Breakfast For The Brain Weekend Edition

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Omar’s Anti-Jewish Views Typical For Dems’ Congressional Black Caucus

Via The Federalist

The anti-Semitism of the progressive wing of Democrat leadership should shock no one. From flirtations with Jeremy Corbyn to meetings with Louis Farrakhan, the farthest left wing of the Democrat Party has a long history of fraternizing with anti-Semites. Jeryl Bier in The Wall Street Journal and National Review has covered extensively Farrakhan’s connection to the CBC.

For those unfamiliar with Louis Farrakhan, he is most infamous for Jew hatred, referring to Jews as “termites” and to Adolf Hitler as a “very great man.” He also peddles conspiracy theories such as that Zionist Jews were responsible for 9/11, and complains frequently about the “filth and indecency” that the “false Jew” encourages. This is a mere sampling.

Farrakhan has an intimate relationship with the CBC. Bier’s work points out how 20 CBC members posed for a picture with Farrakhan back in 2005. Barack Obama, then a senator, was present at the event, but did not appear in the photograph.

Farrakhan’s meetings with the CBC continued well before and beyond that photo, as several members either had closed-door meetings with the bigoted Nation of Islam leader or attended events with him. In 2002, Farrakhan briefed the CBC at the Capitol regarding his recent trip to the Middle East at the request of John Conyers, a Democratic representative from Michigan. Six months after the 2005 photo, several members of the CBC met up with Farrakhan again, this time in New Orleans.

Although the relationship fizzled for a while, Keith Ellison, current deputy chair of the Democratic National Committee, reignited it, attending a private event at which Farrakhan was also present in 2013. In 2015, Rep. Danny Davis (D-Illinois) spoke to a crowd at the 20th anniversary of the Million Man March, an activist gathering Farrakhan organized.

Read the entire article HERE.

I Am The Speaker Who Was Disrupted and Abused At Portland State University – Here Is My Story

Via The Gateway Pundit

On March 5th, 2019, The College Republicans invited me to Portland State University to speak about what happened to me on July 7th, 2016, when I was out filming a protest, exercising my right to freedom of the press. I found myself attacked by a mob of masked thugs and I drew my firearm in self defense.

The police eventually rushed in and arrested me while excusing the actions of the mob, which was led by multi time federal felon Benjamin Kerensa. Deputy District Attorney Kate Molina cited false police reports and lied to the judge to justify charging me with felonies and putting a $250,000 bail on me. Thanks

to Oregon Firearms Federation, we were able to raise defense funds and get me bailed out. It was ordered that I could not post videos on YouTube, speak to the media, go on twitter, blog, or go to political events. I was banned from working. Had I done those 1st Amendment activities, I would have been thrown back in jail and the bail money would be forfeited. My first-person video that showed the attack was ordered sealed by the judge, as well as surveillance video that shows the mob huddling up to formulate their plan to confront me.

Some of them were ex military and armed with guns themselves. The other Deputy District Attorney, Todd Jackson, even defended the notion of people wearing masks while engaging in violent behavior, making the case that it’s not to appear menacing or threatening or conceal their identity so they couldn’t be charged with crimes, no no, the masks are for personal protection, to prevent against stalking and harassment should the public learn who they are.

Read the entire article HERE.

The Left’s Hate-Crime Hoax Machine

Via The American Thinker

Hoax hate crimes belong to a larger category of ideologically motivated hoaxes, meant to sway public opinion and impact policy and legislation. There are broadly three types of ideological hoaxes.

First, one finds journalistic hoaxes. Among these are the hoax of the Duke lacrosse-players and the UVA rape case. Such cases are fabricated and sensationalized in order to support the ideological claim of “rape culture on campuses.”

Second, there are academic hoaxes, which are “studies” based on fabricated data and cherry-picked samples designed to provide an ideological outcome. For example, there was a study that showed that gays die much earlier because people do not support calling two men in a romantic relationship a marriage.

The third type is the fake hate crime. They are meant to prove the existence of violent bigots who attack the heroic victims, such as Jussie Smollett, Mathew Shepherd, and Tyler Clementi. These function as morality tales, with a victim hero and a religious martyr who proves the existence of endemic hate and violence. At the center exists the brave innocent who suffered for all our sins. These, by eliciting pity, prove victimhood and the harms of homophobia, racism, and sexism.

Taken together these hoaxes represent a large-scale, coordinated campaign of misinformation and cultural lies.

Read the entire article HERE.

China’s Social Credit System Just Blocked Tens Of Millions Of Plane And Train Tickets

Via Zero Hedge

China’s social credit system prevented people from buying 17.5 million flights and 5.5 million train tickets in 2018, according to the Associated Press, which obtained a document from the National Public Credit Information Center.

The Communist Party of China (CPC) says the social credit system is an essential component of the Socialist market economic system and the social governance system. Its aim is to encourage trustworthy behavior through a blend of penalties and rewards for citizens to improve a fast-changing society after three decades of economic reform. Offenses can include failure to pay taxes or fines, jaywalking, smoking, shoplifting, or taking drugs. Penalties include restrictions on travel, business, obtaining loans, or access to education. Companies can lose access to low-interest bank loans or be dropped from government contracts.

One government slogan for the scheme says: “Once you lose trust, you will face restrictions everywhere.”

The social control system is part of efforts by President Xi Jinping’s Communist regime to use artificial intelligence and surveillance cameras to control more than a billion people.

Read the entire article HERE.

Democrats To Jews: You Don’t Know An Anti-Semite When You Hear One

Via The Federalist

There’s a revolution underway. American Jews, who have been an integral part of the Democratic coalition for more than a century, are currently being made uncomfortable in their political home. And the whole thing is being live-tweeted.

What’s shocking isn’t that there are anti-Semites (and those willing to tolerate them) on the political left. There are Democratic members of Congress with ties to Louis Farrakhan, after all. But leftist anti-Semitism, which has continuously bubbled just below the surface for many years — and too often been blithely ignored — has burst into full view this year.

First there was the Women’s March subsumed by anti-Semitism, then the whole brouhaha over Sen. Marco Rubio’s anti-boycott, divestment, and sanctions bill, and now there’s Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar, who simply can’t stop slandering American Jews and Zionists, two overlapping but not identical groups.

The Democratic National Committee felt compelled to pull their partnership with the Women’s March because it had become so toxic. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi also managed to quickly formulate a leadership response condemning anti-Semitism when Omar created a stir with her hateful words just last month. But now something has clearly shifted.

Pelosi’s attempt to lead her caucus in a symbolic vote condemning anti-Semitism, which should have been a gimme, became a political football. Rather than rally to support long-time Jewish colleagues, who have expressed serious concerns about Omar’s anti-Semitism, members are mutinying in support of Omar.

Read the entire article HERE.

Transgender cycling champ: Excluding trans women from women’s sports is like excluding black women from women’s sports

Via The Blaze

Rachel McKinnon — a biological male who transitioned to female and placed first in a women’s cycling world championship in October — has been making more headlines of late.

Earlier this week, McKinnon blasted former swimmer Sharron Davies — who won an Olympic silver medal for Great Britain in 1980 — for daring to say that “those with a male sex advantage” shouldn’t be allowed to compete in women’s sports. McKinnon tweeted that Davies is “transphobic” — and in a separate tweet accused the former Olympian of “sharing hate speech.”

McKinnon also called Martina Navratilova “transphobic” in the wake of the tennis legend’s op-ed saying that transgender women competing against biological women is “insane and cheating.” Navratilova — a lesbian — was booted from an LGBTQ advocacy group over her comments.

On the heels of ripping Davies and Navratilova, McKinnon — who’s also a philosophy professor at the College of Charleston in South Carolina — added a doozy: Excluding transgender women from women’s sports is akin to excluding black women from women’s sports.

Read the entire article HERE.

Ilhan Omar Shows How Intersectionality Can Elevate Bigotry

Via The National Review

Something remarkable is happening on the Democratic side of the aisle. Faced with multiple anti-Semitic statements from freshman member of Congress Ilhan Omar, the Democrats are actually struggling to unite to condemn her remarks. This disunity is made all the more remarkable by the fact that there is nothing at all subtle about what Omar has said. In the past she’s tweeted that Israel has “hypnotized the world.” Recently, she’s claimed that American support for Israel was “all about the Benjamins” and has now twice raised the argument that support for Israel involved “allegiance” to a foreign country.

Each of these statements represents a classic anti-Semitic trope, and the latter statements were made after she came under fire for her previous comments. She knew she was under scrutiny and yet doubled down.

Read the entire article HERE.

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