Epoch Times congressional press credentials revoked while Chinese state-run media remains

The Epoch Times' press credentials have been revoked by Congress, but as Josh Philipp, host of Crossroads with Joshua Philipp from the Epoch Times, told Tucker Carlson in an interview on Tuesday, Chinese state-run media still possesses their press credentials despite its associations with propaganda.

The Epoch Times' credentials were revoked by the House of Representatives press gallery, though Philipp said that they are yet to receive anything in writing pointing to specifically why this happened.

Chinese state-run media outlets including Xinhua and People's Daily, both associated with the Chinese Communist Party and its propaganda, still have their credentials and are allowed to cover Congress.

"There's a lot of hypocrisy here," said Philipp. "Because while they're banning the Epoch Times, they're letting in literal state run Chinese news outlets like Xinhua, People's Daily, and these news outlets are state-run by the Chinese Communist Party; Propaganda outlets allowed into our halls of Congress, while Epoch Times is not.

"What's your offense?" asks Carlson, adding that if it was because the Epoch Times is too "harsh" on the Chinese government. "Is that no longer allowed in the Congress?"

"It seems like that's a trend these days," replies Philipp.

A lot of news outlets, Philipp points put, are trying to "cozy up" with the Chinese government.

"[There's] been stories, for example, about journalists taking paid trips with, for example, groups tied to the Chinese Communist Party's United Front, groups tied with say, business interests in China," said Philipp.

Philipp also points out that the Epoch Times is one of the harshest critics of the Chinese government, with the outlet breaking stories like the live organ harvesting of political and religious dissidents in China and the SARS outbreak.

"We've been a thorn in the side of the Chinese Communist Party for a long time," Philipp adds.

17 different Congress members have reportedly stepped forward to defend the Epoch Times in the wake of their press credentials being revoked. Philipp continues, "hopefully we'll get back in soon. We'll have to see."

"Yeah maybe a couple hundred more could step up in the next 20 minutes," Carlson adds.

https://thepostmillennial.com/epoch-times-press-credentials-revoked-while-chinese-state-run-media-remains-in-press-pool

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Congress should just start flying the Chinese flag over the American flag at the Capitol. Will US Mil be instructed to salute Chinese officers? Will US Ships be required to fly the Chinese flag?

Government Official Who Approved Improper Spying On Trump Staffer Tapped For Spy Court Advisory Role

Mary McCord, a former Justice Department official who approved efforts to snoop on former Trump campaign aide Carter Page, has been appointed to advise the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.

The same court excoriated government officials in late 2019 for providing misleading information in four applications to surveil Page, who served as a Trump campaign national security adviser.

The surveillance court appointed McCord, who served as assistant attorney general for national security through May 2017, to be an amicus curiae on April 15.

The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) relies on eight amicus curiae to provide advice and expertise on matters related to foreign intelligence collection.

McCord, who currently works at Georgetown University, helped oversee Crossfire Hurricane, the FBI’s investigation of the Trump campaign’s possible ties to Russia. She also took part in the process of reviewing an application the FBI submitted for Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrants against Page, a former Naval officer who joined the Trump team in March 2016.

McCord is named 25 times in a Justice Department inspector general (IG) report that details a series of missteps by government officials during the Crossfire Hurricane probe.

While McCord is not criticized in the IG report, she did review and ultimately approve the flawed FISA applications against Page.

The IG report identified 17 “significant” errors and omissions in the FBI’s applications for warrants to surveil Page.

Most of the errors were committed by FBI agents and officials and involved with the bureau’s handling of information from former British spy Christopher Steele.

https://dailycaller.com/2021/04/28/mary-mccord-fisa-carter-page/

No One Should Be a Career Politician

You couldn’t pay a politician to stay home. Not that you’d be able to afford it anyway, given that the annual office expense account for an American senator is $3.7 million, or in practical terms, slightly more than twice what the average American will earn in his entire life.

Benjamin Franklin wrote in his Almanac, speaking as Poor Richard, that “it would be thought a hard government that should tax its people one-tenth part of their time, to be employed in its service.” There you have it: A 10 percent tax rate would be excessive. What do you think Franklin would make of the current situation? I pay a third of my salary in taxes, which means that one out of every three working days of my life I am working for the government, as though in indentured servitude. The government is stealing my life.

Worse still: If you subtract my cost of living (rent, food, and clothes), the government is taking 60 or 70 percent of my disposable income. Imagine what your life would be like if, instead, nine days out of 10 (as Franklin thought would be a hard situation) you could work for yourself as a free man! Imagine 19 days out of 20. It may be a dream, but it did lead to a revolution once before . . .

Taxes can only go up and never down, just as government can only get larger and never smaller, if no action—external action—is taken to restrain them. Neither party, no matter how good a game it talks, is going to vote to restrict their power as a governing class: From their point of view, it is not Republican versus Democrat. It is people versus government. They’re the government and they enjoy it because—who wouldn’t?

Wanting to be a politician should disqualify anyone from holding office. And it’s too bad we can’t mandate that. We might start at least with term limits. And while it’s patently obvious that Congress would never enact such a thing, we could do it ourselves with a constitutional amendment. Of course, we would have to start by persuading two-thirds of state legislatures to approve the idea, and they won’t want to because term limits immediately would rebound on them. There are, in fact, 15 states that have term limits already. But Americans voted in favor of term limits in six more states, only to see their will rejected by their own governments: The state legislatures in two cases voted to nullify the express will of the voters, and in the other four states courts nullified the votes for “technical reasons.”

A career politician, like a war profiteer, deserves nothing but lasting obloquy and the contempt of his fellow man. In America, there should be no such thing as a career politician. The longer a man sits in power, the greater his abuse of power, and the more he is inclined to forget his responsibilities.

https://amgreatness.com/2021/04/27/no-one-should-be-a-career-politician/

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Good read.