Politics

Biden Taking Bribes from CCP and Ukraine

Paul Collier June 27, 2023

New evidence has emerged that shows Hunter Biden shook down a Chinese Communist Party member with his father (Joe Biden) present over the member’s failure to pay the Bidens for the work Joe was doing selling out America to Chinese interests for cash. Also, an FBI document has exposed the existence of 17 recordings between the Bidens (Hunter and Joe) and a Ukrainian business man pressuring him to pay $10 million for Joe’s services to favor his company, Burisma.

Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) is alleging he has seen and possesses the documents that show the mass mailer President, Joe Biden, took money from foreign powers in exchange for favorable U.S. policy. A Ukrainian energy company, Burisma, allegedly possesses 17 recordings that expose Biden’s graft. These recordings were referenced in an FBI document called an FD-1023 confidential human resource report, meaning the FBI is aware of this evidence and has been for some time. The recordings include 15 recordings between Hunter Biden and Burisma founder Mykola Zlochevsky and 2 between then-Vice-President Biden and Zlochevsky.

This follows a text message from Hunter Biden that reveals he threatened a Chinese Communist Party member for failure to make payment to the family for Joe’s selling-out of American interests in which he made it clear his father (Joe Biden) was with him when he made the text. This was followed by a $5 million payment into a Biden shell account just five days later from CCP-affiliated businesses.

The text read, “I am sitting here with my father and we would like to understand why the commitment made has not been fulfilled. I am very concerned that the Chairman has either changed his mind and broken our deal without telling me or that he is unaware of the promises and assurances that have been made that have not been kept.”

Presidential Candidate Francis Suarez, the Ray of Sunlight in the 2024 Presidential Race

Freedomist Editor June 26, 2023

By Ralph Benko

Francis Suarez has shown the temerity of throwing a ray of sunlight into the gloom and doom of American presidential politics. Hey!

Works for this happy warrior conservative!

If another demographic can claim the rainbow, maybe I can claim a sunbeam as the motif for a Conservative flag. Here goes….

I, for one, and assuredly another 39,999 other conservatives and sunny populists are ready to donate a dollar (or more) to ensure that Mayor Suarez qualifies to bring a ray of sunshine into the Mordor-like Republican presidential primary.

It’s been a very long time, so… Big Reveal! This is what a ray of political sunshine looks like:

Suarez: “In America, our struggles don’t define us. Our dreams do.” And, as he said of my old boss, President Reagan “didn’t define himself by what he was against but by what he was for.”

Mayor (and former president of the US Conference of Mayors) Francis Suarez for President? Absolutely. Here is why.

I believe that we voters are a LOT smarter than most politicians give us credit for. And we voters want three things above all, personally and nationally: security, equitable prosperity, and dignity. All the rest is mostly sound and fury.

Mayor Suarez, a self-described Reagan Republican, most appropriately launched his campaign as the final speaker of the Reagan Library’s series, A Time for Choosing. The series was named in homage to the Reagan convention speech that launched Reagan to national political stardom and, then, the presidency.

Reagan, introducing GOP presidential nominee Barry Goldwater, therein observed:

“Not too long ago, two friends of mine were talking to a Cuban refugee, a businessman who had escaped from Castro, and in the midst of his story one of my friends turned to the other and said, “We don’t know how lucky we are.” And the Cuban stopped and said, “How lucky you are? I had someplace to escape to.” And in that sentence he told us the entire story. If we lose freedom here, there’s no place to escape to. This is the last stand on earth.”

Francis Suarez’s parents had been among those who escaped from Castro to the sweet land of liberty, the United States of America. What makes America so special?

Three things.

Mayor Suarez, uniquely, runs the trifecta on all three of the purposes declared in America’s mission statement, the Declaration of Independence. Other aspirants pay tribute to one or two.

Only Suarez bats three for three

What are America’s defining qualities? That we are endowed by our Creator with certain unalienable rights. Among these rights are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

At 20 minutes into his big Reagan Library announcement speech, Suarez invokes the fundamental American right to “the pursuit of happiness,” a right buttressed by the personal security he built with a well-funded police force driving crime down to historic lows while crime was getting worse in most other major cities.

Happiness, he noted, also is founded on the kind of equitable prosperity Suarez built. How? By robust tax cutting and by luring cutting edge tech companies to Miami.

Happiness is a theme Suarez, unlike the other, doom and gloom, candidates, glories in. He declares:

“Our Declaration of Independence clearly invokes the mission of every American government, securing life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. My governing philosophy has been built on advancing happiness for all of my residents by protecting their life and expanding their liberties. This has led to Miami being ranked, you guessed it, as the happiest city in America.”

Pretty much all Republican hopefuls embrace, at least rhetorically, the rights to life and liberty. And there are opulently funded advocacy groups dedicated to the right to life and many devoted to the right to liberty.

Meanwhile, the pursuit of happiness was an orphan. Until Suarez showed up.

Suarez apparently stands as the lone champion on America’s third unalienable right, to the pursuit of happiness. Among a field of candidates mostly defined by puritanism, which H.L. Mencken famously defined as “the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy,” Suarez stands out as the singular happiness champion.

In his presidential announcement speech Suarez invokes the Declaration’s commitment to the right to the pursuit of happiness. Repeatedly.

Suarez, thus, persuades me that he is the true heir to Reagan. And hey, I am a red-pilled conservative, called by a Washington Post (humor) columnist the second most conservative man in the world (for my gold standard advocacy).

How right wing am I? A member of the Conservative Action Project, considered the assembly of the top 100 conservative movement leaders in America. One of the dozen or so early supply-siders at the core of stabilizing the dollar and cutting marginal tax rates, propelling American equitable prosperity from real per capita GDP of $30,000 to $60,000 (by some measures much greater) and pushing the Dow from 814 to 34,000+.

I’m a former Reagan White House deputy general counsel. A veteran Cold Warrior. I was a prominent Tea Party leader, co-emcee of the 2009 Boston Tea Party rally.

I am the co-author of The Capitalist Manifesto and co-founder and chairman of the 200,000 follower Capitalist League. Just last Saturday I triggered a minor melee in Phoenix visiting an assembly of Ultra MAGAs by calling them out as CINOs (Conservatives In Name Only) for failing to embrace our willing conservative recruits from the hard core anticommunist Latin America refugees now seeking freedom in the US. Just as did Suarez’s ancestors, embraced by Reagan!

Meanwhile, Suarez’s real life achievements for Miami’s security, prosperity and dignity — with the advancement of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness — enhanced his ability to produce other social goods, such as reducing homelessness.

As we know all too well, homelessness is a social malady exploding in blue-hued cities across America. Meanwhile, bright red Miami, after eliminating homelessness among veterans, reduced its overall homelessness by almost 90%. Under Suarez!

Moreover, Suarez is committed to restoring mental health services, the real cure for homelessness. And he is committed to make Miami the most city most resilient to challenges posed by climate change.

Miami-style prosperity and the free-market policies that brought it about are consistent with social consciousness. Indeed, such prosperity, rooted in personal security and expanded liberties, is key to addressing social and climate morbidities.

There are a dozen Republican presidential aspirants who are more interested in criticizing and attacking society’s obnoxious and pernicious elements (e.g., “progressives”). Suarez alone consistently honors the wise counsel, “Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.”

Management guru and proto-supply-sider Peter Drucker wrote in his 1967 breakthrough classic The Effective Executive (p.98, emphasis original), that “In every area of effectiveness within an organization, one feeds the opportunities and starves the problem.”

Feed the opportunities.

Starve the problems.

And as I wrote at Forbes, long ago, “The same insight can bring about explosive growth for a presidential candidate. For a party. For America. Forty-five years later, however, Washington still hasn’t gotten the memo. None of the candidates (nor any member of the Congressional leadership) are showing how they will feed the opportunities and starve the problem.”

None… until Francis Suarez.

Do you view politics as the apogee of post-Marxist philosopher Guy Debord’s The Society of the Spectacle? Or as, to paraphrase Clausewitz, professional wrestling with the addition of other means, as a performance which, as I wrote at Newsmax two years ago,

“affects showy costumes and over-the-top behavior and showcases matches pitting a villain (called a ‘heel‘) against a good guy (called a ‘face‘ or ‘baby face‘) in an epic confrontation of good and evil. The matches are (spoiler alert) scripted, and although fans of professional wrestling are aware of their predetermination, they, nevertheless, enjoy the melodrama and pantomime that unfolds in and outside of the ring between wrestlers. In the 1980s, wrestlers began using the code word kayfabe in reference to the staged performance presented as authentic as well as to the act of maintaining the fiction by staying in character.

…

“A drastic cultural shift has transformed (some say deformed) the world socially and politically. Guy Debord captured this, in 1967, in The Society of the Spectacle.

“Debord’s insight, anticipating Trump, is summed up very well by Noel Yaxley in an article at The Article: “In his theory of the spectacle, Debord sees society slowly being divorced from reality, culturally denuded and subjected to false needs. … The individual is reduced to a consumption pattern, set by a corporate narrative. Citizens enter into a life that is nothing but a mere passive relationship with the social world. Consumer society, with its vast proliferation of goods and culture, offers up to the populace an illusory image (spectacle) of happiness and unity. …”

“That lays out the essence of the cultural and political revolution now consuming us. After the Trump presidency we reach a fork in the political road. Donald Trump has established, or at least is clinging to, a kind of new political cultural hegemony. (H/t, Antonio Gramsci.) Now what?

“The regulars next will figure out and follow the ‘spectacular’ rules of engagement, learning how to stage a more melodramatic, thus more voter-satisfying, spectacle than Donald Trump’s.”

Hey! If spectacle is what you, dear reader, seek from American politics, have at it! You have a dozen “heels” and “baby face” GOP aspirants to choose from.

However, if you, like me, consider politics the hinge of history upon which our lives, our liberty, and our pursuit of happiness depends, we now have a declared champion of advancing all three values that made, and again can make, America great:

Life.

Liberty.

The pursuit of happiness.

Crave a ray of sunlight in the gloom and doom of American presidential politics?

Meet Francis Suarez.

AN UNHINGED REVOLUTION – Russia On The Brink Of Civil War

Michael Cessna June 24, 2023

SUMMARY – On June 23, Yevgeny Prigozhin, a petty criminal-turned-hot dog vendor-turned-restaurateur-turned mercenary warlord led his mercenary army, the infamous “Wagner Group”, in what he describes as a “March of Justice” against the Russian Defense Ministry, accusing that governmental body of launching deliberate attacks on his troops in order to destroy his army. As of the dawn of June 24, Prigozhin’s forces have captured the major city and vital command and logistics hub of Rostov-On-Don, securing the city center, as well as the main regional military headquarters. Russian leader Vladimir Putin has vowed to crush the Wagner mutiny in a public address on the morning of June 24. These actions have dire implications for the world. This is a developing situation.

The Current Situation – The Wagner PMC has been the core of Russia’s recent battles in Ukraine, acting as elite shock troops in brutal battles throughout the region, particularly in Bakhmut, at the end of May. The mercenary army has been in action around the world, primarily in Africa (in Chad, Libya and Sudan) and the Middle East, earning a reputation for combat effectiveness, corruption and brutality.

Over the last few months, however, the 62-year old Prigozhin has been increasingly seen as unstable, making increasingly angry and bizarre claims that the Russian Ministry of Defence has been deliberately attacking his forces, claims that the Ministry has vehemently denied. It is these attacks that appear to be the linchpin behind the crisis.

The “Long March” Begins – On June 23^rd, Wagner troops variously either left their positions to follow Prigozhin in his march to Rostov-On-Don, or turned and fired on regular Russian Army troops. This has completely disrupted Russian operations in Ukraine. Additionally, Western intelligence services have been caught flat-footed, not remotely suspecting Prigozhin’s actions, indicating that Prigozhin may not have been suborned.

As of the morning of June 24^th, Wagner forces have been reported in the city of Voronezh, an approximate 6-hour drive from Moscow. In Moscow itself, loyalist troops and armored vehicles have been deployed into the city itself to protect the Kremlin and various areas where the oligarchs supporting the Putin regime live. There are also reports of scattered fighting and other potential mutinies at various bases around Moscow.

The danger, and the reason this action by Prigozhin is so dangerous, is that the vast bulk of Russia’s regular army is physically inside Ukraine at this time, meaning that there are very few forces between Prigozhin and Moscow who are either willing or capable of standing up to Wagner’s battle-hardened troops in any kind of fight.

Predictive Analysis

The Bad…Good and Ugly Being Irrelevant – Information on the situation remains highly fluid and uncertain, but some analysis is possible.

To begin, Prigozhin’s actions are frankly bizarre. “Friendly Fire” incidents happen in war, often frequently. Even in extreme cases, these kinds of incidents are no reason for a mutiny that can only be seen as not simply irrelevant, but highly damaging to an active war effort.

What is currently unknown – and is a decisive factor – is whether or not the flow of supplies through Rostov-On-Don has been disrupted or not.

This leads to three possibilities, none of them good:

Prigozhin may have been “turned”, or “suborned”, by a foreign intelligence agency to strike out against Putin’s government. It is hard to understand why Prigozhin would agree to do such a thing, as he owes everything good that has happened in his life in the last thirty-odd years to Vladimir Putin, personally. And, while not having any real, professional military training, Prigozhin must certainly understand the impact his actions will have on the Russian war effort against Ukraine. The fact that Ukraine itself does not seem to be taking advantage of this disruption immediately, would tend to indicate that they had no knowledge of Prigozhin’s actions beforehand. This is backed up by anonymous sources within the Western intelligence communities, who have confirmed that no one knew or suspected the mercenary chief’s actions until he struck out on his suicide charge.

Conversely, swinging into pure speculation-mode, Prigozhin may be tilting at this particular windmill at the direct order of Putin, himself, in an old-school-Hollywood bit of skullduggery, taking a radical action that would allow Putin to declare martial law, and make a clean sweep of the Russian oligarchs (most of whom, like Putin, are former KGB officers) standing in his way from a return to Stalinist-style policies of control, effectively creating a kind of “Soviet Union, 2.0”, with Putin as absolute and unchallenged ruler. In this scenario, Prigozhin could be “tried for treason” and “sentenced to prison”, and then retired to a nice country home in Siberia, far away from cameras and reporters. While certainly requiring some extensive mental gymnastics, this is not outside the realm of possibility.

Lastly, there is the most frightening possibility: That Prigozhin has actually become unhinged, and truly believes that his actions of the last forty-eight hours are perfectly justified. If this is the case, all bets are off, because Putin has been facing a quietly increasing rise of resistance from the oligarchs he relies on to retain power. This could lead to an all-out Civil War in Russia, a nuclear-armed superpower with a nuclear arsenal comparable to that of the United States, with the potential for unauthorized uses of nuclear weapons. Peripheral to this, is the possibility that, should Ukraine “steal a march” on Russia, and make a sudden spate of critical gains, the Russian military command could panic, and use tactical nuclear weapons to attack Ukraine’s Main Supply Routes (MSR’s) to hold their advance amid the confusion. Such an action would cause a panic in both the European Union and in NATO…and no one knows what will happen after that.

Conclusion – Yevgeny Prigozhin’s actions are unprecedented in the modern day. Nothing like this has been seen on so critical a geopolitical scale since the Russian Revolution of 1917. While pithy remarks about Machiavelli being right on mercenaries might be true, they are also largely irrelevant to the current situation.

By his actions, whatever their rationale might be, Yevgeny Prigozhin and his mercenary army have placed the world in significant danger of all-out war, on a scale never before seen.

The FreedomistMIA is keeping a close watch on this situation at press time, and will update this story for our readers as the situation develops.

*The Freedomist — Keeping Watch, So You Don’t Have To*

Did DOJ Indict Trump to Bury Biden Bribary Scandal?

Paul Collier June 14, 2023

The recent indictment of President Donald J Trump for allegedly mishandling top secret documents and obstruction of Justice continues to have ramifications that are further dividing our nation between those who support the Democratic Party and those who support the American constitutional Republic.

The move is being called by some another crossing of the Rubicon moment that sets a precedent for the erosion of Rule of Law the DNC seems hellbent to destroy anyway. It is yet another naked defiance of American Rule of Standards that is leading more and more Americans to discover who they are as Americans versus who the Democratic Party and its anti-American supporters are.

The indictment of President Trump at a Florida Federal Court House occurred on the same day the DNC-FBI Director Christopher Wray finally coughed up documents that allegedly prove the mass Mailer President, Joe Biden, was selling U.S. interests to foreigners, including the CCP, building a multimillion dollar family Empire.

One representative who viewed the documents, Representative Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) said, “It’s very likely this president is going to be impeached, and by that I mean Joe Biden.” Representative Lauren Boebert (D-CO), who also read the document, said, “this document memorialized the testimony of a trustworthy whistleblower who worked for the FBI for over a decade.”

The charges against Trump are ones that, technically, could be applied to numerous former political leaders, including Joe Biden and Barack Obama. These facts are what leads common-sense Americans to conclude what we have here is a lawfare tactic by the DNC to protect their puppet while they assault their perceived main threat to power, Donald J. Trump

GOP Accepts DNC-CCP Mass Mailer Election Standards

Paul Collier June 9, 2023

If you can’t beat them, join them, says the GOP leadership, who now appear to embrace the anti-democratic election tactics of the seditionist left, allowing for voter-ID-less early voting sometimes a month in advance of the actual election, and, more damaging, allowing for the continuation and normalization of mass-mailer voting. The Uniparty “myth” appears less myth and more reality with the embracing of election policies that render our election process unaccountable, empowering the ballot counters to determine elections as opposed tom the voters.

One DNC-CCP media outlet, WHYY, adds this commentary in what is ostensibly supposed to be an objective news report, “It marks a notable shift from the party’s rhetoric since 2020, when then-President Donald Trump was routinely sowing doubt about mail voting and encouraging his voters to wait and vote in-person on Election Day. As recently as last year, Republican activists peddling the stolen election narrative were telling GOP voters who received mail ballots to hold onto them and turn them in at their polling place on Election Day rather than use mail or drop boxes.”

The expression of sedition was made anonymous, as the article is credited to “Associated Press,” which makes the agit prop expression all the more nefarious in nature. It might as well have been written by the Chinese Communist Party itself. We all understand explicitly, implicitly, and plainly, that mass mailings have no place in a Democratic Republic’s election process if the election is to be transparent and accountable.

To even hint that such an obvious fact is conspiracy is plain evidence that the intention of those carrying such anti-American narratives meant to overthrow the Republic and replace it with an oligarchy or dictatorship no longer accountable to the people, no longer restrained by the rights of individuals that trump the right of the state to make man in its perverse, anti-human image.

WHYY is a PBS affiliate, which means it is sponsored in part by your tax dollars to systematically seek to undermine the republic.

The fact that the GOP is now embracing mass mailer elections should tell you everything you need to know about the GOP being a feckless vehicle of power to oppose the seditionist Democratic party with.

DNC Debt Ceiling Bill Passes House Thanks to RINOS in GOP

Paul Collier June 1, 2023

The “compromise” bill that gave the Democrats just about everything they wanted in exchange for removing all limits on the U.S. going deeper into debt passed the U.S. House 314-117, with more Democrats voting for the pro-DNC bill than Republicans, meaning the Speaker of the House allowed a Republican-controlled House to deliver more DNC-enabling policies aimed at destroying the Republic, which is anathema to the DNC ideology of Woke Hate and Fear.

The action by the RINO Speaker has exposed his earlier defiant rhetoric against the DNC as mere fake wrestling fodder intended to placate resistance while not actually empowering or enabling it. The Freedom Caucus is standing in defiance against this violation of their agreement to support the seditious Speaker, who’s allegiance with the DNC over the American Republic is now no longer in doubt.

Showing either his tone-deafness or his willingness to openly lie to the American people, whom he is now sworn to betray, he stated, “I have been thinking about this day, before my [election as] speaker, because I knew the debt ceiling was coming. I wanted to make history. It wasn’t an easy fight. I had people on both sides upset” McCarthy said. “But I think we did pretty dang good for the American people.”

President Biden echoed the lies told by McCarthy, feigning for the cameras that the GOP in part got what it wanted. He said, “Neither side got everything it wanted,” which is an absolute lie. The DNC-RINO party, the party of pedophilia and sedition, got everything it wanted and more, including the lifting of all caps on borrowing until January, 2025, right before the next President takes office or Biden resumes his mass mailer Presidency.

165 Democrats voted for the bill, while 149 RINOS who hate America voted for it, meaning the bill passed with mostly Democrat support, a bill McCarthy lauds as “historic,” which it is for those who seek to destroy the Republic and replace it with a DNC Soviet Authoritarian Police State, something McCarthy has now made clear through his treasonous action he now openly supports.

The Republican Party is the party of token opposition with only 71 Americans representing the party in the U.S. House while 149 Republicans made it clear they support sedition over the Republic.

If the Republicans were truly opposed to the party of pedophilia and sedition, the bill would never have passed. It is very clear there is no major party in America willing to represent the Republic and the American people, those who recognize the sacredness of the individual over the new social man this party and its de facto ally, the DNC support.

New Polls Favor Trump Over DeSantis, Biden

Freedomist Editor June 1, 2023

Two new polls have revealed the announcement by Ron DeSantis that he is running for President produced no bump, with DeSantis still behind by 34 points in the Republican Primary. In addition to that, another poll has revealed that Trump does better against Biden and Harris than DeSantis does.

The Harvard Harris poll shows that Trump is not only soundly beating DeSantis in the primary, but he is beating both Biden and Kamala Harris, while DeSantis is only even with both.

The Morning Consult poll showed Trump beating DeSantis 56 to 22 percent, which is not much of a change from the month before DeSantis’ announcement, where Trump led 57 to 21 percent, meaning DeSantis saw, at most, a 2 percent close on the Trump lead since he made his announcement he intends to run for President.

Rumors of…Something

Michael Cessna May 30, 2023

On May 21 of 2023, CBS news released a story concerning the Senate Sergeant at Arms, retired US Army LtGen Karen Gibson, offering satellite telephones (pdf link) to the 100 members of the United States Senate, as an “enhanced security measure.” The wording in the wider reporting on this occurrence is odd, with at least one outlet opining that the ‘offer’ of the devices “…has been extended to all 100 senators…”.

*Karen Gibson, Sergeant At Arms of the United States Senate. Official photograph. Source: US Senate. Public Domain.*

Odd…So – Not all Senators were offered the phones initially? Why? It’s not like the Houses of Congress have ever been shy with budgetary items for themselves.

Moving on.

While the public reason for issuing Senators with these devices is to “enhance security” in the wake of threats to members of Congress – citing the January 6, 2021 protests and the recent attack on the husband of former house Speaker Nancy Pelosi – the deeper picture is not so straightforward.

“Continuity of Government Operations” (or “COGOPS”) are operations, protective measures and security procedures designed to maintain government functions in the face of some catastrophic event. An artifact of the Cold War, the idea behind ‘continuity of government’ came from the very real threat that a Soviet surprise nuclear strike could destroy the entirety of the United States’ elected leadership in a single, Pearl Harbor-like strike. Numerous measures and programs were instituted (the Congressional bunker at the Greenbrier resort in West Virginia among them), and one of the many was a monitoring system that can and does track the locations of all members of Congress.

The problem with a cell phone-based tracking system is that, in the event of major damage being done to the cell tower network in a region (by whatever mechanism), your personal cell phone will not be able to connect to the network. While the cell phone identification numbers of the members of the “National Command Authority” (the President, Vice President and the President’s Cabinet), the Supreme Court and both Houses of Congress all have priority access to the nation’s cellular telephone network in case of a “disruptive event,” that priority access is worthless if there is no network to connect to.

In contrast, a satellite phone network works by connecting a phone directly to the satellite communications network. This network is largely immune – at least in theory – from being significantly damaged by most conceivable “disruptive events.” It also allows a much cleaner and clearer signal when trying to locate a particular person.

The notion that members of Congress require satellite phones for their personal and family security is, to be blunt, laughable to the point of being offensive.

There are very few things could potentially impact the cell grid to the point of requiring satellite phones as a substitute emergency communications device. We’ll briefly look at a few of those possibilities below.

The preeminent threat of this type, as of mid-2023, is a large scale nuclear attack on the United States, an idea that would have been unheard of barely ten years ago. This would obviously have a vast and destructive impact on the nation as a whole, but would particularly impact the telephone system. The primary vectors of a nuclear-induced incident would include electromagnetic pulses (EMP) critically damaging unprotected and unhardened points within the network across a wide area.

But there are other possibilities, many of which may seem to approach a level of hysterical hyperbole.

The notion of a “supervolcano” such as Yellowstone, erupting is a certainly extremely remote as a possibility…but not an impossible one. Similarly, a smaller volcanic eruption at – for example – the Cumbre Vieja volcano on the island of La Palma in the Canary Islands, has the potential (YouTube link) to generate a tsunami that would make the tsunamis in the Indian Ocean in 2004 (YouTube link) or the 2011 event at Fukushima, Japan (YouTube link) look tiny in comparison.

An even more remote – but still very real – potential avenue of disruption would be a cometary or meteoric impact. The Earth is being continually bombarded by meteors; they can be seen as “shooting stars” in the night sky. The vast majority of these objects never actually reach the Earth’s surface, burning away to vapor long before coming close to the surface…some, like the 1908 Tunguska Event, are another matter entirely.

However, an event such as the Burckle Impact Event – which occurred, in geological and astronomical terms, only yesterday – or a smaller-scale version of the 1994 impact of Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 into Jupiter (just on a smaller, Earth-sized scale) would obviously damage the systems of the world to the extent that the survivors may well be reduced to barbarism…but that is not an option that any government – and especially that of the United States – is willing to entertain. And mitigating that fall – no matter how remote a possibility the causative event may be – requires some level of a functioning government, which as always, is rooted in those placed in authority.

*Meteor impact; artist concept. Credit: Don Davis, 1991, NASA.*

It is perfectly acceptable to detest those in government – especially when they deserve it – but it also must be acknowledged that any civilization above the most basic level requires some form of leadership in order to function. What you, the Reader, should be doing, is figuring out your own strategy to get through what may well be coming.

…Because governments rarely update their COGOPS in public.

Durham Report Confirms Obama, Biden, Clinton Behind Weaponization of FISA Court to Target Trump

Paul Collier May 19, 2023

The fake news report that former President Donald J Trump was colluding with the Russians to win the 2016 election was once again exposed, this time by the Durham Report, which admits that the top leadership of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) colluded with the FBI and Justice Department to attempt to take out their political opponent, Trump. Everyone, from Obama to Biden to Hillary Clinton (who funded the initial bogus investigation that created the damnable lie that is the Steele Dossier, which was used to justify this lawfare assault on American liberty) knew the evidence was fraudulent, but pushed forward with their investigation afterwards.

The crime continued after Trump won the election, with DNC operatives from Pelosi to Schumer using U.S. House and Senate power to attempt to remove a sitting President from office using the well-known fake “facts” that they used to justify impeaching Trump not once but twice. The Durham report admits that a coup took place, one orchestrated by the seditious DNC, but fails to recommend criminal charges.

Pakistan In Crisis – A Sudden Upset

Michael Cessna May 12, 2023

“…While economics is a gun, politics is knowing when to pull the trigger…” – Caspian Report

In April of 2022, Imran Khan – the highly popular, 70-year old former international cricket player who had risen to the leadership of Pakistan, a state with one of the largest Muslim populations in the world, on a broadly “Populist” style platform – was removed from office as Prime Minister by a no-confidence vote, the first time such an action had happened in Pakistan’s history.

The no-confidence vote that led to Khan’s removal, on its own, had shady origins, and potential foreign interference. On March 27, 2022, following the first attempt at a no-confidence vote in Parliament had been dismissed, Khan pointedly accused the Biden Administration of interference in Pakistan’s internal affairs, in an affair now known as “Lettergate”, in which Khan stated publicly that he had received a letter via a diplomatic cable from Pakistan’s embassy in the United States, that he claimed threatened “horrific consequences” for Pakistan, if Khan was not removed as Prime Minister; Khan’s government reacted to the cable with a strongly-worded demarche. Khan was blocked from releasing the actual details of the cable in question by Pakistan’s Official Secrets Act of 1923, but stated that he was prepared to show the diplomatic cable to the Chief Justice of Pakistan.

The possible reasons for such interference in Pakistani affairs are not difficult to understand. When Khan became Prime Minister in 2018, he immediately launched a vigorous campaign to start tackling the serious economic issues (YouTube link) Pakistan faced, cutting military spending, forging a realistic payment plan to address the country’s balance of payments to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), committing the country to a renewable energy strategy, and then had to navigate the economic disaster brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic.

At the same time, however, Khan angered the Biden Administration by steadfastly refusing to distance himself from Russian leader Vladimir Putin, even visiting the Russian Leader in Moscow the day Russia formally invaded Ukraine.

*Vladimir Putin (R) with Prime Minister of Pakistan Imran Khan (L), 24 February, 2022. Photo credit: www.kremlin.ru, CCA/4.0.*

But Khan did not stop there.

After attempting to smooth relations with India, Khan pushed forward with the country’s already strong ties to the People’s Republic of China (PRC), which would create an economic transportation corridor (the CPEC) from the nation’s shared border in the Pakistani portion of the disputed Kashmir region, to the Indian Ocean port of Gwadar.

*Gwadar Port, Pakistan. Undated photo. CCA/3.0*

Notably, CPEC was promptly placed on the chopping block by Khan’s replacement as Prime Minister, Shehbaz Sharif, in August of 2022.

For its part, the Biden Administration – reeling from the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan in August of 2021 – was clearly smarting from its demonstrated weaknesses at all levels of governance, and needed to do something to reinvigorate its failing image. Much like the so-called “Maidan Revolution” of 2014, the removal of Khan from power immediately began to decouple Pakistan from the PRC’s orbit, and threatens the Communist nation’s “Belt & Road Initiative”.

Major General Chris Donahue, commander of the U.S. Army 82nd Airborne Division, XVIII Airborne Corps, boards a C-17 cargo plane at the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, 29 August 2021, becoming the last US soldier to leave Afghanistan. Photo by Jack Holt, US Central Command. Public Domain.

But – for the average American…so what? Why should American’s care about all of this maneuvering in a foreign country many American’s know or care very much about?

The reason the average American needs to pay attention is that the political crisis sparked in Pakistan by Khan’s removal has erupted again, with disastrous results.

Khan – who refused to go away quietly, leading protests in an attempt to hold a special election that would likely return him to power if it were held – appeared at the Islamabad High Court on 9 May 2023 to address corruption charges. After voluntarily appearing at the court, and while being processed, the courthouse was stormed by a unit of the Pakistan Rangers, a Federal paramilitary police force operating under orders from the National Accountability Bureau, who bizarrely arrested Khan, dragging him out of the courthouse, to an undisclosed location.

In the aftermath of this, large and violent protests and rioting erupted across the nation, with angry mobs attempting to storm both regional military headquarters, as well as the local headquarters of the ISI, the Pakistani version of the CIA. Despite calls for direct military force to be used to suppress the rioting, a wide array of military commanders in the nation refused, point-blank, to apply such force. This has led to an alarmingly confusing situation, including the removal of some military commanders.

This has raised alarming concerns as to who is actually in charge of Pakistan’s armed forces, as the raid to arrest Khan seems to have come at the orders of the Chief of Army Staff, General Asim Munir, with the support of Prime Minister Sharif. (The position of “Chief of Army Staff” is the Pakistani equivalent to the US Army’s “Chief of Staff” position.)

On 11 May, the Pakistani Supreme Court ruled Khan’s arrest illegal, and ordered his immediate release. As this article goes to press, Khan has been released, and cannot be rearrested on the same charges until at least May 17…

…But, again – why should this matter to Americans?

Simple: Pakistan is not Iraq; nor is it Sudan, Bolivia or Myanmar. Pakistan is different, because Pakistan is a nuclear-armed nation…a nation that shares a land border with another nuclear-armed state, with whom it has already fought several wars. And, although relations had begun to improve while Khan was in office, those have noticeably cooled since his replacement.

Pakistan has had a shaky internal situation for decades, and beginning in 2004, the internal situation deteriorated into an actual insurgency by multiple groups, some focused on religion, like the “Pakistani Taliban”, al-Qaeda and ISIL, but also inflaming and rejuvenating supporters of an independent Balochistan.

With the sudden deterioration of the situation in a nation of nearly 248 million people, some 96.5% of whom are Muslim, the world is now facing the distinct possibility of a multi-sided civil war in a nuclear-armed state, that could lead to the reality of nuclear terrorism, potentially including actual nuclear war, something long believed to have been buried, as many of the factions now swirling in Pakistan would have no issue with loosing nuclear fire onto India, if they were to secure nuclear weapons, which would naturally provoke an immediate response.

While no “smoking gun” evidence has been released that shows conclusive interference by the Biden Administration in Pakistan’s internal affairs, the possibility cannot be dismissed. The Biden Administration has demonstrated absolutely irrational and even self-destructive behavior since assuming power in the United States…and the results of those irrational and self-destructive behaviors are now coming home to roost.

If you’re not worried – you need to catch up.