District of Columbia, International | November 5, 2021
China upholding Iranian regime with oil purchases
District of Columbia, International | November 5, 2021
Chinese purchases of Iranian oil have steadily increased since President Biden arrived in office, with Beijing‘s blatant flouting of U.S. sanctions on the Islamic republic providing an economic lifeline to hard-liners in Tehran. The White House has come under increasing criticism for tolerating Beijing‘s purchases, which analysts say amount to indirect Chinese support for Iran‘s nuclear weapons program, as well as Tehran‘s militant posturing and rejections of U.S. and European attempts to restore the 2015 Obama-era nuclear deal. Talks on reviving the nuclear deal have stalled but will resume Nov. 29 in Vienna, European Union officials announced this week. It is unclear whether Washington and Tehran can move closer to resuscitating the agreement. Covert Chinese support for Iran‘s economy could make hard-line Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi even less motivated to negotiate… (Excerpts from the Washington Times)
District of Columbia | October 26, 2021
Rebekah Koffler: Biden nominee prefers Soviet system to free-market economy – don’t let them destroy the US
District of Columbia | October 26, 2021
President Joe Biden’s choice for comptroller of the currency, Saule Omarova, wants to transform America’s free market economy into a Soviet-style system – the same kind of central planning that destroyed her native country, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. As an immigrant from the former Soviet Union and communism survivor, I know firsthand the damage central planning can do to an economy and to lives. United States senators must reject “Comrade” Omarova’s radical ideology which includes ideas like nationalizing banks, empowering federal government apparatchiks to set pay scales and prices, and enabling academics to oversee investments so they can finance social experiments. It all will doom America to the same destiny as the country I fled 30 years ago.
Omarova, a winner in her home country of the “Lenin” award, praised her native Soviet socialist system because of the lack of gender pay gap. She derided the free market economy for producing a Wall Street “a–hole culture” and expressed contempt for our “dysfunctional” financial system.
As someone who grew up standing in line for hours to shop in an over-crowded grocery store or a bare-shelved department store, let me tell you about Omarova’s “wondrous” socialist system. The socialist economy didn’t produce enough of anything and everything that was manufactured domestically was barely usable. Why? There was no incentive for anyone to work hard or innovate, because everyone was paid the same regardless of effort. Government bureaucrats, like Omarova, made it impossible for people to improve their lot and better themselves by controlling every aspect of their lives.
We had a saying under communism: “They pretend to pay us, and we pretend to work.” There can’t be a gender pay gap when there’s no pay. Whether a garbage collector or a doctor, the salary was never enough to support a family, spurring people to seek seedy alternatives like corruption and black market dealings. Meanwhile, the Communist Party ruling elites were the Soviet version of Omarova’s Wall Street “a–holes,” except they didn’t produce any wealth… (Excerpts from Fox News)
District of Columbia | October 15, 2021
Biden’s Pick For Top Banking Regulator Refuses To Hand Over Thesis On Marxism
District of Columbia | October 15, 2021
Saule Omarova, President Joe Biden’s nominee to head the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), is refusing to hand over to the Senate Banking Committee her university thesis on Marxism written during her time in the Soviet Union. Republican Sen. Pat Toomey, ranking member of the committee, had sent a letter to Omarova on Oct. 6 asking the Cornell Law School professor to hand over her Moscow State University thesis, titled “Karl Marx’s Economic Analysis and the Theory of Revolution in The Capital,” by Oct. 13, citing the committee’s need to “fully assess the fitness of individuals to serve in Senate-confirmed executive and independent agency positions.” Omarova, who grew up in the Soviet Union, had scrubbed mention of the thesis from her resume, the Washington Free Beacon reported. She also praised the now-defunct socialist government for its lack of “gender pay gap” in 2019…. (Excerpts from the Daily Caller)
District of Columbia | October 14, 2021
Kamala Harris decries nation’s ‘shameful past’ to promote Biden’s social welfare package
District of Columbia | October 14, 2021
Vice President Kamala Harris pitched the administration’s massive spending plans to American Indian leaders by saying it would help the nation own up for its “shameful past” in which European explorers “ushered in a wave of devastation for Native Americans.” She made the pitch to build support for President Biden’s $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill and $3.5 trillion social welfare plans, which are stalled in Congress. Speaking remotely to the National Congress of American Indians 78th Annual Convention in Portland, Oregon, on Tuesday, Ms. Harris said that Columbus Day, recognized by President Biden as Indigenous Peoples Day, is an occasion to “speak truth about our nation’s history.”… (Excerpts from the Washington Times)
District of Columbia | October 12, 2021
The Democratic faces of American fascism
District of Columbia | October 12, 2021
Attorney General Merrick Garland is the capo tasked with weaponizing the government against dissent. While homicides and crime skyrocket, the Department of Justice is training its sights on what they call “the rise in criminal conduct directed toward school personnel.”… (Excerpts from Washington Times)
District of Columbia | October 11, 2021
America losing her youth to socialism
District of Columbia | October 11, 2021
Opinion. By Cheryl Chumley. The Democratic Party’s playbook is to turn the next generation into the best little sheep they can be. Why? The better to solidify party power, of course. “Support for socialism jumps by nearly 10 percent among U.S. youth,” the World Socialist Web Site wrote in October 2020. That’s a lot. As the county spiraled into shutdown mode, as the economy stalled and stuttered, as Americans were increasingly forced to stay home, stay out of work, and as the gap between the haves and have-nots grew even wider — so rose the support for socialism, particularly among the youth. The naive always fall for the socialist giveaways. They truly believe Big Government breeds great things, and the bigger the government, the greater the good for all. Picking up a history book would cure this naivety. Socialism, communism, collectivism — it’s all the same. And it always brings the same devastations…. (Excerpts from Washington Times)