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Barack Obama, who once publicly complained to Americans about how they were not like him, blasting them for getting "bitter," and condemning how "they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them," now says he cannot understand how Americans can be so divided.
"How we got so toxic and just so divided and so bitter," he said.
But it is a report at the Daily Wire that enlightens him.
The report explained that Obama, campaigning for the word salad-generating Kamala Harris, who holds at least partial responsibility for the Biden-Harris record of stunningly high inflation, a porous southern border that is threatening multiple facets of American life, a push for transgenderism and abortion that has alarmed many Americans, and more, was at a rally for her.
"I don't understand how we got so toxic and just so divided and so bitter," he complained. "I get why sometimes people just don't want to pay attention to it. And we all have friends like that; we have family members who are just like, 'Ahh, y'know, it's all a circus out there.'"
Then the report documented "Obama's own rhetoric" and that from other Democrats, that "has fanned the flames of division."
Among the points made in the report:
A Rasmussen poll in July 2016, before he left office, found 60% of Americans reporting race relations "worse" under Obama's tenure.
And Obama's insistence, in 2008, "They get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations."
And he said in 2008, "I want you to talk to them whether they are independent or whether they are Republican. I want you to argue with them and get in their face."
And he said in 2010, about Republicans, "They see an opportunity to take back the House, maybe take back the Senate. If they're successful in doing that, they've already said they're going to go back to the same policies that were in place during the Bush administration. That means that we are going to have just hand-to-hand combat up here on Capitol Hill."
And he said in 2014, "This (racism) is something that's deeply rooted in our society, deeply rooted in our history."
And, the report explained, in 2016, at a memorial for five Dallas police officers ambushed and gunned down by a man who "wanted to kill white people," said, "America, we know that bias remains. We know it. Whether you are black or white or Hispanic or Asian or Native American or of Middle Eastern descent, we have all seen this bigotry in our own lives at some point. We've heard it at times in our own homes. If we're honest, perhaps we've heard prejudice in our own heads and felt it in our own hearts. We know that. And while some suffer far more under racism's burden, some feel to a far greater extent discrimination's sting. Although most of us do our best to guard against it and teach our children better, none of us is entirely innocent. No institution is entirely immune. And that includes our police departments. We know this."
Also, Sen. Maxine Waters, an extremist from California, once insisted that Democrats actually track down Republicans in stores, on streets, and more, and essentially run them out of those venues.
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The Energy Information Agency published its first report about Iran's petroleum exports as mandated by the Stop Harboring Iranian Petroleum (SHIP) Act enacted earlier this year. It showed Iran sold $144 billion of oil in the first three years of Biden's presidency – more than $100 billion more than in the last two years under President Trump.
After Iran fired nearly 200 ballistic missiles on Oct. 1 at Israel, the Jewish state announced that it would respond. The leaked documents don't include specific targets that Israel plans to strike but do include surveillance information.
Recovered docs show slain Hamas leader Sinwar never intended to agree to any ceasefire
New reporting reveals that as the hunt for him ramped up, this brutal killer gave orders that after his death, Hamas should refuse any concessions Israel might offer.
Air traffic in and out of Ben Gurion International Airport halted twice in the space of hours over Hezbollah missile threat
The Israel Aviation Authority briefly halted and then resumed takeoffs at Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion Airport on Monday evening and again on Tuesday morning, amid an apparent escalation in Israel's offensive against Hezbollah.
IAF continues to target Hezbollah-affiliated banks in Beirut
Israel has recently targeted the physical buildings of banks associated with Hezbollah, and Monday night saw a continuation of this strategy. Warnings were given before the strikes for civilians to vacate the area.
Biden envoy Hochstein visits Middle East as Israel sets down conditions for Lebanon ceasefire
U.S. envoy Amos Hochstein visited Beirut Monday to coordinate talks with Lebanese officials regarding a possible ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah.
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California officials have agreed, in a court stipulation, not to try to censor the parody works of the Babylon Bee and others while a lawsuit over a new speech limit pushed by Gov. Gavin Newsom develops in the court system.
The Bee, a satire website, and several others, are suing the state over two new laws that purport to limit Americans' speech, specifically setting restrictions for political satire and parody.
"California's war against political memes is censorship, plain and simple. We shouldn't trust the government to decide what is true in our online political debates," explained Jonathan Scrubbs, an ADF lawyer working on the case.
"Gov. Newsom has no constitutional authority to act as the humor police. While lawmakers act as if posting and resharing memes is a threat to democracy, these laws censor speech California politicians don't like. We are grateful that California's unconstitutional law can no longer be applied to censor The Babylon Bee and Ms. Rickert while the case continues and that they are again free to exercise their First Amendment rights to poke fun at political leaders."
The agreement comes in a stipulation in which, the case having been transferred to a federal court in the Eastern District of California, state officials agreed that a previously issued preliminary injunction still protects the Babylon Bee and Rickert.
A lawsuit was filed that challenged the state's demands that it control online content such as political satire and parody.
Newsom launched the laws, AB2839 and AB2655, just weeks ago.
They use "vague standards" that officials wanted to impose to punish people for posting certain political content, such as political memes and parodies.
WND previously reported when the original judge issued the injunction.
A second case, brought on behalf Chris Kohls, known as "Mr. Reagan" online, also addressed the same problem.
The original judge said the law "hinders humorous expression and unconstitutionally stifles the free and unfettered exchange of ideas."
WND previously reported as the battle heated up and Newsom, who has faced mockery for his state's high taxes, extremism on social issues like abortion and transgenderism, attempts to interfere with other states and their rights, took chutzpah to a new level.
That, by the way, derives from a Hebrew word meaning "insolence," "cheek" or "audacity."
He signed a law banning parody.
The report said video creator Kohls charged Newsom with violations of the First and 14th Amendments with Newsom's "anti-deepfake measure" that was signed into law this week.
California's governor was offended by a parody released by "Mr. Reagan" recently:
In it "Kamala Harris" confirms she is the Democrat candidate for president because Joe Biden "exposed his senility at the debate."
She confesses she is the "ultimate diversity hire," as a woman and a "person of color."
"So if you criticize anything I say you're both sexist and racist."
The mockery continues.
The video uses AI-generated audio clips, and it was shared by Elon Musk, collecting more than 100 million views.
Newsom responded:
The lawsuit in federal court in California charges that Newsom's scheme is a flagrant use of "state power to force private social media companies to censor private citizens' speech by purging election-related AI-generated content."
Musk's comment? "You're not gonna believe this, but Gavin Newsom, just announced that he signed a LAW to make parody illegal, based on this video."
He concludes California needs "new leadership."
However, taking on Newsom directly was the Babylon Bee, which prominently announced it has "'obtained this exclusive, official, 100% real Gavin Newsom election ad."
In it, "Newsom" states:
This is a message for the people of America, given in my authentically recorded non-AI voice. Thanks to my leadership over the last several years, California has become a world leader in extremist left-wing governance. My policies were so effective that almost 1 million people are now fleeing the state every year. We even ran out of U-Hauls.
During the COVID pandemic, I locked everyone in their homes and shut down businesses for months. Not the French Laundry, though. That's my favorite restaurant. Last year, I cleaned up the dangerous, messy streets of San Francisco. You know, because Chinese Communist President Xi was coming. And I really wanted to impress him. He's my boss, after all.
This year, I signed legislation that allows me to take custody of your kid if you refuse to give him artificial hormones and chop off his genitals. Because if you don't do that, you're a bigot. And bigots shouldn't be allowed to have kids. I've also led the way in green energy by banning all cars that don't run on electricity. Then I banned almost all the electricity. This is smart leadership.
On my watch, the cost of living and homelessness have skyrocketed. Schools are failing. Drug dealers and human traffickers are pouring across the border. And poop has covered the sidewalks of San Francisco. This is the positive, joyful vision we offer as Democrats.
That's why I'm enthusiastically endorsing Kamala Harris for president in 2024. She'll do to the country everything I did in California. Anyway, I'm California Governor Gavin Newsom, and I approve this 100% real message, which is a recording of my voice without the assistance of any AI whatsoever.
This isn't a deepfake. And you can rest assured that it isn't, because I just signed an unconstitutional law outlawing deepfakes. No one would dare violate it. Thank you, and science bless America.
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The total abandonment of democracy by America's Democratic Party this year has resulted in a situation never before encountered: A candidate hand-picked by the party's elite who has never gotten a single primary vote.
That would be Kamala Harris, installed as the party's candidate after White House incumbent Joe Biden, afflicted for all to see by a physical and mental decline as he moves through his 80s, was tossed under the bus.
She got a surge of interest when Democrat power brokers announced they had chosen her, and she addressed the Democratic National Convention with her word salads.
But that's gone. Her polling has plummeted, and now there's speculation that perhaps the party was better off with lifelong politician Biden.
The Hill's commentary page stunningly demanded, bluntly, "What if Joe Biden was the better candidate all along?"
And President Trump, on the campaign trail in South Florida on Tuesday, couldn't avoid the issue.
"We just can't stand for this incompetence anymore. We are an incompetently run country. We are led by a man that – first of all, look, I'm not a fan of his, but what they did to him was incredible. He had 14 million votes. He won the primary fair and square, he had 14 million votes," Trump said.
"Then they came to him and they said he had a bad debate, he didn't do well and his numbers went down. But I think he would do, probably in the end, he might do better than her because she's more incompetent than he is. I think she's grossly incompetent, and I don't want to be nice about it because we can't take a chance."
A report at RedState.com defined the issue:
"When Vice President Kamala Harris pushed President Joe Biden aside to seize the Democratic Party presidential nomination, the move was universally praised by those with a rooting interest. Sure, Harris had a history of being an inauthentic, unlikable politician, but she wasn't going to melt down on a debate stage due to accelerating senility."
It pointed out how "suddenly," she was determined by Democrat party leaders, in a process that abandoned democracy, that "she was the best option."
"Some on the right warned, though, that it was just a matter of time before Harris overstayed her welcome with American voters, and with her campaign floundering, the question is finally being raised: Was Joe Biden the better option all along?"
The details followed, "No matter who wins, we have to ask: Would President Biden have been a better candidate and choice despite suffering from the effects of age and 81 years? Further, suppose that the disastrous June 27 debate with Trump had not taken place, or that Biden had been firing on all cylinders that night. Would Biden have been forced to withdraw? And whether Harris loses or wins, some will ask whether Biden might still have been a better candidate."
The reported cited the glowing accounts leftist Watergate-famed author Bob Woodward included in a book about Biden.
"Woodward paints a very positive picture of Biden's ability to lead and to govern despite making mistakes, most notably the disastrous withdrawal from Kabul. Woodward also reports that Biden's obvious decline was physical and not mental. This was caused in part by prior medical conditions accelerating the effects of age on a body. There were also the strains of high office; the president refused to limit his overworked schedule despite valid criticisms that he was on near-permanent holiday in Delaware or Camp David," the report said.
Many polls now are showing that Trump is tied with, or leading, Harris among American voters, including those in critical-to-win swing states.
The report did warn against believing Woodward's account, as he's a "massive left-wing hack with a soft spot for the older generation of Democratic Party leadership."
But the question will remain, the report said, "Was Biden the better option? Could he have smoothed over concerns about his health in the latter days of the campaign and capitalized on his traditional strength in the so-called 'blue wall' states? It's not crazy to ponder given Harris' inherent weakness in those key battlegrounds. Perhaps Biden was the best of two bad choices."
There's already been suggestions that some of the senior power brokers in the party have turned on Harris, behind her back, and are torpedoing her campaign.
It was Barack Obama who appeared in a television ad promoting President Donald Trump's candidacy.
He insisted that America doesn't need "another four years" of bumbling and bluster. This just as the Biden-Harris approaches its termination point.
Then it was Bill Clinton who appeared, explaining that the victim of a murderous illegal alien probably would be alive had not Joe Biden and Kamala Harris allowed in unvetted illegals.
Then it was Harris herself with words in support of Trump's campaign.
Only, she likely didn't mean them the way they came out:
A commentary at the Twitchy site explained the answer came from Harris while on "The View" in what was "clearly" nothing but a "softball chat and fawn-fest."
"During what was supposed to be a cake walk of a friendly chat for Harris, 'The View' co-host Sunny Hostin performed an accidental act of journalism after asking the Democrat nominee what she would have done differently from Joe Biden over these last nearly four years."
Her "awkward answer' was, "There is not a thing that comes to mind."
The ad then, cites illegal aliens, skyrocketing prices and global chaos, all under the Biden-Harris administration.
"And Kamala wouldn't change a thing," a narrator explains, just before she confirms that.
Clinton's comments came earlier, a harsh verdict on the Biden-Harris open borders policy allowing millions of illegal aliens simply to walk into America.
And Obama's remarks? They were at the Democrats' convention.
"We do not need four more years of bluster and bumbling and chaos," he shouted. "We have seen that movie before and we all know that the sequel us usually worse."
He seemed not to be aware of the most recent "four years" were with Biden and Harris at the steering of the nation.
The irony, of course, is that while Obama undoubtedly was trying to denigrate Trump's first term as he seeks a second, the current administration is run by Democrats Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, and Obama's description easily could apply to those two.
The ad ends, as per standards, with, "I'm Donald J. Trump and I approved this message."
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The Taiwan Strait is increasingly becoming a flashpoint that could tip the world into a third world war, as China continues to insist one of the busiest shipping lanes in the world belongs exclusively to the People's Republic of China.
In a show of strength and support for the democratically run island nation of Taiwan, the U.S. Navy's USS Higgins and the Royal Canadian Navy's frigate HMCS Vancouver sailed through the Taiwan Strait on Sunday.
The U.S. Navy's 7th fleet said in a statement the transit was "routine," consistent with international law, and was meant to uphold the principle of freedom that other countries have the right to also navigate the Strait.
"Higgins and Vancouver's transit through the Taiwan Strait demonstrated the United States' and Canada's commitment to upholding freedom of navigation for all nations as a principle. The international community's navigational rights and freedoms in the Taiwan Strait should not be limited. The United States rejects any assertion of sovereignty or jurisdiction that is inconsistent with freedoms of navigations, overflight, and other lawful uses of the sea and air," the statement said.
China's Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lin Jian condemned the move during a regular press conference Monday, stating the Taiwan Strait and Taiwan are part of Chinese territory, and rejected the claim the move was simply a demonstration of freedom of navigation.
"On the US and Canadian warships' transit through the Taiwan Strait, the PLA [People's Liberation Army] Eastern Theater Command has made a response. Let me stress that Taiwan is an inalienable part of Chinese territory. The Taiwan question is not about freedom of navigation but about China's sovereignty and territorial integrity. We firmly oppose any act of provocation under the pretext of freedom of navigation that threatens China's sovereignty and security," Lin said.
The move came on the heels of China conducting blockade drills around Taiwan last week, using its naval fleet to cut off key port entries and surround the island. China's President Xi Jinping claimed the drills were in response to Taiwan's President Lai Ching-te's remarks on an independent Taiwan during its National Day celebrations.
Nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council Global China Hub Elizabeth Freund Larus told Fox News Digital China was planning on doing the drills no matter what.
This is not the first time the U.S. and Canada have conducted joint operations in the Taiwan Strait. In early June, while sailing through the Strait, a Chinese warship attempted to intercept a U.S. destroyer, coming within 137 meters of the vessel.
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Chinese nationals who immigrate to the U.S. are failing to assimilate, are staying connected to the Chinese Communist Party, and are being used as tools to spy on Americans, according to a retired American general.
During an interview with Fox News host Mark Levin, Gen. Robert Spalding said the Chinese government is essentially forcing Chinese nationals abroad to use Chinese social media platforms to keep them connected.
"China's strategy was to basically create this firewall and then keep the people on those social media platforms, so when they came over they would stay connected to the Chinese government. So, essentially, you see the same thing with these people coming over, they are on their social media platforms, they are within their groups and they stay with them, and I think part of the problem is we haven't moved to ban those types of communications within this country," Spalding told Levin.
Because these platforms are not banned in the U.S., Spalding stated Chinese nationals living in America are not assimilating to American culture, and in turn are not fully realizing the benefits of living in a free society.
"So university students that come from China, they stay on their platforms, they speak in Chinese, they don't assimilate, so they don't actually get to understand the benefits of living in a free society, because they stay connected to the Chinese Communist Party, and as you know, in the Middle East, the Islamic leaders are connected to their followers, who as you rightly point out, have come across the southern border," Spalding said.
The general pointed out one of the most dangerous platforms available right now for Chinese spying is TikTok, which is owned by the CCP, and further noted there is an ideological war happening right now.
"This is an ideological war that's being powered by these platforms, but unfortunately we have very little control over, because we have chosen not to understand the war for what it is, its an information, its an ideological war," he said.
Levin stated enemy states like China are using the open borders to infiltrate American society, and spread anti-American sentiments, becoming the "enemy within."
Spalding agreed, noting there is already a huge problem in culture, especially within social media platforms such as TikTok which he says are spreading propaganda.
"If you talk to any of the old former Sovietologists who studied active measures, you know its active measures on steroids, and they will tell you exactly what needs to be done, and we need to shut it off, because it is a vector of attack of our society," Spalding said.
"They want to break down our society, they want to create division, they want to have people question in their minds the value of a constitutional republic. So we have to treat that like a direct attack on the homeland. It's not a bomb or a missile, but it's even more devastating in my opinion."
Spalding added a warning: unless lawmakers are willing to take on the task of taking down TikTok and other platforms like WeChat, ideological attacks from China and other enemy states will continue to be a serious problem for the U.S.
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The Joe Biden-Kamala Harris regime in Washington repeatedly has attacked people of faith in America, a nation founded on the morals of the Judeo-Christian community.
They've described conservative Catholic groups, parents concerned about radical leftist indoctrination in public schools and pro-life adherents as possible terrorists. They've sent grandmothers to prison for opposing abortion with their actions.
They've tried to force all doctors, including those with moral objections to killing unborn children, into the nation's massive abortion industry. They want taxpayers to fund the industry of death, where the intention is that one of every two patients ends up dead.
Religious objections to taking an experimental COVID vax? You're fired! Same if you don't abide by the extremist LGBT ideology that men can suddenly become women, just by saying so.
And worse.
Now a report cites recent anti-Christian comments from Harris as offering the potential for long term, and negative, effects for the Democratic Party.
CatholicVote charged, "Kamala Harris exposes her vile hatred toward Christians once again by ridiculing a rallygoer for invoking the name of God."
And U.S. Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla., warned, "Two-thirds of America is Christian. One fourth of America is Catholic. Kamala has made it clear that she DOES NOT want YOUR vote."
WND reported on Harris' comments, and then JD Vance's response.
His comments came after the scandal when someone at a Harris rally shouted "Jesus is Lord" and she told him he was at the wrong rally.
JD Vance's response wasn't the same.
Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk posted Vance's comment online:
Vance was commenting on the times that Harris is discounted or disregarded, even belittled, faith.
Someone in the crowd shouted, "Jesus is King," and he responded, "That's right. Jesus is King."
Harris' attack on Christians was stunning:
Now a report at Just the News explains Harris "had already sent a bad vibe" to Catholics with her rejection of an invitation to the Al Smith Dinner, a fundraiser held by the Catholic Cardinal in New York.
Donald Trump showed up and cracked jokes for half an hour.
The report also cited an incident in which Democrat Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer mocked the Catholic eucharist by appearing to use a Doritos chip as the sacramental wafer.
"It is not just distasteful or 'strange;' it is an all-too-familiar example of an elected official mocking religious persons and their practices," explained the head of the Michigan Conference of Catholic Bishops.
Presidential son Eric Trump told a rally, "Well ladies and gentleman, you are at the right rally. Could you believe that comment? Somebody went out and says 'Jesus is King' and what did Kamala say? 'You're at the wrong rally.'":
And Ben Carson, formerly the chief of Housing and Urban Development, quoted from a Bible verse that states, "Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh."
"She didn't have time to think about what she was going to say," Carson told the crowd, Just the News reported. "She just said what is in her heart. So maybe she is the one who doesn't belong."
It's the latest in a long line of anti-faith statements from Democrats. Barack Obama once accused Americans of clinging to "guns and religion," and two-time Democrat White House campaign loser Hillary Clinton said conservatives were "deplorables."
The report from Just the News noted, "The faith community has taken note. … The episode has boiled to the top of political conversation at a time when the Democrat Party that once welcomed Catholics to its fold under John F. Kennedy and courted black ministers for decades with the likes of Jesse Jackson and Bill Clinton now finds itself having openly and repeatedly offending members of America's faith community."
It continued, "The tenor of Harris' and Whitmer's condescension towards people of faith is amplified by their bad timing. They both came within the last month of a razor-close presidential election … ."
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While global tensions continue to escalate, Russia is hosting the BRICS Summit in Kazan Tuesday, where some of the world's largest economies will be meeting to entrench a new global order, namely undoing the U.S. dollar.
BRICS is made up of several different nations, including Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Ethiopia, United Arab Emirates and Egypt. According to Statista, combined BRICS nations make up over 45% of the world's population and 35% of the global GDP.
Undoubtedly, one of the most powerful of the alliance is China, which accounts for almost two-thirds of the bloc's exports and over half of the bloc's 35% GDP. With the joining of oil-rich nations such as the United Arab Emirates and Iran, the bloc controls almost 30% of all global oil output.
The alliance between these nations has sent alarm bells off, as the U.S. dollar is threatened with losing its leading spot in global finance. The de-dollarization of the U.S. would lead to a shift in global power, largely affecting the U.S. and its financial markets, especially given the rising debt of the U.S. economy which is currently far outspending revenue.
According to a report from Fortune, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, a scientific adviser at Mark Spitznagel's Universa Investments and author of "The Black Swan," a book about unpredictable events, there are grave concerns about the future of the U.S. dollar.
"So I'm really afraid of a progressive loss of the role of the dollar … People nominally conduct transactions in dollars, but they don't store it in dollars, and that is what the problem is," Taleb told Bloomberg TV.
Taleb noted he was worried about the actions of the Biden-Harris administration in 2022, which resulted in freezing Russian assets after Russia invaded Ukraine. Taleb called it a "confiscation," and pointed out it will not boost confidence in investors.
"It may make sense from a justice standpoint, but you've got to remember, it's not going to encourage people to invest in the system," Taleb said.
"If the Biden administration were intentionally trying to destroy the dollar, I'm not sure what they'd do differently … His spendthrift agenda has resulted in the dollar losing one-fifth of its value in less than four years, and his international policies have done even more harm by eroding the dollar's reserve currency status. By freezing and then eventually stealing dollars owned by foreigners, Biden sent a clear message to the world that the dollar is no longer a safe asset," Antoni said.
Nevertheless, former President Donald Trump said during a rally in Mosinee, Wisconsin in early September that – assuming he is re-elected president – the U.S. dollar will remain the world's currency, promising to punish countries who go the route of de-dollarization.
"We will keep the U.S. dollar as the world's reserve currency, and it is currently under major siege, many countries are leaving the dollar. They're not gonna leave the dollar with me. I'll say, 'You leave the dollar, you're not doing business with the United States, because we're gonna put 100% tariffs on your goods,'" Trump said.
Geopolitical analyst Pepe Escobar said during an interview with New Rules Podcast that the process of complete de-dollarization could take decades to happen; however, alternative payment systems are very close right now.
"Alternative payment systems, we are closer than ever. Full de-dollarization, it's a long process and if you talk to the best economists from BRICS countries they say this is a process that could last decades … Because it implies you have to build a post-Bretton Woods system. Can you imagine a system that lasted almost eight decades, then you have to start from scratch with an alternative system? So you have to convince not only governments inside BRICS, governments outside BRICS, and big companies of BRICS nations and outside BRICS as well," Escobar said.
Escobar noted it would be an enormous task to convince multinational companies that BRICS can offer a better system, when the one they already use works for them.
"In terms of alternative payment systems, it is already very developed because the BRICS are already trading among themselves in their own national currencies, and this will expand to multilateral trade inside BRICS with national currencies, and expand to what we call BRICS Plus," he said.
The dethroning of the U.S. dollar will come over time, rather than come to a dramatic sudden end, according to Escobar.
"Just look at the trade balance between Russia and China, it's already bypassing the U.S. dollar in practice, and this is something that happened for the past two years or so. So it can be done," Escobar said.
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The Democrats' lawfare war against President Donald Trump has been waged by multiple attackers.
New York Attorney General Letitia James, who attacked Trump's business operations and got a leftist judge to fine him nearly half a billion dollars for what expert witnesses described during trial as ordinary business practices, was part.
It's on appeal, but evidence shows James spoke openly about her scheme to attack Trump before she took office.
Alvin Bragg, the Manhattan district attorney who took business misdemeanors for which the statute of limitations already had expired and called them felonies because they were in pursuit of some other, unspecified, counts, got a leftist jury to deliver guilty verdicts to 34 charges.
It's on appeal, but the evidence shows Bragg had publicly speculated about his plans to prosecute Trump before he took office.
Now there's confirmation from a congressional report that Fani Willis, the Fulton County, Georgia, district attorney who created a list of organized crime charges against Trump and a dozen others, was another.
She also talked about prosecuting Trump before she took office, and presumably before there was evidence to support her eventual charges.
It is a report in the Washington Examiner that explains the testimony about Willis comes from her paramour, Nathan Wade.
He was hired by Willis to orchestrate her campaign against Trump, but took himself off the case when one of the defendants challenged the legitimacy of the prosecution based on the personal, and very, very close, relationship Willis and Wade developed during that time period.
He told Congress, in a closed-door hearing, that Willis "began preparing to prosecute former President Donald Trump before she took office in January 2021."
The report documented that "Wade said Willis began outreach for a Trump-related search committee 'sometime after the [2020] election, but prior to her taking office.' Willis took office on Jan. 1, 2021, after winning her district attorney race the previous August."
Her case is in tatters right now, on appeal after a lower court judge said her actions reeked of bias but still allowed her to stay on the case.
Wade confirmed Willis "absolutely" reached out to him before the day she took office "to mobilize him and others to prosecute Trump for allegedly attempting to overturn the 2020 election, a sign that Trump was a top target and priority for her," the report explained.
Willis has admitted the conflict that appeared, that she had a "personal relationship" with Wade as she hired him with $650,000 of tax funds.
He said he was pushed by a "search committee" assigned to "identify someone who would serve as lead counsel on the election interference investigation," to accept the leadership role.
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The U.S. Army has issued a letter admitting it was wildly wrong when it used an "awareness training" program that falsely labeled the pro-life Operation Rescue, the National Right to Life and other organizations as "terrorist."
"The terror awareness training presented to soldiers at Fort Liberty on July 10, 2024, inaccurately referenced non-profit public advocacy organizations National Right to Life, Operation Rescue, Earth First, Earth Liberation Front, Animal Liberation Front and PETA as terrorist groups, which is inconsistent with the Army's antiterrorist policy and training," confirmed a letter to Rep. Jim Banks, chief of the subcommittee on military personnel.
The letter was on letterhead from the Department of the Army, assistant secretary.
The controversy erupted months ago when it was discovered that the military was using the false characterizations about reputable organizations to "train" soldiers regarding terrorism and terrorist actions.
The letter explained the army is going a system-wide review to ensure that "these or similar slides" no longer will be used.
According to American Center for Law and Justice, which fought the army on behalf of the organizations, "We stand with Operation Rescue and other pro-life groups that have been wrongly targeted by the U.S. Army for being 'terrorist groups.' Because of our legal efforts, the army has now issued a statement acknowledging that Operation Rescue is not a terrorist group and stating unequivocally that such a designation of pro-life groups was wrong and must never occur again."
The ACLJ explained it sent a demand letter to the army over its use of the false propaganda at what used to be Fort Bragg.
In those training materials, "pro-life groups, including our client Operation Rescue and anyone with a 'Choose Life' license plate, as 'terrorist groups,'" the ACLJ reported.
The ACLJ said it called for the army to apologize and acknowledge in writing that none of the pro-life organizations it named are considered domestic terrorist organizations by the army, including specifically the ACLJ client, Operation Rescue. Without this, the threat and stigma of being identified as a terrorist organization remained, the legal team said.
Banks, a Republican from Indiana, also had insisted on accountability for the claims.
"Initially, the secretary of the army released a statement that 'National Right to Life and PETA are not terrorist groups,' but she specifically did not mention our client (Operation Rescue) and many other pro-life groups and individuals. But after our demand letter and the work of Rep. Banks, the Army has issued a new 'statement of U.S. Army policy' and sent us a copy of a letter it sent to Rep. Banks specifically stating that the U.S. Army does not, in fact, consider our client a terrorist group."
The report said the army still claims those who made the training module added the various organizations to the list.
The military has confirmed that some 9,100 soldiers were trained using the false information over the past few years.
The report said, "The Army has also acknowledged to Congress that 'nonprofit groups such as those referenced in the training slides are not terrorist groups and should not be described as such in army documents or training materials. The slides do not represent the official policy or views of the U.S. Army.'"