the failure of the Biden administration to provide a very, very basic government service: protecting the lives and property of every American. Lies, deceit, and violence, a horrible legacy of a horrible Presidency.

4)Speaking of corruption, consider recent reporting by former CBS News correspondent, Catherine Herridge (note: I consider Ms. Herridge one of the few unbiased, thorough, and intelligent journalists left in the country and left in the journalism industry):

  • IRS whistle blowers have come out to accuse key government agencies such as the IRS, DOJ, and FBI of  being aware that Hunter Biden’s infamous laptop computer was the real  deal and not some type of Russia shenanigans.

  • The report goes on to suggest that Federal government officials avoided investigating the laptop to protect Biden’s run to the Presidency.

  • The whistleblowers allege that prosecutors instructed them to NOT pursue any lines of questioning that could  implicate Joe Biden in his son’s likely unlawful activities.

  • Their accusation is that the prosecutors and others wanted to protect the “Big Guy” which we now know is code for Joe Biden: “There were a lot of overt investigative steps that we were not allowed to take because we had an upcoming election.”

  • They explained that the Biden campaign’s influence over investigative protocols was evident throughout their work: “The prosecutors specifically told us that they didn’t want to ask about the big guy because they knew it was Joe Biden.”

  • Herridge reports that as government officials were telling Americans that the laptop was a Russian, they all knew that it was real  and if the reality of the laptop contents got made public Biden would suffer at the polls in the upcoming election.

  • Anthony Blinken,  Biden’s Secretary of State, allegedly played a big part in suppressing the laptop story and thus, got rewarded with a valuable Cabinet position.

More government corruption. Thankfully, some honest IRS whistleblowers have come forward to show that Biden probably would not have been installed as President if the Federal government had not covered up his son’s shady doings. 

Unfortunately, the government does not like whistle blowers and these IRS  whistle blowers have paid a heavy career toll: “The IRS has put a smothering blanket on me, hoping that I quit, that they find some way to terminate me or commit suicide or something.” It’s a shame since these folks proved that Washington in general, Biden crime family specifically, exists and will corrupt government agencies to help them grow their wealth and power.

Enough insanity for today: government corruption protects the Bidens, government corruption fakes the true crime statistics, more illegal immigrant violence in  Chicago, and a Maryland politician says no taxes for me.

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Thursday, June 29, 2023

Biden Crime Family Chronicles, Part 3 - Hunter Biden Uses His Dad As Leverage To Blackmail the Chinese

 Biden Crime Family Chronicles, Part 3: Apparently, political crime families are not hesitant to use the full force of the Federal government to extort money from foreigners. According to IRS whistle blower, Gary Shalley, Hunter Biden warned a Chinese business associate in a 2017 that his dad Joe and his political allies would “make certain … that you will regret not following my direction” while negotiating a six-figure business deal: “I am sitting here with my father and we would like to understand why the commitment made has not been fulfilled. Tell the director that I would like to resolve this now before it gets out of hand, and now means tonight. And, Z, if I get a call or text from anyone involved in this other than you, Zhang, or the chairman, I will make certain that between the man sitting next to me and every person he knows and my ability to forever hold a grudge that you will regret not following my direction. I am sitting here waiting for the call with my father,” An August 2020 search warrant revealed the exchange between Hunter and Zhao, which resulted in $100,000 payment to Hunter Biden’s company, Owasco P.C.


https://nypost.com/2023/06/22/hunter-biden-used-joe-as-leverage-in-china-biz-deal-text/?fbclid=IwAR1cxsjxH296qKHoTGTx5VfvpB18zo1QSGqCqTz661Uc0qaSBdrjErk09vM

Sunday, November 18, 2018

How The American Journalism Profession Is Destroying The First Amendment and Our Democracy, Part 3

One of the once great things about this country was the First Amendment and the freedom of press guaranteed by it. A free press helps offset the nefarious political ambitions and freedom encroachments of politicians by keeping their actions in the sunlight of visibility, disclosure, and scrutiny, i.e. it helps keeps politicians honest. 

Unfortunately, we for the most part do not have an unbiased, free press anymore in this country but not in the way you think. Most people, when they think that the free press has been suppressed, consider many of the actions of Presidents like Obama, who was one of the worst Presidents when it came to undermining the free press guarantee of the First Amendment:
  • He went after and prosecuted more whistleblowers than every other President combined.
  • He spied on journalists who he thought was an enemy of his views and efforts without proper cause or warrants.
  • His administration fought tooth and nail, more than any other President, to block legitimate and legal Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests.
  • His administration even tried to illegally charge a legitimate news gathering organization, the Associated Press, an outrageous sum of money for a FOIA request.
All of these acts undermined freedom of the press in the traditional way. But unfortunately, freedom of the press has been undermined over recent years not by politicians but by the press industry and journalists themselves. For the most part, and especially at the national level, news organizations have gone from reporting the facts, realities, and news in an unbiased way to shaping those facts, realities, and news in a very biased way. 

When journalists lose their integrity and ethics, the bedrock of their industry and profession, they undermine the First Amendment as much as some shady politician who is trying to get by with shady and unethical behavior. How far have journalists fallen down the integrity scale in Americans’ minds? In a recent Gallup poll:
  • Only 20% of those polled said they had a great deal or quite a lot of confidence in television news.
  • 45% said they had very little or no confidence in television news.
  • Newspapers do not do much better with 23% saying they had a great deal or quite a lot of confidence in newspapers while 40% saying they very little or no confidence in newspapers.
  • Ironically they both did better than Congress whose ratings were the most abysmal among all major American institutions.
Note: The first two discussions on this theme can be accessed at:



1) It is not just network news that has helped destroy the integrity and ethics of the mainstream press in this country. Consider a recent article from the Godfather Politics website by Warner Todd Huston:
  • The Houston Chronicle newspaper has a major scandal on its hands as it turns out that one of its long time reporters invented many of the sources behind his politics-related news stories.
  • The writer, Mike Ward, and his false sources have caused the paper to retract eight stories/articles of Ward’s and has had to correct 64 stories after finding that 275 quotes from his articles could not be verified as true.
  • Nancy Barnes, the paper’s executive editor issued the following mea culpa statement: “These are challenging times for our country, and for journalism. That makes it all the more important that readers trust that we will ferret out the truth, even if it concerns ourselves.”
  • Ward resigned from the paper in September as his falsehoods started to come to light.
  • An independent outside investigator went through 744 of Ward’s stories and found hundreds of shady and likely non-existent sources that Ward had cited.
Makes you wonder how many other false source stories are out there that have not been found, given the previous two discussions we have had regarding the lack of ethics and integrity within the journalism industry today.

2) One way that today’s journalists and the mainstream media insult the integrity of their industry is not falsehoods or biased stories they do report but real, important stories they do not report. The following website describes a series of important stories that should have been important news stories that were not widely reported by the biased mainstream media:


Two of those stories were as follows:

- For weeks at a time the mainstream media could not report enough about the Brett Kavanaugh Supreme Court nomination. It seemed that every day a new woman would come forward and accuse him of some sort of sexual perversion or attack. The mainstream media coverage was non-stop which was fine. It is an important position in the country so it should be covered. 

But what was unethical is what was not covered is the aftermath of the hearings. An extensive Congressional analysis of the women who accused him of sexual perversion was conducted and it was found that most, if not all, of the accusations were totally false and lies. The women had sworn under oath that what they said was true when it was not. As a result, they face investigation and possible prosecution for lying under oath to Congress, a serious crime. 

If the accusations were so important to the press, than the vindication of the man after the accusations were proven false should have also been important. But it was not, the mainstream press covered virtually none of the hundreds and hundreds of pages of proof of his innocence since it did not fit their biased narrative which was, as always, trying to stick it to Trump.

- Louis Farrakhan is a long time bigot and hatemonger. He has been a long time and virulent hater of anything Jewish, calling Jewish people unmentionable names for a very long time. He is also a big time hater of white people, having at one time called for 10,000 young black men to gather together in a plan to kill white people.

Certainly a hateful, dangerous human being. One would think that a politician would not want to be associated with such hatred. But that is not the case since pictures and video exist of politicians kissing up with and having a grand time with him. But you would not know about that since the mainstream press does not want you to know about it since it would tinge your respect and support of the media’s favorite politicians:

Obama hanging out with Farrakhan:


Farrakhan hanging out with Congressional members:


Just two instances where the mainstream press decided to protect its favorite politicians at the expense of the truth.

And he should also have been in the news recently for his latest antics but alas, the mainstream press was absent on this also. Farrakhan recently visited Iran which in itself should have been a news story. As one knows, Iran is probably the number one terror exporting country in the world. Anyone associated with it should be considered a potential source of terror.

In his recent visit to Iran, Farrakhan sat down with Iran’s leadership and supported those protesting the U.S. and Israel by shouting, “Death To America” and “Death To Israel.” Certainly troubling and possibly traitorous actions, But none of his antics were reported by the mainstream press:


The journalists in this country have been entrusted with a very important component of our democracy and sadly, they flub that responsibility just about every day of their working lives.


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www.loathemygovernment.com

It is also available online at Amazon and Barnes and Noble. Please pass our message of freedom onward. Let your friends and family know about our websites and blogs, ask your library to carry the book, and respect freedom for both yourselves and others everyday.

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http://www.bankruptingamerica.org

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08j0sYUOb5w





Tuesday, November 13, 2018

How The American Journalism Profession Is Destroying The First Amendment and Our Democracy

One of the once great things about this country was the First Amendment and the freedom of press guaranteed by it. A free press helps offset the political ambitions and freedom encroachments of politicians by keeping their actions in the sunlight of visibility, disclosure, and scrutiny, i.e. it helps keeps politicians honest.

Unfortunately, we for the most part do not have an unbiased, free press anymore in this country but not in the way you think. Most people, when they think that the free press has been suppressed, consider many of the actions of Presidents like Obama, who was one of the worst Presidents when it came to undermining the free press guarantee of the First Amendment:
  • He went after and prosecuted more whistle blowers than every other President combined.
  • He spied on journalists who he thought was an enemy of his views and efforts without proper cause or warrants.
  • His administration fought tooth and nail, more than any other President, to block legitimate and legal Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests.
  • His administration even tried to illegally charge a legitimate news gathering organization, the Associated Press, an outrageous sum of money for a FOIA request.
All of these acts undermined freedom of the press in the traditional way. But unfortunately, freedom of the press has been undermined over recent years not by politicians but by the press industry and journalists themselves. For the most part, and especially at the national level, news organizations have gone from reporting the facts, realities, and news in an unbiased way to shaping those facts, realities, and news in a very biased way. 

When journalists lose their integrity and ethics, the bedrock of their industry and profession, they undermine the First Amendment as much as some shady politician who is trying to get by with shady and unethical behavior. How far have journalists fallen down the integrity scale in Americans’ minds? In a recent Gallup poll:
  • Only 20% of those polled said they had a great deal or quite a lot of confidence in television news.
  • 45% said they had very little or no confidence in television news.
  • Newspapers do not do much better with 23% saying they had a great deal or quite a lot of confidence in newspapers while 40% saying they very little or no confidence in newspapers.
  • Ironically they both did better than Congress whose ratings were most abysmal among all major American institutions.
Consider the following election related stories on how journalists have “earned” these sorry reputations for trust and integrity:
  • Erick Erickson, writing for the Maven website documented the following instances during the election season where journalists got the story mostly wrong, either intentionally or unintentionally, in his article, “Where Do We Go When Journalism Fails Us?”
  • His first example involves the state of Georgia where former Georgia Secretary of State and Republican, Brian Kemp, probably won the race for Governor in that state.
  • National reporters and journalists reported that Kemp tried to close predominantly African American voting locations which forced black voters to travel far distances by driving or walking to voting locations in mostly white neighborhoods which in turn discouraged black voters.
  • Nice story but wrong since it was not Republican Kemp closing these voting locations but it was the Democratic county commissioners and the Democrat controlled local board of elections that closed those locations.
  • They/local Democrats had hired a consultant who recommended closing some voting locations to be in line with the Americans With Disabilities Act requirements.
  • In addition, the locations that were closed were ALL in mostly Republican precincts, not Democratic and black precincts.
  • As you can see, the national press got just about every detail of this story wrong.
  • The Associated Press told the story of a woman in Georgia who was supposedly denied the right to register to vote because, as required by state law, the name she put down on her voter registration form did not exactly match the information on her driver’s license, it was missing a hyphen, and thus, her voter registration application was denied.
  • The AP then went with this story nationwide.
  • But the truth is that she was not allowed to register because she was ALREADY registered to vote. 
  • Despite the screw up, the Associated Press never retracted or amended this incorrect article.
  • The Associated Press also reported that 53,000 Georgia voters had their voter registration paperwork held up and classified as “pending voter” and that the majority of those tied up were from minority voters.
  • This made it look like there was a massive minority voter suppression effort underway.
  • In reality, 75% of those on the pending list had submitted registrations with bogus Social Security numbers.
  • And 23% had been on the voter registration list from 2014 and had had their names re-submitted by the the voter registration efforts of the black Democratic candidate running for governor.
  • Thus, at least 98% of those 53,000 on the pending list did not have their voting rights suppressed, they either were duplicates or had submitted bad information themselves. realities that the Associated Press never mentioned.
  • The national press also ran stories that accused Republican Kemp, as Georgia’s Secretary of State, of kicking minority voters off of voting registration lists to improve his chances of becoming governor.
  • But the reality is that he was prohibited under state law from doing an such thing, the voting registration lists are maintained by local voting officials, they are the only ones allowed to remove people from voting lists because of death, felony conviction, or deemed incompetent.
The article correctly points out why the national media in these cases were more interested in building ratings and readership than reporting the truth and they themselves abused the freedom of the press trust that they should have protected with integrity and ethics: “Local media in Georgia got these stories right while national outlets flubbed them. They distorted the facts and got basic facts wrong. The national reporters wanted to build narrative arches with protagonists and villains instead of just giving people the facts. As local news outlets rely more and more on national reporters or fade away, more stories like these will be reported and even more people will distrust the press.”

2) But it is not just bad, biased reporting of election stories that made the press look bad, their polling results also bring into doubt their integrity. Remember back in the 2016 Presidential election how almost every media poll showed Hillary winning the election? 

One reason they may have all been so wrong is that maybe, like CNN did, they purposely over weighted their polling sample with Democrats/liberals which skewed the results to Clinton. The one conclusion that many people drew, given the bad confidence levels of the press in Americans’ minds, is that CNN wanted to shape the election and make it look like a Clinton victory was a done deal. That in turn would depress and suppress Trump voters and possibly add a bandwagon effect for Clinton, i.e. if CNN says she will win I might as well vote for a winner.

Could this same intentional skewing of poll results, in an effort to affect elections, also happened in the recent midterm elections, as pointed out by an article by Dick Morris:
  • In 40% of the pre-election polls in the most closely watched Senate and governor races, the polls picked the wrong winner.
  • In other words, you could have done almost as good a job on average by flipping a coin in picking winners, 50%, than the major news and polling organizations did with their much more sophisticated efforts.
  • And even when the polls picked the right winner, in 60% of the time they were more than three points wrong in the number of votes the winner got despite their polling methods.
  • The results would be less suspicious if the wrong predictions were more or less equal between Democrats and Republicans. 
  • But these results were also skewed in that 75% of the major polls indicated that Democrats were doing better than what really happened while only 25% doing better than finally happened, a more than random difference.
  • According to Morris: “Of the nine major polling firms, eight showed Democrats doing better than they actually did and only one — Trafalgar — showed Republicans doing better than it turned out.”
  • The NBC/Marist poll was the worst polling effort, overestimating Democratic vote totals by 6.8%.
Given that the press constantly favors Democrats and liberals in their biased reporting and given that the press and their polling partners constantly overestimate the chances of Democrats and liberals in elections prior to voting, it should not be a surprise that Americans who cherish the First Amendment and the freedom of the press guarantee that it provides have a very low and dubious view of the integrity and confidence that the journalism profession has today. The journalists in this country have been entrusted with a very important component of our democracy and sadly, they flub that responsibility every day of their working lives.

Our book, "Love My Country, Loathe My Government - Fifty First Steps To Restoring Our Freedom And Destroying The American Political Class" is now available at:


www.loathemygovernment.com

It is also available online at Amazon and Barnes and Noble. Please pass our message of freedom onward. Let your friends and family know about our websites and blogs, ask your library to carry the book, and respect freedom for both yourselves and others everyday.

Please visit the following sites for freedom:


http://www.reason.com
http://www.cato.org
http://www.bankruptingamerica.org

http://www.conventionofstates.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08j0sYUOb5w