Roman Balmakov is the spokesperson of the following 15 minute Epoch Times news video titled Facts Matter, he provides a news summary on the following stories: the border crisis; Masks; China Threat; Supreme Court; and America First Caucus:
Category: Progressive Govt. / Socialism / Communism
AOC On Our Southern Border Immigration Problem: Sky News
In a 4 minute video by Sky News, AOC was shown to use at least two points of the democratic leftist narrative to explain the border crisis caused by ineffective democratic policies / strategies: she deflected to ‘climate change’ and ‘white supremacy.’ A second, very brief video shows mini-AOC discuss real topics in a very humorous manner
Biden’s Gun Legislation Agenda Raises Red Flags for Rights Groups: Epoch Times
…Christopher Stone, director of communications for the National Association for Gun Rights…“None of these executive actions are about crime control or public safety—they’re about controlling U.S. citizens and stripping us of our basic God-given rights,” he said. “Red flag” laws allow authorities to temporarily confiscate guns from certain individuals deemed a risk. While this appears to make sense on the surface, Second Amendment advocates argue it would violate the “innocent until proven guilty” principle. …“Police officers across America know firsthand that the greatest impact on gun crime is holding repeat offenders accountable,” he said. “The current system of a judicial revolving door with little to no repercussions with regard to current gun laws will not improve simply by adding new laws.”
Newt Gingrich: The Crisis of American Civilization: Epoch Times
We are now in a crisis of American civilization fully as dangerous and real as the crisis of the U.S. Civil War or World War II. During both those crises, if America had lost, it would have ceased to be America—and the cause of freedom around the world would have been dramatically weakened. …In San Francisco, the declaration by the communist district attorney that theft under $900 will not be prosecuted has led to so much shoplifting that Walgreens is closing all 10 of its drugstores in the city. …Traditional media hostility and dishonesty are overshadowed by the internet giants, who are increasingly acting like Russian oligarchs. They are trying to erase a leader who was supported by more than 75 million Americans with a ruthlessness worthy of Soviet tyranny and the Chinese Communist Party.
‘Men Are Coming’: 255 California Prison Inmates Have Requested Transfer to Women’s Prisons Since January: Epoch Times
Since January, 261 California prison inmates have requested transfers to prisons aligning with their gender identity, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation told the Daily Caller News Foundation Tuesday. Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed S.B. 132 into law in January, a bill that requires the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) to ask every individual entering the department’s custody to specify their pronouns, their gender identity, and whether they identify as transgender, nonbinary, or intersex.
Election Fraud Prosecution at an ‘All-Time High’: Texas Attorney General’s Office: Epoch Times
Last week, the Republican-led Texas state Senate approved legislation that would ban mail-in ballot drop boxes and most drive-thru voting, a measure that Republicans say “ensures election integrity.” Democrats have said it’s voter suppression and makes it harder for people with disabilities and ethnic minorities to vote. The measure, according to state Sen. Bryan Hughes, a Republican, is “designed to address areas through process where bad actors can take advantage because we want the people of Texas to be confident their elections are fair, honest, and open.”
Supreme Court Justice Thomas Suggests Facebook, Twitter Could Be Regulated Like Utilities: Epoch Times
Thomas agreed that Trump’s Twitter account did “resemble a constitutionally protected public forum” in certain aspects, he noted that “it seems rather odd to say that something is a government forum when a private company has unrestricted authority to do away with it,” possibly referring to Twitter’s ban against Trump following the Jan. 6 incident. “Any control Mr. Trump exercised over the account greatly paled in comparison to Twitter’s authority, dictated in its terms of service, to remove the account ‘at any time for any or no reason,’” he added. “Twitter exercised its authority to do exactly that.”
Peter Boghossian on Woke Education: ‘No Other Alternative Than to Defund the System:
Boghossian is best known for co-authoring a series of satirical papers and publishing them in peer-reviewed academic journals to reveal how likely fake research would be accepted as legitimate scholarship, so long as it fit in the woke narrative. This very woke ideology he has sought to expose, according to Boghossian, has taken over the American cultural and academic institutions. “I don’t think this is a right-left issue in terms of who has taken over our institutions,” Boghossian told The Epoch Times’ Jan Jekielek, when asked about a cultural warfare that is reshaping the American politics and society. “Instead of thinking about in terms of right-left, I think it’s best to think about it in terms of woke.”
Mayor of North Las Vegas Switches From Democrat to Republican: Epoch Times
“They had an election recently for leadership, and four of the five people were card-carrying members of the Socialistic Party,” North Las Vegas Mayor John Lee told Fox News on Tuesday. “It’s not the party that I grew up with 25 years ago in this environment, and it’s not the party I can stand with anymore.” He was referring to an incident last month where top Nevada Democratic Party staffers resigned at once after supporters of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) won an election to control most positions on the committee’s board. It came as Judith Whitmer, a member of the Las Vegas chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America, was elected chair of the state party.
Controversy Around Georgia Voting Law Centered on Democrat Opposition to Voter ID: Epoch Times
The Georgia law expands voting options, such as early voting and ballot drop boxes, beyond the status quo. It’s more permissive in some regards than some Democrat strongholds, such as New York. Its core voter integrity measure that appears to be at the heart of the controversy is the demand for voters to provide identification in order to cast a ballot not only in person, but also absentee.