REUTERS
"Biden says inflation temporary; Fed should do what it deems necessary for recovery"
By Steve Holland, Andrea Shalal
JULY 19, 2021
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden on Monday said an increase in prices was expected to be temporary, but his administration understood that unchecked inflation over the longer term would pose a “real challenge” to the economy and would remain vigilant.
Biden said he told Federal Reserve Board Chair Jerome Powell recently that the Fed was independent and should take whatever steps it deems necessary to support a strong, durable recovery.
“As our economy comes roaring back, we’ve seen some price increases,” Biden said, while rejecting concerns the recent increases could be a sign of persistent inflation.
He said his administration was doing all it could to address supply chain bottlenecks that had pushed up the price of cars, and noted that lumber prices were now easing after spiking higher early in the recovery.
“I want to be clear: my administration understands that were we ever to experience unchecked inflation in the long term, that would pose a real challenge for our economy,” he said.
“While we’re confident that isn’t what we’re seeing today, we’re going to remain vigilant about any response that is needed.”
Biden said he had also made that point clear to Powell: “The Fed is independent."
"It should take whatever steps it deems necessary to support a strong, durable economic recovery.”
Growing concerns about inflation dragged U.S. consumer sentiment in early July to its lowest level in five months, a survey showed Friday, after a 0.9% jump in consumer prices in June, the biggest increase in 13 years, but economists continue to believe that higher inflation is transitory.
The Democratic president said his plans to invest more in infrastructure, as well as better care for older people and children, would help reduce inflationary pressures in the future by boosting productivity.
“These steps will enhance our productivity, raising wages without raising prices,” he said.
“It will take the pressure off of inflation, give a boost to our workforce which leads to lower prices in the years ahead.”
He said critics had warned repeatedly that his economic policies would lead to an end to capitalism, but economists were now predicting the United States would hit its highest economic growth rate in 40 years.
“It turns out capitalism is alive and very well,” he said.
“We’re making serious progress to ensure that it works the way it’s supposed to work for the good of the American people.”
Reporting by Steve Holland and Andrea Shalal; Editing by Andrea Ricci
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa- ... SKBN2EP1PG
AMERICA'S FIGHTING BULLDOG JOE BIDEN
Re: AMERICA'S FIGHTING BULLDOG JOE BIDEN
CNN
"Biden takes on inflation concerns as domestic agenda hangs in the balance: 'These disruptions are temporary'"
By Phil Mattingly and Kate Sullivan, CNN
Updated 1:26 PM ET, Mon July 19, 2021
(CNN)President Joe Biden on Monday directly addressed concerns that his sweeping economic agenda will serve as an accelerant to inflation amid growing concern about price hikes across the economic spectrum.
"We also know that as our economy has come roaring back, we've seen some price increases."
"Some folks have raised worries that could be a sign of persistent inflation."
"But that's not our view," Biden said, speaking from the White House.
The President said his administration was doing everything it can to address price increases and assured Americans the disruptions were temporary.
"Reality is you can't flip the global economic light back on and not expect this to happen."
"As demand returns, there's going to be global supply chain challenges," Biden said.
He pointed to high car prices and supply chain issues with semiconductors, calling it a "real challenge."
The President said: "I want to be clear: My administration understands that if we were to experience unchecked inflation over the long term, that would pose a real challenge to our economy."
"So while we're confident that isn't what we're seeing today, we're going to remain vigilant about any response that is needed."
Biden continued to push for his infrastructure proposals, arguing the investments would help drive down prices for Americans and help the US economy bounce back from the coronavirus pandemic.
The comments come at a critical time as lawmakers on Capitol Hill continue to hammer out details of his two plans -- one focused on "hard" infrastructure like roads and bridges and another focused on what Biden calls "human infrastructure," which includes paid family leave, education and child care.
The President said the US' economic recovery hinges on getting the coronavirus pandemic under control and urged those who have not been vaccinated to get the shot.
"Please get vaccinated."
"Get vaccinated now."
"It works."
"It's safe."
"It's free."
"It's convenient."
"You know, this virus doesn't have to hold you back any longer."
"It doesn't have to hold our economy back any longer," Biden said.
The President said his critics -- namely former President Donald Trump, whose name he did not say but whom he alluded to during his remarks -- predicted that his presidency would "bring the end to capitalism," adding: "I never understood that one."
"It turns out capitalism is alive and very well."
"We're making serious progress to ensure that it works the way it's supposed to work: For the good of the American people," Biden said.
The President also touted his recent executive order aimed at promoting competition within the US economy, which he argued would also drive down prices.
The wide-ranging order that he signed earlier this month aims to lower prescription drug prices, ban or limit non-compete agreements that the White House says impede economic mobility and crack down on Big Tech and internet service providers, among several other provisions.
Biden used his scheduled economic remarks to tout a recovery that has seen a burst in growth and more than 3 million new jobs since he took office, as the country continues to dig out of a pandemic-driven economic shock that pushed the US economy to the brink.
Across forecasts, the US is projected to hit growth rates that haven't been seen in decades -- a point the White House attributes to intertwined $1.9 trillion Covid relief law and a vaccine distribution effort that has led to the full vaccination of more than 160 million Americans.
But Biden also used the occasion to attempt to disarm a line of attack that has resonated in recent weeks as inflation has hit its highest point in 12 years and the US economy continues its emergence from what was essentially a total freeze as the pandemic swept the country.
Beyond the benefits the White House sees in the plans themselves from a direct policy perspective, Biden argued his proposals are designed to increase the economy's capacity and thus decrease prices over time, a view that has driven the perspective inside the White House that rising prices should have no effect in shifting their legislative course.
It is, in a sense, an effort to flip the GOP argument against his proposals on its head -- and directly counter an issue that Democrats on both sides of Pennsylvania Avenue have acknowledged could threaten Biden's legislative goals.
For the President, the remarks come at a critical moment for his $4 trillion economic agenda on Capitol Hill.
The bipartisan group instrumental in crafting the infrastructure framework has urgently worked over the last several days to reach a final agreement before a likely July 21 Senate procedural vote.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, a New York Democrat, has also set a deadline for his members to coalesce around a second, Democrat-only proposal that forms the backbone of the most aggressive spending and investment proposal in a generation.
But the legislative deadlines come as there is evidence of growing concern around the country about inflation and a clear effort by Republicans to use the price increases as a weapon to try and sink Biden's push for his agenda.
The National Republican Congressional Committee, the House GOP's campaign arm, has launched efforts to target frontline Democrats on the issue on the political front, as senior Republicans have attacked the looming Democrat-only proposal as wholly unnecessary for an economy that has already been on the receiving end of trillions in emergency spending over the last 15 months.
"Our colleagues need to take this summer and think very carefully about what they are discussing," Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Kentucky Republican, said last week.
"It would be hard to imagine a proposal less suited to the conditions of our country at this point."
It comes as economists in both parties have signaled the data is serving as a flashing warning sign about inflation, and as a Marist poll last month for NPR and the PBS NewsHour showed that inflation has surpassed wages and unemployment as the public's top concern about the US economy.
The White House economic team has been closely monitoring the numbers and officials say it still firmly believes the data is both transitory and more a result of the uneven emergence of the economy from a once in generation supply-side shock -- one that has created a series of bottlenecks in the supply chain and supply and demand mismatches that continue to linger.
"The overwhelming consensus is it's going to pop up a little bit and then go back down," Biden said last month.
Still, White House officials acknowledge that while they believe the increases are a short-term issue, it's still one that will likely be present for months, if not longer.
The 5.4% increase in June's consumer price index -- the largest such year-over-year increase since 2008 -- only served to underscore that point.
It's a key reason for Biden's effort Monday to detail how, in the view of White House economic officials, his agenda would fit into that data if enacted.
The President laid out the view that the scale of the dual proposals -- nearly $600 billion new infrastructure spending and a nascent $3.5 trillion proposal designed to include sweeping investments in education, home care and paid leave -- would serve to create an environment to keep prices low and stable.
Biden described the investments as longer term and crafted to enable a combination of more opportunities for Americans to enter the labor force, which would in turn increase the supply of goods, all as it bolsters the resiliency of supply chains in a concerted effort to reduce production costs and the ability to bring goods to market.
This story has been updated with additional developments on Monday.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/19/politics ... index.html
"Biden takes on inflation concerns as domestic agenda hangs in the balance: 'These disruptions are temporary'"
By Phil Mattingly and Kate Sullivan, CNN
Updated 1:26 PM ET, Mon July 19, 2021
(CNN)President Joe Biden on Monday directly addressed concerns that his sweeping economic agenda will serve as an accelerant to inflation amid growing concern about price hikes across the economic spectrum.
"We also know that as our economy has come roaring back, we've seen some price increases."
"Some folks have raised worries that could be a sign of persistent inflation."
"But that's not our view," Biden said, speaking from the White House.
The President said his administration was doing everything it can to address price increases and assured Americans the disruptions were temporary.
"Reality is you can't flip the global economic light back on and not expect this to happen."
"As demand returns, there's going to be global supply chain challenges," Biden said.
He pointed to high car prices and supply chain issues with semiconductors, calling it a "real challenge."
The President said: "I want to be clear: My administration understands that if we were to experience unchecked inflation over the long term, that would pose a real challenge to our economy."
"So while we're confident that isn't what we're seeing today, we're going to remain vigilant about any response that is needed."
Biden continued to push for his infrastructure proposals, arguing the investments would help drive down prices for Americans and help the US economy bounce back from the coronavirus pandemic.
The comments come at a critical time as lawmakers on Capitol Hill continue to hammer out details of his two plans -- one focused on "hard" infrastructure like roads and bridges and another focused on what Biden calls "human infrastructure," which includes paid family leave, education and child care.
The President said the US' economic recovery hinges on getting the coronavirus pandemic under control and urged those who have not been vaccinated to get the shot.
"Please get vaccinated."
"Get vaccinated now."
"It works."
"It's safe."
"It's free."
"It's convenient."
"You know, this virus doesn't have to hold you back any longer."
"It doesn't have to hold our economy back any longer," Biden said.
The President said his critics -- namely former President Donald Trump, whose name he did not say but whom he alluded to during his remarks -- predicted that his presidency would "bring the end to capitalism," adding: "I never understood that one."
"It turns out capitalism is alive and very well."
"We're making serious progress to ensure that it works the way it's supposed to work: For the good of the American people," Biden said.
The President also touted his recent executive order aimed at promoting competition within the US economy, which he argued would also drive down prices.
The wide-ranging order that he signed earlier this month aims to lower prescription drug prices, ban or limit non-compete agreements that the White House says impede economic mobility and crack down on Big Tech and internet service providers, among several other provisions.
Biden used his scheduled economic remarks to tout a recovery that has seen a burst in growth and more than 3 million new jobs since he took office, as the country continues to dig out of a pandemic-driven economic shock that pushed the US economy to the brink.
Across forecasts, the US is projected to hit growth rates that haven't been seen in decades -- a point the White House attributes to intertwined $1.9 trillion Covid relief law and a vaccine distribution effort that has led to the full vaccination of more than 160 million Americans.
But Biden also used the occasion to attempt to disarm a line of attack that has resonated in recent weeks as inflation has hit its highest point in 12 years and the US economy continues its emergence from what was essentially a total freeze as the pandemic swept the country.
Beyond the benefits the White House sees in the plans themselves from a direct policy perspective, Biden argued his proposals are designed to increase the economy's capacity and thus decrease prices over time, a view that has driven the perspective inside the White House that rising prices should have no effect in shifting their legislative course.
It is, in a sense, an effort to flip the GOP argument against his proposals on its head -- and directly counter an issue that Democrats on both sides of Pennsylvania Avenue have acknowledged could threaten Biden's legislative goals.
For the President, the remarks come at a critical moment for his $4 trillion economic agenda on Capitol Hill.
The bipartisan group instrumental in crafting the infrastructure framework has urgently worked over the last several days to reach a final agreement before a likely July 21 Senate procedural vote.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, a New York Democrat, has also set a deadline for his members to coalesce around a second, Democrat-only proposal that forms the backbone of the most aggressive spending and investment proposal in a generation.
But the legislative deadlines come as there is evidence of growing concern around the country about inflation and a clear effort by Republicans to use the price increases as a weapon to try and sink Biden's push for his agenda.
The National Republican Congressional Committee, the House GOP's campaign arm, has launched efforts to target frontline Democrats on the issue on the political front, as senior Republicans have attacked the looming Democrat-only proposal as wholly unnecessary for an economy that has already been on the receiving end of trillions in emergency spending over the last 15 months.
"Our colleagues need to take this summer and think very carefully about what they are discussing," Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Kentucky Republican, said last week.
"It would be hard to imagine a proposal less suited to the conditions of our country at this point."
It comes as economists in both parties have signaled the data is serving as a flashing warning sign about inflation, and as a Marist poll last month for NPR and the PBS NewsHour showed that inflation has surpassed wages and unemployment as the public's top concern about the US economy.
The White House economic team has been closely monitoring the numbers and officials say it still firmly believes the data is both transitory and more a result of the uneven emergence of the economy from a once in generation supply-side shock -- one that has created a series of bottlenecks in the supply chain and supply and demand mismatches that continue to linger.
"The overwhelming consensus is it's going to pop up a little bit and then go back down," Biden said last month.
Still, White House officials acknowledge that while they believe the increases are a short-term issue, it's still one that will likely be present for months, if not longer.
The 5.4% increase in June's consumer price index -- the largest such year-over-year increase since 2008 -- only served to underscore that point.
It's a key reason for Biden's effort Monday to detail how, in the view of White House economic officials, his agenda would fit into that data if enacted.
The President laid out the view that the scale of the dual proposals -- nearly $600 billion new infrastructure spending and a nascent $3.5 trillion proposal designed to include sweeping investments in education, home care and paid leave -- would serve to create an environment to keep prices low and stable.
Biden described the investments as longer term and crafted to enable a combination of more opportunities for Americans to enter the labor force, which would in turn increase the supply of goods, all as it bolsters the resiliency of supply chains in a concerted effort to reduce production costs and the ability to bring goods to market.
This story has been updated with additional developments on Monday.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/19/politics ... index.html
Re: AMERICA'S FIGHTING BULLDOG JOE BIDEN
THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR JULY 18, 2021 AT 10:17 PM
Paul Plante says:
And talk about sheer bellicosity and belligerence on the part of War Hawk Joe Biden, coming back to the present moment from history, after dispatching the USS Benfold (DDG-65), an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer in the United States Navy which is a multi-mission platform capable of AAW (Anti-Aircraft Warfare) with the powerful AEGIS combat systems suite and anti-aircraft missiles, ASW (Anti-submarine warfare), with towed sonar array, anti-submarine rockets, ASUW (Anti-surface warfare) with a Harpoon missile launcher, and strategic land strike using Tomahawk missiles with the Benfold being one of the first ships fitted with the Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense System so that during the 2010 Stellar Daggers exercise, it was the first ship to simultaneously engage a ballistic missile and a cruise missile to provoke the Chinese in the South China Sea into giving Joe his “Tonkin Gulf Incident” as an excuse to blow China off the world map and at the same time, teach the rest of the world that you don’t eat America’s lunch if you care about having a future, we read in the CNN article “US Air Force to send dozens of F-22 fighter jets to the Pacific amid tensions with China” by Brad Lendon on 16 July 2021, as follows:
The United States Air Force is sending more than two dozen F-22 stealth fighters to an exercise in the western Pacific this month, an unusually large deployment of the powerful jets that analysts say sends a strong message to a possible adversary in China.
end quotes
So talk about Joe Biden making America great again (MAGA), it looks like game is on and Joe Biden intends to be the winner, which is only right, given that Joe is a good guy, which takes us back to the Newsweek article entitled “U.S. Navy Dismisses Claim China Drove Away Warship From Disputed Paracel Islands” by Anders Anglesey on 12 July 2021, where we had as follows concerning Joe’s recent naval provocation of China before he sent the Air Force over there to scare them some more, to wit:
U.S. Navy officials dismissed claims China drove away one of its warships that passed through the disputed Paracel Islands on Monday, saying Beijing’s statement is “false.”
The USS Benfold carried out a maneuver near the small archipelago earlier today, located east of Vietnam and south of China, which the U.S. Navy said was “consistent with international law.”
end quotes
That is what we had, and this is where that story goes, to wit:
Chinese authorities fired back at the move and claimed they were able to drive away the warship from the disputed islands.
According to Reuters, China’s military said on Monday it “drove away” the USS Benfold, which Beijing claimed had illegally entered its waters.
But, the U.S. Navy hit back with a fiery statement of its own and branded Beijing’s version of events as being “false.”
A statement issued by the U.S. 7th Fleet public affairs on Monday read: “The PRC’s (People’s Republic of China’s) statement about this mission is false.”
“USS Benfold conducted this FONOP (freedom of navigation operation) in accordance with international law and then continued on to conduct normal operations in international waters.”
“The operation reflects our commitment to uphold freedom of navigation and lawful uses of the sea as a principle.”
“The United States will continue to fly, sail, and operate wherever international waters allows, as USS Benfold did here.”
“Nothing PRC says otherwise will deter us.”
end quotes
Talk about tough talk and Joe Biden making America great again, how about that, people, for a vivid example?
Joe Biden isn’t afraid of those COMMIES one bit, and he isn’t afraid to let the world know it – you don’t **** with Joe Biden, or like “Corn Pop” all those years ago, you’ll be damn sorry if you even think about it, which brings us back to the Newsweek article, as follows:
Its statement continued: “The PLA(N)’s [People’s Liberation Army Navy] statement is the latest in a long string of PRC actions to misrepresent lawful U.S. maritime operations and assert its excessive and illegitimate maritime claims at the expense of its Southeast Asian neighbors in the South China Sea.”
“The PRC’s behavior stands in contrast to the United States’ adherence to international law and our vision for a free and open Indo-Pacific region.”
“All nations, large and small, should be secure in their sovereignty, free from coercion, and able to pursue economic growth consistent with accepted international rules and norms.”
While the Paracel Islands are under the de facto administration of China, they do face sovereignty claims from both Taiwan and Vietnam.
The Paracel Islands are located in the hotly-contended South China Sea, much of which China has made ambitious moves to claim.
But, in 2016 the Permanent Court of Arbitration in the Hague ruled that China had no historic title over the South China Sea, a ruling that Beijing has said it would not view as legitimate.
Controversial Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte, who has been courting Beijing officials, said last month the court ruling against China was “just a piece of paper.”
Beijing has laid claim to hundreds of islands in the resource-rich South China Sea that officials say fall within its so-called nine-dash line, taken from pre-war Chinese maps of the region and said to show Beijing’s sea claims.
The South China Sea reportedly holds an estimated 190 trillion cubic feet of natural gas and 11 billion barrels of oil in proved and probable reserves, with more to be potentially discovered, according to the Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative.
This dispute has led the U.S. Navy to send several warships to the area in a bid to support allies in the region and curb Chinese ambitions.
In May, the USS Curtis Wilbur also conducted a freedom of navigation operation near the Paracel Islands, in a move Beijing called “illegal entry” of its waters.
end quotes
And that talk of “international law,” as if it were actually something more than empty words, like so much is today that is related to politics, takes us to Section 3: General Rights and Duties of Belligerents of The American Journal of International Law, Vol. 33, Supplement: Research in International Law (1939), published by Cambridge University Press, where we have as follows on that subject:
“This is true because international law has not yet reached the point of development where every breach of the law is considered to be a matter of common concern.”
“Up to this time, breaches of international law have been treated as we treat wrongs under civil procedure [as contrasted with criminal procedure], as if they concerned nobody except the particular nation upon which the injury was inflicted and the nation inflicting it.”
“There has been no general recognition of the right of other nations to object.”
– Elihu Root, “The Outlook For International Law,” Proceedings of the American Society of International Law, 1915, p.8.
For those unfamiliar with that name, according to an article in Progressivism and US Foreign Policy between the World Wars, pp 23-47, entitled “Elihu Root, International Law, and the World Court” by Greg Russell, first online 6 October 2017, we have this background:
Studies of the progressive movement in American history, particularly during the interwar years, have given far too little attention to the various strands of progressive international thought.
This chapter analyzes Elihu Root’s campaign for the creation of a World Court, and defense of international law, as an important effort in the reform-minded movement to restrain international conflict and minimize the prospects for war through law.
Root joined other progressives in emphasizing the moral and rational components of human nature and stressed an important connection between societal values and the projection of power.
But he rejected balance-of-power thinking and looked to legal processes and institutions that would harmonize competing interests in the management of interstate rivalries.
end quotes
I think from the fact that Joe Biden is trying to provoke a military confrontation with China that it is apparent that Joe Biden does not agree with Elihu Root – settle it with guns, not lawyers!
But this story of Joe Biden’s incipient war with China is just getting started so don’t go away and we’ll be right back!
http://www.capecharlesmirror.com/news/r ... ent-385500
Paul Plante says:
And talk about sheer bellicosity and belligerence on the part of War Hawk Joe Biden, coming back to the present moment from history, after dispatching the USS Benfold (DDG-65), an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer in the United States Navy which is a multi-mission platform capable of AAW (Anti-Aircraft Warfare) with the powerful AEGIS combat systems suite and anti-aircraft missiles, ASW (Anti-submarine warfare), with towed sonar array, anti-submarine rockets, ASUW (Anti-surface warfare) with a Harpoon missile launcher, and strategic land strike using Tomahawk missiles with the Benfold being one of the first ships fitted with the Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense System so that during the 2010 Stellar Daggers exercise, it was the first ship to simultaneously engage a ballistic missile and a cruise missile to provoke the Chinese in the South China Sea into giving Joe his “Tonkin Gulf Incident” as an excuse to blow China off the world map and at the same time, teach the rest of the world that you don’t eat America’s lunch if you care about having a future, we read in the CNN article “US Air Force to send dozens of F-22 fighter jets to the Pacific amid tensions with China” by Brad Lendon on 16 July 2021, as follows:
The United States Air Force is sending more than two dozen F-22 stealth fighters to an exercise in the western Pacific this month, an unusually large deployment of the powerful jets that analysts say sends a strong message to a possible adversary in China.
end quotes
So talk about Joe Biden making America great again (MAGA), it looks like game is on and Joe Biden intends to be the winner, which is only right, given that Joe is a good guy, which takes us back to the Newsweek article entitled “U.S. Navy Dismisses Claim China Drove Away Warship From Disputed Paracel Islands” by Anders Anglesey on 12 July 2021, where we had as follows concerning Joe’s recent naval provocation of China before he sent the Air Force over there to scare them some more, to wit:
U.S. Navy officials dismissed claims China drove away one of its warships that passed through the disputed Paracel Islands on Monday, saying Beijing’s statement is “false.”
The USS Benfold carried out a maneuver near the small archipelago earlier today, located east of Vietnam and south of China, which the U.S. Navy said was “consistent with international law.”
end quotes
That is what we had, and this is where that story goes, to wit:
Chinese authorities fired back at the move and claimed they were able to drive away the warship from the disputed islands.
According to Reuters, China’s military said on Monday it “drove away” the USS Benfold, which Beijing claimed had illegally entered its waters.
But, the U.S. Navy hit back with a fiery statement of its own and branded Beijing’s version of events as being “false.”
A statement issued by the U.S. 7th Fleet public affairs on Monday read: “The PRC’s (People’s Republic of China’s) statement about this mission is false.”
“USS Benfold conducted this FONOP (freedom of navigation operation) in accordance with international law and then continued on to conduct normal operations in international waters.”
“The operation reflects our commitment to uphold freedom of navigation and lawful uses of the sea as a principle.”
“The United States will continue to fly, sail, and operate wherever international waters allows, as USS Benfold did here.”
“Nothing PRC says otherwise will deter us.”
end quotes
Talk about tough talk and Joe Biden making America great again, how about that, people, for a vivid example?
Joe Biden isn’t afraid of those COMMIES one bit, and he isn’t afraid to let the world know it – you don’t **** with Joe Biden, or like “Corn Pop” all those years ago, you’ll be damn sorry if you even think about it, which brings us back to the Newsweek article, as follows:
Its statement continued: “The PLA(N)’s [People’s Liberation Army Navy] statement is the latest in a long string of PRC actions to misrepresent lawful U.S. maritime operations and assert its excessive and illegitimate maritime claims at the expense of its Southeast Asian neighbors in the South China Sea.”
“The PRC’s behavior stands in contrast to the United States’ adherence to international law and our vision for a free and open Indo-Pacific region.”
“All nations, large and small, should be secure in their sovereignty, free from coercion, and able to pursue economic growth consistent with accepted international rules and norms.”
While the Paracel Islands are under the de facto administration of China, they do face sovereignty claims from both Taiwan and Vietnam.
The Paracel Islands are located in the hotly-contended South China Sea, much of which China has made ambitious moves to claim.
But, in 2016 the Permanent Court of Arbitration in the Hague ruled that China had no historic title over the South China Sea, a ruling that Beijing has said it would not view as legitimate.
Controversial Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte, who has been courting Beijing officials, said last month the court ruling against China was “just a piece of paper.”
Beijing has laid claim to hundreds of islands in the resource-rich South China Sea that officials say fall within its so-called nine-dash line, taken from pre-war Chinese maps of the region and said to show Beijing’s sea claims.
The South China Sea reportedly holds an estimated 190 trillion cubic feet of natural gas and 11 billion barrels of oil in proved and probable reserves, with more to be potentially discovered, according to the Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative.
This dispute has led the U.S. Navy to send several warships to the area in a bid to support allies in the region and curb Chinese ambitions.
In May, the USS Curtis Wilbur also conducted a freedom of navigation operation near the Paracel Islands, in a move Beijing called “illegal entry” of its waters.
end quotes
And that talk of “international law,” as if it were actually something more than empty words, like so much is today that is related to politics, takes us to Section 3: General Rights and Duties of Belligerents of The American Journal of International Law, Vol. 33, Supplement: Research in International Law (1939), published by Cambridge University Press, where we have as follows on that subject:
“This is true because international law has not yet reached the point of development where every breach of the law is considered to be a matter of common concern.”
“Up to this time, breaches of international law have been treated as we treat wrongs under civil procedure [as contrasted with criminal procedure], as if they concerned nobody except the particular nation upon which the injury was inflicted and the nation inflicting it.”
“There has been no general recognition of the right of other nations to object.”
– Elihu Root, “The Outlook For International Law,” Proceedings of the American Society of International Law, 1915, p.8.
For those unfamiliar with that name, according to an article in Progressivism and US Foreign Policy between the World Wars, pp 23-47, entitled “Elihu Root, International Law, and the World Court” by Greg Russell, first online 6 October 2017, we have this background:
Studies of the progressive movement in American history, particularly during the interwar years, have given far too little attention to the various strands of progressive international thought.
This chapter analyzes Elihu Root’s campaign for the creation of a World Court, and defense of international law, as an important effort in the reform-minded movement to restrain international conflict and minimize the prospects for war through law.
Root joined other progressives in emphasizing the moral and rational components of human nature and stressed an important connection between societal values and the projection of power.
But he rejected balance-of-power thinking and looked to legal processes and institutions that would harmonize competing interests in the management of interstate rivalries.
end quotes
I think from the fact that Joe Biden is trying to provoke a military confrontation with China that it is apparent that Joe Biden does not agree with Elihu Root – settle it with guns, not lawyers!
But this story of Joe Biden’s incipient war with China is just getting started so don’t go away and we’ll be right back!
http://www.capecharlesmirror.com/news/r ... ent-385500
Re: AMERICA'S FIGHTING BULLDOG JOE BIDEN
THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR JULY 19, 2021 AT 11:01 AM
Paul Plante says:
“People thought he was going to be a transitional president,” says Bob Shrum, a veteran Democratic campaign operative who now teaches political science at the University of Southern California.
Instead, “he’s headed to being a transformational president,” Shrum says.
Those words are taken from a U.S. News & World Reports article entitled “Biden Goes From Transitional to Transformational in First 100 Days” by Susan Milligan on April 30, 2021, and the word “transformational” is an interesting political term that shows up fairly frequently in the news, but only with respect to radical Democrats and Progressives and Socialists like Lizzie Warren and “Barmy Bernie” Sanders, and now, not surprisingly Joe Biden, himself.
And then there is the word “transformative,” which is also a charged political term as we see in the political document that forms the core of Joe Biden’s “transformational” policies titled “Resistance Rising: Socialist Strategy in the Age of Political Revolution – A summary of Democratic Socialists of America’s Strategy Document – June 2016” on June 25, 2016, to wit:
Free public higher education is a key example of what we might call a “transformative” reform that helps to popularize the idea of socialism and to make further, more dramatic reforms possible in the future.
end quotes
“Transformative” in that sense could also apply to me putting putting good peanut butter on mouse traps to popularize socialism by getting the mice to accept that I am supplying them at my expense with free food that they don’t have to work for.
And before we go into more specific examples of the use of these two similar sounding words in the news as applied to Progressive Democrat policies, are “transformative” as used by BLACK LIVES MATTER and the Democratic Socialists whose political agenda Joe Biden is pushing, and “transformational” as applied to Joe Biden in the above article words with the same meaning?
Or do they mean different things?
Doing some research, the Thesaurus at Your Dictionary tells us that they are synonyms, which is to say, words with the same meaning, so in the political sense, which is how those words are used, again only with respect to Democrats or Socialists or Progressives or radical groups like BLACK LIVES MATTER, “transformative” and “transformational” are in essence the same word, which then takes us back to a New York Times story entitled “Should a White Man Be the Face of the Democratic Party in 2020?” by Astead W. Herndon and Matt Flegenheimer on 20 April 2019, where we find the word “transformational” used in a political sense with respect to the Democrats as follows:
As former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. prepares to enter the 2020 race this coming week, Democrats have seen the strong diversity in their field — with candidates like Elizabeth Warren and Kamala Harris reflecting the multiracial and largely female base of the party — become somewhat overshadowed by white male candidates.
Bernie Sanders has a wide fund-raising lead, he and Mr. Biden lead in polls, and Beto O’Rourke and Pete Buttigieg have enjoyed outsize attention from voters in early primary states, extensive media coverage and viral success with online donors.
Interviews with several dozen Democratic voters around the country show how the party, which enjoyed victories in 2018 that were powered by female and nonwhite candidates, is now grappling with two complicated questions about race, gender and politics in the Trump era.
Is a white man the best face for an increasingly diverse Democratic Party in 2020?
And what’s the bigger gamble: to nominate a white man and risk disappointing some of the party’s base, or nominate a minority candidate or a woman who might struggle to carry predominantly white swing states like Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania that both Barack Obama and President Trump won?
Mr. Biden and Mr. Sanders are starting off with other advantages as well: They are the best-known candidates at this stage, both with experience running for president, and they are well positioned to have the money and resources to compete through the 2020 primaries.
But as older white men, they are out of step with ascendant forces in the party today.
Supporters of Mr. Sanders say his calls for wide-scale change in the country’s economic order make him a transformational candidate, regardless of skin color.
end quotes
And let me stop here for a moment to let that sink in – when Joe Biden is referred to as a “transformational” president, does that mean he is a Bernie Sanders clone?
Stay tuned.
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Paul Plante says:
“People thought he was going to be a transitional president,” says Bob Shrum, a veteran Democratic campaign operative who now teaches political science at the University of Southern California.
Instead, “he’s headed to being a transformational president,” Shrum says.
Those words are taken from a U.S. News & World Reports article entitled “Biden Goes From Transitional to Transformational in First 100 Days” by Susan Milligan on April 30, 2021, and the word “transformational” is an interesting political term that shows up fairly frequently in the news, but only with respect to radical Democrats and Progressives and Socialists like Lizzie Warren and “Barmy Bernie” Sanders, and now, not surprisingly Joe Biden, himself.
And then there is the word “transformative,” which is also a charged political term as we see in the political document that forms the core of Joe Biden’s “transformational” policies titled “Resistance Rising: Socialist Strategy in the Age of Political Revolution – A summary of Democratic Socialists of America’s Strategy Document – June 2016” on June 25, 2016, to wit:
Free public higher education is a key example of what we might call a “transformative” reform that helps to popularize the idea of socialism and to make further, more dramatic reforms possible in the future.
end quotes
“Transformative” in that sense could also apply to me putting putting good peanut butter on mouse traps to popularize socialism by getting the mice to accept that I am supplying them at my expense with free food that they don’t have to work for.
And before we go into more specific examples of the use of these two similar sounding words in the news as applied to Progressive Democrat policies, are “transformative” as used by BLACK LIVES MATTER and the Democratic Socialists whose political agenda Joe Biden is pushing, and “transformational” as applied to Joe Biden in the above article words with the same meaning?
Or do they mean different things?
Doing some research, the Thesaurus at Your Dictionary tells us that they are synonyms, which is to say, words with the same meaning, so in the political sense, which is how those words are used, again only with respect to Democrats or Socialists or Progressives or radical groups like BLACK LIVES MATTER, “transformative” and “transformational” are in essence the same word, which then takes us back to a New York Times story entitled “Should a White Man Be the Face of the Democratic Party in 2020?” by Astead W. Herndon and Matt Flegenheimer on 20 April 2019, where we find the word “transformational” used in a political sense with respect to the Democrats as follows:
As former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. prepares to enter the 2020 race this coming week, Democrats have seen the strong diversity in their field — with candidates like Elizabeth Warren and Kamala Harris reflecting the multiracial and largely female base of the party — become somewhat overshadowed by white male candidates.
Bernie Sanders has a wide fund-raising lead, he and Mr. Biden lead in polls, and Beto O’Rourke and Pete Buttigieg have enjoyed outsize attention from voters in early primary states, extensive media coverage and viral success with online donors.
Interviews with several dozen Democratic voters around the country show how the party, which enjoyed victories in 2018 that were powered by female and nonwhite candidates, is now grappling with two complicated questions about race, gender and politics in the Trump era.
Is a white man the best face for an increasingly diverse Democratic Party in 2020?
And what’s the bigger gamble: to nominate a white man and risk disappointing some of the party’s base, or nominate a minority candidate or a woman who might struggle to carry predominantly white swing states like Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania that both Barack Obama and President Trump won?
Mr. Biden and Mr. Sanders are starting off with other advantages as well: They are the best-known candidates at this stage, both with experience running for president, and they are well positioned to have the money and resources to compete through the 2020 primaries.
But as older white men, they are out of step with ascendant forces in the party today.
Supporters of Mr. Sanders say his calls for wide-scale change in the country’s economic order make him a transformational candidate, regardless of skin color.
end quotes
And let me stop here for a moment to let that sink in – when Joe Biden is referred to as a “transformational” president, does that mean he is a Bernie Sanders clone?
Stay tuned.
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Re: AMERICA'S FIGHTING BULLDOG JOE BIDEN
THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR JULY 19, 2021 AT 8:38 PM
Paul Plante says:
And keeping up with this background in here, as federal reserve chairman Jerry Powell is coming up for reappointment as fed chief early next year, a reappointment not yet confirmed or even hinted at by the Biden-istas and the CULT OF JOE, all of whom are staying silent on the subject of will Jerry be reappointed, or will Joe put “TOODLES” Yellen back in as an “easy money” fed chief to replace Jerry Powell, a Trump era holdover, the way Hussein Obama replaced Ben Bernanke with “TOODLES” back in 2013, which thought takes us back to a Marketwatch article entitled “Obama nominates Yellen to succeed Bernanke” by Greg Robb published Oct. 9, 2013, where we have this background to consider as to Joe putting “TOODLES” back into the fed chief chair as opposed to Jerry Powell, to wit:
WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — President Barack Obama on Wednesday nominated Janet Yellen to succeed Ben Bernanke as chairwoman of the Federal Reserve, elevating a woman to the top post for the first time in the central bank’s 100-year history.
In a brief statement at the White House, Obama, flanked by Yellen and Bernanke, urged the Senate to act swiftly to confirm her “given the urgent economic challenges facing our nation.”
Yellen, 67, is currently vice chair of the U.S. central bank.
She said that “more needs to be done to strengthen the recovery,” even though progress has been made.
end quotes
And my goodness, people, guess what – that was 2013 and this is 2021, and she is still saying the exact same thing as she advocates for Joe Biden’s multi-TRILLION dollar spending plans as we see in the CNBC story “Yellen sees ‘several more months of rapid inflation’ before easing, worries about housing impact” by Jeff Cox on July 15, 2021, to wit:
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen cautioned Thursday that prices could continue to rise for several more months, though she expects the recent startling inflation run to ease over time.
Yellen spoke as Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell faced grilling this week from House and Senate lawmakers over whether historically easy Fed policy and aggressive congressional spending risked runaway inflation.
The Fed, which Yellen once chaired, has run its balance sheet above $8 trillion during the pandemic, while Congress is staring down its second consecutive year of a $3 trillion budget deficit.
For her part, Yellen said spending associated with the White House-backed American Rescue Plan is helping the recovery.
“I think we’re seeing it having the desired effect as well as – preventing scarring and harm to families and their finances,” she said.
end quotes
Or the CNBC story “Inflation looks bad now, but it’s pretty much sticking to the script” by Jeff Cox on June 26, 2021, as follows:
In the near term, at least, that notion that inflation is going to fade at some point is of cold comfort to those who’ve gotten socked with higher costs.
Everything from airline tickets to hotel stays to the cost of buying a home has been on the rise and showing only occasional signs of letting up.
A separate inflation indicator, the consumer price index, moved up 5% in May from a year ago, while the producer price index surged 6.6%, the fastest rise on record.
Consumers are paying higher costs for just about everything.
The stakes on inflation couldn’t be higher.
If the current trend does not follow script, the stunning economic growth of the past year could get sidetracked quickly.
At the same time, the Biden administration is counting on inflation staying low, with Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen repeatedly saying that the current heavy deficit spending is being made affordable through the low-rate environment.
end quotes
So we can see how Joe Biden could very well prefer “TOODLES” back as fed chief, because she is for easy money and is quite supportive of Joe’s economic policies as we see in the CNBC story “Higher interest rates would be good for the country, Treasury Secretary Yellen says” by Emma Newburger on June 6, 2021, to wit:
U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said that President Joe Biden’s $4 trillion spending proposal would be positive for the country, even if it leads to a rise in interest rates.
“We’ve been fighting inflation that’s too low and interest rates that are too low now for a decade,” she said.
She added that if the packages help at all to “alleviate things then that’s not a bad thing — that’s a good thing.”
end quotes
Or the Reuters article entitled “Yellen says Biden budget raises U.S. debt-to-GDP ratio but is responsible” by Reuters Staff on May 27, 2021, to wit:
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said on Thursday that President Joe Biden’s fiscal 2022 budget request will increase the U.S. federal debt-to-GDP ratio above its current level of about 100% over the next decade.
“I believe it is a fiscally responsible program,” Yellen said.
end quotes
And back we go to 2013, for more, to wit:
“Too many Americans still cannot find a job and worry how they will pay their bills and provide for their families,” Yellen said.
The Fed can help by ensuring that everyone has the opportunity to work hard and build a better life, she added.
At the same time, the central bank must make sure that inflation remains “in check,” she said.
Yellen has a reputation as a “dove” though some observers feel that is a bit overstated.
Obama called Yellen “tough” and joked that it was not just because she was born in Brooklyn.
“She has a keen understanding about how markets and the economy, not just in theory, but also in the real world,” Obama said.
The president said that Yellen told him she understands the human costs of a high unemployment rate.
“America’s workers and their families will have a champion in Janet Yellen,” Obama said.
Economists portray Yellen as a continuation of Bernanke’s aggressive easing stance developed in reaction to the financial crisis.
end quotes
So, will we soon enough have “TOODLES” Yellen and her easy money policies back in charge of the federal reserve to run its balance sheet up even higher to keep Joe Biden’s economic policies funded with borrowed money that we owe?
Stay tuned.
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Paul Plante says:
And keeping up with this background in here, as federal reserve chairman Jerry Powell is coming up for reappointment as fed chief early next year, a reappointment not yet confirmed or even hinted at by the Biden-istas and the CULT OF JOE, all of whom are staying silent on the subject of will Jerry be reappointed, or will Joe put “TOODLES” Yellen back in as an “easy money” fed chief to replace Jerry Powell, a Trump era holdover, the way Hussein Obama replaced Ben Bernanke with “TOODLES” back in 2013, which thought takes us back to a Marketwatch article entitled “Obama nominates Yellen to succeed Bernanke” by Greg Robb published Oct. 9, 2013, where we have this background to consider as to Joe putting “TOODLES” back into the fed chief chair as opposed to Jerry Powell, to wit:
WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — President Barack Obama on Wednesday nominated Janet Yellen to succeed Ben Bernanke as chairwoman of the Federal Reserve, elevating a woman to the top post for the first time in the central bank’s 100-year history.
In a brief statement at the White House, Obama, flanked by Yellen and Bernanke, urged the Senate to act swiftly to confirm her “given the urgent economic challenges facing our nation.”
Yellen, 67, is currently vice chair of the U.S. central bank.
She said that “more needs to be done to strengthen the recovery,” even though progress has been made.
end quotes
And my goodness, people, guess what – that was 2013 and this is 2021, and she is still saying the exact same thing as she advocates for Joe Biden’s multi-TRILLION dollar spending plans as we see in the CNBC story “Yellen sees ‘several more months of rapid inflation’ before easing, worries about housing impact” by Jeff Cox on July 15, 2021, to wit:
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen cautioned Thursday that prices could continue to rise for several more months, though she expects the recent startling inflation run to ease over time.
Yellen spoke as Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell faced grilling this week from House and Senate lawmakers over whether historically easy Fed policy and aggressive congressional spending risked runaway inflation.
The Fed, which Yellen once chaired, has run its balance sheet above $8 trillion during the pandemic, while Congress is staring down its second consecutive year of a $3 trillion budget deficit.
For her part, Yellen said spending associated with the White House-backed American Rescue Plan is helping the recovery.
“I think we’re seeing it having the desired effect as well as – preventing scarring and harm to families and their finances,” she said.
end quotes
Or the CNBC story “Inflation looks bad now, but it’s pretty much sticking to the script” by Jeff Cox on June 26, 2021, as follows:
In the near term, at least, that notion that inflation is going to fade at some point is of cold comfort to those who’ve gotten socked with higher costs.
Everything from airline tickets to hotel stays to the cost of buying a home has been on the rise and showing only occasional signs of letting up.
A separate inflation indicator, the consumer price index, moved up 5% in May from a year ago, while the producer price index surged 6.6%, the fastest rise on record.
Consumers are paying higher costs for just about everything.
The stakes on inflation couldn’t be higher.
If the current trend does not follow script, the stunning economic growth of the past year could get sidetracked quickly.
At the same time, the Biden administration is counting on inflation staying low, with Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen repeatedly saying that the current heavy deficit spending is being made affordable through the low-rate environment.
end quotes
So we can see how Joe Biden could very well prefer “TOODLES” back as fed chief, because she is for easy money and is quite supportive of Joe’s economic policies as we see in the CNBC story “Higher interest rates would be good for the country, Treasury Secretary Yellen says” by Emma Newburger on June 6, 2021, to wit:
U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said that President Joe Biden’s $4 trillion spending proposal would be positive for the country, even if it leads to a rise in interest rates.
“We’ve been fighting inflation that’s too low and interest rates that are too low now for a decade,” she said.
She added that if the packages help at all to “alleviate things then that’s not a bad thing — that’s a good thing.”
end quotes
Or the Reuters article entitled “Yellen says Biden budget raises U.S. debt-to-GDP ratio but is responsible” by Reuters Staff on May 27, 2021, to wit:
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said on Thursday that President Joe Biden’s fiscal 2022 budget request will increase the U.S. federal debt-to-GDP ratio above its current level of about 100% over the next decade.
“I believe it is a fiscally responsible program,” Yellen said.
end quotes
And back we go to 2013, for more, to wit:
“Too many Americans still cannot find a job and worry how they will pay their bills and provide for their families,” Yellen said.
The Fed can help by ensuring that everyone has the opportunity to work hard and build a better life, she added.
At the same time, the central bank must make sure that inflation remains “in check,” she said.
Yellen has a reputation as a “dove” though some observers feel that is a bit overstated.
Obama called Yellen “tough” and joked that it was not just because she was born in Brooklyn.
“She has a keen understanding about how markets and the economy, not just in theory, but also in the real world,” Obama said.
The president said that Yellen told him she understands the human costs of a high unemployment rate.
“America’s workers and their families will have a champion in Janet Yellen,” Obama said.
Economists portray Yellen as a continuation of Bernanke’s aggressive easing stance developed in reaction to the financial crisis.
end quotes
So, will we soon enough have “TOODLES” Yellen and her easy money policies back in charge of the federal reserve to run its balance sheet up even higher to keep Joe Biden’s economic policies funded with borrowed money that we owe?
Stay tuned.
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THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER
"'Consistent thread': Harris staff complaints predate her vice presidency"
Katherine Doyle
19 JULY 2021
Former aides to Vice President Kamala Harris charge that she terrorized them in a hostile work environment, continuing a pattern that dates back to her time as San Fransico district attorney.
The criticisms of Harris's management did not stop her rise from prosecutor to California attorney general to U.S. senator from the nation's most populous state to presidential candidate all the way up through the vice presidency.
Two senior advance staffers in her vice presidential office recently announced their departures, in a manner some former employees say is familiar to them.
“Look, this is a bottom-line business,” one senior Democratic operative told the Washington Examiner after the recent allegations broke.
“And the bottom line is the vice president has challenges with staff wherever she is.”
The criticisms of Harris's management style have taken on new relevance, however, as she is well positioned to be the Democratic presidential nominee at some point in the future.
President Joe Biden, already the oldest person to ever hold the office, will be 81 in 2024.
Presidential historian David Greenberg, who wrote Republic of Spin: An Inside History of the American Presidency, said it’s too early to tell whether the claims will weigh on Harris’s future electoral prospects.
“Nothing in the news now will matter in 2024."
"If these reports are well founded, Harris has lots of time to fix them, and other more significant things will happen before then,” Greenberg said, calling the allegations “pure inside baseball.”
According to Business Insider, however, these issues have been cropping up for years.
Barbara O’Connor, a communications professor at California State University, Sacramento, told the outlet that at least 20 interns who had worked in Harris’s attorney general and Senate offices sought her advice in tears.
O’Connor said that she helped several of them transfer out of Harris’s offices at the time.
There have also been high-dollar settlements linked to the veep's former staff.
In 2011, a settlement was reached between the California Justice Department and a top aide to then-Attorney General Harris.
Upon leaving, Terri Carbaugh, chief deputy attorney general, signed a nondisclosure agreement and received a $34,900 settlement, an amount just below the $35,000 limit that would have necessitated approval by the state Department of Finance.
A spokesperson for Harris said last July that Harris would support releasing Carbaugh from the nondisclosure agreement if the former staffer desired.
After the Sacramento Bee inquired in 2018 about $400,000 the California Justice Department paid to settle a sexual harassment and retaliation lawsuit involving a longtime aide, the staffer resigned.
Harris's office declined to respond to specific claims, but in a statement to Insider, a spokeswoman for Harris, Sabrina Singh, said:
"The Vice President and her office are focused on the Biden-Harris Administration's agenda to build an economy from the middle out and the bottom up, not the top down," Singh said.
"To making sure racial equity is at the core of everything the Administration does, to combatting the existential threat of climate change, and to continue protecting the American people from the Covid-19 pandemic."
After Politico described “a tense and at times dour office atmosphere” in which “ideas are ignored or met with harsh dismissals and decisions are dragged out,” one ex-staffer said the story traveled “like wildfire.”
This person sent the report to their therapist, accompanied by a note that read, “Rarely in life are we publicly vindicated,” according to Insider.
They told the publication that they sought therapy to “resolve trauma from the on-the-job abuse” after discovering that Harris would be Biden’s vice presidential nominee.
Earlier this month, there were reports of deep frustration with Harris’s current chief of staff, Tina Flournoy, a longtime Democratic operative who served in the White House under former President Bill Clinton.
Flournoy reportedly walled off Harris from donors and longtime friends.
Democrats and former aides have defended Flournoy, telling the Washington Examiner, “It does feel like the intentions of Tina Flournoy are good, which are to kind of clean up some of the mess and keep the hanger-ons away.”
This person zeroed in on the executive: “The consistent thread with all of the infighting and dissension, with all of the different power centers of Kamala Harris, is Vice President Harris.”
The news was “not surprising,” the person added.
“The Harris inner circles, and I’ll use that plural because they’ve been different inner circles in California, in her Senate office, on her presidential campaign, and now in her vice presidential campaign [and] in office, they’ve always been rife with a lot of dissension and a lot of infighting."
"It’s probably a little unfair to say it’s just her."
"But she is a common denominator in all of these situations.”
According to Insider, an ex-staffer reached out to another to say, “Poor Tina.”
Replied another, “I know lol that everyone is pointing to her when it’s obvi KDH,” using the vice president’s initials.
One former Harris aide recently told the Washington Examiner that he wasn’t surprised to see the vice president under a microscope.
“Hopefully, this is a wake-up call,” he said, pointing to what he called “self-inflicted wounds.”
“She’s taking on incredibly complex issues and is under the microscope like never before in her career."
"So this sort of treatment comes with the territory,” he added.
“But she really can’t afford any self-inflicted wounds as they will distract from the important work she has in front of her.”
Biden vowed early on to terminate employees if he learned they treated others poorly.
“I’ll fire you on the spot,” Biden told staff at a swearing-in ceremony soon after he took office.
He stood by this when a top White House communications aide verbally abused a reporter.
Asked about some of the charges during a press briefing this month, press secretary Jen Psaki demurred.
“I try not to speak to or engage on anonymous reports or anonymous sources,” she said, adding, “I will say that the vice president is an incredibly important partner to the president."
“She has a challenging job, a hard job."
"And she has a great, supportive team of people around her," Psaki said.
"But other than that, I’m not going to have any more comments on those reports.”
Speaking to Axios, Cedric Richmond, a top Biden adviser, blamed the stories on a “whisper campaign designed to sabotage her.”
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"'Consistent thread': Harris staff complaints predate her vice presidency"
Katherine Doyle
19 JULY 2021
Former aides to Vice President Kamala Harris charge that she terrorized them in a hostile work environment, continuing a pattern that dates back to her time as San Fransico district attorney.
The criticisms of Harris's management did not stop her rise from prosecutor to California attorney general to U.S. senator from the nation's most populous state to presidential candidate all the way up through the vice presidency.
Two senior advance staffers in her vice presidential office recently announced their departures, in a manner some former employees say is familiar to them.
“Look, this is a bottom-line business,” one senior Democratic operative told the Washington Examiner after the recent allegations broke.
“And the bottom line is the vice president has challenges with staff wherever she is.”
The criticisms of Harris's management style have taken on new relevance, however, as she is well positioned to be the Democratic presidential nominee at some point in the future.
President Joe Biden, already the oldest person to ever hold the office, will be 81 in 2024.
Presidential historian David Greenberg, who wrote Republic of Spin: An Inside History of the American Presidency, said it’s too early to tell whether the claims will weigh on Harris’s future electoral prospects.
“Nothing in the news now will matter in 2024."
"If these reports are well founded, Harris has lots of time to fix them, and other more significant things will happen before then,” Greenberg said, calling the allegations “pure inside baseball.”
According to Business Insider, however, these issues have been cropping up for years.
Barbara O’Connor, a communications professor at California State University, Sacramento, told the outlet that at least 20 interns who had worked in Harris’s attorney general and Senate offices sought her advice in tears.
O’Connor said that she helped several of them transfer out of Harris’s offices at the time.
There have also been high-dollar settlements linked to the veep's former staff.
In 2011, a settlement was reached between the California Justice Department and a top aide to then-Attorney General Harris.
Upon leaving, Terri Carbaugh, chief deputy attorney general, signed a nondisclosure agreement and received a $34,900 settlement, an amount just below the $35,000 limit that would have necessitated approval by the state Department of Finance.
A spokesperson for Harris said last July that Harris would support releasing Carbaugh from the nondisclosure agreement if the former staffer desired.
After the Sacramento Bee inquired in 2018 about $400,000 the California Justice Department paid to settle a sexual harassment and retaliation lawsuit involving a longtime aide, the staffer resigned.
Harris's office declined to respond to specific claims, but in a statement to Insider, a spokeswoman for Harris, Sabrina Singh, said:
"The Vice President and her office are focused on the Biden-Harris Administration's agenda to build an economy from the middle out and the bottom up, not the top down," Singh said.
"To making sure racial equity is at the core of everything the Administration does, to combatting the existential threat of climate change, and to continue protecting the American people from the Covid-19 pandemic."
After Politico described “a tense and at times dour office atmosphere” in which “ideas are ignored or met with harsh dismissals and decisions are dragged out,” one ex-staffer said the story traveled “like wildfire.”
This person sent the report to their therapist, accompanied by a note that read, “Rarely in life are we publicly vindicated,” according to Insider.
They told the publication that they sought therapy to “resolve trauma from the on-the-job abuse” after discovering that Harris would be Biden’s vice presidential nominee.
Earlier this month, there were reports of deep frustration with Harris’s current chief of staff, Tina Flournoy, a longtime Democratic operative who served in the White House under former President Bill Clinton.
Flournoy reportedly walled off Harris from donors and longtime friends.
Democrats and former aides have defended Flournoy, telling the Washington Examiner, “It does feel like the intentions of Tina Flournoy are good, which are to kind of clean up some of the mess and keep the hanger-ons away.”
This person zeroed in on the executive: “The consistent thread with all of the infighting and dissension, with all of the different power centers of Kamala Harris, is Vice President Harris.”
The news was “not surprising,” the person added.
“The Harris inner circles, and I’ll use that plural because they’ve been different inner circles in California, in her Senate office, on her presidential campaign, and now in her vice presidential campaign [and] in office, they’ve always been rife with a lot of dissension and a lot of infighting."
"It’s probably a little unfair to say it’s just her."
"But she is a common denominator in all of these situations.”
According to Insider, an ex-staffer reached out to another to say, “Poor Tina.”
Replied another, “I know lol that everyone is pointing to her when it’s obvi KDH,” using the vice president’s initials.
One former Harris aide recently told the Washington Examiner that he wasn’t surprised to see the vice president under a microscope.
“Hopefully, this is a wake-up call,” he said, pointing to what he called “self-inflicted wounds.”
“She’s taking on incredibly complex issues and is under the microscope like never before in her career."
"So this sort of treatment comes with the territory,” he added.
“But she really can’t afford any self-inflicted wounds as they will distract from the important work she has in front of her.”
Biden vowed early on to terminate employees if he learned they treated others poorly.
“I’ll fire you on the spot,” Biden told staff at a swearing-in ceremony soon after he took office.
He stood by this when a top White House communications aide verbally abused a reporter.
Asked about some of the charges during a press briefing this month, press secretary Jen Psaki demurred.
“I try not to speak to or engage on anonymous reports or anonymous sources,” she said, adding, “I will say that the vice president is an incredibly important partner to the president."
“She has a challenging job, a hard job."
"And she has a great, supportive team of people around her," Psaki said.
"But other than that, I’m not going to have any more comments on those reports.”
Speaking to Axios, Cedric Richmond, a top Biden adviser, blamed the stories on a “whisper campaign designed to sabotage her.”
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THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER
"Biden’s dangerous assault on freedom of speech"
Washington Examiner
20 JULY 2021
Just days after calling voter identification requirements “the most significant test of our democracy since the Civil War,” President Joe Biden accused Facebook of “killing people” by failing to censor what the White House characterizes as “misinformation” about COVID-19 vaccines.
Biden’s penchant for hyperbole would not be so worrisome if his press secretary, Jen Psaki, had not called on social media companies to work together in banning sources from all social media platforms.
“You shouldn’t be banned from one platform and not others for providing misinformation out there,” Psaki said.
The White House’s efforts to deputize social media platforms into becoming de facto government censors should be deeply troubling to every citizen who has ever voiced an opinion outside of the politically acceptable mainstream.
It was not that long ago when some social media platforms actively suppressed claims that COVID-19 originated in a Wuhan laboratory and spread after an accidental leak.
It was not that long ago when government officials encouraged people not to buy masks to protect themselves from COVID-19.
It was not that long ago experts said COVID-19 spread through physical surfaces or that we had to be a full 6 feet away from each other to socially distance.
In each of these cases, the Biden White House would have preferred to quash any debate about the truth of the virus.
They want only one voice of expert opinion reaching people, and they want to ban anyone voicing a dissenting opinion from all platforms.
The implications of this White House conspiracy to shut down speech it does not like becomes even scarier when the subject moves beyond COVID-19.
Just consider NPR’s recent story about The Daily Wire in which the story admits that “the articles The Daily Wire publishes don’t normally include falsehoods” but by “only covering specific stories that bolster the conservative agenda and only including certain facts readers still come away with the impression that Republican politicians can do little wrong.”
And: “If you’ve stripped enough context away,” NPR chosen expert Jaime Settle said, “any piece of truth can become a piece of misinformation.”
Truth as misinformation.
This Orwellian idea is probably why social media platforms colluded with Democrats to suppress true stories of Hunter Biden’s laptop containing evidence he sold access to his father.
Or why they suppressed evidence COVID-19 did originate from a Chinese communist lab.
Or why they banned books documenting the harm of invasive surgery on confused young children.
The power of social media platforms is only growing.
More than half of adults prefer to get their news on a digital platform.
Even if the people running these platforms didn’t give 90% of their political donations to one party, it should be worrisome these firms are conspiring with the federal government to control what can and cannot be said about any subject.
Policy solutions to this problem are hard.
But the Biden administration is showing the need for a solution is great and growing.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/biden ... d=msedgntp
"Biden’s dangerous assault on freedom of speech"
Washington Examiner
20 JULY 2021
Just days after calling voter identification requirements “the most significant test of our democracy since the Civil War,” President Joe Biden accused Facebook of “killing people” by failing to censor what the White House characterizes as “misinformation” about COVID-19 vaccines.
Biden’s penchant for hyperbole would not be so worrisome if his press secretary, Jen Psaki, had not called on social media companies to work together in banning sources from all social media platforms.
“You shouldn’t be banned from one platform and not others for providing misinformation out there,” Psaki said.
The White House’s efforts to deputize social media platforms into becoming de facto government censors should be deeply troubling to every citizen who has ever voiced an opinion outside of the politically acceptable mainstream.
It was not that long ago when some social media platforms actively suppressed claims that COVID-19 originated in a Wuhan laboratory and spread after an accidental leak.
It was not that long ago when government officials encouraged people not to buy masks to protect themselves from COVID-19.
It was not that long ago experts said COVID-19 spread through physical surfaces or that we had to be a full 6 feet away from each other to socially distance.
In each of these cases, the Biden White House would have preferred to quash any debate about the truth of the virus.
They want only one voice of expert opinion reaching people, and they want to ban anyone voicing a dissenting opinion from all platforms.
The implications of this White House conspiracy to shut down speech it does not like becomes even scarier when the subject moves beyond COVID-19.
Just consider NPR’s recent story about The Daily Wire in which the story admits that “the articles The Daily Wire publishes don’t normally include falsehoods” but by “only covering specific stories that bolster the conservative agenda and only including certain facts readers still come away with the impression that Republican politicians can do little wrong.”
And: “If you’ve stripped enough context away,” NPR chosen expert Jaime Settle said, “any piece of truth can become a piece of misinformation.”
Truth as misinformation.
This Orwellian idea is probably why social media platforms colluded with Democrats to suppress true stories of Hunter Biden’s laptop containing evidence he sold access to his father.
Or why they suppressed evidence COVID-19 did originate from a Chinese communist lab.
Or why they banned books documenting the harm of invasive surgery on confused young children.
The power of social media platforms is only growing.
More than half of adults prefer to get their news on a digital platform.
Even if the people running these platforms didn’t give 90% of their political donations to one party, it should be worrisome these firms are conspiring with the federal government to control what can and cannot be said about any subject.
Policy solutions to this problem are hard.
But the Biden administration is showing the need for a solution is great and growing.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/biden ... d=msedgntp
Re: AMERICA'S FIGHTING BULLDOG JOE BIDEN
THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR JULY 19, 2021 AT 10:43 PM
Paul Plante says:
Goofy old Joe Biden is all over the news feeds today telling us to not worry about inflation, as we see in a Reuters story entitled “Biden says inflation temporary; Fed should do what it deems necessary for recovery” by Steve Holland and Andrea Shalal on July 19, 2021, as follows:
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden on Monday said an increase in prices was expected to be temporary, but his administration understood that unchecked inflation over the longer term would pose a “real challenge” to the economy and would remain vigilant.
end quotes
His administration would remain “vigilant,” i,e, keeping careful watch for possible danger or difficulties?
Do tell, Joe.
And what does your administration plan to do if your vigilance shows you are dead wrong, as you are quoted in the CNN story “Biden takes on inflation concerns as domestic agenda hangs in the balance: ‘These disruptions are temporary'” by Phil Mattingly and Kate Sullivan on July 19, 2021, as follows:
(CNN) - President Joe Biden on Monday directly addressed concerns that his sweeping economic agenda will serve as an accelerant to inflation amid growing concern about price hikes across the economic spectrum.
“We also know that as our economy has come roaring back, we’ve seen some price increases.”
“Some folks have raised worries that could be a sign of persistent inflation.”
“But that’s not our view,” Biden said, speaking from the White House.
end quotes
If in the first place Joe and his crowd don’t believe inflation is a problem, then what kind of vigilance can we expect from them?
And secondly, will Joe be able to admit he was wrong in the case he is dead wrong and reverse his policies?
No way that is going to happen, people, which takes us back to Reuters, as follows:
“As our economy comes roaring back, we’ve seen some price increases,” Biden said, while rejecting concerns the recent increases could be a sign of persistent inflation.
The Democratic president said his plans to invest more in infrastructure, as well as better care for older people and children, would help reduce inflationary pressures in the future by boosting productivity.
“These steps will enhance our productivity, raising wages without raising prices,” he said.
“It will take the pressure off of inflation, give a boost to our workforce which leads to lower prices in the years ahead.”
end quotes
And there, the goofball sounds like he has been sniffing glue or taking some kind of hallucinogen, because raising wages raises prices and is a direct cause of price inflation, or at least that is a conclusion reached in a technical article entitled “Do Rising Labor Costs Trigger Higher Inflation?” by David A. Brauer in the Federal Reserve Bank of New York publication “Current Issues in Economics and Finance,” September 1997, Volume 3 Number 11, to wit:
Conclusion
The results presented here confirm a link from services sector wages and prices to overall inflation.
We find that if compensation growth accelerates in the service-producing sector, that growth is likely to show up directly as more rapid inflation in service prices.
Moreover, higher hourly labor costs in services can, through their contribution to the production and distribution of goods, indirectly affect goods prices.
Given earlier researchers’ findings showing a link from prices to wages, even these modest initial effects may therefore be enough to set off an inflationary spiral.
Since no such effects are found to arise from an acceleration of labor cost increases in the goods-producing sector, policymakers seeking to prevent a resurgence of inflation may wish to pay particular attention to hourly labor costs in the service-producing private sector.
end quotes
In the meantime, a 19/32-in x 4-ft x 8-ft sheet of OSB Sheathing, which is wood scraps and glue, was selling for $70.87 today, which is patently ridiculous.
So much for no inflation.
http://www.capecharlesmirror.com/news/w ... ent-386139
Paul Plante says:
Goofy old Joe Biden is all over the news feeds today telling us to not worry about inflation, as we see in a Reuters story entitled “Biden says inflation temporary; Fed should do what it deems necessary for recovery” by Steve Holland and Andrea Shalal on July 19, 2021, as follows:
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden on Monday said an increase in prices was expected to be temporary, but his administration understood that unchecked inflation over the longer term would pose a “real challenge” to the economy and would remain vigilant.
end quotes
His administration would remain “vigilant,” i,e, keeping careful watch for possible danger or difficulties?
Do tell, Joe.
And what does your administration plan to do if your vigilance shows you are dead wrong, as you are quoted in the CNN story “Biden takes on inflation concerns as domestic agenda hangs in the balance: ‘These disruptions are temporary'” by Phil Mattingly and Kate Sullivan on July 19, 2021, as follows:
(CNN) - President Joe Biden on Monday directly addressed concerns that his sweeping economic agenda will serve as an accelerant to inflation amid growing concern about price hikes across the economic spectrum.
“We also know that as our economy has come roaring back, we’ve seen some price increases.”
“Some folks have raised worries that could be a sign of persistent inflation.”
“But that’s not our view,” Biden said, speaking from the White House.
end quotes
If in the first place Joe and his crowd don’t believe inflation is a problem, then what kind of vigilance can we expect from them?
And secondly, will Joe be able to admit he was wrong in the case he is dead wrong and reverse his policies?
No way that is going to happen, people, which takes us back to Reuters, as follows:
“As our economy comes roaring back, we’ve seen some price increases,” Biden said, while rejecting concerns the recent increases could be a sign of persistent inflation.
The Democratic president said his plans to invest more in infrastructure, as well as better care for older people and children, would help reduce inflationary pressures in the future by boosting productivity.
“These steps will enhance our productivity, raising wages without raising prices,” he said.
“It will take the pressure off of inflation, give a boost to our workforce which leads to lower prices in the years ahead.”
end quotes
And there, the goofball sounds like he has been sniffing glue or taking some kind of hallucinogen, because raising wages raises prices and is a direct cause of price inflation, or at least that is a conclusion reached in a technical article entitled “Do Rising Labor Costs Trigger Higher Inflation?” by David A. Brauer in the Federal Reserve Bank of New York publication “Current Issues in Economics and Finance,” September 1997, Volume 3 Number 11, to wit:
Conclusion
The results presented here confirm a link from services sector wages and prices to overall inflation.
We find that if compensation growth accelerates in the service-producing sector, that growth is likely to show up directly as more rapid inflation in service prices.
Moreover, higher hourly labor costs in services can, through their contribution to the production and distribution of goods, indirectly affect goods prices.
Given earlier researchers’ findings showing a link from prices to wages, even these modest initial effects may therefore be enough to set off an inflationary spiral.
Since no such effects are found to arise from an acceleration of labor cost increases in the goods-producing sector, policymakers seeking to prevent a resurgence of inflation may wish to pay particular attention to hourly labor costs in the service-producing private sector.
end quotes
In the meantime, a 19/32-in x 4-ft x 8-ft sheet of OSB Sheathing, which is wood scraps and glue, was selling for $70.87 today, which is patently ridiculous.
So much for no inflation.
http://www.capecharlesmirror.com/news/w ... ent-386139
Re: AMERICA'S FIGHTING BULLDOG JOE BIDEN
THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR JULY 20, 2021 AT 9:39 PM
Paul Plante says:
And going back for the moment to the statement issued by the U.S. 7th Fleet public affairs on 12 July 2021 where we were told “USS Benfold conducted this FONOP (freedom of navigation operation) in accordance with international law and then continued on to conduct normal operations in international waters,” and “(T)he operation reflects our commitment to uphold freedom of navigation and lawful uses of the sea as a principle,” and “(T)he PLA(N)’s [People’s Liberation Army Navy] statement is the latest in a long string of PRC actions to misrepresent lawful U.S. maritime operations and assert its excessive and illegitimate maritime claims at the expense of its Southeast Asian neighbors in the South China Sea,” and “(T)he PRC’s behavior stands in contrast to the United States’ adherence to international law and our vision for a free and open Indo-Pacific region,” with respect to what the Navy press dudes are calling “international law,” as if that term meant anything concrete, we need to bring into the discussion the international treaty known as the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), which was never ratified by the United States.
As we learn from Wikipedia on that subject, the Third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS III) was convened from June to August in Caracas, Venezuela in 1974.
The most significant issues which were covered were setting limits, navigation, archipelagic status and transit regimes, exclusive economic zones (EEZs), continental shelf jurisdiction, deep seabed mining, the exploitation regime, protection of the marine environment, scientific research, and settlement of maritime boundary disputes.
With more than 160 nations participating, the Conference continued until its final meeting in late 1982, at which time the final act was signed and the Convention was opened for signature.
As time went on, it became clear that the United States, among other developed states, was not willing to agree to Part XI of the Convention concerning deep seabed portions and mining of potentially valuable metals.
The United States objected to Part XI of the Convention on several grounds, arguing that the treaty was unfavorable to American economic and security interests.
The U.S. claimed that the provisions of the treaty were not free-market friendly and were designed to favor the economic systems of the Communist states.
The U.S. also argued that the International Seabed Authority established by the Convention might become a bloated and expensive bureaucracy, due to a combination of large revenues and insufficient control over what the revenues could be used for.
The United States accepted all but Part XI as customary international law.
In March 1983 President Ronald Reagan, through Proclamation No. 5030, claimed a 200-mile exclusive economic zone.
In December 1988 President Reagan, through Proclamation No. 5928, extended U.S. territorial waters from three nautical miles to twelve nautical miles for national security purposes.
However a legal opinion from the Justice Department questioned the President’s constitutional authority to extend sovereignty as Congress has the power to make laws concerning the territory belonging to the United States under the U.S. Constitution.
In any event, Congress needs to pass laws defining if the extended waters, including oil and mineral rights, are under State or Federal control.
end quotes
So if we do not believe in international law, why is it that we would expect any different from the Chinese?
A mystery to me, anyway.
Perhaps as a congresswoman, Elaine Luria can give us some much needed guidance on that subject.
http://www.capecharlesmirror.com/news/r ... ent-386739
Paul Plante says:
And going back for the moment to the statement issued by the U.S. 7th Fleet public affairs on 12 July 2021 where we were told “USS Benfold conducted this FONOP (freedom of navigation operation) in accordance with international law and then continued on to conduct normal operations in international waters,” and “(T)he operation reflects our commitment to uphold freedom of navigation and lawful uses of the sea as a principle,” and “(T)he PLA(N)’s [People’s Liberation Army Navy] statement is the latest in a long string of PRC actions to misrepresent lawful U.S. maritime operations and assert its excessive and illegitimate maritime claims at the expense of its Southeast Asian neighbors in the South China Sea,” and “(T)he PRC’s behavior stands in contrast to the United States’ adherence to international law and our vision for a free and open Indo-Pacific region,” with respect to what the Navy press dudes are calling “international law,” as if that term meant anything concrete, we need to bring into the discussion the international treaty known as the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), which was never ratified by the United States.
As we learn from Wikipedia on that subject, the Third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS III) was convened from June to August in Caracas, Venezuela in 1974.
The most significant issues which were covered were setting limits, navigation, archipelagic status and transit regimes, exclusive economic zones (EEZs), continental shelf jurisdiction, deep seabed mining, the exploitation regime, protection of the marine environment, scientific research, and settlement of maritime boundary disputes.
With more than 160 nations participating, the Conference continued until its final meeting in late 1982, at which time the final act was signed and the Convention was opened for signature.
As time went on, it became clear that the United States, among other developed states, was not willing to agree to Part XI of the Convention concerning deep seabed portions and mining of potentially valuable metals.
The United States objected to Part XI of the Convention on several grounds, arguing that the treaty was unfavorable to American economic and security interests.
The U.S. claimed that the provisions of the treaty were not free-market friendly and were designed to favor the economic systems of the Communist states.
The U.S. also argued that the International Seabed Authority established by the Convention might become a bloated and expensive bureaucracy, due to a combination of large revenues and insufficient control over what the revenues could be used for.
The United States accepted all but Part XI as customary international law.
In March 1983 President Ronald Reagan, through Proclamation No. 5030, claimed a 200-mile exclusive economic zone.
In December 1988 President Reagan, through Proclamation No. 5928, extended U.S. territorial waters from three nautical miles to twelve nautical miles for national security purposes.
However a legal opinion from the Justice Department questioned the President’s constitutional authority to extend sovereignty as Congress has the power to make laws concerning the territory belonging to the United States under the U.S. Constitution.
In any event, Congress needs to pass laws defining if the extended waters, including oil and mineral rights, are under State or Federal control.
end quotes
So if we do not believe in international law, why is it that we would expect any different from the Chinese?
A mystery to me, anyway.
Perhaps as a congresswoman, Elaine Luria can give us some much needed guidance on that subject.
http://www.capecharlesmirror.com/news/r ... ent-386739
Re: AMERICA'S FIGHTING BULLDOG JOE BIDEN
THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR JULY 21, 2021 AT 6:35 PM
Paul Plante says:
And talk about the train leaving the station with no brakes, square wheels and a full head of steam and then some, with the boiler about to explode as the DEMOCRATS on Nancy Pelosi’s hand-picked KANGAROO COURT pour on the coal, and true to form the TYRANNICAL DESPOT Nancy Pelosi has vetoed two of the Republican choices because they didn’t meet her standards, while there is no challenge whatsoever of obviously biased and prejudiced DEMOCRATS on the hand-picked KANGAROO COURT like Elaine Luria, let’s go to an article in The Guardian entitled “Capitol attack committee chair vows to investigate Trump: ‘Nothing is off limits’” by Hugo Lowell in Washington on 21 July 2021, where we have as follows:
Congressman Bennie Thompson, the chairman of the new House select committee to scrutinize the Capitol attack, says he will investigate Donald Trump as part of his inquiry into the events of 6 January – a day he sees as the greatest test to the United States since the civil war.
end quotes
And talk about HYPERBOLIC (exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally) HORSE****, people, there we have it in spades staring us right in the face, because as events go, what happened on January 6 was a YAWNER, despite what Bennie wants us to believe, an event bordering on HO ******* HUM and it certainly was far from the “greatest test to the United States since the Civil War,” as we can clearly see from this newsreel footage of an assault on the Pentagon by protesters during the DEMOCRAT VEET NAM DEBACLE:
Anti Vietnam War Protest
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bk09F1fTs1E
Or this assault on the capitol in 1971 by VEET NAM WAR protesters:
1971 MAY DAY ANTI-VIETNAM WAR PROTEST FILM “THE WHOLE WORLD IS WATCHING” WASHINGTON D.C. XD13614
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQzgchtpUFc
Or how about this for a candidate for the “greatest test to the United States since the Civil War,” to wit:
Protesters besiege White House as chaos sweeps Washington | ITV News
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwDcvAH43UQ
And my goodness, having been around back then, who can possibly forget this from a time when the United States was truly at the breaking point:
Vietnam War protest in Washington
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fv7Gk-Pg7Rw
Which thought about America at the breaking point back then because of the Democrats and the VEET NAM war of Democrat Lyndon Baines Johnson takes us to this:
1969 Point Of Breaking (The Vietnam Protest – Washington, DC)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AoeWqtjCJ_I
And this makes what took place on 6 January 2021 look like small potatoes:
Largest Anti-Vietnam War protest in Washington, D.C. – 1969 | Movietone Moment
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nT-_ieQ57A
And my goodness, people, talking about an event that is another prime candidate for the “greatest test to the United States since the Civil War,” who can possibly forget the Bonus Army, which was a group of 43,000 demonstrators – made up of 17,000 U.S. World War I veterans, together with their families and affiliated groups – who gathered in Washington, D.C. in mid-1932 to demand early cash redemption of their service certificates.
According to Wikipedia, organizers called the demonstrators the “Bonus Expeditionary Force,” to echo the name of World War I’s American Expeditionary Forces, while the media referred to them as the “Bonus Army” or “Bonus Marchers.”
Many of the war veterans had been out of work since the beginning of the Great Depression.
The World War Adjusted Compensation Act of 1924 had awarded them bonuses in the form of certificates they could not redeem until 1945.
Each certificate, issued to a qualified veteran soldier, bore a face value equal to the soldier’s promised payment with compound interest.
The principal demand of the Bonus Army was the immediate cash payment of their certificates.
On July 28, 1932, U.S. Attorney General William D. Mitchell ordered the veterans removed from all government property.
Washington police met with resistance, shot at the protestors, and two veterans were wounded and later died.
President Herbert Hoover then ordered the U.S. Army to clear the marchers’ campsite.
Army Chief of Staff General Douglas MacArthur commanded a contingent of infantry and cavalry, supported by six tanks.
The Bonus Army marchers with their wives and children were driven out, and their shelters and belongings burned.
end quotes
So, bottom line, people, do not let Bennie Thompson and the Democrats bury you under a mountain of hyperbolic horse**** that simply is not true.
This nation has faced far worse in its history than what happened on 6 January 2021 and we survived.
And we survived 6 January 2021, as well, although the Democrats will have us believing otherwise with their full-bore propaganda barrage, which is what these hearings will be, this as we read in the breaking NBC News story entitled “McCarthy threatens to pull his choices from Jan. 6 panel after Pelosi rejects GOP Reps. Jordan and Banks” by Teaganne Finn and Leigh Ann Caldwell on 21 July 2021, as follows:
WASHINGTON — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., rejected two of Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy’s picks for the select committee charged with investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, prompting the Republican leader to threaten to pull all of his proposed appointees.
end quotes
What ******* BULL****!
Pelosi DEMOCRACY in action, right before our eyes!
http://www.capecharlesmirror.com/news/r ... ent-387306
Paul Plante says:
And talk about the train leaving the station with no brakes, square wheels and a full head of steam and then some, with the boiler about to explode as the DEMOCRATS on Nancy Pelosi’s hand-picked KANGAROO COURT pour on the coal, and true to form the TYRANNICAL DESPOT Nancy Pelosi has vetoed two of the Republican choices because they didn’t meet her standards, while there is no challenge whatsoever of obviously biased and prejudiced DEMOCRATS on the hand-picked KANGAROO COURT like Elaine Luria, let’s go to an article in The Guardian entitled “Capitol attack committee chair vows to investigate Trump: ‘Nothing is off limits’” by Hugo Lowell in Washington on 21 July 2021, where we have as follows:
Congressman Bennie Thompson, the chairman of the new House select committee to scrutinize the Capitol attack, says he will investigate Donald Trump as part of his inquiry into the events of 6 January – a day he sees as the greatest test to the United States since the civil war.
end quotes
And talk about HYPERBOLIC (exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally) HORSE****, people, there we have it in spades staring us right in the face, because as events go, what happened on January 6 was a YAWNER, despite what Bennie wants us to believe, an event bordering on HO ******* HUM and it certainly was far from the “greatest test to the United States since the Civil War,” as we can clearly see from this newsreel footage of an assault on the Pentagon by protesters during the DEMOCRAT VEET NAM DEBACLE:
Anti Vietnam War Protest
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bk09F1fTs1E
Or this assault on the capitol in 1971 by VEET NAM WAR protesters:
1971 MAY DAY ANTI-VIETNAM WAR PROTEST FILM “THE WHOLE WORLD IS WATCHING” WASHINGTON D.C. XD13614
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQzgchtpUFc
Or how about this for a candidate for the “greatest test to the United States since the Civil War,” to wit:
Protesters besiege White House as chaos sweeps Washington | ITV News
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwDcvAH43UQ
And my goodness, having been around back then, who can possibly forget this from a time when the United States was truly at the breaking point:
Vietnam War protest in Washington
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fv7Gk-Pg7Rw
Which thought about America at the breaking point back then because of the Democrats and the VEET NAM war of Democrat Lyndon Baines Johnson takes us to this:
1969 Point Of Breaking (The Vietnam Protest – Washington, DC)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AoeWqtjCJ_I
And this makes what took place on 6 January 2021 look like small potatoes:
Largest Anti-Vietnam War protest in Washington, D.C. – 1969 | Movietone Moment
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nT-_ieQ57A
And my goodness, people, talking about an event that is another prime candidate for the “greatest test to the United States since the Civil War,” who can possibly forget the Bonus Army, which was a group of 43,000 demonstrators – made up of 17,000 U.S. World War I veterans, together with their families and affiliated groups – who gathered in Washington, D.C. in mid-1932 to demand early cash redemption of their service certificates.
According to Wikipedia, organizers called the demonstrators the “Bonus Expeditionary Force,” to echo the name of World War I’s American Expeditionary Forces, while the media referred to them as the “Bonus Army” or “Bonus Marchers.”
Many of the war veterans had been out of work since the beginning of the Great Depression.
The World War Adjusted Compensation Act of 1924 had awarded them bonuses in the form of certificates they could not redeem until 1945.
Each certificate, issued to a qualified veteran soldier, bore a face value equal to the soldier’s promised payment with compound interest.
The principal demand of the Bonus Army was the immediate cash payment of their certificates.
On July 28, 1932, U.S. Attorney General William D. Mitchell ordered the veterans removed from all government property.
Washington police met with resistance, shot at the protestors, and two veterans were wounded and later died.
President Herbert Hoover then ordered the U.S. Army to clear the marchers’ campsite.
Army Chief of Staff General Douglas MacArthur commanded a contingent of infantry and cavalry, supported by six tanks.
The Bonus Army marchers with their wives and children were driven out, and their shelters and belongings burned.
end quotes
So, bottom line, people, do not let Bennie Thompson and the Democrats bury you under a mountain of hyperbolic horse**** that simply is not true.
This nation has faced far worse in its history than what happened on 6 January 2021 and we survived.
And we survived 6 January 2021, as well, although the Democrats will have us believing otherwise with their full-bore propaganda barrage, which is what these hearings will be, this as we read in the breaking NBC News story entitled “McCarthy threatens to pull his choices from Jan. 6 panel after Pelosi rejects GOP Reps. Jordan and Banks” by Teaganne Finn and Leigh Ann Caldwell on 21 July 2021, as follows:
WASHINGTON — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., rejected two of Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy’s picks for the select committee charged with investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, prompting the Republican leader to threaten to pull all of his proposed appointees.
end quotes
What ******* BULL****!
Pelosi DEMOCRACY in action, right before our eyes!
http://www.capecharlesmirror.com/news/r ... ent-387306