You may have already seen this disturbing video of Biden slamming greedy oil companies and gas stations for raising prices and fueling inflation. Biden fumes: “My message is simple. To the companies running gas stations and setting those prices at the pump: Bring down the prices you’re charging at the pump to reflect the cost you pay for the product…It is going to save people a lot of money.”
This rant against Seven-11 store owners only reinforces the scary reality that a year and a half into the worst inflation wave since the 1970s, this administration has no clue how to bring down prices. Biden now wants price controls on oil, gas stations, credit card companies, banks, health care, and pharmaceuticals and that’s just to start.
Back in the 1970s, President Richard Nixon tried to address the inflation issue as his re-election bid neared by imposing economy-wide wage and price controls. He even made it illegal for many months for companies to raise prices. (We almost hesitate to bring this up for fear the Biden people might get ideas!) the Soviet-style strategy flopped and inflation only got worse when the price controls were lifted. In the years that followed inflation ramped up from 6 to 8 to 11%.
Ironically, Biden won his seat in the U.S. Senate during a huge anti-inflation Democrat wave election just about a year after Nixon imposed those controls. He didn’t learn the lesson from back then. Now he touts the same set of policies which he says will “lower the cost of healthcare, prescription drugs, and energy.”
Love Trump or hate him, he got it right before anyone else did about the rising threat of China - economically, militarily, and with respect to human rights. Back in 2016 the late-night comics and the Democrats mocked Trump’s obsession with the dangers posed by China.
A fascinating new polling analysis of public opinion by Pew Research finds a massive meltdown in Americans’ opinions about China. Now more than eight of ten Americans view China and President Xi unfavorably.
How Americans View China
This comes at a time when the Chinese Communist Party is preparing to elect President Xi for an unprecedented third term. Since Xi took office in 2013, opinions of China in the U.S. and other nations around the world have turned as Pew puts it “precipitously more negative.”
Republicans are slightly more disapproving of China than Democrats - but this is one of the few issues that transcend party label. Everyone is fearful of China.
And as we have said umpteen times on these pages, nearly every action Biden has taken on the economy and climate change is playing right into the hands of Beijing.
3) Ex-Congressman Pleads Guilty To Voter Fraud, Media Silent
This week, former Democratic Congressman Ozzie Myers pleaded guilty to charges of stuffing ballot boxes with fraudulent votes and bribing election judges during six different elections in Philadelphia.
He's a repeat offender. Myers was expelled from Congress in 1980 after being convicted of fraud charges that sent him to prison for three years. He famously told FBI agents on camera that "money talks in this business and bulls--t walks." He will now be walking into a prison cell for 2 1/2 years.
The mainstream media endlessly parrots liberal talking points that there is no voter fraud, and that incidents of it are rarer than shark attacks.
U.S. Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams, a Biden appointee, told the court that prosecuting even small cases of voter fraud is vital to democracy: “If even one vote has been illegally cast or if the integrity of just one election official is compromised, it diminishes faith in the process.”
We report this to you because strangely enough, there has been little or no coverage of the Myers voter fraud spree outside of Philadelphia, a notorious hotspot for voter fraud.
At age 80, Barry Diller has been CEO of Paramount Pictures and then started Fox Television. Now the head of the travel company Expedia, he’s had enough of ESG and is saying so.
Diller dismisses the proliferation of environmental, social, and governance standards from corporate boards as fodder for “glossy reports.”
“Most of ESG is virtue signaling, I’m afraid,” Diller told a travel conference last week, saying the time when ESG standards promoted by BlackRock and other firms are “above criticism” should end. While some ESG goals have value, most are “truly empty calories.”
Bravo to Diller for speaking out on an issue that has silenced far too many corporate honchos. In addition to maximizing wealth, a company can do far more to promote environmental and social causes by earning higher returns and hiring more people of all races and ethnicities.
The polar bear has long been the poster child of global warming crusaders.
Dr. Susan Crockford is a Canadian zoologist with more than 35 years of experience studying Arctic polar bears who was famously fired from the University of Victoria for telling the truth; polar bear populations are stable and even thriving.
She’s now back with new findings that refute the latest doomsaying BBC documentary Frozen Planet ii, narrated by Sir David Attenborough.
Crockford says that the BBC team filmed in Svalbard, which has a distinct Arctic micro-climate warmed by ocean currents. The number of ice-free days there has indeed increased, but far more than in other parts of the Arctic.
Overall, Arctic sea ice has made a small recovery over the last decade. Even in Svalbard, Dr. Crockford reports polar bears are thriving because the ice during their feeding period is “abundant”, and has not changed in recent years.
Crockford calls the BBC documentary climate change propaganda made by people who are “not about to let scientific facts get in their way."
If climate change is so scientifically proven, why does the Climate Change Industrial Complex lie so much about the simplest facts?
