Published Mar 11, 2021 06:59 am

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Washington, DC — On a partisan line vote, the US House approved the $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package that includes $1,400 checks coming to many Americans.

Republican Congressman Tom McClintock, who represents the Mother Lode, spoke out in opposition on the US House floor.

He stated, “This is the most left-wing bill ever passed by the Congress. But beware, there is no such thing as free money. All of it must be borrowed from the same capital pool that would otherwise be available as loans to consumers, homebuyers and small businesses. And it will be repaid entirely from your future earnings in the years ahead.”

McClintock argues that he prefers ending all of the lockdown measures instead of passing the stimulus package. President Joe Biden will sign the measure after it gained approval in both the House and Senate. The House vote was 220 to 211, with all Republicans in opposition, and all but one Democrat voting in favor. Other aspects of the bill include $350-billion in aid for state and local governments, $130-billion for k-12 schools and $14-billion for vaccine distribution.

Written by BJ Hansen.

By Andrew Chen March 10, 2021 Updated: March 10, 2021

A first-of-its-kind study has revealed that academia in Canada, the United States, and the UK are suppressing and punishing conservative scholars and students for their ideas and speech, which is increasingly encroaching on their academic freedom.

The report (pdf) was conducted by the Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology (CSPI), which said its analysis, supported by large-scale survey data, is able to provide scientific evidences to “campus illiberalism.”

“A significant portion of academics discriminate against conservatives in hiring, promotion, grants, and publications,” wrote Eric Kaufmann, professor of politics at Birkbeck College, University of London, and author of the CSPI report.

Kaufmann said this study is unique because its analysis reveals the nature and extent of the punishment and political discrimination against conservative academics “from the perspectives of both perpetrators and victims.”

The report noted that while progressive critics have brushed off high profile cases of discrimination and mob violence as exceptions of the largely intact academic freedom,

right-leaning academics are experiencing a high level of “institutional authoritarianism” and peer pressure in all three Anglophone countries.

Right-leaning scholars are faced with two types of threats to academic freedom, which is dichotomized in the report as hard and soft authoritarianism, according to the report.

Hard Authoritarianism

“Hard authoritarianism” entails no-platforming, dismissal campaigns, social media mob attacks, formal complaints, and disciplinary action, Kaufmann says. He added that only a small “subgroup of illiberal, far-left activist staff and students” are perpetrators of such actions.

Given five scenarios in which a faculty member is found to support a conservative idea—such as traditional parenthood and restricted immigration—nearly 60 percent of Canadian respondents would favor dismissing the staff member.

The report found that “progressive authoritarianism” is likely to get worse in coming years, as younger academics and PhD students are much more willing to support ousting controversial scholars from their posts.

Soft Authoritarianism

This is a more subtle yet insidious form of punishing the conservatives and dissidents of the liberal ways, Kaufmann says. The victims are discriminated in career opportunities such as hiring, promotion, grant application, publication, and social inclusion.

Four out of 10 U.S. and Canadian academics would not hire a supporter of the former U.S. President Donald Trump.

In the field of social sciences and humanities, over nine in 10 pro-Trump academics say they would feel “uncomfortable” revealing their political view to a colleague. Similarly, eight in 10 pro-Brexit academics are worried about “coming out.”

In the United States, over a third of conservative academics and PhD students have been threatened with disciplinary action for their political views, and 70 percent have experienced a “hostile departmental climate” for their political inclination, the report states. The study says a hostile climate could deter conservative students from pursuing a career in the academia after graduation.

The report found that conservative academics are savvy about the structural barriers towering over them, and more than half of these minorities in the three countries have admitted of self-censoring in research and teaching.

Kaufmann said governments can address the problem by proactively enforcing the law and sanction universities that repeatedly encroach on individuals’ academic freedom. Another option is to open up means for plaintiffs to appeal universities to a regulatory ombudsman.

The CSPI was formed in 2020 to address two major political problems within academic research. The first is the political bias that affects issues ranging from the framing of research questions to employment in the field. It also addresses the growing replication crisis, particularly in psychology researches.Help us spread the truth. Share this article with your friends.

This file photo shows a hole cut into Southern California’s border fence with Mexico on March 3, 2021. (U.S. Customs and Border Protection via AP) Executive Branch

By Masooma Haq March 10, 2021 Updated: March 10, 2021 biggersmallerPrint

The Biden administration’s southwestern border coordinator, Roberta Jacobson, told reporters during a White House briefing Wednesday that the administration’s “more humane” immigration policies may be driving the migrant surge at the southern border and encouraging smugglers.

“Surges tend to respond to hope, and there was a significant hope for a more humane policy after four years of pent up demand,” she told reporters.

The former ambassador to Mexico said “the idea that a more humane policy would be in place” under Biden may have driven a surge in people choosing to arrive at the southern border in an “irregular fashion,” while blaming human smugglers for promoting “disinformation” about the law changes and urging people not to listen to them.

“We’re going to try our best to do everything we can at each end of this, in the United States but especially in Central America and Mexico, to ensure we have safe, orderly, and legal migration,” she said.

Both President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, during their presidential campaigns, emphasized reversing the Trump-era immigration policies and making it easier for people needing protection to apply and get asylum in the United States.

Referring to former President Donald Trump’s immigration message, she said, “I think it’s really important to understand that you can’t and shouldn’t say, in this administration’s opinion, that the only way to message, ‘Do not come in an irregular fashion,’ is to act as cruelly as you possibly can, separate children from their parents, return people to places like migrant camp and Matamoros for up to two plus years at a time and that’s the only way that you can get your message across.”

Jacobson said that Biden’s team has been working to reform the nation’s immigration policies since arriving in the White House to what it says will be “a more humane and efficient system.” But she said it will take time.

“We are trying to walk and chew gum at the same time. We are trying to convey to everyone in the region that we will have legal processes in the future … But at the same time, you cannot come through irregular means. It’s dangerous and the majority of people will be sent out of the United States because that is the truth of it,” she said. “We want to be honest with people. And so we are trying to send both messages and smugglers are only trying to send one message. So we’re relying on every means we can to get that message out there.”

“The border is not open,” Jacobson said in Spanish and in English.

She added that Biden’s vision is to fix the U.S. system as well as address “the hopes and the dreams of these migrants in their home country.”

The administration is requesting $4 billion from Congress to mitigate immigration challenges, with a focus on providing aid to the home countries from which migrants are coming.

However, Jacobson admitted that the United States doesn’t have magical leverage over Northern Triangle countries to ensure that aid is being used to address issues like “lack of good governance, economic opportunity, and security issues or violence.”

She said Biden will work to get commitments from regional leaders, charities, and NGO organizations to address local corruption and transparency issues before any money is changed hands.

“We can encourage them. We can help support them with resources, both technical assistance and funding, but we can’t make those changes. The changes have to come in the Northern Triangle countries,” she said.

Jacobson also confirmed that the administration is planning to restart the Central American Minors program, allowing minors in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras to apply for refugee settlement in the United States from their home countries.

According to multiple reports, the Department of Homeland Security has confirmed that the number of migrant children in custody along the southern border is currently more than 3,250—more than triple the number from two weeks ago. Of those children, more than 1,360 have been staying at holding cells longer than the three days allowed by law.

In February, Border Patrol apprehended 100,441 illegal border crossers along the southern border, according to Customs and Border Protection.Help us spread the truth. Share this article with your friends.

WHY ARE AMERICANS NOW BEING TREATED LIKE MUSHROOMS, ie; KEPT IN THE DARK AND FED STEAMING SHIT? WHO IS ILLEGALLY RIGGING OUR ELECTIONS TO INSURE A “ONE PARTY RULE” TO REPLACE OUR DEMOCRACY?

STILL SHOTS FROM NEW VIDEO BY “PATRIOTIC PILLOW GUY”!

By Mark Truppner Published Mar 9, 2021 06:00 am

Republican House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy of Bakersfield, recently spoke on the US House Floor.

McCarthy was Tuesday’s KVML “Newsmaker of the Day”. Here are his words:

“Madam Speaker — I am about to say something the American people won’t want to hear.

The Swamp is back.

Every day since January 20, Democrats have sided with their special interest allies and ignored the real needs of the American people.

The result is the bill before us today. Or should I say tomorrow. Congress won’t actually vote on this bill until 2 AM, Saturday.

Why? Because Democrats are so embarrassed by all the non-COVID waste in this bill that they are jamming it through in the dead of night.

We ran the numbers — the amount of money that actually goes to defeating the virus is less than 9 percent.

Less than 9 percent!

So don’t call it a rescue bill. Don’t call it a relief bill. Call it the Pelosi Payoff.

If you’re a friend of the Speaker, you do pretty well under this bill. But for the American people, it’s a loser.

Consider Medicare. Tonight, CBO confirmed that this bill would cause $36 billion in cuts to Medicare starting next year.

If you vote for this bill, I want you to go back to your district, look seniors in the eye, and tell them why you voted to cut their health benefits.

Or consider the blue state bailout. This bill calls for states and local governments to receive $350 billion dollars. Most states are not in financial distress. Nearly half saw an increase in revenue last year. And some, including my home state of California, actually have a budget surplus.

But none of that money is tied to reopening.

Or consider elite institutions — Harvard and others. This bill calls for them to receive hundreds of millions of dollars. But Harvard already has a $40 billion endowment.

Compare that to K-12 education. This bill allocates only $6 billion to help reopen American schools in FY 2021. More than two-thirds of the education funding would not be spent until 2023 or later.

Almost every one of this bill’s 592 pages includes a liberal pipedream that predates the pandemic.

Check the fine print.

On page 97, it hands out health care subsidies to illegal immigrants.

On page 347, it fast-tracks $1.5 billion to Amtrak, which hasn’t even spent the $1 billion from the last package.

On page 306, it gives federal employees up to an extra $21,000 to help cope with virtual schooling.

But if you are one of the millions of parents outside of Washington who are struggling through school closures — including the million mothers who had to quit their jobs to take care of kids home from school — you are ignored.

And on pages 358, it funnels $140 million for a subway tunnel near Speaker Pelosi’s district.

When you add it all up, the size of this payoff is jaw dropping: $1.9 trillion in new spending.

It is the single most expensive spending bill ever.

But will it help people get back to work? No.

Will it help students get back in the classroom immediately? No.

Will it help get vaccines to those who want it? No.

It doesn’t spend a third of the entire cost of the bill for another two years — undermining the claim that this bill is ‘urgent.’

It doesn’t have any guardrails to protect against fraud — which has already cost taxpayers tens of billions of dollars, including in California.

It just throws out more money without accountability — even though we have over one trillion dollars in unspent funds from the last bill.

President Biden promised unity, but Democrats are delivering one-party rule.

“Madam Speaker — Based on the facts, the Democrats’ spending bill is too costly, too corrupt, and too liberal for the country.

To my colleagues who say this bill is bold, I say it is bloated.

To those who say it is urgent, I say it is unfocused.

To those who say it is popular, I say it is entirely partisan and has the wrong priorities.

Republicans will support whatever is needed to get Americans back to work, back to school, and back to health. After 12 months of struggling, suffering, and sacrificing, that’s what Americans want, what they need, and what they deserve.

That’s why, Republicans will introduce a Motion to Recommit to bolster the resources families can access to help children cope with the emotional stress of school closures.

Our proposal would shift $140 million from Speaker Pelosi’s subway to grants that would be used for mental health services for kids.

It puts students first, not the Swamp.

Democrats have conveniently ignored the education and mental health crisis affecting our children. But failing to address it is unacceptable.

Families deserve answers. Tonight, they will finally get them.

Our colleagues are going to go on the record and say whether they support a $140 million subway or grants for kids’ mental health.

I yield back.”

The “Newsmaker of the Day” is heard every weekday morning at 6:45, 7:45 and 8:45 on AM 1450 and FM 102.7 KVML.

Written by Mark Truppner.

Impeachment Manager Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) speaks on the second day of former President Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial at the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Feb. 10, 2021. (congress.gov via Getty Images) Democrats

By Tom Ozimek March 5, 2021 Updated: March 5, 2021 biggersmallerPrint

Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.), the Democrat lawmaker embroiled in a Chinese spy saga who served as a House manager in former President Donald Trump’s impeachment, filed a lawsuit Friday against Trump and others in connection with the Jan. 6 Capitol incident.

Swalwell, who has been dogged by the story that he was targeted by an alleged Chinese spy and now faces Republican challenges to his suitability to continue serving on a House homeland security committee, filed the lawsuit against the former president, his son, a lawyer, and a Republican congressman whose actions Swalwell claims spurred a “violent mob” to attack the Capitol.

The suit (pdf), filed in federal court in Washington, makes allegations under eight counts, including: conspiracy to violate civil rights, negligence, incitement to riot, disorderly conduct and terrorism, and intentional infliction of emotional distress.

Swalwell claims that Trump, his son Donald Jr., former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, and Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Ala.), made “false and incendiary allegations of fraud and theft, and in direct response to the Defendant’s express calls for violence at the rally, a violent mob attacked the U.S. Capitol.”

In a statement, Swalwell said all four defendants “assembled, inflamed and incited the mob, and as such are wholly responsible for the injury and destruction that followed.”

The lawsuit basically makes the case that both Trumps, Giuliani, and Brooks spread claims of election fraud and by so doing they helped to rile up thousands of people who breached the Capitol.

Trump’s spokesman Jason Miller responded to the suit, labeling it a “witch hunt” and calling Swalwell a “low-life” with “no credibility.”

“Now, after failing miserably with two impeachment hoaxes,” Swalwell is attacking “our greatest President with yet another witch hunt,” Miller said. “It’s a disgrace that a compromised Member of Congress like Swalwell still sits on the House Intelligence Committee.”

Harmeet K. Dhillon, an attorney who is a partner at a law firm with former Trump lawyer Ron Coleman, commented on Swalwell’s suit, calling it “patently frivolous.”

“Can we citizens sue Swalwell for conspiring with a Chinese spy? I mean it’s at least negligent, right? Subverts our democracy, etc. The possibilities are endless,” she wrote in a tweet.

A report by Axios on Dec. 7 claimed that the alleged Chinese spy, Christine Fang, built up an extensive network of contacts with up-and-coming politicians in the San Francisco Bay Area, including Swalwell. The report said Swalwell cut ties with her after investigators gave him a “defensive briefing,” and that he provided information about her to the FBI.

Swalwell, a member of the House Intelligence Committee, told CNN that he didn’t do anything wrong and accused Republicans of trying to weaponize the Axios report.

“I was told about this individual and I offered to help,” he told CNN. “All I did was cooperate, and the FBI said that.”

But national security concerns have persisted, given Swalwell’s membership on the House committee, whose members have access to sensitive classified information.

“This breach of our national security is especially concerning,” wrote more than a dozen House Republicans, in a Feb. 23 letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray.

They called on Wray to brief the Homeland Security panel about “Rep. Swalwell’s relationship with Fang and any potential exposure of classified information” so that its members can consider whether to limit Swalwell’s future access to classified information.

Swalwell’s office didn’t respond to a request for comment from The Epoch Times after the Axios report was published.

Meanwhile, in his suit against Trump and others, Swalwell seeks relief in the form of “actual money damages” and “punitive damages” in amounts to be determined at trial, along with coverage of his attorney fees.

Swalwell also wants the court to order Trump to have to notify him in writing a week ahead of any planned rally to give him time potentially to try and block it “to prevent further violence or disruption to the proper functioning of the federal government.”

The Democrat lawmaker is demanding a trial by jury. Follow Tom on Twitter: @OZImekTOMHelp us spread the truth. Share this article with your friends.

President Joe Biden speaks in the State Dining Room of the White House on March 2, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Doug Mills-Pool/Getty Images) China-US News

By Frank Fang March 4, 2021 Updated: March 4, 2021

The Biden administration’s approach to China as articulated in a speech by Secretary of State Antony Blinken on March 3 was heavy on rhetoric but light on substance, according to a foreign policy expert.

Blinken called China the “biggest geopolitical test of the 21st century, while also stating that the U.S. relationship with Beijing will be “competitive when it should be, collaborative when it can be, and adversarial when it must be.”

“The common denominator is the need to engage China from a position of strength,” Blinken added.

James Jay Carafano, vice president for foreign and defense policy studies at Washington-based think tank Heritage Foundation, told The Epoch Times that the speech was “the same old kind of empty rhetoric.”

He particularly criticized Blinken’s call for cooperation with China on certain issues.

“All the key vital issues that we have with China, we are on the opposite sides on all of them. So where are we going to cooperate?” Carafano said.

Carafano added that the concept of selective cooperation with China is a “failed decade-old construct.”

“It’s literally like Paul McCartney saying we’re gonna get the band back together and then somebody says, ‘Paul, you do know that two of the members are dead right’,” Carafano said.

For decades, U.S. administrations have engaged with the Chinese regime in the hopes that greater trade and investment links would lead to more democracy in the communist country. The Trump administration recognized this as a failed concept, and rewrote the United States’ approach to focus on confronting the regime over the threats it poses to national security, economic prosperity, and freedom.

Blinken’s words on working with China were reiterated in an interim national security strategic guidance issued by the Biden administration on Wednesday.

“We will welcome the Chinese government’s cooperation on issues such as climate change, global health security, arms control, and nonproliferation where our national fates are intertwined,” according to the guidance.

Gordon Chang, author of “The Coming Collapse of China” told The Epoch Times last month that it would not be possible for the United States to cooperate with the regime due to the conditions it imposes.

“The Communist Party has been very clear. They say that if you don’t cooperate with us on everything, we’re not going to cooperate on anything,” Chang said.

Critics have argued that the Biden administration has thus far announced policies that have benefited Beijing, including rejoining the Paris Climate accord, re-engaging with the United Nations Human Rights Council, rejoining the World Health Organization, and revoking a Trump-era rule relating to Beijing-funded Confucius Institutes.

Carafano said overall Blinken’s speech did not convey a coherent strategy.

“My assessment is: These guys came in without a plan. They don’t have a plan for China. They don’t have a plan for the Middle East. They don’t have a plan for Russia,” he said.

“We’re not seeing a clear policy of how you deal with great power competition of the 21st century.”

With reporting by Zachary Stieber. Cathy He also contributed to this report.

AMERICAN PATRIOTS!

DEMAND LEGITIMATE 100% DIGITAL FORENSIC CLONES OF ALL BALLOTS FOR ANALYSIS!

DETERMINE THOSE THAT ARE COUNTERFEIT, REMOVE FROM THE FINAL COUNT, IDENTIFY THE ELECTION CHEATERS AND PROSECUTE SUCH TRAITORS TO THE FULLEST EXTENT OF THE LAW!

RECLAIM OUR COUNTRY FROM THE CHEATERS!

My best to you and yours, Lew

"What am I doing here?"

This is a national embarrassment. Joe Biden is not mentally fit to lead our country.pic.twitter.com/qbVlCQLVQz

— Cassandra (@CassyWearsHeels) February 26, 2021

Thanks for the video clip Cassandra.

Howdy! Lew here – “GOING TO LOSE TRACK?” What an understatement!

THE “BIDEN TRAIN” LEFT THE TRACKS A LONG TIME AGO AND AMERICA IS ONLY BEGINNING TO REALIZE THE EXTREME DAMAGE THIS “PUPPET OF THE LEFT” WILL CONTINUE TO INFLICT UPON AMERICA AND HER INCREASINGLY VICTIMIZED CITIZENS. Lew has left his soapbox. lol