“I do not think we should have pushed for an election in the Palestinian territories. I think that was a big mistake,...[A]nd if we were going to push for an election, then we should have made sure that we did something to determine who was going to win.”- Hillary Clinton (2006 Audio Emerges of Hillary Clinton Proposing Rigging the Election, Observer.com, October 28th, 2016) It’s official. Hillary Clinton spread election misinformation on the 2016 presidential debate stage by claiming 17 intelligence agencies had confirmed Russian interference in the election. And in 2020 Joe Biden spread...
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America’s Exceptional Amnesia (About Those War Criminals…)
The top-ranking U.S. diplomat, Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, recently denounced Russian president Vladimir Putin as a war criminal, which has resulted in a marked uptick in the usage of that term throughout the media. Putin decided to invade Ukraine in February 2022 and has killed people in the process. That’s what happens when leaders decide to address conflict through the application of military force: people die. The U.S. government has needless to say killed many people in its military interventions abroad, most recently in the Middle East and Africa. Yet Americans are often...
News Roundup 3/10/2022
US News The US donated 3.8 million AstraZeneca covid vaccines to Mexico. [Link] Venezuela released two Americans. [Link] Russia NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg says that a “new normal” is forcing NATO to rethink its long-term plans. [Link] The White House increased its intelligence sharing with Ukraine. [Link] A senior defense official said the US is still working on methods to transfer MIG-29s from Poland to Ukraine. [Link] The US says Russia has hit Ukraine with over 700 missiles in two weeks. [Link] The Ukrainian government is preparing to move its important data and...
The History Behind the Russia-Ukraine War
The following is adapted from a speech Scott gave to the Libertarian Party of Utah on February 26, 2022. Just to get this out of the way first real quick: Whenever someone dares to differ with the common government and TV narrative about Russia and their role in the world, that person is usually instantly condemned as spouting "Russian talking points," or being "paid by Putin." This is probably especially the case this week as Russia is waging an aggressive invasion against their neighbor Ukraine as we speak. But that is still nonsense. Where would a Texan obtain these talking points? Are...
News Roundup 1/18/2022
Ukraine A bipartisan group of seven Senators traveled to Ukraine. They met with President Zelenskyy and restated America’s support for Ukraine. [Link] The UK will give Ukraine anti-tank weapons and deploy troops for training on the weapons. [Link] Former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko returned to Ukraine to face treason charges. [Link] Germany calls for four-party talks - Germany, France, Ukraine, and Russia - to de-escalate the Ukraine crisis. [Link] Russia Russian forces are arriving in Belarus for war games. [Link] Korea North Korea says it test-fired tactical guided missiles....
January 6th: A Turgid Anniversary
Last year’s Jan. 6 clash at the Capitol may be the most politically exploited ruckus in American history. Team Biden is doing a victory lap to mark the anniversary, but the feds continue covering up key information regarding that day’s events. Democrats are canonizing a false version of history to change voting laws to perpetuate many of the shoddy if not shady practices that tarnished the 2020 election. After the fracas a year ago, Democratic members of Congress made ludicrous claims about the perils they faced that day. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) said, “We came close to half...
News Roundup 12/20/21
Covid The CDC is overcounting the number of Americans who are partially vaccinated. [Link] The 6th Circuit Court of Appeals lifts an injunction blocking OSHA from rolling out Biden’s vaccine or test mandate for businesses with more than 100 employees. [Link] Biden instructs OSHA to start penalizing companies who do not comply with the vaccine or test/mask mandate starting January 10th. [Link] The Pentagon has given no religious exemptions to the 12,000 soldiers who have applied. [Link] Ohio mobilizes over 1,000 members of its National Guard to its medical facilities. [Link] US News The...
How I Robbed the World Bank
I have always had a bad attitude toward official secrets regardless of who is keeping them. That prejudice and John Kenneth Galbraith are to blame for an unauthorized withdrawal I made from the World Bank. When I lived in Boston in the late 1970s, I paid $25 to attend a series of lectures by Galbraith on foreign aid and other topics. The louder Galbraith praised foreign aid, the warier I became. His hokum spurred my reading and led me to recognize that foreign aid is one of the worst afflictions that poor nations suffer. As one critic quipped, foreign aid is money from governments, to...
News Roundup 12/3/21
US News At least ten CIA employees in the past 14 years likely committed sex crimes against children. Only one employee was prosecuted. [Link] An Inspector General report finds a DEA employee gave preferential treatment to a pharmaceutical company he was hoping to work at after retiring from the government. [Link] Congress passes a bill that funds the government through mid-February. However, Congress will need to act on the budget again by mid-December when the US is expected to hit its borrowing cap. [Link] Facebook will begin forcing some users to use a two-step sign-in. [Link] A...
News Roundup 12/1/21
Covid Two court rulings block parts of Biden’s vaccine mandates. One ruling blocked the mandate for workers at healthcare facilities that accept federal tax dollars. A second ruling blocked the federal contractor mandate in three states. [Link] The Pentagon says members of the National Guard who do not take the covid vaccine will not be allowed to attend federally funded training. The training is required to remain in the National Guard. [Link] The Navy says unvaccinated sailors will have to undergo weekly covid tests to enter Department of Defense facilities. [Link] US News On average,...