"So you're going to go back into a deeply flawed nuclear deal that President Trump wisely exited," said Dubowitz, "And then you're going to negotiate a new longer, stronger and broader deal, where you've given up all your most powerful leverage? It doesn't make much sense."And what I think is going on is that there's a very smart political strategy at work where there's an attempt to try and assure Democrats who oppose the JCPOA, assure some Republicans, maybe try to break the Republican consensus on Iran, and try to contain the Israelis, the Saudis, Emiratis, the Bahrainis, and others who are in Iranian missile range.
"I think Biden administration negotiators are going to collapse at the negotiating table in Vienna, they're going to give Iran almost everything Iran wants. We'll be back in the JCPOA. And then there'll be Kabuki dance about a new longer, stronger, broader deal that at the end of the day will never arrive unless the Biden administration is prepared to literally give up everything to the Iranians in exchange for this new 'longer, stronger deal.'" Despite the Biden administration's likely concessions to Iran, Dubowitz said he is hopeful that both opponents of an Iran deal and businesses will stay out of Iran.
"My only hope is that, given Republican determination, given Israeli and Gulf determination, that hundreds, thousands of CEOs and chief legal officers around the world don't go back into Iran because of the huge market uncertainty and political uncertainty," he said.
There's no prohibition in the agreement anywhere that I can find that says Iran cannot develop weapon grade uranium.
"Now the answer to that is people say, 'Well, Iran, you know, has subject to the Non-Proliferation Treaty, which prohibits it from developing nuclear weapons.' Well, if we trust Iran's adherence to that treaty, you wouldn't need a nuclear agreement in the first place. So that's the problem, patient pathways to nuclear weapons, and hundreds of billions of dollars for the mullahs to ravage the region and repress their people." China's influence with Iran is also growing under the Biden administration, Dubowitz said.
China made "a $400 billion deal with Iran, to develop the energy, infrastructure, to buy Iranian oil, and to extend what's called 'One Belt, One Road,' which is their sort of global vision of a telecommunications network, land bridges, maritime waterways," he said.
"And part of building this one bridge, one road, is to sink their teeth into the Middle East, into places like Iran, and essentially use their economic and political influence to get the Iranians under their thumb."At the end of the day, it's a deal that we could stop.
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Think tank chief: Biden admin making a 'longer, stronger, broader deal' with Iran is 'fiction'
Biden Deserves Zero Credit For Booming Economy, COVID Gains
As a matter of fact, the GDPNow forecast for Q1 - which is a running estimate of the economy based on available data as they are released - was much higher before Biden signed his rescue plan than where it ended up.
That's why, despite what Biden has repeatedly claimed, plenty of economists left and center objected to the "American Rescue Plan." As the Cato Institute pointed out, opponents included Bush chief economic advisor, Greg Mankiw; former chief economist at the IMF, Olivier Blanchard; chief economist at KPMG, Constance Hunter, "And the vast majority of business economists." Even Obama chief economist Jason Furman warned that it risked triggering inflation.
How about the progress against COVID-19? Again, Biden deserves no credit for that.
The vaccines were developed faster than anyone expected before Biden took office, in large part because of Donald Trump's Operation Warp Speed.
What has Biden done? He spent a fortune to set up government-run vaccine centers that proved to be a failure.
April 13 is the day that Biden officials recommending pausing the J&J vaccine - a decision they later reversed.
If Biden had any decency, he'd be thanking Donald Trump for his good fortune, and ours.
https://issuesinsights.com/2021/04/30/biden-deserves-zero-credit-for-booming-economy-covid-gains/
Biden's Corrupt Justice Department Targets Rudy Giuliani
Hunter Biden introduced his father, then-Vice President Joe Biden, to a top executive at a Ukrainian energy firm less than a year before the elder Biden pressured government officials in Ukraine into firing a prosecutor who was investigating the company, according to emails obtained by The Post.
Biden slams Trump ally Rudy Giuliani as 'Russian pawn' in 2nd debate.
Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden dismissed questions Thursday night over his son Hunter's business dealings in Russia and characterized President Trump's associate Rudy Giuliani, as a "Russian pawn" engaged in a disinformation smear campaign days before the election.
Joe Biden is in the White House and, with his various minions, in charge of the U.S. Department of Justice.
As if the department had not been corrupted enough during the Obama-Biden administration when it was caught targeting the Trump campaign, the Biden DOJ is picking up with its pattern of Biden corruption by literally raiding Giuliani's New York apartment and law offices to collect all of Giuliani's computers.
Got that? The First Amendment and a free press be damned: the rights of a lawyer and a client are out the window as the Biden Department of Justice is scooping up the private communications among Giuliani, his client, and an American journalist.
It is time for Republicans to demand an immediate investigation into the conduct of the Biden Department of Justice.
https://spectator.org/rudy-giuliani-raid-biden-justice-department/
Former Obama Adviser Charged With Stealing Over $200,000 From Charter Schools He Founded
A former White House education adviser during the Obama administration has been arrested and charged with stealing $218,005 from a charter school network he founded, prosecutors said.
"As alleged, Seth Andrew abused his position as a founder of a charter school network to steal from the very same schools he helped create," Manhattan U.S. Attorney Audrey Strauss said.
Rew is the founder of a prominent chain of charter schools based in New York City named Democracy Prep Public Schools, which he founded in 2005.
The chain now operates 21 public charter schools across the country, educating 6,500 students.
"Seth left our network in 2013," Trivers stated.
"His alleged actions are a profound betrayal of all that we stand for and to you and your children, the scholars and families that we serve. To be clear, at no time did the alleged crimes pose any risk to our students, staff or operations in any way." "The network's finances remain strong, and at no time did any of the activity by Seth Andrew have any adverse effect on our scholars or the functioning of our schools," she added.
Epoch Times Photo Surveillance footage of what appears to be Seth Andrew inside a bank in 2019.
Biden's 'Go Big' Plan Will Leave America's Middle-Class "Addicted To Government & The Democratic Party"
The Wall Street Journal Editorial Board said it best: Biden's latest $1.8 trillion plan rejects the old social contract of work for benefits.
The country had "Done nothing about immigration in 30 years,", except that under Trump illegal immigration was reduced by 90 percent, and the principal problem was effectively solved until Biden stopped construction of the southern border wall and reopened the borders.
Biden called for resources to deal with the "Root cause of why people are fleeing" Central America as if it were the business of the United States to raise the welfare of those poor countries, and feed more graft into them, rather than to monitor its own border and apply a sane system of an admission of immigrants.
He revived the old Obama nonsense about combating employment with unionized green jobs, and leaped into the time warp of bygone days with the bunk that "The middle class built the country and the unions built the middle class, and we must promote the right to unionize." Unions today are an almost wholly retrograde force redundant to market pressures for higher wages and better working conditions and largely confined to the stagnant backwater the public sector.
Most outrageously, Biden took all credit for 220 million vaccinations with no hint that if it had not been for Trump's direct intervention to accelerate the development of vaccines, none of it would have happened.
The climate was again bandied as an "Existential crisis" even though Biden acknowledged that the U.S. only provides 15 percent of the world's carbon emissions.
After the usual reassertion that everyone is created equal, Biden slipped in the need to "Root out systemic racism that plagues America White supremacy is terrorism" and has "Surpassed Jihadism" as a menace.
Hawley Introduces Bill to Reduce American Dependence on Chinese Technology
Sen. Josh Hawley introduced a bill Wednesday aimed at reducing Chinese control over technology used by the Department of Defense and its contractors.
The bill would require defense contractors to disclose where they obtained printed circuit boards, which are an essential component of most complex technology.
"A disproportionate amount of the printed circuit boards used in the Department of Defense's electronic systems come from China, where they are vulnerable to sabotage by the Chinese government," Hawley's office said.
The Protecting Critical Boards and Electronics Through Transparency and Enduring Reinvestment Act would designate federal funds to support American manufacturing of printed circuit boards.
The American printed circuit board manufacturing market is valued at $2.7 billion, a third of what it was 20 years ago.
The circuit boards are often designed in the United States but assembled in China, leaving American-made technology vulnerable to Chinese sabotage.
"Chinese printed circuit boards pose a serious threat to the integrity of America's defense systems," said Hawley.
Tyranny is the inevitable consequence of liberalism
Are citizens of liberal societies permitted to question liberalism? In theory, the answer is yes, given liberalism's commitment to 'free thought' and 'the marketplace of ideas'.
' To the liberal mind, to question liberalism risks opening portals to the past, a place populated by tyrannical kings, Catholic inquisitors, Spanish conquistadores, religious warriors, zealous apparatchiks, 'collectivists', fascists and sundry other ghastlies.
Over the past few years, as voters registered discontent with the global liberal consensus, an entire cottage industry of books, essays and charities has sprung up to warn against revivifying the past.
'Classical' liberals tend to mark 1789, whereas 'progressive' liberals - noting that much of reality since that watershed year has failed to conform to their own liberal ideal - are uncomfortable with anything not from the present or the future.
In the realm of ideas, we see the inability of even Christian liberals to tolerate any serious consideration of non-liberal political, economic and cultural arrangements.
For the liberal, to evoke a bedrock pre-modern concept such as the common good - much less the highest good - is to summon those various demons that good progressive liberal values were supposed to have vanquished.
At some point, the liberal has to admit that the powdered-wig version of his ideology contained in it the seeds of its woke, repressive variety: that enshrining individual autonomy and choice as the highest goods of human life would eventually create the conditions for a kind of private tyranny, precisely what the common-good tradition of classical and Christian thought had always warned about and sought to restrain.
https://spectator.us/topic/tyranny-inevitable-consequence-liberalism/