Dem IT scandal gets scant attention from MSM

What if I told you Republican congressmen had used Russian IT people who were caught stealing data from the congressional servers and the FBI had raided one of the Russian’s houses and seized smashed hard drives? CNN would never stop talking about it. Bob Mueller would hire a whole new fleet of Hillary-donor lawyers to investigate. This would be the biggest scandal since Watergate. Bigger!

Now substitute Pakistani IT guys for the Russian ones and Democrat congressmen for the Republicans and you have the biggest story of the decade that’s being totally ignored by the mainstream media.

On top of that, these Pakistani brothers have ties to a money man who has ties to terrorism.

Hats off to the Daily Caller and Luke Rosiak for staying on this story. Were it not for them we might know very little about Imran Awan and his brothers. Imran was hired by Debbie Wasserman Schultz as her information technology guy. He managed to weasel his way into about a dozen other Democrat congressional offices and brought along his two brothers and two of their wives. They worked part time and, collectively, made $4 million over a seven year period. That is until they were suspected of illegally downloading data from congressional servers. The Capitol Police cut off their access to the servers and is now actively investigating them for theft of data and of real property in the form of computer equipment.

Now we learn from Rosiak at the Daily Caller that the FBI raided one of their homes and carried away government hard drives that had been smashed. Wonder if they borrowed Hillary’s hammer. What’s more, Imran Awan, as far as we can tell, is still on Schultz’s payroll, although his job description has been reclassified.

I don’t have the space to get into the full details of this story here, but it reads like a spy novel. All sorts of weird things going on, suspicious activity, even the rumor of blackmail with the data stolen from the congressional servers. Oh, and we learned through a leaked e-mail on Wikileaks that Imran Awan had Schultz’s username and password for her DNC account when she was chairman of the DNC. Couple that with a recent analysis of the so-called hacked e-mails that indicated they were downloaded on site instead of remotely hacked and it adds a whole new dimension to this case.

What’s downright scary is this may be the very first time you’re hearing about this. The Awan brothers have been under investigation since February! This most recent revelation of the FBI raid and the smashed hard drives was ignored by every major media outlet including Fox News. Bizarre.

The Awan brothers’ firing as IT guys has links to Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, according to some sources. They report that their firing was part of a massive house-cleaning by Tillerson prior to his taking over at State. Some of the Democrat members the brothers ran IT for were on the House intelligence committees. It’s even been reported that they were running IT for the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence itself, which would give them access to highly classified intel on military operations. After the death of Navy SEAL Ryan Owens in an operation in Yemen, the brothers were abruptly fired. The terrorists somehow knew we were coming. Some suspect the Awan brothers of leaking the information.

If even half of this is true, it makes Russian collusion look like a joke. We certainly know the Awans are accused of stealing congressional data. Why the blackout?

UPDATE: Imran Awan was arrested by the FBI at Dulles airport trying to flee the country. He's been charged with bank fraud. Congressman Schultz has finally fired Awan. As of this writing, the mainstream media are still ignoring this story.

Phil Valentine is the host of the award-winning, nationally syndicated talk radio show, The Phil Valentine Show.

Healthcare: Either you believe in the free market or you don't

Have you ever walked into a room, stopped, then thought, ‘What did I come in here for?’ That’s our Republican-controlled Congress. It’s like they can’t remember why they’re there. Let me give them a gentle reminder. REPEAL OBAMACARE!

Very few people in Congress understand how they got control of the House and the Senate. Sen. Rand Paul is one who does. His steadfastness against McConnell’s ‘Obamacare Lite’ bill helped seal its fate. It backed the Republicans into the uncomfortable corner of considering the only option they had left: Complete repeal.

How many times did the House and Senate vote to repeal Obamacare while Obama was in office? I always called those ‘show votes’ because they were for constituent consumption, not real policy. Each time they had a chance to actually defund Obamacare they punted. With few exceptions, like Senators Rand Paul, Mike Lee, and Ted Cruz, the RINOs in the Senate went along with the Democrats in fully funding the one program that ultimately gave them absolute control in Washington. 

And when they got that absolute control, what did they do? They cowered behind the law like it was an immovable monolith at Stonehenge. After all those ‘show votes,’ they couldn’t bring themselves to actually vote on repeal when it counted. So they set about crafting their own government-run healthcare program. Sure, it was light years better than Obamacare, but it was still government-run healthcare. As Rand Paul pointed out, it was a big bailout for the insurance companies.

Now, I’ll be the first to admit that we need lots of competition in the insurance industry. The last thing we need is for all of them to go away save one. That, I’m convinced, was the core objective of Obamacare. Single-payer healthcare. But we don’t need to be subsidizing insurance companies either. What we need is an unadulterated free market when it comes to health care and health insurance.

So-called believers in the free market put their faith to the test when it comes to healthcare. Either you believe in the free market or you don’t. In other words, either you believe competition will lower the cost of health care and health insurance or you don’t. If you’re satisfied with either Obamacare or the lame replacements put forth by the Republicans in the House and Senate, you don’t.

And why not? Healthcare is far too important to leave to the free market, some say. Is that so? What’s more important than health care or health insurance for most Americans? Food? Surely. Shelter? Without a doubt. Clothing? Yes. Transportation? Of course. Funny how all of these things are deemed more important than health care or health insurance, and the price of them all is dictated by the free market. Why can’t we get our minds wrapped around the fact that the same goes for health care and health insurance.

I keep making the distinction between the two because they’re both different. Health care is what you need when you’re sick or injured. Health insurance is what you pay for along the way in case you’re sick or injured. Everybody in Washington is trying to get the high cost of health insurance down, but they’re working at the problem from the wrong end. The reason health insurance is so expensive is because health care is so expensive.

Reconnect the patient with the product and you’ll see health care costs go down. Make people pay for everyday things like a doctors visits or prescription drugs and competition will drive prices down. Save health insurance for the big stuff.

Phil Valentine is the host of the award-winning, nationally syndicated talk radio show, The Phil Valentine Show.

This should do it for global warming, but it won't

There’s a new peer-reviewed study that’s completely being ignored by the mainstream media. It shows that “nearly all” of the global warming reported by NASA, NOAA, and the Met Office in the UK is due to fudging numbers. The report is titled “On the Validity of NOAA, NASA and Hadley CRU Global Average Surface Temperature Data and the Validity of EPA’s CO2 Endangerment Finding.” That last part is in reference to the Obama EPA using global warming to wreak havoc on industry and our economy.

This comprehensive study looked at temperature data on record and found some astounding manipulation. It found that nearly all of the current warming they’re showing is due to adjusting the data. The authors wrote, “The conclusive findings of this research are that the three GAST data sets are not a valid representation of reality. Thus, it is impossible to conclude from the three published GAST data sets that recent years have been the warmest ever—despite current claims of record-setting warming.”

What’s worse, they went back in time to adjust temperatures to make it look like we were warming from the 1940s. “Each dataset pushed down the 1940s warming and pushed up the current warming,” says Joe D’Aleo, a co-author of the study. “You would think that when you make adjustments you’d sometimes get warming and sometimes get cooling,” he said. “That almost never happened.”

What this means is this whole business of manmade global warming is a complete fabrication. It’s a hoax. Because this study is not being covered by the mainstream media there won't be the public outcry that should come from such fraud. But fraud it is, and the fraudsters should be jailed.

You see, there’s money in global warming. If you’re conducting research and you want a grant, then you need to feed into the hysteria of manmade global warming in order to get the money. In other words, you have to fabricate your research to get the money. That’s called fraud, and it’s been going on for decades. It’s time the fraudsters were brought to justice.

It’s nearly impossible to tally up the total cost of global warming hysteria. Best estimates put it in the hundreds of billions of dollars. Imagine what those diverted resources have done to our economy, to our deficits, to our debt. The people behind the number-fudging at NASA, NOAA, and the Met need to be brought up on charges and prosecuted. This is the only way this out-of-control fraud will be stopped.

As we chronicled in our movie, An Inconsistent Truth, Al Gore and his henchmen have managed to ring hundreds of millions from the taxpayers. They, too, should be held accountable. Instead, they want to jail the “climate deniers.” It’s time to turn the tables. Hearings should be held. Testimony should be heard. We need to put this idea of manmade global warming on trial once and for all so the world can see the truth.

Despite this new peer-reviewed study, the proponents of global warming stick their fingers in their ears and close their eyes. They don’t want to hear anything that upsets their world.

The fact that they refuse to acknowledge the evidence is evidence itself that the global warming movement is not scientific. It’s not even political. It’s a religion. Religion is based on faith, and these Branch Algorians share a blind faith in the words of their prophet, Al Gore. This cult has bled into every aspect of our lives. They’ve shamed millions into changing their lifestyles. It’s time to put it down.

Phil Valentine is the host of the award-winning, nationally syndicated talk radio show, The Phil Valentine Show.

To tweet, or not to tweet. That is the question.

Much has been made about President Trump’s tweets. The Never-Trumpers shake their heads in disgust. The #Resistance goes ape, which includes the mainstream media. Even some supporters occasionally cringe. He should just stop tweeting, they all say, but that would be a huge mistake.

I’ll be the first to admit that some of Trump’s tweets are less than presidential, but we’ve never had a president quite like Trump. He has what I refer to as straight-pipe disorder. Everything he thinks goes straight to his mouth, or, in this case, his fingers. He seems to have never had an unuttered thought. And that’s what’s so great about this guy.

How many politicians have you met in your life who were guarded about everything they said? Not to knock the guy, but that’s Mike Pence in a nutshell. Some wish Trump would be more like his VP. I don’t agree.

Barack Obama pledged to have the most transparent presidency in history. In a sense, it was. We could see through everything he did. But honest it was not. That’s one thing you can say about Trump. What you see is what you get. It’s not like we didn’t know what we were getting. It was his bare-knuckles, New Yorker style that endeared him to millions of Americans. It is unusual for the president to attack a couple of media hacks on Twitter, but this president is nothing usual.

Mika and Morning Joe had it coming. Mika especially. Once upon a time I would tune in when Fox & Friends was in commercial break (which it seems like it’s more commercials than content these days). The vitriol toward Trump and the outright lying about the issues became too much for me. I couldn’t believe that Trump had never gone after them. Then he did and the entire mainstream media came unraveled. It was an attack on all women, the DNC said. No, it was a counter-attack against Mika who has relentlessly lied about Donald Trump for months.

Mika and Joe vehemently disputed Trump’s account of their visit to Mar-a-Lago in December, but it begs the question. What were two Never-Trumpers doing at Mar-a-Lago in the first place? Like typical Washington cocktail crawlers, they seem to want to be with the In-Crowd despite their distaste for Trump. I don’t know about you but I don’t show up at the house owned by the guy I’ve been bashing on the air. (OK, so I did show up at Al Gore’s house in our movie, but that was just to allow him equal time. He refused, by the way.)

Yes, Trump’s tweets are raw, they’re sometimes vicious, and they’re always entertaining. They’re also a window into the heart and soul of the most powerful man in the world. Many of his tweets that the mainstream media derided have shown to be true. Let’s not forget the ‘wire tapping’ tweet that the leftists labeled ‘Fake News.’ Congress and the special counsel are all now investigating the unmasking of Trump associates and countess other Americans as part of the Russia investigation.

The media even accuse Trump of racism and anti-semitism for retweeting a post from a guy who’s supposedly tweeted racist and anti-semitic things. I retweet all the time. It never dawns on me to do a background check on the tweeter.

Besides, Trump’s daughter, son-in-law, daughter-in-law, and grandchildren are Jewish. The anti-semitic label rings hollow. As does the Russia collusion. But have you noticed? They’ve moved on. To Trump’s Twitter account.

Phil Valentine is the host of the award-winning, nationally syndicated talk radio show, The Phil Valentine Show.