Hi Lee, Sidney Blumenthal was the mastermind {employee at the Clinton Foundation} who wrote the dossier {"4 proto-dossiers"}. That's the reason Andrew Weissman never looked into the origins of the dossier when he wrote the Mueller report. And it's the reason Rod Rosenstein screamed at and threatened to investigate Rep. Nunes/Kash Patel. And it's the reason the Signatories on the application to the FISC {Strzok, Rosenstein, McCabe, Loretta Lynch, McCabe, Comey, Susan Powers, etc) signed their names when they didn't know Christopher Steele or could verify any of his claims. See: Strzok's off-camera Congressional testimony where he tells Rep. Jim Jordan that his contact for the dossier was SIDNEY BLUMENTHAL, and Strzok said he never communicated with Christopher Steele. Ask Dick Morris the history on Sidney Blumenthal's 30 years work for the Clintons. Dick said Blumenthal is the closest person to Hillary after her husband Bill. Dick said the ONLY reason the Clintons have employed Blumenthal for 30 years is to do hit pieces against their political opposition. Dick said the dossier has Blumenthal's writing style. Andrew Weissman/the signatories on the FISC application believed they had a sure thing with Sidney Blumenthal of the Clinton Foundation being the imprimatur for the dossier; they could rest that the "i's" were dotted and the "t's" were crossed. They believed the dossier scheme invented by Blumenthal would pass critical examination. Also, the other hit piece against Mr. Trump that Sidney Blumenthal wrote at the Clinton Foundation was the LETTER negatively criticizing Mr. Trump's foreign policy and signed by 150 liberal academics and which Pres. Joe Biden referred to twice during his last debate with Mr. Trump.
Why did I waste all that money on college when I could simply have listened to this podcast along with several others every week and learned much more than any lecture.
I don't understand your use of "news" and "faux news" in this context. Do you mean "faux/fake", as in untrue, fabricated, distorted, inaccurate, incomplete, misleading, having dubious cause and effect? (By the way, I totally agree with Walter Russell Mead on the housing and Wagner issues.)
WRM is being modest in expressing his understanding the current political impulses in India. He is pretty accurate in his read. India is constitutionally secular for as long as Hindus are in a majority. Imagine a neighbourhood that has Bangladesh, Afghanistan, Pakistan, SriLanka, Myanmar, Maldives and of course China. Hindus have being in a state of siege just as Jews have been for over 1000 years. It shouldn’t be hard to understand why there is a sense of fealty with Jews.Our neighbours and us come from the yet racial stock and yet our current realities couldn’t be more different. The question then is why? The answer is what WRM recommends study the philosophy of India, its ancient history. Yes, Bollywood would be a good start.
Raising wages increases not only technological innovation/automation, but incentivizes increases in worker productivity, which has plateaued as wages have stagnated over the last several decades. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-QGBQwZsp3T0.html
Thanks for the great talk. It is great to see developing interest from a modern free society into an ancient free society. There are lessons to be learned if we want to retain this freedom.
One of the best podcasts. I can spend a day reading the letters of John Adams from Paris, the speeches of Edward Baker in the 1861 Senate, and the reservations of Henry Cabot Lodge in 1919. And I can be assured that I can finish up with today's geo-politics with the same caliber of intellect as an Adams or Kennan or Kissinger on this podcast.
The Israelis and Indians are waiting for the western conservatives to fully understand who their allies are in their own countries and around the world. Mr. Mead understands this, as does Mr. Elbridge Colby, and VP-in-waiting JD Vance.
I am surprised that a professor would be surprised at the extent of antisemitism. This sort of extremely radical Jew-hatred, centered on a desire to destroy the Jewish state, was always extremely widespread and only increasing in popularity and virulence. This was not going on behind closed doors, American Jewry has willingly blinded itself to antisemitism as long as it masked itself in progressive slogans. I am completely convinced that the only solution is state and federal legislation that specifically targets antisemitism and punishes schools which do nothing to dissuade this radical ideology. A majority of Gen Z Americans would not have an issue with a friend or relative supporting Hamas. Gen Z is the most antisemitic generation in American history, and I don't see Gen Alpha being any better unless the nodes of Jew hatred are being regulated. This not only means TikTok, a tool of Chinese Communist propaganda. K-12 Schools and Universities are the main problem, and within them teachers and professors. Qatari money is also a HUGE factor. As long as universities and the department of education use ""Islamophobia"" (a term invited by the Iranian regime) to shield Jew haters there wont be a solution. As tough as it might be to acknowledge, Jews need to stand up for themselves and not allow radicals to put us on the bottom of the rung of oppression and thereby silence ourselves. If current trends continue, based on the increase of antisemitism from Gen X to Millennials and Gen Z, in fifty years we could see an America in which a third of Americans at least are outright and open Jewhaters. If someone thinks that through rhetoric and good faith argumentation you can defeat antisemitism, that person knows nothing about Jewish history. Jewish academics are too scared to stand up to Muslim/Arab students and academics especially, as well as networks of campus radicals. Jobs could be on the line, as well as personal safety on these campuses, but I agree with Shai, legitimizing antisemites doesn't lead to good things. Their entire argument is that antisemitism is not Antizionism as they attack random Jews and synagogues throughout the world, if we provide legitimacy to that argument it'll only get stronger.
Great analysis on all matters - SCOTUS rulings, Israeli judicial system (which desperately needs a reform), French and British elections - brief and to the point. Thanks! Looking forward to your next one.
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When I think upon which major nations have under performed in the past decade, the US and India stand out. The common denominator being that their policies are driven by the focus on restricting China, rather than focusing on their own growth
My first time at least somewhat observing Shavuot and I'm cheesin' it up! Got a special pan just to make the crepes for blintzes, and I've been learning things like it's actually easy to make your own Ricotta, farmer's, cream, etc cheese. The thing is, most off-the-shelf cheese are not Kosher, at least the hard ones because they use non-Kosher curdling ingredients. But soft cheeses like Ricotta etc., can be made on your own. At least if I never do that, at least I look for the hechser on the package.
