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Escape From New York 2021
by Daniel Greenfield 
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Guantánamo Bay prison commander fired
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washingtonexaminer.com } ~ The commander of the U.S. prison at Guantánamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba has been fired... Rear Adm. John Ring, commander of Joint Task Force-Guantánamo, was relieved of duty Saturday following an investigation, according to the New York Times. Adm. Craig Faller made the call due to a “loss of confidence in his ability” to continue running the prison, which houses some of the most infamous terrorists in the world. It is not immediately known what prompted the investigation or what it uncovered. Col. Amanda Azubuike, a spokeswoman for the Southern Command, said the decision was unrelated to a recent visit by members of the news media. She also said the change would not affect operations at the prison.“This change in leadership will not interrupt the safe, humane, legal care and custody provided to the detainee population at GTMO,” military officials said in a statement. Ring, who has led the facility since April of last year, will be replaced in an acting capacity by Brig. Gen. John F. Hussey, his deputy. Ring was commissioned in 1988 through the University of Arizona's Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps program. During his tenure, Ring served as commanding officer of the USS Comstock from 2011 to 2013 and of the USS Nimitz from 2014 to 2017. He has received a number of awards and commendations during his decades in the military. Guantánamo Bay prison currently holds 40 detainees, down from a high of more than 600, and has had 18 commanders since it was opened in 2002 by President George W. Bush as a holding area for terrorists captured overseas...
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The Palestinians' Own Goals
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gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ On April 24, two Palestinian software development companies came to Bir Zeit University, north of the West Bank city of Ramallah, to offer jobs to Palestinian students... The companies were invited to campus as part of the university's Annual Hiring Day -- an event aimed at helping students find jobs with major Palestinian firms. The event, however, turned ugly when students protested against the presence of the representatives of the two companies on campus. The protesters expelled the company representatives from the university premises after accusing them of engaging in "normalization" with Israel. In other words, the students attacked, humiliated and expelled Palestinian companies that came to offer them jobs at a time when the Palestinian economy is facing a crisis and thousands of young Palestinians remain unemployed. The first company is ASAL Technologies, a Ramallah-based software and IT services outsourcing firm founded in 2000. ASAL Technologies is the largest Palestinian information and communications technology company that supplies international companies with talented Palestinian professionals. The second company, also based in Ramallah, is EXALT, a software development center specialized in web services, backend/API development and mobile apps. The students who expelled the companies' representatives from campus said they were acting on instructions from the anti-Israel movement for boycotting Israel. According to the students, the two Palestinian companies are guilty of cooperating with Israelis, especially Mellanox Technologies, an Israeli multinational supplier of computer networking products. One of the student groups responsible for the expulsion of the companies' representatives is called  Progressive Democratic Student Pole, which is affiliated with the radical PLO group Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP)...  https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/14141/palestinians-own-goal  
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In Colorado, Democrats made their decision
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by Sage Naumann  
{washingtonexaminer.com} ~ Former Democratic Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper boasts of our state’s outstanding economic recovery. At the same time, he hems and haws over whether he’s a capitalist or not... But for the Democrats running the state’s government in the post-Hickenlooper era, they have chosen a different path. With a divided legislature during six of Hick’s eight years, legislation that would have strangled Colorado’s economy was kept at bay. Most of it would die in the state Senate’s State, Veterans, and Military Affairs Committee on party-line votes. But with the “Blue Wave” that swept every statewide elected office and complete control of Colorado’s legislature into the hands of Democrats, that very legislation became the top priority for the party that loses sleep at the thought that its most radical and active Twitter followers might condemn them as capitalists. The horror. As in presidential politics, Democrats at the state level are engaged in a footrace to see just how far they can push the limit with liberal legislation. Bills are pending that would let localities all but banish oil and gas operations, ignore the Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights to institute paid family leave, explore government-offered health insurance, and even to explore automatically enrolling workers into a government-run retirement plan. All the while, what’s left of the informal caucus of moderate Democrats are either keeping their mouths shut or acting in complicity with those that find great discomfort in their state’s economic success. In Colorado, Democrats have made their decision: Capitalism died with Hickenlooper. Colorado’s unemployment rate sits somewhere abound 2.8%, an entire percentage point lower than the national average. Our income tax rate sits flat at 4.63%, thanks almost entirely and absolutely to the Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights, the voter-approved measure that forces all tax increase proposals to go to a vote of the people. It should be noted that efforts to raise taxes were rejected on the same ballot that swept Democrats into office. Booms in the oil and gas, marijuana, and agricultural industries have brought prosperity to many, both in rural and metro...
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No, Democrats, the scumbag/liar-nObama-loose 
lips-Biden Administration Was Not Scandal-Free
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legalinsurrection.com } ~ loose lips-Joe Biden started his official 2020 presidential campaign launch with a bang this week by declaring two glaring whoppers in two days... First was his announcement video which focused on the oft-debunked media-driven lie about President Trump’s response to the August 2017 Charlottesville riots. The second was his declaration that the scumbag/liar-nObama-Biden administration was scandal-free. loose lips-Biden made the absurd claim on a Friday segment of ABC‘s “The View” program. Newsbusters has the transcript of the former veep talking fondly about his former boss: loose lips-BIDEN: The thing I’m proudest of is we coincidentally were each in a different part of the country and we were each talking to groups of people that were being televised, the same day, purely coincidentally we were asked what are you proudest of from your administration? You know what I said –it turns out he said the same thing and probably a little more clearly than I did. Is that, not one single whisper of scandal. BEHAR: Not one! loose lips-BIDEN: Not one single whisper! [applause] That’s Barack scumbag/liar -nObama! That’s because of Barack! BEHAR: I know! He’s amazing!... What a bunch of garbage.
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scumbag-Schiff shifts from Trump 
impeachment talk: 'Vote his ass out of office'
by John Gage

washingtonexaminer.com } ~ Rep. scumbag-Adam Schiff has a better plan than impeaching President Trump: “Vote his ass out of office.”... 
The California Democrat told Bill Maher on Friday he is “not there yet” on impeaching Trump, but he does think that voting the president out of office would be effective. scumbag-Schiff, the embattled chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, hedged his bet, though, saying he “may get me there” on impeachment eventually." But here’s the awful dilemma that we face: If we don’t impeach him, that sends a message that this kind of conduct, this obstruction of justice, this kind of willing use of the help of a foreign adversary, all the lies and cover up, that this is non-impeachable,” he said. “At the same time, if we do impeach him and he is acquitted as he would likely be acquitted, then the message is ‘those are not impeachable offenses.’ At the end of the day, Bill, there is only one way to deal with this problem, whether we impeach him or not, and that is to vote his ass out of office,” he said. scumbag-Schiff has drawn a string of insulting nicknames from Trump, who has referred to him as " pencil-neck scumbag-Schiff," "schifty scumbag-Schiff" and " little scumbag-Adam Schitt" over scumbag-Schiff's assertions there is evidence Trump colluded with Russia, despite Attorney General William Barr's conclusion to the contrary...
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Escape From New York 2021
by Daniel Greenfield 

sultanknish.blogspot.com } ~ In the movie Escape From New York, the island of Manhattan was walled off and mined. For its fortieth anniversary, New York City will try to recreate its plot by walling off parts of Manhattan with toll booths. The walls of toll booths to impose congestion pricing on the locals will fulfill the dream of former Mayor Bloomberg whose wildest ideas now seem downright tame to the new Dem radicals.

You could try to bypass the toll booths along 61st Street by taking an Uber, but good luck. 

New York City has also been leading a crackdown on ridesharing on behalf of taxi drivers who began committing suicide because they were no longer able to overcharge, rip off and rob tourists. Uber will be capped, taxed and pushed out of the city along with all the other cars to encourage people to use public transportation. Unfortunately, public transportation doesn’t work anymore. 

You can still ride a bike, if you don’t mind suffering bruises, bumps and skull fractures. 

The New York City subway is failing badly. To quote the New York Times, "Century-old tunnels and track routes are crumbling... Just 65 percent of weekday trains reach their destinations on time, the lowest rate since the transit crisis of the 1970s". Cars are being taxed to help fund this collapsing system. But the problem isn’t a lack of money: the money is being diverted by unions and political sweetheart deals. 

Raising taxes doesn’t fix corruption. It worsens it. 

Record numbers of New Yorkers are fleeing the Democrat disasters of the city and the state. But escaping New York by renting a car will also be more challenging because the state budget also includes a new tax on car rentals. And don’t even think of trying to fly out of one of New York’s terrible airports. 

Walling off parts of Manhattan behind toll booths will make food deliveries much more expensive. And so, the disastrous state budget deal also bans plastic bags to make shopping for food equally miserable whether you do delivery or go to the supermarket. And don’t imagine for a moment that asking for paper will get you a pass. Paper bags will also be taxed because going to the supermarket is a crime. 

Unlike Snake Plissken, once you escape from New York, your troubles will just be getting started. If you leave any property behind, the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance will pore through your cellphone records, stalk your Facebook feed, stop off at your dentist’s office, and even check your fridge to prove that you still live in the Big Apple, and should be paying Governor scumbag-Cuomo’s new salary. 

But for those New Yorkers who stay behind, life keeps getting worse. 

"This budget is probably the strongest progressive statement that we've made," Governor scumbag-Cuomo declared, referring to the bizarre mess that the Democrat controlled legislature pieced together at 2.30 AM for no reason except corruption and a burning hatred for everyone living above 61st Street. 

While the state budget was terrible news for people, it was great news for criminals. 

"I’d say about 85 percent of the population will now be looking at a cashless bail system,” Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, D-Bronx, had boasted. 

Because the one thing that the Bronx desperately needs is more criminals wandering its streets. 

There was also good news for the state’s most successful criminal element with $100 million in taxpayer funds going to a commission, 6 of whose 9 members will be appointed by Democrats, to finance political campaigns. Political consultants in New York are now an official public subsidy and a welfare class. 

Governor scumbag-Cuomo will also get a 40% pay hike. It’ll take a lot of paper bag taxes to pay for that. 

And, because New York State Dems now make Bond villains look like decent folks, there’s a $100 million tax on pain medications. If you’re suffering in pain, you will end up paying more for your medications. 

When you need $100 million to pass on to politicians, why not take it from those who are suffering? 

What kind of politicians raise taxes on people living in literal agony? Democrats. 

Taxes have often been called a pain, but New York Democrats have achieved a true first by actually taxing pain. This Torquemada taxation is a new low even for New York’s pro-infanticide Democrats. 

The only possible next step is to actually tax each individual scream. 

New York Dems started out by pretending that they were trying to “help” fight opioid addiction with their pain medication tax and were protecting consumers. Now the mask is off and the official wording reads, "The economic incidence of the tax imposed by this article may be passed to a purchaser." 

That’s a very legalistic way of saying that New York Democrats are offering their suffering victims a choice between screaming in pain and paying more money to the corrupt Democrat machine. 

Stealing candy from babies would have been halfway civilized by comparison to this horror. 

The new leftist Dems boast about how they’re destroying the old Democrat machine. But even Tammany Hall, for all of its greedy crimes, would not have stooped to this level of barbarism. 

Only political monsters tax pain and torture people for money. Albany is now crawling with them. 

But that’s how you get to a $175 billion budget. You do it by stealing from everybody and their grandmother, her paper bags and her pain medication. You recreate Escape from New York on 61st Street, you make it impossible to travel within the city and then you check the fridges of the escapees. 

Assemblyman Doug Smith, a Republican, said that the only thing missing from the “midnight budget deal was a mask and gun.” 

“The apparent economic strategy of New York Democrats is simple: ‘Put a tax or fee on everything you see,’” Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb said. “Grocery bags, internet purchases, vapor products, real estate transactions, prescription medication, rental cars, commuting in and around New York City all become more expensive when this budget takes effect.” 

The complete contempt of New York Democrats for the rest of the state was captured in one single exchange during the bag debate between Senator Kaminsky and Senator Funke. 

"If I have old Wegmans plastic bags at home, can I bring them to the store and use them again?" Senator Funke asked. 

"Did you say an old white man's plastic bag?" Senator Kaminsky sneered. 

Wegmans is a popular supermarket chain with plenty of stores in New York. But none in New York City. Senator Funke is a 70-year-old Republican. Senator Kaminsky is a 39-year-old former federal prosecutor occupying a Republican seat after Senator Skelos was taken down by disgraced former federal thug Preet Bhara, who appeared to be clearing his own way to power until Trump showed him the door. 

Bhara has yet to slime his way into public office, but Kaminsky made it in by a few hundred votes. 

Democrats occupied New York’s Senate, traditionally a Republican stronghold reflecting the larger state, by thuggish tactics. The purge of Republicans and moderate Democrats, like Sheldon Silver, paved the way for the takeover of both houses by a new Dem majority of crooks, extremists, bigots and lunatics. 

Or there’s Senator Julia Salazar who has been accused of being all four of these. 

Senator Kaminsky’s victory represented a crucial seat in establishing a ‘Californian’ legislature in New York eager to pass any leftist agenda, no matter how crazy, abusive or irresponsible it might be. 

Banning bags, forcing people in pain to pay more for their medication, walling off parts of Manhattan, and freeing criminals are the wages of a one-party state assembling dirty deals at 2.30 in the morn. 

“Elections have consequences,” Barack Hussein scumbag/liar-nObama once told Republicans. 

They do indeed. 

The consequences of a powerful Democrat majority in New York can be seen from 61st Street to your local supermarket and pharmacy. But more broadly, they mean driving everyone who works for a living out of the state, if they can find a way to get out, and then robbing them some more on the way out. 

New York is suffering the steepest population losses of any state. New Yorkers are fleeing to places where they can afford a car, a home and medications. Where they can shop at a supermarket or order takeout, where they can cross the street without running into a tollbooth, and where they can be free. 

And they’re getting out before the walls go up around Manhattan and the bridges are mined.  
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