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The author of this piece uses a pen name, E.P. Unum, E Pluribus Unum a familiar phrase. Please take the time to read this. Read it again. Absorb it. Digest it. Think about it. Pass it on. I welcome your comments.
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The left-wing schoolmarms at politiFact want you to know that evil scientists are not actually engineering “Disease X” in an effort to stage Plandemic 2.0. Yes, untold hundreds or even thousands of virologists may be tinkering with virus genomes to enhance them for human hosts; and yes, still more of them may be plotting their response to this entirely hypothetical “Disease X” once it begins infecting humans. But, nobody is engineering a specific pathogen for the direct purpose of imposing another public health hygiene dictatorship on the world they tell us.
Source; Researchers at the University of Minnesota and the U.K.’s University of Leeds, published by the European Geosciences Union,
Researchers at the University of Minnesota and the U.K.’s University of Leeds, published by the European Geosciences Union, finds that in the decade between 2009 and 2019, the Antarctic ice shelves increased in mass and extent, on balance. Using global satellites to measure changes in 34 ice shelves across Antarctica
In Geophysical Research Letters, by an international team of researchers from universities and research institutes in the US, Switzerland, and France, found that the rate of meltwater in Antarctica has declined between 1980 and 2021 Using satellite microwave measurements run through the physics-based multi-layer snow model SNOWPACK.
In the science publication Nature by an international team of scientists from universities and research institutes in England, Scotland, and the US found the rate of ice decline in West Antarctica is not reflected in ice trends elsewhere on the continent and varies dramatically by location. They surmise that the ongoing ice loss in the region is likely being driven by “interdecadal atmosphere/ocean variability,” although more study is warranted because direct observations have been limited over time.
In peer-reviewed journal The Cryosphere, determined that ice sheets were thinner in Antarctica during the interglacial in the past than they are now, and that they recovered, indicating natural cycles drive ice extent changes on the continent and ice declines are not irreversible. A team of 13 researchers from universities in the US, the United Kingdom, and Australia, used cosmogenic-nuclide analysis to examine the history of ice sheet decline and expansion in an area of West Antarctica abutting the Amundson Sea, during the present interglacial period (the Holocene).
This research indicates that the present deglaciation is not unique within the Holocene, natural factors have driven deglaciation historically, and such events are not just reversible but have reversed themselves previously, with sea levels falling after the reglaciation commenced. What the evidence indicated, is that glaciation and deglaciation is not uncommon and historically has been driven by natural factors, on net, the Antarctic ice sheet is gaining ice.
Meanwhile, research Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Nexus indicates that a significant factor in “rising sea levels” measured at cities on the U.S. eastern seaboard is land subsidence due to groundwater withdrawals—in other words, they are sinking. Led by Leonard O. Ohenhen at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, with others from Virginia Tech and the U.S. Geological Survey, used: “measurements of vertical land motion rates obtained from analysis of radar datasets to evaluate the subsidence-hazard exposure to population, assets, and infrastructure.” A number of areas along the mid-Atlantic coast are subsiding at annual rates exceeding the calculated rate of actual sea level rise for those areas each year.
The above are the worthless carbon credits that companies got rich selling to companies like GM and Ford so they could pretend to reduce the carbon from their highly profitable gas guzzling trucks and SUVs. In other words, your government, the carmakers and the eco-wackos knew this was a massive fraud but they didn't care. They were greedy and their junk-science addiction needed a fix. People are irrelevant, especially the poor and middle class. And of course, left-wing/democrat campaign workers posing as left-wing journalists, have participated in perpetuating the fraud by just repeating talking points without doing research or asking questions.
left-wing/democrats claim they care about the poor and middle class but the poor have been screwed for years to pay more for their gas-powered vehicles to cover the massive losses from selling inefficient, expensive, impractical vehicles powered by the highly flammable pollutant lithium that environmental extremists are forcing all of us to buy. The fraud(1) in this green agenda dwarfs any other fraud we have ever seen and there is not 1 piece of significant, REAL scientific data that shows the radical green policies will change temperatures or limit storms and maintain sea levels where they are. It is no wonder the left-wing/dems & eco-wackos seek to shut up those of us who have continually told the truth that the climate has always changed cyclically and naturally and pointed out the fraud for what it is, by calling us climate change deniers and anti-science.
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4 years ago, the Canadian province of British Columbia gave addicts legal access to fentanyl and other opioids, hoping to reduce hospitalizations and deaths. Safer Opioid Supply program included lenient rules to encourage users to join. Doctors could write prescriptions even for people at high risk of overdose. Addicts did not have to enter treatment or even agree to counseling to participate. Canada’s national health insurance program even paid for the drugs.
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Democracy is 51% of the people taking away the rights of the other 49%.—Thomas Jefferson
“The American founders saw democracy as part of a republic form of government prone to descend into corrupt and/or mob rule and demagoguery. Which is why they attempted to protect against that with constitutional provisions limiting the power of the government and mandating an electoral college to bring into balance the interests of both small and large members.”—Frank Salter
Plato’s Republic heavily influenced Madison and the other Framers to devise a constitution that protected the minority. Plato held that the ideal (aka just) form of government was one in which power was shared correctly between workers, warriors, and rulers. Madison held that the ideal (aka American) form of government was one in which power was shared correctly between judges, lawmakers, and rulers. Inspired as it is, our Constitution protects the minority while preserving the best of democracy: we the people elect representatives to run the government (republic) and we do so by majority vote (democracy). Ergo, this is a democratic republic. Ergo, the Electoral College.
The purpose of the Electoral College is to balance voting power across states so no one region of the country can gain too much control. If a president is elected by a simple majority of votes, a candidate who is wildly popular in one region (e.g., Ted Cruz in Texas, Ron DeSantis in Florida) can ignore smaller regions and campaign only where large majorities are possible. The founders designed the Electoral College to help ensure that states, with diverse preferences among them, could cohere under a single federal government.
Anyone who thinks this concern is irrelevant today hasn’t been paying attention to the current polarization in American politics. The Electoral College helps check polarization by forcing Presidential candidates to campaign in competitive states across the country, instead of spending all their time trying to motivate turnout in populous partisan strongholds.
Presidential elections often do not produce popular majorities. In 2016 neither mrs.b.j Clinton (nor did her husband in the 1990’s) nor Trump won 50%. “Plurality rules” doesn’t have the same ring to it. In the absence of the Electoral College, the winner’s vote share would likely be significantly smaller than is common today. 3rd, or 4th, or 5th, etc. party candidates who can’t realistically win a majority in any state would have a greater incentive to enter the race. What if a President was elected with 30% of the vote in an election featuring 5 formidable 3rd-party candidates? A free-for-all plebiscite would hurt the system’s legitimacy. The Electoral College helps narrow the field to usually 2, occasionally 3 serious contenders, as voters decide not to waste their vote on candidates who have no chance to win.
The Electoral College also contributes to political stability by delegating vote-counting to the states and thus delivering with rare exceptions a faster result. The uncertainty arising from a nationwide recount for President amid myriad regional irregularities—as happened in North Carolina and Florida in 2018—would make Florida 2000 look tame.
Consider the practical implications of this radical plan to remove an institution that has stabilized our political life for more than 200 years. The urban centers of America, run almost exclusively by left-wing/democrats for decades, which would become dominant under the plan, are also the centers of America’s crime problems, gun homicides, intractable poverty, failed public schools, high taxes, over-burdening regulations and political corruption. Do we really want to replicate for all America the failed welfare & economic policies that have created a permanent underclass in cities like Chicago, Detroit, St. Louis, Cleveland, Milwaukee, Baltimore, San Franciso, Philadelphia, etc, etc.?
The electoral college was an integral part of the federal plan, part of a very successful plan for balancing power and has helped maintain a high level of tranquility and cooperation. It made a place for the states as well as the people in electing presidents. Without the electoral college there be no sense in having states, except as administrative apparatus for a centralized government.
What remains in question is that in a desperately divided society does there still remain the will to not just recognize the important issues but also the impact of their breath and depth, in time? The Founders’ ingenious design to produce compromise between competing factions and to put checks and balances on radical adventures was never more needed than now, when the country is divided in a way that it has not been seen since the Civil War. But apparently this is the perfect time for an out-of-touch and increasingly out-of-control left-wing/democratic Party to undermine the constitutional foundations of the nation, push a divisive agenda, and move the nation towards a one-party state, with all the dangers to our freedom and prosperity that entails.
The national popular vote movement is a left-wing/democrat scheme that proposes an interstate compact in which participating states agree in advance to automatically allocate their electoral votes to the winner of the national popular vote, disregarding the popular vote results in their states or what the relevant legislatures might then desire. It would put the fate of every Presidential election in the hands of the voters in as few as 11 states and thus undermine the protections that the Electoral College affords to smaller states. It is an expedient way to circumvent the Electoral College without formally amending the Constitution.
The left-wing/democrat ruse, to ensure political dominance in order to implement their agenda, is their BIG Lie, which falsely claims that identifying who is voting constitutes "voter suppression." All of which is done in order to nationalize their so-called "voter rights" bulk-ballot fraud strategy. And any opposition to their plan is attacked by them as “jim Crow 2.0.” Of course these are again just more of their lies and distortions to achieve their corrupt ends.
A poll from the Angus Reid Institute found 58% of respondents harbored doubts that the electoral process had necessary safeguards against "widespread fraud and cheating," with 26% saying they were "not confident at all."
Related info:
https://justthenews.com/government/courts-law/centrist-political-party-files-election-interference-complaint-justice
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/bidens-media-guardians-everything-keep-democrat-primaries-darkness
https://www.theblaze.com/news/schwab-elections-wef-predictive-ai
https://thefederalist.com/2024/01/23/california-democrats-work-to-legalize-discrimination-after-voters-rejected-it-twice/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=california-democrats-work-to-legalize-discrimination-after-voters-rejected-it-twice&utm_term=2024-01-23
https://justthenews.com/government/courts-law/centrist-political-party-files-election-interference-complaint-justice
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/bidens-media-guardians-everything-keep-democrat-primaries-darkness
https://www.theblaze.com/news/schwab-elections-wef-predictive-ai
https://thefederalist.com/2024/01/23/california-democrats-work-to-legalize-discrimination-after-voters-rejected-it-twice/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=california-democrats-work-to-legalize-discrimination-after-voters-rejected-it-twice&utm_term=2024-01-23
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“Can borders be controlled? Yes, each country has a right to control its borders, who enters and who leaves, and countries that are in danger — of terrorism or the like — have more right to control them more.” --Pope Francis
The inextricable relationship between borders and national identity, culture, and sovereignty was for so long understood that few popes ever spoke on the relationship between borders and immigration before the World Wars. St. Thomas Aquinas wrote on borders and immigration in his 13th century masterwork the Summa Theologica. Relying on analysis of Sacred Scripture, Aquinas explained that while nations are called to exercise charity to foreigners, each nation’s chief responsibility is to its own people, with the dual aims of preserving national unity and the common good.
A nation’s relations with foreigners, Aquinas explained, may be: “twofold: peaceful, and hostile: and in directing both kinds of relation the Law contained suitable precepts.” That is to say, God’s Law demands nations respond differently to peaceful and hostile foreigners. Aquinas declared that a nation has the right to reject or repel immigrants it deems “hostile.” Furthermore, in order for immigrants to be adopted into a country, they must first adopt that country’s culture and way of life, stating: “The reason for this was that if foreigners were allowed to meddle with the affairs of a nation as soon as they settled down in its midst, many dangers might occur, since the foreigners not yet having the common good firmly at heart might attempt something hurtful to the people.”
Centuries later, especially in the wake of World War II, immigration escalated exponentially, prompting Catholic leaders to speak on the subject in order to inform the consciences of the faithful. Pope Pius XII was one of the 1st pontiffs to directly and clearly address the issue of immigration, laying particular emphasis on not only the common good of a nation but the common good of the whole human race. Witnessing countless masses of refugees displaced by the near-global conflict, Pius XII asked Americans: “Is the policy concerning immigration as liberal as the natural resources of a country so abundantly blessed by the Creator would allow and as the needs of other countries seem to require?” In his 1952 Apostolic Exhortation Exsul Familia Nazarethana, Pius XII wrote: "Since land everywhere offers the possibility of supporting a large number of people, the sovereignty of the State, although it must be respected, cannot be exaggerated to the point that access to this land is, for inadequate or unjustified reasons, denied to needy and decent people from other nations, provided of course, that the public wealth, considered very carefully, does not forbid this.
The pontiff was speaking of immigration of necessity — not of want, not of whim, but of necessity — the sort of immigration Aquinas would classify as “peaceful.” Families displaced by war and violence still seek shelter in nations blessed by God with abundant riches, and while every nation has a duty to its own people, it has also a duty to mankind as a whole.
But today hundreds of thousands of fighting-age males are not necessarily fleeing war — and if they were, they would leaving behind their women and children while they refuse to fight. Asylum claims are a scam, are too readily accepted by the derelict our government. Even fleeing economic impoverishment is not asylum nor always necessary: America’s success is not predicated simply on its geography and topography, but on the will, imagination, and fiery spirit of its people; if America can produce a culture of success and prosperity, so also can other nations, if they are not readily abandoned by their own people.
Pope Benedict XVI spoke of this principle in his 2013 Message for the World Day of Migrants and Refugees, saying: “[E]ven before the right to migrate, there is need to reaffirm the right not to emigrate, that is, to remain in one’s homeland.” That is to say, a right to emigrate, to leave one’s own country and attempt to enter another’s, may be mitigated or nullified if one does not avail oneself of the right to simply remain in one’s own country.
There is the further problem of what Aquinas would classify as “hostile” immigrants. America’s southern border is being flooded with gang members and cartel agents, drug-smugglers carrying inordinately lethal doses of fentanyl, potential and even confirmed terrorists from across the Atlantic. And yet the biden regiem’s obscenely lax policies and practical weaponization of “parole” procedures have admitted millions of illegal immigrants into the nation — nearly three-quarters of a million through “parole” procedures in 2023 alone!
Then there is the very nature of illegal immigration. Aquinas stressed the importance of respect for a nation’s laws and assimilation for its culture. So also did Pope Pius XII when he said that an immigrant: “must be conscious of what he owes the people that welcomes him and tries to facilitate his progressive adaptation to his new way of life.” By the very mode of entry sought by illegal immigrants, they are flouting and violating the very 1st set of American laws they encounter. How can they be expected to respect the remainder of the nation’s laws or assimilate to the American way of life (which is being rapidly eroded by the immigration crisis) if they will not even attempt to enter the nation legally?
In order to prevent the undermining and eventual destruction of a nation’s laws, culture, and way of life, stringent immigration regulation is necessary. Recognizing this as both a reality and a good, the Catechism of the Catholic Church teaches: "Political authorities, for the sake of the common good for which they are responsible, may make the exercise of the right to immigrate subject to various juridical conditions, especially with regard to the immigrants’ duties toward their country of adoption. Immigrants are obliged to respect with gratitude the material and spiritual heritage of the country that receives them, to obey its laws, and to assist in carrying civic burdens."
There are, of course, other factors to consider with immigration, such as the natural resources and economic state of the country receiving immigrants — the Catechism again explains: “The more prosperous nations are obliged, to the extent they are able, to welcome the foreigner in search of the security and the means of livelihood which he cannot find in his country of origin.” This is why Pope St. John Paul II stated, in his 2001 Message for the World Day of Peace" “The challenge is to combine the welcome due to every human being, especially when in need, with a reckoning of what is necessary for both the local inhabitants and the new arrivals to live a dignified and peaceful life.”
The regulation of one’s borders, then, is most certainly a principle not only permitted but advocated by the Catholic Church, going back centuries and centuries. Although the circumstances of the modern world have changed what immigration looks like and even how it’s discussed, Catholic teaching addresses the unchanging moral dimension of the issue.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has released more than 2.3 million migrants into the US the southern border under the biden regime. That’s only the ones they’ve caught! The figures from the Dept of Homeland Security for the 1st time, illustrate the extent of the volume of migrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border.
Perhaps the Chamber of Commerce types who need low- and semi-skilled workers may be thrilled to be awash in prospective cheap, under-the-table labor, but the rest of us paying the huge tab, in money, safety, healthcare, education, housing, veteran services, culture, etc. aren’t sharing in that feeling of happiness. We have borders for a reason, and people are supposed to ask permission before they enter.
biden’s refusal to enforce the border is in clear defiance of federal law, which REQUIRES immigration officials to detain asylum applicants who are not “clearly admissible.” The horde of 3rd-worlders pouring into our country are economic migrants, which is not grounds for asylum at all, much less “clearly admissible.” The law says they must be detained until they are removed. biden is detaining none of them, meaning biden's regime has broken federal law at least 6 million times so far.
Gov. Abbott of Texas has defended his state with Operation Lone Star, installing razor wire along the state’s 1,254-mile border with Mexico, and deploying thousands of Texas state troopers and National Guardsmen there. In response, biden ordered federal officials to cut down the razor wire, so that he may continue hauling millions of illegals into the country — again, breaking written law.
Texas is experiencing an invasion of several million people per year coming from 150 countries. Given the cartels, drugs, violent criminals, and third world masses storming cities like Eagle Pass every day, the magnitude of today’s invasion is greater than any scenario our Founders could have envisioned when they implied that a state can downright employ ships and troops to conduct war. According to our Constitution, the supreme law of the land, Gov. Abbott is completely within his rights to spurn such a manifestly unconstitutional court ruling. This, he did yesterday, issuing a statement explaining that the biden regime’s refusal to detain illegals — as required by federal law — has triggered Article 1, Section 10, clause 3 of the United States Constitution(1), permitting Texas to go to war to stop an invasion. Texas is well within its rights to follow the law, despite orders from the President and Supreme Court that he violate it.
Also note that biden ignores the Supreme Court when it acts Constitutionally, for example, by forgiving student loans after the Supreme Court said he can't! If the law is not what is plainly written but is whatever the President and his agents decide, what's left of the law? What's the point of the whole legislative process? How does this not differ from dictatorial rule? How isn't that a real threat to democracy? And why do left-wing/democrats support, vote for, and want more tyranny?
1. “No State shall …engage in War, unless actually invaded, or in such imminent Danger as will not admit of delay… And, by the way,, Article 4, Section 4 states: “The United States shall…protect each of them against invasion…”
Related info:
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https://www.dailywire.com/news/abbott-texas-has-constitutional-righ...
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bukr2WWrZvk
https://www.dailywire.com/news/border-patrol-union-backs-texas-nati...
https://www.theblaze.com/news/list-of-states-signaling-support-for-...
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https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-promises-shut-down-border-co...
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/beltway-confidential/281...Broken cutters, broken saws,
Broken buckles, broken laws,
Broken bodies, broken bones,
Broken voices on broken phones
Take a deep breath, feel like you're chokin',
Everything is broken
Every time you leave and go off someplace
Things fall to pieces in my face
Broken hands on broken ploughs,
Broken treaties, broken vows,
Broken pipes, broken tools,
People bending broken rules
Hound dog howling, bull frog croaking,
Everything is broken
Bob Dylan
biden's democrat Party is the established order. Trump is the rebel, he embodies rejection, even disdain, for the establishment. As in 2016, he is lapping his challengers with his contempt for the Washington establishment. Americans are angry. For years now, Americans have seen that nothing much works as it should. ny times' bret stephens explains that: “brokenness has become the defining feature of much of American life: broken families, broken public schools, broken small towns and inner cities, broken universities, broken health care, broken media, broken churches, broken borders, broken government.”
Trump’s popularity is a flashing red warning of that system failure. Trump sees what the other candidates do not: Americans hate Big Brother. The brokenness of government is the least of it. The government tells us what to do, and how to do it, without doing its own job very well. Immigration is out of control. The workplace is a thicket of rules. Have you finished your dei and anti-harassment training? Is your paperwork in order? Don’t be yourself: you wouldn’t want someone to feel “unsafe.” Washington is bad theater, like watching phoniness on a continual loop. Did you hear the one about how Ivy League universities are beacons of free speech? woke teachers teach hate and agenda not information, knowledge, wisdom and learning. School have lost authority over the classroom, doctors and nurses spend half the day filling out forms, you risk your job by telling a joke in the workplace. Washington is useless, like a perpetual motion machine. It can't even give a permit for a transmission line everybody agrees is needed.
Oh, and never forget that most Americans are bigots, the beneficiaries of white privilege—even if you’re working yourself to the bone with 2 jobs, and still have trouble making ends meet. Institutions can’t function without trust at the top—trust in consistent standards, values and common purpose. Why would you trust to lead the rebuilding of government for the benefit of everyone by the very same ideologues who broke it?
Suffocation + Sanctimony + ineptitude = Time for a change
America has a vast reservoir of the human spirit. But it's dammed up inside the massive legal concrete-like gate of Washington. Open the gate and release Americans’ energy and ingenuity in all parts of our society. Area by area, we'll replace dense rulebooks with simpler frameworks, like the Constitution, that are activated by human responsibility. Let Americans be Americans. Give Americans the freedom to do what’s right. Give back to our communities the responsibility to do things in our own ways. Judge us by how we do, but don't tell us how to do it. Accountability must work both ways: Give us back the power to hold the people in government accountable. Nothing works unless a person makes it work. Decades of dense red tape must be replaced by simple frameworks that people can understand and be accountable for. No institution works unless the people in charge are trusted to maintain common standards of right and good, on the solid foundation of human responsibility.
Related info:
https://thefederalist.com/2024/01/26/a-crisis-for-every-month-the-w...
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2024/01/24/kjp-gaslighting-...
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/01/19/fani-willis-gave-big-...
https://nypost.com/2024/01/24/opinion/nathan-wade-and-fani-willis-a...
https://freebeacon.com/democrats/amid-allegations-that-she-mismanag...
https://freebeacon.com/democrats/flashback-trump-prosecutor-accused...
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/doj-evidence-jan-6/2024/01/19/id/...
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/house-committee-jan-6-deleted-encr...
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/01/the_final_four_cas...
better treatment than Trump
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkFX8fCVg_8
https://www.dailywire.com/news/investigators-uncover-bowman-decepti...
https://thefederalist.com/2024/01/19/corrupt-media-use-misinformati...
https://thefederalist.com/2024/01/18/like-trump-or-not-republicans-...
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/01/nikki_haley_and_the_ne...
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2024/01/17/jamie-dimon-rema...
https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2024/01/26/inflation-reignites-fe...
https://www.theblaze.com/news/feds-asked-financial-institutions-to-...
https://www.foxnews.com/media/wef-leaders-pressed-trump-proof-econo...
Debate?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WX3_V1Ik_5A
https://freebeacon.com/biden-administration/watch-joe-bidens-senior...
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Terrorists have declared war on Western civilization. And you don’t bring combatants to justice; you rain destruction on them. There is no alternative to confronting, deterring and, if necessary, disarming such states or groups. To dismiss them as a bunch of cowards perpetrating senseless acts of violence is complacent nonsense. They are deadly, vicious warriors, complete with a cult of death and need to be treated as such. They have a very specific game to bring Western Civilization to its knees and to introduce a tyrannical dark age, dedicated to imposing its fanatical enslaving ideology on societies they control and destroying the societies they can’t. others. You can abdicate, but you can't hide.
Soothing words, soothing speeches, soothing policies, mutual respect have yielded nothing. Rogue States or groups are, by definition, impervious to moral suasion. Deterrence does not work against people who ache for rewarded an afterlife. It does not work against undeterrables. And it certainly does not work against undetectables. Their war remains. Until you declare war in return, you will have thousands (and with wmd’s, maybe millions) of more innocent victims.
The lesson of history is that the world does not sort itself out on its own History doesn't act autonomously. It needs agency. If you leave it to the forces of History to repel aggression and redeem injustice, what's the point of politics, of leadership, in the first place? When peace and stability is achieved it is the product of a self-conscious action by a great power. The US is not an imperial power. There is a reason that we became the only nation in modern history to not have immediately catalyzed the creation of a massive counter hegemonic alliance against. Which is why so many in the world welcomed our presence as a balancer of power and a guarantee of their freedom. We are a commercial Republic. We don't take, we trade for, as a commercial, maritime, trading nation that needs an open (free), stable world environment in which to thrive.
Yes, foreign entitlements are indeed a burden. But some are also a necessity. America's high standards of living and its relative ability to keep the peace come with some cost. The rise of hostile powers, building weapons of mass destruction and terrorist organizations, let alone armies, can hardly be a matter of indifference. Missiles shrink distance. Weapons of mass destruction and terrorists multiply deadly power. In a world of terrorists, and weapons of mass destruction, the option of preemption is especially necessary.
Therefore, as Henry Kissinger taught us, with history confirming, the only way to achieve relative peace is through hegemony and the balance of power. But without hegemony, no balance of power among nations will hold. Therefore, we must, as a free society, be a hegemon, a for the same reason, a reluctant one. We will support democracy everywhere, but will commit blood and treasure only in places where there is a strategic necessity - meaning, places central to the larger war against an existential enemy, an enemy that poses a global mortal threat to freedom. It must be targeted, focused and limited. We are friends to all, but we come ashore only where it really counts.
Thus security threats have emerged as a direct result of that ideology combined with biden's profound ineptitude. And that incompetence has significantly eroded our nation's military readiness because biden has denigrated our military men and women to the point that morale is as low as his presidential approval ratings. On top of the explosive foreign threats to our nation, biden's ineptitude has also degraded the recruiting efforts of our military service branches, which are not meeting their minimal recruitment goals. In fact, 2023 was the worst recruitment year on record, with the uniformed services coming up short by more than 40,000 recruits.
With military recruitment and morale at an all-time low, the biden regime has floated lots of reasons to explain away this shortfall crisis. biden's "white supremacy" lie — demeaning our military ranks by claiming they are full of "extremists" — is a factor. But an extensive report concludes that, in fact, our military ranks are not full of "extremists." The real reason for the morale and recruiting bust is that biden et al. have imposed their woke policies on the rank and file, as well as their diversity, equity, and inclusion criteria for both recruitment and promotion. Thus, the most highly qualified military personnel are leaving, and at the same time, the most qualified recruits are not showing
The consequences of that deeply fatal flawed dogma inherent in neo-liberal ideology are not only real, but catastrophic. The notion that this will lead to reciprocal gestures is beyond simply childish. It is a death wish, a product of globalization that believes the illusion that such course of action can change human nature. It does not. It destroys humanity. To voluntary renounce power, others will not follow suit. They will fill the vacuum. And those others are not in any shape or form benevolent, especially to the children of such a radical revolution, upon whose graves the proof is found, the left-wing.
"America's military morale and readiness have declined to some of the lowest levels since World War II. Frankly, this should come as no surprise. ... Our military is in the middle of an undeniable crisis in recruitment, retention, and morale."--Rep Mike Garcia
Our fighting men and women are required to sit through indoctrination programs, often with roots in the Marxist tenets of critical race theory, either by Pentagon diktat or through carelessness by senior leaders who delegate their command responsibilities to private Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion instructors."-- retired Lt. Gen. Thomas Spoehr, former director of the Center for National Defense:
Related info:
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/u-s-navy-yemen-houthi/2024/01/22/id/1150443/
Source; SNGLR
biden’s refusal to enforce the border is in clear defiance of federal law, which REQUIRES immigration officials to detain asylum applicants who are not “clearly admissible.” The horde of 3rd-worlders pouring into our country are economic migrants, which is not grounds for asylum at all, much less “clearly admissible.” The law says they must be detained until they are removed. biden is detaining none of them, meaning biden's regime has broken federal law at least 6 million times so far.
Source; SNGLR
Our border conflict is not an isolated incident. It is part of the world economic forum program of "denationization" of the US.
Edmund Burke described society as “a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.”
Illegal aliens directly threaten the immortality facet of social self-organization because they alter and disturb -- sometimes beyond repair -- the communication mechanism connecting past, present, and future generations, material, measurable, and mortal -- a country, its citizens, and its government, immeasurable, and immortal -- a nation.
The modern leftists are fighting so fiercely for the “rights of immigrants,” not because the fate of illegal aliens worries them in any way. It is because globalists anticipate illegal immigrants as the main “engine of the revolution,” which must bring about socialist transformations and catapult the globalists to power. Consequently, the greater the number of “engines” in a country, the happier the elite of the globalist party will be. So, naturally, they call (irrationally and contrary to common sense) for opening the US borders, dissolving the Border Patrol, and granting the right to vote to non-citizens.
In essence, the left-wing world economic forum runs the program of denationization of the US. The position of globalists on this issue is ultra-uncompromising because, for them, illegal immigration is not a legal issue but a political and close to existential one.
Following globalists, this is not a matter of violating the country’s sovereign rights but a matter of political survival. In the opinion of globalists, illegal immigration encapsulates precisely that army of mere mortals stupefied by the propaganda of the masses. These mere mortals will be required to stand on the barricades to gain political power over every area of the planet.
Basically, the globalists’ idea might be expressed as follows: “If our citizens do not vote for us, we will import hordes that will.” The Texas National Guard on the banks of the Rio Grande protects not only the state and not only the country. They secure the immortality of the American nation.
Related info:
https://www.muckraker.com/articles/federal-child-trafficking-pipeline-exposed/
https://www.muckraker.com/articles/united-states-invasion-route-exposed/
https://www.muckraker.com/articles/illegal-alien-invasion-maps-exposed/
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/01/angry_black_residents_in_chicago_demand_an_end_to_its_sanctuary_city_policy.html
https://patriotpost.us/articles/103929-pacific-sunset-for-the-us-navy-2024-01-29
https://nypost.com/2024/01/28/opinion/joe-biden-now-doing-what-he-does-best-weaseling-out-of-the-blame-for-us-border-crisis/
Source; SNGLR
biden’s refusal to enforce the border is in clear defiance of federal law, which REQUIRES immigration officials to detain asylum applicants who are not “clearly admissible.” The horde of 3rd-worlders pouring into our country are economic migrants, which is not grounds for asylum at all, much less “clearly admissible.” The law says they must be detained until they are removed. biden is detaining none of them, meaning biden's regime has broken federal law at least 6 million times so far.
Source; SNGLR
The Puppet Government.......World Economic Forum is WinningVery disturbing! Especially when it is all laid out!
The Puppet Government
If you really have any question whatsoever that we are witnessing
Obama's third term...Obama: 3.0...take a quick look at this list.
CABINET MEMBERS & KEY ADVISORS
National Security Adviser
Jake Sullivan: Obama’s Deputy Assistant and Director of Policy.
Secretary of State
Antony Blinken: Obama’s Deputy National Security Advisor (2013-2015)
and Deputy Secretary of State (2015-2017).
Secretary of Homeland Security
Alejandro Mayorkas: Obama's Director of US Citizenship and Immigration
Services. He also managed staffing the DoJ Criminal Division
Director of National Intelligence
Avril Haines: Was Obama’s Deputy Director of the CIA then Deputy
National Security Advisor. Biden promoted her to DNI in 2021.
Ambassador to the United Nations
Linda Thomas-Greenfield: Obama’s Director General of the Foreign
Service and Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs.
Administrator, U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)
Samantha Power: Obama’s transition team for the State Department and
his UN Ambassador (2013-2017)
Deputy Secretary of State
Wendy Sherman: Obama’s Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs.
Retired July 2023 and replaced by Victoria Nuland (acting)
ECONOMIC POLICY & FINANCIAL OVERSIGHT
Director, National Economic Council
(replaced in 2023 by the Vice Chair of the Federal Reserve, Lael Brainard.)
Brian Deese: Obama's senior White House advisor, acting Director of
the Office of Management and Budget, and Deputy Director of the
National Economic Council. Subsequently. Deese was Global Head of
Sustainable Investing at BlackRock before joining the Biden
administration.
Secretary of the Treasury
Janet Yellen: Obama’s Chairman of the Federal Reserve and Biden’s
appointment as Secretary of the Treasury.
Chair, Council of Economic Advisers
Cecilia Rouse: Obama member of the Council of Economic Advisors
promoted to the Chair by Biden in 2021. Replaced by Jared Bernstein in
March 2023, she will be President of the Brookings Institute in 2024.
Deputy Secretary of the Treasury
Adewale "Wally" Adeyemo: A Nigerian, Obama’s Deputy National Security
Advisor for International Economics and deputy director of the
National Economic Council, then head of the Obama Foundation.
Member, Council of Economic Advisers
Jared Bernstein: VP Biden economic advisor during Obama years, then
Biden appointed him Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors.
Chair, Securities and Exchange Commission
Gary Gensler: Obama's Chair of the Commodity Futures Trading
Commission then Chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission in
2021
Attorney General
Merrick Garland: Obama nominee for Justice of the Supreme Court after
death of Antonin Scalia. Senate refused to vote on his nomination.
Biden then made Garland U.S. Attorney General in 2021.
Secretary of Agriculture
Tom Vilsack: Obama's Secretary of Agriculture, appointed by Biden in 2021.
Secretary of Veterans Affairs
Denis McDonough: Obama’s Deputy National Security Advisor, then Chief
of Staff. Biden appointed him in 2021.
Director, Office of Science and Technology Policy
Eric Lander: Obama’s advisor on science and tech. Elevated to Cabinet
in 2021. He resigned in 2022 for bullying, replaced by Alondra Nelson.
Deputy Attorney General
Lisa Monaco: Obama's Homeland Security Advisor, appointed by Biden to
Deputy Attorney General in 2021.
Associate Attorney General
Vanita Gupta: Obama's Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights.
promoted by Biden to Associate Attorney General in 2021.
Surgeon General
Dr. Vivek Murthy: Obama’s Surgeon General, reappointed by Biden in 2021.
Chairperson, Council on Environmental Quality
Brenda Mallory: Obama's General Counsel of the EPA, then promoted by
Biden to Chair of Council on Environmental Quality.
WHITE HOUSE AIDES
Chief of Staff
Ron Klain: Obama's Ebola Response Coordinator. Replaced by Jeff
Zients, Obama's Director of OMB and Director of the National Economic
Council.
Director, Domestic Policy Council
Susan Rice: Obama’s National Security Advisor and UN Ambassador
Special Presidential Envoy for Climate
John Kerry: Obama’s Secretary of State.
National Climate Adviser
Gina McCarthy: Obama's Administrator of the EPA.
Director, Office of Legislative Affairs
Louisa Terrell: Was Obama’s Legislative Aide
Counsel to the President
Dana Remus: Obama's Deputy Assistant and Deputy Counsel for Ethics,
then general counsel for the Obama Foundation and Michelle Obama.
Comptroller General of the US
Gene Dodero: appointed by Obama and still in office
If you do not take an interest in the affairs of your government, then
you are doomed to live under the rule of fools. Plato
Source; Anonymous
Washington is the primary insurer of Americans — 194 million — through Medicare, Medicaid, and Tricare.
One of the triumphs attributed to BObamaCare was job growth. According to Goldman Sachs: “500,000 jobs were added to health-care sector under BObamaCare.” When the data are studied in detail, 47,000 were care providers, meaning that 453,000 (91%) were non-clinical jobs, people who did not provide patient care.
Mentally calculate the salaries for millions of bureaucrats, administrators, rule-writers, regulation compliers, compliance officers, overseers, mandate-enforcers (BARRCOME). This is the cost of healthcare associated with regulations such as BObamaCare, which cost $1.76 trillion. In fact, to cover part of this cost, $716 billion was taken from the Medicare Trust, money intended to pay for hospital care for seniors. According to the Trustees, Medicare will be insolvent by 2028 and thus unable to provide this care.
BObamaCare was merely one more money sump that diverts healthcare spending away from paying for care. In 2023, the U.S. expended $4.5 trillion on its healthcare system. It is estimated that 31% to more than 50% of U.S. healthcare spending goes to BARRCOME. That translates to $2 trillion’s worth of patient care Washington denies its citizens while paying itself.
Job growth in healthcare demonstrates a variation of the seesaw effect: as government takes over healthcare, BARRCOME goes up, patient care goes down, and Americans die. Washington’s takeover (by regulation) of healthcare has produced a Potemkin village. Grigori Potemkin, an 18th-century Russian statesman, built a façade of a prosperous village and hired actors so one thought the change had been a great success. In fact, it was a failure — and Russians continued to starve.
Washington has produced a Potemkin village called Federal Healthcare. The uninsured rate is the façade of success. Each reduction of this number is heralded as a new triumph. Another false building front is added and propped up for viewing pleasure. Behind the façade, there is reality: Washington paying itself with “healthcare” dollars, and Americans with BObamaCare waiting in line for rationed care.
The “net tax rate” is the statutory Social Security tax paid by workers (and what their employer pays to the government instead of to them) minus the benefits they receive from the program.
If you pay more in taxes than you receive in benefits, your net tax rate is positive
If you receive more benefits than taxes your net tax rate is negative.
The highest-earning top 20% of individuals—the fifth quintile—pay a positive net tax rate of 3% of lifetime earnings. They pay 3% more than they receive
The other 80% pay negative net tax rates, meaning that they tend to receive more in benefits than they pay in taxes. (bear in mind that the program is insolvent.) The lowest-earning 20% of the population has a negative net tax rate of almost 27%, which means they receive far, far more from Social Security than they pay into the program.
Many Americans, mislead by a disingenuous liberal-biased media, think the Social Security taxes they’ve paid all their working lives are in a trust fund waiting for their retirement. Wrong! Wrong! Wrong! Since lbj that money has been spent by our government, for example by helping to pay for such things as funding for artists who place crucifixes in urine; or housing, educating, feeding, clothing, and for medical services for illegal aliens; or protecting the border of Ukraine; or funding failed windmill projects; or subsidizing rich people to buy expense electric cars. The result is that the trust fund is nothing more than a mountain of IOUs. IOU’s that will have to be repaid from higher taxes. Despite all the denials, our Social Security system will begin paying out more than it takes in. That deficit is accumulating to trillion$. The only way to avoid that crisis would require either a 25% reduction in benefits or an increase in Social Security taxes by 37%.
If businesses ran their pension funds that way it would be called deception and fraud. And those in charge, similar to the government bureaucrats controlling and operating Social Security, would face prison. The real scam, and it’s a huge one, is that there are no penalties for government officials who violate the same laws we private citizens are held accountable to. Any wonder why government officials do as they please?
The arithmetic link between economic growth, wages, and benefits is so strong that there is virtually no possibility of economic growth that can return the Social Security system to solvency. Jagadeesh Gokhale estimates that only long-term growth in excess of 8% per year would bring the system into balance — a virtual impossibility for a mature economy such as our own.
Growth is indeed a necessary ingredient for fixing our long-term budget problem, but it’s not enough. What’s more, the policies that left-wing/democrats have been touting as pro-growth — such as the boost in infrastructure spending— tend to conflate short-term stimulus and long-term economic growth. We need not just more people working, but also increasing the productive capacity of the U.S. growth is necessary too but, it’s not sufficient. The absolute necessity of reforming entitlements has no easy out.
Next time you review your expenses and find that you give government, at all levels, nearly half of everything you earn in taxes, fees, licenses, etc., consider the alternative to politicians who insist on taxing, spending, and borrowing us to death. As law and regulation become more centralized, they are more likely to have unexpected consequences.
Decisions on laws and regulations should be based on clear understandings of the costs and harms of them, not simply by the heady feeling of exhalation produced by particular agendas or desires. With exercised rights or entitlements, there is often a 2-way flow among those effected. And that means that those wishing to express them are not absolved from absorbing the impact of them on others, regardless of their desire for such. neo-liberalism denies that, advocating instead to social-engineer categories of people entitled to outcomes regardless of their inputs. And it often does this sub-rosa, by creating huge burdens of proof for any criteria that reveal the inequalities of capabilities and circumstances, while assuming with little or no evidence that only maligned intentions or systemic bias could explain unequal results.
Social Security is a pay-as-you-go program. It wasn't designed to provide over 2 decades of income. The current beneficiary isn't receiving their money paid in years ago. That went to the previous recipient. The money for today’s recipient is coming from tomorrow's recipient's paycheck. Pay-as-you-go is the definition of a Ponzi scheme. The crucial distinction between a Ponzi scheme and social security is that social security is mandatory. And though compulsion allows sustainability it does not guarantee it. Even a mandatory Ponzi scheme can fail if it cannot find enough new entrants.
Clinging zealously to the current design and increasingly obsolete structures of Social Security, (Medicare, and Medicaid too) is the very definition of a reactionary neo-liberalism. Today's radically different demographics and technology have rendered these programs, as structured, unsustainable. Everyone knows that unless reformed, they will swallow up the rest of the budget.
Consider minimizing the problem, which is government, for the solution—Privatize Social Security.
“I believe public approval ratings for Congress have fallen to single digit levels not because of the heightened partisanship, but because of blatant cowardice and dishonesty. Their dereliction of responsibility will not translate to respect or popularity. Real fiscal conservatives should continue to focus on the dangers that we continue to face and look to constructive solutions. Honesty, consistency and courage are the only real options. “—Peter Schiff
"Don't let anybody tell you that, ah, you know, it's corporations and businesses that create jobs. You know that old theory, trickle-down economics. That has been tried, that has failed. It has failed rather spectacularly."---Mrs. b.j. clinton
Interesting that one proclaimed to be so smart can't do something so simple as connect the dots that it takes an employer and their profit to create an employee to create wages and salaries(1).
That's how some 150 million Americans get paid every week. Mrs. b.j. clinton made her millions in the cattle futures market, probably on insider information, as a government employee & by giving speeches for fees of $250,000 a pop. The rest of us mere mortals actual have to work for a paycheck.
The scary thing is left-wing/democrats believe her ideology. Her sophomoric comment reflects a long-simmering ideologically driven war against business that has become a central platform of the left-wing/democratic party.
Her remarks were simply an extension of BObama's insane "you didn't build that" statement denigrating businessmen and women who have created companies — large and small.
In the neo-liberal mindset, economic output and jobs are achieved collectively and thanks to the beneficence of government (which can’t function and prosper, certainly not with freedom, without the efforts of private citizen), not because of the ambition, drive, vision, risk-taking and guts that it takes to start a new enterprise out of nothing.
It says a lot about the state of the left-wing/democratic Party that Mrs. b.j. clinton was viewed by many as "too moderate." Many of the euphemistically called "progressives" lean toward marx's more radical ideas — more redistribution from the earners to the non-earners by ever more government with stifling regulations, less and less freedom and more and more coercion and punishment.
“To say that all individuals are embedded in the product of society is banal... Of course we are shaped by our milieu. But the most formative, most important feature of the individual is not government. It is civil society, those elements of the collectivity that lie outside government; the voluntary associations that Tocqueville understood to be the genius of America and the source of its energy and freedom. Moreover, the greatest threat to a robust, autonomous civil society is the ever-growing Leviathan state and those left-wing/democrats who see it as the ultimate expression of the collective...What's variable is the energy, enterprise, risk-taking, hard work and genius of the individual. It is therefore precisely those individual characteristics, not the communal utilities, that account for the different outcomes."--Charles Krauthammer
Related info:
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/01/agenda_2030_communicates_an_evil_agenda.html
Source; https://www.yahoo.com/news/students-reading-math-scores-abysmal-110000462.html
"So much of the mathematics that we teach and learn depends on so many factors, and it would be a frightening thing if somebody tried to legislate how to teach mathematics,”. But that is exactly what Jimmy Carter did when he initiated the Department of Education. We had no trouble with scholastics and the grades, were at the top of the heap. If we want to get back to being the best, we need to deconstruct every idiocy the Liberal Left has pushed on us in their attempt to destroy us. We must end the destructive Woke Agendas, and we must do it soon, or we will lose America to the Traitorous Anti-American Left. IMHO!
Source; Sent from a friend....... These treasonous need to be prosecuted!!!!
Democrat fauci, retired from his nearly-half-a-million dollar government position as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, appeared before the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, and his statements confirmed many of the worst fears of those in the medical community who spoke out during his reign of terror.
1. They Were Not Following “The Science”
fauci admitted that Covid-19 policies were not grounded in science, confessing that the six feet of social distancing. It was also reminiscent of fauci’s last spring’s walk back on the lie about the efficacy of masks, years after denouncing those who opted not to wear masks of, “actually propagate the further spread of infection.” Fauci also ignored data about the role re-purposed generic drugs like ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine could play treating Covid, while pushing expensive new treatments like Remdesivir, which the World Health Organization just concluded did little to help people hospitalized with Covid and could even do harm. Ditto the significant positive role of natural immunity or herd immunity.
2. Vaccine Mandates Backfired
Fauci finally conceded that Covid vaccine mandates could make people more broadly vaccine-hesitant to take an untested vaccine rushed to market, maliciously and falsely accusing dissenters of “spreading misinformation” and subjecting them to loss of livelihood and mass ridicule compounded the error.
3. Denying Obvious Learning Loss in Children
fauci said he’s still “not convinced” lockdowns hurt kids, despite the Covid danger to children being extremely low but suffering an “unprecedented drop in performance” in math and reading scores. According to the federal government, reading test scores fell to their lowest point in 30 years, while math scores fell for the first time ever.
4. Moreover
fauci said nothing about numerous China-virus vaccine injuries, or the fact that the government’s compensation program has been a debacle.
At the end of his 40-year reign atop the bio-medical industrial complex, health care spending in the US is far higher than other high-income countries, yet our health status as a nation is 1 of the worst among advanced health economies. Our life expectancy has plummeted to 76.4 years, a 20yr low. We have the highest death rates for avoidable or treatable conditions. Since 2021, excess mortality amongst U.S. citizens, especially amongst the youngest and healthiest sectors, suddenly rose to unprecedented levels not seen outside of wartime. Nowhere do we see evidence of our public health agencies investigating which of the ill-conceived China virus policies is driving this catastrophe.
If there is a silver lining, Covid thrust many intrusive and illogical policies to the forefront. Almost everyone remembers sitting in their homes watching faceless government officials – many who had never been elected or appeared on a ballot – issue sweeping useless, and they knew it, mandates with the full force of government. Doctors who knew better and who dared dissent faced numerous threatening and delicensing actions by medical boards who exercised their autonomy and freedom in treatment decisions. These actions have left physicians adhering to dictated treatment protocols out of fear rather than using time-honored, individualized approaches that would produce the best outcome for their patients.
fauci was right: public health should be guided by science, and not the interests of the left-wing/democrat Party or the pharmaceutical industry. With time, we are learning that he was the one most guilty of adhering to the latter while ignoring the former, and this cannot happen again without more severe consequences.
Meanwhile, former head of the National Institutes of Health, democrat Dr. francis collins, tacitly admitted that the federal government got its approach to the COVID pandemic wrong. Early on in the government’s response to the pandemic, it became clear that decision-makers were concerned more about political calculations than sound scientific data or practice. And this is the real value of collins’s confession: his admission that he and fauci were following the politics, not the science.
collins makes some rather stunning admissions. For example, he says government health officials were “narrow-minded.” He goes on to admit that this narrow-mindedness led to myopic hubris. “You attach zero value to whether this actually totally disrupts people’s lives, ruins the economy, and has many kids kept out of school in a way that they never quite recover from.” collins even acknowledged the Great Barrington Declaration, by distinguished epidemiologists released in October 2020 that called for a more targeted “Focused Protection” approach to the pandemic rather than the government policy of mass lockdowns and social distancing.
But collins failed to acknowledge his role in smearing these respected scientists as little more than crackpots. Indeed, he even appeared to envy China’s communist government, where dissent is not tolerated.
Protecting and promoting left-wing/democrat Party political concerns rather than holding to sound scientific inquiry is the primary legacy of the deep state's failed response to a once-in-a-century global pandemic. And now Americans are suffering economically, psychologically, and socially from this failed ideology.
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source; Anonymous
Much of the objectionable anti-racist curricula we see today in public schools has trickled down from schools of education, which have become centers for leftist indoctrination. Until 2020 or so, teachers who subscribed to this view of education might have been reluctant to implement its core principles in ways that would draw criticism from parents, school boards, and risk-averse administrators. Then The Year of Our Floyd happened, and the critical pedagogy movement went into overdrive. The political environment made it dangerous for school administrators to seem neutral even toward radical forms of anti-racist curricula. The institutionalization(1) of critical pedagogy became a non-negotiable imperative, sanctified by the bogus martyr of Minneapolis campaign including post-truths, half-truths, no-truths and left-wing value judgments—to develop, exploit and amplify.
Academic racism is an intellectualized and raced based ideology of hatred fostered and propagated in classrooms and newsrooms. It consists of a fuzzy, maze of pseudo-theory that conceals visceral hatred under a veneer of intellectualism and enlightenment. It is an ad-hoc mixture of cultural marxism and racial mythologies that have arisen from a desire to discredit Western culture. It promotes a myth that the achievements of Americans could only be the products of privilege and oppression of minorities. This nefariously developed ideology suppresses reality, history, cause and effect, freedom of thought and justifies racially motivated malice. Since students are easily duped, mallable and willingly surrender, full of ego-gratifying idealism, they are easily persuaded to become exactly what claim to be opposed to, prejudiced in their observations, racist in their conclusions and bigoted in their defense and blind to that, believing ignorantly in their own self-righteousness.
It appears that learning to hate someone you don’t know, who hasn’t done anything to you, and who is outrageous enough not to believe (far often for valid reasons you barely recognize let alone comprehend) what you believe, is part of a 21st-century student’s training.
Many schools which once were committed to academic freedom now require indoctrination sessions; that once believed in integration as a student life goal, now vigorously encourage students to see themselves as members of racial, ethnic, sexual, or gender identity groups; teach the false, poorly researched lies of the 1619 project and junk of howard zinn; and throw big money at resources, separate spaces, graduation events and more for these groups. As it currently stands there is little to no oversight or even public awareness of these activities.
Today’s woke mob think this is all enlightened recent discovery. But its start dates back decades to when antonio gramsci reformulated marxism into what’s known as cultural hegemony. This maintains that a ruling class manipulates culture and society through its control of influential institutions, thus establishing and maintaining its own class based perceptions, beliefs, values, and mores which they impose on the rest of the society. gramsci believed marxist elites in his formula would rule benevolently. And that there is such a thing as a free-lunch, Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy are real. In other words, meet the new boss, much, much, much, much worse than the old boss!
Obviously, the educational system is important in this process since it is central in transmitting and preserving the ideology of whatever class dominates society. The woke elites use our educational system not so much for teaching knowledge and skills but, instead, for planning ideas in young, easily manipulated minds that will incline them to question freedom and accept that the government has the solution to every problem. It is designed to create obedience citizens, not productive, not independent ones.
Hence, today, under the woke intoxication, school children of all ages are being taught to hate their country, and, depending on their race, to hate themselves.(2). They are taught to reject whatever their parents and their faith have taught them, if it conflicts with the left-wing’s marxist based woke brainwashing, which according to Dr. Melissa Moschella, is incorporated into multiple subject areas, including English, Social Studies, Science, and even Math, presented as uncontested truth to which students must consent and conform, or be punished. Notably, teachers are also forced to teach these ideas regardless of objectives and can also be punished for expressing dissenting views.
College departments of education, 1 of the least academically rigorous units on a campus, often containing the bottom 25% of their class rankings, have become one of the most ardent proponents of antiracist pedagogy, long-ago colonized by neo-marxist and maoists and enraptured by the work of kurt lewis and also paulo freire, a Brazilian maoist and an education school patron saint. As a result anti-racist pedagogy mimics the thought reform program developed by the Chinese during the butcher mao, which murdered millions and made the country a repressive, dumbed-down gulag during mao’s cultural revolution.
1. The left is perfectly content using the liberal arts as a cover for its own brand of morality and ideology, one reason the liberal arts are dying and why students interested in serious learning will seek education in other areas. Do not conflate liberal learning with the liberal left-wing agenda.
2. CRT has even led to the resegregation of our schools under the false guise of promoting equity.
Further reading:
https://spectator.org/the-martin-luther-king-jr-that-liberals-hate/
Radical gender theory has now made its way into more than 4,000 US schools
https://apple.news/As4Fe3KylRx-PyEuaavOilg
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"A small nation can disappear, and it knows it."-- Milan Kundera
Israel is not just a small country, it is the only country whose neighbors publicly declare its very existence an afront to law, morality, and religion and make its extinction an explicit, paramount national goal.
Israel is the embodiment of Jewish continuity. It is the only nation on Earth that inhabits the same land, bears the same name, speaks the same language and worships the same God that it did 3,000 years ago. As a result, Israel is not just the cultural center of the Jewish world, it is the demographic center as well. The end of Israel means the end of the Jewish people. They cannot survive another Holocaust and exile. The demographic trends of the diaspora point to that fact. Combining the effects of fertility(1) and intermarriage and even making an overly optimistic assumption that every child raised Jewish will grow up to retain his Jewish identity means that, in 2 generations, the number of real Jews will decrease by 66%.
The Holocaust demonstrated the catastrophic danger of powerlessness. The solution was self-defense, and that meant a demographic reconcentration in a place endowed with sovereignty, statehood and arms. All the eggs in one basket so to speak.
Israel, as a small, densely populated country surrounded by hostile states, had for its 1st 50yrs, adopted forward defense - fighting wars on enemy territory rather than its own. Where possible, Israel traded territory for peace(1). Remember "land for peace”? Well, Israel gave the land, and what did it get? Answer: intensification of belligerency, heavy militarization on the enemy side, cross-border attacks, etc etc. Where peace offers were refused, Israel retained the territory as a protective buffer.
Israel has also used military action to disrupt, dismantle and defeat, BObama's methodology against the taliban, and newly armed terrorist mini- states. Of course the UN's goldstone report, whitewashing anti-Israel belligerency, made Israel out to be the bad guys. Compared with the way its neighbors treat protesters, prisoners and opposition in general, Israel is a beacon of human rights. Any moral judgment must take into account the alternative. The standard of behavior demanded of Israel is not just higher than its neighbors, not just equal to that of the West, but in fact far higher than any Western country in similar circumstances. And certainly it would be a joke to even suggest comparing Israel to the standards of the left-wings' beloved marxist countries, let alone how islamists are treated by islamists.
Israel's enemies have insisted on the so-called right to return, stated with many different and deceptive slogans, which would effectively only turn the world's only Jewish State into the world's 23rd Arab state. Israel's enemies explicitly declare its mission to be the abolition of the state of Israel. And to Jews in general. Just look at the islamic world, home to 33% of all the Jews in the world 300 years ago, now practically Judenrein, from islamic treatment of them, much worse than what they complain about from the Jews. Gaza, that Israel captured during a war the arabs started, was then returned only to have its occupants overwhelming vote in hamas, which is a self-declared enemy of Israel - a declaration backed up by events like October 7th. Yet, having pledged itself to unceasing belligerency against Israel, hamas claims victimhood.
Yes, left-wing anti-semites are out to deprive Israel of any effective, legitimate form of self-defense. Throughout the islamic world, newspapers, television, school books and sermons are filled with the most violent antisemitism influencing and stirring anti-semitism in their masses. They chant in our streets too, not just across the world, for a "final solution." Territorial disputes are solvable; existential conflicts are not.
1. From Asia to Europe to the Americas, across nations and races and religions, birth rates plunged again in 2023. Countries across the developed world are having kids at levels far too low to keep their populations steady. Women must have about 2.1 children on average to maintain a stable population. But many wealthy and even middle-income countries are now below 1.5 kids per woman. Some are under 1, heralding demographic collapse. Birth rates have been slowly falling for a while. But last year’s drops were notable both for their severity and because they’re now happening sharply in countries that had largely avoided them, such as France. The US is a striking exception, births fell only 2% in 2023, to roughly 3.6 million.
Related info:
https://spectator.org/senile-joe-biden-makes-his-return/
PART 2;
"A small nation can disappear, and it knows it."-- Milan Kundera
Israel is not just a small country, it is the only country whose neighbors publicly declare its very existence an afront to law, morality, and religion and make its extinction an explicit, paramount national goal.
Israel is the embodiment of Jewish continuity. It is the only nation on Earth that inhabits the same land, bears the same name, speaks the same language and worships the same God that it did 3,000 years ago. As a result, Israel is not just the cultural center of the Jewish world, it is the demographic center as well. The end of Israel means the end of the Jewish people. They cannot survive another Holocaust and exile. The demographic trends of the diaspora point to that fact. Combining the effects of fertility(1) and intermarriage and even making an overly optimistic assumption that every child raised Jewish will grow up to retain his Jewish identity means that, in 2 generations, the number of real Jews will decrease by 66%.
The Holocaust demonstrated the catastrophic danger of powerlessness. The solution was self-defense, and that meant a demographic reconcentration in a place endowed with sovereignty, statehood and arms. All the eggs in one basket so to speak.
Israel, as a small, densely populated country surrounded by hostile states, had for its 1st 50yrs, adopted forward defense - fighting wars on enemy territory rather than its own. Where possible, Israel traded territory for peace(1). Remember "land for peace”? Well, Israel gave the land, and what did it get? Answer: intensification of belligerency, heavy militarization on the enemy side, cross-border attacks, etc etc. Where peace offers were refused, Israel retained the territory as a protective buffer.
Israel has also used military action to disrupt, dismantle and defeat, BObama's methodology against the taliban, and newly armed terrorist mini- states. Of course the UN's goldstone report, whitewashing anti-Israel belligerency, made Israel out to be the bad guys. Compared with the way its neighbors treat protesters, prisoners and opposition in general, Israel is a beacon of human rights. Any moral judgment must take into account the alternative. The standard of behavior demanded of Israel is not just higher than its neighbors, not just equal to that of the West, but in fact far higher than any Western country in similar circumstances. And certainly it would be a joke to even suggest comparing Israel to the standards of the left-wings' beloved marxist countries, let alone how islamists are treated by islamists.
Israel's enemies have insisted on the so-called right to return, stated with many different and deceptive slogans, which would effectively only turn the world's only Jewish State into the world's 23rd Arab state. Israel's enemies explicitly declare its mission to be the abolition of the state of Israel. And to Jews in general. Just look at the islamic world, home to 33% of all the Jews in the world 300 years ago, now practically Judenrein, from islamic treatment of them, much worse than what they complain about from the Jews. Gaza, that Israel captured during a war the arabs started, was then returned only to have its occupants overwhelming vote in hamas, which is a self-declared enemy of Israel - a declaration backed up by events like October 7th. Yet, having pledged itself to unceasing belligerency against Israel, hamas claims victimhood.
Yes, left-wing anti-semites are out to deprive Israel of any effective, legitimate form of self-defense. Throughout the islamic world, newspapers, television, school books and sermons are filled with the most violent antisemitism influencing and stirring anti-semitism in their masses. They chant in our streets too, not just across the world, for a "final solution." Territorial disputes are solvable; existential conflicts are not.
1. From Asia to Europe to the Americas, across nations and races and religions, birth rates plunged again in 2023. Countries across the developed world are having kids at levels far too low to keep their populations steady. Women must have about 2.1 children on average to maintain a stable population. But many wealthy and even middle-income countries are now below 1.5 kids per woman. Some are under 1, heralding demographic collapse. Birth rates have been slowly falling for a while. But last year’s drops were notable both for their severity and because they’re now happening sharply in countries that had largely avoided them, such as France. The US is a striking exception, births fell only 2% in 2023, to roughly 3.6 million.
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Lawfare: "the strategic use of legal proceedings to intimidate or hinder an opponent." It actually proves Trump's point. It proves that the people in charge, the people in power, are trying to take him down. Driven mad by hate, liberals kept imagining monstrous intrigues and plots being hatched by Trump. The angrier they get, the nuttier their attacks on him became, and therefore are consistently ineffective.
One recent example is the Colorado Supreme Court ruling disqualifying Trump from being on the state ballot—for a crime he has NOT be charged with and he did NOT do! Talk about a threat to democracy and the rule-of-law! All 7 members of Colorado's highest court were appointed by left-wing/democrats. The case was started by a Washington-based, aggressively anti-Trump activist group misnamed citizens for responsibility and ethics in Washington, which recruited local Coloradans to file suit against Trump. The 5 others, all brought by left-wing/democratic or democratic-appointed prosecutors, and 3 are being tried before left-wing/dem-appointed judges. The ruling is particularly important because it applies to everyone. It doesn’t just affect presidential frontrunners and candidates for office. It has the potential to affect every American who engages in political speech of any kind, long after Trump is gone.
1) New York Attorney General letitia james, a left-wing/democrat, ran on a platform of going after Trump. She filed a lawsuit intended to destroy Trump's business empire in New York. Judge engoron, a left-wing/dem, ruled Trump guilty before the trial began. Trump is now awaiting engoron's decision on damages. What rule-of-law left-winger?
2) Manhattan District Attorney alvin bragg, left-wing/dem, also ran on a platform of going after Trump, charging him with 34 felonies related to stormy daniels in the 2016 presidential campaign, widely regarded as the weakest of the criminal cases against Trump. It was assigned to Judge merchan, who made political contributions in 2020: biden, the progressive turnout project, and a group called stop republicans.
3) Special counsel jack smith, appointed by the biden Justice Dept, began his investigation of Trump a few months after the ny times said biden confided to his inner circle that he believed Trump was a threat to democracy and should be prosecuted and said privately that he wanted garland to act less like a ponderous judge and more like a prosecutor who is willing to take decisive action over Jan 6. The case is under Judge chutkan, who was nominated to the federal bench by BObama and also contributed to BObama's 2008 campaign.
4) smith indicted Trump on 40 felony counts in the classified documents case. In contrast to the other cases, this one is being presided over by Judge cannon, appointed to the bench by Trump.
5) Fulton County District Attorney fani willis, left-wing/democrat, indicted Trump on 13 felony counts relating to the 2020 election. willis alleged a RICO conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election that included 19 defendants.
6 cases driven by left-wing/democrats and their appointees and activists, all Trump's political opponents. It is as if anti-Trump leaders concluded that elections did not succeed in getting rid of him and left-wing media attacks did not succeed in getting rid of him and investigations did not succeed in getting rid of him and now the next step, lawfare. It is hard to overstate how dangerously crazy this situation is.
Immediately after the 1st indictment, support for Trump in the Republican primary race shot upward. It rose further amid later indictments and lawsuits, going from 44% support before the indictment to 63% support today in the RealClearPolitics average of polls. Some Republicans are clearly using support of Trump as a way to express their disapproval of the wave of prosecutions and lawsuits. Whether that will last is unclear.
What’s really driving jack smith's persecution of Trump is the despicable left-wing/democrat desire to convict the former president of the alleged insurrection charge: the lie created by left-wing/democrats and their media allies that what happened on Jan. 6, 2021, was an “insurrection.”
When Trump called on the public, with a 1st Amendment right, to march “over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard,” the idea was to embolden lawmakers to investigate election shenanigans created by novel — and in some cases, illegal — mail-in balloting rules. It is preposterous to think, then, that Trump would enlist a disorganized crowd of people wearing “Make America Great Again” hats led by a guy dressed up like a shaman — and not the actual Army under his command — to prevent the peaceful transfer of power. In contrast, a real insurrection was in the works in 1806. Former VP Aaron Burr conspired with a foreign power to raise an actual army to capture New Orleans and seize Western territories 2 years after he had shot and killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel.
While the trespass and vandalism that happened by a bunch of criminal kooks at the Capitol on Jan. 6 deserves condemnation, leftist attacks over the past several decades demonstrate what real violence looks like. In 1954, pistol-wielding activists opened fire from the visitors gallery in the House chamber, injuring 5 members. Then-Rep. Alvin Bentley, a Michigan Republican, was struck in the chest and given 50-50 odds of survival when he arrived at the hospital. In 1971 and 1983, left-wing weather underground activists set off bombs on the Senate side that each caused damage to the building far beyond a few broken windows. In 2017, a crazed BSanders supporter shot 6 Republicans while they practiced for the Congressional Baseball Game at a field in Alexandria, Virginia. Then-Majority Whip Steve Scalise was hospitalized in critical condition but recovered after undergoing several surgeries.
That’s more akin to insurrection than anything that happened 2 years ago. Today, left-wing/democrat jack smith, whom the Supreme Court unanimously overturned and reprimanded for a similar case, is one of the left-wing/democrats attempt to interfere with the peaceful transfer of power. Recall that The left wing/democratic Party also used Congressional committees, staff and untold millions of tax dollars to harass, obstruct, humiliate, and denigrade Trump’s administration, and undermine the executive branch at every, ginned up by unethical and even illegal activity by senior fbi, doj, and intelligence officials. For example, Special Counsel muelle,r in investigating the Trump russian collusion lie, used 19 lawyers, 40 FBI agents, issued more than 2,800 subpoenas, 500 search warrants, 230 orders for communication records, 50 orders authorizing use of pen registrars, 13 requests to foreign governments for evidence and interviewed 500 witnesses. mueller concluded there was no collusion between Russia and Trump. Special Counsel John Durham’s investigation also concluded that there were myriad acts of misconduct by senior government officials who were plotting and scheming against Trump, and a notable departure from the way it resisted efforts to investigate mrs b.j. Clinton. That BObama and biden were personally briefed by CIA director brennan--they had evidence of hillary’s plan of a false russian collusion story.
Nevertheless, The left-wing/democrat media partners ny times and washington post, with extensive relations with those government officials, received pulitzer prizes for perpetuating the fraud.
On 1-11-21 the left-wing/democrats accused Trump of inciting a riot on 1-6-21. 2 days later, without hearings or investigation, without Trump being able to provide a defensive any kind, pelosi and Congressional left-wing/democrats ran through the 2nd bogus Trump impeachment. While high crimes needed to impeach a president we're actually being committed by left-wing/democrat Party members.
As to the “secret documents case”, biden, who himself had unauthorized secret documents and was never-th- less given a pass (as was clinton & BObama), has weaponized the federal government against Trump, including circumventing attorney client privilege, using an unconventional general warrant to search Trump's home, sending an armed SWAT team to seize documents, pressuring witnesses with threats of prosecution, unleashing dozens of illegal grand jury and investigation related unlawful leaks to the left-wing media, violating Trump's 5th and 6th Amendment due process rights, piling on multiple charges against the defendant.
And all for what? Administrative, or at worst, a civil matter. Even the Presidential Records Act purposely has no criminal penalties for claimed violations and leaves the matter to be negotiated between the archivist and the former President. Nothing in the PRA suggests that a former President's physical custody of his records can be considered unlawful under the statues by which Trump's warrant is based. The PRA doesn't distinguish between materials that are and aren't classified. This was deliberately by Congress.
Nevertheless, left-wing/democrat Rep. jamie raskin, who himself sought to stop the electoral vote count for Trump in 2016, served on both impeachment panels and on the significantly phony 1-6-21 committee prosecuting Trump, has the typical neo-liberal gall to tell the lie that the GOP isn't respecting the rule-of- law(1) and a threat to democracy.
The left-wing/democratic Party has single-handedly built permanent centers of power, including the vast federal bureaucracy, subsidized non-governmental organizations, lifetime activist judges who make their own law, tenured professors and teachers, party members in the media, etc. to empower itself and its agenda. When it wins elections, it claims broad mandates; when it loses elections, it ignores the popular will of the people and turns to permanent government and its cultural surrogates to sabotage the opposition and push forward their marxist like agenda.
What’s already happened has put the country in an unprecedented place. It’s hard to imagine what’s more extreme than 1-side in our politics indicting its leading opponent, creating the real prospect of jailing him in the months before an election and excluding him from the ballot in select states. It’s not as though his enemies are going to conclude that Trump was an intolerable threat as a candidate, but once he’s been elected president again, the voters have spoken and everyone should revert to politics as usual.
The left-wing washington post essay arguing that Trump has brought the United States to the brink of dictatorship, saying: “the price of opposing him becomes persecution, the loss of property and possibly the loss of freedom.” This idiotic view includes every institutional bulwark of America’s system — from the courts to the military to public opinion — surrendering to a president who, if history is any guide, will get rebuked in the midterms and become a lame duck by his 3rd year in office.
And if Trump emerges victorious, the reaction by left-wing/democrats may make the pro-hamas protests and the riots of 2020 around the country look small-scale by comparison. It means blocking Trump by any means necessary, regardless of the consequences for the rule of law, democratic politics, or faith in our system of government. The left will convince itself that only a revolution can save the country. There will be much to fear from the left-wing (democracy’s self-styled defenders), but much, much more if they win.
It's going to be difficult to undo the damage the left-wing/democrat Party is unleashing at a rapid pace. But if the left-wing/democratic Party succeeds, America will have failed.
1. According to Influence Watch, there are dark money groups, such as the one founded by former clinton official melissa moss in clinton's former attorney michael tedder, or the 65 project with david brock the founder of media matters, going after 111 attorneys in 26 States representing Trump.
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