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cop28 and the fake crisis

Posted by The Tradesman on December 16, 2023 at 4:44pm

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“There is no science out there, or no scenario out there, that says the phase-out of fossil fuel is what’s going to achieve the 1.5 degree change goal (we're already at one or 1.1)...A phase-down and phase-out of fossil fuel, is in my view, inevitable … but we need to be real, serious and pragmatic about it. A rapid premature phaseout would bring untold harm, especially to the poorest and most vulnerable around the world...asking for a phase-out of fossil fuels, please help me, show me, the roadmap for a phase out of fossil fuels that will allow … for sustainable socio-economic development. Unless you want to take the world back into caves.” --cop28, Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber, head of the state oil and renewable energy companies and the cop’s host.

A phase-out of fossil fuel use is likely inevitable. But it shouldn’t and hopefully won’t be forced upon society on some artificial timeline(1) set in the vain attempt to control the weather. Rather, for the peoples of the world, it will best occur when relatively inexpensive replacements are found that provide the benefits fossil fuel now largely uniquely provide: the more than 6,000 products in daily use; reliable and inexpensive electric power; and the chemicals and plastics that make possible modern agricultural abundance and critical public health technologies possible.

The un’s periodic climate reports want to be given Czar-like powers, to both recommend and oversee the implementation of climate policies globally. 5 ipcc report authors say scientists should be allowed to make policy prescriptions and potentially oversee implementation … by the 195 states signed up to the un framework convention on climate change (unfccc). The left-wing scientific elite, want governments to impose, under our guidance and legally binding oversight, polices to force people to comply with the climate crisis (2) diktats that we proscribe. They demand they should be allowed to force various nations to act according to their myths.

This is also not the first time un climate officials have called for a conscious remaking of society. In 2015, christiana figueres, then the executive secretary of un’s framework convention on climate change, admitted that climate policies are not about saving the planet or the environment, but about the power to remake society into a socialist paradise, as if there has been or ever could be such a thing, stating: "This is the first time in the history of mankind that we are setting ourselves the task of intentionally, within a defined period of time, to change the economic development model that has been reigning for at least 150 years, since the Industrial Revolution.”

alexandria ocasio-cortez’s (D-NY), chief of staff, saikat chakrabarti, admitted the same thing concerning the green new deal, saying: “[t]he interesting thing about the green new deal is it wasn't originally a climate thing at all. We really think of it as a how-do-you-change-the-entire-economy thing.”

And in February 2021, Massachusetts Undersecretary for climate change david ismay said at a climate conference in Vermont that in the Northeast there were no more big climate “offenders,” to break, now it was time to “break” the people.

Extreme weather is not worsening and deaths from weather events have declined by more than 98%. In addition, as the Earth has modestly warmed crop production and yields have dramatically increased with a corresponding decline in hunger and starvation, and deaths attributable to non-optimum temperatures have substantially fallen. There is absolutely no demonstrated need to eschew the benefits of modern society that fossil fuel use makes possible. Also, there is certainly no justification for giving up essential liberty or economic progress to climate czars in a vain effort to control future weather.

In the end, authoritarians will always try to cloak their ambitions in paternalistic terms, “we must do this for the good of, ‘the people,’ ‘the proletariat,’ ‘the volk,’ ‘society,’ ‘the planet,’” pick your term from the appropriate region and time period, but it is in reality all about increasing power and aggrandizing themselves. The truth should be an absolute defense against climate authoritarians’ ambitions.

In his farewell address, President Dwight Eisenhower, warned that with the advent of big government funding big science, the people should jealously guard their liberty, saying: “[H]olding scientific discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite.”

The Guardian reports U.N. climate scientists are finally saying the quiet part out loud: they want the authority to prescribe specific climate policies and the ability to track or monitor the compliance of the 195 nations that are signatories to the Paris climate agreement with those prescriptions or mandates.

The need to uphold and defend scientific and political transparency and the peoples’ primacy in deciding and implementing public policies, after a careful weighing of the potential benefits and costs in terms of economics and personal liberty, has never been more critical. Many companies, politicians, developing countries, and oil-producing countries who know full-well that “net zero by 2050” would be one of the most destructive developments in human history, think that it’s somehow necessary and practical to agree to the net-zero goals, but then in practice just engage in marginal GHG emissions reductions that will bring us nowhere near net-zero by 2050, such as: expanding carbon capture, subsidizing some solar and wind, experimenting with hydrogen fuel, or substituting some natural gas for coal.

If fossil fuel companies and other advocates of fossil fuels agree with net-zero, the naive think, it really must be the right goal—and any actions they take to slow down the achievement of that goal must be corrupt. Observe that much of the aftermath of cop28 is people like alGore saying that cop28’s goal of rapidly eliminating fossil fuels to achieve net-zero was undercut by fossil fuel interests, while he’s made $millions from the “crisis.”

Conferences, like cop28, are immoral because they deprive billions of the energy they need to prosper. They should be replaced by energy freedom conferences. If fossil fuel advocates had fundamentally challenged “net zero by 2050” in favor of energy freedom and global human flourishing, they could have made a huge difference. net-zero by 2050, that means rapidly eliminating fossil fuel use and really ruining the future of the world, means massive harm to the world and just by slowing the growth of emissions, we've done massive harm, which is not the goal. The goal is: advance human flourishing around the world, by that standard, fossil fuels are good, and energy freedom is good.

More and more scientists are finding the nerve to speak out against the climate hoax, but they’re decades behind the climate-industrial complex that is making trillions of dollars from “green” energy like solar and wind farms. But it’s becoming clear even to the environmentalist Kool-Aid drinkers that those “renewables” won’t come close to replacing the cheap and reliable fossil fuels that drive the world’s economy. Eliminating meat and dairy and crippling agriculture will result in the mass starvation of millions of people.

Again, who would want those results? Only the globalist elites at the un, the world economic forum, the club of rome, et al. -- many of whom are U.S. left-wing/democrat politicians, industrial magnates, and Big Tech oligarchs -- whose globalist fantasies are based on false malthusian ideas of “sustainable” levels of world population being limited to one billion people. They know that only a world government with unrestricted power can achieve what they call the misnamed “peaceful elimination” of over 7 billion people, so they see agenda 2030, the wef'’s great reset/narrative, et al., as the paths to achieve that global power and control. Those globalists use their 3-step process in every area of life to bring about the ruination of the U.S. and the Western democracies that are the major barriers to their dreams. That’s the true goal behind all their supposed “solutions.”

It's way past time to stop dancing to the leftists’ globalist tune, to stop accepting their phony “crises” and, especially, their crippling “solutions” that are designed to only destroy humanity in general.

1. Ernst & Young reported on sustainability efforts undertaken by business around the world and found businesses, especially in the Asia-Pacific region, were scaling back their climate commitments due to an increasing recognition of the high costs entailed by actions aimed at preventing global warming. As a baseline, the EY report accepts the belief that achieving net zero is necessary to meet the Paris climate goal of limiting post-industrial global average temperature to a rise of no more than 1.5 ℃. The 2023 sustainable value study shows that in Asia-Pacific, progress is slowing, conducted between August and October with 520 chief sustainability officer-level managers at international firms with at least US$1 billion in annual revenue across 10 industries in 23 nations. Among all businesses surveyed globally, the median target year for reaching net zero CO2 emissions has retreated to 2050 now. The delayed target was especially pronounced among businesses in the Asian-Pacific region, which made up 33% of the companies surveyed. Companies in Asia are twice as likely as their global peers to say the cost of achieving climate commitments is too high.

-65% percent of firms in the Asia-Pacific region, in countries such as China, Japan, and Australia, will spend the same or less on addressing climate change over the next 12 months, compared previously.

-20% of the corporate sustainability leaders in the Asia-Pacific region said the financial cost of achieving their companies’ climate change commitments is too high, which has led them to push back their targets—twice the number of companies saying the same thing based in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, India, and Africa.

-15% of the Asia-Pacific respondents said their firms are committed to achieving their climate change ambitions by 2030 or earlier, while 19% said their goals will be for 2060 or later. The rest set their targets between 2030 and 2060.

2. The climate change crisis:

Step 1. The “Crisis”: climate change is an existential threat to the earth; if something isn’t done immediately, the earth will burn up in (fill-in the blank) years.

Step 2. “Emergency Solution": eliminate fossil-fuel usage (curtail all manufacturing production, reduce/eliminate gasoline-powered cars, trains, trucks, planes, and ships), drastic restrictions on agriculture and cattle raising, make CO2, the most beneficial element in the world, a pollutant, etc.

Step 3, Actual Results: agenda 2030 is the un’s supposed response to climate change; if its 17 sustainable development Goals are actually implemented, the world will be reduced to mid-1800s-levels of food production, transportation, manufacturing, etc… except for the globalist elites behind the sc

Great Replacement theory

Posted by The Tradesman on December 16, 2023 at 4:38pm

Source; Sent from an Internet Friend................ Our current government is betraying us and our children!

"In the first 100 days of the biden regime there were over 90 executive actions on immigration, most of which dismantled an effective system, making it easier for illegals to enter and stay for good. Nearly every follow-up executive action or policy decision has been used to launder the crisis - not end it... The so-called left-wing/democrat comprehensive immigration reform plan is merely a reward to lawbreakers and an invitation to the entire world."--Dan Stein

"...the situation on the southern border is truly unprecedented. We have seen record-breaking month after record-breaking month of apprehensions... More than 5 1/2 million people including more than a million known getaways and untold number of violent criminals, gang members and potential terrorists since biden took office. The cartels have seized operational control of the border. And increasingly beleaguered Border Patrol has been pulled from frontline duties to focus on processing and releasing record numbers of illegal. A record number of more than 1,300 illegals have lost their lives on US soil. All of this biden's watch."-- May 2023 statement by Mark Morgan, former acting commissioner, and Tom Holman, former acting director, of the US Customs and Border Patrol

Today, immigration requirements that have been enforced for many decades, that is, whether an immigrant entering our country is self-sufficient or would become a welfare recipient, has been trashed. Meanwhile American taxpayers provide to the illegals transportation, shelter, food, medical care, education, etc. Unprecedented demands are being placed on job markets, schools, hospitals, police, social safety nets, infrastructure and natural resources. Unlimited illegal immigration is unsustainable given America's vast welfare state and woke agenda.

If illegal aliens break our laws by entering this country without permission and give birth to a child, they are rewarded with US citizenship for the child and guaranteed full access to all public and social services our society provides. And that's a lot of expensive services that the taxpayer pays for too. No other country does this.

Moreover, assimilation today is much more difficult. Diverse people worldwide are mostly engaged in hitting each other or it was killing each other. A diverse, peaceful, or stable society is against most historical precedents. Unfortunately the composition of current immigrants, reflecting their home country culture and politics can be more easily indoctrinated, manipulated, and persuaded by the left-wing marxism and political authoritarianism (with its racist and segregationist woke propaganda, which is a deeply flawed ideological mix of europhobia, separatism, emotions of alienation and hate, victimization and paranoia), causing at best assimilation into American society without assimilating the core American culture that unifies our nation.

And as to amnesty, which is blatantly abused in use, under the biden regime ICE is not even allowed to participate in claims proceeding, and uses parole as a mechanism to circumvent mandatory detention provisions. And HHS loses immediate contact with over 33% of unaccompanied minors(1). All of which grants illegals more protections than it allows US citizenship.

And of course the biden regime allowed illegals to enter and be shipped all over the US without the covid restrictions they forced on American citizens.

Meanwhile, Mexican cartels have made billions and billions of dollars exploiting the biden policies and the atrocious human suffering attendant to them - sex trafficking, rape, kidnapping, involuntary servitude, squalor, child abuse, child labor, etc. Even the uber liberal ny times wrote on the terrible condition facing tens of thousands of migrant teenagers which has exploded since 2021. "This is what can be described as modern-day slavery" as Ira Mehlman said.

In fact, W. Kurt Hauser also said the huge increase in illegal immigration caused by the rescission of prior immigration practices, policies and the laws by the biden regime includes crime, sex-trafficking, coercion, violence, rape, drugs, debts, and payments that would qualify as slavery. But the biden regime refuses to acknowledge that they are enabling this entirely predictable criminal and exploitative result of their policies. They, instead, deceptively portray themselves as saviors of the illegals, even as their policies are literally enslaving some of the migrants to the cartels.

Citizenship implies the status of freedom with the accompanying responsibilities, rights, and duties. The purpose of citizenship is to unite people around common values, belief systems, principles, etc. The ultimate purpose of immigration is to benefit citizens, not illegal aliens.

The preservation of a nation's territorial sovereignty, and the culture, language, mores, traditions, and customs that make possible a harmonious community of citizens, dictate that citizenship be granted only by the consent of the government and not by unilateral actions or demands of the alien. And then only to aliens who will throw off their allegiance to their former nation and society and pledge the allegiance to their new nation.

America is becoming an unrepresentative democracy because in critical issues, especially involving national identity, it's left-wing/democrat leaders pass laws and implement policies contrary to the views of the American people. But the left wing/democrat Party believes immigrants will enlarge their voting block. In fact, biden's unstated purpose is to allow as many aliens as possible to freely enter the US virtually at will, in face of broad public opposition and without regard for who the aliens are and whether they are willing or capable of assimilating into America. The left-wing/democratic party wants mass immigration as a part of its fundamental transforming of American society and culture

Left wing/democrat elites previously opposed illegal immigration, as did their labor unions. But now they see mass immigration as an imperative to gaining, retaining and exercising power. For the left-wing/democrat, party comes before country, which is why it has reversed course - again - determining that it's power is enlarged by open borders. Which will of course evolve to eliminate distinction between citizen and alien—and who can vote. In fact, this can be already be seen in a growing movement in left-wing/democrat run cities and states, as a package(3) to expand voting to include non-citizens, eliminate voter identification and allow other fraud-inducing policies. See California, Maryland, and Vermont for such actions.

All this one can only surmise that the left wing Democratic party does not believe in America, that the illegal alien is the rightful occupant of the us.

biden’s regime has a greater affection for aliens illegally in the U.S. than for tens of millions of US citizens who do not share his political ideological agenda. By all this one can only surmise that the left wing/democratic Party does not believe in America, that the illegal alien is the rightful occupant of the U.S., not the citizen., and they, the left-wing/democrat Party, want to destroy America(4).

And those who dare to take notice of the dangerous travesty of all this are immediately denounced and dismissed as racist promoting the great replacement / white genocide conspiracy theory.

In the past, biden, along with other notable left-wing/democrats such as woodrow wilson, fdr, harry reid, walter mondale, cesar chavez, and chuck schumer have all made statements supporting the replacement theory. But for the left-wing/democrat, there is no truth but their current desires.

1. The number of unaccompanied minors entering the US was at a high of 130,000, 300% higher than 2017.

2. Today unions have no problem with illegal immigration since they can be signed up as dues paying union members, unions which substantially fund the left-wing/democratic party.

3. "If non-citizen voting is implemented, non-citizen voters would not have to demonstrate an understanding of the English language including the ability to read, write, and speak words and ordinary usage. They won’t have to demonstrate a knowledge and understanding of the fundamentals of the history and the principles and form of government of the U.S.. They will not have to demonstrate that they are of good moral character by not, for example, having been convicted of a felony. They would not have to take an oath of allegiance to the US and renounce allegiance to another country. And they will not have to have had been in residence to the United States for at least 5 years, all of which puts the illegal in a far less demanding situation than for a citizen voting."--Stanley A. Renshon

4. richard lamm, former left-wing/democrat Governor of Colorado, said this on how to destroy America:

1^st, turn America into a bilingual or multilingual and bicultural country. History shows that no nation can survive the tension, conflict, and antagonism of two or more competing languages and cultures.

2^nd, invent multiculturalism and encourage immigrants to maintain their culture and the belief that all cultures are equal.

3^rd, celebrate diversity rather than unity, reinforcing differences rather than emphasizing similarities.

4th, make the fastest growing demographic group the least educated creating a underclass, unassimilated, and antagonistic.

5^th, get big foundations and businesses to give these efforts lots of money. Establish a cult of victimology and get all minorities to think their lack of success was the fault of the majority in other words a grievance industry.

6^th, make it impossible to enforce her immigration laws. Develop the mantra that because immigration has been good for America in the past it must always be good. Make every individual immigrant symmetric and ignore the cumulative impact of millions of them.

In order to prevent another January 6, FBI says Trump supporters must be treated like TERRORISTS

Posted by The Tradesman on December 16, 2023 at 4:13pm

Source; 12/13/2023 // Ethan Huff //

Did you know that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) considers it a crime to support President Trump because to do so makes a person "anti-government?"

Being "anti-government," whatever that even means, is not even a crime in and of itself, but the FBI has decided that Trump supporters must be treated like terrorists in order to prevent another January 6 incident from occurring.

In the leadup to the 2024 presidential election, Big Brother wants America to know that it is watching you, especially if you want to "Make America Great Again." And if you are not careful, the FBI might end up tracking and monitoring you secretly because of the apparent risk you pose to the establishment.

The FBI has said nothing about doing this same type of spying and surveillance on Black Lives Matter (BLM) rioters, even though they looted Target stores and burned down businesses. It only cares about going after Trump supporters to purportedly prevent another "insurrection" type of incident.

(Related: The FBI has previously made it clear that it will do whatever it wants, regardless of what people think or what the law says.)

FBI miscarries justice and goes rogue

It was not all that long ago when the United States did not even have an FBI. It was the year 1908, in fact, when the FBI was spawned as a national police force, something America's founding fathers never intended for a free collection of states.

The idea of an FBI was sold to the public under the guise of it being needed to deal with legitimate federal crimes committed by, say, foreign criminals who infiltrate the U.S. and do things that fall under no other jurisdiction.

It was probably obvious to freedom-loving constitutionalists at the time that the idea of creating an FBI was dangerous in that doing so could one day allow a nationalized police force to be weaponized against the American people themselves. This is precisely what is now occurring.

Many, including investigative reporter Leo Hohmann, believe that the FBI needs to be disbanded to prevent any further assault on Americans' constitutional rights. The FBI has clearly been weaponized against a certain brand of politics which, love it or hate it, is still constitutionally protected.

The same would need to be said if the FBI suddenly started going after Democrats or some other group in exclusivity. This is known as a miscarriage, or perversion, of the justice system, and it is the FBI's forte.

"You do not need to be armed in order to be a strictly investigative agency," Hohmann notes. "Do your investigations and then turn the information over to state or local law enforcement, which could then make the decisions about whether to make any arrests."

Hohmann, by the way, actually opposes Trump for many of the same reasons this writer now does. Trump launched Operation Warp Speed, which was predicated by the PREP Act and other related legislation, that paved the way for the unleashing of Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) "vaccines."

"I turned against him when he rolled out a militarized vaccine program with an injection that wasn’t even a vaccine, using mRNA technology to tinker with human genetics," Hohmann says.

"He's also now gone soft on abortion, saying Republicans need to moderate their pro-life position. You're either pro life or you're not, Donald. You can't have it both ways. So I am done with Trump. I think he could even be a plant who is working for the other globalists, a type of Emmanuel Goldstein character from Orwell's 1984. In short, controlled opposition."

What do you think the next group of people will be in America whom the FBI tags as terrorists? Find out more at FBICorruption.news.

On 12/14/2023 11:29 AM, Karin Stern wrote:

https://www.naturalnews.com/2023-12-13-prevent-january-6-fbi-trump-supporters-terrorists.html

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"Every man who loves peace, every man who loves his country, every man who loves liberty, ought to have it ever before his eyes, that he may cherish in his heart a due attachment to the Union of America, and be able to set a due value on the means of preserving it." —James Madison (1788) As Harry Truman said: "Show me a politician who got rich while in office, and I will show you a Crook."

Watch out for the WHO!!!!!!

Posted by The Tradesman on December 15, 2023 at 10:29am

Source; Sent from a friend..... SNGLR

The WHO (World Health Organization) Coup

Dr. Meryl Nass explains how the WHO's proposed pandemic treaty will enable the WHO "to take over jurisdiction of everything in the world by saying that climate change, animals, plants, water systems [and] ecosystems are all central to health". In addition to that, it will remove human rights protections, enforce censorship and digital passports, require governments to push a single "official" narrative, and enable the WHO to declare "pandemics" on a whim.

WHO COUP https://www.theburningplatform.com/2023/12/03/who-coup/

"We're undergoing a soft coup... under the pretext of pandemic preparedness and the biosecurity agenda." Dr. Meryl Nass explains how the WHO's proposed pandemic treaty will enable the WHO "to take over jurisdiction of everything in the world by saying that climate change, animals, plants, water systems [and] ecosystems are all central to health". In addition to that, it will remove human rights protections, enforce censorship and digital passports, require governments to push a single "official" narrative, and enable the WHO to declare "pandemics" on a whim. Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=4MrIsXDKrtE…

Ship of fools redux?

Posted by The Tradesman on December 15, 2023 at 10:22am

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In that country where I grew up it would not tolerate a president and his family taking foreign payments, in effect being a paid foreign agent of our greatest adversary. China is determined to push us off the world map and all biden and his left-wing defenders in their media shout “lies” about the U.S. Congressional Oversight demanded by The Constitution they lyingly say they revere.

The country I grew up in did not rush eagerly to be branded as idiots, or fools or to have the left-wing legacy media cement their status as residents of a nation of idiots and/or fools.

Of course, the left-wing media is desperate to absolve China joe biden—to protect the corrupt system of Washington influence peddling, because he’s one of them–and to ridicule those would peel the corruption onion. Their place as palace eunuchs demands it. And now that hunter has been indicted, they howl and distract. They obfuscate, like cheap magicians caught in a trick. When The New York Post reported on that laptop from hell that was left at a computer repair shop by hunter, the left-wing legacy media went into lying and censorship frenzy. And the left is now coming after House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, despite that he's doing what's right, with a vengeance.

But now, after all of joe’s lies, after all the left-wing media censorship and gaslighting, an amazing thing is happening. left-wing/democrats are greasing the skids to get rid of him. And China joe reads the signs, and will squeal like a cornered rat, then pardon his son. kamala pardons him, after she locks in her pension. And king & queen BObama or hate-filled michelle select joe’s successor when they have locked in the democratic delegates and it’s too late to stop them. biden’s true boss and puppet master, the left-wing's messiah BObama has been eerily silent. And democrats don’t want China joe around their necks as he sinks like a millstone after creepily sniffing the hair of young girls. He keeps dropping in opinion polls. Despite left-wing/democrats parroting the biden talking points endlessly on CNNbs and MSNBs and NPRbs, CBs, ABs, NBs and the ny timebs, etc., there is increasing evidence that he’s quite corrupt.

What politician sends thousands of emails under assumed names to his Chinese business partners? What honest steward does such a thing, skulking in the shadows like an insect?

A poll published from Morning Consult and bloomberg news shows a trend. It shows Trump is leading biden in 7 swing states: North Carolina, Georgia, Wisconsin, Nevada, Michigan, Arizona and Pennsylvania.

Everyday Ol' uncle joe (stalin) biden is called out for his lies. He lied to the American people when the laptop story broke before his election—with help from the left-wing media—and he continues to lie to this day. He is a never-ending fountain of lies. And left-wing/democrats and their corrupt left-wing media allies have eagerly believed him because he is not Trump. Theirs is a world driven by their ego's and their addiction to an ideology of hate.

If they don’t bounce the creepy old sniffer, it will be proof of one thing: That they love lying and being lied to. They’ll want you to love it, too. And they’ll lick it up. That;s what left-wing/democrats support and worship. That's all part of their addiction to their woke ideology.

“The past few presidential elections have been razor-thin, and signs point to 2024 being another closely contested election. It is paramount that the American people have the utmost confidence that all elections are free and fair, and bereft of voter fraud as much as possible. Therefore, states should ensure their voter rolls are up-to-date and accurate, encourage in-person voting, and implement commonsense measures to reduce the potential for mail-in voting fraud.”--Chris Talgo

From the Vote Fraud Heartland Institute Rasmussen poll, December 2023:
-17% of mail-in voters admit that in 2020 they voted in a state where they are “no longer a permanent resident”
-21% of mail-in voters admitted that they filled out a ballot for a friend or family member
-17% of mail-in voters said they signed a ballot for a friend or family member “with or without his or her permission”
-8% of likely voters say they were offered “pay” or a “reward” for voting in 2020
-20% of voters who cast mail-in ballots during the 2020 presidential election admit to participating in at least one kind of voter fraud, or 13 million votes!

Among those surveyed in the poll:
-33% were Republicans
-36% were democrats
-31% were “other”
-32% were 18-39 yrs old,
-46% were 40-64 yrs old
-22% were 65 or older.

Taken together, the results of these survey questions appear to show that voter fraud was widespread in the 2020 election, especially among those who cast mail-in ballots.

According to election data, more than 43% of 2020 voters cast ballots by mail, the highest percentage in U.S. history. Americans have repeatedly been told that the 2020 election was the most secure in history. But if this poll’s findings are reflective of reality, the exact opposite is true. This conclusion isn’t based on conspiracy theories or suspect evidence, but rather from the responses made directly by the voters themselves.
“A democratic republic cannot survive if election laws allow voters to commit fraud easily, and that’s exactly what occurred during the 2020 election. Although some progress has been made in more than a dozen states since the conclusion of the 2020 election, much more work is needed in most regions of the United States. If America’s election laws do not improve soon, voters and politicians will continue to question the truthfulness and fairness of all future elections.”--Justin Haskins

"Our election systems are broken in this country. If we do not fix them – including harsh punishments who break the law, as many admitted to in this survey – it will be impossible to trust any election moving forward. If you don’t protect the integrity of the election process and every single ballot, the franchise means nothing and we no longer live in a society governed by the actual will of the people.”--Jim Lakely

Start rebuttals against Trump attack memes

Posted by The Tradesman on December 14, 2023 at 5:28am

Memes like the one below trying to exonerate Biden and crew, and attack memes against Trump are being flooded on social media.

Memes like the one below, and any other ones attacking Trump, or lying about Biden and his administration, need to be matched up and posted to dispel the mis-direction and otherlying or attack memes specifically related to dispelling the mis-direction, election lies, and anti-Trump memes, and need to be posted in response to contradict every one of them, and set the record straight.

Please feel Free to pass this on!

Woke Cowardice: Wrong University Presidents at the Wrong Time

Posted by The Tradesman on December 13, 2023 at 12:06pm

Source; by Alan M. Dershowitz December 13, 2023 at 5:00 am

As Ecclesiastes observed "to everything there is a season". This seems to be the season for woke cowardice
[These administrators] are also insensitive to civil liberties and the rights of those with whom they disagree.
It creates divisiveness on campuses that makes Jewish students and faculty fearful for their safety when their university president seems unwilling to apply the same standard to those who advocate genocide against Jews as they surely would against anyone who advocated genocide against Blacks or the raping of women or the shooting of gay and transgender people.
What these universities need now are principled advocates of a single standard, rather than leaders who base their decisions on outside pressures and the need to pander to extremist students, faculty and administrators.
One thing is clear: [university presidents] should be selected on the basis of relevant, individual meritocratic criteria— not the cookie cutter criteria of the "diversity, equity and inclusion" bureaucracies.

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The three university presidents who disgraced themselves and
their universities by their abysmal testimony before the U.S.
House Committee on Education and the Workforce represent a
far larger concern. Pictured L-R: Claudine Gay, President of
Harvard University, Liz Magill, President of University of
Pennsylvania, Professor Pamela Nadell of American University,
and Sally Kornbluth, President of Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, testify before the House Education and Workforce
Committee on December 5, 2023 in Washington, DC, on the subject
of antisemitism on college campuses.

The forced resignation of the president of the University of Pennsylvania is a good first step in dealing with a far more pervasive problem in higher education.

The three university presidents who disgraced themselves and their universities by their abysmal testimony before the U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce represent a far larger concern.

In recent years, many universities have selected as their presidents woke, progressive cowards who pander to the most extreme and most vocal left-wing students and professors. They are the wrong people, at the wrong time, to be leading American educational institutions.

When I first came to Harvard in 1964, university presidents all came from the same cookie-cutter. They were white Anglo-Saxon males, who represented the wealthy conservative donors and board members. There were no Jewish university presidents and the then president of Harvard – Nathan Marsh Pusey – made it clear that no Jew need apply for the presidency or deanships.

Within a decade, following the civil rights movement, matters changed considerably. Several years ago, many of the most elite universities had Jewish presidents and Jewish deans.

Now matters have changed again and many of the new presidents represent the current political correctness reflected by the "diversity, equity and inclusion" (DEI) bureaucracies. Many also represent, or are sympathetic to, woke progressive movements that today dominate many campuses.

As Ecclesiastes observed, "to everything there is a season". This seems to be the season for woke cowardice. Many of the current university presidents also seem to come from a cookie-cutter. They are different from previous university presidents but seem quite similar to each other in their pandering to the DEI and progressive woke constituencies on campus.

The recent spate of rabid anti-Semitism on so many campuses has posed enormous challenges to this new breed of university presidents. For the most part they have failed miserably to meet these challenges, as reflected by the big three who testified so ineptly.

A friend of mine, who was the president of a major university during the "Jewish period," told me that the one characteristic which is not a qualification for being a current university president is "courage." To that, should be added a commitment to principle.

Also at fault for the selection of current university presidents are the boards of directors who select them in an effort to pander to current student and faculty demands for DEI. They have ignored the majority of students and faculty, as well as the majority of alumni and donors. This overlooked and large constituency wants to see academic excellence and political neutrality on behalf of university presidents, deans and administrators. Most would prefer what has come to be called "the Chicago principles," which require that the university itself stay out of politics.

Only a handful of universities have accepted these principles even in theory. Most universities pick and choose among the political views they publicly espouse. For example, virtually every university condemned the killing of George Floyd by a policeman -- but many refused to condemn Hamas' October 7 murder of more than 1,200 Israelis (and many Americans) and the kidnapping of more than 240 other Israelis. It is this double standard that has opened these administrators to criticism that they are more sensitive to Black lives than to Jewish lives. They are also insensitive to civil liberties and the rights of those with whom they disagree.

Just as many of these new university presidents were selected for symbolism, so too should they be dismissed for symbolism. What they symbolized during the Congressional testimony does a disservice to their students, their faculty and their alumni. It teaches the wrong lessons to current and future students. It creates divisiveness on campuses that makes Jewish students and faculty fearful for their safety when their university president seems unwilling to apply the same standard to those who advocate genocide against Jews as they surely would against anyone who advocated genocide against Blacks or the raping of women or the shooting of gay and transgender people.

It is not enough that these presidents are constantly forced to apologize for their cowardice because of pressure from the outside. What these universities need now are principled advocates of a single standard, rather than leaders who base their decisions on outside pressures and the need to pander to extremist students, faculty and administrators.

These are the wrong leaders for today's educational challenges. Those who selected them were employing the wrong criteria. It will not be easy to find the correct replacements who can strike the proper balance between responding to the pervasive anti-Semitism and "cancel culture" on current campuses. One thing is clear: they should be selected on the basis of relevant, individual meritocratic criteria -- not the cookie-cutter criteria of the DEI bureaucracies.

Alan M. Dershowitz is the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law, Emeritus at Harvard Law School, and the author most recently of War Against the Jews: How to End Hamas Barbarism. He is the Jack Roth Charitable Foundation Fellow at Gatestone Institute, and is also the host of "The Dershow" podcast.

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Climate Update: What is Myth?

Posted by The Tradesman on December 9, 2023 at 8:09pm

Source; SNGLR

The alleged climate crisis is a compound of acutely emotional considerations concerning science, politics, society, culture, anthropology, and religion, the breath and complexity of which has yet to be recognized comprehensively. It is a movement that is devolved into a collection of left-wing ideologies and propagandists. And since it is impossible for humans or any other species to live in the world without altering it in one perceptible way or another, the movement is also incredibly anti-human.

Carl Jung once said: “Everybody acts out a myth, but very few people know what their myth is. And you should know what your myth is because it might be a tragedy, and maybe you don’t want it to be.”

Myth: The UN's COP 28 climate conference must lead to far more “climate action.”
Truth: These conferences are immoral because they deprive billions of the energy they need to prosper.

The lead-up to the COP 28 climate conference has had a consistent theme: previous COPs called for restricting fossil fuels in the name of reducing greenhouse gas emissions, but this one needs to restrict fossil fuel use far faster so as to reach net-zero by 2050. This is wrong!

COP 28’s net-zero agenda—i.e., rapid elimination of fossil fuels—is unnecessary, and pursuing it faster would be catastrophic because:

1. Fossil fuels are making us far safer from climate.
2. Even barely implementing COP’s net-zero agenda has been disastrous.

One huge benefit we get from fossil fuels is the ability to master climate danger—e.g., fossil-fueled cooling, heating, irrigation—which can potentially neutralize fossil fuels’ negative climate impacts. Even though we obviously need to factor in fossil fuels’ climate mastery benefits, our designated experts totally fail to do this. E.g., the UN IPCC’s multi-thousand-page reports totally omit fossil-fueled climate mastery! That’s like a polio report omitting the polio vaccine.

With rising greenhouse gases we must be even-handed, considering both negatives (more heatwaves) and positives (fewer cold deaths). And we must be precise, not equating some conjured up impact with a corresponding huge impact. Every report you hear about fossil fuels having made climate more dangerous commits at least one of 2 fallacies: ignoring the enormous climate mastery benefits of fossil fuels or wildly exaggerating negative climate side-effects of fossil fuels. The IPCC does both.

Myth: We are more endangered than ever by climate because of fossil fuels' CO2 emissions.
Truth: We have a 98% decline in climate disaster deaths due to our enormous fossil-fueled climate mastery abilities: heating and cooling, infrastructure-building, irrigation, crop transport.

Myth: Climate-related disaster X shows that fossil fuels are making climate unlivable.
Truth: If we look at trends, not anecdotes, the drastic decline in extreme weather deaths shows that fossil fuels have made our naturally dangerous climate more livable than ever.

Myth: Even if climate-related disaster deaths are down, climate-related damages are way up, pointing to a bankrupting climate future.
Truth: Even though there are many incentives for climate damages to go up—subsidies for riskier areas, government bailouts—GDP-adjusted damages are flat.

Myth: Even if we're safe from climate now, we can expect future emissions to lead to disaster.
Truth: Since today's unprecedented safety exists after over 100 years of rising CO2, and with ~1° C warming, we should be skeptical that further CO2 rises will somehow overwhelm us.

Myth: left-wing science shows that rising CO2 is an “existential threat” that will soon cause global catastrophe and then apocalypse.
Truth: science shows that rising CO2 levels will lead to levels of warming and other changes that we can master and flourish with.

Myth: Future warming is ominous because heat-related death is already such a catastrophic problem.
Truth: Even though Earth has gotten 1°C warmer, far more people still die from cold than heat (even in India)! Near-term warming is expected to decrease temperature-related mortality.

Myth: Future warming is ominous because it will be worst in hot areas.
Truth: The mainstream view in climate science is that more warming will be concentrated in colder places (Northern latitudes) and at colder times (nighttime) and during colder seasons (winter). Good news.

Myth: Future warming will accelerate as CO2 levels rise.
Truth: Mainstream science is unanimous that the “greenhouse effect” is a diminishing effect, with additional CO2 leading to less warning. Even IPCC's most extreme, far-fetched scenarios show warming leveling off.

Myth: We face catastrophically rapid sea level rises, which will destroy and submerge coastal cities.
Truth: Extreme UN sea level rise projections are just 3 feet in 100 years. Future generations can master that. (We already have 100 million people living below high-tide sea level.)

Myth: Hurricane intensity is expected to get catastrophically higher as temperatures rise.
Truth: Mainstream estimates say hurricanes will be less frequent and between 1-10% more intense at 2° C warming. This is not at all catastrophic if we continue our fossil-fueled climate mastery.

Myth: left-wing science says that if we hit 1.5 or 2° C warming since the 1800s we face catastrophe followed by apocalypse.
Truth: The 1.5-2° C number is activist fiction. The mastery abilities that have made life far better through 1° C warming will continue to keep us safe.

While COP 28 leaders bemoan how slow their restriction of fossil fuel use in pursuit of net-zero has been, even “slow” restriction has caused a global energy crisis. “Aggressive climate action” = global catastrophe.

Myth: Net-zero policies are new and exciting.
Truth: Net-zero policies have caused catastrophic energy shortages even with minuscule implementation. Just by slowing the growth of fossil fuel use, not even reducing it, they’d caused global energy shortages.

Scary fact: the “net-zero” movement has caused an energy crisis just by achieving a tiny fraction of its goals. While it has advocated rapidly reducing fossil fuel use, it has only succeeded globally at slowing the growth of fossil fuel use. And even that is catastrophic. If just restricting the growth of fossil fuels in a world that needs far more energy is catastrophic, what would it mean to reduce CO2 emissions by the 50% many “climate emergency” advocates want by 2030 and the 100% they want by 2050?

Minuscule net-zero policies causing huge problems:
-US: frequent power shortages (and some disastrous blackouts) after shutting down fossil fuel power plants. E.g., CA
-EU: deadly fossil fuel dependence after restricting their fossil fuel industry
-Poor nations: can't afford fuel due to global restrictions. ⅓ of the world uses wood and animal dung for heating and cooking. 3 billion use less electricity than a typical American refrigerator. Only fossil fuels can provide the energy they need to develop. The reason is that development requires energy, and fossil fuels are a uniquely cost-effective, including scalable, source of energy.

The “net-zero” movement, led by UN COPs, is the root cause of today's energy crisis because it is:
-Suppressing fossil fuel investment: For fossil fuel energy to remain low-cost requires sufficient investment. But the COP-led net-zero movement has used government and private entities, often under the banner of “ESG,” to punish and suppress it—meaning less fossil fuel supply.
-Suppressing fossil fuel production: For fossil fuel energy to remain low-cost for billions of people requires that producers be free to produce it all around the world. The COP-led net-zero movement has opposed it throughout the world, often successfully, increasing prices.
-Suppressing fossil fuel transport: For fossil fuels to remain low-cost for billions of people we need to be able to easily transport them from where they are produced to where they are used. But the COP-led net-zero movement has opposed transportation around the world.

The “net-zero” movement has rationalized its opposition to fossil fuel investment, production, and transport with claims that solar and wind could rapidly replace fossil fuels. This has obviously not happened. Despite huge solar and wind subsidies fossil fuel demand has increased. There was never any reason to expect solar and wind to replace fossil fuels. The world needs far more energy—3 billion people still use less electricity than a US refrigerator—so there’s no reason to expect lower demand for any form of cost-effective energy, let alone ultra-versatile fossil fuels. Despite claims that solar and wind are rapidly replacing fossil fuels, they provide less than 5% of world energy—only electricity, ⅕ of energy—and, crucially, even that small percentage depends on huge subsidies and reliable (mostly fossil-fueled) power plants. Solar and wind’s basic problem is unreliability, to the point they can go near zero at any time. Thus they don’t replace reliable power, they parasitize it. This is why they need huge subsidies and why no grid is near 50% solar and wind without parasitism on reliable neighbors. The left-wing idea that we can use mostly or only solar and wind with sufficient battery backup is not being tried anywhere because it’s absurd. Batteries are so expensive that just 3 days of global backup using Musk’s Mega-packs would cost $570 trillion, about 6X global GDP!

Fossil fuels are a uniquely cost-effective source of energy, providing energy that’s low-cost, reliable, versatile, and scalable to billions of people. that's why overall fossil fuel use is growing. E.g., China, despite its “net-zero” pledges, has 300 new coal plants in the pipeline.

Energy freedom policies are more likely to lead to long-term emissions reductions, because they accelerate the rate at which nuclear and other alternatives become globally cost-competitive. the only moral and practical way to reduce global emissions. The 2 biggest instances of CO2 reduction have come from energy freedom policies:
-Nuclear: Freedom led to cost-effective and scalable nuclear power until the “green” movement virtually criminalized it.
-Gas: Freedom led to significant substitution of gas vs. coal.

Alternative energy policy has been dominated by the “green energy” movement, which is an outgrowth of the anti-development green movement. This movement is hostile to all development because of development’s impact on nature, and therefore is hostile to every form of cost-effective energy.

COP' leaders’ enthusiastic support for solar and wind is phony. Just as they oppose fossil fuels, nuclear, and hydro for their impact, in practice they oppose the massive mining, construction, and transmission-line-building “green energy” requires.

The obvious path forward for the world is energy freedom: the freedom to produce and use all cost-effective sources of energy—including, essentially, fossil fuels—which means rejecting all net-zero targets.

Additional Info:

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/11/new_canadian_study_suggests_that_women_who_scream_the_loudest_about_climate_change_dont_actually_care_all_that_much.html

https://www.wsj.com/articles/net-zero-fails-the-cost-benefit-test-paris-climate-accord-cop28-748ae52d

https://www.foxbusiness.com/energy/economist-cautions-bidens-400b-green-energy-scheme-ten-times-worse-obamas

https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/3000-auto-dealers-sign-letter-opposing-bidens-electric-vehicle-mandate

Insect Matter added to Foods

Posted by The Tradesman on December 9, 2023 at 11:14am

Source; White Hats on Telegram

If you are feeding your kids anything conventional, there are two ingredients to look out for.

E120 and E904 are additives found in many food products which are obtained from the insects.

There are currently more than 100 products containing these additives. Most of them are products intended for children.

European authorities in the field of food safety have devoted many scientific works to the examination of these additive, and have affirmed their impact on various health aspects:

- Hyperactivity in children;

- Allergies;

- Allergic reactions;

- Asthma;

- Genotoxicity.

See Video at; https://twitter.com/i/status/1733550340090302647

Free the "Poor"

Posted by The Tradesman on December 9, 2023 at 4:10am

Source; Sent from a friend.......

“The Industrial Revolution, starting in 1770 in Britain, had little to do with its universities and nothing to do with its government…willpower, effort and imitative raised men above their circumstances…it is also important side note that before that Revolution more than half the children born, wealthy or poor, failed to reach the age of five. By 1830 more than 75% lived way beyond that age.” –Paul Johnson

The definition of democracy implies a government by informed discourse, meaning individual views can and do change in the process of decision making, based primarily on proof, fact, logic, and reason. So, let’s do a little.

Given the perspective of history, every American alive today is easily among the wealthiest 1% of people to have lived on earth. The poorest of the poor in America have luxuries unheard of to most kings of the past. Do you appreciate running water? Electric lights? Advanced medical care? And we haven't even pointed out the fact that most of our technology -- that the "poor" largely benefit from -- has been developed by <gasp!> wealthy corporations. Understood properly, the past productivity of the wealthy is the only reason such luxuries are available to the so-called poor today. America's "poor" are far wealthier than the middle classes of most other nations.

If anything hurts the poor of the world, it's American class warfare. "In our attempt to blame poverty on prejudice, we have taught the poor to be prejudiced against the basic values necessary to sustain a free and civil society.... We've taught them there are no real absolutes to the human condition -- except perhaps that the highest value in life is to acquire things." --Star Parker.

Wealth has no agency. What matters is how people behave. Wealth depends not just on available opportunities but also on the interests and abilities of individuals, not to mention random occasional luck. In the long run, America’s along with the world's poor are most effectively helped by the system that helped create wealth in the United States -- free markets, limited government, and just laws(1). Want to help the poor, support free trade. To rebel against the free market is, in reality, self-serving, self-contradictory hogwash. At best, it's incoherent; at worst, it's a malicious deception.

Americans are overwhelmingly pro-business. They understand for the most part, businesses help their lives, government detracts from them. Businesses produce jobs, prosperity, a higher standard of living. Government produces nothing and destroys much. Businesses have to be efficient to avoid going bankrupt. Government just prints more money and inflation. Businesses have a powerful motive to succeed, governments do not. Businesses have to innovate to stay competitive, governments do not. Government is bureaucracy, the opposite of innovation. Businesses create wealth for all of society. Governments destroy wealth for all but the powerful.

"The liberal led democratic Party’s coalition is frighteningly like the class structure of the European societies from which America diverged. They view the citizenry as a needy underclass sending respect and obedience up to them, the privileged elite. This elite, in turn, dribbles down bread and hospitals. Theirs is a system whose design is one where the population is relegated to a collection of needy souls dependent upon charity for the sustenance of their bodies, in symbiosis with elite of busybodies, who in turn are dependent upon giving charity for the salvation of their own souls. It's not progressive in the least. It's medieval (One reason why the liberal elite are so in love with Europe). Liberalism is co-dependency. America, by contrast, still has a large middle class that values independence over co-dependence. This leads to considerable frustration of America's liberals, who cannot even 'imagine' how anyone would not want their help." --Mac Johnson

You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity, by legislating the wealth out of prosperity. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work, because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work, because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that is the beginning of the end of any nation

That explains a lot as to why liberal BIG-government economic stimulus policies do not feature any real fiscal multipliers. The bulk of their programs/policies consist of transfer payments to individuals and states, with no real and substantial cuts in regulation, spending or taxes that would produce real incentive effects to spur freedom and economic growth. In other words, for liberalism its all about confiscating and redistributing wealth from those who earned it--the most productive group, and the job-creators in America--and giving it to those who didn’t, the least productive groups, mostly those who subsist on the state---including public officials. That does not constitute "looking out for one another" and is most decidedly not "what's right."

The democrat Party’s adherents, refusing to critically assess their ideology and its consequences, instead look for someone or something to blame for its own failings. Hence their dependence on what can be described as created blame-hate, which animates their mythological-based hate for any fact, logic, reasoning or person that disagrees with them. Their mainstream ideological generators, such as the media, the democratic Party leadership or Hollywood elites, fuel that venom. They are ready to believe just about anything suggestive of conspiracy, greed, deceit and machinated unfairness, producing a consuming delirium known as the Chomsky-Krugman Syndrome. That syndrome basically is an unwillingness to see the world as it really is, and to be aware of and understand the lessons humanity has acquired through time.

But then liberalism basically rejects give-and-take political discussion. Instead the liberal position is typically posed and defended in the language of feelings or some fuzzily defined rights. Either way, there is nothing much to their debate—their feelings are personal or the rights ill-defined and relative, both of which are beyond the reality-check reach of intellectually sound analysis which consists of argumentation by the rules of logic and honest majority decision making. liberalism’s opinions reflect a body of remarkably dogmatic thought that leaves little room for what they so strongly give a lot of rhetoric claims to, sound critical analysis--let alone dissent or new ideas. They are ever more isolated from facts, logic and reason, let alone the thoughts concerns and desires of their fellow Americans.

In essence, as Paul Kengor states: "Progressivism is nothing more than moral relativism at the political level. For them, Truth is never constant, with no fixed starting point, whether (theologically) in Sacred Scripture or (politically) in sacred political documents like the Constitution and Declaration of Independence. Truth is determined not by an absolute authority but by the individual – or rather, progressive individuals en masse -- who are always marching and ever-advancing toward evolving truths revealed somewhere down the road."

All of which supports what George Will has observed, that:"...the distilled essence of contemporary liberalism, enjoys imposing its will--about abortion, racial preferences, capital punishment, tobacco, firearms, etc.—primarily through litigation rather than legislation. Liberalism's fondness for judicial fiat rather than democratic decision-making explains the entwinement of the democratic Party and trial lawyers and their love for the concept of a living (read that as pliable) Constitution. These things will continue until these people are gone."

(1). “Charitable efforts are vital expression of human solidarity that, when carried out wisely, play a crucial role in relieving human suffering. But they are not the way people escape poverty. The normal way is through enterprise and free-markets—through ordinary, everyday business…Applying our intelligence as well as our sympathy is actually the most loving thing we can do for the poor”---Rev Robert Sirico

Flooding.

Posted by The Tradesman on December 7, 2023 at 10:05pm

Source; From Snglr

Data show that flood impacts as measured by direct economic losses have actually decreased by about 90% since 1940 as a proportion of U.S. GDP. The United States is in fact more resilient to flooding than it has ever been. The reduction in flood impacts is an incredible story of success sitting out in plain sight that is completely ignored, in favor of stories that instead tell us that down is up.

The data shows U.S. annual flood damage as a proportion of GDP. In 1940 flood losses amounted to a 2023 equivalent of about $50 billion per year, and in 2022 they totaled about $5 billion, a reduction of over 90%.

Although it is true aggregate flood losses have increased, that is a result of price inflation and population growth in general, and in particular increased population density and development in areas historically prone to flooding. When you put more people in flood plains along attractive riverfronts, lakeshores, and coasts prone to hurricanes, while draining wetlands (which are natural buffers to flooding), channelizing formerly meandering waterways, and replacing natural areas that absorb or drain waters after storms with impervious surfaces, the result is more flooding and higher losses when storms come.

From 1940 through 2023, as flood damage tripled and GDP grew by more than 10 times, flood damage decreased dramatically as percentage of U.S. economic activity.

Claims that climate change is making flooding worse are untenable, not supported by the data. Such claims are also unsupported by the supposedly authoritative bodies charged with examining the impacts of “human-caused” climate change.

For example, in the 2018 National Climate Assessment (NCA) published by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the agency stated, “Human-induced warming has not been formally identified as a factor in increased riverine flooding and the timing of any emergence of a future detectable human caused change is unclear.”

The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) assessment concurs with NOAA’s. The IPCC reports having “low confidence” that there is even a “sign” of change in the frequency or severity of flooding. The IPCC also has “low confidence” that climate change affects flooding at all. Some regions of the world have had more flooding, others less. Neither trend can be attributed to global climate change, per the IPCC.

A study of flooding in the United States and Europe published in the Journal of Hydrology states, “The number of significant [flooding] trends was about the number expected due to chance alone.”

The science on flooding and climate change indicates flood costs aren’t rising as a percentage of GDP and there is no evidence floods are increasing as a result of climate change.

Meanwhile, research published in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (BAMS) finds West Antarctica has recently cooled significantly, indicating the ongoing glacial decline there is driven by factors other than global warming.

The team of researchers from China and Australia examined a variety of datasets, including reconstructed sea surface temperatures from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and monthly mean surface data from the Byrd station (“the only WAIS [West Antarctic Ice Sheet] station with complete long-term temperature records from 1958 to 2021”), to calculate the West Antarctic temperature trends. The scientists found West Antarctica’s mean annual surface temperatures cooled by more than -1.8°C (-0.93°C per decade) from 1999 to 2018, which many climate alarmists have proclaimed the warmest two decades on record. The spring temperature decline on the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) was even steeper, cooling at a rate of 1.84°C per decade in that period.

The WAIS cooling in the last 2 decades is consistent with what has occurred on the continent as a whole: an approximately 1°C per decade cooling trend since 1999.

None of Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6 models used and cited by the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change predicted or reflects the Antarctic cooling trend, either for the continent as a whole or for its various regions.

The Central Pacific and Eastern Pacific regions have also experienced significant cooling trends so far this century. The BAMS study suggests Antarctica’s temperatures and climate are dominated by various ocean current oscillations, primarily the Pacific Decadal Oscillation shifting from a negative to a positive phase, that have swamped any possible effect of increases in CO2 concentrations.

This trend, with its lack of conformity to the models’ predictions, implies substantial uncertainties in future temperature projections of CMIP6 models.

CIA Media Outlet Sure Wishes Some Brave Democrat Would Assassinate Donald Trump

Posted by The Tradesman on December 6, 2023 at 1:51pm

Source; MEROBERTM

The Washington Post has just published the most blatant piece of Trump assassination porn that we’ve ever seen. The Post’s Editor-at-Large, a guy named Robert Kagan, wrote an op-ed in which he joins the hysterical likes of MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough in huffing about how Trump will be worse than Hitler if he gets back in office and democracy will be permanently ended and blah blah blah.

These demonic calls for assassinating President Trump are always couched as questions… “What if?” But the real purpose is to try to stir up some lone gunman or some MK-ULTRA windup toy so that he or she will make a real assassination attempt.

Kagan’s new piece in the Washington Post is titled, “A Trump dictatorship is increasingly inevitable. We should stop pretending.”

As Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) noted on Twitter, the CIA is now greenlighting the assassination of President Trump.

For those who don’t know, all of the intelligence agencies in the federal government have favorite media outlets that they use to propagandize the American people and push their ideas on us. It’s like Operation Mockingbird on steroids these days. The intel agencies have reporters, anchors, and hosts on the payroll who are used to push the federal government’s foreign policy objectives on the people.

For example, when the FBI wants to illegally leak something to the public, where does the information always come out first? It’s in one of two places: Either the New York Times, or Yahoo News (the Russian potty dossier). The NSA uses NBC News. The National Intelligence Council uses CBS News. Having worked at ABC News for 12 years, I can personally attest to the fact that the Pentagon and the Department of Defense prefer to use that outlet to propagandize Americans.

And for the CIA, the outlet that they prefer to use is the Washington Post. We joke about the Washington Post being “Jeff Bezos’s blog” ever since he purchased the paper, but which tech company does the CIA rely on for all its cloud computing needs and AI technology? That would be Amazon, which is owned by Jeff Bezos.

Everybody who works in permanent Washington, DC knows that the CIA propagandizes the American people via the Washington Post. That’s why Matt Gaetz immediately called out this Robert Kagan assassination porn the way he did.

Kagan concludes in his piece that Donald Trump winning the Republican nomination is a foregone conclusion at this point. He also frets that Trump is now leading Joe Biden by every conceivable metric and in every poll to win the presidency back next year. Because of that, he’s suggesting through this CIA hit piece that Donald Trump should get the Julius Caesar treatment, for the good of the republic.

Kagan writes:

“If we thought there was a 50 percent chance of an asteroid crashing into North America a year from now, would we be content to hope that it wouldn’t? Or would we be taking every conceivable measure to try to stop it, including many things that might not work but that, given the magnitude of the crisis, must be tried anyway?”

Every conceivable measure? Gee, what could that mean?

“Will those who balked at resisting Trump when the risk was merely political oblivion suddenly discover their courage when the cost might be the ruin of oneself and one’s family?”

He makes this sound like Trump is going to lock up his family, when the reality is much more likely that Trump is going to fire Robert Kagan’s wife on day one of his new administration. Kagan is married to Acting Deputy Secretary of State Victoria Nuland. You may recognize Nuland’s name from some of America’s most disastrous foreign policy failures of the past two decades.

Nuland was the CIA and the State Department’s author and instigator of such hits as the Iraq War, the Arab Spring, the biolabs in Ukraine and the Ukraine war with Russia, a failed coup attempt in Sudan last summer, and the loss of the US dollar as the world’s reserve currency. She’s one of those people who has been “failing upward” in the Washington, DC apparatus for the past two decades. And her CIA shill of a husband is calling for Donald Trump to be assassinated.

“Every conceivable measure.”

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"Every man who loves peace, every man who loves his country, every man who loves liberty, ought to have it ever before his eyes, that he may cherish in his heart a due attachment to the Union of America, and be able to set a due value on the means of preserving it." —James Madison (1788) As Harry Truman said: "Show me a politician who got rich while in office, and I will show you a Crook."

Help Stop Draconian ATF Universal Registration Checks rule by the ATF

Posted by The Tradesman on December 6, 2023 at 3:57am

Help stop the Draconian ATF proposed rules on Universal Registration Checks that could make every gun owner subject to the same rules as someone who is engaged in the business as a dealer in Firearms and subject to all the ATF rules and regulations. Here is a link to the page that needs people to sign. Gun Owners of America just submitted their own comments opposing the proposed Universal Registration Checks rule to the ATF.

Link; https://hosted-page.civiclick.com/?campaign_ref=4225

The ATF wants to expand the dealer regulations to any private gun owner who sells a firearm to another private person and subject those gun owners to the complete rules and regulations of actual Dealers complete with the penalties for mistakes and non compliance. It's a complete ruse to disarm Americans, and criminalize innocent gun owners. IMHO!

GOP for Thee

Posted by The Tradesman on December 4, 2023 at 9:15am

Source; Sent from a friend....... our country has been put in danger from within!!!!!

Serious mistakes, ones that drag on and pile up, have accumulated a big past-due bill for America. But government glorifiers in all left-wing media and every public sector have camouflaged recognition of these mistakes, giving people denials and rationalizations instead.

For example, biden's inflation making grocery shopping stressful and putting home ownership out of reach for most younger Americans? Oh, no, that’s actually not happening. We’re in the era of triumphant bidenomics.

The ny times’ paul krugman declared that: “The war on inflation is over. We won, at very little cost.” Common sense says inflation is a problem for Americans who are not eating, not using gas or electricity, and not living under a roof. krugman demonstrated that an economist awarded the Nobel Prize for Economics can double as a clown.

Has biden’s foreign policy been creating one American humiliation after another, now risking American direct involvement in wars east and west? Don’t worry! The left-wing doesn’t see looming crises repeating the patterns of past ones. Frailty in the face of villainy is now a pretty olive branch.

Are U.S. taxpayers being forced to support surging millions of benefits-seeking illegal immigrants displacing low-wage Americans--IF those immigrants work, and IF they pay taxes--while many employable professionals wait long years to immigrate to America legally? Relax! The goal is more indentured voters for liberals/democrats, and that goal’s being achieved. A left-wing plutocracy doesn’t need a middle class.

What about left-wing/democrat-ruled cities’ crime waves fueled by prosecutors who refuse to prosecute repeat criminals? What crime waves!? george soros is financing that “social justice,” and as a far leftist multi-billionaire, former nazi and destroyer of Asian economies, he must know what he’s doing, right?

But once again many voters will probably be more worried about Trump than they are about the rot he campaigns against, more bothered by alarmism and mean tweets than by alarming realities. And as more people flee the failing under non-governing government and aggressively pardoned crime, many of them perversely bring their politics along with them to new homes. Why do so many of the people fleeing vote again for the ruinous politics they fled? Poor memory, poor education, poor thinking?

Prosperity, it seems, can breed ideological sociopathy. It's those who usually become the major figures in leftist activism, participating in multiple left-wing terrorist acts, or who go a long way with left-wing politics no matter how much it fails and how much it destroys. You might have noticed that with $33 trillion of ignored debt, government schools indoctrinating children in neo-marxist dogma, presidents who behave like geriatric teenagers, an economy tethered to Chinese communist autocracy, and repeat criminals put back on city streets to ply their trade.

America has a hard-to-defeat voting left-wing now. The Disaster Coalition. It’s a satisfied bloc of college-educated virtue posers, tenured government and education payrollers, the government-dependent couch-committed, scot-free shoplifters and their enablers, plus other people deficient in basic math, language, knowledge-acquiring skills. This broad population is difficult to beat politically.

We need a better model in favoring a:

1. federal government that prefers not to put every state and community at the mercy of as many know-it-all federal bureaucrats as possible

2. constitution written carefully by learned freethinkers who’d abandoned and rejected British royalty (as opposed to the neo-royalist disdainers of the constitution who’ve been gaining power over our past 75 years

3. economy focused on a productive private sector rather than the Venezuelan marxist economy destroyed by hugo chávez’s

4. non-socialist government prosecution of actual crimes rather than thought crimes

But thanks to shrewd maniplulating marketing by leftist bumper sticker marketers and the ego-driven distemper of a reality-TV guys.

But we can still vote and try the following to defeat left-wing's Disaster Coalition:

1. Point out that all liberals/democrats known to covet the 2024 presidential nomination have serious inadequacies in capacity or character. Just look at them. One is a life-long blithering dunce whose 1st presidential campaign (36 years ago!) ended because he was caught having delivered an impassioned autobiographical campaign speech that was actually the speech of a British politician. Not many people remember, but this man was a blithering dunce long before he began suffering from infirmity. Then there’s his VP, who’s gained fame for her cackling and baby talk. Then there’s the smiling, empty performer who, as Mayor of San Francisco and now Governor of California, has gone to great lengths to trash his state and appears to be a motorized mannequin. Then there’s the governor who cut his personal property taxes by removing toilets from a mansion, gave big vote-winning checks to Black churches, and now gobbles up Illinois’ resources (and much else). Then there’s...etc.

2. Don’t nominate the only current-Republican politician who disturbs people with low-information but high-sensitivity to mean tweets, even if you admire his recent hostility to the left-wing party. A 2024 Trump vs. Name-Your-Leftist-Nitwit election would be the most substance-less, nation-roiling election since...well, since the last one.

3. You can make the case for Ron DeSantis over Nikki Halley, Halley over Vivek Ramaswamy, Ramaswamy over DeSantis, or any other viable Republican candidate. But just review the streets and management of New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland, and so on. Then take a long look at the left-wing/democrat candidate and use your imagination.

4. Recall why Reagan was so electable and admirable. Or, if you recall or care to research it, go back further to Eisenhower. You’ll find that those presidents provided general stability, progress, and confidence in America’s future. Neither was capable of such incompetence as, for instance, fueling ruinous inflation, then refueling it through a pseudonymous inflation reduction act.

That’s not so difficult.

Additional info:

https://www.foxnews.com/media/wall-street-journal-savages-bidenomics-costs-thanksgiving-dinner

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/saraharnold/2023/11/22/you-can-thank-pete-buttigieg-for-your-thanksgiving-travel-nightmares-n2631571

https://johnkassnews.com/can-holiday-shopping-co-exist-with-violent-crime/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=can-holiday-shopping-co-exist-with-violent-crim

https://thefederalist.com/2023/11/23/will-america-heed-the-warnings-of-panamas-violent-riots/

https://www.outkick.com/best-of-trans-community-is-being-exploited-for-fundraising-bobby-burackbest-of/

https://thefederalist.com/2023/11/21/elon-musk-should-sue-media-matters-into-oblivion/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=elon-musk-should-sue-media-matters-into-oblivion&utm_term=2023-11-21

https://thefederalist.com/2023/11/20/washington-post-reinvents-its-biden-family-corruption-standard-to-cover-for-the-big-guy/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=washington-post-reinvents-its-biden-family-corruption-standard-to-cover-for-the-big-guy&utm_term=2023-11-20

https://nypost.com/2023/11/22/opinion/the-feds-censorship-machine-rolls-on-even-as-election-fraud-cases-keep-coming-to-light/

https://thefederalist.com/2023/11/23/media-launder-stories-like-the-fentanyl-letters-to-blame-republicans-for-everything/

https://cdn.mrc.org/static/pdfuploads/Soros+Printed+Digital+Report_FINAL.pdf-1699558535143.pdf

https://www.dailywire.com/news/sage-steele-blasts-espn-for-silencing-her-the-opposite-of-equity-tolerance-inclusion

UN and Hamas: Partners in Crime

Posted by The Tradesman on December 4, 2023 at 8:47am

Source; by Robert Williams December 4, 2023 at 5:00 am

To understand how the UN effectively runs the Hamas propaganda war, it is important to know that the UN, through its agency for Palestinian refugees, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), is effectively embedded with Hamas in the Gaza Strip...
"The UN has 13,000 employees in tiny Gaza. They know exactly what's going on... They all knew Hamas' terror infrastructure was in the hospital compound, where Israel wouldn't attack. They lied to the world for 16 years. To paint Israel as evil." — Hillel Neuer, Executive Director of UN Watch, November 16, 2023.
[T]he UN has sustained an incessant campaign, especially on social media, that accuses Israel of deliberately targeting schools, children, civilians, hospitals and healthcare workers. While those are protected from attack during war by international law, that protection does not apply to schools, hospitals and other civilian sites that are used for military purposes.
When Israel carried out an airstrike on an ambulance in northern Gaza, which was being used by Hamas terrorists, [UN Secretary-General António] Guterres expressed that he was "horrified" with Israel's action, while ignoring Hamas's war crimes. In practice, the UN and Hamas act as partners in crime.
Above all, the UN's transparent complicity with Hamas should convince the US, finally, that much of the UN is a destructive organization that prolongs wars, and needs immediately to have its funding decimated, and be reduced in importance to the corrupt relic that it is, deserving no place in this century.
When a rocket fired by Palestinian Islamic Jihad exploded outside Gaza's Al-Ahli hospital, Hamas claimed within minutes that Israel had bombed the hospital and falsely asserted that hundreds of people had been killed there. The United Nations rushed to blame Israel, and UN Secretary-General António Guterres used his speech at the Belt and Road Summit in China to condemn Israel for the explosion. Pictured: The parking lot of Al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza on October 18, 2023 after a rocket launched by Palestinian Islamic Jihad landed there. (Photo by Shadi Al-Tabatibi/AFP via Getty Images)
Since October 7, when Hamas terrorists invaded southern Israel and massacred at least 1,200 and kidnapped another 240 Israelis and people of other nationalities, the United Nations has been acting as the unofficial propaganda arm of the Iranian-backed Hamas terrorist organization.
The propaganda campaign's main aim – besides smearing Israel – appears to be to build overwhelming international pressure on Israel to agree to an indefinite ceasefire , which will give Hamas the needed time to regroup and replenish to continue its terrorist activities and to avoid being eliminated by the Israeli Defense Forces.
To understand how the UN effectively runs the Hamas propaganda war, it is important to know that the UN, through its agency for Palestinian refugees, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), is effectively embedded with Hamas in the Gaza Strip: it can be difficult to make any meaningful distinction between the two organizations. On October 7, in fact, as the Hamas massacre of civilians in Israel unfolded, UNRWA employees in Gaza celebrated. UN Watch wrote in a report last month:
"As soon as news of the horrific slaughter broke, which was livestreamed on social media by some of the terrorists, United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) staff immediately celebrated and justified it on Facebook... UNRWA has been a breeding ground for Palestinian terrorists from its early days... The perpetrators of the 1972 Munich Olympic Massacre, in which 11 Israeli athletes were murdered... almost all were raised and educated in UNRWA schools... Likewise, Mohamed Deif, the commander of Hamas's Al Qassem Brigades who masterminded the October 7th massacre, was also educated in an UNRWA school."
According to Associated Press:
"From 2014-2020, U.N. agencies spent nearly $4.5 billion in Gaza, including $600 million in 2020 alone. More than 80% of that funding is channeled through the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees, who make up three-fourths of Gaza's population. Some 280,000 children in Gaza attend schools run by UNRWA, which also provides health services and food aid."
The UN, through UNRWA in Gaza, likely knows everything that happens there, including the terrorist infrastructure of the underground Hamas tunnels and their use of hospitals and ambulances. Yet throughout this war, the UN has done nothing but feign "horror and shock" at Israel's necessary measures against Hamas terrorists embedded within civilian society in Gaza. As the executive director of UN Watch, Hillel Neuer, pointed out:
"The UN has 13,000 employees in tiny Gaza. They know exactly what's going on... They all knew Hamas' terror infrastructure was in the hospital compound, where Israel wouldn't attack. They lied to the world for 16 years. To paint Israel as evil."
On October 24, UN Secretary-General António Guterres stooped to a new low when pushing a typical Hamas narrative of grievances. He said that the October 7 attacks "did not happen in a vacuum," thereby seemingly justifying the terrorist attacks. Meanwhile, the UN has not bothered in the least to address in concrete and horrifying detail what happened during the October 7 massacre – the mass rapes, the horrific torture, the ruthless murders and the kidnappings.
This silence on what happened on October 7 is, sadly, in keeping with the UN's demonization of Israel around the clock. The UN invokes international humanitarian law – which Hamas, not Israel, is breaking by building military installations in protected civilian spaces (which, when used for military purposes become unprotected) and using civilians as human shields. Meanwhile, the UN never calls for Hamas to stop using its civilians as human shields to protect its weapons and show dead babies to the television cameras – to imply that their deaths were Israel's fault.
Why are Gazan civilians not allowed to take shelter from aerial bombardments in Hamas's 300 km of underground tunnels? Why did the Israel Defense Forces have to protect the Gazans fleeing south for their lives -- as Israel had cautioned them to -- while Hamas tried at gunpoint to prevent them from leaving?
Everything that the UN says and does regarding to Israel's military operations in Gaza turns Hamas's war crimes on their head -- to try to blame them on Israel. Meanwhile, the UN parrots as fact whatever outlandish claims Hamas produces, including Gazan casualty numbers, which oddly never include any mention of Hamas terrorists, but mostly women and children.
When Hamas claimed on October 17 that Israel had bombed Gaza's Al-Ahli hospital, falsely asserting that hundreds of people had been killed, the UN rushed to blame Israel. Guterres used his speech at the Belt and Road Summit in China to condemn Israel for the explosion outside the hospital and to call for an immediate ceasefire, while Dennis Francis, president of the 78th session of the UN General Assembly announced that he was "shocked and horrified."
On October 18, Israel published evidence showing that the strike on the hospital compound was a misfired rocket aimed at Israel and launched by Palestinian Islamic Jihad. The UN said nothing. Instead, the UN has sustained an incessant campaign, especially on social media, that accuses Israel of deliberately targeting schools, children, civilians, hospitals and healthcare workers. While those are protected from attack during war by international law, that protection does not apply to schools, hospitals and other civilian sites that are used for military purposes.
Hamas' unlawful military use of hospitals, schools and other civilian sites was first exposed years ago. Former US President Bill Clinton spoke about it in 2016. "When Hamas chooses to rocket Israel, it insinuates itself into hospitals and into schools," he said.
NATO published a report in 2019, which bluntly stated:
"Hamas, an Islamist militant group and the de facto governing authority of the Gaza Strip, has been using human shields in conflicts with Israel since 2007. According to the Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC), the war crime of using human shields encompasses "utilizing the presence of a civilian or other protected person to render certain points, areas, or military forces immune from military operations." Hamas has launched rockets, positioned military-related infrastructure-hubs and routes, and engaged the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) from, or in proximity to, residential and commercial areas.
"The strategic logic of human shields has two components. It is based on an awareness of Israel's desire to minimise collateral damage, and of Western public opinion's sensitivity towards civilian casualties. If the IDF uses lethal force and causes an increase in civilian casualties, Hamas can utilise that as a lawfare tool: it can accuse Israel of committing war crimes, which could result in the imposition of a wide array of sanctions. Alternatively, if the IDF limits its use of military force in Gaza to avoid collateral damage, Hamas will be less susceptible to Israeli attacks, and thereby able to protect its assets while continuing to fight."
When Israel carried out an airstrike on an ambulance in northern Gaza, which was being used by Hamas terrorists, Guterres expressed that he was "horrified" with Israel's action, while ignoring Hamas's war crimes. In practice, the UN and Hamas act as partners in crime.
A Hamas terrorist who participated in the October 7 mass-murder of Israelis and was captured, said during a recent interrogation intercepted by Israel:
"Al-Qassam [the Hamas military wing] has its own ambulances, some of which are located on the military base. The appearance of the ambulances is similar to the civilian ambulances so that they will not arouse suspicion or be bombed by Israel."
Another captured Hamas terrorist said:
"During combat, the ambulances are used, among other things, to evacuate fighters, commanders and operatives. They also transport food, cargo and weapons in them because that is the safest way to transport them."
Yet another captured terrorist said that ambulances were useful to transport "important people" such as Hamas commanders because "the Jews don't attack ambulances."
When Israel published evidence of the Hamas military command center beneath Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, World Health Organization Director Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who covered up the transmissibility of the COVID-19 pandemic for China and is accused of trying to cover up three cholera epidemics in Ethiopia, immediately castigated Israel.
UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Martin Griffiths, wrote:
"I'm appalled by reports of military raids in Al Shifa hospital in #Gaza. The protection of newborns, patients, medical staff and all civilians must override all other concerns. Hospitals are not battlegrounds."
While these high-ranking UN officials disingenuously feign ignorance and expect the public to believe that they knew nothing about the Hamas base in Al-Shifa Hospital, foreign doctors and journalists have apparently been aware of it for years.
An unnamed British doctor, who worked at Al-Shifa hospital three years ago, recently said in a television interview:
"The main point was, when I was first asked to work there [at Al-Shifa], I was told there was a part of the hospital I was not to go near, and if I did, I'd be in danger of being shot... implicit was that it was being used for non-medical purposes... I stayed away, but I saw a few dodgy looking non-medical characters going in and out all the time. It was a ward leading to a basement."
A journalist from Italy related that in 2009, upon arriving in Al-Shifa Hospital to interview wounded members of Fatah, he came almost face to face with the Hamas command and control center beneath the hospital:
"Shifa is a very large compound. I got lost inside it, and at some point I ended up on an underground floor, and I found myself in front of two armed Hamas men in military attire, who told me to get out. I got the impression they were guarding a security door that gave access to their underground infrastructure. Several Palestinian sources I spoke with later on confirmed that Hamas's command and control center was located under Shifa Hospital and that [Hamas leader] Ismail Haniyeh had been hiding there throughout the duration of Operation Cast Lead."
It is also likely that the UN, with its 13,000 employees in Gaza, knew, as did the nurses and doctors at Al-Shifa Hospital, that Israeli hostages were being held at Al-Shifa. Israel recently revealed that Hamas terrorists brought hostages there in broad daylight on October 7, with healthcare staff even holding doors open for the terrorists.
The UN's pretend show of "shock and horror" that Israel is eliminating its Hamas partner in Gaza is too transparent for anyone to take seriously, although the international mainstream media certainly does, parroting whatever Hamas and the UN allege as facts.
Above all, the UN's transparent complicity with Hamas should convince the US, finally, that much of the UN is a destructive organization that prolongs wars, and needs immediately to have its funding decimated, and be reduced in importance to the corrupt relic that it is, deserving no place in this century.
Robert Williams is a researcher based in the United States.

Federal Court Delivers Historic Decision – This Ruling Is Terrible News for Illegals

Posted by The Tradesman on December 2, 2023 at 12:51pm

Source; By Mick Farthing|November 29, 2023

Federal Court Delivers Historic Decision – This Ruling Is Terrible News for Illegals

Since 2021, the United States has struggled with a massive influx of illegal immigration. An estimated 5 million migrants have entered the country illegally.

Border states have become overwhelmed, claiming the federal government refuses to help.

Some states are taking matters into their own hands. They are even looking for ways to deport the most dangerous of these border jumpers. And a new federal court ruling could eliminate a major hurdle.

From Just the News:
A panel of the Ninth Circuit Court ruled Miranda rights don’t apply to warrant-backed civil immigration arrests, holding up an order to deport a Mexican citizen who had argued he was coerced into admitting his illegal status under an administrative warrant. Miranda rights are the formal warning given by law enforcement to individuals in custody of their right to silence and an attorney.

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals decided that Miranda rights are not applicable to arrests involving illegal immigrants. A Mexican citizen tried to get out of a deportation order, claiming he was coerced into admitting his illegal status while being questioned by law enforcement.

But the court decided that, because he was facing a “civil deportation proceeding” and not a “criminal trial,” the Miranda warnings do not apply.

Part of the Miranda rights read to people being arrested is that they have the right not to speak and can ask for an attorney. But it is a question of whether a non-citizen, especially one in the country illegally, has access to those rights.

In the case of deportation hearings, the court ruled an illegal immigrant does not. This can pave the way for states to take strong action in apprehending and deporting border jumpers.

It is common for immigration activists to provide legal protection to aliens who came to the U.S. illegally. These lawyers have long used the legal system to help ensure border jumpers can stay in the U.S., often finding loopholes to protect them.

This ruling could prevent these activists from exploiting the legal system for the interests of outsiders.

States like Texas have been fighting to find ways of protecting the border, absent the support of the federal government. A Supreme Court ruling prohibits state governments from deporting illegal aliens. But rulings like this might open a path for border states to better protect their residents.

Key Takeaways:

A federal court ruled against an illegal alien fighting a civil deportation order.
The court decided that the Miranda rights did not have to be read for the proceedings.
This comes as millions of illegal aliens entered the country since 2021.

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In Gaza

Posted by The Tradesman on November 29, 2023 at 4:42pm

Source; Sent from a friend...............

The ceasefire on Gaza- whether it lasts four days, 11, or much longer - is a disaster for Israel on every level.

Symbolically: By agreeing to a hostages-for-prisoners swap, Israel has implicitly agreed the Palestinian criminals in its prisons are no different than the civilians that hamas’s terrorists grabbed from their beds and homes.

Militarily/Tactically: The pause gives hamas’s fighters a chance to rest after weeks of bombardment, rebuild their defenses, and rearm. Worse, Israel has lost the chance to force the action. hamas decides whether to keep the ceasefire in place by releasing more hostages; Israel has no choice in the matter.

Militarily/Strategically: By agreeing to a ceasefire so soon, Israel enables its critics to question if the invasion was necessary at all - especially because it has failed to capture any senior hamas commanders and killed only one. Even the most fervent Israeli partisan cannot justify killing thousands of civilians to take out the equivalent of one mid-level general.

Morally: Most importantly, Israel has squandered what is left of the world’s sympathy for it. It should have told Hamas that the taking of hostages was a war crime and it would never agree to a ceasefire as long as hamas held them. It should have drawn that line and stuck to it. It should have repeated over and over: As long as hamas holds hostages, Israel views all of Gaza as a legitimate military target.

Once the ceasefire ends (again, on hamas’s timetable), Israel will be stuck in the worst of all possible places. In reality, though, Israel will face an impossible choice: to push deeper into Gaza - and face even more civilian casualties and worldwide outrage - or to pull back, without coming close to achieving its goal of destroying Hamas.

The deal is so terrible that it raises the question how the Israeli government could possibly agreed to it. One possibility is that the biden regime - despite its public support for Israel - essentially forced it to do so. Another, more hopeful, is that Israel has reached secret side deals with major Arab countries that will help it eliminate hamas’s leadership - and quickly, in months, not years.

But the 3rd is that as pressure from inside Israel to release the hostages grew, Netanyahu buckled, instead of telling his people the truth - that allowing the hostages to be taken was a failure, and he would not compound it by making a terrible deal to release them, as innocent as they are.

Worry about Israel's future. As things stand, it has shown that it cannot protect its civilians yet has also managed to turn much of the world against it through its bombardment of Gaza.

Maybe Israel and Netanyahu have a secret plan. Maybe they have a pinky promise from Qataris that hamas’s leaders will be shipped to Tel Aviv for speedy trial and even speedier execution. At this moment, things look grim.

Additional Info:

https://spectator.org/israel-lost-the-initiative/

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-palestine-war-freed-palestinian-children-fellow-prisoners-tortured-death

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/11/curing_jews_of_leftism.html

Show Me The Money

Posted by The Tradesman on November 29, 2023 at 4:40pm

Source; Sent from a friend..............

“The Third Way, the intervention of the state into private enterprise, an amalgam of big-business and big-government and big-law firms, does not combine the best features of either socialism or capitalism. There is no evidence that when it was tried it met the expectations of the planners or improved the conditions it set to correct."---Ludwig von Mises

"A free society cannot coexist with a redistributive state-there is no 'Third Way'; people must be vigilant to ensure that majorities are prevented from violating the rights of minorities in the name of distributive justice."---J. A. Dorn

"Perhaps the most painful aspect of reforming a socialist society lies in the values, attitudes and habits of the work force. For years, people will have been taught that private property means exploitation and that socialism means a welfare state, an egalitarian distribution of income, permanent job security, and low prices. In other words, people will have learned to let government take care of them."---G. Schroeder

"Socialism needs an unending series of crisis's to justify the taking away of our liberties and controlling our lives, which never returns to its previous fullness, if at all. And when there isn't even a scent of a crisis, the socialist will work to create the perception of one."--John Lefler

The bottom 50%, generally households with net worth of $166,000 or less before the pandemic, now hold a bigger share of the nation’s wealth than they’ve had for 20 years, the Federal Reserve estimates. Their collective net worth, $3.73 trillion, has almost doubled in 2 years and is more than 10 times higher than in 2011, the nadir after the last recession, according to bloomberg.com.

Who is poor in America? This is not an easy question to answer. It's hard because there's no conclusive definition of poverty. Low income matters, though how low is unclear. Poverty is also a mind-set that fosters self-defeating behavior -- bad work habits, family breakdown, out-of-wedlock births and addictions. Finally, poverty also results from lousy luck: accidents, job losses, disability.

Despite poverty's messiness, we've tended to measure progress against it by a single statistic, the federal poverty line. It is the Agriculture Department's estimated cost for a bare-bones -- but adequate -- diet and multiplied it by three. That figure is adjusted annually for inflation. In 2008, the poverty threshold was $21,834 for a four-member family with two children under 18. It has stayed in a narrow range for decades. In 2007 -- the peak of the last business cycle -- the poverty rate was 12.5%. In 1969, another business cycle peak, the poverty rate was 12.1% percent. The apparent lack of progress is misleading for two reasons.

1st, it ignores immigration, which has increased reported poverty. Many immigrants are poor and low-skilled. From 1989 to 2007, about 75% of the increase in the poverty population occurred among Hispanics -- mostly immigrants. The poverty rate for blacks fell during this period, though it was still much too high (24.5% in 2007). Poverty "experts" don't dwell on immigration, because it implies that more restrictive policies might reduce U.S. poverty.

2nd, the poor's material well-being has improved. The official poverty measure obscures this by counting only pre-tax cash income and ignoring other sources of support. These include the earned-income tax credit (a rebate to low-income workers), food stamps, health insurance (Medicaid), and housing and energy subsidies. Spending by poor households from all sources can double their reported income. Although many poor live hand-to-mouth, they've had rising living standards. In 2005, 91% had microwaves, 795 air conditioning and 48% cellphones.

The existing poverty line could be improved by adding some income sources and subtracting some expenses (example: child care). Unfortunately, BObama’s proposal for a "supplemental poverty measure" -- to complement, not replace, the existing poverty line -- goes beyond these changes. The new poverty number would compound public confusion. It appears that this is being done for a political agenda. The "supplemental measure" ties the poverty threshold to what the poorest third of Americans spend on food, housing, clothes and utilities. The actual threshold -- not yet calculated -- will almost certainly be higher than today's poverty line. Moreover, the new definition has strange consequences. Suppose that all Americans doubled their incomes tomorrow, and suppose that their spending on food, clothing, housing and utilities also doubled. That would seem to signify less poverty -- but not by the new poverty measure. It wouldn't decline, because the poverty threshold would go up as spending went up. Many Americans would find this weird: People get richer but "poverty" stays stuck.

What produces this outcome is a different view of poverty. The present concept is an absolute one: The poverty threshold reflects the amount estimated to meet basic needs. By contrast, the supplemental measure embraces a relative notion of poverty: People are automatically poor if they're a given distance from the top, even if their incomes are increasing. The idea is that they suffer psychological deprivation by being far outside the mainstream. The math of this relative definition makes it hard for people at the bottom ever to escape "poverty." This is simply the liberal ideology of socialism being applied through the tactic of class warfare

The new indicator is a propaganda device to promote income redistribution by deceptively claiming that poverty is stubborn or increasing. The In 2008, the traditional poverty rate was 13.2% percent; estimates of the new statistic range up to 17%. The new poverty statistic exceeds the old, and the gap grows larger over time. To paraphrase the late democrat Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan: BObama is attempting to define poverty up. It's legitimate to debate how much we should aid the poor or try to reduce economic inequality. But the debate should not be skewed by misleading statistics that not one American in 100,000 could possibly understand. Government statistics should strive for political neutrality. This one fails.

"If you're a typical American, the truth is that poverty, for you, will be a short-lived experience. The U.S. Census, whose job it is to count all Americans regardless of their economic situation, says so!...That's not to say that poverty isn't a problem. For the vast majority of Americans, it is however best described as a very temporary condition. The only way it could become permanent is if the government acts to put well-intentioned barriers in the way of those seeking to leave poverty behind. And how do we know that isn't what's kept those chronic 2.8% of the U.S. population in their impoverished conditions"---Political Calculations

"I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion of the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it…I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer." --Benjamin Franklin

"We have now reached the point where the great majority of the people living below the official poverty level have such things as air-conditioning, microwave ovens, cell phones, DVD players, and own either a car or a truck. Why are such people called 'poor'? Because they meet the arbitrary criteria established by Washington bureaucrats. ... Those who believe in an expansive, nanny state government need a large number of people in 'poverty' to justify their programs. They also need a large number of people dependent on government to provide the votes needed to keep the big nanny state going." --Thomas Sowell

Nicholas Eberstadt points out that America's official poverty rate-for over 4+ decades, the main indicator for the Trillions of tax dollars spent on antipoverty programs, is an outdated and badly broken index. Its built-in defects make it incapable of providing accurate information about poverty trends. Poverty has become a relative, rather than an absolute, concept, unsatisfied wants are usually no longer physical needs but the results of civilization.

Essentially the data matches a family's reported annual income against a "poverty threshold" -a hypothetical bare-bones budget, based on household size and composition, which is adjusted with the inflation rate. The government's aim is to track absolute poverty rather than relative poverty or inequality.

What is wrong with the official poverty rate? It measures the wrong thing and always has. That thing is income. Poverty is not a matter of income; it is a matter of consumption. “Rich” people can and do live in poverty. However, a huge gap separates income and consumption at the lower strata of our income distribution.

But let’s review the data. The latest data, according to the annual Bureau of Labor Statistics Consumer Expenditure Survey, show purchases by the poorest 20% of U.S. households were more than twice as high as their income. In fact the surfeit of spending over income among poorer U.S. households has increased dramatically since the 1970s-making income an ever less dependable predictor of living standards. Indeed, while the official poverty thresholds are meant to be constant over time, data confirms the fact that material conditions for our population in "poverty" have been steadily improving. The limited data Official statistics gather is incapable of documenting-or even recognizing any changes in living standards among America's poor.

According to official figures, America's poverty rate was 11.1% in 1973, at 11.4%; in 2020. This is nonsense. Does anyone seriously believe that a smaller fraction of Americans lived in poverty in 1973 than today?

The poverty threshold, in inflation adjusted dollars, for an individual 2020 is 9% lower than 1973, for a median family its 7.5% lower. But, according to the Census Bureau, real (inflation-adjusted) per capita income was 180% higher in 2020 than in 1973. Median family income was over 16%. There are fewer families being formed.The unemployment rate-a key driver of poverty was lower in 2019 (2020 was Covid) than in 1973 (3.6% versus 4.9%). Educational attainment (productivity potential) for the adult population was significantly higher in 2020, and government anti-poverty spending is now way more than 1973. In 2020 41% of those living in poverty were white, 28% were Hispanic, 24% were Black, and 4% were Asian.

All this in the wake of welfare reform that occurred under the guidance, work and effort of the Republican Congress in 1996, who forced b. j. clinton to sign the legislation reform they enacted. They believed that the results of moral decay that our broken welfare system fostered, including not only poverty but, hunger and unemployment too, could be reversed if the rules that encouraged them were changed. In other words, “Change you can believe in”. All the data show that not only poverty, hunger and unemployment dropped, but those on welfare too.

Yet once again, liberalism must intervene and regulate and undo the heart of welfare reform that gave us all the success identified above, to bring back all the aspects on welfare that helped cause all the problems discussed above. It is the idea at the core of that action, that an act of will can reinvent the human condition, which lies at the heart of ideologies that have caused untold human misery. A vision in truth of hopium and chains.

“Philanthropy, charity, voluntarism, activism, and care for the family and the poor are all related to the same impulses that drive the free-market: the peaceful and free association of people in the service of others...What happens when we are no longer able or inclined to defend the institutions and ideas that have enabled our prosperity and that still guarantee of freedom?”---Rev Robert Sirico

Additional Info:

https://www.heartland.org/news-opinion/news/widespread-poverty-stats-greatly-overstate-the-number-of-americans-who-are-destitute

For The Children

Posted by The Tradesman on November 29, 2023 at 4:34pm

Source; For the children Sent from a friend...........

By no global measure of social and economic well-being have we failed kids as the raging mad child spokesperson for the fake climate crisis, who spoke at the U.N; alleging man-made climate change was hurting children, with the left-wing media supporting her claims. According to HumanProgress.org, the global poverty rate fell from 28% in 1999 to 11% in 2013. Life expectancy increased from 63.2 years to 71.9 years from 1981 to 2015. The completion rate for primary school increased from 80% in 1981 to 90% in 2015. The same benign trends hold for hunger, child labor, literacy, and so on. If climate change proves a significant challenge, today’s youth will have more resources and technology to grapple with it than any other generation in the history of mankind. The mainstream media doesn’t mention any of this.

No wonder Gallup shows fewer Americans trust the mainstream left-wing media for unbiased and accurate information.

Additional Info:

https://freebeacon.com/energy/biden-admin-gave-3-billion-loan-to-solar-company-accused-of-scamming-elderly/

Woke Engineering

Posted by The Tradesman on November 29, 2023 at 4:32pm

Source; Sent from a friend..........

The Supreme Court has repudiated the claim that the dubious benefits claims, made without a proper accounting of their results and consequences, of diversity cannot override the Equal Protection clause of the 14th amendment. It's all out in the open now, no more hiding; the subterfusions of affirmative action are exposed and repudiated, after so long disguised as diversity, more recently amplified with equity and inclusion.

The touchstone of an individual's identity is challenges bested, skills built, and lesson learned, not the color of one's skin, which is merely a racist stereotype. As Gayle Heriot points out, to do such most often promotes putting people in a place where they are incapable of performing, hence creating serious negative consequences not only for all parties involved but for society as a whole. All that sneaking and lurking and defending and justifying window dressing for guilt-ridden liberal whites and votes for liberal politicians for so-called social justice merely wreaks havoc for all involved. Yet, in the name of the deceptive term "equity," US resources are moving to groups more closely identified with left-wing/democrats and taken away from groups that aren't. Federal courts all over the country overturn these provisions finding they are not compatible with constitutional equal protection. FOIA requests have revealed just how idiosyncratic and ideological is considerations can be. Enough catering to the lifelong chip on your shoulder like michelle obama

The expedient woke policies (aka social-engineering) of the left-wing, when put into practice, degenerate into social dysfunction, bureaucratic inefficiency, and political corruption. The impetus behind this is Western civilization's self-hatred movement through an uncompromising hatred of only Western tradition. Such self-hatred is most noticeable by how its worldview is so fervently embraced by the left-wing. Western self-hatred has become the core of left-wing ideology and the central bond of the left-wing, the "intersectional" glue that holds the left-wing together.

The central arguments of this movement are that whites in the West are responsible for all or most evil, and that this evil overshadows any alleged good works that might raise doubts about whether whites and Western tradition are appropriate hate figures, and most absurdly--like all marxist beliefs--is that this self-hatred also believes that those who disagree with its obviously false premise must be stigmatized as proof. And, of course, accordingly, any of self-hatred's ideologies or policies that fail are the result of the very presence of any who disagree, and never-ever-never its practioners or its ideas.

Civilizational self-hatred is a systemic, extreme, and and one sided criticism of the values, institutions, and history of one's own civilization which is not extended to other civilizations. The left-wing attacks the West or one of its component parts or systems, such as the traditional family, religion, the market economy or the criminal justice system, typically as a whole. if and when there arises a relevant issue or criticism that would more logically apply to particular persons, events, or issues instead.

For the self-hatred left-winger only revolutionary change can be considered as a remedy. For it there is no point in discussing the relative merits of incremental reforms, and little need to get into specifics of why proposed revolutionary changes will work better than the status quo. We'll work out the details once we dispose of the common enemy is its mindset. That helps paper over important conflicts that will occur, even between various groups of self-haters. It will always attempt to deny or tactically tone down such conflicts.

And of course other civilizations must be viewed as blameless victims of the West, they are to be either ignored or selectively flattered, largely based on their utility as potential allies in the struggle, and not upon germane, cogent facts. If it must, self-hatred will excuse and justify any and all sins of other cultures, again, except its own.

So, why are neo-liberals so easily seduced by a broader, open-ended self-hatred? What is so appealing about self-hatred?

Well, the left wing, with the pervasive tendency to think of the world in terms of groups rather than individuals, expects impossible perfectibility, easily obtained; in far reaching promises of progress that fundamentally corrects their perceived flaws and brings their world to an unobtainable utopia. It offers the illusion of a community of morally and intellectually superiority, on the cheap, and, therefore, the lesser the need to sweat the details or justify/prove their proposed alternatives as actually producing improvement. Self-hatred therefore offers the benefits of membership in the community with little burden of responsibility, other than ideological conformity. It conveniently offers a shield against the most difficult psychological steps - having to admit deep flaws in long-standing beliefs/commitments at the heart of one's self-image, of having to yield one's supposed moral/intellectual superiority, and even worse, having to admit one may have actually helped perpetrate new evils. As such this ideology easily morphs into double-standards compelling one to blame others even more harshly while ignoring one's own equivalent or worse flaws. The more one is dissatisfied with one's own life and with the surrounding society, the more tempting it is to blame the problems on a scapegoat, thereby simplifying the problem and avoiding the need to take responsibility for doing one's best in a complex world. So, the self-hatred people become a movement that takes great satisfaction from directing their frustrations outward at their contrived object of hate, especially when done within a community of fellow believers.

And of course an important driver is political expedience, or to use the left-wing's preferred term, power. Values and institutions deriving largely from Western traditions happened to be the main ideological rival of the West's self-hatred movement.

Incrementally cultivating and refining the West's traditional virtues and institutions - such as the pursuit of moral, educational, technical, and vocational excellence, religious devotion and community, decentralized charitable activities, the rule of law, the market economy, and democratic government rooted in a separation of powers - is not the alternative for the left-wing, only destroying them as a hate object to be superseded by an ever changing assortment of utopian fashions du jour.

Self-hatred makes it possible, not only to discredit its main ideological rival, but to attempt to rule out open, competitive discussion of its strengths and weaknesses and to target its supporters reputations, careers, and even physical safety. Such intimidation has its greatest success, not in direct attacks on targets, but in creating both a persuasive fear that silences so many, along with a thoroughgoing ignorance about the benefits offered by Western tradition.

This hatred, unconstrained by coherent ideals or succesful examples, has no clear standards for appraising or prioritizing its increasingly incoherent array of allied miniutopias - and merely defaults to its already failed, anti-traditional social-engineering in cultural hedonism and economic collectivism. The ideology serves only the privilege of the self-hating elites, while harming most of the less fortunate whom the self-haters falsely claim to represent. The bigotry, failure, and narcissism of the self-hating left wing could hardly be more blatant.

Similarly clear, but ignored by the self-hatred movement, is the universality and success of the tradition it demonizes, whose main progenitors are dismissed with ad hominem, racist argument that they are merely "dead white men." Despite the fact that they expoused timeless values of individual and communal virtue and excellence, were titanic, transformational exemplars of scientific and artistic excellence, world historical contributors to the development of a decentralized, rule-based vastly widepsread prosperous economic and successful political order, which seeks to treat all equally and thereby generates an open and competitive society that best promotes human flourishing.

Of course when reality "constrains" or "exposed" their promises, which it always does, the self-haters will desperately still cling to their ideology, powerfully addicting as it is to them.

"If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the government, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions. If anyone wishes to deny their truth or their soundness, the only direction in which he can proceed historically is not forward, but backward toward the time when there was no equality, no rights of the individual, no rule of the people. Those who wish to proceed in that direction cannot lay claim to progress. They are reactionary."--Calvin Coolidge.

Additional Info:

https://thefederalist.com/2023/11/17/disillusioned-black-voters-come-home-to-the-gop/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=disillusioned-black-voters-come-home-to-the-gop&utm_term=2023-11-17