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Source;  https://thepoliticsbrief.com/attorney-gen-ken-paxton-secretive-texas-court-has-blocked-me-from-prosecuting-voter-fraud/ . 

Attorney Gen. Ken Paxton: ‘Secretive’ Texas Court Has Blocked Me from Prosecuting Voter Fraud. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, fresh off his victory against a historic impeachment effort, is warning that it is impossible for him to prosecute voter fraud in the state due to a court ruling.

In an interview with Blaze Media’s Glenn Beck, Paxton said that the state’s elections are being threatened by district attorneys who will refuse to bring charges against those who commit voter fraud in 2024. 

“The Court of Appeals in the State of Texas, apparently now, you cannot prosecute voter fraud in Texas. Is that true?” Beck asked.

“Yes, that is correct,” Paxton replied. “They struck down a law from 1951, and by the way, I have four things that I’m supposed to do under the Constitution. The final thing is such things as are required by law. And in 1951, the legislature directed the Attorney General — it’s the only thing I have original jurisdiction on as it relates to criminal matters, was voter fraud and the Court of Criminal Appeals.”. 

“All Republican, by the way,” he continued, “And by the way, nobody knows who they are. This is why I think they’ve been put there, and I’m convinced they’re not Republicans because they struck down this law, and it said, ‘I don’t have the authority to go to court as Attorney General, because I’m in the executive branch.’ That was their rationale for striking down, saying it’s ‘unconstitutional’ for the Attorney General to be in court. I’m like, is that the most insane decision ever?”

“But they did it and now it’s up to the local DAs to prosecute it,” he noted.

“Oh my gosh,” Beck exclaimed.  

“The Travis County, the Dallas County, the Harris County, which is Houston, Bexar County stands up — they’re not going to prosecute voter fraud. Guess what? They just opened up voter fraud and the people of Texas need to know that. And there’s three of the nine members up coming up in March for a primary. We have to find people to run and we have to beat those people or we are going to lose the state. I tried to get this law passed again so that I could start doing it again and make them strike it down again. And guess who killed it? Dave Phelan. I called them. He never returned my calls, but I was told by his team that they didn’t have time to pass this law…”

“Oh my gosh,” Beck exclaimed again.

“That’s where we are with Dave Phelan,” he went on. “That’s where we’re with the Texas House, and that’s where we are with the Court of Criminal Appeals that no one knows. And by the way, that is our highest court. It’s like our Supreme Court. We’re only one of two states that has this for all criminal matters. So I have no appeal rights. So when they strike down this as unconstitutional and say, I can’t prosecute voter fraud, I have no ability to get around that. I’m stuck. And that’s what I’m trying to fix.”

“Two years… I can’t prosecute voter fraud,” Paxton added. “And in March I think we’re going to have three people to run against the members of the Court of Appeal. We’ve got to get those people elected. We lost 8-1, and if we can get three new members, we’ll at least be 5-4 and we’ll be sending the message. You cannot strike down…”

“This is a big deal,” Beck noted, before asking, “How did this happen?”

“Okay, so I think George Soros is, my opinion, he was trying to do three things,” Paxton replied. “One, get the DAs elected in these liberal counties. So he beat all Democratic DAs that were prosecuting crimes. He did in Travis County, an unseated Democrat there that was actually prosecuting crimes. He did the same thing in San Antonio. So he got control of that, knowing full well that this would affect voting. Second, he helped put nine members on the Supreme Court, actually eight. Kevin Yeary is awesome, the other eight, no one knows who they are and I think he, because Republicans don’t know who these people are, he was able to get these members of the court to strike down this law. And then the third strategy was get rid of me. And then there’s no hope. There’s nowhere to go. So that was the goal. They didn’t get rid of me. So there’s still hope and we’ve got to change the Court of Criminal Appeals and we’ve got to get the house next time to pass this law.”

The judges on the Texas Criminal Court of Appeals that are standing for partisan election in 2024 are: Sharon Keller, Barbara Hervey and Michelle Slaughter. All of them voted to restrict Paxton from prosecuting voter fraud in Texas.

Gov. Greg Abbott and Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick concurred with Paxton that the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals should reconsider the 2021 ruling that stripped the Attorney General of the authority to prosecute voter fraud cases.

Paxton warned after the ruling that it could “devastating for future elections in Texas.”

 

Question; Should an Amicus brief about this be sent to the US Supreme Court asking for a summary Judgement against the Texas appeals court ruling? 

Background to Paxton's claim that a "secretive" Texas court blocked him from from prosecuting Voter Fraud; 

https://search.txcourts.gov/SearchMedia.aspx?MediaVersionID=7dbdaca3-3a6d-4a75-925f-883fa825acae&coa=coscca&DT=OPINION&MediaID=8976a0aa-8fa8-4814-91bb-f0d79f1108fc 

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Another Palestinian Reverie.

Another Palestinian Reverie

by Raymond Ibrahim
September 20, 2023 at 5:00 am

  • On August 29, 2023, Sheikh Issam Amira, a prominent member of the Palestinian Hizb al-Tahrir party, argued that the "liberation" of Palestine is nothing compared to the potentially great conquests that Islam has in store for the rest of the non-Muslim world — including the United States.

  • What crime did these non-Muslim cities, nations, and continents commit against Muslims to deserve being targeted for violent conquest?

  • "The Party of Satan is America, Europe, Russia, and all Western nations, and all infidel [non-Muslim] nations everywhere.... Everyone who opposes Allah and his prophet is to be stricken with disgrace and misery. Not just that, they are to be broken in the here, and sent to the fire in the hereafter." — Sheikh Issam Amira, YouTube, August 29, 2023.

  • Although [Hizb al-Tahrir] means the "party of liberation," and although it pretends its sole interest is "liberating" Palestinians from Israel, when its members get together there seems to be an additional plan, not just for Jews.

  • Palestinian cleric Nidhal Siam made clear that, from an Islamic perspective, for Christians as well, liberation and conquest are one and the same.

  • "Oh Muslims, the anniversary of the conquest [fath/فتح, literally, "opening"] of Constantinople brings tidings of things to come. It brings tidings that Rome will be conquered in the near future, Allah willing." — Nidhal Siam, Jerusalem Post, January 20, 2020.

  • [The Palestinians] seek sympathy from the international community, despite the fact that until 1964, there reportedly were no Palestinians.

  • It also might be helpful to recall that until the seventh century and the birth of Muhammad, there were no Muslims – anywhere – let alone Palestinians.

  • The word Islam means "submission."

  • "Fight those who do not believe in Allah and the Last Day, nor comply with what Allah and His Messenger have forbidden, nor embrace the religion of truth from among those who were given the Scripture, until they pay the tax, willingly submitting, fully humbled." — Qur'an, 9:29 Khattab translation.

  • Those conquered are given three choices: to convert to Islam; to remain tolerated, second-class citizens, called dhimmis, pay a "protection" tax [jizya], and live according to humiliating rules to remind them of their inferiority, -- such as being allowed to ride a donkey but not a camel or horse. The third choice is to die.

  • It is also helpful to remember that the Qur'an is not made up of "suggestions; Muslims consider it the word of God, similar to the Ten Commandments. One cannot say, "Oh, Allah didn't really mean that." Yes, Allah did...

  • In each of these military engagements, Muslims were the aggressors: they invaded non-Muslim territory and, apart from the Battle of Tours, which they lost, they butchered and enslaved the inhabitants, and appropriated their lands — for no other reason than that they were "infidels" — non-Muslims.

  • Many Palestinians, seemingly without seeing the irony, present themselves as a conquered and oppressed people whose land was stolen, while, in the same breath, they praise former conquests and wish for future ones -- replete with oppression and land-grabbing from other peoples only because they are not Muslim.

  • True, the Palestinians are oppressed, but by their own leaders, whom the international community keeps funding and supporting; not by Israelis, who of necessity respond to violence against them, but do not initiate it.

  • Perhaps the lesson, when all is said and done, is that Islamic notions of "justice" are based on a simple dichotomy: Whenever Muslims conquer, slaughter, subjugate or steal land, that is "just;" whenever they encounter the authority of "infidels," that is "unjust."

  • Hence the hatred for Israel, Rome, Europe, or wherever "infidels" still govern.

12228615266?profile=RESIZE_710x On August 29, 2023, Sheikh Issam Amira, a prominent member of the Palestinian Hizb al-Tahrir party, argued that the "liberation" of Palestine is nothing compared to the potentially great conquests that Islam has in store for the rest of the non-Muslim world — including the United States. (Image source: MEMRI)

On August 29, 2023, Sheikh Issam Amira, a prominent member of the Palestinian Hizb al-Tahrir party, argued that the "liberation" of Palestine is nothing compared to the potentially great conquests that Islam has in store for the rest of the non-Muslim world — including the United States:

"What is the Palestinian cause compared to the conquest of Rome, for example? Or the conquest of Latin America in its entirety? Or the conquest of North America?"

Amira went on to say that he personally knows that Australians are "dying of fear" from the nearby Muslim nations of Malaysia and Indonesia, "because they know that one of these days the Muslim armies will come from Indonesia and bring Islam to Australia, like it or not."

What crime did these non-Muslim cities, nations, and continents commit against Muslims to deserve being targeted for violent conquest?

As Amira explained in the same sermon, Islam commands Muslims to hate, fight, humiliate and, ideally, conquer any and all non-Muslims — including family members — simply because they are non-Muslims. He cited the Qur'an:

"You will not find a people who believe in Allāh and the Last Day having affection for those who oppose Allāh and His Messenger, even if they were their fathers or their sons or their brothers or their kindred." (Qur'an 58:22)

Amira said this was the proof text that Muslims must never befriend or ally with non-Muslims, as they are Satan's minions. "The Party of Satan," he stressed, "is America, Europe, Russia and all Western nations, and all infidel [non-Muslim] nations everywhere." He also quoted:

"They were stricken with disgrace and misery, and they invited the displeasure of Allah for rejecting Allah's signs and unjustly killing the prophets." (Qur'an 2:61)

After saying that this verse was about the Jews, he went on to broaden it to apply to all non-Muslims:

"Everyone who opposes Allah and his prophet is to be stricken with disgrace and misery. Not just that, they are to be broken in the here, and sent to the fire in the hereafter. Why? — because they are the party of Satan!"

Amira is certainly not the only Palestinian to harbor such hostility for the non-Muslim world. One need look no further than to his political party, Hizb al-Tahrir. Although its name means the "party of liberation," and although it pretends its sole interest is "liberating" Palestinians from Israel, when its members get together there seems to be an additional plan, not just for Jews.

Hizb al-Tahrir, for instance, in 2020, held a large, outdoor event near al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem to commemorate the anniversary of the Islamic conquest of Constantinople (May 29, 1453). There, as he had done before, Palestinian cleric Nidhal Siam made clear that, from an Islamic perspective, for Christians as well, liberation and conquest are one and the same.

After all the takbirs (chants of "Allahu Akbar" ["Allah is greatest"]) had subsided, Siam preached:

"Oh Muslims, the anniversary of the conquest [fath/فتح, literally, "opening"] of Constantinople brings tidings of things to come. It brings tidings that Rome will be conquered in the near future, Allah willing."

What did Rome do that it deserves to be conquered? Absolutely nothing — except that, since the conquest of Constantinople, Islam has seen Rome as the symbolic head of the Christian world, and therefore in urgent need of conquest. Or, in the words of the Islamic State:

"We will conquer your Rome, break your crosses, and enslave your women, by the permission of Allah... [We will cast] fear into the hearts of the cross-worshipers."

Like Amira, Siam went on to pray for the day when "Islam will throw its neighbors to the ground, and that its reach will span across the east and the west of this Earth. This is Allah's promise, and Allah does not renege on his promises."

Those assembled and he then chanted, "By means of the Caliphate and the consolidation of power, Muhammad the Conqueror vanquished Constantinople!" and "Your conquest, oh Rome, is a matter of certainty!"

Ironically, these kinds of assertions come from Palestinians, who often present themselves as a people whose land is supposedly occupied unjustly. They seek sympathy from the international community, despite the fact that until 1964, there reportedly were no Palestinians -- except twice, neither of which would apply to the current dispute. The first time was in antiquity; the second, after the breakup of the Ottoman Empire from 1922 until 1948, during the British Mandate for Palestine before Israel declared its independence. During the British Mandate, everyone born there then, Muslims, Christian and Jews, had a passport stamped "Palestine."

The first time, in 135 CE, the Roman Emperor Hadrian had renamed Judea to "Syria Palaestina" to try, after a failed Jewish rebellion against the Roman occupation, to rid Judea of any trace of Jews. Also in antiquity, a group with a similar name, the Philistines, arrived in the area, not from Arabia or the east, but from the west and from Crete.

It also might be helpful to recall that until the seventh century and the birth of Muhammad, there were no Muslims – anywhere – let alone Palestinians.

The Islamic conquest of Constantinople had been just that — a brutal and savage conquest the sole legitimacy of which was the might of arms. As other Muslims had done for centuries earlier in North Africa and the Middle East, the Turks invaded and conquered "New Rome" not because the people there had delivered some injustice, but because Islam is committed to spreading the supremacy of Allah, sometimes not too subtly:

"But once the Sacred Months have passed, kill the polytheists ˹who violated their treaties˺ wherever you find them, capture them, besiege them, and lie in wait for them on every way. But if they repent, perform prayers, and pay alms-tax, then set them free. Indeed, Allah is All-Forgiving, Most Merciful."(Qur'an 9:5, Khattab translation)

"And kill them wherever you find them, and drive them out from whence they drove you out...." (Qur'an 2:192, Shakir translation)

"They wish you would disbelieve as they disbelieved so you would be alike. So do not take from among them allies until they emigrate for the cause of Allāh. But if they turn away [i.e., refuse], then seize them and kill them [for their betrayal] wherever you find them and take not from among them any ally or helper." (Qur'an 4:89 Saheeh International translation)

The word Islam means "submission."

"Fight those who do not believe in Allah and the Last Day, nor comply with what Allah and His Messenger have forbidden, nor embrace the religion of truth from among those who were given the Scripture, until they pay the tax, willingly submitting, fully humbled." (Qur'an, 9:29 Khattab translation)

Those conquered are given three choices: to convert to Islam; to remain tolerated, second-class citizens, called dhimmis, pay a "protection" tax [jizya], and live according to humiliating rules to remind them of their inferiority, -- such as being allowed to ride a donkey but not a camel or horse. The third choice is to die.

It is also helpful to remember that the Qur'an is not made up of "suggestions; Muslims consider it the word of God, similar to the Ten Commandments. One cannot say, "Oh, Allah didn't really mean that." Yes, Allah did, and if you do not follow His word, you risk burning in hellfire forever:

"It is He Who has made the earth a resting-place for you, and the sky a canopy, and sent down water from above wherewith He brought forth fruits for your sustenance. Do not, then, set up rivals23 to Allah when you know (the Truth).... But if you fail to do this – and you will most certainly fail – then have fear of the Fire whose fuel is men and stones and which has been prepared for those who deny the Truth." (Qur'an, 2:22 and 2:24)

The reproval is not just for Jews; it is for any non-Muslim.

Even outside the Hizb al-Tahrir party, leading Palestinians continue to praise and find inspiration in Offensive Jihad, not to repulse or defend against an enemy, but to conquer non-Muslim territories. Speaking on the first day of Ramadan, April 1, 2022, Mahmoud al-Habbash, the Supreme Sharia Judge of the Palestinian Authority, extolled the jihads waged by Muhammad:

"How was this month [of Ramadan] in the life of Prophet [Muhammad]? ... Did the Prophet spend Ramadan in calmness, serenity, laziness, and sleepiness? Far be it from him... The Prophet entered the great Battle of Badr [624] during Ramadan... Also in the month of Ramadan, in the 8th year of the Hijra [629-630], the Prophet and the Muslims conquered Mecca.... Ramadan is ... a month of Jihad, conquest, and victory."

Similarly, on April 16, 2021, Al Jazeera published an article by Adnan Abu Amar, "head of the Political Science Department at the University of the Ummah in Gaza," explaining how Palestinians find "inspiration" in various jihads throughout Islamic history, "prominent among them the raid of Badr, the conquest of Mecca, the conquest of al-Andalus [Spain], and the battle of the pavement of martyrs [the Battle of Tours]."

In each of these military engagements, Muslims were the aggressors (herehere and here): they invaded non-Muslim territory and, apart from the Battle of Tours, which they lost, they butchered and enslaved the inhabitants, and appropriated their lands — for no other reason than that they were "infidels" — non-Muslims.

The battle of Badr was occasioned by Muhammad's raids on non-Muslim caravans; the conquest of Mecca was simply that, the conquest of a non-Muslim city; the conquest of al-Andalus is a reference to the years 711-716, when Muslims invaded and slaughtered countless thousands of Christians in Spain and torched their churches; and the Battle of Tours is, of course, where the Muslim invasions into Western Europe were finally halted in 732.

Wouldn't it seem, then, that Palestinians should be sympathizing with the Christians of Spain or Constantinople -- rather than identifying with Sultan Muhammad II, who invaded and conquered the ancient Christian city, while subjecting its indigenous inhabitants to all sorts of unspeakable atrocities?

Many Palestinians, seemingly without seeing the irony, present themselves as a conquered and oppressed people whose land was stolen, while, in the same breath, they praise former conquests and wish for future ones -- replete with oppression and land-grabbing from other peoples only because they are not Muslim.

True, the Palestinians are oppressed, but by their own leaders, whom the international community keeps funding and supporting; not by Israelis, who of necessity respond to violence against them, but do not initiate it.

Perhaps the lesson, when all is said and done, is that Islamic notions of "justice" are based on a simple dichotomy: Whenever Muslims conquer, slaughter, subjugate or steal land, that is "just;" whenever they encounter the authority of "infidels," that is "unjust."

Hence the hatred for Israel, Rome, Europe, or wherever "infidels" still govern.

Raymond Ibrahim, author of Defenders of the WestSword and Scimitar, Crucified Again, and The Al Qaeda Reader, is the Distinguished Senior Shillman Fellow at the Gatestone Institute and the Judith Rosen Friedman Fellow at the Middle East Forum.

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The New York times finally admits...

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The ny times, of all things, had this recent quite revealing story about who’s getting murdered, and who isn’t, in a city, Chicago, with a prominent left-wing mayor and an activist left-wing prosecutor, stating: "35 people were killed in mass shootings in Buffalo, Uvalde and Tulsa over the past few weeks, focusing national attention on America’s unique gun problem. In that same time, around 1,800 people were killed and almost 500 wounded in nearly 1,600 other shootings in the U.S., including at a Los Angeles warehouse party over the weekend. Mass shootings account for less than 4% of gun homicides in a typical year..."

the left-wing media has covered — and covered and covered — the mass shootings in recent weeks as if they were the country’s bloodiest problem. THEY ARE NOT!  Even the left-wing NYT is telling us this in direct language"...in Chicago, where shootings are a daily occurrence in some areas...typical gun violence murder rate for Black people is higher than it was from the 1980s through the 1990s — a violent period that drove a nationwide push for mass incarceration...Black Chicagoans are nearly 40 times more likely to be shot to death than their white peers, according to an analysis by the University of Chicago Crime Lab."

LOL, "mass incareration" is what the left-wing describes, after a 3-decade long crime spree, in which the murder rate approximately doubled, law enforcement got serious, as any sane country would. And although incarceration certainly increased over the 20 years starting in the early Nineties — as it needed to — at no point has the US been the prison camp implied by the corrosive and intentionally deceitful phrase, “mass incarceration.” In fact, only 1 in every 200 people in this country, or one-half of one percent of the population, is in prison. 0.5% isn’t “mass” anything!

The reality the ny times depicted is a disgrace and a scandal. If Alabama or South Carolina or some other “Trump” jurisdiction had a murder rate of black people 40 times what it is for whites, do you think that might get, say, at least a smidgen of the anguished publicity the left-wing media gave the recent mass shootings, grotesque as they were? Do you think merrick garland might be able find his way to the microphone? Or joe biden?

Still, the gross imbalance in the left-wing's well-hyped outrage, revealing as it is, is not the main problem. The main problem is murder, and specifically the out-of-control murder of black people. Although the problem is particularly awful in Chicago, it exists to a lesser but still appalling extent in the country as a whole. Overall in the US, blacks are 12.5% of the population but 53% of the murder victims.

So if we thought — to pick a phrase out of the air, oh, say,— that black lives matter, what would we do?  We wouldn’t knock down statues or re-name streets or hold long-faced academic symposia lying about 1619. We would reduce the murder rate. We would do what we know works to accomplish this: (1) hire more police rather than defund them,
(2) do more aggressive policing rather than less,
(3) focus on the specific neighborhoods where crime is concentrated, and
(4) lengthen prison sentences for those convicted of violent crime before rather than after it escalates into murder.

Those are exactly the 4 steps to save black lives that the left-wing and their misnamed “criminal justice reform” movement have spent years furiously opposing, on the grounds that — ready now? — they’re racist. In fact, as the title of this entry implies, the Klan was never as effective as the left-wing has been, and continues to be, at putting black lives at risk. Chicago is the worst of it but, tragically, only the tip of the liberals/democrats’ bloody iceberg.

"Whiteness is terrorism. All self-identified white people no exceptions are invested in and collude with systemic White racism."-- Johnny E. Williams, racist prof @Trinity College

"The view that it is appropriate for the government to play racial favorites has proved to be toxic. It is based on the premise that all groups are equal in ways that shape economic, social, and political outcomes.. and that therefore all differences in group outcomes are artificial and indefensible. That premise is factually wrong...races have significant group differences...for example in cognitive ability, crime.... Allegations of systemic racism cannot be assessed without dealing with the reality of group differences.”-- Charles Murray

“Blacks' success in a post-civil-rights America was a question of initiative and responsibility…individual self-awareness is not so much the irremediable fact of one’s racial heritage as what one makes of it; of the insights into the human condition it provides or the maturity and amplification it offers one’s talent. By striving to come into conscious possession of as much of the world’s culture as one has the energy, intellect, and talent to command. America is neither a story of straightforward progress nor narrative or power and victimization. It is a drama that moves slowly and crookedly toward the fulfillment of the democratic faith.”--Ralph Ellison

It is crucial to distinguish between individual and systemic racism because they call for vastly different responses. Wilfred Riley, among others, have cited studies casting considerable doubt on the assumption that America is systemically racist. Systemic narratives and their so-called solutions and the sense of victimhood they foster, distract from the personal choices and actions that would improve individual lives. In particular, hard work, education, and refraining from irresponsible and anti-family practices.

The term segregation implies enforced legal separation of people rather than a voluntary choice. Enforced separation has been illegal in the US since 1968. It is prejudicial and a lie to act as if actual segregation still exists. It is prejudicial and a lie to insist that the abstraction of systemic racism is favored over the actions of individuals, and correlation and cause are the same.

How does segregation, a system that ended 70 years ago, let alone slavery, a system that ended 160 years ago, affect Black people today, especially as some important things, like the dramatic decrease in the proportion of black kids born into two parent families since 1950? It is simply wrong to assume that any-and-all black/white disparity is evidence of systemic racism!

Concerns about the grave negative consequences of current woke efforts, which flow from the dubious assumption that racism is systemic in America, should not be ignored, silenced or arrogantly and ignorantly demonized. Don’t tell us how you feel, who cares. What’s important is when a conclusion is reached, what is the evidence and what stages of reasoning led to that conclusion.

It has been cogently argued and extensively documented that the primary underlying factor in racial disparities regarding social outcomes is not white on black racism, nor the system of white supremacy. Instead, it is the increasing breakdown of the black family which is closely correlated with a high rate of crime among blacks, the primary victims of which are other blacks. The breakdown has been grievously exacerbated by the very welfare programs presumably designed to help disadvantage blacks. It’s a liberal lie of systemic racism continues.

To believe in systemic racism is to treat minorities like a badly maintained herd of domestic animals, rather than a community of responsible, behaving individuals. Systemic racism is flawed opinion dressed up as science. Its facts are fragmentary, uncertain, and in many cases ambiguous at best.

“The oppression of black people is over with… We blacks, today, are a free people.”—Shelby Steele

“The truth is that the only systemic racism that exist today is in the form of affirmative action measures favoring blacks, among other presumably disadvantage groups.”— Michelle Marder Kamhi
 

“What shall we do with the Negro? I have had but one answer from the beginning. Do nothing with us. You are doing with us has already played the mischief with us. Do nothing with us!... And if the Negro can’t stand on his own legs, let him fall also. All I ask is, give him a chance to stand on his own legs! Let him alone!”— Frederick Douglass

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Climate Update

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The media and its designated experts are accurately reporting the scientific linking of fossil fuel use and hurricanes.
Truth: This deceptive “reporting” is riddled with:
1. deliberate misrepresentations (e.g., hurricane frequency)
2. biases (e.g., only reporting negative links)

Lie: Media claims about increasing hurricane frequency are accurate.
Truth: left-wing media outlets have deliberately misrepresented the flat long-term hurricane trend. E.g., the ny times cherry-picking a starting point—the low point of 1980—to make a flat trend seem upward. Leading media outlets have also deliberately ignored statements by the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change about how any increases in hurricane frequency in records are likely due to increasing reporting, not actual frequency.  The latest data on global hurricane frequency and intensity from a 2022 paper (Klotzbach et al) does NOT support the left-wing media's claims. Recent US data for landfalling hurricanes, both overall and major, show the ny times and other left-wing sources are lying

Lie: Hurricanes are expected to get more frequent as temperatures rise.
Truth: left-wing estimates say hurricanes will be less frequent and between 1-10% more intense. This is not at all catastrophic if we continue our fossil-fueled climate mastery

Lie: left-wing media-cited research on extreme weather is unbiased.
Truth: Extreme weather research is riddled with biases. In addition to ignoring fossil-fueled climate mastery, many researchers have overtly political motives and ignore positive impacts of fossil fuels on weather. Certain biased climate attribution “scientists” admit that they are motivated by political goals and shape their “science” accordingly. E.g., left-wing media favorite friederike otto wants climate research “on the offensive." The left-wing loves their violence, don't they! One of the few climate researchers who is openly looking at the full impact of fossil-fueled climate change, including potential avoided damage, is meteorologist and hurricane expert Dr. Ryan Maue. What are the chances we see his point about avoided hurricanes in the left-wing media

And It is absolutely shameful that the left-wing opponents of Governor DeSantis are trying to blame him for the damage of Hurricane Idalia given that 1) the pro-freedom, pro-energy policies he supports lessened the damage and 2) his focus now is where it should be: hastening recovery.

America is wrestling with the worst energy crisis in its history. According to the brookings institution, the average 2022 U.S. residential retail electricity price was 15.12 cents/kWh, an 11% increase from 2021. In the 1st 3 months of 2023, the average U.S. residential monthly electricity bill was 5% higher. Government decisions have impacted the natural gas and energy supply. While electric vehicles are a much-touted solution for replacing oil, gasoline or diesel fuel contains 40 times the energy as a state-of-the-art battery. Questionable efforts are being made by government leadership to address our energy future. Critical solutions have been avoided and hidden. Fossil-fuel plants are being made to close faster than green alternatives can replace them. Producers of oil and gas can't keep up. Fantasy thinking has taken hold of biden and left-wing/democrats . Progressives and the left-wing media followers are guilty of denial concerning the reality of how to solve a potential climate/energy crisis.

Energy and climate change are complicated. Credible scientists challenge whether there is a climate crisis. The 3 U.S. electric grids are old and at capacity, and many power plants are outdated.  New plants have not been brought online due to environmental extremists and demonization by left-wing/democrats.  Renewable energy is unreliable since it requires wind, sun, or flowing water.  It also creates energy storage and environmental issues. The biden regime and left-wing/democrat governors plan to eliminate the use of gas and replace all transportation vehicles, garden tools, stoves, dryers’ etc. using electrical energy.  This approach will place an overwhelming timeline and demand on existing energy resources. It will require a huge investment in new power plants, including the potential of nuclear.  This investment will create significant upward pressure on the cost of energy and create blackouts from poor planning.

According to Rasmussen 70% of likely voters say they believe the US government should encourage increase oil and gas production to reduce America's dependence on foreign sources of oil and gas. Yet the left wing has restricted the supply of oil and gas leases below the demand for them while releasing the Strategic Oil Reserves--which did virtually nothing to lower costs at a time when the world is facing increased threats of major conflict and those reserves may be desperately needed.

What would the popularity of biden and liberal/democrats be if they were honest along with the left-wing media?  They speak of green energy but avoid the hidden facts: the reality that it will require massive funding, and increased energy cost to build the required new power facilities -- one estimate is $2 trillion. The critical timeline to update grid facilities will force blackouts. Utilities will be required to ration energy. Facts demonstrate that renewable facilities have serious reliability, security and environmental flaws along with life cost issues. The benefits of reducing humanity’s reliance on fossil fuels are uncertain at best. 

Those pushing an end to fossil fuel production are missing the point, since fossil fuels will still be needed into the next century. Eliminating unpopular energy sources or technologies, like nuclear or carbon capture, from the conversation is short-sighted. Practicality and ingenuity are the invaluable resources humanity needs to meet America’s future energy challenge, not uninformed liberal/democrat politicians, left-wing news writers who spread climate fear, and ignorant/gullible liberals acting on misplaced, ginned-up emotion rather than knowledge.

  
Further info:
https://thefederalist.com/2023/09/01/second-nobel-prize-winner-signs-letter-with-1600-scientists-declaring-climate-emergency-a-myth/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=second-nobel-prize-winner-signs-letter-with-1600-scientists-declaring-climate-emergency-a-myth&utm_term=2023-09-04

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/climate-extremists-want-help-china-hurting-economy
 
https://www.dailywire.com/news/thats-not-the-way-science-should-work-scientist-bashes-academia-for-suppressing-anti-climate-change-narrative

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/09/green_pusher_michael_mann_ramps_up_the_rhetoric_against_the_people_on_msnbc_segment.htm

https://freebeacon.com/latest-news/biden-admin-to-cancel-oil-leases-in-alaskan-refuge/ 

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/09/04/cop28-adnoc-to-spend-over-1-billion-a-month-on-oil-and-gas-for-years-global-witness-says.html

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Time to Declare a 'People's War' on the CCP: All of China Is One Military Machine

by Gordon G. Chang
September 11, 2023 at 5:00 am

  • Washington should be trying to end the rule of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). It is time to declare a "people's war" against the CCP. We are in an us-or-them fight.

  • The Party certainly thinks that way. In May 2019, People's Daily, the CCP's self-described "mouthpiece"... declared a "people's war" against the United States.

  • "A people's war is a total war, and its strategy and tactics require the overall mobilization of political, economic, cultural, diplomatic, military, and other power resources, the integrated use of multiple forms of struggle and combat methods." — PLA Daily, an official news website of the Communist Party's People's Liberation Army, April 1, 2023.

  • Although it denies doing so, China's regime is conducting "unrestricted warfare" against America.

  • Unrestricted warfare means total war. The regime's deliberate spread of COVID-19 and support for the Chinese fentanyl gangs, for example, should be viewed in that light.

  • Most Americans have chosen not to see the Chinese regime's hatred of America.

  • Why should Americans be concerned?

  • The Party, with strident anti-Americanism, is establishing a justification to strike America. As James Lilley, the great American ambassador to Beijing, said, the Chinese always telegraph their punches. They are now telegraphing punches.

  • [US National Security Adviser Jake] Sullivan and others are willing to impose, for instance, technology sanctions on China, but they are largely ineffective.

  • Xi Jinping has a policy of "military-civilian fusion," which means that anything a civilian organization possesses can be — and is — pipelined to the Chinese military. In the Communist Party's top-down system, every individual and entity in China must obey every Party order.

  • It's a warning to America....

  • The U.S. Commerce Department allowed transfers of American technology to SMIC on the condition there would be no transfers to Huawei.

  • Why would Commerce ever think SMIC would keep that promise? The only realistic solution is to treat all Chinese parties as one and to prevent tech transfers to all of them.

  • Xi's regime is mobilizing all of the country's civilians for war. The Chinese leader never misses an opportunity to talk about it. China's regime is clearly planning to wage "kinetic" war — the type Americans are used to seeing in the movies — on America.

  • Obviously, American parties, especially businesses, should not be enabling the Chinese regime to kill Americans. This means they should not be engaging in any transaction that can strengthen any part of China. We should think of all of China as military.

  • "Don't say we didn't warn you!" — Chinese Communist Party's People's Daily, May 31 2019.

12222713885?profile=RESIZE_710x China's regime is conducting "unrestricted warfare" against America. Unrestricted warfare means total war. The regime's deliberate spread of COVID-19 and support for the Chinese fentanyl gangs, for example, should be viewed in that light. Washington should be trying to end the rule of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). It is time to declare a "people's war" against the CCP. We are in an us-or-them fight. Pictured: China's President Xi Jinping (standing in vehicle) inspects People's Liberation Army soldiers at a military base in Hong Kong on June 30, 2017. (Photo by Dale de la Rey/AFP via Getty Images)

"I want to be clear that we do not seek to decouple or to hold China's economy back," declared U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo during her August trip to Beijing.

Well, why not, Madam Secretary? The U.S. should be holding the Chinese economy back. In fact, we should be doing more than just that. Washington should be trying to end the rule of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). It is time to declare a "people's war" against the CCP. We are in an us-or-them fight.

The Party certainly thinks that way. In May 2019, People's Daily, the CCP's self-described "mouthpiece" and therefore most authoritative publication in China, declared a "people's war" against the United States.

That phrase carries great meaning. As PLA Daily, an official news website of the Party's People's Liberation Army, stated in April, "A people's war is a total war, and its strategy and tactics require the overall mobilization of political, economic, cultural, diplomatic, military, and other power resources, the integrated use of multiple forms of struggle and combat methods."

What exactly are "multiple forms of struggle and combat methods"? Although it denies doing so, China's regime is conducting "unrestricted warfare" against America.

Unrestricted warfare means total war. The regime's deliberate spread of COVID-19 and support for the Chinese fentanyl gangs, for example, should be viewed in that light. We must remember: In China's tightly controlled public square, the extermination of Americans is a permitted topic, as the explosive comments of prominent academic Li Yi tell us.

Most Americans have chosen not to see the Chinese regime's hatred of America. Those who have noticed are probably perplexed by its overheated rhetoric.

Why should Americans be concerned?

The Party, with strident anti-Americanism, is establishing a justification to strike America. As James Lilley, the great American ambassador to Beijing, said, the Chinese always telegraph their punches. They are now telegraphing punches.

They are telegraphing punches when their country is facing severe economic and other problems. For ideological reasons — Xi Jinping is a Maoist at heart — China's leader is unwilling to adopt those measures that would stabilize the situation. Instead, he is pursuing strategies that are clearly making matters worse.

It can be no coincidence that, as the country's economy deteriorates and markets fall, China's external behavior has become even more belligerent. For instance, Beijing, by interfering with Philippine vessels resupplying an outpost at Second Thomas Shoal in the South China Sea, has been risking war.

As Xi's regime telegraphs punches, President Joe Biden appears oblivious. On September 10 while in Vietnam, he echoed Raimondo saying, "I don't want to contain China."

Going one step further, Biden wished his Chinese counterpart well. "I want to see China succeed economically," the president said.

Biden's comments are at best perplexing in light of both China's malicious actions against America and his awareness that the country, as he proclaimed in August at a Democratic Party fundraiser in Utah, is a "ticking time bomb." "That's not good, because when bad folks have problems, they do bad things," he noted.

Biden's administration, however, is not adopting adequate measures to defend the U.S. in the face of such an evident danger. For example, National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan on September 5 said the United States "should continue on a course of 'small yard, high fence' set of technology restrictions focused narrowly on national security concerns."

Sullivan and others are willing to impose, for instance, technology sanctions on China, but they are largely ineffective. The general approach of the Biden administration is to prohibit transfers of technology to military-related parties in China — that's the reference to "small yard" — but allow transfers to nominally civilian parties.

America cannot enforce Sullivan's "high fence," unfortunately.

Xi Jinping has a policy of "military-civilian fusion," which means that anything a civilian organization possesses can be — and is — pipelined to the Chinese military. In the Communist Party's top-down system, every individual and entity in China must obey every Party order.

It's a warning to America: The just-released Mate 60 Pro smartphone of Huawei Technologies contains chips from SMIC, Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp., China's largest contract chip-maker. SMIC sold those chips to Huawei in violation of U.S. sanctions, including the Commerce Department's Foreign Direct Product Rule. U.S. sanctions applied because the chips in the new phone were made with U.S. technology. The U.S. Commerce Department allowed transfers of American technology to SMIC on the condition there would be no transfers to Huawei.

Why would Commerce ever think SMIC would keep that promise? The only realistic solution is to treat all Chinese parties as one and to prevent tech transfers to all of them.

Xi's regime is mobilizing all of the country's civilians for war. The Chinese leader never misses an opportunity to talk about it. China's regime is clearly planning to wage "kinetic" war — the type Americans are used to seeing in the movies — on America.

Obviously, American parties, especially businesses, should not be enabling the Chinese regime to kill Americans. This means they should not be engaging in any transaction that can strengthen any part of China. We should think of all of China as military.

Americans should take their enemy as it is, not the way they would like it to be. So Secretary Raimondo needs to say that, yes, the United States will take all measures to defend itself from China. And Biden must start telling the world that China is America's enemy.

People's Daily in May 2019 issued a commentary titled "United States, Don't Underestimate China's Ability to Strike Back." The Communist Party in that commentary stated this: "Don't say we didn't warn you!"

Yes, Americans have been warned. All of China is one military machine, so it is time to declare an American "people's war" on the Chinese Communist Party.

Gordon G. Chang is the author of The Coming Collapse of China, a Gatestone Institute distinguished senior fellow, and a member of its Advisory Board.

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Means vs. Ends

Source; Sent from a friend online. Known as; SNGLR

The dismantling of the existing political and economic institutions was intended to pave the way toward reliance on supposedly more effective, progressive, and fair methods of organizing society. Unfortunately there is no, nor can there be any such thing on Earth.”---Jonathan Daley

Nearly every ideology based on "the ends justify the means" produce a dictatorship which has advocated advance of the common good. The problem occurs when the dictatorship inevitably fails to inscribe its conceptions and designs within the framework of cultural and intellectual traditional processes.

Utopians (modern or not), laying claim to knowledge of the inner workings of human society unknowable to most people, aspire to create an always poorly defined general will in order to harmonize a new social order which requires behaviors human beings are incapable of sustaining(1).  The result being, as Karl Popper pointed out, is that their gnosticism veers into conspiracy theory and all the dysfunctional psychologies that develop. 

For example, Karl Marx, with no trust in individuals but having total trust in things he had no experience with, social forces which coalesce into institutional forces, claimed that Communism would lack middle class individuality, independence, freedom, private property, law, family, marriage, morality, philosophy, religion and patriotism.  Thomas Jefferson, by the way, thought the opposite. And look at what happened

In Marx’s footsteps and under V.I. Lenin’s leadership, Communists set about to impose on the largest, established, resource rich country in the world a dismantling of all the existing restraints on institutionalized and arbitrary power. In their place they established their own arbitrary, obtuse limits on individual and institutional freedom and autonomy, enforced with unlimited power a state-administered violence through a nation-wide gulag system, all the while proclaiming devotion to the universal common good with every step, and every life they took. Sending tens of millions of mostly their own citizens to a grave, for apparently their own good!

And since the Communist state is supposedly imbued with only good intent towards the common good, it could not be questioned, nor would anything but total loyalty, in deed and thought too, be allowed.

“Intentions need to be backed up by a careful and respectful study of the great works of political philosophy. The profound arrogance that attends those who willfully disregard the painstaking efforts and suffering of those who came before dooms their projects to failure or worse..to ignore such wisdom in pursuit of the common good forces an entire people into a Procrustean bed of one’s theory that will necessarily require dramatic coercion, and in any event will not succeed.”—Jonathan Daley

(1)  This is to be accomplished through a processes which creates a new kind of human psyche, which until this is accomplish (which would be horrific if one contemplates what this would mean in terms of results but, in reality will never occur), requires total state control of every aspect of human life.  

 
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The Enemy Amongst US!!

Source; https://wethepeopleusa.ning.com/forum/topics/the-enemy-amongst-us 

BEFORE CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER DIED OF CANCER, HE WROTE THIS IN 2017...
 
Ever wonder how protests and demonstrations get started almost immediately after some announcement by the Trump administration?  How anti-gun marches get set up so quickly after a school shooting?  Huge marches on Washington DC are organized so quickly?  Read this and you'll know why...
 
The Enemy Amongst US!!
By Charles Krauthammer
 
Oct 11, 2017 - An article from the New York Post:
 
I do not understand how living in a country with its democracy established over 200 years ago, and now, for the first time in history, suddenly we have one of our former presidents set up a group called “Organizing for Action” (OFA).
 
OFA is 30,000+ strong and working to disrupt everything that our current president’s administration is trying to do.  This organization goes against our Democracy, and it is an operation that will destroy our way of governing.  It goes against our Constitution, our laws, and the processes established over 200 years ago.  If it is allowed to proceed then we will be living in chaos very much like third world countries are run.  What good is it to have an established government if it is not going to be respected and allowed to follow our laws?
 
If you had an army some 30,000 strong and a court system stacked over the decades with judges who would allow you to break the laws, how much damage could you do to a country?  We are about to find out in America !
 
Our ex-president said he was going to stay involved through community organizing and speak out on the issues and that appears to be one post-administration promise he intends to keep.  He has moved many of his administration’s top dogs over to Organizing for Action.
 
OFA is behind the strategic and tactical implementation of the resistance to the Trump Administration that we are seeing across America , and politically active courts are providing the leverage for this revolution.
 
OFA is dedicated to organizing communities for “progressive” change...  Its issues are gun control, socialist healthcare, abortion, sexual equality, climate change, and of course, immigration reform.
 
OFA members were propped up by the ex-president’s message from the shadows:  “Organizing is the building block of everything great we have accomplished.  Organizers around the country are fighting for change in their communities and OFA is one of the groups on the front lines.  Commit to this work in 2017 and beyond.”  OFA’s website says it obtained its “digital” assets from the ex-president’s re-election effort and that he inspired the movement.  In short, it is the shadow government organization aimed at resisting and tearing down the Constitutional Republic we know as AMERICA.
 
Paul Sperry, writing for the New York Post, says, “The OFA will fight President Donald Trump at every turn of his presidency and the ex-president will command them from a bunker less than two miles from the White House.”  Sperry writes that, “The ex-president is setting up a shadow government to sabotage the Trump administration through a network of non-profits led by OFA, which is growing its war chest (more than $40 million) and has some 250 offices nationwide.
 
The OFA IRS filings, according to Sperry, indicate that the OFA has 32,525 (and growing) volunteers nationwide.  The ex-president and his ‘wife’ will oversee the operation from their home/office in Washington DC.
 
Think about how this works.  For example: Trump issues an immigration executive order; the OFA signals for protests and statements from pro-immigrant groups; the ACLU lawyers file lawsuits in jurisdictions where activist judges obstruct the laws; volunteers are called to protest at airports and Congressional town hall meetings; the leftist media springs to action in support of these activities; the twitter sphere lights up with social media; and violence follows.  All of this happens from the ex-president’s signal that he is heartened by the protests.
 
If Barack Obama did not do enough to destroy this country in the 8 years he was in office, it appears his future plans are to destroy the foundation on which this country has operated on for the last 241 years.
 
If this does not scare you, then we are in worse trouble than you know.
 
So, do your part.  You have read it, so at least pass this on so others will know what we are up against.  We are losing our country and we are so compliant.  We are becoming a “PERFECT TARGET” for our enemy!
 
Editor’s comments: Krauthammer is about the best and brightest journalist and political analyst we have, in my opinion.  His words of warning in the above message should be taken seriously and spread throughout the country so as many of our citizens as possible are made aware of what is happening right under our noses!
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Welcome To Bidenomicsville

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The left-wing washington post let it slip that all is not well in Bidenomicsville. The deficit, it reports, could end up hitting $2 trillion when the current fiscal year ends in three weeks, which it describes as an “unexpected deficit surge.”In other words, the deficit will nearly double this year, calling the lie on one of joe’s favorite boasts about how he cut the deficit more than any president in history.

But while this apparently comes as a shock to the post, as well as many left-wing news sites that get their news from the post, anyone paying attention to non-left wing media knew this was happening.

Back in February, biden’s reckless economic policies had added more than $5 trillion to projected deficits, even as he claimed he’d done more to cut the deficit than “any president in history. By June revenues had been plunging this year, despite all the boasts about a strong economy, and the non-left-wing media warned: “the projected deficit for the entire year is now close to $1.6 trillion, which is almost $300 billion higher than Treasury projected at the start of this fiscal year.”

In July, Bidenflation was pushing up the cost of federal entitlement programs such as Social Security and Medicare, and had resulted in a 37% increase in interest payments on the national debt in the 1st 9 months of this fiscal year. That was the result of the Federal Reserve’s interest rate hikes, which were also a result of Bidenflation. By August, Treasury had upped its projected deficit for this fiscal year to $1.9 trillion.

The great piece of the consumer price puzzle is the energy required to produce and deliver goods and services. Both domestic and foreign policy has served to sharply increase costs. biden's move to restrict and bog down with useless regulations and delays oil and gas exploration capped the supply at existing production levels.  Add in the biden’s decision to instigate the war in Ukraine (by pushing NATO expansion into Ukraine) and then enacting harsh global energy sanctions, and you have a perfect storm of rising energy costs.  Even the decision to release strategic oil reserves to cut into rising prices saw the American taxpayer spurned as those reserves were sold to Europe.

The 30-year TIPS are set for high inflation expectations after the most massive, money printing since WW II. After taking interest rates to nearly zero, the U.S. Government, created out of thin air $9 Trillion of liquidity (money) and injected it into the economy. In case that wasn’t enough, they did another on the grossly misnamed and destructive left-wing's inflation reduction act.

The national debt is now larger than the American economy, something that's never happened outside of a few brief years during WWII. The short-term nature of most government borrowing means higher interest rates are adding fuel to this fiscal fire. By the end of the decade, interest costs on the national debt will exceed the size of the military budget and will only keep growing. And then there's the Social Security crisis looming in the early 2030s. Federal spending has ballooned from $4.8 trillion to more than $6.2 trillion, 29. 2% between 2018 and 2022, and that increase in spending is driving deficits higher.

But this is what liberals/democrats want more of and vote for! And when they get it, and it destroys, they blame others.

Further info:
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/editorials/biden-throws-gas-on-inflation-fire

https://freebeacon.com/latest-news/large-majority-of-americans-think-biden-was-involved-in-hunters-business-dealings-cnn-poll-finds/

https://www.theblaze.com/news/cnn-poll-biden-no-spin

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/biden-plans-even-bigger-student-loan-handout-dumping-bill-you

https://nypost.com/2023/09/06/new-book-reveals-who-is-really-in-charge-of-the-white-house-hint-its-not-joe-biden/

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/09/05/exclusive-breaking-biden-breitbart-editor-in-chief-gai-fellow-alex-marlow-to-release-bombshell-investigative-book-exposing-hidden-forces-and-secret-money-machine/

Deep corruption
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxVYE4HY_yI
 
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OPEN LETTER TO THE MILITARY;
We the People are asking you to assist us to take our country and sovereignty back from the corporation and FED banksters and corrupt politicians. We are FIRING every last one of them!!! They no longer represent us; therefore, they are FIRED!!!!  We are done being slaves and paying taxes that our gov wastes our $$ and it's not even backed by gold, which is fiat worthless paper by illegal and corrupt FED!!!  
 
We want the 2020 election fixed; we know you all know JB the Pedo did NOT win.  We have the right to dissolve the gov when all other measures have been exhausted. We have tried January 6th protests, Convoy’s, Multitudes of protests, going to school board meetings, Town meetings, Attending the Trump Rallies, the rightful winner!! Social Media Warriors Voting: election machines rigged & It was ALL rigged, See the movie RIGGED and Mike Lendel’s Proof. We have lost friends, family members thru covid, poisonous vaccines, and thru sharing the horrific truth of all hidden from us for decades, Kennedy assassination and 9/11 is just two of 100s of examples we could give. 
 
We are tired of wars and paying for wars we DO NOT want!!!  We do NOT want to support any wars unless enemies attack us. We want our country back and are demanding you act ASAP on our behalf, we want action, we want our sovereignty, we never agreed to be a mini corporation at birth and given all Capitol letters on our birth certificates!!!! We never agreed to be traded like cattle while others make $$ from us unknowingly. We refuse to be slaves to the deep state for one moment longer. 
 
We want NESARA implemented ASAP. We will put another much smaller government in place once these horrible, inept people are fired and prosecuted for their crimes against us and our CHILDREN. Patriots who agree please share. Military reading this please take this message from We the people to your commanding officers. Please respond to us using the EAS system. Patriots this needs to go viral on every platform. We the people have spoken. Military needs to act now on our behalf. Before we have no country left!!!!!
 
Respectfully,
 
USA AMERICAN PEOPLE
(if you feel called shared this far and wide)
 
When I read that posting, I thought we must do it in accordance with the way the Constitution provides for the people to act, without interference from the Congress and other Government Bureaucracies. It does seem to reflect what I believe to be the general feelings of the majority of Americans. The way to accomplish this in a legal and bloodless manner, is for the people to order their State Legislatures to petition congress for an Article-V Amendment Proposal Convention. Doing that will allow the actual will of the people to be heard.
 
We could propose Amendments that Congress would never consider. Amendments like Term Limits, Ending lifetime salaries for Congress, Making congress responsible for all the laws it passes and not letting them make exceptions for themselves. Ending their separate retirement and requiring them to enroll in the same Social Security-Medicare-Medicaid package as the rest of the American public. 
 
We can also make an Amendment to stop the gun grabbers from encroaching on our Second Amendment using semantics like they constantly do by clearly stating that government is strictly forbidden from Making any New, or Enforcing any Existing Law, Rule, or Regulation on Firearms Unless it is approved by 3/4 of the Legal American Citizen voters.
 
We could also make/repeal an amendment putting the Senators back under the State Legislatures as originally intended by the Framers of the Constitution and then thney would be responsible to their States and not to their Political Parties.
 
We clould eliminate the 16th Amendment and return to apportioned taxation, Gols and Silver Standard, eliminate the Federal Reserve and IRS.
 
In short we as a united people could propose or repeal any Amendment that allowed the Government to steal our legitimate political power and return it to the people.
 
The Tradesman

 

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What's on the video is just another prime reason we need to get an amendment passed, specifically worded to prevent the Government from making or enforcing gun/weapons laws without a 3/4 vote of approval from legal American Citizens. Otherwise this will be constantly batted back and forth, and American Freedoms will be lost;

Moms Demand Action search history of gun laws https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7vUueGMnwE 

 

A simply worded Amendment like this; "The Government is specifically forbidden from enacting or enforcing any law, rule or regulation, including enforcing those already on the books, without a 3/4 vote of approval for each individual Law, Rule or Regulation, by American Citizens who can legally vote in Federal Elections."

 

The quickest and safest way to do that is to order the State Legislatures to petition Congress for an Article-V Amendment Proposal Convention as allowed in the U.S. Constitution. Every safeguard is in place for a States convention that is in place for a Congress called convention. It would not be like some of the detractors say a "Constitutional Convention" like the one which gave us our Constitution. It could nor open the main body of the Constitution and change anything in it's wording or content. There are other persons who want to have a "Convention of States", some believe if 38 states presented an amendment to Congress it would automatically become law. That is not true. If 38 States delivered an amendment to Congress then Congress would be legally required to pass it on to all 50 States for Ratification. Congress could also change the wording of the delivered amendment proposal because when the 34 States petition Congress for a Convention under Article-V, Congress must call it and step back to allow the States to propose amendments without any input from Congress on the final proposals.

Nowhere in the Constitution is there a reference to a convention of states. Only the format for the Article-V exists.

 

The Tradesman 

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Source; https://wethepeopleusa.ning.com/forum/topics/public-schools-are-the-nurseries-of-all-vice-and-immorality-henry  

“How does it play in Peoria?”

Wirepoints, an Illinois nonprofit that researches tough subjects like criminal justice and public education.

At one high school in Peoria, not a single student could do math at grade level. Not one. There were 11 other schools where fewer than 5% could read at grade level. If you looked at just the high school seniors, only 14% were proficient in reading, yet 80% graduated, but the schools themselves got good ratings. As for Peoria’s teachers, 100% of them were rated either “excellent” or “proficient.”

“We need to look at the whole child,” scolded a left-wing state education official, accusing Wirepoint of “reducing them to a number.”

The left-wing Peoria school superintendent provided a statement: "[Wirepoint should] broaden the narrative to discuss the wider disparities and the historical racism/classism that has contributed to the marginalization of most of our student population.”

And then there was the obese left-wing billionaire Governor j.b. pritzker. He said Wirepoint was “just wrong,” and called them “a right-wing carnival-barker organization.” HOWEVER, the numbers lying liberal/democrat Governor pritzker called “wrong”—are in fact the state’s own data. The Illinois State Bureau of Education has a big public database where anyone can look up information about the roughly 4,000 public schools in the state—everything from per-student spending to how many teachers are teaching subjects they’re not licensed for. The numbers can be sliced and diced by factors like race, grade and income(1). The U.S. Department of Education requires certain statistics, like standardized test results and graduation rates. Illinois bases its reading and math proficiency rates on standardized testing. But liberal officials talk about other metrics. One is the Student Growth Percentile, which tracks how much student learning has grown during the year. Another metric is the Equity Journey Continuum.

left-winger pritzker didn’t specify what was wrong with the findings, but he didn’t really have to. In today’s polarized political climate, all the left-wing has to do is smear the other and meaningful discussion comes to a halt.

Peoria came to project such a stable, bland, middle-of-the-road prosperity that its name became shorthand for middle American tastes and the NBs Nightly News used Peoria’s skyline as a backdrop in 1992, when gauging the public mood ahead of that year’s presidential election. The Chicago Sun-Times wrote: “Peoria has typically been a liberal/democratic-leaning, pale blue urban dot in a sea of red, solidly Republican rural counties in central Illinois.”

Caterpillar, the Fortune 100 maker of construction and mining equipment, had its corporate headquarters in Peoria since 1930, but moved it out in 2017.  A Cat spokeswoman told The Dallas Morning News that “talent attraction” was a key reason. As CEO Doug Oberhelman, who also served as chairman of the National Association of Manufacturers, often said that 60% of the locals who applied to work at Caterpillar were rejected for lack of basic math or writing skills.

Meanwhile, pritzker has been positioning himself as a kind of antidote to Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida, who is seeking the Republican nomination for president. When DeSantis discussed the OBVIOUS “invasion” of illegal immigrants and the deadly drugs, crime, and expense they ARE bringing and promised to complete Trump’s unfinished border wall, pritzker signed an executive order creating the Welcoming Illinois Office, to make the state attractive to illegal immigrants. After DeSantis said that 175 books had been banned by 23 school districts in Florida, pritzker signed a bill making inappropriate books for children OK and any attempt to stop it illegal. After DeSantis signed a bill barring instruction on gender identity, that's the underlying cause of rising teen mental problems and suicide until the 4th grade, pritzker called him “dangerous” and “homophobic.”  pritzker’s State Superintendent of Education issued an Open Invitation to Florida and Texas Teachers, saying that if they felt their states were hostile to their rights, they should come to Illinois, which was empowering teachers in any number of ways, and had just earmarked $45 million that taxpayers must provide for hiring bonuses and other relocation incentives, saying "Illinois’ commitment to the fundamental principles of public education—inclusion, equity and instructional rigor—pays off in student outcomes." Guess which numbers it didn’t mention?

Jump up, look around, find yourself some fun
No sense in sitting there hating everyone
No man's an island and his castle isn't home
The nest is full of nothing when the bird has flown"

So I took a journey
Threw my world into the sea
With me went the teacher
Who found fun instead of me

Hey man, what's the plan, what was that you said?
Sun-tanned, drink in hand, lying there in bed
I try to socialize but I can't seem to find
What I was looking for, got something on my mind

Then the teacher told me
It had been a lot of fun
Thanked me for his ticket
And all that I had done
                                           
 from the song Teacher, by Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull

 1.  In 2020, left-wing/democrat lori lightfoot, then the vastly incompetent mayor of Chicago, announced that the city’s graduation rate was at a record high of 82.5%. How 2020 could set a record for anything, since the schools had closed for the pandemic in mid-March? Because there was no correlation between graduation rates and student proficiency. Teachers’ competency ratings didn’t connect with student proficiency either. Nor did the amount of money spent per student. The town where the kids scored highest, with 85% reading at grade level, was Aviston, population 2,340—and it ranked 2nd-to-last on spending per child, just $7,488. The Peoria school district was spending a little more than twice as much. The chicago teachets union may care even less about the “black and brown” children of the city than the kkk. They fought to keep schools closed when the data showed the lock downs were hurting their constituents more than anyone else. They continue to fight for more pay while ignoring the structural deficits the General Assembly runs, they also pay lip service to the violence in the neighborhoods where the people they teach for live. A fair amount of the teachers either live in the suburbs, and/or send their kids to private schools. You see, the schools are good enough for the people they “care” about, but not for their kids. The incestuous relationship between organized labor and the lib/dem politicians reward the unions with absurd pay and benefits the public cannot possibly afford, for a job the public wouldn't possibly approve of or want.  But the elites who own the left-wing/democrats also own the media. Remember this.

Editor's note:
“Past data from real life constitutes a sequence of events rather than a set of independent observations, which is what the laws of probability demand...Without regression to the mean, nature would become freakier & freakier, with every generation, going completely haywire or running out to extremes we cannot even conceive of.”--P.L. Bernstein

“The real trouble with this world of ours…is its exactitude is obvious, but its inexactitude is hidden…”--G.K. Chesterton

“Clarity & distinctness are not criteria of truth, but such things as obscurity or confusion may indicate error. Similarly coherence cannot establish truth, but incoherence & inconsistency do establish falsehood.”--C. Bernard

"It is difficult enough to be critical of our own mistakes, but it is nearly impossible for us to persist in a critical attitude towards those actions when they involve the lives of many people."--Karl Popper

“Nature has established patterns originating in the return of events, but only for the most part.”  was what G. von Leibniz found century's ago. What he meant was that the behavior patterns of human beings to some degree resemble the probability patterns observed in the rest of nature, they repeat themselves, there does exist an underlying order to the whole.  However, they repeat themselves only to a degree. Without that, everything would be predictable and there would be no change, no learning, and most likely, no life.

The modern day existentialists and historicists that dominate the education agenda of our public school system however reject the limits established by both human nature and the complexities inherent in collective life. They are inspired by confidence in the power of the human will. They ignore natural limits and the words of Montesquieu "that particular social and political traditions have a form of their own and are not easily subordinated to the requirements of a universal and homogenous state". They deny any permanence to human nature, ending up incoherently oscillating between a lawless voluntarism and doctrinarism-based myths.

What matters to these neo-liberal relativist, as D. Glasner reports, is not objective truth, but "...coherence between the manmade paradigm and their interpretation of the facts that are relevant to an evaluation of that paradigm... We cannot choose our subjective interpretations willy-nilly and expect that nature will dutifully comply...An objective external world necessarily imposes constraints on interpretations...Unless a theory is objectively true, we cannot expect that all factual observations made in light of that theory will turn out to be interpretable in a mutually consistent way".

Instrumentalism, which is another name for the "all is relevant" neo-liberal philosophy I'm describing here, denies that there can be any universal or permanent moral values or standards. Neither evidence nor logic is allowed to penetrate this fog. If there are no facts or connected mental processes, then all is relevant and ultimately there is no reason for dissent.  “Reason can tell us which means are conducive to which ends...If rational conduct consists in choosing the right means for the right end, then relativism teaches in effect that rational conduct is impossible.”--L. Strauss

R. Aron argued that the only way out of this dead end is through a clear affirmation of "authentic faith" by which he means foundational "principles" that provide guidance for thought and-action. Without first principles that guide and limit our action within and orient our reflection about the world, neither thought nor reasonable action is possible. It becomes incoherent and loses its intelligibility. A "faith" in the permanence of human nature is then the indispensable "reasonable" precondition of thought and action.

Or, in other words, a form of pragmatic rationalism recognizes that the world is not rational, but that we continue to submit or subject it to reason, striving to clarify everywhere but recognizing that we will never fully understand. This easily incorporates the dynamism of science.  Scientific results are relative only in so far as they are the results of a certain stage of scientific progress. But this does not mean that truth is relative. If an assertion is true, it is true forever.  

Subjective theories of truth try to define truth in terms of the sources or origins of beliefs. An objective theory leads to very different attitude. It leads more directly to the search for knowledge; through a critical approach it provides theories, which are nearer to the truth, which correspond better to the facts.

Kahneman & Tversky’s Prospect Theory states that emotion often destroys the self-control essential to rational decision-making and that people are often unable to understand fully what they are dealing with, having difficulty drawing valid generalizations from what they observe. Instead they employ shortcuts that lead to erroneous perceptions, or use small samples incorrectly as representative of what a larger population would show. The consequences are: a trend towards subjective rather than objective measurements, destroying the rules existing prior to the endeavor; the ignoring of the common components of the problem and concentrating on each part in isolation; paying excessive attention to low-probability events accompanied by high drama and overlooking events that happen in routine fashion.

So, how do we control our emotions, to keep them from destroying the very reason that qualifies our species as human? How do we obtain knowledge of ourselves? Not by self-observation but by a consciousness of our self through the medium of other persons. Most of our assertions are not based upon our observations, but upon all kinds of other sources. If we are doubtful of an assertion, the best procedure is to test it (the epistemologically sound method that is), rather than to ask for the source. Focusing on the source often fails to distinguish between the question of origin vs. the question of validity. Without validating the assertion, how can we hope to detect and eliminate error? As A. Tarski eloquently elaborated, the idea of objective truth is its correspondence to the facts. If we find independent corroboration, the original source issue changes to one of assumptive worth, it takes on a qualitatively sense, for the given assertion, establishing the substance of tradition. And without tradition, knowledge would be impossible, since knowledge cannot be established from nothing. Knowledge advances from earlier forms, but it is dependent upon a prior start. Or as T. Short said: "We may know much without understanding ourselves, and without knowing all the ways in which our nature is conditioned by social arrangements...The very dependence of self on society argues caution in changing society-especially if our understanding of that dependence is imperfect."

Truth transcends the signs by which it is known. The road to truth is through the elimination of error. Those who deny that there is no truth simply are requesting a short-cut to tyranny at best, chaos and violence at worst, since all they recognize is no need to justify their choices.  Better truth contains more precise assertions, explains more, suggests new additional tests of truth and has a unification or connectedness to other premises.

Today's current philosophy dominating the public school monopoly can trace its lineage from Rousseau, thru Hegel, thru Marx thru Dewey. Its message is that human nature is permeable. Despite the fact that the social engineers who believed in that killed approximately 140 million people died last century trying to prove the human nature is permeable. That it can be molded into anything. And only those of the educational monopoly elite are capable of knowing what form that molding is to take, and who is to be in charge of the molding.

This and numerous other dogmas undermine American education and hidden agendas. The dogmas are basically about education itself and about the larger society. "Self-esteem" "Role models" "Diversity" "Multiculturalism" and other buzzwords dominate educational policy—without evi­dence either asked for or given to substantiate the beliefs they represent. Sweeping beliefs about the general society, or about how life ought to be lived, likewise are prevalent among educators without any empirical verification of its effects being required. More important, world-saving crusades based on such beliefs have increasingly intruded into the classroom, from kindergarten to college, crowding out the basic skills that American students lack. This represents the neo-liberal's existential nihilist relativism philosophy, as defined above, being implanted into and enforced upon our children's schools by the public educational monopoly. And this agenda is enhanced by the efforts of select organized outside interests and movements given special access to the monopoly and determined to get their agenda and their special interests into the classroom.

For example, glance over past issues of the PTA's magazine.You'll find articles on: diet and cancer; food allergies; radon gas dangers; medicines; vac­cination; speech disorders; aging and dying; AIDS; teenage drivers; corporal punishment and being a hospital patient. Hardly an article dealing with the educational problems or basics.

Likewise with the National Education Association. It promotes all sorts of ideological crusades. At the N.E.A.'s annual meeting delegates pass resolutions on things ranging from nuclear weapons to immi­gration, housing, highways, environmentalism, and develop­ment of renewable energy resources. These political agendas often find their way right into the classroom. It speaks volumes about today's education monopoly that a captive audience of school children would be used in this way.

Psychological experimenters and crusaders for "causes" invade our classrooms and absorb time sorely needed to teach our children to read, write, do math and learn to think critically, rather than repeat propaganda. Whether blatant or subtle, brainwashing has become a major, time-consuming activity in American education at all levels. Some zealots have not hesitated to use the traditional brainwashing technique of emotional trauma in the classroom to soften up children for their message. These are not isolated incidents, ask your children.  And this occurs from the funding provided to the public educational monopoly, funding from tax money taken without any choice from the taxpayer.

A whole neo-liberal system of education has spread across the country, seeking to re-shape the moral values, personal habits, and social mindsets of our chil­dren. It is not to be confused with effective learning. The emotionalizing of education not only takes time away from intellectual development; it also places teachers in the role of psychologist and social engineer, for which they are unqualified to gauge the consequences of their manipulations of children's emotions. Beyond that, it is the very antithesis of education.

Much of the politicizing of education during the current era happens to have been done by the political left but it would be a very serious mistake to think that this issue is basically political. Increasing numbers of honest people of all sides have been appalled at the prostitution of education for ideological ends, including the very liberal Washington Post and the New Re­public. Even the Marxist E. Genovese has urged "honest people across the spectrum" to stand up for academic principles and

In short, the politicization of education is not fundamentally a political issue, but an educational issue. Yet the educational consequences of ideological indoctrination efforts are likely to be far more serious than the political consequences. It is not the particular goals of ideological zealots, which are at issue here, but the damage they are doing to American education while pursuing those goals, goals that will not solve our educational problems.

The purpose of education is to give the student the intel­lectual tools to analyze, whether verbally or numerically, and to reach conclusions based on logic and evidence.

As long as school choice is denied, and remains in the hands of a monopoly feed on taxpayer money, it will only get worse.

"We are still responsible when our ideas produce error as when our erroneous ideas have the same result."--J.V. Schall

“The future is open…We all contribute to determining it by what we do. We are all equally responsible for its success.”--K. Popper

 

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Every day in every way it is exceedingly obvious that the people behind the Left Liberal Democrats and RINO gun grabbers in Congress, have decided to play all their cards so they can simply disarm the law abiding American people regardless of what the Constitution and the Supreme Court says. They have already passed legislation that then Supreme Court listed as unconstitutional. They are intent on circumventing everything the Supreme Court has declared unconstitutional. If this isn't a government out of control acting as a defacto dictatorship, I don't know what is. One Democrat, the governor of California, has started proceedings for an Article-V amendment convention where he is trying to remove the 2nd Amendment.
 
The writing is on the wall. If the American people do not actively move to counteract this gun grabbing mess, we will be disarmed. This is not conspiracy theory, nor is it alarmism. It's a fact of modern life. The WEF and NWO can't thrive if the public is armed, because the public would take drastic action against them when they pushed as far as they want to push right now.
 
The American people by and large still believe it can't happen here, and will continue to bury their heads in the sand until t's too late. It has become necessary to put together groups who will convince the state legislatures to petition Congress to initiate an Article-V States called Convention. Why an Article-V States Convention? Because when the State Legislatures are controlling the convention, Congress has no say in what is proposed, and has no say in the wording of proposed amendments. All Congress can do is send the proposals out to all 50 States for ratification. Many people believe that a so called Convention of States can do the same thing if 38 States propose an amendment. Unfortunately the Constitution is clear on the procedure. Read Article-V.
 
If we can get the State Legislatures of 34 States to petition Congress we can choose our delegates and propose Amendments that Congress would never propose. 
1. Term Limits.
2. end all the perks Congress has granted themselves like separate pension funds, lifetime salaries, regular raises, separate and better medical insurances, ect.
3. To stop gun grabbers cold propose that government is forbidden from making any new Laws, rules, regulations and from enforcing any current Laws, Rules or Regulations until the legal American voters give their approval of each individual Law, Rule or Regulation with a 3/4 vote of approval. 
Many in Congress state the American people want more restrictions and control. Let Congress put their money where their mouths are, and actually find out what Americans want, and what they don't want.
4. Do away with income tax and end the IRS and Federal Reserve, going back to apportioned taxation.
5. End the Department of Education which is promoting the perverse curriculum pushing sexualization of our children.
6. Put the Senators back under the control of their State Legislatures like was originally intended so they again represent their States and not their political parties.
 
 
The Hard Left Liberal/NWO controlled ATF, has once again proposed a new rule that will have a massive effect on how commerce is managed. This rule will basically ban "private sales" and create an expanded registry through paperwork. It ignores Constitutional rights, and the Democrats and RINO's don't care 
ATF Just Dropped "New Rule" And Its Bad. https://youtube.com/watch?v=fQxe0ifqWvY The gun grabbers are trying to initiate a law that will make law abiding citizens criminals for legally buying or selling guns without jumping through convoluted hoops. By the way, that proposed new rule has the force of legislated law without and citizen oversight and no actual legislation for accountability. Maybe we should push for an amendment that disbands the ATF?
 
White House Makes 3 Moves To Strangle US Civilian Ammo Supply! 
 
These cited instances are only a minute portion of the Constitution and Supreme Court ruling excesses the Liberals in Congress and their shadow controllers have heaped on us.
 
The Tradesman
 
Unless you want to give up your Freedoms and Destroy the Constitution, Unite and fight back with every legal method including a States petitioned for Article-V Amendment Proposal Convention. When it's States called, Congress has no say in what is proposed, and must send it to all 50 States for Ratification.
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14 American cities plan to ban

Source; Ethan Huff // Aug 22, 2023

These 14 American cities plan to ban meat, dairy and private vehicles by 2030 – is yours on the list?

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By the year 2030, the following 14 cities in the United States are planning to completely outlaw all meat and dairy consumption, as well as all private vehicle ownership and use, in order to conform to the "green" climate standards of the so-called C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group:

 

• Austin, Texas

• Boston, Massachusetts

• Chicago, Illinois

• Houston, Texas

• Los Angeles, California

• Miami, Florida

• New Orleans, Louisiana

• New York City, New York

• Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

• Phoenix, Arizona

• Portland, Oregon

• San Francisco, California

• Washington, D.C.

• Seattle, Washington

 

All 14 of these cities are part of the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group, which has an "ambitious target" of achieving "0 kg [of] meat consumption," "0 kg [of] dairy consumption," only "3 new clothing items per person per year," "0 private vehicles" owned, and only "1 short-haul return flight (less than 1500 km) every 3 years per person."

 

This is all outlined in "The Future of Urban Consumption in a 1.5°C World" report, which was originally published in 2019 and "reemphasized" in 2023, the year of what appears to be a major financial collapse and possible transition into a new world order.

 

(Related: A lot of meat is becoming unsafe to consume anyway due to cattle being injected with mRNA "vaccines.")

 

While you starve to death in poverty, billionaires like Michael Bloomberg will be living high on the hog as usual

Democrat billionaire Michael Bloomberg, who ran for president with almost zero support, is the primary funder of the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group. In addition to the aforementioned 14 U.S. cities that are involved, at least 86 other cities around the world are also on the list for no more meat and dairy, very few clothing purchases allowed, no more private vehicle ownership, and almost no more flying on airplanes come 2030.

 

Bloomberg, of course, will continue to gorge on expensive meals filled with fancy meat, as well as unlimited private plane ownership and use. The peons underneath him, though, will be reduced to mere cattle in his envisioned new world order.

 

If the C40 Cities goals are new to you, it is probably because very few media outlets are reporting on it.  In fact, there is an aggressive "fact checking" war being waged on all news about C40 Cities and what the plan entails that aims to "debunk" it is a "conspiracy theory."

 

The AFP Fact Check service went after conservative commentator Glenn Beck for this very thing recently, claiming that his mention of the C40 Cities plan to ban meat, dairy, cars, and clothing consumption are "not policy recommendations."

 

"This report does not advocate for the wholesale adoption of these more ambitious targets in C40 cities; rather, they are included to provide a set of reference points that cities, and other actors, can reflect on when considering different emission-reduction alternatives and long-term urban visions," the AFP Fact Check claims.

 

The C40 Cities report's use of the term "target," though, implies that this is a "desired goal" of the initiative, which means that eventually it will be codified into policy and law and forced on the masses as the final solution to climate change.

 

"IF these were not their goals, they would not have labeled them 'ambitious targets,'" writes Evita Duffy-Alfonso for The Federalist.

 

"Right now, hedge funds and private billionaires are buying up residential homes and farmland all over the world. At the same time, unrealistic zero-emissions policies are impoverishing Westerners and annihilating the middle class, which is fueling reliance on centralized government."

 

If you live in one of the above cities and plan to be around in 2030, then perhaps you may wish to consider moving somewhere freer?

 

The "green" life is one marked by tyranny, poverty, forced veganism, and utter misery. Learn more at GreenTyranny.news.

 

Sources for this article include:

 

TheFederalist.com

 

NaturalNews.com

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Covid, Mask mandates, 2024 election?

Source; CAFR1 NATIONAL POST

Covid, Mask mandates, 2024 election?
by Walter Burien - CAFR1
08/23/23

Covid, Mask mandates;
Per using the mask mandate for the 2024 election, here is your number 1 fact that blows them out of the water per bringing back the mask mandate:

When I saw the promotion of Covid back in 2018 / 2019, I said to myself: "let's see what the facts are per deaths in the country."

I went to the CDC site to look up the data going back 15-years prior to Covid. The category they had which covered the same was deaths caused by "Flu and pneumonia like symptoms."

Going back 15-years prior to covid, the deaths per year in that category on the low side were 285,000 deaths and on the high side 335,000 deaths per year.

The year before, the mention of Covid, in  2018, was the 335,000 deaths in that category.

These numbers established the base-line for deaths from "Flu and pneumonia like symptoms." of which Covid falls under.


From the CDC site for 2021, the total deaths from all categories is as follows:

Data are for the U.S.

    Number of deaths: 3,464,231
    Death rate: 1,043.8 deaths per 100,000 population.

LINK: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/deaths.htm

You will see also on that page they list Covid deaths for 2021 at COVID-19: 416,893

You will no longer see the category of "Flu and pneumonia like symptoms." being they consolidated that data into the Covid data as "Covid related".

Data which already had a base-line going back 15-years before Covid of over 300,000 deaths per year...

As you and I know, they promoted Covid and had the intent of inflating the numbers by listing deaths as "Covid related."

Also noted is 2021, it is at the height of the Covid promotion.

Going back to total deaths of : 3,464,231 for 2021, when going back 15-years before Covid and forward, the base-line of total deaths in the country stayed very consistent with a gradual rise each year accounting for population increase, or nothing really outside the "normal".

As for 2021, Death rate: 1,043.8 deaths per 100,000 population

Look at that Death rate number per year on prior years, and the Covid promotion is blown out of the water.

No spike increase in deaths. Again the CDC's data shows, Normal, normal.....

You can see or download all data needed from that CDC page.

Is Covid a severe danger? Not so much more than the common cold, flu, and pneumonia that we all have lived with throughout our lifetimes.

Again, the CDC's own data, blows the Covid promotion out of the water,,

On a last note, I wonder how many people realize 3,464,231 die each year from all causes (for 2021)

That is, a little over 1 percent of the population dies each year, and for 10-years that is a little over 10 percent of the population.

 

No massive mail-in ballots for 2024!

No mask mandates!

These are the facts straight from the CDC, now inform the public!

OK to post and publish.

Sent FYI and for you to share with others from,


Walter Burien
P. O. Box *****
Saint Johns, AZ

Tel. (928) ***-****

Websites: https://CAFR1.com  and https://TRFA,us

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The Washington Post's 'Good' Terrorists

Source; https://wethepeopleusa.ning.com/forum/topics/the-washington-post-s-good-terrorists

Source; by Bassam Tawil
August 24, 2023 at 5:00 am

  • The attacks by the Fatah-affiliated terrorists came days after The Washington Post published a story from Balata refugee camp, near Nablus, in which its correspondents romanticized members of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, even documenting them as they visit their barber for a haircut.

  • The "fighters" The Washington Post is referring to are the terrorists responsible for a series of shooting, stabbing and car-ramming attacks against Jewish civilians and soldiers in the Nablus area and Israel over the past few months. Notably, these terrorists do not hide their involvement in the wave of attacks. In fact, they often boast of the attacks and post videos and posters documenting their role.

  • What the newspaper fails to mention is that this terrorist [who "bought his M16 [rifle] for $20,000 with the money he earned working in construction in Tel Aviv"] is one of tens of thousands of Palestinians who were granted permits (by Israel) to come and work in Israel as part of an effort to boost the Palestinian economy and improve the living conditions of the Palestinians in the West Bank.

  • The terrorist did not seek work in the Palestinian Authority-controlled territories because he knew he would have earned much less.... The terrorist was able to save $20,000 from his work in Israel, but instead of using the money to build a new house or improve his living condition, we are told that he chose to establish "the Balata cell of Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades."

  • The correspondents are apparently impressed by the fact that another terrorist, Ammar, paid 20 shekels ($6) to buy them coffee. Ammar had been shot multiple times by Israeli soldiers while attempting to murder Jews near Nablus in April. He managed to escape, but two of his fellow gunmen were killed.

  • The correspondents go on to claim, falsely, that "there are no sports teams" in Balata refugee camp.

  • The truth is that the camp has a soccer club that was established in 1954. It is called the Balata Youth Center and states that it "aspires to be the main supporter of all sports, cultural, social, and scouting activities... It also aspires to have a special playground for all sports, such as football [soccer], basketball, handball, volleyball, table tennis, and other individual and group games." The local soccer team has even won several championships.

  • The terrorists could have joined the soccer team, but preferred to form a terror group to attack Jews.

  • Instead of highlighting that many of the terrorists are involved in intimidation and extortion of the local community, The Washington Post attempts to depict them as honest law-enforcers.

  • "The [Balata] Camp has been hijacked by an armed group that is terrorizing and threatening to kill residents who dare to speak out," the Fatah Office of Information and Culture itself said back in 2015. It accused the gunmen of extorting money from wealthy businessmen from Nablus and running a big market for weapons and drugs.

  • "[A] recent report by the Post provided what was essentially free advertising for a U.S.-designated terrorist group. Worse still, the Post's foray is part of an ongoing trend in Western news outlets being used by terrorist organizations to promote their propaganda." — Sean Durns, senior research analyst for the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America.

  • After the recent murder of the Jewish woman near Hebron, one might wonder whether The Washington Post is planning to send its correspondents back to spend time with the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades terrorists to hear, first-hand, how proud they are that they murdered an innocent kindergarten teacher in cold blood.

  • How would the newspaper's readers have reacted had it sent its correspondents to spend time with Al-Qaeda or Islamic State (ISIS) terrorists to hear their pride in having committed atrocities against American citizens?

  • The Post piece leaves one with the distinct impression that there is such a thing as a good terrorist: one who targets Jews.

12208106886?profile=RESIZE_710x Days before Palestinian terrorists from the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades murdered a 42-year-old Jewish mother of three who taught pre-school, The Washington Post published a story in which its correspondents romanticized members of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades. Pictured: Gunmen from a number of terrorist groups, including the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, Izaddin al-Qassam Brigades, Al-Quds Brigades, and Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades, hold what they called a "joint press conference" in Jenin refugee camp on February 25, 2023. (Photo by Jaafar Ashtiyeh/AFP via Getty Images)

On August 21, the Palestinian terror group Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the murder of Batsheva Nigri, a 42-year-old Jewish mother of three who taught pre-school. The woman was gunned down by two terrorists near the West Bank city of Hebron.

Shortly after the attack, the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, the armed wing of the Fatah faction, headed by Palestinian Authority President -- and Fatah chairman -- Mahmoud Abbas, issued a statement in which it took credit for the attack. The group said it will continue to "adhere to the option of the rifle as a strategic choice." The "option of the rifle," as is evident, refers to terrorist attacks against Jewish civilians and soldiers.

Members of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades were later filmed handing out sweets to passersby in the Gaza Strip to celebrate the murder of the Jewish woman.

The involvement of Abbas's group in terrorism against Jews is not new. In the past two years, his loyalists in the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades have claimed responsibility for several terrors attacks, especially in the northern West Bank cities of Nablus and Jenin. On August 17, the group boasted that one of its members, Mustafa al-Kastouni, 32, was killed during an exchange of gunfire with Israeli troops in Jenin. Kastouni was wanted by Israel for his involvement in shooting attacks against Jewish civilians and soldiers.

Two days later, the same group mourned the death of another one of its members, Mohammed Abu Asab, who was also killed during an armed clash with Israeli soldiers.

The attacks by the Fatah-affiliated terrorists came days after The Washington Post published a story from Balata refugee camp, near Nablus, in which its correspondents romanticized members of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, even documenting them as they visit their barber for a haircut.

Referring to the local commander of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, the newspaper's correspondents wrote:

"The Washington Post spent time with him and some of his 15 fighters, as well as with militants in two other Palestinian refugee camps – Jenin and Askar – over three days in July. The visits, agreed to on condition that full names and specific locations be withheld, afforded a rare window into the lives and actions of fighters on one side of the worst violence to grip the West Bank in decades."

The "fighters" The Washington Post is referring to are the terrorists responsible for a series of shooting, stabbing and car-ramming attacks against Jewish civilians and soldiers in the Nablus area and Israel over the past few months. Notably, these terrorists do not hide their involvement in the wave of attacks. In fact, they often boast of the attacks and post videos and posters documenting their role.

The newspaper goes to lengths to focus on the human aspect of the terrorists' lives. After being led to a room deep inside Balata camp, the correspondents, in an effort to humanize the terrorists, said they were "welcomed" by several men there who were "eating mana'eesh, a flatbread with za'atar. Weapons rested in their laps or against the walls."

The correspondents go on to make a stunning revelation: one of the terrorists, identified only as Zoufi, "bought his M16 [rifle] for $20,000 with the money he earned working in construction in Tel Aviv."

What the newspaper fails to mention is that this terrorist is one of tens of thousands of Palestinians who were granted permits (by Israel) to come and work in Israel as part of an effort to boost the Palestinian economy and improve the living conditions of the Palestinians in the West Bank.

The terrorist did not seek work in the Palestinian Authority-controlled territories because he knew he would have earned much less. The newspaper does not mention that many Palestinians prefer to work in Israel than in the Palestinian Authority-controlled areas. The terrorist was able to save $20,000 from his work in Israel, but instead of using the money to build a new house or improve his living condition, we are told that he chose to establish "the Balata cell of Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades."

The correspondents are apparently impressed by the fact that another terrorist, Ammar, paid 20 shekels ($6) to buy them coffee. Ammar had been shot multiple times by Israeli soldiers while attempting to murder Jews near Nablus in April. He managed to escape, but two of his fellow gunmen were killed.

The correspondents go on to claim, falsely, that "there are no sports teams" in Balata refugee camp.

The truth is that the camp has a soccer club that was established in 1954. It is called the Balata Youth Center and states that it "aspires to be the main supporter of all sports, cultural, social, and scouting activities... It also aspires to have a special playground for all sports, such as football [soccer], basketball, handball, volleyball, table tennis, and other individual and group games." The local soccer team has even won several championships.

The terrorists could have joined the soccer team, but preferred to form a terror group to attack Jews.

Instead of highlighting that many of the terrorists are involved in intimidation and extortion of the local community, The Washington Post attempts to depict them as honest law-enforcers. We are told that one of the terrorists its correspondents hung out with, Goblin, beat a suspected thief:

"Goblin slapped the boy. 'You will not steal again', he yelled, striking him in the forehead with the stock of his rifle."

Again, the newspaper ignores that many Palestinians are intimidated and terrorized by the gunmen, whom they hold responsible for the anarchy and lawlessness and living off protection money.

"The [Balata] Camp has been hijacked by an armed group that is terrorizing and threatening to kill residents who dare to speak out," the Fatah Office of Information and Culture itself said back in 2015. It accused the gunmen of extorting money from wealthy businessmen from Nablus and running a big market for weapons and drugs.

Sean Durns, a senior research analyst for the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America, noted:

"[A] recent report by the Post provided what was essentially free advertising for a U.S.-designated terrorist group. Worse still, the Post's foray is part of an ongoing trend in Western news outlets being used by terrorist organizations to promote their propaganda."

After the recent murder of the Jewish woman near Hebron, one might wonder whether The Washington Post is planning to send its correspondents back to spend time with the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades terrorists to hear, first-hand, how proud they are that they murdered an innocent kindergarten teacher in cold blood.

How would the newspaper's readers have reacted had it sent its correspondents to spend time with Al-Qaeda or Islamic State (ISIS) terrorists to hear their pride in having committed atrocities against American citizens?

The Post piece leaves one with the distinct impression that there is such a thing as a good terrorist: one who targets Jews.

Bassam Tawil is a Muslim Arab based in the Middle East.

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Grand Wazoo economics

Source; Another one sent from a friend..... known only as SNGLR

The dust of the Grand Wazoo (to borrow a phrase from Frank Zappa), better known as bidenomics, means Americans are now paying $8500/yr more for what they paid before biden took office, yet inflation-adjusted wages are stuck at 2019 levels.

The senile, nasty(watch he when he's unscripted) & corrupt biden says his approach is a better alternative to Reaganomics, which he constantly lies about when he refers to as trickle-down economics, or tax cuts for the rich, that the Reagan approach has never worked, and that his tax and spend policies will produce stronger economic growth.

That would be fine except--it's another biden/left-wing/democrat Lie !

The facts of history show that free market policies of low tax rates and limited spending have consistently led to stronger economic growth.

In the early 1980s, with the economy facing liberal/democrat's serious double-digit inflation and a recession, Reagan’s economic recovery program was enacted by Congress with bipartisan support. His tax cuts reduced tax rates across the board in every tax bracket and at the corporate level (just like the one's Trump had passed by the way). Every taxpayer received tax relief, and everyone benefited from the subsequent higher economic growth.

According to the Joint Tax Committee, 66% of the tax cuts went to middle-income taxpayers. Only 6% went to the top income level. More importantly, the Reagan tax cuts worked, producing the longest peacetime economic expansion since WW II. The tax cuts ignited an economic boom, with real GDP increasing 7.9% in 1983 and more than 8% in the first half of 1984. All told, economic growth averaged nearly 5% a year through 1988.

By comparison, real GDP has averaged only 2% a year since 2007, and an anemic 1.3% over the last year and a half. CBO is projecting the economy to grow at only 1.7% a year for the next decade.

Under Reagan, inflation dropped from double-digit levels to 4%. The unemployment rate was cut in half, and 20 million new jobs were created. Business investment soared, and real income grew at every level,  manufacturing productivity grew at an average annual rate of more than 4%, nearly 50% faster than during the period 1948-1973, leading to higher wages, better jobs, and greater growth. By the  end of Reagan’s 2nd term, the U.S. economy was 33% larger than when he took office.

Senator biden voted for the Reagan tax cuts, saying in a Senate speech that he has: “long advocated a reduction in the tax burden for individuals and businesses...the tax cuts would give a boost to the sluggish economy and encourage businesses to invest to achieve greater productivity.” Was joe lying then or now (or is he always lying, hmmm?).

We need to move away from the marxist-ideology flavored, hence economically flawed, bidenomics and put in place the Reagan pro-growth policies of low tax rates and spending restraint to unleash stronger economic growth.

Further info:
 
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/us-inflation-means-families-are-spending-709-more-per-month-than-two-years-ago/ar-AA1f9fwl

Truckers viewhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIEBVDJ8ULw

https://www.heritage.org/debt/commentary/these-record-debt-figures-are-massive-red-flag-the-american-economy

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Now it's open & notorious

Source; Sent from an unknown Internet friend known as SNGLR.......

She wanted truth
But all she got was lies
Came the time to realize
And it was too late
                            --The Guess Who

joe biden’s corrupt activities go back to his first year as VP in 2009 and continued throughout his 8 years serving in the BObama regime, punctuated with son hunter being paid $1 million a year as a board member of the Ukrainian energy company burisma in 2014. That role continued for more than 4 years, with a large $10 million dollar payoff from burisma coming to hunter and joe after the latter blackmailed Ukraine by threatening the withholding of $1 billion in U.S. aid unless  prosecutor general Victor Shokin was fired from the corruption investigation of burisma in March of 2016 -- an investigation that would have exposed fraud, including questionable payments to hunter. fbi documents refer to the two $5 million payments to hunter and joe as a 'bribe' paid by burisma owner mykola zlochevsky.

The case for impeaching joe biden goes beyond bribery and emolument high crimes related to Ukraine. In 2014, hunter biden introduced his father, then VP, to Kazakhstan oligarch kenes rakishev. Records and testimony obtained by James Comer, chairman of the House Oversight Committee show that at that time of introducing  rakishev to VP biden, hunter and his business partner Devon Archer were working on a deal involving burisma, on whose board they both served, and a Chinese company that would have been based in Kazakhstan. To facilitate the deal and his relationship with Archer and the bidens, rakishev wired $142,300 to rosemont seneca -- a shell company created by Devon and hunter -- the exact amount needed to fund hunter's sportscar purchase the next day.

Another mysterious payment to the bidens came during that same year. Shortly after joe was introduced to Russian oligarch yelena baturina at a dinner meeting in February 2014,  $3.5 million was wired to rosemont seneca by baturina.   These kinds of payments to the bidens coming from oligarchs from Ukraine and other countries are way beyond a level where impeachment and removal from office is justified. Also, the means of transferring and distributing funds follows the pattern of international criminal enterprises. The bidens were involved with the creation of some 20 shell companies, that had no function, services, products or purpose other than for concealing money transfers from foreign nationals and then distributing those transferred funds to as many as 9 different biden family members--who also provided no services or functions. What kind of idiot doesn't smell corruption. What kind of ideological hate makes one blind and accepting of this corruption.

As egregious as all these payments and shell game money transfers were, the scope and scale of biden deal activities in China crosses a new threshold requiring urgent correction. China engages in unrestricted warfare against the US. Blackmail is one of the chief tools in China’s massive elite capture program in the US, giving them control over many in government in the US -- with the top liberal/democrat elite family in the U.S. being biden’s family. Preliminary records assembled in 2021 and 2022 by investigative journalists without subpoena power or access to bank records show that the Chinese  have paid some $31 million to the biden family. For what!!! For the Chinese, these payments were and are about control and blackmail, which explains why biden more than any other U.S. president has pursued policies that have weakened the US and helped China. But one example is the Defense Department review of biological threats saying the U.S. military is at a “pivotal moment” in biodefense and must act urgently to address the potential of bioweapons and other catastrophic events, including pandemics. In particular, the review highlighted a growing threat posed by China. The posture review singles out China as the key long-term threat, casting doubt on Beijing’s compliance with existing international rules on biowarfare and raising concerns over its accelerated plans to integrate civilian biological research programs into the military.

In Article II, Section 4 and in the emoluments clause in Article I, Section 9, Clause 8 of the U.S. Constitution prohibits any person holding a government office from accepting any present, emolument, office, or title from any foreign state without congressional consent.

The standard for impeachment as expressed in the Constitution is conviction of Treason, Bribery, or other High Crimes and Misdemeanors.

"There is a better than even chance that biden will not survive the influence-peddling situation that is about to get much worse in September when the House hearings resume. Now, I don't know if old Joe received money or other compensation from his son and brother, but if he did - that would dwarf anything Trump is charged with."
--Bill O'Reilly

The thief, he kindly spoke
There are many here among us
Who feel that life is but a joke
But, uh, but you and I, we've been through that
And this is not our fate
So let us stop talkin' falsely now
The hour's getting late, hey

                                            --Bob Dylan


Further info:

https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/foreigners-paid-more-than-20-million-to-biden-family-associates-bank-records-5453849?utm_source=winback_share&src_src=winback_share&utm_campaign=day71&src_cmp=day71

Details of the corruption

 

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/08/17/james-comer-demands-nara-provide-records-related-joe-bidens-work-ukraine/

https://washingtonstand.com/commentary/the-5-worst-lies-of-the-biden-administration

https://pjnewsletter.com/biden-economy-wins/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=actengage

https://freebeacon.com/latest-news/watch-60-seconds-of-democrats-pretending-to-fight-inflation/

https://freebeacon.com/democrats/loretta-lynch-obama-fifa-corruption/

https://www.theblaze.com/news/biden-s-interior-secretary-hit-with-ethics-complaint-over-possible-conflicts-of-interest-related-to-oil-leasing-ban

https://www.theblaze.com/shows/pat-gray-unleashed/irs-misplaces-millions-of-taxpayers-records

https://justthenews.com/government/congress/blinken-omitted-key-docs-related-afghan-withdraw-response-house-foreign-affairs

https://freebeacon.com/latest-news/chicago-democrat-asks-gang-members-to-limit-shootings-to-nighttime/

Another lib/dem politician
https://www.newsmax.com/politics/jacky-rosen-nevada-u-s-senate/2023/08/18/id/1131191/

https://freebeacon.com/biden-administration/watch-joe-bidens-senior-moment-of-the-week-vol-56/
 
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Vatican II

Source; Unknown Author

“Since the Second Vatican Council the Roman Catholic Church has experienced an unprecedented crisis in her very identity, extending even to hitherto impregnable sacred doctrine and spirituality, her apostolic and missionary activity.”---Peter Kwasniewski

The influence of religion in western civilization, which seemed to be substantial for two decades after World War II, declined very sharply in the decades after Vatican II, making the region that had guided the council the most secular in the world.

Most of the previous 20 councils like and before Vatican II were convened to address error and proclaim new dogma. At the time of Vatican II in 1962, the church seemed quite healthy. Clerical scandals were rare, the level of priestly education and zeal was high And the laity was relatively well instructed in their faith.

Vatican II was established to inject more of the secular world into Catholicism, to engage the world while simultaneously throwing into question many of the doctrines and practices of the Catholic Church.  Vatican II ended up giving much of its attention to the internal life of the church, a scrutiny that resulted in a crisis of Catholic identity without historical parallel. In fact most of the bishops from Britain, southern Europe, Australia, Canada, and the United States saw little urgency in many of the questions that came before them, and some expressed bewilderment as to why change was necessary at all. Those who understood almost nothing of the theological issues involved believe that the council’s real purpose was simply that of repealing rules that had become burdensome.

A system of rules and laws that provided people with concrete direction; and, once those rules were deemphasized, most people become morally confused. What resulted was the individual conscience turned into an absolute, and the traditional teaching of the church, that the conscience must be formed in accord with objective morality, was largely ignored. Consequentialism—essentially the historically catastrophic principle that the end justifies the means, easily became the basis for justifying their acts. Formal doctrine easily became an obstacle to the so-called living faith. Religious discipline, which had been at a high-level on the eve of the council, declined sharply, homosexuality in the priesthood came to be a serious problem.

Vatican II, in the Gaudium et Spes document, changed the emphasis of the Catholic Church from an individual orientation of virtue, sin and the effects, to a collective one of salvation through permeation of the world to Christian values. Liberation Theology, an ideological consequence of Vatican II, took that belief further by holding out the promise of Heaven on Earth if Original Sin was mitigated by a drive for an always vaguely defined social justice.

The result of course has been a fuzzy, watery, lowest common-denominator kind of thoughtless optimism were no demands are made, no tenets are required, merely a self-proclaimed membership in “spirituality”, where a “new type of humanity” could transform the world. “[Vatican II influenced] Catholics, like Communists, now believed in progress in this world and seemed to lose interest in what might await us in the next.” ---Piers Paul Reid. Never mind that the same promise of progress through  a “new type of humanity” fueled other 20th century movements that resulted in the deaths of over 150 million people and enslaved whole nations into godless gulags. This time it would be different, again!

As D.Q.  McInerny noted: “The anti-Thomistic movement that followed hard upon the Second Vatican Council had generally calamitous consequences.”  So, was Vatican II a mistake? Well, what has Catholicism experienced, on the ground so to speak, after Vatican II, which it hadn’t before?

Let’s see:

-A proliferation of practicing homosexuals in the priesthood

-Pro-abortion Catholics

-Rebellious bishops

-Liturgical mumbo-jumbo

-90% less Seminarians

-94% less teaching nuns

-66% less Seminaries

-50% less Catholic schools

-Americans in general are leaving Catholicism or abandoning religion.

-Sex-abuse scandals…to name just a few

And most importantly to this evangelizing religion: “The number of outsiders that Vatican II succeeded in attracting to the Church is small compared with the numbers of the faithful whom the V-II revolution and dissent have been sweeping away from Catholic belief” states Philip Trower. Only 2.6% of current Catholics are converts. A strong papacy, under John Paul II, (perhaps the most intellectually formidable man ever to ascend to the papacy) proved to be the only means of maintaining the unity of the church in the face of the centrifugal forces unleashed by Vatican II.

Summing up the pro-Vatican II view, in the words of George S. Johnson, is the claim that  Vatican II was necessary because: “…the Church in some respects had become rigid…Most Catholics did not understand that the Church is not just an institution but an evangelical movement…it needed to be called out of her Tridentine shell to an active engagement with the modem world…the Church was a juridical machine operated by the bishop of Rome…Over the centuries, the Church’s government had become top-heavy and centralized…Vatican II revived… collegial responsibility…”

The pro-Vatican II faction seems to be oblivious that in the wake of V-II the Church has experienced a severe identity crisis. There is almost no point of Catholic teaching that has not been called into question or repudiated since V-II. And without a clear and unified sense of herself and her mission how can the Church appeal to those who are searching for clear answers to life’s big questions? The fact is that their beliefs and actions shifted away from Catholic certainties and principles,  dissolving the very Catholic certainties and principles they rely and call on to achieve their goals. In fact the same Mr. Johnson even quotes Paul Claudel on that matter, saying that: “The problem with the fallen world is so enormous that only the Word can respond to it, bringing not an explanation but a presence…hope that a genuine implementation lies in our future.”  Yet the word they’ve distorted, the genuine they’ve diluted and the presence they’ve degraded.  And the effects are still being felt today.

Is the pro-Vatican II camp’s contortion of logic blind to its own philosophical flaws, or is it just an example of the wanting so much to believe its own deeply significant nonsense?  An intellectually honest person’s got to wonder if throwing more Vatican II type ideology at the Church will ever produce any significant positive results. True, there are a few things that Vatican II did that were good and necessary but, and this is very important, only a very few, the sum of which cannot outweigh or paper over the damage it has wrought. If the Church was in some respects rigid before Vatican II, perhaps what it needs these days is a cathartic dose of more rigidity. The Church needs a second coming, like the Council of Trent, as a form of Divine intervention. “There is a danger that the shift among Catholics from a preoccupation with eternity to an engagement with the world has now gone so far that it effaces the very idea of an afterlife and so distorts the teaching of the gospel and endangers the coherence of the Christian religion. It suggests that the lack of individual orientation loses focus on the Four Last Things [Death, Judgment, Heaven & Hell] and is one of the causes for the relative decline of the Catholic Church in the developed world.”—Piers Paul Reid.

Supposedly there's a rebellion within the Vatican by the conservative Cardinals who are very distressed at the direction the current pope is taking the church, that he's actually single-handedly changing, wearing the faith, the doctrinal faith, by pursuing even further the ideological direction of V-II. So far, no one has contributed more to the process of attempting correcting the problems created by Vatican II then Cardinal Ratzinger, who later became Pope Benedict XVI. The bishops of themselves made little effort to communicate the council’s  meanings, Or correct the errors.

Certainly the results of Vatican II seem to have gone from self-criticism to self-destruction. Expected was a new enthusiasm, and many wound up discouraged and bored. The net result therefore seems to be negative…the change in ecclesial climate was becoming ever more evident…I tried to sound a first warning signal, but few noticed it…We can therefore affirm that there will be no renewal in the Church until there is a change of course and an abandonment of the errors adopted after V-II” ---Pope Benedict XVI

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The China Virus by Party

Source; anonymous author

Left-wing media outlets broadcasted the findings, which ran in the peer-reviewed Journal of the American Medical Association. “Republican deaths in Florida, Ohio linked to COVID vaccine politics,” axios wrote. chris hayes of MSNBs claimed the study showed that “a bunch of people with big platforms tried to get their audiences killed."

But the facts suggest that the apparent connection between party affiliation and death may result from hidden epidemiological factors. At the least, it undoes any effort to suggest that young or middle-aged Republicans suffered from being unvaccinated.

To conduct the study, the researchers matched death records with party registrations or voting records in Florida and Ohio. They looked at deaths during Covid before and after May 1, 2021, when vaccines were widely available to anyone who wanted them. Before then, Republicans and democrats in the 2 states died at roughly equal rates, they found. But afterwards, Republicans died significantly more frequently in Ohio (though the gap was much smaller in Florida, a puzzling finding though not the truly problematic issue).

Halfway through the Results section, are these stunning sentences: "The analyses stratified by age showed that Republican voters had significantly higher excess death rates compared with Democratic voters for 2 of the 4 age groups in the study, the differences for the age group 25 to 64 years were not significant. democratic voters had significantly higher excess death rates compared with Republican voters for the age group 65 to 74 years."

 Yes, you read that right. The extra Republican deaths only occurred in people over 75. For those under 75, the authors actually found Republicans were less likely to die of Covid than democrats. And the largest party gap of all - the gap that drove most of the overall study’s finding - came from the most elderly people, those 85 and over. If old old Republicans died, how come younger old Republicans didn’t? If the vaccine was protecting the democrats who got it but the Republicans who did not, why were younger Republicans not at high risk too? This question is especially pertinent since people over 85 are less likely to have significant choice in whether they are vaccinated or to refuse the vaccine for political reasons. The gap by party affiliation should have been larger, not smaller, in younger people.

Deep in the paper’s appendix is another puzzling finding. The graph below shows excess deaths by party affiliation in Ohio - the state which did have a gap. Look closely, and you will see that the difference really only becomes notable in August 2021, and then continues to widen through the winter. But the original two-shot regimen had its peak effectiveness for the elderly people who received it first from January through July - when there is no notable difference in deaths by party. The timing is striking, by demonizing younger Republicans who did NOT need the Covid jab at all, Biden may have discouraged more elderly Republicans who might, temporarily at best, have benefited from a 3rd shot.

In 2021, left-wing media lied saying the deaths of unvaccinated people were overwhelmingly occurring in non-elderly adults who had chosen not to be vaccinated for political reasons. But the picture they painted was never correct. The extremely elderly were at by far the greatest risk both before and after the vaccines came out, as even The ny times acknowledged. 
 
In other words, many, if not most unvaccinated people who died did not refuse the vaccine for political or any other reason. They were simply too old and sick to receive it. This study does nothing to refute that conclusion. In fact the work arguably supports it. But don’t expect anyone in the left-wing media to say so.

The left-wing had faith in the Covid vaccines, and the process that led to their emergency authorization.  They didn’t entirely understand it, but they believed in it. They believed they could trust drug companies to tell the truth about them. They believed the Food & Drug Administration and the CDC would provide a meaningful check on the companies, too.

And they did NOT want to hear anyone say otherwise, especially if those objections were grounded in data. They didn’t mind hearing bizarre, conspiratorial theories like the one that mRNAs make people magnetic, because they liked believing that anyone who had questions must be a fool. For a while they were content to rely on mockery and social ostracism to shut the nonbelievers up. But when those measures failed, and push came to shove in the summer of 2021, the left-wing media, academic, and political elites made clear that they didn’t give a damn about the 1st Amendment right to speak. They still don’t. They haven’t even acknowledged black-and-white evidence presented of the White House’s censorship efforts.

At this point the left-wing would rather forget about the mRNAs. Everyone knows the vaccines didn’t work. They didn’t stop Covid, and they probably didn’t even make a meaningful difference to its trajectory. It mutated to become more transmissible and less virulent, as viruses do, and everyone wound up getting it anyway.

 
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My Friend McFixit sent me this one;

I found this information in an article by Ron Ewert the President of N.A.R.L.O.National Association of Rural Landowners on the post at; http://wethepeopleusa.ning.com/forum/topics/royalty-dynasties-the-e...
 
The Royal Connecticut legislature, gun control nuts all, just passed the National Popular Vote Compact.  The Compact, by Democrat controlled states, is blatantly designed to circumvent the Electoral College and return America to the popular vote.  They may just succeed.  

From an article in the Daily Signal they describe Connecticut's conspiratorial end run around the Constitution.   

"Most Americans have never heard of the National Popular Vote compact, but it is shockingly close to causing a major political and legal firestorm. 
It is a clever scheme to change how we elect the president without the bother of having to pass a constitutional amendment."
 
"States that approve this legislation enter a simple compact with one another.  Each participating state agrees to allocate its electors to the winner of the national popular vote regardless of how its own citizens voted.  The compact goes into effect when states holding 270 electoral votes (enough to win the presidency) have agreed to the plan."
 
"With Connecticut’s vote, 11 states and the District of Columbia have now approved the measure, giving the compact a total of 172 electors. It needs only 98 more to reach the 270 mark.".
and the election can be stolen from the people of America just that easy. Talk about dirty corrupt Politics.
 
WE HAVE A CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS ON OUR HANDS NOW BECAUSE OF THIS COMPACT BUT MOST HAVE NEVER HEARD OF IT!
 
Frankly I don't have a clue on how to stop and reverse this. I do know it will lead to another Revolution, and that is probably what the criminal originators are hoping for as their "End Game To Enslave or Kill off Americans who are not Elites or their Cronys."
 
"Most Americans have never heard of the National Popular Vote compact, but it is shockingly close to causing a major political and legal firestorm.The end result if we allow this to go on will not end well for loyal Americans who believe in Liberty and Freedom
 
This information needs to be distributed far and wide to educate the public what is going on behind their backs by the Criminally Oriented Democrats, who will not allow themselves to lose no matter what they have to do, or what laws and trust they have to break, to steal the elections.
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