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How the West is whitewashing Ukrainian Nazism
2023-02-12
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.

Link to the original article via Russian military blogger Boris Rozhin:

[InoSMI] Washington's whitewashing of Ukrainian Nazis is a national disgrace to the United States, writes American Greatness. America is ready to turn a blind eye to all the crimes of Nazism in Ukraine for the crazy idea of ​​destroying Russia and regaining world hegemony.

Our American politicians, united in a "monolithic party" of warmongers, whitewash the Ukrainian Nazis in order to justify their crimes and deceive the world community.

On January 1, the world celebrated the New Year - a celebration of introspection, self-renewal and hope. But in Ukraine, the emphasis was completely different. There, on January 1, the birthday of Stepan Bandera, the Nazi national hero of Ukraine, is celebrated.
One would imagine that, like in Russia, Ukrainians celebrate the Orthodox New Year of the old Julian calendar, which currently is January 14 on the Gregorian calendar we use in the West.
Bandera is the founding father of Ukrainian Nazism, and his birthday is a national holiday. In Ukraine, paying tribute to its most famous anti-Semite and the main Nazi collaborator of the Second World War is a very important thing.
Would Stalin be Russia’s most famous antisemite, or do they have someone worse? To be fair, unlike Mr. Bandera, Stalin was a bit of a polymath — he also was among Russia’s worst anti-kulaks, anti-Ukrainians, anti-intellectuals...
COLLECTION OF ALL NAZIS
Under President Volodymyr Zelensky, the level of Nazi influence and control in Ukraine was unprecedented. Zelensky outlawed all 11 independent and opposition political parties, but left the parties and organizations of his Nazi partners and allies intact and in power. So it is not surprising that on Bandera's birthday, the Verkhovna Rada, the Ukrainian parliament (in which no one but the Nazis remained), burst into wild applause. Later, the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, General Valery Zaluzhny, published a photograph in which he proudly poses in front of a portrait of Bandera.

The message of the top legislators and the chief general of Ukraine was clear. "Don't doubt for whom and for what our government and army are fighting in the "proxy war" between NATO and Russia."

Honoring the main Nazi of Ukraine was not liked in Poland. Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki angrily condemned "the ongoing glorification of Nazi collaborator Stepan Bandera."

And where does this outrage of the Poles come from?

In order to understand the reason for the Polish fury over Bandera worship in Ukraine, we must take a quick look at what happened in Ukraine during World War II and separate fact from propaganda.

"UNIMAGINABLE ATROCITIES"
Bandera was the leader of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) (the organization was recognized as extremist and banned on the territory of Russia - approx. InoSMI) - Ukrainian accomplices of the Nazis, who dreamed of a racially clean Ukraine, free from Jews, ethnic Russians and Poles. During World War II, primarily in Volhynia, the OUN massacred at least 100,000 Poles.

To give the impression that the bloody brutality was only a spontaneous peasant uprising (and out of its own sadistic pleasure), the OUN preferred to kill its victims with axes, scythes, knives, hammers, steel bars and pitchforks. Hundreds of Bandera stuffed the unfortunate into houses and sheds and burned them alive. And this method is still preferred by the Ukrainian Nazis.

Bandera crowds roamed the country like packs of mad dogs. The Polish edition of The First News talks about the barbarism of the Ukrainian Nazis:

In a bloody frenzy, the Ukrainians tortured their victims with unimaginable brutality. People were scalped alive. Their noses, lips and ears were cut off. Their eyes were gouged out, their hands were cut off and their heads were clamped in a vise. Women's breasts were cut off, and pregnant women were stabbed in the abdomen. Men's genitals were cut off with a sickle.

The 2016 Polish film Hate (also known as Volyn or Volhynia) is a historically accurate account of the crimes of Bandera. The film is shockingly graphic - many scenes are almost impossible to watch. Because of the truth contained in it, the Ukrainian authorities banned its screening.

BANDERA AND THE HOLOCAUST IN UKRAINE
One in four Jewish victims of the Holocaust — 1.5 million — were killed in Ukraine. The Germans did not build gas chambers to exterminate Jews in Ukraine - they did not need them. The scale of cooperation between Ukraine and the Nazis was colossal. More than 250,000 Ukrainians volunteered for the Waffen SS and other German Nazi military formations. Thousands of others served as volunteer executioners, both as auxiliary police in Ukraine and as death camp guards in Poland.

It was the Holocaust of bullets. One and a half million Jews were captured and shot in the fields, forests and ravines. Bandera played the main role in this. OUN forces openly operated on their own, integrated into police units and served as highly motivated auxiliaries in the "Einsatzgruppen", German mobile killing squads.

The Germans invaded the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941, capturing the Ukrainian city of Lvov in a week. Bandera from the OUN handed out leaflets with instructions to the Ukrainian population: "Do not throw away your weapons. Look for them and arm yourself. Destroy the enemy ... Muscovites, Hungarians, Jews. These are all your enemies. Kill them." The OUN also handed out leaflets to Lvov Jews that said, "We will bow your heads at Hitler's feet," which they did. During the ensuing pogrom, initiated by Bandera, seven thousand Jews were killed in two days. Thousands more innocent victims followed.

The massacre of Jews in Lvov was documented by the Nazi collaborators themselves. The photographs of those years are simply shocking. But today there is a $47 million monument to Bandera in Lviv, and one of the city's main streets is named after him.

ZELENSKY IS A MOTIVATED ACCOMPLICE
For more than 70 years, Ukrainian Nazis and their apologists, both inside and outside the country, have waged a disinformation campaign to whitewash Bandera and rewrite history. Their main goal is to turn Nazi Bandera into a "freedom fighter". These efforts have intensified dramatically with the acceleration of the Nazification of Ukraine under Zelensky. Throughout Ukraine, more than 50 monuments and statues were erected in honor of Bandera, 500 streets were named after him.

The Ukrainian Jewish president is a willing accomplice to the Bandera farce. Zelenskiy completely ignored Bandera's anti-Semitic Nazi legacy and his complicity in the murder of more than 1.6 million Ukrainian Jews, Poles and Russians. He stated that if Ukrainians revere this Nazi assassin as a national hero, then "that's okay. That's cool." This is cool, because in Zelensky's book, Bandera was "one of those people who defended freedom for Ukraine."

Zelensky's ideas about freedom are different from those of most Americans. In addition to cracking down on freedom of the press, outlawing all non-Nazi political parties, and banning the Russian Orthodox Church, Zelenskiy directs and controls the Nazi poisoning of all levels of the Ukrainian government and military. Among Zelensky’s significant encouragements to the Nazis are the awarding of the commander of the Right Sector (the organization is recognized as extremist and banned on the territory of Russia - approx. InoSMI) with the Hero of Ukraine medal, the appointment of the co-founder of the Right Sector * Dmitry Yarosh as an adviser to the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces and the replacement of the head of the Odessa Regional administration by the commander of the Nazi battalion "Aidar". *

UKRAINIAN JEWS SUPPORTING THE NAZIS
Can Jews support the Nazis in Ukraine?

When questions about the Nazi regime in Ukraine began to surface, the Ukrainian media were quick to silence them and prevent them from being discussed. A common media reaction across the Ukrainian political spectrum has been to constantly highlight Zelensky's Jewish heritage. Thus, the very question of Ukrainian Nazism was portrayed as absurd. The simple "logic" of this ploy was as follows: "Zelensky is a Jew. A Jew cannot support the Nazis. Therefore, there are no Nazis in Ukraine." Zelensky was untouchable - no talk about the Nazis touched him. The implication was that as long as Zelensky was president, there could not even be any Nazis in Ukraine.

But, as I noted earlier, Zelensky not only created his own completely Nazi regime, but also did more to support and institutionalize the Nazis in Ukraine than any other president before him.

His Jewish critics take a different view. Zelensky does not identify himself as a Jew. He mentions his Jewish origin only when it is politically beneficial for him - for example, when he hides the truth about his Nazi regime.

Zelensky does not profess Judaism, married a Christian, baptized children in the Orthodox Church, observes Christian holidays. In fact, during his presidential campaign, he and his spokesman refused to even confirm whether he was Jewish.

Zelensky mocks Jewish culture. Hawa Nagila ("Let us rejoice") is a revered Jewish folk song performed at Jewish holidays around the world. Zelensky's idea to honor this piece of Jewish cultural heritage was to perform Hawa Nagila with his penis as a comedy act on stage.
Correction: Hava Nagila was written in 1918 as a Zionist celebration of the Balfour Declaration promising a Jewish homeland in the Holy Land. I believe it was Harry Belafonte who brought it into the popular culture as one of his signature songs. As for Mr. Zelensky’s peepee, comics have done really stupid, crude things for laughs since time immemorial.
Finally, during his world tour to demand billions more in money and weapons, Zelensky angered members of the Israeli Knesset with a disgraceful speech about Holocaust denial in Ukraine. Refusing to acknowledge the history of Bandera-Nazi collaboration, Zelenskiy absurdly claimed that the significant Ukrainian military effort against the Germans was that they were "saving the Jews." He was exterminated by Jewish critics for "distorting the Holocaust."

His speech before the Greek Parliament was also infamous. It was attended by the "Azov *" Nazi, whom Zelensky brought with him. Some MPs left in disgust, calling Zelenskiy's speech a "Nazi fiesta."

But Zelensky was not the first wealthy and powerful Ukrainian Jew to support the Nazis. Igor Kolomoisky is a Ukrainian Jewish billionaire oligarch and the original financial backer of the Azov and Aidar battalions. He also funds other Nazi militias. Kolomoisky was Zelensky's main financial backer as president. And as the owner of Burisma Holdings, he was Hunter Biden's boss.

So can Jews support the Nazis in Ukraine? It is clear that they can and do it.

WESTERN MEDIA WHITEWASH THE NAZIS
Ukraine is the first openly Nazi state in the world since 1945. But over the course of the past year, the Western media launched a propaganda campaign aimed at whitewashing the Ukrainian Nazis as if they never existed. There are two reasons for this attempt to erase and rewrite history.

First, it is the need for warmongers to control information and manipulate public opinion.

Americans hate Nazis. We fought the world war to defeat German, Italian and Japanese National Socialism and militarism, and 420,000 Americans died helping to achieve this hard victory. The ruling elites of the US military-industrial complex and political establishment know that if the American people learn the truth about Zelensky and his Nazi regime, Ukraine will not get a dime from America.

The second reason is Vladimir Putin.

Putin said that one of the main tasks of Russia's special military operation is the "denazification" of Ukraine. This is a big problem for Joe Biden, NATO and the warmongers in Congress.

For 20 years, the military-industrial complex and the mainstream media have portrayed Vladimir Putin as evil incarnate. It would be terribly disadvantageous for warmongers if, after all this demonization, Americans find out that Putin has been telling the truth about the Nazis in Ukraine all this time.

Before being ordered to erase the history of Ukrainian Nazism, the Western media told the truth about the Nazis in Ukraine. Here is a short list of their materials before the latest attempts to "whitewash" the Nazis.

The Hill: 'The reality of neo-Nazis in Ukraine can't even compare to Kremlin propaganda'
Time: 'Inside white supremacists in Ukraine'
BBC Newsnight: 'Neo-Nazi threat in new Ukraine'
Al-Jazeera: '
BBC: Ukraine underestimates role of far-right in military conflict
BBC: "Ukrainian conflict: White power warrior from Sweden
BBC Newsnight: "Ukraine: On Patrol with Far-Right National Militia"

GLOBALIST ELITES ALL IN ACTION
The Western globalist elites are fully supporting the military conflict being waged by Washington in Ukraine. During the recent meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, it was not about peace there, but only about escalation and waging "eternal war".

Big Tech corporations are also taking Nazi whitewashing disinformation to the next level. META (The Tverskoy Court of Moscow has decided to ban the activities of Meta (owns Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp) in connection with extremist activities - Note by InoSMI) Mark Zuckerberg announced that Facebook * removed the status of a "dangerous organization" from the Nazi battalion "Azov" (the organization is recognized extremist and banned on the territory of Russia - approx. InoSMI). White supremacists now have full access to the platform.

In a country saturated with Nazi military organizations, associations and political parties, the Azov Battalion* remains the most infamous in Ukraine. The ideology of "Azov" is pure Nazism, and its emblem and symbols are straight from the Nazi SS.

The combat wing of the Azov Battalion* was handed over to the national police. Due to the too high Nazi status of Azov, the disinformation campaign of the Western media aimed at rehabilitating their image is intensified. But it is easier for Azov's apologists to talk about whitewashing it than to really achieve it.

Even NATO's Atlantic Council has concluded that Azov's ties to other white supremacist organizations remain intact. Azov* is an international center for white supremacists with a global recruitment network. White nationalists travel to Ukraine to gain combat experience and return to their homeland with deadly combat skills.

The Azov Battalion* proudly displays its Nazi pathology. In May, Russian troops captured the city of Mariupol and captured 2,500 Ukrainian soldiers, most of them Azov Nazis. The video of the searches of the prisoners shows their extensive Nazi tattoos. Here, as in the proverb: "It is better to see once that hear a hundred times."

Congress knows the truth about the Azov Nazis

The National Socialist roots of the Azov Battalion* have never been a secret to the US Congress.

In 2015, Rep. John Conyers (D-Michigan) introduced an amendment barring the United States from providing further military assistance and training to Azov Nazis in Ukraine. The amendment was passed, but was repealed under pressure from the Obama Pentagon.

In 2018, Congress passed a spending bill barring the United States from providing weapons and training assistance to the "Neo-Nazi Azov Battalion* fighting in Ukraine."

In 2019, 40 Democrats in the House of Representatives signed a letter asking the State Department why they did not list Ukraine's Azov Battalion* on the US "Foreign Terrorist Organization" (FTO) list. Among the signatories were Rep. Ro Hannah (D-CA) and Jamie Ruskin (D-Maryland). Democrats have found links between "Azov" Nazis in Ukraine and white supremacist terrorist attacks around the world, including Christchurch, New Zealand, and El Paso, Texas.

But that was then.

Today, every Democrat and corporate Republican belongs to the "one party" of warmongers committed to promoting the interests of the military-industrial complex of the Congressional political establishment through the waging of permanent war. That's why Congress voted to allocate $100 billion to support the Nazi regime in Ukraine and to support the Azov Battalion, a group they know is a white supremacist Nazi terrorist organization. The "united party" of warmongers whitewash these Nazis in order to justify their betrayal and deceive the public.

Last fall, a delegation of Azov Nazis in military uniforms were welcomed like heroes in our Capitol building, where they were received by 50 members of the House of Representatives and senators. Among the special guests was Adam Schiff (D-CA), then chairman of the House Intelligence Committee. This Nazi parade continued throughout the United States, with stops in New Jersey, Detroit, Chicago, and Stanford University. Azov stormtroopers met with large audiences, including children, spread disinformation and collected money. Auctioning Nazi patches and battle colors, they welcomed the Americans to the Nazi club: “Now you are all Azov.”*

NATIONAL DISGRACE
Is there anything more dishonorable than America's support for Nazism? The whitewashing and support of Ukrainian Nazis by the American media and legislators is a national disgrace.

Joe Biden, the military-industrial complex and congressmen, neoconservatives from the State Department and Western globalist elites have dragged the United States and NATO into a "proxy war" with Russia. Ukraine for them is just a disposable puppet.

The well-being of Ukraine is not of interest to warmongers.

Their real goal seems to be to overthrow Putin and divide Russia, and in order to achieve this they are ready to see the death of millions of Ukrainians.

Ukraine is the perfect puppet to fight and die against Russia. Its political parties and military are already guided by a racist, Nazi ideology built on hatred of Russians. And in the person of Zelensky, they have an ideal protege - a corrupt front for the globalist elites, ready to sacrifice the Ukrainian people and endlessly drag out the war. Even if Zelensky's Ukraine is completely destroyed.

The welfare of the United States is also of no interest to warmongers.

They sent 100 billion dollars to continue the military conflict, which is not in our national interest. The war they should be fighting should be fought here at home. Our country is invaded by millions of illegals, our cities are being destroyed by uncontrolled crime, and 100,000 Americans die every year from fentanyl supplied by Mexican drug cartels.

The conflict in Ukraine could end today with one phone call.

Zelensky is a puppet, and Washington is pulling his strings. The conflict will end the minute Biden picks up the phone and tells Zelensky that the game is up and it's time for peace. It's time for Republicans in Congress to demand that Biden pick up the phone.

(c) Maurice Richards

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Home Front: Politix
Rep. Debbie Dingell in tears after learning she will have to MOVE because redistricting swiped her seat
2022-01-01
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] Democrat Rep. Debbie Dingell
...the blond, blue-eyed widow of John Dingell, who served in the House for Michigan districts for almost sixty years, having inherited his first seat from his father. No wonder she’s emotional about the latest family seat disappearing...
grew emotional on Wednesday night over having to leave her hometown of Dearborn, Michigan in order to keep serving in Congress after redistricting swiped her seat ahead of the 2022 midterm elections.For the first time in history, Michigan's new map was drawn by an independent commission rather than political operators. That saw the state's number of House seats drop from 14 to 13, and is forcing Dingell out of the 12th Congressional District she took over from her husband, late longtime Rep. John Dingell
...Octogenarian Dem representative-for-life from Michigan. He was first elected in the Upper Jurassic, when (D) stood for Dinosaur...
Members of her party are watching nervously as next year's races begin to take shape with 23 less Democrat incumbents -- all of whom are either retiring or seeking a different office.

At the same time, Republicans are riding on momentum created by their overwhelming performance during November's off-year elections that saw the GOP make gains in state legislatures, local roles and take over the governorship of Virginia. Recent polls have also shown voters increasingly favoring another Republican-majority Congress.

'Look I'm just starting to tear. So I'm trying not to let this get to me because Ann Arbor is a growing city too, and the fact of the matter is that most of the people I represent will be in this new district,' Dingell told Fox 2 bankrupt, increasingly impoverished, reliably Democrat, Detroit
... ruled by Democrats since 1962. A city whose Golden Age included the Purple Gang...
Her interviewer asked, 'I saw you wipe away a tear. Did you think you’d get this emotional talking about this?'

'No, I didn't,' Dingell answered. 'Because I, you know, I lived there with my husband for a long time. But I still have all the people that I love.'
Related:
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Debbie Dingell: 2021-10-20 Trump's Postmortem Roasting of Powell Could Burn Him in the End By Jack Shafer
Debbie Dingell: 2021-09-25 Ga. District 14 Rep takes on Dem over abortion on capital steps
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John Dingell: 2019-12-27 Representative Debbie Dingell And The Glory Of Inherited Privilege
John Dingell: 2019-10-28 Former Rep. John Conyers (D-Corrupt) , founding member of Congressional Black Caucus, dies at 90
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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Policy shifting against Israel? Check history
2021-05-27
[Arutz7] - One of the reasons reporters covering the Middle East get the story wrong so consistently is that they believe that history begins with their arrival on the scene. This is evident again in the numerous reports about U.S. support, particularly within the Democratic Party, shifting away from Israel.

A trip down memory lane might put the situation in context.

In June 1982, Israel invaded Lebanon. The reasons were the buildup of PLO forces and their terrorist attacks on Israel. Numerous members of Congress supported Israel's decision but not all. Four Republicans, Rep. Paul Findley (Ill.), Rep. Toby Roth (Wis.), Sen. Charles Mathias (Md.), and Sen. Mark Hatfield (Ore.) condemned the invasion, and Roth and Hatfield called for the suspension of aid to Israel. After Israel surrounded Beirut, Sen. Jesse Helms (R-N.C.) said the United States should break relations with Israel if it didn't ease pressure on the city. Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, he said, "must stop this business because the American people find repugnant the continuation of the destruction … and killing of innocent people."

A bipartisan resolution sponsored called for a suspension of arms sales and deliveries to Israel, and an investigation into whether U.S. military equipment was used for "aggressive purposes" in violation of U.S. law. It was sponsored by Republicans Findley and Paul McCloskey (Calif.) as well as Democrats Nick Joe Rahall (W.V.), George Crockett (Mich.), Gus Savage (Ill.), David Bowen (Miss.), Walter Fauntroy (Washington, D.C.), Mervyn Dymally (Calif.), John Conyers (Mich.), and Mary Rose Oakar (Ohio).

...Ronald Reagan was arguably the most pro-Israel president in history; nevertheless, he was angered by Israel's actions in Lebanon and distrusted Begin (compare with Biden saying Netanyahu has "never broken his word to me"). After the media reported Israeli warplanes bombarded Beirut and killed more than 300 people, Reagan called Begin and "expressed his outrage" at Israeli attacks, and the "needless destruction and bloodshed." The White House said, "The President made clear that it is imperative that the cease-fire in place be observed absolutely in order for negotiations to proceed." An aide said Reagan's call was "his toughest yet‐he used frank and straightforward language."

Sound familiar?

Reagan's equally pro-Israel Secretary of State George Shultz said "of the nations of the world which need and deserve peace, Israel surely holds a preeminent place." Echoing Biden, he added, "of the peoples of the world who need and deserve a place with which they can truly identify, the Palestinian claim is undeniable."
And it goes downhill from there
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Home Front: Politix
John James, the Michigan GOP's Rising Star
2020-05-16
[National Review] You can’t choose your crisis: As an Army chopper pilot in Iraq, John James
...West Point, Army Ranger-qualified aviator, CEO of the family global supply chain company, wants to be Michigans first African-American senator...
said on May 7, "I didn’t get to pick which call I would take, whether I would take a troops-in-contact call or whether I would take a point-of-origin rocket-attack call. I had to figure out how to do both." In an online interview with Rick Loughery of the Young Republicans National Federation, James called it good training for confronting the COVID-19 pandemic: "We have a dual obligation," he said, to "flatten the COVID curve without flatlining our economy."

As a GOP Senate candidate from Michigan, James refers to his military career at almost every opportunity. An op-ed he wrote in the Detroit News on May 5 carried this headline: "Leaders Should Learn These 3 Rules from West Point." His campaign’s logo features an Apache attack helicopter in its background. "I don’t want to go to Washington," he said on February 5, before the coronavirus forced him to suspend public appearances. "I want to go to the swamp about as much as I wanted to go to the desert."

He really does want to go to Washington, of course—he’s running for the Senate for the second time in two years—but his audience of Livingston County Republicans that evening seemed to appreciate the expression of modesty. Gathered at a lakeside country club about halfway between Detroit and Lansing, just a couple of hours after the Senate acquitted President Trump in his impeachment trial, they listened as James roamed around a podium and, with the fluency of someone delivering a TED Talk, made the case for his candidacy. James mentioned the importance of the Constitution, the value of free speech, and the deficiencies of his opponent, Democratic senator Gary Peters. His lines were polished but also included moments of improvisation, as when he likened "Medicare for All" to "outsourcing our health insurance to people who can’t get a caucus right." This was a jab at Iowa Democrats, whose bungled vote-counting had dominated the news just a day earlier. James didn’t mention Trump by name at all and brought him up only at the very end, with a veiled reference to the acquittal that turned out to be his biggest applause line of the evening: "I look forward to working with our president in his second term."

If Trump wins a second term, he’ll probably have to carry Michigan in 2020 much as he did in 2016, when he squeaked out a surprise victory by a little more than 10,000 votes, or about two-tenths of a percentage point. James knows that his contest also could result in a photo finish. More than 25 years have passed since Michiganders elected a Republican to the Senate. The last failed candidate was James himself, who took on Democratic incumbent Debbie Stabenow in 2018. His loss was entirely predictable during a strong year for Democrats. Yet he outperformed every other Michigan Republican who sought a statewide office, and his loss, by less than seven percentage points, was much more respectable than the blowouts suffered by Stabenow’s previous challengers. "His run was impressive," says John Engler, Michigan’s former Republican governor, "especially because he started from nowhere." In the aftermath, James found himself in an unusual position: The setback had strengthened rather than weakened him, or at least it had convinced a lot of Republicans both in and out of Michigan that he ought to try again.
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John James: 2018-11-08 Ted Nugent upset that Michigan is turning 'into a California s***hole' after Election Day
John James: 2018-08-03 Egypt-US joint naval drills: The Eagle Response
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-Obits-
Former Rep. John Conyers (D-Corrupt) , founding member of Congressional Black Caucus, dies at 90
2019-10-28
Corrupt Black Caucus POS (BIRM). Next up? Maxine?
[10 News] Former Rep. John Conyers, a longtime Michigan Democrat who represented parts of Detroit for more than 50 years before his resignation in 2017, died Sunday, his son, John Conyers III, told CNN.

John James Conyers, Jr. was born in Highland Park, Michigan on May 16, 1929.

He graduated from Detroit's Northwestern High School, served in the Korean War and went on to law school.

He initially turned down a job in the office of longtime Congressman John Dingell, but then realized his mistake and pleaded for a second chance.

"He listened to me go through all this and put his arm around me and said let's go down to Sanders and have a milk shake and that started me off working in his office," Conyers remembered.

Conyers became active in the civil rights movement before making his own first bid for Congress and picked up some powerful support.

"I was endorsed by Martin Luther King, Jr. at Central United Methodist Church," he remembered.

He often said he was flattered to be the only member of Congress endorsed by Dr. King.

Conyers held on to his seat even as district lines were redrawn. He held positions of leadership on powerful committees and was the only member of the Judiciary Committee to take part in the impeachment hearings of both Presidents Nixon and Clinton.

The congressman also played a major role in more than 100 pieces of key legislation, including the landmark Voting Rights Act of 1965.

In 1968, 4 days after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Conyers introduced the original bill for a King holiday. He kept pushing, and 15 years later, it was signed into law.
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Home Front: Politix
Jackson Lee (D) Calls Conyers ‘Honorable' Despite Resigning Over Sexual Misconduct
2019-06-17
[Free Beacon] Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee
......the clownish U.S. Representative-for-life for Texas's 18th congressional district, serving since 1995. The district includes most of inner-city Houston. She is noted for her lack of tact and intellect. She is a member of the Democratic Party, and almost its epitome......
(D., Texas) on Saturday called the disgraced former congressman John Conyers (D., Mich.) "honorable" while she discussed his push for a commission on reparations.

Jackson Lee appeared on MSNBC's PoliticsNation to discuss reparations when she made the comment about Conyers. Host civil rights hustler Al Sharpton
...Tawana Brawley's spiritual advisor...
mentioned how Jackson Lee is the new sponsor of House Resolution 40, which was first proposed by Conyers in 1989 to study reparations.

"You are starting an inquiry in Congress. What will happen Wednesday and where do you want to see this go?" Sharpton asked.

"This commission‐and I'm delighted to have this bill and to push it into a 21st century‐was first introduced in 1989 by my friend and colleague, the honorable John Conyers," Jackson Lee said.

She went on to say she wants the call for reparations to be a "constructive dialogue" on the issue of discrimination and the impact of slavery and its aftermath.

Conyers was pressured to resign in December 2017 after multiple allegations of sexual misconduct, including a $27,000 settlement Conyers reached with a former employee. He was one of various political figures felled by the MeToo movement to expose sexual misconduct by powerful people, such as former Sen. Al Franken (D., Minn.) and former New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman.

Initially, Jackson Lee dodged a question on whether Conyers should resign, saying the decision should be left up to him, calling him a "patriot." She would later anger members of the Congressional Black Caucus after she persuaded Conyers not to announce retirement yet, causing the controversy to make headlines for another five days.
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Home Front: Politix
House panel to hold hearing on reparations for slavery next week
2019-06-15
Kabuki for the rubes, since the Senate will never pass it.
[CNN] A House panel will hold a hearing next week on the topic of reparations for slavery.

The House Judiciary Committee's subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties is set to hold a hearing June 19 on legislation that would establish a commission to study the consequences and impacts of slavery and make recommendations for reparations proposals. The hearing is titled "H.R. 40 and the Path to Restorative Justice."

The bill is sponsored by Democratic Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee
......the clownish U.S. Representative-for-life for Texas's 18th congressional district, serving since 1995. The district includes most of inner-city Houston. She is noted for her lack of tact and intellect. She is a member of the Democratic Party, and almost its epitome......
of Texas. The bill would create a commission of 13 members who would compile a report of findings and recommendations on the issue and send it to Congress. Former Democratic Rep. John Conyers of Michigan, who served until 2017, had previously introduced legislation on reparations repeatedly over the span of multiple sessions of Congress.

For decades, reparations for slavery has mostly been an idea debated outside the mainstream of American political thought.

Writer Ta-Nehisi Coates put a spotlight on the subject with a widely-read piece, "The Case for Reparations," in 2014 in The Atlantic.

"The real issue is whether and how this nation can come to grips with the legacy of slavery that still infects current society," Jackson Lee said in a statement in January.
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Home Front: Politix
Congresswoman Hopes Reparations Bill is Path to ‘Repair Some of the Damage' Caused by Slavery
2018-12-31
[PJ] WASHINGTON ‐ Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) told PJM that the federal government should conduct a study of reparations for descendants of slaves to be able to determine the best way to "repair some of the damage" that slavery has caused to the African-American community.

Jackson Lee became the lead sponsor of H.R. 40, the Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African-Americans Act, after Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.) resigned from Congress.

The legislation seeks to "address the fundamental injustice, cruelty, brutality, and inhumanity of slavery in the United States and the 13 American colonies between 1619 and 1865 and to establish a commission to study and consider a national apology and proposal for reparations for the institution of slavery, its subsequent de jure and de facto racial and economic discrimination against African-Americans, and the impact of these forces on living African-Americans, to make recommendations to the Congress on appropriate remedies, and for other purposes."

"It’s a commission to study the issue of what was the economic impact of the work of slaves and how does it translate in the 21st century. And what we want to do is to build a narrative, a story of the facts and out of that be able to access how we repair some of the damage," Jackson Lee said during a recent interview after her speech at the annual Legislative and Policy Conference organized by Rev. Al Sharpton’s National Action Network.

"When you look at urban blight, when you look at schools in inner cities and rural communities that are not at the level of excellence that they should be, when you look at support for [historically black colleges and universities], all of that will be part of understanding that whole journey and that whole economic journey," she added. "And it is interesting that these magnificent buildings were built by slaves, obviously with no compensation. That is not what we are asking for; this bill is to have a commission to hear from people all over the nation."
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Home Front: Politix
Pelosi Refuses to Call on Tony Cardenas to Resign After Child Molestation Claim
2018-05-07
[Breitbart] House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) has declined to call upon Rep. Tony Cardenas (D-CA) to resign after he was sued for allegedly molesting a teenage girl whom he allegedly drugged in 2007.

Instead, Pelosi decided to refer Cardenas to the House Ethics Committee for investigation.

Late last week, Pelosi released a statement in which she indicated that she had spoken with Cardenas, and that he had "appropriately asked us to withhold judgment until there is a full investigation of the facts."

Last year, Pelosi was among those Democratic leaders demanding that Roy Moore, the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate in Alabama, withdraw "We’re talking about a child molester," Pelosi told NBC News’ Chuck Todd on Meet the Press on November 27.

Pelosi declared that there would now be "zero tolerance" for sexual misconduct in Congress: "Women have spoken out. Their concerns will be addressed in a way that I think will give comfort, as well as end this behavior. ... Because you know what? It’s disgusting, it’s repulsive, and it has to be zero tolerance."

At the time, Pelosi also said there should also be "due process" for Rep. John Conyers (R-MI), who was soon forced to retire over allegations of sexual misconduct.

Like Moore, Cardenas denies the claims against him. His lawyer attacked the woman who sued him ‐ identified only as "Jane Doe" ‐ as "the daughter of a disgruntled former employee and [she] may be the victim of manipulation," as quoted by Politico.
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Conyers Turns on Conyers In Bid to Replace Conyers
2018-05-05
[ROLLCALL] The Conyers family power struggle intensified Thursday as Ian Conyers, the great nephew of disgraced former Rep. John Conyers Jr., took steps to boot the ex-congressman’s son John Conyers III from the ballot in the race to replace him.
It’s a family seat, but only one of them can win.
John Conyers III should be kicked from the ballot because he did not collect the requisite 1,000 valid signatures to run for his father’s old seat in Michigan’s 13th District, the formal challenge filed by an attorney for Ian Conyers asserts.
Nothing personal, it's just business.
The challenge urges officials to throw out 617 of the 1,240 signatures on John Conyers III’s filing petition because because they came from people who live outside the 13th District; are not registered to vote; and had already signed the petition, The bankrupt, increasingly impoverished, reliably Democrat, Detroit
... ruled by Democrats since 1962. A city whose Golden Age included the Purple Gang...
News reported.

"As is the standard process every election cycle, candidates can challenge petitions to ensure compliance with the spirit and letter of the law," Ian Conyers, a state senator, told the newspaper.
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Alleged Woman Abuser John Conyers III Officially Running For His Father’s Seat
2018-01-25
[DAILYCALLER] John Conyers III, an alleged domestic abuser and the son of disgraced former Democratic Michigan Rep. John Conyers Jr., has filed paperwork with the Federal Elections Commission to officially launch his campaign to fill his father’s seat.

Conyers Jr. resigned in disgrace last month following several sexual harassment accusations against him. The outgoing congressman endorsed his son as his appointed successor.

Conyers III’s campaign comes despite his own history of allegedly mistreating women. Conyers III was incarcerated
Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try!
in February 2017 after he allegedly body-slammed his girlfriend, spat on her and sliced her arm with a knife.

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Economy
AT&T will give 200,000 US employees $1,000 bonus once Trump signs tax cuts into law
2017-12-21
[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) on Wednesday won the top Democratic spot on the powerful House Judiciary Committee, beating back a challenge from Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.) to fill the seat held by former Rep. John Conyers Jr. (D-Mich.) for almost a quarter century.

The House Democratic Caucus voted 118 to 72 in favor of Nadler, a 13-term Manhattanite known for his constitutional expertise.

The vote marks a victory for the seniority system that could have outsized implications if the Democrats win back the House in 2018 and the investigations into Russia’s election meddling turn up any damning evidence against the Trump administration.

Among the host of hot-button issues under the Judiciary panel’s jurisdiction is that of impeachment ‐ a factor highlighted by Nadler in pitching his colleagues in the weeks leading up to Wednesday’s vote.

After his victory, Nadler characterized the political moment as "a critical time" in the country’s history ‐ one he thinks he’s uniquely qualified to confront.

"Our efforts to hold the administration and those wishing to turn back history’s long arc towards justice accountable are central to the defense of progress and democracy," Nadler said.
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