Obama Claims Republicans Would ‘Investigate Their Political Opponents’ if They Win Midterms

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Former President Barack Obama criticized Republicans during a speech Friday for planning on “investigating their political opponents” if they win control of Congress in November.

The former president also claimed that the Republicans would not help Georgians but focus on themselves instead and cut out programs such as Social Security and Medicare and give tax breaks to large corporations.

“[Republicans] spend the next two years investigating their political opponents, how’s that gonna help you pay the bills?” Obama asked.

Obama’s statements follow years of investigations into former President Donald Trump following multiple controversies, including allegations that he colluded with Russia during the 2016 presidential election. (Read more from “Obama Claims Republicans Would ‘Investigate Their Political Opponents’ if They Win Midterms” HERE)

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Newsmax Cuts Ties With Lara Logan After She Said World Leaders ‘Dine on the Blood of Children’ (VIDEO)

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The Newsmax cable news outlet has severed ties with Lara Logan after the former “60 Minutes” correspondent went on a bizarre rant alleging that world leaders “dine on the blood of children.”

Logan, an award-winning former war correspondent, was interviewed Wednesday by Newsmax host Eric Bolling, who anchors a show called “The Balance.”

Bolling invited Logan to his program to discuss global elites and their favoritism toward leftist policies. He then asked Logan about the situation along the southern border, where undocumented migrants have crossed into the United States in droves. . .

Logan then added: “And they may think that they’re going to become gods. That’s what they tell us. You’ve all known [historian Yuval Noah] Harari and all the rest of them at the World Economic Forum.

“You know, the ones who want us eating insects, cockroaches, and that while they dine on the blood of children?” (Read more from “Newsmax Cuts Ties With Lara Logan After She Said World Leaders ‘Dine on the Blood of Children’ (VIDEO)” HERE)

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Conservative Attorneys General Investigate Six Major Banks for Wokeness

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Nineteen state attorneys general launched an investigation on Wednesday morning into six major banks and their involvement with the environment, social, and governance investing movement, also known as ESG.

Bank of America, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, Morgan Stanley, and Wells Fargo were served with civil investigative demands requesting information related to the institutions’ involvement with Net-Zero Banking Alliance, a project of the United Nations which seeks to unify bank portfolios toward the goal of eliminating carbon emissions by 2050. The officials contend that such objectives place the economic wellbeing of their constituents at risk.

“The Net-Zero Banking Alliance is a massive worldwide agreement by major banking institutions, overseen by the UN, to starve companies engaged in fossil fuel-related activities of credit on national and international markets,” Missouri State Attorney General Eric Schmitt said in a statement provided to The Daily Wire, arguing that oil companies and farmers are particularly exposed to risk from the agenda.

The attorneys general requested that the financial institutions provide a list of “divisions, groups, offices, or business segments” with operations related to the Net-Zero Banking Alliance and a description of how emissions goals are incorporated into operations, as well as a list of other global climate initiatives with which the institutions are affiliated.

JPMorgan Chase, the largest bank in the United States, has devoted more than $2.5 trillion over the course of the next decade to “advance long-term solutions that address climate change and contribute to sustainable development” in accordance with meeting worldwide emissions goals by 2050. Goldman Sachs likewise vows to “accelerate the transition to a low-carbon economy” and has prioritized sustainability across its business units. (Read more from “Conservative Attorneys General Investigate Six Major Banks for Wokeness” HERE)

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Biden Slammed for Complaining About Media Shouting Questions: ‘This Guy Routinely Hides From the Press’

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President Joe Biden was criticized Tuesday for his response to reporters shouting questions at him while being escorted out of a White House abortion task force meeting.

As they tried to question him, Biden just smiled and said, “You’re among the only press in the world that does this. Seriously, seriously.”

In response, critics slammed Biden for attacking the free press despite refusing to answer their questions and failing to hold press conferences with any degree of frequency.

“This guy routinely hides from the press, rarely takes questions, almost never does pressers, and has the gall to criticize them for trying to ask questions on one of the few opportunities they get,” John Cooper, a communications official for the conservative Heritage Foundation, tweeted.

Ian Haworth, a speaker for Young America’s Foundation and Turning Point USA, tweeted, “In the United Kingdom, the Prime Minister has to publicly defend their own policies during televised debates every week. In the United States, Joe Biden complains that he has to answer questions every few months.” (Read more from “Biden Slammed for Complaining About Media Shouting Questions: ‘This Guy Routinely Hides From the Press'” HERE)

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Ukraine, COVID, and Monkeypox: Biden Asks Congress for Another $47 Billion to Address ‘Critical Needs for the American People’

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The White House asked Congress for another $47 billion Friday to address what it considers “immediate needs,” including the spread of monkeypox at home and abroad, the never-ending fight against COVID, and the defense of Ukraine.

President Joe Biden’s request to Congress is aimed at keeping the government open beyond the September 30 expiration of the 2022 fiscal year, according to administration officials, Politico reported. The requested $47 billion includes $6.5 billion to address the recent flooding in Kentucky and wildfires in California, but that’s just a little over half of the $11.7 billion Biden wants to send to Ukraine.

“This Administration will continue to work with members of both parties in Congress to meet these critical needs for the American people, and we look forward to reaching a bipartisan funding agreement that advances national priorities in the coming fiscal year,” Shalanda Young, the director of the Office of Management and Budget wrote Friday.

While the administration carved out some funding to address natural disasters at home, there was no mention of Biden wanting Congress to send money to address the water crisis in Jackson, Mississippi, that has now dragged on for five days. Instead, the president set his short-term priorities on throwing more money toward combatting the already slowing spread of viruses and aiding the war defense of a foreign nation. (Read more from “Ukraine, COVID, and Monkeypox: Biden Asks Congress for Another $47 Billion to Address ‘Critical Needs for the American People’” HERE)

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Expect the IRS to Turn the Dogs Loose

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On July 27, Senators Joe Manchin (D., W.Va.) and Chuck Schumer (D., N.Y.) announced a deal that will likely bring the Democrats’ tax-and-spending bill to the president’s desk. Manchin was one of the sole remaining Democrat holdouts, claiming that he could not support tax increases at a time of high inflation.

But he caved. So on August 7, the Senate passed H.R. 5376, misnamed the “Inflation Reduction Act of 2022.” The bill carries $437 billion in tax increases, greatly trimmed down from the $739 billion initially proposed.

I say the bill is misnamed because there is nothing in it that will reduce inflation. One of its key elements is to increase corporate taxes by $313 billion through a new 15 percent corporate-minimum tax. But this will only hinder investment and productivity, the very things needed to quell inflation. As I point out here, high corporate taxes cannot and will not reduce inflation.

Another key element of the bill is the provision to fund the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). The bill would appropriate $80 billion in new revenue (over its usual annual appropriation of about $12 billion) to the IRS over the next ten years. Here’s how some of the new money is to be used:

$3.181 billion for taxpayer services, including pre-filing assistance and education, return filing and account services, and taxpayer-advocate services;

$4.751 billion for business-systems modernization, including updating computer systems generally and the development of call-back technology; and

$25.326 billion for operations support, including general expenses to support taxpayer services and enforcement, general administrative expenses for such things as rent, printing, postage, vehicles, etc.

The centerpiece of IRS spending would be for tax-law enforcement. The bill promises $45.638 billion for this purpose, to include enhanced audits and collection, legal and litigation support, criminal investigations, digital asset monitoring and compliance, and the general enforcement of tax laws and other financial crimes.

And while the administration has repeatedly assured us that the targets of this increased enforcement action will be only high-income earners, I have shown clearly that the targets will likely be self-employed persons, along with those who claim the benefits of the laundry-list of refundable tax credits — lower-income taxpayers.

But even if the IRS targets only high-income taxpayers, spending the lion’s share of the $80 billion on enforcement is simply bad policy.

Compare the enforcement appropriation with that of taxpayer assistance and education. Enforcement is a winner by a margin of more than 14-1. And yet, only 2 percent of total federal revenue comes through enforcement. That means 98 percent of every dollar paid to the government is paid “voluntarily,” that is, without the need of IRS intervention.

To the extent that people fail to comply with the law, the vast majority of what is deemed non-compliance is not really non-compliance at all. People do not wake up one morning and say, “How can I tick off the IRS today? I know. I’ll stop paying my taxes!” Nobody wants to get sideways with the IRS, and an overwhelming majority of citizens screw themselves into the ground to stay on top of their tax obligations.

Rather, failure to comply is generally attributable to either (1) a misunderstanding of what the law requires, or (2) the inability to comply due to some unforeseen circumstances. Examples include (but certainly aren’t limited to) catastrophic illness or injury, a failed business or marriage, addiction, or natural disaster. Over the past two years, I’ve seen countless issues directly related to the Covid pandemic.

Policy-makers at every level fail to grasp the magnitude of tax-law complexity. The tax code was changed more than 5,900 times since 2001, and that doesn’t count the many changes that occurred in 2020 and 2021. The 2018 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act constituted the most sweeping change to the tax code since the Tax Reform Act of 1988. As proof that policy-makers simply ignore this issue, consider that the 1998 Internal Revenue Service Restructuring and Reform Act required the IRS to submit an annual report to Congress on the sources of tax complexity and how it might be reduced. The IRS has issued just two such reports, and none after 2002. I take this to mean they just don’t care about the burdens the Byzantine tax code places on taxpayers.

Honest taxpayers — individuals and businesses alike — are drowning in the flood of so-called tax reform to the point where they cannot quickly and easily ascertain their legal responsibilities.

If Congress is not going to stop changing the law several times every year, the IRS has to recognize that people need help complying. The 14-1 enforcement ratio must be turned on its head. That is, the IRS should be spending vastly more resources to help people comply on the front end, rather than grinding them into powder on the back end when they don’t. (For more from the author of “Expect the IRS to Turn the Dogs Loose” please click HERE)

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Of Course It Was! The Washington Post Deletes Tweet After Suggesting FBI Raid Was Politically Motivated

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The Washington Post announced Wednesday they deleted a tweet containing a story that suggested, in its initial headline, the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) raid on Mar-a-Lago was politically motivated.

The story’s original headline read “Garland vowed to depoliticize Justice. Then the FBI searched Mar-a-Lago,” according to the Post’s since-deleted tweet. The piece described the FBI’s raid as “highly unusual” and dove into the U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland and Department of Justice’s (DOJ) alleged political motivations regarding the search.

The Post later edited the story’s headline to: “FBI’s search of Mar-a-Lago lands Merrick Garland in a political firestorm.” The outlet deleted the tweet containing the original headline.

“Clarification: A previous tweet of this story had a headline that has changed after publishing. We’ve deleted the tweet,” The Post said.

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Four Fairbanks Children Dead After Teenager Opens Fire on Siblings: Authorities

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Alaska authorities are investigating the deaths of four children, one of whom is believed to have killed the others and himself, according to state troopers.

Alaska State Troopers were alerted to a report of a shooting north of Fairbanks, Alaska, at 4:17 p.m. on Tuesday, where the troopers found four children dead from apparent gunshot wounds in a building, according to troopers. The troopers believe a 15-year-old boy among the victims used a gun to shoot three of his siblings, ages 5, 8, and 17, before turning the gun on himself, according to NBC News.

The gun recovered by authorities was a “family gun but beyond that, it’s all still part of the ongoing investigation,” said Tim DeSpain, a spokesman for the Alaska State Troopers.

The parents of the victims were not home when the incident occurred, and three other siblings in the home, all under the age of 7, were not injured, according to troopers. (Read more from “Four Fairbanks Children Dead After Teenager Opens Fire on Siblings: Authorities” HERE)

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Man Survives 18 Hours Adrift at Sea by Clinging to Half-Deflated Soccer Ball

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A 30-year-old North Macedonian man is alive today, thanks to a small soccer ball that children 80 miles away had lost ten days earlier.

Some time earlier this month, a man known only as “Ivan” was vacationing with friends near Kassandra, Greece. They were enjoying time on the beach when a strong current swept three people, including Ivan, far out to sea. Ivan’s friends alerted authorities, who immediately sprang into action, but despite a thorough search, no one could find him.

Meanwhile, Ivan found himself lost at sea with little hope of rescue when a small half-deflated kids soccer ball drifted right into his path. He grabbed hold of the ball and clung to it for dear life. Eighteen hours later, a helicopter from the Greek Air Force finally spotted him.

Ivan was taken to the hospital, where his father and even the local mayor were able to visit with him.

“I had constant information on the course of the rescue and am very happy about the smooth ending of the young man’s adventure,” Anastasia Chalkia, the mayor of Kassandra, wrote in a translated Facebook post. “The young man found a ball that saved his life as he helped him when he got tired.” (Read more from “Man Survives 18 Hours Adrift at Sea by Clinging to Half-Deflated Soccer Ball” HERE)

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Dunleavy and the Globalist Threat to Alaska

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Are high prices at the pump getting you down? Well, pick that chin up off the ground! This is just another sign benevolent winds are blowing, and our globalist masters are doubling-down on their tried-and-true mantra pledging allegiance to promotion of the so-called, “Greater-Good.”

Who doesn’t want greater good, right? It sounds so darn nice to say. After all, it’s what convinced millions of us to close our businesses, mask our children, take experimental shots, and let our loved ones die alone in their hospital beds.

No doubt you’re probably wondering who these “Greater-Good” folks are, if you are part of the GreaterGood, how you too can become part of the “Greater-Good”, or simply how to just economically survive so much of the “Good” the Globalists are promoting in the world.

According to a 2016 Tweet and video posted by the World Economic Forum, the organization predicted a specific, yet random time in the not-too-distant future (2030) in which, “You’ll own nothing. And you’ll be happy.” The WEF is the same Globalist organization who has been calling for a “Great Global Reset” and thought COVID-19 was an excellent “opportunity” to fundamentally reshape the world under the singular oversight of its brainwashed converts.

To make the transition easier on us, the wise unelected overlords at the WEF are promoting this “Great Reset” through world-wide implementation of a complex series of systems-based initiatives all the hipsters are calling ESG. ESG stands for Environmental, Social and Governance, and is a nuanced matrix of market controls, policies, business practices and investment strategies which are designed to eradicate “morally deficient” ideas like Consumer Choice, Economic Value, Property Ownership, and Freedom.

ESG is incorporated in and utilizes weaponized government regulations to coercively influence and shift market decision making from the individual consumer and investor to more enlightened, governmentally-driven interests motivated by woke Marxist concepts like Environmental Justice, Sustainability, Stakeholder Interest, Inclusiveness and Social Equity (i.e. The Greater-Good). Basically, the answer to all your questions about the Greater-Good, and our present economic, social, and political situation is ironically contained within the question. Free enterprise, the middle class, and the economy must perish. You are not meant to survive this… at least not in your current understanding of the word “survive” as applied to maintenance of the familiar status quo. Another WEF “prediction” appearing in a 2016 WEF publication is that America will lose its dominant global position. For the Great Reset to occur all systems must be destroyed, we all must lose everything, America must fall, and everyone must worship a new world-wide economic, social and cultural system remade in the image of Klaus Schwab’s dystopian transhumanist vison for the future. Klaus Schwab has made it clear he has proselytes currently placed in and leading many of the world’s greatest nations at executive, cabinet, and industry level positions, and the matter isn’t if a new world order will emerge, but rather when the final lever can be pulled, and the balance of power can transfer to those running the WEF.

Schwab’s global influence was clear in Joe Biden’s 2021 Executive order leveraging his presidential “scale and procurement power to lead by example in tackling the climate crisis,” where he lays out America’s role in touting the WEF Globalist Green-agenda, and a series of controls designed to swiftly kill the hydrocarbon energy sector and American energy independence, to destroy small business, and to effectively seize control of national industrial production through coercive environmental regulation and taxes.

Biden’s re-entry of the U.S. as a member to the World Health Organization, and resolution to amend existing agreements aimed at divesting America of its sovereignty, is another indicator of Schwab’s cancerous influence. In Biden’s 13-page document he outlines how the U.S. will cede it’s global hegemony, and the sovereignty of it’s States; giving oversight, regulation, and mandate power to the capricious and often corrupt leadership of the World Health Organization, many of whom are also members of the WEF.

If you think we are safe from the Globalist Agenda here in Alaska, think again. In order for the globalists to achieve their nefarious objectives they must control Alaska’s strategic, geographic location on the planet and our massive resource wealth that impacts world markets and access to energy.

Like the fictional Marvel Comic International Crime Syndicate, Hydra, the WEF influence and reach is pervasive and insidious, impacting nearly every nation, state, and economic system around the globe. In the case of Alaska, WEF power and influence is clearly identifiable in Governor Mike Dunleavy’s 2022 appointment of WEF billionaire member and Alaska Permanent Fund Manager, David Rubenstein’s daughter, Gabrielle Rubenstein, to the Permanent Fund Board of Trustees. WEF talking-points are also unmistakably present in the Governor’s Alaska Energy Independence Act, and House Bill 301, in which Dunleavy calls for rapid transition of the State’s primary energy grid to 80% dependence on “renewable” energy sources within the next 20 years.

Is it any wonder that a mere few months following Dunleavy’s Green-New-Deal for Alaska, it was announced that the state’s only modern clean burning coal power plant would be shut down in 2024, after years of development, an estimated $475 million dollars of investment and capitalization, and only a short period of operation?

At the least Dunleavy is carrying water for the illegitimate Biden regime, and at worst he is a closet Globalist Elite who is about to have his grand coming-out party. Either way a second Dunleavy term is a bad deal for Alaskans that will ultimately lead to higher energy costs, lower business investment, and a smaller middle class – less prosperity, liberty, and freedom. If you are tired of sacrificing your financial security, stability, and
hope for a brighter future all so a small group of woke activists and global elitists can save you from your selfish desire to own stuff, fire Mike Dunleavy!

If you want a better chance at lower energy rates, less government intrusion into your business and family, more power for the people and less for the government union bosses, then vote for someone who knows that Alaskans don’t need to be protected from themselves.

Vote for someone who understands the challenges and rewards of starting and owning a small business.

Vote for someone who believes our children don’t need to be re-educated with critical race theory and LGBTQ morally bankrupt double speak.

Vote for someone who loves our heritage and can’t be bought by Global Billionaire Oligarchs and Marxist Ideologues.

Vote for someone who will not waver when all the pressure of the Communist Left and Establishment GOP are pressing in.

My name is Christopher Kurka and I am running to be Alaska’s next Governor. Together with my running mate Paul Hueper, we are committed to making Alaska the best place on earth without the oversight of the global elites whose “benevolent” control is hastening an end to the last great place on earth.

To those RINO’s and Establishment sellouts that criticize our ticket saying we are too extreme, too dogmatic, and too uncompromising, we have just one message: we remain resolute in our defense of liberty, the citizen’s right to self-determination and material prosperity, and warn those in D.C. and their Global masters “Don’t Tread on Alaskans.”

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