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Challenging the Bureaucratic Stateby Brian Mark Weber
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Huawei Is the Doorway to China's Police State
by Dan Blumenthal
{nationalinterest.org} ~ The arrest of Huawei Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou was apparently a long time coming... U.S. investigators began looking into Huawei’s dealings when Iran’s once Chinese-backed ZTE was identified as a sanctions-breaker. U.S. prosecutors now appear to have substantial evidence of the Chinese Communist Party’s state-backed mobile and technology company’s violations of the sanctions regime against Iran. The arrest and call for extradition spotlights just how concerned the free world should be about Huawei. The stakes are high, as the company is positioned to be the dominant player in 5G mobile networks. If Huawei wins this competition against U.S. companies, much of the world’s data will pass through the mobile networks of a CCP-backed company that does business with the world’s most troubling regimes. Huawei is also the critical player in CCP General-Secretary Xi Jinping’s bid to establish a high-tech police state and to leapfrog the United States in critical technologies that will enable a host of military capabilities. The CCP is already collecting enough data from Chinese citizens who use mobile networks, search engines, and online purchasing systems to establish a “Social Credit System.” To say that this system is Orwellian is an understatement. Even George Orwell could not have imagined the new technology of totalitarianism. The Chinese government plan is to have a database on Chinese citizens’ consumer preferences, personal activities, and habits to give each one a “score” based on loyalty to the party and other behaviors deemed by party leaders to make for good citizens. This score will determine if Chinese citizens are accepted to colleges, can get good jobs, buy a house, and so much more. It is nothing less than an attempt to perfect the world’s first ever high-tech police state....
Electoral Fraud: the Real Record
by Apolo Villalobos*In November 2016, there were 6,540 same-day registrants in New Hampshire who registered to vote in New Hampshire using out-of-state driver’s licenses to prove their identity.
+In Sacramento, California, two illegal aliens voted five times in 2016.
The Public Interest Legal Foundation found over a thousand persons who voted illegally in Virginia.
*In Cincinnati, a poll worker found her dead neighbor's name on an active voter registry.
*In Maryland, several Democratic city governments are allowing noncitizens to fraudulently vote in elections.
*In Ft. Worth, Leticia Sanchez formed a mail-in voter fraud ring, which included helping a blind voter. Just prior to being arrested, she warned her minions that a group of “malicious people” were investigating.
*Broward County Election Supervisor Brenda Snipes refused to turn over voting records on the counting and collection of ballots, despite the law saying she had to. There were many irregularities in that 2018 election, such as there being more voters on rolls than actual citizens. s Some 80,000 individuals filled out blank voting forms. Broward County has seen past instances of voter fraud, always in favor of Democrats, the key being absentee ballots. “Irregularities” also occurred in Santa Rosa, Citrus, and Okaloosa counties. To date, no one has been arrested...(the list goes on) Keep in mind also that these are just a tiny portion of detected transgressions. How many more illegal acts have occurred that have gone unnoticed? After all, voting illegally is child’s play, with no checks and balances and a minimum of negative repercussions. Since Republican voters are almost always the victim and the Republican Party is without doubt the Stupid Party, this stomach-churning travesty will continue....
Russia-Ukraine Conflict Could Spark WW III
{americanlibertyreport.com} ~ The war drums are pounding in Ukraine as Russia ramps up its military presence for an impending fight that could draw NATO allies into a bloody World War III conflict... The Russian Navy fired on and seized Ukrainian spy vessels in what many consider an aggressive violation of international law at the direction of President Vladimir Putin. Russian forces have already effectively annexed Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula through military force while NATO countries and ex-Pres. scumbag/liar-nObama sat on their hands. The message is clear to Russian strongman Putin that the West remains politically and militarily unwilling to go head-to-head with Russia. “Russia will likely escalate militarily against Ukraine imminently,” the Institute for the Study of War’s research team members Catherine Harris and Mason Clark reportedly said. “Russia likely perceives the lack of a unified NATO response to Moscow’s aggression in the Sea of Azov as an opportunity to escalate against Ukraine and elsewhere in the future. None of the responses are likely sufficient to deter Putin, whereas the disagreement itself will likely embolden him.” The recent arrest of the sailors in international waters has amped up tension between politically divided Ukraine and Russia. President Putin has directed an escalation in military presence along the Russia-Ukraine border. An increased naval presence in the Black Sea has also been reported as propaganda efforts to sway Ukraine sentiments that Russia is poised to repel a Western assault. Other reports indicate that Putin has grown frustrated and anxious about the forceful diplomatic pushback over the Ukraine sailors who were arrested. His inclinations appear to be that a pre-emptive military incursion may be the best course to secure long-term control over Ukraine... .
The Flynn Investigation:
McCabe's Personal Retaliation?
by Daniel John SobieskiJW Videos of the Week
‘Whole Point of dirty cop-Mueller Probe to Destroy Trump’s Legitimacy’.
Tom Fitton’s Weekly Update – December 14, 2018.
Ballot Harvesting Provides ‘Opportunities for Fraud’.
Tom Fitton Delivers Opening Remarks on the scumbag/liar-Clinton Foundation & Uranium One Scandals.
DOJ Suppressed Investigation into scumbag/liar-Clinton Foundation.
scumbag/liar-Clinton Foundation was an ‘Influence Factory’Challenging the Bureaucratic State
by Brian Mark Weber: One of President Donald Trump’s core pledges during the 2016 campaign was to drain the Swamp, but taking on the Washington bureaucracy will require far more than cutting back on spending or making government more efficient.
For well over 100 years, our nation operated without a monarchical executive. Then along came Woodrow Wilson, an academic and a “progressive” who believed that an enlightened administrative state was superior to government “by the people.” Franklin D. Roosevelt then “perfected” this bureaucratic governance with his “New Deal” programs, which resulted in soaring deficits, a tripling of the federal budget between 1933 and 1941, and a needlessly prolonged Great Depression.
Thus, modern presidents, including Trump, and their executive agencies have enjoyed carte blanche without having to worry too much about that pesky separation of powers. Ironically, Trump’s conservative appointments to the Supreme Court may be just what’s needed to finally curb the power of the executive branch and its myriad agencies that have run roughshod over the Constitution.
Here’s the good news: Just this week, The Wall Street Journal opined, “The Supreme Court announced that it will hear a legal challenge to two of its precedents that defer to agency interpretations of ambiguous regulations.”
Defer to agencies may not sound as threatening as the border caravan, ISIS, or a turbulent stock market, but for those of us who still believe in the quaint constitutional principles of separation of powers and limited government, it’s right up there with the most pressing issues of our time. And these agencies have had a detrimental impact on Liberty for far too long.
For the monster of bureaucratic overreach, we can partially thank the Supreme Court, which in 1984 reached a decision in Chevron U.S.A vs. Natural Resources Defense Council that the judiciary will defer to an agency as long as Congress has not “directly spoken” to the issue and the agency has engaged in a “permissible construction” of the statute.
The result of this seemingly innocuous ruling is that the president and his executive branch agencies now have tremendous power to operate as an autonomous government. In other words, they can make, interpret, and execute their own policies without deferring to Congress or the Supreme Court. In fact, it’s Congress and the Supreme Court that now defer to the agencies, thanks to the Chevron ruling. The Constitution is pretty clear about the separation of powers, and how those powers should function. But when one branch of government tells another that it’s basically free to act without oversight from the other branches, it’s no wonder we have the Swamp.
The late Justice Antonin Scalia did not participate in Chevron, but he did seem to throw up his hands and give in to the growing power of the federal government when he stated not long after the ruling that “broad delegation to the executive is the hallmark of the modern administrative state.”
Compare this to Justice Neil Gorsuch, who, in 2016 as a member of the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals, stated in reference to Chevron, “There’s an elephant in the room with us today. We have studiously attempted to work our way around it and even left it unremarked. But the fact is Chevron … permit[s] executive bureaucracies to swallow huge amounts of core judicial and legislative power and concentrate federal power in a way that seems more than a little difficult to square with the Constitution of the framers’ design. Maybe the time has come to face the behemoth.”
National Review’s David French writes, “This Supreme Court … has the opportunity to begin the arduous process of paring back the powers of the president. The Court can’t, however, work miracles. It can push the president back a bit and reassert its own authority, but it can’t make Congress step forward and reassert its rightful lawmaking primacy. If the presidency recedes, the legislative branch must step forward.”
Despite many attempts to erode its relevancy and authority, the Constitution of the United States is the single most important document we have to protect and defend Liberty. We can only hope that President Trump’s Supreme Court appointments of Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh will begin to push back against the Court’s previous ruling in Chevron and restore the important constitutional balance among the legislative, judicial, and executive branches. ~The Patriot Post
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