Why the West Won

For the past few centuries, Western Civilization has dominated the world both culturally and economically. Why? Some point to imperialism, slavery, and colonial wars. But those sins are common to all empires throughout history. What separates the West from the rest? Stanford historian Niall Ferguson has the answer in this highly informative video.

BTW... Did you happen to notice what major factor which was the major "killer app" behind the rise of Western Civilization?

The Non-crime, Crime or Impeachment - Part 2: The Swamp Thickens

Mueller's investigation begins with the realization that no evidence exists to actually prosecute the president with impeachment.

What to do? Let's look at the campaign team members of Trump's team, because the DNC operative, Chalupa, has gone to Ukraine and produced this "black ledger" which supposedly reveals that Manafort was paid big bucks by Ukrainian oligarchs. He must have been paid off by Putin's lackeys.

Muller's team successfully prosecutes Manafort on process crimes - lying about some minor details - and the "black ledger" allegations, and sentences him for years to solitary confinement in prison.

Fantastic! See Trump haters? We got our "pound of flesh" with this guy from Trump's campaign team. But wait, there's more!

We've got this other dude named Roger Stone who's got a tattoo of Pres. Nixon on his back, so he must be guilt of doing something illegal, so we'll sick our finest "bull-dog" prosecutor team of lawyers, drag him in too and get him prosecuted on process crimes too.

Hey CNN, we've got a great scoop for you! Show up quietly in front of this Stone dude's house at the crack of dawn and wait for our FBI SWAT team with an army of AR-15s, bazookas, mini-tanks and other cool stuff so you can have your cameras capture the moment we bust down his front door and arrest this crook.

What's that? They proved that Manafort's "black ledger" thingy was a complete fabrication by the Ukrainian oligarch guy? Ahh... small potatoes, there's nothing to worry about with that. Forget it, so will the public. Minor detail!

We got this dude, Stone, for witness tampering! What? He did? You mean the witness he allegedly intimidated gave a statement saying he never felt intimidated by Stone and knew he was just joking around with him? Don't worry, we confused him enough to get him to trip up on his answers after we interrogated him for hours on end and we got him on a process crime too. We can get him sentenced for lying to us over minor details, even if we have to ask the GOP in Congress for information.

When the prosecutor team comes before the judge, we hear them say, "Your honor, we are pleased that you're an Obama appointed judge ruling on this case. We're going to let the A.G. Barr know that we're going to recommend something less than a nine year sentencing for this seventy year old man who's lost all of his assets defending himself in this case. But since he's a Trump campaign lackey, we'll give him time, you can be sure!"

When A.G. Barr learns that these three prosecutors actually recommend to the judge in a later hearing a sentence of nine years, the A.G. looks into this conflict and calls them on the carpet for saying one thing, then doing another. So, the pundits in the Media (D) and some in Congress get all huffy about Pres. Trump Tweeting remarks about Stone's sentence, as though Pres. Obama never engaged in such things, right?

The three prosecutors then resign in protest from the case before the sentencing is actually declared by the judge. Oh my lord! People, look how this A.G. is interfering with our court case! And the president is Tweeting about it too! Oh my lord! He's obviously defending his buddy the president!

In steps Cong. Swalwell (D) CA, who announces, "Well, it's clear that this president is obstructing justice, it looks like we can't discount the possibility that he should be impeached for this!" (Of course, we all know how hands off Pres. Obama was during his administration.) On a hot mic, Swalwell's caught off camera saying, "Hey Steve, be sure to get in touch with the gang of those four radical leftists to pressure the Speaker again on calling for another impeachment inquiry! Okay?"

What? Did you say the foreperson of the Stone jury was outed as a biased liberal against Stone? Aw, come on! That can't be! Really? Really!

What a perfect setup! Given all the fake whistleblower garbage we've learned that went on to frame our sitting president over a phone call asking the Ukraine president to help our country investigate corruption in his country, which  only resulted in an acquittal, does this not smell like the same swamp gas we've been dealing with just last month? 

So, do you think the nation's going to put up with another Pelosi, Nadler, Schiff, Swalwell impeachment circus in the House for another six to eight months leading right up to the election date in early November?

Sure! It's just what the Media (D) ordered for boosting their ratings again! Yea! Now we get to rake him over the coals again!

Folks, this all a scam! Everybody knows something, and everyone involved has got something to hide. If you could see a web graphic of who they are, you'd be amazed!

The Modus Operandi of the Socialist

It's not surprising to me that many of the political pundits on both sides of the isle are beginning to express concern about Bernie Sanders doing well in New Hampshire.

The Democrats have been doing their best to convince their people to go with Quid-Pro-Joe, or Fauxcahontas Warren, but Sanders currently is surging and they don't know what to do. They know that if Sanders does well, it will damage the Democratic Party for decades to come because of his policies for "free stuff" which won't wash with the moderates.

My personal feeling about it is that they're knee-jerking to the outcome of a state primary that's next to his home state of Vermont, and once primaries move south and west for Super Tuesday, the shift will occur and results will move away from Sanders to reveal a new leader.

We here in the Puget Sound Region of Western Washington have been dealing with another full-blown socialist of our own; Kshama Sawant on the Seattle City Council. So, we're familiar with how they usually operate. In fact, it seems the general sentiment is beginning to turn on her. 

We're now seeing more clearly that they have their own way of deal with confrontation against their policies which are getting growing push-back. Before I reveal exactly what that way is, let me provide you with an example to see if the reader can detect it themselves, (Courtesy of ShiftWA.org):

Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant admitted her office violated city ethics regulations and Seattle election laws when her office used government resources (i.e., taxpayer funds) to promote a ballot measure.  Despite admitting guilt, Sawant spewed some serious ignorance in a prepared statement: “I’m disappointed to see this complaint filed against my office and our movement. It’s shameful that while big business has license to run amok trying to bully or buy politicians … working people have to follow the most onerous of restrictions.”  It is interesting to see the wealthy Sawant categorize herself as a “working” person, all while pretending that her desire to impose a vengeful tax on Seattle employers is not a perfect example of “bullying.” Additionally, the “restrictions” she ignored are not “onerous” at all – how hard is it to understand that you can’t spend taxpayer funds on your personal political projects? (Seattle Times)

Did you catch it? No show of remorse, display of repentance for violation of law. 

Instead, go on the offensive and brow beat the opposition and blame it as though she and her movement is in the right, and they are bullies. It's not her fault for the fact that her kind have promoted and enacted regulations which make workers deal with the "most onerous of restrictions." Oh no! It's not the socialist's fault, it's those horrible capitalists! Yet, as the last half of the statement points out, the hypocrisy of her own remarks validate the old adage, "Actions speak louder than words." and that the socialist believes that they ARE above the law.

Capitalism Vs. Socialism

Today's debate seems to be whether socialism is superior to capitalism. This debate has been fostered because of the many socialist oriented professors in our institutions of higher learning have put a lot of effort into convincing the younger, inexperienced students in their classes that somehow there is a widening gap of disparity between the rich and poor in our world.

What these professors are not pointing out to them is that the same students who are being brainwashed about the supposed virtues of socialism and the evils of capitalism are living a life of prosperity like no other generations in history because of capitalism.

Should the reader disagree with this premise, I invite them to take a look at this PragerU video which explains how this is so. After viewing it, one will understand what the true reason is for these professors - who, by the way, are doing very well earning their capitalistic salaries - putting down capitalism. I believe it is because there's been a concerted effort over several decades by socialists, concentrated within our colleges and universities, to undermine the image of the greatness of our nation's capitalistic economic engine which has embarrassed Lenin and Stalin's failed Soviet Union model, which is gradually, but stubbornly, been dying out.

Here's information on Bernie Sanders to provide some historical perspective and illustrate just how our country's favorite socialist has established himself in the current campaign.
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"In all her years in congress Elizabeth Warren introduced 110 bills. 2 passed. 

Cory Booker introduced 120 bills. 0 passed.
Kamala Harris introduced 54 bills. 0 passed.
 
Then there is Bernie Sanders, he is truly special. 

He never held a job until he was finally elected mayor of Burlington, Vermont, at age 53. He lived off of welfare and the support of four different women, had a child out-of-wedlock with one and the marriages to the other three did not work out.
 
In all his years in the Senate, he introduced 364 bills; 3 passed. Two of those were to name post offices.
 
If you want to know what kind of leader Bernie is, go to Wikipedia, it's a long report. The following is condensed:
Bernie Sanders' father was a high school drop-out, who tormented his family with rants about their financial problems. He blamed society and economic inequality for his plight, though as a white male in a middle class neighborhood, he was hardly among the downtrodden.
 
This was Bernie's inspiration to take up the cause of economic justice, though he would spend half of his life as an able-bodied college graduate living off of unemployment checks, and the women in his life, between odd jobs.
 
By his own admission, Bernie was not a great student, starting at Brooklyn College and transferring to University of Chicago, but his enrollment kept him protected from the draft.
He joined socialist organizations and dabbled in far-left communist politics, gaining national notoriety by petitioning the school to let students have sex in the dormitories.
 
This was before birth control and abortion were legal, when there were still very serious repercussions for women , but that didn't stop him from crusading against those silly rules that were an obstacle to his own satisfaction.
 
He participated in the 1963 March on Washington, a few other demonstrations, and was arrested once, but his activism for civil rights ended when he became obsessed with socialism. NOT "democratic socialism," but oppressive far-left Marxism.
 
Bernie married his college sweetheart, Deborah Shilling, and spent his small inheritance on a summer home in Vermont on 85 acres. The shack had a dirt floor and no electricity, maintaining his proletariat credibility, but not impressing his new bride.
 
He refused to get a steady job, so his wife didn't stick around long, she divorced him after 18 months.
 
The Viet Nam war was escalating, and when the next draft was announced, Bernie applied for a conscientious objector deferment.
 
His deferment was denied, so he dodged the draft by having a kid out of wedlock in 1969 with his new girlfriend, Susan Mott, even though he STILL wasn't working, and had no way to support the child. By the time his draft number came up, he was too old to be drafted anyway.
 
He continued to subsist on odd carpentry jobs and unemployment checks, and occasionally writing and selling $15 articles to publishers, including the one about how women fantasize about gang rape. He still refused to get a steady job to support his child. His girlfriend left him.
In 1988 he married Jane Driscoll, and took a cold-war era honeymoon in communist USSR.
 
His new wife supported him financially through his many attempts to win a public office, and shared his radical leftist political views.
 
They visited the pro-Soviet Sandinista Government in Nicaragua known for their human rights violations, support for anti-American terrorists, and the imprisonment and exile of opponents. Bernie blindly overlooked the carnage to stand with fellow socialists.
 
They traveled to Cuba in hopes of meeting Bernie's hero Fidel Castro, but access to him was denied.
 
Bernie Sanders managed not to hold a full-time job his entire life or vote in a single election, until he finally ran for Mayor of Burlington at the age of 40. After several failed elections, he finally won the office of Mayor of Burlington, and eventually a Senate seat, which he has managed to keep off and on.
For all of his years representing Vermont, the U.S. Senate passed three of Bernie's bills, two of them were for naming post offices.
 
He's a draft-dodging, deadbeat dad, a globe-trotting communist dilettante, and a petulant detractor of hard-working honorable Democrats.
 
His one skill is yelling about how unfair the world is, and how everything SHOULD be. But he has no plans for how to make it happen, and no idea what goes on in the rest of the world or how to deal with problems overseas.
 
His excuse for not having a foreign policy or national security plank on his platform: "I've only been campaigning for three months."
 
His socialist friends are bitter about what they see as a betrayal of their values by Bernie's pursuit of the Democratic nomination.
 
His former wife and girlfriend run when they see reporters and will not speak to the press.
 
Bernie's past, including a brief stint living in a kibbutz in Israel, is cloaked in secrecy. (It worked for B Hussein Obama.)
 
Former employees and coworkers describe him as hostile and belligerent. All of the Democrats in Vermont's government endorsed Hillary Clinton.
 
The people who know Bernie best cannot stand him. His supporters can't explain how he is qualified to be president."

Why Paul Manafort Was Framed

Andrew Weissmann

 

For anyone who's paid attention to the "Russia Hoax" which was the left's first of many hoaxes to conduct a soft coup, it may have seemed a bit puzzling to learn about Paul Manafort being convicted, sentenced and going to prison for something which had nothing to do with colluding with the Russians.

 

Well, new information has surfaced which, if it gets to Pres. Trump, might result in an eventual pardoning of Manafort.

 

Here is the opening line of John Solomon's latest report...

One of Robert Mueller’s pivotal trial witnesses told the special prosecutor’s team in spring 2018 that a key piece of Russia collusion evidence found in Ukraine known as the “black ledger” was fabricated, according to interviews and testimony.

You may not remember, or ever heard about, the "black ledger" which was the core evidence for convicting Paul Manafort, who rots in prison today.  Andrew Weissmann - Mueller's right hand man leading the investigation team - used this totally fabricated evidence to convict Manafort, has convicted yet another individual * and sent him to prison in the past.

* You may recall that this same lawyer, Weissmann, is documented as having convicted another innocent man who went to prison for the Enron scandal back in the early 2000s. (Read "Licensed to Lie", by Sydney Powell... who's now Lt. Gen. Flynn's lawyer, defending him in his case.

Oh yea... you may not have heard, but Weissmann's now a legal consultant for CNN. Gee! Just like John Brennan did. Isn't if funny how these sleaze balls end up their? 

The New Way Forward Act?

Just when we thought Congress would get back to work debating bills that would address the issues which need consideration, we learn of this "stealth" bill the media was too busy ignoring for the value of the Kabuki theater the impeachment trial provided them.

What, you haven't heard of it before? Well, neither has the rest of the country! But if you watch this whole piece, it should strike a nerve of concern about just exactly what the radical progressive left is attempting to propose for the future of our country. 

 

The only thing which gives me reason to not just throw up my arms and exclaim, "We're toast!" is that saner minds in Congress who understand just how absurd this bill is, will not allow it to even make it out of committee, let alone be voted into law.  

For the whole piece, and quality sound, try this link from Fox News. 

Skolkovo? What's That About?

Much of the public knows about the Clinton Foundation; how it was acquiring billions of dollars in donations. But what for? Had Hillary won the presidency in 2016, you can be certain that much of what's been discovered through actual investigative journalism would have been completely covered up, and we'd have no knowledge of it. Even with the outcome of Trump winning, the Media (D) which is well known for aiding the left those who watch their fake news has no clue, or believes it was perfectly legit for the Clintons to have collected so much wealth under a premise that it was going to benefit the poor and downtrodden.

Some of the public is familiar with UnraniumOne; the deal Hillary Clinton was part of that sold Russia 20 per cent of the U.S.'s uranium material for building nuclear warheads. That's only a part of the deals the Clintons had engaged in back then in exchange for hundreds of millions in donations.

What most of the public has not learned about is how, as the Secretary of State (S.O.S.) during the Obama Administration is her husband, former Pres. Bill Clinton, and the Clinton Foundation worked with the Skolkovo Project which was, as the U.S. Army confirms, helping Russia with developing hyper-sonic weaponry through the process of stealing military information for this project in Russia.

If this explanation isn't clear, just go to this Daily Caller link and read the article which spells things out clearly. 

Remember... everyone involved in the impeachment of the president - and don't delude yourself, it isn't over yet, even if he's been acquitted just yesterday - not only know each other, they all have something to hide regarding their involvement in illegal activities during the time they thought their reign of control and dominance would never end.

The Aftermath of the Iowa Hawkeye Cauceye

Chalk it up to incompetence - remember the Obamacare website fiasco? - but the outcome of the Iowa Caucuses has produced not only a massive embarrassment for the Democratic Party, but deepens the suspicions in the minds of those who were already skeptical about the integrity of our elections with a combination of voter fraud, accuracy, and reliability... and it's NOT because of the Russians!

 

This article in the Spectator does a great job of spelling out the ramifications of this outcome in this election; especially the implications going forward in the last part of this article.

 

Fair? They Say We're Not Being Fair?

Let's review... then, a question and  an answer.

Hillary pays FusionGPS to dig up dirt on Trump during campaign.

FusionGPS hires a foreign spy to give the FBI garbage on Trump.

FBI Director Comey lets Hillary "off the hook" for her illegal private server, and destroying subpoenaed emails.

Trump wins election, Hillary loses.

The N.Y. Times, within 15 minutes of inauguration, calls for his impeachment.

FBI uses false information on FISA warrant requests.

Trump fires Comey, Mueller investigates Trump.

Hundreds of bureaucratic regulations are removed and better treaties are negotiated.

Mueller indicts and imprisons low level campaign team members on "process crimes."

Unemployment plummets and prison reform is passed.

Mueller's report reveals Trump is innocent of any collusion with Russians.

Trump later calls Zelinski and asks him to follow through with his corruption cleaning promise.

I.G. report reveals FBI and leaking bureaucrats committed real crimes.

The country is respected by other nations once again and Trump rallies overflow.

"Whistleblower" Ciaramella files false claim of Quid-Quo-Pro about Trump's call.

Two conservative Supreme Court Justices are appointed and the wall is being built.

Trump releases the transcript revealing no "this for that" is involved.

Pres. Zelinski and other Ukrainians assert no coercion about foreign aide funds.

In fact, funds and lethal aide are sent to Ukraine before deadline.

Speaker says no impeachment unless there's a bipartisan vote on it and undisputed evidence.

House impeaches Pres. Trump in December with no evidence of a crime.

Not one Republican votes for impeachment, but two Democrats vote with them.

Speaker sits on sending articles to Senate for over a month.

House also refuses to allow due process under law during hearings in basement bunker.

Democrat media continually - 24/7 - pounds impeachment drum while polls reveal no change by pubic.

House also refuses to call witnesses and presents only two "non-crime" articles of impeachment.

Senate finally takes trial while Democrats try to "strong arm" trial procedures to their favor.

Senate votes to not call for more witnesses during trial after Democrats cry unfair.

Now it is expected the Senate will vote to acquit the president.

During these three years the economy has skyrocketed.

Question: With the president impeached, will any who actually committed crimes go to prison, or will we have to wait until Pres. Trump's second term?(There are those who are more radical in their solution to remedying our current circumstance today, as the link above reveals.)

 
Answer: Something tells me that they're busy getting things ready down at Gitmo!