Posted originally on the conservative tree house on July 30, 2021 | Sundance | 269 Comments

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis delivered a statement about the future of Florida today while visiting Cape Coral on the Southwest coast.  During his remarks, the governor highlighted his support for parent’s rights, taking the position that parents should be the ones making decisions for their children on masks, schools and vaccines, not government.

Governor DeSantis promised Florida residents there will be no lockdowns, no mandates, no restrictions and no school closures.  Additionally, the governor urged all local communities to follow common sense science and said he will soon issue an order allowing parents or guardians to choose whether their child wears a mask in schools.

“As of today, very few [school districts] are requiring it. Nevertheless, we have a lot of push from the CDC and others to make every single person, kids and staff have to wear masks all day,” DeSantis said during the event. “That would be a huge mistake.”  WATCH:

The Florida Education Association (FEA), the largest teacher union in the state, said they will fight the Florida governor on all measures.  The teachers union is considering not going back to work with in-person teaching, and has vowed not to give up control of the (k-12) children to the parents. “Governor DeSantis continues to think that Tallahassee knows best what all Floridians need,” FEA President Andrew Spar said in a statement.  “We reject that kind of thinking” Spar continued.

“Instead, we ask Governor DeSantis to allow all Florida’s citizens to have a voice by empowering the elected leaders of cities, counties and school districts to make health and safety decisions locally based on their unique needs and circumstances,” Spar said.  Emphasizing how the union feels they have more power in the blue and leftist urban area, and they have vowed to fight any conservative effort in the state to undermine the teachers financial interests and control over Florida students.

Posted originally on the conservative tree house on July 30, 2021 | Sundance | 298 Comments

Either Nancy Pelosi has magic and mysterious political power to control the coronavirus, or the mandated mask nonsense is really about raw political power and manipulative control over the American people.  You decide.

Nancy Pelosi showcases how her mask mandate is really nothing more than political theater.  Watch what happens during a ceremonial swearing-in for Congressman-elect Jake Ellzey on 7/30/2021… WATCH:

Armstrong Economics Blog/Tyranny Re-Posted Jul 30, 2021 by Martin Armstrong

There is no question that this entire COVID restriction is being orchestrated to force the Great Reset upon the world. While Australia has barred public gatherings restricting people’s movements beyond 5 km from their residence, Biden is also pushing the same guaranteed basic income scheme to undermine the entire economy. The Treasury Department said in a report last week that about 8.2 million adults were behind on their rent or mortgage as of July 5 and have low confidence they can pay on time next month, a Census Bureau survey showed. They are wiping out rental properties. Maybe BlackRock has a special deal like Gates being paid not to grow food.

The Supreme Court rules that the CDC had no such power to impose a moratorium on rents. This is just the problem we have with the rule of law. They get to do whatever they like and we have the burden to prove it is unconstitutional. Meanwhile, they get to do whatever they desire and we have no power to defend the constitution for the system is skewed against us.

Biden has now asked for Congress to quickly enact legislation to extend the moratorium. The problem we have is that they are defacto taking private property and turning it into public housing. This in itself violates the Fifth Amendment Takings Clause, which states that “private property [shall not] be taken for public use, without just compensation.”

Then, some businesses join the government’s tyranny like Shake Shack, which has shown its true colors where I will never be a customer. Danny Meyer’s Union Square Hospitality Group will require proof of vaccination against COVID-19 from its staff as well as anyone who wants to eat or drink inside the group’s various restaurants across New York City and Washington, DC.

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Obviously, if you just look at the details you will see in Britain, more people are dying from COVID who are already vaccinated compared to non-vaccinated. (see Page 18). Australia imposed a virtual concentration camp claiming 177 people had covid in Sydney. The population of Syndey Australia is just under 6 million. They have destroyed their freedom for 177 cases?

It is absolutely stunning how such EVIL is allowed to take over the entire world. They are imposing, by sheer force, a new Marxism regime with the end goal being a one-world government ending democracy. The press is cheering this transition and refuses to report the truth. I truly wish I was not still alive to have to watch what these people are doing to destroy civilization as we have known it. I believe they are given a new modern meaning to the same tyranny against which Patrick Henry spoke out.

Posted originally on the conservative tree house on July 28, 2021 | Sundance | 77 Comments

Arizona Republican Chairwoman Kelli Ward provides an update on the Maricopa County ballot audit and the new subpoenas sent by the state senate to county election officials who are refusing to comply voluntarily with requests for information.

The second hand count of the raw ballot totals was completed earlier today. Mrs. Ward walks through the content of the subpoenas and the purpose for them.

At the same time Arizona is wrapping up the ballot counting phase, it appears the Lawfare group is writing legal guidance on behalf of the DOJ. A seven page memo, with no official legal standing, was released today by the DOJ in an effort to intimidate any state or local officials who are conducting audits. The memo [view pdf here] looks like it was generated from within the “beach friend” community of Lawfare, the assembly of former DOJ members who are rabid political ideologues.

(Politico) – […] “While the Biden administration “guidance” document carries no formal legal weight and may not strike fear into local officials, the Justice Department used the release of the legal analysis to press their campaign of saber-rattling against Republican-led audits of the 2020 vote in Arizona and other states, as well as voting changes many GOP-controlled states are pursuing as part of purported anti-fraud efforts.” (read more)

Notice “guidance document” & “legal analysis”, which are political code-words to describe the Lawfare group writing their collective advice into a memo and the DOJ presenting it to allied media in an effort to give it some enhanced credibility.

Posted originally on the conservative tree house on July 28, 2021 | Sundance | 242 Comments

The people of Pennsylvania showed up to greet the installed occupant of the White House, Joe Biden, upon his arrival in Pennsylvania – which he calls his home state.  The illegitimate office holder was scheduled to speak at Mack Truck Plant in Macungie, Pennsylvania.

Unfortunately for those who are attempting to manage the White House, the jeers, boos and middle finger salutes from the crowd was not exactly what they were looking for.  WATCH:

Again I repeat, there is not a single visible data-point, outside of MSM narrative engineering, that would indicate support -of any significant scale- for the installed current occupant of the Oval Office.

Few American people watch his speeches. Even fewer people attend his events; and almost all quantifiable engagement -on every platform- reflects exactly the opposite of what the media and big tech narrative engineers keep trying to sell.  The propaganda is remarkable when contrast against the reality.

Posted originally on the conservative tree house on July 28, 2021 | Sundance | 336 Comments

Katie Benner sounds like an American girl next door right?  Alas, a little digging below the surface reveals something rather specific about the New York Times journalist.

Ms. Katie Benner made headlines yesterday by tweeting: “Today’s #January6thSelectCommittee underscores the America’s current, essential natsec dilemma: Work to combat legitimate national security threats now entails calling a politician’s supporters enemies of the state,” the previously little-known Benner wrote.

Perhaps the purposeful avatar knocked people off the trail.  Yes, the statement is jaw-dropping from a New York Times journalist who is openly calling Trump supporters “enemies of the state,” a tweet she soon deleted once the sunlight poured in.

Perhaps her NYT editors influenced the decision to delete the comments; or, well, perhaps the real people behind Ms. Benner noted she had gone a little too far – this time.

As it turns out, Ms. Benner is not quite what she appears…. not even close.

Katie Benner (pictured left) used to write freelance for the Beijing Review, China’s only National news magazine in English, published by the Chinese Communist Party-owned China International Publishing Group.

Benner joined the New York Times in 2015 after her initial work at the communist propaganda outlet. {NYT CITATION}

NEW YORK TIMES – […] “Katie Benner of Bloomberg joining The Times as a technology reporter.  She’s covered Wall Street and Silicon Valley. She’s been a magazine writer and a columnist. Early in her career she wrote for Beijing Review, and since last fall, she has been based in San Francisco for Bloomberg View. (2015, link)

The CCP-controlled Beijing Review was designated by the U.S. State Department in 2020 as a “foreign mission” of China {Citation}. Emphasis mine:

STATE DEPT ARCHIVE – […] “Pursuant to authorities under the Foreign Missions Act, the State Department is issuing today a new determination that designates the U.S. operations of Yicai Global, Jiefang Daily, Xinmin Evening News, Social Sciences in China Press, Beijing Review, and Economic Daily as foreign missions. These six entities all meet the definition of a foreign mission under the Foreign Missions Act in that they are “substantially owned or effectively controlled” by a foreign government. In this case, they are effectively controlled by the government of the People’s Republic of China”. (link)

So Ms. Benner was an operative, an embed, of the Chinese Communist Party propaganda machine.  As the New York Times noted when they hired her: “When she lived in Beijing, she wrote about “everything from monks to music,” she says“; that point underscores that Ms. Benner was a young adult, pursuing a journalist career, living in communist China.

Departing Beijing and landing in San Francisco (fall of 2014), Katie Benner embedded into MSM via Bloomberg as a technology reporter.  Then, she jumped over to the New York Times (June 2015), again focusing on the Tech sector…. and then for some unknown reason, the tech expertise was dropped, and she took on a new role reporting on U.S. Department of Justice issues.  {Insert Suspicious Cat Here}….

The most recent article she wrote about, July 24th, just coincidentally happens to focus on the Joe Biden administration dropping charges against Chinese “researchers” (ie. spies) operating in the U.S. and hiding their connections to the Chinese military.  Huh, go figure:

WASHINGTON — The Justice Department moved this week to drop cases that it brought last year against five visiting researchers accused of hiding their ties to China’s military, prompting questions about the department’s efforts to combat Chinese national security threats. (link)

Let me go out on a short-limb here, and say Ms. Benner is likely using her contacts within the DOJ to evaluate the risk to other Chinese agents distributed throughout the United States, and then she reports that risk back to her real handlers in Beijing.

SUMMARY – Ms. Katie Benner appears to be a Chinese Communist Party operative who worked through the U.S. media system as a journalist, eventually into the New York Times, weaving her way through the organization to a place where she focuses on national security issues within the DOJ…. and then, unfortunately for her CCP handlers, Ms. Benner triggered her CCP tradecraft motivation a little too openly on Twitter and did not clear the blast zone.

Any questions?